User talk:Jwrosenzweig/Archive 3

Old talk moved to User talk:Jwrosenzweig/Archive1 Jwrosenzweig 00:01, 22 Jan 2004 (UTC)
Old talk moved to User talk:Jwrosenzweig/Archive 2 Jwrosenzweig 18:09, 4 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Welcome to my talk page

Please leave notes/questions/chastisements/haiku/concerns for me here. I will usually respond on your talk page for your convenience. Thanks, and happy editing! Jwrosenzweig

Jwrosenzweig, I just wanted to let you know that I know who Julie Taymor is, and you shouldn't delete that article. Thanks

Agora

So you know, some of us native English speakers are very familiar with "agora" as a name, and thought your suggestion a pleasant idea -- I don't know how I would have voted had it come down to it. :-) But the discussion you sparked proved to me I need to introduce this word in more of my classes. Thanks! Jwrosenzweig 17:06, 4 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Interesting comments! Actually I am really surprised there are so many people who haven't heard of Agora. I thought it was well-known in the western hemishere, and I had the idea that american and european schools were teaching some things about Ancient Greece :) Optim 19:44, 4 Mar 2004 (UTC)

There's no need for you to apologize so copiously. I really wasn't in the least offended. I think maybe I didn't make it very clear in the pump that I was just clarifying something. I agree with you that the RD has a lot of unanswerable, silly questions on it, but they don't bother me, just no one answers them. I actually feel kinda bad about moving the Carling Black Label q over there but I didn't know what else to do. moink 21:50, 4 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Capitalization

Thanks for clarifying! Elf 22:32, 4 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Question from Anon

How can you just revert the edits on the GWB file without reason?

The changes were reverted because you made massive alterations to a contentious article and then wrote in an edit summary that made the whole thing sound extremely minor. It looked like you were doing something very shady, and I'm still suspicious. If you want major changes in that article, please discuss it on its talk page. Thank you. Jwrosenzweig 01:03, 5 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Thank you for letting me know. The second alteration was minor, in the first one I could not sum up everythinh I changed in one line. I am sorry that you thought I was doing something shady. I think parts of that article are shady, which is no wonder as you rightly explain in the introduction. I will explain my suggestions in the discussion zone.

Hi, were you able to figure out how to edit the main page sections? It's a bit tough to figure out, but take a look at Template:Itn for example. Fuzheado 01:20, 5 Mar 2004 (UTC)

I'd appreciate it if you gave the same admonition to RadicalBlender. [1] Anthony DiPierro 17:11, 5 Mar 2004 (UTC)

I'm not acting innocent. I apologized for making that comment. BTW, RadicalBlender made his comment first. While I understand that doesn't excuse me, I just thought I'd point that out. Anthony DiPierro 17:18, 5 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Another Question

Your vote for deletion of the Life at IIT Delhi page is justified. Guess i made a mistake in the way i wrote the thing. Anyway i was going on to elaborate on asome theory of evolution of language with respect to the social factors. Now that i read the page i realise that its actually crap. To top it all, i cant find a delete option. As you are an administrator i request you to do the needful.

No problem. Jwrosenzweig 17:58, 5 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Dear James

Thank you for your kind note. I dont feel insulted by Anthony, actually i find him quite amusing. In VfD he was just copying the comment somebody else addressed to him. And of course i dont take personal any opinions different to mine, otherwise i wouldnt be a wikipedian! As for Namibia, yes its my office, and even more yes its a beautiful country. An oasis is the African chaos, where they actually try to improve people's lifes (despite the 1 billion euro palace the president is building for himself). I am a geologist and i do field work there. Its a wonderful job that allows me to travel all over the world and i am paid for it :) And all the time i carry things to write for the wikipedia, which is a nice way to spend time in Boeings 747. All the best, Muriel 18:18, 5 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Copyvio question

Hi James

Regarding Pierre Eugene du Simitiere. I had already added a copyvio notice to this page; the original user then replaced the copyvio with a new stub, but my understanding is that we still have to delete the entire page and make a new start in a /Temp page. Is that right? What exactly to we need to do in this case? DJ Clayworth 19:15, 5 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Oh, you're welcome; glad to help where I can. Thank you for supporting my slightly controversial nomination. Hope I don't disappoint anyone. :) -- Hadal 00:52, 6 Mar 2004 (UTC)

re:my user page

Thanks for the welcome! Yes, I'm actually hoping to help Wikipedia improve itself. I guess I came off as a little harsh on my user page.

