User talk:Mav/archive 22

Missing "Image:Tom and Jerry.jpg"

I'm in the middle of creating some articles out of the current Tom and Jerry page, and I found that the fair-use image you apparently uploaded is missing. I don't understand what happened, as there is no image, but only the initial upload entry in its history. I noticed that anonymous user 207.162.163.19 messed up the link on the original Tom and Jerry page by changing the case of "Jerry" on 19 March 2004. I am removing the link from the new page Tom and Jerry (cartoon) until you or someone reestablishes the image. — Jeff Q 11:17, 1 Aug 2004 (UTC)

A whole bunch of uploads were lost several months ago. Unfortunately, the days that were lost included a time when I uploaded many screenshots. Since I never had an issue with lost uploads, I simply deleted all the screenshots off my computer after I uploaded them. That left a few broken links when the server hosting the images died. --mav

Arbitration

-> Wikipedia talk:Requests for arbitration/Lyndon LaRouche

Russian language

The existing Grammar section is only the overview, as are all of the sections, without exception. The main article, when it is written, will be much longer. Until it is, I'm removing the "main article" link under grammar. By the way, before your pants seams split with all your size objections, just remember that one Russian letter takes five ascii characters under the encoding scheme used by wikipedia, so the 81 kb article size is not what it seems. If I were you, I'd really worry more about content than size. A. Shetsen 02:55, 3 Aug 2004 (UTC)

That is a huge overview for a survey article (even considering the byte issue). The article as is does not serve those people who want a quick overview of the topic. That has to be fixed. --mav

User:RickK

Hi Mav! I want to ask you to take in consideration an arbitration against User:RickK. His record indicates short temper, bad mood (which rebounds to short temper but), aggressive and disrespectful treatment of others, and , his special joy, erasing stuff when proven wrong.

Unfortunately, I got involved in his games and called hin a wikipedia dictator instead of admiinistrator, because he got me angry, not willing to accept that my father's writing of a duplicate Joaquin Phoenix article was a noble mistake, and by blocking us before requesting for a merger (you know the story). But I apologized and even offered a barnstar to make up. He erased that message and angrily answered back he is not interested in dealing with me, to which I replied well I tried to make ammends with you and you didnt accept, maybe you dont deserve the barnstar I was willing to give you.........if you answer me again, I will ask for arbitration or other action. Once again he deleted that message.

Thats his talk page and I guess he can do what he wants with it, but in any case, referring to the treatment he has had against me, my father, and , judging by his talk page, other users, he might ned to be watched over by the arbitration committee. Knowing you, I know you will use your best judgement and make the right decision.

I treat people with respect and cherish the friendships made here (you, Arp, Oliver, Angela, Viajero, etc). But RickK, with whom I was willing to make ammends and mutual forgiveness, made me lose my cool. I dont think he knows that mutual forgiveness is a virtue that makes us all better for it.

Thank you and God bless you!

Sincerely yours, "Antonio Fun all the time baby! Martin"

Sorry - I can't help you. --mav

Arbitration - subject: User:Mike Storm

I was just wondering if you could please post your vote on the subject of User:Mike Storm on Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration. I would like to get this matter dealt with with quickly, but you're probably busy so please take your time. Thanks! [[User:Mike Storm|Mike∞Storm]] 17:02, 5 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Before I vote to accept or reject new cases, I need to work through the backlog of current cases that need action. I think I'm close to that goal. --mav

decision

Without commenting otherwise on the decision at [1], I have two questions: [1] Is "instruct" quite the word y'all want to use in this sentence? "All Wikipedia administrators are instructed to follow the Wikipedia:Blocking policy." "Reminded" would be less obnoxious. [2] Wouldn't you rather spell "priviledges" "privileges"? -- Nunh-huh 05:03, 7 Aug 2004 (UTC)

For better or worse, that is the wording that was voted on. But the spelling error will be fixed. --mav

For worse, I think, as arbitrators have little business "reminding" people who are not party to an arbitration of anything, let alone "instructing" them. But perhaps the committee views itself a bit more legislatively. - Nunh-huh 05:23, 7 Aug 2004 (UTC)

This has already been hashed out on the mailing list. All we have done is restate what the current policy is. --mav

Thanks, I read the mailing list and know what has gone on there. I was just pointing out an infelicitous word, and didn't mean to distract you into a discussion about the overall wisdom of the decision<g>. - Nunh-huh 06:26, 7 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Template for Todays Featured Article

Mav, there is a typo in the current Template. The featured article for this day has not been chosen yet. I was searching for it. I hope The featured article for this day has not be chosen yet. can be fixed in one place instead of 365. Regards, Ancheta Wis 09:13, 7 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Opps! I'll fix that. And yes a msg would be better for that message. --mav

Arbritation

Hey Mav; Thanks for the arbitration message about KI on my page. Please remind me again tomorroe morning cause rigght now I need some ZZZ's badly. I was about one hour working on Pearl Hart and the squabble between me and KI was so long ago, I dont feel strenght enough to look back into it and provide with prove right now. Please take a look at the argument in the arbitration page that I put about me and user RickK: While I admit I might have been off the line on a few things I offered apology and even an award to make up and he still didnt accept it. I put him there because he has been harsh on me, dad and quite a lot of other users, so, I mean, lets see what happens.

I gotta get some sleep. Please remond me again on my user page tomorrow!:)

Thanks and God bless you!

Sincerely yours, Antonio Ssleepy Head Martin"

Arbitration is a slow process. No need to worry. Sweet dreams. :) --mav

FAC

Please see [2] Your objection is now the only one left standing (it's now 5 to 1); and I think that the structural problems you mentioned have been addressed. 172 18:34, 8 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Better flow but it has only grown in size. So I still oppose. --mav

Blocked.........for the 5,000th time!

Hey Mav: Me and my dad were blocked again. I was wondering if you could please unblock us...otherwise, it might look like we are MIA for a day..lol

Thanks and God bless you!

