User talk:Rmhermen/Archive4

Michigan and metric system

Using non metric system makes this article a pain to understand for the 95% of the world population who use the metric system. In the Michigan article, all the data about the area, lenght, etc... on the right frame is in metric system, while data in the article itself use the obsolete miles and so system. This is confusing and makes the article harder to understand. I highly suggest to put all units in metric. --Ocollard 11:16, 14 May 2005 (UTC)

It is not true that miles etc. are obsolete. Many readers understand nothing else and it is a great disservice to them to remove those units. I have long argued that the data in the template should also be in both systems also. Rmhermen 12:40, May 14, 2005 (UTC)

These units are clearly obsolete and hard to understand. I don't see why we should show data in a system that a small minority of people (5% of the world population, compared with the other 95% using metric) use. These units makes the reading of article cryptic and less informative. About the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style:

"For units of measure use SI units, unless there are compelling historical or pragmatic reasons not to do so (for example, Hubble's constant should be quoted in its most common units of km/s/Mpc rather than its SI unit of Hz); see also Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers). Wikipedia Style for large numbers is 10,000. "

"Each article should have uniform spelling and not a haphazard mix of different spellings, which can be jarring to the reader. For example, do not use center in one place and centre in another on the same page. "

In the Michigan article, we have units in metres in the frame on the right, and units in miles in the article itself. I don't understand how you can interpret that the Manual of Style supports this. --Ocollard 13:19, 14 May 2005 (UTC)

Please stop reverting all my edits about changing mile system to metric system. There is nothing in the Manual of Style that says mile system should be used, even in article about countries where metric system is not yet in use. In contrary, the manual of style says that the S.I. system should be use. I lose time switching obsolete system to S.I. system, I don't see why you are trashing my work. --Ocollard 17:43, 14 May 2005 (UTC)

Mississippian culture

Just wanted to thank you for your comment on my Mississippian culture article. I will be expanding not only that article, but adding relevant material on American mounds (i.e. non-barrow mounds) and mound building peoples as well. Thanks for the links, I didn't have time to do them yesterday. TriNotch 22:30, 15 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Cadillac

How do I do the picture thing correctly? My Sixteen photo wasn't okay? Also, I'm interested in adding a timeline section to the Cadillac article... MadonnaFan 21:56, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)

What is the source of your picture? It looks like a promotional photo that may be copyrighted by the company. You haven't listed any source or license on the photo page. Also I am not sure that a concept car is the best choice as the first photo in the article. Not sure which kind of timeline you mean - EasyTimeline, a separate "Timeline of Cadillac" article or merely a section on the page which is started by ==Section Name== tags. Do you mean one like on Jeep or Lincoln? Rmhermen 22:07, Dec 16, 2004 (UTC)

I just googled and found the pic... And that concept car is the pinnacle of Cadillac's current design theme and comeback, and that is one of the best looking automobiles ever, in my opinion... And I was talking about an "Innovation Timeline" using info from: http://www.cadillac.com/Spotlights/Timeline/ and I would post it on the article page like 1902: 1.) 2.) and then do it year by year whenever something significant happened...MadonnaFan 22:19, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Cadillac removal

Hi! I think my reversion and rearrangement edit to Cadillac automobile has crossed with your edit and mine seems to have supplanted yours. By all means put it back to how you like it, if you don't like my version. I took the silver pic near Bristol (England) so was very annoyed to see it removed without reason. I've put the pics in age order so now the concept pic is at the bottom - Adrian Pingstone 22:17, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)

I am more concerned with the copyright status of that picture and dislike the idea of the article starting with a picture of any concept car. Rmhermen 22:23, Dec 16, 2004 (UTC)

Was Adams an astronaut?

It's obviously a contentious issue, which is why I went to the trouble of writing a paragraph explaning the facts as they stand from a NPOV. I'd appreciate it if you left the paragraph in place and joined discussion on the Talk page. Dan100 21:14, Dec 19, 2004 (UTC)

The same paragraph is already in the article in the description of the accident. That level of detail isn't needed in the introduction. Rmhermen 04:22, Dec 20, 2004 (UTC)

I honestly thought you meant the next paragraph, not further down the article. A simple mis-understanding on my part. Sorry. Dan100 15:44, Dec 21, 2004 (UTC)

Space flight disasters

I note you've made some big changes to that page, are you moving the removed material to other pages and making a catergory? Dan100 15:44, Dec 21, 2004 (UTC)

Edits in Peruvian pre-history articles

I just wanted to thank you for the revisions. English isn't my first language and I think every one of you edits has improved the readability of the articles. -- Zenyu 01:07, Dec 22, 2004 (UTC)

Hands (unit of length)

Either a hand is not 4 inches or 15 hands is not 30 inches, by simple multiplication (a Shetland pony?!) I think all the thirty-something numbers should be 60-somethings, but I'm not expert enough to declare it.

Chemical weapon proliferation

Hello, Rmhermen. I hope your holidays have gone well.

Thank you very much for all of your constructive criticism - I genuinely appreciate the time you've taken to point out some things that I missed and/or improperly understood. You are clearly very knowledgeable in the broad subject of proliferation, which offsets my more "scientifically oriented" understanding of chemical weaponry.

The main reason I'm writing you is that I would very much like to try to refine chemical warfare so that it will pass through FAC. The article needs a good amount of work before it passes FAC, and my weakest area in the already broad subject is the compex topic of proliferation. If you have some time, I would very much appreciate any help you can offer.

Many thanks in advance, ClockworkSoul 19:08, 28 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Renaming "," to "()" style

Hi. I noticed you're working on renaming articles from "..., New York" to "... (New York)". Before you go too far, please take a look at Talk:City Island, New York. I'd request that you *not* rename the City Island article for the reasons outlined there. Thanks. --RoySmith 22:23, 5 Jan 2005 (UTC)

I see I was too late. Sigh. --RoySmith 22:49, 5 Jan 2005 (UTC)

I see nothing on that page that affects my moves. I do see you expressing a desire to stay out of a naming dispute that you don't understand so I am surprised to see you now stating that it should not be moved. City Island, New York is not the name of a city so that is the incorrect form for disambiguation. There was an idea that the page on City Island alone could go to City Island, Bronx, New York. But not that it could stay where it was. Rmhermen 22:54, Jan 5, 2005 (UTC)

No biggie. I'm more amused by the multiple renames than anything else. There have been worse sins committed to that page than renaming it. --RoySmith 23:13, 5 Jan 2005 (UTC)

It is unfortunate that even the newest software updates do not keep any record of page moves. Rmhermen 23:19, Jan 5, 2005 (UTC)

movie stubs

If you read about my current project (User:Cburnett#Current Project) you'll see I'm adding categories to movies. So my purpose in creating very stubby movie articles is a place holder for the categories. After adding thousands (and many thousands to go) of category entries I don't want a couple dozen movies to be missing them just because someone else created them after I passed the movie in one of the lists. I'd consider putting more effort into stub articles but the process of adding categories has proven so time consuming that spending even 15 minutes or more on each would amount to a lot of time...and I'd like to finish this project some day... Cburnett 16:55, 6 Jan 2005 (UTC)

soup page

Hi there, I am very thankful that you are watching the soup page. I noticed that there was a lot of discussion, but that nothing had been done with it in a long time. I am taking a stab at it, and I do have experience as a food historian. I hope that you'll give me some time on this, because there are some great books on this history of food. I realize that I deleted a great deal in the article, but you can revert if you don't like what I've done so far, it's up to you. I felt that the article was veering all over the place instead of sticking to the topic: SOUP! It isn't stew; it isn't porridge; it needs focus. So...that's my goal. I read the notes very carefully, and I've tried to explain my thoughts. I do feel that while the history is important, it should be considered that soup as a course is a fairly modern concept. If memory serves me right, that's Escoffier's contribution. Like I said-I do need to run to the library to confirm my sources and get the right books to check on this, and properly cite. Hope you approve. Many thanks, allie 14:27, 9 Jan 2005 (UTC)

THANK YOU!!!

