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User talk:Bkonrad/Archive6 January 2005 to February 2005 Please let me know if you want me to respond on your talk page. I prefer having discussions occur in one place, so I will generally respond to comments on this page, except for pithy chit-chit, where it's not so important to preserve the context of the comments. This is my talk page and I reserve the right to remove abusive, bothersome, annoying, or inane comments without any response or regrets. Also, please don't be offended it I don't reply to a comment. I'm often not inclined to chit-chat, and if I don't have anything to say (or at least anything constructive) I may simply not say anything. However, sometimes I may intend to reply later and simply forget, so go ahead and remind me if I seem to have dropped the ball. (BTW, more than one person in RL has made unfavorable comparisons between my conservational skills and that of a wall, so I'm quite used to being nudged to say something.) == Chicago == Because of your work with the WikiProject Cities I'd like you to take a look at the Chicago article if you have the time & desire. It is currently up for Peer Review (see Talk:Chicago) and I would enjoy hearing your feedback to help guide the growth of this article. No response is needed on my talk page. User:Jasenlee 01:11, Apr 14, 2005 (UTC) == re: dablinks == Hi - I agree that it's probably not necessary to add dablinks to places like Florence, Minnesota, but I don't think it hurts. My thought behind adding these was that someone browsing to Florence, Minnesota might like to know (if they didn't already) that there are other places named Florence in the world, including the major city in Italy. I've been systematically adding dablinks like these to place names in Japan, where it is not so obvious to me that someone following a google hit on, say, Ichinomiya, and arriving at the town Ichinomiya, Chiba wasn't really looking for the city Ichinomiya, Aichi. It seems the same sort of situation may well occur for nearly anything where there are numerous places/etc. that share the same name (perhaps a Japanese person or a first grader looking for the famous city of Florence arrives at Florence, Minnesota from a google hit). -- User:Rick Block 15:28, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC) :I've posted a summary of this exchange at Wikipedia_talk:Disambiguation which I assume you've seen (which has eliciited no comments yet, which actually surprises me). -- User:Rick Block 05:46, 2 Mar 2005 (UTC) == Central Michigan Univeristy / CMU == After reading the Disambiguation text on the CMU page, I've got a better understanding as to why you removed the link from the Central Michigan University page to the CMU page... thanks. The main purpose I had added it in was to avoid the potential re-addition of Carnegie Mellon information to the Central Michigan University page (after all, none of the other "MSU" schools are listed on Michigan State's page, so why should the Central article mention Carnegie Mellon?). On the whole, I'm not even sure the Central Michigan University page even needs the mention that the university is often referred to as CMU, since most universities are known by their abbreviation in addition to their full name (and most university articles on the Wikipedia don't bother to mention the abbreviation). For the meantime, though, I'll leave the reference in and see what happens. Thanks again. ==Template:CatAZ== You recently inserted the tag CatAZ into a large category. If you have the time and inclination, I would be grateful if you could visit the talk page Template talk:CatAZ and say which of two version you prefer: [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:CatAZ&oldid=11022467 with a shaded box and the word Contents], or [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:CatAZ&oldid=11007769 without the box and the word]. --User:Henrygb 21:10, 11 Mar 2005 (UTC) == Highway-related stubs == Listen, I am trying to have the best intentions for Wikipedia nowadays. I am a roadgeek, road historan and whatsoever. These stubs and substubs that I generated are not meant to annoy anyone, they are here for historical value and retroactive curiousity about freeway construction projects from the past. --GoofyGuy 03:22, 12 Mar 2005 (UTC) Well, since you suggested that link for I-75 construction in Michigan, we could merge all those stubs and some information from Interstate 75 into that article you suggested. ==Thank you== Hi Bkonrad, this is just to say thank you for voting for me for adminship. I really appreciate your support and the kind words. I'll do my best to live up to them! Best, User:SlimVirgin 03:20, Mar 23, 2005 (UTC) ==The value of pre-emptive redirects== :I do not think pre-emptive redirects to non-existent articles add any value and as Cyrius points out there is a very