Sincerely yours, "Antonio The Warrior of Wikipedia Martin"

You are going to have to be more specific than that since I can't find either of your user names in the block log. --mav

Hi Mav: What my son means is that User:Roozbeh has had some problems with IP 198.81.26.80 editing one of his articles and therefore he has put a block in such a way that I User:Marine 69-71 cannot even edit any of my articles. Our (My son Antonio and I) IP is 198.81.26.6. If Roozbeh is going to block an IP he should be specific and not at randon. Please help unblock us. Maybe Roozbeh can explain what's going on. Thank You. User:Marine 69-71

198.81.26.6 did not appear to be blocked, but I unblocked the other 198.81.26 IPs since those are AOL proxies. Hopefully that worked. --mav

Malicious Deletion Attempt

Hello. Sorry for the imposition, but I thought you might be interested to note that an article you supported in the past on vfd has been listed again under malicious circumstances - the 3rd such attempt in 7 months. Please feel free to review the discussion and cast your vote as you feel appropriate: http://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion/Atlantium --Gene_poole 11:01, 10 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Voted - thanks for the note. --mav

Article length

The discussion at FAC has really left the article at hand, so I am bringing it here. I agree with your comment that sections can generally be expanded in their own articles. However, at least for for complex requiring background knowledge, those articles are less accessible than the more general article. This is because they can't explain related topics that require background knowledge. Moreover, they have to spend time reestablishing context. The result is that the reader must read more text to obtain the same information, and that the more difficult points are not as accessible as they might be. (an example: I mentioned background knowledge. The logical relationships among ideas in a field are sometimes thought to form a tree structure, but actually have nontrivial homology. Now, if you don't know what I mean here, the article homology probably won't help you out. But a good article on the broader topic of algebraic topology, if it gets written, could explain this to a larger audience. But if this hypothetical article got cut down to fit within an arbitrary size restriction, it might not be able to explain this point. Even if the content was available in subarticles, the beginner in the field might not be able to understand it without the context provided by the larger article.) Longer coherent articles are more helpful for people wanting to learn about complex, interconnected subjects. Now, it's true that we are an encyclopedia and that larger scale efforts should go at wikibooks, but I think that we can provide useful articles about even the most complex of topics while remaining an encyclopedia. I think that those articles will often have to be rather long. There is an inherent trade-off in chopping articles up. You seem to think that at 10-15 pages we should start to split articles. I disagree. In some cases that is a good limit, and I think your articles on Mount St. Helens are an admirable example of articles that fit well within that limit. Other topics, however, require more time to explain fully, and I don't see anything wrong with letting them be longer. Dan Gardner 15:35, 11 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Establishing context can be done by any good writer with a sentence or two in the lead section of the daughter article, just as I've done at 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens. An example of a complex topic that follows summary style is Geology of the Bryce Canyon area - it also establishes context in just a few sentences. The History of post-Soviet Russia article could easily be reduced in size by 40% by summarizing the longest section and spinning that text into a daughter article. I in fact did exactly that at Ronald Reagan by summarizing the presidency and foreign interventions sections (leaving a 2.5 page long ==Presidency section at the main Reagan article) and moving the more detailed text (10+ pages worth) to create a separate article at Reagan Administration. It took me about 4 hours to do this and in the future I'll do it more often for FACs. --mav

User:Kenneth Alan

What is the correct procedure for getting a user banned? I am sick of having to revert everything contributed by User:Kenneth Alan. He was on Wikipedia:Requests for comment, but his name seems to have been taken off, so I re-instated it. Please see Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Kenneth Alan. Mintguy (T) 09:10, 13 Aug 2004 (UTC)

See Wikipedia:Dispute resolution. --mav

That says nothing about actually getting a user banned. Kenneth Alan, has been blocked numerous times but keeps coming back. On Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Kenneth Alan the consensus is that he should be banned, but nothing is being done about it. Mintguy (T)

If you have tried everything else, see if mediation will work. Otherwise request arbitration. --mav

Re: Hey Jude and Something (song)'s nomination for featured status

I've added a ==References== section to both articles. Johnleemk | Talk 07:51, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Yep - looks good. --mav

Thanks. Wonder why you only struck out your objection to Hey Jude, though. Anything in Something (song) wrong in particular? Johnleemk | Talk 08:30, 19 Aug 2004 (UTC)

I'm not sure, since I have only skimmed it so far. --mav

Wikipedia "trademark" image vandalized?

Hey mav,

The WP image at top left of every page appears to be vandalized (at least on my browser). I tried to report this on the village pump, but kept getting "page has been edited since you started" errors. I'm at a loss for what to do next.

Jrv 16:43, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC)

It looks good to me... --mav

Mercedes and Felix

Hi! I had mistakenly posted a couple of other photos on the "6.9" article that were not useable. Angela removed those but kept the factory photo as fair use. It was from one of the discussion groups listed at the bottom of the article. All of the Felix the Cat references that I added were from those particular links. - Lucky 6.9 18:36, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC)

It still needs an image tag claiming fair use and the reasons for that claim. --mav

Nomination for article un-deletion

Hello. I noted your recent support for the Empire of Atlantium article on VfD: http://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion/Atlantium The most recent VfD resulted in 19 people (40%) voting to retain vs 29 (60%) voting to delete. Despite the fact that the count was fully 9 votes short of achieving a 2/3 consensus, the article has been deleted by a sysop. Because this appears to contravene VfD policy I have listed the article for un-deletion, which you might care to review and support, if you feel it is a valid listing: http://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Wikipedia:Votes_for_undeletion --Gene_poole 04:53, 18 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Page undeleted. --mav

Nineteen Eighty-Four (television)

Hello - I was just wondering if the 'References' section I'd added to this article following your objection on Wikipedia:Featured article candidates was all right? I thought you might not have noticed I'd added it, as the nomination is now a fair way down the page on FAC. :-) Angmering 10:06, 18 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Looks good to me. --mav

Sockpuppet vandalism

Hi again. I've just noticed that someone has created a sockpuppet Natryn to vandalise the Empire of Atlantium article, which has now been forwarded to my user page and nominated for speedy deletion. Can you reverse this? You can see the edit history of the sockpuppet here: http://wiki.riteme.site/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Contributions&target=Natryn --Gene_poole 23:59, 19 Aug 2004 (UTC)

See wikipedia:dispute resolution. --mav

Color Graphics Adapter

Hi, I replied to your objection at Wikipedia:Featured_article_candidates#Color_Graphics_Adapter. Ropers 06:43, 20 Aug 2004 (UTC)

I've made some changes. Is the current version something you would agree with? Ropers 08:11, 20 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Hi again.

I see you have struck off one of your comments on the FAC nomination for Color Graphics Adapter.

With the changes now made, do you still object to this nomination?

If so, it'd be cool if you could drop a hint on why you still object.

