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| :Not sure I follow you. I think I only flagged two of the templates in that series as being unfixable by someone w/o admin authority. I don't know enough about those templates to document them; I just noted that they have no /doc page and are protected, so I can't transclude one in the template page itself in either case. I'm not trying to get someone else to do my work for me, I'm trying to get someone to fix template coding errors (failure to transclude a /doc page) where they have the authority do so and I don't since I'm not an admin. All I'm doing is cleanup work making the template documentation and categorization consistent. Those who use these templates regularly should document them. — <font face="Trebuchet MS">''']''' <span style="white-space:nowrap;">] ʕ(<sup>Õ</sup>ل<sup>ō</sup>)ˀ</span> <small>].</small></font> 19:20, 27 September 2011 (UTC) | :Not sure I follow you. I think I only flagged two of the templates in that series as being unfixable by someone w/o admin authority. I don't know enough about those templates to document them; I just noted that they have no /doc page and are protected, so I can't transclude one in the template page itself in either case. I'm not trying to get someone else to do my work for me, I'm trying to get someone to fix template coding errors (failure to transclude a /doc page) where they have the authority do so and I don't since I'm not an admin. All I'm doing is cleanup work making the template documentation and categorization consistent. Those who use these templates regularly should document them. — <font face="Trebuchet MS">''']''' <span style="white-space:nowrap;">] ʕ(<sup>Õ</sup>ل<sup>ō</sup>)ˀ</span> <small>].</small></font> 19:20, 27 September 2011 (UTC) | ||
| ::All I'm saying is that if you are requesting that a /doc page be transcluded it would be helpful if you could create the /doc page beforehand, otherwise we are transcluding a blank page. Regards — Martin <small>(] · ])</small> 19:23, 27 September 2011 (UTC) | ::All I'm saying is that if you are requesting that a /doc page be transcluded it would be helpful if you could create the /doc page beforehand, otherwise we are transcluding a blank page. Regards — Martin <small>(] · ])</small> 19:23, 27 September 2011 (UTC) | ||
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| Re : {{done}} I also unset the protection on ]. I don't recall the exact circumstances that lead to that protection. I vaguely remember that the kiddies were attacking all of the templates listed in the ] article and I think I just swept through all of the unprotected templates. Not sure about that though. Anyways, the protection is unset. -- ] (]) 21:34, 27 September 2011 (UTC) | |||
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Unresolved old stuff
It says here in tautology to remind you...
Unresolved – Photo not uploaded yet.
It says in a comment on Tautology
Remind User:SMcCandlish to provide a photo of a street sign; might be a nice enhancement to the article. It's only about 2 miles away.
So I have. Best wishes SimonTrew (talk) 15:53, 27 April 2009 (UTC)
- Right, thanks. I'll try to remember to take a pic of it next time I drive past it. — SMcCandlish ‹(-¿-)› 21:03, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
- Damn I'm lazy! — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ʕ(ل)ˀ Contribs. 07:20, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
- I did take one but the sun was too low in the sky and the contrast is bad. Will try again at a different time of day, I guess. Morning is probably best. — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ʕ(ل)ˀ Contribs. 01:49, 30 December 2010 (UTC)
- Damn I'm lazy! — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ʕ(ل)ˀ Contribs. 07:20, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
Cueless billiards
Unresolved – Can't get at the stuff at Ancestry; try using addl. cards.
Categories are not my thing but do you think there are enough articles now or will be ever to make this necessary? Other than Finger billiards and possibly Carrom, what else is there?--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 11:12, 18 January 2010 (UTC)
- Crud fits for sure. And if the variant in it is sourceable, I'm sure some military editor will fork it into a separate article eventually. I think at least some variants of bar billiards are played with hands and some bagatelle split-offs probably were, too (Shamos goes into loads of them, but I get them all mixed up, mostly because they have foreign names). And there's bocce billiards, article I've not written yet. Very fun game. Kept my sister and I busy for 3 hours once. Her husband (Air Force doctor) actually plays crud on a regular basis; maybe there's a connection She beat me several times, so it must be from crud-playing. Hand pool might be its own article eventually. Anyway, I guess it depends upon your "categorization politics". Mine are pretty liberal - I like to put stuff into a logical category as long as there are multiple items for it (there'll be two as soon as you're done with f.b., since we have crud), and especially if there are multiple parent categories (that will be the case here), and especially especially if the split parallels the category structure of another related category branch (I can't think of a parallel here, so this criterion of mine is not a check mark in this case), and so on. A bunch of factors really. I kind of wallow in that stuff. Not sure why I dig the category space so much. Less psychodrama, I guess. >;-) In my entire time here, I can only think of maybe one categorization decision I've made that got nuked at CfD. And I'm a pretty aggressive categorizer, too; I totally overhauled Category:Pinball just for the heck of it and will probably do the same to Category:Darts soon.
