User talk:JCarriker/Archive2



JCarriker Archive III
This archive is poorly organized, it is on my to do list but not a priority so until then-- my apolgies. This archive contains portions of my correspondence with with various users. Each archive has 20 headings including my archive heading, so each archive will ultimately have 19 headings of conversation.

WikiProject:Texas
The non-existence of History of Texas is very disturbing. If any state deserves its own article about its history, it's Texas. I'm going to have a bit of a full plate with other projects (Wikipedia and otherwise), but I'd be interested in keeping an eye on it. I have access to the library at Lamar University, so I can at least do some fact checking on request.

We're going to have a tough time beating out the Handbook of Texas for the title of "Best online Texas resource". If only that thing was public domain, a zillion Rambot stubs could go to full articles in an instant. -- Cyrius|&#9998; 04:20, 15 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Thank you
Thank you for sticking up for me on Votes for deletion/Michael Moore Hates America and Wikipedia talk:Requests for adminship. Taco Deposit 12:15, Aug 17, 2004 (UTC)
 * Your welcome. You should consider adding some info about yourself on your user page. It would show that you are committed to staying at wikipedia, and make it harder for the sockpuppet allegation to stick. -JCarriker 12:24, Aug 17, 2004 (UTC)

Re user Woolysock
I don't think I'd worry too much at this point about that one, it may very well be a one-trick pony WRT that article on VfD. - Hephaestos|&#167; 13:29, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC)

accidental deletion
Yes, it was accidental. Although I did mean to delete the posted count for lack of importance (for it is not that small a number of edits, and the user has been here a little while) and because those things unnecessarily clutter the page, which might not be appropriate. - Centrx 22:54, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Deleteing othe Users' Posts
Please do not delete other users' comments from pages as you did at Cleanup. It is a strong violation of wikipedia policy. Please see: Wikiquette and Wikilove. I have put back the comments that you deleted. If your disagree with the points made by other users, engage their points with your own. Deleting others comments is considered vandalism and if you continue to do it you will be banned. -JCarriker 07:10, Aug 18, 2004 (UTC)


 * Perhaps someone needs to improve the cleanup instructions.


 * Even after reading, again, ALL the instructions for cleanup, I cannot figure out any other meaning or intention for the following instructions that appear on every page that has the cleanup marker, than deleting the listing on the cleanup page after it's reasonably cleaned up. It does NOT say "remove only your own listing" or anything of the sort.  Maybe it should?  Maybe it shouldn't say anything about removing the notice on the cleanup page?  Maybe instead of "remove" it should say something else, like make a comment on the cleanup page saying that you have cleaned it up?


 * At any rate, it appears to me that the cleanup instructions need to be cleaned up themselves . ..


 * Quoting from the cleanup page notice:


 * This article needs cleanup. Please add this article to the cleanup page (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Wikipedia:Cleanup&action=edit&section=3) and improve it in any way that you see fit. Remove this notice and the listing on the cleanup page after the article has been cleaned up.


 * Bhugh 15:33, 18 Aug 2004 (UTC)

BTW, I'm with Bhugh on the matter above. Similar policy applies on Pages needing translation into English. -- Jmabel 17:25, Aug 19, 2004 (UTC)

Pat Robertson
I agree with you on the Pat Robertson article. I made a few improvements and I've asked a few questions on the discussion page.

It's a tough one, though. For the most part, everything there belongs in the article; it's just that it lacks any balancing favorable content. That is probably going to have to be written by someone who knows as much about him as those who wrote the current article, and that's not me. If I cared about Mr. Robertson's reputation, I'd research it and try to remedy this (as I have in other similar circumstances) but, frankly, I'd never forgive myself for spending 20-30 hours trying to find nice, or even neutral, things to say about Pat Robertson. -- Jmabel 17:23, Aug 19, 2004 (UTC)

Nacho King!
I think you did a fine job in bringing this article up to Wikipedia standards. I made one edit of minor formatting changes and voted to keep the article. There seems not to be consensus for deletion, so my guess is that the aritcle will be kept.

I plan to archive my talk page at the end of 2004. I plan to archive all pre-2005 on my user page at User:Acegikmo/2004 old talk at User_talk:Acegikmo1/2004. I'm too lazy to make archives periodically based on size. :-)

Acegikmo1 06:10, 14 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Admin nomination
G'day mate, thanks for your support for my nomination for admin! - Ta bu shi da yu 03:23, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC)

I emailed to you the picture from the protest at the convention of the AAP (American Association of Pædiatrics) at the Mascone Center in San Francisco, California from 2004-10-09 to 2004-10-13 for protecting children from nontherapeutic medically unnecessary sexual mutilation. International Coalition for Genital Integrity is the umbrella organization with Bay Area NOCIRC Group-list speaking for the boys and Intersex Society of North America. None spoke for girls because gender-feminists refuse to work with any other kind of human.

&#364;alabio 04:42, 2004 Oct 19 (UTC)

Thanks for the welcome and the nice comments, but it looks like somebody deleted that whole paragraph in the Texas article. Oh well. It seems that a lot of that article is biased anyway (somebody even wrote that Texas's economy does well beacuase the people in Texas are friendly!) BSveen 22:47, Oct 20, 2004 (UTC)

I made the changes you suggested to my pages. I called the archive user talk:Walabio/Archive 00. I figure that by the time I reach user talk:Walabio/Archive ff, I shall be dead. It took me two days to do this because WikiMedia.Org and its sits were slow yesterday. I did manage to leave a note for Eloquence. I current compose a response to Eloquence. Please feel free to chime in.

