User talk:Minesweeper

Hello and welcome to Wikipedia! Nice work on the president articles. --mav

Hi Minesweeper, why are you changing president links to "United States/President"? This is a subpage; subpages are no longer supported by the current software, which is why the page redirects to "President of the United States of America". If you want to link to that page, please use that link directly. (As to why subpages are no longer supported, see Wikipedia:Wikipedia subpages pros and cons). -Eloquence 13:17 Jan 24, 2003 (UTC)

Whoops, I didn't know that was being deprecated. I've changed all the links to point directly to "President of the United States of America". Thanks for letting me know. -- minesweeper 02:46 Jan 25, 2003 (UTC)

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I think Timeline of U.S. economic indicators is okay; updating it month-month would be hard, but annual updates could be put in pretty easily, etc. I might put in some job numbers. I'm of the opinion that there's little need to delete articles which are imperfect. --The Cunctator

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Digicam answer on my talk page. I'll let someone else sort out the Border collie mess. --mav

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Congratulations, you are now a sysop. Please see Wikipedia:Administrators for details on how to use your new privileges. --Eloquence 00:51 May 13, 2003 (UTC)

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Hey, you're EECS at Cal? Do you have Melvin Tsai as a GSI for any classes?

--Dante Alighieri 23:32 14 May 2003 (UTC)

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FYI - per MoS, birth/death place does not go in parens. :) --mav

Ah, I'll keep that in mind, thanks! -- Minesweeper 05:21 17 May 2003 (UTC)

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Hi Minesweeper, you changed the image-layout of Donald Duck, but with your change my browser can no longer show the page properly, image and text are mixed, overlayd, a lot of empty space... was this change necessary, is this some kind of "Wiki-standard"? Thanks, Fantasy

Hello Fantasy, what browser are you using? The page renders correctly for me in both Mozilla 1.3 and Internet Explorer 6 on Windows XP. The markup uses Cascading Style Sheets, which is supported by most modern browsers. It's not strictly a standard, I think, but since it's efficient markup, allows a wide range of formatting options, and is supported fairly uniformly by modern browsers, it is the favored method of displaying images. It is also the markup recommended on Wikipedia:Image use policy. -- Minesweeper

Hi Minesweeper, we (5000 people at my office) use "Netscape(R) Communicator 4.61 for OS/2 Warp" (sadly), maybe 2004 we will get a newer browser... maybe. If I understand it right, we will not be able for this year to see this pages in a proper style. It is a pity, as I am really trying hard to make as many people in my organsiation use Wikipedia, but that's life... Thanks for your help, Fantasy

Aren't you supposed to be doing work at work? ;) Wikipedia does become an addiction. Well, you have something to look forward to anyway. We're glad to have you as a contributor, even if the pages don't show up quite right. -- Minesweeper

...I am no Wikipediaholic (at least not, while i am sleeping... ;-) (ok, not yet) ... And I am working in a "knowledge" Company, so Wikipedia is also part of my job! ;-) Fantasy (btw: It even happened today that one of our new recruits told me, that the trainer was telling them to use also Wikipedia in their daily job!!!! My evangelism seems to work already ;-)

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That's the small version of the Underground Railroad map?!? ;) -- John Owens

Well, the same image was originally almost 200K! It's definitely smaller. -- Minesweeper

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The discussion regarding Internet humor is complete without further objections, the waiting period is over -- I think the following can now be safely deleted:

[... pages listed here ...]

Please remove ASAP, thanks! --Eloquence 20:45 26 May 2003 (UTC)

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Nice work on the corked bat article. Kingturtle 23:30 4 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Thanks. There's nothing like current events to provide some motivation. -- Minesweeper 00:23 5 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Good day, Minesweeper. I edited the June 3rd 'Sammy Sosa' news-bite to report Sosa having 1 cork bat and 76 other bats (instead of 77 other). If I'm incorrect on this issue, you may undo my edit. Your call. Be well. Usedbook 00:05 5 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Thanks for the update. I think you're correct. -- Minesweeper 00:23 5 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Hi there. Opps. I hadn't realised that I had created a similar page twice. I have deleted the text of one of them and turned it into a redirect. Thanks for notifying me of the mistake. FearÉIREANN 20:09 23 Jun 2003 (UTC)

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Hi, I had a problem with a paragraph of yours in natural logarithm; see talk:natural logarithm. Cheers, AxelBoldt 05:38 24 Jun 2003 (UTC)

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Your input is requested at Talk:U.S. occupation of Iraq. MB 00:29 3 Jul 2003 (UTC)