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User talk:Tagishsimon/C2

Elaine Paige
FYI, it was a typo and NOT a spelling error!!! :) TOM 18:07, Dec 3, 2004 (UTC)

Thanks...
Thanks for your concern to my picture help plea. I am new to Wiki and am just getting the hang of it. I ended up solving my own problem. Thanks again for your support

About your vandalism warnings...
Please be more careful with your vandalism warnings. 4.139.57.147 does not appear to actually be a vandal - see my note at WP:VIP. The message you left at User talk:60.25.119.200 was not appropriate. I know dealing with vandalism is tough, but please be more careful. We don't want to accidentally bite a newcomer. - RedWordSmith 02:32, Dec 7, 2004 (UTC)

 * I only see three edits in Special:Contributions/60.25.119.200 - regardless, it looks like a bot. And I can't tell from the Whois information if it's a dynamic IP or not. There's no guaranty with an anon's talk page that your message will actually be read by the right person. - RedWordSmith 02:49, Dec 7, 2004 (UTC)

GFDL by default
You're right, I like your text better. I removed my statement (that you had crossed out) and copyedited yours a touch. Thanks for catching that. – Quadell (talk) (help)  20:41, Dec 8, 2004 (UTC)

Archive

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Requested deletion
Done. I modified your achive link (above) to point to the new page name. SWAdair | Talk 07:19, 5 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Red-link recovery
Howdy and many thanks for your work on that list of mis-punctuated links. The list's pretty much completed now - I'll be generating a new version of it in due course, taking all the lessons learned from the last one into account. In the meantime, if you enjoyed working through the list (or at least found it a worthwhile distraction), you may want to have a look at the similar list of plural discrepancies which highlights red-links that might be red because they (or the article they are aiming for) are improperly pluralised. Again, thanks for your efforts - award yourself a wikimedal for janitorial services if you haven't already got one! - TB 11:25, 2004 Nov 8 (UTC)

Brazil nut
Hi Tagishsimon - three things here; first, one article or two; having two articles about the same subject it pointless, I certainly think they should be combined. Second, about the removed content; as far as I could tell, this was a verbatim copy of an 1887 article or very nearly so; a lot of it was very out-of-date (!) and some plain inaccurate (e.g. the "Portuguese" name cited is actually Spanish, nor does the tree remotely resemble a chestnut, etc, etc, etc), which is why I cut so much of it. But I'll go through it again in the next day or two and see if there's any more worth extracting and restoring (tho' it'll need a lot of work to update) (won't do it now as its long past bedtime!). Third, the layout; pic layout can always be a problem with people with different size monitors, unfortunately I can't know how it appears on monitors other than mine. Feel free to rejig the pics outside the taxobox into better positions, though of course that'll probably mean it'll look weird on my monitor. . . MPF 01:36, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Hi again - fair point on the conker page, but that's the exception that proves the rule; most examples are on the same page, e.g. apple, cherry, chestnut, lychee, etc. - MPF 01:50, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Hi again - I've been through the 1887 article again, and there isn't anything more that I feel I can verify to transfer across safely; the June time of harvest I'd like to have added, but I can't find any info as to whether that is the only time of harvest, or whether it is just a sample point of a much longer harvesting period which would leave citing June as partial, incomplete data which might confuse readers - MPF 01:48, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Thanks; you've found a good article there (don't know how I missed it!), better scientific data than the one I'd put a link in to. - MPF 13:43, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Cheshire Cat
Honestly, now. You and I may be intelligent people who have read and loved the books, but how many people have only seen the Disney movie and ignored the books? In fact, how many people have only seen the movie and not even realized there were books? I only wish the Tenniel version was more well-known, but we have to stick with majority. (On a side note, I like American McGee's version best...it's pure malice.) PMC 02:36, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Switch it to the right then, but I thought it looked nice. (At least in 800x600) And I'd love to find a bigger picture but I can't...I'll keep looking though. PMC 02:37, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * I liked it better my way, but doesn't everyone? It doesn't bother me though. Hmm...would you prefer a full-body picture of the American McGee version? I just found it, squirreled away in some obscure folder of mine. PMC 02:53, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * lol, I'll go with the full body. It's just nicer. And if it sucked...I'll trust your judgement. Edit: Oh, and the three images in date order works for me. PMC 03:00, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * There we are. Much nicer, I think. PMC 03:07, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * "You young people" - like you're so ancient! Definitely include the year though. And what if we could make Tenniel spin? Should we include that under alternate methods of producing energy or something? =P PMC 03:18, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Blogwar
I have heard the term used before, and the article contained content besides the spam link. Having said that, I would not be strongly opposed to deletion of this article after a VFD vote. Academic Challenger 04:26, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)

London Millennium Bridge dampers
Hi Tagishsimon,

I've just been doing a little more research on the London Millennium Bridge. Although I like your image of the dampers under the bridge, are you sure they are the ones retrofitted to cure the lateral vibration. I only ask, because they look like they would control vertial vibrations, and I came across this paper by the company that made the shock absorbers. Page 7 and Page 8 detail the dampers that were fitted, which all look different from the one in your photo.

(Trouble is, if it isn't the right shock absorber, I don't really want to change anything - or at least not until someone manages to get a photo of one of the other dampers - because it is a good addition to the story. On the other hand I guess accuracy is important.) -- Solipsist 07:32, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)

 * Good find; I've amended the picture caption, just in case, and put a link to the paper on the external links and the discussion page. However the text of our article talks about "52 tuned mass dampers (inertial) to control vertical movement", and I suspect my image is one one (or more) of these. Given that accuracy is the most important thing, withdrawing the word "retrospective" probably sorts out the problem, but please hack away at the bridge page as you see fit. best wishes --Tagishsimon (talk)

 * Actually that's a good point. Page 7 of the Taylor paper lists the number of each type of damper fitted, which accounts for the 37 fluid-viscous dampers. The picture could then be one of the 52 tuned mass dampers, but I would have thought the primary vertical modes would have been damped from the outset.
 * In fact, a little more research finds this article with excellent before and after photos of your damper. That's pretty clear, so sorry for the false alarm. -- Solipsist 22:36, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Darby Digger
I have just amended the page and added a further two photos - hope this meets with approval

regards

Normangrove

Hobbit
First off, I have nothing against "Tolkienism". I myself am a Tolkien fan and I hold the author in very high esteem. He was a brilliant man. Undoubtedly a genius. But I also believe in giving credit where credit is due, and only where it is due.

Tolkien took hobbits (or little people, or elves, or leprechauns, or whatever you wish to call them) and breathed new life into them. He gave depth and dimension to a race previously only used as a plot device. He did the same for Orcs, for Ents, for Elves, and others. For that he deserves credit, nay, applause. But what he does not deserve credit for is the invention of the word "hobbit".

As far as Tolkien's hobbits being the best known: they are the most popularly known at this moment. I have no problem with an encyclopedia describing fads, as this is important from a sociological perspective. And that's all this is. "Tolkien-mania" fizzled out in the sixties and didn't resurface until Peter Jackson's films. What do you plan to do a year from now when this craze, like the more or less equally popular Jurassic Park craze of the early 90's, also subsides? Perhaps you're a diehard fan who doesn't think it ever will subside. I thought the same about Jurassic Park at one point. I'm sure there's many women out there who in their pre-teen years never thought "Titanic" would go away.

Constructing pages using an NPOV in the here and now saves us a lot more work a year from now. If you want to create more work for people down the road, go ahead an structure the pages based on the flavor of the month.

Now, that said: I apologize if I was not clear in my intent with the use of the phrase "Tolkien zealots". I myself am a Tolkien fan. I was not using the phrase as a derogatory term for Tolkien fans, as I would be insulting myself. I was talking about the people Tolkien would probably be including in his "deplorable cultus" if he were alive today -- the sorts that would credit him with the invention of the wheel if they could make it sound plausible. In other words, I was actually speaking of zealots. And with the utmost respect I'd say that I think you were being rather reactionary in your summation of my own viewpoint, although I admit I should have been more careful of my wording. --Corvun 16:40, 12 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Darby Digger
Tagishsimon

Thanks for your help. I have put some copyright to the images hope I have done it sensibly.

How does the information submitted get to be published at http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Darby%20Steam-Digger ?

Normangrove

London meetup Dec 3rd
Hiya Do you live in London? If so then you might be interested in this this Meetup/London Cheers Theresa Knott  (Tart, knees hot) 11:16, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Anon's suspicious edits
Hello. An anon recently vandalized Hadal's user page, claiming to be a returning repeat vandal. I decided to check that IP's history and saw that on 28 AUG 04 he changed Dartford railway station to read "North-West Kent" rather than "south-east London." Since you've edited related pages I'm hoping you might be able to verify that edit. Thank you. SWAdair | Talk 05:50, 18 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Thank you. I am unfamiliar with that area and would have had to check multiple maps to be sure.  Thank you for taking the time to look into it.  SWAdair | Talk  07:54, 18 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Morpeth rail crash
I agree that there would probably have been some speed warning signs approaching the Morpeth curve, but these are not as visible as a signal.

