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Reply from Maestroh
Re: John Tower
I don't know anything about that citation on the Tower article. I read that recently. I did not, however, put that in the article because I don't know anything about it. I thought it was rather crude and not worthy of mention myself, but as I've said - I'm unaware of any truth to it.
Incidentally, I did alter the Tower article several months back, nor am I a 'fan.' But it seems unfair to me for that accusation to be made. Sorry I can't help you. Maestroh
See also:
Old material has been moved to Archive07. Dpbsmith (talk) 00:55, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
Just FYI ... I recall seeing something in Quality Planning and Analysis ... Juran/Gryan ... about allowing a 1.0 sigma shift, but, Bill Smith added the .5 to allow for Motorola's terrible quality at the time. (Jim Winings)
I changed one picture on the public ivies page, something most definitely not warranting a revert back to an older version. The pictures should provide insight into all the universities listed as "public ivies" and not just the ones whose pictures have already been on there for ages.
July 8/9, 2006 There is an article for symbolic anthropology. But for some reason the link doesn't work. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolic_anthropology I don't know...
... OK so I posted a question about how to fix this linking problem, I think it is item 119 at the bottom of the page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28technical%29
If you don't know how to fix the link problem, please don't take out VALID article links, even if they ARE red. Someone else may be able to figure out how to fix them. Thanks.
Also, please do a SEARCH for these links BEFORE you delete them. You will see that articles DO exist for these topics.
Just deleting nonfunctioning links does not help. There ARE articles on these topics! The help information tells us to go ahead and include links even if we don't know how to make them work, because someone else will know how. I am following the proper procedure by keeping in the red links.
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Hi. User Gekko just put what he called a "Warning" section on my user talk page calling me a troll and sockpuppet, the same personal tactic MBAguy used. Gekko did this today, even though I asked Gekko several times above, on your talk page, to please drop the AfD issue, as the admins have suggested: get over it, and move on. Gekko refuses to drop it, and now seems to be quickly escalating his campaign to the next level. This seems to be another MBAguy type situation all over again. Any suggestion on what should be done? Thanks. GO WHARTON 00:13, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
As you can see here [1], this user has instigated a conflict with me and so I looked into some of the allegations regarding his handle and detailed them on a warning on his talk page here [2]. I believe this user is basically behaving badly under a sockpuppet handle and trying to get Wharton students blamed for it. Gekko 00:30, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
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I was going to start my message by saying, "Since User:GO WHARTON's goings on peripherally and occasionaly overlap with yours...." but then got here and discovered half of your (admittedly, recently archived) talk page to be content related to that user, and figured you could probably use something to treat a headache. Anyway, this was posted at the administrator's notice board; it looks like someone (whoever could it be?!) is using sockpuppets to pick on GO WHARTON. I'm not suggesting your intervention, necessarily, but thought that, as you appear to have become a referee in this, you might at least want to know. Cheers, JDoorj a m Talk 02:34, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
Thankyou for your comment. Bird anatomy seems the easiest, there is more than enough content in the bird article and bird skeleton article, so I have added a split tag, and am waiting a verdict. What is the normal process in this situation? Are you well learned in this subject? 'cos it would help :) mastodon 16:40, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
My issue is with including the ext link-- I think the company name would be sufficient: anyone who wants to look it up could certainly google it. Parenthetically, there seem to be enough people out there to whom $9000 is chump change that the "personal" adjective, while weird to the rest of us, might make sense. Cheers! -- Mwanner | Talk 20:44, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
I changed it to "Currently, one company (Vestax) offers a disk recorder priced in the high four figures which enables "experienced professional users" to produce high-fidelity stereo vinyl recordings." Hope that is OK with you? -- Mwanner | Talk 20:48, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
I've replied on the DRV page, sorry about the delay, things went a little crazy. Please let me know if you have any questions -- Tawker 01:06, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
Hmmm. Not sure what you were thinking. :) Glad you caught it anyway. In general, recommended SI usage is to use exponents on units rather than "/" if the result of using the slash would be ambiguous. (e.g. kg·m-1·s-2 is preferred over kg/m·s2). Since some of the compound units in the template fall into this class, it's better to use exponents for all of them, for consistency.-- Srleffler 13:51, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
Your edit regarding Brandeis much better than mine, thanks. Incorrect 13:35, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
Naturally, the people who teach introductory electromagnetism at MIT caught the Doonesbury strip where Alex asks about the two black boxes. Here's an instructor's explanation:
When the poll went up in the Doonesbury Town Hall to ask the readers which college Alex should attend (Rensselaer, Cornell or the Institute), I knew some kid at MIT would hack it. Guess what?
