User talk:Pharos/Golden Age of Latin Literature
Thanks for your edit to Homo floresiensis[edit]
Very insightful changes. Hope you decide to stay. Thanks! — David Remahl 06:21, 29 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Page moving[edit]
Please don't move pages by cut and paste. Use the 'Move' functionality. If it won't work, ask an admin to do the task. We don't use cut and paste because it loses the page history, which we are required by the GFDL license to keep. I realise you didn't know this; no harm done. I've put everything straight again. —Morven 07:14, Nov 10, 2004 (UTC)
rambot[edit]
I noticed your comment when you reverted the bot edit to Brooklyn. If you notice any more errors, let me know on my talk page. I'll update the bot so that it doesn't happen again. Sorry for any inconvenience-- Ram-Man 03:32, Nov 21, 2004 (UTC)
Excellent image! Excellent! If you're in the neighborhood and handy with a camera, you must have more up your sleeve. Details rather than the whole?: The Ansonia. Cady's south front of the American Museum of Natural History. San Remo towers from the Park. Stuff like that? If I weren't so hopeless... --Wetman 05:59, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- Sorry I can't take credit for the photo, that belongs to User:Rdikeman. When I saw your rather dramatic plea on Upper West Side, with poor Icarus leaping off, I remembered seeing this image on the Seinfeld page, and thought it would fit. I'm relatively new to Wikipedia, maybe I'll try taking some New York photos later if I can hack it. Meanwhile, Rdikeman is apparently quite the shutterbug, you can see many more of his photos at User:Rdikeman/MyImages.
Williamsburg[edit]
My family is from Williamsburg and I even lived there for a few years when I got married. I added a discussion of the Mt Carmel feast.
Article Licensing[edit]
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)
Coney Island[edit]
I like your intro better. :) -- Cecropia | explains it all ® 21:30, 28 Dec 2004 (UTC)
question on mass messages[edit]
Pharos, I saw your message on wikiproject New York City. Naturally I offer my best wishes on making improvements to the article on America's greatest city.
I just had a question, how was it that you sent a mass message to everyone who has edited a New York City article?
Lately I've been working on an analogous project for Newark, NJ (the main Newark article is one of two American cities to be a featured article, I am proud to say). My goal now is to have an article up on every major Newark neighborhood, plus a photograph. I would like to send out a mass message to everyone out there who has edited articles in the Newark category, as you sent out a message to people who have edited articles in the New York category. Could you tell me how to do this? talk (btw, even though I'm into Newark, I'm not the one who said Newark was NYC's sister city in the main NYC article)
Conficting definitions[edit]
Hi!,
Who do I talk to with Authority around here on a conflicting definitions?
from User:Supercool Dude
Hi!,
I added to the New York City article and someone deleted all of my writing and restored it to it's wildly innaccurate story.
The truth is that Verrazzano was the first European man to visit Manhattan and the French speaking Belgians called Hugenots who first settled Manhattan.
I suspect that someone of Dutch Heritage is rewriting history for their own Nationalistic purposes.
Another is False Friends, someone declared my writing Vandalism and erased it so I want to talk with someone who is an Authority here at Wikipedia.
This deleting of the truths by others is spreading lies and falsehoods and misinformation and I will not contribute to Wikipedia if does not stand for truth!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_friends
Supercool Dude
Thanks[edit]
Hey, thanks for dealing with Molloy's idiocy in my absence, friend. His accusation was self-defeating, your sarcasm was funny, but the most hilarious was that some didn't get it... Happy 2005! ←Humus sapiens←Talk 06:05, 4 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for letting me know about Paper Soccer! It was exactly what I was looking for. -- Tarquin
I've left a comment at Wikipedia:Vandalism in progress#Wacky vandalism of Christian etc.; I really wish I could do more. Temporary page protections and vigilance seems to be our only recourse. (Thanks for listing the incidents, by the way.) -- Hadal 06:34, 23 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Submitting articles to VfD[edit]
Hello, I noticed you had placed vfd-tag to Nova Project and created the subpage Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Nova Project but you never made the entry to main VfD page Wikipedia:Votes for deletion. I have fixed this for you. Please follow the instructions at the bottom of the VfD page. It also seems that Balanced Party needs to be resubmitted for the same reason. jni 06:45, 26 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for WFP rewrite[edit]
Hey, thank you for rewriting a lot of the Working Families Party article. Your edits and additional information make it read much more neutral. I am in the process of pursuing an internship with Letitia James btw, so I might start her article soon. Thanks again. --Howrealisreal 22:54, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)
2008 Elections[edit]
Hi Pharos,
I started Democratic Candidates for Presidency of United States, 2008 to have a more detailed discussion. I did not want to crowd the main 2008 page with lots of detailed information.
Nom de Wiki[edit]
- Brookie here - I've moved the page to my home page - I got a bit lost with the other points about re-directs and the pointing! Sorry - being dim - this is the first time i've tried this sort of stuff. Once this point is clear can we can the vfd? Brookie\talk
NYC subway[edit]
Actually, there are other uses of letters - see New York City Subway chaining. You can still link to the old names though. And to link to one, you can also use for instance {{NYCS 5}} (5), or, without the color, {{NYCS service|5|5|}} (5). Feel free to make a redirect to the latter if you feel it's too long, or an extra template like {{NYCS s|5}}. --SPUI (talk) 22:53, 12 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Secondary sex characteristic[edit]
Regarding your comment at my talk page, I recall making that edit a while ago (on January 24, in fact) but I copied most if not all of the text from another wikipedia article, which I think was subsequently turned into a redirect. I take it you've already realized this, judging by your comment in the edit history. In retrospect it would have been wise to check the source page for copy-vio before forking, but that didn't occur to me at the time. It would probably be best to revert the article to the last version by The Anome. -- Binadot 12:54, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Hi, i put the copyvio warning on that article. I thought it looks like a copy-paste job, and the first words of each paragraph were turned into sector headlines, weather it was fitting or not. I thought it reads like text from some brochure, but we'll never be able to verify that anyway. Now that we know the source, i think it's perfectly ok to remove the copyvio tag, it needs a bit cleanup anyway, and after that the problem should be gone. But when it comes t copyright issues, i prefer to list one too much over overlooking one. I think it's sometimes good to get a secon oppinion. I appologize if i caused trouble. Lady Tenar 13:22, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Is the article clearer now? I revised the first paragraph. Zantastik 23:02, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Speaking of expanding articles...[edit]
I'm not sure if I have time to do it, but Legal recognition of same-sex couples in the United States really needs a little work. It'd just take an hour or so, but I've already spent 4 hours writing for wikipedia today and I've got other things to do. Zantastik 23:10, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)
British governments[edit]
I'd say that it should go at the bottom, because succession boxes normally go at the bottom. Having it below the text, but above the table, suggests that the table isn't important, when in fact it is the main purpose of the article. john k 02:20, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)