User talk:Aude/Archive3

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Notice

The Community Portal was recently reverted to a version that appeared months ago. Therefore, I've called for a vote to restore to the Community Portal the version that had developed here up until that reversion. There are three drafts competing for the privilege, each representing entirely different approaches, including the current revert version. To show your support for which design should be displayed as the Community Portal, VOTE HERE. Sincerely, --Go for it! 18:14, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

draft mix

I've got the colours/titles working. User:Quiddity/sandbox2

I Don't have a contents box. or a title-header box. (cant figure out alternatives yet)

Can we get the wikiprojects/portals to bump to the bottom of the CBB somehow?

feel free to edit that sandbox. --Quiddity 03:03, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

I like what you have done there. We can't move the wikiprojects/portal box to the bottom, though. The same template is used on all the drafts and the current community portal. I think it looks fine, how you have it. --Aude (talk | contribs) 03:28, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

Possibly you have a large screen? at 1024x768 there is a large blank space immediately under the portal box. looks quite silly. is way worse at 800x600. I can take screen shot if you need :) --Quiddity

Okay, I see what you mean. The issue has to do with width of the box, and width of the text (particular words). I de-hyphenated "Wikipedia-related" and now some more text should show next to the box. But the word "announcments" causes the text to wrap below the box and still leaves white space. I'm not sure of a good fix for this, though. --Aude (talk | contribs) 04:04, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

One option would be to make a copy of the CBB somewhere, edit the layout of the WikiProjects/Portals, and transclude that. But, we can't tweak too much with the current CBB. --Aude (talk | contribs) 04:07, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

If we decrease the width and font of the wikiprojects box, everything will work better. plus the box won't be quite as drastically "bold" as it is. I'll be bold and try it out. --Quiddity 04:12, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

Well, it works great now. I don't know if "they"'ll like the changes though. --Quiddity

Re: announcements - take your pick ;) --Quiddity

It looks okay for me on the current Community Portal and the drafts. --Aude (talk | contribs) 04:30, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

I dont know if you want to add User:Kmf164/Workshop to the CP drafts list (i just moved/added the commons-colours draft to the list). Although i am against icons in general, they did seem to have some support, and this is the best version i've seen that includes any. --Quiddity 18:23, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

If you wish to add it, that's fine. It was an attempt to begin to integrate the best aspects of all the drafts and try to move forward with just one draft. --Aude (talk | contribs) 18:29, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

Entry on User:Kmf164/WPindex-l

Hi. I have moved Wikipedia:Little Ipswich to Little Ipswich and made it into a redirect. Your index came up when I checked for double redirects. Here to tell you about it instead of simply removing the link because I don't like to unilaterally edit other people's userpages. I'm also not sure what the intended purpose of the index is, and thus whether deleting the link is appropriate. --Fuhghettaboutit 03:44, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

Main Page departments

The only reason I included this section on the Community Portal is because these links are not available on the Main Page, and because they are not easily accessible from the Main Page either (except for one). The only reason I knew where they were was because I got involved behind the scenes, at which time I had to track them down one by one. Go to the Main page, and try to find the path to these pages from there, and you'll see what I mean.

Another consideration is that all the departments of Wikipedia should be accessible from a single list. Though I agree that since the Featured content now has a prominent link on the nav menu, those departments are ubiquitous and don't need to be redundantly reported in the Wikipedia by Department section on the Community Portal. --Go for it! 19:55, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

• The idea of putting the "Community Bulletin Board" in the left navigation bar is intriguing. I agree somewhat with the comments about the size of the navigation bar, though possibly the CBB could replace one of the other lines (e.g. "Current events" - linked on the main page anyway). As for the Main Page departments, that's an issue to address with the main page itself. For example, with "Did you know", there could be a link there for "suggesting items". We should address some of these issues to cut back the amount of information (where covered elsewhere), along with different colors, cleanup the coding, and some other tweaks while it's in the draft stage. --Aude (talk | contribs) 20:44, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

You mean the blue box near the top right of Talk:Main Page?  ;-) -Quiddity 01:07, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

Ah, yes you're right. That should be sufficient, and I think we ought to remove that section from the Community Portal. --Aude (talk | contribs) 01:14, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

Cbb

Be my guest to take over :) I am out for another week or two and I haven't been following up with what's happening on Com portal or CBB or WP in general. However, CBB needs someone dedicated to look over it, because people don't archive. They just list their news and leave. Renata 21:50, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

I'll keep my eye on it. The CBB is definitely a good idea, but we're still working out the optimal way to include it in the Community Portal. Thanks. --Aude (talk | contribs) 21:54, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

Guidance on what to do next?

