User talk:Jengod/Archive 8

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Homogeneous magnetic field

You made a nice addition to Did You Know, however on magnetic field there is no description of type homogeneous, and homogeneity page is too general. Hfastedge 20:45, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Thanks.

Dear Jengod: Thanks for the tip. I'm still new at this. I first thought about contacting whoever created the Cord article in the first place, but they didn't do so as a registered user. Also, I have a question about when (and how) to merge articles with similar names, e.g. "James Farley," "James A. Farley," "James Indus Farley." Any advice? I promise not to run off and do it on impulse. User:Cuppysfriend

History of popcorn

I see you've done some wikifying, but the whole thing seems to be a copyvio from http://www.tooter4kids.com/Popcorn/history.htm. --jpgordon {gab} 18:30, 8 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Japanese toilet

Thanks for listing Japanese toilet on Did you know. Made my day! -- Chris 73 Talk 03:51, Oct 9, 2004 (UTC)

Ohio Counties

I came across your page User:Jengod/List of Ohio county name etymologies, but found it is blank. I was thinking of creating such a page, having seen the List of Texas county name etymologies. Would you have any objection to my doing such a list for the Buckeye state, basing it on your "list"? Ave! PedanticallySpeaking 18:01, Oct 13, 2004 (UTC)

Congo Civil War

Over at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates, the Congo Civil War nod is being shot down quickly. Care to defend? -- user:zanimum

maps

very nice. :) -- Decumanus 23:58, 2004 Oct 15 (UTC)

United States

Jengod, I don't know if you were aware, but United States is protected. (You've been editing it.) I think all your edits are good ones, but it's verboten, you know. . . – Quadell ^{(talk) (help)}[[]] 01:46, Oct 20, 2004 (UTC)

Smile ^_^

Did you make the smiley? I love the use of it in the meme article. Quite lightens a topic usually only associated with thought control.

Knights of the Ku Klux Klan

You could always just copyvio the thing (he says, feeling lazy.) It's right off [1]. --jpgordon{gab} 19:04, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Free at Last!

Greetings, Jengod!
Well, I'm finally finished with List of Ohio county name etymologies and the two subsidiary articles List of Ohio county name etymologies, A-K and List of Ohio county name etymologies, L-Z. All need another pair of eyes to go over them; at this point I doubt I'd see ever the most egregious of mistakes. I also created a category of namesakes. Someone has already objected because of the many things named for Washington, Franklin, and a couple others but most of these people are pretty obscure some are lacking even stubs here. (That's my next effort to at least give stubs to all the namesake people.)
Any chance this article might qualify for featured status? Ave! PedanticallySpeaking 16:15, Oct 23, 2004 (UTC)

Image:Stamp-us-klondike-gold-rush.jpg

Do you know what the copyright status of this image is? Are stamps copyrighted, or are they public domain US government works? —No-One Jones ^(m) 03:56, 25 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for the information. Unfortunately noncommercial-only images are Not Allowed right now :(, but maybe deleting this won't be an irremediable loss; I found some PD photographs to illustrate Klondike Gold Rush. —No-One Jones ^(m) 19:13, 25 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Template tests

Jen - since you created these back in February, can you delete them and the associated pages? -- Netoholic @ 19:17, 2004 Oct 26 (UTC)

Thanks. There are some related redirects in the Whatlinkshere above. I'd mark them speedy deletes, but they are protected. -- Netoholic @ 19:51, 2004 Oct 26 (UTC)

Date separator on Georgian Uprising of Texel

Thanks for the Wikifying. I note you used am eMdash in your edit, but your User:Jengod#Soapbox calls for an eNdash. Have you changed your mind, or was the eMdash in Georgian Uprising of Texel a slip of the typing finger? StanZegel 17:59, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Category hierarchies

Hey Jen, thanks for undoing one of my over-eager categorizations. If, as you say, "LA. history" fits within "L.A." then I'll go clean up some others that I double categorized. Willmcw 06:08, 6 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Nav tables: chronological versus order of preference

Just a quick note to let you know that I and one other Wikipedian have asked at Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. politicians about using chronological order rather than order of precedence for the nav tables. If you have time to respond to our reasoning, I'd be interested in reading it.

