Hi Maveric, I've just seen your comment on your talk page, and you're rightalot of the 1911 articles haven't been so good. I'll try to wikify them more, copyedit and attempt to remove bias. Minus the biased views there's alot of great biographical information in the EB, on people we probably wouldn't get biographies written about for a long time (maybe never). Smelialichu
Hi Maveric. It's me again, Gonis. Please feel free to answer me in english on my EL page. I can understand it pretty well and your spanish... well... sorry, but sometimes it is a bit confusing :(. I have not been able to answer before because of very busy weeks. First of all, let me say that nothing has been decided (at least forever)... but there was a votation where most of the people decided to stay in the current server (see Retorno a Wikipedia in EL in spanish), and leaving the door open to reunification. Some movement from the wikipedia side is expected. After reading the links that you pointed me I have seen no technical reason that forbids having the spanish version of wikipedia outside. It is my personal opinion that, though it requires a bit more of coding work, it might even be better for the whole project:
A decision from the central wikipedia management to consider EL as the spanish version (I am pretty sure that almost everything meaningfull in the es.wikipedia is in EL) and linking it (appart from the mailing lists, does EL appear somewhere in wikipedia?) would be very well seen in EL and will make the people reconsider their positions. Of course, there is still the question of the non-profit organisation... but that will come after ;-) Cheers. Gonis
Hi Maveric. I am Gonis from the spanish EL. I have seen your comments there and read the pages you mention. Could you please make undertand why is it so important for the interlanguage links (and other features that may come) that all the other "wikipedias" reside on the same server. Different servers will low server bandwith and distribute costs probably. I understand it will make the life of developers a bit more difficult, but not so difficult that it cannot be handled. Internet is about distribution, not centralisation... At least for me. Sorry if my comments sound a bit rude, (this is not my intention), but my mother tongue is spanish and I have difficulties in finding the polite, nice, way of say my ideas in english. Cheers. Gonis
Thank you for the welcome and the suggestions. I had visited a lot of the protocols before attempting to post and discovered that I need more sleep, some scotch, or a translator. Maybe some combination of the three. Being a humanities type, it was a little difficult to follow and internalize, so I tried to follow the style example of the person whose post I modified for content. Learning by doing, and all that.
Your suggestion about the sandbox (on this page, below) was a good one and I intend to take it. In the meantime, please be patient with my formatting errors, which will doubtless be legion. Once I learn it it will be learned.
Is there a convention for book titles similar to the one for movies? As there is no copyright on a book title, duplication occurs. (e.g., America (Warhol) v. America (Cheney) ) If there is no established convention, I suggest including the author's last name to preclude ambiguity, except in cases where the authorship is clear.
Mav, isn't it easier to just remove the old talk? It will be in your history anyway for those interested. Jeronimo
Gracias por los buenos deseos!-- AN
Hi Mav,
One of the french contributor
Youssefsan is a student in spanish and also contributing from time to time to EL.
I left him links here and there in case he would agree to help (seems to be willing to, but also know he is busy at school now). Please tell me if there is a specific place/link to indicate him user:anthere
Hi,
I'm confused! Helpp! Looking at (for example) [ [1]], and its history and so on, I can see that it has been done as part of a project of some kind to set up a London framework - correct? So, I don;t want to blunder in an go editing things inappropriately. However, there is a real weirdness here which is that the nearby places listed just aren't - they are way way off on the other side of London. Maybe it's just an artefact of the way it was set up?? In a perfect world (ho ho yeah right) I would like to correct this but I'm just not sure. Suggestions please??
Thanks
Yes, that entry was created as part of a WikiProject. But no, you don't have to follow the framework established by WikiProject London (or any WikiProject for that matter) if you haven't explicitly joined the project. WikiProjects are useful for a group of Wikipedians to decide how they will create and format a certain themed grouping of articles. If there is incorrect info in any of the entries, then please by all means fix the information -- WikiProject standards be damned (these "standards" are not like our naming conventions, our policy or even our style guide). I'm sure a member of the WikiProject will come by later and make some minor modifications to what you add so that it is closer to what they want. It is their right to edit the article the way they want and it is your right to do the same. --mav
Ah! Thanks v much for the clarification!
