User talk:Skysmith/Archive 2003-2005

(Archive of messages 2003-2005)

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Hello and welcome to Wikipedia! Breat work on creating Bonnot gang! --mav

Great job on Janissary! Hephaestos 22:06 Jan 27, 2003 (UTC)

...and also on Special Boat Service, which is a great improvement on the article that was there before. --rbrwr

Just the facts, I'm afraid. Although my grammar does not seem perfect Skysmith

BTW, do you realize you just deleted the dozen-odd English Civil War entries I added to List of battles 1401-1800 little over an hour ago? Check the diffs and scroll down to see what got evaporated. I'll fix - usually the save mechanism detects conflicts and warns you, did you get that when you saved? Stan Shebs 18:59 Feb 12, 2003 (UTC)

Sorry about that Skysmith 19:30 Feb 12, 2003 (UTC)

Thanks for doing most of the fixing! There were a couple bits missing still, I just re-added those, so all better now. Stan Shebs 21:56 Feb 12, 2003 (UTC)

Have you noticed the article TulipOmania? A little merging is needed one way or the other ²¹²

So it appears. And someone has already done that - Skysmith 19:01 7 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Please see Talk:Hugo Bleicher. I hope you can help by providing references for the account of Frager's arrest. Thanks. Peter Manchester 14:16, 28 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Enjoyed seeing the appearance of the article about Maria Monk. Was meaning to get around to that one day. I added a couple paragraphs, mostly relating the tale told to Gothic novels. -- Smerdis of Tlön 17:57, 4 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Transgender

Hello: two tips for you - check out Category:Transgender-related topics. Please also be careful with your pronouns - it isn't quite appropriate to use pronouns relating to birth gender in speaking about transgendered people (see Wikipedia:WikiProject Sexology and Sexuality/Terminology for more). Thanks Dysprosia 11:30, 21 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Cetshwayo

Cetshwayo You changed dashes - to question marks ? in this article ; or is it my fonts ? Wizzy 14:34, 21 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for fixing it. I followed up with Zulus categorisation. Wizzy 12:56, 23 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Karl Wilhelm Naundorff

Heya.. nice work on the Karl Wilhelm Naundorff article! I created that wee stub a while back when it was on a list of "articles in the French wikipedia that we don't have in English", and it was a pleasant surprise to see that someone had greatly expanded it! —Stormie 23:52, Jun 29, 2004 (UTC)

Re: NFC

Oh, no worries; that's happened to me before, too. If only a warning would pop up informing you that "an article under this title was deleted in the past five minutes; are you sure you want to create it again?".. but such would probably be a waste of developer time. Anyway, thanks for your effort in combing through the new arrivals. Those delete tags are very helpful to us janitor-types. Cheers, -- Hadal 10:27, 7 Jul 2004 (UTC)

1926 money scandal in Hungary and Alfred Windischgrätz

You committed a change to 1926 that mentions "Money forgery scandal in Hungary - Alfred Windischgratz arrested". The notable Alfred Windischgrätz died in 1862 so this can't have been the right person. I couldn't find anything on Google about this so I preemptively removed it. If you can corroborate this information, please make a page for either that different person, or for the event. --Joy [shallot] 01:33, 21 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Cuddle party

Hello. I just wanted to let you know I removed the nonsense tag from Cuddle party since it doesn't qualify under the stringent requirements of Wikipedia:Patent nonsense. The article doesn't qualify for speedy deletion, but you could VfD it if you wish. Thank you. SWAdair | Talk 08:55, 26 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Thank you for helping with the Wiki Syntax

Thank you for helping out with cleaning up the wiki syntax - with the ones that didn't have any flaw, Artemas Ward had already been already fixed by someone else earlier today, April 14 had been fixed by someone a few days ago, the Apoptosis article got fixed by someone else two days ago, and Arthur Q. Bryan & Arab diaspora did have misplaced square brackets (but they were very very very easily missed, so don't worry about it). Thank you once again, and all the best - Nickj 08:50, 29 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Changed vote on vfd

Hey there, I just wanted to let you know I changed my vote onWikipedia:Votes for deletion/Vergennes Union High School to a merge, since we found out where the school is. Since your vote was a second to mine, you may wish to revise yours. —siro χ o 22:46, Nov 19, 2004 (UTC)

Southfleet

Hello! I am not too sure why you have called what is now written about this Kent village a stub. It is a very small place (about 2 miles from me!) and I cannot see what else - certainly not reams of it! - can be added. I looked at Geography stubs and it seems to me that we can ill-afford adding too many more ...

Peter Shearan

Cassie Chadwick

Thank you for your kind comments regarding my addition to the Cassie Chadwick page... stude62

verkerparada?

