User talk:KTo288/archive2011-2015

Welcome!

Hello, KTo288, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome! - Nice additions to Oblique order. Interested in military matters? - Skysmith 08:02, 6 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

(PS: Did you try to ask for a new password in previous accounts? - Skysmith 08:02, 6 October 2006 (UTC))[reply]

I didn't check the email option.KTo288 08:13, 6 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Your edits to Human wave attack are great, and the articles quality continues to improve because of it. While the content is certainly good, the style is poor. All contributions should adhere to the standard Manual of Style, which includes the necessity for there to be such things as two spaces after the period on the end of a sentence, one space after a comma, and other important punctuation quirks. Abiding by these guidelines will ensure no one has to go back and fix a great deal of these trivial mistakes. -Markusbradley 15:43, 25 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the tip, and thanks to everybody who has had to clear up after me. Okay, and I promise to read the punctiation guide.KTo288 20:15, 26 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Torture edits

Hi. I've removed your recent torture based edits to both 24 and Torture. Both edits wre based on synthesizing an idea, roughly that '24 is responsible for people accepting torture more than before 24 was around', an idea which you have synthesized based on three citations. However, not one of these articles actually tied the percentages nor increases to the show's popularity, nor demonstrated any sort of overlap between those who NOW accept it but didn't before 24. As such, your additions are really original research, which the link shows is not appropriate on Wikipedia. It's an interesting idea, but I doubt that you'll ever be able to substantiate it through any amount of citation, because there are far MORE things contributing than a single TV show, including post-9/11 fears, ignorance of other cultures, fear-mongering by government officials, hyperbolic panic-based reporting by the media, general anxieties about being hit again, and so on. Interesting articles, though, and there's probably some way to tie in the one that DOES discuss Jack AND torture into the criticisms section, and the one about statistical acceptances into the torture article. However, conflating tortue acceptance with the popularity of a TV show is a bad idea. ThuranX 13:40, 18 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Re: torture in 24

I'll re-write those sections to remove any implicit connection between 24 and the increased acceptance of torture, since OR was your main concern. However I feel I am justified in writing that such criticisms have been made about 24 by third parties; and that it is seen as a factor in the normalisation of torture by the American military.Koonan the almost civilised 14:20, 18 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Noting criticism is justified, the entire other part is OR. There is NO support for the assertion that 24 is a factor in the citations you used. One journalist compares and contrasts the show's version of tortue against what is actually done, but he doesn't say a=b. ThuranX 14:22, 18 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

That looks much better. thanks for finding a way to include it ans stay NPOV. ThuranX 20:51, 18 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. It wasn't as hard to do as I thought it might have been.Koonan the almost civilised 22:22, 18 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia project Earth

I apologise if this seems as if I am dumping something very large and potentially difficult to deal with on you doorstep. However, you are the only person on the Discussion page for the merger of the History of the Danelaw article with the Danelaw article. So, I will make this suggestion to you, and I hope you can offer some helpfull opinion.

If you read my point of view on the discussion page (please do so before you continue...thanks) you will see my thoughts for the solution reach slightly far beyond the simple point in hand. It does though offer some close to hand sollution, in the creation of simple tables which can be put in the See also section of the main article, as Wikitables, or links to pages, which show the relevant timelines. This is simple enough, although the main point my views come to is that it could be the basis for a merger of the Wikipeadia history projects, on the whole, with the development of a map, like the Google map of the Earth, which plots the timeline information, in terms of spaciality, which is clearly a perfect way to illustrate history, with its events in proper context. Furtherly, this could be something which eventually links in with Google Earth itself, lets say, or something like it, with all the culture and power issues written in links which present themselves on the main map, from the names of national routements, and settlements, to the scale of their populations and productivities, on the geographical level.

Such a map could be a focus for all kinds of information, after history, in the spirit of the Wikicommunity indeed, in the sciences especially, with each source of information plotted on the map, with a link to it. Mainly the science behind the existence of the things on the map, like scyscrapers, bridges and tunnels, even factories and the things they produce, or the lifeforms which exist on the planet, which all have historic significances also, with architectural evolution of capitals in our lives, and the evolutional architecture of nature, maybe. Wikispecies, Wikinews, Wikibooks, Wiktionary, all these could be shown on the map, as one big Wikiproject.

I realise this is overtly ambitious, although to say it is over ambitious I think is going too far on the road to nothing special. The software at the core of the Wiki's existence is exactly the sort of software which could mean this sort of thing could be done. Anyway, I will now transfer the timeline to the Danelaw article in the See also section, on a separate Danelaw (Timeline) article. If this suffices, with additions to the History section, then sort out the links and get rid of the History of the Danelaw one.