Nev
I wish I knew how to change the 1620 I and 1620 II pages and all their references to IBM 1620 Model I and IBM 1620 Model II pages and references. I created these before I learned about the "|" notation that allows you to refer to one page, but display something different in the text. --RTC
Thanks. After reading the naming conventions section (after having already created both pages and having already learned about "|") I knew these were much more appropriate names... but had no idea how to fix them. --RTC
An entry which contains a few copied phrases from individual websites or other sources. Quotation, even without attribution, is specifically allowed in international copyright law, and single sentences are generally not protectable. So why are you bitching about the fact that I "stole" the population of a town and mentioned that a guy used to be the governor of said town? -Lir
Sorry about changing the test. And no, it doesn't add up to 100, and hasn't for quite awhile. --KQ
There shoud be some type of announcement each time the Wikipediholic test gets changed
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Hi Mav. I'm going to bed. You might want to keep an eye on the vandalism, looks like we're getting a few tonght. Have a good one.
What's the story with Phpnuke? It's contents were erased, but it doesn't seem to have been pointed elsewhere, and there's no talk about it. -- LDC
Mav,
I have realised that the article on Sydney lacks any mention of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, which I shall attempt to remedy in the near future. It's certainly Australia's most famous street parade, but it is also often claimed that it's one of the world's biggest gay events. Using you as a completely statistically reliable sample of one <grin>, could you comment on this claim? -- Robert Merkel 00:53 Oct 8, 2002 (UTC)
Mav, about the dutch day links: I think instead of changin the links in the articles we should just redirect the capitalized version to the lower case... someone else is bound to make this mistake in the future again anyways... plus chaning links is tedious, and only works for the english wikipedia... the others still need to be fixed.. i think its just easier this way... Lightning 03:20 Oct 8, 2002 (UTC)
Thanks, Mav. I'm back. 200.165.239.234
Hi Mav
Not sure about this: Croydon Airport
vs this:
I mean, cleary they are related, but I don't know how close is allowable, plus maybe the user had permission?? I don't know, please advise. I just wanted to find the history page to add as an external link and was a bit disappointed to see how close it was.
thanks Nev
OK and fine, thanks very much, I'll stop worrying! Nev
To be bold, or not to be bold, that is the question... Thanks, again, Mav!! -- Ed Poor
Hm. But when we do have the non-profit set-up it will be at www.wikipedia.org and probably have its own wiki (maybe with an uber Recent Changes showing every edit made in each Wikipedia encyclopedia). Therefore it makes perfect sense to have w: links go there. If needed I can convert the w: links to en: links -- there couldn't be more than a few scores of pages with them and find and replace will be easy on each one of them. --mav
It should be both. The wiki at www.wikipedia.org would be just to maintain Foundation-specific pages. --mav
Is there a compelling reason not to have spaces between the interlanguage links? I just ask because sometimes it forces the edit box to have a scroll bar at the bottom, and I wanted to pick up your torch on the interlanguage links on the year articles (in my mostly nonexistent spare time). Does that cause any text boxes to wrap wider, or do the browsers all interpret it ok? --KQ 02:06 Oct 11, 2002 (UTC)
I wonder if you have been keeping an eye on the Aria Giovanni talk webpage. The situation there is out of control.
Matters have deteriorated to a highly abusive level over a website link. Of special concern is the general conduct and attitude of someone called NetEsq, who claims in his details to be a lawyer.
He has repeatedly abused anyone who opposed the idea of the website link with such tactics as net misettiquete ( eg the use of the word 'you' in capitals and bold to emphasise shouting), a poor grasp of history, the unrepentant use of such termsas Nazi, out of context quotes and attempted alienation ("only YOU opppose it").
Regardless of the rights and wrongs of his beliefs, it is very advisable to bring this most unruly and arrogant person into line.
Given that your name is on the list of persons who can ban users, I thought it advisable to bring this to your attention, before it leads to persons leaving the wikipedia - something likely to stroke Netesq's already aggressive ego.
Dear mav,
(1) I know how to block an IP, but I've heard a rumor that I can block registered Wikipedia users, not just anonymous IP addresses. Is that true, please?
(2) Speaking purely hypothetically, if that's true, how would I go about it, please? (If I have to trace the username to the IP address to do it, how do I do that?)
