User talk:MrJones

Unnecessary abbreviation?

Why would I want to list everyone's full name? Lirath Q. Pynnor

I found it hard to work out who the authors are. I expect others would, too. Also for clarity, why not refer to Blair (a.k.a. Orwell)? I've fixed a link on your page to the book which currently links to the year.

Existence of Categories

You asked, when does a category "not exist". In a strict sense a category that is referenced from at least one article "exists". I've been doing some clean up (from the category:orphaned categories page), and have been recategorizing articles into categories which are in turn sub-categories of other categories or adding categories into other such categories. I've used "non-existent category" in some edit summaries actually meaning a referenced category with no parent category and few (2 or less) members. Categories are meant to form a connected graph (see wikipedia:categorization) so when adding an article to a "new" category, it's good to then edit the category into an "existing" category (one that's connected to the category graph). Rick Block 16:58, 9 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Category:Halifax

A few months ago you added Viscount Mackintosh of Halifax into Category:Halifax. Are you intending to populate this category with other articles? By quick glance, none of the other viscountcies in Category:Viscountcies are subcategorized this way. If you aren't intending to further populate the category can you take Viscount Mackintosh of Halifax out of this category? Rick Block 01:44, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC)

I believe there should be a category called "place". Halifax may belong in a sub-category such as "county", "town" or perhaps "district". I find it frustrating that one cannot use perfectly valid names for categories. Why is this? After all, many words are categorisations. If clarity is required, then words should be proactively marked as ambiguous or a technical definition restricting the interpretation of the word made. Do you know when and where this condition was decided upon? It seems a bit Sapir-Whorf to me. Mr. Jones 13:57, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Inline comments on Avro Jetliner

I looked at your recent edit on this page and noticed that you left embedded questions in html comments. This is probably not the best way of doing so, since most users will not notice those comments.

Better to discuss things you find questionable on Talk:Avro Jetliner if you want to put it up for general discussion, or on an individual contributor's talk page if you want to discuss with an individual. That way, people are more likely to notice and respond. —Morven 20:37, 22 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for the suggestion, Morven. I prefer just to add comments inline, but I'll point out what I've done on the talk pages in future. TBH, sometimes I won't bother; if someone's that interested in an article, they'll add it to their watch list and review edits as they come up. Mr. Jones 20:41, 22 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Indian rope trick

Nice edit:-) theresa knott 16:11, 25 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Why, thankyou. <doffs hat> Mr. Jones 08:16, 26 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Artificial Intelligence

I like your new intro but it does deny a Strong AI view that AI could end up building itself. How about saying that artificial means "does not arise natuarally" rather than "made by humans"? Paul Beardsell 03:34, 26 Feb 2004 (UTC)

I did consider that, but that is not the meaning of the word artificial. I suggest stating it explicitly. I'll have another stab in a moment. Mr. Jones 03:42, 26 Feb 2004 (UTC)

I looked into it, and actually the word artificial could justifiably be said to encompass AIs built by other AIs. What do you think of the new wording? Mr. Jones 04:05, 26 Feb 2004 (UTC)

What if the AI machine were assembled by Martians? Perhaps the bit after "manufactured" could be deleted? I reckon manuscript can be written by robots so maybe manufacture can be performed by them. In homage(!) to man. Or it could be "however so manufactured". Or "created". But that opens another can of worms. If I found it so damn easy I would do the edit myself and not be encouraging you to! Paul Beardsell 04:12, 26 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Would I like to iterate? Yes, yes yes! But your version is better. Paul Beardsell 15:45, 8 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Flattery will get you everywhere :-) Mr. Jones 17:41, 15 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Thanks

Just wanted to say thanks for your contributions to DYK, but most of them were non-qualifying so I removed them. Please review the guidelines, which are also included viewable at Template:Dyk (just click "edit"--they are commented out). Thanks.

