User talk:Hephaestos/Archive20040204

My understanding is that we can't - not shouldn't, but can't - permanently block an IP number the way the code now works. Feel free to try though :) -- Pakaran 06:24, 9 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Cool idea - but you'll have to log in as proxyweb under that IP number first, otherwise it won't "share an IP address with" the proxyweb user. --Pakaran 06:29, 9 Dec 2003 (UTC)

I thought it would give me a "blocked because you share an IP with" but apparently not. *sigh* - Hephaestos 06:32, 9 Dec 2003 (UTC)

No, what you need to do is create a proxyweb user, log in as that user from the proxyweb site, and then block the user. Then the user will "share" the proxyweb IP number, or I'd think so. Might need to make 1 edit from proxyweb too. -- Pakaran 06:33, 9 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Oh, and you'd need to check 'c' for 'allow cookies' at proxyweb, or logging in will be impossible. -- Pakaran 06:36, 9 Dec 2003 (UTC)

I know why its not working. Proxyweb uses the same IP for all users - the share-IP thing may only work with slightly differing IP addresses (you know something like 3.4.5.X, can't rememeber the technical name for it) Dysprosia 06:39, 9 Dec 2003 (UTC)

It's logging me out every time I go to a new page, so it's fairly impossible to make an edit. - Hephaestos 06:40, 9 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Hi Hephaestos, as you have contributed to Baseball/temp, I'd like to ask for your opinion whether it's time to move the rewritten article to Baseball. Please comment at Talk:Baseball/temp. Thanks, Kosebamse 16:56, 9 Dec 2003 (UTC)

The title of the Beazley article has already been changed several times by various pedantic busybodies. As far as I can see no version is any better or worse than any other, so why don't you just leave it alone? Adam 07:42, 10 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Yes well I suppose that is fair enough - I just get sick of these circular arguments - pretty soon PMelvilleAustin or someone will come and change it back again, and so on... Adam 08:04, 10 Dec 2003 (UTC)

No worries in that department mate. PMA 08:26, Dec 10, 2003 (UTC)

Why skipped the redirect? [1] My understanding is that it is the same to the computer (i.e., not one is slower or more damage than the other). And actually redir is easier on the original writer. Just curious, because I occasionally see other Wikipedians skip redir. And never understood why. --Menchi (Talk)â 08:27, 10 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Double redirects

Since you made the moves, can you fix all the redirects at the Kim Beazley articles? --Jiang | Talk 22:18, 10 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Got both of them. Now the redirects to the talk page work correctly. Thanks for the reminder. - Hephaestos 22:37, 10 Dec 2003 (UTC)

If you have a reason for removing the background of Image:Drumsfeld.jpg, then please discuss it. --Jiang | Talk 23:44, 10 Dec 2003 (UTC)

I don't see how it is POV. That flag is the official standard of the Sec of Defense. It reflects his position in the government. Is the American flag POV here too: Image:DianneFeinstein.jpg, Image:Jimmycarter.jpg? I really don't see your point, but if you insist on changing it, fill it in with a non-white background so it doesn't blend in with the page. --Jiang | Talk 23:56, 10 Dec 2003 (UTC)

And this Image:Geraldford.jpg too? --Jiang | Talk 00:09, 11 Dec 2003 (UTC)

I noticed you didn't change all the MediaWiki pages I edited. Was that intentional? In any case, do you think "< View article" would look better than just "< Article"? I think some additional emphasis for the links would be useful, although they probably shouldn't be in that part of the navigation bar in the first place.—Eloquence 07:37, Dec 11, 2003 (UTC)

Thanks for fixing the Elizabeth Smart redirects. Daniel Quinlan 04:23, Dec 12, 2003 (UTC)

I'm glad we were able to come to an understanding about Lizzie. I do have one small remaining issue about the chosen title format, but this won't be the place where I take a stand on it. The format for the date should probably "(1987- )" with the extra space, instead of "(1987-)". There are too many other matters at issue to get involved in that relatively trivial debate. I've liked the AACR disambiguation format since long before I ever heard of Wikipedia. The simple fact that this solution arose as a compromise in settlement of another dispute may make it more acceptable, but don't be suprised if flak is raised by a whole new group of people. ☮ Eclecticology 08:03, 2003 Dec 12 (UTC)

It looks as though the secondary argument has come to a quick conclusion. (One can never really be sure.) The entry Talk:Elizabeth AnnSmart still exists, and needs to be deleted. This was my own typo (missing space) in the heat of battle. ☮ Eclecticology 08:20, 2003 Dec 13 (UTC)

Thank you for fixing Wyatt Earp. I appreciate your help. Greenmountainboy 18:44, 13 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Cheers! Look upon my works, ye Mighty, and despair! 18:53, 13 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Blocking signed in users

How can I ban a signed in user? (JoeM). Where is the procedure documented? RickK 21:42, 13 Dec 2003 (UTC)

well-done!

