User talk:Zigger

/Archive 1 (Feb 2004 – Jun 2004)

True or false??

True or false: Georgia is one of the dis-ambiguation pages likely to get a lot of links. Any others?? 66.32.248.34 19:37, 3 Jul 2004 (UTC)

See Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links. --Zigger 19:42, 2004 Jul 3 (UTC)

Watchlist

I've changed a database setting. Please let me know if you still have a problem with your watchlist. You might - it's a case of trying raising a limit until the problem goes away. Jamesday 09:40, 15 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Life

Hi Zigger, why did you remove my definition from Life?

Brian, your definition (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Life&diff=4106081&oldid=4086062) of life seemed to be in the categories of original research and self-promotion, which are excluded by Wikipedia policy. (See Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not.) If the article U.S. House election, 2004 is correct, then good luck in the upcoming elections. Please continue contributing to Wikipedia. --Zigger 03:00, 2004 Jul 25 (UTC)

Zigger, I published my text on the web long before I ever heard of Wikipedia, so I'm not sure how you conclude that I'm using Wikipedia as a forum for original research. My contribution indeed references my own material, but I think readers of the Life article would nevertheless be interested in the definition and taxonomy for which my text serves as the primary source -- especially since my >30-item taxonomy (http://humanknowledge.net/Thoughts.html#life) makes Wikipedia's virus/mule/fire list look somewhat anemic. But if you still think that the article's readers benefit from not referencing my definition and taxonomy, then you may want to also apply your pseudonymous eraser to this definition (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Life&diff=1829649&oldid=1829586) there as well, since it (unlike my definition) is not cited from any primary source. --Brian Having heard no response to the above, I'll be restoring the taxonomy reference and example definition to the Life article. -- Brian 2004-08-20

Art categories

Hi,

I noticed that you have recently created some sub-categories in the visual arts. Can I also encourage you to join the categorisation discussion at Category talk:Art -- Solipsist 20:57, 6 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Aussie Suburbs.

Hey mate, why not create a template for all those HTML tables in the Australian suburbs pages you are editing. Or at the very least point the links to the correct suburbs as they are messing up the Wikipedia:Most_wanted_articles page. -- Hackerjack 08:09, 9 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Categorization FAQ

Your Categorisation FAQ looks promising. You should mention that recommendations for the naming and organization of categories in a subject area can be given in the WikiProject for that subject area. For example:

Category:History is described at Wikipedia:WikiProject History#Categories
Category:Wars is described at Wikipedia:WikiProject Wars#Categories
Category:Battles is described at Wikipedia:WikiProject Battles#Categories
Category:Water transport is described at Wikipedia:WikiProject Ships#Categorization

Gdr 11:58, 2004 Aug 18 (UTC)

Disambiguation

Disambiguation notices should be indented (:) and have no horizontal line separating it from the text. --Jia ng 07:45, 16 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Sydney

Want to join? I'm still formulating policy. Incidently, there is a message board Wikipedia:Australian wikipedians' notice board - Ta bu shi da yu 06:09, 23 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Data Management Wiki Committee

Thank you for your contribution to one, or more, articles that are now organized under Data management.

Because of your previous intrest, you are recieving an invitation to become a founding member of the Data Management Wiki Committee.

The members, of course, will form and solidify the purpose, rules, officers, etc. but my idea (to kick things off) is to establish a group of us who will take responsiblity to see that the ideas of Data management are promoted and well represented in Wikipedia articles.

If you are willing to join the committee, please go to Category_talk:Data_management and indicate your acceptance of this invitation by placing your three tilde characters in the list.

KeyStroke 01:14, 2004 Sep 25 (UTC)

Stick-wiki

The wiki-on-stick project is looking cool. Thanks for your work on it... +sj + 11:29, 26 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Education

FYI Wikipedia now has a project located called Wikipedia:WikiProject School Years. It currently has only one participant, KeithTyler, and he hasn't focused on it at all after a few days. Can you be a participant?? (This was brought to my attention when I saw your edits of Kindergarten and Primary education in RC.) 66.245.97.210 16:56, 24 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for pointing out the project page. Unfortunately my efforts are too diluted to commit to a wikiproject, but I'll try to make a better contribution to the infoboxes later if needed. --Zigger 17:05, 2004 Oct 24 (UTC)

Webster's Merger?

