User talk:Zigger

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[edit] True or false??

True or false: Georgia is one of the dis-ambiguation pages likely to get a lot of links. Any others?? 66.32.248.34 19:37, 3 Jul 2004 (UTC)

See Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links. --Zigger 19:42, 2004 Jul 3 (UTC)

[edit] Watchlist

I've changed a database setting. Please let me know if you still have a problem with your watchlist. You might - it's a case of trying raising a limit until the problem goes away. Jamesday 09:40, 15 Jul 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Life

Hi Zigger, why did you remove my definition from Life?

Brian, your definition of life seemed to be in the categories of original research and self-promotion, which are excluded by Wikipedia policy. (See Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not.) If the article U.S. House election, 2004 is correct, then good luck in the upcoming elections. Please continue contributing to Wikipedia. --Zigger 03:00, 2004 Jul 25 (UTC)

Zigger, I published my text on the web long before I ever heard of Wikipedia, so I'm not sure how you conclude that I'm using Wikipedia as a forum for original research. My contribution indeed references my own material, but I think readers of the Life article would nevertheless be interested in the definition and taxonomy for which my text serves as the primary source -- especially since my >30-item taxonomy makes Wikipedia's virus/mule/fire list look somewhat anemic. But if you still think that the article's readers benefit from not referencing my definition and taxonomy, then you may want to also apply your pseudonymous eraser to this definition there as well, since it (unlike my definition) is not cited from any primary source. --Brian Having heard no response to the above, I'll be restoring the taxonomy reference and example definition to the Life article. -- Brian 2004-08-20

[edit] Art categories

Hi,

I noticed that you have recently created some sub-categories in the visual arts. Can I also encourage you to join the categorisation discussion at Category talk:Art -- Solipsist 20:57, 6 Aug 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Aussie Suburbs.

Hey mate, why not create a template for all those HTML tables in the Australian suburbs pages you are editing. Or at the very least point the links to the correct suburbs as they are messing up the Wikipedia:Most_wanted_articles page. -- Hackerjack 08:09, 9 Aug 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Categorization FAQ

Your Categorisation FAQ looks promising. You should mention that recommendations for the naming and organization of categories in a subject area can be given in the WikiProject for that subject area. For example:

Gdr 11:58, 2004 Aug 18 (UTC)

[edit] Disambiguation

Disambiguation notices should be indented (:) and have no horizontal line separating it from the text. --Jiang 07:45, 16 Sep 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:WikiProject Sydney

Want to join? I'm still formulating policy. Incidently, there is a message board Wikipedia:Australian wikipedians' notice board - Ta bu shi da yu 06:09, 23 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 01:14, 2004 Sep 25 (UTC)

[edit] Stick-wiki

The wiki-on-stick project is looking cool. Thanks for your work on it... +sj+ 11:29, 26 Sep 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Education

FYI Wikipedia now has a project located called Wikipedia:WikiProject School Years. It currently has only one participant, KeithTyler, and he hasn't focused on it at all after a few days. Can you be a participant?? (This was brought to my attention when I saw your edits of Kindergarten and Primary education in RC.) 66.245.97.210 16:56, 24 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for pointing out the project page. Unfortunately my efforts are too diluted to commit to a wikiproject, but I'll try to make a better contribution to the infoboxes later if needed. --Zigger 17:05, 2004 Oct 24 (UTC)

[edit] Webster's Merger?

Salutations, Zigger!
Today I decided to work on extensive revisions to Webster's Dictionary and in poking around found a stub at Webster's New International Dictionary, Second Edition and a longer article at Webster's Third New International Dictionary. It seems to me it would be best to consolidate the second and third material at Webster's Dictionary, because it is the familiar name and it would put the history of the work, which has appeared under several names in one spot; then put in redirects under the other names. I've integrated the material at the present "Third" article with my own contributions at Webster's Dictionary. Since you've worked on this, I wonder if you have any thoughts. PedanticallySpeaking 16:40, Oct 27, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] In Re: Copyvio on Harry Nice

Article Harry W. Nice copyvio. I have confirmed with the Maryland Archives that the specific information may be reproduced as long as credit is given to their site. The /temp page you moved the article too seems to be non-existant, so I will be reverting the site and adding a reference to their site if you have no objections. [[User:Tomf688|Tom]] 22:20, Oct 27, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Cameron Bright

Thanks for disambiguating Victoria, British Columbia. This goes to show, you can't even trust newspapers to spell it correctly. Figures.... [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|(talk)]] 11:58, Nov 5, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Removal of repeated wikilinks?

