Hi Graham, welcome to the 'pedia. I think I've seen your contributions around the place, under IP numbers, before. Nice work on the TSR-2 just now. It looks as though you have adopted List of aircraft: great! That particular orphan needs some care and attention. Keep up the good work, anything you need to know, just ask. Cheers -- Tannin 11:59 May 12, 2003 (UTC)
Hi Graham, welcome from me too. I've just noticed that in the Rally principles and definitions article that you've written at least one bit is written from a first person perspective; For the novice, the only modifications I recommend are.... I think that it is felt that it is more encyclopaedic to write things like Modifications often made by novices...orAdvice given to novices often includes... so that it comes across as fact rather than personal advice. There are a wealth of pages around about how to write the perfect article (I'm not suggesting you read them all, I cartainly haven't!), two of the most useful though are Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines and Wikipedia:Manual of Style which you may like to have a quick look at. Have fun editing -- Ams80 08:48 May 13, 2003 (UTC)
Hello there GRAHAMUK, I notice you've already been welcomed by 2 other users, but I will provide you with my standard user greeting, b/c it provides some useful links: welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you ever need editing help visit Wikipedia:How does one edit a page and experiment at Wikipedia:Sandbox. If you need pointers on how we title pages visit Wikipedia:Naming conventions. If you have any other questions about the project then check out Wikipedia:Help or add a question to the Village pump. MB 14:10 15 May 2003 (UTC)
Your picture of the Vx Magnum says "used with permission", but whose permission? We really like to know where all the pictures come from. Please let us know where the picute came from, and how you got permission to use it here. LDC
Well, I used to be the editor of the DSG's quarterly journal the Droop Snoot Noos, and obtained a great collection of stuff from Vauxhall publicity etc, with carte blanche rights to use the pictures as I saw fit (basically, it was such an old model that the company didn't mind how it was used). If you don't think this is adequate or fair use, I can substitute one of my own photographs (as for other images I've uploaded) but I don't have them to hand so it will be a few weeks.GRAHAMUK 07:18 23 May 2003 (UTC)
Graham -- I put in a short listing for Blackpool Pleasure Beach, just to get the ball rolling. It was really difficult to get any historical info on the internet, and I'm an American amusement park buff, not really up on the British parks. ridetheory~
I hear Little Plumpton is nice this time of year! -- goatasaur 07:20 4 Jul 2003 (UTC)
I think the mathematical proof of the existence of Ley lines is interesting, but I am not so sure if it works on the surface of a geoid as non-euclidean maths applies there.Harry Potter 00:24 9 Jul 2003 (UTC)
I thought you might be interested in the opinion poll going on now at Talk:Clitoris. MB 18:11 9 Jul 2003 (UTC)
Nice work on Metalworking and the related articles. Not at all my area of expertise, but clearly topics that we need to cover. I hope someone can dig up drawings of the various tools and machines from old books. cheers -- Tarquin 12:45 13 Jul 2003 (UTC)
Hi Grahamuk, thanks for the nice work on capstan and winch. I am not entirely sure about the terminology, though. The things that you find on large ships (for mooring lines, anchors etc) are winches in the sense you described, but the "winches" on yachts would be classified as capstans by your terminology. I believe, however, that they are almost always called winches. But I could be mistaken (am no native English speaker, and my yachting experience has been mostly in Skandinavia). Will do some research, hopefully, but it would be nice if you had references or personal experience. Cheers, Kosebamse 08:58, 22 Aug 2003 (UTC)
BTW, the "which feels a bit dubious as a bit of commercial plugging" in your FooBar edit comment is wrong IMO since FooBar is free (oh and I just remembered the page has been written by me : this is wrong lol). SeeSchloß 00:20, 24 Aug 2003 (UTC)
Hopefully, you will still be able to sleep tonight after learning that the CMS now opines that the
