User talk:Curps

Mis-spelled links

Howdy. Just a quick thank you for helping out with the list of mis-spelled links. Much appreciated, good job. - TB 20:41, Jun 4, 2004 (UTC)

hello Curps, that's me again Desertsky (Hans-Emil Schuster) Reading again the article about me I feel nothing substantial could be added at this moment. Maybe one day for the Minor Planets one could add the official dedications (why and for whom the name was given) provided no copyrights will be hurt, as you have edited and written this article I just asked you could you not promote to a "real" not being a stub anymore ? (if WIKI rules will permit this action ??) greetings Desertsky (Hans-Emil Schuster)

just seen,the stub is away and the article promoted, thanks, if I maybe helpful with anything please contact me, Desertsky (Hans-Emil Schuster)

Transit of Venus

Apologies - I keep screwing up your excellent edits of transit of Venus. I will leave it alone until it settles down. -- ALoan (Talk) 16:03, 8 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for creating Transit of Venus (disambiguation) and cleaning up Transit of Venus in the process. I was about to do it myself, but you beat me to it. Nice work. --Diberri | Talk 20:55, Jun 14, 2004 (UTC)

Categorisation

Thanks for your message. I've just discovered that the method I was using wasn't putting the articles in alphabetically therefore I stopped going any further, and the list I was working became kind of screwed up until corrected. I was looking over at the Categorisation pages to check up on if there was a way to sort them when I saw your comment. --TonyW 04:28, Jun 11, 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for your help, and I'm sorry you've had to go over all the categorisations I did to correct them. I was going to look through them, and edit them then I saw your message. There are some other categorisations I've done so I'll check those now. --TonyW 04:38, Jun 11, 2004 (UTC)

Just found a lot of entries in Category:Mathematicians in order of first name, and not surname. Am I right in saying we should be putting articles like this in surname order? --TonyW 05:17, Jun 11, 2004 (UTC)

Category:Harry Potter movies

I notice you have changed all the sort codes so that the entries now show up as numbers in the Category article. I had originally considered doing this but I decided that it was not such a great idea, since it does not scale well to categories where there are more than 9 items, and I prefer having uniform rules wherever possible. Take a look at Category:Wheel of Time books for an example of where your method falls down: there are currently 10 books in the series and an 11th due out in late 2004. There is also the other reason that there might well at some point be further articles in this category, so where should they be sorted? I suggest we discuss this further on Wikipedia talk:Categorization. --Phil | Talk 11:38, Jun 15, 2004 (UTC)

Dead People dead

I am just back from a few days out of internet and discovered (to my relief) the disapearence of the category:dead people. I didnt follow the discussion and, while investigating for it, i noticed your last post in Abigail's talk page. Gee, you said everything right there was to say in a very elegant way! If she cant live with that, that's her problem. Cheers, Muriel G 15:09, 15 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Automatically fixing category sorting under "C" ?

from the pump

It seems that there was a bug at one time, causing any article added to a category to be sorted under "C". Articles sorted this way remain there until the next time they are modified.

For instance, Category:Programming languages, as of this moment, has "Ada programming language" listed under "C", as well as "JavaScript", "Fortran", "Lisp programming language".

Fixing this is very simple for any individual article: just Edit it and Save. This can be done even without making any changes during the edit, in which case the "modification" won't even show up in the article History. But the category will now show the article under its correct alphabetical letter.

The problem is, there are many such bogus "C" listings, scattered over all the various categories and sub-categories. It may be months before some of the articles in question get edited and modified in the normal course of Wikipedia editing. Is there any way to run a script to fix this globally, or must we wait for the problem to fix itself over the coming weeks and months? -- Curps 16:37, 13 Jun 2004 (UTC)

If you can get a developer to run the update suggested on meta, it might be fixed. -- User:Docu

re morse code

re pre- you can't do the space thing inside a table, to use pre you have to explicitly pre it. Rick Boatright 21:41, 16 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Transit of Deimos from Mars?

I've just seen your interesting Transit of Deimos from Mars and am trying to duplicate the March 9 results using JPL Horizons with telnet to see if I can uncover the 2 minute discrepancy. How did you enter Spirit's coordinates when JPL asks for the Coordinate center? I see the coordinates are -175.4833 +219805 -056448 (E.Long, DXY, DZ) but cannot fathom how to convert them to a form Horizons wants. When I used -175.4833, +2198.05, -0564.48 I got a position deep inside Mars! In particular what are the units? They're not kilometres and they're not km/100, although Horizons displays them as KM. Any tips much appreciated. -Wikibob | Talk 22:09, 2004 Jun 17 (UTC)

IUAC 8298

hello Curps,

the corresponding web site says: "not yet distributed/issued"

I will try and ask what happened to this circular, mybe for some reason it is not for public use yet ???