This is NOT NOT NOT a general trivia section.
This section is only for items that have been listed on "NEW PAGES" since the last update of DYK.
The new item should be BOLD and placed on TOP as the FIRST ITEM.
Generally limited THREE items, but whatever the case--just make sure it fits whatever else is on the page at that time. Use your common sense.
Please ARCHIVE expired items in "featured new"
NO STUBS
Try to pick articles that are ORIGINAL to Wikipedia--not 1911 or other data sources.
The "Did you know?" fact should be mentioned in the article.

Thanks again. jengod 19:05, Mar 25, 2004 (UTC)

I responded to your query on Mediawiki_talk:PhilosophyTasks. — Adam Conover † 19:07, Apr 8, 2004 (UTC)

Category:Place

Use Category:Geography and related subcategories instead. - UtherSRG 19:55, 12 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Talk:Ain't I a woman? comments...

I saw your comments on my talk page. Are you sure they were meant for me? I can't recall ever editing the article. --Robert Merkel 00:34, 13 Aug 2004 (UTC)

It was a long time ago! I hadn't noticed the date, sorry (02:46, 21 Feb 2002). Your edit was on the talk page. Mr. Jones 05:09, 13 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Bad HTML entity finding report

Would you mind writing a report that picks up &[A-Za-z][^;]*$ or similar? I'll have a look at [1] for the precise definition if you like. Mr. Jones 16:44, 25 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Howdy. I've rediscovered your request while tidying up my user talk page. Am I right in thinking you're interested in a list of articles containing HTML references that are not all numeric and not on the list of 252 HTML4 entities listed on http://www.w3.org/TR/html40/sgml/entities.html ? - TB 11:40, Sep 24, 2004 (UTC)

That's a good idea, but I was thinking of picking up entities missing the final semicolon. Mr. Jones 21:03, 10 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Abuse of speedy deletion—reply

Hi, I have answered your question on my talk page. <KF> 11:15, Nov 23, 2004 (UTC)

Image copyrights

Hi! Thanks for uploading Image:P5110014.JPG. I notice it currently doesn't have an image copyright tag. Could you add one to let us know its copyright status? (You can use {{gfdl}} if you release it under the GFDL, or {{fairuse}} if you claim fair use, etc.) If you don't know what any of this means, just let me know where you got the images and I'll tag them for you. Thanks so much, — Edwin Stearns | Talk 21:43, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for picking this up. I took this picture myself. Now declared as available under GNU FDL :-) Mr. Jones 21:53, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Actually, you can delete it. It's identical to the picture for the Cuckoo spit article, which I've also licenced as GNU FDL. Mr. Jones 21:58, 10 Dec 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:

Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
Multi-Licensing Guide
Free the Rambot Articles Project

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

Option 1

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

OR

Option 2

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to any [[U.S. state]], county, or city article as described below:

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)

Simultaneous substitution

Don't know if you remember (or care any more, for that matter) your question some months back about simultaneous substitution, but I only saw the talk page for the first time today. To explain, it's about the ads; it ensures that if, say, Global and FOX are both airing The Simpsons, people watching both channels on cable will see the Global signal. It's strictly about the ads -- if, say, I'm an advertiser considering buying ad time on Global during The Simpsons, with simsub I know that everybody in Canada watching The Simpsons at that time will see my ad. Without simsub, some might see my ad but others might see the FOX ads instead. I thought the article addressed that already, but if it was unclear to you, I'll see if I can explain it more thoroughly. Bearcat 00:48, 11 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:How to edit a real time update

I notice your changes to Wikipedia talk:How to edit a real time update. Sorry to revert obvious hard and good-intentioned work but I really do think that the content and context is important. Showing the way Simonides has dealt with people that disagree with him is quite appropriate especially if his conduct continues and lands him in arbitration. Perhaps removing some of the more flame-oriented text may be appropriate if it were an actual policy page but the fact that it's a suggested policy which is not going to be passed I think it can be left as is. violet/riga (t) 21:12, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)

The flames are in the history. There is no need for inflamitory language. Mr. Jones 21:16, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Talk:Stem_cell reorganization

Thanks for the reorganization of the discussion at the stem cell talk page. It seemed to me though that the splitting up of entries and discussions made it harder to follow. I reverted to the version before your edits and tried to follow your lead and implemented a more conservative reorganization.

