User talk:IceKarma/Archive 2005

initial-stress-derived noun
So you regard "get" as ungrammatical when used as a copulative verb, as in "Will this discussion get any more technical?"? "Getting" does not mean the same thing as "being". Michael Hardy 00:30, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Gilette VfD
Hi there! I'm sorry, but you can't just retract a VfD (even if you were the one to suggest it in the first place) because several proposals for a procedure for that failed to achieve consensus. However, wait four or five days and the problem is solved :) In the future, you may want to consider that merging two articles does not require a VfD vote - simply be bold. Yours, Radiant_* 20:28, Apr 4, 2005 (UTC)

Colour section
The color selection guide is a great idea. Perhaps you should add that one can consider using patterns instead of colors to make graphical distinctions: dotted and dashed lines can be more distinct than colors on graphs; cross-hatching and other shading patterns can work for solids. This would have the advantage that it would be color-independent: important not only for the color blind but also if printing an article using black and white equipment. Demi T/C 00:18, 2005 Apr 8 (UTC)


 * Thanks! I plan to expand the article, so I'll be sure to include the topic of using achromatic patterns either on their own or supplemental to colour information. IceKarma 11:25, 2005 Apr 8 (UTC)

Language template
Hi, IceKarma. You've been doing a lot of great work on cleaning up and templatifying language articles lately. Are you aware of the discussion at Template talk:Language about changing the present template to a modular system? Especially in templatifying articles that don't have a template yet, it might be a good idea to spare your energy until the new version of the template is live (which should be soon)... Kind regards, &mdash; mark &#9998; 11:27, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)


 * Thanks! I am, and I tried them, found a few stumbling blocks, and created a new draft that resolves them. Please check them out and let me know what you think. IceKarma&#x0950; 23:58, 2005 Apr 26 (UTC)

Consonant bot
If you really want to write a bot to do it, please feel free to go ahead. However, I think the amount of work it will take to write and debug it won't be amortized over the relatively small number of pages that need adjustment.

I figure writing a bot to find and extract the tables and replace with the appropriate template would take at least 4-5 hours, assuming you already have a working framework for interacting with the Wikipedia servers, then another couple hours to make sure it works correctly. By then, I think, they could all be fixed by hand. But, it you really want to do it with a bot, if only for the experience and satisfaction of creating one to do it, I encourage you to do so.

I already converted all the vowels a week ago by hand and it only took me a couple hours. Your time might be more efficiently spent trying to recruit a few people to help and setting up a page as part of WikiProject Phonetics to track progress. Maybe post a request on each member's user talk page asking them to convert a couple. These are just my suggestions&mdash;you, of course, can do whatever you like. Let me know what you decide. Nohat 00:27, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)


 * I noticed you went through a lot of the articles on individual sounds, convering the infoboxes into templates. The links to the sound files doesn't seem to have made it through, though. As far as I know, I don't think the audio template can be used inside another template, though I'm not sure. You might want to have a look at some of the articles you've converted. Most of them now have only a broken audio template linking to nothing. Peter Isotalo 13:30, Apr 27, 2005 (UTC)


 * Thanks for bringing this to my attention. 15 of the 50 articles I templatified last night were found to be missing sound links. On further examination, one page (velarized alveolar lateral approximant) didn't have a sound sample to start with, and the other 14 pages you'd replaced the pronounciation sample on, where you'd linked to the sound with the Audio template. (The other 34 successfully-converted pages used direct Media: or Image: links.) My script didn't take this into account, and didn't scrape the sound file links.
 * Incidentally, templates nest fine - check out User:IceKarma/Modular template draft 2.
 * However, converting the consonant articles to use the Infobox IPA template revealed a problem, which I've written up here. IceKarma&#x0950; 19:04, 2005 Apr 27 (UTC)

Colour vision in carnivores
What is the reference for your addition to the dichromat page asserting that carnivores tend to be anomalous trichromats, please? I have been unable to confirm this from the abstracting services, and Jacobs reports both ferrets and hyenas as dichromats. seglea 10:51, 12 May 2005 (UTC)
 * sorry, I mean on the trichromat page. seglea 10:51, 12 May 2005 (UTC)

Check the history: it's not my assertion, I just edited it. The original said 'weaker trichromats'; cats at least are trichromats, but I wasn't feeling bold enough then to reword it to just refer to cats, so I have now. IceKarma&#x0950; 12:18, 2005 May 12 (UTC)