I somehow like the sound of that :P -- Ferkelparade π 13:59, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Hehe, it doesn't mean anything in particular, but it does sound pretty funny. Thanks for the chuckle -- Ferkelparade π 12:17, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Dickinson High School

Hey Skysmith... The Dickinson High School has been heavily revised. If you wouldn't mind, please take a moment to visit the refactored version in the event you wish to reconsider your vote. —[[User:Radman1|RaD Man (talk)]] 03:10, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)

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 1000 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)

== http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asbestosis_-_Compensation_and_Liability_Disputes ==

Significant revision in progress. Please consider re-evaluation.

Professor in accounting VfD

Please consider changing your vote on Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Professor in accounting, if you see this soon enough: we are supposed to be voting on whether there could ever be an article deserving the title Professor in accounting. If this ends up keep, the result will be a RfD on Professor in accounting, (and a VfD on Accounting scholarship, for that matter). The result of the vote going for Del is not about deleting Accounting scholarship, so your current vote says just that the title you didn't like should be kept. --Jerzy (t) 22:21, 2005 Jan 11 (UTC)

Source of the news

Ey! Pleased to talk with you. I've just added a source to the news. I didn't know I had to do that, thank you very much. Greetings from Spain. --Carlos Quesada 12:01, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Articles to be merged

Hi again!

I have found a pair of different articles about the same topic. They are Vincent Ferrer and St Vincent Ferrer. What should be done with that? --Carlos Quesada 13:32, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Shrigley Abduction

Hi there - you seem to be the primary author of Shrigley Abduction in which case I wonder if you could refer to your source and verify or correct some confusing dates about the Wakefield brother's trial (Two 1827 dates out of sequence and then a reference to "In May 14"):

Trial of William Wakefield begun in 21 August 1827 with great publicity - but without Wakefield who was later arrested. Eventually in 23 March 1827 all three defendants were put in trial in Lancaster and jury declared all of them guilty the same day. They were committed to the Lancaster Castle in the following day.

In May 14 Wakefield were taken to Court of King's Bench in Westminster,

Fascinating article! dramatic 23:33, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Fake news / VfD

Thank you for your contribution in the "fake news" discussion. Your intervention came just in time to ease tensions and perhaps find an intermediary solution that may be well interesting - a disambiguation page. COngratulations for the idea. Paulo Andrade.

surrealism

I just wanted to say I found your edit summary "cat throwing weapons" was quite funny :o) dab (ᛏ) 12:10, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Merge and Delete votes

Hi Skysmith! I have seen you vote merge and delete on several VfD debates. I understand why you want to do so (that title is useless!), but if you read Guide to Votes for Deletion you will see that such a vote is invalid. Basically, if the content of an article is used, the terms of the GFDL require that the author(s) be attributed, and leaving the redirect which contains the page history is the way to do it. Sjakkalle (Check!) 13:00, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Wikiagraphy

There are some notorious people that we don't know much about; which makes it hard to write a decent article. Plus, sometimes names are associated with notorious people, and come up in different places. Such as Sigmund Freud's family or B. F. Skinner's family. Other examples include people related to school counseling, such as Jesse B. Davis and Frank Parsons. On the other hand, if there was a wikiaphraphy, some Joe Schmo might want to put himself in it.--whicky1978 15:35, Jun 16, 2005 (UTC)

Ok, I think I've found a suitable solution. A catagory called "biography" or "people" could be created on wikitionary. Also, a category called "gazateer" for places could be created on wikitionary.--whicky1978 June 28, 2005 22:59 (UTC)

"Missing Sun myth"

You probably don't remember, Skysmith, but just over two years ago you added a broken link to the article on Amaterasu to an yet-to-be-written article called "Missing Sun myth" (note capitals). I recently wrote the article, but it has been hijacked by a rogue Wikipedian (claiming to know things about mythology that are apparently beyond the scope of even Joseph Campbell's works and most humans cannot understand) named "DreamGuy". I have been engaged in a minor edit war with him about the use of capitals in the title, and I was wondering if you had simply coined the term yourself or if you obtained it from some source even DreamGuy must give in to. Could you provide a reference?

elvenscout742 1 July 2005 21:19 (UTC)

Skysmith, can you please vote on this issue, take into consideration Elvenscoute742's suggestion. Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Missing Sun myth Thank you. --AI 11:27, 18 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

No, please take into account what I have said there. I personally think the copy-paste article should be deleted, not made into a redirect, and then the original article (now under the name "Missing sun motif") should be moved back to its rightful position.elvenscout742 11:37, 18 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, thats what I meant. :) --AI 12:19, 18 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Krimini

Check out the link provided. I think this is a hoax, as the link goes to what looks like a childrens show. --Scimitar 9 July 2005 18:31 (UTC)

Well, no harm no foul. Have fun with the RC patrol!--Scimitar 9 July 2005 18:35 (UTC)

