User talk:Mo0/Archive1

Welcome

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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Matthew Torby

If he exists, why are these books not listed in Amazon under his name? - DavidWBrooks 01:29, 25 Oct 2004 (UTC)

It's usually not a great idea to wikify an article you know nothing about, especially if it's a very new article, because it gives an aura of authenticity that the article may not deserve. Particularly on weekend nights, we get a lot of fake articles from (presumably) bored students. Most are obvious trash, but some try to fake us out. I think this is one of those. - DavidWBrooks 01:51, 25 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Takagi existence theorem

Did you set up the talk page for Takagi existence theorem for deletion, and if so, why? user: Gene Ward Smith

Chick Publications

Sorry about the confusion. AFAICT, this is what happened: I reverted your material with a "See Talk page", then started on an explanation of *why* I'd reverted it. But before I finished and posted that, you noticed the reversion, went looking for my reasons (which weren't posted yet) and found something I'd written to a *different* poster a day or two previously.

I didn't delete your material for NPOV reasons. I deleted it because it gave the impression that a controversy exists over whether Chick's stuff is intended seriously, and AFAIK there's no real controversy on this. --Calair 05:54, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for the corrections

Thanks for correcting my typos. I'm not usually that bad at spelling, really... -- MrItty

Large watchlists

Hi. I think most people who've been around here for a while (I've been here since about January 2003) accumulate large watchlists. I don't think 1700 articles is terribly uncommon -- it's most of the articles I've ever written or edited, I don't often "unwatch" an article, but every 6 months or so I'll go through the complete list and discard ones that I don't think are very important. Many of my articles are very rarely edited (most of the coin denominations off British coinage for example), but I like to keep an eye on them in case of vandalism. A problem is that even though only a proportion of them get edited every day, it's still enough articles to check that I rarely get round to creating new articles these days! Some articles are more likely to attract vandals than others -- I put up the scores of the European UEFA Champions League and UEFA Cup matches on Current sports events, which means that every team which competes in the competitions needs an article (I was very busy last August creating new football club articles!), and they do tend to attract vandalism from supporters of other teams (Manchester United F.C. in particular attract lots of vandals, but luckily most of them are anonymous posters which helps them stand out on the watchlist!). Large watchlists obviously put a heavier load on Wikipedia's servers, but the hardware and software seems to handle the load OK most of the time... -- Arwel 23:45, 10 Nov 2004 (UTC)

PoV links (on 'Chick Tracts')

It's quite OK to *link* to POV material; most articles on controversial topics do this. (After all, we link to the Chick site itself, and *that's* certainly POV...) When the nature of the site isn't clear just from its name then it's good practice to clarify this for the reader, but "Don't Trust Chick Tracts!" is fairly descriptive. For comparison, see Euthanasia#External_links and Homosexuality#External_links, both of which link to several strongly POV sites on both sides. --Calair 22:49, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Michel Colombier

Hello! As soon as I completed the above new entry, I realized my mistake in the Category section and began to amend it. Because you had edited the entry so quickly, I ended up changing your corrections without realizing it at the time. I'm curious - how do you (and other users) manage to pick up on new entries, additions, alterations, etc. almost instantaneously upon their being saved? Thanks! Tom SFTVLGUY2 17:18, Nov 18, 2004 (UTC)

IBM?

Hey Mo0, I mentioned IBM's sale to Lenvo and you reverted it, using "not confirmed" as a reason. In fact, this sale HAS been confirmed and publicized, so please retract your edit.

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=businessNews&storyID=7022858

The Humungous Image Tagging Project

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

Article Licensing

Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 2000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:

Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
Multi-Licensing Guide
Free the Rambot Articles Project

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

Option 1

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

OR

Option 2

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to any [[U.S. state]], county, or city article as described below:

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk)

I'm sorry, but I find the idea of claiming copyright on what is supposed to be a collaborative project to be against what Wikipedia stands for. I also do not appreciate the fact that you are spamming 2,000 talk pages to try to get this to happen; I believe this should be something that Wikipedia as a whole decides, not individual users. Why couldn't this have been a policy proposal? [[User:Mo0|Mo0[talk]]] 00:02, 11 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Sentence1: Wikipedia uses the GFDL, go read Wikipedia:Copyrights. S2: It's not commercial and it's not email; it is however unsolicited, but then so are most of the comments in the talk namespace. I think it's much better for individuals to choose to add additional licences to their work (or not), than to have others decide for them afterwards. S3: It's not about changing policy, read the sections at the top of this page. — Jeandré, 2004-12-11t12:17z

After talking with Jimbo Wales at the WikiMeetup in NYC this weekend, he supports the multi-licensing project because it is not trying to change Wikipedia policy but to merely extend Wikiepedia's reach beyond that of the GFDL. The "spam" is considered to be a minor annoyance by most since it tends to clutter up watchlists, but I have no personal gain from doing this. Wikipedia cannot decide this for us, unless of course you grant them permission! I have added a draft template that grants permission to the WikiMedia foundation to relicense your changes however you see fit ({{WikimediaTextLicensing}}). I don't know if this clears things up for you or not, but I hope so. – Ram-Man ^{(comment) (talk)}[[]] 13:49, Dec 14, 2004 (UTC)

Three revert rule

Saw your reverts for gamefaqs. The rule only applies to edit wars, NOT reverting vandals. Don't worry. :)--Etaonish 03:04, Feb 12, 2005 (UTC)

GameFAQs and three-revert rule

The Wikipedia:Three revert rule specifically does not apply to reverts of clearcut vandalism (not edit war). Page blanking is obviously clearcut vandalism. -- Curps 03:59, 12 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Happy Birthday

Have a great day! -- sannse (talk) 14:50, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Thank you

Hi Mo0, just a note to say thank you for voting for me in my adminship nomination. I very much appreciate your support. Best, SlimVirgin 03:26, Mar 24, 2005 (UTC)

The Amazing Race 6 casting

Don and Mary Jean were the only team that went to one of the two open casting calls for AR6, and were picked on the spot. Most of the other teams relied on previous connections to get onto the race.

