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I had a cust this morning with the same problem. we haven't findured out what it is yet but I told him to use Firefox which is really a better brouser anyway. Let me know on my talk it you actually figure out what caused it thoughCavebear42 19:16, 2 Sep 2004 (UTC)

I thought that too, but this guy was on sp1 still.Cavebear42 19:21, 2 Sep 2004 (UTC)

I've been having the same problem. If someone gives you a real answer, could you post it back to WP:VP for the rest of us? TNX. -- Jmabel 19:27, Sep 2, 2004 (UTC)

Here's a Microsoft Knowledge Base Article on the problem (and it's apparent solution/workaround): Internet Explorer Does Not Save Graphics Files in the Proper Format. Some people have said it doesn't work, though. - 21:36, 2 Sep 2004 (UTC) Lee (talk)

That MS Knowledge base article sounds like a good match, but I get this problem too and it's a bit more general than MS make out. I'm using IE5.0, IE6 and Mozilla under Win98SE. Any resource shortage seems to produce this result with IE any version, not just page cache problems.

My workaround is to run MS-Word whenever I'm using IE and want to be able to save pages or images. Word is a real resource hog, and if I get into the position of being unable to save a page I want, I can then quit Word and usually free up enough resources to do the save. Now, this IMO brings on the problem earlier, so all I'm winning is a warning. But it means I'm never in the position of writing down the URLs on a scrap of paper because I can't even cut and paste them to notepad!

After getting into this position I always reload Windows. This is probably specific to Win98SE which suffers the worst memory bleed problems of any MS OS to date (but this is its only real vice and I like it despite this).

Hope this helps. I haven't tried Firefox, actually I'm a bit disappointed in Wikipedia for forcing me to Mozilla, but Wikipedia's support of IE is just appallingly bad. Andrewa 09:36, 3 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Biancoverde

I have moved Biancoverde to Wisloka (team) and rewritten it. The team did not have an article previously, as far as I can tell from searching. --Slowking Man 18:42, Sep 3, 2004 (UTC)

Image on Signal Box

Just wondering why the signal box you added a photo of is "Probably the most famous signal box in Great Britain"? Any qualifiers? zoney ▓ ▒ talk 23:03, 7 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Micronation

I haven't followed all the ins and outs of the micronation debates. I notice that you've participated in the Talk:Micronation page, and I know you to be a very capable contributor from your work on W. D. Hamilton, so I thought I would mention this to you in case you hadn't seen it: Someone just created an article on the micronation TorHavn. Having said that, I shamelessly act the coward and duck out of any ensuing micronation debates. :) JamesMLane 21:24, 8 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for your note. I didn't think you were being "nasty" in the slightest, but you have misunderstood my involvement. I'm not a proponent of keeping the TorHavn article. I don't plan to work on the article or provide evidence of notability. As far as I'm concerned, a redirect is fine, although it appears that Micronation can't currently be edited to include even a mention or listing of this one. The various disputes arising from the U.S. presidential election are taking enough of my energy that I have no interest in getting involved with any micronations. I just happened to notice the new TorHavn article and figured I'd pass it on. JamesMLane 03:00, 9 Sep 2004 (UTC)

RfA

Mike Storm got nominated on Wikipedia:Requests for adminship. I felt you might have something to say on the subject. -- Cyrius|✎ 23:39, 8 Sep 2004 (UTC)

4-6-doh

Sorry! Glad you identified it. I'm kinda living in hope that, sooner or later, we'll have pages for all the classes of locos and EMUs and DMUs and whatever. Can't understand why we don't. best wishes --Tagishsimon

Moving pages

I think I've said this before, but if you go aroung moving pages could you please fix all the links to the correct place, or otherwise dont move them at all. G-Man 19:13, 9 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Support

Thank you very much for your support during my recent run for adminship. ...a little odd? Hmm... Mike H 00:13, Sep 10, 2004 (UTC)

H.R.H. Rajah Jerry Remigius Kanagarajah of Jaffna (Sri Lanka)

This Biography of H.R.H. Rajah Jerry Remigius Kanagarajah of Jaffna (Sri Lanka) is provided by his website http://www.jaffnaroyalfamily.org/index2.htm.

H.R.H. Rajah Jerry Remigius Kanagarajah provides his biography for his membership within the Southeast Asia Imperial & Royal League he is not a pretender and has membership with other Royal Families of Southeast Asia.

