User talk:LittleDan

Chad

Hi Dan, I hope you don't mind but I moved Chad/temp to Talk:Chad/temp because there aren't supposed to be any subpages in the article namespace. Hopefully I fixed all the links to it as well. Angela 04:39, Oct 4, 2003 (UTC)

Hi LD. WHY???? I blocked your new account because it seemed like someone was simply messing around. I don't understand why you have started creating new accounts. IMHO you are a superb user on wikipedia. In fact, I am working on a newspaper article right now on wikipedia and I was going to use you as an example of the sort of people wiki attracts. I have read your message on the w-list. All I have to say is please don't go. Wikipedia needs you. Just forget about using new usernames and focus on what you do so very very well, contributing as LittleDan. Your contributions are way way beyond your age and are a pleasure to read, and I for one would be very sorry if you left, expecially as I don't understand what the row is about in the first place. lol FearÉIREANN 00:26, 13 Oct 2003 (UTC)

Hi LD, of course I still want to mention you. Re-user names, I think it is crucial that usernames are regulated. Wikipedia is a professional encyclopædia. How it is perceived is directly impacted upon by the names users use. People make instant reactions based on what they see before them. How do you imagine someone reading pages on Israel or the Holocaust would react if they saw a major editor of the page was called Gas Jews, how people would react to an article on British politics if one of the major contributors to it was called fuck Blair, how people would perceive an article on Catholicism its major contributor was called Jesus Saves, a phrase associated with Born Again Christians who are generally hostile to Catholicism? Or alternatively, if a user editing the Israel page called themselves Sharon is right? We have to be careful in choosing names so that, perhaps unintentionally, we do not appear as though we are forcing a POV on wiki. There is no point worrying about the NPOV nature of an article if through one stupidly chosen name, all attempts as NPOV are undermined. No professional organisation anywhere would tolerate that. If we take wiki seriously, we have got to take our use of names seriously. It isn't censorship, it is elementary common sense. We don't have an option to do otherwise. The rule should be simple:

1. Avoid names that appear to express a religious or political opinion;
2. Avoid obscenities.
3. Use names that will not cause hurt or offence to anyone else.

Remember, wiki may have a long life. It needs to have names used that will not cause embarrassment today, next week, next month, next year or in ten years time. Wikipedia is a professional encyclopædia, not a game. It has to act with professionalism. It isn't a game where people can make up any name they want no matter how much damage it may do to wikipedia and the work of all of us. Your work, my work and everyone else's deserves not to be undermined by idiots with nutty names. lol FearÉIREANN 20:20, 13 Oct 2003 (UTC)

The illustration on Christianity

Good work!
May I propose improvements?

1. a time scale in the bottom
2. differentiating between the processes (as the Great Schism) and the resulting denominations (the Catholic Church) - the denominations could maybe be italized?

--Ruhrjung 23:57, 16 Oct 2003 (UTC)

Hi LittleDan, when you revert vandalism, can you mention the version to which you have reverted to. This will help others in verifying whether your revert was proper. A comment like "reverted to last edit by xx" would do.

For List of people by name: Mi, you reverted to an edit made by a vandal, so that required some cleaning up which I have done. Jay 07:00, 17 Oct 2003 (UTC)

LittleDan, would you take a moment to correct the misspelling of "separate" on the jpeg chart, on Christianity, please? It is currently spelled, "seperate", which is incorrect. Mkmcconn 05:32, 20 Oct 2003 (UTC)

Thanks for putting more info in GRE and grad and all that.

I see you've been getting some slack on copyrights of images. The most strict interpretation of the letter of copyright law (to which I believe Wikipedia holds) is that you cannot use any images to which you do not personally own the copyright or which are uncopyrighted. The only exceptions to the letter of this law are that a single copy may be made by educators (not copies for the whole class), or for purposes of parody. You can find a simple summary of this information as well as a list of public domain (uncopyrighted) images at this site (http://www.umassk12.net/~schwortz/images/free.html).

--zandperl 02:10, 22 Oct 2003 (UTC)

Re: copyrights/fair use
When I'm acting as a student or an individual, I try and abide by the strictest interpretation of the copyright law to keep myself out of trouble. But when I act as a teacher, I go by the fair use policy and make multiple copies of unpurchased texts for students. I can't expect the students to shell out all the money they'd need to buy them, and I know they won't go and look it up at the library.
--zandperl 03:29, 23 Oct 2003 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Requests for mediation

Hi. Look what I did! Don't be mad, k? I figured it was better than nothing, and Ed told me to take my problems there, so... let me know what you think? JackLynch 12:45, 15 Jan 2004 (UTC)

General Disclaimers

Welcome back Dan! Good to have you around, you often bring an interesting point of view to issues. Regarding the disclaimers notice I really did not have anything to do with placing the disclaimer, though I did write that text months ago and then just suddenly found it being used after I thought several people had suggested it created too much doubt like you are saying. My own thinking was to link to it through a modified Wikipedia:Copyrights page which I called Wikipedia:Copyrights and Warranty Disclaimers (proposal), thus people would have to click onto that page and then onto the disclaimer, it would not be directly linkable from each page. I think Mav organized the current configuration as a way to get individual disclaimers off of pages as there were appearing more and more.

