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Welcome to the 'pedia! Good work on the Library of Congress articles. maveric149

Hey Eclecticology -- I hope you don't mind me moving some of the Latin articles to their Anglicized equivalents (and in some cases their common names) -- I mean nothing by it. However, when ITIS lists an English equivalent (or a widely known common name that means essentially the same thing), could we use that and redirect the Latin to it? It just sounds overly pedantic to use the Latin all the time -- I don't know any biologists that talk or even write like that outside the most academic of the scientific literature (and wikipedia ain't that at all). When I do see the Latin, it is almost always in parenthesis after the Anglicized if not common name or within a cladogram/taxonomic tree. I'm not at all saying that you in any way have an academic writing style --- I'm just concerned that creating articles titled with the Latin names encourages that type of writing in others (with everyone else using pipes to hide the Latin). --maveric149

Bonjour Ec,

Nous avons un problème sur la fr. Relatif à User:Faré, au liberalism, libertarianism, minarchism et touti quanti. Une des accusations portées contre lui est qu'il aurait volontairement essayé de nous tromper en mélangeant les terminologies

Faré, un ardent liberal, aurait mis dans fr:libéralisme grosso-modo, le contenu de en:libertarianism puis "truque" les liens interwiki pour, depuis fr:libéralisme, arriver sur en:libertarianism plutôt que sur en:liberalism.

Bon, il lui est aussi reproché d'écrire de façon biaisée (autrement dit dans ce cas, de parler assez lourdement de ce qui le passionne - je pense etre donc parfaitement biaisée aussi :-))). Passons.

Ma question n°1 : la traduction de liberalism est elle liberalisme, ou les deux idéologies sont elles en réalité des faux amis ?

Idem pour libertarianism ? Le mot libertarianisme existe t il en français et recouvre t il la meme signification qu en anglais ?

Enfin, sais tu si qn sur en, connais suffisemment le sujet pour jeter un coup d oeil sur toutes les modifs apportées par Faré sur ces thématiques (ainsi que sur l anarchisme qu il a très lourdement retouché sur en) ?

Merci pour toutes infos.

Notre pb, au dela de l'expression très partisane de Faré, est que visiblement aucun des détracteurs de Faré ne semble connaitre le libéralisme, et qu'ils ont une méchante tendance à confondre la "neutralité" avec un plat de nouilles à l'eau. Rien de nouveau.

(note : je ne connais rien au sujet du libéralisme, et assez peu des idéologies politiques en général)

Le second, est que Faré est un coutumier de en, donc utilise des liens en: dans les discussions. Or, il n'y a pas de différences d'affichage entre un lien vide et un lien plein. Il est donc accusé de pratiquer l'entourloupe.

Le 3ème est qu'il s'obstine à appeler ces détracteurs des "cocos" :-)))). Mais il est vrai que s'exprime contre lui une véritable chasse aux sorcières. Bon, c'était en passant. Curieusement, en regardant l'historique de certains articles anglais, je vois un utilisateur User:Fare (sans accent). Je me demande si c'est le meme, et je me demande si notre utilisateur actuel est vraiment le même que le votre actuel.

Bon week end.

User:Anthere

Merci pour ta réponse Ec. Je n'avais jamais entendu parler du mot libertarianisme (fr) avant d arriver sur wiki, mais en venait a me demander si ce n etait pas un mot typiquement canadian (Faré ayant écrit sur une revue québécoise, je suppose qu'il est canadien francophone...). Apparemment, ce n est donc pas si clair. Maintenant, meme si le mot n existe pas en français, le concept existe (ailleurs), donc il faut en parler. Comment parle t on d un concept pour lequel on a pas de mot ? :-)

Pour les choses essentielles, oui. Les trois choses importantes que je vois dans cette affaire, sont l intolérance majeure de la part de 3/4 contributeurs face au biais de Faré (considérée contre de la tromperie et du vandalisme), refus de discuter le désaccord (ie, on supprime la page et le problème est résolu), le comportement peu agréable de Faré face à cela (moquerie, usage de termes peu sympathiques, tels que "mon coco") et usage hier de "protection de la page" par un sysop impliqué dans une guerre d'édition avec Faré sur "communisme". En bref, manque de coopération et abus d'administrateur. Burk. Bon, affaire à suivre. Merci en tous cas. User:Anthere

PS : tu n'as pas tort pour "clique", mais d'un autre coté, le terme "type" ne recèle qu'à peine l'aspect péjoratif. Nous n'avons probablement pas d'expression équivalente, meme si "type" ou "genre" est apparemment la meilleure. Je comprend l'aspect "association".

