User talk:Longhair/Archive2

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[edit] Thanks

I've seen you edit a few of my contributions in my time here, just thought I'd finally take the time out of my day to thank you for your contributions :) --Sherurcij 06:32, Jun 5, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Cricket categorisation

You're probably right that the match pages should be categorised. I've created a new category Category:2005 English cricket season matches that would probably do the job better. Kind regards, jguk 09:08, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Thank you for your encouragement! CarolGray 12:12, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Phil Lewis

about Phil Lewis of L.A. Guns, actually he was from England, but i'm not sure if he's an American citizen NOW or not. i noticed that you put an american singers note on the Phil Lewis website. i'm pretty sure he was a citizen of England when he was in Girl. Gringo300 10:20, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] How do you find new users?

I'm not new; I've been here for months and contributed thousands of edits - why did you just put a welcome notice on my user page? Brianjd | Why restrict HTML? | 11:30, 2005 Jun 6 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for Help on Find Me page.

Thanks for categorizing this for me. If you ever get tired of being uber-hot in Austrailia, please feel free to come visit and be uber-hot here with me in D.C. ;) Pacian 14:20, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Image Copyright

Hi, can you please affirm that you are the copyright holder of the Bilal Skaf image?An An 07:31, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Hi Longhair, thanks for getting back to me so quickly. The pic doesn't really look like a mugshot, though perhaps it is. Can I say the adding of the Bilal Skaf pic disturbed me becuase of the overtones of trial-by-media, and the other associated dramas of those rape trials. I think that there was a tendency to over-dramatise and if you like, demonise and make issue out of Skaf being Muslim. So I think I overreacted to the image on that basis. Thanks for checking on the copyright status of the image. An An 00:36, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] New User Here

Thanks for welcome. Re: revert image, totally innocent, simply browsing -- no idea what I did but didn't think I "Saved Page". Anyway, your articles are great. How about doing a stub on "Draconian" as it applies to government treatment of their citizens in western societies, and see where it goes. For me it's back to the Sandbox. anache 16:13, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Weird!

Weird ... I just updated the HM_Prison_Morwell_River page and was about to do some bits about HM_Melbourne_Assessment_Prison (they just called it the Remand Center when I ... oh but that's another story) - anyway I saw Longhair had done the last update (as he had about Morwell).

Very strange. Everything I do - from Newton to Kennedy to this - Longhair has been there already. Hmm. This is weird.

Sigh, I guess Longhair is just better than me :-)

Mike

[edit] Tags

I noticed the other day that you put a cleanup tag on Geelong railway line, Victoria, when all of two lines needed changing, and now you've done it again with Going Home, which would've required all of about twenty seconds of wikifying. What's with putting tags on things which could be fixed in just about as much time as it would take to tag them? Ambi 10:22, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] prisons etc

Longhair, I notice that Swan River Colony is listed in List of Australian prisons and detention centres, and also that it's in Category:West Australian prisons. Same goes for Port Arthur and other Penal colonies. Do you think it's correct to list and categorise p/c's as prisons? - Ian 12:34, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Gold Coast Airport

What part of 4 sentences doesn't make this a stub? Burgundavia (✈ take a flight?) 09:40, Jun 10, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for the welcome

Just about all my contributions will be video game based, b/c I have to geek out sometime during the day. Cajunstrike 05:41, Jun 11, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Use of {{AU-politician-stub}}

Hi. Is it right to tag State governors as {{AU-politician-stub}}? They're appointed not elected, and supposed to be apolitical, like judges and ambassadors. --ScottDavis 08:40, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I've noticed about four governors tagged as politician stubs. I don't know how many more there might be. Other alternatives to reverting the tags are to expand the articles :-) or redefine the tag description to include significant government appointees. I heard the Secretary of Immigration received an Order of Australia today, so he would also fit under the wider definition, but is not a politician either. --ScottDavis 09:55, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I'd leave them as they are, at least until a political expert gets to them. The early governors had a lot of power, even when the colonies received their own governments. I'm not an expert either, but have been adding brief articles and succession boxes for the SA governors, at least. I hope someone else will make the articles better later. If restubbing them gets the right people to read them, then so much the better. --ScottDavis 10:06, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Home detention

