User talk:Angus Lepper/Archive 1

Suomi interwiki
Hi,

It's okay about the (re)move ;-) But it's a bit odd because other articles have fi: lower in the list as well. Perhaps it's because fi: is "Suomi" and by placing it lower in the list, it's listed among other languages that start with an "S" as well? - Simeon87 07:39, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

C Sharp edits
Good work over at the C# article! Angus Lepper 22:13, 12 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Thanks! :) MisterSheik 23:59, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

C (programming language) Style revert
To wrp103: I saw you reverted my edit (changing from pre to source tags &emdash; in an attempt to help, by adding syntax highlighting). I'm just curious as to why -- are these now deprecated? Or is it simply because the syntax highlighting is ugly (in which case I think I agree!)? I ask simply because I don't want to repeat a mistake in future. Angus Lepper 13:22, 17 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Yes, people thought the formatting was ugly. As to whether the formatting is deprecated or not, I can't say, but I've never seen it used before.  If you look on the talk page, you can see where the revert was discussed.  Nobody criticized you for the edit, BTW, only the results. ;^) -- wrp103 (Bill Pringle)  (Talk) 14:12, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

C Sharp '++++' claim
Hello Agnus, regarding the four '+'s, Dr. Stroustrup has responded personally to my emails and before this topic we were in occasional discussion regarding C++. If you have an email address, I can forward you the emails from Dr. Stroustrup. As I pointed out, you may also email him and introduce yourself.

Coder1024 05:15, 19 May 2007 (UTC)

Welcome to WikiProject Computer Science
Hi Angus, and welcome to WikiProject Computer science. Glad to have you aboard! If you haven't done so already, please stop by the project talk page to see what's going on right now (and to add your own thoughts). --Allan McInnes (talk) 19:00, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

Request for comment on computer program
The Computer program article is in need of repair. Would you comment on any improvement suggestions? I joined the talk starting with the thread talk:computer program. Timhowardriley 00:53, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for the kind warning
Thank you for the kind warning —Preceding unsigned comment added by Davetunney (talk • contribs)

Help me request
For future reference, and out of curiosity, is there a template to add the text that looks something like &mdash; the previous unsigned comment was left by...? Or is it added by a bot? It seems like something that would be handy to know; it really gets on my nerves when people (including myself, if I forget) don't sign their posts to talk pages. Angus Lepper(T, C, D) 19:02, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

Hi there...I wonder if http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sign_your_posts_on_talk_pages#Dealing_with_unsigned_comments is what you're looking for? Gilesbennett 19:04, 22 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Yes there is  ..Cheers.. Cometstyles 19:06, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

chris martin page
yea sorry, the only reason it didnt have much info is I just started it and wanted to get the page up, its going to be about his band because theres nothing on it yet. What I had on there was just to get the page up so I could edit it —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bobmarley42 (talk • contribs)

Bryan: Tyro (Band)
I would like to know why the Tyro page keeps getting deleted, I have recieved warnings saying it is offensive, but it isn't offensive, it is a review of a popular band from Liverpool. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Beckett4992005 (talk • contribs)

Cendyn
Hi Angus my name is Gina and I just placed a small article about Hotel Internet Marketing in Wikipedia. It has no promotional hype, just a definition of what Hotel Internet Marketing is and how Hotel entrepreneurs have expanded with internet use. I’m not sure why it has been tagged for speedy deletions and as far as I can see has already been deleted. Are you considering it spam or is it to short? I’ve looked through many Wikipedia articles some are longer but others are just as short. I understand that Cendyn in the past may have not followed your guide lines but I can assure you that will not happen again. Your procedures are a little confusing to me but I am trying to follow the requirements to the letter. Do you have some kind of template that I can view as to how an article should be submitted? I've already read your rules and I don't see what I am doing wrong. Thanks, Gina —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cendyn (talk • contribs)

Sorry
I'm so so so so sorry. I didn't know it was changing it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.77.68.206 (talk)

Suspected sock puppets/Ron liebman
I see you reverted an IP address' removal of the "closed" notice. That wasn't me, but he was right. Neither you nor the other admin should close this yet. This is a continuing problem with no sign of resolution. Another admin has been helping us with this, including starting to protect the articles the vandal typically targets, but he's got a ways to go yet. Baseball Bugs 16:45, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
 * All's swell. I am in discussion, at the moment, with the admin who posted the "close" notice. I had also reverted my reversion of the "closed" notice. I don't know which state it's in just now, but I'll set it back to "closed" if it's not, and meanwhile try to convince the admin to actually take some action against that guy. Baseball Bugs 17:01, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

Verschoyle
Hi Angus,

I am LukeL and am in charge of the Verschoyle homepage, and it has been fine for a long while.