Thanks so very much for the edit on the Erie Triangle image. Any other improvements you have to offer would also be more than welcome...I was at a loss. You rock. Thanks. jengod 19:33, Jan 11, 2005 (UTC)

Footnotes

Those clickable footnotes you added to Penda of Mercia, is that some new Wikipedia standard or something? To tell you the truth, I don't really like how they look, but if they're a standard then I'll just learn to like 'em. Everyking 00:52, 12 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Not sure. I just found out about them on the Wikipedia:Help desk#How to add a (foot)note and wanted to try them out. I like the ability to click back to the location in the article you came from. I don't know how their appearance is set. See also Wikipedia:Footnotes. Rmhermen 01:11, Jan 12, 2005 (UTC)

I'm going to write more about the confusion regarding Bede's chronology later, hopefully, but I need to read up on it more so I can be sure I don't get anything wrong. Those chronological issues need to be dealt with in many Anglo-Saxon history articles of the period. The small text refers to parts of Kirby's chapter, as they are sectioned off that way, and I figured I might as well specify the parts I got the info from. Everyking 16:44, 12 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Wow, a book not only with chapter titles but section titles as well. Too bad the forty-one nearest libraries to me don't have it. Rmhermen 16:48, Jan 12, 2005 (UTC)

The Earliest English Kings? It's an often cited work of recent scholarship on the period; I'm surprised. I assure you it exists; look it up on Amazon, I ordered my copy from there. Anyway, I did some more work on the date confusion stuff since your question got me motivated. Everyking 18:07, 12 Jan 2005 (UTC)

I say it on Amazon. I am just too cheap. Now as soon as we get it all on the Net I'll be set. Rmhermen 18:17, Jan 12, 2005 (UTC)

Re: Soup

I've done a lot of research on the topic (as promised) and this is not an easy article. BOILING food is as old as fire; SOUP is quite a modern invention. Food history is a rather ignored discipline, as a whole. Will begin a summary on Soup in the next few days for you to critique. Glad you like the footnoting. It's a nice touch, isn't it? I included it specifically for you, because you are one tough editor. High praise, btw. If you can't stand the heat, then don't run with scissors. allie 22:37, 12 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Research moved to User:Alisonsage/Soup Notes. I know that this page sort of lost momentum, but possibly can begin with a new 'concoction?' And with a tighter focus? allie 14:05, 14 Jan 2005 (UTC)

List/Category

Having the list be a part of the category is wrong. Someone needs to fix this so that rather than a broken idiom we have a cognitively intuitive structure. Blair P. Houghton 20:03, 15 Jan 2005 (UTC)

No having the list be part of the category is right. It would be very strange to go to a category about Medal of Honor recipients and not find in that category the article which lists those very recipients. Rmhermen 20:12, Jan 15, 2005 (UTC)

I put the list on the page in a place where it's obvious it's a cross-reference. When it appears where you want to put it, it looks like it received a Medal of Honor. Plain wrong. Blair P. Houghton 20:16, 15 Jan 2005 (UTC)

• In re User_talk:Blair_P._Houghton#Categories: So there's an idiomatic syntax for erecting a broken structure. Doesn't make it any less kludgy. It should be in a related-pages or see-also position rather than in the category-list. The appearance of several lists in category-lists has no doubt resulted in the many places where the idiomatic syntax is not used or is used improperly, resulting in the list name appearing either sorted within the list or as some sort of punctuation (usually a bullet with no text). It's broken. How do we fix it? Blair P. Houghton 20:16, 15 Jan 2005 (UTC)

You can file a bug report with the developers if you like. I don't see it as a problem. See MediaWiki feature request and bug report discussion Rmhermen 20:23, Jan 15, 2005 (UTC)

Way ahead of you. Here's the link (page down a few to Lists related to categories): xref feature request --Blair P. Houghton 20:54, 15 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Svislach River

You have reinserted the expression "a right tributary" into this article. What do you intend this to mean? The true (or proper) tributary, on the right-hand side while going upstream, on the right-hand side while going downstream, the tributary that flows west, something else? Rmhermen 14:56, Jan 21, 2005 (UTC)

Well, this intended to mean what is a standard. I didn't invent the term myself. If this is not described in wikipedia's "Tributary", then we better add. You have to agree, this is a very natural question: which side the tributary is. Usually tributaries are listed in the "orographic sequence" with the indication L/R whatever it can mean; I have no idea. Mikkalai 18:15, 21 Jan 2005 (UTC)

You are puzzled, and that's what I am saying as well. My brief googling revealed nothing. Whether there is a standard or not, we must establish the one wor wikipedia, since the terms are in use. I'll do more digging. Mikkalai 22:23, 21 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Studebaker Lark Picture

Sir/Madam-

You posted: "For Image:Studebakerlark.jpg, you have claimed that the copyright holder released this image into public domain. Why do you believe this to be the case? Did you create the image? It is certainly not old enough to be copyright expired. Rmhermen 01:10, Jan 22, 2005 (UTC)"

I guess that I have made a mistake - the image is from a 1959 magazine article run by a company that is out of the car making business. Can you make a constructive suggestion, it would be greatly appreciated. user: stude62 talk:stude62 01:19, 22 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Catholic Verses

The Miscellania section is about other correlations. It should be alright to show that there is more verses in the Bible to support the conviction. I did not put into the body of the text but in the Miscellania section. It is alright to do so because I would like to put them back in. Thanks. WHEELER 23:05, 31 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Dresden

My edits about dresden are legitimate - many people think that was a war crime. That does not justify the reverts.

are you user 151.203.229.38 ? you admitted at this page you edit anonimously. -MarkSop

No I am not that user. I never intentionally edit anymously since I registered. Rmhermen 17:16, Feb 9, 2005 (UTC)

ok, thanks. the user 151.203.229.38 has broken the 3 revert rule - he has said that he can do that since my edits were vandalism, and has insulted me repeatedly by saying that. I think my edits were perfectly ok - i simply put back one of the sections from history of the site, which was not marked as vandalism at the time. what sanctions is he going to undergo for breaking the 3 revert rule, that you pointed to me? the rule should hold for all, and i have respected it. also, if the rule says that it can be broken for vandalism, who decides what is a vandalism. I surely dont think that my edits were vandalism, just merely a different opinion (held by many people as it seems, and wikipedia does say that views should be reported). I feel very abused, and suspect that 151 behaves in this way to other people who he disagrees with - who is going to warn him about that? calling someone a vandal is very insultive!!

you reverted my edit on Roma, (people) article

hi there Rmhermen, i'd like you to explain the reasons you reverted my edit on Roma people article -- Criztu 14:45, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)

The naming of this group is discussed at length further into the article. The lead only needs to note their name in English and in their native language(s). Rmhermen 14:50, Feb 10, 2005 (UTC)

but reading "commonly known as gypsies" people might think this is how they are "known allover the world", i think the article should either have it stated from the begining that "gypsy is how these people are known in english, in much of Europe they are known as Tsigany", either have "commonly known as gypsy" from the begining of the article erased ; also, i'm thinking at the impact of the first sentences, mentioning commonly known as gypsies right from the beginning, narrows this Wikipedia thing to a "how native english speakers call this and that, how others call this an that is secondary" -- Criztu 15:22, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)

that "commonly known as Gypsies" i consider to be really missleading. is there a rule on wikipedia about this "The lead only needs to note their name in English and in their native language(s)." ? in which case(Wikipedia addresing to english people mainly) i won't ask to have a "known as Tsigany in most of Europe" in the first paragraph :0| -- Criztu 20:30, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)

is there a wikirule specifying that the lead paragraph should note the name of a people only in english and in their native language ? isn't "commonly known as Gypsies" missleading ? -- Criztu 16:20, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)

ok, the overwhelming majority of Gypsies live in Europe, more exactly in Central and South-East Europe, where they are commonly and collectively known as Tsigany. Gypsy refers more exactly to "nomads", not to Tsigany, and this term is specific to and "common" only in Britain. -- Criztu 17:46, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Reversion explanation request: U.S. National Park / List of U.S. national parks

Yesterday, I suggested (via merge/mergefrom) that the stub article U.S. National Park be folded into List of U.S. national parks. You chose to revert these changes. May I ask why? This is the first reversion I've suffered in over 400 contributions as a Wikipedian. Is there some policy I've run over here to keep topics and lists seperate? Or is there some reason why we are keeping a ridiculously stubby article with little prospects for expansion?

