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Archive for November 28, 2004 through June 17, 2006 now at User talk:RJFJR/Archive1

Cleanup Task Force

I aceept the task. You should see it cleaned up soon. --Activision45 05:05, 2 August 2006 (UTC)Activision45

Break of Reality

I went through, changed a couple of things, and added missing article information. The only thing that I think still really needs to be fixed is that there were (I think three) unsourced statements I thought were particularly notablem so I added fact tags to them. But if you're okay with those still in the article, then you can take it off of the cleanup taskforce list. Sophy's Duckling 00:30, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

Foundry Model

Looks fine, history seems a little long. Computerjoe's talk 16:20, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

Bill James

I'll check the status of the new one you gave me. As for Bill James, the article looked fine to me. It lacks sources but honestly, I'm not sure that's something I can help with. I'm fuzzy on all of that. --Woohookitty^(meow) 22:21, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

Pygmalion effect

I would be more than happy to take on this task, however I will not be able to make any substantial contributions to Wikipedia for the next two weeks during school holidays (I don't have Internet at home...). But, after such time I will be more than happy to fix it. I've given it a brief look-over and believe it is a series of stubs compiled into an article. Should be able to expand upon it dramatically - assuming it's real and I can find some info on it :-) David P. A. Hunter

This user is annoyed by Law & Order.

04:08, 21 June 2006 (UTC).

Wooden Spoons

Hey there, the colloquialism of the "wooden spoon" refers to when a team finishes their season in last position in a competition of some kind. So the number of Wooden Spoons a team has is the number of times they've come last. "Wooden Spoon" is a term known to most fans of the sport, in addition it's a short way to note that a team finished last that can fit in a small infobox.

--Anothermelbournite 07:30, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

Ken McElroy

Yeah, I forgot that existed. I don't really have time for that anymore, so...find someone else, I guess. Someoneinmyheadbutit'snotme 22:28, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

What Comes Around

The thing about this song and all the other songs on the album is that they each contain a great deal of sampled music and lyrical references, and I thought it'd be a good idea to log them all incase someone with an interest in the album wanted the information. I'm going to be expanding the information about the making of the album soon, I just have to get some more information. And yes, the samples are what you thought they were. User:Thebanjohype 19:35, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

Cleanup Taskforce: John of Nepomuk

Hi, Was just looking at the article. Made a few changes so far.

Im just wondering if we would be able to get someone to do a czech to english translation of it, and then i would be happy to go through and get the english more standardised.

What would we have to do to get that done?

Reedy Boy 09:27, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

Cleanup taskforce

Thanks for assigning Doping at the Tour de France to my desk. Cycling is not really my strong point so I can't improve the article further. Sorry. - Nick C 13:57, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

Re:Desk

Oh god, I forgot i had that... Well then... time to do a little bit of cleanup. Help if you have time :-) Thanks! Sasquatch t|c 15:42, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

Cleanup Taskforce

I added The Killam Trusts to your desk. It's not literature but it is Canadian. Please take a look at it and either accept it or let me know and I'll reassign it. RJFJR 13:55, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

It looks ok to me however it does need some wiki cleanup and additional links and minor stuff. There are several article categories and links it could be associated with. Shall I clean it up or shall you take it from here? WayneRay 20:03, 3 July 2006 (UTC)WayneRay

I just added some links and a link to the Canada Council and took off the cleanup link, I will however strongly suggest you oput in the ISBN numbers for the two books you had as reference. Thanks WayneRay 20:11, 3 July 2006 (UTC)WayneRay

Doping at the Tour de France article

I'll take the case. Should be done by end of week (normaly sooner but Independence Day may slow me down a bit).--Joe Jklin (T C) 20:03, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

Dysphrenia and Topenga

I'll have a look at tardive dyskinesia. Topanga, California is ready to close. Honestly, I didn't really need to do anything to it. Kerowyn 04:03, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

Samantha Fox

No thanks, I am just cleaning up poetry and history related articles right now. WayneRay 15:45, 7 July 2006 (UTC)WayneRay

• I will be able to take this one on - will probably work on it during this week, if that's OK. Thanks a lot! --Heidijane 18:49, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