"old meaning of the word ("in a hopeful manner") seems unsustainable; the newer meaning "("I hope" or "it is to be hoped") seems here to stay. But many careful writers deplore the new meaning",
sustained by the knowledge that it has stood firm on its use of it's. I fear they would have defended Tori Amos literally inventing a type of glue, as it's not an oxymoronic or metaphorical sense: still the article is better off sans literally. To complete your horror I should inform you that an editorial appeared in a British paper within the past month (I can't recall, which, sadly) which predicted that the widespread diffidence about the its/it's distinction would inevitably lead to the disappearance of all apostrophes from English... ah, well. -- Someone else 04:33, 2 Sep 2003 (UTC)
Hi Grahamuk ! Good to hear you defend the Uni. like a good alumni should, of course i was having a dig, i love . Besides i did deliver a paper for a conferencwe there last year, so perhaps i ought to take my cap off and tug forelock " thank 'e kindly'. AS i live a 5 minute ride aawy from campus i often 'get off my arse' ( what a genteel way of putting it) and toddle up there. It's just the constant refurbishing and 'yuppification' of the campus i can't stand. i have met students and not nervous first year freshers either who hardly geyt off their arse to visit the city. I just wish that a better relationship had been forged years ago between town and gown, that ofr norwich should have had a Uni years ago,. Have you seen the new book out on the history of UEA. It is extremely informative. Yeah, i know i sound horribly parochial and nimbyish about 'metics' or resident alien refugees from distant London, but often these are the people who are ex[ploiting my home City to make a fast buck. You obviously pay a great compliment to my mothe rCity when you choose to re-locate here. The Crime-rate's low, the air's relatively okay, the centre is walkable and there is a fantastic hinterland of over 1oo miles of coast-line. (on a clear day you can see John Major's Ranch' from way over the marshes). On the minus side because of these enormous benefits of less chance of being mugged late at night walking round the city centre than in London and a slower pace of life de-stressing you helping you live long, you have also for these benefits chosen to live in a relatively low-paid region and always has been because of these 'benefits'. Only joking about it all Grahamuk, honest :), just looking for feedback!! i hate monoculture golf courses too! I just wish the proletariat which surround the campus by their 1000's occasionally went on campus and felt that it was there Uni. too to be proud and of course there is much to be proud of about UEA old alumnus, mate. My real gripe is that my particular passion , Sir T.B. has the victim of neglect and erroneous, ahistorical 'politically correct' misinformation propogated and disseminated by UEA prof's, if you please that's when i get wound up about my European cultural heritage being disrespected by visiting and sojourning profs. Fortunately however the late and great MaX Sebald addressed that wrong in his 'Rings of Saturn'. I am always interested in communicating to old UEa students especially if they work for the 'pedia.Norwikian 08:54, 4 Oct 2003 (UTC)
I started editing Airspeed Indicator casually because I saw it on recent changes. You are correct that the second word should not be capitalized. I will merge the new content when I have the time, and also check out the list of aviation topics that you mentioned.
Louis Kyu Won Ryu 15:38, 15 Oct 2003 (UTC)
Lawn mower and Lawnmower are now duplicates :c, may want to try and merge Dysprosia 11:37, 18 Oct 2003 (UTC)
Thanks for the note on the Court Line colors. Being a Cannuck I never saw one, but in every other picture it's gold/orange so I simply assumed that the scan was a bad one.
Hi, I was just reading through your user page and I was puzzled to see that there is a professional programmer in Armidale, I never saw it coming, I thought the closest thing to coding in Armidale was teaching ones sheep dog. But I shouldn't really pick on you for it, it makes sence that you would move to armidale after coming from England so you can get used to the accent and culture of Australia without giving up the depressing weather and "quaint old-world charm" (read dying rural hole with nothing much going for it).
