User talk:Euchiasmus/Archive 1

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Gangga Negara

I'm sorry, I had to remove your additions to Gangga Negara, as they were insufficiently paraphrased from the source you used; the information and the source are both great, but we need to rephrase more to deal with copyright issues... If you'd be willing to do that rephrasing, it would be great! JesseW, the juggling janitor 05:12, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

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James Cullis

hi why did you rub out a perfewc tly good statewment james former trloar student reply to jamescullis@hotmail.com

Sorry, James. Thanks for taking the effort to add to the Wikipedia encyclopaedia. And thank you for contacting me. I had no way of getting a message to you before deleting it.

Wikipedia is strict about the kind of thing it contains. It includes guidance like The five pillars of Wikipedia - and these link to lots of other articles about editing Wikipedia. They make the rules quite clear.

In particular, Wikipedia is not a place to publish points of view or opinions. I can see from what you wrote that you feel strongly about your experiences at Treloars. If you want to publish your opinions, why not start a blog - that would be an excellent way to do it! Wikipedia, on the other hand, is not a blog - it is a reference work - think what kind of information you would find in Encyclopaedia Britannica, or Encarta, or any encyclopaedia you know. That will give you a better idea what sort of contributions you can make.

Hope that helps, and that you don't feel bad about it. Do feel free to add your reply or comments below...

Euchiasmus 22:22, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

Hugh Miller

Yes, I did remove the external link in the Hugh Miller article (and in the many other articles to which it was added) because it was spammed. When I go on a link-removing spree, my intentions are only to remove links that are added in violation of the guidelines in WP:SPAM#How_not_to_be_a_spammer. My task is complete once the linkspam is removed. If future editors later determine a link to be useful to a particular article, then it's no longer spam and I welcome them to re-add it. Thus, I have no problem at all with the fact that you re-added it to Hugh Miller because (unlike the spammer) you:

Appear to contribute more than just external links (i.e. you're not here solely to promote a site or sites by spamming)
Took the time to explain the value of the external link in relation to the article rather than just adding the link "silently"
Only added the same link to one article that you felt it was relevant to.

I recommend taking only one further step: you might want to add the same explanation you left on my talk page to the talk page of the Hugh Miller article (Talk:Hugh Miller). This way other future spam-removers will see that there has been some intelligent dicussion about the link and that it shouldn't be automatically re-removed. Cheers! --AbsolutDan ^(talk) 14:04, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

Image:CapsuleEndoscope.jpg, Image:CapsuleEndoscopeEnd.jpg

Hello! Can You move these images to Commons? I want to use it on Polish Wikipedia? Thanx Remedios44^talk 12:24, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

2 images moved to Commons. Glad they are useful. Euchiasmus 05:43, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

Kelantan River

hi! I am impressed with your contributions to the Kelantan River article. I'm wondering if you're interested in writing articles on other rivers in Malaysia. There are very little articles on Malaysian rivers. Wai Hong 05:46, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your positive feedback. Actually, the Kelantan river is the only Malaysian river I've visited or have photographed. This article benefitted from the fact that I spent some time in hospital recently and had time on my hands - so I occupied myself by researching and contributing to some WP articles (hospital system wouldn't let me login, so my edits show as 213.249.221.34). But I'm not an expert on Malaysian rivers!

Now I'm back at work, spare time is in shorter supply. But I'm sure there must be lots of other people out there who can correlate information from search engines, structure it, and then construct a well-referenced summary as a WP article. I must admit the satelite image was a bonus - I was delighted to find that World Wind showed the river up so clearly. Euchiasmus 20:53, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

Actually, the other thing I find is that when I'm trying to research for Malaysian articles like the Kelantan River one, a lot of source materials are closed to me because, as an Englishman, I have very limited understanding of Bahasa Malaysia. That's why I've abandoned some of the other Malaysian articles I tried to create. Euchiasmus 05:40, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

Wheel chair with Mecanum wheels

Just thought to add a new sensation to the wheel chair section and was surprised by Your photo dated 1980.

Do You know more about the history of this wheel chair?

Any possible reason, why something first time shown 1980 is a fair sensation in 2006?

Mecanum wheel chair shown on the EVER Monaco 2006

I remember the wheelchair I photographed at an exhibition/conference in the early eighties caused quite a stir - lots of people wanting to try it, because its totally free movement was quite unlike anything else - like floating, but with complete control. You could move the joystick in any direction and the chair moved in that direction; you could also twist the joystick and you would turn round. The two movements could, of course, be combined if you wish.