I agree that details re Morpeth accidents are for now vague, however the isolated sharp curve underpins all these accidents.

I should have made this article a stub ....

As we talk, the Queensland super duper tilt train has just derailed on an isolated sharp curve of 60km/h in a fast 160km/h section, so the Morpeth problem is rather fresh in the mind.

Syd1435 09:22, 2004 Nov 18 (UTC)

Just at this point of time I cannot put my finger on any sources for the crash(es) at Morpeth.

I just remembered that there is now a permanent AWS magnet approaching the sharp curve.

The TPWS might give a better warning than AWS, but then again it might not, since TPWS is a botched job, not a full ATP.

Syd1435 11:47, 2004 Nov 18 (UTC)

Firstly, I think that I am doing well to crosslink topics together. This is best done on the spot when you notice something. Morpeth has been now crosslinked a few times.

Secondly, maybe Morpeth has a plaque or memorial to the victims of the varios crashes (like Clapham Junction) - maybe you could get out of your train and have a look!!!!! :-)

Syd1435 11:53, 2004 Nov 18 (UTC)

Waifs and Strays: Marc Almond influenced?
Heya Tagishsimon...looking at your photos...and the heading intrigued me. Wouldn't be Marc Almond reference would it?

Pathetic, eh?
I'm not the one who blew a gasket about an error. You're the one who felt it necessary to insult me because I wasn't paying attention. I fully admit that it was a stupid mistake. But did that require all the ridicule and histronics? I have a hard time believing so. --Wolf530 01:46, Nov 23, 2004 (UTC)

 * This is incredible! You insult me on my talk page, leave an overly sarcastic remark on the edit to ensure that everyone would realize how silly of a mistake I made. THEN you make some half-baked remark about how I "can dish it out but can't take it" -- which doesn't make much sense anyway, since you started the whole business, and now you're telling /me/ I'm over sensitive? The least you could do is apologize for being such an ass about it! --Wolf530 01:50, Nov 23, 2004 (UTC)

 * Two wrongs don't make a right, surely. But can you blame me? All that snark and sarcasm? And you still won't even bother to apologize! I'm quite surprised we don't have a Wiki entry on the size of your ego. Quite insane really. We want people to contribute and be a part of the community, but make an error and we crucify them. Thank you, again, for doing your part to clean up the Wiki. Wonderfully responsible, and so delicately polite. --Wolf530 01:59, Nov 23, 2004 (UTC)

 * Rice writing is real, so you're putting your foot in your mouth on this one. I have no idea if "Riciometreapoline" is what you call a person who can do it, but it is done. They sell these kinds of trinkets on the sidewalk in big cities. Perhaps you should do your own research. Two minutes on Yahoo and I found this, this, this, this, and this. I'm sure if you try a little harder, you can find other sites. Again, this is an issue of you treating other people like dirt. If you would use a little more restraint in how you speak to people here, it would benefit everyone. --Wolf530 02:19, Nov 23, 2004 (UTC)

 * sigh* Whatever. You win. If you can't even admit that the way you treat people is downright obnoxious, then there's no point in even discussing this any further. Have fun chipping away at whatever community Wikipedia has left. I'm sure they'll thank you for it in the end. --Wolf530 02:28, Nov 23, 2004 (UTC)

 * I saw it. But you still miss the point. Why are you so intent on leaving nasty little remarks everywhere you see a problem? --Wolf530 02:30, Nov 23, 2004 (UTC)

 * Okay. Whatever. Done with all this. --Wolf530 03:25, Nov 23, 2004 (UTC)

Don't take a pop at me
I fixed the stupid bloody article so that it was NPOV and then some other prick keeps coming back and rewriting the thing like a puff piece for the organisation. NPOV notices are completely pointless - why not just right "This article is crap". Better to remove the offending material, and then if someone doesn't conform to our norms about NPOV, send em to the relevant branch of wiki-stasi to hang 'em high. I removed that notice after there had been one entry indicating a problem in about seven months. Pcb21| Pete 07:51, 25 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Join RWNB!
Hello!

I see from your contributions that you are interested in Russian topics. Perhaps you would like to join the new Russian wikipedians' notice board? It is a discussion forum for wikipedians interested in all things Russian. Also, each week we pick an unfinished stub article to improve through collaboration.

Notice boards and Collaborations-Of-The-Week have become increasingly popular on wikipedia reciently, with Irish, British, US and many more. There is also a score board for competing collaborations! See FAC.

Isn't it about time we got articles on Russia up to standard?

Hope to see you on RWNB!

Seabhcán 12:26, 25 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for helping me to work on my English comprehension
I am respecting Jimbo's discouragement of further participation on the aforementioned thread, so this is a bit of a moot point.

To clarify, many people consider it to be just as poor form to cite Godwin's law as it is to make a ridiculous Hitler comparison. Please go back and re-read the first couple of paragraphs in the article on Godwin's law, which also points out that citing it is poor form.

Anyone who is not a complete newbie on the internet knows that Cheesedreams lost the argument by making his silly Hitler remark. In this regard, you did nothing to advance the discussion by citing Godwin's law.

And your insulting remark for me to work on my English comprehension only shows that perhaps you are getting a little too heated about this election and perhaps should take a step back. For my own part, I have taken a step back and have realized that there are better ways to spend my time.

Regards,

--DV 00:18, 27 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Afddfassfsjk
I'm hoping you had some reason for redirecting Afddfassfsjk to Knight's Tour. I figured I'd ask you first before making it a redirect for deletion. --Ricky81682 04:03, Nov 28, 2004 (UTC)
 * Ok, I see that this was part of a mess of vandalism. Again, since you seem to be on top of things, should we start making these redirects for deletion? There can't be anything good coming from keeping these pages around. --Ricky81682 23:09, Nov 28, 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for "the the" help.
Thank you for fixing the actual "the the" error in the Prince of Space episode in List of MST3K episodes, and for not fixing the cited error in Attack of the the Eye Creatures. I commend these efforts — as long as they're not automated — and will continue to remove such typos whenever I find them as well. — Jeff Q 20:38, 29 Nov 2004 (UTC)

NPOV boo-boo
Hi! Thanks for catching my error. I remember NPOVing that article in question because of the gushing, breezy style it's written in. I also seem to remember thinking it was a copyvio. Anyway, I've explained my reasoning on the talk page. - Lucky 6.9 18:51, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Article Licensing
Hi, I've started the Free the Rambot Articles Project which has the goals of getting users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to... using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) version 1.0 and 2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to the GFDL (which every contribution made to Wikipedia is licensed under), but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles (See the Multi-licensing Guide for more information). Since you are among the top 1000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. So far over 90% of people who have responded have done this.
 * 1) ...all U.S. state, county, and city articles...
 * 2) ...all articles...

 * Nutshell: Wikipedia articles can be shared with any other GFDL project but open/free projects using the incompatible Creative Commons Licenses (e.g. WikiTravel) can't use our stuff and we can't use theirs. It is important to us that other free projects can use our stuff.  So we use their licenses too.

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the   template (or    for public domain) into their user page, but there are other templates for 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 at my talk page what you think. It's important to know, even if you choose to do anything so I don't keep asking. -- Ram-Man 16:24, Dec 2, 2004 (UTC)

Elaine Paige
FYI, it was a typo and NOT a spelling error!!! :) TOM 18:07, Dec 3, 2004 (UTC)

Thanks...
Thanks for your concern to my picture help plea. I am new to Wiki and am just getting the hang of it. I ended up solving my own problem. Thanks again for your support

About your vandalism warnings...
Please be more careful with your vandalism warnings. 4.139.57.147 does not appear to actually be a vandal - see my note at WP:VIP. The message you left at User talk:60.25.119.200 was not appropriate. I know dealing with vandalism is tough, but please be more careful. We don't want to accidentally bite a newcomer. - RedWordSmith 02:32, Dec 7, 2004 (UTC)

 * I only see three edits in Special:Contributions/60.25.119.200 - regardless, it looks like a bot. And I can't tell from the Whois information if it's a dynamic IP or not. There's no guaranty with an anon's talk page that your message will actually be read by the right person. - RedWordSmith 02:49, Dec 7, 2004 (UTC)

GFDL by default
You're right, I like your text better. I removed my statement (that you had crossed out) and copyedited yours a touch. Thanks for catching that. – Quadell (talk) (help)  20:41, Dec 8, 2004 (UTC)

The Humungous Image Tagging Project

 * Sorry but no, I won't help with this project. Putting a copyright on every image doesn't sound like it conforms to the GPL.  Besides, the goal of this site is to further knowledge and understanding, and limiting the copying of wiki-images (and thus entire wiki pages) will hinder the free spread of knowledge.  Anyway, thanks for trying to help wikipedia, even though you are actually working against the purpose that it was founded for. --RW 15:12, 2004 Dec 10 (UTC)

