User talk:Elf/Archive 2

Some stuff removed from my talk page Aug 22 '04.

Wikipedoh...wikihol...wiki-aholi... doing lots of wiki

Cheers for the comment. I can't seem to tear myself away. I've missed the snooker, I usually watch the news every day without fail - but no, not for the last week, I've started having dreams, words in documentaries are underlined as they go in my ears.

I can't really afford the luxury of being a wikiholic. I need to earn money. I'm just hoping this is a phase... --bodnotbod 20:27, May 4, 2004 (UTC)

I think Meelar says he will block people with a problem for four days if they ask him to. No charge! I'm going to see if I can be disciplined and write some non-Wiki between midnight and 3am. Oh no! Only 2 and a bit hours of Wiki left, sniff. --bodnotbod 20:45, May 4, 2004 (UTC)

That's OK, Elf. Anyhoo, the Jamthund in question has been dead for ten years, to the day... J. Michael Reiter

Awesome! If you need any more help, there's a more complete list at User:Branddobbe/Temporary, although there are still some missing holes and questions. If I had more time I'd work on that as well. Thanks a lot! -Branddobbe 07:43, May 26, 2004 (UTC)

Sure. It's not complete, though. For example, if there's a date such as "1955" and it doesn't say either "-19xx" (or 20xx) or "1955 only", that means that I don't know the closing date. And I don't know what's going on with the Sleeping Beauty Castle or the Golden Horseshoe Revue. -Branddobbe 23:12, May 26, 2004 (UTC)

New Disneyland Article

Yo, that List of past Disneyland attractions is looking great! Thanks for the heads-up. I can think of a couple of things to add to it, and I'm sure that my wife can come up with a few more. - Lucky 6.9 16:22, 26 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

I agree. List of past Disneyland attractions is great, and I want to thank you so much for working on it. One thing, though, is please don't edit my user pages. Thank you. Again, the page is awesome. -Branddobbe 23:19, May 26, 2004 (UTC)

I've seen Yesterland before. It's where I got a lot of my information, actually, that and a Disneyland Timeline somewhere (that actually stopped updating in 2000 or so). Sometimes the two contradict each other (and a couple of times the timeline contradicted itself), so it can be a little confusing. -Branddobbe 21:24, May 27, 2004 (UTC)

Copyedits in Press Release

I've responded about "such as" and "comprising" in the Talk page Talk:Press releases/May 2004.

Catagories

We have categories! See Category:World War II for the genaral idea. I think it might work well. :) -- sannse (talk) 08:04, 30 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

See Wikipedia:Categorization for coordination of the category effort -- sannse (talk) 09:27, 30 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

Admin nomination

Elf - I'd like to nominate you for adminship. I'm sure you'll sail through. Would you object to me doing this? →Raul654 06:54, Jun 1, 2004 (UTC)

Mis-spelled links

Howdy. Just a quick thank you for pitching in with the misspelled links list. Good job. - TB 11:12, Jun 4, 2004 (UTC)

Newbie guide

Oh, by all means please do edit it. I've made a number of changes to it, took a deep breath, and moved it to Wikipedia:Your First Article. I want as many people as possible to edit it and comment on it. I want to be sure that it is better than Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not before unleashing it on newcomers. Dpbsmith 14:30, 5 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Woohoo!

Many congratulations to you and Jake! Wonderful news :) -- sannse (talk) 06:57, 9 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Sysop

Congratulations! After getting 100% support on RfA, you are now an administrator. You should read the relevant policies and other pages linked to from the administrators' reading list before carrying out tasks like deletion, protection, banning users, and editing protected pages such as the Main Page. Most of what you do is easily reversible by other sysops, apart from page history merges or image deletion, so please be especially careful with those. Good luck. Angela . 09:38, 12 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Congrats! →Raul654 22:04, Jun 12, 2004 (UTC)

Wikipedia Song

Nice :) I wish I had a time-filler like that (well, maybe not :P) Ilyanep 01:11, 13 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Thanks, Elf!

For welcoming me to the Dog Project. I'm having fun, but still have lots of learning to do.

I have another few comments/questions and I'll put them on the questions page--one of them--there are a couple if I can remember correctly. Perhaps it would be an idea if we had ONE place for dog project contributors to ask-n-answer and resolve issues? Quill 20:28, 15 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Weird thing with categories

from the pump

I'm not sure whether this is a bug or a user error, so I'm asking here first. (I've cleared my cache and restarted Netscape, to forestall those questions!) From Category:Dogs, click Category:Dog types. The category exists, has content, has an article assigned to it. Click Sheepdog. It is assigned to the category Dog types, but the link shows as if it doesn't exist and, sure enough, when I click it, I get an edit page rather than a display of the category page--but it doesn't say it doesn't exist, it actually shows the content of the page! Why does it think it doesn't exist at the same time that it knows that it does? Elf | Talk 00:32, 5 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Cache issue, nonetheless. Just clearing your cache isn't sufficient - you need to send a message actively to tell intermediate caches (certainly wikimedia's squids, and possibly your ISPs too) to clear their caches. Ctrl-f5 on the specific page does this, but telling your browser to purge its own cache doesn't. -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 00:39, 5 Jun 2004 (UTC)

There seem to be wild cache issues with wikipedia right now, and especially with categories. Anyone know what the deal is? john k 02:13, 6 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Emergency Help--destroyed DOG article

I didn't mean to. I was edited the bottom section and adding to it and every time I tried to do a preview and save it kept freezing on me.

