Tarquin may mean either of two kings of ancient Rome: *Lucius Tarquinius Priscus, fifth king *Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, "Tarquin the Proud", seventh and last king
: ''Is Wiki for everybody, even for those who don't care to educate themselves as to how it works?'' -- BlackHat on http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WikiSquatting : ''Father Christmas and the Tooth Fairy are part of the charm of childhood. So is God. Some of us grow out of all three.'' -- Richard Dawkins : ''La seule chose vraie, c'est la guerre psychologique!'' -- Savancosinus, ''La Zizanie'', Goscinny & Uderzo : ''The vote went nowhere and became such a confusing mess and joke that people on nearly all sides of the argument were able to logically argue that their choice was the actual winner. '' -- no, it's not the "election" of Dubya. It's Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (dates and numbers). : The creationists have no scientific evidence to support their case, so instead they constantly repeat long-refuted pseudoscientific arguments. This has no place in the classroom. If a religion is incompatible with scientific thought, then so much worse for that religion. To argue that it is unconstitutional to only present scientific arguments on a subject that has nothing to do with religion is preposterous -- by the same logic you could argue that the theory of gravity should be balanced with "alternative views" because [http://www.tm.org/ these guys] think they can fly in the air if they concentrate hard enough. -- User:Eloquence, writing on Talk:Creationism. == Current Wikipedia status == Summer 04 I was back briefly after an absence of a few months. But then things like Image talk:Seldon.jpg happen and sap my strength. I don't have the inclination to engage in edit wars. Expect to see me around from time to time, doing general weeding tasks and upload photos. ------- ''The state of this page tells you an awful lot about me: I tend to accumulate clutter, I hardly ever delete anything, and my mind tends to wander.'' -------- ''runs through shouting "m:Wikipedia is more popular than..."'' == need to know == * GFDL images All photos I have taken and diagrams I have made for Wikipedia are GFDL. They may not be marked with the tag as they predate its existence. Feel free to add the GFDL tag to any images whose description page states I took the photograph or drew the diagram. * slight wikipediholic tendencies (well, more than slight, I'm apparently 10th in Wikipedia:Most_active_Wikipedians. eek.) * administrator, so feel free to ask me stuff on my Talk:Tarquin * generally of a crabby disposition, but it's all a front for rampant idealism (or perhaps the other way round. I forget) * tendency to ramble, see below. == subpages, attic space, out back == * User:Tarquin/Utility * Collection of links to pages in need of User:Tarquin/metrication * List of stuff User:Tarquin/to do * Wikipedia:Image markup gallery Memorable mailing list posts: * [http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2003-July/005267.html Jimbo on crackpots] (thanks for the link, User:Angela) * some more on the same: [http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2003-September/006693.html] [http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2003-September/006696.html] == the following will self-destruct in ... == ... but ''look'' at the TeX equations! the soft curves of the integral sign! the variables leaping from tree to tree, as they float down the mighty rivers of British Columbia. ! The Giant Redwood. The Larch. The Fir! The mighty Scots Pine! ... Sing! Sing! [singing] I'ma lumberjack, and I'm okay. ... (''men in white coats enter and carry Tarquin offstage'') (In short: I ''like'' the new TeX markup.) === Vague rambling biog === Hullo. I'm Tarquin, for long and complicated reasons. Okay, they're not complicated at all. It's just an in-joke in my family. I may get round to explaining it one day, but it's really not that interesting. There's a family rumour that we're descended from Ren Descartes. My great-great-grandfather's family was from La Haye, Descartes' birthplace, and his father was mayor. It's completely unsubstantiated. Meanwhile, I'm British. With, as well as the French ancestry, a few touches of other European countries thrown in. Contrary to rumours, I am not an AI somewhere in northern Canada. I'm an AI in England. ;-) I fall under the "hey, I ordered a cheeseburger" Gary Larson. Not that I'd be seen dead doing such a thing. I'm reliably informed on a semi-regular basis that I'm cantakerous. Interesting life skills: I have both perfect pitch ''and'' relative pitch. I've never been able to pin down just what the term "photographic memory" is supposed to mean, but I do have a good one. Stuff just tends to drop in of its own accord. It's very handy for building up the Wiki Web, as I tend to ''click'' if I've already seen a page on a given subject. It also means I regard pages like Mnemonic with complete bemusement: remembering "Roy G. Biv" or "HOMES" seems to me to be an extra burden on the memory, not a lightening. There's the mnemonic, plus what it actually is supposed to represent. "Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain" was drilled into me at school, but decoding that to get the order of colours is slower than just visualizing a colour wheel. I'm a very sloppy typist. I have the unfortunate tendency of saving articles with one or two atrocious typos. On the other hand, I'm an excellent proofreader when it's someone else's work. So karmically it balances out... ;-) I probably fix two typos for each one I leave. I run a wiki on the Unreal engine here: http://wiki.beyondunreal.com/ Wikipediholic/Are you wikipediholic test score: 20 (increased now I'm on wikipedia-L) : Feb 2003 revision: 41. I note with interest this question: ''Do you make edits while drunk or under the influence of other intoxicating substances and find that nobody reverts your changes?'' ... ... ... some of my finest work is made under the influence of single malt :-) === An end to all edit wars === Troubled with edit wars? NPOV going down the drain? Tearing your hair out over the latest edit conflict? Fear not. Here's the simple solution: # First determine who is resolutely refusing to budge & making things difficult. Let's call them X. # Identify their nationality # Find the page "list of famous {nationality}" # Add contentious entries. Remove some. Invent some names. Ideally, a pop band whom no-one has ''ever'' heard of. Give them a ''kooky'' name like "The Wet Fredericks" or "Tiger With Bagels". # Bump this page on RC a few times next time X is around # Reel them into a long and protracted edit was on the list page. Get them deeply riled about how famous or not their fellow nationals are. Imply that no-one cares. # This will completely distract them from their earlier crusade. And let's face it, "list of X" pages are pointless anyway. Points will be awarded for the best "Talk:list of famous {nationality}" pages. And what do points mean? === Finding stuff === Arg. I just went looking for the conventions on names of saints. Simple, eh? You'd think so. Well, I had to go through this list of pages: # Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines # Wikipedia:Naming conventions (good start) # Wikipedia:Naming conventions (names and titles) (seems reasonable to expect it here... but no. It says "see the talk page. So I move on...) # Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (use browser's search function to find something in the morass... nope, not here either. Link to ''another'' talk page) # and finally Talk:List of saints ... only to find it's not decided yet. Four