User talk:Spangineer/archive02

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Late Welcome

Thanks for the message on my talk page, but as this account has edits going back a year or so, seems a bit redundant. What edit prompted you to give me the noob welcome, out of interest? ;) --zippedmartin 14:17, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Ditto all that from me too --jazzle 10:40, 10 Jun 2005 (GMT)

Thanks for the welcome

I really appreciate the welcome notice. From what I have seen here at wikipedia, this is one of the coolest online projects going. I have gone through the tutorial and edited some articles already, and I can tell by how addictive it has been that I will be with Wikipedia for a long time. Thanks again. GCNrocks223 23:40, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for the welcome, this place is coooool!. --Noypi380 11:40, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)--Noypi380 11:40, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Thank you for your support

Thank you for supporting my candidacy for administrator. Kelly Martin 15:10, Jun 10, 2005 (UTC)

Danke sehr! Thank you for welcoming me!

I appreciate that you take the time to welcome new user to WikipediA. Best regards --Marbot 22:21, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for welcoming me

Thank you very much for welcoming me in the Wikipedia community - --Germen 13:45, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)

thanks for your welcome greeting

Thank you, Spangineer! if you're around, you're the right person to ask: how do I insert a link to a SECTION of some article (e.g. to the heading List of Popes, on your talk page, instead than the top)??? i'm editing this right now --zuben

Thanks for the welcome

Hello there! I'm General Subwoofer! I just waanted to say thanks for your nice welcome. I hope to do lots of editing here at Wikipedia. Anyway, thanks for all that info you gave me. I mostly had to teach myself how to use Wikipedia before learning about the tutorial... that's about it. Good luck to you you with your editing!

-General Subwoofer

User:Humanbot update 13 June 2005

The spelling2 project (to work on secondary namespaces) was opened and finished. Progress charts will be available soon.

Version six-three tracks who made the edits, and rankings are available. Much of the work was done while I was asleep, explaining my low place ;).

The next project, which may even be released today, will probably fix incorrectly capitalised headings, particularly "See Also" and "External Links".

The mailing list has grown to 24 people and while that is very nice for my ego, it is rather difficult to send out updates. This is why I did not send out a notice that the spelling2 project had opened. From now on, then, you must watch User:Humanbot/announce for updates. r3m0t ^talk 12:05, Jun 13, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the Welcome

Thanks for the welcome. Muchas gracias. Un saludo. Loco085 15:03, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

¡Muchas gracias para el Welcome!

Much appreciated! -- Metalloid 13 June 2005, about half past eight

Proposal

I'll read it when I get up tomorrow (soory today). Its 00:27 here. Thanks for informing me. Regards,  =Nichalp (Talk)= 18:58, Jun 14, 2005 (UTC)

Esbozos

Hola Spangineer: Contesto a tu pregunta sobre los esbozos. En Wikipedia en español los esbozos estaban sin clasificar en categorías hasta hace muy poco tiempo, lo que los hacía un poco inmanejables. Por ello se crearon las categorías para irlos clasificando con vistas a hacer más fácil su localización para los interesados en ampliarlos. Es por ello que las categorías de esbozos existentes son pocas y de momento no existen subcategorías. No tenemos un procedimiento establecido para crear nuevas categorías, aunque creo que no es conveniente crear demasiadas. Por ahora una prioridad es encajar los esbozos todavía no clasificados, que son muchos, en las categorías creadas y si se manifiesta una necesidad, como ocurrió con Electrónica, donde había muchos y además es un tema importante, se crea la categoría. Espero haber contestado a tu pregunta. Saludos PACO 22:18, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Lord of the Flies

Hi

I don't know if it;s bad form to comment one people's user pages, but here goes; you describe Lord of the Flies as a "US novel". Golding was British, and didn't live in the US until several years after he had written it. Paul Tracy_\talk

Thank you

Hi Spangineer!