 * Answer to your question at User Talk:Tonners62. :o)  Tonya 23:14, Dec 8, 2004 (UTC)

 * Thanks for alerting me to the HITP, Tagishsimon. I am interested in such projects, but I'm too busy for image tagging at the moment. Tim Ivorson 00:37, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * Thanks for the offer, Tagishsimon, but I still have much work to do on common mistakes (I am working on the French wikipedia as well) so I'll stick to that for now. But when I am fed up I promise I'll give your project a try! Also, I have mediocre Internet access and I disable most pictures, so I'd probably miss the only enjoyable part of that job :-) Regards, Sam Hocevar 01:11, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * I'm not very pleased with getting project advertisements = spam to my user page. But in the past I have added lacking tags, and asked the author about the correct tag, so I might continue it despite your message... -Hapsiainen 01:14, Dec 9, 2004 (UTC)

 * Thanks for the heads-up on this - and I have no objection to such messages!!! - but sadly I must report that I am so much more interested in "the the" than the complexities of image rights.... "words are my friends" but copyright law makes my head hurt! - Nunh-huh 02:11, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * I'll have a look, the only thing is I'm Canadian and young and thus not particularly familiar with American copyright laws. But I'll give it a go when I've nothing else to do. [[User:Premeditated Chaos| P M  C ]] 02:49, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Old...honestly. Anyway, I'll try to take care of a few simple ones. When the Cat gets done, drop me a line, I'd love to see it. [[User:Premeditated Chaos| P M  C ]] 03:29, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * Thanks for pointing this project out to me (spam? pshaw!) — however, I'll be away from Wikipedia for the next two weeks, due to family obligations. I'll be more than happy to help out once I get back and verse myself in the intricacies of tagging images correctly, though. I hope to see you then! — αγδεε (τ) 04:20, 2004 Dec 9 (UTC)

 * Will participate in the said project in whatever way I can. -- Sundar 05:31, Dec 9, 2004 (UTC)

 * A Herculean task. I'll take a look. Very Verily  06:05, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * I have started to wade through these. BTW, how often are these lists regenerated? I've found several listed ones already tagged. --Magnus Manske 13:46, Dec 9, 2004 (UTC)

 * I'm ready to to charge at at the the problem in in hopes of of helping wikipedia, because I think I've done too too many of of the the other types of of fixes. - DavidWBrooks 15:04, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * Sorry, but I don't know how or when the lists were created, although I'd be keen to find out.   – Quadell (talk) (help)   17:41, Dec 9, 2004 (UTC)

 * I asked this list to be created but I didn't participate much to tagging since I mainly work on fr: and other projects and languages. I moved the page to Untagged Images. If an update is needed, it should be asked to Looxix who has the status to do that. Yann 18:08, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * Thank you for bringing this project to my attention. I'll be glad to help.  As of this time there are 37,158 images to go.  Whew!  What a project.  BTW, most of my WP time is spent tracking vandalism and newcomer tests, so I use specialized Recent Changes that show either anon edits or newcomer edits.  I rarely see the regular Recent Changes list and might not have come across this project in my normal activities.  I do appreciate being contacted.  If you find you like being the publicity person for projects, feel free to keep my name in a "Pre-approved" list.  I would appreciate being informed of similar projects.  Thank you.  SWAdair | Talk  03:05, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * You left many identical messages on many users' talk pages, asking them to help with the image tagging project. I consider that to be spamming.  Please don't do it.  The proper way to draw attention to a project is to mention it at the Village Pump.  —AlanBarrett 06:24, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * I was already involved in the project, though now I don't have much time for Wikipedia. However, I'd like to share an idea: I believe that most users upload their images in a similar manner, so it should be possible to scan database dump, extract all untagged images, and sort them by users; and then, send to each user with a large number of images a list of them and a request to tag them, so everyone could tag their own images as appropriate. Unfortunately I no time to code it right now nor resources to obtain Wikipedia dump, but someone might use the idea. Nikola 11:40, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Cyrloc 21:34, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Thanks for letting me know about the image tagging project. I'd love to contribute as much as I can to this project, and I will start right away.  Hope it gains more support in the future.

 * I'm a bit overloaded at the moment, but now that I have this on my Talk page, I'll know where to go if and when I can contribute. — Jeff Q 08:13, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * Thanks for the offer - I am afraid I am a bit too new to Wikipedia and a little short on the relevant US law (I live in Britain) to make a useful contribution. Thanks all the same.

 * I'd be glad to do what I can. Cyrloc 22:19, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)

You seem to be concerned with images (C)-s, can you please give an advise?
Could you please state your opinion on the images discussed at this discussion? TIA, BACbKA 13:25, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * thanks for your reply! BACbKA 01:13, 11 Dec 2004 (UTC)

About the image justification
Thanks a lot for your message. I didn't have time to justify the images and I was a lazy bones in the past. the dragon curves is totally free, since it was drawn by a Spanish user. I'll take care of all the images I have uploaded. Kind regards, Luis María Benítez 00:42, 11 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Photos by Mjanich
All licenses updated. I will make sure I wont forget next time

Graph of statistics
You uploaded a neat "words and edits on EN" graph in early November. What made you make the graph? Could you post an updated one?

+sj +  05:19, 12 Dec 2004 (UTC)

fix common mistakes
Sam, the subject line you use for Fix Common Mistakes edits, err, contains a mistake! ... clicking on the link in the edit takes you to a blank page in edit mode, when I suspect you want it to take you here. If that's the case, then the subject line you're looking for is
 * (fix miscapitalisation; please help us fix common mistakes in the article space)

BTW, the User:Sietse Snel/Fix common mistakes seems to me to be over ... so where are you getting the things you're fixing from. I'm a bit confused by this. best wishes --Tagishsimon (talk)

 * Oops, thanks for the warning. I was relentlessly copy/pasting from the wrong line and did not notice it. As for the list I am fixing, it comes from my local dump of the database. User:Sietse_Snel said he would be putting another list online, I will ask him when that will be. --Sam Hocevar 00:20, 15 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Huh?
I'm confused by your message, what legal threat did I make? --Dante Alighieri | Talk 01:57, Dec 15, 2004 (UTC)

 * Perhaps YOU need to read the part of the page where it says that it shouldn't be construed as prohibiting claims of copyright infringement. --Dante Alighieri | Talk 02:04, Dec 15, 2004 (UTC)

 * Response on my talk page. --Dante Alighieri | Talk 02:26, Dec 15, 2004 (UTC)

Missing Redirects
Hi Tagishsimon, thank you for your great feedback! I like your idea of adding a link back to the project - I had wondered about doing this, but I wasn't sure if there was any point (I didn't think anyone would see it), but you're right about including it for people watching recent changes. This has been added to the pages that haven't been touched yet (I don't want to overwrite what people have already done), so it's on all the redirects apart from 0, 1, 3, 8 and 14.

I'm really not sure what to do about the disambigs - at the moment it will find as many suggestion as there are, but each suggestion must be made 3 or more times, or it gets culled. So I've re-run it with the cut-off reduced to just 1 occurrence, and this is what happens for the Duke of Northumberland:

the Duke of Northumberland is either:
 * John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland 3
 * Algernon Percy, 4th Duke of Northumberland 3
 * Duke of Northumberland 1
 * Henry Percy, 7th Duke of Northumberland 1
 * Hugh Percy, 3rd Duke of Northumberland 1

(which looks much better, as those 4 dukes are the 4 currently with articles). I'm not sure what to do with these though, because adjusting these cut-off numbers changes the number of redirects (some disambiguations get turned into redirects if over 95% of the links all agree on one thing, or if everything but one suggestion is culled). Changing the number of redirects means the new pages get all out of sync with the current pages, so it's very hard to avoid overwriting what people have already been done, and/or including a suggestion multiple times on different pages - basically, it becomes a dog's breakfast! ;-) So, there seem to be two main options - either pull the disambigs out for this run, or leave them in as-is. What do you reckon? All the best, -- Nickj 03:52, 15 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * I'm not sure what to do with them. I don't like the amount of plurals suggested as disamb pages when wikipedia naming convention clearly states plurals should be avoided. I'd cut them from the current run. [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|(talk)]] 08:16, Dec 15, 2004 (UTC)

Millau Viaduct superscripts
I just wanted to let you know that I changed the two instances of "m-superscripted-3" to "m & sup 3 ;" (without spaces). This will hopefully display (and edit!) properly for most browsers. DocWatson42 10:15, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Unusual vandal
You may be interested in this RFC. --Ben Brockert 04:05, Dec 22, 2004 (UTC)

