User talk:Eclecticology/Archive 2

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Hywel Fychan

I have responded to your inquiry on my talk page. -- Blanchardb -Me•MyEars•MyMouth- timed 02:38, 7 September 2008 (UTC)

I also have responded on my Talk page to keep things in one place. -- Alexf42 11:33, 7 September 2008 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Library of Congress Classification:Class Q -- Science

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Library of Congress Classification System

Hi Eclecticology, I apologize if I came off as too combative about the LoC articles. I still have doubts about them though. What are your reasons for keeping them?--Aervanath lives in the Orphanage 05:11, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

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Wikimédia Québec

(English version follow)

Allo,

Je suis heureux de vos interventions sur fr:Discussion Projet:Québec#Sous section car vous êtes tous bavards :-). Nous aurons une réunion au mois de janvier 2009 à propos de Wikimédia Québec et j'avais quelques questions pour vous :

  1. Si nous acceptons d'être un sous-chapitre de Wikimédia Canada, nous autorisez-vous à enregistrer le nom de domaine www.wikimedia.qc.ca ainsi que le nom de Wikimédia Québec ? Vous faut-il une autorisation de la Wikimedia Foundation pour ce faire ? Vous faut-il une lettre de notre association d'utilisateurs pour cela ?
  2. Quels sont vos objectifs à court terme ? J'ai récemment su que le chapitre Wikimédia-de a obtenu du gouvernement allemand un changement de licence pour les images de ce dernier (fr:Wikipédia:Le Bistro/7 décembre 2008#Large don d'images). J'envisage que nous pourrions faire de même au Québec et au Canada. Je rencontre prochainement une représentante du député provincial de ma région et j'aborderai cette question. Une action de Wikimédia Canada dans ce sens serait intéressante (plusieurs images de Radio-Canada.ca seraient vraiment intéressantes, mais c'est une société fédérale).
  3. Si nous acceptons d'être un sous-chapitre de Wikimédia Canada, a-t-on besoin de faire des démarches pour enregistrer notre organisme au niveau provincial ou devons-nous attendre votre enregistrement national ? Un bon dossier monté au fédéral devrait pouvoir être transféré au provincial.

Merci de votre attention et bonne journée !

(Excuse my poor english)

Hi !

First of all, I would like to thank you for your interventions on the discussion fr:Discussion Projet:Québec#Sous section car vous êtes tous bavards :-). We'll have a meeting january 2009 about the Wikimédia Québec project and I have some questions for you :

  1. If we accept to be a subchapter of Wikimédia Canada, do you accept that we register ourselves on the website www.wikimedia.qc.ca with the name Wikimédia Québec ? Do you need an autorisation of the Wikimedia Foundation for that ? Do you need a « official » letter of our organisation for that ?
  2. What are your short term goals ? Recently, I read that the Wikimedia-de chapter convince the German Governement to change some picture licence (fr:Wikipédia:Le Bistro/7 décembre 2008#Large don d'images). I think that we can try to do the same in Canada and Québec. I will meet tomorrow one of the team member of my provincial deputy and I'll talk about that to her. I can be very interesting if Wikimedia Canada can do the same with federals organisations (like Radio-Canada/CBC).
  3. If we accept to be a subchapter of Wikimédia Canada, do we need to register our provincial organism ? A good federal file can be (easely ?) transfered to the provincial.

Regards,

- Khayman (contact) 19:52, 9 December 2008 (UTC)

P.S. : Can you please answer me on my french user talk page ?

Rebonjour,
Nous sommes plusieurs utilisateurs qui allons nous rencontrer à la mi-janvier dans la ville de Québec, à l'Université Laval. Nous planifions de discuter de l'incorporation de notre association et, pour ce faire, nous avons besoin de l'autorisation de la WMF d'utiliser le nom Wikimédia Québec ainsi qu'une version du logo WMF (fr:Projet:Québec/Wikimédia Québec). J'ai les papiers pour l'enregistrement de notre association québécoise et nous pourrions procéder dès la semaine suivant la réunion.
L'enregistrement provincial de notre association est facile à faire et compatible avec l'enregistrement fédéral. Si vous cherchez un habitant du Québec pour signer l'enregistrement fédéral, Antaya semble très intéressé par Wikimédia Canada (il ne semble cependant pas répondre depuis une semaine. J'ai été dur avec lui. Peut-être pourrez-vous le contacter par courriel ?).
Pour le moment, vous est-il possible d'écrire une demande à la WMF pour que nous puissions utiliser le nom Wikimédia Québec ? Nous pourrions écrire nous aussi une lettre à la WMF avec les signatures des membres présents à la réunion de janvier.
Hi !
We organise a meeting mid-january at the Université Laval. We want to discuss about the provincial incorporation of our association. I have filled the papers to do that, but I need the autorization of the WMF (or of Wikimedia Canada ?) to use the name Wikimédia Québec and a modified version of the logo (you can see it fr:Projet:Québec/Wikimédia Québec).
Incorporate our association provincially is easy and compatible with your federal work. If you want someone leaving in Québec to sign your federal application, I think that Antaya can be your man. He's angry for now (I've been hard with him), but I think that you can contact him by email.
For now, can you ask the WMF if we can use the name Wikimédia Québec and the logo ? We can write a letter too in january and sign it to ask the same.
- Khayman (contact) 13:21, 13 December 2008 (UTC) fr:Discussion Utilisateur:Khayman
P.S. : Do you prefer that I continue to write to you in the 2 languages or you prefer one of them ? I don't know if my english is understandable... —Preceding unsigned comment added by Khayman (talk • contribs) 13:21, 13 December 2008 (UTC)

