User talk:Athaenara/Archive 1

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Athænara's Talk Archive 1.

This is an archive of discussions from October 2006 through March 2007. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page.

WikiWelcome

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Holiday Greetings

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Signature talk

Complaints

Hi, per WP:SIG, sigs with text larger than the default size are not reccomended [sic]. Please could you change your sig? 80.41.217.63 (contribs) 11:52, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

After fruitlessly testing this with successively smaller font sizes, I removed the sup/sup markup for my talk link. It was the talk link, superscripted as many wikipedians also choose to place theirs (cf. Kf4bdy's on my Archive 1 subpage), which was making my signature appear to be significantly larger than default size.
I am treating your complaint as seriously as I would that of a registered user. I do recommend that you register.
I don't, of course, include the talk link in my sig for messages on my talk page (this one). Athænara 01:43, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

I can't help but notice your signature—you've set it in a very large type size. I appreciate that many users like to spruce up their signatures to make them unique, but such modifications are usually limited to adding colour and symbols. Using such a large font is very distracting, as it makes your signature seem much more important than the surrounding text, and also breaks up line spacing. I hope you'll take this observation under advisement and consider changing your signature to something a little less outstanding. —Psychonaut 12:48, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

Psychonaut: I relocated your post on my talk page to the pre-existing Signature section there. Thanks for your comment; remove this note from your talk page if you like. Athænara 22:05, 24 November 2006 (UTC) [This is a copy: original posted to Psychonaut's talk page. –Æ. ]

→ (I eventually figured out how my sig looked to users with different skins and and different default font sizes and reduced the font size to 12/14 point.) –Æ.

Gallery

→ A Wikipedian Signature Art Gallery relocated 9 January, 2007. —Æ.

First Barnstar

Absolutely beautiful! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 131.247.220.9 (talk • contribs) 23:39, 2 December 2006 (UTC).

Thank you! — Æ.

Gallery Guest Book

Thanks Athaenara, for signing my autograph book. I'd like to add my sig to yours, but I'm not sure where... | AndonicO ^{Talk | Sign Here} 23:32, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

You're welcome—I'll add yours to the Wikipedian Signature Art Gallery if it's ok with you. –Æ. 23:41, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

I think a Guest book qualifies to be on the list; as long as you can sign there, it's fine. If you don't want it to be there, it's fine, but I still think it should. And thanks for adding my sig to your collection too. :-) | AndonicO ^{Talk | Sign Here} 19:03, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

Could you add my signature there? I don't know exactly where to put it though. Thanks. —¡Rand fan ! 20:28, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

As curator, I added it to the Infinite Variety section (an earlier form [23:31, 10 December 2006 (UTC) in the history], not the one you used here) nearly a week ago. –Æ. 23:47, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

A most extravagant version now in Extreme section. –Æ. 07:44, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

→ Update: Extreme section renamed Irredeemably Monstrous and removed, 08:51, 22 February 2007 (UTC).
Thanks for signing my signature book. Current signee #21!!! --¿Why 1 9 9 1 ^{ESP. | Sign Here} 02:42, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

You're welcome (I updated your sig in the Infinite Variety section). –Æ. 23:31, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

Nice work

Greetings Athaenara, I see you maintaining WP:BLP/N and just wanted to say that it is good to see someone like yourself taking care of business there. Thanks for that. Also, I caught sight of your sig gallery and I must say that with the formatting and layout it is a pleasure to look at. Take it easy. (→Netscott) 00:30, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

Hey, thank you for the encouragement (BLP/N)! If you don't mind, I'll put your comments about the gallery in the Gallery Guest Book section there, unless you would like to add your comments yourself—let me know. — Athænara ✉ 00:36, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

Autograph books are a bit contentious right now... I suppose I wouldn't mind if you transfer my comments there though. Cheers. (→Netscott) 00:39, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

Ah one other thing, many Wikipedia editor find large signatures annoying could you perhaps alter your to be like this: — Athænara ✉? Large signatures tend to give sig users a bad name. :-) (→Netscott) 00:42, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

It is not an autograph book (cf. my comments on the gallery talk page about that very thing) but a curated collection. Thank you for your kind permission to add your comments to the guestbook. — Æ. ✉ 00:52, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

Inspired by your art

Hi, I feel inspired by your signature and a number of those in your gallery to render my own in an artistic fashion. I know how to do the art but is there a way to make it appear like that everytime I use the four tides or do I need to copy and paste all the time? - Watchtower Sentinel 13:51, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Signatures#Customizing your signature: you can change the signature field in Special:Preferences. — Athænara ✉ 14:02, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

I see you followed through—thanks for signing the guest book. — Æ. ✉ 07:00, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