WikieWikieWikie 19:56, 13 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You deserve a cookie

AfD nomination of Fictional Q-ships

Fictional Q-ships, an article you created, has been nominated for deletion. We appreciate your contributions. However, an editor does not feel that Fictional Q-ships satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion and has explained why in the nomination space (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and the Wikipedia deletion policy). Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Fictional Q-ships and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Fictional Q-ships during the discussion but should not remove the articles for deletion template from the top of the article; such removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Eyrian 16:46, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

I really am impressed by your excellent and comprehensive essay on this at the Afd. As you may gather, there have been a lot of similar ones initiated by the same few people, and any similar assistance you feel like giving will certainly be appreciated. Incidentally, is there a particular wikiproject involved with this? You might check that they have been notified, but remember to just inform them, not ask them to !vote in a particular way. DGG (talk) 01:25, 17 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It is not necessarily headed for deletion. Examine the dynamics of AfDs--there is always a good deal of pile-on voting that takes place over the first day or so, and then others will join in, probably starting sunday night. The results in general are about 1/4 keeps--and about another 1/4 which will be able to return in better shape. The overall dynamics of WP is that the most persistent people win. To some extent, this applies even to individuals, but much more to small groups. Myself, this is not my main concern, but I was challenged for not supporting the individual articles after I made a general comment about keeping them. I first supported only a few, but it became clear that would be useful to support everything that was even part-way decent, though of course not defend the indefensible.

I recognize you're primarily interested now in the Q-ships article. My advice is that this article needs at least a little sourcing and that it may be difficulty to find--sourcing for SF combat elements has often been a problem. I don't have the necessary knowledge to help with this part.DGG (talk) 20:26, 19 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

DRV

I have initiated a deletion review of an AFD which you were involved in. You may wish to contribute to the discussion. Balancer 04:51, 3 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Re User:Spitfire19 report to WP:AIV

Just to let you know I am about to remove this report. There isn't sufficient warning notices but, more importantly, it isn't the blatent type of vandalism per your comments. I suggest you take up this matter at WP:ANI with a couple of example diffs. This can then be more carefully evaluated. Cheers. LessHeard vanU 21:45, 7 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Reporting of vandalism is not something I have ever done, so if an apology is needed for not following whatever procedure that is in place than it is freely given. (I've just read the the page properly and realise I was at fault. I was being lazy and just wanted to hand what I thought was a problem to someone else to deal with.) KTo288 22:10, 7 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Just to say, following step 1 and made my concerns known to Spitfire19.KTo288 22:42, 7 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Dr. Rafal E. Dunin-Borkowski

I noticed on your userpage bemoaning the lack of article about Dr. Rafal E. Dunin-Borkowski. Well it's here and it needs work. Enjoy!--Brewcrewer 03:01, 21 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi

Hi, Seeing you are a Cantonese speaker, I invite you to participate in Wikipedia:WikiProject Modern Chinese music, it is a great community and we will welcome your comments at any time ^^ Dengero 07:32, 31 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the invite, my editing style is to randomly edit anything that takes my fancy, joining a Wikiproject is a bit too disciplined for my tastes however I'll pop by sometime to see what help I can render.KTo288

Thank You

Thank you for taking Military helicopters from a poor stub into a good article nearing B-class status. I hope you continue to work on it. I will try to as well. Zephyrus67 16:43, 14 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

no need to thank me, its been more than fun, have to give it a bit of a break, as I was beginning to get a bit obsessive about the article. KTo288 00:12, 15 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Central Market of Salamanca

I explained it on the talk page, but I'll drop you a personal note too. There's no copyright issues between the article and this page...according to the dates in the history and on the linked page, the Wiki article came first. The linked article probably copied Wikipedia (and I have a hunch they have the same author, but that's a different issue).--UsaSatsui (talk) 09:09, 7 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Okay thanks.KTo288 20:35, 7 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

London Meetup - January 12, 2008

Hi! There's going to be a London Wikipedia Meetup coming Saturday January 12, 2008. If you are interested in coming along take part in the discussion over at Wikipedia:Meetup/London7. The discussion is going on until tomorrow evening and the official location and time will be published at the same page late Thursday or early Friday. Hope to see you Saturday, Poeloq (talk) 02:51, 10 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the invite, I'm more than tempted, but as a self confessed anorak if I go I'd more than lkely sit in a corner nursing a drink too embarrassed to either say anything or to start a coverversation.KTo288 (talk) 17:11, 11 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of monarchs in the British Isles revisited

Hello, since you commented in Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of monarchs in the British Isles, I thought you might like to know that it is again up for discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of monarchs in the British Isles (2nd nomination). Regards, Angus McLellan (Talk) 11:30, 20 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Infobox Class - Infobox Ship Class

Hi - {{Infobox Class}} and {{Infobox Ship Class}} are deprecated and will soon be nominated for deletion. I notice that you are using these templates in your user space and wanted to inform you that they will no longer function once the templates are deleted. They have been replaced by using {{Infobox Ship Begin/doc}}. Thanks :) --Brad (talk) 07:22, 17 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, will change to the new template.KTo288 (talk) 16:49, 15 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Request for Mediation?