- PS: I'm not wedded to the "cueless billiards" name idea; it just seemed more concise than "cueless developments from cue sports" or whatever.— SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ʕ(ل)ˀ Contribs. 11:44, 18 January 2010 (UTC)
- I have no "categorization politics". It's not an area that I think about a lot or has ever interested me so it's good there are people like you. If there is to be a category on this, "cueless billiards" seems fine to me. By the way, just posted Yank Adams as an adjunct to the finger billiards article I started.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 11:57, 18 January 2010 (UTC)
- Cool; I'd never even heard of him. This one looks like a good DYK; just the fact that there was Finger Billiards World Championship contention is funky enough, probably. You still citing that old version of Shamos? You really oughta get the 1999 version; it can be had from Amazon for cheap and has a bunch of updates. I actually put my old version in the recycle bin as not worth saving. Heh. PS: You seen Stein & Rubino 3rd ed.? I got one for the xmas before the one that just passed, from what was then a really good girlfriend. >;-) It's a-verra, verra nahce. Over 100 new pages, I think (mostly illustrations). — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ʕ(ل)ˀ Contribs. 13:41, 18 January 2010 (UTC)
- If I happen to come across it in a used book store I might pick it up. There's nothing wrong with citing the older edition (as I've said to you before). I had not heard of Adams before yesterday either. Yank is apparently not his real name, though I'm not sure what it is yet. Not sure there will be enough on him to make a DYK (though don't count it out). Of course, since I didn't userspace it, I have 4½ days to see. Unfortunately, I don't have access to ancestry.com and have never found any free database nearly as useful for finding newspaper articles (and census, birth certificates, and reams of primary source material). I tried to sign up for a free trial again which worked once before, but they got smart and are logging those who signed up previously. I just looked; the new Stein and Rubino is about $280. I'll work from the 2nd edition:-)--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 14:16, 18 January 2010 (UTC)
- Hmm... I haven't tried Ancestry in a while. They're probably logging IP addresses. That would definitely affect me, since mine doesn't change except once every few years. I guess that's what libraries and stuff are for. S&R: Should be available cheaper. Mine came with the Blue Book of Pool Cues too for under $200 total. Here it is for $160, plus I think the shipping was $25. Stein gives his e-mail address as that page. If you ask him he might give you the 2-book deal too, or direct you to where ever that is. Shamos: Not saying its an unreliable source (although the newer version actually corrected some entries), it's just cool because it has more stuff in it. :-) DYK: Hey, you could speedily delete your own article, sandbox it and come back. Heh. Seriously, I'll see if I can get into Ancestry again and look for stuff on him. I want to look for William Hoskins stuff anyway so I can finish that half of the Spinks/Hoskins story, which has sat in draft form for over a year. I get sidetracked... — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ʕ(ل)ˀ Contribs. 14:29, 18 January 2010 (UTC)
- It's not IPs they're logging, it's your credit card. You have to give them one in order to get the trial so that they can automatically charge you if you miss the cancellation deadline. Regarding the Blue Book, of all these books, that's the one that get's stale, that is, if you use it for actual quotes, which I do all the time, both for answer to questions and for selling, buying, etc. Yeah I start procrastinating too. I did all that work on Mingaud and now I can't get myself to go back. I also did reams of research on Hurricane Tony Ellin (thugh I found so little; I really felt bad when he died; I met him a few times, seemed like a really great guy), Masako Katsura and others but still haven't moved on them.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 18:31, 18 January 2010 (UTC)
- Ah, the credit card. I'll have to see if the PayPal plugin has been updated to work with the new Firefox. If so, that's our solution - it generates a new valid card number every time you use it (they always feed from your single PayPal account). — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ʕ(ل)ˀ Contribs. 18:37, 18 January 2010 (UTC)
- PayPal Plugin ist kaput. Some banks now issue credit card accounts that make use of virtual card numbers, but mine's not one of them. — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ʕ(ل)ˀ Contribs. 19:49, 8 February 2010 (UTC)
