In my opinion, the Most recent common ancestor page is a gem. Contratulations! And thanks! --- Rednblu 18:21, 3 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Hi! When linking to PPP' in relation to GDP, please do it like this: [[Purchasing power parity|PPP]]. That way, people will be sent directly to the appropriate page, instead of having to select purchasing power parity from the rather overloaded PPP disambiguation page. Thanks! — David Remahl 22:04, 8 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Jerry, I find the see also links in Kidney not very helpful. This section should refer to truly related articles, while the overlap in scope between Na/K ATPase or norepinephrise and the kidney article is too small to qualify these articles for inclusion. JFW | T@lk 21:00, 9 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Hi Jerry, I moved glycemic index and glycemic load because this is Wikipedia naming policy (see the first item on that page). These terms are not names, and therefore should not be capitalised. I do this all the time, and I have certainly not singled your work out for special treatment. On the same day I also moved Edward's syndrome.
I find your reaction somewhat aggressive ("Give this guy some patients"). At the bottom of the edit window you'll see that "if you don't want your contributions edited mercilessly, don't post them". I happen to have a lot more Wikipedia experience than you, and all my edits are in good faith and with the best of intentions. Please restrain yourself. JFW | T@lk 07:28, 18 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Hi, you've been making good edits so far in the finance area. But please use the edit summary box to tell other editors what change you have made and even why sometimes. That is very important to help others know what is going on. Otherwise, to verify edits, I have to sift through a lot of diffs. - Taxman 13:13, Nov 7, 2004 (UTC)
Again, please use edit summaries You seem to make good edits, but not using edit summaries causes a lot of extra work for other editors. Just note what you have changed. Please see Wikipedia:Policies_and_guidelines#General_guidelines. Thank you - Taxman 19:13, Dec 20, 2004 (UTC)
Hi, I noticed you'd made an edit to this new article, so was wondering if you would add your support to it's nomination for Collaboration of the Week. Simply add your support here. Obviously such a big project needs as many users with relevant knowledge as possible, so hopefully this will promote it a little. Thanks, Grunners 00:37, 21 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Recently, someone established the account User:Hilary Duff. Unlike your use of a celebrity name, however, this person claimed to be the Hilary Duff. In the ensuing fracas, some people argued that celebrity usernames shouldn't be allowed. I don't agree. I've started a thread on the issue at Wikipedia talk:Username#Celebrity usernames. Your comments would be welcome. JamesMLane 20:54, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC)
I have responded to your comment on the Talk:Mathematics page by explaining why I removed this particular link. Gandalf61 09:34, Dec 4, 2004 (UTC)
Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 1000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:
To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:
OR
Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. – Ram-Man ( comment) ( talk)[[]] 13:53, Dec 9, 2004 (UTC)
Hmmm. Not sure that moving the article to Abbey National plc is the correct thing to do. There was a big hoo-ha about this sort of thing a couple of months ago, when I started moving company articles to the formal company name – such as moving AstraZeneca to AstraZeneca plc. I got beat up about this, by people who said that the article should be under the 'familiar' name, which in the case of Abbey National plc is 'Abbey'. Look at Talk:AstraZeneca for the start of the discussion, and follow it to the Naming conventions page. I would back your move, because I thing the policy is ill-conceived and not backed up by facts, but strictly speaking you are going against policy.
If you do decide to stick with your changes, then you will also need to fix all the links on 'What links here' to avoid redirects. Noisy | Talk 22:24, Dec 12, 2004 (UTC)
I made a suggestion at Talk:Economy_of_North_America#Possible Merger, please add your comments there so as to keep the debate in one place. Cheers. Grunners 01:21, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)
As I said: they would be mistaken to use "public debt" like that in my example but the mistake is likely to be made. I disagree about conventional usage. I think most people would say "hey, what?" to "public debt" whereas "government debt" would be instantly understood. The Google statistic you quote I find unimpressive: There are twice as many pages returned for public than for government. So twice as many pages for "public debt" (note the quotes) as for "government debt" says little or nothing. The Wikipedia conventions say a little more than you let on: ambiguity is to be avoided and understandability is to be promoted.
