User talk:Timwi/Archive/Sep 08 - Oct 11

Battle of Dyrrhachium (1081)

I have noticed old "mistake" in image Byzantiumforecrusades.PNG and you are last editor of this image so.... Serbia during this time do not exist and name need to be changes with Kingdom of Duklja or only Duklja. Hungary has annexed Croatia which will happen only in 1102 but this is greater problem which can wait +-20 years is not important). --Rjecina (talk) 19:44, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

Not important. Only now I have noticed that this is crusader map on which everything is wrong. Borders of Seljuk Sultanate is from 1087, borders of Serbia is from 1265, borders of Byzantium are from 1087 and borders of Hungary is after 1102.--Rjecina (talk) 19:48, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

TCM

Bevor Du dir so viel Arbeit machst mit etwas was doch sehr fraglich ist, wäre es mE angebracht, die Autoren auf der Diskussionsseite anzusprechen. Ich halte Deine Änderung (Großschreibung in teilweise Kleinschreibung) für unangebracht und möchte Dich hiermit um Rückänderung bitten. Vielleicht erbarmt sich aber auch jemand und wartet nicht auf Deine Re-Tat. Übrigens: Retat ist besser retard (manchmal).--Heinz-A.Woerding 14:26, 3. Sep. 2008 (CEST)

Ich finde nicht, dass das Ändern eines Großbuchstabens in einen Kleinbuchstaben "so viel Arbeit" war. Wenn das rückgängig zu machen nicht im Bereich der Möglichkeiten deutscher Wikipedianer liegt, ist es wirklich nicht sehr gut um die deutsche Wikipedia bestellt. — Timwi (talk) 12:31, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

Translation

Hi, I'm 20-dude and I speak Spanish and English is my second language (which I love so much that I only edit the English wikipedia, haha). I was wondering if you could do me a little favor... Can you translate me this to English:

Ilch van der sar, guten tugan ier das track doitch gross volks dan bruten.

Thanks beforehand! And remember, if Spanish ever gives you troble, I'll be happy to return you the favor.--20-dude (talk) 01:32, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

I don't even know what langauge that is supposed to be. It's certainly not German. It also doesn't yield any Google results, so I'm inclined to think it's probably gibberish. — Timwi (talk) 13:13, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

I thought so. I had the impression it has parts of German and parts of English. I think it is most probably bad German from somebody whose main language is Spanish, whose second language is English and has certain notion of German. It might also be confussing or coded on purpose. But you'd be the expert, what do you think? Do you have any idea of what is this person trying to say?--20-dude (talk) 22:06, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

As I said, I think it's gibberish. It does not mean anything. He's not trying to say anything, he's just trying to set you off on a fruitless and pointless search for a meaning that doesn't exist. — Timwi (talk) 18:12, 6 September 2008 (UTC)

That makes a lot of sense, actually. Thanks you a lot. --20-dude (talk) 02:08, 8 September 2008 (UTC)

you have a virus...

hello, i'm Philippe and it is possible you have a virus how change (for you) some page in http://wikidev.net - please check for it Phd0 (talk) 12:47, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Meetup/Cambridge 2

Provisionally scheduled for February 28. Comments welcome, & seeing you there even better! Dsp13 (talk) 18:52, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

Place des Quinconces

Hast du Quellen, die belegen, dass der "Parade Square" in Warschau größer ist als der Place des Quinconces? Den Parade Square findet man nämlich nicht einmal im Artikel Warschau, geschweige denn steht dort, dass sich der größte Platz Europas in Warschau befände. Gruß --Dein Freund der Baum 18:52, 12 February 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.104.17.42 (talk)

Cambridge meetup

The second Cambridge meetup is confirmed for this Saturday, 3pm, at CB2 on Norfolk Street: Wikipedia:Meetup/Cambridge 2. Hope to see you there. Charles Matthews (talk) 19:17, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for File:King of the Zoo (1).png

Thanks for uploading or contributing to File:King of the Zoo (1).png. I notice the file page specifies that the file is being used under fair use but there is not a suitable explanation or rationale as to why each specific use in Wikipedia constitutes fair use. Please go to the file description page and edit it to include a fair use rationale.

