User talk:John Carter/Archive Sep 2007

Being away
I'm sorry I've been away for so long, but I really don't have time to contribute significantly to Wikipedia at the moment. At work several large projects have been started in which I'm involved, and in real life I've got a new girl friend, and I'm sure you'll understand she's very important for me. I do try to check my talk page once in a while. Thanks for your concern! Er rab ee 07:23, 27 July 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject James Bond
 SpecialWindler   talk  01:15, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

NIV
Why can't we get permission to type the entire NIV on Wikisource, so long as they were involved in the copying, perhaps? Thanks for your interest. Laleenatalk to me contributions to Wikipedia 19:46, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

I don't quite get it, but I think that would be acceptable. Laleenatalk to me contributions to Wikipedia 20:36, 28 July 2007 (UTC)


 * Sorry to butt in here. No, that would not be a possibility.  The NIV is copyrighted by the International Bible Society.  To give us permission to put the translation on wikisource would be to release the translation under the GNU Free Documentation License, essentially allowing anyone to print and distribute the NIV - and keeping there from being any profit on it.  All modern translations are copyrighted -- it is the way that the organizations who fund them are able to continue to employ translators and publish books.  What we can do is use the bibleverse, which links to a variety of translations online; thus .  That is my prefered method of linking to verses of the Bible, because it provides the reader the broadest range of translations (including copyrighted translations).  Pastordavid 20:45, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
 * I had a feeling something like that would probably be the case. I'm relaying the info to Laleena now. Thanks for the information. John Carter 20:47, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Thank you, all. Laleenatalk to me contributions to Wikipedia 20:53, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

Welcome to WikiProject Catholicism!
Hello,, and welcome to Wikiproject Catholicism! Thank you for your generous offer to help contribute. I'm sure your input will be much appreciated. I hope you enjoy contributing here and being a Catholic Project Wikipedian! If you have any questions, feel free to discuss anything on the project talk page, or to leave a message on my own talk page. Please remember to sign all your comments, and be bold with your edits. Again, welcome, and happy editing! --Thw1309 20:45, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

Talk:Orthodox Church in Italy
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Psalm 83:18
No, your solution was fine, mooted the AfD and was a good solution. The only pointer is that when you do that sort of thing it might be a good idea to either suggest it first in the AfD. At minimum it would have been good to note what you had done on the AfD page. But in any case, that was a fine solution. JoshuaZ 01:01, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

User talk:Tobias Conradi
"tenacious"? Are you sure you maybe didn't mean "tendentious" or something else? In any event, I would like to say thank you for having sent as pleasant a discharge letter to the above user as is possible under the circumstances. John Carter 15:02, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Aw geez, you're right, I'll fix the word. Thanks! - C HAIRBOY  (☎) 15:47, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for making me sound smarter.
Hey, thanks for editing what I said on the Superman Page, you made me sound 100 times smarter, lol.Phoenix741 00:23, 31 July 2007 (UTC)

Debate on the correct adjective for Kosovo
Hi! Based on your interest in the Balkans, you may be interested in the currently ongoing debate on whether we should be using Kosovo or Kosovar/Kosovan as the adjective for Kosovo. — Nightstallion 15:13, 31 July 2007 (UTC)

Terry
Thanks! That's uncommonly kind of you, sir. --Dweller 15:18, 31 July 2007 (UTC)

Anglicanism importance
Thank you for tracking down more articles for the project! As you tag them, why not slap an importance rate on each? It will help us plan our priorities. Again, thank you. -- SECisek 15:55, 31 July 2007 (UTC)


 * Great, most are probably low/mid at this point, but you never know. -- SECisek 16:46, 31 July 2007 (UTC)

Close up photo
During Zhou Tong (archer)'s stint as the featured article, a discussion arose over the poor quality of the lead photo. Since you were one of the editors who did not like the old photo, I have just now replaced it with a line drawing from his biographical comic book. Someone had previously changed the photo, but it was too blurry and was no better than the original. Tell me what you think of the change. Is it a proper lead photo or should I try to find or possibly draw another? --Ghostexorcist 03:31, 1 August 2007 (UTC)


