Wile E. Heresiarch

Bold textHello Wikipedians, feel free to scribble something here. Wile E. Heresiarch 16:03, 1 Jan 2004 (UTC)

I'm apparently around occasionally. Wile E. Heresiarch 16:25, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

Marc Fest

Wile,

I did some work on Marc Fest this morning including some writting and referencing. I'm not the original author, but I saw some merit here when I found it at AfD. I think that we have enough to demonstrate notablility now, but my standards may be beneath yours. I'd like your feedback on what is needed to make this a keeper.

Cheers!

Kevin

--Kevin Murray 17:58, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

A better outcome

Wile,

I see from your user page that you are burned out; I was sad to see that last night when I read your page on the way to leave you a note. I also visited Graham's page and read through a bit of his historic text; I was moved. I'm sorry to see that happen to dedicated wikipedians.

We probably don't share a precise perception of how WP should be, but I share your concern about vanity spam, unsupportable promotion, and other garbage. However, I do believe in the basic WP standards for notability and will work hard to protect those standards to build a more interesting encyclopedia here. I think that there is a reactionary backlash and overprotective aspect at work here and many participants in AfD are not looking beyond the obvious. I seek to counter that trend and ask people to think a bit more.

I became involved in AfD because I lost a few truly meaningful articles to thoughtless AfD's, where my logic was suspect since I was "defending" an article. Truly mindless lemming behavior was at work. I was furious! However, I am calmer now and understand the value behind the AfD after seeing the endless march of crap that is submitted each day. AfD is hard work.

In each article I have supported I saw genuine notability by the definition that the person is being noticed in more than a trivial way. I also look for a likelihood that someone might be wondering who that person is, and that at WP we can offer a balanced and objective answer to those questions. I try to work equally hard regardless of my persaonl feelings about the subject matter -- if it is notable.

Where is the tragedy if a few spam vanity article slip through?

One thing that I don't want to do is encourage more garbage being submitted, so to that end I would like to be more careful. And perhaps you will be there to let me know if I'm too far off base.

I hope that we can work together to make a better Wikipedia for the future.

Cheers!

Kevin --Kevin Murray 15:48, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

Please come back to fix the (I think) typo in the last equation in the Metropolis-Hastings article! x^t should appear as the reject alternative, I think (I'm trying to learn this stuff).

CS

Hi. I added the Shawn Lovelett page that you deleted. What validation is necessary for the page to exist? Masticore317 12:40, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

Generating ancient maps

Hi there, I read your really old WP talk page discussion about using GMT to plot ancient places. This is an endeavor I'm particularly interested in, at the moment (in fact, for the last several years). I'm a member of the slow moving Historical Atlas project. It's my/our hope to have a program we can use to generate maps of ancient places, with an aim towards animation (as long as the computer is generating a map, why not generate a series of maps?). The whole thing is still in the infancy stage, but I've been using Python and GMT to do some trial and error type of programming, to see what's possible.

There is a lot that's possible, just like it's possible to find a statue of David in a big boulder, if you only dig and chisel in just the right spots. I'm not as familiar with GMT as I should be, so I would ask for your tips and tricks (and scripts, if you feel like sharing them). I'm really good with the basics of pscoast, and I'm beginning to get good at using psxy, but that's about it. I would like to learn how to take a topo-dataset and overlay it on a GMT plot (I don't know how, or when, to use grd2raster, or raster2grd, or something like that). Another Wikipedian, User:Captain Blood, made a tutorial for creating topographic maps in GMT, but I ran into errors, and he hasn't responded to my comment.

I don't know if you still care about maps, but you were right in imagining people (like me) would want to see a map showing the relative locations of two or three ancient cities/regions who were lucky enough to have their territorial campaigns recorded in some fashion to be reiterated on Wikipedia. You were right in expecting people to collect long/lat coords for this project (I'm still working on the underlying program structure before I can start deciding how the data will be formatted on the hard disk).

