User talk:Minesweeper

Welcome to my talk page. Please post a new comment at the bottom of this page. —Minesweeper

Original welcome message

Hello and welcome to Wikipedia! Nice work on the president articles. --mav

Subpages

Hi Minesweeper, why are you changing president links to "United States/President"? This is a subpage; subpages are no longer supported by the current software, which is why the page redirects to "President of the United States of America". If you want to link to that page, please use that link directly. (As to why subpages are no longer supported, see Wikipedia:Wikipedia subpages pros and cons). -Eloquence 13:17 Jan 24, 2003 (UTC)

Whoops, I didn't know that was being deprecated. I've changed all the links to point directly to "President of the United States of America". Thanks for letting me know. -- minesweeper 02:46 Jan 25, 2003 (UTC)

Timeline of U.S. economic indicators

I think Timeline of U.S. economic indicators is okay; updating it month-month would be hard, but annual updates could be put in pretty easily, etc. I might put in some job numbers. I'm of the opinion that there's little need to delete articles which are imperfect. --The Cunctator

Digicam

Digicam answer on my talk page. I'll let someone else sort out the Border collie mess. --mav

Sysop

Congratulations, you are now a sysop. Please see Wikipedia:Administrators for details on how to use your new privileges. --Eloquence 00:51 May 13, 2003 (UTC)

EECS?

Hey, you're EECS at Cal? Do you have Melvin Tsai as a GSI for any classes? --Dante Alighieri 23:32 14 May 2003 (UTC)

MoS

FYI - per MoS, birth/death place does not go in parens. :) --mav

Ah, I'll keep that in mind, thanks! -- Minesweeper 05:21 17 May 2003 (UTC)

Donald Duck

Hi Minesweeper, you changed the image-layout of Donald Duck, but with your change my browser can no longer show the page properly, image and text are mixed, overlayd, a lot of empty space... was this change necessary, is this some kind of "Wiki-standard"? Thanks, Fantasy

Hello Fantasy, what browser are you using? The page renders correctly for me in both Mozilla 1.3 and Internet Explorer 6 on Windows XP. The markup uses Cascading Style Sheets, which is supported by most modern browsers. It's not strictly a standard, I think, but since it's efficient markup, allows a wide range of formatting options, and is supported fairly uniformly by modern browsers, it is the favored method of displaying images. It is also the markup recommended on Wikipedia:Image use policy. -- Minesweeper

Hi Minesweeper, we (5000 people at my office) use "Netscape(R) Communicator 4.61 for OS/2 Warp" (sadly), maybe 2004 we will get a newer browser... maybe. If I understand it right, we will not be able for this year to see this pages in a proper style. It is a pity, as I am really trying hard to make as many people in my organsiation use Wikipedia, but that's life... Thanks for your help, Fantasy

Aren't you supposed to be doing work at work? ;) Wikipedia does become an addiction. Well, you have something to look forward to anyway. We're glad to have you as a contributor, even if the pages don't show up quite right. -- Minesweeper

...I am no Wikipediaholic (at least not, while i am sleeping... ;-) (ok, not yet) ... And I am working in a "knowledge" Company, so Wikipedia is also part of my job! ;-) Fantasy (btw: It even happened today that one of our new recruits told me, that the trainer was telling them to use also Wikipedia in their daily job!!!! My evangelism seems to work already ;-)

Underground Railroad

That's the small version of the Underground Railroad map?!? ;) -- John Owens

Well, the same image was originally almost 200K! It's definitely smaller. -- Minesweeper

Internet humor

The discussion regarding Internet humor is complete without further objections, the waiting period is over -- I think the following can now be safely deleted:

[... pages listed here ...]