Hello - you participated in Gavin.collins' Request for Comment, so I am alerting you that we are preparing a Request for Mediation regarding him. BOZ (talk) 03:16, 22 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I am alerting you that we are now considering a Request for Arbitration regarding him as an alternative to mediation, and would like your opinion on the matter. BOZ (talk) 13:36, 24 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Invitation to Wikipedia meetup in London

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Date: 13:00 onwards, Sunday 10 August 2008

Venue: Penderel's Oak pub, Holborn WC1 map

More information: Wikipedia:Meetup/London 12

Hello,

I noticed that you have listed yourself as a Wikipedian in London, so I thought you might like to come to one of our monthly social meetups. The next one is going to be on Sunday 10 August, which might well be rather short notice, but if you can't come this time, we try to have one every second Sunday of the month.

If you haven't been before, these meetups are mainly casual social events for Wikipedia enthusiasts in which we chat about Wikipedia and any other topics we fancy. It's a great way to meet some very keen Wikipedians, but we'd also love for you to come along if you're interested in finding out more about Wikipedia, other Wikimedia projects, or other collaborative wiki projects too.

The location is a pub that is quite quiet and family friendly on a Sunday lunchtime, so hopefully younger Wikipedians will also feel welcome and safe. Alcohol consumption is certainly not required!

Although the meetups are popular, many UK-based editors still don't know about them. It would be great to welcome some fresh faces, so I hope you can come along.

Yours,

James F. (talk) 09:27, 3 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Please forgive the slightly impersonal mass-invite!

Oxford Wikimania 2010 and Wikimedia UK v2.0 Notice

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Gavin.collins RFC/U

Hello. A request for comment on user conduct has recently been filed regarding Gavin.collins. Since you had endorsed at least one summary in the prior Request for Comment, I thought that you would want to know. You can see the RFC/U here. Thank you. BOZ (talk) 00:38, 6 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, why am I not surprised that User:Gavin.collins is again the subject of another RfC.KTo288 (talk) 15:12, 6 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It's time to get the community involved, and hopefully this time we are focusing on the right issues. BOZ (talk) 18:15, 6 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Friction drive

Adding the Lambert automobile chassis to the friction drive article certainly does enhance the article. So happens I submitted a 9-article DYK hook yesterday on Lambert articles. Hoping for the best.--Doug Coldwell ^talk 19:08, 20 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It certainly does, a case of a picture being better than a hundred words.KTo288 (talk) 05:08, 21 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, the 9-article hook came up this morning! Thanks for your inputs. --Doug Coldwell ^talk 13:46, 22 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Well done.KTo288 (talk) 22:39, 22 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It looks like its a record, at least for now. The previous record was held for almost a year. We will see how long this holds.--Doug Coldwell ^talk 12:06, 7 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

RE: List of police firearms in the United Kingdom

Well, you should take my word for it, what with WP:Assume Good Faith and all. But yes, I am easily willing to compromise, and have yourself a very Merry Christmas, or whatever you do/dont celebrate. [[::User:Police,Mad,Jack|Police,Mad,Jack]] ([[::User talk:Police,Mad,Jack|talk]] · [[::Special:Contributions/Police,Mad,Jack|contribs]])☺ 18:14, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

Thank you and to you to.KTo288 (talk) 18:15, 24 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

File:York railway station and Royal York Hotel - April 10 2005.jpg

Happy for the en copy to be deleted. Sorry; I've just been too idle to move my earliest images to the commons :( Good catch on Goldsworthy Gurney. --Tagishsimon (talk) 01:15, 7 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. I've only done the house once I read the bio I'll try and create the cats to link the man, his life and his work.KTo288 (talk) 01:22, 7 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Category:UK Retailers that went bust after the financial crisis of 2007-8

Template now fixed on Category:UK Retailers that went bust after the financial crisis of 2007-8. Thanks for letting me know. Good Ol’factory ^(talk) 20:47, 11 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