Paul Beardsell 14:35, 19 Dec 2004 (UTC)
The place to be having this discussion is on the article's talk page, not here. And there, at least, I can object should anybody have the audacity to put bullets before each of my paragraphs. I am copying to there. Please continue, if at all, at Talk:Government debt. Paul Beardsell 14:45, 19 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Glad to see your interest in List of billionaires, I've left a message on the talk page to see if anyone was interested in helping create an article for everyone on the list. Are you interested? Arminius 00:36, 20 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Hi -- I've just copyvio'd two of your new articles: Wolfgang Herz and James Goodnight. Then I noticed that, since you added both, it would be silly to copyvio the rest -- I'd just mention this on your talk page. I'm not a lawyer, but I suspect copying the short blurbs from Fortune, while the information is a useful start, is probably a copyright violation. I'd recommend rewriting the blurbs before adding them. best, jdb 06:49, 26 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Hi. Has anyone talked to you about your username, and potential policy issues with it? - ==S V 04:28, 20 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Great improvement, thanks! -- Lumidek 00:31, 21 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Please see Talk:Ownership society; the article may be a copyright violation. CSTAR 03:52, 21 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Could you fix up what you added to the intro at Bill Gates? I think I know what it means, but I'm not sure exactly. Everyking 00:37, 21 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Your recent new articles are taken word for word from the descriptions on Forbes' world's richest people list. This is a copyright violation. Please do not post material from other sources without permission. Gamaliel 06:16, 26 Dec 2004 (UTC)
It's the principle of the thing. If it's just one sentence, it should be easy enough to write your own. I'm going to restore the copyvio notices you removed. You can argue your case on the copyvio page. If you restore copyright material and remove the notices again you will be blocked. Gamaliel 06:57, 26 Dec 2004 (UTC)
You are welcome to continue to make original contributions when your block expires. Gamaliel 07:10, 26 Dec 2004 (UTC)
The link you added at Wall Street seems only tangentially related to the topic. It's about stock markets. "Wall Street" is used in the title only as a metonym. It seems worth a link, but from a different article. Rather than just delete it, I wanted to give you a chance to move it somewhere appropriate. -- Jmabel | Talk 21:31, Dec 29, 2004 (UTC)
If you are going to add links to articles, the caption should be either be neutral or directly quoting the article. 172 07:42, 30 Dec 2004 (UTC)
In my opinion, the Most recent common ancestor page is a gem. Contratulations! And thanks! --- Rednblu 18:21, 3 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Hi! When linking to PPP' in relation to GDP, please do it like this: [[Purchasing power parity|PPP]]. That way, people will be sent directly to the appropriate page, instead of having to select purchasing power parity from the rather overloaded PPP disambiguation page. Thanks! — David Remahl 22:04, 8 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Jerry, I find the see also links in Kidney not very helpful. This section should refer to truly related articles, while the overlap in scope between Na/K ATPase or norepinephrise and the kidney article is too small to qualify these articles for inclusion. JFW | T@lk 21:00, 9 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Hi Jerry, I moved glycemic index and glycemic load because this is Wikipedia naming policy (see the first item on that page). These terms are not names, and therefore should not be capitalised. I do this all the time, and I have certainly not singled your work out for special treatment. On the same day I also moved Edward's syndrome.
I find your reaction somewhat aggressive ("Give this guy some patients"). At the bottom of the edit window you'll see that "if you don't want your contributions edited mercilessly, don't post them". I happen to have a lot more Wikipedia experience than you, and all my edits are in good faith and with the best of intentions. Please restrain yourself. JFW | T@lk 07:28, 18 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Hi, you've been making good edits so far in the finance area. But please use the edit summary box to tell other editors what change you have made and even why sometimes. That is very important to help others know what is going on. Otherwise, to verify edits, I have to sift through a lot of diffs. - Taxman 13:13, Nov 7, 2004 (UTC)
Again, please use edit summaries You seem to make good edits, but not using edit summaries causes a lot of extra work for other editors. Just note what you have changed. Please see Wikipedia:Policies_and_guidelines#General_guidelines. Thank you - Taxman 19:13, Dec 20, 2004 (UTC)
Hi, I noticed you'd made an edit to this new article, so was wondering if you would add your support to it's nomination for Collaboration of the Week. Simply add your support here. Obviously such a big project needs as many users with relevant knowledge as possible, so hopefully this will promote it a little. Thanks, Grunners 00:37, 21 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Recently, someone established the account User:Hilary Duff. Unlike your use of a celebrity name, however, this person claimed to be the Hilary Duff. In the ensuing fracas, some people argued that celebrity usernames shouldn't be allowed. I don't agree. I've started a thread on the issue at Wikipedia talk:Username#Celebrity usernames. Your comments would be welcome. JamesMLane 20:54, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC)
I have responded to your comment on the Talk:Mathematics page by explaining why I removed this particular link. Gandalf61 09:34, Dec 4, 2004 (UTC)
Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 1000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:
To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:
OR
Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. – Ram-Man ( comment) ( talk)[[]] 13:53, Dec 9, 2004 (UTC)
Hmmm. Not sure that moving the article to Abbey National plc is the correct thing to do. There was a big hoo-ha about this sort of thing a couple of months ago, when I started moving company articles to the formal company name – such as moving AstraZeneca to AstraZeneca plc. I got beat up about this, by people who said that the article should be under the 'familiar' name, which in the case of Abbey National plc is 'Abbey'. Look at Talk:AstraZeneca for the start of the discussion, and follow it to the Naming conventions page. I would back your move, because I thing the policy is ill-conceived and not backed up by facts, but strictly speaking you are going against policy.
