You deleted my paragraph below on the grounds that it was an 'incoherent POV rant'. I don't know what POV is, but I don't think what I wrote was incoherent, and to call it a rant is quite an undeserved insult. The fact is that there is a Latin language revival movement that has even created a Latin wikipedia, so I think it's only fair to speak about it on that page. Now, how would you suggest turning my paragraph into a coherent, non ranting one so that you won't decide to delete it? Or can any of what I said be denied, and in particular that the Latin language revival has not so far received the same attention from authorities, either cultural or political, that other language revivals are receiving? I'm hardly ranting, I just ask you to find a wording that won't make you delete my work. Thanks in advance.
On the other end of the spectrum, the most emblematic language of European education throughout the centuries, which gave a cultural cohesion to the continent across all of her universities until the aforementioned period, continues to be neglected by all authorities, either cultural or political, and despite a precariously growing number of speakers.
Look at Talk:Singapore Changi Airport passenger traffic by airline. There is a discussion between me and the article's creator about the code links in the article that that is the talk page for. No one but me and the article's creator appears to have been in the discussion up to this moment. Who, between me and the article's creator, do you think is being more logical (please explain with your own opinions.) Georgia guy 14:43, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Hi Timwi,
I wrote my own software to detect double redirects; I was validating its output when I noticed you had already fixed a vast majority of the articles that my software identified. Nice job I must say. I have a question: Are you checking the following:
I only ask because I wanted to explore these but I don't want to duplicate work with you. Thanks and keep up the good work. Triddle 09:31, Jun 10, 2005 (UTC)
I see the one you uploaded to http://download.wikimedia.org/bugzilla/, but it doesn't seem to be complete: it puts the side bar under the page. Is there any way you can put the current one there?
STOP! Read the project's naming conventions: Wikipedia:WikiProject Star Trek. Please understand before you revert next time. Cburnett 21:48, Jun 13, 2005 (UTC)
Re: Fix of double redirect on Liaotung... a redirect page What did you catch? Liodung is not strictly the peninsula, but all of eastern Liaoning Province. You may be correct, but the names and geo-regions mappings were so messed up in a few articles (including ones under research for additional expansion) I just want to check Wot Happend. Thanks! Fabartus 02:11, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)
On WP:SPOKEN you say that your sound files are too big for some reason. Have you looked at the usual causes, such as the OGG Vorbis quality setting in Audacity? — Chameleon 11:38, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Hi, i noticed on the mailing list you wrote I've asked this back when I did the Columbia list.., I do you still have this list? I am enquiring as it would eventually be a great addition to the Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles. It seems the britannica lists are safe now as far as i can tell, so i cant see why these would not be, plus the lists will be much smaller by now i guess. thanks Bluemoose 4 July 2005 10:17 (UTC)
Timwi, hi! For about half a year I have been contributing as Eleassar777 to the English Wikipedia (>5000 edits) and have made a large number of edits also to Slovenian Wikipedia (sl.wikipedia.org), Wikimedia Commons and Wikisource. Recently I left "777" out as I find it more elegant this way. If you would take a minute to reattribute my edits, I would be very very grateful. Thank you in advance and happy wiki-ing! --
Eleassar
my talk 4 July 2005 19:06 (UTC)
An admin advised me to do so. From my talk page: "I suggest you contact User:Brion_VIBBER or User:Timwi instead. Angela is possibly busy with matters that are non-developer related. Mgm|(talk) 20:52, Jun 12, 2005 (UTC)".
Thanks anyway, no problem. --
Eleassar
my talk 5 July 2005 14:21 (UTC)
I have created a new Wikiproject which aims to bring computer veterans and people who need help with software tools they use on Wikipedia together. I'm writing this to you because I saw you on the bot list and wanted to know if you would be willing to help. There is already an open case: WikiProject help desk/20050702 Dmcdevit. The Windows tool that Dmcdevit uses to perform Transwikis has broken since the software upgrade. Triddle July 6, 2005 22:30 (UTC)
Why did you change hobo to hoboism? There are only 590 or so google hits for hoboism, so it's not really a commonly used term. I think it's more natural to leave the page as "hobo," since "hoboism" is so infrequently said. In comparison, look at the article Clown. The word "clowning" is quite common, but that page is still listed under its plain noun form, rather that the verbized form of the noun. There's no need to put hobo under the less common hoboism, when you consider that other articles are left in their plain form. -- Carl 01:19, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
I just came here to ask the same thing. I have *never* heard the term "hoboism" and I'm pretty familiar with the lore and literature of hobos. Kaibabsquirrel 01:58, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
Timwi I read here that you have a bot that fixes double redirects. Can you share the script with me? I want it for a mediawiki on my site. Thanks 213.23.250.170 19:15, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
Hi! What was that thing with the language templates, I didn't quite get it? -- rydel 16:08, 12 August 2005 (UTC)
As I see you replying to others' messages here, I would like to ask for a follow-up of your message to me dated 12 Mar 2004 about ISO 3166-2 because I also replied to your message at my talk page. Do you know whether it is copyright-okay to post ISO 3166-2 codes here? I really have to know the exact answer before posting any ISO 3166-2 codes. Otherwise, I will not proceed any further on this.-- Jusjih 23:00, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
Hi, on your removal of this from the day log Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Log/2005 August 22, I think we don't do this because we use the day logs as archives when they've been completed. Just leave the completed discussion in place. -- Tony Sidaway Talk 18:29, 23 August 2005 (UTC)
I'm guessing and tagging these PD, like the others. Please correct me if wrong. -- Duk 21:26, 22 September 2005 (UTC)
Hi, I've seen that you have edited the Article on Geographical Centre of Europe to which I have added some material in July (as unlogge user). Now, returning to it I have realised that there are two articles: Geographic Centre of Europe and Geographical centre of Europe - both containig almost the same data - with minor differences. The second one has also the possibility of being redirected from Geographic centre of Europe.
