User talk:Jengod/Archive 5

Jim Thorpe

Hi Jengod, thanks for copyediting Jim Thorpe. I hadn't thought of writing a US-related article in US English rather than British English. Jeronimo 20:43, 15 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Red Cloud

That was actually User:Bird, on a spasm of purging English names of Indians. -- Decumanus | Talk 23:10, 16 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Yeah, I figured you were following the custom that other edit. I would have too, but I saw the edit first hand and just decided to sit on my hands until she flew the coop. I had forgotten about it until just now. -- Decumanus | Talk 23:15, 16 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Armory Show

Excellent image choice! Very unexpected. Wetman 00:48, 17 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Excellent! Be a photo repertory! I lack the skills to draw upon engravings of classical architectural from the Encyclopédie, listed at Wikipedia public domain. and how to store, use and format them. Can you guide me? Or can I guide you as to which .jpgs would be useful? Wetman 01:44, 17 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Msg:Bioguide

The bioguide is in bullet point/fragment format. We only use the information, not the text. IMO, the notice is entirely unnecessary. --Jia ng 00:14, 18 Apr 2004 (UTC)

I'm saying that articles that have been converted into paragraph format (eg Hubert H. Humphrey) should not contain the notice because they have been greatly altered and improved. It will be absurd to add it to every article for every US politician. --Jia ng 00:24, 18 Apr 2004 (UTC)

FAC

Hi, I moved one of the fac notices you put in an article to its talk page, please read Wikipedia_talk:Featured_article_candidates#Notices for my reason. Dori | Talk 01:27, Apr 18, 2004 (UTC)

Stamp images

Cool to see someone else uploading stamp images! To reduce the chance of later uploads overwriting, I suggest adding a country code, as in "Stamp-US-subject" - some of the topics have similar stamps issued by other countries. Stan 22:00, 18 Apr 2004 (UTC)

I like stamp image for the peace corps; good one. --Rj 22:40, Apr 18, 2004 (UTC)

Incunable

I leave it to your good judgement, but I think the more common term is incunabulum. -- Nunh-huh 23:34, 20 Apr 2004 (UTC)

I noticed all the interesting book stuff (mmmmm...duodecimo....)... but I thought you might be a secret bookbinding fanatic<G>! - Nunh-huh 00:56, 21 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Across the pond

I like that reference chart. I think I'll wind up consulting it. :) -- Decumanus | Talk 05:59, 21 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Going over the list of biblical films wasn't much of a problem, though I did have to check a couple of years and formats. The real issue was dealing with multiple films with the same title, and figuring out if they should get separate pages or not. Ben-Hur's versions are all on one page, with the novel; I decided to handle King of Kings that way. But the various versions of Quo Vadis and The Ten Commandments were already set up with different pages. I suppose I could have merged some of them, but that's a bigger project, and I don't know if there are other ideas floating around. I decided to split the two 'Jesus' films with different pages, too. Someone else might clean this up differently; fine with me.

But thanks for the note! MisfitToys 21:16, Apr 21, 2004 (UTC)

==Thomas de la Warre== Sorry about the confusion on the requests page, I meant a different Thomas de la Warre; the 15th century 2nd lord de la Warre, founder of the Collegiate Church in Manchester. There were other notable de la Warre members as well. How to go about it? Rhymeless 07:13, 22 Apr 2004 (UTC)

It depends what the definition of is is...

It still looks POV to me. What's wrong with letting the sentence stand the way I had it? Rick K 00:05, 24 Apr 2004 (UTC)

To me, the addition of the basicness of "to be" is a slap at Clinton. Rick K 00:13, 24 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Congressional Bioguide

I think the actual name of the Congressional Biographical Directory of the United States is "Biographical Directory of the United States Congress". I'm reluctant to go messing around with something hooked into a Mediawiki message thingie. older ≠ wiser 00:55, 24 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Moog Users

Do you have a comment to make as to why this should be deleted? Currently the vfd listing doesn't have any text. -- Graham :) | Talk 00:32, 26 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Burial at sea

