User talk:OwenBlacker
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[edit] WikiProject London
Hi,
We are having an update of participation at WikiProject London and are asking contributors to bold their names if they are still contributing to London-related projects. Inactive members will be removed at the end of the month. Thanks for participating, 
DJR 
(Talk) 15:26, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Long talk page
Greetings! Your talk page is getting a bit long in the tooth - please consider archiving your talk page (or ask me and I'll archive it for you). Cheers! BD2412 T 00:21, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
- Done. Sorry, hadn't noticed :o) — OwenBlacker 10:22, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] WP:Lon major tasks
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- Hi again - I'm not sure if you have the WikiProject on your watchlist or not - if not then I would recommend adding it. In any case, we have two "Major tasks" currently operational - if you could help in the implementation of either it would be much appreciated. Regards, DJR (talk) 14:31, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Dates question
Hello, I noticed you recently made many small edits to the Requiem (Fauré) article, including wikifying all the dates. Thanks. I'm relatively new to wikipedia, so I'm not sure what the standard is, but I remember reading the WIkipedia:Manual of Style section on Wikilinking, which included the following advice: "Not every year listed in an article needs to be wikilinked. Ask yourself: will clicking on the year bring any useful information to the reader?" To me, it seems a bit overkill to link them all, but I'm interested in your take on it. I'm also unfamiliar with the language information you entered. Perhaps you could enlighten me about that or point me to an appropriate page. -- MarkBuckles 19:52, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Thanks
Thanks for not treating me like WoW. I am editing in tabs 90% of the time with Google toolbar. GangstaEB (sliding logs~dive logs) 13:33, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
As a matter of interest, what does Firefox's Google Toolbar give you that the Google / search engine box at the top of the window not give you?
- Spell checker. --GangstaEB (sliding logs~dive logs) 13:37, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] London infobox flag (again)
Please help me out here: Template talk:Infobox London place#Flag_again. A row is brewing over using the City of London flag for this infobox. If memory serves, you supported its inclusion before. Thanks. Mrsteviec 05:43, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Template:Unverifiable-external-links
A new tfd discussion has been started because usage guidelines have been added on the template page and because the {tfd} notice was missing for most of the duration of the last discussion. Please review the recently-created usage guidelines before casting your vote. Although my delete vote remained unchanged, I would appreciate your renewed input in this discussion whether or not you agree. savidan(talk) (e@) 23:06, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
- So it appears. But if you want your vote counted you should still revisit the discussion. savidan(talk) (e@) 14:20, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Welcome to WP:LUL
Hi! Thank you for joining WikiProject Underground. We hope you enjoy your time as a member! Lenny 12:37, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Abandoned WP:LUL
There hasn't been much activity going on in WikiProject Underground, please add ACT next to your name in the list if you are still active in the project. Lenny 15:59, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Featured article candidate review: Buffy article
Hi
Just letting WikiProject Buffyverse members know that the article 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' has recently been nominated as a candidate to become a featured article. Should it become a featured article, it will be possible for the article to appear on the Wikipedia main page on March 10th 2007, the 10th anniversary of Buffy (the premiere, "Welcome to the Hellmouth" aired March 10th 1997).
Any feedback you can offer to improve the article and/or to either object or support the nomination would be wonderful:
Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Buffy the Vampire Slayer
-- Paxomen 17:31, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
I noticed that you edited someone else's comment for clarity, spelling or grammar. As a rule, refrain from editing others' comments without their permission. Though it may appear helpful to correct typing errors, grammar, etc., please do not go out of your way to bring talk pages to publishing standards, since it is not terribly productive and will tend to irritate the users whose comments you are correcting. For more details, see Wikipedia:Talk page guidelines. Thanks, Extraordinary Machine 22:48, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Jon Courtenay Grimwood
The new/alt image for 9tail Fox is great - it's not like there's any real difference, after all. More importantly, you've turned the JCG page into a fantastical cover-filled library of his works. It's brilliant. You've wikilinked all the books, though, and most don't have articles.... shall I get to work? ;)
I've been meaning to write articles for the rest of his stuff for a while now. I'll do Stamping Butterflies and redRobe (as much as I can remember of them) if you rewrite my horrible, horrible edit on Jon's writing style to make it fit for human eyes - deal? Tyrhinis 18:08, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
- Answered on User talk:Tyrhinis. — OwenBlacker 12:06, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
- Mark redRobe one down, five to go. Once I've finished Labyrinth I'll re-read Stamping Butterflies and get an article for that going. Tyrhinis 23:30, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Dashes ?
