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Revision as of 07:14, 20 February 2005

Again, welcome! ugen64 00:14, Mar 24, 2004 (UTC)

Hello Fishal. My name is Keyvan. I am a regular contributor to Misplaced Pages. I was away for a while and I just noticed your improvement to the article on Persia. I just wanted to say you did a great job and the article looks much better now. Thanks for your efforts. --K1 07:35, 6 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Sorry about that revert. You had not made the change with your login id and the history showed an IP number, and it had coincided with a series of other changes to Iran-related pages by an anonymous user. So without paying closer attention I must have quickly reverted along with a bunch of other reverts. it was not intentional. --K1 02:08, 2 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Dwarf tossing

Dwarf tossing is real. anthony (see warning) 17:16, 3 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Internet history

I replied to your request - not sure I have an easy answer. Noel 02:52, 4 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Now that I think about it (and I have no idea why I didn't think of this before!) I definitely would recommend Katie Hafner's book. It's written for the ordinary reader, but has all the technical details rigs. Of course, it's also book-length! Noel (talk) 15:08, 10 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Noel, thanks for your concern over this! I wish there was some way I could help here. There just has to be a way to communicate the BASIC technical know-how to the wider world; that is what Misplaced Pages is for. -Fishal

Sure; if ordinary people can't understand it, we have work to do, is my feeling. I have an idea: I translated the sentence you were gagging on (on Talk: History of the Internet). If you wander around that set of pages, and post similar questions on Talk: pages, I can answer them. In return, once you have asked enough questions to really understand things, if you would then help future readers by inserting appropriate explanations, etc that would really make it worthwhile.

PS: Misplaced Pages style is that people generally reply on the User_Talk: page of the person who wrote a message to them (that way, someone doesn't have to monitor a whole long list of User_Talk: pages - one for each person whom they are having a "conversation" with), so please leave any messages for me on my talk page (although I do monitor the article talk pages for most articles, so replying there for non-personal inquiries works fine. Noel (talk) 18:07, 10 Nov 2004 (UTC)

PPS: I'd be interested to see what you think of Packet and Internet Protocol, where I have already done a little work to make them a little more intelligible to non-technical people. (Not that they are perfect, by any means, but they do include paragraphs intended to be intelligible to all and sundry.) Most of the others, e.g. Transmission Control Protocol are pretty horrendous... Noel (talk) 18:16, 10 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Well, I don't know about "soon", but we are working on it! Noel (talk) 23:41, 10 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Civilization

Template:PR-reminder - Taxman 04:36, Sep 9, 2004 (UTC)

Duplicate page prevention

When you create a page like Emperor Wu Zong of Tang China, it's really wise to create redirects at Emperor Wu Zong of China and Emperor Wu Zong, etc, to prevent creation of duplicate articles by people who look under those names, see no article there, and assume one needs to be written. Noel (talk) 15:22, 10 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Whoops. I had done Wu Zong, Tang Wu Zong, Wu Tsung, dang, this guy has far too many names. Thanks for covering my oversight. -Fishal

Internet pages improval

Hi, I just re-wrote the intro section of Transmission Control Protocol to be hopefully more comprehensible to non-geeks. (The old version was a perfect example of the kind of "assumes the reader already understands all this stuff" problem you pointed out.) I'd be interested in any feedback you had about whether the new version is more accessible. Noel (talk) 14:42, 14 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Columbian Exchange

I Ben, I liked your article on the Columbian Exchange. I added a few sentences on diseases, a chart, and an external source. I hope you will approve.--Jjhake 04:00, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Attention to Time

Hi, I notice you've flagged up the time article as needing attention, but you didn't give any more details. I came to it from the (apparently) fairly inactive Time project page. I am interested in working on calendar dates and historical time but could also consider more general issues, so maybe I'll give Time a look over too. If you've got any specific things you think need to be covered I'll try to include them, or work together. --FrankP 11:50, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC)

See reply on CTSWyneken to your LCMS points

--CTSWyneken 02:51, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)

My family owns a cabin on Lake Michigan near Leland. Some time ago, we started exploring some of the local oddities. Gravity Hill in Arcadia was among them. It's good to have someone else helping with the Michigan articles. I've been thinking of doing a new article for the Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore page--it's kind of lacking. Have you been there?

