User talk:Tim Starling/Archive 3

Oh fair enough, I didn't notice the other copyright notice on the page (right above that one) Evercat 01:48 8 Jul 2003 (UTC) 7

hello

please see the talk page of Wikipedia:wikicide for explanation of my putting the article back. Now, I think the main thing editors complained about was that the article was in the encyclopedia space (where it really had **nothing** to do); hence I moved the article to the wikipedia space. That seems the most sensible thing to do till the article is deleted. However, I see not why letting the article in the wikipedia space for a week before it be deleted, would hurt wikipedia or anyone. On the other hand, it might be a nice gesture to do so :-) User:anthere

Reply on Wikipedia talk:Wikicide. -- Tim Starling 03:27 14 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Regarding updating the sepcial pages that are database intensive (wanted, lonely, et cetera). Why not query an offline recent backup? If the database is only a day or so old, it should be fine. CGS 09:17 14 Jul 2003 (UTC).

If you remove newbie comments from the welcome page, can you move them to the newcomer's talk page, or to the welcome talk page? I think that would be more welcoming :)
Thanks --Martin

Hmmm .. these user accounts are strange. If you check the user table ("SELECT * from user where user_name like 'H0______'"), they all have different email accounts and also different preferences. Some of them at hotmail etc., but most of them at hkusua.hku.hk, which is the University of Hong Kong. Could this be that there's a Wikipedia experiment going on over there? --Eloquence 04:37 16 Jul 2003 (UTC)

If I read correctly, User:Fuzheado is the instructor for the HKU class (maybe you already knew that...) - Hephaestos 05:33 16 Jul 2003 (UTC)

That's correct. You'll of course pardon the somewhat imperfect English of the students. Their value is of course the local knowledge, and hopefully we can shoehorn their enthusiasm into the correct Wikipedia style. Thanks for your patience all. I'm certain Wikipedia will benefit from it (eventually) (Fuzheado 05:36 16 Jul 2003 (UTC))

Tim, you reverted the dolphin.jpg back to Tannin's version, but the image at dolphin is still the Chinese White Dolphin. I am a computing ignoramus, and I can't understand why the image isn't the old version now.

If you are able to sort this out, would it be possible to rename the Tannin pic as eg Duskydolphin17, since dolphin.jpg is bound to be overwritten again. Thanks for any help you can give. (incidentally, this page is 36K now). Jim

Hi Tim, since you started the "skeptical solicitation" page and I noticed your comments on "luminiferous aether", I thought I would mention to you to keep an eye on Reddi, who has been adding pseudo-science to large numbers of physics articles. I've been going through his changes periodically and reverting the egregious stuff (e.g. the incoherent BS he added to the aether page), but it's a challenge to keep up with and I thought I would mention the problem to you. (It's tempting to try to make a list of people who make suspect changes to physics articles, but such a thing seems like a magnet for flamewars.) --Steven G. Johnson

Tim, this is really dishonnest !

Well, we know your are not fat, not black, not hairy, and have two legs and two arms in good working shape. Still... User:anthere

Tim,

If I undelete it, can we keep Wikicide around for another seven days?

(Kidding...) -- Someone else 04:40 21 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Hi Tim - Thanks for helping me track down my problem IP address. I'm having trouble with 216.99.203.72. Thanks -- Amillar 15:33 21 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Thanks for finding that firewall block; I promise to behave :-) -- Amillar 17:22, 30 Jul 2003 (UTC)

I am trying to discuss, but my "opponent" censors me by protecting the talk page etc etc. So here is a "temp"; don't let it go to waste. New_Imperialism (temp) Some text, such as the long "definition of imperialism" paragraph at New Imperialism can be moved to imperialism -- other text has been moved to theories of imperialism -- topic specific text on the Panic of 1893 or the Congo Free State or Cecil Rhodes...or....or...etc can be reinserted at those appropriate locations. I urge you to read New Imperialism very closely and you will find some amusing things (not to mention a migraine headache). Pizza Puzzle

Great job on the RST article! --mav

Thanks for helping out with the Daniel C. Boyer mess. I would have liked to see my last summary (and those proposed deletions) get voted on, though, now that the redirect policy has been updated to reflect the results of much talk, but you and Martin are being rather persistent about moving stuff off even when everyone except for Daniel C. Boyer himself seems to agree that everything (except perhaps the one page) should be deleted. Anyway, thanks. Daniel Quinlan 04:47 25 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Thanks for deleting the maps, I don't know why it didn't occur to me to just do it myself. - Hephaestos 06:33 26 Jul 2003 (UTC)

--- If you protect the page, I promise that I will not use my sysop rights to edit the page myself. Please protect it. Lir/Vera Cruz/Pizza Puzzle is acting increasingly manipulative. Right now he's using his multiple personas to talk to himself on the talk page and praise his own over-simplified garbage. 172 04:06 27 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Thanks for intervening. But it would still be better if the link to PP's page be removed. I mean, would someone get away with promoting an alternative on the top of the WWII page? 172 04:39 27 Jul 2003 (UTC)