cars - User talk:Duncharris

Hi, I've started the Free the Rambot Articles Project which has the goals of getting users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to...

...all U.S. state, county, and city articles...
...all articles...

using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) version 1.0 and 2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to the GFDL (which every contribution made to Wikipedia is licensed under), but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles (See the Multi-licensing Guide for more information). Since you are among the top 1000 most active Wikipedians, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles.

Nutshell: Wikipedia articles can be shared with any other GFDL project but open/free projects using the incompatible Creative Commons Licenses (e.g. WikiTravel) can't use our stuff and we can't use theirs. It is important to us that other free projects can use our stuff. So we use their licenses too.

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the {{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}} template (or {{MultiLicensePD}} for public domain) into their user page, but there are other templates for other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

Option 1

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

Option 2

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to any [[U.S. state]], county, or city article as described below:

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 at my talk page what you think. -- Ram-Man 17:57, Nov 30, 2004 (UTC)

Why?

Why do I get compared to the likes of CheeseDreams? [[User:Sam Spade|Sam Spade Arb Com election]] 14:56, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Jimmyrant

FRUAD BY NGUYENHUE aka JOSEPH CRISP STOLEN MATERIAL FROM NGUYEN DYNASTY OF VIETNAM----------------------------------------

EVIDENCE BELOW

1. NguyenHue is a expelled member from the Nguyen Dynasty staff *About the Author Joseph Crisp aka NguyenHue

2. He was told by the Nguyen Dynasty to shut down his website and return all work that belonged to the Nguyen Dynasty.

3. The Copyright holder for the Cuong De biography is the Nguyen Dynasty noted here The Revolutionary Prince Cuong-De

4. This is true because NguyenHue points out above that the biography belongs to his Geocites site The Revolutionary Prince Cuong-De

5. He was instructed by the Nguyen Dynasty to again close his website but simply chose to delete photos of Prince Nguyen Phuc Buu Chanh and all information related to Nguyen Dynasty because he was EXPELLED and kept WITHOUT PERSMISSION all biographies and research that was submitted by Nguyen Dynasty Scholars.

6. As shown here: H.I.H. Prince Nguyen-Phuc Buu Chanh and Nguyen Dynasty delegation with British government officials and princes of the royal houses of Laos and Burma at a meeting of the British Committee for Free Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Burma in Westminster Palace, London

7. HIH Prince Buu Chanh giving a speech before assembled guests and dignitaries after solemn ceremonies in honor of the national hero and saint, Fleet Admiral-Marshal Tran Hung Dao

8. Nguyen Thi Linh (my own 'Momma Linh') sit back and watch the chaos of present opening unfold NOTE: Joseph Crisp sitting next to Nguyen Thi Linh she is also listed as a supporter on his other website that is a TEXAS based website where Joseph Crisp goes to university and lives. *About the Author Joseph Crisp

9. NGUYEN THI LINH from Texas listed as a supporter for the expelled group from the Nguyen Dynasty that is based in TEXAS with please note the bottom of the website that shows support also again NGUYEN TRUNG DE as a supporter.

10. Contributors and Supporters of this Website: Kong Jing Xue, Nguyen Trung De, Nguyen Van Tuan, Kong Zhishu, Nguyen Thi Linh

11. ALSO NOTE that his own family business is a supporter Crisp Conservation Service of their expelled group

I hope this sheds light on this indiviual NGUYENHUE that is an expelled member of the Nguyen Dynasty I have found this out doing a little research on the issue over the internet of NGUYENHUE JOSEPH CRISP as his other workers NGUYEN THI LINH & NGUYEN TRUNG DE and the rest supporters in Texas that have committed FRUAD against the NGUYEN DYNASTY.--Jimmyvanthach 15:25, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Yes Jimmy, I see you've posted unsubstantiated personal attacks in a few places. Just for the record, Mr Crisp and User:Nguyen Hue seem to be different persons. User:Jimmyvanthach, User:Tran van Ba, User:Celindgren, User:Saigon76something or other all seem to be one person. Dunc|☺ 15:34, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Jimmy

Oh boy. At least now he's doing it in "public" so other people are seeing it. -- Cyrius|✎ 19:42, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Abuse of adminship

Would you care to take a look at Wikipedia:Requests for comment/John Kenney ? CheeseDreams 02:19, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Atheism

Subud

Pursuant to our discussion about Subud and atheism/agnosticism (see [1]), the Humanist Manifesto II, in part, says that:

--Authoritarian religion does a disservice to humanity; --There isn't enough evidence for the supernatural; --Nature is primary rather than God; --God won't save us, we must save ourselves; and, --Fear of Hell is harmful because it takes the focus away from life here and now.

