User talk:Sj

hey there just wanted to invite you to be a member of the Department of Fun as i saw you on a linked page we have as a judge, feel free to add your sig./timestamp in the members section. --Larsie 17:33, 29 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Wiki on a stick (WOAS)

Thanks for your support last month of WOAS, which I have finally moved out of user-space. --Zigger 03:24, 2004 Oct 31 (UTC)

Meetups

NYC: Thanks for noting the NYC meetup... Andrevan | maybe. don't always work a standard 9-5. Dante Alighieri... just realized The Incredibles premieres tonight, so that's where I'm headed after work.  ;) another date though... Dante. Nov 6.

NYC: Where is Argosy? PZFUN 00:16, 12 Nov 2004 (UTC)

NYC: Sure, that works for me. I don't know how long I can stay, but I'll at least make an appearance! And 2 pm is fine. I'm a late riser so 2 pm is fine. Any earlier and I might not be awake! PZFUN 00:34, 12 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Hi. Got your message and read the wrap up. Sounded like fun. Sorry I couldn't make it. --Pdurbin 22:46, 22 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Bay Area: What time? East Bay's User:Kukkurovaca (don't know any of the other locals).

Boston II

I don't know exactly how I can help. Should there be an agenda? Should we hand out action items? Or just get together and have an enjoyable afternoon, like the last Boston (Cambridge) meetup? Ortolan88 02:12, 4 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Hi there. I've never been to a wikimeet before, but I might be able to make the Boston one. Since I'm a minor, getting my parents to let me go will be like pulling teeth...except much harder :). I wanted to know what is expected to happen in this wikimeet before I attempt this monumental task. What mood do you anticipate this wikimeet to be like? Do I need to bring anything with me? What (if anything) is going to be accomplished? Thanks in advance. I tried to find out on IRC, but I was told that it differs greatly between each wikimeet, and since you were in the last Boston wikimeet, I felt you were the best person to ask :). -[[User:Frazzydee|Frazzydee|✍]] 02:54, 5 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for the personal invitation. I simply couldn't get out of my other obligations this weekend, but sometime in December sounds really good. Also, let's form an agenda; I could help with that. --user:Ed Poor (talk) 15:04, Nov 22, 2004 (UTC)

Got your message about next weekend - I like to plan a little farther in advance than that. Maybe some time in December or January? (Just not during the IAP Mystery Hunt.) DenisMoskowitz 16:51, 2004 Nov 22 (UTC)

I'll personally be busy on the 5th, but I'm not required - I can come to the next one or something. (The more notice, the more likely I'll make it.) DenisMoskowitz 20:08, 2004 Nov 22 (UTC)

NYC: *laughs* I'll be there! - UtherSRG 13:11, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)

NYC: I was wondering if a place had been decided for the next New York meetup. I'm still ticked off at myself that I wasn't able to get to the last one, so I'll be coming to this one, come hell or high water! PZFUN 17:56, 25 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Coming to the NYC meetup scheduled for Sunday, December 12?

Wikipedia:Forum for Encyclopedic Standards

I have drafted a proposal for a new voluntary association on Wikipedia (joining groups like the Wikipedia:The Business and Economics Forum and the Wikipedia:Harmonious editing club) to promote discussion of a sort of system of expert review on Wiki. Please take a look and add your ideas. 172 08:00, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC)

How to Good-Bye Depression

I'll give you the benefit of the doubt on this one... defend it. I suggest you cite sources. Good luck. --L33tminion Nov 19, 2004

Template:Recipe moving

You created this template quite some time ago. It's being considered for deletion, and I'm wondering if you'd agree, since it's not being used. We do have a more generic Template:Move to Wikibooks that is much more commonly used. -- Netoholic @ 16:55, 2004 Nov 19 (UTC)

Hiya

Hello. I miss you terribly Sj. I hope my internet connexion will be restored end of next week :-( I need to come back to daily quiet activities. Not ones where I am called a vandal :-(

Hope you are well SweetLittleFluffyThing 18:09, 25 Nov 2004 (UTC)

hellz!

licensing

Hey, you left a note saying that your contributions are CC-by-sa (which version(s)? 1.0? 2.0? Both?) and sometimes public domain. Could you add a proper user namespace template to your user page or User:Sj/Copyrights so we have a permanent record of your wishes? Thanks. -- Ram-Man (comment (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=User_talk:Ram-Man&action=edit&section=new)| talk) 19:25, Dec 6, 2004 (UTC)

I have. 2.0. Now if only I can find it...