Cleanup Taskforce

I will take a look at the articles on my desk tonight. --Woohookitty^(meow) 01:53, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

Cleanup

Sorry, I'll pass, I'm working on another article. Zoo Tycoon can be expanded more. Bibliomaniac15 02:33, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

Sure, I'll take the article. Bibliomaniac15 03:18, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

Cleanup Taskforce

Thanks for assigning North Queensland Cowboys to my desk. The article looks ok now (since it was nominated for cleanup), with not much to add. I'll have a look at it, but don't expect significant improvement. Thanks. - Nick C 12:14, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

Can you assign the article to someone else please, I could not find much more information to add. - Nick C 17:26, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

I think it should be kept open for more work, but assign to someone else. - Nick C 10:45, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

Cleanup Taskforce: Jazz-funk

I will gladly try and improve this article, but please bear with me as my internet is behaving horribly right now. -- Heaven's Wrath   ^Talk  15:00, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

Re: Cleanup Taskforce - Politics of Israel

No, I'm no longer working on this. And no, I didn't complete it either. I have a habit of not completing things =) In this case I'm about to take 8 months leave of the country... jnothman ^talk 14:27, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

Re: Cleanup Taskforce assignment

Hi RJFJR!

I'm sorry, but I'm no longer an active participant in the cleanup taskforce. I never got around to deleting my desk.

Please reassign it, and I'm sorry for any confusion. Linuxbeak (AAAA!) 17:55, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Hi! Thanks very much for setting up my desk properly, it is much appreciated, it was driving me crazy I couldn't seem to get it to work right. Do I still have to accept the English Heritage article I assigned to myself? Paul75 23:34, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

Cleanup Taskforce Desk

Hey...I'll check out the Blondie page, but can you please reassign Howard Bloom? I think I looked at it some time before and couldn't work on it (don't remember why). — Ilyanep (Talk) 16:54, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

Blondie

Thanks for message, yes I'll take on the Blondie (band) page if it's still available. Can you advise me if what I am doing wrong when creating the taskforce subpage for articles?? Doesn't seem to be working for me! user:Paul75

Image copyright

I have been fortunate twice to find images, one for Ice T and one for Bridget Moyanhan, to replace images of questionable use. Each time I corresponded with the photographer, and received his/her permission to upload the image. My question, after hours of trying to make sense of image copyright tags, is what is the tag to use in this case - the copyright holder permits me to upload the image. --Dumarest 19:41, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Cleanup Taskforce/Digital rights management

See my comment at Wikipedia:Cleanup Taskforce/Digital rights management. Computerjoe's talk 18:05, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

Cleanup TaskForce

Hi, wow i forgot all about CTF!! Been very busy with other things. I can take the video scalar task but unfortunately not the Jack Sparrow one.

I would love to take that second one as Im a big fan of the films but I just don't have time to copyedit and research an article of that size well enough. Although I will have a quick browse through today and see if theres anything obvious I can redo.

What is the process for rejecting a case and reassigning it, or are you ok to do that? -- Errant  ^talk(formerly tmorton166) 09:03, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

A word of thanks

Thanks for the task. I can see you're busy giving out assignments and whatnot, so I'll hop to it!--The ikiroid (talk·desk·Advise me) 13:55, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Cleanup Taskforce/WiMAX

I've had to drop Wikipedia:Cleanup Taskforce/WiMAX. I'm simply too busy. Computerjoe's talk 17:56, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

magazine covers not public domain nor GPL nor ...

The images on magazine covers are created, and so are copyrightable. the copyright is held by the creator/photographer/designer or more likely by the magazine which commissioned the work. At least that's a fair summary of the US situation.