The difference causing the existence of two seems to me to lie in the capital or lowercase "c" in "centre". I don't know how do it but one of them should be removed - and have the information transferred from the other. (Now, I couldn't synchronize them, as I am quite a greenhorn to Wikipedia). noychoH 19:10, 27 September 2005 (UTC)
Hi Timwi. Could you explain the meaning of this edit summary? I was slightly surprised when it appeared on my watchlist... Cheers, [[Sam Korn]] 18:28, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
Note that the dog-breed info table has used that format for at least 2 years, so only a few of the most recent use a different format. I was hoping that someone would get around to finishing the dogbreedinfo template that I started mucking with so that we wouldn't have to keep tweaking every one of the hundreds of dog-breed articles every time someone had a change like this. But I don't have time to figure it out (and one volunteer apparently doesn't either), so it sits. (And then there's a question of finding someone to make a bot to try to change most of the pages automatically...) I wonder whether it's really worth your time to go through all the articles in List of dog breeds to fix that one thing in the tables, which doesn't really seem to affect anything in the display as far as I can tell. (Oh, in case you want to take a look at the rudimentary template & some discussions about it--hint hint-- template discussion and links to template & sample / further template discussion .) Elf | Talk 20:24, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
I noticed your alternative version of the upload text, on this page, (from back in 2004), and I really like it. I've made various annoucements trying to drum up enough support to get it implemented. Let me know if you have any new thoughts on that. (And thanks for the ~~~~~, I use it often for adding timestamps.) JesseW, the juggling janitor 20:45, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
Stop abusing your admin rights by simply deleting stuff without any notice nor discussion. Please stop also merging stuff without notice or asking anywhere, especially if there allready were discussions. Tobias Conradi (Talk) 17:07, 17 October 2005 (UTC)
From your user-page I assume you need help, because you do not understand the concept of copyright. Sometimes it takes lot of energy to create something. If so there may be individuals that only create certain things if they can get some stuff back (spend hours on a work, but how to feed your children?). Not respecting copyrights may reduce incentives to create certain things. Thus, without any copyright at all the possibility exists that we are ALL worse off with copyright. Thus, by a policy of not respecting other people's rights you may be guilty of reducing the overall value of life. Glad to have helped you. (Note: I will not put your page on my watchlist, so replies may go unnoticed.) Tobias Conradi (Talk) 17:18, 17 October 2005 (UTC)
I have helped User:Tobias Conradi properly format his RfC and copied your comment from the TOC page to the response section of the subpage. Please visit Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Timwi and endorse where appropriate; my plagiarism only goes so far. — Lomn | Talk / RfC 21:24, 19 October 2005 (UTC)
I responded. I think the thing is settled soon. There are really much more important issues around! Best regards Tobias Conradi (Talk) 16:27, 20 October 2005 (UTC)
geworfen or gefallen: I suppose from the point of view of the dice this is a purely academic distinction ;-). T.a.k. 21:12, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
Seeing that nobody else certified it in 48 hours (in fact, no one had edited it in over 48 hours), I've deleted the RFC against you. Ral 315 WS 00:02, 23 October 2005 (UTC)
User:Jenmoa/birthday -- User:Jenmoa 15:30, 24 October 2005 (UTC)
The main reason why I have many user talk edits, is that I am a) part of the welcoming committee and b) part of the counter vandalism unit, which both mean that I have to leave a lot of messages on user talk pages. In my personal opinion, all edits made on Wikipedia should be counted when talking about edit counts because they are all contributing to something or other on Wikipedia. People shouldn't really care about edit counts anyway - editcountitis is fatal. Fir e Fo x 13:41, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
You deleted my paragraph below on the grounds that it was an 'incoherent POV rant'. I don't know what POV is, but I don't think what I wrote was incoherent, and to call it a rant is quite an undeserved insult. The fact is that there is a Latin language revival movement that has even created a Latin wikipedia, so I think it's only fair to speak about it on that page. Now, how would you suggest turning my paragraph into a coherent, non ranting one so that you won't decide to delete it? Or can any of what I said be denied, and in particular that the Latin language revival has not so far received the same attention from authorities, either cultural or political, that other language revivals are receiving? I'm hardly ranting, I just ask you to find a wording that won't make you delete my work. Thanks in advance.
