User talk:Greenrd

Welcome to the Wikipedia!

Hello, and Welcome to the Wikipedia, Greenrd! Thanks for removing the redundancy over on the SourceWatch article. Here are a few perfunctory tips to hasten your acculturation into the Wikipedia experience:

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Best of luck, Greenrd, and most importantly, have fun! Ombudsman 03:00, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

Re:European Research Networks

Hi, thanks for posting the warning. Just one request. In future, don't forget to sign your name on such warnings, because by the time I managed to find out who had posted the comment, the article was gone...--IslesCape^Talk 23:21, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

Empty categories ...

If they are over four days old and still empty, you can just tag them as {{db-catempty}}. And thank you for all your hard work! -- Prove It ^(talk) 00:55, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

The thing is that's only supposed to be used where a category has never had anything in it.--greenrd 00:57, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

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Michelle Austin

When adding categories to people, could you please add the sorting part?

• [[Category:Alumni of Rose Bruford College]]

Use this instead:

• [[Category:Alumni of Rose Bruford College|Austin, Michelle]]

Or you could add a DEFAULTSORT tag, as I have done for Lloyd Stephens.

Thanks ... -- Prove It ^(talk) 14:16, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

Re: Re-Constriction Records

Thanks for helping out and removing the redundancy, been a bit busy and not as able to keep on top of things as I would like recently. Der.Gray 01:25, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

Magic (illusion)

Hiya, be aware that your automated changes may be putting in some bad links... Magician (illusion) is a redirect. Shouldn't you be changing things to "Magic (illusion)"? --Elonka 22:53, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

In my opinion, links to redirects - unlike links to disambiguation pages - are not "bad links". If the article is ever split into two articles, one "magic (illusion)" and one "magician (illusion)", preserving these redirects will make the split easier to perform. As for any speed impact on the servers, see Wikipedia:Don't_worry_about_performance.—greenrd 23:04, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

By the way, they're not automated changes. I am merely using a tool to help me do this kind of editing more efficiently - I'm still making all the decisions.—greenrd 23:06, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

Template disambiguation

Why are links to the template disambiguation page being removed? Oicumayberight 03:45, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

Well, I thought there is no point in linking to that page when the word template is being used in a way which is not covered by Wikipedia. But I've stopped working on Template now, anyway.—greenrd 12:37, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

Development

I am having to chase you around changing your Robot-assisted disambiguation: Development. Just so you know you are using the the wrong definition, hence the reverts.

((main|Learning & Development))

• Development

*Different views on the interaction of internal/external factors, Part of Human Resource Management. It amy also describe the organisations strategy for managing the process

• Outcomes may be long lasting but may diminish over time.

This isn't the same context as Professional development although this is covered separtarely in some of the pages particulary the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.--Pandaplodder 12:50, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

OK, I'll defer to you on that. The main goal here is that links shouldn't normally point to a disambiguation page - unless there is no more specific, appropriate page to link to on Wikipedia. So please consider (a) linking to a more specific page if there is one, or (b) unlinking if the word is used in a very generic sense and/or a link isn't really needed.—greenrd 13:07, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

Photos

Hi. Thanks for your supportive comment on Global warming conspiracy theory. I noticed you calling for a picture on John Quiggin. There are a bunch here [1], showing a transition from hirsute to smooth.JQ 03:23, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

Deletion of LDOCE article

Hi! Thanks for notifying me of your interest in (the deletion of :) ) the LDOCE article. As you might have guessed, I disagree with you but appreciate any further comments. I've posted the reason(s) why I think it should not be deleted in its relative discussion page. Stefano 03:36, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

Global warming conspiracy theory

Could I ask you to keep an eye on this article. I've just removed tags inserted by Uber that I think are unjustified. Like lots of others I'm having trouble dealing with this editor.

OK, thanks for letting me know.—greenrd 12:54, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

Multiplicity: virtual switch, not remote desktop

I reverted your change to Multiplicity because I think you misunderstood what it does, or possibly what remote desktop software is. Projecting the output of a remote desktop onto a local screen is an essential part of what remote desktop software does (hence the name). Multiplicity does not do that. Instead, it just redirects input to another computer, like a KVM switch without the V. A Multiplicity user typically has two (or more) computers sitting right next to one another and moves their mouse between the two as if the same keyboard and mouse controlled both. Each computer has its own display hardware. With a remote desktop application, the second computer would usually be far away, and might not have a local display at all. GreenReaper 01:36, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

re: Key selection vector

Thanks for your note. I process a lot of copyright violations and sometimes I am wrong. I usually err on the side of keeping the article. Normally a polite note that I made a mistake will suffice, if you get my meaning. That being said, can you please quote the passages in Key selection vector you found to be copyright violations of the page you linked in the copyvio notice? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Spike Wilbury (talk • contribs) 17:35, 14 May 2007 (UTC).

I have addressed the problem, explain at Talk:Key selection vector. Honestly, a lot of the other text looks suspect. --Spike Wilbury 18:30, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

Dealbreaker

Thanks yr note. I do understand the points raised by others and the remainder in the deletion debate, though I do believe the subject's notability might become clearer as the editing progresses.--Samiharris 15:25, 19 May 2007 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of Eulalia, Duchess of Galliera

You marked this article for speedy deletion. However, another editor came along an changed it to an AfD because the subject of the article was a member of a royal family. The result of the discussion was keep.