As for Fair Use, this is a somewhat sloppy and ill defined thing, only rinally decidable after all the relevant courts examine the debris on the court room floor after a squabble. Or an agreement between a copyright holder and a would be Fair Use user. There is a presumption that parody, breif extracts in a review, or somewhat more in an academic study are all fair use. Fair dealing is the term in the UK and several other places.s

So, I would be cautious about your statement (on the user page) that seems to imply they are. ww 22:40, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

Lines through box

Hi, I encountered your edit to .. eh .. well, the case where you made level 3 headings where they were 'supposed' to be level 2 headings. I reverted that edit, but I noticed at that moment, that indeed the lines go through the box (and I use Opera 9.00.8502, i.e. one of the latest). I then ignored it, thought it was an Opera thingy, or just a random error. But it seems to be something in the heading of that particular box. I replaced it with a Template:Chembox (using {{subst:Chembox}}), and moved the data from the old box to the new one .. now the problem is gone. It is going to be quite a task replacing those all, I might do a WP:AWB-run on all chemicals and see if I can somehow automatically convert these (might be difficult). But cheers for pointing it out. --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 13:56, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

Help request for logging in

Dear RJFJR: You were my greeter on April 22 when I was a Wiki newbie. What a difference a few months make. I have since created a couple of articles near the top of Google searches for that subject (perhaps more usual than not, I admit) and edited many more articles.

Yesterday something odd happened. When I prepared to Save the edit, Wiki said that I was not logged in. I tried to log in using my User name and password. The message was that I had successfully logged in, but the top line far righthand side of my Wiki portal indicated otherwise: log out. I tried getting a new password, which was received within seconds via email. It made no difference. Same thing today. I conclude that I am blocked from fully logging on. The "fully" refers to that my Wiki portal says "log out". (I have received no communications recently on my discussion page.) Is there anything that can be done to fix this? Or can you refer me to someone for assistance? My thanks.

One other detail and possible explanation: When I originally registered, Wiki responded by email, noting my IP address. With the change in passwords on July 22 and again yesterday Aug. 3, the Wiki email response noted that I had an IP address different from mine. It's where my User name (Thomasmeeks) should be in the present message. I had assumed that the discrepancy was a Wiki assignment. But I'm wondering if the discrepancy might be responsible for blocking my fully logging on. 66.16.69.222 20:25, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

Odd, you have signed this with an IP address indicating you are not logged on, but the message "log out" at the upper right hand corner is where you click to log out and should only be shown if you ARE logged in. (Note that it says "log out" not "logged out"). If it lists your user name the the top right hand section then it knows who you are and you are logged in.

You may get more information at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical). RJFJR 20:47, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

I see. I have lapsed into Sign in status yesterday & today in edit efforts after attempting to log in, possibly an unrelated problem that I conflated with log-in status. Thx for your help & reference. At least my User name is back. Thomasmeeks 21:35, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

Image tags reprise

Check out my talk page. You gave me information about this some time age, passing on material from Omegatron. I have tried several times to get to him for discussion/information, without success. Where should I go for that purpose. Thank you for all the help you have give, and the time I have cost you. --Dumarest 19:06, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

Never mind, I found out. On the discussion page of his page. Seems now logical, but it took a while to open my eyes. --Dumarest 19:24, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

Symphony of Fire

I've undone your merge of this article to Celebration of Light because the latter is but one of a number of such events, and isn't even the original. Celebration of Light is specific to Vancouver, and has nothing to do with the others, except for sharing some history from a previous sponsor. I'll re-work this article to reflect current affairs. Mindmatrix 17:52, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

Sorry about that. Both Symphony of Fire and Celebration of Light were listed for cleanup and I encountered them almost one after the other. There's a question about Symphony being verified for Cape Town and I thought they were the same entry. Thank you for correcting my merge. RJFJR 05:03, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

Vague theory

Hi! I've seen you around in the articles that are tagged "cleanup by month." I'm sure you have also noticed the truly epic number of articles that are listed for cleanup. Most of these article only require a bit of work before the tag can be removed. I was thinking that perhaps we could start actively recruiting people to take care of some of these articles, specifically those people who are already listed as Cleanup Taskforce members. Like the title says, this is only a vague idea, but if it helps reduce the workload, it might be worth a shot. Please let me know what you think. --Kerowyn ^{Leave a note} 06:13, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

Sort of what I was thinking of was soliciting help directly on people's user pages, but I'm not sure if that would be considered impolite. Just a quick note along the lines of "Bored? Looking for something to do? Help improve Wikipedia by working on articles in the Cleanup by Month." And maybe add a link to the Open Task Template. --Kerowyn ^{Leave a note} 21:55, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

Akai Buranko

• Akai = Red

• Buranko = Swing

It's just a correction --Zeldamaster3 12:36, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

• • There's 2 page for the 1 single! Maybe you could merge or delete Akai Buranko/Planet Tokyo?

