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Wikipedia:Categorization

Please see: Wikipedia_talk:Categorization#.22An_article_on_a_subject_should_be_in_a_category_of_the_same_name..22 I hope you would add more explanation to this. Thanks! JesseW 01:28, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Article Licensing

I've "started" the Free the Rambot Articles Project which aims to get users to release all of their contributions to the U.S. state, county, and city articles under the CC-by-sa 1.0 and 2.0 license (at minimum) or into the public domain if they prefer. A secondary goal is to get those users to release ALL of their edits for ALL articles. I've personally chosen to multi-license all of the rambot and Ram-Man contributions under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike License so that other projects, such as WikiTravel, can use our articles. I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all your contributions (or at minimum those on the geographic articles) so that we can keep most of the articles available under the multi-license. Many users use the {{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}} template (or even {{MultiLicensePD}} for public domain) on their user page, but there are other templates for other options at Template messages/User namespace. If you only prefer using the GFDL, I understand, but I thought I'd at least ask, just in case, since the number of your edits is in the top 100. If you do want to do it, simply just copy and paste one of the above two templates into your user page and it will allow us to track those users who have done it. For example:

Option 1

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

OR

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 (which many people do or don't like to do, see Wikipedia:Multi-licensing), you could replace {{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}} with {{MultiLicensePD}} -- Ram-Man 22:41, Nov 25, 2004 (UTC)

Image copyrights

Hi. I noticed that some images that you've uploaded are lacking the copyright details, can you please add them? As far as I understand the system, impilicitically the images are copyrighted to you at the moment, which would technically prevent others from editing them (excluding fair use). See Wikipedia:Copyrights. If you want them to be freely copied, just put {{pd}} on them. Nice contributions anyway. :) --kooo 10:21, Nov 28, 2004 (UTC)

Unverified images

Hi! Thanks for uploading the following images:

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 GNU Free Documentation License, {{fairuse}} if you claim fair use, etc.) If you don't know what any of this means, just let me know at my talk page where you got the images and I'll tag them for you. Thanks so much. [[User:Poccil|Peter O. (Talk, automation script)]] 22:03, Dec 10, 2004 (UTC)

P.S. You can help tag other images at User:Yann/Untagged_Images. Thanks again.

Missoula Entry

Hi Hyancinth. Just wanted to let you know I posted a comment to the Talk:Missoula, Montana talk page, reviving a question that came up some months ago. Hope we can talk it out. - Luke Powell 02:39, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Hello

Umm ok this is the nuttiest way I've had to try and talk to you but hey it works... Micky I wanted to give you your x-mes presents but I'm going to helena on tuesday but I'll be back for first night, sooo you should give me a call and maybe we can ring in the new year togeather for a bit... ohhh and I can take a few minutes to hop in the sack with your boyfriend. ok I'll check this later to see if you got my message. ~from Janette

Homophobic Vandalism

I have reason to believe that the following are all sockpuppets of each other

User:148.136.141.172, User:Rienzo, User:Baffinisland, User:Lady Tara, User:Nasse

I believe that one of them recently vandalised your user page

if you wish to add evidence to the arbitration against any of them, you can do so at Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Rienzo/Evidence

CheeseDreams 01:52, 8 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Surrealism

Please check history before making pronouncements. Thank you. Stirling Newberry 19:54, 8 Jan 2005 (UTC)

I am afraid I find your input so far on this to be both rude and unhelpful. Stirling Newberry 20:11, 8 Jan 2005 (UTC)

That was rude of me and short tempered, I am currently involved in two editor wars and so was inclined to be curt. I do fine work and I should be giving you the benefit of every doubt rather than being snappish.

The problem on Surrealism is very much that there is an active - the word "cult" has been used, but prefer to think of it as a subculture - that thinks of "Surrealism" as Breton's system for social revolution, and thus desires "Surrealism" the page to conform to dogma, rather than the documentable use and influence of the wider movement. I am currently trying to get the article up to the full spectrum of information on Surrealism. Stirling Newberry 20:22, 8 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Surrealism

[1] [2]

I've reached my limit with these two. They behave well enough to avoid sanction and then go back to their nonsense. Stirling Newberry 21:18, 30 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Thanks. Stirling Newberry 01:13, 31 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Category:Wikipedia templates

Please stop listing template talk pages in Category:Wikipedia templates. You've misunderstood what that category is for, which is for pages realted to templates on Wikipedia. Templates themselves should not need to be categorized. - Please help me clean up by undoing your edits. -- Netoholic @ 23:32, 2005 Feb 18 (UTC)

Because there are hundreds of templates. It is impractical to categorize them when we have this mechanism. -- Netoholic @ 05:25, 2005 Feb 19 (UTC)

But that is one list, not a categorization (many lists?). Wouldn't it be useful to have a list of all music related templates? Hyacinth 18:20, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Sure a -list- is fine, and very common. Don't confuse a category with a list though. For your music templates, create a page somewhere and list the templates, just don't categorize them. Hopefully the distinction makes sense. -- Netoholic @ 03:33, 2005 Feb 20 (UTC)

Myth article

You "unreverted" the Myth article because you claim that no explanation was given on the talk page. I already explained that CS Lewis is not considered notable and that the only reason Ungtss is listing that there is because of the particular religious spin he wants to put on things, to go along with his longstanding attempt to put religion and Creationism dogma on the Deluge (mythology) article. You are playing right into the hands of someone who admits his only goal here is to advance Creationism over the so-called "arrogant pseudo-intellectualism" of scientists and mythologists. But I went and added even more explanation to the page, but of course I'm sure that the person harassing me there is going to cause more trouble. DreamGuy 04:36, Feb 27, 2005 (UTC)

