User talk:Rmhermen/Archive1

Thanks for your feedback on More legends. I have changed the title to Nyaminyami: Legend of the River God. It is my work although I didn't start the legend. It is linked to Zimbabwe. I'm new to Wikipedia and haven't figured out how to delete "More legends" yet.

Rmhermen, would you care to defend your unexplained reversion of the tornado page on the tornado talk page?

Page history is here. - Plautus satire 17:59, 25 Feb 2004 (UTC)

why did you delete my link?

anthonylouisburns@yahoo.com

Everything Else

Thanks for the comment on the fasting article. I agree it needs more information on Islamic fasting. I initially added some detail to the page on Orthodox fasting practices, but then I realized that the subject was already covered in another article. I deleted my detail and added a link to the other article instead. Can you do the same? JHL

Thanks for the M. Night Shamylan fix.

By the way, what is the Wiki-policy on people who are better known by one or two initials than by their spelled-out names?

E.B. White
e.e. cummings
J. Edgar Hoover
R.J. Reynolds
J.R.R. Tolkien

Looks like we just use the most common name. We should make sure that a redirect is set up to the more popular name from the full name though. Rmhermen 08:02 Aug 20, 2002 (PDT)

Thanks for the quick fix on History of Poland! It was sounding awfully sympathetic to the Third Reich for a bit! JHK

I made a lot of changes to genocide other than just cutting it into two parts. After I put the parts back together, you may notice many changes. Please review for historical accuracy, etc. --Ed Poor

Rmhermen you might want to merge your old userpage Rmhermen into you new userpage user:Rmhermen. Or if you don't want the content anymore, then list it onWikipedia:Personal_subpages_to_be_deleted. --Christian 23:47 Sep 17, 2002 (UTC)

Thanks. I thought it was deleted long ago. --rmhermen

Hey Rmhermen, thanks for your last edit on the SCA! It reads a lot better now. :) -Frecklefoot

Is Bhuddism really a sect of Hinduism? Also how can a group of atheists be a branch of a religion? --rmhermen

The Indian spiritual teacher Gautama Buddha, who founded Buddhism, rejected the Vedas as invalid and obsolete. According to the sutras, he spoke of the Divine, devas and God but was neither a theist nor an atheist but a non-theist. Brahmans or Brahmins absorbed him and his teachings into what is now called Hinduism (as with most Indian rishis); making him the 9th incarnation of Vishnu. Be well. Usedbook 02:10 Apr 10, 2003 (UTC)

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If what is meant is that priest is the highest office in Presbyterianism, I would agree with that. I come from the dutch reformed tradition< thoug so maybe there is a diference>

The differences between the Dutch Reformed and the Presbyterians are usually considered to be differences of custom and procedure, rather than doctrinal. You can rely on your experience to improve the article.

The bullets in the article should describe what presbyterian government does with the distinctions of office that appear to be present in the New Testament: "bishop", "elder", and "deacon". According to that theory of government, the "bishops" of the New Testament are the highest office of the church - there is no "arch-bishop", "patriarch" or "pope". Some presbyterians make the office of "minister of word and sacrament", "pastor" or "teaching elder" distinct, strictly equating that office with the "bishop" of the New Testament, distinct from other "elders", or "presbyters" and yet also an elder himself. Other presbyterians minimize the difference between the "minister" and the other elders, because governmentally there is no hierarchy between them (although in practical terms, the pastor's opinion is naturally accorded more weighty respect).

The "priest" of early post-Apostolic times, is understood by presbyterians to be simply another word for one of these "presbyters" or "elders" - they are not "hieroi", but "presbuteroi" and "episcopoi". So, the theory holds that a priest is an elder and all elders are bishops (charged with oversight of the congregation). However, some elders are given special responsibility for the ministry of preaching and the administration of baptism and communion, the other elders are limited in their responsibility, to overseeing the life of the congregation, praying for, teaching, counselling and helping them, and in directing the work of the deacons. Does this clarify a bit? Mkmcconn 19:45 Apr 17, 2003 (UTC)

Ahh! Thats an easy one: Leadbeater's Possum, Victoria's state animal (I live in Victoria), a close relative of the Sugar Glider, and (as it happens) the creature I have in mind to do next. Unlike the Sugar Glider, Leadbeater's Possum is endangered. You remember how the USA nearly lost the Bald Eagle, it's national symbol, and only just banned DDT in time? Like that. Only for Leadbeater's Possum the problem isn't DDT, it's this mania we have for cutting down old growth forests. I have to do a major update on Possum anyway shortly, to link in the possum species I'm writing up tonight, so I'll fix it up them. Thanks for the heads-up! Tannin

I haven't seen any reaction on Talk:World War II/Casualties, mentioned at Talk:World War II of course. ;-))

