User talk:Tarquin

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Tarquin's Talk page: leave comments & questions at the bottom of this page. I usually reply here.

Contents

[edit] Archives


[edit] Press release

Editing on the meta version of the press release has effectively stopped. Please be advised that we may be distributing the non-English press releases as early as Monday 29 September. The English version will be distributed the week after in order to smooth out the load on our servers. --maveric149 22 Sep 2003

Wikipedia is in desperate need of articles on nose-picking!

  • Oh yeah, you're clearly qualified to discuss the relevance of an Anais Nin commencement speech with me. Malcs64
what I put on my user page is my own business. The above was in response to something that happened a long time ago. -- Tarquin 09:43, 23 Sep 2003 (UTC)
What obscenities I delete from your user page is everyone's business. You childishly defend the indefensible. OmegaMan
I have no idea what you are saying. User pages are considered private property on WP unless extremely offensive. Please leave mine alone -- Tarquin 18:05, 31 Dec 2003 (UTC)
Well, it would be purely argumentative to disagree over Tarquin's arbitrary distinction (NOT Wikipedia's) between "extremely offensive" and "moderately offensive". Yes, I deleted your "social theory" weeks ago. OmegaMan
Please leave my user page alone. -- Tarquin 21:07, 31 Dec 2003 (UTC)
Any chance of persuading you to voluntarily remove your "social theory" simply on the grounds of good taste? [I am making the precarious presumption that you understand the concept.] By the way, why did you think such nonsense was important enough to restore? OmegaMan

[edit] asking a favor

Hello, Tarquin.

I have a favor to ask to a French ambassador. Would you somehow let the IP user from 217.64.171.225 know the message at fr:Discussion Utilisateur:Tomos?

I am not sure if the person can read English (although my message is in English because I cannot write in French). It seems s/he is most active at fr. wikipedia after comparing with en., ja., and de.

And I wrote the message at my discussion page, just because I did not want to be rude by writing it at his/her page.

many thanks,

Tomos 19:47, 3 Oct 2003 (UTC) I can be reached at ja:利用者‐会話:Tomos or en:User talk:Tomos

Hi, Tarquin,

My original contribution at Wikipedia talk:Americocentrism came out sounding offensive, so I have revised it. I didn't want to offend anyone but just make the point that I don't think that turning a predilection into an ism is the best way to make articles comprehensive. Trontonian 23:29, 1 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Agreed. Care to suggest a better name and tweak the page a bit? Tarquin 13:25, 2 Nov 2003 (UTC)

I still think the best solution would be to provide some examples of carious types of centrism. It just occurred to me that the original article about American football was Eurocentric. It seemed to have been written by someone who'd never played the game or seen much of it. It and the Canadian football articles still talk about number 3 rugby balls instead of giving the actual specifications of the balls used in the games. I also tried to introduce some balance into Ice hockey. Because there are two varieties of the game it's important to cover them both adequately.

At the moment I'm writing a lot of jazz stubs, and every one has been about an American (Oscar Peterson already had an article). I hope that the struggle against Americocentrism doesn't lead to the sections on jazz ending up like a printed encyclopedia of jazz I have, in which minor European figures are given equal prominence with people who played jazz as a living music rather than as a novelty. The printed encyclopedia has no article about Hazel Scott, but it has one about Ronnie Scott, for example. I bet buddy might even think Hazel wasn't a jazz figure -- purist Europeans did boo Muddy Waters for playing electric guitar. Trontonian 18:45, 2 Nov 2003 (UTC)

In fact I went back and checked the hockey article and it was still slightly biased towards international rules, so I've been fixing that up. So there you have proof of the need to be alert for national bias. Trontonian
FWIW, I point out bias towards France on the fr: wikipedia ;) -- Tarquin 20:17, 2 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Could you let me know the title? I had a quick look but couldn't find it (just looked for francocentrisme and francocentrique). Thanks. I'm Trontois over there. Trontonian


There's only a post on the mailing list so far. I've been planning to add a section about it to the main NPOV page. Apart form that, I've been modifying articles on cities to state that they're in France... -- Tarquin 13:17, 3 Nov 2003 (UTC)

I'll keep my eyes peeled. I'm being more diligent about national POV as a result of our discussion. I am happy, though, that i have not so far run across the earnest Canadocentrism one finds so foten in the Canadian media. Trontonian 00:00, 4 Nov 2003 (UTC)

[edit] Smooth Newt

I recently started with cleaning up some of the amphibian pages, and came along the Newt page. I wonder about the taxonomic name of the Smooth Newt you gave there (and in the image description) - Lophinus punctatus. Google couldn't find much about that one (most were wikipedia and copies of it), thus I searched the common name, but that one gave me the taxonomic name Triturus vulgaris. Is L. punctatus a different species? Or just a very uncommon alias name? andy 22:20, 2 Dec 2003 (UTC)