 * The picture from the link you provided is not the specific Zhou Tong in question. You are confusing him with Zhou Tong (Water Margin). --Ghostexorcist 15:55, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

Thank you
Helpful. --Dweller 16:48, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

Dunstan
Can I trouble you to review Dunstan. Do you think it is FA? GA? A? Still B? Thank you in advance. -- SECisek 16:11, 2 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Great suggestions. I will attempt to act on them. -- SECisek 16:23, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

Jainism_and_non-creationism
Hi, Thanks for your contribution to Project Jainism. Please discuss on What basis you have rated the article as Start Class article. I believe that it should be rated atleast "GA" or "B" class and has a potential to be FA with some corrections. Your failure to respond will result in changing it to GA class. I am also copying it in talk pages of Jainism_and_non-creationism for records. Please discuss the same for Nathuram_Premi--Anish Shah 06:33, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

photographs for saints?
Hi there -- I noticed that you have added requests for photographs of a great number of Catholic (and other) saints. That's sort of puzzling because many of these people died hundreds or thousands of years ago, before the advent of any kind of photography, and in some cases may never have existed at all. So I'm not sure what anyone can do to fulfill those requests. Can you elaborate a little bit on what kind of photographs you were hoping to turn up? Thanks! -- Tim Pierce 03:27, 6 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Thanks for your feedback. Category:Wikipedia requested photographs of people is bursting at the seams, with literally thousands of requests.  A large number of these are articles for saints, and since the probability of anyone being able to find photographs of some of these seems vanishingly small I'm wondering if it makes sense to have them there at all. :-)  Maybe these pages could be changed to  to put them into a Category:Wikipedia requested photographs of saints category?  Or  to emphasize that any kind of image would help? -- Tim Pierce 05:08, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

Thanks!
I appreciate any help that you can give me on this page. There are several individuals who beleive that Morgellons is Delusional Parasitosis (DOP) despite quite a bit of evidence that it is not. All references that support their POV are overemphasized, place up front, elaborated upon. Any reference that do not support their POV are hit with weasel words, cherry picked, etc. I have been personally attacked many times, blocked, etc. My daughter has this disease and is very ill, so I am very concerned about how the disease is portrayed in wiki, since it makes it harder for us to get funding, congressional support, and scientists if the article is so biased. All I want is an article that says Morgellons is currently not recognized, sufferers report these symptoms and it is being investigated by the CDC. Something very neutral. Something that won't be damaging to sick children. There are several dermatologists who have been vocal that they think that the disease is delusional, but this is not the overwhelming majority opinion as they would lead you to believe. All new diseases have initially been dismissed as delusional -- lyme, AIDS, lupus, the fact that the doctors don't believe it shouldn't be overemphasized over and over again. I volunteer for the MRF -- they tried to have be blocked for this reason.

I appreciate your help. If you could help me make this article more neutral, it would be great. Pez1103 15:13, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

Project tags
Warlord, my friend--you are in danger of becoming a Wikipedia stereotype: the editor who races around slapping project tags on pages he doesn't really understand. Take a deep breath, slow down a bit, God loves you, you have plenty of time. Thanks for your work. --Anthon.Eff 02:17, 3 August 2007 (UTC)


 * You brought some very needed articles to our project's attention, so keep going at it where your efforts are recognized. -- SECisek 03:26, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your response. You taught me something I didn't know. But I still have a question lurking in the back of my mind (which you need not trouble yourself to answer, unless you find it gratifying): What good do projects do? What's the point of all this tagging and rating? Do better editors show up? I can tell you that in the articles related to Spiritualism, nothing good has ever come from a project tag (and Spiritualism now has four project tags)--no new editors start contributing to the article, there is simply no mass of knowledgeable people lurking behind the initial tagger, waiting to be shown articles that need some attention. The tagger shows up, places the tag, makes a presumptuous rating, and leaves. That's it. Wikipedia doesn't need projects; it needs people willing to write articles. So why expend your time and intelligence on a project? --Anthon.Eff 03:28, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

