User talk:Maveric149

User Talk for maveric149

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If you've been frequenting the RecentChanges page, you might already expect that I am a Wikipediholic -- yep, I admit it (score = 82).
Problem now is, sleeping has switched from a full (i.e. normal) to part time occupation.... oh well - you only live once, there's plenty of time to rest later...

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I've been troubled with a problem for many months and I have not yet come to a solution. It has to do with a few hundred cities that according to the census bureau are duplicates but with different data. For instance some cities in New York are listed twice. Once it is listed as a larger "town" and secondly it is listed as a smaller "village". Now I have seen in same cases where this really does make sense. The one is a larger legal body and the other is a smaller body containing it (similar to a "township" containing a "town" of the same name). They both contain the same name and they may contain the same or different data. We're dealing with almost 2,000 articles here (duplicates, so about 900 or so unique areas). Should I create two separate articles? Just skip the different data and pick one? Some of the city requests made on the User:Rambot page are those cities which suffer from this problem. I could fulfill those requests for cities, but I don't know what data to use. -- Ram-Man

Oh vey! I'll have to put my thinking cap on for that... OK, in cases where the data are the same how about we have one article (like with San Francisco, California and [[San Francisco County, California) but when they have different data have two different articles. I guess to distinguish the two parenthetical disambiguation will have to be employed such as (town), (city) or (village). --mav

I guess we will have to leave it to the people who live in that place to make sense of it if they can. Thanks -- RM

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Hi Mav, Gene Roddenberry was again modified by Trekkie1, but at least I managed to make him write in the discussion page why he deleted it. I am not sure what is right. What do we do? Thanks, Fantasy 14:35 1 Jul 2003 (UTC)

You seem to be handling it well and the info being removed is correct as far as I know so you, me, RK and anybody else is justifed in reverting. --mav

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You seem to be getting a very hard time by the folks at Martin Luther. I'm not really involved either way, but I do have a lot of books on Luther, purely out of cultural interest. I'll have to try and get them organized, and maybe then I will join the fray. Although I do feel the page seems to entail too much aggravation for the commensurate egoboost. -- Cimon Avaro on a pogo-stick 07:35 2 Jul 2003 (UTC)

I just changed my mind, after reading the current weaselworded edition with some attention. Come what may, I in. Not on your side, mind. But the side of truth, as always. -- Cimon Avaro on a pogo-stick 16:32 2 Jul 2003 (UTC)

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Good evening to you Mav.

I have a question. The english wikipedia has many more policies and guidelines than the french wikipedia, and many I am not really aware of :-) I think you are, right ? Re your comment to The Anome : You wrote that not respecting wikipedia policies, such as "niceness" was a bannable offense. Where can I find this policy ? Is not being nice is really a bannable offense ? What would you call not being nice ? (I don't talk about the case you know of course) User:Anthere

I was referring to Wikipedia:Wikiquette. A "bannable offense" in this regard is completely irrelevant because 142.177 has already been banned. Therefore there is much less by the way of "un-niceness" that will be tolerated from him. Example of being "un-nice": Calling for The Anome's sysop status to be revoked on the Vandalism in progress page just because The Anome was enforcing the HardBan. --mav

Is it ok to remove anything that is severely breaching the rules of "niceness" ? Which are the rules in terms of refactoring ? ant

I'm not getting your point. --mav

look again at this (http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2003-July/005116) (the jewish aspect is not the topic I am talking about :-)) and [1] (http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2003-July/005120) is precisely my point ant

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I've noticed that many people's sigs have timestamps attached to them. How does one do that automatically (I assume there is a feature I don't know). What other hidden features are there? Is there a page for them? -- Ram-Man

Four ~ will do the magic. --mav

33K, Mav old chap. Tut, tut. Have you not done your daily archive yet (or in your case, should it be by the hour? Hee hee!) Anyway, bad noos. There seems to be some vote on the issue of the redesigned front page set up by those opposed to it. Now I love it but some people don't (one of them curiously enough dislikes photographs in articles too and dislikes talk page yellow! Do I see a pattern - no doubt in black and white in his case - emerging?). Given your role in our colourful launch (or in Yank-speech, colorful launch!) it might be worth casting your vote there, lest the regime of the BOSs (boring old sods) take power and return us to boring dullness on the front page. The vote is at Talk:Main Page/Layout design. Slán FearÉIREANN 02:11 5 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Well I was one of the major people behind the non-color front page design that was launched on Wikipedia's last birthday. The only major different with the most current update was to add color. Before I started working on it the page looked like this (/w/wiki.phtml?title=Main_Page&oldid=336534) which has ugly horizontal rules and no real "Selected Articles" box. But voting on this seems rather premature - shouldn't the people who object to the color try to help us design something that most of us like and the rest of us can at least live with? This rush to voting on every stupid little thing sickens me - have we forgotten how to do things the WikiWay and compromise? --mav

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Hi, mav. I noticed the revision you made to Lou Donaldson. Is there a standard format for dates and birthplace? It's been perplexing me as I write my numerous jazz stubs. I put Donaldson's birthplace in the same para as the dates but in the separate sentence you wrote -- they seemed to go together but I'm ready to follow any standard format. Trontonian

Answer is on your talk page. --mav

Alright, fixed all of the links (including many where the problem was not caused by me, I'd note). I was trying to fix most of the Nebuchadnezzar links as well, but there's a ton and I'm going to bed. john 07:59 6 Jul 2003 (UTC)

That's cool. Nice work so far. :) --mav

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Thanks. It was an interesting trip, though I missed most of the major landmarks. Maybe I could get user:Ed Poor and user:The Cunctator interested in photography. Koyaanis Qatsi 22:09 6 Jul 2003 (UTC)

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Thanks for the reference. Another problem is bothering me. I believe a lot of the graphics of harness horses are actually copyright material -- for example, the rights to the famous picture of Greyhound seem to be owned either by the US Trotting Association or by the Hall of Fame of the Trotter. However, in the absence of any information about whether they were used with permission, is it wise to delete them? I'm leaving out of consideration the possibility of triggering another round of French king/List of Canadians battles. Trontonian

Hm. IMO all we need in this case is to mention who owns the photo. Then fair use would apply. It looks like this (http://www.equinenet.org/heroes/greyhound) is where the image came from. Having a link to that page and mentioning the probable owners should be enough. If and when the real owners complain we can clarify things or remove the photo as appropriate. --mav

Thanks. Trontonian