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Hello Phil, welcome to Wikipedia. I answered your question at Wikipedia talk:How to log in. Here are some useful links in case you haven't already found them;
You can also ask questions at the village pump or ask me on my talk page. I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian!
Angela 17:04, Oct 2, 2003 (UTC)
CompactTOC
Yes, the compact TOCs are great. I didn't know how to do them before, but I've watched and learnt! All the best Warofdreams 17:39, 31 Oct 2003 (UTC)
Redirect project
Thanks for the fix. I don't think you need any special qualifications to work through the list. Just click on both the article and the broken link. See what the article is about. For the broken link, click on "What links here" and see what those articles wanted to link to, then decide if the two are the same or not. Daniel Quinlan 08:28, Nov 6, 2003 (UTC)
Amersham
Hi Phil. Glad someone else from Amersham is involved. I've been thinking about hosting/maintaining a wiki for St. Mary's. Dunno if it would be too hard for the technophobes. Have a look at tiki wiki http://tikiwiki.org. Ramin 17:22, Nov 11, 2003
Teapot + Windows screensaver
Howdy. I think you're right about the teapot being in the screensaver, and I know you're right about its maddening infrequency (having stared at it for ten minutes and seen nothing). -- Finlay McWalter 14:30, 14 Nov 2003 (UTC)
Application installation
Heh. All I want is a computer where simply having the application anywhere on disk is sufficient for using it. The Mac used to be like that. I shouldn't need to do this mysterious "installation process"... :-) Evercat 13:18, 27 Nov 2003 (UTC)
Sub-page links not working
If you're still having problems, I would try a shift/control reload (to get a fresh, non-cached copy), and if that doesn't work I would resave the article without changing anything. If that doesn't work, then it's probably a bug and I would post to either meta:MediaWiki feature requests and bug reports or leave a message to Brion VIBBER who is the main developer. Dori | Talk 16:21, Dec 8, 2003 (UTC)
(Can't remember)
No problem with fixing the typo. If anything, I appreciate it. -- Pakaran 19:13, 11 Dec 2003 (UTC)
You're welcome. I didn't meddle with the different flavours though as I don't seem to know all of them. For example,
Super String Mint might be Super Strong Mint, and Strong Salmiak sounds like a joke to me. Anyway, nice article! All the best, KF 16:16, 15 Dec 2003 (UTC)
Search rubric
There's something funny with the rubric: it seems to be repeating the hint on where to find help. Phil 12:26, Dec 10, 2003 (UTC)
- What rubric? Where? Martin 23:18, 16 Dec 2003 (UTC)
Hi Phil. Thanks for the congrats re Soham; they're a bit undeserved though as my main contributions have been removing POVs and inaccuracies, and my favourite activity of trying to make an article look as though it's not been designed by a committee. :-) I put my response on the Talk:Soham murders page as I thought others might be interested in it too. Spellbinder 16:45, 22 Dec 2003 (UTC)
Hi Phil. I've replied in Talk:Soham murders again. Spellbinder 17:32, 22 Dec 2003 (UTC)
Odd timestamp turns out to be deliberate
No, that's right. I have a time machine. I use it when people whinge on Wikipedia:Vandalism in progress that their blocks expire too early and they can't do anything about it. Unfortunately the software doesn't have a method for changing the expiry time on a block-by-block basis. Setting the timestamp works, but it does tend to annoy people :) -- Tim Starling 12:07, Jan 12, 2004 (UTC)
(Can't remember)
January 13 looks fine to me. --User:Dcsohl
- Cheers. Phil 16:42, Jan 21, 2004 (UTC)
html2wikipedia
You asked me about running html2wikipedia on Windows.
I suspect html2wikipedia (http://www.dwheeler.com/html2wikipedia) works on Windows if you run it using Cygwin.
Services for Unix would probably work too.
I haven't tested them, though.
You'll need a working version of lex or flex.
Email me at dwheeler (at) dwheeler dot com if you have problems/questions.
-- Dwheeler 23:46, 30 Jan 2004 (UTC)
**It is going to happen!
Soon in a wiki near you! Thanks for the reminder, Muriel 12:10, 11 Feb 2004 (UTC)
Todays security bulliten?
