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User talk:Creidieki

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Be Bold!

Sam [Spade] 04:58, 23 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Hi, I think you should contact User_talk:Tim_Starling about your formal proposal and how to go about getting community input on it. He can also answer any other questions you might have about the whole proposal process. 172.193.89.45 17:23, 25 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Forgotten edit summaries
Hi, I just saw your question at the Help Desk about forgetting to include an edit summary. As Cyrius suggested, you could make a note of it on the article's discussion page, but some (many?) people might not look there and still blast you for not including the summary. If you were the last person to edit the article, another option is to do a "null edit." Basically this means you edit the article again and change something insignificant, such as adding an extra blank line at the end of the article. Then save it and write your edit summary "Forgot summary on last edit. Summary is..." I hope this helps. SWAdair | Talk 06:44, 29 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Biodiesel
Hi, thanks for your edits on biodiesel. I would like to make this a great article and I think it just needs some editing for consistency and style, particularly in the later sections. feel free to mention anything on the talk page you feel the article needs though. - Taxman 14:24, Aug 3, 2004 (UTC)
 * That sounds reasonable. I have a fair number of additional things I would like to add. (see the to-do list on the talk page).  I will have to be done with them by the end of today due to some other commitments, so after that would be a great time for some copyediting. - Taxman 18:59, Aug 4, 2004 (UTC)

TeX Problems
Omegatron,

On Meta:Help talk: Formula, you were asking about where to report some TeX bugs on Wikipedia. There's a new Wikipedia Bugzilla set up at bugzilla.wikipedia.org; if you're still having problems, you can report them there. I'd be happy to help write a bug report if you'd like; you mentioned problems with other things missing, so I'm not sure what the extent of the problem was. -- Creidieki 22:18, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC)

 * Oh good. I will try to report it. - Omegatron 02:14, Aug 18, 2004 (UTC)

Color of stub links
Thanks for your note on my page. Somewhere along the line, somebody guided me toward a cascading style sheet solution to my issue. I'd done them in the past, but I didn't recon that they would work on Wikipedia. I have the following catbar.css file that really makes a stub stand out.

a.stub { text-decoration: underline !important; background-color: rgb(0,0,0) !important; color: tan !important; } a.stub:after { content: " [Stub]"; color: red; }

I don't think the a.stub:after entry does anything on my browser, but the a.stub entry causes any stub to be highlighted in a really UGLY fashion - black background with tan text. It makes me want to fix it!

It isn't really a global fix, but it will do until they get around to a better solution. Catbar (Brian Rock) 21:46, 23 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Jared Cohon
I don't think the lack of a link is saying that he's not important in some sense, but rather that there's simply not an article about him nor is it intuitive that there should be. --Improv 02:53, 17 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * I've been working in a lot of areas where there are a lot of missing articles still, and I like leaving missing-article links, largely because it encourages people to fill them in. I think that the "Carnegie Mellon" article is a natural place to link to "Jared Cohon".  I also like having the link there, because that way if someone creates an article on Jared Cohon, we don't have to depend upon them going back to all of the appropriate articles and adding links.  And if other articles create links to him (say, because he served on the Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board) before his article is written, it's a lot easier to notice that we need an article if they all include links. -- Creidieki 18:47, 17 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * I guess I can see that. To me, it seems like the existance of a decent article allows for discussion of notability, and I really am unsure if he's notable enough to be worth mentioning. *shrug* Are you another CMUer? --Improv 20:30, 17 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Thanks
I just wanted to thank you for helping out on Cathedral of Learning. you're definetly picking up a lot of stuff that missed, along with a bunch of stuff I just plain was starin at too long to figure out how to fix. Lyellin 08:07, Sep 19, 2004 (UTC)

E-Prime Article Style
A consensus was pretty much reached on the talk page to e-prime that the article itself shouldn't be written in e-prime. If you disagree, please discuss there. I am considering restoring the "to be" verbs in the article. Samrolken 06:52, 25 Sep 2004 (UTC)

BSD licensing
My apologies if you thought my revert was premature; in retrospect, I should have discussed the issue before changing the article. Your modification claimed that the GPL forbids "commercial use", which is not true. The GPL forbids redistribution that removes the user's right to certain freedoms (e.g. the freedom to modify and redistribute) -- it might be fair to say that it disallows "proprietary redistribution". However, the GPL does not disallow "commercial use" -- the GNU folks specifically discourage the use of "commercial" to mean "proprietary".

Your modification also confused two distinct licenses: the GNU Free Documentation License is known as the GNU FDL, and is not the same as the GNU General Public License, which is known as the GNU GPL.

My other point was that this content doesn't really belong in the FreeBSD article, because it is just as applicable to any other piece of BSD licensed software. BSD and GPL licensing might be a better place to add more information about the rights granted by the two licenses. Neilc 04:02, 1 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Economy of Europe
Hi, I noticed you'd made an edit to this new article, so was wondering if you would add your support to it's nomination for Collaboration of the Week. Simply add your support here. Obviously such a big project needs as many users with relevant knowledge as possible, so hopefully this will promote it a little. Thanks, Grunners 00:36, 21 Nov 2004 (UTC)

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 2000 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 " " 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 multi-license all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

OR
 * Option 2
 * I agree to multi-license all my contributions to any U.S. state, county, or city article as described below:

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace " " with "  ". 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)

 * See my response on my talk page   – Ram-Man (comment) (talk)   23:50, Dec 10, 2004 (UTC)