Hi Kmf. You and I haven't had any direct interaction, but you are an active admin I've seen around so I figured I should ask you this question. I have had a request for comment on a potential policy shift up for a while. I was wondering what the next step would be to actually try and alter Wikipedia policy? A vote of some kind? Would this have to be admin endorsed? I ask because adding enforcement power to RFCs is still just a proposal, so clearly this alone has no actual force. Staxringold 22:10, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

The CIA and September 11 (book)

I hate pestering people's talk pages about AFD votes (or votes at all... it's very bad form really) but I've just done a huge amount of work on this article, and it is probably 80% different from when you nominated for deletion. I have found a large number of English language references, and I have used <cite> so any reader or editor can identify where each individual statement in the article came from. That ought to deal with WP:V and WP:RS. As for notability, you can make your own decision: the relevant guideline says "Usually, books with an ISBN-number and/or availability in a couple dozen of libraries and/or a Project Gutenberg type website, and with a notability above that of an average cookbook or programmers manual would qualify". Which doesn't help really, since it's entirely subjective how you are going to compare notability of a best-selling paranoid gutter-press fantasy to a cookbook! If you rank this as below an average cookbook, I'm not going to argue with you :) TheGrappler 04:12, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

I know it's not nominator's decision to close, but thought you'd be worth asking. It generated quite a lot of press internationally, which is why I was so surprised it was up for deletion. And 100,000 copies is a lot for a "non-fiction" (hehe...). The press coverage was, I felt, worth going with (especially when there was interviews with the author, which are enlightening since they make clear how equivocal the guy is - he doesn't actually make concrete claims about CIA involvement etc, just makes a bunch of insinuations, claims it's not up to him to come up with a substantive falsifiable theory, and that the burden of proof is on the US government to disprove that they were responsible for 9/11 - which is pretty loony really) and also there was some "meta-critical" commentary (i.e. Newsweek suggests the Spiegel's apparently journalism-focused piece was actually a "playtime's over folks, we've got to get serious now" response, and midly hypocritical too). It helped to place things in context - I don't think that many readers literally believe that the CIA was behind 9/11, even if they believe the CIA could have done more to stop it - the press coverage helps to point out that most readers took at least a pinch of salt when reading it. And there's also no way to talk about the row within the German publishing industry it caused without going to press cuttings. Even when it gets published in English, the majority of the article will only be sourced to press anyway (reviews and so on), since it isn't going to get academic commentary, and how a books so ambivalent gets interpreted by editors here would be subject to such a huge amount of POV that in the end I'm sure we'd have to reinforce any "this book claims ...." not just by giving a page reference, but by stating what a reviewer felt the book was claiming. "Whispers in the dark" and "shades of grey" isn't nearly getting there, this guy is incrediby elusive about what he actually believes, or believes to have been possible. Probably because his story would either be less sensational if he was straight with us, or because he'd sound like an even bigger nutter if he had to actually back up his beliefs... TheGrappler 04:50, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

RFC

Hi, I have started an RFC on User:Go for it! Your input and additions would be appreciated. Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Go_for_it!. thanks. -Quiddity 05:00, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

I added a few links. I'll work on writing up a statement. I really regret that this dispute has come to this point, though. --Aude (talk | contribs) 05:34, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

Community Portal redesign

Someone has changed the Community Portal design saying that consensus was reached. After reading the discussion, it doesn't seem like consensus was reached at all. I left a comment about this on the talk page of Community Portal — J3ff 16:28, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

signpost

Thanks for the quick response! Sabine's Sunbird talk 17:28, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

Goforit's RFC

Hi, regarding Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Go for it!, there has been much editing of the initial statement since you signed it. Please read it again and/or consider changing your edits/your signature to avoid the impression of inadequate procedure. Thank you. Kosebamse 20:53, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

Portal:Speculative fiction/Article announcements

Thanks for reformatting and linking Portal:Speculative fiction/Article announcements :) Ahasuerus 23:24, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

User:HereToHelp/sandbox

Hey, just saw your comment on my talk page. I've made some improvements (see my description) and it looks really good, with one flaw: I can't get the columns aligned properly. You wouldn't know how to do this, would you?--HereToHelp 02:47, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

Colours

just fyi, i copied your table from the mainpage redesign to Wikipedia_talk:Colours. i didnt want to lose it in archives, or have to keep it bookmarked ;) also a question there you may know the brief answer to. thanks. --Quiddity 01:02, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

{{welcomepol}}

That's a good template. I think it's extremely important to customize the template for the individual one is welcoming, so the paramater is great. You might be interested in {{subst:User:Iamthejabberwock/Welcome}}, which is even more personalized. TheJabberwock 03:06, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

you erased important information

Hello

In your WTC article, you deleted a simple link to an alternative view of the WTC collapse. In all your research, have you made it to Physics911.net?