Greek names

Hi Ec. Sorry, I didn't understand your reply about the Greek names of states in Wiktionary. Did you mean there is no point putting it there or that it should be moved there? Thanks. Angela 21:47, Nov 5, 2003 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know. Angela

Hi Eclecticology

You may want to look at the Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers). One of the things that is said there, and its important, is that you should not use numbers to represent months. It's not too bad if you are always going to write YYYY-MM-DD, but as soon as you omit the year then the day becomes confusing. '05-03' means different things in Europe and America. As for creating 366 redirects, that seems rather a lot of work when you could just write the link names in the six or seven places you currently have links already. You might also want to ask some other people what they think. Remember that styles like this are about making things understandable for everybody. The current styles are widely used in thousands of articles, and your style in not so many. DJ Clayworth 14:29, 11 Nov 2003 (UTC)

I also want to add that your date formats are not being picked up by the automatic date formatting feature, which will annoy many people. You should really keep all dates in a format that Wikipedia understands and can convert. No offence intended, but I'm going to edit President of India to show you what I mean (check out the date format in Special:Preferences). DJ Clayworth 15:39, 11 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Hi, Ec. First can I say that we all like the President of India article. There is some good stuff there. However many Wikipedians have discussed the question of date formats, and we would prefer to keep them in a standard format that Wiki can understand. Plus the redirects that have to be created to make your dating work are ambiguous: 05-03 means 5th March in Europe and 3rd May in the US. We had to put a disambiguation in to make it clear, which means that if you click on some of your date links you go to a page asking you which date you mean.

Once again, thanks for your contribution and keep up the good work. DJ Clayworth 23:29, 13 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Hi Ec -- I know you haven't been a major contributor to 2002 Gujarat violence, but I just wanted to let you know that Angela asked me to mediate, and I am in the process of reviewing (I would not characterize it as "investigating") the article, the edit history of the article and its talk page, the various comments linked to this page, and the email traffic here, here, here, here, and here (and a few other threads) on the mailing list related to it. Even though the page is unprotected, I would ask all parties involved to hold off editing this article voluntarily until I can offer a few suggestions, which I will do within a few hours. Thanks for your forbearance, BCorr ¤ Брайен 14:36, 11 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Transwiki

I really like that idea, and it doesn't necessarily have to involve any developer time either, as it could just be a fake namespace, certainly until something more permanent could be coded. This solves the problem of Wikipedians not wanting to move stuff to Wiktionary because they don't know how to format the entries correctly. If they could just leave it in the transwiki namespace without worrying about formatting, it would make things a lot easier, and as this namespace would reside at Wiktionary, there is more chance of Wiktionarians knowing about it and working on it. Eventually, when the search feature is turned back on, it would be better to have this as a real namespace, because then you could search for just for the transwiki articles, but until then, a database query could be used to find them all every couple of weeks, for example, to ensure people knew they existed. Do you think the idea has to go to the mailing list or can it just be implemented? Angela 20:25, 17 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Hi Ec, I drafted a page about m:Transwiki on Meta. Angela 06:53, 20 Nov 2003 (UTC)

I hope you don't mind me running off with your idea, but I added some details about how the process would work at m:Transwiki. Can you give it a quick check to see if it's going in the direction you had planned it to. Thanks. Angela 23:01, 20 Nov 2003 (UTC)

2004

Mars effect

Hi Eclecticology. Just added some responses on Talk:Mars_effect. Not changed the actual page else we're going to get into a silly edit war about a few odd words. Spellbinder 09:02, 2 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Hi! Have now found your other communications on my user page at wikipedia. Yes writing about esoteric matters such as the Quaternity invariably draws a blank at the 'pedia . It is a rather specialised Jungian psychological term. Shall post the full Latin titles to the three pieces at wikisource when i have time.Norwikian 04:16, 13 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Revisionism

