User talk:CatherineMunro/Archive 1

Atlas Shrugged
Much gracias for the work on Atlas Shrugged!! Tuf-Kat

Hi Catherine, are you changing the Atlas Shrugged stuff by hand or by bot. If you're doing it by hand then I'll try and help a bit tomorrow. I like things to be nice and tidy and the /s horrify me! - Ams80 04:26 Mar 13, 2003 (UTC)
 * Yes, I'm doing the Atlas Shrugged work by hand. Not changing anything (other than the odd spelling error) -- just consolidating all the Character stubs into one place, and then using "What Links Here" from each stub to send links to the main Characters in Atlas Shrugged page.  Right now that means I'm ending up with links like Dagny Taggart, which aren't pretty, but I'll figure out what to do about that when I (or someone else) gets around to working on the chapters themselves.
 * Thanks for the offer of help! Maybe you could pick a separate topic from the list on Atlas Shrugged (Companies, Concepts, Conflicts, Places, Structure, Symbolism, Technology, Things, Topics of note) and do the same?  Just assemble stubs into a list form for now; we can discuss how else to organize/consolidate later.  Cheers!  Catherine 04:44 Mar 13, 2003 (UTC)


 * OK, I'm going to give Atlas Shrugged/Places a go. Although the Wikipedia isn't being very co-operative right now. Andrew

I removed the horizontal lines from within the sections of Synopsis of Atlas Shrugged, Chapters 1-5, I find it more readable this way as I find it easier to see which section a particular paragraph is in. If you think it was better the other way then please revert the page to the 12:28 Mar 19, 2003 version which is pretty much how you left it bar a few formatting corrections. Have fun, Andrew
 * Oh, forgot to say that if you also think it's better this way then I'll do the same for chapters 6 - 10. -- Andrew

Grammy pages
Hi Catherine, It's good to see some more Grammy links going blue :) -- sannse 22:43 Mar 22, 2003 (UTC)

I've just been talking to Tuf-Kat abut standardising the Grammy award pages some more. I'd welcome your opinion if you have a moment? See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Music standards -- sannse 07:40 Mar 23, 2003 (UTC)

Car/Automobile
It might be a good idea to just change the word "car" to "automobile" (or sports car, or whatever is applicable) in articles. If you leave it as "car" people may create wikis to car in the future with the assumption it is the correct link. -- goatasaur

Why are you changing internationally recognised British english terms to American english, particularly in articles that have NOTHING to do with anything American. I am reverting your changes.


 * Hi Catherine - the problem with "automobile" is that it just isn't used in British English (well, not in Britain anyway, nor in Ireland judging from JTD's repsonse ;-). Everyone over here says "car", so having "automobile" in the context of an article on a British subject is rather odd. Of course, when it's an American subject, a straight link to "automobile" is fine, but otherwise it's best to pipe them. --Camembert

Hi Catherine, I'll make a suggestion. Instead of replacing car with automobile, replace it with car. The word automobile means absolutely nothing to most people outside the US. Indeed if would simply add to the impression some people get that Wikipedia is americocentric. If the original article said car, or if it is referring to a country that says car, never automobile, car should be the word used. But using car would allow them to see the word they use while linking directly to the page rather than a disambigulation page. I hope I didn't sound rude. It is just that in the last 24 hours two different people have tried to americanise articles I was working on, in one case an article that was on a topic that not merely had nothing to do with America (it was about England) but predated American english by half a millenium. So I kinda saw red with a case of 'oh, not again' when I saw your renaming. I'll revisit the articles I touched to put in the car link. I hope that is OK with you. Slán. STÓD/ÉÍRE 00:02 Apr 16, 2003 (UTC)

Yeah, Cam is right. Ireland never ever says automobile. In fact anyone using it is likely to be tied up and listened to a tape of the collective wisdoms of the George Bushs, senior and junior, played very very slowly. :-) It is an absolute no no linguistically. STÓD/ÉÍRE 00:02 Apr 16, 2003 (UTC)

See some comments I put on STÓD/ÉÍRE's talk page on, inter alia, some non-automobile uses of the word "car" in British English. PML.

