User talk:Brian0918/Archive 20

Blain

Sorry, but Blain (distemper) is a new one for me. All I can suggest is maybe putting it in the context of an outdated medical term (maybe even creating a new category for that). Thanks for thinking of me, though. --Joelmills 22:08, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

There is nothing I can think of exactly like that. There are tumors that will grow in that area and block the larynx, but they wouldn't be called a bladder, which would seem to indicate the structure is hollow, like a cyst. There is something known as a mucocele which is a abnormal growth in the mouth filled with saliva and is found in dogs (and probably other animals as well, I don't know). If it gets big enough, it can block the larynx, and therefore the trachea, or windpipe. When it is under the tongue it is called a ranula. I guess that's the most logical answer to your question; a blain is probably a mucocele or a ranula. Of course it has nothing to do with heat in the stomach, and I don't know what chaffing is ... --Joelmills 03:01, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

Translation

Quite a piece of old italian! It won't take me long, but can you supply a little more context (such as author and title of work for eg.), maybe it can help. Thank's --Wikipedius 15:18, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the source, it should go like this:

• Source:

E questi lieto alle dolci parole, che in altr'uomo avrebbero eccitato lo sdegno, toglieva per sè il carico d'indirizzare il poema della guerra di Fiandra a Chiapino Vitelli, illustre generale al soldo di Spagna, scrivendogliene nel febbraio del 1551, e parlandogli del dotto giovane e dell'ingegno che teneva proprio e sì grande che di sè grandissimi ed immortali effètti prometteva; quindi colla più sciocca adulazione, scrivendone al Maggi stesso in novembre del 1554 (2).

• Target:

And made happy by those sweet words, which would have angered any other man, he took upon himself to address the poem over the Flanders War to Chiapino Vitelli, the well-known Spanish mercenary general, by writing to him in Febraury 1551. On that occasion, he spoke about that learned youth whom he held to possess such great skills as promised immortal fame; and thus he wrote to Maggi himself in November 1554 in the silliest and most sycophantic of manners (2).

Feel free to fine-tune my English! --Wikipedius 16:20, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

P.S. That attempted (roughly) to reproduce the "spirit" of the original. But you might also put it this way:

As he rejoiced at these kind words which would have made anyone else angry, he undertook to address the poem over the Flanders War to Chiapino Vitelli, the famous Spanish mercenary general by writing to him in February 1551. On that occasion he mentioned that learned youth whom he cosidered to possess such genius as to warrant him eternal fame. He repeated those words to Maggi himself in November 1554 in the silliest and most psychophantic way. --Wikipedius 18:55, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

What's wrong with gamepolitics?

Hi There Brian!

Why isn't www.gamepolitics.com a reliable source, or is this more information that we aren't allowed to know?

It is a news site, run and managed by a well-known(in the gaming community(an expert in his field) at least) Journalist About page is here: http://www.gamepolitics.com/about.htm

I still don't understand how a site on which Mr Thompson posted his own news releases can be considered a non-viable source.

Thanks Brian

• It is not a reliable source. — ₀₉₁₈^BRIAN • 2006-03-14 16:43

Well thats a concise answer

Italian translation

Hi. About that Italian translation: it's a bit harder than I thought: it uses many obsolete expressions and *very* long phrases, it looks more like German phrase structure, rather than Italian. :-)

A little after he returned to Bologna, in which he stayed part of the year 1553, he lectured and tutored Giulio Vitelli, son of a certain Alessandro, to which the Medici were almost indebted for the throne, to Sebastiano Regoli who professed Latin litterature, and to three legal advisers Arietini. From there, he went to Ferrara where he frequented Cinzio Giambattista Giraldi, a very knowledgeable man, where he saw a anepigraphical Greek codex about war machines, taken from Maggi given to the real author, Heron, already knownledgeable with Sebastiano Corradi and Giannandrea Sartori, another he had seen in the bookstore of S. Salvatore in Bologna. Giraldi presented him to Duke Ercole II, to which he offfered that part of the treaty of engineering military art, which he already written with the title "Della espugnazione delle (...)" He received from the Duke a golden necklace and this was the first fruit of his works (literally vigils).

