User talk:Jnothman/Feb 2006

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thanks at the help desk!

Thanks a lot, Jnothman. Here is the new article subsisting on its own. [1] Feels good to resuscitate a dead article. Thanks again. Thomas S. Major 08:15, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

Invitation

You are invited to take part in Wikipedia_talk:Changing username#Dropping inactive user names. Ems2 17:24, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

Netzer

Hey - Im not quite sure what you mean by all the copyright stuff.. as in what i need to do, please advise.

Hey,

Yeah Im a old Netzer Boger, former Federal Merakez etc etc.

I was one of the original content creators and contributors to the Netzer webpage at www.netzer.org.au

is that enough?

Thank you very much

Thank you for all the great work you have done fixing my mistakes. Well done. Ems2 07:59, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

I see you get a lot of thank yous, you must be really helpful, I changed the title. Ems2 09:03, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

Phillip Knightley

Joel: May I contribute a biography of the multi-award winning journalist and non-fiction writer, Phillip Knightley?--88.106.69.38 04:03, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Nigel Wooll

Joel: Nigel Wooll was the first movie producer to use "morphing" in a feature film (Willow). Worth a short biog?--88.106.69.38 04:03, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Talk: Jnothman

Joel: How long does the user talk stay on this page after an entry is up? I refer to my biog. It seems strange that when one does a Google search for a name, the entry appears and so does the "chatter". In fact if you do a Yahoo search for my entry, you only get the your Usertalk. I guess using Oxford University's databases for years, it just seems unprofessional. Bemister --88.106.69.38 04:01, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

I don't know whether to reply on my talk page, at User talk:88.106.69.38 or user talk:Bemister, so I might do all three.

haha! I didn't notice that Google thing... It seems the reason it does that is that my talk page has a lot of links to it, so Google sees it as an important page (it has a lot of links to it because it gets another everytime I sign a comment on another talk page). I have been meaning to archive the content here for a while, I just haven't got around to it. Once I do and Google updates, it's less likely to come up in a search for your name. Sorry about that!

As to your questions of Phillip Knightley and Nigel Wooll:

• I am no expert on the fields of either of these individuals and so would not know of their notability, or the significance of '"morphing" in a feature film' for instance. It is possible, however, to find a group of more expert Wikipedians, by looking for a relevant WikiProject. In this case, WikiProject Films and WikiProject Journalism may be relevant, and you could ask there on their talk pages.
• You don't need to ask before creating articles. Simply click links to Phillip Knightley or Nigel Wooll, research (find sources, but do not copy verbatim) and start typing (cite the sources). For autobiographies, though, we may be a little pickier, which is why you went through the village pump.
• One of the best ways to test whether a subject is notable is by writing the article and finding out if anyone proposes it for deletion! Or propose it yourself for deletion, voting to keep the article, and hope that others agree!
• I can definitely say that Phillip Knightley deserves an article. He qualifies as an author of many wide-circulation books, as well as for his awards and general fame in journalism. As for Nigel Wooll, I am less convinced, but he does have an extensive Hollywood portfolio. You may first, though, extend the comment on the first use of morphing at the article on Willow.

jnothman ^talk 04:29, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Joel: I'll do Phillip Knightley next week. I know him very well. Bemister--80.47.62.124 18:53, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

Idan Raichel

שלום, נעדרתי לזמן מה. מדוע להסיר את התמונה של עידן רייכל? הרי הראתי את האישור להעלאת התמונה בויקי עברית, אז מה הבעיה כאן? הבאתי לינק לאישור שבעברית ומה עוד חסר? בויקיפדיה עברית אנחנו מחמירים מאוד לגבי תמונות, אז תהיו בטוחים שכאן זה לא תעלול ולא סתם משחק. מקווה שעניתי, כל טוב,

Dalida 19:57, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

ולעומת זאת, האנגלית שלי גרועה, בעיקר בכתיבה.

המון תודה, וכפי שכתבתי וציינתי, יש אישור לתמונה ובלב שלם ניתן להשאיר אותה. תודה Dalida 06:59, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

he: translation

Would you be able to have a stab at translating this for me? commons:User:Pfctdayelise/Translations I find he: pretty scary to edit, if I'm armed with some Hebrew it might be better. :) Ta, pfctdayelise 07:53, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

Many many thanks! pfctdayelise 10:56, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

Jews in Australia

Shalom! Just dropping a note to let you know - I have redirected the abovementioned title to History of the Jews in Australia, which is currently filled with the text imported from the public domain Jewish Encyclopedia and thus its coverage ends abruptly at the start of the 20th century. I trust that you will do a superb job of updating the article when you find the time. Thanks, Defrosted 11:00, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Thank you for pointing out the template bibleverse, and making my userpage better Jon513 14:31, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

Honi Soit

Do you want to write it together? I think to merit its publication in Honi Soit, it'll need to discuss WP in general in addition to the politics of an online community (Honi is a very political newspaper and they probably don't accept any material that isn't) and WP's involvement with Usyd (Andrew Quah, the persistently annoying SRC pest candidate, has inserted inappropriate links in the past, for example). It should be ok to collate notes and write/edit the article in a user subpage here on WP - perhaps you'd like to stub out a possible structure sometime?

