Hi, can I ask, why you removed the link from the name Sophie on theBFG page?
http://www.sophie-dahl.com/hello.htm
Spt 12:58 22 May 2003 (UTC)
Could you make me an administrator? So far I've been told to wait for Ed Poor. 172
I'm glad you agree, Tarquin, but you agree with what? With Cunc's qustion? Or with my response to it (on his talk page and in Talk:Communist state Tannin 09:43 May 10, 2003 (UTC)
Well, my thoughts are pretty much this:
-- Tarquin 12:55 May 10, 2003 (UTC) oh and PS: I trust your judgement in this matter :-)
Yea. Sigh. It could be done in one. Maybe. But if so, only by a group of people working together with goodwill and without a political barrow to push. The trouble with Fred's stuff is that it's mostly right (barring exaggerations) but ... well, let me put it this way: I watched a football match on TV just now. My side scored 16 goals and I remember every one of them. So far as I recall, the other side scored nothing. So how come the scorebook says that we only won by 5 points? (5/6th of an Aussie rules goal) (Because I ignored all their good plays, of course, as a good Collingwood supporter should.)
It's that sort of 'truth' that he writes, and the thought of the time it would take me, you, and 17 others to balance it up by deleting exxagerations, adding qualifications, and rounding the thing into a coherent whole terrifies me. I just don't have the time for that stuff. If I thought it was just a matter of doing it once, sure. But, allowing for reversions, sabotage, and assorted kinky distractions, I'd lose at least a solid week of good editing time.
Right now I'm averaging two good, solid new fauna entries a day, and the only time they ever get modified is when I get something horribly wrong, or sometimes when I sing out for some help. What would I rather have? One article about the things that Fred hates so passionately and 14 good new fauna entries? Or no new fauna entries, and a protracted edit war over an article that would otherwise be so biased that no-one would take it seriously anyway?
I write very slowly, Tarquin, and for every word I write I read quite a few hundred, checking as I go. (My local bookseller loves me - and so he should, the amount I spend there!) I really don't have the moral courage to take on someone with opinions ten times larger than his factual knowledge. (This sticks out like dog's balls: any historian would spot it in 10 seconds flat.) Perhaps I should, but to hell with it. Besides, fauna is more important.
Best -- Tannin
I understand your position entirely. :-) Fauna is more important. --
Tarquin 17:06 May 10, 2003 (UTC)
Tarquin, look at the Cow page. There is a picture, not a diagram. JohnQ
How old are you? (MaryMary alias JohnQ)
Faut te calmer! C un lieu de réflexion et de concertation. JE ne suis pas sur que cela soit la place pour des "JE vais me le payer ce petit connard", vraiment. Et encore une fois, mon but n'a rien a voir avec mettre de la pornographie dans ce site, certainement pas. Marymary 09:58 May 11, 2003 (UTC)
Salut, Tarquin
Sincèrement, je crois que ce gus, JohnQ aux multiples avatars, fait perdre beaucoup d'énergie à trop de monde. Il a ouvert un débat, on peut débattre, mais pas avec lui ;D
Je suis s$ur que le Q de JohnQ est là pour dire "cul" en français ! car il cause français, le bougre ; je ne suis pas assez calé pour comparer ses écrits en anglais et en français pour vérifier si c'est la même personne, je deviens parano, j'ai l'impression qu'il agit avec un pote ;-(
Allez, bonne continuation
Alvaro 22:18 May 11, 2003 (UTC)
s/$/û/g ;D
Alvaro
Tarquin, I don't understand your interlanguage hack you described on the wiktech list and then linked to on the Wikipedia:WikiMoney page. Could you describe it to be in more detail? LittleDan
Sure. Suppose we have a set of pages to link together on en, fr, eo, de and es. Each of those 5 pages needs a different list of links:
So if you have all 5 pages open, you need to do a LOT of copying and pasting. The most efficient way is to put together a list of all 5 page links, and paste it to each page. Then delete the "self-link".
My idea is this: simply have the system ignore the self-link. So you paste the same thing onto each page:
Much less work :-) It's only meant to be a temporary solution until we get some sort of form system running. But since that may not be for a while, this seems to me to be a quick hack that wouldn't take much to implement.