I think it must have been a prototype, but I can't really remember (25 years ago is a long time!) and I was subsequently quite disappointed not to see them around. So I was delighted to follow your link and see that, at last, the idea is being taken forward, especially since I know someone who would probably like one.

So why has it taken so long? I wondered at the time if the cost was prohibitive, but now I'm wondering if the sale of the mecanum wheel patent to the US Navy had anything to do with it. Their particular use for it was in vehicles to get around tight spaces on ships, and probably didn't involve building wheelchairs. I'm only guessing.

I think patents give exclusive rights to a technology for something like 20 years, so once that period is up, other companies can use the idea.

Any idea how much they cost? Euchiasmus 19:34, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

The one at the fair was labeled with 2.000,-EUR special fair price, the normal price for the full equipped wheel chair abour 3.500,-EUR. --Pege.founder 05:31, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

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Thanks for your feedback. After translating the French I discovered that it seems to be a translation of the information on the Churchill Centre website! William Avery 20:21, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

Faeroe

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:List_of_tz_zones&diff=66773171&oldid=58123946 - regards Tobias Conradi (Talk) 01:09, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

I've changed it back, and have inserted an html comment at that point in the page so that anyone else who is about to make the same mistake might read it first and stop. Thanks for spotting it and pointing it out. Euchiasmus 19:42, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

... :-) surely it was easy to make this mistake. html comment is very good. Lately I have the impression one would need much more comments all over WP. - Thanks for your nice reaction Best regards. Tobias Conradi (Talk) 10:23, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Hampshire :-)

...wanted to wikify it at your user page. but some people don't like if other edit their user page. Tobias Conradi (Talk) 10:29, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

My immediate reaction was that I didn't want it linked (I don't want swarms of WP users searching the fields and hedgerows of Hampshire looking for me ;-). But then I thought - if I read somebody's user page and they came from Isfahan, or Kuching, or Henderson or somewhere, I might quite like to have a look at a page about the place to see what sort of environment they live in. So I've taken your suggestion and linked it. Thanks. 21:06, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

August 6th, 2006 WP:RETF update

^{Note you are getting this because you are signed up on the RETF spamlist}
Hey guys. Before I do anything, I have to thank all these people who have helped me make RETF more bug-free via my challenge to them on the Language noticeboard. Some were redundant lines, and some were words that probably never appear in Wikipedia, but as I said, I don't want any false positives in RETF.

User:ColourBurst for finding 7 lines to fix
User:Road Wizard for finding another 13 lines to fix!
User:MeltBanana for finding 6 lines
User:Skittle for finding 3 lines
User:Nunh-huh for finding 1 line

THANKS GUYS! Now for the fixes and suggestions put on the RETF page:

'behaviour' is a legitimate UK English spelling --Guinnog
'councellor' to 'councillor' when 'counsellor' could be the intended word. --mattbr³⁰
"Costal" is a real word, meaning "related to the rib" —Mets501 (talk)
'judgemental' to 'judgmental'. According to my dictionary, both are equally acceptable. mattbr³⁰
'Adaptions' to 'Adaptations'. JoeSmack ^Talk
repond and variants -> respond --Guinnog

RETF development

I don't know what to say really. Something has come up and I might not be able to continue to update RETF after the next week or so.......I have put in countless sleepless nights of just me, my computer, and a case of Rockstar energy drink working on this. It has made me feel that I really am a devoted Wikipedian.

I have developed RegExTypoFix from a little hobby of mine into a full SourceForge project. I told a friend that I’ve worked 50 development hours in all. I have a really bad sense of time, but I’m sure it was more. I won’t lie, I am very proud of my work. Hopefully this will be used long after I leave.

To ensure that, I need a person/people to become admins on the RETF project. I don’t ask that you do anything but fix any errors that people report. There is a bit of a process to doing this, but I can teach you. Please send me a message on my talk page. Please my close friends only please, I hope you understand that I want to 100% trust this person. However, I might just hand it off to User:Bluemoose, as if he didn’t have enough on his plate =D.

Download + more

User:Mboverload/RegExTypoFix/updateboxTo keep an eye on RETF, you can use {{User:Mboverload/RegExTypoFix/updatebox}} and it will produce the box you see here =D. When AWB updates, I can turn it green on command =P

Extract Typos.xml from the zip file either using the zip extraction tool provided with XP or use 7zip.