One more delicious item for MIT in popular culture. Anville 16:33, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
i think these rankings deserve mention. ;)
Look no further than the Wikipedia article on her. Fortunately, that article cites two references. Ghosts&empties 17:43, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
Hey, I've been on a real-life (and thus by extension wiki-)vacation for the past week and change and haven't had much access to the 'net. I see that the editor with rather strong opinions about the religious roots of uPenn has returned; I'll continue monitoring the sitcheeation. (FWIW, I may not have been around to mop-smack the anon IP for disruption, but did get some good shots of light rail in San Francisco which I'll upload soon and place where relevant, so I suppose the 'pedia is better for my time away, right?) Regards, JDoorj a m Talk 04:19, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
Regarding this edit, I've seen several different users involved in replacing <!-- enbedded HTML comments --> with those strings. Best I can figure, they are tokens in an external database somewhere. I have no clue where. I've asked several users involved in the changes, and they've been essentially non-responsive. If you figure out what's going on, I'd love to hear. DMacks 16:38, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
Hi there. I've added a comment to the discussion here about Wiki-linking from quotes. As someone who has posted to this discussion, I'd appreciate any comments you might have. Thanks. Carcharoth 19:04, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
Hi again. As you are active in the discussion at the talk page of Wikipedia:Quotations_should_not_contain_wikilinks, I thought you might like to know that the proposal has been nominated for deletion here. I'm a little bit confused as to why the nomination was made in the first place, as you will see if you read my vote/comment. I'd appreciate your views as to what is going on. Thanks. Carcharoth 00:45, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
good point about all these places around the world named after places from the 'founding fathers' 'home' country/ies. Norwood being a good example, but please dont get too upset about it. South Norwood is at the southern end of Norwood New Town. West Norwood is north of Norwood New Town. Historic cemetery at Norwood. A few remnants of the Great North Wood are still to be found in the area too. The area has its own Civic Society - the Norwood Society, but falls between two London Boroughs - Croydon & Lambeth. It also has its own public library that is not run by iether Borough. Unique.
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You posted a number of questions there. You asked them to me directly. I have provided detailed answers there. Just letting you know -- thank you.
Jason Palpatine 20:46, 10 June 2006 (UTC) What are the four pillars? Hello? Anybody there? |
Yeah, you're right. I was just improving on what have gone before but didn't have the NPOV courage to do it the way you did. Well done! Hayford Peirce 03:47, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
That was created on the 10th so it didn't qualify for a speedy. I've made it a redirect to Cornell University School of Hotel Administration. Cheers. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 03:20, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
I've built on your idea for a possible last-minute compromise. Come check it out. Cheers. youngamerican ( talk) 13:12, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
Hi Daniel, It's been a long time since I used to hang out at alt.quotations. Hope you're keeping well. Anyway, with respect to the inclusionist/deletionist thing, I try not to take sides. Taking sides tend to stop things being fun, as collaboration becomes confrontation. I guess by 2006 standards I'm a deletionist. There's too much popular culture in wikipedia, too many fundamentally uninteresting schools, too much stuff, and not enough insight into stuff. (Now don't get me wrong: I adore popular culture, but one of the things I like about it is its ephemerality). The real problem is that too many people can't make your distinction between information and knowledge. I don't know what should be in an online encyclopedia, but I'm fairly certain its not 4,000 word plot summaries of every episode of Doctor Who ever made. 1,000 words on each series, seems more reasonable. There's too much agglomeration of facts, and not enough precis.
The motto "Wikipedia is not paper" has become the enemy of conciseness. There's a peculiar idea that we should cover everything we can in as much detail as (meta)physically possible, enumerating every fact about a subject, with no regard as to which are actually important and which aren't.
But those battles have been lost, and I've lost the will to fight the remaining battles using anything but mild sarcasm on AfD (again, I simply don't find being a volunteer bureaucrat a lot of fun).
The odd thing is, back in the day I was an inclusionist. I got into an edit war with Larry Sanger for slipping a mention of the Sex Pistols into the God Save The Queen article.
The other thing that bothers me is the general standard of prose styling. Not spelling and grammar (though those are frequently dreadful), but the fact that, in the rush to keep adding facts to an article, no-one seems to be interested in writing good sentences, or putting those sentences in an order that produces lucid prose.
OK, I'm rambling now.
Gareth.
Until recently, there were lists of VHF TV stations in the United States. Then, CoolKatt number 99999 started to add some UHF stations. Now, you nominated one for Afd. Please negotiate with CoolKatt number 99999 to make sure you can agree on whether UHF lists are acceptable. Georgia guy 01:37, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
I loved the W20 Stratton Center anecdote. I will pass it along to my tour guide friends since I already graduated. Madcoverboy 23:52, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
I'm looking for the source of where I found it. You can remove the statement if you like; I added it thinking I'd be able to find the source again. When I find it, I'll re-add the sentence. (I think it was 1 sometime in the 90's). LaszloWalrus 01:49, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
Those K streets run through all of Chicago, not just North Lawndale. 75.3.5.247 02:34, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
What is the font type you used to create the Snellen chart image?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Snellen06.png
I did propose an expansion of the alumni list several times before, and since I did not receive any strong objections. So I decided that it was worth to try it and see what the reaction to it is. All that I did initially was add the informative phrases preceding the names that were already present. Afterwards, I decided that several notable names were missing from it and added them as well. Now that I think about it, a few of the names that I included probably should have been left off. If you feel that certain ones should be omitted, by all means edit the list. If you believe that the original list fits the article better, feel free to restore it. Again, my edit was not at all meant to be a permanent list of the alumni, but an attempt at making it a little more informative. mcshadypl 04:15, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
(Speaking of schools claiming T. S. Eliot) I recently did a major overhaul to Milton Academy; as part of the "spring cleaning" I removed a scandals section which I thought didn't add anything to the article. It seemed to me to be the sort of stuff that wouldn't matter in five, ten, or more years but was merely there for its value as sensationalism. Given that you edit in these circles, I was hoping you'd give me a second opinion. Thanks, JDoorj a m Talk 18:30, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
Hello DPBS: I see we are also McGee fans. Great stuff; I wish I could have told JDM so, the way I told you about my (occasionally qualified) admiration for your father's writings. Wspencer11 20:36, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for intervening and reverting the edit warring of User:Welsh4ever76. Welsh, of course, simply reverted your change, so I've reported him for violating the 3RR -- for what it's worth. Kinda sad when people try to censor the truth because they simply don't like the facts. Peace. deeceevoice 19:19, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