Please remove ASAP, thanks! --Eloquence 20:45 26 May 2003 (UTC)

Corked bat

Nice work on the corked bat article. Kingturtle 23:30 4 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Thanks. There's nothing like current events to provide some motivation. -- Minesweeper 00:23 5 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Good day, Minesweeper. I edited the June 3rd 'Sammy Sosa' news-bite to report Sosa having 1 cork bat and 76 other bats (instead of 77 other). If I'm incorrect on this issue, you may undo my edit. Your call. Be well. Usedbook 00:05 5 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Thanks for the update. I think you're correct. -- Minesweeper 00:23 5 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Hi there. Opps. I hadn't realised that I had created a similar page twice. I have deleted the text of one of them and turned it into a redirect. Thanks for notifying me of the mistake. FearÉIREANN 20:09 23 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Natural log

Hi, I had a problem with a paragraph of yours in natural logarithm; see talk:natural logarithm. Cheers, AxelBoldt 05:38 24 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Talk

Your input is requested at Talk:U.S. occupation of Iraq. MB 00:29 3 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Revert?

Hey, You said you reverted the last edit made by me. I didn't make that edit. Some random unknown guy made it. Check the history. He made it 4 minutes before you.--ZeWrestler

hey, thanks for explaining the change you made to simpsons. i misread what you had said in the comment. sorry for the misunderstanding. --ZeWrestler 09:09, 18 Aug 2003

Main Page vote

Hi, you cast a vote in the TEMP5 debate. The Temp5 proposal was voted down by 61.3% to 38.6%. But even that wasn't clearcut, 17 voted no to Temp5. 19 voted no to temp5 but didn't say keep the current page, and 8 endorsed the current page. So the decision was an ambiguous no decision. Clearly we seem to be going around in circles on the whole issue of the main page. A new definitive vote is now taking place to clarify what exactly we want, to end the endless ambiguities and re-votes, namely

Do we actually want to have a new page? Y/N
If so when (immediately, after a pause, timed to the press release, etc)?
What do people want on the front page and what do they want excluded?

As of now, the whole issue seems surrounded by complete confusion. This way, finally and definitively, we will know what we want and when we want it. So do please express your opinions. The vote is on the same page as the previous votes. FearÉIREANN 20:31, 13 Aug 2003 (UTC)

Recall candidates

Bravo on the List of 2003 California recall candidates!!! The fomatting rocks! --hoshie

Bio format

I noticed that you are going back and correcting my earlier non-conventional bio stuff. I just figured out that my way wasn't the right way last night. Thanks for the copyediting.Ark30inf 01:20, 7 Oct 2003 (UTC)

Boy, I feel properly chastised now watching you toil over my errors. If you enjoy it then its one thing, but I can go back and fix those.Ark30inf 02:06, 7 Oct 2003 (UTC)

No problem... As long as it's only those Arkansas governors! I don't think I can do any more. -- Minesweeper 02:19, Oct 7, 2003 (UTC)

Oakland Coliseum

Image:OaklandColiseum.1024px.jpg -Section 219 or thereabouts? -戴&#30505sv 04:17, 7 Oct 2003 (UTC)

Heh, I don't remember. We had bleacher seats, but the game was a blowout, so we moved closer and closer to home plate as the game wore on. -- Minesweeper 04:30, Oct 7, 2003 (UTC)

BellSouth

Hello Minesweeper, I've decided that I don't want to get into a war with you over what information should and should not be on a a wiki page, So I am simply leaving your changes on BellSouth as is and I will no longer try to put a link to CNBC on that wikipage. But if I find pertinent information I would like to add it as new information and of course making sure that the link are appropriate. - Anonymous.

I understand, and I wish to avoid an edit war as well. First of all, we try to avoid using inline external links, instead placing them in a list at the end of the article. Second, we usually just give the ticker symbol, and let users take that to any financial site they wish. See for example, Network Associates, Honeywell, ING Group. Nevertheless, your contributions are greatly appreciated. -- Minesweeper 15:28, Oct 7, 2003 (UTC)

Excessive?

