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| ::::Dear Doug, If I go over the limit on my content, will I also be getting a 5+ day grace period from the time of my first warning, during which time I can add additional content, with not fear or reprisal? It takes 60 seconds to cut and paste text to a Word document. Why the special treatment for this User? Or is 5+ days the standard? Just wondering.--<span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"> — ] • ] • </span> 01:43, 27 February 2010 (UTC) | |||
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Please Help
Doug - Could you please help with a picture? I am not good at uploading pictures. Could you please replace this picture: http://en.wikipedia.org/File:AdmiralHarryHarris.jpg with this picture: http://www.c6f.navy.mil/images/Harris.jpg The second picture comes from this web page: http://www.c6f.navy.mil/harris.html The licence information would be the same. Both pictures are the work of the U.S. Government. Thanks, - Ward GroveGuy (talk) 16:59, 13 February 2010 (UTC)
- I'll have a look, maybe not until Monday though, sorry, real life you know. :) Dougweller (talk) 21:36, 13 February 2010 (UTC)
- Ward, did you try ]? I'll do it if you'd rather me do it. But what I don't know about is actually replacing that picture, is it ok just to upload the new one as a separate file? I think both can be done, but I'm not sure. Dougweller (talk) 16:13, 15 February 2010 (UTC)
- Another question, the picture you want replaced is on Commons, shouldn't the new one be on Commons also? And, did you know my Dad died last month? Dougweller (talk) 16:15, 15 February 2010 (UTC)
- Ward, did you try ]? I'll do it if you'd rather me do it. But what I don't know about is actually replacing that picture, is it ok just to upload the new one as a separate file? I think both can be done, but I'm not sure. Dougweller (talk) 16:13, 15 February 2010 (UTC)
I sent you an eMail via Misplaced Pages GroveGuy (talk) 06:40, 18 February 2010 (UTC)
- Uploaded it to Commons, replaced the image in the article. Dougweller (talk) 11:34, 21 February 2010 (UTC)
I was having difficulty posting my evidence at . I think it's OK now, but let me know how to straighten it out if it's not. Thank you.Hickorybark (talk) 20:42, 19 February 2010 (UTC)
Anunnaki
My apologies. I deleted that prematurely without finding the proper sources to refute. NJMauthor (talk)
Looks like the sock's back.
Look for reversions to Ming Dynasty topics in my contributions. - Zhang He (talk) 07:45, 21 February 2010 (UTC)
On-ness of the Scottish Borders
That link you provided just mentioned "....on the Scottish Borders...(wait for it) Council website"! ;)
I live in Berwickshire, and have done for years, and the only time I've ever heard of "on", as in "On the Border" (singular) is actually when one's at Carter Bar, Berwick Bounds, or Gretna, on the line that's generally been the same between England and Scotland for the past 500 years or so. I certainly live in the Scottish Borders, not on them, so I have just re-reverted your edit. Brendandh (talk) 13:35, 21 February 2010 (UTC)
Further to that, I have just noticed that the pic is of Nether Hindhope which is pretty close to the Borderline, and have changed the wording and link accordingly. Brendandh (talk) 13:42, 21 February 2010 (UTC)
- Ok, they both are used on the web, almost a million hits for 'on' but more for 'in'. Maybe it's more common further south in England. My experience is different to yours, but reflects decades in Birmingham I guess. Dougweller (talk) 14:14, 21 February 2010 (UTC)
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Workshop posting
Hi Dougweller, again a TM comment, at the Workshop page Misplaced Pages:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Transcendental Meditation movement/Workshop, looks like a user is commenting in the top part (the Motions and things) that might actually be an intention to add in the templated Principles/FoFs, etc? I am not sure, I will defer to you on that. :P Cirt (talk) 17:31, 21 February 2010 (UTC)
- Thanks, I don't look at it for a little while and something like this happens. In fact I'd been thinking that at least some of Tucker's comments in evidence might belong somewhere else, but I need to think about whether that's the place for them. Dougweller (talk) 17:41, 21 February 2010 (UTC)
- Nod, okay thanks. I doubt ArbCom would do anything "immediately" anyways, that is, prior to the resolution of the case itself. (Unless there was some sort of pressing ongoing disruption of the case, by sockpuppets). Cirt (talk) 17:43, 21 February 2010 (UTC)
