User talk:Richmond96/Archives/January-February 2009

Userboxes
How can I get a Userboxes table like yours? Blsupr (talk) 03:43, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

citation/third-party sources
I am a freelance journalist (etc etc), author of the Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Resource Book (1995) and editor of Festivale Online Magazine (est. 1996; www.festivale.info ; ISSN 1328-8008).

I use wikipedia quite a lot (thank you) and can help with some fact checking and editing where I have done/ am doing research myself.

I've looked at the citation guidelines, but I'd like a little clarification and I'm not yet comfortable with your process.

For example:

I contacted Tanya Huff last night, and regarding the website listed on wikipedia which is not online she says "The website was actually a fan run site (although officially with my blessing). This lj [live journal] is as close to anything resembling a website I do myself -- albeit sporatically. "

I discovered that my pages on author Paul Collins was corrupt and when I came to the wikipedia page, it needs third-party references.

SO, when I restore the pages, do I use those to confirm the information on the wikipedia page? If some of the facts are supported by my research and appear in my publication (written or edited by me), can Festivale Online Magazine be one of the verifying sources? As a journalist I keep notebooks, interview recordings, correspondence, etc.

I have project called the Series Series (www.series-series.info) that I've been working on for some time. Its under a major rebuild but it includes articles on series, and bookpages which give the reading order for series. Wherever possible I confirm information with authors directly, or with the publicists. Can I help by supplying corrections from the 'horses' themselves?

Academically, I am being cited and quoted in papers/theses on a variety of subjects, mainly film criticism and technology-related issues, but I don't know where that places me in the wikipedia context. I know this partly because I'm contacted and partly because I find my name in searches.

Sorry if this seems to be rambling, but I'm trying to get some context here.

Ali Kayn (talk) 02:12, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

thanks
Ali Kayn (talk) 03:17, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

en dash
I usually just copy one from an existing article and paste where it needs to go. The other way to access it from your computer is to go to the Character Map (providing you're using Windows), usually located in the System Tools folder in the Start Menu. It can be copied from there for pasting. Alternately, typing Alt+0150 (holding down the Alt key and typing the numbers 0150) will create one (probably the easist method ;). --Geologik (talk) 22:07, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

WikiProject College football January 2009 Newsletter
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A warning about (a) disruptive editor(s)
Hi there RICHMOND, VASCO from PORTUGAL here,

I noticed how you left a message on an anonymous IP's talkpage (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:189.73.104.59), referring to various Wikipedia aspects, while offering assistance.

Well, i'll just tip you off telling you it's one of endless IP of vandal BRUNO P.DORI (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Bruno_P._Dori), banned for also endless disruptive edits in football (soccer) infoboxes, almost on-sight reverting people correcting his edits (three-revert rule violated to the fullest extent), has never engaged one single edit summary nor has he engaged in any conversation whatsoever (talkpage here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Bruno_P._Dori), which resulted in this main account being blocked indefinitely, after being (over)duly warned.

In case it's any help, here is a list of sockpuppets associated with this account, about 30 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Suspected_Wikipedia_sockpuppets_of_Bruno_P._Dori). I also tipped the proper people at the proper space (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Edit_warring#Disruptive_editor.2FEdit_warring).

Attentively, VASCO AMARAL - --NothingButAGoodNothing (talk) 04:57, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

File:Carnival Celebration.JPG
I was uploading some photos of the cruise ship Carnival Celebration to Commons and I saw that your image above that is used in the infobox for the ships article was PD and uploaded direct to wikipedia so I transferred it to commons - commons:File:Carnival Celebration.JPG. Just wanted you to know. --Captain-tucker (talk) 03:18, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

biggest fan
I LOVE 5 GUM I'M LIKE YOUR BIGGEST FAN OF 5 GUM. WHAT MADE YOU CREATE THIS KIND OF GUM. WHAT EVER YOU PUT IN IT IS VERY GOOD. IT IS SO GOOD THAT WHEN EVER I GET MONEY I GO STRAIGHT TO THE STORE. I DON'T CARE WHAT TIME IT IS I STILL GO TO THE STORE EVEN THOUGH IT'S LIKE 3 O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING I STILL GO TO THE STORE MAN I'M TELLING YOU I LOVE THIS GUM. THIS GUM CHANGED MY LIFE I LOVE THIS GUM SO MUCH THAT I ALMOST BEAT A KID UP FOR THIS GUM THAT'S HOW MUCH I LOVE THIS GUM. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.113.240.130 (talk) 07:53, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

Hi!
Hi! Its nice to meet ya! Hey, do you live in Texas? Let me know when ya respond! Bye! Aidyman6 (talk) 00:46, 30 January 2009 (UTC)

Hi again
Where do you live then? Aidyman6 (talk) 13:44, 30 January 2009 (UTC)

Age of Empires III
Why do you want to know? Do you want to know the procedure or image licensing? Your question was a bit ambiguous. LOTRrules  Talk   Contribs  23:45, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

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IP 72.229.14.217
Hi, Richmond96:

Thanks for your kind words about my editing.