[edit] Noel sur fr:

aux fêtes, que les choses soient claires, Tarquin. Je ne soutiens pas particulierement ce logo. Je suis neutre en la matière. Je me suis étonnée que personne ne réagisse le moins du monde. Cela m'a paru curieux. Si tu quittes wiki fr pendant 15 jours sous prétexte qu'il est la, je n en veux pas :-) -- Anthere

franchement, entre les PDF, les titres de pages tout en anglais comme ASCII en tout mots, cette idee d'une association avec un serveur en france -- je commence en avoir marre du fr:. Quand j'essaye d'expliquer comment faire ces choses on ne m'ecoute pas. -- Tarquin 22:13, 10 Dec 2003 (UTC)
Quand j'essaye d'expliquer comment faire ces choses on ne m'ecoute pas non plus. En plus de l'association, il y a le fait de ne pas admettre qu'on puisse ne pas etre d'accord avec la nomination de Céréales Killer au status d'admin, il y a le fait que les règles sont faites pour certains, mais pas pour d'autres, il y a les copyrights sur les images, il y a les problèmes de pov, il y a beaucoup de choses. Trop :-)

[edit] La Vie en Rose

Nous les en: l'en avons. Les fr: non plus - qu'une xref vide chez Edith Piaf. Peut-être un petit cadeau soit necessaire? - unkamunka. 22:32 15 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Why did you move Kitchener back? Standard practice is to use peerage titles in article titles unless the person is much better known without them (e.g. Disraeli, Baldwin, and so forth). I'd say that's not the case with Kitchener, and that he should be listed with his peerage title. john 17:14, 17 Dec 2003 (UTC)

It is? and he is? Oh well. I'm obviously not up to date on the most recent title conventions. Sorry -- Tarquin 08:56, 18 Dec 2003 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks...

... for the fix on the Hi-Q disambiguation page. I was lazy. I looked at a random disambiguation page and copied its style instead of looking for the right boilerplate. Now if only I could remember which one and fix that... Jmabel 19:27, 20 Dec 2003 (UTC)

no problem :) -- Tarquin 20:48, 20 Dec 2003 (UTC)


[edit] Thank you ...

... for your advice concerning naming pics. Its the first time i've loaded one. Should I reload the picture under a new name or leave it as it is do you think ? ledgerbob 11:56, 23 Dec 2003 (UTC)


No problem :) It might be an idea to reload it as a longer name. THe problem with "alexander" is that it could be used by someone else uploading a pic of another Alexander, such as Alexander the Great, etc. -- Tarquin 12:00, 23 Dec 2003 (UTC)
Will do ... thanks ledgerbob 12:07, 23 Dec 2003 (UTC)

[edit] Paddington Skin?

What's the news on this? I stumbled across the reference and scurried over to the Test Wiki to try it out but I can't find any trace. It's mentioned a couple of times on Meta but I haven't actually been able to view it. Phil 10:25, Dec 24, 2003 (UTC)

It's here: m:Paddington skin. You can't see it directly because HTML files are sent by the server as text for security. You'll need to dowbnload it. I've had very little feedback from it. I'm currently thinking of starting a new design from scratch, or maybe starting a design document first. -- Tarquin 10:29, 24 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Holy Marge mother of Crust, you're right! I've been had, I'm going to write to the Church of the Order of the Toast and demand my money back!

[edit] The image on "Teacher"

I would be happy to disclose from where the image comes. But first, can you tell me why it's important?
—Vespristiano 20:29, 2003 Dec 24 (UTC)

Please accept my apology—I checked "Wikipedia:Image description page" and discovered you're absolutely right: I should add copyright information. When I get the chance, I will update the description page for that image as well as another one I uploaded.
—Vespristiano 20:45, 2003 Dec 24 (UTC)


[edit] I came across this little tidbit

<<It is evident that the story in this form is impossible, for the younger Tarquin is represented to have been still a young man after the long reign (forty-four years) of the alleged usurper, Servius Tullius. There is no reason to doubt, however, that a line of kings of this name reigned in Rome, and that it was of Etruscan origin. The last Tarquin was expelled, on the ground of tyranny, at about the beginning of the fifth century before Christ,[1] and a republican government established.>>

Enjoy. -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen

You mean I'm heading for a fall? ;) -- Tarquin 18:05, 31 Dec 2003 (UTC)

[edit] Thumbnail CSS stylesheets

Hello tarquin, the stylesheets you offered to review can be found at http://jeluf.mormo.org/testwiki/wiki.phtml?title=Stylesheets , I've removed everything hardcoded except the width:, this can be tuned via LocalSettings.php and is needed by the image resizing tool. -- JeLuF 16:12, Jan 5, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Numbers in the Bible

Even for non-believers, the Holy Bible has had a profound cultural impact, and numerical symbolisms used in or suggested by the Bible are copied into secular culture. Of course, some numbers in the Bible are more important than others and I concede that I'm neither a theologian nor a mathematician. User:Robert_Happelberg

[edit] Delete request

Tarquin,

Please delete Psittacidae and Psittaciformes. I will be moving parrot (family) and parrot (order) to those pages and want to preserve edit history. Thanks! - UtherSRG 17:49, 5 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Ah... you are correct. Thanks anyway! - UtherSRG 18:04, 5 Jan 2004 (UTC)


ok. No problem :) -- Tarquin 20:19, 5 Jan 2004 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject French départements

Hi Tarquin. Maybe you wouldn't mind having a quick look at Wikipedia:WikiProject French départements, and Wikipedia talk:WikiProject French départements. I've proposed transferring the tables currently in use on the french wikipedia to the english one, and would quite like some feedback before I start inserting them into the département articles. Thanks, snoyes 14:32, 7 Jan 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Article series

Hi, you had previously expressed an interest in Wikipedia:Article series. Jengod, Jiang and I disagree on what types of articles are suitable for a series and. Just thought I'd let you know since watchlists aren't usually working these, and only three people have opined at all. Tuf-Kat 07:42, Jan 17, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Hundred and

I would only be too happy to do add the word "and" to the articles on numbers, but others have already started to do it for me (look at 360 in the article on 300). The discussion on this issue is spread out all over the place. I would like to gather it all at Wikipedia:WikiProject Numbers. For the time being I really would rather not worry about it. If I write the article on 400, I will make the stubs on 401 to 499 shorter by excluding the spelled out form of those numbers, therefore bypassing the issue altogether until the stubs grow to merit their own articles.

