User talk:Roy da Vinci/old

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WikiThanks
For your charitable action in fixing my signature, thus avoiding unnecessary stress on server and browser, and averting embarassment to moi, I offer you WikiThanks. &mdash; Xiong &#29066; talk 23:19, 2005 Apr 11 (UTC)

Thank you
You know something, Roy, you're the rarest and best kind of newcomer. I've welcomed about 500 people, and have received fewer than 30 "thanks". You are the first to make a suggestion, no less such a very good one! :) I really appreciate it, and I'll add that in right now. (By the way, I like your signature)

If you have any questions, or need any kind of help or guidance, feel free to let me know. – ClockworkSoul 04:21, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Welcome to the Wikipedia
Welcome, !

Here are some useful tips to ease you into the Wikipedia experience:

Also, here are some odds and ends that I find useful from time to time:
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Feel free to ask me anything the links and talk pages don't answer. You can most easily reach me by posting on my talk page.

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Inca-stub and Inca-myth-stub
Hi Roy da Vinci - I note you've created two new stub templates. Did you realise that stub types should normally be cleared by WikiProject Stub sorting before creation? That way they can be vetted to check that there are a viable number of stubs (at least 60-100) and that the category does not cross the existing stub hierarchy before the stub is created.

If you can provide any information on why these stubs were created, please add a note to entry for these stubs at WikiProject Stub sorting/Criteria giving the reason for the stubs. In addition, if there is any Wikiproject associated with these stubs add that information. Thanks. --Allen3 talk 23:04, Apr 23, 2005 (UTC)


 * I've been too hasty, and too absorbed in my editing, and I apologize for rushing through the stub process. However, I still think at least one stub of this sort should stay. --R OY  YO &#1071; 00:31, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Hi Roy - sorry to have to tell you this, but Inca-myth-stub's being deleted. However, there is a new group of myth-related stub templates, so the broader template of americas-myth-stub can be used for any inca mythology articles. Grutness...  wha?  13:36, 8 August 2005 (UTC)

Image:Rmurdoch.jpg
This image has been placed on Image Sleuthing. We want to know the source or any information to help us form a fair use claim. You claimed this image to be public domain. Can you provide a source for this image or give us any information to help back up this claim, or can you make a fair use claim? If we can't keep this image we will ask for it to be deleted. Zeimusu | (Talk page) 08:34, 7 May 2005 (UTC)
 * The image's info and tag have been fixed. Yet again, I rushed through something important.  Sorry for the trouble. --R OY   YO &#1071; 16:00, 7 May 2005 (UTC)

Nguyen Cao Ky
Just so you know, page moves should never be done by copying and pasting from one article to another - the move function should be used. If you are unable to move an article then just post a message at WP:RM. I've now fixed the histories by merging them. Cheers, violet/riga (t) 18:44, 9 May 2005 (UTC)

Image:Allhelgonakyrkan.gif
I saw your picture, Image:Allhelgonakyrkan.gif, and i am 100 % sure that it isn't the church located in the Helgalund area, Stockholm. The Allhelgona church is a wooden church. Where did you get the picture from? Jordgubbe 15:05, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)



I did a check, it looks like the church in Lund. Moving to that article Zeimusu | (Talk page) 23:20, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Biological warfare
Noticed your edit regarding bio warfare incidents against American Indians. FYI. A number of discussion pages in Wiki periodically debate this ever controversial issue. See User:Kevin Myers' edit history on the Smallpox article and his excellent work on Pontiac's Rebellion. He also recently completed an extensive rewrite to Population history of American indigenous peoples. Chime into the discussion pages if you have good sources on these issues. They seem to be few and far between. Comments welcome. WBardwin 04:12, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)

template ll nominated for deletion
Hi - You might want to visit Templates_for_deletion. Someone has nominated template:ll (which you created a while ago) for deletion. -- Rick Block (talk) July 1, 2005 23:29 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the notice. --R OY  YO &#1071; 2 July 2005 01:07 (UTC)