Do you really think that your teachers will just consider Wikipedia some crackpot undertaking because of the disclaimers? If you educate them about Wikipedia they should understand that while it is not "peer reviewed" it has become the repository of a lot of knowledge. All knowledge comes, really, from the same source, a consensus of people, and it is not necessarily known who those people are. Wikipedia is just a microcosm of the process of aggregation of knowledge that has been going on for centuries, if not millenia. — Alex756 17:21, 15 Jan 2004 (UTC)

I'm not sure if there was a debate about placing of the disclaimer notice. On my skin it is at the top and the bottom when viewing a page. I don't know if anyone picked up on the difference between having a direct link or putting it on the Wikipedia:copyrights page. If you want to advocate for that, I will back you up, I think it is a bit more elegant that way (though not really a legal difference, more aesthetic, as you say, we don't want to be too discouraging to people who might want to cite Wikipedia as a source). — Alex756 18:35, 16 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Hello :-) please read this [1] (http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2004-January/009683.html) if you are not currently reading the ml. Thanks Anthere

Hi, do you still need the sidenote examples? They are listed on Wikipedia:Images for deletion. Please comment there if you do not want them deleted. The files are Image:Sidenote.html, Image:Sidenote-window.html and Image:Sidenote-column.html. Angela. 20:54, Jan 25, 2004 (UTC)

Sorry, I don't really remember what the proposal was about. Maybe it would be better to upload them to Meta and start a discussion on it there. Angela. 22:38, Jan 25, 2004 (UTC)

Request for mediation

Daniel, I am requesting that you (and Ed Poor) act as mediators in the "edit war" over the article on Palestinian views of the peace process. I am unsure if there is a formal process for asking for someone to step in as mediator, so I am just leaving this note on your page. I picked you because (a) you are listed as one of the people on the mediation committee, and (b) your reasonable discussions on the Wiki-En list, on a variety of subjects. RK 21:33, Jan 28, 2004 (UTC)

I'm sorry, I can't be an impartial mediator since I think the article should be merged with one about the conflict as a whole. LDan 17:33, 29 Jan 2004 (UTC)

But so do I. The only reason it currently exists as a separate article is that the entire section kept getting vandalized in the original article. In any case, I think you misunderstand the role of a mediator. Your job is not to agree with everything I say. It is to act in good faith in mediating a dispute. If people only picked mediators that agreed with them, then no mediation could occur! It would simply be an edit war, with the winner being the person with the largest number of friends. I am currently trusting that an impartial process will be fair. RK

rocks and minerals project

Since you've contributed in the rocks and minerals area before, wanted to let you know that I created a WikiProject Rocks and Minerals if you'd like to join. Elf 04:45, 5 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for reminding me, I hadn't quite gotten around to it. -- Tim Starling 03:51, Feb 29, 2004 (UTC)

You can discuss the changes on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Countries -- Tim Starling 03:56, Feb 29, 2004 (UTC)

Press Release

I see you contributed to the creation of the press release. Might you be willing to follow these steps, and send off the press release? -- user:zanimum

Selected anniversaries

Hey LDan - Per the Selected anniversaries guidelines, could you please make sure that any event you add to sel anniv pages is both in the selected article (bolded item) and has its exact date linked in that article? All entries should also be in the past tense. Look at today's entry on the Main Page as an example. --mav 03:08, 10 Mar 2004 (UTC)

fire department alert

We're having trouble tonight with a vandal, see Wikipedia:Block log. Some suspect it is the same user as User:Bird....if you have any way to help us stop this individual, it would be much appreciated. We are in IRC. Kingturtle 08:13, 10 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Mediation

Hi. Quick question: are you still involved in the mediation committee? Regards -- sannse (talk) 19:32, 24 Mar 2004 (UTC)

How to get θ in math mode

Here you asked, "How do you do θ in TeX?". The answer is simply \theta. Most greek letters are written like that; capital versions are done as \Theta, for instance. (Results: <math>\theta<math> and <math>\Theta<math>.) There's information on the User's Guide about it. (See "greek letters" under 'Fonts'.) Cheers! Grendelkhan 21:26, 2004 Apr 16 (UTC)

Armenia coat of arms

Hi Daniel,

Where es the the PD image of Armenia's coa from?