I've been wondering for awhile, maybe you can help me out--is there no better way to discuss (talk pages, article discussions, etc.) than editing Wiki-style like this? Seems to me the purpose would be much better served by discussion boards (there, I said it!) or something like that. Am I the only one who finds it annoying and yes, inelegant, to have to deal with edit conflicts every time you add a comment? I ran into one just now submitting this comment.

I'm going to hold off on joining the mailing list for now, since I'm a little reluctant to have Wikimail flooding my inbox. I don't think I'm quite ready yet for that level of commitment.

Also, is there a way I can claim all the edits I did as an anonymous user?

Best wishes. -- Wikisux 00:59, Mar 6, 2004 (UTC)

on Godric

Nope, I've never read the book, I just enjoy the history of the period. Might add more to the article in the future; he's an interesting character. Everyking 17:47, 8 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Blind Faith

Blind faith was just gobbledygook -- I deleted it. -- BCorr ¤ Брайен 20:53, Mar 8, 2004 (UTC)

Oops - recreated Pretty Pretty Princess trying to redirect it to Prince while you deleted it. Sorry! Mark Richards 22:22, 8 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Haiku

Wikipedia
Evergrowing as a plant
Everchanging too

Not one of my better ones, I must say. - Arthur George Carrick 02:02, 9 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Yes, you're the James I have been referring to; have been following the Plautus satire and other developments and sort of admired your stance. --Palapala 22:08, 2004 Mar 9 (UTC)

VfD End

I understand your concern about having the end of VfD, but it is necessary if we're going to link to it from the top of the page. Have a nice day! :-)

- Arthur George Carrick 00:57, 10 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Wikibooks

I've only been at Wikibooks a week or two, but since no one else appears to be forthcoming, I'll volunteer to help transition the material from Wikipedia. Tuf-Kat 06:56, Mar 10, 2004 (UTC)

Thank you so much! I appreciate your willingness, and wish you all the best with the project (and hope it won't consume too much of your time). Jwrosenzweig 16:21, 10 Mar 2004 (UTC)

I just noticed your post and will help in any way possible. I would love to do this and it will be a great first time of (I hope) many collaborative bookwriting sessions. --Karl Wick

That's definetly a troll, and probably the same troll. --Hcheney 19:24, 10 Mar 2004 (UTC)

What, if any, course of action is appropriate? --Hcheney 19:34, 10 Mar 2004 (UTC)

In fact, my name is Henry Cheney, and I used to live in New Jersey. This also fits into the troll's MO of implying I am mentally-ill. --Hcheney 19:49, 10 Mar 2004 (UTC)

I agree with your plan of action. --Hcheney 19:59, 10 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Cordell Hull

Cordell Hull is a very important person. I thought that adding the notice might entice more users to contribute. Perl 02:34, 11 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Ok. Sorry about that. I will extend the length of the Cordell Hull article myself and remove the notice. Perl 02:47, 11 Mar 2004 (UTC)

FYI, User:Gaz has been on Wikipedia since January 2003, not 2004. Fuzheado 17:06, 11 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Me

Since when have I ever welcomed anybody? You must be confusing me with someone else. Unless {{msg:test}} counts as welcoming people... and I am not a member of the welcoming committee :-). ugen64 01:08, Mar 12, 2004 (UTC)

Yeah, I've been meaning to do so, but I can't get MySQL to work... is there another way to check for new users? ugen64 01:23, Mar 12, 2004 (UTC)

Yep, glad to see that... it's definitely a change from typing {{msg:test}} on a bunch of random IPs... :) ugen64 21:27, Mar 12, 2004 (UTC)

