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| Just to let you know, I've created a list of the child categories of Category:California, at: ]. Let me know what you think of it. ] 00:29, 4 August 2005 (UTC) | Just to let you know, I've created a list of the child categories of Category:California, at: ]. Let me know what you think of it. ] 00:29, 4 August 2005 (UTC) | ||
| === WikiProject California === | |||
| I've been editing articles on California for a long time already, but it is noly recently that I've actually put myself into the list. Some active editors who have not signed up but are doing a lot of work on California articles are: | |||
| *], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], and more.... | |||
| I'll continue working on these articles, and I'll be sure to check out WikiProject So. California. | |||
| — ] (]) 00:06, 9 August 2005 (UTC) | |||
| === Interstate 710 === | |||
| I am not sure where to find very good info on some of the ]'s history. Mostly I have been relying on either some of CalTrans documents or http://www.cahighways.org. However, I know that: | |||
| #Exit #1 is designated as Anaheim Street, thus I assume that this is currently the highway's official southern terminus. | |||
| #710 is a "Non-chargable" Interstate route . It never got federal funding, but is signed as an Interstate to provide continuity and connectivity. Most of 710 is signed as an Interstate because it already passes ]. | |||
| #But the portion from Hwy 1 South to Ocean Blvd is a type B "Non-chargable" Interstate. That segment technically cannot be signed as an Interstate until its upgraded to Interstate standards. | |||
| You can probably find a bit more information at http://www.cahighways.org/505-805.html#710 (Which reminds me, I have to check if the ] article does mention "chargable" v. "non-chargable" routes). ] ] 10:54, 13 August 2005 (UTC) | |||
| ==Boston Accent Babel User Box== | |||
| I ultimately wanted to add it as a new legitimate addition to ], since there actually is an article on this (see:]), but I may have missed some policy somewhere or something. I'm also having problems with the category part. Oh well, que sera. I've tried getting advice all over the place, but there hasn't been much so far other than from longhair. ] 22:26, 16 August 2005 (UTC) | |||
| ::That's fair enough. I'll make it into a subsitute on a user subpage, and let anyone who wants to use it do so. ] 23:27, 16 August 2005 (UTC) | |||
| :::Ok, copy and pasted the code onto my userpage, and took out the template stuff. Feel free to delete the old page at will. Just broke 1200 edits today, and it feels good. ] 14:53, 17 August 2005 (UTC) | |||
| ==Head out on the Highway== | |||
| Just wanted to acknowledge your message. I'd already posted at ''County Routes'', but thanks for the heads up. There seems to be an Emotional Investment in the old caps issue on the part of some that I'm not quite getting. Not sure where the Smug Tone comes in either, but hey. Cheers. ] 01:05, 17 August 2005 (UTC) | |||
| == LA Wiki == | |||
| Thanks for the link. I found that site late yesterday. While it may have some promise it doesn't seem to be up to date. I suppose that would be cause for me to join it. ] 08:41, 19 August 2005 (UTC) | |||
| == User page, et al == | |||
| I have noticed that you have run into {{user|Ronald20}} as well, intresting to say the least. I also like the statement on your user page, and i would have so say that i support and agree with the comments that you have on it. By the way i was wondering if you might want to take a look at some stuff thats kinda in the Copyright problems area with a user that i have encountered. I dont want to jump into specifics right away, i am just looking for an outside view on what should happen next. If you dont want to get involved thats ok. Also if you looking for a discussion on wikipedia problems, i would gladly share my views with a pearson that same to share the same ideas of me on the surrface. --] | ] 05:42, 21 August 2005 (UTC) | |||
| *Yeah Dittoboy, thats a name i haven't seen kicked around in a long while. Yeah i'll look over your stuf see what you have come up with. I suspect their is more "disgruntaled" users out their then can be seen, but i kinda wonder if their almost to afraid to sepak up. But i'll get into it more later | |||
| I'll shoot you an email about this issue, justlet me know when you respond, as i dont check my email religilously. --] | ] 06:25, 21 August 2005 (UTC) | |||
| *Responded back. --] | ] 08:03, 21 August 2005 (UTC) | |||
| Hi. Speaking of Ronald, I think I'll follow your advice and roll him back a bit. - ] 18:27, 21 August 2005 (UTC) | |||
| == Vote bar == | |||
