Why lowercase letters? And why did you remove my comment? :p --Bsadowski1 09:53, 6 January 2011 (UTC)
(<-) I haven't touched the state (disabled/enabled) of the filter before; now I ticked the "enabled" box... --Eptalon (talk) 15:03, 6 January 2011 (UTC)
Could you move Erosion to Soil erosion? Its content is soil-erosion-specific, and I want to create a general account of erosion, as in enWP. I can't make these moves, apparently. Thanks. Macdonald-ross (talk) 06:27, 8 January 2011 (UTC)
Hi there, Mr. Admin. Some dude called IanP had a brief chat with me on both of our talk pages and he's changed his signature to I am a bassist, which he claims to be a parody of mine. I think he's misusing the signature function and treating WP like a social network, and most important of all, I don't want him to be my meatpuppet. Can you ask him to stop this non-constructive behaviour? P.S. keep me anonymous. I am a violinist (talk) 11:31, 21 January 2011 (UTC)
Feeling a bit negative today... I don't think the importance & uses section could be enlarged much with any benefit. Also, I'm not anxious to spend time on PGAs because it interfers with time I spend on new articles.
I'm distressed by the low standard of GAs and VGAs on this wiki; most of them seem not even worth proposing. Halophile is an OK page, but nothing more. The standard of English is dreadful (I'm not talking about its simplicity, but its lack of style and flow). Personally, I wouldn't have dreamed of putting up a page in this condition, but I won't say so on the PGA page.
I'd most like to see an upgrade of the criteria to include (as enWP does) a clear statement that articles must be well written. Again, I won't propose changes in the system because it's pointless. Certain people always vote against change, and nothing I've supported has ever got through.
The big plus of Simple is that good pages once put up are much more stable than in enWP, though of course much less read. Sorry for being negative, I appreciate your asking. Macdonald-ross (talk) 11:22, 24 January 2011 (UTC)
Can I rename my account from "User:Slipknot1" to "User:a7x"? I don't want to simply create a new account since my current one has over 6800+ edits. Thanks, —stay (sic)! 16:36, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
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For Eptalon, who has now been editing on the Simple English Wikipedia for more than five years, and has made an amazing 35,000 edits. Wow! Peterdownunder (talk) 12:22, 5 February 2011 (UTC) |
First of all, I will probably not respond again as I am away for long periods of time. We have several computers on the IP side so it doesn't matter if people know my IP. After all, I edited quite a lot as an IP. --Chemicalinterest (talk) 20:01, 9 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi! I haven't done much on Simple, I started Dejima and wanted some feedback. Am I on the right track? What is the main pointer you can give me? (FYI, I'm familiar with the wikipedia family, so know the basics (see primarily Commons:User:Deadstar etc.)). Thanks for your help. Deadstar (talk) 11:23, 16 February 2011 (UTC)
As one of the aims for the simple English wiki is to help people learn English, I propose my GoogleTrans-Speak gadget for the wiki.
Using GoogleTrans a popup will appear near the cursor, having a foreign language translation of the word (or selected text < 500 characters), when the cursor is over a word in a web page and the SHIFT key is pressed.
The help file on the enwiki for the gadget is at:
en:User:Endo999/GoogleTrans
The gadget has been running on the enwiki for around 18 months now and has had around 8500 installs (after 6 months of use). It is currently running on 12 wikis.
It can be run on the simple enwiki by including the following javascript in your vector.js file:
importScript("User:Endo999/GoogleTrans.js");
This version has the following text to speech addition:
if you select some text (<4000 characters), put the cursor within that text, and hold the ESCape key down for a second, then a sound bar will appear. By clicking on the play bar of the sound bar, you will then hear the text selected.
The idea is that people wishing to learn English may not just want the translation of a word or two (or a sentence or two) they don't know, but also may wish to hear the sentence to train their ears (and thus learn to listen to English as well as read it).
I use the gadget (on my private test system) to read French and Spanish webpages, including the eswiki and the frwiki, since I can read those languages but cannot understand spoken speech of those tongues.
The Text To Speech is actually done on my LINUX box in Canberra Australia, so I would like to try out the feature on a small wiki (like the Simple wiki) so the number of requests isn't too large.
Open Source Text to Speech systems are used:
Festival for English and Spanish Espeak for the other languages Mbrola contributes the voices for espeak in French and some other languages.
