User talk:Pharos/Golden Age of Sail

Featured List of the Day Experiment
There have been a series of proposals to initiate a Featured List of the Day on the main page. Numerous proposals have been put forth. After the third one failed, I audited all WP:FL's in order to begin an experiment in my own user space that will hopefully get it going. Today, it commences at WP:LOTD. Afterwards I created my experimental page, a new proposal was set forth to do a featured list that is strikingly similar to my own which is to do a user page experimental featured list, but no format has been confirmed and mechanism set in place. I continue to be willing to do the experiment myself and with this posting it commences. Please submit any list that you would like to have considered for list of the day in the month of January 2008 by the end of this month to WP:LOTD and its subpages. You may submit multiple lists for consideration.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:LOTD) 21:49, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

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NYC meetup stuff
I just called Sezz Medi to see if they take reservations. They said that they do. I don't know how many people to expect, but once we get a head-count we can call 212-932-2901 and tell them. They have a rather large back room that we can reserve.

In terms of things to do on the Upper West Side, I think that the American Museum of Natural History would be a good thing for people to visit pre-meetup. I know some people over at the museum including Neil deGrasse Tyson and other astronomers who may be able to arrange something special for Wikipedians who want to come before our meeting in Pupin. That's pretty tentative yet, but let me know what you think. Even if that falls through, we can have people tour the museum on their own before heading uptown to Pupin. Other than that, the Columbia libraries, I checked, do not generally give private tours, but might be convinced to make an exception for a Wikipedia group. You can contact them here. I sent an e-mail to campus tours to ask if they give tours on Sunday, and will let you know as soon as I hear from them. If they do offer them and there are more than 10 people who want to go on a tour, we'll have to schedule it with the tour desk: as per these instructions.

ScienceApologist (talk) 23:54, 20 November 2007 (UTC)


 * Campus tours just got back to me. Unfortunately, there are no campus tours on Sunday so that idea will have to be scratched. ScienceApologist (talk) 17:03, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

LOTD experiment
My userpage List of the Day experiment is getting under way at WP:LOTD. One of your lists has been nominated. I invite you to come by and represent it. If you would like to represent your list article please reformat your username in the table so it is normal sized. Among the things you may want to do to represent your list are:
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 * 4) Participate in the feed back process when it starts on December 1.
 * 5) Participate in the voting when it starts on December 11.

You are free to remain uninvolved. Your list was chosen for being among the first TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:LOTD) 19:02, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

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Featured article candidates/United Nations Parliamentary Assembly
Hello, I have created an article about the UN Parliamentary Assembly, a proposed world body that would be similar to Europarl. Please review and vote on the WP:FAC nomination. Thanks, Sarsaparilla (talk) 01:26, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

Other possibilities
I am in contact with a few people from AMNH. GIve me a week or so and I'll see whether I can put anything together. ScienceApologist (talk) 15:21, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

NOR Request for arbitration
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Philly meetup 6
I'm working on planning the sixth Philadelphia meetup, and I'm looking for ideas and votes about the place and location. Since you RSVP'd for the last one I thought you might like to weigh in. Thanks, and I hope to see you there! -- Te xa sD ex  &#9733;  22:46, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

AMNH tour is on
This was cross-posted to Meetup/NYC‎:

I just confirmed with a graduate student who works in the astrophysics division of the AMNH that Wikipedians can get a "behind the scenes tour" of sorts before the meeting. For example, you can see some of the clean-room labs where instruments are assembled. Please contact me on my talk page if you have suggestions about times or things you'd like to see, and stay tuned here for more info on how this tour will happen. ScienceApologist (talk) 19:10, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

I think having the tour starting at 11 am or 12 pm might be best. I will update the page with details on how Wikipedians will get access when I get more information from the museum workers. We should try to get a headcount of how many will want to go to the museum beforehand. ScienceApologist (talk) 19:14, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

