User talk:JCarriker/Archive4

Please post at the bottom of the page
Jay, you might want to have a look at User:Lysy/History_of_Vilnius and the relevant talk page. I've individually invited a couple of Lithianian people to work there on a side on the "History of Vilnius" subsection, in order to better balance ;-) against the Lithuanian POV. The original Talk:Vilnius seems difficult to handle at the moment with current practice of editing people's comments (at least two of mine got deleted) etc. There's also a separate small discussion that might be helpful at parts at User_talk:Ifdef. Many thanks for your help. Lysy 10:01, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Anonymous editor at Nation of Islam and anti-Semitism
The anonymous editor at Nation of Islam and anti-Semitism is still rather busy, and because he uses several different IP addresses is able to revert at least a dozen times. Currently he's deleting information from various sources, and trying to segregate statements from one leader into a special section (he previously tried to delete this information). Would you mind providing some assistance in bringing NPOV to the article? Thanks. Jayjg (talk) 02:59, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Elagabalus
Hi,

It's been a long time, eh? My activity on Wikipedia has fallen off a bit since starting college. I find myself swamped with other activities and demands. I hope to increase my participation slightly in the future. How has life been for you?

In any case, I've made a few minor changes to the Elagabalus page. Thank you for considering me in the review process. I found the article both interesting and well-written. I wish you luck in getting it featured.

Cheers,

Acegikmo1 06:22, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Hello

I am not a "fundamentalist" Christian, just a Christian. And a fan of Pat Robertson. Thanks for the welcome and encouragement. All good academic work has sources and the lies about Pat have none. They should be removed to keep everyone out of trouble. Wendydrag 04:25, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)


 * I'm not an admin, but yeah, the article should be protected. →  Jarlaxle Artemis   04:38, Apr 16, 2005 (UTC)


 * Sorry, but you protected it after it was POVed again. →  Jarlaxle Artemis   04:43, Apr 16, 2005 (UTC)

Hi Jay, I noticed your changes at Template:Ancient Egypt topics. I'm not sure I'd classify Manetho as a court official; obviously, I'd consider him as a historian. But the template doesn't appear to allow any entries that would describe non-archeological writers about Ancient Egypt. (I'd assume there are a few, but it's too late for me to think of one off hand.) -- llywrch 05:08, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Dear Jay, only now i returned to civilization and saw your request in my talk page. The Elagabalus article looks divine: it reads very well and, as far as my my knowledge goes, its compreensive and all facts are correct. I also liked the way you introduced the transgender topic. I would be willing to support a FAC nomination, but i antecipate the following objections: 1) lead section too short; 2) bad image in the start (unfocussed); 3) Hierocles' link links to another man with this name; 4) more on the circumstances of his assassination. I hope you find this usefull. Cheers, muriel@pt 07:03, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Edits from 222.126
I see you blocked one of these IPs that was vandalizing a lot of color-related articles with movie ads. Did you also block any ranges? Because this user is using a dialup and is vandalizing from quite a range. It looks to me like not all the attacking IPs were blocked, but it's hard to tell because your notice about blocking is stamped in UTC time. --Chinasaur 06:05, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)


 * I did not use a range block because I was only aware of the single IP. Thank you for informing me about the other IPs-- could you also please provide links. Also I'm not quite sure what you mean in your final sentence can you please elaborate. -JCarriker 04:38, Apr 21, 2005 (UTC)

If you look at the history of Color and other color related topics you'll see that this is getting to be a real problem. The offending IPs were all coming from 222.126 (infocom.ph) originally, but now there are some new ones from 202.163 (info.com.ph). This person also has a registered account... Although it looks like the last vandalism was from around the 20th, so maybe he has given up, or you got him? My final sentence above was confusing. What I meant was that I was trying to figure out whether you had blocked the range or just the one IP, so I was wondering whether any edits had happened since you wrote on the user page that you were blocking that IP. If there were more edits from other IPs after your announcement, I would assume you had not noticed the range problem. But I couldn't really tell because the timezone of the newest vandalisms didn't match the timezone of your announcement. --Chinasaur 17:36, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * User talk:Amenophis
 * User talk:222.126.67.204 User talk:222.126.73.78 User talk:222.126.69.52
 * User talk:202.163.247.146

Active outreach to Historically black colleges and universities
I was re-reading your user page and noticed this. When I get out for the summer I'm going to drive around and take some pictures for the pedia. The HBCU Wiley College is on my list, and if you want I can talk to them about some sort of recruitment initiative. I may also visit Grambling depending on my economic situation. -JCarriker 09:27, Apr 24, 2005 (UTC)
 * That would be great! I suspect that HBCUs and African-American studies departments at other North American colleges and universities are our most likely source of people who are really knowledgable about African-American history. And I'd love to see a "critical mass" build up quickly, because there is the inevitable problem of dealing with the bigots, and it sure helps to have them solidly outnumbered. -- Jmabel | Talk 18:02, Apr 24, 2005 (UTC)

Gay icons
I didn't create the gay icons category. User:Bodnotbod did. Either way, I can mediate on discussion about whether so-and-so is or isn't. Let me read over the links and I'll get back to you. Mike H 16:51, Apr 25, 2005 (UTC)

AMA Meeting Proposal
Hi! I put together a proposal for another AMA meeting that I'm hopeful you can chime in on. --Wgfinley 19:59, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)

U.S. West
I don't have time to look into this right now, but isn't one of these a census region? As a legally defined entity, we should have an article on it. If it doesn't cover a culturally and economically coherent area, I'd expect to keep that one down to mostly statistical information, explanation of it not being a culturally and economically coherent area, and pointers out to articles that cover it from a more cultural basis.