 * Sorry, I was following the summary statements and thought you'd added it. A more careful look shows that it was added by an anonymous user, who can't have been very knowledgeable given the way s/he talks about colour anomaly.  I can't find any evidence to support it at all, so I have cut it out; Yokoyama & Radlwimmer (The molecular genetics of red and green color vision in mammals, GENETICS 153 (2): 919-932 OCT 1999) and other sources refer only to a single medium/long wavelength cone system in cats as in other nonprimate mammals.  The most likely source for the claim is that there is some trichromacy due to rod action at crepuscular light levels, so I have left that in as a possibility, though I can't find a source for that either. seglea 22:14, 12 May 2005 (UTC)

I'm not having a lot of luck finding references, but this seems to be saying that cats are already known to have L and S cones plus rods, but that their results seem to indicate an M-cone system under certain situations. This, while not a scholarly article, is from the website of a veterinary ophthalmologist, and posits three cones, peaking at 450, 500, 555 nm. Still looking. IceKarma&#x0950; 05:56, 2005 May 13 (UTC)

Swedish map and vowel charts
Hey, hey! Swedish language is very close to being ready for FAC. There's just a few stray details to straighten out and one or two notes to add. Think you could make those last finishing touches to the map? You know, highlighting the Swedish-speaking areas of Finland. Do you think you could make those diphtong charts for Swedish phonology as well? It'd make it a very nice supporting article.

Peter Isotalo 08:30, May 25, 2005 (UTC)


 * Swedish language got promoted to FA status earlier today. I'm pretty certain it couldn't have achieve that without your graphics so I'm very grateful for your conributions. Give me a holler when you're back.
 * Peter Isotalo 20:39, Jun 2, 2005 (UTC)

Death penalty map
Hi, I find helpful. According to my informations (Amnesty International.org), however, Russia has abolished the death penalty in peacetimes since 1997. It should be marked in Green, then, not Orange. We need the change for the German article soon cause it´s on the list for excellency, only few day left. Thankyou, Jesusfreund 10:05, 24 May 2005 (UTC)


 * Hi there. Sorry it's taken so long, but I've finally got my 'net access back and updated the map as per your request. IceKarma&#x0950; 01:03, 2005 Jun 3 (UTC)

I've reverted you[r] change :-) . This is because Russia hasn't actually abolished, but have a moratorium. I hope you don't mind. Evil Monkey&#8756;Hello 01:03, Jun 4, 2005 (UTC)


 * No, I don't mind; I rushed a bit and didn't verify. If you haven't, could you drop Jesusfriend a note to let them know? Also, I would appreciate it if you could read through the bilingual conversation on Chile below again, post-copyediting. IceKarma&#x0950; 01:32, 2005 Jun 4 (UTC)


 * Oh, I got the information already, thankyou both for helpfulness. Greetings, Jesusfreund 07:39, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Hola, Chile tampoco tiene pena de muerte desde aproximadamente 1992, ni en guerra, ni en tiempos de paz, lo máximo son 40 años de carcel. es:Usuario:Alexan 02:24, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[IceKarma's translation: "Hi, Chile hasn't had the death penalty either since approximately 1992, neither in war nor in peacetime, the maximum is 40 years in jail. es:Usuario:Alexan 02:24, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)"]


 * Hola. Según mi primera y breve serie de buscando a la web, Chile reserva todavía la derecho de imponer la pena de muerte a los crímenes de guerra. Ahora no tengo el tiempo, pero más tarde investigaré más y actualizaré. // Hi. According to my first, brief round of web searching, Chile still reserves the right to apply the death penalty to war crimes. I haven't got time now, but later on tonight I'll look into it further and update. IceKarma&#x0950; 01:32, 2005 Jun 4 (UTC)

Research

 * Since there seems to be confusion over frailing and clawhammer, I've marked both and I'm planning to research the topic. IceKarma 15:41, 2005 Apr 14 (UTC)

I just came across this. It'd still be a good idea! Tha[nk]s for your contributions to Wikipedia. Cheers, -Willmcw 01:29, Jun 3, 2005 (UTC)

about Northwu31.png and other pics featured with "sinolect.org"
nice to meet you here, excuse me for my unresponsiveness to your reminder about the copyright problem on image Northwu31.png and so on. in fact, i am just the original author of those images and the chief owner/administrator of the website "sinolect.org". I would like to contribute part of the copyright of those images to wikipedia. what should I do then? would you like to tell me how to do so? thanks! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jikayo (talk • contribs) 15:49, 16 July 2005 (UTC)

Images from Commons:Category:IPA symbols
These images were made with Lucida Sans Unicode, a copyrighted font. Therefore, they must be deleted. I have already uploaded free IPA symbols images at Commons:Category:International Phonetic Alphabet. -Diego UFCG 22:51, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Rosenhan experiment
I'm not seeing how 4.22.151.195's edit on Rosenhan experiment was vandalism? All he/she did was expand a bit on the sentance.Lyo 01:28, 27 August 2005 (UTC)


 * I just double checked it. Definitally correct. I'll go change it back now :)

sourceLyo 02:40, 27 August 2005 (UTC)

