User talk:Enochlau/Archive 2005a

This page contains archived material written on my talk page during 2005.

Cerro de la Silla

Hi Enochlau, I just wanted to let you know that I posted a cropped version of the Cerro de la Silla picture on FPC, and am wondering what you think. Thanks alot! --Spangineer ∞ 22:21, Jan 18, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for asking. I've changed the oppose to a neutral. Reasons given on page. Enochlau 23:24, 18 Jan 2005 (UTC)

kewpid

Enoch! I didn't know you contributed to Wikipedia. Kewpid 13:39, 19 Jan 2005 (UTC)

iPod socks?!

Contribute to it? I'm tempted to slap a tag on it! Jogloran 11:25, Jan 27, 2005 (UTC)

Wakizashi

Hi. I edited the image for Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Edo period Wakizashi.jpg, blurring the background slightly to remove artifacts and sharpening the sword (i.e. the image thereof). Could you have a look to see if this would change your vote? If not, no problem, and happy editing -- Chris 73 Talk 11:50, Feb 5, 2005 (UTC)

No problem. Thanks for looking at it again -- Chris 73 Talk 16:06, Feb 5, 2005 (UTC)

You're welcome. Enochlau 00:49, 6 Feb 2005 (UTC)

HKWNB, HKCOTW, Current events

Hi. I noticed you have edited some Hong Kong-related articles. You might be interested to take a look at HK wikipedians' notice board, HK Collaboration of the Week and Current events in Hong Kong and Macao. Happy editing! — Instantnood 17:28, Apr 4, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks and welcome. :-D — Instantnood 10:07, Apr 5, 2005 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/First Photograph

I just got a high-res version, and the image is public domain. Please support the high-res version. --brian0918™ 17:04, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Talk signatures

Hi, I'm just confirming that the anon who is changing talk signatures to refer to you is actually you, for example: Talk:Michael Kirby. - Aaron Hill 12:52, May 14, 2005 (UTC)

• Yes that was me. Enochlau 01:05, 15 May 2005 (UTC)

C# comment

See User_talk:Jogloran: it's definitely untrue that generics are 'more powerful' than templates. Jogloran 08:03, Jun 14, 2005 (UTC)

hallo from uwe @ krill eye

hallo Enoch - thank you for promoting my most beloved mystic critter - you have great pictures! - can I invite you to help us with the language in eel reproduction please - greetings to downunder from Uwe Kils 16:45, Jun 20, 2005 (UTC)

(Replied on user page Enochlau 04:24, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC))

thank you for your answer -you voted here for us http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_picture_candidates/Krilleyekils take care Uwe Kils 04:27, Jun 21, 2005 (UTC)

good luck with your exam (I was a teacher at the universities) - can you also maybe vote here if you like it - Uwe Kils 04:35, Jun 21, 2005 (UTC)

Wow!

Fast! - Ta bu shi da yu 05:32, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)

(Replied on user page. Enochlau 05:37, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC))

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Spirit of Ecstasy

Would you be willing to explain your vote? When I wrote "informative" I mean "an effective illustration of the subject", which it certainly is; on what basis are you opposing its nomination? — Dan | Talk 03:29, Jun 22, 2005 (UTC)

(Replied on vote page. Enochlau 05:55, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC))

WP:BCE

you could have npoved it instead of speedy-deleting. It was not 'unsalvageable', you know :o) dab (ᛏ) 20:28, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Image:Molonglotele.jpg

Hi,

I've copied your photo Image:Molonglotele.jpg onto wikimedia commons in the telescope category as there weren't any cylindrical paraboloid radio telescope photos on there. Hope that's ok.

Rnt20 30 June 2005 05:40 (UTC)

That's cool. Thanks for letting me know. Enochlau 30 June 2005 10:20 (UTC)

Michael Rother

Hello. The "article" on Michael Rother on which you stuck a speedy deletion template certainly was wretched, yet it didn't seem to me to warrant speedying. (It wasn't patent nonsense, etc etc.) Thus I pulled the speedy template and replaced it with a VfD template. (I also did a bit of work on the article.) Do please take a look, and comment in the VfD. -- Hoary July 2, 2005 08:43 (UTC)

OK. Much better now, was complete gibberish before. Enochlau 2 July 2005 13:07 (UTC)

