User talk:MrWeeble/Archive 1

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Welcome

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia.

Please note that it is customary to highlight the title phrase or title word at its first appearance, like this. (See my editing of your Royal Institution and Speaker of the House of Commons.) Michael Hardy 22:46, 1 Oct 2003 (UTC)

Thanks mate. Taken on board - will do so in future. - MrWeeble

Hi Mr Weeble, just thought I'd say hello as I'm in Southend on Sea as well! Your not the same Weeble who was once one of the local punks back in the early 1980s and now drives a train for British Rail by any chance??? Guess not as you were born in 1979 which would have made you about 5 then... quercus robur 22:52, 3 Nov 2003 (UTC)

afraid not, only train I drove around that time was Thomas the Tank Engine.

Withnail & I

Hi - you wrote the Withnail and I article, I film I love dearly, and mention that it spawned many quotes. Would you care to add a few of your favourites? Thanks! Mark Richards 00:13, 17 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Prittlewell

Nice to see the Prittlewell page! shame the restored building is now an estate agents and not a cake shop as in it's last incarnation! i live about 5 minutes from St Marys Church BTW and often drink in the Spread Eagle! (can't help you on the BF front though as I'm a strict hetro with 4 kids...) (just in case you thought I was fishing with the spread eagle bit...) quercus robur 00:33, 22 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Cheers Graham

Thames Gateway

Thank you for you revision of the Thames Gateway page. Your message relating to my edit, has been duly considered and my response is as follows:

MrWeeble Quote:

I just reverted your last edit of Thames Gateway and I feel that it is only fair that I explain my reasoning more fully. While I understand your feelings against this project, to use the phrasing that you did is not really appropriate in an encyclopaedia as it states your point of view too much.

reply: (Faedra 11:28, 29 Jul 2004 (UTC)) It is not an opinion that the present government has failed to locate weopons of mass destruction in Iraq, it is a fact. This comparison is relivent because the overwhealming evidence presented by the consultation process against an Airport at Cliffe also shows the government to be in error of judgement. The relitivity between the two illustrates the fact that government policy is flawed, and this must have a baring on the multi million pound investment scheme proposed for North Kent...

Quote:

If looked objectively at the question of WMDs in iraq, it is not related to this issue in any way except that you disagree with the decision made by the government in both counts.

This is not so, I was supportive of the policy of liberating Iraq from Saddam, but misled by the British government by their flawed reasoning. I do not wish to see such deception ruin North Kent.

Quote:

Likewise the bit about "a total disregard for public opinion" implies that all public opinion is against it - it isn't.

Such members of the public would do well to stay at home. Thank you again for your interst and efforts. Reply invited.


REF REPLY TO ABOVE:

I find it disturbing that the public at large should be happy to benefit from financial improvements to an area without taking responsibilty first to ensure that the area is protected for future generations. I am opposed to any significant developments in north Kent, and am quick to anger with those who feel such developments should be persued with out reference to local history, and the environment. Although I do not intend to express my political opinion in any wiki-article, it must be understood that in conversation about an item, such as the Thames Gateway I will state my opinion, and encourage anyone with ears to hear, that it is the correct opinion.

Staying at home is just the best way to avoid the issue....

All the best Faedra 09:58, 31 Jul 2004 (UTC) :

TV Box

I like your British TV box idea. It's very hard to make affiliate boxes for American channels because the networks are broken up into more than 200...sometimes even 300 affiliates across the country. That's just for ONE national network (there are eight, six commercial networks, a quasi-network, PAX, and PBS).

I do like your ingenuity. Feel free to email me or drop a note on my talk page anytime for advice or just to talk. Mike H 20:23, Aug 8, 2004 (UTC)

I see you've decided to add them! They look great. :-) Mike H 21:57, Sep 19, 2004 (UTC)

Thanks, I've been meaning to do them but have had no free time recently. Three down - about 100 odd to go :S MrWeeble 22:01, 19 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Heh. If you need any help, just say so. My AIM name is I Came To Work and my MSN is haltermannews@yahoo.com. Mike H 23:32, Sep 19, 2004 (UTC)

TV boxes

159753: Thanks for the comment, I have even put these boxes into the Finnish channels MTV3 and Nelonen. It just put a nice infomation guide fro any visitors.

