User talk:Fuzheado/Archive2

Michael, why have you changed all the caps from things like GPRS to Gprs? This is inconsistent with other technical terms and acronyms in WP. Otherwise, I'd like to change them back. Fuzheado 23:32, 6 Jan 2004 (UTC)

It's consistent with general Wikipedia style; to write gratuitous capitals is not generally done on Wikipedia. I've left the abbreviations (e.g., GPRS) in capitals, and gotten rid of the superfluous capitals in the words, thus making it consistent with Wikipedia's usual conventions. What would make you think Wikipedia typically does otherwise? Michael Hardy 23:50, 6 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Sorry, I've been doing a write up on my own Wooten desk. It is Wooten. The Wooten Desk Company, Indianapolis, Indiana, Founded by William S. Wooten in 1870. For more info: [1]

Wooten desk is mostly Wooton desk

Hello! I am delighted that somebody else is interested enough in the Wooton Desk to write an article on it.

But the desk (and the name of its inventor) is spelled Wooton and not Wooten as you can see if you consult these Web pages (and others by doing a search on Wooton desk):

http://www.kshs.org/cool/coolwoot.htm

http://www.architecturals.net/tip.cfm?articleID=3013

http://www.hgtv.com/hgtv/ah_antique_furniture/article/0,1801,HGTV_3086_1389862,00.html

This is why, some time ago I wrote an article on the Wooton desk

Instead of your article on the Wooten desk, there should be a redirect from Wooten to Wooton or from Wooten desk to the already existing article on the Wooton desk, since Wooten is one of the common mis-spellings of Wooton. But I do not know how to convert an article into a redirect!

Where could we go to find this out? AlainV 04:43, 2004 Jan 13 (UTC)

making fun of britannica

Thanks again. Here's what i need: The deathdate given for "Holbach, Paul-Henri Dietrich, baron d'" (searching for "holbach" should do the trick). Also useful would be the references they give for the article, as I suspect that they have gotten the month of his death wrong.) Best, snoyes 06:16, 15 Jan 2004 (UTC)

It is rather strange that EB do not give any references for the article. But I have checked some other encyclopedias at the library, and it turns out that there was a change (at least with encyclopedias) in specifying his death date to June (as opposed to January) sometime in the 40's, 50's or very early 60's. I guess there must be a good reason for that, so I'll do some more enquiries with more primary sources. Thanks for you help. --snoyes 02:55, 16 Jan 2004 (UTC)

The WNBA as awhole does not face financial problems because the NBA backs the the league up.

True, but just because the NBA helps subsidize and underwrite losses doesn't mean the WNBA can be considered financially healthy or viable. I think something to express this would be good. Fuzheado 04:09, 26 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Elf

Hmm, I'm curious why you reverted User:64.173.9.44's change to User:Elf. I think it was just Elf, forgotten to log in (the edit history of Agility (dogs) seems to bear that out). Given that Elf is a newbie, he/she might get a bit weirded out, so perhaps you might consider dropping Elf a message so she/he knows they didn't do anything wrong. -- Finlay McWalter 04:23, 26 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Re:TCM - Kudos, professor. I wish you well on the article. -戴&#30505sv 05:34, 26 Jan 2004 (UTC)

I'm also into letting things settle a bit. ;) -戴&#30505sv ps: do you play 圍棋?

"Not smart enough," professor? 不是!! Perhaps I'm to understand that you mean, "...to play professionally." I would be happy to teach the basics, if you're at all curious. Its late here, but I'm off to play a game or two.-戴&#30505sv 06:05, 26 Jan 2004 (UTC)

ROFL

"and no observation that the patient was, well, dead or alive." -戴&#30505sv 00:34, 27 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Wikitionary etc

I replied to you over at User talk:62.134.112.34, hopefully that explains why I may have seemed a little rude to the anon. Pakaran . 05:02, 29 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Image upload

I only saw your message on IRC after you left. The unfortunate answer is "no", I don't have a special upload bot. I wish I did, though. Don't forget to tell me when you see one in the wild. :) - snoyes 09:24, 30 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Elections explanation

Yeah, i know what you mean; ideas would be welcome, and i'll stare at it some more looking for ideas.

