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Blue Ant

Thanks - I'll take that as a compliment :) I had been wondering what that little critter was and saw the redlink, so just filled it in. Thanks for identifying it and giving the external links. Please feel free to expand the article if you have any further information or references. -- ALoan (Talk) 10:45, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Ago gratias

Thanks very much for your help with Grey's Anatomy. I see you haven't been here very long. Welcome aboard. I've done some work on television topics (see my monumental article Dawson's Creek), Ohio, the Supreme Court of the United States, and many other topics. (See User:PedanticallySpeaking/Articles for a list.) If I can be of help, please let me know. PedanticallySpeaking 18:08, Jun 16, 2005 (UTC)

Ident of pix on reference desk

Thanks for your help with the indentification of the photos - sorry I didn't say anything on the page, but I was away on work expereince for the last two weeks. --Fir0002 09:50, Jun 19, 2005 (UTC)

"fix reeeaaallly long line"

Sorry about that, I hadn't thought of other skins. Are there still skins that don't autoscrollbar preformatted text? --W(t) 00:07, 2005 Jun 23 (UTC)

Mmm, monobook does not have any decent auto stuff. Hopefully it will eventually. ¦ Reisio 00:10, 2005 Jun 23 (UTC)

Oh, it must be my user css then. Yes, so it is, how wicked of me. Add the following to your monobook.css to get proper overflow handling:

#bodyContent pre { border: 1px solid #aaa; overflow: auto; } 

--W(t) 00:12, 2005 Jun 23 (UTC)

Revert Template:Limitedgeographicscope?

Never has this template contained the image to which you reverted. What did you mean? -- Ec5618 14:13, July 10, 2005 (UTC)

Earth pic

Hello, I wonder what you mean by your edit [1] when you say its "not our job to fit a photograph to our expectations"...? My upload of the bigger image was not intended to fit anything to our expectations but instead to more accurately represent the true color of earth [2] than does the excessively red version currently in the article.--Deglr6328 02:38, 11 July 2005 (UTC)

thanks

thanks for telling me that flash cartoon. -Lethe | Talk 13:29, July 13, 2005 (UTC)

Bari sax

Great edits on the baritone saxophone article! Those were all areas that I felt were awkward, so thanks for your good eye. Badagnani 02:45, 17 July 2005 (UTC)

Good idea. I didn't know there was no Jazz Messengers article. Unfortunately I don't know much about them (I'm more into avant-garde jazz). There is also a great group called the Jazz Passengers. Badagnani 12:56, 28 July 2005 (UTC)

By the way, your name seems Finnish--is that right? Badagnani 04:37, 30 July 2005 (UTC)

I've always been interested in Finland and Finnish music and even sing a Finnish tango called "Satumaa" (I play accordion in a street music trio). Anyway, there is a Finnish composer called Mikko Heinio and somehow the arrangement of letters seemed similar to your screen name. Badagnani 04:45, 30 July 2005 (UTC)

How to Program a Computer (From WP:RD)

Thanks for your thoughtful response. hydnjo talk 15:39, 21 July 2005 (UTC)

Edinburgh Zoo

Hey reisio, many thanks for the input on this page, many improvements there. Any idea what I should do about the images I've uploaded given that the actual images names don't reflect the correct names? Is it a case of delete and upload or just update the description pages? In future I think I'll keep the image names a wee bit more generic... Cheers. SeanMack 08:00, 23 July 2005 (UTC)

The only image with a filename that's actually wrong (afaik) is the one for the Rockhopper penguins (which is currently labelled Emperor); the rest are just not as specific as they could be. It's no biggie, though, I've a perfect out...

