User talk:Maury Markowitz/Archive 2, 2004

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Hi Maury, Thanks for the kind words about the BAe ATP. I'll update the specs on BAe 748 when I get a chance. The DASH-8 was one of the competitors targetted by BAe as were Fokker and Saab. I'll do some digging and perhaps add an update to 748 page. Andyr 13:38, 6 Jan 2004 (UTC)

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Ah, ok not a problem then. It turned out quite a good article anyway! Greyengine5 16:46, 14 Feb 2004 (UTC)

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Hey Maury - currently quite a heated dispute going on over whether the name "Reichsluftfahrtministerium" should be used in article titles. Adam Carr has been busily renaming... Take a look at Talk:German Air Ministry aircraft designation system - I'd appreciate your weighing into the fray. Cheers, --Rlandmann 11:39, 16 Feb 2004 (UTC)

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Maury: Thanks for your edits on dynamic programming language; the article's considerably clearer now. I fixed your mistake w.r.t. weakly vs. dynamically typed languages. See the Talk:dynamic programming language for some further notes. k.lee

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I would still prefer Reichsluftfahrtministerium, as you originally created it. On the other hand, RLM is far and away the most frequently used term in English - outnumbering the full version 10 to 1 online. My suggestion is park it at RLM.

On a completely unrelated note - since you're the most prolific aircraft author around here, could you please give me a hand keeping the List of aircraft up to date with any new contributions you make or spot? This list will need serious re-organisation soon, but for the moment it's the best indication we have of what we've got here... --Rlandmann 02:04, 19 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Oh yeah, and List of aircraft engines too, if you don't mind ;)

--Rlandmann 12:29, 20 Feb 2004 (UTC)

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A quick google for "carl gustaf recoilless rifle armour" produced, among others, these links:

http://www.army.dnd.ca/lf/English/2_0_40_1.asp?FlashEnabled=-1&uSubSection=40&uSection=5 http://hem.passagen.se/inlajn/info/equip/oweapons.htm

And I know from experience that the Swedish Armed Forces are still using them.

europrobe 16:35, 2004 Feb 19 (UTC)

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Hi there - just to say I've replied on my talk page and also that you should look at Wikipedia:Quickpolls EddEdmondson 15:06, 30 Mar 2004 (UTC)

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Hi again - I'm trying to get the ball rolling on a standard data box for aero engines - if you'd like to make any suggestions, take a look here.

Would also like your input on the dispute here --Rlandmann 23:06, 12 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Re:footer - just wondering whether you could clarify "So in the end, I vote for the original "mini-links" format (the blue box)". There are so many boxes now, I'm not sure which one you mean! --Rlandmann 21:15, 13 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Appreciation

Just stumbled on your Project Alpha article. Great read! One of my favorites on Wikipedia. -- Decumanus | Talk 05:39, 5 May 2004 (UTC)

Engineering terms

I see that you wrote the cable-stayed bridge article, so I'm guessing you know about these things. Could you have a look through Millau viaduct, which I translated from fr:Viaduc de Millau, to fix any engineering terms I may have gotten wrong? Nathan 11:11, Jun 10, 2004 (UTC)

Salting the earth

Out of idle curiosity, exactly how and by whom was it determined that the salting of Carthage was fictitious? --Dante Alighieri | Talk 06:19, Jun 22, 2004 (UTC)

PCI-Express

Please see Talk for PCI-Express at [1]. Also, can you do tables? I have specs for the 250MB and 8,000MBps variants, but presumably the specs for those speeds in between are available as well.

--MSTCrow 06:44, Jun 22, 2004 (UTC)

Left response at [2].