Morgellons RfC
Hi - Thanks for your note - I replied on my talk page. Usually I wouldn't notify of every reply, but since it's our first communication, I thought it might be a good idea. --Parsifal Hello 01:17, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

Hello again -- it got late tonight and I didn't have a chance to get back to you about the RFC. In the meantime, Durova set full protection on the article until August 18, so the urgency for the RFC is less.

An RFC is needed, but the article protection allows time to organize it so visiting editors won't get overwhelmed by the emotional POV-pushing that's been happening there by at least four editors. I don't know how much you've had a chance to read, but it's been going on for a long time - way before I came around to help calm things down.

Please let me know if you want me to provide any background info, or if you'd prefer to just read through the talk page to get oriented. Have a good one... --Parsifal Hello 07:15, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

Hello again - I see that in the talk page discussions, you already have the info you need, and there are some other new people helping out too. So I'll assume you don't need any further info on this from me. If you have any questions, let me know. --Parsifal Hello 17:56, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

Would you plese read my proposal
Please let me know what you think. I cannot keep up trying to keep the article neutral. I am neglecting my child. I need someone to intervene. Consensus will never be reached. Please let me know how I can give my proposal to someone who can implement it -- or is what I am suggesting impossible? Pez1103 11:38, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

Question about one of your assessments
I was reading Benjamin I of Alexandria and noticed you rated it as Start. I would have rated the article as B as it seems comprehensive, and is referenced very well. I was just wondering what your justification for rating the aritcle as Start is.  Psych  less   13:12, 9 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Basically, my justification was that it contained more or less only the information which I was able to find in a single source, the source I used. On that basis, I couldn't be sure that there might not be other information easily available as well, so didn't feel comfortable saying it was complete if I knew I had only used one source in writing it. If and when I can check other sources for further data, then I think it could more reasonably be graded higher. John Carter 13:20, 9 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Ah, I see. Thanks for the response.  Psych  less   13:26, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

WP:WASDC
I was just wondering if you wanted to join WP:WASDC which you started a while ago, but never added yourself to and kind of semi-abadoned. I revived it and have set it up with WP:1.0.  T Rex  | talk  07:14, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

Roy Masters' biography
You placed a "start" category label on the Roy Masters biography today. Do you think it needs a photograph? If you think it needs revision please do and improve the biography. However, there are several editors who will quibble at or just revert your revisions.Larry R. Holmgren 16:18, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject James Bond
 SpecialWindler   talk  00:42, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject Biography

 * Thank you. And thank you for your recent help there. If you feel inclined to continue there, trust me, you would be very welcome to do so. John Carter 16:12, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

Category:Wikipedians in WikiProject Oriental Orthodoxy
Category:Wikipedians in WikiProject Oriental Orthodoxy, which you created, has been nominated for renaming. Your input in the discussion is welcome. — Black Falcon (Talk) 19:48, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

A-class review for Andrew Saul
Hi, thanks for participating in the A-class review, one of the things I had hoped by listing it in the A-class review was that it would stimulate the GA-review which has been languishing since the article was 1/3rd of the size it is now. I have a feeling it will be approved without much comment, right now I think the three biggest issues are possibly excessive detail in some spots, use of one non-free image, and a section which basically repeats something another article on wikipedia says verbatim (however, they are both made from USGov't material, and I couldn't explain it any better myself without doing original research). Please feel free to comment further over at the review once the GA-process is finished. Mrprada911 14:56, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

Wikiproject Kabbalah and Lindsay Lohan
Please explain why you consider the Lindsay Lohan article to fall under the auspices of Wikiproject Kabbalah. There is not a single mention of her holding Kabbalah beliefs in the article; if she does indeed follow that belief system, then without mention of it in the article, how does it rate a "B" class under that wikiproject? (Please reply on the talk page of the article, where it will be more widely read.) Risker 16:40, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