I know this is a bit overdue, but I wanted to thank you for your support vote on my RFA. I got over a 90% concencus for my RFA, and I am now an admin! I have been using my new powers to help further Wikipedia, and I wanted to thank you for being part of the reason why that is. Thanks! Linuxbeak | Talk | Desk 00:06, Jun 16, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks

Hi! thank you for your support for my admin candidacy. I hope that you will always feel that I am a responsible administrator. JeremyA 05:24, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Theo RFA

Hi: Thank you for supporting my nomination. --Theo (Talk) 12:38, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Would you do anything differently?

Hey Grutness, I've got a question for you...

Ooo. Good question. I think the two big bugbears are consistency of naming and the proliferation of "unauthorised" templates. So I'd have liked it if there were some rules in place for keeping the naming of stub templates and categories consistent - the stub category names should be consistent with the names of the categories they feed into, too. And I'd make sure there were big notices everywhere telling people not to make new templates without going through a discussion process at WP:WSS first! Good luck! Grutness...wha? 01:32, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)

When you say consistency of naming, could you give me an example of something that's not consistent? Also, could you point me to any discussion that took place over what type of stub sorting system to use?

I may be in the minority, but I don't like Us-geo-stub or Uk-geo-stub, since I feel that they should be capitalised like the propoer nouns they represent (they redirect to them: US-geo-stub and UK-geo-stub). But more importantly it's things like {{cricket stub}}, {{SoapChar}}, {{Mathbiostub}}, which don't fit in with the standard "xx-stub" format, ambiguous names like {{bio-stub}} (biography or biology?), and different versions of the same word (We have {{UK-hist-stub}}, {{US-hist-stub}}, and {{Russian-history-stub}}, for instance). There are quite a lot like this listed on Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Naming guidelines.

As to the second question, no... we largely made it up as we went along, I think. But have a look through the pages of WP:WSS - there may well be something there that is of use (including the naming guideline page I just named). Grutness...wha? 11:03, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for your support

Hi Spangineer! Thanks for supporting my adminship nomination! Sjakkalle (Check!) 13:16, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)

My Rfa

Thank you for supporting me! --Kbdank71 13:22, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Anon vandal

Thanks for reverting the anon blanking edits on my user page. :) Mgm|^(talk) 07:22, Jun 19, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks so much!

Hey, Spangineer! Thanks so much for the award! I really hope to make some good contributions. --Noypi380 14:30, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thanks for supporting me on my RfA. It's always nice to get some positive feedback. I hope I can put my new abilities to some good use. -- grm_wnr Esc 17:34, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Reminder for both of us.

We need to get working on our portal/directory project, and it's obvious that neither of us can do much major work, so we need to be recruiting supporters. That's about all I have to say...just a reminder that we need to work on the project. Clarkefreak ∞ 23:02, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)

All was going along fine....

I had the MIG CAD file open as I was slicing and dicing until.... she told me the rabbits got out and were running loose! I'll have to try again in the morn. Why not point out that the copper cup is serving an important function. Electrically isolating the torch head, all but the contact tip and wire lead, from the grounded work piece. As I'm the one drafting, I'll run it up the flag pole and do a bit of caption edit to boot. You'll let me know. Also... yes, the lead photo in Welding is a MIG torch. yet very difficult to see. It is however a great shot for opening the article.... lots of "sizzle and pop" as the PR would say. Point taken though, we can try and get a better photo for the more technical instruction. I'll see what I can do. TTLightningRod 05:25, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Galveston Hurricane of 1900

Thanks! One's own recorded voice never actually sounds quite the same as it reverberating through the sinuses, which I've always found a bit disconcerting. --Laura Scudder | Talk 21:55, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Umm...

