User talk:JeremyMcCracken

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Brookie here

Hi Sorry - I misread your user page as an article and marked it for deletion - but when I realised the mistake I corrected it and unmarked it! Sorry! Need some fresh air! :) The curate's egg 18:39, 23 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Survey Invitation

Hi there, I am a research student from the National University of Singapore and I wish to invite you to do an online survey about Wikipedia. To compensate you for your time, I am offering a reward of USD$10, either to you or as a donation to the Wikimedia Foundation. For more information, please go to the research home page. Thank you. --WikiInquirer 12:13, 16 March 2007 (UTC)^{talk to me}[reply]

Orphaned non-free image (Image:Louisprice.jpg)

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Thuringowa suburbs

Hi mate thanks for your comments, but i have added some links here that show on the 22 February 2007, i changed the list of suburbs that was in the City of Thuringowa page to a suburbs template, link 1: [1] And then on the 7 July 2007 the user Thewinchester moved the template to the very bottom of the page and removed the Suburbs heading from the page (along with most of the page) so if the Surburbs page was to be deleted, no one would know what suburbs used to in Thuringowa and this is a big part of the history. i would like to remove the template from the bottom of the City of Thuringowa page and add a list of the Former suburbs under a Suburb heading. And also on your comment...Thuringowa has a long 128 year history and back in the 1800's almost all of what is now Townsville was Thuringowa, so if i was to add all of the suburbs that used to be in Thuringowa, i would have to make the list a lot longer.
Also They didn't get deleted because they where existing suburbs of a no longer existent city, Thuringowa merged into Townsville on the 15th of March 2008, and when this merge took place last week, what was Thuringowa city, became Townsville. Thanks again Thuringowacityrep (talk) 09:27, 27 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I checked the date

and I'm pretty sure in Springfield Township, Summit County, Ohio it is still March 31. :) --ZimZalaBim ^talk 02:33, 1 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

April Fools

Nobody found me funny... sigh... well I'm not going to bother reverting all of that, we'll be serious this April 1st. JeremyMcCracken (talk) (contribs) 02:39, 1 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It made me laugh! :) You're now at the official Wikipedia:April fools page. - Mtmelendez ^(Talk) 19:22, 1 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Holy schnikes I made it after all! Yay for free publicity. JeremyMcCracken (talk) (contribs) 20:46, 1 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The Proletariat

Hi, I did a bit of work on The Proletariat. It's not done, but I hope I've addressed your concerns Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Proletariat. Cheers, Pete.Hurd (talk) 07:34, 1 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for taking another look. Pete.Hurd (talk) 15:27, 1 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Left on my user page

Dear Mr McCracken,

(a name I remember from learning FORTRAN forty years ago - are you related).

This is the first time your name has come to my attention.

I defend my children as any mother would, and anyone will get it in the neck, unless they prove that 'back garden' is not a worthy insertion in the wikipedia.

I have defeated:

|not a garden like a rose garden
|not a sufficiently distinctive activity
|not something I like|
|not in another encyclopedia
|not because, I hate you
|not because, the term is too trivial
|not because, I can't think of a reason, but I don't like it anyway

It's because there ought to be an entry, for something not yet defined and described.

That's what's an encyclopedia's for. Chasnor15 (talk) 18:19, 2 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Incivility

None of my comments are uncivil; they are simply strongly and robustly held and expressed.

I find on the wholly Wiki rather mealy mouthed in its pronouncements. I rather expect the dreaded H to have a note saying: "On the whole H was really rather a nasty piece of work".

