User talk:Acegikmo1/2005

For old messages, see /2004

Come to Asmara tomorrow, Central Sq, for a quick meetup? :-) +sj + 20:56, 26 Mar 2005 (UTC)

And again, two Mondays from now... can you dig it?

Also, check out this proposal for Wikimania in Boston next summer. Will you be around for it? Suggestions welcome. +sj +

Bleed Like Me

Thanks for the reminder. I've unprotected it so that editing can proceed. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 21:01, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Please read the expanded Elagabalus article

I significantly expanded the Elagabalus in late March and would like to nominate for featured status by the end of April. He is rather controversial figure, and I've tried to go out of my way to cite sources and present differing accounts about his rule. It probably still needs some work which is why I'm asking several people to review/edit before it's nominated. I'd appreciate it if you would review it and get back to me about what you think. Thanks. -JCarriker 05:30, Apr 13, 2005 (UTC)

You're up late. Quelle heure est-il? Il est troix moins vingt en Montreal, c'est vrai? It has been a while. Unfortunatley things do not go well for me, as my home is under threat from being taken away from my family. On the lighter side I recently recieved a digital camera and have been busy taking picture. See: Piney Woods and Starr Family Home State Historic Site for pics I've recently uploaded. As a side note of interst my Español/Français professor is a graduate of McGill. Cheers!-JCarriker 06:40, Apr 13, 2005 (UTC)

Just letting you know that I have nominated the article at FAC. -JCarriker 06:57, Apr 26, 2005 (UTC)

Mary Robinson

(Sorry for the length of this!) Re your comments on the Mary Robinson articel. I don't think you grasped the impact of Robinson on the office of president. She took an office that was low-key, under-utilised and frankly dull (no disrespect to Paddy Hillery, whom I have immense respect for) and completely reimagined it. The office changed fundamentally in its structure, role, public respect and impact on Irish life. It is hard to explain fully just how dramatically she reshaped the office. But one can get some idea by some statistics:

93% support rating, unheard of ever in Irish polling (where a 70% is regarded as a miracle and very very rarely achieved by any Irish politician.)
opinion polls that showed that, had she run again, she would have been the 'first choice' for 70% of Fianna Fáil supporters - her opponents in 1990, whereas her nearest Fianna Fáil potential challenger within Fianna Fáil, a former party leader and prime minister, had 12% support;
in polls, had she run in 1997, she would have been the perferred choice of Fianna Fáil supporters, Fine Gael supporters, Labour supporters, PD supporters (where she nearly had 100%, and they too were opponents in 1990), Green supporters, even Sinn Féin supporters.
In polls she was described unambiguously as "the best ever president" by every category; political, social, economic, religious, young, old, rich, poor, an astonishing achievement.
Historians, both traditional and revisionist, have universally acclaimed her as the best ever president, "by a mile" in the words of one.
When a Catholic priest attacked for for supposedly breaking Vatican protocol in how she was dressed when she met the pope (she hadn't. He obviously hadn't realised that dress codes in the Vatican had changed under Pope John Paul and the pope was perfectly happy with how she dressed. But then her office had consulted the Vatican first) he was condemned by his bishop, his parish priest, his parishioners and even his family, including an uncle of his who was a priest, publicly.
When one columnist in the Irish Times attacked her he was verbally abused in the street.
When she took on the office, 40% wanted the office abolished. When she left 99.8% wanted to keep it.
When she ran in 1990, her biggest detractors was the controversial journalist Vincent Browne who dismissed her plans as unworkable, impossible and nonsensical. By 1997 Browne, one of Ireland's most notoriously controversial journalists, hero-worshipped her, re-echoing the words he had used early on in the presidency during her visit to Rwanda, saying "You were magnificent". (Browne, in 40 years of journalism, has never ever praised anyone in public life so fulsomely. Indeed, in a move that astonished - and amused - all of Ireland, he actually apologised, saying about his 1990 analysis, "I was wrong". That's like a pope saying 'I'm not infallible. I'm gay. And by the way, lets have women priests!')
An office where at elections parties struggled to find candidates for, and where three candidate races had only happened twice and were looked on with astonishment, suddenly had five nominated candidates seeking to replace her. A former prime minister could not even get a nomination to become his party's candidate, as his party, Fianna Fáil, sought to find its own 'Mary Robinson' style candidate. (It succeeded and she won. BTW her highest opinion poll rating was an amazing 86%. But she had a 'guaranteed' 40+ (Fianna Fáil voters) in there. Robinson had a guaranteed 13% (Labour voters) and had to win all the rest over.)