Under the new system that Martin (User:Bluemoose) developed Typos.xml is separate from the settings file. This way it can be easily swapped out and doesn't interfere with your own personal find and replace settings. Put it in the AWB directory. It is loaded automatically when you start AWB.

In addition, each Typos.xml file comes coded with a version number. Perhaps in some future release AWB will be able to check to see if there's an update for you!

The latest version is not built into AWB, you will have to download it here Just updated a few minutes ago. --mboverload @ 01:51, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

Stained Glass

I really appreciate it when someone corrects my spelling! No, what I mean precisely is- I really appreciate it when someone who knows when and when not to use double letters, and uses English spelling, corrects my spelling! You can follow me around from article to article, if you like! --Amandajm 12:50, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

I suppose some people in this world are brilliant scholars who can research topics and construct dynamic encyclopedic prose, waxing lyrical to engage the enthralled reader; others of us spend our time as nitpicking pedants, fussing over mundane matters of spelling rules and punctuation. It's a good job we are not all the same - it makes us learn to appreciate each other and work as a team. (sermon ends here ;-)

Thanks for dropping a note on my page - it's nice to know I'm not offending people by pointing out their mistakes! Maybe I will follow you around with my pile of dictionaries when I have time ;-) Keep up your good work...

Oh, and by the way, try turning your keyboard key-side downwards and banging it on the table a few times. You'll be surprised what a lot of accumulated gubbins comes out, and it might just stop the keyboard from its infurating habit of reppeeaatiinng letters.

Euchiasmus 20:05, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

Myy Keyyboardd

I toook your advvice. Whatt's yourr next sugggestion.

--Amandajm 12:51, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Typos

Hi, thanks for working on Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Typos, i noticed on a few occasions you have added a ";" to various parts of the find+replace, such as here, having that exrta character will stop the regex working, so be careful not to add it! thanks Martin 13:11, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your message, Martin. I'm mystified. Apart from an early addition of "our's", I've been working on early lines only, so how these semicolons can appear so far down in the file I cannot imagine (I edit line 68, and a semicolon appears in each of 768 and 1145!). I didn't even scroll down that far in the edit window.

I think this is likely to be a software glitch, since these semicolons didn't come from my keypresses. I'm using Opera version 9.00, but will try Firefox, and will periodically do a search for ";" to see if any are creeping in. That should indicate whether the blame lies with Opera or with the Mediawiki software...

Sorry to make a nuisance of myself! Euchiasmus 13:24, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

It's fine, i assumed it was something unusual, keep up the good work. Martin 13:31, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

Have done a few edits with Firefox (v 1.5.0.4) and I don't seem to be getting any spontaneous semicolon mutations. I'm beginning to suspect Opera... Euchiasmus 20:44, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

<Typo find="\b(A|a)b(il|li)t(y|ies)\b" replace="$1bilit$2" />

<Typo find="\b(A|a)b(il|li)t(y|ies)\b" replace="$1bilit$2" />

See if you can find the problem =D

You forgot to update the variable name from $2 to $3. Hehe, don't worry about it. I have so royally fucked up so many times I don't even want to think about it. --mboverload @ 12:09, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

Oops! I meant to put "\b(A|a)b(?:il|li)t(y|ies)\b" but forgot the ?: - so easy to make mistakes with these things. Some of the more complex ones I check in AWB as a straightforward search/replace - but this one escaped! Thanks for finding it and letting me know. I'll try to be more careful in future... Euchiasmus 13:25, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

Warrent -> Warrant?

As per this edit: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Deutsch_Limit&diff=68140576&oldid=61815872 The character combination Warrent is a typo that could also mean Warren, and not just Warrant. Blu3d 07:20, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

You're right - I messed this one up. Thanks for finding it and correcting it. AWB had warrent->warrant in its search list and I didn't check carefully enough before accepting the suggested change. Cheers. Euchiasmus 07:26, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

No worries mate. 'twas an easy one to miss. Blu3d 07:36, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

External link on Alton, Hampshire

Thank you for the message on my talk page. I deleted the link as it has transpired that the owner of the website in question has been placing links to his own site through a variety of sockpuppets and anonymous IPs on a large number of Wikipedia articles, presumably in order to increase his Google Page Rank, as he offers consulting services. When his links are removed, he becomes quite astonishingly aggressive and abusive (most notably on the Brighton page, but also on others). He refuses to debate and simply leaves endless, rambling, self-important messages on talk pages.

