User talk:Mav
If you've been frequenting the RecentChanges page, you might already expect that I am a Wikipediholic -- yep, I admit it (score = 82).
Problem now is, sleeping has switched from a full (i.e. normal) to part time occupation.... oh well - you only live once, there's plenty of time to rest later...
Could use a suggestion where to PUT the Newberry NVM, or you're welcome to do it of course. Dmsar 01:44 10 Jul 2003 (UTC)
- It's already in the National Monument article so why not also have it in Bend, Oregon? --mav
good idea. thanks Dmsar 01:53 10 Jul 2003 (UTC)
Great to see someone is on the ball....I totally screwed. Posted when I had not read all the info. Now I understand........sorry about that Mav.....won't happen again. In reference to the article you deleted after providing the redirect to B family. Duh...live and learn I guess.....Awareness99
- Nothing has been deleted - it is still in the history of the article. The information can be used but the exact copied wording cannot (it also needs to be stated in a neutral way). We also already have an article dealing with much of the same subject matter at Bush family conspiracy theory. I'm sure you could add a good deal of information to that article. --mav
Thanks Mav, this is really an awesome project. I totally understand where you are coming from. No more issues from me. Awareness99
I've been troubled with a problem for many months and I have not yet come to a solution. It has to do with a few hundred cities that according to the census bureau are duplicates but with different data. For instance some cities in New York are listed twice. Once it is listed as a larger "town" and secondly it is listed as a smaller "village". Now I have seen in same cases where this really does make sense. The one is a larger legal body and the other is a smaller body containing it (similar to a "township" containing a "town" of the same name). They both contain the same name and they may contain the same or different data. We're dealing with almost 2,000 articles here (duplicates, so about 900 or so unique areas). Should I create two separate articles? Just skip the different data and pick one? Some of the city requests made on the User:Rambot page are those cities which suffer from this problem. I could fulfill those requests for cities, but I don't know what data to use. -- Ram-Man
- Oh vey! I'll have to put my thinking cap on for that... OK, in cases where the data are the same how about we have one article (like with San Francisco, California and [[San Francisco County, California) but when they have different data have two different articles. I guess to distinguish the two parenthetical disambiguation will have to be employed such as (town), (city) or (village). --mav
- I guess we will have to leave it to the people who live in that place to make sense of it if they can. Thanks -- RM
Hi Mav, Gene Roddenberry was again modified by Trekkie1, but at least I managed to make him write in the discussion page why he deleted it. I am not sure what is right. What do we do? Thanks, Fantasy 14:35 1 Jul 2003 (UTC)
- You seem to be handling it well and the info being removed is correct as far as I know so you, me, RK and anybody else is justifed in reverting. --mav
You seem to be getting a very hard time by the folks at Martin Luther. I'm not really involved either way, but I do have a lot of books on Luther, purely out of cultural interest. I'll have to try and get them organized, and maybe then I will join the fray. Although I do feel the page seems to entail too much aggravation for the commensurate egoboost. -- Cimon Avaro on a pogo-stick 07:35 2 Jul 2003 (UTC)
I just changed my mind, after reading the current weaselworded edition with some attention. Come what may, I in. Not on your side, mind. But the side of truth, as always. -- Cimon Avaro on a pogo-stick 16:32 2 Jul 2003 (UTC)
Good evening to you Mav.