BTW: were there strong reasons to capitalize "War" in Lapland war and thereby lose the revision history? In this particular case it was for sure without harm, but... ;-)
-- Ruhrjung 20:05 5 Jun 2003 (UTC)

hi, I fixed the link at Slow food. The www was missing. User:anthere

Hi, thanks for proofreading Dutch Golden Age Erik Zachte 21:25 20 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Hi Rmhermen, In your updates to Willys it looks like some text was omitted in the second paragraph: In 19ignition equipment. Not sure what you intended here. Harris7 17:24 26 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Splendid! Thank you very much for your efforts to clear my pidgin English of the worst spelling errors! -- Ruhrjung 19:50 28 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Your Stedebaker question - Yes, I'll put a larger answer on the article's talk page, thanks for your interest,, Lou I 15:51 8 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Of course, I did not refer to you about the 'non serious' comment. But to the person before you. It was an edit conflict :-). Your comment is right. user:anthere

I've done a bit of a rewrite of the opening of the Catholicism page. The opening paragraphs were almost incomprehensible, not to mention monumentally wrong, and some new user came along and made them worse by far. It is hard anyone could do an article on Catholicism and not mention things like Apostolic Succession, the Vatican, etc. It is a bit like doing a history of the USSR and forgetting Stalin. Have a look at the rewrite and see what you think. I think it reads far far better and is far more accurate. FearÉIREANN 00:37 28 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Good addition to Catholicism. After being one of the least readable and most confusing articles on wiki, I think Catholicism is shaping up well and starting to come together. :-) FearÉIREANN 01:05 28 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Thanks for the leg-work on the california missions page. I fixed Mission San Jose (which is, IIRC, in the city limits of Fremont). I'll try and track down whether some of the other current "near to" locations are within a current city even so and tweak them. --Tb 23:34, 29 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Hi, Rmhermen. See User talk:Andy G for my answer to your question. Andy G 19:03, 7 Aug 2003 (UTC)

Careful if it is the Richard Holmes, I think it is, I don't want to scare him off. Mintguy

Hi, you cast a vote in the TEMP5 debate. The Temp5 proposal was voted down by 61.3% to 38.6%. We seem to be going around in circles on the whole issue of the main page. A new vote is now taking place to clarify what exactly we want, namely

Do we actually want to have a new page?
If so when (immediately, after a pause, timed to the press release, etc)?
What do people want on the front page and what do they want excluded?

As of now, the whole issue seems surrounded by complete confusion. This way, finally and definitively, we will know what we want and when we want it. So do please express your opinions. The vote is on the same page as the previous votes. FearÉIREANN 20:31, 13 Aug 2003 (UTC)

Thanks for the American English link in my Indian ink edit; page noted & will link to it in future. Jerzy 17:51, 18 Sep 2003 (UTC)

You are probably right. I simply saw those red occupation links under Requested Articles (Professions) and filled them with descriptions. I thought the links had already been set up for Wiktionary. Doesn't Wikipedia have special folks for putting stuff in the right places? Sorry if I made a mess.

KNewman 13:28, 30 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America

Hi, please remember to use the page move feature if you want to change the title of a page. If you just use cut and paste, then you lose the page history. Thanks. Angela 15:59, Oct 4, 2003 (UTC)~

Tell the developers to put the move feature on all skins. They never listened to me. Besides the history is still there under the old name, it isn't lost. Rmhermen 16:10, Oct 4, 2003 (UTC)

Hi, I forgot to send an answer yesterday; yes the Dolley Madison picture is a photograph from 1848; the original copy is on the Library of Congress site [1] - Hephaestos 21:19, 9 Oct 2003 (UTC) Thanks for the note about preview Rmherman. Still getting used to the place.

About my changing articles into British English: please note that I did not intend to start a riot. I had noticed the article contained both British and American versions of the word 'armour/armor' and simply wanted to bring the article into sync - Icarus

When you want to change a page title like "smoking", there's now a "Move this page" feature that moves the history as well. --LDC

I think the move feature is still only a sysop power. --rmhermen

It should be available to anyone who is logged in. If it isn't,let me know.

I moved a page once. I never asked for sysop power and I'm sure RMH wouldn't recommend I have it =) It may have been in User:Kwantus space, tho. -- Kwantus

Definitely available to any registered user, but IMO needs careful study of the documentation bcz of possibility of making mistakes that require a developer to correct, if the history is not to be lost.

I also make a point to force an entry on the "to" page's history, indicating where page was moved from, since it is the "from" page only that gets an automatic entry indicating a move occurred. Click "User contributions" in the margin of Jerzy, and use your browser's "find" function, searching for "move", to see lots of examples.

