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Revision as of 12:34, 10 January 2004

Greetings

Welcome Raul,

You have done a good job so far in Misplaced Pages (a.k.a. 'Pedia or WP). I can see that you're a serious Wikipedian interested in improving our project. If you stay for a while, you'll discovered that collectively, we're a cooperative and friendly community. We are all here to learn, and hopefully can give something back. If you have questions or doubts of any sort, do not hesitate to post them on the Village Pump, somebody will respond ASAP. Other helpful pages include:

• Misplaced Pages:How does one edit a page
• Misplaced Pages:Manual of style
• Misplaced Pages:Naming conventions

Just keep in mind that while relevant discussions and constructive criticisms and are welcome, unproductive and/or destructive insults are not (see Wikiquette).

Who knows? Perhaps you'll soon become a Wikipediholic and make it into the list of Misplaced Pages:Most active Wikipedians! :-) --Lypheklub 20:42, Aug 31, 2003 (UTC)
p.s. Simply type four tildes (~~~~), then you can sign you name and date like I just did with mine. And please always do so after your post in Talk/discussion pages and Village Pump.

Pundit

Hello Raul. You edited the page to remove the (pundit) and that will send it to a disambiguation page now (as it did before). If you return the (pundit) to the article, it will link directly to the correct reference for Bill O'Rielly. pk 20:21, 1 Sep 2003 (UTC)

Sony V Betamax

Raul, welcome to Misplaced Pages. Thanks for adding the link to the Sony (Betamax case) to Fair use; I've gone ahead and placed in it the appropriate section of the fair use factors analysis. Just to let you know you don't have to put underscores inside links. Also when putting cases in articles the convention is to make them italics on the outside of the link. Here is the example: '']'' . Alex756 07:22, 4 Sep 2003 (UTC)

RYE and Rye

Hi Raul. Welcome to Misplaced Pages. I deleted RYE as you requested. I moved the content there to Talk:Rye so that is can be merged into the main article at Rye as necessary. Fortunately both articles said much the same thing so there really isn't much to merge. Hope that's all ok with you. Pete 14:17, 17 Sep 2003 (UTC)

Use minor edit less often

Just a kind request...please only use 'minor edit' for changes in spelling and formatting. Adding complete sentences are *not* minor edits :) Kingturtle 08:04, 20 Sep 2003 (UTC)

Redirects

re: Nero emperor. Redirects are the non-sysop's deletion. Cheers, Cyan 05:16, 21 Sep 2003 (UTC)

Pics policies

Raul, I've taken the liberty of adding some information on an image description page about the claimed fair use (implied) photo that you recently posted. It is a good idea to add a bit of analysis regarding fair use, thus people know it is fair use and know why you (or someone else like me) consider it fair use. That will help prevent any controversy (hopefully) and will make sure that someone does not inadvertantly think that it might be fair use in a downstream license situation that might not be so. Alex756 05:59, 2 Oct 2003 (UTC)

• Ok, thanks for the heads up

Alan Turing

Hello, I had a question regarding the Alan Turing photo you uploaded. It's at Image_talk:Alan_Turing.jpg. Cheers, AxelBoldt 21:23, 9 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Whoops

In the future please merge. Simply deleting valid info is not an accepted practice around here (the exact day was deleted in the Nixon article). --mav

It's alright. :) I should have paid better attention in the first place. --mav

thanks!

that article is very easy to understand. thanks for putting in the effort. and thanks for letting me know. Kingturtle 11:19, 11 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Computer science v computer engineering

Regarding CS vs. CE in interrupt -- I'm on a bit of an endeavor to turn some of the less-likely uses of "computer science" into uses of more specific or accurate terms. (For instance, "computer virus" has to do with computing, but isn't a CS term.) Interrupt is an edge case; the page describes interrupts mostly from the standpoint of the processor and hardware rather than the OS. It can go either way, but there aren't enough links to computer engineering anyhow, and too many to computer science, so your field gets one more. :) --FOo 04:57, 12 Dec 2003 (UTC)

mental connection

well, there is obviously a connection between what i want to know and what you want to express! keep up the good work! Kingturtle 07:30, 12 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Re requested articles - the user is an IP range that is a known vandal - also look at the number of things s/he removes from the listing. -- Pakaran 13:52, 13 Dec 2003 (UTC)

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Google Likes (delete)

Raul wrote:

On the Misplaced Pages:List of articles frequently visited through Google, you deleted Fuzheado's VFD notice saying votes for deletion comment is obviously obsolete. Can you explain this? It is currently listed on the VFD page, making it (IMHO) quite pertinent. --Raul654 07:00, 16 Dec 2003 (UTC)

I looked at the dates on the Google page and saw they went way back, and couldn't fathom that the page would be up for deletion. I assumed wrong. Sorry. Notice should be restored.

