User talk:Josh Parris/Archive 2

Melbourne railway stations

I'm sorry - the Essendon article isn't bad, but I'm not awfully fond of the format, and I'd rather not see it used across the network, for fear of having to do a cleanup round later on. Firstly, it's too short to have sections. Sections are useful for longer articles, but in standard articles of this size, they just make the thing look bad. Secondly, the language could do with a polish. Thirdly, the second image (and its associated caption) looks amateurish. I also don't think the quick facts box is really necessary - the content can fit fine into the lead section. In general, the content is fine, though - I just don't see why it can't fit into a standard article, as per the others. Ambi 11:21, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)

re: whoops :-)

Hi - as I guess you noticed, I tend to answer questions on the page they are asked on - keeps the thread together. Anyway, yes copper (and other) mineral prospecting is done with multi-spectral imaging -see [1], [2], [3], [4] and[5] from a quick google on multi-spectral mapping copper. Could probably write a wiki article about this. -Vsmith 13:47, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Script (performing arts)

Hey, thanks for that fix. I guess that was the obvious thing to do, but I never thought about changing the redirect.

re: User talk:Harmil#Script; Yeah, I might get my copy of The Complete Book of Scriptwriting back from a friend and see if there's any insight into scripts for stage that Wikipedia doesn't already have under screenplays (he covers a bit about stage play scripts as well). What would you think of Script (performing arts) pulling in info from play and screenplay, to create a general sense of what a script is for, how it's written and why it's different from a book? It would have links to the other pages, of course. -Harmil 13:09, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

PS: Points on Camera diet well taken. I'll see what I can do.... hmmm... I may need a TODO page soon.

DabBot

You could try posting to [6] -- Russ Blau (talk) July 9, 2005 14:30 (UTC)

tfd

Feel free to re-vote on Wiktionarypar2, and now on Wiktionarypar3 also. This is a new vote, with an explanation as to why I tagged them for deletion. The vote now covers both templates. You may want to read Template talk:Wiktionary for an explanation of the issue behind this. In short, Wiktionary is now case-sensitive, so the entire scheme of these linking templates needs to be updated. Creating these two new ones just adds confusion and is not going to be part of the final solution. -- Netoholic @ 15:52, 13 July 2005 (UTC)

What are you doing?

Why do you keep editing my User talk page? -- Walt Pohl 17:05, 14 July 2005 (UTC)

I've been removing links to a disambiugation page; so that Special:Whatlinkshere/mercury isn't so polluted I can't figure out what's linking to it. Because I've been changing so many pages (I don't watch them otherwise I'd have thousands of pages being watched), I hadn't realised you'd changed it back, which is why the changes were made a second time. Do you have a burning desire to link a year old conversation directly to that disambiguation page rather than indirectly via an external link? Josh Parris ✉ 23:37, 14 July 2005 (UTC)

Moore

Hi, I just realized that you deleted the carefully compiled list of people named Moore from that disambiguation page. What on earth made you do that, and why, on top of that, did you hide it as a minor edit?

It seems you couldn't even be bothered to compare the two lists before embarking on your deletionist venture. If you had done so, you might have noticed that lots of names are missing from the list you are referring to, possibly orphaning quite a number of stubs. If you had carefully transferred all new pieces of information to the "List of people", we could have argued what the point of removing material from a disambiguation page might be. The way you acted, however, seems rather irresponsible.

Please be more careful in the future. All the best, <KF> 21:33, July 15, 2005 (UTC)

Disambiguation

Are you waiting for an opportune moment to jump in with the dab page revision, or are you waiting for me to do it? People keep making changes to the current page.—Wahoofive (talk) 20:25, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

Thanks! —Wahoofive (talk) 15:04, 19 July 2005 (UTC)

CGI

>What is a Computer graphics interface?

