IdeArchos

Wikipedia:No original research; that's at last a partial answer to your question. --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 11:07, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

Alright. I am not the type to keep anything going longer then it ought. I am sorry for having it all capitals, I was just shocked since I have assistend in editing the whole WiNN mess, and as a philosophy, many of the people I put theire do have an association with aspects of cosmotheism, especially H. G. Wells, Vernadsky and Fr. Chadrin, and the references to the Collective Conscious and Unconscious, the global brain, and the Noosphere/Omega Point seemed highly analogous to each-other. But, I will stop at here for now. Again, I am sorry for the capitals, I was just shocked.

I would also like to know, why is the pantheism article on the pantheism discussion board, and why are there administrators keeping it there? WiNN told me that it was there so that theire could be some retooling decisions, or something like that, I do not know if I can trust him fully though...

IdeArchos 01:14, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

I've just realised that I replied without fully understanding what you were asking about; sorry. You were referring to the disambiguation page, weren't you? The point is that a disambiguation page is there just as a navigation deice; when a word has more than one use, and there's more than one Wikipedia article that people might be looking for, we make a page to act as a signpost. The convention is that it contains the minimum material to achieve that end; details (and further connections) are found in the individual specific articles to which it points. --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 09:28, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

Spherical earth

Were you aware that Eratosthenes (about whom Wikipedia has virtually no information) demonstrated during the third century B.C. that the earth was spherical, and even made a fairly accurate measurement of its size? --HK 07:10, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

I don't know the context of this comment, but the Greeks had known that the Earth was spherical for some time before that. The myth that people thought that the Earth was flat until Columbus' voyages stems from a nineteenth-century German novel, which was incredibly popular in its day but is virtually forgotten now. One of those things that people think that they know but is actually completely false (like the idea that human beings only use 10% of their brains, which was made up for a 1950s advert on U.S. television). --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 21:33, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

Bad manners

Why do you insult the citizens of other countries? Imagine someone had a user box like yours on the EU and UN on the US or Nepal. It's just bad manners. ROGNNTUDJUU! 20:06, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

Which nation are you affiliated with and give your defense. -- IdeArchos 08:46, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

Which of the nations mentioned are you affiliated with (NOTE: Every userbox mentioned can be found in the catagories, I did NOT make them up, they are legitimate, and yes, I did have an anti-EU box up allready so I have that covered also). -- IdeArchos 08:49, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

I do not see any reason why I should tell you which nations I am affiliated with nor why I need a "defense" for telling you that crossing out official symbols that represent hundreds of millions of people is bad manners. The anti-EU userbox cannot be found among the official userboxes because policy is not to use divisive boxes. That is why some users make it up on their own. Please express your legitimate concerns in a respectful way. ROGNNTUDJUU! 12:34, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

I see you have been doing this allot.

My reasons against the E.U.? Well, as a Hungarian friend revealed to me, many of the nations of Europe are varied, not merely culturally, but monetarily, this means that:

• Whatever prices are set up in the E.U. will not look kindly upon their new states, who can not afford basic servaces. Their could be redistribution from the E.U. governance, but that issue will have have to waite for below.

• And this is just auxilary to the main problem, significant cultural and language barriers. We are dealing with a lnd that countains 4 different Romantic languages (French being the oddest man out, because it superficially resembles any of the others), Germanic Languages, including English (North and Southern Germanic Languages also are very different from Each-other, a Norsk and a German would not be able to understand each-other very well), and the Slavic Languages.

• Ontop of all this, not all the countries like each-other that much, some very little (Germany is anti-England since WWI, and England and France are practically anti-everybody).

All three of these reasons show, on a practical, immediate basis, why the E.U. is a very risky decision, given that we are dealing with cultures that have developed very distinct from each-other, to the point where compatibility (and particularl scale, as applied to economics) is limited. This underlies another problem, who is to actually set policy in the E.U.?

• It is shown, particularly in the case of the codex scare last year (here, here, and relevant material here) it is likely that the E.U. will be highly corporate based, particularly by Pharmeceutical giants like Bayer and IG Farben.