I hope this clarifies the situation, please do leave me another message if you would like any additional information.

--Bcnviajero 10:24, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

Typo RegEx

Oops! Sorry about the "nonsense/ical" typo. I must have made a few hundred changes to that long list (all today!), so it figures I had to make at least one typo myself (hit "/0" instead of shift-")". Concerning your very long "flouride"-correcting RegEx, you know, you can leave off the "\b" (which indicates the "b"oundary of a word) on the front and back and save a lot of bother. I'd be bold and put just "([Ff])lour(i[nd][ae]|esce)" --> "$1luor$2" (with no "\b" at either end) and see if anybody complains.--BillFlis 23:27, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your helpful comment. However, I was considering the rule Always consider the possibility of false positives - don't add if there is one and although matching any word that has ([Ff])lour(i[nd][ae]|esce) in the middle is attractively simple, I can't help suspecting that there could be false positives from doing that - people's names, place names, songs, pop groups, all kinds of fiction - there are a lot of strange words out there that a non-terminated regex might match. I think I'll stick with my horrendously long regex since it does keep a boundary on the possible matches. Thanks all the same. - Euchiasmus 20:11, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

License tagging for Image:BintreeMill(MarkBoyer)Oct2005.jpg

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Just for the record, I've amended the copyright information (it was Creative Commons ShareAlike) - I had clicked Upload before clicking to enter the copyright, and only realised after this most efficient of bots had already slapped my wrist. PEBKAC here :-( Euchiasmus 09:13, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

Allegations of sock puppetry on the Center for Science in the Public Interest page

Allegations of sock puppetry have been made against some of the accounts that have edited the Center for Science in the Public Interest page. I have instigated the wiki process for handling such allegations. See Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/David Justin. As someone who has contributed to the CSPI page. Please add your views to the Comments section. You have up to 10 days to make comments on the allegation. Nunquam Dormio 18:31, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

I was one of the other editors to get this notice, and much like you my contribution to the article was very minor (I added a space). I've read your response, and thought I ought to explain that the allegations aren't directed at you, and the notice is just asking for comments. It is worded quite confusingly though: when I first read it I thought I was being accused of sock puppetry as well. — blobglob talk 07:48, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

Yes, looking at the wording, it could have been improved. My apologies if it spooked you. The 'accused' get a completely different standard wiki text with a nice logo. I'm just asking for comments from all 'stakeholders' in the page on the narrow question whether sockpuppetry has occurred. Nunquam Dormio 08:15, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for reassurance - maybe I did respond rather defensively! The heading (Allegations of sock puppetry...) is rather alarming when you first read it, but when I got to the page and read the list of suspected puppet accounts (and found I wasn't in the list), I realised you were just being thorough. Cheers - Euchiasmus 09:13, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

"As of"

Hi, I reverted your removal of the "as of 2006" link in the article about Kamenitza. The purpose of linking such stuff is apparently to keep track of outdated information (see WP:AO), and not to mark events which happened during the respective year. If you really believe I get it wrong, do your edit again and I won't revert. --Cameltrader 18:07, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

I have no strong feelings on the matter - I'm just get tired of people who link everything that will link - I ask myself, "will anyone ever want to link from here to that page?". As for this instance, I'm happy to leave it linked. - Cheers, Euchiasmus 20:05, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

:) Sure, overlinking does more harm than convenience. --Cameltrader 20:23, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

Stained glass - British glass,

Hi Euchi!

The search is on...... Find that missing pronoun!

And while you're about it, locate the typos, spellos, duplicated words and repair the dreaded split infinitive!

All the best,

--Amandajm 21:53, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

Spelling

I notice that in the article Every Day with Jesus you changed targetted to targeted. targetted is perfectly valid spelling, it just happens to be UK English. Wikipedia policy says that either is allowable, and in general spelling should be that most closely relating to the subject. DJ Clayworth 17:45, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for leaving me a message, DJ. I was sleepily using AWB over breakfast this morning, aiming to zap another fifty or so WP spelling mistakes before setting off to work. There's a clever feature whereby AWB can load in an enormous list of regex search/replace pairs from Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Typos and then use those to locate spelling mistakes. So targetted got changed because it's on that list.

