User talk:Thingg/archive 8

This is an archive of past discussions on my talk page and I request that you do not alter it. If you need to contact me, please do so on my current talk page. Thank you.

Archives

December 2, 2007–February 29, 2008 March 1, 2008–April 30, 2008 May 1, 2008–June 30, 2008 July 1, 2008–August 31, 2008 September 1, 2008–October 31, 2008 November 1, 2008–December 31, 2008 January 1, 2009–May 31, 2009 June 1, 2009–December 31, 2012

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I'm sure you've been waiting for this post. I'm not sure if you're the one I'm looking for, but you'll have to do for a start. I'm trying to stem the tide of centrifugal force abduction, because what has been left in its place is language that is impossible to understand. For example, I understood why people on the equator might perceive gravitational pull to be weaker than people on one of the poles...until I tried to read it as some removal of centripetal force.

So I see two options. Come up with some way to explain things like the above without rotating frame of reference, but also clearly and concisely. Or revert things to centrifugal force and try to convince people to stop removing it. The former is near impossible, but if you can do it, great. But here's my argument for the latter: everyone intuitively understands rotating frames of reference. Centrifugal force is not a force like the pull of an electron on a proton, true, it "appears" when you create a rotating frame of reference. But it does make sense. Is gravity a force, or space-time curvature? It's not a matter of what it "is", it's a matter of what it "does" relative to an observer. As far as I'm concerned, the best way to explain something is the simplest, and most intuitive. Let me know what you think. --Cesoid (talk) 02:33, 24 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hi,

I need help from an experienced Wikipedian, and I saw your name over at

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I need your advice concerning a WikiProject I've been coordinating. Here's the situation:

The project is

, etc. to execute tasks on batches of hundreds of pages at a time. Three of the team's members are admins, and 2 of the members have bot accounts. The team works on tasks that I assign, on the OOK and also on problems that the OOK has revealed in the encyclopedia-at-large (reverse outlines are good at that) - we've worked on things as diverse as creating country demonym disambiguation pages, to cleaning up the CIA World Factbook data on country "Demographics of" pages, to renaming "Cuisine of" articles to their demonymic form, to organizing the "Index of x articles" pages, etc. I also send out a newsletter or project update to the team, to the WikiProject members, and to anybody else who has been involved or who has expressed interest (20 to 30 Wikipedians).

So you see, we can implement just about any strategy. But we need more strategies. Your ideas on the following would be greatly appreciated...

The goals of the WikiProject are:

1. Increase awareness of readers of the existence of the outlines on Wikipedia
2. Complete the existing outlines
3. Create an outline for every subject that is exensive enough to benefit from having an outline (core subjects and major or extensive fields). There are thousands of these.
4. Recruit as many editors to work on these as possible (we need thousands of editors working on these)
5. Surpass portals in number by the end of the summer, and leave them in the dust by the end of the year
6. Get the major outline subject areas displayed on the Main Page (in place of or in addition to the portal links at the top of the page)
7. Increase the OOK to higher quality than
   Propaedia
   volume).

We've posted over a thousand banners and notices so far, which resulted in just a couple complaints - one complainer posted at WT:WPOOK & WP:AN & WP:VPP and the other posted at WP:VPR. Not a bad negative feedback level for such a large posting. The complaints went nowhere, as several users came forward in defense of outlines.

I've proposed a 200-Wikiproject contest at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Countries, and I had notices posted on the talk pages of all the corresponding country WikiProjects' talk pages.

I've created some pointers for developing outlines to guide editors through the process of building outline pages, because once many editors are attracted, I won't be able to instruct them one-on-one. I've also been working on a new article for the subject, since the current article is very lacking.

I was hoping you could comment on how to achieve the goals above.

Also I'm interested in every possible way of reaching readers and editors of Wikipedia. How can I get the most eyes and typing fingers on Wikipedia's outlines? Contacting editors directly without a reason relevant to them is spam, which I'd like to avoid. There are 75,000 regular editors on Wikipedia, and I want to contact all of them. So how do I do it? Directly or indirectly, I don't care which, piecemeal or all-at-once, all methods are fine with me. But I've got to find ways. I need your help.

I would also like to know how to find or attract editors to create new outlines. And I need advice on finding editors to help write the new outline article mentioned above (it needs to be fleshed out, completely referenced, and brought to featured article status).

Can you recommend anyone in particular who might be interested in sinking their teeth into a project like this? Or ways to reach groups of editors? Or ways to reach all editors? I welcome any and all advice you might have.