 * I'd also like to add that the statistics estimating how many Wikipedia articles are available made a wild guess, not so much an accurate probabalistic look. Actually since many of the 35,000 city/county articles have not been edited by anonymous users (i've performed random sampling of the articles), the percentage may not be far off.  My theory is that anonymous editors tend to focus on a certain range of topics.  I could be way wrong.  I've added a note on my stats page that it is basically just a guess and not terribly mathematical or probabalistic.  I also assume that anonymous editors typically make minor and/or small edits that would not be hard to remove from an article if it needed to be multi-licensed.  But in the end, anonymous editors cause a headache to be sure, but at least some articles will be available.  The whole article does not need to be anyway, since a project such as WikiTravel only needs subsets of interesting information that would be fitting for a Travel Brochure, such as some important sites to visit or maybe a few population statistics.    – Ram-Man (comment) (talk)   14:29, Dec 14, 2004 (UTC)

Image:Usagi.jpg
Unfortunately, there is no way to undelete images that have been deleted from Wikipedia. If you can find the source, you can re-upload it, including an Image Copyright Tag and proper source information. That way it won't get deleted again.

You're right in that I should use a better edit summary for that sort of thing. I've been doing so lately. (example). I also left a note on Talk:Furry. They're pretty upset over there!

Thanks for your courtesy. – Quadell (talk) (sleuth) 16:26, Mar 4, 2005 (UTC)

 * You said "An image that our article uses was deleted, in violation of policy, with no warning to us, and no explanation." Actually, the image was appropriately deleted according to policy, as it was a copyright violation listed on WP:PUI for 30 days. You've also received an explanation. A warning notice should have been given by someone after 15 days, but what would you have done with this information? Could you have shown that the image was actually available under a free license? You haven't received an apology because I don't feel I did anything incorrectly, and I haven't been rude to you. I'm available for Mediation though, if you feel it's warranted. Peace, – Quadell (talk) (sleuth) 19:22, Mar 4, 2005 (UTC)

Hi. I just made a more detailed reply to you on my talk page. Cheers, -- Infrogmation 19:46, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * You asked "I'm probably going to look on the mirrors, to try to get a copy of the image, and see whether I can find licensing information. Would you be able to provide me with the image description text, and the username of the uploader?" Sure. The image was entitled "Usagi.jpg". The image description page said only " ". The original uploader was User:Imran, who is no longer on Wikipedia. You can e-mail him, however, by going to his user page and clicking the "e-mail user" link to the left. Hope this helps, – Quadell (talk) (sleuth) 04:47, Mar 5, 2005 (UTC)

 * FYI, I've been trying to get people to discuss the current image policy which often leads to non-copyvio images getting deleted (even if the uploader is a higly-respected contributor of Wikipedia). I've pointed out that in many cases the uploader won't be available to defend his/her case as he/she might have left the project. But unfortunately only 3-4 have responded to my comments. Instead of linking you to all the places I (& others) tried starting a discussion I'll link you to where I've placed all the links. -- Paddu 15:15, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Civil war battle
Notice the Source link in the battle article at Battle of Collierville. It's public domain text from a government web site, as are all of the other civil war battles I've been submitting for the last several months. I reverted your copyvio notice. -- BRIAN 0918  23:07, 17 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Wikipædia
OK, so Wikipædia isn't much of a change, but there's also not much point to it... it's not that funny, maybe Britons would even consider it normal. :-) Anyway it got changed along with some of the other things. -- Curps 06:40, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:Multiple Redirects
MediaWiki ignores any redirect in a page led to by a redirect to avoid infinite loops (and thus save server time). There are other (more complex) ways to detect infinite loops, but this was the choice made in the early days and I suppose nobody thought of any need to change it. If you feel multiple redirects are useful, open a feature request on it in MediaZilla as per the instructions at Bug reports. -- Paddu 15:05, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

MOS Archive Directory
Hey, I moved your question to the MOS talk page (the main one), where more people will see it. My only suggestion is, use a search engine - I'm sorry I can't answer your question - but I hope you don't mind me moving your question. Neonumbers 13:26, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

E-Prime usage
I've left a note for you at Talk:E-Prime. - Pedant17 12:36, 23 July 2005 (UTC)

Comments on Associativity
In response to your comment of July 17, 2005 I have put my (somewhat lengthy) reply on my talk page. pjkuntz 1.09.2005

Re
See my talk page. R e  dwolf24  (talk) 21:47, 5 September 2005 (UTC)

Re Associativity
Thanks for your comments. Please see my talk-page.pjkuntz 6.09.2005

Articles for deletion/Geeforce
I answered on the AfD page; you're right, partly; as I had missed the article fictitious force. Could I put upon you the task of merging with fictitious force? linas 05:12, 10 September 2005 (UTC)

Sandbox categories
I found the categories on the listing of unparented categories. So that's how I came to them. As for them being in your user space, they are not. That's a key part of the situation. Categories are always in the main user space. The "Category:" in front defines that. If you look one or two submissions below yours you'll see me submitting a couple of categories used by others to organize their subpages, and I'm a little more detailed about wanting these type of categories to go. The comments are, in the end, just my opinions. CFD is a vote, and I've lost submission votes a number of times, showing that my opinion is not always in line with conscensous. So be it.

In the end though, I did make one big mistake. I indeed should have informed you that your categoies were being put up for CFD. I apologize for not doing so. TexasAndroid 14:14, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

Cathedral of Learning removed sections
In reference to the section that states:

 * Local legend states that to counteract this resistance Bowman ordered that the construction of the walls would start at the top floor and work their way down, so the project could not be canceled. Actually, this was practical, as the exterior walls are not load bearing in skyscrapers. This means that they do not hold weight, so the walls can be built at any time. Building the top walls first allows for ease of movement of materials and equipment during the construction.