CGI, Interfacing techniques for dialogues with graphical devices, see http://www.eos.org.eg/web_en/cat/items/d17450.html MH 20:36, July 20, 2005 (UTC)

"Yoink"

LOL! Good one. That Pbase/yalop guy is persistent, I've had to delete a few as well. Jayjg ^(talk) 04:29, 25 July 2005 (UTC)

Agriculture in Australia

What are you asking?--nixie 08:16, 26 July 2005 (UTC)

Falls a bit short of a revert war, ;) --nixie 08:37, 26 July 2005 (UTC)

From User talk:Pollinator

What are you doing? Josh Parris ✉ 08:13, 26 July 2005 (UTC)

-Trying to keep the boll weevils out of the cotton patch (ie. trying to keep a major catagory from being fragmented into a useless husk)...Pollinator 08:42, July 26, 2005 (UTC)

You and User talk:Petaholmes seem to have fallen into a revert war. Which I would understand if either of you were, I dunno, clueless newbies pushing a serious POV about some genocide somewhere. A revert war over categories!??!' You're both serious, experienced wikipedians! Talk it out, get mediation, take a break! Josh Parris ✉ 08:28, 26 July 2005 (UTC)

Yeah, I find it sort of unbelievable myself...kinda feeling bulldozed...I know now what it means to be proof-texted into being the bad guy...being told to build consensus when every point I make is ignored...being told to be polite while being accused of being "pigheaded." Wow! You wanna mediate? Please! Pollinator 08:48, July 26, 2005 (UTC)

Fractionation

hi Josh, thanks for your input, i reworked fraction (disambiguation) hope it makes sense. V8rik 21:28, 27 July 2005 (UTC)

Sig

Are you talking about the link to blocking me? Nah, I added that as an easy shortcut for people, since there's often the urge to permanently ban me :)  BRIAN0918  12:48, 3 August 2005 (UTC)

Scottish TV

Hi Josh. I just noticed your edit to Scottish Television, but have to say that a link to independent station is inappropriate in a UK context - "Independent Television" is the name of the first national commercial TV network, founded in 1955. -- Arwel 05:01, 4 August 2005 (UTC)

Sorry, I did the best I could with the context. I've added in ITV to the dab page. Josh Parris [#] 05:09, 4 August 2005 (UTC)

DPT

Thanks for altering me to the ambiguity in User:Pmanderson/DPT, but I did not mean independent (mathematics); I meant a weak version of logically independent. I am sometimes tempted to hold that the rush to dab does more harm than good; after all, it's providing readers with a mere convience. Septentrionalis 21:19, 4 August 2005 (UTC)

I'm pleased that I got part of the way there - Logical independence does appear on independent (mathematics). I agree that sometimes it is too easy to dab counter to the intention of the author; but if the author was clear on what they wanted to link to and in less of a rush to link then disambiguation wouldn't be necessary. Sometimes in my dab work I actually remove the link, because it seems that the wikifier has basically linked in search of a dicdef of the word - not helpful. Josh Parris [#] 23:29, 4 August 2005 (UTC)

Your sig

Might I suggest you change your signature to this:

[[User_talk:Josh Parris|Josh Parris]] <span class="plainlinks">[http://kohl.wikimedia.org/~kate/cgi-bin/count_edits?user=Josh+Parris&dbname=enwiki #]</span>

Which produces: Josh Parris #

-- BRIAN0918  03:32, 5 August 2005 (UTC)

A bloody good idea. I've only just started fooling around with it. Josh Parris # 04:36, 5 August 2005 (UTC)

Concrete

Have skimmed thru the concrete page - semms okidoki, esp correcting my misspellings. Oyvind 08:48, August 9, 2005 (UTC)

Hands Productions

Thanks for dab-ing the Hands Productions article, but now there's an extra "=" next to 'External Links'.

Fixed.Josh Parris # 08:27, 15 August 2005 (UTC)

Australia Post photo

Can you retag Image:Australia Post boxes.jpg as {{pd-self}} if you took it? Thanks, Alphax ^τεχ 05:17, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

Re: Accolade (disambiguation)

I found that in Accolade (disambiguation) you've linked to brace, but the brace listed there relating to music I don't think is the one you intended. Can you give me an explaination so I can create a differentiation between the existing one and the new one that needs to be created (I imagine going to have to modify the references to brace (music))? Josh Parris # 05:32, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for your note. I have no idea what that's referring to now. At a wild guess, I'd imagine I created the disambiguation page in order to facilitate linking, based on an article I edited; the most likely choice for this is my cleanup of Death and the Maiden (song) so checking there might be a start. Really all I did was rephrase the existing text, and clean it up a lot; I didn't fact-check it too much, so it might be that an accolade is not a brace between two staves (which is the usage I would have created the d'ab page in order to draw attention to) but I've no idea. Hope the link helps, at least. Rob Church ^{Talk | Desk} 12:38, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

