User talk:Zeimusu/chronicles
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Hello Zeimusu, welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you like the place and decide to join the community. Drop us a note at Wikipedia:New user log so we can meet you and help you get started. If you need editing help, visit Wikipedia:How to edit a page. For format questions, visit our manual of style. If you have any other questions about the project then check out Wikipedia:Help or add a question to the Newcomers' Village pump. And of course, feel free to talk with me or ask questions on my talk page. Enjoy! --Alex S 02:00, 7 Apr 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Categories
Yes, it's a new feature. The articles are grouped into categories. For details see Wikipedia:Categorization the talk page, and the links on the page. All existing categories are listed here. -- Chris 73 | Talk 10:35, 31 May 2004 (UTC)
- Before you get too involved, and because it seems to be VERY hard to fix misnamed categories, I thought I should warn you that you've misspelled "psychologists" (you left the h out). - Nunh-huh 04:02, 1 Jun 2004 (UTC)
- Glad to have spotted it. I won't even go near whether psychologists are scientists (to my mind, clinical psychologists are not, experimental psychologists are, but we'll have to see how well categories work before getting too worried about it<G>). - Nunh-huh 04:15, 1 Jun 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Novel vs romance
Just looking at your recent edit on the Novel article. It seems to me that a "romantic novel" is still a novel, and that one doesn't contrast a novel with a romance because a romance *is* a novel. Maybe it's just the phrasing, but it seems confusing. And although I know what you mean by the old romance writers, a "romance novel" these days tends to be a formulaic love story, so maybe even that needs to be rephrased. I didn't want to barge in and change it without checking with you what you had intended. Elf | Talk 16:36, 29 Jun 2004 (UTC)
- Got your response just as I was about to log out for the night. Watch out for saying that science fiction is "plot driven, shallow characterization, fantastic settings, and written in straighforward language." Most of what I read has strong characterization, might or might not have "fantastic" settings, uses language beautifully. Try Orson Scott Card, Ursula K. LeGuin, for example. :-) But the subcategory "space opera" might fit-- or the qualification "formulaic science fiction" (such as star trek novels, series with a dozen or more books, and so on... but then I'd get in trouble for wanting to lump those in, too :-) ). Elf | Talk 05:08, 30 Jun 2004 (UTC)
[edit] ndash
Strange, when I put in dash "-"(keyboard minus/hyphen), it gets replace by other editors with "–" (ndash, wihich does not respond to nowiki commands), now you edited Doolittle Raid the other way. So what is correct the wiki way? (I would think that hyphen would be more searchable). Any thoughts? Leonard G. 02:22, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- Thanks for the info; (this and your response is now on my page) Leonard G. 17:05, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Article Licensing
Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 2000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:
- Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
- Multi-Licensing Guide
- Free the Rambot Articles Project
To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:
- Option 1
- I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:
- {{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}
OR
- Option 2
- I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to any [[U.S. state]], county, or city article as described below:
- {{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}
Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk)
[edit] Logarithmic timeline
I've created Logarithmic timeline/New version, which takes into account some of the criticisms from the talk page and includes a introduction to the concept. I'd be grateful if you could comment on it, so I can see whether there's consensus or not for this to become the accepted version. Thanks. G Rutter 10:14, 10 Jan 2005 (UTC)
[edit] You told me to contact you if I needed help...
I noticed that the page El Cid Has been maliciously changed, and I can't seem to figure out how to change it back to an older version, if you could do this, or tell me how to, I would be most appreciative. Thanks.
RE: I recieved your response and thank you for it, very very kind of you.
[edit] Greetings
Discussion of Roger Billing page is now at Talk:Roger E. Billings
[edit] Australian copyright
Thank for doing the research on Australian copyright! I've now made 2 new templates: {{AustraliaGov}} and {{PD-AustraliaGov}}. See what you think. – Quadell (talk) (sleuth) 01:09, Mar 13, 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Barnstar
Dear Zeimusu - thank you so much for the Barnstar - it was most welcome indeed - I had just lost a large amount of text I was trying to insert on the Yakuts and was very discouraged - only to discover a few minutes later that I had been awarded the Barnstar! Most kind of you - and I'm glad you have been appreciating my entries (though many of my entries are still unfinished and I always remain open to suggestions or corrections). You have really cheered me up tonight.
I should be leaving Vancouver, Canada on Monday for my home in Cooktown in far northern Queensland, Australia. I will, then, have access to my books and notes and look forward to contributing more to the grand project of the Wikipedia. However, there might be some delay as I have to finish editing my first book - an annotated translation of the Chapter on the Western Regions from the Hou Hanshu - which is due to be published in late (northern) summer or early fall. Cheers and thanks, John Hill.