Non-free licenses

Please don't upload images under non-commercial use only licenses. They violate current Wikipedia policy and a decree by Jimbo Wales. They will all eventually be deleted, and new uploads of these images will be deleted quickly through IfD. Guan aco 21:28, 10 Sep 2004 (UTC)

This is getting bloody ridiculous; the constant obsession with the bloody GFDL, and public domain nonsense. Why should I flipping bother? I did actually email the guy but he hasn't replied yet. Of all the images on here that are copyvios, or wrongly fair use and you have to off because some guy has put a notice on his page saying, "yeah, do what you like with them non-commercially?" instead of GFDL nonsense? Dunc_Harris|☺ 21:34, 10 Sep 2004 (UTC)

I think that you should certainly not bother uploading non commercial images. Guanaco is right.It's against policy. Jimbo wants Wikipedia to eventually be sold in print form, and in cd form.Images that are tagged non commercial will have to be excluded. So the policy is not to have them in the first place. Theresa Knott (taketh no rest) 21:42, 10 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Also, the reason you're getting left this message is that you're easy to track down and a responsible user, unlike many who upload images with no source info (efforts to track these are continuing as well). Please don't take offense. Best, [[User:Meelar|Meelar (talk)]] 21:45, Sep 10, 2004 (UTC)

Alan Beckwith

Sorry to see that you went ahead and deleted Alan Beckwith - this

is not a vanity page as discussed in vfu. Any info was collected from various web sites on this remarkale person. User: Mia State 21:59, 10 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Alan, your page about yourself was deleted because we reached a consensus that you are not notable. Keep working on the career, and we'll see. Dunc_Harris|☺ 22:02, 10 Sep 2004 (UTC)

I've never meet the man, but some day I will. Maybe Alan will buy us both a beer - and think that we're both silly. Until then, I still believe that he's merits a page in Wikipedia. User: Mia State 14:07, 13 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Michael Janich

Thanks, Dunc, for your comment on my user page/user talk page. Unfortunately I moved my home page from MJanich to MichaelJanich. I'd like to move the whole username to MichaelJanich, but it seems that does not work like that. Do you know how that can be achieved? Thanks massa 11:43, 12 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Thanks, for your quick reply. No, I don't like to start with a new username. If it's not possible to correct the problem I'm stuck. Thanks anyway massa 12:19, 12 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Rail transport in the UK

Seem as about 97% of rail mileage in the UK is in mainland Britain would it not be far more sensible to move the "Rail transport in Great Britain" back to "Rail transport in the UK" and have a link to Northern Ireland. At the moment we have many dozens of links going to the wrong place. I do not recall there being any consensus to move the page. G-Man 14:26, 12 Sep 2004 (UTC)

There was a pretty good consensus to split the pages GB/Ireland to reflect the actual development of the rail systems. NI's rail system has little to do with mainland Britain's. If links are broken, we should fix them. —Morven 21:36, Sep 12, 2004 (UTC)

note to self

http://www.sharpos-world.co.uk/

==Jerry Remigius Kanagarajah==

Jerry Remigius Kanagarajah

Is this fair that you do not look at the facts.

Please see links and re-evaluate thank you.

Here are the two links[1][2].

tranvanba 5:36, Sep 12, 2004

Picture at Image:NYMR diesel train.jpg

This will be a Class 25; the NYMR has two, both painted in two-tone green like this. Class 24 was not painted in two-tone green as far as I know, and in any case none of the NYMR's are painted this way. —Morven 21:34, Sep 12, 2004 (UTC)

Tran Van Ba

In Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion/Tran_Van_Ba I've suggested that you rewrite your opening paragraph to say:

He claims to be the Chancellor of The Imperial Order of the Dragon of Annam, but appears not to have done anything notable except flood the wiki with lots of POV pages on Asian royalty who are "tirelessly campaigning for human rights", etc etc etc.

That is, I think you should state his claim, however silly it may be, correctly and respectfully, rather than by mocking it as "His Excellency the Imperial Dragon of Ping Pong (or whatever it was)"

Please don't construe this as an endorsement of the Tran Van Ba article (which I voted to delete as autobiography). It seems fully VfD-worthy to me. [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith (talk)]] 00:22, 13 Sep 2004 (UTC)

I've added my certification to Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Tran Van Ba and added a lot of supporting descriptions and evidence. (Hey, don't you have to certify it too?) As I wrote, I don't think the question "should these articles about Asian aristocrats have been added" is really the important issue - though it appears to be the only issue Mr. Tran is interested in addressing - but there's plenty more there to be criticized. ←Hob 05:16, 2004 Sep 13 (UTC)