Your obt servant

Alba 20:46, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)

U.S. National Park is supposed to be a description of national parks in the U.S. The original author has never chosen to expand it although I requested it. The List is a list of all units of the National Parks Service including National Park, National Monuments, National Memorials, etc, etc. Not the same thing at all. They should not be merged. In general also, long list are kept separate from articles to make easier reading/loading/printing or to avoid the 32k limit -not an issue here. Rmhermen 21:55, Feb 11, 2005 (UTC)

Amenmesse

Check http://www.phouka.com/pharaoh/pharaoh/dynasties/dyn19/05amenmessu.html - it contains almost exactly the same information, so cant really be a copyright violation. but if you feel so, then delete it

Lincolnshire Poacher

The fact that someone else is violating a copyright does not give us permission to do so also. Wholesale copying of copyrighted material is a violation. Rmhermen 00:21, Feb 13, 2005 (UTC)

No, you miss my point - there is very little know about this guy, so the limitation is how you present limited info in a logical fashion without repeating someone else. Also the egyptian site contains a lot more, whereas I have presented the bare facts.

Last time I looked at it you had copied not only sentences but entire paragraphs straight from these other sites. In fact it seemed that the majority of the article was word for word the same. Rmhermen 23:03, Feb 13, 2005 (UTC)

Well, we'll have to disagree, my sources included a uni textbook. Tell u what, ill not bother anymore, and ill delete all my contributions to date, enjoy your combat with the rest of the contributors, asshole. Are you normally this rude to newcomers??

Cartographer required

I saw you listed on the cartographers' list and wondered if you would be able to help me out. I've been working on Aramaic language (currently in peer review, but soon up for FAC), and it was suggested that it would be good to have one or two maps showing the distribution of Aramaic at different periods of history. Is this your kind of thing at all? Gareth Hughes 16:34, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)

since the crash...........

hi

I dont know if you realise it, but wikipedia has becoem unusable from the UK. HUGE delays and frequent page timouts when editing.

If just tried to save two hour worth of editing and got: ERROR The requested URL could not be retrieved While trying to retrieve the URL: NONE://10.0.0.9:80http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lincolnshire&action=submit The following error was encountered:

  * Read Error

The system returned:

(104) Connection reset by peer

An error condition occurred while reading data from the network. Please retry your request. Your cache administrator is wikidown@bomis.com. Generated Thu, 24 Feb 2005 20:44:00 GMT by will.wikimedia.org (squid/2.5.STABLE4-20040219.wp20050114.icpfix.nortt.S7)

a TRACERT reveals the lag is at your end:

• 3 10 ms 20 ms 10 ms nott-t2cam1-a-v133.inet.ntl.com [80.4.46.73]
• 4 10 ms 10 ms 20 ms nott-t2core-a-ge-wan73.inet.ntl.com [80.1.79.77]
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• 11 171 ms 100 ms 100 ms as-0-0.bbr2.washington1.level3.net [4.68.128.102
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In fact the lag starts when we get to the US East coast.

You need to sort this out, its demoralising to lose all that work. Also, the email wikidown@bomis.com. bounces.

Steve

funds

heres a thought. if you wer a registered charity in the uk, you could apply for UK lottery funding and EEC Social Fund Single Payment funding. All you need is a UK branch of Wiki.

steve

I've reposted this at Wikipedia:Village Pump. Rmhermen 15:56, Feb 26, 2005 (UTC)

Re: Asteroid

I translated the French article from fr:Astéroïde. One of the things I noticed that was missing from the English article is a notable asteroid section. The other are the images, which are not present. If you notice, the information may be the same, it is just that the French article is slightly more detailed. My suggestion of merging was that I see the French article is a Featured article and the English article is not. The objections that may be raised is the layout of the article, and being too brief in certain areas where the French article is not. If you look closely, their section of "The discovery of the first asteroids" is more detailed than the English history section, with minor information missing. -- AllyUnion (talk) 13:40, 3 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Chicago maps

Don't worry; I've got you covered - Image:Chicago all levels.png. I don't have that in the article yet because it's not almost done. I'll make legends for both too; I just need to fully figure out how I'm doing them. --SPUI (talk) 18:19, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Hi there, I'm a 41 year old male, married, no kids. Considering a job offer in Detroit, and I wonder what life in Detroit is like. We are more following the "Yuppie" lifestyle, restaurants, bars, a nice live music spot from time to time. On the weekends, walking, hiking. Play tennis, some golf. Shopping, working out in a gym. Would prefer to live in a lively, clean and safe neighbourhood, preferrably in a well managed appartment building. Any suggestions? (ralf.stoehr@gmx.net)

Old talk at User talk:Rmhermen/Archive1, User talk:Rmhermen/Archive2, User talk:Rmhermen/Archive3

Picture of the day

A basso porto (At the Lower Harbour) is an opera in three acts by the Italian composer Niccola Spinelli. The opera sets an Italian-language libretto by Eugene Checchi, based on Goffredo Cognetti's 1889 play O voto. It premiered to critical success at the Cologne Opera on April 18, 1894, sung in a German translation by Ludwig Hartmann and Otto Hess. This watercolour illustration depicts the set design by Riccardo Salvadori for act 1 of the opera's premiere. A basso porto is set in the slums of Naples, and Spinelli included mandolins and guitars in his orchestral score.Set design credit: Riccardo Salvadori

Mississippian culture

Just wanted to thank you for your comment on my Mississippian culture article. I will be expanding not only that article, but adding relevant material on American mounds (i.e. non-barrow mounds) and mound building peoples as well. Thanks for the links, I didn't have time to do them yesterday. TriNotch 22:30, 15 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Cadillac

How do I do the picture thing correctly? My Sixteen photo wasn't okay? Also, I'm interested in adding a timeline section to the Cadillac article... MadonnaFan 21:56, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)

What is the source of your picture? It looks like a promotional photo that may be copyrighted by the company. You haven't listed any source or license on the photo page. Also I am not sure that a concept car is the best choice as the first photo in the article. Not sure which kind of timeline you mean - EasyTimeline, a separate "Timeline of Cadillac" article or merely a section on the page which is started by ==Section Name== tags. Do you mean one like on Jeep or Lincoln? Rmhermen 22:07, Dec 16, 2004 (UTC)

I just googled and found the pic... And that concept car is the pinnacle of Cadillac's current design theme and comeback, and that is one of the best looking automobiles ever, in my opinion... And I was talking about an "Innovation Timeline" using info from: http://www.cadillac.com/Spotlights/Timeline/ and I would post it on the article page like 1902: 1.) 2.) and then do it year by year whenever something significant happened...MadonnaFan 22:19, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Cadillac removal

Hi! I think my reversion and rearrangement edit to Cadillac automobile has crossed with your edit and mine seems to have supplanted yours. By all means put it back to how you like it, if you don't like my version. I took the silver pic near Bristol (England) so was very annoyed to see it removed without reason. I've put the pics in age order so now the concept pic is at the bottom - Adrian Pingstone 22:17, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)

I am more concerned with the copyright status of that picture and dislike the idea of the article starting with a picture of any concept car. Rmhermen 22:23, Dec 16, 2004 (UTC)

Was Adams an astronaut?

It's obviously a contentious issue, which is why I went to the trouble of writing a paragraph explaning the facts as they stand from a NPOV. I'd appreciate it if you left the paragraph in place and joined discussion on the Talk page. Dan100 21:14, Dec 19, 2004 (UTC)

The same paragraph is already in the article in the description of the accident. That level of detail isn't needed in the introduction. Rmhermen 04:22, Dec 20, 2004 (UTC)

I honestly thought you meant the next paragraph, not further down the article. A simple mis-understanding on my part. Sorry. Dan100 15:44, Dec 21, 2004 (UTC)

Space flight disasters

I note you've made some big changes to that page, are you moving the removed material to other pages and making a catergory? Dan100 15:44, Dec 21, 2004 (UTC)

Edits in Peruvian pre-history articles

I just wanted to thank you for the revisions. English isn't my first language and I think every one of you edits has improved the readability of the articles. -- Zenyu 01:07, Dec 22, 2004 (UTC)

Hands (unit of length)

Either a hand is not 4 inches or 15 hands is not 30 inches, by simple multiplication (a Shetland pony?!) I think all the thirty-something numbers should be 60-somethings, but I'm not expert enough to declare it.