- Thanks for trying. It was worth a shot. I signed up for a newspaperarchive.com three month trial. As far as newspaper results go it seems quite good so far, and the search interface is many orders of magnitude better than ancestry's, but it has none of the genealogical records that ancestry provides. With ancestry I could probably find census info on Yank as well as death information (as well as for Masako Katsura, which I've been working on it for a few days; she could actually be alive, though she'd be 96).--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 04:52, 9 February 2010 (UTC)
- PayPal Plugin ist kaput. Some banks now issue credit card accounts that make use of virtual card numbers, but mine's not one of them. — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ʕ(ل)ˀ Contribs. 19:49, 8 February 2010 (UTC)
- Ah, the credit card. I'll have to see if the PayPal plugin has been updated to work with the new Firefox. If so, that's our solution - it generates a new valid card number every time you use it (they always feed from your single PayPal account). — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ʕ(ل)ˀ Contribs. 18:37, 18 January 2010 (UTC)
- It's not IPs they're logging, it's your credit card. You have to give them one in order to get the trial so that they can automatically charge you if you miss the cancellation deadline. Regarding the Blue Book, of all these books, that's the one that get's stale, that is, if you use it for actual quotes, which I do all the time, both for answer to questions and for selling, buying, etc. Yeah I start procrastinating too. I did all that work on Mingaud and now I can't get myself to go back. I also did reams of research on Hurricane Tony Ellin (thugh I found so little; I really felt bad when he died; I met him a few times, seemed like a really great guy), Masako Katsura and others but still haven't moved on them.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 18:31, 18 January 2010 (UTC)
- Hmm... I haven't tried Ancestry in a while. They're probably logging IP addresses. That would definitely affect me, since mine doesn't change except once every few years. I guess that's what libraries and stuff are for. S&R: Should be available cheaper. Mine came with the Blue Book of Pool Cues too for under $200 total. Here it is for $160, plus I think the shipping was $25. Stein gives his e-mail address as that page. If you ask him he might give you the 2-book deal too, or direct you to where ever that is. Shamos: Not saying its an unreliable source (although the newer version actually corrected some entries), it's just cool because it has more stuff in it. :-) DYK: Hey, you could speedily delete your own article, sandbox it and come back. Heh. Seriously, I'll see if I can get into Ancestry again and look for stuff on him. I want to look for William Hoskins stuff anyway so I can finish that half of the Spinks/Hoskins story, which has sat in draft form for over a year. I get sidetracked... — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ʕ(ل)ˀ Contribs. 14:29, 18 January 2010 (UTC)
- If I happen to come across it in a used book store I might pick it up. There's nothing wrong with citing the older edition (as I've said to you before). I had not heard of Adams before yesterday either. Yank is apparently not his real name, though I'm not sure what it is yet. Not sure there will be enough on him to make a DYK (though don't count it out). Of course, since I didn't userspace it, I have 4½ days to see. Unfortunately, I don't have access to ancestry.com and have never found any free database nearly as useful for finding newspaper articles (and census, birth certificates, and reams of primary source material). I tried to sign up for a free trial again which worked once before, but they got smart and are logging those who signed up previously. I just looked; the new Stein and Rubino is about $280. I'll work from the 2nd edition:-)--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 14:16, 18 January 2010 (UTC)
- Cool; I'd never even heard of him. This one looks like a good DYK; just the fact that there was Finger Billiards World Championship contention is funky enough, probably. You still citing that old version of Shamos? You really oughta get the 1999 version; it can be had from Amazon for cheap and has a bunch of updates. I actually put my old version in the recycle bin as not worth saving. Heh. PS: You seen Stein & Rubino 3rd ed.? I got one for the xmas before the one that just passed, from what was then a really good girlfriend. >;-) It's a-verra, verra nahce. Over 100 new pages, I think (mostly illustrations). — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ʕ(ل)ˀ Contribs. 13:41, 18 January 2010 (UTC)
- I have no "categorization politics". It's not an area that I think about a lot or has ever interested me so it's good there are people like you. If there is to be a category on this, "cueless billiards" seems fine to me. By the way, just posted Yank Adams as an adjunct to the finger billiards article I started.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 11:57, 18 January 2010 (UTC)
Sad...
