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I have added again the commercial and non-commercial software related to the Outlook Express page (my own is Outlook Express API). I considered a bad action to take off all these related software. Please explain me the difference between the page you removed and the page you left (insideoutlookexpress, secunia, outlookexpressguru) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 201.235.100.149 ( talk • contribs) .
Hello Warrens,
Thanks for your note.
A few weeks ago someone (not me) added Zunerama as a useful External Link for the Wikipedia Zune article. After you removed it today, I re-added it. I believe there is strong evidence it is a far more appropriate and useful link than the external link that you chose *not* to remove. Please visit both sites if you wish and make your own analysis based on content, and on ad prominence. And please explain your criteria before removing external links.
I am open to your opinion about appropriate external links; if you feel certain links should be left in and others taken out, please add your justification to the discussion page of the Wikipedia Zune site. Thank you. Otherwise it just looks like you're affiliated with the other sites, which I believe is not the case.
I've copied an excerpt from the Discussion page of the Wikipedia Zune entry below:
(removed, thanks, i saw it -- Warren)
Thanks. Hchute 01:52, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
Warrens, I apologise for all of the vandalism that I have caused to your encyclopedia, and would like to make it up to you somehow. I know that we got off on a rough start together and I would like to know how I can contribute constructively to your encyclopedia so that you will not have to block me from editing. Please respond on my talk page and tell me how I can help make the encyclopedia better. Thanks. 64.126.42.123 03:26, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
Hi Warrens,
I am wondering if you may be able to help me.
I just recently added information about Windows 2000 Service Packs on the Windows 2000 article. I wanted to make sure that I had the information correct. My understanding was that once an operating system was phased into Extended Support that no more service packs would be provided for that system. Please tell me on my talk page if this is correct. If it is not, please fill me in on the facts that you have. Thanks Jdlowery 03:40, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
How are you Warrens?
I was wondering if you knew much about the Microsoft WGA program. I know there are a lot of people who think this program is spyware. My understanding was that it could be classified under this category because of how Microsoft destributes it as a critical security update on Windows Update. Not to mention the stories I have heard about the tool phoning home to Microsoft on a regular basis. One other strange thing that I have been hearing from my friend about is people going and validating their PC on the Microsoft Download Center to access a downolad. After the download is complete they run an antispyware program and find that the WGA validation tool has caused a Browser Hijack attempt. I do not know if these stories would be good material for the WGA article here on Wikipedia. I am still searching the web to see if I can find evidence to back some of this up. I was also wondering if you had heard any of these strange stories yourself. Please respond on my talk page and tell me what you think. Jdlowery 02:09, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
User:194.80.32.11 may have a point: some or many of those "new features" may be "features" only because the marketing department broadened the definition. For example, they may have decided that each new theme is a "feature", although most people probably would not look at it that way. I'd say that anything that probably got "interpreted" by a marketing department is suspect. -- Scott McNay 05:29, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
Thanks Warrens for deleting the Windows vista criticism on the wikipedia page Mateia Andrew
Just one question:Why is it necessary to left-align the text in the table cells? Standard table cells (with the TD
element) default to left alignment.
—
Kbolino 01:14, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
div.NavContent
style has a text-align:center
in it, and that was inherited down through the table. After giving some thought, it occured to me that we can get the same effect by applying a text-align:left
on that div layer, overriding what's in the style sheet, and thus also remove that style from every TD
element in the table. I've made that change
[1]. Look good to you?
-/-
Warren 02:02, 25 October 2006 (UTC)ugh Found this after your recent edit to the template removing same... SchmuckyTheCat 18:23, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the comments! Only two of us ( Jdlowery (provided images) and I (wrote the summary of the builds)) have cooperated for that article. I asked you too, remember. (as Deogene) But you did not answer. Anyway, thanks again! - Emir214 12:23, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
Hello, can you help me improve and expand the section "Development of Windows XP" I created for the Windows XP article? Link here. - Deogene 08:53, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
Please respond on my talk page. - Deogene 08:55, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
So you think that some presentation from some MS employee (who was charged with preparation of WinHEC presentation), even more that half a year old, is some MORE ACCURATE than real behavior in Windows Vista, which you can see in black and white? Sorry but that doesn't make sense for me. OK, so I removed the citation because it is simply obsolete. But I don't see any logical reason why there should be information which CONTRADICTS with REAL STATE just because of some beta-time presentation. Please at least reply before you do next revert. Thanks. Jakub Horky 09:33, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
Why'd you revert my comment on Adobe LiveCycle being a competing product? It's quite useful for someone trying to decide if they want to use InfoPath. Gypsydoctor 15:12, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
OK. Perhaps the category "e-forms" could be used and could include XFORMS etc. as well. Gypsydoctor 05:05, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
Goodbye, Warrens. See more on my user page. - Emir214 12:36, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
Please avoid using abusive edit summaries as per Wikipedia:Civility and Wikipedia:No personal attacks. Thanks and happy editing. — FireFox ( talk) 22:04, 04 November 2006
Aw! I've never got a Mail before! Um, I dunno if this is in the right place or not, do I reply here? Oh well... Yeah, anyway thanks for the message thingy.
