User talk:JohnOwens/2003 April

John, why do you keep making those 1 E{n} J articles? Most of them are pointless and have no content. LittleDan


 * They are templates LittleDan. Just like the many hundreds of content-free year templates. --mav

Hey John! I see you do a lot of weeding around here. This would be much easier for you if you became a Administrator. All you have to do is to post your interest on WikiEN-l. --mav

Hi John. Thanks for sorting out the diagram in my sand box. I realised that I had left the extension off as soon as the page loaded but I had such trouble trying to connect I just gave up. Theresa knott 21:44 Apr 2, 2003 (UTC)

Re: Kapok. The reason I left out the South American origin is that it may be wrong. Some sources say Africa or India or Asia, until I felt certain it seemed better to leave it out. 62.253.64.7, April 4

Hi John. Adding bilby pic now. User:sheepbaa 10:26 Apr 5, 2003

Thanks. sheep

John, yes, absolutely. It would be less painful if I had any interest or knowledge about the Cleopatras. -- Someone else 01:31 Apr 5, 2003 (UTC)


 * A noble effort, John, but it seems that now the malfeasant has assumed the identify of User:Alicef2t2004 for inserting his fictional characters into history! -- Someone else 19:36 Apr 6, 2003 (UTC)

Hi John, Thanks for your additions and comments. I'm new to this game but learning quickly. I felt that if I made the required changes to my personal page, I could delete the recommended deletions entry accordingly :-( ? But the only way to learn is to watch others more skilled at this! I'm finding Wikipedia very addictive! Is there a detox program available??! ;-) --- hallo John, thank you for spelling - I am from Germany uwe--

Hi John, maybe you could check out the new user George Washington. He seems to be Weezer who was Michael and spent ages vandalising sites. He moved weezer stuff to the GW user page. He also has put some text about the real George Washington on the user page, with add-ins about Washington's sex life (this time about his penis turning green). Michael spent some time and a lot of effort trying to add in references to oral sex to the main page. If it is Michael/Weezer, they both were banned (and indeed threatened with law under using the name of a real band and purporting to be them). The new George Washington needs to be kept a close eye on. If he so much as starts adding in yet more ficticious entries about bands, he should be immediately banned. The fact that he as assumed the name George Washington and added in more stuff about Washington and his sex life suggests it is Michael and he hasn't changed and intends to behave as before. Congrats, BTW, on the new status. STÓD/ÉÍRE 22:38 Apr 7, 2003 (UTC)

I guess I have a knack for subtle edits :). Just a quick question, do you delete newb tests right away (unless you know enough for a stub) or do you wait a while? That's what I do, but you've been cleaning up junk pages longer than I have so I'd thought I ask your method. -- Notheruser 23:12 Apr 8, 2003 (UTC)

I recreated platoon mode as a redirect. These articles were probably created because there are external links to these pages, so it makes sense to keep them as redirects. See also the history of the article future of the car. Martin

Yes, I took some spaces out from the beginning of paragraphs (at Laurent) - I've not heard of them causing problems here at the Wikipedia before, but apparently pre tags (which is what spaces at the beginning of a line are turned into I think) cause all manner of problems in various browsers. --Camembert

Hello John, about the issue regarding the pic: When do you suppose the voting will end Please notify me

Hey, that's what I'm here for. I don't think I've seriously contributed to any articles for a couple weeks now, except for List of famous elephants, which is hardly something to brag about. Fixing vandalism and catching the various errors made by new users seems to be a never-ending task. :) -- goatasaur

Heh heh. if you look at the line above where Kingturtle writes about Black Widow he. . . em. . . expresses what he thinks of 'her' by where he links all of the words in the line about her to. Take a look. STÓD/ÉÍRE 06:11 Apr 15, 2003 (UTC)

If Wikipedia upholds the principle of neutral point of view, why do you censor the internationalist perspective on human rights violations in Iraq, specifically, by the American-led coalition? Fact is, your "neutral" dictionary is a repository of Western bias and complicity in crimes against humanity, and as I stated in another forum (talk:Human rights violations in Iraq), I'm compiling evidence from the vast stores Wikipedia provides.


 * Anonymous "contributor", see also: Talk:Human rights violations in Iraq and User talk:Zoe


 * I think I'm beginning to second this notion. Check  &
 * ~ender 2003-05-11 21:30 MST


 * You do not understand what I'm saying. As I continue' to say, I have no objection to your putting the information about bombings by Israel in Lebanon in some other' article, but it doesn't belong in the Hezbollah article.  -- Zoe

Thanks for fixing that link in Fort Oswego. Can you tell me why I can't get the Oswego, N Y link right? There is an article but it does not match the link. I've tried two different so far, and it is too late to try again tonight. Thanks again, 'till tomorrow. Lou I 07:26 Apr 15, 2003 (UTC)

Thanks for the picture code you put into Royal Jordanian for me. It nicely fulfils my main criterion, which was that the picture and caption appearance should be completely unchanged. What I didn't gather from the very few replies to my Pump posting is whether I should change the coding from my Table coding to your CSS coding, on all my future picture work. It would be annoying to standardise on your code then find that some Wiki Admin could see an incompatibilty with certain browsers or whatever. Should I change over? I would love to have your further comments. Best Wishes, Adrian. Adrian Pingstone 19:37 Apr 15, 2003 (UTC)

Is making fun of my name something you get off on, or is it just plain ignorance. As a supposed Wikipedia contributor, perhaps you should be more concerned with article titles called Fuck instead of my heritage that I am very proud of despite people like you. Olga Bityerkokoff


 * &#1055;&#1086;&#1095;&#1077;&#1084;&#1091; &#1090;&#1099; &#1085;&#1077; &#1074; &#1042;&#1080;&#1082;&#1080;&#1087;&#1077;&#1076;&#1080;&#1081;, &#1090;&#1086;&#1075;&#1076;&#1072;? -- John Owens

'Olga' just placed a threat on my userpage. I think it is time this troll is banned. ÉÍREman 02:06 Apr 16, 2003 (UTC)

Hi John, yup. OTT means Over The Top!