Is the removal in [1] standard policy? Even if it is, I'd argue against it in this case. Someone may only be interested in the official description at the bottom and have to find the first occurrence of a town that's in it. That seems like more harm than good (the only good I can see is saving a bit of space). So for now I'm reverting it unless there's some sort of official decision.--SPUI 15:20, 10 Nov 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Heading Capitalization

Hey Zigger,

I know this might sound a little inane, but I'm wondering why you edited the "External Links" header on the BI-LO article to change the capital L to a lower case? I've seen people do it a couple of times now, and it perplexes me to no end. Aside from my not understanding why people would want to decapitalize headings in the first place, but even if there were a reason behind it, it seems like a strangely inane thing to bother actually making the effort to edit anyway. Wonder if you could humor me and explain why you (and other people) would do this?

Thanks.

Vaelor 16:19, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC)


Hi again. Thanks for pointing out the line "# Capitalize the first word and any proper nouns in headings, but leave the rest (including ordinary nouns) lower case." on Wikipedia:Manual of Style - I don't know how I missed this, but no longer will I scratch my head in puzzlement every time I see somebody edit a capital letter off a heading. =P
To answer your question about my tendency to use American English spelling - in a nutshell, it's because I choose not to consider myself a Melburnian, or a Victorian, or even an Australian - call me unpatriotic, but I prefer not to stereotype myself by nationality or culture, especially on the internet. So I stick with the linguistics I've picked up throughout my life, from books, television, movies, computer games, and most prevalently the internet, which just happens to be American English, the most commonly used language in the world today. =)
Funnily enough though, while some words like honor, labor, neighborhood (okay, so it's 4am and my brain can't seem to think of vocabulary examples that aren't o/ou words!) are second-nature to me, I did catch myself writing "capitalise" there and then changed it consciously, so its funny you should think to comment on that. I guess somewhere in the back of my brain there my "formal education" is striving to be noticed. =P
Vaelor 17:09, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Article Licensing

Hi, I've started the Free the Rambot Articles Project which has the goals of getting users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to...

  1. ...all U.S. state, county, and city articles...
  2. ...all articles...

using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) version 1.0 and 2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to the GFDL (which every contribution made to Wikipedia is licensed under), but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles (See the Multi-licensing Guide for more information). Since you are among the top 1000 most active Wikipedians, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles.

Nutshell: Wikipedia articles can be shared with any other GFDL project but open/free projects using the incompatible Creative Commons Licenses (e.g. WikiTravel) can't use our stuff and we can't use theirs. It is important to us that other free projects can use our stuff. So we use their licenses too.

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the {{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}} template (or {{MultiLicensePD}} for public domain) into their user page, but there are other templates for 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 at my talk page what you think. -- Ram-Man 21:16, Nov 29, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] The Humungous Image Tagging Project

Hi. You've helped with the Wikipedia:WikiProject Wiki Syntax, so I thought it worth alerting you to the latest and greatest of Wikipedia fixing project, User:Yann/Untagged Images, which is seeking to put copyright tags on all of the untagged images. There are probably, oh, thirty thousand or so to do (he said, reaching into the air for a large figure). But hey: they're images ... you'll get to see lots of random pretty pictures. That must be better than looking for at at and the the, non? You know you'll love it. best wishes --Tagishsimon (talk)

[edit] NLP

Why did you removed dmoz link?

[edit] huwiki logo

Hello,

Thanks for the bugreport, it has been fixed, hopefully. Please check.

Could you check hu:user:grin/test with IE whether the transparent picture is visible and okay, and doesn't have a white border? Thanks --grin ✎ 16:41, 2005 Jan 24 (UTC)

[edit] Votes for Deletion: February 15, 2005

Three VfD's are taking place on key Project of Alternative Medicine articles.

I am contacting you because you have in the past made edits to Terms and concepts in alternative medicine. And, I would hate to see all your efforts to improve this article be wasted because other editors voted to delete it.

I need you to vote to KEEP the following.

Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion/List_of_terms_and_concepts_used_in_alternative_medicine This article is extremely important to our project.

Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/List of miscellaneous topics related to alternative medicine

And, vote to REDIRECT the following.

Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Philosophy of alternative medicine

Please vote in favor of the Project on Alternative Medicine today, before it is too late.

-- John Gohde 15:50, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Criteria for speedy deletion

I noticed that you recently marked Edwin jefferson for speedy delete for vanity. Currently, vanity is not listed under Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion, although this policy is currently being debated on its talk page. Zzyzx11 | Talk 18:29, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] New Favorite Quote

I just came across this and recognized your name.

"Lists look better with more than one entry."

Heehee. Now that's a keeper! In fact, I'm putting it on my list. Hope you don't mind.

Mothperson 19:50, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Your Quote

came from that very sad list of cookbooks. Mothperson 03:29, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for helping with the Aesthetic Realism article

Thanks for your effort to have some sanity in the Aesthetic Realism article. I have no need for the article to be cheerleading for my own position, and it's disappointing that the AR people aren't willing to accept a neutral article themselves.

