User talk:Sj/Arc4

1 : Before 7/04 | 2 : 2004.2 | 3 : 2005.1 | 4 : 2005.2 | 5 : 2006.1 +/-

Attendees Program Events Hacking Venue Travel +/-

Regarding St. John's in Houston

St. John's is on HISD's elementary boundary map. That's why I listed it under HISD. WhisperToMe 09:02, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

VfD Closing process

Good afternoon. There's recently been some discussion about ways to simplify the VfD closing process. I know I have some pride-of-authorship issues and may not be as perfectly impartial as I'd like. Would you mind taking a few minutes to review the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Deletion process#Simplification and share your thoughts? Thanks. Rossami (talk) 20:38, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Chestnuts on Fir0002 FPC

Hi Sj Hope you can have a look at My Chestnut Photos Thanks, --Fir0002 11:24, Jun 22, 2005 (UTC) And I hope you don't think I'm ignoring your message about the quartro - but we have only two more days in term and I have alot of h/w to finish, so I'll be able to suggest something maybe in a couple of days.

Re: Come back, Shane!

We miss you around these parts. +sj + 04:33, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

What? I am very confused. Firstly, what parts? Secondly, my name's not Shane... Thirdly, I might just be back hehehe [[User:Consequencefree|Ardent ^†_∈]] 00:50, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Shane

Just curious why you moved this page to Shane (film), since there doesn't appear to be a need for disambiguating or anything that I see usually neccesitating that sort of move. --InShaneee 29 June 2005 03:39 (UTC)

You mean, like the book? +sj +

You mean like the novel. But also there is no need to change the name of the base article for this reason, the film could have stayed as Shane. :: Kevinalewis : ^{(Talk Page)}/_(Desk) 08:39, 24 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Deletion, speedies, et al

Ok. I had asked about whether you can close VfDs you voted in and a user said I could, thus why I closed some. Hedley 3 July 2005 11:53 (UTC)

German WP Project

Thanks for the heads-up on that, sj... Now if I can only get one of my German buddies to translate that dialogue for me. :) -- uberpenguin July 8, 2005 17:31 (UTC)

Odd template you created

You created {{^}} back in November 2004: it has now been nominated for deletion. I can't see what it is good for, so if you could explain, I could make a more informed choice. —Phil | Talk 13:44, July 15, 2005 (UTC)

wikiproject years

Hi, I've made a proposal here. Your input would be appreciated.Trevor macinnis 19:46, 26 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Nice work. Now I've switched them all over. Look. This is going so well I'm humming. How long should we wait to implement. And do you like my infobox idea? I've gotten some flak for using meta-templates but...Trevor macinnis 22:50, 26 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Now to get everybody thinking, I've created a survey about Year pages here. I'm telling all the participants of WikiProject Years and everyone else who has shown an interest or participated in the discussion. If you could check it out it would be appreciated, and tell anyone you think may be interested.Trevor macinnis 02:46, 28 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Wikimania and Signpost

Is that article about Wikimania going to get fleshed out a little bit? I'd like to get it included in the Signpost if you can get something written up today. --Michael Snow 07:01, 1 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Thanks for the welcome, that's one of the more detailed welcome messages I've seen on here. I plan to be around for awhile, even if I can't be on here all the time (which I could very easily see happening if it were possible). BTW, are you Brian0918 or do you know him? It was his signature but your talk page. Anyway, it doesn't matter, I just noticed. Thanks again. :) Justsomechick 20:25, 12 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, I see. That makes sense, thanks for clarifying. ;) Justsomechick 20:53, 15 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Human Rights Svy on Wikipedia

Dear all,

Wikipedia was recently a subject of intensive research of an huge international human right organization. A team of people from different nationalities and ages were acting on Wikipedia for 20 days, investigating previously noted anomalities of Wikipedia free editing and forming a final report, which (between the others similar reports) will later be a guide to all future moves of the organization concerning Wikipedia. Acting under an account of a real person, their privacy is to be held private. Therefore, very few private information will be revealed.

Also, this is a result of the lack of final possition of the organization concerning Wikipedia and human rights, which was still not formed.

The team's final post on Wikipedia, where they explain their actions can be found on the following addresses:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:I_sterbinski

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Macedonia#Human_Rights_Servey_on_Wikipedia_.28The_final_post_of_I_sterbinski.29

The team would like to thank to all the persons who took part in the correspondence with us.

We also want to appologise for keeping our identity secret for a longer period.

Best regards,

Aleksandar, Biljana, Asparuh, Christos, Valjon, Michael and Ana Luiza

I sterbinski 01:44, 28 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks!

Re: It is nice to see friendly responses like this :-) Too often people come to the mailing list and get no positive reaction at all...

