User talk:Akamad/Archive02

This is the archives from December 27, 2005 to January 24, 2006. Please do not edit this page, please write any new comments on my current talk page. Thank you :-)

Anon comment

go fuck yourself —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.4.218.101 (talk • contribs) 09:09, January 19, 2006.

This message was posted here because I reverted the blanking of this user's talk page (blanking which, they themselves did). - Akamad 09:26, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

Air Force Enlisted Forums

Hello, you have tagged the page AFD and this is 100% nonsense, me as a contributor to the site of what you say is copyrighted,that I have full rights of the information and photos, I put on the wikipedia page. There is no need for your AFD.

Philip —the preceding signed comment is by Philip1488 (talk • contribs) 20:21, January 15, 2006

Hi. Please note that I did not list that article to be deleted. It was added here, but another user deleted the notification here, which is against policy. So I readded it here. The reason it was nominated to be deleted is not because of the copyright issues, but rather because it might not be notable enough to have a Wikipedia article. If you feel the article should be kept, please state so on the AFD page.

With regards to the copyright, unfortunately, we can't take your word when you state that you own the copyrights. The forum pages currently say "Copyright ©2000 - 2006, phpPortals. All Rights Reserved", since there is no mention of the text and images being released either under the GFDL or equivalent license, or for use on Wikipedia, we have to assume that we cannot use it.

Thanks. - Akamad 01:20, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Yes we are in disagreement... But thanks for the welcome Firebalt 05:19, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

Are you from Australia

G'day!

Just a few questions for you.Kidly answer them.

1.Are you Australian 2.Are you tamil? (Nii Tamizh Paesuvaya?) 3.If you are tamil, please answer my second question in tamil.

Thank you and have a nice day

—the preceding unsigned comment is by 165.21.154.117 (talk • contribs) 09:37, December 28, 2005

1. Yes (well born in Sri Lanka, but moved here in 1992)

2. No, I am Sinhalese

Why the curiosity? :-)

Akamad ^{Happy new year!} 09:42, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

Reply :Im surprised that a sinhalese knows a lot about tamil stuff. By the way, im from melbourne and im the one who asked the question!Well done anyway!—the preceding unsigned comment is by 165.21.154.109 (talk • contribs) 12:02, December 28, 2005 (UTC)

To be honest, I don't know that much about Tamil stuff, if I edited any Tamil related pages, it's most likely whilst I was on recent changes patrol. I'm a Canberran by the way :-) - Akamad ^{Happy new year!} 12:03, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

Hi its me again!I just wanted to ask how canberaa is.Is canberra like sydney? Does it have tall buildings? Im just interested as i am planning to go there next month. —the preceding unsigned comment is by 165.21.154.110 (talk • contribs) 05:22, December 29, 2005

I wouldn't say it's the most exciting town around, especially in comparison to Sydney and Melbourne. Only a population of somewhere near 350 000 (compared to the 4.2 million in Sydney). It doesn't have many tall buildings at all. Did you have a look at the Canberra article? - Akamad ^{Happy new year!} 05:28, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

Hear you go, for all the tourist stuff. - Akamad ^{Happy new year!} 05:35, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

Hi its me again.I saw the page on Canberra.Looks quite interesting to me!Ill check it out on Google Earth. —the preceding unsigned comment is by 165.21.154.113 (talk • contribs) 07:30, December 29, 2005 (UTC)

My talk page

Thanks for clearing that up :) - FrancisTyers 10:36, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

HOOTERS

Sorry for vandalizing Hooters. Jim16 07:55, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

Just remember that we are trying to keep the articles serious. All the best. - Akamad ^{Happy new year!} 10:00, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

Rv Vandalism

Thanks!

