User talk:Mark83/Archive 1

Archived talk:
 * Archive 1 (April 2004 - July 2005)
 * Archive 2 (July 2005 - January 2006)

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Again welcome! Chris Roy 00:49 1 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Welcome aboard! Since you seem interested in aviation topics, you might like to check out the list of aircraft and list of aircraft engines. WikiProject Aircraft is an attempt to co-ordinate this topic area - you might like to join us --Rlandmann 01:26, 2 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Sorry for jumping in so quickly on those last contributions - just very exciting to have so much new aircraft content coming in at the moment! I'm trying to get the ball rolling on a standard data table for aero engines, and would appreciate your input here. --Rlandmann 00:53, 7 Apr 2004 (UTC)


 * You're far too modest! :) --Rlandmann 09:47, 8 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Re: Justin King, your writing was excellent, and I agree that the article was certainly justified. It did read like it was written by someone who had personal knowledge of the situation, but I found it unbiased and neutral. I just wanted to be sure, seeing as it was written by an insider (or so it seems). Best, Meelar 20:13, 16 May 2004 (UTC)

I'm sorry if you were offended by my judging of your page Justin King, but I detected a little bit of opiniation in the article. Considering that this is supposed to be an encyclopedia, I resented the somewhat biased information. No, it should not have been put up for deletion, and i do approve of the changes made, but I felt that something had to be done. Thank you for notifying me. --Thirteen 13 22:53, 17 May 2004 (UTC)

Hello, thanks for your excellent contributions with BBC Television Centre and other articles. Just a quick note to say that you seem to be using images simply on the justification that no copyright message was present on the original page - that does not automatically make the image copyright-free and suitable for use on Wikipedia. Please be careful with uploading images! Thanks, Tom- 23:24, 21 May 2004 (UTC)

RE: BBC Timeline
Have just read your comment on my talk page: I'm sorry if my comment seemed a little harsh, and I accept that the radical relaunch of BBC News 24 could be included as a significant event in the main timeline - I'll leave that decision to you!

When editing the article, I saw the words "new set" and automatically assumed (perhaps without reading the text properly) that the event was not significant enough to include in the BBC article timeline. I feel that I was justified in moving the event (although I could have phrased the edit comment better), but I do accept your points. With Regards, Marknew 21:01, 1 Jun 2004 (UTC)


 * No, you've moved it to the right place.

Brimstone missile
Hello, I like to keep talk on one page, so feel free to come over! BTW, I noticed from your user page that we share the interest/fascination in aerospace topics. :-) --Wernher

CoolMen CoolNPOVs U-S-A!!!
Do you really don't feel yourself slightly ridiculous when claiming that iraq war was not made 150% for oil? really? where do you live? neverland? :-) cool! send kisses to Jacko ;-)

PS: When the 90% of THE ENTIRE WORLD POPULATION think that Iraq War happens only for OIL, OIL and OIL and lesser than the half of population of the country that made the invasion (and other asslicking banana countries and kingdoms) think that the War happens for so much complex motivations that the other 90% of THE ENTIRE WORLD POPULATION could never understand, do you REALLY still think that you are on a neutral point of view? if SO explain me what is a Neutral point of view! please, here on the other side of the ocean we are so ignorants and so much idiots! Enlight us!!! :-) user:bushit 01:31 19/07/2004 CET

Franco German locomotive: Looks as it was the same guy who posted it in the first place... What I'm worried about is, that in the beginning it looked like a rather matter-of-fact article; lately it looks more and more as becoming a "platform" for something. Bear in mind, that this term is now more or less a historical one, however it is dealt with like it were a quite recent term and mirroring what's going on in Europe right now (e.g. not being fully co-operative in the question of support for the invasion of Iraq on parts of France and Germany has probably nothing to do with it, both countries having different reasons for that, I think, but I will leave that to somebody much more experienced in judging politics and history). --Palapala 11:32, 2004 Jul 19 (UTC)

Anglo-American relations
Hello there, just thought I'd write and say thanks for the work you've done on the special relationship article. You've really turned my back-of-a-fag-packet scribbling into something that's actually quite sound so I thought it would only be polite to compliment your writing which has been uniformly clever and well informed. Nice job. --Mr impossible 11:43, 2 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Sainsbury's
I've no idea how you come to pick me with regards of the post. First off, I'm not an admin. Second off, the Manual of Style is quite explicit on this. The entry should be on Sainsbury's, although if J Sainsbury's is the parent company and deserves an entry on its own (i.e. not for the supermarket), then that would be named accordingly. The rule is: use what's most common for the article name; mention other names at the beginning of the article. What's most common is not necessarily correct or official. Have a nice day! Kokiri 18:22, 26 Aug 2004 (UTC)


