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[edit] Howdy to you, too

How's it going? How'd you find me on here?--AaronS 20:12, 23 May 2005 (UTC)

Ah, I see. I watched the anarcho-capitalism page for a while, but then I figured that I'd leave it to people who cared about getting into edit wars and the like.--AaronS 20:48, 23 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] You're a jerk

Golbez: You have violated the rules of Wikipedia as far as deleting the input of other members. In the future, please do not delete postings of others. Read the FAQ and other guidelines.

[edit] I agree

Although for completely different things, I agree with the above poster's view of you. The American Towers Tower Colwich article is ridiculous, has no place on an encyclopedia of any sort and the only page that links to it is the List of masts page. Why the hell would anyone want to read a list of masts on an encylopedia is beyond me, but the American Towers Tower Colwich article does need to be deleted. Speedily.--Speedway 19:12, May 16, 2005 (UTC)

Fine OK you are correct. Have a nice day! --Speedway 19:33, May 16, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Kantei

Got the news off Reuters live feed (the financial service, not the web site) after wondering what six helicopters were doing hovering outside my office window. It's now on Yahoo Japan. Cheers Vincent 08:35, 30 Sep 2004 (UTC)

No prob, and you're right, I didn't know there was an article on the Kanpei. Vincent 01:18, 1 Oct 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:U.S. Southern wikipedians' notice board/USSCOTW

The Southern Collaboration of the Week board is now up. Please vote or nominate other articles. The first voting ends on October 3. Mike H 14:20, Sep 30, 2004 (UTC)


[edit] Introductions

Hi, I just thought I'd introduce you two local metro fans to each other.

Golbez meet Montréalais. Montrealais, meet Golbez.

Cheers Vincent 01:27, 1 Oct 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Reverts

Saw you use your new admin powers to revert a duplicated edit by Ta bu shi da yu over on List of notable tropical cyclones. You may not be aware, but the rollback function undoes all consecutive edits by the same person. So you ended up undoing the valid part of his edit. Now fixed. -- Cyrius|✎ 01:55, 1 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Aye, thanks, and I saw it. Yes, I'm new to it, and having fun. Teeheehee. But yeah, to me it just looked like doubling, and I learned after making that edit that it does *all* the edits, so I've started checking diffs now. Thanks! --Golbez 01:57, Oct 1, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Firefox

I added the remark on Firefox since I discovered today that with Firefox I can see e.g. the Bengali script, which I couldn't see with IE. So therefore it is for that page useful to make a reference. --Gangulf 19:42, 1 Oct 2004 (UTC)

[edit] 13 colonies

Hi! Thanks so much for volunteering. I don't know if it's doable, but I'm basically looking for a map with the info that's on these six maps, but that's not under copyright restriction. Thanks. jengod 22:19, Oct 1, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Japan and related stuff

What the user 4.23.83.100 is doing is, a very regular Korean trolling and he probably doesn't understand that his actions are very anti-Japanese because he was never taught that a history can have multiple viewpoints. If you check, only thing he does is write about how Koreans were victimzed. It is quite interesting as his IP turned out to be from "Evergreen Medical Group Inc. EMG-83-16 (NET-4-23-83-0-1) 4.23.83.0 - 4.23.83.255 ", either he is doing his writing while hospitalized or while on a job. If you can, I suggest you simply block the IP, I think a company can manage itself without wikipedia. Revth 09:30, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Wikistyle

I suppose you're techically right, but everytime someone's gone back and "fixed" my old articles that way, they generally look better, so for once I beat Everyking et al to the punch and did it myself, but will defer to you on the basis that, at least techically, you're right. Maybe the software will be where it can resolve all of this for us soon, in light of the sucessful recent fundraising especially.

Rlquall 17:51, 7 Oct 2004 (UTC)

[edit] (pictured right)

According to the talk page of WP:ITN, one should use "(pictured right)". Of course it could be discussed wether it is a good policy or not. — David Remahl 20:45, 9 Oct 2004 (UTC)

[edit] A spammer we've both dealt with

Hi! I see you blocked 61.144.184.221 recently. That computer added a list of links in meaningless places to two pages of the Maori Wikipedia - http://mi.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Contributions&target=61.144.184.221

I dealt with them. Kind regards. Robin Patterson 23:09, 10 Oct 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Deletion request

Hey, Golbez, can you do me a favor and delete Brahma? I want to move Brahma (god) there, and I already moved the previous contents of Brahma to Brahman (disambiguation), which I think is a better place for it. Actually, I'm not sure why I can't just do the move myself, since Brahma has no edit history, but apparently I need official intervention. - Nat Krause 06:52, 14 Oct 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Korea and Japan

Hi Andrew.. just letting you know, after I blocked User:4.23.83.100 he emailed me. I don't think he knew how to even see what had been happening to his edits, so he kept making them again and again. Anyway, I told him to come here and discuss. :-) —Stormie 10:42, Oct 17, 2004 (UTC)

Well, I don't think I've been called "diplomatic" for blocking someone to get their attention before, so thanks for that. :-) Here's hoping that it does lead to him talking. —Stormie 21:17, Oct 17, 2004 (UTC)

Hey Golbez, I've noticed that you did lots of reverts of 4.23.83.100's edits because of bias. Not all of his/her edits are biased, and some contain factual additions. Instead of doing complete reverts, how about picking and choosing which of the additions to keep, and then fixing the NPOV sections? --Yuje 02:39, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Tropical cyclone

Raul654 has interpreted tropical cyclone's FAC nomination as a failure. It was closer than most articles, and I wasn't terribly happy with it anyway. Since the start of hurricane season, nearly the entire article has been taken apart, rearranged, and rewritten. I think it needs some time to settle down.

It just needs to be ready for a front page spot come June 1, 2005 :) -- Cyrius|✎ 06:28, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Railroad station article deleted

Hello Golbez, As an author of articles on subway stations, you might be interested to know that an article on a railway station, Route 128 Station, was recently deleted from Wikipedia by a vote of 4 to 2 (I voted against deletion, as did the author). The reasons the voters gave for deletion were

  1. It's an advertisement for a railway station. (Huh?)
  2. It's non-notable. (That's not in the policy as a reason for deletion.)
  3. Wikipedia is not a travel guide. (Right, but what does that have to do with the station?)

The article was well organized and written. It covered a station on a line connecting Washington, New York and Boston.