SAGE-AU

Hi Josh, I'm wondering how you discovered the SAGE-AU page? :-) Steven 11:59, 23 September 2005 (UTC)

I monitor Special:Whatlinkshere/Victoria for links to Victoria, an ambiguous term. I do this as part of my contribution to wikiproject Melbourne. Josh Parris # 04:41, 28 September 2005 (UTC)

I thought that there must have been a service like that. Very good. Steven 07:20, 28 September 2005 (UTC)

Lord Carter

It takes a certain ability to transform one's ignorance into a direct attack on the efforts of other users. Well done sir. In the future, if you could refrain from offensive comments such as this one [7], and either take the time to do it right or go find someone to do it for you, it would be much appreciated. Mackensen (talk) 02:49, 22 October 2005 (UTC)

Wha? I read the instructions, they made no sense, I resolved it as best I could and left a note. If you find the complicated nature of your peerage categorisation system offensive, so be it. Good day, sir. Josh Parris # 00:21, 24 October 2005 (UTC)

Staple

Staple looks better. Thanks. (RJP 10:25, 24 October 2005 (UTC))

Braces

It's true that this is a plural, but "the braces" are normally considered as a whole - even if you're only moving one sail, which you generally don't, you still need to work with both of its braces. For this reason, "braces" as an article title sounds far more natural to me. PeteVerdon 23:41, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

Popups-assisted disambiguation

Since I recently started using popups, I would like to know what you mean by this edit summary. Just wondering... --Viriditas | Talk 11:26, 5 November 2005 (UTC)

Ok, I figured it out. This is so kewl. --Viriditas | Talk 10:25, 6 November 2005 (UTC)

Parishes

Don't follow you. Morwen - Talk 07:06, 7 November 2005 (UTC)

Yes. Still don't follow you. I'm not aware of any X (parish) links at all. The Victoria in question here is actually a Welsh community and would be at Victoria, Newport. Morwen - Talk 07:11, 7 November 2005 (UTC)

Scienceworks

I worked on the Scienceworks Museum page. You should check it out, tell me what you think. I tried to enlarge it, there is more information. --BeccaRose 21:26, 7 November 2005 (UTC)

Vandalism

No problem. For the cause, see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Daniel R. Jennings. Chick Bowen 02:57, 9 November 2005 (UTC)

Message to Josh Parris.

Hey there Josh Parris, got your message/invite.

What is this meet up?

By the way i live in melbourne victoria.

Pece Kocovski 02:03, 25 November 2005 (UTC)

Lets get to konw each other:

1.is Josh Parris your real name?

2.how did you find me?

3.what is your speciality?

Pece Kocovski 02:05, 25 November 2005 (UTC)

umm, how old do you have to be to be at the meeting? i ain't exactly 20-30?

Pece Kocovski 06:10, 25 November 2005 (UTC)

Hey Josh Parris, how was the meeting?

Pece Kocovski 06:13, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

Castlemaine

Thanks for your edits to John Perrot. Castlemaine is a place in Ireland - I guess the XXXX kind is more to your taste, as an Australian miner?--shtove 01:22, 27 November 2005 (UTC)

re: COPYRIGHT infringement.. IPxpress

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Victoria/Australian Esperanto Association

Thanks for the fix-up, I intended to do that, but you beat me to it. Nice working with you. Sumthingweird 00:00, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

WP:DAB deletion

Heh, I get it now. Sorry, Josh! Pinano 04:26, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

Sorry i couldn't be at the meeting

it just that, i doubt i would have been alowded to go, maybe next time, when i'm 15.

Anyway, tell me what the meeting was like, i;m sure it would have been great.

By the way, do you knoe some wikipedia users by the names of Sango123 and Pak21?

ps: if i happen to go next year, tell me where it is. Also, you seem like a nice guy, thanks.

