User talk:Foobaz: Difference between revisions

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On "latter"

Hi, I see you've edited my page to change "latter" into "last", claiming that it only applies to sets of two. Since "last" is uncontroversial, I am of course going to keep it. Thanks.

That said, I've done some digging. Merriam-Webster defines "latter" in this meaning is "of, relating to, or being the second of two groups or things or the last of several groups or things referred to" (emphasis mine). And in its usage note for "former", the American Heritage Dictionary notes:

Grammarians have often insisted that the phrases the former and the latter should be used only to refer to the first of two things and the second of two things, respectively, as in Ernest L. Thayer's "Casey at the Bat": "But Flynn preceded Casey, as did also Jimmy Blake, and the former was a lulu and the latter was a fake." It is easy to find violations of this rule in the works of good writers; nonetheless, many readers feel uneasy when the words are used in enumerations of more than two things, just as they would feel uneasy over the similar incorrect use of a comparative in a sentence such as Her boys are 7, 9, and 13; only the younger was born in California.

So, in summary, while "last" is indisputably better in this case, my use of "latter" did reflect prevalent usage in English that is not universally considered wrong. Sanity check passed. :-)

I am a language freak and a non-native speaker; I love to find out about things like these. This is meant to be informative, not to imply that I didn't appreciate your input. Kindly ignore everything after "thanks" if it doesn't interest you. :-) JRM 03:23, 2005 Jan 9 (UTC)

Dear Foobaz

(please refer to delete votes)

• • Dear Wiki contributors, admins & sysops. You have been mislead by Curps. Please see that article in question and decide for yourselves if deletion is a correct Wiki thing to do. I have decided not to pursue the re-naming of Curps's article 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and through consultation with other helpful Wikis, I have decided to start a series of Asian Tsunami articles on my own ... there is freedom to initiate such a move right ? The articles in questions is proposed to drill deep in the subject in question. In Asian tsunami : The earthquake I have attempted to focus just on the earthquake that caused the Asian Tsunamis. In Asian tsunami : Time-line (currently vandalised by Curps), I have drilled down to the exact minutes to minutes account of the waves of deadly tsunamis. I will be added other article in the Asian tsunami series like the humanitarian aspects, current news & occurrences etc. because I think it is the right thing to do. kenkam 06:55, 10 Jan 2005 (UTC)

MPTP and Fentanyl

Sure, go ahead. I think that I was planning on adding something to the Fentanyl article about how badly snythisized Fentanyl can produce MPTP, and figured that wasn't enough info about MPTP to rate it's own article. But if you can put enough together for an article, go ahead. -- Khym Chanur

Coopetition

I'm glad you like my edit on coopetition. Thank you for your kind words. Stombs 08:54, Jan 12, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks Foobaz !

Hi Foobaz, I like to thank you for your encouraging comments. Will look into improving Wiki methods ASAP. kenkam 22:14, 12 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Help pages

Hi Foobaz,

Please note the message at the top of the Help pages: edit the master page at Meta, only.--Patrick 23:53, Feb 8, 2005 (UTC)

Antarctica-geo-stub

Hi Foobaz, I'm not entirely convinced by the change of image on the Antarctica-geo-stub template. I admit the dark box round the satellite map looked a bit clunky, but without it the image looks like a dirty snowball (which is, I suppose, what Antarctica is). I'm happy enough to have the image I put there changed, I'm just not sure the new image is much of an improvement. (Perhaps it would look better with thin a blue border, or something...) Grutness|^hello? 08:08, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)

For some reason, the new image isn't showing up on the template for me at he moment (probably need to purge the cache). Nut the image file itself looks like it will be far better than either of the two previous ones! Grutness|^hello? 04:34, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Thank you

I over reacted a bit i could say, but given the tone of some people on the Detroit page, who give the impression that they own the page and that one needs their approval to make edits, espicaly after making a sigificant improvment, imo, to an other wise very disorganizd and lacklust page that did nothing to represent the city of detroit, puts me off wanting to allow my work be berated or used. Espciall after having numers other otside people proof the page befor hand. I just like to thank you for your suppport of my work. --User:Boothy443 | comhrÚ 20:10, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Mazatlán

Happens to the best of us. Fret ye not. –Hajor 15:47, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Truelove Eyre

I have substantially cleaned up the Truelove Eyre article based on the references that User:DragonflySixtyseven found, and have removed the spurious claims about the Eyre Empire etc. I am changing my vote to keep: can I persuade you to do the same? Thanks! GeorgeStepanek\^talk 01:41, 2 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Image sleuthing

Great job on image sleuthing! You've found several that I couldn't. – Quadell ^{(talk) (sleuth)} 05:13, Mar 5, 2005 (UTC)

Convento de Christo

The images are made by my with my Canon Powershoot A40 Camera during a visit in Portugal. I have few more pictures. My name is Cristian Chirita and I'm live in Romania.

