User talk:84user

Stellar work

Welcome and thank you for your stellar work on the talk page of the Fritzl case where you summarized and "indexed" Austrian news broadcasts over several weeks. I hope you are going to contribute to editing the Wiki article about the case.--Kathlutz (talk) 05:22, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

YouTube Flash issue

This has been moved from Talk:YouTube, since it was not strictly article related. Hopefully this answers the question. --♦IanMacM♦ ^{(talk to me)} 20:34, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

YouTube or Adobe changed Flash version requirement?

Has YouTube or Adobe changed which Flash version is required in the last day? Yesterday youtube was working for me on Firefox and Opera (on Vista), but today youtube is reporting I should download a new Flash version, and the adobe download page lists "Adobe Flash Player version 9.0.124.0". Javascript code navigator.plugins["Shockwave Flash"].description returns "Shockwave Flash 9.0 r45", so I assume I have an older version.

Also youtube is now redirecting to uk.youtube.com for some reason (I am not in or near the UK, www.youtube.com used to be fine). uk.youtube.com looks broken to me (no page style and warnings about out of date Flash) I do not remember changing Flash for months. Does anyone know what this could be about? -84user (talk) 06:20, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

Hmmm, youtube is now working and I have not done anything except wait. I did look at www.adobe.com but their download page was broken for me. I guess this is one of those glitches. My Flash version remains at "Shockwave Flash 9.0 r45", so I guess youtube is happy with that! -84user (talk) 06:29, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

Shockwave Player is not the same as Adobe Flash Player, and is often used for online games, eg Penguin Rush at [1]. To check which version of Flash Player is installed on a computer, right click on a Flash animation or video, and select "About Adobe Flash Player". The latest version is 9.0.124.0. YouTube pages have a national flag in the top right hand corner showing which version you are connected to, and it can be changed by clicking on it. --♦IanMacM♦ ^{(talk to me)} 07:08, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, that's interesting to know. I see "Shockwave Flash" and not "Player". When I right click a flash video and select "About...", http://www.macromedia.com/software/flash/about/ opens in a new tab and reports "Adobe Flash Player ... Version 9,0,45,0 Installed". I could not do this earlier because all YouTube displayed was "Hello, you either have JavaScript turned off or an old version of Adobe's Flash Player. Get the latest Flash player." (exactly as when one disables Javascript, which I hadn't). When I clicked on the "Get" link I got a broken adobe page (now it works, but I'm declining the install for now). It looks like there are many confusingly similar names.

Firefox "about:plugins" lists "NPSWF32.dll ... Shockwave Flash 9.0 r45" with "application/x-shockwave-flash" and description "Adobe Flash movie", which all matches what I see with my javascript code. I looked at miniclip.com but Firefox claims missing plugins and wanted to install "Macromedia Shockwave Player 10.0", which I rejected. Finally as you say, there is a national flag and I must have changed it to UK myself and forgot about it! That explains that mystery. -84user (talk) 08:01, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

The message "Hello, you either have JavaScript turned off or an old version of Adobe's Flash Player" is a known issue and has a page on YouTube's help site: [2]. However, some YouTube users have received this message when other video sharing sites are working, and only YouTube seemed to have the problem: [3]. When there is a problem with getting YouTube videos to play, try another video sharing website, eg Metacafe or Vimeo. If these are working ok, then the problem could be due to technical issues at the YouTube website itself, eg [4]. Have a break for an hour or so, and then try again. Sometimes YouTube videos are slow to load or do not load at all, and this may be because the server computers at YouTube are down or having difficulty keeping up with the demand at certain times of day (see Latency (engineering) and Lag). --♦IanMacM♦ ^{(talk to me)} 17:17, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

Please end this thread. This discussion page is meant to talk about improving the article, not a general troubleshooting guide for using YouTube. Thank you. --ZimZalaBim ^talk 17:21, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

OK. Wikipedia is not a help forum or howto manual, but I have tried to answer the question so that future users do not post the same question. --♦IanMacM♦ ^{(talk to me)} 17:35, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