This might interest you:

I forgot to mention this but that in San Francisco I met a Texan Pædiatrician. We had a nice conversation about medical ethics. In Medical School, none ever taught her that her first responsibility is to the patient '''  --  not the parent. ''' In medical school, none ever taught that the præpuce is nonretractable at birth. This is like veterinarians not learning that puppies and kittens cannot open their eyes at birth. As a result, she needlessly circumcised her first son. She learned the truth, and her second son is intact.

We talked about a strange demographic shift which took place in the South in the 1960s:

Until the 1960s, the light-skinned Southerners were all negative-circumcisiotaxic Democrats. In the 1960s, the light-skinned Southerners became positive-circumcisotaxic Republicans.

&#364;alabio 09:36, 2004 Oct 21 (UTC)


 * I donated blood. I Eloquence will have to wait until the weekend because I am too woozy.


 * Post Scriptum:


 * The last paragraph of my last message looks political. It is a demographic observation I discussed with the Texan Pædiatrician.  I am an independent.  It is a strange development.  I hoped she could shed light.  She could not.  The most politically loyal procircumcision group in the country are Democratic Northeastern Jews.


 * I need to rest.


 * With Intactivistic WikiLove,
 * &#364;alabio 04:33, 2004 Oct 22 (UTC)

Grunt
Thanks for the update on your efforts to reach Grunt. Perhaps one day he will have the introspection to realize that attitudes have consequences. I think we tried to reach him in multiple ways, but he just reinforced his position. Ah, well. -- Cecropia | explains it all ® 01:37, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC)

I too was watching with interest for Grunt's reply to your concerns. As you may have noted, I had written about similar concerns elsewhere on his talk page. He did not respond and, in accordance with my principle of putting the best construction on everything, I concluded that he had not seen my words. With your concerted attempt to draw his attention to the matter, this conclusion must be mistaken. While there is a time to simply ignore criticism, I feel that in Grunt's case this is a continuation of a pattern I've seen with his earlier edits, that he is too quick to just drop matters and move on without first making a genuine attempt at agreement. uc 15:20, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC)

WikiProject Ancient Egypt Update
Per our discussion a month ago, I've put together a list of rulers & dates as a talking point for our proposed standard. Please take a look at WikiProject Ancient Egypt/Temp, & join the discussion on the talk page. -- llywrch 23:40, 23 Oct 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)

RFC pages on VfD
Should RFC pages be placed on VfD to be deleted? I'm considering removing Requests for comment/Slrubenstein, Requests for comment/Jwrosenzweig and Requests for comment/John Kenney from WP:VFD. Each of them was listed by CheeseDreams. Your comments on whether I should do this would be appreciated. - Ta bu shi da yu 03:50, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Call for AMA election
AMA Member Advocate,

There's a poll currently in the AMA Homepage about making a new AMA Coordinator election. Please, cast your vote there (though it's not mandatory). Any comments you have about this, write it on the AMA Homepage talk page. Cheers, --Neigel von Teighen 18:43, 4 Jan 2005 (UTC)

AMA Membership Meeting
As AMA Coordinator I am requesting that suggestions be placed on AMA Membership Meeting plans for our first membership meeting, to be held in the near future, (hopefully before any election occurs.) Since we have never had any kind of "official" meeting we need to discuss how this will occur (i.e. Wiki pages or IRC channel), how it will be structured (i.e. meeting agenda) and if there will be any "chair" to supervise the meeting and meeting "secretary" to write up minutes or keep some kind of official record of what transpires. Thanks in advance for your input and your continued work as an advocate. &#8212; &copy;   Alex756   19:44, 5 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Request for advocacy
I submitted a request for advocacy to you directly but was unable to re-login to my username. The username would have been 'whitehorse' (or whitehorse67). My apologies for the inconvenience if you'd received it and tried to reply. I had to resort to setting up this new account as I couldn't log in. My username is this one - whitehorse1. The request was sent by email (via Wikipedia). Could you confirm if you received my email; if not I can retype+resend? -- whitehorse1 22:11, 10 January 2004 (UTC)

Image:Nzinga.jpg
Hi! Thanks for uploading Image:Nzinga.jpg. I notice it currently doesn't have an image copyright tag. Could you add one to let us know its copyright status? (You can use if you release it under the GFDL, or  if you claim fair use, etc.) If you don't know what any of this means, just let me know where you got the images and I'll tag them for you. Thanks so much, – Quadell (talk) (help) 21:18, Jan 11, 2005 (UTC)

Image:Old Courthouse Marshall TX.jpg
Could you please also add an appropriate copyright tag to Image:Old Courthouse Marshall TX.jpg? Thanks! Kbh3rd 02:34, 13 Jan 2005 (UTC)

OFFICIAL AMA MEETING NOTICE
The first AMA Membership meeting will be held on Sunday January 23, 2005 at 19:00 UTC on freenode IRC channel #AMA. That is 2 PM Eastern NA Time, 11 AM Pacific NA Time, and 8 PM Central European (Amsterdam/Stokholm/Warsaw/Venice) Time. All members are invited to attend. &#8212; &copy;   Alex756   19:44, 16 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Logs of first AMA Membership meeting
You may view the log of the first meeting on the following two pages: AMA IRC Meeting log (1-23-05) (first hour) and AMA IRC Meeting log (1-23-05) Pt II (remainder of meeting). If you are interested in commenting on the agenda of the meeting please do so here:AMA Meeting (suggested topics).