Leeds Medical School
http://www.leedscivictrust.org.uk/medical.htm

this is where the story is from, just take it off if its a breech of copyright. i am just doing a few articles to get used to wikis for practise and picked some random stuff from leeds. There was no credit for the article on the leeds civic trust web site web site Mjvinegrad 22/12/04

 * so you cant take information or photos from web site? Oh, i dont think i will bother putting anythng else on it sounds too much like anything i put on will just get removed. where exactly can you put photos, or information on from. Do you have to paraphrase/re-write all information and take all the photos your self? Where is it possible to get a picture of a dead person without going to another web site? Mjvinegrad 22/12/04

Duran Duran
I thought it was supposed to be "tired". I didn't know it was supposed to be "tried". I apologize. Heegoop, 22 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks, Tagishsimon. I wasn't sure about the images. BTW, well handled. (Check my recent edits if you're not sure what this is referring to :) 68.81.231.127 05:58, 23 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Re: Category:Timeline of rail transport
Thanks for noticing the articles that I've started in this category and trying to get the word out to rail historians interested in UK railways. My intention all along was to include as many key events worldwide as possible, but since I'm in Wisconsin, I'm more familiar with US railroads and practices. The initial data on these pages is taken from a loosely structured wander through the rail transport articles here. I plan to go through my 15+ year collection of railroad books and Trains magazines (among others in my personal library) for more data to populate on these pages. I've also started two templates to help with page navigation and category inclusion: Template:Year in rail transport and Template:Future year in rail transport. Earlier this week, someone put an interwiki link to similar pages on the French wiki, but since I know almost no French myself, about the best that I could do was to fill in the remaining interwiki links for the other year pages. slambo 17:47, Dec 30, 2004 (UTC)

UK Major Railway Stations
I think you have a reasonable point about the box becoming bloated. Instead, I've split the major stations list into a new template (UK_Major_Railway_Stations) which only appears on the relevant station pages. I hope you'll agree that it's a better solution, in which case, I'll begin adding the other stations listed by Network Rail as major stations. Warofdreams 17:54, 5 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Reference desk
It's entirely a subjective call. I saw frustration and an RTFM-esque attitude in Cyrius' comments, which he more or less acknowledged. IMO, Cyrius could have been more friendly and welcoming, if for no other reason than to help separate Wikipedia (especially the RD) from mailing lists where newbies are likely to be scorned for dumb questions. It would be nice if and  were ubiquitous in the nontechnical community, but the reality is that not all Wikipedia readers are 'net junkies. Patience is key to keeping that audience around, IMO. (Of course, that shouldn't stop us from politely pointing out how a user could have answered his/her own question.) Best wishes, David Iberri | Talk 17:37, Jan 11, 2005 (UTC)

Sanderstead station
I've now created a Sanderstead station article, and reinserted a link from UK railway stations - S. Dowyddelan may take longer however, as I don't think I know enough about it even to create a stub! rossb 20:51, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC)

pics
thanks for the remark, I corrected the tag, I'm still learning how things work here cheers, --Gerd Breitenbach 23:10, 18 Jan 2005 (UTC)

broken sig
Hi. Sorry if this is really late. You came to my talk page saying my sig was doing something odd to pages. Nobody else has said anything. Is it still doing weird stuff? Please let me know if it seems to have ironed out by itself or not. I haven't signed in for a long time. I'm on dial up and, apparently, someone who shares my dial up range is an evil wikipedia vandal so I get blocked occasionally which has kind of slowed my contribution rate down. --[[User:Bodnotbod| bodnotbod »  .....TALK Q uietly  )  ]] 05:16, Jan 21, 2005 (UTC)

 * Hmmm... just submitted my last comment - first thing I've said logged in for a while, and my own sig appears odd even to me now, doing strange brackety things. Gah!  I worked on it for ages too.  I'll try and do something about it. --[[User:Bodnotbod| bodnotbod  »  .....TALK Q uietly  )  ]] 05:18, Jan 21, 2005 (UTC)

 * I've just gone back to a boring old sig now. Sigh.  I spent hours on that symbol of an elevated sense of self-importance. --bodnotbod 05:04, Jan 25, 2005 (UTC)

Wiki Reversion
Tagishsimon--

I'm seeking a little clarification, please. You reverted a spelling correction I made with the comment:

RM Cheops Law. If it ever gets its own article, it can have a place here. Until then, no.

As I'm a newbie (this was my first-ever contribution to Wikipedia), I probably used an incorrect format for the comment. Thus, I suspect you interpreted my comment:

(Spelling Error, Cheop's Law: bidget to budget)

to mean that I added Cheop's law. Actually, I only changed one letter on the page. I changed the non-word 'bidget' to 'budget'. My comment was only to help future reviewers tell where the spelling error was. I'll read the FAQ to find out what I should've put in the comment to clarify things.

My question (finally!) is this: If I were to submit the same change again tomorrow, would you accept it? Or have I misunderstood the situation? I would think that the spelling change would be an improvement. However, I would certainly understand it if you decided to remove the law entirely! (Though Google gave me 334 hits on the phrase "Cheop's Law".)

Thanks!

--marco (Mr. Pedantic)

 * There are 264 hits for "cheops law" and 532 for "cheops law" . There are 227,000 for "moore's law" . The question is, how notable must a law be before it is entered in the list? My notability threshold is that it must be capable of sustaining an article in the wikipedia. Cheops does not have an article; I do not think it should have a listing yet. --Tagishsimon (talk)

That medal
Thanks so much, man! You made my day. *grin* – Quadell (talk) (help) 00:49, Jan 22, 2005 (UTC)

Image sleuthing
There's a new project in town called Image sleuthing, and you are hereby invited to become an official Image Sleuth. – Quadell (talk) (sleuth) 00:41, Jan 25, 2005 (UTC)

An thoughful post by an intelligent and pleasant anon, I guess
the "gay scene" has nothing to do with a general info page about Leeds, make a seperate article on it. There is no section on the "hetero scene" or the "people who like to play with stuffed animals scene" so go fuck yourself. Do you ever see a real encyclopedia with entries on gay bars under a cities entry? no
 * In fairness, I had invited him to stick his homophobia up his arse, so he was a little provoked :) --Tagishsimon (talk)

There are Two Terraservers
There are two Terraservers. www.terraserver.com and www.terraserver.microsoft.com. The photo came from the USGS at WWW.TERRASERVER.MICROSOFT.COM. Reubenbarton 17:37, 26 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Scoring the Hales
Does this refer to that shrovetide football malarkey?

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~cornwall/ball/alnw.htm AndrewMcQ 22:59, 31 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Whatever happened to Assume Good Faith?
I apologize for the error regarding your MI6 photo, but that's what it was: an error. Please assume good faith next time, and don't vandalize my talk page again. SlimVirgin 23:04, Jan 31, 2005 (UTC)
 * I don't want to get into a row with you over it, and I'm sorry if I over-reacted. I just dislike it when people assume an error is deliberate. I hardly know what the difference is between PD and fair use and the other, and I can't imagine why I would have changed your thing: I probably just didn't see it, but I have no memory of doing it. It certainly wasn't deliberate. I just think it's a great photo, and in fact, I used to live almost overlooking that building, so the picture brought a little tear to my eye. That's all I can remember about using it. I'm sorry. SlimVirgin 23:59, Jan 31, 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks, Tagi. SlimVirgin 01:19, Feb 1, 2005 (UTC)

WikiUser RfC
As one of the various people abused by WikiUser, you may be interested to know that I've started a Request for Comment on him - he's threatened mediation against three people and started proceedings against two, which is one idiocity too many as far as I'm concerned. Please take a look at Requests for comment/WikiUser and feel free to add to it as you see fit. -- ChrisO 01:32, 2 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * There's now an RfA on this matter - see Requests for arbitration/WikiUser. -- ChrisO 13:53, 12 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Alnmouth railway station
Thanks for your comments - greatly appreciated! AdorableRuffian 20:44, 3 Feb 2005 (UTC)

William Lee?
Are you sure Image:William Lee - Project Gutenberg eText 14689.png depicts William Lee? The article is about at 18th century diplomat, and what the William Lee on the picture is wearing looks awfully mid-19th century to me. —Gabbe 08:47, Feb 10, 2005 (UTC)

FAC from the userspace
Hey, Tagishsimon, since you queried the credentials of Baroque toilet paper holder (now a redirect) a few weeks ago, I thought you might be interested in taking a look at Featured article candidates/Bishonen/Antique toilet paper holder. I'm sorry we tried to mess with your head—not to much effect, I suspect! Bishonen | Talk 00:33, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * It's not that I want to keep it in my userspace—of course I want it "live"—it's just that I don't see how it wouldn't get VfD'd, or even speedied, out there. In the article namespace, it would be the point-by-point definition of Silly Vandalism, wouldn't it? Weren't you getting ready to VfD it, for instance, when we moved it? Bishonen | Talk 07:26, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Image tagging project
I stand corrected, sorry about the misunderstanding. --RW 20:59, 2005 Feb 11 (UTC)

thanks, I'll do so

thanks, I'll do so

Diego440

Iraqi resistance page move
Please vote to support the move from Iraqi resistance → Iraqi insurgency at Wikipedia:Requested_moves. Thanks! ObsidianOrder 06:00, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Question at IFD
Hi Tagishsimon. I left a question for you about Image:AF insignia.png at WP:IFD. Cheers, dbenbenn | talk 19:59, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)

