User talk:Elf/Archive 3

Reduced images

Hello, you may have noticed that I've uploaded new versions of several of the images you scanned from The Clip Art Book. I was able to reduce the file size of most of them by around 20% by running them through a program called pngcrush, with no loss in quality, size, etc. You may be interested in trying it out on future images. Cheers! -- Wapcaplet 20:48, 2 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

P.S. - While I don't know of any graphical editing software that uses pngcrush, I have found that The GIMP tends to produce small, size-efficient files that cannot be further optimized with pngcrush. It is freely available for many computing platforms. -- Wapcaplet 22:46, 2 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

Song/humor/namespaces/head spinning

Wikipedia:project namespace might explain it a bit. There is a lot of stuff on Wikipedia that should be on Meta for a number of reasons People don't use meta so they don't know where to put things, or it just doesn't occur to them to go there. Also, in the past the distinction between namespaces was less, so we historically have a lot of stuff here that has been here since before Meta was really used. People see that and think it must be the done thing and create new similar pages here rather than at meta.

m:Delete : this page does not belong to meta has some interesting ideas on what Meta should be used for. Basically, the Wikipedia namespace is meant to be for things which aid the building of the encyclopedia (policies and help pages mainly). Meta is more relaxed in accepting personal points of view, and also more focused on cross-project information. There are overlaps, but ideally I think pages listed at Wikipedia:Utilities#Fun should be moved to Meta at some point. It's probably best to wait until special:import is available so we can move the page history with them though.

The Utilities page is a good place to find them. I think m:Web Encyclopedia song would be the best place for the song (not necessarily that title, but somewhere on meta) as it isn't related to developing the encyclopedia. I hope that helps and I haven't just confused you even more. Angela. 12:38, 4 Jun 2004 (UTC)

I've just got to congratulate you to the wonderful lyrics of the Hotel Wikipedia-song. It made my day! \Mikez 03:23, 23 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Help--or direct to resource

Need your help on two fronts:

1. What is a 'double redirect'? When 'moving' a page one is instructed to check for double redirects. When I moved Clement Moore->Clement Clarke Moore I was so paranoid I went and changed the link at every single occurance of his name (and there were alot of them). Would rather not have to do it again now that I've moved 'Dr. Harry Cooper'->Harry Cooper (veterinarian). Guess laziness (and time constraints, to be fair) is setting in.


2. Is there an easy way to check what categories exist in order to pick the best ones for a new article. E.g., I put 'Harry Spira' in List of dog topics (I think...?) but, since he's a noted Australian vet, he should be in some Australian category, too. There are just thousands, too many to read through the lists one by one. Any way to narrow it down?

Quill 22:51, 19 Aug 2004 (UTC)

1. I've always assumed that they mean a redirect to a redirect but that you don't have to fret too much about single redirects. The former do show up in the What Links Here to the original page as redirects. Some people spend time finding even single redirects and fixing them; others might change them as they find them or leave them alone, claiming that those aren't the major draw on resources & we shd be spending time writing articles. I dont' believe there's an official policy on that. Elf | Talk 23:09, 19 Aug 2004 (UTC)
2. Guess! ;-) I'm starting to find that it works, as more topics are created. E.g., I tried "Category:Desserts" and sure enough it existed. DOesn't work so well for "Category:Australians who write about dogs" kinds of things. I'm trying to change (but I don't seem to be asking in the right place) where the CATEGORIES text link at the bottom of each page goes. Right now it goes to the full list which, as you say, is completely useless. I'd like it to go to one of Wikipedia:Category, Category:Categories, or Category:Fundamental. Much better places to start looking.
Elf | Talk 23:09, 19 Aug 2004 (UTC)

thanks. elf

how could "elf" NOT be interested in the Xmas article? it's almost "feature quality", if someone is aggressive enough to whack away at that goofy history stuff. I haven't a feel yet for how rough to be on these things. i try to leave at least a kernel of the original. btw, i don't know if i'm performing this "talk" procedure correctly. Sfahey 18:14, 21 Aug 2004 (UTC)

redirect question

Hi Elf. I didn't know where to turn. I just tried to add a new article on the "Yellow-rumped Warbler", which species was formed by merger of "Myrtle" and "Audubon's" Warblers by the Amer.Ornith.Union. It's preserved in my "contributions", but the internal link still gets "redirected" to the pages for "Myrtle Warbler" and "Audubon's Warbler". I (generously) left these kind of outdated pages pretty much intact, as some people still "know" of them as separate. I can't figure out to re-redirect the link so "Yellow-rumped Warbler" gets its long overdue page. Thanks. Sfahey 22:03, 23 Aug 2004 (UTC)