serious negative side-effect in making the non-existent redirect look like it links to an article. You have not answered my specific points about why certain kinds of pre-emptive redirects are valuable, and you have also neglected the fact that that negative side-effect can be averted by a bug fix. ''Eastern Sudanic'' redirects to ''Eastern Sudanic languages'', which does not yet exist. The value of that is something I would have considered obvious, but I'll explain it. ''Eastern Sudanic'' is an abbreviation in standard use for obvious reasons, but the non-abbreviated form is the appropriate article title. The pre-emptive redirect avoids the future creation of two disparate article by authors who cannot work together because they are unaware of each other's work, which would later need to get merged. Similarly, ''complex societies'' redirects to ''complex society''. And a misnomer sometimes redirects to a correctly named article. A software bug has been reported, which, if dealt with, will make a red link to appear when a link points to a pre-emptive redirect whose target does not yet exist. User:Michael Hardy 22:44, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC) :Err, well I dismissed your specific points in their entirety. Sorry if you're not satisfied with that response. I still am not convinced by your arguments and feel that pre-emptive redirects to non-existent articles is a bad idea. 23:25, Mar 28, 2005 (UTC) :::My "arguments", such as they are, appear in the section immediately preceding this one. I really don't make any argument per se, more like stating my opinion and agreeing with what others had said. My primary objections are 1) the red link problem which is quite serious and should not be defered upon the hope of a someday technical fix; 2) If you really think there should be an article with a specific name, then create a stub for it rather than simply creating a redirect to a non-existant topic; 3) Your rewording of the policy is m:Instruction creep. The criteria at present is pretty straightforward. Adding conditions to it only makes more difficult to administer. 03:12, Mar 29, 2005 (UTC) ::::That often cannot be done. For example, I know enough to know that ''Eastern Sudanic'' should redirect to ''Eastern Sudanic languages'', but I could not posisbly write even a stub article about that. A Wikipedian could easily know, from having read a variety of instances, that ''coupled harmonic oscillator'' is not one of those phrases that are always plural, so the plural should redirect to the singular, but may not know whether the topic is physics or music or New-Age philosophy. Such a person could not possibly write a stub on that topic, but could easily write a valuable pre-emptive redirect. User:Michael Hardy 01:05, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC) Have you noticed my statement that you and I were both wrong about what the policy says? It says redirects to non-existent targets may be speedily deleted, but lower it says "However, such redirects should not be deleted if ...." etc. One of the items below that says they should not be deleted if they may help prevent later creation of Wikipedia:duplicate articles by redirecting a plural to a singular, or a misspelling to a correct spelling, or a misnomer to a correct term, etc. User:Michael Hardy 02:22, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC) ==Papua (Indonesian province) -> Papua Province== new facts for page move at Talk:Papua (Indonesian province), regards User:Tobias Conradi User_talk:Tobias Conradi 05:59, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC) == Treatries of Paris == Yes, I copy-and-pasted some badly formatting texts to Wikisource. One thing i hate is articles linking to Project Gutenburg or some other site for source texts when we have our own project to use. Warmest regards --User:Neutrality^{User talk:Neutrality} 03:39, Apr 3, 2005 (UTC) == Template:Current U.S. Senators == Please take a look at the current version of Template:Current U.S. Senators. Would you consider changing your Wikipedia:Templates for deletion/Template:Current U.S. Senators? --User:DuKot 19:36, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC) ==Problem regarding Pashtuns== I am trying my best to solve that dipute about Pashuns tribes list in Pashtuns talk page with some logical and authentic refereces but couldn't find any positive result, now will you please visit Pashtun discussion page to make your decision? Thanks ! User:Haider 16:38, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC) == == I noticed that you attached on a user talk page with an anonymous IP address instead of one belonging to a user name. For those situations, please use instead as it is specially designed to invite them to create an account. Thanks. User:Zzyzx11 | User talk:Zzyzx11 23:17, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC) == proposed