User talk:J3ff/Archive 1

Welcome to Wikipedia! Your articles and edits are very helpful and appropriate; keep up the good work! Feel free to drop me a message at the "talk" link beside my name. --Merovingian &#8597; T@Lk 06:27, May 1, 2004 (UTC)

Origin of the name California
I've just translated the sentences, have a look at it. ;)

--Rmflorencia 23:27, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Tila Nguyen
Hello,

I see you've deleted Tila Nguyen from Category:Porn stars and List of heterosexual erotic actresses. I know Tila does mostly softcore work, but if you search around you will see she appears in films caressing other women in the nude and in a very explicitly sexual manner that is intended to arouse the viewer. I think she at least qualifies as an erotic actress, even if not completely a porn star. AlexQ 04:22, 20 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Cuyamaca
I noticed that you added the merge tag to Cuyamaca and Cuyamaca, California. I originally created a single article but it seemed to me that towns and villages tend to have dedicated articles so I split the article in two. I'm inclined to agree that a single article would be sufficient. Is this consistent with other articles that cover a city, town or village and the like-named region in which they sit? If so, in your opinion, should the articles be consolidated under "Cuyamaca" or "Cuyamaca, California"? Rsduhamel 17:58, 27 Sep 2004 (UTC)

I couldn't find enough information about the village to expand it so I merged Cuyamaca with Cuyamaca, California and marked Cuyamaca for deletion. I assume that all the other particulars, such as the duplicate article page, will be taken care of. Rsduhamel 00:51, 28 Sep 2004 (UTC)

thanks for the edits of my pages, I'm often vague and I forget formatting. ps how do you do that neat thing where you make you name ant the time you commented appear after posting a "talk" thing? -maximusnukeage

Re: Models Wikiproject
That sounds like a good idea. How do we go about doing it? AlexQ 00:43, 8 Oct 2004 (UTC)

UK railway stations - J
Hi. I've reverted your wikification of the UK railway stations - J page. By convention, the entries in the leftmost column are only wikilinked once there is a railway station article for the town/city/locale. Your links go to what are, in the context of a list of UK railway stations, random pages :( best wishes --Tagishsimon I've created a basic article for Jewellery Quarter station and inserted a link for just that station. --Cje 07:44, 21 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Northern vs. Southern California speech
In response to your question on the Regional American English talk page, I think it would be fascinating to see a section on differences between Northern and Southern California speech, especially since both regions seem to have distinct characters. Of course, it would be helpful if you could provide other examples, but the one you cited would be a good start, too. --Dablaze 20:19, Nov 7, 2004 (UTC)

Culture of Greece
Culture of Greece is this week's Collaboration of the week. Please come and help it become a featured-standard article.

Confirmation
Jeff, are you sure that her surname is Lee? In the English context, evidence is provided that she is Lee, Sung Hi or Sung Hi-Lee, which says that Sung is her surname. However, using Hangul or Hanja/Hanzi to search, her surname is Lee. You may be correct, but try searching using these methods that I stated. Thanks, User:Chan Han Xiang

Tila Nguyen
She was in the movie 2 Fast 2 Furious.--Jimmyvanthach 13:04, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Re: Current Events, death of Iris Chang
''I put the mention of her death back into the current events section that you removed. Yes, there is a list of deaths on the right, but it does not contain links to outside news articles. Also note that Yasser Arafat's death is listed in the main section of the page even though he is listed in the deaths section. If you have any comments/questions please reply to my talk page.'' -- J3ff 04:36, 12 Nov 2004 (UTC)


 * I removed the notice of her death, and not Arafat's, because Arafat was a major politician who played an enormous role in his part of the world, and Ms. Chang is a (noted) pop-historian. I thought that the links could be made part of her article, if necessary.