2009

Sysop confirmation on enwikisource

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Library of Congress classification articles

Hello Eclecticology. I found one of the Library of Congress articles in the list of those needing wikification. After posting on the talk page of WP:notability, and noting that you have made many contributions to those articles, some dating back to the early 2000s, I'm coming to ask whether you still think we should have a complete set, or whether some merger and consolidation is called for. I'm thinking of WP:NOT (a directory), and bearing in mind that the classification is readily found online in other sources. Currently the articles do not carry any commentary about the classification; they simply reproduce it. I admit that I am partly motivated by the fact that it would take me a long while to find internal links for the particular classification (on American history). Thanks. Itsmejudith (talk) 21:30, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

I too would like to follow this up. I mentioned it just now on Avenoth's talk p., [1] , and links to earlier discussions are at [2] and [3].
Judith, --originally they were I think intended to be developed into a navigational device, but I don't think the LC classification (unlike, say, UDC) is suitable for narrow topics, though it has been used that way, and, based on having worked with it most of my life, I don't think of it as particularly rational. I suppose that when possible links could be put in, as you seem to be suggesting, but I am not all that sure it is worth the effort. I mentioned in the discussion that there is at least one good secondary source, Chen's book on LC--and older works, plus the short descriptions in every cataloging text, and there are some articles on various sections scattered in the literature. Come to think of it, there is another purpose--in principle, every entry there corresponds to at least one book,so in principle anything there that does not have an article in Wikipedia could have one. DGG (talk) 16:36, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

Ernest Hemingway project?

I am interested in starting am Ernest Hemingway project to improve content related to his life and works, and have proposed the project at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Council/Proposals#Wikiproject_Ernest_Hemingway_project. Please share your thoughts there! kilbad (talk) 16:07, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

WP:CODGER

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Vancouver

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2010

Unreferenced BLPs

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  1. Steve Dagora - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

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Steve Dagora

Hey Eclecticology. Can you clarify what "Stamps" refers to in Steve Dagora? Is that a publication of some sort? Are there some other sources that could be added? Thanks! --MZMcBride (talk) 19:18, 25 January 2010 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Peter Turner (civil servant)

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Wikipedia's tagline

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Samuel Hopkins

Hi Eclecticology, are you familiar with this: Talk:Samuel_Hopkins_(inventor)#Maxey:_wrong_Hopkins? --John Vandenberg (chat) 21:17, 26 July 2010 (UTC)

2011

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Editor's noticeboard?

Apropos of WP:CODGER -- For a proposed editor's noticeboard, which should be a pleasure to use and a source of support for editor-enthusiasts, see User:Sj/EN. Your input would be most welcome. –SJ+ 11:04, 21 February 2011 (UTC)

Hallmark

"Justification"? Have you justified why you would want to change something that was fine, the it originally was before you decided it needed changing? I haven't seen any explaination on your part for your edits either. From what I can see, it seems you just decided to change it and it looks messy.

It looks messy having all those red links, that don't lead to any movies, not to mention showing directors, actors etc.. That's what links are for.

Why are you changing it in the first place? It was created to look the list of Hallmark movies, same as the Hallmark site, minus the repeat movies of course. What's with all those "X"s too?

Why are you putting seasons in place of the years? GiantTiger001 (talk) 05:53, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

Why are you changing it in the first place? Do you ever talk like a regular person? "Justified", "conforming"?