Chemical weapon proliferation

Hello, Rmhermen. I hope your holidays have gone well.

Thank you very much for all of your constructive criticism - I genuinely appreciate the time you've taken to point out some things that I missed and/or improperly understood. You are clearly very knowledgeable in the broad subject of proliferation, which offsets my more "scientifically oriented" understanding of chemical weaponry.

The main reason I'm writing you is that I would very much like to try to refine chemical warfare so that it will pass through FAC. The article needs a good amount of work before it passes FAC, and my weakest area in the already broad subject is the compex topic of proliferation. If you have some time, I would very much appreciate any help you can offer.

Many thanks in advance, ClockworkSoul 19:08, 28 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Renaming "," to "()" style

Hi. I noticed you're working on renaming articles from "..., New York" to "... (New York)". Before you go too far, please take a look at Talk:City Island, New York. I'd request that you *not* rename the City Island article for the reasons outlined there. Thanks. --RoySmith 22:23, 5 Jan 2005 (UTC)

I see I was too late. Sigh. --RoySmith 22:49, 5 Jan 2005 (UTC)

I see nothing on that page that affects my moves. I do see you expressing a desire to stay out of a naming dispute that you don't understand so I am surprised to see you now stating that it should not be moved. City Island, New York is not the name of a city so that is the incorrect form for disambiguation. There was an idea that the page on City Island alone could go to City Island, Bronx, New York. But not that it could stay where it was. Rmhermen 22:54, Jan 5, 2005 (UTC)

No biggie. I'm more amused by the multiple renames than anything else. There have been worse sins committed to that page than renaming it. --RoySmith 23:13, 5 Jan 2005 (UTC)

It is unfortunate that even the newest software updates do not keep any record of page moves. Rmhermen 23:19, Jan 5, 2005 (UTC)

movie stubs

If you read about my current project (User:Cburnett#Current Project) you'll see I'm adding categories to movies. So my purpose in creating very stubby movie articles is a place holder for the categories. After adding thousands (and many thousands to go) of category entries I don't want a couple dozen movies to be missing them just because someone else created them after I passed the movie in one of the lists. I'd consider putting more effort into stub articles but the process of adding categories has proven so time consuming that spending even 15 minutes or more on each would amount to a lot of time...and I'd like to finish this project some day... Cburnett 16:55, 6 Jan 2005 (UTC)

soup page

Hi there, I am very thankful that you are watching the soup page. I noticed that there was a lot of discussion, but that nothing had been done with it in a long time. I am taking a stab at it, and I do have experience as a food historian. I hope that you'll give me some time on this, because there are some great books on this history of food. I realize that I deleted a great deal in the article, but you can revert if you don't like what I've done so far, it's up to you. I felt that the article was veering all over the place instead of sticking to the topic: SOUP! It isn't stew; it isn't porridge; it needs focus. So...that's my goal. I read the notes very carefully, and I've tried to explain my thoughts. I do feel that while the history is important, it should be considered that soup as a course is a fairly modern concept. If memory serves me right, that's Escoffier's contribution. Like I said-I do need to run to the library to confirm my sources and get the right books to check on this, and properly cite. Hope you approve. Many thanks, allie 14:27, 9 Jan 2005 (UTC)

THANK YOU!!!

Thanks so very much for the edit on the Erie Triangle image. Any other improvements you have to offer would also be more than welcome...I was at a loss. You rock. Thanks. jengod 19:33, Jan 11, 2005 (UTC)

Footnotes

Those clickable footnotes you added to Penda of Mercia, is that some new Wikipedia standard or something? To tell you the truth, I don't really like how they look, but if they're a standard then I'll just learn to like 'em. Everyking 00:52, 12 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Not sure. I just found out about them on the Wikipedia:Help desk#How to add a (foot)note and wanted to try them out. I like the ability to click back to the location in the article you came from. I don't know how their appearance is set. See also Wikipedia:Footnotes. Rmhermen 01:11, Jan 12, 2005 (UTC)

I'm going to write more about the confusion regarding Bede's chronology later, hopefully, but I need to read up on it more so I can be sure I don't get anything wrong. Those chronological issues need to be dealt with in many Anglo-Saxon history articles of the period. The small text refers to parts of Kirby's chapter, as they are sectioned off that way, and I figured I might as well specify the parts I got the info from. Everyking 16:44, 12 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Wow, a book not only with chapter titles but section titles as well. Too bad the forty-one nearest libraries to me don't have it. Rmhermen 16:48, Jan 12, 2005 (UTC)

The Earliest English Kings? It's an often cited work of recent scholarship on the period; I'm surprised. I assure you it exists; look it up on Amazon, I ordered my copy from there. Anyway, I did some more work on the date confusion stuff since your question got me motivated. Everyking 18:07, 12 Jan 2005 (UTC)

I say it on Amazon. I am just too cheap. Now as soon as we get it all on the Net I'll be set. Rmhermen 18:17, Jan 12, 2005 (UTC)

Re: Soup

I've done a lot of research on the topic (as promised) and this is not an easy article. BOILING food is as old as fire; SOUP is quite a modern invention. Food history is a rather ignored discipline, as a whole. Will begin a summary on Soup in the next few days for you to critique. Glad you like the footnoting. It's a nice touch, isn't it? I included it specifically for you, because you are one tough editor. High praise, btw. If you can't stand the heat, then don't run with scissors. allie 22:37, 12 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Research moved to User:Alisonsage/Soup Notes. I know that this page sort of lost momentum, but possibly can begin with a new 'concoction?' And with a tighter focus? allie 14:05, 14 Jan 2005 (UTC)

List/Category

Having the list be a part of the category is wrong. Someone needs to fix this so that rather than a broken idiom we have a cognitively intuitive structure. Blair P. Houghton 20:03, 15 Jan 2005 (UTC)

No having the list be part of the category is right. It would be very strange to go to a category about Medal of Honor recipients and not find in that category the article which lists those very recipients. Rmhermen 20:12, Jan 15, 2005 (UTC)

I put the list on the page in a place where it's obvious it's a cross-reference. When it appears where you want to put it, it looks like it received a Medal of Honor. Plain wrong. Blair P. Houghton 20:16, 15 Jan 2005 (UTC)

• In re User_talk:Blair_P._Houghton#Categories: So there's an idiomatic syntax for erecting a broken structure. Doesn't make it any less kludgy. It should be in a related-pages or see-also position rather than in the category-list. The appearance of several lists in category-lists has no doubt resulted in the many places where the idiomatic syntax is not used or is used improperly, resulting in the list name appearing either sorted within the list or as some sort of punctuation (usually a bullet with no text). It's broken. How do we fix it? Blair P. Houghton 20:16, 15 Jan 2005 (UTC)

You can file a bug report with the developers if you like. I don't see it as a problem. See MediaWiki feature request and bug report discussion Rmhermen 20:23, Jan 15, 2005 (UTC)

Way ahead of you. Here's the link (page down a few to Lists related to categories): xref feature request --Blair P. Houghton 20:54, 15 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Svislach River

You have reinserted the expression "a right tributary" into this article. What do you intend this to mean? The true (or proper) tributary, on the right-hand side while going upstream, on the right-hand side while going downstream, the tributary that flows west, something else? Rmhermen 14:56, Jan 21, 2005 (UTC)

Well, this intended to mean what is a standard. I didn't invent the term myself. If this is not described in wikipedia's "Tributary", then we better add. You have to agree, this is a very natural question: which side the tributary is. Usually tributaries are listed in the "orographic sequence" with the indication L/R whatever it can mean; I have no idea. Mikkalai 18:15, 21 Jan 2005 (UTC)

You are puzzled, and that's what I am saying as well. My brief googling revealed nothing. Whether there is a standard or not, we must establish the one wor wikipedia, since the terms are in use. I'll do more digging. Mikkalai 22:23, 21 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Studebaker Lark Picture