I invite you to view this video and judge for yourself: Produced by reasearch from American PhDs, engineers, professors http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8260059923762628848

You'll find answers to these burning questions:

1) How jet fuel (most of which flew out of the crashing jets) that burns at 1300F maximum softened steel (melts at 1800F) all the way down to the bottom of both buildings. Is that possible?

2) See the pictures: Why there was only a 16 foot hole in the Pentagon from an apparent jet crash. Why did the FBI confiscated the cameras that showed the crash as it happened from a gas station and a traffic cam. Where was the debris from the crash of the plane into the Pentagon

3) Where was all the debris from the crash of flight 93? The people on the scene including the coroner saw no bodies and minimal damage on the ground.

4) Why is Osama bin Laden wearing a gold watch in that "confession video", which his religion prohibits and using his right hand to write whereas the CIS website states he is a lefty. WHy does he look nothing like the photos that we know of him?

5) How did the builidings collapse perfectly into their own footprint, something that demolition experts contend can only be done with a controlled explosion of highest skill.

6) Why was there molten steel at the sub basement levels of the WTC? heat from 1000 feet up? not possible. see the pictures for yourself. Was that due to thermite explosions from bombs placed? Why were dozens of firefighters telling of explosions that day coming from under them as they climbed to the top of the towers that day?

7) How did complete amateurs learn to fly jumbo jets so skillfully?

8) How come at least 7 of them are alive today?

The World Trade Center article is not the place for the link. Please see 9/11 conspiracy theories. --Aude (talk | contribs) 15:10, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

WP:ARCHIVES

Hi again! Given the opinion you gave at the request for comment on archives I thought you might be interested to know the issue has now been put to a straw poll and could use your vote! Staxringold 00:46, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

Mutual funds

Wow. -- ALoan (Talk) 13:12, 13 April 2006 (UTC)}}

response

i have added photographs and measurements to the flight 77 site, nothing more. these photos are vital for users of the site to make a fair and informed decision about the validity or otherwise of any 'conspiracies' (which i repeat I have not added any reference to). I am not a conspiracy theorist, I am interested only in the truth.

I was wondering...

I was wondering if you would be able to help me. ARe images fromt this website able to be used? http://212.84.179.117/list.htm... it does say they are free to be used by all...Sotakeit 12:15, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

Interesting Talk

I like what you have done with your talk makes easy to use. Does anyone actually use it though? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Nexus Goof (talk • contribs) 16:04, April 18, 2006.

search

talking of search, could i request your input at the Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#Highlight_search_box thread? (I'm currently favouring a darker gray border, sitewide. I don't think we'll get enough support to move the box itself further up, though i like that idea too.) --Quiddity 22:36, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

More tools

Go to my userpage and make a copy of the Wikipedia-links I have, and I do have all of them. This is more tools for you. Martial Law 22:48, 20 April 2006 (UTC) :)

Maps

I knwo i addres this issues on the Metro Project, but this is something else. I need a set of maps done up for a set of articles. I dont know if you have the time to do this, but if you dont would you be allbe to pass this on or recomend me to some one else to get this done. --Boothy443 | trácht ar 06:32, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

What exactly are the articles and maps you need? If it's fairly simple (like Metro diagrams), I might consider. I'm not sure I can fulfill your requests in a timely manner, as I have some older requests that need to do first. I think the best bet is to list your requests on Wikipedia:WikiProject_Maps/Requested_and_orphan_maps and/or contact other users listed on Wikipedia:WikiProject_Maps. If after a month (or so), you still need the maps, feel free to ask me again and maybe I'll have cleared up my backlog. --Aude (talk | contribs) 13:42, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

Help with categories

I'm still pretty inexperienced, and hesitate to create a new category without help and/or supervision. I've been trying to create a new category for "Superintendents of the United States Military Academy", but keep getting stuck in a loop. Am I missing something?

Must I do something with the Superintendents article page?