The way you keep adding it, looks messy and not very nice. What's wrong with making links to movies, instead of the way you're doing it? GiantTiger001 (talk) 07:15, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

Ancient History

Just a heads up, the article Steve Dagora, which you were involved with in the past, has been PRODded for lack of references. There's part of a reference, but it's not complete enough to actually be verifiable. SDY (talk) 19:16, 17 March 2011 (UTC)

Since it's been contested, I've started the full discussion deletion protocol here. SDY (talk) 02:31, 19 March 2011 (UTC)

Papua New Guinea

Have you received the 1972 Encyclopedia of PNG you mentioned during the discussion about Steve Dagora? Was there a detailed entry for Dagora? A Stop at Willoughby (talk) 19:27, 7 May 2011 (UTC)

How frustrating! Well, please do let me know when you receive the other volumes. As a side note, I'm sure this source useful for giving other PNG-related articles a little TLC. I'm interested to hear about what you find. A Stop at Willoughby (talk) 02:24, 10 May 2011 (UTC)


Josef Stalin

Please explain I have no knowledge of transliterating Cyrillic into Latin letters, so I cannot speak to how good of an idea one or the other form is. I will say that I can see nothing gained by having different spellings of the same person's name peppering an encyclopedia, but that's honestly not something I'm interested in arguing. What I really don't understand is the scenario where Josef Stalin would be a printworthy redirect to Joseph Stalin. Are you seriously suggesting that someone would print an encyclopedia with an entry that reads "Stalin, Josef see Joseph Stalin" and then have the article on "Joseph Stalin" immediately below it? —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 03:25, 12 June 2011 (UTC)

Redirects "I don't think that mere alphabetical proximity is a sufficient basis for making a redirect prospectively unprintworthy... If omitting the alternative really matters at that time it's an easy editorial decision then; we don't have to decide for them now." By this reasoning, then when would anyone use Category:Printworthy redirects or Category:Unprintworthy redirects? —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 22:55, 12 June 2011 (UTC)
Not quite "[T]he idea of a print Wikipedia will never be more than fantasy." There are, have been, and will continue to be several printed editions of Wikipedia and subsets of Wikipedia articles. This is even a goal of one of the first WikiProjects. "Even it were not, the unprintworthy should be limited to misspelllings." I don't know where you got this impression, as Category:Unprintworthy redirects says, "the name of a redirect may be unprintworthy for a number of reasons, including being nearly identical to the name of the target page, containing typographical errors or not being encyclopaedic." There are several valid reasons for unprintworthy redirects and one of them is virtually identical alternative spellings. I recommend that you take a look at this CfD as well. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 04:53, 13 June 2011 (UTC)

Please stop Category:Unprintworthy redirects is to be added to pages where, "the name of a redirect [is] nearly identical to the name of the target page." That is certainly the case with Josef Stalin/Joseph Stalin. Please stop removing this category because you think it's "silly." —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 23:07, 15 June 2011 (UTC)

Nomination of Businessperson for deletion

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Pics!

-David Gerard (talk) 22:34, 1 August 2011 (UTC)

2012

Interview?

Hi, I believe you'll be attending the Berlin meet-up. If this is the case, I wonder whether The Signpost could interview you by Skype audio after proceedings, on the Sunday or the Monday. Tony (talk) 10:06, 23 March 2012 (UTC)

Excellent! I'll inform The Signpost's managing editor. Please let me know your Skype username and/or email address, and we could liaise closer to the time to organise this. I have email enabled. Need take only a little of your time on the day. My available hours are about 21:00–14:00 UTC at the moment (I guess that's 20:00–13:00 Berlin time), so it looks like mid-evening would suit Tony (talk) 05:35, 25 March 2012 (UTC)


Science lovers wanted!

Science lovers wanted!
Hi! I'm serving as the wikipedian-in-residence at the Smithsonian Institution Archives until June! One of my goals as resident, is to work with Wikipedians and staff to improve content on Wikipedia about people who have collections held in the Archives - most of these are scientists who held roles within the Smithsonian and/or federal government. I thought you might like to participate since you are interested in the sciences! Sign up to participate here and dive into articles needing expansion and creation on our to-do list. Feel free to make a request for images or materials at the request page, and of course, if you share your successes at the outcomes page you will receive the SIA barnstar! Thanks for your interest, and I look forward to your participation! Sarah (talk) 20:00, 16 April 2012 (UTC)


Wikimania Video

Hi Ray!

I saw your username on a list of Wikimania attendees. My name is Victor Grigas and I am a 'storyteller' at the Wikimedia foundation. It's my position to find and tell the stories of individual Wikipedians to share to get the public to be engaged and encouraged to support Wikipedia. I will be with a small team and we will be conducting on-camera interviews with Wikipedians at Wikimania from July 10th through July 15th and was hoping that you would be interested in sharing your story with me.

Please let me know if you are interested. There is limited availability and I expect my schedule to fill up quickly. Hope we get to meet in person!

