User talk:Auric/Archive 1

Piltdown World's Fair

I can't find any references to your "Piltdown World's Fair", so I'm assuming it was a hoax and you were just testing us out. I've deleted it. Deb 17:05, 19 May 2004 (UTC)

• Believe it or not, I was actually serious. Oh well. Auric The Rad 17:34, May 19, 2004 (UTC)

If you really are serious, could you maybe give details, eg. when and where this event took place? It would also be a good idea to link the article to something; it was an "orphan". Deb 21:27, 19 May 2004 (UTC)

• Only a mention in Abrell and Thompson's Actual Facts, no mention of place. The Spirit of Meat is supposedly stored in the basement of a museum in Ottawa. Auric The Rad 14:34, May 24, 2004 (UTC)

Haggis Tossing

Olympic demonstration sport? Umm I can't find any evidence. Kelvinc 21:16, 13 Aug 2004 (UTC)

• This site, http://www.scottishhaggis.co.uk/haggis_hurling.htm, says so. Auric The Rad 18:35, Aug 14, 2004 (UTC)

Bob Transformer

You added "Bob Transformer" to the transformer article. This appears to be entirely spurious; I'm just wondering why you added it. -- The Anome 09:57, 18 Oct 2004 (UTC)

• I added this because I wanted to know if there was really a "Bob Transformer". I've come acrost it several times. You can take it out if you want to. Auric The Rad 15:27, Oct 20, 2004 (UTC)

Could those have been references to the clip: Basics of Electricity? You can find it on YouTube. Oh, and it's to be taken with a grain of salt => It's utter nonsense.

Copyright

Please don't directly copy material from the web such as this example. Keep it limited to using them as references only. Oberiko 14:32, 29 Oct 2004 (UTC)

• Sorry about that. I thought that if I edited it for clatirt, correctness and grammar, it wouldn't be a copyvio anymore. I gess I was wrong. On the temp page, I've put back the things that I added myself. I hope that they will stay there. Auric The Rad 00:24, Oct 31, 2004 (UTC)

Article Licensing

Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 1000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:

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Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk)

Image copyrights

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Wikipedia:WikiProject Discworld

Wikipedia:WikiProject Discworld

Spam message: Having noticed you have made some great additions to the Discworld articles I thought you might be interested in this new WikiProject. It's at a very early stage and needs quite a bit of work. violet/riga (t) 21:44, 29 Dec 2004 (UTC)

E-mail

Hi Auric, I sent you an e-mail, did you receive it? Jayjg | (Talk) 19:55, 4 Jan 2005 (UTC)

• Sorry, I've been busy with work. Auric The Rad 15:49, Jan 12, 2005 (UTC)

• Oh, that's fine, but did you get it? If not, I can re-send. Jayjg | (Talk) 16:49, 12 Jan 2005 (UTC)

• Re-send it. I've forgorren what it said.Auric The Rad 20:14, Feb 27, 2005 (UTC)

Basically it was this; about 5 months ago you added Emanuel Rabinovich as a fictional creation of Eustace Mullins to the List of fictional rabbis [1]. I was wondering what your source for this was. Jayjg ^(talk) 22:19, 27 Feb 2005 (UTC)

• My source was a book, titled The World's Greatest Mistakes - Nigel Blundell.

Fanconi Anemia

Auric, I'm new to Wikipedia, but not to FA. I was wondering what your conection is to this ultra-rare and usually unknown disease is. My younger brother has FA and I was his donor. Just interested. Feel free to email me at laonoodlekeemow@gmail.com . Aaron.

Picture of the island of stability

A long time ago, you requested a picture of this. Check out the new "see also" link. Does it suffice? I've watchlisted your talk page; you can reply here. --Smack (talk) 20:48, 28 August 2005 (UTC)

That's kind of what I wanted, but a smaller version was more in mind. The Encylopedia of Physics (2nd Ed.) has this, on page 1204, as a sort of graph and chart combined. It also mentions the reef of stability and the sea of instability. I have a scan of it but I didn't use it, because of copyright reasons. Auric 02:53, August 30, 2005 (UTC)

Social Technology

Dear friend,

Thank you for putting my article on Social Technology in the right category and marking it as a stub. I will try and extend this in the next few days. I am trying to add a section every day.