IPA notice
Exactly why are you giving so much prominence to the IPA notice - e.g. on Motörhead? Is not the (IPA) link immediately preceeding / 'məʊtəhɛd/ enough? IMO, the notice is way over the top, a completely unnecessary conceit. YMMV, of course. --Tagishsimon (talk)

 * I'm afraid I have to use the "concentration camp guard" defence (copyright Ken Livingstone 2005): I was only following the "orders" given by the Template:ConvertIPA that was added to the page by a previous editor. I fully agree, the notice is OTT, but I thought it was a matter of Wikipedia policy. If I'm wrong, which I probably am, then please delete the notice. --Lancevortex 12:45, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Note:Contact the uploader before listing
Thanks for adding these notices. They look great. – Quadell (talk) (sleuth) 02:19, Mar 1, 2005 (UTC)

Very sorry, although i would've appreciated having enough time to share them with fellow immature fellows. However, all the individuals do indeed exist, and the information was well researched and supported by reputable sources, the names of which escape me...

Ned xx

Orphans
Good questions. For unverified orphans, I almost always list them on IFD. Occasionally, if I really like an image, I'll research to see if I can figure out the copyright status, and then I put it in an article; but I nearly always just list them for deletion. The same's true for orphans tagged with an unfree license (e.g. cc-nd, noncommercial, etc.) Even for fairuse images, if they're not really useful, I list them on IfD. (If they are really useful, I include them in an article.)

For tagged, free images, either PD or GFDL or whatever, I'm not sure what to do. I usually just leave them, on the assumption that the developers will eventually create a smooth way to move images (including their history) to the Commons, and that someone will eventually use a bot to move all free, tagged images from Wikipedia to the Commons. Eventually. But I could be making too bold an assumption here. – Quadell (talk) (sleuth) 18:57, Mar 2, 2005 (UTC)

Linking to Project Gutenberg texts
First of all thank you for helping to create some links to Project Gutenberg from wikipedia. I believe these two projects can complement each other very well. I would request that you consider using the form http://www.gutenberg.net/etext/6709 for these links. For more information, see http://www.gutenberg.org/howto-link Andrew Sly 05:37, 3 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Answering your two questions on my talk page: 1) "How exactly are you going about your stated mission of providing links to PG texts?" I am not taking a systematic approach to this. I spend more time in editing the PG catalog, and add Wikipedia links to the catalog when I have time to do so and the opportunity presents itself. I always put the links in an "External links" section. 2) "how well do you understand the workings of the PG end?" I spent a great deal of time working with trying to improve the information in the PG catalog. The only place for links to other places is, as you have noticed, on the "Author pages." These are added manually, again, when I have the inclination to check for an article for any particular author. Andrew Sly 00:20, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Untagged Images - AN
Yep - I deleted it, then remembered the strike-through in the box. I could undelete it, but for what purpose? --Magnus Manske 18:25, Mar 4, 2005 (UTC)
 * I have restored the page. --Magnus Manske 20:24, Mar 4, 2005 (UTC)

Self-relations
If you're going to move an article (unless it's for reasons of Wikipedia naming conventions, as I did a little while ago), it would be courteous to explain the reasons on the Talk page first, and ask for opinions. Mel Etitis ( Μελ Ετητης ) 23:17, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * Sure, I'm not arguing about the ultimate rightness of the move (frankly, the article reads like a lot of fluffy psycho-babble to me, and I have no further opinion on it beyond wanting it to be a decent Wikipedia article); I'm only concerned with the “Wikiquette” of the process. Mel Etitis ( Μελ Ετητης ) 14:58, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * Your unpleasant tone suggests that this is pointless, but here goes: there's a naming convention, independent of the article's content, that titles should have only the first word capitalised, unless, for example, other words are proper nouns. I know of no similar convention that governs your change. Mel Etitis  ( Μελ Ετητης ) 18:40, 7 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * My last comment. I don't see that changing the article's title is part of cleaning up the content of the article; there was no sign that the clean-up tag was placed because of the naming issue.  Moreover, given that the article was in need of improvement, relying on its present content to decide on the title was surely risky.  That's why prior discussion would have been wise, leaving courtesy aside — especially given the fact that work was being done on it, and there was an active Talk page. Mel Etitis  ( Μελ Ετητης ) 08:52, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Asciipr0n
Why did you add asciipr0n to articles for speed-deletion? I don't think it fulfills any of the requirements for speed-deletions! -- 217.95.138.63 10:01, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)

for the copyright status of the Ndre Mjeda image
These photo is of free of any copyright. I found it on http://shkoder.net The copyright symbol on the webpage is for the writings only. The photos are of cultural heritage in Albania and are of public domain.

Fidel-Cigar Copyright
I got it from MSN Encarta.

Image:BigDan Ugly Mug.JPG
G'day!

I've just tagged my image of my ugly mug as per the request on my user page, may I ask why was this requested?

Cheers, BigDan 11:59, Mar 28, 2005 (UTC)

Images you asked about
This image has information listed about its source, why are you asking me? On the orginal Japanese page there is not PD or GFDL listed for this picture. I'm sure it is an orginal art work, and the translation by me is PD. If you have any worries, let me know. Cheers! Nesnad 14:07, 29 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Image:Bigthree-photofromjapanesewiki.jpg
 * Image:Nichirojp-fromjapanesepage.png

Ontario maps
Sorry for the delay in responding...any of the titled-area-in-red Ontario maps I uploaded come from another WP user (Earl Andrew), who created it himself as GFDL for that purpose; I simply took the same map and recoloured it to represent districts he hadn't uploaded the map to yet. The same map (modulo the red parts) is on most Ontario-related county, district and single-tier city articles. So if you do find any more that aren't appropriately tagged, they can be tagged as GFDL, but I'll try to catch them myself if I can. Bearcat 17:02, 29 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Image copyright tags
Thanks for uploading Image:New Zealand flag-Lockwood.png and Image:New Zealand flag-Troup.png. I notice they currently don't have image copyright tags. Could you add these to let us know its copyright status? (You can use if you release it under the GFDL, or  if you claim fair use, etc.) If you don't know what any of this means, just let me know where you got the images and I'll tag them for you. Thanks so much, Tagishsimon (talk) 16:42, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Hi Tagishsimon, thanks for the heads up. I was in the process of getting the authors to choose a licence but I haven't been onto them. Will get onto it. —Christiaan 20:19, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)

The Advanced Wikipedian
Hi Tagishsimon,

I'm not really sure whether you are the sort of guy who know's his Iambic pentameter from his limerick (I don't really), but if so you might be able to improve, correct and extend The Advanced Wikipedian. -- Solipsist 22:44, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Image copyright tags
Hi Tagishsimon. You left a message on User talk:Earl Andrew asking for him to tag some images for you. The top of his talk page says:

 * "This is a note to everyone doing the image stuff. Any maps or photos I have uploaded are, except for photos of politicians which are  if they are MPs or  if they are MPPs; or logos which are  . Thank you, all posts on my talk page about image tags will be ignored...."

Do you not bother reading these messages any more? You should. It would eliminate a lot of the annoyance that image tagging nazis cause to the rest of us. - Mark 08:20, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Copyright tag added to my image
Thanks for pointing out that I'd forgotten to add copyright info to one of my images User:penmachine 13:45, 1 Apr 2005 (PST)

Vandalise what
If you have somthing to say, say it or else shut up.

You should have read and understand the correction I made, before you shoot someone. Harald Haarada (Hard Regin)is the wrong name for Harald Harfagri who was named by his hair and if you investigate this encylopedia you will find these information correct and all information inside one encylopedia world should match.