Do I have to make the category a subcategory of US Army officers or some such?

wiki:categories is so broad, I'm not sure I see what I'm doing wrong. Thanks! BusterD 00:02, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

Never mind, I figured it out. Thanks! BusterD 01:09, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

Digiterata

Normal Nick had poor English and a distinctive style. I'm not convinced that Digiterata is him, though the writing I see is all short boiler-plate, so it's hard to tell. Just haveing a sock isn't grounds for blocking, unless it's used abusively. In any case it looks like he's close to violating 3RR, unless he's been very careful in his changes. If Normal Nick shows up and starts reverting to Digiterata's version... Tom Harrison ^Talk 21:52, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

World Trade Centre

I feel that an article abour the WTC should include facts about their destruction. The lack of facts surrounding the collapse of WTC7 is unusual - this should also be commented upon. Silverstein's 'pulled' remark should be included - as it is a fact - i agree that speculation about what the remark may mean should be developed in another section/article. To label any fact which questions the offical story of 9/11 as a'Conspiracy Theory' is essentially a form of fundamentalism. Surely as many people as possible should be made aware of Silverstein's remarks. What is happening over there in the land of the free, home of the brave? I also fail to understand the warning i have been issued with, Yours, Andrew - Manchester,Europe —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jackspinner (talk • contribs)

3RR

I think you would be violating the rule if you reverted him again. It would be better to wait and see if someone else opposes his edits. Turn-around on 3RR has been pretty good lately. Tom Harrison ^Talk 17:53, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

Hi

Hi. I just wanted to let you know that TuzsuzDeliBekir is evading his block by going anonymous. What should we do? —Khoikhoi 15:12, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

Ok, thanks. —Khoikhoi 00:01, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

Snappy!

now that's some fast feedback!

i was actually just wondering if you had any advice on the whole "highlight search box" thing. I figure i should just let it drop into archives; I only suggested it in the first place to help remove the redundant search box from the MainPage redesigns! Unless you think it's worth reinvigorating, that's probably what i'll do. (i fully grok that hundreds of interesting suggestions disappear into archives, and that's ok, theyre there somewhere, or still in the collective subconscious as it were..) just thinking outloud really. </ramble> --Quiddity 00:12, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

It's just my personal opinion, but the longer I had the search box highlighted in various ways (yellow background color, orange and gray border), I liked it less. It was worth pursuing though. Perhaps it would be better to swap the position of the search box and navigation box, but I can't really test that out myself. And, such a change would most likely affect all languages and sister projects. I think the best thing to do right now is work on Wikipedia:Searching. Maybe try out some of the suggestions (e.g. LuMriX) and see if they really work, etc. --Aude (talk | contribs) 00:20, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

DC maps

Let me know if you need any help on maps for the DC area, I'm not sure I'll have much time for making maps, but I may have GIS files that you can use left over from my work on http://www.fantasymaps.com/greenmap/. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kmusser (talk • contribs)

I'm busy with other things right now, but have collected GIS files that I need for the DC area from various sources and will get around to making some maps. Though, I'll let you know if I'm looking for something in particular and see if you can help. --Aude (talk | contribs) 19:38, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

Re: Arabic names

Very good. I personally don't care much about the formatting, but your approach clearly makes the most sense. What I strongly object to is CrazyInSane's deletion of Arabic names for no good reason (see e.g. [1]). --MarkSweep (call me collect) 19:08, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

From looking at the Arabic naming convention/style pages (albeit just proposals at this point), as well as the Japanese naming convention page, it seems to be common practice to include the name, as written in the native language. Those are the guidelines I suggest going with here. Hopefully it's agreeable to everyone. --Aude (talk | contribs) 19:14, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

Hope you don't mind, but I fixed some small formatting problems on your "Arabic names" subpage; the right-left scripting of Arabic creates problems with any numbers that follow after the script, and that's what I fixed. —Saposcat 19:59, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

Not a problem. It's helpful to know about the ltr tag. --Aude (talk | contribs) 20:14, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

reverts

I have one more left. yes I will collaborate on this.. A new section or whatever. But really this is crucial and needs to be at the top of article. It was an international (albeit us-led) institution. Quickly show me where my reverts are 3RR. -- max rspct leave a message 21:03, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

Very funny. That's one revert and two edits! It's not called 3RR for nothing.. -- max rspct leave a message 21:15, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

I will revert again if u don't reply to what i have claimed above. max rspct leave a message 21:25, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

Sorry wont happen again

Larry Silverstein

User:Ombudsman's revert of the Larry Silverstein pull quote seems to me to be done in bad faith: Objections to its inclusion were by you and I on the talk page and he did not address them.

The edit summary of "rv: restore noteworthy section regarding pull it quote; the matter of Silverstein's relations to persons and entities that stood to gain are well documented, by Don Paul among many others" is full of speculation. More questions: What insight about "relations" is contained in the quote?

Where does the quote show that Silverstein "stood to gain" from abandoning 7 World Trade Center? Objectively speaking, Silverstein couldn't override the judgments being made by the Fire Department at the Chief and Commissioner level at the scene to abandon, not abandon the building -- apart from the speculation that the building was destroyed by controlled demolition.

