User talk:Mike Dillon/Archive 2005

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Hello, Mike Dillon, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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SoCal WikiProject

Since you live in Southern California, you may be interested in the Southern California WikiProject. Please take a look at the project and see if there is anything that interests you. If you have any comments or questions, please feel free to contact me. BlankVerse ∅ 02:50, 11 August 2005 (UTC)

An admirable approach to beginning on the Wikipedia. It is also better than signing up on numerous WikiProjects and then never participating. For me, I'm more a doer than a joiner, so although I have a number of projects and regional notice boards on my watchlist and participate when there is something that interests me, I haven't signed on as a participant for any of them. BlankVerse ∅ 05:07, 12 August 2005 (UTC)

CA Historical Landmarks

Thanks for adding to the List of California Historical Landmarks. It took me a long time to get through Alameda yesterday and I just did it because it was alphabetically first (I live in Ventura Cty). Glad to have someone else on board! --Howcheng 15:45, 26 August 2005 (UTC)

Contributions

I've noticed that you've been improving many articles concerning California. Thanks! -Willmcw 21:48, August 28, 2005 (UTC)

Verdugo Mountains

Possibly want to work on this one together? --fpo 21:49, August 28, 2005 (UTC)

For that purpose I have opened up a sandbox at my user page. --fpo 00:00, August 29, 2005 (UTC)

• Actually, you can thank Ixfd64 for the stub; I just tidied it up a bit. --Alan Au 05:18, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

Catewgory Trimming

Mike, Could you please reevaluate your practice of removing redudndent categories. Or, if you want to remove them, how about adding the category as a subcategory of the base category. That way pepole searching for someone can still find them by browsing the category. Although, now you are forcing them to know the nationality. Michael L. Kaufman 14:13, August 29, 2005 (UTC)

Olympic Blvd.

I had no idea about 1928! Fixed now. jengod 01:05, September 1, 2005 (UTC)

Regarding Landecker (sp?)

See Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting, where it says that "the [stub message] should go at the very bottom of the article". I've reverted. Cheers, and keep editing, Meelar (talk) 02:18, September 3, 2005 (UTC)

Is there any particular reason you want the stubmarker at that particular location? Although not "authoritative", the guidelines are certainly recommended. That's why I changed the article, in fact--it looks wrong unless it's consistent with the other articles. Best wishes, Meelar (talk) 02:32, September 3, 2005 (UTC)

I thought the citation of the stub-sorting project would prove sufficient. Anyway, if you think that stub messages belong after the text of the article but before stuff like ext. links etc, then the place to take it up would be the stub-sorting project itself, so that all articles could be standardized. Hope this helps. Meelar (talk) 02:40, September 3, 2005 (UTC)

Well, I disagree, but it's not really worth fighting over. Best wishes, Meelar (talk) 02:54, September 3, 2005 (UTC)

sub-catting canadian academics

thanks for the input/concern with the Category:Canadian linguists. yeah, i thought putting linguists as anthropologists may not be wholly right. will start up a Category:Canadian social scientists cat in the coming days as you mentioned and set it up like the Category:Social scientists cat. best regards, - Mayumashu 17:15, 3 September 2005 (UTC)

found the cat you created and have most sorted out the one i started - all looking a bit tidier. thanks again, -Mayumashu 17:33, 3 September 2005 (UTC)

Sand

Sure thing. That way, I won't have to edit the page to copy the code! --Merovingian (t) (c) 02:00, September 4, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks and hi

Thanks for the category-improvements and the lived-template for M. B. Emenau. I didn't know the man, but since you were at Berkeley maybe you do? He ought to have a proper bio here and not just a stub. Hmm.... You're also a linguist and beer-connoisseur who will wind/wound up working with computers huh? Is there a connection? Are all linguists doomed to shy away from cheap beer and hang over sticky keyboards typing all day? Think of the children! Send in the clowns! I've forgotten to eat lunch again! Ahum. See ya around. --Kaleissin 10:23, 22 September 2005 (UTC)

Fair use in w:es

Hi, Mike. Please read es:Wikipedia:Votaciones/2004/Usar sólo imágenes libres; images under the fair use clause are not allowed in the Spanish version of Wikipedia, much as they're not accepted at the Commons (or w:de, w:nl, w:ja and many others). The image you provided was thus not in accordance with project policy.