Thanks,
isis 06:51 Oct 11, 2002 (UTC)
Then IP 203.185.240.37 was wrong about that -- whether that was ignorance or a deliberate lie, it certainly makes everything else that pusillanimous would-be provocateur said incredible, doesn't it? Thanks much. -- isis 07:17 Oct 11, 2002 (UTC)
Concerning cysteine/cystine - uhh, nope. The picture (the monomer) is cysteine, two cysteines joined by a disulfide bond is cystine. Hmm, since I'm not looking at that page right now, I forget exactly what's wrong, but I thought it was something I shouldn't just barge in and change (esp. since it's getting late). -- Marj 05:27 Oct 13, 2002 (UTC)
Understood, appreciated. - user:stevertigo
Go here and create & sign a comment with four tildes, please. --KQ 03:40 Oct 14, 2002 (UTC)
Just want to say thanks for the style manual hint. user:Tillwe
Maveric, please help us stop the non-stop slander and vandalism done by the anonymoys people in the pro-Jehovah's Witnesses camp. Their constant slander of all JW critics is hatespeech. In fact, their constant vandalizim of this encyclopaedia only proves that much of the criticism made against the JW movement is true. The pro-JW group uses unscrupulous tactics to slander others, censor material, write bald-faced lies and literally rewrite history. Every single day they rewrite entries, and they refuse to respect the opinions of anyone at all, but themselves. If they (and we are talking about a few people here) are not banned for at least a month, then we might as well delete every entry on this topic, because their actions have made clear that they have no intention of ever ending their vandalism and censorship. RK
- sugestion why not create teh artcile then make it a protected page if anyone wants to make an edit tehy will have to ask someone who can edit the protected page. - fonzy
Another user was gracious enough to inform me of a problem with the data I am using to generate articles. All the cities that I added today for Connecticut and Iowa are false. I can try to write a script to correct them, or is it easier for some way to delete them all? Get back to me on my talk page with your response. If you can delete them fine. I didn't modify any existing pages, only created new ones. Otherwise I'll just work on updating the data at some point. Thanks. -- Ram-Man
i cant get the characters to work see á á á á á á á á THATS NOT A á --Lir
it looks like that greek alpha fishy symbol? Its a bit strange that I can see it fine under naming conventions but when I try to cut and paste it I get this a'
αα ok i got it
I usually do use the move feature. The few moves that I just made already had redirects there, except for one that I didn't notice until later. Or have I misread your message? Eclecticology 22:55 Oct 18, 2002 (UTC)
sodium bicarbonate and sodium carbonate
Lir 23:52 Oct 18, 2002 (UTC)
About the mistakes in Alabama, I looked at the example you give me and the census bureau calls Madison in both Limestone County and Madison County. I do not live there and there are lots of different ways to define a city. I suppose such examples will have to be "fixed" by the people who live in each place. But maybe I am mistaken. I will check into this as well. Thanks for the update. I was gone for a few days and will manually fix all my mistakes. It shouldn't be so bad, especially since it is my fault. -- Ram-Man
Hi Mav, I see you're moving WikiProject Conservation Worldwide links onto Talk Pages where practically nobody will ever be able to find them. I've already spend several dozens of hours on this project. What is the point of all that work when no-one can find the page? User:Renata
Thanks for all the info. I looked at Wikipedia Category scheme and it looks very complicated. I only called the whole thing a WikiProject because G from B suggested it. I would much prefer it if it was called Conservation worldwide or something. What would you suggest?? Renata 22:40 Oct 20, 2002 (UTC)
--- talk - aim utilitymuffinres
Since you asked, a "publican" is a person who keeps a pub. - Montréalais
I have a long answer to your question on my talk page. -- Ram-Man
Hello again, Mav. This time a question about merging pages. I've found Saint Nicholas and Nicholas of Myra. Should they be merged, and if so, what is the correct procedure, please? Thanks, Renata 06:30 Oct 22, 2002 (UTC)
I saw you just moved Munchen (with an Umlaut) to Munich. I disagree with this. Not sure of the "standards" though. The people who live in Munchen should surely be the authority on what the place is called. Everything else is just a localization of that. Here in Malaysia, USA is called 'Amerika Sharikat' (America United) which is a terrible phrase since it doesn't mention 'states' or any concept of North vs South America. If Wikipedia was firstly in Malay language, the residents of USA should still decide what their own country is called. So, shouldn't the local people get to define the official name, and the rest should just be links? WillSmith (Malaysia) 16:33 Oct 21, 2002 (UTC)
--> Syarikat = company, corporation ... America Syarikat ~= Corporate America?