Your using the therm "Revisionism" is unappropriate. Revisionism is used to name the alternative history findings that denies crticly proved historical events. There is no consensus, that there occured democide of Germans caused by their expulsion after WW2. The population transfer was agreed on Potsdam conference to avoid ethnic clashes and was ordered be performed in ordered and humanitarian way. There were no intention of general slaughter of Germans nor there were ever signals that transfer fails the criteria set by the victorius powers. The whole issue belongs to alternative history and was created by number play and factual forgery. Germans were set in motion by advancing Red Army. During winter evacuation happenned frequent tragedies, like Gustlof torpedoing with some 5 000 victims. However, the organized population transfer, that happenned after the war didn't caused a lot of such a tragedies. Cautious 10:03, 5 Mar 2004 (UTC)

About Democide. I put new interesting material in the talk page. Please put your comments and try to reply my arguments. Cautious 22:43, 7 Mar 2004 (UTC)

I see that you're now in the crossfire of Adam Carr (the Joe McCarthy of Wiki) at Talk:Kim Jong Il. If he continues to spew his mindless ad hominems and slogans, don't even dignify him with a response. BTW, sorry about how the admin issue turned out. I was shocked that anyone would oppose your nomination. I respect Angela, but I regretted the bandwagon effect of her opposition. 172 13:00, 6 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Hey Eclecticology

Just wondering, what aspect of Welteislehre disqualifies it from being a pseudo science. I looked over the article and it looks to fit right in. Everything I read on it referred to it as pseudo science as well. Yardcock 20:34, 14 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Hi. Since you've done so much POV work on Fidel Castro, I'd appreciate it if you could take a look at this new article called Allegations of human rights abuses in Castro's Cuba. I'm not personally familiar with Cuban history and if I removed everything that sounds POV, there would be nothing left.

Diderot 17:20, 17 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Paul Smith

Thank you for your message. I mistakenly thought he had blanked your user page and replaced it with his text, as he has done so in the past with the article. I made the assumption that that you would see on your watchlist that your user page had been changed, and would investigate the reason. I will continue to do the same for other users besides you when I feel their page has been vandalized, as others have done so for me. As for your page, and the article itself, you can rest assured that I will lift no finger to correct anything he adds. -- Decumanus | Talk 12:24, 20 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for replying. I appreciate it. I too am distrurbed that Paul seems to have Jimbo on his side somehow. -- Decumanus | Talk 16:23, 20 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Astrology & Newton

With regard to Newton on the Astrology page, why did you put the reference to alchemy in, when the books listed on the talk page have nothing to do with alchemy? Mintguy (T) 15:22, 23 Apr 2004 (UTC)

You said - Although there is no serious claim to Newton's being involved in astrology, the same cannot be said about alchemy. The astrological and astronomical concepts of the time did tend to be commonly imported in the study of alchemy. Eclecticology 18:29, 2004 Apr 23 (UTC)

No doubt. But the four books that Newton possessed, that are listed on the Astrology talk page, that mentioned Astrology were not more concerned with Alchemy. Mintguy (T) 20:01, 23 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Do you want to make some comments at Talk:Augusto Pinochet#Another poll? 172 15:19, 19 May 2004 (UTC)

In need of community support

I'm in need of community support.

Right now, I am on the verge of being driven away from Wikipedia through the relentless efforts of a single problem user on Wikipedia:Requests for comment/172, Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration, and Wikipedia talk:Requests for arbitration/172 vs VeryVerily.

The same user who refuses to accept the results of the Augusto Pinochet poll (see also [1]) goes through my user history every time he logs on and then starts reverting things that I've written arbitrary. He manages to divert attention away from the articles onto ad hominem attacks, thus poisoning the well against me. [2]

He has been doing nothing else for the past couple of months, other than making some minor changes to pages that he finds through the random page feature. Meanwhile, I've been working on articles such as Empire of Brazil, Dollar Diplomacy, and Franco-U.S. relations. I'm tired of letting a problem user define my contributions to the encyclopedia, as opposed to my work.

