User talk:Yossarian/Archive I

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Help in dispute resolution

Your help would be welcome in helping to resolve the dispute over at the Collectivism article. -- Mihnea Tudoreanu 15:42, 31 Oct 2004 (UTC)

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)

Beckett Plays

Hi, thanks for your note it's nice to know someone is paying attention. I do think it's a bit of an oversimplification and I'm not opposed to listing Beckette plays as "French plays" as well; or at least the ones considered part of the French Canon. My knowledge of Existentialism is limited so I'll leave that up to you to decide exactly which plays should be included. By the way, you may be interested in my newly formed project, Wikipedia:WikiProject Theatre. Regards! Ganymead 21:33, 28 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I'm away from my bookcases at the moment, so just from memory: Godot is as clearly post-Synge as one could ask (especially the Synge of The Well of the Saints), although not written in French, All That Fall and Krapp are autobiographically Irish in setting. Similarly, the proce trilogy betray their Irish settings regularly, recalling the writer's childhood walks in the Wicklow hills with his father. I suspect it is not especially helpful to think of Beckett in terms of national identity. He is Irish by birth and much memory; French by adoption and mature experience, and ulltimately neither. This is both his great strength and his great weakness as a writer. Filiocht | Blarneyman 09:20, May 30, 2005 (UTC)

I've always felt that Jack Yeats' painting of The Well of the Saints is a prime inspiration behind Godot. Filiocht | Blarneyman 10:07, May 30, 2005 (UTC)

JY did the sets for the Abbey production of the Synge play. Doubt you'll find them online, but a good library should have this. Filiocht | Blarneyman 10:20, May 30, 2005 (UTC)

Templates

Hey! The template looks marvelous and I think it will be extremely useful. Perhaps I could talk you into creating one for George Bernard Shaw? Feel free to add your name to participants list on the project page. Regards! Ganymead 17:32, 30 May 2005 (UTC) P.S. I knew Dressler was Canadian, she's in a book I'm working on that's about to be published, I just had a brain fart...:-)Ganymead 17:32, 30 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

The Shaw template is marvelous! Thanks! If I think of any templates that need to be created I'll let you know. Ganymead 05:00, 31 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

One minor note, please don't add plays to Category:plays, add them to the category for their nationality Category:Plays by nationality. BTW, do you know the nationality of the playwright who wrote Godot Arrives? Thanks for your work and diligence! Ganymead 05:21, 31 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Applause* Again, another marvelous template! Have you considered templates for anyone else?Ganymead 03:41, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)

How about templates for Tennessee Williams and David Mamet? I think the films of Mamet could be included as well. Thank you for doing such great work! These templates are wonderful! Ganymead 06:39, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

P.S. Have you considered working Waiting for Godot and/or Endgame up to Featured Article status? I certainly think that Becket's best should be featured. Ganymead 06:39, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Your Mamet template looks great! I have begun creating stubs for the articles. I did make one minor change I added "(play)" to the title for Boston Marriage to distinguish it from Boston Marriage, the type of gay relationship. One change you may want to make...The Voysey Inheritance is not a play by Mamet but a screenplay based on the original play by Harley Granville-Barker.

When you add the screenplays, should you possibly retitle the template to be "Plays and Screenplays of David Mamet?" As always, thank you for your hard work! Ganymead 23:03, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)

NPA

Please keep in mind WP:NPA, thanks. --W(t) 06:22, 2005 May 30 (UTC)