Also, I'm not too familiar with receiving and sending messages on Misplaced Pages. Do I have to make a new message on your User talk page to reply to you, or can I simply add a reply on my own User talk page? Thanks! Gsgeorge 22:14, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC)

DYK update

On ], Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Example, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Error: Invalid time.&end=Error: Invalid time.&project=en.wikipedia.org&pages=Example Example), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

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LCMS article

Hey Fishal. I saw your work on the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod page, and I appreciated your attention to re-writing POV in objective terms. I just added a section called "Consensus and Division" under the LCMS history. I replaced the section previously titled "Battle for Biblical inerrancy" (which had no text under it), because it seemed that some of the disputes were over precisely this matter. However, I wondered if you could take a look at my addition. I'm not an LCMS expert, and although I did my best and did a lot of internet research, I thought it would be useful if some of the more objective writers from the LCMS page would vet my addition. Thanks! Ropcat

> I really liked the changes you made-- I never understood any of those political connivings until now, in fact. > They report the controversies in a concise manner so that even a relative outsider (like me) can understand what > went on. And it's balanced and neutral too. I'm not sure how some people would take the equating of "confessional" > and "conservative." Conservative Lutherans call themselves Confessionals, but I'm not sure if anyone else does. > Heck, the first sentence in the LCMS article says "The Missouri Synod is a confessional Lutheran church body." I'm > not sure what to do about that because I'm not quite sure what it means exactly. But regardless, good work. > Fishal 15:48, 1 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for your comments, Fishal! Yeah, I agree, the terms for the two "camps" are tricky, and probably need to be tweaked. For one thing, although the more conservative wing calls the more moderate wing "liberals," I think this label would be confusing for Misplaced Pages readers. The reason is that, while the conservatives may find them liberal, they aren't in any way "liberal" in the sense that we'd use the word in broader American cultural, political, and religious life -- in fact, most in the LCMS "liberal" wing would be quite conservative in the broader context. And then there's the problem you point out with the name for the more conservative wing, which styles itself (alone) as "confessionals." This clashes with the description of the entire Synod as "confessional," AND it might be a term that the more moderate/liberal wing would disgree with. If you think of better terms, please don't hesitate to add them. Ropcat 20:22, 1 Feb 2005 (UTC) P.S. You might be interested in the long-ish article I wrote on Seminex, although it still needs some work, esp the "Legacy" section, and perhaps on the theological issues in question (on which I'm no expert). I see you worked on that one before I got there.

Decapolis

G'day mate, I just wanted to let you know that I've transcluded your peer review request to Misplaced Pages:Peer review/Decapolis, so you might want to put this on your watchlist :) Also, we have a new policy of archiving the requests if no response after a week, so I'm letting all current requestors know about this to give them some time to respond or remind them of their request if they have forgotten - hint hint :P If you'd like to action the suggestions, please feel free!

Good luck with the article and I hope that one day this will get to FAC! - Ta bu shi da yu 02:59, 3 Feb 2005 (UTC)

I have archived this to the January archives. Please feel free to action the current feedback and then relist (but only relist it if you action the current feedback!). - Ta bu shi da yu 04:40, 6 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Reply to English alphabet

I didn't revert all of your edits that you made, just put it back into two section, because it didn't look right. Reverted twice, I am only aware that I've done this once. – AxSkov 07:37, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Turkic Vandalism

Someone just took out the entire section on the Safavids on your page Persia, after my last revision. I dont know how to revert back.--Zereshk 02:19, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Image Tagging

Please tag Image:Acme2.jpg using Misplaced Pages:Image_copyright_tags as a reference. For now, it is marked as {{unverified}} Thanks. Superm401 07:14, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)