| I am seeing a certain irony in your vote on this template. You complain about the elimination of discussion, yet it is not at all clear you read the part of the discussion where several people (myself included) are voting to keep this template in order to use it in the article namespace, such as ]. Maybe you think that this is a bad idea as well, but I suspect your "strong delete" is basically a response to the VFD issue occupying the top of the discussion. Could you clarify in your vote whether you would find this template acceptable if limited to the article namespace? ] 07:15, August 22, 2005 (UTC) | |||
| ==Thanks== | ==Thanks== | ||
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| Btw, couldn't agree more with the first comment on your user page: "...mourning the loss of civility and and the loss of too many good editors from the Misplaced Pages." It's true, and this has been bugging me for some time. There's ten times more complaining about bad behavior, and organized pillories and punishments, than rewards and kudos. Not sure what to do about it, but losing good editors to burnout is a bad thing. Peace and happy editing, ] ] 14:48, 23 August 2005 (UTC) | Btw, couldn't agree more with the first comment on your user page: "...mourning the loss of civility and and the loss of too many good editors from the Misplaced Pages." It's true, and this has been bugging me for some time. There's ten times more complaining about bad behavior, and organized pillories and punishments, than rewards and kudos. Not sure what to do about it, but losing good editors to burnout is a bad thing. Peace and happy editing, ] ] 14:48, 23 August 2005 (UTC) | ||
| == LA Galaxy == | |||
| I couldn't find your edits in the LA Galaxy history. Were you on another account? Anyway, IMHO the spelling of the names should be as they are on the official MLS roster for the team -- if diacritics are there, they should be here. As for the WikiProject, I'll fill in what I can. Thanks for alerting me to that. --] 16:11, 23 August 2005 (UTC) | |||
| :Ha, I just assumed it was the Galaxy when you were talking about Chivas. ] has a point -- the rosters don't have the accents, but he ''was'' open to having them after the pipe. After reading the discussion on the ] page, my view is that the players' names should be spelled as close to how they write their own names as possible (for example, if Lopez was never López until he was on Chivas, then it should stay Lopez). How we determine that ... I don't know. Regards, ] 15:41, 24 August 2005 (UTC) | |||
| ==GIS software== | |||
| Interesting question! I don't know any free GIS software myself; since I work for a big company we use the commercial stuff (ESRI, AutoDesk, even a bit of MapInfo). I'm actually the department manager. Since there is a loose corporate policy discouraging open source software I haven't explored it (ESRI stuff is expensive: a basic ArcView 9.1 license at the lowest level is several thousand). Strictly as a GIS exercise, though, what you describe should be straightforward. If you want to show someone's movement through time, add a numerical attribute to the table of cities they inhabit (which would be points) -- the attribute would probably be years (1865, 1888, 1912, etc). Then use those points to build a polyline with the vertices ordered by what is in the attribute table; then give it a linetype of arrow. (As with all GIS problems there might be more than one solution too.) | |||
| A cheaper but not open-source option is to grab an ArcView 3.2 off of eBay; 3.2 is still quite useful and robust, and can be obtained fairly inexpensively (needs a patch to run in XP though). Hope this helps! ] ] 15:29, 24 August 2005 (UTC) | |||
| :Hi again! Almost all GIS programs allow you to link to an Excel file, though frankly I never use the .xls format: if I do data entry in Excel I always save down to a .dbf (DB4, DB3 or dBASE) first. You can't go wrong with .dbf for data attributes. ArcView uses .dbf for their shape file attributes. It sounds to me that attaching a genealogy database to a GIS is not all that trivial; there's a number of ways to set it up. ] ] 14:39, 27 August 2005 (UTC) | |||
| == Re: ir-3 == | |||
| I'm answering this on your talk page since I totally missed your comment on mine a few days ago... sorry. Well, it's like this: The Babel templates are always in the language they refer to, so an "irony" template has to be ironical itself - extremely ironical in the case of ir-3. Check out where the links lead to ;) --<span style="font-family:monospace"> ] </span>] 15:34, 24 August 2005 (UTC) | |||
| == Happy editing == | |||
| Fixed now (took ~10 seconds with search/replace) Thanks for pointing that out. Do you think it's useful this way, so that people can watchlist userconduct separately? ]]] 09:42, August 27, 2005 (UTC) | |||
| *Good point, I'll keep that in mind in the future. ]]] 08:07, August 28, 2005 (UTC) | |||