If you have uploaded other fair use media, consider checking that you have specified the fair use rationale on those pages too. You can find a list of 'file' pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "File" from the dropdown box. Note that any non-free media lacking such an explanation will be deleted one week after they have been uploaded, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. Jay32183 (talk) 00:24, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for File:King of the Zoo (2).png

Thanks for uploading or contributing to File:King of the Zoo (2).png. I notice the file page specifies that the file is being used under fair use but there is not a suitable explanation or rationale as to why each specific use in Wikipedia constitutes fair use. Please go to the file description page and edit it to include a fair use rationale.

If you have uploaded other fair use media, consider checking that you have specified the fair use rationale on those pages too. You can find a list of 'file' pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "File" from the dropdown box. Note that any non-free media lacking such an explanation will be deleted one week after they have been uploaded, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. Jay32183 (talk) 00:24, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

Meetup confirmed

The third Cambridge meetup is confirmed for the Free Press pub, 12.30 pm on Tuesday 28 April. Charles Matthews (talk) 13:22, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

Zurab & Kennedy photo

Hi. I notice you uploaded File:Eunice-zurab.jpg (also availible on Commons as File:Eunice Kennedy Zurab.Tsereli.jpg) some years ago. Nice photo! I see you got email permission-- would you still have that? If so, would you be able to email a copy to Wikipedia:OTRS or Commons:OTRS so it could be on the record? If not, do you still have contact info so that could be requested from whoever you emailed before? Also, if you have any additional info such as the date of the photo, and/or who the photographer was, it would be appreciated if you could add it. Thanks! Cheers, -- Infrogmation (talk) 04:42, 24 May 2009 (UTC)

Cambridge meetup 1 August

FYI, the fourth Cambridge meetup will occur on the afternoon of Saturday 1 August. Charles Matthews (talk) 14:18, 26 July 2009 (UTC)

The Lion King GAR

As a major contributor to The Lion King, I thought you'd want to know that that article is currently under going a Good Article Reassessment as part of the GA Sweeps. The article currently fails the good article criteria, as detailed at Talk:The Lion King/GA1. Its reassessment is on hold for seven days to allow time for the issues to be addressed. Thanks. -- Collectonian (talk · contribs) 03:02, 7 August 2009 (UTC)H

An ancient deletion that you performed

I've done a bit of research to try to find out why the early revisions of the Mafia article are missing, and I think it's because you deleted the Mafia page in April 2004, when it was a redirect, to fix corruption in the links table. Can you check the accuracy of the entry about the Mafia article at my page history observations subpage? It scares me a bit that you might have deleted other legitimate non-redirect edits that are now irretrievable. Graham87 11:27, 21 August 2009 (UTC)

Hm. This is quite a while ago, so I cannot remember much of this. I assume that I would have been careful not to delete pages which have useful content in their edit history; after all, I did say in my User talk reply about the topic that I'm trying to make sure "nothing important ever gets lost". Of course, due to the fallibility of humans, it is always possible that I somehow managed to overlook the history of some articles and that I may have deleted them without realising they had history. If that is the case, then of course I apologise for the damage, but I feel it's an honest mistake to make. — May I ask why you are researching this issue if you believe to have already established that the information is irretrievably lost anyway? — Timwi (talk) 03:06, 22 August 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply. I accept that the deletion was an honest mistake, if you did delete the early page history of the mafia article; same goes for any other important page history you might've deleted. I love checking out the history of old pages, and trying to fix fragmented page histories; 99 times out of 100, it's easy to put things back together again. I just got fascinated by what happened to the "Mafia" history because it's one of the few pages which I couldn't account for, until I checked the mid-April deletion log. Maybe your deletion didn't cause the Mafia history to disappear; maybe it somehow disappeared when the page was moved to "Italian mafia". We'll probably never know. Graham87 14:22, 22 August 2009 (UTC)

Cambridge November meetup

Set for Saturday 14 November, 3 pm, CB2 cybercafé on Norfolk Street. Please come along if you can: Wikipedia:Meetup/Cambridge 5. Charles Matthews (talk) 15:41, 20 October 2009 (UTC)

Microtome translation

I posted this to User:RyanGerbil10, but I then saw that that user has been inactive for a few months, so I thought I might ask here as well, just in case I get no reply.

