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Revision as of 12:27, 21 April 2003

Hello there Patrick, welcome to the 'pedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you ever need editing help visit Misplaced Pages:How does one edit a page and experiment at Misplaced Pages:Sandbox. If you need pointers on how we title pages visit Misplaced Pages:Naming conventions or how to format them visit our manual of style. If you have any other questions about the project then check out Misplaced Pages:Help or add a question to the Village pump. Cheers! --maveric149

Hi Patrick, thanks for adding that bit about superstition and 13 (can't remember how to spell the word). Perhaps you could also have a look at the defintion of superstition - terribly biased at the moment. I put some thoughts in the talk page of superstition.

Hi Willsmith, I rephrased the first paragraph and added a link. Feel free to move your remarks from the talk page to the subject page, possibly working them out a bit. Patrick 00:14 Oct 28, 2002 (UTC)

You were right about "determained", Patrick. Sorry. That was unintentional. I must have hit a key without noticing. -- Derek Ross 22:52 Nov 1, 2002 (UTC)

Hi Patrick, I'll put the data for the Dutch municipalities that I did not yet include here: User:Patrick/Dutch data.

Hi Pat, please note that the "Move this page" link in the sidebar is preferred to moving a page by hand, because it preserves the page's history. --Eloquence

Hi, Patrick, I'm the one who's adding the articles about the Belgian municipalities. I've got a question that maybe you could answer. Would it be worth to wikify the cities and towns constituting these municipalities? I doubt that they all deserve an article in their own right, but on the other hand *something* could be written about them. I'd like to know your opinion because I'll wikify them upon creation if it seems like a good idea. What do you think? To wikify or not to wikify? Dhum Dhum 14:18 Dec 4, 2002 (UTC)

Hi Dhum Dhum, I think all these links are not needed. I would prefer to put info about a town in the municipality article, except in special cases where there are two or more towns in one municipality which each have a lot of info, then they (or one of them) may deserve a separate article. If an article mentions a town which is not a municipality I always add the municipality with a link to that, e.g. in the Westerschelde article: 'Currently there are car ferries between Flushing and Breskens (mun. Oostburg), and between Kruiningen (mun. Reimerswaal) and Perkpolder (mun. Hontenisse).' Patrick 15:28 Dec 4, 2002 (UTC)

Thanks for the answer, Patrick. In the meantime I did wikify the towns in the municipalities of West Flanders (ouch!). But what you say makes sense. As a rule, I won't do it for the other provinces unles there's a reason for it. Dhum Dhum 15:47 Dec 4, 2002 (UTC)

Patrick, your see also list at remote viewing is hilarious, yet useful (a rare combination around here!). -- Stephen Gilbert 17:16 Dec 6, 2002 (UTC)

Hi Patrick, please see query (probably a very ignorant one on my part!) in Talk:Railway platform about Dutch/German railways in or from Westphalia. Thanks very much. Nevilley 23:06 Dec 8, 2002 (UTC)

Thanks for the clarification - Talk:Railway platform - Nevilley 08:23 Dec 9, 2002 (UTC)

Re the Battery article. I did mean cuboid, which is synonymous with rectangular prism. See http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Cuboid.html. However, since many readers probably think that cuboid means cube, I prefer your version. Heron

Please see thanks note at Talk:Stefan_Zweig. Nevilley 12:10 Dec 23, 2002 (UTC)

Hi Patrick,

from List of Musical Topics talk:

>What then is the purpose of a self-link? - Patrick 11:56 Dec 26, 2002 (UTC)

>I haven't got a clue! But I assume that cleverer people than I do, and have asked about the whole subject in the Village Pump. You might want to add your request for clarification to that? It is something to do with it being easier to monitor changes, but I am not sure how. Nevilley 11:58 Dec 26, 2002 (UTC)

Thanks for fixing my TeX on Curl. I was so busy making sure I got the x,y,z subscript right in the expansion -- just noticed form a diff I put + instead of - . Aaaaaaaaaarg!!!! ;-) -- Tarquin 14:09 Jan 6, 2003 (UTC)

Hi Patrick,

Is gobbledygook really necessary? The entry is a dicitionary definition and the topic seems more worthy of Everything2 than Misplaced Pages. --Nate 15:16 Jan 11, 2003 (UTC)

I have moved it to Plain language and changed it accordingly. It is just a stub, but can grow. - Patrick 15:45 Jan 11, 2003 (UTC)

Sorry, I see that you had redirected it and someone else made it into a defintion. In any case, it looks like a real article now. Thanks. --Nate 18:43 Jan 11, 2003 (UTC)

Heh, nice catch at Paradise Lost. shamefacedly, Koyaanis Qatsi

Hi Patrick, What made you decide to enter the definition of IRC? Grtz, Pels

With a name like "IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre" one wonders: Is this part of IRC? If so, what is IRC? Or is IRC the original name? If so, what did it mean?. - I have tried to partially answer that. Please correct if it is wrong, and/or extend. - Patrick 22:02 Feb 5, 2003 (UTC)

Hi Patrick,

Thank you for your note about minor edits. I have to admit I didn't really know what constituted a minor edit and haven't been using it consistently. I will use it more sparingly in future. Thanks for taking the time to let me know.