change on wikipedia talk:disambiguation == Hi - Per our conversation from some time ago, I've attempted to convene an official vote on a change to the wikipedia:disambiguation policy page. No one has commented or voted on this yet. Do you think posting something about this to WP:RFC might be appropriate? Thanks. -- User:Rick Block :Or announce it as a wikipedia:current surveys? I'm somewhat puzzled about the complete lack of response. Is this an issue that has been previously beaten to death in other forums? -- User:Rick Block 04:02, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC) ::Surveys would probably be more appropriate than RFC, but probably no harm in adding it there. Maybe also on Village Pump (policy). I'm extremely busy with RL these days, and have relatively little time to spend on Wikipedia. I've said what I thought about the subject, and don't really have anything new to add at this time. Lack of comment is not at all unusual. It may be a matter of timing, or maybe making comments on related pages. 01:51, Apr 27, 2005 (UTC) ::Sorry not to be clear - I wasn't puzzled so much by no response from you, but no response from ''anyone''. I've posted something about this on the Village Pump (policy) page, which has apparently elicited a few responses. Thanks. -- User:Rick Block 02:28, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC) == Michigan Representatives Listing == Dear Bkonrad - I understand your deep interest in Michigan and Midwestern affairs, and in the preservation of your Wiki edits on Michigan matters. Although I certainly do not possess your length or depth of experience on Wiki (and have chosen to remain an anonymous scrivener of sorts), I too have edited numerous pages on topics of local geography and interest, with which I am familiar. I recently made a change to the page List of United States Representatives from Michigan (one of your 'babies'). I removed it from the category Members of the U.S. House of Representatives by state. My reasoning was creation of symmetry and consistency. All other 50 states, and the District of Columbia, have a single page in the category Members of the U.S. House of Representatives by state. I believe that maintaining consistency among the states best serves casual users who are seeking information quickly, with a minimum of fuss and forethought. While the listing of US Senators by state maintains dual lists, chronological and alphabetical, that has not been the case with the listing of Representatives. While, again, I understand your concern for Michigan matters, I do not believe Michigan is entitled to separate treatment. Would you be willing to remove the alphabetical listing of Michigan's representatives from the catgory Members of the U.S. House of Representatives by state? Thank you for your many contributions to Wiki, and thank you for your consideration of this matter. : User:69.44.61.197 17:26, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC) ::Whatever. When I checked the category, Michigan was not unique. Ohio had a "list" article, while it's corresponding Congressional delegation article was not listed (although it exists). I think it belongs on that category. I don't find simplistic symmetry to be a very persuasive argument. If an article belongs to a category, it should be in that category. 21:51, Apr 24, 2005 (UTC) == WikiProject U.S. Regions update proposals == I have posted some proposed changes to the project on it's Wikipedia talk:WikiProject U.S. regions page. Please review them as soon as is convenient and let me know what you think. -User:JCarriker 12:07, Apr 29, 2005 (UTC) :The policy has been discussed and is has been drafted. It is now up for a vote on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject U.S. regions. -User:JCarriker 06:49, May 6, 2005 (UTC) ::The vote has ended. You can find the results [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_U.S._regions#Vote_results here]. Please feel free, to participate in a follow up discussion. -User:JCarriker 07:01, May 13, 2005 (UTC) "Articles that focus on a topic specific to a particular English-speaking country should generally conform to the spelling of that country. For example: * article on the American Civil War: U.S. usage and spelling * article on Tolkien's Lord of the Rings: UK usage and spelling" What do you claim to mean by "proper?" -User:Stevertigo|User_talk:Stevertigo 22:51, 2 May 2005 (UTC) :"Proper title" is a dubious distinction with respect to PR terms and statescraft. BTW Dont forget to take care of all the redirects. Regards. User:Stevertigo|User_talk:Stevertigo 00:49, 3 May 2005 (UTC) == Regarding your edits of Miami (disambiguation)== I formatted the page according to Wikipedia:Wikiprojects Location Format. тəzєті">User:Tezeti :Yes, and I disagree with that. 13:44, May 15, 2005 (UTC) ==Bob McEwen== Salve, Bkonrad!