Some people don't know how to do links - really?
Why go to the trouble to write scandinavian when (presumably by design), scandinavian produces exactly the same external effect and is a much more convenient syntax. If you don't look at the source, you will not be able to tell what the distinction is. --Red King 5 July 2005 23:14 (UTC)
 * Is there a problem? As far as I can tell, you are saying that I should have optimised the Scandinavia link by changing   to  .  But since that seems to be exactly what I did, I'm afraid I don't know what you are getting at. --R OY   YO &#1071; 6 July 2005 00:19 (UTC)
 * Yes, there's a problem. I can't tell my left from my right!  I "decided" that you had undone what I did, when actually you had redone what I did...  (scandinavian).  I confused the new column and the old column. I will now go away and write out 100 times "I must not jump to conclusions", followed by another 100 lines "if it is my bed time, I will stop editing".  --Red King 6 July 2005 10:09 (UTC)

American
Thanks Roy for approaching me. Since I wasn't sure what you wanted, I created a temporary file at User:Acjelen/Temp/American with some changes I would like to make to the current article American. As you will note, this includes section titles, a few additional comments on the wide use of the narrow sense of American, and restored text on the obsolete "American Race". My main concern is that some editors of this article will want to exclude the narrow sense and other editors will want to excluse the broader sense. Many people of the United States are surprised about, and even angry over, the debate. Conversely, many people of the Americas have equally strong feelings. Another concern I have is that this article and the discussion of the usage debate should not devolve into anti-Americanism, racism, jingoism, or political globalism. Finally, I dislike editors making universal statements about what "everyone" or "all" the people of a particular place do, say, feel, or want. I hope this helps. Tell me what you'd like to see. -Acjelen 06:03, 10 July 2005 (UTC)

Roy, on further reflection, I've changed my mind. Please see American and Use of the word American. Please feel free to make any changes you wish. -Acjelen 02:22, 21 July 2005 (UTC)

Chichén Itzá vs Chichen Itza
Hi. See Talk:Chichen Itza for discussion on why the article is at the unaccented rendering-- in short, because the name is Maya, not Spanish. Cheers, -- Infrogmation 12:16, 11 July 2005 (UTC)

WikiProject Pre-Columbian America
Hi! I'm interested to know what your ideas are for this wikiproject. I don't know if I could help much, but I'd try to lend a hand. I'm also concerned that indigenous languages and cultures in the Americas (as well as those in Africa and Australasia) don't have much representation on Wikipedia, yet. I'm sure it will change. Anyway, keep up the good work! Chamdarae 00:58, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

Templates' purpose
Help me out here: what should we be using templates for, rather than this? I'm still a newbie to template world, that's why I made this one.

If I understand it right, templates are to be used for content whose layout is likely to change frequently (or upon agreement), and which needs to be kept consistent across the wiki. Example - if we were to put a different NPOV notice everytime, whatever we fancy it to be, usability would suffer. So we use to carry the same semantics, but details of implementation improvable at will. Your template didn't serve this purpose, since a centralized change in it would do no good unless (nearly) all language pages were renamed - clearly infeasible. But I'm too lazy to find a reference that backs me on this. User:logixoul 21:29, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

Image:Imperialism.jpg
Hello. You uploaded this image in February. I was wondering if you know the original source of it. Someone asked on the help desk and we're trying to figure out who published the carton. Thanks. Dmcdevit·t 09:54, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Sorry if I was cryptic above. :) It's not a problem. We had a question from a person who wants to use it in research for a publication, but wants to know the source. Anything you could tell us would be great. That's all. Thanks. Dmcdevit·t 23:46, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

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 * All right, I could not find information on the license, but I justified it for fair use.R OY YO &#1071;

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Oops
I seem to have a problem with loading random pictures illegally. Sorry. If there is another one without a license, maybe it's better to just take it off and find a different one.R OY YO &#1071; 02:21, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

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