How well forgotten some very well known people are. The more I read about Yank Adams, the more I realize he was world famous. Yet, he's almost completely unknown today and barely mentioned even in modern billiard texts.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 13:47, 21 January 2010 (UTC)
- Reading stuff from that era, it's also amazing how important billiards (in the three-ball sense) was back then, with sometimes multiple-page stories in newspapers about each turn in a long match, and so on. It's like snooker is today in the UK. PS: I saw that you found evidence of a billiards stage comedy there. I'd never heard of it! — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ʕ(ل)ˀ Contribs. 15:17, 21 January 2010 (UTC)
- Jackpot. Portrait, diagrams, sample shot descriptions and more (that will also lend itself to the finger billiards article).--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 01:34, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
- Nice find! — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ʕ(ل)ˀ Contribs. 06:07, 27 January 2010 (UTC)
- Jackpot. Portrait, diagrams, sample shot descriptions and more (that will also lend itself to the finger billiards article).--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 01:34, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
Why were there huge spikes in my talk page's number of visitors?
Unresolved – It's still a mystery, as of August 2011..jpeg){kind=small} | Beware! This user's talk page is patrolled by talk page stalkers. |
This is really weird.
For August 2009, my talk page showed up in the Falsikon page stats tool as the 136th most popular page on English Misplaced Pages, with 14,836 visitors and 39,827 pagevuews], ahead of Brad Pitt, Rhianna, Johnny Depp, New York City, the Philippines, Shakira, etc., etc. This just can't be right. I mean, sure I'm pretty cool I like to think, and I'm even famous among the "digerati" (I was arguably the world's first professional online activist, and anyone following the Internet censorship and privacy issues of the 1990s to early 2000s knows my name from my work at EFF). But really, people not involved in those socio-political issues would not know me from Adam (my book is long out-of-print too, and never was a big seller).
My current guess is that some runaway bot or other tool must've done this. In August of 2009, the page views were even more excessive at 39,827, compared to a much more normal 314 a month earlier, 206 in September 2009, and 195 as of last month (August 2010). My user (non-talk) page didn't see changes of this sort, and has remained in the 100–300 range throughout 2009 and 2010, which strongly suggests automated behavior (if nearly 40K actual humans were reading my talk page in one month, readership of my user page would also have significantly increased, since humans are curious and scripts are not). — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ʕ(ل)ˀ Contribs. 19:14, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
The original threads that alerted me to this weirdness:
Curious
Why your talk page got so many hits in 2009. http://wikistics.falsikon.de/latest/wikipedia/en/ Rich Farmbrough, 21:05, 25 April 2010 (UTC).
- Hell if I know! Weird. Someone below comments that it still seems to be happening. Any theories? — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ʕ(ل)ˀ Contribs. 07:18, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
Popularity
I can see you are a major contributor to WP, but why are you the 136th most accessed page here in august? Just curious, but I will watch you to see what i can learn here, im not just a grazer, im trying to improve my editing skills.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 01:29, 19 August 2010 (UTC)
- Where'd you see those statistics? I can't imagine that my user and/or talk pages could be that interesting to anyone. — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ʕ(ل)ˀ Contribs. 22:37, 2 September 2010 (UTC)
- The stats page is here, and another place where you register is for your user page here and your talk page here. fascinating, what? I have absolutely no idea how this is possible, i dont know how these pages function, im not a programmer, so good luck. id love to learn anything you learn about this.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 01:38, 5 September 2010 (UTC)
- Oh, i just noticed, these are for august 2009. my error, but still just as strange. were you appointed supreme ruler of WP in august of last year? PS i found all this starting at Mercurywoodrose (talk) 01:42, 5 September 2010 (UTC)
- Nah, quite the opposite, really. I think I'm fairly well-respected as an editor, but I've been rejected for adminship twice. (I've apparently grated on number of people's nerves, because I get frustrated and testy, and allegedly my civility decreases when this happens). — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ʕ(ل)ˀ Contribs. 06:53, 5 September 2010 (UTC)
- Well I was curious and have seen how many users watch you userpage. And currently 99 user watchlist this page.
Armbrust Contribs 07:49, 19 February 2011 (UTC)
- Well I was curious and have seen how many users watch you userpage. And currently 99 user watchlist this page.