 * Oh sorry, I've left a comment there. I think the best thing is to make two articles. Kokiri 18:23, 26 Aug 2004 (UTC)


 * I only addressed the comments to you as you suggested moving the article and I wanted to give my thoughts. I understand your comments above regarding the MoS. However like I say the current redirects to "J Sainsbury plc" are not in the least confusing. I can't argue with an ideal but suggest the current situation is at least acceptable, if not perfect. Have a nice day to you too! Mark 18:32, 26 Aug 2004 (UTC)


 * Actually I think you could split it into two articles, but really it doesn't matter much. Kokiri 18:37, 26 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Tesco logo
I notice you have uploaded this image, but you don't seem to have tagged it. You say that it is a trademark of Tesco plc, but that doesn't help us with the copyright situation. If you are claiming fair use you need to tag the image as such and provide a brief rationale. It is important that all Wikipedia images have a tag indicating their copyright status. Thanks. &mdash; Trilobite (Talk) 14:53, 29 Aug 2004 (UTC)


 * Sorry, claiming fair use

Username
You're not the first person to notice, but it's not exactly obvious. No affiliation with Rutan, though I did meet him (by which I mean I was standing next to him saying nothing) at EAA Oshkosh in 2002. -Joseph 19:54, 2004 Aug 31 (UTC)

Globemaster C1
Hmmm, I dunno. Perhaps we should change it to instead say "will be called..." or something like that. -Joseph (Talk) 11:25, 2004 Sep 27 (UTC)

Sellafield image
Hi H. I think the Sellafield image is great. It really improves the article. Unfortunately it looks as though the copyright notice you have reproduced is not compatible with the GNU Free Documentation License. There is nothing in GFDL to prevent Wikipedia being reproduced for commerical gain, and that would violate the copyright on the image. Any chance of finding a non-copyrighted one? DJ Clayworth 13:28, 27 Sep 2004 (UTC)

image copyright tags
Please add image copyright tags to uploaded images.

e.g. Image:LAKENHEATH.JPG -- is it the work of the US government, in which case it is public domain (good).

If you have inadvertently uploaded copyright images, list them on images for deletion and no-one will get cross. If however, you deliberately, knowingly and systematically violate copyright, then it might get a bit messy.(Please note that I am not trying to bite you, but trying to help you become a better Wikipedian.)

Dunc_Harris|&#9786; 13:49, 4 Oct 2004 (UTC)


 * You were just a bit too quick, and I was a bit too slow. I got the image from www.af.mil and is PD due to the fact that it is a work of the US Federal gov. I fully understand the requirement to provide a label for an image I simply forgot the method for providing such a tag and had to find a similarly PD image (I used the C-17 image) to remind me that it was "PD-USGov-Military-Air Force" Thanks for you concern

Belfast Intl. Airport
Apologies,

I was under the impression that Amsterdam was the only international destination until recently (I was on a website attempting to find flights from Belfast some months back).

Regards, zoney &#09827; talk 11:16, 18 Oct 2004 (UTC)

In the news
Hi, You Wrote "restrict main page news to main news, not upcoming events." With all due respect, where are you living that you've escaped the fact that the pesidential election, (important in the news for months) is now AT THE TOP of every news bulletin? References: MSNBC, news.google.com, BBC News, BBC World, CNN, FOX News. Yes technically it is an upcoming event but given that it is at the forefront of most American's minds and further to the fore in many nations around the world I thought it deserve a place in ITN. Regards Mark 23:00, 1 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Hi Mark,
 * while the presidential elections where at the top of every news bulletin because they write about what people are interested in most, our news section on the main page is meant to cover the most important events. An event is an event as soon as it happens. Would you cover the elections in Britain or Australia the day before they happen? The news section on the main page is so small that only most important new information should be covered. There was no new information in the fact that the presidential elections were upcoming as they had been reported about numerous times before, e.g. during the primaries, the party conventions, or the debates. Get-back-world-respect 17:33, 4 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * You're right, there was no new info, pre-emptive.

