User talk:Bodnotbod/Nov06Simon MunneryHi there, Bodnotbod. I too, have begun to specialise in Wiki pages dedicated to British comedy. Maybe you'd like to give my Simon Munnery page the once over to make sure that everything is as comprehensive as it aught to be? - User:Angry_Candy.
Pejorative labelsI seem to be drawn to these. The latest one I'd want to make is pseudoscience, but I know that I'll then be a sort of Troll Mecca. I figured it might be best to at least qualify it a bit. Maybe something like topics in skepticism, but perhaps that's too weasel wordy. I figure a lot of possible categories are going to be controversial, probably on articles that are already the battlefield for multiple edit wars. Anyone got any thoughts on my specific proposed category, or the broader problem? --bodnotbod 23:34, Jun 29, 2004 (UTC)
They can't all be misled into ill-using the English language? (;-). I think the word is well-established. Dieter Simon 00:12, 30 Jun 2004 (UTC)
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How to get images permissionHi Bodnotbod. Last month you contributed to a discussion on the Wikipedia:Village pump about How to get images permission (see [2]). Since there were lots of people with questions, I created a Wikipedia:Finding images tutorial with some tips and hints. Let me know what you think. Thanks -- Chris 73 | Talk 00:09, 15 Jul 2004 (UTC)
CategoriesVfD pages still need to be listed on VfD as that is where people are voting. However, for speedy deletions, you just need to add {{delete}}. It only needs to be listed at Wikipedia:Speedy deletions if it is not clear why it is a CSD. Stubs can just have {{stub}} added to them. These don't need to be listed anywhere. Angela. 20:59, 17 Jul 2004 (UTC)
NapoleonSee Nap. Talk : Vincent 23:46, 19 Jul 2004 (UTC)
'S UpThats ok, i didn't mean it in bad faith neither. Sorry. At least on the bright side, it has a sense of infamy for folk who do take it the wrong way. And people so rarely read that stuff unless they contribute to the page. Nowt to worry about. The way I saw it, you were being sarcastic towards me, which I took in good humour (and i actually did check out yer page, took one look at that picture and decided it probobly WAS good natured sarcasm), and I responded appropriately. Also, though there is an insult to you, there is also a lamentation of my crap spelling stored in this database for ever more. Chin up. --Crestville 17:39, 21 Jul 2004 (UTC)
--Crestville 18:45, 21 Jul 2004 (UTC) Re: Pac-ManYou're welcome. --Zerbey 02:49, 22 Jul 2004 (UTC) warra twatYeah, it seems quite petty on his part. I mean, why bother deleating what you put, when other people have put stuff of a similar nature. I think if anyone in history stands out as a questionable hero it must be Napoleon. The only people i can think of who would praise him are the French, and even then he crippled their economy. Maybe that guy is American and just dosn't get the severity of Napoleon's potential. He could kiss the precious American Ideal of 'Liberty' goodbye had Napoleon not been stopped by Wellington (a REAL hero, though certainly not infallable) --Crestville 17:46, 27 Jul 2004 (UTC) I don't really know much about Napoleon. Certainly not enough to know whether I would think he were basically a good man or basically a bad man. So all the stuff I wrote was from a neutral starting point. But I think I like Napoleon slightly less since that minor argument over the popular culture section. ;o) --bodnotbod 17:52, Jul 27, 2004 (UTC) Lords Northcliffe & RothermereHello! I believe that the correct forms for article titles are: In the articles themselves, the above forms (with the middle names included, if you like) should be used for the first line. Thereafter, however, the individual should be referred to as "Lord Northcliffe/ Rothermere" (unless, of course, one is writing about the individual before he became a peer). The rule of referring to "Lord X" applies to all peers, other than Dukes. -- Emsworth 19:32, 27 Jul 2004 (UTC) User pageMy response is on My talk page User pageMy response is on My talk page Ilyanep (Talk) 16:46, 28 Jul 2004 (UTC) User page RevisitedI did a little work on my user page. Does it render correctly on your pc? (btw, the old revision rendered correctly for me on 10x6 res at Mozilla and IE, so...dunno). — Ilγαηερ (Tαlκ) 18:44, 2 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Attachement theory and neuroimagingHi there, I'm afraid I'm no expert on Attachment theory, but your page seems very well written and is a good summary of the strange situation. My only suggestion would be more on Bowlby's original work, and perhaps even Harry Harlow's work with monkeys and subsequent criticisms. I'll go about looking some of this stuff up if I get a chance. As regards to your query on neuroimaging...