Lady Drummond Hay

Thanks for the Time magazine link. Grace H-D-H was my great aunt and on page two it talks about her parents meeting her in the US, they were my great grand-parents. MrMarmite (talk) 09:22, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

There is a dutch documentary about her being made (should be made by now). I let them have copied of a lot of her letters that I have. Also, have you read Botting's book on the matter? MrMarmite (talk) 11:20, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

By way of the Village Pump

I noticed you made a cross-post on Wikipedia talk:Categorization#LargeCategoryTOC as in German wikipedia there. Note I gave you an answer at length much earlier today. Hope that helps. // FrankB 04:28, 3 July 2008 (UTC)

Yer welcome. Meant to drop a ping here earlier. Only happenstance I got reminded at the pump. I would have patrolled back in a few daze though. Maybe. I don't do watch lists. Cover too much ground. Cheers. // FrankB 05:08, 3 July 2008 (UTC)

FYI, Just saw this, which looks interesting, but haven't the time to follow the links to make sure I got the point. Of course, the many are on vacations this time of year, but if I'd invested the time you did, I'd make sure to post a link to Proposals on the Policies Vpump. // FrankB 19:34, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

Thanks

I was looking for someone that could speak German to retranslate LZ 130 Graf Zeppelin, I don't think web translators are good at it. It's good that you retranslated the text.

Thanks, Frankyboy5 (talk) 18:06, 3 July 2008 (UTC)

Barnstar from Bodnotbod

		The Original Barnstar
		for some good work on Compact Cassette and other articles bodnotbod (talk) 16:42, 19 July 2008 (UTC)

Thanks

...for taking an interest in the article and/or discusion for Gliese 581 c.
--GabrielVelasquez (talk) 23:50, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

"Country" at the 2008 Summer Olympics

Thought i'd alert you to save you some unnecessary work that the day by day medals tables will be removed in a few days (after the end of the games) following discussion at Wikiproject olympics. Basement12 (T.C) 14:25, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

wikibits.js

I'd appreciate it if you left some comments on the bugzilla pages for the changes to "wikibits.js" you tested. You can find them here: [5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13]. Thanks again! SharkD (talk) 03:15, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

LHC bomb

		The E=mc² Barnstar
		For solving a problem on the article Large Hadron Collider ϢereSpielChequers 07:47, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

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Your Tycho Brahe copy editing invitation

I shall delete your copy editing invitation in the Tycho Brahe article because apart from being mistaken and injust in my view, the last time somebody copy edited what I wrote they rendered it illogical nonsense. This misplaced general invitation may well promote the same. I do not see any difficulty in parsing the paragraphs of that section such as you claim, nor any other defects such as implied. It was drafted with great care to clarify key logical points. If you do have any specific criticisms and edit suggestions for its improvement I would be grateful if you would first post them on the Talk page or on my User Talk page for discussion first, rather than posting any general invitation on the article itself.--Logicus (talk) 17:43, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for letting me know. I have added some of my concerns at Talk:Tycho Brahe#Tycho's Geo-heliocentric Astronomy. -84user (talk) 19:40, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

What did you think of my response so far in Talk:Tycho Brahe to your helpful criticisms, and what I have implemented so far, tho not yet finished ? --Logicus (talk) 18:25, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for your response. Sorry I deleted your parallax footnote, but hope you agree with me after reading my critical discussions of the problem there e.g. Tycho could not attribute parallax to rotating Earth because he denied its rotation. Once you feel you undertstand the issue, I would appreciate help with trying to draft brief simple explanation of it to improve the lousy hasty effort I pasted up. --Logicus (talk) 14:08, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

Credit Default Swap

Hi there, many thanks for editing that picture and putting it back up. Could you edit the image again to change the captions from 'insurance' buyer and seller to 'protection' buyer and seller plz? Article specifically notes that a CDS is not insurance. Thanks!! 198.240.128.75 (talk) 14:20, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