On Firefox 3.5+ a HTML5 audio tag plays an OGG sound file. On IE9 a HTML5 audio tag plays an MP3 sound file On other systems, Flash is needed, a Flash sound bar will play an MP3 sound file.
I think some people learning English may like to play a computer voice of some text in wiki articles. It's a good way to learn to listen to English. You can have the translation into your native language, and then you can listen to the English text selected right in front of you. Listening to the radio and TV is often difficult because the native speakers speak too fast. Festival TTS does not speak too quickly.
You can play the sound bar more than once if you need to listen several times.
It's a good language learning tool and I thought it would be a good gadget for the simple English wiki, which is a language learning wiki.
Endo999 (talk) 07:41, 21 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi! I've remove the flag you've given to yourself. I saw in a deletion entry something like "admins aren't autopatrolled", but this is wrong. The patroll right is part of the admin bit, so patroller is unneeded. See Special:ListGroupRights. -Barras (talk) 15:02, 8 March 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for deleting Elisa von wallis. I tried QD as an obvious hoax (50th in line...) but my laptop kept crashing --Bärliner 14:59, 17 March 2011 (UTC)
Can you get the User:Morgankevinj person off my back? He's doing some silly things, probably with a bot. Attributions on talk pages are not signed. See sample on my talk page. Macdonald-ross (talk) 20:07, 17 March 2011 (UTC)
Toboar? Should the ban be extended, or investigated further first? Wikipedia:Simple_talk#Unban_me_please Bärliner 20:55, 17 March 2011 (UTC)
Hello - I've expanded the 'Problem' article you created. I hope you will take a look. I hope it can be more of an encyclopaedic article, but things i have writen may seem contraversial. I am not sure about how putting sources into Simple English Wikipedia works - but I will find out soon. I am just working backwards from an artcile I created on Makaton - which had seemed like a huge omission. Kathybramley (talk) 09:44, 30 March 2011 (UTC)
Would you care to review your 'complex' flag on Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck? I'm probably too close to it to judge. Macdonald-ross (talk) 07:54, 1 April 2011 (UTC)
Is there a "possible BLP issue or vandalism" edit filter? If not, can you use the en.wiki source and enable one here? — Preceding unsigned comment added by SEPTActaMTA8235 (talk • contribs) --Eptalon (talk) 20:27, 7 April 2011 (UTC)I keep forgetting to sign
please be careful. you created the page Sweat shop, but we already have one called Sweatshop. If you keep doing this ur gonna get blocked. 72.10.105.2 (talk) 15:26, 8 April 2011 (UTC)
I meant to type "secondary", but I typed "primary". Thanks for the fix! --—SEPTActaMTA8235— (t — c — l) 20:16, 27 April 2011 (UTC)
Hallo Eptalon, bitte schaue kurz auf deiner de-Seite vorbei. Gruß --Gleiberg (talk) 11:45, 5 May 2011 (UTC)
Hi, Eptalon, i have a question, is there any policy with regards to titles? I saw this and was trying to make it better adding the taxobox, but i'm not sure if in here they use species name or the common name. Greetings.--Jcaraballo (talk) 19:38, 17 May 2011 (UTC)
I want to make something clear. It shows on Volunteer that it will be copied to the Simple English Wiktionary. Will it be deleted from here? Thanks! Crazymonkey1123 (talk) 00:53, 19 May 2011 (UTC)
Would you please read the last item on my talk page, where a person asks for help. Can we find him a mentor? His article has multiple problems (not wikified, not simplified, poss copyright violation), but he seems a polite young person who wants to improve. Macdonald-ross (talk) 09:57, 24 May 2011 (UTC)
Is it just me, or this is the same as this?--Jcaraballo (talk) 20:07, 26 May 2011 (UTC)
Ep, you are very important to this wiki, and should definitely be on the list of WP:Active users. Regards, Macdonald-ross (talk) 09:41, 24 June 2011 (UTC)
I just saw you have chnaged my membership of nothing to patroller and I want thank you for your trust. --Faramarzreply 17:47, 17 July 2011 (UTC)
Just alerting you to a discussion. The pages this user has put up are beyond anything else on this wiki for incomprehensibility. I think we have a problem. See my comments on his talk page and mine. Macdonald-ross (talk) 13:07, 25 July 2011 (UTC)
I like very much your new article on Siméon Denis Poisson. Thank you for creating it. Racepacket (talk) 18:37, 7 August 2011 (UTC)
I transferred material to Joseph, and edited it. Jean Fourier is now a redirect. Thank you for the suggestion. Macdonald-ross (talk) 04:43, 9 August 2011 (UTC)