I look forward to your reply on my talk page.

The Transhumanist 03:12, 1 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Resolved

 – Except for the archive thing, which you should stop being so LAZY!... –xeno^talk 15:44, 11 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Trying to get the archive box embedded in my User talk:Xeno/header to be middle-aligned, vertically speaking. Side note: archive ever? You've still got happy new years messages up there! 133 threads??? =) TIA –xeno^talk 14:12, 11 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

• Thingg! Your
  talk page stalkers are beating you now??? [1] ;> –xeno^talk 15:44, 11 June 2009 (UTC)[reply
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  • Well actually you might still be able to jump in here... It looks ok at 1280x and above but in 1024x it's still not quite middlefied. –xeno^talk 20:28, 11 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I deleted again the claim that Dras is the second coldest inhabited "place" in the world because, referenced or not, it is untrue and easily disproven. I would hope that we can agree that a website like weatherbase.com which holds climate data for the world can be taken to be more reliable than two websites about the town itself that would presumably not be considered reliable sources for anything else. Please let me know if you disagree. There are many other examples of inaccurate weather/climate information cited on Wikipedia but short of watchlisting every city article it is impossible for me to catch all of them. Note, also, that the IP who made the same deletion a few months ago was not me. Soap ^Talk/_{Contributions} 15:22, 19 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

found out about FF and MJ two days ago...now Billy Mays...No more oxyclean..=(

btw this is MidKnighthunter. Omnechist (talk) 18:50, 28 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, i saw your page in the Spanish Wikipedia and that vandalism in HL2...
I decided to look (again) at the page in English... I thought... Here it isn't any weapons or chapter section...
What do you think? Should it be one? Donkey del kongo (talk) 16:54, 6 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I accidentally recreated

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eMASS Article Deleted

I am wondering why the eMASS information post was deleted. It is government information that was for public distribution by a government entity. I thought it suitable to also convey what it is here. It is a Government-Owned-Off-the Shelf tool, not an Ad (read: it is not for sale). Taxpayers paid a lot of money for C&A practitioners to not know what it is, that it exists, and that it is supporting cyber policy - but gets deleted from wikipedia?? Thank you for your consideration of this request.Chubbs09 (talk) 22:15, 9 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know if either of the changes you made to the discussion section actually worked or not, but I changed the title to just plain "Mudkip" to try and help you to keep your sanity (I'm reasonably confident that won't trigger an alert).

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Why not just remove the word "Mudkip" from the alert list? The vandals seem to have died ages ago. --

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The vandals can't edit thru semi-protection because they prefer IPs to accounts. All their targets are semi'd indef. -Jeremy ^{(v^_^v Tear him for his bad verses!)} 02:20, 10 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

FYI, this user has reuploaded the copyright violations that you deleted under the same file name[2] [3] [4] and an IP claiming to be the copyright holder has shown up. [5] —

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Barbaro hoaxer appears to be back

It looks like they are back, see Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Mctrain. I suspect there are additional hidden socks considering they have used 2 different variable IPs before. Edward321 (talk) 23:06, 18 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I'm pretty new on wiki (I wasn't really active till now) and i hope you'll help me out. How can i add stuff like you've put 'userboxen' on my userpage? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tarunuday (talk • contribs) 11:51, 19 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Just a heads up that I started a GAR for PlayStation Portable here (pretty much all the other big contributors to the article are inactive, so ya.) Get the word out, I guess. --Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs ^(talk) 23:06, 15 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the compliment regarding this article. I am glad to hear that you enjoyed reading it, and I hope others are enjoying it as well. That may be the hope of every Wikipedia editor who decides to write and post an article. Thanks for acknowledging the effort in involved and for me to keep up the "awesome" work. Reading (or hearing) something like that is really helpful.

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Mark Weatherbe's page deleted

Hi This is Mark Weatherbe. I just ran across the deletion of page notice for my page. I did not know that I had a listing. It was probably my agent that put it up. The deletion says that there was blatant copyright infringment, but the flash of screen on first load looks like my biography off my web site and the same or similar is on the IMDB page. Please tell me what in my biography is a copyright infringment so I can fix it.