I noticed that you changed ndashes to - in Wimund. Is that right ? I read the dashes page as saying that page numbers or years, closed ranges, should be like 10&ndash20. The 1134x1140 things shouldn't really be dashes, it's normal, but lazy, to use that to say "sometime between 1134 and 1140" as 1134x means "after 1134" and x1140 "before 1140". Probably should be written out longform in most cases. Anyway, thanks for reminding me that I never did finish rewriting either Wimund or Harald Maddadsson, so I'd better get to work ! Cheers, Angus McLellan (Talk) 01:13, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
- Answered on User talk:Angusmclellan
[edit] Buffy nomination restarted
Since you have were involved with discussion before at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Buffy the Vampire Slayer, you might appreciate knowing that the nomination for the Buffy article has been restared at the same wiki page. I am letting everyone know who might not be aware (whether they were for or against the article becoming featured). Cheers -- Buffyverse 22:24, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Unspecified source for Image:Black Man cover (Amazon).jpg
Thanks for uploading Image:Black Man cover (Amazon).jpg. I notice the file's description page currently doesn't specify who created the content, so the copyright status is unclear. If you have not created this file yourself, then there needs to be a justification explaining why we have the right to use it on Wikipedia (see copyright tagging below). If you did not create the file yourself, then you need to specify where it was found, i.e., in most cases link to the website where it was taken from, and the terms of use for content from that page.
If the file also doesn't have a copyright tag, then one should be added. If you created/took the picture, audio, or video then the {{GFDL-self}} tag can be used to release it under the GFDL. If you believe the media meets the criteria at Wikipedia:Fair use, use a tag such as {{fairusein|article name}} or one of the other tags listed at Wikipedia:Image copyright tags#Fair_use. See Wikipedia:Image copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.
If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have specified their source and tagged them, too. You can find a list of files you have uploaded by following this link. Unsourced and untagged images may be deleted one week after they have been uploaded, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. Awyong Jeffrey Mordecai Salleh 01:43, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
The copyright status is not in question at all and is quite clearly stated on the image page itself. See your Talk: page for a reply but please try paying more attention before querying image status in future. — OwenBlacker 17:57, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Lord's prayer
Hi, OwenBlacker!
I put back a couple of words explaining an example in Norn language. I believe that it is better not to assume that the enwiki readers from all over the world must know to what Lord's prayer refers. This is a minor matter; if you disagree and remove the explanation again, I'll leave the article as you wish. JoergenB 18:43, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
- You're welcome. JoergenB 20:03, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
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- Why? Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 15:58, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
- Ok, I'll do that from now on. And thankyou! Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 10:18, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Use of octante in Swiss French
Hi there, I have finally replied to your request on my talk page about the supposed use of octante in Swiss French in the talk page of the article, and for the reasons mentioned in my comment, I removed it from the article again -- no offense intended! By the way, congratulations for your contributions in LGBT-related articles ;-) Have a nice day! Matthieu Houriet 05:57, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] Re: Boyz
Restored. The article had been vandalized and turned into something else, and no one reverted it - I didn't catch it. --Coredesat 04:05, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Disambiguation pages
I suggest you read WP:MOSDAB, it explains why and how to format dab pages. Josh Parris 03:03, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] English vs. French spelling
Because of your past work on the Wikiprojects for French "régions" and "départements", I thought you might be interested in contributing to the current discussion over French vs. English spelling of those very words taking place at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_France#Anglicisation. Cheers. --NYArtsnWords 23:48, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Which year ?
please can you state the year of this map Image:Provinces of France.png (1600 ? 1700 ? etc.) 82.64.176.139 13:03, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
- Copied from User talk:82.64.176.139
- I can't date the map; the boundaries of each province are as they were on joining the Kingdom of France. Take a look at the image description page for more information. — OwenBlacker 13:06, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Anglicisation
If you would like to bitch about it, please do... here. It would also be kind if you could contact any others you think would be bothered by an (already widespread) single-handed word-to-word 'translation' of hundreds of articles. Many of these were simple 'word swaps' without an added provision of the extra context needed for an English comprehension of the not-so-common definition of the English word - there is a fair amount of correction to be done, one way or another.
