User talk:Mav
In the full swing of things. Still have a huge back-log of digital photos and field notes to contribute, but I can't get away from the blasted RecentChanges page.
User:Sodium has informed me that my user page is (for some reason that completely escapes me) one of the most popular.
Yeah, just for chuckles on February 8th, I checked the most popular page and saw that my little ol' neck of the woods is right next to: Vulva (since I am gay, this seems funny as hell to me), Wikipedians (makes sense -- I am logged in contributing here and there about 10 hours a day now), Pornography (damn! How'd you guys find out? ;), September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack/City of New York casualties (heavy; kinda bums me out...), Beryllium (also makes sense -- I've been working a great deal on this article), user:Maveric149 (:thats me:), Mercury/wiki.phtml (don't have any idea what this is for...), Fire ant (a cool article mostly written and maintained by User:SteveSmith), Lupercalia (luper-what? Sounds like something I should have learned geting my BS in BS), Playboy (Well, at least I am more popular than Playboy. tee-he!) and finally, Music (a subject I am very fond of; especially musicals -- no just kidding).
Since this page is one of the most un-imaginative ones I maintain, the fact that it is one of the most popular is rather embarrassing. It's kinda like having a really messy living room and keeping the curtains open at night. Unfortunately, I can't just pull the curtains here -- I'll have to put some effort into tidying things up around here. Until then, pardon the mess....
- I think it is my "fault" that your page is one of the most popular actually... when you listed the case-insensitive user contributions bug on Jimbo Wales Minor Issues With New System, I added a link to your contributions, so naturally people would follow that link and then go back to your user page... Funny how things get popular on the Internet... (quite funny really!) --Chuck Smith
Thanks Chuck. Hopefully when the bug is fixed I will get fewer visitors -- and therefore have less pressure to clean-up my page. --maveric
If you've been frequenting the RecentChanges page, you might already expect that I am a Wikipediholic -- yep, I admit it.
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...
(Well, at least this is not necessarily the case.)
Just popping by to say thanks for the name switch on Musee d'Orsay. -- Tarquin
Hi Maverick, thanks for the feedback on Ulysses. The reason I have the chapter links point to their own pages rather than the existing topics is that, for example the Hades chapter of Ulysses has no literal relationship with Hades. I'm not sure if I'm writing a separate page for each chapter, or whether I should write one long page. I guess I'll know once I've written it!
You might want to include the euro symbol in your cheat characters. --Daniel C. Boyer
Thanks for the welcome, Maveric149. I hope I'll get used to Wikipedia real soon. As a newcomer I'm bound to make mistakes, so please tell me when you discover something I should or shouldn't have done. Thanks! Guy
Thanks for creating the new article Quantum Leap. It's probably a good idea to make sure the names of different articles differ in more than just capitalization. If there's already an article on the phrase Quantum leap, then a new article on the T.V. show should probably be called something like Quantum Leap (tv series) rather than just Quantum Leap. This is the way some other TV articles have been named, and it's less likely to confuse people.--LC
- Vaguely possible, but there is an obvious note at the bottom of each page linking to the other uses if someone gets lost. Use of parenthetical disambiguation should only be used when two terms share the same name and capitalization and there are no valid alternates that can be used. This is to ensure easy linking from within other articles so that somebody does not have to write [[Quantum Leap (tv series)|Quantum Leap]] each and every time they want to link to that article -- this would only tend to discourage participation on related articles. Use of the the physics term With Capital Leters Looks Rather Silly And Is Incorrect English Unless You Are Talking About A Proper Noun -- such as the television program. So a disambiguation page at either capitalization would not be appropriate because they mean different things with different capitalization. Therefore there should not be much confusion. --maveric149
Can you erase my password? I deleted my cookies and none of the dozen variations I've tried work. -- Ark
Wow, fancy meeting you here. It was nifty getting a greeting on my talk page...and then to see your name in the diffs for Nirvana, well, I just had to stop by and give you a big shout-out. Looks like you're doing a nifty job here on the 'pedia. --charleschuck
Maveric149 -- I appreciate your recent comment on the talk page for Early Infanticidal Childrearing. If it is within your power to restore more of the deleted talk section, I would appreciate it -- I am specifically concerned with an exchange between Ark and myself involving an excerpt from a book by Suggs. The reason this is useful, I think, is that it provides a concrete example of a text that Ark refers to as proof for his position; by quoting the excerpt, readers can decide for themselves... slrubenstein
Maveric149 -- I went over the reinsertion you did and realized it was from the older "Neolithic Childrearing" page. But the EIC page actually had a couple of feet worth of talk (talk since the page was renamed or moved) as of yesterday that someone -- I assume, but perhaps wrongly, Ark -- somehow deleted. If you can figure out what happened and track it down I would be grateful; it was I admit at times excessive, but I also think it was revealing and informative and ultimately useful.
For various reasons, this issue is very important to me both morally and intellectually. Frankly, I am getting tired of constantly reworking a clearly controversial peice to have a modicum of NPOV. I assume this is the sort of thing the Wikipedia Militia was formed for, and do appreciate you and your comrades attention, slrubenstein
Mav, does Doug (of Reciprocal Theory fame) have a user page? Or does he know how to use Meta? I'd like to work with him on npov-ifying RS of T, but I'm mentally handicapped -- oops, er, I mean I don't know enough physics to understand what the heck he's talking about. I just want to see an NPOV treatment of RS of T.
It should be clear to traditional physics lovers (1) that scientists dismiss it outright, and (2) why scientists object to it. But I'd like it to also show a bit about why RS of T advocates are so fond of it.
Is there any way to do this? Or should I just admit to Doug that it can't be done, and withdraw? Ed Poor, Thursday, June 6, 2002
Mav, You'll excuse me for picking you, but I've been away from the Wikipedia for a while, and yours was the first name I recalled. Last time I was here the Stats page said we were over 33,000 non-sub-pages, but now the figure has dropped to around 28,000. What happened? Cheers, user:Verloren Update: Thanks for the answer!
Can you tell SolKarma to lay off? He's created about a dozen different pages, each containing maybe one or two sentences and links to every other page, instead of a single article about hard drives.--Ark
Thanks for the welcome on my userpage. How was your field trip? a small question, is there anyway a user can tell how many readers have read a page? special:PopularPages only shows the top 50. Would it be possible to put the number of reader in the History? Cheers. user:Ktsquare
Thanx for the answer. I'll make the sugguestion myself so more wikipedians will know about me.--Ktsquare
- Sure thing. --mav
(in the former Wikipedia commentary/Wikipedia camaraderie you wrote:) Content moved to meta at Wikipedia camaraderie. Can somebody who knows how to delete / pages delete this page and also tell me how to delete them?
- Do the regular delete thing; click the "if you are sure, click here"; when you get the 404 error (which I am pretty sure is a problem with Apache's URL rewriting or the configuration thereof), go to the URL bar in your browser. You fill find a "%2F" -- change it to a "/". Hit return. Bingo! (At least, this works in Mozilla.) --Brion VIBBER