User talk:Jengod/Archive3

images of jefferson

I found a great image of Jefferson that is in the public domain: http://teachpol.tcnj.edu/amer_pol_hist/thumbnail98.html . Please consider using it on the Thomas Jefferson article. It is much better quality than http://en.wikipedia.org/upload/a/a2/Tom_jefferson_color.JPG , IMHO. Kingturtle 05:22, 24 Feb 2004 (UTC)

• I was suggesting placing the tcnj.edu image on the Jefferson page itself. Kingturtle 05:35, 24 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Nice work!

Thanks for all the great work you have put into the 'events in history' page and on streamlining the Main Page. Please don't think that my revert was anything more than procedural - I in fact like the look of your second version better than the current Main Page. --mav 07:14, 24 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Events in history March 2004?

I really don't like that idea. I was in fact thinking about having many items for every day and just establish the policy that only 4 can be displayed at any one time on the Main Page. They can be commented out and rotated (just like the images). But dividing this between many different pages is not something that I favor at all (if anything we would divide it up based on month - but only for space considerations). --mav

In the news

Please see the top of MediaWiki talk:Itn. See also the old guidelines at Wikipedia:Selected Articles on the Main Page. --mav

Lord Baltimore

Hello, jengod. Lord Baltimore should indeed be at Baron Baltimore, as per the standards set at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Peerage. Thanks for bringing this to my attention. -- Emsworth 22:08, Feb 25, 2004 (UTC)

Neutral countries

How is that you reckon Sweden, Switzerland and Portugal were neutral and you don't reckon the Irish Free State, Spain, Turkey and Andorra were neutral? David Newton 02:35, 26 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Ah, so how exactly was Switzerland not co-opted by the Nazis? Who was who stashed away millions and millions worth of stolen gold and treasures? It certainly wasn't the Spaniards. Who refused to invade Gibralter, despite Nazi pressure? I would also suspect that your blithe dismissal of Irish independence would intensely annoy at lot of Irish nationalists. The Irish Free State became an independent nation in 1921. Turkey has territory in Europe, hence my inclusion of it in the list. As for Andorra being a micro-state, since when did that matter? It was a neutral nation state on the continent of Europe. Oh, and on Portgual, you did know that they granted basing rights to Allied forces inside their territory in 1943 didn't you (albeit the Azores, rather than Portugal itself)? David Newton 02:44, 26 Feb 2004 (UTC)

List of colleges and univesities

Heretic! :) -- Decumanus 05:49, 26 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Earl Grey and the mandarin

At least somebody think I'm funny! (btw I fixed up the entry a little at Earl Grey tea) Wetman 08:43, 26 Feb 2004 (UTC)

U.S Regions Template & Infobox

Please review the proposed U.S. Regions template and infobox. The current proposal would only be for official regions. Please do not make any changes to the page until everyone has had a chance to view the curret proposal. Please signal that you have reviewed the proposal on it's talk page. Please also make any comments you have over the proposed template and infobox ont the propasal talk page as well. You can find the proposal here: Official Region Template and Infobox

- JCarriker 21:55, 26 Feb 2004 (UTC)

I have answered you're questions on the Official Region Template and Infobox talk page.

- JCarriker

Ken Watanabe

Are we good to take Ken Watanabe (actor) off the Wikipedia:Pages_needing_attention page?

-Nateji77 08:06, 27 Feb 2004 (UTC)

My Gift to Fifth Graders

Thanks. That made me laugh :) I've wondered the same thing myself at times, about the cribbing. Are we writing the world's most comprehensive Cliff Notes? As far as the sysop, I would like to be one, and it would be an honor being nominated by you. The thing is that I've only been editing since Jan. 10, so I don't know if people would go for it right now, even though I have a lot of edits. On the other hand, I'm interested in becoming a developer too (yet another thing) and so I've asked Tim Starling for his advice about this. -- Decumanus 21:43, 27 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Davodd has completed the maps, and the U.S. South is now using the template and infobox. JCarriker 04:45, Mar 1, 2004 (UTC)