Redirect you created at "TUI AG"
Noel (talk) 13:43, 29 Nov 2004 (UTC)


 * No problem, thanks! Noel (talk) 20:19, 29 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Article Licensing
Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 1000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:
 * Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
 * Multi-Licensing Guide
 * Free the Rambot Articles Project

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the " " template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:


 * Option 1
 * I agree to multi-license all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

OR
 * Option 2
 * I agree to multi-license all my contributions to any U.S. state, county, or city article as described below:

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace " " with "  ". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk)

Commenting on Talk and Discussion Pages
With all due respect, when adding comments to Talk and Discussion pages, the usual convention, which is much admired here at Wikipedia, is to sign one's username by appending three or four tildes, ~, to one's messages. Four are preferred because that includes the date and time. This is especially true if one wants to avoid the appearance of committing hit-and-run on a User's Talk page. I have responded to your (semi-anonymous) remarks that you left on my User:Talk page directly below them there. Hu 09:25, 2005 Jan 7 (UTC)

Response
I would like to apologise for not signing my comment, I will save you the time of trawling my past contributions and assure you that this is the first time and simply an oversight. Further had I wished to commit a "hit and run" attack I would have logged out and edited the page as an anonymous user.

Marconi etc
Thanks for sorting that one out! Dan100 17:59, Jan 24, 2005 (UTC)

AGM-86
Your new article on the AGM-86 needs merging into the much older AGM-86 CALCM article. Please check for older articles and improve them before writing entirely new pieces. The older article is linked to from the list of missiles. David Newton 00:55, 30 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Done

Image:737 Aldergrove.jpg
Hey,

Would you mind adding the website this came from the on the image page? Cheers. Burgundavia 00:47, Feb 10, 2005 (UTC)


 * 

Bond table
You should have said something a month ago when the change was made, I started a discussion about it on the page and since then no one has disagreed with it. Regardless, I refuse to include supporting cast because as I previously mentioned, it neglects well known actors such as Bernard Lee, Lois Maxwell, and Desmond Llewelyn (M, Moneypenny, and Q respectifully) and it's also clutter and information that is better suited to be found on the films actual article page. There are many supporting actors and it really makes no sense to list of them on a "general" James Bond article.

That said, I don't really have a problem with listing the director of the movies in the table, but what we're trying to do on the article is reduce the amount of clutter, information that's not really pertinent to a "general" James Bond article. Recently, "James Bond" was added (not by myself) as a "feature article candidate" and it's come under fire due to information that can be slimmed down, information in lists, information that is missing totally that should be (ex. Music information, which will probably get a small paragraph with a main article at James Bond Theme. -- What I'm getting at is you have to ask yourself if what you want to add is reasonable for a "general" article on the character, the film series and the novel series. Instead of listing the directors, I think a better alternative would be to completely rewrite or merely expand the paragraph above the table with information of "recurring" directors. Directors such as John Glen, Terrence Young, Guy Hamilton etc should be mentioned, but not in a list. This is what I was planning to get to anyway, but I've just been busy lately. In this paragraph you could also mention major supporting actors that have been in many Bond films such as the actors I listed above who have been in 10 or more films, but I would keep this paragraph to a minimum to avoid redundancy with List of James Bond villains, List of James Bond allies, M, Miss Moneypenny, Q, and the individual film articles as well, but this paragraph needs to be expanded and I'd rather see this expanded than a larger and in some ways -bloated- table.

Eh.. I think I wrote too much. Sorry :) K1Bond007 19:32, Feb 14, 2005 (UTC)


 * Sorry, I didn't refer to the talk page. I can't argue with the need to reduce clutter, I hope you realise that the table was an attempt to rationalise the information previously there: e.g.
 * 17: GoldenEye, 1995. Also starring: Izabella Scorupco, Alan Cumming, Sean Bean, Robbie Coltrane, Joe Don Baker and Famke Janssen. Director: Martin Campbell.
 * 20: Die Another Day, 2002. Also starring: Halle Berry, Toby Stephens, and Rick Yune. Director: Lee Tamahori.


 * became:


 * However like you mentioned such information is adequately covered on individual pages.


 * In editing this page I've encountered an edit conflict from someone suggesting the same as myself: BTW, it's never something I would take on myself, but have you ever considered making the James Bond page just a short bio with prominent links to James Bond in literature/James Bond in books and James Bond in film. This would solve the size issues. (Probably not the best time to suggest it, given its nominated status!!)


 * Anyway, good luck with "trimming the fat!" p.s. Any private thoughts re. the choice of Casino Royale and Martin Campbell? Mark 22:02, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)


 * Well I know why you did it initially. Admittingly I was going to do the same thing with the same information, but you did it first. I honestly don't know what we're going to do about trying to slim down the page. I thought slimming the book section might be the best course since most of it is just a list, but then as 23skidoo said it leaves the page open as "movie"-centric page and that's not exactly fair. I don't know I'll open a discussion about it on the actual article eventually.


