User talk:Mbecker/Archive 1

Hello there Mbecker, welcome to the 'pedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you ever need editing help visit Wikipedia:How does one edit a page and experiment at Wikipedia:Sandbox. If you need pointers on how we title pages visit Wikipedia:Naming conventions. If you have any other questions about the project then check out Wikipedia:Help or add a question to the Village pump. Cheers! --maveric149

Coolness - you have copied my standard greeting and greeted at least one other user. Keep up the great work! :) --mav

Hi there. Great to see you're meeting and greeting, but are User talk:4656, User talk:202519688 all called "Parallax"? I think you may have forgotten to change the name part of the greeting... ;-) -- Tarquin

Hi - I understand your concern about pages that redirct to people's user pages (such as Lee Daniel Crocker), but please do not add comments to them as it stops the redirects from working. These pages take up very little space, and are necessary because a lot of pages point to them - usually talk pages signed before the "User:" namespace was created. If you want to raise the matter with someone, you should probably add a comment to the Wikipedia:Village pump --Camembert

A response for you is at my talk page. --mav

Did *you* get permission to put them here? I just took what you uploaded, which was in some format no one recognized, looked at it in khexedit, figured out it's an uncompressed pixelmap, changed the unknown header to PPM, and compressed to PNG. -phma

Why should Cops be deleted? Koyaanis Qatsi 07:04 Feb 20, 2003 (UTC)

I don't think I understand you. Would you want every page mentioned on Wikipedia:Links to disambiguating pages deleted also? Koyaanis Qatsi

Adding to what Koyaanis Qatsi has said, just because there are now currently no links to the page doesn't mean there won't be any in the future. And, in my opinion there undoubtably will be. Also I expect there are other books/films out there called Cops that could be put there in the future and perhaps also there should be a link to an article about the meaning of the word cop (either in Wikipedia or Wiktionary) as it is a slang term and I'd guess many people with English as a second language who learnt English from a non-American source mightn't have heard the term. On just the first line of the 'A' section of Wikipedia:Links to disambiguating pages, eight of the eighteen links point to pages with only 2 articles listed on them but I think a lot of people would argue that they shouldn't be deleted. -- Ams80 13:24 Feb 20, 2003 (UTC)

RE question about March 2003.
RobLa creates these redirects so that the current month link goes somewhere. This is a content-oriented approach; since the events for March 2003 are still on Current events it makes sense to redirect March 2003 to Current events until the end of March. Then the redirect will become its own page with all the archived current events for March. --mav 01:37 Mar 4, 2003 (UTC)

My preferences are set so that links aren't underlined, so it's not possible to tell the difference between red text and links to non-existent articles. Could you use a different way of highlighting? (like bold and italic, eg). Might save a bit of confusion from people reading your page... :) Martin 20:07 May 15, 2003 (UTC)

Yeah, I made it that way on purpose. I think it draws the eye of a real Wikidedian :) MB 20:48 15 May 2003 (UTC)

I was messing around with color on my user page, and I wanted to see if I could change the color of one of the links on my page. You see, it is a link to an internal page, but wikipedia gives it the color of an external link. I found out that it is really easy to do this in a bit of a funky way with the </nowiki> flag. Here is an example: [http://home.i1.net/~dwolfe/hexmixer/ hEx MiXeR] and here is the code: <nowiki>[http://home.i1.net/~dwolfe/hexmixer/ hEx MiXeR]
MB 19:02 15 May 2003 (UTC)

Looks like it's not just the color flag that you can mess with. I changed the font on my userpage too. I will be messing around and seeing what types of neat stuff I can put in the wiki. Check out my page to see what I am up to :). MB 19:13 15 May 2003 (UTC)

Do you really have to modify the standard font choices? Changing the colour might be ok, but why have you made your user page appear in Courier? We should sternly discourage the use of different fonts. It's not neat - it's vulgar and does not add anything. Cgs

What is wrong with personal style when it comes to personal pages? MB 19:22 15 May 2003 (UTC)

Personal pages are fine - I just have nightmares of Wikipedia becoming like the internet in the mid 90's - all flashing text and scrolling banners and shit. Just because you can doesn't mean you should. Cgs

Well then we need to decide what is acceptable, and what is not, and then decide how to enforce it. 1) Change the wiki source to disallow resricted formating changes, or 2) Just make policies. MB 19:33 15 May 2003 (UTC)

You're free to design your user page however you want, but you should note two things: 1) The developers are currently discussing ways to entirely get rid of HTML in Wikipedia. Support for some features of HTML will probably be disabled at some point. 2) Many users, including myself, have the "Underline links" user preference disabled. If I visit your user page with these settings, it is impossible to distinguish between differently colored links and differently colored text. I have to move my mouse over the text "Michael Becker" to see whether it is a link. Very bad design. --Eloquence 23:20 May 15, 2003 (UTC)

Mbecker's response to my similar comment above was "I made it that way on purpose". I plan to make it a better way in an equally purposeful manner, since I feel this is insufficient reason to inconvenience others. :) Martin 23:46 15 May 2003 (UTC)

Actually, I've had a sudden attack of live and let live feelings, so I won't revert if you stick the red links back in. But green still looks nicer! :) Martin 00:03 16 May 2003 (UTC)

First rule of UI design: Nobody reads the manual! :)
Thanks for fixing. And thanks also for keeping your markup green. And much thanks for fixing the clitoris image - nice trick with the nails! :) Martin

Like you're doing with Futurama Please tell me all similar effots you've done with categorizing topics. user_talk:hfastedge

I think you're going a bit over the top with the disambiguation thing. We only need to disambiguate when there is something else to disambiguate from. -- Oliver P. 01:09 20 May 2003 (UTC)

Thanks much for the tip! RK 00:16 21 May 2003 (UTC)

How did you get a figure of 222? My user contributions page lists only 180. CGS 21:44 21 May 2003 (UTC).

Actually, I think it's spelled more like "Capiche?" or something like that. Italian (and Romance languages in general) have a pretty severe lack of 'k's, mostly. -- John Owens 20:09 23 May 2003 (UTC)

Your clitoris image looks good to me. I guess you should mention it on one of the talk pages, just in case. I'm glad that we've got something productive out of all that arguing! :) Martin ---

Michael, we like many of your contributions and are glad to have you as wikiholic - let us know: where did your clitoris image go? There are many places on the web for content like the instructions in the old fisting page or your pictures, and we adult vikings like to see them (an enzyclopedia is not the right place) - To ban us you need the support of a colleague of mine - say hallo to the professors of your university (colleagues of mine)

one of the vikings - Viking 19:13 30 May 2003 (UTC)

Hi, Wapcaplet certainly isn't Viking - indeed, he seconded your call for a ban. Evercat 20:03 30 May 2003 (UTC)

And your latest addition is not funny. :-P Evercat 20:19 30 May 2003 (UTC)

Heh. Viking is (in my opinion) probably just a single individual. In any event, check out the history of my talk page. Why would I waste time arguing with myself? Finally, I saw your edits to your whiteboard because I regularly check Special:Recentchanges as I do quite a bit of vandalism reversion and it often shows up there first. I knew you'd been discussing Viking and wondered if your edit was about that, so I had a look. Anyway, it's alright, I'm not offended. Evercat 20:28 30 May 2003 (UTC)

Mystery solved - it was User:Kils and some people he knew. There's some talk on the mailing list. Evercat 20:06 31 May 2003 (UTC)