I was simply going to use that (and my divided attention) as an excuse, but I found your UK/US comment intriguing, especially since I'm entirely British and have never been tempted to indulge in American spelling. So I reached up and pulled my good old Chambers Twentieth Century Dictonary off the shelf to see what it says - and it doesn't include any such word as "targetted"! The correct (UK) spellings are given as target, targeted and targeteer. That leaves me wondering which dictionary led you to believe that "targetted" is a perfectly valid spelling?

There are people, of course, who believe that language is a living, evolving entity, and that when enough people spell something a certain way that should be accepted as correct. However, "targetted" loses out on this score too. A Google search on targeted site:uk gave me over 9½ million pages, whereas targetted site:uk gives only 186,000; thus, fewer than 2% of uk instances use "targetted".

I'm not a pedant, and I certainly don't intend to engage in any reversion wars! I'll leave it up to you whether you want to stick with "targetted", or whether you would like to change it.

Keep up the good work :-) Cheers! - Euchiasmus 20:12, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

British spelling convensions would lead one to think that the "t" at the end of "target" should be doubled before the "ed", as in "vetted" against "vetoed". However The Concise Oxford gives "targeted". When the word "target" came into the English language, it would have been pronounced "tar-jay" or "tar-djay" which may account for why it missed out on the double consonant when adding "ed".

--Amandajm 22:08, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

On the other hand, perhaps there's something wrong with the spelling convensions..... --Amandajm 22:10, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

AWB Typos

Hi, Can you please put new typos in the new typo section please? As it asks for on the page

They are then easier to detect if there are problems

Cheers

Reedy Boy 21:11, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

Sorry, I forgot. I did a lot of editing when the list first went public, changing the lines in situ, and had forgotten that the regime has changed. Cheers - Euchiasmus 21:18, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

So where have you been then?

That error on the cathedral page must have been there for yonks! .... and as for the dreaded split infinitive, it will be probably feeling neglected! --Amandajm 13:55, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

Too polite

Get it right, Euchi! They were not typos. They were buonafide spelling mistakes.

--Amandajm 23:27, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

I quite like the generic term PEBKAC which covers all manner of human malfunctions, but some people find the term just too insulting... - Euchiasmus 11:11, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

Selwyn Hughes

Why does this need to refer to two different Amazon sites?--JBellis 16:40, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

Sorry, you were right. Details on your talk page. Euchiasmus 20:51, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

stacks

Wikipedia:Picture_tutorial#Avoiding_image_.22stackups.22. -- Stbalbach 04:08, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

That page gives some complicated solutions to "stackups", the best thing is to just stagger left/right and use section breaks (or paragraphs if there is enough text) as natural fault lines between images. -- Stbalbach 04:11, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

thank you

Dear Euchiasmus, Thank you for your comment. I take note of the problem and I will fix the rest of the LRT stations. ~~I am in the middle of doing a Malaysia-Rail stub template.~~Someone has done the template. With all due time, the rail network Kuala Lumpur articles will be expanded and be complete, hopefully. Thank you very much for your response. Cheers, adios Zack2007 17:22, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

Hi Euchi!

Glad to see you are still chasing my spelling mistakes!

Happy New Year!

--Amandajm 08:58, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Siegfried Sassoon

Nice new picture of SS's grave. Did you take it recently? Deb 21:59, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the appreciation :) However, I didn't take the photo...

It's from this page on the geograph website - and was taken in May last year. Since the geograph website images are all Creative Commons licensed, I find it is a really good resource for adding some great pictures to Wikipedia! - Euchiasmus 22:09, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

Categorising images on Commons

Thanks for uploading so many good mountain photos to Commons. A small request: could you please remember to categorise them? Category:Mountains of Scotland is currently good for most Scottish mountains; for non-mountain pictures a good start is to go to the relevant county (e.g. Buckinghamshire) and see what sub-categories there are. Without categorisation it's virtually impossible for other users to find pictures in order to re-use them in other articles or projects. Thanks, Blisco 10:37, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, Blisco. You're right - I'm not very good at using Categories, and should spend a bit of time getting the hang of them. The few times I've been determined to categorise my additions, I've found the sheer number of categories quite bewildering.

However, after reading your comment I did some searching and I've just found Commonsense - so my problem is solved. I'll get to work - only about 260 uncategorised images to catch up with!

