User:Jim62sch/archive2

Galicia

Recently WikiProject Galicia has been created. Perhaps you are interested in joining us to help improving Galicia articles at English Wikipedia. --Stoni^(talk) 14:18, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

I'm off the week after Christmas (yes, a week off!) and I'd be happy to pitch in at that time. Very interesting topic, I must say. One thing, could you send me a reminder around the 24th (I'm kind of like the absent-minded professor). Thanks, and I look forward to getting started. Jim62sch 17:27, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

Abadín

Is at User talk:Jim62sch/Sandbox.

To copy an article like this, first I started the Sandbox page, then (in a different window) I went to http://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abadín, selected "editar" (don't select "Versión para imprimir" because you won't get the WikiFormatting, even if you View Source), clicked in the middle of the edit window, selected all (ctrl-a on a Windows system and most Linux systems) copy (ctrl-c), tabbed over to the Sandbox I started, paste (ctrl-v) and voila.

You will have to do a little work besides translation. The templates don't exist on the English version (at least not by names given), Véxase tamén templates also, Category:Concellos galegos, and so on. Also the images must be copied. Let me know if you require further assistance (with the tables if you need it, but not with the translating!) KillerChihuahua^?!? 00:47, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

Optimus learning the ropes

Sorry about taking the wind out of your sails.  ;-) It's a gift. BTW, I put a note on his talk page.--ghost 16:52, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

ID Mediation request

Hi Marshill, Jim62sch and FeloniousMonk,

I notice that no mediator has yet responded to the request at WP:RFM/ID. Is there still a desire from the relevant parties to hold a mediation? If so, let me know, if not, I'll delete the request. — Asbestos | Talk (RFC) 22:00, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

3RR and vandalism

3RR does not apply to vandalism, such as the removal of the notes which the anon just did, or adding nonsense such as "THIS SUCKS" or similar edits. Revert to your heart's content. 3RR is about content. Be careful about what you consider vandalism, but if it is clear vandalism, it does not count. KillerChihuahua^?!? 23:27, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

I've seen that you speak romanian. Mult zgomot pentru nimic. Bonaparte talk 06:50, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

A little, but writing it is rather difficult. I'm better at reading it, although I will admit that terms of non-IE origin give me some difficulty (thus I must use a dictionary). Jim62sch 10:45, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

Missing article

You made me realize that we don't have an article on Glaucon. Not on any of them, in fact. Feel like writing one? Algae 10:47, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

Could be that prospective authors found it tricky to discern all the people who went by this name. I know I did. The guy from Plato's Republic is arguably the best known of the bunch, but in WP we also have a reference to a strategos Glaucon in Archons of Athens, and the reference in my previous comment lists a few more. Algae 11:50, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

Excellent plan. If people who blindly link to Glaucon end up on a disambig page, we can fix the links. This is a fairly common problem. Too many of these ancient Greek dudes share the same names. Even Plato is ambiguous as far as ancient Greeks go. Algae 18:37, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

English touch-ups

Yep, ah be shoor I ain't no pendantic perfesser. Me just thinque at an encyclopedier otter co-mand a lotta tension to de-tail. Carrionluggage 21:06, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

Didn't know that about Pound - hard to believe that old Eliot's headpiece was stuffed with straw, too - but if you say so - OK. A suitemate of mine in college went to visit Pound in what was then called an insane asylum (today a mental hospital) and reported that Pound was quite rational but was feigning insanity to avoid prosecution. Carrionluggage 21:22, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

Bullying

Thanks for the headup about the bullying thing. I'll watch with interest, but I don't want to get personally involved in Wikipolitics. Incidentally, while I can see that Ben has been a pain, I don't think FM's handling of him has displayed all those qualities of tact and diplomacy that might (might) have prevented things coming to this pass. PiCo 23:09, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know about it as well. I agree with PiCo that the situation hasn't been handled with as much care as it could have been, and I'm sure that FM's comment will be cited by Ben as further evidence of bullying. However, I still find Ben's misinterpretation of the duties of an admin (and indeed, any regular editor) to form consensus and keep articles factually accurate, informative, and NPOV as "bullying" to be problematic enough to warrant signing the comment. Thanks also for your comment on my rebuttal of Ben on the ID talk page (regarding the definition). I'm glad you don't take his personal attacks seriously, but whenever I can I'll help anyway by jumping in and deflect any ad hominems with real logic. -Parallel or Together? 02:33, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

Rods, etc.

Could you possibly clarify what your concern is with the comment I made on Theo's talk page? It's a grammatical mess, I know, but I'm worried that you have some deeper concern with it. KrazyCaley 19:45, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

(Reponse to comments on my talk page): Understood. I know of his pro-astrology POV, but the information he has to offer in this arena seems pretty legitimate. I will indeed take care, though. Thanks for the concern. KrazyCaley 20:01, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

Your comments

I was going to let your comments stay on my talk page for awhile until you began attacking me. If you do it again, you'll be reported and I've dealt with people like you before and they will ban you for 24 hours. --Jason Gastrich 21:13, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

Comment left on Jason'sd talk page (it'll no doubt be deleted)

• Translation from Gastrese: I had no intelligent rebuttal, so I deleted your comments from my page, as I do all others that are challenging or critical, and if you criticize me again on my page, I'm tellin'! - WarriorScribe 22:05, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

You may think that, I couldn't possibly comment...

