User talk:Rdsmith4/Archive 2

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[edit] Voter suppression

I understand why you changed it, and I understand why you thought it was POV, and I agree with you. However, I wish you hadn't removed the example of voter suppression without offering another example. --Jon K. 01:56, Nov 11, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Keeping "In the news" NPOV and credible

Following various attempts to add partisan and fringe stories to Template:In the news, I've proposed a new criterion to keep such stuff out. Could you please take a look at Wikipedia talk:In the news section on the Main Page and let me know what you think? -- ChrisO 19:10, 12 Nov 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Requests for comment/rananim

Could I prevail upon you to have a look at Wikipedia:Requests for comment/rananimm, especially becuase I had occasion to mention you there? -- Jmabel | Talk 22:16, Nov 12, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Camera

Hello !

Firstly thanks for all the pictures you are sharing :o) Wich camera do you use to take those pictures ? :o)

Hashar 09:10, 13 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I've used three different digital cameras to take the pictures. For the Japan, Washington DC, Johns Hopkins, and US Naval Academy pics I used a Canon PowerShot G1; for the Thailand pictures I used a Canon PowerShot S110 (the worst camera of the three); and for the remainder I used a Nikon D70 (the best camera by far of the three). I also improved many of the pictures using Adobe Photoshop. Thanks for your compliments. [[User:Rdsmith4|User:Rdsmith4/sig]] 15:55, 13 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Thanks for the answer, keep taking pictures !!  :o) Hashar 18:02, 13 Nov 2004 (UTC)

[edit] VfD vote from Charm

(See Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion/2004_U.S._Election_controversies_and_irregularities) Hi. You obviously have been here a lot longer than I have, so perhaps you can help? I'm concerned that the comment you added to an anon vote almost appears to apply to my vote as well because of the indentation. However, if I move the indentation of the anon vote out to match the other votes, then it will get its own number in the numbered list, and will then appear to be counted. Could you help me figure out how to set it apart (horizontal rules, a new section for Anon votes, or some other better idea you come up with) from my vote without adding it to the count? Thanks in advance. Charm 21:46, Nov 13, 2004 (UTC)

I've reformatted it a bit so the anonymous vote is numbered the same as the others - it should be quite clear now that my comment does not refer to your vote. [[User:Rdsmith4|User:Rdsmith4/sig]] 22:18, 13 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Thanks. I guess it doesn't matter that much that the anon vote is being counted now, because the admins will review the votes? (Not to mention it appears a pretty convincing consensus anyway.) Charm 22:24, Nov 13, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] gig poster adds to "poster" def.

not spamming, not commercially interested. casually rolling through wikipedia and saw the entire subject is ignored. i don't feel the urge to write several articles about "gig poster" "frank kozik" blah blah, so i included a recommendation to an online library of the art form. here, you might like clicking on these thumbnails of pink floyd: http://www.gigposters.com/posters.php?band=870

[edit] RFC/Silsor

Hi Rdsmith4, I am curious why you removed Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Silsor, because there was a discussion going on on that page, and I cannot find it on the archive page. Sam Hocevar 14:24, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Re: F3H Demon

Hi: What is "lbf." as in 11,000 lbf. thrust — should this be just lb. ? BTW I have better pictures and may start a gallery in the article. Leonard G. 05:02, 21 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Message was intended for User:Rlandmann, I must have hit the wrong link., pardon. Leonard G. 05:09, 21 Nov 2004 (UTC)

[edit] thank you

Thank you for catching and reverting some vandalism to several pages recently, one of which was to a page I had originally created about an American author. Someone with an Asian IP had gone in and put a bunch of links all over the bottom of that page without my knowing and done the same to several other entries I didn't work on, but somehow you caught all of it and fixed the pages vandalized by that user IP. You are my hero of the week. :-) Bebop 15:49, 21 Nov 2004 (UTC).

