User talk:Dcljr/Archive
This page contains old discussion from my talk page. I move stuff here after about six months.
Welcome
Hello there Dcljr, welcome to the 'pedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you need pointers on how we title pages visit Wikipedia:Naming conventions or how to format them visit our manual of style. If you have any other questions about the project then check out Wikipedia:Help or add a question to the Village pump. BTW, nice work in the statistics section esp. outlier. Cheers! --maveric149
Format of Suggested Religion Outline: Thanks!
Thanks for your suggestion on the format of my draft outline in Talk:Religion#Discussion of Re-organization of Religion. I think I did what you suggested. By the way, welcome to Wikipedia, the nerve center of the civilized world! I see that Mav's welcome was back in 2002; so welcome again in 2004! --Rednblu 04:56, 8 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Sexual slang
Isn't anal intercourse a form of sexual intercourse? Secretlondon 04:26, 17 Jul 2004 (UTC)
- yes that looks fine. Secretlondon 04:48, 17 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Great. Thanks for the note. Hyacinth 06:52, 17 Jul 2004 (UTC)
You're doing great work on the Sexual slang article. Your reorganizations have made the article a great read and very worthy of the Wikipedia. -- Stevietheman 14:03, 17 Jul 2004 (UTC)
I made it a subtitle. I didn't want it to appear that I was disagreeing with "encyclopedization" or that you're edits weren't, so I gave it a new header. What I did was make it a subsection, feel free to change the format to your suggestion if you think that will be more clear. Thanks for the message and happy editing. Hyacinth 02:52, 18 Jul 2004 (UTC)
In progress
Currently (August 2004) working on: User:Dcljr/Statistics - dcljr
Moved info about current projects to User:Dcljr. - dcljr 23:21, 13 Aug 2004 (UTC)
External Links
Hi Dcjlr,
Don't use external links where we want Wikipedia links
The basic concept is that we want an in-line text link to point to another Wikipedia article, not an external article, the exception when we link with the [1] style, which shows it is a reference link. Cheers! Cecropia | Talk 21:26, 30 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Moving (Renaming) articles
When you want to rename an article, please use the "move" tab at the top of your screen. Doing it that way ensures that the edit history remains with the article. When you cut and paste the entire article, the history stays with the old article name. older≠wiser 23:09, 2 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Hi dcljr,
I accept the changes you suggested. It does look better. Actually, the first format was a table, which was much worse. It seems that I have a gift for choosing bad designs. I won't have time to work on the lists in the near future, so feel free to make the changes.
Templates seem to be a good idea but I'm not familiar with them. How can we use them?
Thanks, APH 05:09, 11 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Clinton note
Thanks for the note on the Clinton article. I'll leave it to other editors to fix anything that seems inappropriate. Acsenray 20:07, 11 Aug 2004 (UTC)
I don't know whether you noticed -- seems like someone did object mightily to my addition (as you predicted!). I did some rewriting to tone it down and requested comments. I've inserted the changes into the article, but no one has said anything yet. (There seems to be a firestorm over the quote section right now.) Anyway, I was wondering whether you might want to take a peek. Acsenray 17:37, 30 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Hi. The albums haven't disappeared. They've just moved to subpages. For example, the ones starting with A are now at List of albums (A). I don't see any reason to revert this. Angela. 16:44, Aug 12, 2004 (UTC)
Thanks for the compliments. I just redrew stuff I found on the internet. One of these days I will actually try to understand it ;-) -- Chris 73 | Talk 06:28, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Re:Removal of Supreme Court decision
- I deleted the source text from the article because it does not belong there and I knew that anyone interested in transwikiing it would be able to find it in the history. - SimonP 15:57, Aug 21, 2004 (UTC)
- FYI: I've moved the text of the decision to Wikisource:Boynton v. Virginia. - dcljr 06:10, 25 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Cross namespace links
Not all of the mirrors and forks of Wikipedia copy the other namespaces. If you link to the Wikipedia namespace from the main namespace using an internal link, this link will be broken on other sites. If you use the full URL, this won't be a problem. See also Wikipedia:Avoid self references. Angela. 13:23, Sep 4, 2004 (UTC)
Pattern language
Hi there, I stumbled across the pattern language article you marked for attention, and it made puppy dog eyes at me until I took pity on it and became a member in order to give it some love. ;) Anyway, I think it is now somewhat clearer, though I suspect some of the content should be moved to design pattern. I'd be interested in your thoughts. Wordie 17:50, 9 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Albert Einstein info
Hey Dcljr, thanks for the Albert Einstein info on my talk page. Jay 13:15, 24 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Japanese actors and actresses