One might believe that "move" is a sysop power bcz getting rid of the "from" page (which turns into a redirect) is a sysop-only "delete" operation. But unless the "from" page's name was a true typo (rather than a poorly chosen name, which someone else might also poorly choose), keeping the "from" page as a redirect is better than deleting it. --Jerzy 15:02, 2003 Nov 11 (UTC)

Hi, see you are also editing the wine pages here. Would you happen to be a fan of French hybrid wines? Wnissen 07:02 May 11, 2003 (UTC)

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Hi Rherman,

I have amended the living foods page inline with your comments, I would appreciate further feedback.

TonyClarke

In the biodiesel article, the first fight wasn´t between biodiesel and petroleum, but between VEGOIL and petroleum. Biodiesel cames later, to solve the viscosity problem provocated by engine changes ).

Have I managed to show you why I have extreme difficulty being neutral over fluoridation? --- Kwantus 17:06, 20 Sep 2003 (UTC)

If you can't right with NPOV in mind - edit something else. Rmhermen 17:56, Sep 20, 2003 (UTC)

Nope, you don't get it yet. I can't write in support of health benefits I believe have been shown not to exist. As neutral a ground as I can take is the topical application.

I can in all honesty write more readily that the Nazis were misunderstood good guys than I can about fluoridation being a good idea. The Us always backs the good guys, right? That's a "generally accepted fact", at least in the US. Well, the Nazis also had tangible and significant US supprt, before, during, and after the war. That's documented, if not generally known. Thus, the Nazis must've been good guys. See?

I can't do that for fluoridation. None of its advertised mitigations seem to be withstanding scrutiny. And you apparently won't let me cite the sources. --Kwantus 18:32, 20 Sep 2003 (UTC)

Yes you don't get -go write about something else if you can't do this right. You are entitled to your opinion. But the encyclopedia is not your opinion. Leave fluoride to another author. Rmhermen 18:44, Sep 20, 2003 (UTC)

You deleted my efforts to substantiate my opinion. Is that being neutral, or is that "defending" your own opinioin?. -- Kwantus 18:48, 20 Sep 2003 (UTC)

What was the reason which made you remove the link "The hidden truth about the victims of September 11th" I've added on the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attacks page ? -- AmigaPhil

Reply for you about Model A at User talk:Arpingstone
Adrian Pingstone 22:23, 12 Oct 2003 (UTC)

You seem to be mistaking that those numbers refer only to Poland when in fact they refer to all Eastern countries. A quick search gives 3 million expelled from Czechoslovakia with between 20,000 - 200,000 killed and 200,000 German killed after the war in Yugoslavia. It seems likely it will quickly add up to the quoted figures when we add Poland, Russia, the Baltic countries, Hungary,

Still doesn't count up.

... Most sources say that most of the movement happened after the war though, not during.

:: How come? Most of Germans escaped before Red Army came. And I checked even the source listed in the article: it says that Germans were expelled or fled in 1945. So there are rerasond doubts if all of them were expelled.

Other quick searches show that listing on the Volkslist even in categories 1 and 2 did not give automatic citzenship in Nazi or post-war Germany (although it was almost certain).

What do you mean? Signing Volkslist wasn't applying for foreign citizenship? It was treated like this by Polish law. And by the way: you are perfectly aware that 3rd and 4th group of Volkslist were not ethnic Germans at most. Some of them even didn't speake German. Part of them were historical opportunists. And many of them were actually expelled to Germany. In the process, Germany gained a lot of non-German immigrants and this helped Germany to develop economy after the war.

And that Poland did not only expel those on the list but indisciminately.

Serious doubts. If somebody was Polish citizen and had prove for it that he didn't apply for Volkslist, he was not subject of Polish law against traitors. However, he could have been persecuted by Soviets or by individual criminals.

GH

Re River. The sub-heading is "fiction", not "fictional rivers". "London is Edward Rutherfurd's third enormous volume of historical fiction.", according to http://www.sfsite.com/~silverag/rutherfurd.html. Andy Mabbett 23:31, 3 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Re Naming of US States

Fascinating. IMO, this is worth thinking abt turning into some article content on the process and controversies. I'm not ready to do systematic research on it, but i'm certainly going to make an effort to sound less authoritative abt it!

(But of course i would still be glad to get the West Wing episode info & West-Wing Watch reaction, which often has significant Beltway expertise behind it.)

Have you found anything on the NDak case? I wonder if they were just pretending to believe they needed Federal permission? Whatever "West Wing" suggested, i am sure the whole thing is just a "not as cold as you thought" publicity stunt, so why not pretend they can't do it alone, rather than look like complete fools for doing it? (Think of the cost of new stationery (public and private) and highway signs....)

