User talk:Secretlondon/Archive 1

Hello, no offense, but you need to understand the wikipedia conventions on article titling more before you change any. If something is the title of a specific work, like Ten Key Values of the Green Party, it is referred to in italics, and ideally, should also be italicized in the article so it's clear that it is the title of a specific work. Capitalization only belongs in titles if it was there in the original work's title. One cannot for instance rename such an article Ten Key Values of the US Green Party as if you had the power to retitle the work, but would have to rename it Key values of American Greens or something if one wanted it to be more specific to the USA, etc.

Hi :) Good work on abating junk and so forth, keep it up! Dysprosia 22:49, 21 Sep 2003 (UTC)

Hi!
I thought you ought to know that the picture in VW Beetle was far too wide. It was 547 pixels across, which is fine for a 1024 by 768 screen (or larger) but no good for the 800 by 600 screen that some people still use. The resulting text squeeze on the left hand side is particularly bad if you have a menu frame down the left hand side of the screen as I do (this is one of the choices of “skin” in the Wikipedia preferences).

I've cut it back to the max you should ever use for the thumbnail which is 300 pixels wide. Also it was sloping and a little dark, I've corrected both of those.

I’ve now illustrated about 600 articles so I can confidently say that the biggest size you should use is 300 pixels wide. I also do a 750 pixel wide pic linked from the thumbnail. To see the code I use have a look at Egyptair and steal it for your future work.
Best Wishes,
Adrian Pingstone 10:05, 22 Sep 2003 (UTC)

Yeah I know. I already undeleted it. Sorry, too hasty on the delete button. It looked like absolute nonsense and then I checked the author's other contributions and saw that it was for real so I added in some stuff to make it make a bit more sense. Next time I shall check and then delete, not delete and then check. Angela 22:55, 25 Sep 2003 (UTC)

Why did you blank Tokumasa Yamashita? --Jiang 23:28, 28 Sep 2003 (UTC)

If you don't think it belongs, you need to list it on Wikipedia:Votes for deletion so we know about it. If a consensus can be reached after 7 days, then it will deleted (as opposed to just blanking). --Jiang 19:39, 29 Sep 2003 (UTC)

About Live Through This: actually, lots of albums have articles in Wikipedia. You can find a ton on List of musical events. Cheers, Cyan 07:17, 30 Sep 2003 (UTC)

No need to apologize. You can't know unless someone tells you. Cheers, Cyan 07:23, 30 Sep 2003 (UTC)

I have to ask. What does Reptilian humanoid have to do with antisemitism? DJ Clayworth 19:14, 30 Oct 2003 (UTC)

OK, I understand. Well, I don't, but I think I understand enough. Thanks. DJ Clayworth 19:48, 30 Oct 2003 (UTC)

Hello! Just to compliment you on the patience to write on political parties :) Muriel Gottrop 14:09, 5 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Re: Reptilian humanoid. Actually having read User:Khranus' rant on the Talk:Reptilian humanoid page I now fully understand why Jews might want to protest these idiots. DJ Clayworth 14:26, 5 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Hi, Secretlondon. I've been impressed with your contributions, and I've nominated you to be a Wikipedia adminstrator. See: Wikipedia:Requests for adminship. Put a note there if you accept the nomination. Cheers, -- Infrogmation 19:16, 9 Nov 2003 (UTC)

You're now an administrator. -- Tim Starling 23:52, Nov 9, 2003 (UTC)

Sorry about the "looks like this should be deleted" entry on the talk page for Schreyer Honors College Excellence in Teaching Award. I was just trying to draw the vandalism to the attention of an administrator who could do something about it. Markcollinsx 12:19, 10 Nov 2003 (UTC) I reverted vandalism from the Sex guy. I thought it was your user page. Maybe you want it here?... You can always revert me. Cheers, Muriel

Welcome to the [Vietnamese Wikipedia]. Hopefully you can contribute to the site as well as to the English one. Regards, Joakim Löfkvist

Quick note to say thank you for reverting the vandalism on the Farey sequence page yesterday. As the originator of the article, I have to admit to feeling a little protective towards it, and it was sad to see it getting wiped out in such a mindless way. But you resurrected it so promptly ! So thank you again -- Gandalf61 12:43, Nov 15, 2003 (UTC)

RE: Image:Cpankhurst300.jpg I know I sometimes forget so I'm sure you did did too but its probably a good idea to insert the copyright info for usage, i.e. pre 1923, fair use, or whatever. Thank you. NightCrawler 13:19, 15 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Just trying to avoid the newbie-chomping that will almost certainly result. I can already hear them calling, "Vanity! Delete!" -- Cyan 23:55, 15 Nov 2003 (UTC)

