User talk:Jdlambert

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1 Harry Potter
2 Soft drinks
3 Creek people
4 Factory farming
5 SQL
6 Re: reverted external link
7 Factory farming RfM
8 Wikimania Atlanta
9 Data Domain (corporation)
10 Floyd Medical Center
11 Invitation
12 Public access
13 Very reasonable

[edit] Harry Potter

Jd, there actually is a list of the Harry Potter books further down on the page. I've undone your edit. FeralDruid 22:52, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, FeralDruid, don't know how I missed that. JD Lambert 01:43, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Soft drinks

Hi, since you made some good edits to Coca Cola, would you care to join Wikiproject soft drinks? Telcourbanio Care for a talk? 15:10, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

Hi, Telcourbanio! Thanks for the invitation, but I'll decline. I'm not particularly interested in soft drinks, I mostly just read a lot and tweak when I see things that I can improve a little. JD Lambert 15:23, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Creek people

Hi, Jdlambert. I changed your edit to Creek people and removed the citations from the Sequoyah Research Center, which looked a lot like original research. You may be on to something, but Wikipedia is not the place to hold its debut. On the other hand, the documents you cite may not be the best available sources for the origin of the name "Muscogee." Other documents exist that would give other derivations. If there is a consensus of experts, that is what we should cite.

All the same mvto for your efforts. Your point about Coweta and Cusseta is (I think) a good addition. -- Rob C (Alarob) 19:51, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

Hi Rob, thanks for the corrections/improvements, and for teaching me my first Muskogee word -- mvto! I didn't realize that original research in Wikipedia was inappropriate, but now I know better. I am glad you left at least one occurance of the reference, though... it seems to me that linking to original source material is a very valuable part of Wiki. BTW, my wife and children have some Creek ancestors. I'm stuck with plain old Europeans. JD Lambert 21:20, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

I agree with you about original sources, especially when it comes to history topics. Your link to those documents showed me some sources I'd never seen before, and I appreciate that.

If you'd like to learn all the Maskoke I know (and then some!), here is a great website: Creek Language Archive. (One of my ambitions is to go to Oklahoma to study the language. As it is, I'm in Alabama surrounded by Muskogee place names, but no one speaks the language.) -- Rob C (Alarob) 22:40, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Factory farming

It hasn't been locked for seven months, but since May 20. I very much hope you leave it locked, and in fact the other titles involved in the dispute need to be locked too to force all the editors to the table. It's because they have simply carried on editing the other titles (but we have stayed away from them so as not to edit war) that they feel fine about turning down mediation. SlimVirgin ^(talk) 02:32, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

I'm not an admin, so I can't unlock it. However, I think the chance of mediation helping is near zero, I think that keeping it locked will not convince others to agree to mediation, and I think that unlocking could allow us to make progress if people will hash out proposed changes on the talk page before making any changes. If unlocking doesn't work, it's easy enough to lock it again. JD Lambert 15:50, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

Jdlambert, I'll respond to you here, since you addressed your response on the article page to me. I agree with SlimVirgin above – the only reason the others are refusing to compromise or to agree to mediation is because other related pages are open, we are not editing them to avoid edit warring, and therefore the other pages have become POV forks. Unlocking this page would be exactly the wrong move – it would remove any pressure on that group to mediate or negotiate, and only result in the resumption of the edit warring that caused the original protection. As an admin, I never unprotect an article that I protect due to edit warring, unless I have personally verified that there are improved chances for meaningful negotiations and collaboration. I don't see any such changes in this case – the fact that one side absolutely refuses mediation speaks volumes. Crum375 16:49, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] SQL

What SQL procedural extension does MySQL have? "MySQL" as the name is suspicious.--Chealer 03:17, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

I've looked, but never found one. Everything I've seen just refers to it as SQL. If you find somewhere that MySQL AB refers to it by name, please add it and its citation. JD Lambert 15:52, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

I guess it could be called "SQL" because it's part of SQL now. Do you have any evidence that MySQL has a [non-standard] SQL procedural extension?