Returning to his town/country in the same year or in 1554, he became again a lawyer, in the same time he had well-educated disputes of case law with a friend, Anglieri, judge of the troops of Marquese of Marignano at the camp of Siena. Like this, between studies, the clients and the taking care of the family, of Lisabetta di Francesco Maggi, his blood relative, which he married, he lived in Anghiari since the protection of the Vitelli House brought him both bread and honour, by making him to be a judge of Amatrice, land of Abbruzzo, with which Carlo V had awarded the chosen services of Alessandro Vitelli.

bogdan 16:45, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

Short translation

Codesto, eccellente ingegno, del quale fu egualmente da ammirarsi il saper vario e la moltiforme operosità, che da compiangere la sventura perpetua terminata da una fine infelicissima, nacque non già in Anghiera sul lago Maggiore, siccome dal De Thou e da altri fu asserito, stimando essere una cosa sola Anglarium ed Angleria, meno ancora in Brescia od in Milano od in Bologna, come si ha da scrittori male informati, bensì in Anghiari, borgo di Toscana, tra Città S. Sepolcro ed Arezzo, della qual cosa egli stesso rende apertissima testimonianza in tutti i titoli ed in moltissimi luoghi, delle opere sue.

This is one piece of sophisticated Italian. Indeed, any single sentence spanning all these lines - in any language whatsoever - will end up rather complicated. This makes it a bit difficult to understand what is meant in some parts, especially without a context. Maybe this is overkill, but I prefer to be precise. I'll have a few Italian friends take a look at it when possible, so I could possibly make some corrections.

This man ⁽¹⁾ of excellent ingenuity ⁽²⁾, of whom was also admirable the wide knowledge and multi-faceted meticulosity ⁽³⁾, {pause/and} for whom one commiserates his perpetual ill fate ended horridly ⁽⁴⁾, is born, indeed, not (!) in Anghiera on Lake Maggiore, as asserted in the De Thou ⁽⁵⁾ and by others who treat as one Anglarium and Angleria ⁽⁶⁾, nor ⁽⁷⁾ in Brescia or in Milan or in Bologna, as given by ill-informed writers, but (indeed) in Anghiari, a suburb of Tuscany ⁽⁸⁾, between Città S. Sepolcro and Arezzo, of which he himself renders (completely) open testimony to in all the titles, and many parts, of his works.

Notes:

⁽¹⁾ "Codesto" is a midway between "this" and "that" (as to proximity). Being applied to a human subject of a biography, it is supposedly just a sophisticated way of refering to the person.

⁽²⁾ Can also mean "intelligence", "creativity" and similar adjectives.

⁽³⁾ Actually the word used is the noun equivalent of "the being hardworking/busy". I think the word I used should give the right impression. In substance, this guy liked to do a lot of stuff, all the time - a busy bee.

⁽⁴⁾ The text translates to "very sadly", so maybe "dismally" would be the most correct translation, but from the tone of the sentence the meaning of the word could be changed slightly to refer to an even worse tragedy. You should decide between the two by referring to any part covering the person's death -- was it a sad death or a tragic (painful?) death?

⁽⁵⁾ Possibly a famous source book?

⁽⁶⁾ i.e. The De Thou et al. give Anghiera as the birthplace on the wrong assumption that the two Latin words refer to the same place.

⁽⁷⁾ As in "even more improbable".

⁽⁸⁾ This needs verification of what Anghiari actually is in relation to Tuscany, as the text wording can have an alternate meaning of "(in the) district of Tuscany" (like when one says "Tampa, Florida") as opposed to "(which is) a suburb [which may be too exact since it could also simply mean 'village', 'town' or similar as in -burg used in Germany, Russia, etc.] of Tuscany" as I assumed for the translation.

_└ ^VodkaJazz/_talk^┐ 20:48, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

P.S. I hope I do not have to translate the translation itself into comprehensible English! :P

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Neat Sig

This is an off topic, and silly question.

