User talk:newmanbe

Message from 75.21.169.47[edit]

Benn:

Thank you for your comments regarding signatures to "special assessment tax". I am brand new to Wikipedia and am still a little confused. I know there is an instruction that each edit I make should contain four tildes so the effort I put forth is documented. I thought that was the signature.

What is it that you do not want signed and are you speaking about an actual signature (name address et cetera) or the four tildes.

Also, can you advise me how to properly respond to comments from those who are guiding me such as you. Am I suppose to find their talk page or is there some icon I should push to respond. What is the appropriate manner to communicate with those who are helping me on Wikipedia?

Thank you and best regards,

Joe Turner
turnerj AT juno DOT com
75.21.169.47 15:37, 10 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I meant that articles should not be signed, with either your name and address et cetera or ~~~~. You can edit your user talk page (where I left you the message), just like any other page; talk pages are an appropriate forum to get help.

Currently, you are editing without a username. You can continue to do so, as you are not required to log in to Wikipedia to read and edit articles; however, logging in will result in a username being shown instead of your IP address. Logging in does not require any personal details, and there are many other benefits for logging in.

--Benn Newman 21:34, 12 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Gopher URL[edit]

You're right, sorry. Thanks for reverting my thoughtless change in Gopher protocol article.

Engelec 07:57, 28 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Name[edit]

Omg, my name used to be Benn Newman (now Benn Harrison). Bennelliott • Talk • Contributions 17:22, 31 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Plan 9 from Bell Labs[edit]

Undid revision 141254865 by Andyluciano (talk) tar is for archives, dd is for people who like cp on steroids.)

You act as if I don't already know this. The reason I changed these examples is because doing cp or mv on a device file doesn't do anything to the actual device, but rather the inode that specifies it. tar and dd are both frequently used to interact with devices (tar for a tape drive, dd for disk images), so I thought they were better examples of using files as devices.

Of course the really unique thing about plan9 is using files for things like sockets, so, really, none of the examples mentioned really illustrate the point. –Andyluciano 13:40, 2 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The interesting thing about Plan 9 is not that devices are files, but that nearly everything is represented by a file, from the network stack to the windowing system and that you don't need to use—relatively—complex tools like tar and dd. Plan 9 does not have device files (files that appear to be normal files); they are normal files. –Benn Newman 20:11, 3 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Plan 9 has no device files or inodes, so what you say is rather meaningless in plan9. All files are 'just files' in Plan 9, and what file server they might come from (or where that file server might reside) is transparent to all applications. --Uriel 10:01, 4 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, but, if I recall correctly, the section of the article I was editing was describing Unix, not plan9. Excerpt follows (emphasis mine):

Unix attempted to remove these distinctions. All device drivers were required to support meaningful read and write operations as a means of control. This lets programmers use utilities like mv and cp to send data from one device to another without being aware of the underlying implementation details.

Now, I have much more knowledge of Unix than of plan9, but for example doing a mv will not send data to a device on Unix. And this part of the article is describing Unix. So, that is why I wanted to change it. –Andyluciano 15:41, 5 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Germany Invitation[edit]

Hello, Newmanbe! I'd like to call your attention to the WikiProject Germany and the German-speaking Wikipedians' notice board. I hope their links, sub-projects and discussions are interesting and even helpful to you. If not, I hope that new ones will be.

--Zeitgespenst (talk) 12:45, 25 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Obscure mealybug.jpg[edit]

It's the image for DYK. That's why I uploaded it from Commons. Nishkid64 _{(Make articles, not wikidrama)} 02:58, 8 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, I see what you mean now. I checked Commons and saw the CC license and confirmed it on the source page, but I guess I had the licensing wrong. I remember reading somewhere that those were supposed to judged on a case-by-case basis to determine if the licensing was valid. I could be wrong. Could you explain your decision to me? This would help if I go on some deletion rampage on Commons (which is doubtful since I don't use the tools there that often). Nishkid64 _{(Make articles, not wikidrama)} 04:54, 8 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

James McRae[edit]

Hi you added a tag to the talk page for this article. Were you inferring there was an issue with the content of the article? It's a pretty neutral article with no controversial claims. Ozdaren (talk) 00:45, 25 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

AfD nomination of Cameron Kaiser[edit]

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Fair use rationale for File:Umn gopher dir.png[edit]

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You're invited![edit]

Hello, Newmanbe,

You are invited meet with your fellow Wikipedians by attending the Montréal meetup scheduled on Sunday, June 27, 2010; between 1500 - 1700 to be held at the Comité Social Centre Sud (CSCS), located at 1710 Beaudry, in Montréal. You can sign up at the meetup page.

The meetup is happening in concurrence with RoCoCo 2010, a free, bilingual, weekend unconference including many people involved with Wikis both within the Wikipedia/Wikimedia Community and abroad. You do not need to attend the conference to sign up for the Wikimeetup, but you are certainly welcome! Bastique ^{☎ call me!}

(PS: Please share this with those you know who might not be on the delivery list, i.e. Users in Montreal/Quebec)

Delivered by SoxBot (talk) 00:48, 8 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Notification: changes to "Mark my edits as minor by default" preference[edit]

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Edit-a-thon in Madison[edit]

Newmanbe, I'd like to invite you to an upcoming edit-a-thon:

ART+FEMINISM EDIT-A-THON

Saturday, March 5th, 9:30 a.m. – noon

Madison Public Library (Madison, Wisconsin)

Bring a laptop! There will be snacks and daycare

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ArbCom 2018 election voter message[edit]

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Proposed deletion of Gopher+[edit]

The article Gopher+ has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Does not meet WP:GNG and WP:NSOFT. I could not find enough reliable sources on Gopher+, probably because it "was never widely adopted by Gopher servers" as lead suggests.

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, pages may be deleted for any of several reasons.

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Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Anton.bersh (talk) 18:09, 15 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination of Gopher+ for deletion[edit]

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Anton.bersh (talk) 09:28, 3 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of PyGopherd[edit]

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Does not meet WP:GNG and WP:NSOFT. There are no reliable sources at all.

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Proposed deletion of Bucktooth[edit]

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The substance of this page is well covered by the gopher (protocol) article

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