If not, it'd be cool if you could remove your objection (or maybe even support the nomination ;)

Thanks and regards, Ropers 22:19, 21 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Opps - I just missed the other one. Fixed. --mav

Thank you :) Ropers 19:02, 22 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Dual gauge

Perhaps the GWR dual gauging (see examples section) needs to be brought forward in prominence - I should find out if it was the first. There isn't much more one can write about history of it! Apart from that - I can't see how one would expand other sections! Could you be more precise? Your help is appreciated, thanks! zoney ███ talk 10:35, 21 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Mary I

Thank you for your excellent additions to Mary I. -- Emsworth 15:15, 21 Aug 2004 (UTC)

NP :) --mav

Screencaps

Can you tell me what kind of stuff I need to get to grab screencaps from my TV? Mike H 15:16, Aug 21, 2004 (UTC)

You need a TV card for your computer. The software provided should have the ability to take screenshots. --mav

How do I know if I have a TV card? Won't I have to hook cords and stuff up to my TV? I don't know the first thing about this AT ALL. Explain it for the moron, please. Mike H 19:04, Aug 22, 2004 (UTC)

If you don't know, then you almost certainly do not have one. :) The card lets you view TV in a window on your computer. All you need to do is install the card and the software that comes with it in your computer, and attach a TV cable (either from an antenna or from your cable tv provider) to the back of tv card. No TV is needed at all. If you have a PC, then an inexpensive but good TV card can be found here. --mav

The stuff I want to upload is on tape. I want the taped stuff to be transferred to my computer. How do I do that? Mike H 22:39, Aug 24, 2004 (UTC)

The TV card almost certainly will have a video-in RCA plug (it is always yellow). On the back of your VCR there will be an identical plug that is labeled Video Out. Just connect the two with an RCA cable and from within your tv card software change the video source to RCA (it might be called Video 1 or Video 2; the regular cable connector is usually called antenna or cable TV). --mav

Brushaber v. Union Pacific Railroad

Hi mav. Since you originally wrote Brushaber v. Union Pacific Railroad, are you able to answer this query on the help desk: Wikipedia:Help desk#Brushaber v. Union Pacific Railroad 2? Angela. 21:07, Aug 21, 2004 (UTC)

Done. --mav

Wikispecies

As so often before I totally agree with you on the wikispecies issue, i just regret I didn't object when it first came up.--Dittaeva 20:37, 23 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for the support. Your post to the mailing list was great as well. :) --mav

Moving the Legend movie page

I had created a page called Legend (movie), but I did not realize that there already was a page devoted to the movie "Legend" called Legend (1985 movie). How do I make it re-direct to my Legend page in Wikipedia? Help me if you can.

Hiphats

Moving the Los Angeles page

Someone recently asked on Talk:Los Angeles (anonymous query at the top of the Talk page) why the Los Angeles article isn't at Los Angeles, California. You were involved in that discussion, so would you be able to move it? Thanks! JamesMLane 11:46, 24 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Done. --mav

Wikispecies

It seems like you are the only objecting user on the mailing lists - I would object but I cannot seem to post. Please, convince them out of it - there are NO good arguements for this outrageous seperatism. The only arguements I have heard are: "too many articles for Wikipedia" (by the time Wikipedia has every species on earth it will also have millions of geographic locations, tens of thousands of genes, millions of articles - there is no reason why it wouldn't be the same proportion it is now), the second arguement is usually "the taxobox is insufficient" (then improve the taxobox). Keep up the good work, try and recommend a vote on Meta, so that all of us non-mailing listers can object. --[[User:OldakQuill|Oldak Quill]] 15:01, 24 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Yep - thank you!  :) -- mav

Oh, BTW, I too think that "Wikispecies" is obviously a complete subset of Wikipedia, and, similarly, cannot contribute.

James F. (talk) 01:11, 30 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Atlantium

Why did you undelete? A check of WP:VFU makes it appear as though the vote was running against undeletion at the time you did it? uc 18:20, 24 Aug 2004 (UTC)

It was deleted in the first place without the necessary 75% votes in favor. --mav

While that may be, there was an effort to follow the process and the outcome of the vote was not entirely clear. If you're going to follow the process, then you should list the article at VfU and wait for consensus before undeleting it. If you're going to ignore the process, well, I guess no one's going to stop you if that's the way you want it. uc 19:48, 27 Aug 2004 (UTC)

The deletion was made out-of-process, thus anybody could undo that at any time. Such is how admin user rights work. -- mav

Domains & Kingdoms

Hey, mav. As one of the people who was most important in deciding the system used here, I was wondering if you have any insights or opinions on some concerns. In particular, I think we may be over-reliant on the three-domain system, as mentioned on the ToL discussion, and it's been pointed out that the current system has no room for viruses, noted at Talk:Virus. However, nobody else seems to have expressed an interest in these things. Thanks, Josh 02:17, 30 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for the note. :) --mav

Selected Anniversaries

Hello, Mav. No need to thank me for those 'Selected Anniversaries'. It was fun to edit. :-) -- PFHLai 07:33, 2004 Aug 30 (UTC)

I'm very glad to hear that! --mav

ST:TNG

Thank you very much for the compliment! :) - Brian Kendig 13:51, 30 Aug 2004 (UTC)

NP - keep it up and you will get more! :) -- mav

FAC

I responded to your objection. Also, about the lead section...I think it's sufficient enough, because the stuff that would go in the lead is already mentioned in the article, and I think it would harm the article itself to split up sections and replace areas just to make a lead longer. Mike H 00:37, Aug 31, 2004 (UTC)

Cricket

I noticed you objected to Cricket being in the featured article vote. One thing you mentioned was the lack of references. I do not wish to be self aggrandising, but I was instrumental in redoing the page from scratch (later copy edited by others). The page features on how matches are played and key details such as the field measurements etc. I did this from my own memory, being a cricket fan and remembering facts & details throughout the years. Hence the reason for the lack of a REFERENCE section. I hope that this is not the main reason as to why u object, perhaps u can suggest some improvements?. [[User:Nichalp|¶ nichalp | Talk]] 20:54, Aug 31, 2004 (UTC)

Encyclopedias are not primary sources. Please provide some other source for the info than memory so that others can check the facts. --mav

I agree with you whole heartedly that an article cannot be a unilateral edit. However, a lot of editors including two sysops have copyeditied the article and checked for factual errors, ambiguity etc. After putting it up in the peer review, I think all that was sorted out. References as ALoan mentioned, points to the main International Cricket Council endorsed site, sufficient in this case, as article is not a Physics article that needs a plethora of references. Anyways, I have made further edits to the page and I hope that all objections that you may be having are taken care of now. [[User:Nichalp|¶ ɳȉčḩåḽṗ | ✉]] 19:21, Sep 2, 2004 (UTC)

Major donations

Hi Mav. Could you if/when you have the information (and when we know the donor agree to be public) add to http://wikimedia.org/wiki/How_you_can_help (and rather to major donations article) ? I think recent relevant donations are mostly the hardware ones, but perhaps some money ones may be as well ? Thanks. SweetLittleFluffyThing

I do know that our largest donor wants to remain strictly anonymous. But I'll email the others to see if they would like to be listed (even with partial names/info). --mav

