User talk:Mintguy/archive 1
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Hello there, welcome to the 'pedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you need any questions answered about the project then check out Wikipedia:Help or add a question to the Village pump. Cheers! --maveric149
Hi. Thanks Maverick. I can see this becoming a bit addictive!!
Yeah, welcome! There's no high quite like it... --GayCom
Is an Irish person only someone who is a citizen of the Republic (or N. Ireland)? This isn't how most people I knew growing up (in NY) saw it! As you may infer, I have no personal stake in the matter. But the heading of the article seemed to suggest that it would include people of Irish descent, and not just people born in Ireland ... Slrubenstein
Well. My parents are Irish, but I was born in England. I predominantly consider myself English, but I describe myself as Irish by heritage. Now in theory I could play for the Irish football team, and then perhaps I might be called a famous Irishman. However, if I became famous in some other field not directly linked to my parents nationality I would be surprised to find myself described as a famous Irishman. Mintguy
- fair enough. Still, I wonder how Gene and Grace saw it. Slrubenstein
Welcome. And on the "serious separation of powers" issues in Kyoto Protocol, I think that is someone's POV -- as opposed to general knowledge. In Wikipedia, advocacy positions are always attributed to their proponents. So if there is some organization or constitutional scholar who raised the "separation of powers" issues, we should mention them. --Ed Poor
nice work on speling of separate and separated. --Ed Poor
I'm beginning to think you found a "list of commonly misspelled words" and are on a vendetta. Good hunting! --Ed Poor
Hi there. Sorry for ranting about Worlds' / World's - i'm doing lots of work on the Sandman stuff, it was 2:30am, and it looked like you'd mucked up a bunch of links, when you actually hadn't :). I just added an entry to the talk page for Worlds' End, clarifying that it really, *REALLY* is Worlds', and explaining why. Since you found so many sources with the mistake, though, I don't blame you for "correcting" it. Cya! --AW
Thanks for the copy-editing on U.S. plan to invade Iraq, mint guy. I'm also anxious about whether I have introduced any bias into the article, either for against Iraq or the US. --Uncle Ed
Thanks for your comment. You're really funny. -- Sam
Hi. Just joined on 5 August 2002.
So far, I've made major changes to the entry on the light bulb and Joseph Swan. Minor additions to the entries of MUDs and corrected spellings in the entries about Edison and London.
Just made an entry for Lewes. the town where I've lived for the last 8 years. It probably needs some editing, as I've basically just gone on about the bonfire.
Harry Paget Flashman... yeah cool..
God. I've got to go to bed, I've been editing for hours.
Ok.. some major missing articles Exchequer, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Home Office, Home Secretary, Harrow School, Tom Brown's schooldays... loads more... but need sleep ...
Hi, Mintguy, thanks for the tip. The Sussex Ouse is on my waterways map, all alone and forlorn on the south coast...Have a look at Ouse, I've called it the River Ouse, Sussex. Let me know if this is not satisfactory. Do you fancy adding to the article? Renata 17:15 Nov 26, 2002 (UTC)
Bye
My students screwed up the James I page, and then we "fixed" it. Seems you managed to revert it exactly - but how did you do that? I'm still ignorant on these matters. David Martland 15:38 Dec 6, 2002 (UTC)
- Hi. Go into older versions(it used to be called 'history', I dunno why they changed it) of the article you wish to change, select the version you wish to revert to, then edit it and hit save.
I take your point about GPO. Do you want to go ahead and fix the disambiguation? I'm logging off now for a while. David Martland 15:55 Dec 6, 2002 (UTC)
I apologise, but only because you live in Lewes, home of the Sussex Archaeological Society. See One-hit wonders in the UK --Deb
Thanks for putting up the Will Self picture... its suitably sinister. -- Greg Godwin
Plz do not erase a text like Neil Hamilton again. You have to move it elsewheres instead of erasing it. Vera Cruz 11:03 Dec 16, 2002 (UTC)
- It has been moved to Neil Hamilton (author) Mintguy 11:05 Dec 16, 2002 (UTC)
- see: Neil Hamilton
Hey, do you think you can add Moore's specific gun deaths/year numbers and the population figures you used to the Bowling for Columbine article? It's not that I disbelieve your analysis, but I think the argument would be more compelling with the figures included. --Ryguasu
- Yeah I was thinking that myself recently. I didn't include it originally, because I thought it would look untidy and long winded. I'll hunt them down though. Mintguy
Constructive criticism involves suggesting how one's contributions might be more constructive, rather than merely asserting that one's contributions are not constructive. Vera Cruz
- I'm sorry what is this in reference to? Mintguy
It's best to respond on the talk page of whom you are responding to. Re: User:Saprtacus
So explain to him why it's such a bad article. Otherwise it doesn't accomplish much except make him bitter. Vera Cruz
Note:http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_philosophy
Mintguy: I'm noticing something of a pattern, where you back out my edits. Most of the time, you'd be well advised to raise your issue on a talk page first, since I usually know what I'm talking about, and practically always triple-check my facts. (The little incident of Ada "Babbage" being a counter-example I'd just as soon forget.) --Len
- Look at my edits and you'll see this is what I tend to do mostly. You're not the only victim of my anal retention. Mintguy
- No offense taken; I'm open to being shown wrong. This is a case where conventional wisdom is mistaken, but I sympathize: I too type words into google and use the hit-count to decide whether I spelled it right. :-)
3. is taken care of, I think, with the wonderful wiki redirect feature. I never would have found aluminium otherwise. ;)
Yeah I know. It's just a rant really. :-) But isn't there something about hits on google and common names for articles and all that stuff. Mintguy
- of course now I find a perfect example on your user page; fiberglass, mentioned only once as fibreglass now that I've edited it, not many google points for someone searching for fibreglass. But what can you do - Ce La Vie.
- Cape Guardafui also. Note the talk page. Google's not perfect as a search engine, but I think it's valuable for the text it leads one to. It's up to our minds to interpret the text. ;) Hephaestos
- It is odd. Maybe it got deleted at some point in the past. Still Google only finds a couple of hundred hits for this. Fibreglass gets 125,000. As an aside why did you not redirect? Also is Len right?
- Not redirecting, I plead ignorance. I'm still learning. Len right, I'm leaving it up to the jury. I have the impression that plenty of Wikipedians speak Esperanto. Hephaestos
Thanks for the tip on Laurence Binyon. I'm pretty sure about the spelling, because I normally check things like that before I write them. (Sorry, that wasn't a dig.) Anyhow, I think it's all okay now. Deb
Aha! That would seem to clear some things up (re agglutinative language). Thanks! Hephaestos
Hi, Mintguy, thanks for the message. I'm sure Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother/Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon is up somewhere enjoying a G&T, watching two Irish guys disagreeing on what precisely she should be entered as in Wikipedia, with one almighty smile on her face. You know Wiki is worth it when we all take it so seriously we row over technical terms! I suppose that is Wiki is getting as good as it is. Thanks for the comments. Have a good christmas (I nearly wrote 'Xmas' but that wouldn't be right on Wiki? Oh, no, I feel another long argument involving people from all the world brewing. Coming up. The 'Xmas' vs 'Christmas' debate!!!) Enjoy the festive season. JTD 01:29 Dec 24, 2002 (UTC)
Thanks for your comments re Durham. The funny thing is I had got depressed and given up after the torrent of criticism of the idea, then some nice bloke stepped in and did it anyway! Ah well. It's not like it's a cure for cancer or anything but I did think that the previous situation was ... well, daft! Have a great Xmas etc. Nevilley 08:42 Dec 24, 2002 (UTC)
Is this google? Vera Cruz