I was in the Áras for her resignation and the main party leaders (opponents in 1990) were practically scrambling to be photographed beside her. It was astonishing and very very funny. Bertie Ahern was beaming like a proud parent. As was John Bruton. (Both had been opponents in 1990, but by 1997 called her "incredible" and "remarkable" in the office.) Pat Rabbitte was even more smug than normal. (Labour leader Dick Spring stayed away because he had had a notorious falling out with her. According to tracking polls, his support dropped by 1/3 overnight, when he, previously the most popular politician in Ireland, was revealed to have had a major row with her.) So if the article praises her strongly it is because that is how she is judged, by the media, by politicians, by historians and commentators, but most of all by the Irish people. FearÉIREANN 23:18, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thank you for supporting my nomination for administrator. —wwoods 05:15, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

About SOS

Actually on the official Coldplay site [1], it uses both forms "Speed Of Sound" and "Speed of Sound". Regardez-vous dans les nouvelles. I'd suggest a switch back to all caps for sake of consistency with the other singles presented on Wikipedia.--Madchester 04:22, 2005 Apr 29 (UTC)

Invitation to join U.S. Regions wikiproject

I'd like extend an invitation for you to join the U.S. Regions wikiproject. If you want to join please add you name to participants, and review the curent policy as well as the current proposal and debate on talk. Thanks. P.S. do you think you will reconsider your admin nom over the summer. -JCarriker 12:13, Apr 29, 2005 (UTC)

I regretfully concede the admin nom, but I hope that you would reconsider the WikiProject. You are more active than some participants, and a very active user chose not to participate in a recent vote. Despite other commitments you always respond, it may take time but you respond— some of the current particpants do not. By joing the project you could only enhance the project even with only a very minmal commitment from you would be more helpful than some current participants. I also find your new flavour and organisation of writing intriguing; I however am rather fond of the letter z, but I digress. Likewise you are welcome to come to Marshall. I missed the first bloom of Spring in with my pics but I hope to catch them the second time around latter in the summer, whrn the wisteria, red bud, dogwoods and vibrant color to the woods and also some pics of Caddo Lake. Again on the WikiProject, two more things: S'il vous plaît y Por favor, Jonathan. Cheers! -JCarriker 12:04, May 24, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks, Acegikmo!

For voting in support of my RfA! Yours, El_C 00:50, 2 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Military history of Puerto Rico

Hi, how are you? I submitted the above mentioned article to be considered for featured article status. I would be honored if you could take a look and express your opinon here: Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Military history of Puerto Rico, Thank you very much Tony the Marine

Hi, I just fixed the link, thank you for the additional work that you did on the article. Would you consider supporting the article for featured article status? Thnak you very much Tony the Marine

Thank You For Your Support

I would like to thank all of the Wikipedians who supported and/or contributed to the article Military history of Puerto Rico. Because of Wikipedians like yourself, this article was able to make featured article status. It was my goal to celebrate my first year in Wikipedia with a featured article and you all made it possible. Thank you once again Tony the Marine

Friendly Chat

Hi, I just thought that I would let you know that Linuxbeak has nominated me for adminship. I would like to invite you to participate at WP:RFA if you wish to do so. Thank you and take care Tony the Marine