WfD:Missing Sun myth

I noticed you said that the newer copy-paste article should be made to redirect. I'm sure you should agree that it needs to be deleted, and the original one should be moved back to its old name. This cannot be done unless the new article goes completely first.elvenscout742 13:09, 19 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Deletionism

Thanks for bringing up this point about "critical mass". I have added something to this statement [1] that I hope might clarify my position a bit. --malathion ^talk 09:12, 3 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Photo of Alain Bombard

Hi! I'm the person who suppressed the photo of Alain Bombard recently. I live in France and I can assure you that this is not a photo of alain Bombard. It's a photo of Haroun Tazieff, a french vulcanologist. You can find photos of Alain Bombard here. --Geremy78 12:31, 4 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Sorry Skysmith

Hum...Well...You are right Skysmith,I must apologize. The first time I suppressed the photo of your article anonymously and without any comment: this is a violation of the Wikiquette, and a "Faux pas". But I suppose these mistakes are common among the newcomers. I usely don't make any modification in the articles. I'm really sorry for the inconveniences. --Geremy78 09:31, 5 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Government Warehouse

You may remember that I addressed your concerns about the original contents of Government Warehouse, of there being "an endless fan-generated listing of possibilities", with a rewrite. Reddi (talk · contribs) has since restored the original unverifiable contents to the article, and then, when I removed them again, "in order to avoid an edit war" forked List of the Government Warehouse's contents. That latter has since been nominated for deletion, but currently there is just the one keep vote. Reddi (talk · contribs) has stated on Talk:Government Warehouse that if the latter article is deleted, xe intends to re-add the content to Government Warehouse once again. Please contribute to the discussions at Talk:Government Warehouse and Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/List of the Government Warehouse's contents. Uncle G 13:20:26, 2005-08-10 (UTC)

1254

Skysmith,

I noticed your recent edit to 1254, where you added the marriage of Edward I of England and Eleanor of Castile. I am glad to see others toiling in the obscure backwaters of ancient year summaries! Generally though, the rule is that marriages are not notable enough to be listed on year summary pages, even if the bride and/or groom are notable historical figures. However, exceptions are made for marriages which are particularly significant historical events, i.e. ones that precipitate the beginning or ending of armed conflict, establish new dynasties, etc. I don't know the particulars of the marriage of Edward I and Eleanor, but unless it has notable historical significance, it should probably be removed. If it is significant, please add (very brief) context so that readers can see why it's listed. Thanks! - Bantman 16:59, 19 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure I agree with you that royal marriages are always noteworthy, but the text you added to the one in question makes this example perfectly acceptable in my eyes. Thanks for your work in following up on my comment. - Bantman 16:37, 21 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Agitator

When changing the meaning of the article drastically, please always check the back links, otherwise their logic may become screwed up (as it happened, e.g., with Agitation page; fixed) mikka (t) 22:29, 3 November 2005 (UTC) Also, it is a useful work to check other forms of an ambiguous word (in our case: agitation, agitate) whether they link to proper meanings. mikka (t) 22:58, 3 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Fair enough - Skysmith 11:14, 4 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Daniel Dancer

Hi there, your Daniel Dancer article is up on AfD. I was wondering if you have a source reference for the artice? Pete.Hurd 21:36, 11 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Rechecking my library. I've had second thoughts about that myself - Skysmith 10:33, 12 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Daniel Dancer is from the 1988 Reader's Digest book "Facts and Fallacies". And this does seem to be the only reference. Nihilartikel? I'll mention this in the AFD. - Skysmith 11:03, 12 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Re:Welcome

Thanks for the Welcome! Sorry for not replying earlier, but I think I'm starting to get the hang of this. Give my regards to EB. Jokermage Timor Mentum Occidit 20:02, 6 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Ur Rakesh Saxena article

In the last para u say the court has taken som edecision in 2009,obviously that isnt possible, can u please correct it.59.144.18.175 14:43, 13 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

You could do that yourself, actually, anon editing is not disabled. However, good catch - Skysmith 12:51, 14 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Marthe Hanau

Hello, Could you add references to the Marthe Hanau article.--FloNight 22:35, 21 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Female Wartime Spies

Whoops! I didn't mean to delete the name portion of the category link. How do I fix it? -User:Asarelah

Asydwaters Talk

Thanx for pointing out my mistakes;How do clean it up? As a fan of Pink Floyd asydwaters is combination of Syd Barrett and Roger Waters. <asydwaters>

Depends on what you want to do. The text in articlespace is apparently gone now; if you write something you want deleted, you can just mark it for deletion with {{delete}} and an explanation for that request in the edit summary. Otherwise you just edit the text in the page.

You should also sign your comments with ~~~~ - Skysmith 15:11, 29 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]