Consideration

Hi. Under Wikipedia:WikiProject Law, we're striving to introduce consistancy to articles relating to the common law, beginning with contract law. I've noticed that there are separate articles on Consideration and Consideration under English law. Based on my experience as an American law student, they are virtually identical, except for the cases cited and a few particulars. Would you object if we were to merge the articles, with a broad main section covering the standard common law elements, and subsections noting specific national nuances? -- BD2412 ^talk July 7, 2005 02:28 (UTC)

(Replied on user page. Enochlau 7 July 2005 05:17 (UTC))

Thank you, by the way, for all of your work in this area - I think you definitely have the right idea about cleaning up the common law areas and clarifying the U.S./UK/Aus/Can distinctions. -- BD2412 ^talk 02:52, July 11, 2005 (UTC)

You're welcome. :) Enochlau 02:54, 11 July 2005 (UTC)

I think invitation to treat should be moved to invitation to bargain - I've never heard of the former term, and the article seems to describe the latter. Is this simply a cultural difference? -- BD2412 ^talk 02:56, July 11, 2005 (UTC)

(Replied on user page. Enochlau 03:02, 11 July 2005 (UTC))

The current name handily wins the google test. Black's Law Dictionary uses "invitation to negotiate", but that also gets fewer Google hits. I shall redirect both to Invitation to treat. Cheers! -- BD2412 ^talk 03:16, July 11, 2005 (UTC)

Great, that clears things up. Enochlau 03:18, 11 July 2005 (UTC)

JR photos

The magic of wikipedia strikes again. They've been GFDL'd. Do you like my article by the way? :) Kewpid 10:27, 11 July 2005 (UTC)

(Replied on user page. Enochlau 10:59, 11 July 2005 (UTC))

Thanks for your support to the Hong Kong article!

Thanks a million dollars! \(^3^)/ -- Jerry Crimson Mann 14:51, 11 July 2005 (UTC)

You're welcome. It was delight to read such a comprehensive article. Enochlau 14:52, 11 July 2005 (UTC)

Usyd

I think it is more likely that Usyd once had a seat on the Legislative Council. The Assembly has always been elected, whereas the Council has in the past been filled by appointments. Which was probably a better way considering these days people like Fred Nile are perpetually re-elected due to the LC's absurdly low quota. Kewpid 03:03, 12 July 2005 (UTC)

Hmm I think I read somewhere that usyd was once considered an electorate, and people voted for their representative, so that's not altogether inconsistent with being on the assembly. Enochlau 11:36, 12 July 2005 (UTC)

Bah you are right. I will add something about it --Kewpid 09:37, 13 July 2005 (UTC)

Okies cool, I'll keep an eye on the usyd article :) Enochlau 10:49, 13 July 2005 (UTC)

Images into Commons

hi, thx for your image Image:Television Antenna.jpg , but could you please upload your pics into the commons http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Television , so that other language wikis can use them, too? would be nice, if you would do so. greets, --Andreas -horn- Hornig 12:25, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

Yep that's a good idea for all my pics, will do soon. Enochlau 15:44, 21 July 2005 (UTC)

infobox

It works fine here on firefox/IE/opera. Have you tried clearing your cache? The infobox class is new. ed g2s • talk 13:07, 11 August 2005 (UTC)

OK, it's fine now. Enochlau 08:58, 12 August 2005 (UTC)

Islamic Anarchism

You placed an npov tag on the Islam and Anarchism page. You did not give an explaination on the talk page, so until then I am going to go ahead and remove the tag. Let me know if there is reason for your placing that tag so I can replace it if necessary. --jonasaurus 17:08, 14 August 2005 (UTC)

