User talk:Hoshie/Archive

Welcome to Wikipedia

Hello there, welcome to the 'pedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you need pointers on how we title pages visit Wikipedia:Naming conventions or how to format them visit our manual of style. If you have any other questions about the project then check out Wikipedia:Help or add a question to the Village pump. BTW, nice work on MSNBC. Cheers! --maveric149

Mr. President

Hey, i noticed u've edited some us govt pages. Maybe u can answer this: why when I listen to the senate do the senators address "mr president" sometimes. i dont think this is the president of the country, who is it?

user_talk:hfastedge

Parliaments

Re: a list of members for the first sessions of the parliaments - I'm not sure a whole list is necessary, maybe just a mention of the numbers of MSPs each party had at the start, so we can get an idea on how things are changing. -- Evercat 20:11 May 8, 2003 (UTC)

Question on NRSV copyright

Isn't the NRSV incompatible with Wikipedia's GFDL? Where did you get the "permission" listed on your user page? You ought to use King James or something uncopyrighted. Geoffrey 21:55, 20 Aug 2003 (UTC)

As to the Authorized Version, that would be a good idea. However, the AV is under copyright in the UK. The SAERV of 1901 would a better choice. The AV is copyrighted? Who did that!? :-) This SAERV (Standard American English Revised Version, maybe? My ISP won't connect to much except Wikipedia right now) may work, because 1901 should mean public domain in US, but...isn't there a Net Bible translation that's open content? --Geoffrey 03:15, 22 Aug 2003 (UTC)

Simple English

Hi Joshua. It would be great if you could help out at the Simple English Wikipedia (http://simple.wikipedia.com/). I've been trying to convince people lately they should come! Simple is still fairly new and under-developed, so I don't know if I can give you any definite answers.

The question about jargon is a good one. One solution is that we should allow dictionary definitions in the encyclopedia (something that is often frowned on here at English). That way, you could explain what the jargon word meant in a separate article rather than cluttering up a page.

With regard to your second question, Simple English is not equivalent to Basic English. We are not trying to limit the number of words we use, although this has been suggested - it does not seem realistic. Basically, we are just trying to simplify things as much as possible without having any strict rules on how that should be done. Let me know if you have any more questions. You can reply here or at Simple.

Angela 09:34, 23 Aug 2003 (UTC)

Hi Hoshie, I replied at Simple (http://simple.wikipedia.com/wiki.cgi?Hoshie/Talk). Angela 06:16, 2 Sep 2003 (UTC)

Backups

Hi Hoshie. Thank you for the "I rock" comment!! I can't seem to find a way of backing up the Simple Wikipedia. Others are available from Wikipedia:Database download, but that page doesn't contain working links to the Wikipedias that were, until a couple of days ago, running on the old server. The http://download.wikipedia.org/ page doesn't offer any solution either. I would suggest you ask at the Wikipedia:Village pump or e-mail the tech mailing list (intlwiki-l@Wikipedia.org). I expect that once Simple gets the new software, the backup files will be available in the same way that the other languages are now. If you just want to back up individual articles of course, you can just click filesave as. However, this would back up the HTML as opposed to the Wikitext. It might be best to click edit first, and then copy and paste the text into a text editor. I wouldn't worry though as backups are obviously made somewhere considering things are now back up after the old server crash. Angela 03:33, Sep 14, 2003 (UTC)

Change of plan... Jay is requesting backups of the Interlingua Wikipedia on the mailing list, which Brion says he can do, so I have asked him whether it's possible to get one for the Simple English too. See m:User:Brion VIBBER/Todo list. Angela 07:20, Sep 14, 2003 (UTC)

Update... There is now a tarball here (http://simple.wikipedia.org/tarballs/wiki.tar.gz). See http://download.wikipedia.org and Wikipedia:Database download for instructions. They won't be in a form that you can actually read without the Wikipedia software though, so if you wanted something you can work on without needing to download any other software, you might still want to go with the above method of saving individual pages. I don't know if you know anything about tarballs, but if not, you might find [1] (http://www.redhat-linux.com.my/faq/common15.html) and [2] (http://www.simplescalar.com/unpacking.html) helpful. Angela 08:22, Sep 14, 2003 (UTC)

Mozilla sidebar tab

Hi, you won't be able to upload it to Wikipedia yourself as JavaScript is not allowed for security reasons, but a developer could make it available from download.wikipedia.org. Is it available online anywhere already? The best person to speak to would probably be Tim Starling. --Angela . 03:11, 17 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Thanks for the catch

You're right about the edit on Gavin Newsom...thanks! Scooter 08:32, 3 Jan 2004 (UTC)

That "very good edit" wasn't mine

Thanks for the compliment, but that wasn't my edit. I just made a minuscule change in wording, from "These comments have used by some question the GNT based on the assumption that Bratcher's viewpoints made into the Translation" to "These comments have used by some to question the GNT based on the assumption that the translation might reflect Bratcher's viewpoints." I think you wanted to compliment Agendum.