What is excessive wikification? there a good line / rule of thumb?reddi 00:08, 20 Oct 2003 (UTC)

There is this: Wikipedia:Make only links relevant to the context, but it's a disputed policy. Basically, the most relevant words should be the ones that are wikified. Also, if every word is linked, it becomes hard to read, and the articles linked may not refer to the right context. We should link articles that possibly provide some background about the event listed, or words that some people may not know the meaning of. Articles linked from words like "kill", "dirt", "road", or "south" provide little or no additional information, and everyone basically knows what these words mean. -- Minesweeper 00:39, Oct 20, 2003 (UTC)

Hillenbrand

I don't mind you changing 'rumour' to 'rumor' (Hillenbrand is American after all) but 'judgement' is a perfectly good spelling. Changing it is pretty petty. :( Varitek 12:00pm Oct 22 2003 (BST)

Thanks for the reply. Sorry if I was a little snippy :) Varitek

On recent departures...

Good point -I hadn't considered that, but I think they are generalising what Wiwaxia does too much and taking it as a reflection of the whole community which I don't think it is. I agree that article is "a joke in regards to neutrality" and I wish they had stayed to help fix it instead of letting it drive them away. Much of it also reads like it was written by a child. Perhaps some people need to look up the term encyclopedia and try to understand what that means before writing here. Good luck if you do try to sort it out. I think the condensing of that section is a good idea. Angela 16:04, Oct 25, 2003 (UTC)

Roach bait

Okay, I'm so new here. I still have that new user smell. You made comments on my edits to roach bait: "The text doesn't seem very well-written or NPOV either". I understand NPOV, but I fail to understand how I violated it. And as to the "not very well-written", could you please expand?

Okay, I've made some changes to undercover marketing, but I'd like your feedback on them. I'm still getting used to the style guidelines and conventions.

MAD

Can you provide any evidence for "Mutual" Assured Destruction? Lirath Q. Pynnor

Reply at Talk:Mutual assured destruction. --Minesweeper

Neustadt

Thanks, Richard Neustadt is now expanded. I have a suspicion that he makes many more appearances in presidential memoirs and bios than he does online, but will need to visit library for those! Stan 00:42, 9 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Jamaica

Hello Minesweeper Thank you for your remarks about Jamaica. But I have a good excuse. While I was working on the article, I experienced a technical problem and I lost my connection to the internet for quite a long time. So I was unable to complete my edit. Everything is back to normal now. How is the weather back in California right now. Is California still burning? User:Karukera 04:42, 9 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Irish poetry

Hi

Trying to work out what change you made to Irish poetry, but I can't see it? Bmills 10:56, 10 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Thanks for the clarification, and for the positive comments on the article. My first 'proper' article for the site and I put a lot of time into it, so nice someone liked it. Bmills 09:05, 11 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Freemasonry

Please consider protecting Freemasonry. A newcomer is removing valid information (particularly about womens masonic organisations), and keeps reverting stubbornly. -- Cimon Avaro on a pogostick 02:40, Nov 16, 2003 (UTC)

I went ahead and protected it temporarily. Minesweeper

Acquaintence

Hello. It seems that you are very valuable contributer to wikipedia, but I have not made your acquaintence yet, so I will now say, "Nice to meet you.", Sincerly yours, Alexandros 15:44, 16 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Date formats

There were more of those things! Thanks for finding them. I'd thought I'd done them all. Angela 04:02, 17 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Arrrrgh! I'd done the ones on VfD and in his sandbox. I had no idea there were all those as well. Thanks for helping, I was getting rather fed up with them. :) Angela

Deletions

You just deleted many date-redirects, because it was decided in VfD to do so. Currently, User:Eclecticology is creating them all again. I am deleting them, but I will be going to sleep soon. Kingturtle 06:18, 17 Nov 2003 (UTC)

I moved Image:Airplane from VfD to Wikipedia:Images for deletion in case you wondered where it had gone. Angela 13:14, 18 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Sample Article Title