The work on these number articles is a noble effort and I don't want to see that effort disrupted by this issue over one word. PrimeFan 17:32, 29 Jan 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Stingray Nebula

Thanks for the welcome and advice on Stingray Nebula! (I actually copied some text and adapted it from a Nasa article.) Sennheiser

[edit] Animated gif

You expressed some concern over the idea of an animated gif, so I solicit your opinion as to whether my proposed image is a good idea. You can see it on Talk:Central limit theorem. Cheers, Cyan 04:18, 4 Feb 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Press contact

You still want to be the press contact for the UK? If so, please add your name and contact information to Wikipedia:Press releases/February 2004. --mav

[edit] Press Release

I see you contributed to the creation of the press release. Might you be willing to follow these steps, and send off the press release? -- user:zanimum

I'm afraid my email is out at the moment. -- Tarquin 15:31, 5 Mar 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Tetration

Wikipedia has no page for tetration. Why, then, did you bring it up but not add a page for it??

beacause it's another word for the thing I mentioned it on! - Tarquin 14:11, 8 Mar 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia's layout development

meta:Layout development --Maio 05:17, Mar 8, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Cologne Blue v2.0?

[1] comments? HTML identation is a mess (will fix later). Ignore the Geocities banners, valid XHTML strict (w3 validator).

(#pd: I posted this message on your User page by accident)

--Maio 01:48, Mar 9, 2004 (UTC)

Barging in to say nice! Dori | Talk 03:08, Mar 9, 2004 (UTC)
Looks good! But why are you using a TABLE for the header? Could you use the hooks I suggested on Meta for print stylesheet and page settings? -- Tarquin 10:22, 9 Mar 2004 (UTC)

I was forced to do so, I hate them with all my heart. :( I wanted to use CSS-tables but the problem was the background color and floating elements: if you use a CSS-table with floating elements, the background-color covers the static (non-floating) element only. In the case of the skin, the size of the 2 cells can differ for each browser. For example, I'm pretty sure than in Netscape Navigator, the right-cell is the biggest one; while in MSIE, the left cell is the biggest. (h8 broswer compatibility) Could you point me out to your suggestions on Meta? --Maio 22:19, Mar 9, 2004 (UTC)

For Cologne, try the mockup I made: meta:Cologne skin. Feel free to plunder that for tricks. As far as hooks etc go, please read the meta:Layout design document and the meta:Layout design document/Page architecture technical thingy. The idea was that if all layout templates conform to a basic HTML element architecture, then we can have a number of things handled by a global stylesheet and alsoa global print stylesheet. -- Tarquin 16:43, 25 Mar 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Ordres de grandeur

J'ai découvert un peu par hasard le gros boulot fait sur en: concernant les ordres de grandeur, je vois que tu y as participé. Maintenant j'aimerais transposer ceci sur fr:. As-tu des conseils a donner ? Je n'ai pas encore pris le temps de lire toutes les pages de discussion...

Contacte-moi sur fr:, je ne traine ici que rarement. Beatnick 13:00, 25 Mar 2004

[edit] Stewards

Hi, please could you make an account on test so you your steward access can be set. Thank you. Angela. 06:13, Apr 22, 2004 (UTC)

Done. :) -- Tarquin 07:11, 22 Apr 2004 (UTC)
Sorry, it seems I might have been wrong to assume you were to be made a steward. See m:talk:stewards. Angela. 22:18, Apr 22, 2004 (UTC)
ah. I'm not sure what they are anyway and I have only just found from that page that there was a vote. I am off the ML these days :)

Hi! Can you please translate the election notice * into French and post it prominently on the Recent Changes page of the French Wikipedia. Once you have done that, please let me know, and leave me a link where I can find it. Thanks. User:Danny

I'm not currently involved with fr: since they repeatedly muck about with the logo in manners I consider to be non-NPOV. -- Tarquin 14:36, 6 May 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Kensington (Olympia)

I notice you've edited Kensington Olympia in the past. Would you be willing to use your admin privileges to help move that page to Kensington (Olympia) station - the current page there is pithy and duplicating and there's a need for consistency. Timrollpickering 07:05, 7 May 2004 (UTC)

Done :) -- Tarquin 09:22, 7 May 2004 (UTC)
Thanks! Timrollpickering 10:44, 7 May 2004 (UTC)

[edit] mysterious foo

Tarquin, I have no idea what's happened so am not sure you're the person to speak with. And, in case we have different ideas on this. Nevertheless, I'll have a go at it.