But your signature, inserted as such:

— ₀₉₁₈^BRIAN • 2006-03-14 21:55

Is that a Wikipedia Moderator only thing, or is that something I can set up for myself? Like, modifying a User:KiTA:Signature page or somesuch? :) KiTA 22:12, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

Your translation

Hey there, just saw your request now; should have something for you in the next few hours.  :: Salvo (talk) 23:30, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

Blocked

I have blocked you for a WP:3RR violation on Template:In the news. I won't deliver the standard "please don't do that again" lecture, but I will observe that you as an admin should now considerably better than to war over things. I've been nice, and limited the block to 12 hours. -Splash^talk 23:37, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

• 12 hours is a lifetime for someone as wiki-obsessed as me. How about 4 hours? I won't bother with the template any more today, since I have other things to work on. — ₀₉₁₈^BRIAN • 2006-03-14 23:46
  • Alright, 4 hours. I just replied in the same to your email. -Splash^talk 23:55, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

Template:In the news

Please stop wheel warring and read/reply on the talk page, as I and others have been doing. It is very bad form to freely play around with such prominent content without participating in any discussion. — ₀₉₁₈^BRIAN • 2006-03-14 22:45

Huh ? What wheel warring are you talking about ? My removal of Meri's obituary ? Someone complained on Talk: Main Page#Slow news day?, so I took it off. What's your problem ? Whoever put it back on ITN is the one wheel warring. Not me. -- PFHLai 02:12, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

regarding pwn...

Hey, sorry about the huge merge, I was trying to cleanup the Leet article, and I was making sure no-one got upset of content deletion. It's kinda sad when a section of an article, is longer than the topic that has its own article. Hope I didn't cause too much dificulty. I couldn't find sources in the main article for the pwn comments, so I merged indiscriminately. -- Dragoonmac - ^{If there was a problem yo I'll solve it} 09:21, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

Translation Maggi

I have compelling reasons to believe that in the year 1560, or the next, he went to Venice, in which city he became a print corrector. This is reported by Sweert, who wasn't so distant in time from then, and then repeated by Bayle, though without supplying any proof. However, his frequent visits to the shop of the bookseller and printer Ziletti, the beatiful, correct and numerous editions that originated there, the many learned men that performed such work, for the good fortune of the writers, and among which shines the example of Paolo Manuzio, the inopia of Maggi, are all reasons that, even if they do not provide us with certainty, the do make it quite probable. It is certain, that notwithstanding his proteiform intellect and his tireless work, he did not have great success at firsts in Venice, as in the summer of 1562 he was negotiating about going to Maximilian, king of Bavaria, when due to the request of a certain Cadamost and a Cornelius of Bergamo he was convinced to stay for some time and shortly after found a mecenas in the senator Giovanni Donato. Acgemento ("I will add"? or is it a typo for "Argomento": Reason?) that in those days he hardly did any work for Ziletti, seeing that the two works from him, after the poem, printed up to then, are due to the presses of Enrico Petri of Basel, as he did not begin to print for Ziletti before 1563.

I did what I could. It is old Italian and quite difficult to understand and render. There were some things I couldn't find, like "Inopia" (could be "without work" or "penniless") and "Acgemento" (which I suspect to be a typo), that I have indicated in the text. Please check it carefully, also wrt my English, some sentences could be a bit awkward. I have seen that you also posted a request on the Italian "Bar", I'll get to that now. :-) Cat 09:35, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

As a young man he studied rhetoric/eloquence? with Pierantonio Ghezzi from Laterina, a master of Latin, I do not know whether in his homeland or elsewhere. Afterwards, to proceed with the then popular studies, he went at first to the nearby University of Perugia, then to that of Pisa, and finally to that of Bologna. In Pisa he attended the lectures of the famous professor in Latin and Greek language/eloquence? Francesco Robertello, who taught there from 1543 to 1549. Anyway, Maggi, who beyond his native Tuscan, had mastered Latin and was erudite in Greek and Hebrew, and also in Spanish, availing himself of such endowments, he applied himself to jurisprudence, more to inquire into its spirit than for its profession: at first he studied the method of Alciato, then that of Bartolo and the school of the XIV and XV century.

Old text, difficult to render. May sound awkward and old-fashioned, but should convey some of the tone of the original. Hope this helps. I'm not sure how to translate "eloquenza", but gave two suggestions, I guess it just means "mastery of the language". Cat 09:53, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

What the devil are you trying to acheive??