Many folks in Subud would agree with this. My particular viewpoint goes along the lines of Process theology, which is directly in line with these statements and other statements like them. The problem with your point of view above is that you are arguing against an outdated version of theism (from as far back as the Middle ages). Some of these outdated ideas are that God is omnipotent and thus controls everything, that human beings have little or no power and God determines human destiny, that God is a personal entity and is supernatural, that classical or authoritarian religion is acceptable, that theism cannot solve the problem of evil, etc. None of these ideas (and a host of others, see, e.g., "Ominpotence and Other Theological Mistakes" by Charles Hartshorne) make much sense to a process theist, or to those (some of which are in Subud) who are open-minded theists.

Also, I'm not sure what you're saying about Subud being "obscure." Could you clarify this? Aliman 09:59, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)

re: User:Jimmyvanthach

Good afternoon, Duncharris. I noticed your VfD nomination on Royal Lao Government in Exile . In it, you mentioned the Arbitration Committee's decision on User:Jimmyvanthach. I was not aware they'd made a decision. We have had an old VfD discussion thread that has been waiting for a long time for that decision. Would you be familiar enough with the case to go to Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Phan Lien and close out the discussion? It is currently listed at Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Old#Ongoing discussions. Thanks. Rossami (talk) 17:44, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Boxing Day

I changed the Boxing Day article, because it seems we're no longer calling the 26th Christmas Sunday and the 27th Boxing Day when Christmas Day is a Saturday. The last time it happened, in 1999, the Radio and TV Times, and indeed everyone I know, called the 26th Boxing Day, and the same is happening again this year. I've left the article as you put it back to for now, but the people on the Boxing Day discussion page seem to be of a similar view. Perhaps refer this for arbitration? Best wishes, Jess Cully (talk) 9 Dec 2004, 20:20 UCT

RFC pages on VfD

Should RFC pages be placed on VfD to be deleted? I'm considering removing Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Slrubenstein, Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Jwrosenzweig and Wikipedia:Requests for comment/John Kenney from WP:VFD. Each of them was listed by CheeseDreams. Your comments on whether I should do this would be appreciated. - Ta bu shi da yu 03:37, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Boxing Day

Ah, had it right. Boxing Day itself is always on the 26th - the day off work associated with it may move (just as if November 11th - or any other holiday on a fixed calendar day - is on a Sunday, people get the following Monday off) to the day following, but Boxing Day stays on the day after Christmas. You should revert your reversion... Noel (talk) 11:56, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Image:46202 Princess Anne after crash.jpg

Hi. Can you supply copyright info on this image. Thanks. -- Chris j wood 23:53, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Boxing Day

Thanks for the support, Noel. I've done the rv.

No offence meant, Dunc - I actually liked the custom of calling the 26th Christmas Sunday and the 27th Boxing Day when Christmas Day was a Saturday. Alas, the custom has fallen out of use. Everyone I've spoken to about their plans for Christmas this year calls the 26th Boxing Day; all the 'Christmas Opening Hours' signs at my local shops do likewise; as do the Radio and TV Times (who themselves started the 26th CS/27th BD practice back in 1954). In the face of such an overwhelming tide, it is futile for we purists to kick against the pricks. We have to bow to general usage. Sorry.Jess Cully 16:51, 12 Dec 2004 (UTC)

ukrailways.wikicities.com

I've started a new wiki at wikicities to concentrate on the history of railways in the UK. This will in time, hopefully, provide a space to greatly expand on what is available on wikipedia. For example, individual pages for locomotives, signal boxes and the like. I've picked on you as a likely contributor from looking at the edit history for the LMS and then at your personal edit history.

