User talk:Zocky/2004

Hi, and let me say that i am glad someone thought to specify which of two mirror-image configurations for opposite-sides-total-7 dice is standard. It appears that was you. Unfortunately, two recent perusers of the article Dice think 1-2-3 arrayed counter-clockwise around their common vertex looks like the correct spec in WP photos. Do you have a verbal source, or did you inspect 3-D dice or photos? Could the discrepancy rest on our misunderstanding of your description? (Not all of the photos at odds with our interpretation of your wording could be flipped without it being obvious, so that seems ruled out.) Hope you can help with this! Thanks, --Jerzy (t) 03:10, 2004 May 22 (UTC)

Thanks for the info, old and new, and the fix. --Jerzy (t) 03:10, 2004 May 23 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for the grammar and link revision help you gave me on the villip article. I wouldn't have spotted it.

JediMaster16 18:32, 1 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Category talk:Fundamental

In Category talk:Fundamental, do we really need a second copy of your nice category list? Would you have an objection to deleting it from the talk page and leaving it on the main page? I'll probably start linking it soon as well. --ssd 13:40, 13 Jun 2004 (UTC)

MediaWiki feature request : categories

In meta:MediaWiki feature request and bug report discussion#Category feature requests I merged your section with mine and kept your (better) title, and deleted two of your sections (and one of mine), because I believe they have been implemented now. BTW, might be a good idea to put a redirect on your Meta user/talk page unless you want comments there next time. 8-> --ssd 15:24, 20 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Sounds

Hey Zocky, here are those pages I mentioned on IRC:

The alphabet at Slovene language
Common phrases in different languages
List of tongue-twisters (although it appears that there aren't any slovene phrases here, so add some first :)
Numbers in various languages

I suggest using Audacity to record and export the files to Ogg Vorbis format (See also Wikipedia:Ogg Vorbis help). Dori | Talk 12:43, Jul 29, 2004 (UTC)

Somes Island

Hello, Zocky. I deliberately created a Somes Island page to cover the island that had no other name for about 120 years. You turned it into a redirect. Is it WP policy to name areas only by their most recent names? If it is, please direct me to a discussion of it. Then on that principle maybe you can push for the deletion of the "British Empire" page, for example. (You cut out the sentence about Somes Island that covered many decades of history that would have been quite significant in many people's lives.) Robin Patterson 11:41, 16 Aug 2004 (UTC)

It's not about policy, it's about duplication. The two articles were almost the same and one linked to the other, making it look like unintentional duplication. Sorry for cutting out the sentence, that wasn't intentional. No offence intended whatsoever.

Is there a lot of history about the island connected to its old name? If so, you could write an article about it at Somes Island and write about the island itself and its present state at Matiu/Somes Island. Until there's enough different text on both to have meaningful separate articles, it's probably best if both island and it's history are described at Matiu/Somes Island. Alternatively, you could write such stubs that would make the scope of both articles clear. Zocky 12:05, 16 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for clarifying. I DID "write an article about it at Somes Island and write about the island itself and its present state at Matiu/Somes Island"; I thought I had made them sufficiently different to show that the articles were for very different periods in the history. Each linked to the other, a sign of "intentional" creation rather than unintentional, I suggest. However, obviously not enough of the distinguishing features yet. When I've got more about the century of use for quarantine and prison I'll "revert" to something with the original intention but with a decent amount of detail (unless someone else has beaten me to it - a friend has just shown me a book of poems and essays about the island, some of which covers the old period). Kind regards - Robin Patterson 19:59, 16 Aug 2004 (UTC)

"We're writing an encyclopedia here, not running a social club" ????

Rex071404 05:19, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Yes, what about it? Zocky 14:23, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Avala's case at the Arbcom

Could you visit Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Avala/Evidence#Snowspinner.27s and tell what is the correct translation of several terms directed at Avala? Nikola 19:47, 19 Aug 2004 (UTC)

football

You wrote : It is correct, but it's not what the sentence is about. Britain makes more sentence if you read the whole sentence.

As I wrote the sentence. I believe I know what it is about. An anon IP changed the word England to Brtain, shortly before I changed it back. I believe what I wrote is better because a) it is accurate and b) the prose flows better without Britain and British in such close proximity. Mintguy (T)

Wikipedia talk:Administrators/Administrator Accountability Policy

I wonder if you've had a chance to look at (and possibly vote on) Snowspinner's soon closing policy proposal Wikipedia:Blocking policy/Personal attacks? -- orthogonal 07:10, 28 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Peasant revolt

You are going to list a few of the more famous ones in that article, aren't you? Geogre 02:03, 30 Aug 2004 (UTC)the deletionist

Attack of the Living Dead Proposals!

They live! -- orthogonal 23:35, 30 Aug 2004 (UTC)

orthogonal RfC

Snowspinner has opened Wikipedia:Requests for comment/orthogonal

I'd appreciate seeing your comments as well. -- orthogonal 05:59, 31 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Deleting user subpages

There's a vote in progress at Wikipedia talk:Deletion of user subpages. Please consider voting. I have also requested that the proposal be frozen for the period of the vote, but this has met with opposition. Your participation in the process would be greatly appreciated. Andrewa 10:22, 6 Sep 2004 (UTC)

caption on Haymarket photo

I probably should not have posted the picture [or the caption] but here is what is going on. Michael K took me [carptrash, aka "fishy friend"] to the pedistal of the statue and strongly suggested that he was involved with it's getting blown up. We were in Chicago for the 100th anniversory of the Haymarket Riot. Michael was killed in an auto accident several years later. So, Zocky, now you know. Carptrash 03:56, 7 Sep 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 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)