Read Wikipedia:naming conventions (anglicization) and its talk page. This is the English Wikipedia, therefore we name things in English. --mav
I was looking at the most wanted page and found the entry for Part per million. All nine links to it are from element pages. The term seems self-evident, and I wondered if there was enough to it to warrant an article. However, since the elements project is your "baby", I resisted the temptation to remove all these links. Eclecticology 17:22 Oct 27, 2002 (UTC)
Hey mav, could you take a look at Talk:List of flags regarding your comment to User talk:isis? Thanks. Scipius 20:26 Oct 27, 2002 (UTC)
Mav: did you manage to determine the copyright status of
? I uploaded that image from the congressional bio site, but deleted it when I read their copyright notice, which doesn't guarantee that the images are in the public domain. --
The Cunctator
I don't think the GFDL really allows us to add content that restricts downstream use (e.g. someone who wants to use Wikipedia material for a commercial purpose--might even be the Wikipedia Foundation...) --The Cunctator
I guess I deleted the wrong thing. Ack. -- The Cunctator
Dear Mav: Hi! I want to thank you for the welcome note, even thru you wrote it about 2 months ago. To tell you the truth, I'd never even noticed anybody writing anything until somebody else put an input recently. My bad.
Im also coming to you because you seem to be one of the (if not the) most important administrator(s) here. I hwrote an article about Fabio the model about a month and a half ago, only to have someone re edit it saying something like "Im a Hero!" or something like that, and then Anders Engels correctly sent my article to the erase "washer machine" (as I call it). The person who edited the article, erasing my biography about Fabio and putting those 4 hero words, made me work twice as hard by having to find out about Fabio again and then writing, in my own words of course (to prevent Wikipedia.com from having copyright problems) Fabio's biography once again.
I read an interesting comment by someone that said that some of the administrators should monitor new entries and editings, and decide whether that entry or editing is worthy of being allowed before it is. That way, people would be prevented of having their articles messed up by such things like I am a Hero, Hi, Hail to The Kings or whatever might occur to the people who dedicate themselves to mess up articles. Do you think there is a way that we could have wikipedia administrators monitoring new entries and editings??
Other than that, I want to thank you for correcting some of my articles without making me feel bad about the way I wrote them. Some wikipedia administrators and users, whose names are really not worth mentioning, have gone as far as insulting me and my articles, not realizing that I wrote my articles when I was new and thought of this more like a magazine. Ive seen my earlier mistakes, and changed the way I write my articles lately, thanks to people like you and AN, who correct me without making me feel down, making this a worthwhile experience.
Thank you!
Sincerely yours, User:AntonioMartin
"I read an interesting comment by someone that said that some of the administrators should monitor new entries and editings, and decide whether that entry or editing is worthy of being allowed before it is"
Hi Mav, I spotted the missing element 106 because I am translating all chemistry tables (well lots of them at least) to dutch.
Three questions:
First one I also posted to the Periodic Table page: "What about giving the table a smaller width? It does not fit on my 1280x1024 screen, and I think it might with narrower columns. I know that an absolute table width in stead of width=100% may cause problems when somebody uses a larger font. Still now the cells are very much wider than need be.
Compare version of environmentalchemistry. It fits easily on half my screen. (And is slightly more informative by the way.)
Another question: do you also experience the problem that the table moves underneath the left menu, showing through it, when one scrolls to the right. This happens on some other pages as well. I use Windows XP - Explorer 6. Erik Zachte
Last question: I saw a neat small periodic table for navigation on the Lithium article. I assume it is an experiment. Is this going to be carried through for all elements? If so, is there (well yet another question) a shortcut for copying all images to the Dutch database. It would save me 110 times, 'Save As' , and 'Upload Page' entries, which are quite a hassle with slow respone times. (cross database linking is not a feature, I believe, providing an external link to the English Wp is not favoured by some)
Cheers, Erik Zachte
Hey Mav: Just wanted to say thank you! For saying you enjoy my articles. Like I told someone else recently, I aint no doctor material (LOL), but I feel if anyone can learn with my articles, which are more than anything about boxing, airlines, airports, entertainment and video games, then I feel happy.
I really enjoy reading your articles too.
Once again, thank you, man!