I feel like Alice in Wonderland. Please correct any errors that I make.

Best regards, Nirupma Kapoor neeray 18:26, 27 September 2005 (UTC)

User Categorisation

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James Gregory

Please comment at Talk:James Gregory (mineralogist). --TantalumTelluride 04:02, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

Wikimedia Canada

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Hey

Hey thanks for joining sporewiki. I'm glad a more veteran wikipedian joined up with us. I was reading your large amount of userboxes and we have quite a lot of the same likes and other things, which is pretty sweet. Just wanted to say hello and welcome aboard. :) Chris M. 16:55, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

You're quite welcome. --Auric 22:20, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

Deleting Camp Avoda

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Johnny Sixarms

Please assert notability under WP:MUSIC - as of right now it is a CSD A7 candidate. - CrazyRussian talk/email 20:35, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

They were referred to in a Simpsons episode, 51 Google hits, two hit singles, and a web page. If that's not notable enough, at least I tried. -- Auric 20:49, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

Vampires and prosopagnosia

Hi, do you have a source for the connection between the two? Doesn't sound obvious to me - seeing a face is one thing, recoginzing it is another. Regards, --194.145.161.227 19:16, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

Nope, sorry. When I added this it seemed logical, but now that I've researched it more, it seems less so. Remove it it you want to. -- Auric 19:41, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks! :) --194.145.161.227 17:11, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

Seattle Underground article

I was just reviewing and editing the Seattle Underground article you started, it has ended up to be a great article, but has NO references, or citations. Since it is your baby maybe you would like to help out? CrazyRob926 10:57, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

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Fintan

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May 2008

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When you subsequently added a {{hangon}} tag you again removed the speedy deletion tag. Please do not remove the speedy tag from articles you create. However, you also removed the more obvious spam/review concerns so I have also removed all the tags. I'm not personally sure this author meets WP:N but there's one book of his on Amazon and there's certainly no case for speedy deletion on those grounds. Ros0709 (talk) 08:25, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

Thank you. --Auric (talk) 08:29, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

Moose

Moose can interbreed w/ cattle?? --Rschmertz (talk) 04:26, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

• Yes they can. The first instance that I am aware of happened in the 1940's in Quebec, Canada. A randy moose mounted a cow and produced offspring. --Auric (talk) 19:39, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

{{Lifetime}} and DEFAULTSORT

Hi, I noticed that you added DEFAULTSORT on pages that already contain {{Lifetime}}. Please note that {{Lifetime}} includes the DEFAULTSORT functionality, so adding {{DEFAULTSORT}} is superfluous in such cases. Regards, BNutzer (talk) 01:47, 17 August 2008 (UTC)

• I used to do that, before I noticed that pages that I added as stubs were not sorted alphabetically without the DEFAULTSORT. Hopefully this has been fixed.--Auric (talk) 01:54, 17 August 2008 (UTC)

Jon Balcourt is sorted in Category:United States composer stubs after I have removed DEFAULTSORT, so I guess it has been fixed ... BNutzer (talk) 02:08, 17 August 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know. --Auric (talk) 02:12, 17 August 2008 (UTC)

Andre Migner dit Lagace notability

It is not my understanding that progeny confer notability upon a person. If you can point me towards consensus that they do, I'll be more than happy to remove the tag. Movingboxes (talk) 15:57, 30 August 2008 (UTC)

It seems awfully WP:OR to me. There are many people in history who have many progeny--without secondary sources citing him specifically for this reason (and that's different than sources just documenting lots of people track their ancestry to him), I don't see how it adds up to WP:N. Movingboxes (talk) 16:25, 30 August 2008 (UTC)

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Ovchinnikov

Do you have access to any sound clips from War and Peace, Andrei Rublev, or Ivan's Childhood, to include in the corresponding articles? Tautologist (talk) 19:32, 25 September 2008 (UTC)

Sorry, No. --Auric (talk) 22:25, 25 September 2008 (UTC)

Ben Hur (automobile)

Hi, do you have any more info about this car? I can find nothing on Google. If there's nothing but the one line about its existence out there, then it may not qualify as a wp:NOTABLE subject for an article (better perhaps as a single sentence in another, larger, related article. NJGW (talk) 18:10, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of Ben Hur (automobile)

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Thanks!