 Done -84user (talk) 15:10, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

Thank you 198.240.128.75 (talk) 15:51, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

FA graph

Hi, I saw the images at Wikipedia_talk:Featured_article_statistics#Graphs (November_2008), and was wondering if you might have time to do the same for the Wikipedia:Featured lists? (I'm not sure how complicated the process is(?). Just a longtime-beginner-ubuntu user myself; Don't know my way around emacs or modern office-software yet...). Thanks. -- Quiddity (talk) 04:04, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

I can do it, but the process needs the data in the form of two columns: subsection name and number in subsection. I made an example for just the Featured Lists Media subsections here Image:FL Media barchart 2008-11-30.svg.

Example numbers of Featured Lists in Media section. Click on image for details of data and instructions on how to recreate in different forms.

Creating the bar chart or pie chart is actually quite simple once the data is available. For example, if you can create a text file in this format:

Episodes Seasons	58
Episodes Series	50
Academy Awards	        12

(or better, to make things easier, using commas instead of sequences of spaces)

then the chart creation is just a matter of copy and paste in Gnumeric and choosing style of chart. For the FA charts I customised the charts to make the font bold and larger, make the axis labels bold and larger, and slanted the text. I did that to make the charts readable when viewed as a thumbnail. All this should also be possible using Microsoft Excel but I do not have that installed.

Example numbers of Featured Lists by major section

Now, (this is going to be a long discussion, so skip it if not relevant) if someone was to do a fresh chart regularly then an automated means of counting the FLs is needed. For the above example I used the "counta" function in Gnumeric to save counting manually. But the Wikipedia:Featured lists page is not laid out to make such automated counting possible, unlike the Wikipedia:Featured articles page (at least not without using Perl or awk-like scripts). If another "view" of the FL page, in the FA-style, could be produced, where there are major sections followed by simple lists of articles, then data-creating can be mostly automated. Even better would be some SQL that would generate the desired data (but I could not see any relationships between the main section headers and the articles listed - no categories for "Art Featured list" for example). I am now doing have now done a chart Image:FL barchart by number 2008-11-30.svg for the top sections Art to "Politics and government", but the manual editing of the sub- and sub-sub-section text data would get tedious to repeat. Anyway have a look at the instructions above, and/or produce your own ordered data lists to feed into Gnumeric for other charts. 84user (talk) 14:39, 30 November 2008 (UTC) (Added major chart)84user (talk) 15:59, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

Clickable images on Orders of Magnitude (length) page

These clickable images are great! Can you make one for the 10^-6 to 10^5 range too? TWCarlson (talk) 16:39, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

ISRO Images

Try this for information- http://www.isro.org/rep2008/citizens.htm —Preceding unsigned comment added by Johnxxx9 (talk 09:40, 8 December 2008 (UTC)

moved message from Prad2609

Hi, Any work of ISRO may be reproduced with the words Credit: ISRO. I will check with them again Prad2609 (talk) 14:50, 17 December 2008 (UTC)pradeep

I have replied on your Talk page here. Please also see Wikipedia talk:Noticeboard for India-related topics#ISRO images - freely licensed?. 84user (talk) 15:34, 17 December 2008 (UTC)

I'll try later

I live in Bangalore and near the ISRO headquarters. I am pretty busy now with my exams so I'll try going there and meeting somebody concerned with this 'ISRO Image' problem in a month or two! What should I ask from them ?????? A written letter or something of that sort ???? There is a public relations officer there, so I'll try contacting him on the behalf of Wikipedia! Just tell me what sort of written statement should I get from him ! I hope I will be allowed. Just reply on my talk page. johnxxx9 (talk) 20:34, 18 December 2008 (UTC)

How is this letter on my talk page (talk) and what sort of reply should I get from him in the form of a letter.johnxxx9 (talk) 21:54, 18 December 2008 (UTC)