pages, wandering with no visible signs of organization. This is not a good way to organize things. === Stub Tennis === We should hold Olympics. user:Pgdudda mentions "WikiRoulette". I hereby coin the name "Stub Tennis". (I can be fairly sure I've made the name up, a search draws a blank both here and on WardsWiki.) To play stub tennis, do this: * Wikipedia:Find or fix a stub * add something to it, either ** some vague factoid you remember ** do a search on the topic or some of the names in it & create two-way links (LinksAreContent...) * for stub tennis to work, someone else has to react to its being bumped on Recent Changes. * the article is batted to and fro between two or more wikipedians. === Thoughts on Wikipedia === I wonder sometimes... at what point will Hari Seldon's holographic image step out of the vault and tell us what our ''real'' purpose is? === How I ended up here === For those who really wish to know, I landed on Wikipedia quite by accident in January 2002: I was idly reading an article on operating systems for the next generation of mobile phones (I am not sure why...), which was detailing Micro$oft's foray into this field. The article went on to say that many cool things would be possible with the colour screens that we'd be seeing on advanced models; but that given minimal memory and ways of addressing the screen all aimed at minimizing power consumption, programmers who worked on games on 1980s computers such as the Commodore 64 and the ZX Spectrum would find their skills at squeezing the maximum effiencency out of the minimum code once again in demand. In particular (it said), the problem of "attribute clash" seen on the Spectrum was again rearing its ugly head. Intrigued by the term - it was implied that it related to colour on the screen - I Googled it, and the first link got me to Wikipedia... I do of course try and tone done my style when writing Wikipedia entries: I do have a tendency to ramble. ;-) === Rant and Rave === ''the rant and rave section is currently closed while I think of something else to complain about'' My (current) number one Wikipedia grouse is this: "Venice, Italy", "London, England" and so forth. That is how cities are indentified in the US; not in the rest of the world. A rout through UK train timetables for the few duplicate towns shows they use "Gillinham (Kent)", for example. The same form or "Gillinham in Kent" is usual in newspaper or reference articles if readers may not know which country a place is in. However, in the interests of consistency in page names, we're stuck with the stateside terminology. It's probably all irrational reactions to cultural imperialism. That or seeing that dratted comma always reminds me of Marilyn Monroe saying "Paris, France is in Europe?" in ''Gentlemen prefer blondes''... Second grouse: bad French. Most Anglophones are shovelled some sort of French at school, and are under the impression that they a) recall it and b) it was correct in the first place. I tidied French phrases used by English speakers, and just spotted Twinkle twinkle little star. Translation is a sticky art, but I wish people would at least ensure nouns and adjectives agree in gender and number. == Articles == My principal fields of interest are music and maths, but also a mixed bag of things. (this list that follows hasn't been updated in ages. as a WikiWeeder, I end up editing the most bizarre articles. I'd never heard of the Holden car company, I have no interest in the Ford Escort, and the Killer poke was just a rumour I'd once heard) lately, I've started: - Through the Looking-Glass - Arlo Guthrie - Oliver Heaviside - Pink Panther - Henry Mancini - Baron Haussmann - Oulipo - Life: A User's Manual - Joseph Heller - Penrose triangle - Raymond Smullyan (couldn't believe he wasn't already covered... ) - Disability: radical new start and moved older things to subpages. I somewhat see the sense in having the "disability etiquette" page, yet I can't help but think "how would people react to a page called 'how to address a black person'?". Were things like that written in the 1960s? - Fitts' law - Tower of Hanoi (the algorithm I linked to on KnowHowWiki is mine too...) - TGV - Axe historique - Periodic table/Wide Table - Pere Lachaise - Beryl Bainbridge - Companion planting - Spurn - Significant figure (feels like MONTHS since I've actually started a page; so much weeding to do!) - Jodrell Bank (a stub whose progress I look forward to seeing) - Unit vector - Strait-jacket - Laundry symbols -- who first devised these? - VAL - Blackcurrant - Penny-farthing - Babbling Stuff I've added to lately: - The Simpsons (but, like, who hasn't?) - Goscinny - Paris Metro - French Revolutionary Calendar - Isambard Kingdom Brunel - T.H. White - SAMPA: seeing this bastardized ascii IPA bugged me to the point that I had to dig up the page on it... found it in need of work; made tables and added diphthongs ([faI@]...). I plan to upload recordings of phonemes soon. - Acronym: gave this a polish - Alexander Technique -- it's great. I recommend it. Hard work and most teachers are expensive but it really is worth it. - Mercator projection - Tube map: gave this a rewrite. I've been fascinated by the tube map (& the metro map) ''as far back as I can remember'' (Goodfellas voice-style ;) ) - Piano - Octave and Note Stuff I intend to read up on: * Marcel Proust * Stendhal To do: * keep an eye out for Ealing, Ealing Studios and Ealing Comedies -- all three links exist, with no page yet. Clean up links when one is created. Also musing which name is most appropriate. * rewrite harmonic ---- I'm vaguely collecting links to style guides found dotted around: User:Tarquin/Style Guides (this is probably obsolete by the way.) ----- http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?MyMyersBriggsTypeIs ENFP, apparently. Whoopee-do. ----
Tarquin's Talk page: leave comments & questions at the bottom of this page. I usually reply here. == Archives == * User talk:Tarquin/Archive 1 (Jan-Nov 02) when I was young and nave * User talk:Tarquin/Archive 2 (Nov 02-Jan 03) when I was bitter and twisted * User talk:Tarquin/Archive 3 (Jan-March 03) when I was... bitter and twisted some more, probably ;-) * User talk:Tarquin/Archive 4 (March-May 03) when I was tired and weary * User talk:Tarquin/Archive 5 (May-September 03) enough already ==Press release== Editing on the meta:Wikimedia's first press release has effectively stopped. Please be advised that we may be distributing the non-English press releases as early as Monday 29 September. The English version will be distributed the week after in order to smooth out the load on our servers. --meta:user:maveric149 22 Sep 2003 ------- ''Wikipedia is in desperate need of articles on nose-picking!'' *Oh yeah, you're clearly qualified to discuss the relevance of an Anais Nin commencement speech with me. User:Malcs64 : what I put on my user page is my own business. The above was in response to something that happened a long time ago. -- User:Tarquin 09:43, 23 Sep 2003 (UTC) : What obscenities I delete from your user page is everyone's business. You childishly defend the indefensible. User:OmegaMan :: I have no idea what you are saying. User pages are considered private property on WP unless extremely offensive. Please leave mine alone -- User:Tarquin 18:05, 31 Dec 2003 (UTC) :: Well, it would be purely argumentative to disagree over Tarquin's arbitrary distinction (NOT Wikipedia's) between "extremely offensive" and "moderately offensive". Yes, I deleted your "social theory" weeks ago. User:OmegaMan : Please leave my user page alone. -- User:Tarquin 21:07, 31 Dec 2003 (UTC) : Any chance of persuading you to voluntarily remove your "social theory" simply on the grounds