User talk:Samw

Hello there, welcome to the 'pedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you need pointers on how we title pages visit Wikipedia:Naming conventions or how to format them visit our manual of style. If you have any other questions about the project then check out Wikipedia:Help or add a question to the Village pump. Cheers! --maveric149

A Samw page

I created a Samw page before User:Zoe kindly created User:samw. Would people agree I should delete Samw?

It redirects to your user page so it is fine as-is. --mav

--- no problem thanks User:Smith03

Prescription (medical) vs Medical prescription

Hi,

Don't you think it would be better and more natural to rename Prescription (medical) to Medical prescription ?
--Kpjas 15:53, 24 Aug 2003 (UTC)

Why not both? Either might be used. I'd say, have MP #REDIRECT to P(M).

-- Paul Rfc1394 15:07, 22 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Nylon

Hi. Regarding Nylon and its alleged trademark status: In "Made in America" I seem to remember Bill Bryson talking about products that had lost their trademark status due to their names' becoming generic terms. Nylon may have been one of them. However, I attempted to search for a trademark, dead or alive, and only found derivative trademarks ("C Nylon"). I might have to search for something more in-depth at the library to resolve the issue. -- sugarfish 05:47, 6 Oct 2003 (UTC)

Aspirin, Escalator and Cellophane are three words that lost trademark status in the U.S. due to use as if generic. The trademark owners failed to police properly. I suspect nylon is the generic name for spun glass fiber. -- Paul Rfc1394 15:07, 22 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Thanks

I copied open-loop from closed-loop and must have missed that. If you know controls, you could help immensely in fleshing out the articles. It will take me months to get them all done, especially given how easily I am distracted by random other pages. -rs2 21:25, 31 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Knots

Are you still interested in Wikipedia:WikiProject Knots? kmccoy (talk) 18:26, 17 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Candy Apple

Thank you for your contributions to Candy apple. Jrobinson5

Copyvio

I got this from a Google image search for doughnut. It probably is a copyvio, but maybe someone can get permission. --Jrobinson5 19:48, 7 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Siphon

> Would you be able to add labels for the points and heights described in the Bernoulli's equation section?

done 213.51.209.230 22:52, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)

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:

Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
Multi-Licensing Guide
Free the Rambot Articles Project

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:

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:

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 (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=User_talk:Ram-Man&action=edit&section=new)| talk)

I've been working on some templates that grant the WikiMedia foundation permission to set one's contributions into any copyleft license it chooses. That way I could let the WikiMedia Foundation relicense my contributions if the need arose. For example, {{WikimediaTextLicensing}} produces the following:

Template:WikimediaTextLicensing

What do you think? I'm was hoping for some input from others before finalizing the wording. I was not intending this to replace the multi-licensing campaign, but to supplement it. In other words, still give explicit permission to use the CC-by-sa (for WikiTravel), but for future reference let WikiMedia choose for me. – Ram-Man ^{(comment (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=User_talk:Ram-Man&action=edit&section=new)) (talk)}[[]] 03:05, Dec 14, 2004 (UTC)

CSD

Heya, good to see you patrolling for bad pages, however keep in mind speedy deletion is only intended for a few very narrowly defined categories of pages, the rest has to go throught Votes for Deletion. You can find the criteria at WP:CSD. --fvw * 14:50, 2004 Dec 24 (UTC)

Main namespace cleanup

In an effort to clean up the main namespace, I've moved your old main namespace userpage to User:Samw/old, as there's some edit history you might want to keep. Otherwise just delete it. --fvw * 12:26, 2004 Dec 31 (UTC)

Please don't have the old redirect deleted just yet, we need to fixup the links to it first. If you want to help along and remove them it's much appreciated, but if you don't our little main-to-user-link cleaning taskforce will get to it soon enough. --fvw * 18:59, 2004 Dec 31 (UTC)

Quarto by email

Hi Samw, a new mailing list has been set up to distribute news about the Wikimedia foundation, specifically at the moment to publicise Quarto. I saw your name on the quarto talk page requesting a copy by email, and I think this mailing list is how we're going to do it for the moment. It'll be a html email, which I've added to the Quarto talk page m:Talk:WQ. Mailing list is called Foundation-news-l (http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-news-l) (We also need translators!) Cheers w:User:Cormaggio

Reading spark plugs for racing

Hi Sam

Thanks again for your support and help.

The reading spark plugs page is hard to classify because while it seems to deal with spark plugs, it really has to do with diagnosis using spark plugs as a media. It is no more about spark plugs than a book on Shakespeare is about books.

That’s why I didn’t add it to an existing page in the first place. After reading all the pertinent sites I could find, I placed it on its own with links to and from other pages in a logical, sequential fashion. Thinking the only way to see it would be to link to it or search for it directly. Still I don’t see a comfortable place to merge it into.

It should be in a place organized something like this: Encyclopedia>technology>automotive>engines>high performance engines>High performance techniques>reading spark plugs for racing

Rather than: Encyclopedia>technology>automotive>engines>components>spark plugs

The page that it can be merged with nicely does not yet exist. To make it a stand-alone article might be needlessly difficult when, once a suitable page does exist, it can be simply transferred as is. I thought placing it on its own as a stub would be the best interim solution. I didn’t think it would enrage anyone. Really, who will see it that is not looking directly for it?

What do you think?

=Nick

Voigt notation

Thanks for cleaning up the Voigt notation page. I was hoping someone would get to it.

Shoe polish

Hey buddy, thanks for tidying up the shoe polish page; you may be able to tell I hadn't really made a page before. Shoe polish rox. Proto 12:50, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the welcome

Sam, thank you for the warm welcome to the Wiki. I never have much time, but I am involved in a variety of pursuits and feel that I should be able to pitch in every once in a while. Thanks again for the welcome note with all the useful links!

DeweyQ 05:50, 7 May 2005 (UTC)

Jewellery Quarter/Temp

Jewellery Quarter/Temp is not a copyvio of [1] (http://www.explore-places.com/world_geography/J/Jewellery_Quarter.html); the latter is simply a wikipedia mirror, with a proper reference to wikipedia at the bottom as required by the GFDL. Thue | talk 18:53, 23 May 2005 (UTC)

Indian reserves

I moved those for consistency. All first nations reserves are given the names that StatsCan uses. This is for the sake of convenience, because- if I were to write an article on a reserve I didnt know much about (aside from having stats on it) I would want to use the official name, because I would know the more common name. Just something to consider. -- Earl Andrew - talk 03:18, 25 May 2005 (UTC)

Re: Nichole Arsenault

Unfortunately, someone speedy-ed it and I'm NOT happy. What is the purpose of fighting and agreeing to rewrite something if it only gets speedy-ed by someone pointing to a Vfd (that I wasn't a part of). IF I repost (adding what we discussed), and it gets speedy-ed again, then I'll be labeled a vandal. This sucks. Antares33712 19:14, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Re: welcome and genericized trademarks

Thanks for the welcome. Getting the hang of everything I think. I only changed the list to capitalize everything at the beginning of each bullet, not because each term should actually be capitalized. But I am not sure if I am doing this talk thing correctly. Jcrwiki 19:12, 7 Jun 2005 (EST)

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