User talk:Jengod/Archive1

Slow

Please slow down your edits and use the preview button. Rmhermen 01:10, Oct 16, 2003 (UTC)

Summary

Howdy. Could you please use the "Summary" more often when editing articles and perhaps include more minor changes per save (when making a minor edit)? Thanks! Daniel Quinlan 05:12, Oct 16, 2003 (UTC)

Bottom

Just a note. We add new content to the bottom of talk pages. I don't know why, it is just the common practice. Rmhermen

Camino Real

I see you commented out a section from Camino Real. I think you should put that part back:

• firstly, please don't delete or comment-out content and mark the revision as minor
• secondly, these paragraphs came from the Hackers Jargon file, which we (deliberately) imported a while ago. So there is a lot of geeky content. If you intend to purge the wikipedia of all content you consider to be inappropriate for reason of geekiness, please report your intention on Wikipedia:Village pump first.
• while you may not consider this content appropriate, several others have. It's in common currency, and the section in question is properly written.

I'm not (yet) going to revert your change myself (but I suspect someone else may). Can I ask you to reconsider? Thanks. -- Finlay McWalter 10:42, 7 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Thanksgiving

Jengod, Good job on the Thanksgiving article. It is worded much better now. Noldoaran 03:33, Nov 21, 2003 (UTC)

For future reference: you can sign your talk page messages by writing "~~~~" and Wikipedia will automaticly expand it into your user name and time stamp. see How to edit a page.

You may want to take a look at What is a minor edit? When should I use it?, and rethink your use of minor edits.

Good job! Keep up the good work! If you have any questions feel free to ask me on my talk page.

Noldoaran 03:57, Nov 21, 2003 (UTC)

Gulf of Sidra

You'll probably like Gulf of Sidra incident (1989), since you liked Gulf of Sidra incident (1981). Thought I might as well take care of both at the same time.:) Jamesday 03:26, 22 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Amerocentrism

My apologies, it's just irritating the sheer number of American articles that just assume the country (Brits are the next worst offenders, but a long, long way behind). Trouble is, it's too easy to be snide on line. Sorry again, jimfbleak

'Salem's Lot

I noticed you moved 'Salem's Lot to Salem's Lot. I put it where it originally was because the name of the book does have a ' at the start, and would be the correct title (as mentioned in the article, the ' is there because it is a shortening of the town's name). I didn't have it as such in the article because it didn't work with the bold and italics. I think it would be best if you moved it back there for the sake of accuracy to the book's name. Thanks in advance. -- sofa

Holidays

Sorry Jengod... I had to remove you POVs and sillies from your recent changes. I wanted to say I like your sense of humor. *grins* No hard feelings? UtherSRG 05:07, 11 Dec 2003 (UTC)

U.S. vs. UK

Ah... But in British English we tend to use US and UK. Saying U.K. seems old fashioned... However the article on the US should use US abbreviations. :)Secretlondon 19:29, Dec 24, 2003 (UTC)

Swing State

Hi. Thanks for the edits on swing state--there was some stuff in there that I hadn't learned, and the links are very useful. But the general rule is, if you change actual words in any but the most innocuous way--i.e., if the meaning could be said to have changed--you can't mark an edit as minor. I did appreciate your help, though--that article needed some sort of list, and I couldn't figure out how to incorporate it. Just watch out on the use of the minor edit box. Meelar 18:13, 13 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Minor Edits

This is a perfect example. Adding an external link to a page -- or any text -- is NOT a minor edit, since it changes the content of a page. Please keep this in mind in the future. Meelar 01:28, 14 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Newport Tower

Thanks for the link on Oak Island on the Newport Tower page. It was refreshing to have someone jump in.Decumanus 04:45, 14 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Phillis Wheatley

Thanks for adding Phillis Wheatley to Poetry of the United States. My ignorance of U.S. colonial poetry is terrifyingly deep and I had never heard of her. I'll certainly pursue here work now. Bmills 11:06, 14 Jan 2004 (UTC)