I noticed a little while ago that there was no article Foo. So I created one. Someone suggested it should be a redirect to metasyntactic variable, and I disagreed as this more than a foo puzzled person probably wants to know in the first instance, and thus over much parsimony in articles. However that may be, I happened to end up at foo just now, only to find myself at metasyn... What had happened, I naturally asked myself?

I found at the redirect page (foo) no evidence whatsoever of my recent creation nor any discussion of whether it deserved independent existence. The Talk page included a note from you from 02 suggesting that it be a redirect and requesting comment. And thus to you.

I am not so old an admin that I want to go crashing around (with my vast Cthululian powers) causing trouble trying to find out what has happened. Can you enlighten a benighted and so save civilization from my spastic fingers? ww 17:39, 7 May 2004 (UTC)

(channeling Gilda Ratner), never mind. I created FOO, it's scrolled off my contributions list, and I lost it. You (!) even added the message that it ought to be merged now that I look at the page history. Not sure what to do yet. Thanks for reading the ravings above and I'll just slink softly off the stage now... ww

[edit] Plugs

I'd like to invite you to vote on what to do with the plug pages. See Talk:Mains power plug.

[edit] Hemiola

Hi, I thank you for providing it, and I was wondering if you could tell me the tempo of your musical example on hemiola? Thanks. Hyacinth 07:14, 21 Jul 2004 (UTC)

the MIDI sequence I used to make that image sounds best at around 150 crothets / min. -- Tarquin 08:15, 21 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Hi, nice to see you around. So many people have disappeared lately, I'm beginning to feel like an old-timer (wait a minute, I am an old-timer). I probably should give it a rest myself, but can't seem to tear myself away, probably because I've always been a ten or twenty-a-day kind of girl, rather than wearing myself out with a couple of thousand contributions a week. Deb 17:29, 11 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Another old-timer rises from the grave. Back after sabbatical, Ortolan88 19:00, 11 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Deb! Ortolan! Great to see both of you back :) -- Tarquin 20:42, 11 Aug 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Slug

Salut. J'avais copié sur fr: ta belle image de limace.Est-elle sous GFDL ? http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Limace.JPG --Youssef 14:02, 12 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Oui, et je pars a l'instant ajouter la notice. J'espere prendre une photo de limace plus nette, mais j'attends d'en trouver une aussi horrible! -- Tarquin 08:45, 13 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Cette photo là est déjà très bien. Merci beaucoup :-) --Youssef 12:11, 13 Aug 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Ferdinand de Saussure

hello,

I'm adressing you since you're listed as the french wikipedia ambassador.

we were wandering how should the name 'Ferdinand de Saussure' be pronounced.

thanks in advance,

Felagund

This is a guess, but I would say: the last 'd' is silent, and all the 's's in Saussure are 's' rather than 'z'. So it will sound like 'chaussure' said by someone with a lisp. -- Tarquin 11:57, 29 Aug 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Image help, Please!

I can't get the images to look right (good) at Joseph Smith, Jr.. I am trying to put three images, but stacked up, they are too tall. Can't I put them side by side? Could you visit and edit a quick solution? If not, do you know who could? Also, the fourth image down is in conflict with the text. I can't figure it out. Tom 19:42, 9 Sep 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Image help, Please!

I can't get the images to look right (good) at Joseph Smith, Jr.. I am trying to put three images, but stacked up, they are too tall. Can't I put them side by side? Could you visit and edit a quick solution? If not, do you know who could? Tom 19:40, 9 Sep 2004 (UTC)

[edit] TV Naming conventions.

At some point in the past you expressed an opinion on Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (television). I have instigated a new poll on that page. I am hoping that this poll will properly allow all users who have an interest in the subject to express their views fairly before we come to a consensus. I have scrapped the poll that was previously in place on that page because I believe that it was part of an unfair procedure that was going against the majority view. I am appealing to all users who contribute to that page to approve my actions. I would appreciate it if you could take the time and trouble to read the page carefully and express an opinion and vote as you see fit. Mintguy (T) 16:41, 13 Sep 2004 (UTC)

I'm not sure I understand what's been going on there, so I don't really want to vote on anything. But you can assume whatever I voted for or said in the past stands :) -- Tarquin 14:35, 14 Sep 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Data Management Wiki Committee

Thank you for your contribution to one, or more, articles that are now organized under Data management.

Because of your previous intrest, you are recieving an invitation to become a founding member of the Data Management Wiki Committee.

The members, of course, will form and solidify the purpose, rules, officers, etc. but my idea (to kick things off) is to establish a group of us who will take responsiblity to see that the ideas of Data management are promoted and well represented in Wikipedia articles.

If you are willing to join the committee, please go to Category_talk:Data_management and indicate your acceptance of this invitation by placing your three tilde characters in the list.

KeyStroke 01:28, 2004 Sep 25 (UTC)

[edit] RP

Hey there. Regarding your media files in the RP talk page, one is missing and the other cuts short towards the end of 'talk'. Could you re-upload them or give new samples (i'd be interested in hearing them). Also, for the benefit of the guy above your comment, could you do 'cot, 'caught' and the other one too. ta. Nicholas

I'l look into it. -- Tarquin 13:37, 3 Oct 2004 (UTC)


[edit] Counties policy

Hello I have added an explanation note to the counties naming policy at Wikipedia: Naming conventions (places). I have done this to make it clearer because certain people have insisted upon mis-interpreting it (see Shipston-on-Stour and Talk:Gloucestershire). I dont think it has changed the policy just explained it better.