Thanks a lot for featuring my article on the Did you know... section! Chris 73 | (New) Talk 01:31, 26 Apr 2004 (UTC)

DYK suggestion

Shameless plug for a new article: Geology of the Grand Canyon area. ;) --mav 07:37, 27 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Thanks! --mav

Nomination

Thank you - much appreciated, will try to live up to your confidence ;) Mark Richards 00:37, 30 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Hi Jengod! In response to your comments on my Talk page:

About DYK, I'm not comfortable about arbitrarily yanking articles that I feel are unqualified. Arbitrarily removing entries from the list might be seen by some as an insult (witness some of the upset recently caused by one uncommunicative Wikipedian knonw for his reverts), & despite whatever my reputation may be on Wikipedia, I'd prefer to explain my reasons for the changes I make. I feel that a healthy talk page is vital for DYK, & would encourage less confident Wikipedians to contribute.
Per your request, I have made the change to List of extinct U.S. counties. I didn't even know such a list existed. -- llywrch 02:02, 29 Apr 2004 (UTC)

List of places named for...

Re these lists I see you're currently working on, fab work, are you going to list them on 'See also' on List of political entities named after people? I started with James Monroe for you. -- Graham :) | Talk 01:47, 30 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Yaddayadda... Now there's a term I haven't heard since I was last in the States... -- Graham :) | Talk 01:58, 30 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Historical Records Survey

Just wanted to thank you for writing this article. It's very cool to come back to one of your old articles (Luther H. Evans in this case) and see a blue link on something you expected to be red indefinitely. Happy editing, Isomorphic 08:55, 2 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

Academy Awards

Hey, that's OK... I've been meaning to get round to doing them for ages, and they're reasonably entertaining to actually do. I see someone's removing the AMPAS disclaimers... are we now definitely safe to do that? I thought I remembered this being discussed around the time of the last ceremony, and it being agreed to put the disclaimer on Oscar-related articles, because AMPAS are so very litigious! - MykReeve 20:23, 3 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

Cool. I've updated 70th Academy Awards, so all the ones from 70th-75th follow the same layout. They still need more info to bring them up to the same amount of content as 76th Academy Awards... but I'll get round to ticking back through the years first. - MykReeve 20:59, 3 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

bold article hed

To make the first mention of article name bold (like in tunnels of Cu Chi), you should just put Wiki double brackets around it; it will automatically show up as bold. That way, even if the article gets moved, it still retains a link, which is more "powerful" than just bold text. -- Paul Richter 11:25, 5 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

Eureka Stockade

First, I think you are remarkably lucky to have a real name that lends itself to such a cool nick, and I've been envious for a long time. I hope your userpage link is not an indication that you've been given grief over it.

Second, I note that your vote for featured article status for Eureka Stockade did not fare well. I read the article today, and agree with you that it is a remarkable story. I went through it with a chainsaw and a scalpel today, and think it is now ready for a shot at the cup again. However, since I already have two feature requests on the table, I don't want to wear out my welcome. But I would be happy to add my name as a signatory to someone else's request (or is that too much like sock puppetry?) Your call. Denni 04:12, 2004 May 8 (UTC)

As ME goes....

Thanks for the editing! I didn't create a separate article for the actual saying simply because I felt it was most likely to be known of in relation to the modification. In general, I've found that only trained political geeks know that the "As ME goes, so goes VT" actually comes from another saying....so given that "As ME goes, so goes the country" is explained to the fullest extent in the ME/VT article, I didn't feel that a separate article was necessary.
I did rewrite the article to make it a little more clear, though, something I wouldn't have noticed without your edit. Thanks! :)

If you want to do the As Maine goes, so goes the country article then I'll leave the link there. You might also want to flesh out the history in the Prohibition article - it's pretty vague and doesn't mention Maine as the first state to go "dry". That would be a good place to link to the saying from. I also plan to work on a History of Maine article and it will certainly be mentioned there.

--Xinoph 19:09, May 11, 2004 (UTC)