User:Bookgrrl/Archive1

Archive 1

17 Aug 2006 - 13 Sep 2006

Fearsome Critters
Fearsome Critters is the actuial term coined by the lumberjacks of wisconson. I do mean the article that refirs to the creatures themselves. Please note that they are not Cryptids, but fictional creatures that were made up to intentionaly to scare the new lumberjacks who joined camp, or to confuse gullible people they dont fit into cryptids very well and i would rather not mix them up. a reference to the name Fearsome Critters being coined by lumberjacks may be found in "the encylopedia of monsters" i have the book somewhere and il give the author once i find the book

If you Play the game Fable, you will notice that in many of the marshy areas Adder Stones are quite frequent in appearance but i will leave the revert up to you !paradigm! 03:01, 17 August 2006 (UTC)!paradigm!

you think that this will keep the cleanup tag off? !paradigm! 03:01, 17 August 2006 (UTC)!paradigm!

yeah, i know all about the links i added most of them. This has been the hardest article to create for me, but i guess it is hard to create a whole new category that has yet to be referenced. keeping my fingers crossed oh, heres a wikicookie for the rewrite.

!paradigm! 04:00, 17 August 2006 (UTC)!paradigm!

paradigm
Hey, if you are intrested i have another page that im building its got some tags attached though, if you help il guve u a wikicookie! lol check it at Fearsome Critters

de la Reynie
Magnificent job with the Gabriel Nicolas de la Reynie (even if you beat me to including him :-) ) - Skysmith 18:18, 26 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Thanks! Bookgrrl 03:46, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

Re: Qamata
Much appreciated! :) Also, since I see nobody else has done it yet, and even though you seem at home here already, I would like to formally welcome you to Wikipedia:

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Rescue Award
I gladly present Bookgrrl with this rescue award, for saving my Argopelter page !paradigm! 00:59, 13 August 2006 (UTC)!paradigm!

de la Reynies (and Argensons) and stuff
I always thought the villainous d'Argenson invented the Paris police. Just goes to show. For Irish kings, the man to speak to is User:Fergananim, who's sick at the moment and not very active, although he is around off and on. He has all the big modern books on the subject (or he has access to them anyway). For the rubbish I've done, I just bodged stuff up out of Frank Byrne's book and the CELT website annals. Not exactly poster children for how-to-write-a-great article. Cheers ! Angus McLellan (Talk) 19:33, 21 May 2006 (UTC)


 * No problem at all. I only made up the list of translations last night and I haven't started anything on any of them. I've taken the other duc d'Épernon off my list as well in case you wanted that one too. Angus McLellan (Talk) 06:48, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

Grace Hartigan
Just wondering why you removed one of the external links at the end of Grace Hartigan but left the others (in fact I see you've removed it twice) -- is there some kind of rule about what's OK and what's not in an external link? Thanks! --Bookgrrl 11:36, 13 June 2006 (UTC)


 * Because it is linkspam . If you look through this user's edits, they are all the same., , ...etc. IrishGuy   talk  20:34, 13 June 2006 (UTC)


 * You mean he's trying to draw traffic to his own website -- is that what linkspam is? But what if they're actually good useful links?  I work at a library that has collections of a lot of artists' and writers' papers; if I link each of them to the information about our papers, would that be linkspam? And the NMWA is a non-profit (it's a real museum) so it can't be a money-making thing, right?  Bookgrrl 03:34, 14 June 2006 (UTC)


 * When a user's only edits are adding links to the same website in myraid articles it is, by definition, linkspam. If that website has pertenent information, then that information should be incorporated into the article. Not a simple link. IrishGuy   talk  03:37, 14 June 2006 (UTC)


 * Gotcha. Thanks for the clarification. Bookgrrl 02:27, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

Underwater panthers
Hi! I noticed the article you created on underwater panthers and thought it was very interesting material. I have proposed it for WP:DYK (that is, to be listed in the "Did you Know" section of the main page). The nomination is here, under suggestions for July 15. Keep up the good work!--Fuhghettaboutit 19:01, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Cool, thanks :) Bookgrrl 19:13, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

pipe cat
Hi. Piping a category changes the the order the page is displayed in the category. The reason I changed the pages you worked on is because they are about people, and people are categorised by surname then first name. So for example Charles Kurtsinger would normally be categorised under "Ch". Piping the category changes this to "Ku" for Kurtsinger. Category:American jockeys is a good example of this. Notice Eclipse Award for Outstanding Jockey appears under "E" yet all the people appear under the first letter of their surname. So in summary, pipe a category link when you want to change the place where the page appears in the category. Cheers -- Gareth Aus 20:58, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Aha! How very useful this is :) Thanks! Bookgrrl 03:37, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

