User talk:Jo Weber
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[edit] Don Ross
Hi there, nice work on the Don Ross article. I determined who was on the Candyrat roster by checking the reference you had and seeing which artists were indicated to be exclusive to Candyrat, then I cross-referenced with the Candyrat MySpace page. As for improving the article, the German version seems to have more in the discography/publications section which could be added, other than that I'm not sure what is needed, though I think a picture and a sound sample would be great to include. I took a look in the Creative Commons for a photo, but didn't find one, and all my CDs are in storage as I'm moving to a new city soon, so I can't upload a sound sample right now; I might get around to it sometime in the future. Cheers Strobilus (talk) 14:57, 17 December 2007 (UTC)
[edit] WikiProject Guitarists newsletter
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Hello all! Time for the next installment of the WikiProject Guitarists newsletter. I recently went through and trimmed the member list again to remove inactive participants. I haven't been too active recently because I'm finishing a Master's degree but I'll have some more free time coming up. I will probably spend some time cleaning up equipment articles since many of them read like adverts or contain no useful information. We have a lot of great people working on the project, including professional guitarists and even luthiers. We have the potential to write a lot of great articles. If you are looking for something to do, see the open tasks on the main project page or see the column to the right for specific suggestions. --Spike Wilbury ♫ talk 23:30, 18 December 2007 (UTC) |
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[edit] Driftless Area
Hold your tongue. Wisconsinian glaciation is the local term for what happened in North America during the last five-hundred-million years (three phases of ice, and others of tropical heat). This was an ignoramus move.Ace Telephone (talk) 03:43, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
- @Ace: I did support your point (see Talk:Last glacial period), and you treat me like an idiot here. I know what the Wisconsinian glaciation is, and I didn't move the Wisconsinian article. Please be more careful and calm down.--Jo (talk) 13:40, 29 January 2008 (UTC) | Jo (talk) 23:36, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Sauerland
Hi. Actually I'm English. I'm seriously considering reverting the rock bit again—the mountains are made of rock (not rocks), i.e. they are all one lump. And, even if the "lump" consists of several layers of different types, it is still rock (singular). So one could even have rocks lying on the rock! Rocks are things cavemen bang together ;-) I completely missed the Hemer link being in an image link, though. Glad you got rid of the commercial links - the only reason this is on my watchlist is because I removed commercial links at some stage. Happy editing TINYMARK 22:57, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
- Hi TM, I already thought of leaving a comment on your talk page about my somewhat rude edit summary, I'm glad you didn't take it too seriously. I tried to change the previous, very German text to something resembling English, and as I'm no native speaker you sort of hit a nerve. It's always a tricky thing with translations, and as a geologist I tend to emphasize the difference between rock types, so I thought you misunderstood my intention. Feel free to revert that bit. As for the commercial links, I already tried to find more suitable ones, as the German article uses the same, but so far I had no luck. Perhaps you know that the Sauerland people are famous for their stubborness (that's sort of an affectionate remark), so I'd better find a real good one fast, even though WP policy disencourages links to webcams and commercial sites.--Jo (talk) 23:33, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
- Yes, it did strike as a little rude—luckily I'm pretty thick-skinned! What you changed and why you changed it was okay, though misguided. Someone will always change it again. And perhaps the wisecrack about being a German is still better than having no edit summary—I hate that. I'd rather refer to myself as a "World Citizen". As for translating articles from the German WP, I'm in two minds as to whether it should be done at all. The German WP is seriously lacking in cited sources in general. I once came across an article that had been translated and its only source was to cite the German Wikipedia article! Keep up the good work and change your Babel rating for English to "advanced". To say your English is intermediate does you an injustice. Grüße TINYMARK 00:56, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
- Blush... thanks for your nice comment. Where did you find the intermediate level? I am already so immodest to assess my English as 'advanced' (which doesn't keep me from falling for 'false friends' and the like).
- The translation from German (or any other non-English language) is only a problem if it's poorly made. There can't be enough knowledge on WP!
- Concerning sources, I think the situation isn't really different in all WPs. Especially common knowledge-articles severly lack sources. The problem in translations is that normally there are only sources in the native language of the original article. That's better than nothing, but it'd be better to find appropriate ones, and that's quite a lot of additional work.