— superbfc [ talk | cont ] — 11:02, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

Speedy Deletion of Dave Wenger Page

I understand why it was deleted, there was pretty much nothing on it. I know that in a short time many people would add to it. I posted some links for why it is notable on the talk page. Mikqick 23:33, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

Feel free to recreate the page and add some notability info.—greenrd 00:31, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

Bootloaders

This is kind of off-topic, but I just wanted to say thanks for the info you added to my edit in Boot disk. I had no idea there were linux-based booters that could look for Windows passwords. I now own such a disk, and can immediately think of three problems I could have solved more easily at work in the past month had I known this; this should make things easier. Best, L Glidewell 01:15, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of Denise Harris

Hi Greenrd:

You invoked speedy deletion of the article on Denise Harris yesterday. Now the article is gone and I don't have any way of determining what was there. I started the article hoping that others would contribute. Wikipedia is unique in that it allows for articles on people that may not be prominent in the developed world but who are significant to the country or region they live(d) in. I am frustrated by your actions, especially the speed of disappearance of the article. Nick Taylor 20:38, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

Inevitably, speedy deletions will sometimes offend. However, Wikipedia policy is that biographical articles which do not explicitly assert the importance or notability of the subject may be speedily deleted at any time. I presume that this policy was put in place because some editors feel that indiscriminate creation of articles, particular in the area of biographies, companies, etc., and the concomitant wasting of editors' time, is a significant problem. If you would like to propose any changes to Wikipedia's speedy deletion policy, or to suggest changes to improve awareness of this policy, I suggest you raise it for public discussion among editors, e.g. at the Village Pump (policy section).—greenrd 21:09, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

Eugène Canseliet

Hello! Canseliet is the only known disciple of Fulcanelli. Little is known about him, at least by me, and I don't intend to pursue the issue. He wrote the prefaces to Fulcanelli's works, and works of his own, and has been written about not by historians but by people in his field. More can be found about him in the French Wikipedia. --Xyzt1234 10:05, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

references for Source Code?

Hey, Green! I saw that you opened a discussion about references for source code over at WT:A. I read through the discussion; it was quickly derailed and went off topic, and I don't see anything of a consensus. And I also don't see any proposal for moving forward towards a consensus. Where did it land? Is there more happening than what I read at Wikipedia talk:Attribution/Archive_17? -- Mikeblas 14:47, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

TfD nomination of Template:PC-centric

Template:PC-centric has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you. — Vossanova ^o< 18:02, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

q== Your monobook is in Category:Wikipedia tools == Your monobook is in Category:Wikipedia tools. This is most likely because when you were copying scripts into yout monobook you accidentaly copied their category. Since your monobook is not a tool itself, please remove this category from it (like this). If you intend for your monobook to be a tool, please consider creating a subpage with a more descriptive name, and moving the category there. Thank you, -- _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk}  23:56, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

Category:Articles needing an image

A tag has been placed on Category:Articles needing an image, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a very short article providing little or no context to the reader. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content.

Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself. If you plan to expand the article, you can request that administrators wait a while for you to add contextual material. To do this, affix the template {{hangon}} to the article and state your intention on the article's talk page. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Esprit15d 16:19, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

Quotes in translation may require context

Hi there, Green. Thanks for your assistance at WP:V. I am having a problem understanding what the objection to this apparently common-sense idea might be. The waffling there about POV and OR seem to me misguided or even disingenuous. Can you help me understand this, or suggest a battle plan? I really believe a clear procedure for this may be one of the most important legacies of Wikipedia. Rumiton 14:38, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

Monad transformer article

I just wanted to say thanks for writing monad transformers! I've been meaning to write that for a long time since I linked to it from an article or two, but I never could figure out the topic well enough to write a sensible article. --Gwern (contribs) 17:24 10 December 2007 (GMT)

A request for help

Hi I lead wikiproject Seton Hall and am also a part time youtube and runescape addict, as i have the attention span of a 6 year old we are looking for experienced copy editors to go over our articles (especially Seton Hall University) any help you could give would be appreciated. Rankun (talk) 06:30, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

Victoria Theatre (Halifax)

I added some references to Victoria Theatre (Halifax) to prove notability. --Eastmain (talk) 21:04, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

Kimya Dawson (Alphabutt)

The entry I wrote is factually correct and relevant, the former reference to it was factually wrong! I do own several copies of this album and will provide photos and scans as soon as wikipedia lets me upload them. There are no third party references to quote but verifiability will be fully met. The Traveller (Rames) (talk) 21:17, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

Oxford Wikimania 2010 and Wikimedia UK v2.0 Notice

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About Curry

Hi Greenrd,

You are right, I did not notice the link to the reference. I am sorry. I reverted the page to your last version. I think that the Curry page needs some work. The current version gives the credit of Needed narrowing to Sergio Antoy (me) alone. I wanted to give credit also to my co-authors. That only citation is appropriate for the point you want to make, but citations to Curry and the strategy seem more necessary for this article. In the long run, there should be a page for functional logic programming, one for Curry, one for narrowing and one for Needed narrowing.

Sergio58 (talk) 23:28, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

Spotify references

Hullo. As you've added a couple of unreferenced tags to the Spotify article, I was wondering if you could point to specific bits that need references or if there is a problem with the references there. I recently went through and referenced everything I thought needed referencing to the main Spotify website, which I figured is the most reliable place for information. Would it be possible for you put a note on my (or the article's) talk page with specifics? Jellypuzzle | ^Talk 09:05, 13 January 2009 (UTC)