(BTW, see also above re moves) --Jerzy 15:02, 2003 Nov 11 (UTC)

Someone has left a question for you at Talk:Riverworld. —Paul A 07:24, 12 Oct 2003 (UTC)

Howdy. Could you please use the "Summary" more often when editing articles? Thanks! Daniel Quinlan 05:12, Oct 16, 2003 (UTC)

Prussia Article

Hi Rmhermen,

It is nice to see there is someone else here with an interest in Prussia. Have you done any official research on the nation for the COE? I would like to ask you to add a paragraph to the Prussia talk page detailing your choce of wording. User:Zestauferov

States' Names under Federal Control?

I have done no successful research, but:

My recollection is that the _NYTimes_ reported action taken by NDak'ns (Gov? Legis? Civic group, possibly, tho i think not) seeking Congressional action, a couple of years ago.
There definitely was a "West Wing" episode on it, and state officials were seeking White House support for the change. North Dakota wanted to change its name in the episode We Killed Yamamoto originally aired 2002-05-15 [2]. In the real world, North Dakota's legislature has thrice failed to change the name of the state in once in 1947 and twice in 1989 [3].
States are admitted by Congressional action, and what i've seen of the legislative process, sometimes up close and personal, makes me believe that an official of Congress would transmit paperwork (perhaps via a cabinet sec'y (= gov't minister)) to officials administering the territory being converted into a state, instructing them to organize a state gov't, and that the statute and the instructions would include the name of the state. The Federal system would, IMO, treat this as creation of a pseudo-sovereign state with whom it had the equivalent of a treaty: the statute would IMO be like a charter for the state, and the Constitution would in effect make it nearly irrevocable. (Secession and rebellion in our Civil War led to the only states that have had their status abridged in any way; most of the seceding states were treated identically, IIRC, except that when Virginia seceded from US, its trans-Appalachian counties seceded from it & were granted statehood as West Virginia, 1863, before end of Civil War. And if that was unconsitutional, it would not be the only such action on the Union (non-seceding) side, in the face of the kind of emergency that makes lawyers and maybe judges say "the Constitution is not a suicide pact".)
But i think i remember some discussion that Congress could authorize states that so chose to split (proposed for California) or merge, and i see name change as under same heading.
I've also read the 1773 colonial charter issued by a royal governer for a colonial town (township) which says "Said Tract of Land as above Expressed ... By the name of ...", and i profoundly believe that adaptation rather than innovation is as much the rule in law and gov't as it is in evolution.
Oh, forgot this when writing re Hawaii: Utah residents sought admission as state of Deseret, which is a Mormon scriptural name. Giving up Deseret as name, and outlawing polygamy, were part of the price of statehood (Mormons being regarded as dangerous and unreliable). Which suggests, tho not proving, that they could make name requirement stick after statehood.

Well, all that's pretty flimsy, i guess!
(When i searched National Archives and Records Admin., i was expecting to turn up something like a charter for Hawaii but Public Laws of 1959 (i think that is the term) is probably the place to look. (And they are so vast that i don't relish such a prospect.) Hope that's not too disappointing! --Jerzy 03:44, 2003 Nov 11 (UTC)

(Hmm, here's where i intended put my edit on this subject that ended up on your user-page. Have you considered making the top of that page look more like a user page, to reduce the confusion? A couple of lines would make a big difference, IMO; as it is, you had me trying to figure out at one point whether you had redirected your talk page to your user page, or vice versa!)

You wrote, on Jerzy-talk,

I just read the act of admision of Hawaii [1] and don't see that it notes a legal opinion in 1961 ...

by which you must mean that the post-act annotations don't include that subsequent case. (BTW, i often call majority opinions "rulings" (which is not usually excessively loose); you aren't referring to a minority opinion, i hope? (Of course minority opinions in a lower court, can turn, not just rarely, into rulings of US Supreme Court.))

I agree that that is interesting, but doubt it tells us much: if no court has applied it to conditions that are (implicitly or explicitly) imposed on every state, it might be premature to include it, even if is reasonable to expect it to apply to state name.

My understanding is that there is a lot of what i'd consider "common law" that applies to what we might call "high law" such as this; perhaps common law is a greater part of high law than of ordinary law: i have read that a large fraction of accepted international law is not treaty law, but merely the implications construed from the acts and "forbearances" (IIRC the term used) of nations. So IMO my reference to colonial charter could be as pertinent as anything explicit that we'll find!

If i had the _Oxford Companion to Politics_ (IIRC its title) at hand, i'd browse it for ideas. (I've had great reverence for it ever since reading its entry on "state" (not US sense, of course), and if i ever see a used copy, i will buy it in a shot.) --Jerzy 16:18, 2003 Nov 11 (UTC)

Thanks for finding the reference for "firing squad" so quickly.

Dear rmhermen, look here - Talk:List of Baptist sub-denominations - to find a comment I will place on your question, "Could you explain in the article what a sub-denomination is? It is a new one to me." Rlvaughn 03:27, 19 Nov 2003 (UTC)

You should be advised that someone other than the anonymous IP that used to sign as GH has claimed the username GH, so the anonymous IP formerly known as GH is now AM. -- Cyan 02:43, 22 Nov 2003 (UTC)

taliban....