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:

Ram-Man

Survey

Hey, I got your message about creating a survey. The thing is that I've already asked some 500 users about whether they'd give permission to multi-license their contributions. And in at least one of those cases I managed to get a user who is no longer editing here anymore. Because this is such a large scale thing, I really need to ask everyone and a survey will not exactly serve our purpose here. It is not enough to ask "Do you multi-license?". Based on responses I could calculate the percentages of who feels what. About 10% opt out, but most of those are very nice about it. But I'd say about 1% of people asked get upset at the fact that I asked and say something (semi-)nasty back to me. The rest agree to multi-license in either PD or CC-by-sa, mostly for the latter. Of those people, about 20% will only go for U.S. states/cities/counties at this time. I've already got the rambot adding the notices to people's pages, after I did the first 350 by hand. Of course I don't mind having a question in a survey about it. It might be nice to know how popular the idea of a move to CC-by-sa is, but so far I've not wanted to bring up the question because it is so controversial. You can keep me apprised of the situation with the survey, but I'm not sure how much I can put in. It might be nice to ask a few multi-licensing questions anyway, just to feel the water. – Ram-Man ^{(comment (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=User_talk:Ram-Man&action=edit&section=new)) (talk)}[[]] 13:01, Dec 10, 2004 (UTC)

Let me know when you have a draft of your survey. Maybe we need some questions like "Would you consider multi-licensing to CC-by-sa" (or maybe something less specific or with more options). And also: "If yes to the previous question, would you consider at some point agreeing to change Wikipedia's license to another license (such as CC-by-sa)?" Of course if you do the latter, be prepared for the nuclear fallout that the ensuing controversy will cause. – Ram-Man ^{(comment (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=User_talk:Ram-Man&action=edit&section=new)) (talk)}[[]] 14:46, Dec 10, 2004 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject: JesseW 23:27, 11 Dec 2004 (UTC)

A hunch

/me thinks you might get a kick out of this (http://www.aurevilly.net/mediawiki/index.php/Accueil) and maybe that (http://www.aurevilly.net/mediawiki/index.php/Cat%C3%A9gorie:English_texts). Just a hunch. May be wrong. Very. Never mind. It's late, even on your side of the ocean. Cheers. notafish }<';> 05:34, 13 Dec 2004 (UTC)

• I am proud of this (http://www.aurevilly.net/mediawiki/index.php/Bank_of_dreams) notafish }<';> 16:42, 1 May 2005 (UTC)

Graph of statistics

Umm, I read someone's opinion on the rate of increase of article size, did not agree with the expressed opinion, and figured a graph and, indeed, an article would be a good thing. I'll doubtless update the graph sometime around the christmas break; I don't often update it since the trend is, more or less, no change. best wishes --Tagishsimon (talk)

Wikidemia

Hi Sj, Cormaggio here - having just found 'Wikidemia' today, am wondering what your involvement with the project is, ie. whether active or just interested? Have added a link to a page with my own questionnaire which was a tentative step into getting people's opinions - I see your involved perspective would be of help to the project, and possibly to my own inquiry (for my M.Ed). Basically, I can see these projects bouncing off eachother, if not conjoining to an extent. Talk to me, or email me if you prefer (through user page). Cheers Cormaggio 01:29, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)

See recent updates.

Wikipedia:Copyrights - "obfuscatory sentence"?

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia%3ACopyrights&diff=0&oldid=8741098

"-obfuscatory sentence" (link added)? How is the sentence confusing?

"The goal of Wikipedia is to create an information source in an encyclopedia format that is freely available."

