User:JoshuacUK/June 19, 2006—April 13, 2007

COTW vs. FAC
I appreciate your comments on the Programming language FAC. However, I'm confused about the comment re. COTW. Is there some formal relationship between those two things? I didn't see anything about the collaboration stuff that said, e.g. "Don't FA nominate an article while it's a collaboration". However, given the millions of words written about WP procedures in various places, it's quite possible I missed something. If it really is a rule, I guess I'll remove the nomination for now... but could you give me a pointer, if so? LotLE × talk 19:05, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

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NeXT
I have gone through and performed a pretty serious copyedit... I also added a large number of s. It's important to remember that this article is about NeXT, not Apple, so I removed a lot of statements about OS X that weren't directly related to NeXT's software contributions. Themillofkeytone 16:01, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

FBI
Can you please look at the other contribs to the article that just happened. I found some non-uesfull edits and I had to "revise" them. Can you just check them out to make sure I didn't step over the line. Thanks. --Shane (T - C - E) 03:15, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Check it out... --Shane (T - C - E) 02:34, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

Poetry FAC
I'd appreciate a revisit at Featured article candidates/Poetry; changes have been made in response to your suggestions and additional input is solicited on the FAC page. Thanks. Sam 22:29, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

hi
Josh—Big work deadline Monday, so after that I'm freer. Tony 16:05, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

Back to the Future
So what do you have in mind for this article? I'm thinking I can probably dig up some old reviews and throw in a little context about time travelling. I'm not really interested in special effects. Have you checked the history for copyvios? CanadianCaesar Et tu, Brute? 06:16, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for reverting vandalism on my userpage, Wackymacs. - Gimboid13 02:49, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

Peer reviews
Um, about, I prefer manual peer reviews and agree that automated peer reviews are definitely no substitute for ones by thorough peer reviewers. Unfortunately, no person has the near-infinite amount of time to carefully peer review articles at WP:PR; the last time I tried I got through some ~30 articles and yet more articles were being submitted everyday. Semi-automated PRs allow newer editors to get a taste of what featured status requires and help to remind experienced editors of small formatting issues, and yet can be executed extremely quickly. I guess if you find them a bit annoying, you can delete my comment(s) (I won’t mind), but outside of that I can’t give too much other assistance. AZ t 16:41, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

ICRC move/creation
Hello Wackymacs, for the past few months I've been writing a new International Committee of the Red Cross article. I'm finally satisfied enough to propose its move into the main namespace, though it's far from perfect. That article is at User:Draeco/ICRC, and I've proposed a move here. I hope you can take the time to give your opinion, because I see you've commented on the subject before here. - Draeco 18:00, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

Charizard
I noticed your problem pointed out on the Charizard FAC page, I have fixed your problem, so please either support the discussion or make another reaons why it shouldn't be featured status, cheers &mdash; M  inun   Spiderman  19:03, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

policy?
Hi. What is your policy on allowing other users to adapt your main page format? or Would you prefer them not to? Thank You. -- AJ24 22:18, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

Originality
Regarding this comment, my user page is now completely completely recolored My talk page still uses your layout, but that may change soon.--  Max   Talk [ (add)] 05:02, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

hi
Hi Josh

Glad to see you back in the FAC room. The FAR/C room is kind swamped at the moment, too! Tony 01:33, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

BBC World Peer review
Hi Wackymacs. I was hoping that you would perhaps be interested in having a further look at the BBC World article after you left your thoughts on what ways it could be improved. The original Peer review can be found here and I'd be grateful if you could update that page and/or make suggestions on the BBC World talk page. This is all of course if you'd like to. Thanks in advance! Wikiwoohoo 16:53, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

mac
Hi, wonder whether you have inside knowledge on when mac will bring out an all-in-one iMac that is larger than my current 51 cm. Was hoping for 61 cm, but not if it requires a box as well as a monitor. Tony 08:29, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

RE: Apple II images needing deletion
Actually, both me and Carnildo used to be admins. I resigned some time ago, and Carnildo's was taken away and then he failed "re-election". You can use interiot's edit tool and other things to determine the status of users (although due to the database it is sometimes out of date). Sorry for the trouble and I've forwarded your request to User:SlimVirgin who I know is a good admin and sometimes handles things in this area :) RN 23:21, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