  • Thanks for your Elfin input. 'Twas all very confusing, but it appears that there was an old "yellow-rumped warbler" article buried under all the redirects. It resurfaced, with updates, perhaps due to the work of another wiki-birder. This fellow seems pretty expert, and I'll leave it the way he doctored it up. BTW, since this comment is entered under the "edit" function, instead of as a "new" message, will it register a "you have a message" message? Sfahey 16:56, 25 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Water

Hi. I left a message for you on Talk:List of British English words not used in American English. If you've got broadband I hope you find the ad amusing. Mintguy (T) 02:45, 26 Aug 2004 (UTC)

anon hr editor

For what it's worth, I've started a status page User:Joy/Anonymous Croatian editor from 6x.y.z.w in an effort to streamline discussions about our mutual acquaintance :)

The last couple of entries from your list on the user page aren't from the same guy, BTW. The 8x.y.z.w IP is from Turkey, while the 193.198.x.y IP is from Croatia. Our guy is from the United States (likely Ohio).

--Joy [shallot] 17:12, 3 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Category N

I changed your redirects for "Category N" (N=1..5) to point at Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale instead of tropical cyclone. It's a bit more specific destination that'll tell people what the category means. -- Cyrius|✎ 04:57, 6 Sep 2004 (UTC)


Slaughter house

I added a message at vfd. I've not only witnessed the game, I've been popped in the head by a mis-thrown tennis ball while I was doing recess duty, resulting in a bruised face and a schoolwide suspension of the game for a 2-week period. I have no idea how widespread the game is, though. Joyous 20:28, Sep 11, 2004 (UTC)

Hi, Elf. :) I'm still kind of new here... I added the Slaughter house content to Wall Ball, but I'm unsure about making a redirect. Is it as simple as replacing all content on slaughter-house with #REDIRECT [[Wall Ball]]? I just want to be sure I don't screw anything up. Also, does one lose the history for the redirected article then? func(talk) 02:06, 13 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Thanks, Elf. :) I'm just wondering if SEAN FLOWERS is going to come along and try to add his name back into the article. ;-) func(talk) 02:41, 13 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Image:SacredDaturaFx Wb2.jpg

Great photo! And thanks for the edits to Zion National Park. BTW, that article is a featured article candidate. --mav 01:23, 12 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Zion

I removed them because they left blank space on the top (in my browser and/or skin, anyway). Feel free to reinstate them. Thanks. :) [[User:Neutrality|Neutrality (talk)]] 04:29, 13 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Template:Visual System

Elf, I'm working on this (it's one of my areas of expertise) and it's, reasonably enough, locked. Problem is, the list on the template is incomplete; it needs two more items (optic tract and optic radiations) to be a parallel, thorough set. I'm not enough of a Wikipedian to determine who authored the locked item. Can you look into this and use your Magic Administrative Wand, if possible, to fix it? Thanks. jimhutchins 24.170.15.45 23:54, 13 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Nice photo

nice doggies!

Yeah, thanks for doing that. I removed the other dogs from the artificial selection article; I think we need some funny-looking sheep, pigs or cows to emphasise the importance to agriculture. Any offers welcome :) Dunc_Harris|☺ 22:33, 14 Sep 2004 (UTC)

move page help

I've been moving the cat breed pages to titles that don't include the word "cat" (since it's a bit redundant). I need Scottish Fold cat moved to Scottish Fold, and British Shorthair cat moved to British Shorthair but there are redirects at the target pages, so the system won't let me move them. Could you assist me in this?