Thanks for your encouragement. I thought I would respond on your WP talk page so we can be connected on WP. Cheers Lisa 01:29, 29 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Merging general topics

I noticed in the discussion of Missing encylopedic articles you supported the merging of the existing General list and the proposed "Hot List" Please show your support at the poll. Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Missing_encyclopedic_articles#Support

Thanks

Hey Sam! Thanks a lot for your support on my RfA. And sorry for such a short message, but I have dozens of people to thank, a dozen to convince I am actually a nice guy, and a few to make peace with. It was very nice seeing you in Wikimania, I hope to see you there next year! Sam Hocevar 17:41, 3 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Image:Karte baikal2.png

Hello,

I am a little sceptical about the choice of this image as the winner of the Wikimania competition. The rules stipulate that "All submissions:(...) must be your own work (collaboration is encouraged, however!)". How can a map be a person's own work? Did he fly a plane or a satellite and took the picture himself? In case the satellite photograph used is owned by a private company, that company could sue the Wikimedia Foundation for an unauthorised use of its work. So I think we should have more precisions on the image page about how that map was made, and the sources used should be fully mentioned on that page.--Theo F 12:48, 15 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Esperanza made less bureaucratic

Hello again, I have (unilatterly) taken away the 'assembly' idea, as per my reasons at that edit summary and per Wikipedia talk:Esperanza/Charter. I have left the admin general, as some leadership is good. Now, all you have to do is be a member to establish consensus, the whole assembly idea is gone. Also, I have added an advisory committee, of four members, with limited power besides watching over the admin general and making sure he doesn't do anything stupid. Please look at the ammended charter, and I would love a comment. R e dwolf24 (talk) 00:30, 21 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Check my talk page. R e dwolf24 (talk) 01:27, 22 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Pushkin hoax link

Hello, Sj. Just curious why the link shouldn't be made a standard hyperlink. —HorsePunchKid→龜 23:10, 25 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Main page language template

I noticed on the language template discussion page Template_talk:Wikipedialang that you had made some arguments that closely reflect a debate currently occurring at Talk:Main Page. , Tfine80 03:10, 27 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your support

Thank you for your kind support of my recent nomination on RfA. Your comment ("~hums cheerful counterpoint~") reminds me that I was at university with someone who was quite musical, but when I played her a fugue (Shostakovich's A major I think it was) she said, "That can't be a fugue - it sounds too happy!" Best regards, RobertG ♬ talk 11:52, 30 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for supporting my masters RfA. He appreciates your support and comments and looks forward to better serving Wikipedia the best he can. Of course I will be doing all of the real work. He would have responded to you directly, but he is currently out of town, and wanted to thank you asap. Thanks again. --Who's mop?¿? 20:58, 30 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

[my RfA]... succeeded, in part thanks to you. My appreciation knows few bounds. --Maru (talk) 01:09, 3 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Meetups

Yeah, great to meet you too! It seemed like it was fun, and if I have time, I'll be sure to come back. It looked like everyone enjoyed themselves, and I really think that was an ideal location. Too bad about Jimbo, perhaps some other time, and I'll see what I can do about getting over there. Thanks for introducing me to this wonderful (outside)wiki-world, (mysekurity)

Thanks SJ. Paul August ☎ 17:48, 2 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Sure, but I can't commit just yet. Right now the only reason i'm sticking around this area is because I want to be a State Representative in 2006, but I just graduated from college and my career situation is shaky, so I might have to move before then.

I honestly don't know anymore, I look at all these politicians we have today and want to dedicate my life to replacing them, but I need to decide whether it's worth all the frustration. Karmafist 03:13, 3 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, I am picking up quite a bit of language this way. I do intend to learn one or two (I have a bit of German already) like Italian and Spanish. The sites are a riot -- you should take a tour. Same format exactly, with a signature at the top by the translator. You can launch from my user page. Thanks for saying hello. paul klenk ^talk 10:01, 3 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, we met at Wikimedia and I need to discuss something private with you. Can I get your email address? I can't find it anywhere on the web. Good job fighting the spammers. :) --Chuck SMITH 11:36, 7 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Sj, thanks for the invite. I am very interested in attending any and all events, including meetups in NYC. Please do anything you can to keep me updated. Good point about Boston -- I will keep that in mind. Thanks! paul klenk ^talk`

RE: La Jolla: Yessss. -lots of issues (seems to be set --sj)

Re: Welcome

I was browsing my talk page archive, and noticed that you left me a welcome message when I first arrived in August of last year. I just wanted to offer a belated "thanks" for the newbie help, and an apology for the delayed response. ;) --tomf688^{talk} 20:57, 22 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Message at Meta

I have left a message on your user talk page over at meta, read it when time premits, thanks. --Robert Harrison^{talk contrib} 06:39, 24 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

RFA for Johntex

Hello, I want to thank you for your support of my RfA. I'm looking forward to using the new tools in the fight against vandalism. I hope I see you around Wikipedia soon. Best, Johntex\^talk 00:24, 2 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]