User talk:Circeus/march2006

Soil contamination
thanks for your reference editing and footnoting improvement to this article i created yesterday. i think your work adds to the stature of the article. i see we have common interests in birds and plants too :) best regards Anlace 02:39, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

¡Mil gracias!
¡Gracias por limpiando mi artículo del Diócesis de Dallas! ¡Que magnífico! Sarum blue 20:20, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

Spanish Ribbed Thanks
Thanks for cleaning up the references on Iberian Ribbed Newt. And now I'll know how to do them for next time. :)

Pengo 00:43, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

Please discuss changes to templates
Please discuss changes to templates before you make changes. The same template is used for all 5 boroughs of Manhattan and all counties in New Jersey and New York. Changing one and not changing the 13 others does not help the project have a consistant look and feel, which was the point of having the templates designed together. If you want to help, join either the New York City, New York or New Jersey Wikiprojects. Or if you want to design your own templates from scratch, there are hundreds of other projects in need of template design. This is a more mature project, past the design stage, and in the implementation phase. Thanks. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) 01:59, 9 March 2006 (UTC)


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 * Hi Circeus, I've just stared dabbling into templates myself, and now I'm dreaming in embedded parameters. Check out my first experiments abscat, if you're interested and let me know what you think.  It would be nice to learn how to truncate the PAGENAME, as per the talk page, any ideas? I was just noticing the changes on the Template:Manhattan and, frankly, I like the old look better, with the blue bar on the lower left.  Unless you have major objections, I'm going to revert it back to the version completed by the author of the document, circa [this edit].  Some of the minor formatting, which I didn't parse carefully, looks useful, and I'm sure the New York Project people would be happy to look at samples in your user namespace, Template_talk:Manhattan, etc. --  Dogears (talk) 02:12, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

Ancient Greek music
I see you fixed the notes and refs in the article, but I am not sure why, perhaps because I am new to Wikipedia. What is the advantage of an "a, b, -reference" on one note? The reader thus loses the pages references. Thank you for your attention. Jeffmatt 17:24, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

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 * Got your note. Thank you for fixing the notes. I think I must have forgetten to make the two different (as in 1 and 2). Jeffmatt 18:32, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

Re:
Hi Circeus - I was meaning to thank you for the changes you made to template:Indiafreedom. I will do my best to incorporate ISBN, etc., but some of the publications are really old. Rama&#39;s Arrow 19:12, 9 March 2006 (UTC)


 * Hi again - can you make Template:SouthAsiaWaters also into footer style? Rama&#39;s Arrow 15:46, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

Tawkerbot2 and the reversion of your edit(s)
Hello, Circeus. You may have noticed User:Tawkerbot2 reverted one or more of your edits and perhaps left a message on your talk page. Wikipedia recently experienced a database malfunction, causing Tawkerbot2 to misidentify legitimate edits; hence the reversion of your edit(s) and the message. The bot has been temporarily disabled until the problems are rectified. Thanks. &mdash;Wayward Talk 18:56, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

Re:History of Puerto Rico
Thank you for your comments/suggestions for the History of Puerto Rico article. I will try to implement them as soon as possible. I would also like to be clarified regarding the footnotes, external links. I did not fully understand your comments. Once again, thank you. Joelito 18:00, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

Music of Italy infobox
Thank you for straightening that out (at least, I think it was you!). But we now an overlap: Festivals as a separate section and festivals repeated in the related topics. Which is better? It's no problem for me to link the festivals in the new separate section. Jeffmatt 07:06, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

Music of Italy 2
OK, I'll work on it. My original links to a page that is just a list of external links to festival websites. The section you inserted might mean writing at least a short stub for each of them. Do-able. Thank you for the help.

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Another item. I am working on a series of "Ancient music of (Rome, Greece, etc.)" So far, I have Ancient Greek music and Ancient Roman music.I was thinking that there should be an infoxbox for ancient music. (There is already an article called Prehistoric music--they have changed the title a few times. Is there already s suitable infobox? I don't mind trying to make one if you tell me where to look for the empty template. I spent a while searching, but couldn't find one. I know it's easy, but I am dense. The two ancient music articles certainly aren't finished or anything, but they are already useful, I think.Jeffmatt 15:13, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

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Peer review
Thanks for your work at peer review. The process is definitely in need of more commentors, but if we can at least get every article a comment or two we can then go back and dig in for more from the editors that are doing a good job implementing the suggestions. Thanks for your help, I think it makes a big difference.