I noticed that you have asked about fifteen different people to translate parts of a certain article which you have never identified to any of them. Is this some kind of test? What's the point of asking different people to translate different parts of an artcile when they donìt even kknow the context of what they are attempting to translate? You will probably end up with an extremely incoherent jumble of paragrpahs each with a different style, tone and diction (translation involves great deal of subjective considrations of taste and preferences). A far better approach would be to give over the whole thing, along with all background information, to one person to translate and then have others check on the original translation. Your current approach is truly bizarre.--Lacatosias 09:41, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

I agree with Lacatosias. I understand that you'd like to have that text translated and you can't really ask one person to traslate it all, but that text is written in a quite arcaic Italian, so the translation is more difficult... --CRYptex talk 11:08, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

You cannot translate unless you have some context so i asked Brian to give me the source of the text and he kindly pointed me here on Wikisource. However, Brian, i advise against localising long texts unless the work is co-ordinated by a team and then proofread. Especially in the case of an article you want to candidate to featured status --Wikipedius 12:16, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

I am not planning on turning this 1862 document into a featured article; I simply want to use it as a source for Girolamo Maggi, since it is the only modern biography on him. — ₀₉₁₈^BRIAN • 2006-03-15 16:26

Yes, I understand that the text is more difficult and that I can't ask one person to translate the entire thing. What's your point? It doesn't follow that I shouldn't ask a lot of people to translate little bits, and then try on my own to piece it all together. — ₀₉₁₈^BRIAN • 2006-03-15 16:29

I am sorry for not identifying the article to everyone. It wasn't any sort of test. I just wanted an actual source for an article. I made all of this very clear in my original messages to everyone. — ₀₉₁₈^BRIAN • 2006-03-15 16:27

History of Sudan (1884-1898)

It seems that you were the original author of the article, "History of Sudan (1884-1898)" and I noticed when reading it that it was exactly the same text as Mohammad Hassan Fadlalla's "Short History of Sudan" published in 2004. The specific chapters are the sixth, 6.1, and seventh, entitled "The Mahdiyah (1884-98)", "The Khalifa", and "Re-conquest of Sudan" found on pages 27-31.

I am not sure if permission was obtained for the use of Dr. Fadlalla's work, but it would seem that at a minimum, his book should be listed as a source and the permission disclosed with the citation.

The book's ISBN is 0595314252.

• Mohammad Hassan Fadlalla copied the text from the same public domain source that I did. See at the bottom of the page, it says, "This article contains material from the Library of Congress Country Studies which, as a US government publication, is in the public domain." I even provided a link to the original source. — ₀₉₁₈^BRIAN • 2006-03-15 16:37

Fair enough. I was struck by finding the same text and the fact that Fadlalla does not cite the LOC. I see that it is in fact in the LOC public domain and I apologize.

• Now you need to write to Fadlalla, or his publisher, and complain :) — ₀₉₁₈^BRIAN • 2006-03-15 17:59

Re:Translation

Hi Brian. Long time no see. Sure, here's the translation you requested:
First, the original text:

Intanto, la fama in che era venuto per le sue opere od impresse, o tenute in pronto per la stampa, la protezione del Donato, l'amicizia rinnovata o stretta con parecchi chiari uomini, quali il dotto tipografo tedesco Arnoldo Arlenio, Girolamo Ruscelli, Jacopo Menochio, con altri di minor nome e coi patrizi Andrea Badoaro ed Antonio Giustiniano, gli furono strada a più comoda vita ed a più liete speranze. Stimolato dal Sigonio a mandare in luce le sue Miscellanee, sì il fece, dedicandole all'ambasciator di Polonia, per veder il quale portossi in Padova nell'ottobre del 1563: l'anno stesso offriva al suo protettore Giovanni Donato i libri de Fato del Bresciano Giulio Sirenio: nel 1564 stampava il Trattato della Fortificazione, indirizzandolo al Re di Spagna.

Now, here's my translation of it into English:

Then, the fame that he had achieved for his work or prints, readily available to the press, the protection of Donato, the either close or renewed friendship with several prominent men, amidst which the knowledgeable German typographer Arnoldo Arlenio, Girolamo Ruscelli, Jacopo Menochio, with others of less importance and with countrymen Andrea Badoaro and Antonio Giustiniano paved the way for a more comfortable life and higher hopes. Encouraged by Sigonio to make public his Miscellany, he did so, dedicating it to the Polish ambassador, whom he went to see in Padova, in October of 1563: in the same year, he presented his protector, Giovanni Donato, with the libri de Fato, by Brescian Giulio Sirenio: in 1564 he published Trattato della Fortificazione (Treaty on Fortification), addressing it to the King of Spain.