Pece Kocovski 09:57, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

homonazis and sodomofascist quotes. See talk (in couple of minutes)

Hi Josh, Can you explain why you removed the following. Could you put that explanation on the Sarfati talk page as requested.

he also referred to homosexuals who disagree with anti-homosexual interpretations of the Bible as homonazis, a term which is offensive to most homosexuals given their persecution by Nazis.

Thanks, Christianjb 05:23, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

Sarfati

Thanks, this isn't the first time I've misread the history page (see my talk page)! Let me make myself a coffee and take another look. I deeply apologize!

BTW, see my comments on the talk page for Sarfati. I am worried that the removal of criticism from the Sarfati page by anonymous editors is making the Sarfati page a vanity page. Please let me hear your comments if any (on that talk page). Christianjb 05:53, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

POV?

Thanks again for the comments Josh. I have responded to them in some detail on the talk page. Let me know your responseChristianjb 06:32, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

So sorry, another apology!

I added this text as a preface to my comment on the talk page.

(Let me point out here that in my comments below I obviously misread comments from Josh Parris! My apologies! It's late where I am. Christianjb 07:11, 5 December 2005 (UTC))

Yeah, I'm tired and it's late. Don't ask me how- but I overlooked the beginning part where you said "How is this..", I only saw the POV bit after the quote. In any case I hope that I've made the situation clear on the talk page.

Thanks again for your response. Christianjb 07:11, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

Yup, well I got my sleep, and woke up to find another series of edits by an anonymous editor once again trying to alter the text on the Answers in Genesis page regarding these comments. I don't know. I think it's highly relevant to point out the reason why these neologisms could cause particular offense is because of the persecution of gays during the Holocaust. They will continually argue that even pointing this out is POV. I'm going to try and find a way tonight of reinserting this connection in the most NPOV way possible. I want people to know that behind the bluster of love-the-sinner-hate-the-sin, this organization is profoundly intolerant. There's also an ongoing fight about my pointing out that Answers in Genesis specifically links to the infamous Leviticus passage calling for homosexuals to be killed. Hell, I'm straight and this offends me- so I imagine it might be of some offense to the gay community.

In "good" news, I did manage to undisputably show that Answers in Genesis openly use discriminatory hiring practices for their creation museum (see the article). They haven't challenged that yet- and I don't see how they can.

Remember, this is a multi-million dollar organization who are anxious to create good PR. We're doing this part time and for no pay. This is a battle. Christianjb 00:07, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks

Dear Josh, — Thanks for the correction to the Roman Modernism page. Regards. WikiSceptic 17:09, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

Tedernst about dab order

I notice you've reordered several dab pages. I can't find your rationale anywhere. Certainly MoS:DP guides us that the most common uses should be nearer the top than less common uses. I cannot determine if you're following this guideline or some other. You don't seem to be using alphabetical ordering. Could you please let me know how you determine order? The Fa page is just one example. I reordered to put redlinks at the bottom and you changed it back, or perhaps to a slightly new order. Thanks! Tedernst | talk 17:34, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

See you at the FA talk page. :-) Tedernst | talk 07:51, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

I copied your template

I copied your template to Template:MelbPremiumStation and used it in Gardenvale railway station, Melbourne, etc. . The problem is just that the ref to User: will cause the page otherwise shows up in Special:CrossNamespaceLinks Fplay 10:29, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

Tedernst about Wiktionary link placement

You cited Wikipedia:Manual of Style (disambiguation pages) at flashing as the reason to put the wiktionary link at the top. I can't find any reference to this effect on that styple page. Could you please help me find it? Tedernst | talk 07:20, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

If it was a snake it would've bit me. Thanks Tedernst | talk 07:50, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

AFL

G'day mate, just wondering if you'd be interested in joining the WikiProject AFL. I've made the project and been creating stacks of articles solo, and I need to find others that can help me out with expanding everything. I've done a hell of a lot, I just need more participants and then this project will be cooking with oil. Cheers, Rogerthat 11:19, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

Lime

I see you tagged lime for cleanup, but it looks pretty good to me. Could you please note on the talk page what you mean (or just do it yourself, of course)? Tedernst | talk 02:41, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

thanks much

My first award! I really appreciate this. Like most editors here, I'm not seeking accolades, but am happy to see my work is making a difference. Tedernst | talk 14:55, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

Happy new year

Hey the josh, happy new year and a safe and joyous holiday, its been great chatiing with you.