In reference to trying to create an article every day, that is tough work, but if you look at the Missing encyclopedia articles project, there's thousands of articles that need writing. That makes it easier in that they are topics that have already been determined by somebody to be encyclopedic. - Taxman Talk 20:53, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

thanks again
...for you efforts with the Italian musicbox---putting in the (list) link. I took your advice and made a rudimentary footer template called "ancient music" and put it at the bottom of a few of the articles that seem to fit (about 5, so far). It makes better sense to me than putting "ancient" in the general Greek music box, in the same sense that putting ancient Roman music in the Italian music box would be strange. Anyway, thanks. Cheers from Naples, Italy. Jeffmatt 07:30, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks
The different citation models are complicated not to say stupid, and so I just added it to come back later to do some reformating, after studying the cite format. You where faster! --Stone 09:43, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

Crocodile attacks Thank you!
Thank you for tweaking the crocodile attacks article. Much obliged. Joaquin Murietta 14:55, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

Year links in taxoboxes
Please weigh in on this subject here. - UtherSRG (talk)

Can you help me with the Battle of Cannae article
I have recently joined Wikipedia, and therefore, am not aware of the system that you suggested. So do you mind helping me reformat the citations of the Battle of Cannae article--chub 23:20, 23 March 2006 (UTC).

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thank you
...for putting one of those maps in the Italiam music box. I'll get the rest. I can't believe how easy it was. Sorry. Jeffmatt 05:54, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

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Sorry
I just reverted your edit on crocodile attacks because it conflicted with mine - and because mine went into further detail. DS 19:48, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

Edsel edit partially reverted
I have partially reverted your edit to the Edsel Bermuda article that I started. The Edsel Template goes first because it provides links to the other Edsel articles; Save for the fact that it is defunct, placing Ford in front of Edsel serves very little on the model articles. Now if that is your feeling on the divisional article Edsel I have no problem. Stude62 21:47, 24 March 2006 (UTC) 
 * Response:Terribly ugly? Stude62 21:55, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
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 * This isn't about pretty, which is POV, we're talking about information flow. Stude62 21:59, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
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 * OK, I'll give you the template. Brings it into line with other Ford templates. Stude62 22:10, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

Battle of Cannae 2
Hello again! Some user has corrected the footnotes and removed the trivia section as you requested. However, the 3 refs labelled "gowen" repeat themselves in the footnote section. I know that with books, you must type in , but when I attempt to do the same with the website, it merely repeats itself. Is there any way to fix this problem? Or is it supposed to be that way? See footnote section--Chubdub 11:31, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

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Problem solved. Thanks for you help. Along with the help of others, web-citations have been added, and the Trivia section has been removed as you requested. If you have any more objections to the article, please feel free to tell me so I can adress them. Again, thanks for your help. You have done a lot to improve the quality of this article! --Chubdub 20:37, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

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Featured article candidates/Geology of the Capitol Reef area
I had no idea one could combine references. Neato - done. :) --mav 01:22, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

Cicisbeo
Thanks for cleaning up after me at Cicisbeo :-) -- Mstroeck 19:43, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

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Emilia-Romagna
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Fixed, thanks (I thought something was up when I was browsing the new music ofs, but couldn't find the problem) Are you really not an admin yet? If that's not by choice, I'd be glad to nominate you. Let me know. Tuf-Kat 00:08, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

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 * Okay, see Requests for adminship/Circeus. Answer the questions and stuff, and then transclude the subpage to WP:RfA. Tuf-Kat 03:27, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

Sorry for the Emilia-Romagna slip. I think I took out the hyphen to avoid confusing the eye with the hyphens that separate region from region. I forget that it would louse up the link. Jeffmatt 15:41, 29 March 2006 (UTC)


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Digimon Credits
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Sorry, I thing they should be transfered to a table. - Plau 14:47, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

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Yea, something like that. - Plau 10:37, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks !
Thanks for pointing out the flaw with fontsize less than 90% and Cite.php footnotes. But an even bigger thank you for leading me (indirectly) to the page where you and User:ALoan explained that references *can* be reused with Cite.php. Magic ! That will cut down the number of unique footnotes considerably. Thanks again ! Angus McLellan (Talk) 18:38, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

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C&EN
I saw a version of 'Image:Mad scientist caricature.png' in Chemical & Engineering News. I assume you know about this. Or not???? ike9898 21:37, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

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 * Oops. Somehow I left the above message on the wrong user page. ike9898 21:05, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

Noise mitigation
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thanks for the kind words and for the pointers on wiki style guide. i have made the changes you suggested in this article. cheers Covalent 18:23, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

Your RfA
I have added two more questions to your RfA, when you get a chance, I'd appreciate replies. Thanks. JoshuaZ 15:19, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

Scrabble letter distributions
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It's okay, it's the directional control characters (#x200E;) that are needed to solve the problem. The character entities are just a convenience for now so I'll only be pleased if a bot replaces them with the proper literals. Soo 17:39, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

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