I've put a lot of work into articles on Tokyo subways, and would not want to start a project on stations given that they might be deleted at any time. I'm surprised by the decision and wonder what fate awaits other articles on railway and subway stations.

Old article is here

Fg2 10:53, Oct 19, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] "redundant" categories

Placing an article in the categories that its eponymous category belongs to is not redundant—it is necessary to properly categorize it. Categories perform two functions:

1) They classify articles. Washington, DC is not merely a topic of Category:Washington, DC, but is instead a member of all categories that its own category would belong to. These relationships need to be visible on the article itself just as much as on its category. Otherwise, it is not clear from the article's classification that Washington, DC is anything more than sui generis. It is a city in the United States, as well as a political division of the U.S., and its categories should make that clear.

2) Categories group together common subjects and ease navigation. Anyone visiting Washington, DC should be able to go directly from that article to see other members in any series of which Washington, DC itself is one, as well as to see any article of which DC is the parent topic. Removing all but its own category not only adds in an unnecessary extra step, but visitors unfamiliar with a topic will not know at a glance, as is supposed to happen with categories, what groups that article belongs to, or whether there are even more articles of that series on wikipedia.

A truly redundant category would be a parent of a subcategory to which the article only belongs to. The article is only one of the series of the subcategory, and so is only subordinate to it rather than an equal to it to be placed within the parent. An example would be placing Georgetown, Washington, DC in both Category:Washington, DC and Category:Washington, DC neighborhoods. There are of course some exceptions to this rule (i.e., United States Constitution is justifiably in the base Category:United States as well as under Category:United States law, Category:United States history, and its own Category:U.S. Constitution. Thanks! Postdlf 23:50, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Slavery, Cotton Gin, Nat Turner, Eli Whitney

Were your reverts simply because of its lack of integration with the existing article? The material reverted out appears interesting, not badly written - is it not factual? Let me know what you think, I could spend a bit of time properly integrating this material. This may be a new user shy about touching existing text. Please respond here, I will watch, just tickle my user talk with a minor message. Sincerely, Leonard G. 03:52, 26 Oct 2004 (UTC)

P.S. I saw your comments on the IP user's page - it seemed rather harsh, especially considering that additional details were being added. Rather than completely reverting, the inclusion of a small amount of material would have been encouraging. Your approach and commentary is not the way to integrate IP editors into our community as registered users. Leonard G. 03:57, 26 Oct 2004 (UTC)

I looked at each article and found that, with the exception of one (Spiritual (music)), the additions offered nothing more than what was included in the article. If there was a fact I missed, please point it out, but I didn't see any. They seemed to be three line summaries of what the article just discussed. I suppose I could have been nicer, but at least I gave a response; he'd already been reverted twice without a mention. I shall probably clarify my note. --Golbez 04:00, Oct 26, 2004 (UTC)

I have prepared some additonal remarks for that user which I hope are more welcoming, looks like we crossed edits with you getting there first. I will modify my remarks as needed and post. Thanks, Leonard G. 04:27, 26 Oct 2004 (UTC)

I modified my remarks as appropriate to your changes and posted to User talk:129.44.16.162 — maybe we can recruit another editor! Leonard G. 04:40, 26 Oct 2004 (UTC)

[edit] No Native Criminal Class Except . . .

Salutations, Golbez!
When last we talked back in September you said you hoped to finish getting the state delegation lists done by election day. With a week to go, I wonder how you're coming along on the effort? Don't know if you've seen him around, but User:Acsenray has been doing a lot of work on Ohio congressmen and lately has been working on a big article on political families. Ave! PedanticallySpeaking 16:58, Oct 26, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Bridge

(see Talk:Bridge, delete this) - Leonard G. 03:29, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Hurricane data

No comment on the horribly ugly table of data I've got over at Talk:2004 Atlantic hurricane season? -- Cyrius|✎ 04:31, 29 Oct 2004 (UTC)

[edit] re Tropical cyclones

It looks as if your good work, like mine and others on "Bicycles", got blown out of the water on the Sea of "Featured articles". I got pretty pissed at some of the pissy stuff people call one on, but I guess some folks don't like reading what an American has to say about something worldwide, like bikes and storms. I now know lots more (than I needed to know) about bicycles in other countries. The only thing I am left still steaming about from that experience is the one yahoo who entered a new "object" vote atop each of his (mostly lame) comments. After multiple rewrites, it ended up 7-2, but looked like about 7-8 due to this one bozo. Hang in there.Sfahey 03:36, 5 Nov 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Are you an admin?

Are you an admin yet? If not would you accept nomination? Regardless of your answers, cheers on your splendid work -- I've been mostly reading around, following 'what links here' on interesting pages, and I've noticed your name on a few significant contributions/fixes and outright rescues. Just in case you were not yet an admin, thought I'd bring it up.Pedant 01:32, 2004 Nov 6 (UTC) In that case, congratulations!Pedant

[edit] Culture of Greece

Culture of Greece is this week's Collaboration of the week. Please come and help it become a featured-standard article.

[edit] Cyclone Tracy

Why poor form? - Ta bu shi da yu 17:05, 12 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Teh storm owns u! :P - Ta bu shi da yu 13:51, 14 Nov 2004 (UTC)

[edit] 80.58.5.109

Nice work tracking down the external links spamming from the anon user @ 80.58.5.109! Neilc 10:43, 13 Nov 2004 (UTC)


[edit] lol

Now there is a blast from the past. I see you have been here for awhile already, but welcome to wikipedia all the same =) Kev 20:53, 13 Nov 2004 (UTC)

[edit] speedy delete

Ronny_Paul also needs some speedy deleting please

[edit] Revert on In the News

Why did you do this? You have said you'll take to talk but I can't see anything. I was trying to come to a compromise with the anon (I quoted directly from the BBC piece, and he added extra information to it). Why did you revert to what you wrote before? - Ta bu shi da yu 11:09, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)

To make a point. I quickly wrote it up in Discussion, you simply looked between edits. :) I won't challenge a further revert; I did that to direct attention to talk, to air my concerns. --Golbez 11:11, Nov 15, 2004 (UTC)
There must be better ways of attracting attention! but OK, that's fair enough. - Ta bu shi da yu 11:12, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Incidently, I appreciate you going to talk about it. - Ta bu shi da yu 11:14, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)

[edit] U.S. embargo against Cuba

You voted for U.S. embargo against Cuba, this week's Collaboration of the week. Please come and help it become a featured-standard article.

[edit] Wikinews demo up and running

Hi!