At the moment I am busy seeding the wiki with pages from wikipedia, with a few minor edits, before annoucing its existance to the wider railway world. I'm contacting a few people who seen to edit railway articles on wikipedia at first, as they are already enthusiastic about the wiki system. I would be interested in you views on how I can move it forward and the structure of the wiki. I'll keep an eye on this talk page, my talk page or you could email me at richard_bedwell@hotmail.com

Lasesr tag

The redirect had already been deleted once, so it's a speedy candidate. --fvw * 18:36, 2004 Dec 14 (UTC)

Steve Davis (Comedian)

Heya, could you restore Steve Davis (Comedian) please? It was on VfD and in no way a CSD. --fvw * 23:51, 2004 Dec 14 (UTC)

Okay, restored. The author blanked it though, which is grounds for a speedy delete, I think. Dunc|☺ 23:53, 14 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Nope, afraid not. See WP:CSD. --fvw * 23:54, 2004 Dec 14 (UTC)

Kents Hill School

Hi Duncharris: The article on Kents Hill School has been refactored and expanded, with additional work underway. I think that the fact it is one of the oldest co-ed schools in the nation sets a good case for notability. In any case, I was hoping you would revisit the issue and reconsider your vote. Thank you -- [[User:GRider|GRider\^talk]] 20:00, 15 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Charles Darwin

I have always followed the three revert/24 hour rule, and a little light sarcasm aside, I have remained civil. A 24 hour ban would be uncalled for, and I think an instance of admin abuse. Cheers, Vincent 12:16, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Yes, three times in 24 hours. That's three.My understanding is that a fourth reversion would have broken the rule. Am I wrong? More on the Darwin Talk page. Vincent 09:43, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Mgm|^(talk), the mediator, has unblocked me. You abused your admin privileges yesterday, but I'll forgive you that, in the interest of harmony. I don't think the issue has reached arbitration, but I am preparing for that just in case you cut off my access again. I am keeping to three reverts a day. (Remember of course that my day starts at GMT+9.) I am keeping mostly civil. I am sorry for implying you and the others were among the "ignoramuses" of the world. Vincent 08:07, 25 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for pointing out that Paul Bouche was a Vanity. I must have missed the first VfD.

EMD E2

Eleven minutes after I created EMD E2, Hoary voted to delete it as non-notable. With his comment about "a ginormous set of such articles", he might be gunning for the whole project. Please vote as you see fit. Rmeier 07:58, 19 Dec 2004 (UTC)

funny things going on with uploads

I am experiencing the same problem as you -- I've even tried re-uploading files to no avail. If you discover a solution please let me know. [[User:GRider|GRider\^talk]] 18:14, 20 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Honest signalling

I think you missed a bit out, before the word "should". Kappa 21:29, 23 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Could you please undelete it? You're the third person to delete this page – because of the frequent misunderstandings I've replaced it by Template:isd, but for now still has incoming links, which will disappear once someone clears out all the images listed on CAT:CSD. Further details regarding previous deletions and undeletions can be found on my talk page and on CAT:CSD (see notes on top of page). Thanks, --MarkSweep 03:23, 25 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Unverified images

Hi. You uploaded Image:Cyril Clarke.jpg but did not list any source and/or copyright information on the image description page. Please mark it either as GFDL or public domain. See Wikipedia:Image_copyright_tags for more info. Please note that images without copyright information may be deleted in the future. Thanks. RedWolf 18:21, Dec 25, 2004 (UTC)

Please do the same for the Richard Roberts image. Image: Richard Roberts. jpgThanks :) Apwoolrich 22:39, 17 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Image:Raftornadof3b.jpg

Hello. Image:Raftornadof3b.jpg has been on WP:CP since you listed it on 18 October. I was wondering if you could add any feedback that might help in resolving the status of this one. Thanks, -- Infrogmation 19:13, 26 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Queen's Christmas Message

You voted for Queen's Christmas Message, this week's UK Collaboration of the week. Please come and help it become a featured-standard article. -- Graham ☺ | Talk 04:01, 27 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Christmas Broadcasts

Your changes to the Christmas Broadcast article were marked as a minor edit, but they were definitely not: in fact you made it read as if George V were still alive in 1939! rossb 18:22, 27 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Nomination for adminship

Do you want me to nominate you for adminship? Dunc|☺ 23:34, 27 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Oooh, this is flattering, you're the second person in the past month to offer to do so. I have however already been noninated for adminship (and failed to achieve consensus) already at the beginning of this month; Waiting at least a month between nominations appears to be common practice. I'd greatly appreciate your support next month though. Thanks again for the vote of confidence! --fvw * 23:39, 2004 Dec 27 (UTC)