Brianjd 08:26, 2004 Dec 24 (UTC)

The Battery

Hi. We seem to have hit a conflict rearranging The Battery. I would suggest that The Battery is not worthy of a disambiguation. I think almost everyone would associate The Battery with Manhatten. There was already a reference to the Charleston park there. I think it would be better to have The Battery go straight to the Manhatten version. Suppose we discuss this at Talk:Battery Park? DJ Clayworth 16:02, 24 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Barnstar

I give you a Barnstar for your good editorship on Quarto and your fine organization of translators. --Aphaea 09:11, 25 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Whole Earth Catalog

Would you be offended if your "Whole Earth Catalog" were deleted from Wikisource? The problem with it is that it is encylopedic. :-) While this would be a perfectly good stub in Wikipedia, I don't see it going anywhere on Wikisource. It would be an excellent introduction IF we were going to carry material from the Catalogs in Wikisource but I presume that very little, if any, of this material could be included without infringing copyright. Eclecticology 04:54, 2005 Jan 3 (UTC)

Thanks for replying. Now I know that more than that stub is planned. I don't know if page images are the best way to go, but I'll wait until a few are up before I make further comments. Eclecticology 17:16, 2005 Jan 4 (UTC)

Call for AMA election

AMA Member Advocate,

There's a poll currently in the AMA Homepage about making a new AMA Coordinator election... see AMA Homepage talk page. Cheers, --Neigel von Teighen 4 Jan 2005

...

As AMA Coordinator I am requesting that suggestions be placed on Wikipedia:AMA Membership Meeting plans... — © 5 Jan 2005 (UTC)

...

The first AMA Membership meeting will be held on Sunday January 23, 2005 at 19:00 UTC on freenode IRC channel #AMA. 16 Jan 2005 (UTC)

...

You may view the log of the first meeting on the following two pages: Wikipedia:AMA IRC Meeting log (1-23-05) (first hour) and Wikipedia:AMA IRC Meeting log (1-23-05) Pt II (remainder of meeting). See also Wikipedia:AMA Meeting (suggested topics).

...

"The second AMA Membership meeting will be held on Sunday January 30 2005 at 19:00 UTC on freenode IRC channel #AMA. Please submit:

Wikipedia:AMA Coordinator/January 2005 Survey Wikipedia:AMA IRC Meeting log (1-30-05). Wikipedia:AMA Meeting (suggested topics). Thank you, your Coordinator.

List of Young Global Leaders

I've noticed that you've begun (what I'm going to assume) is a complete List of Young Global Leaders. This leads me to a few questions:

• Why the odd, non-standard formatting?
  • What is the standard?
    • You're reading it. As opposed to:

Making a list by indenting a space.
This renders as an ugly monospaced font.
Enclosed within a box.

• What is the value of a yearly list of a few hundred names?
  • Note the wikification.
    • Note the pointless wikification. Of the 97 listings you've so far posted, only 10 individuals have active links (at least half of whom are as stubs), not to mention only 31 companies have links. So the value of duplicating in whole a 237-item list just to add red links is, at best, minimal.
• Why no explanation of the list at the top of the list?
  • It has one.
    • It does now, I grant.
• Why have a list of members/honorees of an organization that doesn't even have an article about itself?
  • It has one.
    • Okay, I missed that, though I note it's only nine minutes older than this list.

--Calton 20:54, 30 Jan 2005 (UTC) Updated comments by Calton 01:23, 31 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Boot camp

Hi Sj — the boot camp sounds like a great idea. Let's see if it gets off the ground. One question: my welcome messages are in templates ({{User:Asbestos/Welcome}} and {{User:Asbestos/Welcome2}}). I included the bootcamp template in the first of them, and everything seems to open out ok. It should update as the bootcamp template is edited, right? I don't want to start posting out-dated information. Is the bootcamp only going to be held this week? Thanks! — Asbestos | Talk 11:32, 2 Feb 2005 (UTC)

W00T! Let's start it back up.