I'm writing to let you know that the Wikimedia Board of Trustees has approved the first stage of the Wikinews project. There's now a fully operational English demo site at demo.wikinews.org. This will be used for experimenting with various review models and basic policies before the site is launched officially in about a week. demo.wikinews.org will become the English version later.

You voted for the Wikinews project, so I'm asking for your participation now. Everything is open, nothing is final. What Wikinews will and can be depends in large part on you. There already is a global Wikinews mailing list for discussing the project. If you are interested at all, please subscribe -- coordination is of key importance. There's also an IRC channel #wikinews on irc.freenode.net. Realtime discussion can help to polish up articles.

If you're looking for something to do, check out the articles in development and articles in review. Or start a new story in the Wikinews workspace, or ignore the proposed review system - it's up to you. I hope you'll join us soon in this exciting experiment.--Eloquence* 01:58, Nov 17, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Occupation colonies

I've responded on the Talk:Yasser Arafat page regarding the use of that term; I'd be curious as to your thoughts. Jayjg 21:58, 18 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Well, to be honest, ever since a couple of new editors showed up about a month or so ago, these articles have been extremely, shall we say, "heated". That said, neutral 3rd party observations are always helpful in diffusing conflict, so I welcome your intervention. I hope you'll stick around, and don't let the (inevitable) personal comments bother you. Jayjg 22:33, 18 Nov 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Reference the ISD

The old blueprints are talking about a ship that is not of the same size as the current ISD. Furthermore more recent offical literature clearly labels the ship as the Imperial class. Older canon materials are invalidated by newer canon materials. The proper name for the ISD is Imperial, not Imperator. -Alyeska

[edit] Revert: accidental or intentional

Hi Golbez. Regarding September 11 2001 attacks article, I'm not sure if you reverted my edit just now accidentally or not, so I've managed to restore my edits. I've also added a section to the talk page for the article on how best to proceed, asking for comments and ideas. I agree with you that it doesn't look ideal with the URLs in the first few sentences as it currently is, but rather than deleting them, they should remain but be relocated. At least, that's my understanding of Wikipedia policy so far. Cheers, --Rebroad 22:33, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Partition of India

You voted for Partition of India, this week's Collaboration of the week. Please come and help it become a featured-standard article.


[edit] It isn't THAT unsightly, is it?

  • I created that as a template so the unsure of order would know how to take part in a featured article. I honestly though it'd be a help; if I thought it was unsightly I assure you I wouldn't have put it up. -Litefantastic 01:50, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)
    • Okay. I see your point. I've put it on all the pages it links to. -Litefantastic 02:02, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Hello, You are golby, you are smart. please comment here, your voice sways all: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Improv/lib_draft_dec2004 Chuck F 20:10, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Article Licensing

Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 1000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

Option 1
I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:
{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

OR

Option 2
I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to any [[U.S. state]], county, or city article as described below:
{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk) 18:08, Dec 8, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Adminship

Salve, Golbez!
Back in September I was a candidate for adminship, but I withdrew and since then, I've been working away and have now decided to try again, nominating myself. Though you voted neutral at that time, I'd appreciate your vote on the new candidacy at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/PedanticallySpeaking2. Ave atque vale! PedanticallySpeaking 19:19, Dec 9, 2004 (UTC)

  • Salve, Golbez!
    I wanted to drop you a line to thank you for your support in my successful RFA candidacy. It was very gratifying to see the kind remarks posted in the debate. Ave! PedanticallySpeaking 17:40, Dec 21, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Semantic wikipedia

Hi golbez. I added some good comments on your Wikipedia:Semantic Wikipedia proposal. I hope you evaluate them.--Alexandre Van de Sande 14:28, 12 Dec 2004 (UTC)

[edit] sofixit

Heya, I noticed you remind an anon user he could fix things himself on a talk page. This excellent point can be brought across verbosely yet with little effort with the {{sofixit}} template (just in case you weren't aware of it). Be sure to subst: it though, or it might come across as curt when the user edits the page. &0xfeff; --fvw* 23:08, 2004 Dec 20 (UTC)

[edit] Maps

Well, its quite a complex (or rather, long-winded) technique I use. I draw the maps massively oversize using a soft paint tool in the gimp. I then reduce the colour depth to 1-bit, up it back again to 24-bit, fill in the colour and resize downwards (thus they end up nicely antialiased). You can see some of my intermediate blown up blank maps at Wikipedia:Blank maps somewhere. Morwen - Talk 16:21, 23 Dec 2004 (UTC)

[edit] City of Washington DC Layout

Hello-

I have reverted the Washington DC page to include the use of diagonal Avenues in its defense. This idea is covered by the national building museum and numerous texts. It is important to include this as the city in District of Columbia was conceived using warfare standards for defense formed in the 18th century. Unlike Paris, which grew from village to national capitol, Washington (city) was designed from the beginning (and purposfully) with visual sightlines.

James Goode has also dicussed this facet of the design at several of his lectures, most recently upon the reissue of Capitol Losses. The National Building Museuum also discusses this in the book issued to coincide with their permanent display, Washington: The Making of a City, although I can not find it on their web site.

I did find this reference in a Washington DC Junior League history on the city: "Charles L'Enfant drew on the magnificance remembered from the Versailles of his childhood. (Thomas) Jefferson... urging wider avenues and broader vistas..." Does this help? Hope so...

Best regards,

Stude62

[edit] Blocks are not expiring

I'm posting this message on every admin who has made a block in the last few days. The title says it all really: because of a bug in the new software blocks are not expiring when their time is up. Until this is fixed can you get in the habit of manually unblocking a few everytime you block one. If everyone does this we'll be able to keep on top of things until the bug is sorted out. Note also that another bug is displaying indefinite blocks as expiring at the current time and date. obviously you don't want to unblock those. If you want to reply please do so here Theresa Knott (The snott rake) 09:44, 27 Dec 2004 (UTC)

[edit] nice touch...

... just now on "Christmas". I can't yet face the rest of the hammering it took on the holiday weekend.Sfahey 16:20, 27 Dec 2004 (UTC)

[edit] 66.191.165.51 needs blocking

Is anybody home at Wikipedia:Vandalism in progress ??

66.191.165.51 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · block user · block log) He has been warned multiple times, but keeps blanking his talk page.