Disambiguating UAE emirates and capitals
At several of the talk pages for the individual Emirates of the UAE, queries or proposals have been put forth for having separate articles for the emirates and their eponymous capitals (e.g. here and here. As of now, two of the emirates have been disambiguated from their capitals: Abu Dhabi (emirate) / Abu Dhabi and Ajmān / Ajmān (city).  If you are interested in discussing a comprehensive approach to the issue, please see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Western Asia. —   AjaxSmack   19:06, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

Commentary on your inclusion of an article
Warloadjohncarter, please see this: --Fahrenheit451 01:34, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

Deletion review
I've opened a deletion review about the deletion of The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, Inc.. Thought you would want to know. IPSOS (talk) 13:11, 17 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Also, you might want to join the discussion at Talk:Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. IPSOS (talk) 18:47, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

Amusement park project assessment
Hi, The assessment statistics for the amusement park project was not working (yet?) and I discovered that the project template that Will created was tagging the articles as "High-importance amusement park articles" with small initial letter and singular park, but you had set up the categories with Amusement Parks articles (initial cap, plural). I had noticed the discrepancy and started creating the new categories (lower case and singular) before I realized the significance for the statistics bot. SO... I think I have it running correctly now (went with lower case and singular, put them in the Version 1.0 categories, etc., got some statistics). There those extra categories, but I categorized those in category:Amusement park category to be deleted since I was not sure what to do with them. I hope I have not messed up anything. --Tinned Elk 04:10, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

Nina Simone, A-class support?
Hi, John Carter, I have adressed your comments, along with other edits to the article. Thanks for the comments anyway, perhaps the current state is good for your support?Marcel flaubert 12:58, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

Gregory of Nazianzus is now an FA candidate
Hi John, I want to let you know that Gregory of Nazianzus is now a Feature Article candidate. The FA candidate discussion site is here if you want to comment. Thanks. Majoreditor 18:24, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

WP:EUROPE Proposal
Hi, I was wondering if you would be interested in participating in a new "WikiProject:Europe"? It would cover non-EU pan European elements and more national elements where there isn't a project to cover it (e.g. there is no project for Slovenia). I was also thinking that WP:SEUROPE might want to form the base of it, essentially just dropping the south, as there aren't many members and the scope overlaps with other projects. I am just trying to get an idea of numbers before I propose it but if you have comments on the idea please see the Discussion on WPEU. Thanks for your time! -  J Logan t: 08:31, 18 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Hate to bother, I just want to check if you are okay with turning WP:SEUROPE into the new Europe project before I do so. You said yes to the project but I thought it wise to get explicit wording on taking over SEUROPE too. Thanks. -  J Logan t: 20:08, 18 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I've started trying to clean up the loose ends. Good job it wasn't very active or there would be an awful lot of disruption. We'll need a bot soon though to change the banners. -  J Logan t: 20:39, 18 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Just to let you know, I did not transfer your name over by defult and you might also want to update the link on your userbox if you're still going to be involved. Thanks. -  J Logan t: 11:29, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

Random Smile!


WarthogDemon has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling at someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Happy editing! Smile at others by adding {{subst:Smile}} to their talk page with a friendly message. -WarthogDemon 18:22, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

Talk:Krytox
Hi

Krytox is a type of grease, so I'm not quite sure why you tagged this for the Delaware project. Was it in error? --Rifleman 82 04:07, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

William Cooley
William cooley passed! Than you. I would like to ask your help in what you think that is missing in the article to become a FA. I am a little short on time and want to improve some existing articles I made before creating new ones.--Legionarius 16:34, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks a lot :-) Will ask a bit more around and move to FA. Unfortunately copy-editing is my weak side.--Legionarius 17:17, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Yep. I am a bit frustraded with peer review, though. A peer review before the "A" nomination came back empty.--Legionarius 17:21, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

