User talk:Centrx/Archive1

Archive 1: May 2006 and earlier

Note: There are gaps in this archive. In April 2006, I deleted several non-pending comments.

Welcome
Hello, welcome to Wikipedia.

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Again, welcome! - UtherSRG 01:12, 13 Jan 2004 (UTC)

WikiProject U.S. Regions may be of use to you
There is a WikiProject that deals with U.S. Regions articles and it may be of some use to you in deciding what is salvagable, other than inaccuracies which of coures should be deleted. I'm interested in U.S. Regions, but I try to stay away from the New England page due to a very bad experience I had there, and would prefer not to edit the page. I hope you will find the project useful; at the most the wikiproject may help you revise the article and at the least offer you further justification for removing the info. Please feel free to refer any questions to either the project talk page or mine.

--JCarriker 07:54, Jun 13, 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 " " 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 multi-license all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

OR
 * Option 2
 * I agree to 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 " " with "  ". 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)

Chemical substance
I wanted to thank you for helping reorganise the category page over from "Chemical". I wanted to ask for your suggestions on revised definitions for "chemical" and "chemical substance"- do you have any ideas? I think the current definition at Chemical_substance is inadequate. I have put more detailed comments at Talk:Chemical_substance. I'm fairly new to WIkipedia and I'd appreciate your input. Thanks, Walkerma 18:33, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Helium FAC
Could you take a look at Featured article candidates/Helium? --mav

Disambiguation
I only now noticed the discussion going on a week ago at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (disambiguation pages), but I want you to know that if you ever revisit the issue, please drop me a note on my user talk page. I am in agreement that there should be no hard restriction against multiple wikilinks within a line. I find it appalling that there are people systematically going through Wikipedia removing links on disambiguation articles by citing the current guideline as absolute law. I think that boldfacing the primary term sufficiently distinguishes it from the rest of the line that there is no reason that other words within the line cannot be linked. &mdash;Lowellian (reply) 01:33, August 16, 2005 (UTC)

Edit at Customary_measurement_systems?
re: Customary_measurement_systems and Can't figure out why you did this as it removes the CAT from the article for 'customers' to navigate within per intents of WP:Btw. THAT particular CAT is certainly horribly named, probably by someone looking solely from the SI perspective&mdash;as this article implies&mdash; as most of what is currently listed there in the CAT belongs listed in this article as most are still in use to some extent locally. By definition they are thus Traditional or Customary, and belong in this article as far as I can see. Best regards, Fra nkB 15:59, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
 * So was this a misunderstanding of that aspect in the article introduction, or a misapplication of the literal title of the horrible cat name? Or what?
 * I haven't had time to wade through these and properly cross-categorize or see what magic tricks are needed to rename the CAT, etc. But if you want to add to the expansion and maturation of the article, that's an obvious good next step. I'll check here for a response and your thoughts and/or intentions. (I prefer not to do reverts, so let's talk through this here or move it into Talk:Customary_measurement_systems).


 * It is incorrect to say that units of measure of "obsolete"; they remain in use and practice, they have not been neglected or gone into disuse, which contradicts the meaning of the word "obsolete". The system of units in the U.S. is, as the article states, in common everyday use, and there are a couple of units from other systems that are in common use as well. The U.S. units, at least, are also not "obsolescent": they are not becoming obsolete or going out of use. Aside from the prominent example of the U.S. units, it is not a property of customary units that they are "obsolete", it does not follow that a unit for which it makes sense to put on that page is necessarily "obsolete". Customs and traditions remain. You could also mean "deprecated", a term now often applied to disfavored features in software, but this term is not from a neutral point of view, it passes judgement on the utility and propriety of the measurement system in question, which by its use many people fine useful and appropriate.


 * Since "Customary units of measure" is mostly a list with an introduction, which I think is what it ought to be and will properly remain, it makes sense to put the relevant articles of that list in the Obsolete category, and not put others, leaving the Customary article out of the category. - Centrx 17:22, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

math typesetting

 * Aside from technical difficulties, it is common in mathematical typesetting that punctuation is not put at the end of an offset formula

I don't think this is true, and it certainly conflicts with Wikipedia conventions. What convention is followed on Wikipedia in regard to this very point has been the subject of a considerable amount of discussion, which you should probably look at before going on any crusades with this. Start with WikiProject Mathematics and its accompanying discussion pages. Michael Hardy 19:14, 24 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Is there a reason to put the punctuation within the MATH tag instead of outside of it?

Definitely. If TeX is used in the normal way, rather than the way is used on Wikipedia, this is not important, but on Wikipedia, a final period or comma OUTSIDE of the math tags often gets misaligned, being put ridiculously too high or too low, or even in some cases getting pushed down to the beginning of the next line. Michael Hardy 00:34, 25 April 2006 (UTC)


 * To clarify and elaborate on Michael's comments, one must use periods at the end of formulas if the formulas are at the end of sentence. That is in the math style manual, and somewhere in the archives of Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Mathematics. Back then the policy of putting periods receieved overwhelming support from mathematicians, and is the standard pratice in math books and journals. So, that's how it should be. :) You can reply here if you have comments. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 01:28, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

Multi-license
I was hoping to get approve by you to use on my user page. While it's already there, I was hoping you would be willing to allow me to use it- after all, it's one of the only contributions you don't license under the CC SA :p

- TheTrueSora 19:10, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Responded at User talk:TheTrueSora. —Centrx

Question about change to Acton, MA page
Hmmm. You deleted the reference to Caroll Spinney because he 'only grew up in Acton' but left the reference to Robert Creeley who also grew up in Acton. This seems odd to me. I don't quite understand your rationale. Is it because you think that Caroll Spinney isn't a significant person ? He is significant enough to have his own Wikipedia page. Or is there another reason. If we are going to have lists of significant people associated with particular towns (see Concord, MA), I don't see why Caroll Spinney should go. I haven't reverted your edit because I would like to hear the rationale. --LWV Roadrunner 03:09, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Responded at Talk:Acton, Massachusetts. —Centrx

Manual of style
I agree with you about date links and have removed many unnecessary ones. If you want a date delinking tab in edit mode, go to User:Centrx/monobook.js and add the following line:

winc('User:Bobblewik/monobook.js/dates.js');

Regards bobblewik 15:36, 16 May 2006 (UTC)


 * Ah. You are missing the declaration of 'winc':

//Create 'winc' function:

function winc(s) { document.write(' '); }

Alternatively, just copy User:Bobblewik/monobook.js to User:Centrx /monobook.js. bobblewik 21:19, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

n dashes and hyphens
As indicated immediately under the section title of Manual of Style (dashes) and Manual of Style (dates and numbers), the problem is explained at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (dates and numbers) --Francis Schonken 19:01, 17 May 2006 (UTC)


 * No, it isn't related to what you say. You know what? Maybe go have a look at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (dates and numbers) - you might find out what it is about... --Francis Schonken 19:17, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

USD template
Just wanted to say thanks for the janitorial service concerning the template removal. Pleasure to work with you. :) - User:Samsara (talk • contribs) 13:30, 26 May 2006 (UTC)