- Another subject (perhaps you already dreaded this): I'm trying to find a valid translation for Rheinisches Schiefergebirge. I not really convinced with Rhenish slate mountains, as I wasn't yet able to find this term in a native English text, so I suspect it is a German translation. Do you have any idea?--Jo (talk) 10:53, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
- Well apparently, I fell foul of my usual problem of not reading properly. The only things I read properly are articles. I sa the "EN-3" and, for some reason, thought is meant intermediate!
- Personally, I don't like "translated names", i. e. "Rhenish Slate Mountains". I would leave it in German and add the translation in German. I found a few names in English: Rhenish Massif, Central German Uplands, Middle Rhein Highlands, Rhenish Uplands and, of course, Rhenish Slate Mountains—I don't like any of them to be frank. "Mountains" as a translation for Gebirge definitely does not seem convincing. I did find a small paper from an American university where the name was retained in German. Over time English (British English at least) tends to take on the foreign names—"Danzig" became "Gdansk" after the news reporting of Lech Wałęsa and Solidarność in the early 80s, "Peking" became "Beijing" after the shooting of the protesting students in Tiananmen Square in the late 80s. So, for that reason as well, I would stick with the German name. TINYMARK 00:03, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks for your efforts. You found more names for it than me, although Rhenish Massif is already familiar. I started the English Rheinisches Schiefergebirge some weeks ago, following the same chain of reasoning. But the possibility I missed the proper word for it was nagging me since...--Jo (talk) 01:20, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
- Yes, it did strike as a little rude—luckily I'm pretty thick-skinned! What you changed and why you changed it was okay, though misguided. Someone will always change it again. And perhaps the wisecrack about being a German is still better than having no edit summary—I hate that. I'd rather refer to myself as a "World Citizen". As for translating articles from the German WP, I'm in two minds as to whether it should be done at all. The German WP is seriously lacking in cited sources in general. I once came across an article that had been translated and its only source was to cite the German Wikipedia article! Keep up the good work and change your Babel rating for English to "advanced". To say your English is intermediate does you an injustice. Grüße TINYMARK 00:56, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Reference - the Driftless Area
I have a question- if someone wrote a book about the Driftless Area and got the book published should the book be referenced in the article even though the individual murdered 3 people and was committed as a result. It is a question involving possile ethical questions, prudence and discretion.As of right now, there is no references to the book in the article.Thank you-RFD (talk) 21:19, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
- Hi RFD, first of all I wonder why you ask me? I am not really familiar with the Driftless area. From a general Wikipedia viewpoint I could only answer your question if I knew the book. If it is relevant to the article, e.g. describing additional facts about the area, it should be cited as a reference after adding the info. If it has a more general relevance (like being widely known or sold in considerable numbers), Driftless Area#In popular culture would be a section to add information about the book. HTH, Jo (talk) 22:40, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
- Many thanks I knew you were working on the Driftless Area and I lived in La Crosse. It was a question I needed to ask someone. Thank you- RFD (talk) 23:42, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
- I put the information on the talk page of the Driftless Area article. Some discussion is needed before any changes are put in the article. Thank you-RFD (talk) 23:59, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
- Many thanks I knew you were working on the Driftless Area and I lived in La Crosse. It was a question I needed to ask someone. Thank you- RFD (talk) 23:42, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Diamictite
Hi Jo, I notice you recently edited this article. Wikipedia also has an article Diamicton which I have linked to Diamictite. I am not entirely clear about the distinction - is it simply that a diamicton has not been lithified, or do different authors use them interchangeably? Pterre (talk) 11:02, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
- Yes, that's the difference, diamicton is not lithified, diamictite is .
- Look into the first reference of diamictite (Hallsworth & Knox): in section 2.1.1 (Siliciclastic rudaceous sediments) it says ... sediments ...can be given a specific root name - diamicton., and in section 2.1.2 (Siliciclastic rudaceous sedimentary rocks): ... sedimentary rocks ...can be given a specific root name - diamictite. Jo (talk) 11:31, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
- Yeah, they became sort of common ten years later, when I studied geology. They're still much overlooked today. See Snowball Earth...Jo (talk) 07:34, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] WikiProject Germany Invitation
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--Zeitgespenst (talk) 00:23, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Ice age
Thanks for the note, I have had entire sections of my text and technical illustrations disappear for months due to incorrect vandalism correction and assumed the same in my reversion. Best wishes, Leonard G. (talk) 14:45, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