Unprofessional

I'd like you to know that I disagree that my usage of strong language in regards to Bcorr was unprofessional. For starters, there is clearly no rule against strong language here on the wiki, and I have myself been sworn at, complained about it, and been told it was a non-issue (actually ed poor told me it was a sign that there was something wrong w me, that people would want to swear at me). Additionally, anytime anybody harrasses me as much as Bcorr has, they had better expect a response. If this were a work place, and he had harassed me as regularly as he has, I would have struck him or quit. Things probably never would have come to that however, because nearly every work place has a system to redress differences drastically superior to what we have here (i.e. the boss and I would chat about it). When I tried to bring this up w Jimbo, he seemed disinterested (deleted his talk, and I never heard back about it). I'm not sure what you might have done instead, but I find my response (considering the particulars) to have been not only professional, but moderate and respectful considering. The wiki has HUGE accountability issues regarding its hierarchy, and is honestly profoundly disrespectful to its volonteers. A quick look at the missing wikipedians list will remind you of that, as it grows day by day. Sam Spade 21:32, 12 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Thank you for your kind words. I hope that you will find reason to change your position regarding Bcorr, but that has no relevence on how I interact with you, friendly or otherwise. If you are interested in getting to know me better, feel free to contact me by IM, my contact information is provided here. Sam Spade 01:44, 13 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Your words at "requests for admin" brought up a curious line of thought. I had honestly forgotten that I had welcomed you here, but your words of support on that page reminded me: "Oh right, Honus Wagner!" It is a curious facet of Wikipedias egalitarianism that in my mind you are as much a mainstay of Wikipedia as some other editors who had been here years before even me. In a few weeks, when April 13 trips the meter, I will have been here a full year. It is a cause for reflection and taking stock.

In any case the overwhelming support Fabiform received for adminship, despite only having been here only two months, is heartening as one regards Wikipedias future, and puts to shame any and all claims of Wikipedias insularity or hierarchy. The only meaningful hierarchy I see is that of nice guys having an easier time with most users than those who stir trouble. -- J-V Heiskanen 19:31, 14 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Your response on the reference desk to the woman enquiring about protection from ghosts was a model of tact! I couldn't have done it without at least one reference to the protective qualities of tinfoil, which is why I didn't provide one...--Robert Merkel 08:06, 15 Mar 2004 (UTC)

I absolutely agree with Robert Merkel. I felt bad for that poor woman but I couldn't possibly answer her and I figured no one else would. You are always incredibly tactful with people on the pump and the reference desk. You do a really good job around here, James. moink 17:04, 15 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Call me moink (lowercase m... I have to continually resist the urge to post my user page on the Wikipedia:List of pages whose correct title is not allowed by MediaWiki) since that's who I am online... the only reason that my mit address doesn't have it as my identity is that I sometimes feel the need to be professional with professors etc. Do you prefer James or your user name (I picked the former cuz it was easier to type :) )? I lived right near the British Columbia Institute of Technology which I just realized doesn't yet have a page. moink 17:32, 15 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Thanks Jwrosenzweig! Now vandals will not be able to change my page! Perl 19:55, 15 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Thanks

Your support of me is good. Perl 01:06, 16 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Your edits on my user page

Please restrict your activities on my user pages to the User:talk page. You are not among those I have allowed to assist in managing my user page, and for you to delete information from my user page violates my personal space. Bird

Bird is funny. Evercat 21:20, 16 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Thank You!

I want to thank you DEEPLY for your support in the vote to promote me to a sysop. I promise to do my best to be as helpful, sensible, and neutral as possible. Your friend, Ryan.

Aah, no problem... Lately I've been too burned out from a new job to do much major editing, so I've only been doing minor stuff and pruning Wikipedia:Requested articles/music. Tuf-Kat 21:39, Mar 17, 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for the quick repair! -- BCorr¤Брайен 22:22, Mar 17, 2004 (UTC)

History of Literature

I'll hold my hand up to having done some work on the page but in fairness to the subject matter I just did some sorting out in some areas that were pretty messy. It really isn't my core area of expertise, well certainly post-Anglo-Saxon lit isn't anyway :) But I will give it some attention as and when I can; I should be able to do some stuff on e.g. 20th century movement literature (particularly e.g. Symbolism and Acmeism), but 17th and 18th century lit is I am afraid something of a black hole for me. Can probably turn in some stuff on the 19th century novel also :) --Sjc 18:50, 18 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Yes it seems to have changed rather dramatically from the last time I looked at it, and it seems to have rather more of an anglocentric feel to it than I had really in mind when I picked up the original rather tatty piece. The problem with doing an article like this is that management of ethnocentricity and cultural core/periphery balancing are going to be hard to maintain. We also need to get the influence and significance of oral literary (excuse the oxymoron) traditions fairly firmly nailed: the skaldic influence of Old English and Norse was to significantly affect the development of both language and literature in the centuries to follow, etc. This is potentially an amazing article but it is going to take time to get the right shape and balance to it. --Sjc 19:05, 18 Mar 2004 (UTC)