Just a quick note to let you know I've posted a solution to your linguistical conundrum. Hope you find it satisfactory! -- Byakuren 06:22, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the note of support. The really depressing part is that I bet it is a bunch of high school teachers who behaving this way. KarenAnn 15:45, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
Dpbsmith, I was hoping you would take a look at the discussion going on at Talk:Education in the United States regarding the "status ladder" of U.S. colleges. It currently smacks of uncited opinion to me, but I think some mention of school reputation might be salvageable. Given that you are the de facto resident expert on NPOVerty in college-related articles, this might be of interest to you; I was hoping you would take a gander and weigh in. Cheers, JDoorj a m Talk 07:17, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
Dpbsmith, please also go to the following pages and list their fictional characters section as "unreferenced": List of Columbia University people, List of Princeton University people, List of Cornell University people, List of Harvard University people, List of Brown University people, List of Yale University people. Thank you. -- Crimson3981 22:14, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
I noticed that, a long time ago, you added the Winston example to the Like page. You might be interested in the new page I created, which is already at good article status after one day: " Winston tastes good like a cigarette should." Please contribute to it if you have more sources. Mike H. I did "That's hot" first! 04:38, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
Please look at the entry for rec.sport.pro-wrestling now. I have removed the unverifiable information (which one user is still trying to insert but nevermind). Also, rspw.org is only an external link, it is not cited as a source. The only source needed on the entry is the Google post count, which i have cited. Please let me know if the entry meets your standards now. Thank you! TruthCrusader 07:48, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
JB196 is continuing to remove the NZ information on his own authority without discussing it first on the entry talk page. TruthCrusader 21:20, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
Re this section of this article, I think it would be helpful if you could indicate which citations you believe to be unsourced. Spacepotato 00:33, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
Hi there, I am writing you because you were one of the contributors to the discussion last year about moving Classical music to European classical music. Well, the decision to do that did not have great effects - it has created a lot of confusion. Specifically, people editing articles that contain references are almost exclusively using the link classical music, which of course leads to a disambig page. They literally always mean European classical music in their context. So, it is creating a nightmare for us folks at Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links, where Classical music remains the number one offender as far as the number of articles that link to a disambig page. Which shouldn't happen. I think the crux of the issue is that English-language editors think "classical music" and they know what they mean - and we are trying to tell them that they really mean something else.
(Deep breath) So, we need to try to solve this issue. My inclination is to move European classical music back to Classical music, and then move the disambig page to Classical music (disambiguation), which currently just redirects to Classical music. What do you think? -- Aguerriero ( talk) 20:45, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
I've fixed University_of_Pennsylvania#Window_Love to make it more clear that it was rather significant. Philly is a large media market, and Penn is a really important and unique Ivy League school. Local reps of free speech orgs also chimed in. - CobaltBlueTony 00:54, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
I know you're a fan of Google Books, and so wanted to make sure you were aware of scholar.google.com, which is essentially the same sort of thing, except specifically focused on "reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts, and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations. [5]" What's also nice is that, unlike Google books, far more often the entire article or essay is available, so it's easier to get context. Enjoy, JDoorj a m Talk 23:06, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
I just got a message that someone changed my vote on the Benefiber nomination from Delete to Speedy Keep! Have I stepped on another sacred hot-spot? This person reverted it back, but what is going on? Over Benefiber???? KarenAnn 00:24, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
Are you by any chance interested in the topic of the history of diploma mills? I started working on one in my userspace a while ago, but gave up after realizing that several probably useful U.S. sources were unavailable to me (particularly Robert H Reid, American degree mills, a study of their operations and of existing and potential ways to control them, Washington, American Council on Education [1959], which might provide some of the early-to-mid 20th century and possibly some 19th century material). I could move it to article space if someone with access to good American libraries would be interested in working on it. It seems that more could be written on "Dr" John Buchanan and his business in Philadelphia, and that part could possibly be split off to an article of its own. Uppland 11:31, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
I live in Tucson and have been invited out to dinner tonight at the home of a Thai lady. A former Chinese g/f who is also attending tried to give me directions to get there, then the Thai lady herself did. Then I finally got on the Internet and used both Mapquest and Yahoo maps, and finally had to call the Thai lady again. Now I *think* I know where I'm going to have to go. Tucson is a very easy city to drive around, 99% of the streets are on a North-South, East-West grid, and all the numbering is very regular. Except, it now appears, there are one or two small areas in which the streets run on diagonals, from NE to SE, say. These streets are called "Stravenues", as in East Norfolk Stravenue. Apparently this word exists only in Tucson. No wonder I was baffled. Particularly with my Asian friends also not getting some other key words quite right as they gave instructions. Have you ever heard of this weird "Stravenue" business? Hayford Peirce 23:21, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
FYI, a number of comments you've made to this user may have gone unnoticed as they were placed on the user page rather than the talk page... -- Scientizzle 17:54, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
FYI, I noticed in the article for my hometown (Erie, PA) that there's a link to an article on Waldameer Park, but the linked article seems to be nothing but an advertisement. Is that kosher? You know much more than I do about how WP works so I will just point it out to you. Wspencer11 21:16, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
What you wrote on the RfD was interesting. I wonder if there is a way to suggest to Wikipedia to have a rule for speedy deletion under those circumstances? jawesq 01:59, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
An administrator deleted the article Jim Shapiro under speedy deletion. The author is now challenging it on the Deletion review. If you would come there to weigh in, I would appreciate it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Deletion_review#Jim_Shapiro jawesq 01:36, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
FWIW, just happened to notice someone independently recreated Ernie Boch. -- Bletch 11:31, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
Your comments on deletion review were interesting, and I rather agree. I wonder how one could find out if the article was created, deleted, then recreated.