Freddy/Kendra - they're in the same Miami fashion circles as Derek/Drew, Kelly/Jon of AR3 and AR$ respectively... they know one another and have the same agents
Hayden/Aaron - their agent got them into the race
Johnathan/Victoria - he personally knows the producers... frighteningly he's actually an indie director himself...check out his ego-churning listing on IMDB
Gus/Hera - Hera originally applied on Survivor and was cut. The producers dug up her application and wanted her for the Amazing Race, who she originally wanted to go on with her model/actor boyfriend. After she broke up with him, Hera applied with Gus (her dad) instead, and the AR producers were impressed that he was actually a CIA operative and the team was chosen for the race.
Adam/Rebecca - Similar situation as Gus/Hera... she was picked but they didn't like her first partner, so she chose Adam as her partner, who the producers obviously liked with his hellboy/26 yr old living at home angle.
Lena/Kristy - Lena was picked to go on the race by the AR producers, but they want her to get a new partner, cuz there were already too mny boy-girl teams. (Lena was going to compete with her brother) So Lena asked her sister Kristy to come along; Kristy had actually sent in an application for Survivor a long time ago, so they had her record on hand. The producers liked the all-girl arrangement and chose them.
Lori/Bolo - definitely had a casting agent... they admited it themselves in numerous interviews.

The only teams that more or less took the actual paper application and video tape were Kris/Jon, Maria/Meredith and Avi/Joe. About 10,000 teams apply for each race, and more than half of the actual teams were handpicked by producers, with just 1 team actually earning a role from the casting calls. Puts into perspective the whole application process and how its somewhat of a sham. --Madchester 17:00, 2005 Mar 27 (UTC)

DC trip

Please list all your available dates in the table at Wikipedia:Meetup/Wikipedians of the East Coast field trip#Date. Thanks. --brian0918  18:34, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)

VFD

I would ask that you look at my arguemetn in the Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/List of Stalinists and please review your vote. TDC 16:26, Apr 21, 2005 (UTC)

DC Meetup will be May 7/8

The DC Meetup date has been finalized to May 7/8. Even if you can only come one of the days, that's still fine. Please watch this page for new details, which will be posted in the next couple days: Wikipedia:Meetup/Wikipedians of the East Coast field trip --brian0918  16:12, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Great blunders in history

The article List of incidents famously considered great blunders has been completely rewritten with respect to objections made on the Vfd page in an attempt to improve the article and achieve consensus. It is asked that you reconsider your Vfd vote on this article. (If you wish to leave your vote how it is that's fine.) - Pioneer-12 23:47, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)

AR 7 M/G webjournal

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Just scroll down to read a few of their entries.

The original link is on the first page of that thread, but the page is gone. M/G mentioned including more details after the race, so they may have some post-show reports in the near future. --Madchester 05:25, 2005 Apr 30 (UTC)

List of Stalinists

I notice you voted to delete List of Stalinists, but you did so at a time when the page in question was almost blank. I think it is actually shaping up to be a good page. Could I ask you to take a look at the page as it stands now, and possibly reconsider your vote? -- Jmabel | Talk 05:13, May 3, 2005 (UTC)

Law and Order music string

Sorry about that, I thought it would be better. However, the Tripod stuff slipped my mind (though, it shouldn't have, since I have a website on Tripod). Is there a way we can upload it it here or no? Zscout370 (Sound Off) 02:35, 26 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Wiki Birthday!

Award

Wiki birthday to you! Wiki birthday, dear Mo0! Wiki birthday to you!

Congratulations on your first Wikibirthday at Wikipedia (October 20, 2005.). On behalf of the community, we'd like to thank you for your countless edits in the past year! Keep it coming!.

This Wiki Birthday Balloon was awarded to you by: SoothingR

CGS alumni list

Thanks for doing the reverts. Every once in a while the Caulfield article sees a burst in "ih-house" vandalism, and also boughts of vandalism from students of other competing schools. I usually pick it up pretty quickly, but good work in your persistance around the Wiki. Harro5 06:40, 5 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Birthday

I'd like to thank you for giving me a wikibirthday message. I haven't really done much of anything since May, but seeing that message might make me come back and do some more. I feel LOVED! ^_^ Mo0[talk] 04:57, 4 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

You're very welcome. -- SoothingR^(pour) 11:09, 6 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Steve Jobs Page

Please look and see what you have done by editing the words American and Syrian in the personal section - the end result has been to remove all mention of his father after the word Syrian.

I tried to correct this so the father's name would come back again - but you apparently took offence & did it again! Without checking the result. Please go & look now. Thanks. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs User:24.199.77.27 (Originally unsigned)