 * In any case, the distinction doesn't matter a great deal to me, and I won't remove the listing again if you put it back. Jxg 04:49, 12 Nov 2004 (UTC)

U.S. embargo against Cuba
You voted for U.S. embargo against Cuba, this week's Collaboration of the week. Please come and help it become a featured-standard article.

re Category:Asian Americans
I put this in Category:American people by national origin because of its by-nationality subcategories. I did think about moving Category:African Americans, but I don't think African American is (at this point) nationality based. I understand the parallelism between Asian Americans and African Americans, but I think there's a stronger tie with specific county of origin for Asians. We could keep category:Asian Americans under category:American people and add the by-nationality subcategories to Category:American people by national origin, but having them both there and in category:Asian Americans seems a little weird.
 * Forgot to sign. -- Rick Block 01:48, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Hi Jeff - I copied our discussion to Category talk:Asian Americans. I really do appreciate your perspective on this and hope I'm not coming across as arguing with you.  How about if we see if anyone else comments on the category talk page?  BTW - what do you think about dual parenting the subcategories? -- Rick Block 03:31, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Reason
I apologise, But she is born in Hong Kong and NOT an American-born Chinese. According to the Bruce Lee article, he was the reverse, and he was considered Chinese American because of this. Coco, on the other hand, went to settle in America at ten and had at the most, a status of a Permant Resident and therefore cannot be considered as Chinese American, likewise Zhang Ziyi and Jackie Chan, they are not. I will have to remove her. I apologise if this provoked you, but if you have any enquires, you ay write it in my discussion page. Thanks, User:Chan Han Xiang

Category
Jeff, you were quite right to remove the Chinese Americans category from The Joy Luck Club article. I found it with the misslinked Asian American category, but really it really should be under some literature category instead. Thanks for the cleanup. Willmcw 05:34, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Partition of India
You voted for Partition of India, this week's Collaboration of the week. Please come and help it become a featured-standard article.

WikiProject Models still active?
I've moved WikiProject Models to the Inactive section of the WikiProject page, as it hasn't been edited since Nov 1st; I wanted to let you know, and ask if you're still working on it. If so, feel free to move it back up into the active section. JesseW 07:39, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Collaboration of the Week
Your vote for African art has helped bring about the article's selection as this week's Collaboration of the week. Please join in trying to make the article a feature.

Presidential Purple
Hey, I suggested a purple map for the presidential election and it was replaced by superior maps. I was just wondering how I can efficiently figure out when it was deleted from the article? This is more about learning the Wiki interface than anything. :'D --RoyBoy 04:14, 10 Dec 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)

Collaboration of the week
Congratulations, the candidate you voted for, Underground Railroad, is this week's Collaboration of the Week. Please help edit the article to bring it up to feature standard.

Re: Import Scene
Sorry, I'm not at all familiar with this topic. Good luck with it, though. – Minh Nguy&#7877;n (talk, blog) 03:13, 13 Dec 2004 (UTC)

COTW
Congratulations, First Indochina War has been voted this week's Collaboration of the week. Please edit it to help raise it to featured article status.

Chuan Leekpai
On what basis do you term Chuan Leekpai Overseas Chinese? Please see the Talk page. Jpatokal 08:34, 31 Jan 2005 (UTC)

related topics
thanks for pointing out the connections. i think i made the edit because the articles were linked from another broader article... --Rj 16:57, Feb 3, 2005 (UTC)

Thank you
I logged on tonight to do my part helping with houskeeping here. I saw your username all over the place, and I've noticed it before. I just wanted to say "thank you" for the RC/NP Patrol work you're doing. It is much appreciated. SWAdair | Talk 07:07, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Spanish translation
No idea of the current level of interest. I'll still participate, but after a couple where I did about 90% of the work, I decided to back off, and no one else came in to fill the gap... -- 05:36, Feb 21, 2005 (UTC)
 * I'd look at Translators available and the corresponding page on meta. -- Jmabel | Talk 05:46, Feb 21, 2005 (UTC)

Yes, this would be a good project to revive. Someone invited me to participate a few months ago, but I forgot about it. I don't know if I'll be able to help with it every week, but I probably will most weeks. I am a bit confused by the page about the Spanish Translation of the Week, however, as it says that Football War is the article for the week, but it has had a good English article for a long time. I haven't read the entire Spanish article, so I don't know how much better it is, but the English article is definitely not a stub. Academic Challenger 06:24, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)


