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Galicia

Ola, grazas pola mensaxe, non sei se entendín ben, na páxina de Stoni eu só mencionei o artigo sobre Abadín, Lugo, do que fixen unha versión moi simple a partir do artigo galego gl:Abadín, o meu inglés non me permite facer unha tradución completa, se ti queres facer unha tradución do artigo ou de calquera outro por min encantado. Aínda que a Wikipedia en galego ten relativamente poucos artigos e queda moito por facer, pouco a pouco penso que imos mellorando na súa calidade, claro que iso o teñen que dicir o que nos visitan, saúdos dende Galicia.--Rocastelo 20:39, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks so much

When I think of all of us who worked together so hard for so long, I think of the line from Henry V We few, we happy few, we band of brothers...

It was a fun ride, wasn't it? So thanks you guys, that meant a lot to me.

Who did the Thelonious with a mop artwork? Brilliant! FeloniousMonk 08:21, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

Golden Earring

That's well done, excellent work! I'll get around to fix this article some more (non-POV related) issues. SoothingR 13:00, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

Yeah, I love guitar music as well, but don't worry too much about the removal of those paragraphs. They sound very unlikely and they were also unsourced. Even if it turns out to be true, then somebody else will probably put the info back in. I think it's fair to remove the {{advert}}, so I just did that. SoothingR 13:24, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

An apology

Hi there. I owe you an apology for tagging your votes at Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Elections January 2006/Vote as not having suffrage; the tool I was using checked only the date of your first edit, instead of the time you actually registered. Normally these two dates are very close to each other, and I'd only been doublechecking those whose first edit was in the first few days of October. —Cryptic (talk) 02:50, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

Latinitas

Iustinus iacobo s.p.d.

Si verum est te volubiliter, quasi esset lingua patria tua, Latine loqui posse, quin Vicipaediae Latinae contribues? ;)

Valeto, Iustinus 23:47, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

Translation

Hi. I see you speak Portuguese. I wonder if you could help me with a quick translation? The text is at User:Sannse/Sandbox. Many thanks for any help you can give -- sannse (talk) 17:26, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

Jim, I'm really sorry - I edited my sandbox while logged out to add the text I needed in Portuguese. Someone thought it was vandalism and reverted to some old random text I had there. It's the very short letter that I need help with, and not the stuff about dogs. I'm really sorry for the confusion and what must have seemed like a horribly big request! Thanks again -- sannse (talk) 21:53, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks that's just great -- sannse (talk) 22:31, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

Thank you!

Thanks for supporting my Rfa, Jim! Please do not ever, for any reason, feel you need to take off your shoes for me. Unless you use odor-eaters, I am concerned what the consequences might be. The puppy is now an Admin (final tally 58/7/2) Please let me know if there is anything I can ever do to assist you. KillerChihuahua?!? 17:22, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

...And never apologize for fixing my grammar, typing or spelling! I appreciate the assist! KillerChihuahua^?!? 18:26, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

My RfA

I don't have a fancy layout like other new admins, but I just want to thank you for your support at my RfA. It passed 47/3/1, so I have officially been promoted. I hope I won't let you down. If I'm not doing something properly, please tell me. Aecis ^{Mr. Mojo risin'} 21:29, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks!

Aw gee... I like the star polygon! But, Sparkling prose??
Thanks! Vsmith 02:17, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

My compliments

I really appreciate how you responded to my comment. It would have been easy enough to scoff and say "that guy is prob. a nut, and its all in good fun" (which would probably have been true), but its still best to tread lightly, as even (or more accurately "especially") nuts have feelings.

In a way this brings out an important point: from which paradigm do we view humanity? There is clearly more than one way to view us (or anything). Our job is to give appropriate balance (WP:NPOV), rather than emphasizing any one POV (like biology or theology for example). Even if a significant POV is regarded as "nutty" my many, it still deserves inclusion. I hope you can agree. Cheers, Sam Spade 17:04, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

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Adiu!

Ai vist que parlas occitan! Avem besonh d'ajuda e de contribucions per far avançar lo projècte en lenga d'òc... Ès benvengut se vòls participar! :)

A lèu! [[1]]

Cedric31 21:11, 21/02/06 (UTC)

My RfA

With apologies for the impersonal AWB-ness of the message... Thanks for your support on my recent request for adminship. It passed at 91/1/0, and I hope I can continue to deserve the community's trust. Let me know if there's anything I can do to help you, and if I make a mistake be sure to tell me. My talk page is always open. (ESkog)^(Talk) 02:40, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

This user thinks it is ironic that thanks for supporting Cyde's successful RFA came in the form of a userbox.