I appreciated your message on the footnote problem at 1912 in poetry (editing while tired -- always a bad idea). Now fixed. Reconsideration (talk) 18:55, 29 December 2008 (UTC)

You're welcome. --Auric (talk) 21:42, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

Re: warning left for me

Why did you leave me a new user warning over my edit to Monstermob. Inspection of the article would show clearly that the problem it has is a broken reference, and I'm hardly a new user. My edit didn't fix it, but neither did it remove any content. Rjwilmsi 15:12, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

When I saw the broken reference, I thought that your edit (the last edit) was the problem (it often is). I fixed it after. I was assuming good faith (not that you were a new user). --Auric (talk) 15:19, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

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Minor Flag

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I'm not sure why you put this here. Please clarify.--Auric (talk) 21:18, 24 March 2009 (UTC)

Almost all your edits are tagged as 'minor', however the vast majority are not (see contribs and Help:Minor edit). Examples of edits which you have tagged as minor edits but which are not minor include your comment above, creating new pages, leaving warnings, adding content, changing titles and other significant edits. Per the above, "only an edit that consists solely of spelling corrections, formatting changes, or rearranging of text without modifying content should be flagged as a 'minor edit.'". AngoraFish 木 21:54, 24 March 2009 (UTC)

No, I meant what article. Besides, I use minor when creating new pages with material that is already present ie a bio is directly added to a category. The move is minor (rearranging of text without modifying content) so I tag it minor. Sometimes the tag is an error, since I have minor checked as a default and there is no way (that I know of) to change a tag once made. Most of my edits fall under Obvious factual errors and I mark them as such. --Auric (talk) 22:47, 24 March 2009 (UTC)

Bob Flanagan

I'm so sorry for bringing this up here, i have no idea where else to look. I'm quite stuck and I really need help. I've been checking a lot of editorial pages, but arg, I'M STILL LOST!

I've wanted so badly to edit and help restore Bob Flanagan's page, I have a picture, permission from the photographer and everything, but I have NO idea whatsoever on how to add the image (I have a rough idea from all the tutorials I've, but nothing saying that I can and where!) and as I have a lot more information on him, I have no ability to work on it, due to time constraints and no one else who cares to help.

Also, his partner, Rose, had her page deleted, and there seems to be enough information on her floating around in places (including her own self-run page) that it can be put back up again. But again, I'm new at this and extremely lost!

I have a great amount of respect for Bob Flanagan, and I feel pretty terrible for not being able, by lack of experience and slight ignorance, to be capable of fixing it. It wouldn't take an exceptionally long period of time to fix either Ms. Rose's page or Mr. Flanagan's, just a little TLC, but if that's too much, no worries.

Thank you for reading... By the way: Love Canada, very beautiful country. If I could move out of the US, I'd move there most definitely. No Stahr (talk) 23:18, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

My advice is to take a look at Template:Infobox Person and go from there.--Auric (talk) 22:09, 7 April 2009 (UTC)

Pierre Géraud-Keraod

Thank you so much for your additions! Chris (クリス • フィッチュ) (talk) 02:48, 7 May 2009 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Alisa Apps

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Um

Ouch! You've used a template to send a message to an experienced editor. Please review the essay Wikipedia:Don't template the regulars or maybe listen to a little advice. Doesn't this feel cold, impersonal, and canned? It's meant in good humour. Best wishes. User:Auric (talk) 02:16, 19 October 2017 (UTC)

She's written two dozen featured articles, including the one where you reverted her. Durova^Charge! 02:18, 11 May 2009 (UTC)

Dude, I don't think you understand - you don't substitute one template for another! Awadewit (talk) 02:27, 11 May 2009 (UTC)