--MSTCrow 16:26, Jun 23, 2004 (UTC)

Cold fusion

Thanks for the heads-up. I don't see that anything important has been lost, and a first reading shows your version to be a real improvement over what was there. The diffs are nearly unreadable, I see; but the point in my change was to make it look less as if Jones's results were somehow supportive of F&P's, or at least consistent. That seems to be taken care of, so no problem. Dandrake 18:02, Jun 29, 2004 (UTC)

Dont modify With out my aproval

Dear Maury:

I know you are a keen webmaster you have a good ability in writing pages and doing charts , but dont rewrite my work in the Battle of Crete it have exact information that was very dificult to find, I was searching in books and in the Web it took me many hours to find THE EXACT quantity of Casualties becouse many pages change it for many reasons.

I like this page and History, but i dont want to know that all my work is thrown to the Bin in just 4 hours than I publicate it.

You know me the 200.110.0.99

Thanks for answering, I read your answer and I am glad that you remade the text Solving my errors , thanks a lot and please you can improve the reading but, dont mess with the numbers.Casualties Statdistics are my especiality dont change them plase.

Handley Page

Hey Maury - it's actually Handley Page, but of course the hyphenated version is so prevalent that we should always create redirects. Cheers --Rlandmann 14:00, 2 Aug 2004 (UTC)

We're getting more and more articles now about specific aircraft variants, so I can't see any harm in leaving the Jetstream 41 where it is - I note that we've got a separate article on the 61/ATP anyway. Just my $0.02 ;) --Rlandmann 14:38, 2 Aug 2004 (UTC)

YM2149 –> GI AY-3-8192

Hello -- thanks for notifying me of the change/redirect re: the General Instruments AY-3-8912 article. I did some edits, feel free to inspect them. I hope the article got a little easier to read after said edits. BTW, I noticed there is a completely empty article of the name General Instruments AY-3-8192. D'you know anything about that one? I happened upon it simply by misspelling "8912" when looking up the former article (a nicer number, 8192, y'know...). --Wernher 19:46, 9 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Image:DamascusSteelPocketKnife.jpg

Thanks for the notice. i am no expert in that, and just believed the title of the german wikipedia image de:Bild:Damast01.jpg where i found the image. I have removed the image from Damascus steel, and added it to Pattern welding. Also changed the label on Image:DamascusSteelPocketKnife.jpg. Thanks -- Chris 73 Talk 07:18, Sep 10, 2004 (UTC)

Abraham Darby

Thanks for the additions. I'm working on updating the content of Industrial Revolution by working (slowly) on "Industrial Revolution/history" (now being removed - Noisy | Talk 11:28, Apr 24, 2005 (UTC)) which I will eventually incorporate, and I see that metallurgy is one of your interests. If you feel so inclined, I'd welcome any input you're prepared to make in that area. Noisy | Talk 15:26, 11 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Fifth generation computers

Regarding the fifth generation computer systems project vs. fifth generation computer I think the best resolution is to keep the more general stuff about these beasts at fifth generation computer and move all stuff specifically about the japanese project to fifth generation computer systems project so we have two different articles on the subject. Nixdorf 15:23, 19 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Data Management Wiki Committee

Thank you for your contribution to one, or more, articles that are now organized under Data management.

Because of your previous intrest, you are recieving an invitation to become a founding member of the Data Management Wiki Committee.

The members, of course, will form and solidify the purpose, rules, officers, etc. but my idea (to kick things off) is to establish a group of us who will take responsiblity to see that the ideas of Data management are promoted and well represented in Wikipedia articles.

If you are willing to join the committee, please go to Category_talk:Data_management and indicate your acceptance of this invitation by placing your three tilde characters in the list.

