User talk:Rfc1394

The purpose in moving my original user talk page was to allow new mail(1) to come up first, and I could notice it faster than added comments. As I read comments, I'll move them to that page. Be sure you put a title in your item so I can know what it's generally about.

Read older comments here first before writing me, in case someone else has already said the same thing. If you want to add something to the subject, please use the same title so I know what it's related to. Also, sign your entry with --~~~~ so I can send you a response if you want one.

Notes:(1) I know it's not really 'mail' as nothing posted here is private, but it works similarly)

Paul Rfc1394 14:05, 19 Dec 2003 (UTC) Here are the subjects covered in older comments:

• Welcome to Wikipedia and Atlas Shrugged revisions.
• Don't move album names to the disambiguation page unless there might be something else with the same name.
• My Telephone articles are appreciated.
• Don't add more future history articles, they've been voted for deletion before.
• Jimbo Wales benevolent dictator

Add new comments below:

Unchanged Title of Comment

Copy this and the last line, place it below your entry, then change the title to something related to what you want to say. Then end your message with the text --~~~~ so I'll know who sent me the response.

Test pages

If you really need to create test pages in different namespaces, please do so on the Test Wikipedia (http://test.wikipedia.org), which has been specifically created for this purpose. Thanks.—Eloquence

I second that. There is no need to create these pages here. Dori | Talk 00:13, Dec 20, 2003 (UTC)

In Reply

1. I didn't know about the test partition
2. I was attempting to reproduce a bug in Wikipedia. It is reproducible.

Rfc1394 00:23, 20 Dec 2003 (UTC)

No problem, Rfc, and thanks for helping with the bug hunting process.—Eloquence

I believe the bug you are looking at has been discussed before (in fact I pointed it out too a while back). Sections get counted also if you put one inside comments -- that's how I encountered it). You only need the sandbox to test this. Dori | Talk 00:44, Dec 20, 2003 (UTC)

Public Utilities

Hi! Can you take a peek at what I made of lists of public utilities? Normally stuff is not capitalized, and it's good to add stuff in such a way that it's not focused on one specific continent. Tables make adding stuff a bit inconvenient for most people.
For the rest: keep up the good work! :) Guaka 00:12, 20 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Movie links

Hi. I've noticed that you have added a particular bar of links to the bottom of a lot of movie articles. Is this part of a WikiProject? Have you discussed this with anyone anywhere? It would be nice is we could discuss the form of it first before you start mass-changing zillions of articles. In particular, I object to the hr, and to the use of "See also" as a non-heading. -- Timwi 06:56, 21 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Hi 1394, this is exactly what I wanted to ask you. I'll have a look if your answer is on Timwi's user page. All the best, --KF 10:01, 31 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Okay, I've just read your answer at User talk:Timwi#Movie Articles. It's really just minor things I personally don't like: Why See Also rather than See also? And why a reference to a list of documentaries (which doesn't even exist)? --KF 10:07, 31 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Electric Power Transmission

I deleted the following from the article on electric power transmission:

"In cities it is sent over wooden poles usually known as telephone poles, or buried underground in pipes or a occasional connection room called a vault, which is accessible through an access point called a manhole."

You seem to be confusing high voltage transmission with low voltage electricity distribution. Telephone poles would not normally be used for power distribution due to the technical requirements for electricity being more severe. You might sometimes get a telephone line being strung under a power line. Tiles 22:29, 21 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Hello. In overpass, you used too many capital letters, in one case linking to a redirect page ("Interstate Highway") rather than to the page it points to ("interstate highway" with a lower-case "h"). The first letter of the name of an article is case-insensitive; the others are case-sensitive. Wikipedia articles do not typically use capitals in article titles without specific reasons. Michael Hardy 00:50, 22 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Nylon, village pump & paper (image)

Thanks for your comments on nylon. See Talk:nylon for a discussion of its trademark status.

You also left comments on my talk page about a question at the Village Pump. It wasn't me that left that question.

Finally you also left comments about paper (image); was that directed at me?