Image:Macarthur&wainwright.jpg

I think you're doing right, but I'm not sure that the wikipedia software is behaving. The photo you located seems to me to be PD (good work, sleuth) but the image displaying in the Image page [1] is not the same as that on the book page [2] (but is a crop of the book page image) and in any event is being expanded by wikipedia. I think we might be better to add the book image as a new image, and delete the existing image. (Clearly, someone who knoew what they were doing might be able to sort this out without the suggested deletion, but that someone is not me. --Tagishsimon (talk)

Magic: The Gathering

How come when The Recycling Troll does it it's encouraged and admired, but when I do it, it gets reverted? RickK 08:12, Mar 10, 2005 (UTC)

Lossless cropping

Hi Foobaz. I noticed you losslessly cropped Image:Dalek from BBC.jpg. It's nice to see that someone else is paranoid about lossy compression, too! Do you use jpegtran to do it? dbenbenn | talk 14:35, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I couldn't get the cropping patches to jpegtran to work, so no. I use GraphicConverter. But i do use jpegtran -optimize before i upload jpg's to the wiki. It's amazing how much space that saves sometimes. It's good to know my obsessive behavior doesn't go unnoticed. Foobaz·o< 20:23, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I'll have to try that jpegtran -optimize out tonight. By the way, GraphicConverter doesn't indicate that it can do lossless operations on JPEGs—perhaps someone familiar with the program could improve the article ... dbenbenn | talk 21:28, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Surname

(Continued from my Talk page

Gosh! That name sounds familiar (and not just the surname). I think that my grandfather or great-grandfather was "William James" also.

If you are planning on visiting Scotland then I highly recommend it. I hope you like hills, there are a few more here than in Florida.

Unverified orphans

This is regarding your comments at Wikipedia talk:Images and media for deletion/Unverified orphans#So what do we do about those UOs? Request for comments.. Please note that there are many UOs that satisfy one of more of the following:

1. They weren't orphaned to begin with and were removed from articles by people paranoid about copyrights.
2. They were uploaded before mid-2004 which is when people decided to include non-GFDL non-PD non-fair-use images. Long ago everything was GFDL or PD (we had to agree to GFDL-redistributability while uploading) and there was no requirement to tag, then fair-use came to be allowed and then came allowing other licenses and image-tagging.
3. Their uploaders have since left the project and hence can't be contacted for updating the image with licensing info.
4. They might be redundant images in an article, but may be useful as a commons resource on the subject.
5. Orphans don't load the image server since nearly nobody sees them.

Please see my messages here, here, here, here, and here and the meagre response I was able to get.

If you feel I am not a trusted person enough to be bothered about, you could see Jamesday's opinion on Wikipedia talk:Copyright violations on history pages and Anthere's opinion here, here and here and Sj's opinion here.

As you could see from my messages, I would like a proper place where many people discuss the current image deletion policy, but I don't know what to do. Thanks for any help. -- Paddu 08:53, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Image:NoCopyright.png

Original PNG

New SVG

Hello. I placed this image of yours onto the Wikimedia Commons. This will allow any user in any Wikimedia project to use this image. If you have any questions, you are welcome to leave me a message. Thank you. The image is located at [3]. Zscout370 (talk) 16:02, 9 May 2005 (UTC)

I have converted this image to SVG nandhp 16:22, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

Template:Tsar things

As one of the people who have edited Template:Tsar things you should know that the template has been nominated for deletion at WP:TFD. BlankVerse ∅ 10:24, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Discussion at Talk:Pakistan