I have only been editing Wikipedia a few months. I had never heard of Jim Shapiro before I ran across this article. I was appalled when I saw it, since it appeared to be such a hit piece. It appears that this character deserved to have his license suspended, but it doesn't appear to be appropriate for Wikipedia. My complaint has been that there have been entirely too much lawyer-bashing in Wikipedia, usually sourcing to "Overlawyered", a blatantly political site. Speedy delete was surely appropriate as it appeared when deleted. With the overhaul on the user's talk page, there are sources, but the article would still merit an AfD for non-notability. Anyway, thanks for your comments. jawesq 15:26, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
Hello Dan: I have been trying for days to make some fairly small changes to the following two pages, and I can never get beyond the "edit page" page. The system hangs, or I get a "page cannot be displayed" error. Any suggestions?
The pages are:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Peasants%27_War
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Sea_Symphony_%28Vaughan_Williams%29
Thanks in advance! Wspencer11 18:45, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
UKPhoenix79 has cited several independently sourced product reviews in magazines, to demonstrate that the products satisfy the WP:CORP criteria for products and services. Please revisit the discussion with an eye to determining whether the WP:CORP criteria are satisfied by these published works (and any others that can be found), and thus whether fixing the article is a matter of cleaning it up using sources other than just the advertising and press releases put out by Bose itself, rather than deleting it. Uncle G 12:36, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
You are obviously an extremely bright - if that is the word - person and I appreciate your attempts to demonstrate professionalism on the afd pages and think you do it very tactfully and constructively. Mattisse 01:35, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
I'd like to describe your last post at WP:V, but the words I'd like to use are not very nice, and I'd probably cross the line into WP:NPA. So instead I want you to read my comment on User:Daduzi's talk page because that thoroughly explains why none of you take the five minutes required to see that I'm right, your wrong, end of story. There's no leeway here. You're all just wrong - with the exception of the few who have said the exact same thing on Talk:The Guardian. Tchadienne 17:17, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
I agree, this revert war is quite silly. I personally do not know where the $5.148 billion figure comes from. I suspect that it is a non published figure from someone who works for or within the University. Most likely an undergraduate student who has access to Penn's records. I also concur that the number used needs to be cited. The only reason I reverted the figure back was because I believed that it was the agreed upon figure. In hindsight, even though the current figure is almost three years old, we should use that number unless someone can provide a source (on or off line). Either or will do. Best. Mcorcoran 19:40, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
I've made a proposal here, and am seeking feedback. Best,-- Anthony Krupp 14:07, 6 August 2006 (UTC)
In reference to your "Edit" on the "Mutoscope" article, the "Mutoscopes" (Old and new) do exist, and are out on two webpages that I have seen so far.
On "Importance", it was no more important than the inclusion of the "Mutoscope Cards" section, hence the inclusion.
The third reason and connection for the inclusion is that the "Mutoscope" is that the Old films from the "Mutoscope" machines were being released (i.e. Connection with old Mutoscopes).
The "New" films inclusion was because they were coined (Named) "Mutoscopes" and short films. Again, this related to the article no more than the "Mutoscope cards" which is in no way connected with the "Mutoscope" machine, except in name only (This is why I went on that line of contributing).
On your last comment, my inclusion did not reflect on the "Complex corporate history of the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company", nor was intended to. I included it since that company was the one producing and releasing them. As I had posted on the other discussion page, I feel there is a certain bias in regards to anything mentioned or included about the other "Biograph" company. It is a "Hot potato" that even had me being accused by certain other "Editors" of being affiliated with the company. that is unusual and almost to the point of paranoia, which is ridiculous and also completely against Wikipedia policy.
Everyone is suppose to be able to equally, and freely add and contribute without any harassment. But this has been taken up with the Wiki-Board already. Also, as long as the sources are "Verifiable" (And this can be one or more acredited sources), there should be no radical deletions of contributions or inclusions.
However, because of this, I have deleted any and all information that does not directly pertain too the "Mutoscope" machine in the Mutoscope article, and will continue to do so.
I do agree with the "Crystal Ball" and until there is more information on the Mutoscope releases, then that is acceptable, but I am now getting out of my realm which is film history. -- Roger the red 20:30, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
Hi,
You have taken part in the AfD process for List of successful automobiles and voted delete. The decision was unanimous and the article was subsequently deleted. Now a corresponding article, List of automobiles that were commercial failures, is up for deletion for the same reasons. It would be only logicial and just to have them both deleted, so I cordially invite you to take part in the new discussion.
Regards, Bravada, talk - 09:05, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
Especally since you're right (at least about utor; I don't remember the list. Kudos to him who does.) Septentrionalis 16:52, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
Hi, I saw you worked on List of people believed to have been affected by bipolar disorder. Do you think List of people who have suffered from depression should/could be merged with that? That article is a totally unsourced mess. I recently removed some entries and wanted to source it when I discovered that other list. It would save a lot of work for sure. Cheers, Garion96 (talk) 18:50, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
Per your comment on Wikipedia talk:Reliable sources, I threw together a {{ betterfact}} template, which sticks a "better citation needed" superscript tag into an article. Seem reasonable? If so, it should be added to the table at Wikipedia:Template messages/Disputes#For inline article placement. Anville 17:23, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
Note: I will usually reply to your messages here, not on your own Talk page.