Apple II
What I've copy-edited thus far is very good. Is it mainly your writing? If so, you're getting better. I notice I typoed "becaus". Tony 15:02, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

thanks for notifying me of the new Macintosh collaboration
Hi there, thanks for notifying me of the new Macintosh collaboration. I have to confess that I had tuned out of the prior collaboration (Steve Jobs) because I didn't really feel competent to add to what had already been said. Again, thanks. --Tachikom a 20:04, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

Apple II Featured Article
Thanks for the notification - I just did a little edit (fixed a typo :P) but I'll try to do more than that. –-  kungming·2 | (Talk ·Contact) 23:00, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Regarding the Apple II article, I have a question: Does VisiCalc always need to be placed in italics? I haven't seen the same in other articles about software, and the italics seems to be placed there solely to imitate the application's logo. =) –-  kungming·  2 | (Talk ·Contact) 20:45, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the quick reply. I've edited the necessary portions of the article. –-  kungming·  2 | (Talk ·Contact) 21:06, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

iPod
Some newcomer has made a dramatic but good-faith edit to iPod. He also talked about it on the talk page. Can you look at that for me? It looks alright to for things like NPOV but content-wise, it's over my head. Thanks.HereToHelp 02:04, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

Apple review
Sorry for not reviewing as I'm really busy these days. Regards, =Nichalp   «Talk»=  14:35, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

Wal-Mart toc, consistency in company articles
In response to your last edits to Wal-Mart, please provide an ideal company article to go off of to back up your point in your edit summary, for I am very interested in seeing it. I know you're a member of WP:BIZE, and my WikiProject Retailing falls within the scope of it. One of our goals is to make retail companies consistent, and I am very interested in seeing your opinion on an ideal document structure so we can modify our own idea. Regards, Tuxide 18:44, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Oh damn...you're fast *grin* Happy editing to you! Tuxide 18:46, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your reply, we should base document structure on (although I don't really like the company) Microsoft since it is a featured article. Regards, Tuxide 19:29, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Does WP:BIZE have a style guide similar to this one? I was looking for one a while ago and all I could find was Companies, corporations and economic information, but it doesn't explicitly suggest document structure.  Tuxide 19:41, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

West Bengal FAC
Hi! Thanks for your message. Thank you for the massive copyedit of the article. Rest of the shortcomings can be managed easily, except one thing - the map. I could not find out an updated map in the web! However, please see this talk. Thanks. Regards.--Dwaipayan (talk) 20:06, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

Question of Etiquette
I've written an article on Apple stock at ValueWiki.com. I was hoping to find a few wikipedians to read/edit my AAPL page, but I'm not sure of the etiquette. Is there a forum where it's appropriate to solicit help, especially since this is a non-mediawiki page? Thanks!Jonathan Stokes 00:17, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

Ann Saunderson
Wackymacs, I'm not sure why you would revert my wikification on the Ann Saunderson article. Was it a complete wikification? No, it wasn't. Did it improve the article? I feel it did. Instead of simply reverting, why not improve what I had already begun? As it stands now, I'm going to leave this one for someone else, rather than begin a revert war, or even worry too much about it. Cheers. JubalHarshaw 13:53, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

Featured article candidates/Jake Gyllenhaal
Hello,

You seem to be an experienced and helpful editor, so I wonder if you could check out the above mentioned FAC and see if I am being totally unreasonable in having nominated the article 3 days after it failed its previous nomination with 4-2 or 66% support. I did so because the only actionable objection had been the prose, which was then dealt with in the intervening three days by a variety of editors, but mostly DaveOinSF. I've been railing against editors having far too high standards, but as someone who doesn't hang out a lot on WP:FAC, I may simply be unlucky. If you could take a look, and possibly comment or vote, I would be grateful. Dev920 (Tory?) 07:54, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Thankyou for your support. I feel somewhat vindicated now. Even if it fails this FAC as well, I know I was right. Dev920 (Tory?) 14:49, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

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Newspapers section of Typography
Thanks for adding seed text there Wackymacs! Much appreciated. If you can expand on it or recruit others who can&mdash;yes please. Anything I can do for you?
 * Arbo talk 21:29, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

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Apple II survey
I'm conducting a survey about the Apple II -- any former users are invited to participate. I found you were active on Apple II related articles.