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Maveric, what on earth are you doing? There are zillions of users who need to know how to play an ogg file, and when they consult Ogg they get nothing but geek-speak. Please don't revert what I'm doing. Opus33 23:34, 3 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Please stop linking to pages in the Wikipedia namespace from within articles. See Wikipedia:Avoid self-references for why. --mav 23:24, 3 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Again - stop adding links to non-article pages from within articles. Instead add an external link to a help page in the OGG article. --mav 23:37, 3 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Mav-- And where is this help page supposed to reside? My own personal Web site, or what? Opus33 23:47, 3 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Windows XP

I see I've stumbled across another wikiholic (though I'll never admit it!) :P Anyway, I've added the references section as you suggested. It's a good idea and I'm fully convinced you are correct about this now! - Ta bu shi da yu 11:21, 4 Sep 2004 (UTC)

India in FAC

Hi, I just added some matter to the India page lead-in plus some references. I have made changes to the culture section using ; . Is this sufficient or should some more work be done to the culture section? [[User:Nichalp|¶ ɳȉčḩåḽṗ | ✉]] 19:54, Sep 5, 2004 (UTC)

Endosymbiotic Theory/hypothesis

How do you feel about redirecting Endosymbiotic hypothesis to Endosymbiotic theory? discussion here

Don't redirect, move. :) --mav

Photo/zion

Yep, I got there because I saw it on featured article cand's. It's a wonderful job--quite impressive--but as you might have noticed I'm objecting briefly until more time is spent on spelling & double-checking missing links. I'm thinking that I might have gotten the worst part of it. Elf | Talk 02:39, 12 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Great! I'm copyediting the article right now. --mav

Yeah, but I see that you changed Pinyon pine, which I fixed so it links, back to Pinyon Pine, which doesn't. :-) Check those links-- Elf | Talk 03:25, 12 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Oh - I see that is a genus, not a species. Fixing links... --mav

{featured}

Oops, sorry. -Joseph 01:28, 2004 Sep 13 (UTC)

NP. :) --mav

saint helens picture

The mont saint helens picture... waouhhhh. Good job ! Impressed ant

Thanks! :) --mav

Black Sea image

Hi Mav,
There is now a new image used in the Black Sea article. But I could not track down other possible uses of the previous image. Since you are the one who removed it from Black Sea article, I thought I'd ask you if you noticed any other articles linking to the image.
Thanks,

-- at0 15:55, 17 Sep 2004 (UTC)

pretty harsh

I know I am new at this but I still think that it is pretty harsh to be removed as "spam". The chert thing was genuine...anyway I started the changes. By the way you have great "chert nodule in limestone" photos in the Death Valley "fossils in Marble Canyon". I don't know enough about the copyright thing to add them to the chert article, and I don't want to come across as stealing them or anything, I've already been called "spam" as it is. Carole a 16:55, 19 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Sorry - mistake on my part (I removed your message and the spam). Please do add the photos. :) --mav

Vandalism

dear Mav. I need your help. I strongly recommend thst User:198.81.26.17 be banned from wikipedia. If you check and see his User page you will see that he or she is only dedecated to vandalisg articles. Today that person even vandalized my "Talk Page". Wikipedia is for serious people and not for jokers or clowns who want to destroy the work of others. Thank You User:Marine 69-71

Dilbert not Dilburt

Same for Dogbert. Re your very fair use screen shots. Incidentally your Image:Wheel of Fortune wheel.jpg and Image:Yogi and Boo Boo.jpg are listed on Ifd as broken, it appears that a number of your screenshots may fall in this same category. Rgds Rich Farmbrough 14:18, 24 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Those were all lost in a server crash. Just delete them. --mav

Actually, there seems to be a bug that prevents us deleting them. That is, the images are gone, but the image description page is still there, and attempts to delete it only yield an error message. For these two at least, I don't know whether it's true of the other screenshots Rich refers to. --Michael Snow 17:11, 24 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Perhaps one for the developers? I have tagged all the images, regardelss of "existance". I think there are others than Mav's in the same state. Rich Farmbrough

Aerial view of the Rocky Mountains

I don't know what to do with this image: Image:Rocky Mountains.aerial view.no snow.JPG I know that it is of the Rocky Mountains, but which part in specific *shrug* —Joseph | Talk 03:10, Oct 1, 2004 (UTC)

Soliciting

Good point. Thanks for fixing it. :) Angela. 18:28, Oct 3, 2004 (UTC)

Featured Articles Calendar

I've made some changes to Template:FA_current_month_Calendar I thought you'd like to look at, as you made improvements to the original. Richard Taylor 19:08, 8 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Looks good. :) --mav

CC license template

You might want to update your CC license with the Template:DualLicenseWithCC-BySA. Just replace your current notice with {{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA}}. That way, you'll be listed in What links here page. JesseW 07:03, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Cool, thanks - done. :) --mav

De-bureaucrat

Mav, as a steward, would you be willing to debureaucrat User:Grunt? There's a discussion about this at Wikipedia talk:Requests for adminship and User talk:Cecropia. Basically, Grunt was promoted with slightly less than 80% of the vote, which is controversial -- Angela was asked about it, but apparently she feels too involved to be the one to debureaucrat while we discuss whether the promotion is legit or not. If you can find time to do this, it's much appreciated. If you don't want to make the momentous decision based solely on my word, I totally understand, and hope those two talk pages give you enough information. Jwrosenzweig 22:28, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Ack, never mind! Anthere noticed the dispute and volunteered to handle the switch back. Sorry to bother you. :-) Jwrosenzweig 22:29, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Hey there!!

Dear Mav: Hi1 Im partially blocked again, this time by User:Raul654. I emailed him and he told me that the thing was resolved but I still seem to be partially blocked.

Thats why, since 2002 today was the first day that I did not write a new article. Please help me! Im eager to write about Claribel Medina and Nelson de la Rosa but when I wrote about Medina, it said the block was still on.

Thanks and God bless!

Sincerely yours, "Antonio Block Face Martin"

Wikipedia study

Would you be interested in being interviewed about your work on the Wikipedia?

As part of a research project conducted by the Electronic Learning Communities group at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, we are conducting a study of the Wikipedia. The purpose of this study is to explore the online community of the Wikipedia by investigating who contributes to the Wikipedia and why.

To that end, we would like to interview people who write, edit, and comment on the articles that make up the Wikipedia. Study participants agree to be interviewed about their experiences with the Wikipedia. The interview can be face-to-face (if you are in the Atlanta area), on the telephone, or via email, whichever is most comfortable and convenient for you. Participation is voluntary and can be discontinued at any time with no reason given.