Say, is this offer still good? --fvw * 16:39, 2005 Jan 3 (UTC)

Glorious First of June

When you move a page, you need to fix the double redirects (see Special:Whatlinkshere/Glorious First of June). Gdr 19:15, 2004 Dec 28 (UTC)

Macedonian Slavs

I've protected Macedonian Slavs, now what's the problem? Dunc|☺ 15:15, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC)

I'm not entirely sure, I suspect it's just POV pushing. I'm not really involved, I just happened to seem some major 3RR violation going on in RecentChanges and warned both editors involved. Protection probably isn't a bad idea though, they do both seem to be willing to discuss the matter, so with any luck this will all be solved in a little while. --fvw * 15:18, 2004 Dec 31 (UTC)

Arbitration Committee case opening

You have been named as a disputant in the recently opened Charles Darwin/Lincoln dispute case brought before the Arbitration Committee. You may wish to add evidence to Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Charles Darwin/Lincoln dispute/Evidence to support your case. -- Grun t [[European Union|]] 03:32, 2005 Jan 25 (UTC)

Average rule

I'm thinking of nominating Average rule for deletion on the grounds that it is a neologism and original research. This article has existed since August 2004 without anyone questioning it or proposing it for deletion. Do you think it's legitimate? Do you know of any reasons I shouldn't nominate it for deletion? Dpbsmith (talk) 15:33, 25 Jan 2005 (UTC)

HMS Beagle

Hi, I undid your move of HMS Beagle for reasons that were explained at Talk:HMS Beagle - since you didn't add any countercomment before doing the move, I assume you didn't notice the note. Stan 18:41, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Evolution edits

I noticed you removed a reference inserted by an anon. I was just curious about that - whether there was some problem with the ref itself, or whether it was just superfluous. Guettarda 14:03, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply. Guettarda 14:27, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Unnecessary bot request

Your link can be automatically linked using the variables built in to MediaWiki. As can be seen from . Your request would be: (in no wiki format) http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/{{CURRENTMONTHNAME}}/{{CURRENTDAY}}/.

I think that solves your problem. I hope. -- AllyUnion (talk) 11:12, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Er... the only problem is that {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} would capitalize the month... and apparently the link is case sensitive... I wonder if there is a lower case function. Maybe ask User:Jamesday if he could make a variable for you... or you could modify it monthly... hmm... -- AllyUnion (talk) 11:15, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)

I'll write your one time use bot when I have time. Maybe this weekend. -- AllyUnion (talk) 03:52, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Also, could you tell me where the link should go? -- AllyUnion (talk) 03:53, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)

I am going to presume that all days have a holiday and observances section, making the total number of sections to be at least four. -- AllyUnion (talk) 12:39, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Sup

I emailed as per your request, did you not receive?--Deglr6328 01:57, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)

On This Day...

... a bot that I have created is completing/has completed your request. See for more information. -- AllyUnion (talk) 17:24, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Could you be so kind as to check this list over? Thanks. -- AllyUnion (talk) 17:35, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC) Dates with Problems:

January 10 -- AllyUnion (talk) 17:35, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)

+ Anything beyond the February 1 article in Kakashi Bot's contributions. -- AllyUnion (talk) 17:43, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)

NPOV

Now there's a first - NPOVing something I wrote to make it less anti-evolution :) I suppose I erred on the side of caution - the initial article was garbage that probably could have made it through VfD, but I thought it better not to attract that level of attention to it. Guettarda 21:14, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)

effective population size

Looks great Duncan, correct as far as I can remember the formulas without cracking a book. Need to read over it more carefully though. Only one thing, I would reorganize the sections so that the mathematics sections are confined to those sections specifically. i.e. you can talk about the concepts of Variations in population size non-mathematically (then mathematically define them later), ditto Hardy-Weinberg principle. Also, no need to preference everything with "In <discipline-name> foo is..." because the category system effectively does that for us, and in the case of Ne and HWP, it doesn't need to function as a disambiguation because HWP doesn't exist in any other discipline... ;-) Lexor|Talk 14:30, Feb 26, 2005 (UTC)

On this day...

Hey... I'd appreciate it if you let me know if you looked over the bot's work or what. -- AllyUnion (talk) 04:19, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC)

talk remove from fr.wikipedia.org

email pour demander un image?

