User talk:Saukkomies

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[edit] Welcome to Wikipedia

Hello, Saukkomies! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions to this free encyclopedia. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking Image:Signature icon.png or using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your username and the date. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Below are some useful links to facilitate your involvement. Happy editing! DuncanHill 14:56, 2 December 2007 (UTC)
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[edit] The Great War

I just wasn't sure if your comment was born of national sensitivity or if you had something quite different in mind, though I suspected the latter. Anyway, please do try to get a hold of the series I was referring to; it's an excellent piece of work, quite revolutionary for the time. And thank you for setting things straight! Very best wishes. Clio the Muse 23:25, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Hello

I just wanted to add my welcome to Wikipedia. Some of your thoughtful answers at the Ref Desk caught my eye, so I dropped by to read your mini-bio. Please keep up the good work, and if you ever need any administrative assistance, feel free to ask on my talk page. Best, Rockpocket 18:16, 4 December 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Regarding THE ABC's OF ONLINE INDEXES

Thank you very much for the informative and beautifully written post. 70.181.41.1 (talk) 23:51, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Library catalogues

That was the most awesome description of the Dewey and LOC systems I've ever seen! Adam Bishop (talk) 07:32, 14 December 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Thanks for helping out!

I see you've been busy answering questions at the Reference Desks. We're always glad to see fresh faces, and I'm glad you've decided to help out. I thought I'd drop you a couple of pointers, though.

You might want to have a quick look through Wikipedia:Reference desk/guidelines and Wikipedia:Reference desk/guidelines/Medical advice when you have the time. For the protection of our readers' health, to avoid getting ourselves sued as individuals, and to prevent harm to Wikipedia's reputation, we try to avoid offering any sort of medical advice on the Reference Desks. If someone comes to us with a description of their symptoms and asks for a diagnosis, the best thing for everyone is to refer them to a qualified medical professional.

I mention this because of your comment here, where you were asking for more information about another poster's symptoms; you'll want to stay away from that sort of question in the future. If you have any questions, drop me a line or ask around on the Ref Desk talk page.

Have a good weekend! TenOfAllTrades(talk) 18:14, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

Hello again. In general, we try to avoid giving guesses as to the likely severity of a symptom or its underlying causes when someone asks for medical advice, too (as you did here). Trying to decide how much we should try to 'scare' someone into seeing a doctor isn't a good idea. If you're looking for a relaxed-in-tone explanation for our policy in this point, I can also recommend my very own essay on the topic: User:TenOfAllTrades/Why not?. Thanks again, TenOfAllTrades(talk) 20:20, 15 December 2007 (UTC)


Thanks also for helping out at WP:AIV via this edit; you'll be pleased to know that the vandal has been blocked.   — Jeff G. (talk|contribs) 03:11, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Conjugation of strive

FYI: strive – strove – striven (next to regular strive – strived – strived).  --Lambiam 00:39, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

I was referring to this: [1]. Curiously, your original posting is timestamped "12:21, 18 December, 2007 (UTC)" but shows up in the page history at 17:23, December 18, 2007 (UTC).  --Lambiam 08:47, 20 December 2007 (UTC)


Maybe you could help me with this. I have been having all kinds of wretched problems trying to gte the dang Username Signature thing to work right. I might have screwed things up in my Preferences or something - although I went back and reset them, but it still acts screwy. If I either click on the Sign Your Username with the 4 tildas in the editor tool bar, or manually enter the 4 tildas on my own, it kicks me into a page where I'm still in editor mode, except now there are two editor frames opened and it tells me I have to copy and paste from one to the other. It's a HUGE HASSLE to do this. So instead I just manually enter my own timestamp for whatever time it says on my computer, which is my local time. Is there some way to get this all to work right? -- Saukkomies 09:44, 20 December 2007 (UTC)
Have you specified a signature under the "User profile" tab of "My preferences", and is the "Raw signature" check box checked? Based on how you sign manually, you should get the same effect by entering the following text in the "Signature" field:
-- [[User:Saukkomies|]]
and checking "Raw signature". If that doesn't help – you can experiment at your ease in the Wikipedia:Sandbox – I've no idea what the problem could be; you could try asking the people at the Wikipedia:Help desk.  --Lambiam 18:11, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Michigan

Thanks for your answer on the Reference Desk on Boccaccio. I did answer you and have noticed since that you are from Michigan. I live in Ludington in the summer months and Myrtle Beach in the winter months. Was born in Michigan, grew up there and have lived there as an adult, except for the years 1978 - 1995 when I lived in San Diego, California. Retired in 2004 and have been doing this summer-winter thing ever since. Familiar with the UP as we go up there a couple of times each summer - Mackinac Island also (saw Mitt Romney there this last summer). As a librarian perhaps you can find some sources on Boccaccio's exact birth date. I do not think our article is correct. You can answer here as I am watching temporarly.--Doug talk 19:29, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

Wow, sorry Doug, I just saw your entry - some 9 days after you posted it to my talk page. Obviously I need to check on this more frequently than I have been. But yeah, so that's cool you from Ludington. Michigan is a very wonderful place - and part of its charm is that it is losing population every year. Michigan and Rhode Island are the only two states to lose population in the last 10 years. So this means that unlike everywhere else in the country (and especially out West), Michigan's natural beauty is not being bulldozed and gobbled up by land developers out to make a fast buck. Indeed, around where I live in the Keweenaw there are many little settlements that have been abandoned and are being reabsorbed back into the forests. It's pretty cool, from my point of view, to live somewhere in the US where nature is making a comeback instead of being on the run from the land rapists. I got sick and tired of seeing this happen out West. -- Saukkomies 09:32, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Giovanni Boccaccio's exact birth date

  • 1) Apparently Boccaccio's birth date and death date can be found in Dizionario biografico degli italiani vol. X (Biagio-Boccaccio) Rome, 1968. Can you look this up for me. I can not read Italian. Do you know of other possible sources for Boccaccio's birth and death dates that might confirm our article dates?
  • 2) Maybe you already know this and if not can you find references for the summer solstice as swinging between the dates of June 20th and June 24th? --Doug talk 23:04, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
  • 1) I looked up on WorldCat and found that the University of California San Diego (which from your previous posting I'm assuming is close to where you live) owns a copy of this Italian biographical encyclopedia. It is located in their Social Sciences and Humanities library in the Reference Collection. The Call Numbers are CT1123 .D5 Perhaps you could visit that library or give them a call and see if anyone on their staff is able to read Italian. I myself do not know of other sources for Boccaccio's data, but maybe while you're talking to the librarians at UCSD you could ask them.
  • 2) This is partly due to the fact that because of the Gregorian calendar (which we all use), there is a need to resequence the calendar every four years to make it more accurate - you know, Leap Year and all that. But that only accounts for part of it. The other reason is explained at this site, where it states:
The astronomical tropical year is frequently defined as the time between, say, two vernal equinoxes, but this is not actually true. Currently the time between two vernal equinoxes is slightly greater than the tropical year. The reason is that the earth's position in its orbit at the time of solstices and equinoxes shifts slightly each year (taking approximately 21,000 years to move all the way around the orbit). This, combined with the fact that the earth's orbit is not completely circular, causes the equinoxes and solstices to shift with respect to each other.
-- Saukkomies 09:47, 3 February 2008 (UTC)