 * Regarding your note on my user page, I'd be happy to help. Unfortunately, it seems like I'm one of the least able spanish translators, but if you have something, I'll put what effort I can into it. --Improv 22:31, 22 Feb 2005 (UTC)


 * I'd also like to help. A little info on how the Spanish Translation of the Week exactly works would be appreciated, thanks. Tycho 23:11, 22 Feb 2005 (UTC)


 * I'll help out too, when I have a bit of spare time. Recently I've been working 2 jobs and with 2 young kids in the house my time online can be limited!Doovinator 02:21, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)


 * I got your message on my user page and I'll be glad to help when I find the time. One of the things that really bothers me at the wikimedia proyects is how hard it seems to communicate and coordinate things.  I think I'm missing out on something, but whenever I come here I feel sort of alone... Please let me know how I can help.--200.107.170.191 17:13, 26 Mar 2005 (UTC)


 * Since you were the original requester for Ellison Onizuka, I want to tell you that I have brought the bulk of the Spanish article's content over. -- RandyUang 8 July 2005 09:58 (UTC)

Spanish Translation and WikiUser
I noticed you note at user talk:WikiUser regarding that users involvement/interest in Spanish Translation of the Week. For your information he has not edited recently and I doubt will be doing so in the near future, pending the arbitration against him. Just thought I'd let you know so you're not waiting for a response. violet/riga (t) 09:44, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)

What's wrong?
What a manner, could you plaese drop me a note what is wrong with Nikola Moravcevic article? Ninam 06:28, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Spanish
I'm interested in helping out in the Spanish Translation of the Week project. I'll get up to speed with it ASAP. Cheers |Hauser 23:42 NZEST 25 Feb

Archiving current events et al.
I've now correctly archived Current events and British and Irish current events. In future, please do not merely copy-and-paste to archive, but read the clearly labelled archival instructions, as the way I had to carry this out sadly differed somewhat from the correct way due to how things had been changed by subsequent edits.

Yours,

James F. (talk) 04:15, 2 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads-up
I visited the page where the complaint against my user page was lodged. The poster is an idiotic troll. I've never written such things anywhere -- not on Wikipedia and certainly not on my user page. Made a post refuting the garbage. Aside from attracting a vandal or two to my page, that should end it. Thanks again. Peace 2 u. deeceevoice 03:44, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Current events
Please stop deleting every single US related article off the Current Events page. The US is part of the world, and at least SOME of the things there are world-related, and at least as important in world affairs as the banning of smoking in Bangladesh. The MS-13 article, in particular, was world-related, in that the members of the gang come from Central America and much of the income of their countries comes from money sent back home by the gang members. Just because something is about the US doesn't mean it should come off the Current Events page. RickK 21:58, Mar 15, 2005 (UTC)

The gang members were apprehended by US authorities on US soil.. So what? They're not US citizens nor even in the US legally. The repercussions are sure to resonate in El Salvador, at least. And as I indicated, just because it's in the US doesn't mean it isn't worth putting on Current Events. Your personal opinion that nothing that happens in the US is worth having on the Current Events page does not meet consensus. RickK 22:55, Mar 15, 2005 (UTC)

Spanish to English Translation
Hello, uve sent me a message some time ago asking me if i could translate some articles, i sure can, just let me know what u need. Maberk Ok, i'll work on it Maberk

Spanish to English Translation
Hello. I just noticed that you left a message about Spanish to English translations. Yes, it took me a month to notice it, apologies. Anyway, I'm still available. Just let me know what you want me to check out and I'll help. David Silva 05:08, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Origin of the name California
Wow. I think I'm going to have to retranslate the entirety of the text that is written in ancient Spanish. I take it you're not a native Spanish speaker? I noticed that there were quite a few things that were mistranslated; you wrote things that, though could be considered correct, are not perfect or appropiate.

Yes, I am very picky with these things. Don't take it the wrong way.

I will likely go through all of these from start to finish over the next few days, correcting those small mistakes.