of good taste? [I am making the precarious presumption that you understand the concept.] By the way, why did you think such nonsense was important enough to restore? User:OmegaMan ----- ==asking a favor== Hello, Tarquin. I have a favor to ask to a French ambassador. Would you somehow let the IP user from 217.64.171.225 know the message at ? I am not sure if the person can read English (although my message is in English because I cannot write in French). It seems s/he is most active at fr. wikipedia after comparing with en., ja., and de. And I wrote the message at my discussion page, just because I did not want to be rude by writing it at his/her page. many thanks, User:Tomos 19:47, 3 Oct 2003 (UTC) I can be reached at or en:User talk:Tomos ---- Hi, Tarquin, My original contribution at Wikipedia talk:Americocentrism came out sounding offensive, so I have revised it. I didn't want to offend anyone but just make the point that I don't think that turning a predilection into an ism is the best way to make articles comprehensive. User:Trontonian 23:29, 1 Nov 2003 (UTC) : Agreed. Care to suggest a better name and tweak the page a bit? User:Tarquin 13:25, 2 Nov 2003 (UTC) I still think the best solution would be to provide some examples of carious types of centrism. It just occurred to me that the original article about American football was Eurocentric. It seemed to have been written by someone who'd never played the game or seen much of it. It and the Canadian football articles still talk about number 3 rugby balls instead of giving the actual specifications of the balls used in the games. I also tried to introduce some balance into Ice hockey. Because there are two varieties of the game it's important to cover them both adequately. At the moment I'm writing a lot of jazz stubs, and every one has been about an American (Oscar Peterson already had an article). I hope that the struggle against Americocentrism doesn't lead to the sections on jazz ending up like a printed encyclopedia of jazz I have, in which minor European figures are given equal prominence with people who played jazz as a living music rather than as a novelty. The printed encyclopedia has no article about Hazel Scott, but it has one about Ronnie Scott, for example. I bet buddy might even think Hazel wasn't a jazz figure -- purist Europeans did boo Muddy Waters for playing electric guitar. User:Trontonian 18:45, 2 Nov 2003 (UTC) :In fact I went back and checked the hockey article and it was still slightly biased towards international rules, so I've been fixing that up. So there you have proof of the need to be alert for national bias. User:Trontonian : FWIW, I point out bias towards France on the fr: wikipedia ;) -- User:Tarquin 20:17, 2 Nov 2003 (UTC) Could you let me know the title? I had a quick look but couldn't find it (just looked for ''francocentrisme'' and ''francocentrique''). Thanks. I'm Trontois over there. User:Trontonian : There's only a post on the mailing list so far. I've been planning to add a section about it to the main NPOV page. Apart form that, I've been modifying articles on cities to state that they're in France... -- User:Tarquin 13:17, 3 Nov 2003 (UTC) I'll keep my eyes peeled. I'm being more diligent about national POV as a result of our discussion. I am happy, though, that i have not so far run across the earnest Canadocentrism one finds so foten in the Canadian media. User:Trontonian 00:00, 4 Nov 2003 (UTC) ==Smooth Newt== I recently started with cleaning up some of the amphibian pages, and came along the Newt page. I wonder about the taxonomic name of the Smooth Newt you gave there (and in the image description) - ''Lophinus punctatus''. Google couldn't find much about that one (most were wikipedia and copies of it), thus I searched the common name, but that one gave me the taxonomic name ''Triturus vulgaris''. Is ''L. punctatus'' a different species? Or just a very uncommon alias name? User:Ahoerstemeier 22:20, 2 Dec 2003 (UTC) == Noel sur fr: == aux ftes, que les choses soient claires, Tarquin. Je ne soutiens pas particulierement ce logo. Je suis neutre en la matire. Je me suis tonne que personne ne ragisse le moins du monde. Cela m'a paru curieux. Si tu quittes wiki fr pendant 15 jours sous prtexte qu'il est la, je n en veux pas :-) -- Anthere : franchement, entre les PDF, les titres de pages tout en anglais comme ASCII en tout mots, cette idee d'une association avec un serveur en france -- je commence en avoir marre du fr:. Quand j'essaye d'expliquer comment faire ces choses on ne m'ecoute pas. -- User:Tarquin 22:13, 10 Dec 2003 (UTC) ::Quand j'essaye d'expliquer comment faire ces choses on ne m'ecoute pas non plus. En plus de l'association, il y a le fait de ne pas admettre qu'on puisse ne pas etre d'accord avec la nomination de Crales Killer au status d'admin, il y a le fait que les rgles sont faites pour certains, mais pas pour d'autres, il y a les copyrights sur les images, il y a les problmes de pov, il y a beaucoup de choses. Trop :-) ==La Vie en Rose== Nous les en: l'en avons. Les fr: non plus - qu'une xref vide chez Edith Piaf. Peut-tre un petit cadeau soit necessaire? - User:UnkamunkaUser_talk:Unkamunka 22:32 15 Dec 2003 (UTC) Why did you move Kitchener back? Standard practice is to use peerage titles in article titles unless the person is much better known without them (e.g. Disraeli, Baldwin, and so forth). I'd say that's not the case with Kitchener, and that he should be listed with his peerage title. User:John Kenney 17:14, 17 Dec 2003 (UTC) : It is? and he is? Oh well. I'm obviously not up to date on the most recent title conventions. Sorry -- User:Tarquin 08:56, 18 Dec 2003 (UTC) ==Thanks...== ... for the fix on the Hi-Q disambiguation page. I was lazy. I looked at a random disambiguation page and copied its style instead of looking for the right boilerplate. Now if only I could remember which one and fix that... User:Jmabel 19:27, 20 Dec 2003 (UTC) : no problem :) -- User:Tarquin 20:48, 20 Dec 2003 (UTC) ==Thank you ...== ... for your advice concerning naming pics. Its the first time i've loaded one. Should I reload the picture under a new name or leave it as it is do you think ? User:Ledgerbob 11:56, 23 Dec 2003 (UTC) : No problem :) It might be an idea to reload it as a longer name. THe problem with "alexander" is that it could be used by someone else uploading a pic of another Alexander, such as Alexander the Great, etc. -- User:Tarquin 12:00, 23 Dec 2003 (UTC) : Will do ... thanks User:Ledgerbob 12:07, 23 Dec 2003 (UTC) == Paddington Skin? == What's the news on this? I stumbled across the reference and scurried over to the Test Wiki to try it out but I can't find any trace. It's mentioned a couple of times on Meta but I haven't actually been able to view it. User:Phil Boswell 10:25, Dec 24, 2003 (UTC) : It's here: m:Paddington skin. You can't see it directly because HTML files are sent by the server as text for security. You'll need to dowbnload it. I've had very little feedback from it. I'm currently thinking of starting a new design from scratch, or maybe starting a design document first. -- User:Tarquin 10:29, 24 Dec 2003 (UTC) ---- Holy Marge mother of Crust, you're right! I've been had, I'm going to write to the Church of the Order of the Toast and demand my money back! ---- ==The image on "Teacher"== I would be happy to disclose from where the image comes. But first, can you tell me why it's important?
—User:Vespristiano 20:29, 2003 Dec 24 (UTC) :Please accept my apology—I checked "Wikipedia:Image description page" and discovered you're absolutely right: I should add copyright information. When I get the chance, I will update the description page for that image as well as another one I upload.