I may have said some regrettable things in the past, but my editing practices are scholarly and methodical. When I make an edit, my choice is based on a consideration of the quality of the encyclopedia. Unlike the user who avowedly admits to trying to escalate a personal feud (see, e.g., [3]), I do not decide which pages to edit and what changes to make on the basis of personality feuds, emotional POV whims, or a desire to get attention.

Although this user shows little evidence that he understands the content of the articles, I have shown considerable restraint, given my professional expertise. [4]. Only through community support (i.e. lobbying the arbitration committee)will this user be stopped. Otherwise, Wikipedia will die unless we stop vandals and clueless POV-pushers from running rampant and driving away valued contributors.

Please feel free to direct questions and comments to my talk page or e-mail at sokolov47@yahoo.com.

Sincerely,

172 01:51, 30 May 2004 (UTC)

"If I can be of help" offer

My offer was more in general, than a request for an assignment... I always offer help when I ask for help, just as I always attend to one or two pages on 'pages needing attention' when I list a page there. I also don't like to generate tasks for others to do, but I am always eager to repay assistance in kind. It is simply a custom I have adopted. Thanks for your quick response. I imagine I will eventually be very active in wiktionary, as I am on wikipedia, but for now, I just dropped in to request an entry for the phrase cat and mouse, cat-and-mouse game or whatever would be appropriate as I have seen the expression redlinked on wikipedia and do not think an encyclopedia entry is warranted for it, Nice to meet you.Pedant 01:54, 2004 Oct 25 (UTC)

Project Genealogy

Dear E, remember discussions on Wikipedia:WikiProject Genealogy abt a year or two ago? Reading through the discussion page, it appears to me, the project was false related, under hoobies, when the topic for my suggestions was in fact History/noble or royal ancestry or similair, which fits the data more into history rather than hobbies. maybe more people would now be interested to loominto this if it was placed ona proprite place? Ideas? Can u move it? here is an example how it is implemented on the swedish wikipedia: http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_XII:s_antavla (ancestry of Charles XII of Sweden) Dan Koehl 11:13, 18 Nov 2004 (UTC)

2005

Whole Earth Catalog

We will have images of every page of the first four Whole Earth Catalogs on wikisource; I hope that makes it appropriate for the project. I have a copyright release from the original publishers, Stewart Brand and Kevin Kelly. The source images should go on wikisource and the OCR'ed text + images on wikibooks, for updating with more recent information... talk to me more about this later in the week, once I've fully processed the new year. :-)

Cheers, +sj + 07:48, 4 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Mysteries of the Korean language

Hi: Okay, let me shake the cobwebs off as I temporarily step out of wikiretirement. Sorry for the late reply. Anyhow, I've added the requested article. The "Hun-eum reading" line was added by a bot (not mine), whose operator I asked to later correct to "Eumhun reading." I redirected the article Hun-eum to Eumhun, and added an explanation of the concept. (If it's too encyclopedic for Wiktionary, someone can cut it down to size!) While I was at it, I updated the section Meaning and Sound on the Wikipedia Hanja page as well. -Sewing - talk 13:37, 26 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:No original research

One of your contributions last December to Wikipedia:No original research ("it purports to refute another idea") is now being challenged; you might want to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:No original research. Jayjg ^(talk) 03:11, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)

List of Godfathers

Hello Eclecticology. I hope you don't mind but I did some minor editing on the List of godfathers. I would have alphabetized them or list them by era although I wasn't sure which order should they be in ? 209.213.71.78 21:18, 10 May 2005 (UTC)

lots of edits, not an admin

Hi - I made a list of users who've been around long enough to have made lots of edits but aren't admins. If you're at all interested in becoming an admin, can you please add an '*' immediately before your name in this list? I've suggested folks nominating someone might want to puruse this list. Thanks. -- Rick Block (talk) 22:59, Jun 13, 2005 (UTC)

Wiktionary

Super :) Let me know, here or on meta, when you have a couple paras written; you can just add the paras themselves directly to the m:Talk:WQ/Draft page. +sj + 16:23, 17 July 2005 (UTC)

Great! Let me know when you have something written up. Trying to publish something short next week... +sj + 01:37, 23 July 2005 (UTC)

User Categorization

You were listed on the Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Canada page as living in or being associated with Canada. As part of the Wikipedia:User categorisation project, these lists are being replaced with user categories. If you would like to add yourself to the category that is replacing the page, please visit Category:Wikipedians in British Columbia for instructions. --Doviende 19:28, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

In the interests of fairness...