| ==nice job on ]== | |||
| Excellent article! I hadn't noticed it until you added it to the SC Wikiproject. Been a long time since I've been on a grunion run (is that what you call them in the LA area?) It's a tidbit of southern Cal life no one else seems to know about. Cheers, ] ] 19:50, 28 August 2005 (UTC) | |||
| ==Just deserts?== | |||
| Thanks for bring that to my attention. The term "low desert" also extends here to the Colorado Desert, so I don't think a merger would be particularly accurate. There's also more of the Colorado Desert here in California than there is Sonoran. The Antelope Valley and Mojave Desert northward are high desert, FWIW. I'll keep an eye on this. - ] 16:24, 30 August 2005 (UTC) | |||
| :Appreciate you bringing this to editor's attention. I agree with Lucky, and Lucky must know better than I about "There's also more of the Colorado Desert here in California than there is Sonoran." AFAIK, The Colorado Desert is the distinctly California term for the Sonoran desert. . . i.e., the Sonoran Desert is the larger overall term, and the Colorado Desert is the subset name for this desert within California. | |||
| :The terms '''High Desert''' and '''Low Desert''' are syllable-saving terms referring to the ] and ] respectively (doncha love radio/TV news readers?). The names refer to relative elevation compared to sea level. | |||
| :Just so you know, the ], ], ], ], and ] all lie within the Mojave Desert. These are not ''all'' the regional names for areas within the Mojave Desert. . . but these are the most well known perhaps. On desert questions, Lucky and I are probably your best experts at present. Thanks again for inquiring with us first. That other desert dude, --] 13:27, September 1, 2005 (UTC) | |||
| ::BV, your edits look just fine. Dunno why the article ''couldn't'' be merged, but I'm fine with it not being merged. The term ''Low Desert'' like its sister ''High Desert'' is really a syllable - saving term for the benefit of the radio/TV weatherfolk, IMO. | |||
| ::BTW, I really like your "Statement in Black" you've made. I too mourn the loss of good editors due to incivility. Yours most kindly, --] 23:51, September 1, 2005 (UTC) | |||
| :::Yeah, I understand what you're saying about Tuscon and "Low Desert." I've always wondered why Tusconians would use the term - my kneejerk guess is to distinguish themselves from the Phoenicians to their northwest. There may in fact be an elevation difference of note between the two localities - worth checking out some more. How I edit, BTW, is to refrain from putting into Misplaced Pages such "guesses" as this one without sourcing it out via a reliable source (and not everything on the Internet is always reliable, as you probably already know). But since you have a NWS source which I didn't know about, you're probably safe to include Tuscon into the article in the way you told me earlier. The only funny feeling I have regarding Tuscon in this regard is Phoenix, IMHO, isn't "High Desert." (But maybe the Mogollon Rim plays into this in ways I dunno as yet.) The REM reference doesn't surprise me, either. I now understand the rationale for having a Sonoran Desert article as well as a Low Desert article. Good work! --] 00:15, September 2, 2005 (UTC) | |||
| ==About rotating the photo of the New Otani...== | ==About rotating the photo of the New Otani...== | ||
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| Rotating the photo is fine. I wish I had a higher quality original but unfortunately, my digital camera at the time was a real piece of junk (I have a better one now, as you may have noticed from my recent uploads). --] 17:31, 30 August 2005 (UTC) | Rotating the photo is fine. I wish I had a higher quality original but unfortunately, my digital camera at the time was a real piece of junk (I have a better one now, as you may have noticed from my recent uploads). --] 17:31, 30 August 2005 (UTC) | ||
| ==Semiconscious' response== | |||
| Hello! Thanks for the post: Science for Everyone Everywhere is moving along slowly since it's being run by grad students who are also TAs, running research projects, etc. I'm planning on devoting more time to it once the first week or so of class is over, as this is the busiest time of the year for a TA. I'll check out the two California wiki projects. Where are you in CA? ] (] · ) 00:22, 31 August 2005 (UTC) | |||
| ==Arroyo article== | |||
| I've saved it here and will look at it when I'm not consumed with school, etc. Thanks for the tip. --] 00:34, August 31, 2005 (UTC) | |||
| ==RfC== | |||
| Hi, you say "Tony's crusade against deletion of school articles, now turned into a crusade against deletion of almost all articles, has so colored his views and actions that I did not trust his opinions at either VFD or VFU." | |||