On a separate note, if someone writes to me on my talk page should I reply to them there, to keep the conversation in one place, or reply to them on /their/ talk page, so that they are more likely to see the reply?

Pete/Pcb21

Both occurs, but I prefer to keep it together. One may assume that the other sees it. I have set my preferences to watch pages I have edited, so that it is not likely that I miss it. Patrick 15:28 Feb 19, 2003 (UTC)

Patrick, STOP Changing the information for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey! It is correct and does NOT need to be edited. Stop putting links where they shouldn't be! It is set a certain way and you keep it up so stop it! - 68.36.152.197

Why are you putting line break tags in the middle of a sentence? That may be harmless (though normally not useful) for a particular font setting and browser, but for others it disturbs the lay-out. And what is wrong with the links? - Patrick 14:27 Feb 25, 2003 (UTC)

I am putting break tags in because part of the sentence is coming to the end of the browser page and some people don't always have their browsers open to the full 640x800 and as a result the text doesn't always look good because it crawls over and sometimes can leave a big line gap, So by putting a break tag your leaving an opening space so it doesn't run over! Again I ask DON'T change my edits leave the break tags ALONE!! - 68.36.152.197

I do not quite see what you mean.

I got:

miles radius. In 1972 the name of

the agency and it's form of operation were changed to it's present name and form.

with this ugly half line due to the line break. Without the line break it looks normally good, also if your browser window is not the full width of the screen.

May be you had a space at the beginning of a line in the edit box? That should be avoided, you get:

miles radius. In 1972 the name of

the agency and it's form of operation were changed to it's present name and form.

giving another font and a large spacing between the lines, which is indeed very ugly. - Patrick 17:36 Feb 25, 2003 (UTC)

Patrick,

I've never heard anyone refer to a "temporary amusement park" before. Wouldn't that be more of a "carnival"? - ridetheory

I've put now "A temporary (often annual) amusement park with mobile rides etc. is called a fun fair or carnival." Is this proper terminology? Or is a fun fair not necessarily temporary? - Patrick 17:10 Mar 24, 2003 (UTC)

The proper terminology is "funfair" (in British English) (and I think those are temporary, but I'll have to check with my English to American translating pen-pal) and "carnival" (in American English). I might make a link and a separate listing for each of those, and move your description there, as carnivals are really a different thing from amusement parks -- the rides are designed to be mobile, for instance. I'll get to this on the weekend, as I'm at work right now, trying not to let THE MAN catch me goofing off. ridetheory

Hi. Patrick, do you have broadband? I need someone to test something out for me. Mintguy 00:27 Mar 26, 2003 (UTC)

Yes, I have ADSL-light. - Patrick 00:31 Mar 26, 2003 (UTC)

Can you do me a favour. I just need someone to test something for me. The BBC have a broadband live 24 hour news feed at http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsa/n5ctrl/live/now5.ram but I'm not sure if it's available to all and sundry, I suspect that it may only be available to probable licence payers (i.e. UK ISP users). Does the link work for you? Assuming you've got RealPlayer Mintguy 00:34 Mar 26, 2003 (UTC)

It works for me. - Patrick 00:58 Mar 26, 2003 (UTC)

Cool! The picture quality is pretty good at 128kbp. What ISP are you on? Mintguy

xs4all (Netherlands). - Patrick 01:16 Mar 26, 2003 (UTC)

First I was surprised that it was not the same as on TV, but then I saw that it was the same, 45 seconds delayed. - Patrick 01:32 Mar 26, 2003 (UTC)

Thanks for moving death of Saddam Hussein to possible death of Saddam Hussein. US officials might be eager, but until it's confirmed it's only wishful thinking on their part. Good catch. --Uncle Ed 22:08 Mar 31, 2003 (UTC)

Why did you move Misplaced Pages:Do not use subpages? That was absolutely unnecessary, and the new name did not reflect the content of the page. Please don't do that. --Eloquence 11:23 Apr 21, 2003 (UTC)

The name contradicts the section on the recommended use of subpages. - Patrick 11:46 Apr 21, 2003 (UTC)

These are an exception to the broader rule not to use them in the article space. Misplaced Pages is primarily an encyclopedia, not a place for people to publish personal materials. Thus, the general maxim "Do not use subpages" holds true. The section on personal pages and archives could be moved elsewhere, but I prefer to have it where people are likely to read it in context. --Eloquence 11:58 Apr 21, 2003 (UTC)

It is a naming convention and a feature. As a feature it is odd to call a limited feature an exception to the rule that the feature does not exist, especially for people who do not know this feature yet. Patrick 12:27 Apr 21, 2003 (UTC)