Here's a few... Do, Handler, Load Data Infile, Kill, Reset, Flush. All these are listed in MySQL AB's documentation under "13. SQL Statement Syntax" and I don't believe they're ANSI standard. As with other RDBMS vendors, they don't normally distinguish in their documentation as to which of their commands are standard and which are extensions. JD Lambert^(T|C) 18:56, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Re: reverted external link

Regarding this revision, yes: I only noticed the red highlighted text, I'm afraid, where he inserted his signature. I missed his addition of the link all-together. Thanks for the help. – Clockwork Soul 22:12, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Factory farming RfM

A request for mediation has been filed with the Mediation Committee that lists you as a party. The Mediation Committee requires that all parties listed in a mediation must be notified of the mediation. Please review the request at Wikipedia:Requests_for_mediation/factory_farming, and indicate whether you agree or refuse to mediate. If you are unfamiliar with mediation, please refer to Wikipedia:Mediation. There are only seven days for everyone to agree, so please check as soon as possible. Jav43 17:30, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

Oh, well, BCST2001 has already disagreed. I signed as agreeing anyway, just to indicate my willingness for future reference, however dim the prospects. JD Lambert^(T|C) 00:57, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wikimania Atlanta

Hi! I noticed your involvement on U.S. South-related articles, categories and WikiProjects, and I wanted to let you know about a bid we're formulating to get next year's Wikimania held in Atlanta! If you would like to help, be sure to sign your name to the "In Atlanta" section of the Southeast team portion of the bid if you're in town, or to the "Outside Atlanta" section if you still want to help but don't live in the city or the suburbs. If you would like to contribute more, please write on my talk page, the talk page of the bid, or join us at the #wikimania-atlanta IRC chat on freenode.org. Have a great day!

P.S. While this is a template for maximum efficiency, I would appreciate a note on my talk page so I know you got the message, and what you think. This is time-sensitive, so your urgent cooperation is appreciated. :) Mike H. I did "That's hot" first! 07:23, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

This is rather time-sensitive, I would appreciate a response tomorrow if at all possible. Mike H. I did "That's hot" first! 08:32, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

Hi Mike, I won't be able to travel to Atlanta, and have very little spare time right now. Or rather, I have health problems that limit what I can do with my spare time. JD Lambert^(T|C) 18:29, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

I'm sorry to hear that. I hope things get better for you! Mike H. I did "That's hot" first! 03:19, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Data Domain (corporation)

A {{prod}} template has been added to the article Data Domain (corporation), suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but this article may not satisfy Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and the deletion notice explains why (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). You may contest the proposed deletion by removing the {{dated prod}} notice, but please explain why you disagree with the proposed deletion in your edit summary or on its talk page. Also, please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Even though removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, the article may still be deleted if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria or it can be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. If you endorse deletion of the article, and you are the only person who has made substantial edits to the page, please tag it with {{db-author}}. Fabrictramp 23:28, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

Done.JD Lambert^(T|C) 22:06, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Floyd Medical Center

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G11 is blatantly promotional materal, but the final version was not. I must have been looking at the original, which was. "Stub" means that the article is short, not that it doesn't have to comply with policies like WP:N. Feel free to recreate the article in a non-promotional manner with appropriate citations to reliable sources showing notability. -- But|seriously|folks 16:49, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Invitation

I'd like to invite you to join the new task forces proposed in the Georgia WikiProject. We are currently looking for new members to join our proposed task forces and work groups. With your help we can make it one of the best WikiProjects. Remember cooperative works can do amazing things. Regards Absolon S. Kent (talk) 20:33, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Public access

I am sorry, but at 777K bytes, Public access stations (United States) was about 20 times bigger than a decent Wikipedia article ought to be. It is not the length of the visible article that is the problem but the massive use of HTML markup. This also suggests the article is a copyvio. I have movd it to User:Jdlambert/sandbox. If it is not a copyvio, please convert it to wiki markup - you will find the size comes crashing down! -- RHaworth (Talk | contribs) 20:04, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

It's not a copyright violation, but I agree it's too large. I ran out of time to work on it today, but I'll fix in my sandbox. I'll try to break it into smaller chunks as well as converting the markup and other improvements. JD Lambert^(T|C) 02:32, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

It may not be a copyvio, but you do need to declare its source. I have found it in two places on the web, both equally massive files due to ridiculous HTML - but different HTML from yours! It will probably be OK as one article once you convert it entirely to wiki markup. -- RHaworth (Talk | contribs) 06:33, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Very reasonable

I was pleasantly surprised to see the turn of events at Fairfax Public Access, and your eventual tagging it for deletion when you determined that it did not meet notability guidelines. It's not often that you see that amount of reason in people who have created pages that are nominated as not notable enough! It was very pleasant to see. -- Natalya 13:54, 2 May 2008 (UTC)