Wikipedia:Peer review/Tsunami and Wikipedia:Peer review/Wikipedia

I have shifted both to Wikipedia:Peer review/Archive 4. Please, feel free to work on the feedback given and to reinstate them if you do wish to keep working on the articles! - Ta bu shi da yu 04:11, 6 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Cool. wish you were still with us... +sj +

Draft survey

I'm not the best at scripting and the like, so I wouldn't be able to run any survey with fancy options and privacy to boot. But to be honest, when I made my draft I really had no idea what use it would be in the end and how it could help Wikipedia as a whole, it was more of a playing-around-with-the-idea thing. But I'm sure a large scale survey, especially of new users, but also of established users, would be very, very useful once it was finished and the results collated. Have you already tried to get yours off the ground, or is it still in draft mode? And would I be able to see it too :) I think the idea could get somewhere if there were enough momentum built up behind it. T.PK 05:32, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Placeholder name, aka kadigan

It is only because your userpage shows you as being Very Cool that I have not reverted your smurf language (yep, red-linked) addition to this article. You should know that I have an unabiding hatred of all things smurf, and would gladly wrap your addition up in duct tape and hang it upside down from the ceiling but for the fact you've been here a while. Please let me know what you were thinking. Denni☯ 19:56, 2005 Feb 6 (UTC)

BTW, this article was originally titled thingamajig, and only more recently fell into the cadigan/kadigan title because of discussion/redirection by jmabel/smerdis of tlon/et al. I thought it was appropriate, since "thingamajig" is just a subset of "kadigan" (or whatever term one ought to use to describe this set of words and phrases), and AFAIK, there is no other English word which describes this category of words. Oh, did I mention that I have an intense dislike of smurfs? Denni☯ 00:54, 2005 Feb 8 (UTC)

 :-) (-:  :-) (-: +sj +

Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Anne Frank deleted votes

Hi! I have restored several comments and votes in the Anne Frank FAC nomination, that you deleted (see diff (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Featured_article_candidates/Anne_Frank&diff=10023955&oldid=10022662)). May I assume this was a mistake on your part? Thanks. --Plek 06:15, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Yes, or at least a software mistake... Thanks for the fix. I had opened an edit window yesterday and finally made the edit a day later, and didn't get any conflict messages (!) but clearly overwrote changes that had been made since then. +sj +

Clippings

• Get Back - another look please? Thanks. Johnleemk
• POTD - what does the {{{1}}} do? Solipsist 9 Feb 2005
• Anne Frank - another look? thanks Rossrs 10 Feb 2005
• Wikipedia:Peer review/Hayyim Nahman Bialik - being archived from PR. Ta bu shi da yu 03:20, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• BZFlag - another look? See Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/BZFlag.

It is not a high priority thing (the sooner the better, though :) ). Thank you very much. --Lan56 Feb 17, 2005 (UTC)

New Mathematics Wikiportal

I noticed you've done some work on Mathematics articles. I wanted to point out to you the new Mathematics Wikiportal- more specifically, to the Mathematics Collaboration of the Week page.

I encourage you to vote on the current Collaboration of the Week, because I'm very interested in which articles you think need to be written or added to, and because I understand that I cannot do the enormous amount of work required on some of the Math stubs alone. I'm asking for your help, and also your critiques on the way the portal is set up.

Please direct all comments to my user-talk page, the Math Wikiportal talk page, or the Math Collaboration of the Week talk page. Thanks ! ral315 Feb 11, 2005

Santa Fe page

Apparently you added the "Santa Fe has recently announced ..." paragraph to the Santa Fe Institute page. Could you provice a source for that announcement please? I am interested in the "general theory" part of it. Thanks, John [3] (http://public.xdi.org/=John.Richard.Williams)