I think the differences of viewpoint in the discussion will be resolved soon in a way that the different users are satisfied with and that the article will benefit from. Following that, I think much of the present discussion text may be able to be archived.

Did you also add comments in your reorganization? If so, is it acceptable to you to re-add them into the more conservative reorganization I tried to implement? --Nectarflowed 04:04, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC)

An infinitely differentiable function that is not analytic

More than a year ago you edited this article. I had written about "prescribed behavior", and you inserted a commented-out query "prescribed by what"? I just saw that a moment ago. Otherwise I could have answered long ago. It means, of course, prescribed by you. It said:

By multiplying this by any infinitely differentiable function one can get another infinitely differentiable function with prescribed behavior on the interval [a, b] of the real number line whose support is bounded.

In other words, you can multiply it by ANY infinitely differentiable function you may choose, and thereby get a function matching the one you chose on that particular interval, while behaving otherwise off that interval. Michael Hardy 23:32, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC)

9/11 open questions

Hi,

I've created a page called "9/11 complicity". The title is a specific POV and my content should match it more clearly than "open questions" or "explantions". I added references to almost each sentence and deleted most of the conspiracy theory stuff. I still feel the content is significantly different from other articles. Will it stay? Please email me back. Thanks. Bogusstory 09:27, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)

thanks

thanks for the Wikiday greeting! Much appreciated.

Regarding the Cantus In Memoriam Benjamin Britten, I started it but it was mostly written by someone else. It's a great piece though. Happy editing, Antandrus 21:27, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)

CSS stuff

Thanks...I haven't really bothered with that stuff for awhile, and other people have found better solutions to the aesthetics of the tables anyway. Adam Bishop

Thistle pic

Hi MrJones - You asked (a year ago!) for an identification of your pic Image:Thistle with cuckoo spit.jpeg - it is a Creeping Thistle (Cirsium arvense) - MPF 29 June 2005 20:09 (UTC)

giant front cropped

Hi, I took the liberty of tagging your image Image:Waverly Giant front (cropped).jpeg. Hope that's okay! --Smooth Henry 07:43, July 10, 2005 (UTC)

The Consumerium is alive!

Hello MrJones. I see that we've had a bit of a mishappening. I was doing some DB maintenance work yesterday on consumerium.org and you checked the wiki at that time and got a "403 Forbidden" because of some maintenance work. First when I saw your edit on Consumerium stating that it "was" a project I went almost ballistic, but then looking at the history I see how you came to this conclusion. As to ConsuML you are right, it's dead allright. Actually I didn't even know there is an article on it since it has no merit what-so-ever so i put it on WP:VfD.

I'll try to be less slacking in the future when I have to close outside access to the site ie. I'll use a redirection to a HTML-file that explains that the site is in maintenance.

Just now I checked and being all tired and unfocused I had forgotten the .htaccess-file on develop.consumerium.org and didn't realize it until now so the site was inaccessible to other IP's besides my own. I must learn to be more careful. --Juxo 14:25, 27 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

No hard feelings, I hope :-) At least it notified you that the site was unavailable. Mr. Jones 16:45, 27 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Visual Basic Classic Wikibook

I see you have contributed to the Visual Basic article on Wikipedia. Any chance you would like to join in editing the wikibook: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Programming:Visual_Basic_Classic? --Kjwhitefoot 09:32, 30 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Image tagging for File:Wp sweetpea closeup small.jpeg

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Image has been restored per your request on my talk page. Skier Dude (talk) 03:42, 1 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

CfD nomination of Category:Film scenes

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Nomination of European Union rapid reaction mechanism for deletion

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ArbCom elections are now open!

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Please claim your upload(s): File:Sweetpea closeup.jpeg

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Nomination of Elections UK for deletion

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Greetings!!!

Shall you help? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 126.161.188.201 (talk) 13:15, 24 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

"Tory party" listed at Redirects for discussion

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