Template:Beckett

About Template:Beckett: when you set the width of the table that wide (800px or 780px), the table runs off the page and part of it isn't visible at all. I'm on an 800x600 display with Wikipedia's "Classic" skin, and I need to set the width down to about 580px or so to prevent it from overwriting the links on the left of my window. I think the best solution is to not force the table to a specific width at all, and let the browser render it as it will, but I'm curious about your comment the damn thing bunchs up for no apparent reason on certain pages - would you show me an example of this happening? Maybe those pages have some other formatting problem that can be fixed. - Brian Kendig 14:50, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply - let's figure this out! I removed the forced width from Template:Shaw, then looked at every page which uses that template; for me, every page rendered the Shaw table perfectly, as wide as it should be in my window but no wider. Would you please point me to one of the pages on which you see the table as a tall narrow column, so I can try to figure out what's going on? Also, what web browser are you using on what OS, and what Wikipedia skin? I'm suspecting this might be a browser rendering issue. At any rate, forcing the table to 800px wide (or that vicinity) isn't a good solution, since my window and my WP skin leave only about 500px for the article text, and other people might have even less width (think of displaying it on a cell phone's screen). If we have to force a width then I think guessing a minimal width is best (maybe 300px or 400px?), but I don't think we'll have to end up forcing a width. - Brian Kendig 00:11, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I have a Win98 machine; I'll put Firefox onto it and see if I can duplicate that behavior and figure it out. Which article is your image from, specifically? And what version of Firefox are you running? Also, could you go into that article's edit screen and try previewing some other template tables in it - like "Mac OS History" or "Userpage" or "DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual" - and let me know if the preview (you don't actually need to commit that change to the article) shows the same problem with the table being smooshed? - Brian Kendig 12:16, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I installed Windows 98 and Firefox and duplicated the problem you're seeing. So I edited the table to remove width="100%' and that seems to have solved the problem - would you look at Widowers' Houses on your system and let me know if it's fixed? I similarly fixed Template:Pinter and Template:Beckett; let me know if any of them still produce odd results for you. - Brian Kendig 19:46, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

On Break

Hi, just a note to let you know I haven't died or disappeared. I have taken an unexpected, but much-needed, break from Wikipedia. As you are a theatre person, feel free to take over Wikiproject Theatre and do as you wish. I'm not sure when I shall return, but should you wish to contact me, my email is ganymead@gmail.com. Take care and keep up the good work! Ganymead 03:05, 13 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Hey! I have returned from break and i've started back to work on the WikiProject Theatre page. I hope all is well with you! I look forward to hearing from you. Ganymead 01:36, 21 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Black Book of Communism

I've recently done a clean-up of the Black Book of Communism article, but I expect swift retaliation from those who had previously made that article horribly POV in the first place. I would be very grateful if you could have a look over it and help out with the inevitable NPOV conflict. -- Mihnea Tudoreanu 15:19, 17 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

LaRouche

Lyndon LaRouche divides historical figures into villains ( including beast-men, synarchists, Venetian/Dutch/Anglos, etc) and heroes. There are many heroes, but more villains. His literal villification of generally well-regarded figures such as Newton and Aristotle is unusual, but his designation of Prince Philip and Lynn Cheney as the pan-Atlantic heads of the synchretist/venetian conspiracy is downright bizarre. In the more direct field of partisan politics, the youth supporters of his perennial presidential candidacies have become increasingly confrontational towards other campaigns and their particular target in 2004 was, of all things, the Green Party campaign of Peter Camejo. There are people who oppose Cheney and the Windsors as well as other people who oppose Camejo and George Soros (another key villain) but very few people who oppose both, besides LaRouche and his group.

While other folks might content themselves with being brilliant political thinkers or the world's greatest economic forecaster, but LaRouche is such an energetic genius that he brings his intellectual prowess to the field of music as well. The works of Beethoven and Lieder singing are sublime, but Vivaldi was a beastman (LaRouche followers have reportedly picketed Vivaldi concerts to protest the composer.) American Spiritual music are a great art form, but Gospel music is trash. And oh, all the orchestras in the world must change the tuning of their instruments to the "Verdi tuning", another pet cause (maybe more like idée fixe).

All of which would be amusingly quaint if he didn't also recruit college kids to drop out in order to study at the freeform school of LaRouche while hawking his "campaign" literature on the side. There is all of the apparatus of an international movement. It's really rather interesting and may become even more so when LaRouche dies. I look forward to reading (or writing - this is Wikipedia) the last chapter on LaRouche, should I live so long. Though perhaps little more than a footnote in history, LaRouche is certainly an unusual character. Cheers -Willmcw 08:55, 14 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Classic Rock

Hello. I was wondering if you would like to participate in my classic rock survey. I'm trying to find the most like classic rock song. There is more information on my user page. Hope you participate! RENTASTRAWBERRY ^{FOR LET?} röck 00:36, 2 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Wikimedia Canada

Hi there! I'd like to invite you to explore Wikimedia Canada, and create a list of people interested in forming a local chapter for our nation. A local chapter will help promote and improve the organization, within our great nation. We'd also like to encourage everyone to suggest projects for our national chapter to participate in. Hope to see you there!--DarkEvil 17:11, 20 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Image Tagging Image:Vladimir.jpg

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Request for edit summary

Hi. I am a bot, and I am writing to you with a request. I would like to ask you, if possible, to use edit summaries a bit more often when you contribute. The reason an edit summary is important is because it allows your fellow contributors to understand what you changed; you can think of it as the "Subject:" line in an email. For your information, your current edit summary usage is 33% for major edits and 21% for minor edits. (Based on the last 150 major and 150 minor edits in the article namespace.)