Since you're licensing all these images with GFDL, just reupload them all to WikiMedia Commons (where they should be), and this time take care with their filenames. Replace the image links in the Edinburgh Zoo article with the new Commons images. Then toss the not-so-greatly-named ones here on en.wikipedia.org into a post @ Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion, saying that they're no longer being used and have been replaced/obsoleted by Commons images with better filenames - mention that you are the original uploader, too. ¦ Reisio 08:42, 2005 July 23 (UTC)

After you upload to Commons, we can add your great images to the separate articles for each animal, too. :) ¦ Reisio 08:47, 2005 July 23 (UTC)

Compliments will get you everywhere! I was planning to do that when I had the names sorted out. Dunno if you saw the request on the helpdesk or just came across the page? I have held off from uploading to commons as I have uploaded a fair amount of pictures to the wiki and if I start, I feel I would need to do them all. Unfortunatly i had uploaded a fair bit by the time I became aware of commons. Are you aware of any tools - admin or otherwise that would make it a bit faster? That way I wouldn't mind so much doing them all..... Cheers SeanMack 09:17, 23 July 2005 (UTC)

I saw it at WP:RD, yes. As for the fair bit of noncommons - there's no rush, take your time. You also don't _have_ to, it'd just be nice. Other people might even do it for you, eventually (if the licensing info is available/acceptable). I don't personally know of any tools - you might ask at WP:VP or #wikipedia on irc.freenode.net ¦ Reisio 10:05, 2005 July 23 (UTC)

Me again... "What is it now?" you say. Well I uploaded the rest of the decent shots I took that day and put them in the gallery - it may be overkill but the pics are there for other uses now if wanted by anyone. The problem is I can't identify the penguins again...East African grey crowned crane & Pygmy Hippo are correct, but the otyher two I'm unsure of. The official site doesn't actually note all the types of penguins they keep. Any ideas?

Best guess is that the one swimming is a Gentoo Penguin (not a lot to see in that photo, but the bright white on head makes it likely), and the other is a juvenile Yellow-eyed Penguin. ¦ Reisio 13:14, 2005 July 23 (UTC)

Once again many thanks for the help. As you indicated the underwater one is a bit of an ask though. I've sent an email to the PR rep at the zoo telling them that I can change any errors hopefully that should do it. All the best reisio, nice working with you. Regards SeanMack 14:35, 23 July 2005 (UTC)

Btw there's a two-year-old inventory list on their site [3], which supports the notion that they'd (still) have Gentoos. Yellow-eyed is still just my best guess for the other, but I think it's a pretty safe bet - compare Image:Penguin_Edinburgh_Zoo_2004_SMC.jpg with this image I found online. I also read that juveniles do have lighter heads like that (and a quick Google image search corroborates). Maybe some expert will stop by sometime and verify it. ¦ Reisio 21:27, 2005 July 23 (UTC)

Take Five

Image:Take_Five_introduction.png is superior for a variety of reasons. It is in the prefered format (.png), credits its predecessors, and it is supported by a citation. Hyacinth 21:17, 27 July 2005 (UTC)

Image:Take_five_intro.gif replaced Image:Take_Five_introduction.png, so there were predecessors. Image:Take_five_intro.gif does not contain accents, and its accuracy is not supported by citation. See: Wikipedia:Cite sources. Hyacinth 23:06, 28 July 2005 (UTC)

==Image:Take Five-piano intro.png==

Image deletion warning

Image:Take Five-piano intro.png has been listed at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion. If you feel that this image should not be deleted, please go there to voice your opinion.

Hyacinth 22:57, 11 August 2005 (UTC)

Grey's Anatomy and Jem

Salve, Reisio!
I don't believe I ever thanked you for responding to my question about Grey's Anatomy's music. I had asked on WP:RD if it possibly was the Swingle Singers and you suggested it was Jem. Having only today been able to listen to a music sample--I wasn't able to open the links you provided but went through Amazon.com's samples--you were correct. Thanks so very much. 66.213.119.98 23:20, 2 August 2005 (UTC) (aka User:PedanticallySpeaking)

Turning off sounds in Firefox

Thank you for the solution in the Reference Desk. Is there any reason why I should uninstall firefox, rather than just upgrade it? --Commander Keane 16:36, August 6, 2005 (UTC)

