Thanks for the kind words at Talk:Francis Poulenc, I really appreciate it. That DW's a real character, isn't he... -- Camembert
Much fun at Hitler has only got one ball. Ortolan88
Tarquin, thanks for the tip at Talk:Gladsaxe, it works correctly now. Jeronimo
Tarquin, I think you are an administrator, cannot you block the Goatse vandal? olivier 12:25 Nov 16, 2002 (UTC)
Unfortunately, I don't know! olivier 12:36 Nov 16, 2002 (UTC)
Very probably: 194.117.133.196. Look my comment on the "recent changes", when I edited the vandalism page. olivier 12:49 Nov 16, 2002 (UTC)
ageism is unacceptable. Lir 23:22 Nov 19, 2002 (UTC)
Ed -- talk:Israel -- lecturing others about "inappropriate behavior" etc. Statements such as "that's no way to treat a lady" are sexist and offensive. People derserve civil treatment irrespective of sex; Lir perhaps deserves kinder treatment on account of her youth. -- Tarquin
re: our mutual friend TMC...
Arguing with a relativist is like mud-wrestling with a pig. You both get muddy, and the pig loves it! -- Ed Poor 19:11 Nov 20, 2002 (UTC)
Ed, do you admit TMC is trollish, or are you defending him against Ortolan? Who's the relativist now? -- t
Just a note, hurdling is back again and it needs to be gone again. -- Dante Alighieri
How about it... Shove the Clutch/Lir battle on the Vandalism page to the Talk:Vandalism page? -- Dante Alighieri
What's the protocol on this? Cookery was brand new but was referenced in earlier articles. Cookery now redirects to cooking. I've changed the old (there were only four) articles that linked to cookery so that they link directly to cooking. Do we delete cookery now? -- Dante Alighieri
With Law of Nature as a redirect to Physical Law, might it be appropriate to place a link to Natural Law on the Physical Law page? -- Dante Alighieri
Just read your User page - I suppose you could therefore be said to have synaesthesia (actually this is not correct - this would only be if you correlated other senses, such as musical tones, with colours - but do you?) as well - if you can visualise colours of the rainbow - for example. Bogey section was amusing. To me AI means artificial intelligence, but I suspect you mean some personality type, unless you are using one of those socio classification types A,B,C etc. to pinhole us all into categories.
I also live in the UK - every time I check on my location using Up My Street, I find I'm in the company of wealthy gin drinkers (I'm not wealthy, though I drink gin occasionally, when pushed) - though apparently at present I'm not in an area of Times or Guardian readers. -- User:David Martland
...... it says "Heavy ITV viewing: High" ... urg! -- Tarquin 14:48 Dec 3, 2002 (UTC)
Re Ponce/ponce' - OK - Wikipedia is not a dictionary, but what would you recommend about the two other meanings. One - the guitar music composer - certainly deserves to be mentioned. I'm just not sure how to handle this - you can do it if you want, or give me some more clues. David Martland 09:38 Dec 5, 2002 (UTC)
You people sure make much ado about nothing! Tarquin, in addition to not knowing much, I don't know much about genealogy too. Your bit on ancestors is pure laziness. Searching France for family history is the easiest of any place on the planet.... DW
Just bringing it to your attention Tarquin someone submit stuf about theat fictional country acme: Talk:Acme -fonzy
Collabi 05:01 Dec 17, 2002 (UTC) : Thanks for looking over my yogurt article. In answer to your question, "bifidus" yogurt has been innoculated with a bacteria of the bifidus genus (such as bifidus acidophilus) in addition to streptococcus and lactobaccili. Like lactobacillus, bifidus is one of the many symbiotic flora that live in the large intestine of healthy people; it keeps pH in balance and promotes the reabsorption of water. As with lactobacillus you run into all sorts of digestive problems if you haven't got any, so sometimes they add bifidus to yogurt so it can be marketed as a digestive aid. In practice, though, almost everyone has a healthy complement of bifidus in their gut, so it's kind of a moot point. As far as I know it's only really significant for people who have depleted flora, say due to antiobiotics or extended fasting. But it makes people feel good to buy it.