UPDATE - I read over the article and see what you're saying about the lack of neutrality. It reads like an educational informercial. Keep up the good work, though try to add talk page explainations. Peace. --jonasaurus 17:21, 14 August 2005 (UTC)

ok noted. Enochlau 10:42, 15 August 2005 (UTC)

concerned about adding suburbs that don't exist

Hi Enochlau, Where are you getting your Sydney suburb data from? I'm a bit concerned about some additions of suburbs that don't exist, such as Ashfield North, New South Wales, Ashfield South, New South Wales, etc. I've lived right next to Ashfield for the past 9 years, and have never heard of these places. The Ashfield municipal council may have internal administrative regions set up to cover these areas, but that does not make them suburbs. The Geographical Names Board of New South Wales has a name search which can be used to independently verify which suburbs exist, and which do not. Basically, the List of Sydney suburbs should now be fairly complete and definitive (errors and omissions can happen of course, but I'd venture to say it's now > 95% accurate), so if something is not on that list it's most probably not a suburb. I've put the Ashfield North/South suburb articles up for speedy deletion, and have tried to update the LGA articles I'm watching to remove things that aren't suburbs. -- All the best, Nickj (t) 05:29, 11 September 2005 (UTC)

Also listed the following for speedy deletion: Burnside, New South Wales, Cattai North, New South Wales, West Baulkham Hills, New South Wales - as they aren't listed as suburbs / localities / neighbourhoods by the GNB, nor are they listed in my ageing copy of the UBD. However many of your other additions have caught missing localities and neighbourhoods, and the list of Sydney suburbs has been updated to include those. -- All the best, Nickj (t) 08:23, 11 September 2005 (UTC)

(Replied on user page. Enochlau 10:47, 11 September 2005 (UTC))

Pratincole

Length alone is a very crude and easy criterium for a stub notice, and avoids the need to think about the content. How exactly would you expand this article without just copying and repeating information back from the individual species accounts or the family account Glareolidae?

I don't want to get into an edit war on this, so I'll leave the notice for now, but may revert in future if no better reason given (same applies if Glareolidae is stubbed. jimfbleak 08:34, 18 September 2005 (UTC)

(Replied on user page. Enochlau 08:49, 18 September 2005 (UTC))

Thanks for your very reasonable reply - I'll take another look soon and see if there is any think that could reasonably added that is not covered by the Glareolidae and species accounts, but you will appreciate that this article is somewhat squeezed from above and below. I always put species lists in the text, but some people prefer them in the taxobox and move them; life's too short to challenge everything... Jim

User Categorization

You were listed on the Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Hong Kong page as living in or being associated with Hong Kong. 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:Hong Kong Wikipedians for instructions. Rmky87 19:28, 18 September 2005 (UTC)

Thanks. Enochlau 02:06, 19 September 2005 (UTC)

Marine da nang blotches

File:Marine da nang blotches.jpg

These ones?

At Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Marine da nang, you asked if someone could "edit out the blotches on the top left and top right of the image". Just to confirm, did you mean these blotches, or something else? There are a lot of little artifacts visible when the image is blown up, and I want to make sure I get the ones you meant specifically. :) —Cryptic (talk) 12:28, 22 September 2005 (UTC)

Hijab

I am not trying to sway your vote, it just seems you may not have had full information when voting on the featured picture candidate Hijab. Please see my comment there. Thanks. --Lord Voldemort ^{(Dark Mark)} 20:58, 22 September 2005 (UTC)

(Replied on Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Hijab. Enochlau 10:55, 23 September 2005 (UTC))

Holy Cross College image

Lol, go ahead and delete it. The school got me in serious trouble for what I wrote up on that page and they edited it down to barebones factual stuff. I'd prefer the whole thing just went away. M.C. Brown Shoes 23:59, 24 September 2005 (UTC)

A pity, but ok. Enochlau 00:01, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

Cats

That's the good thing about opening one's user page up to vandalism; passing users fill it with all kinds of interesting pictures. You have a nice cat by the way, thanks for GFDLing it! Soo 09:06, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

C trigraphs

C trigraphs are mandated by the ISO standard, but in actual fact most compilers (including gcc) don't interpret them unless you give a switch explicitly. Jogloran 02:06, 28 September 2005 (UTC)

Visual Basic Classic Wikibook

I see you have contributed to the Visual Basic article on Wikipedia. Any chance you would like to join in editing the wikibook: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Programming:Visual_Basic_Classic? --Kjwhitefoot 09:41, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

Sorry. Enochlau 10:19, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

need a bit of physics help plz

HI IM A YR12 STUDENT, IVE GOT YOUR PHYSICS NOTES ON SPACE FROM UR WEBSITE (WELL I ASSUME ITS YOURS) THEY ARE SOO HALPFUL AND GREAT TO USE AND I WAS HOPING YOU MIGHT HAVE THE SAME KINDA NOTES FOR THE OTHER CORES. IF U DO, I WOULD BE SOO VRY GREATFUL IF U COULD LET ME KNOW OR EMAIL THEM TO ME... thanx heaps jacklin

(Edit. Removed email address. Enochlau 02:39, 19 November 2005 (UTC))

Tags

Hi, could you please comment on Template talk:Geodis concerning the Aida (disambiguation) page (and maybe other pages as well)? Could the old {{disambig}} tag be used side by side with the new one? All the best, <KF> 19:11, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

(Replied on talk page and user page. Enochlau 01:23, 9 October 2005 (UTC))

Question for you.