—User:Vespristiano 20:45, 2003 Dec 24 (UTC) ==I came across this little tidbit== ::<>
Enjoy. -- User:Cimon avaro
: You mean I'm heading for a fall? ;) -- User:Tarquin 18:05, 31 Dec 2003 (UTC)
==Thumbnail CSS stylesheets==
Hello tarquin, the stylesheets you offered to review can be found at http://jeluf.mormo.org/testwiki/wiki.phtml?title=Stylesheets , I've removed everything hardcoded except the width:, this can be tuned via LocalSettings.php and is needed by the image resizing tool. -- User:JeLuF 16:12, Jan 5, 2004 (UTC)
== Numbers in the Bible ==
Even for non-believers, the Holy Bible has had a profound cultural impact, and numerical symbolisms used in or suggested by the Bible are copied into secular culture. Of course, some numbers in the Bible are more important than others and I concede that I'm neither a theologian nor a mathematician. User:Robert_Happelberg
==Delete request==
Tarquin,
Please delete Psittacidae and Psittaciformes. I will be moving parrot (family) and parrot (order) to those pages and want to preserve edit history. Thanks! - User:UtherSRG 17:49, 5 Jan 2004 (UTC)
:Ah... you are correct. Thanks anyway! - User:UtherSRG 18:04, 5 Jan 2004 (UTC)
:: ok. No problem :) -- User:Tarquin 20:19, 5 Jan 2004 (UTC)
==WikiProject French dpartements==
Hi Tarquin. Maybe you wouldn't mind having a quick look at Wikipedia:WikiProject French dpartements, and Wikipedia talk:WikiProject French dpartements. I've proposed transferring the tables currently in use on the french wikipedia to the english one, and would quite like some feedback before I start inserting them into the dpartement articles. Thanks, User:Snoyes 14:32, 7 Jan 2004 (UTC)
==Article series==
Hi, you had previously expressed an interest in Wikipedia:Article series. Jengod, Jiang and I disagree on what types of articles are suitable for a series and. Just thought I'd let you know since watchlists aren't usually working these, and only three people have opined at all. User:TUF-KAT 07:42, Jan 17, 2004 (UTC)
== Hundred and ==
I would only be too happy to do add the word "and" to the articles on numbers, but others have already started to do it for me (look at 360 in the article on 300). The discussion on this issue is spread out all over the place. I would like to gather it all at Wikipedia:WikiProject Numbers. For the time being I really would rather not worry about it. If I write the article on 400, I will make the stubs on 401 to 499 shorter by excluding the spelled out form of those numbers, therefore bypassing the issue altogether until the stubs grow to merit their own articles.
The work on these number articles is a noble effort and I don't want to see that effort disrupted by this issue over one word. User:PrimeFan 17:32, 29 Jan 2004 (UTC)
==Stingray Nebula==
Thanks for the welcome and advice on Stingray Nebula! (I actually copied some text and adapted it from a Nasa article.) User:Sennheiser
==Animated gif==
You expressed some concern over the idea of an animated gif, so I solicit your opinion as to whether my proposed image is a good idea. You can see it on Talk:Central limit theorem. Cheers, User:Cyan 04:18, 4 Feb 2004 (UTC)
== Press contact ==
You still want to be the press contact for the UK? If so, please add your name and contact information to Wikipedia:Press releases/February 2004. --User:Maveric149
----
==Press Release==
I see you contributed to the creation of the press release. Might you be willing to follow these Wikipedia:Press releases/How to send a press release, and send off the Wikipedia:Press releases/February 2004? -- user:zanimum
: I'm afraid my email is out at the moment. -- User:Tarquin 15:31, 5 Mar 2004 (UTC)
== Tetration ==
Wikipedia has no page for tetration. Why, then, did you bring it up but not add a page for it??
: beacause it's another word for the thing I mentioned it on! - User:Tarquin 14:11, 8 Mar 2004 (UTC)
----
==Wikipedia's layout development==
meta:Layout development --User:Maio 05:17, Mar 8, 2004 (UTC)
----
==Cologne Blue v2.0?==
[http://www.geocities.com/mmoore_wiki/Wikipedia/skins/CologneBlue2/] comments? HTML identation is a mess (will fix later). Ignore the Geocities banners, valid XHTML strict (w3 validator).
(#pd: I posted this message on your User page by accident)
--User:Maio 01:48, Mar 9, 2004 (UTC)
: Barging in to say ''nice!'' User:Dori | User talk:Dori 03:08, Mar 9, 2004 (UTC)
: Looks good! But why are you using a TABLE for the header? Could you use the hooks I suggested on Meta for print stylesheet and page settings? -- User:Tarquin 10:22, 9 Mar 2004 (UTC)
I was forced to do so, I hate them with all my heart. :( I wanted to use CSS-tables but the problem was the background color and floating elements: if you use a CSS-table with floating elements, the background-color covers the static (non-floating) element only. In the case of the skin, the size of the 2 cells can differ for each browser. For example, I'm pretty sure than in Netscape Navigator, the right-cell is the biggest one; while in MSIE, the left cell is the biggest. (h8 broswer compatibility) Could you point me out to your suggestions on Meta? --User:Maio 22:19, Mar 9, 2004 (UTC)
: For Cologne, try the mockup I made: meta:Cologne skin. Feel free to plunder that for tricks. As far as hooks etc go, please read the meta:Layout design document and the meta:Layout design document/Page architecture technical thingy. The idea was that if all layout templates conform to a basic HTML element architecture, then we can have a number of things handled by a global stylesheet and alsoa global print stylesheet. -- User:Tarquin 16:43, 25 Mar 2004 (UTC)
===Ordres de grandeur===
J'ai dcouvert un peu par hasard le gros boulot fait sur en: concernant les ordres de grandeur, je vois que tu y as particip. Maintenant j'aimerais transposer ceci sur fr:. As-tu des conseils a donner ? Je n'ai pas encore pris le temps de lire toutes les pages de discussion...
Contacte-moi sur fr:, je ne traine ici que rarement. 13:00, 25 Mar 2004
== Stewards ==
Hi, please could you make an account on [http://test.wikipedia.org test] so you your steward access can be set. Thank you. User:Angelauser talk:Angela 06:13, Apr 22, 2004 (UTC)
: Done. :) -- User:Tarquin 07:11, 22 Apr 2004 (UTC)
:: Sorry, it seems I might have been wrong to assume you were to be made a steward. See m:talk:stewards. User:Angelauser talk:Angela 22:18, Apr 22, 2004 (UTC)
: ah. I'm not sure what they are anyway and I have only just found from that page that there was a vote. I am off the ML these days :)
-------
Hi! Can you please translate the election notice [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Elections_for_the_Board_of_Trustees_of_the_Wikimedia_Foundation *] into French and post it prominently on the Recent Changes page of the French Wikipedia. Once you have done that, please let me know, and leave me a link where I can find it. Thanks. User:Danny
: I'm not currently involved with fr: since they repeatedly muck about with the logo in manners I consider to be non-NPOV. -- User:Tarquin 14:36, 6 May 2004 (UTC)
== Kensington (Olympia) ==
I notice you've edited Kensington Olympia in the past. Would you be willing to use your admin privileges to help move that page to Kensington (Olympia) station - the current page there is pithy and duplicating and there's a need for consistency. User:Timrollpickering 07:05, 7 May 2004 (UTC)
: Done :) -- User:Tarquin 09:22, 7 May 2004 (UTC)
::Thanks! User:Timrollpickering 10:44, 7 May 2004 (UTC)
==mysterious foo==
Tarquin, I have no idea what's happened so am not sure you're the person to speak with. And, in case we have different ideas on this. Nevertheless, I'll have a go at it.
I noticed a little while ago that there was no article Foo. So I created one. Someone suggested it should be a redirect to metasyntactic variable, and I disagreed as this more than a foo puzzled person probably wants to know in the first instance, and thus over much parsimony in articles. However that may be, I happened to end up at foo just now, only to find myself at metasyn... What had happened, I naturally asked myself?
I found at the redirect page (foo) no evidence whatsoever of my recent creation nor any discussion of whether it deserved independent existence. The Talk page included a note from you from 02 suggesting that it be a redirect and requesting comment. And thus to you.
I am not so old an admin that I want to go crashing around (with my vast Cthululian powers) causing trouble trying to find out what has happened. Can you enlighten a benighted and so save civilization from my spastic fingers? User:Ww 17:39, 7 May 2004 (UTC)
:(channeling Gilda Ratner), never mind. I created FOO, it's scrolled off my contributions list, and I lost it. You (!) even added the message that it ought to be merged now that I look at the page history. Not sure what to do yet. Thanks for reading the ravings above and I'll just slink softly off the stage now... User:Ww
== Plugs ==
I'd like to invite you to vote on what to do with the plug pages. See Talk:Mains power plug.