[edit] Could you explain how the ArbCom "get out the vote" tag works?

I was impressed that you made a tag of the "Get Out the Vote" banner and links.

Where is this maintained? Can you explain how it works?

I had second thoughts about asking someone to do this early on, instead of asking people to make their own copies, because I was worried a vandal could edit the central source and damage a lot of pages all at once.

Is it possible to protect the source so there are no unwanted surprises with its appearance or where the links lead to?

If not, wouldn't it be better for everyone to have their own copy on each of their pages?

Thanks for helping out. I really hope the upcoming election is better publicized before it starts.

Cheers,

--DV 13:37, 22 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for explaining how the template works.
I'll start using it for its sheer convenience, but I would feel better if it was protected from vandals.
Cheers,
--DV 15:23, 22 Nov 2004 (UTC)
OK, I went ahead and changed all of my user pages to use it, as well as the article talk pages where I had first posted it. Thanks. --DV 16:43, 22 Nov 2004 (UTC)

[edit] A quick note to say thanks

I just wanted to drop you a quick note to thank you for your support in my request for adminship. It was certainly a wild ride, and I really appreciate you taking some time out to contribute. ClockworkSoul 16:30, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC)

[edit] For information

Hi Rdsmith - 24.255.40.174 (contribs), who you had an altercation from on 7 November, is an alias of the banned User:Kenneth Alan. - MPF 18:02, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Recreated article

Hello. I noticed that Greatest hits of Enrico Caruso Vol. 2 has been recreated. You and Infrogmation have each deleted that article once in the last few days. Since the article appears to be similar to many other track listing 'articles' we have, I wanted to consult you before deleting it for a third time. This article is by the same anon responsible for the possible Mexican radio nonsense campaign. I was wondering why you deleted this article before? Thank you. SWAdair | Talk 03:45, 29 Nov 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Made in Heaven

My first impulse was to leave the follow-up column blank, but I looked at other chronologies first, and those seem to indicate that compilation albums are included, e.g. Unplugged (Alice in Chains) has a regular album as a predecessor and Nothing Safe: Best of the Box as successor, even though the latter is a best-of album with no original material. Not only that, even non-albums are included. Take The Song Remains the Same (album), for example, which has a movie as a follow-up.

This was my first contribution to Wikipedia:WikiProject Albums, so forgive me if I was mistaken... It seems clearer policy on this is needed. (And of course I agree that Made in Heaven was the last true Queen album, and damn all those necrophilic cash-in follow-ups to hell, too. :-) JRM 18:51, 2004 Dec 5 (UTC)

[edit] Fubini's theorem

Hi, you reverted my changes to Fubini's theorem. I am not an expert on this, so correct me if I'm wrong, but the statement

\int_A f(x)\, dx \int_B g(x)\, dx = \int_{A\times B} f(x)g(x)\,dx

does not make much sense to me, since on the right-hand-side the x is drawn from A \times B, which is not the domain of f or g. What does

\int_0^1 f(x)\, dx \int_0^1 g(x)\, dx = \int_{[0,1]^2} f(x)g(x)\,dx

mean? I guess it should be

\int_0^1 f(x)\, dx \int_0^1 g(x)\, dx = \int_{[0,1]^2} f(x)g(y)\,d(x,y)

with x and y drawn from [0,1] respectively.

Therefore I still think my changes were correct and the current version is not. Could you please take another look at it? (128.59.21.105 | talk)

I'll talk with User:Michael Hardy, but he just made a comment about the left-hand-side of the equation with which I don't have any problem (x/y are just indices). I guess he withdrew his comment when he saw that the point was the right-hand-side.
Thanks! (128.59.21.105 | talk)

[edit] "Amerime" redirect

I changed the "Amerime" stub to a redirect to Anime after reading Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion/Amerime. The author LifeFantastic admits that he coined the term as a "social experiment" to try to add a world to the English language see teast. I did a google search which showed that the term is only used on wikipedia and several wiki-based sites. The article has been deleted several times before but has been replaced with stubs on these occasions from users who try to close up references to from a few other pages.