Do you know what this is? I thought you might be interested to see it, :) --Dmcdevit 21:25, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

See the red link now? It has been speedied as nonsense, :) --Dmcdevit 21:10, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

You know, it just kind of dawned on me that you're not an administrator. Do you have any dirty secrets you should tell me before I nominate you? (Erm, I guess I mean, "would you accept?") If so, I'll probably do it by tomorrow. I think you'd be a wonderful candidate. --Dmcdevit 00:46, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)

You are nominated, :) --Dmcdevit 21:17, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thank you very much for your supportive vote on my RFA. It means twice as much coming from an ex-violist! Thanks again, Bratsche^{talk 5 pillars} 13:17, Jun 25, 2005 (UTC)

List of rivers by length

You posted a question under the list of rivers nomination, i tried to address it. I was wondering if you would now be inclined to vote? File:PhoenixSuns 100.pngPhoenix2File:Teamflag1.png 28 June 2005 05:15 (UTC)

Thanks for the welcome and a small question

I figured out how to sign my posts, but can you tell me how to edit my signature?Kurita77 29 June 2005 14:43 (UTC)

Thanks! Funnuraba! Ya-Ha! Kurita77(talk) 29 June 2005 15:05 (UTC)

Thanks for the welcomeq

I'm only here since I found wikipedia so useful - lots of good well written articles. At the moment I'm concentrating on wiktionary, since it is lagging behind, and using wikipedia as my source. Jonathan Webley 29 June 2005 15:35 (UTC)

Thanks for the welcome

I'm only here since I found wikipedia so useful - lots of good articles. At the moment I'm concentrating on wiktionary and using wikipedia as a reference. Jonathan Webley 29 June 2005 15:39 (UTC)

How could you?!

I was totally with you until you added The Scarlet Letter. That was the most excruciatingly dull book I've ever read. And I say that with a good knowledge of and interest in the historical period. If you really want to read a good nineteenth century novel, try a Charles Dickens one. And if you really want a good American book from that period, try Walden. But not The Scarlet Letter, anything but that! --Dmcdevit 29 June 2005 20:43 (UTC)

Wait a minute, you're telling me Walden is unrealistic?! Let me quote from The Scarlet Letter, I think this quote just about sums it up:

"As the two wayfarers came within the precincts of the town, the children of the Puritans looked up from their play—or what passed for play with those sombre little urchins—and spake gravely one to another—

'Behold, verily, there is the woman of the scarlet letter; and of a truth, moreover, there is the likeness of the scarlet letter running along by her side! Come, therefore, and let us fling mud at them!'"

I do think The Scarlet Letter makes a good point about hypocrisy, but the rest is utterly unbelievable. I actually think Crime and Punishment makes a better statement about faith than The Scarlet Letter (and really Huck Finn does, too :). By the way, if you haven't read it yet, I think The Pickwick Papers is a great one. --Dmcdevit 29 June 2005 22:01 (UTC)

Thanks for the welcome

Thanks for the welcome. Muchas gracias, senor. How do you get the message to everybody? Do you have some sort of code for that welcome message? --Shreshth91 30 June 2005 14:23 (UTC)

Thanks a lot for that. I really appreciate it--shreshth 30 June 2005 14:58 (UTC)

You don't need to thank me for that. I think you would make a fine admin. I'm just doing my duty as a Wikipedian. (I sound kind of patriotic here, don't I?) By the way, everytime I shut down my comp, should I log out from Wikipedia or can I just let my account keep on running? Will it make any difference? --shreshth 30 June 2005 15:42 (UTC)

Periodic table (huge)

Sorry, we edit conflicted. I tried to summarise my understanding of the talk page discussion, but given your edit and comment on WP:FLC, wonder if I have the wrong end of the stick. I thought the ones in [square brackets] were most stable isotopes and the others were some sort of average... Shall I leave it to you to sort out? It looks like you know what you are doing! -- ALoan (Talk) 30 June 2005 18:17 (UTC)

No no no - thank you for sorting it out and merging our two sets of sets of comments - I think your most recent change to the footnote is perfect.

