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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)

Blocking

I don't know why you would be blocked when I blocked an anon. I don't type in anon addresses, either I click on the Block link or I copy and paste the address, so the vandal must be somehow sharing an address with you. I don't know how that works. RickK 21:04, Nov 16, 2004 (UTC)

If you find yourself blocked, you can contact a sysop via email. Not me, because I don't publicize my email access (too many kooks were contacting me). But most sysops have "email this user" active. RickK 23:30, Nov 17, 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)

Article Licensing

Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Misplaced Pages's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 2000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:

• Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
• Multi-Licensing Guide
• Free the Rambot Articles Project

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

Option 1

I agree to ] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

OR

Option 2

I agree to ] all my contributions to any ], county, or city article as described below:

{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk)

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