User talk:Hyacinth

Hello, you've reached User:Hyacinth, Mikhail Abraham, please edit yourself at the bottom this page. I normally respond quickly on your talk pages, but could be vacationing for a month, you never know.

Note: I currently am broke and staying with relatives and have limited access to computers. Thus I am not currently engaged in any disputes or collaborative efforts. I would recommend contacting another administrator for administrative assistance. If you have a question that doesn't need a quick answer I actually enjoy answering them, so please ask.

If you do not sign messages I have no way of replying to you on your talk page. Please do not carry on conversations with other users on my talk page. That is why you all have talk pages. Thanks!

My user name is a reference to Hyacinth (mythology) rather than Hyacinth Bucket.

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• User talk:Hyacinth/Words of wisdom from someone who's actually SANE

nice work

Nice work last night! I see you're using the same book I have been, for early music (Hoppin). Happy editing! Antandrus 15:33, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I think living without a car would be heaven... Should you find a more recent, thorough book on medieval music, let me know; Hoppin is badly out-of-date and I'm finding lots of things, especially in biographies, that got corrected by 1990s-era research. The general stuff on rhythmic modes, Gregorian chant and so forth all seems to be solid to me though. Antandrus 02:38, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)

The Prisoner

If you are familiar with the television show, could you take a look at my comment on Talk:The Prisoner? I'm trying to track down the names of the tunes and match them with their classical (or traditional) counterparts. It's a trivial matter, but interesting if you know the score. --Viriditas | Talk 10:07, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Re: VFD

I replyed on the talk page. – ABCD 20:39, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)

User talk:Alphax/20050405-01

Another edit summary query

I got a message from you today about the need to add edit summaries on my edits. After looking at your Talk Page archives, I see I'm not the only person that has been slapped with one of your edit summary comments you seem to randomly send to people. I don't expect a decent response from you, as other people haven't had one, but I would like to say that you are being counter-productive, and I ask you don't waste your time or any more of others' with giving people these messages when they are clearly not deserved or needed. Daniel Lawrence 15:34, 5 Apr 2005 (UTC)

English

Hyacinth, I have no idea what edit you are referring to, but I'm pretty confident that if I said something wasn't good English it wasn't. If it was a typo, sorry; it probably wasn't an obvious typo, or I'd have said "typo". My edit summaries are sincere attempts to describe my edits. No disparagement of an individual was intended. -- Jmabel | Talk 00:36, Apr 6, 2005 (UTC)

Hello to you too

Hi Hyacinth, Thanks for the nice welcome. How did you find me, and why did you pick me to send that message? Is it because I forgot to add an edit summary in one of the minor edits I made recently? Again, thanks and hi. -- Shreevatsa 19:45, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Hyacinth, thank you for your welcome as well! - Dan Johnson 07:04, 2005 Apr 7 (UTC)

Hi Hyacinth, thanks for your warm welcome too. Just one question: should I respond to your message on my talk-page or yours (as I've done here)? - Bruce1ee 14:09, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Aaaaannnnndddd. . . . . another "hello and thanks for the nice welcome." I've got a minor newbie Wikiquette question if you've got the time to answer it. . . . . Soundguy99 16:34, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I suppose I better offer my thanks as well, eh? It's good to know somebody noticed my existence ;) Hope I've been doing alright thus far, if not just let me know. Sholtar 03:16, Apr 9, 2005 (UTC)

Hiya Hyacinth (that sounds weird) and thanks for signing my page. How do you find out who the new members are? Fantom 09:53, Apr 9, 2005 (UTC)

Hi, Thanks very much for your help and welcome message - Much appreciated. Kristy Guneratne 22:43, 13 May 2005 (UTC)

Category: musicians

Might want to change your category to [[Category:Wikipedian musicians|Hyacinth]] so it will sort correctly. —Wahoofive | Talk 21:07, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)

For creating music images, I'm just taking screen shots and then cropping (and sometimes tweaking) them in Photoshop (closing up blank staff space, for example). I get crappy results with PNG so I've been making them all GIF. Mac OSX takes PDF screen shots by default, so they have anti-aliasing. —Wahoofive | Talk 21:45, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)