IMO its only virtue is that it's replacing something that was ~~utterly~~ misleading. --Jerzy 05:13, 2004 Feb 5 (UTC)

I'm chagrined to realize that it was your recent edit i had updated over, and then dissed, directly to the author. Your edit didn't work, but it deserved more courtesy than i gave you, and more effort to empathize with your honest efforts to solve the complex task that i have also not adequately solved.

I think you'll understand that i meant in saying "misleading" to express that i realized you were not just ignorantly editing where you shouldn't have, but rather forgot a subtlety of the topic and fell into one of the conceptual traps that is inherant in it.

On the other hand, i think "utterly" was an uncalled-for sledgehammer of a word, and i apologize for it. It was important to make another try at it, but "utterly" discarded all the nuances of the situation, including the fact that you were clearly on the right track even tho the minor slip you made was serious in its overall effect. --Jerzy 06:57, 2004 Feb 5 (UTC)

User:Jon500

I agree with you. Very fishy. RickK 06:09, 5 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Sorry about putting this on the wrong page. RickK 06:13, 5 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Request for Comment

Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Homegrown images - UtherSRG 17:56, 5 Feb 2004 (UTC)

The outside link was directly-related and the internal article is frozen, so please revert back the link. Thanks!

(See also cosmotheism [[2]]).

Socialism and Naziism - could you please take a look? Any pointers? 戴&#30505sv 04:12, 8 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Carlie Brucia

Hi! I appreciated and agreed with yr comments on this page in re: possible deletion (I added my vote, too). And now that I see yr own page, I'd like to say xie xie --- for bringing enthusiastic students to Wiki, and for that amusing Simpsons analogy. Zai jian! (Thus endeth my zhongwen capabilities, more or less.) Ensiform 00:40, 12 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Punch and Judy

Do you really think that the comment that you removed from the above article cannot be kept? It's rather good, and moments of humour are always welcome. I'm not entirely sure it's really POV, per se...
James F. (talk) 04:44, 13 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Nelson Mandela

The Wikipedia article says that Nelson Mandela briefly switched to Islam and changed his name to "Mohammad Mandela" during that period.

Try a google search with different spellings of Mohammed. WhisperToMe 03:57, 14 Feb 2004 (UTC)

According to the page, these two books helped build the article...

Anthony Sampson; Mandela: the authorized biography; ISBN 0-6797-8178-1 Nelson Mandela; Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela; Little Brown & Co; ISBN 0-3165-4818-9 (paperback, 1995)

Maybe one of them mentions this... WhisperToMe 05:31, 14 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Out of curiosity, what was the reason for deleting Adam Beaugh? From what I could see of the content, it looked OK. Just wondering, Meelar 23:41, 15 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Vandalism

Hi, thanks once more for your efforts to repair the Korean-Wiki. I have discovered that there is some problem in edit-graphic-tools. Would you also repair it. 아흔 15:15 2004 Mar 9

Hi! How'd you manage to rv two vandalizations in a row, only 1 minutes after they occurred, all within the space of about 3 minutes? Did you just happen to go look at the page at just the right moment?

I looked at your page; are you handling a class now?

Scott McNay 05:35, 2004 Feb 16 (UTC)

Must be REALLY discouraging for a vandal to find his/her changes gone less than a minute after they're made! <snicker> Scott McNay 05:55, 2004 Feb 16 (UTC)

Unfortunately, I don't seem to be able to get Trillian to connect to it; I've never used the IRC option before. Scott McNay 06:08, 2004 Feb 16 (UTC)

Can you give me a step-by-step? Either on my page or directly (althoug I my go to bed really soon): [[3]]

Thanks! Scott McNay 07:59, 2004 Feb 16 (UTC)

VfD comment may have been removed

Please see my important message to you at the very top of Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion

Thanks. orthogonal 21:51, 16 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Hi, please remember to sign (with three or for "~") your talk page comments. Also try to avoid multiple reverts of the same page in a row in a short time; ask others for help if there's a problem. Cheers, -- Infrogmation 18:23, 20 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Hello,

Tell me, I have been wondering all day why you reverted the smile 62.39 offered to me on User talk:Papotages. What was wrong ? Was there also vandalism practiced by the person on other pages ? Or was it an error ? I ask because this person is somehow a bit depressed, and has several times asked to be banned. So... Why ? Anthère0