Hi Dcljr, No opinion on which of the two categories (Category:Japanese actors and actresses and Category:Japanese actors) should be merged into the other. Just makes sense to have one of them be the focal point for efforts. Fg2 22:39, Oct 21, 2004 (UTC)
It's not yours
Nathan, it looks like you need to get past the idea that articles you create are "your" articles. They are not. They are Wikipedia articles that can be edited by any user or visitor to Wikipedia. (See the bold text under the edit box when editing any page: "If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly and redistributed at will, do not submit it.") OTOH, I understand your frustration about your "plans" for articles being disrupted, so to avoid such problems why don't you just create articles that you'll be developing over a period of time as subpages of your user page, as I have for a few articles I'm working on. If it's under your user page, you have an absolute right, as I see it, to revert any unwanted edits. If it's in the main article namespace, however, you really don't have any standing to consider your vision for the article to be the only allowable one. - dcljr 18:35, 30 Oct 2004 (UTC)Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:NathanHawking"
- It's not an issue of territory. It's a matter of common sense and courtesy that the author of an article which is clearly "under construction" should not have to deal with massive changes to his or her fledgling efforts within minutes or hours of a first draft--especially without discussion.
- Those who believe that clobbering a new article falls under the "edited mercilessly" should be prepared to have their edits "edited mercilessly" by reversion then, correct? What's sauce for the goose.--NathanHawking 21:24, 2004 Oct 30 (UTC)
Deletionism
I saw your village pump article about all human knowledge. If you want to save knowledge from being deleted you may want to join: Association_of_Inclusionist_Wikipedians. I also have an idea that deletion votes should occur once a year, and things that are nonvandalism that gets 'deleted' should be moved to another Wiki, someone called it Wikitrivia (trivial stuff that is human knowledge but not 'encyclopedic' what ever that means :)). --ShaunMacPherson 03:35, 2 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Culture of Greece
Culture of Greece is this week's Collaboration of the week. Please come and help it become a featured-standard article.
Article Licensing
Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 1000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:
- Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
- Multi-Licensing Guide
- Free the Rambot Articles Project
To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:
- Option 1
- I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:
- {{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}
OR
- Option 2
- I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to any [[U.S. state]], county, or city article as described below:
- {{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}
Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk)
Admin nomination
Hello. You aren't an administrator but I think you ought to be. I will nominate you if you like. You may reply here or on my talk page. Regards & happy editing, Wile E. Heresiarch 16:12, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)
- Hmm, well, thank you for the thought, but I'm not sure I really want to be able to do any of the things admins can do. Recently I've been slowly branching out into more maintenance-related activities, but I think I should get more experience before I get into administrative activities. For now I'm happy to be just an active user. Maybe later this year I'll feel differently. Thanks again... - dcljr 20:17, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)
- OK, no problem. Let me know if you ever change your mind, and in the meantime, keep up the good work. Happy edits, Wile E. Heresiarch 09:08, 29 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Revised intro for statistics
Hi again. I saw your proposal to revise the statistics intro section. It doesn't look like you actually carried out that plan -- I'd like to encourage you to go ahead since it's a definite improvement. Looks like the rest of the article would benefit from your attention too. For what it's worth, Wile E. Heresiarch 16:18, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)
- Will respond to this in a bit... - dcljr 20:20, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)
- Urgh... every time I try to respond, Wikipedia goes down or I run out of time. Short version: I kinda got scared away by the discussion I had on the talk page. I just plain don't agree that statistics has nothing to do with uncertainty or samples! Want to develop something more substantive before I throw it to the wolves. ;-) - dcljr 18:30, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)
tagging articles
Please put templates like {{expansion}} that only are useful to editors, on talk pages (the only exception I can think of would be the different stub templates). Thank you. :) --mav 08:45, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Template:Translate
I have put Template:Translate on WP:TFD. It was created because links to Google translations didn't used to work, but now they do, which makes the templates unecessary. More details on the problem it was created to solve can be seen in the discussion of bug 361. Angela. 15:57, Feb 20, 2005 (UTC)
Should be OK
You can fix them or not fix them. I don't think anyone will get upset :-) Ta bu shi da yu 21:43, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)