Thanks for the help. [[User:Lachatdelarue|Lachatdelarue (talk)]] 18:52, 15 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Response to question

I think it may have been an honest mistake but the user created a page called Parampara. I rollbacked the edit but the page was deleted (hence no edit history). I left a test message with the good intention that it was just a mistake or a misunderstanding rather then vandalism. Here is the log- 06:53, 17 Sep 2004 Stormie deleted "Parampara" (content was: '{delete}hi').

Thanks for the question hope this cleared things up for you. :) Arminius 16:03, 17 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thanks for your very kind comments! I noticed that there was no section for food either, and thought it was a big gap in our image gallery (which is a great idea, IMO). Anyway, feel free to start more categories/subcategories — or better yet, take more photos (our cheese collection is very bad). ;) [[User:Neutrality|Neutrality (talk)]] 22:38, Sep 18, 2004 (UTC)

User talk:Dennis Valeev

Hi again Elf. I just moved [[Dennis Valeev]] to [[User:Dennis Valeev]] and think I may have lost your messages to him at the same time (his talk page was a redirect when I came to it). I've restored as I think it should be, but you might want to check. Sorry for any mistake -- sannse (talk) 17:31, 21 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Ha, that explains it--I couldn't figure out how I could have messed up the first time I left a message, then I tried to move it and ended up on the wrong page (I thought) and then finally (I thought) ended up in the right place--but I iwasn't even looking for little reidrect games like that. I'll try to track it down.
Elf | Talk 20:48, 21 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Nope, it looks fine. Elf | Talk 20:48, 21 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Meta admin request

I am requesting adminship on Meta for the account m:User:Elf. Elf | Talk 22:10, 22 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Can you please contact me?

Dear Elf, someone (IP ...) placed a delete statement to one of the pages I have started. Could you please contact me by private e-mail? You can find mine at my private homepage. Thanks! Regards Gangleri 22:09, 2004 Sep 23 (UTC)

Dear Elf, Thank you for your e-mails and sorry that I did not respond earlier. I had to read a lot of documentation and reworked Gangleri 03:13, 2004 Sep 26 (UTC) and also the German and Espernto variants. I am happy getting so far in five days.
I placed some my question list in English at [1] on test.wikipedia and hope that some of the people I know already will take a look.
I also pointed out an issue at Image Icelandic ... because I discovered Featured_picture_candidates#Icelandic_sheepdog and realised that this particular picture will probably not receive the requested votes. Maybe you find a better wording, spelling of what I tried to say about referencing at Image Icelandic .... There might be no risc for the picture at the ru:russian page if this is a copy and not a link. Maxim put it there and send me a message. It also maight be others task to find a {{magic word}} and / or to place an appropriate text or to make a tool handling this issue.


I will come back regarding the del msg as soon as I can. Thanks again! Reinhardt Gangleri 03:13, 2004 Sep 26 (UTC)

Do you still need these images?

I've been tagging untagged images, and I came across some screenshots by you that aparently aren't used anywhere. Image:ScreenHistoryAfterMyEdits.png, Image:ScreenHistoryBeforeMyEdits.png, and Image:ScreenHistoryCompare.png. Do you still want these, or can they be deleted? – Quadell (talk) (help)[[]] 17:04, Oct 4, 2004 (UTC)

They documented an old bug in VP and apparently the text that referred to them has been deleted. So I've deleted these, too. Thanks for pointing them out. Elf | Talk 23:48, 4 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Hi, Elf.

I'm up for adminship, and I'd be pleased to have your support. Warmest regards, [[User:Neutrality|Neutrality (hopefully!)]] 22:46, Oct 12, 2004 (UTC)

Self-block

You won't just a few edits a day? Just one or two? You can stop any time you want to you know ;) ... have a good break, see you when you get back (if you manage to leave :) -- sannse (talk) 22:59, 14 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Yup - you got it bad. Still I've got it worse I guess, I'm thinking I've got to edit more - my count is going down worryingly! Gotta get back into the top 50 most active -- sannse (talk) 09:39, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC)

meta name="KEYWORDS" content="..."

