User talk:Secfan

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Introduction

Hello, welcome to Wikipedia. You might like to start by reading the tutorial and introducing yourself at the new users page. For ideas of what to put on your user page, see Wikipedia:User page.

If you have any questions, you can ask at the help desk or on my talk page. Two useful tips are that you can sign your name using four tildes (~~~~) and you can preview your changes before you save using the show preview button. You can regularly find new tips on the Community Portal. I look forward to reading your great articles and I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian. :) Angela . 03:15, Apr 25, 2004 (UTC)

Re: list of rappers

Hmm... not sure why I didn't fix that. Ordinarily, I leave an invitation to fix it on the talk page and come back in twenty-four hours to do it myself if the anon doesn't. Must've been a breakdown in the system.... Tuf-Kat 13:06, Apr 30, 2004 (UTC)

Edit summary

Hello, please provide an edit summary. Thanks! Hyacinth 00:56, 10 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Redirects

Do we really need so many redirects? Edward 12:31, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Maybe not, but they're not doing any harm :) Secfan 12:33, Nov 15, 2004 (UTC)

Gifted and talented

That term isn't really specific...any "higher level" courses for elementary or middle school children in America, Canada, the UK, etc. can be (and are) called gifted and talented. I know my school's gifted program was called that, and we're not in Western Australia. (I'm in Florida, USA.) Maybe this should get a rewrite with all the info in it, and the West Aus thing gets a passing mention. Mike H 03:36, Nov 29, 2004 (UTC)

Just following the format of Academic Talent Program. Secfan 03:38, Nov 29, 2004 (UTC)
- It is worth noting that the term is quite generic, though. :-) Mike H 03:40, Nov 29, 2004 (UTC)
  - Okies, maybe I expand those articles soon to be more specific :) Secfan 03:41, Nov 29, 2004 (UTC)

Template

Please stop adding the Commonwealth template to country articles. Wikipedia:WikiProject Countries has decided that these do not belong. - SimonP 17:50, Dec 3, 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:

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:

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)

.PS internet TLD

Thanks for leaving me a message, your'e doing a great job with the internet TLD's all over wikipedia!
I think that totally undeliberatly you put the reference of .PS in the State of Palestine article. Since you're not familiar with the situation.

The Palestinians & Israelis signed a joint peace agreement back in September 1993. Under that agreement, a institute called "Palestinian National Authority" (or more commonly just "Palestinian Authority") was established. This is a semi-autonomous body that rules on the area allocated to by the agreements. Please refer to Palestinian Authority article for more details of this body.

Under that agreement, the U.N bodies allocated the PS code to the Palestinian Authority; 970 telephone code (please look!) to the Palestinian Authority; also, .PS TLD was later registerd to it. The Registeries might sometime suggest "Palestinian Territories" as the name of which the code was assigned to; but that's only to avoid political sensitivities. Please look in Palestinian Territories for more info of this term. (go to "Meaning of the Term")

The last but most important thing you should know- the Palestinian leadership "declared" a "state" back in 1988, at a conference in Tunisia. Of course that this "declaration" has no importance or meaning whatsoever, except maybe symbolic. But this especially after the Oslo Peace agreements in 1993, which "officially" ended the state of ongoing wartime. Anyway, the 1988 "declaration" marked that the area of the "state" to all of Israel(!), with the proclaimed capital being Jerusalem. The article State of Palestine is there because the Palestinian Leadership technically didn't call this off, but of course they have no intrest in having any connection with this declaration (which is equals destruction of Israel = no peace). Try to read State of Palestine details (on the right) - to see it's something irrelevant. If you're adding any information to it, you are giving a legitimacy to something even the Palestinians don't want to have connection to. But moreover- you are adding the details to the wrong article (it should be in Palestinian Authority) - but I guess that's due to lack of knowledge in this subject. VICTOR

Lines in the template

I never wrote the template to use the word line, and removed it when youa dded it because it is fairly obvious by the colour coding from within the articles and the table itself. It also makes the spacing of the page very awkward, and they are generally not necessary and every other station template does not use them. Thanks! Páll 05:39, 1 Feb 2005 (UTC)

I think we should keep the word Rail, more for the fact that when people in Hong Kong talk about the Tung Chung, we don't say "I'm going to take the Tung Chung line to Tsing Yi, we say " I'm going to take the Tung Chung to Tsing Yi," but people say "I'm going to take the West Rail to ..." and we don't say "I'm going to take the West to ...." Anyway, that's my 8 Hong Kong cents. Páll 11:02, 1 Feb 2005 (UTC)

No no, I agree with using the word line in the article, which is why its used. The thing about the table is it is just that, a quick and handy reference so it is also important to make sure it is small and compact. I think, as it is a table, the context is clear enough without the word line, especially if we use the colouring. Páll 21:11, 2 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Current events

Hi hello, would you be interested to contribute to Current events in Hong Kong and Macao? You may also be interested to take a look at Wikipedia:HK wikipedians' notice board. best, — Instantno od 07:40, Feb 4 2005 (UTC)

Template for deletion - Template:Portuguese former colonies

Hello Secfan. This template on former colonies of Portugal has been listed at Wikipedia:Templates for deletion by Ji ang for some time. There is a discussion on whether templates of such kind should be removed. Your comment would be very helpful to the discussion. You may also be interested to have a look on the vfd of Template:Former British colonies. — Instan tnood 16:39, Feb 10 2005 (UTC)

Edit summary.

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Misty Watlered

Non-notability isn't grounds for speedy deletion. If you want to list this on VfD, go ahead. Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 15:21, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Coldplay singles discography

Hey, I'm wondering where you got the US singles placing for Yellow... cuz the one your provided for Speed Of Sound is only Billboard Hot 100 and/or Modern Rock Tracks which only measured radio airplay and not sales. --Madchester 15:12, 2005 Apr 28 (UTC)

List of Albums

EPs arent considered albums and shouldnt be included on the list. JamesBurns 01:01, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)

??? I have no idea which article you are referring to secfan 04:41, Apr 30, 2005 (UTC)
- The Strokes The Modern Age EP. JamesBurns 04:05, 1 May 2005 (UTC)
  - Well the fact is that the Strokes EP charted at #68 on the UK Singles Chart, not the albums chart. secfan 05:21, May 1, 2005 (UTC)
    - So what's it doing on List of Albums? JamesBurns 08:08, 1 May 2005 (UTC)

5-6-7-8's

You contributed many redirs to 5678s. At what point does this become spam? --Sgkay 12:49, 1 May 2005 (UTC)

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Golf-number combinations

You just created a template for Golf-number combinations that I think is very interesting. (See User:Georgia guy/Letter number combinations) for the definition of this phrase.) Georgia guy 13:37, 8 May 2005 (UTC)

Apollo 440

Just wanted to drop you a line to say thanks for fixing the albums/singles listing on the Apollo 440 page. You beat me to it by a couple of hours. I'd like to especially thank you for adding single chart placings, something I would not have put in. - pinkgothic 16:48, 8 May 2005 (UTC)

Substub

Hi Secfan - I have just speedy-deleted Template:Substub. The template was originally deleted in accordance with a :"delete" vote at Wikipedia:Templates for deletion, as it is no longer used - nor should it be, not even as a redirect. The Stub sorting WikiProject is strongly against its reintroduction, on the grounds that it actively hinders efforts to improve stubs. Please do not recreate it again. Grutness...wha? 01:54, 23 May 2005 (UTC)

GNumber

What is the point to the GNumber template? It it meant to link together all the economic summets that are named as G number such as G8 and G20? Shanedidona 04:04, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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