Its better to say nothing than say something stupit as the following:

Please don't vandalise the encyclopedia. Not big, not clever. --Tagishsimon (talk)

Vandalise what
You are forgiven

Vandalise what
Sorry, but I can read the old Icelandic sagas by nature as I am Icelandic and Harald the fair haired is one of my ancestor.

thank you
Thank you but I was wondering is Tagishsimon real name Mikail

ok how to I put in my inputs
Ok, I can help but how do I put in my inputs, I saw that this encylopedia is awailable in many languages, how can one start and attract Icelandic inputs. rgds. dd

thank you
but these guys should have notice this, they are university teachters so if they are up to it this will be að great source. rgd. dd

hey how can I become a translator
I was looking at the link you sent me but however there was now way to find out how to become a translater from Icelandic to English, the knowledge that my generation has is diminising from our culture and the English-slang is taking over our youngsters communications. rgds, dd

Info on Margaret Balfour
Hi Tagishsimon: I just noticed your praise of my contribution to Reference desk. Thank you for the pleasure that affords me. --Theo (Talk) 17:25, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

List of FIPS region codes
Tagishsimon, thanks for taking a look at that -- I'd greatly appreciate it if you or any other contributor could have a look at the table of region description words in Talk:List of FIPS region codes. I have a cunning plan to do about 3/4 of the 3354 regions automatically, with a little help from some volunteer translators, that should hopefully avoid us having to plough through thousands of items which could be done mechanically: to look at a previous take on this, see User:The Anome/Old FIPS region codes. -- The Anome 20:57, Apr 14, 2005 (UTC)

Image:Aermacchi AM 3C
Hmm, since posting that image I've lost my source info and have thus far been unable to trace its original location. As such, it's probably better that the image be deleted. Impi 17:03, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Hmm, that looks like it could be it, and thanks for listing the image for deletion. I've been through my other uploads, and found no other issues, all either have source info or are my own photographs. Impi 23:23, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Project Gutenberg--Notes and Queries
Yes. As someone who has worked closely with many PG texts, I can say that you would be astounded by the mind-numbing variety of inconsistencies and errors that show themselves if you look closely enough. And as you mention, there is very often an element of uncertainty (i.e., is some apparant "error" just a true transcription of what was in the printed source)

Take a look at http://www.gutenberg.org/about/contact to find contact addresses. (As a side note, I'll mention that I deal with most of the catalog correction emails.)

I've just taken a look at these issues of Notes and Queries you mentioned, and they appear to be correct in the online catalog (that is, they fit into the sequence and the dates make sense.)

I've sent an email to the "errata team" about a possible problem in PG#11653

Andrew Sly 07:07, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Help request
Hi, i saw you have editted the UK subdivisions wikiproject page, so was wondering if you would know how to help me. I am working on the List of places in England, creating the 'list of places in county' pages, but i cant work out whether they are administrative or traditional counties, or a mixture of both, I am really confused by it (especially as county borders change over time as well), do you have a suggestion on my best course of action? Do you think it is best if they are traditional or administrative? sorry if you cant help, and if not do you know someone who could? thanks - Bluemoose 14:36, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * yes, a hybrid sounds like the neatest solution, as long as it is clear on the pages as you said. am i right in thinking that therefore the list is already close to the proposed hybrid? needs middlesex removing, apart from that it is ok isnt it? thanks for helping - Bluemoose 16:31, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * OK, I did it, basically it is just the cerimonial counties, but a catch-all for the yorkshire lot, the only other discrepancy is Bristol. Shall i make a list of places in bristol, or is it better merged in between Gloucestershire and Somerset in your opinion? Bluemoose 19:08, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Right, the structure is pretty much sorted now for the List of places in England, do you think you could look at the List of places in Northern Ireland, List of places in Scotland and List of places in Wales to check that their structure is appropriate (look cleaner than the england list to me), if so then i'll create the county/region lists. thanks Bluemoose 08:29, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Punch cartoon commentary
Hi, this is a comment about the caption for this Punch cartoon:

Your caption reads: A Long Distance Swim W.H. Smith: "Hooray - another stroke or two and we've done it." Cartoon satirising Salisbury as swimming and W. H. Smith, Leader of the House of Commons, rowing towards the prorogation (ending) of the Parliamentry year, to escape the twin waves of Free Education and Land Purchase, both contentious issues of the time. Smith died some three months after publication of the cartoon.

My interpretation is a little different. The title of the cartoon, and the image of the White Cliffs of Dover in the backgroound of the cartoon suggest the metaphor is of a cross-channel swim. (first such was in 1878, probably quite frequent attempts by 1891 once people knew it was possible) I read it as Salisbury is a cross-channel swimmer, with W.H. Smith as his coach; and the crossing (the current parliamentary session) has been a long hard swim though very choppy water, with the largest waves being Free Education and Land Purchase, and they're finally approaching the prorogation buoy that marks the end of the swim... Malcolm Farmer 08:55, 10 May 2005 (UTC)

inputs
Hi, i put some data about the northen goths in the Icelandic pages but the webmaster took them out again as he thought they where copyrited. I emailed the icelandic goth club and they praised my contrybution and said that they will continue the good work when they have more staff. I found no way to inform the webmaster. rgd. dd

The reply (in icelandic):

Gott framtak hjá þér Davíð. Þegar mannskapur býðst þá munum við vonandi halda áfram að bæta inn á wikipedia-orðabókina. Eins og svo margt annað :-) Kveðja, Gréta Hauksdóttir

email: asatru@asatru.is

reg. webmaster removing entry
Hi, of course you cant find the missing page; it has been removed; cant you just contact your fellow webwatcher and inform him of this and give him the reply I incl. in my last mail and he can savely return his removal.

You guys are not making inputs easy!

rgds, dd

Restubbing
Why was I recategorizing? I was following the suggestion on :"'Because of technical and historical issues, articles that have not been edited since January 2005 may not appear here. Some of them can be found at Special:Whatlinkshere/Template:Stub.'"So I was picking articles from that page, and re-stubbing. I didn't add stub notices to articles that didn't already have them, at least not intentionally. Novosibirsk Report seems like a borderline case as far as stubbiness goes; however, I'll concede that SALT II is probably not a stub. I can't see where in its history it ever had a stub notice, so I don't know why it showed up on my list at all. I'll revert it. --Dcfleck 23:33, 2005 May 29 (UTC)

Image layout
Hi - on your images page you state: "btw, any pointers to pages with well laid out pahes with multiple images gratefully received. I'm not really happy with many of the pages on which these images are displayed, but have yet to get my head around page formatting on the wikipedia. --Talk:Tagishsimon"

From another user's page I got the very helpful layout:

The reason I stumbled to your image page was because your image Image:Richard I of England - Palace of Westminster - 24042004.jpg was not labelled clearly as to who had taken it. If appropriate the tag is really easy and releases your images into the public domain but identifies you as the author. Regards--AYArktos 02:06, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Re: rail transport timeline pages
Hey, thanks! As I mentioned in my comments to SimonP, the 2005 page was approaching 40k. Splitting by month seemed natural. It'd be nice to have pages by country, but I don't think we've got enough information on any of them for a single country study except for US events. Before we build year pages per country, I think we need to work on populating all the red links on Rail transport by country first. The US page there didn't exist until I created it last week (and there's still quite a bit more information to add to it)! Anyway, I'm rambling now. I'd better get back to adding and editing real data again... B-) slambo 23:48, Jun 3, 2005 (UTC)

Rail accidents
I note you have been adding some British railway accidents to the List of rail accidents page. Please could you also add them to List of British rail accidents and List of British rail accidents by death toll. Thanks. Thryduulf 07:58, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)

title: User talk:Tagishsimon/C2


text:
Steinhausen

Steinhausen may refer to :

Places

 * Steinhausen an der Rottum, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
 * Steinhausen, Namibia, district capital of Okorukambe Constituency, Namibia
 * Steinhausen, Switzerland, Canton Zug, Switzerland
 * Steinhausen railway station

People

 * Günther Steinhausen (1917-1942), German World War II Luftwaffe Flying ace
 * Rolf Steinhausen (born 1943), German motorcycle racer

license: Creative Commons - Attribution Share-Alike - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

title: Steinhausen


text:
Computational cognition

Computational cognition (sometimes referred to as computational cognitive science or computational psychology or cognitive simulation) is the study of the computational basis of learning and inference by mathematical modeling, computer simulation, and behavioral experiments. In psychology, it is an approach which develops computational models based on experimental results. It seeks to understand the basis behind the human method of processing of information. Early on computational cognitive scientists sought to bring back and create a scientific form of Brentano's psychology.

Artificial intelligence
There are two main purposes for the productions of artificial intelligence: to produce intelligent behaviors regardless of the quality of the results, and to model after intelligent behaviors found in nature. In the beginning of its existence, there was no need for artificial intelligence to emulate the same behavior as human cognition. Until 1960s, economist Herbert Simon and Allen Newell attempted to formalize human problem-solving skills by using the results of psychological studies to develop programs that implement the same problem-solving techniques as people would. Their works laid the foundation for symbolic AI and computational cognition, and even some advancements for cognitive science and cognitive psychology.

The field of symbolic AI is based on the physical symbol systems hypothesis by Simon and Newell, which states that expressing aspects of cognitive intelligence can be achieved through the manipulation of symbols. However, John McCarthy focused more on the initial purpose of artificial intelligence, which is to break down the essence of logical and abstract reasoning regardless of whether or not human employs the same mechanism.