I will keep you informed, regards Desertsky

I managed to download the DVI format of 8298 [1] but I couldn't find a DVI reader (TeX is too big for me to install on my old PC, and I can't get my emacs tex mode to work) although I can make out some words (Mars I I must be Deimos and Mars I Phobos):

Mars I I ... already in transit__LGwhen the _rst image was obtained on Mar. 4.12773 UT

w_as ap-____Apro___ximately____at mid-transit on the Mar. 4.12785 image,

and w_as b__et_w_een____A third____and fourth con___tacts on the Mar. 4.12819 image.

Mars I Mars I____w_as p___ossibly____A near_____rst con___tact on the image of Mar. 7.11556, w_as near mid-transit on____A Mar.__UU7.11567, and w___as near fourth con_tact on Mar. 7.11579.___33___A 2004__UUMarc___h 8

I had to replace many unprintable characters with underlines; they may have represented times or references to times. -Wikibob | Talk 18:58, 2004 Jun 20 (UTC)

I've added my calculation attempt to Talk:Transit of Deimos from Mars where I find the first Deimos image is 10:31:44 Mars time, contrasted with the given Mars time of 10:28:17, but closer to the JPL Horizons time of 10:30:14 for the start of the transit. -Wikibob | Talk 22:58, 2004 Jun 20 (UTC)

hello Curps, just seen that your problem is solved once Wikibob managed to download in DVI format, I will ask anyhow why HTML users are "punished". By the way I have the impression generally that HTML gets oldfashioned, Desertsky

I just got the information that the MPCs are readable in HTML; so it looks like that for 8298 it just has been bad luck. rgds Desertsky

Thanks for correcting the typo on David Wong Louie. I went a bit copy-paste-crazy there. O_o --Menchi 22:03, 25 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Apsis

I was wondering if my picture was indeed correct, A little googling and looking at ellipse got me the picture as I made it, I thought that the orbit would be more egg-shaped. I'll do a bit of research and fix the picture, thank you for correcting me.

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k, This is the current version I made, It should be correct as I based it on other illustrations I found.

File:Apsis pic c.png

Give me an OK sign if it's correct and i'll add it to the article. --Jimius 09:50, 27 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Natural Satellites of Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus

The reference you requested is http://www.iau.org/IAU/News/jupiter.html - dont be fooled by the name - it gives the IAU designations for newly discovered natural satellites of Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus -- Zaphod Beeblebrox 18:34, 2 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Hi there - have taken your suggestion and emailed the guys that discovered the three satellites in question - will let you know what answers they come up with as soon as they land in my mailbox -- Zaphod Beeblebrox 19:49, 2 Jul 2004 (UTC)

One of my emails has received a reply ; Brother Guy Consolmagno (a member of the WGPSN), fowarded a section from an email he received from Kaare Aksnes on this matter -

"The correct spellings are XXIII Suttungr, XXVII Skathi and XXX Thrymr. The anglicized forms Suttung, Skadi and Thrym were originally accepted by the IAU Working Group on Planetary System Nomenclature (WGPSN) and announced on IAUC 8177. But the names were later changed in accordance with the original norse spellings, see http://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov"

I hope that this settles the matter - the IAU appear to have adopted the official Norse spellings for these bodies -- Zaphod Beeblebrox 08:56, 3 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Tabula Rasa

Ok. Fine by me. I was just trying to help out Wolf Deunan. Don't forget to check the links to the page though, with all this renaming there are bound to be mislinks somewhere (especially in the list of episodes). Regards, Redux 13:08, 9 Jul 2004 (UTC)

(Buffy episode) instead of (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

This section moved from User talk:OwenBlacker as he's sure he won't be the only person wanting to make some kind of comment.

I changed all the episodes from "Title (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)" to "Title (Buffy episode)"

The reason is because there are episodes called Angel and The Initiative, so to avoid horrible confusion, the episode names have to be in their own separate namespace.

Everything else (apart from episodes) should stay as "Person or Thing (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)".

Same thing for the series Angel, by the way: there's an episode called Darla.