No problem, and thanks.KTo288 (talk) 12:25, 15 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Thanks very much for your note. Yep, I have an account there and next time I will upload images directly on the commons. Cheers. - Niaz ^{(Talk •}^Contribs) 21:38, 9 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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creation of separate article on G-20 2009 London Summit protests

hi - i see you created a separate article on the protests. i'm somewhat surprised to see it.

there was next-to-no discussion on the talk page...only that it seemed, some days ago (and many edits ago), to overwhelm the then-much-smaller main article and was, perhaps, in need of trimming; it was.
as a standalone article, it (the protest one) now has to be a fully flushed-out entry with "who, what, when, where, why" and will, i'm suspect, give even more weighting (which i doubt was your intent) to ancillary events of the summit, which after the dust settles a bit more, were relatively minor.

just my 2-cents' worth. regards. --71.183.238.134 (talk) 12:54, 7 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I share your concerns, if the sub article can't stand on its own two feet its destined to be deleted,just par for the course for articles.KTo288 (talk) 19:27, 7 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

About a picture

Hello sir... your picture "Rosebys,_Hounslow,_27-09-08.JPG" would be perfect as the cover for a musical project i'm working on. If i've read the CC licence correctly, i think i only need to credit you as the original photographer; but i thought that i would first check with you that it was OK to adapt this. Best regards, tomasz. 17:59, 23 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

For my part, as the photographer, you're welcome to use it as you wish, thats what the CC license means. However you might wish to check with whatever remains of Rosebys about how they feel about you using an image of their sign (they or their administators the copyright to the actual sign.) Best of luck.KTo288 (talk) 18:18, 23 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Moving photos from Wikipedia to Commons

I have been advised it would be best for Wikipedia, if I would move all of my photos to Commons. One administrator has moved some of them, but didn't have the time to do them all. I tried to do one myself (even after reading up on how to do it), but apparently I still do not understand, because my one attempt failed. I sure would appreciate any recommendations you might have on how to accomplish the transfer. I only have dial-up access to the Internet; that might be part of the problem. [[1]] [[2]] Thanks, EditorASC (talk) 00:48, 17 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Best practise and perhaps easiest is to use Commons helper for which you'll need a TUSC account. Fill in the fields in Commons helper and it should transfer the file to Commons for you. Alternatively since they are your own files you can add them tothe Commons project as new uploads, with unified log in you should already have an account with Commons and the process is pretty much the same as it is, once uploaded to Commons you can mark the ones here as duplicates with {{subst:ncd}}. I remember how painful this was for me when I was on dial up,and because this is a wik, a collabrotive project, you don't have to do everything yourself. You can add the template {{Move to Commons}} to the files you want moved to Commons, it maytake a bit longer, but eventually they'll be transfered, hope this has helped, and don't hesitate to ask if you need more help.KTo288 (talk) 09:55, 19 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

AfD nomination of Andy Kwong

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Coordinates

Noticed you did a coordinate correction for Exchange Place (Jersey City), and wonder if you wouldn't mind doing the same for Ellis Island, which I beleive may also be off. Would be much appreciated.Djflem (talk) 15:41, 12 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

No problem.KTo288 (talk) 18:53, 12 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

April 2010

Welcome and thank you for experimenting with Wikipedia. Your test on the page Six Flags worked, and it has been reverted or removed. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. If you would like to experiment further, please use the sandbox instead. Thank you. McDoobAU93 (talk) 14:58, 19 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

General note withdrawn. However, in future please explain your copy edits with an edit summary. Please review my talk page for additional information. Thanks. --McDoobAU93 (talk) 15:51, 19 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

IPA

Please be careful when adding IPA pronunciations to articles. These are very welcome and I don't want to discourage you from doing them, but on the militia article on 5 April you converted someone's unhelpful ad hoc respelling to IPA but got it wrong. /miːˈli.ti.a/ sounds something like the way most people would read "me lee tea ah". The first vowel is unstressed and reduced so the first syllable does not sound like the word "me", the second syllable has the /ɪ/ in words like "kit" and "fish" (your /i/ is just a shorter version of the /iː/ in "me"), there is no /t/ sound as in the word "tea" present at all, and the word ends in the same /ʃə/ sound that British English speakers have in the final syllables of "pressure" and "washer". A few days after your edit an anon saw the /t/ and tried to correct it, but didn't get it right either. For future reference, Wikipedia:IPA for English is great for giving pretty unambiguous examples for each sound. Ideally pronunciations should be referenced to a reliable source, and I've corrected militia with reference to the OED, but if you're careful to read the IPA for English page and think about the sounds you hear and try as far as possible to get the spelling out of your mind when transcribing then this usually suffices. Thanks. Old Man of Storr (talk) 20:38, 21 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]