If you are wondering why your town is being verbally assulted by a guy who you don't even know, I am from Coffs Harbour, and have a my town's reputation to uphold by slandering the surrounding cities :-).
scarlet 18:07, 23 Oct 2003 (EAST)
I noticed that you commented on some controversial computing issues. There's now a new Wikipedia:WikiProject Computing and Wikipedia:WikiProject Computing/Controversial articles to help form consensus on computing topics. Please consider watching the talk pages there and using them to let others know of issues you believe merit peer review. JamesDay 15:42, 28 Oct 2003 (UTC)
Hi Graham!
Thanks for the correction to the ridiculous Corsa date. I was sleepy and saw the B at the start of the reg and looked up the date for that! Nice to know someone is watching me.
Best Wishes,Adrian Pingstone 09:20, 30 Oct 2003 (UTC)
You seem to be holding your own pretty well in Reference (computer science). Let me know if you grow tired of the constant edits, or do what I do and step back for a few days, then take care of it in one go...:) JamesDay 03:50, 1 Nov 2003 (UTC)
Hi Graham, I noticed a conflagration you had recently with User:195.92.67.70 over the Long Crendon page; I've just got rid of some nonsense they created on the Shabbington page too. I don't if they have done this to any others, but it might be worth checking. I'll keep watch on the two pages I've just corrected to make sure they don't get vandalised again... Another Graham :) 00:11, 27 Nov 2003 (UTC)
Can you offer any evidence of your sense of "Blowing Rock" being more widespread than, say, A. Huxley's expression "pulling a slight Holy Father"? My Google search is not definitively negative, since excluding "NC" and "North Carolina" kills only 80% of the 100k hits on the geographic senses, but it is far from offering evidence of significance.--Jerzy 06:35, 2003 Dec 1 (UTC)
In ref to the hacking page, none of the other entries are encyclopedic, see Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not a dictionary. --Imran
Tnx for the Clockwork edits, all but two of which i immediately found myself sympathizing with.
[Chuckle] I was still thinking abt alternatives to "setting", and grousing about your not offering any. I had decided "situation" was little less unusual, but thot i'd mull a little longer before deciding. But we definitely have to stop meeting like this, and like "mains". [smile] Tnx again.--Jerzy 01:40, 2003 Dec 10 (UTC)
This email got bounced back by your IP..
> Hi Graham, > > We briefly "met" over some article before,
On that brief note to start with, he's back. Check out the Shabbington and Long Crendon pages. Sure is an adamant little bunny rabbit, I'll give him that...
> but I > just wanted to say I read your very brave and frank > account on your user page, and I was moved to > contact you privately. While my own experiences no > way compare with yours, I too suffered greatly from > bullying at school. Fortunately in my case it tailed > off naturally so it didn't end up being such a soul > destroying experience for me. What is up with that? > Is there some instinct among young people that > differences should be ridiculed and squished out at > all costs? Or is it just that few people teach their > kids that differences are to be celebrated? My own > experiences happened in the 70s - I'd sort of hoped > that modern kids might be a bit more enlightened but > alas your more recent experiences shows that isn't > the case. Anyway, I wish you luck and hope you find > great happiness in life, and that you aren't too > cynical or bitter about the past. Things generally > do get better as you get older, I've found - seems > like things are looki > ng up for you too. >
As a youth worker today it frustrates me that bullying is still not taken seriously. It does ruin lives, and yet there are still schools in Aylesbury prepared to sweep it under the carpet and pretend it isn't happening.
I was comforting a distressed mother on Friday whose 17 year old daughter is on the brink of suicide following bullying at the all girls grammar school in Aylesbury. The school's reaction has been, so far, to not do anything about it, even though the mother has put in a complaint to the LEA over their actions.
It's a sad world.
> regards, Graham (edit WP as GRAHAMUK, my email is > graham_cox@iprimus.com.au). > > PS. Enjoying your articles on Bucks villages, etc. > >
Thanks. Feel free to add to them at any time...