Thank You

What a year! My first year in Wiki, a featured article and now administrator. Thank you for your support. I feel honored to have befriended you. Tony the Marine

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hahaha whats up moon its pepe! --Mjp797

U.S. regions

Per your inquiry:

Aim

The project's aim is to create fair and accurate articles on U.S. regions, and the way they are referenced in articles. Many sources about regions use stereo-types... the wikipedia article on the Southwest I found when I first joined it had Texas, Oklahoma, Arizona, and New Mexico in it. The article talked about the Southwest mostly being desert and that it was sparsely populated. Most of Texas and Oklahoma are not desert, so are significant portions of Arizona and New Mexico. East, Central, and North Texas are quite populated, so is the Little Dixie in OK. Texas and Oklahoma were not mentioned in the text outside of their inclusion in the region, however Las Vegas and Imperial Valley, not included on the map were. I, as a geography literate person, I found this a poor article (unfortunately I've seen worse on paper). Further more, many East Texans are a little sensitive to being excluded from the image the state likes to put forth, thus I was also offended. This being my first day on wikipedia, I had a rather novice solution to this— I removed Texas from the article and the map, something the lovely theresa knott quickly and politely corrected me for.

Referencing was also problematic, Texas is a state in the Southeastern United states. That's only one possibility, Texas is also part of; the South, the West, the Southeast, as well as being a South Central, Central, Gulf, and Plains state. Using only one, region for states like, CA, TX, PA, MO, and others is disingenuous. Referencing for regions which have no official definition also pose problems for comparison. DART (Dallas Area Rapid Transit) was the first light rail system in the Southwest. Which Southwest? If Texas is excluded it isn't and if California is included BART beats DART. Likewise, Atlanta would take the title in the South and South East, BART gets the West. DART is the first light rail in Texas, and Texas' borders have been well defined for over a century. Thus, DART was the first light rail system in Texas is more accurate. Where concrete regions are needed we use the Census Bureau definitions for South, Midwest, Northeast, and West, (we probably need a foot note for that we can place in articles, but that’s the future.)

Present

Stylistically we've had a breakthrough in that all but one article, (actually two, I'll explain latter) are located at standard article titles, e.g. Southern United States & Northeastern United States. This is not a great victory in terms of our initial goals, but it does show that wikipedians are willing to accept the WikiProjects setting standards for regional articles. The exception is U.S. West and American West which should be merged at Western United States, I'd appreciate your assistance with that. The creation and election of a project coordinator, has also been a positive, though controversial, step. We also no have a shortcut WP:USR, no I, Robot jokes please, avoiding typing out our rather tedious page name.

Future

The fairness we must always watch for, stereo types are always going to rear there ugly heads. The larger the article is the less problem small insertions will pose and mass deletion of text will draw in people from outside the project because its obvious vandalism, thus article expansion is also something I'd like to make a concerted effort at in the future. The referencing, which was approved by the project, has never been implemented, and it needs to be.

I'd also like to expand membership, thus my harassment here, as I've had poor turnout of the current members- only myself, Jmabel, and Davodd. We need more members if we are to be effective. Jmabel is very modest when it comes to his importance to the project and has been honest that its not his priority. I'd rather have people who only have a passive interest in it who turnout, and make meaningful contributions than no one at all, which is why I'm being so persistent, all right annoying, in pursuing you, Cyrius, Walabio, and Jengod.

Verbosity, I am your ally.-JCarriker 22:34, Jun 5, 2005 (UTC)

Please look at

Could you look at the Vfd for Katie Jones, its a disambig I'm trying to save. -JCarriker 23:32, Jun 7, 2005 (UTC)

lots of edits, not an admin

Hi - I made a list of users who've been around long enough to have made lots of edits but aren't admins. If you're at all interested in becoming an admin, can you please add an '*' immediately before your name in this list? I've suggested folks nominating someone might want to puruse this list. Thanks. -- Rick Block (talk) 04:42, Jun 10, 2005 (UTC)