FYI, CDMA2000, W-CDMA and a few others now have a bit more meat on their bones. I also added IMT-2000 and a bunch of redirects. -- Jpatokal 07:59, 22 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Press contact

You still want to be the press contact for Hong Kong and China? If so, please add your name and contact information to Wikipedia:Press releases/February 2004. --mav

Main Page protection

Hi,

I'm not sure if you've noticed it, but the individual components of the Main Page, e.g. MediaWiki:Dih, are actually openly editable. The idea is that by moving this stuff into the MediaWiki namespace, we can unprotect the pages because there's a reduced risk of vandalism. The German Wikipedia has been doing that for a while and I've never seen any Main Page related vandalism there.—Eloquence 03:22, Feb 24, 2004 (UTC)

Thanks

...for blocking that jerk! -- BCorr ¤ Брайен 16:51, 24 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Yes, thank you. :) RadicalBender 16:52, 24 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Edited your vfd

that one about sweden and world war II was moved to Swedish Neutrality During World War Two by the creator, so i edited your post in vfd, just letting you know... =) Obli 00:02, 26 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Hey,

Are you denying that "black propaganda" could also mean "propaganda produced by black people"?

--anon

If you can cite examples of it being used in significant ways, then it can be included. But just because it "could" be used doesn't mean it is. Also, questionable edits by anonymous users usually get reverted so don't take it personally. Fuzheado 14:45, 1 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Good work! the same fellow also went through Joseph Stalin so you might want to have a look at that. PMA 02:07, Mar 3, 2004 (UTC)

Edwards

No problem. I was just repeating what I had seen reported elsewhere on the 'pedia. :) --Dante Alighieri | Talk 06:23, 3 Mar 2004 (UTC)

RAAM

The RAAM article, created by you, is an orphan. Could you add some links to it? -- Kimiko 13:03, 4 Mar 2004 (UTC)

VfD End

Yes, Fuzheado, "The End" was necessary. The "jump to the end" link doesn't work without it. Have a nice day! - Arthur George Carrick 21:40, 9 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Spambot

Wow, great work on ko! Thanks for fixing it all. In case you didn't know, m:vandalbot and Wikipedia:Revert#bot_rollback have instructions on using &bot=1, which keeps recent changes tidy in cases of mass vandalism/spamming. Angela . 22:05, Mar 9, 2004 (UTC)

No, he seems to be using lots of different IPs. The whole thing is such a mess. I tried rolling some back, but another IP had already vandalised the same pages, so I was reverting to a different vandalised version, which I think I've fixed now but I have no idea whether there is any spam left. I made about 70 edits and deleted 14 pages, but I think there is probably more that I didn't find. It's a nightmare! Without full text search, it's very difficult to find out if there is any spam remaining. Angela . 23:53, Mar 9, 2004 (UTC)

User:Love over Money is very obviously Bird. As he is hard-banned, should I revert all edits he made as Love over Money? Under that name he started one fairly innocuous article, School book, and made a bunch of less innocuous edits to talk pages. Isomorphic 07:00, 10 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for the cleanup on sq

Hey thanks for the cleanup job on the sq wikipedia. I didn't notice until this morning, and saw that you had already taken care of it. Dori | Talk 15:20, Mar 10, 2004 (UTC)

Thanks

For your work on gl.wikipedia. Agremon

Nomination for Devoper Access

You're welcome :-) I was happy to nominate you, because I've "watched" you quite a bit and have seen something of the nature and quality of your work. I do understand your reasons for declining the nomination, however, and I appreciate your explaining. Now, to change the subject: I notice that your user page on the Meta automatically redirects to your user page on Wikipedia. How did you manage to do that? I tried to do that to mine, but it didn't work :-( Can you enlighten me? Thanks! Davidcannon 23:25, 23 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Thanks! I've got it now! Davidcannon 23:45, 23 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Kobe's accuser

IANAL, but I think we're on really shaky ground with this. I've listed it, more or less, on VfD. RickK | Talk 06:48, 24 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Kobe Bryant's accuser