I reverted to your version after they added a whole bunch more cheerleading today. Michaelbluejay 03:00, 8 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] What next?

Zigger, your explanation of what was wrong with my paragraph was careful, and I see your points. What I am trying to do is to make clear the motivation of that particular group of people who have banded together for the purpose of smearing and, if they could, discrediting serious professional people (including me) by means of a torrent of lies about Eli Siegel and the Aesthetic Realism Foundation. Their motivation has a likeness to what impelled the medical establishment and press to attack Walter Reed when he established the Anopheles mosquito as the vector for Yellow Fever. It has a resemblance to why Lockhardt wrote horribly about Keats' Endymion--and it is like so many others who attacked important individuals that brought new knowledge into the world. I would like to stem these attacks so a reader would know what Aesthetic Realism is by looking in Wikipedia. If that is impossible, how would I get the category removed, shut down? The smoothness of Michael Bluejay in accusing me of vandalizing the entry in which I am quoted, and which I wrote a good deal of, is representative of the approach of this group. It was begun by an Ellen Mali, now of Colorado, whose son posted a crude piece on an anti-cult websited several years ago (he is Adam Mali, a restauranteur). The anger of the ego at meeting something new, beautiful, and, frankly, greater than one is accustomed to seeing--greater than oneself--has made scientific and artistic progress through the ages much harder than it needs to be. Leonardo da Vinci was made fun of by professors who did not believe his idea that the ocean once covered a mountain in Italy which had fossils of shellfish on it. (He was right of course.)

There is a long history to this attitude. I approach you not only as a censor of improperly written paragraphs but as a person who might help the truth be told without interference.

--Aperey 20:54, 9 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Hindu temples?

Hi, as far as I can tell, you started the Category: Hindu temples category. Do you know if it's meant to be for buildings which are now Hindu temples, or buildings which were built as Hindu temples? The issue's come up over the Category:Hindu_temples_in_Cambodia sub-category, which contains temples which were built as Hindu temples, but later converted to Buddhism. Therefore they are still "Hindu temple architecture", but not "Hindu temples". Any thoughts? Mark1 04:41, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] lots of edits, not an admin

Hi - I made a list of users who've been around long enough to have made lots of edits but aren't admins. If you're at all interested in becoming an admin, can you please add an '*' immediately before your name in this list? I've suggested folks nominating someone might want to puruse this list, although there is certainly no guarantee anyone will ever look at it. Thanks. -- Rick Block (talk) June 28, 2005 13:46 (UTC)

[edit] You may have a problem with your browser

One of your edits to Wikipedia:MediaWiki 1.5 bugs[2] replaced Cyrillic text with question marks, and broke links to Polish names. You may not have intended to do that. What browser are you using? Susvolans (pigs can fly) 1 July 2005 11:57 (UTC)

[edit] Rosicrucian article

Dear user Zigger, as I have seen a edition of yours 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] Visual Basic Classic Wikibook

I see you have contributed to the Visual Basic article on Wikipedia. Any chance you would like to join in editing the wikibook: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Programming:Visual_Basic_Classic? --Kjwhitefoot 09:41, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] http://mi.wikibooks.org/ spam patrol

Thanks for your recent work. Robin Patterson 04:34, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you...

... for your anti-SPAM work in Viquillibres, the pages with spam have been deleted --Vedranell 21:21, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Image removal on Cronulla riot article

Hey mate, I noticed you removed the still of a news program of the valdalised car. I have one other as well which I thought would contribute well to the article, but I wanted to check why they break copyright laws, don't they qualify as TV/film screenshots. Cheers. smerc


--Got your message. I get what your saying, I might do a little more research into the matter. The second photo(still) I have is quite disturbing, it's not graphically violent but it would really capture the event. Hmm, so I'll see what I can do to some how get it in. Thanks.

[edit] LT

Merci.

Xxxyyyj 17:43, 12 December 2005 (UTC) (http://lt.wikiquote.org)

[edit] Bra boys

The votes at the time of closing were 12 keep, 1 delete, and 2 merge, so I felt the result was going to be rather obvious. Per WP:IAR I went and closed the debate so as not to waste any more time on it. As I am not an administrator, if you disagree, I'll be happy to re-open it and restore the AfD notice on the article. Regards, howcheng [ t • c • w • e ] 19:11, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

  • OK, I've re-opened the debate and restored the AfD notice. My apologies for being too quick on the trigger. howcheng [ t • c • w • e ] 19:23, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Maori sites

Thanks again for sterling work on spammers in Wikipedia Maori and the matching Wiktionary. I've just made your task a little easier. I can't be there at 3am NZ time but you obviously can! Robin Patterson 19:22, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] gratiam ago

Thank you for your blanking spams on Latin Wikiquote; I am a sysop there but was on wikivacation for a long time. Hoping you also enjoyed browsing the site with classical authors, cheers, --Aphaia 13:39, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] COTW