I recently translated the article de:Mikrotom to Microtome. I am not a fluent german speaker, and would appreciate if you are able to cast your eye over my work, correcting it as needed. I found your page by Wikipedia:Translators_available#German-to-English and saw the comment about lots of free time :). If you don't have time to do this, please let me know and I will drop a line on another translator's page.

Thanks. User A1 (talk) 04:03, 7 November 2009 (UTC)

I've skimmed both articles and not found any egregious mistakes. But they're hard to compare in detail because one is not a 1-to-1 translation of the other; you have incorporated additional material from the old English article. If you are unsure about the meaning of any particular sentence, please paste it here and I'll translate it for you. — Timwi (talk) 13:15, 7 November 2009 (UTC)

A quick "have I made any complete stuff ups" cross-check was all I was after. Thanks User A1 (talk) 23:55, 7 November 2009 (UTC)

Trinity University

Hello. Back in 2004, you moved Trinity University to Trinity University (Texas) and created a disambiguation page to differentiate between the two universities in Washington D.C. and Texas. I noticed that the school in Washington no longer uses that name and the Wikipedia article was moved to Trinity Washington University in 2006. The schools added since then are similar to the name Trinity University, but none are "Trinity University." Do you mind if I move the Texas school back to the main name while adding a hatnote leading to a new disambiguation page? -Mabeenot (talk) 03:25, 2 December 2009 (UTC)

Obviously not. Please read WP:BOLD, and then go ahead and make changes. It is a bit weird to think that I would have anything to say about this just because I made a simple page move 5 years ago :) — Timwi (talk) 18:45, 3 December 2009 (UTC)

An old page move that you performed

In February 2004, you moved "Wikipedia:Main Page" to "Wikipedia:Community Portal", with its talk page. Because of some page move vandalism in October of that year, the edit showing your page move was almost completely inaccessible for a few years. It showed up in your deleted contributions but it couldn't be undeleted or moved back because of its bizarre title, "%3A%30%39%AA%28%3A%30%39...". The edit was recently resurrected and it's now back where it belongs; see bug 13729 and the relevant history. I've noted the saga in the upcoming Signpost technology report, but I'd understand if you or someone else wanted to remove it. I found the wayward edits while doing research for this MFD. Graham87 04:14, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

Issue w/German sources

Hi. You may be able to help out w/the deletion discussion at this page. Many thanks.--68.173.96.196 (talk) 17:50, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

Sorry, you'll have to ask something more specific than that, otherwise I don't know what you need me for. — Timwi (talk) 11:47, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

Need Translator

I'm in need of someone to assist me with a couple of references that are in German, for the Biography article of Michele Weiner-Davis I am working on in my sandbox, that support her mother. I can give you specific questions I have. If you can help me, please leave me a message on my talk page here:Tinkermen Wednesday January 13th

Meetup in Cambridge, 27 March

See Wikipedia:Meetup/Cambridge 6 - much as before. We'd be glad to see you. Charles Matthews (talk) 19:47, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

wikt:Wiktionary:Votes/2010-04/Voting policy

I urge you to vote. (I don't know which way you'll vote, but I want more voices, especially English Wiktionarians' voices, heard in this vote.) If you've voted already, or stated that you won't, and I missed it, I apologize.—msh210℠ 17:00, 21 May 2010 (UTC)

Meetup

You may well have seen a site notice about the next Cambridge meetup, this Saturday 29 May. I thought those who have been in the past should have a personal invite, too. Charles Matthews (talk) 21:44, 26 May 2010 (UTC)

I think those who have not been in the past are more likely to not have heard of it. Timwi (talk) 09:57, 27 May 2010 (UTC)

I B Wright – what's up with that guy?