Please change the page back to a redirect to the main Anime article. Thanks23:57, 8 Dec 2004 (UTC)

  • The 'f' isn't capitalized. He's telling the truth, though. However, I don't think a redirect is a good idea, because the two aren't the same thing. -Litefantastic 01:47, 9 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)[[]] 13:54, Dec 9, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Vandalism

Hello there,

Apparently, while Click on an image of Charles I(of England) there was a bar that told me I had new mesages. Following it, there was a page that listed my IP as being a vandal-ip. This concerns me greatly, for I use wikipedia daily to help me with my studies(it is an invalubale tool). I have no idea how this has happened or what I have done and quite frankly, im very confused. If you can help me out, please write me back at my extremely mature email at discoscrew@hotmail.com

Thank you for your time, Warren Berry.

I have replied by email. [[User:Rdsmith4|User:Rdsmith4/sig]] 04:34, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Revert on Gordon Bennet Cup?

Hi, I was wondering why you reverted the edit done by 82.64.10.1 on the Gordon Bennet Cup article, who only added a link to the French article? The French article is much more complete; it looks like a valid link to me. --Costyn 12:21, Dec 12, 2004 (UTC)

Got your message. Thanks for the explanation and your good work (I see you're quite active :-). I was just curious about the revert. In no way any criticism on your work. :-) --Costyn 22:04, Dec 14, 2004 (UTC)

[edit]  :-)

Yes, I'm aware of the harrassment website. It saddens me on a personal level quite a bit. What kind of people would post insults (and stolen photos from a friend's website) of my little girl in order to try to get at me? It's so bizarre that it's a little bit frightening. Jimbo Wales 04:34, 14 Dec 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Libel v. kindness

Hi Dan, thanks for your note. Maybe people are just being kind. But it's an odd sort of kindness to say "people shouldn't call you a pornographer, even if you are . . ." I feel that this nonsense should not be dignified with constant reference to it. People can send their sympathy by private e-mail, which would be much more appropriate in my view. The person in question has himself removed all reference to the nonsense from his own Talk page, and rightly so. Just my opinion. Slim 23:24, Dec 14, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Response to your talk message for 24.94.203.149

Hi Dan,

I just saw your message to me (24.94.203.149) from this November and want you do know that I do respect the non-comercial nature of WikiPedia.

I had posted some links to client sites in the past, but that pre-dated your message from November by a number of months. I had returned and found them removed and got the message at that time....!

It is still not 100% clear to me when external links are ok and when they are not. I would like to be able to contribute from time to time and add links that will comply with your rules.

I will spend some time on your welcome page and let you know if I still have questions.

No reply is needed, but I can be reached at christian at nielsentech dot com.

Thank you, Chris Nielsen (24.94.203.149 | talk)

I have replied by email. [[User:Rdsmith4|User:Rdsmith4/sig]] 21:19, 20 Dec 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Ago Gratias

Salve, Rdsmith4!
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 yourself and others in the debate, even if yours went un-understood by most voters. Ave! PedanticallySpeaking 17:39, Dec 21, 2004 (UTC}

[edit] Tucson, Arizona and more

Hi. I saw that you voted on the RFC regarding Tucson, Arizona, and I thought you might be interested in commenting on a broader application of the formatting to other city articles. The discussion (for now) is at Talk: Tucson, Arizona#Other Arizona and nearby cities. (It might get moved to WikiProject Cities, if there's interest in doing so.) Thanks! kmccoy (talk) 02:33, 27 Dec 2004 (UTC)

[edit] A. Nilsen/Andre Nilsen

It says in your own policy that if deleted articles are being recreated, then that should be seen as evidence for the need of an article. I do not understand why you should ban me if I am actually complying with your policy. That does not seem very fair. Cheers, Erik (130.67.144.193 | talk)

[edit] Truth seeker profile

Sorry, I just needed to annoy him a little. If you look at my editing history, I do not have a history of vandalizing pages despite being european and all. How do I leave that dork a private message? (83.88.173.212 | talk)

[edit] no?