| Although you were not among the many who endorsed my original response, I take your change of opinion seriously. Why do you think that my views have been colored? What am I doing that suggests to you that I'm on some kind of crusade against deletion of almost all articles? I just don't understand this but if we discuss it maybe I will. --]] 02:44, 31 August 2005 (UTC) | |||
| == i know == | |||
| i love riding my bike around LA... and driving in small doses. i hope to continue adding more pictures as i explore more corners of southern california. most of the best views of la are unfortunately not photo-appropriate, as they are seen from freeway overpasses or across the basin and valleys at night or in dark crowded subway stations. one time i actually got yelled at by several subway riders as i took those pictures of the red line stations. they were pretty scared. | |||
| ] 03:01, 31 August 2005 (UTC) | |||
| yah i don't think the city hall picture is representative either, but i unfortunately didn't get any nice pictures of the pier, beaches, main st, or marshes while i was there last weekend (i grew up in huntington beach and frequently visit friends there) enjoying a breakfast burrito at nick's deli. i have pictures of the bolsa chica end of the bay, but even those pictures didn't come out so well. seal beach is a gorgeous little town and it's unfortunate how few hb citizens really take note of that fact. i've been adding to a few articles on specific highways - i am appalled that there's really a discussion over what the names of the lists should be - hah! | |||
| ] 10:16, 31 August 2005 (UTC) | |||
| == The Winter Queen == | |||
| Please take a look at ]. ] 15:14, 1 September 2005 (UTC) | |||
| ==Friends and stuff== | |||
| Can I add you to my friend's list on my user page? :) Thanks for all the help. -- ]\<sup>]</sup> 20:13, 2 September 2005 (UTC) | |||
| ==Question== | |||
| I'm a Spanish student of Japanese Literature. As there's no enough information in he Spanish wikipedia (we're working on it) I included a external link to a serious page of "The tale of Genji" in Spanish. I cannot copy the content of that page because it's not GNU but I thought it was good to help spanish readers. You erased it and I don't understand why. Thank you {{unsigned|213.170.56.194|}} | |||
| Dear friend, | |||
| As I'm pretty new in wikipedia editing, I don't want to disturb the rules but I would like to include the link again for what I said before. Is that right?--] 18:11, 5 September 2005 (UTC) | |||
| :I agree that English is the most prevalent language on the Internet, as well as the primary language for conducting international business, and even the language most often use by scientific journals. Enlish is the ] of the World. Even though there is a small, but very vocal group of Misplaced Pages editors who insist that http://en.wikipedia.org should be for primary English speakers, I think that they should recognize that it is really an international encyclopedia that just happens to be written in English. On the En.Misplaced Pages there are users and editors from around the World. But there is one thing that they all share in common—they all have some knowledge and understanding of English. | |||
| :For ] there are links to 15 different Wikipedias. Links for those languages should go in those Misplaced Pages. A link in Spanish is just as useless for most users of the En.Misplaced Pages as a link to a website in ] would be in the Es.Misplaced Pages. | |||
| :I'm curious: Am I responding to two different editors, or just one. ]<font color=#2554C7> </font>] 18:25, 5 September 2005 (UTC) | |||
| ::The relavant rule in this situation is at ]: | |||
| :::Is it accessible? In general, external links should be accessible by the widest audience possible. | |||
| ::This section talks about payments and special requirements, but having the linked website in the English-language also fits under the criteria of being "accessible by the widest audience possible." ]<font color=#2554C7> </font>] 18:32, 5 September 2005 (UTC) | |||
| Dear friend, | |||
| I’ve spent these days checking the wikipedia pages and rules to check how it works. I didn’t want to be stubborn regarding such a serious project as wikepedia. My personal conclusions are: | |||
| ] is not ] (you mentioned it as an example). It is the third language in the world and –unofficially- the second one in he ]. As you can see in the wikipedia article dedicated to Spanish, now is considered the second most important language in he world. | |||
| So, including a Spanish link would be accessible by the widest audience possible if you consider that Spanish speakers who get to the English version of ] (remember that the Spanish articles about Genji are poorer and incomplete). Remember we are talking about a link, not about the content, so I think these links could be included if it’s clear that they are in Spanish. | |||