It can be a matter of cost, but largely it's because they do different things and scans are routinely used in hospitals for the purpose of diagnosis. Mental illnesses and behavioural difficulties tend to be diagnosed on behaviour, so a brain scan wouldn't be useful in making a positive diagnosis (although they might use it to rule out another diagnosis, i.e. to make sure the behaviour wasn't the result of a brain injury). Also, although some differences in structure and function have been found between the brains of people diagnosed with certain mental illnesses and those without, these are not reliable (some people with these mental illnesses will not show these differences) and so tend only be investigated by researchers interested in exploring brain function. Of course, this may change in the future, but this seems to be the current state of play. Hope this helps - Vaughan 09:51, 9 Aug 2004 (UTC) A suggestionI noticed this on recent changes User:Bodnotbod/Mental illness and the British Royal Family. I take it you are working on this article and will move it to the main namespace when finished. Then you'll have to get someone to delete it from your userspace. A better way is to have a personal sandbox. User:Bodnotbod/sandbox. Put all your onging work in there, then you never have to get it deleted. _Just a suggestion theresa knott 22:41, 9 Aug 2004 (UTC)
I don't see any reason why it couldn't be moved to the main namespace as long as you get your facts right, and present the info neutrally. Get the article in as good as shape as you can, move it and see what happens. theresa knott 23:07, 10 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Admin status?I'm thinking of nominating you. Would you like me to? [[User:Theresa knott|]] 11:18, 21 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Admin jobs that I rarely do:
That's about it really. Admins can come in for a lot of stick sometimes, you will probably be accused of being a member of "the cabal" by the trolls, have your user page and user talk pages vandalised, have trouble makers impersonate you by logging in as e.g. BodnotBod, have calls to have your admin status revoked by the likes of IM. You'll also have to suffer a vote -which might go against you. The rewards might not be worth it, but for me, it's nice to be a "trusted" member of the community. Theresa Knott 18:27, 24 Aug 2004 (UTC) Your replyI've replied on my talk page (To keep the conversation all in one place). Theresa Knott 22:31, 24 Aug 2004 (UTC) Category:Alcoholics CfDHi Bod, I noticed that you were concerned about the deletion of Category:Alcholics. I must say, I hadn't noticed there wasn't any archiving on WP:CFD (is that normal?) - discussion on Alcholics was still around about a week a go or so - check [4]. It looks like there wasn't much discussion. However, it falls into the general purview of concerns over POV categories discussed over at Wikipedia talk:Categorization and various previous WP:CFD such as Category:Gay people. A lot of it comes down to the question, "is this a useful categorisation, or is it better served by a list". Various people are using categorising as equivalent to a labeling mechanism, which has particular problems with POV topics when there are no opportunities to discuss shades of grey. -- Solipsist 21:57, 24 Aug 2004 (UTC)
It was a bit cheeky of you to restore the table without mentioning it in your edit comment. If you feel strongly about these abominable tables, please contribute to the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Novels#Infoboxes considered harmful. Gdr 13:03, 2004 Aug 25 (UTC)
CateorgoriesI didn't do this. --Patricknoddy 22:56, 25 Aug 2004 (UTC)User:Patricknoddy --Patricknoddy 22:56, 25 Aug 2004 (UTC)User talk:Patricknoddy 18:56 August 25, 2004 (EDT) I don't know what the solution is. There's way too much discussion about categories for it to make any sense at all. Perhaps sending categories via the normal VfD rather than having a whole new set of rules for it would be better? Angela. 10:43, Aug 26, 2004 (UTC)
Help needed on :Category:FundamentalThe Main Page now has a BrowseBar consisting of 7 Fundamental Categories, with a default (More...) to 'Browse by category'. The difficulty is the selection of the 7. There have been some POV selections and we need help. The expectation is that the 7 somehow will lead to the rest of the world. I am curious why more people who are exposed to / expert in / interested in this problem don't chime on on the Main Page. Can you spread the word to the people who can contribute to the solution of this problem? Thank you, Ancheta Wis 00:20, 2 Sep 2004 (UTC) Or do we need more technology to solve this problem, such as drop-down menus based on the subcategories of a category?