be friendly to the poor noobz. Vera Cruz
Thanx! for the compliment and edit on Lake Titicaca - I've decided to port my 'factuals' over from Everything2 ( homenode) where appropriate. I was always put off by how ugly Wiki looked re: E2 (much better with the Cologne Blue theme), but now that I've gotten to know it better it's pretty neat (tho' E2 is still much more 'fun' :)
Two16 There is probably more going on with bcrowell than he let on at the village pump. The posts in Talk:Horoscope did not go well for him. His ossified world view was shown up as he clumsily grasped at straws and ignored basic logic. Ultimately he made embarrassing mistakes in physics and silly completeness statements about science (his strongly held views and his profesion) which I showed him were demostrably false. His ego is massively hurt : he cleared out all incriminating material from the history.
I don't believe that bcrowell will come back even if he is sweet talked bcrowell biggest problems were advocasy, never understanding NPOV, mistaking snide and dismissive for balance, and thinking fanaticism and prejudgement of science.
Scientists always lose arguements about science, with philosophers of science.
I 'm new here. And I've been bad. I was bold too boldand it put me on the vandalism page (216.129.198.41) and thrown off. Later I put some satire in a completely meaningless paragraph. It made it through several edits. Somebody finally noticed it and edited it out including snide summary. So I demolished each remaining sentence with ridicule.
sex was a wild snake pit. Now it will be stable for awhile. Most of the credit belongs talk:sex. I marshalled reason, external links, internal links to wikipedia to get NPOV in the article. Even the stuff casually dismissed as utter nonsence by the fundamentalist. By definition you can't convince a fundamentalist of your position you can only shows them the unreasonableness of theirs (if that)
Open source community is in my soul. I aspire to the ideals that the community needs me to have.
is this google? Vera Cruz
Seeing as how I'm the writer, I do wonder how you determine what is best for me. Vera Cruz
If we're going to have a discussion, can we keep it on one page maybe? You're not the only writer. Links are created in the flow of the text, therefore things will be linked to as they are most commonly known. Bill Clinton is a good example. -- Tarquin 16:29 Dec 24, 2002 (UTC)
Bill Clinton is a good example of what, of the fact that you don't like to put full names as the title of the page? Yes, I see that you don't wish to do that. I think it's a stupid policy and unless you have something to add to the section's that I am working on, I'd really rather that you go do something else rather than messing around with a bunch of page names. Vera Cruz
That policy is a long-established one, and there's a general consensus that it's the best thing to do. Following naming conventions is a part of collaborative work here. -- Tarquin 16:49 Dec 24, 2002 (UTC)
Oh, don't give me your collaborative nonsense. There is no voting here, there is no measure of consensus. You speak for yourself, not for wikipedia.
There is no reason to do things simply because they were done that way before. There is no reason to not use the full and proper name of a person in the article regarding said person.
Who are you to decide what is the most commonly used version of a name that you don't commonly use? Who are you to decide that the most commonly used version of a name is best suited for an article title?
voted on by who and when? Vera Cruz
What's wrong is you moved Richard Kerens Sutherland and I don't see any reason why Richard K. Sutherland is better. AND, I feel that Richard K. Sutherland is inferior as it is less informative. Vera Cruz
I disagree. Firstly, linking is not impossibly difficult given your above examples.
Second, most people call him General Sutherland, which Im sure you'll agree is not the title we should use for the article, which begs the question, if the most common name isn't always what we want to use, why don't we use the full and proper name?