| Also, in the non-English pages it’s quite common to see this {{en icon}} what means that it’s an English external link. Why could it be allowed in other languages and forbidden in the English ones? | |||
| With my respects to your experience, and with no purpose of imposing my ideas, I really think I’m behaving right if I include Spanish links when it’s necessary. | |||
| On the other hand, when we finish our article of ] in Spanish for the ], or when the information about this is complete enough in Spanish, I will take out the link because it wouldn’t be necessary anymore. For the moment, take into account that –not even- one complete translation of The tale of Genji is available in Spanish and that this masterpiece need the best resources to be celebrated. | |||
| Best, | |||
| --] 12:28, 21 September 2005 (UTC) | |||
| == CA WikiProject == | |||
| Thanks. ] 01:07, September 6, 2005 (UTC) | |||
| == ] == | |||
| I was wrong, you were right. And you handled it in the nicest manner. Thanks. -] 10:25, September 7, 2005 (UTC) | |||
| == I quoted you == | |||
| Hope you don't mind - see ]. Let me know if you see a problem with that, or with the new guideline I'm trying to develop: ]. Cheers. --] 12:24, 7 September 2005 (UTC) | |||
| :Hi BV, thanks for the spell-checking. In fact I just asked another wikipedian to do some spell-checking on the text I flung on the ] page itself. ''Please you also feel free to proceed with that too'' - and simplify the language too if you think that a good idea. | |||
| :I wouldn't have added the "ad nauseam". Yeah it's true, so I'll leave it. My first objective now, however, is to rally support for this new (in fact ''old'') way of looking at page naming. So I try to make clear this should be a path to diminish the nauseating stuff, and not the next episode of "ad nauseam". | |||
| :So you wrote the "lucky stiff" paragraph ''not in your finest hour''? I'd like to read stuff you wrote in "finer hours". Must be absolute genius! No, I wouldn't want to miss that paragraph from wikipedia... it helped me tremendously in finding a ''clue'' for the style in which to write the people guideline I'm trying to pull together now. How would I say this. I dedicate my work on that to all those that feel like you, but couldn't put it in words as poignantly as you did. --] 15:55, 7 September 2005 (UTC) | |||
| == <s>]</s> == | |||
| Don't be vandalizing my talk pages, If I have a typo you leave that Sh*t alone. Articles can be reedited, but a talk page is under the users(owner) control. You wouldnt want me to post on your pages that you suffer from a ], do you? ] <small><sup>] | ] 01:17:51, 2005-09-09 (UTC) | |||
| == Haikucronym == | |||
| Sure - no problem. And glad you enjoyed my haikucronym (the middle line was difficult!) ]...<font color=green><small>''] 00:36, 10 September 2005 (UTC) | |||
| :Hi again - I might not have tried doing a haikucronym if I hadn't spotted that "encyclopedic" would make a good last line. I used to write a few more serious haiku - there are a handful on my website , one of them with the first line of "Reminiscences" and another one which ends with "insignificance", but you're right - one word lines are a lot more challenging! As to you-know-who, I'll definitely keep an eye out for him. you're right that Misplaced Pages policy's a bit toothless in cases like this It's partly the old idea that trying to please everyone means not really helping anyone (a similar problem to the U.N. in some ways, I suppose). ]...<font color=green><small>''] 05:08, 12 September 2005 (UTC) | |||
| ==Imdaking== | |||
| I've weighed in over at the admin's discussion page regarding this crackpot. You've watched my back so many times that it was the least I could do. Feel free to drop me an e-mail if you need anything else at all. I'll get it faster that way. - ] 16:33, 11 September 2005 (UTC) | |||
| :Thanks for your words on my talk page. I have added comments to the page you linked to. Pretty fed up with these jerks, but it makes it much easier when people like you come to my aid. Thanks again. ] 19:02, 11 September 2005 (UTC) | |||
| == International Baccalaureate == | |||
| Before you make such a drastic change to an article, you should discuss it on the talk page. The article ] has been an overview for the three programs for months now. -] 18:51, 12 September 2005 (UTC) | |||
| == By way of introduction == | |||
| Just thought I'd stop by and say hello after this weekend's babysitting romp. It is not so objectionable in small bits, but when it robs one of serious editing time, then WP is spinning its wheels. I appreciate WP's desire to give people a chance, but I have a very low threshhold for out and out bullying and harrassment. | |||