I have a question. The english wikipedia has many more policies and guidelines than the french wikipedia, and many I am not really aware of :-) I think you are, right ? Re your comment to The Anome : You wrote that not respecting wikipedia policies, such as "niceness" was a bannable offense. Where can I find this policy ? Is not being nice is really a bannable offense ? What would you call not being nice ? (I don't talk about the case you know of course) User:Anthere
- I was referring to Wikipedia:Wikiquette. A "bannable offense" in this regard is completely irrelevant because 142.177 has already been banned. Therefore there is much less by the way of "un-niceness" that will be tolerated from him. Example of being "un-nice": Calling for The Anome's sysop status to be revoked on the Vandalism in progress page just because The Anome was enforcing the HardBan. --mav
- Is it ok to remove anything that is severely breaching the rules of "niceness" ? Which are the rules in terms of refactoring ? ant
- I'm not getting your point. --mav
I've noticed that many people's sigs have timestamps attached to them. How does one do that automatically (I assume there is a feature I don't know). What other hidden features are there? Is there a page for them? -- Ram-Man
- Four ~ will do the magic. --mav
33K, Mav old chap. Tut, tut. Have you not done your daily archive yet (or in your case, should it be by the hour? Hee hee!) Anyway, bad noos. There seems to be some vote on the issue of the redesigned front page set up by those opposed to it. Now I love it but some people don't (one of them curiously enough dislikes photographs in articles too and dislikes talk page yellow! Do I see a pattern - no doubt in black and white in his case - emerging?). Given your role in our colourful launch (or in Yank-speech, colorful launch!) it might be worth casting your vote there, lest the regime of the BOSs (boring old sods) take power and return us to boring dullness on the front page. The vote is at Talk:Main Page/Layout design. Slán FearÉIREANN 02:11 5 Jul 2003 (UTC)
- Well I was one of the major people behind the non-color front page design that was launched on Wikipedia's last birthday. The only major different with the most current update was to add color. Before I started working on it the page looked like this which has ugly horizontal rules and no real "Selected Articles" box. But voting on this seems rather premature - shouldn't the people who object to the color try to help us design something that most of us like and the rest of us can at least live with? This rush to voting on every stupid little thing sickens me - have we forgotten how to do things the WikiWay and compromise? --mav
Hi, mav. I noticed the revision you made to Lou Donaldson. Is there a standard format for dates and birthplace? It's been perplexing me as I write my numerous jazz stubs. I put Donaldson's birthplace in the same para as the dates but in the separate sentence you wrote -- they seemed to go together but I'm ready to follow any standard format. Trontonian
- Answer is on your talk page. --mav
Alright, fixed all of the links (including many where the problem was not caused by me, I'd note). I was trying to fix most of the Nebuchadnezzar links as well, but there's a ton and I'm going to bed. john 07:59 6 Jul 2003 (UTC)
- That's cool. Nice work so far. :) --mav
Thanks. It was an interesting trip, though I missed most of the major landmarks. Maybe I could get user:Ed Poor and user:The Cunctator interested in photography. Koyaanis Qatsi 22:09 6 Jul 2003 (UTC)
Thanks for the reference. Another problem is bothering me. I believe a lot of the graphics of harness horses are actually copyright material -- for example, the rights to the famous picture of Greyhound seem to be owned either by the US Trotting Association or by the Hall of Fame of the Trotter. However, in the absence of any information about whether they were used with permission, is it wise to delete them? I'm leaving out of consideration the possibility of triggering another round of French king/List of Canadians battles. Trontonian
- Hm. IMO all we need in this case is to mention who owns the photo. Then fair use would apply. It looks like this is where the image came from. Having a link to that page and mentioning the probable owners should be enough. If and when the real owners complain we can clarify things or remove the photo as appropriate. --mav
- Thanks. Trontonian
Hi Mav. I'm sorry, since I am very new in Wikipedia, first I forgot to give references to my upload images and then after your messages I tried to cite them (most of them are from my personal archive) but couldn't. Can you tell me how I can write these next to my upload picture. Huger
- No big deal - we all make mistakes. More on your talk page. --mav
an article about BAV1, a bacterium that can decompose vinyl chloride, which otherwise lasts for hundreds of years in the soil. You might know where to stick the relevant info. :-) Koyaanis Qatsi 16:05 9 Jul 2003 (UTC)
- Cool info - I'll look into it. --mav
Presuming his IP address has not changed since he logged in, we can block the Ian Curtis spammer. Shall I? I think we've shown exemplary patience. :-) Evercat 21:09 9 Jul 2003 (UTC)
- Yep. It is time. You do the honors. --mav
Done. We shall see if his IP address is dynamic. :-) Evercat 21:12 9 Jul 2003 (UTC)
I just saw your comment on the test wiki about dynamic dates. You probably weren't using my scripts. It's my fault, I didn't explain it properly. Anyway, this link should take you to a page that works, whereas this link takes you to a page which looks identical, but it doesn't work. -- Tim Starling 07:33 10 Jul 2003 (UTC)
- Cool. It does appear to work now. OIC that was only installed on your version of the script. --mav
Damn you, mav, I spent the last 20 minutes updating the Pat Robertson article. ;) Didn't you read the talk page? hehe.. --Dante Alighieri 20:14 10 Jul 2003 (UTC)
- No. I just read the article before your update and also the current events page which did not have the Robertson current event. Please also update that page. --mav
- Done and done. Do you think it would be worth a mention on Anti-Arabism? Something along the lines of "Anti-Arabism is so pervasive in some American Christian cultures that even widely known and respected clergyman Pat Robertson would rather have a Baptist dictator who has been indicted by the United Nations for war crimes, than see Muslims control a country." Then again, I'm not exactly unbiased when it comes to Robertson... --Dante Alighieri 20:29 10 Jul 2003 (UTC)
- Hm. I think that may be a bit much (although probably true I'm sure Robertson would disagree). --mav
I thought about it again and... I agree with you now about adding full speaches to Wikiquote, tough I think tehy will have to be treated differently. -fonzy