Enochlau, I wanted to drop you a line to ask if you'd be interested in voting on my admin candidacy. I've seen you a lot in voting on FP's and thought you might have a somewhat good or positive idea of me and what kind of work I do. I might have been wrong about the whole featured diagrams issue that came up, but figured you might still have a good view of my contributing otherwise. I'm kind of having a personal tiff with a certain user right now and would appreciate your vote if you feel i'm qualified enough. I also answered the usual questions at the bottom of my nomination form you can read if interested. I'd jut like to get the change to make wikipedia even better and I think this would allow me to do so. Just thoguht I'd see if you'd help me out with it. Thanks and I'll see you around the FP's I'm sure. --ScottyBoy900Q∞ 23:33, 9 October 2005 (UTC)

I'll think about it. Enochlau 02:25, 10 October 2005 (UTC)

Just saying hi

I randomly surfed to your user page, so I wanted to say hi to a fellow wikipedian and University of Sydney Computer Science student. So hi!

I love these desperate HSC students, looking at your myriad collection of online notes and saying "they're great gimme more". I've been getting that for a while, so don't worry it won't stop (especially if they're listed somewhere exciting like boredofstudies, which—being derived from a resources web site I made for more ideological reasons of helping people who had teachers with no clue—still includes my notes from 2001). My usual response is: sorry that's all I've got, but don't rely on other peoples' notes.

Ciao. --jnothman ^talk 15:34, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

Hi!! It's always nice to see another usyd person on wikipedia... :) Enochlau 06:39, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

Template:Support

I reinserted the template after someone (was it you?) deleted it. The rationale is stated loudly and clearly at the talk page and I hope that the person to unilaterally deleted it against the rules of wikipedia will abide by them next time. Thanks in advance. Halibutt 11:57, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

(Replied on user page. Enochlau 13:28, 25 October 2005 (UTC)) and for the record, no I didn't delete it.

Nope, it was speedily-deleted by someone, eventhough that template did not fit into any of the speedy-deletion categories (which I pointed out at the talk page, BTW). Halibutt 15:52, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

(Replied on user page. Enochlau 20:47, 25 October 2005 (UTC))

My votes are all right and do not need your fixing. It's the template that needs fixing as someone apparently forgot to use the <includeonly> and <noinclude> parameters. Halibutt 10:53, 28 October 2005 (UTC)

(Replied on user page. Enochlau 11:23, 28 October 2005 (UTC))

Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship/Halibutt

Thank you for your comments there. If you don't mind me asking, what made you change your mind? After Radiant and Heptor withdrew their objections, I was suprised to seem somebody following in the opposite direction.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus ^Talk 14:56, 18 November 2005 (UTC)

As Piotr continues to spam talk pages of other editors blatantly advertizing Halibutt's vote I dare say that I regret not having reviewed Halibutt's contributions earlier. I finally started this by reading Talk:Kiev Offensive (1920), in which I was amazed to learn about copyright violations on his part, and Talk:Battle of Wołodarka, in which Halibutt indulged in regularly deleting his opponent's comments, despite the latter's vocal remonstrances to the contrary (see history). As these issues are hardly a month old, I believe further scanning of his contributions would have been instructive, although I don't have enough time for this at the moment. Rudeness, obstinacy, revert warring, block for 3RR violation, deleting opponents' comments on talk, and now copyright issues - what a nice combination for a soon-to-be admin. --Ghirlandajo 00:45, 19 November 2005 (UTC)

(Replied on RfA page. Enochlau 02:11, 19 November 2005 (UTC))

Jesus Christ... We have a proverb in Polish which says that It's hard to prove that you're not a camel. But some of the accusations by Ghirlandajo are actually easily explainable. For instance, the copyvio on my side mentioned by him above was actually there before I made the first edit to that article. After it had been discovered, I notified the user who put it there and it was instantly removed. So, no copyvio on my side... But still, watching every page Ghirlandajo leaves his comments would take me too much time and efforts. Halibutt 02:28, 19 November 2005 (UTC)

So a copyvio by admin Piotrus?.. It's getting curioser and curioser... --Ghirlandajo 18:25, 19 November 2005 (UTC)

Thanks. WikiThanks.