Graham :)
Francs2000 11:13, 10 Dec 2003 (UTC)
Hi again. [smile] What brings me back is the excellent changes to the structure of the Magneto complex of articles, which IMO was achieved by the wrong method, to the detriment of the "Page history"s. If you don't recall Wikipedia:How to rename (move) a page clearly enuf, pls read or reread; if you still think you did it acceptably, let's discuss -- and see which of us comes away wiser, since i'm not entirely confident about that. --Jerzy 22:20, 2004 Jan 9 (UTC)
I just noticed your comments in the MacOS X discussion. Although it appears to be academic now, I'd like to comment anyway.
The long and short of it is that the only people who thought Copeland would ever exist were inside Apple, and Mac developers. It was clear outside the company, at least to those not drinking the cool-aid, that Copeland was nothing more than a marketing effort.
Case in point: I was at the 1996 WWDC when even I (look me up in google groups some time) realized what was going on. It was a day or two into the show when Gil came up and announced that "they had heard the feedback", and had decided that the Copeland kernel would have to be SMP. This is after they said that it was going to ship in 6 months and the kernel didn't even run, now they were going to rebuild it and release it at the same time.
Nothing at all about this project was under control. I remember reading in 1995 that they were going to include one feature I thought was long overdue: a simple file-system flag that said "this is a settings file, you can't open it" to solve the silly problems that occured when you double clicked on something in the Settings folder. I went to a talk on the file system and it wasn't mentioned, so I asked about it. The person I asked never heard of it. I later learned that only two people on the team had been on it more than 9 months. This is the file system.
I also remember the first alpha later that year. If you did nothing at all on it, it would crash on it's own within a few minutes.
It was hopeless. The company was completely out of control. There was no way it would ever ship.
Maury 02:01, 20 Jan 2004 (UTC)
Hi Graham, from a “warm” Bristol (12C at noon today, quite high for February).
Thanks for the thanks, much appreciated.
I’ve never noticed that I use a rear three quarter view but I do know why. Many of my car pics are taken in public car parks. If the owner came back they might object to the photo or ask for a copy (which would be a nuisance). So I take just one angle and then go away. Which pic do I take? The one that shows the car and its make and model i.e the rear three quarter.
In future I’ll try to get the front one as well. Thanks for letting me know about this.
Just at the moment I’m on Ducks and Astronomy so probably no more car pics until the sunnier weather comes again.
Adrian Pingstone 16:08, 5 Feb 2004 (UTC)
For your information, the following is quoted from mozilla.org:
—Mozilla Organization, The. (n.d.). Mozilla Firefox 0.8 release notes. Retrieved February 11, 2004 from http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/releases/
Though you didn't add an unmentionable to the article poo, you supported the crude definition written by anonymous user. In the future, change the link to the more polite feces, will you? -- user:zanimum
Re: reverted to previous image, which shows the plane more clearly. Moved Iraqi image to bottom of page. Don't make changes just for their own sake.
Hi Graham, just a comment on the removal of my two pics of the Boeing 747. I appreciate what you're saying about bandwidth but they were the three marks of 747 so showed the window differences. Therefore I think they were relevant. However it’s easy for me to say that because I have broadband (Telewest) so they load instantly!
Would you accept a compromise? I’ll put a link to the other two pics so that they are still available. Something roughly like Click for 747-300 image and 747-400 image. What do you think? This seems a neat solution where a page has too many good pics.
Adrian Pingstone 10:22, 1 Mar 2004 (UTC)
Dear Graham: Hi1 Thanks for lloading the picture at the Mexicana de Aviacion page. I read your story and it reminded me fondly of my own. I was interested in civil airliners before I ever looked at Military planes however, cause military planes to me were rather dull in green ..lol besides military bases in Puerto Rico, where I grew, are infamous, read Vieques. But my grandfather would take me saturdays and sundays to Luis Munoz Marin International Airport to see planes. Im quite sure I saw the one on the Mexicana photo in person: I read that Mexicana had only 5 DC-10s and that they only used them for their Cuba and Puerto Rico routes. In addtion, I got a die-cast model of the same plane on the photo, (I know cuase the reg. is XA-MEX).