Thanks for your time,

82.44.60.176 (talk) 13:01, 17 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Mark Weatherbe

82.44.60.176 (talk) 13:01, 17 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hello: My name is Sam H. Hastings. I presume I should address you as thingg. So, here's a big hello, thingg. I noticed your name as having an interest in astronomical year numbering. I have been in a long-running debate with Joe Kress concerning his use of the sequence Year 2 BC,Year 1 BC, Year 0, Year AD 1 to justify placing the 1st year BC equal to Year 0 AD. He doesn't mention any Year 0 BC and it is so obvious that he has his cardinal years BC running backwards. They must be cardinal because of his particular usage. The Years BC need to be reversed in order to have "time" running forward. Do you thing I am on the right track? Your comments would be helpful. Sammy 22:34, 18 August 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Samhastings (talk • contribs)

Hello thingg!

I am a very new Wikipedia user (in terms of actual input). Today I went to log on, and noted there was a message waiting for me. When I looked I found this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:91.109.173.205&redirect=no

saying that I had 'vandalised' the '2008' page. I have never before visited this page, far less tried to edit it!

The IP address given isn't mine, according to my router settings.

I'd better enable email interaction in case something like this happens again, so I can react more quickly..

LotusElite (talk) 11:42, 7 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Casesamong

Hello, thingg!

I wanted to talk to you about Casesamong. Some one left me a message saying that I was Casesamong. I just wanted to say to you that that isn't true. I have no idea who this horrible person is, and who it is they are a perfect example of misuse of Wikipedia. Some how he left me a message on my talk page. Please Read It. (User talk:User:K.M.D1994) 1:46, September 23, 2009 (UTC)

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Why did you remove FrancisLightHouse's article?

This is what I posted see the text below:

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History About The Club & FrancisLightHouse

In 1993 The Old York was opened. The two owners to start The Old York were Hidey and JFrancis. Which The Old York closed its doors in 1995. Then the summer of 1995 the club reopened and clanged the name to The YF. About five years it closed in the fall of 1999. Latter on in 2000 the club opened and all so changed the name to The YF/Justin and moved to a new place with caused the club to close for two months. After two months The YF/JUSTIN reopened for one year then closed due to building problems and renovated and changed the name to The YF/JUSTIN-FR. Then in 2005, the club moved and all so changed the name to Francis Light House, which did not open. Francis Light House hopes to open this year of 2006. Witch FrancisLightHouse did not open. The clubs had a website for the club and some links that we thought it would be good for the club members to visit. After the most of the website had closed we thought we bring it back to life by crating a website for you to type in a url and goto the webpage with out clearing up ou address bar. FrancisLightHouse is also know as FLH. FLH Address was the first webpage and it is still up to day, And so is the clubs website. After a a wile FLH added place for use to search for links. That's now called "FLH Search" After that followed the other links that you see at the top of this webpage. On Thursday, September, 17, 2009 the Admin's of FrancisLightHouse stated to redesigen the homepage alone with the other pages. The new collor is yellow along with the orginal dark blue, and the top with the same lighthouse and the sea background.

So how is this copyrighting if I am the owner of the site and to small? Please tell me.

(74.99.83.3 (talk) 01:23, 26 September 2009 (UTC))[reply]

Obstaclex is still at it. You warned him a year ago on his Talk page. Would you be so kind as to intervene? --Robby.is.on (talk) 01:25, 5 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

In truth, I wanted to exclude all the random extra features, but decided to move it all to the right, so you can read it if ur a researcher, or you dont have to if you're just a standard reader, after all, it's a featured article which would be read a lot. The generation idea was from the talk page but the small font, bold font etc. took ages to think of. Thank you again. ★Ffgamera★ -

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I have to say though, that the reformatting of the entire article was only a very very small part my contribution. ★Ffgamera★ -

Talk to me!· Contribs 07:56, 13 October 2009 (UTC)[reply

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I'd appreciate another set of eyes on this page. User:Jky52 has been repeatedly been deleting sourced, but negative info about the Barbaro family. [6] [7] [8] while incorrectly dismissing a nonfiction source, claiming it's novel. [9] I added 5 new additional English and Italian sources. Jky52 blanked them again. [10] Edward321 (talk) 22:58, 18 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I am recreating the page for this Band. They are perfectly normal British band working on their second album. I am listeing to them play live on BBC 6 Music which is a national music station in the UK.--Tommo 87 (talk) 19:57, 27 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hye thingg, I was wondering if I could use your toolbox on my userpage? I really like it as I frequently visit a few parts of the 'pedia and to have all the links I need in one place would be great. Regards. AtheWeatherman 21:15, 27 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for participating in my RfA, which passed nearly unanimously with 174 in support, 2 in opposition and 1 neutral votes. Special thanks goes to RegentsPark, Samir and John Carter for their kind nomination and support. I am truly honored by the trust and confidence that the community has placed in me. I thank you for your kind inputs and I will be sincerely looking at the reasons that people opposed me so I can improve in those areas ( including my english ;) ). If you ever need anything please feel free to ask me and I would be happy to help you :). Have a great day ! -- Tinu Cherian - 04:29, 28 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry sir i couldn't reply the time you answered my request.I can understand the work you are doing (administrator wikipedia) is itself is huge in its kind.But i would love to work under you.So plz adopt and i wont mind if you dont reply too frequently after that.