I would like to express my thanks to all the people who took part in my (failed) RfA voting. I was both surprised and delighted about the amount of support votes and all the kind words! I was also surprised by the amount of people who stated clearly that they do care, be it by voting in for or against my candidacy. That's what Wiki community is about and I'm really pleased to see that it works.
As my RfA voting failed with 71% support, I don't plan to reapply for adminship any more. However, I hope I might still be of some help to the community. Cheers! Halibutt 05:10, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

DVD-RW

I changed the image on this article, which you had illustrated, because the photo you took was of a DVD+RW disc, not a DVD-RW. Just thought I'd let you know. WAvegetarian 18:49, 20 November 2005 (UTC)

Oops my bad. Enochlau 00:55, 21 November 2005 (UTC)

Sydney law school photo

Did you ask those three legal professionals whether they wanted to appear in a public domain photo? It is prima facie evident that the individuals in question do not have visual confirmation of the photographer, and thus could not have given implicit permission. What about the legalities of the Australia Post insignia? Questions, questions, questions! Kewpid 15:32, 21 November 2005 (UTC)

(Replied on user page. Enochlau 22:30, 21 November 2005 (UTC))

Question about logarithm function plot

This plot on the Logarithm page looks nice. What software did you use to create it? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Shd (talk • contribs) 05:37, 23 November 2005

(Replied on user page. Enochlau 22:27, 22 November 2005 (UTC))

RfA thanks

I'd like to thank you for your support of my RfA. As I wrote, I was looking forward to feedback from the community, and I would like to let you know that you should please feel free to leave any further feedback for me you may have for me in the future at my Talk page. Thanks again. Jkelly 08:45, 25 November 2005 (UTC)

You're welcome. Enochlau 10:05, 25 November 2005 (UTC)

catarack gorge in launceston history

hello my name is rachel my sister keeps telling me that someone from our deceased family used to own the catarack gorge and other land in launceston his last name is barnes and was to have donated the catarack gorge to the city of launceston is this right i have been searching and keep coming up with nothing but she doesnt believe me could you find out for me please my email address is xxx@xxx.com thanks from rachel.

(Edit. Removed email address. Enochlau 05:26, 27 November 2005 (UTC))

Speaking of Usyd Science/Law people....

Howdy, Just saw your corrections on the Barker page - well spotted, beat me to it. I also did Science / Law at Sydney, well didnt finish the law bit, so good luck. (Westius 02:52, 28 November 2005 (UTC))

(Replied on user page. Enochlau 02:54, 28 November 2005 (UTC))

I did chemistry - I took a year off from Law to do Honours (Physical/Theoretical Chem) - a pretty tough year but well worth it. After that, I had the choice to go back to law - which I liked but it wasn't really what I was into - or continue on with some science studies. So I "deferred" law after 2000 and have never gone back! Its something that I wish I had completed, but I dont think I want to and I dont regret it - it would have been 6 years at the same uni and thats a tough slog! I ended up spending the next year at ANU doing Science Communication and then working here at DSTO. But if you can get thru it, that's pretty cool. I occassionally see some law courses that look pretty interesting - I'd be keen to do some international law - could be relevant for work. They used to run "Cricket and the law" - if they were still running that when I got to 4th year, I might have stayed on! (Westius 03:16, 28 November 2005 (UTC))

Argh!

OK, next time I think we are going to have to do a mass message to all Sydney Wikipedians! Sorry you missed us :( Ta bu shi da yu 06:14, 28 November 2005 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thanks Enoch, for getting rid of vandalism on my user page. jnothman ^talk

Thanks!

Thanks Enoch, for alerting me to vandalism on my user page. :P Jogloran 08:40, 28 November 2005 (UTC)