As for the template, creating a template for use in just a single article is not a very good idea resource-wise. Merging it back into the article was the way to go. Remember to assume good faith; your comments to Dodo border on uncivility.

Best, Taragui 01:03, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

Point is, there is no other article making use of the template now. Taking the code back to the article saves the server the effort of looking it up from the template whenever the page is accessed. If it were used in at least two articles, I'd be all for restoring the template. Drop me a line if you need it, and I'll undelete it.

That said, I think a comment from Dodo, however brief, would have been appropriate. I believe our poor past experiences with one-time comers from other wikis may have had something to do with Dodo's bluntness, but he was supposed to assume good faith as well. I'll drop him a note. Best, Taragui 01:27, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

Metrolink (Southern California)

Thanks for finding, identifying, and fixing the problem with the Metrolink (Southern California) link. Cheers, -Willmcw 02:00, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

Battle of Vaslui

It's the wrong Suleiman Pasha, I'm afraid ( some four centuries later). --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 10:41, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

You definitely weren't the first; that might have been me, though I haven't checked the History to see if anyone beat me to it... --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 22:36, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

Gladys Root

Thank you for the cleanup on Gladys Root.

About Tropico, I thought you'd be interested in these

• [1]
• [2]

thanks again. Joaquin Murietta 06:17, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

Jimbo Wales to Attend San Diego Meetup on October 18 2005

Hello, Jimbo Wales will be in San Diego to attend OOPSLA and has agreed to come by and visit with the San Diego wikipedians. If you are interested, you will find more info on my talk page. Johntex\^talk 00:54, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

Cognitive grammar

Thanks for your message, Mike. I've read around a little more and I see that you're right that Cognitive grammar shouldn't be merged to Cognitive approaches to grammar. However, the stub is still awfully confusing as it is (and I was confused by it), since it makes it sound like Cognitive grammar is on par with Construction grammar. There needs to be some kind of context (I didn't put a {{cleanup}} tag because those never work). The account at Construction grammar seems pretty good, though it suggests that the identification of Cog. Grammar as Construction grammar is controversial. Is it? If not, a redirect there seems like it would provide more information than the current stub. But if there are good reasons for thinking otherwise, then of course feel free to remove the merge tag. Chick Bowen 04:27, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

SF links

This section used to have a discussion of the removal of some commercial links from the Capistrano Unified School District and Los Angeles Unified School District (the commercial site is referred to as "SF" below to avoid using their name since they precipitated a revert war to keep their name off of Wikipedia). Please do not edit this section any further. Apologies if your comments were mothballed during the revert war over this section. The About my edits section below is related to this same issue. Mike Dillon 01:44, 4 November 2005 (UTC)

We are in the processing of Disputing this matter with the Wikipedia Board... Mike Dillon.. Do NOT repost your comments . Thank you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cooldude1234 (talk • contribs) 18:39, November 2, 2005

We received an email from a David K, representing the SF website, complaining about this. He confirmed that the links were inserted with the purpose of advertising the website. Obviously that isn't compatible with Wikipedia's goals so your editorial decision was perfectly acceptable. In my opinion, you may treat further efforts to advertise this website as a deliberate attempt to compromise the integrity of our encyclopedia--as spamming, vandalism. --Tony Sidaway^Talk 22:41, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

Forest Lawn Memorial Park naming

Re: Your name changes for the Forest Lawn Memorial Park cemeteries. There are a large number of "Forest Lawn" cemeteries all over North America so it is a good idea to make the type of change you did to specifically identify each one. However, I think it's a good idea to avoid bracketing names for high volume references such as these two cemeteries. Most readers have no idea what "Glendale" means in the title: Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale). For an encyclopedia, it needs clarification and bracketing forces an editor to do tedious extra work so as to present it in proper and easy flowing syntax: Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California. Do you think you might be able to come up with another form of title? Thanks. - Ted Wilkes 13:56, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for picking up the error. Gentgeen 00:03, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

About my edits

Don't worry about them. We had a problem with this user complaining about the comments and requesting someone to remove them, so I did for everyone's sake (at #Wikipedia). ☢ Ҡieff⌇↯ 07:11, 2 November 2005 (UTC)