[edit] Barnstar award
Zeimusu, you've been a star on the image sleuthing page. In particular, de-stubbing James Keir Baxter to make a good fair use claim was so far beyond the call of duty, I don't think the call of duty even saw it coming. Congrats! – Quadell (talk) (sleuth) 15:42, Mar 21, 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Edit summary
Hello. Please remember to always provide an edit summary. Thanks and happy edits. Hyacinth 20:23, 5 Apr 2005 (UTC)
[edit] OOTS
Hi there! After merging two articles, one shouldn't put one on VfD, but rather redirect it. This is done by editing the page and replace its content by #redirect name of other page. P.S. OOTS = cool. Yours, Radiant_* 13:48, Apr 12, 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Your recording
Hi. You said you have recorded an article, but you can't upload it? If you put it somewhere up on the web and e-mail me, I'll download it and then upload it to Wikipedia for you. — Timwi 11:54, 2 May 2005 (UTC)
- Thanks, but my problem is that my broadband access is down at the moment so I can't upload large files easily, to here or the web. I hope to get it fixed soon. Zeimusu | (Talk page)
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- Now uploaded Zeimusu | (Talk page)
[edit] Moth list
Hi. I've just noticed your comment on Talk:Moth about the list of moth species getting too long. I completely agree with you even though this is almost entirely my fault! I've been considering doing this for a while but I'm not sure how best to format it. The list does have the potential to be frighteningly vast so I guess it's best to do something sooner rather than later! Perhaps you could tell me your thoughts. Could you drop them on my talk page thanks.
Also I noticed your comment further up about not using non-commercial only images in Wikipedia. I think I may have added a couple of these in these articles: Ghost Moth and Common Swift (moth). Do these need to go? Sorry, I wasn't aware of this policy. Richard Barlow 13:09, 18 May 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Discussion at Talk:Pakistan
Would you like to join the animated discussion on the Pakistan's talk page? The current issue is whether "Pakistan is famous for its support of Taliban and 9/11 terrorist" is a suitable sentence to start the article's first paragraph. Your contribution would be much appreciated, as the current discussion seems to be more of a dialog between User:Ragib and User:SamTr014 Talk:Pakistan Thanks!--Raju1 07:32, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Votes for Deletion/Military Families Against the War
I have just rewritten the page Military Families Against the War. I would be grateful if you would reconsider your delete vote. Kel-nage 20:07, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)
[edit] James Keir Baxter
I see you wrote most of this article. This will be the featured article on the New Zealand portal page in a couple of days' time. I and others have done some copyediting on it, but could you please cast an eye over it for any factual errors which may have been introduced in the process.
Also, if you're in a position to do so, it would be nice to have a summary paragraph about his importance to New Zealand writing/poetry. I've asked others as well if they could provide such a summary.-gadfium 03:12, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Blood type
Would it be possible to reword your edit on Blood type (the one from a lecture given by forensic scientist). It is bit hard to grok as it is. Thanks. Pavel Vozenilek 00:02, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- Yes, it is better. Pavel Vozenilek 03:14, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Request for Children's Drawing
Hi Zeimusu,
On the Requested pictures page you asked for some on children's drawing.
Here's a few samples from our boy:
http://218.101.48.33/~tom2/images/Picture3.jpg Aged 2.5, a smiley face with 'writing underneath' http://218.101.48.33/~tom2/images/Picture6.jpg Aged 2.5 'blue fish, large and small'. Carefully drawn. http://218.101.48.33/~tom2/images/Picture4.jpg Aged 4.5 http://218.101.48.33/~tom2/images/Picture5.jpg Ditto
These are crude pictures taken with my cellphone. Let me know if any of them take your fancy and I'll do a proper job. I don't mind what they're used for. If you are interested I might need your help through the process.