If one of the articles has turned into more of a romance than an encyclopedia article, obviously that is a problem in its own right. -- Jmabel | Talk 15:41, Apr 26, 2005 (UTC)


 * I can't even keep up with my Watchlist these days, and this topic isn't a priority for me, so I'm afraid I won't be following up. -- Jmabel | Talk 16:07, Apr 26, 2005 (UTC)


 * I'd have no problem at all with an elected coordinator of the project. Heck, I'd have no problem with an unelected coordinator, as long as they seemed to be a facilitator rather than a dictator. But, again, I am almost entirely a "consumer" of this project, not an active participant. -- Jmabel | Talk 00:01, Apr 27, 2005 (UTC)
 * I had a look at your comments at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_U.S._regions. First impression: lots of misspellings, etc. Do you mind if I copy-edit what you wrote? Also, I can't even parse the following sentence to fix it: "If the article has a proper noun in it, New England it remain unmodified at that designation…", could you please see if you can rewrite that comprehensibly? Thanks. -- Jmabel | Talk 20:50, Apr 29, 2005 (UTC)
 * OK, I took a shot at it; you should re-read to make sure I understood you correctly and haven't cahnged your intended meanings. -- Jmabel | Talk 23:38, Apr 29, 2005 (UTC)

(copied from User talk:Jmabel): I asked you previously to help me merge U.S. West and American West, and in this post I am not asking it again, but rather that you read American West and give me your opinion on my talk page. The article is riddled with POV (especially romanticism), tons of presumably original "adjusted" research, and a rather ardent condescension towards WikiProject U.S. regions policies. The definition, as per states included, is a common one, but the statement that it is more prominent than the Census Bureau region.... I'm going to babble incessantly and waste your time if I continue so, let me cut to the chase in rather uncharacteristic bluntness; I'm too biased to look at this article and merge it without getting a second opinion. I can do the work, but I need help in seeing other vantage points, that I so easily see with other issues. Everyone has faults; this is one of mine. -JCarriker 11:15, May 16, 2005 (UTC)
 * I agree with you on the romanticism. There is enough legend associated with the American West that the article should discuss the making of the legend, but this seems to take the legend as fact.
 * It's also not all that much of an article. So much could be added about the actual history of the region (probably mostly by way of links to other articles).
 * I don't think Americans would have any real agreement on what is meant by "the West". Most of us here on the Pacific Coast do not consider ourselves part of "the West" which, ironically, we use to refer to the states east of us. Which is to say that on a map, I'd show California, Oregon, and Washington in the color indicating states that may or may not be included.
 * As for the remark about the census region: you are right that it seems a bit snide, though not inaccurate. Almost no one other than the government uses the government's definition of "the West". A "West" that doesn't include any of Texas or Oklahoma? I've never heard anyone in colloquial conversation use the term that way. -- Jmabel | Talk 15:30, May 16, 2005 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Regions/General
Hi, I resotred the page, back to the version before you archived it. Some editors seem to have been cleaning up Wikiprojects and you had left the page completely empty, which is why it was tagged for speedy. Appologies for any hastle it may have caused. --nixie 00:39, 1 May 2005 (UTC)

Thanks, JCarriker!
For your vote in my RfA! Wikipedia's latest admin at your humble service, El_C 00:38, 2 May 2005 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for reverting the vandalism to my user page. --Canderson7 21:57, May 4, 2005 (UTC)

Castro
I just got frustrated too. Who does he think he is to call me a cxxx? but have removed it. I have never come across KapilTagore till I received his note, so I assume he must be 64.7.89.54 who was doing large edits like this. I don't object to Castro wealth references so I am not sure what he or she is talking about. Something doesn't smell right here. Last night (when it happened) I thought 64.7.89.54 was probably Trey Stone. Will investigate as time permits, --SqueakBox 17:28, May 5, 2005 (UTC)

was his edit, nothing to do with 64.7.89.54, nor can I see any reference to forbes, nor did I revert what he added, someone else did. just an unpleasant character who can't work the system, I think, --SqueakBox 17:40, May 5, 2005 (UTC)

It was Tony Sidaways who reverted his April 26 edit, which I assume is the one he was on about, though as even here I can see no reference to Forbes I am wondering if he was trolling. As you say, let's wait and see what he does, --SqueakBox 18:04, May 5, 2005 (UTC)