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 2000 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)

Generation Y

The Generation Y article and title are offensive. As a millenial you should do something about it. -The Masked Millenial

"Liberal"

I find it odd you use the American sense of Liberal rather than the English. I take it you don't like Charlie Kennedy from your comments then. :) message left by user:MacRusgail

No I use the word very much in the British sense, I am a card carrying Lib Dem member and reckon Charlie K would make a cracking PM. I'll admit that I am on the more radical wing of the party, but I definately support them. Not quite sure what comments you are refering to. MrWeeble 14:36, 21 August 2005 (UTC)

Thames Gateway

Hi ... I am interested in the current article on the Gateway, since I live on the south side (Gravesend). In The Week (a summary weekly which I take) there is a good briefing article on the Gateway, which seems to include info not currently in the article - eg Martin Simmons (of the old GLC who sparked off the whole project in 1987); Heseltine's description in 1991 as "the East Thames Corridor", and a summary of the 2003 plans for a linear city of 200,000 homes. The latter points up five strategic areas:

  • Inner East London (48,000 homes)
  • Outer London Riverside (27,750)
  • Ebbsfleet and Mid Gateway City (47,300)
  • Medway City (40,610)
  • South Essex Towns (Basildon & Southend) (15,900)

and also includes the Beckton-Greenwich bridge In addition the 2012 Olympic decision and the Olympic Park Masterplan will bring jobs to the area. Even Crossrail might now be more than a pipedream! The briefing article plays a lot on the floodplain contraversy, and the dubious claims that the developers will, even after having to "clean" the contaminated land, still "stump up" cash for schools, leisure centres etc. That is of course verging on the NPOV, but is still what is bothering people like the Association of British Insurers ... The Environment Agency argues with the Government's contention that there is need for worry, saying that a great deal must be done to obviate the results of flooding - including no living at ground-floor level on new estates!

I didn't want to change the article since you obviously have it in hand, but I thought you might be interested? Peter Shearan 18:18, 26 August 2005 (UTC)

Category:Millennial Wikipedians

Category:Millennial Wikipedians has been listed on categories for deletion. Since you are using it on your user page please weigh in on the vote and that of the other generational categories here. Thanks. -JCarriker 20:35, August 26, 2005 (UTC)

Sky 2

Hello,

Just wanted to say thanks for expanding the Sky 2 article - clearly was very different to Sky Mix/Sky Two! All the best with the television stations project as well (tv and radio stations are a bit of a nerdy hobby of mine!) --Matthew Humphreys 13:48, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

Wikimedia UK meeting

Hi MrWeeble, there will probably be a meeting for the purpose of discussing Wikimedia UK this Sunday, which you might like to attend. You could add your name there if so. Cormaggio @ 23:42, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

Southend Pier

Hi,

I removed the bit "Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver was conceived on Southend Pier in August 1974" from the Southend Pier article because it sounded like a hoax, was unable to verify it using google, and thought it was added by a anon IP but it looks like you added it. Just wondered if you had a verifiable source for the info? Cheers. chowells 20:36, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

Template:UK-ROI TV channel infobox/sister

Hi,

It would appear I've really screwed up that template. I tried to add a "(s)" to the end of "channel" so that it would account for more than one sister channel, but instead it cocked up the template. Tried reverting it but it won't work. Hopefully you can fix it!

I was updating the Sky Mix article and you'll see the problem there. :)

Thanks

Samluke777 12:38, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

To make these subtemplates work they need a blank line as the first line of the template, unfortunately when editing the template the interface "helpfully" removes this as a bit of superflous text, so when resaving it all goes pete tong unless you reinsert the blank line. Reverting of course is just another way of editing so it does the same thing. Fixed now. MrWeeble Talk Brit tv 15:10, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
I see. That is a pain. Thanks for fixing. :)
Samluke777 15:58, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

Wikimedia UK

You have expressed an interest in Wikimedia UK. Just to let you know I've posted a draft Memorandum of Association and Articles of Association of the proposed "Wikimedia UK" charitable company on Wikimedia UK/Memorandum of Association and Wikimedia UK/Articles of Association. It is proposed that these will receive initial approval by interested parties at a meeting on 27 November. I will put together a brief agenda for the more formal aspects of that meeting soon. Memo and Arts of Association are a company's constitution, and need to be agreed before the company is formed (though they can be changed at a later date). Please feel free to comment on the relevant talk pages (I'd rather the proposed drafts are left unedited so that it is easy to see what is going on) - particularly if there is something there that you would disagree with at the meeting, details of which can be found on the Wikimedia UK page on Wikimedia Meta-Wiki. Kind regards, jguk 19:10, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

IRC meeting reformat

BTW, was that you who reformatted the WMUK IRC meeting? Manually? Fair play, if so. There was no particular reason I set it up the way I did (I just saw others done the same), but if you want to advise me on anything to do in the future to avoid someone having to do this, please let me know! Cormaggio @ 23:08, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

Infoboxes

I've created an Infobox for WikiProject British TV shows at Template:Infobox British television. However, your infobox UK-ROI TV channel infobox seems to leave out blank fields, while the infobox I created keeps them. How do I get it to leave out blank fields? smurrayinchester(User), (Ho Ho Ho!) 18:28, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

Categories for deletion

Thanks for doing the cleanup. I should have looked a little harder for the correct way to list all of those. Vegaswikian 22:27, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

Template:Infobox TV channel

Please explain what is "wrong" with the CSS version and I will help fix it without resorting to that ugly code. I asked on the talk page and no answer as to what wasn't working. -- Netoholic @ 00:18, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