On my userpage, Thank you--R.D.H. (Ghost In The Machine) 19:25, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for reverting twice! :)--Shanel 21:34, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the comment

Thanks! I didn't expect to get any messages like this on my first day. I find vandel hunting quick enjoyable personally. You've got the humor of thier feeble attempts and the race between other people to revert first. Thanks! I noticed on this page your a member of the counter vandelism unit, can anyone join that? - iGod 11:25, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

You certainly can. Check out WP:CVU, though there is nothing really fancy or special about it. They do, however, provide some great tools for vandal fighting, including my favourite CryptoDerk's Vandal Fighter. Out of curiosity, how were you spotting vandalism before? - Akamad ^{Happy new year!} 11:29, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

Right now i'm equipt with CryptoDerks VF which I found on an admins userpage and the godmode lite script for the rollback button. I don't know how people survive with just refreshing RC. VF is the way to go. - iGod 11:31, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

Contributions from new users

Just wanted to thank you for putting Special:Contributions/newbies onto the WP:WC page. Neat tool that I hadn't seen before. I'm going to start using it; it's been too long since I worked with newcomers much. Isomorphic 10:44, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

Not a problem. I don't actually know how I found that page, but either way, I do agree it's very handy. - Akamad ^{Happy new year!} 11:33, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

Jiroft

Thanx. I suspected it was copyrighted stuff. It sounded too "report"ish.--Zereshk 00:01, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

Not a problem. That anon user seems to have added more copyvio here. - Akamad 00:03, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

barbara davidson

Dear Akamad; Thank you for the gracious note. My main question has to do with how to reference ("Cite") sources. I don't see many examples in other text that make sense to me.

I to was curious about your name. I spent three summers and six months in 2001-2002 doing phd fieldwork in thailand, and i would have sworn your last name looked thai. of course, sri lankan buddhist missionaries were responsible for buddhism's introduction into thailand, and other important aspects of their culture as well--the pali script they write with eg. please do give me some general pointers on how to include references in text.

thanks much, barbara davidson —the preceding unsigned comment is by 216.137.65.32 (talk • contribs) 02:22, January 4, 2006 (UC)

There are many ways to cite sources. This url provides all the information you will need on how to do it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Cite_sources

In general, if you are referencing a website, it's easiest to simply put the url of the source in brackets:

eg: Bob Dylan was born on the 24th of May, 1941. [http://www.who2.com/bobdylan.html]

Which produces text that looks like this:

Bob Dylan was born on the 24th of May, 1941. [1]

I think one of the best uses of references that I have seen on Wikipedia is the Columbine massacre article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbine_High_School_massacre

Throughout the text, they provide footnote references (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Footnote).

In general, people aren't too picky about the style of referencing, so long as the source is given.

Hope this helps, once again, please feel free to ask any questions you may have (you know where to find me).

And by the way, I am of Sri Lankan origin (Buddhist), but currently reside in Australia.

Akamad 02:59, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

Introduction for Atmospheric Reentry

Dear Akamad;

You're right, "atmospheric reentry" article needs an introduction. Now I have to figure out a nice snappy intro that doesn't use any jargon.

Also, another person mentioned that I've been making too many edits and the history data base has gotten rather large. Could you or someone else purge the atmospheric reentry history of old edits? One week of history is good enough. Thanks!

Egg plant 03:15, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

Unfortunately, it is not possible for normal users to delete entries in the article history. In fact only the systems developers (see: m:Developer) at the Wikimedia Foundation can remove specific edits from the history, and this is only done in extreme cases. - Akamad 03:23, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

On a side note: I only recall one such incident (though I'm sure there has been more) when specific edits have been deleted form the history, and that was during the John Seigenthaler Sr. Wikipedia biography controversy. - Akamad 03:28, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks Akamad

Hello Akamad. Thank you for the welcome and the instructions on how to begin to navigate. I have been using Wikipedia for some time now and decided it was time I made some contributions to it. Right now I am trying to navigate the sight to find out in what ways I can do this. My work is in Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy; my fascination is with many things. Thank you again. Michael David 14:08, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

You're welcome. Have you had a look at the medicine WikiProject? I haven't really looked there myself, but perhaps there is something there for you. - Akamad 19:24, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

Question

Thanks for the advice regarding the medical group, Ill try it.