I will have a think about how we can address this and maybe see what can be done. In a cross-cultural community such as Wikipedia this should mot be an insurmountable difficulty. --Sjc 19:20, 18 Mar 2004 (UTC)

admin actions

Has anyone pointed this out to you? Wikipedia:Requests for review of admin actions. Irismeister is claiming that you've abused your admin powers, but, crucially I don't think he understands the difference between blanking (which anyone can do) and deleting. People have already said that if he's saying you blanked things from your talk page (which is what I'm under the impression you did) then it's not anything to do with "admin actions" and doesn't belong on that page, so I'd leave a note there to say that's what you did, if I were you. :) fabiform | talk 20:25, 18 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Sam Spade

Thanx for the tip, I'll see what I can do. Unfortunately writing lengthy article content is not my strongpoint, and outside of loving Bogart films I'm not too knowledgable about Raymond Chandler and his books. Still, I'll look into it and see what I can do. Thanks again, Sam Spade 20:50, 18 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Bolding titles

"Please don't bold names in the unusual fashion you've been using (i.e. John Joseph Smith) -- it gets confusing for many. Please leave the entire name bolded (i.e. John Joseph Smith). That's the convention we use here. Thanks, Jwrosenzweig 19:00, 18 Mar 2004 (UTC)"

convention? WTF are you talking about?! if some reader's head explodes because - egad! - a bio includes the middle name and the heading doesn't, sorry, that's not my problem!

maybe you Wikipedia wonks should get together and define your "conventions" before more heads explode! or, better yet, maybe you should all get lives! either way, since everyone feels entitled to butcher everyone else's contributions, i could give a F! i've wasted too much time here already! Worc63

Joke article

A joke article that commits the cardinal sin of not even being funny. :) Jwrosenzweig

The joke was mostly in the links. My motivation in creating it was actually to protest the creation of joke articles by otherwise responsible users. And of course, the article should be deleted. ike9898 20:40, Mar 19, 2004 (UTC)

Hey, my pleasure. I do so little actual article writing, so moving pages around helps me feel useful. -- Cyan 22:08, 19 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for the comments on my talk page. I just felt bad that it was the very first thing I did after getting my admin powers. And thanks for saying positive things about Wikipedia:State your point don't prove it. I was considering dropping it because all I'd gotten so far was negative feedback. Finally, thanks for nominating me as an admin. It was great to see so many people support me. It's very seldom we get that kind of ego-stroking. moink 20:00, 22 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Sure, go ahead. I was planning on putting it there eventually. I'm not sure what refinements were in my head. Maybe I'm just scared of sticking my neck out. :) moink 20:12, 22 Mar 2004 (UTC)

I was only slightly confused by your nomination comment, and I managed at the time to twist it around in my head to be a compliment to myself. :) moink 20:18, 22 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Question from EdColins

Hey! Thanks for your comments on my talk page recently. Well, I have got a small question. Maybe you can help. I would like to have some sort of page where I could find every pages talking about "patents". I think there are quite a lot of pages (more than a dozen at least) but it is very hard to find them all rapidly. Do you think it would be appropriate to create a "List of patent-related topics"? Or would it be better to concentrate the links on the main patent page under "See also"? (I prefer the first solution personally). Edcolins 21:01, 22 Mar 2004 (UTC)

I do agree with you, lists are not very nice... but there are just too many links under "What links here" (it can't be used for the topic I am talking about), I just want the important pages about patents, not the pages where patent is just incidentally mentionned. It is just odd to have two "See also" stuffs under Patent (see the bottom of the patent page). I think I'll create a unique title "See also" or "Internal links" just before the "External links" with just the important pages about patents. What do you think? "See also" or "Internal links"? Do you know any Wikipedia policy about this?Edcolins 21:45, 22 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Question

Since this is apprently where questions get asked...Wik seems to have something against Hcheney that I don't understand but he made this statement.