I've actually seen a picture that seems to back this up. The University of Pittsburgh's library system has a storage facility in North Point Breeze/Homewood, and on the wall of the (I think) second floor there's a framed picture of the Cathedral that is completed except for scaffolding on the lower three floors. I can't be certain if this is the only explanation, but it would seem to make sense, as I believe the date on the picture is about right. I have no idea if I'd be able to get to this picture or make a copy of it, but I can assure you that it does in fact exist. Whether or not this would justify returning the above section to the article I'm not sure, but I thought you might find it interesting. -- Patraus 19:18, 24 October 2005 (UTC)

Americanus
Thank you for the note about the catagory deletion. I haven't logged in for a while so I didn't see it until today, and I notice that the page is already gone. I see that you have contributed to the Hubbert article, that's good news. I'm actually starting to move my articles out of the wikipedia and into my own seperate site, so I'm not so concerned about the catagory being removed. Thank you for the heads up anyway! :-) Americanus 19:53, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

Rennet
Just letting you know that I responded to your comment at Talk:Rennet

Bounty?
Hi Creideiki. I created the article at shoe polish a few months ago, and it's on the brink of (I hope) becoming a featured article (currently it's at 10 supports, 2 objects (which have both been dealth with but the votes have npot yet been amended) and 1 weak object which has also been dealt with. Would such an article qualify for your bounty on articles about household objects? Proto t c 12:23, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Great, thanks. And thanks for your contributions (although I did have to tinker with one you'd done - the one about dubiously relevant info - so it showed why it was relevant). Proto t c 17:00, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Shoe polish has now attained featured article status! Yay. Proto t c 09:45, 22 November 2005 (UTC)

Bounties
I think User:Borisblue might be setting up an RFC to gauge community support for paying people. Perhaps you could work with him on this? I'm going on Wikivacation for a while, but I'll be keen to see how this one turns out. – Quadell (talk) (bounties) 23:35, 20 November 2005 (UTC)

re: Category:Wikipedia is not self-reference
"Categories used to organize Wikipedia have been moved into Category:Wikipedia administrative categories." - this is a self reference. this is mentioning of that these articles are being hosted on Wikipedia. -- Zondor 18:28, 28 November 2005 (UTC)

Chart
Hi, thanks for the chart. I think I'm going to use it; I'm just imagining whether I should use it as is, whether it should replace the others or not, that sort of thing. 考え中. Mithridates 10:30, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

History of science fiction
Hey... I've been working on the SF history overhaul on a user subpage, User:Ferret-aaron/sftest. It's going to be at least another couple of weeks before I'm happy enough with it to put it up for discussion to replace the current article, but it's starting to take shape, and I'd appreciate it if you'd take a look and comment just on the general shape of the overhauled article. Obviously, I haven't gotten to writing the future of SF section yet, and I haven't figured out what to do with film, TV, comic books, or video games, but i'm starting to like where the earlier parts are going. Ferret-aaron 05:33, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Moved my effort to History of science fiction/rewrite and have been soliciting comments before moving it into the main article. Please comment on the talk page. Ferret-aaron 15:40, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

Xanadu House
I have added inline citations to the history and interior sections, with page numbers in the footnotes. I have also changed the wording in the History section to make the introduction of Roy Mason a bit better. — Wackymacs 07:11, 30 November 2005 (UTC)

Thanks!
High praise for my FAC :-) I very much appreciate it and will try to do what you suggest... - Ta bu shi da yu 13:03, 30 November 2005 (UTC)

Early life of Hugo Chávez
Would you mind taking a few seconds to re-examine both the article and your vote? Thanks. ← S ARAVASK — 18:30, 30 November 2005 (UTC)

Early life of Joseph Smith, Jr.
I've tried to address all the points you raised on this article. I agree with all of them, especially the structural rearrangement, and I think the article is quite a bit better now. Please let me know if you have any other suggestions. CO GDEN  22:22, 30 November 2005 (UTC)

Ouch!
I've got to say, your user page made me cringe! I'm sorry to hear about your misfortune, I hope you are able to make a full recovery. --Fastfission 03:07, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

David Brin?
Sorry to butt in, but I noticed your username on protos talk page; and I just wanted to know if it's inspirated by the works of David Brin (Uplift Universe). Thanks. Lectonar 15:38, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
 * To butt in on my own, the answer is yes. I know, because I've asked him the same question. Ferret-aaron 00:34, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

 * C, Another user here who noted your user name. I hope your WP experience will be in keeping with C's description and performance in the book. Too bad he hasn't brought C and his mate (Hikaki?) back in a subsequent volume or short story. I've wanted to know something about what happened with them.

 * I also hope that your back fracture/fusion hasn't caused anything like the damage C sustained from the sabotage. Though perhaps missing communications from the DREAMERS might be a debatable loss. I don't think I'd regret missing them, but you might feel differently. You might be interested (or cheered or encouraged or something) that the actor Orlando Bloom (Legolas in the Lord of the Rings films) also managed to break his back and yet made a full recovery.

 * In short, I'm impressed by your name choice. Best wishes on your recovery, and on the 'grad school' thing. 151.205.171.155 06:38, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Stock Market Hours
See the answer below in Stock Exchange.

USA PATRIOT Act, Title II
I have taken to haert what you said, and have significant expanded the article. I now have a summary along with the explanation of each section. This makes it easier to understand what the title actually is all about - the Act, to be honest, is all over the place in Title II.