Reply from Maestroh
Re: John Tower
I don't know anything about that citation on the Tower article. I read that recently. I did not, however, put that in the article because I don't know anything about it. I thought it was rather crude and not worthy of mention myself, but as I've said - I'm unaware of any truth to it.
Incidentally, I did alter the Tower article several months back, nor am I a 'fan.' But it seems unfair to me for that accusation to be made. Sorry I can't help you. Maestroh
See also:
Old material has been moved to Archive07. Dpbsmith (talk) 00:55, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
Just FYI ... I recall seeing something in Quality Planning and Analysis ... Juran/Gryan ... about allowing a 1.0 sigma shift, but, Bill Smith added the .5 to allow for Motorola's terrible quality at the time. (Jim Winings)
I changed one picture on the public ivies page, something most definitely not warranting a revert back to an older version. The pictures should provide insight into all the universities listed as "public ivies" and not just the ones whose pictures have already been on there for ages.
July 8/9, 2006 There is an article for symbolic anthropology. But for some reason the link doesn't work. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolic_anthropology I don't know...
... OK so I posted a question about how to fix this linking problem, I think it is item 119 at the bottom of the page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28technical%29
If you don't know how to fix the link problem, please don't take out VALID article links, even if they ARE red. Someone else may be able to figure out how to fix them. Thanks.
Also, please do a SEARCH for these links BEFORE you delete them. You will see that articles DO exist for these topics.
Just deleting nonfunctioning links does not help. There ARE articles on these topics! The help information tells us to go ahead and include links even if we don't know how to make them work, because someone else will know how. I am following the proper procedure by keeping in the red links.
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Hi. User Gekko just put what he called a "Warning" section on my user talk page calling me a troll and sockpuppet, the same personal tactic MBAguy used. Gekko did this today, even though I asked Gekko several times above, on your talk page, to please drop the AfD issue, as the admins have suggested: get over it, and move on. Gekko refuses to drop it, and now seems to be quickly escalating his campaign to the next level. This seems to be another MBAguy type situation all over again. Any suggestion on what should be done? Thanks. GO WHARTON 00:13, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
As you can see here [1], this user has instigated a conflict with me and so I looked into some of the allegations regarding his handle and detailed them on a warning on his talk page here [2]. I believe this user is basically behaving badly under a sockpuppet handle and trying to get Wharton students blamed for it. Gekko 00:30, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
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I was going to start my message by saying, "Since User:GO WHARTON's goings on peripherally and occasionaly overlap with yours...." but then got here and discovered half of your (admittedly, recently archived) talk page to be content related to that user, and figured you could probably use something to treat a headache. Anyway, this was posted at the administrator's notice board; it looks like someone (whoever could it be?!) is using sockpuppets to pick on GO WHARTON. I'm not suggesting your intervention, necessarily, but thought that, as you appear to have become a referee in this, you might at least want to know. Cheers, JDoorj a m Talk 02:34, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
Thankyou for your comment. Bird anatomy seems the easiest, there is more than enough content in the bird article and bird skeleton article, so I have added a split tag, and am waiting a verdict. What is the normal process in this situation? Are you well learned in this subject? 'cos it would help :) mastodon 16:40, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
My issue is with including the ext link-- I think the company name would be sufficient: anyone who wants to look it up could certainly google it. Parenthetically, there seem to be enough people out there to whom $9000 is chump change that the "personal" adjective, while weird to the rest of us, might make sense. Cheers! -- Mwanner | Talk 20:44, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
I changed it to "Currently, one company (Vestax) offers a disk recorder priced in the high four figures which enables "experienced professional users" to produce high-fidelity stereo vinyl recordings." Hope that is OK with you? -- Mwanner | Talk 20:48, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
I've replied on the DRV page, sorry about the delay, things went a little crazy. Please let me know if you have any questions -- Tawker 01:06, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
Hmmm. Not sure what you were thinking. :) Glad you caught it anyway. In general, recommended SI usage is to use exponents on units rather than "/" if the result of using the slash would be ambiguous. (e.g. kg·m-1·s-2 is preferred over kg/m·s2). Since some of the compound units in the template fall into this class, it's better to use exponents for all of them, for consistency.-- Srleffler 13:51, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
Your edit regarding Brandeis much better than mine, thanks. Incorrect 13:35, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
Naturally, the people who teach introductory electromagnetism at MIT caught the Doonesbury strip where Alex asks about the two black boxes. Here's an instructor's explanation:
When the poll went up in the Doonesbury Town Hall to ask the readers which college Alex should attend (Rensselaer, Cornell or the Institute), I knew some kid at MIT would hack it. Guess what?