Sincerely yours, User:Antonio Martin
Hi Maveric, I've just seen your comment on your talk page, and you're rightalot of the 1911 articles haven't been so good. I'll try to wikify them more, copyedit and attempt to remove bias. Minus the biased views there's alot of great biographical information in the EB, on people we probably wouldn't get biographies written about for a long time (maybe never). Smelialichu
Hi Maveric. It's me again, Gonis. Please feel free to answer me in english on my EL page. I can understand it pretty well and your spanish... well... sorry, but sometimes it is a bit confusing :(. I have not been able to answer before because of very busy weeks. First of all, let me say that nothing has been decided (at least forever)... but there was a votation where most of the people decided to stay in the current server (see Retorno a Wikipedia in EL in spanish), and leaving the door open to reunification. Some movement from the wikipedia side is expected. After reading the links that you pointed me I have seen no technical reason that forbids having the spanish version of wikipedia outside. It is my personal opinion that, though it requires a bit more of coding work, it might even be better for the whole project:
A decision from the central wikipedia management to consider EL as the spanish version (I am pretty sure that almost everything meaningfull in the es.wikipedia is in EL) and linking it (appart from the mailing lists, does EL appear somewhere in wikipedia?) would be very well seen in EL and will make the people reconsider their positions. Of course, there is still the question of the non-profit organisation... but that will come after ;-) Cheers. Gonis
Hi Maveric. I am Gonis from the spanish EL. I have seen your comments there and read the pages you mention. Could you please make undertand why is it so important for the interlanguage links (and other features that may come) that all the other "wikipedias" reside on the same server. Different servers will low server bandwith and distribute costs probably. I understand it will make the life of developers a bit more difficult, but not so difficult that it cannot be handled. Internet is about distribution, not centralisation... At least for me. Sorry if my comments sound a bit rude, (this is not my intention), but my mother tongue is spanish and I have difficulties in finding the polite, nice, way of say my ideas in english. Cheers. Gonis
Thank you for the welcome and the suggestions. I had visited a lot of the protocols before attempting to post and discovered that I need more sleep, some scotch, or a translator. Maybe some combination of the three. Being a humanities type, it was a little difficult to follow and internalize, so I tried to follow the style example of the person whose post I modified for content. Learning by doing, and all that.
Your suggestion about the sandbox (on this page, below) was a good one and I intend to take it. In the meantime, please be patient with my formatting errors, which will doubtless be legion. Once I learn it it will be learned.
Is there a convention for book titles similar to the one for movies? As there is no copyright on a book title, duplication occurs. (e.g., America (Warhol) v. America (Cheney) ) If there is no established convention, I suggest including the author's last name to preclude ambiguity, except in cases where the authorship is clear.
Mav, isn't it easier to just remove the old talk? It will be in your history anyway for those interested. Jeronimo
Gracias por los buenos deseos!-- AN
Hi Mav,
One of the french contributor
Youssefsan is a student in spanish and also contributing from time to time to EL.
I left him links here and there in case he would agree to help (seems to be willing to, but also know he is busy at school now). Please tell me if there is a specific place/link to indicate him user:anthere
Hi,
I'm confused! Helpp! Looking at (for example) [ [1]], and its history and so on, I can see that it has been done as part of a project of some kind to set up a London framework - correct? So, I don;t want to blunder in an go editing things inappropriately. However, there is a real weirdness here which is that the nearby places listed just aren't - they are way way off on the other side of London. Maybe it's just an artefact of the way it was set up?? In a perfect world (ho ho yeah right) I would like to correct this but I'm just not sure. Suggestions please??
Thanks
Yes, that entry was created as part of a WikiProject. But no, you don't have to follow the framework established by WikiProject London (or any WikiProject for that matter) if you haven't explicitly joined the project. WikiProjects are useful for a group of Wikipedians to decide how they will create and format a certain themed grouping of articles. If there is incorrect info in any of the entries, then please by all means fix the information -- WikiProject standards be damned (these "standards" are not like our naming conventions, our policy or even our style guide). I'm sure a member of the WikiProject will come by later and make some minor modifications to what you add so that it is closer to what they want. It is their right to edit the article the way they want and it is your right to do the same. --mav
Ah! Thanks v much for the clarification!