Actually, I'm hoping to write a Python script that will read pre-existing images and report on it's findings, allowing a user to select from several points and regions, attach a name/label to the area, and integrate the new data into a database used to produce the animation frames. If this sounds like a good idea to you (or if it just sounds like part of a good idea), leave some comments somewhere, maybe you'll start a new series of brain storms. Xaxafrad 03:36, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

Poolicz deletion

yesterday, i created an article for Poolicz.pl/Coount.com calculator, you have deleted it, claiming it's spam. could you please tell me why do you think so? especially considering it's almost exact copy of pl:Poolicz??--Ghazer 02:39, 31 July 2007 (UTC)

Makr Hucko AfD, take 2

Hello,

I nominated Mark Hucko for deletion again. Previous AfD was closed as "no consensus". In the meantime the sources for the article have not become any better and it is still unverifiable.

Your opinion will be appreciated at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mark Hucko (2nd nomination).

Thanks in advance. --Amir E. Aharoni 12:19, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

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deleted entry: "Robert Zimmer, Jr. (producer)"

Dear Mr. Heresiarch,

A co-worker of mine informed me today that the Wikipedia entry about me, "Robert Zimmer, Jr. (producer)" had been unceremoniously deleted, and I see you claim the entry was a "promo bio sans claim or evidence of notability." This is unfair. I did not write the entry, nor was it written by anyone I know so it wasn't a clandestine, self-serving entry ghostwritten by me. In addition, the entry was NOT lacking in notability given my longtime career in the entertainment industry with Aaron Spelling, my political work in the 2004 presidential campaign, just to give two examples, as well as the innumerable news articles featuring me.

It's awkward and embarrassing to have to brag about yourself, but when I discovered that my entry had been deleted, I felt it important to speak up and stand up for my reputation. Isn't the most appropriate course of action to allow additions to the entry to fortify its notability -- such as links to the aforementioned news articles, my IMDB listing, mentions of my awards, etc.?

I would appreciate it if you would restore the entry and allow it a chance to be sourced thoroughly to fortify its notability.

Thanks,

Robert Zimmer <email removed> —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Beforetimebegan (talk • contribs) 21:04, August 21, 2007 (UTC).

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Do restaurant reviews count as "significant coverage" of the reviewed restaurants?

FYI, I started a thread on this question at the Notability guidelines.  --Lambiam 08:36, 30 December 2010 (UTC)

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MSU Interview

Dear Wile E. Heresiarch,

My name is Jonathan Obar user:Jaobar, I'm a professor in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University and a Teaching Fellow with the Wikimedia Foundation's Education Program. This semester I've been running a little experiment at MSU, a class where we teach students about becoming Wikipedia administrators. Not a lot is known about your community, and our students (who are fascinated by wiki-culture by the way!) want to learn how you do what you do, and why you do it. A while back I proposed this idea (the class) to the communityHERE, where it was met mainly with positive feedback. Anyhow, I'd like my students to speak with a few administrators to get a sense of admin experiences, training, motivations, likes, dislikes, etc. We were wondering if you'd be interested in speaking with one of our students.

So a few things about the interviews:

• Interviews will last between 15 and 30 minutes.
• Interviews can be conducted over skype (preferred), IRC or email. (You choose the form of communication based upon your comfort level, time, etc.)
• All interviews will be completely anonymous, meaning that you (real name and/or pseudonym) will never be identified in any of our materials, unless you give the interviewer permission to do so.
• All interviews will be completely voluntary. You are under no obligation to say yes to an interview, and can say no and stop or leave the interview at any time.
• The entire interview process is being overseen by MSU's institutional review board (ethics review). This means that all questions have been approved by the university and all students have been trained how to conduct interviews ethically and properly.

Bottom line is that we really need your help, and would really appreciate the opportunity to speak with you. If interested, please send me an email at obar@msu.edu (to maintain anonymity) and I will add your name to my offline contact list. If you feel comfortable doing so, you can post your nameHERE instead.

If you have questions or concerns at any time, feel free to email me at obar@msu.edu. I will be more than happy to speak with you.

Thanks in advance for your help. We have a lot to learn from you.

Sincerely,

Jonathan Obar --Jaobar — Preceding unsigned comment added by 35.9.115.210 (talk) 21:50, 2 March 2012 (UTC)

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contact for an advise

Could you please give me an email address to contact you for an advice? My email address is arhitectul at gmail dot com (I hope exchanging email addresses is not forbidden.) Thank you. --Arhitectul (talk) 15:56, 17 February 2016 (UTC)

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