On the other end of the spectrum, the most emblematic language of European education throughout the centuries, which gave a cultural cohesion to the continent across all of her universities until the aforementioned period, continues to be neglected by all authorities, either cultural or political, and despite a precariously growing number of speakers.
Look at Talk:Singapore Changi Airport passenger traffic by airline. There is a discussion between me and the article's creator about the code links in the article that that is the talk page for. No one but me and the article's creator appears to have been in the discussion up to this moment. Who, between me and the article's creator, do you think is being more logical (please explain with your own opinions.) Georgia guy 14:43, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Hi Timwi,
I wrote my own software to detect double redirects; I was validating its output when I noticed you had already fixed a vast majority of the articles that my software identified. Nice job I must say. I have a question: Are you checking the following:
I only ask because I wanted to explore these but I don't want to duplicate work with you. Thanks and keep up the good work. Triddle 09:31, Jun 10, 2005 (UTC)
I see the one you uploaded to http://download.wikimedia.org/bugzilla/, but it doesn't seem to be complete: it puts the side bar under the page. Is there any way you can put the current one there?
STOP! Read the project's naming conventions: Wikipedia:WikiProject Star Trek. Please understand before you revert next time. Cburnett 21:48, Jun 13, 2005 (UTC)
Re: Fix of double redirect on Liaotung... a redirect page What did you catch? Liodung is not strictly the peninsula, but all of eastern Liaoning Province. You may be correct, but the names and geo-regions mappings were so messed up in a few articles (including ones under research for additional expansion) I just want to check Wot Happend. Thanks! Fabartus 02:11, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)
On WP:SPOKEN you say that your sound files are too big for some reason. Have you looked at the usual causes, such as the OGG Vorbis quality setting in Audacity? — Chameleon 11:38, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Hi, i noticed on the mailing list you wrote I've asked this back when I did the Columbia list.., I do you still have this list? I am enquiring as it would eventually be a great addition to the Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles. It seems the britannica lists are safe now as far as i can tell, so i cant see why these would not be, plus the lists will be much smaller by now i guess. thanks Bluemoose 4 July 2005 10:17 (UTC)
Timwi, hi! For about half a year I have been contributing as Eleassar777 to the English Wikipedia (>5000 edits) and have made a large number of edits also to Slovenian Wikipedia (sl.wikipedia.org), Wikimedia Commons and Wikisource. Recently I left "777" out as I find it more elegant this way. If you would take a minute to reattribute my edits, I would be very very grateful. Thank you in advance and happy wiki-ing! --
Eleassar
my talk 4 July 2005 19:06 (UTC)
An admin advised me to do so. From my talk page: "I suggest you contact User:Brion_VIBBER or User:Timwi instead. Angela is possibly busy with matters that are non-developer related. Mgm|(talk) 20:52, Jun 12, 2005 (UTC)".
Thanks anyway, no problem. --
Eleassar
my talk 5 July 2005 14:21 (UTC)
I have created a new Wikiproject which aims to bring computer veterans and people who need help with software tools they use on Wikipedia together. I'm writing this to you because I saw you on the bot list and wanted to know if you would be willing to help. There is already an open case: WikiProject help desk/20050702 Dmcdevit. The Windows tool that Dmcdevit uses to perform Transwikis has broken since the software upgrade. Triddle July 6, 2005 22:30 (UTC)
Why did you change hobo to hoboism? There are only 590 or so google hits for hoboism, so it's not really a commonly used term. I think it's more natural to leave the page as "hobo," since "hoboism" is so infrequently said. In comparison, look at the article Clown. The word "clowning" is quite common, but that page is still listed under its plain noun form, rather that the verbized form of the noun. There's no need to put hobo under the less common hoboism, when you consider that other articles are left in their plain form. -- Carl 01:19, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
I just came here to ask the same thing. I have *never* heard the term "hoboism" and I'm pretty familiar with the lore and literature of hobos. Kaibabsquirrel 01:58, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
Timwi I read here that you have a bot that fixes double redirects. Can you share the script with me? I want it for a mediawiki on my site. Thanks 213.23.250.170 19:15, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
Hi! What was that thing with the language templates, I didn't quite get it? -- rydel 16:08, 12 August 2005 (UTC)
As I see you replying to others' messages here, I would like to ask for a follow-up of your message to me dated 12 Mar 2004 about ISO 3166-2 because I also replied to your message at my talk page. Do you know whether it is copyright-okay to post ISO 3166-2 codes here? I really have to know the exact answer before posting any ISO 3166-2 codes. Otherwise, I will not proceed any further on this.-- Jusjih 23:00, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
Hi, on your removal of this from the day log Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Log/2005 August 22, I think we don't do this because we use the day logs as archives when they've been completed. Just leave the completed discussion in place. -- Tony Sidaway Talk 18:29, 23 August 2005 (UTC)
I'm guessing and tagging these PD, like the others. Please correct me if wrong. -- Duk 21:26, 22 September 2005 (UTC)
Hi, I've seen that you have edited the Article on Geographical Centre of Europe to which I have added some material in July (as unlogge user). Now, returning to it I have realised that there are two articles: Geographic Centre of Europe and Geographical centre of Europe - both containig almost the same data - with minor differences. The second one has also the possibility of being redirected from Geographic centre of Europe.