I really don't know what your refering to. I added everybody on that list to my IM's. If you don't like that, it's ok to block me, but I don't understand this security stuff. What is this bulliten you refer to? Where can I read a copy of it? I didn't have anything in particular to talk to you about up until now, I was just being social. What is the security danger from an IM (now you have me worried ;) ? Sam Spade 21:46, 11 Feb 2004 (UTC)
Music to add page
You might want to disambiguate your entry for Rush. RedWolf 04:53, Feb 12, 2004 (UTC)
(Can't remember)
Message for you on User talk:Tim Starling -- Tim Starling 00:17, Feb 12, 2004 (UTC)
Screen readers?
Phil, from your comment on Village Pump it sounds like you have some knowledge of screen readers (etc.). I don't suppose you know of a free/opensource one (a I've long preached the accessibility of my website without actually having tested it properly). Thanks. -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 13:23, 12 Feb 2004 (UTC)
section headers
Done. (I hope I did it right. I'm fairly new here).
Wayland
Robbot
Thanks for the notification on the Robbot problems on Hungarian language. I (and Rob Hooft will have to look what is going on. Andre Engels 16:25, 26 Feb 2004 (UTC)
taxotables
Phil - we've updated the taxo-standard on Wikipedia:WikiProject Tree of Life. The biggest change is we are no longer linking the rank titles. I updated Amphisbaenia for that and other formatting issues. - UtherSRG 17:19, 2 Mar 2004 (UTC)
Looking for Hosers
(Copy of your question and my answer from Talk:List_of_web_comics#Looking for Hosers)
I've recently started reading "GPF" and there was a cross-over between this and another comic named the "Hosers" in February 2000. However the latter appears to be unavailable (it used to live at http://www.hosers.org/ which is not responding): anyone know where to find it? Phil 12:29, Jan 14, 2004 (UTC)
Thanks for your valuable input on Alphabets derived from the Latin. It's much more usable now. Jor (Darkelf) 14:35, 13 Mar 2004 (UTC)
Aliens
Obviously that wasn't intentional. I must have just accidentally updated an ancient copy of the article by mistake. It's back to normal now. Sarge Baldy 12:50, Mar 18, 2004 (UTC)
HRs
Hi there, I noticed that you are using HRs to divide the stub message. HR's are generally considered ugly in the article namespace, and discouraged. Also, they go against the norm of not using them for this purpose, so please do not use them. Dori | Talk 17:07, Mar 19, 2004 (UTC)
Precipitation
Hi. I didn't have a real problem with the tone of your message on the talk page. I guess though it didn't help to convince me of your position, although I understand where you are coming from. When one posts a topic for discussion, one must anticipate seeing other viewpoints. I have postponed implementation of my proposed change for now to see if someone else chimes in. Upon possible future reflection, I may just let it go — although I still think my way is the best way in this case! :-) . RedWolf 03:55, Mar 31, 2004 (UTC)
Recent death
Thanks for liking it. Cheers, –Hajor
Dodgy browsers
I'm not sure how to phrase it really. It happens a lot on Meta, and I've never seen anyone told they are causing the problem. If you want to write something, I can try and reword it to sound polite, but I'm not sure how to explain the problem in order to write it myself. If that would be helpful, just put it in my sandbox or somewhere. Angela. 17:43, Apr 6, 2004 (UTC)
EasyTimeline discussion
Hi Phil,
EasyTimeline accepts dates (dd/mm/yyyy or mm/dd/yyyy) only from 1800 AD, this is a limitation of Ploticus, which probably, as often happens with software, stores date values as a number of seconds since a arbitrary chosen start date. But full years, no limitation.