Care to explain your edits, or you're just going to take sides for no reason? anthony 警告 15:29, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Look at the page history. Silsor tried to remove my request for unprotection because it didn't have a "reason". Then he tried to change the intro to support his removal. It's quite clearly not a minor change. anthony 警告 15:43, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC)

No, you shouldn't have to give a "reason" for unprotection. The reason for unprotection is obvious. Unprotection is the default state of a page. If there is no reason for protection, then the page should be unprotected. anthony 警告 16:05, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Nilsen again

Heya, the Andre nilsen people are at it again, and since they can't have a separate article they're inserting it into Norway Scholarship. Could you have look and if you agree it's not appropriate, lend a hand in keeping it out? Thanks in advance. --fvw* 23:01, 2005 Jan 1 (UTC)

[edit] Archiving from WP:AN

You will note that I had left that entry there... :-) Noel (talk) 04:12, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Nomination

Thanks for your support and encouragement on requests for adminship. Happy new year. Tim Ivorson 17:45, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] You just broke Template:Book reference

Are you willing to fix every single article that refers to Template:Book reference? Template argument names are case-sensitive; changing them to lowercase breaks every single article that's used that template. If you want to keep that change, I'd recommend fixing the mess you left. —Morven 06:23, Jan 5, 2005 (UTC)

Oh, furthermore: including "ISBN" in the template breaks every single user of the template too, and furthermore makes it unusable for every book which uses another cataloging scheme (e.g. Library of Congress); and removing the bullet breaks them all too. I'm reverting your changes to the template until either:
  1. You show willingness to fix articles that use a template if you change the way it works, or:
  2. You work to achieve a consensus for the changes and thus find others who are willing to help in that effort.
While I'm keen on "be bold", I'm not keen on leaving Wikipedia in a broken state, either. —Morven 06:26, Jan 5, 2005 (UTC)
Thanks! I do agree with some of your changes, by the way; it's simply that they break pages all over the Wikipedia and will require a concerted effort to alter those pages. —Morven 06:36, Jan 5, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Sig

Hello. Your template sig can be streamlined a bit. If you go into Special:Preferences and check the "Raw signatures" box, you can get around the hack. Then change User:Rdsmith4/sig from
<nowiki></nowiki>]]&mdash; [[User:Rdsmith4|Dan]] | [[User talk:Rdsmith4|Talk
to
&mdash; [[User:Rdsmith4|Dan]] | [[User talk:Rdsmith4|Talk]]
Shortens everything up, and looks better in the places you sign.

Also, protecting your sig is questionable under current protecction guidelines, but I'm sure you know that. I was certainly tempted to protect mine. I like the m-dash; I'll be changing mine. —Ben Brockert (42) UE News 00:06, Jan 6, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the pointer. In fact I'd considered that, but since it's a template, changing it would break it in all the places I've already signed - it would look like [[User:Rdsmith4|— Dan | Talk]]. I may create a new template, User:Rdsmith4/sig2 or something. [[User:Rdsmith4|User:Rdsmith4/sig]] 00:29, 6 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Ah, forgive me for assuming you hadn't thought of that. On the bright side, every place it's used can be found at Special:Whatlinkshere/User:Rdsmith4/sig, so you could fix them all without much effort. But you wouldn't really need to bother because the MediaWiki upgrade left broken sigs strewn about almost every talk page, so no one would think much of it if you had a broken sig here or there. I did go back and fix a few sigs in important places when I moved the dash inside my sig; I previously used --~~~~. —Ben Brockert (42) UE News 03:06, Jan 6, 2005 (UTC)(if you reply here I'll see it.)