A redirect doesn't identify who she is (although people can figure it out, so it doesn't completely solve the privacy issue, true). But I think you had it right in the first place that the discussion belonged on the Kobe Bryant talk page. The issue on VfD "should" be famousness or significance, even if that's not what everybody is addressing. --Michael Snow 07:18, 25 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Sorry, I initially posted this to your user page instead of your talk page. --Michael Snow 18:15, 25 Mar 2004 (UTC)

By the way, Anthony DiPierro is now restoring the name on VfD and VfU. Whatever your opinion, I could use some assistance discussing this with him. --Michael Snow 01:42, 28 Mar 2004 (UTC)

User:Lst27

For your information: It is true that I have been here for just half a month, but before I got a username, my brother (I'm not telling you who he is) has made a lot of contributions to Wikipedia. He showed me how to use Wikipedia in 2002 but I didn't get a username until March 28th, 2004. But I am not a sock puppet. --Lst27 22:45, 13 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Gulangyu Island

Dear Fuzheado, I have seen your picture on the Gulangyu page. Since we also have a Gulangyu page now in the German wikipedia, I would like to know whether it's allowed to use the picture. Since there is no copyright notice in your page, it would be deleted immediately from the German wikipedia, as -it seems- we are stricter with the copyright. Any information you can give me? Did you take the picture yourself? Kr, -- Herr Klugbeisser 19:47, 24 Apr 2004 (UTC)

In the German wikipedia, in order to avoid copyright infringements, it is demanded that the source of each picture is stated. So, for example, I will "borrow" your picture and I will state that user Fuzheado took it himself. For other pictures, it has to be stated that it is released under the Free Documentation License (or whatever this is called in English). So, I will take your picture (thanks!) and you'll see it in the German wikipedia. Nice greetings from Vienna, -- Herr Klugbeisser 12:17, 26 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Holidays

Hello. I have thought of your question. And yes, I have a suggestion :-) This requires 1) a car (but I expect this is granted) and 2) at least 3 days, more days more nice things to see. I gather this with wikipedia references :-) I post it to you later tonight or tomorrow morning :-) But that all depends whether you rather feel like seeing cities, rather mountains, or perhaps more variety (my suggestion is more in this direction). Later Fuz. SweetLittleFluffyThing

Here is what I would do if I had 3 or 4 days. You better pick up a french map, and the wikipedia one is not very good (no precise map). Perhaps you may go and see wikitravel ? :-)

From Paris, the idea is to do that

You go from Paris to Clermont-Ferrand thanks to the high way (about 4 hours). This trip has nothing special. The scenary is correct, but nothing really special ihmo. First area to see would be Le parc des Volcans d'Auvergne. Around Clermont, is a volcanic area, very beautiful, very preserved. You may visit the Puy de Dome, which is the highest volcano (no volcano is active in France). I have a road trip of about one hour or two (depending on stops) that is highly recommanded for scenary. You may see the surroundings mountains, many lakes, and a whole bunch of very typical villages. May eat local typical food in many local restaurant. I think it should not be a problem to find place to sleep either. At any time, it is best to sleep in a real hotel, but you are totally sure to have always room in a hotel just near entrances of high way in case of need. Not very fun though. Anyway. Key words to look on the net is Auvergne, parc national des volcans d auvergne, puy de dome.

A great reference I often use to plan trip is www.mappy.fr. I have another one made by Michelin, but can't find it just now. I'll add it. Very precious.

Then, you may take the highway from Clermont Ferrand to Montpellier. Normally...I think it should be about 4 hours ? If you have a lot of time, I suggest that you may spent a day in Cantal, that is another set of volcano, very wild, under Clermont Ferrand. Beautiful as well. Key words (cities) are Bort les orgues, Riom es montagne, Mauriac. A very interesting city to visit (it is not very big) is Salers. Lots of stuff to buy as well. But plan one day for this, and sleep locally (careful no highway around). The moutain is Plomb du Cantal (you should see this on maps)

In any cases, get to the Montpellier highway again, and go down. The highway is quite new, free (unusual) and surroundings beautiful. If I remember well, it goes in good part through "Les causses", le "larzac" (Jose Bove home). That is already mediterraneen climate. I may suggest you to settle a bit around Lodève. Great place, perhaps one place to sleep ? There is a fortified city not far, the name is escaping me (I had written it down, but the kids obviously used the paper for drawings).