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User Page Appreciation

Just to say I rather enjoyed reading your user page and that it cheered me up a bit. I was also wondering if you are the Yossarian who attributed to a picture of an Ewok Santa, the phrase:

"On Endor, the repo men do it with style"

In any case, have a nice day. 82.198.250.72 10:32, 27 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Glad to know my ramblings can cheer a person up. Sadly I'm not the Yossarian (there are other Yossarians?) who appended that clever phrase to Santa Ewok. Wish I had. Cheers and have a nice day! -- Yossarian

10:36, 27 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Well, here's said picture with attributed phrase in case you fancied seeing it. Take care 82.198.250.72 10:39, 27 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hah! I had just looked it up as you sent the message. Take care as well, O anonymous user! -- Yossarian

10:41, 27 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Just to say thank-you for the kind intervention regarding Ichthys, although apart from this page and the one about Canadian terms, someone on that IP was vandalising. Thanks again. I'll stop now, as this is probably getting awkward. anonymous user 21:04, 27 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Theatre

Please check out the new design for the WikiProject Theatre page. You could say that "project page envy" led to the redesign. The French WikiProject Theatre page was much nicer looking than ours, so I spent a little time redesigning it. In addition, a theatre article assessment project has been started. This project aims to examine theatre articles, rate them and note what work needs to be done.

Thanks!

Thanks for your kind words! Good luck on 3m ;) Nach0king 09:23, 2 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Misery

Hi. Thanks for your message about the Misery edit!

I'm sorry for reverting your edit without checking with you about the DVD. The original Wikipedia edit--before I stepped in--made it seem as though Misery's Child was unpublished in the film, and that this was the book Paul was forced to rewrite. This seemed to be backed up by other reviews of the film I could find online, and I honestly couldn't remember anything different myself, so I made the changes. Since this doesn't seem to be the case--I stand corrected.

MC is definitely published in the novel version--I went back to my copy of Misery to check. My copy of the book dates from 1988, so it seems that this is an original plot point that carried over to the film.

Namaste, Mademoiselle Sabina 05:02, 11 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Reading Lolita in Tehran

Hi. you asked people to provide source for the first sentence of the following paragraph: "Despite its success in attracting many from all over the world, Reading Lolita in Tehran has not been able to attract many Iranians. As Nafisi herself told the New York Times, 'People from my country have said the book was successful because of a Zionist conspiracy and US imperialism, and others have criticized me for washing our dirty laundry in front of the enemy.'

Isn't it enough that the book is a bestseller ? So this is the opinion of the world! Then Nafisi herself describes the opinion of Iranians. Pro-regime Iranians said that the book is a conspiracy and anti regime Iranians believe that Nafisi is not considering what is in favor of country and only considers her own benefit. Many Iranian-Americans and University profesors wrote articles against her. I remember that German radio made a report of the reactions of Iranian University professors in the US to this book. --Fooladin 01:11, 12 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Did I say "Oh! It's true because I'm arguing it is! The whole world is proof!" ? First of all here is one reference [1]. There are a few others at the bottom of the page and the author's page. Do you need a reference for its popularity in the world ? Well it was bestseller. The same reference also refered to this issue. You may argue that being bestseller is not enough. About its popularity in Iran, I refered to the author's judgement and her POV. The author did not say that Islamists and fundamentalists said so, she refered generally to Iranians and divided them into two groups. Agian my source indicate this. If you could read in persian I would give you direct feedbacks of Iranians. Anyway, if you think I am not neutral, rewrite it in your own words based on the source that I provided.

Besides: about the source that I provided for Khomeini's referendum: I provided a reference about timeline of "women issue" in Iran which included this event. So I think it is quite relevant. Dress code is included in Islamic republic constitution. Otherwise this event was not in the time line of women issues in Iran. If you don't like my source you can search in the web and I am sure you will find a source that makes you satisfied.

I prefer not to contribute to these controversial pages anymore. Thanks. --Fooladin