Finally it worked, but to my horror my ammended section has REPLACED the entire article! Can somebody reverse this FAST?

copying this to everyone's pages in the hope that someone sees it soon. Quill 01:34, 17 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Oh my Lord! I need brandy!

That was scary!

Yes, I knew the system was acting up, but jeez! to see a whole article disappear!

Thanks for the response, Elf.

I'm going to get right back on the horse, now--yikes.

My talk page was locked by someone because it was a target of the ongoing vandalbot attack. I protected WP:RFA because I didn't want to have to keep reverting it every minute and didn't want it to be moved again. Maximus Rex 02:16, 17 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Photograph help

Elf, can you walk me through how to get text in an article to wrap around photos? I figured out how to put them in the article, but I'd like to have them look well-placed as in the Dog article.

If it's too hard, should I just put the photos in the article and drop you a note to format?Quill 11:48, 17 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Which linking format to use?

Hey Elf--bugging you again.

I used the word 'mongrel' in the breed-specific legislation article, and linked it. The link goes to a disambiguity page for mongrel. Not a problem, but I'm wondering if I should make a direct link to the 'mutt' article, which would seem to make sense.

Question is, do I use the REDIRECT thingy or the PIPE thingy. Not sure of what the proper use for each one is. Server is very slow and I can't get in and out of the FAQs with ease.

One more linking thing, I agree with your (I think it was you) adding a hyphen to Breed-specific, but the problem is that if a user types in 'Breed specific legislation' they don't get directed to the article. Solution? Quill 01:08, 19 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Mongrel/mutt link: Usually if I know the specific page that I want to link to, I pipe it to that page. e.g., [[mutt|mongrel]]. I think that that's more efficient on use of server resources than going thru a redirect, although there's been some discussion about whether that's true.

Not sure what you mean by REDIRECT thingie. The redirect command is a command that's the only thing under a heading that you want to always go to a different, existing article. So Pipe Thingie is probably what you're talking about.

Breed-specific solution: Pipe thingie again! i.e., [[breed specific legislation|breed-specific legislation]]. Or one could move the article to the correct hyphenation, leaving the nonhyphenated version as a redirect. But I usually check to see how many articles link to the original article before I start mucking with it, otherwise I've either suddenly created a ton of redirects or a ton of work to go change the redirects to the new hyphenated version. Elf | Talk 05:54, 20 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Thanks again Elf. Quill 06:04, 20 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Figuring it out

Yes, I have LODB on my watchlist now, Smart Aleck! I do have a question, though--is there a place I can place links, (like, make a list of links to pages go to alot) rather than having to go all around the mulberry bush trying to find them?

Yep, figured it out about delecting the redirect. Just want to let you guys know when I'm trying something that could mess up the categories and links and stuff.

By the way, I hope I'm right in directing this to Elf, since somebody did a Quill and forgot to sign her name....Ha! Quill 06:51, 25 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Novels and romances

Yes, "romance" is used for two things: medieval and rennaicance adventure stories, and modern love novels. Amadis of Gaul is romance in the first sence - not the second, whereas Jane Eyre is of the second, not first type. There's a case for two pages, but that would result in more stubs so I'd favour extending the romance page to both meanings. I'll try to make the distiction clear on that page.

It strikes me that the true sucessors to the medieval romances are sci-fi and comic books (plot driven, shallow characterization, fantastic settings, and written in straighforward language.) Perhaps I can work that in.Zeimusu 04:39, 2004 Jun 30 (UTC)

Thanks for the kind words and help

...Feel free to ask any of us questions, if you have any.

Thanks for the kind words. I wish I had discovered Wikipedia years ago. I enjoy writing about subjects that interest me. The best part is that I learn so much in the process. Working on an encyclopedia would have been my dream job years ago. Unfortunately, there are not many want ads for such people (IMMEDIATE OPENING! High-paying enyclopedia contributor positions must be filled. Ideal candidate must be a generalist and have familiarity with mostly useless trivia. Generous salary and bonus structure. Apply now!). Archaeologist would have been my second choice (another in-demand profession... NOT!) I became a computer programmer instead.

I think I'm getting used to the Wiki markup. I like the way it works.

I've noticed you coming along behind me and cleaning up my work. So often, I write something and think, "I could have said that better," but can't quite figure out how to word it. It's important to have editors. Another person can see things the writer cannot.

As you can probably tell, I am a great fan of dogs. If I had the space I'd have lots of them. I wonder if it matters to anyone if I write articles for breeds that I have no personal experience with?

Cordially,...

Image identification

Sorry about being slow about this; the site is now working fine (a mis-configuration; oops!) with those images. Any idea which, if any, is a Bleeding Heart?
James F. (talk) 03:09, 2 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Thank you very much for the identification; I've now put a cropped image on Bleeding heart, hopefully showing some of the bud development...

As for the site, yes, it's very slow, running on my somewhat-belaboured DSL line here at home. The images are only a couple of mebibytes at most. At some point I might get it properly hosted, but for now, as a poor student, there's little I can do :-(

Many thanks,

James F. (talk) 16:58, 2 Jul 2004 (UTC)

croatians user(S)

here are some more:

Do you have an idea how this guy gets so many IPs?

[[User:Avala|Avala★Talk]] 09:13, 9 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Photo gallery

Your new photo gallery looks wonderful, great work! -- sannse (talk) 07:34, 12 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Where did I come from?

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I replied on my page :-) Fantasy 容 12:20, 13 Aug 2004 (UTC)