Letter

I think it's definately worth a try. But keep in mind Eloquence said something similar (but to a lesser degree) at User_talk:Eloquence#Ban_me and Chris responded, "I could care less of your political beliefs." The main problem with Chris is that he is overly emotional and focuses on people, not issues, such as calling Anthony DiPierro a troll rather than defending how exactly his images are not copyvio. I, and others, posted more than once on his talk page informing him about our NPOV policy, but he just doesn't seem to get it. Possibly, he has not even bothered to RTFM, as evidenced by his edit summary "* Taking out NPOV" at [3] (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Bill_Clinton&action=history). User:Jwrosenzweig seems to have had some email contact with him and left him "friendly suggestions" in the past, such as [4] (http://en2.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=User_talk:ChrisDJackson&diff=2073063&oldid=2071970). You may want to email him about this. Cheers, Jia ng 01:36, 12 Jan 2004 (UTC)

I agree, it's a fair try. I attempted something similar at one point, offering to edit items with him (I have a list of articles on my user page that I'd like to work on in the near future), but I don't believe it was read. If you wish to mention that my offer still stands, it may help, but I'm afraid that as a non-Democrat, any words I say may be too incendiary. I agree with User:Jiang, in that Chris is refusing to focus on anything outside of his personal, subjective view (though in his defense, Anthony DiPierro is a troll). A shame, really, because he seems a fair writer. Scooter 05:21, 13 Jan 2004 (UTC)

iBook

I noticed you'd made the switch on the pictures, thanks for doing that, that was a pretty scatterbrained mistake on my part.

As far as the naming, I can't really claim to be an expert on it. I'd be tempted to call them all "iBooks" and then subdivide by processor speed (or screen size if there are any differences there). I've been more or less out of the specialty for three or four years so I'm not really as up on the new hardware as on the older stuff. - Hephaestos 15:03, 14 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Unprotection

Bill Clinton is unprotected now. Wikipedia:Requests for page protection is a good place to ask for this if I'm not around. Angela . 18:02, Jan 15, 2004 (UTC)

Good point. Anyway, if it wasn't for unprotection requests originally, it is now. I just added a note at the top to say it's for both. It makes sense that they both go no the one page I think. Angela . 18:53, Jan 15, 2004 (UTC)

Moving Welsh Assembly

Yes, I've no objection to moving it to National Assembly for Wales, it's how it's referred to in the first paragraph after all! Arwel 23:36, 8 Apr 2004 (UTC)

I had to do a bit of shifting around of the National Assembly articles, as when you renamed it you lost the edit history. The way to do it is to delete the article which you want to rename it to, then "move this page" which will keep the edit history and automatically create the redirects. -- Arwel 11:08, 9 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Regions

Yes, the European constituencies are the regions of England. Morwen - Talk 12:18, 13 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Thanks

Not sure if you're watching my user page, but I responded to you there. Jdavidb 18:37, 5 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Infoboxes - MSPs/AMs/MLAs/MEPs?

No objections to adding MSPs/AMs. MLAs have already been done. As Morwen says, the European constituencies in England are the regions, which are already indicated in the council pages, so it would be more sensible to add the MEPs to the 9 region pages rather than the 388 local authorities. --Keith Edkins 10:57, 12 Sep 2004 (UTC)

The Apprentice 2

Hi, Hoshie. As a fan of The Apprentice, I want to make sure you see my Anti-Apprentice Conspiracy comment on Talk:The Apprentice 2. Please vote. Thanks. [[User:Nricardo|--Nelson Ricardo >>Talk<< (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=User_talk:Nricardo&action=edit&section=new)]] 06:06, Sep 21, 2004 (UTC)

Wikipedia:U.S. Southern Wikipedians' notice board

Hey! I've created this new notice board specifically for articles related to people from the U.S. South. If you are interested in contributing, leave a message on the page and add articles you feel need to be reviewed, contributed to, or started. Mike H 21:03, Sep 29, 2004 (UTC)

Robert McCartney's party label

See User talk:Timrollpickering for a full explanation. Dbiv 17:02, 20 Oct 2004 (UTC)

The Apprentice 1 Episode Titles

Hmm. This is a bit of a conundrum, as the "Weekly Dossier" section on the NBC site agrees with our titles http://www.nbc.com/nbc/The_Apprentice/dossier/. Perhaps the dossiers and the episodes have different names. Perhaps we should note both. (I notice they haven't posted this season's dossiers). This site: http://epguides.com/Apprentice/ agrees with our season 2 titles and even lists some future episodes Nelson Ricardo 10:52, Oct 22, 2004 (UTC)

TLB -- Excellent

Fine additions to The Living Bible article. Thanks.

Rlquall 06:24, 2 Nov 2004 (UTC)

NC Council of State election returns

I've looked at so many sources that I've forgotten where I pulled the election returns from; I believe it was the NC Board of Elections website and I believe it was today; however, a recount is in progress, the returns may fluctuate, and I'm sure that the final numbers will be different from what they are now. Feel free to update them, of course. :) -- Seth Ilys 05:34, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Jesusland maps

Well, fine idea, but I didn't create the maps. I found them flitting about the 'Net, and wrote the article around them. There are some other variations out there as well. - Scooter 03:54, 28 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I deleted one of your contributions -- here's why

Dear Hoshie,

You put a picture of a Qur'an translation in the Qur'an article. Since the article didn't have any pictures, I would normally have regarded this as a GOOD THING. However, I deleted the picture, for two reasons:

1) It didn't fit well. A trivial reason, I could have messed with the formatting. But ...

2) It was a full-cover view of the book, with the name and translator clearly visible. It seemed as if Wikipedia were endorsing this particular version.

It seems to me that it would have been much preferable to have a photo of a STACK of various English translations of the Koran. I could even make one, if I had a digital camera <g>

This is nothing against you, just against the picture chosen. You've done yoeman work in adding open-source pictures to Wikipedia.

Now if you could get us an open-sourced picture of one of the beautiful old Qur'ans, with calligraphy and elaborate colored and gilded decorations ... that would be spectacular!

Hope there are no hard feelings. Zora 06:55, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)

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