Misplaced Pages:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Transcendental_Meditation_movement/Workshop#Proposals_by_Tuckerj1976 = Tucker moved his comments - but now it is unclear if they are principles, or FoFs, or what... Cirt (talk) 20:00, 21 February 2010 (UTC)
- Poor guy. It's a bit more complicated now that Durova and Fladrif have replied. I'm a bit tired, long day, so will let it go until tomorrow, maybe try to restructure it myself rather than ask him to do it again. Dougweller (talk) 20:13, 21 February 2010 (UTC)
Talk:Genesis_creation_myth is becoming a creationist platform
Really, some admin needs to put an end to the kind of arguments that are made to revert the articles title to "Creation according to Genesis". There is a small number of editors who seem determined to present the Genesis story as a factual account of the world's origin. What is Misplaced Pages's position on treating all creation myths the same? CUSH 00:23, 22 February 2010 (UTC)
Comment
It seems less then coincidental that this claim of plat forming is made after my response to supporting a move. Frankly I am concerned about Cush (talk · contribs) and his blatant uncivil behavior here. Particularly since i found this old Misplaced Pages:Requests for comment/Cush. I frankly find his behavior uncivil and unproductive especially an attack on me in the edit description "reply to a fundamentalist." Based on Issues brought up in the Previous RFC and the edits i have checked over he seems to have prejudice against anyone he considers "Religionist" and attacks statements they make if not the user themselves. Weaponbb7 (talk) 04:00, 22 February 2010 (UTC)
- An RfC on User:Cush's behavior has been opened at Misplaced Pages:Requests for comment/Cush2.Weaponbb7 (talk) 21:37, 22 February 2010 (UTC)
TM Arbcom - Move comment at talk to evidence?
Should this be moved from the talk page to the evidence page? I would think so. Thanks for all the otherwise thankless work keeping everything organized. Fladrif (talk) 00:51, 22 February 2010 (UTC)
Discussion
I´d liked to invite ya for an discussion at Thamphthis, for leoboudv´s edits there are high problematic. Hope ya don´t feel taken on now. Greetings;--Nephiliskos (talk) 11:59, 22 February 2010 (UTC)
Ica stones
Hello there. Hopefully everything will be okay now; I've looked up quotes from the original studies and scientific reports.MXVN (talk) 23:33, 22 February 2010 (UTC)
Mesoamerican Calendars
Hi Doug, thanks for looking out for Mesoamerican calendars. I would ask you to be a little lenient with possible botched edits to that page and a few other Mesoamerica related pages over the next weeks as my students will be working on them. Anyway Mesoamerican Calendars already has a lot of empty headers so one more or less I guess shouldn't be a problem for a few days while my students think of how to fill them. Best regards. A list of my students and the pages they will be editing can be found at User:Maunus/MESO1b·Maunus·ƛ· 06:47, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
- Hi, have you seen Misplaced Pages:School_projects? Dougweller (talk) 12:54, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
- Hi, no I hadn't. Thanks for directing me there!·Maunus·ƛ· 13:15, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
- Hi, thanks for the heads-up with Zapotec civilization (I have all the project related articles watchlisted of course). I just wanted to tell you that you needn't be shy with correcting my students' work - I'll just appreciate it if you'll be gentle in doing it, so they won't have an excuse to skip homework. ·Maunus·ƛ· 13:42, 26 February 2010 (UTC)
- Hi, no I hadn't. Thanks for directing me there!·Maunus·ƛ· 13:15, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
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I must admit I haven't counted the words but it would appear that Tuckerj1946 and David Spector are quite a bit over on their 1000 word maximum. Thanking you in advance for your attention to all these details.-- — Kbob • Talk • 22:07, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
- Spector is just a little over, I've left a 2nd notice on Tuckerj76's page and will refactor myself if he doesn't. And apologies, I got my wires crossed looking at Seddon's edits and left a note on your page by mistake, which I undid. Dougweller (talk) 10:54, 25 February 2010 (UTC)