Hey Eclecticology, I'm glad to see your comments over at the Cote d'Ivoire debates. I did want to ask you, though, to take it a little easier on them--I've been working hard to get Jtdirl to tone down his/her rhetoric (though sadly making little progress) and I'd hate to see the oppose side fall back on things like "herd ignorance" too... remember, a little Wikiquette can go a long way! Cheers, --Dvyost 07:51, 14 November 2005 (UTC)

Don't worry, I'm with you on this issue--though I'm not sure Jtdirl's comments come down to racism so much as a rather overzealous interpretation of the MoS. I'm just hoping everybody over there calms down a notch or two; I hate to see things get this heated, is all. Anyway, sorry if my own comment was rude/brusque/or anything. =) See you around! --Dvyost 18:47, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

2006

Please check your WP:NA entry

Greetings, editor! Your name appears on Wikipedia:List of non-admins with high edit counts. If you have not done so lately, please take a look at that page and check your listing to be sure that following the particulars are correct:

If you are an admin, please remove your name from the list.
If you are currently interested in being considered for adminship, please be sure your name is in bold; if you are opposed to being considered for adminship, please cross out your name (but do not delete it, as it will automatically be re-added in the next page update).
Please check to see if you are in the right category for classification by number of edits.

Thank you, and have a wiki wiki day! BD2412 T 04:11, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

Wikimedia Canada

Hi there! I'd like to invite you to explore Wikimedia Canada, and create a list of people interested in forming a local chapter for our nation. We'd also like to encourage everyone to suggest projects for our national chapter to participate in. Hope to see you there! -- user:zanimum

wikipedia.ca domain

Hi. http://www.wikipedia.ca has been "under construction" for a while now. Why not point wikipedia.ca and en.wikipedia.ca as 302 Moved to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page for now, to give Canadians new to Wikipedia a fast way to get to en without having to remember to type the en. at the beginning? Cheers, --unforgettableid | talk to me 16:18, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

Sure about the adminship thing?

I'd be glad to nominate you for adminship - even as busy as you are at Wiktionary, I see you working here and imagine that you would find the tools useful... BD2412 T 15:54, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

"Forensic philately"

Possibly just a coinage of Herst - I have a reprint of his book, and was going to get around to writing up the case one of these days, but I don't see any other of my references using the term. Stan 14:57, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

In fact he doesn't define the term - the book is really just reprints of the contemporary articles and court transcripts. I think I put the book title and experts' present-day use of forensic equipment for expertization together in my head, and assumed it was an actual field when it's not. The relevant material is probably best put in articles about expertization and forgeries. Stan 18:03, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

Illegal stamps

The whole subject of illegal and bogus stamps has gotten to be pretty hot these days - Linn's seems to have an article on it about once a month, so lots of source material to work from. Article could be better structured I think, but the concept is right. Stan 19:20, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

Meetup notes

Wikipedia:Meetup/Seattle4. Edits welcome.

& this is the reminder on the Northwest Native languages thing. - Jmabel | Talk 08:39, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

Santa Claus, Indiana

When you have a moment, could you please WP:CITE the references you used to begin the Santa Claus, Indiana article? I really enjoyed it by the way. :) Can't sleep, clown will eat me 06:45, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

British post office in Bangkok

I am traveling right now. So it's one week before I can get back to my reference books. I got the "B" stamp used in nearby country information from Anatchai Rattakul's book. He won international exhibition on that set. I will verify with the late Prakaiphet's book. He won large gold medal or grand champion (not sure). I don't think it's forgery. Experts often compare with Prakaiphet's sample to decide whether a stamp is real or fake. -- Lerdsuwa 10:15, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

Done additing the reference and putting back the "B" stamp used elsewhere claim. -- Lerdsuwa 12:12, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