Sterlingda 07:21, 16 Dec 2003 (UTC)

You're an admin

You're now an administrator. -- Tim Starling 08:19, Dec 18, 2003 (UTC)

It was demanded on Misplaced Pages talk:Administrators that I wait at least one week before sysopping. Other than that, there is no official policy. -- Tim Starling 08:37, Dec 18, 2003 (UTC)

Admin policies

Please could you read the Deletion policy and Deletion guidelines for administrators before you delete anything else. Pages need to be listed on VfD for at least five days before they are deleted, unless they meet the criteria for speedy deletion. NFL Fantasy Football - Week 17 - Playoffs/Finals Week certainly does not meet these criteria. Thanks. Angela. 06:12, 20 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Hmmm, try Misplaced Pages:Administrators' reading list, and in particular the pages I linked above, along with Misplaced Pages:Protection policy and Misplaced Pages:Bans and blocks. In summary, don't delete anything other than obvious junk unless it's been on VfD 5 days, don't edit a protected page, don't protect a page you've edited, don't ban without warning and you'll be fine. :) Good luck with the adminship. Angela. 06:54, 20 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Finally

Thanks for the recent anatomy articles. I am going thru the requested articles page and clearing up the new ones. --Merovingian 07:40, Dec 22, 2003 (UTC)

Actually, I woulda gotten around to some of them; I have a nice big health book, LOL! --Merovingian 09:47, Dec 22, 2003 (UTC)

Brilliant Prose

I'd rather have the discussion occur at Talk:Main page (we can always archive) than in your user subpage since it's a general discussion and not user specific (for better record keeping). Let's first figure out where to put it... I say right above the aniversaries to begin with, and we'll move it elsewhere when people complain about scrolling. --Jiang 21:47, 22 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Foundation's Friends

Hey, sweet. That book actually sounds interesting, think I might grab a copy. I didn't read any of the unofficial novels as I don't like someone else adding stuff to someone else's world, but short stories just set in it sounds like a very interesting idea. How was it anyway? Worth taking a look?

Rudolf Heß vs. Rudolf Hess

Hi, with regard to the question which of the two pages given above should be a redirect to the other one - it may be true that "Hess" is the traditional english spelling, but the correct spelling of the (german) name is "Heß", so don't you think that Rudolf Hess should redirect to Rudolf Heß instead of vice versa? Just a thought. :) -- Schnee 01:37, 27 Dec 2003 (UTC)

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Village Pump

Thanks for your kind words at the Village Pump. Ensiform

Groin

The groin article you requested has now been created --Raul654 06:09, 27 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Thanks. As you can see, 5 articles pointed to it and even a stub helps bridge the gap. Davodd 11:19, Dec 27, 2003 (UTC)

User:Mark

Hi :) I was thinking about adminship just last night, would you believe. "What would I do if somebody nominated me?" And I came to the conclusion that I am content editing Misplaced Pages as I am. Maybe one day I will request adminship, but I would like to spend more time proving myself to my fellow Wikipedians before that occurs - I have only made around 750 edits in the last 2 years. I do not feel that I have gained the full confidence of the other administrators. Maybe one day I'll be comfortable being an administrator, but for the present I am happy as I am. :-) - Mark 01:58, 10 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Yep, sure will. By the way, I was planning to message you a few days ago when I saw on your user page that your name is Mark (but for some reason never got around to it). Do you mind me having the user name User:Mark? I can change it back to User:Mark_Ryan if you'd like me to. I didn't realise there were so many Marks on Misplaced Pages. - Mark 05:48, 10 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:protected page

I've reverted your last edit to Misplaced Pages:protected page. You removed text that was added only a few hours ago and items which are obviously still under dispute such as death camp. You also did not even link to an archive of these. There needs to be a record kept of items removed, hence the links to the version prior to the removal at the bottom of the page. Please only remove things which are not likely to need protecting again soon so people can see that the page was recently protected. I can't see any reason you removed the discussion related to the Administrators page you protected. Angela. 11:34, Jan 10, 2004 (UTC)

The comments mav and Brion made about protecting the page are still relevant. That's why I put them there as it would appear as I think tthese should have been taken these into consideration when you protected the page. I explained this on the page, so it would look a bit odd to have my explanation of this without the comments themselves actually being there. Angela. 12:34, Jan 10, 2004 (UTC)