User talk:Karl Dickman/Archive 06

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If you wish to thank me for something, I appreciate it greatly. However, I rarely take the time to respond, as I am usually engaged in other activities. My apologies, and you're welcome (in advance).

Another Esperanzial note...
Hi again Esperanzians! Well, since our last frolic in the realms of news, the Advisory Council has met twice more (see WP:ESP/ACM2 and WP:ESP/ACM3). As a result, the charter has been ammended twice (see here for details) and all of the shortcuts have been standardised (see the summary for more details). Also of note is the Valentines ball that will take place in the Esperanza IRC channel on the 14th of February (tomorrow). It will start at 6pm UTC and go on until everyone's had enough! I hope to see you all there! Also, the spamlist has been dissolved - all Esperanzians will now recieve this update "newsletter".

The other major notice I need to tell you about is the upcoming Esperanza Advisory Council Elections. These will take place from 12:00 UTC on February 20th to 11:59 UTC on February 27th. The official handing-over will take place the following day. Candidates are able to volunteer any time before the 20th, so long as they are already listed on the members list. Anyone currently listed on the memberlist can vote. In a change since last time, if you have already been a member of the leadership, you may run again. Due to the neutrality precident, I will not vote for anyone.

Yours, as ever, Esperanzially,

--Cel es tianpower háblame 09:00, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

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re: infoboxes
I never actually redid any infoboxes, as a result of my personal dislike of the concept itself. The display of data that is not tabular in a table is non-semantic use of the <table&gt; element, not to mention the fact that they utterly fuck up display at resolutions less than 1024x768. But then again, you knew that already.

The university disclaimer is more of a convenient excuse than anything – I'm really just fed up with the constant retreading of issues in the WP:Air, the overall low quality of wikipedia content, and the bizarre crusades of some administrators and template nazis. :( ericg &#9992; 22:53, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

tweaks to airtemp / airtemp-switch
Just an FYI, I've added a qif test to the template that checks for a single engine. If it's true (number of props=1) then it hides the "each" at the end of the line. This winds up producing: It's more grammatically correct and it makes more sense. Plus we're using so goddamn many qif tags that one more won't push the WP:AUM crowd over the top. ericg &#9992; 03:11, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Powerplant: 1× Pratt & Whitney R-985-AN-1 "Wasp Junior", 450 hp (336 kW)
 * rather than
 * Powerplant: 1× Pratt & Whitney R-985-AN-1 "Wasp Junior", 450 hp (336 kW) each

Airfoil
I stuck it in but never got around to writing the code in the template to display it. I have the NACA airfoil and other profiles for a great many aircraft and it's an interesting bit of information to include (for early NACA series, you can actually plug them into a Java applet and see the cross-section of the wing, and for all NACA profiles you can interpret the numbers to get some idea of the wing properties as explained on the wikipage). I was planning to go through and include it in the articles but got sidetracked by the AWB migration dealie. :) - Emt147 Burninate!  23:24, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

page move request
When you get the chance, PB4Y Privateer could use a move to PB4Y-2 Privateer, which is currently a redirect. There never actually was a straight PB4Y model, and the article doesn't discuss the -1 (which is in B-24 Liberator). Thanks :) ericg &#9992; 22:43, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

Save the Game!
Help us track down verifiable sources to bring The Game back! Go to SaveTheGame.org! Bkkbrad 20:09, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

Talk:George W. Bush
Although you may feel the discussion doesn't help the article (and I agree) I was under the impression removal of comments from talk pages was vandalism. ĢĿ€Ñ §τοĿĿ€ŖγŤč'' 21:14, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

AWB access
Hello Ingoolemo,

You recently added your name to the AWBCheckPage discussion page requesting access to use the AutoWikiBrowser. However, you've actually always had access: all sysops do. Your name is on the list under admins. Regards — Encephalon 08:03, 3 April 2006 (UTC) PS. Incidentally, as a sysop, you can edit the protected Checkpage to add non-sysops who wish to use the AWB; feel free to do so. Martin's only requirement is that a user have at least 500 edits (intended as a screen for basic familiarity with WP processes), and no evidence of malicious intent/bad faith edits. — Encephalon 08:03, 3 April 2006 (UTC)