I misread http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=List_of_Taliban_leaders&diff=1809653&oldid=1809433 when I looked at it. Apologies. I changed it back to what you did. Kingturtle 01:25, 25 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Hi RM. Just thought I would say I like your watch over World War II. 82.82 has now made changes "Germans=>Germany" but not adding "Nazi" this time. I'm inviting him to discuss the matter, I thought you might like to be involved. DJ Clayworth 15:04, 8 Dec 2003 (UTC)

RM, thanks for pointing out historical reenactment article, I'll merge the two and make the new one a redirect. I just missed the existing article. Lou I 23:20, 16 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Thanks for fixing my typo at List of chiefs of mystical organizations! Peace Profound, Optim 05:41, 17 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Answering your question on Talk:Third Estate:

Why is the Canadian news program called the Fifth Estate? Rmhermen 06:15, Dec 17, 2003 (UTC)

Broadcast media (vs. print media) I would guess. See Fourth Estate -- Jmabel 07:05, 17 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Thanks for the Space Shuttle mission page footers! -- Ke4roh 14:24, 18 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Hi

I would have added more on women poets, but apart from the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E people, I don't know enough. I am very interested in women poets, and created List of women poets and, I think, 19 articles on individual women writers (I'm male, by the way). Ijust wanted to finish the article today, because I'm gone for 2 weeks. If nothing has been added on women, I'll do it when I get back. Thanks for the kind words. Bmills 16:02, 23 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Hello. I brought Gwendolyn Brooks into conformance with Wikipedia's highlighting convention. Could you attend to that whenever you create new articles? Thanks. Michael Hardy 18:06, 23 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Moving Pages

RM - The proper way to move a page is to use the 'Move this page' link. This will move the article, its history and its associated talk: page (if any). Your recent move of camping to camping (disambiguation) left the history behind. This is considered poor form. - UtherSRG 17:52, 8 Jan 2004 (UTC)

It is impossible to move a page to an already existing page without having sysop powers or getting one to delete the previous page for you. Also this manner of moving, inserts an unrecorded edit (the move) erases the edit history of the deleted page which is merely disjointed when cut-and-paste moving. Rmhermen 18:02, Jan 8, 2004 (UTC)

Yes... so you should have stopped and gotten a sysop's attention. - UtherSRG 18:47, 8 Jan 2004 (UTC)

No, I would rather preserve the record of the old edits than delete it. Too many were already lost with the change from UseModWiki to MediaWiki (or was it the last change before that one?). I am not going to go around asking people to delete records (or trying to get sysop status to do it myself) when a simple cut and paste and comment in the talk page will do. Rmhermen 20:41, Jan 8, 2004 (UTC)

Added some more women to [[American [petry]] - hope you approve. Bmills 11:15, 9 Jan 2004 (UTC)

You can link to a section using something#section, but last time I tried that for a redirect, it didn't work. It redirected to the top of the target article instead of to the middle. Onebyone 11:54, 18 Jan 2004 (UTC)

You were right in dropping bold on "guns" in "RIFLE"! The misunderstanding of the word "gun" just really riles me sometimes...

Thanks. --Mark

Tasmanian

Thanks for the changes - just getting my head round this site - got here via Slashdot - fantastic idea.

Thanks for list of birds tip-off. Although the changes could be justified, to dismiss what is still standard taxonomy for most of the world as "silly" at the very least needs discussion involving the people who actually write the bird articles. There are literally a couple of thousand taxoboxes by now using the Linnaean classicification - is anon going to change all those? jimfbleak 06:49, 7 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Plautus satire

You may be interested in Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Plautus_satire. I see he is starting yet another edit war, this time with you. Curps

ISS spacewalk

Please provide a source for NASA saying that the ISS spacewalk completed three quarters of the goals. The closest I've seen them coming was 60%, which I rounded to half. Jamesday 19:22, 29 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Jablonowski

You haven't find, because his name was Jabłonowski :)))

My info about him came also from the site quoted by you (by Corbett) and two books - one read when i was kid, forgot the title, but this was not historic books but loosely baed on facts... and second was full of factual errors traveller report. No idea WHY Jabłonowski was half-black. But he definetely was... He also, it seems, died on Haiti before first Polish soldiers arrived. He was first Pole on Haiti - second was his aide... Anyway, here it is: Wladyslaw Franciszek Jablonowski Szopen

Mosques

They don't always, typically the reason for two is just symetry of design I think. I have seen many smaller mosques with only one. Mark Richards 20:46, 4 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Disambiguating river

I don't think that convention is being followed as a whole. My feeling is that every river should have it's own article page. The disambiguation by state seems to be the one most used, so I've been following it.:) -- Decumanus 20:00, 21 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Medicine