I have put the photo at [5]. -- Lerdsuwa 13:55, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

The book only shows the front of the cover. So I have no idea what's on the other side. But looking in the book, I can find 2 covers, 1 postal card, and a few postage stamps with double ring Singapore handstamp on them. Here from the auction site http://www.bennettstamps.com/asia/sale8/chap0036.htm you can see the photo of Lot 2174 for example (actually the photo is for Lot 2175). Lot 2158 photo looks like another example. -- Lerdsuwa 14:42, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

Treaty of Kiakhta

I just saw that you have moved this page to Treaty of Kyakhta. It is always a good idea to suggest a move on the talk page before you make a move so other editors can respond. Kiakhta may very well be an old-fashioned spelling of Kyakhta, but this treaty is generally known as "Treaty of Kiakhta" and most other treaties that China concluded with other countries are known under the old names, e.g. Treaty of Wanghia and Treaty of Whampoa.--Niohe 19:28, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

I'm not going to challenge the page move for the time being, but I don't think we should dismiss historical spellings as "obsolete" out of hand. If you read any work on Sino-Russian relations, you would find the treaty being called Treaty of Kiakhta and in Wikipedia we usually stick to the most common name, not necessarily the most ortographically "correct" name.--Niohe 00:17, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

2007

Vancouver Wikimeetups

Hey, there wouldn't happen to be any Vancouver wikimeetups, would there? Figure you'd be the person to ask. :) --Brad Beattie (talk) 03:18, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

Jimmy Wales in Portland

Jimmy Wales will be speaking at Reed College in Portland, OR this Monday, April 2, at 7 pm in the Vollum lecture hall. The lecture is titled "Wikia Search and the Future of the Internet". The event is open to the public, and it would be great to see you there. I don't know your circumstances this time around, but since you made it to the Portland meetup, I thought I'd at least let you know. Please forward this message to anyone you know who may be interested. :-) Dmcdevit·t 08:18, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

Spoilers

By what wikipedia guideline are you taking it upon yourself to remove spoiler warnings? Wahkeenah 21:58, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

I came to ask the same question. You can also find discussion at Template talk:Spoiler, at User talk:David Gerard#Spoiler tags, at Wikipedia:Help desk#Spoiler tags and at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#other spoiler-related edits today. So far nobody has troubled to explain what policy is being followed here. Notinasnaid 22:05, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

And since you have ignored the question, I'll go a step further: I intend to assist in reverting every one of these changes you and your cohort have made today. You have no right to impose your personal view on the readers, of whether something is old enough not to need a spoiler tag. And if you persist in this, I will take you to an admin about it. Wahkeenah 22:16, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

I also came to see if this user had any explanation for why they are removing spoiler warning tags that are obviously justified. Eclecticology, you seem like a legitimate, contributing member of Wikipedia. Perhaps you misunderstand the purpose of spoiler warnings? They warn users that if they continue reading, it will "spoil" their future enjoyment of the media, because the article reveals what will happen. --Dan East 00:05, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

I too have reverted your pointless removal of spoiler warnings from the NetHack page. You and your friends have now each in turn removed all spoiler tags without first reading the discussion on Talk:NetHack or referring to NetHack's own history page. If you and your crew start this up again we will be forced to report your vandalism. Entro-P 13:30, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

Anderson Elementary School

I reduced this article to a redirect to the school district because elementary schools are generally considered non-notable when they come up at AFD; second, this wasn't a school with any particular claim to notability that I could see. I was working on eliminating many - not all - of the articles, but in the last couple months I'm afraid I have been on somewhat of a Wiki-hiatus, and haven't made much progress. Why do you think this particular school needs an article? Brianyoumans 17:44, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