More difficult is the criticisms section. EPIC has a whole bunch of stuff, (see ) - would you be able to assist me in this regard? I would also like to see it countered by what the govt has to say... - Ta bu shi da yu 05:02, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

Butter
You might have another look at the FAC. I've integrated most of your talk-page work into the "Types" section, and expanded the "History" section some. Thanks! —Bunchofgrapes (talk) 22:34, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

Barnstar
I hereby award you this Barnstar for coming up with the Articles for creation idea. User:Zoe|(talk) 04:27, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

BTW...
I take it you're a David Brin fan? User:Zoe|(talk) 04:33, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

Kumanovo dispute
Hey Creidieki --

I was wondering if you could take a look a the article Kumanovo if you get a chance. I seem to have stepped into the middle of a dispute between User:Bitola and User:Freestylefrappe, and I'm just curious 1) if you think my actions so far have been reasonable, and 2) whether you feel the disputed content (as of the most recent edit -- some of the previous content was copyvio, but that should no longer be a problem) is "nonsense" or if it's reasonable, good-faith material. I've been threatened with blocking if I revert it back in (which I already stated that I wouldn't), but I'm going to try to refactor some of the information from the disputed passage into the article piecemeal. Thanks, User:Glenn Willen (Talk) 01:27, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
 * I understand the desire to act in good faith, but Glenn Willen is either a sockpuppet of Bitola or is too lazy to actually follow Bitola's repeated vandalism. I'm reverting Bitola's bad version of the page to the longstanding version. If any user has constructive edits then I wont revert. freestylefrappe 02:38, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
 * My bad! I no see genius of previous edit. Perhaps I need practice my grammar more time so I can be awesome like Bitola? Please, in future involve in my clear stupidity. Help self so I see wisdom of you, Glenn, and Bitola. I only hope, being an admin, I can achieve your level of sensibility. You understand I point? freestylefrappe 02:55, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

Bizarre, no?
But I just figured I'd give you a heads-up that your $10 WikiBounty on shoe polish is in fact today's Featured Article! Sherurcij (talk) (bounties) 17:55, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

Category:Categories
One problem is that a lot of people just take junk cateories and blank them out rather than using the appropriate "delete" template. A bot could probably detect these empty categories. I will think some more about this.

What I really want it a natural place to start and sensible navigation to almost everything important in both the mainspace and in the Wikipedia: space. I am still struggling to figure out how long Special:Uncategorizedcategories should be in an "ideal" world. If not zero, it should be rather short. Only Category:Categories is the default and most natural top-level category. -- Emact 04:45, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

Request for arbitration (mine)
SCZenz filed a request for arbitration regarding my actions here: Requests for arbitration. I have listed you as a party involved. freestylefrappe 19:01, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

remove "Donation" link from "Getting Started", we shouldn't be asking new users for money.
Good point. --Go for it! 02:53, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

Empty questions
Yeah, you're totally right. I think a line should be added at the top of the page with the other rules warning them of this, or something. Anyway, thanks for pointing that out. Hope it gets fixed! СПУТНИК ССС Р 23:38, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

Your username
I finally understand your username! You aren't, by any chance, a David Brin fan, are you? Raul654 23:42, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

Atoms (& the Void)
JA: De nada. It's usually trial and error with the choice between Wiki formats and TeX. I generally try Wiki first until I run into stuff that's just no longer respectable-looking that way. Jon Awbrey 04:48, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

Bounty for copyediting
Bolded 24 classes Bolded 21 classes Bolded 20 classes

For a total of 65(x.03=$1.95) :) -- Rory 0 96 20:05, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

Natural Proofs
Hey Creidieki, the article on Natural_proofs says it wants an expert and is kind of messy. I know you understand this much better than I do. mkehrt 23:54, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

Catalan mythology...
What was your rationale behind making that a redirect rather than moving Catalan myths and legends to it? The latter is a VERY poorly titled titled article that does not conform to Wikipedia (or even general academic) standards. elvenscout742 19:12, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

Re: Linnwood
There's nothing to mediate. I'm done with those articles, and Linnwood can make stuff up and bully other users till his heart's content. I'll also be re-evaluating my participation in a project that values shit jokes over academic content and fictional worlds like Star Trek over the real world we all live in. I'd like a grovelling apology from that rat bastard Linnwood for calling me a vandal numerous times, but seeing as how I won't get that, I'll just steer clear of him. Brian G. Crawford 21:01, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

BMI illustration
Uploaded to Commons as Image:Male borderline underweight.jpg. I request that the $2 is donated to the Wikimedia Foundation. Fredrik Johansson 14:16, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

Reward board
Wikipedia operates on consensus. If you propose something new and it gets a lot of opposition, you sit down, see if the issues can be addressed, and if they can't be, you don't proceed. This proposal is a significant one, and had nearly 50% opposition, which was nowhere near enough to activate it. I'm sick and tired of the attitude of some people of "oh, well I like this idea, so I'm going to do it anyway, and everyone else be damned." That is not the way this project works. Ambi 03:35, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

Reward board currency?
Heya - could you add the country-currency of your reward offer? Things are often assumed to be in USD, but the dollar symbol is pretty common and there are non-U.S. dollars in the other reward offers. Cheers, Kickstart70 - T - C 01:07, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

Lithuania
Thanks! I think it's good, just wonder if there are going to be any takers :-/ Renata 21:31, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

Bounty for Copyediting the Complexity Classes
Check my contributions from 23:27, 25 April 2006 to 01:05, 26 April 2006. I make it about 348 in total. 348 * $0.03 = $10.04. You set a maximum of $10; let me know what date you make/made the donation to the Wikimedia foundation. [Originally posted on 01:17, 26 April 2006 (UTC)] --duncan 17:14, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