Sir/Madam-

You posted: "For Image:Studebakerlark.jpg, you have claimed that the copyright holder released this image into public domain. Why do you believe this to be the case? Did you create the image? It is certainly not old enough to be copyright expired. Rmhermen 01:10, Jan 22, 2005 (UTC)"

I guess that I have made a mistake - the image is from a 1959 magazine article run by a company that is out of the car making business. Can you make a constructive suggestion, it would be greatly appreciated. user: stude62 talk:stude62 01:19, 22 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Catholic Verses

The Miscellania section is about other correlations. It should be alright to show that there is more verses in the Bible to support the conviction. I did not put into the body of the text but in the Miscellania section. It is alright to do so because I would like to put them back in. Thanks. WHEELER 23:05, 31 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Dresden

My edits about dresden are legitimate - many people think that was a war crime. That does not justify the reverts.

are you user 151.203.229.38 ? you admitted at this page you edit anonimously. -MarkSop

No I am not that user. I never intentionally edit anymously since I registered. Rmhermen 17:16, Feb 9, 2005 (UTC)

ok, thanks. the user 151.203.229.38 has broken the 3 revert rule - he has said that he can do that since my edits were vandalism, and has insulted me repeatedly by saying that. I think my edits were perfectly ok - i simply put back one of the sections from history of the site, which was not marked as vandalism at the time. what sanctions is he going to undergo for breaking the 3 revert rule, that you pointed to me? the rule should hold for all, and i have respected it. also, if the rule says that it can be broken for vandalism, who decides what is a vandalism. I surely dont think that my edits were vandalism, just merely a different opinion (held by many people as it seems, and wikipedia does say that views should be reported). I feel very abused, and suspect that 151 behaves in this way to other people who he disagrees with - who is going to warn him about that? calling someone a vandal is very insultive!!

you reverted my edit on Roma, (people) article

hi there Rmhermen, i'd like you to explain the reasons you reverted my edit on Roma people article -- Criztu 14:45, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)

The naming of this group is discussed at length further into the article. The lead only needs to note their name in English and in their native language(s). Rmhermen 14:50, Feb 10, 2005 (UTC)

but reading "commonly known as gypsies" people might think this is how they are "known allover the world", i think the article should either have it stated from the begining that "gypsy is how these people are known in english, in much of Europe they are known as Tsigany", either have "commonly known as gypsy" from the begining of the article erased ; also, i'm thinking at the impact of the first sentences, mentioning commonly known as gypsies right from the beginning, narrows this Wikipedia thing to a "how native english speakers call this and that, how others call this an that is secondary" -- Criztu 15:22, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)

that "commonly known as Gypsies" i consider to be really missleading. is there a rule on wikipedia about this "The lead only needs to note their name in English and in their native language(s)." ? in which case(Wikipedia addresing to english people mainly) i won't ask to have a "known as Tsigany in most of Europe" in the first paragraph :0| -- Criztu 20:30, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)

is there a wikirule specifying that the lead paragraph should note the name of a people only in english and in their native language ? isn't "commonly known as Gypsies" missleading ? -- Criztu 16:20, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)

ok, the overwhelming majority of Gypsies live in Europe, more exactly in Central and South-East Europe, where they are commonly and collectively known as Tsigany. Gypsy refers more exactly to "nomads", not to Tsigany, and this term is specific to and "common" only in Britain. -- Criztu 17:46, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Reversion explanation request: U.S. National Park / List of U.S. national parks

Yesterday, I suggested (via merge/mergefrom) that the stub article U.S. National Park be folded into List of U.S. national parks. You chose to revert these changes. May I ask why? This is the first reversion I've suffered in over 400 contributions as a Wikipedian. Is there some policy I've run over here to keep topics and lists seperate? Or is there some reason why we are keeping a ridiculously stubby article with little prospects for expansion?

Your obt servant

Alba 20:46, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)

U.S. National Park is supposed to be a description of national parks in the U.S. The original author has never chosen to expand it although I requested it. The List is a list of all units of the National Parks Service including National Park, National Monuments, National Memorials, etc, etc. Not the same thing at all. They should not be merged. In general also, long list are kept separate from articles to make easier reading/loading/printing or to avoid the 32k limit -not an issue here. Rmhermen 21:55, Feb 11, 2005 (UTC)

Amenmesse

Check http://www.phouka.com/pharaoh/pharaoh/dynasties/dyn19/05amenmessu.html - it contains almost exactly the same information, so cant really be a copyright violation. but if you feel so, then delete it

Lincolnshire Poacher

The fact that someone else is violating a copyright does not give us permission to do so also. Wholesale copying of copyrighted material is a violation. Rmhermen 00:21, Feb 13, 2005 (UTC)

No, you miss my point - there is very little know about this guy, so the limitation is how you present limited info in a logical fashion without repeating someone else. Also the egyptian site contains a lot more, whereas I have presented the bare facts.

Last time I looked at it you had copied not only sentences but entire paragraphs straight from these other sites. In fact it seemed that the majority of the article was word for word the same. Rmhermen 23:03, Feb 13, 2005 (UTC)

Well, we'll have to disagree, my sources included a uni textbook. Tell u what, ill not bother anymore, and ill delete all my contributions to date, enjoy your combat with the rest of the contributors, asshole. Are you normally this rude to newcomers??

Cartographer required

I saw you listed on the cartographers' list and wondered if you would be able to help me out. I've been working on Aramaic language (currently in peer review, but soon up for FAC), and it was suggested that it would be good to have one or two maps showing the distribution of Aramaic at different periods of history. Is this your kind of thing at all? Gareth Hughes 16:34, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)

since the crash...........

hi

I dont know if you realise it, but wikipedia has becoem unusable from the UK. HUGE delays and frequent page timouts when editing.

If just tried to save two hour worth of editing and got: ERROR The requested URL could not be retrieved While trying to retrieve the URL: NONE://10.0.0.9:80http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lincolnshire&action=submit The following error was encountered:

  * Read Error

The system returned:

(104) Connection reset by peer

An error condition occurred while reading data from the network. Please retry your request. Your cache administrator is wikidown@bomis.com. Generated Thu, 24 Feb 2005 20:44:00 GMT by will.wikimedia.org (squid/2.5.STABLE4-20040219.wp20050114.icpfix.nortt.S7)

a TRACERT reveals the lag is at your end:

• 3 10 ms 20 ms 10 ms nott-t2cam1-a-v133.inet.ntl.com [80.4.46.73]
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In fact the lag starts when we get to the US East coast.

You need to sort this out, its demoralising to lose all that work. Also, the email wikidown@bomis.com. bounces.

Steve

funds

heres a thought. if you wer a registered charity in the uk, you could apply for UK lottery funding and EEC Social Fund Single Payment funding. All you need is a UK branch of Wiki.

steve

I've reposted this at Wikipedia:Village Pump. Rmhermen 15:56, Feb 26, 2005 (UTC)

Re: Asteroid

I translated the French article from fr:Astéroïde. One of the things I noticed that was missing from the English article is a notable asteroid section. The other are the images, which are not present. If you notice, the information may be the same, it is just that the French article is slightly more detailed. My suggestion of merging was that I see the French article is a Featured article and the English article is not. The objections that may be raised is the layout of the article, and being too brief in certain areas where the French article is not. If you look closely, their section of "The discovery of the first asteroids" is more detailed than the English history section, with minor information missing. -- AllyUnion (talk) 13:40, 3 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Chicago maps

Don't worry; I've got you covered - Image:Chicago all levels.png. I don't have that in the article yet because it's not almost done. I'll make legends for both too; I just need to fully figure out how I'm doing them. --SPUI (talk) 18:19, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Oh, to answer your question - the dashed roads no longer exist (Lake Shore Drive has been moved). --SPUI (talk) 02:10, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Higgins Lake messages

Oh, thanks for catching that. I just was browsing around the US cities/places without articles, and clicked the links there. I'll look for more that the state was potentially left out on.