Just thought I'd let you know I redirected Home detention (mentioned on your user page) to the existing House arrest article, but there's a lot of room for expansion. An article on Electronic home monitoring would be nice if you know anything about it, but it should include medical monitoring as well as detention monitoring.   —TeknicT-M-C 09:22, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Australian wine regions

I was about to revert your category additions of Merbein, Victoria and Mildura, Victoria, both of which say they're in the Sunraysia region. Before I did, I checked an authoritative site, and discovered that wine-wise, they're in the Murray Darling wine region. As such, I won't revert your edits until there's a proper article to refer to for the wine regions. Sometime after I finish or get bored with Governors and premiers of South Australia, I'll have a go at fixing the wine regions of Australia. --ScottDavis 10:13, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Sorry for picking on you. I've been away for the weekend, and am catching up on what changed that I care about. Wine regions do have legal definitions, and some of them are fiercely defended or disputed. Not to worry - the Murray Darling article doesn't exist, and Sunraysia is short enough to be next-to-useless, even after you've doubled it. Regions are interesting, in that tourism, wine labelling, and various other purposes could have different names or boundaries for them. If someone made a really top-notch wine from only grapes grown around Merbein, they'd possibly try to get a subregion named and defined around what made it special. No hard feelings. --ScottDavis 10:44, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Some regions aren't contentious, or are large enough that there aren't grapes grown near the boundaries when they were defined. Coonawarra was a particularly touchy subject when it was defined, as there were vineyards with an address of "Coonawarra" (the town), but not on the Terra Rossa red soil, who had been calling their wines Coonawarra. I think some might have even been on red soil, but not continuous with the "real" bit. A lot of those are now in the new region of Wrattonbully. Although now they seem to be promoting the Limestone Coast zone moreso than Wrattonbully, possibly by some hoped-for association with Coonawarra. Both Wrattonbully and Padthaway are mostly vineyards owned by or supplying the big brands, rather than boutique wineries or labels. Cheers. --ScottDavis 10:59, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for being aware

Wikipedia is a new thing to me, not until the great Steve Jobs mentioned it in his recent keynote speech I was not aware of what it was.

But using the Wikipedia widget in Apple's Tiger I found out that there was millions of great pages with information about everything, and that's good.

I work at this school where we work with one of the major problems of the world, and I thought to myself that Wikipedia would benefit from that, not today, but in time we will fill this with our tale about the school with useful information about fighting obesity.

I was of course dissapointed that not long after I made my first entry, someone had already disputed the rights of this information on an "open source" encyclopedia, and furthermore claimed that this is an english encyclopedia - I thought that Wikipedia was universal.

We are planning to ad an english version of our website, but remember that Wikipedia is not entirely used by english speaking people.

Hasse Kirkegaard

[edit] Thanks for the welcome!

Thanks for the quick welcome. I'll take a look at the suggested resources; I'm sure they will be helpful in getting started. Brainwidth 22:13, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Hello!

Just dropping by to say thanks for the kind welcome. The information provided will be most useful.

Bennity 01:01, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Edit summary

Hello. Please remember to always provide an edit summary. Thanks and happy edits. Alphax τεχ 06:58, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks!

Thanks for your kind welcome! Look forward to working more on the Wikipedia :) KamuiShirou 09:01, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Your welcome message

You probably wouldn't have sent that welcome message if you know who I am. I'm just being too lazy to log in. Rest assured, I'm a seasoned wikipedian anonymously editing from my university IP. - 131.211.210.14 11:51, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Cheers for the info

G'day and thanks for the welcome message. I have to say I am impressed that it took you only 5 minutes to wikify the article I started on Jessie Street. I'll look through the info you've provided me and hopefully I can assist with the Wikipedia project. Wikistyler

[edit] Welcoming users

I'm giving you a big gold star! You managed to welcome Dgd less than sixty seconds from his first edit. By the time I got there to do it, it was old news.