Thanks, Samw 17:38, 23 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Sepia

Hello. I moved your sepia entry to sepia tone since there are four distinct meanings for the word "sepia". I created a disambiguation page in its stead. Davodd 00:25, Dec 24, 2003 (UTC)

Pointers

I reverted your copy and paste of Paul Simon. Page moves can should only be done using the "move this page" function on your left hand menu bar. Please also copy the redirect command to the summary field when making a redirect. --Jiang 22:54, 5 Jan 2004 (UTC)

In Use msg

The "In Use" msg you created is useful in concept, effective in implementation (i.e., eye-catching), and pleasant to look at. I guess that's a hat trick; bravo. --Jerzy 09:12, 2004 Jan 12 (UTC)

My Comment

I wish I could take credit for the 'revised edition'; I thought of the Inuse message because there were times when I was changing a page which required several minutes to do (for example, check out the List of television stations in USA by Call Sign and if I'm putting all of the entries for, say, California in from the current list by states, that's going to take a while. If someone else comes in and changes the list (for Colorado for example) while I'm doing an edit as well, then my work is wasted or at least I have to now go in and re-edit to include their changes, since the list is in alphabetical order. In this sort of circumstance I don't really want to put a few entries in, save it, then put more in, and so on, I'd prefer to put all of them in as one batch.

What someone else did was, they came along, rewrote the inuse message and inserted the banners. A distinct improvement to what I had done and a really great change. I wish I had thought of it.

-- Paul Rfc1394 17:35, 15 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Transparency in Interstate logo

Could you make the background color (grey) around the corners of Image:Eisenhower-Interstate-200.PNG transparent? It might look a little nicer. :) --Spikey 17:45, 21 Jan 2004 (UTC)

inuse FUBAR?

Hi Paul, this is what I'm getting when using {{msg:inuse}} — looks like it got FUBAR:

This is what the wiki custom message should output:

<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" id="inuseMessage">
<tr>
<td>

<p class="messageHeader">Note</p>

<p class="messageText">This article is currently undergoing a major edit.</p>

<p class="messageText">As a courtesy, please do not make edits to this article
until this message is removed to avoid edit conflicts.</p>

</td>
</tr>
</table>

Where "edit conflicts" points to Wikipedia:Edit conflicts (I don't know how you code this).

In the standard Wikipedia skin, the message should look something like:

In order to do that, wikistandard.css (http://en.wikipedia.org/style/wikistandard.css) should have the following styles added:

/* Custom messages */

/* inuse custom message */

#inuseMessage {
	background-color: #D2FFD2;
	border: medium dashed #FF0000;
	padding: .6em;
	width: 50%;
	position: relative;
	left: 25%; 
}

#inuseMessage p.messageHeader {
	text-transform: uppercase;
	font-weight: bold;
	text-align: center;
}

#inuseMessage p.messageText {
	font-size: smaller;
}

I guess you can put the custom messages stylesheets on a different file and make that wikistandard.css inherit them. I really don't know where this source is located, nor do I have the access to edit it. :p

Take care and thanks for your contributions,

--Maio 06:28, Feb 5, 2004 (UTC)

Accounting/finance edits

Thanks for the additions to both the accounting and finance lists. However, since these are really accounting rather than finance topics, I will remove them from the finance list. mydogategodshat 04:29, 8 Feb 2004 (UTC)

License

Hi, can you give the exact license of Image:MD Map 200X150.jpg ? Is it public domain ? Thanks in advance Tipiac 09:58, 13 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Image:Soft_drinks_800x600.jpg

Hi, did you take this picture? If not, can you tell us the source? anthony (see warning) 14:07, 8 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Yes, I did take the picture Rfc1394 16:51, 8 Aug 2004 (UTC) Thanks. anthony (see warning) 17:13, 8 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Category:Books by title

Hi, I'm having serious questions about the validity of this classification system. Why is this appropriate for categories rather than just list articles? Postdlf 08:14, 23 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Help Needed

Hi, you've contributed to the Interpersonal relationships page - could you please go over to Hugh Hefner where an edit war is in progress over the meaning and use of the word "mistress" and assist there? Thanks.