-- Curps 20:44, 28 Dec 2004 (UTC)

[edit] RC patrol

It's turned off at the MediaWiki level. -- Cyrius|✎ 19:15, 30 Dec 2004 (UTC)

No idea why. I've got some guesses, but no facts. -- Cyrius|✎

[edit] commons:Image:Bolivia departments.png and commons:Image:Bolivia departments named.png

Theese seem to be basically the same thing. One is apparently copied from an image you uploaded to en (though that image is gone from en) the other was uploaded by you to commons.

also the images show different licenses.

What (if anything) do you think should be done about this? Plugwash 00:42, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Would you mind appending a key to the table in your profile so I can interpret it? =) Ground 17:50, 6 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] SlipKnot

Thank you for offering to create an entry for SlipKnot, the web browser. I have just done so. It is, as yet, only reachable via the link on the List of web browsers page.

-- Peter Brooks (SlipKnot author). --Pbrooks 22:17, 13 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Thanks, Golbez, for the SlipKnot edits. I've edited only a few Wikipedia pages before, so perhaps you can answer the following question: why is the SlipKnot page accessible only from the link on the List of web browsers page? I can't get to it any other way within Wikipedia (neither via Go nor Search)...--Pbrooks 06:17, 19 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] physical information

I marked this article as needing cleanup because it reads like original research. This in itself is not bad, but it definitely needs reworking. It's full of HTML, and worse, full of first-person mentions. ("we will use the phrase nugget of information", "This will enable us to refer", etc.) I tried to clean it myself but got bogged down in trying to figure out a more neutral way to state things. --Golbez 20:57, Jan 20, 2005 (UTC)

"We" and "us" used in that way are not first-person at all; they are not to be taken literally. It is commonplace in writing mathematics to use such locutions involving first-person plural pronouns without intending them literally. Michael Hardy 23:38, 20 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Collaboration of the week

Military history of the Soviet Union is this week's Collaboration of the Week. Please contribute to it to help make it a feature article

[edit] Earthscholar

It all happened in the first blush of excitement about Wikipedia, I'm afraid. A friend had used the word in an essay and shown it to me, insisting that it was a real word and even suggesting that I post an entry about it. I did. It was a hoax -- I was set up. I'm older and wiser now. Thanks for deleting it Sandover 18:16, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Heya, backatcha :-)

Well, Adams-Morgan/Kalorama. Another Wikipedian contacted me about looking over the Washington, DC page, another on home rule for the District. Since you lived here for quite some time, you may want to drop by and take a look. (I haven't taken the time, yet, but I suppose I'll get around to it eventually.) Glad you understood I wasn't simply trying to be dimissive when I referred you to the discussion in African American. Peace 2 u. deeceevoice 22:28, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Don't know about that article on "black flight." It's not a phrase in common use. Gentrification is more like it. "White flight" -- yes, but don't know about a black version (unless they're runnin' away from rents, mortgages and property taxes they can no longer afford)! Actually, decent affordable housing is hard to find, period; it's a regional problem for the middle-class and the poor -- teachers, firefighters, secretaries, etc. And the only white flight that's occurring is back inside the beltway, of well-heeled (mostly white) professionals displacing retirees, families with young children (who also leave because of the crappy schools), people on fixed incomes and old communities of color. deeceevoice 19:47, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks!

I know what you mean about flag. I honestly was nowhere near as negative about your presence as I know I came across, there was something about the atmosphere on flag that encourages that kind of contention (it is one of the reasons I left actually, along with a couple other regulars). I know you tried on the anarcho-capitalist article, and I appreciate it. That article needs more ancaps like yourself. There is another gentlemen named Radgeek who does a terrific job with his edits and is also pro-anarcho-capitalist, but I think the constant struggle bogs him down as well. You might want to try to work with him in the future, I think you will find him both knowledgable and reasonable. I don't blame you for shying away from these topics, they drive me crazy. I myself found it so easy to get wrapped up in the wars that go on over controversial articles that I have limited myself to editing only articles directly related to anarchism, sorta the opposite way of dealing with the problem I suppose.

Anyway, I wouldn't really worry, there have been several RJ types come and gone over the past couple years I've been on wiki. I would only ask that you come back and try again in a month or a few months when the whole thing has settled down. I also take extended breaks from the article, so if my presence frustrates you there are still ample opportunities to avoid it =) I certainly won't agree with all your edits, but I look forward to the opportunity of having that article rewritten by someone both knowledgable about that particular subject, sympathic to its cause, and reasonable to other points of view. Kev 01:48, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you!

Just a quick "thank you" for voting me for admin. Now all I've got to do is find out how to use these worrying new powers... oh, and I've nearly got to 14000 now :) Grutness|hello? 06:14, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Djibouti/Brunei regional maps

Hello, I was wondering if you could consider making regional maps for Mauritania, in the same style as your excellent Diboutian and Bruneian maps. I would do it myself, but I don't know how. Thnaks for your time, - sdrawkcab

[edit] thanks

The Mauritanian maps are wonderful, thanks. It's a strnage place regionally speaking.

It would be nice if every country in the world has a regional map. if thee's any maps you want to do, yet the region pages have to been done then I'd be happy to do that for you.

- sdrawkcab

[edit] Algerian maps

Hi Golbez, I gather that you are doing beautiful things with maps. I came here to ask if you maybe could provide me with the source (preferably in vector format) of Image:Algeria_provinces.png (or, in fact, if I may license it from you under the CC-by-sa-2.0 license). I'm intending to make some maps of the election results in the nineties and a map with the province boundaries obviously would be of great use. Let me know what you think. Regards, — mark ✎ 01:09, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Great! If you have it as a bitmap, the highest possible resolution will do. If you could export it to PNG at that resolution it would be nice — I'm not working with The Gimp. I've emailed to to let you know my emailadres. Thanks again! — mark ✎ 16:22, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Maybe the mail went astray. You can reach me via the 'email this user' function. Thanks in advance! — mark ✎ 10:00, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Take it easy, such things happen. Kind regards, — mark ✎ 19:06, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Parishes of Barbados

would like to turn them uppercase, because of harmonization of titles for subnational entities, thanks for an answer at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject Subnational entities. Dominica parishes seem to go uppercase (if the articles start one day) best regards Tobias Conradi 12:56, 7 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] NationsBank

I disagree in your asseration that the "old" bank should remain as a history in the case of only a name change. NationsBank IS Bank of America. It simply changed names when it purchased BankAmerica. The Bank of America page was confusing without the NationsBank information because someone just put in the BankAmerica information (and acutally used Bank of America and BankAmerica interchangeably, which was incorrect). I did not delete the NationsBank history. It is now included in the Bank of America page (since Bank of America and NationsBank are the same company).