Sent to Help

I recieved an email Trav Van Ba, he requested that I assist him in the neutral guidlines since there is a language barrier he was not aware that there truth is not neutral sometimes. Jimmyvanthach 23:05, 13 Sep 2004 (UTC) ~

email forward

I can send you the email that was forwared to my email address, from Tran Van Ba, and you can look at the times and dates I am just here to clear the biographies that were posted by Tran Van Ba up that is allJimmyvanthach 23:14, 13 Sep 2004 (UTC) ~

micronation article

Hi there. Thanks for your recent suggestions concerning historic micronations. I thought you might be interested to know that the Micronation article has been unprotected, and that Gzornenplatz and Samboy have wasted no time relaunching their aggressive campaign aimed at inserting false POV content into it.--Gene_poole 03:33, 14 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Artifical selection photo

Finally I got a photo that I hope will suffice as you requested for artificial selection. Neither dog is furry, however. I suggest that if you want to keep 2 additional photos showing more variation that you replace the existing poodle & dachshund with, for example, Image:Bearded Collie 600.jpg and Image:MiniDachshund1 wb.jpg, or you can pick some to your own liking from Wikipedia:List_of_images/Nature/Animals/Dogs. Elf | Talk 06:49, 14 Sep 2004 (UTC)

New and Improved Deletions! Exciting Offer!

I know that I'll be sorry for opening my big yap, but I have a new proposal that's in the "I'm thinking it over" phase here. I welcome comments from the sane and unwearied. N.b. that it would potentially deal with some of the odd claims we've been battered by lately. Geogre 17:52, 14 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Black Five

I didn't thank you for the Black Five photo on my talk page; it's lovely; thank you. I don't know very much, if anything, about locomotives, but I did go to Rainhill 150, many years ago, and must have a huge stack of interesting photos of all sorts of things somewhere or other. I'll try to dig 'em out and get some of the them scanned in and GFDL'd. --Tagishsimon

Copyright

Hello Duncharris, I thought I was giving the source of my images but I'm still pretty new to this so maybe I'm doing something wrong. --DaveGorman 21:13, 15 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Hello, I see what you posted my article on Johannesburg history as copyright infringed. It is possible to use this text according to the website you posted, and I intend to post the link to the page when I was done. I still have the edit page open in another window, so could you please unblock it so that I can follow the requirements set on that website to use the text?

Yes, I quote from the website:

Permission to use web site material Publishers are free to use material from this site, as long as:

Credit is given to the Johannesburg News Agency;

A link is provided to www.joburg.org.za;

The webmaster is informed of how and where the material is used.

Johannesburg News Agency is operated by BIG Media at 011-484-1400

I've already sent the e-mails ... Just had to put the links in.

I'm not sure what there is to be not sure about. It says quite clearly that as long as credit is given (which it would be as soon as I can edit that page again), publishers are "free to use material from this site." Perhaps you could explain to me your hesitancy.

Flag of South Vietnam & Nguyen Dynasty oddly, a duplicate of Flag of South Korea

I have a question about this Flag of South Vietnam & Nguyen Dynasty oddly, a duplicate of Flag of South Korea what do you mean about this, when you wrote it in Talk.tran van ba ? Jimmyvanthach 22:08, 15 Sep 2004 (UTC)

===Thanks for answer===

well, I have your reply and I know what you are talking about now, but there is now reason to make a personal attack on me, ok. or anyone else, and why are you using term after student professor ? I was not aware of the rules and regulations guides when i submitted the articles to Tran Van Ba so now I am helping him, since being on here, I myself have kept with the guidlines and corrected NON_NEUTRAl statements, ie. human rights, fight for democracy, freedom of speech, freedom of etc. I understand your viewpoint and the reasons why there was a lost in translation from Tran Van Ba concerning this issue, beucase he thought you were attacking him, which was not that, it was becuase of Wikipedia policy of nuetral standpoint. I am not here to cause problems, and if you want to help I would more than glad to work with you. thanks again Jimmyvanthach 22:22, 15 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Misters Tran and van Thach

Asked Tim Starling to run a sockpuppet check, they're the same guy. Just explicitly pointing it out to make sure you didn't miss it. -- Cyrius|✎ 05:10, 16 Sep 2004 (UTC)

I used my psychic powers to guess that :) Dunc_Harris|☺ 08:34, 16 Sep 2004 (UTC)

wikiholiday

I'm going to be on a wikiholiday for about a week or so. Dunc_Harris|☺ 09:18, 16 Sep 2004 (UTC)

remember http://jampics.fotopic.net/

You are mistaken, I have never edited or created an article. Please take more care to correctly identify the person to whom are sending an unsolicited message.