I've been reading this. It's incredible how a slave of the time got to be so much the mistress of the "master's" poetic idiom. Thanks for putting me on to her, and thanks for the kind comment on the US poetry page. Bmills 11:39, 15 Jan 2004 (UTC)

UC "series"

I disagree with adding a series box to the UC articles. They don't follow any chronological order. The listing at the bottom is more in line with what is done for EU countries. --Jiang 01:53, 16 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Series Articles

What are you doing to find the other series articles? I don't remember what I searched for, but I know I had to browse over a hundred search results to get the apparently very incomplete list I had made. Just curious...Tuf-Kat 03:14, Jan 16, 2004 (UTC)

Reader's Choice

Is there any reason you blanked Wikipedia:Reader's Choice? If you want it deleted, you should really list it on VfD. Angela. 05:29, Jan 16, 2004 (UTC)

Summary

Would it be possible for you to use the summary window when you make major changes to articles? Also, in Upper Midwest you deleted a valid definition and replaced it with what I assume was the top result from Google. Davodd 08:29, Jan 16, 2004 (UTC)

Coral trees

Well, I`m no botanist either, but I've done my best. It's one of those tricky cases where gardeners use the genus name as a common name, but they don't mean to include all the genus. I thought there were only a few of these things till I started looking on the web... 128 species on LegumeNet! I hope we've managed between us to give an entry that will be helpful both to gardeners and to botanists.

Where is "round here" for you? And do you know what species you have got? If you could get a picture and load it up, that would be great. seglea 06:25, 18 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Jiang

Yes, you're right. I was being a bit brusque. As he explained to me after he blanked out the background of Donald Rumsfeld and I asked him why, he believes having flags in the portrait is POV. I just think that was a ridiculous conlusion to make. What he did to the Warren Christopher image was, IMO, a net loss and completely unnecessary. My comments expressed my irritation towards the matter. --Jiang 10:01, 19 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Decumanus

Ϯ Decumanus 00:08, 25 Jan 2004 (UTC)

I just wrote David G. Burnet and stumbled across Francisco de Miranda, which I thought might interest you. -- Decumanus 07:44, 26 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Agreed, about the tussles. Like me, maybe you find it fascinating how all these things came to be. By the way, solar symbol is reference to a link on my page. It's a funny coincidence, don't you think? -- Decumanus 19:31, 26 Jan 2004 (UTC)

It's funny that you mention the Compromise of 1850. I have an entire book on it that belonged to my mother when she was in college. It's got a bunch of interesting maps I've never seen elsewhere showing all the proposals for carving up the Republic of Texas in different ways. I also got her historical atlases, and I think that's where I developed a fascination, like you, outside of school, from just looking at the maps of westward expansion, the names of territories, etc.,and how things fluctuated and then all the pieces of the states came to interlock as they exist now. -- Decumanus 19:54, 26 Jan 2004 (UTC)

You, you, you. Of course. :) -- Decumanus 22:17, 13 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Mincemeat Tarts

Just thought I'd let you know I've transwikied your recipe for Mincemeat tart over to Wikibooks, and listed the page at the en:wikipedia at Votes for deletion. The content is not being deleted completely, just moved over to another project where we've decided it and all recipes belong. Gentgeen 10:03, 27 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Bleeding Kansas

I notice there is a page on Bleeding Kansas now. -- Decumanus 06:54, 28 Jan 2004 (UTC)

U.S. Congressional Committees

Thanks re: committees. Anyway, I'll be writing those as I go along. Eventually, I'd like a page for each committee and subcommittee. When we're all old and gray... Meelar 01:41, 30 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Georges Seurat

About the article you created entitled Grey weather, Grande Jatte. I did a Google search on the text in that article, and it returned a page with a clear copyright notice. Did you ask the author for permission to copy the text in his article? Denelson83 02:51, 30 Jan 2004 (UTC)

As I noted in the comment on my post, I was moving it off the Georges Seurat article where it clearly did not belong. I didn't write it or make the addition. You can see for yourself in the page histories. jengod 05:09, Jan 30, 2004 (UTC)