The problem is I have edited it but made a mess of it - I want to get it back to the way it was in April. Can this be done by "edit reversion"

Help!

82.30.47.20 18:35, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

Re: Your edit/comment on my article "Tip wage credit".
My apologies. I just now noticed your interesting May 22nd edit/comment on my article. Yop've raised the question of what an encyclopedic article should look like. Should it look like a magazine article in the National Geographic, for example? Or should it be more like an article you'd see in Scientific American? My background is technical writing, computer systems, programming, and web maintenance and design (Internet and corporate intranet), so I suppose my article probably does come across as looking like a technical paper. My apologies. Any suggestions on how I might change my format so it looks like what you'd expect to see in Wikipedia? Since the tip wage credit is virtually unknown outside of the world of restauranteurs and their tax accountants, but has a definite impact on the wages of nearly 12 million women in the U.S. who work as waitresses (servers), I thought that Wikipedia would be an excellent vehicle to help raise the level of awareness about the employers' tip wage credit benefit. So any help you might be able to offer will be appreciated. K. Kellogg-Smith 02:52, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

Remove page
Thanks for the suggestion. I think that page can be removed now. I found a page about this person in another language (Kannada). Ashycool 19:10, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

Salutations
Hello Angus. I'd like you to reconsider your decision to ban my article "Dickov". As it is not completely about Dickov but has some side interests in the Blueserver regime of which there are more then 2 million accounts, you can be able to see some considerable interest in the article. Kindly reconsider this decision to delete it speedily. --Dickov 10:58, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

WingDings
Dude, the whole "NYC" thing was extremely widely covered in the U.S. media at the time, and it's just about the only way that the WingDings font would have ever have come to the attention of a large number of individuals of non-geeky tendencies. AnonMoos 21:29, 10 June 2007 (UTC)


 * Did you even bother to read what you were deleting??? The "NYC" thing has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING WHATSOEVER to do with 9/11, considering that it was a briefly-prominent news story of 1992, almost ten years before.  Furthermore, you don't seem to have acknoweldged the simple fact that this is the only way that a large number of non-typography-geeks would have ever heard about the font in the first place.  Wingdings has never been a more-widely covered media "story" than in the NYC flap of 1992. AnonMoos 08:58, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

SvP
My experience has always been that they generally don't have them. You could have a 5 line summary that might have a spoiler in it, and that wouldn't make it automatically a "plot". But when you start getting into 400-500 word summaries of a 22 minute episode, you're dealing with the plot and not a synopsis. I tried to leave a couple I thought didn't really say anything, though some may have been changed unknowingly. For the most part, what is on these articles is a "plot" and not a "synopsis".  BIGNOLE     (Contact me)  21:53, 10 June 2007 (UTC)


 * LOL, it's an annoying task. If you check the contribs all the way back I've bene doing it all day. I have to get up and leave the computer it's so tedious. I understand what you mean though. I'm sure there may be a couple that slipped through that were probably closer to a "synopsis" than a "plot" (stupid semantics really), if they ever get developed then I'm sure they will be expanded anyway. A bunch of us have been working on polishing a Television taskforce, because there are thousands of episode articles that don't meet the criteria (most never will) and they were created anyway, which they shouldn't have. So, we're trying to devise a good tag, review, determine if needs to be merged method for all of them. Simpsons generally gets picked as an example of good articles, but what I've noticed on these pages is that only The Simpsons (season 8) contains GAs (literally, all of the episodes are GA status), and every other season is really crap. So, only one more season to go, and these later episodes have huge summaries, so it's more clearly not a synopsis.   BIGNOLE     (Contact me)  22:02, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

school infoboxes
Hi ... infoboxes .... I'm not an expert on this. I would tend to be bold and pick one off a school I liked in my area/type etc that looked good and adapt it. You can find a list of good ones on Wikipedia:WikiProject Schools/Assessment. Its not much effort to change. If I wanted a real expert then I'd speak to Adam McCormick ... tell him I mentionred him and I'm sure he'd help - if you are still unsure then comeback you are not just being "sent away". Oh and your school article ... add more refs. One is good, but 42 is the answer :-) Victuallers 15:28, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

Speedy Deletion
No worries, thanks for the heads up. ornis 15:29, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

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Uh-oh
hi, still working on Uh-oh. Probably best to leave disambig pages alone for more than 90s when someone's just created it (usually they'll open it and work on it immediately to avoid someone assuming the thing they moved was moved incorrectly). Thank for adding, though. --Thespian 13:11, 17 June 2007 (UTC)