BMI Picture
I'd be willing to provide a photo of myself if you were able to obscure the face for me. I do not know how to go about doing that. If a photo from the chest down would work I could get one of those. Let me know - Jeb8828 23:25, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

Quantum channel
No, the edit summary is a general one that covers more possibilities than actually apply to this article - in this case the only changes were a typo fix (ouput --> output) and converting html special characters to their Unicode equivalents. Sorry for any confusion. Colonies Chris 22:55, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

Question...
Do you still need BMI pictures. If so, I'll help you out. I don't want the money, but I'm looking to get some cool looking Barnstars! Kindly leave a message on my talk page (left arrow in my sig) with your response. →Bobby ← 21:51, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

Complexity classes
Hi. I noticed your bounty offers on complexity classes. They have officially expired December 1st but I was wondering whether you would consider extending the offer. In any case, I'm a researcher in complexity but, oddly enough, I haven't done too much editing in that respect, except creating Circuit complexity and watching a couple of complexity-related pages. If you're ever interested in collaborating on specific articles or if you feel that specific pages need to be created, let me know. I've been too lazy to really sink my teeth in Computational complexity theory which, I believe, deserves a complete rewrite. Cheers, Pascal.Tesson 16:07, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

Edit summary on Reward Board
Sorry bout that - I missed a couple of reverts where I didn't mention the mentorship - I'll be more diligent. -- Trödel 17:18, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

Reward Board
Hello

I have uploaded two BMI pictures to Wikimedia Commons, of my youngest brother with parental consent:

 * SS_BMI-Side.jpg
 * SS_BMI-Front.jpg

Please leave your return message on my talk page.

Thanks!!

'''Social Studiously My Editor Review! -''' 12:23, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

BMI Picture
Hi, heres a pic I took a editied Height is 6 foot,, weight is 270. Please send the 2 dollars through paypal too tjg50311@hotmail.com. Thanks, feel free to talk on my talk page.

http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g141/tjg50311/Untitled.jpg Tyler Gothier 23:56, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

No contact
Hi, you still havn't contacted me yet.. Tyler Gothier 23:56, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia for children
Hi Creidieki, we're working with the 1.0 team to develop snapshots of Wikipedia in different levels of breadth and depth for use by children and in classrooms. We need to start a project page on en:wp about this, and link it to the sets of content bundles on the olpcwiki. Zdenek Broz and a number of editors on the olpcwiki are currently working on some scripts to make 10-20M bundles of material; Renaud G., one of the developers of moulin, and mako and others are also working on ways to distribute offline editing. Drop onto IRC and visit #olpc-content on irc.freenode.net to catch many of these people. +sj+ 18:15, 8 August 2007 (UTC)
 * The other project that needs work is an encyclopedia for children... something that simple-english and WikiJunior have addressed in very narrow ways. But these are longer-term projects than the ones noted above. +sj + 18:17, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

BMI
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Looney Tunes: Back in Action

Looney Tunes: Back in Action is a 2003 American live-action/animated comedy film produced by Warner Bros. Feature Animation and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. It is the second fully original theatrical feature film in the Looney Tunes franchise, and was directed by Joe Dante from a screenplay by Larry Doyle. Brendan Fraser, Jenna Elfman, and Steve Martin star in the film; Timothy Dalton, Heather Locklear, and Bill Goldberg appear in supporting roles, while Joe Alaskey leads the voice cast. Its plot, which parodies action and spy film conventions, follows Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck (Alaskey) as they become intertwined in a plot by the ACME Chairman (Martin) to transform the world's population into subservient monkeys using the Blue Monkey diamond. They accompany aspiring stuntman DJ Drake (Fraser) and Warner Bros. executive Kate Houghton (Elfman) on their journey to thwart the Chairman's plot, which doubles as a mission to rescue the former's abducted father, Damian (Dalton).

The film was the result of multiple attempts by Warner Bros. to develop a sequel to Space Jam (1996). It was originally developed as a direct sequel titled Spy Jam, which was intended to include Jackie Chan in the lead role. Dante, out of a personal dislike for Space Jam, substantially developed the project to more closely represent the personalities of the Looney Tunes characters, with Disney animator Eric Goldberg serving as the animation director. However, Dante reportedly had no creative control on the project, and the final film became different from what he intended. The film was the last project for composer Jerry Goldsmith, who died eight months following its release; John Debney composed additional material for the score.

Looney Tunes: Back in Action premiered on November 9, 2003, and was theatrically released in the United States on November 14, by Warner Bros. Pictures. The film received mixed-to-positive reviews from critics who considered it an improvement over Space Jam and praised the animation and humor, but criticized the screenplay. It was a box office failure, grossing $68.5 million worldwide on an $80 million budget. Warner Bros., developing a franchise revival around the film, subsequently canceled several planned related projects, including new theatrical short films. It was the final film to be produced by Warner Bros. Feature Animation and the last theatrical Looney Tunes feature film until Space Jam: A New Legacy (2021).

At the 31st Annie Awards, the film was nominated for four Annie Awards, including Best Animated Feature.

Plot
Weary of playing villainous roles in Bugs Bunny's cartoons, Daffy Duck demands his own animated film, but is instead fired by Vice President of Comedy Kate Houghton. Security guard and aspiring stuntman DJ Drake is ordered to escort Daffy from the studio; in the ensuing chase, a Batmobile demolishes the water tower, leading to DJ's dismissal. Daffy follows DJ home, where the latter receives a message from his father, actor Damian Drake, who DJ learns is a secret agent. Damian tells DJ to travel to Las Vegas, contact his associate Dusty Tails, and find the blue monkey diamond. Damian is then captured by the Acme Corporation, led by the eccentric Mr. Chairman. DJ and Daffy depart for Las Vegas.