Would you be willing to support my nominee for WP:COTW. The article is Invasion which is an important term for military knowledge. The current article however isn't at the same standard as the term is in modern and historic warfare though. If you'll be willing to support, I'll be greatful. Thanks RENTASTRAWBERRY FOR LET? röck 00:42, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

For having helped fighting link spam vandalism on Romanian wikibooks! :) --Vlad 11:18, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] COTW Project

You voted for Invasion, this week's Collaboration of the week. Please come and help it become a featured-standard article. -- King of Hearts | (talk) 18:27, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

after read here, I would like to give you barnstar (the first one I'm giving to anyone) for removing vadalism at Urdu wikipedia. Wisesabre 19:37, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

I (Wisesabre) award this Barnstar to Zigger for heroic work fighting vandals.
I (Wisesabre) award this Barnstar to Zigger for heroic work fighting vandals.


[edit] Gwen Shamblin article

Hi Zigger, I am a newbie, I updated the Gwen Shamblin article. I didn't know for sure what to do with the ISBN's, I think I did it wrong. Please look and advise, also any other comments that would help me in the future are welcome. Anne447

[edit] meta:BiDi workgroup

[edit] Invasion

I just want to let you know that Invasion which you voted for as a COTW is now being considered for a featured article. Leave your input at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Invasion. RENTAFOR LET? 03:53, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Please check your WP:NA entry

Greetings, editor! Your name appears on Wikipedia:List of non-admins with high edit counts. If you have not done so lately, please take a look at that page and check your listing to be sure that following the particulars are correct:

  1. If you are an admin, please remove your name from the list.
  2. If you are currently interested in being considered for adminship, please be sure your name is in bold; if you are opposed to being considered for adminship, please cross out your name (but do not delete it, as it will automatically be re-added in the next page update).
  3. Please check to see if you are in the right category for classification by number of edits.

Thank you, and have a wiki wiki day. BD2412 T 01:59, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Auckland meetup

Just to let you know that a meetup is planned in Auckland for the 25th of June (see Wikipedia:Meetup/Auckland for more details), and that you are cordially invited. GeorgeStepanek\talk 00:21, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Boston greetings

Hi there ! Good to see you back... +sj + 15:06, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Latin Wikibooks

Hi, I'm Dbmag9.

I see that you have an account on Wikibooks in Latin. I have recently been made an administrator there until the 31 July, and I'm trying to make the project into something useful. If you have time/motivation, please go there, and try to make a useful contribution. Any questions/comments/replies can be made on my talk page.

Thank you! -b:la:Usor:Dbmag9

[edit] Proposed Georgia Move

As a past participant in the discussion on how to handle the Georgia pages, I thought you might be interested to know that there's a new attempt to reach consensus on the matter being addressed at Talk:Georgia (country)#Requested_Move_-_July_2006. Please come by and share your thoughts to help form a consensus. --Vengeful Cynic 03:24, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Disambiguation Talk Request

This is a form message being sent to all WikiProject Disambiguation participants. I recently left a proposed banner idea on the WikiProject Disambiguation talk page and I would appreciate any input you could provide. Before it can be approved or denied, I would prefer a lot of feedback from multiple participants in the project. So if you have the time please join in the discussion to help improve the WikiProject. Keep up the good work in link repair and thanks for your time. Nehrams2020 21:47, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Auckland Meetup 2 Scheduled - Feb 10 2007

You are all invited to Auckland Meetup 2 on the afternoon of Saturday February 10th 2007 at Galbraith's Ale House in Mt Eden. Please see Wikipedia:Meetup/Auckland 2 for details. You can also bookmark Wikipedia:Meetup/Auckland to be informed of future NZ meetups. - SimonLyall 05:38, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Infobox Former Country

Hi. I have had to revert the recent changes that you made to Infobox Former Country because it adversely effected its presentation (some alignments were messed up). - 52 Pickup 09:33, 23 June 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for fixing the template. Which page/browser had the problem? --Zigger «º» 13:14, 23 June 2007 (UTC)
I only looked through one or two entries - one of them was Weimar Republic - and the alignment of the grey date/flag bar at the top was skewed to one side before reverting your changes (I'm using Firefox). I can see what you were trying to do, but for some reason it just didn't work. No problem. - 52 Pickup 16:53, 23 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Alemmanic Wikibooks vote for sysop

Hello Zigger

I have seen, you are an user on the Alemanic Wikibooks. I was tree moths sysop and I would like be sysop for a year. Please look the site for the vote. Here is the direct link for the page: [[3]]. Thank you! Greifensee

[edit] Random Smile!

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Smile at others by adding {{subst:Smile}} to their talk page with a friendly message.

-WarthogDemon 01:53, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Orphaned non-free media (Image:Al-Hamed-1-July-2006.jpg)

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