I checked [1] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Middle-earth), only years there, so should be no problem. Erik Zachte 00:04, 14 May 2004 (UTC)
Phil, you can copy the site if you want, but why would you want to? If you want to add it to the Wikipedia, it would mean double maintenance, which I'm not looking forward to. If I may make a suggestion: it would be really neat to have a tutorial where a chart is built from the ground up and intermediate results are displayed and commented. This would be really something to put on the wikipedia since people can add or alter it when some part of the explanation turns out to be unclear or ambiguous. You might use Middle Earth as a starting point, it will appeal to many. What do you think? Erik Zachte 17:25, 14 May 2004 (UTC)
Phil, you have a point there. The syntax description probably should be on meta. It will be a nontrivial task to convert it to wiki format though, since it is quite a lengthy document. Cheers, Erik Zachte 10:45, 17 May 2004 (UTC)
Phil, please, go ahead. Erik Zachte 12:17, 17 May 2004 (UTC)
Phil, thanks for your work on the EasyTimeline documentation. I made a different version of the chess timeline, horizontal layout seems more fit for a timeline with many long texts. Cheers, Erik Zachte 11:41, 21 May 2004 (UTC)
comprise
You're actually in the wrong here, but don't feel bad. The whole comprises the parts, not vice versa. correct usage (http://englishplus.com/grammar/00000201.htm). -- 68.161.160.230 14:44, 26 May 2004 (UTC) (a third party who noticed your comment)
Wikisophia
You are the only person on Wiki I note as being involved in this project - what came of it? How much had been developed? --Oldak Quill 14:15, 31 May 2004 (UTC)
Got a note from you, Phil; sometime back in Feb. re: collaboration on WikiTeX. Wikisophia is finally back up, and I'm back from sabbatical. Let's talk. Danenberg 11:51, 27 Jul 2004 (UTC)
REDIRECTs now disallow any extra text?
- from the pump
I was trying to add a Category to a REDIRECT page (don't ask rude questions and I won't tell you where to stick them :-).
However when I tried to save the change, not only did the Category not get saved, the Edit History wasn't even updated!
I have just tested it in my Sandbox and it seems that whereas it used to be possible to append text to a REDIRECT, to explain why it was there, for example, such as "Common mis-spelling", this would seem now to have been forbidden.
The edit seems to be simply ignored, but there is no message saying that this has occurred.
Was this a planned feature of the MediaWiki 1.3 upgrade?
--Phil | Talk 14:57, Jun 8, 2004 (UTC)
- I don't know why in this particular instance, but ISTM that to have a category on the redirect wouldn't work anyway as in the category page linking to it when you click that link you'd be redirected through to the actual target page anyway, thus it would be an unusable link. Categories should only be on target (valid) pages. --VampWillow 15:17, 8 Jun 2004 (UTC)
I know that now! (wishing I could recall from whence that is a quote).
Well actually I had figured it all along but I wanted to see if it were possible or whether MediaWiki would tell me I was doing something unwise.
When the edit was just silently rejected I dug a bit more.
It turns out that something which is reasonable and was allowed before—i.e. adding extra explanatory text after a REDIRECT—has now been forbidden for no apparent reason and without any message to explain why MediaWiki is throwing the edit away.
--Phil | Talk 15:50, Jun 8, 2004 (UTC)
- I just created Abdul Rahman, Tuanku and it seems to work. There is some sort of char-conversion bug affecting them though. -- User:Docu
You used a template message and appended it to the end of the REDIRECT: if you put your extra text on a new line it gets wiped!
A little testing in my Sandbox proves it, and also that the history totally fails to register even the attempt at editing.
--Phil | Talk 17:25, Jun 8, 2004 (UTC)
... and just to add a little spice to the mix, putting the Category directive on the same line does allow you to specify a category for a REDIRECT (see Category:Test which has members if no actual text).
Which has to make some kind of twisted sense if I can just twist my mind enough ...
--Phil | Talk 17:34, Jun 8, 2004 (UTC)
Book blurb
- from the pump
Originally posted on Wikipedia talk:Fair use but garnered no response yet ... Is the blurb on the back of a paperback, or on the flyleaf of a hardback, fair game for inclusion in a Wikipedia article?
It would seem intuitively obvious, since the purpose of the blurb is to garner publicity for the book, but is there any hard policy?
I would of course assume that any such text would be clearly annotated as such.