Hi. After a rather unpleasant, grueling experience with I B Wright (and what currently seems to be his alter ego, 86.182.66.217) on my talk page and elsewhere, I decided to take a look at the history of his talk page and and wasn't too surprised to find that he clashed with many other users in the past, you among them.

And while I think it was wrong of some of you to threaten him with being blocked (for tendentious editing, personal attacks, harassment or whatever), he's really damaging Wikipedia, putting falsehoods in article after article (I'm still not sure as to why he does what he does: Is he really serious, or is this all some kind of a very bad joke? Or maybe he's got some, um, "other issues" to deal with?). Isn't there anything that can be done short of revoking his editing rights (which already had been tried once before)? Couldn't it be arranged that his changes must be approved by someone higher up before they are applied? Oh, well, that's probably not feasible, still, it's comforting to see that I'm not the only one who's had a close encounter of the third kind with this unnerving guy... Thanks!

By the way, did you ever read the self-description on his user page?

"[...]he has a wide ranging knowledge on some often surprising subjects.

Note: I B Wright is not his real name, but an apposite if modest description."

It doesn't get much more disconnected from reality than that.

Regards – ὁ οἶστρος (talk) 21:39, 7 June 2010 (UTC)

Mandarin Wiktionary entries

Thank you for your contributions. Could you please use the standard formatting? Check out my changes at 金雕 on Wiktionary. Cheers. Tooironic (talk) 00:00, 1 October 2010 (UTC)

Nope. You’ll have to work a lot more on your UI before you can reasonably expect anyone to follow any sort of format. As it stands, I’m presented with a big white box and no idea what to enter. — Timwi (talk) 20:32, 1 October 2010 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Table Unicode

Template:Table Unicode has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you.. Redundant by {{Unicode navigation}}. -DePiep (talk) 01:46, 13 January 2011 (UTC)

Inuktitut.svg

I responded on my talk page. -- pne (talk) 08:36, 26 June 2011 (UTC)

User talkpage guidelines

Thanks for [1]. At last, someone who understands my talk page. --Wtshymanski (talk) 18:36, 27 June 2011 (UTC)

Hey, thanks!

	Purrrr...
	Thanks for the compliments, teaching me Wikitext etc, fixing the Bartable template, translating captions... generally being the most helpful and friendly admin I know! cmɢʟee☺τaʟκ 18:14, 1 July 2011 (UTC)

Incompletely-rendered SVG

Hi Timwi,

Would you know why the following left image set to a width of under 160px is incompletely rendered and how to fix it (other than to use a width of 160px or larger)?

The right image shows (more or less) what it should look like.

Thanks! cmɢʟee☺τaʟκ 01:20, 9 July 2011 (UTC)

No idea. Looks like a bug. You should post to the mailing list about it. — Timwi (talk) 16:56, 9 July 2011 (UTC)

Removal of vbs.tv from the blacklist

I'm still searching for the reason the domain was blacklisted in the first place, but I'm curious if you considered having the specific link you wanted to use be whitelisted instead of removing the domain without knowing why it was blacklisted in the first place? In general, domains are blacklisted for good reasons. The list may be outdated and I'm sure mistakes occasionally happen when sites are added to the list. I'm not sure that giving a forum one hour to respond is enough to determine that the blacklisting was somehow inappropriate...especially if it's just to source a stub that basically offers nothing more than a dictionary definition that really doesn't explain anything about the subject. MediaWiki talk:Spam-whitelist or MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist seem a better fit for discussion instead of WP:VPT. --Onorem♠Dil 14:43, 21 July 2011 (UTC)