Copyright concerns; tagging

Hello, 84user. Thank you for pointing out your copyright concerns with File:ComparisnofOV.jpg. I'm dropping you a line just to let you know that the tag that you placed on the image is specifically used for text that violates copyright. For images that are clear copyright violations, you can follow the procedure for speedy deletion. For images that are suspected to be copyright violations, we have a review board for possibly unfree images. For images used under suspect non-free content criteria, we have non-free content review. Other image copyright concerns are handled in various ways (see Wikipedia:Guide to image deletion for specifics.) I have corrected the tag on this image so that it can be handled in the proper venue (it was listed at Wikipedia:Possibly unfree images/2008 December 14, in case you'd like to weigh in), but I wanted to let you know for future use in case you should encounter another image that raises concerns. Thanks again for pointing out the potential problem. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 12:47, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

Animal Farm

Thanks for your change. I would usually take this to discuss with the orignal poster but it's just a dynamic IP address. On a different topic I am watching there is a comment kinda grumbling at "registered users" as if that is hard to do.

Not sure about the accents— do we need more? I appreciate that they are not used on caps but a couple of words here seem to cry out for them.

SimonTrew (talk) 13:56, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

I had the Crick biog in an engkish first edition, but sold it a couple of months ago. grrr.... SimonTrew (talk) 22:14, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

Just wanted to say thank-you for your improvements under "Freedom of the Press". Very nice.

Best wishes SimonTrew (talk) 19:49, 14 April 2009 (UTC)

Hey, thanks for doing those order-of-magnitude pictures!

I had been wanting to do just what you did, but I was too lazy. And thanks for putting nicer textures on the ones I made, too! It's not every day that you find out that someone else has validated your procrastination. Paul Stansifer 03:14, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

Nano

Please have a look at User talk:Rsrikanth05#Indian numbering system. --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 11:44, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

I decided to keep a discussion on the talk page, as I know a few people who visit my talk apge and thus would rather comment on it rather than the original page where you posted. Also, read my response on the Nano Page. --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 11:46, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

And all the articles ou selected might have non Indian numerals, mainly because they were edited by some non Indian entitiy... --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 11:35, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

TfD nomination of Template:Lists of newspapers in South America

Template:Lists of newspapers in South America has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you. Neelix (talk) 19:00, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

Gliese 581 reference?

I'm confused about your preferred handling of the footnote in the Gliese 581 article. The current approach creates a non sequitur for all but one of the citations of the associated article. In print, this would be handled by creating a second Op. cit. entry for the Bonflis article and placing the quote there. I know that Op. cit. is discouraged on Wikipedia, but there must be some similar form that replaces it that's more appropriate to use than the current approach. — Aldaron • T/C 12:24, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

Yes my edit is not ideal and not really my preference, more a stop-gap until a better way arrives. I'm trying another way using Template:Harvard citation that might be closer to the Op. cit. appearance. 84user (talk) 13:08, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

Cool. I'll be watching and learning. Citation is one of the more confusing and useful features of Wikipedia. — Aldaron • T/C 13:10, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

Cite web

I strongly oppose your changes to cite web, but I figured discussing it with you instead of simply reverting would be better. I use the template "cite web" often, and typing it in without "Template:" in front of it is much faster and more convenient. Also, I don't imagine much confusion between "cite web" and "WebCite" but that's just me. We should get enough opinions on this to adequately determine consensus. ~EdGl ★ 22:21, 17 May 2009 (UTC)

I'm not really attached to my revert, but I was impressed by the arguments in Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2008 April 8#Cite web → Template:Cite web that pointed out it was a cross namespace redirect (this surprises novice users, not myself anymore, but I am trying to imagine what it's like for a mere non-expert user) and by those that get the two mixed up (I use both and always forget which is which). On the other hand the fact it saves time for busy editors probably outweighs my concern for the reader. The discussion only had keep or delete "votes", without considering a middle ground. I thought a disambig was a reasonable compromise.