I hope this is to satisfaction. Redux 17:23, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks and a question

Thanks for your support in the Lennart Meri argument on Template talk:In the news. What country do you live in? JIP | Talk 22:23, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

Aretino and Maggi

Hi, i tried to summarize the context here. If your object is a bio, i suggest you use at least one more source to balance this one. You may want to try: Pietro Aretino or any other keys (eg. relatives, friends) you can grab from the pdf document. --Wikipedius 21:27, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

Translation team

As you see I have put up a request for volunteers to help you translate the text on it.wiki. By the way, have you figured out what do you need to have translated? Have you made a list? --Wikipedius 00:57, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

Translation

Hi Brian. You asked me : "Is the "Court of Florence" a court of law, or a court of royalty/nobility?". In my opinion it is undoubtably the royal court of Cosimo, and Chiapino's friendship was needed to find an entrance in it. Ciao! Aldux 11:15, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

Hi Brian. I have paraphrased it into modern italian and explained why I read it that way here. People (included Italians) should not take anything for granted, for eg. to give words modern meanings. Pippu's translation is quite close. However, i gave a different reading to avvocar --Wikipedius 14:14, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

Maggi Translation, page 113

Please, find here the translation you required. gala.martin (what?) 19:00, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

Since I had no answer so long, I stop watching this page. Please post any comment on my discussion page. gala.martin (what?) 17:39, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

Translation of a paragraph

A not very good translation, but I guess you'd understand what it means.

Codesti cinque primi canti in verità non sono tali da farci desiderare che venissero seguiti da altri pochi o molti: dirò anzi, che se a qualche cosa giovano, gli è appunto a convincerci che il Maggi non era poeta.

Actually, it was not desired that these first five songs to be followed by others, few or many: in fact, I'd say that that if it has something young, they are especially to convince that Maggi was not a poet.

bogdan 20:52, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

Reviewed version of Maggi's translation

You're right about Chiapino, the text says he ignored Maggi. I tried to solve tha last doubts about the interpretation of some words here. --Wikipedius 03:58, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

Fifth Solvay Conference 1927

I noticed that you uploaded an improved version of this picture. The caption of your picture says "Institut International de Physique Solvay" Did you get their permission? If not, you may want to take a look at Max-Planck-und-Albert-Einstein.jpg and prepare yourself for that kind of discussion JdH 18:22, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

I have surfed the web for the Belgium copy right laws. What I found out that they conform to the EU rules, which you can find here Council Directive 93/98/EEC of 29 October 1993 harmonizing the term of protection of copyright and certain related rights You may want to ask your lawyer friend to go over that in some detail, in particular consider Articles 3&4 very carefully. What I am pointing out is this 4. Where a Member State provides for particular provisions on copyright in respect of collective works or for a legal person to be designated as the rightholder, the term of protection shall be calculated according to the provisions of paragraph 3 So if it is true that the "Institut International de Physique Solvay" is copyright holder, then the copyrights expired 70 years after *publication* and not 70 years after the death of the author. JdH 01:33, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

It is slightly more complicated than that; articles 4 continues to say that even if copyrights are owned by a "legal person" (=legalese for an institute or company) that if the the name of the actual person who in fact made the picture is always published together with the picture itself that then also the clock starts ticking after that person passes away. JdH 01:51, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

MediaWiki:Editingold

Your edit works in general; however, for pages with punctuation in them (e.g. [1]) it breaks horribly. I don't quite see why the Unicode %2C for comma would stuff things up, but unless you can think of a solution, I think we should revert the edit to MediaWiki:Editingold. Regards. enochlau (talk) 14:21, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

Note

Hello, I noticed you edited a Hip Hop related article. If you wish you can join the new Hip Hop Wikiproject. Thanks for your time. Tutmosis 22:53, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

Mail

just fyi, i sent you wikimail. this note in case you don't check the account often. :) --Quiddity 03:55, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

Chronological discrepancies

No, I think that the discrepancies are only apparent. I have made some research and posted more details here --Wikipedius 16:46, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