Wow, how quickly people notice! After I put in the comment I decided to do the reversion myself. Comments had already gone on the talk page. Kd4ttc 22:27, 22 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Portage River

Not sure how you want to handle this, but I'm pretty sure that there are two Portage Rivers in Kalamazoo County. One branch flows into the Kalamazoo River, the other flows into the St. Joseph River. I think that this situation may be due to some channelization as the area is pretty developed now. Bkonrad 21:33, 23 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Ahh yes, you are quite right. I only remembered a Portage something flowing into the Kalamazoo. Bkonrad 22:18, 23 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Madrid 11

Thank you very much for your help at the Madrid 11 attacks article. Pfortuny 18:15, 13 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Historic incorporated territories of the United States

Actually Decumanus is doing an excellent revision of the whole organized/incorporated territory articles. Something I wanted to do -- because I found it confusing -- but had a hard time getting a handle on to even start. Bkonrad | Talk 21:12, 24 Mar 2004 (UTC)

STS missions

The only available mission parameters i can find at this point are in the infobox, distance traveled, orbital inclination, duration of mission, orbital altitude. Number of orbits are available and could be added. If you dont feel comfortable listing them as complete, then move them to the in-progress list. Theon

Ok, ill see if i can find parameters somewhere else then

Theon 18:22, Mar 30, 2004 (UTC)

Sedna

I assume you need the Sedna (planetoid) redirect deleted so you can move Sedna (astronomical object) there per the vote? - Texture 16:01, 25 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Yes I think that is what needs to be done. Rmhermen 16:06, Mar 25, 2004 (UTC)

2003 North American blackout

I'm not trying to move any of them. You are free to move the current article if you feel its ungrammatical, but be sure to fix the gazillion double redirects.--Jia ng 22:14, 25 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Der ewige Deutscher

I'm sure you did decide that a month ago. Could you just please tell me where?
--Ruhrjung 22:28, 1 Apr 2004 (UTC) Check the edits of mid-November and the talk pages of about the same time. Although that was an attempt to change every single occurence of German and Germany to Nazi and Nazi Germany, not just some. Rmhermen 01:48, Apr 2, 2004 (UTC)

Tsar vs Emperor

Peter Carl Fabergé: just curious: any particular reason why you changed emperor to tsar? Mikkalai 04:37, 4 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Tsar is the common English language term. See for instance google

Tsar Nicholas II 15,800 hits
Czar Nicholas II 12,500
Emperor Nicholas II 2,630
Csar Nicholas II, 28
Car Nicholas II, 17 (only 1 in English)

Rmhermen 04:43, Apr 4, 2004 (UTC)

I am not going to revert, but your reasoning is inapplicable here, for two reasons. First, we are not talking about the title of an article, where the coice between two spellings may decide (It would be ridiculous to remove all synonyms from English language basing on google frequency, wouldn't it?). Second, "Emperor" is a proper formal title of tsars, and if a person choses to use it, he has precedence, unless you have really compelling reasons to object. Mikkalai

Actually it was originally written as Tsar not Emperor. Secondly while the Russian word for Emperor may be the Russian word for his title, in the English language it is traditionally translated as tsar. English makes no claim to be consistent or logical. Rmhermen 12:03, Apr 4, 2004 (UTC)

Turkey with Stuffing Sandwich

It's obviously a feeble joke - no such poem. I thought I had quick-deleted the page, and will now do so. - DavidWBrooks 14:30, 6 Apr 2004 (UTC)

The contributor's other edits were legit, didn't want to bite the newbies. Rmhermen 14:33, Apr 6, 2004 (UTC)

Naming Polygons

Please answer these questions based on YOUR opinions.

How would you name a 100-sided polygon??
How would you name a 1000-sided polygon??
How would you name a 10,000-sided polygon??

66.245.99.46 15:46, 9 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Antagonym

Hi, thank you very much for transferring and editing the Antagonym article. Now I have an account in the English Wikipedia. Best regards Bernd --Hutschi 13:06, 16 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Space monkeys

Thanks for your great work on monkeys in space. Do you think the article should be renamed so it can be bolded in the first sentence? I still can't think of a new name, or a way to reword the intro. - Jeandré, 2004-04-13t16:44z

Barbecue vs. Barbeque

Thank you for letting me know that barbeque is a valid alternate spelling of barbecue. It was my mistake in putting words with barbeque into my list of articles with misspellings. I realized the error after changing three articles: Blackjack oak, Briquet, and Cooking on a campfire. I also changed Barbecue sauce but that was for consistency with the title of the article. I didn't think it worth going back and reverting my changes, but feel free to do so if you wish. Thanks! Wmahan . 15:09, 2004 Apr 15 (UTC)

Put up or...

