User talk:Keraunos

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I always enjoy hearing what people have to say. Keraunos 06:57, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Welcome

Hello, Keraunos, and welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you are stuck, and looking for help, please come to the New contributors' help page, where experienced Wikipedians can answer any queries you have! Or, you can just type {{helpme}} on your user page, and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! By the way, you can sign your name on Talk and vote pages using three tildes, like this: ~~~. Four tildes (~~~~) produces your name and the current date. If you have any questions, see the help pages, add a question to the village pump or ask me on my talk page. Again, welcome! —Viriditas | Talk 07:14, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Heavenly Mother

"Mormon children are taught that someday the name of the Heavenly Mother will be revealed, and TEENAGERS are told the reason it has not been revealed so far is in order to prevent anyone from taking her name in vain." I do apologize. I accidentally left out the word "teenagers" in the previous statement I inserted in the Heavenly Mother article. With the word "teenagers" inserted, this statement reflects what I was taught in the LDS Church. Besides being taught this in church, I was also told this by my Mormon mother. I attended the LDS Church until the age of 18. Best wishes to you, Keraunos 08:06, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Although this is a widely held belief - we need to stick to what the official teachings of the church are in the manuals and other published documents. Quotes like this need to be cited to specific sources - then we can include them. Trödel 14:32, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Why is it wrong to point out that this is commonly taught in LDS churches? I too was taught this. That it is not found in any scripture, but is ubiquitous nonetheless, almost gives it a higher place in Mormon belief, if not doctrine. Unschool 03:13, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Internet counter

See WP:STAT and Category:Wikipedia statistics for current statistics. I remember reading a discussion about article counters a long time ago, and I believe consensus was against their use, although I'm pretty sure similar data (most edited pages) can be acquired either through downloading the database or using the external sites linked above. —Viriditas | Talk 05:38, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Aryan race

Hi can you please provide citations for these alleged aims of neo-Nazis? Paul B 09:49, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] NWO

Keraunos, do you have any sources for the "origins" section you wrote for the new world order article? Your contribution may fit better in the New World Order (conspiracy) article.—Perceval 18:28, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

Keraunos, once again, do you have any sources you can cite for your additions to new world order? Wikipedia content must be verifiable.—Perceval 16:51, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Color

Hi, I've seen you've been doing a ton of work on various color-related articles. I just wanted to invite you to join Wikipedia:WikiProject Color. You also might like to see a summary of the guiding principles we've discussed recently.

There's also a specific talkpage thread (#Shades of... Subsections) that you should see. Thanks, and happy editing :-) --Quiddity 22:28, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

Keraunos, I know that you have been contributing a lot to the various colour pages, but I worry that you are trying to overly define colors. For most colour names there is no such thing as precise coordinates. It doesn't really make sense to me to say that a colour is exactly halfway between other colours, and making changes to the coordinates so that they are thusly defined seems to be retroactively defining the terms. PaleAqua 04:27, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

Hi, Please do come to the project page and discuss this. I fear that all your hard work may be wasted unless it can be properly sourced. Notinasnaid 16:07, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

For instance, this edit to Purple is pretty horrendous. Intro paragraphs should be concise and useful. +sj + 05:33, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Time zone

I think you are referring to the settings in your preferences. Go there, and note what zone is listed, if any. —Viriditas | Talk 02:04, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] After Dark

Thanks for your contribution. Could you provide the author's name for the article? I've formatted your reference to match the other citations in the article, if you could just add "Last, First, " before the article title, that would be great.—Chidom ^talk 15:06, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hey.

You may want to check out this page. oTHErONE _(Contribs) 10:11, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Tellus vs. Terra

You added a statement to Terra (mythology) that technically, in correct Classical Latin, "Terra" refers to earth as an element and "Tellus" refers to the sphere on which we live.

Could you please provide a source for this? I'm not an expert in Classical Latin by any means, but from a little bit of digging it seems Ovid was unaware of this distinction. If this is a well-known bit of Latin trivia, then it might be worth noting, in which case it should be easy to come up with a reference.

Thanks -Dmh 15:27, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hanky codes

I responded to your comment on my talk page, at Atomaton. Thanks!

[edit] Palatinate

Thanks for the comment, looks like I didn't manage to revert mine in time. :-) Sorry, it seems that the green gun on the spare monitor I'm using at work is completely shot... I guess that's one of the problems of reproducing colours on-screen - everyone's reproduction looks slightly different. DWaterson 11:56, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Office green

What is office green?? (The Office green Wikipedia link is a ghost link; any appropriate re-direct??) Georgia guy 18:07, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Minor edits

I notice you're making great contributions, but marking them all as "minor". On Wikipedia, minor edits are edits that don't change the meaning or content of the article, such as spelling or format changes. You may have set the "mark all edits as minor" preference. Cheers, -Will Beback 09:41, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Arsenic and OldLace

Love it! The userboxes come from Wikiproject Babel - Wikipedia:Babel is probably what you need for a start. You're welcome to grab the code from my userpage if you want, and if you take a look around at other peoples' you're sure to see other userboxes that will come in useful. Cheers, Tonywalton | Talk 14:27, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

The "special sort of detection system" is a standard Wikipedia special page - just go to Special:Newpages. I'm doing a thing called New Pages Patrol. There's also Special:Recentchanges which shows all changes rather than just new pages. New Page Patrollers (and Recent Changes Patrollers - RC patrollers) hang around on these pages looking for evidence of vandalism. It's a completely self-assigned thing, nobody makes anyone be an RC patroller, and it's certainly not a paid position! I'm just another Wikipedian. Tonywalton | Talk 14:42, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Article counters