The picture of Earth compared to Uranus can be slightly missleading because Neptune is a little smaller. Yet the pic is ok...--67.70.60.160 05:50, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

Joe Scarborough

What is the standard/rule/guideline on living biographies? It seems that after the fiasco where a bio claimed that a person was involved in the Kennedy assassination, there should be great care in insinuating involvement in a crime. Personally, I think that any mention of Klausutis in the Scarborough article in the context of her death being mysterious or unexplained or tainted or in any way connected with Scarborough on his bio page is a disservice given that there is no evidence whatsoever to link him to that nor any ongoing inquiry. It is a form of smear and POV even if the statements are true. Almost every bio can have smearing statements that are "true" but are not worthy of an encyclopedia entry. For example: "There are no written accounts that Jesus physically tortured Mary Magdalene" is a true statement but unworthy of inclusion because of what it implies by simply being written. Even if there was ample evidence that Magdalene suffered physically at some point in her life, adding the comment like the above is unwarranted. And to add that "some of the written accounts may have been destroyed by incompetent archaelogists" has even further unwarranted implications. Giving Jesus an alibi does not unburden the article of a under-handed accusation. It's a smear.

The same is true with Klausutis. Making a statement that opens up her death as even being significant in Scarboroughs life has implications. Bringing in controversy surrounding the circumstances of her death or the people investigating it even though "true" are not worthy of entry in his biography. Where does Wikipedia draw the line? I would think that living biographies would have special rules and guidleines because of the prior incident and the Wikimedia Foundation would be very careful to be very neutral with living biographies. --Tbeatty 21:02, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

Country Studies Wikiproject

I started WikiProject Library of Congress Country Studies as an attempt to expand Wikipedia through the organized use of the Country Studies texts. I noticed you've worked with the Country Studies in the past. Please take a look at the project and see if you would like to help out. Suggestions and advice are welcome too. Thanks. --Bkwillwm 00:20, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

Bath School disaster

Hello. I am the principal author on the article and I wanted to pull up a prior edit. The history indicates you deleted the history. Can you advise how I can access this? Jtmichcock 00:41, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

Um, no

I won't disinvolve myself, since I think it unconstructive to protect the main page article and then move it, delete it, move it back again all the while people see a bizarre editing behaviour and can't edit the highest-profile page on the project. And just because I don't revert the page doesn't actually mean I'm not trying and getting beaten to it. I think the process of cleaning up the history is unnecessary until the day is finished, and I really don't see the need even then since it does no harm in the history. If Jimbo cared about that kind of edit summary, I'm sure he'd say so. -Splash^talk 01:18, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

If Jimbo has asked you to remove those edit summaries so that a mere 1000 people can read them, then he is thinner skinned than I thought. I'm entirely aware that some troll is toying around with the FAs etc in that way, and I don't think he's worth spending time on. -Splash^talk 01:33, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

And your recent semi-protections of articles that you have "cleaned up", whilst creative, really have no backing in practise or policy. -Splash^talk 01:19, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

User:209.158.180.130

FYI: I unblocked User:209.158.180.130. You had blocked for 2 years with only 1 block before that. The block was in September of 2005, and I figured 6 months was good enough for a second offense. Feel free to re-instate if you feel I was in error. Wikibofh_(talk) 04:06, 23 March 2006 (UTC) (avoiding block wars since 2005  :)

Possibly unfree Image:Trento,Italy.jpg

An image that you uploaded or altered, Image:Trento,Italy.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Possibly unfree images. If the image's copyright status cannot be verified, it may be deleted. Please go to its page to provide the necessary information on the source or licensing of this image (if you have any), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you.

Thuresson 16:04, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

Translation policies/Girolamo Maggi

I hope my translations and notes, onbservations etc etc i posted for you on my talk page were useful at last? I posted that message on Translation n.4 on it:wiki just to avoid what happened to n.3 (moved to embassy), since regulations state one cannot post and make translations at the pump (it=bar). By directing users to the talk page i simply tried to involve more Italians in your project and possibly get more help for you. Ciao! :-) --Wikipedius 15:20, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

Image:PIA02863 - Jupiter surface motion animation.gif promoted

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, Image:PIA02863 - Jupiter surface motion animation.gif, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. ~~~~

Congratulations on a unanimous promotion ~ Veledan • Talk 21:32, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

666

The large changes are due to an expansion on the term Japan-ized, which is the only explanation given as to why 'rock' is transliterated into Japanese as 'roku'. I felt that it required a better explanation, since it explains the reasoning behind the naming of the album.