Fidel Castro
Here you go, the 550 million dollar man: http://www.forbes.com/billionaires/2005/03/07/cz_bill05_royalsslide_6.html?thisSpeed=25000 Ta Kapil 00:30, 6 May 2005 (UTC)

More Castro
And no, those edits weren't mine, I'm not a vandal. Kapil 00:32, 6 May 2005 (UTC)

Also, lighten up on the word cunt, it's even a wikipedia article. Kapil 00:34, 6 May 2005 (UTC)

U.S. Regions
It's not that I don't care, it's just (as I say at the top of my user page and my user talk page) right now I have about a third of the time for Wikipedia that I had for a while, and that is going to go down before it goes up. I have 2000 articles on my watchlist; there are days now when I don't even have an hour for Wikipedia; I'm averaging maybe 2-1/2 hours, but, as I say, that will go down before it goes up. This area was never one of my top priorities. I made the few (I hope) useful comments I could contribute in terms of which ideas I thought were headed the right direction, but someone else is going to have to do the heavy lifting. -- Jmabel | Talk 05:20, May 6, 2005 (UTC)
 * As I've said, I think your ideas are reasonable; I've made the few constructive suggestions I had; go for it. -- Jmabel | Talk 06:07, May 6, 2005 (UTC)
 * I see now, you left a note for me on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject U.S. Regions/General. That isn't even on my watchlist! The only reason I ever looked at it was that your note directed me to it. -- Jmabel | Talk 06:20, May 6, 2005 (UTC)


 * A "West" that doesn't include any of Texas or Oklahoma? I've never heard anyone in colloquial conversation use the term that way.
 * I'm not really sure where you get this from. I'd say the western portions of TX & OK certainly should be included. The only way I would say Texas should be excluded was if it could only be shown in one region-- I find its exclusion from the South highly offensive as the South has a history and culture and by removing my homestate it implies, nay states that millions of both white and black Southerns in Texas are not Southern in effect stripping them of their heritage. This engages my surrvival instincts, and only under such circumstances would I respond by excluding Texas from any other region. This is precisely the type of situation that WikiProject U.S. regions tries to prevent.


 * (Where I got it from is that none of Texas or Oklahoma are in the U.S. West census region. But other than that...) Absolutely. In fact, in some places the line is pretty easy to draw: Dallas is in the South and Ft. Worth is in the West, even though the lines are getting blurred now that there is one big Metroplex. But even now, you can tell the difference when you go from one to the other. (Even if they have muddied it with that absurd statue group of cattle being herded through Dealey Plaza.) -- Jmabel | Talk 18:28, May 17, 2005 (UTC)

Succession
Hi! I noticed you added a succession box to a page I was watching. Thanks for doing this, but I just wanted to let you know that there's a template for this now. See Template:Succession_box. -- Chowbok 03:04, May 13, 2005 (UTC)

Looking for help on a major wiki project
Hey :) I was wondering if you'd be interesting in helping out with www.Knowmore.org, a corporation search wiki we're trying to get off the ground. We could DEFINATELY use some people that know how to make a wiki community great & the site is almost a blank slate at this point.  It's been heavily customized and is designed to help responsible consumers enter any product or company name and immediatly find information about that co. (the main focus of the wiki is corporate & political information in a much more specialized way then wikipedia currently offers) Let me know if you're interested!  aim: knowmoreorg or bernard@knowmore.org

Greetings
Hello Jay,

I'm sorry to hear that your home is under threat. I hope that things work out in your favour. Come to Montreal if you need a place to stay. I'm glad to hear that your professor is a McGill graduate. I expected that he/she is a top-notch instructor.

Regarding Wikipedia, I'm quite fond of your Image:Piney Woods 1.jpg. It makes me want to visit. I'm afraid I don't think I can make a commitment to either the wikiproject or an administrator nomination. I'm currently enrolled in two history classes (Russian History 1800-Present - very interesting, and Canadian History 1867-Present - not as bad as I expected) and will be in other classes for the next two months. Incidentially, I apologise for not replying sooner. I hope to continue to contribute to wikipedia, but I don't feel my schedule allows me to commit to anything right now.

I hope you are enjoying the late spring weather. It's beautiful in Montreal.

Cheers,

Acegikmo1 01:42, 19 May 2005 (UTC)

Oven Fresh
Hi Jay: You just posted a Support vote at Requests for adminship/Oven Fresh in the Oppose section. I would fix it but I recognise that it is just possible that you meant to oppose. --Theo (Talk) 10:04, 21 May 2005 (UTC)

Ancient Egypt
Thank you for the invitation. Weirdly, given my interests in archaeology and Egypt, I know nothing useful about Ancient Egypt so I would be of little help. On my visits to the country I got to see no museums and no ancient sites! --Theo (Talk) 12:26, 21 May 2005 (UTC)