KeyStroke 01:15, 2004 Sep 25 (UTC)

Wop May

Just wanted you to know that I greatly enjoyed your article on Wop May, which I found while hitting the Random Page link. Good stuff. --Neschek 14:57, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)

X-Pounders

I saw your recent articles on the 25-pounder and 18-pounder, quite impressive. Keep up the good work! Oberiko 12:58, 14 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Spelling

Hi! Please note that the German company is DaiMLer, not DaiLMer. I've had to correct a considerable number of "Dailmer-Benz DB 60X"s in various articles. -- Paul Richter 13:19, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Ingrown toenails

Thanks...I didn't even realize it had made the front page. Peeling a nail in that sense is when you clip the corner(s) of a nail down extremely short and/or sort of "peel" a sliver of the nail off down the side. When this happens, it tends to grow back improperly- I speak from personal experience, unfortunately, as it lead to my own ingrown toenails (prompting me to write the article). Perhaps this is something I should fit into the article itself if it's too unclear- Opinions? Reene (リニ) 17:22, 29 Oct 2004 (UTC)

AppleLink origins

[3]: 1992 posting: "AppleLink uses a Mac-Finder style front-end to Geisco, which is "normally" a main-frame-style UI (similar to "rn", but worse :-). The user sees a number of bulletin board icons which can be opened by double-clicking to reveal yet more boards etc. I have an AppleLink account and can demo this. There's no reason why something similar can't be done for netnews. Sak Wathanasin Network Analysis Limited, 178 Wainbody Ave South, Coventry CV3 6BX, UK

[4] : "In 1985, Apple debuted AppleLink. AppleLink was the first online service to feature Apple's graphics-based interface. AppleLink grew out of an earlier effort in 1984. The Apple II-based "Apple Shared Knowledge" was developed in order to reduce the expense of supporting the company's worldwide network of dealers. John Ebbs, Apple's head of support, convinced management that this network should be Mac-based to take advantage of the Mac's superior graphical interface. AppleLink's "desktop metaphor" turned out to be as revolutionary as the Mac itself (Linzmayer 115).... While originally AppleLink was intended to be a bulletproof dealer reference/support system, it quickly turned into the de facto email system for Apple and its dealers. The system was maintained as a joint venture between Apple and GE.... Apple enlisted the help of Quantum Computer Services to port AppleLink first to the Apple II and later to the Mac platform. At the time, Quantum Computer Services was running a small online service for Commodore computer users called QuantumLink (Linzmayer 116)... Apple pulled support for AppleLink--Personal Edition, but compensated Quantum by providing support to complete the Mac beta and bring it to market. In October 1991, Quantum renamed itself America Online and opened up itself to everyone" [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith (talk)]] 13:22, 9 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Re "no mean feat:" I don't remember the name of the product—it may have been CIS Navigator—but a clever programmer managed to wrap a quite-decent Mac-based GUI wrapper around CompuServe's text-based service back when, when, when... well, it must have been when I was still using Compuserve. Probably the late 1980s. Yep, this 1988 USENET posting says "After purchasing CIS Navigator, and oohing and aahing for awhile, I was inspired to write a similar mac interface to unix accounts. For those who haven't seen Navigator, it acts as an offline front end for compuserve, letting you specify in a maclike fashion what you want to do, and when you want the on-line session to take place." It was particularly interesting because it was optimized to reduce connect time and save money, at a time when "CI$" charged by the hour. [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith (talk)]] 23:54, 9 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Adminship

I have nominated you for adminship. Please accept. uc 14:39, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Image:Trident three.jpg

Thanks for uploading Image:Trident three.jpg. I notice it currently doesn't have an image copyright tag. You mentioned that the picture is "courtesy Stefano Pagiola", but I need to know if Stefano has released the picture into the public domain, or whether he consented to releasing the picture under the Wikipedia Copyright (the GFDL)? If you could let me know, I'd appreciate it. Thanks so much, – Quadell ^{(talk) (help)}[[]] 21:18, Nov 15, 2004 (UTC)

Adminship again

Hi Maury.