Hi Pharos, I will try to see if anyone is interested in allowing me group access on that Sunday to the "behind the scenes" area of either Recent mollusks or maybe fossil ones. The research collections are all stored in large locked metal cabinets, which are stacked two or even three deep. Inside the cabinets are shallow drawers that contain the "lots" of material. My access card probably does not allow me access on a Sunday and in any case I would have to get permission from a senior staff member who will be there and prepared to supervise the visit. I can ask at any rate, and I will let you know if I come up with anything. They are a lot more cautious about allowing access than they used to be. Invertzoo (talk) 19:17, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

Re: NYC Meetup
Thanks for the message. I would surely attend the meetup. Gaurav1146 (talk) 15:05, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

AMNH tour
We need to get a preliminary head-count for the AMNH tour happening before the meet-up. If you think you would like to go, please sign up at Meetup/NYC. Thanks! ScienceApologist (talk) 02:52, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

Commons template
You have mail (well, a talk page message) on Commons! Carcharoth (talk) 14:18, 24 December 2007 (UTC)
 * I also found Image:Johnvlindsay.jpg, which was in Category:Library of Congress-verified public domain images. That category could do with tidying up and images transferred to more explicit tags at Commons. What is the best way for me to tag something for transfer to Commons? Carcharoth (talk) 15:02, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

Your message to A.Z.
You left a message on User talk:A.Z.. Don't expect him to reply, as this user has been indefinitely blocked. --Lambiam 10:37, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

Westinghouse Time Capsules
After thinking on this overnight, I came to the conclusion you are correct and changed the article accordingly. Thanks for pointing that out. Even looking at the picture I took in 1964 from my own little B/W camera it says "Westinghouse Time Capsules" on the pavilion exhibit and "1965 Time Capsule II" - and I myself even captioned the picture Westinghouse Time Capsules. Also looking at the Book of Record printed in 1938 that I used several times as a reference it says The Time Capsule of cupaloy meaning the alloy metal it was made of. --Doug talk 12:51, 2 January 2008 (UTC)


 * P.S. There happens to be an excellent color video taken in 1939 of Time Capsule I as the next to the last reference of External Link Sources which in it they talk about the special alloy "cupaloy". It looks like you might be from the New York area and are familiar with the Flushing site. I attended the 1964 World's Fair and was one of the "guests" that signed the Guest Book as I describe in the article. Just by chance do you have any clues where this Guest Book is now or who may have a copy of the microfilm (i.e. library, museum) of the people that signed it? I would like to look up my signature and of others that I know attended that 1964 - 65 World's Fair. --Doug talk 13:20, 2 January 2008 (UTC)


 * I've expanded the article a little. Someday when you have some free time, take a look at Westinghouse Time Capsules. --Doug talk 00:51, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
 * The article was a DYK earlier today! --Doug talk 21:00, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Great clues! That will keep me busy for awhile. When I come across something I can add to the article I'll put it in. Also now I am in contact with others that know sometime of these time capsules (i.e. Knute Berger, co-founder of the International Time Capsule Society at Oglethorpe University in Atlanta, Georgia, home of the Crypt of Civilization and Ed Reis the Westinghouse Historian at the Senator John Heinz Pittsburgh Regional History Center.--Doug talk 12:38, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Sent off an e-mail to a Geo Fletcher who is suppose to be in charge of the Research Library (Room 315) of the New York Public Library, however have not received an answer back from him yet. Perhaps they are overwhelmed with requests. Do you think I should wait a few more days or that he will even answer? I asked him of the Guest Book among the information you furnished me. It could be a real project(?) - don't know! I live in Myrtle Beach, so can not look myself. Do you or anyone you know ever get over there? Do you know of anyone local in the New York area that is very interested in the 1964 NYWF that perhaps might be interested in looking over this material?--Doug talk 18:35, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks! I'll keep you posted when I get material from whatever sources so there is not double effort and work.--Doug talk 19:16, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Sent update to you. Perhaps if a person had a digital camera (or portable scanner) some pictures could be taken of the 1939-40 fair scrapbook material that is relevent or of some pages of the Westinghouse Guest Book if found among the materials, or other materals that might be useful for the Wikipedia article. --Doug talk 20:14, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