By the way, if this isn't the right place just delete this message... if you can. — Preceding unsigned comment added by O2mcgovem ( talk • contribs)
Luna Santin has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling to someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Smile to others by adding {{ subst:smile}}, {{ subst:smile2}} or {{ subst:smile3}} to their talk page with a friendly message. Happy editing!
Riding in the eye of the storm, eh? ;) Nice to see somebody making productive edits in there. Cheers. Luna Santin 08:10, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for sending me a message. I did not want to copy it actually. Then i thought both are MS products so they should get same type of style. :). -- SkyWalker 09:18, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
Why did you created a copy of Image:Benedelman-spyware-cropped.png by uploading Image:Windows ActiveX security warning (malware).png? I have copied the text and would like to delete the unlinked to image.-- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk 04:00, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
Warren, My edits to others comments, so far as the history shows were to add links, not to change content. I thought them of some help to readers. Do you not?
As for your most recent edits in response to someone moving Dig Rest Mgmt higher in the introduction, I fear you've excised useful information for readers. Wherever the two twrms should be placed in the intro section. I'll try to remember to come back and fill in some of the deleted bits. ww 10:07, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
Why remove DirectShow from category Windows multimedia? Robert K S 13:42, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
About the original research thing, I didn't look at the source, sorry. I just assumed they would call it Windows Six because Vista is Windows 6.0, so Windows 7.0 wouldn't make sense. PureLegend 19:03, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
how can you run osx and still go on about windows so much? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Spam moi ( talk • contribs) .
I've dropped you a reply here, and also put forward an idea here here, don't know if you'd be notified so now you know! JamesWeb 16:23, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
It was just simple page blanking vandalism. Feel free to report him to AIV instead next time. I have blocked him indefinitely. Alphachimp 06:42, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
by Windows Vista article. I put it back. Jiddisch 20:26, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
Hello, when you want to link to the article about something British, please do not link to British, as that is a disambiguation page (which nothing should be linked to). Instead link to the one of the options found on that page such as United Kingdom, Great Britain or British English by writing out [[United Kingdom|British]] or [[Great Britain|British]]. Regards, Jeff3000 00:19, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
No problem. I just noticed that because of the "Articles with unsourced statements" cat on the article. And you are right Paul did mention that in a couple of places back in September last year. I wonder if that was just bad information on his part or something Microsoft couldn't sort out (legally and/or technically) in time for the launch.
BTW Thanks for catching the vandalism on my user page back at the beginning of the month. AlistairMcMillan 04:51, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
Hey Warrens, sorry I have not been around much lately. I've just been very busy at work and thus have not had much time for Wikipedia. I wanted to know if you would like to help me out on a Development of Windows 95 timeline to give people more reference to what builds were created up to its initial release in August. Please leave me a message on My talk page if you would like to help me compile some data for the timeline. Thanks. Jdlowery 17:33, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for uploading Image:Windows Task Scheduler 5472.png. I notice the 'image' page currently specifies that the image is unlicensed for use on Wikipedia and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently orphaned, meaning that it is not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable under fair use (see our fair use policy).
If you have uploaded other unlicensed media, please check whether they're used in any articles or not. You can find a list of 'image' pages you have edited by clicking on the " my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "Image" from the dropdown box. Note that any fair use images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. — Alex ( T| C| E) 00:23, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
I've been updating screenshots of Windows Vista throughout Wikipedia. I tagged a few of the obsolete ones for deletion. Let me know if you need any more screenshots taken from RTM. :-) — Alex ( T| C| E) 02:14, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
I appreciate your advice and appreciate they were well intentioned. However, I didn't add the words you were concerned about, I was merely the last person to edit the article. The phrase you're concerned about was added in 2004 by Iluvcapra.
My apologies for replying here rather than in my talk page, but there's some kind of networking problem that prevents me from editing large amounts of text from my home DSL connection. Squiggleslash 17:25, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
This file may be deleted. |
Thanks for uploading Image:Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 logo.png. I notice the 'image' page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in Wikipedia articles constitutes fair use. When you use a generic fair use tag such as {{fair use}} or {{fair use in|article name}}, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.
Please go to the image description page and edit it to include a fair use rationale.
If you have uploaded other fair use media, consider checking that you have specified the fair use rationale on those pages too. You can find a list of 'image' pages you have edited by clicking on the " my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "Image" from the dropdown box. Note that any fair use images lacking such an explanation will be deleted one week after they have been uploaded, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. Yamla 03:56, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
This page is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
I have added again the commercial and non-commercial software related to the Outlook Express page (my own is Outlook Express API). I considered a bad action to take off all these related software. Please explain me the difference between the page you removed and the page you left (insideoutlookexpress, secunia, outlookexpressguru) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 201.235.100.149 ( talk • contribs) .