The quote is only noteworthy where it already appears, namely in the 9/11 conspiracy theories article patsw 12:54, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

I removed the quote and cut all references to loose change. Doesn't belong on the Larry Silverstein page. --Aude (talk | contribs) 19:35, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

Hello

Hi KMf164,

I think you misunderstand. My name is Alex and I am not an advertiser or spammer. I've added links to ARTICLES. Not advertising. Please stop editing my contributions. I am NOT violating rules. Nor am I posting links to a site of mine. About.com is a subsidiary of the NY Times, and the links I've posted are to relevant articles.

Before you delete anything I have posted, please have the courtesy to check the link and the srticle I am linking to.

Best,

Alex

Understood, and I plan to contribute more to wikipedia than just links. but for the time being, please leave in place what I've already add, as a courtesy. I promise to balance out future contributions, with insightful edits to content as well. Good luck.

Alex

Re Spam

you are correct by the way I have been adding links to a particular website - to in fact About.com.

You may not be yet aware, but Wikipedia and About.com are (or will be shortly) officially collaborating to improve wikipedia.

As such, the links are provided to support the users experience, and offer additional content users may want. The links are chosen very specifically, (if you'll check for yourself) add addtional info.

But like I said before, my plan to contribute with more than just links.

Best,

Alex —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Aandrei (talk • contribs) .

Hamilton-Wenham Regional High School (and related pages)

Is it possible you could delete that page, and the others relating to it?

I forgot to ask proper authority before editing the pages. AgentFade2Black 01:39, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives by decade, 1990's, new table format

Please see my comments regarding your sudden reformatting of this page, in which you made it into a table, inconsistent with the other related pages. I am trying to see it objectively (since I did most of the initial build up of those pages before the agressive table format you turned the one single page into), but I really don't see how the table you forced it into is an improvement. My preference is for it to be reverted back. Also, you did quite a few edits to the content, which was a bit aggressive, at the same time as the format change, losing links to specific profiles, thumbnails, etc. Since you are an administrator, I don't want to simply revert the page and undo all of your table work, without at least your response on why you did all this, and what you plan to do to (future tables? cleanup? consistency??) the rest of those pages before I put any more substantial work into them. I don't really care to waste a lot of my own time, if it is just going to be all undone by you after the fact. I am not sure about the protocol, with you being an administrator, or if there needs to be any discussion about major page format changes, such as the one you did. Any response is welcome. If the page can be put back, would that have to be before anybody else makes content changes there? Or is any discussion warranted? It seems as if huge page changes like that should at least receive the courtesy of a note on the discussion page, at the same time as the changes are made, if not before. Yet you left no explanation, not even in the notes lines of your edits, other than the single word "format." Sorry for the long message, but I am at a loss, and I need some sense of where this stands, since I had planned to add quite a bit more to the content Steven Russell 06:45, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

See Talk:FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives by decade, 1990's.

Request for Comments on Current events

Hello Aude/Archive3 –

I'm trying to get some discussion going on two proposals regarding the current events page, but so far have gotten little to no response. Since you have recently edited the current events page, I'm asking for your input on these two proposals:

• One proposal (this is the big one) involves putting the daily events from the current events pages into article-templates, a lá the monthly pages from 2003 to 2005, as well and having a consistent number of recent days on the current events page instead of a monthly archive. This would allow for the current events page and the respective month pages to be updated simultaneously without the monthly archival. For more, see the current events talk page.

• Another proposal involves merging the content of the regional current events pages (such as British and Irish current events and Canadian current events) into fewer continental articles. For more, see the current events WikiProject talk page.

Your input on one or both of these issues would be appreciated. joturner 22:23, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

Maryland

I know you from the district but was wondering if you not mind glancing over the the Maryland article especially the cultural identity section, and maybe give your opinion, it seems to be getting out of hand. --Boothy443 | trácht ar 03:46, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

Responded on Talk:Maryland --Aude (talk | contribs) 20:45, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

re:References font-size

Thanks for the advice...I am an "idiot" when it comes to computers...I don't have a Monobook...what is that anyway...you would think since I have been around for a year and a half and have 15,000 edits, I would be able to better figure stuff out. You may want to discuss this issue with patsw, unl;ess he also has his font set the way he wants it. As a further complication, my graphics card or something is vapor locking and, well, every page I go to I need to adjust...on and off wiki. If you're bored, do a read through of Glacier National Park (US)...Elkman and I have been pretty busy on it and associated stuffs for about three weeks now. Thanks.--MONGO 07:07, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

Time-Life Building

Nice work with the moves, I don't know how to do that. Perhaps I could get you to correctly set up the disambiguation page/links for Michael Fitzpatrick? Keep up the good wikipedia-ing! Cornell Rockey 13:02, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

Responded on your talk page --Aude (talk | contribs) 20:55, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