Modern Rock

Yeah, I've been trying to compile all the Billboard charts with the most accurate name. And with Billboard it can get heavy on the semantics (like trying to decide if the chart is called Mainstream Top 40 or Top 40 Mainstream) or having The Billboard Hot 100 spelled out exactly as that.... And sometimes adding that extra "chart" in there I think kind of loses touch with what the chart is. I hope you don't mind, just trying to make the charts as exact as possible. But that chart was your creation, and I don't want to step on your toes, (I know how I feel when I write stuff and people move it and I dont exactly agree) so it could be changed back if it's bothering you. Or would Modern Rock Tracks (Chart) work too? OmegaWikipedia 30 June 2005 11:03 (UTC)

CSD Proposal 3-B

You voted or commentd on Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion/Proposal/3-B or Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion/Proposal/3-A. I have proposed a revised version, at Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion/Proposal/3-C. This version is intended to address objections made by many of those oppsoed to 3-A or 3-B. The revised propsal revers explicitly and directly to the criteria at WP:MUSIC. If you have not already done so, please examine the revised proposal and vote on it also. Thank you. DES 6 July 2005 04:52 (UTC)

There have been past times when we haven't gotten along, or agreed, and he's criticized me unfairly. Everyking 7 July 2005 06:25 (UTC)

Please sse the new US regions maps

There is a proposal at WikiProject U.S. regions/Maps to replace the current grab bag of U.S. maps with a standardized style. The maps also remove the always, sometimes, and rare categories, in favor of a core area always in a region highlighted in red, while states that may or may not be included in a region are shown in pink. Please comment on the talk page. If approved or revised by participants, I'd like to make the transition within the next two weeks. Thanks. -JCarriker 19:06, July 10, 2005 (UTC)

New user category

I have created a couple of new user categories modeled after UK Wikipedians. One of them is for our generation, born in the 1980s or 1990s. Please consider listing yourself under Category:Millennial Wikipedians Thanks. -JCarriker 18:39, July 13, 2005 (UTC)

Deutsche Bank

I was working on the Wikireader for the upcoming Wikimania conference -- see Wikipedia:WikiReader/Frankfurt (and we could use lots of help). We are trying to make the articles connected to Frankfurt professional enough to be printed. I thought the first paragraph about IT and its fantastic culture was POV, awkward and not necessary. The issue regarding diversity and Turkmenistan, albeit probably important, seems a bit too particular and minor for such a huge and historic company. Perhaps the person can develop it in the future, but for this Wikireader, we need a clear and clean version for Monday. Tfine80 05:34, 23 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Ahem

I didn't realize there was a user named Ethanoic Acid. It shouldn't become a problem, but thanks for the heads up! --Ryan 06:01, July 25, 2005 (UTC)

Thank you

Hi, Acegikmo. Thank you so much for your support and kind words in my RfA. I shall do my very best to justify your vote of confidence in me. Thanks again! Redux 01:09, 29 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you as well for supporting my nomination. AlistairMcMillan 09:20, 13 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Fake Link

Hey,

Thanks for pointing out that link was fake. I didn't realize it was from FreeWebs until you pointed it out.

Thanks,

Casey Reese 21:36, 30 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Hatshepsut

Please read Hatshepsut and see if you can support her FAC. I probably won't try to write anymore featured articles because of this nomination. Thanks. -JCarriker 09:15, August 9, 2005 (UTC)

Mashad

Greetings,

Here is why I think the hangings is completely out of place on a page like Mashad:

What is exactly the significance of this news item? This is not the first or last such hanging in Mashad. It isnt the first or last such acts in anywhere in Iran in fact. People, including teenagers, are routinely hanged or executed. Should such news items even be mentioned on geographic pages? The incident you mentioned in MASS caused riots. I hardly see any similarity to Mashad. I guarantee you there are hundreds of thousands of people living in Mashad that dont even know that these teenagers were hanged. It was practically insignificant. And in light of the thousands that have already died such deaths in Iran, this incident doesnt have any considerable weight. Im sure you will not accept any of this, but remember that incidents far more important than the teenage hangings in Mashad have not been mentioned on the Mashad page. For example, the bombings in the Imam Reza shrine a couple of years ago that killed dozens, or the ongoing war with narcotics smugglers on the nearby borders of Mashad that have resulted in 30000 casualties in total. Or Mashad's acute heroin and opium problem. Or the fact that minorities were persecuted here. Or the "Spider" serial killer in Mashad, ad infinitum. So what makes you think these 2 teenagers are more significant than others to mention on this page? Is it only because it is a sexually related case? Now if this were some sort of incident like the 1999 college student uprisings that shut down the entire city, it would be worth mentioning. But this is not. I know. My brother and 3 aunts live there.
Consistency. If youre gonna mention such things about Mashad, then you should be consistent and do the same on pages everywhere else. I'd like to see you mention gay or teenage slayings or executions on the main pages of Tehran, Isfahan, or even Wyoming, Texas, etc. Heck, the page United States absolutely mentions not even a word about the tens of thousands of Iraqis that have died. THERE IS NOT EVEN ONE SENTENCE ABOUT THE ONGOING WARS IN AFGHNAISTAN OR IRAQ. only a feeble tiny link. Now how do you expect me to believe you when you say youre not trying to smear the image of Iran? If you successfully put up a table about the list of executions and slayings on the US main page, then we can talk about doing a similar thing on the Mashad page.--Zereshk 17:05, 10 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I completely agree with the excellent points that Zereshk has made, and there is not much more that can be said. Specifically in regards to this issue in Mashhad, I will also add that they were not from Mashhad themselves. Also, there have been numerous, numerous political murders (such as Zahra Kazemi and Dariush Forouhar) and assassinations in Tehran since the very beginning of the Revolution and to this very day - but they are not addressed in the Tehran article and rightly so. Surely you are very familiar with the case of Zahra Kazemi who was from Montreal herself? Should we list her in every single article related to Montreal and the Canadian government and how Canada literally did nothing to stop her brutal and heinous torture and eventual murder? As with Zereshk, I don't like double standards and certainly I oppose any prejudicial anti-Iranian POV which is clearly apparent here.

The issue is dealt with in the proper context in several different and more appropriate articles, as is the case with other executions and political murders/assassinations. There is no need to flood numerous other articles with this information, which again, would be entirely inappropriate and POV. If you can address this issue of double standards and the problem of listing every single execution/asssassination in the articles of each city that they have occurred in, then we can talk. Best regards, SouthernComfort 07:49, 11 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Memory Alpha

I'm deleting them because they don't link back to WP. --File:Ottawa flag.png Spinboy 21:46, 11 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

But they can link back, and they purposely come in here and add in links to them. I think it's quite unfair. --File:Ottawa flag.png Spinboy 22:04, 11 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

X-Files

Hello, I have removed the POV commentary you restored to The X-Files. The offending material is extremely biased from the POV of a hardcore Morgan/Wong fan. Please let me know if you wish to discuss this further. Thanks, Taco Deposit | Talk-o to Taco 04:19, August 16, 2005 (UTC)

Schmidt and Hackett

You worked on articles on the special election in Ohio on August 2. I have posted my articles on the nominees in that race, Jean Schmidt and Paul Hackett, at Wikipedia:Peer review and would appreciate your comments. The individual pages are at Wikipedia:Peer review/Jean Schmidt/archive1 and Wikipedia:Peer review/Paul Hackett/archive1. PedanticallySpeaking 19:31, August 17, 2005 (UTC)

musicOMH.com

User Bigbearz independently created a Wikipedia article on musicOMH.com and has been adding reviews and external links to the site on numerous albums and artist pages. While it's perfectly fine for the reviews, it's very OTT for the artist pages. A lot of albums have review links to the likes of Rolling Stone, NME, etc, but there aren't corresponding links to the artists pages for those sites.