Thanks! Steve Casburn 02:42, 10 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Remaining Speakers of the House

On the Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. politicians page, you list "Remaining Speakers of the U.S. House of Representatives" as a major to-do. I just wanted to let you know that I recently (after you wrote the to-do list) checked all of the Speakers, wrote at least a stub for the ones who had no page, and added a nav table to all Speaker pages. Steve Casburn 03:08, 10 Nov 2004 (UTC)

WP:LCOTW

Filiocht 10:36, Nov 10, 2004 (UTC)

Dear Ms. Pacifica

[2], in case you haven't seen it and need an excuse to be more fine-grained in your distribution of contributions. Fight the good fight. :) -- Decumanus 21:01, 2004 Nov 10 (UTC)

Image:Michiganterritory1834.jpg

Hi there! Thanks for adding the image Image:Michiganterritory1834.jpg. It currently doesn't have an image copyright tag, and I was hoping that you would add one as untagged images may be deleted eventually. (You can use {{gfdl}} to license it under the GFDL, or {{fairuse}} if you claim fair use, etc.) Thanks! --David Iberri | Talk 18:13, Nov 16, 2004 (UTC)

Ursus arctos stickeenensis

Where did you get the subspecies Ursus arctos stickeenensis from? I suspect it may be a joke. Lioncrusher doesn't list it, in fact the only Google hits I get are Wikipedia and its mirrors. Andrewa 01:40, 19 Nov 2004 (UTC)

See also Talk:Brown Bear. Andrewa 01:51, 19 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I've now removed the references from both brown bear and ursus (biology), the only two occurences in the article namespace. Feel free to reinstate them if you feel I have done this in error. Andrewa 15:08, 20 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Stanford Mausoleum

Haha are you serious about the site of the annual student Halloween party? That's hilarious!

Greetings

Hi, I am NSK. I found you from the history of the Homo floresiensis article. I think your work here in Wikipedia is very nice and I would like to congratulate you. I maintain a new but very dynamic website, not related to Wikipedia or Wikimedia, which may interest you: It is a federation of wikis on diverse subjects, mainly about Science. I am considering opening a culture-related wiki, and I thought you might be the right person to write about American culture on my site. You may like to have a look there and join now or whenever I start the culture wiki. If you are interested, you can find the web address in my userpage. I will not post any more messages in your talk page. Thank you very much, NSK 05:05, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Article Licensing

I've "started" the Free the Rambot Articles Project which aims to get users to release all of their contributions to the U.S. state, county, and city articles under the CC-by-sa 1.0 and 2.0 license (at minimum) or into the public domain if they prefer. A secondary goal is to get those users to release ALL of their edits for ALL articles. I've personally chosen to multi-license all of the rambot and Ram-Man contributions under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike License so that other projects, such as WikiTravel, can use our articles. I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all your contributions (or at minimum those on the geographic articles) so that we can keep most of the articles available under the multi-license. Many users use the {{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}} template (or even {{MultiLicensePD}} for public domain) on their user page, but there are other templates for other options at Template messages/User namespace. If you only prefer using the GFDL, I understand, but I thought I'd at least ask, just in case, since the number of your edits is in the top 50 most. If you do want to do it, simply just copy and paste one of the above two templates into your user page and it will allow us to track those users who have done it. For example:

Option 1

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

OR

Option 2

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to any [[U.S. state]], county, or city article as described below:

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain (which many people do or don't like to do, see Wikipedia:Multi-licensing), you could replace {{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}} with {{MultiLicensePD}} -- Ram-Man 15:30, Nov 24, 2004 (UTC)

Changing Edits

Hi jen thankyou for the welcome on User Talk:80.255.219.52. I often forget to log on, but in this case wrote a whole article without doing so. How do I change it to my proper sing on name? Dainamo 20:45, 27 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Metapicstub notice

Please do not forget to include the size for the Metapicstub as the stub's format has been recently changed. --[[User:AllyUnion|AllyUnion (talk)]] 07:39, 28 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Look here for an example: Wikipedia:Template_messages/Stubs --[[User:AllyUnion|AllyUnion (talk)]] 07:50, 28 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Or at your medicine stubs, Med-stub: Edit this page

Also, although I have already done this, make sure you use the {{Stub category}} for your stub category. You can see it's use on your medicine stub category: Category:Medicine stubs: Edit this page --[[User:AllyUnion|AllyUnion (talk)]] 07:53, 28 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Don't forget to put the {{stub category}} for Category:Female-related_stubs. The template tag is there so that people see what the category is for and what stub tag to use instead of {{stub}} when they look at the category. --[[User:AllyUnion|AllyUnion (talk)]] 12:34, 28 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Image pairing ideas for stubs

I have a list of ideas for image pairs for stubs:

{{album-stub}}: A record or platinum album
{{Astro-stub}}: A icon version of a hand held telescope or a starfield
{{Auto-stub}}: A icon version of a Ford Model-T
{{Baseball-stub}}: A small, no background image, of a baseball
{{Compu-stub}}: A small icon version of a desktop computer, something like the one in Microsoft Word ClipArt (got to find a free non-license version)
{{Hoops-stub}}: A small basketball or basket
{{Icehockey-stub}}: The end of the hockey stick with a puck.
{{News-stub}}: A icon version of a newspaper.
{{Road-stub}}: A icon version of a road, either leading into the horizon or slanted
{{Sci-stub}}: Two or three icon versions of chemistry beakers with a colorful atom in the back.
{{Tennis-stub}}: A tennis racket icon

Just some suggestions if you run into them. --[[User:AllyUnion|AllyUnion (talk)]] 08:53, 28 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Partition of India

You voted for Partition of India, this week's Collaboration of the week. Please come and help it become a featured-standard article.