Cheers, - Euchiasmus 13:46, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

More Then, More Than

Hello Euchiasmus. I was interested to see your RegExTypoFix work, changing the "more then" texts to "more than." Well done. I wonder if this feature would work equally well changing the contraction "it's" to the possessive pronoun "its" for sentences like this: "I see its fur is dark." I see "it's" used incorrectly all the time, and it can disrupt the flow of reading. In any case, keep up the good work. Que-Can 04:31, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your message of encouragement! Actually, I was using AWB with RETF active to find other typos, but I haven't added "more then" to RETF - I just put it into AWB as an "extra" - because I'm finding it has to be done very carefully as you need to read the whole sentence before deciding if it needs changing. Several instances were correct as "more then". For example, you might have a sentence: "He studied for several years more then took a job as a junior clerk". It's even worse with "it's" - do you change it to "it is" or to "its"? Or maybe you leave it because its usage is in a context where it's an acceptable contraction - in a verbatim quote, for example. Anyway, enough of my ramblings. Thanks again - Euchiasmus 06:13, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

automated editing

You used the AWB automated editing tool recently.

Can I ask why you moved a bunch of categories? I've created some new categories, that consist, almost entirely, of articles about people with Arabic names. You can see I put a comment, explaining how it is unwise for naive Engligh speakers to shoehorn those names into the European style of "Lastname, Firstname". But I am not suggesting that previously existing categories be modified to the more sensible style. -- You moved all the rest of the categories after my comment. -- No offense, but I think that was a mistake. Is there some guideline you were following? If so I think I need you to tell me about it right away, so I can figure out what to do.

I notice that the edit summary you used doesn't say anything about the other edits you made. Do you think there is any value to restricting the edits you make to those you list in the edit summary?

Cheers1 — Geo Swan 23:39, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for contacting me, Geo Swan. Not sure how familiar you are with AWB, but it is a tool that allows a user to do a "search and replace" through a selected list of articles, and over the past few days I've been checking all instances of "more then" to change some of them to "more than". For each article, AWB suggests the changes it's going to make, and doesn't do them unless I click Save. So in that sense it's not "automated" - any mistakes are my fault!

While it's doing what I asked, it also suggests changes to articles in accordance with WP standards - it sorts the interwiki links into alphabetical order, changes "See Also" to "See also", collects together Category links to the end of the article, adds an Uncategorized tag if necessary, removes links on a page to itself, etc. That process is normally pretty uncontroversial, so I just cast an eye over it to make sure nothing is terribly awry. I obviously didn't spot the fact that AWB had moved the Categories without the associated comment - and I apologise unreservedly for that. I have repaired the damage, and have also reworded the comment slightly so that it's still clear what it means if someone inserts a new category at the start of the list, or rearranges them in some way.

BTW, AWB writes the edit summary and doesn't catalogue all the little tidying changes individually.

Thanks for your help. - Euchiasmus 06:54, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

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Thanks for your helpful comment. I discovered Commons after doing a lot of uploads from geograph - since discovering it, all my geograph uploads have been to Commons. If you look about halfway down my gallery page you'll find a line of text below which all the uploads are to Commons. I am gradually moving the earlier ones to Commons, keeping the same filenames, including all the informative text from geograph, and adding categories using CommonSense, then putting the {{subst:ncd}} tag onto the wikipedia image - it's time consuming, so may take me a while to work through over 100 images! - Euchiasmus 22:23, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

Past tense edits

Hello,

why did you change this article Benjamin_B from present into past tense. Is this based on a Wikipedia guideline? Could you specify.

I do remember reading a bit in the wiki-guidelines about the fact that news articles are to be written in present tense. In my opinion the original article (in present tense) has a better flow and thus is a better read.

Kind regards, Paul —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Pauwl (talk • contribs) 10:58, 8 February 2007 (UTC).

Hello Paul. Thanks for getting in touch. I changed the article to past tense because it was describing events in the past. I could not find any precedent for using the "present tense narrative" style in an encyclopaedia article.

I know that present tense narrative is used occasionally in fiction, but even there it is relatively uncommon to find it in third person use. Typically, style guides give advice like "Think carefully before you write a book in present tense narrative. Quite a few readers dislike it, because they find it distracting."

I'm sorry if my changes offended you. I'm quite happy to reconsider if you can point me to a representative selection of other encyclopaedia articles that use present tense narrative when describing historical events.

Actually, I think that all your hard work in researching the article and putting it together is far more important than the minor cosmetic matter of verb tense - you deserve all the credit for producing such a fine, detailed and well structured article. Thank you.