Hey, thanks for digging up that photo of Leo Franks. I looked around for one but didn't see any I could use. There is a lynch photo, but it it has a copyright on it. -- Viajero 01:07, 15 Dec 2003 (UTC)

So you think this one is fair game: http://www.leofranklynchers.com/leofranklynchers.jpg ? Pity about the text though. Don't know if I feel like spending the time to clean it up just now... -- Viajero 01:32, 15 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Thanks again. I added that image (gruesome) to the article, as well as a couple others I found. -- Viajero 13:15, 15 Dec 2003 (UTC)

thanks

Thank you for taking care of the vandalism on List of AMD Athlon XP Microprocessors and reverting it to last good version! Optim 02:33, 15 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Liked the prompt copyedit on Keith & Donna Godchaux. Never did it professionally, but know the feeling! - unkamunka . 00:28, 18 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Nico

about Nico. He posted few revisionists sentences on the different talk pages. Examples: Even the migrants must be considered expellees, since their homeland was under occupation and Germans generally was discriminated and threatened in these areas. Source User talk:Nico I thought it would be correct to name them expellees, as that is what they name themselves. When they emigrated, Germany had not recognised the current borders. But do as you want. And in any event, what is wrong with considering East Prussia rightfully German, in accordance with international law (the Geneva protocols states: "It is illegal to permanently keep land militarily taken over and to expell and to replace the inhabitants") -- Nico 01:43, 14 Dec 2003 (UTC) Source Talk:Landsmannschaft Ostpreussen

He claims in Wikipedia, that some Polish or Russian areas, are rightfully German and are under occupation. Do we want to start again border disputes in Europe?? WolfgangPeters

I actually don't see what is "revisionistic" with these sentences. I just stated a fact: The (West-)German government actually considered these areas "occupied" when the people we are talking about emigrated. And it's not just "revionists" who thinks East Prussia should return to Germany. There are even Russians who thinks that. And after all, this is also just my private opinions, not what I write in any articles. Nico 13:14, 15 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Based on, what you stated yourself, it seems to be irresponsible to give you the rights to edit articles in Wikipedia. Attempt to violate existing borders is a crime in every state. WolfgangPeters

Hi Hephaestos, in case you didn't know - the above text is exactly the same as that which appears on the Wikipedia:Current disputes over articles page. I got it on my talk too, for some reason I have yet to fathom. :) Angela . 20:08, 15 Dec 2003 (UTC)

I already moved Harvey H. Lettuce to bad jokes. :) Glad I caught it before it was deleted, it was pretty good. RickK 03:44, 17 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Cool blog (or LiveJournal if that's substantially different in spite of appearances)... Tuf-Kat 08:21, Dec 18, 2003 (UTC)

If it isn't too much trouble, could you please remove Image:Simu title.png. That was a bit of a blunder. I'll upload a smaller jpg file instead. :) -- Emperorbma 09:38, 18 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Yes. Still, it's a matter of some regret to me that I have to have stuff like LeAnn Rimes, Paul Levesque, etc on my watchlist. :-) Evercat 02:07, 19 Dec 2003 (UTC)

I removed your disambig pages for Adams, Massachusetts and Lenox, Massachusetts. The reason is that there's no ambiguity: it's not true that there are "two locales" called Adams, Massachusetts. There's only one locale, but only a subset of it designated by the census as a CDP. In other words, I don't think Adams (CDP), Massachusetts and Adams (town), Massachusetts actually constitute two different locales, inasmuch as the CDP is merely part of the town. Rather than having a disambig page, I put a link to the CDP page on the town page, and have the bald name redirect to the town. This is my reasoning, anyway, but I'm willing to be argued with. AJD 02:56, 19 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Post scriptum: No worries; thanks for reverting them back for me. AJD 03:07, 19 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Thanks!