I'm afraid I have no idea how it would be implemented per-page, but I'm certain the Wiki keeps the data somewhere. Try Special:Specialpages and Wikipedia:Statistics for a start. You could also ask on the Village Pump, which is a place where people pose such questions. Tonywalton | Talk 15:01, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Original Web colours

I've not come across an original 17 colours; the HTML4 spec names 16; the ones you list with the exception of orange. Tonywalton | Talk 17:00, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

And that seems to be the first spec for web colours. (HTML4.0 was published 18th Dec 1997). The HTML3.2 spec allows colour specification but just seems to allow a hex RGB triplet, no colour names:

<!ENTITY % color "CDATA" -- a color specification: #HHHHHH @@ details? -->

whereas HTML4.0 has

<!ENTITY % Color "CDATA" -- a color using sRGB: #RRGGBB as Hex values -->

<!-- There are also 16 widely known color names with their sRGB values:

    Black  = #000000    Green  = #008000
    Silver = #C0C0C0    Lime   = #00FF00
    Gray   = #808080    Olive  = #808000
    White  = #FFFFFF    Yellow = #FFFF00
    Maroon = #800000    Navy   = #000080
    Red    = #FF0000    Blue   = #0000FF
    Purple = #800080    Teal   = #008080
    Fuchsia= #FF00FF    Aqua   = #00FFFF
 -->

(No mention of orange). The previous HTML spec, HTML2.0 from 1995, doesn't mention color (or colour, given that Tim Berners-Lee is a Brit) at all. Tonywalton | Talk 17:20, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

If you read the X11 color names article you'll see that

It is not known who originally compiled the list. The list shows neither a continuity in selected color values nor in color names, and many color triplets have multiple names. Despite this, graphic designers and others got used to them making it practically impossible to introduce a more stringent and logical alias list.X11 color names"

. Unless you know different, of course :-) Tonywalton | Talk 17:03, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Recreated article

Hi Keraunos, I noticed you recreated the Stripping fetishism article after it had been deleted. For the discussion of the deletion, see this page: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Stripping fetishism. If you wish to have the article recreated, you must first discuss it at Wikipedia:Deletion review. Robotman1974 17:35, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Watermelon (color)

I've added the "{{prod}}" template to the article Watermelon (color), suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but I don't believe it satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and I've explained why in the deletion notice (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). Please either work to improve the article if the topic is worthy of inclusion in Wikipedia, or, if you disagree with the notice, discuss the issues at Talk:Watermelon (color). You may remove the deletion notice, and the article will not be deleted, but note that it may still be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached, or if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria. Fram 15:54, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Article in need of cleanup - please assist if you can

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[edit] Colour generating software

You ask: "What is the name of the software that Wikipedia uses to make the color box formula on the editing page display as a color box in the article?" If I understand you correctly you mean "what converts "#9926db" into purple?" And the answer is "your web browser". Colour specification like that is simply part of the HTML spec, like <b> meaning bold. As for getting software that allows you to preview a given hex triplet as a colour, that would depend on what OS you're running. I'm using a Mac so I use the bundled DigitalColor Meter to measure the values of given screen pixels and various bits of freeware such as ColorTagGen to see what a given triplet looks like as a colour. If you're running on a Mac you're welcome to have a copy of ColorTagGen (which is open source). Regards, Tonywalton | Talk 12:34, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Invitation.

Hey there, I noticed you wrote on your userpage that you are interested in gay history: would you be interested in joining WikiProject LGBT studies? Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 23:49, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] I've noticed you doing some intelligent things (opinion)

to the Art Deco article and am wondering what you think of the 1910 starting date? I'm more comfortable with 1920, but am looking for a 2nd, informed, opinion. Carptrash 04:15, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the Rose article. In a couple of weeks I shall be visiting my father (Pheonix) - who is Icelandic, and thus interested in all things related. He will no duobt have an opinion about the Rose issue. Rose is also my daughter's middle name, passed on from her maternal grandmother, so I will remember it. Now about Art Deco. If I asked you how tall a particular tree was would you include the roots in the measurement? Most folks (opinion) would not. Pretty much every art movement (if that is what deco is) is dependent on various precursors and that, to me, is what the Armory Show and the Futurists and Cubism are. To me, Deco clearly comes to the United States at least, after the 1925 Paris event (which the US did not participate in) so to trace it back to the Armory Show seems spurious. However I asked for an informed opinion and not just for you to agree with me, so thinks for providing one. I've planted it, shall water and feed it, then mull it over for a few months and see what grows. Carptrash 14:25, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] {{LGBTProject}}

Hi, Keraunos! Please don't remove the LGBT project banner from articles that it belongs on (like Trocadero Transfer - we use the banner to help a) promote the WikiProject and b) categorize articles according to their assessment. Thanks! -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 07:35, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

Awesome! Thanks! -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 14:47, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Red

I see you expanded the article, but did not add any references. WP:ATT explains the requirements. Please add the necessary references to support your changes, and add references for the existing content as well. Dhaluza 11:56, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

Nothing is self-evident. All content requires references in the subject article, not linked articles. Please help if you can. Dhaluza 12:03, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] World domination

Firstly, please try to incorporate your minor edits into larger ones. Otherwise you clog up the edit history, making it harder to navigate.

Again, where is your evidence for this material you have added regarding Neo-Nazis? Slac speak up! 06:28, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] vinland

when using words like 'commonly,' you will definitely need a site as this can be construed as WP:Weasel words. i am hesitant to revert, as i am hoping you can provide a ref outside of wikipedia. tx. the_undertow ^talk 09:02, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

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