Image:Madhappyfaceblob.gif

Hi, I really like Image:Madhappyfaceblob.gif, and it looks cute on the page meme. I was wondering where you got the image; did you make it yourself? —Lowellian (talk)[[]] 13:17, Nov 29, 2004 (UTC)

US Regions Project

Hi Jengod. Thanks for the pointer to the US Regions project. Now I see why the Census Bureau region articles exist although I still don't quite understand the decision to include anything more than census data information in them. I thought fixing disambigs and redirects would be easier.Frank101 16:00, 29 Nov 2004 (UTC)

U.S. National Historic Sites

Thanks for getting the proper category set up for Category:U.S. National Historic Sites and for doing all that recategorization. Willmcw 22:50, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Channel Islands -double thanks!

Super double thanks for your work on the different Channel Islands of California articles and project. They are notable places and much can be written about them.

National parks

I am reverting your change to the infobox from national park to U.S. national park. If you want to change this take it up at Wikipedia:WikiProject Protected Areas. The intent is to have the link go to a general article applicable to any country's park. Beside the stub you were directing it to had no content. Rmhermen 01:40, Dec 2, 2004 (UTC)

I have now reverted a number of your page moves. We don't disambiguate pages unless there is a conflict. There is unlikely to be any other country using the term, "Wild and Scenic River" for example. You have also left a number of broken double redirects from page moves - I noticed a number at U.S. National Monument and U.S. National Forest. And you now have pages about Ireland linking to U.S. national monument. Rmhermen 04:49, Dec 2, 2004 (UTC)

And several double and even a triple redirect at U.S. National Park. Rmhermen 14:20, Dec 2, 2004 (UTC)

Jengod

You're probably unaware that right now you are a redirect to a Senator Williams on the list of senators. I'll let you fix this if you want but am sure that you wanted to know about it. Rlquall 14:45, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)

As Maine goes ...

Jengod, the version of this that I've heard is that it relates back to the 1936 presidential election. That year, the government of Maine decided that the weather there was likely to be really bad by the time in November set for the election, so they (quite unconstitutionally, I might add) decided to move the election in their state back to September. Republican nominee Alf Landon won Maine quite easily, and "As Maine goes, so goes the nation," became a major Republican slogan for the rest of the campaign. Of course, as you know, the only other state Landon wound up carrying was Vermont, and the Democratic response became, "As Maine goes, so goes Vermont," which has proven to be far truer (and as you also know, in recent years both have gone Democratic, mostly). I hope that this helps, but of course it may also have been exactly what you already knew ... Regards, Rlquall 14:54, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Nice work ...

... on Christmas. It would be nice if such efforts continued, and this thing might be front page-worthy in time for the holidays. It's a shame that parochial items like pepsi-can stove and japanese toilets sail through the nomination ordeal unscathed, while things that people actually want to read about (and for better or worse, to throw in their two cents on) get harpooned right off the bat.Sfahey 23:40, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Montebello, California

Hi. Not sure how strongly you feel about verbatim copying of copyrighted material, but most of the history section is taken verbatim from the city web site, with a few very minor alterations. I was about to remove it again, but noticed that you had started to wikify it. I'm of the opinion that it needs much more extensive rewriting to avoid plagiarism/copyvio, but I wasn't sure if you were interested in taking it up. (I know, I know, I could have done it myself by now--but there's a principle around here somewhere, I think). older≠wiser 15:36, Dec 3, 2004 (UTC)

From Lebite (The Plageriser) : Thanks for "wikifying" what I have added. I know Bkonrad just loves to completely erase things that he considers to be below his standards. I just hope he can relax enough to accept history I inserted. I don't think the mayor of my city is going to get mad that I used the structure of history report from the city's website to create one for Wikipedia. And yes, I am lazy... because I am not unemployed. But if someone feels the need to erase.. why not fix it up instead of destroying what some people actually care about. Lebite 15:56, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Lebite, making condescending remarks is not a good strategy for gaining respect. I really am glad to see you making contributions to Wikipedia. But please try to observe the guidelines here. Despite what you may think, I do not take any great pleasure in removing that material. But it is quite plainly plagiarized without even any attempt at attribution. older≠wiser 16:06, Dec 3, 2004 (UTC)

Please check out my new article

Please check out my new article Tennessee State Constitution when you get a chance. It is very long (at least by my standards), so you will need a little time. This is the first time that I have gotten up the courage to write a truly extensive article rather than either starting them with stubs, fleshing out other people's stubs, or writing a bio of just a few paragraphs. I'm sure that it needs dispassionate editing, probably some copyediting (although I did a lot before hitting "Submit"), and lots of input

Image copyright tags.