Hmm. That was from one of their non-press release pages in early 2004... can't find it on their site now. You could remove that bit to the talk page until it gets sourced. +sj + 20:12, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)

thanks Sj

Hello Sj; Actually i happened to go to Santa Fe today and happened to wander into Borders and happened to linger in the magazine section [i didn'r even know that they had a "computer" section there] - but the new Wired was NOT out yet, so you have scooped me. yes, Dan P visited me at home, sort of a surprise since i live not far from the end of the world, and we had a very nice talk. His questions got me thinking a lot which leads to mostly off-the-cuff answers, and my wife learned all sorts of new stuff about me while listening in. I was curious, still am, as to how much, if not all of it, would hit the proverbial cutting room floor. It seems, not all. oh yes, i was interested to see your "Carpe Diem" on your page since my name, carptrash, is a distent cousin, having morphed through "Carpe Manana' with the "trash" added 'cause i live in a trailer. Carptrash 04:33, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)

POTD rendering problem

I noticed that there may be a slight problem with including the {{{1}}} variable for adjusting the picture size in the POTD template. See this diff (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Community_Portal&diff=10481913&oldid=10478422). Perhaps its a known MediaWiki bug. -- Solipsist 8 Mar

Other tidbits

• NPR : You on NPR singing the praises of Attalus I... was nice. Paul August Feb 24
• WP:HC - I like the idea, but it has practical problems. (See the talk page) Grutness 9 Mar
• See this description of the conversion tool (http://zh.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:1.4%E7%89%88%E7%9A%84%E7%B9%81%E7%AE%80%E5%A4%84%E7%90%86). Zhengzhu, Mar 11
• RfA Thanks: SlimVirgin, Mar 24.
• Colors: Thanks! I'm pleased with how it turned out. Mero, Mar 24.
• Hugs: point me to the 500k release article? Notafish, Mar 25.

Images

• Image:Folded-cardinal.png copyright? RedWolf, Mar 12. fair use, hope it's not deleted --Sj
• Image:Aus jw 1.jpg image copyright? Ellmist, Mar 18.
• Image:Sunflowmural1.jpg : be deleted? Thanks, Quadell Feb 28

*** Notice of general violation ***

Your recent message to user "Denelson83" under the subject line of "Victoria map heads up" has been disregarded and deleted. The reason given was "Flagrancy re long-term issue". Messages to the aforementioned recipient causing general violations are not tolerated. Related information is at Wikipedia:No personal attacks and Wikipedia:No legal threats.

Do not post another such message on the recipient's talk page.

Blogging

You asked me about my interest in good blogging software in Frisian. Did you want to bring software localized for Frisian to my attention, or did you want to enlist me in a translation effort? Aliter 13:46, 25 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I asked around but didn't find anyone interested in taking on the additional load of translating even more software. Aliter 20:43, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)

BTW., the wiki complains that "This page is 64 kilobytes long. This may be longer than is preferable; see article size."; you might want to refactor, excerpt, summarize, archive, or delete some of the talk here.

This would probably help when trying to return to a previous conversation, reduce people's phone bills and keep the browser from crashing. Aliter 20:43, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Spring Heeled Jack

Hi, Sj, and nice to meet you! :) I just noticed you added a Nomination for International Writing contest for the article I wrote on Spring Heeled Jack. Please forget a hopeless newbie like myself, and slap some sense into my just-arrived head, as in: am I expected to do something? You see, I've invested all of my time since I got here in writing and researching, and I have no idea on the activities of the Wiki community yet. Thanks! *Hugs* -- Shauri 05:50, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)

International writing contest

Hi, sj. The question (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:Featured_article_candidates&diff=11593113&oldid=11592591) I asked yesterday on Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates is a bit of a problem for me, do you have any plans for answering it? I tried asking Dysprosia on IRC, but got told it was up to you. Basically, I'd like to know how ironclad the <2000 characters rule is: what if there existed a long but useless article of the same name on March 1, like say an 1911 EB text dump, which has since been overwritten by a new article? Best wishes, Bisch�nen|T�k 00:11, 29 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Deletion of images without proven copyvio