My sources are general knowledge of Japanese katakana. Feel free to verify.

--Phemeral 05:54, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

Barnstar

Moved to user page.

KazMat32

Was there a need to edit my ueser page back to the whole AHH thing?

Come on, is this really needed? Leave it blank and will consider all that done and start over. Oh and delete this when you read it, no need to keep it up

How do i archive my talk page?

Haeckel book

I haven't found anything else so far that really compares, but I'm still looking. I found Kunstformen der Natur while browsing the science library at Yale, looking for books I could check out to put the scanner I found by the side of the road to good use. This is Yale's worst copy (out of about 5) and the only one available to check out (notice the stains at the bottom of many of the images). When I have more free time this summer, I'm going to dig up some more cool stuff to scan; there's plenty of illustrated natural history books, but most of it is rather bland in comparison and the good stuff is generally harder to access.--ragesoss 00:50, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

Military history WikiProject Newsletter, Issue I

The Military history WikiProject Newsletter Issue I - March 2006
Project news An independent military history peer review has been created for the benefit of the project. A number of articles have already been reviewed, receiving significantly more feedback within the project than they did on the generic peer review page. The project's Collaboration of the Fortnight got off to a great start with Ferdinand Foch and is now focusing on the military history of Spain. Two new task forces—dealing with warfare during classical antiquity and the Middle Ages—have been created. An effort to build a catalogue of high-quality maps for use in military history articles is now underway. The newly-formed translation department is looking for volunteers to help with translating featured articles from other-language Wikipedias.	From the Coordinators Welcome to the inaugural issue of the Military history WikiProject's newsletter! We hope that this new format will help members—especially those who may be unable to keep up with some of the rapid developments that tend to occur—find new groups and programs within the project that they may wish to participate in. Please consider this inital issue to be a prototype; as always, any comments and suggestions are quite welcome, and will help us improve the newsletter in the coming months. Kirill Lokshin, Lead Coordinator
Current proposals Proposed guidelines for categories of military people are currently being discussed. A number of issues have already been resolved, but the proposed scheme is still in draft form and further input would be very welcome.

delivered by Loopy ^e 04:38, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

monobook.js

Your edits this morning created syntax errors on lines 3 (unmatched */ ) and 20 (not sure what). Please fix these; it is causing error messages on every page I load! --Russ Blau (talk) 14:08, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

Your AfD votes

Your votes which include the WP:KIT test look to me like they may be a violation of WP:POINT. I don't like Pokémon articles either and consider them frivolous, but that's no reason to go about keeping other non-notable articles. David | Talk 21:20, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

FYI

Moved to user page. evrik 17:24, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

Featured Picture Nominations

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, Image:Caslonsample.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates.

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, Image:Warship diagram orig.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates.

--PS2pcGAMER (talk) 09:10, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

Caslon sample on Typography page

Brian, the caslon smaple image I restored on the typography page: Caslon_sample_779x1024.png, I made that f rom the much larger "featured" version of the pic specially for the typography page to make it load faster. On the wiki page for Caslon_sample_779x1024.png I put in a wikilink to the hi-res featured image.

Now that I've read about your featured pics I can understand why you put the hi res caslon pic on the Typography page. Your move --- Best regards Arbo 15:31, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

Request

Hello Brian,

My name is Fernanda Viégas and I have been studying Wikipedia for a while now (you can see a paper I published on the subject here). I would like to ask you a few questions about your activities as a Wikipedia image creator. I am fascinated by the pictorial side of Wikipedia and it would be great to hear about this community from one of its members. Would you be available to participate an email survey this week? Thanks, — Fernanda 03:37, 4 April 2006 (UTC) | talk

Hello,

I'm trying to get the Wikipedia toolbar's "#R" redirect button working on Wiktionary. Since you were the one who uploaded the "#R" image, perhaps you could tell me how? Or whom to ask? Thanks in advance,

--Connel MacKenzie 07:06, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

Yes, I had added that to my personal Monobook.js to test it, but it fails. I've copied the .png image from Wikipedia to Wiktionary, in case that was the problem, but still nothing. I do not seem to be getting any errors in my Javascript console. Viewing source of a Wiktionary edit page shows the element "'toolbar'" is identified as expected. If you have any other hints, they'd be appreciated. (There isn't any special image restriction for Javascript pages that require the Javascript to be in the MediaWiki namespace, is there?) --Connel MacKenzie 17:16, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

Thank you. That worked, but I'm not sure why the listener event (which works for other things just fine,) would not load the image.