Hey, I'm happy to help out with such a huge archive of STUFF! This site is just incredible.

I moved the feynman quotes over to WikiQuotes. It's pretty annoying that the accounts aren't active on both sites.. :\

Ah well. Have a good one.

You'll need to explain to me exactly what that entails. I know a lot about history but not very much about software and such :) Adam 04:03, 20 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Thanks for supporting my adminship request. Glad you liket Irish theatre, which cost me some research time. Bmills 09:15, 22 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Thanks. I've bee trying to be careful with the 1960s, etc. The current incomplete draft of the next installment, which I'm trying to do because it is such a major hole in Wikipedia's poetry coverage, is here: User:Bmills/United States poetry. An education for me, at least. Bmills 17:01, 22 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Sorry; wasn't aware of the "stub rule." User:Mythrandir 13:40, 23 Dec 2003 (EST)

Thanks for correcting my format in William Quentin Jones -- I've been trying without much luck to find a style guide for bio articles. Can you point me to it, if it exists? Thanks... - Seth Ilys 23:02, 23 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Thx much! Seth Ilys

Your redirect is fine with me. It doesn't particularly matter to me whether "Shirley (town), Massachusetts" redirects to "Shirley, Massachusetts" or vice versa; when I set up the redirects I generally do whichever is more convenient -- i.e., I leave the existing page where it is and turn the blank page into a redirect to the existing one -- but I have no objection to someone reversing those redirects. AJD 05:46, 24 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Thanks for fixing the spelling on FUDOSI. Optim 18:30, 24 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Hi, just a quick not that I have transferred ψ10 from RobLa's account to yours (on Wikipedia:WikiMoney) for doing the electoral maps. --snoyes 08:48, 2 Jan 2004 (UTC)

No problem. I was actually on the hunt for some wikimoney and wanted to do the electoral college thing, but then saw that they were all done. Why had you given up? --snoyes 01:22, 3 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Hephaestos, thanks for forging the Steven Saylor article into a more finely-crafted piece. Ensiform

I note you have been going around putting ampersand-mdash-semicolon into articles,something I can't think of any good reason for not minimizing.

ASCII is more universally readable,and colons,ellipses,etc. as well as double hyphens can generally have the desired semantic effect.(I'm told that my efforts to make the link to First Division in Derby County F.C. had the completely unintended effect of affecting "mdash" insertion there,so the use of this HTML markup would appear to break browser compatibility with Lynx.--L.E./le@put.com/12.144.5.2

HTML markup is ASCII. So is wiki markup. The server sends standard HTTP data. Since you seem to be the only one with this problem I tend to think it is rather your copy of Lynx that may be at the root of the problem. - Hephaestos 23:28, 4 Jan 2004 (UTC)

To be clear,I don't understand how the alleged punctuation changes in the Derby County article happened.All I was doing there was tinkering with the First Division link to direct it to the real article rather than a useless blank.But why have you been going around with ampersand-mdash-semicolon substitutions for actual characters?--L.E./12.144.5.2

You mean why am I fixing them? Em-dashes are actual characters. Double hyphens aren't standard; they should only be used when there is no viable alternative. - Hephaestos 05:58, 5 Jan 2004 (UTC)

We differ on how "viable" the em-dash-in-HTML is as an alternative to the actual typed characters.--L.E./12.144.5.2

We do indeed. - Hephaestos 01:33, 6 Jan 2004 (UTC)

I love your picture at Enderlin, North Dakota! Encapsulates everything you need to know in the one image. :-) Stan 21:57, 8 Jan 2004 (UTC)

We're voting on naming conventions for peers at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Peerage, if you want to participate. john 06:26, 9 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Bio Dates

Tnx for catching my style-breach on Jimmy Doolittle; as i've now noted on Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (biographies), i think it's the wrong standard, but support compliance with it. --Jerzy 02:51, 2004 Jan 12 (UTC)

tHaNkS for the fix on crisis list, Hephaestos. 207.179.108.132

Question: If the Myakka Skunk Ape Photos came from a Sherrif's office and are posted all over the internet, how could they be a copy right infringement problem any worse than that of the Sasquatch photo on the Bigfoot page?--User: Lizard_King.