Here's the strange reality. At least a year ago I created a Wikipedia account because I wanted to edit an article that had been locked; creating an account was the only way I could access it.

But I've never used my account. (Which means, of course, that I never did edit that locked article.) Instead, I arrive at Wikipedia unexpectedly, usually because I'm using it for its intended purpose as a reference source, and while I'm reading an entry I find its exposition to be a little, shall we say, substandard.

My edits are thus on the fly and, depending on how long (and badly) the article is written, I may edit a paragraph or two and then give up. Such was the case last week when I edited some of the entry on H.M.S. Beagle captain Robert FitzRoy. (I edited it from work, so my IP address was obviously different.)

I like Wikipedia and have enormous respect for it as a project -- it's perhaps the single most ambitious undertaking in the history of the web -- but, sadly, I'm of the opinion that the writing is uniformly verbose and clumsy. And my efforts to clean it up are at best a casual hobby and likely will never go beyond that, unless, like so many Americans in the last year, I'm relieved of the burden of my day job.

What's more, that day job is with an online retailer whose abundant product data is nearly as flawed as Wikipedia's writing. While I submit corrections to it far more often than I try to edit Wikipedia articles, there's no question in my mind that both projects are equally hopeless. When data reaches a certain critical mass, lousy stuff becomes noticeable even when it's only 1% of the total.

Bad writing and bad data are an affront to me personally. I edit Wikipedia only because I can: the edit link is only a click away. If I could remember my account name and password I suppose I'd enter it first, but the urge to fix a bad sentence is too overwhelming to wait for my brain to follow proper procedures. And so much of Wikipedia and its elaborate rulebook is too complex for my impatient need to enter edit mode and start fixing before I lose my will ... or interest.

Which is a longwinded way of saying that I admire your fortitude, and your willingness to digest the rulebook and take on a Wikipedia identity. But since I've been editing Wikipedia articles for years and never been tempted to sign up -- and when I did break down and sign up I could never be bothered to remember my account name -- I doubt my relationship to Wikipedia will ever change.

I thought I had a point in this pointless confession ... possibly that Wikipedia is too easy to edit and too hard to join. I'm still not sure. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.229.14.217 (talk) 02:30, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

One quick question
Hi, I'm a ten year old beginning Wiki editor (just learning the markup)and I am wondering if this is appropriate citing for the resource (Wikipedia) for my project. I am planning to pass copies of information from Wikipedia in a Pluto Is A Planet rally. I am planning that the paper contains the following:

On your English Wikipedia on the 18th of the second month at the web address http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clearing_the_neighbourhood, we found this text: "In the end stages of planet formation, a planet will have cleared the neighbourhood of its own orbital zone, meaning it has become gravitationally dominant, and there are no other bodies of comparable size other than its own satellites or those otherwise under its gravitational influence.

A large body which meets the other criteria for a planet but has not cleared its neighbourhood is classified as a dwarf planet. This includes Pluto, which shares its orbital neighbourhood with Kuiper belt objects such as the plutinos."

Is this decent use of the information I found on this domain?

Lozeldafan (talk) 18:36, 20 February 2009 (UTC)

so
so where do you live? Aidyman6 (talk) 18:50, 20 February 2009 (UTC)

When were you born? I was born in 2001. Aidyman6 (talk)

Welcoming Hitler
Did you realize it was Hitler you were welcoming? Chillum 00:18, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

Orphaned articles
When an article is orphaned, should inbound links be added only from other Wikipedia articles, or from external sites too? Rowntrizzle (talk) 15:05, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

On "Adding links" for an orphaned article:

Wikipedia instructions say: "Be careful to check that the search results refer to the topic of this article, and not something else of the same name. When you find an appropriate parent, insert a meaningful link to the orphaned article."

What are the acceptable places to add a link to my article in the parent article?

Thx.

Rowntrizzle (talk) 14:40, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

The orphaned article is Rule Broadcast Systems, Inc.

It is a distributor of many manufacturer's products like Sennheiser (microphones) -- isn't it appropriate to link from the Sennheiser page to the Rule Broadcast Systems, Inc. page?

Rule Broadcast Systems, Inc. is relevant to Sennheiser's business reach. Their relationship is essential.

What is the accepted way to do this?

Thx,

Rowntrizzle (talk) 00:42, 27 February 2009 (UTC)