User talk:JimD

Hi JimD, and welcome to Wikipedia!

Since you're no stranger to the wiki phenomenon, I'll dispense with the standard barrage of tutorial links (it's all covered under that welcome link anyway); I'm sure you're already quite at home. :)

Nice work with the playdium and lodgepole pine resurrections! I hope you decide to stay with us for some time to come. Cheers, -- Hadal 04:34, 6 Mar 2004 (UTC)


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Jim, excellent work at the Reference Desk! Thanks for your responses there -- many days there are only a handful of us checking in over there, and we often don't have the expertise necessary, so I'm always glad to see someone new dropping by! Hope you're enjoying it here, and that you stick around, Jwrosenzweig 21:15, 9 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Hi, I've noticed you've made many great contributions, but one thing puzzles me. You've marked the vast majority of your edits as minor (including every single article edit since 4/22), even though a number of them (I haven't done a thorough search, so I don't know how many), are actually fairly substantial, such as Role-playing game and List of idioms in the English language. Both seem quite far from minor as defined at Minor_edit. As a comparison, your Dorothy Parker and Leap year edits are excellent examples of minor edits (helpful improvements without really changing the content). There is, of course a gray area; this edit by another user to Father Damien on it's face isn't minor per the guideline, but, since it is really just clarifying that Hawaii was a kingdom at the time, not yet the state, marking it minor is probably OK, even tho' not everyone would. Anyway, that's my two cents--happy editting. Niteowlneils 19:25, 23 May 2004 (UTC)

DESQview
Hi, as you probably noticed, another user just merged the article you wrote earlier this month, DESQView, with one I wrote last fall, DESQview. I assure you: it happens to us all, and is entirely due to the fact that the Wiki system does not have its own search engine (actually it does, only it has been disabled for ages for performance reasons. I've used it during short periods when it has been available and it makes all the difference.) -- Viajero 09:26, 25 May 2004 (UTC)

Wikicode
I just noticed the WikiCode stuff and really like the idea. I hope to review the dynamically generated list of articles containing wikicode and write python implementations of each of them to post on my sysadmoin Wiki/MoinMoin pages. I'll also scour the rest of Wikipedia to find other articles about algorithms (like the one on the Luhn algorithm that I already modified) and add wikicode examples to each of them.

(I should learn quite a bit from both of these exercises as my core CS background is pretty weak despite my experience in scripting and programming)


 * Pity that this was apparently removed from the Wikipedia standards track and has been relegated to a historical note on Derek Coetzee's talk page.JimD 00:28, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

Linux Kernel event?
Is it on tonight? I haven't seen anything on the mailing lists... -- Prove It (talk) 16:47, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

Your Edit to Duck Typing
It is messy (your edit in the middle of the criticism doesn't 'flow'). Could you tidy it up?

Thanks --Paddy (talk) 14:24, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Pin the Tail on the Donkey
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 * I created it specifically to explain a common cultural reference and the resulting idiom. It's of similar significance to other childhood games such as Tag (game), Kick the Can, Dodgeball and Hide and Seek. Practically every American knows these games and would understand references to them (and many of them date back to England and have their counterparts in other cultures).  Including them in Wikipedia makes these cultural references accessible to a broader audience and encourages comparison to the analogous (sometimes historically related) games from other cultures.  I don't have any strong opinion on whether this article should be deleted, but I do recall looking for similar content (such as the other games I listed) and basing my decision to create it on their existence.  The point is, of course, now moot as the vote as clearly favored keeping it. JimD (talk) 07:17, 29 May 2008 (UTC)


 * The debate was closed as speedy keep. SeinHenker appears to be from Austria, and didn't have the common courtesy to do a simple google search. 75.66.233.162 (talk) 17:17, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

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You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. Wgolf (talk) 00:59, 16 February 2014 (UTC)

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