On the lead, the key sets out the information that is included: it seemed a bit otiose to say the same thing two lines above - what do you think? Other than adding an exposition on what a period table is, about groups and periods, explaining atomic masses and weights and so on (which again I think is unnecessary) I'm not sure what else we should add to the lead. -- ALoan (Talk) 30 June 2005 19:57 (UTC)

Your Signpost beat

From your schedule, it looks like you're still planning to write this weekend before having two weeks off. If so, I just wanted to let you know that adminship news is being covered in a separate article this week, as there's quite a bit going on there. It's been started at User:Wonderfool/Signpost, but you're still welcome to help out with it, along with covering the featured content beat.

Thanks for the barnstar, by the way. I hope you don't mind, I'm probably going to move it onto my talk page or something. For now, I kind of like the minimalist approach for my user page. --Michael Snow 1 July 2005 04:58 (UTC)

whoops?

re:babe ruth.

I think my little brother was using the computer and is an idiot. Sorry.

Congratulations!

Congratulations! It's my pleasure to let you know that, consensus being reached, you are now an administrator. You should read the relevant policies and other pages linked to from the administrators' reading list before carrying out tasks like deletion, protection, banning users, and editing protected pages such as the Main Page. Most of what you do is easily reversible by other sysops, apart from page history merges and image deletion, so please be especially careful with those. You might find the new administrators' how-to guide helpful. Cheers! -- Cecropia | explains it all ® 4 July 2005 01:52 (UTC)

You're quite welcome. Now, you too can leap tall buildings with a single bound, and fly faster than a speeding bullet! I'm sure you'll use your newfound powers wisely. Isomorphic 4 July 2005 03:56 (UTC)

Congratulations, and good luck! --Merovingian (t) (c) July 4, 2005 04:01 (UTC)

Congrats! :) Sango123 July 4, 2005 04:06 (UTC)

'just to jump on the wagon - congrats. →Raul654 July 4, 2005 04:07 (UTC)

Hey, thanks for your message and your continued contributions to featured list candidates - it's a young project that needs all the help it can get. Good luck as an admin--Sophitus July 4, 2005 04:16 (UTC)

Ah, congratulations! Some words of wisdom, from Walden, (because I'll convert you to Thoreau before long): "How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book! [...] Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all." (Hah, you thought it was going to be to do with adminship, like that's what matters!) No need to wish you luck. --Dmcdevit 4 July 2005 05:01 (UTC)

Congrats=Felicidades

Para mi ha sido un honor, haber votado por ti. I really mean it. I think you've got the makings of a tremendous administrator. Good luck with your "new" powers. Tony the Marine 4 July 2005 04:40 (UTC)

Congrats from me too. You should be a fine admin. Grutness...wha? 4 July 2005 06:04 (UTC)

Hey, congrats! Great news! Have fun as an admin--Shreshth91($ |-| r 3 $ |-| t |-|) 6 July 2005 10:24 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for reverting the vandalism on my user pages --Kennyisinvisible 9 July 2005 02:23 (UTC)

And mine, too. The great David tunney doesn't seem to like me much. Joyous (talk) July 9, 2005 02:45 (UTC)

Thanks for the welcome note (PSU/IE)...

Hi Nathaniel: Sorry for the late reply. Thanks for leaving a welcome note in my page. I am also in IE, Pennsylvania State University completing my Ph.D. If you are around this Fall I hope to meet you in Leonhard Building. I am contributing my bit here. Congratulations for becoming an administrator and again thanks for your support note. Jyotirmaya Nanda 21:00, July 9, 2005 (UTC)

Image copyright question

Hi Nathaniel: Could you please educate me on how to license images in Wikipedia? I would prefer to give a "Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License" to my images. So far I am putting GFDL in Wikipedia which seems not a better way 1. So should I upload my images to Wikimedia and link it in Wikipedia, or just upload in Wikipedia/Wikimedia? What all information should be put along with the images when I upload them? Also please provide me any relevant information in this regard. Thanks, Jyotirmaya Nanda 22:39, July 10, 2005 (UTC)