Halló Elf, I want to attract your attention at Wikipedia:Village pump (miscellaneous)#meta name="KEYWORDS" content="...". What do you think about it? Regards Gangleri 21:51, 2004 Oct 19 (UTC)
P.S.: See also User talk:Patrick#external search facility Gangleri 23:12, 2004 Oct 19 (UTC)

nonstub stubs

I actually think this is worthwhile. I find the Stub category to be way too large to browse. It was over 6,000 items before I started categorizing them. Once they are categorized this should help people to update stubs in a particular category, for example only people stubs or movie stubs or science stubs. It also helped me to realize that most of the stubs are either geography related or biography related (others might find this interesting information as well). I have seen some discussions [2] [3] on this but I took on this endeavour myself. I thought it would be helpful in a small way. --YUL89YYZ 19:52, Oct 26, 2004 (UTC)

Capitol Reef National Park expanded

Take a look and edit away if you like. :) --mav 08:22, 31 Oct 2004 (UTC)

adminship

I have been nominated for adminship. Will you take a look and vote whichever way you feel is right? Thanks. [[User:Lachatdelarue|Lachatdelarue (talk)]] 15:57, 4 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Invite

Hi

I'm posting this to invite you to participate in WP:LCOTW , a project you may be interested in. Please consider nominating and/or voting for a suitable article there. Filiocht 12:29, Nov 8, 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for your suggestion — I've added instructions to each individual list of erroneous articles. Neilc 01:57, 21 Nov 2004 (UTC)

1st Fam'y

Yes, what you had is better than my "correction", but i bet we can come up w/ better. You are the one who's seen the elephant; will some version of

(excerpts from Q skits)

express it, where Q is something like one of the following?

  • each
  • many
  • most
  • a few

--Jerzy(t) 02:24, 2004 Nov 30 (UTC)

Way cool, tnx for the collaboration. --Jerzy(t) 19:46, 2004 Dec 2 (UTC)

Flower species

You said: "Yup, so Quadell, if you want one of us to just translate the image names into more complete names for captions, I could just list the names sequentially on your discussion page if you want. Let me/marshman know. I might have time soon."

That would be awesome. Thanks! – Quadell (talk) (help)[[]] 18:44, Dec 2, 2004 (UTC)

Yes, it was very helpful. It would be better if I had species instead of just genuses, but I'll take what I can get! :) – Quadell (talk) (help)[[]] 15:53, Dec 3, 2004 (UTC)
I can help. I'll follow your (Elf's) lead as to how we should do it. And thanks Elf, I never new there was a page "Wikipedians by number of edits" - I'm 215 this month. I really need to cut back. I sympathize - Marshman 04:26, 3 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:

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| talk) 18:27, Dec 8, 2004 (UTC)

The Humungous Image Tagging Project

Hi. You've helped with the Wikipedia:WikiProject Wiki Syntax, so I thought it worth alerting you to the latest and greatest of Wikipedia fixing project, User:Yann/Untagged Images, which is seeking to put copyright tags on all of the untagged images. There are probably, oh, thirty thousand or so to do (he said, reaching into the air for a large figure). But hey: they're images ... you'll get to see lots of random pretty pictures. That must be better than looking for at at and the the, non? You know you'll love it. best wishes --Tagishsimon (talk)

I'll remove the links on or before Thursday and/or Friday - I've got finals this week :( WhisperToMe 00:02, 15 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Standard user greeting

I've added instructions for making your own to Wikipedia:Standard user greeting. Enjoy. Warmest regards --[[User:Neutrality|Neutrality/talk]] 13:31, Dec 15, 2004 (UTC)

See User:Elf/welcome. [[User:Neutrality|Neutrality/talk]] 00:55, Dec 16, 2004 (UTC)

Pine edit

Hi Elf - Hope you won't mind, I've restored the redirect to pinyon pine you removed, until the Single-leaf Pinyon page exists (which it will soon!); I reckon it is better to have a redirect to a summary page that gives at least some details of the species, than to a page that doesn't exist yet - MPF 20:37, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Hi Elf; thanks, I see your point, though it shouldn't matter here as they'd see the red link when they got to pinyon pine. You have trouble with your computer logging you out without saying, too? - happens to me occasionally as well :-( MPF 22:20, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Hi Elf - Single-leaf Pinyon done :-) . . . Parry Pinyon next! - MPF 23:01, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Moving pages

I meant that if a page was moved Wikipedia:Foo to BarBarBar, then, using the move tab and screen, you can reverse that move - so long as the redirect at Wikipedia:Foo hasn't been changed at all. -- Netoholic @ 18:58, 2005 Jan 4 (UTC)

Piracy / Francis Drake query

Okay, I can see why you might not want to list Drake under the pirate list since he was only viewed as a pirate by a particular nation whom he was working against. That being the case, though, shouldn't similar privateers also be knocked off the list, like Sir Andrew Barton?