Victor

P.S. The best way to reach me is by email: vgrigas@wikimedia.org


Victor Grigas (talk) 01:25, 22 June 2012 (UTC)


Wikimania

It was good meeting (and rooming with) you at Wikimania! See ya around, Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 07:15, 20 July 2012 (UTC)

Invitation to join the Ten Year Society

Dear Eclecticology,

I'd like to extend a cordial invitation to you to join the Ten Year Society, an informal group for editors who've been participating in the Wikipedia project for ten years or more. I'm currently inviting people whose names that I recognize from around the project, please feel free to invite anyone else you like.

Best regards, -- Hex [t/c] 11:24, 27 September 2012 (UTC).

2013

Your user and user talk pages

Hi Ray, I found your user and user talk pages while doing some wikiarchaeology. . I have restored all of its earliest revisions from old copies of the Wikipedia database, so they are available to everyone now. Your user page revisions from Eclecticology are now at User:Eclecticology/old, and here is the talk page revision that I've imported – I've also added its text to your current talk page. Hope you don't mind. Graham87 09:04, 26 June 2013 (UTC)

OK, done. Sorry to hear that you didn't like it. Graham87 01:03, 27 June 2013 (UTC)
Now I've deleted the right page ... whoops! Graham87 01:24, 27 June 2013 (UTC)

Talk:Bradley Manning/October 2013 move request

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2014

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Your edit on 14 November 2003

In this 14 November 2003 edit you, as far as I can determine, introduced the YYYY-MM-DD date format, and the concept that this format conformed with ISO 8601, to the English Wikipedia. I would like to know if it was the intention of the editors at that time to conform to the requirements of that standard to always use the Gregorian calendar, and to avoid using the format for years before 1583 unless consent was obtained from data exchange partners (that is, readers). Jc3s5h (talk) 16:44, 25 January 2014 (UTC)

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List of Wagon Train episodes

Hi. I noticed that you have added some cast members to the first season. I put this list together to resemble other episode lists such as the ones for M*A*S*H, Smallville , Grey's Anatomy, and The X-Files. These lists do not contain a cast member column, therefore I find it necessary to undue your work. I'm sure you mean well but the column simply does not belong in the list. Also, Wikipedia does not accept the IMDb as a reliable source. Jimknut (talk) 17:24, 26 February 2014 (UTC)

Why don't you create the pages Wagon Train (season 1), Wagon Train (season2), etc. and include the cast members there? I think that would be better than added cast members to List of Wagon Train episodes, which is already quite large as it is. Jimknut (talk) 22:52, 26 February 2014 (UTC)

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Starting articles as stubs...

You wrote on someone's talk page recently... It was acceptable in those days to start an article as a stub. It bloody well still should be! </oldfartthoughts> — Scott • talk 15:04, 30 May 2014 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Pride

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Wikilvres account

No response I sent an e-mail to accounts[littleanarchy]wikilivres.ca in order to create an account and I got a Delivery Status Notification. Can you help me? Please respond on my talk, via e-mail, or use {{Ping}} here. Thanks. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 16:07, 21 June 2014 (UTC)

Wikilivres down

Apache test page All I get is a page confirming that there is a site. "The fact that you are seeing this page indicates that the website you just visited is either experiencing problems or is undergoing routine maintenance." Which one is it? Does Wikilivres have scheduled downtimes? —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 07:23, 1 July 2014 (UTC)

Down again It looks like DNSEver wants money. Do you know when the site will be back? If you respond here, please use {{Ping}}. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 01:33, 20 November 2014 (UTC)
Thanks I look forward to it being back. The way {{Ping}} works is you type in {{Ping|USERNAME}} and then users get notifications at Special:Notifications (you can probably see a little number next to your username at the top of this page). It's not necessary to use it but it keeps me from having to watch a ton of pages just to see if someone responds to me and it also keeps conversations in one place. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 08:27, 20 November 2014 (UTC)
Down again Someone on s:Help:Talk:Help:Wikilivres pointed out that there is a notice which reads, "wikilivres.ca Domain Name Service (DNS) has been suspended... from the domain because of overdue payment." —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 20:28, 9 December 2014 (UTC)
Once again It's down for me and I checked http://isup.me/ as well. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 08:12, 21 December 2014 (UTC)

And again in 2015 I was just working on wikilivres:Cole Porter, too. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 18:09, 2 January 2015 (UTC)

Once more Do you know what is causing this? Will there be more reliable hosting in the future? —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 08:33, 5 January 2015 (UTC)
Again It's been down for two days. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 04:55, 8 February 2015 (UTC)
Usually fixing that is just a matter of clicking a restart button on a tab that's always open. For now, however, the laptop that I was doing this from is getting fixed to replace the plug-in connector for the charger. Since I had to go to a different computer, I had a hard time finding the password that opened the tab. That much is entirely my fault. I can only offer my apologies. Eclecticology (talk) 10:01, 10 February 2015 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue C, July 2014

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The Bugle: Issue CI, August 2014

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The Bugle: Issue CII, September 2014

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