It has already been OK'd by User:Angela and User:Warofdreams, is it OK with you?. The reason I'm contacting you is because you voted on the original policy. G-Man 17:12, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC)

[edit] User page protection=

I am sending this message to a group of seasoned users whose opinions I respect. My aim is not to draw you into a dispute, but to canvass opinion on a contentious area of policy. If you have a few minutes to spare, please see the debate currently under way at Wikipedia talk:Protection policy, with particular reference to user page protection. For some reason, I seem to have fallen foul of a group of sysops who have made it their business to stamp out the practice of protecting one’s own user page. A sensible (in my opinion) proposal has been made to amend the policy, and I would be grateful if you would add your view, assuming you have one. Cheers. Deb 13:23, 2 Nov 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Comments on photo=

On the picture in http://images.webster-dictionary.org/wiki/7/74/Weevil_close-up.JPG was photographed weevil Liophloeus tessullatus Muell., the female. (V. N.)

Thanks! Updated the image description page. -- Tarquin 13:12, 21 Nov 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)[[]] 20:10, Dec 8, 2004 (UTC)

I'll get back to you on this later this month when I get my legal brain installed ;) What are the consequences of multi-licensing? Wikipedia:Multi-licensing suggests there may be downsides. -- Tarquin 13:51, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Body Piercing

On your comments in the above article I take it that I can assume you think I probably self-harm because I have six piercings. Oh, and the fact that I have a tattoo only strengthens your arguement I suppose?

I don't think so, body piercing is NOT mutilation, unless of course the person piercing does it incorrectly, then you may have a 'strange/mutilated' body part where you had to take out aforementioned bad piercing.

Selphie 17:09, 8 Dec 2004 (UTC) **


I see you haven't replied to me, why is that? Do you not talk to people who are "different" from yourself?

Selphie 11:19, 26 Jan 2005 (UTC) **

[edit] Sustainability category/project/series

Hi. I noticed you have worked on the Sustainability page. There has been, as you might expect, a little heat recently at the Hubbert Peak page, and some of us are discussing ways we might better organize the information about energy sources and developments. Articles/subjects that we are discussing the organization/hierarchy of include Hubbert Peak, Energy development, Sustainability, Future energy development, Alternatives to oil. It occurred to me that you might have some fresh ideas about how to go about organizing a rational hierarchy, whether it be a project, a system of categories, a series, or simply an informal vision. Please give your input at the bottom of Talk:Hubbert Peak. Tom - Talk 17:27, Dec 16, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] COTW

Congratulations, First Indochina War has been voted this week's Wikipedia:Collaboration of the week. Please edit it to help raise it to featured article status.

[edit] Meta sysop

Hello Tarquin,

I noticed on m:Administrator on Meta that some sysops on Meta were to be confirmed in January, so I put it up on m:Requests for adminship. Accordng to the administrator page, Any sysop inactive on meta for a full year will be desysoped. "Inactive" means no edits in the past 6 months and less than 50 edits in the last year. You fall under that definition. So, if you do need sysophood, or don't need sysophood, or don't care either way, please say so on the Requests page. —Ben Brockert (42) UE News 03:34, Jan 6, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] "Polish football"

Regarding your comment on Talk:Paper and pencil game, I think you may be looking for Paper Soccer.--Pharos 16:50, 7 Jan 2005 (UTC)

That's it! Thanks for pointing it out to me :) -- Tarquin 15:36, 8 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Period at the end of sentence

Having nothing better to do, I keep on bugging everybody who at one point or another wrote a math article, and did not put a period at the end of formulas which are at the end of sentence. Not that it matters really much (although this is the correct style), but I would like to let you know about this for future reference. The artcle in question is Laplace operator which you started way in 2003. Happy editing! Oleg Alexandrov 06:32, 16 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Lonodn Postal Districts

I have answered your question in Talk:Postcode -- RHaworth 09:08, 2005 Jan 28 (UTC)

Thanks! Tarquin 12:53, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Dr. Martens, black, old.jpg

Hi, can you upload your picture to Commons? Then we can use it for french wikipedia also! Would be great. Thanks! --213.54.47.202 23:42, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Done! -- Tarquin 11:08, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Great, thanks! --213.54.47.202 14:20, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Dungeons & Dragons move

When moving articles please fix double redirects. thanks. --Deelkar (talk) 00:13, 2 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] British county names (again)

A year or so ago you kindly helped out with developing a policy on this. It's all going pear-shaped and I, for one, would be grateful if you'd take another look. I've raised an RfC or you can go straight to the Project's talk page. Thanks. Chris Jefferies 7 July 2005 16:35 (UTC)

Oh dear. If I may be blunt, are we dealing with the same nuts as last time or new ones? -- Tarquin 7 July 2005 18:16 (UTC)

Well, I'm the same nut as last time :-) Owain is still in favour of traditional counties all the way, but 80.255 doesn't seem to have been active on Wikipedia since early March so is not currently arguing.. er.. discussing the issues. If you have time, I'd appreciate another sane voice. Chris Jefferies 8 July 2005 00:34 (UTC)

80.255 is back again and this topic has become a hot potato all over again. There's been constant discussion and argument for weeks. We've now reached a critical point and are having a straw poll on a particular issue to see if we can make some progress that way; if this fails we may need to go to official mediation.