I would advocate your position for BankAmerica because, as a company, it is defunct (NationsBank is not defunct...it just changed names). Obviously, in a merger, one company always survives and consumes the other.

When companies merge, I think it creates a lot of confusion. I think the easiest (and least confusing) is to have a page with the new companies name, with the history of both previous (major) companies on the same page. This allows a reader to get a full history without having to link to several different pages.

[edit] First Union/Wachovia

Thank you for your comments. Again, my reasoning for assimilating the First Union information into the Wachovia article is because Wachovia IS First Union.

That Wachovia page technically deals with what used to be First Union, and then changed its name to Wachovia. I guess I am thinking linearly in that: Pre-2001, Wachovia page deals with Wachovia Corp based in Winston-Salem, First Union page deals with First Union based in Charlotte.

2001, Old Wachovia no longer exists, First Union changes name to Wachovia. (So I see the Wachovia page as dealing with the NEW Wachovia/OLD First Union as opposed to the OLD Wachovia)

Again, I think it is an easier read when companies merge to combine the histories onto one page. Especially with FU because it took the name of the bank it was purchasing (having FU backgound in Wachovia article is important to understand why First Union changed its name to someone who doesn't understand it)

  • By the way, I have pulled off the Legacy Wachovia logo from their old website. Perhaps you would like to clean it up a bit and post it in history section of the Wachovia article? 69.134.50.153 20:36, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Pope template

Please stop adding that pope template, as he is the only pope alive, it doesn't make sense to have a template for himself. :) —Cantus…☎ 20:50, Apr 19, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] pope image

This image: Image:Popebenedictxvi firsttimeonthrone.jpg is claimed to be from the Vatican, yet there is no information on its source. It could well be from a news agency. I have removed the vatican tag, yet a certain user keeps adding it. —Cantus…☎ 04:23, Apr 20, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Earthquake

Don't events have proper names? Where in the style guide is this convention? Sorry if I caused any inconvenience. --L33tminion (talk) 01:18, Apr 25, 2005 (UTC)

Ah, thanks for the clarification. I'll be more careful in the future. --L33tminion (talk) 04:22, Apr 25, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Revert on Something Awful Forums

Just out of interest, why did you revert the changes made by the anon user? Trampled talk 06:46, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)

  • Ah okay. I wasn't sure if you objected to the wording or something :) Trampled talk 14:10, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Strong Bad

good call on the Strong Bad edit, moving the link out of the header. i was hoping the guy who'd done it would recant, but... (silly me) SaltyPig 07:34, 2005 May 2 (UTC)

[edit] Adolf Hitler

I just add "totallydisputed" template. I don't think you should consider it as a vandal.

[edit] Barbara and Jenna Bush

Hi, why did you remove their codenames? Thanks,-->Energy (talk) 10:10, 5 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Gender

Hi Andrew: I am not sure how I missed your emboldened male name when I read your user page. Weird wooliness, I suppose, but regretted all the same. --Theo (Talk) 09:01, 12 May 2005 (UTC)

You were half right: I was voting without reading your page properly! --Theo (Talk) 14:13, 12 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Taiwan is part of China

It has yet to achive independance. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan_independence)

The official UN and USA stance is that there is only 1 China. And the communists in Beijing is the sole legal government of China, including Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao.

Further, the USA has specifically said on many occasions that it does not support Taiwan independance.

You may want to read up on that point, if you're not already well versed on it. But this should be settled ancient history going back to the Nixon administration...

)

Ps - Please self revert edits you made which run contrary to this point.

[edit] Adolf Hitler (2)

I see you "cleaned up" a little, effectively reverting the thing to what it was before Haham hanuka started editing it and I edited in response. (Well, almost.) Mind you, I couldn't disagree more with HH, but do you really see no merit in elaborating on the cause of WW II? Mentioning the declaration of war in response doesn't seem overly unbalancing. JRM · Talk 17:48, 2005 May 15 (UTC)

[edit] Regarding Account Suspension.

This query is for the administrator Golbez.

To Golbez:

I may have mistakingly used an explicative in: Talk: Evil. Is this the reason for my user page vandal status?

My number is: 152.163.100.201

--Scroll1 01:00, 17 May 2005 (UTC)

No, it was for incidents like this. However, your ip may be shared among others (since it's an AOL machine), and it may not have been you that did it. Blocks of that type should only exist for a few minutes at at time. --Golbez 01:13, May 17, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Hurricane project

I seem to be back. -- Cyrius|✎ 06:04, 18 May 2005 (UTC)

I've got a copy of the 1851 to 2003 "HURDAT" file, and a small program I wrote to parse out information like "maximum winds" for a storm (or for all storms in a given year). So getting that for 1953-79 wouldn't be hard.
It looks like with the 2004 update, they've added a newer and less horrible format option. Hmm.
I've got no idea about how Wikinews operates, so I can't give you any advice there. Adrian's definitely looking interesting though. -- Cyrius|✎ 16:50, 18 May 2005 (UTC)
Hope you'll get the time to create more of the Pacific Seasons - my Typhoon Gay (1989) article is still nearly an orphan :-) andy 12:15, 19 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Al-Qaeda Dates

Thanks for reverting this - that was quick. Rich Farmbrough 16:46, 18 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] U.S. Congressional Delegations from Tennessee

Hey Golbez, nice job on the articles. However, I found a weird thing in U.S. Congressional Delegations from Tennessee: How can Joe L. Evins serve in 2 different congressional seats at the same time (TN Districts 4 and 5, 84th Congress, 1955 - 1957)? --Lst27 (talk) 21:49, 20 May 2005 (UTC)


[edit] Germany

Congratulations for your efforts to clean up the Germany section. I tried it once, but some people (read Heimdal) immediately started an edit war. Since then, I abandoned the hope to see the Germany article improve, but now I have new hope. Be assured of my support to uphold your improvements. Luis rib 16:58, 24 May 2005 (UTC)

The history section should NOT be a disconnected incoherent accumulation of events happened in Germany if you've understood it like this. A revolution broke out? Why? Like you explained it, it must have been the consequence of a second big bang. The revolutions, especially the French one, were the main catalyst of the German revolution. The population wanted a republic badly. The French, for example, got a republic with the aid of a revolution. It's not that hard to understand. Why did you delete Metternich? This German was the most prominent politician for decades. I could understand if you deleted an enumeration of all the reforms and liberal movements that happened, but that was a SUMMARY. This century, because of its complexity called the "long 19th century" is of great importance for the German history. It is the only one who gives reasons for the second thiry-years-war (WW1&WW2) as a growing number of historians refer to it. I wonder why you were not picky in regard with "Third Reich". I would love to show you a summary of Germany from a book covering two pages to give you an idea how the proportion should be. Would that somehow be okay without violating the copyright?NightBeAsT 18:35, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I copied this from the German wikipedia of de:Metternich.