Est ce que vous avez un email/lettre pour demander d'un autre person des images ou des texte comme ? Je voudrais un image pour Gustave Malécot. Merçi, Dunc_Harris |☺ 26 fev 2005 à 20:35 (CET)

DYK

Warofdreams 11:22, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Can you do me a favour please? I keep getting blocked by G-Man because I share an IP address with some vandals (195.93.21.67). This has happened six times, three times in the last three days and I to the least annoyed about it. Could you please unblock me? Is there anything I can do about this? Thanks GordyB 12:03, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Royal Society PDFs...

The problem is that trying to parse a PDF is nearly impossible. If you can email or link me to a text file version, I'd be happy to help. -- AllyUnion (talk) 19:29, 12 Mar 2005 (UTC)

HTML will do. You can leave it in raw HTML and Python's modules can easily parse that data.

RfCs ...

Hey friend. Schroeder's had me up on RfC for over a week now, didn't bother to sign it until today, and the only other person to sign it is his advocate (who is obviously not a participant in the "dispute" and therefore doesn't count to make the two. I haven't edited a creationism page in 2 weeks. He posted that rfc 4 days after my last edit, without any articulated goals, or any evidence of "trying and failing to resolve the conflict" (obviously, since the "conflict" was resolved 4 days before he posted it). I wonder if, when you have a moment, you might be willing to use your admin privileges to delete both his RfC and mine from the list due to their both being stale without being signed by two participants in the dispute? Ungtss 16:13, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)

On that subject, is there any reason not to unprotect Origin of life and RNA world hypothesis? Gazpacho 09:08, 16 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion/Casque & Gauntlet Society

Would you consider rewording your nomination? See my soapbox comments in the discussion. By all means say it's a piece of non-notable student cruft, vanity, etc. but let's not perpetuate the "oh-no-it's-from-Dartmouth" stuff... Dpbsmith (talk) 02:42, 15 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Thanks

Dunc -- Thanks for your welcome, comments, and criticisms. And no, I'm not a sock puppet (but I play one on tv). Fisher 04:22, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Heligoland Bight

Hi! As part of the Wiki Syntax cleanup effort, I came across a broken redirect from German Bight to Heligoland Bight, which you put up a few months ago. Such redirects are usually meant to be deleted, but there are two pages linking to it, and the redirect does seem to make sense (from what I gather from these articles). Could you possibly be persuaded to write a stub for Heligoland Bight? Thanks! --Fbriere 21:05, 25 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Not to sound picky (though I probably will anyway), but are you sure this redirect is appropriate? From what I glanced from the article, Heligoland and Heligoland Bight are not the same thing, are they? The reason I'm asking is that we now end up with German Bight being a double redirect, which is a Bad Thing™. Sure, you could change its target, but that's going to mess things up if a real Heligoland Bight article were to be written.

Of course, it's possible the two terms are the same, in which case you're welcome to adjust the redirect, call me an idiot, and get a free pizza for your trouble. :)

--Fbriere 05:54, 26 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Never mind; after a bit of googling, I managed to come up with a stub to replace the redirect. --Fbriere 18:19, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Invisible Pink Unicorn

The IPU idea addresses an outdated notion of deity. Attributes such as "supernatural," "outside human perception," "great spiritual power" (these phrases were taken from the Wikipedia article on the IPU)and even "omnipotence" don't necessarily apply to deity or God. To claim that they do is a textbook example of the Straw Person fallacy (in fact, I use that example in class to demonstrate to my students an example of the SP fallacy).

Aloha, Aliman.

White City

While a agree that it was an excellent move to copy information from White City to White City, London and turn the original page into a disambiguation page, I wish you had done this just a little more carefully. Two meanings of White City were lost in your transfer process, I've just reconstructed them. I had been using White City as a quick link to World Columbian Exposition, and it took a bit of sluethwork to figure out why this wasn't working anymore. In future, please take care to preserve disambiguation information that has already accumulated, when making this kind of change. --Woggly 11:29, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)

History of ecology

Curious about your rationale for the move. Also, given that rationale, do you think Ecology (disciplines) should be moved as well? Guettarda 16:51, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Re: books

OK, sorry. Didn't know. Jkam

issues over school articles

In November 2003, there was a VfD debate over Sunset High School (Portland). The debate was archived under Talk:Sunset High School (Portland). What to do with the article is still being contested and has been recently re-nominated for VfD at Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Sunset High School (Portland).