- Nah, quite the opposite, really. I think I'm fairly well-respected as an editor, but I've been rejected for adminship twice. (I've apparently grated on number of people's nerves, because I get frustrated and testy, and allegedly my civility decreases when this happens). — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ʕ(ل)ˀ Contribs. 06:53, 5 September 2010 (UTC)
- Oh, i just noticed, these are for august 2009. my error, but still just as strange. were you appointed supreme ruler of WP in august of last year? PS i found all this starting at Mercurywoodrose (talk) 01:42, 5 September 2010 (UTC)
- The stats page is here, and another place where you register is for your user page here and your talk page here. fascinating, what? I have absolutely no idea how this is possible, i dont know how these pages function, im not a programmer, so good luck. id love to learn anything you learn about this.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 01:38, 5 September 2010 (UTC)
Cite4Wiki
Unresolved – New version for FireFox 4.x not released yet.
Updates to this are very welcome, thanks. One thing though - it doesn't seem to use the vertical form any more, could this be fixed (or added as an option) in future releases? pablo 12:28, 31 January 2011 (UTC)
- Working on it. Probably won't release until FF4.x is out of beta (if it isn't already - haven't checked in a few weeks). Vertical format will be an option, but one that you have to manually enable. Have no had time to work out the code for actually installing an Otions menu and supporting functionality. Going with horizontal layout by popular demand, though I prefer the vertical format myself. — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ʕ(ل)ˀ Contribs. 01:21, 18 February 2011 (UTC)
- Every time I think about messing with it other stuff comes out, and or another version of Firefox hits public beta... — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ʕ(ل)ˀ Contribs. 16:23, 12 August 2011 (UTC)
Look at the main page
Unresolved – Katsura News added (with new TFA section) to WP:CUE; need to see if I can add anything useful to Mingaud article.
--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 03:37, 31 January 2011 (UTC)
- Since you don't appear to have seen this near to the time I left it, it might be a little cryptic without explanation. Masako Katsura was today's featured article on January 31, 2011.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 20:26, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
- Supah-dupah! That kicks. WP:CUE's (and your?) first TFA, yes?! And yeah I have been away a lot lately. Long story. — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ʕ(ل)ˀ Contribs. 01:22, 18 February 2011 (UTC)
- Indeed, my first, though I have another in the works (not billiards related). I think François Mingaud could be a candidate in the near future. I really wanted to work it up to near FA level before posting it but another user created it recently, not realizing my draft existed, and once they did realize, copied some of my content without proper copyright attribution and posted to DYK. I have done a history merge though the newer, far less developed content is what's seen in the article now. I'm going to merge the old with the new soon. Glad to see your back.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 16:15, 20 February 2011 (UTC)
- My front and sides are visible too. ;-) Anyway, glad you beat me to Mingaud. I'd been thinking of doing that one myself, but it seemed a bit daunting. I may have some tidbits for it. Lemme know when your merged version goes up, and I'll see what I have that might not already be in there. Probably not earthshaking, just a few things I found in 1800s-1910s books. — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ʕ(ل)ˀ Contribs. 16:21, 23 February 2011 (UTC)
- Indeed, my first, though I have another in the works (not billiards related). I think François Mingaud could be a candidate in the near future. I really wanted to work it up to near FA level before posting it but another user created it recently, not realizing my draft existed, and once they did realize, copied some of my content without proper copyright attribution and posted to DYK. I have done a history merge though the newer, far less developed content is what's seen in the article now. I'm going to merge the old with the new soon. Glad to see your back.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 16:15, 20 February 2011 (UTC)
- Supah-dupah! That kicks. WP:CUE's (and your?) first TFA, yes?! And yeah I have been away a lot lately. Long story. — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ʕ(ل)ˀ Contribs. 01:22, 18 February 2011 (UTC)
New stuff
Template:Cuegloss
Unresolved – There's actually still one bug going on there.