Ummm... I didn't. I simply rewrote the substed text to reflect what I thought without actually blanking the whole thing. I fix, I don't delete.--Auric (talk) 02:31, 11 May 2009 (UTC)

Did you notice that most of the information you reinstated contradicted the main article text and the sources? Durova^Charge! 02:38, 11 May 2009 (UTC)

No, I didn't. Sorry.--Auric (talk) 02:46, 11 May 2009 (UTC)

Galactus Edit War Mediation

Hi. I'm trying to mediate an edit war over the Galactus article here. Can you chime in with your two cents? Thanks. Nightscream (talk) 00:07, 18 May 2009 (UTC)

An expert on what? Galactus? Well, neither am I. That's why I went over the conflicted passages, and gave my view on them, while conceding that whether some of the facts used as bases for them was not something I could give personal knowledge on. I have no way of knowing who is an "expert" or not, and indeed, WP isn't based on expertise, but reliable sources, so I just went down the article's Edit History to contact editors who have edited the article. Nightscream (talk) 00:37, 18 May 2009 (UTC)

Um, you asked for my two cents. Don't be angry that I gave them. And you did come across as an expert. Sorry if I misjudged.--Auric (talk) 00:47, 18 May 2009 (UTC)

Despatches

Please note that despatches with an e is the official spelling in this instance when referring to Mentioned in Despatches or a despatch from a commander in the field as can be seen from the quoted sources. (see your edits to Thomas Blamey). David Underdown (talk) 20:31, 27 June 2009 (UTC)

Sorry, I was thinking about a dispatch, as despatch is the British spelling. --Auric (talk) 02:30, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

AfD nomination of List of non-existent countries

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Articles for deletion nomination of Mazen Abdul-Jawad

I have nominated Mazen Abdul-Jawad, an article that you created, for deletion. I do not think that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mazen Abdul-Jawad. Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time.

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DEFAULTSORT

Thanks for your note. The trouble with the lifetime template is that the information in it is partially hidden, so it gets duplicated - see for example Herbert Winslow, or any of a couple of thousand other examples where there is (or was) a lifetime and one of the categories it generates or a DEFAULTSORT. This in turn leads to articles with inconsistent categories and conflicting DEFAULTSORTs. The benefit is that it is quicker to type, for setting up new articles, especially many of them. There is a subst only version "ltm" that can be used for this, {{subst:ltm|1909|1999|Bloggs, Fred}} of course it is one keystroke longer! Best regards, Rich Farmbrough, 13:44, 15 September 2009 (UTC).

Loose Women

You made an edit to Loose Women precisely when I was reverting some vandalism. I am sorry. Please make your edit again. Debresser (talk) 19:13, 8 November 2009 (UTC)

Happy WikiBirthday (a day late)

I saw from here that it's been six years since you joined the project. Happy WikiBirthday! Keep up the good work, rʨanaɢ ^talk/_contribs 03:09, 25 November 2009 (UTC)

thanks

Thanks for your help! Cozzycovers (talk) 20:05, 7 January 2010 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Sarah Ann Island, Illinois

The article Sarah Ann Island, Illinois has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

what is the significance of the island

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Drop bear sourcing

Thanks for the attempt to source a statement in the drop bear article, but nationmaster.com is just one of many sites that mirrors Wikipedia; you were just using an earlier version of the same article as a source. It's pretty hard going finding a source for something when there are dozens of varyingly obfuscated Wikipedia mirrors out there... --McGeddon (talk) 14:57, 3 March 2010 (UTC)

Oops! Sorry about that!--Auric (talk) 14:59, 3 March 2010 (UTC)

Bungee cord

Thanks for adding the correct stub for this article -- I couldn't find it. Beyond My Ken (talk) 22:22, 12 March 2010 (UTC)

You're welcome.--Auric (talk) 22:24, 12 March 2010 (UTC)

dear Auric

thank you for working on Ian Sansom. He is worth an entry but I am Wiki challenged. --Goodwillfan (talk) 14:03, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of A.E. Manoharan

The article A.E. Manoharan has been proposed for deletion because under Wikipedia policy, all biographies of living persons created after March 18, 2010, must have at least one source that directly supports material in the article.