Would you like to join the animated discussion on the Pakistan's talk page? The current issue is whether "Pakistan is famous for its support of Taliban and 9/11 terrorist" is a suitable sentence to start the article's first paragraph. Your contribution would be much appreciated, as the current discussion seems to be more of a dialog between User:Ragib and User:SamTr014 Talk:Pakistan Thanks!--Raju1 07:36, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)

List of warez groups on VfD

Thank you for your comments regarding the ongoing discussion regarding #trax. It is worth noting that this particular community has held meetings along the same size and scale of Rubi Con; where people travelled as far as Finland and Australia to attend, and a demoscene production was made which immortalizes the event. [4] [5]

There are also two other channels and communities (same name, different servers) which hold similar types of meetings in other parts of the world, each vaguely cognisant of each other. Articles shouldn't be deleted simply because someone doesn't want an article written about a community they participate in, but perhaps this is just too granular.

At your convenience, please also see Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/List of warez groups for an another discussion regarding the potential deletion of List of warez groups. Take care... —RaD Man (talk) 00:00, 26 July 2005 (UTC)

Photovoltaic-cell.png

Hi Foobaz. I have just made a minor adjustment to your PV cell image, and I noticed that it doesn't have a public domain tag. There is a danger that it will get deleted unless we give it a tag of some sort, like {{PD}} or {{GFDL}}. Would you mind adding one? (I would do it myself to save you the trouble, but I don't think I have the right to appropriate someone else's images.) --Heron 10:20, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

Henry the Navigator

An article that you've edited before (Henry the Navigator) is nominated for Biography Collaboration of the Week. If you want go there and vote. Thanks. Gameiro 20:44, 24 October 2005 (UTC)

Hello,

I've just got this message and I assure you I have never done anything wrong on this or any other website for that matter. I use Wikipedia every day and would never compromise anything here. I am sorry for the mix up but I swear I've never done anything against the rules both moral and written.

Thank you.

Wikipedia:Babel

Could you consider adding this template to your userpage? It is very helpful in case translators are needed and such.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus ^Talk 15:40, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Image:Crossbuster.jpg

Speedy deletion warning

Image:Crossbuster.jpg has been listed at Category:Candidates for speedy deletion, because the image is redundant with Image:Crossbuster.svg.

Image:NetworkTopologies.png

Hi! What program did you use to create this image? 80.178.219.52

the Seven Seas are calm

Now that i'm finally back to maintaining my watchlist, I saw that the seven seas have been calm for some time. Oh, and we found out why i was SO tired ... had sinusitis. -- ∞Dbroadwell 17:24, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

Please Help

There is an unholy mess in the Maryland article regarding a section entitled "cultural identity." Most of the editors agree that the state is a Northern one, and many facts have been posted and adequately cited to prove that fact. A Confederate sympathizer, however, is constantly going onto the article, removing cited information, and replacing it with unsourced "statistics" that steer Maryland into the Southern category. Please read the whole debate, weigh in, and please, PLEASE, help.

01:53, 5 May 2006 (UTC)User:History21]]

AFP

Although I do think that the current name is the most official of them, go ahead and move it back if you'd like. :) -- Steven Fisher 15:15, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

Image:NetworkTopologies.png

Would you mind uploading split versions? (i.e. one each) There are several articles that could do with such illustrations, but the complete set is too much for most. Rl 12:00, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

Thank you so much. Two suggestions: For the split images, it might be better to have no text (it duplicates the caption and it is fixed to one language). And in the future, you may want to upload your pictures to Wikimedia Commons, so Wikipedias in other languages can use them as well (and it's much easier to find stuff there, too). Commons:Topology (Network) would be a perfect fit for these. Rl 07:00, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

Something doesn't seem to be working right. I see changes in the respective file histories (along with a resolution change), but identical images (with text, same resolution) appear in the pages (e.g. commons:Topology (Network) or commons:Image:NetworkTopology-Line.png). Rl 11:54, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

Image:Rainbow warrior.jpg

Thanks for uploading Image:Rainbow warrior.jpg. I notice the 'image' page specifies that the image is being used under fair use, but its use in Wikipedia articles fails our first fair use criterion in that it illustrates a subject for which a freely licensed image could reasonably be found or created. If you believe this image is not replaceable, please:

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More replaceable fair use images