Hi Eptalon. I've come across the article Aude and simplified it a little. But then I noticed the content of the article Tautavel man was nearly the same. Either the second page should be expanded, or the first page should be summarized. And if we summarize Aude then we should copy the simplified/corrected content over. Thoughts? Yottie =talk= 15:13, 13 August 2011 (UTC)
Hi Eptalon...I have opened a discussion at Talk:Muammar al-Gaddafi regarding a current dispute over the article. Since you have been involved in the dispute, your comments are welcome at the page to make an acceptable version of this article. Thanks, Either way (talk) 04:02, 22 August 2011 (UTC)
I came across two articles, Germanic Paganism (upper-case P) and Germanic paganism (lower-case P). You created the one with the lower-case P, so I was wondering if you would take a look at them both and see if they're the same thing. Thanks! --Auntof6 (talk) 04:59, 25 August 2011 (UTC)
ntmu --Seaca (talk) 22:26, 4 September 2011 (UTC)
I went thru your last comment and did typo fixes, I hope you did not mind :) Jon@talk:~$ 01:42, 11 September 2011 (UTC)
Hi Eptalon. I just wanted your opinion on this article. I think it should be deleted but I can't find a reason... Let me know if you think it should be deleted. (I did not create that article) Orashmatash 19:30, 8 October 2011 (UTC) I like... Computer science!
While going through the list of unused templates, I found this one that you created in 2007. Do you have plans to use it, or can I QD it? --Auntof6 (talk) 00:20, 16 October 2011 (UTC)
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For Eptalon, who took part in the big biography weekend in October 21-26, 2011. With help from 15 other editors, 48 new biography articles were created. Thanks for being part of the team. Peterdownunder (talk) 23:02, 26 October 2011 (UTC) |
The page you wrote, Template:CephBase Family, has been selected for quick deletion. This is because the page was deprecated or replaced by a newer template and are completely unused and not linked to. If you think this page should be kept, please add ((wait)) below the line ((QD)) and say why on the talk page. If the page is already gone, but you think this was an error, you can ask for it to be undeleted. Auntof6 (talk) 23:00, 28 October 2011 (UTC)
The page you wrote, Template:CephBase Genus, has been selected for quick deletion. This is because the page was deprecated or replaced by a newer template and are completely unused and not linked to. If you think this page should be kept, please add ((wait)) below the line ((QD)) and say why on the talk page. If the page is already gone, but you think this was an error, you can ask for it to be undeleted. Auntof6 (talk) 23:01, 28 October 2011 (UTC)
Could you take a look at rule 12. It gave me a false positive while I was doing a simple edit. Best, Jon@talk:~$ 03:13, 9 November 2011 (UTC)
Perhaps you are more of an expert than I am on Mormonism. (I have only taken the tour in Salt Lake City.) An IP added a comment about the status of the King James Bible in the LDS church. Although his edit was problematic, the idea of adding this to the article is valid. Perhaps you can come up with a simple sentence? Thanks, Racepacket (talk) 14:00, 12 November 2011 (UTC)
Hi Eptalon! Just letting you know that since there was already a page called Three-body problem, I have merged your new article with that one. You can find it by clicking here. Thanks! --Orashmatash 22:29, 15 November 2011 (UTC)
Hello Eptalon. You're the only person I've seen editing the filters, and I just wanted to let you know that I saw something incorrect. Patrick Murphy and Frank Drake were tagged as "(one-case-only article)" and in neither case was that correct. Just wanted to let you know if you wanted to make the filter work properly. The Rambling Man (talk) 19:16, 17 November 2011 (UTC)
is vandalizing a lot of pages. Just a heads up. --Crobau (talk) 09:45, 21 November 2011 (UTC)
Please take part in the Capital City Weekend challenge. Thanks, Racepacket (talk) 21:26, 26 November 2011 (UTC)
Are you User:Emre002? His or her brand new user page was just created from scratch with user boxes that say he/she is an admin, bureaucrat, checkuser, and a few other things that look a bit fishy. The reason I'm asking you is that when I click on the "verify" link in the checkuser userbox, it comes up with a page with your userid. --Auntof6 (talk) 10:25, 4 December 2011 (UTC)
Could you please move User:Racepacket/System of linear equations on top of the Inuse at System of linear equations? Thanks, Racepacket (talk) 21:07, 18 December 2011 (UTC)