References

Greetings! Would like to thank you for your careful citations; a few quotes you've added to articles have given me good leads on finding useful papers for my own research. (Actually, I admire your work in general.) Mindspillage (spill yours?) 06:06, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)

vacation

Hope you're ok Hyacinth; you'll be missed. Sorry to hear that, and I hope the new job and new place works out for you ... please come back as soon as you can. Best wishes, Antandrus 03:45, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)

What he said. Take care; hope to see you back soon. Mindspillage (spill yours?) 10:16, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Thank you both. I should be editing again, but far less than any time before. Hyacinth 21:48, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Tone deaf

I read through your recent comments on Tone deaf, and I've edited the article quite a bit. Though you appear to be on leave of indeterminate length right now, I'd appreciate it if you took a look when you return. (If you're reading this, I'm assuming you have or will) Matthewcieplak 03:14, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Musical montage

VfD

Please take a look at Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Gay Friendly level. Mikkalai 02:33, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)

LGBT categories

Sorry to hear of your current woes. Are you aware of what is happening to all the LGBT categories? Check out: Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/Log/2005 April 24. This has me pretty upset. It worries me that people's work can be deleted like this so quickly without an easy way to restore it. I didn't notice the discussion until after it happened. There is still discussion about this at Wikipedia:Categories_for_deletion#Category:Gay.2C_lesbian_or_bisexual_people. -- Samuel Wantman 08:25, 7 May 2005 (UTC) See also: Wikipedia talk:Categories for deletion --Samuel Wantman 22:44, 7 May 2005 (UTC)

Hello, Hyacinth. I encourage you to visit Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/Log/2005 May 7#Gay, lesbian, and bisexual / LGBT occupational categories. (Wikipedia really needs a GLBT noticeboard for stuff like this.) Jonathunder 05:10, 2005 May 8 (UTC)

Inspired by Jonathunder's idea, I have created a LGBT noticeboard. Please take a look. -- Samuel Wantman 07:02, 8 May 2005 (UTC)

I know that Bernhard von Bülow was accused of homosexuality, but this is the first I've heard that he actually was homosexual. What's your source? Mackensen (talk) 22:29, 19 May 2005 (UTC)

Right, I remember that Brand accused him. I just wasn't aware if there was consensus that Brand was actually telling the truth. Mackensen (talk) 14:50, 21 May 2005 (UTC)

Template:No negative headings & Template:Headingstalk

FYI: Both of these templates are currently listed for deletion at WP:TFD. BlankVerse ∅ 15:56, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

If you are the only one using those two templates, I would suggest that you move them to a subpage under your User page where you can still use them as templates (e.g. {{User:Hyacinth/Headingstalk}}) the same way that some of the Wiki greeters have created the custom greet messages they use. BlankVerse ∅ 05:48, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Self-link bold vs. Manual bold

Hi,

Re: Shakuhachi page, about this diff (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Shakuhachi&diff=prev&oldid=14662311) between my version and yours.

Both my code " The [[shakuhachi]] " and yours " The '''shakuhachi''' " result in the same thing: bolding the title word shakuhachi (since a self-link is instead displayed as bold).

However, the autolink version made the code directly reusable elsewhere as cut-n-pasted excerpt (short definitions, dab page, etc.). This is especially true in the case of illustrations: the whole code (table, image, and its caption) can be cut-n-pasted into another page, and the title name will immediately turn into the right wikilink outside of its native page.

I've read somewhere about the fact that self-links automatically turning into mere bold text was precisely intended to for those uses, for lead sections and illustrations. Since I can't quote you chapter & verse of the documentation page that was stating or implying that, I won't fight over your change, but I think it's something to keep in mind and ponder for another time.

Regards, ←^#6  _{talk 23:03, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)}

templates userfied

Hi there! Two of your templates have been moved to your userspace, after discussion on WP:TFD. They are now found at User:Hyacinth/Headingstalk and User:Hyacinth/No negative headings. If you have any other such templates you may want to consider moving them to your userspace yourself (using the 'move' button). Yours, Radiant_>|< 07:38, Jun 10, 2005 (UTC)