Specifically, the system ignores any link of the form [[xx:anything]], where xx is the language code of the ''current wikipedia''. So on the English wikipedia, [[en:foo]] has no effect, it's just ignored. -- Tarquin 19:34 May 12, 2003 (UTC)
Thanks for fixing Hull for me! I moved it with exactly that intention, then somehow forgot that I was working on it. Andre Engels 08:34 May 13, 2003 (UTC)
Thanks for fixing the redirect on AOC. I think I might have left the database in an inconsistent state by clicking the move button twice, but it looks like it's fixed now. Thanks, Wnissen 22:51 May 13, 2003 (UTC)
Argl, j'avais pavu que tu passais par là ; j'ai mis tout ça au clair, avec l'orthographe correcte :
Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée ; j'ai modifié ttes (!) les pages de redirection, ainsi que les pages avec les entrées fautives ; cependant, il y a un lien sur lequel je dubite et m'interroge : TLA, qui cause d'informatique ! (cf. ci-dessous)
Alvaro 00:15 May 15, 2003 (UTC)
Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée
(List of links)
The following pages link to here:
* Appelation d'Origine Contrôlée (redirect page) * AOC (redirect page) o Brie cheese o Saint-Nectaire cheese o Wikipedia:WikiProject Cheeses
o Roquefort cheese o TLA o Burgundy o User talk:Tarquin * Appelation d'Origine Controlée (redirect page)
Thanks for the edits on the music therapy article that I started -- very good edit!
~eeka (Triangular)
I removed the redirect from Binswanger's disease and replaced it with a brief description and a link to Multi-infarct dementia. See also Talk:Binswanger's disease. Jfitzg
Hi Tarquin, I just tried to mail you to say your message got through to the list, but I got an "undeliverable" message back. Let me know if you need more detailed info. Regards, -- sannse 15:42 17 May 2003 (UTC)
Tarquin, if you are around, would you please give your advice on José Bové
Otherwise, I am gonna move absolutely EVERY disputed article in the meta space, and it is gonna be messy. Your advice ?
Re SI prefix: The "new material", as you call it, was at prefix, together with a request to merge it with SI prefix. KF 08:36 20 May 2003 (UTC)
Tarquin, I'm no maths guru, but I confess to some suspicion of User:Stupidmoron's contributions so soon after the other nonsense, now deleted. Mind running an eye over them? Tannin 13:42 20 May 2003 (UTC)
In magnitude you said "the modulus of -5 is 5". What do you understand is the meaning of "modulus"? I know two conflicting mathematics definitions of the word: the absolute value (as here), and to divide and take the remainder ("%" in C) in modular arithmetic. Do you know which is correct, or are they related in some way? CGS 16:14 21 May 2003 (UTC).
You mention you are a "sloppy typist" (you didn't say if it was slow/painful or not, btw) -- you might like speech recognition (no typos, just misrecognitions). Try IBM Via Voice or Dragon Naturally Speaking (I use the latter). With some practice, it's really nice and fast (but you /do/ need practice).
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/VoiceGroup is a good place if you decide to give it a go. -- Stephanie
Determine the veracity of this statement:
I am of the understanding that this is the Product Rule; not merely a product rule. Pizza Puzzle
and where would those be? The science laws seem to frequently be capitalized. Pizza Puzzle
It should of course be capitalised. This is yet another of these annoying occasions when wiki seems to have a passionate determination to lowercase things that should be capitalised. It hardly does wiki much credit when the formal name of a rule that as the name of a rule is treated as a proper name is put in wrong. But then most of the political science terms on wiki are in a form that if used by students would see them docked marks, but every effort to correct them on wiki leads to edit wars with the same couple of users who seem to spend their entire time on wiki chanting the mantra "lower case, lower case, lower case" . (BTW, Tarquin, you aren't one of them!) FearÉIREANN 21:15 19 Jun 2003 (UTC)
ROFL, good call on the election issues! Are you going to be the official Wikipedia news anchor? -- John Owens 09:33 24 Jun 2003 (UTC)
Ho ha! Beat you to it. ;) -- goatasaur 09:35 25 Jun 2003 (UTC)
Received your request on the article I wrote about Tardi - I'll try to write a brief outline of the ligne claire ASAP :) MarkBoydell
I'm not too sure why you change the link to Jacques Martin. I'd thought it shoudl link to Jacques_Martin_artist as the current JM is not the comic strip artist... Anyway, I'm nto sure how to deal with this so you probably know better :D Mark 22:17 GMT
I'd just like to go on the record as asking you to please not bite off my scalp. ;) last new "paragraph" in the diff -- Dante Alighieri 08:33 30 Jun 2003 (UTC)
Hi Tarquin, You edited (M) Talk:Gene Roddenberry, but I can not see any difference. Is this a Wikipedia problem or did you not change anything? Fantasy 08:25 1 Jul 2003 (UTC)
I have posted a reply to comments you made on Talk:Dirac delta function. Cyan 06:04 4 Jul 2003 (UTC)
Hey. Finally answered a comment you left on Talk:DDT back in April. If you're still interested... Graft 00:07 5 Jul 2003 (UTC)
I thought you might be interested in the opinion poll going on now at Talk:Clitoris. MB 17:52 9 Jul 2003 (UTC)
That was pretty rude, deleting a bit of humor from an article that was all fictional and in good fun! (oh my, here is someone else's nonsense - we can't have that) Dmsar 15:29 11 Jul 2003 (UTC)
cool. Hope we can cooperate in the future.