Please take a look at AFD results for elementary schools - specifically in BC, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/100 Mile House Elementary School and Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/A S Matheson Elementary School. High schools generally win at AFD, but in my experience middle schools and elementary schools have to show actual notability. Personally, I feel that is a good idea - there are 100s of thousands of such schools worldwide, and I don't think we need that many poorly-maintained vandalism-magnets in Wikipedia. High schools are bad enough. Would you like to revert the article back to a redirect? Having these BC articles in Wikipedia just encourages other jurisdictions to put up (unwanted, in my view) articles on their elementary schools. Brianyoumans 00:31, 19 May 2007 (UTC)
How about WP:NOT, specifically "Wikipedia is not a directory" and "Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information"? I can see that I'm not going to convince you, so I suppose this will have to go to AFD. Brianyoumans 08:50, 19 May 2007 (UTC)
- All I can say is that at the most fundamental level Wikipedia is a collection of articles which the editors of Wikipedia think are appropriate, and the consensus on Wikipedia at the moment seems to be that elementary school articles - in Canada or not - are not appropriate. Even on the WikiProject Education in Canada talk page, I see comments by a number of editors - Pomte, TheMightyQuill, Serpent's Choice - who are dubious that these articles should have been created; and frankly not much support for keeping them. On the other hand, I see no problem with adding some of this info to the school district pages; for those articles I changed to redirects, I tried to add current website links for the schools, for example. Those are less likely to go out of date than information like the principal's name. Brianyoumans 07:19, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

Scheherazade

I didn't close it, it was closed by someone else who was also unconvinced by your rant, thanks. I just reclosed it as they had done it properly. Chris 01:23, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

Philately WikiProject

You are listed as a participant in the Philately WikiProject. Today I have created an inactive list consisting of those participants who have not made any philatelic edits for more than six months. I was going to use a 3 month cut off point but felt generous. You may be one of those editors, so if I have moved you and you want to remain an active participant, please forgive me, and move your name back from the inactive list to the active list. If you are still active on Wikipedia but are inactive in philately I hope there is no harm done in listing you as inactive. We really need more active participants for all philatelic articles. The Philately Portal has been running for some time and I am doing occasional updates, Postage stamps of Ireland is a candidate for featured article (that would be the first philatelic article), and several of the redlinks have been filled but we need more activity so if you are around please participate. Otherwise thanks for the work you have done in the past. Cheers ww2censor 00:26, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

STOMP!

I just had to mention that I giggled at seeing this edit on my watchlist. Kat Walsh (spill your mind?) 01:45, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

Well, Stravinsky did write a "Circus Polka" for a baby elephant ballet... which may be a close enough approximation. (It sounds... like Stravinsky wrote circus ballet music for a baby elephant.) Kat Walsh (spill your mind?) 03:47, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

The Military history WikiProject Newsletter: Issue XVI (June 2007)

The June 2007 issue of the Military history WikiProject newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you.

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Would you be interested in joining the Wikipedia Crime Project?

I have seen that you like to contribute to serial killer articles I am trying to organize a task force on this subject under Wikipedia:WikiProject Criminal Biography. If you would be interested in joining contact me. Thanks, Jmm6f488 19:42, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

OTRS application

Hi Eclecticology. I am an OTRS admin and I noticed you didn't send the email as requested on the volunteering page. Could you please fix that? Thanks! Cheers, guillom 20:14, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

Hiya!

Just wanted to say what a pleasure it was to meet you at Wikimania -- the Ice Wine and I got home safely (although I succumbed to the Wikiflu that was going around as the plane was landing). Hope to see you again next year, wherever Wikimania lands! — Catherine\^talk 02:25, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

Wiktionary

Remember me? I've requested to change my name in Wiktionary from Edmundkh to EdmundEzekielMahmudIsa, but so far nobody has entertained me yet! As I found you active here recently, I come and ask you. You've promised me to approve my request if no other bureaucrat there reject. Can you please kindly do it for me? The Single Login is approching! Thank you very much! --Edmund the King of the Woods! 08:57, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

Merge proposal

It has been proposed that WP:EPISODE be merged into WP:WAF. Your input is desired, so please comment here. Ursasapien (talk) 11:17, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

2008

Centralized TV Episode Discussion

Over the past months, TV episodes have been reverted by (to name a couple) TTN, Eusebeus and others. No centralized discussion has taken place, so I'm asking everyone who has been involved in this issue to voice their opinions here in this centralized spot, be they pro or anti. Discussion is here [6]. --Maniwar (talk) 23:34, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