Hey Stanton. Something's going on with definitions linked through {{cuegloss}}. I see them as not very noticeably underlined with a dotted line, rather than linked in blue like a regular wikilink. Is it just me or is this some wider change?--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 13:00, 31 May 2011 (UTC)
- That's something intentional being tried out with
<dfn>markup. Most of the time (when cuegloss is used in an article outside of the glossary article itself), it should also be a blue link. If you are never seeing it blue-link, that's evidence of a problem... — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ʕ(ل)ˀ Contribs. 16:44, 31 May 2011 (UTC)- Below is a screenshot of what I'm seeing (an excerpt from Cue sports) containing 9 cuegloss links:
File:Problem with linking.png--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 19:56, 31 May 2011 (UTC)
- Not that bad, but not what was intended. It should look that way inside the glossary itself, since the links are not to another page. Anyway, the idea is to reduce the "sea of blue" effect a bit by having terms that need definition for some readers and marked up with
<dfn>, either just have a definition in a mouseover tool-tip, and look like what you screencapped, a style that's becoming kind of a de facto standard around the Web, or be a link to a glossary entry if one exists (with a tool-tip in this case giving the glossary and entry name). What should happen in those latter cases is that it should show up as a blue link, since it is a link out of the article, but also have the subtle underlining and tool-tip since it is also a definitional item and not an indication of a link to a full-scale article on the term. But the blue's not showing up now. I think this means someone's messed with the cuegloss code or the code of the underlying meta-template or something since last I looked at it. The appearance we're seeing at articles like cue sports is what we should see at glossary of cue sports terms itself, since the cuegloss links are internal to the article, but this "minimalist" effect shouldn't happen in other articles. I think someone's made or making a template that works similarly for Wiktionary links; it would underline them like this to indicate a purely definitional link, but also use the light blue external link color like it would normally for an offsite link like that. Anyway, I'll look into the geeky details and see why the CSS isn't working right. — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ʕ(ل)ˀ Contribs. 07:52, 1 June 2011 (UTC)
- Not that bad, but not what was intended. It should look that way inside the glossary itself, since the links are not to another page. Anyway, the idea is to reduce the "sea of blue" effect a bit by having terms that need definition for some readers and marked up with
- If it helps at all, I'm seeing this in Firefox and Safari on two different computers, both macs. Are you seeing this as well?--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 12:37, 1 June 2011 (UTC)
- Yeah. Someone changed something. Whilethe underline should be there to indicate it's just a definitional link, the blue should be there too, outside of the glossary itself. At least that was the theory last time I looked. Probably not a huge deal either way - it all still functions. Will look into it shortly. — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ʕ(ل)ˀ Contribs. 16:22, 1 June 2011 (UTC)
- It appears to be fixed now. Whether that's the result of your action or not, thanks for looking into it.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 18:20, 6 June 2011 (UTC)
- Yeah. Someone changed something. Whilethe underline should be there to indicate it's just a definitional link, the blue should be there too, outside of the glossary itself. At least that was the theory last time I looked. Probably not a huge deal either way - it all still functions. Will look into it shortly. — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ʕ(ل)ˀ Contribs. 16:22, 1 June 2011 (UTC)
- Below is a screenshot of what I'm seeing (an excerpt from Cue sports) containing 9 cuegloss links:
Some more notes on Crystalate
Unresolved – New sources/material worked into article, but unanswered questions remain.
Some more notes: they bought Royal Worcester in 1983 and sold it the next year, keeping some of the electronics part.; info about making records:; the chair in 1989 was Lord Jenkin of Roding:; "In 1880, crystalate balls made of nitrocellulose, camphor, and alcohol began to appear. In 1926, they were made obligatory by the Billiards Association and Control Council, the London-based governing body." Amazing Facts: The Indispensable Collection of True Life Facts and Feats. Richard B. Manchester - 1991; a website about crystalate and other materials used for billiard balls:. Fences&Windows 23:37, 12 July 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks! I'll have to have a look at this stuff in more detail. — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ʕ(ل)ˀ Contribs. 15:54, 16 July 2011 (UTC)
- I've worked most of it in. Fences&Windows 16:01, 17 July 2011 (UTC)
- Cool! From what I can tell, entirely different parties held the trademark in different markets. I can't find a link between Crystalate Mfg. Co. Ltd. (mostly records, though billiard balls early on) and the main billiard ball mfr. in the UK, who later came up with "Super Crystalate". I'm not sure the term was even used in the U.S. at all, despite the formulation having been originally patented there. — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ʕ(ل)ˀ Contribs. 21:04, 17 July 2011 (UTC)
- I've worked most of it in. Fences&Windows 16:01, 17 July 2011 (UTC)
Invitation to New Orleans developers' meeting
Resolved – Just a notice.