Hope this message finds you well. I've nom'd one of my articles for FAC status and would appreciate your comments [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_article_candidates/Bob_McEwen here]. User:PedanticallySpeaking 19:02, May 26, 2005 (UTC) Maple Grove Township, Cheboygan In answering your message about the above topic, I was doing research on a manuscript years ago on northern lower Michigan history, and while looking at some old Cheboygan newspapers from 1942, I ran across the news story about Maple Grove Township and jotted the info for the writing. ==W. Mark Felt== Salve!
I nominated W. Mark Felt as a WP:FAC. As you commented on the Deep Throat talk page, I'd appreciate your comments at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/W. Mark Felt. User:PedanticallySpeaking 15:45, Jun 17, 2005 (UTC) == metrification == why do we need the deprecated old imperial units? Wikipedia is a global encyclopaedia and should use metric units solely. and btw all the ones where they had x feet (y metres) i actually just swapped them over, and left the feet in. The others i just put metres, as that is the Standard International unit of length. [http://uploads.ungrounded.net/188000/188612_Posting.swf This] may also be of interest to you. User:THE KING 10:44, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC) *Just noticed you reverted 14 Wall Street. I have undone your vandalism, please stop. User:THE KING 10:49, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC) :Why, because you don't make the rules. There have been extensive discussions about this point and the consensus resolution is that non-metric units are acceptable (and should be the primary unit in U.S. articles). Metric units should also be provided, although many contributors haven't a clue what the metric equivalents of non-metric units are (or perhaps don't care what the metric is). Rather than removing non-metric units, you should simply add the metric units AND not reverse the placement of metric/non-metric units in U.S. articles. 11:53, Jun 19, 2005 (UTC) *Where have the extensive discussions taken place? I would like to see. Please read the article about Metrication. User:THE KING 12:46, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC) ::See Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)#Style for numbers, weights, and measures and Wikipedia:Measurements_Debate. Various other discussions on this have regularly cropped up on the Village Pump and on talk pages of individual articles. The article on Metrication has no bearing whatsoever on Wikipedia guidelines for style and usage. 15:18, Jun 19, 2005 (UTC) Why have you broken the 3 revert rule wrt 14 Wall Street in order to perpetuate a preference for a system which is not the wikipedia preffered standard? I think we should compromise, i will be happy to accept metres and feet, as long as it is formatted metres (feet). I would appreciate you changing 14 wall street back to this format, which is acceptable to both parties. User:THE KING 01:36, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC) :I have not broken the 3RR. The article is about a place in the U.S., and the most common convention for such articles is feet (meters). 01:38, Jun 22, 2005 (UTC) ::How can you say you haven't broken the 3rr when you clearly have? if this is your attitude to wikipedia i have no option but to conclude that you are not using wikipedia in good faith, and revert your edits. User:THE KING 05:37, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC) == Thanks for the fact check on KBS and Kellogg == Thanks for the fact check. I misremembered what they said on the tour. User:harry491 User_talk:harry491 01:46, Jun 20, 2005 (UTC) == writing of history on Wikipedia == Hello, I�m a historian working at the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University (http://chnm.gmu.edu/) and we are very interested in digital historical works, including people writing history on Wikipedia. We�d like to talk to people about their experiences working on articles in Wikipedia, in connection with a larger project on the history of the free and open source software movement. Would you be willing to talk with us about your involvement, either by phone, a/v chat, IM, or email? This could be as lengthy or brief a conversation as you wish. Thanks for your consideration. Joan Fragaszy jfragasz at gmu dot edu == Jackson County Republican Committee (Michigan) == I'd like to make an article about the Jackson County Republican Committee which will include some basic information