Penn State Wiki

Are you in State College over the summer? You don't know me, but I think we should meet before the fall. There is a Penn State Wiki project that has already started and should have a beta release soon. Email me at GChriss@psu.edu, GChriss 01:30, 12 July 2005 (UTC)

<quote> High-impact areas include student--based class descriptions, a guide to academic advising, exposure for student organizations, local celebrity pages, open forum for campus--wide issues, and generally anything complicated. </quote>

Admin help

Hey, you wanna prove your worth as an admin? :) Do you think you could add Category:Wikipedia disclaimers to all of the pages in Template:disclaimer-header? That's Wikipedia:General disclaimer, Wikipedia:Risk disclaimer, Wikipedia:Medical disclaimer, Wikipedia:Legal disclaimer, Wikipedia:Content disclaimer. They are all protected. Thanks! --Dmcdevit·t 06:37, July 14, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks

Brookie here - just a note to say thanks for rv the vandalsim on my user page - which I've jsut noticed  :) A curate's egg 15:05, 14 July 2005 (UTC)

Gas Welding

You don't have a simple circuit diagram available? Too bad I got rid of my textbooks, I could have found a simpler one there. If you could describe a basic ckt, I could draw it for you. Is this OK? =Nichalp «Talk»= 11:19, July 15, 2005 (UTC)

I was referring to the latter (a simple ckt.) Since you mentioned the problems drawing the larger ckt, a simpler one describing the overall process would suffice. The major components can be put in a block.

For this, I would need more information. If you could draw me a rough diagram in a paint program, OR point me to an online graphic, I could take it from there. Thanks =Nichalp «Talk»= 11:37, July 15, 2005 (UTC)

I take it that you mean FIGURE 1 and FIGURE 7? =Nichalp «Talk»= 15:09, July 15, 2005 (UTC)

I can draw it but I'm not a professional. I cannot draw the wire feed unit and the gas cylinder as well as it is given here. Instead I'll make them a block. Is it ok? I'll post the images in a day's time. =Nichalp «Talk»= 15:30, July 15, 2005 (UTC)

Ok go ahead. I'll see if its acceptable. =Nichalp «Talk»= 17:20, July 15, 2005 (UTC)

Rio de Janeiro Metro

Hi, thanks for the changes you made in the article. I made a few more changes in the article. See if everything is okay. --Carioca 04:16, July 17, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks. I liked the changes you made. --Carioca 04:57, July 17, 2005 (UTC)

Your image

You shouldn't underestimate your skills. It a decent image and drives home the process completely. One problem though: Your image file size is too large. I guess you've saved it as PNG-24. If you could save it as a PNG-8: 32 or 16 colour palatte, the image should compress to around 3-5 kb. Good work! =Nichalp «Talk»= 09:35, July 17, 2005 (UTC)

Gas welding pic

Hi Nathaniel,

Whilst checking on another JET image, I came across this picture which I thought might interest you, as the welding head looked familiar from your diagram of gas welding. Unfortunately the JET photo gallery says they are for educational use only, so it may not be much use. -- Solipsist 10:15, 17 July 2005 (UTC)

External link policy

I havent figured out to send messages yet. I wanted to know why some links on the Miss Universe article are allowed to stay while others get deleted

mito

I will go take a look at the external links guidelines. You have been really helpful!!