Nev
I wish I knew how to change the 1620 I and 1620 II pages and all their references to IBM 1620 Model I and IBM 1620 Model II pages and references. I created these before I learned about the "|" notation that allows you to refer to one page, but display something different in the text. --RTC
Thanks. After reading the naming conventions section (after having already created both pages and having already learned about "|") I knew these were much more appropriate names... but had no idea how to fix them. --RTC
An entry which contains a few copied phrases from individual websites or other sources. Quotation, even without attribution, is specifically allowed in international copyright law, and single sentences are generally not protectable. So why are you bitching about the fact that I "stole" the population of a town and mentioned that a guy used to be the governor of said town? -Lir
Sorry about changing the test. And no, it doesn't add up to 100, and hasn't for quite awhile. --KQ
There shoud be some type of announcement each time the Wikipediholic test gets changed
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Hi Mav. I'm going to bed. You might want to keep an eye on the vandalism, looks like we're getting a few tonght. Have a good one.
What's the story with Phpnuke? It's contents were erased, but it doesn't seem to have been pointed elsewhere, and there's no talk about it. -- LDC
Mav,
I have realised that the article on Sydney lacks any mention of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, which I shall attempt to remedy in the near future. It's certainly Australia's most famous street parade, but it is also often claimed that it's one of the world's biggest gay events. Using you as a completely statistically reliable sample of one <grin>, could you comment on this claim? -- Robert Merkel 00:53 Oct 8, 2002 (UTC)
Mav, about the dutch day links: I think instead of changin the links in the articles we should just redirect the capitalized version to the lower case... someone else is bound to make this mistake in the future again anyways... plus chaning links is tedious, and only works for the english wikipedia... the others still need to be fixed.. i think its just easier this way... Lightning 03:20 Oct 8, 2002 (UTC)
Thanks, Mav. I'm back. 200.165.239.234
Hi Mav
Not sure about this: Croydon Airport
vs this:
I mean, cleary they are related, but I don't know how close is allowable, plus maybe the user had permission?? I don't know, please advise. I just wanted to find the history page to add as an external link and was a bit disappointed to see how close it was.
thanks Nev
OK and fine, thanks very much, I'll stop worrying! Nev
To be bold, or not to be bold, that is the question... Thanks, again, Mav!! -- Ed Poor
Hm. But when we do have the non-profit set-up it will be at www.wikipedia.org and probably have its own wiki (maybe with an uber Recent Changes showing every edit made in each Wikipedia encyclopedia). Therefore it makes perfect sense to have w: links go there. If needed I can convert the w: links to en: links -- there couldn't be more than a few scores of pages with them and find and replace will be easy on each one of them. --mav
It should be both. The wiki at www.wikipedia.org would be just to maintain Foundation-specific pages. --mav
Is there a compelling reason not to have spaces between the interlanguage links? I just ask because sometimes it forces the edit box to have a scroll bar at the bottom, and I wanted to pick up your torch on the interlanguage links on the year articles (in my mostly nonexistent spare time). Does that cause any text boxes to wrap wider, or do the browsers all interpret it ok? --KQ 02:06 Oct 11, 2002 (UTC)
I wonder if you have been keeping an eye on the Aria Giovanni talk webpage. The situation there is out of control.
Matters have deteriorated to a highly abusive level over a website link. Of special concern is the general conduct and attitude of someone called NetEsq, who claims in his details to be a lawyer.
He has repeatedly abused anyone who opposed the idea of the website link with such tactics as net misettiquete ( eg the use of the word 'you' in capitals and bold to emphasise shouting), a poor grasp of history, the unrepentant use of such termsas Nazi, out of context quotes and attempted alienation ("only YOU opppose it").
Regardless of the rights and wrongs of his beliefs, it is very advisable to bring this most unruly and arrogant person into line.
Given that your name is on the list of persons who can ban users, I thought it advisable to bring this to your attention, before it leads to persons leaving the wikipedia - something likely to stroke Netesq's already aggressive ego.
Dear mav,
(1) I know how to block an IP, but I've heard a rumor that I can block registered Wikipedia users, not just anonymous IP addresses. Is that true, please?
(2) Speaking purely hypothetically, if that's true, how would I go about it, please? (If I have to trace the username to the IP address to do it, how do I do that?)