One more delicious item for MIT in popular culture. Anville 16:33, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
i think these rankings deserve mention. ;)
Look no further than the Wikipedia article on her. Fortunately, that article cites two references. Ghosts&empties 17:43, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
Hey, I've been on a real-life (and thus by extension wiki-)vacation for the past week and change and haven't had much access to the 'net. I see that the editor with rather strong opinions about the religious roots of uPenn has returned; I'll continue monitoring the sitcheeation. (FWIW, I may not have been around to mop-smack the anon IP for disruption, but did get some good shots of light rail in San Francisco which I'll upload soon and place where relevant, so I suppose the 'pedia is better for my time away, right?) Regards, JDoorj a m Talk 04:19, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
Regarding this edit, I've seen several different users involved in replacing <!-- enbedded HTML comments --> with those strings. Best I can figure, they are tokens in an external database somewhere. I have no clue where. I've asked several users involved in the changes, and they've been essentially non-responsive. If you figure out what's going on, I'd love to hear. DMacks 16:38, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
Hi there. I've added a comment to the discussion here about Wiki-linking from quotes. As someone who has posted to this discussion, I'd appreciate any comments you might have. Thanks. Carcharoth 19:04, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
Hi again. As you are active in the discussion at the talk page of Wikipedia:Quotations_should_not_contain_wikilinks, I thought you might like to know that the proposal has been nominated for deletion here. I'm a little bit confused as to why the nomination was made in the first place, as you will see if you read my vote/comment. I'd appreciate your views as to what is going on. Thanks. Carcharoth 00:45, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
good point about all these places around the world named after places from the 'founding fathers' 'home' country/ies. Norwood being a good example, but please dont get too upset about it. South Norwood is at the southern end of Norwood New Town. West Norwood is north of Norwood New Town. Historic cemetery at Norwood. A few remnants of the Great North Wood are still to be found in the area too. The area has its own Civic Society - the Norwood Society, but falls between two London Boroughs - Croydon & Lambeth. It also has its own public library that is not run by iether Borough. Unique.
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You posted a number of questions there. You asked them to me directly. I have provided detailed answers there. Just letting you know -- thank you.
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Yeah, you're right. I was just improving on what have gone before but didn't have the NPOV courage to do it the way you did. Well done! Hayford Peirce 03:47, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
That was created on the 10th so it didn't qualify for a speedy. I've made it a redirect to Cornell University School of Hotel Administration. Cheers. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 03:20, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
I've built on your idea for a possible last-minute compromise. Come check it out. Cheers. youngamerican ( talk) 13:12, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
Hi Daniel, It's been a long time since I used to hang out at alt.quotations. Hope you're keeping well. Anyway, with respect to the inclusionist/deletionist thing, I try not to take sides. Taking sides tend to stop things being fun, as collaboration becomes confrontation. I guess by 2006 standards I'm a deletionist. There's too much popular culture in wikipedia, too many fundamentally uninteresting schools, too much stuff, and not enough insight into stuff. (Now don't get me wrong: I adore popular culture, but one of the things I like about it is its ephemerality). The real problem is that too many people can't make your distinction between information and knowledge. I don't know what should be in an online encyclopedia, but I'm fairly certain its not 4,000 word plot summaries of every episode of Doctor Who ever made. 1,000 words on each series, seems more reasonable. There's too much agglomeration of facts, and not enough precis.
The motto "Wikipedia is not paper" has become the enemy of conciseness. There's a peculiar idea that we should cover everything we can in as much detail as (meta)physically possible, enumerating every fact about a subject, with no regard as to which are actually important and which aren't.
But those battles have been lost, and I've lost the will to fight the remaining battles using anything but mild sarcasm on AfD (again, I simply don't find being a volunteer bureaucrat a lot of fun).
The odd thing is, back in the day I was an inclusionist. I got into an edit war with Larry Sanger for slipping a mention of the Sex Pistols into the God Save The Queen article.
The other thing that bothers me is the general standard of prose styling. Not spelling and grammar (though those are frequently dreadful), but the fact that, in the rush to keep adding facts to an article, no-one seems to be interested in writing good sentences, or putting those sentences in an order that produces lucid prose.
OK, I'm rambling now.
Gareth.
Until recently, there were lists of VHF TV stations in the United States. Then, CoolKatt number 99999 started to add some UHF stations. Now, you nominated one for Afd. Please negotiate with CoolKatt number 99999 to make sure you can agree on whether UHF lists are acceptable. Georgia guy 01:37, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
I loved the W20 Stratton Center anecdote. I will pass it along to my tour guide friends since I already graduated. Madcoverboy 23:52, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
I'm looking for the source of where I found it. You can remove the statement if you like; I added it thinking I'd be able to find the source again. When I find it, I'll re-add the sentence. (I think it was 1 sometime in the 90's). LaszloWalrus 01:49, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
Those K streets run through all of Chicago, not just North Lawndale. 75.3.5.247 02:34, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
What is the font type you used to create the Snellen chart image?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Snellen06.png
I did propose an expansion of the alumni list several times before, and since I did not receive any strong objections. So I decided that it was worth to try it and see what the reaction to it is. All that I did initially was add the informative phrases preceding the names that were already present. Afterwards, I decided that several notable names were missing from it and added them as well. Now that I think about it, a few of the names that I included probably should have been left off. If you feel that certain ones should be omitted, by all means edit the list. If you believe that the original list fits the article better, feel free to restore it. Again, my edit was not at all meant to be a permanent list of the alumni, but an attempt at making it a little more informative. mcshadypl 04:15, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
(Speaking of schools claiming T. S. Eliot) I recently did a major overhaul to Milton Academy; as part of the "spring cleaning" I removed a scandals section which I thought didn't add anything to the article. It seemed to me to be the sort of stuff that wouldn't matter in five, ten, or more years but was merely there for its value as sensationalism. Given that you edit in these circles, I was hoping you'd give me a second opinion. Thanks, JDoorj a m Talk 18:30, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
Hello DPBS: I see we are also McGee fans. Great stuff; I wish I could have told JDM so, the way I told you about my (occasionally qualified) admiration for your father's writings. Wspencer11 20:36, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for intervening and reverting the edit warring of User:Welsh4ever76. Welsh, of course, simply reverted your change, so I've reported him for violating the 3RR -- for what it's worth. Kinda sad when people try to censor the truth because they simply don't like the facts. Peace. deeceevoice 19:19, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