[edit] fate --> status

Thanks for your comment; I've stopped changing fate to status. I thought that "status" was a more accurate term than "fate" (I think "fate" for a ship's table graph is a bit silly). Regards, --68.100.252.229 06:18, 9 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] My first page...

Thank you for editing my first page. I am so new, I'm newer than new.  ;)

I've read your user page. You either don't sleep, or know something I don't. How do you do it all?! (Trishymouse | talk)

[edit] Deleted Pic

Hi Rdsmith4, I was hoping you could clear up your deletion of Image:Autofellatio.jpg. I wasn't aware that there were any guidelines or policies allowing its deletion on sight by admins. (Please see Talk:Autofellatio#Deleted_Picture). Thanks for your help in clearing this all up :). Timbo ( t a l k ) 06:57, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Strozzi

Hello RDSmith4. I cannot see how Barbara (a musician) can be the same person as Bernardo (a 17th century painter)? I have deleted your redirect and am writing an article in its place. Peter Shearan 16:49, 12 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Speedy deletion

Hi Dan. I understand that they are on VfD but if they also warrant being Speedy Deletions I think that I should be able to flag them as such. If they truely are Speedy Deletions, is it worth taking up people's time voting for them as normal deletions. You will see that several Deletions have been made Speedy by non-admins today. 213.52.175.2 | talk 17:09, 12 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for you response. Yes I understand what you are saying, but it doesn't seem that all of the other articles that have been set to Speedy (and in fact Speedy Deleted) strictly matched the criteria. I feel that the ones I have flagged are nonsense (although not in the strictest sense). I felt that by adding a Speedy (and leaving the Delete) people could still vote, but an Admin would have a look also. Do you think that is a fair compromise? 213.52.175.2 17:15, 12 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Too slow!

Hi Rdsmith4, You keep slipping in before me! Reverting penis, then copyvio-tagging Iraqi occupation. I guess I need to get a faster computer! Dbenbenn 02:43, 14 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the compliments :-) I don't know if you've been using Special:Recentchanges, but there's also the RC dumper - it's a nifty tool and speeds up the process considerably. [[User:Rdsmith4|User:Rdsmith4/sig]] 03:25, 14 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for interpreting my (unintentionally) ambiguous comments as compliments! And thank you very much for the RC dumper link. It's a lot faster than waiting for Firefox to render the whole Recentchanges page. Of course, you'll still be faster than me, with your magic "rollback" button. Dbenbenn 14:15, 14 Jan 2005 (UTC)
By the way, are you aware of the "Raw signatures (without automatic link)" setting? That would allow you to simplify your User:Rdsmith4/sig template. dbenbenn | talk 14:30, 14 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] 3RR

Heya, I was just about to warn User:Everyking and User:Carnildo for 3RR violation on Pieces of Me when I checked the block log and saw you'd already blocked Carnildo. Why didn't you also block Everyking? --fvw* 21:48, 2005 Jan 14 (UTC)

Never mind, I've read your post on WP:AN. I disagree though, as the anon (is that Carnildo? If so he should be reblocked and possibly have his block extended for evading blocks) points out Everyking has violated the 3RR too. I've blocked him for 24h. --fvw* 21:54, 2005 Jan 14 (UTC)

[edit] Copyright violation

Sorry to be cramping your style and I don't wish to discourage your enthusiasm, but you really can't go around posting copyright material without either the owner's permission or a serious argument as to why its fair use.

In this case the image is owned by a large media company in England that often sues pirates and others for breaches of copyright and I fear you are opening Wikipedia up to a whole world of pain.

So in future, please take care with what you upload. And please don't (if you are) use sockpuppets to vote to keep an image when there is no legal basis for doing so. It only reflects on you as a user.

Keep up the good work and don't let this discourage you.

Ollieplatt 03:15, 16 Jan 2005 (UTC)