If you think you might be interested, more information about the study, including how to volunteer, is available at:

http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~susanb/wikistudy.html

If you are not interested, there is no need to reply to this message, and we thank you for your time. Ikenindy 23:12, 14 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Cleaver Disappointment?

I just argued on Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Cleaver for

• Keep, for the sense, re glacier-bearing mountains in at least western N. Amer, of a rock formation flanked by two glaciers. (Even if the term is geographically restricted, it would be either a redir to the dominant term, or the target of the redirects from all the other regional terms.) These are important features in mountaineers' planning of ascent and traverse routes, and IMO an article could discuss what they have in common, probably different categories of them, and examples that affect notable routes.

But i count 4 Del to my 1 Keep, and 14 hours left.
--Jerzy(t) 10:39, 2004 Oct 18 (UTC)

Medici

You should keep an eye on the main Medici page. Adraeus has started working on it, and he's impossible for me to work with - has his own idiosyncratic ideas (including not following common usage), insists on having things his own way, gets into edit wars if he doesn't get it, and is generally a hassle. So to keep sane, I've stopped watching it (there's plenty of other things for me to do), but someone should (he makes all sorts of mistakes and doesn't catch them). Noel 17:59, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Will do. --mav

See my talk page for Noel's exaggerations. Adraeus 01:26, 23 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Off the Reservation

Salutations, Maveric149!
Read your user page re your handle and wonder if you knew of congressman Maury Maverick of Texas? He's probably best remembered for, after dealing with the alphabet soup of New Deal bureacracies, coining the term "gobbledygook". There's also a Maverick County, Texas, but that's a different maverick. Ave atque vale! PedanticallySpeaking 15:57, Oct 26, 2004 (UTC)

Greetings! But nope; never heard of the guy. :) --mav

Help Need help really want to join in.

Deletionist campaign

Hi there. As someone who has displayed a fairly rational and objective attitude towards micronation articles in the past I thought you might be interested to note that the rabid deletionist lobby is on the march against them again.

The latest target is New Utopia, which although a poorly written article in its current form concerns a subject that is eminently encyclopaedic, being the latest in a long line of libertarian "new country projects" (and therefore representative of a notable social/historic phenomenon), being the subject of dozens of international press and TV stories, as well as the subject of a widely-known US Securities & Investment Commission investigation for fraud.

You might want to take a look at the VfD and respond accordingly.

For future reference you might also want to note the articles in the Micronations Category, in order to keep an eye on its contents; I’ve been adding a number of well-researched, illustrated, fully referenced articles to this category in recent months, but there are moves afoot thanks to a highly suspect ongoing arbitration of process to have me banned completely from writing anything at all about micronations on the basis that as the founder of one, anything I write is somehow self-promotional and/or controversial. --Gene_poole 22:33, 1 Nov 2004 (UTC)

US election

Thanks for clearing that up: I wasn't sure an "innocent" correction of an undisputed fact was within 'protected page guidelines' or not. Anyway, I don't think I was the one who locked the page. --user:Ed Poor (dope rouser) 20:26, Nov 3, 2004 (UTC)

I took issue with the fact that the person who protected it (not you), edited it and the fact that there was no apparent vandalism repaired by that admin. --mav

Sorry for the editing of a protected page, but at the time I protected it it was the only thing I could do to get rid of the vandalism. Wikipedia was really slow until a few hours ago and anons were editing the page alot, and alot of vandalism got through. I protected the article and removed every vandalism I could find. Due to the slowness of the page doing it the other way around wasn't possible. Maybe I should've unprotected the page again afterwards, but I thought it would be safer to keep it protected for a while. --Conti|✉ 21:14, Nov 3, 2004 (UTC)

Everything turned out OK. :) --mav

You're the best, mav! --user:Ed Poor (pre-US rodeo) 22:30, Nov 3, 2004 (UTC)

Arbitration

As a courtesy, I wanted to let you know that I have raised the question of your continued participation on the Arbitration Committee at Wikipedia talk:Arbitration Committee. --Michael Snow 06:29, 7 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Roentgenium

According to Spiegel [3], Unununium (Uuu) is now finally Roentgenium (Rg). I work through the text edits. Could you update the periodic table images? Thanks -- Chris 73 Talk 13:05, Nov 9, 2004 (UTC)

That will take some time. :) Probably early next year since there are other improvements I've been mulling over as well. --mav

As a temporary fix, I edited the image and changed it on Roentgenium. I hope that that will suffice for now. --timc | Talk 17:13, 25 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Genny Smith

Mav: do you think I was out of line to create a page for Genny Smith (local publisher of guide books for the Eastern Sierra) ?? Two people on VfD seem to think it is advertising, but it's not --- I have no economic interest in her (only ever met her once). I really like her books --- they are great guidebooks.

Have you ever used or seen one of her books ? (you're a good test case, I think)

I'm bummed about this. I don't like being accused of random hidden motives on VfD.... Just when I was feeling good about Wikipedia again, too.

-- hike395 08:15, 10 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Discussion at VfD getting to a good place, so you don't have to respond, it's OK. -- hike395 17:01, 10 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for your thoughtful response! It made me change my mind to "Keep". You may want to check out the new article List of guidebooks about the Sierra Nevada --- did I miss anything? -- hike395 16:13, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Welcome Back

Hey, it's good to be back! But I do go through my phases coming and going. Don't expect me to stay, but at least restarting the rambot gives some hope that I may work around here for a little while longer till I get tired again and take a break. A lot changes in a short time. -- Ram-Man 01:39, Nov 11, 2004 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/RickK vs. Guanaco

Utter dreck. RickK 20:38, Nov 12, 2004 (UTC)

Another satisfied customer. --mav

Rex arbitration

Thanks for letting us know of the committee's disposition. Given that the committee has specifically identified 216.153.214.94 as Rex, and included that IP in its decision, I suggest that, to dot the i's and cross the t's, notice of the decision should also be posted at User talk:216.153.214.94. JamesMLane 05:54, 13 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Ah - good point. Fixed. --mav

My username

I've taken the points that you (and others of the same opinion) made to heart, and decided that it is in my best interests to change my name.

Because my attachment to this name makes it so difficult for me to choose a new one, I decided to make it a community event. If you want, I hope that you'll participate in my Name the Admin Candidate Contest. Thanks!

ClockworkTroll 16:19, 13 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Cool. Click click. --mav

I thought better of you. VeryVerily 11:54, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Your temp injuction against me without checking the facts

This temp injunction against me is ridiculous compared to the other temp injunctions you have on arbcom page... other people are banned from doing more then two reverts per day on certain subjects. I'm banned until there's a ruling. and based on this [[4]] it's obvious that the admins didn't even bother to check whatever or not their temp injunction was merited or not. JUST BECAUSE REITHY does absurd compleatly unacceptable things, I'm getting grouped in with him now?