Hello Warrens,
Thanks for your note.
A few weeks ago someone (not me) added Zunerama as a useful External Link for the Wikipedia Zune article. After you removed it today, I re-added it. I believe there is strong evidence it is a far more appropriate and useful link than the external link that you chose *not* to remove. Please visit both sites if you wish and make your own analysis based on content, and on ad prominence. And please explain your criteria before removing external links.
I am open to your opinion about appropriate external links; if you feel certain links should be left in and others taken out, please add your justification to the discussion page of the Wikipedia Zune site. Thank you. Otherwise it just looks like you're affiliated with the other sites, which I believe is not the case.
I've copied an excerpt from the Discussion page of the Wikipedia Zune entry below:
(removed, thanks, i saw it -- Warren)
Thanks. Hchute 01:52, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
Warrens, I apologise for all of the vandalism that I have caused to your encyclopedia, and would like to make it up to you somehow. I know that we got off on a rough start together and I would like to know how I can contribute constructively to your encyclopedia so that you will not have to block me from editing. Please respond on my talk page and tell me how I can help make the encyclopedia better. Thanks. 64.126.42.123 03:26, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
Hi Warrens,
I am wondering if you may be able to help me.
I just recently added information about Windows 2000 Service Packs on the Windows 2000 article. I wanted to make sure that I had the information correct. My understanding was that once an operating system was phased into Extended Support that no more service packs would be provided for that system. Please tell me on my talk page if this is correct. If it is not, please fill me in on the facts that you have. Thanks Jdlowery 03:40, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
How are you Warrens?
I was wondering if you knew much about the Microsoft WGA program. I know there are a lot of people who think this program is spyware. My understanding was that it could be classified under this category because of how Microsoft destributes it as a critical security update on Windows Update. Not to mention the stories I have heard about the tool phoning home to Microsoft on a regular basis. One other strange thing that I have been hearing from my friend about is people going and validating their PC on the Microsoft Download Center to access a downolad. After the download is complete they run an antispyware program and find that the WGA validation tool has caused a Browser Hijack attempt. I do not know if these stories would be good material for the WGA article here on Wikipedia. I am still searching the web to see if I can find evidence to back some of this up. I was also wondering if you had heard any of these strange stories yourself. Please respond on my talk page and tell me what you think. Jdlowery 02:09, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
User:194.80.32.11 may have a point: some or many of those "new features" may be "features" only because the marketing department broadened the definition. For example, they may have decided that each new theme is a "feature", although most people probably would not look at it that way. I'd say that anything that probably got "interpreted" by a marketing department is suspect. -- Scott McNay 05:29, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
Thanks Warrens for deleting the Windows vista criticism on the wikipedia page Mateia Andrew
Just one question:Why is it necessary to left-align the text in the table cells? Standard table cells (with the TD
element) default to left alignment.
—
Kbolino 01:14, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
div.NavContent
style has a text-align:center
in it, and that was inherited down through the table. After giving some thought, it occured to me that we can get the same effect by applying a text-align:left
on that div layer, overriding what's in the style sheet, and thus also remove that style from every TD
element in the table. I've made that change
[1]. Look good to you?
-/-
Warren 02:02, 25 October 2006 (UTC)ugh Found this after your recent edit to the template removing same... SchmuckyTheCat 18:23, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the comments! Only two of us ( Jdlowery (provided images) and I (wrote the summary of the builds)) have cooperated for that article. I asked you too, remember. (as Deogene) But you did not answer. Anyway, thanks again! - Emir214 12:23, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
Hello, can you help me improve and expand the section "Development of Windows XP" I created for the Windows XP article? Link here. - Deogene 08:53, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
Please respond on my talk page. - Deogene 08:55, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
So you think that some presentation from some MS employee (who was charged with preparation of WinHEC presentation), even more that half a year old, is some MORE ACCURATE than real behavior in Windows Vista, which you can see in black and white? Sorry but that doesn't make sense for me. OK, so I removed the citation because it is simply obsolete. But I don't see any logical reason why there should be information which CONTRADICTS with REAL STATE just because of some beta-time presentation. Please at least reply before you do next revert. Thanks. Jakub Horky 09:33, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
Why'd you revert my comment on Adobe LiveCycle being a competing product? It's quite useful for someone trying to decide if they want to use InfoPath. Gypsydoctor 15:12, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
OK. Perhaps the category "e-forms" could be used and could include XFORMS etc. as well. Gypsydoctor 05:05, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
Goodbye, Warrens. See more on my user page. - Emir214 12:36, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
Please avoid using abusive edit summaries as per Wikipedia:Civility and Wikipedia:No personal attacks. Thanks and happy editing. — FireFox ( talk) 22:04, 04 November 2006
Aw! I've never got a Mail before! Um, I dunno if this is in the right place or not, do I reply here? Oh well... Yeah, anyway thanks for the message thingy.