Question: Your response to my message appeared to be indented under mine. How did you do that?Michael David 20:11, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

Simply put a ":" before the text.

eg:

:testing

will produce:

testing

Akamad 22:54, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks. By the way, I made three attempts to log on to the site this time, and each time I got this HUGE, FULL-SCREEN message that Wikipedia was experiencing techincal problems. I thought: here I am a 'newbie' and already I've screwed up the whole site. My history contains the disorder of being 'techincally challenged' (especially where computers are concerned). However, with the patience of others, I will perservere. Michael David 23:32, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, Wikipedia suffers from a lot of technical difficulties at times, due to the heavy traffic it gets these days. Patience is the key. - Akamad 23:44, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

About the Time

�HU? ]?gain. I don't mean to appoint you my Wiki technical advisor, but there are some things about the site for which I can't seem to find answers.

Like this: My Watchlist contains the time entered. It appears in 'military time'. I just made an edit to an article and the time appeared as 00:00 January 5! THAT'S TOMORROW in my reality zone. Help me to understand this. Michael David 00:13, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

Firstly, don't worry about asking too many questions...I am more than happy to help. To answer your question, the times are given with respect to the UTC (formerly GMT), which is the time in the London timezone. I imagine you live somewhere in the US, thus your time will be behind the UTC. You can change the way the times are displayed in the watchlist by going to your preferences at the top right of the page, and going to "Date and time". - Akamad 00:48, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

Placing a drawing into my User Page

It's me again. I have a drawing in Sanskrit I would like to place at the top of my User Page (like your Smiley Face). How do I go about accomplishing this? I would appreciate any help you can give me. Michael David 13:43, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

Vanessa Mae Stuff

Hey is the guy that made the mess with the copiritgh contenid - -" I understand that is wrong to only copy the text and paste it cuz is like sloling they work, aniways i think im starting to re-write the articles with my own words i hope you agree with this and finally end with these articles becouze im on the top - -" Aniways thanks. —the preceding unsigned comment is by Necronizer (talk • contribs) 18:51, January 6, 2006 (UTC)

Accomplished it!!

Hi.

After much trial and error I found the very graphic I wanted to insert right here in Wikipedia itself. Michael David 23:34, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

Started new page!

Hi,

I just started my first new page. It's an entry for Robert Sanderson McCormick. How about going to that entry and telling me how I did. I would appreciate your input. Thanks. —the preceding unsigned comment is by Michael David (talk • contribs) 15:19, January 8, 2006 (UTC)

That's some great work on the article! The only this missing now are categories. You will notice on the William Sanderson McCormick article for example, the categories at the bottom of the page, such as "People from Virginia" and "1815 births". You can add the appropriate categories by browsing through Wikipedia:Browse. More info is given here. But other than that, nice work, keep it up! I guess if you have the time, you can write about his son too. - Akamad 19:34, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

Categories

Hi,

I added the Categories I thought were appropriate. I tried to include a Category "United States Ambassadors" but I was told, upon saving the page, that there was on such Category. What are your thoughts? Michael David 22:06, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

The one you were looking for was Category:Ambassadors of the United States. I added it to the article. - Akamad 01:38, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

Categories

Hi,

I am going to complete the McCormick clan entries. In doing the research I have found they were quite a diverse group. Each of the entries will require several Category references. For example, one (Joseph Medill McCormick) was a member of the US Congress and eventually committed suicide (sounds like he needed a good therapist!).

My question is this: where do I go to find a list of existing Categories such as the one you entered for me? Michael David 20:09, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

There are two methods to finding the categories:

1. Go to Wikipedia:Browse and browse your way through to find the appropriate category.
2. Google. eg: googling united states senators wikipedia category will get you Category:United States Senators as your first result.

The categories are in the form of a tree heirarchy, but each category can have more than one parent category. For example Category:United States Senators has Category:Members of the United States Congress, Category:United States Senate and Category:Categories by state of the United States as parents. The parent categories are listed at the bottom of the page.

Akamad 01:23, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

Anon editor

Excuse me, but I AM a real person. I live in Pennsylvania and I am angry at you. GO EAT A FACE!!!!! >.< ~Emily Henry —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 151.205.243.48 (talk • contribs) 14:19, January 10, 2006 (UTC).