Would you be willing to take a look at the straw poll and consider voting? It was posted on the policy talk page on 22nd August 2005. Many thanks Chris Jefferies 23:40, 22 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Wikimania competition

I thought you might like to know that since one of you images was one of the most popular WP:FPC nominations this year, I've entered it into the Wikimania Media Competition -- Solipsist 19:55, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

Thanks! :-) -- Tarquin 12:07, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Using European brown snail image

Hi Tarquin,

I work for the Environment Agency in England and Wales and we were wondering if we could use the above image for a scientific poster we are using? If you are - can you let me know how you would us to credit you? You can email me on kim.thomas@environment-agency.gov.uk

Many thanks,

Best wishes, Kim

Hi. My email's out at the moment. If you're using other pictures from Wikipedia too, I'm happy to just be included in a general credit to Wikipedia. But have you looked for snail images on Wikimedia Commons? There are some there that I think are rather better than my snail image. -- Tarquin 10:17, 12 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Rosicrucian article

Dear user Tarquin, as I have seen an edition of yours (the third one) at the article Rosicrucian, I come to request your support to this article that I have just purposed for nomination at Wikipedia:Featured_article_candidates#Rosicrucian. May you may give a look into it? And, if you consider it acceptable, then may you support it? Thank you! :) --GalaazV 02:49, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] image for deletion

[edit] Image:Devanagari sample from hindi WP.PNG

File deletion warning An image or media file you uploaded, Image:Devanagari sample from hindi WP.PNG, has been listed at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion. Please look there to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you.

Hi, I listed this article for deletion because it's obsolete and stuff. -Lethe | Talk 10:30, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Image:White_maggot.JPG

Hmmm... during a discusion with a biologist friend of mine on the subject of the fly, we came accross a picture you uploaded: Image:White_maggot.JPG His view was: "I wouldn't like to stake too much on it without properely identifying the species, but I'm reasonably convinced that the "white_maggot" image is actually not a maggot at all, but the larva of a beetle of some description!". I dont suppose you can remember where the picture came from? 62.189.44.102 15:04, 10 October 2005 (UTC)

I took the picture myself, and I probably found the maggot in my garden. I expect it was taken not long before I uploaded it, so in the spring, if that helps. -- Tarquin 17:36, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Pic of the Day

Hi Tarquin,

Just to let you know that your photo Image:Frogspawn closeup.JPG is up for a reappearance as Pic of the Day on the 14th. If reused the caption from last time, but you can make any changes at Wikipedia:Picture of the day/October 14, 2005. -- Solipsist 18:40, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

Hi again, and thanks for making corrections to the caption. However, I see that you have removed the [[Frog|frogspawn]] link. Ideally the Pic of the Day caption should contain a primary link in bold which leads to an article which best uses the image. Would a link to spawning be better? -- Solipsist 20:37, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
Ah, I see. Frog is fine. I changed it because I think it's misleading to have the same page linked to twice in different ways. There is already a link to "frog". Having "frog|frogspawn" will make readers think there is an article "frogspawn". -- Tarquin 22:43, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
OK, I'm with you. Then lets make Frog the bold primary link. It is just as good at leading people to the right page where the picture is used and I doubt anyone will be too confused about the picture. -- Solipsist 08:13, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Organisation des traductions et Babel

Saluton, Tarquin, kiel fartas vi ?

Sur la page de discussion du projet traduction sur Wiki FR j'ai fait une ébauche de proposition pour intégrer le modèle Wikipedia:Babel avec l'organisation des traductions. Comme Babel concerne tous les wikis, et que je ne parle pas assez bien anglais, on m'a conseillé de faire appel à un ambassadeur (c'est tombé sur toi, pas de chance).

Le lien : http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discussion_Wikip%C3%A9dia:Projet/Traduction/Avancement#Int.C3.A9gration_avec_Babel._Centralisons_techniquement_et_d.C3.A9centralisons_les_initiatives

Jmfayard

[edit] Question regarding colloquial French

Hello, this may sound like a weird question, but how do you say "give me a break" in French? I can't find it in any dictionary, at least specifically, when I looked up "break" I got "interrompre", "pause," "repos," and "trêve." I know that basic verbs like "give," "get," and "have" barely ever translate directly, so I'm at a loss at what the French phrase is. Your response would be greatly appreciated.--67.184.163.248 18:45, 6 November 2005 (UTC)Ikiroid

There's no real translation that I can think of; certainly nothing direct. 'laisses tomber', perhaps, which means 'drop it'. -- Tarquin 19:46, 11 November 2005 (UTC)


OK, thanks.--Ikiroid 16:18, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
"fous moi la paix","Laches-moi", "laches-moi les baskets" suggested by Taopaipai, Tarquin stalker
une autre question--comment dit-on "I don't care/whatever/it doesn't matter to me" en francais? I can't find a decent translation of it anywhere.--ikiroid | (talk) 22:47, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
many possibilities, one being "Je m'en tape", suggested by Taopaipai

[edit] Footnotes reminder

A while ago you expressed interest in Wikipedia:Footnotes. As that article was updated through a renaming process, you might not be aware of changes during recent months. I invite you to read the article again in case it is now more useful. (SEWilco 08:48, 15 December 2005 (UTC))