 * A World War One reference, I believe...

your raver/ravers solution sounds like a good one. thumbs up. Kingturtle 05:52 Apr 17, 2003 (UTC)

Poring over my big 'pedia of world aircraft, I see EC-135C (started as KC-135B), EC-135H, EC-135L as "dual relay station and command post", and EC-135Y all designated as some sort of command post. Given the way they're fiddled with, some of these had to be nearly one-offs, and for some I think it will be a very long time before all the details come out... Stan 06:53 Apr 17, 2003 (UTC)

Re: this page. Yup. Thanks very much. Cyan 18:08 Apr 18, 2003 (UTC)

Hi, John. I didn't see your note on zealots until after I'd done the deed. Hope I didn't step on your toes. Deb 18:57 Apr 21, 2003 (UTC)

Just to beat all you pedants to the punch, yeah, I know, the Web isn't really 10 years old today, it's just the ten year anniversary of the 1.0 release of the first graphical browser. I meant that in sort of a tongue-in-cheek sort of way; in hindsight, I probably should have suffixed it with ";)" rather than ":)". -- John Owens 18:06 Apr 22, 2003 (UTC)

Hi John, you have about 15 seconds to read my answer at budda's place before he deletes it. Ant


 * Too late - you can check my history though... (simple answer is "weed") -º¡º


 * Well, he specifically asked for more than a simple translation...ant


 * yes. Anthère is normally not a human name. However, if you google it, apart from me trusting the place, there is an Anthere Nzabatsinda mentionned. You could always dream it is me, but really it is not.

Hi John, I did a major rewrite of Appeasement. Perhaps you could have a look over it to see what you think. BTW, I just saw on your main page that there is a latin wiki. I burst out laughing. If only I had studied harder at latin in school. I once got 89% in a latin exam and the teacher put on a sour puss and asked "so what went wrong? You'll have to do better to get your exams." And to one classmate who got 94% she scoulded "Paul, it isn't like you to do so badly. What happened?" Needlesstosay, we all dropped out of latin after that!!! ÉÍREman 01:31 Apr 24, 2003 (UTC)

I did state that a lot of the content is salvageable, recommending that it be placed in other articles. I have not looked over your contributions. Sorry for not making the distinction. 172

About 213.122.1.50: it's 1 AM here and I'm getting tired and irritable. Please forgive me if I block him unilaterally or start using bad words on his/her talk page. Better idea: I'll just go to bed and leave it to you. Keep an eye on Bash Street Kids -- I did a revert there, s/he might want to start an edit war. On the other subject: I'm not sure if we have any evil genius positions available right now, but I'll see what I can do. The fact that you're American doesn't count in your favour. Do you work for the CIA? -- Tim Starling 15:01 Apr 24, 2003 (UTC)

My mistake. Good job editing that disaster area. 172

I don't think banning a person twice causes a problem. And I think unbanning once does it. -- Zoe

Oh you'll love this, John. The multiple banned user Adam/Bridget/Lir/Vera Cruz/Susan Mason/Dietary Fiber has returned from the grave to haunt wiki as Shino Baku. Oh lovely! ÉÍREman 06:39 Apr 25, 2003 (UTC)

Sorry if I've leapt in too quickly with Joule's law. You may want to embellish it with references to Joule, and to give the relationship with other concepts, such as the mechanical equivalent of heat etc.

David Martland 20:09 Apr 25, 2003 (UTC)

Thanks for the improvements to Joule's law. As edited it was still misleading, due to the way that math's gets typeset. I've altered it, and arguably improved it (so at least the constant looks like 1 - ONE), but the size of the font used for the units is still too big.

David Martland 09:23 Apr 26, 2003 (UTC)

Thanks. Those weren't me, but thanks for the heads up. Danny

Hi John, Thanks for copyediting the page on Toward the Light - although I'm not really content with the result. I started re-editing, but thought I'd better write to you. Your own remarks to the editing went something like 'need for better words than 'claim', (etc).' Well I agree - the page now signals a sceptical approach to the subject, rather than a more objective (descriptive). In my opinion it's become too biased. A better approach could be to use phrases such as 'according to' perhaps. Do you have any suggestions? Regardes Morten Barfoed

Thanks, John. The keyboard thing really puzzled me, but the 'change' only ever seemed to happen when on wiki, indeed on a certain number of pages on wiki (the talk page of Wilhelm II of Germany for example. I'd be in it, hit a number one and get a + sign. I haven't had it happen off wiki, but maybe the fact that I am almost always wiki means it is just a co-incidence. BTW doing a Rumsfeld is described as having all the subtlety of a brick, doing what you want irrespective of anyone else's views and stubbornly getting your own way. PS: I'm typing to the sound of iTunes playing part of Grieg's Peer Gynt Suite - as the music goes on it gets faster and more rhythmic. And I've just noticed that I was typing to the same rhythm, typing faster and faster as the music sped up. I must remember not to play Grieg while typing - it is too hard on the fingers. (Puccini is playing now and I am typing much m u c h s l o w e r ! ! !) ÉÍREman 14:25 Apr 29, 2003 (UTC)


 * Now I'm going to have to find out if 'la' is really official, or just what they use because it makes sense.

'la' is indeed the official two-letter abbreviation for Latin.