• Image:Vitali Zholobov.jpg

—Chowbok ☠ 02:19, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

Map on Newfoundland and Labrador

The map is neither better, not standard. It is not better because it loses features in its embossed nature, and gains absolutely nothing from those features. Why on earth would we need a metallic-looking Canada and an embossed Newfoundland and Labrador? It is not standard because it has just been slapped onto the articles for the provinces and territories today. _└ ^OzLawyer / _talk ^┐ 01:32, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

Being changed as we speak. Quebec was never changed to the "new style" either. _└ ^OzLawyer / _talk ^┐ 01:42, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

Probably not. What we really need is a good SVG map of Canada. _└ ^OzLawyer / _talk ^┐ 01:57, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

French overseas collectives

I noticed that you deleted the French overseas collectives from the transcontinental country page. I don't see where there is much of a difference between those and French overseas territories, except in name. France definitely deserves credit for a continued Oceanian presence and considers the collectives an integral part of its territory. See the page on Administrative divisions of France. Heff01 05:19, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

Some of these collectives were known as overseas territories until the constitutional change of 2003. Corsica is technically a collective but commonly considered part of Metropolitan France. The local governments of the territories and collectives are pretty similar. See also Territorial collectivity. France considers all of its overseas possessions to be part of its Outremer. Heff01 20:47, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

Now France is gone in toto from the list of transcontinental countries that qualify "solely by virtue of the fact that an integral part of their national territory consists of islands that are situated within the continental shelf of another continent or are otherwise geographically closer to another continent than the mainland." Out of all those overseas possessions, only French Guiana is on a mainland, namely that of South America. If France had to go from that list, so does Spain, since Ceuta and Melilla are on the African mainland. See my response on my own talk page. Heff01 23:32, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

Gilgamesh restored Spain to the list, but I reverted it. Meanwhile, France is having its presidential runoff election between Sarkozy and Royal this weekend. Metropolitan France and all territories and collectives are part of the national electorate. The French New World possessions voted yesterday and the remainder of the French realm is voting today. Heff01 13:56, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

Image:Bad Religion.jpg

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Yes, the image will likely be deleted. The policy on unfree media does not allow for copyrighted images of living people or, in this case, bands that are still together. ShadowHalo 19:51, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

Userspace proposal

I am trying to formulate a proposal that avoids using the unpopular IEC neologisms altogether. As this proposal is in my userspace, please allow me to edit it as I see fit. You may, of course, discuss it in on the Talk page or on WT:MOSNUM, or create your own proposal in your userspace. *** Crotalus *** 03:06, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

No problem, it's an understandable mistake. Feel free to discuss the issue at WT:MOSNUM, where it is currently being debated in an attempt to reach consensus on this matter. *** Crotalus *** 03:09, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

Indian defence

You're welcome. I think the chess pages are coming along nicely. Although it isn't always lightning fast, in the couple years I've been around the Wikipedia chess community has improved them a lot. We still need to do a better job with references, and some pages such as middle game need a lot of work (a complete rewrite in that case, I think). Quale 01:14, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

ЧЕАЯБИНСК

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Vandals must be warned

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Orphaned non-free image (Image:Dalek from BBC.jpg)

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intentional?

you deleted a para of my edits. intentional? I hope not. Misou 05:13, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

RE:Scientology

Sorry. I've been on vacation for 2 weeks in a different time zone, so I'm temporarily temporally disoriented. :-) —« ANIMUM » 16:42, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

Dubai International Airport

The best thing with that is to follow Wikipedia:Copyrights#If you find a copyright infringement and remove the material. It's also a good idea to let the person who inserted it know so they don't do it again. Cheers. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 06:41, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

Daft Punk's Electroma

Regarding your contribution to the article, the wording of the source you added is uncannily similar to that of the Wikipedia entry. The source may in fact have used the prose in the Daft Punk's Electroma article (or one of its many mirrors) as reference material. Until this is clarified, the reference may have to be removed. If you have any comments, please click here to contact me. Just64helpin 23:04, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

Streamium

I undid an edit because it introduced some inaccuracies. Have reworded the paragraph now. ~ -09:41, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

Apple TV

I undid your edit in AppleTV because the Streamium MX6000i is an interesting precursor to the AppleTV product. In my view the reference (see also) is relevant from a historical point of view lest the world think this concept was first marketed by Apple. ` -Belvdme 14:39, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

Scientology

Get over the to talk page. Misou 02:22, 17 August 2007 (UTC)