Here's a userbox for you. --Cyde Weys 04:20, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

Clear Light

Hey, nice job on improving the Clear Light page! I had found a Yahoo Group devoted to them, where I announced the article I started but got only thanks, no feedback. BillFlis 00:50, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

Noah's Ark

Today's article - well done! Pansy Brandybuck AKA Sophia^TalkTCF 12:12, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

Barnstar: thanks

Hello, and thanks for the beautiful barnstar, just the thing for my user page William M. Connolley 12:44, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

Corficolombiana

I just wanted to know how is that you know about Corfivalle and Corficolombiana Thanks

Pascaweb

Quoi faire

Est-ce que tu as vu ce que l'un de notres collègues vient de faire, voire [2]? Je ne vois pas de tout, le lien qu'il puisse exister entre la citation qui il vient ajouter et la "soi-disante" conclusion. C'est merdique!--CSTAR 03:35, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

Ancient Greek Wikisource

I understand from your userboxes you're interested in Ancient Greek. I've submitted a proposal to add an Ancient Greek Wikisource on Meta, and I'd be very grateful if you could assist me by either voting in Support of the proposal, or even adding your name as one of the contributors in the template. (NB: I'm posting this to a lot of people, so please reply to my talkpage or to Meta) --Nema Fakei 20:27, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for your comments in Lar's RfA!

We are here to build an encyclopedia!

Hi Jim, and thank you for your supportive comments in my request for adminship! With a final tally of (109/5/1), I have been entrusted with adminship. It's been several weeks since the conclusion of the process, so hopefully you've had a chance to see me in action. Please let me know what you think! Thanks again, and I will do everything I can to justify the trust you've placed in me! ++Lar: t/c 03:25, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

Adverts: Like The Beatles?... Like LEGO?... In a WikiProject that classifies?... Are you an accountable admin?... Got DYK?...

A very strange edit by you

Hi! I found that on April 14 2006, you made a very strange edit on the article 89 (see this old edit). You mixed two perfectly good sentences, about two different subjects, into one strange mix, which doesn't make any sense. Since I doscovered it today, I have reverted it, but I would just like to know what on earth was your purpose with this, since you don't seem to be the vandalizing type to me. I'm not angry or judgmental, I'm just curious. /Ludde 13:18, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

Sorry for not responding. I saw your notice on my User talk on the English Wiki and I'm totally satisfied with that answer. I'm also gladly surprised that you found my Swedish User page. It was no big thing about the 89 edit, just wondering what that strange edit was for. Speaking of edits and year articles, from what I've read on your User page, it seems we're doing similiar work, i.e. fixing the year articles with templates and more information. I've been doing so on the Swedish Wiki for quite som time now and the reason I've created a User account here on the English Wiki is to be able to survey all the year articles here too, since I've now begun the big task/project of translating the info on the English year articles into Swedish and adding it to the Swedish pages. Therefore, I wouldn't be surprised if I asked you other things in the future. I hope you won't mind that and wish you good luck with the year articles!

PS. You don't have to respond to this, but if you want to, feel free to do so on my English User talk page. Ludde 14:14, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

Of course I can translate Swedish texts for you, no problem. Feel free to ask any time and I'll be glad to help. Then I just thought I'd mention when I won't be available. This Thursday (June 15) I'm going away for a funeral (my paternal grandmother died a few days ago) and will return in the afternoon on Saturday the 17th. On Saturday, July 1, I'm going on vacation and will return on July 19. During this time, I won't have access to the Internet (or indeed a computer at all), so I won't be able to send any replies then.

About languages: First, thanks for the remark about my English. It proves that two years' worth of university studies of the language was useful. Secondly, I am indeed lucky to know a bit of French, having studied it in high school and a few years before that. However, it was a few years ago, so I've forgotten parts of it, but the knowledge I still have, together with some sort of Babel translation device and a French dictionary, will come in handy. The reason I mention this is that you've already anticipated my next move, which is to find info from the French wiki year articles. However, I thought I'd wait until I'm done with the English wiki, and I've only just started on that one (I began with year 1 and have made it up to 100 so far).

I'm sure you and I will be able to exchange info and help each other in the future, as it seems we have a mutual interest in the year articles. However, you must tell me, if you sometime find me tedious and you want me to get off your back. Ludde 21:56, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

Some questions

Hi there! Sorry I haven't answered you since the day before yesterday, but I've been tied up in other things and have not hade the time. However, no I do, so here's a few questions. First, an answer, though. I'm sorry to say I don't know any online course in Swedish, but feel fre to ask me anyting. Since it is my mother tongue and I (if I may say so myself) am very good at it, I'm sure I'll be able to answer quite a few questions about it. I don't know many languages (Swedish, obviously; as you've noticed, English, and a bit French. Secondly, I can understand Norwegian, Danish and some German, but I've never studied those languages), but I consider it an honour to be able to speak and use my native language well and many times I sigh and sometimes get upset with the abuse of the Swedish language, that it seems most Swedes do today. This is good most of the time, since I can then spot spelling and grammar errors, but can become a drag, if I overdo it and keep correcting minor errors to the extreme. Please stop me if I do.
Now for the questions:

1. How do I make my signature better looking. When I sign a talk page with four tildes, I would like my signature to have one link to my user page and one to my talk page, but I still haven't figured out how to do that. I noticed you have different colours on the letters in your signature, so how do I do such tings?
2. When you make changes on a page, what do all your abbreviations mean? I have figured out that fmt must mean format or formatting or something like that, but I haven't understood the other ones yet.
3. What time is it over there, in relation to the UTC? Over here it's normally one hour more than UTC but two during daylight saving time (which occurs from the last Sunday in March to the last Sunday in October in Europe). I thought it could be of interest to know how many hours that separate us, so that I'll know if I'm surfing, but it's early morning over att your place and I therefore shan't expect an answer from you instantly. Right now it's a quarter past twelve PM UTC, but a quarter past two PM over here.
   