Mythology: 'Y'
I'm working on the mythology articles 'y' section for WP:MEA right now. I've gotten through almost the whole list, but I've been working offline so it's not showing up on the page. But don't worry, it's covered. Just thought you might like to know. :) --Gpollock 21:43, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Haha, yeah I'm trying to see if I can't make some kind of dent in it. I've been working on the Y's for a good couple hours. I went through and verified all of the bluelinks, just to make sure that they all work and go to places that are appropriate. I then removed all of those from the list (Be bold and whatnot). I did the same for the Z's a day or two ago, and hopefully I'll keep progressing through the alphabet (backwards, for some reason) over the next little while. --Gpollock 22:05, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Yowza -- look at you! The "Y" page looks awesome, that's a huge accomplishment :) Bookgrrl 03:11, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

Not much direct bot help, sorry...
Hi, saw your note on my talk page. There's not really a comprehensive reference anywhere to writing bots. I started by looking at the bots page, which has some links to useful software resources toward the bottom. I used Perl and the MediaWiki client, which has been okay but not great. Apparently all the cool kids are using the python bot framework. Some people make source code available (see User:Pearle for a bot that does a fair number of different things). Sorry I can't be more specific but it was definitely as "try as you go" experience for me. Setting up a local copy of MediaWiki was not hard and it was very useful for testing. Feel free to ask more questions though I'll be pretty sporadic on the answers still. And, thanks for the dissertation good wishes. -- ForteTuba 12:21, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

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Thanks for weighing in
at the delete vote on Gay ICP. You mentioned you "knew zip" about vandalism and sock puppetry, so I felt it would be best if I warn you: the editor who created the article Gay ICP (and several of his sockpuppets, ie., alternate online identities) have been vandalising the discussion by rewriting other editors' votes and comments and leaving their signatures intact, to try to make it look like they said the opposite. Fortunately for the defenders of the truth, page history is forever. ;) I only mention it because there's a distinct probability the editor will get a new account and vandalise your vote next time as well.  Take care, Kasreyn 06:14, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

DYK

 * My pleasure :) Bookgrrl

I Love You, I Love You Not
Just wanted to say thank you for disambiguating romance. I'm a bit annoyed with myself -- I do disambig a lot and try to leave my articles free of any ambiguous links. Missed that one, but thanks again for catching it. -Bri 00:10, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

Wrigley twins
Just out of interest how did you find this article so quickly? thanks for the changes btw. Abtract 20:09, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Hey, Abtract -- welcome to Wikipedia :) I do New Page Patrol whenever I can, and have been focusing on stubbing articles so that if the author doesn't have a chance to get back to them, someone else interested in the topic may. Bookgrrl 20:36, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

Ah I see, thanks.Abtract 22:41, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

PROD USE
If you just use the tag  reason  and type in the reason for the prod in place of the word "reason" it should do everything else for you. There are good instructions on WP:PROD. If I can help with anything else, just let me know. Dipics 03:41, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks
Thank you for the clean-up on "Ferris Webster." And thank you especially for the guidelines link. And thanks for the welcome.


 * And thanks for the reminder about the four tildes. I knew better. ForDorothy 15:25, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

Jonathan Scott (zoologist)
Hi Bookgrrl, You've left a message on my talk page and I know that I have copied the article from the BBC Website but I did it for a reason. Firstly if you look at the article about Saba Douglas-Hamilton you'll see that it was actually copied from the same page that I copied the article about Jonathan Scott (zoologist) from, you can check. Therefore, if it's not up to your stardards please do delete it. I can't re-write the article as my specialists are not about Zoology.

P.S I am not a newbie as I am a member since Februray, I apologise for the mistake that I commited

Speedies
Thanks for the note. I'm not a deletionist under all but the most obvious circumstances. I know that I've had a number of my articles nominated, so I don't do it to anyone who appears to have made a serious effort. Richardjames444 02:35, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for saying 'hi' and helping me with me with that speedy deletion nomination. Looks like I've dodged that bullet - but added a 'notability' note anyway. Redundant! --Cpl Hicks 08:20, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Turn state's evidence
Nice job. I saw people complain about this article. It did not look like anyone was going to work on it. However short it is, it looks very good. meatclerk 04:36, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

Re: User page reverts
Re your messages : You're welcome. It was rather sneaky vandalism. I checked his talk page and reverted the warning removal and warned him not to do that. As for the popups thing, that's Navigation Popups. It helps in my Recent Changes Patrolling. I spotted the vandalism to your user page because I saw somebody who wasn't you making a change to your user page. It stuck out and I checked to make sure it's not vandalism. As for how fast I caught it (actually, it was rather slow), I got lucky to see the edit go by in the log. -- Gogo Dodo 17:04, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

