User talk:ClockworkSoul/Archive11

You asked here if you were missing something concerning your userpage, why it hadn't been nominated, etc. I think I may see the "problem." Do you like small fonts or have a large screen? See, to me (I'm on a 12" Powerbook, normal size), the page looks like three equal-width columns, with the middle one filled but the other two empty at the bottom. At first, I thought you just designed your page like that, but then I zoomed out (ie, made my fonts, etc., smaller onscreen) and saw that they were equally filled at the smallest possible font size. Your page looks excellent at that level, so you may want a disclaimer at the top of your page saying "Best viewed ... etc., etc." (I know my page looks like crap except in Safari and sometimes Firefox, so I've just included one on my pages.) Just my two cents. - ElAmericano (dímelo) 20:57, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

:Here's a pic of the top, the middle, and the near-bottom of your page, as viewed from Safari. (It's the same for me on Firefox, except you have nice-looking rounded corners.)

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:Good luck with everything. - ElAmericano (dímelo) 00:35, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

Now that the DB's back up, could you recheck Off-Topic Republic to see if it's as zotworthy as I think it might be? YA RLY kthxby--UnFlammable 21:03, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

• Did better. I speedy removed it as vanity/nonsense. Thanks for the reminder. – ClockworkSoul 21:05, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

..for jumping in on the Dick Cheney discussion.

I offered my assement of what would happen if the guy dies and the troll flipped out.

guess I should weigh my words better. 132.241.245.49 23:35, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

Why did you rollback [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Jimbo_Wales&curid=50703&diff=39657825&oldid=39657736 this] edit? Rollback is supposed to be used to revert vandalism, and this looks, on its face, to be a valid comment to Jimbo. So why the reversion? Thanks. --LV ^{(Dark Mark)} 23:56, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

:Actually, I don't really blame you for what you did. I reviewed his or her recent contributions, and they do have a history of adding slightly nonsensical material, so you were probably right to have a slanted view of his or her good faith edits. I'm not really sure it mattered, I was just wondering if I had missed something. Thanks for the genial response though. Cheers. --LV ^{(Dark Mark)} 00:09, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

Thank you very much for your support during my recent Admin election, I appreciate the trust that you have put in me. Please contact me if you have any questions, comments or concerns regarding my work as an admin.

Kind Regards, Elf-friend 08:51, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

Sure they are. VE (nerve agent) has a nitrogen trisubstituted by organic groups (two ethyl groups and the rest of the molecule), hence an amine. They are, generally speaking, esters but not carboxylate esters, e.g., DFP is the isopropyl diester of flurophosphoric acid. Choess 18:55, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

I've created a page for Maloney Hall and linked it inside the Lewisite article. Think it should be included somehow. this work for you? CFM865 20:38, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

• Nicely done. Great work! – ClockworkSoul 02:21, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

I just wanted to let you know that I appreciated your messagefrom the welcome committee. BTW you can delete this message once you've read it. I'll contact you if I do have any questions. Otherwise, I'll see you on the beer project. Slippy007 23:04, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

Hi, sorry it took so long to respond. Well, at least I know how Wikipedia handles sheer jerkiness. Or at least tries to. 67.70.98.57 05:59, 23 February 2006 (UTC) anonymous Canadian smackhead.:)

I always thought this community was the most anonymous of all, because there are so many people contributing - you disabused me : )

I started editing in the German Wikipedia some month ago, but the English one is so much bigger and a lot more confusing at the beginning. Your links are very helpful, thanks! Dreadlady 17:40, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for blocking 62.255.232.3. However, it looks like s/he has acquired a new IP -- 62.255.236.59. My evidence? Take a look at the comments on User talk:62.255.232.3, then at the bottom of my talk page (section title "Hey"). The same text is posted, but on my page it was posted by 62.255.236.59, and I am in fact carrying on a bit of a conversation with that IP (which has also started vandalizing). Could you block that IP as well? Thanks. Hbackman 06:37, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

• Thanks for the heads up. Consider it blocked. – ClockworkSoul 06:39, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

Attention Esperanza Members: Subject to 1:3:3§ of the Charter, I am hereby informing you of the request to increase the size of the Advisory Council. I am now required to ask if you wish to take part in the refferal from the Convention Page to the main talk page. I am must have a general consensus for the refferal. Thank You!