--Phil | Talk 13:05, Jun 10, 2004 (UTC)
- IMO (though IANAL), any short quote, if properly attributed, can be used under fair use. older≠wiser 13:20, 10 Jun 2004 (UTC)
- Indeed, it should be fair use if it's quoted. Obviously, the blurb shouldn't be quoted entirely if it's too long, and the quote shouldn't be the most significant part of the article. Dori | Talk 14:52, Jun 10, 2004 (UTC)
Miles Vorkosigan
Phil, I've split up the Miles Vorkosigan page into two separate pages: Miles Vorkosigan now discusses the character himself, and Vorkosigan Saga lists the books with a plot summary of each. I also fleshed out the descriptions of some books, especially Mirror Dance. Ekaterin 13:30, 30 Jun 2004 (UTC)
- eh ! I am currently rerere-reading the whole serie :-) I love it :-) ant
Voldemort
(Hope you don't mind me asking this here, but it seemed the simplest way to get a quick & simple answer :-) If you were to treat the name Voldemort as a French word and translate it into English, would it be better to translate it as Flight of Death or Flight from Death? And just to check, should it be Flight or Thief for the translation of the Vol... segment? (Sorry for disturbing you, we return you to your usual program :-)
That is a good question :-) I never thought of what it would mean. Vol as flight or vol as theft... Funny... Actually, I just asked on the fr:irc and no one had never thought of it either. You just made me realise the traitor had a french name... My respect for the author just drop a bit :-) I think it is best not translated. Both interpretations are worth it. Probably meant to be :-) SweetLittleFluffyThing 16:46, 1 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Internal links acquire an "external link" icon when clicked
Hi Phil, sorry for taking so long to get back to you. I had forgotten my submission and just saw it, and replied to you there. Any ideas? -- pne 11:02, 7 Jul 2004 (UTC)
unprotection of user pages
I believe the material on User talk:Dori that you are referring to is not vandalism, but a comment in some langauge other than English. I could be mistaken. In any case, it was User:Dori that I unprotected, not the talk page, and User:Dori has never been vandalized, ever, in fact having never been edited by anyone except Dori and a bot.
I did a database query a week or so ago to check for protected pages not listed at Wikipedia:Protected page and found quite a number. Many of them were user pages. I checked further and found that quite a number of user pages that are protected (including both those listed at Wikipedia:Protected page and those that are not listed there) have no history of vandalism at all.
I believe that protected pages, in general, are harmful and are detrimental to the spirit of the project.
I believe that user pages belonging to administrators and protected by their "owners", merely as a convenience to them, are particularly problematic because it comes off as a perk of adminship, since non-administrators can't do this. Non-admins can request that their user page be protected, and sometimes do so, but then they can't edit it themselves.
Most of the user pages I have unprotected have no history of vandalism at all, though some have non-vandlism edits that the user they "belong" to didn't like. A few may have had some vandalism a long time ago (over a year) since I didn't check the history back more than a year.
I believe that it is appropriate to protect user pages temporarily to stop repeat vandalism, just as is done with article pages. And there are a few user pages, like User:Hephaestos, that are targets of such frequent vandalism that it, regrettably, makes sense to leave them protected indefinitely. But in most cases, vandalism should just be reverted, as is done on article pages.
I have had my own user page vandalised. The vandalism was reverted. No big deal.
If the project, as a matter of policy, wishes to disallow editing of user pages except by the user they are attached to, that change should be made in the Mediawiki software so that it will apply uniformly to admins and non-admins.
I hope this helps. Please ask again if anything yet remains unclear.
Best regards
UninvitedCompany 16:28, 22 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Intemperate Comments
I am posting this here, so that you will feel quite free to delete if you wish (and you will!)
Your comments on vampire watermelons were unconstructive and personally insulting.
"Restraining myself from reverting out of hand because I know that would just inflame things" - This is an arrogant assumption that your judgement is better than mine; you make zero attempt to support your views, and make a patronising suggestion as to the action you think I'll take (with no justification for your assumption). As it happens, you can revert all you wish; once I've made my point, I'm happy to let others (hopefully not just you, but whatever) to take next steps.
" ... mutter ... mutter " - Spit it out; if you have further insults, please feel free to express them in an adult fashion.
This is my last word; I also have no wish to inflame your short fuse; revert away. Heenan73 17:52, 22 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Vampiric proofreaders
m:Proofreading is underway! Check it out, spread the word, prepare to suck
imperfections from the text of unsuspecting contributors. +sj+ 06:46, 23 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Substub support
Thanks for your support. We need all the help that we can get. Mike Storm (Talk) 17:03, 23 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Enchanted Chocolate Pot
In an edit summary for Patricia Wrede, you say: "if you bother to check the author's website you will discover that the entire series is named after the subtitle of the first book". Where do I find this? I didn't see anything like this in a quick skim of the "official site" link from Patricia Wrede. There is a Caroline Stevermer web page, where the web page as a whole is named "The Enchanted Chocolate Pot"; but I don't really see an indication that that's supposed to be the name of the series (after all, A College of Magics and A Scholar of Magics are discussed on the same page). Cwitty 17:01, 26 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Hieroglyphs
Thanks for that - I didn't know this - it might save me some considerable time - I have just added another half-dozen before catching up with your message.
