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Chess notation in articles

I responded to your question in Talk:Magnus_Carlsen but though I would add the reponce here as well.

You can have a look at Category:Chess_games to see how some other people have done it. Additionally if you look at Immortal game at the bottoms there is a link to a .pgn of the game which is also described in the article. The link is to upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia which is I think diffrent form how files that get directly upladed here work. I have been investigating this in spare moments to try and figure out if you have to use wikicommons or can use wiki[edia directly for this. When I get it figured out I think I am going to add pgn files for all the atricles in that category, and possibly also for Category:Chess_openings where approprate. Dalf | Talk 20:50, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Thanks. I used the same formatting as is in the Immortal Game article and I think it does look much better. However, I can't figure out how to upload this PGN file I have, as the file uploader only seems to accept images. Ideas? --Malathion 00:45, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Yes, I was looking into this last night but I had to stop and do somethign else. I am going to try again tonight but the basic idea is. Wikipedia is a wikimedia project, I don't know how to do the interwiki links but wikicommons is a project just for uploading files ment to be used in other wikimedia projects. The link at the bottom of Immortal game you will notice points to an address in http://wikimedia NOT http://wikipedia. The only problem is from the main page at wikicommons it is not clear how to do other file types or if the same rules apply. I imagine figuing it out wont be hard though. If i figure it out I will elt you know, if you figure it out leave me a note on my talk page. Dalf | Talk 01:29, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Here is a link to the edit where the link was added. So we can probbly ask User:Camembert how to do it :) Dalf | Talk 01:40, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I asked User:Camembert about this and he answered on his talk page. The gist of the answer is that some time last year uploads were changed to a limited set of file-types for security reasons. PGN was not one of the allowed types, but old uploaded files were not deleted. I am going to find out what is needed to get it added. I will let you know once I start that conversation somewhere. Dalf | Talk 22:01, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I ONT O

Malathion, you should probably copy-and-paste your links. Oddly named, but your vfd wasn't showing up and wasn't linking to the correct page. Hope you don't mind! --Ricky81682 (talk) 06:29, May 19, 2005 (UTC)

199.217.32.2 vandal

You wrote: "It looks like this guy has made hundreds of malicious and possibly difficult to catch vandalisms. I haven't gone back far in his history but I notice you reverted many of them. Is this guy under control?".

They wrote he got blocked, I don't know for how long. Pavel Vozenilek 09:19, 19 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Cheating in Counter-Strike

Your changes are again a bit premature imho. While it is likely that the 'mouse hack cheat' is merely an urban legend, as I don't know if anyone has ever seen such a mouse in action and even the possibility of the technique is questionable, a lot of pro gamers seem to believe it and insist on forcing everyone to use ps2 mice instead of usb. It may be a sort of superstition but blankly omitting that part isn't exactly wise, as, see, I do not know if this is just an urban legend or something that someone actually did, and you don't either. I figured it would be most wise to include it but clearly state that this is probably just an urban legend. Why are you insisting on removing it? Dabljuh 12:09, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Existence of God merger

I'm attempting to develop a consensus in favor of merging the Arguments against the existence of God and the Arguments for the existence of God articles. A beta version of the resulting article is available at Existence of God. To date, there seems to be consensus in favor of this merger on the "for" talk page, I'm now trying to get a consensus together on the "against" talk page. Please visit Talk:Arguments against the existence of God to weigh in. I'm copy-and-pasting this message to everybody who has contributed to that talk page. crazyeddie 05:45, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Bobby Fischer

Nice work merging the articles together! Neilc 4 July 2005 04:51 (UTC)

Re: Dragon Metal

I think it might of been re-created. Either way, it got deleted again. Hedley 4 July 2005 13:03 (UTC)

I don't think its being re-created enough. If it continues, tell me. Hedley 4 July 2005 15:06 (UTC)

Regarding www.searchextreme.com

Good Evening,

In keeping my eye on the Jenna Jameson article, I've noted that you removed the www.searchextreme.com link, claiming it to be link spam. (Same with other pornographic pages, such as Taylor Rain, as well.) Any particular reason why? It doesn't seem like link spam from my POV, so if you can fill me in on your justification for your edits (or a link to an official wiki policy of what types of sites qualify as link spam) I'd really appreciate it. Thanks. :-) -- Joe Beaudoin Jr. 6 July 2005 01:01 (UTC)

Good enough. Thanks for the information. -- Joe Beaudoin Jr. 6 July 2005 03:03 (UTC)

Caulfield Grammar FAC

Malathion, could you please review your vote and have a good read of this article? The POV you cited has been removed, but your opposition now remains with the claim of "quite a lot of POV" remaining and no specific info of what you're unhappy with. I'd appreciate any more suggestions and feedback you have. Thanks, and great work with merging the Bobby Fischer articles by the way. I was the one who kicked up a fuss about that, remember :)? Harro5 July 6, 2005 09:56 (UTC)

Any advice as to how I can change this one? Caulfield offers students a wide range of subjects. It's pretty brief, and I don't know how else I would start a section on academics. If you have any ideas, just whack them straight into the article and I'll have a look there. Fxing the other points now. Thanks. Harro5 July 6, 2005 10:22 (UTC) Same for Caulfield Grammar offers a wide range of activities for students to participate in. These sentences just say that there's a lot of stuff going on. No real POV there I would think. Thanks. Harro5 July 6, 2005 10:23 (UTC)
- Good wording on the academic line. Could you have a good at the one in The Arts? Thanks for the help. Harro5 July 6, 2005 10:27 (UTC)
  - Thanks for that. Any more? Has you objection been satisfied? Harro5 July 6, 2005 10:37 (UTC)

Utilitarianism

I have given my views on the utilitarianism talk page, as you requested. Take care. icut4u

Thanks

Thanks for the note on my user page. I should have come up with this compliment magnet idea sooner!