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WikiCite project in development
Hello SMcC, the m:WikiCite project proposal is gaining some interest again. Your insights and suggestions would be welcome. – SJ + 04:11, 25 August 2011 (UTC)
September 2011 Newsletter for WikiProject United States
Resolved – Just a project notice.
The September 2011 issue of the WikiProject United States newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you.
--Kumioko (talk) 01:39, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
Biological taxonomy
Resolved – No contest.
It's great to try to make articles easier to understand and work, but can you be a little careful, to avoid getting them wrong or confusing? When citing names in zoological nomenclature, parentheses have a specific use, to state that a name was originally given in a different genus: changing parentheses could make zoological articles decidedly confusing, so I've reverted all such changes you made to Synonym (taxonomy). At nomen nudum, taxonomy and nomenclature are not the same thing (though the previous text wasn't good either), and there's cultivated plant nomenclature as well. —innotata 23:59, 8 September 2011 (UTC)
- Fair enough. — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ʕ(ل)ˀ Contribs. 22:10, 12 September 2011 (UTC)
Research into the user pages of Wikipedians: Invitation to participate
Greetings,
My name is John-Paul and I am a student with the University of Alberta specializing in Communications and Technology.
I would like to include your Misplaced Pages user page in a study I am doing about how people present themselves online. I am interested in whether people see themselves in different ways, online and offline. One of the things I am looking at is how contributors to Misplaced Pages present themselves to each other through their user pages. Would you consider letting me include your user page in my study?
With your consent, I will read and analyze your user page, and ask you five short questions about it that will take about ten to fifteen minutes to answer. I am looking at about twenty user pages belonging to twenty different people. I will be looking at all user pages together, looking for common threads in the way people introduce themselves to other Wikipedians.
I hope that my research will help answer questions about how people collaborate, work together, and share knowledge. If you are open to participating in this study, please reply to this message, on your User Talk page or on mine. I will provide you with a complete description of my research, which you can use to decide if you want to participate.
Thank-you,
John-Paul Mcvea
University of Alberta
jmcvea@ualberta.ca
Johnpaulmcvea (talk) 21:29, 22 September 2011 (UTC)
- Sure. Keep in mind that "my user page" is actually a bunch of pages, some transcluded inline like templates, and some, like User:SMcCandlish/Personal just linked. And, yes, people do present themselves differently online and offline. They can even see the world differently and behave differently. For example, when I take the MBTI personality sorter (Meyers-Briggs) I show up as INTJ when I answer the questions with reference to my offline life, but ENFP (different on three of four axes!) when I provide answers based on my online life. — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ʕ(ل)ˀ Contribs. 21:37, 22 September 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks for your interest and also for your comments -- it sounds like you and I could talk about this at length. Let me finish the data-gathering phase of this project, though, first : ) I am going to post my short questionnaire to your user page. Please know, too, that I will not limit myself to your one user page in wikipedia -- I will look at linked components as well. Thanks again for your interest and your help -- my questions are to follow. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Johnpaulmcvea (talk • contribs) 20:06, 26 September 2011 (UTC)
- Okey-dokey. — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ʕ(ل)ˀ Contribs. 21:09, 26 September 2011 (UTC)
Thank-you for agreeing to participate in my study
Hello again,
Here is the questionnaire I alluded to yesterday when we were talking about my study, entitled “Online Self-presentation among Wikipedians.” I meant to send these to you yesterday, but I must have become distracted and I did not post them to your user page. Sorry about that. These five questions will help me to understand your motivations for creating a user page such as yours. In responding, please be as brief or as thorough as you like.
5 QUESTIONS
- Are you a member of social networks such Facebook or MySpace?
- In addition to maintaining a user page in Misplaced Pages, have you also written or edited articles? If so, about how many times?
- What are the key messages about yourself that you hope to convey with your user page?
- Have your Misplaced Pages contributions ever received feedback, such as being edited by others or commented on? Have you received a message from another Misplaced Pages user? If so, do you think your user page positively or negatively affected what other people said and how they said it?
- Do you see your “online self” as being different from your “offline self?” Can you elaborate?
Please indicate your answers to these questions on your talk page, or on mine. Please respond by October 1st so that I have time to properly read your responses. If you like, you can email your answers to me instead (jmcvea@ualberta.ca).