Then you have to go through Montpellier (probably not so fun). And I may suggest that you cross the Camargue that day (on a map, it is between Montepellier and Marseille. It is the major flooded area in France. Very special. Rice and wild bull culture :-) Go have a look at Saintes Marie de la Mer perhaps. That is the main camargue city, or just the surroundings splash of water :-)

You may then go on your way to Marseille (there are some good road, or probably highways). And here, what you should *really* do, is to go to Cassis. That is a small city just east of Marseille. Very typical. Between Marseille and Cassis, there are some geological oddities we call Calanques. You may go have lunch (or spent the night) around Cassis (you have many hotels in Marseille otherwise), and go and see the calanques (by car, some by foot only, or take a boat in cassis to see them from the sea). Great stuff. Have a bouillabaisse for dinner. (fish soup). This is really to do (okay, I lived in Marseille during 2 years).

Finally, pick up the highway all your way to Nice (perhaps 2h30). You may of course, imagine to get out of the high to see the outside a bit, but you may do that from Nice as well of course. If you do so, go see St Tropez :-)

There you are. If you do not go to Cantal, I suggest that you do that in 4 days if you can (one sleep in Auvergne, one sleep in Lodève, one sleep in Cassis). One day for each of the stop I suggested. Tell me what you plan to do, I can give you more.

Also, when you are in Paris, buy the guide du routard and Le Michelin. You will have all roads, and many suggestions for what to visit, as well as adresses for where to sleep. In may june, I do not think you need much time to plan this. You will have no problem to find free hotels, so you can plan this when you are in France itself.

Normally, you should always find someone with bad english to understand you :-)

Cheers. Do not hesitate to ask for more. It will be my pleasure :-)

SweetLittleFluffyThing 05:43, 30 Apr 2004 (UTC)

You are welcome Fuz. Just do not hesitate to drop a word any time... I am not seriously on holidays until august...though I have the immense pleaeure to have 5 days off next week :-)))) ant

Hi Fuzheado. I think you were a little quick to delete ???? - OK, it was a slightly unnecessary article, but I'd argue not quite a candidate for speedy deletion. Apart from anything else, it was the first non-vanity entry created by a new user - I'd have liked to encourage him that his contributions were welcomed when he wasn't talking about himself/his friends! It's not a big deal, and I'm certainly not going to bother with votes for undeletion - I just thought it was worth mentioning. --ALargeElk 12:21, 14 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

Corps du Presse, Structures

Hi Fuz. Glad you like the m:Press corps idea. There hasn't been much real discussion of structures, powered or otherwise, on meta of late (and there has never been much discussion there... it's not even in the top 20 largest WP wikis![!!!]), but there is now. Please comment on/improve both of these when it strikes your fancy. +sj + 21:48, 2004 May 15 (UTC)

ps - I tried readding a prominent link to the Pump on the main page, in part b/c of an IRC comment of yours, but it was quickly removed b/c "VP is so unwieldy and long these days"... something to fix, surely.

Come help me add to the structure there... especially relevant now that de: and fr: are considering forming chapters, and the board is having elections... struct Mk I

diploma mills

I'm enjoying your progress on List of diploma mills, and I had to stifle myself when I saw Degrees-R-Us. =) --Merovingian ↕ T@Lk 06:14, May 19, 2004 (UTC)

Mew glitch

Mew glitch is not a candidate for speedy deletion. Game guide-type things need to be listed on VfD so they can possibly be transwiki'd to Wikibooks. Some may not be worth keeping, but others are, so they all need to be discussed except for the obviously useless ones. Guan aco 16:45, 22 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

Trust

For what reason have you not registered for the election for the trustees board? Im just curious =I thought you a rather natural candidate. -Stevertigo 01:02, 27 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

Triads and possible plagarism

Another user has brought to my attention that the Triad article contains text possibly plagarized from http://www.geocities.com/leixiaojie/Triads (Copyright of Annie Le Blanc. 2001). For example, the paragraph inserted in this edit is duplicated on page 1 of the website listed above. Since this is the work of your children, I'll leave it to you to deal with it however you like. Sincerely, Jia ng 22:17, 1 Jun 2004 (UTC)