Their site states they made enhancements to the original sheriff's office photos (which would make a public domain photo their intellectual artistic property), and that's plausible since the copy here and the copy there have the same border and the exact same size in bytes (32,201). - Hephaestos 08:17, 13 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Thank you. I will try to find more appropriate photos then. Perhaps the unenhanced versions, if I can find them.

PowerBook G4 photo moved

In the IBook revision of 21 December 2003, you added a smaller photo of the 17 inch PowerBook. I have moved it to the PowerBook article. BTW, since you seem to deal with a lot of Mac hardware, what's the proper way to refer to a apple Model? I current have the iBook (Early 2003) with a 900 MHZ CPU. Thanks. -- iHoshie 04:57, 14 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for the image of John Laurens! I shifted it to line up next to the table of contents. Looks fine that way in netscape for Windows. I hope it shows up as well on the Mac. Lou I 00:01, 15 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Bernard Lortie Image

Just look at the frickin' image properties. There's no need to deface Wikipedia. Anthony DiPierro 18:20, 15 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Warren Christopher

The background is horrible. I see white spots at the edges. Please do a better job. --Jia ng 09:01, 19 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Early morning humor

I was not sure what I'd find when I clicked on the 'cow nose ray' link. Thanks for doing some clean up with me.

Would you do me a favor? Would you weigh in on talk:Yeti or my ongoing conflict with LizardKing? Thanks! - UtherSRG 14:43, 20 Jan 2004 (UTC) ⊙

Hi, Hephaestos ! Thank you for the edited legend in the iris anatomy thing. Good job ! Sincerely yours, irismeister 23:46, 2004 Jan 21 (UTC)

Hi Hephaestos

Hi, this may seem like an odd question, but do you have an account on LiveJournal? - Hephaestos 01:18, 25 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Not me- what is live journal??? quercus robur 11:31, 25 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Thanks! I do do some rocking, on occasion, as time and energy allow... Tuf-Kat

ad hominem

You should be more polite Jack 08:16, 27 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Why, yes sir! *tips hat* - Hephaestos 17:32, 27 Jan 2004 (UTC)

(I might add, if you're that much against democracy, consistency would demand you not vote in the next election.) - Hephaestos 18:15, 27 Jan 2004 (UTC)

I said I am dubious of it. Actually, my opinion is identical to churchills. Its the best of alot of worse soloutions. The problem is most people are stupid, and would make poor decisions if given a chance. Thats why there needs to be checks and balances. And the USA is not a democracy, we are a republic w a strong democratic tradition. I'd prefer it to be MORE democratic, not less. I particularly like what I hear of Switzerland. All of this could have been clarified, but you seemed focused on voicing your outrage to the Iraq war (which I also dislike, BTW). I simply don't agree w your reasoning, philosophically, that votes trump what we know to be right. The rest of the world can be unanimous, but I'm still going to follow my heart, and my God. Votes don't change what is right. Take a look at the wikiquotes portion of my user page. Jack 20:50, 27 Jan 2004 (UTC)

BTW, I'm voting in the democratic primary, probably for Clark (possibly for Edwards). Jack 23:26, 27 Jan 2004 (UTC)

No problem. Thanks for the apology.168... 02:06, 30 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Lir

Oy. Prepare for a firestorm. I support your actions, but you will be attcked. RickK 03:33, 30 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Yes, the sheer craziness of some people. Ilyanep 14:56, 1 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Why did you do it??

Why did you do it?? Why did you do it?? 66.36.249.149 03:50, 30 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Lir, I did it because you are a disruption. You make some good contributions, yes. But you chase away 20-30 good contributors with your bullshit. The balance isn't worth it. - Hephaestos 03:59, 30 Jan 2004 (UTC)

That wasn't even me. Im tired of you people complaining about things I didn't even do! Gossip and propaganda rule you all! Lirath Q. Pynnor

I'm sorry, looks like i did screw up. *Stupid, Stupid Stupid*, BAD DOBBY! Lol. Alright, thanks a lot. (Please reply on my talk page) Ilyanep 21:16, 30 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Fixing redirects