 * As for my thoughts on Casino Royale, I really have none. My main concern is whether it's a faithful adaptation or if it's going to be another Die Another Day. I liked the first half of that film, but the second half ... not so much. As far as Bond films go, the director really doesn't matter to me all that much. There are some I've liked more than others, but what's more important is a great story and keeping Bond realistic and elements of the story/gadgets/vehicles feasible. That's just me though. I have no favorite as the next Bond either. I just don't want anyone too young. I think it's great that there will be a new actor in the role. I loved Brosnan, but I didn't like his movies, TWINE and DAD especially. I'm hoping with a new actor comes a new direction. K1Bond007 05:00, Feb 16, 2005 (UTC)

BAE SYSTEMS -- Capitalization
"Just a gentle word of advice for anyone wishing to redirect this article to BAe Systems or similar"...

With all due respect, those don't sound like words of anger or any kind of irritation that I know. As is always the danger with any Wiki, disagreements like this issue can become quite embroiled and turn into fruitless edit wars, which it was only my intention to prevent with some direction. BAE Systems appear to have changed their policy (doubtless because the media et al never got it right), and I can accept that.

p.s. You should respond to another user by editing their talk page; they won't know you responded otherwise.

Thanks, and have a nice day! :) sugarfish 20:13, Feb 17, 2005 (UTC)


 * Actually, that's right. The BAe Systems variant was the one that was to be avoided upon pain of death, as they were trying to reinforce the fact that BAE was no longer an acronym, especially as it is now an international entity, such as BP et al. It's been a long time since I worked there, so I'm going to withdraw my insistence; especially as myself and my peers actually believed that BAE SYSTEMS was particularly ugly. In fact nobody I know likes the name, and we resorted to using an anagram (informally of course). We still often refer to the company as MESSY BEAST sugarfish 09:38, Feb 18, 2005 (UTC)

With respect to BAE SYSTEMS capitalisation, if you refer to the specific identity document here, it states that ‘BAE Systems’ in upper and lower case should be used:
 * Within the body of text
 * Within a sub-heading as part of text
 * Within a bullet point (within a presentation, for example)
 * Within an email address

and that ‘BAE SYSTEMS’ in upper case should only be used:
 * Within a heading or title
 * Within a postal address

This means that ‘BAE Systems’ and ‘BAE SYSTEMS’ are not interchangeable within the body of a text, and ‘BAE Systems’ is the format that should be used. Johnwalton 14:35, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Image:Bay Class.jpg
This image is in a licence that doesn't allow for modification or commercial use. Such licences are considered to be "Non-free" on wikipedia, therefore this image has been listed for deletion. Please only upload images that are available under a free licence See WP:ICT  &mdash; Zeimusu | Talk 01:56, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)

DYK
Thanks for caring :). I'll see if I can fix it in some way. Mgm|(talk) 11:24, Mar 14, 2005 (UTC)
 * Fixed, I replaced the picture. It now shows the pathfinder mentioned in the fact. Mgm|(talk) 11:29, Mar 14, 2005 (UTC)
 * Quick? You'd be surprised, I also added the pic into the Thiokol article in that time. :) Mgm|(talk) 11:32, Mar 14, 2005 (UTC)


 * I can't really see anything clearly in that pic. On my end it looks too dark. I wasn't planning on changing the pic, but thanks for suggesting it. I saw the image when I checked the fact. Mgm|(talk) 13:25, Mar 16, 2005 (UTC)

UK general election
The source for the heavy skewing in favour of the Government party is the BBC (Andrew Marr). I have added the reference to the article. Also, if you look at how the opinion poll results get translated to House of Commons seats, you will see how biased the election boundaries are, jguk 06:18, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Image source
Thank you for uploading Image:Britishenergy Dungeness.JPG. Its copyright status is unclear, so it may have to be deleted. Please leave a note on the image page about the source of the image. Thank you. --Ellmist 05:49, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Image placeholder
Why change the font of Image:IIH.png ? &mdash;wwoods 06:37, 17 May 2005 (UTC)


 * No technical reason, purely stylistic. I thought a lighter background and a softer font would make the imageholder less obtrusive/more acceptable. I'm sorry if you're not happy with it, I will not object in any way if you wish to revert to the previous style. Mark 16:52, 17 May 2005 (UTC)

Category:U.K. defence procurement
This should really be Category:UK defence procurement, since the normal UK way of abbreviating United Kingdom is UK, and this is thus Wikipedia standard on UK-related topics. Contrariwise, the normal U.S. abbreviation for United States is U.S., and so that's the Wikipedia standard on U.S.-related topics. -- Anon.

