User talk:Calieber
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Hello Calieber, welcome to Wikipedia. Here are some useful links in case you haven't already found them;
If you have any questions, see the help pages, add a question to the village pump or ask me on my talk page. I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian!
Angela 18:26, 24 Sep 2003 (UTC)
Greetings from a few miles uptown. We always need more copyeditors, and anyone who doesn't want their work edited should be writing elsewhere, so don't bother resisting the urge. When I get bored, I click "random page" and fix grammar and spelling. Vicki Rosenzweig 14:11, 29 Sep 2003 (UTC)
- I'm pretty much always bored. Writing public-domain articles on random topics is pretty much what I do for a living; I'm not sure if it's fortunate or pathetic that my job and my main hobby are substantially the same. I'm getting less reluctant to copy-edit, but like I said in a summary somewhere, hesitating to fix others' grammar is an ingrained Usenet habit. --Calieber 17:43, 29 Sep 2003 (UTC)
Hi, the Talk:Prime Minister of the United States/Delete is just an archive page, which means it can not be edited. I have moved your comments to Talk:Prime Minister of the United States instead. The archive page is just kept as an example of past debates, as is explained on Wikipedia:Archived delete debates. Angela 21:33, Nov 4, 2003 (UTC)
- Welcome, and I hope you saw the event I stage-managed at the Metropolitan Baptist Church last month. If you get really really bored someday, how about helping me and Erik (user:Eloquence) with the Wikipedia:NPOV tutorial? It needs examples of how not-to vs. how-to. --Uncle Ed 15:14, 6 Nov 2003 (UTC)
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The 18th letter of the alphabet
Hi Calieber. I didn't know if you'd seen this on the village pump so I moved it here as it's been there quite a while now and the page needed to be cleaned. Angela 21:13, 29 Nov 2003 (UTC)
Looking at The Powerpuff Girls and then as a test the three most recent UK PMs, I find the lowercase r's in the titles look funny. This isn't happening in subheads or text, even bold text. Capital r's (e.g. Ronald Reagan) are also fine. I don't know if the problem is my iMac, Netscape 7, or some other thing. Is anyone else experiencing this, and what are you using? --Charles A. L. 16:08, Nov 20, 2003 (UTC)
- Just tried on Windows 2000 with both IE 6 and Netscape 7 and the rs are fine for me, which may narrow it down to the iMac. Bmills 16:15, 20 Nov 2003 (UTC)
- Could you post a screenshot? It looks fine on my PowerBook in Mozilla (1.5 on Mac OS X 10.3.1, 1.2 in Classic), haven't tried NS7 specifically. --Brion 02:50, 21 Nov 2003 (UTC)
- Well, there aren't any non-ASCII characters in the source text. Daniel Quinlan 09:58, Nov 21, 2003 (UTC)
Re Adam Clayton Powell: If you look at my website you will see my enthusiasm for both politics and history. When I did African Americans in the United States Congress I was surprised to see that none of the pioneer black Congressmen had biographies, and Powell is an obvious one to start with. It is interesting that he has an office block named after him - has the fact that he was expelled from Congress for corruption been officially forgotten? Adam 23:15, 10 Dec 2003 (UTC)
On infidelity: good job, but kinda short. You may wish to expand on the idea of infidelity as grounds for divorce. Also, there doesn't seem to be a single accepted definition for fidelity with respect to polyamory - some relationships are just open, others have specific rules. Anyway, good stuff. Sorry about the recent problems that you've encountered on the concept Scooter 21:10, 4 Jan 2004 (UTC)
- I think I'll leave the expanding to people with a little more distance (possibly including me in a few months). --Charles A. L. 02:25, Mar 9, 2004 (UTC)
Hi. What is keen eddie - we don't have it here. Secretlondon 21:49, Mar 2, 2004 (UTC)
- Response at Talk:List of television shows set in London --Charles A. L. 04:16, Mar 3, 2004 (UTC)
Aw, ya bagged Alexander Woollcott! He was on my 'get to him if nobody beats you to it' list. You beat me to it. Congratulations.
Somewhere, I've read a lot about him. I don't think I've read the Teichmann bio, but I have read a Dorothy Parker bio, and Harpo's autobiography. I think I've also got a book on the Algonquin Round Table - that might have been where I read a lot about him. A very interesting, mostly forgotten character. I'll root throught the stacks and see what I find.
Thanks!
Brian Rock 00:27, 2004 Mar 9 (UTC)
I didn't address his sexuality, thoughI didn't mention his island in Vermont, though, or a buncha other things; there's plenty left to do, and I owe the library a small fortune in fines, so I can't to do it.
- Besides, you got Black 47, and thank the Lord I didn't have to cover that. --Charles A. L. 02:25, Mar 9, 2004 (UTC)
- The whole Algonquin/Woollcott/Parker/Marx/etc thing seems very complex on one level, and yet it was also about having fun and clowning around, too. I'm not up-to-date on it, but it might be fun to reread some of those books and maybe add to some of those articles.
- Black 47, I was afraid of not doing them justice, and of course, I didn't. I've never even seen them in concert. I'm hoping some fan gets annoyed and redoes the whole thing properly. Else, eventually, I'll shame myself into doing the work to improve it. Brian Rock 03:13, 2004 Mar 9 (UTC)
Hi, there have been some suggestions that we need to start cleaning out the old requests posted to Wikipedia:Peer review. You are receiving this because you have posted one or more requests that have been there a long time. When you have a moment, please check it out and remove the request(s), along with any related material, if you have received adequate feedback. Thanks! -- Wapcaplet 23:17, 25 Mar 2004 (UTC)
Popeye's
I corrected the reference to the chicken joint on Popeye. I figured if you cared enough to complain, you'd like to know about it. -- Cyrius|✎ 19:08, Apr 23, 2004 (UTC)
LJ
I was wondering how you found me on LJ to friend... is this it? I found out you were here when you touched one on my watchlist Wikipedia:Unusual articles — Xoder|✆ 03:18, Apr 24, 2004 (UTC)
- On a whim I looked for people whose Wikipedia user pages mentioned LJ. You write interestingly (and my list has affinity for NYCers). ♥ «Charles A. L.» 17:25, Apr 24, 2004 (UTC)
Poll: New York City
You expressed interest in the name of the New York City article on its Talk page. Could you please vote in the poll there? Thank you. --Lowellian 00:02, May 2, 2004 (UTC)
Happy birthday!
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Happy birthday! [[User:Neutrality|Neutrality (talk)]] 22:53, Sep 23, 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 2000 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§ion=new)| talk)
Lightbulb Joke (Discworld Reference)
I wasn't sure whereabouts in the Discworld stories the lamp-wick joke was mentioned but a quick search found this: "For example, do you know how many trolls it takes to change a lamp-wick?" in the book Sourcery. You may also find this page at Lspace useful: [1] (http://www.ie.lspace.org/books/apf/sourcery.html).