Bugs' routines fail without Daffy. Kate is told to rehire Daffy, or face termination herself. Kate and Bugs arrive at DJ's house, where they find Damian's TVR Tuscan and use it in pursuit of DJ and Daffy. In Las Vegas, DJ and Daffy meet Dusty in a casino owned by Yosemite Sam, who is employed by Acme. Dusty gives them a unique playing card, a clue to finding the diamond. Sam and his sidekicks pursue DJ and Daffy for the card, but they flee with Bugs and Kate. When the Tuscan crashes in a desert, the group camps out for the night while Bugs fails convince Daffy to take his job back, with the latter revealing he envies Bugs for being so popular with so little effort, and wishes it were like that for himself. The next day, Wile E. Coyote tries in vain to steal the card from the group.

The group eventually discovers Area 52, run by a woman known as Mother. Mother shows the group a short film about the blue monkey, which can devolve humans into monkeys. Marvin the Martian, imprisoned in the facility, leads a group of aliens to try to steal the card, but DJ's group escapes. Seeing Mona Lisa 's face on the card, the group conclude they must view the painting in the Louvre.

At the Louvre, the group discover that the card contains a viewing window for the Mona Lisa and use it to discover a hidden map of Africa. Elmer Fudd appears and chases Bugs and Daffy through several paintings to obtain the card. Meanwhile, Kate is kidnapped by Beaky Buzzard and Smith, Mr. Chairman's bodyguard. DJ rescues Kate, while Elmer disintegrates into tiny dots after emerging from a pointillist painting.

The group travels to Africa and meet Granny, Sylvester, and Tweety, who escort them to the ruins of a jungle temple containing the blue monkey. At that point, Granny and company reveal themselves to be Mr. Chairman, Smith, and Taz in disguise. Mr. Chairman teleports everyone to the Acme headquarters and tricks DJ into giving him the diamond in exchange for Damian's release.

Marvin is sent to place the diamond in an Acme satellite's ray gun; with it, Mr. Chairman plans to turn most of the world's population into monkeys to make his products before reverting the population into people who will buy them while everyone will be turning into mindless fruits. DJ and Kate rescue Damian from a death trap, while Bugs and Daffy chase Marvin into space. Marvin defeats Bugs, prompting Daffy to become Duck Dodgers in order to destroy the diamond. The intervention leads to Mr. Chairman transforming into a monkey, leading to his arrest. Bugs and Daffy return to Earth, where it is revealed that the preceding events were staged. Bugs promises Daffy that they will be equal partners, before the latter is flattened by the Looney Tunes rings. Porky Pig attempts to close the film with "That's all, folks!", but the studio closes, to Porky's indignation.

Production
Looney Tunes: Back in Action was initially developed as a sequel to Space Jam (1996). As development began, the film's plot was going to involve a new basketball competition with Michael Jordan and the Looney Tunes against a new alien villain named Berserk-O!. Artist Bob Camp was tasked with designing Berserk-O! and his henchmen. Joe Pytka would have returned to direct and Spike Brandt and Tony Cervone signed on as the animation supervisors. However, Jordan did not agree to star in a sequel. According to Camp, a producer lied to the studio, claiming that Jordan had signed on in order to keep development going. Without Jordan involved with the project, Warner Bros. was uninterested, and cancelled plans for Space Jam 2.

The film then re-entered development as Spy Jam and was to star Jackie Chan. Warner Bros. was also planning a film titled Race Jam, which would have starred racing driver Jeff Gordon. Both projects were ultimately cancelled. Warner Bros. eventually asked Joe Dante to direct Back in Action. In the early 1990s, Dante wanted to produce a biographical comedy with HBO, called Termite Terrace. It centered around director filmmaker and cartoonist Chuck Jones' early years at Warner Bros. in the 1930s. On the project, Dante recalled, "It was a hilarious story and it was very good except that Warner Bros. said, 'Look, it's an old story. It's got period stuff in it. We don't want that. We want to rebrand our characters and we want to do Space Jam.'"

Dante agreed to direct Back in Action as a tribute to Jones. He and screenwriter Larry Doyle reportedly wanted the film to be the "anti-Space Jam" as Dante disliked how that film represented the Looney Tunes brand and personalities. Dante said, "I was making a movie for them with those characters [Looney Tunes: Back in Action] and they did not want to know about those characters. They didn't want to know why Bugs Bunny shouldn't do hip-hop. It was a pretty grim experience all around." Warner Bros. hired Walt Disney Feature Animation's Eric Goldberg, most known for his fast-paced, Warner Bros.-inspired animation of the Genie in Aladdin (1992), to direct the animation.

On the film, Dante stated, "It's a gagfest. Not having a particularly strong story, it just goes from gag to gag and location to location. It's not a particularly compelling narrative, but, of course, that's not where the charm of the movie is supposed to lie." On the subject of filming, Dante stated that each scene with animated characters would be shot three times; first a rehearsal with a fake stuffed stand-in, then with nothing in the frame, and lastly, with a "mirror ball" in the shot to indicate to the computers where the light sources were. Afterwards, the animators would start their work and put the characters in the frame. According to Dante, a "problem" occurred when the studio executives grew tired of the film's jokes and wanted them to be changed. As a result, the studio brought in twenty-five gag writers to try to write jokes that were short enough to fit into an animated character's mouth. Despite this, the film has one credited writer.

Dante stated that he had no creative freedom on the project, and called it "the longest year and a half of my life." Dante felt that while he and Goldberg managed to preserve the original personalities of the characters, the opening, middle, and end of the film are different from what Dante had envisioned. John Requa and Glenn Ficarra initially wrote the story along with Doyle. But it was removed later.