By the way, if this isn't the right place just delete this message... if you can. — Preceding unsigned comment added by O2mcgovem ( talk • contribs)
Luna Santin has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling to someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Smile to others by adding {{ subst:smile}}, {{ subst:smile2}} or {{ subst:smile3}} to their talk page with a friendly message. Happy editing!
Riding in the eye of the storm, eh? ;) Nice to see somebody making productive edits in there. Cheers. Luna Santin 08:10, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for sending me a message. I did not want to copy it actually. Then i thought both are MS products so they should get same type of style. :). -- SkyWalker 09:18, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
Why did you created a copy of Image:Benedelman-spyware-cropped.png by uploading Image:Windows ActiveX security warning (malware).png? I have copied the text and would like to delete the unlinked to image.-- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk 04:00, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
Warren, My edits to others comments, so far as the history shows were to add links, not to change content. I thought them of some help to readers. Do you not?
As for your most recent edits in response to someone moving Dig Rest Mgmt higher in the introduction, I fear you've excised useful information for readers. Wherever the two twrms should be placed in the intro section. I'll try to remember to come back and fill in some of the deleted bits. ww 10:07, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
Why remove DirectShow from category Windows multimedia? Robert K S 13:42, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
About the original research thing, I didn't look at the source, sorry. I just assumed they would call it Windows Six because Vista is Windows 6.0, so Windows 7.0 wouldn't make sense. PureLegend 19:03, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
how can you run osx and still go on about windows so much? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Spam moi ( talk • contribs) .
I've dropped you a reply here, and also put forward an idea here here, don't know if you'd be notified so now you know! JamesWeb 16:23, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
It was just simple page blanking vandalism. Feel free to report him to AIV instead next time. I have blocked him indefinitely. Alphachimp 06:42, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
by Windows Vista article. I put it back. Jiddisch 20:26, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
Hello, when you want to link to the article about something British, please do not link to British, as that is a disambiguation page (which nothing should be linked to). Instead link to the one of the options found on that page such as United Kingdom, Great Britain or British English by writing out [[United Kingdom|British]] or [[Great Britain|British]]. Regards, Jeff3000 00:19, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
No problem. I just noticed that because of the "Articles with unsourced statements" cat on the article. And you are right Paul did mention that in a couple of places back in September last year. I wonder if that was just bad information on his part or something Microsoft couldn't sort out (legally and/or technically) in time for the launch.
BTW Thanks for catching the vandalism on my user page back at the beginning of the month. AlistairMcMillan 04:51, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
Hey Warrens, sorry I have not been around much lately. I've just been very busy at work and thus have not had much time for Wikipedia. I wanted to know if you would like to help me out on a Development of Windows 95 timeline to give people more reference to what builds were created up to its initial release in August. Please leave me a message on My talk page if you would like to help me compile some data for the timeline. Thanks. Jdlowery 17:33, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for uploading Image:Windows Task Scheduler 5472.png. I notice the 'image' page currently specifies that the image is unlicensed for use on Wikipedia and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently orphaned, meaning that it is not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable under fair use (see our fair use policy).
If you have uploaded other unlicensed media, please check whether they're used in any articles or not. You can find a list of 'image' pages you have edited by clicking on the " my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "Image" from the dropdown box. Note that any fair use images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. — Alex ( T| C| E) 00:23, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
I've been updating screenshots of Windows Vista throughout Wikipedia. I tagged a few of the obsolete ones for deletion. Let me know if you need any more screenshots taken from RTM. :-) — Alex ( T| C| E) 02:14, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
I appreciate your advice and appreciate they were well intentioned. However, I didn't add the words you were concerned about, I was merely the last person to edit the article. The phrase you're concerned about was added in 2004 by Iluvcapra.
My apologies for replying here rather than in my talk page, but there's some kind of networking problem that prevents me from editing large amounts of text from my home DSL connection. Squiggleslash 17:25, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
This file may be deleted. |
Thanks for uploading Image:Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 logo.png. I notice the 'image' page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in Wikipedia articles constitutes fair use. When you use a generic fair use tag such as {{fair use}} or {{fair use in|article name}}, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.
Please go to the image description page and edit it to include a fair use rationale.
If you have uploaded other fair use media, consider checking that you have specified the fair use rationale on those pages too. You can find a list of 'image' pages you have edited by clicking on the " my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "Image" from the dropdown box. Note that any fair use images lacking such an explanation will be deleted one week after they have been uploaded, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. Yamla 03:56, 30 November 2006 (UTC)