Sax family photo

Thanks for the reformatting. I'll check your code and see how you did it. Should the photo credit also appear in the caption on the main page or is it proper to only list it in the page you get when you click on the photo? Badagnani 20:48, 6 August 2005 (UTC)

Now I notice the photo in the saxophone article is back to the original uncropped photo from Jay Easton's site, with poor contrast. I did spend some time adjusting it so that it would work better in the article. Is the reason you changed it back because you objected to the cropping and contrast adjustment? Badagnani 21:03, 6 August 2005 (UTC)

I'm sure Jay will be amenable to saying whatever bureaucratic bs is necessary to get the photo up on the site. I'll email to ask him this, as you recommend. I used Auto Contrast (then about added about +10% in brightness and contrast above that) on PhotoShop because the shot seems to have been taken around dusk (notice that the walkway lights and streetlamps are lit). With the adjustment it looks more like daytime. I had cropped it so that the saxes would appear comparatively larger but the original photo's composition was quite nice with the buildings in the background. Could be fine to leave it uncropped if you'd prefer it that way. You can adjust as you see fit. Badagnani 21:19, 6 August 2005 (UTC)

Please let me know what exactly to ask Jay Easton and how he should respond so that we can post his response as proof of his proper licensing. Badagnani 21:20, 6 August 2005 (UTC)

OK, just asked him all. I assume that his emailed response stating which license he prefers will be sufficient? Badagnani 21:51, 6 August 2005 (UTC)

Just got the licensing permission from Jay Easton. Can you take it from here and add the proper license (with his stipulations)? Badagnani 23:55, 6 August 2005 (UTC)

Sorry, he spells them out in his email, which I added to the page for the photo itself (not sure if that's the best place for it; maybe I should remove the email addresses too, but I thought it would help so people are assured that his email is authentic. I think he wants the photographer credited and his website mentioned if someone wants to use the photo in the future. Badagnani 00:23, 7 August 2005 (UTC)

Reference desk

Hi there! I just wanted to let you know that the reference desk has a view all page here: WP:RD/A or WP:RD/ALL. These are shortcuts for Wikipedia:Reference desk/all. Check it out when you've got a spare moment! The orignal reference desk also has an new entry point. See WP:RD. --HappyCamper 16:01, 26 August 2005 (UTC)

Comparison of operating systems / SecuniBot

I think your version of the table layout looks cleaner than the current one. However, SecuniBot would have to be changed a little to work with it. I'd like to make those changes before the article is actually changed. I'll look into it this week. --K. Sperling (talk) 10:03, 28 August 2005 (UTC)

My user page

Hey. I noticed you fucking with my user page this morning.

Don't do that. You'll get blocked. NickBush24 00:18, August 29, 2005 (UTC)

Spam

Please do not re-add any more Omninerd spam. Dmcdevit·t 23:15, September 1, 2005 (UTC)

No, I can't see any justification for removing actual valid ecyclopedic content. That would be even worse. I don't see any content that actually novel enought to only be cited by that Omninerd website. As well, most things on Wikipedia are not totally cited, it's not a great solution, but in the short term, I'd rather have uncited information that have either less information, or spam. Dmcdevit·t 23:19, September 1, 2005 (UTC)

The references don't belong because they are to a non-notable, unreliabe, personal web page, and the references are added by the owner himself. Having those spam links there detract from our encyclopedia. Dmcdevit·t 00:36, September 2, 2005 (UTC)

Just try to see this hypothetical. What if someone adds information that appears to be helpful, and then cites their personal website? (What if it were like a Geocities one or something like that?) Obviously we wouldn't remove any helpful info, but we shouldn't keep an unreliable citation either. The two are not mutually exclusive. Dmcdevit·t 02:22, September 2, 2005 (UTC)

1. OmniNerd is not a personal web page. 2. I am not the owner. 3. Any claims of reliability or notability are completely unsupported. 4. The fact that Dmcdevit opposed the removal of the content from these article is evidence of their value. 5. Information left without a citation is a copyright violation.