I went from planes to boxing. Unfortunately, my dream of becoming both a world champion boxer and airline pilot were stopped because my parents believed that diabetics such as me would not be allowed into any of these fields, and they were half right: In the airline world of then, pilots could not have diabetes. Now, I dont have the money to pay for pilot school, lol
I love to write about five specific subjects: airlines, boxing, movies, music and Hispanic people.
How about those Beatles? I love them! I met David Bowie after a concert recently , he was tired, but kind to me and my brother, we got a couple autographs. Unfortunately, I did not see two of my other favorite British groups in your list, Duran Duran and Culture Club.
I was also a huge fan of Menudo.
One little note: We need to give you, me and mr. Jorge Rocafort credit on the page that comes when one clicks on the Mexicana plane photo, for uploading it, obtaining permission and copyright ownership. I tried to do it but my computer always messes up photos, thats why I wasnt able to upload the photo myself.
Other than that, thanks for everything and God bless you! Reading your page was refreshing, it brought me back memories.
Sincerely yours, Antonio Palooka Martin
Hi Graham,
Just a few words of thanks for the camera buying info.
Thanks for your time.
I'm still working out which camera to buy.
Adrian Pingstone 09:40, 14 Mar 2004 (UTC)
Dear Graham: Hey, how are you? Ive been granted permission to download photos at many airline articles by various photographers. I have Adrian working on it. I was wondering if you could help too, specifically with one I have for Dominicana de Aviacion. With my computer, its always impossible, for some reason I can never upload photos.
Thanks, and God bless you!
Sincerely yours, Antonio Fast Man Martin
Why would this have anything to do with involution? An involution is a function that is its own inverse. The natural logarithm function is obviously not an involution. Michael Hardy 22:34, 18 Mar 2004 (UTC)
Hi, I just wanted to let you know that Dori has nominated me for admin at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship. Since you and I have had conflicts in the past, I wanted to give you a heads up so you can show your support or dissent. Nohat 19:58, 2004 Apr 15 (UTC)
Hi Graham. Your removal of the 1947 Aeronca is accepted, in Aviation history.
I think your suggested removal of the Boeing 737 in Aviation is on much shakier grounds. The pic was not meant to show the reader what a plane looked like! It simply illustrated the Commercial Aviation part of aviation as I carefully said in my caption Commercial Aviation: Royal Air Maroc Boeing 737-200 landing at London (Heathrow) Airport Nevertheless with about 900 pics on WP one less doesn’t matter so I've removed it. Best Wishes, Adrian.
Adrian Pingstone 08:51, 19 Apr 2004 (UTC)
Graham. I note your edit to my contribution on Rolls-Royce Trent, "changed previous poor wording." Having excelled at both English and English Literature in secondary school I feel confident in saying that there was no grammatical error in my contribution. However I have no problem with your wording either, it does in fact add to the article by noting the time which has elapsed since RR last used river names for engines. The reason I have taken the time to contact you is to register unease at the way in which you choose to summarize your edits, let me remind you of some of them,
You may like to review Wikipedia:Wikiquette before making further edits.
"Don't label or personally attack people or their edits.
Regards, Mark User:H1523702 23:08, 24 April, 2004 (UTC)
Graham, thanks very much for your thoughtful comments on Motorway.
A fuller reply is on User talk:Arpingstone
Best Wishes, Adrian.
Adrian Pingstone 08:44, 31 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
Apologies; didn't plan to offend with my ABBA edits. I found the page too wordy (it is over 30KB) and wanted to make it read better. nedward 22:17, 14 Sep 2004 (UTC) (edited to sound less annoyed than I was last night)
Many thanks for your assistance with the vinyl roof page. I knew that some European cars were sold in the US with vinyl, but didn't know whether they appeared in their home market that way, so I thought I'd better stay away from the issue. I hope somebody can contribute something on Japanese models, too. I wasn't sure anybody would read this, let alone edit it, to tell you the truth. I'm the only person I know of who understands all the vinyl roof styles; even true car freaks' eyes tend to glaze over if you get too far into it. So I'm happy to have passed this ancient lore on to at least one willing reader! :-) RivGuySC 16:41, 19 Jun 2004 (UTC)
I noticed your edit to the reference (computer science) page. While I certainly like pointers and don't want to give them a bad name, and while the word dangerous is admittedly POV, I think the remaining text puts them in a very optimistic light - it makes it sound as though pointers are the only references worth using. We need to explain somehow why someone would ever prefer another type of reference over pointers. Part of explaining this would probably involve explaining the references featured in a number of languages and their advantages and disadvantages. Do you have any other suggestions?