See House of Cards for the origin of this useful phrase :-) You may be interested in Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Jason Gastrich. - Just zis  Guy, you know? ^[T]/_[C] AfD? 12:21, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

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n? He still does not seem to get it. :-) David D. (Talk) 21:54, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

Your sarcasm

Please don't expect me to speak to you on my user page. Your personal attacks and "sarcasm", as you call it, are unwanted. For someone like you, who has attacked me and done zero to encourage me or do anything positive in my eyes, your sudden attempt at sarcasm has been seen as offensive. In other words, leave me alone. I want nothing to do with you or your so-called brand of Christianity. Perhaps when the pain you've inflicted on me goes away, I will contact you and engage in some friendly sarcasm with you; since that's apparently what you want from me. --Jason Gastrich 00:23, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

Heaven forefend I should touch the Great One's page, so, if he wanders back this way again he can read this: You're as much a Christian as my dog. Jim62sch 00:31, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

He is a fundamentalist so anyone who doesn't exactly agree with him is "not a real Christian." Though, I tell you, I was raised fundamentalist. Original, old line, "we founded the movement" fundamentalist. I don't recall it being quite so ego driven as he's taken it. It's not even just you must agree to the same doctrine or you're "damned." It's you must agree with him or you're "damned." Mark K. Bilbo 00:38, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

I do not think Jason is a fundamentalist since he believes he can speak in tongues and can receive visions outside of the Bible.

I do not approve of Jason's stalking and harassment of me in Usenet.

Inside view by Perfecto

Thank you. --Perfecto

Ignorance is Bliss

Jim, please don't take this the wrong way, but I really think I would appreciate not being informed of hopefully-you-know-who's shenanigans. I tend to take things too seriously and find it difficult to just laugh it off, unlike you. I think I have a pretty good sense of humour but unfortunately it does get strained easily by cases like this.

I think I prefer to be an ignorant but blissful coconut. Unfortunately, I think HYKW is ignorantly blissful as well.Lovecoconuts 05:45, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

Ref-tag

Please consider using the new ref-tag when adding references. This recently created extension to the software makes adding references much simpler, in my opinion. See also Meta:Talk:Cite/Cite.php.

Simply adding a reference. Period. Named references are an option

The references appear when and there the <references/> tag is added:

No pressure, though. -- Ec5618 01:31, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

Intelligent design

Re: this diff, in fact, evolution is not a theory. Natural selection is a theory, evolution is a desriptive conceptual container for the observation of (among other things) the transmutation of species and adaption. See Evolution#Distinctions_between_theory_and_fact, Talk:Charles_Darwin#Evolution_is_a_fact_and_a_theory & [1]. Mikkerpikker ... 11:33, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

Projects

How are you coming along with User:Jim62sch/London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine? KillerChihuahua^?!? 12:33, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

Don't feed the trolls

FYI, Lumiere (talk · contribs) and Light current (talk · contribs) have been assessed to be trolling in the content policy pages WP:V and WP:NPOV. The more we respond the more they disrupt. Please do not engage them. Thanks. ≈ jossi ≈ t • @ 16:54, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

IC

Hello. You put in a remark about "IC" in a page on intelligent design, but I cannot find "IC" defined on that page, and also the link you added to the Chicago Tribune is not open to the public. Would appreciate your commenting (in the same place, probably) what IC is and perhaps a precis of what is on the Tribune link. Thanks Carrionluggage 02:57, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks I usually do not register with various sources, to avoid spam etc. I get the NY Times, Financial Times and a few others. I will take your word that the Trib has torpedoed IC once more, but, of course it is immortal. Carrionluggage 04:27, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

Email

Your email account is bouncing emails I send to you - error given is:

<<< 554-: (RLY:CH) http://postmaster.info.aol.com/errors/554rlych.html

<<< 554 TRANSACTION FAILED

554 5.0.0 Service unavailable

This is an issue with my email service, I think, and I will see what I can do about it.

KillerChihuahua^?!? 12:15, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

ID peer-review Issue

Hi Jim: Please don't allow anyone to be fooled by the assertion that "some" ID research has been published in peer-reviewed journals. Fact is NO ID research has been published in peer reviewed journals; all published articles to date are really grappling with the punctuated equilibrium and morphogenesis issues (the gaps in the fossil record). Not one uses the parameter "intelligent" or "intelligence" as Dembski tried to do and got rejected. No one will ever be able to cross the ID threshold unless the parameter "intelligence" is agreed upon. OF COURSE these studies HINT at intelligence-- that is the same argument that Heruclitus and Plato made 2500 years ago.

Nice try though. I'm going to lay low for awhile and see if the ID discussion is raised to another level of understanding. I appreciated our conversation...Kenosis 18:16, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

Hope the last set of organizational edits helped the cause somewhat. No content edits, just organization and syntax stuff. Take care.Kenosis 08:13, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

Anglicize

What does this word mean?? It most likely means to make English out of from another language. What language was it in before your edit?? Georgia guy 01:25, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

It was Amerrikun. See article talk page for details. KillerChihuahua^?!? 01:27, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

That would pretty well sum it up. Jim62sch 01:35, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

That Richard Amerik has a lot to answer for. Prefer Scotticise meself. ..dave souza, talk 01:38, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

Maurician? KillerChihuahua^?!? 01:40, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

Watch it, ot I'll just rewrite the damned article in Klingon. ;P Jim62sch 01:57, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

Edit summaries

Dear Jim. Please use the edit summaries judiciously, and only to explain your edit. Edit summaries are very visible, and using them to make comments about other editors, is not a good use of these. Please remember WP:CIVIL and WP:NPA. Thank you. ≈ jossi ≈ t • @ 03:25, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

Left on Jossi's page w/o response: Jossi, yes, you have a good point. I assume you notified others, yes? Also, it is rather difficult to be WP:CIVIL when certain editors are being WP:DENSE, have little clue of WP:CON and amusingly use WP:NPOV to cover their POV edits. Jim62sch 12:32, 25 March 2006 (UTC)