My only response is ??? - Akamad 19:16, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

No scratch that, I figured it out, it's because I nominated the article on Emily Henry to be deleted: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Emily Henry. The result of the debate was delete. - Akamad 19:21, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

My apologies for assuming that you are not a real person, but I stand by my nomination for deletion. - Akamad 08:49, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

Yes, this is the REAL Emily Mariah Henry. I don't appreciate you deleting the article about me. I think you are an extremely rude person who should go and try and learn some manners about deleting and adding onto articles on a encyclopedia. Good day. ~EMH —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 151.205.243.48 (talk • contribs) 14:17, January 13, 2006 (UTC).

I didn't delete it, I nominated it to be deleted and the Wikipedia community decided to delete it. - Akamad 01:06, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

Whatever. That still doesn't change what you did. Accusing me that I am not real. HA!! ~EMH —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Killer Queen09 (talk • contribs) 02:55, January 24, 2006.

I already apologised and shall do so again for stating you were not a real person. - Akamad 06:18, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

"Click Here"

Hi again,

Please tell me how I can place a "Click Here If You Want to Leave a Message for Me" (or something similiar) on my User & Talk Pages. Michael David 01:53, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

The code I use for my message is this:

<div id="talk" style="border: 1px solid #CC9; margin: 0em 1em 0em 1em; text-align: center; padding:5px; clear: both; background-color: #C8CDE0"> ''Welcome to my talk page! Please sign and date your entries by inserting '''--~~~~''' at the end of your post.''<br> ''Do note that I will be replying to your messages on your user talk page as well as this page. Thank you! :-)''<br> '''[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Akamad&action=edit&section=new Start a new talk topic.]''' </div>

(Remember to change the URL so it has your username instead of mine)

If you ever come across something on a page and you want to know how it was done. The quickest way would be to click "edit this page" and have a look at the code. - Akamad 02:03, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

Tildes

Hi,

Thanks for the codes. The problem I'm having in inserting it is this: when I type the sentence, "Please sign and date your entries by typing four tildes at the end of your post." in the final product the tildes read as my user code and read-out that way. How do I type the four tildes to read as merely text? Michael David 14:14, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

A painless thought

It's me again,

I hope you don't bill for your hours!

I just had a thought (and it didn't hurt a bit).

What I would really like to do when someone wants to leave me a message is to have them click on the Cuneiform 'Freedom' graphic. With a simple welcome message & directions where to click. Michael David 14:50, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

My apologies, this should work:

<div id="talk" style="border: 1px solid #CC9; margin: 0em 1em 0em 1em; text-align: center; padding:5px; clear: both; background-color: #C8CDE0"> ''Welcome to my talk page! Please sign and date your entries by inserting '''<nowiki>"- ~~~~"</nowiki>''' at the end of your post.''<br> ''Do note that I will be replying to your messages on your user talk page as well as this page. Thank you! :-)''<br> '''[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User talk:Michael David&action=edit&section=new Start a new talk topic.]''' </div>

The difference is the use of the "nowiki" tags, like so: <nowiki>"- ~~~~"</nowiki>, this will produce text that looks like this: "- ~~~~"

About your question on using the freedom image as a link. This can be done, but is definately not recommended. It can be done by redirecting the image page to your talk page. But like I said, it is strongly discouraged. This question was asked a couple of times on the help desk (here and here). Once again, don't worry about asking too many questions, like it says on the top of my talk page, I am more than happy to help users out :-) Akamad 19:40, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

Problems with code

Hi,

I entered the code you sent and it seems to have some problems.

It shows more text before 'Start New Topic' than I want. & when you click on it it takes you to the definiton of 'User'

How about going to my User Page & see your yourself.

Thanks for all of your time here, I really appreciate it. Michael David 00:54, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

I think I have fixed it now, the problem was that there was spaces in the URL I wrote instead of underscores (ie: it said "user talk:Michael David" instead of "user_talk:Michael_David"). - Akamad 01:04, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

THANK YOU!!!

THANK YOU!