From searching vbs.tv on MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist, it seems that it was blocked in 2007, discussed twice in 2008, once in 09, twice in 2010, and again in April this year which deferred the request to use the whitelist instead of removing the domain itself. --Onorem♠Dil 14:52, 21 July 2011 (UTC)

What do you think is a casual user trying to create a legitimate article going to do when they encounter the spam-blacklist warning? That’s right, they’ll leave, and their article ends up in the digital trashcan. The spam blacklist clearly detracts more legitimate contributions than it fixes any spam problem. Secondly, if you think my new article is useless, then expand it or ignore it, but what is the point in complaining about it? It clearly gives more information than no article at all — in particular, it now provides a link to an enlightening documentary which you could use to expand the article. — Timwi (talk) 18:43, 21 July 2011 (UTC)

Oh yeah, and “giving a forum one hour to respond” is a distortion of the situation — the situation was that I received a reply that clearly stated that I wasn’t going to see any reasoning for the blacklisted entry. If I can’t access any such reason, then I have no reason to heed it. That’s simple logic. If you want people to respect policies, then you should explain them in a way that everyone can appreciate. — Timwi (talk) 18:45, 21 July 2011 (UTC)

Wanting more user friendly messages when someone tries to use a blacklisted site is a completely different issue. I'm always in favor of useful information for new users. That's not at all the issue I was coming here to bring up. The spam blacklist clearly detracts more legitimate contributions than it fixes any spam problem. [citation needed]. I'm choosing to ignore the article for now because I can't find a single bit of information that would be useful to expand it. If I wasn't ignoring it for now, I'd be putting it up at AFD instead.

Where is the distortion? You asked a question. You got one response over an hour, or maybe an hour and 15 minutes (I'm not going to bother looking at the timestamps again), pointing you to the blacklist forums...and then you removed the domain from the list with no further input. The response didn't say that you wouldn't see any reasoning for the blacklisted entry. It just said that the list itself has no provision for explanations. The talk page is the place to go to figure out why things are on the list. --Onorem♠Dil 19:10, 21 July 2011 (UTC)

So let me recap:

* I try to help Wikipedia by adding an article about an as-yet-uncovered topic.

* I run into a wall. I patiently ask about it and get an unhelpful response. Consequently, I try to help Wikipedia by being bold and fixing the blacklist.

* What I get in return now is: complaints about my actions; destructive criticism of the article; and a threat of having my work nominated for deletion.

Great work! Way to go to get contributors excited! — Timwi (talk) 19:43, 21 July 2011 (UTC)

SBL removal

Hello. This message is being sent to inform you that there is currently a discussion at MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is vbs.tv. Thank you. —- Barek (talk • contribs) - 18:14, 23 July 2011 (UTC)

Re: SVGtranslate

Should be fixed now.

Incidentally, it is not a simple text replacement, that would be rather silly. (And preg_quote() is the correct PHP function for easily escaping regex strings. I'd just forgotten to apply it here - it's a large codebase that I had to rewrite from scratch.)

On JIRA (over the interface of which I have no control) you register, log in, and then there's a big obvious button for filing a bug report.

Anyway, as I say, should be fixed. - Jarry1250 ^{[Weasel? Discuss.]} 19:47, 19 August 2011 (UTC)

Okay, I have tried to act on all your bug requests.

I have remembered now why I didn't implement pre-filling the first time: it interferes with normal browsing prefilling e.g. when you hit the "Back" button. But I've implemented it anyway for symbols and numbers.

I couldn't figure out about the multiple words issue though. Could you file a JIRA bug, supplying as many details (e.g. an example filename) as you can? Thanks, - Jarry1250 ^{[Weasel? Discuss.]} 21:25, 19 August 2011 (UTC)

Re: Mysterious image and paragraph

commons:User talk:虞海#Mysterious image and paragraph -> Done. ––虞海 (Yú Hǎi) ✍ 18:37, 22 October 2011 (UTC)