It is time that you make good on your threats to me posted on this user's talk page by blocking SimonP for having four times reverted information on Fallujah in violation of the three-reverts rule. Or is this a rule that applies only to people who upbraid the "we are always right" doctrine advocated by some leaders of this supposedly independent foundation's project? Of course substantive participation in the debate would be a viable option for you or for SimonP, but you seem incapable of responding substantively, but rather prefer to beg the question and rely on techical measures to assure dominance. TruthSayer 21:32, 29 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Clear Channel

WWJ is actually on a regional channel - 950 kHz. The article is based on the channels historically defined as exclusive to Class IA stations by NARBA. That agreement coordinated skywave (nighttime) AM coverage over the North American continent.

Also, WJR is on a clear channel, but it is 760 kHz, not 750 kHz.

I might suggest that you delete WWJ and correct WJR. Thanks, K7jeb 00:54, 20 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Well yes WJR is on 760 now - before NARBA it was on 750 which was the clear channel set up in 1928 which is when clear channels date to -not to NARBA in 1941 which just reassigned their frequencies. WWJ broadcast on a '28 clear channel of 850 then moved to 950 in 1941 (so its regional but 50kW day and night). Rmhermen 03:03, Apr 20, 2004 (UTC)

I don't really know what the criterion is for listing stations in this article. I happened upon it, saw a few stations listed and added some that I had listened to as a kid, back when MF skywave was a viable medium. I think we ought to stick with frequencies that were originally allocated for Class I for historical reasons, but beyond that, who knows.

Actually, you have opened up the interesting, general topic of MF broadcasting frequency allocations which woould probably make a good article on its own.

K7jeb 12:31, 20 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Chair Seats

In the chair article, you added the "Chair Seats" section. It wasn't clear to me the difference between "open center" & "closed center". Can you clarify in the article? Thanks. Samw 11:14, 24 Apr 2004 (UTC)

<<"Tamazight was an oral language only".

Why was this removed from article? Is it inaccurate? "The Berber languages in the Maghreb have officially been subjected to Arab, as part of government policy and was mainly spoken at home and in villages. However, with a growing tribe-awareness and desire for (at least cultural) independence (especially among the Kabyl people), the mother tongue has become more important and efforts are made to make for instance formal education bi-lingual. In this sense, Berber languages have become political tools to support the struggle for (more) independence."

Rmhermen 15:56, Feb 26, 2004 (UTC>> (from:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Berber_languages)

http://ennedi.free.fr/tifin.htm

hier is information about tifinagh . it is probably olther than finicians script.

Poll: New York City

You expressed interest in the name of the New York City article on its Talk page. Could you please vote in the poll there? Thank you. --Lowellian 00:00, May 2, 2004 (UTC)

Just a question: I was just wondering why you think "New York City" is not an unambiguous term? --Lowellian 08:58, May 2, 2004 (UTC)

Copyvio procedure

(ahem) "If you list a page or image here, be sure to follow the instructions in the "Copyright infringement notice" section below. Page titles should stay listed for a minimum of 7 days before a decision is made." -- Fennec 15:12, 10 Apr 2004 (UTC)

How about you learn how copyright works before recklessly removing content and biting newbies to boot. Rmhermen 01:19, Apr 11, 2004 (UTC)

I just saw your response. Why don't you learn how our copyvio procedure works before screaming at the people who implement it? If you disagree with our copyvio procedure, please direct your attention to the relevant policy talk page. Thank you for your concern. Additionally, thanks for your many useful edits, such as those on Operation Moses. - Fennec 03:41, May 4, 2004 (UTC)

Well, you will notice words like "should" and "comment on the talk page" and "possible copyright violation" in the policy (which is not all on one page) This was clearly an impossible copyright violation and was listed on the page in violation of our policy. Initially I thought to remove it as equivalent to vandalism much as I would have done had User:Mr.OneEdit (more malicious than User:Newbie, and more subtle than User:Vandal) replaced United States with a copyright vio notice claiming site Wikidump.com was the original source. However, I felt that since User:Fennec was still rather new to Wikipedia, maybe he hadn't run across the use of U.S. government material so I explained its copyright-less status on the List page while restoring the article. Free material is all over the web, our material is spreading over it as well. Any editor who wants to start declaring copyright violations had best understand copyright status first. As it was, I was afraid that this instance of "biting the newbies" had scared away a new contributor. Rmhermen 13:30, May 4, 2004 (UTC)

'Copyright Issue'Porceleyne Fles

You're right. I thought I'd checked it properly but there was a big warning on the site. I am asking permission. Completely new to this world of facts and figures. It's fascinating.