Don't worry about it Catherine - there's no end to the things I don't know about American English :-) We all have our blind spots and you were just trying to do the right thing. Keep up the good work. --Camembert

No problem at all, Catherine. To think, one language and the way American speak it, the Irish speak it and the british speak it, can be so so different. (BTW the version of english in Ireland is called Hiberno-English, just to confuse things more. It uses a slightly different language structure and is much more expressive, because it combines British english and the language structure of the rarely spoken Irish language or gaelic. So ironically, Europeans come to Ireland, not Britain, to learn British English because they think our version is more freeflowing and more interesting!) BTW number 2: I meant to say, you do some great work on wiki. Keep it up. Slán (gaelic for goodbye) STÓD/ÉÍRE 00:14 Apr 16, 2003 (UTC)

What about redirecting automobile to car, and putting a "see also:" at the bottom for the alternate meanings for "car"? -- goatasaur

I thought the correct english word was motorcar, with or without a hyphenRagussa 13:50, 14 May 2004 (UTC)

Doris Humphrey
Hi Catherine, thank you so much for your work on Ms. Humphrey! Lizzy

Insanity
Hi, Catherine Dunno how far along you are on disambiguating insanity, and if you're done I wouldn't worry about it too much, but if you're not, "mental illness" is a medical term, and "insanity" is a legal term...they're not synonyms. (I pay special attention to Colin Ferguson because I had to fight so hard to make it into a real article) -- Someone else 19:31 Apr 22, 2003 (UTC)
 * Hi Someone! Re: Colin Ferguson -- I tried to be distinct about insane -- that it was claimed that he was insane (directed to mental illness) and that he refused to plead insanity (directed to insanity defense). Did I miss a subtlety? I did consider rewording the sentence so that it said "refused to use the insanity defense", to remove ambiguity, but it seemed to be fairly carefully composed, so I refrained. Suggestions? --Catherine
 * Well, for the sake of argument, I'd say that Kuby and Kunstler, being lawyers, were arguing that he was insane (as in insanity defense) not that he was insane (as in mentally ill) though being lawyers they were of course arguing both at the same time . But I don't think it needs to be fixed or worried about, I just wanted to get a precautionary word in if you were going thru all the articles disambiguating. -- Someone else 21:55 Apr 22, 2003 (UTC)

Excused me have you got Assaultheads emails that were sent to you? He is just wondering how long you are going to ban him from the Wikias? He did alot of good editing on the CNC Wikias and also did not even vandalized anything he is trying to talk.(TougHHead 04:53, 4 November 2007 (UTC))

Invitation to Admin
We are trying to increase the number of people who are Wikipedia Administrators. Until now, we've been relying on users to take the initiative to ask for this access themselves but this has resulted in a slow rate Admin rank expansion. So we've gone ahead nominated and approved you and several other long-time users for the account upgrade. This means that your fellow Wikipedians feel that you are a responsible, well-known, and fair-minded user.

Agreeing to be an Administrator does not mean that you are expected to do any additional work above and beyond what you do now ; It just means that we trust you to to have certain privileges and responsibilities that can't be entrusted to random users (such as editing the Main Page, protected policy pages, or banning the IPs of vandals).

All we need from you now is your consent. You can either send an email to WikiEN-L (preferred) or simply state "I agree" on the bottom of this page.

-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)

Meelar
I've never seen the movie you mention. "Meelar" is just a corruption of Miller, my last name. I picked it up in roughly 8th grade or so--i.e. 6-7 years ago. Thanks for your kind comments though, Meelar 22:27, 5 Feb 2004 (UTC)

John Taylor
Hi, Catherine. Thanks for the thanks on the John Taylor article. I hope you'll still add more the article. There is so much more that could be said. - Rlvaughn 22:20, 3 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Kimba
No problem on Kimba. I remember it from when I was a kid too, though it must have been re-runs then. All I really remember is the opening sequence, with Kimba running... moink 23:06, 23 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Tintin
Thank you much for your work on the Tintin articles. I haven't read them in years. They needed someone to do them justice. Yours, Meelar 02:49, 24 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Title
Thanks for the kudos. Actually I have an account but I don't often log in because my computer has been refusing to keep me logged in when I reboot, making it a pain in the ass. Montrealais

Duran Duran
Thanks for the confidence in suggesting I review the edits to the Duran Duran entry. It all looks very good. There are a raft of things that could be added, but that I think would be far to much minutia and would on balance give it an over pedantic and obsessive quality. I didn't spot any further real edits to make, though I expanded the passage a bit about Steven Duffy to include references to his subsequent (to Duran) hit "Kiss Me (with your mouth)" which he recorded under the band name Tintin. This might be something you might want to add to your Tintin edits to that article. Anything I can do to fill in the gaps of Duran or 80s music I will gladly do. I want to eventually greatly expand the Gary Numan entry for example. Lestatdelc 21:49, Apr 5, 2004 (UTC)