Heteronormativity
Nice work. I still dislike the structure of some of the criticism, as I think it's heavily biased in favor of what's being critisized, but your work was clearly and improvement. Thanks. -Harmil 23:11, 8 September 2005 (UTC)

Chile
Estuve buscando en páginas del senado y la camara de diputados y no encontré nada sobre esto, puede haber sido una modificación a una ley por parte de Augusto Pinochet para poder matar gente, pero la última ejecución (con juicio) fue en 1982 si no me equivoco. Pues como tu bien dices a lo mejor por crímenes de guerra, pero Chile no ha entrado en guerra hace un largo tiempo Saludos desde Chile Alexan (Mi talk page) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 200.86.51.128 (talk • contribs) 01:43, 10 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Sorry, but I find new information see this page Here you will see that the death penalty is abolished from the 2002 and not from 1992 or another year, and chile sign the traty of San José de Costa Rica. This traty it doesn't authorize to Chile to create a law that restitutes death penalty  Greetings Alexan (Mi talk page) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 200.86.51.128 (talk • contribs) 01:59, 10 September 2005 (UTC)

You're a sysop
I'm pleased to let you know that, consensus being reached, you are now an administrator. Congratulations!. You should read the relevant policies and other pages linked to from the administrators' reading list before carrying out tasks like deletion, protection, banning users, and editing protected pages such as the Main Page. Most of what you do is easily reversible by other sysops, apart from page history merges and image deletion, so please be especially careful with those. You might find the new administrators' how-to guide helpful. Cheers! =Nichalp  «Talk»=  07:06, 24 September 2005 (UTC)


 * I didn't have to time to say so but congradulations and thanks for explaining the gap for me :) Ryan Norton T 07:44, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

Popups tool
Lupin|talk|popups 11:53, 24 September 2005 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bengbu Public Security Bureau
I'd like to express my view on this vfd. I see that you've closed the poll about ten minutes ago... is it possible for you to reopen it so that I can cast my vote? -- ran (talk) 04:49, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

I should explain myself as well. The thing is, we've had problems over at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Chinese cities with User:Sarcelles, who deluges us with poorly written stubs and non-notables mostly to promote his own POV. User:Abstrakt and others have devoted a huge amount of time simply chasing down and rewriting his stuff or putting them up for VFD. His latest series of "Public Security Bureaus" is simply the latest development in a long history of poor quality, POV-driven writing. Previous VFD's have already deleted 4 of them: Changchun Public Security Bureau, Tangshan Public Security Bureau, Shijiazhuang Public Security Bureau, Lu'an Public Security Bureau. Unfortunately, most of us weren't aware of this latest one until too late (about half an hour ago). But with 4 precedents already set, it doesn't make too much sense to keep this one. -- ran (talk) 04:57, 26 September 2005 (UTC)


 * Well, I haven't actually closed vfd's in the past, so I guess I'm as green as you are here... -_-


 * I'm not exactly the most disinterested party you can ask here, but I'd say that you open it again so that I can cast a delete vote. =) Then the thing becomes undecided and we'll see what other comments come in over the next few days.


 * It's been less than an hour in any case, and it's obvious that not very many people have participated in the VfD as of yet. -- ran (talk) 05:32, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

Editing an archived deletion
I have made a small post-archival modification to Articles for deletion/CANALBOTAFOGO because it used to look like I voted "don't delete", which I didn't. I hope that even if I have violated the letter of the prohibition on post-archival modification, I have not violated the spirit. &mdash; ciphergoth 10:14, 27 September 2005 (UTC)

Vowel table-charts
I've come across a problem that I can't really solve. It's fairly hard to get a hold of proper vowel charts like the ones you helped prepare for most languages. We could really need some sort of standard table that looks similar to a regular gif-chart, but which is still done mainly with CSS. Something similar to the vowel-template that Denelson made, but which you could customize and use for differently languages. Do you think this is doable?

Peter Isotalo 06:50, 30 August 2005 (UTC)


 * I finally got a hold of Hans Basbøll's The Phonology of Danish. Great stuff! And you can bet your ass it's got some proper vowel charts. Interested?
 * Peter Isotalo 14:23, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

A reminder...
...don't forget to also delete the talk pages of deleted articles. Otherwise they lurk in Talk: space orphaned from their article. Thanks. -Splash talk 16:35, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

Time-technology and timescapes
I believe, IceKarma, has premeturely deleted this article. Could we discuss the implication of this act? --208.0.29.254 07:31, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