| Anyway, by way of introduction, I thought I'd let you see some of my work. As of now, I am the sole author of ]. I've also worked to secure licensing for the many photos on that page. I hope you enjoy it. I also wrote ] and ]. | |||
| '' ]'' | |||
| == sample size == | |||
| ::Since you seem to be the resident statistics expert (and my statistics knowledge is ancient history), I was wondering if you could answer a question that I had. I've seen several people on their user pages do samples of the Misplaced Pages by hittin the Random article link and then tabulating the types of articles that they found. I remember enough about statistics to know that a sample size of of 10-20 articles can't be representative. How many articles would it take (assuming the Random article link is really random) to get a representative sample from the Misplaced Pages? ]<font color=#2554C7> </font>] 16:15, 1 September 2005 (UTC) | |||
| What sample size is "representative" depends in part on what you're trying to find out from your sample. If there were some binary classification of articles as being on either "the sciences" or "the arts" and you wanted to estimate the percentage in each of those two classes, you might not be doing so badly with a random sample of maybe 30 articles. If you wanted to estimate the average length of articles, at least my gut reaction is you'd want more because the distribution of lengths would presumably be skewed. For some other purposes, you might need a much larger sample. And a big caveat: just how reliable is the "random article" button on Misplaced Pages? ] 21:03, 12 September 2005 (UTC) | |||
| == The last plea did not work == | |||
| I have made a plea to our mutual friend to stop escalating and stop denying his personal attacks. He agreed to this, in exchange for me to communicate with him in private, rather than on his talk page. He has just broken that agreement and is continuing the badmouthing. | |||
| I am going to ask people, if they are able, to not engage with this person for the moment, in the hopes that he will calmly go about undoing the damage he has done. Perhaps if we give him time to cool off, he will do this. But I cannot ignore his attacks on my name, and his defamation of my character on WP. It clearly has to end, bluntly and finally. Any advice you can offer would be appreciated. ] 20:09, 13 September 2005 (UTC) | |||
| ==KRCD== | ==KRCD== | ||
| It might not be total booshwah, but it isn't terribly accurate AFAIK. There's an "X-103.'''1'''" alternative station in San Bernardino but I don't know the call letters. 103.1 out here is soft rock and 103.9 is a translator for a classic rock station at 106.9 in Yucca Valley. I may Google "X 103.1" when I have a moment. Work's kind of hectic this morning. :) - ] 17:41, 15 September 2005 (UTC) | It might not be total booshwah, but it isn't terribly accurate AFAIK. There's an "X-103.'''1'''" alternative station in San Bernardino but I don't know the call letters. 103.1 out here is soft rock and 103.9 is a translator for a classic rock station at 106.9 in Yucca Valley. I may Google "X 103.1" when I have a moment. Work's kind of hectic this morning. :) - ] 17:41, 15 September 2005 (UTC) | ||
| ==Complaints page== | |||
| Hi, BlankVerse, I would like to delete ], to disappear the slurs on it. I would first copypaste its actual copyvio warnings onto Imdaking's talk page, as they constitute worthwhile information. Do you approve? ] | ] 18:31, 15 September 2005 (UTC) | |||
| == Re: Yet another sock check == | |||
| I do not appreciate being dragged into whatever you, Paul Klenk, Wiki Brah, Imdaking, and Bishonen are worrying about. As I understand it, Mr. Gerard will only use his IP checking device on registered users ''when it involves a matter before the Arbitration Committee.'' Please do not invade my privacy by casually requesting that he investigate my IP logs just because you are curious. | |||
| I am a seventeen year old high school senior who only used Misplaced Pages for a couple of weeks this summer. First one user exposes himself to me and now two other users are requesting my privacy be violated. With people like this on here, no wonder Misplaced Pages has such a bad repuation. Sincerely, ] 17:22, 16 September 2005 (UTC) | |||
| ==A friend of yours?== | |||
| I see that ] lists you as a friend. If that's correct then perhaps you can explain to her, in a friendly way, our "no personal attacks" policy. She seems to believe that the policy requires personal attacks. You're more diplomatic than I am, so you may have more luck. Cheers, -] 21:07, 16 September 2005 (UTC) | |||