Images
Catherine, you asked on SQL query requests for someone to run a query to get all the images you've uploaded. I hacked something up (sans SQL) - here's a list of all the edits you've made to articles with "Image:" in their title. I don't know for sure that this is comprehensive, I'm afraid. Sorry for the icky format:


 * 01:37, 31 Jan 2004 Image:Cranefly.jpg (crane fly (tipulidae))
 * 01:51, 31 Jan 2004 Image:Brown recluse.jpg (brown recluse spider)
 * 04:53, 28 Feb 2003 Image:Diskharrow.png (Disc harrow)
 * 06:01, 5 Apr 2004 Image:Kittens.jpg (kittens - GFDL image)
 * 06:28, 5 Apr 2004 Image:Padlock.jpg (Padlock - GFDL image)
 * 06:32, 6 Feb 2004 Image:Duranduranalbum1981.jpg (Duran Duran  1981)
 * 06:34, 5 Apr 2004 Image:Laundromat.jpg (Laundromat - GFDL image)
 * 09:34, 1 Mar 2003 Image:Schizomid.jpg (schizomid (arachnid))
 * 16:48, 27 Feb 2003 Image:Pseudoscorpion.jpg (Pseudoscorpion)
 * 17:46, 26 Feb 2004 Image:Churro shape.png (public domain)
 * 17:49, 26 Feb 2004 Image:Darkcircles albumcover.jpg (fair use)
 * 17:50, 26 Feb 2004 Image:Rio cover.jpg (fair use)
 * 19:45, 16 Dec 2003 Image:Harvestman-lg.jpg (Harvestman, large)
 * 20:02, 16 Dec 2003 Image:Harvestman-sm.gif (Harvestman, small)
 * 20:47, 29 Mar 2004 Image:Pipe shape.png (Pipe illustration)
 * 22:31, 30 Jan 2004 Image:Pholcus.jpg (cellar spider)
 * 22:42, 11 Apr 2004 Image:Princeglyph.png (Prince glyph)
 * 23:25, 26 Nov 2003 Image:Duranduran weddingalbum cover.jpg (fair use)

Hope this makes sense (I really should try the same thing on myself...) -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 23:45, 25 Apr 2004 (UTC)


 * Thanks much! Catherine - talk 04:26, 29 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Piped dates
Good morning, Catherine. Thanks for the note; I'm afraid I'm guitly of serial infractions of the piped date convention, but will mend my ways and the now piped pages. Best wishes --Tagishsimon 07:56, 29 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Smart phone
Hi Catherine Good morning from Japan. There's a Smartphone entry already, merge? I was thingking of redirecting. I didn't know it was there already.Jondel 01:36, 7 May 2004 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the Smartphone Redirects. Keep up the Good Work. BTW, why not insert your paragraph about the Motorola and MS deal?Jondel

John Taylor (Taylor Ham)
I see (sort of) how your mind works and I like it: research John Taylor and come up with all sorts of wonderful people. I live 60 miles north of Trenton, New Jersey and knew Taylor ham was from there. Now I suppose I'll have to write an article on Taylor ham! (Since Waterfront Park, a baseball stadium, first opened in Trenton, "Trenton Pork Roll by Taylor" (a local variation of Taylor ham) has advertised on the outfield wall. Y'know, I don't think anyone more than 100 miles from Trenton knows what Taylor ham is!  (Pardon my ramble.))  CharlieZeb 02:08, 7 May 2004 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your reply; I'll have to get on a Taylor ham article. Nothing like Taylor ham, egg and cheese to start a Saturday morning! CharlieZeb 19:46, 7 May 2004 (UTC)
 * Taylor Ham article is done (at least for now). Now I could use one of those sandwiches ... CharlieZeb 04:05, 8 May 2004 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the compliment on Taylor Ham. All I have to do is learn exactly what pork roll is ... CharlieZeb 19:58, 13 May 2004 (UTC)

George Devey
Many thanks for tidying up my George Devey; I can never spot my own mistakes, it reads far better, thanks to your input. Ragussa 14:35, 9 May 2004 (UTC)

Crufts page
Hi Catherine. Thanks for the copyediting on the Crufts article - I've removed the extra link added as one of the links already there (crufts.org.uk) redirected to the same page. --DomCleal 12:18, 13 May 2004 (UTC)

West Wycombe Park
Hi Grammatical Expert!