There's increasing a lot of ppl spamming the artist pages with links from certain music sites. Remember, Wikipedia is not a mirror or a repository of links, images, or media files. --Madchester 06:07, August 21, 2005 (UTC)

WikiProject List of Television Episodes

Just so you know, I've started the process of posting {{WikiProjectNotice|List of Television Episodes}} on the talk pages for some of the more popular television shows (List of Simpsons episodes, List of Family Guy episodes, List of Seinfeld episodes, List of Friends episodes, List of South Park episodes, etc.) to try and generate some interest/input.--Will2k 14:53, September 2, 2005 (UTC)

Gallery articles up for deletion!

I noticed that these articles:

that you worked on in the past are now are up for deletion. Would you vote in favor of keeping these articles? They show the history of the advancement of video game graphics over time and are useful as a source of images for graphics for video game articles. --ShaunMacPherson 20:00, 23 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Rough Trade

That's not cleanup; that's deleting all the content on the page. Move some of the content here on the record label to its article if you think the page needs to be cleaned up. Don't remove everything.

Disambiguation pages are not meant to contain content, instead, the have one purpose: to resolve ambiguity between article names. Dictionary definitions and expansive descriptions do not belong on disambiguation pages, which is why I removed them. Almost all of the content concerning Rough Trade Records is already on its respective article page (the only item of importance not in the article already was "Early signings included Young Marble Giants, and Scritti Politti", which I've now incorporated). I have also added the dic-def of "rough trade" to Wiktionary. Other than that, I see no content that is salvagable, and am now removing it once again. Please read Wikipedia:Disambiguation and Wikipedia:Manual of Style (disambiguation pages) before reverting again. —jiy (talk) 09:10, 10 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

User Categorisation

You were listed on the Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Quebec page as living in or being associated with Quebec. As part of the Wikipedia:User categorisation project, these lists are being replaced with user categories. If you would like to add yourself to the category that is replacing the page, please visit Category:Wikipedians in Quebec for instructions.--Rmky87 23:51, 10 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

U.S. regions

Please review the example of the new maps and display on project talk page. Thanks. -JCarriker 13:12, 8 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

New US region maps

The new maps are now available at Map page. Please review them and my post on its talk page. Suggestion and comments are highly encouraged. -JCarriker 17:52, 11 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Image:HanscomF86.jpg has been listed for deletion

An image or media file that you uploaded, Image:HanscomF86.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion. Please look there to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you.

dbenbenn | talk 00:37, 5 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Also Image:HanscomP40.jpg. dbenbenn | talk 00:42, 5 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hanscom Air Force Base images

Hello,

I uploaded the three images Image:HanscomF86.jpg, Image:HanscomP40.jpg, and Image:HanscomBrown.jpg in 2004 under the Creative Commons license. You have now listed two of these images for deletion. I was told at the time that the Creative Commons license acceptable for images. Is this no longer the case? If so, under which new licenses can I release the images?

Cheers,

Acegikmo1 13:51, 5 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Some of the Creative Commons licenses are acceptable; some aren't. The NonCommercial and NoDerivs varieties aren't. To keep the images here, I suggest you use {{GFDL-self}}{{cc-by-sa-2.0}}. dbenbenn | talk 21:15, 5 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your reply. I have relicensed the images. Acegikmo1 00:06, 9 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Did you take the photos? If so, could you please say so explicitly at Image:HanscomF86.jpg and Image:HanscomF86.jpg. After all, the license you chose, cc-by-2.0, requires attribution; we need to know who to attribute! dbenbenn | talk 00:17, 9 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Wikimedia Canada

Hi there! I'd like to invite you to explore Wikimedia Canada, and create a list of people interested in forming a local chapter for our nation. A local chapter will help promote and improve the organization, within our great nation. We'd also like to encourage everyone to suggest projects for our national chapter to participate in. Hope to see you there! -- user:zanimum