thank you —Preceding unsigned comment added by Pannitan (talk • contribs) 07:20, 14 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, Thingg, for supporting me in talk) 12:08, 17 November 2009 (UTC)[reply ]

Hi, I was about to create a page detailing the 90's UK band 'Inaura' who supported the Human League and released four singles on EMI records and one album on ORG records before disbanding. They have a continuing cult appeal here in the UK and web content is very scarce regarding them. Anyway, I noticed that on 26/11/2008 you deleted a similarly titled page citing A7 (group) as the reason. Is it okay to proceed with a new page or not? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks! Davidkt 21:50, 17 November 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Davidkt (talk • contribs)

Can you establish

WP:MUSIC (or otherwise)?  Frank  |  talk  22:29, 17 November 2009 (UTC)[reply

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The single 'Coma Aroma' reached #57 in the UK in 1996 (http://www.chartstats.com/artistinfo.php?id=7772). Unfortunately, nothing else charted. Does this count? Or is an article not worthy? Thanks! Davidkt 17:15, 18 November 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Davidkt (talk • contribs)

imho, they are marginally notable at best, but I'd say go for it. However, if you don't want it to get tagged for deletion pretty quickly, I'd recommend that you find as many references to

reliable sources as you can and add them to the article. btw, if you put four tildes (~~~~) after your post, it will sign and date it for you. good luck with the article! Thingg^⊕⊗ 17:56, 18 November 2009 (UTC)[reply

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Cheers! Will do. I'd appreciate it if you'd let me know what you think when it's finished.--Davidkt 18:13, 18 November 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Davidkt (talk • contribs)

Hi there. I just noticed your involvement in the deletion of this article back in October because it did not assert its notability. While I agree that the content of the article was fairly poor, it did state that the player had made over 60 appearances in first-class cricket. Just in case you weren't aware, as per

this means the subject is notable. I would personally have simply removed the gunk from the article but not deleted it. Just a friendly point :)

Kind regards, SGGH ^ping! 10:18, 7 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, I had to comment here and say that [11] is freakin hilarious. Thanks for brightning my day just a little. --

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Merry X-Mas!

Happy Yuletides!

Merry Yuletides to you! (And a happy new year!)

Hello! Long time, no see. Anyways, just wanted to stop by and wish you a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Best regards, Schfifty3 03:02, 24 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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QualNet, formerly Scalable Network Technologies

Hello Thingg,

Almost a year ago, I attempted to publish a page that you deleted. It was not at all appropriate in tone; I was very clueless. I have since read a lot about how to make a real wikipedia article, and realized that QualNet is the place to start.

I just put the page up for review and it is in my sandbox. I sure hope to succeed eventually in placing appropriate content into the wikipedia universe, and having it remain.

Here it is: User:LBrown338/QualNet

If you have any insight / suggestions, please send them on.

Best Regards, LBrown338 (talk) 20:33, 14 January 2010 (UTC) Lucinda Brown 1/14/10[reply]

request to review bio of living person article

Hello Thingg, I just published a new article about a living person, the guy who created QualNet and started GloMoSim. You helped me get QualNet up to snuff. Could you have a look at Rajive Bagrodia and check whether it conforms to wikipedia guidelines? Thanks and Best Regards, LBrown338 (talk) 00:04, 19 February 2010 (UTC)LBrown338[reply]

Hi

I moved PSP to PSP (disambiguation) It is right, what do you say? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Asetwofifty (talk • contribs) 21:00, 17 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hello!

Hi! I'm from Montréal and we're gathering support for organizing Wikimania 2011 in Montréal! Would you like to support us? Thanks! --

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locator map

Regarding the map on Amatignak Island, why did you request that we not change the coordinates to correctly display the island's location? --Lasunncty (talk) 08:47, 21 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Thingg,
some star/sky uploads from you have been cv-tagged on Commons; seems the original license allows only NC use. Take a look. --Túrelio (talk) 07:42, 13 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Yangluo Bridge

DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

— Rlevse • Talk • 12:02, 4 June 2010 (UTC)[reply