Best regards, --zeno 10:25, 11 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Time project

Hi, I've set up a new template for the Wikipedia:WikiProject Time. I'm leaving a note out of courtesy for the participants of Wikipedia:WikiProject Years since it is a descendant of Time. Any suggestions welcome, I haven't got a plan yet for the project. Thanks --FrankP 12:21, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Article Licensing

Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 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. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:

• Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
• Multi-Licensing Guide
• Free the Rambot Articles Project

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

Option 1

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

OR

Option 2

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to any [[U.S. state]], county, or city article as described below:

{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. – Ram-Man ^{(comment (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=User_talk:Ram-Man&action=edit&section=new)) (talk)}[[]] 15:31, Dec 9, 2004 (UTC)

Unverified images

Hi! Thanks for uploading the following image:

• Image:Iraq_arms.gif

I notice it currently doesn't have an image copyright tag. Could you add one to let us know its copyright status? (You can use {{gfdl}} if you release it under the GNU Free Documentation License, {{fairuse}} if you claim fair use, etc.) If you don't know what any of this means, just let me know at my talk page where you got the images and I'll tag them for you. Thanks so much. [[User:Poccil|Peter O. (Talk, automation script)]] 07:25, Dec 10, 2004 (UTC)

P.S. You can help tag other images at User:Yann/Untagged_Images. Thanks again.

Unverified images

Hi! Thanks for uploading the following image:

• Image:GeorgePataki.jpg

I notice it currently doesn't have an image copyright tag. Could you add one to let us know its copyright status? (You can use {{gfdl}} if you release it under the GNU Free Documentation License, {{PD-self}} if you wish to release your own work to the public domain, {{fairuse}} if you claim fair use, etc.) If you don't know what any of this means, just let me know at my talk page where you got the images and I'll tag them for you. Thanks so much. [[User:Poccil|Peter O. (Talk, automation script)]] 22:53, Dec 20, 2004 (UTC)

P.S. You can help tag other images at User:Yann/Untagged_Images. Thanks again.

ALSO:

• Image:Christian-lineage.JPG
• Image:Pictorialism.jpg --Aqua 23:36, Dec 30, 2004 (UTC)

And:

• Image:OldEnglish.png

New Mathematics Wikiportal

I noticed you've done some work on Mathematics articles. I wanted to point out to you the new Mathematics Wikiportal- more specifically, to the Mathematics Collaboration of the Week page. I'm looking for any math-related stubs or non-existant articles that you would like to see on Wikipedia. Additionally, I wondered if you'd be willing to help out on some of the Collaboration of the Week pages.

I encourage you to vote on the current Collaboration of the Week, because I'm very interested in which articles you think need to be written or added to, and because I understand that I cannot do the enormous amount of work required on some of the Math stubs alone. I'm asking for your help, and also your critiques on the way the portal is set up.

Please direct all comments to my user-talk page, the Math Wikiportal talk page, or the Math Collaboration of the Week talk page. Thanks a lot for your support! ral315 02:54, Feb 11, 2005 (UTC)

Prothon

I reverted your move of "Prothon" to "Prothon programming language". This is no more because Manual of style says we don't have to put a suffix "programming language" if the name of the language is unambiguous. In this case, I think Prothon means nothing but a programming language. If I missed something, just revert my revert and let me know. -- Taku 03:19, Apr 17, 2005 (UTC)

You could try reading Wikipedia:Administrators' reading list, it should be described in there. -- Curps 18:48, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Havent seen you around in a while. Welcome back. Danny 00:05, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Such watch

Sorry to nag, but could you remember to put a few words in the Edit Summary when you make a major change? Saves hassle for others watching the page. ---Isaac R 20:41, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Mary Ramsey

Yes, I did delete it. My problem with it was that it wasn't an article, not a stub article or anything at all. "Joined 10,000 Maniacs" is a sentence fragment. Were there to be a subject to the sentence, it would still be a fact, not a discussion. There are plenty of times when a nothing is better than a something, and especially a something that tells you less than the article you just jumped from. If you hit it by a link on the 10,000 Maniacs page, you already know more about her than you learn from the substub. I also encourage, strongly, people to not link every proper noun in a group unless there is something to say about the people outside of the context of their band or unless they are known independently of the band. What is the function of the link? If it's to enable search from the main page, then we have to assume that the person is known outside of the band work. If it's to explain a short mention in a larger article, then the target article (the article on the person) had better not be a substub that says "Played guitar for Guadalcanal Diary." The speedy criterion was #1, and I don't mean to be hostile, but I worry that people are creating articles for no other reason than that they feel compelled to link every name. It's better a red link than a single fact, in my opinion, and it's better no link at all until there is an article to link to. Geogre 02:49, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I didnt know they could either. We have plenty of substub articles, which should be expanded, and articles should be written in full sentences, but there has to be some better grounds for deleting them. Danny 10:01, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Islamofascism

Please don't blank and redirect articles currently on VfD. Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 23:03, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Looking at the History, someone else had replaced the VfD tag with a speedy tag, so your mistake was natural. Sorry. Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 11:24, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Possible impostor