Euchiasmus 22:07, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

Re: Bexhill

Fair enough. I took a look at the source and saw the 12th mentioned, and didn't bother reading any deeper into it. Joe D (t) 21:26, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

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Re: Callander

Thanks so much for you help on this page, maybe you can help me on another page? my home town is keswick in cumbria, i have had an item on there for a while about riot gear being first used in the town. but the item says it needs citation i have added a source but dont know how it should be worded i have also got a relible source of a police sergent for the area who was actualy involved in the incident as well. any help would be appriaciated j.joskin

Hi, John. I've had a go at the Keswick page you referred to - I just inserted a {{cite journal...}} with the brief details you gave, sandwiched between <ref> and </ref> tags. If you've got some more information like the article title and name of author you could type them into the blank spaces against title =, first = (first name) and last = (last name of author). Also accessdate is the date you read the article - put it in the format yyyy-mm-dd. When you've made the changes, preview the page and you will see that it puts the stuff you've typed into the References section at the bottom.

Details of these clever citation templates are on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Template_messages/Sources_of_articles/Generic_citations and you can find stuff about how to use ref tags and reference sections on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Footnotes

Hope that helps. By the way, why not register yourself (it's very simple and quick) so that you get a talk page of your own, and if you login before editing all your edits are marked with your username. Just a thought... Cheers -- Euchiasmus 20:27, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

thank you so much for your help. john

Thanks

Thanks for the comment and tip, i will be sure to continue maybe with my own pics!Cyberdemon007 21:07, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

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Re: Podex

Hi, Mad Bill here. I note that you amended my addition to the podex article to request a citation. As I played podex at Manchester Grammar in the '60s and know that it was well established by then, I feel I am my own citation. However, how would I convert this into one acceptable to Wikipedians?Mad Bill 11:46 20 July 2007 (BST)

Thanks for discussing this. The basic principle here is one of verifiability, which is at the core of Wikipedia thinking. It's expounded at length on Wikipedia:Verifiability from which the following extract answers your question, I think:

The threshold for inclusion in Wikipedia is verifiability, not truth. "Verifiable" in this context means that any reader should be able to check that material added to Wikipedia has already been published by a reliable source. Editors should provide a reliable source for quotations and for any material that is challenged or is likely to be challenged, or it may be removed.

Hope that clarifies the point? Cheers -- Euchiasmus 15:35, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

I understand, but if my point has never appeared in print it will still require a citation which cannot be provided? Mad Bill 16:15 22 July 2007 (BST)

The people who established Wikipedia decided its terms of reference. If we had a wiki where everyone could contribute their memories and experiences, no doubt it would be interesting to read, but nobody would have any idea whether to believe any of it!

I too find it frustrating that there are facts I cannot include because I cannot enable other readers to verify them. (I'm also aware that unfortunately there are a lot of assertions in WP which carry no verification.)

Regarding Podex at MGS, I just did a quick search of the internet. Why not cite http://www.mgs.org/uploaded_files/Activities%20Week%20-%20Booklet.pdf since it has a couple of references to Podex being played there in school activities? It's a document on the MGS website, carrying the MGS name and logo, so is sufficient evidence that the game is played there. Having established that as a fact, you could probably reinstate your original statement. If you can find any older documents from MGS, that would be even better (e.g. do you have any old school magazines?)

Hope that helps. -- Euchiasmus 15:38, 22 July 2007 (UTC)

FWIW, I've added that url as a reference in the Podex article. Are you happy with the wording I've used? -- Euchiasmus 15:43, 22 July 2007 (UTC)

Many thanks Mad Bill 19:43, 26 July 2007 (BST)

Hello

Hello, nice to meet you ->Go Get Your Hole 18:55, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

Hello. Are you familiar with editing wikis? When I first discovered Wikipedia, it was quite surprising to find a website that I could edit. Are there any particular subject areas that you are thinking of editing? -- Euchiasmus 20:20, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

I just read on Fraslet's talk page that you were needing help with editing the River Clyde page. Can I help? -- Cheers, Euchiasmus 20:37, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

I'm afraid the user has been blocked for harassment, they're back under a similar name and may be in contact in future. Fraslet 20:33, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

Harassment? I thought they only said hello and asked for some help. I've obviously missed something. Do we have reason to believe that this user is malicious? Euchiasmus 08:09, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

Image:Fatehpur Sikri general view.jpg

Hello,

I had move your image Image:FatehpurSikriGeneralView.jpg to Commons with a new name Image:Fatehpur Sikri general view.jpg.

