User talk:Jeffq
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[edit] ARCHIVE INDEX
[edit] A request for assistance
Would you support the concept of moving the Earhart "myths" to a separate page or article? The reason for my suggesting this is that the main article should be an accurate and scholarly work while the speculation and conspiracy theories surrounding the disappearance of Amelia Earhart are interesting, they belong in a unique section. Most researchers, as you know, discount the many theories and speculation that has arisen in the years following her last flight. Go onto the Earhart discussion page and register your vote/comments...and a Happy New Year to you as well. Bzuk 03:02 3 January 2007 (UTC).
- Canvassing can annoy other editors, as has been said on your talk page, but I take no offense, and I understood that you probably got my username from some old edits. Ordinarily I would be happy to help out, but I'm afraid I'm not up to full involvement in this article at the moment. I will say this: I am not in favor of splitting off such information, because it is germane to the subject. I do, however, believe that it should be scrupulously referenced and kept to a minimum to keep from overwhelming the article. I would not support an article split that would merely encourage conspiracy theorists to add nonsense, however well-documented, to Wikipedia. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 04:49, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] SVG??
Is it possible to upload SVG files, and have wiki automatically convert it on the fly to png? If so how do I do this, when I tried to upload an SVG it said it was not a recommended format, I did not see a way to force it to go. I noticed in the uploaded files area you have a couple that are .svg.png. Also, could you please resond on my talk page? Thanks. --Green-Dragon 06:31, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
- I can see at User talk:Green-Dragon#SVG?? that Shirahadasha gave you some good pointers on where to go for some answers — much better than I could have. I hope this works out for you. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 04:40, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Serenity
Hey Jeff, I've replied at Talk:Serenity (Firefly vessel)#Mothership or not? - Hope this helps. thanks/Fenton, Matthew Lexic Dark 52278 Alpha 771 18:28, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
- Well-researched, cogently argued disagreements always help, whatever the outcome. Thanks for the note, and for explicitly raising the issue. (Perhaps I should have done this myself.) Now we can see what others think, too. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 19:04, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] MST3k episode articles.
Even though I know I've brought it up before, it's been quite awhile since so I was wondering if you were still interested concerning the whole sort-of-shindig? Always willing to contribute thereto if you're wondering. DrWho42 00:32, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
- Well, you never answered my question about your specific intention at Talk:Mystery Science Theater 3000#Episodes/Experiments vs. Movies. Can I assume from your posting title that your intention is to create individual MST3K episode articles? I'm on record as believing this could be useful, but am not prepared at this time to do any significant work on it, as I'm stretched way too thin right now. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 08:35, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Bullshit!
The section used to be a neat little critism section until that user 74.116.181.153 added about a paragraph of rebuttals to it, i could'nt be bothered challenging it, so i just keep removing the POV and trimming it slightly, feel welcome to take the section back to the 8th of january if you want. You'll have my support anyway... Asopia321 14:33, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
- I've only been doing modest tweaking as I see it needed on that article. I'm not prepared right now to analyze its current state too much. I'm trusting that everyone else there will keep each other relatively honest. Thanks for the heads-up, though. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 14:42, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Peer Review
My recent nomination for Good Article status for Youngstown, Ohio passed! I have requested a Peer Review of the article in hopes of nominating it for Featured status in the near future. If you would like to contribute to the Peer Review Process, please go here Wikipedia:Peer review/Youngstown, Ohio. Your assistance is appreciated! --Daysleeper47 20:15, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] How to restore the content after vandal intrusion
Hi, Jeffq! I am about the page Dignity. Someone without name 207.233.122.189 erased most of content with an insulting comment. I tried to restore but apparently don't know how. Will you please teach me. Abuhar 21:16, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
- I see that Jeffpw has already fixed your immediate problem, but I'll tell you how to do it in the future. At the top of each page, there is a "history" tab. Click on that to see the recent edit history of that page. You'll see a list of dates/times with usernames (or IP addresses) and edit summaries (wherever the users remembered to include a summary, which should always be done). To the left of each edit row, you'll see links for (cur), (last), and two buttons.
- To look at an older version of the article, just click on the date/time link that represents that version. As I write this, your last edit is represented by the row with "02:03, 13 February 2007 Abuhar". If you display that page, then "edit" it and save it, it will "revert" all the changes since your edit. (Notice that when you edit it, you will see a red message at the top warning you it's an old version. You really don't want to edit an old version unless you are specifically trying to revert recent changes.) Before you save it, be sure to put something like "reverting to last version by Abuhar" in the edit summary, or else people may think you're trying to be sneaky about changing it back to the older version.
- There's a lot you can do with the edit history. If you pick an older version by clicking on its left button and a newer one by clicking on its right button, then pressing the "Compare selected versions" button at the top or bottom of the list, you can see all the changes that were made between the two versions. For more neat tricks, read Help:Edit history.
- I hope you find this useful. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 23:09, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
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- Thank you very much! It was very useful. Apparently I forgot about the "edit" button when I saw my old version. Thanks again! Abuhar 18:18, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] SmackBot: dated templates inside references
Apparently there is a problem with SmackBot's "Date/fix maintenance tags" process, in which an undated {{fact}} tag is replaced with a dated one. Based on an 8 February 2007 bot-edit done to Satellite of Love (MST3K) ([1]), such a tag inside an HTML <ref> element does not get properly processed, leaving template parameters unsubstituted and the template usage itself mangled. (I've manually fixed the problem for that article.) I'm not sure how common this problem is, so I felt uncomfortable stopping the bot by leaving a note on its talk page. Please review this situation to see how it might be avoided. Thank you. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 03:58, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
- Yes, it's a known mediawiki problem. Therefore I now replace the (date=)"subst:CURRENTMONTH" "subst:CURRENTYEAR" parameters before making the save. Unfortunately this means that "March 2007" is hardcoded into the regular expressions, albeit only in one place. I believe there are not many if any unfixed. Rich Farmbrough, 12:14 16 March 2007 (GMT).
[edit] Centreville, Virginia
Hi Jeff:
I'm from Centreville, and I'll keep a sharper lookout on the article to ensure it's factually correct. Thanks for the update. Zidel333 18:33, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