I've just done a page on West Wycombe Park if you have time could you tidy it up, before somebody else gets theit interfering mits on it! I would appreciate itRagussa 20:58, 13 May 2004 (UTC)

Hi Catherine

It's all my own work -promise. I found when (before I registered a name) when one wrote an architectural appraisal, and mentioned a famous name, some one would usually jump in and write a biography in middle of the article, which I felt did not sit happily there, hence I was trying to say 'yes I know he did a lot of other things, buts it's nothing to do with this article'.

Far from being biased, I was trying to point out that while people sneer at Waddesdeon for being a mish-mash of styles, West Wycombe is actually no better, but because people tend to approve of classical architecture, we tend to admire West Wycombe and sneer at other types of copies and fakes. I wasn't totally happy with the article anyway, and it does read a lot better now. Thanks - The only thing you've taken out I'd rather left in was the mixture of Ionic and corinthean which was the crux of the point I was too subtly trying to make.

There is absolutely nothing quoted verbatim, dates and names were extracted from: West Wycombe Park; published by Country Life 1967. The National Trust by Peter Ryan published by Dent 1969; Villas and Palaces of Europe; Paul Hamlyn 1966. and finaly the architects bible World Architecture, Hamly revised 1970.

What I think should be done with buildings is write an appraisal trying to explain the whys and reasons for that particular design, but at the same time leave the aristocrats who paid the bills to their own devices and pages elsewhere. By the way I'm dyxlexic, which spell check can usually disguise a bit, but that's why things can come aout a bit disjointed!! Thanks for the work so far Ragussa 07:46, 14 May 2004 (UTC)

Hi again

I've just re-read West Wycombe, I think it stands fine as you have left it, perhaps ends a bit abruptly, but definitely not part of the itinerary of a coach outing for the WI! I think I will leave well alone. Hope you don't mind me asking your opponion all the time. I'm not going to do a biography of Francis Dashwood, as I think he was probably quite unpleasant and is best left in his mausoleum!Ragussa 08:29, 14 May 2004 (UTC)

Apismellifera
Hi

I got a message about Apismellifera. I understand it'll be directed to honeybee. Yea, I'm doing this as a class project as in putting information. Is it possible if I can keep the webpage for a month after it gets graded? This is my first time and all. Thanks. Arrowhead

West Wycombe Park
Hi Grammatical Expert!

I've just done a page on West Wycombe Park if you have time could you tidy it up, before somebody else gets theit interfering mits on it! I would appreciate itRagussa 20:58, 13 May 2004 (UTC)


 * Hi Catherine


 * It's all my own work -promise. I found when (before I registered a name) when one wrote an architectural appraisal, and mentioned a famous name, some one would usually jump in and write a biography in middle of the article, which I felt did not sit happily there, hence I was trying to say 'yes I know he did a lot of other things, buts it's nothing to do with this article'.


 * Far from being biased, I was trying to point out that while people sneer at Waddesdeon for being a mish-mash of styles, West Wycombe is actually no better, but because people tend to approve of classical architecture, we tend to admire West Wycombe and sneer at other types of copies and fakes. I wasn't totally happy with the article anyway, and it does read a lot better now. Thanks - The only thing you've taken out I'd rather left in was the mixture of Ionic and corinthean which was the crux of the point I was too subtly trying to make.


 * There is absolutely nothing quoted verbatim, dates and names were extracted from: West Wycombe Park; published by Country Life 1967. The National Trust by Peter Ryan published by Dent 1969; Villas and Palaces of Europe; Paul Hamlyn 1966. and finaly the architects bible World Architecture, Hamly revised 1970.


 * What I think should be done with buildings is write an appraisal trying to explain the whys and reasons for that particular design, but at the same time leave the aristocrats who paid the bills to their own devices and pages elsewhere. By the way I'm dyxlexic, which spell check can usually disguise a bit, but that's why things can come aout a bit disjointed!!  Thanks for the work so far Ragussa 07:46, 14 May 2004 (UTC)


 * Hi again


 * I've just re-read West Wycombe, I think it stands fine as you have left it, perhaps ends a bit abruptly, but definitely not part of the itinerary of a coach outing for the WI! I think I will leave well alone. Hope you don't mind me asking your opponion all the time.  I'm not going to do a biography of Francis Dashwood, as I think he was probably quite unpleasant and is best left in his mausoleum!Ragussa 08:29, 14 May 2004 (UTC)

Apismellifera
Hi

I got a message about Apismellifera. I understand it'll be directed to honeybee. Yea, I'm doing this as a class project as in putting information. Is it possible if I can keep the webpage for a month after it gets graded? This is my first time and all. Thanks. Arrowhead