--Zeldamaster3 16:22, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

Kagerou (webcomic)

I've just tagged Kagerou, an article that you started in 2004 as with templates asking for sources and assertions of notability. I don't normally notify authors, but I remembered your username from an old talk page archive of mine, so I'm letting you know. I may put it up for AFD in the near future. - Hahnchen 00:02, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

Big Red Weasel

Hi, RJFJR! Big Red Switch still has some weasely phrases in it. I think my comments on the talk page for the article accurately address my concerns. (Thanks for taking a cut at it!) -- Mikeblas 21:15, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

Date format change

Looking at this diff, I'm wondering if there was any reason why you changed the format of the date from International Dating to American Dating? --Jumbo 04:32, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

I linked it so the user preferences for data formatting applied. I'm not sure that the mediawiki software can interpret forms other than August 17 and 17 August so I changed it to one of those formats while linking it. It shouldn't matter now that preferences apply because everyone will see it in the preference they have selected. If you happen to know if the software for implementing preferences can support [[17th of August]], please let me know. As for changing from number before month to number after, I'm not sure I was even aware I was doing that. RJFJR 13:39, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

I'm doing much the same thing. User preferences only work with correctly wikilinked dates, but most of our readers don't have accounts, so they see the "raw" format. These should be as per the Manual of Style, and changing one format to the other raises all sorts of hackles, I've discovered! --Jumbo 17:31, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

Cleanup of Élan

Élan—I'm on it. — [Mac Davis](talk) (New! SUPERDESK|Help me improve)

Ok, I'm starting it now. For the last three days I've been studying and practicing for the ACT (examination). — [Mac Davis](talk) (New! SUPERDESK|Help me improve)18:47, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

RE: Cleanup taskforce

Ill accept the article and get on it soon - • The Giant Puffin • 15:55, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

Software prototyping

I honestly do not know. It seems a bit... err... long. Lol. Computerjoe's talk 16:46, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

Cleanup Taskforce

Creative title, given the titles for every other message on this page. If you don't mind waiting until early December, I don't mind taking on that article. If you want it done sooner, then sorry I cannot. I have exams coming up (next week they start and conclude mid-November). Unfortunately these exams determine whether or not I get a place in university, so they're rather important.

On another note, is there a Wiki-Break template floating around somewhere? I need to set it up...

Goiter McWilliostein, P. I. ^{Though I seem to speak madness,} _{there be method in 't.} Save Stargate SG-1! 01:06, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

• Oh, and welcome back from WikiSickLeave. Goiter McWilliostein, P. I. ^{Though I seem to speak madness,} _{there be method in 't.} Save Stargate SG-1! 01:06, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

Cleanup Task Force: Orson Scott Card

HI

Sorry about the delay - have been very busy at work lately. I'm happy to take on this task now as things are easing off, so I'm still keen to be part of the Cleanup Task Force. Thanks a lot. --Heidijane 18:59, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

Re:Cleanup taskforce and my desk

Hey RJFJR, you left a message on my talkpage regarding CT things, specifically the state of the article Paramount Canada's Wonderland. Well, I haven't done much to the article (these are my changes), specifically because I couldn't find much wrong with it (where is the writing too "formal"?) and because I don't know much about the park. Should I leave a message on the article's talkpage requesting comments about general cleanup? I'm still willing to work on it, I just don't want to fix the parts that aren't broken. The ikiroid (talk·desk·Advise me) 19:11, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

There's really no harm in keeping the thing going. I put up a request for further comment on the article's CT page, I'll watch for reaction, etc. BTW, I'm happy to take up another article, especially one about linguistics. Have a good one, The ikiroid (talk·desk·Advise me) 20:32, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

Élan

Looks good to me! — X [Mac Davis] (SUPERDESK|Help me improve)

Image licensing - advice needed

Hi RJFJR,

You were my greeter on 3 Oct 2006. Thanks for the welcome.