==Hemiola==
Hi, I thank you for providing it, and I was wondering if you could tell me the tempo of your musical example on hemiola? Thanks. User:Hyacinth 07:14, 21 Jul 2004 (UTC)
: the MIDI sequence I used to make that image sounds best at around 150 crothets / min. -- User:Tarquin 08:15, 21 Jul 2004 (UTC)
----
Hi, nice to see you around. So many people have disappeared lately, I'm beginning to feel like an old-timer (wait a minute, I ''am'' an old-timer). I probably should give it a rest myself, but can't seem to tear myself away, probably because I've always been a ten or twenty-a-day kind of girl, rather than wearing myself out with a couple of thousand contributions a week. User:Deb 17:29, 11 Aug 2004 (UTC)
:Another old-timer rises from the grave. Back after sabbatical, User:Ortolan88 19:00, 11 Aug 2004 (UTC)
:: Deb! Ortolan! Great to see both of you back :) -- User:Tarquin 20:42, 11 Aug 2004 (UTC)
==Slug==
Salut. J'avais copi sur fr: ta belle image de limace.Est-elle sous GFDL ? http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Limace.JPG --User:Youssefsan 14:02, 12 Aug 2004 (UTC)
: Oui, et je pars a l'instant ajouter la notice. J'espere prendre une photo de limace plus nette, mais j'attends d'en trouver une aussi horrible! -- User:Tarquin 08:45, 13 Aug 2004 (UTC)
::Cette photo l est dj trs bien. Merci beaucoup :-) --User:Youssefsan 12:11, 13 Aug 2004 (UTC)
== Ferdinand de Saussure ==
hello,
I'm adressing you since you're listed as the french wikipedia ambassador.
we were wandering how should the name 'Ferdinand de Saussure' be pronounced.
thanks in advance,
:he:שיחת משתמש:Felagund
:This is a guess, but I would say: the last 'd' is silent, and all the 's's in Saussure are 's' rather than 'z'. So it will sound like 'chaussure' said by someone with a lisp. -- User:Tarquin 11:57, 29 Aug 2004 (UTC)
==Image help, Please!==
I can't get the images to look right (good) at Joseph Smith, Jr.. I am trying to put three images, but stacked up, they are too tall. Can't I put them side by side? Could you visit and edit a quick solution? If not, do you know who could? Also, the fourth image down is in conflict with the text. I can't figure it out. User:Hawstom 19:42, 9 Sep 2004 (UTC)
==Image help, Please!==
I can't get the images to look right (good) at Joseph Smith, Jr.. I am trying to put three images, but stacked up, they are too tall. Can't I put them side by side? Could you visit and edit a quick solution? If not, do you know who could? User:Hawstom 19:40, 9 Sep 2004 (UTC)
== TV Naming conventions. ==
At some point in the past you expressed an opinion on Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (television). I have instigated a new poll on that page. I am hoping that this poll will properly allow all users who have an interest in the subject to express their views fairly before we come to a consensus. I have scrapped the poll that was previously in place on that page because I believe that it was part of an unfair procedure that was going against the majority view. I am appealing to all users who contribute to that page to approve my actions. I would appreciate it if you could take the time and trouble to read the page carefully and express an opinion and vote as you see fit. User:Mintguy User talk: Mintguy 16:41, 13 Sep 2004 (UTC)
: I'm not sure I understand what's been going on there, so I don't really want to vote on anything. But you can assume whatever I voted for or said in the past stands :) -- User:Tarquin 14:35, 14 Sep 2004 (UTC)
===Category_talk:Data_management===
Thank you for your contribution to one, or more, articles that are now organized under Data management.
Because of your previous intrest, you are recieving an invitation to become a founding member of the Category_talk:Data_management.
The members, of course, will form and solidify the purpose, rules, officers, etc. but my idea (to kick things off) is to establish a group of us who will take responsiblity to see that the ideas of Data management are promoted and well represented in Wikipedia articles.
If you are willing to join the committee, please go to Category_talk:Data_management and indicate your acceptance of this invitation by placing your three tilde characters in the list.
User:KeyStroke 01:28, 2004 Sep 25 (UTC)
== RP ==
Hey there. Regarding your media files in the RP talk page, one is missing and the other cuts short towards the end of 'talk'. Could you re-upload them or give new samples (i'd be interested in hearing them). Also, for the benefit of the guy above your comment, could you do 'cot, 'caught' and the other one too. ta. User:Nickshanks
: I'l look into it. -- User:Tarquin 13:37, 3 Oct 2004 (UTC)
==Counties policy==
Hello I have added an explanation note to the counties naming policy at Wikipedia: Naming conventions (places). I have done this to make it clearer because User:80.255 have insisted upon mis-interpreting it (see Shipston-on-Stour and Talk:Gloucestershire). I dont think it has changed the policy just explained it better.
It has already been OK'd by User:Angela and User:Warofdreams, is it OK with you?. The reason I'm contacting you is because you voted on the original policy. User:G-Man 17:12, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC)
==User page protection===
I am sending this message to a group of seasoned users whose opinions I respect. My aim is not to draw you into a dispute, but to canvass opinion on a contentious area of policy. If you have a few minutes to spare, please see the debate currently under way at Wikipedia talk:Protection policy, with particular reference to user page protection. For some reason, I seem to have fallen foul of a group of sysops who have made it their business to stamp out the practice of protecting ones own user page. A sensible (in my opinion) proposal has been made to amend the policy, and I would be grateful if you would add your view, assuming you have one. Cheers. User:Deb 13:23, 2 Nov 2004 (UTC)
==Comments on photo===
On the picture in http://images.webster-dictionary.org/wiki/7/74/Weevil_close-up.JPG
was photographed weevil ''Liophloeus tessullatus'' Muell., the female. (V. N.)