Thanks, best,
THEPROMENADER 14:12, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
Hello again - can I ask you again for your input in this? Sorry if you left it already and it's lost among the cruft... take care, and thanks. THEPROMENADER 19:50, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] French Wikipedia
My French is very poor, so can I ask you why the French Wikipedia (or any foreign language one for that matter) does not require references in articles, merely recommend them? Does anyone over there bother? Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 13:36, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
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[edit] Join us in the "Terminator" Article discussion page...please...
If you are still a member of Wikipedia, please join user:TomTheHand and myself in a discussion of which terms should apply to the Cyberdyne Systems Model 101 Infiltration Unit in its various forms.
To be as neutral as possible, I will relate the views of TomTheHand as well as my own, as accurately as posible:
Tom believes that the term "Android" should apply to all of the incarnations of the Model 101, from Endoskeleton all the way up to the gestalts of flesh-and-blood and the combat chassis played by Arnold in the movies. He furthermore believes that the term "cyborg" does not apply to any of the Terminator's forms.
Thanos777 -myself -thinks that the Terminator is worthy of multiple appelations depending on which configuration (read: Type/Series) the Model 101 is configured as.
That is to say, I believe that the "Base" Model 101, just the endoskeleton with no cosmetic enhancements, is best defined as either a Humanoid Robot, Anthropomorphic Robot, or simply a Robot.
When the Model 101 is outfitted as a Type/Series 600, the endoskeleton covered by rubber skin, I believe that the Terminator is then most correctly classified as an "android."
And finally, when the Model 101 is equipped as a Type/Series 800/850, the endoskeleton with the living flesh-and-blood covering, I believe that the most correct term for the creatre is "cyborg."
Again, I respectfully ask you to come back to the "Terminator" Article and lend your input; those of us who are there in the Article's discussion page are engaging in a lot of back-and-forth regarding the different terms and the disagreements as to when they should be used.
Hope to "see" you there soon!!!
[edit] Can you help me out?
Hiya. I saw your name on the LGBT translators list and wondered if you might be able to help me. An article I wrote, Philippe Servaty, has been threatened with deletion. I have one week to get strong refs for it, so it doesn't fail WP:BLP. Can you look at it, and if you find it interesting maybe find some French/Belgian stories that can be used to support it? Thanks of you can help. Jeffpw 15:38, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] The Times-Picayune masthead
Just replying to your query about the flags that appear on the front page scan that accompanies The Times-Picayune article. Curious myself, I looked into it and found that the two-flag combo appears to be a Hurricane warning signal (at least in the United States). It doesn't appear to be one of the International maritime signal flags as I first expected. Just thought I'd let you know what I discovered. -Tobogganoggin talk 22:05, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
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[edit] Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration#Anglicisation of French administrative terms
I have initiated a Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration#Anglicisation of French administrative terms. Please leave your comments. -- NYArtsnWords 22:58, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] {{Cyrillic alphabet navbox}}
Why the change of "archaic" to "archaeic"? I don't see any reason to have changed the dialect per Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style#National_varieties_of_English, but I didn't review the pages on each letter to see if there was an overwhelming use of British spellings there. *Mishatx*-In\Out 04:35, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
- I'm not worried about it so much that I'll revert it back -- I was just wondering if you'd seen something in the articles or knew something about the articles that indicated I needed to stop at the vowel store and pick up some extra a's, e's, o's and u's before editing them. *Mishatx*-In\Out 20:09, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
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By the way, are you the Owen Blacker that recently signed a petition to 10 Downing Street on something or other? Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 23:13, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
- WOW! I have to say, I really admire theyworkforyou.com. Maybe you can tell me why there's a counter for the number of times a speaker has ended their sentence with "with"?
- Oh, and thanks for your congrats - It's just as exhausting as before I was elected but now I have a pretty title to give to journalists. :) Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 10:45, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