Howdy! I'm here because of the Humungous Image Tagging Project, and I'm curious about the copyright status of an image you uploaded. The picture in question is Image:10000.gif, and it doesn't currently have an image copyright tag on it. If you could tag it with something to let us know what the copyright is, that would be great. A couple of common tags are {{gfdl}}, if you made the picture and release it under the GFDL, or {{fairuse}} if you claim fair use. For a full page of these, you can go to the image copyright tags page. If none of this makes sense, you can leave a message describing the coypright status on my talk page, and I'll tag it for you. Thanks much! ^_^ --Sparky the Seventh Chaos 23:57, Dec 8, 2004 (UTC)

Categorizingization

Thanks for your work on coordinating the US history and organization categories. I appreciate the effort it takes to categorize, much less re-categorize. If there's a particular blueprint or nomenclature that you're following, let me and others know so we can work in parallel. -Willmcw 05:25, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Re:Counties, Dralwik

Dear Jengod, sorry for the confusion, I am just doing the county names with five and more counties. Dralwik 23:23, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC)

RFC pages on VfD

Should RFC pages be placed on VfD to be deleted? I'm considering removing Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Slrubenstein, Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Jwrosenzweig and Wikipedia:Requests for comment/John Kenney from WP:VFD. Each of them was listed by CheeseDreams. Your comments on whether I should do this would be appreciated. - Ta bu shi da yu 03:50, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)

DYK

Thanks for fixing the DYK template. I knew it had grammar issues but I was at loss for ideas on how to fix them.Thanks!!!! [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|^(talk)]] 11:20, Dec 10, 2004 (UTC)

Image tagging

Hi Jengod. I noticed you've been doing a lot of image-tagging lately. Would you like to sign up at Wikipedia:Untagged Images? – Quadell ^{(talk) (help)}[[]] 02:10, Dec 11, 2004 (UTC)

Unverified images

Hi! Thanks for uploading the following image:

Image:Demisemiquaver.gif

I notice it currently doesn't have an image copyright tag. Could you add one to let us know its copyright status? (You can use {{gfdl}} if you release it under the GNU Free Documentation License, {{fairuse}} if you claim fair use, etc.) If you don't know what any of this means, just let me know at my talk page where you got the images and I'll tag them for you. Thanks so much. [[User:Poccil|Peter O. (Talk, automation script)]] 04:56, Dec 11, 2004 (UTC)

P.S. You can help tag other images at User:Yann/Untagged_Images. Thanks again.

Also, Image:Postcard-ca-san-pedro-lighthouse.jpg --Kbh3rd 19:03, 11 Dec 2004 (UTC)

categorizing templates

Putting Category:Wikipedia sources on a template page like Template:DANFS puts the category link on every page that uses that template. Is that a good idea?
—wwoods 20: 52, 14 Dec 2004 (UTC)

From A Naughty State

Salve, Jengod!
Even though your home page says you are avoiding us in the "red states", I saw your edit on United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio when I was working on it yesterday. What do you think of the completed article? Any thoughts on my List of Ohio county name etymologies articles? Ave! PedanticallySpeaking 17:10, Dec 18, 2004 (UTC)

Image tag

Hi JG! Thanks for uploading the following image:

Image:Echoparksmall.jpg
Image:Churchangle.jpg - I found another one so just added it to the list Sortior 22:17, Dec 19, 2004 (UTC)

I notice it currently doesn't have an image copyright tag. Could you add one to let us know its copyright status?

You can use {{gfdl}} if you wish to release your own work under the GNU Free Documentation License, {{PD-self}} if you wish to release your own work to the public domain, {{fairuse}} if you claim fair use of someone else's work, and so on. Click here for a list of the various tags.

If you don't know what any of this means, just let me know at my talk page where you got the image from, and I'll tag it for you. (And if you know exactly what this means and are really tired of the constant reminders, please excuse me. They will stop once the tagging project is complete.) Thanks so much. Denni ☯ 23:56, 2004 Dec 18 (UTC)

P.S. You can help tag other images at Wikipedia:Untagged_Images. Thanks again.

Image:Fold-us-flag-animated.gif

What is the source of this image, how is it fair use? I'm very tempted to remove it from Flag of the United States. ed g2s • talk 21:06, 20 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Request from fellow etymologist

Hi, Jengod. I have a request. On this website [3] are the Indiana county name etymologies. Could you please create the List of Indiana county name etymologies? I'm currently working on the alphabetical List of U.S. county name etymologies and it would help significantly. Thanks. Dralwik 22:24, 22 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Re:Request

A red state? Oh no! Poor Jengod! I should throw myself in the Iowa River! ;-) Dralwik 00:46, 23 Dec 2004 (UTC)