Seems those were all the questions I had for the moment. Ah, well, then I won't bother you any more for the moment. Good luck with your wikipedying and feel free to write me any time. (Just remember I'm going away for my grandma's funeral tomorrow and return on Saturday.) Ludde 12:17, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

Hello again! Sorry I haven't written till now, but there have been so many things to do.

The most popular food in Sweden? That's a hard one. I don't know, but I would either vote for pizza or pasta (my girlfriend says pasta). On the other hand, you can hardly find a Swede who doesn't eat potatoes every week. I tried to find information on the subject, but I couldn't.

Anyway, now I've returned from my grandmother's funeral and have two weeks before I go away again. Concerning Wikipedia, I'm devoting this time to the work of translating the English year articles into Swedish and correct errors on them in both languages. So far, I've done till the year 165 AD. Thanks again for telling me how to fix my signature. As you can see, it contains a bit more information now. See you /Ludde23 ^{Talk Contrib} 10:09, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

Interesting about the food and the pizzas. However, I don't think all Norwegian food is as bad as "luttefisk" (which is called "lutfisk" in Swedish by the way). I have no experience of Norwegian food, never having been to Norway, but from what I've heard it's no huge difference between it and Swedish food. Just now, I was reminded by my girlfriend about two things that are essential in Swedish food culture. First of all, the meatballs. I think it's impossible to find any Swede (at least a native one) who has never in his or her life eaten meatballs. Secondly, we have the herring. I don't like it personally, but it's very important in Sweden at Christmas and Midsummer celebrations. (If you've seen the remake of The Producers, you know what I mean.)

It seems pretty much, to have three different projects running at once, concerning the year articles. On the Swedish Wikipedia, I've added events from Swedish history on them, but that's only from the 8th century and onwards. In my work of translating the English year articles into Swedish, I've now reached the year 200 and I keep going regularly. So, if I would reach the last year you've done so far, I hope you wouldn't mind, if I added yb's and fixing the headlines on those following it.

Another question about the year articles. I don't know if you've seen the yb's on them on the SweWiki, but they also have links to years, decades and centuries back and forth (if I may brag, I'm the one who made them), but they're using parser functions instead of adding the figures on every article. What do you think about this? It is a lot easier and takes up less space. Should it be used on the EnWiki or not?

Take care and good luck with the year articles. Ludde23 ^{Talk Contrib} 12:01, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

Faith

Knowing your deep interest, thought this might interest you. ...dave souza, talk 15:39, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

And on another interest, Talk:State religion#Ha-Ha-Ha! might amuse....dave souza, talk 22:04, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

I just had to mention...

Hello! I just had to mention this. Yesterday, I disocvered a little sign of wikiholism on myself. My girlfriend discovered some strange orange spots on our living room ceiling and neither of us knew where they came from. For a split second, my mind started to think "where can I find a history of this ceiling, to find out who vandalised it". It only took me a few moments to realise that it wasn't wikipedia or even a computer related matter at all, but it's bad enough that I've been thinking along those lines.
Secondly, I have a little question for you: What skin do you prefer/use on Wikipedia? I use Monobook, mostly because it's the standard and I've got used to it, but also because the others seem more complicated. SY (meaning See You) Ludde23 ^{Talk Contrib} 11:14, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

Hello again! Let's see if I can answer all your questions properly. I'll do it in the order you asked them.

1. About the year boxes: Of course you should continue using the form you're using. The thing it uses for calculating the years are called Parser Functions. As far as I know, it works on every wiki. It's a simple way of calculating, which (with a really simplified description) lets you write 10-1 in the template and that is shown as 9 on the article page. Therefore, you can write PAGENAME-3 and if the pagename is 470, it will turn out as 467. I only discovered them about a month ago, ironically on the Norwegian wiki, and they made it so much easier with the year boxes in the Swedish wiki, as it was a function I hade been wanting for ages. Have a look at the Parser Functions page and please write me, if you want to ask me more about it.
2. The word Båttypen means The type of boat. The n at the end is the definite article, since it's an en-word (i.e. the word is en båttyp if its indefinite), not an ett-word (i.e. it's not called ett båttyp).
3. Jelly? In meatballs? Never heard of it. According to my recipe, meatballs contain minced meat, water, one meat extract cube, dried minced bread, an onion, salt, pepper and an egg. Of course, the ones you by in stores contain some sort of sweetener, but only those that are numbered E216 and such (at least it says so on the Swedish labels, I don't know if you have such sweeteners in the US). It would taste rather odd with at sweetener like jelly.