Military history WikiProject coordinator election

The Military history WikiProject coordinator selection process is starting. We are aiming to elect nine coordinators to serve for the next six months; if you are interested in running, please sign up here by February 14! TomStar81 (Talk) 02:57, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

My Admin Reform Proposal

Just so you know, I've moved your comments from the main proposal page to the talk page. Kurt Weber (Go Colts!) 17:06, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

many thanks for your support - moslanka article

dear Eclecticology : many thanks to start the support debate for my article moscow , you have rightly stated that im a new article writer and an inexperienced member , i pledge to improve my work . iv done all necessary change needed , kindly visit my article and if possible kindly inform me the necessary change .

moreover i wish to request you to kindly guide me to get a copy of my other article TF Quasar International that was deleted instantly after an notice was sent to my talk page , i was not even given some time to edit or reverse my article , had i been warned or asked i sure would have done the needful . and i assure you that if the copy is given i would carefully edit it or reverse it according to encyclopedia standard . regardsPearllysun (talk) 16:27, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

help

If you have time, could you cleanup/wikify Library of Congress Classification:Class P, subclass PH -- Uralic and Basque languages? Cheers, Kingturtle (talk) 12:48, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks!! Nicely done! Kingturtle (talk) 18:30, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

Philately WikiProject

Back in June last year we spoke about your involvement in the Philately WikiProject, but I noticed that you have not made any philatelic edit that I can see since July 2007. Hopefully I can encourage you to do some work for the project, even a little, as you are still listed as an active participant. The portal is now up and running well and lists most of the recently added articles. Cheers ww2censor (talk) 17:51, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

Style of the Canadian sovereign

Hi, Eclecticology, could you please explain on the talk page why you have a problem with the word "kingdom"? To me the use of the term seems self evident. The dictionary definition of kingdom is "a country, state of territory ruled by a king or queen", and Canada's de jure head of state is Elizabeth II, Queen of Canada. I'm having a hard time seeing where your disagreement is coming from. Thanks. --Arctic Gnome (talk • contribs) 16:36, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

I don't want you to think that I am pushing a POV agenda. I do not consider myself to be a monarchist, but saying that a country is a kingdom when it has a king/queen as head of state seems to be a self-validating statement, like saying that the offspring of a duck is a duckling, or that a box for shoes is a shoe box. Saying that the constitution does not use the word "kingdom" looks like a debate about syntax rather than about the substance of the argument. --Arctic Gnome (talk • contribs) 02:59, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

Old Wikisource help

So, SUL is finally being implimented, and I find that I have an impostor at the Old Wikisource (or I just can't remember the password, more likely the former). Could you perhaps usurp the username User:Ryulong, where I am User:Ryulong-en?—Ryūlóng (竜龙) 07:12, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

The Military history WikiProject Newsletter : Issue XXV (March 2008)

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Vancouver meetup

Greetings. Plans for a Vancouver meetup are in the works here: Wikipedia:WikiProject Vancouver/Meetup 2008. The tentative date is the evening of May 5, although this could change. Please watch the page for details! Cheers, Clayoquot (talk | contribs) 02:40, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

Meetup

Best, Clayoquot (talk | contribs) 06:09, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

Seattle meetup 5

Hi Eclecticology, I see that you've attended the previous Seattle meetup. I hope that you can make it to the next one on June 19! Bestchai (talk) 21:51, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

Seattle meetup this thursday (6/19)

Hi Eclecticology, looks like there are enough people that can make it this Thursday that we've kept the meetup date. The meetup is going to be at a Thai restaurant in Ballard at 7:30PM -- good food and relatively cheap. I hope that you can make it! See the meetup page to add more agenda items, see attendees, etc. Bestchai (talk) 02:36, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

Debate you may be able to help in

Greetings Eclecticology, it strikes me that as an old hand, you may be able to lend some perspective to Wikipedia talk:Plagiarism, wherein we discuss proper means to attribute copying of free-content and public-domain work. Wikipedia has changed a great deal over the years and we are grappling with new (or perhaps old) issues there. The discussion is focussing a little too much on WP:1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica just at the moment (in my opinion) - in any case, your specific and wider comments are valued. Regards! Franamax (talk) 23:28, 22 June 2008 (UTC)