Miscellaneous

1960s single stub

Haha! I hadn't noticed that the message was messed up before. Good eye. Just a tip that, in the future, when you see something in brackets like that, it's a template. To edit it, type "template:templatename" in the search box, then hit "Go" and you'll be brought to an editable page for the template. I went ahead and fixed the one you pointed out. GassyGuy (contribs) 07:57, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the note about fixing templates, GassyGuy. I knew it was a template, of course, but I had no idea how easy it was to get inside one. — Æ. 08:06, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

Project Insight

Hope this is what you wanted. If you need to tweak this some more, or if you want to upload other pictures, I'll be glad to help. Thanks for just now! --Rifleman 82 21:42, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

It's terrific, Rifleman, thank you! — Æ. 21:53, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

On Aggression

I think you made the article On Aggression more encyclopedic, but I don't agree that my reference didn't support the claim (regardless of how encyclopedic the article was on the whole with it). Alas, my reference to page 94 fell out when I made the reference work, so perhaps you thought I meant the whole book. I'd be glad to hear your opinion on that. (–Uncas)

Wikipedia:Avoid weasel words#Examples is excellent reading.

Specifically in regard to: "Many ideas are now believed to be false, such as [this] and [that] ... ".

The reference's link trail does not lead to verification of the claim.

To check this most easily: go into the article's history, find an earlier version which still includes the reference (this one, for example), and follow the succession of links as if you had not written it yourself but were another reader, seeing it for the first time, seeking the support implied by the ref tag.
The De Waal article does not mention Lorenz. The article about his book is a one-line stub.

In any event, what was said on "page 94"? And, whatever it was, does it not more properly belong in the De Waal article? Lorenz was not a primatologist. Most of his studies in ethology were of birds, which are also social animals with complex social behaviors.

By the way, how come you "cultivate a high tolerance for ambiguity" in an encyclopedia? Or is it in some other context? --Uncas 01:19, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

I find life to be full of meaningful ambiguities. I haven't time just now for a more substantive reply to the question, but I thank you for asking. — Æ. 02:28, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

→ (Afterthought, months later: I love both Desiderata, which is comforting, and Deteriorata, which is hilarious.)

Special Thanx

Dudette! Thanx again for all the great help you've been and for the long chat. You've help me a great deal :) I hope I can call upon you in the future for your input. Next time I'l share my Belgian truffles with you. Mystar 04:36, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

You are welcome, Mystar. — Æ. 04:41, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

WTF

Huh? Not that it isn't funny, but I'm not quite sure what you meant...Cheers, Moreschi 21:01, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

I had been wandering through a thicket of posts, on and off admin pages, after Cool Cat tried to get my support on IRC for some recent WP:POINT absurdities and stunts. I told him he and Bastique owe apologies to Moby Dick (and to a lot of other people, as I now understand it); he stalked off, after a few parting shots, in high dudgeon and/or low umbrage.

When in the midst of these wanderings I stumbled over that strange (and unrelated) unsigned post in the undergrowth I couldn't resist the urge to use the {{unsigned}} template, even though it was just an old post on a user talk page, and I felt awkward about it. Sorry I upset you! –Æ. 22:25, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

Upset me? No, not in the slightest! Cheers, Moreschi 20:05, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

→ Huh is right. I took a second look and corrected it 23:08, 3 January 2007 (UTC).

50 States flag PNG

Sorry about the delay. Must have missed your message. It should be possible to do a white ~~border~~ background for 50 States flag.PNG. I'll go through my files at home to see what state it currently is in. One challenge is that, because of the white from the flag, it wouldn't have a significant contrast with the exterior, and I'm not sure if I've still retained the original US outline in the file or not. I'll get back to you.--DaveOinSF 19:58, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

Hmm, yes. Though it's great to have a USA map which doesn't omit Alaska and Hawaii, I see the difficulty as you describe it. I should have thought it through. Thanks for getting back to me—the delay was not a problem. Athænara 23:01, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

(Afterthought: if Alaska and Hawaii could be coloured using red and blue only, they wouldn't disappear into a white background.) -Æ. 19:20, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

Inexplicably delinked

[In re "the wrong Bobby Bird."] I originally made the link, but de-linked it after noticing that it was wrong. I'm changing it back to be unlinked. Thanks. Is that explicable enough? :-) -anon. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.153.32.226 (talk • contribs) 15:46, 19 January 2007 (UTC).

Yes. Use edit summaries more often, they help keep things explicable ;-) Athænara ✉ 15:53, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

Youth sign language pics

See Talk:Youth Leadership Camp#Requested Pictures.

Massive edits

Yes, that is how they were before, but they looked odd, and this box idea was originally in the area of Sen. Patrick Leahy. Therefore, I modeled it after that. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by UnitedStatesIndia (talk • contribs) 21:01, 16 March 2007 (UTC).

Please reply on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Succession Box Standardization#Over 100 edits to succession boxes. Thanks. — Athænara ✉ 21:06, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

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