I also have a question for you. What does the abbreviation dab mean? I understand it has something to do with the for other uses comment, but what does it actually stand for? SY Ludde23 ^{Talk Contrib} 19:52, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

Well, let's see what I can do. I'll answer the questions about "Lejon är utrotade i Europa senast vid denna tid" first, since it's easy. "Lejon" means "lions" here, even though just one lion is also called "lejon" (it's one of those words that have zero plural in Swedish). Then we have "är" (are), "utrotade" (extinct; one lion is "utrotat", several lions are "utrotade" and not utrotate, since the base word is utrotad), "i" (in), "Europa" (Europe), "senast" (latest; or "no later than"), "vid" (at), "denna" (this) and "tid" (time). So a literal word-for-word translation of this sentence into English would be "Lions are extinct in Europe latest (or "no later than") at this time".

Jelly in meatballs? It still sounds odd. BTW, you wrote "I have a fiend who puts grape jelly in her meatballs -- it's actually not bas". What does bas mean?

Well, summer nights are very bright in Sweden, and winter nights are very dark. The northernmost part of Sweden is above the arctic cirle you know, which means the sun never sets in the summer up there, nor does it rise in winter. What time is the sunrise/sunset in Philadelphia in summer and winter? Besides, it's nice to have so many hours of sunlight, since you feel more awake and not so tired when it's brighter. It's worse in winter, when we only have daylight from about eight or nine in the morning to about three in the afternoon.

Now, the parser functions. They're not very easy, but I can give it a try. First of all, you use the {{ and }} signs, just like when you use templates. (We call them "måsvingar" (gullwings) in Swedish, what are they called in English?) Secondly, you use the # sign. (Which some people, including myself, call "brädgård" (timberyard) in Swedish, what do you call it?) You can then use them to put calculations and/or comparisons on the pages. This, you do with different functions, such as expr, ifexpr etc. A very easy one that's used in the Årtal 1-799 template is the following:

[[{{#expr:{{PAGENAME}}+3}}]]

The {{ is what shows where the function begins and the # starts the function. I then use a simple expression (expr) and a colon to separate the expr word from the actual calculation. The calculation itself is, as you can see {{PAGENAME}}+3. If I use this on, let's say, the year article 500, it will interpret this as 500 + 3 and it will show on the page as 503. Then I use the }} signs to stop the function. Lastly, I have put common links ([[ and ]]) around it, so that it will link to the 503 page. It's as simple as that.

However, when I want it to count backwards, it's a bit trickier. If I use this on the year article 2, it will interpret it as 2 - 3 which is -1 and it will link it to that, not to 1 BC. I then have to use an ifexpr like this:

[[{{#ifexpr:({{PAGENAME}}-3)<=0|{{#expr:(({{PAGENAME}}-3)*(-1))+1}} f.Kr.|{{#expr:{{PAGENAME}}-3}}}}]]

First there are the {{ and # signs, to start the function. Then I use the ifexpr to compare values according to the form Compare values|What to do, if it's true|What to do if it's not true. Then, the values to be compared are {{PAGENAME}}-3. I then use the <= to see if it's less than or equal to zero. Then comes a separator (the | sign) and then I tell the function what to do, if this is true (if the PAGENAME is less than or equal to zero). I then use an expr function within the ifexpr function, since I want it to calculate PAGENAME minus 3 and take the answer times -1 and then add 1. If this is used on the year article 2 it will interpret this as 2 - 3, which is -1. Then it takes this answer times -1 (the asterisk means multiplication) and, as you know, -1 * -1 = 1. Then, it has to add 1 to this answer, since three years before year 2 isn't 1 BC but 2 BC. Lastly, it writes f.Kr. (Swedish for BC; it actually means före Kristus which is Swedish for Before Christ). Then comes another separator ( | ) and after that, I tell it what to do, if the answer is false (if the PAGENAME isn't less than or equal to zero, i.e. more than zero). Then, I simply want it to calculate PAGENAME - 3, so I use another expr function for that. The reason there are four } signs at then end is because I first have to stop the last expr function and then stop the whole ifexpr function.

I think it's best that you write me and tell me if you understand all of this (I'm not sure my explanations are clear enough), before I explain the decade and century calculations. But, as you can see, when it works, it's not difficult to understand. It took me a while, but I'm very glad I found it. Ludde23 ^{Talk Contrib} 19:16, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

In Swedish, all nouns are either "en" or "ett" and the thing is, you have to learn which it is for every one, we don't have such a simple system as you with "a" or "an" depending on vowel or consonant sounds. We have it just like the French, who have "un" or "une" for each noun. The rule is that all "ett" words that don't end with a vowel have zero plural (of course, there are exceptions to this, but it's the general rule). A few examples of Swedish words that are "ett" words and have zero plurals are "hus" (house), "tak" (roof or ceiling; we have the same word for both; speaking of ceilings: those strange spots I mentioned may have been made by the last tennant in our apartment - we moved in about a month ago), "lån" (loan) and "år" (year). Speaking of which, I noticed one odd bit of trivia. In English, you say "one mouse" and "several mice", "one louse" and "several lice", but not "one house" and "several hice". The pattern is similar in Swedish, since we say "en mus" and "flera möss", "en lus" and "flera löss", but not "ett hus" and "flera höss" and it may be because "mus" and "lus" are "en" words, but "hus" is an "ett" word.