Please excuse that I lead you to work out the now rejected inlining of qif. Obviously your question at WP:AUM before investing your time could not be answered then by the now opposing parties for unknown reasons. Thanks for your work anyway. Adrian Buehlmann 09:15, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

VAT and CI

Hope you don't think I was too brutal with the surgery on Value Added Tax-free Exports from the Channel Islands! Man vyi 16:08, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

WeebleCode vs AUM

I very much admire your work in User:MrWeeble/sandbox5 and User:MrWeeble/sandbox6 regarding proposing a solution to the chronic Wikipedia:Avoid_using_meta-templates problem. In User:Optikos/sandbox0 and User:Optikos/sandbox1, I borrowed your idea myself to create a new prototype of a universal-university Template:Infobox_ in hopes of replacing all of the current 42 existing Template:Infobox_*[uU]niversity* variants. One thing that I am having trouble with in using your idea is controlling column widths, but perhaps that could be because of the one major place where I diverged: my use of class="wikitable" instead of your use of class="infobox". By the way, your dummy parameter (which I rename optional_field) technique nests recursively quite nicely as I demonstrate in User:Optikos/sandbox0 and User:Optikos/sandbox1. If I may, I would like to ask your advice on three topics:

  • Do you see a way that I can evolve User:Optikos/sandbox0 to control column widths while still using your User:MrWeeble/sandbox5 syntax/technique? I tried XHTML variations on <table><col width=8em></table> and <th width="8em"> in User:Optikos/sandbox0 to no avail.
  • Do you believe that User:MrWeeble/sandbox5 completely sidesteps/bypasses the entire meta-template concept prohibited in Wikipedia:Avoid_using_meta-templates?
  • Do you see a way other than <noinclude>newline newline</noinclude> as I have used in User:MrWeeble/sandbox5 to place each row of a table on its own line in the Template:Infobox definition without the newlines appearing at the point of that Template:Infobox's usage? I seek this presumably for readability and quick human maintenance/editing access for finding the beginning of each line/row in the Template:Infobox definition, but I must admit that the verbosity of my <noinclude>newline newline</noinclude> erodes the accomplishment of this goal a tad. —Optikos 03:39, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

Meta-source

Hi James. I have a (very half-baked) wild idea. What about inserting some "meta-source" into the wiki source inside comments that contains a higher level language. Wild (possibly bad) example: In articles we could write:

<!-- Begin of meta-source (do not remove this) --
{{Infobox TV channel
 name=Treasures TV|
 logofile=Treasures TV logo.gif|
 logoalt=Treasures TV Logo|
 launch=[[21 November]] [[2005]]|
 web=[http://www.treasures.tv/ www.treasures.tv]|
 terr avail=Not Available|
 sat serv 1=[[Sky Digital]]|
 sat chan 1=781|
 cable avail=Not Available|
}}
-- End of meta-source -->

  ... genereated wiki code from above here ....

Would it be possible to create a client side tool that converts those meta-source-chunks into flattened media-wiki (without template calls)? Maybe a browser plug-in. Or could something be done using client side scripting (java script). Maybe something inside such a script like User:Adrian Buehlmann/monobook.js?. I've seen you are a web designer, think you know a lot more about that than I (Though I'm a programmer my knowledge in this area is sadly too limited). What do you think? Adrian Buehlmann 13:02, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

I think I would be able and willing to write code that can simulate media-wiki templates (those that use qif). For example I'm quite good in C++. We also could invent our own meta-language. Adrian Buehlmann 13:12, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

Hi James. Please ignore what I wrote above. I think it's already rather inappropriate. Sorry for wasting space on your talk page :-). Adrian Buehlmann 23:46, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

Newest joke

Just for fun: Quoting myself on MediaWiki talk:Common.css#CSS hack reduces accessibility: "Weeble does not violate anything". I hope so :-):-) --Adrian Buehlmann 21:49, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

York@54

Deleted as requested. Merge away. - Just zis  Guy, you know? [T]/[C] AfD? 14:28, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

OK, should be fixed now. Sorry if I borjed anythign, new at this adminning game :-) - Just zis  Guy, you know? [T]/[C] AfD? 14:48, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

Scotland map

Yes. I shall see what I can do. It also misses the Orkneys and Shetland, which may be harder to add. I think my brain wasn't in gear that day so I must have thought that none of the island areas were depicted. Oh well. Morwen - Talk 12:02, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

Trevor Baylis Quotes

I actually think that keeping a copy of these quotes in the article genuinely contributes to the reader's understanding of the man and his work - I could add the material in the third person to the article body, but I think it would lose immediacy and authenticity. Do you have any objection to my copying the quotes back into the article (and, of course, leaving the copy you put in wikiquote)? Euchiasmus 09:24, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

Vandal

Thanks for the note, it sure looks like the same. I gave him a week, let me know if that doesn't do any good. Thanks! Rx StrangeLove 20:34, 27 February 2006 (UTC) (I probably should have included the IP of the user I was referring to:82.36.241.245)