As I've said elsewhere, you can't have your cake and eat it, too. If the sites want to keep the content from the OmniNerd articles, then they will need to be cited. Uriah923 03:27, 2 September 2005 (UTC)

Capitalization

Concerning this edit, why did you capitalize the second word while your edit description links to the very policy you are violating? —Wahoofive (talk) 15:48, 16 September 2005 (UTC)

Dates

You can't use the suffixes "st", "rd", & "th" with Wikified dates; for people with preferences set to non-U.S. formats, they look a mess (I see them, for example, as "27 Marchth", etc.). --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 22:41, 16 September 2005 (UTC)

Origin of Lunar Linux

I must disagree with lunar not having an origin because it is based on another distribution. Many other distributions are based on other distributions, such as Ubuntu, Knoppix, and CentOS. The project started in the US, thus to me, that's where Lunar's origin is, and I'm sure this is how many other distribution's origins are figured. If the origin column were so specific to only be for distributions not based on others, it would become quite useless just because so many distributions are forks of other distributions. That of course, is just my opinion, and being a lunar developer myself I'm sure I'm a bit biased, but if it is to be enforced on lunar, it should be enforced on all forks. -- Striker 22:28, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

I don't see how debating where all the project's developers were from counts for anything. That can be stated for any distribution as well...I would imagine hardly any distributions have one single location for its developers, not to mention that other distributions based on a previous one will be from the same location. Ubuntu is a fine example of this, since it's based on debian which has developers world-wide. Lunar was forked by Chuck Mead under his new project based in the US, on US servers, thus the origin is the US. -- Striker 23:32, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

Why are you enforcing this only on the Lunar Linux project, and not all the other distributions listed? Can I not also ask where exactly every developer for a particular distribution was from and find out that some developers lived abroad in other countries? I fail to see the point in your argument that all developers from one line of distributions must all live in one location for it to count as an origin. Everything has an origin, even if it's based on prior work and not all developers lived in the same location. -- Striker 00:33, 27 September 2005 (UTC)

Time Out (album)

1. The line appears in many other articles; Wikipedia's a big place.
2. Even if it were "abnormal", that's not a good ground for insisting on deleting it.
3. I've discussed this with other editors at appropriate pages, and no-one objected. --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 08:12, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

If you continue to revert this, and to ignore my message, I shall have to assume that you are editing in bad faith, and treat your edits as vandalism. --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 21:25, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

All I had was a peculiar edit summary, which you simply repeated, without acknowledging my message. As to your claim, I suspect that you simply haven't noticed the "hr"s — there are many of them used in this way. I prefer not to give examples, as I don't want to see you remove them. They serve to separate the (irrelevant) dablink section from the article. You seem to be removing it as a matter of personal taste. Consistency is not a good enough reason; aside from anything else, when two things are inconsistent, a decision has to be made as to which should be made consistent with which; your apparently arbitrary decision isn't good enough. --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 22:13, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

I'm taking the article to RfC. --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 20:45, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

Mel

Hi, I'm Anittas. We should talk about Al Capone aka Mel. Please add me to your MSN: [email protected] --Anittas 23:40, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

trombone and recorder

Yep, i play trombone and recorder. Just not at the same time :)

Maracaibo Basin

Thanks for the map showing the outline of the Maracaibo Basin. It nicely complements the developing related article on Lake Maracaibo which has a simple map as well. Crubins 11:35, 18 October 2005 (UTC)

non-rhotic map

Hi, your replacement map Image:Non rhotic-whites-usa.png looks good, but it duplicates an error I made in Image:Rdropping.JPG, namely that Charleston, SC is marked as nonrhotic instead of Savannah, GA. If you look at the original map I mentioned at Image talk:Rdropping.JPG you'll see Savannah has several nonrhotic speakers and Charleston rather few. Thanks! --Angr/_{tɔk tə mi} 08:52, 20 October 2005 (UTC)