Whoops! I missed the talk of Sample Article Title! Thanks for moving it :) Dysprosia 06:33, 19 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Gene Ray

Thanks for having my back re these Gene Ray crazies! -- VV 06:33, 20 Nov 2003 (UTC)

VfD

"AIDS kills fags dead" and associated redirects were not deleted after being listed on VfD since 16 Nov: Martin decided to count votes only on Talk:AKFD/redirect. I'm assuming he will honour them there. If you still want to vote on the matter, you may want to make sure your votes are registered there. -- Someone else 19:32, 22 Nov 2003 (UTC)

SQL

Hi, please can you be a bit more judicious in your use of database queries. The Wikipedia:Database queries pages states "please try to avoid re-running queries that take more than, say, 10 seconds." Some of yours are lasting nearly five minutes! Angela 22:30, 22 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Will do. Thanks for the heads up! Minesweeper

I restored the Bush talk archive redirects for the purposes of avoiding broken links. Martin 01:06, 28 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Moving stuff

Hello, regarding your recent move of Martin Fierro to Martín Fierro, please use the built-in "move this page" feature. Doing so will move not only the content of the page to a new title, but will move all the editing history along with it. Since you copy-and-pasted, the edit history is now scattered between Martin Fierro and Martín Fierro. Thanks, —Minesweeper 14:00, 4 Dec 2003 (UTC) Sorry. News to me. First time I moved anything. I'll do that in the future. In any case, the history wasn't very interesting, it was pretty much all me. -- Jmabel 18:18, 4 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Stop moving things to automobile particularly things with a British context. Automobile is infrequently used outside of the USA. Mintguy 11:15, 7 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Seconded; and I also am of the opinion that moving every car maker to 'xxx automobile' (rather than 'xxx (automobile)' or 'xxx (car)' is not an improvement. It seems a bit of a clunky construction to me. --Morven 19:22, 7 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Ireland

On list of national parks, why did you move Ireland under the United Kingdom heading? Morwen 12:06, 7 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Yeah delete them all! :) Angela . 17:43, 7 Dec 2003 (UTC)

[1] :) Angela . 21:24, 8 Dec 2003 (UTC)

NASA

Thanks for pointing that out. I last read that page ages ago, and forgot the 'proper' convention. I've moved the page back. --snoyes 14:03, 12 Dec 2003 (UTC)

NB election

the page should now be fixed.

Pellaken 18:48, 12 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Walter Tevis

In case you're interested in him, I fixed the exact city he was buried in (Richmond, Kentucky).

webkid 22:52, 12 Dec 2003 (UTC)

-re/-er

Hi, Minesweeper. Wow, I must say you're a real whiz with the formatting - never seen such a nice user-page :-) Anyway, I saw your edit on the spelling theatre in the US. I'm a Brit and I was in SF about a month ago (and went up the Sather Tower!) and noticed that even cinemas called themselves theatres, so-spelt, which I found puzzling. Is that spelling thought to be classier or something? I also noticed that a print-shop on Van Ness uses colour in its title - is that the same reason?

Spellbinder 08:38, 14 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Quote from AUE: FAQ excerpt: "-er" vs "-re":

"Theatre" has some currency in the U.S., especially in names of specific theatres.

HTH, webkid 17:53, 14 Dec 2003 (UTC)

hi

hi, nice to see you contributing to Michael Shafer and adding some details! best wishes, Optim 22:03, 14 Dec 2003 (UTC)

ucb

Hi there, cool to see another berkeley student on the boards. I joined about 24 hours ago, in a strange post-finals mood. In any case I saw your NL photo--nice touch. What year are you?

Here's an idea: one of my friends posted this image on her website, wonder if we can make use of it? I thought it was pretty cool.

(later)

Congrats on finishing your finals. About the Big Game page, perhaps you have a picture of the stanfurd tree?

I found wikipedia through some slashdot references....in addition, thanks for your reply on Talk:Industrial Engineering and Operations Research/temp.