If it is returned to the cross-namespace redirect, then I would like some hatnote to (a) warn the reader what has happened, and (b) link to other "cite web"/"webcite"/"citation" possibilities. I admit my reasoning is weaker in this case because "cite web" has a different order to "web cite", so I'll remain neutral (inactive in fact) if it is changed. If you want you can move or point to my reply to wherever it is discussed. By the way, I see Cross-namespace_redirect was recently deleted and is now at Wikipedia:Cross-namespace redirects. 84user (talk) 23:09, 17 May 2009 (UTC)

I have reverted your edit to cite web and started a discussion here for our continued debate :) ~EdGl ★ 02:13, 18 May 2009 (UTC)

Hello, 84user. You have new messages at Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2009 May 11.
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Tycho's Nova Decision - May 15, 2009

Moved to Talk:SN 1572 § Tycho's Nova Decision - May 15, 2009

Dead links

As noted in your recent edit of the page of Republic of Singapore Air Force, the two dead links were still valid at the time of adding into the article. And in the event of a dead link being discovered anywhere on wikipedia (not limited to just this article), we should leave it be while we keep on looking for an alternative or better quality one to replace the dead links. Hope this helps you understand my point. --Dave1185 (talk) 10:34, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

I suppose I should have explained better how dead they were, but yes, I've now restored them with an explanation so alternatives can be found. I did first look at youtube user's "alert5" video list but did not find alterntives. Incidently the reason I added the alternative links to Tengah Air Base was also to avoid this linkrot problem in addition to helping users without Flash. See Wikipedia talk:External links#You Tube for some discussion on the general problem. 84user (talk) 13:51, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

• No harm done, just wanted you to understand my point as I'm constantly updating this particular page as well as other pages related to it. And the reason why I like to add youtube video links is because it is a very popular website or tool to showcase a highlighted topic on wikipedia, although I was a skeptic at first. Gradually, as I search and sift through youtube for the materials I wanted to find, I find that it is only as useful a tool as the person who uploads it, the rest is up to us to determine. Therefore, we shouldn't deny youtube being use on wikipedia when there are other preset restrictions. --Dave1185 (talk) 15:11, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

Books

Good enough; they're back. DS (talk) 18:20, 29 May 2009 (UTC)

Leslie Vosshall article you deleted

Can you please bring it back?

Dr. Vosshall is a renowned scientist in the field of neurobiology & olfaction. She is an HHMI investigator and here is her profile.

http://www.hhmi.org/news/vosshall_bio.html

These are her other career accomplishments: In 2005, Dr. Vosshall received the New York City Mayor’s Young Investigator Award for Excellence in Science and Technology and the Irma T. Hirschl/Monique Weill-Caulier Trust Research Award. She was named a John Merck Fund Fellow and received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers in 2002. In 2001, Dr. Vosshall was named a Beckman Foundation Young Investigator and received a McKnight Neuroscience Scholar Award and a National Science Foundation CAREER Award.

If you still do not think she does not deserve her own page, I can probably find many other scientists within my own field who don't deserve their own pages either so you can delete them (and I don't neceessarily disagree with increasing the baseline anonymity required for a scientist to get his own page). —Preceding unsigned comment added by Seunghwane (talk • contribs) 15:19, 10 June 2009 (UTC)

I have never deleted any article. Leslie Vosshall does not seem to have ever existed. If you find what the article was called, and it shows as deleted, you can request undeletion at Wikipedia:Deletion review. Alternatively why not ask how best to create a biography page at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Science. I hope this helps. 84user (talk) 16:31, 10 June 2009 (UTC)

Oops

Thanks for catching my mistaken rollback here :) — Deon^talk 07:08, 27 July 2009 (UTC)

No problem. The IP user was in the middle of a sequence of unwanted edits so it was confusing for a while. 84user (talk) 07:14, 27 July 2009 (UTC)

List of films in the public domain in the United States

I noticed that earlier you were active on an article created called List of films in the public domain in the United States. Since there was such a fuss over the citations, I have began adding footnotes for every film. If you would like to help, the Internet Archive is a great resource for getting citations for these films; it has valid justification for more than half of the films. While not all films on the list page as of right now are in the Archive, just because a film is not in the Archive does not mean it isn't in the public domain. I have started at the top, and the ones I have skipped are not in the Archive, and, if you like, you can begin adding citations starting from the bottom of the list.