Probably we should be revising the policy of WP:PUI. I mean, at least Wikipedians should discuss about the policy so some consensus can come out of it. Apart from you and me, User:Xiong seems to be against deleting UOs (from his comments at Wikipedia:Village pump (policy). I'm at least against deleting many of the UOs that get deleted without the faintest indication of a copyvio especially those uploaded in 2002-2004. Do you have any idea where should I complain about this so enough people express their opinion? An RFC or a mail to wikitech or what? WP:VP never seems to get enough respondents. I experienced that in Wikibooks which is a smaller project, and had to take a vacation from Wikibooks. I hope that doesn't happen with Wikipedia as well. Thanks! -- Paddu 08:07, 29 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I just sent my mail to WikiEn-l. But by the time Quadell has come up with a template Template:Tl that can be used for the images whose uploaders seem to have a good history and can be believed to have created the image they uploaded. -- Paddu 20:50, 29 Mar 2005 (UTC)

It's sad that nobody responded to that mail. -- Paddu 07:04, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)

International writing contest II

Oh, ok, very clear now, thanks. I guess I won't be nominating anything after all, since the article I had in mind turned out to still have had more than 2000 characters on March 1. 2000 is just less than I figgered, it seems, and I'm an (even) slower writer than I knew. (As for European toilet paper holder, incidentally, that I see you liked, it was already long a month ago, or I might have graced the contest with that. ;-)) Never mind, I'm sure you'll get great input, thanks for responding! --Bishonen|Talk 11:47, 29 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Gaaaaa

I only saw the changed on my user page :-) It enlighten my next few days I promise :-) I love this rather childish design. Thank you Sj. Sorry I am not tip top these days. Ant

FA - ET AL

True, and I have said that elsewhere. ;) - Estel (talk) 19:32, Mar 31, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks

Thank you, Samuel, for your kind words on my talk page! It's great to hear that people appreciate my work. As for the April Fool's gloom, I believe that it turned out to be quite different from what everyone had expected... — mark ✎ 13:35, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Holistic science?

I see that you wrote the Santa Fe Institute article. Recently I adopted the orphaned Holistic science article, but I really need some expert assistance (or any assistance). Basically, I'm a proponent of holistic science (or emphasis on study of entire systems rather than reducing things to constituent parts), but I'm not a scientist and lack any formal scientific training. I'm slowly gathering links to stuff, but I'm thinking it would be great if some more people got involved. So far the only other person watching this page is not contributing other than slapping NPOV, Disputed, Pseudoscience, etc. labels on it. What do you think? --Smithfarm 08:16, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)

• Thanks for the constructive criticism! I found it very useful. I'll keep working on the article. --Smithfarm 11:52, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)

patagonian cavy picture

Hi SJ! Nice to talk to an old face! Not a great picture, but good enough for species illustration purposes. Alas, it's not one I count amongst my real pictures, as it was taken in captivity, at the Western Plains Zoo, Dubbo. On my 2003 trip, I took a day off from "proper" wildlife photography to visit there and take some Wikipedia pictures of creature I will never see in the wild unless I travel overseas one day, which I don't plan to: I imagine that I won't live long enough to photograph all the birds and mammals of Australia and (maybe New Zealand too). I'm only 45 but there are lots I haven't even seen in the wild yet! One continent per lifetime seems enough to me. :)

The other picture you linked to is superb! I've never seen it before, but it should certainly be used somewhere. I love it!

Best,

Tannin 11:48, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Socialism in the United States

Thanks for the compliment. I put up my Senior report on Socialism in the United States, wikified and NPOV'd. (I'm sure I missed some POV stuff, if you want to take a look at it.) I also started a to-do list on the talk page. The biggest problem is that my report abruptly stops at 1920. There's another 80 or so years to fill in there. I haven't linked from History of Socialism or Socialism yet, but I'm tempted to start a Wikiproject: Socialism. (Or perhaps, Wikiproject: Political Idealogies.) Thanks again, have a looksee and get back to me. LockeShocke 21:46, Apr 7, 2005 (UTC)

Shiavo

Reply at Image talk:TerriSchiavo2.jpg. SlimVirgin ^(talk) 10:42, Apr 8, 2005 (UTC)

Your questions about development of community feedback

Hi Sam,

Thanks for leaving a comment on my blog. I understand you are doing research in the development of community feedback for Internet base encyclopedia (particular Encarta and Wikipedia) and would like to ask me a few questions. Fire them away!