Black Death

Hi- when reverting to a prior version, if the prior version is by an anon user, it's a good bet there is vandalism involved. [2]. Vandals use that trick a lot. -- Stbalbach 18:16, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

Images

I noticed that you seem to have a lot of experience with image uploading. I recently uploaded an image: Image:Woodruff.jpeg that I'm unsure how to classify for copyright purposes. I have received permission to use the image in the Michael Woodruff article, but not a full release (see the image's discussion page for more information) and I'm not sure which category that is. So, if you could please help me figure it out, that would be awesome. Thank you. Cool3 21:48, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

Thank you very much for your clarification. Cool3 23:47, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

Could you please delete image:woodruff.jpeg. I have contacted the copyright holder about licensing the image, but they will not be able to respond for a week or two. As such, I feel that it would be best if the image was removed until they have reached a decision. Thanks! Cool3 13:26, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks! Cool3 20:45, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

Responded on your talk page. --Aude (talk | contribs) 20:45, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

Portal:Box-header

You seem to know the workings of Portal:Box-header, so maybe you can help me. In many portals, images don't display correctly in IE; depending on the formatting, they may appear, not appear, or find their way to the bottom of the page, below all other content (for example, the biography picture on Portal:Technology). From testing in userspace, it looks like removing the final "position: relative" from Portal:Box-header fixes the problems, but I don't know enough about CSS to know if that will cause other problems.--ragesoss 01:21, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

Responded on Portal talk:Box-header. --Aude (talk | contribs) 20:45, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

209.77.222.37

Just FYI, even though it's a shared IP for an entire school district, every single edit from them, with the possible exception of Cyclopia, is vandalism (occasionally self-reverted, usually not). Seems to me like if y'all aren't actually going to ban them all, putting up more ineffectual ban warnings is probably just encouraging further vandalism. cab 16:41, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

Houston McCoy

• Thanks for the revert of the anonymous editor. I blocked he/she/it indefinitely and deleted their last edit to that talk page. Johntex\^talk 02:06, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

Portal graphics template

Thanks for the notice. I'll hold it up. Thanks. -- Szvest 18:49, 11 May 2006 (UTC) ^{Wiki me up&#153;}

Cheers issue

Hi Kmf, sorry to bother you but you are the first admin I could think of to bring this to. Chcknwnm removed the spoiler template from the Cheers article sections under "Plot" that contain spoilers. I reverted this change, he reverted it back adding a note on the talk page, and I reverted it back after explaining my position. He has reverted it a second time and threatened administrative intervention (which seems like quite a leap) at Talk:Cheers#Spoiler should I violate the WP:3RR and return the article to its beginning state. This threat rather ties my hand as either leaving Cheers in it's spoilerriffic state with no warnings or risk tarnishing my reputation as an editor just for trying to keep new fans from having their experience of the show ruined. Could you, as a third party and an administrator, take a quick look, add your opinion, and potentially add/keep removed the spoiler tags depending on what you think? Thanks! Staxringold 13:20, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

Ah well, thanks for the reply, I've brought it up at the template talk. Staxringold 14:50, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

Maps of Historic North America

Hi, I'm an avid contributer to the german wikipedia, not specialiced but attracted to US topics. Right now, I'm planning to write about Jedediah Smith, one of the most interesting trappers or mountain men in the 1820s. You seem to be the person to ask map related questions. Do you know a map somewhere in the wikipedia sytem (en, commons, etc), that shows the western part of North America (from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean) with some kind of relief and shading for mountains and all of the rivers, plus maybe the modern state borders to help with orientation, but no modern cities, highways, railways and the like? If not, is there someone or somewhere I can ask to create a map like this? I believe it would be tremendously useful for all kinds of articles on the western frontier in all the wikimedia projects. Thanks in advance. --h-stt !? 14:50, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

The best suggestion I can offer right now is to use something from nationalatlas.gov. It provides options for using shaded relief as a layer, as well as other options. At some point, it's possible that I could make something better than that, but don't have the time right now to do so. --Aude (talk | contribs) 20:54, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

That's a pretty cool site. I think I can make something from it. Thanks for the link. --h-stt !? 21:07, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

Amy333

The spammer Amy333 is back again as James lee. Kindly help to block her/him. Thank you.

U.S. Government portal

Excellent idea on creating the U.S. Government portal. May I suggest that the portal includes exclusively articles and material concerning the federal government; I believe that an entirely separate portal can be created for State Government in the United States.

Please do not hesitate to ask if I can assist with the portal in any way. Paul 04:25, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

Responded on your talk page. --Aude (talk | contribs) 21:19, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

Care to review?