Pece Kocovski 12:59, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

questions

Hey there Josh, how have you been, i've been doing great. anyway might i ask you two things:

1.How do you get rid of the things you look up on a search engine or the bar on the top of the screen eg: when you type up w, then on the bar at the top, it list all the website you've been on starting with "w" etc?

2. first of all, i'm just asking out of curiousty, i'm not going to do it. You know that you can edit stuff on wiki. add of delete, even delete an entire article. if your loged on, it shows who done it. but what if an anonymus person, did it, but on the same computer, does the person get blamed for it?

ps: the second question was hypothetical(is that the right word), i'm just curious.

see you around Pece Kocovski 10:17, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

im back!

Hey there josh how have you been, i've been doing great, i forgot to tell you i was on holiday to queensland since the 5 of january, so i wasn't on internet at all. but since i'm back, alot of stuff has changed.

What happened to that donation thing wikipedia needen?

sorry i couldn't answer your questions bedfore but i'll answere them now:

"You must be on school holidays. Are there any subjects that you're looking forward to doing next year? Do you have to read any books over the summer holiday"?

i looking forward to the subjects computers and graphic designs?

"Read books over the school holidays", are you kiding me(sorry if i sound angre at you, whuch i'm not)people so that?

So how was your time from the 5 of january to today?

Pece Kocovski 03:15, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

we have something in common, i can't draw, but i hope top make images on computer rather then paper.

about the fund raiser: did it reach its goal or something, (320k as you said, is alot of money) or was it like "donate money until a certain date but no absolute amount needed" klinda thing, right?

Pece Kocovski 08:08, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

I guess your right about the practise thing,i will try at least, also do you know what this is: The two-week Arbitration Committee elections will continue until 23:59 UTC, January 22?

i found it on my watchlist.

and this Wikipedia:Gaming Collaboration of the week thing, is it like a thing where you nominate a game article that has no information, right?

Pece Kocovski 08:01, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

Image source

Are you the photographer of Image:Cement mixer (portable).JPG? If so, could you please say so explicitly? Also, you might want to replace {{PD}} with {{PD-self}}. Thanks, dbenbenn | talk 18:56, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

hi

Shadin 15:50, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

First (possible) article

Hey Josh Parris it's me Pece, how have you been, anyway i was thinking of making my own article. Its about a Xbox game called: Hunter: the Reckoning: Redeemer. Can you show me to a page on wiki which shows you have to make the design of the article like other games eg: Halo2?

See you around Pece Kocovski 23:32, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

ps: what is a templante?

Pece Kocovski 06:24, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

where are you?

Pece Kocovski 05:07, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

thank you for the help, i just began working on my first article. sorry if i bug you a bit?

Pece Kocovski 02:55, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

John Moore

Please do not add commercial links — or links to your own private websites — to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or a mere collection of external links. Note that Wikipedia may see print or DVD publication, so we want more content, not more web links. Thanks. Mrtea (talk) 00:46, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

You give me more credit than is due. The links I added were an attempt a disambiguating the bazillion links to John Moore from the find-a-grave list, nothing more. I left the external links in because there was no article on those particular John Moores and the information needed to be preserved. And that was before the introduction of the guideline of putting external links for disambiguation pages onto the talk page. Josh Parris#: 00:05, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

Grinder

I noticed that the article Grinder (band) has been created and is now marked for speedy deletion, as you added the band to the disambig page Grinder you might wish to weigh in and mark it with {{hangon}} if you wish to prevent its deletion, but it may even be a different band than you were thinking about so not need attention. --Alf ^melmac 01:23, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

Please check your WP:NA entry

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Meetup in March

I see that you are listed as a participant in the WikiProject Melbourne. If you are a Melbourne resident I would appreciate your views on the suggested Meetup in March . Please give some indication of your interest, or otherwise, in the idea. Even a simple "No thanks" with your user name would be welcome and assist in assessing the level of support for a meetup. Thank you.. Cuddy Wifter 06:30, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

help needed form pece

Hey there Josh Parris, how are you, listen sorry if i bug you, nut can you help:

i recently put on my user page some userboxes, but i just don't know how to make neat there kinda all over the place, can you help please?