Derrick Coetzee 04:00, 13 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Sorry for the long delay, I've been busy enjoying life in the outside world. Having friends and relatives living or studying in Armidale, I have doubts as to whether that place qualifies. One of the poor sods is flying back there from the UK today.
'Ford may only have a 33% stake in Mazda (fer chrissake), but I'd still like to know what is "ironic" about the two cars being based on the same platform.'
My point was, that whereas there are Fords based on Mazda platforms there are virtually no Mazdas based on Ford platforms, certainly not in the Asia Pacific. You're more likely to find a Ford in Australia badged as a Nissan than as a Mazda.
Having lived and travelled in the Asia Pacific region (Singapore, Malaysia, Australia and New Zealand) before you lobbed there, I can attest to this.
Mazda has retained completely separate R&D facilities from Ford, so has never needed to source products from Ford up to now, with the exception of the Ford Fiesta, sold as a Mazda 121 in Europe and a Mazda Soho in South Africa.
As for the "irony" of used Vauxhalls being sold in Ireland and new unoffically imported Opels being sold in the UK, it is ironic in that the two countries chose different GM brands, and yet those brands they discontinued still appear in the marketplace. Similarly in New Zealand, Opel-badged cars imported from Japan abound, despite GM's decision to adopt the Holden brand name for all cars sold in the land where Australians fear to tread ten years ago.
"I will hunt down and destroy all misuse of this word!!"
No need, I did it already, on the grounds that its a cliche and sounds too journalistic.
You want the answer to the popularity of Windows? Money. Macs are expensive and always will be. By contrast, complete bundles of PCs are seen as low as $300. I personally think Macs will disappear in the end, because the cost to profit ratio will become too high, but that apple will continue to make products like the ipod and sell songs over itunes. As to the edit, Rhobite changed some things (people are always messing with things just to relfect their own POV--it drives me up the wall)--naryathegreat 00:24, Aug 13, 2004 (UTC)
If you start a line
with a space, it displays in monospace font, appropriate for code
It reads better in the wikitext also. Dysprosia 00:46, 14 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Hi,
I noticed that you have added to the VOR section a statment that most VORs use phased-array antennas to rotate the AM signal. I've never checked this, but I was under the impression that the majority of VOR transmitters (here in the USA, anyway) used mechanical rotation. The high-accuracy VOR transmitters use an antenna array.
Is there a reference for the statement that the majority of VORs are phased array?