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ADDITONAL INFORMATION Background • I am asking you to participate in a research project that is part of my MA degree. • I am asking you because you have created a user page in Misplaced Pages that other people can use to learn about you. Purpose • My research is about how people present themselves online. • I will look at how people present themselves when presenting themselves to the Misplaced Pages community. Study Procedures • With your consent, I will analyze the language of your user page and gather basic statistics such as the count of words, the frequency of words, the number of sections, and so on. • I will also read the text of your user page, looking for elements in common with ads posted by other people. I will note whether you include a picture, or links to other content on the internet. • I ask you to answer my five questions, above. This will take about ten to fifteen minutes to complete. I will ask you to answer the questions within a week, and send your answers to me. • Throughout my research, I will adhere to the University of Alberta Standards for the Protection of Human Research Participants, which you can view at http://www.uofaweb.ualberta.ca/gfcpolicymanual/policymanualsection66.cfm Benefits • There is no direct benefit to you for participating in this research. You may, however, find it interesting to read my perspective on how you present yourself online. • I hope that the information I get from doing this study will help understand how technology affects the way people come together into a society. • There is no reward or compensation for participating in this research. Risk • There is no direct risk for participating in this research. Voluntary Participation • You are under no obligation to participate in this study. Participation is completely voluntary. • You can opt out of this study at any time before October 10, 2011, with no penalty. You can ask to have me withdraw any data that I have collected about you. Even if you agree to be in the study, you can change your mind and withdraw. • If you decline to continue or you wish to withdraw from the study, your information will be removed from the study at your request. Confidentiality • This research will be used to support a project that is part of my MA degree. • A summary of my research will be available on the University of Alberta website. • Your personally identifiable information will be deleted and digitally shredded as soon as I have finished gathering data about you. • Data will be kept confidential. Only I will have access to the computer file containing the data. It will be password protected. It will not be sent by email or stored online. • I will always handle my data in compliance with University of Alberta standards. • If you would like to receive a copy of my final report, please ask. Further Information • If you have any further questions regarding this study, please do not hesitate to contact Dr. Stanley Varnhagen, my research advisor for this project. If you have concerns about this study, you may contact the University of Alberta Research Ethics Committee at 780-492-2615. This office has no affiliation with the study investigators. Indicating Consent By answering these questions, you indicate your agreement with the following statements: • That you understand that you have been asked to be in a research study. • That you have read and received a copy of the Information Sheet, attached below (“Additional Information”). • That you understand the benefits and risks involved in taking part in this research study. • That you have had an opportunity to ask questions and discuss this study. • That you understand that you are free to refuse to participate, or to withdraw from the study at any time, without consequence, and that your information will be withdrawn at your request. • That the issue of confidentiality been explained to you and that you understand who will have access to your information (see “Additional Information”). • That you agree to participate. |
Thank you again : )
Johnpaulmcvea (talk) 19:24, 27 September 2011 (UTC)
Template documentation
Resolved – Declined – I'm not in a position to fix this.
It would be helpful if you would create a basic documentation page for the templates you have been placing requests on, instead of asking someone else to do the work for you :) I've created the pages for the first three; perhaps you could write the documentation for those? Cheers — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 19:16, 27 September 2011 (UTC)
- Not sure I follow you. I think I only flagged two of the templates in that series as being unfixable by someone w/o admin authority. I don't know enough about those templates to document them; I just noted that they have no /doc page and are protected, so I can't transclude one in the template page itself in either case. I'm not trying to get someone else to do my work for me, I'm trying to get someone to fix template coding errors (failure to transclude a /doc page) where they have the authority do so and I don't since I'm not an admin. All I'm doing is cleanup work making the template documentation and categorization consistent. Those who use these templates regularly should document them. — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ʕ(ل)ˀ Contribs. 19:20, 27 September 2011 (UTC)
- All I'm saying is that if you are requesting that a /doc page be transcluded it would be helpful if you could create the /doc page beforehand, otherwise we are transcluding a blank page. Regards — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 19:23, 27 September 2011 (UTC)
Re: Remove full protection on trivial template, please
Re your message: 
Done I also unset the protection on Template:Not sure. I don't recall the exact circumstances that lead to that protection. I vaguely remember that the kiddies were attacking all of the templates listed in the Template:done article and I think I just swept through all of the unprotected templates. Not sure about that though. Anyways, the protection is unset. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 21:34, 27 September 2011 (UTC)