I didn't find any licensing info, but I can't say I really looked either. I thought the original maps were probably too confusing for the average user, and that a simpler map was in order. If you want to convert the other maps I made in this "series", Image:GeneralAmerican.JPG, Image:Wh-w.jpg, Image:Pinpen.JPG, Image:Cot-caught.jpg, go right ahead. --Angr/_{tɔk tə mi} 10:17, 20 October 2005 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for keeping my fact on the Alto Saxophone page. I thought it was the number marked inches, guess not. I thought someone would have deleted it in a heart beat, but you fixed it.Rhetoricalwater 17:23, 5 November 2005 (UTC)

How to spell UNIX?

http://web.greens.org/about/unix.html

Just, you read "The Bell Labs documentation was very careful to always spell UNIX in all capital letters, and small caps whereever possible.", so UNIX is UNIX, Unix and unix are just incorrect forms just too used.

Please revert all of your edits.

—Claunia 18:31, 5 November 2005 (UTC)

The Unix expertise of an organization on Green parties that apparently pays so much attention to detail that their HTML could've been assembled by a five-year-old, and the fact that they refer to "MULTICS" (which was of course "Multics" [they even link 'MULTICS' to a site that uses only 'Multics']), et al. aside, please read Talk:Unix#UNICS vs UNIX.

I will not be reverting my edits and anyone categorically reverting them will naturally get an RfC, as that would obviously be a colossal waste of many peoples' time (on top of being wrong). ¦ Reisio 19:56, 5 November 2005 (UTC)

So you know how to spell UNIX better than the creators and the copyright holders? —Claunia 21:37, 5 November 2005 (UTC)

If you've read Talk:Unix#UNICS vs UNIX, you know that Dennis Ritchie, a co-creator of Unix, has acknowledged that it was originally "Unix". Others associated also use "Unix" and while I haven't personally seen a good quote of Thompson saying "It's 'Unix'", logic suggests his view is in accordance with theirs. Clearly, though, when you referred to "the creators", you meant Bell Labs and AT&T, who did mostly use "UNIX" (at least after 1974). Nowadays, due to idiotic legalities, "UNIX" is only what The Open Group says it is and nothing more, but "Unix" was, is and always shall be the OS in general. All that aside, I almost certainly know more about how to spell it than the copyright holders - they care about their bottom lines, and I am a pedant. ¦ Reisio 22:42, 5 November 2005 (UTC)

Please note that, for example, Apple and FreeBSD both use "UNIX". [4] [5] AlistairMcMillan 22:00, 5 November 2005 (UTC)

...and NetBSD's front page says "Unix". Good thing Wikipedia isn't run by Apple or FreeBSD, eh? :) Mac OS X is also of course based on FreeBSD, so saying 'Apple _and_ FreeBSD' doesn't mean much. The original BSD seems likely to have been for a Unix whose official name used "UNIX" (not "Unix"), so it's probably only natural that they would use "UNIX". ¦ Reisio 23:16, 5 November 2005 (UTC)

Naming conventions

Standard naming conventions (including Wikipedia's) are to leave article and prepositions uncapitalised, even if the book or record publishers present them otherwise. After all, the CD of "Time Out" also capitalises "to" (though the LP cover didn't). It's true that most internet sources follow the CD cover, though some (e.g., [6] & [7]) don't. I've seen both versions in printed sources, depending on the style manual used by the publishers involved.