Come to User:Applephreak/survey

Applephreak 18:53, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

Request: West Bengal FAC
Hi! Thanks for your comments in the FAC. I need some help. Please see Tony's comment and also Sundar's comment in the FAC. The article needs copyedit from some editors who are not much familiar with the topic. I guess you are not familiar with West Bengal :) If you have time, Can I request you to kindly have a look at the article and help? --Dwaipayan (talk) 15:41, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

Featured article candidates/NeXT
I have a couple points:
 * Early history states their first product was a "toolkit", Whats a toolkit?
 * "The first major source of venture capital was Ross Perot"... umm do you mean "first major source of outside investment"?
 * What does NeXTWORLD magazine have to do with anything?
 * "Hardware" section doesn't flow at all, It jumps from time periods and jumps from pre-release information, specs, aftermath, hype, etc. Just arrange it by; What was happening during it development?, What were its specs when it shipped?, What did people say about it when it shipped?, What things happened after it shipped? and lastly you can add that bit about it impacting the programers careers.

Thanks. - Tutmosis 19:59, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for adressing my concerns, I have a couple more: Thanks. - Tutmosis 14:14, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
 * This sentence seems unecessary in this article, since you talking about the company. I dont see the point to discuss the chip itself on this page. It would be more appropriate on the NeXTcube/Motorola 68030 pages: "The 68030 was supported by the 68882 FPU for faster mathematical performance, the 56001 digital signal processor (DSP) for multi-media work and two custom-designed 6-channel direct memory access (DMA) channel controllers, which allowed much of the input/output (I/O) processing to be offloaded from the CPU to boost the speed of common tasks."
 * There is a red link NeXT RISC Workstation in the article. This isnt the NeXTstation workstation, is it?
 * I also dont see the point of throwing this sentence at the beginning of 'Hardware', it would be more appropriate at the end of the section: "The 88110, a later chip released in 1990, was used in the NeXT RISC Workstation, however the project was canceled along with all NeXT hardware projects in 1993.".
 * The arranging is getting better, but try to remove present tenses from the hardware specs paragraphs like "shipped" because it still doesn't flow from past to present. You say "shipped" in paragraph 4, but only in paragraph 6 do you actually say they were released. My point above was all about this, try to make the article tell a story from past to present, like a history book.
 * I'm having a hard time understanding the deal with the "NeXTWORLD" magazine since it wasnt published by NeXT but Integrated Media. Was the magazine about the NeXTcube or was it sponsored by NeXT? Please elaborate.
 * That first paragraph in 'Software' seems like it needs to be merged appropriately with 'Hardware'.


 * I fixed myself some of the last concerns I had, and now voted support for the nomination. Good luck with other editors and in any other future projects you plan on undertaking. Thanks for responding and adressing my concerns. - Tutmosis  19:27, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

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New round of Mac FAs?
We have some "pretty good" (i.e.e almost featured) articles on Mac topics. What do you think people wouldn't like against, say, iTunes if I was to nominate it?--HereToHelp 21:28, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Also: someone has nominated Mac OS X for an FAC.--HereToHelp 22:59, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

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 * that looks fine to me, unless there's a ban on fair use SVGs for whatever reason. You should also wait for Wackymacs to get his say in.--HereToHelp 23:59, 18 November 2006 (UTC)


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FinanceToGo}}}
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I'm not sure why I deleted this article, either, since I didn't delete this article, being, you know, not an admin, as it explicitly says at the very top of my user page.

And a product just released -- what, less than a week ago? -- with an article telling about all its fine features? Sounds like an advert to me. --Calton | Talk 07:50, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

In fact, in looking at the deletion log, I see it's been deleted TWICE over the last few days. It doesn't look like your problem is with me. --Calton | Talk 07:51, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

Guy, what part of "I did not delete your page or article" escapes you? What portion of "it's been deleted TWICE" by two different admins was unclear? What aspect of "It doesn't look like your problem is with me" has escaped your attention?

I'm not even the developer. Since I didn't bring up, I fail to see how it's relevant. --Calton | Talk 07:59, 29 November 2006 (UTC)


 * You're suggesting something saying that I have added it so soon after its release - however I fail to see anything wrong with that.


 * Other than having zero time to establish notability worthy of an encyclopedia article, no not really.


 * You're still not giving me reasons for its deletion.