I have to say the person who requested the temp injunction of me. was the same reason I got blocked in first place(along with them), and they've obviously been trolling me to get me to engage in revert wars with them so they could add that to the evidence page: [[5]] [[6]] [[7]] [[8]] [[9]]

[[10]] (all the same aoler anon ip). it's insane just because I opened an arbcom case against someone else, that I can get injuctued because some guy would be completely unreasonable with me(notice in the contribs there how he said he refused to read anything by me in talk until I apologized). And that arbcom wouldn't even check this.

I'm not going all out Like Reithy and engaging in blatant vandalizing of pages/stalking people. (as stated by the users who signed the request for temp injuction, it was for a temp injuction of Reithy, not of me), why do I get the same injuction as him? (again, this arbcom case was requested by me! other users haven't even gone through the dispute resoultion process with me, for pete's sake I'm still in meditation that hasn't finished.)

all my revert wars have me placing facts on talk and having disagreements with users(the one I mentioned above that refused to talk at all) I don't see how I'm any different then the other users who got their temp injunction not to do more then two reverts in a day. - User:Chuck F

Creative Commons Dual-Licensing

I've been updating the CC licensing stuff (Guide to the CC dual-license) and also created a new template {{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}} to license contributions under the CC-by-sa version 1.0 AND version 2.0. Just wanted to let you know in the event that you also wanted to also use version 2.0. -- Ram-Man 18:05, Nov 16, 2004 (UTC)

Cool, thanks. --mav

ArbCom

Mav, I'm sorry. Clearly you didn't do anything wrong, and I'm sorry I was so confrontational. The thing is, since you guys don't have a chair "by choice", and you are a) top on the list of arbitrators, b) the most "famous" person in the ArbCom, and c) someone with whom I've communicated previously I chose you as the person to whom I expressed my displeasure. I'm more than happy to go to Michael Snow and ask him just why it was that my role in the resolution process seems to have been ignored. Just one thing, is he actually an arbitrator? He doesn't seem to be on the list of arbitrators. --Dante Alighieri | Talk 20:05, Nov 16, 2004 (UTC)

Hey - no harm done. :) I'm sorry I reacted by being a bit curt with you. Michael is just the person who brought the case before the ArbCom to begin with. He is not a member of the ArbCom, but is the unofficial person in charge of the RfC process (and his work in that area is very much appreciated). I'm sure this is all just a big misunderstanding somehow since I can't imagine Michael intentionally not informaing you. --mav

Ah, OK... I'm a bit confused now since I thought that it was VV, Gzorn, KB, and Shorne who wanted arbitration against each other... *sigh*. Yeah, I agree that it wasn't intentional, it's just that it's quite a large oversight on the part of the ArbCom, especially irritating if you're me and had to spend several hours dealing with those guys. :) --Dante Alighieri | Talk 20:32, Nov 16, 2004 (UTC)

Please ban VeryVerily

Please ban VeryVerily. In violation of the injunction issued by the arbitrators, he has reverted List of U.S. foreign interventions since 1945 three times in the past twenty-four hours. (The last time was also a violation of policy, for he added "twoversions" after restoring his own version.) Shorne 20:26, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC)

It would be improper for a judge to also act as a cop. Since I’m a judge in this matter, please ask another admin to investigate and determine if this is in fact a violation. –mav

Sun Image

Re the image Image:Sun_SOHO_image.jpg, could you identify the source? That is to say, a link to the actual image and a link to the accompanying article. We need to know what filter was used, at the very least.

Urhixidur 05:10, 2004 Nov 17 (UTC)

I have no idea. But this more recent photo looks like it used the same filter. --mav

arbitration matters

Thanks for the notification regarding the arbitration proceedings of Avala, VeryVerily, Shorne, etc. I'll try to keep an eye on their edits if/when they coincide with my watchlist or pages I notice. BTW I managed to resolve the Italian history dispute, the one where I noticed VV et al, in a reasonably fair manner. --Joy [shallot] 22:27, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)

No problem - and thanks for your help. --mav

arbitration

On Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Gzornenplatz, Kevin Baas, Shorne, VeryVerily you added the sentence Sysops are hereby authorised to enact 24 blocks for violations of this. Does 24 blocks mean 24 hour blocks? I would have editted it but wasn't 100% sure and didn't want to mess with this official-type stuff.

Incidentally, I am glad VeryVerily is being made to keep the three revert rule finally. I have been on articles where we are trying to work out a very careful consensus and then he just wrecks everything with 5/6/7 edits within 24 hours, perhaps trying to goad people out of a consensus mentality and into an edit war mentality. Ruy Lopez 09:57, 19 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/ClockworkTroll

Hi mav. You might have seen that in response to concerns about his name, ClockworkTroll is now User:ClockworkSoul. I wondered if you might consider reviewing your vote in the light of this? I know he is going to pass anyway, but I'm impressed with his willingness to look at the concerns raised, and the way in which he handled it (and that he chose a name I thought of ;) so I thought it might be nice to show it's appreciated. Regards -- sannse (talk) 12:31, 19 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I see you're finally starting to get a proper perspective on these "users" [11]. It still might be too much to expect an end to these senseless actions against me, such as the irrational injunctions being abused by a vindictive admin and hanging over me like a sword of Damocles. VeryVerily 04:46, 20 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Vegetation of the Yosemite area: Great!

What a crisp article, it's really nice! Thanks for doing it!

Now I'm wondering --- both Vegetation of the Yosemite area and Geology of the Yosemite area are really factually correct for the Sierra south of Sonora Pass. (Well, the map at the top of the Vegetation article is kind of specific). Should we try and generalize these articles to cover the whole of the Southern Sierra? That may require a name change. Or, we can keep the status quo, which is "See also" in Sierra Nevada (US). But, if I ever do make a Geology of the Sierra Nevada or Vegetation of the Sierra Nevada, it will be redundant and not as good as these. What do you think?

Which also reminds me: these poor other parks/wildernesses, like Kings Canyon National Park and Ansel Adams Wilderness. Their articles look so pathetic, compared to all of the love lavished on the Yosemite articles. I should try and add more. Of course, if we generalize your nice geology/biology articles, that could bulk them up (at least by linking).

-- hike395 01:19, 21 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Thanks! Although the credit should go to the National Park Service since I just copied their PD text and made some changes. See your talk page for more. --mav

To see an example of such a generalization, check out a rough draft at User:Hike395/Vegetation of the Sierra Nevada. I commented out a couple of sections --- I like them, but I need to do more research before putting them together. What do you think?

