User talk:Maury Markowitz/Archive Sep 2007

WWII aircraft gun page
I am in the process of writing a WWII aircraft gun page. The page is not meant to be an authoritative source but rather a basic comparison of the various guns as used on WWII fighters and bombers. I have a number of tables and some basic commentary. Currently I have it set as my home page but I would like to issue a call for contributors and editors. Is there a way I can publish a call for contribution? Also how would I move this page so it's an active wiki page? Thank You Idsnowdog 02:33, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

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National Ignition Facility Good Article review
A Good Article you have contributed significantly to, National Ignition Facility, has been mentioned for Good Article Review. You are invited and welcome to contribute to the discussion on the article's GA status. Drewcifer3000 06:05, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

Unicode
Your edit to John Titor broke the non-ASCII interlang links. I've restored them. You might want to use the "Show changes" button in the future to prevent this kind of thing from happening. :-) - ∅  ( ∅ ), 23:49, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Is this something I should understand better? What do these links look like? Maury 00:45, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

Request for help
Maury, I wonder if you can look into a problem with the Amelia Earhart page. A conspiracy theorist has come back after being reverted by at least two editors and one admin, but he has again reverted every change made by Gwen Gale (yes, that Gwen Gale, I told you I am beginning to appreciate her!) who has been a major contributor to the article for over a year. She did a very careful analysis of his recent edits and rewrote the article, establishing a referenced and supported section on disappearance theories related to Amelia Earhart. I do not want to get into a revert war but our "Saipan theory is best" editor has been cautioned on both the article discussion page and his own talk page, that his assertions are untenable and do not have consensus support. He will not listen to me and only an admin can return the article to its original state or to the version that Gwen Gale proposed. Help... Bzuk 23:07, 23 August 2007 (UTC).

Maury, don't forget to visit the Talk page for Amelia Earhart to cast your vote about editing changes. I've been holding off because I don't want to seem well, unseemly... FWIW Bzuk 19:51, 24 August 2007 (UTC).

Re: FUCC issue
Oops, I missed that. I'll undelete it. (ESkog)(Talk) 12:50, 27 August 2007 (UTC)


 * NP. I put the link back on the page too. Maury 18:10, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

ref: Water memory
Thank you for your visit. I reduced the tag and placed some calls for citations where needed ℒibrarian  2  20:19, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

cites
Did you look at Georg Cantor? Yeah I hate hate hate it when people put the full cite in footnote format!!! In my mind the main prob is that it makes it difficult or almost impossible to supply page numbers... BTW, water memory is interesting. Later! --Ling.Nut 20:25, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

Dick Merrill
I think it was great of you to do a Wikipedia page for Dick Merrill. He was one of the Old Heads retired around Miami back in the 1960s and a fine guy. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mark Lincoln (talk • contribs) 16:27, August 26, 2007 (UTC)


 * Hey thanks. I saw your note over on the AE page and realized there wasn't an article, so... The Power of Wiki Compels You! Maury 01:21, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Maury, check the page you created; it's great. I did add some asides, see what you think. FWIW Bzuk 17:30, 28 August 2007 (UTC).
 * Maury, our sockpuppet has resurfaced on this page. Check: 67.79.187.250. FWIW Bzuk 13:23, 29 August 2007 (UTC).

DYK

 * Congratulations Maury, a well-written and interesting article! Bzuk 22:25, 29 August 2007 (UTC).

Inconsitent Spelling
Kindly do not change the correct spellings in articles written in English to the incorrect spellings used in America. You have now changed a spelling twice in violation of the Wikipedia consitency policy.

America wouldn't know what English is, not having used it for over 2½ centuries. 86.133.9.200 13:08, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

F14 contributions
Hi, I wish to point your attention on this edit on it.wiki where user:stefanomencarelli pratically boasts his style on en.wiki F-14 article. This user is an old it.wiki acquaintance where he was banned for three months for personal attacks and systematic article writing rules elusion, (Yes! On it.wiki also) in spite of numberless attempt to give him help. I think it could be useful to highlight this type of behaviour to an en.wiki admin following aviation project, so he can better understand the situation as it is. I translated his post as follows:

... they blocked me three days after I put 6kb of technical details on F-14 page (obviously overprotected and allowed to Americans only), quickly cancelled (like when I first posted as a start 20 kb on Macchi 202, vaporized in a glance!). Obviously I complained and I got three days more from another admin, I appealed (there it is possible) and it was rejected. Then I went back on the F-14 page and as they cancelled my 6kb contribution, I placed other 16, plus an hand made artwork. Poor boys, they are still correcting, but now the article is a lot of better.

I posted this warning in User talk:Attilios and User talk:Bzuk and stefanomencarelli promptly did a couple of attempts to cancel the post. Moreover he started to insult me in my en.wiki page as he was banned again on it.wiki, just the first day after his return from the previous ban. I am curious to know your opinion. Bye EH101 (it.wiki) --EH101 00:17, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

WP:NPA
I've tried to warn the editor 3 times before, and now this. Gwen Gale 21:33, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

I take this taunting as a continued personal attack. Cheers though :/ Gwen Gale 23:48, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

He may be calming down now. Hope so. Gwen Gale 01:24, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

DYK
Whoa, three in a week!? Maury 03:00, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

B-70 additions
Maury, thanks for your additions to the XB-70 Valkyrie article. Gee, you added more to it in 1 day than I did in June. Oh well writing a lot of details is not my strong suit. Take it easy. :) -Fnlayson 04:56, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I'm back in a writing mode again... :-) Maury 11:46, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

GA is approved - Toronto Magnetic and Meteorological Observatory article
Just letting you know. Life issues got in the way, and have kept me away from here for the past week. Congratulations! Thegreatdr 20:59, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Oh I know all about "life", I was having similar problems myself... except I avoided them by writing more! Glad to be done, now onto the next one... Maury 21:15, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

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Big Brother
Yes actually i have had some problems with people persistently following me and changing what ever i do one is a admin but another recently changed my talk but he changes a lot of what i do his name is Huaiwei it feels a bit like big brother always looking.Sparrowman980 13:38, 14 September 2007 (UTC)