Revolution within the form is up for deletion. Can I ask for a vote to "Transwiki". Thanks.WHEELER 23:52, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

The Thri Kreen of Athas book does in fact say Rajaat ignored the Kreen because he thought they were animals. It does seem logical that he would not kill them because they are the other blue age race. (And no- he didn't think halflings were animals) but this is the only mention of what Rajaat thought of Kreen. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.116.198.0 (talk • contribs)

It feels pretty hilarious to be famous. I don't know whether I'll be relieved or saddened when all the fuss dies down. :) Nach0king 18:15, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

He is clearly a sockpuppet of Bobbydoop. Causing problems all over the place again. Rafofcon may not because he does not have all of the obsessions of Bobbydoop.Tfine80 03:02, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

In response to some of the comments about archiving discussions, and how awards are vetted, last week I tweaked the Guidelines. No one noticed. I also archived the discussion that was used to create them. I just wanted to give you a heads up. evrik 18:43, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

I think that the variety of pages Barnstars and Other Related Awards and Personal User Awards for the awards are confusing. I have been trying to streamline them by creating the Wikipedia:Awards page. Let me know what you think. evrik 18:43, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for correcting my photosynthesis screw up. I noticed you are Stony Brook. Have you had much interaction with the plant biologists at CSH? David D. (Talk) 05:14, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

• No, I haven't had the pleasure of working with them. My work is in hematology and infectious disease, and our paths don't cross all that often. Are you thinking of anybody in particular? – ClockworkSoul 05:15, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
• Not really, I know all of them since the plant community, especially Maize, is pretty small. Since you have an interest in photosynthesis i thought you might have come across them in some lectures. I know a lot of them do teach in Stony Brook courses, although obviously none in photosynthesis. David D. (Talk) 05:24, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

Hello,

I noticed you are a graduate student in biochemistry. I'm currently working on my graduate degree in molecular biology, and I found this Wikipedia entry while doing some research for a paper on CBRNE agents. I'm in the Air Force and actually spent time Iraq last year for five months doing some "WMD sniffing" via PCR.

Anyway, I made some more balanced edits on the page concerning media involvement that you quickly reverted. I'd love to discuss and debate these edits with you. I'm not some scrub who just tries to make sneak attacks on this site, but I would prefer a more balanced approach when discussing politically-related matters with regard to WMD and CBRNE agents and media coverage of the Iraq War (which is decidedly anti-war and therefore biased).

First, Fox News never misled its viewers into believing WMD were found in Iraq. It's obvious the purpose of this entry was to discredit Fox News as some sort of distributor of false information, and it also seems to paint FN viewers as some sort of unthinking sheep.

Also, sighting a study that states Americans are basically ignoramuses compared to Europeans when it comes to discerning the truth on Iraq is a little overtly political, don't you think?

Anyway, I'm curious to hear your thoughts, and also...how does one become a "power broker" on this site (with the power to kill or accept content modification if one doesn't like what's entered)? I can understand the desire to prevent just anyone from making modifications, but this censorship seems to be quite and antithetical to free speech and open discourse.

--Shanesd 23:22, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

I want to get started on my user page and I noticed that yours was organized pretty well. Can I get a few hints?

Freddie 02:29, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

FYI. You may want to look and comment here: Wikipedia:Barnstar and award proposals/Proposed Changes. For your reference, the guidelines are referenced here: Barnstar Proposal Guidelines. Thanks -- evrik 18:26, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

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For handling the PUA issue and taking control of the situation I present to you the General Alexander Haig Medal of Honor.Rosa 20:56, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

• Thanks! – ClockworkSoul 21:02, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

Image:Barnstar-Megaphone.png to ClockworkSoul for their great efforts one the awards pages that promotes good cheer for alll wikipedians.]] evrik 17:23, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

• Two almost at once! Thanks! – ClockworkSoul 23:45, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

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Do you want to finish that award up? --evrik 15:43, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