-- The US_cities_without_articles#Michigan is the page I'm talking about (that's where I linked to the edit page for Higgins Lake from). I should've taken more care in creating the page. Thanks again for catching that. --Mrmiscellanious 23:18, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)

--Hey, thanks a lot for expanding the stubbed articles on Michigan. It's about time they deserved a little attention! :-D --Mrmiscellanious 03:31, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)

aircraft carriers

Hi. I dont remember writing that about carriers. but the Indians still have one plus one they've just decommissioned (viraat and vikrant). i think they're the last ones. Brazil got rid of its a few years ago. China apparently still has part of melbourne's flight deck for some reason.

I added the Viraat information to the article. Thanks. Rmhermen 13:39, Mar 5, 2005 (UTC)

Calcutta -> Kolkata name change

Hi there. I noticed you voted in the Wikipedia:Naming policy poll to keep the Wikipedia policy of naming an article with the most familiar English name. You may not be aware that another attempt has begun to rename the Calcutta article to Kolkata, which is blatantly not the most common name of the city, whether it's official or not. If you want to vote on the issue you can do so at Talk:Calcutta. Cheers. -- Necrothesp 14:02, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Maize

Hi Rmhermen,

I'm not really sure what your problem with the image placement on the maize article is. A couple of points though; its considered bad form to use the admin revert on changes which are not vandalism, largely because it gives no explanation. Also are you aware that one of those photos is a featured picture. -- Solipsist 07:36, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Picture Help

Thanks! Refdoc 15:48, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Just wanted to thank you for correcting some of my articles as my English is not good enough. Keep doing it. Julien Tuerlinckx 00:43, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Strategic bombing during World War II

Please see Talk:Strategic bombing during World War II#History -- Philip Baird Shearer 10:36, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)

A message to the Wikipedia:WikiProject Rivers participants

Would you, please, consider participation in the discussion about the naming of the articles on rivers? Certain users suggested that the word "River" should be omitted from the title. Currently the discussion is held at User talk:Markussep#River naming, but it will hopefully be moved to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Rivers soon. Thank you for your attention.—Ëzhiki (erinaceus europeaus) 21:10, Mar 10, 2005 (UTC)

Re User:maleldil

Per your recommendation I've moved content from Wikipedia:maleldil to User:maleldil. Sorry for the mistake. As I learn and / or earn my way in the wiki universe (wikiverse?) I will try stay in line. As you know, there are a lot of ways to do many things and newbies will be newbies. Thanks for any guidance anyone provides. I have looked at the tutorial pages but there's a lot to learn! Again, thanks. Maleldil 23:52, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Virginia State Highway 5

I was glad to see your improvements to this article. Some images and/or a map would be nice, if these are in your field of interests. Thanks. Mark in Richmond. Vaoverland 23:39, Mar 11, 2005 (UTC)

Chomsky reference in Chemical Warfare

Hello, Rmhermen. I hope everything is well.

Regarding the Chomsky reference in chemical warfare, the bits I used were specifically from page 2 of Chomsky's speech. I used it in Chemical warfare in the interwar years, specifically the information about Churchill's enthusiasm to use chemical weapons in response to a revolt in Mesopotamia in 1920 (which was never executed for various reasons), and the suppression of that order until about 25 years ago. The purpose of that information is to highlight the contrasting opinions of "the people" and some in govenment during that period. Hope this helps. – ClockworkSoul 14:20, 12 Mar 2005 (UTC)

• • Re Mesopotamia: there seems to be a great deal of disagreement on this point in general, even among experts, and our own dissonance reflects. It is a fact that Churchill was very pro-CW, and also that many commanders asked to be supplied with poison gas, but there seems to be no record that says, in so many words, that gas attacks took place in Mesopotamia. In short: it looks to me that nobody knows for sure, but it might have been (and I don't trust secondary sources that claim to know for sure without citing sources: I will only be comfortable with verified information). I will update the paragraph to be more true to our surrect understanding. Regarding the Bolsheviks: I just don't know; I'll research that immediately and see what I can find. – ClockworkSoul 15:46, 12 Mar 2005 (UTC)

CW's in suppressing rebellions; Bolsheviks

I found a resource that appearsd to be well cited and researched that may be exactly what you're looking for: Monterey Institute of Internation Studies: Chronology of State Use and Biological and Chemical Weapons Control. Here is a copy and paste of a relevant section (note that it offers a reference supporting a British use of adamsite (not mustard gas) against the Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War):

• June 28, 1918 [CW] - The United States begins its formal chemical weapons program with the establishment of the Chemical Warfare Service.[16]
• 1919 [CW] - British use Adamsite against the Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War.[17]
• 1922-1927 [CW] - The Spanish use chemical weapons against the Rif rebels in Spanish Morocco.[18]
• June 17, 1925 [LF] - "Geneva Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or Other Gases, and of bacteriological Methods of Warfare" is signed - not ratified by U.S. and not signed by Japan.[19]
• 1936 [CW] - Italy uses mustard gas against Ethiopians during its invasion of Abyssinia.[20]
• 1937 [BW] - Japan begins its offensive biological weapons program. Unit 731, the BW research and development unit, is located in Harbin, Manchuria. Over the course of the program, at least 10,000 prisoners are killed in Japanese experiments.[21]
• 1939 [BW] - Nomonhan Incident - Japanese poison Soviet water supply with intestinal typhoid bacteria at former Mongolian border. First use of biological weapons by Japanese.[22]
• 1940 [BW] - The Japanese drop rice and wheat mixed with plague-carrying fleas over China and Manchuria.[23]

Again, I hope that you find this useful.

Formatting

Ah, okay... I'm using Firefox v1.0. Right justified looks like it's supposed to (simply a right-justified table). Centered places the table on the left, with the caption centered (a bit odd, but at least visible). I reverted back to your change, opting for the lesser of two evils. – ClockworkSoul 17:22, 12 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Protected areas

Why have you moved all the categories for national parks from National parks by country to protected areas by country? I can't find any justification for it in the discussion. Protected areas are a larger category. National parks are a subcategory of protected areas, not synonymous with it. Look at Category:Protected areas of the United States where national parks are one single entry out of many types. Rmhermen 06:18, Mar 14, 2005 (UTC)

(The discussion has now been archived at Wikipedia:Categories_for_deletion/resolved.)

Oh, that's actually what I thought you suggested to do. It certainly made sense to me, given the difference in terminology and meaning, to just put the most-general "conservation area" category for each country, into a category with a generic name. So it seems to me what we would want to do is just put Category:Protected areas of the United States in Category:Protected areas by country. Or have I completely misunderstood? -- Beland 07:00, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Rivers#Naming_methods

could you state what you want? regards Tobias Conradi 23:01, 15 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Illinois Tollway

Hello. I'm new to Wikipedia so please excuse me if I violate any community protocols.

Did you remove my first draft article on the Illinois Tollway for purported copyright violations? If so, please note that the material is largely drawn from an SEC filing called an "Official Statement" that the Tollway issued when it sold bonds in 1998. This is the document that the Tollway, under penalty of law, submits to bondholders describing itself and its finances. It as accurate a source as it gets.

The Tollway apparently has used some of the same language in later public documents, namely, its CAFR filing that it submits each year to the bond trustee and others. CAFR filings are public documents as well and not protected by any copyright.

In sum, the information is both reliable and clearly in the public domain. There is no, repeat no, possible copyright infringement issue.

How can I get the entry restored to good graces so I can work it up?

Thanks.

Simply being a public document does not mean that there is no copyright. Only the Federal government and the state of California disclaim copyright for works produced by employees. The facts are of course not copyrightable but the wording has to be ours. Rmhermen 03:10, Mar 18, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks. I did edit and add some rewrites from the source material. Can I continue to work on what I posted to make it more fully "mine"? The idea was to get something posted to allow myself and others to start working away on it. Please advise is I have to post from scratch or can edit what is there. Thanks.