Thanks,
flightinstructor
You wrote on Roundabout intersection that the magic roundabout in Hemel Hempstead has been reduced from 6 exits to 5. I haven't been that way in quite a while: which exit have they closed off? --Phil | Talk 10:43, Sep 7, 2004 (UTC)
Hi, I have rewritten the section ==Applications in computer graphics== to include the material I removed earlier from the Bezier curve article. Please give me your comment what you think about the article now. I know my rewrite was quite radical but I thought the article was in very bad shape. The definition is quite mathematical and probably hard to understand for most people. But the section examples and applications in computer graphics should make up for this.MathMartin 15:08, 20 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Want to join? I'm still formulating policy. Incidently, there is a message board Wikipedia:Australian wikipedians' notice board - Ta bu shi da yu 06:09, 23 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Hullo Graham. No problem, I'm quite happy that you reverted. In my defence the pic does look greatly improved on my 19 inch CRT monitor. I let the pic go large deliberately because I understand pic size is no longer an issue so I let pics go up to 200K. For your interest the colour change was done in Photoshop (IMAGE/ADJUST/AUTOLEVELS) and it looks like I should have been content with a gentler colour change. Best - Adrian Pingstone 07:24, 23 Sep 2004 (UTC)
I removed the firmware row since it's a feature of the hardware, not the OS. Alas, when an OS is ported to a new platform it almost never gets to bring its old firmware with it :)
But the comparison info was interesting and should live somewhere; I just can't see where. I'm nervous about suggesting Yet Another Comparison article since they at the rate we are going we'll have hundreds of them by Christmas.. but if anyone does create Comparison of computer platforms or some such then we'll have some content for it on hand. Saucepan 15:09, 23 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Hi Graham,
Thanks for pointing out on Talk: Apple Macintosh that:
I'm a newbie so I may inadvertently due very foolish newbie things; don't hesitate to point out if I do anything strange/foolish. I've been more or less going by common sense and some understanding of the guidelines, but I guess a more thorough reading of Wikipedia:Talk_page is needed. --C S 00:53, Sep 24, 2004 (UTC)
Hi!
This is a message to let you know that there is now a UK-specific Wikipedia community page at Wikipedia:UK wikipedians' notice board. It would be great if you could come and get involved! -- Graham ☺ | Talk 23:01, 1 Oct 2004 (UTC)
I've taken on fixing up folk etymologyvsfake etymology, mostly by making folk etymology strict to the linguistics term and pushing the rest over to fake etymology (and fixing all of the inbound links that went to the wrong one). I noticed you'd mentioned the difference before on fake etymology's talk page so I thought I'd leave a note. A second set of eyes on folk etymology from someone that understands the difference couldn't hurt either, if you've got a moment. — mendel ☎ 02:48, Nov 5, 2004 (UTC)
Hey there, hope I didn't offend or anything by cutting out the Simpsons reference from the article. I've just been trying to go around Wikipedia to take out a lot of unnecessary Simpsons/Futurama/other shows references in totally non-related articles (check the history of Gator, for instance). However, I'm not quite sure I agree with its inclusion in that article, as its claim as being an "American" term already spells out that fact. Is there a UK-equivalent word for "cooties"? Otherwise, bang-up job on the article. Ian Pugh 04:04, 10 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Hello, I see you've contributed a lot to Wikipedia and know about which articles are encyclopedic or not. Can you please help by voting at Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/La La? Cheers. .:. 03:10, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Interesting coincidences. I just noticed that you made a correction, after my update, to the Enigma Variations page (I can't believe I missed the "Neath"). Well, I too work in the computer industry, am a private pilot, lived in Wycombe (actually Hazlemere) and emigrated - in 1983, to the US. I got my PPL recently in the Pacific Northwest (yes, I work at MS). "Ordinary" planes are a it easier to deal with here. Some kind of remote cousin?
I was just looking at the various and inconsistent pages describing the various US pilot ratings and I thought I'd take a swipe at them.
Hi Graham, I saw your refactoring on Talk:Apple and your comment in history before. I don't get it.
(rv to last version by Chan-Ho Suh - what's the point of bringing back all that old archived stuff?)
after I
RESTRUCTURE
After the archiving you did there is not much difference on the final page, but I just wanted to be sure I didn't miss anything, and you simply misunderstood my edit (otherwise, what did I bring back?).