Music
This was the final film scored by composer Jerry Goldsmith. Due to Goldsmith's failing health, the last reel of the film was actually scored by John Debney, though Goldsmith was the only credited composer in marketing materials and the Varèse Sarabande soundtrack album only contains Goldsmith's music (although the first and last cues are adaptations of compositions heard in Warner Bros. cartoons). Debney receives an "Additional Music by" credit in the closing titles of the film and "Special Thanks" in the soundtrack album credits. Goldsmith died in July 2004, eight months after the film's release.

Box office
Looney Tunes: Back in Action was released on November 14, 2003, originally planned to open earlier that summer. The film grossed $68.5 million worldwide against a budget of $80 million.

Warner Bros. was hoping to start a revitalized franchise of Looney Tunes media and products with the success of Back in Action. New animated shorts and a Duck Dodgers TV series were commissioned to tie-in with Back in Action. However, due to the film's financial failure, the Looney Tunes franchise remained primarily on television for nearly two decades. Warner Bros. would not produce another theatrical Looney Tunes film until Space Jam: A New Legacy, which was released in 2021.

Critical response
On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes the film holds an approval rating of 57% based on 138 reviews, with an average rating of 6/10. The website's critics consensus reads: "The plot is a nonsensical, hyperactive jumble and the gags are relatively uninspired compared to the classic Looney Tunes cartoons." At Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score a 64 out of 100, based on 32 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews" Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B+" on an A+ to F scale.

Chicago Sun-Times critics Roger Ebert and Richard Roeper gave the film "Two Thumbs Up"; Roeper called it a "cheerful and self-referential romp blending animation with live action in a non-stop quest for silly laughs," while Ebert called it "goofy fun."

Accolades
The film was nominated for Saturn Award for Best Animated Film, Annie Award for Best Animated Feature and Satellite Award for Best Animated or Mixed Media Feature.

Home media
Warner Home Video released Looney Tunes: Back in Action on VHS and DVD on March 2, 2004. The film was re-released on DVD in separate widescreen and full screen editions on September 7, 2010. It was also released on Blu-ray with bonus features on December 2, 2014. A double DVD and Blu-ray release, paired with Space Jam, was released on June 7, 2016.

Video game
The film has a platform game of the same name developed by Warthog Games and published by Electronic Arts for the PlayStation 2, GameCube and Game Boy Advance. Xbox and Microsoft Windows versions were planned, but cancelled due to the financial failure of the film.

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2929 Entertainment

2929 Entertainment, LLC. is an American integrated media and entertainment company co-founded by billionaire entrepreneurs Todd Wagner and Mark Cuban. 2929 maintains companies and interests across several industries including entertainment development and packaging, film and television production and distribution, digital and broadcast syndication, theatrical exhibition, and home entertainment.

2929 Entertainment has offices in Los Angeles, New York, and Dallas. Wagner and Cuban co-own 2929 with Sky Hansen serving as Managing Director.

History
2929 Entertainment made several strategic acquisitions to assure that releases could be made available to any audience across a variety of platforms simultaneously. Wagner says that "ready availability of such infrastructure would be an operating advantage to both the circuit and the production company." Some titles would even see DVD releases alongside theatrical openings as early as 2007, through an early partnership with Netflix.

An extensive catalogue of television and film rights were acquired with Rysher Entertainment in 2001, and 2929 would co-produce a newer version of Star Search which premiered in January 2003 on CBS (the original Star Search aired from 1983 to 1995).

Variety praised 2929 as a "pioneer" for its simultaneous theatrical and cable television release of Steven Soderbergh's Bubble in 2006. Bubble was the first of several films with concurrent releases in theaters and through 2929's cable channel HDNet. At the time, this move was controversial as most films are released in different formats on a staggered schedule, giving each channel an exclusive window. Exhibitors were especially timorous, as many feared that they would eventually lose their exclusive release windows for more mainstream films.

Production companies
2929 Entertainment develops original feature and series through its production company 2929 Productions, and formerly through HDNet Films.

2929 Productions, LLC
2929 Productions, LLC. was co-founded by Wagner and Cuban in 2002. The film and television studio selectively finances and develops feature films and series, often through partnerships with industry creators or entertainment companies.

2929 Productions is headed by Haley Jones. Previous studio leadership has included Ben Cosgrove (formerly of Paramount and Section Eight) and Marc Butan (MadRiver Pictures and formerly Lionsgate).

Godsend, Criminal and The Jacket were among of the studio's first projects, with the latter two being co-produced and co-financed with Steven Soderbergh and George Clooney's Section Eight Productions. After his work on Godsend, Marc Butan was offered studio head at 2929 leading him to exit an EVP role at Lionsgate.

In 2005, 2929 Productions released Good Night, And Good Luck. with Warner Independent. The film uses a mix of archival footage and contemporary production to tell the story of the famed wartime reporter Edward Murrow (David Strathairn) and his historic "See it Now" broadcast criticizing Senator Joseph McCarthy and the Red Scare. To mitigate risks that could arise with a black-and-white feature film, Wagner engaged Jeff Skoll and his company Participant Media to produce Good Night, And Good Luck, which grossed over $30 million (USA) and was nominated for six Academy Awards, including Best Picture.

HDNet Films
HDNet Films, the motion picture division of the HDNet network (now AXS TV), produced lower budget movies in high definition.

