User talk:Ihavenolife

Video Game Music

Organizing by company is also useful, but I think that should be under List of video game music by company. We'll leave the main one by name for now, and perhaps make a few more lists. Does this sound good, I'll help you organize it by company. --ShaunMacPherson 18:45, 16 Sep 2004 (UTC)

I'd like to contribute, but the tables need to look pretty. Experiment to find out what table/cell size would look best (larger height with smaller width, etc.) Some table examples: Fictional chemical substance Virtues of Ultima Final Fantasy. You could also do a more square table like in page classifications such as Herbology or Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Computer and Video Games in order to have both descriptions and cover images. Ihavenolife 18:07, 15 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Yes, List of NES games looks bad compared to List of SNES games even though SNES games has no border. So as long as it looks good that is good :). I think the first thing to do is make sure each soundtrack's video game page is up then make a sound tract section. We will link the VGM clicks to the soundtrack section of the game. I will sort it into company as well and put it somewhere were you can edit it. --ShaunMacPherson 18:45, 16 Sep 2004 (UTC)

VFD

Hey, you might want to sign your vote on Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/1999 (number) --fvw* 23:27, 2004 Nov 25 (UTC)

Article Licensing

Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 2000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:

• Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
• Multi-Licensing Guide
• Free the Rambot Articles Project

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

Option 1

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

OR

Option 2

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to any [[U.S. state]], county, or city article as described below:

{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk)

"Deep Web"

...Can you enlighten me on this? - Sure thing!

The 'deep web' is a term used - I'm not sure how commonly, admittedly, but it seems in common parlance here - to refer to everything that you need to drill down to find; the data hidden in pay-to-access databases, or on rapidly changing sites, or simply on websites that aren't indexed by Google or Yahoo or the like. (I suppose you could class Wikipedia talk pages as part of this...) The figure often quoted at me (by one of my lecturers) is that this covers about 90% of the information available through the Web - I suspect in absolute size terms it may actually be more, but don't have figures to go on.

So, what's in the ones I named? ATHENS, which I mentioned, is a UK "clearinghouse" for academic resources - institutions pay a subscription, and choose the databases they wish their students to be able to get to. (Census data, mapping databases, journal archives, that sort of thing... and the electronic edition of the utterly huge Dictionary of National Biography) All of this is the sort of thing that doesn't show up on Google. LexisNexis is a large legal (and, IIRC, journalism) database - passworded again - and Dialog is a meta-database - another clearinghouse allowing the search of several hundred databases. Most of these evolved out of pre-Web services, which used to be accessed directly by network connections or dial-in lines; the long arms of the reference librarian, in a way.

In a more prosaic example, the New York Times archives are part of the deep web - they're not searchable without actually digging through the site itself. You could make a good case for eBay, say - admittedly, it's not something you're likely to want to cite, but the intermittent nature of search-engine indexing works against coverage of somewhere that's constantly reforming.

I hope that made some sense... Shimgray 19:27, 11 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Something I meant to add - Google is actively moving towards trying to index a lot of this stuff - Google Scholar is a good example, although this has the interesting feature of often indexing things that are themselves behind pay-to-access structures. Shimgray 19:31, 11 Dec 2004 (UTC)

You might also find invisible-web.net to be a useful demonstration. Shimgray 14:21, 15 Dec 2004 (UTC)

New Utopia

I've made some changes to the New Utopia article to try and make it a bit more NPOV as the article as it was written sounded like a press release for Lazarus Long. I'd be interested in your comments. — © Alex756 14:56, 1 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Super Mario's Wacky Worlds

Thank you for writing Super Mario's Wacky Worlds. Can you please explain in the first line the context: What *is* Super Mario's Wacky Worlds? The essense of the article should always be in the very first lead line. Thanks, Jens Nielsen 07:44, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

Video game music (Treasure)

Someone has nominated this article for deletion. Would you prefer to have it userfied? JChap2007 23:21, 20 August 2006 (UTC)