-- Curps 11:40, 9 Jul 2004 (UTC)

No problem. The articlename collision hadn't occurred to me, but I was vaguely thinking of moving them all a while ago (when I did something similar to Angel characters' articles) and just couldn't be bothered. Thanks for actually having bothered to do it! :o) — OwenBlacker 20:04, Jul 9, 2004 (UTC)

Just so you don't worry: The real world has intruded and I won't be able to do many episodes between now and say mid-August. Bummer, but there you go -- and thanks again for all the help! -- Wolf Deunan 10:23, Jul 18, 2004 (UTC)

Hi!!! I'm sorry, but you are not supposed to delete my articles (I mean about impressionism). If you see some mistakes or you disagree with something you can change them but not delete my article. And one more questions, I'm new here and I don't know how to write from new paragraph. Can you tell me how to do this?

Hi!!! Can you tell me exatly how I can start new paragraph? Should I push something in the toolbar? Or just push enter on my keyboard? Thanks.

"Militant atheist" means to make quite relentless and strong jokes toward even mild friends if they happen to be religious. A few minutes can do that. 157.181.80.93 20:03, 10 Jul 2004 (UTC)

militant, adj. 1. vigorously active, aggressive, or combative. ... Random House College Dictionary 157.181.80.93 21:27, 10 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Re: De-italicization of List of Buffy the Vampire Slayer episodes, it appears that they should be in quotation marks instead (Wikipedia:Manual of Style (titles)). Unless you are doing that anyway, in which case disregard :-) -- Wapcaplet 22:59, 10 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Good point. Since it's obviously a list of episode titles, I agree; quotes would be redundant. -- Wapcaplet 01:12, 11 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Hi!!! Thanks for helping me with this small problem about new paragraph.

And thanks for inforamtion about correct translation of постриг. I was a little confused about it, I looked in dictionary and there were written that postrig is take the veil. But now I know. Thanks.

By the way are you Russian?

Thanks for helping with editing and inforamtion about how to write articles.

Do you know Russian?

--Debora 23:49, 10 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Wow, it is great.

Have you ever been to Russia? Or maybe you relatives are from Russia?

--Debora 00:05, 11 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Do you mean that your description and my cited dictionary reference are identical? Please answer by yes or no. 157.181.80.93 07:49, 11 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Blink comparator

Hi there - we meet again ; noticed the empty link for the blink comparator on the Will Hay page - have created a stub for this one. If there's any interesting information you think should be included, then go for it... -- Zaphod Beeblebrox 05:44, 12 Jul 2004 (UTC)

hello CURPS: that's me Desertsky (Hans-Emil Schuster) just read the article BLINK COMPERATOR. Having used such a machine myself a hell of a time I congratulate the contributors to this article. I think a real good contribution. Did never realize who was the inventor of this apparatus, thanks wiki now I know. rgds H.-E.

Actually, I don't think that Will Hay was the original inventor of the blink comparator, I think he just designed and built his own version of it. -- Curps 17:37, 12 Jul 2004 (UTC)

'Crater' astronomers

Thanks for the suggestions! I was not quite sure about n- or mdash, both looked fine to me at the time... Will change it. Awolf002 15:38, 12 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Yes, the "category". Sometimes I forget... Thanks also for cleaning up after me. The obit references were hard to get right.

This is a great project, I'm learning a lot about the personal history of astronomy. Awolf002 18:15, 22 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Hi!!! Thanks again for helping me with editing articles. This information is very important for me.

You were right ivan Kalita is Ivan I. You know Russian history good. --Debora 22:40, 12 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Daemon (mythology)

Good thinking for the new title! Wetman 07:55, 14 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Category sort tags

Thanks for the tip; I didn't know at first what the sort tags were for. --Merovingian✍Talk 11:43, Jul 15, 2004 (UTC)

Maria Mitchell

Thank you for your notice of your latest corrections about the astronomer. I've corrected them also in Slovene article, as you've kindly proposed. Best regards. --XJamRastafire 21:39, 21 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Andrei Bogolyubsky

I have done as requested. --[[User:OldakQuill|Oldak Quill]] 13:28, 23 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Drew Barrymore

Curps, it is mischievous of you to perform that edit: You can plainly see that there is a dispute. Enter into the dispute. Let's see you argue your point. Paul Beardsell 02:16, 25 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Hi Curps. Thanks for amending my amendment re host-guest. We learn something every day. Cheers. Moriori 23:31, Jul 25, 2004 (UTC)

Images

AFAIK, scanning alone doesn't make an image copyrighted. If a photography shows someone who died ~1850, we can safely assume that the image has passed into the public domain. If the Smithonian scans these PD images and puts them up on a web site, they remain public domain, unless they are altered in some way (e.g., digitally improved, which, judging by the quality, is not the case).