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Hi secretlondon, while the work you've been doing on the Underground is great, don't you think an article, a stub to be exact, is nessecary? Just have descripts of each station in the article for its parent line, maybe. - user:zanimum Hi, why did you revert my correction? The former article I corrected was heavily biased. Please consider the NPOV. Der Eberswalder 17:31, 16 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Thanks for the save on the Japan article, bud. JCB 03:44, 17 Nov 2003 (UTC)

deleted "Daisy (television commercial)" (content was: 'daisy commercial from johnson compaign')

Very famous political ad in the US (many consider it the most controversial ever), implying candidate Goldwater would start a nuclear war. Perhaps you should have left it as a stub.

see it at: http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1996/candidates/ad.archive/daisy_long.mov

read transcript here (page down): http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~eagleton/e-gov/e-politicalarchive-1964.htm orthogonal 23:26, 17 Nov 2003 (UTC) ---

mydogategodshat

I would like to express a heartfelt thanks to: Κσυπ Cyp , Cimon Avaro on a pogostick, snoyes, Adam Bishop , Secretlondon, Hephaestos , 207.189.98.44 , Jamesday, Pakaran for nominating me and supporting me. It is encouraging to know that my efforts over the past 6 months have been appreciated. I prize your actions all the more knowing that many of you were not familiar with my work and had to do some research to decide whether to support me or not (because I limit my contributions to the 750 business/economics articles) . Thank you for the time, the effort, and the confidence.

There was a minority that did not support me because of my name. It seems that half have a problem because they read “shat” into it and half because of the word “god”. I find this amazing. The people that read “shat” into the character string had to ignore the commonly used word “hat” and pick out a word that has not been in common use for more than a century. My spell checker is currently telling me that the word dosn’t exist. One complainant insisted on converting “Monad” into “gonads” and “Excrescent” into “excrement”. Another saw “a dog eating a bone” as a sexual act. All I can say to these people is “Get professional help”.

As for changing my name, I have decided not to do that for two reasons. One is a philosophical reason. For an explanation, read The Crucible, particularly where John Proctor declares the importance of your name. The price of adminship is too high. The other reason is a practical one. I find it useful to use the same name on all my online activities. It is interesting that two universities and several commercial sites don’t have a problem with my name. Maybe it is not all that surprising since they are not inhabited by trolls trying to forward their cause.

Hope to see you around the business/economics pages in the future. mydogategodshat 03:09, 22 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Would it be worth someone nominating Mydogategodshat again? I was thinking of writing something along the lines of "Excellent contributions, and this user has now shown that he will not give up his ideals (submission to seemingly irrational orders to change username) in order to gain more power (adminship). This demonstrates that he is unlikely to abuse or be corrupted by admin powers.". But I decided a potential second nomination would probably be better by someone other than me, though. (Asking a few people this.) Κσυπ Cyp 13:11, 29 Nov 2003 (UTC)

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about disambiguation pages. If they are disambiguation pages, yes, the template should be used. But when the abbreviation is the common identity for something, (IBM for example is better known as IBM than as International Business Machines), then the purpose of the page with the abbreviation is no longer solely to disambiguate. :) Thanks for keeping me on my toes Christopher Mahan 10:02, 7 Nov 2003 (UTC)

France during WWII

Yep, in a couple of minutes. I just thought that an empty article on such a nice History of France series was unfortunate. --Alex S 21:54, 23 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Sorry for snapping at you about Economy of East Germany. It's just that I've seen too many people dump huge slabs of material into Wikipedia that needs to be completely rewritten, and then not do it. I'm glad to hear you're not one of them! --Robert Merkel 22:52, 23 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Thanks for correcting my bad language in the Norway election article. - Mendalus 12:01, 1 Dec 2003 (GMT).

About links in Austronesian languages - I think you are correct. My mistake. - Nilmerg 11:29, 3 Dec 2003 (UTC)

A suggestion

Please don't get mad if I suggest a redirect, instead of a deletion, for this one page:

The Juvenile Deliquency article could say: #REDIRECT juvenile delinquency

--Uncle Ed 22:39, 4 Dec 2003 (UTC)

The reason why the 'tube' stations in question were incorrect, is because the term 'tube' wasn't used for the London underground until long after these stations went into disuse. They were Victorian and Edwardian stations, 'tube' was a much later (sixties I think) term. I have been a Buckinghamshire historian for 15 years and I have never heard any of the respective terminuses referred to as tube stations in all that time, irrespective of the fact that none of them are in London, nor are they underground. Graham :) 23:20, 4 Dec 2003 (UTC)

She thanked a fellow wikipadeit (!) very quickly for adding stuff about Soutwark.