Regards--Bapti 19:00, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

... so I had correct one link in one of yours user pages.--Bapti 19:09, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

Bonjour Bapti and thank you for moving my photo to Commons. I uploaded it when I was just starting with wikipedia and I had not discovered Commons yet. Thanks also for updating the link -- Euchiasmus 19:13, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

Appleton East and West

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What's all this about? All I did was to move [[Category:Villages in North Yorkshire]] to the bottom of the page using AWB. Surely you can't object to that? Look at the page history. I think you're accusing the wrong person. Euchiasmus 05:48, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Watendlath

I have started to fill this page out as it was only a heading and about one line of text, I would love to hear what you think and if you have any advice about it. I have tried to mention the main aspects of the place as best as I can. many thanks John joskins 18:52, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

Angram

The reason for the edit was simply because the photo and the map related to Angram (near Bilbrough) not the hamlet near Keld I already put the map and photo in the other Angram article.Cyberdemon007 (talk) 11:11, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

That makes sense now. I thought it seemed strange. Now that I've investigated a little further, I've found the edit summary you put on the change to the other Angram article. Unfortunately that other article wasn't in my watchlist, and you didn't put an edit summary on the one I reverted. However, as they say, "all's well that ends well" :) BTW, I'm an admirer of all your hard work adding to all these articles about small places. Very good. Cheers -- Euchiasmus (talk) 21:59, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

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Your edit to A/N URM-25D Signal Generator

Thank your for checking my article. It was one of my first posts, and I'm trying to learn as much as I can about proper article construction on Wikipedia, and ensuring I follow the five pillars. I saw mention in the edit history of "AWB"; are you aware of any tools for the Mac? (This is my first 'Talk page' post so I apologize if I missed something) 68.54.130.3 (talk) 02:15, 9 January 2009 (UTC) Thank you.

Your edit to A/N URM-25D Signal Generator

...sry, wasn't logged in! Jwelsh9309 (talk) 02:17, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

I don't know of anything like AWB for the Mac - sorry. But you might find something interesting in the list of tools at http://toolserver.org/~interiot/cgi-bin/tstoc - there's all sorts of stuff here, some web based so should work on Macs.

Other tools I enjoy using are FIST (http://toolserver.org/~magnus/fist.php) free image search tool, CommonSense (http://toolserver.org/~daniel/WikiSense/CommonSense.php) for categorising Commons images, and IWLC (http://toolserver.org/~flacus/IWLC/index.php) for interwiki links.

Hope that helps. Cheers -- Euchiasmus (talk) 16:08, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

Burgundy & negociant

Hello, with this edit you introduced two spelling errors into the article Burgundy wine, since you changed négociant (also spelled negociant sans accent) to "negotiant". It has now been corrected, but I'm always very worried when people use bots to introduce errors in articles, so please avoid changing the spelling of terms you are unfamiliar with. Regards, Tomas e (talk) 21:44, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks so much for catching that one - I slipped up there. What's more, I can't blame a bot - the fault is all mine - as AWB only makes suggestions and it's up to me to apply them or reject them. Thank you for reverting my mistake, and for reminding me to beware with correctly spelled words in a foreign language. I really should have spotted it, as I am familiar with French. Best regards, Euchiasmus (talk) 21:57, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

Thank you

Just wanted to express my appreciation for your typo fixes to my articles Ukrainian Radical Party and Ukrainian cooperative movement.Faustian (talk) 04:17, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks - my pleasure. They are both very interesting and well-written articles. I had another read through this morning and made a few further minor edits (though I forgot to login before editing Ukrainian cooperative movement - too busy eating breakfast). Cheers. -- Euchiasmus (talk) 07:10, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

Bret Harte

Why have you changed the birth category from 1836 to 1839? It's conflicting information with the article's first sentence that says 1836. Please, either you change the arcticle's birth date to 1839 or the category's birth date to 1836. Thank you!--Popiloll (talk) 08:54, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

Sorry, it was a bungled attempt to revert the editor who put "He was named after his great-grandfather Darien Burse". This page gets so much inane and smallminded vandalism that it could do with a full-time guardian! I try to keep an eye on it from time to time, but in haste I slipped up here. Thanks for spotting and correcting it. BTW, I took the photo of his gravestone which clearly shows his birth year as 1837, but the consensus seems to be 1836 at present. -- Euchiasmus (talk) 07:11, 29 January 2009 (UTC)