Great work! -- Essjay · talk 07:53, Jun 17, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Wow!

I am just looking around, and logged on for the first time. I'm trying to find out about the concepts over and under determined and you caught me with a 'hallo' immediately. But - I may be too much of a novice even to be able to find my way back to the reference page. How long will my question remain. How often should I look to see if there are answers? Jeffrey Newman

[edit] NBA Most Improved Player Award

I was in the middle of "cleaning it up" when you came along. I got the old "someone else as edited" while I was in mid-edit. Check in now. WikiDon

  • Thanks! I switched "Category:awards" for "Category:Basketball trophies and awards" to be consistant with all of the other NBA awards. And mine is the best looking award of all the NBA ones, they need to converted to look like the one I just did. There is another project to do... WikiDon

[edit] Thanks for your welcome message

I would like to thank you for sending me a welcome message. I promise to use Wikipedia only for posting information that I am sure is correct. I will check the page you recommended me, and if I can help, I will do it gladly. Copperchair

[edit] Thanks

Thanks for welcoming me. I'll try to be as useful as I can. Fnorp 13:42, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Another Thanks

Thank you for the welcome message, although I have been here a good few months now. The message was very helpful though, thanks a lot. Ppk01 13:47, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks and a Request for Advice

Thank you very much for the welcome message, it's much appreciated. Now, I have to ask you for a bit of advice. I'm currently trying to aid a (currently) anonymous poster in preserving a theory concerning The Crimson King. There is no reference material for this theory, but it's clearly labeled as a theory and draws reasoning from several of Stephen King's novels. Any advice you could give on keeping the theory preserved? Wyborn 22:01, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Welcome and New Messages

Thank you for the welcome. Since you were the first to add to my talk page, you have raised on interesting technical problem that perhaps you could help me with. According to Help:Talk page, whenever a new message is left on my talk page, the text "You have new messages" appears at the start of every page I view. I have viewed your gracious welcome several times now since it was first left on 16 Jun, yet the message remains. Has this happened before that you know of? -RJC 02:41, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Well, the welcome message is still visible because I didn't delete it. The message that I have new messages, however, remains atop every page I view, even after having looked at my talk page. Strangely, it briefly disappeared until I posted the above question. And then reappeared when you posted your reply. Again, even after having viewed my talk page, the "new messages" message appeared atop every page. Now I'm really confused (by the fact that the message did, for a time, disappear). -RJC 02:52, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Thanks. Time to see what some fiddling will do. -RJC 03:10, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Many Thanks

...for your warm welcome. I'm already loving the immense wealth of information here! -- Pianoman199 08:08, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] James Harrison

I've just been going through the Dictionary of Australian biography list (linked from the AWNB to-do), and trying to clean it up some - it's highlighting quite a few missing redirects and missing disambiguations, like the Harrison one. If you're interested/have some spare time, any help you could give would be much appreciated. Ambi 09:14, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Stub Sorting

Thanks for marking the North Borneo Federation article as a stub. As part of Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting, I have replaced the generalized {{stub}} tag with {{poli-stub}}. When you edit other articles, it would be great if you could use these more specific tags whenever possible. Thanks, and continue contributing to Wikipedia! Conscious 09:45, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for the tip

Thanks a lot for the tip -- I feel much more welcome as a new user! reperire

[edit] speedy deletion

Could you please use {{db}} instead of {{delete}}, so the reason for the nomination is clear for the deleting admin? - Mgm|(talk) 10:32, Jun 20, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for the welcome

I've been using wikipedia for a while before I signed up, and have read a few of the guides you posted, but there are some there I haven't read yet - thanks for the links.Ben Bulben 11:23, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] How do you put that frame

How do you put that frame where u say "im quite right/i need a vacation" and your languages? Argentino 11:59, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)