PS: My surname is Siu (pronounce Sue) hence the subtitle of the blog as in "sue me"

Mini POTD

Hi Sj,

I looks like the edits to Template:POTD by mgm and yourself a couple of days ago have lead to the image resizing of POTD no longer working, although it does cure the extra braces appearing in the unscaled version.

Would a solution using named variables work, or is this just pushing the template mechanism to far. -- Solipsist 09:59, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Quarto design chat: Sunday?

Hi zanimum. Lockeshocke proposed an interesting icy cover for the next Quarto; I thought perhaps you two could work together on it. And are you free sometime this Sunday to discuss the internal layout of the next edition? +sj + 03:05, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Hi Sj... sorry, I'm overflowing with year-end homework projects this weekend. I guess I'm willing to work with LockeShocke on the cover design; there are quite a few things Wikimedia needs to iron once and for all, to keep designs consistant, between issues and languages. Would any weekday/night be okay to chat with you sj, or should we just set up a talk page somewhere and discuss over the course of a few days? -- user:zanimum

Monday (tomorrow) would work for me; also Wednesday. Let me know... see the very top of the source of my talk page for contact info if you can't find me on-wiki. +sj + 02:21, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Wednesday is best, I'm cramming today, too many deadlines. Is there anything we can start to discuss now, so that I can leave my input here and there? -- user:zanimum

Trump Images

Hello, just wanted to notify you that Image:Trump2.jpg, Image:Trump4.jpg, and Image:Trumpmoney.jpg are marked for deletion due to being orphaned (not linked to a wikipage). If you have any further questions or need assistance, feel free to message me. Thanks! -Eclipsael 03:45, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Blackberries fir0002 semi FPC

Hope you can come vote on this selection: [User:Fir0002/FPCandidates#Blackberries (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fir0002/FPCandidates#Blackberries)] Thanks--Fir0002 06:18, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Signpost

Thanks for the offer, it's most welcome. In fact, since you're editor-in-chief for the Quarto, you're sort of the perfect candidate to serve as "guest editor" for The Signpost, if you're willing.

I'm planning to set up a "newsroom" page that will facilitate coordination. To make things easier for you, I think it might also be beneficial to have a deadline for reporters to get their stories done. Any suggestions on when we should set the deadline, to allow you enough time for editing?

About the style guide, I'm happy to answer any questions, it may force me to think more clearly about what I've been doing. Names of Wikipedians are sort of a complex issue, since it can involve real names, nicknames, pseudonyms, and even sigs. My usage has been flexible according to context, depending on their role and how the person is best known. For things with implications outside Wikipedia itself, I prefer real names. Some samples of how I tend to think:

Jimbo -> Jimmy Wales for most things, Jimbo Wales when actually using his account on the site

Anthere -> Usually Anthere, sometimes even when acting as Trustee if it's about interaction with the community, Florence Devouard if there's outside contact involved

Mav -> Pretty clear role break, mav as an arbitrator and user, Daniel Mayer as CFO

Brion -> I use (English-style) Vibber rather than the Esperanto all-caps VIBBER in his username

I don't necessarily mimic people's sigs, but if the sig is different enough from the username and kept consistent, I'll follow the sig. For somebody like User:Dbachmann, I wouldn't refer to him as anything but dab.

Fortunately, linking helps fill in the blanks, so I always make sure to link the name of any Wikipedian when it's first used. --Michael Snow 18:32, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Nahuatl as written

Thank you a lot for the heads up, but could you please provide the actual URL? I've looked for hours in the depth of wikisource without find a hint of the document. Circeus 23:58, Apr 12, 2005 (UTC)

Titanic

There is enough in the plot description to indicate that a nude portrait, a jewel, a pretty girl and an artist are involved. The picture you attempted to remove shows all four. For the rest, you really have to see the move--so it's fortunate that the company that made the movie has licensed its distribution on DVD. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 00:40, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Danny's user page

Why have you reverted all of the changes User:Danny has made to his user page for the past 8 months? Jayjg