I'm not sure whether or not to count "utrotade" as a compund word. Sure, it's made up by "ut" (out) and "rotade" (rooted) (which would literally mean that the animal had been removed froom its roots), but it feels odd to think of it as a compound, since we don't have the opposite ("inrotade") and just "rotade" is something completely different.

Oh, so it meant bad? Then I get it. I still say it sounds odd though.

I don't really understand what you mean by "where on Wiki is it stored". Do you mean "where's the php file" or what? As far as I know, I simply write the script in the template and it works.

I don't know very much about fighter planes, but Draken (not Drakken) is rather old, so Viggen is more modern. However, the most modern one is Gripen (better known as JAS (its full name being JAS 39 Gripen), which stands for Jakt, Attack, Spaning (Pursuit, Attack, Reconnaissance).

How big is your interest in history? For me, it is the big spare time interest (I even went you university to try becoming a history teacher, but I failed and have no desire to become one any more) and I have many books on the subject. I know Swedish history best (that's what most of my history books are about) and then my knowledge gets smaller and smaller the further away from Sweden I get (i.e. a know a little less about other European countries' history and even less about African, Asian or American history). I'm not the one to hold long boring lessons about history to everyone I meet, but I'm glad to share my knowledge with those who ask and want to know. Yes, you could call me a history nerd, but I try not to bore everyone stiff with it. However, that's why the Wikipedia year articles are perfect for me, since I can there write about my favourite subject and have it "published" right away.

SY Ludde23 ^{Talk Contrib} 23:23, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

JA

Hi Jim! I need to think about that a bit and get back to you soon. Fact is, JA and I had worked out a modus vivendi, but I needed to take a break from that increasingly unproductive conversation. It had become a linguistic plague of fancy writing without any direction or perspective, except for an ongoing gambit to dominate an article of common interest (truth) with his own POV, with his meandering writing style, and his myriad unnecessary technical obscurities. Those obscurities, incidentally, largely amount to OriginalResearch-type syntheses of various sources with a heavy emphasis on the complex work of Charles Peirce, which are neither understandable to most readers nor even necessarily correct on the whole. Talk with you a bit later. ... Kenosis 12:55, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

Nice work

on 33. KillerChihuahua^?!? 10:26, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

My RFA

Thank you for your vote in my RFA, which succeeded with a final tally of 66-0-4. If there's anything I can help you with now that I'm an admin, please let me know on my talk page. Again, thanks! Mangojuicetalk 21:37, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

Belluno#Fractions

Please don't change the headers "Fractions" in Italian communes. They are linked from the infobox list frazioni, and, further, "Townships" is a wrong definition. A frazione is usually a small town/hamlet which is administratively part of the comune but is differentiated from the city capital of that commune/municipality. Not all Italian communes have frazioni: c. 80% of the comuni, in fact, is made of only of the city/town bearing the name of the comune. Ciao!--Attilios 10:44, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

There's no need to add an explaination of the meaning of frazioni in all articles having such a list (this would make the articles to be awkward... see WP:MOS). If one wants to know what it is, there's the apposite wikilink in the infobox. Ciao and good workd. --Attilios 14:02, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your support

Until this week I had never spent any time to speak of at RfA and I hadn't realized what a esoteric trip it is into Wikiculture. While I haven't abandoned the idea of my RfA passing, I'm beginning to realize that what is more important for the good of this project is that RfA is in desperate need for some clarification and consensus overhaul. "RfA" should be just a request for a few tools that experienced Wikipedians use to help out, but apparently more and more people view administrators as overlords or uberusers able to leap encyclopedias with a single bound. Yikes! We'll see where this all gets me. You can join the fun if you'd like at Wikipedia talk:Requests for adminship. --ScienceApologist 20:38, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

RfA thanks

Samsara (talk • contribs) 21:31, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

I'm back

Hello! If you think you're late in replying, how about this, two and a half weeks after your reply. But, I'm excused since I've been on holiday the whole time, without access to the Internet or even av computer at all. Me and my girlfriend visited her parents' summer house on Gotland, where we've listened to the leading Swedish politicians' speeches during the classic "Almedal week". They used many words, but didn't say very much; however, it was good to hear their statements, since there's a general election coming up in Sweden (September 17) and it's very indecisive whether the left parties (The social democrats and The left party, cooperating with The environmental party) will keep the government position they've held for the past 12 years or if the right parties (The moderate party, The people's party, The christian democrats and The central party) will take over. Personally, I'm voting for the left parties.
So, you've started to study Swedish? Being a native speaker, I can tell you it's one hell of a language to learn. But, since you already know many languages, you have a head start. Let me just give you a little anecdote, to show the difficulty of it.