Just a quick note to let you know I've posted a solution to your linguistical conundrum. Hope you find it satisfactory! -- Byakuren 06:22, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the note of support. The really depressing part is that I bet it is a bunch of high school teachers who behaving this way. KarenAnn 15:45, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
Dpbsmith, I was hoping you would take a look at the discussion going on at Talk:Education in the United States regarding the "status ladder" of U.S. colleges. It currently smacks of uncited opinion to me, but I think some mention of school reputation might be salvageable. Given that you are the de facto resident expert on NPOVerty in college-related articles, this might be of interest to you; I was hoping you would take a gander and weigh in. Cheers, JDoorj a m Talk 07:17, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
Dpbsmith, please also go to the following pages and list their fictional characters section as "unreferenced": List of Columbia University people, List of Princeton University people, List of Cornell University people, List of Harvard University people, List of Brown University people, List of Yale University people. Thank you. -- Crimson3981 22:14, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
I noticed that, a long time ago, you added the Winston example to the Like page. You might be interested in the new page I created, which is already at good article status after one day: " Winston tastes good like a cigarette should." Please contribute to it if you have more sources. Mike H. I did "That's hot" first! 04:38, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
Please look at the entry for rec.sport.pro-wrestling now. I have removed the unverifiable information (which one user is still trying to insert but nevermind). Also, rspw.org is only an external link, it is not cited as a source. The only source needed on the entry is the Google post count, which i have cited. Please let me know if the entry meets your standards now. Thank you! TruthCrusader 07:48, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
JB196 is continuing to remove the NZ information on his own authority without discussing it first on the entry talk page. TruthCrusader 21:20, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
Re this section of this article, I think it would be helpful if you could indicate which citations you believe to be unsourced. Spacepotato 00:33, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
Hi there, I am writing you because you were one of the contributors to the discussion last year about moving Classical music to European classical music. Well, the decision to do that did not have great effects - it has created a lot of confusion. Specifically, people editing articles that contain references are almost exclusively using the link classical music, which of course leads to a disambig page. They literally always mean European classical music in their context. So, it is creating a nightmare for us folks at Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links, where Classical music remains the number one offender as far as the number of articles that link to a disambig page. Which shouldn't happen. I think the crux of the issue is that English-language editors think "classical music" and they know what they mean - and we are trying to tell them that they really mean something else.
(Deep breath) So, we need to try to solve this issue. My inclination is to move European classical music back to Classical music, and then move the disambig page to Classical music (disambiguation), which currently just redirects to Classical music. What do you think? -- Aguerriero ( talk) 20:45, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
I've fixed University_of_Pennsylvania#Window_Love to make it more clear that it was rather significant. Philly is a large media market, and Penn is a really important and unique Ivy League school. Local reps of free speech orgs also chimed in. - CobaltBlueTony 00:54, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
I know you're a fan of Google Books, and so wanted to make sure you were aware of scholar.google.com, which is essentially the same sort of thing, except specifically focused on "reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts, and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations. [5]" What's also nice is that, unlike Google books, far more often the entire article or essay is available, so it's easier to get context. Enjoy, JDoorj a m Talk 23:06, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
I just got a message that someone changed my vote on the Benefiber nomination from Delete to Speedy Keep! Have I stepped on another sacred hot-spot? This person reverted it back, but what is going on? Over Benefiber???? KarenAnn 00:24, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
Are you by any chance interested in the topic of the history of diploma mills? I started working on one in my userspace a while ago, but gave up after realizing that several probably useful U.S. sources were unavailable to me (particularly Robert H Reid, American degree mills, a study of their operations and of existing and potential ways to control them, Washington, American Council on Education [1959], which might provide some of the early-to-mid 20th century and possibly some 19th century material). I could move it to article space if someone with access to good American libraries would be interested in working on it. It seems that more could be written on "Dr" John Buchanan and his business in Philadelphia, and that part could possibly be split off to an article of its own. Uppland 11:31, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
I live in Tucson and have been invited out to dinner tonight at the home of a Thai lady. A former Chinese g/f who is also attending tried to give me directions to get there, then the Thai lady herself did. Then I finally got on the Internet and used both Mapquest and Yahoo maps, and finally had to call the Thai lady again. Now I *think* I know where I'm going to have to go. Tucson is a very easy city to drive around, 99% of the streets are on a North-South, East-West grid, and all the numbering is very regular. Except, it now appears, there are one or two small areas in which the streets run on diagonals, from NE to SE, say. These streets are called "Stravenues", as in East Norfolk Stravenue. Apparently this word exists only in Tucson. No wonder I was baffled. Particularly with my Asian friends also not getting some other key words quite right as they gave instructions. Have you ever heard of this weird "Stravenue" business? Hayford Peirce 23:21, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
FYI, a number of comments you've made to this user may have gone unnoticed as they were placed on the user page rather than the talk page... -- Scientizzle 17:54, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
FYI, I noticed in the article for my hometown (Erie, PA) that there's a link to an article on Waldameer Park, but the linked article seems to be nothing but an advertisement. Is that kosher? You know much more than I do about how WP works so I will just point it out to you. Wspencer11 21:16, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
What you wrote on the RfD was interesting. I wonder if there is a way to suggest to Wikipedia to have a rule for speedy deletion under those circumstances? jawesq 01:59, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
An administrator deleted the article Jim Shapiro under speedy deletion. The author is now challenging it on the Deletion review. If you would come there to weigh in, I would appreciate it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Deletion_review#Jim_Shapiro jawesq 01:36, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
FWIW, just happened to notice someone independently recreated Ernie Boch. -- Bletch 11:31, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
Your comments on deletion review were interesting, and I rather agree. I wonder how one could find out if the article was created, deleted, then recreated.