--Experienced editors" have supported Alex Plank too. Enough said. --Wik 20:43, Mar 22, 2004 (UTC)-----

What is this a reference to? how does this apply here? and how can we allieviate his concerns that correspond to this?

It might be fruitless to try to win him over but so far two people have changed their vote from oppose to neutral so it's worth a shot. Thanks.-GrazingshipIV 21:14, Mar 22, 2004 (UTC)

Thank you for your prompt and well thought out response. GrazingshipIV 21:31, Mar 22, 2004 (UTC)

Adminship

yeah, woops... Knight Online requires IE to run, and I set it as my default browser... guess I forgot (I usually use Konqueror and Firefox...). I'll fix it. ugen64 23:37, Mar 22, 2004 (UTC)

False Accusations

What action can I take now that Wik persists in his nonsensical view that I am a sockpuppet? He is just allowed to make these baseless accusations with no consequences?--GrazingshipIV 00:55, Mar 23, 2004 (UTC)

Wheelers Fascist Edits

I see us butting heads on talk:fascism, and I'm not sure I see a good purpose in it, in fact I'm not entirely sure what your talking about. You seem to have assumed some sort of political bias on my part, and as far as I can tell approved of it "I am glad you agree with Wheeler's political perspective....at least, I have to assume you must because it is the only truly admirable thing I see in that edit" ??? I am honestly confused, and in my experience people have the most vicious of arguments when they don't know what the other person is talking about ;) Anyways, would you mind rephrasing? My position is clear I think: fix spelling errors, add content rather than reverting edits with citations, I liked wheelers edits ALOT. Sam Spade 01:19, 23 Mar 2004 (UTC)

I think were making alot of progress pretty fast, but I wanted to catch up w you and make sure you were still in good humours. I have a tendancy (particularly online) to irritate the heck out of certain people when controvercial matters come up. IRL I can pretty easilly smooth things over w how witty and charming I am (and modest too ;) but online the best I can do is a smiley (which kinda sux). Anyhow I honestly would enjoy discussing personal politics, but I hope you don't think I was too bossy in insisting we try to ignore those on the article talk page? Weve always gotten along well in the past despite disagreeing (a feat superhuman on the wiki, I would say) and I'd like a bit of reassurance (if you please) that that hasn't all been tossed out the window on this most contentious of topics. Sam Spade 18:23, 23 Mar 2004 (UTC)

I think your doing fine. The only area I think you are a bit wrong in is your judgement of wheeler on my talk page, saying you fear he can't be reasoned with. Its always best to assume good faith, it makes you look squeeky clean when you have been trying to engage someone rationally and they flip their wig on you ;). Anyways, do you use IRC or IM or anything? I'd like to chat w you about some of these particulars in real time if at all possible. Sam Spade 21:45, 23 Mar 2004 (UTC)

P.S. you might like to archive your page. Wheeler may try to leave a note to explain himself and be unable to the large page size ;) Sam Spade 21:49, 23 Mar 2004 (UTC)

I'm not angry, that was just your imagination

No, seriously, I do sometimes get carried away. This was just my first round at VfD and I was AMAZED at the serious consideration given to some of these topics. I am not really one who believes in censorship, but good grief! Given that there appears to be support for some of these topics, my thought is to try to add some additional information on them since they apparently are going to stay around. I noticed that the Cybersex topic did bring up moral and ethical considerations. If people want to know about such stuff they ought to know about the harm such activities can cause also. Anyway, I appreciate your thoughtful words and for taking the time to give me a dose of reality. I kind of knew in my heart I was wasting too much time at VfD and you have confirmed that. Thanks again. H2O 02:04, 23 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Vandalism on voting page

Anthony diperro is vandalizing the voting page I have already listed him can you stop him he is changing conversations which is evident if you read you side of each of his statements.GrazingshipIV 03:00, Mar 23, 2004 (UTC)

User: WHEELER

Oh my, Wheeler seems to want to add what basically amounts to "new research" to the wikipedia. He's rather enthusiastic about it too. I'd hate to simply dissapoint him. Do you have any experience with this kind of thing? Kim Bruning 19:18, 23 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Thank you for your advice! Kim Bruning 20:09, 23 Mar 2004 (UTC)