 * For the THIRD time, I did not delete your page or article. For the THIRD time, two different admins -- actual admins -- have chosen to delete it twice already. For the THIRD time, your problem is NOT with me. What part of any of this are you having trouble understanding? --Calton | Talk 08:12, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

No need to shout

If you refuse to read plain English despite multiple attempts, there bloody well is. --Calton | Talk 08:23, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

Even more to the point, given that I'm not an admin and therefore can't undelete a damned thing, what were you hoping to accomplish by badgering me? I notice that you haven't bothered contacting either of the two admins who've deleted this thing: why not? No, on second thought, don't bother answering. --Calton | Talk 08:35, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

The day I accept advice from you will be the day you stop being childish. That is to say, not today. Meantime, I notice, again, that in the last nine hours you have completely failed to actually contact the actual admins who actually deleted your so-called not-spam article, who could actually tell you why they deleted it and actually do something about it if so persuaded. Is there a reason to continually badger me as opposed to actually doing something actually productive, or are you waiting for the right phase of the moon? --Calton | Talk 17:16, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

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Amiga Linux
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Fair use image in user namespace
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Sincerely, --Oden 20:02, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks, keep in mind that I didn't add it in the first place. — Wackymacs 22:02, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

See notability  Jimfbleak . talk . 16:34, 15 December 2006 (UTC)


 * The creator of an article should do the research and show notability, not the administrator. Your article basically said that she was an American pornstar, and nothing more, you can't expect others to write the rest of it.


 * If you are saying it was deleted too quickly, why not write the article first and save on wikipedia when complete? As an experienced editor, you must be aware that many one-sentence "biographies" remain exactly that. As saved, it was clearly a candidate for speedy deletion. Particularly given the pornstar subject, I can't crystal ball gaze into an editor's intentions.  Jimfbleak . talk . 06:40, 28 December 2006 (UTC)


 * I think you misunderstand - the criterion is not whether the subject is notable, but whether the article establishes that notability - as I said, you can't expect others to do the research and add sources for you. I can't understand why you are making so much fuss about a one-sentence article that must have taken you 30 seconds and no research to write. If you had put as much effort into writing your article as you have complaining,  it wouldn't have been deleted in the first place.  Jimfbleak . talk . 15:18, 28 December 2006 (UTC)


 * I note your minor correction on my talk - I didn't reply before because you seem unwilling or unable to accept any responsibility for your edits. You can create an article in your word processor and copy it complete into Wikipedia, but you seem not to accept that a single sentence without sources or evidence of notability is subject to speedy deletion (for which you should refer to the guidelines).


 * If you do not expect others to do the work for you, you can't rely on clairvoyant admins to divine your intentions. There is no obligation to wait before a speedy deletion (that's why it's called speedy). What a lot of fuss about a single sentence "article"!  Jimfbleak . talk . 08:08, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

William Bartram
Just to show that I can be more positive, I liked your improvements to the contents and layout of this article.  Jimfbleak . talk . 09:35, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

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Hi, I'm old enough to know my grammar and spelling, so I'm OK at copy editing. I spend a lot of time on New Page patrol and Category:speedy deletion, which I suppose is essentially negative, but someone's got to do it. Even when deletions are justified editors are often not happy, and like all of us, I make misjudgements and mistakes. I'm always prepared to help if there's anything within my capabilities, thanks and happy new year  Jimfbleak . talk . 19:37, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

hi
Hi Josh; I'll try, but very busy with paid editing at the moment. Tony 15:51, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

overspeeding
I noticed your comments elsewhere, and I have similar feelings about stuff being deleted without a waiting period--I have rescued many an article but it goes too fast. (I am not concerned about any partic article)DGG 18:29, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
 * OK then, how do we change it? I haven't been keeping records of the ones I rescue, but I will from today. I just asked a qy about it on the speedy talk p., & I have 1 or 2 non-helpful personal responses. If you collect examples you have, it might be enough to post and keep insisting--in various places--after a week or so. And some others may feel similarly, if I can find them. It really is hard to defend. But there have to be some that are immediate, and I suppose that will always allow for abuse.DGG
 * Yes, but I want to get a case together first, because there's nowhere to go after we do that. DGG 19:07, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Infoboxes
Could you explain what the rationale behind these boxes is? They are ugly and needlessly reproduce information already in the text (such as the year of birth and death). They are silly - how are Fawn Brodie's husband and children relevant to her career as an academic and writer? And most important, since the information there is so abbreviated, they encourage putting forth one's point-of-view. Is Brodie an author or an academic of some sort? If she is indeed an author, perhaps she is more accurately described as a biographer. Or, if one wishes to emphasize her academic career, perhaps she is an historian. Or maybe a political scientist. Tough choices, all because someone insists that a whole life be put into a Procrustean bed of at most five words.