It looks good - and I like the idea of a more general article. --mav

OK. I'll work on that article. When it is ready, I'll move it up to Vegetation of the Sierra Nevada, then redirect Vegetation of the Yosemite Area to it. I'll let you work on Geology of the Sierra Nevada: I'm confident it will be close to what you have now. Hm. Perhaps Biology of the Sierra Nevada is better ? (to include animals, too). -- hike395 00:24, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Starting with vegetation would be best, IMO. --mav

Welcome to Atlanta

Hi mav. Welcome to Atlanta and Midtown (well soon). Atlanta is a great place to live; I'm sure you'll enjoy it although having never been to Sacramento, I can't swear it's a "cultural upgrade."  :-) As for other Atlanta wikipedians, the only one that I've particularly noticed is Radiojon, but I haven't been here that long. I would be very surprised if there weren't more. Autiger 06:21, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Cool - thanks! :) I look forward to seeing Atlanta for the first time. --mav

Let me know if you need a tour guide or help getting oriented to Midtown and Atlanta; I certainly wouldn't mind meeting sometime. Autiger 04:19, 28 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Cool. I might take you up on that offer. --mav

A quick note to say thanks

I just wanted to drop you a quick note to thank you for your support in my request for adminship. It was certainly a wild ride, and I really appreciate you taking some time out to contribute. ClockworkSoul 16:32, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Hey - np. :) I'm glad you got it and I really like your new name. --mav

Sweet!

Nice work! --mav 06:56, 29 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Glad it's appreciated. Does my suspicion that the amorphous form will have the same melting temperature as the hottest-melting regular form as stated on the talk page seem reasonable to you though? It sort of makes sense in my head, but then again a lot of things that turn out to be false do too (Don't know if you're at all familiar with this sort of stuff, but that's the only excuse for hanging out at such disreputable pages on wikipedia I can think of). --fvw*† 07:13, 2004 Nov 29 (UTC)

Controversial tag

Self-referential or not, what good can a "controversial" tag possibly do on a talk page? The point of a "controversial" tag is to discourage editing by random passerby who get angry and want to change a well-discussed, factual sentence they don't like, not to sit at the top of a talk page. By moving the controversial tag, one achieves a minor gain in policy-conformity at the expense of even more edit wars for the luckless souls who have the relevant articles on their watchlists. Moreover, the precedent of self-referential warnings is already established by NPOV tags. - Mustafaa 16:40, 29 Nov 2004 (UTC)

NPOV tags are not designed to be permanent parts of an article. If a topic is controversial, it will likely be that way for a very long time - if not forever. Editors will see the HTML note that says the same thing the tag did. --mav

Broken templates

Hey Mav, your edits on Template:NovemberCalendar2004 and Template:DecemberCalendar2004 (other months as well?) broke the entire template, not sure what happened there but for now I've reverted to the unbroken version, if you try again, please make sure they don't break :) Cheer, [[User:Solitude|Solitude\^talk]] 19:08, Nov 30, 2004 (UTC)

They are are not broken; they use variables now. --mav

File:Calendars.png

First of all, I stumbled upon your talk page as I wanted to message you about another issue, then I saw your answer. Could you please respond on my talk page so I do not have to keep checking your talk page for an answer, I think this is no more than polite. Ok then, to show you what I mean, yesterday the templates (your version) looked like the shot on the right. Now I understand that the dated templates are not meant to be included directly, so they are meant to look like that I suppose. The other thing: according to Talk:White Rose's history, you added the Featured Article template to his article on 15 Mar 2004, but I have checked the archives and I can't find the nomination anywhere, the article is clearly not featured quality so it seems it was added to the wrong article by mistake? Maybe you could clearify that, thank you. -- [[User:Solitude|Solitude\^talk]] 07:40, Dec 1, 2004 (UTC)

In general, if you want to track things on talk pages you should watch the page. :) More on your talk page. --mav

What are the point of your variables? They aren't used anywhere except with the default values, and it just makes it hard to implement something like {{DecemberCalendar2004}} {{JanuaryCalendar2005}} like on WP:FPC. ed g2s • talk 05:12, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Please do a little research before reverting next time. :) See your talk page. -mav

You weren't responding and last time I checked there was nothing on what links here. Sorry about that though. You do know that float:center doesn't do anything? ed g2s • talk 17:05, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Sorry for being curt. IIRC, Float=center did fix a text wrap issue, so that is why I used it. --mav

Summary style

Thanks for restoring that page. A bunch of them have been rediected. Maurreen 08:08, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)

np :) Although I do like the idea of having a centralized 'writing guide'; we just need to also have longer explanations of particular parts of that guide on separate pages. --mav

Camera

I was wondering what type of camera setup you used for your photo of Zabriskie Point. I like it. --Viriditas 13:16, 7 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Herschelkrustofsky

Hi Mav, I'm writing because you were one of the editors on the Arbitration Committee who voted regarding the ruling on LaRouche activism in Wikipedia; see Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Lyndon LaRouche/Proposed decision.

If you have time, would you mind taking a look at Wikipedia talk:Requests for arbitration/Lyndon LaRouche/Proposed decision? User:Herschelkrustofsky has initiated a query of the Arbitration Committee for clarification of their ruling. I agree that clarification is needed, because I feel the wording of the ruling has left loopholes that the LaRouche supporters are exploiting. I have therefore written up a long response to Herschelkrustofsky's query and have requested clarification from the Committee on three specific points, as I feel this is an opportunity to put the matter to rest. I wondered whether you'd be prepared to comment on the page. If you don't have the time or inclination, however, don't worry about it. Many thanks, Slim 04:00, Dec 9, 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for lifting the block

Dear Mav: Thanks for lifting the block that affected both me and my dad.

Thanks, and God bless you, best bud.

Sincerely yours, "Antonio Steel Wreck Martin" 14:58, Dec 13, 2004 (MST)

Somebody else beat me to it. :) --mav

Wikisource languages

Hi and thanks for your comments about the interface. I responded to you at wikisource:Wikisource:Scriptorium#Declaration_of_Independence_50_times.3F. Dovi 22:44, Dec 14, 2004 (UTC)

Template:Mapit-US-streetscale

Why exactly is Mapit-US-streetscale not allowed to have its own box? Can you please point me to the rule that clearly states this? If you're also going to edit this, you also have to edit hood-scale, building-scale, city-scale, etc, and you also have to go to the individual articles for which I and others have determined the precise latitudes and longitudes and move the template position to right after the external links. Let me know when this is done. --[[User:Brian0918|brian0918 _talk]] 19:58, 15 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Will do. The Wikipedia:Manual of Style says how external links should be done. The only exceptions to that have been for Wikimedia projects. template:Wikitravel was marked for deletion until its box was removed. --mav

Yes, I modeled the original box version on the links to other wikiprojects, but I had a feeling this might be an issue. If we're not going to use a boxed version, I think the best way to get this info in a recognizable and standardized format would probably be to give it its own header under external links (something that seems not very standard at the moment, but makes sense). It would be nice if we can include the globe graphic under the header in the template too.