| :::How mature... learn to either keep your nose out of other user's business, or handle things yourself. This was between Uncle G and myself. He ignored it, which I respect... even though he was wrong to be pompous about his biased opinion. However, I don't need opinions of issue hijackers moving down second-hand and third-hand now. Give it a rest. -- ]\<sup>]</sup> 02:24, 19 September 2005 (UTC) | |||
| ==]== | |||
| Good work doing the {{tl|California-south-geo-stub}}s. Your enigma is actually a rather interesting historical name here, and whether or not it still exists depends on if you are a newer resident or an old-timer or native like me. I say Sun Village still exists, but the US Census Bureau does not have any data on Sun Village apart from Littlerock. So the Census folks may have overruled me (look of resignation). To complicate the matter, if one is African-American, the (general) answer is it exists; if one is any other race, the (general) answer is it is the north portion of Littlerock. The Littlerock Town Council had a meeting on the subject a month or two ago and it drew in an overflow crowd (I know about it from attendees I know well). To say the issue is contentious is the understatement of the year! | |||
| With the above in mind, I edited the article just now. I hope it is NPOV. It is not a city or even town (as adults use the term and is actually grounded in governmental law), and the US Census Bureau does not list it as a CDP. So I reassigned it as a LA County region category. BTW, all the Internet maps (Mapquest, Yahoo, and Google) get the boundaries wrong - sometimes wildly so. Google has it the best of the three, but even it does not understand the difference between Sun Village and Pearland (now annexed into the city of Palmdale). You gotta ask an AV native, but again, we AV natives and newer residents are having a row about the boundary issue right now. | |||
| FYI, the post office is in downtown Littlerock (93543) and the Thomas Guide doesn't help any because, again, Sun Village is in some ways a state of mind or a social construct and not a well defined geographic place. Stay tuned. . . and thanks for checking in with me. You know I respect your work very highly. Please let me know if you need anything more from me on this or other items in the future. --] 04:44, 19 September 2005 (UTC) | |||
| ==More ]== | |||
| Just checked what you've been working on, and I noticed you had concerns about upgrading the ], ] and ] articles per your notes at the SoCal WikiProject. Here's where you may help me, so I may help you and the 'pedia: I'm trying to reduce the puffery and grandiose statements in the ] article (check out the talk page there for my statement for background). Once that article is stablized, I will be more free to help out the Lancaster article. From there, Littlerock should be a fun diversion, and I've already tackled Sun Village to a good degree tonight. | |||
| Would you be so kind as to watch my back as I work to revise the Palmdale article? I'd be most grateful if you would! Keep in mind I have a nonWikipedia life as well to tend to, and while on the Wiki, I also have other interests besides Antelope Valley geography articles that I find of priority from time to time. I tend to rotate between my diverse interests so I don't burn out. I appreciate your kind support in advance. --] 05:23, 19 September 2005 (UTC) | |||
| :Thanks for your support. Lucky already knows. Yeah, the ] article is a charming read. . . notice the editors from the history tab? One of them is my problematic editor who has so thoroughly junked the Palmdale article, I think. Notice the sources reference nonexistent historical societies (or at the least, wrongly named ones). There is undoubtably a good deal of truth in the article, but the "growing" part and the romantic wording will eventually have to go. Just not right this second. --] 06:23, 19 September 2005 (UTC) | |||
| ::Ahem. . .looking at the edit history again, it looks like Lisa Wright did the "growing" part and the romantic wording. This could be a Westside School District student who doesn't know the exact names of the historical societies (I'm a member of one of them). I take back my words. . . it looks like the edit is genuine, though without direct specified sources to check. If you ever come out my way, give me an email and we'll go see beautiful Neenach together. . . it really is as good as Lisa says it is! --] 06:35, 19 September 2005 (UTC) | |||
| :::The comparison you make is right on. . . and appalling. I'm trying to stop the inanity ''now'' rather than wait until it becomes as devastatingly bad as your "doghouse" article. Eventually there will be others you may team up with to junk and rebuild that article. . . in the meantime, have you considered Wikinfo as a place to put your article version? Just a "dumb" thought. --] 13:25, 19 September 2005 (UTC) | |||
| == Trouble @ the Biff Rose corral == | |||