I've run into a bit of a snag. The article I'm writing about Value of lost load requires a diagram (image). I've got it as a jpg file on my desktop but am wondering about the type of licensing.

The idea of the diagram was from a published report (Reference No 3) in the article, but I created the diagram from scratch. The diagram I made is similar to the diagram in the report. So would that qualify as GFDL (self made)? Or is it under some other license? Appreciate any help on this as I'm quite new at this. Thanks. Das my 17:02, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

I appreciate you asking my opinion, but I don't have a great deal of expertise on this issue. The data in the diagram cannot be copyrighted, but if they are very similar graphically then you may be in trouble. Christopher Parham (talk) 16:42, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for your advice. Yes, the image is fairly similar and an average reasonable person could argue that there may be copyright infringement. Any ideas how to proceed? Do I re-label the axis, change the wording of the legend, etc? The shape (trend) of the graphs are the same for that diagram because of the nature of the type of the data discussed - so no copyright there. Das my 18:19, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

Without seeing the two diagrams side by side, I'd say that the image Das made qualifies as self made. However, I wonder if the original could be used without copyright problems? It was noted that the data itself can't be copyrighted, so wouldn't a graph made from that data also be not under copyright? Kerowyn ^{Leave a note} 19:50, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

It would depend on the level of originality, I would think. I don't know that you need to worry about relabelling axes, etc. if you are using the natural names that would be applied to the variables in question. Those elements of the chart are bound to be pretty similar because there are only a few natural ways to display a certain set of data. By "similar graphically" I meant more in terms of color scheme, etc. It sounds like you should be alright uploading this as GFDL (be sure to credit the source in the image notes though). Christopher Parham (talk) 20:19, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for all your comments and input. I've uploaded Voll_cdf.jpg under the GFDL (self made) license and linked Value of lost load to this image. Das my 04:54, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

Temporary ghost page

The Cincinnati riots page I have a lot of problems with. I envisage rewriting the whole thing. But that means that I will create a 'ghost' page, for that topic, write, and then discuss with 'someones' if it should replace the current page. How do I do that? I am pretty sure it can be done, I have heard about this, but I cannot find directions. --Dumarest 21:11, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

In the search box type the name of the current article followed by /temp (be sure to use the current capitalization of the article name). Click GO. You'll get a message that the page doesn't exist. Click the link that says to create it. This is where you will write the new version. At the top of the existing page place a message about the rewrite in progress with a link to the subpage (the page ending in /temp where you are working on the new version). After you are done then moving the temp page with its history will require an admin (and I have to check on the procedure for that). RJFJR 13:24, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

Sounds about right. Although I think once you've finished the article, you can just transfer the text from the temp page to the main page and put a delete tag on the temp page. Kerowyn ^{Leave a note} 22:46, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

FSB Cleanup

I'm sorry, I should probably clarify my areas of expertise. I'm more into the software aspects of computing, not the hardware. I don't possess a deep understanding of processor hardware. I couldn't find anyone to reassign to in the member list; maybe you'll have better luck. -- Tuvok^^{Talk|Desk|Contribs}  23:39, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

Helbreath Cleanup

The discussion page for Helbreath doesn't seem to explain where the contradictions are in the article, but I accept this task and will work for a NPOV as soon as a I can. Gronkmeister | ^Talk/ _Contrib 16:03, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

AfD stupidity

"(all this is expalined much more clearly in the AFD instructions)", nope! Don't think so. You explained it much more clearly. Sorry about the daft error, I'm new to Wiki and that was my first delete request so it's no real surprise I messed it up. Sorry about that.

 ViperBlade ^Talk!! 21:03, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

COTF - Front side bus

Hey RJFJR,

You asked if I wanted to cleanup the Front side bus article a little while ago, and sorry but I'm gonna have to turn you down. I know pretty much nothing about this topic, I guess I could clean it up a little if you can't find anyone else but it probably wouldn't come back looking any better.

Thanks anyway, Atb129