Trade Descriptions Act 1968Your article was slightly misnamed - I moved it to the correct place. Nice article, though :) Chris 01:18, 10 Sep 2004 (UTC) Wikipals listI know it's extremely lame but I've just started a wikipals list on my user page and you're on it. It's a list of generally "nice people" I've met in the year since I first signed up. If you don't want to to be on it let me know and I'll take you off. -- Graham ☺ | Talk 00:57, 1 Oct 2004 (UTC) Official invitationHi! This is a message to let you know that there is now a UK-specific Wikipedia community page at Wikipedia:UK wikipedians' notice board. It would be great if you could come and get involved! -- Graham ☺ | Talk 22:34, 1 Oct 2004 (UTC) Category:EditorsAfter 4 months,
I feel some responsibility for not checking, and propose that i move the three (and two subcats of Editors) down to print -- but it would seem to be wasted effort, if the current meaning of "editors" does not last. I raise that question bcz i think that in terms of categories, the similarities between print editors and other editors (film, video, & sound?) amount to merely a play on words, and a higher category joining them is of no real interest -- in particular, i think the proper parent of Category:Editors would probably be Category:People by occupation, currently a dumping ground, even if many current children of that Cat could be lumped into sub-Cats of broadly similar jobs. It was a reasonable approach to try out, and your doing so is to your credit. (Your motivation of having an orphan to be parent of Category:Print editors, rather than leave it an orphan was a little sleazy, but clever enough to make that good sleaze!) But IMO it hasn't proven out, and the next scheme to try is:
I'd like to see that approach weighed on WP:CfD, and if Category:Print editors survives i'll do the appropriate repair as i suggested in an earlier 'graph. If you agree, you'd be the perfect person to propose deletion; if instead i proposed it, i'd do so without reference to the originator. I hope you'll forgive me if i've tried to think out the contingencies too far in advance! [Belated sig, sorry.] --Jerzy(t) That's a good plan too. I'll try not to forget it, but i may forget it in the press of things that are overdue; esp. it's hard not to bump up the priority of archiving significantly, when someone valuably reminds you to, the session after you almost did some! Thanks! --Jerzy(t) 01:45, 2004 Oct 17 (UTC) in response to Filenames in websites, length of...in response to Filenames in websites, length of... Who requests a page to a server (to you), requests an URL (or a URI) not a filename. Usually a server responds to a request by sending a file (but it is not always true). The file name usally (but is usually, not always) is the same of the last part of the URL. If you are creating a website storing its contents in some file on your web server, what you should be aware is to choose filename for this file that are valid for your computer. Valid means more than file length. Note that if you are writing file on a computer that is not the web server and after wrtitten them you transfer to web server, you have better to choose file names that are valid both on your computer and web server. For the client point of view (the person who use the browser and the system where the browser is running) the file name lenght is of no importance in the request. The only important point is the URL he/it is requesting. If a person have to manually type an URL, a shorter and easier URL is better. When he/it wants to save the page to a file he/it needs to choose a file name for his/its file systems. Usually the program suggest a file name based on the title of the html document or on the last part of the URL (which ussually came from the file name on the web server). If this would give a file name that is not valid on such system, it will suggests a different file name. But this is a problem for the client ystem not for the web server system. Nowadays almost all computer should accept long filename (but shortness is always better when not incomprensible). Note that are a lot of computer system and a lot of file system type. The 8+3 length limit of DOS would not be the only problem to address to find a file name valid to every computer (the computer are not only the Personal Computer, and not every computer used the most famous operating system). It will be an unsolvable problems (and years ago it would even worse). So the rule of the internet says that are not the file name that are passed over the internet but the URL. AnyFile 15:42, 17 Oct 2004 (UTC)
London meetup Dec 3rdHiya. I just wanted to make sure you are aware of thisWikipedia:Meetup/London Cheers Theresa Knott (Tart, knees hot) 10:55, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC) Article LicensingHi, 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:
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:
OR
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| talk) |
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