Anyway, I'll write them a mail and ask them. --Magnus Manske 13:06, Jul 29, 2004 (UTC)

Hi!!! I took the material of "The World of art"not from krugosvet enciclopedia. I took from another sourse. But anyway can I know if this or that article is copyrrite or not?

Can advice me something?--Debora 01:10, 2 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Thank you very much for information you gave me. It is getting clear for me now. Thanks a lot.

If you don't mind can I ask you sometimes advice? Because I've been living here for only more then 1 year and my English isn't perfect so some words i don't know how they would be sound in English.

Anyway. Thanks a lot.--Debora 15:31, 2 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Dutch sorting

Hi Curps,

I saw your edit on Johannes Diderik van der Waals. You said in English it should be sorted under V. I checked it in the Encyclopaedia Brittanica; there it is under W. Just as Manuel de Falla is under F. What is the rule to follow? Pethan 15:51, 2 Aug 2004 (UTC)]

Astrometry

Thanks for the spell correction in Astrometry. I should start using spell check :)

hello Curps, sorry to interfere on this page, but I have problems to send a message to you. Looks like I get too old for this buisiness see you (hopefully) Desertsky (Hans-Emil Schuster)

I will try again surfing the web I have found an article under all-science-fair-projects.com about me (Hans-Emil Schuster, category astronomers) evidently taken from wikipedia. But the link Paranal is written in red CENSORED I have asked alsready the webmaster all-science about the meaning of this. I do not fee the expression censored very polite what is wrong with the link Paranal?

see you Desertsky (Hans-Emil Schuster)

me again: I got an answer already from all-science-fair. the webmaster explained that the censors have "inadvertently" take the measure; I assume they will repair the insert by the way: how could I transmit the e-mail from all-science to you, that you may read their answer yourself ? sorry for the upheaval Desertsky

PARANAL

thanks for the answer; I think you found the explanaition (Paranal=...anal). It is still not corected. I will wait some days more and repeat my request for repair. You are right,it is funny to see how many pages have copied wikipedias original entrance. regards Desertsky (Hans-Emil Schuster)

just checked science fair, looks like that the Paranal buisiness is solved, not censored anymore, please check in your talk also PULKOVO, I have put a message there to you, sorry to have mixed it up again, regards Desertsky

Pulkovo Observatory

Hi, Curps! I noticed you wrote a few articles on the Russian astronomers. Just letting you know I've just submitted my article on Pulkovo Observatory. Please, check it out and let me know what you think (and make necessary corrections if you have to, since I'm not a native speaker). Hope to hear from you soon! KNewman 19:34, Sep 13, 2004 (UTC)

hello Curps, thats me Desertsky; I have noticed that via google its easily possible to enter in wikipedias usertalks without being a member or logged in; at least in some talks, rather funny ?? any comments regards Desertsky

hello Curps, for your information: ref. the list of Minor Planets; three more have gotten names: 11789, 1977 RK KEMPOWSKI 12211, 1981 KJ Arnoschmidt 26074, 1977 TD Carlwirtz

unamed are still 46514 and 73640 You may update the list if you want, any a check could be useful before in order to avoid errors,

thanks and regards Desertsky (Hans-Emil Schuster)

T. Fujii and K. Watanabe

These two asteroid discoverers are listed in Wikipedia as "Tetsuya Fujii" and "Kazuo Watanabe". There is one page, (http://www.geocities.com/mahtezcatpoc/ohno.html) which says the names are "Tomomi Fujii" and "Kimihito Watanabe". This latter page being an astromancer's, it is a dubious source, but I have found no other Web sources to tell one way or the other. What are your sources?

Urhixidur 17:03, 2004 Oct 3 (UTC)

hello Curps, one of my old collegues(still busy in Asteroid research) informs me without reliability as follows: Fujii TETSUYA, co-discoverer of 21 planets 1988-1992 Watanabe KAZURO,co-discoverer of 580 planets 1987-2000, thats all what he has in his files, anyhow Fujii and Watanabe are names NOT that seldom

not very helpful, but maybe atleast a hint for further investigation,

greetings H.-E (Desertsky)

I've obtained corroboration of Tetsuya Fujii and Kazuo Watanabe from Eiji and Naomi <twin-star@bigpond.com>, of the Twin Star Guest House and Observatory (http://www.geocities.com/ballandean2003/) in Australia. Their fluency in Japanese and implication with amateur astronomy has proven invaluable in identifying several asteroid discoverers.