History of CA

Sorry if I ended up conflicting your edits--I happened on the page & made some changes without checking page history dates/times. Only edited Drake section just now. Elf 22:49, 4 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Hermit Kingdom

Hermit Kingdom is listed in Wikipedia:Redirects for deletion. Optim^·.· 05:55, 3 Mar 2004 (UTC)

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The 555th Parachute Company article has a confusing starred note. What it means is that after that point, although I stated that the company grew into Company A, 555th Parachute Battalion, I will be describing the entire batallion (rather than just the company) after the star. Hope that's not as confusing... ugen64 02:14, Mar 5, 2004 (UTC)

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re: John Kerry

Nice work. :-) -- 160.39.193.218 22:58, 5 Mar 2004 (UTC)

I agree - very nice work. --mav

punctuation

Not necessarily :) The Wikipedia:Manual of Style prefers the British system of punctuation, though, I won't revert this change over it... Dysprosia 06:54, 7 Mar 2004 (UTC)

War nav table

I kinda liked your war nav table idea. But it would only work on a per nation basis (just like the table you created at American Civil War). I would also like to see your feedback to Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Days_of_the_Year#New_layout_proposal whenever you get a chance. :) --mav 01:46, 7 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Welcome boilerplate

Hi, just wanted to let you know that I did see your request on the Welcoming Committee talk page. I'm willing to comment on any boilerplate you make. You can also take a look at my personal boilerplates here. They aren't perfect, and I've been meaning to revamp them, but they're a start. Isomorphic 05:20, 8 Mar 2004 (UTC)

U.S. Regions Update

U.S. South, U.S. West and U.S. Northeast are now all using the infobox. The protype articles format has reached completion but the text is in dire need of additions. Please feel free to edit the text as you would any other article, but please do not make a change to the format with out explaining why on the discussion page. You can find the prototype article here The Non-Official infobox has been proposed please review it and post your opinons on it's talk page. You can find the proposal [[ Non-Official Region Template and Infobox| here.

Also ther is a list of WikiTexans; thought you might want to add yourself

-JCarriker 19:38, Mar 9, 2004 (UTC)

You're crazy

Samoas rule! :) -- Decumanus 22:43, 9 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Campaigns

Thanks, I will entertain the idea later! ChrisDJackson 00:30, 11 Mar 2004 (UTC)

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where to put?

where to put this: Equal Rights Amendment? Into List of United States federal legislation? --Yacht 04:50, Mar 11, 2004 (UTC)

List of famous deaths by accidental drug overdose

As I mentioned on the talk page, I wonder why you list Marilyn Monroe there. Pakaran. 23:47, 9 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Colonial Governors

Thanks for the work you've been putting into Colonial America. As one of the Wikipedians intersted in this area I wanted to ask you a question. I've got a fairly complete list of the colonial governors. I plan to add the info to Wikipedia sometime in April, and thouht to ask your opinion first. At this point the List of Governors of Connecticut contains those for the coloial period, but I don't think I'd want to see the others this way. Most of the articles that exist for individual colonies are fairly short, so my inclination is to add the Governor's list as a section in each article. If the article grows a lot, we can break them out to a separate list later. I'd link colony and state governors with a See also: comment. If this seems to work out, last thing I'l do is split the Connecticut list. What do you think? Thanks,,, Lou I 15:17, 12 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Cinema, Film, and Movies

Why did you combine the existing cinema and film pages into movies? Did you look at Talk:Film? At least some discussion on that page would have been called for, in my opinion. If you read it you can see that there's been difficulty figuring out what page to use, but it seemed to me like people thought Movies was the worst choice. But I thought the existing distinction, with Film being about the technology, and Cinema about the artform and industry, was working out reasonably well. I assume you acted in good faith, but I really think we should go back to the separate pages, and not use Movies. --Michael Snow 00:13, 13 Mar 2004 (UTC)