Thanks,
isis 06:51 Oct 11, 2002 (UTC)
Then IP 203.185.240.37 was wrong about that -- whether that was ignorance or a deliberate lie, it certainly makes everything else that pusillanimous would-be provocateur said incredible, doesn't it? Thanks much. -- isis 07:17 Oct 11, 2002 (UTC)
Concerning cysteine/cystine - uhh, nope. The picture (the monomer) is cysteine, two cysteines joined by a disulfide bond is cystine. Hmm, since I'm not looking at that page right now, I forget exactly what's wrong, but I thought it was something I shouldn't just barge in and change (esp. since it's getting late). -- Marj 05:27 Oct 13, 2002 (UTC)
Understood, appreciated. - user:stevertigo
Go here and create & sign a comment with four tildes, please. --KQ 03:40 Oct 14, 2002 (UTC)
Just want to say thanks for the style manual hint. user:Tillwe
Maveric, please help us stop the non-stop slander and vandalism done by the anonymoys people in the pro-Jehovah's Witnesses camp. Their constant slander of all JW critics is hatespeech. In fact, their constant vandalizim of this encyclopaedia only proves that much of the criticism made against the JW movement is true. The pro-JW group uses unscrupulous tactics to slander others, censor material, write bald-faced lies and literally rewrite history. Every single day they rewrite entries, and they refuse to respect the opinions of anyone at all, but themselves. If they (and we are talking about a few people here) are not banned for at least a month, then we might as well delete every entry on this topic, because their actions have made clear that they have no intention of ever ending their vandalism and censorship. RK
- sugestion why not create teh artcile then make it a protected page if anyone wants to make an edit tehy will have to ask someone who can edit the protected page. - fonzy
Another user was gracious enough to inform me of a problem with the data I am using to generate articles. All the cities that I added today for Connecticut and Iowa are false. I can try to write a script to correct them, or is it easier for some way to delete them all? Get back to me on my talk page with your response. If you can delete them fine. I didn't modify any existing pages, only created new ones. Otherwise I'll just work on updating the data at some point. Thanks. -- Ram-Man
i cant get the characters to work see á á á á á á á á THATS NOT A á --Lir
it looks like that greek alpha fishy symbol? Its a bit strange that I can see it fine under naming conventions but when I try to cut and paste it I get this a'
αα ok i got it
I usually do use the move feature. The few moves that I just made already had redirects there, except for one that I didn't notice until later. Or have I misread your message? Eclecticology 22:55 Oct 18, 2002 (UTC)
sodium bicarbonate and sodium carbonate
Lir 23:52 Oct 18, 2002 (UTC)
About the mistakes in Alabama, I looked at the example you give me and the census bureau calls Madison in both Limestone County and Madison County. I do not live there and there are lots of different ways to define a city. I suppose such examples will have to be "fixed" by the people who live in each place. But maybe I am mistaken. I will check into this as well. Thanks for the update. I was gone for a few days and will manually fix all my mistakes. It shouldn't be so bad, especially since it is my fault. -- Ram-Man
Hi Mav, I see you're moving WikiProject Conservation Worldwide links onto Talk Pages where practically nobody will ever be able to find them. I've already spend several dozens of hours on this project. What is the point of all that work when no-one can find the page? User:Renata
Thanks for all the info. I looked at Wikipedia Category scheme and it looks very complicated. I only called the whole thing a WikiProject because G from B suggested it. I would much prefer it if it was called Conservation worldwide or something. What would you suggest?? Renata 22:40 Oct 20, 2002 (UTC)
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Since you asked, a "publican" is a person who keeps a pub. - Montréalais
I have a long answer to your question on my talk page. -- Ram-Man
Hello again, Mav. This time a question about merging pages. I've found Saint Nicholas and Nicholas of Myra. Should they be merged, and if so, what is the correct procedure, please? Thanks, Renata 06:30 Oct 22, 2002 (UTC)
I saw you just moved Munchen (with an Umlaut) to Munich. I disagree with this. Not sure of the "standards" though. The people who live in Munchen should surely be the authority on what the place is called. Everything else is just a localization of that. Here in Malaysia, USA is called 'Amerika Sharikat' (America United) which is a terrible phrase since it doesn't mention 'states' or any concept of North vs South America. If Wikipedia was firstly in Malay language, the residents of USA should still decide what their own country is called. So, shouldn't the local people get to define the official name, and the rest should just be links? WillSmith (Malaysia) 16:33 Oct 21, 2002 (UTC)
--> Syarikat = company, corporation ... America Syarikat ~= Corporate America?