This is all arguments against. Now, since you put the box back, could you explain what the arguments in favour are.

81.193.153.250 17:40, 5 January 2007 (UTC)


 * I know that they are widely used and that there are those that suggest using them. (There are also those who find them abhorrent.) I'm struggling to find arguments in favour for them, maybe you could help me out there. 17:49, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for the improved info box for "Fawn Brodie." It was only ugly because I was incompetent in setting it up. Now you've given me a template. --John Foxe 19:07, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Your comment on my talk page
I was trying to be helpful, by removing vandalism. I am sorry if I deleted a link by mistake.Jance 17:41, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

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NeXT
Josh—Oops, sorry, I didn't look to see who'd nominated it, and I said kinda rude things about it. If I had time, which I don't until May, I'd copy-edit it myself. If you can address the other concerns of the reviewers, why not ask the League of Copyeditors to go through it. Cheers. Tony 00:32, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

Theodore Edison sources
You created a new article on Theodore Edison. Would you please add a reference for the facts in the article, since without soiurces, it is likely to get deleted. Also, there should be sources to show he is notable as more than the son of the inventor, since being a notable person's offspring pretty much justifies only a mention in the article about the parent. See WP:N, WP:BIO, WP:RS and WP:V. If you're not sure how to add inline references, I would be glad to take care of that, but some source should be provided. Thanks. Edison 20:11, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

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Hello
You seem to be a fan of Back to the Future's time machine a.k.a the DeLorean DMC-12, and a fan of Macintosh computers! Two common points we have... I am wondering if you have old to very old Macintosh computer graphics (ie from games, icons, etc), as in "screen shots". As an illustrator (drawing-paint-pens-paper), I sometimes use them for inspiration (even when the resulting works sometimes have nothing to see with pixels, low-fi or even computers for that matter, well, it's just a surrounding that inspires me, more like a state of mind). Tell me if you have old screenshots from Mac OS 1 to 9 or if you know a website that compiles these sorts of graphics (I have in mind a game by the Miller brothers called Cosmic Osmo whose screen are very inspiring to me). Also, do you know where old abandonware programs for Mac OS 9 and earlier can be found? I know the French website http://grenier-du-mac.net/ has some but I've seen it all.

Many thanks!

Fab Beforedecay 17:07, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

Mitch Mandich as a "key" player
I worked at NeXT for over 5 years and I've got to wonder why Mitch is listed as "Key" in the summary box for the company. Not that he wasn't an important player and didn't do a good job, but I'm not sure he makes it over the bar to be called "Key". I can think of many others at the company that played as large or larger roles. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 131.107.0.71 (talk) 23:36, 19 March 2007 (UTC).

Interesting link
Thought you might just get a chuckle from [http://www.macwacmtg.com/Closingcosts-Ins. this] link. ;-) -- hydnjo talk  &#xF8FF;  03:52, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Split proposal on department store article
Hello, I thought I'd bring this discussion up with you on Talk:Department store, since you were the one who merged the two articles. I strongly believe that there is enough difference between a department store and a discount store in both characteristics and history (especially prior to 1962) that it wouldn't make sense to have them both on the same article. Furthermore, I'm convinced that the term "discount department store" is only used in the northeastern United States and only to refer to the big three discount retailers. If you object, then please state your reason; else if nobody does then I will perform the split and expand on the history of discount retailing. Regards, Tuxide 20:07, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

Source of Image
Hi, I was wondering if you know from which book or where this image : "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Neckarteries.gif" is from, and/or who the author is. Thanks in advance,

Adithya —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Woodsplice (talk • contribs) 00:05, 31 March 2007 (UTC).

QuickSnap
You say this is notable. I see no claim of notability in the article. i also see no non-trivial reference. Also, This probably comes under WP:CSD G11, blatent advertising. Frankly it reads like a press release or product announcement. I alomst deleted it, but since you did register a contest, i wanted to give you a chance to indicate why this articel should not be speedy deleted. DES (talk) 23:04, 13 April 2007 (UTC)