Distribution
Originally formed in 2001 by Bill Banowsky and Eamonn Bowles, Magnolia Pictures is the home entertainment and theatrical distribution subsidiary of 2929. In November 2005 the company created Magnolia Home Entertainment to release its films over home video, with its first release being Alex Gibney's acclaimed doc, Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room. It is headed by entertainment industry vet and former head of home entertainment for Miramax, Randy Wells. Magnolia Pictures also provides its content through a curated streaming service, Magnolia Selects.

2929 also launched Truly Indie, an "innovative distribution program" for independent filmmakers.

Television
2929 holds a significant interest in AXS TV, which Cuban originally co-founded in 2001 as the all-high definition cable channel HDNet (through AXS TV LLC, formerly HDNet, LLC). HDNet Movies, a companion channel, shows movies in high definition. 2929 also owned Rysher Entertainment, a television syndication distributor with an extensive library of titles and syndication rights to TV shows like Hogan's Heroes, Sex and the City and Star Search. Rysher was later acquired by an investment company through Lakeshore Entertainment.

Theatrical exhibition
2929 acquired Landmark Theatres September 24, 2003. The chain was originally founded by Kim Jorgensen in 1974 and specialized in independent and foreign films. On December 4, 2018 the announcement was made that Landmark Theatres was sold to the Cohen Media Group, "a buyer who is passionate about independent cinema and who truly understands this market."

2929 maintains an interest in Spotlight Cinema Networks, a cinema advertising company.

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Problem-oriented policing

Problem-oriented policing (POP), coined by University of Wisconsin–Madison professor Herman Goldstein, is a policing strategy that involves the identification and analysis of specific crime and disorder problems, in order to develop effective response strategies. POP requires police to identify and target underlying problems that can lead to crime. Goldstein suggested it as an improvement on the reactive, incident-driven "standard model of policing".

Goldstein's 1979 model was expanded in 1987 by John E. Eck and William Spelman into the Scanning, Analysis, Response, and Assessment (SARA) model for problem-solving. This strategy places more emphasis on research and analysis as well as crime prevention and the engagement of public and private organizations in the reduction of community problems.

A systematic review of this model, based on 34 randomized control trials and quasi-experimental studies, found that problem-oriented policing is effective at reducing crime and disorder, but had a limited effect on police legitimacy and fear of crime. There is also the risk of overreach, corruption, and abuse of authority, when officers interfere before crimes have actually occurred.

Criticism
Problem-oriented policing can have some unintended consequences, including displacement of the problem from its origins. The majority of problem-oriented policing projects fail to investigate displacement. Law enforcement is generally satisfied to achieve a crime reduction in the targeted area and may be less concerned if crime is displaced outside their jurisdiction. However, assessing and understanding potential displacement effects can help ensure the effectiveness of problem-oriented policing. Response to criticism of POP based on this unintended consequence has been challenged: a systematic review published in 2011 argued that while displacement is viewed as a negative consequence of crime prevention efforts, it can provide benefits.

Another criticism comes from a particular challenge to many policing approaches: trust. If a community has no trust in law enforcement, then law enforcement and the community will have friction. As difficult as it is often for police officers to obtain "buy-in" within, it is often even more difficult to convince people outside the police department, such as community partners, to carry out specific tasks faithfully and properly without a negative inference of its inadequacy in satisfying the expectations of the masses.

Evaluations
Michael Scott's 20-year retrospective concludes: "After 20 years, problem-oriented policing has demonstrated an internal logic that has been successfully applied at the project level and remains a promising approach for the foreseeable future."

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Cable One

Cable One, Inc. is an American broadband communications provider. Under the Sparklight brand, it provides cable television, internet, and phone services to 24 U.S. states and 1.1 million residential and business customers. It also owns the Fidelity Communications brand, which provides the same services in Arkansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Texas. Fidelity was founded in 1940. It is headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona, though it does not serve that metro area.

History
Originally established in 1986 as a subsidiary of Graham Holdings Company known as Post-Newsweek Cable, its name was changed to Cable One in 1997.

In June 2015, Graham Holdings Company distributed 100% of Cable One’s common stock to GHC shareholders in a tax-free transaction. Cable One became an independent publicly traded company as Cable One, Inc. and began trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol CABO.

In summer 2019, Cable One rebranded its residential services division as Sparklight, seeking to promote its internet services more than cable TV offerings. Equipment with Cable One branding is still used by existing customers, with new customers receiving equipment with Sparklight branding. Cable One's original URL, cableone.net, redirects to sparklight.com.

Sparklight provides broadband service via cable (DOCSIS) through most of its footprint, and fiber-to-the-home in limited areas.

Sparklight provides phone service plans such as Economy Phone, Standard Phone, and Elite Package with Starter Plan Plus.

Sparklight offers three cable TV plans: Economy Cable TV, Standard Cable TV, and Elite 100 Plus. Cable TV can also be accessed on Apple iPhone, Android, Windows, Roku, Xbox One, Xbox 360, and Nook through Sparklight's TV Everywhere service. Sparklight offers a Digital Value Pack which includes channels such as Red Zone, HBO, and Showtime as add-ons. Cable channels owned by Paramount Global that were owned by Viacom before the merger with CBS Corporation that formed Paramount are notably absent from Cable One's lineup after 2014 due to disagreements between Viacom and Cable One.

Its Cable TV service previously used a single cable connected directly to the TV to provide channels, but switched to using a cable box in early 2015 to provide channels. Cable One had promised superior image quality with their cable boxes, but some customers have reported that the cable boxes often display poor image quality.

In 2020, Cable One announced a new IPTV-based service, Sparklight TV, which was made available to many areas throughout 2021. Existing cable customers are not yet required to transfer to Sparklight TV, but cable through a cable box is no longer offered to new customers.

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