Image:EJ200S.JPG
Burgundavia (&#9992; take a flight?) 08:47, May 31, 2005 (UTC)

RAF No. 12 Squadron
I notice in the article about No. 12 Squadron that you started you state that the text came from a British Government website under Crown copyright protection. The terms of use of the Crown copyright information are not compatible with the GFDL so text in that form cannot be used. Where did you get the information from?

Following on from that, a new page needs to be written with the bits of the old one (like the table) that are not Crown copyright material. The old page then needs deleting as a copyvio and the new substituting in its place. David Newton 22:51, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)


 * please accept that this was a misunderstanding of the licence afforded by Crown Copyright and its suitability for use on Wikipedia. You asked where it came from, the hyperlink I added has changed from www.raf.mod.uk/raflossiemouth to www.loscom.org.uk.


 * Finally I by-passed your suggestion of a new page, deleting old page as a copyvio and substituting the new one in its place by simply removing my earlier contributions that were Crown Copyright. Hopefully this is acceptable. Mark 09:50, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)Mark 09:51, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)


 * Thanks for that. I noticed at least one other squadron page with a similar situation, and I would appreciate it if you could do something similar there and anywhere else where this applies. What is perfectly alright is taking the text at the Crown copyright sites as a basis of facts and paraphrasing it for this site. If that is done, the source, strictly speaking, should be acknowledged. The most recent example where I have done that is the article I wrote on Denis Richards the historian. David Newton 17:38, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

lots of edits, not an admin
Hi - I made a list of users who've been around long enough to have made lots of edits but aren't admins. If you're at all interested in becoming an admin, can you please add an '*' immediately before your name in this list? I've suggested folks nominating someone might want to puruse this list, although there is certainly no guarantee anyone will ever look at it. Thanks. -- Rick Block (talk) 00:36, Jun 16, 2005 (UTC)
 * Anyone can add their own name to WP:RFA as a self-nomination any time they'd like, although some people who vote on RFA take a dim view of "self-noms". You can also ask someone you know to nominate you, or just wait to "get noticed".  As far as I can tell, "getting noticed" basically takes doing things that lots of admins do (specifically one or more of RC patrol or doing cleanup tasks associated with the various deletion processes or submitting lots of featured articles or even regularly voting on WP:RFA).  It's entirely your call. -- Rick Block (talk) 13:19, Jun 16, 2005 (UTC)

Jeremy Paxman
Thanks - I was watching BBC2 while on Wikipedia, so thought I'd race to be first! Griffin147

Non free images
ALso up for deletion are :
 * Image:BA 747s ethnic tailfins.JPG,
 * Image:BA Rendezvous tail.jpg,
 * Image:BA-Qantas 747 Wings livery.jpg

Response
Used with permission, I understand these are no longer acceptable for WP and agree with deletion.

Waves of the City ethnic tailfin
Thanks for letting me know that only two registrations apply to this fin and for updating the Image Description Page. Best Wishes, Adrian - Adrian Pingstone 19:10, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Image:BAESYSTEMS.JPG
Better version uploaded Image:BAE_SYSTEMS.png. Bobbis 2 July 2005 11:45 (UTC)

Queen
Ah, the trick is that it's not in the template (but the article doesn't know that yet), so what you need to do in such circumstances is to do a blank save (e.g. click edit and then click save page without making any changes) on each page featuring the template. That fixes it - I've done it for the Queen links, so now that one's done for good. Cheers! -- BD2412 talk July 8, 2005 01:35 (UTC)
 * No problem - it's what I'm here for! -- BD2412 talk July 8, 2005 16:52 (UTC)
 * Aha - now I see you're working on British - that's a formidable task. I shall join you on it, in a few hours (after I pick up hurricane supplies, as I live in Miami). Cheers! -- BD2412 talk July 8, 2005 18:46 (UTC)
 * British is down to less than 500 links, and a good number of those are talk/user pages. :-D -- BD2412 talk 04:47, July 10, 2005 (UTC)
 * Excellent work! You're right about the maintenance, tho. I have a few that are like that - Greek, Hebrew, Oscar, and Orlando. I check them twice a day. -- BD2412 talk 23:07, July 11, 2005 (UTC)