Read Wikipedia:naming conventions (anglicization) and its talk page. This is the English Wikipedia, therefore we name things in English. --mav
I was looking at the most wanted page and found the entry for Part per million. All nine links to it are from element pages. The term seems self-evident, and I wondered if there was enough to it to warrant an article. However, since the elements project is your "baby", I resisted the temptation to remove all these links. Eclecticology 17:22 Oct 27, 2002 (UTC)
Hey mav, could you take a look at Talk:List of flags regarding your comment to User talk:isis? Thanks. Scipius 20:26 Oct 27, 2002 (UTC)
Mav: did you manage to determine the copyright status of
? I uploaded that image from the congressional bio site, but deleted it when I read their copyright notice, which doesn't guarantee that the images are in the public domain. --
The Cunctator
I don't think the GFDL really allows us to add content that restricts downstream use (e.g. someone who wants to use Wikipedia material for a commercial purpose--might even be the Wikipedia Foundation...) --The Cunctator
I guess I deleted the wrong thing. Ack. -- The Cunctator
Dear Mav: Hi! I want to thank you for the welcome note, even thru you wrote it about 2 months ago. To tell you the truth, I'd never even noticed anybody writing anything until somebody else put an input recently. My bad.
Im also coming to you because you seem to be one of the (if not the) most important administrator(s) here. I hwrote an article about Fabio the model about a month and a half ago, only to have someone re edit it saying something like "Im a Hero!" or something like that, and then Anders Engels correctly sent my article to the erase "washer machine" (as I call it). The person who edited the article, erasing my biography about Fabio and putting those 4 hero words, made me work twice as hard by having to find out about Fabio again and then writing, in my own words of course (to prevent Wikipedia.com from having copyright problems) Fabio's biography once again.
I read an interesting comment by someone that said that some of the administrators should monitor new entries and editings, and decide whether that entry or editing is worthy of being allowed before it is. That way, people would be prevented of having their articles messed up by such things like I am a Hero, Hi, Hail to The Kings or whatever might occur to the people who dedicate themselves to mess up articles. Do you think there is a way that we could have wikipedia administrators monitoring new entries and editings??
Other than that, I want to thank you for correcting some of my articles without making me feel bad about the way I wrote them. Some wikipedia administrators and users, whose names are really not worth mentioning, have gone as far as insulting me and my articles, not realizing that I wrote my articles when I was new and thought of this more like a magazine. Ive seen my earlier mistakes, and changed the way I write my articles lately, thanks to people like you and AN, who correct me without making me feel down, making this a worthwhile experience.
Thank you!
Sincerely yours, User:AntonioMartin
"I read an interesting comment by someone that said that some of the administrators should monitor new entries and editings, and decide whether that entry or editing is worthy of being allowed before it is"
Hi Mav, I spotted the missing element 106 because I am translating all chemistry tables (well lots of them at least) to dutch.
Three questions:
First one I also posted to the Periodic Table page: "What about giving the table a smaller width? It does not fit on my 1280x1024 screen, and I think it might with narrower columns. I know that an absolute table width in stead of width=100% may cause problems when somebody uses a larger font. Still now the cells are very much wider than need be.
Compare version of environmentalchemistry. It fits easily on half my screen. (And is slightly more informative by the way.)
Another question: do you also experience the problem that the table moves underneath the left menu, showing through it, when one scrolls to the right. This happens on some other pages as well. I use Windows XP - Explorer 6. Erik Zachte
Last question: I saw a neat small periodic table for navigation on the Lithium article. I assume it is an experiment. Is this going to be carried through for all elements? If so, is there (well yet another question) a shortcut for copying all images to the Dutch database. It would save me 110 times, 'Save As' , and 'Upload Page' entries, which are quite a hassle with slow respone times. (cross database linking is not a feature, I believe, providing an external link to the English Wp is not favoured by some)
Cheers, Erik Zachte
Hey Mav: Just wanted to say thank you! For saying you enjoy my articles. Like I told someone else recently, I aint no doctor material (LOL), but I feel if anyone can learn with my articles, which are more than anything about boxing, airlines, airports, entertainment and video games, then I feel happy.
I really enjoy reading your articles too.
Once again, thank you, man!
Sincerely yours, User:Antonio Martin