The only real difference I can see is that Drake was English and only declared a pirate by the Spanish, whereas Barton was Scottish and declared a pirate by the English. Oh, and Drake's probably a little more famous.

You're right; I just didn't think about it because they weren't obvious duplications. I moved Barton and I'd have double-checked the others but WP is too slow for me to do that right now. Elf | Talk 20:25, 6 Jan 2005 (UTC)

i laughed at your profile

especially the "mumble years" bit. Ground 13:45, 8 Jan 2005 (UTC)

say, elf ...

... we haven't chatted for a while, but now that you "elfs" are done with your holiday deliveries, can you 'splain something for me. what's going on when you look to see what was just edited on an article, and all you see on the "history" link for the last two edits (y'know, instead of the changes appearing in red) are apparently identical articles, or sections of articles, side-to-side, with a + sign in the column between them? Thanks. Sfahey 04:06, 13 Jan 2005 (UTC)

thanks for reply. now i can stop reading the main texts to see what subtle changes i might have missed.

btw, d'ja catch that "Christmas" made "featured article" during (your frenetic) Christmas week, but not fast enough to make it to the Main Page in time. Now we gotta keep it in decent shape for another 50 weeks.

Llame Me

elf, I need to tell you something regarding a mutual friend -- don't know if you heard. It's private, though. Do you have my email still? I no longer have yours. If you go to my personal webpage, which is my <firstname>.<lastname>.name, there is a link there to email me. There. That should be safe from spambots. Jimhutchins 13:18, 14 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Dilema

After reverting a number of the cosmic era pages, I nominated the page Cosmic Era vessels for deletion; however I am not an admin and therefore don't have the power to delete the page. I was wondering if you could keep tabs on the voting and delete the page if that general concensus was reached. TomStar81 05:43, 24 Jan 2005 (UTC)

If you think you're missing a dog-related post here, I've archived them all to-date at Archive dogs. Elf | Talk 02:44, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Return of the Untagged Image project

You were kind enough to contribute to the Wikipedia:Untagged images project; I beg to draw your attention to part 2 of the project - there are about 12,000 more images in need of tagging. Any assistance you could provide would be most welcome. thanks --Tagishsimon (talk)

Image license

Do you license the photo you took, Image:AnatolianShepherdDogAndPerson wb.jpg, under the GNU Free Documentation License? Thank you. --Ellmist 03:02, 3 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Done. Elf | Talk 17:33, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Just so you know...

Your picture of San Jose is currently (as of March 8) on the main page (I wasn't sure if you'd notice in time). →Raul654 04:22, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)

Watchlist problems?

The watchlist function doesn't always seem to work. For example: it alerted me to the discussion at [Dog park], but upon going there I noticed a lot of additions to the article that I never remember seeing before. I was just wondering if anyone else has this problem (or am I becoming senile)?68.15.201.71 20:26, 15 Mar 2005 (UTC)

My guess is that we're all becoming senile and wikipedia is just a drug flashback. Of course, I never used drugs (except codeine for a while) so there goes that theory. I think every once in a while that I've missed something in my watchlist, but remember if e.g. you don't go through your watchlist for a couple of days (or longer) and there's a lot of activity, you'll see only the latest revision show up in the watchlist. Elf | Talk 04:35, 16 Mar 2005 (UTC)

thank you for adding the counts to the stub cats page :)

Hi Ellen!

Wow, you certainly found me quickly! I look forward to contributing more material to this site. Let me know if you ever need help with anything.