If you do decide to stick with your changes, then you will also need to fix all the links on 'What links here' to avoid redirects. Noisy | Talk 22:24, Dec 12, 2004 (UTC)
I made a suggestion at Talk:Economy_of_North_America#Possible Merger, please add your comments there so as to keep the debate in one place. Cheers. Grunners 01:21, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)
As I said: they would be mistaken to use "public debt" like that in my example but the mistake is likely to be made. I disagree about conventional usage. I think most people would say "hey, what?" to "public debt" whereas "government debt" would be instantly understood. The Google statistic you quote I find unimpressive: There are twice as many pages returned for public than for government. So twice as many pages for "public debt" (note the quotes) as for "government debt" says little or nothing. The Wikipedia conventions say a little more than you let on: ambiguity is to be avoided and understandability is to be promoted.
Paul Beardsell 14:35, 19 Dec 2004 (UTC)
The place to be having this discussion is on the article's talk page, not here. And there, at least, I can object should anybody have the audacity to put bullets before each of my paragraphs. I am copying to there. Please continue, if at all, at Talk:Government debt. Paul Beardsell 14:45, 19 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Glad to see your interest in List of billionaires, I've left a message on the talk page to see if anyone was interested in helping create an article for everyone on the list. Are you interested? Arminius 00:36, 20 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Hi -- I've just copyvio'd two of your new articles: Wolfgang Herz and James Goodnight. Then I noticed that, since you added both, it would be silly to copyvio the rest -- I'd just mention this on your talk page. I'm not a lawyer, but I suspect copying the short blurbs from Fortune, while the information is a useful start, is probably a copyright violation. I'd recommend rewriting the blurbs before adding them. best, jdb 06:49, 26 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Hi. Has anyone talked to you about your username, and potential policy issues with it? - ==S V 04:28, 20 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Great improvement, thanks! -- Lumidek 00:31, 21 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Please see Talk:Ownership society; the article may be a copyright violation. CSTAR 03:52, 21 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Could you fix up what you added to the intro at Bill Gates? I think I know what it means, but I'm not sure exactly. Everyking 00:37, 21 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Your recent new articles are taken word for word from the descriptions on Forbes' world's richest people list. This is a copyright violation. Please do not post material from other sources without permission. Gamaliel 06:16, 26 Dec 2004 (UTC)
It's the principle of the thing. If it's just one sentence, it should be easy enough to write your own. I'm going to restore the copyvio notices you removed. You can argue your case on the copyvio page. If you restore copyright material and remove the notices again you will be blocked. Gamaliel 06:57, 26 Dec 2004 (UTC)
You are welcome to continue to make original contributions when your block expires. Gamaliel 07:10, 26 Dec 2004 (UTC)
The link you added at Wall Street seems only tangentially related to the topic. It's about stock markets. "Wall Street" is used in the title only as a metonym. It seems worth a link, but from a different article. Rather than just delete it, I wanted to give you a chance to move it somewhere appropriate. -- Jmabel | Talk 21:31, Dec 29, 2004 (UTC)
If you are going to add links to articles, the caption should be either be neutral or directly quoting the article. 172 07:42, 30 Dec 2004 (UTC)