Here is a link to download most state CAFRs: http://cafr1.com/listings/Listings.html

It is noted that Enterprise Toll ways will establish Advance Forward Debt accounts. Many have investment assets much greater than standing debt but being that the annual additions into these accounts are ledgered off each year as a payment, the standing assets of the repayment account as a "potential" liability deposit is not reflected in the balance statement as a standing asset. EXAMPLE: 1989 NJ Turnpike and Parkway. Bond debt: 14.3 billion Dollars. Advance Forward Debt Payment account balance 33 billion dollars.

survival suits

Hi, I'm fairly new to Wikipedia. Okay, very new! I've had an account for a long time but I have only just started contributing a few things. I noticed that you replaced some of the text in Personal flotation device that referred to survival suits. To my knowledge, survival suits are not considered PFDs by the U.S. Coast Guard. May I ask where you found the information that indicated survival suits are indeed counted as PFDs? Thanks! -Etoile 13:51, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)

This is not an article about about what the U.S. Coast Guard considers PFD - this is an article about items which provide flotation to individuals anywhere in the world. At the moment it is very U.S.-centric but that will change. Also the U.S.C.G. does require "immersion suits...formerly called "exposure suits" and are sometimes called "survival suits.") [1]. It is my understanding, although I may be wrong, that these suits include flotation and they are certainly personal. Rmhermen 15:27, Mar 18, 2005 (UTC)

I would like to point out that the primary purpose of survival suits is not actually flotation. Some do have added flotation - Mustang Survival makes some with and some without - but their primary purpose is more insulation during cold water immersion. In any case, I suppose it's not an important enough point to argue, and you're right that it should not be a US-centric article. Thank you for your feedback. -Etoile 16:33, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Computer problem

I just noticed your query on the Reference Desk. In case it's still an issue, I can tell you that I had that problem and it was indeed heat. Although the fan was turning, either it wasn't at full strength or there was something else wrong with the cooling system. The shop that does warranty repairs told me they replaced the cooling system; the problem ended. For diagnosis: Along with checking to see whether the fan is exhausting air, touch the casing and see whether you can feel any hot spots. I found that holding an ice pack against the computer at the hot point would let it run much longer before shutting down, but, on balance, I think fixing or replacing the cooling system is a more elegant solution.  :) JamesMLane 05:32, 19 Mar 2005 (UTC)

You have been nominated for adminship at Wikiquote

• I have recently nominated you, and three other users who have been active at Wikiquote for adminship. The opportunity for voting and comments must last a week before any actions can be taken. Please post your response at q:Wikiquote:Requests for adminship. Thanks for all your help. ~ Kalki 15:58, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Devil's Lake

There is an article naming dispute over Devil's Lake. I am of the opinion that Devil's Lake should redirect to Devil's Lake (North Dakota), while another editor, DreamGuy, prefers to have Devil's Lake point to a disambiguation page. Since you have edited the article, I would appreciate your comments on this matter at Talk:Devil's Lake (North Dakota). Thank you. --Alexwcovington (talk) 05:34, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Zurich

Zürich has been nominated on Wikipedia:Requested moves for a page move to Zurich. Perhapse you might like to express your opinion about this proposed move on talk:Zürich. Philip Baird Shearer 09:58, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Alpha Phi Omega

Why the delete of George H.W. Bush as an honorary brother?

For the same reason that we don't list holders of honorary degrees as alumnni of the college that bestowed them. It is merely an honor - something entirely different from being a member. Rmhermen 12:16, Apr 12, 2005 (UTC)

For Alpha Phi Omega, Honorary Membership is a type of Membership. Please see http://www.apo.org/publications/documents/bylaws.pdf . (Article III, Section 2, (5)). George HW Bush, although an honorary brother is listed in Our Distinguished Alumni (as an honorary member) at http://www.apo.org/publications/documents/pledgemanual.pdf (page 34). (although these documents are not updated to include changes from the last convention, the sections to which I'm refering haven't changed). I'm on the National History & Archive Committee for Alpha Phi Omega.

I don't deny that Honorary Membership is a type of membership. I just equate it to an honorary degree like Humane Letters and beleive that it is not particulary interesting. However, perhaps it could be expanded as a separate section with mentions of the reasoning, like

• George H.W. Bush, for his 1000 Points of Light initiative

I am glad to see you working on this article. I had emailed the national office regarding the difficulty of finding a larger verified list of notable alumni but got no response. Rmhermen 14:13, Apr 12, 2005 (UTC)

I am quite willing to do a separate list for Notable Alumni and Notable Honorary Brothers (They are brothers, the only two membership types that are members as opposed to being brothers are Pledge Membership and Petitioning Membership. As far as I know, every President of the United States from Truman to GHWB was made an honorary brother at one time or another. However the only ones where I have chapters are GHWB and JFK.

Are you an Alpha Phi Omega alumnus?

Naraht 15:25, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Yes, and incidentally, I was an active during the presidencies of GHW Bush and Clinton. Rmhermen 13:17, Apr 15, 2005 (UTC)

As was I! I pledged Fall of 1986 at Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA. I graduated in May, 1990 from CMU. Incidentally, how does the page look now? I moved the fundamentals into a Fraternity Infobox as proposed in the WikiProject for Fraternities and Sororities.

Naraht 15:27, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Hectares

In Soay, Saint Kilda, Bobblewik has changed "about 96.8 ha" to "about 968,000 square metres" [2]! and that's how I have wandered into your neck of the woods! I haven't reverted him but I have added hectares back in. Thincat 13:04, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Black Death

I've taken your comments on the exclusive European perspective to heart and made a beginning at restructuring the article. From what I had at hand, I added information on the Middle Eastern outbreak, and a little more about China, but I have no information on India. Some additional information about social/political consequences in eastern areas of the world is available. I'll try and weave that in. Would you look over the edit? Comments welcome. WBardwin 23:54, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I am in the middle of reading The Great Mortality right now. I will add to the page when I finish it. I didn't know how to start though. Rmhermen 23:57, Apr 16, 2005 (UTC)

I'd vote in favor of keeping the "Black Death" title simply because our English speaking audience will reference the material by that name. "Plague in the Fourteenth Century" might do though. Naming pandemics for public consumption is an awkward thing - while historians like dates, the public does not. Look forward to your edits. WBardwin 00:31, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Category:National parks

Why is this being deleted again? Surely the vote was to move from National parks by country to National park not the other way around. Rmhermen 17:22, Apr 15, 2005 (UTC)

My original proposal was to delete "Category:National parks" in favor of "Category:National parks by country". This is what was apparently approved on CFD. (I'm looking at [3].) If you prefer "National parks" instead of "National parks by country", I happen to prefer the latter, to encourage people to keep it properly sorted. But there's certainly an argument for the former for brevity. Feel free to nominate the latter for renaming if you have a strong opinon; I'll probably be too busy with other things to vote on it. -- Beland 04:39, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Ford Model A image

Oops, nice catch! I got it from the Library of Congress, where the license was phrased differently. --SFoskett 03:53, Apr 20, 2005 (UTC)

Catawba Grape --> Vitis labrusca redirect

It's entirely appropriate in my opinion. Have a look at Grape. Notice the long list of latin names for the various varieties of grapes. Why do you think the redirection is NOT appropriate? --Durin 04:00, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Catawba is merely one of hundreds of varieties of the species Vitis labrusca. It is not correct to claim that it is the only one -in fact it isn't even the most famous/common one -that would be Concord grape. See list of grape varieties. Rmhermen 12:29, Apr 21, 2005 (UTC)

Please can you list redirects like this one (and also Belle River) on Wikipedia:Redirects for deletion if you want them deleted instead of just blanking them? This prevents them showing up in the list of short pages, and means they appear as a red link so that people know the page does not exist yet. Thanks. Angela. 11:07, Apr 26, 2005 (UTC)

Alpha Phi Omega Disclaimer

The Disclaimer that was added to the Alpha Phi Omega page was requested by a member of the APO National Board. I'd like to include something close to that disclaimer to help soothe various board members who aren't get jittery over published information that isn't under their control and doesn't have the disclaimer. Naraht 14:59, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Wikipedia's position is that this is covered by the Wikipedia:General disclaimer shown at the bottom of every page and that the adding of specific disclaimers to individual pages is a bad thing, unprofessional, unencyclopedic, etc. Rmhermen 15:12, Apr 22, 2005 (UTC)

How about this...

"Disclaimer" becomes "For Further Information" and under it is

For further information including official documents please contact:

Alpha Phi Omega web site and the actual URL

Address of the National Office

Phone of the National Office.