Left turn at 1345
04-Jan-2008: I'm letting "1345" drift for now, but agree with your recommmendation to update "1340s" instead. They are quite set in their focus on 1345, regardless of the 175,000 other-language wiki articles that treat year-articles as timelines of Events/ Births/Deaths, preferring essays be written elsewhere. Of course "1345_timeline" (and such) would become orphaned, but I can kludge the navbox templates to re-connect "1345_timeline" back into the world of year articles. I don't believe those 1345 family of co-wikipedians or even sock-puppets would get very far: just think how hard it is to rewrite 50 pop-culture articles, not even requiring research back into 134x. At some point, essays can be moved into "1340s" or such, which they themselves might come to realize once they see the reality of your decade-level viewpoints. Also, people can glean events from the essay-style articles to expand the standard timelines (sources confirm Notre Dame was completed circa 1345), but also add other timeline events not POV focused in the essays. The chilling effect of updating formal prose would otherwise kill most event updates. What shocked me most was: no mention of the Renaissance in 1345, even though the Italian Renaissance predated the European by 50 years, with the "recovery of Aristotle" being 12th and 13th century: of course any essay will stray into NPOV issues, which is another reason the timeline-style was preferable: limited NPOV ranting. However, someone had to add some events about 1345, so essay-style is better than empty stub. Anyway, enjoy your wikibreak and thanks for the decade-level recommendation: that viewpoint has saved the day for eventually fixing the year-format rebellion. You've earned 2 months of wikibreak already! -Wikid77 (talk) 18:18, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

Vote for a post-meetup restaurant
I'm charged with making the reservations for us, so let's make it official. We'll do this via voting and everyone including anonymous voters, sockpuppets, and canvassed supporters is enfranchised. Voting irregularities and election fraud are encouraged as that would be really amusing in this instance. Please vote for whichever restaurant you would like to eat at given the information provided above and your own personal prejudices at Meetup/NYC. The prevailing restaurant will be called first for the reservation. If a reservation cannot be obtained at the winning restaurant, the runner-up restaurant will be called thus making this entire process pointless. Voting ends 24 hours after this timestamp (because I said so). ScienceApologist (talk) 17:19, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

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project:Meetup/NYC
Dear Pharos; Below I add some notes about a proposal for a new IRC channel related to Yiddish issues. Please do not hesitate to let your friends / participants of your meeting know about this channel. Best regards

‫·‏לערי ריינהארט‏·‏T‏·‏m‏:‏Th‏·‏T‏·‏email me‏·‏‬ 06:07, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

« שמועס »
Dear friend please come to to see if we can use this channel as a place for Yiddish chats. This form should work at when you are using Firefox, Konqueror or Opera. Unfortunatelly if does not work yet in Internet Explorer.&lrm;

Please search in at the seventh item in .&lrm; It is .&lrm; I assume that you agree to add such an  item at  to  as soon as our friends m:n:en:user:bawolff ... have fixed the code. Please do not hesitate to write your comments in the comment section.&lrm;

Please make proposals about translating of the text / help: Only Latin characters and Latin numbers are allowed as « Your Nickname: ». Exceptions are « tekhniker|avek », « ales-viser » etc. Please add some explanations about accessing the channel « #kavehoyz » by using the page chatwikizine: One should select the channel « #kavehoyz » from the channel list, select a Nickname and hit enter. All other fields are optional.&lrm;

Thanks in advance and Good luck! Best regards

‫·‏לערי ריינהארט‏·‏T‏·‏m‏:‏Th‏·‏T‏·‏email me‏·‏‬ 06:07, 9 January 2008 (UTC)