Be healthy!! Michael David 04:19, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

You're welcome! :-) Akamad 05:56, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thanks for reverting the vandalism on my page (and updating the vandal count too! --Lightdarkness 02:46, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

Ditto. Thanks a bunch. - Dharmabum420 10:11, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

No problem :-) Akamad 10:13, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

Eugene Levinson

Hi. For your information, newpage copyvios can now be speedied. See WP:CSD for details and the procedure. -- Perfecto  05:31, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

Hi. The reason I didn't use the speedy copyvio notice is because it states that the content must be from a "commercial content provider". And I don't exactly know what classifies as a commercial provider and what doesn't. Is there any place where I can get more info on this (other than the link you provided)? Thanks. - Akamad 05:41, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

Re: commercial content provider

Try Wikipedia talk:Criteria for speedy deletion. --Perfecto 05:44, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. - Akamad 05:45, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

Congratulations

Congratulations!!! You've earned yourself a barnstar!

Your post on the Humanities Reference Desk about being courteous was in good faith and kindness. I have also noticed how much you contribute to the Reference Desk, but two barnstars would look suspicious :) --Ali K 08:32, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

Thank you very much for the barnstar! That was very kind of you. :-) Akamad 13:28, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

No problem, any time! And you deserved it! --Ali K 14:09, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

Something I wanted to share

Hi. Here's something I wanted to share with you; I just added it to my User Page.

"The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosives and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices, to be found only in the minds of men. For the record, prejudices can kill, and suspicion can destroy. And a thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all of its own." Rod Serling

It's from his opening comments to a The Twilight Zone episode, “ The Monsters are Due at Midnight” Michael David 13:55, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the quote. I do agree with the statement, it certianly destroys the idea of: "Sticks and stones can break my bones, but words will never hurt me." - Akamad 20:17, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

Mohammad Ali Jinnah

Hello...

YLH here... a lot of vandalism takes place on the Jinnah page- this fellow especially whoever he or she is: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&target=81.179.107.153 Sorry I messed up your user page. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by YLH (talk • contribs) 12:42, January 20, 2006 (UTC).

Yeah, looking at the history page, it does seem to get vandalised a fair bit. I'll add it to my watchlist and keep an eye on it. - Akamad 21:10, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

Matlock Town F.C.

I have written a new article about Matlock Town F.C. This article does not infringe any copyright laws. Please include this article on the page. Thank You. --Siva1979^{Talk to me}06:26, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for adding the Matlock Town FC temp page. An admin will soon delete the old page and replace it with the one you wrote as is procedure. Once again, thanks for writing the article and keep up the good work. - Akamad 07:22, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

MOi

What is wrong with you, guy? I am a new user. Help me to find my way back in this life. You may think that I am disturbed, and you're right. Who are you? Why did you come to my life? --213.214.155.64 09:19, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

The vandalism mentioned on the post directly below was also done by this user. - Akamad 09:45, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

Thank you

For reverting the vandalism to my user page. I appreciate it. I would not have known except the vandal left me a message on my talk page. I don't have a clue where that came from. Thanks again.--Dakota ~ ε 09:20, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

You're welcome. That user appears to just make random edits. - Akamad 09:23, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

Ciao!

I've being observing the Wiki way for a few months now, and the Canadian election seemed a good opportunity to start participating. Thaks you for the note, the advice, and the welcome. I look forward to participating in the community. --Ckatz 10:08, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

You're welcome! Have you had a look at the Wikipedia:WikiProject Electoral districts in Canada? Perhaps it's of interest to you. Either way, enjoy Wikipedia, and if you ever need anything, you know where to find me. - Akamad 10:14, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

Event Monitoring

What in particular does not follow the Wikipedia guide on 'Event Monitoring'?

-Jonasmellin 12:21, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

Hi there. The article needs to be wikified. Which means that keywords on the page should have links to their respective articles. See for example, the article on Claudius, notice the links given throughout the page. Every article should have links like that so the reader can go to them to get more information. So only words that are relevant to the article should be linked. - Akamad 19:37, 24 January 2006 (UTC)