Template:History by time period

Please stop adding this template to articles. It is deeply and irrevocably Eurocentric. - SimonP 04:02, Mar 2, 2005 (UTC)

I don't think that list is meant to be exhaustive, and an exhaustive list would have hundreds of eras. - SimonP 04:08, Mar 2, 2005 (UTC)

Yes, though sometimes prehistoric only means "without writing" so some periods of prehistory can also come after periods of history. - SimonP 04:19, Mar 2, 2005 (UTC)

Also note that Template:History of Europe has existed for some time, so Template:European history by time period is not needed. - SimonP 04:21, Mar 2, 2005 (UTC)

Template:History by continent is great. I'm surprised it didn't already exist. - SimonP 05:26, Mar 2, 2005 (UTC)

FA criteria =

Your edits are very strange and I do not see how they are helpful. Further reading instead of references is entirely ambiguous and unnaceptable. Please read the talk page for Wikipedia:Cite sources for more on that. You are greatly weakening a criteria and that is working against the goal of verifiability. - Taxman 14:05, Mar 14, 2005 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:Confirm queried sources

Hi. I'm not sure what menace you think may be created by introducing the Wikipedia:Confirm queried sources page as a policy without defining "in good faith". I'd be grateful if you would elaborate as I feel unable to address your concerns without knowing what potential problems who think the current draft of the proposal would create. Kind regards, jguk 09:59, 26 Mar 2005 (UTC)

English

Hyacinth, I have no idea what edit you are referring to, but I'm pretty confident that if I said something wasn't good English it wasn't. If it was a typo, sorry; it probably wasn't an obvious typo, or I'd have said "typo". My edit summaries are sincere attempts to describe my edits. No disparagement of an individual was intended. -- Jmabel | Talk 00:36, Apr 6, 2005 (UTC)

References

Greetings! Would like to thank you for your careful citations; a few quotes you've added to articles have given me good leads on finding useful papers for my own research. (Actually, I admire your work in general.) Mindspillage (spill yours?) 06:06, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)

vacation

Hope you're ok Hyacinth; you'll be missed. Sorry to hear that, and I hope the new job and new place works out for you ... please come back as soon as you can. Best wishes, Antandrus 03:45, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)

What he said. Take care; hope to see you back soon. Mindspillage (spill yours?) 10:16, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Thank you both. I should be editing again, but far less than any time before. Hyacinth 21:48, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Template:No negative headings & Template:Headingstalk

FYI: Both of these templates are currently listed for deletion at WP:TFD. BlankVerse ∅ 15:56, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

If you are the only one using those two templates, I would suggest that you move them to a subpage under your User page where you can still use them as templates (e.g. {{User:Hyacinth/Headingstalk}}) the same way that some of the Wiki greeters have created the custom greet messages they use. BlankVerse ∅ 05:48, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Self-link bold vs. Manual bold

Hi,

Re: Shakuhachi page, about this diff between my version and yours.

Both my code " The [[shakuhachi]] " and yours " The '''shakuhachi''' " result in the same thing: bolding the title word shakuhachi (since a self-link is instead displayed as bold).

However, the autolink version made the code directly reusable elsewhere as cut-n-pasted excerpt (short definitions, dab page, etc.). This is especially true in the case of illustrations: the whole code (table, image, and its caption) can be cut-n-pasted into another page, and the title name will immediately turn into the right wikilink outside of its native page.

I've read somewhere about the fact that self-links automatically turning into mere bold text was precisely intended to for those uses, for lead sections and illustrations. Since I can't quote you chapter & verse of the documentation page that was stating or implying that, I won't fight over your change, but I think it's something to keep in mind and ponder for another time.

Regards, ←^#6_{talk 23:03, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)}

templates userfied

Hi there! Two of your templates have been moved to your userspace, after discussion on WP:TFD. They are now found at User:Hyacinth/Headingstalk and User:Hyacinth/No negative headings. If you have any other such templates you may want to consider moving them to your userspace yourself (using the 'move' button). Yours, R adiant _>|< 07:38, Jun 10, 2005 (UTC)

Userfy?

That means to move something to someone's userspace, e.g. User:Hyacinth/Some Random Article. This is usually applicable if a user writes about himself, or if a template is only used by a single user. See WP:GVFD for details. R adiant _>|< 16:03, July 29, 2005 (UTC)

edit to Independent Advocacy

Hi Hyacinth. Thanks for your message. But I'm really unhappy about the edit you made to the intro to this article. The links to advocacy and advocate are misleading as these articles have different meanings to the meaning of the current article. Also the introduction is taken from published information that was agreed after a long process of editing by a group of professional independent advocates. There are specific reasons why it was worded in this way. I realise it doesn't come across as 'objective', but this is so that ordinary people can understand it. This also relates directly to your Alan Watts quote: if ordinary people can't understand it, it probably doesn't mean what it's supposed to mean. Visctrix 00:35, 19 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

User categorization

Greetings! Your user page hasn't been vandalized :-) --it was updated to use the new User Categorization scheme. I have categorized your User Page as a Wikipedian in Montana (Category:Wikipedians in Montana) since your name was listed on the Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Montana page. The Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Montana page is scheduled for deletion. Thanks! Roby Wayne ^{Talk • Hist} 23:14, 7 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Mediation

Hi Hyacinth - hope you can help . . .

Wondered if you could spare the time to take a quick peek at the Technology page - some dude just chopped nearly all the work I put in and made changes in emphasis that I'm not convinced about even though he claims a longish pedigree in history of technology.

Hope your finances are improving . . .

Rossfi 21:17, 8 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]