I have only been editing Wikipedia a few months. I had never heard of Jim Shapiro before I ran across this article. I was appalled when I saw it, since it appeared to be such a hit piece. It appears that this character deserved to have his license suspended, but it doesn't appear to be appropriate for Wikipedia. My complaint has been that there have been entirely too much lawyer-bashing in Wikipedia, usually sourcing to "Overlawyered", a blatantly political site. Speedy delete was surely appropriate as it appeared when deleted. With the overhaul on the user's talk page, there are sources, but the article would still merit an AfD for non-notability. Anyway, thanks for your comments. jawesq 15:26, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
Hello Dan: I have been trying for days to make some fairly small changes to the following two pages, and I can never get beyond the "edit page" page. The system hangs, or I get a "page cannot be displayed" error. Any suggestions?
The pages are:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Peasants%27_War
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Sea_Symphony_%28Vaughan_Williams%29
Thanks in advance! Wspencer11 18:45, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
UKPhoenix79 has cited several independently sourced product reviews in magazines, to demonstrate that the products satisfy the WP:CORP criteria for products and services. Please revisit the discussion with an eye to determining whether the WP:CORP criteria are satisfied by these published works (and any others that can be found), and thus whether fixing the article is a matter of cleaning it up using sources other than just the advertising and press releases put out by Bose itself, rather than deleting it. Uncle G 12:36, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
You are obviously an extremely bright - if that is the word - person and I appreciate your attempts to demonstrate professionalism on the afd pages and think you do it very tactfully and constructively. Mattisse 01:35, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
I'd like to describe your last post at WP:V, but the words I'd like to use are not very nice, and I'd probably cross the line into WP:NPA. So instead I want you to read my comment on User:Daduzi's talk page because that thoroughly explains why none of you take the five minutes required to see that I'm right, your wrong, end of story. There's no leeway here. You're all just wrong - with the exception of the few who have said the exact same thing on Talk:The Guardian. Tchadienne 17:17, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
I agree, this revert war is quite silly. I personally do not know where the $5.148 billion figure comes from. I suspect that it is a non published figure from someone who works for or within the University. Most likely an undergraduate student who has access to Penn's records. I also concur that the number used needs to be cited. The only reason I reverted the figure back was because I believed that it was the agreed upon figure. In hindsight, even though the current figure is almost three years old, we should use that number unless someone can provide a source (on or off line). Either or will do. Best. Mcorcoran 19:40, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
I've made a proposal here, and am seeking feedback. Best,-- Anthony Krupp 14:07, 6 August 2006 (UTC)
In reference to your "Edit" on the "Mutoscope" article, the "Mutoscopes" (Old and new) do exist, and are out on two webpages that I have seen so far.
On "Importance", it was no more important than the inclusion of the "Mutoscope Cards" section, hence the inclusion.
The third reason and connection for the inclusion is that the "Mutoscope" is that the Old films from the "Mutoscope" machines were being released (i.e. Connection with old Mutoscopes).
The "New" films inclusion was because they were coined (Named) "Mutoscopes" and short films. Again, this related to the article no more than the "Mutoscope cards" which is in no way connected with the "Mutoscope" machine, except in name only (This is why I went on that line of contributing).
On your last comment, my inclusion did not reflect on the "Complex corporate history of the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company", nor was intended to. I included it since that company was the one producing and releasing them. As I had posted on the other discussion page, I feel there is a certain bias in regards to anything mentioned or included about the other "Biograph" company. It is a "Hot potato" that even had me being accused by certain other "Editors" of being affiliated with the company. that is unusual and almost to the point of paranoia, which is ridiculous and also completely against Wikipedia policy.
Everyone is suppose to be able to equally, and freely add and contribute without any harassment. But this has been taken up with the Wiki-Board already. Also, as long as the sources are "Verifiable" (And this can be one or more acredited sources), there should be no radical deletions of contributions or inclusions.
However, because of this, I have deleted any and all information that does not directly pertain too the "Mutoscope" machine in the Mutoscope article, and will continue to do so.
I do agree with the "Crystal Ball" and until there is more information on the Mutoscope releases, then that is acceptable, but I am now getting out of my realm which is film history. -- Roger the red 20:30, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
Hi,
You have taken part in the AfD process for List of successful automobiles and voted delete. The decision was unanimous and the article was subsequently deleted. Now a corresponding article, List of automobiles that were commercial failures, is up for deletion for the same reasons. It would be only logicial and just to have them both deleted, so I cordially invite you to take part in the new discussion.
Regards, Bravada, talk - 09:05, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
Especally since you're right (at least about utor; I don't remember the list. Kudos to him who does.) Septentrionalis 16:52, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
Hi, I saw you worked on List of people believed to have been affected by bipolar disorder. Do you think List of people who have suffered from depression should/could be merged with that? That article is a totally unsourced mess. I recently removed some entries and wanted to source it when I discovered that other list. It would save a lot of work for sure. Cheers, Garion96 (talk) 18:50, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
Per your comment on Wikipedia talk:Reliable sources, I threw together a {{ betterfact}} template, which sticks a "better citation needed" superscript tag into an article. Seem reasonable? If so, it should be added to the table at Wikipedia:Template messages/Disputes#For inline article placement. Anville 17:23, 9 August 2006 (UTC)