There was a native speaker of Swedish, who was going to buy a hot dog. The hot dog vendor, however, was not a native speaker. When the vendor asked, if the customer wanted ketchup on his hot dog, he replied "Ja, men mycket lite" (in English "Yes, but very little", but literally "Yes, but much little"). The vendor didn't know if the customer meant much or little, so he put on very much ketchup. Then, the customer said "Det där blev nog lite mycket" (in English "I guess that was a bit much", but literally "That was probably a little much").

So, I don't expect you to be perfect at it from the start. Many of my fellow Swedes, who are so called native speakers of the language, are far from perfect. I guess the only person who really can speak it is me... Well, joking aside, I do put pride in being able to speak and use my native language in a correct way.
Speaking of which, this brings me to my interests. As I mentioned, history is my big interest in life. However, as you may have already noticed, I also have a big interest in languages. Their connections and the etymology of words is quite fascinating and I am lucky to share this interest with my girlfriend. (BTW, what do you call it, when you live together with you girlfriend/boyfriend, without being married, as we do? Should I say spouse or what? In Swedish, we say Sambo, which is short for Sammanboende, meaning living together.) Thirdly, I'm not doing very much trainspotting, but trains are another passion of mine. Connected to my interest in languages is also my passion for writing. For many years, I've written fairy tales for my brothers and others and I have a secret dream of some day becoming an author. Lastly, I also enjoy movies from all different eras (the oldest one I've seen is The Great Train Robbery from 1903), my absolute favourites being the Back to the Future trilogy.
About your screwed up sentence: The last part ("de övriga låtarna på albumet brukar även de räknas som gruppens finare material") means "the other songs on the album are usually also counted as the group's finest material". Tell me if you want a deeper word-for-word translation and analysis if the sentence; I'd be only too happy to oblige.
Today, I have just finished reading a 600-page book about Sweden during the 13th century, called "Jarlens sekel" ("The Century of the Earl"), by Swedish author Dick Harrison. It's been really fascinating and it's the first book I've read for ages, since I've been so busy with other things for a long time. It felt really good being able to read it, and it's only taken me a month (that's how much time I spend on reading books, apparently) to come through it. Now, I'm going to se how I can use it as a source for the year articles on Wikipedia. Well, not exactly right now, because it's two o'clock in the morning, and I'm off to bed, but tomorrow, maybe. SY Ludde23 ^{Talk Contrib} 00:07, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

Barnstar

I've been giving this a fair amount of thought. Because of your efforts on wizard, I wanted to see if I could find an award for you. You came in, and were friendly, encyclopedic, and giving of yourself as a resource. No matter what the final outcome is (if there ever is one), I feel that due to all of these actions, and more, that you deserve a barnstar. I've read your home page and talk page, and while I find that we disagree on several points (even on something as the serial comma), that has nothing to do with how deserving you are of this award. (And in truth, after reading your talk page, I am further convinced...)

By the way, your actions that led me to look to find out how Barnstars "worked", has led me to award another deserving person : )

The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar may be awarded to those that show a pattern of going the extra mile to be nice, without being asked. Jc37 08:52, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

Re: Nostradamus FA tag/box

There's already a FA tag on the Nostradamus discussion page. I thought only the star was supposed to be visible on the article. I haven't seen any other featured articles that have the FA box on the main article page. - Zone46 15:45, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks!!

Can't tell you adequately how much I appreciate your comments -- I've been discouraged by the lack of chemists coming to support me, and to have a person not in science (I'm guessing) so clearly understand the problem of communicating a new (but already validated) view is most encouraging. THX! I have virtually given up hope of substantially changing the Entropy article, but it is so grievous to me as an old 'teach' that hundreds of thousands of students and adults checking Wikipedia will be led down the old path that has baffled millions for a century! There are several better, slightly or considerably more mature (!) intros to entropy that I'd recommend. For non-science adults, www.entropysimple.com, for youngsters beginning chem http://www.entropysite.com/students_approach.html or perhaps the best, the link cited at the first "what's new" at www.entropysite.com. The trend in chem is marvelously in my direction (and this morning I'm meeting with a world-class physicist-author who agrees with me and working on an article), but it's the public -- who COULD readily understand entropy via my approach -- that just are not being reached... Again, my gratitude.. Oh, P.S :-) re 'order' in the energy distribution in ANY physical system (and it is energy distribution that entropy measures!) just glance at the beginning and the end of http://www.entropysite.com/order_to_disorder.pdf . It's the final scientific 'nail in the coffin of 'disorder'. FrankLambert 15:53, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

Why the reversion of the Damadian page?

The issue was raised about Damadian and Carr's protests over the Nobel being "whining". I was merely trying to put this in perspective and neutralize the POV by noting the importance society gives to proper assignment of discovery credit. I gave two examples with proper citationa and links-- The local scandinavian rules defining scientific misconduct and Article 27 of the Universal Declaration of Human rights. Pray tell, what is wrong with this and why can it not be discussed on the talk page? Drive-by reversions are tacky. Pproctor 16:52, 12 August 2006 (UTC).