I agree that both of the pages (as they were before you combined them) needed improvement, but they had been making some progress. Nothing on Wikipedia is perfect, of course, and there's still a long way to go here. As for the links, that is a significant challenge, but I made a considerable effort to go through and redo the links so they went to the appropriate page. Granted, the effort was still incomplete, plus I've been distracted by other things, and other people have not been so systematic. However, I still think Movies is very problematic, especially because Movies is definitely NOT the name of the artform. The argument for the simplest English term is reasonable, but I don't think it's strong enough here, because the term isn't broad enough. Some people argue it's a little US-centric, as well. Incidentally, if nobody else has pointed it out, it's also rather drastic to change the name of a category linked on the Main Page (in this case Film). --Michael Snow 00:35, 13 Mar 2004 (UTC)

I'll grant you that the split is an ambitious project, but I undertook it because I figured that sorting through the links to get them all in the right place would be even harder if we waited longer to split. --Michael Snow 00:44, 13 Mar 2004 (UTC)

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American Regions Move

I have moved the page to bring it into accordance with the hierarchy agreed to at U.S. Regions Talk. It is designed to avoid confusion between regions that have definitive boundaries and those that do not. In the case of New England there are two regions with the same name and I am creating a disambiguation page for New England.

-JCarriker 05:16, Mar 16, 2004 (UTC)

I don't understand why you didn't voice your opposition earlier on the talk pages. It's my undertanding that the procedure was already adopted by the project several weeks ago, of course nothing is permanent on wiki and I have created a discussion page specifically for this issue since it inovles at least one user outside of the project. I really don't see that scrapping the "American" idea will be much of a problem, I just don't understand why you didn't mention it sooner.

-JCarriker 05:39, Mar 16, 2004 (UTC)

Warbox

So, I've removed the warbox from First Barbary War twice, and Second Barbary War once. My reasons are on Talk:First Barbary War. Please read and discuss before adding it in again. --ESP 09:59, 16 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Lucius Lyon

You're probably right about Truman being a brother. The only reference I saw about it was this [1], but there were references elsewhere to a Truman H. Lyon. Probably the same, but no additional info. Bkonrad | Talk 22:54, 16 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Hmm, I just came across this link: [2], listing a Jennifer Godwin as transcriber! Don't suppose you have a copy of the book handy to check? There's an entry for Truman H. Lyon. Bkonrad | Talk 22:58, 16 Mar 2004 (UTC)

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Thank You!

I want to thank you DEEPLY for your support in the vote to promote me to a sysop. I promise to do my best to be as helpful, sensible, and neutral as possible. Your friend, Ryan.

Behavior

Hello, I know my behavior is not perfect. However, do you not notice that everyone of my conflicts happen with one user most of the time? The same user? I don't see anyone talking to him about being a problem user. What is up with that? Look how many edit wars he starts. Help me see how this is not a double standard. ChrisDJackson 03:30, 18 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Red and blue

You will probably want to merge red state and blue state with red states and blue states. --Minesweeper 06:44, Mar 17, 2004 (UTC)

John Kerry

John Kerry presidential campaign, 2004 is not a natural title. Per the common name naming convention I'm moving it to something that would actually be linked directly as part of running text without the use of a pipe. Example: "In the 2004 John Kerry presidential campaign..." vs "In the John Kerry presidential campaign, 2004..." Same goes for all the other damn campaign articles - whose daft idea was it to choose such an oddball convention? --mav 22:13, 19 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Los presidentes

Sigh. As they say, let the whatever have its whatever. The MediaWiki {{msg}} feature seems to be like the VfD. It gives users something to do who would have very little else to contribute. -- Decumanus | Talk 21:06, 20 Mar 2004 (UTC)

On second thought, the continental congress thing is getting out of hand. -- Decumanus | Talk 21:15, 20 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Wikipedia as a press source

Regarding Wikipedia:Wikipedia as a press source, why have you adopted that ordering? Also, it is not considered nice to revert non-vandals using the rollback feature (unless you consider me a vandal). Dori | Talk 18:28, Mar 22, 2004 (UTC)

I wouldn't revert a revert without discussion, but I was a bit put off by your decisison to use the rollback feature. As I said, that's only used in cases of vandalism. Dori | Talk 18:36, Mar 22, 2004 (UTC)