[3]--MONGO 20:36, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

Antarctica article

Could you please explain the reason for your removal of the picture 'Austral ice'? Apcbg 20:24, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, it seems okay now. Apcbg 21:11, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

RfA

I notcied that you've left messages for Cool3 on his talk page, so I thought you mihgt want to vote in his RfA at WP:RFA. ShortJason 15:13, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

WikiProject U.S. Supreme Court cases

I have recently begun reviving the Supreme Court case project since the founder is inactive. You're welcome to drop on by and help us out if you are still interested. There's also a discussion going at the project's talk page. Enjoy your Memorial Day! btw, why are you particularly interested in Roper? I guess everyone has a favorite SCOTUS case but me.--Kchase02 (T) 06:41, 29 May 2006 (UTC) Kmf, I also wanted to complement you on your dogged advocacy of the US gov't portal. I don't understand the opposition from Worldtraveller. It seems like a reasonable and even necessary portal to me. --Kchase02 (T) 07:07, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

Another update

See here. Thanks. Carcharoth 13:08, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

7wtc

How lucky for you that you have multiple people helping you to suppress information. Congratulations. — goethean ॐ 18:33, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

Portal Politics

Hi, I've just added picture for up to December. They are all featured pictures on Commons. However that now is all the pictures which relate to politics and are featured and are on commons used up. However, by 2007 there should be some more on there, hopefully. With regards to the politics portal I'm happy to help out maintaining it, and if there's anything specific that needs doing leave me a message. --Wisden17 13:11, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the great work. Any help with the portal is definitely welcome and needed. If you see something that needs to be done, feel free and do it. --Aude (talk | contribs) 13:16, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

Portal:United States Government

Your proposal to create a Portal:United States Government has been accepted. To create the portal, please see Wikipedia:Portal/Instructions. On a personal note, I'd request that effort be made at Portal:United States to cover the topic before a separate portal is created for it. Moreover, it would be great if Portal:United States could be brought up to scratch before any attention is deflected from it. Thanks, --cj | talk 11:50, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

I agree about Portal:United States. It should be brought up to near featured status, first. (as Portal:Politics is) --Aude (talk | contribs) 11:53, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

Crime in Mexico

Hi there, and thanks for all your help on Crime in Mexico. Over the past month or so, we have been turning it from a piece of junk that was at AfD to something worthwhile. I hope someday to get it featured. Cheers, Aguerriero (talk) 12:31, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

Poetry portal

I was wondering if you could help me out on the poetry portal. My formatting skills are nonexistent, so right now it is in a state of disarray. I've encountered some strange, strange problems that I cannot understand. Once I have the fundamentals down (format), I can take it from there.-- Thanks, Adambiswanger1 16:50, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

wiki spam from Wikiproject Spam Member. Help!

I am seeking your help because you are listed as a particpant in anti-spam efforts at Wikipedia. I have not been able find out how to effectively contact someone regarding a user(company) that continually removes valid, informative external links, and replaces them with a link to promote their corporate services.

While this certainly not a unique situation, the disturbing fact is that user mezuri is supposedly a member of WikiProject Spam. Please look at the "home automation" section and look at the "custom install" link as well as the history page. They claim to be removing commerical links but are only promoting there own company.

What can be done about this situation? Who can I contact?

 I want to make legitimate contributions to Wikipedia including a glossary link for this particular page in question but I dont want have my work removed and continually replaced with commercial promotion by a member of 

"Wikiproject Spam".

Thank You,

Jerid (user Nextec)

CrazyRussian's RfA

File:Motherussia.jpg

Hello Kmf164, and thank you for your non-doubting support at my request for adminship, which ended with an awe-inspiring 86/1/2 result. I plan to do much with my shiny new tools - but I'll start slow and learn the ropes at first. Please deluge me with assignments and requests - I enjoy helping out. For Mother Russia!! - CrazyRussian talk/contribs/email 05:02, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

My posting of links regarding selected-phonetic words

Thanks for your notice.

I am new to Wickipedia.

I have written dozens of pages on this subject and am compiling a list of words (3,400 so far) which srtrictly conform, phonetically, to a set of rules I developed. I am willing to put this all in the public dpmain.

All of this is pro bono publico and I am willing to collaborate with others to develop the rules and put together a comprehensive list of words which conform.

How do I get this before Wickipedia for general consideration?

I am willing to copy and paste from my site -- but it seems the long way around.