Pece Kocovski 23:36, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

oops, i forgot to tell you, Yeltensic42 fixed it.

Pece Kocovski 10:59, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

Happy easter

Hello Josh, how are you. Happy easter (If you celebrate it?).

What have you been up to?

Pece Kocovski 02:04, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

Image:Jackhammer.jpg

Did you take this picture? It's marked as PD, but no source is given. I'd like to move it to Commons, so it can be used in other Wikipedias, as well. Could you please update the PD tag? Thanks. --Matt314 11:20, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

User:Tari

I just looked at the page, "Inventions: The Strange And The Interesting", and noticed that you dabbed it. Thank you for dabbing it, Josh. :) I didn't realize I linked 'beetle' to an insect page or 'bug' to a page of various meanings. Tari 22:08, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

No worries. I'm here to help. Josh Parris#: 22:23, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

Image copyright problem with Image:Christine Nixon (TV interview).jpg

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Category:Host Melbourne railway stations

hi, i just came across this category u created last year, i was wondering wat exactly it refers to? i would be more then happy to categorise it but really have no idea what goes in it =S. cheers mate --Dan027 15:40, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

I've made a request of appropriately informed individuals. Josh Parris#: 05:26, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

and what does that mean?--Dan027 10:39, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Melbourne/Railway stations Josh Parris#: 23:48, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

WikiProject Disambiguation Talk Request

This is a form message being sent to all WikiProject Disambiguation participants. I recently left a proposed banner idea on the WikiProject Disambiguation talk page and I would appreciate any input you could provide. Before it can be approved or denied, I would prefer a lot of feedback from multiple participants in the project. So if you have the time please join in the discussion to help improve the WikiProject. Keep up the good work in link repair and thanks for your time. Nehrams2020 21:32, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

Dividers redirection

I am very sorry that I am new here and quite lost so please forgive me if I make any mistakes. I am quite confused while I try to learn the ropes here. This is in reference to your comment to me about the redirection of dividers. I do not know how to change redirections and I do not feel brave enough to do it anyway. You say Dividers was moved to the dictionary as it was just a short definition. I believe dividers deserves its own page and that any redirection should be avoided. I am willing to write a short article if someone would create the page which I do not know how to do. Or you can tell me where I can learn to do it and then I can do it myself once I have the text written. I hope you do not mind doing a bit of handholding while I learn. GS3 1 january 2007

How to categorise a page

Some weeks ago I created the page Nicolas_Estevanez and shortly after a notice was added "This article is uncategorized. Please help improve this article by adding it to one or more categories," I have looked around and I think I could add the code to the page but I do not know how to find the list of existing categories or on what basis I should choose. I would appreciate it if you would help me categorise that page (military men? Cuba? Canary Islands? History of Spain? Death penalty?...) so I can learn. Thanks GS3 1 january 2007

Dab on archived pages

I noticed that you have been editing some of the archives in /unusual measurements/. While the specific edit I noticed hasnt done any harm, I cant help being concerned that one day the bot(?) will change an archive in a critical way; it may be that it was very relevant to a particular discussion whether a person linked to an ambiguous page or not. I would seriously suggest that you skip any page noted as an archive when doing such disambiguation. Rhialto 06:03, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Human. It was clear what the intended term was. I put a {{dn}} in if it's not clear; on talk pages I just grin and bear it. Josh Parris#: 06:06, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Why the revert?

Hi Josh I noticed you reverted the Melway article recently. Any reason why the new information wasn't valid? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Hex77 (talk • contribs) 10:41, 11 January 2007 (UTC).

