User talk:Lypheklub

Greetings[edit]

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Hey there, your information on Boontling now has it's own article, but it could stand to be fleshed out a bit. Care to add in some history on it? It's certainly caught my interest! --Dante Alighieri 08:55, 23 Aug 2003 (UTC)

Dante, I don't know a whole lot about it right now. I just visited Boonville, and I am reading a book about it now. When I finish the book, I'll add more. A quick Google search for "boontling" gave me the the terms for the Boontling Primer. A little more Googling could probably make for a really good wiki if you want to help me unstubify it. Lypheklub 09:00, 23 Aug 2003 (UTC)

Tillwe, the "show preview" button can become a valuable tool for working on an article. No need to stress the server my constantly saving the page if you are making many small edits. Lypheklub 19:07, 23 Aug 2003 (UTC)

Hi, thanks for your hint on the "Show preview" button. Yes, I use it, but there are three reasons there still are so many versions of the Greens issue list. One is, that I wanted to save the major versions, because I didn't want to lose data by a possible computer-crash, and I didn't want to go into messy (much of editing) possible edit conflicts. The next reason is the "section edit" feature, which in a way hides the many edits, and makes two separate edits necessary if one edits one sections, sees then the need for an edit of the next sections and so on. The third reason is the incremental way I generated that list: doing a start version, looking for more greens-related issues by following "What links here", adding that to the list, creating a new list -- and then saving before starting that cycle a new. I see that there is no need for twenty or whatevers saves, but on the other hand I think starting a new, complicated (in the sense of interconnectedness) article is a special situation. -- till we *) 22:28, Aug 23, 2003 (UTC)

[1] shows that "nut graph" and "billboard" aren't so obscure and that feature writing basics have a Googlable presence on the Web. But [2] and [3] and other searches I've tried suggest strongly to me that "micro leads" get much less mention by all the people posting about feature writing. I've taken a journalism class myself, and if I ever heard the term it can't have been more than once. I believe you that you heard it at your school, but what evidence do you have to say it's common?

"Blade of grass theory" isn't too obscure at all, to my mind, it's I just thought the term took more from the paragraph than it gave. I thought the concept was good to mention, but you must know that it's new style to leave out new vocabulary when you can. "Blade of grass theory" is not nearly so fundamental as "billboard," plus I think "billboard" succinctly helps to make a point--adds more than it takes away from the pace.

Right now the article gives just a sketch of what a feature is and exists mostly to distinguish features from straight news. It's not a how-to, but if it were to expand in that direction, I wouldn't have any problem with "blade of grass"...although I'd try to invoke it without "theory." 168... 05:33, 24 Aug 2003 (UTC)

168, I see your point. Plus, unlike the News Style post, there is no feature style article. Maybe that could go more into the finer points of writing features. Lypheklub 17:27, 24 Aug 2003 (UTC)

Hi...I know the Wikipediholics page isn't meant to be taken seriously, but will you please stop changing "Wikipedihol"? I meant to write that, it's not a mistake. It's sort of a reference to a Simpsons joke, if that helps... Adam Bishop 06:21, 25 Aug 2003 (UTC)

By Wikipedihol I mean the stuff Wikipediholics are addicted to :) A combination of Wikipedia and alcohol. I don't know about other people, but when I think of that I think of the Simpsons episode when Homer says he is addicted to rageahol, instead of just saying rage. Adam Bishop 06:24, 25 Aug 2003 (UTC)

Got you. I'm such an ardent Wikipediholic that I copyedit everything I see even if it is intentional. Lypheklub 06:26, 25 Aug 2003 (UTC)

Haha, that's good, after all they do say we should "be bold" in editing :) Welcome to the Wikipedia, by the way! Adam Bishop 06:28, 25 Aug 2003 (UTC)

Excellent work on Gold album. Makes it all worthwhile! I guess you are quoting US sales? I wonder how to make this clear - not a criticism, if I could think of how to do it myself I would. Andrewa 00:35, 31 Aug 2003 (UTC)

It's from a book Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Albums 1955-1996 (I found the reference through Google). I am still wondering about making a separate page for platinum albums though Lypheklub 00:50, Aug 31, 2003 (UTC)

I think separate pages is the way to go. I intended that the redirect from Platinum album should be temporary. But it's not obvious to me how to split the content. I put a redirect in so there was something informative both to read and to link to until either I got my thoughts together or someone else showed me how. Andrewa 01:23, 31 Aug 2003 (UTC)

That might be tricky now, because I just refered by List of best selling singles and list of best selling albums to Gold album as a kind of "home base" to RIAA-certification info. Maybe if we made an umbrella page like Record Rankings or RIAA Certification for both Platinum AND Gold we could evade this problem. Ideas? Lypheklub 01:35, Aug 31, 2003 (UTC)

Good move on adding the link back to Talk:List of heterosexuals. I got sidetracked dealing with a bit of vandalism and by the time I went back to the above page you had already added it in. The lets talk about it on the talk page is one of the oldest tricks I have seen on wiki. Pages have ended up on the VfD page for weeks, on occasions before we reorganised the dates months, while everyone waited for a decision on the talk page and the chat there ended up meandering all over the place before dying of boredom. I am completely oppossed to the talk page route for that reason; it is simply a stalling mechanism. If we need to go off the VfD, we should go to a special delete debate page that has a definitive timeframe for reaching a conclusion. So we need to keep the decision focused on the VfD page and the week timeframe. (The other technique some use is to move the debate to the talk page, then delete any mention of the VfD nomination from the VfD and hey presto, everyone forgets that it has been nominated. The tricks some people use to stop their beloved pages being deleted, eh! :-) ) lol FearÉIREANN 21:24, 31 Aug 2003 (UTC)

I took care of this. It will all take place on Talk:List of heterosexuals/deletion from now on. The timeframe is one week.

Excellent decision. Martin won't be happy through. It'll complicate his save our page strategy! FearÉIREANN 21:35, 31 Aug 2003 (UTC)

As long as we preserve our one week timeframe, there shouldn't be a problem in deleting this old page finally. Lypheklub 21:38, Aug 31, 2003 (UTC)

I'd suggest the deletion page be archived when the time comes on the VfD page. Good work. FearÉIREANN 21:41, 31 Aug 2003 (UTC)

We'll figure all that out in a week, when the page finally goes to the disposal. We'll probably just shift the whole discussion over to VfD. Martin is already trying to split hairs. Is the vote a majority? Plurality? I'd say simple plurality. This is Wikipedia, not the Senate! Maybe we should set that straight. Lypheklub 21:46, Aug 31, 2003 (UTC)

Hi, I noticed your articles on Boonville and Boontling and was wondering where you are from. I reside in Ukiah, the county seat for all of Mendocino County, including Boonville. Drop a note on my talk page if its not too much trouble. Thanks.

DryGrain 17:27, 17 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Article Licensing[edit]

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:

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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:

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

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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)

ArbCom elections are now open![edit]

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