Hekhsher
Edits look good to me, thanks for the contribs! Jewbacca 04:05, May 25, 2004 (UTC)

Chequers
Catherine

Could you cast your eye over Chequers I have just given it a major re-write, it was full of mistakes before and (I think unsalvageable). While I am possitive of my facts, could you sort out the grammar before the previous editors take it to pieces and clammer for my blood. Regards Giacomo di Ragussa 17:46, 25 May 2004 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the work on Chequers. I can speak English fine, but just never spot the errors! Thanks Ragussa 06:20, 26 May 2004 (UTC)


 * Yes I did see the question, and have ammended it. This is why I need some-one to check. The English is no problem but being dylexic I can get all my numbers muddled up! and not spot it, spell check does my spellings, but not the maths (alas!) I do appreciate your efforts, I see my Nemisis, Francs 2000 beat you there! I am thinking I have intruded on his patch. I have just done Dorneywood today, I suppose Chevening will have to be next.  Then I think I'll even the balance and do a few European

Giacomo Leoni
Hi Catherine

If you have time, could you have a look at Giacomo Leoni for me and check the grammar etc. I have tried to make iy unbiased, but on this one it was quite hard. Giacomo/di Ragussa 12:12, 30 May 2004 (UTC)

George Devey copy
I have just found this on a google search while trying to do some proper work (ie paid!)  It seems to contain George Devey and is a complete lift of a page I put (and you helped me with the grammar etc.) on Wikipedia, it has no credits or mention of the project. (I don't want these credits anyway, but the site is full of adverts, so who is making money?} is this an allied project or just rampant plagiarism?

I am thinking you just may be interested - Giano/ di Ragussa User talk:Ragussa 20:16, 30 May 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for the message. You are right there is now a link in the very small print at the bottom. I think the Wikipedia is such a good idea, I don't like to see it abused, also as you sa if there is a mistake on a page it remains stuck there/out of date. Thanking anyhow:   Giano

Nice work!
I just stumbled upon the Duran Duran article and found it to be very complete and well-written. In fact I would nominate it for featured article status if the TOC could be condensed a bit and a few more photos were added. Still great work all-around. :) --mav 08:47, 25 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Your images
Here's the result of your request at SQL query requests. This list contains all image pages where a version from you is anywhere in the image history. Please let me know if you see any problems - I'm still learning my way around the database organisation. Jamesday 03:26, 14 Jul 2004 (UTC) mysql> select distinct concat(' Image:', img_name, '') as name from image where img_user=8316 union select distinct concat(' Image:', oi_name, '') as name from oldimage where oi_user=8316 order by name asc;

Image:AlternateRioalbumcover.jpg Image:Brown_recluse.jpg Image:Cathmunro.jpg Image:Celticknotwork.png Image:Churro_shape.png Image:Cranefly.jpg Image:Darkcircles_albumcover.jpg Image:Diskharrow.png Image:Duranduran1983.png Image:Duranduran_weddingalbum_cover.jpg Image:Duranduranalbum1981.jpg Image:Harvestman-lg.jpg (deleted -- superseded by GFDL image) Image:Jack_taylor_pitcher.jpg Image:Kittens.jpg Image:Laundromat.jpg Image:Padlock.jpg Image:Pholcus.jpg Image:Pipe_shape.png Image:Powerstation_albumcover.jpg Image:Powerstation_albumcover_33.jpg Image:Powerstation_publicityphoto.jpg Image:Princeglyph.png Image:Pseudoscorpion.jpg Image:Rio_cover.jpg Image:Schizomid.jpg Image:Simon_le_Bon_GFDL.jpg

Arts categories
Hi,

I noticed that you have recently created some sub-categories in the visual arts. Can I also encourage you to join the categorisation discussion at Category talk:Art -- Solipsist 21:04, 6 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Sancy
Hi there. I'd just like to thank you for your additions to Sancy (a while ago, I know). Much appreciated. -- Hadal 13:06, 14 Aug 2004 (UTC)

My Lai
Thanks for all the work on My Lai! Good stuff.

Wikilove, Quadell (talk) 13:50, Sep 9, 2004 (UTC)

Churro
Hi. I just want to say I really liked the churro image you created for the article. Both creative and funny at the same time. And it works, too! Don't know what kind of tool you used for the model, but it's nice. Carry on. – Kaonashi 05:06, 15 Sep 2004 (UTC)