: Thanks! Updated the image description page. -- User:Tarquin 13:12, 21 Nov 2004 (UTC)
== Article Licensing ==
Hi, I've User:rambot#Free the Rambot Articles project to get users to Wikipedia:Multi-licensing all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (''CC-by-sa'') v1.0 and v2.0 Creative Commons Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The ''CC-by-sa'' license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the Wikipedia:List_of_Wikipedians_by_number_of_edits Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at ''minimum'' those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:
*User talk:Ram-Man#Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
*Wikipedia:Multi-licensing
*User:rambot#Free the Rambot Articles project
To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "I agree to Wikipedia:Multi-licensing all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:
:I agree to Wikipedia:Multi-licensing all my contributions to any U.S. state, county, or city article as described below:
:
See other meanings of words starting from letter:
Words begining with Tarquin:
Tarquin
Tarquin
Tarquin
Tarquin/Archive_1
Tarquin/Archive_2
Tarquin/Archive_3
Tarquin/Archive_4
Tarquin/Archive_5
Tarquin/metrication
Tarquin/Style_Guides
Tarquin/Style_Guides
Tarquin/to_do
Tarquin/Utility
Tarquinia
Tarquinia-Corneto
Tarquinii
Tarquinio_Merula
Tarquinis_Superbus
Tarquinius_Priscus
Tarquinius_Priscus
Tarquinius_Superbus
Tarquin_II
Tarquin_the_Proud
Tarquin_the_proud
Tarquin
Tarquin may mean either of two kings of ancient Rome: *Lucius Tarquinius Priscus, fifth king *Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, "Tarquin the Proud", seventh and last king
Tarquin
: ''Is Wiki for everybody, even for those who don't care to educate themselves as to how it works?'' -- BlackHat on http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WikiSquatting : ''Father Christmas and the Tooth Fairy are part of the charm of childhood. So is God. Some of us grow out of all three.'' -- Richard Dawkins : ''La seule chose vraie, c'est la guerre psychologique!'' -- Savancosinus, ''La Zizanie'', Goscinny & Uderzo : ''The vote went nowhere and became such a confusing mess and joke that people on nearly all sides of the argument were able to logically argue that their choice was the actual winner. '' -- no, it's not the "election" of Dubya. It's Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (dates and numbers). : The creationists have no scientific evidence to support their case, so instead they constantly repeat long-refuted pseudoscientific arguments. This has no place in the classroom. If a religion is incompatible with scientific thought, then so much worse for that religion. To argue that it is unconstitutional to only present scientific arguments on a subject that has nothing to do with religion is preposterous -- by the same logic you could argue that the theory of gravity should be balanced with "alternative views" because [http://www.tm.org/ these guys] think they can fly in the air if they concentrate hard enough. -- User:Eloquence, writing on Talk:Creationism. == Current Wikipedia status == Summer 04 I was back briefly after an absence of a few months. But then things like Image talk:Seldon.jpg happen and sap my strength. I don't have the inclination to engage in edit wars. Expect to see me around from time to time, doing general weeding tasks and upload photos. ------- ''The state of this page tells you an awful lot about me: I tend to accumulate clutter, I hardly ever delete anything, and my mind tends to wander.'' -------- ''runs through shouting "m:Wikipedia is more popular than..."'' == need to know == * GFDL images All photos I have taken and diagrams I have made for Wikipedia are GFDL. They may not be marked with the tag as they predate its existence. Feel free to add the GFDL tag to any images whose description page states I took the photograph or drew the diagram. * slight wikipediholic tendencies (well, more than slight, I'm apparently 10th in Wikipedia:Most_active_Wikipedians. eek.) * administrator, so feel free to ask me stuff on my Talk:Tarquin * generally of a crabby disposition, but it's all a front for rampant idealism (or perhaps the other way round. I forget) * tendency to ramble, see below. == subpages, attic space, out back == * User:Tarquin/Utility * Collection of links to pages in need of User:Tarquin/metrication * List of stuff User:Tarquin/to do * Wikipedia:Image markup gallery Memorable mailing list posts: * [http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2003-July/005267.html Jimbo on crackpots] (thanks for the link, User:Angela) * some more on the same: [http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2003-September/006693.html] [http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2003-September/006696.html] == the following will self-destruct in ... == ... but ''look'' at the TeX equations! the soft curves of the integral sign! the variables leaping from tree to tree, as they float down the mighty rivers of British Columbia. ! The Giant Redwood. The Larch. The Fir! The mighty Scots Pine! ... Sing! Sing! [singing] I'ma lumberjack, and I'm okay. ... (''men in white coats enter and carry Tarquin offstage'') (In short: I ''like'' the new TeX markup.) === Vague rambling biog === Hullo. I'm Tarquin, for long and complicated reasons. Okay, they're not complicated at all. It's just an in-joke in my family. I may get round to explaining it one day, but it's really not that interesting. There's a family rumour that we're descended from Ren Descartes. My great-great-grandfather's family was from La Haye, Descartes' birthplace, and his father was mayor. It's completely unsubstantiated. Meanwhile, I'm British. With, as well as the French ancestry, a few touches of other European countries thrown in. Contrary to rumours, I am not an AI somewhere in northern Canada. I'm an AI in England. ;-) I fall under the "hey, I ordered a cheeseburger" Gary Larson. Not that I'd be seen dead doing such a thing. I'm reliably informed on a semi-regular basis that I'm cantakerous. Interesting life skills: I have both perfect pitch ''and'' relative pitch. I've never been able to pin down just what the term "photographic memory" is supposed to mean, but I do have a good one. Stuff just tends to drop in of its own accord. It's very handy for building up the Wiki Web, as I tend to ''click'' if I've already seen a page on a given subject. It also means I regard pages like Mnemonic with complete bemusement: remembering "Roy G. Biv" or "HOMES" seems to me to be an extra burden on the memory, not a lightening. There's the mnemonic, plus what it actually is supposed to represent. "Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain" was drilled into me at school, but decoding that to get the order of colours is slower than just visualizing a colour wheel. I'm a very sloppy typist. I have the unfortunate tendency of saving articles with one or two atrocious typos. On the other hand, I'm an excellent proofreader when it's someone else's work. So karmically it balances out... ;-) I probably fix two typos for each one I leave. I run a wiki on the Unreal engine here: http://wiki.beyondunreal.com/ Wikipediholic/Are you wikipediholic test score: 20 (increased now I'm on wikipedia-L) : Feb 2003 revision: 41. I note with interest this question: ''Do you make edits while drunk or under the influence of other intoxicating substances and find that nobody reverts your changes?'' ... ... ... some of my finest work is made under the influence of single malt :-) === An end to all edit wars === Troubled with edit wars? NPOV going down the drain? Tearing your hair out over the latest edit conflict? Fear not. Here's the simple solution: # First determine who is resolutely refusing to budge & making things difficult. Let's call them X. # Identify their nationality # Find the page "list of famous {nationality}" # Add contentious entries. Remove some. Invent some names. Ideally, a pop band whom no-one has ''ever'' heard of. Give them a ''kooky'' name like "The Wet Fredericks" or "Tiger With Bagels". # Bump this page on RC a few times next time X is around # Reel them into a long and protracted edit was on the list page. Get them deeply riled about how famous or not their fellow nationals are. Imply that no-one cares. # This will completely distract them from their earlier crusade. And let's face it, "list of X" pages are pointless anyway. Points will be awarded