Basically, who designed the cover of one edition of the Melway is trivia that does not warrant two weblinks to the design studio responsible; it smacked badly of spam. In fact, in my opinion, it is useless trivia even in the context of internal operations of Ausway, let alone an encyclopaedia article about their street directory. Josh Parris#: 23:41, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Trammel points

Thanks for disambiguating the rod to pole. I grappled with that word(rod). I was looking for threaded rod but only the description of the bolt was the most accurate. Was the explanation of how to use the Trammel points clear to you? --Johnalden 01:35, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the feedback. A footnote was inserted in the introduction of Trammel points to clarify the point that you made about the wood beam. Machine screw is probably the best description on the pop up that you inserted. --Johnalden 01:01, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

Definitely worth a note

I assume then that you are unaware that melway has had the same design look and feel for the last 40 years? The fact that the company is beginning to change their approach after 40 years might warrant a short note.

As for the links. I was not sure how to go about that. Perhaps a link in the external links area may have been sufficient.

Sorption => *Sorp ?

Dude, sorp, adsorp, absorp, desorp, are not words. Terminally, the "labial plosive" (like the b or p) becomes voiced (b only). Likewise before vocalics (like other voiced consonants or the vowels). It becomes unvoiced before unvoiced. The consonant at the beginning of "-tion" is unvoiced, so we use a 'p' there. The suffix "-ant" begins in a vowel (voiced by definition), so the end of the root becomes a 'b' (as in "adsorbant"). You can't use an unvoiced there (like "adsorpant") -- that's just not how it's done. Plus, everybody says "adsorb", and *nobody* says "adsorp". Just sounds weird. (Cuzza sandhi). --Dannown 13 jan 2007.

IP

Josh, I reverted your edit on IP. The term 'intraperitoneal' does not mean 'the peritoneum', it means 'in the peritoneum' - in fact, it means surrounded by peritoneum except at the mesentery for a viscus and inside the peritoneal cavity for, say, an injection.

The terms you linked to are in fact redirects to the places I already had them linked to. - Richardcavell 00:21, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

ACC account creation interface access requested

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I must have missed that part of the instructions. Yes, it was me. Josh Parris 12:55, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

I didn't miss it. It's not in the instructions. Josh Parris 12:59, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

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Jeremy Soul editing

Hey Josh, I was editing a new version of Jeremy Soul to reflect what the references actually reference, here it is. I had a look at the articles in Swedish and in Norwegian and with a rough translation they make very little mention of Soul, and definitely do not support what they assert they do. Anyway I saw you were editing it, so below are my thoughts (and I was being pretty generous!):

Jeremy Soul, or Soul is a British-born Asian dating coach for Love Systems.

Biography Jeremy Bonney was born in 1983 in London, United Kingdom, and gained a Bsc in Psychology from the University College of London. After taking an interest in the teachings of the seduction community, Jeremy Soul took part in a Love Systems workshop, a turning point in both his personal life and career.

Jeremy Soul began his career as a dating coach teaching at Love Systems. He was also voted the number one instructor at the 2008 Love Systems Super Conference.

Recent media mentions include articles in Oslo’s Aftenposten, the Las Vegas Weekly, and Sweden’s Metro and The Local.

See also

• Dating coach
• Love Systems
• Nick Savoy

References

DRosin (talk) 01:25, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

Be bold. I've cited the residence thing, that was covered in the Swedish article. I'm glad someone's willing to trim it down to verifiable statements - the Adam Lyons article got a lot better when all the unverified statements were removed. Josh Parris 01:38, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

Jeremy Soul

Hey Josh Parris, I remember you voted in an AfD of Adam Lyons, some seduction guy. There is a similar AfD going on with a guy called Jeremy Soul. Any input from you would be interesting as there is the usual meatpuppetry going on I think, so some fresh eyes would be useful regarding the notability and sources on it

Here it is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Jeremy_Soul DRosin (talk) 19:58, 15 December 2009 (UTC)

Hi Josh, I've had a look at the article, thanks for bringing it to my attention. I've had a go at improving it and put my 2 cents in on the AfD discussion. I think there's a real problem with a lack of coverage for this guy but would be interested to see if anyone else can turn up some more (and more useful) sources. Shockeroo (talk) 00:36, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

WikiProject Research

You might want to add yourself to the list of active members at Wikipedia:WikiProject Research. You seem to be the most active non-member. :) --EpochFail^(talk|work) 23:22, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

Shavua Tov!

I'v got the inconvenient habit of addressing complete strangers by their hebrew names. so Yehoshua, thanks for the help. it's good to meet you.

happy 2nd half of Kislev.

looks like a good week so far.