Dogpatch

Yes, I did indeed sell Dogpatch because I didn't quite have the time for it. I haven't forgotten all the work you put into it either! I doubt I'll do much here though, since I now run my own business and it just always seems any time I spend at the computer should go back into that. But it's fun to take some time now and again for something different! --Maryjo313 22:20, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Sparky

Hi. You shifted the content of Sparky to Sparky (comic) as a cut-and-paste job, then created a disambigation page at the old title, where the history of the comic article still existed. I am about to repair the history. In future can you move the article to the new title, then create the disambiguation page over the top of the redirect newly created? That way, the credit for the article content stays with the article itself. Thanks. - Mark 12:28, 25 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Or not. I can't split the history of the page, because of the block-compressed-revisions crap that prevents deletion of some articles (including Sparky). So it'll have to wait. :) - Mark 12:35, 25 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Fair enough. I didn't look too closely :) When the deletion is reactivated, we should be able to split that page's history up using the partial undelete feature. - Mark 03:16, 26 Mar 2005 (UTC)

My article has been edited.

Why did you get rid of my image?

Thorpe 14:08, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)


Stable Master?

Quill is brain dead. I created a stub at Stablemaster but now think it should be Stable Master. Elf is smart. Elf would know. I'll ask Elf. Quill 23:02, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)

"snafu"

"snafu" is a whole lot cooler name than "Elf", however "snafu" was already taken so I had to aquire "snafuu" instead. LINK REMOVED

Oh yeah, I read about von Braun designing Tomorrowland in my favourite book, Fast Food Nation

common icon for disambiguation pages — vfd

Pirate ahoy!

Howdy Elf. A long time ago you suggested I draw a cartoon for the pirate page. Well, I finally did. Go check it out! user:J.J. 8 May 2005

German language

"Ich habe ein Auto in der Hand." Ja nee, is klar! (Oh yes shure, stop smoking that stuff!)
Hihihihi... SCNR! (and never say "Ich stecke meinen Kopf in ein Schwein."!!!) Dickbauch 18:09, 16 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

hihihihi...but wash your ears afterwards... Dickbauch 20:19, 18 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Rubber duck

Thanks for the tip - I'll check it out right now. I think it's rooted in that I use the "Classic" WP skin while you probably use the default. - Brian Kendig 17:03, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Actually, I take that back - I can't reproduce the formatting problem with the default skin. What web browser are you using, and on what OS? It looks fine for me in Safari on Mac OS X. - Brian Kendig 17:04, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Eh, I don't feel strongly enough to edit war over it, if you want to change it, go ahead. RickK 23:25, Jun 15, 2005 (UTC)

Just - Hey!

Your name is all over my watch list right now, and I thought I'd come over to see who you were, and then I saw dogs, and then hemangiosarcoma, and then... well, I just had to say hi. My beloved Irish werewolf died quite unexpectedly of that, less than two months after her greyhound brother died of a more obvious cancer. This was back in 1993-94, but the recollection can still - ack, well, you must know. Anyway, hi. I'm relatively new, and tend to stick around the food areas unless in my wanderings around here I step on broken glass. --Mothperson 22:43, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC) press here to record complaints

Yes. I know exactly what you mean. It doesn't matter how old, or how long you've had them. I'm on my fifth and sixth. I no longer make myself crazy thinking about when they will leave. I just try to enjoy the loan. So, anyway, it's great to meet you - food, dogs, and all. I've only been around a few months, so I haven't really found my place here, if such a thing exists. But I'm still maniacal about the list of foods named after people, and don't ask me to explain why because I don't know. Yet.

I will probably come bugging you for advice, now that you've re-emerged. I hope you don't mind. If you do, you can ignore me. I just created my litter box, but now I'm wondering how to get it onto my user page section, because I know I have seen other people's sandboxes tabbed nicely into their regular user pages. Much to learn. --Mothperson 23:23, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Technicle Communiqueshun

What?! You don't think that " A technical communicator is a person whose job involves technical communication" clarifies the job immensely?
ROFL! :D -SV|t 23:02, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

articles watched

I am a believer in nothing in particular, so it amuses me to (obliquely) bother other people's sense of religion. No actual offense meant, of course. When I first saw your comment, I was scared I was going to be attacked (I've been having a, uh, disagreement with another user over some occult-related pages). I was glad to see it was only a friendly elf :) Lachatdelarue (talk) 22:43, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)