for the best "Talk:list of famous {nationality}" pages. And what do points mean? === Finding stuff === Arg. I just went looking for the conventions on names of saints. Simple, eh? You'd think so. Well, I had to go through this list of pages: # Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines # Wikipedia:Naming conventions (good start) # Wikipedia:Naming conventions (names and titles) (seems reasonable to expect it here... but no. It says "see the talk page. So I move on...) # Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (use browser's search function to find something in the morass... nope, not here either. Link to ''another'' talk page) # and finally Talk:List of saints ... only to find it's not decided yet. Four pages, wandering with no visible signs of organization. This is not a good way to organize things. === Stub Tennis === We should hold Olympics. user:Pgdudda mentions "WikiRoulette". I hereby coin the name "Stub Tennis". (I can be fairly sure I've made the name up, a search draws a blank both here and on WardsWiki.) To play stub tennis, do this: * Wikipedia:Find or fix a stub * add something to it, either ** some vague factoid you remember ** do a search on the topic or some of the names in it & create two-way links (LinksAreContent...) * for stub tennis to work, someone else has to react to its being bumped on Recent Changes. * the article is batted to and fro between two or more wikipedians. === Thoughts on Wikipedia === I wonder sometimes... at what point will Hari Seldon's holographic image step out of the vault and tell us what our ''real'' purpose is? === How I ended up here === For those who really wish to know, I landed on Wikipedia quite by accident in January 2002: I was idly reading an article on operating systems for the next generation of mobile phones (I am not sure why...), which was detailing Micro$oft's foray into this field. The article went on to say that many cool things would be possible with the colour screens that we'd be seeing on advanced models; but that given minimal memory and ways of addressing the screen all aimed at minimizing power consumption, programmers who worked on games on 1980s computers such as the Commodore 64 and the ZX Spectrum would find their skills at squeezing the maximum effiencency out of the minimum code once again in demand. In particular (it said), the problem of "attribute clash" seen on the Spectrum was again rearing its ugly head. Intrigued by the term - it was implied that it related to colour on the screen - I Googled it, and the first link got me to Wikipedia... I do of course try and tone done my style when writing Wikipedia entries: I do have a tendency to ramble. ;-) === Rant and Rave === ''the rant and rave section is currently closed while I think of something else to complain about'' My (current) number one Wikipedia grouse is this: "Venice, Italy", "London, England" and so forth. That is how cities are indentified in the US; not in the rest of the world. A rout through UK train timetables for the few duplicate towns shows they use "Gillinham (Kent)", for example. The same form or "Gillinham in Kent" is usual in newspaper or reference articles if readers may not know which country a place is in. However, in the interests of consistency in page names, we're stuck with the stateside terminology. It's probably all irrational reactions to cultural imperialism. That or seeing that dratted comma always reminds me of Marilyn Monroe saying "Paris, France is in Europe?" in ''Gentlemen prefer blondes''... Second grouse: bad French. Most Anglophones are shovelled some sort of French at school, and are under the impression that they a) recall it and b) it was correct in the first place. I tidied French phrases used by English speakers, and just spotted Twinkle twinkle little star. Translation is a sticky art, but I wish people would at least ensure nouns and adjectives agree in gender and number. == Articles == My principal fields of interest are music and maths, but also a mixed bag of things. (this list that follows hasn't been updated in ages. as a WikiWeeder, I end up editing the most bizarre articles. I'd never heard of the Holden car company, I have no interest in the Ford Escort, and the Killer poke was just a rumour I'd once heard) lately, I've started: - Through the Looking-Glass - Arlo Guthrie - Oliver Heaviside - Pink Panther - Henry Mancini - Baron Haussmann - Oulipo - Life: A User's Manual - Joseph Heller - Penrose triangle - Raymond Smullyan (couldn't believe he wasn't already covered... ) - Disability: radical new start and moved older things to subpages. I somewhat see the sense in having the "disability etiquette" page, yet I can't help but think "how would people react to a page called 'how to address a black person'?". Were things like that written in the 1960s? - Fitts' law - Tower of Hanoi (the algorithm I linked to on KnowHowWiki is mine too...) - TGV - Axe historique - Periodic table/Wide Table - Pere Lachaise - Beryl Bainbridge - Companion planting - Spurn - Significant figure (feels like MONTHS since I've actually started a page; so much weeding to do!) - Jodrell Bank (a stub whose progress I look forward to seeing) - Unit vector - Strait-jacket - Laundry symbols -- who first devised these? - VAL - Blackcurrant - Penny-farthing - Babbling Stuff I've added to lately: - The Simpsons (but, like, who hasn't?) - Goscinny - Paris Metro - French Revolutionary Calendar - Isambard Kingdom Brunel - T.H. White - SAMPA: seeing this bastardized ascii IPA bugged me to the point that I had to dig up the page on it... found it in need of work; made tables and added diphthongs ([faI@]...). I plan to upload recordings of phonemes soon. - Acronym: gave this a polish - Alexander Technique -- it's great. I recommend it. Hard work and most teachers are expensive but it really is worth it. - Mercator projection - Tube map: gave this a rewrite. I've been fascinated by the tube map (& the metro map) ''as far back as I can remember'' (Goodfellas voice-style ;) ) - Piano - Octave and Note Stuff I intend to read up on: * Marcel Proust * Stendhal To do: * keep an eye out for Ealing, Ealing Studios and Ealing Comedies -- all three links exist, with no page yet. Clean up links when one is created. Also musing which name is most appropriate. * rewrite harmonic ---- I'm vaguely collecting links to style guides found dotted around: User:Tarquin/Style Guides (this is probably obsolete by the way.) ----- http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?MyMyersBriggsTypeIs ENFP, apparently. Whoopee-do. ----
Tarquin
Tarquin's Talk page: leave comments & questions at the bottom of this page. I usually reply here. == Archives == * User talk:Tarquin/Archive 1 (Jan-Nov 02) when I was young and nave * User talk:Tarquin/Archive 2 (Nov 02-Jan 03) when I was bitter and twisted * User talk:Tarquin/Archive 3 (Jan-March 03) when I was... bitter and twisted some more, probably ;-) * User talk:Tarquin/Archive 4 (March-May 03) when I was tired and weary * User talk:Tarquin/Archive 5 (May-September 03) enough already ==Press release== Editing on the meta:Wikimedia's first press release has effectively stopped. Please be advised that we may be distributing the non-English press releases as early as Monday 29 September. The English version will be distributed the week after in order to smooth out the load on our servers. --meta:user:maveric149 22 Sep 2003 ------- ''Wikipedia is in desperate need of articles on nose-picking!'' *Oh yeah, you're clearly qualified to discuss the relevance of an Anais Nin commencement speech with me. User:Malcs64 : what I put on my user page is my own business. The above was in response to something that happened a long time ago. -- User:Tarquin 09:43, 23 Sep 2003 (UTC) : What obscenities I delete from your user page is everyone's business. You childishly defend the indefensible. User:OmegaMan :: I have no idea what you are saying. User pages are considered private property on WP unless extremely offensive. Please leave mine alone -- User:Tarquin 18:05, 31 Dec 2003 (UTC) :: Well, it would be purely argumentative to disagree over Tarquin's arbitrary distinction (NOT Wikipedia's) between "extremely offensive" and "moderately offensive". Yes, I deleted your "social theory" weeks ago. User:OmegaMan : Please leave my user page alone. -- User:Tarquin 21:07, 31 Dec 2003 (UTC) : Any chance of persuading you to voluntarily remove your "social theory" simply on the grounds of good taste? [I