I'm sort of a rehabilitated vandal. as in a vandal tribesperson, locked up, accused of being an untermensch, and released a while later. subsequently i've made several contributions, including fixing 200 extreme POV category template links, resulting in a warning about the moral impossibility of responsibly claiming that judea ever existed, and that the palestinians did in fact occupy land belonging to jewish terrorists before the common era. if this is a POV, then please ban me. i can't really tolerate extreme intolerance. this itself is a form of, in my POV, mild intolerance. intolerance of intolerance is an extremely ethnocentric POV, since tolerance relies on the absence of certainty and the

systematic erasure of inconvenient historiography.

thanks for chatting, adam/david/[1/4]/0.25/'|| User:%D7%91%D7%99%D7%A0%D7%94_%D7%AA%D7%A4%D7%90%D7%A8%D7%AA 04:52, 11 December 2009 (UTC)

Thanks :)

Thanks for your help with the image problem I was having. :) Greatly appreciated! –BMRR (talk) 04:45, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

It was a pleasure figuring that one out. Josh Parris 04:52, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

Talkback

Hello, Josh Parris. You have new messages at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/MWOAPBot.
Message added 18:20, 30 December 2009 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

MWOAP (talk) 18:20, 30 December 2009 (UTC)

See...

Talk:MEMS SpinningSpark 16:56, 1 January 2010 (UTC)

I don't recall dabbing to anything other than the full name Microelectrical device, so at worst as things stand I bypassed a redirect. Nothing broken, thank the maker. Josh Parris 23:14, 1 January 2010 (UTC)

Re: R from incomplete dab

You are correct; for example, because "Tomorrow" is the title of more than one song, Tomorrow (song) should have this template. Maybe the template should be better phrased, go right ahead if this is so. Also, happy new year! $\sim$ Lenoxus " * " 19:31, 1 January 2010 (UTC)

Whoops, I indeed misread your original. I should have just linked to this conversation that apparently inspired the template's original creator, Piet Delport, to create it. You're basically right about what I meant — "Tomorrow (song)" could be its own dab, but isn't, to save hassle.$\sim$ Lenoxus " * " 23:42, 1 January 2010 (UTC)

Meh

I didn't realise. Tony Sidaway also did some archive as well... is this a big problem if I do this? Will it adversely effect the bot? - Tbsdy lives (formerly Ta bu shi da yu) ^talk 09:40, 5 January 2010 (UTC)

No. Now that I know that a bot is handling this, I won't do it any more, I was more just curious whether it would cause any issues. Back when I originally started the admin noticeboard there was no such bot, and I haven't participated in Wikipedia in an administrative capacity in almost two years, so this was news to me! Thanks for letting me know though. - Tbsdy lives (formerly Ta bu shi da yu) ^talk 09:50, 5 January 2010 (UTC)

I know! It's a change for the better, and one of the reasons I've decided to come back again out of retirement :-) Tbsdy lives (formerly Ta bu shi da yu) ^talk 10:05, 5 January 2010 (UTC)

Abstractions

Is there some reason you are discussing the bot about "incorrect name" instead of what the bot is doing? I have no idea if this is still about changing "American Broadcasting Corporation" or not. Is it? --IP69.226.103.13 | Talk about me. 05:50, 6 January 2010 (UTC)

Yep, because that particular problem is a specific case of a general problem. In the same way the problem with the American Broadcasting Corporation appearing on the main page was a specific case of the more general case of American Broadcasting Corporation being used on pages at all, and thus taken to RfD for resolution (rather than just fixing the main page featured article). Would you support me if I make a very specific application to change all of the instances from ABC->ABC, and then I generalize that for the generic {{R from incorrect name}} case, giving an immediate solution to this problem and a more general solution later? Josh Parris 06:03, 6 January 2010 (UTC)

The discussion was about the specific and it somehow got hijacked into the general. I'm only following the specific, and I don't want to read "grammars" written in that cumbersome combo-style on wikipedia, I just want to quickly look at what you plan to do. --IP69.226.103.13 | Talk about me. 18:36, 6 January 2010 (UTC)