I would like to draw attention to the fact that I nominated you for adminship several days ago, as I noted above here on your talk page. I would hope you would accept and belive that your extensive background with the project would make you an ideal person to possess the additional capabilities adminship entails. If you would prefer not to be nominated, then I apologize for my forwardness and hope you continue to make great contributions to the project. Whether you choose to accept the nomination or not, please make you wishes known on the nomination page. Thanks, The Uninvited Co., Inc. 23:28, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Hi Maury, to reiterate what UC said above: you have been proposed as an admin, and the vote is now in progress. You MUST formally accept or reject this nomination under your entry on the voting page. If you do not indicate your choice, and the nomination is otherwise successful, it must nevertheless fail without your acceptance. You may also choose to answer the generic questions at the bottom of your nomination panel to give voters extra huidance. Thanks for taking care of this. Cordially, -- Cecropia | explains it all ® 22:34, 18 Nov 2004 (UTC)

You're an admin!

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 ® 16:43, 22 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Article Licensing

Hi, I've started the Free the Rambot Articles Project which has the goals of getting users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to...

1. ...all U.S. state, county, and city articles...
2. ...all articles...

using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) version 1.0 and 2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to the GFDL (which every contribution made to Wikipedia is licensed under), but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles (See the Multi-licensing Guide for more information). Since you are among the top 1000 most active Wikipedians, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles.

Nutshell: Wikipedia articles can be shared with any other GFDL project but open/free projects using the incompatible Creative Commons Licenses (e.g. WikiTravel) can't use our stuff and we can't use theirs. It is important to us that other free projects can use our stuff. So we use their licenses too.

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the {{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}} template (or {{MultiLicensePD}} for public domain) into their user page, but there are other templates for other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

Option 1

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

OR

Option 2

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to any [[U.S. state]], county, or city article as described below:

{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace {{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}} with {{MultiLicensePD}}. If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know at my talk page what you think. -- Ram-Man 18:07, Nov 30, 2004 (UTC)

Btrieve updated

Thought you might be interested. - Ta bu shi da yu 04:27, 8 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Unverified images

Hi! Thanks for uploading the following images:

• Image:Do_215.jpg
• Image:Do_17P-1.jpg
• Image:Do_17Z-10.jpg
• Image:Do_17Z-2.jpg

I notice it currently doesn't have an image copyright tag. Could you add one to let us know its copyright status? (You can use {{gfdl}} if you release it under the GNU Free Documentation License, {{fairuse}} if you claim fair use, etc.) If you don't know what any of this means, just let me know at my talk page where you got the images and I'll tag them for you. Thanks so much. [[User:Poccil|Peter O. (Talk, automation script)]] 04:55, Dec 11, 2004 (UTC)

P.S. You can help tag other images at User:Yann/Untagged_Images. Thanks again.

Also:

• Image:KIM-1.jpg
• Image:Kamal.png
• Image:Data General Super Nova.jpg RedWolf 17:34, Dec 26, 2004 (UTC)
• Image:Do 335A-0.jpg RedWolf 23:33, Dec 28, 2004 (UTC)

ATWT history

You asked Is there any reason History of ATWT:1990=2000 could not be included in the ATWT page?

User:JamesB3 was splitting out the histories from As The World Turns into new pages with no context at all. I just added a similar header to each new page. The 1990-2000 page hadn't been created yet, but I added the header with the hopes that James would add the text like he did with the others.

I don't really care if everything gets merged back to the original article, although that article did seem a bit too long before the split. --Key45 01:21, 21 Dec 2004 (UTC)

I decided not to wait for James to finish, and took the material which had gone totally missing from ATWT and put it into ATWT:1990-2000. I still don't mind if anyone wants to put it back. Or merge all the History of... articles into a single history article, seperate from the main article, simply to keep the article sizes reasonable. --Key45 01:31, 21 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Image ImageKoala Pad C64

Could you look at the description page for Image:Koala Pad C64.jpg and see if I interpreted its license properly in the copyright tag I put on it. Thanks. Kbh3rd 03:54, 22 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Image:Sud Aviation Caravelle.jpg

Thanks for uploading the above image, I have added an {{unverified}} tag to it. Can you please review and add the correct copyright tag. Thanks, Duk 06:20, 27 Dec 2004 (UTC)