"External Links" becomes "Additional External Links" Naraht 15:35, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)

We don't we follow the procedures Wikipedia has spent several years developing and following the same procedure as the 500,000 other articles? I don't see why this should be treated differently than General Motors or Monsters, Inc. The link to the website is important and the national office address can be fit in somewhere. Rmhermen 17:29, Apr 22, 2005 (UTC)

OK, what do you think should be changed out of what is there now? I did find a couple of the other Fraternities that had the locations of their Headquarters on their pages and General Motors does include their corporate address. Web pages for organizations seem appropriate. Not sure on the phone or the email...and I'll probably shorten it to "please contact at" rather than "please contact the fraternity in one of the following methods: " Naraht 18:16, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Your vote at Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion/Christofascism

Hey Rmhermen, I reorganized the votes at Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion/Christofascism, and since you just made a comment, I wasn't sure where to include your vote, if at all. When you get a chance, if you want to vote, head on over and put it whereëver it belongs.  :-p Tomer ^TALK 07:10, May 2, 2005 (UTC)

Watching Firestorm

Hello Rmhermen, as you have already been reverting some link-spamming in the firestorm article, I wondered if I could ask you to please keep an eye on it for a while? The same anon who attacked it before is still at it, and apparently has access to the entire /16 network 84.144.x.x. I have been reverting them when I see them but of course I'm not always online and it would appear that no-one else has the article watch-listed, so one attack went unnoticed for several days. (I've also asked Kaisershatner to watch it.) --Thanks, Securiger 15:16, 4 May 2005 (UTC)

sorry

I didnt see your message to me till i had already edited that page last... i wont change it anymore

Image:Grinnell glacier.jpg

I liked this pic, so I uploaded it to Commons (filename: Image:Grinnell Glacier at Glacier National Park.jpeg) to be able to use it on de.wikipedia (placed it in the 'selected anniversaries' template for May 11, so it'll be on the main page there as well ... regards Interpretix TALK 22:20, 10 May 2005 (UTC)

Alpha Phi Omega - Contact information?

It seems to me that the Street Address and Phone Number for an organization are appropriate pieces of information for an Encyclopedia entry. The street address for the Organization (minus the Zip code) are fields in the Fraternity Infobox.

Naraht 05:24, 16 May 2005 (UTC)

My concern is that this article should follow the same format as all the other articles on any topic. This is an encyclopedia article not a recruiting poster. The other information is easily obtainable in an incorruptable and up-to-date official site which we link to in the external links section. Rmhermen 14:21, May 16, 2005 (UTC)

OK, I'll use as my guide that I won't include any information unless similar information exists in at least 5 other Greek Letter Organizations accessible from the Fraternities_and_Sororities page. How does that sound? Also I did find a phone number on *1* of the other fraternities. Lambda_Chi_Alpha. Naraht 16:34, 20 May 2005 (UTC)

Cutting of the elm

Could you look at this Priory of Sion related article. Is there any evidence that there ever was any Priory of Sion? Rmhermen 21:22, May 17, 2005 (UTC)

The modern Priory of Sion is a hoax. However, there was a religious order known as the Order of Sion. Please read Priory of Sion: the Facts, the Theories, the Mystery for more information. Loremaster 00:39, 18 May 2005 (UTC)

Deviled eggs

Why the revert on the dish? --Mothperson 14:26, 20 May 2005 (UTC)

Deviled egg dishes are not a past 20th century fad. I can still get them in a wide variety of stores or at home from the local Tupperware ladies. Rmhermen 14:50, May 20, 2005 (UTC)

Image Tagging

Thanks for contributing to Image:Carpet.png. I notice it currently doesn't have an image copyright tag. Until a more informative tag is provided, it will be listed as {{unverified}}. Could you add a better tag to let us know its copyright status? If you made the image yourself, an easy way to deal with this is add {{gfdl}} if you're willing to release it under the GFDL. Alternatively, you could release it into the public domain instead, by adding {{PD-self}}. However, if it isn't your own image, you need to specify what free license it was distributed under. You can find a list of the tags here. If it was not distributed under a free license, but you claim fair use, add {{fairuse}}. If you don't know what any of this means, just let me know where you got the images by posting to my talk page. If you do this, I can tag them for you. Thanks so much, Superm401-Talk 04:42, May 22, 2005 (UTC)

Nope, wasn't me. I just adjusted the contrast. I forwarded the message to the contributor. Rmhermen 17:18, May 22, 2005 (UTC)

Cheyenne image

I noticed that you changed the thumbnail size on the image in Cheyenne from 500px to 300px. Is there a policy or standard, or other reason? I tend to scale up thumbnails on images I especially like, especially if they tend to be hard to see at smaller scales. I also assume that grayscale images aren't going to be all that big, even at somewhat larger sizes. But I'm willing to listen to reason. TIA, Mwanner 23:22, May 23, 2005 (UTC)

The size it was created a two-word-wide column of text on the left which is very difficult to read. I believe some are pushing a 250px standard although I have used 325px before. Rmhermen 00:36, May 24, 2005 (UTC)

That's interesting-- on my monitor, 500px produced about a half-column image, with a text column of 12-15 words. My screen is set to set to 1152 x 864; you must be running a lower-res setting. I've seen it suggested before that Wiki's setting image size in pixels is a poor choice-- now I see why. I guess until they change to a percent width setting, I'll leave images smaller. Thanks, Mwanner 02:19, May 24, 2005 (UTC)

Cottage cheese

You don't think reverting a merge, over which I took some trouble, is worth a single word of discussion? Charles Matthews 19:08, 28 May 2005 (UTC)

You didn't think combining two separate concepts into one article deserved any comment. As for discussion, these are not the same thing any more than Colby and Cheddar are the same or rain and sleet are the same. Rmhermen 01:49, May 29, 2005 (UTC)

Now, hoop cheese as far as I can see is a type of cottage cheese; and, according to the article, is not so common now (at least as a commercial product). As far as I'm concerned, cottage cheese is a generic term for all cheeses produced by this one type of process. If we'd had a chance to discuss this, I would have brought that up. I would also have mentioned my view that instead of creating an article for every variant to be found on the planet, we should have a better article for an encyclopedia by having the information centralised on one page. I think you could afford to be more conciliatory. Charles Matthews 07:19, 29 May 2005 (UTC)

Interesting. However you seem to be the one making major changes based on no discussion and then leaving angry messages. Perhaps it is a matter of misperception. I will repeat however that hoop or farmer's cheeses are not the same as cottage cheese. See [4] What sort of knife do you imagine is necessary to cut that! See [5] for an image and discussion of Farmer's cheese. Rmhermen 17:44, May 29, 2005 (UTC)

I don't think either of 'be bold' or the collegiate principles of this wiki have been revoked. Which is why we talk - hopefully. Nor is the 'cheese' coverage going to profit from being centred on USA types - this is hilariously the wrong end to the telescope. Charles Matthews 09:06, 30 May 2005 (UTC)

I don't believe that "Be bold" absolves you from explaining your reasoning. And generally merges are announced and discussed beforehand. "The cheese coverage...centered on USA types" boggles me as these are not USA cheeses and I am pretty certain that the cheese articles are heavily weighted to obscure French varieties. Rmhermen 13:33, May 30, 2005 (UTC)

I think I now have all the information I need about your revert. Charles Matthews 13:47, 30 May 2005 (UTC)

Image:DIAfront.jpg

Image deletion warning

The image Image:DIAfront.jpg has been listed at Wikipedia:Possibly unfree images. If the image's copyright status cannot be verified, it will be deleted. If you have any information on the source or licensing of this image, please go there to provide the necessary information.

Burgundavia (✈ take a flight?) 07:03, May 30, 2005 (UTC)

Wow, odd. This is a tweak of Image:DIAfront.JPG. Apparently the different capitalization of the extension caused a duplicate page. I will merge them later today. Rmhermen 13:33, May 30, 2005 (UTC)

Deep Impact

                                                    7/5/05    
            

Thank you for dealing with the vandalism directed at the article on "Deep Impact".

                                  Simon