The difference causing the existence of two seems to me to lie in the capital or lowercase "c" in "centre". I don't know how do it but one of them should be removed - and have the information transferred from the other. (Now, I couldn't synchronize them, as I am quite a greenhorn to Wikipedia). noychoH 19:10, 27 September 2005 (UTC)
Hi Timwi. Could you explain the meaning of this edit summary? I was slightly surprised when it appeared on my watchlist... Cheers, [[Sam Korn]] 18:28, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
Note that the dog-breed info table has used that format for at least 2 years, so only a few of the most recent use a different format. I was hoping that someone would get around to finishing the dogbreedinfo template that I started mucking with so that we wouldn't have to keep tweaking every one of the hundreds of dog-breed articles every time someone had a change like this. But I don't have time to figure it out (and one volunteer apparently doesn't either), so it sits. (And then there's a question of finding someone to make a bot to try to change most of the pages automatically...) I wonder whether it's really worth your time to go through all the articles in List of dog breeds to fix that one thing in the tables, which doesn't really seem to affect anything in the display as far as I can tell. (Oh, in case you want to take a look at the rudimentary template & some discussions about it--hint hint-- template discussion and links to template & sample / further template discussion .) Elf | Talk 20:24, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
I noticed your alternative version of the upload text, on this page, (from back in 2004), and I really like it. I've made various annoucements trying to drum up enough support to get it implemented. Let me know if you have any new thoughts on that. (And thanks for the ~~~~~, I use it often for adding timestamps.) JesseW, the juggling janitor 20:45, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
Stop abusing your admin rights by simply deleting stuff without any notice nor discussion. Please stop also merging stuff without notice or asking anywhere, especially if there allready were discussions. Tobias Conradi (Talk) 17:07, 17 October 2005 (UTC)
From your user-page I assume you need help, because you do not understand the concept of copyright. Sometimes it takes lot of energy to create something. If so there may be individuals that only create certain things if they can get some stuff back (spend hours on a work, but how to feed your children?). Not respecting copyrights may reduce incentives to create certain things. Thus, without any copyright at all the possibility exists that we are ALL worse off with copyright. Thus, by a policy of not respecting other people's rights you may be guilty of reducing the overall value of life. Glad to have helped you. (Note: I will not put your page on my watchlist, so replies may go unnoticed.) Tobias Conradi (Talk) 17:18, 17 October 2005 (UTC)
I have helped User:Tobias Conradi properly format his RfC and copied your comment from the TOC page to the response section of the subpage. Please visit Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Timwi and endorse where appropriate; my plagiarism only goes so far. — Lomn | Talk / RfC 21:24, 19 October 2005 (UTC)
I responded. I think the thing is settled soon. There are really much more important issues around! Best regards Tobias Conradi (Talk) 16:27, 20 October 2005 (UTC)
geworfen or gefallen: I suppose from the point of view of the dice this is a purely academic distinction ;-). T.a.k. 21:12, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
Seeing that nobody else certified it in 48 hours (in fact, no one had edited it in over 48 hours), I've deleted the RFC against you. Ral 315 WS 00:02, 23 October 2005 (UTC)
User:Jenmoa/birthday -- User:Jenmoa 15:30, 24 October 2005 (UTC)
The main reason why I have many user talk edits, is that I am a) part of the welcoming committee and b) part of the counter vandalism unit, which both mean that I have to leave a lot of messages on user talk pages. In my personal opinion, all edits made on Wikipedia should be counted when talking about edit counts because they are all contributing to something or other on Wikipedia. People shouldn't really care about edit counts anyway - editcountitis is fatal. Fir e Fo x 13:41, 27 October 2005 (UTC)