"Durch seinen Vorsitz auf dem Wiener Kongress war er maßgeblich an der Umwandlung des Befreiungsgedankens in die Restauration beteiligt. Durch die enge Zusammenarbeit der Großmächte (Heilige Allianz) und der Zersplitterung Deutschlands, Italiens und Polens sicherte er die Vormachtstellung Österreichs im Deutschen Bund und in Italien.

Dieses Gefüge politischer Leitlinien wurde als »Metternichsches System« bekannt. Es hatte die Aufrechterhaltung der politischen und sozialen Ordnung, den Kampf gegen alle nationalen, liberalen und revolutionären Bewegungen sowie die Sicherung des europäischen Gleichgewichts zum Ziel. Metternich gilt damit als der Inbegriff der "Restauration" im Vormärz."

I don't know if you can speak German but in the English wikipedia the text should be similar. Basically Metternich's significance can even be justified in one term: the embodiment of the restoration. The liberal and democratic forces, and Metternich's went back and forth. Metternich was the leading person in the German Confederation. He initiated the Karlsbader Beschlüsse, which repressed the intellectuals (professors and students), censored books, magazines and newspapers and had revolutionary movements by a commission observed. Everyone who was against the Restauration was repressed by the following "Demagogengesetze", especially the intellectuals, who could lose the right to learn (students) and the right to teach (professors). Later the Kalsbader Beschlüsse were fortified.

The German revolution was not only carried by the revolution in France although that provided them the prospect of a revolution. Prior to that the horrors of the French Revolution didn't really persuade people to try a revolution. In the new French revolution the military, however, remained idle though. Also or especially mass poverty and famines were the reasons for the German revolutions (not uncommon in Europe at all around 1848). People like Büchner demanded political change. The "uprising of the silesian weavers 1844" was one result of the famine. This protest was beaten down by the princes. Heinrich Heine ... Karl Marx ... this leads to the "social question" and this, in turn, to the completely understated Industrial Revolution, which is nothing but the first step of the stated industrialization. Where is the Enlightenment in the article by the way? Prussia was the first to carry it out even if its origin were in France. And you want to summarize THOSE sections rather than war reports of WW2 or the Weimarer Republik? The book I talked about reserved one of two sides for Germany in the middle ages. The second makes up one fourth for "The Revolution of 1848", one fifth for "The German Empire", one fourth for "National socialism and second world war" and one fifth for "Division and reunification", the rest for captions and a list of Presidents and chancellors since 1949. I'm afraid, I cannot recognize a similar proportion in the German history article. The book I talked about is not German, but was translated. Its original title is "The Dorling Kindersley History of the World". To prove I didn't lie about that proportion, I can scan these two pages tomorrow, somehow portray them and you can delete them after seing it. Or is this little copyright violation that certainly nobody would mind because it could even be seen as advertisement intolerable?NightBeAsT 20:18, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)

No, I mean a scan of two pages. Except for their proportion they resemble the history section of the Germany article very much (esp. the pictures) and the pages could be used as a guideline on how the history section should be basically proportioned. Of course it could immediately after seing what the proportion is be deleted. I don't know much about copyright but just showing two pages and deleting what was showed right after, would that be acceptable? I don't know how I could prove it otherwise. Or would it be enough to state the ISBN as proof?NightBeAsT 20:50, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Hello. Sorry, have been away over the weekend. In reply to your post. There is an ongoing disagreement on the Germany page as to how long the article should be. Some would like to reduce the page to no longer than 32KB, others (me included) would like to expand it further. You appear to be on the side of those who want to shorten the article. However, as I've explained on the talk page already, the Germany article (current size: 45KB) is not really so long as to justify the deletions and the shortening. Some articles are much longer, actually: see France, which was 51KB long the last time I've checked it, or the United States page (55KB). That's the reason why I've continued to revert you. So here's my suggestion. In the absence of a consensus, let the page move back and forth between two versions for some time: between a longer and a shorter version. Allow the people who use and read the article to make up their own mind about which version is better, and which one they want to edit. I for my part would revert the page no more than once a day. Also when reverting, I would make sure to save the edits by other users. With time, consensus may be found, and the article may stabilise. - Heimdal 09:29, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] The Village Pump-discussion

No, you definitly said nothing wrong. He was hostile from the start and wanted to take offence. I was impressed with the way you kept your head cool while he was being offesive. Gkhan 06:25, May 25, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] McEwen as a FAC

Salve, Golbez!
Haven't talked to you in a while; hope all is well. I've nom'd one of my articles on a congressman at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Bob McEwen and would appreciate your comments. PedanticallySpeaking 14:38, May 27, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Telling Metro Trains Apart

The different kinds of Metro trains can be told apart by their appearance and sounds.

On the exterior, Rohr cars have a metal edge around the cab windows, and have two sign windows on the sides (one is converted to a speaker). On the interior, Rohr cars have the orange interior, extra side-facing seats near the doors, extra windscreens, and metal handrails on top of the seats. They make a low whine when they take off and arrive.

"Classic" Breda cars (those that have not been rehabilitated) have a rubber edge around the cab windows. The corners are squared off on the 2000 and 3000 series cars, and rounded on the 4000 series cars. These cars also sport the orange interior, with brown rubber handrails on top of the seats. Most of these cars also sport a builder's plate at the ends of the car. These cars make a buzzing sound when taking off and arriving.

The exterior of the CAF cars, numbered in the 5000's, have LED signage instead of flip-dot signs. The black rubber edge around the cab windows is far wider than the Breda cars. The CAF cars sport the new interior color scheme, have a different door chime, and have LED displays inside the car indicating the next station. Listening to the CAFs, these cars make a smooth, high-pitched whine when taking off and arriving.

Those Breda 2000 and 3000 series cars that have been rehabilitated by Alstom have the exterior LED signs like the CAF cars. Additionally, all exterior lights on these rehabilitated cars are LED, except for the headlights. The interior of the car has the new color scheme, with LED displays that, unlike the CAF cars, are flush with the rest of the wall panel. These cars also feature glow-in-the-dark emergency signage on the interior and exterior of the cars. These cars make an interesting sound - they make a high-pitched whine that goes up and down in pitch as they take off and arrive.