[edit] Happy New Year

Regards, Arno 09:23, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Naming conventions for television shows (again)

I saw that you were active in the first vote for naming conventions of television program(mes). Well it has raised it's ugly head again and I would appreciate any comments you have to make about my new proposal for naming television shows. Please leave comments here. Thanks! --Reflex Reaction (talk)• 21:42, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] bicycle audio

are you still working on the bicycle audio file.? I've started. --CyclePat 01:42, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

No, I found I had problems recording. Go for it! :) -- Tarquin 13:12, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
I have started but... boy it's long. I left my audio clips (ogg formate practically unedited) at talk:bicycle. Maybe you could do some editing? --CyclePat 06:35, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Administrateur (francophone)

Bonjour,

j'ai vu que tu étais administrateur et que ça faisait assez longtemps que tu ne contribuais pas à wikipédia. Je me demandais si tu accepterais de renoncer à tes droits d'admin dans la mesure où ton engagement a beaucoup diminué (sauf bien sûr si tu prends une pause bien méritée et que tu penses revenir contribuer régulièrement). Il serait logique, à mon avis, de ne garder des "pouvoirs spéciaux" qu'aux administrateurs qui continuent de contribuer au projet. Ca nous permettrait d'y voir un peu plus clair. (certains admins actuels pensent que c'est une bonne idée, d'autres que ce n'est pas très gênant de garder les droits d'admins à des gens qui ont beaucoup contribué il y a longtemps). Poppypetty 15:32, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

Oui, si ca vous facilite la vie. -- Tarquin 13:56, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
C'est fait, tu es maintenant désysoppé. -Ash_Crow 08:16, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Page name for temperature articles

To avoid flip-flopping between 'degree Fahrenheit' and 'Fahrenheit' or 'degree Celsius' and 'Celsius', I propose that we have a discussion on which we want. I see you have contributed on units of measurement, please express your opinion at Talk:Units of measurement. Thanks. bobblewik 23:09, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] A user in despair

I am in desperate need of assistants. Catstail (talk · contribs) and a cohort of new users and anonymous Ips have for seven days inserted un-sourced and unverifiable information on the Flemming Rose page. I have in seven days asked (read the talk page) to source their insertions. None of them does (I believe most of them are Catstail anyway). Could I ask a helping hand, maybe lock this page for anonymous Ip and new user edit? At least give a 3rd party opinion? Twthmoses 17:34, 16 February 2006 (UTC) These are the users in case you are intreasted; Ronam2298 (talk · contribs) 71.134.249.113 (talk · contribs) 60.225.187.87 (talk · contribs) 60.228.43.92 (talk · contribs) 64.229.223.33 (talk · contribs) Kembali (talk · contribs) Catstail (talk · contribs)

[edit] Ambassador

Hi Tarquin,

J'ai besoin de ton aide sur un point diplomatique et sur des points techniques plus secondaires.

  1. Contexte : Je travaille sur le wiki ht (Haitian Creole). Des contributeurs ont écrit trois articles en créole guadeloupéen. Ce n'est pas grand chose, mais cela a entraîné tout de suite une discussion. Pour résumer, ces deux créoles font partie de la même famille de langues, mais ne sont pas pareils (voir le site de ethnologue ; je peux aussi donner d'autres sources si besoin).
    Problème : Ils veulent contribuer sur ht en créole guadeloupéen. Je suis le seul administrateur de ht wiki et je ne veux pas bloquer ces internautes qui ont de l'énergie à revendre pour contribuer à wikipedia. Si je les bloque sine die, j'ai peur que certains décident de vandaliser le site ht, même si c'est fort peu probable (ils ne sont pas nombreux, et même l'un d'eux reconnait que ce serait compliqué à gérer).
    Solution (à mon sens) : il faudrait créer un site wiki pour le créole guadeloupéen et rediriger ces contributeurs vers ce site. Mais ce n'est pas si simple ! La Guadeloupe a son propre domaine internet gp. Wikipedia conseille plus un domaine sur la langue que sur le pays. Il faudrait donc choisir gpf (comme indiqué dans ethnologue). Mais la Martinique n'accepterait pas ce choix ; elle parle aussi ce créole. Ce n'est pas mon aire d'action, mais je pense que quelque chose plus proche de la langue créole serait plus facilement acceptée par ces deux parties : kzf (Krèyol de Zantilles Francé), ou quelque chose dans ce genre vu que je ne maîtrise pas bien le créole guadeloupéen.
    Requête : quelqu'un de meta pourrait prendre le rôle de tierce personne pour proposer une solution qui contente tout le monde. Personnellement, je pense que la solution de créer le site kzf et d'inciter ces contributeurs à le faire évoluer est la bonne. Il faut juste les pousser un peu, parce que je ne vois pas l'un d'entre eux faire la demande de création de site.
  1. J'ai fait des requêtes techniques à la page suivante il y a quelques jours mais je ne sais si je suis allé sur la bonne page. Quelqu'un pourrait-il me faire un signe même si ensuite les réponses peuvent prendre du temps ?