The only problem I have with this scheme is that in some articles it really seems to make more sense to include some of these links somewhere in the article before the external links section. But I recognize that keeping all external things outside of the main article makes good sense too.

Before you think about adding these templates to a bunch of articles, let's get the format really hammered out. I wonder if it is worth making a wikiproject to agree on format and to keep link templates up-to-date? --User:Chinasaur

Here's a problem with including headers in templates: users can click the edit link for the header and be sent to the edit page for the template, which is probably not what they wanted and is really not a good idea. This is something that I feel should be addressed in MediaWiki, but I don't know the right place to point it out. For our own purposes, I will probably try to work around including header edit links in the Mapit (soon to be geolink) templates. Thoughts --Chinasaur 06:47, 24 Dec 2004 (UTC)

MapIt is so cool --- we should do it for Mountain Infoboxes

Hey, Mav.. Saw your comment at Template Talk:Mapit-US-streetscale. I agree --- the MapIt template is the best thing since sliced bread. I think we should make a Mountain template that uses some of the same tricks. I tried to make a new template at Template:Infobox US Mountains (just for US mountains, to begin with), but it doesn't work. I'm just not a Template wizard.. Do you have any spare time to take a look at it and help fix it? I asked RedWolf already --- he couldn't help.

More generally, should we spin up Wikipedia:WikiProject Geography and make some cool generic geographic templates that are generalizations of the MapIt templates?

Thanks!!! -- hike395 22:40, 15 Dec 2004 (UTC)

The developers confusingly decided to use {{{ }}} to denote variables. The template should be ready for testing now. I'm not sure if using {{PAGENAME}} is such a good idea since many mountains have disambiguated names, such as Mount Jefferson (Oregon). I also personally don't care for degree/minute/second and prefer the much simpler decimal degree notation. But I leave that too the more active members of WikiProject Mountains. :) --mav

Thanks!!! I'll try it out, now. The upside of D/M/S is that GNIS and NGS provide it directly --- I would have to convert to decimal degrees for every single mountain. The downside is that Terraserver doesn't take D/M/S at all. But, aerial photos of mountains are really hard to interpret, anyway. Thanks again for your help!! -- hike395 23:10, 15 Dec 2004 (UTC)

I scaled back my ambitious super-template, because it wasn't that helpful anyway. Could you take a look at my proposal at Wikipedia:WikiProject Mountains/General#Template to cover part of infobox? Comments, suggestions, and feedback are welcome. --- hike395 00:09, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)

FARC

Mav, I did not mean any offense, as far as I understand the standards for featured articles were much lower back then. What is mysterious that there seems to be no record of the previous nomination of this article back then, maybe you know where to find it, I have looked but failed. Bu the way, look above on my talk page, Muriel already commented on my remark, please do not take it personal, as it was not meant that way. Cheers, -- [[User:Solitude|Solitude\^talk]] 02:54, Dec 16, 2004 (UTC)

OK - that's cool. :) --mav

Wikibooks logo

Hi Mav,

Elian suggested you might be the artist who created the Wikibooks logo. Are you, or do you know who it is? I was looking for them to invite them to participate in the m:Wikinews logo contest.--Eloquence* 03:32, Dec 18, 2004 (UTC)

Nope - that was wikibooks:user:Karl Wick. --mav 00:39, 25 Dec 2004 (UTC)

ArcGIS

Hi there - I notice you seem to be something of a guru - can you suggest some basic tutorials there in how to add / edit geographic features on a map in ArcView? Thanks! Mark Richards 20:11, 20 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Close case

Mav- head on over to Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Gzornenplatz, Kevin Baas, Shorne, VeryVerily/Proposed decision and vote on closing it, please. →Raul654 16:24, Dec 21, 2004 (UTC)

Done. --mav

Mysterious failure to edit

Hi, Mav. I'm getting a mysterious failure when I try to edit Template:Mapit-US-cityscale, but for no other pages. Do you get the same problem? I tried to purge the cache with action=purge with no results. Who would I ask about this, if it is a global problem? Thanks for your time!! -- hike395 08:09, 24 Dec 2004 (UTC)

It is not just you. :( See your talk page. --mav

Camera

Thanks for taking the time to share information about your camera. --Viriditas | Talk 00:53, 25 Dec 2004 (UTC)

np :) --mav

Moving in

I hope you have/had an easy time moving in. Congradulations on your new home. →Raul654 04:09, Dec 25, 2004 (UTC)

It took waaayy too long for the Internet to be set up. But other than that, it was an OK move considering the distance. :) -- mav

Oh yes, and Merry Christmas :) →Raul654 04:13, Dec 25, 2004 (UTC)

Sorry to hear about the Internet; Bellsouth? Where in Atlanta are you? Let me know if you want to meet sometime after the holidays and I can show you around a bit. Autiger 03:02, 30 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Replacing an image

Hello mav, I saw you photo Image:Craters of the Moon National Monument from Inferno Cone-2000px.jpeg in the featured article candidate : Craters of the Moon National Monument. If you don't mind, I've done a little bit of photo imaging : clearing up the foregrond, as to show more details. Otherwise, you can always reverse it to its previous (dark) state. But I think you'll like it. Anyway, A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2005 !! JoJan 15:16, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Well the image was lower res so I re-replaced it with the higher res version but increased its gamma so that it looked the same as your version. --mav

Happy New Year

Dear Mav Happy new year! Hope you got drunk, hehe Sincerely yours, "Antonio Guitar shaped body Martin"

Nope - didn't get drunk. :) --mav

List of U.S. national parks

I am puzzled by your changing this list from a bulleted list to a numbered one. The only "2-ness" of Arches National Park is that it is alphabetically after Acadia National Park. I don't understand why this change would be useful. Rmhermen 14:58, Jan 1, 2005 (UTC)

For the same reason we bullet point anything - Just so people can see the number of parks in each category. --mav

We bullet point items to make a list look pretty. We create numbered lists usually when we are establishing an order. However Acadia is not the first national park created in the U.S. nor is it the largest nor the furthest north or any other first. Except first alphabetically. Rmhermen

It's not that important either way - if it bugs you, then change it back. :) --mav