Salutations, Zigger!
Today I decided to work on extensive revisions to Webster's Dictionary and in poking around found a stub at Webster's New International Dictionary, Second Edition and a longer article at Webster's Third New International Dictionary. It seems to me it would be best to consolidate the second and third material at Webster's Dictionary, because it is the familiar name and it would put the history of the work, which has appeared under several names in one spot; then put in redirects under the other names. I've integrated the material at the present "Third" article with my own contributions at Webster's Dictionary. Since you've worked on this, I wonder if you have any thoughts. PedanticallySpeaking 16:40, Oct 27, 2004 (UTC)

In Re: Copyvio on Harry Nice

Article Harry W. Nice copyvio. I have confirmed with the Maryland Archives that the specific information may be reproduced as long as credit is given to their site. The /temp page you moved the article too seems to be non-existant, so I will be reverting the site and adding a reference to their site if you have no objections. [[User:Tomf688|Tom]] 22:20, Oct 27, 2004 (UTC)

Cameron Bright

Thanks for disambiguating Victoria, British Columbia. This goes to show, you can't even trust newspapers to spell it correctly. Figures.... [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|^(talk)]] 11:58, Nov 5, 2004 (UTC)

Removal of repeated wikilinks?

Is the removal in [1] (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Florida_State_Road_15&curid=1150567&diff=0&oldid=0) standard policy? Even if it is, I'd argue against it in this case. Someone may only be interested in the official description at the bottom and have to find the first occurrence of a town that's in it. That seems like more harm than good (the only good I can see is saving a bit of space). So for now I'm reverting it unless there's some sort of official decision.--SPUI 15:20, 10 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Heading Capitalization

Hey Zigger,

I know this might sound a little inane, but I'm wondering why you edited the "External Links" header on the BI-LO article to change the capital L to a lower case? I've seen people do it a couple of times now, and it perplexes me to no end. Aside from my not understanding why people would want to decapitalize headings in the first place, but even if there were a reason behind it, it seems like a strangely inane thing to bother actually making the effort to edit anyway. Wonder if you could humor me and explain why you (and other people) would do this?

Thanks.

Vaelor 16:19, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Hi again. Thanks for pointing out the line "# Capitalize the first word and any proper nouns in headings, but leave the rest (including ordinary nouns) lower case." on Wikipedia:Manual of Style - I don't know how I missed this, but no longer will I scratch my head in puzzlement every time I see somebody edit a capital letter off a heading. =P

To answer your question about my tendency to use American English spelling - in a nutshell, it's because I choose not to consider myself a Melburnian, or a Victorian, or even an Australian - call me unpatriotic, but I prefer not to stereotype myself by nationality or culture, especially on the internet. So I stick with the linguistics I've picked up throughout my life, from books, television, movies, computer games, and most prevalently the internet, which just happens to be American English, the most commonly used language in the world today. =)

Funnily enough though, while some words like honor, labor, neighborhood (okay, so it's 4am and my brain can't seem to think of vocabulary examples that aren't o/ou words!) are second-nature to me, I did catch myself writing "capitalise" there and then changed it consciously, so its funny you should think to comment on that. I guess somewhere in the back of my brain there my "formal education" is striving to be noticed. =P

Vaelor 17:09, 16 Nov 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...

...all U.S. state, county, and city articles...
...all articles...

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 most active Wikipedians, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic 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 {{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}} template (or {{MultiLicensePD}} 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 [[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 at my talk page what you think. -- Ram-Man 21:16, Nov 29, 2004 (UTC)

The Humungous Image Tagging Project

Hi. You've helped with the Wikipedia:WikiProject Wiki Syntax, so I thought it worth alerting you to the latest and greatest of Wikipedia fixing project, User:Yann/Untagged Images, which is seeking to put copyright tags on all of the untagged images. There are probably, oh, thirty thousand or so to do (he said, reaching into the air for a large figure). But hey: they're images ... you'll get to see lots of random pretty pictures. That must be better than looking for at at and the the, non? You know you'll love it. best wishes --Tagishsimon (talk)

NLP

Why did you removed dmoz link?

huwiki logo

Hello,

Thanks for the bugreport, it has been fixed, hopefully. Please check.