I don't have any other recording of "Pick up Sticks"*; do you know if anyone else has covered it? (I'm afraid that I have to admit that I catalogue my jazz recordings in terms of leaders, musicians, sides, etc., so that I have a listing of different versions. The most is "Body and Soul", predictably enough (21) with "A Night in Tunisia" a close second (19). And I don't own an anorak...) --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 21:14, 9 November 2005 (UTC)

I'm not following you. It's a song name; "Pick Up Sticks", period. I see nothing in the manual of style that suggests the "U" should be lowercase. Could you link to what you're talking about? ¦ Reisio 22:59, 9 November 2005 (UTC)

I'm not sure where it is in the MoS (I'll look), but the convention is pretty standard (Chicago, Hart's Rules, etc.) that in titles, articles and prepositions aren't capitalised (some manuals specify prepositions under four letters). This isn't a matter of its original usage, or preference of the original publisher, but of the style of the publication in which it's cited. thus some publishers ignore any such convention, and capitalise everything (they'd print "Three To Get Ready" and "Pick Up Sticks") while others follow the convention, and capitalise neither "to" not "up". Wikipedia, as has been discussed in many places (and if I can remember or find where, I'll link to them) follows the latter. --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 23:06, 9 November 2005 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Manual of Style (titles) is the obvious place, but it doesn't mention the convention (though all its examples follow it). I've requested help on its Talk page. --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 23:12, 9 November 2005 (UTC)

Chicago MoS changed their rule: if a preposition is used adverbially, then it is capitalized. "Pick Up Sticks" should be that way, as should "Pump Up the Volume". But, for example, "Stand on the Shore" would not be capitalized. An explanation from the Chicago MoS Q&A: "An opposite problem was encountered with our own publication of the novel A River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean (yes, the lowercase “l” is how he spelled his name). According to our rules at the time, “through,” a preposition, would not get a capital “t” in titles. Somebody here wisely objected to this, so we capitalized it. We've since added an exception for prepositions that are stressed or used adjectivally or adverbially." -- ChrisB 20:57, 27 November 2005 (UTC)

Help with svg version of Image:Switzerland coat of arms.png

Hi, I've noticed that folks (e.g. Li-sung) on cs.wiki began replacing png images with svg ones. Could you help me with creating an svg version of Image:Switzerland coat of arms.png ? Would be based on your Image:Confoederatio Helvetica-coat.svg but the cross is some 90% of the one in your image, so it appears as I am used to over here in Switzerland – compare e.g. Švýcarsko and [8])?
Thanks, best regards, wiki-vr 21:58, 27 November 2005 (UTC)

"Swiss" red and thanks:-)

Hi and thanks for the img (Swiss COA)!
The correct color of Swiss insignia (flag, coat of arms, etc.), the "Swiss" red is:

• Pantone PMS 485
• CMYK : 15 C / 88 M / 98 Y / 0 K (according to my graphic editor's chart of PMS 485)

wiki-vr 10:06, 28 November 2005 (UTC)

PS - I have found out, by asking around, that there is not one Swiss red... wiki-vr 12:55, 28 November 2005 (UTC)

"Swiss" red (II)

The "Swiss" red is not defined, so a "simple" bright red is used: CMYK : C 0 / M 100 / Y 100 / K 0 or a bit "hued" one: CMYK : C 2 / M 94 / Y 91 / K 0 or a less bright one: Pantone : PMS 485 corresponds to CMYK : C 15 / M 88 / Y 98 / K 0 or a darker red: CMYK : C 0 / M 91 / Y 100 / K 23 or a bit darker one: Pantone : PMS 1805 corresponds to CMYK : C 31 / M 85 / Y 85 / K 0 It may look like if the bright folks prefer the bright colors... external link: PMS

above: some of the Swiss red varieties

"Swiss" red (III)

A particular hue of red you came across more often than any others? Oh yes, that's simply the simple bright red one, all other are much less used. –wiki-vr 14:07, 28 November 2005 (UTC)

Re: Ya, I was just curious if there was a particular hue of red you came across more often than any others. ¦ Reisio 13:02, 28 November 2005 (UTC)

What's wrong with that?