Urhixidur 15:06, 2004 Dec 18 (UTC)

Hi,

I am only now replying to your query, I was away from Wikipedia for several months.

For Tetsuya Fujii, there are various Japanese sources, for instance: http://square.millto.net/~geten/products/asteroid.html which mentions that asteroid 4343 Tetsuya is named after him. The writing of his name in Japanese characters is given by various sources including http://www.aerith.net/JANNET/asteroid.per1000/07000.html

For Kazuo Watanabe, we can see the Japanese Wikipedia article ja:渡辺和郎 or various other online sources.

I don't actually speak Japanese but I know katakana and hiragana and through various online searches and also using Google (and the sources mentioned above), you can find out first how the names of the Japanese astronomers are written in Japanese characters and then how the first name might be pronounced (for instance in http://www.din.or.jp/~wa6/namae/ka.html for names beginning with "ka"), and then a final search to confirm it. It does seem to be the case occasionally that two people whose first names are written with the same Japanese characters can sometimes pronounce their first names differently.

I have found the geocities "astromancer" guy VERY unreliable. For instance he claims that F. Rigaux (of comet Arend-Rigaux and a couple of asteroids) was "Françoise"! (see http://www.geocities.com/mahtezcatpoc/ward.html). I finally found it to be Fernand, but don't remember the source.

The http://square.millto.net/~geten/products/asteroid.html can be used for Meanings of asteroid names, perhaps I will find time to work on this.

-- Curps 01:32, 21 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Article Licensing

I've "started" the Free the Rambot Articles Project which aims to get users to release all of their contributions to the U.S. state, county, and city articles (if any) under the CC-by-sa 1.0 and 2.0 license (at minimum) or into the public domain if they prefer. A secondary, but equally important, goal is to get those users to release ALL of their edits for ALL articles. I've personally chosen to multi-license all of the rambot and Ram-Man contributions under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike License so that other projects, such as WikiTravel, can use our articles. I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all your contributions (or at minimum those on the geographic articles) so that we can keep most of the articles available under the multi-license. Many users use the {{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}} template (or even {{MultiLicensePD}} for public domain) on their user page, but there are other templates for other options at Template messages/User namespace. If you only prefer using the GFDL, I understand, but I thought I'd at least ask, just in case, since the number of your edits is in the top 100. If you do want to do it, simply just copy and paste one of the above two templates into your user page and it will allow us to track those users who have done it. For example:

Option 1

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

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:

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain (which many people do or don't like to do, see Wikipedia:Multi-licensing), you could replace {{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}} with {{MultiLicensePD}} -- Ram-Man 23:18, Nov 25, 2004 (UTC)

Hans-Emil Schuster

Hello Curps: just seen that somebody has updated the list of minor planets (The WIKI article Hans-Emil Schuster). Presumably done by you; thanks. b.t.w.: if wanted you may add in the article (Hans-Emil Schuster) that also a minor planet is named for me: 2018 Schuster, thanks and kind regards, H.E.S. Desertsky 04:53, Dec 18, 2004 (UTC)

just seen your information about Urhixidur having done the latest corrections in "my file". I have written some lines of acknowledgement already to him, all the best for you, H.E.S

hello Curps, just seen your message to me, (21rst DEC) thanks for all your efforts, I assume that you are now more frequently back to WIKI ? and best wishes for the coming days and full success for the next year, H.-E.S.

vandalism spree reversion

Damnit, beat me again. Is it me or are you getting quicker? :-) &#0xfeff; --fvw * 00:15, 2004 Dec 21 (UTC)

Hi. Can't somebody just ban the IP? -- Curps 00:16, 21 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Yeah, that would be nice, note the desperate-measures banner I put at the top of S:RC. I wonder if wikipedia strips <blink> tags *evil grin*. &#0xfeff; --fvw * 00:19, 2004 Dec 21 (UTC)

re: List of Pantheists

Please check page's history before adding "speedy label". Mikkalai 05:12, 21 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Oops, I thought I did. In all other instances I simply rv'd. -- Curps 05:15, 21 Dec 2004 (UTC)