Take care.

Goodralph 22:34, 19 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Just to let you know - as you requested, James Caan now exists.

From one engineer to another ;) --Raul654 16:04, 22 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Your Question

To answer your question "why 'Mr. Dean', but not 'Mr. Sharpton,'" I copied that paragraph from VOANews. In any case, I agree with your changes, it's much nicer now. Anthony DiPierro 22:29, 15 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Hey, you go to University of California, Berkeley? You must know my friend Adora.

Anyway, the reason I'm writing this is that I question your decision to move Mulholland Drive (movie) to Mulholland Dr.. While on the signpost logo at the beginning of the movie and on the DVD does say "Dr.", all the official websites refer to the movie as "Mulholland Drive" (except when using the signpost logo, of course). This includes [MulhollandDrive.com and the page for it at UniversalStudios.com. Please write back. -Branddobbe 20:30, Jan 24, 2004 (UTC)

Reply left at Talk:Mulholland Drive (movie) -Minesweeper

Good work on Super Tuesday

Minesweeper: I just wanted to thank you for your good work on Super Tuesday. →Raul654 22:20, Feb 4, 2004 (UTC)

Thanks! --Minesweeper

Southern strategy

Hey. I thought you might be interested--I just started Southern strategy, and since I've seen you editing some other political articles, you might be able to improve, fill in, etc. Thanks, Meelar 23:26, 4 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Thanks, I'll take a look! --Minesweeper

User:Minesweeper/Sandbox

I left the last one for you. :) Angela . 11:32, Feb 8, 2004 (UTC)

Ah, you're just too kind! And away we go... Minesweeper 11:48, Feb 8, 2004 (UTC)

electoral college

A section of the article should reveal all the incidents of electors voting differently than his/her state's popular vote. It would be also interesting to know the responses of the political parties to those betraying electors. Kingturtle 14:35, 11 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Bart Simpson's list

Cheers! Mrdice 06:11, 2004 Feb 12 (UTC)

William Kelly

You made a controversial edit to the William Kelly page while it was protected. Please revert this edit.

Congress members' names

The names you are changing are in the forms given at the official Congressional Biography Website. I think you should leave them as they are. If you change them, however, you must also change them at List of members of the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. House election, 2004. Adam 06:42, 14 Feb 2004 (UTC)

I guess that's OK then. I didn't realise 108th United States Congress existed. It seems rather redubdant when List of members of the U.S. House of Representatives and List of members of the U.S. Senate are better designed and more informative. Perhaps it should be abolished and redirected to them. Adam 08:54, 14 Feb 2004 (UTC)

All these name changes you are making (A.J. Smith to A. J. Smith) are in contrvention of the Wikipedia naming policy:

Initials in people's names, or companies named after them, should be written with periods after them, with a space between the initials and the name, but not between initials. Thus, W.E.B. Dubois, I.F. Stone, T.E. Lawrence, and F.W. de Klerk. Adam 12:29, 15 Feb 2004 (UTC)

I am not suprised to see that WP has two different policies at two different pages. The text above is copied from one of them, but I am at a different computer today and I can't locate where I copied it from. Adam 05:08, 16 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Les Mis programme image

Hi, Minesweeper, I just happened upon File:Les Misérables program.jpg and can't help but worry of a possible copyright violation. The production company came up with the Cosette image overlaid on the French Tricolour and the design of the cover. That said, it might be reasonable to claim that its application in Wikipedia is fair use, in which case there is a special tag to include in the image description for that purpose, {{msg:fairuse}}. IANAL; I'm just hoping to keep Wikipedia squeeky clean for everyone's enjoyment. I imagine it would be appropriate to write to the production company and ask permission to use the picture (or one they provide) for the Wikipedia article, much in the way they provide images with press releases. [2][3][4] If this message offended, I would it be amended. -- Ke4roh 14:07, 16 Feb 2004 (UTC)