[9] —why? --tyomitch 13:14, 3 December 2005 (UTC)

A tiny list of distributions at the bottom of a gigantic list of distributions? It's completely redundant. ¦ Reisio 13:16, 3 December 2005 (UTC)

Cf. Template:History of Windows at the bottom of History of Microsoft Windows --tyomitch 13:23, 3 December 2005 (UTC)

That is an article on the history of something with a list of software packages at the bottom, not a list of software packages with a list of software packages at the bottom. ¦ Reisio 13:26, 3 December 2005 (UTC)

flag copyright icon

If you are interested, I made a 3D renderization of the previous one which you can use: Image:Flag-iconcopyright3.png--Fallout boy 07:45, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

I think the black/white one you've added to the template is for the best. ¦ Reisio 08:09, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

Hi

Hi. I like Image:Pdnbtn.png, thanks for making it :-) --Unforgettableid | talk to me 09:14, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

Swiss motto

Hi, sorry for having updated the Switzerland page before the talk page. It has now been corrected; although I guess you must be watching it anyway so you have probably already noticed it. Schutz 23:24, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

Talk:Switzerland

dab didn't delete, he moved. You have now deleted some of his comments. I think you'd better clean that up yourself. If I start doing it, we'd be bound to get edit conflicts :-) Lupo 13:44, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks, fixed. :) ¦ Reisio 13:51, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

Brazil Flag

I agree in releasing it to Public Domain ;)

Kudos. :) I have updated the information. ¦ Reisio 17:43, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

OrphanBot commenting

The commenting is unnecessary and adds newlines to articles. The edit summary should suffice. ¦ Reisio 23:12, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

Could you give an example of the bot adding an unneccessary newline to an article? --Carnildo 22:02, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thanatos&diff=prev&oldid=33448617 ¦ Reisio 00:08, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

Cut Stinkhorn 'egg'

Your revert of my edit was wrong. The photo shows one stinkhorn 'egg' which has been cut in half. Strobilomyces 14:26, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

Web page vs. web page

I don't get it, in How to spell UNIX? you say you are a pedant. So then why would you revert my correction of "web page" to "Web page", since "Web" is referring to the World Wide Web, not a generic web? [10] Well you got the Unix thing right. --DylanW 08:40, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

Since the beginning, "web" has existed with a generic, non-proper lower case "w" - indeed overshadowing any capitalized "Web"s - http://www.w3.org/History/19921103-hypertext/hypertext/WWW/News/. It'd probably be nice to use "Web page" the first time it's mentioned, but using it throughout is goofy-looking at present and would have been in the past, too. ¦ Reisio 11:50, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

Swiss motto

Is there any reason you continue to implement your preferred "none" version against the opinion of at least two other editors (Schutz and myself)? Lupo 13:30, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

Didn't see your self-revert. :-/ Lupo 13:31, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

And missed that it was only partial, so my question stands... Lupo 13:32, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

If I had to guess, Schutz added the footnote at least partially because of me [11] - I just took it another step. As for the question in general, it is not "the motto of Switzerland" - instead of saying "this is the motto of Switzerland (footnote: ...except it's not, here's why)", it makes more since to just say "there is no motto, though some people have associated {phrase} as such". ¦ Reisio 13:43, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

This is going too far, I think. Given the amount of documentation that has been found and linked to, simply writing "Motto: None", even with a footnote, is misleading. And there is a huge gap between saying "It is not official, but traditional" and "... is sometimes associated ...". Schutz 13:55, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

Well I don't have a map showing the area it's recognized and isn't. Unus pro omnibus, omnes pro uno#Motto of Switzerland claims it's mostly a French thing, and that doesn't exactly constitute a majority. My edit, I think, makes it both not incorrect and likely to not be altered every week by random users. Consider this: would you rather have someone associate you with something you may not be associated with (and are not legally associated with), then claim maybe you aren't, or have someone not associate you with something you may not be associated with, then claim maybe you are. ¦ Reisio 14:42, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

Western Sahara

Hi, I reverted the flags you placed on Western Sahara. we already settled that there wouldnt be flags on the western sahara page after a huge argument. See Wikipedia:Western Sahara Infobox/Vote thanks -- Astrokey44|talk 23:41, 24 January 2006 (UTC)