Kathleen Kennedy

Saw your question to Emsworth about Kathleen Kennedy. She'd have been known as Marchioness of Hartington or Kathleen, Marchioness of Hartington (or simply "Lady Hartington") after her marriage. I don't know that she can really be considered to have had a "married surname," exactly, since that's not really how it works. john 05:39, 30 Jan 2004 (UTC)

I am sure that peers have surnames, and believe transmit these to their wives as normal, but these surnames are almost never used. The title most often replaces the surname as the primary way of identifying the peer. Therefore, I think that the married surname is probably "Cavendish," but it is not too important. -- Emsworth 11:40, Jan 30, 2004 (UTC)

You are very welcome -- Emsworth 20:06, Jan 30, 2004 (UTC)

List of US regions

I added a couple sections to the article, one for named regions of annexation,and the other for formerly independent countries. It thought both sort of deserved inclusion on the page. I thought the regions deserved to be included separately than in the page about territorial acquisitions, which are the names of the how the regions were annexed, not really the regions themselves. I'll defer to you (as the semiofficial curator of the page) as to how you might want to organize them, since you have a good grasp of how the page has been evolving. -- Decumanus 20:41, 30 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know

So what does "Mad" in Mad magazine mean? Angry? Have you heard of Angry Cow Disease? Does the acronym for Mutually Assured Destruction imply that it is an angry action of an insane action. Is Mad scientist confusing to you? I could go on. Mintguy 10:02, 6 Feb 2004 (UTC)

I think the interpretation of "Jimmy's mad" would depend on the emphasis and the context rather than the words used, whichever side of the Atlantic you were on. Hence it is not a "word having different meanings in British and American English". (also posted on the relevant page) Mintguy (T) 21:04, 6 Feb 2004 (UTC)

USA vs. United States

re adding country names - I didn't realise about the redircts resulting from using USA, I'll use United States instead. However, just as a quibble, 'United States' is surely as informal as 'USA' - to be formal it would be 'United States of America'. Flobster 07:37, 9 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Virginia Colony

Are you working on Virginia Colony? Or should it be posted to Wikipedia:Cleanup or Wikipedia:Votes for deletion? --Mrwojo 17:50, 9 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Re: worms

Why thank you! I figured I'd ease up on the fish articles for at least today. ;) Hadal 21:18, 9 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Kerry

Just wanted to say nice additions. Hope there wasn't too much "edit-conflicts" during the edits. Sincerely, JDR

St Paul's School

cross-posted to each others' talk pages - James F., Jengod

Is there any particular reason you moved the above article to ... (UK)? Unless you're going to place some more information at the original location, I don't see any reason for putting in ungainly disambiguation characters...
Also, it's generally considered Good Practice to change all articles that link to the pages to avoid the created redirect.
James F. (talk) 23:18, 11 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Hi. :) I moved St Paul's School to St Paul's School (UK) so St. Paul's could be a disambig page for the U.K. school and St. Paul's School (U.S.), attended by the U.S. prez candidate. Do you think we should do it a different way? I'll be happy to go rejigger the redirects once we get this all sorted out. jengod 23:23, Feb 11, 2004 (UTC)

Ah, right. You might consider whether an in-page disambiguation might be more suitable, however, if the US one is less 'well known' than the UK one...

I might get started on those redirects, in the mean time.

I'd imagine that you really want to move St. Paul's School (U.S.) to St Paul's School (U.S.), too...

James F. (talk) 02:47, 12 Feb 2004 (UTC)

I'd imagine that you really want to move St. Paul's School (U.S.) to St Paul's School (U.S.), too...

How come? Is that some spelling convention I don't know about? St. Paul's (U.S.) probably should get its own page b/c John Kerry went there. Not as many famous people, but famous enough. jengod 02:56, Feb 12, 2004 (UTC)

No, I meant that at the top or bottom of St Paul's School, there should be a "This article refers to the Public School in London; there is also an article about the school in North Carolina in the United States, located at St Paul's School (U.S.)." or something similar, as is done, say, on London itself.

About "Saint" being shortened to "St" and not "St.", yes, there is a policy about it, and no, I can't find it... ;-(

James F. (talk) 03:15, 12 Feb 2004 (UTC)