In English, en français, oubyen avèk kreyòl, does not matter ! :)

Regards, --70.82.187.175 20:12, 19 March 2006 (UTC) => user page in creole

Il n'existe pas de code ISO 639 pour cette langue, mais peut-etre que ISO 639-3 travaille la-dessus, et il existe un code dans une version preliminaire? Autrement, je te conseille de contacter la list de diffusion. -- Tarquin 21:49, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] To newt or not to newt

Hello, Tarquin. Je me permet de te laisser un message : un utilisateur nous a contacté sur m:OTRS pour nous signaler qu'une de tes images sur commons, Image:Smooth newt.jpeg, serait mal identifiée, et qu'il ne s'agirait pas d'un smooth newt, mais plutôt d'un triton palmé triturus helveticus mâle ou Palmate newt. Une idée ? Solensean 00:07, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

je ne suis pas un expert, mais il me semble que le triton dans la photo n'a pas les pattes palmees, or c'est le case pour le palmate newt. -- Tarquin 11:10, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Il y a si longtemps...

... que je ne t'ai plus croisé sur fr ! J'espère que tu vas bien ! I am not a number 20:41, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

Pas trop mal, merci, mais je n'ai plus souvent l'occasion de visiter Wikipedia. J'espere que les choses sur fr: vont bien. -- Tarquin 14:56, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Frog spawn photo

Dear Tarquin,

How would I go about obtaining permission to use this frog spawn photo on the cover of a small print run poetry book?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7d/Frogspawn_closeup.jpg

Any insights are appreciated!

Thanks.

Dear unsigned, as it's GFDL, you can go ahead and use it. Please include the URL for the image description page on Commons as a credit for the cover, http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Frogspawn_closeup.jpg Let me know when it's published too! -- Tarquin 14:55, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] NOR

There is akl angthy debate here, perhaps you have a comment [2]Slrubenstein | Talk 16:06, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Translation Request (2 sentences)

For the front page of the Novial Test Wikipedia it would be nice to have a French translation of the following 2 sentences:

<>

Welcome to the Wikipedia in the Novial language!

You can read about the international auxiliary language Novial here.

<>

See the original request at Wikimedia Incubator here.

Thank you, Nov ialiste 17:56, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Requesting your help with the Vorbis article

Hello, we're trying to get Vorbis as a featured article, which will benefit Wikipedia and the Open Source cause as a whole. I'm contacting you because I noticed some edits by you to the article, thus an interest on it. If you'd like to help out, it would be much appreciated. Thank you for your attention.--Ivo Emanuel Gonçalves/Saoshyant talk / contribs 14:41, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Intentional error?

On your user page you have a line that says "at what point will Larry Sanger's" under the Thoughts on Wikipedia section. This, except Larry Sanger's links to Hari Seldon. It seems this would have to be intentional; I am confused. Please explain. -- thismatalk 19:21, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

You'd have to read the Foundation series... ;) -- Tarquin 09:21, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject France

Hello! We are a group of editors working to improve the quality of France related articles. You look like someone who might be interested in joining us in the France WikiProject and so I thought I'd drop you a line and invite you! We'd love to have you in our project :-) STTW (talk) 21:14, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Tangram diagram.png listed for deletion

An image or media file that you uploaded or altered, Image:Tangram diagram.png, has been listed at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion. Please look there to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. —Remember the dot (t) 04:33, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Coordinate_system_handedness.PNG listed for deletion

An image or media file that you uploaded or altered, Image:Coordinate_system_handedness.PNG, has been listed at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion. Please look there to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. MECU≈talk 03:25, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Survey Invitation

Hi there, I am a research student from the National University of Singapore and I wish to invite you to do an online survey about Wikipedia. To compensate you for your time, I am offering a reward of USD$10, either to you or as a donation to the Wikimedia Foundation. For more information, please go to the research home page. Thank you. --WikiInquirer 21:52, 3 March 2007 (UTC)talk to me

[edit] frogspawn picture

Dear tarquin, I have listed your picture of frogspawn at Featured picture delisting candidates. Sorry.

If you want to, have a look at the nomination here: Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/delist/Frogspawn

Best, Witty Lama 21:20, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Jesus

Do you mean to blaspheme on your main page, or was it just a mistake. I can honestly say i was offended by that, and I demand for it to be taken down. Wikipedia is NOT more popular than Jesus, it is just a onciclopedia. Now take it DOWNN! Christine118500 12:49, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Painted Lady - Vanessa cardui - large.JPG

Hi, is this image taken in Europe? Could you add the locality info, and also in the Painted Lady taxobox? Thanks in adavance! Dysmorodrepanis 00:10, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

Thanks! I have added the info to the page. To add an image description to the taxobox, simply insert
| image_caption =
under the image_width (or image, if no width is given) and putting the description after the =. You can also add links in the description with the usual [[ ]] format. Dysmorodrepanis 19:28, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Resource Exchange

Hi, can you please take a look at Wikipedia:WikiProject Resource Exchange, I need your opinion on a big merge concerning your project. Key to the city 12:44, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

Hi. I'm not sure what you mean, as it's been a long time since I've been properly involved in Wikipedia. If you mean the proposal to merge the four projects into that one, then it sounds like a good idea to me, and it has my approval -- though I don't recall being involved with any of those. -- Tarquin 14:00, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] I proposed Arcology for deletion.

best wishes,RichPeterson130.86.14.90 (talk) 22:53, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Award

Congrats!

The WikiProject Doctor Who Award
For your work on Doctor Who articles! Type 40 (talk)22:01, 16 March 2008 (UTC)