I don't see how you determine what is more simple. I think the simplest title is the full and complete name of the indivudual, nothing more, nothing less, no nicknames. Pretty simple, huh? Vera Cruz
Vera, the reasons were hashed out quite a while ago; you can see the results at Wikipedia:Naming conventions (common names). Conventions like this are useful, for they allow people to work in a standard way and not worry about what other people are doing. I can be confident that when I type [[Bill Clinton]], it will link to the Bill Clinton article. That doesn't mean that the convention can't be changed, but it does mean that you'll have to provide some convincing reasons why your way is better than what the rest of us have been doing. If you don't want to do this, I'm afraid people will continue to move the pages in question to conform to the standard. -- Stephen Gilbert 20:49 Dec 24, 2002 (UTC)
Hi, I didn't link my P.D. James stub to crime fiction because I think the text there is wholly inadequate. Any opinion on that? All the best, KF 15:29 Dec 26, 2002 (UTC)
University of Chicago Manual of Style on "saint" (entries and examples truncated):
Basically, always spell it out except for compelling reason (space, personal preference of individual for own name). Ortolan88
I spotted your comment on your edit of the Māori culture redirect.
Should macrons be used in the English language spellings of Maori words on English pages or only on truely Maori language pages?
Which is preferred Wikipedia usage and can this be made policy?
Your thoughts are invited in Talk:Maori language. -- kiwiinapanic 13:05 Dec 30, 2002 (UTC)
Moved a discussion about a discussion, from my user talk page back to the discussion page itself: Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (calendar dates). Please add that page to your watchlist if you want to continue it. -- Bignose
hm, so am I truly poisoning the New Imperialism? Vera Cruz
Re updating interface translations -- if you have an account on http://sourceforge.net, I can give you write access to our CVS repository. PHP is pretty easy to pick up for anyone who knows a little C and/or a little perl; when in doubt check the docs online. -- Brion 07:14 Jan 5, 2003 (UTC)
I suspect that's a bot you're talking to. --KQ
Thanks for your help with Lime Grove Studios Tarquin
PMelvilleAustin 16:07 Jan 7, 2003 (UTC)
Hi Tarquin,
Why did you delete the Central Park link??? It is the most well-known city-park in the world and it has a separate article. - Patrick 23:35 Jan 7, 2003 (UTC)
Hi there,
You mention in the belief page that Smullyan wrote a book where the characters only believe false things. I'm a psychologist researching belief and would love to find out which one. Any pointers ?
Thanks Vaughan
Okay, I think I've got you added to the sf project. Give CVS a whirl and see... -- Brion 19:12 Jan 9, 2003 (UTC)
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Thanks for the Smullyan info !
Tarquin, pourrais tu donner ton avis sur un petit souci sur la wiki francaise. Sais tu quelles sont les règles Wikipedia a suivre a matière de lien externe vers des sites ouvertement sexistes ou racistes. Voir sites faisant appel aux meurtres, tels qu'interdits par la loi francaise ? Le sujet a t-il deja ete discute ? Quelles conclusions ? Comment assurer une neutralité dans les informations si nous excluons les avis extrèmes ? Très ennuyée.... http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discuter:Dieudonn%E9_M%27bala_m%27bala Anthere 15:51 Jan 11, 2003 (UTC)
Tarquin, if |-- means something like "proves" or "implies", is there a corresponding symbol for "does not prove" or "does not imply"? -- Ryguasu 06:30 Jan 12, 2003 (UTC)
Tarquin, why did you move Opera web browser to Opera (browser)? All the web browser pages that need disambiguation are called "foo web browser" to make it possible to insert links that flow with the text ("The Opera web browser .."). -- Eloquence
That's a new trick to me, but it doesn't save much. It's much better to have consistency and easy linkability in prose. Furthermore, from the naming conventions page:
-- Eloquence 10:53 Jan 13, 2003 (UTC)
Why is "foo web browser" cumbersome? "The Opera web browser supports the following standards .." - "The Java programming language has the advantage .." You have both disambiguation and useful titles. Both Opera (browser) and Java (language) are bad titles because neither "browser" nor "language" are sufficiently precise qualifiers. The naming convention is clear here: If the parentheses aren't necessary, avoid them.-- Eloquence
Hello. I've just read your page and it interested me - the way you got here is strangely similar to how I did (I was reading about M$s latest attempt to get into the mobile OS business when I found some economics terms I didn't know and decided to look them up...). On your note about the tube map, have you seen "The Great Bear" by Simon Patterson? If not then you might like it. I have it on my wall.
Sorry. Random stuff but hey... MockAE.