If you created the article, please don't take offense. Instead, consider improving the article. For help on inserting references, see Wikipedia:Referencing for beginners or ask at Wikipedia:Help desk. Once you have provided at least one reliable source, you may remove the {{prod blp}} tag. Please do not remove the tag unless the article is sourced. If you cannot provide such a source within ten days, the article may be deleted, but you can request that it be undeleted when you are ready to add one. Rettetast (talk) 20:05, 14 April 2010 (UTC)

The 1589 Geneva Bible

I note your addition to Bible errata. While not commenting on the "error", that Bible was printed - it is not a manuscript- afair it was the first in a roman font. ClemMcGann (talk) 14:55, 1 May 2010 (UTC)

I was not the one who added it, I merely wikified it. Check the history.--Auric (talk) 14:57, 1 May 2010 (UTC)

ok ClemMcGann (talk) 23:24, 1 May 2010 (UTC)

RfD nomination of Template:Unfinished

I have nominated Template:Unfinished (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) for discussion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you. The Evil IP address (talk) 19:00, 21 May 2010 (UTC)

Kitchenuhmaykoosib monster

Hi. This article, created today, deals with a topic already dealt with here, another article created today. Your version contains more references and is better wikified; perhaps, since you're the only contributor, you may wish to merge the two articles. ^____^ Sorry if I bothered you. Salvio ( ^{Let's talk 'bout it!}) 15:22, 22 May 2010 (UTC)

Sure, thanks!--Auric (talk) 15:30, 22 May 2010 (UTC)

Pawn Stars

Thanks for fixing all those links. Great job! Nightscream (talk) 04:13, 26 May 2010 (UTC)

Saint-Cricq High School

Hello, can you correc my mistakes in english, thank you ! France64160 (talk) 21:36, 11 June 2010 (UTC)

Deadlink

About your rv of my deadlink tag here- fact is, yes, the page responds, but the content cited in the article is gone, apparently forever. Tagging it deadlink seemed completely appropriate, per WP:LINKROT - discuss. --Lexein (talk) 22:05, 12 June 2010 (UTC)

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Thnaks

		The Cleanup Barnstar
		Thanks for cleaning up the mess at Tina Charles (basketball) back in April SPhilbrickT 12:29, 21 June 2010 (UTC)

Book urls

Hi,

Regarding your edit here, is there any guidance on where to put the google book preview url? I would use the url parameter for the front page, but the the pages parameter also allows urls and would take you directly to that specific page. Just seems more intuitive to me, and would allow multiple links to different sets of pages if necessary. WLU (t) (c) Wikipedia's rules:^simple/_complex 19:56, 12 July 2010 (UTC)

List of controversies involving the Royal Canadian Mounted Police

Thanks for your great work fixing up the references on this page. That was greatly needed, and appreciated. I thought I'd mention, however, that Wikipedia guidelines suggest that you should not "fix" or bypass redirects that aren't broken. Not a big deal - just for future reference. TheMightyQuill (talk) 03:58, 28 November 2010 (UTC)

Next drive

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Wandering Jew

Hi Auric! Can you please explain what this sentence means? ( 'The supposed presence of the Wandering Jew has occasionally been used as a pretext for searches of the Jewish Quarters'. ) Who was searching, why and when, and where? Why should the WJ have been needed as a pretext? Is there an example which can be cited of such a search, and which actally tells us anything about the Wandering Jew? Otherwise, I'm inclined to delete the sentence agan as it it does't seem to add anything to the article. With thanks,--Smerus (talk) 07:48, 11 December 2010 (UTC)

The source says it all. I can't be sure, but this was probably used to justify searches of Jewish homes, similar to modern day police justifying warrantless searches by saying that bin Laden had been spotted entering a house, ie hot pursuit.--Auric (talk) 19:28, 11 December 2010 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Shahrokh Moshkin Ghalam‎

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Matty Goldberg

Thanks for your help with removing the speedy.TucsonDavidGOD BLESS THE U.S.A. 05:41, 25 December 2010 (UTC)