Dave (talk) 16:06, July 12, 2005 (UTC)

Arbitration accepted

Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Alfrem has been accepted. There is a pending temporary injunction at Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Alfrem/Proposed_decision#Alfrem_banned_from_Libertarianism. Fred Bauder 13:25, July 13, 2005 (UTC)

OK, I unprotected it. If you see any Alfrem socks, let me know and I will apply the appropriate instrument. Noel (talk) 00:24, 14 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Welll...

... Alfrem wasn't trolling. He genuinely believes what he writes. Perhaps we could just archive older discussions that aren't active any more? - Ta bu shi da yu 04:18, 14 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Not Vandalism

You suggested that my recent edits were vandalism but they are not. Look at this pagewhich clearly states: Wikipedia articles are not: Mere collections of external links or Internet directories. There is nothing wrong with adding to an article a list of content-relevant links; however, excessive lists can dwarf articles and detract from the purpose of Wikipedia.

My edits have all been content-relevant and never excessive. Indeed, they add value by taking you to a site with more information for further reading. As I am new to Wikipedia, if there is a better way to do this then I am all ears. But I have been surfing Wikipedia for months now and have found such links very helpful to me in the past. 68.89.167.97 (talk · contribs)

thanks, and yet....

my stupidity extends even further. Could you also fix the mucked up template on List of White supremacists itself? I would be indebted.... NoahB 19:36, 15 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Bobby Fischer as FAC

I have nominated Bobby Fischer as a WP:FAC. I haven't done a FAC nomination before, so I hope I got this right. Quale 17:47, 16 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Ecologics

YES! I definitely need some more time to fix this submission up. I had no idea the wikipedia was so judgmental and immediately moves to delete submissions without offering some real help "first" to the author. (Note: This comment was posted unsigned by 222.96.232.116 (talk · contribs))

Race and intelligence

Thanks for trying to step in on this lopsided discussion. I note that you nominated this for a FAC, even though it clearly does not meet the criteria. These half dozen "race" guys have gone substantially unchallenged as this article got developed, even though the folk taxonomy POV on both race and intelligence is a significant challenge to the knowledge produced by researchers who assert utility and correlation regarding these two nebulous categories. This is race science at its worst.

I am also pleased that you have the courage of your convictions to put your real name on your work. That helps reduce the kind of passive-aggressive posturing and sniping conveyed in terms like "mess" and "irrelevant" by anonymous editors. My concern is getting this summary NPOVed (it's not even close), but if we are going to have to go to a word-by-word substantiation like Michael Moore did with Fahrenheit 9/11, so be it.

Hope others got the same plea from you. Jokestress 22:28, 17 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Microsoft Jet

What do you think now? - Ta bu shi da yu 09:00, 20 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Bobby Fischer FAC

Sorry for the late response, but I have now decided that Bobby Fischer was a great article and doesn't need more expanding. Thanks. — Stevey7788 (talk) 20:24, 20 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the welcome

Thank you for the welcome. Perhaps it is out of sheer coincidence that, seeing that you are a student at IU, I am a resident of Bloomington as well, assuming you are at the Bloomington campus. Eightball

I also thank you for the welcome. I like gnoming around; although, a user account is too useful not to have. Was that a standard greeting? Also, is your user page based on a template? -- Jimmy C. 04:40, 22 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Tarja Turunen photo

Hello. That is a promotional photo as all the others I have uploaded. They are free for use over the internet, in magazines, newspapers and so on, as you may well know. MissSwan

Ok then. Thank you very much. And it was my pleasure. Please check out the Tuomas Holopainen article I expanded and tell me if there is anything else that needs to be added.

Yeah sure... I got the Tarja one from www.tarjaturunen.com, the Nightwish one from www.fan-sites.org/tarja, the Tuomas one from www.spinefarm.fi and the Therion one from www.megatherion.com

how delete the user page

can you please tell me how to delete the user page.

thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.138.47.18 (talk • contribs) 00:54, 26 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I am that user. I just don't know how to leave messages. I am trying to learn how to do this. I am in the wikipedia boot camp. Sorry.

You created {{Deletevanity}}. Were yiou unaware of {{nn-bio}}, which serves the same purpose? I like that name better, because not all non-notabel biography articles are, strictly speaking, vanity. Even when they are I think it is more polite to call them non-notable, and that is what the WP:CSD specifically deals with. Also, not all vanity articles are specifically about a person -- many band articles are vanity, for example.

But what ever the name I think it would be better to have only one tempalte for this specific purpose. I documeted {{nn-bio}} on the [[Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion][ and Wikipedia:Speedy deletions. Whichever tempalte is agreed on i think ought to be documeted in thsoe places. Would you consider converting {{Deletevanity}} and {{dv}} into redirects to {{nn-bio}}? DES 14:49, 27 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]