Man, you're fast Secretlondon. I just added ROSS to the vfd. Anthropos 12:53, 9 Dec 2003 (UTC)

I've had a go at improving what is now Nag's Head, Holloway. -- The Anome 13:31, 10 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Re Jayne Bryleigh etc, can you do a find for that name here and see what you think?

You wrote I don't understand where you are coming from. I don't have time to look through the last month's deletion logs at the moment. If you have found that it was previously deleted please say so. If you want to check to see if it's accurate try google. I was trying, badly I admit, to indicate that my nose was telling me that there was something 'wrong' with these pages. It would have been better to do all the digging first, but I wanted to avoid a big debate on VfD. I made a mess of that. I'm as keen as the next man pardon the possibly sexist pun to promote overlooked women writers/thinkers/scientists/whatever (why I started List of women poets, but just felt in my water that these were suspect. A man's intuition? No ill will, I hope? Going home now. Bmills 17:30, 10 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Hello Secretlondon. I would suggest that Warwickshire (administrative) should be protected as well, seem as that has turned into an edit war G-Man 15:40, 11 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Thanks G-Man 15:47, 11 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Deletion

Please read Wikipedia:Deletion policy, in particular the section on what pages may be deleted without being listed on Vfd for five days. -- Oliver P. 20:42, 11 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Oops. My mistake. Sorry about that. -- Oliver P. 20:46, 11 Dec 2003 (UTC)

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Book of Mormon Controversies Page

Your changes to the heading hierarchy of the Book of Mormon Controversies page seem to have increased the entropy of the page. Please explain what you are trying to accomplish. Hawstom 18:03, 11 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Thanks for the explain, Secretlondon. I will fix the page if you have not already done so. Also, great pointer to the layout page. Hawstom 22:33, 13 Dec 2003 (UTC) ---

Conflicts between users

Where or what is "Conflicts between users" ? Andy Mabbett 19:26, 14 Dec 2003 (UTC)

--- Thank you for fixing my German accent marks. Paul, in Saudi ---

You're so quick

I think I'll giive up on Recent changes and trust you to catch everything. Great work and just ignore the moron vandals. Bmills 12:02, 16 Dec 2003 (UTC)

The decision to unlink the dead links was difficult; I will, however, revert the page. --Merovingian 15:13, Dec 16, 2003 (UTC)

Thanks: I had remembered 142 as someone else (can't remember who now) who wasn't hard-banned. I appreciate all the work you do fighting vandals...makes it seem less awful that I always manage to bungle it somehow. :) Best wishes, Jwrosenzweig 22:07, 16 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Hiya Secret London. I think my stubbification of Jones Act hit at the same time as your deletion of the earlier nonsense. It now shows in the delete log and as a new page creation by me. No problem, except it now looks as if I created this rather thin article from scratch, which I did not. Oh well. That's life. Anjouli 18:08, 17 Dec 2003 (UTC) Hiya,

I should be working on my paper rather than editing WP, so I'll keep this short.

I already listed Bistromatic Drive on vfd, you might want to merge the listings - I feel I gave reasons why it should be deleted even if not a copyvio. Pakaran 18:24, 17 Dec 2003 (UTC) Ok, I think between us we've warned 144.217 enough times. Just thought I'd ask your opinion though... Pakaran 21:48, 17 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Thank you for supporting my request for adminship. Bmills 08:56, 18 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Don't delete useful stuff from Wikipedia. Pls verify what you delete before actually doing so.ThanksRoger

Bartolomé de Las Casas

Hi, please take your time before deleting something. There is an article on that guy, so a redirect would have been MUCH better. All the best, KF 12:11, 24 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Soccer chants

I added them to VfD around the same time you put them on Cleanup. Which is most appropriate? Bmills 15:45, 26 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Diaphorectic

Dear Secretlondon. A diaphorectic is a drug that increases perspiration! Why did you delete it? Cheers, Muriel Victoria 16:20, 26 Nov 2003 (UTC)

It's ok, i sometimes get a bit anxious too! Maybe you need to relax :) I'll join this side of the channel. Muriel

Emotional Americans

I just found ANOTHER article about Rachel soon after I wrote mine. It was located at Rachel Joy Scott WhisperToMe 23:15, 25 Nov 2003 (UTC)

"Just added "Her favorite colors were yellow and lavender". Please no. This is ludicrous. Secretlondon 23:10, Nov 26, 2003 (UTC)" - I added information just like that to the Megan Kanka and Polly Klaas articles quite some time ago. WhisperToMe 23:49, 26 Nov 2003 (UTC)

After that, I thought about making a "child favorites" table for things like that. WhisperToMe 23:56, 26 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Hank Eskin

Hello Secretlondon... just for the record, I did not create this page about me Hank Eskin to advertise my services...someone from my website created the page with personal and private information. And as I whole-heartedly agree with you, I would very much like to have this page and its page history deleted. Thank you.