Thank you for supporting my RfA
I would like to thank you very much for your support on my RfA. I am most honoured by the trust that has been placed in me by yourself and other members of the Wikipedia community, especially since I did not conform to the standard edit-count criteria usually expected of administrator candidates. I promise to only use my administrative privileges to assist the community in doing good work, and also to be calm, considerate and careful in working to make Wikipedia a better place. It has always been a pleasure to converse with you via IRC; I look forward to doing so, and working with you, in the future. Best regards, -- NicholasTurnbull | (talk) (e-mail) (cabal) 04:08, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

RE: Flag of Denmark image
Hi! I hope you're well. I support the update and use of SVG images when possible, especially for flags, but I reverted your change(s) to the Flag of Denmark page because the SVG you created has a transparent cross, not a white one (I believe) (this should probably occur for all other pages too, until corrected). This becomes a crucial difference for monitors with varying (background) colour usage, where such transparency (of that) appears light blue or something different in colour. Particularly, novices willl rightly assume that the flag has an incorrectly rendered cross or (worse) may not know better.

If possible, please create appropriate SVGs with white included. Either that, or I'm smoking something. ;) Thoughts?  Get back to me when able, and take care! E Pluribus Anthony 01:49, 8 October 2005 (UTC)


 * Thanks for your note; great ... and no problem! I was invovled with some prior flak about the precise red in the Danish flag (be cognizant of this when creating your image, as not all reds are the same), so I would have loathed getting into a similar challenge about white. :)  Thanks again! E Pluribus Anthony 03:19, 8 October 2005 (UTC)


 * Great; I look forward to seeing the revamped image! :) E Pluribus Anthony 06:04, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

Hi! I notice you reverted my change to Image:Flag_of_Denmark.svg without any comment. Did I change something else than the colour? Your version of the flag has uses an incorrect red. You are using #d00c33 rather than #ce1126 (Pantone 186c). You might want to read the colour-discussion on Talk:Flag of Denmark. Rasmus (talk) 09:56, 10 October 2005 (UTC)

Sorry...
No, you're not a vandal. I made a mistake. I was chasing down some vandalisms by 202.130.192.178 and failed to notice the bad edit had already been taken care of. I reverted to the version before the bad edit and in the process I clobbered one of your edits. I think only a few characters were thereby dropped. I saw you had since made further edits, so I stayed away for the moment. Sorry about stepping on your edit. If you're done for now, I'll fix up the edits I dropped. -R. S. Shaw 03:49, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

Flag of the Faroe Islands
Could you please re-upload as, to agree with "Flag of the Faroe Islands"? I know it's a minor point, but I'd like to get your SVG flag's name corrected now while it isn't used anywhere. I'll do the change tonight if you don't do it first. dbenbenn | talk 16:42, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

My adminship nomination
My appreciation goes to you for your support of my RfA. I will try my hardest not to let you or anyone else down. Denelson83 21:54, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

An award
It's about time, if you ask me. Don't hesitate to show this off on your user page. And keep those graphics coming!

Peter Isotalo 08:45, 20 October 2005 (UTC)



Danish dialects
I need another dialect map, this time of Danish. Statsbilioteket has a homepage with dialect samples, unfortunately not as good as SweDia, but still better than nothing. This is going to be a cakewalk, too, because there are already good maps o' Denmark available. This one, for example. The modus operandi would be the same as for the Swedish map, with numbers centered on the place where the dialect was recorded. If you look at Danish language you'll see the main dialect groups and the best way of ordering the numbers. I'm suggesting that you start from the west with the dialects of Jutland, then move on to the other island dialects and finish off with Bornholm. The samples at the Danish homepage are numbered and I've selected to remove a few that are too densely placed or similar enough to be excluded: 2, 5, 13, 15, 19, 22 and 23. That makes for a total of 17 samples.

Lemme know you if you're up for it or if I've been unclear about something. I'll be checking your talkpage, so just reply here. And if you happen to know any other online dialect archive, lemme know. I'd really prefer one that wasn't stored in crappy-ass RealAudio format...

Peter Isotalo 12:46, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

Golden Horseshoe map
Hi, on Talk:Golden Horseshoe (Ontario) you mentioned having made one of the maps for that article. Seeing as it was deleted, I was wondering if you could try searching for the file on your hard drive, and if you still have, re-uploading it. It'd probably be faster than someone making a new one. Thanks. --qviri 05:33, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

Ontario maps
The base map was created by User:Earl Andrew, and is GFDL. Bearcat 06:55, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

Image source
I made the map myself from some cleaned up government maps. I would normally tag it -- Earl Andrew - talk 19:12, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

Our forum
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Death Penalty Map - Chile
Hi IceKarma.

I noticed that you updated Chile in one of the Wikimedia death penalty maps. However, I am wondering if you overlooked ? It is sorted differently than the one you edited. I know nothing on the subject, so leave it for you or someone else. - RealGrouchy 17:03, 13 December 2005 (UTC)