Sending you some of my moderating courage for this page ;) --Chealer 01:18, 2004 Dec 8 (UTC)
Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 1000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:
To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:
OR
Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk) 18:27, Dec 8, 2004 (UTC)
Did you have a particular source in mind for your Aug 13 addition to the Criticism section of the Apple Computer page? [2] Don't get me wrong, I have heard this pointed out elsewhere and I have a few ideas where you might have got this from, but I can't remember anyone actually having any concrete evidence to back it up. Kind of like the Cocoa apps are more native than Carbon apps arguments, that make no sense when you get right down to it. AlistairMcMillan 06:45, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Hi! Thanks for uploading Image:Drag Curve 2.jpg. I notice it currently doesn't have an image copyright tag. Could you add one to let us know its copyright status? (You can use {{gfdl}} if you release it under the GFDL, or {{fairuse}} if you claim fair use, etc.) If you don't know what any of this means, just let me know where you got the images and I'll tag them for you. If you do, would you mind checking other images you've uploaded for copyright tags. Thanks so much, Tagishsimon (talk) 23:25, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Also, Image:Circuit Pattern 2.png and Image:Circuit pattern.png RedWolf 19:04, Dec 23, 2004 (UTC)
Are you claiming the image you placed there is public domain, or are you using it under fair use / fair dealing? —Morven 00:27, Dec 10, 2004 (UTC)
More image license stuff! Image:Court.line.bac1-11.592pix.jpg has no copyright tag. If you could mosey on by and add an appropriate tag that would be swell. Or leave me a message with the details and I can take care of it. Thanks!! --MaxPower 18:38, 2004 Dec 13 (UTC)
Hi! Thanks for uploading the following image:
I notice it currently doesn't have an image copyright tag. Could you add one to let us know its copyright status? (You can use {{gfdl}}: {{gfdl}}if you release it under the GNU Free Documentation License, {{fairuse}}{{Fairuse}}if you claim fair use, etcetc.) If you don't know what any of this means, just let me know at my talk page and I'll tag it for you. Thanks so much. Denni☯ 04:23, 2004 Dec 13 (UTC)
P.S. You can help tag other images at Wikipedia:Untagged_Images. Thanks again.
Thank you for uploading [[[:Image:HS Trident 2.jpg]] and thank you for clarifying that it was in the public domain. However, please leave a note on that page with information about the source of the image. If you have any questions, just leave a message on my talk page. --Ellmist 05:57, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)
I agree with your deletion of the Zappa reference that I added to the "Cooties" page. In fact I was thinking on the way into work this morning that I should delete it myself, since it was a little too cute, or obscure. Blame it on the fact that I only discovered Wikipedia 24 hours ago, and have learned a lot since that first "intervention". I look forward to learning a lot more in future! --Timonroad 00:24, 5 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Please clarify under what license you would like these images released: Image:VX Magnum2.jpg, Image:VX HS Chevette2.jpg. 119 06:11, 8 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Nice that you'd started work on 62.248.39.230's weird additions at Balsa; however, I discovered that all of 62.248.39.230's stuff had been copied & pasted from another website so must be presumed a copyright infringement. I have therefore reverted it all back to Yath's version; hope that's OK. - MPF 12:16, 10 Jan 2005 (UTC)
I responded on Talk:Logic_gate. --DavidCary 06:15, 15 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Hi Graham: hope it's OK, I've made some edits to your Pontiac LeMans additions. The car was already there, just a bit higher up than where you entered it; also I took it out of the first sentence since it began with 'The Astra is …,' as the LeMans is a past model. My changes mightn't be the most fluent so please feel free to modify. Stombs 10:58, Jan 17, 2005 (UTC)
You should edit the image description page to attribute the source of the photo to yourself, in case its origin is ever questioned. -- Curps 01:21, 18 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Hi :) If you have a few minutes it be great if you could have a look at West Papua and the re-name proposal at the bottom of its discussion page. Any input, edits, or opinions be great. I've always tried to ensure there was an abundance of supporting evidence before adding content, and avoid emotive wording; I welcome different opinions, just wish they would explain what it is they disagree with. All Best :)Daeron 17:27, 22 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Greetings. User:Arpingstone uploaded Image:Court.line.bac1-11.592pix.jpg, saying the image was provided by you. I was looking through the images here, and I was wondering, did you take this photograph yourself? Do you remember where it came from? Any help you could be would be appreciated. – Quadell (talk) (sleuth) 19:37, Feb 3, 2005 (UTC)