• National Interests: Where is this new government to be based, and which countries are investing upon this project?

You see, I am not Anti-European, which is what you appear to be implying, infact, as you can see, I care more for Europe then those who plan on turning it into a degenerated Corporate Beaurocracy State (Corporate Socialism, or, fascism). -- 69.248.43.27 20:48, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

I cannot see the point of your price argument. Of course prices can vary, even if they are in the same currency. Do you think the prices are the same in NYC and in Milwaukee? Furthermore, the EU does not force any member countries to join the EURO, Sweden and the UK are no members. The EU does not even allow all countries to join, they need to qualify. What is the problem with having several languages in a political entity? The EU has been extremely helpful in boosting translation services. Should India vanish just because not all its citizens understand each other? Germany is not anti-England at all. Polls show respect for each other is very high in the European Union. The UK as an island is a bit of an outlier, and still respect is comparatively high. Policy is set by individual countries except for the cases they agree about to be handled more appropriately together. Just as in other unions as the UK or US. There is lobbyism in all countries, that is nothing particular to the EU. The "government" is mainly based in Brussels, and I cannot see why that should be a problem. Is the US a problem because Washington D.C. is the capital? Come on.

I set up a template: {{user respect}} ROGNNTUDJUU! 21:02, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

WikiProject C-SPAN?

Greetings fellow Wikipedia editor -

I am leaving you this note because I have reason to believe that you are interested in C-SPAN. (I may have made this assumption based on your C-SPAN user box, or perhaps for some other reason.) If this is not an interest of yours, please feel free to read no further and delete this message.

If you are in fact someone who is interested in C-SPAN, then let me put forward an idea that I have been kicking around for a while. What if we started a C-SPAN WikiProject?

The parameters of this (potential) project are up for discussion, but it could include some or all of the following (as well as things that may occur to you that have not occurred to me):

• Creation, maintenance, and improvement of articles and lists directly related to C-SPAN and its programming.
• Use of C-SPAN programming in citations for various topics
• Inclusion of unique and targeted C-SPAN video links for various articles. (Doing this with respect for established guidelines at Wikipedia:External links.) (Example: If you are interested in the submarine USS Wyoming (SSBN-742), then having easy access to the eight hours of programming taped while a C-SPAN crew were guests on that submarine could also be of interest to you.)
• Inclusion of (and possible further creation of) templated links such as {{C-SPAN|laurabush}}, that will easily take article readers to a link of all C-SPAN Video Library links for the person about whom the article is about.
• What else?

I don't know exactly how far we may want to go, nor in what directions, but I do believe (as I have long noted on my user page) that C-SPAN and Wikipedia are both...

...fantastic vehicles for the free exchange of ideas and information in a non-sound-bite manner, and they both invite the participation of any parties (expert or amateur) who are interested in taking the time to absorb and/or contribute to the ideas and information offered. C-SPAN and Wikipedia go together like peanut butter and jelly, and I want to help give other Wiki users easy access to the great work that C-SPAN has done on a variety of topics.

Now, I should mention that I have never started a WikiProject before, and I do not know the best way to go about it. (Perhaps one of you do?) Let me offer one of my sandbox pages, User:KConWiki/sandbox/Wikiproject C-SPAN?, as a gathering area for comments until such time as we gather enough steam to start our own WikiProject page.

Thanks for reading this far, and I hope that you will give some consideration as to whether this is something we ought to attempt. Please feel free to pass this message on to others you know whom might be interested, and please let me know your thoughts and comments.

KConWiki (talk) 03:46, 25 March 2013 (UTC)

Women in Red World Contest

Hi. We're into the last five days of the Women in Red World Contest. There's a new bonus prize of $200 worth of books of your choice to win for creating the most new women biographies between 0:00 on the 26th and 23:59 on 30th November. If you've been contributing to the contest, thank you for your support, we've produced over 2000 articles. If you haven't contributed yet, we would appreciate you taking the time to add entries to our articles achievements list by the end of the month. Thank you, and if participating, good luck with the finale!