| I realize that you might be a friend of willmcw and therefore will disregard my post because of our seemingly at odds stance. I will proceed nonetheless. Willmcw has been writing smarmy and misleading psots on the biff rose talk page, concerning the word nigger. The word is a topic because Rose uses the word as a derogatory reference to black african americans. I noted that if he were to use the word in the fashion of other siongers, devaluing or politicizing the word, that would be one thing, but to use it as a racial slur is another. Willmcw then wrote a blurb that seemed to imply through his scarcasm that I meant no one could use the word nigger. This is very troubling, because it is his stance in the editing of this article that it is of very little importance the level of racism and anti setmicism making it into Rose's later lyrics. If you wouldn't mind discussing again with willmcw the pertinence of leaving POV and sarcasm out of the talk pages I would greatly appreciate it.] 06:15, 20 September 2005 (UTC) | |||
| ==this is NatsukiGirl== | |||
| Everytime I make an edit it stamps my IP and says I'm logged out. ] 17:20, 23 September 2005 (UTC) | |||
| == KCBS-TV == | |||
| Thinking about it, that's pretty much on par with Ronald's editing habits. ] 00:00, 24 September 2005 (UTC) | |||
| == Simple == | |||
| Please confirm that ] is you, not an imposter. Adding an interwiki from your ] to the ]]] would be fine. -- ] ] 19:11, 28 September 2005 (UTC) | |||
| == Color AfD's == | |||
| Hi. The mass of colors we voted on before has been undeleted and ]. Cheers! --] ] 01:11, 30 September 2005 (UTC) | |||
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Just a quick "thank you" for voting me for admin. Now all I've got to do is find out how to use these worrying new powers... Grutness| 
06:19, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Hi BlankVerse,
I would like to thank you for your vote of support and confidence for my adminship, it has been much appreciated. If you need anything in future that requires my attention, please do not hesitate to contact me. :)
- Cheers, Mailer Diablo 18:29, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Let me add my thanks for your support in my nomination as well. I look forward to helping out. - BanyanTree 04:12, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for supporting me on my RfA. It's always nice to get some positive feedback. I hope I can put my new abilities to some good use. -- grm_wnr Esc 17:39, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Hi BlankVerse. Thank you for supporting my recent RfA. I was surprised and humbled by the number of positives votes. I'll be monitoring RfA regularly from now on and will look for a chance to "pay it forward". In light of your comments, I'll also try to play an active role in trying to help SchmuckyTheCat, Huaiwei and Instantnood resolve their differences. Cheers, --MarkSweep 02:32, 7 August 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for supporting my RFA. It couldn't have happened without your effort. FeloniousMonk 18:06, 15 August 2005 (UTC)
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The photo was the September 13 Picture of the Day.
SoCal WikiProject
I've made a list of the children of Category:California
Just to let you know, I've created a list of the child categories of Category:California, at: Misplaced Pages:WikiProject California/categories. Let me know what you think of it. JesseW 00:29, 4 August 2005 (UTC)
Thanks
Hi BlankVerse! Thanks for the compliment on the Presidio article; I'll put it in the DYK queue (usually I forget). Compliments are rare here, and I really appreciate it.
Btw, couldn't agree more with the first comment on your user page: "...mourning the loss of civility and and the loss of too many good editors from the Misplaced Pages." It's true, and this has been bugging me for some time. There's ten times more complaining about bad behavior, and organized pillories and punishments, than rewards and kudos. Not sure what to do about it, but losing good editors to burnout is a bad thing. Peace and happy editing, Antandrus (talk) 14:48, 23 August 2005 (UTC)
About rotating the photo of the New Otani...
Hello:
Rotating the photo is fine. I wish I had a higher quality original but unfortunately, my digital camera at the time was a real piece of junk (I have a better one now, as you may have noticed from my recent uploads). --Coolcaesar 17:31, 30 August 2005 (UTC)
KRCD
It might not be total booshwah, but it isn't terribly accurate AFAIK. There's an "X-103.1" alternative station in San Bernardino but I don't know the call letters. 103.1 out here is soft rock and 103.9 is a translator for a classic rock station at 106.9 in Yucca Valley. I may Google "X 103.1" when I have a moment. Work's kind of hectic this morning. :) - Lucky 6.9 17:41, 15 September 2005 (UTC)