Saint Maurice
I totally agree something has to be done to this person's disruptive edits. What exactly is an RfC? Thanks :) --Lanternix 19:49, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

Newbies
Dear John,

As a longstanding contributor, I'm sure you appreciate the the success of Wikipedia depends on being able to grow our community, and welcome new members. As such, I'm sure you also understand the motivation behind WP:NEWBIES. Could I therefore ask you to please review your comments and edit summaries w.r.t. new users, especially when your judgement was based on hearsay and continued to deviate from fact, and when a conflict of interest existed because you had recently nominated an article for ACID which the nomination mentioned above was in competition with. Remember that IP users are not intrinsically evil, and let common sense and benefit of a doubt prevail. My take on matters is that nominations of articles that need more work are intrinsically good and that newcomers contributing in this way should be encouraged.

I hope for your understanding.

Best regards,

Samsara (talk • contribs) 12:36, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

naz article importance
so you just change them to importance rather than priority? i did that on accident once, and it wouldn't register as anything but a deprecated parameter. what's up with that? just that the cotn wikiproject is using deprecated parameters for their tags? or am i completely out of my mind? Aepoutre 21:25, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

cool, thanks. so why is that i find other articles that use priority in place of importance? is it just project-dependent? or is one right and the other wrong? Aepoutre 21:33, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

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WikiProject James Bond
 SpecialWindler   talk  02:37, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

Could you help me out
Hey John, could you help me out. I redid the Kabbalah template (you know the main one) but for some reason the listing of categories doesn't come out on the bottom of the template. As you already know I'm not great when it comes to HTML or wikitext or whatever you want to call it. So could you help me figure it out, thanks. 21:02, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

No not that one. The one that banner one; with the subtopics. Here, I'll show you this one:  As you can see it says Categories but there are no categories in the banner; but they are there in the edit page, they just don't come out.

You know what, I saw that on another template and I thought it was a mistake so I didn't use that. I understand now. Thanks. Lighthead þ 21:46, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia.Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Ecuador articles by quality
Did you really intend to create this as a mainspace article? -- Finngall  talk  18:12, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

Wikiproject:Terrorism
Greetings,

I was hoping I could get some input from you, about the proposed mergerof WikiProject Terrorism and counter-terrorism with Wikiproject:Terrorism. It seems there's a lot of overlap between the two projects, and if we spent a few days merging the lists of articles, sharing ideas and collaborating on improving the same articles which both projects are focused on improving...we could really make some headway. Whether you're in favour, or against, the idea of a merger - I'd appreciate some feedback regardless. Much thanks. Sherurcij (Speaker for the Dead) 21:45, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

Reminder
Hola Mentors!

Im sending you this reminder because you volunteered to mentor my students in English Advanced B as they become contributing members of the Wikipedia community. We start working with Wikipedia in earnest next week. I ask you to take a look at your entry in the Mentor Table at School_and_university_projects/ITESM_Campus_Toluca/Mentors

Please update the information, esp. with what your technical and informational expertise is or, if you have decided that you no longer want to participate, please remove your information from the table. Please watch the pages associated with the project. Students will contact you via your user page and as soon as my students have user pages, I will put them on the navigation bar associated with the project.

I don’t need to remind you that your job is NOT to write their assignments for them, of course. I certainly will tell my students that… and the fact that you are volunteers that don’t have to help them… so they need to be nice. If any students misbehave (tho I don’t expect it) don’t hesistate to contact me and I will take care of it. The goal of this project is to integrate successfully into the Wikipedia community. Anyway… what I really need your help with is helping students get oriented to Wikipedia, make appropriate changes and write about appropriate topics (see School_and_university_projects/ITESM_Campus_Toluca/Syllabus for assignments). I also need your technical expertise… I am only an English teacher after all! I appreciate what technology does for us but I am no technical expert!

Again, thank you for volunteering and you will hear from us again soon! Thelmadatter 19:15, 28 August 2007 (UTC)Thelmadatter