Language revision

Thank you for your revision of Finnish war children. I guess both I and others will make additions, so we might appreciate if you take a new look in a month or two. :-) -- Johan Magnus 10:20, 7 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

Capital punishment

I found the mistake; evidently I'd missed two late March executions in Ohio and Nevada. I've corrected the table and the relevant lists; everything should add up correctly now. Thanks for noticing. :) -- Seth Ilys 15:10, 7 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for help

Thanks a lot for splendid proof-reading my text on the Rök Stone, Kensington Stone, rune stone and possibly elsewhere. Being a non-native english speaker I learn a lot from every correction. Thanks again! Nixdorf 11:16, 8 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Thanks for the alert. I generally make it a practice to do what you have said. Those are quite old articles (Trinty and Wind River). By the way, I have gotten the feeling you don't particularly care for my contributations, as you've often indicated displeasure at my edits. I understand we have differrent styles, and that's OK. In the future, if you'd like me to disambiguate, I can surely do so. You don't need to do that. -- Decumanus | Talk 15:51, 13 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

No problem. Perhaps we all have a tendency to interact with others only when we have something negative to say. Appreciation is usually silent, it seems. In any case, I'm glad to hear about the USGS database. I generally have been doing what you suggest already, with different sources: one can usually assume that anything vaguely common will have multiple instances, even if its in New Zealand. Anything Spanish will almost certainly have too. It certainly saves the hassle later on down the line to take care of it up font. -- Decumanus | Talk 16:07, 13 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

Beaver Island

There is an article at Beaver Island. I just added a mention of the Beaver Island in Isle Royale, but there are dozens of other Beaver Islands around the U.S. (and quite likely some in Canada). Should Beaver Island be a disambiguation page? Is there a convention for disambiguating islands? I.e., Beaver Island (Michigan) or Beaver Island (Lake Michigan). older≠wiser 21:09, 15 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

Well, I don't think it's essential to disambiguate the two Michigan Beaver Islands, since the one near Isle Royale is very tiny and will probably never merit too much more than it has now. I was more concerned about the other dozen or so Beaver Islands. So the prime choices I see are 1) leave it where it is for now, until there is a need to disambiguate; or 2) make Beaver Island a disambig page and use Beaver Island (Michigan)--if there ever is a need to separate the two Michigan islands, that can be figured out then. older≠wiser 03:35, 16 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

History of Greenland

Lots of thanks for your contributions to the History of Greenland article. I had an intention of turning a semi-stub into a great article, but I had more or less expected having to do it all myself. I was intrigued to see all this unexpected help! Your additions make me even prouder to be one of the main contributors of the article. Keep it up. -- Jao 17:28, 18 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

Please keep expanding it. (For instance, so far, 1000 years of Inuit history have less space than 400 years of Viking!) Rmhermen 17:35, May 18, 2004 (UTC)

The Nine

Good point. What else could they be? Mark Richards 20:48, 18 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

Word of Friendly Advice

Just a word of advice, before you try to contradict me again, check your facts. It will save us both time, and save you a lot of aggravation and frustration. I think you mean well, but perhaps you're in too much of a hurry to bowl people over with your enormous (but apparently untamed) wit. Energybone 07:03, 26 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

Proportion of part Maori births in NZ

It is very hard to answer your question, somewhere between 10% and 90%. There are said to be no pure blooded Maori left but I know several who deny having any Pakeha ancestry. Equally many, possibly most, of older Pakeha families have at least one Maori ancestor but may not willingly admit it. Others boast proudly of being 1/32 or even 1/64 Maori. For statistical purpose race is left entirely to personal choice. Good in some ways but it doesn't lead to accuracy. I am an immigrant to New Zealand, my children were born in Canada but I already have one part Maori grandchild. That's just how it is here. ping 09:05, 27 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your answer, I have thought about an article on racial mixing in NZ but could not decide how to tackle it. It happens but I don't know of any acccurate statistics. My experience is really limited to one area of NZ, one where mixed marriages were quite normal [if marriage was involved at all] I don't have any feeling for the rest of the country. ping 09:14, 1 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Castle Rock

No problem. We've all just thrown up our hands at one point or another when the 'pedia is very slow. Hopefully, once the rash of category tags have been added the servers will stop being overloaded. Gentgeen 21:09, 2 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Template talk:Europe#Poll: Which items should be listed?

I am confused by your votes to oppose Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan, and support Aland. Could you please explain here? Thank you, Pædia 03:06, 2004 Jun 4 (UTC)

I think most definitions place Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan "primarily" in Asia while Aland clearly enjoys special status including holding its own vote to join the EU and not acceeding to some of the EU treaties. Rmhermen 22:57, 4 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for explaining so promptly. All four listed resources have Kazakhstan as partly in Europe, and only Britannica does not include Azerbaijan.
The question of Aland is not about its special status, which I believe is undisputed, but whether to list as a dependency, which no resource does. Pædia 05:54, 2004 Jun 11 (UTC)