Regards
--JohnArmagh 20:15, 26 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Thanks
Thanks for correcting my misspelling on the requests for page expansion. Can't believe I missed that. Chuckles Lyellin 14:12, Aug 2, 2004 (UTC)
Adminship?
Are you a wikipedia administrator, and if not, would you like to be? I like your edits, and I'd gladly nominate you. You should probably read Wikipedia:Administrators before responding yes.
And, do you maintain some kind of reading diary? I'd love to see what you're reading, as it strikes me I would probably enjoy reading the same books. --Woggly 06:52, 3 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Another substub vote
I just wanted to let people know that there's another vote on substubs going on in Template talk:Substub#Survey. I know that this is a second vote, however, apparently it was originally intended to be only a vote about whether to keep the template message, but somehow evolved into a vote on the existence of substubs themselves. I know that you already voted in favor of substubs, so I wanted to get your support on this poll too. Thanks for your support! Mike∞Storm 23:33, 9 Aug 2004 (UTC)
List of web comics
Just wanted to explain the current policy on article-less entries in List of web comics. The problem is that the list is a magnet for WikiSpam, and we've been trying to discourage people from simply adding their comic's name and a link. Perhaps it would be better to just not allow external links in the list? — Gwalla | Talk 19:23, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Gmail invite
Howdy. I just got some more invites in - do you still want one? blankfaze | (беседа!) 05:36, 28 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Birthday greetings
Happy Birthday Phil! Hope you are having a great day. Keep up the good work on Wikipedia. Yardcock | talk 16:30, Sep 4, 2004 (UTC)
IMDB templates
Hello there. Just wanted to warn you about your use of the Template:imdb title on American Pie (movie) page. You used it the wrong way.
On the id parameter, you should leave ONLY the numbers.
Check my fixes (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=American_Pie_%28movie%29&diff=0&oldid=5894645) if it helps
Oh, and for furter instructions, see Template talk:imdb title
Thanks — Kieff | Talk 04:55, Sep 15, 2004 (UTC)
Nosy question
Hi Phil, I didn't get your point at Angela's talk, which item are you interested in? Just have a look at www.wikispecies.org/, if you were interested in the logo. Best, Benedikt
Thanks
Thanks for cleaning up my Wildstorm article. When i wrapped up i was so beat i didn't have the inclination to go and hunt all the disrepancies and errors left from editing the old version and my own typing errors. I was already plannning to get to that, but i found it already taken care of.
Thanks :) --Asmodai 10:41, Sep 23, 2004 (UTC)
Italian Images
Good idea, but I am useless with images, and can only just plonk them on the page and hope somebody else will sort them out. Pleas feel free to link any image I upload to anything, except a category of thick, dense Wikipedia Users Giano 12:19, 23 Sep 2004 (UTC)
re: Proposed new format for sub-pages
Good morning, Phil. Your proposed table for VfD discussions might be overkill for short discussions. We get a lot of pushback over the difficulty of the mechanics of nominating new articles. Pasting in a table would be yet another step for users to complain about. And Mike Snow has a very good point about instruction creep. The table would be very helpful for long complicated votes, though. My only recommended change would be to add a border to the table. Good thoughts. Thanks. Rossami 13:01, 30 Sep 2004 (UTC)
- Hmmmm. As I think about this more, perhaps there is a way to make the mechanics easier using the subst function. I'd also like to integrate some old thoughts about moving the discussion away from "mere voting" and more toward "policy arguments". I'm going to duplicate your template and play with it for a while. I'll put my musings at Wikipedia talk:Votes for deletion/Proposed new format_v02. Rossami
- In the meantime, you might be interested in some of Eloquence's thoughts at Wikipedia:Deletion requests. His idea never took hold but maybe the time is finally right. Rossami
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