The following URL has links to most of the information -- for your quick review.

http://www.buenavistaelementary.com/selectedphoneitclinks.html

You can respond to: martinrc@adelphia.net -- or on the Wickipedia website

Maps and more maps

I know we had this conversation before about the software you used to create maps such as the one for Acadia National Park...but I have forgotten what you mentioned. Another gentleman was also wondering...the conversation is here if you care to chime in. Thanks!--MONGO 01:46, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

You did it! Shoshone National Forest now has a real map!...the Feds need you to give them some lessons...thank you very much...you know, they are always looking for GIS people...I see their openings all the time.--MONGO 10:16, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

How I can edit the Eurovision portal??

How I can edit the section "Selected artist" from the portal of Eurovision???

user:Philby_power

I thought that you should know that user:Philby_power is not a sockpuppet of user:GarrettRock, I know that for a fact, as I know user:Philby_power in person, however I don't suggest you unblock him as he is likely to vandalise, as his ip's are user:220.239.253.3 and user:211.30.199.85 (this one has been blocked twice) and was using wikipedia mostly for vandalism.--Tnarg 12345 06:43, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

sorry it took so long

• Talk:Oklahoma_City_bombing#re_Additional_explosives

Best wishes, &#151; Xiutwel (talk) 09:53, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

My (Mtz206) RfA

Thanks (officially) for supporting me in my RFA. My Request was successful with 41 supports, 12 opposes and 5 neutrals, and I'll do my best to live up to your expectations. If in any point in the future you get the feeling I'm doing something wrong, do not hesitate to drop me a line. -- mtz206 (talk) 02:38, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

Barnstar

Thank you very much. I hope I can continue to improve these portals and live up to it. Estrellador* 17:53, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

What after loosing Afd of CVU

I think problems remain.Comments were prejudiced and most of them were ill-informed.Can I ask for change of name of the CVU which does not suggest they have some special powers.Holywarrior 17:05, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

Tall buildings

tall ones

I think as far as tall buildings go...there rate them in numerous ways and I will try and find the links I once saw that dicusses whether the building is measured as the tallest point of the building, be it a mast or antenna, the tallest finished surface that is a part fo the main structure or the tallest living/working area. I believe that the Sear Tower is still the tallest one based on occupied floor, whereby others built more recently are taller if you count decorative design. I know that the Chrysler building was considered to be the worlds first building over 1,00 feet, but obviously that the occupied floors are well below this point. Lets hold off on doing a "did you know" until we have more clarification about the height of 200 Greenwich Street.--MONGO 04:23, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

Maybe we can see what these folks have to say about it...Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat--MONGO 04:27, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

But 200 Greenwich Street won't compare in height to the Fordham Spire and Burj Dubai--MONGO 04:34, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

Piscataway Park

Since you suggested it :)

Did you know? has been updated. A fact from the article Piscataway Park, which you recently nominated, has been featured in that section on the Main Page. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

• Cheers -- Samir धर्म 04:40, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

Barnstar

		The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
		For your countless quality contributions on North American related topics, I, Qyd, offer you this Barnstar

Portal

Thanks for supporting the proposal to create a portal for U.S. government (and politics?) topics. The proposal passed, and I copied my draft over the the portal namespace. It's at Portal:Government of the United States. If you would like to help keep the portal updated (especially anything relating to the Supreme Court), feel free to stop by the portal talk page or just go in and make any improvements or changes you see fit. In its current state, the portal is just a starting point. My interests are more with criminal justice aspects of government & politics, though will do whatever portal updates needed. Thanks again for the support. --Aude (talk contribs) 03:04, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

Awesome. I added some things related to SCOTUS cases. Two questions. Do you have any preference about press sources I used all NY Times, but you seemed to have a diversity of CNN, Fox News, etc. Also, do you want to have any coverage of the fourth estate itself, or just the traditional three branches of government? I think something middle of the road, like the administration's reaction to newspapers revealing all its secretive counter-terrorism stuff, would be appropriate.--Kchase02 T 03:49, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

I'm open to whatever ideas you and others have. The news stories were taken from Current events, where people use a variety of news sources. NY Times is definitely okay as a source. As for portal coverage, your suggestions sound good. I'm also thinking that maybe the portal should be called "Government and politics of the United States" - though it's wordy. --Aude (talk contribs) 04:03, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

PS. I'm going to copy this to the portal talk page. Please respond there, in case others want to weigh in. Thanks. --Aude (talk contribs) 04:03, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

U.S. Government portal

Congrats on the creation of the portal. To briefly expand my position on the portal's name and scope, I believe it should be exclusively for the federal government of the United States, since the federal government is a corporate entity distinct from the governments of states or municipalities. I believe this will best lend itself to providing clear and accurate information about the U.S. Government. I shall check it often; excellent work, keep it up. Paul 04:25, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

Oklahoma

I am replying to you there. Cheers, &#151; Xiutwel (talk) 11:55, 27 June 2006 (UTC)