There are also 182 (if I'm not mistaken) 6000-series cars that will be arriving in the next few years manufactured by Alstom. These are supposed to have a modified floor configuration, among other changes from previous cars.

Schuminweb 18:47, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Infobox for Joseph Smith, Jr.

Hi! Thanks for asking about this. Because of the nature of JS's role in the Latter Day Saint movement, the standard LDSInfobox won't work for him, and templates used in only one article are also frowned on. So I choose to create the subpage because it seemed to be a resonable thing to accomodate the need. If you put the full table in the article it complicates it and is a target for vandalism that is more difficult to fix than the simple reference that is currently used. I know that subpages are frowned on, but this seemed like a good use for the functionality that didn't really mess anything up.

FYI, there is a similar one at Gordon B. Hinckley, and now that the issue of using meta-templates for formatting simplicity seems resolved in favor of keeping them, I was planning on returning that one to LDSInfobox since the LDSInfobox/alive and LDSInfobox/dead are no longer in danger of being listed on TfD. Then I will speedy the GBH/Infobox since I am the primary editor. Trödel|talk 02:28, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I have listed the GBH/Infobox for speedy Trödel|talk 03:44, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] In the news - quick removal needed

Please remove "Anurag Kashyap, an eighth-grader..." quickly from the ITN. This one has absolutely no international relevance. As an anonymous put it: "Did I miss something? Is it April Fools Day again?" --Edcolins 19:55, Jun 3, 2005 (UTC)

Well, it looked so esoteric.. I had never heard about such kind of obscure contest, but maybe I am completely out-of-date. Honestly, you cannot have thought this may have any international relevance - that's a criterion btw: "It should ideally be a story of an international importance, or at least interest."... --

[edit] WMATA

I got the template idea off the London Underground template, it's the system they used. I couldent figure out how to incorperate directions into the header template, though i just might change it to next station to both. I just got tired at look at, no offence if you pur them in, second rate nave boxes for the system, compared to the some of the other nave boxes i have seen. --Boothy443 | comhrÚ 07:23, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Minuscule

Hi Golbez,

The use of minuscule (i.e. lower-case) in manuscripts was only introduced in around the 9th-Century. Up to that point there was no distinct upper/lower case, and so I provide a rendering of the text in the lists as it would have appeared at the time. --JohnArmagh 11:53, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you for your support

Thank you for supporting my candidacy for administrator. Kelly Martin 15:13, Jun 10, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Thanks for reverting my user page. Shockingly, I've been here a year and a half now, and that was the first real vandalism anyone has done to it. --Michael Snow 18:51, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Talk:Mas*

That's because I'm about to transplant the discussion on WP:RfD about Commonwealth of Massachussets to Talk:Commonwealth of Massachussets, and I'm linking the talk pages of all the other typo redirect pages to that one because the same logic applies to all of them. Noel (talk) 05:01, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Yeah, about half of the potential single/double S/T mis-spellings (the correct spelling has 2-1-2) already existed (no idea why those particular ones were selected out), so I figured I might as well fill out the set, and link all the talk pages together, all at the same time (easy that way). Noel (talk) 05:18, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Ah, thank you!

For the revert on my user page. I appreciate it! ~~Shiri — Talk~~ 05:16, Jun 12, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Gasoline / Petrol

Thanks very much for protecting the pages! I suspected that the ridiculous edit war was about to resume, but I was unable to enlist an uninvolved admin to preemptively intervene.

Incidentally, the second talk archive page was created by a user who removed the on-going discussion (which I then restored) as an act of vandalism. It should be deleted immediately. —Lifeisunfair 21:55, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Thanks again for your prompt response! :) —Lifeisunfair 22:27, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] additions

no. i didnt make the anon entry, ive just been out ofthe loop for a while, sorry... Gabrielsimon 07:13, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Apology

I know which one you mean, but I took no offense - it was an just an unintentional oversight on my part that I did not include the citizen part & I have a pretty thick skin --JimWae 04:27, 2005 Jun 17 (UTC)

[edit] Vfd

Great job on cleaning up VfD. I would help out, but I hate to take the flak from the inclusionists. Not a good idea to rile them up. RickK 07:29, Jun 18, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] VfD

When closing VfD discussions, please put a link to the discussion in the delete reason. It makes the discussion much easier to find (and, in some cases where the page was renamed or it is a second nomination, possible to find for non-admins). --cesarb 20:00, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:U.S. Southern wikipedians' notice board

I have now reopened the notice board, if you are interested in contributing new topics, or in nominating articles for the Collaboration of the Week, which also received a revamp. Please post on the project's talk page if you show interest. Mike H 02:44, Jun 19, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Istanbul pogroms page

Any chance of the deleted notice and protection on there? the guy who wrote it regularly recreates VFD'ed pages. Thanks. --Kiand 22:17, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Well, you can see what I mean at Stop Drinking Soda or Hellenic Genocide (that one is his, btw). Protected page, notice saying its deleted and not to be recreated. Both those had to be brought in after rapid-fire replacements and speedies, though; just was hoping it could be pre-emptively done here. --Kiand 22:22, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Thanks. One less page to tag-team revert when he gets unbanned in the next few days. --Kiand 22:45, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks!

Hey, great hearing from you! Thanks so much for the welcome. Sadly, I've logged on just in time to find that RickK has now left the building and that he's rather bitter about it. Oh, well...