about its early history, its committee chairs, et cetera. What would be the most appropriate article name? -- User:Mdkarazim 23:58, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC) ==Existence of God merger== I'm attempting to develop a consensus in favor of merging the Arguments against the existence of God and the Arguments for the existence of God articles. A beta version of the resulting article is available at Existence of God. To date, there seems to be consensus in favor of this merger on the "for" talk page, I'm now trying to get a consensus together on the "against" talk page. Please visit Talk:Arguments against the existence of God to weigh in. I'm copy-and-pasting this message to everybody who has contributed to that talk page. User:Crazyeddie 05:48, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Bkonrad

Greetings. I haven't put a great deal of thought into what's on this page or how it looks. Right now I'm more interested in writing articles than spiffing up this point of presence on Wikipedia. I've seen some really great layouts on some other user pages, so I may get around to upgrading this page sometime. But for now, there's not much to see here. In case there's any confusion, I use older≠wiser as my signature. This is an entirely self-referential comment. Excepting myself, people generally are wiser as they get older. User talk:Bkonrad I'm a technical writer by training. I have returned to the ranks of the gainfully employed, so I won't have quite as much time to spend on Wikipedia. I live in Albion, Michigan. My wife is a professor at Albion College. I was born in Ohio and live have spent most of my life in and around Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. Although very much an American, I am profoundly disturbed by the [http://www.whitehouse.gov/president/gwbbio.html international embarrassment] currently occupying the white House. I've discovered Wikipedia in February, 2004 and began editing almost immediately. My interests and plans for wiki articles include Michigan, New Zealand, Australia and Germany. My wife's mother was Cherry Wilder, who spent time in NZ, Oz and Deutschland. (Shameless plug: Check out Cherry's posthumously published book ''[http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0312874057/qid=1091221903/sr=ka-1/ref=pd_ka_1/104-5048558-2694330 The Wanderer]'' ISBN 0312874057). Also, all my grandparents were from Germany as well. Though I never would have guessed this when I started, I have become very interested in articles relating to U.S. History, from the colonial period through early territorial expansion, especially pertaining to the midwest, but each of the territories have lots of interesting stories to unravel. User:Bkonrad/Useful stuff | User:Bkonrad/References | User:Bkonrad/What Have I Done | User:Bkonrad/Sandbox Holding places for stuff I'm working on. User talk:Bkonrad/temp | User:Bkonrad/Michigan ==Bookmarks== *List of Michigan-related topics *List of U.S. Treaties *Wikipedia:Orphaned Articles/CDPs and towns *Wikipedia:Auto-categorization/Michigan ==To Do== ===New=== *Hart-Dole-Inouye Federal Center formerly the Battle Creek Sanitorium which should redirect to Battle Creek Sanitarium. The Percy Jones Hospital should be its own article or redirect to either Hart-Dole-Inouye or the sanitarium. *Will Keith Kellogg | W.K. Kellogg Foundation | Kellogg's Cereal City *Complete articles for List of Governors of Michigan 20 to go *Complete articles for List of United States Senators from Michigan Done! *Complete articles for List of United States Representatives from Michigan ===Develop=== *Plainfield Township, Kent County, Michigan clean up the intro -- I think Austerlitz was only a nearby Post Office, not an alternate name *Cherry Wilder *John Harvey Kellogg *List of companies based in Michigan *Connecticut Western Reserve *User:Bkonrad/Sandbox *List of cities, villages, and townships in Michigan cleanup and disambig See also: Wikipedia:US cities without articles *Indiana Territory -- Harrison allowed slavery [http://www.countyhistory.com/history/060.htm] [http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/ohc/history/h_indian/people/harriswh.shtml] [http://26.1911encyclopedia.org/H/HA/HARRISON_WILLIAM.htm] and temporary control of the District of Louisiana I agree to Wikipedia:Multi-licensing all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described by Any images that I have created and uploaded to Wikipedia are licensed under the both and

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