Here is the homepage for the Archive: http://www.archive.org/index.php

JEN9841 (talk) 07:02, 2 August 2009 (UTC)

StateUniversity.com and Net Industries LLC

Hello,

I recently found a statement on wikipedia, attributed to you, stating your belief or suspicion that www.StateUnviersity.com is a copyright-infringing site. I work for StateUniversity.com and Net Industries LLC and can assure you that every piece of content appearing on StateUniversity.com is appropriately licensed from the copyright holder. The site consists of proprietary content, content licensed from publishers, and public domain content that is processed and organized by StateUniversity.com staff. Many of the pages contain a brief summary paragraph taken from wikipedia, but increasingly this paragraph is being replaced by proprietary school reviews or licensed content.

I would be pleased to discuss further at your convenience. You may reach me at bill@stateuniversity.com or (313) 429-9180.

I am not as familiar as I should be with Wikipedia, and I would welcome the opportunity to learn more about it from you.

Best regards,

Bill —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.149.243.152 (talk) 14:38, 4 August 2009 (UTC)

Hello. Please could you provide a link to exactly where this statement is? I have also asked this on your talk page. Thank you. 84user (talk) 14:57, 4 August 2009 (UTC)

Update: Are you referring to the entry I made at Wikipedia:Mirrors and forks/Stu#encyclopedia.stateuniversity.com? I have just rechecked that entry and it seems accurate: a random sample of Cambridge Encyclopedia pages shows evident unattributed copies from Wikipedia. The copies are quite evident. You need to properly attribute the wikipedia contributors that are the copyright holders of the summary text copied, in order to abide by the GFD license. Please see Wikipedia:Mirrors and forks for advice on how to do this. 84user (talk) 16:16, 4 August 2009 (UTC)

Upsilon Andromedae

Upsilon Andromedae's three planets appear separated: b is in the Planet Data Table while c and d are in Candidate extrasolar planets, and the Star Data Table lists only b. Shouldn't they be together? 84user (talk) 14:47, 22 August 2009 (UTC)

This area has recently seen a split in the one chart into two charts and the process continues. You should feel free to continue filling in the blanks and correcting errors like the one you pointed out. GabrielVelasquez (talk) 04:20, 25 August 2009 (UTC)

Tycho's accuracy?

Hi. Do you have anything useful to say re the discussion of the accuracy of Tycho's observational astronomy I have started in Talk:Tycho Brahe. I recall you were reading the Rawlins book last time we exchanged discussions. All best. --Logicus (talk) 17:34, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

Good idea to put the Wesley ref I deleted in the Further Reading section. It is a useful article that should not be lost, just a pity it is so limited and useless on the main issue of Tycho's overall stellar accuracy. Also Rawlins' fascinating and Herculean article relocated in Further Reading good. On Rawlins and Tycho's accuracy in Cat D, I suggest what we need to know is the max and mean errors of all of the 1004 listed stars for which this is possible, and not just of his reduced list of 761 stars with some 240+ that Rawlins discounts apparently just for the purely hagiographical reason of trying to make Tycho as nearly accurate as possible to his self-professed 1'. Rawlins' thesis ultimately seems to be that Tycho was very accurate once we discount his manifold.inaccuracies, a tautology that equally applies to Hipparchus, Ptolemy, Alfonsine, Prutenic, etc etc. Did u ever compute what Tycho's Cat D mean error was on Rawlins' awesome analyses of its ecliptic latitude and longitude errors? --Logicus (talk) 18:00, 24 September 2009 (UTC)