Over the next decades, the progress made in artificial intelligence started to be focused more on developing logic-based and knowledge-based programs, veering away from the original purpose of symbolic AI. Researchers started to believe that symbolic artificial intelligence might never be able to imitate some intricate processes of human cognition like perception or learning. The then perceived impossibility (since refuted ) of implementing emotion in AI, was seen to be a stumbling block on the path to achieving human-like cognition with computers. Researchers began to take a “sub-symbolic” approach to create intelligence without specifically representing that knowledge. This movement led to the emerging discipline of computational modeling, connectionism, and computational intelligence.

Computational modeling
As it contributes more to the understanding of human cognition than artificial intelligence, computational cognitive modeling emerged from the need to define various cognition functionalities (like motivation, emotion, or perception) by representing them in computational models of mechanisms and processes. Computational models study complex systems through the use of algorithms of many variables and extensive computational resources to produce computer simulation. Simulation is achieved by adjusting the variables, changing one alone or even combining them together, to observe the effect on the outcomes. The results help experimenters make predictions about what would happen in the real system if those similar changes were to occur.

When computational models attempt to mimic human cognitive functioning, all the details of the function must be known for them to transfer and display properly through the models, allowing researchers to thoroughly understand and test an existing theory because no variables are vague and all variables are modifiable. Consider a model of memory built by Atkinson and Shiffrin in 1968, it showed how rehearsal leads to long-term memory, where the information being rehearsed would be stored. Despite the advancement it made in revealing the function of memory, this model fails to provide answers to crucial questions like: how much information can be rehearsed at a time? How long does it take for information to transfer from rehearsal to long-term memory? Similarly, other computational models raise more questions about cognition than they answer, making their contributions much less significant for the understanding of human cognition than other cognitive approaches. An additional shortcoming of computational modeling is its reported lack of objectivity.

John Anderson in his Adaptive Control of Thought-Rational (ACT-R) model uses the functions of computational models and the findings of cognitive science. The ACT-R model is based on the theory that the brain consists of several modules which perform specialized functions separate of each other. The ACT-R model is classified as a symbolic approach to cognitive science.

Connectionist networks
Another approach which deals more with the semantic content of cognitive science is connectionism or neural network modeling. Connectionism relies on the idea that the brain consists of simple units or nodes and the behavioral response comes primarily from the layers of connections between the nodes and not from the environmental stimulus itself.

Connectionist network differs from computational modeling specifically because of two functions: neural back-propagation and parallel-processing. Neural back-propagation is a method utilized by connectionist networks to show evidence of learning. After a connectionist network produces a response, the simulated results are compared to real-life situational results. The feedback provided by the backward propagation of errors would be used to improve accuracy for the network's subsequent responses. The second function, parallel-processing, stemmed from the belief that knowledge and perception are not limited to specific modules but rather are distributed throughout the cognitive networks. The present of parallel distributed processing has been shown in psychological demonstrations like the Stroop effect, where the brain seems to be analyzing the perception of color and meaning of language at the same time. However, this theoretical approach has been continually disproved because the two cognitive functions for color-perception and word-forming are operating separately and simultaneously, not parallel of each other.

The field of cognition may have benefitted from the use of connectionist networks, but setting up the neural network models can be quite a tedious task and the results may be less interpretable than the system they are trying to model. Therefore, the results may be used as evidence for a broad theory of cognition without explaining the particular process happening within the cognitive function. Other disadvantages of connectionism lie in the research methods it employs or hypothesis it tests as they have been proven inaccurate or ineffective often, taking connectionist models away from an accurate representation of how the brain functions. These issues cause neural network models to be ineffective on studying higher forms of information-processing, and hinder connectionism from advancing the general understanding of human cognition.

External links and bibliography

 * MIT Computational Cognitive Science Group
 * NYU Computation and Cognition Lab
 * Princeton Computational Cognitive Science Lab
 * Stanford Computation and Cognition Lab
 * UCI Memory and Decision Lab
 * Jacob Feldman

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Simon Easterby

Simon Easterby (born 21 July 1975 in Harrogate, North Yorkshire) is an Irish former rugby union player. He is currently the defence coach for the Irish national team.

Early life
Easterby's father is English and his mother Irish. He is the younger brother of Guy Easterby, also an Ireland international. He was educated at Ampleforth College in North Yorkshire and was a member of St Hughs house.

Club career
Easterby captained the Scarlets for five consecutive seasons and played more than 50 European games, 201 games (19 tries) for Llanelli and the Scarlets. He had been part of the West Wales region since signing from Leeds Tykes in 1999. In August 2010, Easterby was forced to retire through a knee injury at the age of 35.

Ireland
Easterby made his first international appearance in a Six Nations victory over Scotland at Lansdowne Road in 2000 and then became a regular in the side, being ever-present for the remainder of that Six Nations competition. Easterby then played in all three of the games during the summer tour but he missed all of the following season due to injury and did not return until the game against Scotland in September 2001. After Ireland's defeat, he lost his place but he did win a cap as a replacement against Samoa in November 2001. In 2002 he played a part in the first ten of Ireland's games – eight as a starter – but after that, he lost his place and he did not return until playing in two Tests during the summer tour of 2003 against Tonga and Samoa.

He was virtually ever-present for Ireland since then; he has received in total 65 caps and scored 40 points. Described as the "elder statesman among Ireland's back-row options" in 2007, one newspaper suggested that "[2007] could well be Easterby's last Six Nations campaign" As it turned out, Easterby played in one more Six Nations Championship in 2008, after which he retired from international rugby to concentrate on his club career.

British & Irish Lions
Easterby received a call-up to the 2005 Lions tour to New Zealand, after Lawrence Dallaglio fractured his ankle in the first game of the tour. He forced his way into the Test team and covered himself in glory, including scoring a try in the second Test in Wellington. He took over the leadership duties for the 2005 Autumn series in the absence of injured duo Brian O'Driscoll and Paul O'Connell. In total he has two British & Irish Lions caps.

Coaching
On retiring, Easterby was officially confirmed as the Scarlets new defence coach and signed a two-year contract with the region and in June 2012, Easterby was confirmed as the new head coach for the Scarlets, following the departure of Nigel Davies to Gloucester.

His long association with the Scarlets came to an end in July 2014 when he was confirmed as Irelands new forwards coach, replacing the outgoing John Plumtree.

Personal life
Easterby is married to Sarra Elgan Rees, the daughter of ex-rugby union player Elgan Rees who played for Neath RFC, Wales and the British & Irish Lions. Former Scarlets and Wales full back Matt Cardey was best man at the wedding. Sarra Elgan Easterby is a TV presenter and a fluent Welsh speaker. Their daughter, Soffia, was born in 2007, and their son, Ffredi, was born in 2009.

In August 2014, Easterby was one of 200 public figures who were signatories to a letter to The Guardian expressing their hope that Scotland would vote to remain part of the United Kingdom in September's referendum on that issue.

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Luís de Sousa (writer)

Frei Luís de Sousa (born Manoel or Manuel de Sousa Coutinho; 1555 – 5 May 1632) was a Portuguese monk and prose-writer, born at Santarém, a member of the noble family of Sousa Coutinho.

Capture and release
In 1576, he broke off his studies at Coimbra University to join the order of Malta, and shortly afterwards was captured at sea by Barbary pirates and taken prisoner to Argel, where he met Cervantes. A year later, Manuel de Sousa Coutinho was ransomed, and landing on the coast of Aragon passed through Valencia, where he made the acquaintance of the poet Jaime Falcão, who seems to have inspired him with a taste for study and a quiet life.

The national disasters and family troubles increased his desire, which was confirmed when he returned to Portugal after the Battle of Alcácer Quibir. Between 1584 and 1586, he married a noble lady, Dona Magdalena de Vilhena, widow of Dom John of Portugal, the son of the poet Dom Manuel of Portugal, to whom Camões had dedicated his seventh ode.

In Portugal
Settling at Almada, on the Tagus opposite Lisbon, he divided his time between domestic affairs, literary studies and his military duties as colonel of a regiment. His patriotic dislike of the Philippine Dynasty grew stronger as he saw Portugal exploited by her powerful partner, and it was ultimately brought to a head in 1599. In that year, to escape the pest that devastated Lisbon, the governors of the kingdom for Philip II decided to move their quarters to his residence; thereupon, finding his protest against this arbitrary resolution unheeded, he set fire to his house, and to escape the consequences of his courageous act had to leave Portugal.

To Madrid
Going to Madrid, he not only escaped any penalty, owing no doubt to his position and influence at the Spanish court, but was able to pursue his literary studies in peace and to publish the works of his friend Jaime Falcão (Madrid, 1600).

Nothing is known of how he passed the next thirteen years, though there is a tradition that, at the instance of a brother resident in Panama, who held out the prospect of large commercial gains, he spent some time in America. It is said that fortune was unpropitious, and that this, together with the news of the death of his only child, Dona Anna de Noronha, caused his return home about 1604.