The Washington Post

See extensive discussion about the title in Talk:The Washington Post (march). As nearly as I can tell, to the extent that it is meaningful, the most correct title is The Washington Post, although it not infrequently rendered as The Washington Post March and Washington Post. If you have fresh material bearing on this question, please discuss it in Talk:The Washington Post (march). [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith (talk)]] 13:57, 20 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Image:Interstate 66 810x210 .jpg

Thanks for uploading Image:Interstate 66 810x210 .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 GFDL, or {{fairuse}} if you claim fair use, etc.) If you don't know what any of this means, just let me know where you got the images and I'll tag them for you. Thanks so much, – Quadell ^{(talk) (help)}[[]] 00:00, Nov 15, 2004 (UTC)

Image:Watts Towers 241x323.PNG is also missing a tag, may I assume from the entry about your soft drink picture mentioned above that you are relasing all your pictures to the public domian?--nixie 23:04, 13 Dec 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)

Image copyrights

Thanks for uploading Image:Paper 450x450.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 GFDL, or {{fairuse}} if you claim fair use, etc.) If you don't know what any of this means, just let me know where you got the images and I'll tag them for you. Thanks so much, — Edwin Stearns | Talk 20:58, 15 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Ditto Image:I012.png and presumably that whole group of interstate highway signs need tags. best wishes --Tagishsimon (talk)

Image copyrights

Thank you for uploading Image:Onions 700x530.jpg, Image:Onions 350x250.jpg. I have tagged them as {{unverified}}, please add the appropriate copyright tags or they may be deleated.

Thousands of images have no copyright tags. You can help!

Duk 22:28, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)

<P>This has been corrected. Rfc1394 20:25, 24 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Thank you for the quick response. I added the image tag {{PD-user|Rfc1394}} to your edit. (syntax for all copyright tags is at copyright tags). Duk 22:07, 24 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Unverified images

Hi! Thanks for uploading the following image:

• Image:Eisenhower-Interstate-200.PNG

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. Peter O. (Talk, automation script) 05:07, Dec 25, 2004 (UTC)

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

• Hi there. I came upon another of your old uploads while sorting through some images tagged as unverified since February 2004: Image:Tripod 650x975.jpg. Info appreciated. Cheers, -- Infrogmation 15:50, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Movie reviews

What does "Capsule review of the movie by William Robinson:" mean, and why are you putting it on several different articles? Are these your reviews, or are you copying them from someplace else? RickK 06:25, Jan 24, 2005 (UTC)

William Robinson is my brother, I'm thinking of creating a separate username for him.

1-We don't sign our edits.

That's your decision. This is why some people mistrust Wikipedia because of the lack of provence as to who is responsible for an article. Are you ashamed to admit who wrote something? Many people who see the programs I have written are surprised to find I sign my code. I'm proud of what I do. So is my brother.

Further, at the bottom of the editing page one of the instructions says 'cite your sources.' So now you are saying I should not do what the very editing instructions say is critically important? O:)

Beyond this, it allows me to 'frame' a short review separate from the main text of a larger overview of a film so someone can get an idea of the film or understand it better. Consider the three versions release of a paper encyclopedia (who's name escapes me) that was released a few decades ago; a full-blown comprehensive multi-volume set, a shorter abridged set, and a one-volume very short overview of everything. This may be a start in going toward that direction. It is the sort of thing that might make Wikipedia more useful.

2-Has your brother released this info to GFDL? RickK 20:37, Jan 25, 2005 (UTC)

I said I was going to put his reviews up on the Internet. He said that was ok.

Image:Fire Hydrant 414x762.jpg

Did you take this photo: Image:Fire Hydrant 414x762.jpg? Please let me know. Thanks, – Quadell ^{(talk) (sleuth)} 15:55, Feb 14, 2005 (UTC)

And also, how about Image:Grapefruit 700x490.jpg? – Quadell ^{(talk) (sleuth)} 22:41, Feb 16, 2005 (UTC)

These images were both taken by me. I'm releasing them into the public domain.

-- Rfc1394 00:58, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Arlington article

I have edited the Arlington County, Virginia article because I felt your recent addition about Fairfax County and Fairfax City was factually wrong and (unintentionally I am sure) would be misleading. I have explained on the Talk page for the article. No offense intended, and I would be glad to discuss it if you feel my point is wrong. Thanks. Vaoverland 11:55, Feb 27, 2005 (UTC)

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