User talk:Jamesmusik

Re: Water in Air

Thanks for responding to my water vapor density question. Ragnar

Moving Nuremberg rally

Hi, I see you moved Nuremburg rally to Nuremberg rally. I agree that the latter is probably the better spelling for the English Wikipedia, but if you find there is already an article at the latter spelling you should get an admin to do the move for you. If you just copy and paste the contents, it losing the edit history, something that is required under the GFDL. Evil Monkey∴Hello 00:09, July 10, 2005 (UTC)

Sorry about that... thanks for the info. Jamesmusik 01:58, 11 July 2005 (UTC)

Re: Expansion

Then RFE is giving incorrect instructions, there has for a long time been a guideline not to use editorial templates in the article namespace. The template locations discussion is whether to overule this guideline. Until such a consensus exists to use an editorial template in the article namespace please don't. Joe D (t) 21:30, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

re: Harry Potter (plot)

There is a discussion about splitting this page on the talk page, though a simple split is probably too simiplistic. In reality, it needs to be split and then merged with the books' articles. There's no template for that... :) James 00:44, July 21, 2005 (UTC)

Ah, sorry, I didn't spot that. In that case what you could do is use {{merge}} under each header, as it reads "this article or section [should] be merged with". So try that one instead. Hope that helps. :) Garrett^Talk 00:50, 21 July 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the note; I hadn't realized that the merge template was for sections as well as articles. 01:00, July 21, 2005 (UTC)

I don't think the template used to say that, it didn't have the arrow thing either. But, anyway, that's the way it is now. Glad that was helpful. :) Garrett^Talk 01:11, 21 July 2005 (UTC)

Sorry to bother you again, but I just added the accompanying {{mergefrom}} to each page, and got this in response:

Please provide one section for the discussion of all the merges you propose. This will avoid the problem of discussing it in six different places. I suggest a new section in Talk:Harry Potter (plot). You can then use {{subst:mergefrom}} or whatever, and fill in correct links to the sections for the Discuss link ([[Talk:Harry Potter (plot)#Section name|Discuss]]). — 131.230.133.185 01:49, 21 July 2005 (UTC)

So if you could make a little summary thing as a hub for discussing the merge that can then be amended. :) --UPDATE: I've started a barebones summary thing to link to, but it needs fleshing out as I'm an outsider to the whole topic so can't really help in the actual discussion. Garrett^Talk 02:10, 21 July 2005 (UTC)

Water

Yeah, I thought not drinking enough was dangerous too. But another editor changed it, and I assumed he knew more than I did. Pakaran 21:36, 23 July 2005 (UTC)

Don't censor the Ref Desk

While some interpreted the question as equivalent to "what are the risks of genetic disease if first cousins marry", I decided whoever wrote that question would not be able to make sense of an accurate answer and would most benefit from feedback suggesting the most common social reaction to that type of public declaration. We may differ as to what kind of answer was most beneficial to this particular question, but the socially approved behavior around here is to add your answer, not to remove mine.

The short version of this is: I claim the right to respond to stupid questions with stupid answers so don't censor me. It suggests you are an officious busybody without a sense of humor. alteripse 09:49, 28 July 2005 (UTC)

Summary?

The short text on 'summaries' was broken out of WP:FICT and listed as a proposal for a while, to get more discussion. Since that discussion has concluded, it should be merged back in. As to why I hadn't done that yet - I was still working on it and having half a dozen browser tabs open. Yours, Radiant_>|< 17:39, July 29, 2005 (UTC)

Trek Summary

You cannot use memory Alpha's text here on Wikipedia. Your edit for "Conspiracy" was reverted back to it's original state. Someone else tried using MA's texts here and vice versa and it caused a big stink on both sites. Cyberia23 02:06, 31 July 2005 (UTC)

Why not use Memory Alpha?

First off, MA sucks. Matter of opinion I know, but go read that place, there are way better Trek supported articles and info here on Wikipedia than they have, and I have discovered that almost everyone up there is some 12 year old whiner Trekkie geek. I dealt with them myself many times. I used to have an account there that I abandoned long ago becuase of it.

Secondly, why repeat what another website has? That's lame IMO even if its "open sourced". All I know from hanging out around here is the last time someone copied MA's stuff and put it here on Wikipedia - they were bitched out, and i think even threatend to get banned by admins saying their work was copied and it violated the rules.

Thridly, and this is on a personal level for me; I wrote about 75% of all the first season Next Gen synopsis here on Wikipedia, (including Conspiracy) and I because of that, I get more than little annoyed when someone just wanders in and deletes everything I wrote without a good reason. I know Wikipedia is a place "where anyone can edit", and I don't mind rewrites, edits, or corrections, but to delete or revert the entire thing without working with it first, or without a vote of peers who contributed or read the articles, is a bit rediculous.

Anyway, I know my synopsis pages are very long; I probably included too much detail, and I'm actually getting around to shorten them up as much as I can. This is a little difficult right now since I don't have the tremendous free time that I once had. I'll be getting back to it when I can. Cyberia23 02:52, 1 August 2005 (UTC)

Jack Jones

Hi James: I am the person who inquired about Jack Jones. Thank you for your response. I see online that Reed College is in Oregon. I also am in the USA. I would love to be able to get more info on Jack. I am hoping someone from the UK might respond. At least now I see his wife's name. I am hoping to find out his parents' names. I believe he is a cousin to my maternal grandmother who also was born in Merthyr Tydfil. She died in the US in 1971. I found an old newspaper clipping in my mother's things after she died and it was about Jack. It appeard to have been sent to my grandmother by her brother. The clipping is from 1955. Anyway, sorry to bore you, but thanks so much for your response. I am not too good at this "searching" stuff. D. (unsigned comment by Special:Contributions/128.226.47.62 left on User:Jamesmusik)

You are welcome. Thanks again. Funny, I work at a university so I should be able to check all of these out here. I write to you on this page because I am not sure how to use the other pages. I just "guessed" at how to respond. If I do an "edit" on the page where you replied to me, will that show up for you? How do you know I left it? [Sorry, I am "old" lady and not up on these technology things. My kids laugh at me.] D. (unsigned comment by Special:Contributions/128.226.47.62 left on User:Jamesmusik)

Reproduction

Thanks very much for you edits. I never thought ranking organisms with "high-end" and "low-end" conflicts NPOV (see .44 Magnum and fix it if you like) Deryck C. 07:01, 9 August 2005 (UTC)

Cleancat

I don't mind if you put the tag back, but the category doesn't compare with the others so tagged. Maurreen (talk) 17:57, 15 August 2005 (UTC)

Reference Desk archiving

Hello! Thanks for the note about my archiving. Lately, I've been trying to experiment with different archiving methods, as the reference desk is growing quite large to handle. I'll minimize the number of edits/saves next time with a working copy as you suggested - I forgot about the impact to the page history. I archived differently this time around because the last time I archived I found it difficult to make all the necessary changes before without running into multiple edit conflicts. --HappyCamper 10:03, 17 August 2005 (UTC)