am making the precarious presumption that you understand the concept.] By the way, why did you think such nonsense was important enough to restore? User:OmegaMan ----- ==asking a favor== Hello, Tarquin. I have a favor to ask to a French ambassador. Would you somehow let the IP user from 217.64.171.225 know the message at ? I am not sure if the person can read English (although my message is in English because I cannot write in French). It seems s/he is most active at fr. wikipedia after comparing with en., ja., and de. And I wrote the message at my discussion page, just because I did not want to be rude by writing it at his/her page. many thanks, User:Tomos 19:47, 3 Oct 2003 (UTC) I can be reached at or en:User talk:Tomos ---- Hi, Tarquin, My original contribution at Wikipedia talk:Americocentrism came out sounding offensive, so I have revised it. I didn't want to offend anyone but just make the point that I don't think that turning a predilection into an ism is the best way to make articles comprehensive. User:Trontonian 23:29, 1 Nov 2003 (UTC) : Agreed. Care to suggest a better name and tweak the page a bit? User:Tarquin 13:25, 2 Nov 2003 (UTC) I still think the best solution would be to provide some examples of carious types of centrism. It just occurred to me that the original article about American football was Eurocentric. It seemed to have been written by someone who'd never played the game or seen much of it. It and the Canadian football articles still talk about number 3 rugby balls instead of giving the actual specifications of the balls used in the games. I also tried to introduce some balance into Ice hockey. Because there are two varieties of the game it's important to cover them both adequately. At the moment I'm writing a lot of jazz stubs, and every one has been about an American (Oscar Peterson already had an article). I hope that the struggle against Americocentrism doesn't lead to the sections on jazz ending up like a printed encyclopedia of jazz I have, in which minor European figures are given equal prominence with people who played jazz as a living music rather than as a novelty. The printed encyclopedia has no article about Hazel Scott, but it has one about Ronnie Scott, for example. I bet buddy might even think Hazel wasn't a jazz figure -- purist Europeans did boo Muddy Waters for playing electric guitar. User:Trontonian 18:45, 2 Nov 2003 (UTC) :In fact I went back and checked the hockey article and it was still slightly biased towards international rules, so I've been fixing that up. So there you have proof of the need to be alert for national bias. User:Trontonian : FWIW, I point out bias towards France on the fr: wikipedia ;) -- User:Tarquin 20:17, 2 Nov 2003 (UTC) Could you let me know the title? I had a quick look but couldn't find it (just looked for ''francocentrisme'' and ''francocentrique''). Thanks. I'm Trontois over there. User:Trontonian : There's only a post on the mailing list so far. I've been planning to add a section about it to the main NPOV page. Apart form that, I've been modifying articles on cities to state that they're in France... -- User:Tarquin 13:17, 3 Nov 2003 (UTC) I'll keep my eyes peeled. I'm being more diligent about national POV as a result of our discussion. I am happy, though, that i have not so far run across the earnest Canadocentrism one finds so foten in the Canadian media. User:Trontonian 00:00, 4 Nov 2003 (UTC) ==Smooth Newt== I recently started with cleaning up some of the amphibian pages, and came along the Newt page. I wonder about the taxonomic name of the Smooth Newt you gave there (and in the image description) - ''Lophinus punctatus''. Google couldn't find much about that one (most were wikipedia and copies of it), thus I searched the common name, but that one gave me the taxonomic name ''Triturus vulgaris''. Is ''L. punctatus'' a different species? Or just a very uncommon alias name? User:Ahoerstemeier 22:20, 2 Dec 2003 (UTC) == Noel sur fr: == aux ftes, que les choses soient claires, Tarquin. Je ne soutiens pas particulierement ce logo. Je suis neutre en la matire. Je me suis tonne que personne ne ragisse le moins du monde. Cela m'a paru curieux. Si tu quittes wiki fr pendant 15 jours sous prtexte qu'il est la, je n en veux pas :-) -- Anthere : franchement, entre les PDF, les titres de pages tout en anglais comme ASCII en tout mots, cette idee d'une association avec un serveur en france -- je commence en avoir marre du fr:. Quand j'essaye d'expliquer comment faire ces choses on ne m'ecoute pas. -- User:Tarquin 22:13, 10 Dec 2003 (UTC) ::Quand j'essaye d'expliquer comment faire ces choses on ne m'ecoute pas non plus. En plus de l'association, il y a le fait de ne pas admettre qu'on puisse ne pas etre d'accord avec la nomination de Crales Killer au status d'admin, il y a le fait que les rgles sont faites pour certains, mais pas pour d'autres, il y a les copyrights sur les images, il y a les problmes de pov, il y a beaucoup de choses. Trop :-) ==La Vie en Rose== Nous les en: l'en avons. Les fr: non plus - qu'une xref vide chez Edith Piaf. Peut-tre un petit cadeau soit necessaire? - User:UnkamunkaUser_talk:Unkamunka 22:32 15 Dec 2003 (UTC) Why did you move Kitchener back? Standard practice is to use peerage titles in article titles unless the person is much better known without them (e.g. Disraeli, Baldwin, and so forth). I'd say that's not the case with Kitchener, and that he should be listed with his peerage title. User:John Kenney 17:14, 17 Dec 2003 (UTC) : It is? and he is? Oh well. I'm obviously not up to date on the most recent title conventions. Sorry -- User:Tarquin 08:56, 18 Dec 2003 (UTC) ==Thanks...== ... for the fix on the Hi-Q disambiguation page. I was lazy. I looked at a random disambiguation page and copied its style instead of looking for the right boilerplate. Now if only I could remember which one and fix that... User:Jmabel 19:27, 20 Dec 2003 (UTC) : no problem :) -- User:Tarquin 20:48, 20 Dec 2003 (UTC) ==Thank you ...== ... for your advice concerning naming pics. Its the first time i've loaded one. Should I reload the picture under a new name or leave it as it is do you think ? User:Ledgerbob 11:56, 23 Dec 2003 (UTC) : No problem :) It might be an idea to reload it as a longer name. THe problem with "alexander" is that it could be used by someone else uploading a pic of another Alexander, such as Alexander the Great, etc. -- User:Tarquin 12:00, 23 Dec 2003 (UTC) : Will do ... thanks User:Ledgerbob 12:07, 23 Dec 2003 (UTC) == Paddington Skin? == What's the news on this? I stumbled across the reference and scurried over to the Test Wiki to try it out but I can't find any trace. It's mentioned a couple of times on Meta but I haven't actually been able to view it. User:Phil Boswell 10:25, Dec 24, 2003 (UTC) : It's here: m:Paddington skin. You can't see it directly because HTML files are sent by the server as text for security. You'll need to dowbnload it. I've had very little feedback from it. I'm currently thinking of starting a new design from scratch, or maybe starting a design document first. -- User:Tarquin 10:29, 24 Dec 2003 (UTC) ---- Holy Marge mother of Crust, you're right! I've been had, I'm going to write to the Church of the Order of the Toast and demand my money back! ---- ==The image on "Teacher"== I would be happy to disclose from where the image comes. But first, can you tell me why it's important?
—User:Vespristiano 20:29, 2003 Dec 24 (UTC) :Please accept my apology—I checked "Wikipedia:Image description page" and discovered you're absolutely right: I should add copyright information. When I get the chance, I will update the description page for that image as well as another one I upload.
—User:Vespristiano 20:45, 2003 Dec 24 (UTC) ==I came across this little tidbit== ::<
See other meanings of words starting from letter:
T
TA | TB | TC | TD | TE | TF | TG | TH | TI | TJ | TK | TL | TŁ | TM | TN | TO | TP | TR | TS | TU | TW | TX | TY | TZ |Words begining with Tarquin:
Tarquin
Tarquin
Tarquin
Tarquin/Archive_1
Tarquin/Archive_2
Tarquin/Archive_3
Tarquin/Archive_4
Tarquin/Archive_5
Tarquin/metrication
Tarquin/Style_Guides
Tarquin/Style_Guides
Tarquin/to_do
Tarquin/Utility
Tarquinia
Tarquinia-Corneto
Tarquinii
Tarquinio_Merula
Tarquinis_Superbus
Tarquinius_Priscus
Tarquinius_Priscus
Tarquinius_Superbus
Tarquin_II
Tarquin_the_Proud
Tarquin_the_proud
These materials are based on Wikipedia and licensed under the GNU FDL
YouTube.com videos better site than Turbo Tax 2007