"Thanks for experimenting with Wikipedia. Your test worked, and has now been removed. Please use Wikipedia:Sandbox for any other tests you want to do, since testing material in articles will normally be removed quickly. Please see the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. Thanks. Dunc_Harris|☺ 22:48, 6 Sep 2004 (UTC)"

Konrad Zuse

You asked for translation of the German-language material on Konrad Zuse. I'm afraid it's kind of disappointing, but it's at Talk:Konrad Zuse:From the German Wikipedia -- Jmabel 08:28, Sep 17, 2004 (UTC)

Pendolino

I would like to expand the Pendolino entry which, as you noted, mostly ignores the Italian origins. Please see the talk page for Pendolino for my notes. I am particularly interested in your claim that the Pendolino was based on the APT.

corrections on topics

What issues do you see that are pov that need to be corrected please let me know. I have went over all the topics that are of Vietnamese that I have knowledge of, what suggestions do you have and I would be more than welcome to fix them Jimmyvanthach 18:55, 19 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Apologies

I will notifiy Dr. Lindgren and Tran Van Ba of the misunderstanding and apologize, Futhermore I will send a personal message via Jimbo's mail too.

Concerning your questions Vietnamese order I personally have a University History Degree, majoring specifically Asian History of Southeast Asia, The Nguyen Dynasty is a very important role in the Vietnamese History which with how the history afterwards unfolded with the involvement of France, Japan, United States, South Korea, Australia.

The concerns of my personal feelings is that the Nguyen Dynasty has been a pivotal player in Vietnamese Tradition and politics and it has never ended after the abdication, the role of the Emperor ended concerning the political aspects but the Royal House of Vietnam was and still is active.

I am aware specifically of the NPOV aspects and you will not see Human Rights, Freedom of Speech words from my posts or Input. I am aware of the statements which are acceptable from Wikipedia standards. Jimmyvanthach 13:22, 20 Sep 2004 (UTC)

List of British Rail classes

Hi - i noticed you changed the DMU headings. A couple of points

1) DEMUs do NOT operate off an electric supply (e.g. 750V as you suggested for classes 201-207) - they have electric transmission (as opposed to mechanical or hydraulic) and ALWAYS use their diesel engines to move.

2) Classes 165 onwards are not sprinters. 165/66 are Turbos, 168 are Clubmans, 170/171 are Turbostars, 175 are Coradias, 180 are Adenlantes.

Sorry to be picky! :-S (Our Phellap 22:22, 23 Sep 2004 (UTC))

Picked up on this discussion from Phil's Talk page - on a side note, I *think* that correctcapitalisation is "Class" vs. "class", because it is essentially as close as many locos and MUs come to an official name. Just £0.02, fully refundable. Chris 15:39, 25 Sep 2004 (UTC)

I disagree. In the ships it's always class. Please let us not get into the silliness that exists in the animal articles when they are all capitalised for no sensible reason. Dunc_Harris|☺ 15:43, 25 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Trains != ships. For instance, the class of submarine is "Typhoon" as opposed to "Typhoon Class", whereas the HST is "Class 43" as opposed to merely "43" (even if railfans tend to drop the "Class" in casual conversation). Chris 16:29, 25 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Looking at some railway literature, i believe "Class xx" is correct over "class xx". However the point is it doesnt really matter and its just being pedantic.... so long as all the articles use the same format it doesnt matter. (Our Phellap 17:05, 25 Sep 2004 (UTC))

This is to what reference ?

Be careful of reverting others edits. Use Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom rather than Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of Her other Realms and Territories Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith Dunc_Harris|☺ 15:28, 24 Sep 2004 (UTC)

you left this on my Talk, I did not make any edits to the above, concerning Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom Jimmyvanthach 15:36, 24 Sep 2004 (UTC)

coming to a new world

Halló! I'm just new here and arrived this week. Thanks for placing a vote regarding Wikipedia:Featured_picture_candidates#Icelandic_sheepdog. We selected the picture because it was not shown already in our gallery [3]. Would be nice to heare your opinion about a picture wich is more suitable. Regards Gangleri 04:05, 2004 Sep 25 (UTC)

You mention "choose a better one from Wikipedia:List_of_images/Nature/Animals/Dogs". There is at the moment only one picture of an Icelandic Sheepdog. This dog was listed as requested picture so far. Gangleri 04:19, 2004 Sep 25 (UTC)

Thank you for your fair answer. There is so much to read here. My main interest is about InterWiki issues, Wikipedia syntax (have not found anything jet). By the way: on "My Useful Links" you refer to custom messages I saw it is just a redirect to Wikipedia:Template messages. I found them tonigth. Regards eo:Vikipediisto:Gangleri == Gangleri 13:25, 2004 Sep 25 (UTC)

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