Agatha Christie Talk Archive

Hey 84user! Thanks for changing {{archives}} to {{archives|search=yes}}. I didn’t know about that parameter when I set up the archive. You’ve taught me something new which I always appreciate! Thanks also for using and edit summary! So few do. Don’t you wish they were compulsory, along with registration? But, I digress. I’m going to go and add that search parameter to other talk archives I’ve created. Thanks again! — SpikeToronto (talk) 19:24, 2 September 2009 (UTC)

Neanderthal

Thanks for your help with the article Neanderthal. I had been thinking that that artist's reconstruction incorporated far too much interpretation and guesswork for an encyclopedia, but really don't know how to work with pictures on Wikipedia. Your work has improved the article.

I have a note on the talk page at the end of the section "elephant in the room". It has nothing to do with what the person who created that section wanted to discuss, but what I concider to be the real "elephant in the room" around that article, namely a nobel savage kind of sentimentality that has affected not only the authors of the article, but also the some of the research in the sources. I hope that you will continue to work on the article, hopefully influenced by my skepticism about attempts to redeem the species in the eyes of those embarrassed by their failure to meet modern squeemishness about depicting other species of homonid as inferior to humans. It is less imbalanced in these terms than it used to be, but the article probably still needs some work. Chrisrus (talk) 07:25, 7 September 2009 (UTC)

Your feedback on LiquidThreads

Hi, and thanks for dropping by on my test wiki to leave feedback on LiquidThreads. I thought I'd give some updates on the status of what you reported there. Your problems with the Reply/Quote buttons have been fixed, they were minor bugs in recent changes that I had overlooked. Your problems with 'Live Preview' are known at this time, and bugs are opened against LiquidThreads to have them resolved.

You asked about replying "the wiki way". I assume that this refers to the present practice of editing the talk page and signing afterwards, although this is peculiar to Wikipedia, and not a feature of wikis generally. The intention is that this is replaced by using the "Reply" link, which has numerous advantages over the current method on Wikipedia.

I hope that my responses have been helpful. — Werdna • talk 18:39, 8 September 2009 (UTC)

Yes, thank you for the feedback's feedback. Your message on Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 64#Stopping edit conflicts and making templates more easy to edit made me curious so I tried a few tests. I just retested the Quote and Reply buttons and I confirm they now work. Yes, by "the old wiki way" I meant the wikipedia practice. I now understand that LiquidThreads displays the signature in all cases so that the user does not have to add it. -84user (talk) 19:38, 8 September 2009 (UTC)

Clara Rockmore‎

It's OK to say that she was a virtuoso performer when you source it. The problem is the "she's considered". Please visit Wikipedia:Avoid weasel words. Maybe you could just say "she was a virtuso (...) performer". Cheers --Karljoos (talk) 19:13, 10 September 2009 (UTC)

I've simplified it to "was a virtuoso performer of ... ", removing the "is said to be" that I had used to replace the previous "considered". 84user (talk) 19:29, 10 September 2009 (UTC)

Re: HAPPI colour

I just replied to one of your comments here: User_talk:EpochFail#HAPPI_colour --EpochFail ^{(talk|contribs)} 21:26, 16 September 2009 (UTC)

...and another --EpochFail ^{(talk|contribs)} 15:10, 17 September 2009 (UTC)

...and another --EpochFail ^{(talk|contribs)} 19:31, 17 September 2009 (UTC)

I think I've got it this time. See my talk page for an explanation. --EpochFail ^{(talk|contribs)} 21:44, 22 September 2009 (UTC)

Re: Test results

I just replied to one of your comments here: User_talk:EpochFail#Test_results --EpochFail ^{(talk|contribs)} 03:39, 23 September 2009 (UTC)

Despite my earlier pessimism, I think I've fixed the problem. More details are on my talk page.--EpochFail ^{(talk|contribs)} 17:34, 23 September 2009 (UTC)

Now I'm sure I've fixed it since I have had a chance to test my fix. Hooray! --EpochFail ^{(talk|contribs)} 20:52, 23 September 2009 (UTC)