Robert Morey

To the first one you wrote. You must have known that adding what was really less than one line was likly to get deleted. As to the second time, you are right I should have checked a bit more to see if it was a repost of the same material or a different article. I apologise for that and will restore the article. I have also added back the category and fixed the references. Once again my apologies for being a bit trigger happy. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 17:29, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

What ho

It was great to meet you in Philly, sorry it was so short. I spent most of the week chasing my own tail. I'm back in the UK with jetlag now. Just zis Guy you know? 15:36, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

Your note

Welcome. Hope it sticks. :-) SlimVirgin ^(talk) 15:47, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

Half Truth

Hi Jim, I will try to take the half-truths article under my wing and improve it for a while. I can see why it was nominated for deletion though. Caesar seems to be trying to get the article canned with all the OR and POV material he wants to include. I almost wish I hadn't added the Examples section now - I can see its going to cause edit wars. Feel free to jump in and edit the page if you revoke the AfD. It needs all the help it can get! --Dave 13:08, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Ed Poor 2

Hello,

An Arbitration case in which you commented has been opened: Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Ed Poor 2. Please add evidence to the evidence sub-page, Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Ed Poor 2/Evidence. You may also contribute to the case on the workshop sub-page, Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Ed Poor 2/Workshop.

On behalf of the Arbitration Committee, --Tony Sidaway 00:44, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

Baldassare Squitti

Could you please check the Italian Chamber of Deputies at http://www.camera.it/ to see if it has a list of former deputies? If it does, then that would allow the information in Baldassare Squitti to be verified. TruthbringerToronto (Talk | contribs) 05:36, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

Your Sandbox

Hey man, I edited your user subpage (something that isn't normally accepted) and removed the wikify tag you placed there. The only reason ive done this is because if you do so, your page shows up here. I hope I didn't interfere with your experimenting. Sorry man. -- Reaper X 16:52, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

Stiffle

Er, I don't think Stifle is acting as a clerk here. JoshuaZ 00:32, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

SOPHIA again

re: your message of July 11, 2006

I'm not sure what happened, but it had something to do with Alienus. The trail starts here.

Sorry to take so long to respond. I would have responded sooner if you had left your message on my talk page, rather than my user page ;) Arch O. La ^{Grigory Deepdelver} 05:35, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

PS: SOPHIA returned on August 23. Arch O. La ^{Grigory Deepdelver} 05:50, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks Jim - I think it's all I can manage with the way things stand at the moment. And reading your talk page I certainly don't envy you at the moment. Sophia 12:18, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

John McGinness Bio

Again, this AFD only occurred because I offended certain people over on Raymond Damadian by defending Dr Damadian, an avowed creationist. Check it out on talk:Raymond V. Damadian.

Added: perhaps you were one of them. The "NO" names on the John McGinness RfD do show on Talk:Raymond Damadian and the various Creationist pages. Bit of a coincidence, considering the 1.3 million entries on Wikipedia.

The tremendous irony is that I am reasonably well known in human evolutionary biology. E.g., I published a paper in the journal Nature on one of few known examples of classic Darwinian natural selection in human evolution-- Nature , vol 228, 1970, p 868 "Similar Functions of Uric Acid and Ascorbate in Man". Likewise, Dr. McGinness' work pertains to the other significant example of natural-selection in humans, skin pigmentation and latitude.

Added: You-all are seriously undermining your case by harassing your allies for trying to neutralize the POV. Cut it out.

One reason I supported Dr. Damadian's claims to be one of the originators of MRI was to elevate the discussion and provide NPOV by showing that we board-certified, card-carrying "Darwinists" call things as we see them, even with creationists. Next thing you know, I am accused of vandalism and promoting "creationism"--obviously, somebody had not a clue. Similarly, my posts on other pages are getting deleted under spurious "vanity" objections and this Bio gets an RFD. Pointing this out is not "clutter" and it is quite relevant to this RFD.

Added: The Creationist nut-jobs are going to use this one to "prove" that their paranoia is justified and that the "Evolutionists" suppress dissent even among their card-carrying adherents.

Back to the subject at hand. Citing WP:NOR-- You are merely expression "opinion". Not allowed here. Do you have any cite, evidence, etc., that Dr McGinness did not do exactly as the definitive documentary evidence shows. Similarly, how can you claim with a straight face that the inventor of the "Plastic Transistor" is not "notable". If you have a new color cell phone or a color display on your car radio, you are probably looking at the ultimate descendent of Dr McGinness' device. Pproctor 14:17, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

Left on Proctor's talk page

Get off the cross. Do not leave such rambling slop on my talk page. And do not even think of telling me what is and is not allowed here -- I do not suffer fools, least of all arrogant fools.