Andreas Floer in the list of famous USCA alumni

Hi Mike, I put the mathematician Andreas Floer in your list of famous USCA alumni. He was a resident of Barrington Hall from summer 1983 to spring 1985, when he went back to Germany to finish his doctoral thesis. In 1987 he returned to Berkeley as an Assistant Professor. I do not know for sure if he again lived in Barrington Hall then (he had friends who lived there, anyway). In know for sure that in 1989 (when Barrington was closed) he took an apartment in Oakland. Maybe you have means to check if he was a Barrington Hall resident again from 1987 to 1989? Thank you! Rolf of Erkabo 09:03, 9 November 2005 (UTC)

Shared IP

I noticed you put a shared IP template on a IP users page, how do you know if an IP is shared? I assume you use a WHOIS search to find out the company, but how do you know whether the IP is shared by multiple users? Please respond on my talk page.

Prodego ^talk 16:41, 9 November 2005 (UTC)

Thanks, any idea what this(returned from WHOIS) means?

NetType: Direct Allocation(I have also seen Direct Assignment)

Prodego ^talk 16:52, 9 November 2005 (UTC)

Double Thanks -- Prodego ^talk 17:02, 9 November 2005 (UTC)

Category:Wikipedian linguists recategorization

The user categorisation scheme for linguistics has changed. Henceforth there are separate categories for Wikipedians who are professional linguists (Category:Wikipedians by profession→Wikipedian linguists) and Wikipedians who simply have an interest in linguistics (Category:Wikipedians by fields of interest→Wikipedians interested in linguistics). You are currently listed under the former category; please reassign yourself if necessary. —Psychonaut 17:09, 9 November 2005 (UTC)

quick question

I was just wondering why you put the canned welcome message on my user talk page. Did I do something wrong? Or was it merely that my talk page never showed that being inserted? Just wondering. -- Joseph Lorenzo Hall 20:19, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the answer! -- Joseph Lorenzo Hall 21:07, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

Image:Beer Mug.png

Mike, I wish to learn if you like the redirect I did on the beer mug image. It redirects to the beer project. Cheers. Cafe Nervosa | talk 21:06, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

I copied your comment to the Image_talk:Beer_Mug.png and replied at that location. Give the redirect a few more days to see what others think. Cafe Nervosa | talk 19:51, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

Re: Category:Texas mountains

That's fine; I just made Category:Texas mountains because there wasn't any category for it listed on Wikipedia:WikiProject Mountains at that time. Then I realized that Category:Mountains of Texas already existed, and so I made it a redirect.  –Benjamin  (talk)  01:49, 2 December 2005 (UTC)

dab morphology

See talk:morphology. - UtherSRG (talk) 19:22, 2 December 2005 (UTC)

Wait a minute. I asked a question in the edit summary without changing your text. Your answer to my question doesn't address the change you made. Dab pages are only supposed to have links to the pages in question, not to unrelated pages like Greek Language. I don't believe any of that initial text should be there, but I didn't change you text, only the link. Please explain on the talk:morphology page why this initial paragraph shouldn't comply with MoS:DP. Tedernst | talk 22:23, 2 December 2005 (UTC)

I'm much happier without the link. Thank you. I'll leave it to others to decide about the intro text. Thanks! Tedernst | talk 22:39, 2 December 2005 (UTC)

Template:Massachusetts touch

Hey, sorry I took a while to respond, it's done now, hope it did what you wanted. Martin 23:55, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

John Alexander Low Waddell and John Alexander Waddell

Are these the same person? I noticed that the birth and death year are the same? Perhaps a merge is in order? Thoughts? ++Lar 22:11, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

Merged. Thanks for your positive input! ++Lar 19:38, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

Template:Hospital

Thanks for the offer -- I've got no objections, but I'd recommend this -- go to Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Clinical_medicine#Infobox_Help and ask them to see if that's what they want. --Arcadian 18:49, 26 December 2005 (UTC)

German Waldheim

Thanks for your comments. I think I caught all my typos. I changed the sentence about the National Register to noting that the Haymarket memorial is was the first cemetery memorial made a National Historic Landmark, which is more accurate. It may still be the only, but I believe there are moves in the works to add additional ones. 70.108.130.40 17:51, 29 December 2005 (UTC)