Dmsar 20:21 11 Jul 2003 (UTC)
Can you fall in love with a user page? Gritchka 08:59 27 Jul 2003 (UTC)
163.1.242.5 scared me at first, but aren't the redirects harmless? Ксип Cyp 10:47, 5 Aug 2003 (UTC)
There is a response now at User talk:163.1.242.5. Ксип Cyp 11:52, 5 Aug 2003 (UTC)
Um, Tarquin, why did you zap my nifty pipe [[Skytrain|SkyTrain]]? I put that in after much thought because although the target page is called Skytrain and I don't want to rename it until I figure out whether it needs disambiguating or not, the Vancouver system is most definitely SkyTrain capped exactly like that Vremya 22:33, 6 Aug 2003 (UTC)
Can you please take a look at my attempts to give a kindergarten English definition of injection, surjection and bijection, as per an earlier poster's request? -- Karada 09:44, 9 Aug 2003 (UTC)
Well hi...I am a stranger here...albeit noones a stranger but a rich and glorious relation of sorts in a cyber-led multitude where everyone knows ever one else - after a remote-control fashion. Plus my name is arqui (but i am a different man from the AI man in the UK!!! anyway, popping off to execrate something or other. Tarquin C
I like how you composed your Image:Scissors.jpg photo, especially that wrinkly white background cloth. :-) Great photo! -- Menchi 15:15, Aug 11, 2003 (UTC)
Why is Pan Am flight 103 listed on the Main Page? The article has not been updated with a current event... Could you update that article? -- mav
( William M. Connolley 10:58, 16 Aug 2003 (UTC)) Thanks for keeping an eye on the GW page...
You messed with my page, now I'm going to mess with yours. If you like French anti-Americanism so much, take a look at my hex:
What of it? Theres plenty of crap there now... If your looking for a less harried explanation, I just gave one on
WP:VP.
I just wrote a particularly heated response to you on Wikipedia:Village pump. Please don't take it personally, as I have nothing but respect for you as a Wikipedian and (as well as someone can know someone over the 'pedia) as a person. I'm just disagreeing with a specific set of statements on a specific issue. Wikilove. -- Dante Alighieri 22:45, 25 Aug 2003 (UTC)
Le Mandarom nouveau est arrivé !!!!
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aumisme
Fait moi plaisir Tarquin...vraiment plaisir ! Dis moi que j ai fais un super boulot et que maintenant tu comprend tout. J ai une raideur sévère dans la nuque...ouille Anthère
From http://ps.wikipedia.com/wiki.cgi?Tarquin -- Yo. Glad to see someone taking point on this one. I added source.wikimedia.org to Brions Todo list for sister projects. He may or may not get around to it sooner or later-maybe ;) If your bent on sticking stuff here, I have to warn you that it may be that you have to wait for Brion to mass-convert a bunch of old wikis with content. If you wait a bit, I think he might be able to just set up a fresh new wiki, and the stuff here can be handported there. - 戴眩sv 19:39, Aug 31, 2003 (UTC)
Do we have a page on that wiki to discuss this sort of thing yet? -- Tarquin 20:13, 31 Aug 2003 (UTC)
Thanks for letting me know about the problems. Please see User talk:The Anome for discussion of the category tags issue. -- The Anome 18:10, 6 Sep 2003 (UTC)
Thanks! - Evil saltine 12:34, 7 Sep 2003 (UTC)
Thanks for the triangle image, it uploaded ok. Could you make one for circumcircle as well? Cheers, AxelBoldt 13:35, 11 Sep 2003 (UTC)
The triangle picture looks ok for me right now; maybe you still have cache issues. AxelBoldt 15:18, 11 Sep 2003 (UTC)
Bonjour Tarquin
http://www.ebabylone.com/article.php?sid=7
Quel est ton avis ? Anthère
THese were a mistake, I'll delete them. I use "GrayXXX.png" usually. -- Magnus Manske 09:39, 22 Sep 2003 (UTC)