Gas welding

Hi! Thanks for resolving my concerns and informing me that the article was put up on FAC. I have voted there -- in support of course. :) =Nichalp «Talk»= 10:10, July 20, 2005 (UTC)

Typhoons

Thanks for the welcome. I started a new page that I felt was important this hurricane season. I was not able to find any pages on current tropical activity in north west pacific ocean. This seemed odd to me as Japan was in the news last summer for having more Typhoon strikes then in recent years. More then Florida which got all the headlines here in the US. I did a rough outline page and started adding to it for the 2005 season. The geography of the area confuses me a little and I had to do some quick edits to correct mistakes as I discovered them. However the most confusing thing about this area is that Typhoons can and often do have two different names. The Phillipines have their own list of names for storms in their areas. From what I find online it seems they feel using their own name, even on a previously named storm, better alerts their population of storms that threaten them. They also name Tropical Depressions which no other agency does until Tropical Storm strength because of severe inland flooding depressions bring to the Phillipines. For now I've tried to mark the Phillipine names in parenthesis after the International name. Readers outside the Phillipines would not be familiar with that name. Typhoon 2000 has excellent resource material but reverses this convention since they are based in the Phillipines. I would welcome assistance from others with an interest in tropical weather to help maintain the page and fill in historical data.

User:skywayman

CSD Signpost article

Hello! I've got a signpost article for you, at User:Radiant!/WikiPrudence. Please take it from here and move it to the appropriate signpost page. I've also informed Michael Snow about it. Yours, Radiant_>|< 15:28, July 23, 2005 (UTC)

• Thanks for copyediting. However, the earlier article had no mention of the effort to get obvious 'keeps' off VFD, that's why I mentioned it here. If the idea is that my article is too long, you do have a point, but I noticed articles of similar length in the present signpost. Yours, Radiant_>|< 18:35, July 23, 2005 (UTC)
  • Okay, I've put most of it back. Same here though, I don't take copyediting personal :) It may be possible to cut some sentences from the middle, rather than entire sections, to reduce its size. Radiant_>|< 18:54, July 23, 2005 (UTC)

Congratulations

My sincerest congratulations Nathaniel. Your focus and attention to detail are most admirable. TTLightningRod

Thank you

Hi, Nathaniel. Thank you very much for your support in my RfA. It was the very last vote before it closed. You might say it sealed the deal. ;) I see you have an interest in articles pertaining to Brazil as well. I look forward to cooperating with you on any article! You have any connection to Brazil or is it an affinity? Thanks again. Redux 02:02, 29 July 2005 (UTC)

Brazil

Hi. Thanks for your message on my talk page. Nice to know about your interest in the country. :) If I can help with any article on it you might be working on, or planning to work on, just let me know. Also, you might find interesting our History of Brazil series of articles (check out the template). The articles are very good and comprising; they were written mainly by 172, a historian. There's a lot of details there, but even if you just read parts of it, it's very interesting. Redux 19:30, 29 July 2005 (UTC)

GNAA IRC link

I removed it, since it was dead. Thanks for suggesting it. Zscout370 (Sound Off) 00:46, 4 August 2005 (UTC)

Hero of Ukraine

Yeah, that looks good. Thanks for what you have done to the article. Zscout370 (Sound Off) 18:02, 4 August 2005 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for reverting the recent vandalism on my user page. This is a long-term problem involving one or more persistent sockpuppet vandals (60+ socks so far and counting). I'm guessing there will be more in the future, so please watch out for any new activity, if you don't mind. Thanks, --MarkSweep 00:25, 7 August 2005 (UTC)

You get the week off

As you might have seen, I've decided to suspend The Signpost for the time being, so you can skip the featured article coverage for what would have been your last week. Thanks for all your help and good luck with school. Hopefully we'll manage to get things restarted and you can still contribute occasionally if you have time. --Michael Snow 15:31, 8 August 2005 (UTC)

RfA

Thank you for supporting my RfA. I will do my best to serve the Wikipedia community as an administrator. Flcelloguy | A note? | Desk 20:42, 8 August 2005 (UTC)

Hello

Thanks for joining Wikipedia:WikiProject Latin America countries. Unfortunately, I cannot contribute for some time because of my examinations.--Youssef 10:28, 9 August 2005 (UTC)