Hi Doug, Thanks for alerting the others that are over the 1000 word limit. I was also alerted which surprised me as I had counted my words but removed some copy anyway to be compliant but now I see it was not necessary. Could you please tell me what my total wordage is at the present moment so I can see what I have left to work with? I assume you have some kind of automatic counter or something. I won't add anything until I hear back from you. Thanks so much.-- — Kbob • Talk • 11:26, 25 February 2010 (UTC)
- No, you're fine, which is what I meant by saying I left a note on your page by mistake. A normal word count is a bit tricky with all your X's etc, but I get 768. You were ok before you started this morning, you were under 1000. Dougweller (talk) 11:35, 25 February 2010 (UTC)
- Yes around 768 is what I had also. Thanks for your help. You're doing a great job!-- — Kbob • Talk • 16:50, 25 February 2010 (UTC)
Evidence statement at the TM case
Clerk Notice Please refactor your evidence so that it is less that 1000 words in length - at the moment it is 1500 words long. This requirement is stated twice on the evidence page. Dougweller (talk) 11:00, 25 February 2010 (UTC)
- Does that total include the text embedded in the URL diffs I provided? For convenience, you can respond here, I've got your page watchlisted. Dreadstar ☥ 15:53, 25 February 2010 (UTC)
- I got your message. Sorry. Will refactor today. I'm watching here now. David Spector 17:43, 25 February 2010 (UTC)
- Dreadstar, still checking to see what the situation is, I'll get back to you tomorrow. But you've got a lot to cut. Dougweller (talk) 22:10, 25 February 2010 (UTC)
- I took all the text out of the links, so it's much shorter by that measure. I was thinking perhaps the text in the diffs would be counted as a diff, but I can understand that it's extra words to read since they have to read the actual contents of the diff. Dreadstar ☥ 00:17, 26 February 2010 (UTC)
- Actually the text in the diffs was ok. Your word count is fine now, but you can also set up a user subpage and link to that. Dougweller (talk) 05:09, 26 February 2010 (UTC)
- Interesting. When I did a word count on the orginal version with the text in the diff links, it totals 1556 words,, but when I removed just the text from the diffs, it dropped to 688. . The original count matches the calc you show of 1500 words long. Right now, after tightening the rest of the text, it's 589. If you don't mind the trouble, I'll put just the text in the diffs back and see if it increases the word count. To get my numbers, I'm copying the text from the edit box, and pasting it into Word. Dreadstar ☥ 05:34, 26 February 2010 (UTC)
- Fine, go ahead. Dougweller (talk) 05:36, 26 February 2010 (UTC)
- Interesting. When I did a word count on the orginal version with the text in the diff links, it totals 1556 words,, but when I removed just the text from the diffs, it dropped to 688. . The original count matches the calc you show of 1500 words long. Right now, after tightening the rest of the text, it's 589. If you don't mind the trouble, I'll put just the text in the diffs back and see if it increases the word count. To get my numbers, I'm copying the text from the edit box, and pasting it into Word. Dreadstar ☥ 05:34, 26 February 2010 (UTC)
- Actually the text in the diffs was ok. Your word count is fine now, but you can also set up a user subpage and link to that. Dougweller (talk) 05:09, 26 February 2010 (UTC)
- I took all the text out of the links, so it's much shorter by that measure. I was thinking perhaps the text in the diffs would be counted as a diff, but I can understand that it's extra words to read since they have to read the actual contents of the diff. Dreadstar ☥ 00:17, 26 February 2010 (UTC)
- Dreadstar, still checking to see what the situation is, I'll get back to you tomorrow. But you've got a lot to cut. Dougweller (talk) 22:10, 25 February 2010 (UTC)
Tuckerj1976 at TM ArbCom
Hi Doug, How goes it? Re: Tuckerj1976 I know you have warned him twice but I believe he has added more content instead of reducing. Not very fair to the rest of us who are walking the thin white line. Anything you can do to even the score and level the playing field would be appreciated. Thanks. -- — Kbob • Talk • 01:49, 26 February 2010 (UTC)
- Sorry Dougweller. Could you explain how I can set-up a subuser page please? Thank you Tucker 05:21, 26 February 2010 (UTC)
- Dear Doug, If I go over the limit on my content, will I also be getting a 5+ day grace period from the time of my first warning, during which time I can add additional content, with not fear or reprisal? It takes 60 seconds to cut and paste text to a Word document. Why the special treatment for this User? Or is 5+ days the standard? Just wondering.-- — Kbob • Talk • 01:43, 27 February 2010 (UTC)