I am writing to you because you have participated in such debates before. There still does not exist a wikipedia policy (as far as i can tell) over what to do in regards to articles about specific U.S. public school. My hope is that a real consensus can come out of the debate, and a real policy can take shape. Take part if you are so willing. Kingturtle 02:18, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)

:) Oleg Alexandrov 19:33, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Moving Darwin, Northern Territory

Hi, Duncharris. I was a little bit surprised to see the changes at Darwin you made a few days ago; I was wondering what your reasons for deleting the Darwin redirect to Charles Darwin and then moving Darwin, Northern Territory to Darwin. I recognize that Darwin, Northern Territory is a territory capital and is quite important; however, I believe that an unqualified "Darwin", to most people, would refer to the naturalist and that Darwin should therefore redirect to Charles Darwin. Or if not that, then the disambiguation page should be there, in my opinion. What do you think? (And please let me know if this was discussed somewhere that I overlooked). Thanks! — Knowledge Seeker দ 07:03, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Articles should refer to a person's full name, always Charles Darwin not just Darwin. The capital of an Australian territory is quite important. Dunc|☺ 09:17, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I agree, and I fully support leaving Charles Darwin at its current title. However, in my opinion, an unqualified "Darwin" usually refers to Darwin the scientist, not Darwin the city. I am not trying to belittle the capital's importance but I feel that the scientist is a far more common meaning for the name "Darwin" and so Darwin should redirect to Charles Darwin. I realize there is room for disagreement, although it might have been nice to bring this up on the talk page or WP:RM, since it is not an obvious change; especially since it was a complex revert and you had to delete the original Darwin page. I also would have left a note on the talk page explaining what you did so that others, especially nonadministrators who can't see the deletion history, would understand what happened. — Knowledge Seeker দ 04:18, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Came to bug you

I do this when I have bad mood in the morning. Thank you for your contribution to trend. And one request. Would you mind putting an edit summary? Something like "add link to bio journal" or even pasting the whole thing "Trends are a series of scientific journals of biology." could be quite helpful for other editors watching those pages. Thanks. Oleg Alexandrov 17:27, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I guess I was really in a bad mood. Edit summaries are indeed important, my request was kind of terse though. Just hope I did not make too mad. Oleg Alexandrov 22:42, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)

no, I just ignored you. Dunc|☺ 16:29, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)

:) Oleg Alexandrov 19:34, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)

On formatting images

Hello. You're mistaken about placing images on the page. The following tips from my Userpage will help you, I hope, while you might keep in mind Thoreau's remark, A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. Consistency is important within pages and among closely connected pages, but its only purpose is to serve the reader.

Not all Wikipedia pages need have identical formats, with the first illustration squared top right, though more than one Mediator is convinced this is a requirement. Some images are neutral in their format possibilities, others not:

1. Images need to face into the page.
2. Vanishing points need to lie on the page.
3. Sources of light in an image need to come from the center of the page.

Even if you have never thought about page layout, a moment's reflection will demonstrate the reasonableness of these three axioms, practiced by all professionals. --Wetman 04:49, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Reason I moved Lancaster, England back.

Dear Friend, Lancaster is a popular name of many places in the world. Lancaster, England is one of the most popular references to the name, however it is not the most popular. That title actually goes to the city in Pennsylvania, although, Lancaster, England is the original. Not to mention, that neither the English, or the Pennsylvania city is the largest of the Lancaster family. That title goes to the California city. So, Lancaster, England does not carry the same weight of a single title city such as London or Los Angeles. So, I reverted it back to the Lancaster, England page where it should be. I also placed boldened type to the 3 primary Lancasters to separate them from the others so that they would be more easily identifyable. Thank you for your understanding in this matter. --Anon 07:09, Apr 20, 2005 (UTC)

And you seem biased to your own Lancaster. The point is, there are 3 cities worthy of the title. If neither San Jose can have it... neither can a particular Lancaster. Leave it the way it is or I will appeal to the administrators to have it protected. --Anon 00:11, Apr 21, 2005 (UTC)

Note that Winchester is also liable to being moved back, as this has been discussed twice before on the talk page concluding that the main page should be the dab. Joe D (t) 13:08, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Yes, sorry about that.

That wasn't intentional, just got lost in the copyedit.

Ben@liddicott.com 10:11, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)