As a side note, the Honi Soit article itself is barebones, and discusses more politics than newspaper. It might be a good idea to get that fixed up (or at least the University of Sydney article) before submitting stuff to Honi, to demonstrate what kind of quality articles you can find on WP.

A slight problem is where to find info. While Fisher keeps copies of Honi Soit, there's no real book about Honi. The book I've got out at the moment ([2]) is, as the title suggests, brief. As a contrast, the book on everything you'd ever want to know about the University of Sydney ([3]) is excessively long. Might be worth a peek though. enochlau (talk) 05:29, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

True, there is no compulsion on us to fix those articles in particular. Just an idea - the current debacle on userboxes (if you haven't been keeping up, there's a bit hoolala at Wikipedia:Deletion review/Userbox debates) could prove a useful case study of an online community in terms of expression beyond the original scope of the project, orders from the benevolent dictator, and (potential) misuse of admin powers. Have you got any time to meet up? What about lunch one day? If it's easier to discuss via MSN Messenger, feel free to send me private mail with your email in it :) Otherwise, we could always use the new #wikimedia-au on irc.freenode.net. Cheers. enochlau (talk) 15:32, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

And I thought I was weird editing Wikipedia at 3am in the morning... At least I have an excuse, waiting for my hair to dry after shower :P enochlau (talk) 15:51, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

Great Assembly

Shevua Tov.

The Great Assembly article needs an experts attention. I think your wise enough to take a look ;)

ems 13:16, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

Bodypump - Bodybalance Response

I posted a number of issues here regarding my entries on Bodypump and Bodybalance. I have been ignored and none of my responses have been addressed.

They concern that the articles were advertising. I personally consider that the entries were informative and that Jnothman has not even bothered to respond back to me regarding this issue.

So can you tell me why they were deleted?

In addition why would you consider them to be advertising?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillip_Knightley

Dear Joel: G'Day: Put up my contribution about Phillip Knightley (who starts an Aussie tour next week. Can provide contact numbers etc.) as promised. Sources were personal telephone I/Vs in London (he's a mate), plus his own web site, but I checked numerous other web sites to confirm everything and deleted anything, which was not confirmed elsewhere.--Bemister 19:58, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

Just noticed that Knightley's entry in the list of Journalists is under P and not K: Bemister--Bemister 01:25, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

query

Hello jnothman,

I see that you have reversed all of the additions I made to "external links" on several Israel-related pages last night. Why did you do this? The links were to the publisher's page of a new book that is directly relevant to the topics on those pages. I'm dismayed to see my first foray into the editing side of Wikipedia has been so quickly squelched. Would you please let me know your reasons for excluding this content?

yours, newbie

Hi newbie, I left a message on the user's talk page with which you added those links. Yes, it was a prefab message, and may not have correctly applied to your intent in adding these links. It seemed to me that your use of Wikipedia at the time was not particularly adding content to the articles you edited. It merely seemed like external link spamming, a form of advertisement. Even if it were not intended as advertisement, it is notable that Wikipedia is NOT a directory of links and not every relevant link needs to be included in every article; indeed, external links should generally contain content, and should generally not be a page about a book which contains content. Take a look at Wikipedia:External links to see what sort of thing should be included under external links sections.

Finally, at the time that I removed your links, the page that I found when following the link was a placeholder page set up with the purchase of the domain, it seems, and not a link to the publisher at all. This means that while you could see the page, a change in DNS information hadn't yet made it to me. In retrospect, this further indicates that the web site has only gone up in the past 3 days, meaning that you are not adding the site to Wikipedia for the sake of Wikipedia, but rather seem to be a creator and advocate of that web site, adding it to advertise the site and most likely to increase its traffic and Google Pagerank. I thus still hold that this is link spam.

jnothman ^talk 10:09, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

Bibleverse

I'm sorry if in my fixing of the uses of the bibleverse template I inadvertently made other changes - I made some global changes that evidently resulted in a few unintended changes as well. The changes to the thumbnail links were entirely unintentional, as was the change to 613 mitzvot.

My reason for changing the bibleverse parameter usage is that, as originally coded, it links correctly but it displays very badly. As modified, it both links correctly AND displays sensibly - as e.g. Exodus 20:2-17 rather than as a URL. Colonies Chris 11:24, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

I had no idea there was a bug - I hadn't seen this template before. I just saw a lot of links that were rendering very badly, worked out by trial and error how to order the parameters to make the links look right as well as work right, and made the necessary changes (plus a few unintentional ones, for which I apologise). May I suggest that the idiot who changed the template without testing it should take on the work of reverting any consequential changes? Colonies Chris 15:03, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for sorting this out. I've just been through Sabbath and fixed all the refs there, I think. Colonies Chris 10:56, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

The resolution is broken for Isa / Isaiah - it resolves to "isiah" - Isaiah 44:6 - 4.253.13.130 23:31, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

Fixed. jnothman ^talk 14:24, 6 March 2006 (UTC)