David Silva 01:07, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Oh yeah - I have one request. Lay out the steps for me to start translating articles from one language to another (as in quotation styles and such) and I'll keep doing it on my own. There's tons of stuff that needs to be adapted from En.wikipedia to ES.wikipedia and I'm up for it. David Silva 13:55, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Model minority

 * I'd like to say good job for the changes you've made to this article. Your edits have greatly improved it. &mdash; J3ff 02:50, 24 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the support. I hope the article will continue to improve.--Nectarflowed (talk) 09:33, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Yellow Peril link in Asian American
Hello Jeff! You just reinserted the link that i had deleted from Asian American. My intention was not to gloss over this ugly part of history, but rather to put it in the correct context. There are many aspects of Asian-American history, and i believe it is better to group them together than to pick the one of them that is an ethnic slur to represent all of Asian-American history in that section. The article was already in Category:Chinese American history and i added it to Category:Japanese American history, which both can be found via the new Category:Asian-American-related topics. It felt a bit odd to assign it to these two particular groups - as if other groups were not harrased. Maybe we should create a Category:Asian American history and link to it directly from Asian American – that would remove one mouseclick on the way to the Yellow Peril article. What do you think? 19:48, 2005 Apr 23 (UTC)

I copied our conversation to Talk:Asian_American and replied there. Pls feel free to delete it here. 20:32, 2005 Apr 23 (UTC)

Category:Asian-American-related topics
Thanks for catching my mistake! I wasn't aware of this. I think a note on this should possibly be included in the Asian American article itself. I've put the page on Requested moves, suggesting it be a 'speedy' move, instead of needing to go through the voting proccess. --Nectarflowed (talk) 21:25, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * I propose we move this category to Category:Asian American-related topics, removing the hyphen between Asian and American. Using a hyphen emphasizes duality and should be used to describe things such as foreign relations between two nations, for example, Japanese-American relations.  When describing people we should not use a hyphen.  "Asian" is an adjective describing the American.  Using the hyphen is a bad representation because it creates the notion of a hybrid.  What do you think?  &mdash; J3ff 03:07, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Regarding Naruto.no
I added it because I saw other Naruto sites doing the same, but it seems they have been deleted. :) So it's cool. ;)

George Takei, Bechtel, Wenner, etc
HI, could you please modify your entries?

George Takei actually transferred to UCLA, and graduated with a bachelor's degree and master's degree (see ).

Likewise, Stephen D. Bechtel only spent one year in college. Jann Wenner dropped out (I could not find out when) and started Rolling Stone in the year he was scheduled to graduate. Also Adam Duritz didn't finish his degree either.

If there is some way to indicate this information on the entries, or remove them, please do so. Thanks. 4.228.213.88 02:24, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Also please double-check on Pauline Esther Friedman. The year provided is the class year had she actually graduated; I'm not sure she did.  Thanks 4.228.213.88 02:25, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanx for making the changes! 4.228.213.88 02:53, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

lots of edits, not an admin
Hi - I made a list of users who've been around long enough to have made lots of edits but aren't admins. If you're at all interested in becoming an admin, can you please add an '*' immediately before your name in this list? I've suggested folks nominating someone might want to puruse this list, although there is certainly no guarantee anyone will ever look at it. Thanks. -- Rick Block (talk) 22:52, Jun 16, 2005 (UTC)

SPATRA
Hi. While spreading voter templates for the Spanish Translation which seems to be dying, I noticed you are trying to revive it. I rolled over to the next topic and started spreading the voter-template. I could not find one, so I created one. Here it is:--Fenice 10:53, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Interested in an L.A.-area Wiki meetup?
It's official! The first-ever L.A. Wiki Meetup will be occuring on July 25th, 2005. Are you coming? Would you like to help host? More details on the Meetup page. Be sure to check back regularly for updates! - Eric 3 July 2005 10:54 (UTC)

No need for racial bias, J3ff
The Jewish article which you insist on keeping is complete nonsense and lies, it is incredibly racially bias and has no palce on this site or any other place.

Spanish translation
Can you take over the Spanish COTW? Someone involved me in an edit-war again and I am leaving. Best wishes, --Fenice 21:44, 17 July 2005 (UTC)