Cheers
- OK, as requested all four are available from the Commons:
- image:Smiley_Face_with_Writing_Underneath.png
- image:Child_Art_Aged_2.5_Blue_Fish_Large_and_Small.png
- image:Child_Art_Aged_4.5_Person_1.png
- image:Child_Art_Aged_4.5_Person_2.png
I'm not too taken with the contrast on the colour ones, though they're reasonably true to the original. Let me know if you're any good with manipulating them! Will leave you to add them to the Child art page and adjust request on the pictures page. Barefootguru 08:08, 10 July 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Tempera and Child art
I like what you've done on the Child art and Egg tempera/Tempera pages! Thanks! -->>sparkit|TALK<< 15:56, July 12, 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Old-fashioned bass clef
Hey, that old-fashioned bass clef you posted at clef looks great! Did you do that from scratch or did you clean up the one I posted? --Angr/tɔk tə mi 18:41, 16 July 2005 (UTC)
[edit] welcoming
Thanks for the tip, I just started welcoming. --Eliezer 04:39, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Thanks for categorization
Hi.Thanks for categorizing a couple of articles that I started. Much appreciated. Zeimusu | (Talk page)
- You're most welcome! >>sparkit|TALK<< 04:13, August 3, 2005 (UTC)
[edit] numerals, principals
Hello. Since you teach English, you may find it useful to know the difference between principal (ending with -al) and principle (ending with -le), and maybe even between number systems and numeral systems (I've just done some editing of abjad numerals). Michael Hardy 21:44, 15 August 2005 (UTC)
- Thanks, you know I can't spell nessessary or speicies either. Zeimusu | (Talk page) 05:14, August 16, 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Dowry in India... your objections and mine
Please refer to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Dowry_law_in_India for my objections to your edits. 498aVictim 14:46, August 20, 2005 (UTC)
[edit] TLAs
A proposal has been made at Wikipedia:Requested moves to move TLAs from AAA to DZZ and other related pages to Wikipedia namespace. Please visit Talk:TLAs from AAA to DZZ for the related discussion. -- Francs2000 | Talk
00:28, 16 September 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Generalization
(copied to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Genrelization) I understand that this is Wikipedia, an encyclopedia, this is my mistake. Once I realized what I had done, I re-posted this entry in Wiktionary. Wiktionary deleted it within less than 12 hours from me posting it initially calling it spam/vandalism and then telling me it was a mis-spelling of the word generalization and conlcluding that there was not enough evidence that this word was in use as a real word.....how can I fix this? rm81dragon 8:00, 16 September 2005
[edit] Blatant copyright infringements may now be "speedied"=
If an article and all its revisions are unquestionably copied from the website of a commercial content provider and there is no assertion of permission, ownership or fair use and none seems likely, and the article is less than 48 hours old, it may be speedily deleted. See CSD A8 for full conditions.
After notifying the uploading editor by using wording similar to:
- {{nothanks-sd|pg=page name|url=url of source}} -- ~~~~
Blank the page and replace the text with
- {{db-copyvio|url=url of source}}
to the article in question, leaving the content visible. An administrator will examine the article and decide whether to speedily delete it or not.
--nixie 00:00, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Orca
I suggest you move the page to Miami Seaquarium to allow further expansion and beacsue it includes discussion of issues whcih affect the sequarium itself as much as the particular animal. But well done for boldly cleaning it up. - Just zis Guy, you know? [T]/[C] :: AfD? 15:33, 5 November 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Coriolis not Coriolanis, Sine Rule and references to web sites and spreadsheets
Thanks for your correction of my misspelling / bad memory. I'll try to tidy up Olympic Triangle over time. The reason I put the references to the web sites with the sine rule and to the ability to use spreadsheets to calculate the leg lengths and total course length is because that is what had taken me about 5 hours to work through - how do I know from the sailing instructions for the Nationals (which only specify length of windward leg and total course length) what the angles of the triangle and the lengths of the other legs are. While it may seem of marginal relevance to the sport, being able to quickly access this information and manipulate it is critical to understanding and manipulating the Olympic triangle course. The material you deleted has high relevance to anyone using an Olypic triangle course, particularly when acting as a Principal Race Officer, a member of a Race Committee, or a committee member of an Organising Authority for a regatta using this type of course so I would like to put it back in, even if only as a footnote for additional references. The whole reason for doing the piece was to provide access to that information.
[edit] Tokitae
Your work on the article was amazing. It's still kind of short, but considering what you had to work with... nicely done. I've changed my vote accordingly. Matt Yeager 05:13, 6 November 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Near Earth Object
Thanks for the diligence checking references. I'm glad that though I might have made a quick judgement based on the user being anonymous and a first edit, I put enough of a clue in the edit summary that it alerted you to chase it down. Thanks! Hu 17:48, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
[edit] My Bad
Oh Shoot, that's my fault. I thought about reverting it, but I meant to cancel it out. I think that those links were useful, but I wasn't really sure, so I decided not to do anything. I'll fix it. Carer Somevile 20:36, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Salvadori's monitor
Please stop adding nonsense to Wikipedia. It is considered vandalism. If you would like to experiment, use the sandbox. Thank you. Brookie :) - a collector of little round things! (Talk!) 07:56, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
- Thanks for the note - what you actually created merely said: "Salvadori's monitor" - it was not a re-direct and as you left it - it was nonsense - hence the delete - now you've sorted it no problemo - just check before you save! Brookie :) - a collector of little round things! (Talk!) 09:07, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