Could you check hu:user:grin/test with IE whether the transparent picture is visible and okay, and doesn't have a white border? Thanks --grin ✎ 16:41, 2005 Jan 24 (UTC)

Votes for Deletion: February 15, 2005

Three VfD's are taking place on key Project of Alternative Medicine articles.

I am contacting you because you have in the past made edits to Terms and concepts in alternative medicine. And, I would hate to see all your efforts to improve this article be wasted because other editors voted to delete it.

I need you to vote to KEEP the following.

Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion/List_of_terms_and_concepts_used_in_alternative_medicine This article is extremely important to our project.

Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/List of miscellaneous topics related to alternative medicine

And, vote to REDIRECT the following.

Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Philosophy of alternative medicine

Please vote in favor of the Project on Alternative Medicine today, before it is too late.

-- John Gohde 15:50, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Criteria for speedy deletion

I noticed that you recently marked Edwin jefferson for speedy delete for vanity. Currently, vanity is not listed under Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion, although this policy is currently being debated on its talk page. Zzyzx11 | Talk 18:29, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)

New Favorite Quote

I just came across this and recognized your name.

"Lists look better with more than one entry."

Heehee. Now that's a keeper! In fact, I'm putting it on my list. Hope you don't mind.

Mothperson 19:50, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Your Quote

came from that very sad list of cookbooks. Mothperson 03:29, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for helping with the Aesthetic Realism article

Thanks for your effort to have some sanity in the Aesthetic Realism article. I have no need for the article to be cheerleading for my own position, and it's disappointing that the AR people aren't willing to accept a neutral article themselves.

I reverted to your version after they added a whole bunch more cheerleading today. Michaelbluejay 03:00, 8 May 2005 (UTC)

What next?

Zigger, your explanation of what was wrong with my paragraph was careful, and I see your points. What I am trying to do is to make clear the motivation of that particular group of people who have banded together for the purpose of smearing and, if they could, discrediting serious professional people (including me) by means of a torrent of lies about Eli Siegel and the Aesthetic Realism Foundation. Their motivation has a likeness to what impelled the medical establishment and press to attack Walter Reed when he established the Anopheles mosquito as the vector for Yellow Fever. It has a resemblance to why Lockhardt wrote horribly about Keats' Endymion--and it is like so many others who attacked important individuals that brought new knowledge into the world. I would like to stem these attacks so a reader would know what Aesthetic Realism is by looking in Wikipedia. If that is impossible, how would I get the category removed, shut down? The smoothness of Michael Bluejay in accusing me of vandalizing the entry in which I am quoted, and which I wrote a good deal of, is representative of the approach of this group. It was begun by an Ellen Mali, now of Colorado, whose son posted a crude piece on an anti-cult websited several years ago (he is Adam Mali, a restauranteur). The anger of the ego at meeting something new, beautiful, and, frankly, greater than one is accustomed to seeing--greater than oneself--has made scientific and artistic progress through the ages much harder than it needs to be. Leonardo da Vinci was made fun of by professors who did not believe his idea that the ocean once covered a mountain in Italy which had fossils of shellfish on it. (He was right of course.)

There is a long history to this attitude. I approach you not only as a censor of improperly written paragraphs but as a person who might help the truth be told without interference.

--Aperey 20:54, 9 May 2005 (UTC)

Hindu temples?

Hi, as far as I can tell, you started the Category: Hindu temples category. Do you know if it's meant to be for buildings which are now Hindu temples, or buildings which were built as Hindu temples? The issue's come up over the Category:Hindu_temples_in_Cambodia sub-category, which contains temples which were built as Hindu temples, but later converted to Buddhism. Therefore they are still "Hindu temple architecture", but not "Hindu temples". Any thoughts? Mark ¹ 04:41, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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