Hi, sorry for using German with the Freistaat Preußen links. How did you fix the re-directs to Republic of Prussia made in my name? I need to fix Freistaat Preußen since i was doing it while you were fixing my mistake and I got confused about what was happening. Thanks. Zestauferov 16:21, 31 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Hello,
Letting you know that I asked Tim to block 204.96.197.145 (a static address used by Michael) for 1 month since Michael was coming back after the 24 hours of normal blocks wore off. To implement this block he changed the timestamp on the last person to block that address, which happened to be you. I thought you might wonder how you managed to build a time machine and went to March 1 to block Michael, all without realizing it. Maximus Re x 01:26, 1 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads up. I re-replied. RickK 19:35, 1 Feb 2004 (UTC)

I think you should have been desysoped and banned, John. That was really a sort of behavior Wikipedia can not accept! Hopefully, you do not do such things again. 66.36.249.149 01:52, 2 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Well George, I suppose we're all entitled to an opinion. ;) - Hephaestos 02:05, 2 Feb 2004 (UTC)

That was rude

Unlike you, I do not have a tendancy to curse on the wiki, and prefer to preserve civility. What you have just done was unnecessarilly unhelpful, and not in accordance with policy. Review Wikipedia:How to archive a talk page. Jack 08:52, 2 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Review the first line yourself. It's first for a reason. (I might also mention I've seen paltry respect for civility from your end.) - Hephaestos 08:55, 2 Feb 2004 (UTC)

I doubt the current vote on your sysop privlidges will go the right way, but I can see now that you are a rogue cannon, and will be keeping an eye on you. I personally doubt you will be able to refrain from increasingly vulger displays of power. Jack 09:03, 2 Feb 2004 (UTC)

It was not only the slowness of loading, but the difficulty in navigating (scrolling down) as well. Anyways, the main issue is your non-concensus, condecending demeanor. Jack 09:54, 2 Feb 2004 (UTC)

potato vine is not unique

I am creating a disambiguation page. Give me 5 minutes! WormRunner 05:50, 3 Feb 2004 (UTC)

for example http://www.desert-tropicals.com/Plants/Solanaceae/Solanum_jasminoides.html

no problem. WormRunner 05:56, 3 Feb 2004 (UTC)

sorry I was a little abrupt. Getting cut off in mid edit startled me, but it gave me time to decide to move it to one of the other common names instead. Regards WormRunner 06:17, 3 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Conversion to new code

Yes, I have a very lengthy task to convert maybe 600 pics to the new code. However, I've just read somewhere on WP that the new code is buggy in Opera (I have IE) so it may be best not to convert any more pics for a while until that's resolved. So I'm carrying on with the old code for the moment. Thanks for your thoughts, Best Wishes, Adrian Pingstone 15:11, 4 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Block

Dear Hephaestos, you just blocked an account of a person who expressed an opinion in a wrong place, without leaving a warning/explaining message in the users talk page. I actually think that's probably a sock-puppet but we dont know that, or do you? Muriel 16:14, 4 Feb 2004 (UTC)

It's pretty obviously a sock puppet, today's edits are the only ones from that IP. - Hephaestos 16:17, 4 Feb 2004 (UTC)

For a random user, he learned the wiki-slang pretty well and quick... I wont say anything else about this. Cheers, Muriel 16:33, 4 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Image and table width

Hi, is there some sort of clash between tables and the new image markup? The image on American Cocker Spaniel seems to have got squashed over a bit with your change. I am guessing that the image width is somehow not influencing the table width as it should. What do you think? -- sannse 17:14, 4 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Re images: I saw that, but I figured it was my browser bumping against the new code; I'd left the center tag in the table as before. I'm not really sure what's going on there. - Hephaestos 17:18, 4 Feb 2004 (UTC)

It sort of works with the table set at 270px width, but still doesn't quite look right - I'll keep fiddling -- sannse 17:29, 4 Feb 2004 (UTC)

I think images look better in a taxobox if you use "none", rather than "thumb" and specify the size. WormRunner 17:38, 4 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Aha! Thanks, I'll try that. Didn't know that was an option. - Hephaestos 17:39, 4 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Heh! I'd just this second found that as a possible solution and was hoping to be clever and fix it... I was too slow ;) Thanks both -- sannse 17:55, 4 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Looks like you can use "none" and "thumb". I think it's better with the magnifying glass image. -- sannse 18:20, 4 Feb 2004 (UTC)