In 1613, he and his wife agreed to a separation, and he took the Dominican habit in the convent of Benfica, while Dona Magdalena entered the convent of the Sacramento at Alcantara. According to an old writer, the motive for their act was the news, brought by a pilgrim from Palestine that Dona Magdalena's first husband had survived the battle of Alcácer Quibir, in which he was supposed to have fallen, and still lived; Almeida Garrett has immortalized the legend in his 1843 play Frei Luís de Sousa. The story, however, deserves no credit, and a more natural explanation is that the pair took their resolution to leave the world for the cloister from motives of piety, though in the case of Manuel the captivity of his country and the loss of his daughter may have been contributory causes.

Writing
He made his profession on 8 September 1614, and took the name by which he is known as a writer, Frei Luís de Sousa. In 1616, on the death of Frei Luís Cacegas, another notable Dominican who had collected materials for a history of the order and for a life of the famous archbishop of Braga, Dom Bartholomew of the Martyrs, the task of writing these books was confided to Frei Luís. The Life of the Archbishop appeared in 1619, and the first part of the Chronicle of St Dominic in 1623, while the second and third parts appeared posthumously in 1662 and 1678; in addition he wrote, by order of the government, the Annals of D. John III., which were published by Alexandre Herculano in 1846. After a life of about nineteen years spent in religion, he died on 5 May 1632, in Benfica, Lisbon, leaving behind him a memory of strict observance and personal holiness.

The Chronicle of St Dominic and the Life of the Archbishop have the defect of most monastic writings—they relate for the most part only the good, and exaggerate it without scruple, and they admit all sorts of prodigies, so long as these tend to increase devotion. Briefly, these books are panegyrics, written for edification, and are not histories at all in the critical sense of the word. Their order and arrangement, however, are admirable, and the lucid, polished style, purity of diction, and simple, vivid descriptions, entitle Frei Luís de Sousa to rank as a great prose-writer. His metaphors are well chosen, and he employs on appropriate occasions familiar terms and locutions, and makes full use of those charming diminutives in which the Portuguese language is rich. His prose is characterized by elegance, sweetness and strength, and is remarkably free from the affectations and false rhetoric that characterized the age.

Poetry
In addition to his other gifts, Frei Luís de Sousa was a good Latin poet. There are many editions of the Life of the Archbishop, and it appeared in French (Paris, 1663, 1679 and 1825), in Italian (1727–1728), in Spanish (Madrid, 1645 and 1727) and in English (London, 1890). The História de S. Domingos may be read in a modern edition (6 vols, Lisbon, 1866).

Authorities

 * Obras de D. Francisco Alexandre Lobo, ii. 6f 171
 * Innocencio da Silva, Diccionario bibliographico portuguez, v. 327, xvi. 72
 * Dr Sousa Viterbo, Manoel de Sousa Coulinho (Lisbon, I902).

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Talk:Norfolk Burnhams

Quotations from:

The Shell Guide to Britain

Copyright: Shell-Mex and B.P. Limited, 1964 and 1969

SBN number 7181 4029 X

"Burnhams, The. Domesday Book notes seven Burnhams within a radius of two miles, all 'by sea' and all with churches, three of which have disappeared, while the sea has receded beyond the marches."

(End quotations from The Shell Guide to Britain).

Johannes.Richter 12:52, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * "have disappeared" - which the villages or the churches? "the sea has receded" - that suggests that nothing has been swallowed by the North Sea. I would put more faith in the Public Records Office than the Shell Guide. -- RHaworth 18:08, 2005 Jun 4 (UTC)

You are right. The sentence is dubious.

Obviously the number of towns, recorded in the Domesday Book should be corrected to 4. Is that OK?

Johannes.Richter 04:47, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * I have no idea what was in the Doomsday Book, but at one stage there were indeed 7 Burnham villages and parishes. These were:

 * Burnham Westgate
 * Burnham Sutton
 * Burnham Ulph
 * Burnham Deepdale
 * Burnham Norton
 * Burnham Thorpe
 * Burnham Overy

 * Westgate, Sutton and Ulph have been subsumed into a larger village called Burnham Market. Burnham Market is also a single civil parish, but as it has two Church of England churches (serving respectively Burnham Westgate and Burnham Sutton with Ulph) it is possible there are still more than one ecclesiastical parishes.

 * Deepdale, Norton and Thorpe still exist as seperate villages and civil parishes, much as they always have.

 * Overy is still a single civil parish, but in modern times a distinction is often made between the two settlements of Burnham Overy Town (actually a small settlement adjacent to the parish church) and Burnham Over Staithe (a rather larger settlement about a mile away and next to the creek-side harbour). The Staithe is more recent than the Doomsday book (until the 15th century ships could reach what is now Burnham Overy Town) and the name more recent than that.

 * -- Chris j wood 18:14, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

It is in fact Sutton cum Ulph, not sutton with Ulph. Possibly slightly too precise... Petsco 15:31, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Derivation of the name
The article states:

 * The name Burnham derives from amber and indicates that the town was a centre for the amber trade - see Amber in British place names.

Which is a nice theory, but kind of ignores the rather more obvious fact that the villages are located on or about the River Burn. I guess it is possible the river is named after the amber trade too, but I'd like to see some kind of citation for this. Adding the fact template to that effect. -- Chris j wood 18:25, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

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Tour de Suisse

The Tour de Suisse (Tour of Switzerland) is an annual road cycling stage race. Raced over eight days, the event covers two weekends in June, and along with the Critérium du Dauphiné, it is considered a proving ground for the Tour de France, which is on the calendar approximately two weeks after the end of the Tour de Suisse. Since 2011 the event is part of the UCI World Tour, cycling's highest level of professional races.

From 2021, a women's race has been held at the same time, with the event joining the UCI Women's World Tour from 2023.

History
The race was first held in 1933 and has evolved in timing, duration and sponsorship. Like the Tour de France and the Dauphiné, the Tour de Suisse has several stages with significant mountain climbs in the Swiss Alps and at least one individual time trial. Several winners of the Tour de Suisse have also won the Tour de France, including Eddy Merckx and Jan Ullrich. In 2005 the Tour de Suisse was included in the inaugural UCI Pro Tour and organisers moved the race to earlier in June.

The first winner of the race was Austrian Max Bulla in the 1933 edition. The rider with most wins is Italian Pasquale Fornara with 4 wins in the 1950s. The most recent winner is Mattias Skjelmose, who won for the first time in 2023.

Women's race
A women's race was first held in 1998, won by Lithuanian rider Rasa Polikevičiūtė. Three further editions were held between 1999 and 2001. The event was restarted in 2021 in conjunction with the men's event, taking place over two days. In 2022, the race was lengthened to four days and in 2023 the race joined the UCI Women's World Tour. The race is considered a proving ground for the Giro Donne, which is on the calendar after the Tour de Suisse.

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Sympathy for the Devil (disambiguation)

"Sympathy for the Devil" is a song by the Rolling Stones

Sympathy for the Devil may also refer to:
 * Sympathy for the Devil (1968 film), a film by Jean-Luc Godard
 * Sympathy for the Devil (2019 film), a film by Guillaume de Fontenay
 * Sympathy for the Devil (2023 film), directed by Yuval Adler
 * Sympathy for the Devil (album), an album by Laibach
 * Sympathy for the Devil (audio drama), based on the television series Doctor Who
 * Sympathy for the Devil, a novel by Holly Lisle
 * The Orville: Sympathy for the Devil, a novella by Seth MacFarlane set during the third season of The Orville

Television

 * "Sympathy for the Devil" (Grey's Anatomy), an episode of Grey's Anatomy
 * "Sympathy for the Devil" (Supernatural), an episode of Supernatural
 * "Sympathy for the Devil", an episode of Battle Creek
 * "Sympathy for the Devil", an episode of Cowboy Bebop
 * "Sympathy for the Devil", an episode of Instant Star
 * "Sympathy for the Devil", an episode of One Tree Hill
 * "Sympathy for the Devil", an episode of Rizzoli & Isles
 * "Sympathy for the Devil", an episode of Touched by an Angel
 * "Sympathy for the Devil", an episode of Witch Hunter Robin

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Coordination

Coordination may refer to:
 * Coordination (linguistics), a compound grammatical construction
 * Coordination complex, consisting of a central atom or ion and a surrounding array of bound molecules or ions
 * Coordination number or ligancy of a central atom in a molecule or crystal is the number of atoms, molecules or ions bonded to it
 * Language coordination, the tendency of people to mimic the language of others
 * Coordination (political culture), a Utopian form of political regime
 * Motor coordination, in animal motion
 * A chemical reaction to form a coordination complex
 * Gleichschaltung the process of Nazification in Germany after 1933, often translated as "coordination"

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User:Paddy's Ego

The Ego has landed.

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