MCCracken, who I think became a fundamentalist style American preacher, having written the last word on Fortran, wrote a magnificent book on it. Personally I was more of an Algol man myself. And I programmed using - paper tape- archaeocomputing - Not yet in Wiki I fear. Thus, thus were the days. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chasnor15 (talk • contribs) 03:30, 4 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Diagonal intercept clipping

Why do you think wikipedia is being used to generate notability here? This stuff has already been published at a conference. It is accessible to everybody. Agreed, it is not the best of wikipedia pages at the moment, but that is not reason enough for deletion. --Weedrat (talk) 10:25, 6 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

PD sources

almost all plant information is us govt derived sources is in origin Public Domain, from the US Fish and Wildlife Service. DGG (talk) 19:29, 7 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Untitled message

(Was left without its own heading)

Richard Echeverria (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs) (delete) – (View log) Delete no sources to indicate this person's notability - making instruments for notable people doesn't make you notable, any more than making cheeseburgers for them. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 18:18, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

Delete As PeR rEaSoN aBoVe XCharltonTilliDieXTalk/Contribs 18:46, 20 March 2008 (UTC) Keep if sources can be found. If he does build instruments for a co-founder of REM I'd call him notable, but we can't know that he actually does with the article unsourced. JeremyMcCracken (talk) 15:33, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

In clarity, it makes more sense to replace the word 'people' with 'musician' in the above reference. Then relevancy becomes pronounced and understandable. So, if I made custom golf clubs for Tiger Woods which of course were not commercially made, that indeed would make me notable. The only 'rational' reason I can see for this deletion is that it is not sourced as you say. It does grieve me to think of all the 'notable', fascinating and truthfull information that will get deleted and have no home due to so-called notability. Somehow to me the premise of Wiki's is just that: publishing truthfull and notable information that otherwise is unpublished. If in fact information is published somewhere else making it notable/sourced then why go to Wikipedia to begin with? Just go to the notable/published source. Right?— Preceding unsigned comment added by Headsails (talk • contribs) 14:01, 10 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you and Help Me

i am working on this wikipedia page for Dean Karr www.wikipedia.com/Dean_Karr

Dean and i are corresponding on what should be posted

he asked me to post the bio that he uses everywhere, which is the one at imdb then i was told that if i didn't take it down, the page would be deleted and you know, that long list of credits is a lot of work. so i deleted it, but i suck at writing bios so nothing has replaced it yet. NOW, i'm being told it's going to be deleted again! i don't know what to do or what i'm missing.

please help me.

Rikkisixx (talk) 20:14, 12 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Dean Karr

i added a couple articles (still trying to find some interviews) and threw together a quick bio

www.wikipedia.org/dean_karr

what do you think? is that enough to keep the page up? Rikkisixx (talk) 20:49, 12 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

well honestly im not sure what else to do all the articles and interviews for dean are apparently no longer google-able

i have put in all that i can... i just dont get how else to prove the guy is "notable" enough not to be deleted.

Rikkisixx (talk) 21:29, 12 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

needin more help

hey youve been so helpful so far i noticed all of the photos i put up are gone and im being asked for a fair use rationale and im reading the page about it and im just not quite getting it could you explain it in "this is my first wikipedia page and im learning very much as i go" terms? Rikkisixx (talk) 17:22, 14 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Valhalla High School, Valhalla

Hello, JeremyMcCracken. Thanks for keeping an eye out on article quality. I'm dropping you a note to let you know that I have removed the speedy deletion template that you placed on Valhalla High School, Valhalla because the article does not seem to fit the speedy deletion criterion. WP:CSD#A7 is for non-controversial deletions only and explicitly excludes schools. Please contribute to the ongoing AfD if you'd like to argue for deletion. Feel free to let me know at my talk page if you'd like to discuss this further. Thanks. Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 19:41, 17 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

No problem. :) --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 19:44, 17 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

North Korea mediation

Hi. I wanted to tell you I asked User:PhilKnight to tell me if I'm wrong to think that the mediation efforts you provide at Talk:North Korea are not a bit inappropriate considering the Mediation Cabal own statement of mission on its page. Please do not take it personnaly, I may be wrong but I'm quite surprised of the way you handled this (see my last questions at Talk:North Korea. PhilKnight came earlier in the discussion, and since he is quite familiar with MedCab I thought he would be neutral in his assesment. Mthibault (talk) 19:58, 21 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

That's a bit what I'm concerned about, when I mediate I tend to remain neutral on the dispute and get others uninvolved editors to give opinions. Mthibault (talk) 20:06, 21 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]