Next, the Damadian article has nothing to do with the issue of McGinness, but rather the fact that the man has few hits on the internet and that I sense self-aggrandisement do. Is the internet the be all and end all? No. But, if his papers were ref'd by so many people, there should be more than a few hits. In any case, I am not changing my vote. Word of advice, long rambling screeds indicative of a persecution complex and which are presented in an adversarial tone are unlikey to achieve your ends. &#0149;Jim62sch&#0149; 21:46, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

Reply to Mccready's email

See my response to Mccready's unblock request by email. [3] Hope this helps since nothing else has so far. Take care, FloNight 22:36, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

Comical irony

That's odd Have you read WP:VAND? I quote:

Blanking

Removing all or significant parts of articles (sometimes replacing the removed content with profanities) is a common vandal edit.

Changing people's comments

Editing signed comments by another user to substantially change their meaning (e.g. turning someone's vote around), except when removing a personal attack (which is somewhat controversial in and of itself). Signifying that a comment is unsigned is an exception. e.g. (unsigned comment from user)

Do you think you are violating the spirit of these rules (if not their letter?) And, yes, Ed did give me a similar note on my talk page, which you can see for yourself. If you've got some problem with me being an arrogant fool, you can e-mail me, rather than writing it on the Internet for others to see. If you want to have a mature conversation with another adult, feel free to contact me; I'm still sincerely waiting a response to the questions I asked you. Note that I will be out of town soon for a few days. Thanks. -Justin (koavf)·T·C·M 18:43, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

Gratitude I accept your apology and your spirit of good will and candor. The offer is on the table to discuss further if you are so inclined. -Justin (koavf)·T·C·M 18:59, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Hello Jim62sch,

Thank you Jimbo for updating the info about Grapefruit Seed Extract. Here is some sentences for easy reading about GSE. Scientific studies, including as noted in the "Identification of Benzethonium in Commericial Grapefruit Seed Extracts" study done by chemist Gary R. Takeoka, suggests synthetic preservatives as the universal antimicrobial attributable to the broad-spectrum antimicrobial effect. Another study done in Germany (Aspects of the antimicrobial efficacy of grapefruit seed extract and its relation to preservative substances contained. Pharmazie, 1999; 54(6): p. 452 to 456.) found commerical grapefruit seed extacts contaminated with synthetic preservatives. When these residual preservatives were not present as in laboratory made extracts, as documented in yet another later study as sited in Identification of Benzalkonium Chloride in Commercial Grapefruit Seed Extracts, the evidence suggests 100% natural GSE to possess no antimicrobial properties.

"May you find your circle of life true and free as a song bird."

Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Vivaldi

Can we move to close the Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Vivaldi? This user has continual removed material. Arbusto 20:28, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

User:Arbustoo removes material

Arbustoo (talk · contribs) removes sourced material from articles when he finds that it disagrees with his single-minded desire to defame fundamentalists at all costs. Just take a look at his edits at Hyles-Anderson College, Jack Hyles, Bill Gothard, First Baptist Church of Hammand, and many others. He claims that he can add "critical" material to these articles and uses such sources as the personal blogs of critics as source material, clearly violating the rules of Wikipedia and especially the guidelines for WP:BLP. I'm not the only person that has found Arbustoo's edits to be over-the-top. 13 editors (not counting numerous from the same IP space) have commented that Arbustoo is making biased edits.

Now we come to Preying from the Pulpit, an article that over 90% of the people that commented on said should either be deleted outright or merged with another article. We have sourced information that criticizes this documentary, but Arbustoo removes it. Apparently, Arbustoo thinks criticism is only acceptable when it criticizes fundamentalists preachers.

Now I'm not a fundamentalist, in fact, I'm not religious at all. I think they are all a bunch of hogwash, but I do want Wikipedia editors to follow the rules and guidelines of Wikipedia that prohibit the sort of ridiculous edits that Arbustoo is making here. He is turning the encyclopia into a series of tabloid claims made by opponents.

I look forward to more input from other editors and admins in this situation, because in the end, I know that other unbiased editors looking at Arbustoo's edits will easily see what kind of campaign he is running.

I look forward to engaging in more discussion Vivaldi (talk) 22:34, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your input

I appreciate your input at Preying from the Pulpit. I believe that I have been misconstrued, by you, and others of being some sort of supporter of Hyles (and other Fundamentalists). I understand after having to deal with Gastrich why you might be skeptical of people making changes to these articles, but you can rest assured that my only interest in these people came about because another editor pointed out the Hyles articles, and specifically the biased and POV-pushing editing of arbustoo (talk · contribs) in the article. After seeing that Arbustoo has an obvious agenda with these articles, namely ensuring that they contain as much negative information as he can possibly fit, I decided to take some action to improve these articles and Wikipedia. I have no connection to Fundamentalism, (or even Christianity), my views on religion would be considered atheist or agnostic. My only concern is that editors, and specifically Arbustoo, are using Wikipedia to defame living persons and smear organizations using material sources that originate from personal blogs and self-published works. In fact, left to his own devices, Arbustoo would have 99% of each article be nothing but criticism of the topic. Arbustoo has a clear agenda here, and it isn't presenting articles in a neutral point of view. Vivaldi (talk) 03:22, 5 September 2006 (UTC)