Bladders
Just wonderin' if you've got that Blackadder infobox going yet? I probably just haven't come across it yet though (Note: If you're gonna reply, please dump it on my talk page rather than here)

(The Bread 04:55, 14 August 2006 (UTC))

Took a look at it, like the Black on white thing you've done, maybe swap The Black Adder for Blackadder Episode otherwise, I like it alot

(The Bread 06:14, 19 August 2006 (UTC))

Barenaked Chicken
No, it doesn't qualify. Please see Criteria for speedy deletion. Neither non notable websites nor autobiographies are speediable- just people with no claim to notability. CanadianCaesar Et tu, Brute? 03:50, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

Re - Will Labial (scale) ever be more than an entry
Hi Bookgrrl,

Yes, Labial scale will be more than an entry. It will have a snake's head image to indicate the location. It will have material regarding the shape and location on various families of snakes. Since snakes require extensive scale diagrams for genuine identification, it will be an article, albeit a short one. It will form part of a series of short articles on snake scales which will also provide a framework on which material regarding lizard, testudine and crocodile scales can be added. Regards, AshLin 10:53, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

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Thanks for the Cutaneous larva migrans photo
Great photo of cutaneous larva migrans. It really helps the article. Carl 19:06, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

Illick's mill
I know, i hust need to work on the article before i post it panther  &#91;(*)(*)] 11:48, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the thanks, welcome to a "you're welcome"
Hey 'grrl, since I mostly get nitpicks or complaints I appreciate the appreciative comment on Guicciardini (by the way, do they pronounce it "GweecheeahrDEEnee"?). I read his Ricordi a while back and figured that his Wiki article probably would be a spot I could contribute to. Almost everything I know about the Gweech and almost everything put in there (and it wasn't really much, just a few details) was from the introduction to "Maxims and Reflections (Ricordi)" the translation published in 1970 by U.Penn -- I got it cheap at some book store Web site. I don't know if it would help you in understanding The History of Italy, but the book is thin, interesting, and has a good introduction. The 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica article (the core of the Wikipedia article) is almost rabidly anti-Guicciardini, much different from the Maxims introduction. Are you taking this class as part of a history course or a language course?

Yes, local Connecticut stuff is mostly my thing, partly because I know Fairfield County. I'd love to see Wikipedia used as a resource by people in Connecticut to find out more about their own towns. One of the things I find fascinating is to click on "What links here" on a town page and find out the people who come from that town. I've also found it interesting to use Google Images searches to find old, no-copyright pictures and artwork about a town. best,Noroton 20:40, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your work re Jonathan Scott
Just to say thanks for what you've done on these entries. I think it is definitely an improvement on my efforts! Mercury543210

Trolling
Sorry about this but I didn't know who to ask, would you consider my actions (From 5th September onward) here Trolling, an Admin of all things is trying to get a user's comment deleted and i'm stopping him from doing it, sorry again I just need clarification, Thanks Alot

(The Bread 07:04, 6 September 2006 (UTC))


 * In my opinion your initial action of reverting his delete of a user's comment was correct. Editing a user's comments is definitely poor form.  At this point it's becoming an edit war with the back-and-forth reverts so I think you're also correct to bring in a third party opinion.  I will post something and we'll see if getting an objective opinion convinces him/her. --Bookgrrl 11:27, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks alot for sorting it out, in hindsight it may have been a bit silly, but I have a rocky history with that guy.

(The Bread 03:45, 7 September 2006 (UTC))

British None Of The Above Party
Are you sure it's not a hoax. There are no citations and no information on the founder of the party or the party itself when searched for by Google. Please discuss this on the pertient discussion page. --Walter Görlitz 06:16, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

Hatch Marks
Thanks for editing the Hatch Marks article I made. I've never done this before so I appreciated the help. Some of it was great, but some muddied the waters instead of clarifying.

The triangle graphic was great. I don't know how to add graphics, though I do make them often enough (I've made a butt-kicking thunderbird in vector format). The "point of change" graphic was where things got muddied instead of clarified. That's not a line graph. Envision a positive coordinate plane graph where a line moves up and down (drawing mountains) as it goes across the graph. Each line segment is straight, but points where the segments change direction are marked with | or x. This would be the kind of graph for sales (vertical amount) over time (horizontal). I hope that helps. Your graph isn't wrong, just not simple enough for a basic concept. If you could fix it or tell me how to fix it, I'd appreciate it.

Thanks for adding all the links. I didn't know how to do that and didn't have time to look it up.

I will have to edit the introductory paragraph. That got muddied. But it was a move in the right direction.

I haven't had time to set up a home page on Wiki, but I'll check back.

Thanks again,

--68.93.167.67 14:28, 13 September 2006 (UTC) Tonea