Anyway, please don't be a stranger. Drop by my talk page anytime. Best, Lucky 6.9 04:44, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Tekken

Hi - I saw you edited my edit - why no need for hiragana? is it WP policy? Paul Tracy|\talk

[edit] Edip Yuksel VfD

Hey Golbez...I made a note that this article was posted for undeletion. Since the VfD had already been closed, I put my comment below the closing tag, per instructions. When I noticed that the tag had been moved, I assumed it was a mistake by Khizar (he did, after all, vote from an IP and on the VfD page, not the undelete page), but noticed it was you that had moved the tag. Was I wrong in placing it below? --MikeJ9919 1 July 2005 02:22 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for helping with the vandal Lolwtf

My appreciation and gratitude Agriculture 1 July 2005 21:07 (UTC)


[edit] Your discussion on speedy overkill

I just ran into a slightly old thread you participated in at [1] In the thread you go out of your way to debate a newbie in an effort to defend the deletions of a few short texts. In particular I'd like you to pay attention to how user Shanes addressed the issue and how it differed from your reply. I believe a typical reader would find your tone hostile and argumentative, and that isn't the image that we want to convey to any editor and especially not to a newbie. In the future please consider your words more carefully, the user in question was trying to help... sure he was wrong, and needs to learn a bit, but beating him with a verbal stick is no way to help him. Thanks. Gmaxwell 4 July 2005 23:46 (UTC)

[edit] Re: More on Metro

I actually didn't write that section referring to the P signal in the reverse direction of the pocket track. 84.148.74.227 wrote that. I am, however, going past the Mt. Vernon Square pocket track tomorrow in my travels, as well as past West Falls Church-VT/UVA station (where the center track is essentially a pocket track), and I'll try to get a seat at the end of the train and check 'er out.

I've also posted the question on SubChat, and we'll see what that group comes up with.

Schuminweb 6 July 2005 02:09 (UTC)

Not offended at all. Actually kind of flattered. Anyway, though, here's the SubChat thread. Schuminweb 6 July 2005 02:17 (UTC)
Subchat worked! I fixed the unclear comment. Also, it's interesting, with the photo of that CAF train at Metro Center (that works there, when you think about it). I remember that when I took that, they were just beginning to recover from a delay caused by a sick passenger at Farragut North, which required single-tracking around the affected area. I want to say this was the first train going to Shady Grove after two Glenmont trains wrong-railed through. Schuminweb 7 July 2005 21:04 (UTC)

[edit] Katamari Damacy

Thanks for the edit (English "Damacy"). I was just about to correct that. Good work (and fast like a ninja)!

[edit] Undeletion

On second thought, why don't you go ahead and undelete my Supreme Court templates, and User:Philwelch/To_do while you're at it. If anything they can be useful source material for the replacement templates. Thanks. — Phil Welch 8 July 2005 04:48 (UTC)

[edit] Hurricane Dennis page

Good call in deciding to go straight to the name page. After all, Hurricane Dennis is in a position to be retired as of now. (I think there will be 5 or 6 names knocked off the list in the 2005 season which would be a record - they will have a lot of work ahead in finding replacement names for the 2011 season). My BOLD predictions as of now - Emily, Franklin, Irene, Katrina and Maria will also join Dennis in the retirement home. CrazyC83 8 July 2005 04:59 (UTC)

It was just taking a lot of time, and I'd (obviously) stopped doing it after quitting wikipedia and now I've come back I haven't started again.

The colour scheme was somewhat random. You will note a pattern for England: red, Scotland: blue, Wales: green, Ireland:green, Northern Ireland: red, that where an obvious 'national colour' was available or a colour that predominated on the flag... i chose that. Apparently however the green maps looked really bad when converted to black-and-white so I stopped doing those. And I started to add the sea to maps, which used blue. Morwen - Talk 9 July 2005 09:49 (UTC)

[edit] Good Move

Good move protecting George W. Bush; looks like he's moved on to Star Wars articles & Dick Cheney: [2] Anyhow, good job! -- Essjay · Talk July 9, 2005 10:19 (UTC)

Ah, well, good work anyway. He's back as 139.55.55.122 and harassing at Talk:George W. Bush; is there a point at which someone calls ALLTEL and says "this subscriber is violating his terms of service"? -- Essjay · Talk July 9, 2005 11:07 (UTC)
I was just about to complement that. You'll have to ban his IP RANGE. User:139.55.55.122 just ban all of 139.55 Redwolf24 9 July 2005 11:31 (UTC)
I just got threatened with a 3RR block by User:Violetriga for fighting him. In 1300 edits, I've never been threatened, reverted, or otherwise out-edited; if I didn't know it would be worthless, I'd report her to RfC/Admin Abuse -- Essjay · Talk July 9, 2005 11:57 (UTC)

I feel the need to apologize here (since I made my comments here) for what I said about User:Violetriga. She & I have discussed what went on, chalked it up to a misunderstanding all around, and put it in the past. This is just me saying mea culpa. -- Essjay · Talk July 9, 2005 14:14 (UTC)

[edit] In the News

Like you said needed to be done, the 31st G8 summit page has been updated. This story mighn't be as in the news as it was a day or so ago, but consider it for the template anyway. Thanks. Harro5 10:50, July 10, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] African-American

I won't revert, I will just readd it then. 64.109.253.204 19:27, 11 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Anthony Quinn

Anthony Quinnn was born in Mexico, but he was raised in the USA so he can qualify as a Irish-American. 64.109.253.204 19:40, 11 July 2005 (UTC)

How does having an Irish father so including him on the list of Irish Americans mean it's using a stupidly broad requirement? 64.109.253.204 19:47, 11 July 2005 (UTC)

Being 50% Irish means you are an Irish-American. Anthony Quinn, having an Irish father makes him clearly an Irish-American.

You aren't as Irish as Anthony Quinn. Anthony Quinn is very Irish, you're Irish heritage is very minor.

If it were up to me, I wouldn't want the people with little Irish heritage on the list. It's Lapsed Pacifist's doing. 64.109.253.204 01:10, 12 July 2005 (UTC)

If you are mixed with two different parents, does that mean you can not belong to the ethnic group of either of your parents? Is Lenny Kravitz not an African-American because his father isn't? 64.109.253.204 01:10, 12 July 2005 (UTC)


[edit] Crossmaglen

Six Counties is used almost exclusively in Crossmaglen when referring to Northern Ireland. There's no reason to break the Ireland link. "People" instead of "local people", "police" instead of RUC, none of this I understand.

Lapsed Pacifist 03:40, 12 July 2005 (UTC)

No problem.

Lapsed Pacifist 05:34, 12 July 2005 (UTC)

Look, the only problem is that there is no proper debate on this, it's too limited. User:Wikibofh started a discussion on criteria for all ethnic lists over at Wikipedia:Village pump (policy), but that has not attracted much interest either. He also left word on the talk pages of other ethnic-American lists, still no response. Think about leaving your thoughts there before you wash your hands of it. Thanks.

Lapsed Pacifist 21:19, 12 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Hurricane names

Can you supply a link backing up your assertion that names after the main list used Greek names? --Golbez 14:37, July 11, 2005 (UTC)

       Yes, I can - have a look at page 4 of TCnames2004-2009. --rleeden 11:26, July 12, 2005 (BST)