Did you create that button? For adding Wiktionary-specific buttons, is there a particular "blank" I should start with? --Connel MacKenzie 04:21, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

single character edits

hi there. for things like 'san fransisco' (should be 'san francisco') is what you are talking about? i thought Martin's policy was against single spaces and underscores etc. should i skip spelling mistakes with only one letter off? should i just make one big regex with my whole misspelling list so as to catch maybe multiple words an article? JoeBot 22:21, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

I shall try making a large regex to do just that. Will finish up these couple of words and that will be that. JoeBot 22:25, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

I'm currently working on a top down approach for spell checking, as well as ironing out bugs with Martin with AWB. You'll see better results soon. :) JoeBot 06:02, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

As it turns out, there are a boat load of single character misspellings, and only one per article with the list of misspellings I am working with (some 80-90 of the most common). I shouldn't just leave them because of the tax fixing them puts on the server. Wikipedia always works towards better quality; thats why I am trying to fixing all of these words quickly and efficiently. Is there anything more I can do that you can think of? :/ JoeBot 17:57, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

FYROM or Republic of Macedonia

After extensive edit warring, article protection, and the statement of the extended version supporting side regarding both the name of the article, and the intro paragraph, a poll has been placed. The brief version supporting side is to keep the name of the article AND the intro paragraph free of the UN name (FYROM). Keep in mind that you can select more than one of the options (8! to the moment) that may suit you. Please participate in the vote and ask other editors you know to do so too. Increased participation can make the outcome of the vote as NPOV as possible.  NikoSilver  ^{(T) @ (C)} 16:00, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

Cyclopedia

I hope you continue with this project. I find it both interesting and useful, and curiously entertaining too! Lots of stuff there you see nowhere else. --MacRusgail 18:12, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

2 digit date.

Try {{CURRENTDAY2}} for your sig script: it adds a zero to dates before the 10th of the month. -- Jeandré, 2006-04-07t11:01z

Re: User:65.6.4.143

You might want to protect his talk page too. That's where he's doing some of his personal attacks. Buchanan-Hermit™..CONTRIBS..SPEAK! 02:02, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

Design Comp

Hi Brian!
I would like to have a lend on you artistic senses. Could you please have a look at and leave comments on this page? The matter is of some urgency as I have to email my entry by tommorrow night. Thanks! --Fir0002 www 11:12, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

Image Tagging for Image:Macgyver.jpg

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This is an automated notice by OrphanBot. For assistance on the image use policy, see Wikipedia:Image legality questions. 12:24, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

Disputed Block

You blocked my monniker for 48 hours from editing for a "revert" violation that didn't seem to have happened. Indeed, I was involved in an ArbCom case where I was given a penalty of one revert per page per day. In the case of the Gothic Metal page, the reverts were made on 04/4, 04/05 - how is that a violation? --Danteferno 17:02, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

I still think that's pretty ify, but that's just me. On the 3RR board I've seen many 3RR cases slide only because the "4th revert" didn't fall in the same day as the 3rd. If you thought this was a good idea, more power to you. I rarely edit, and no administrator intervened in this incident (and many administrators continue not to intervene re: User:Leyasu's violations of site policies, even after his ArbCom case - there's really no recourse).

I think it would be a good idea to keep an eye on User:Leyasu. He repeatedly (and erroneously) calls other users good faith edits "vandalism", "rubbish", and "garbage" even after he was warned by admins not to. He also claims his own "concensus" in articles, and accuses other users of breaking site policies that they really didn't break. Blocks do very little as he just uses IP addresses to evade them. --Danteferno 18:06, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

If ArbCom decisions were fully enforced, User:Leyasu would have been banned (not blocked) a long time ago.--Danteferno 20:04, 8 April 2006 (UTC)