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Corning Life Sciences provide a number of handy [http://catalog.corning.com/Lifesciences/US-Canada/en/techInfo.asp?catalog_name=TechDocs&category_name=cell%5Fculture®ion=na&language=en&Page=1 protocols and technical guides] which you might find useful. I recommend [http://www.corning.com/Lifesciences/technical_information/techDocs/cccontamination.pdf "Understanding And Managing Cell Culture Contamination"] as an excellent starting point. (Thanks, TenOfAllTrades!) – ClockworkSoul 15:40, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

I have requested a Peer Review on the article Alpha Phi Alpha because I intend to request that it become a Featured Article. I would like to ask you to review the article and suggest any changes or additions that should be added to bring it to the standard of a featured article. You welcomed me to Wikipedia and I would appreciate any assistance you can provide. Ccson 15:13, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

Image:Beer.jpg. Drink it in good health! SilkTork 09:16, 30 March 2006 (UTC)]]

• Maybe the planet wouldn't spin so much if I didn't drink so much beer? Well, thanks! :) – ClockworkSoul 16:19, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

I've been speaking with User:Mike Dillon about the beer info box. Actually, I started the conversation elsewhere, but it ended up with him because he appeared to be doing some work with the box. I think it's a potentially very useful item. I see info boxes in other areas that are useful. But I am concerned that our present use of the beer box is unhelpful and unattractive. I like the location, owner, production, and date of founding information. This is hard, mostly unchanging info. The beer listing, however, is controversial, long and unhelpful. All too often I see brewery articles which consist of little more than lists of beers in a beer info box. This does seriously limit flexibility and discussion on the beers; and encourages people to simply list all the beers they can name from that particular brewery. Also, within the beer box, there is a focus on selecting a style name for a beer when beer style is mainly an American activity - different countries have different ways of approaching the identification of a beer - in Britain, for example, the beers are identified mainly by abv; while in France the beers are identified mainly by colour. Beer discussion is best done within the article where regional differences can be more readily accommodated and explored. I have been experimenting with different usage of the beer info box to see what elements work best. My current thinking is that it is very useful as an address and hard info box (owner, annual production, outlets, contact details, etc) placed centrally at the bottom of the page, and should perhaps be designed to be wider. And it might also be good to include links to other breweries in the immediate area. Anyway - what are your thoughts? I'd like to bring this up on the beer notice board, but thought it best to get a general feel for things first so that a more polished and clear proposal could be formulated to avoid a long protracted debate. SilkTork 08:19, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks so much for doing that! Wikipedia is always the first place I check for organic chemical properties. I was really disappointed to find such a common one inadequately covered. Your additions are fantastic! Thanks again, horsedreamer 19:23, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

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Notwithstanding our general desire to curb vandalism, which purpose is likely furthered by your having contacted the school about which you wrote on the AN/I, and notwithstanding that the students were likely supposed to be otherwise occupied at the time, upon the making of which conclusion we might say that they have violated some school rule, about which it might be (but likely isn't) appropriate to inform the principal, I think your action to be a bit overwrought, viz., because your intent seems not to have been with respect to the encyclopedia but, rather, with respect to students' placing personal information on the Internet in general. Though you are surely within your rights independently to contact the school (even as I think it is wholly inappropriate that a school official should be inculcating information about protecting one's privacy on the Internet, especially to high schoolers; I, even had I been frivolous with personal information, would have understood such upbraiding to be altogether pedantic, paternalistic, and patronizing), I hope that you didn't contact them in the context of your being a Wikipedia admin; at the very least, since this wasn't an administrative action (because, once more, your intention, as I understand it--please correct me if I'm wrong--was not toward the cessation of vandalism but rather toward the protection of two teenagers), I don't think it should have been discussed in such context on the AN/I. I hope you won't infer any animosity from my comment, as surely I've had nothing but positive--if tangential--contact with you in the past and have no reason at all to doubt your good faith and judgment in this respect; I simply don't know that, to the extent that your action was in an interpersonal (cf., administrative) capacity, it was altogether correct, though I certainly understand the arguments to the contrary. Cordially, Joe 22:03, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

They told me on IRC that you are an administrator and currently on duty. I have a question. Waiting for response. Thanks!

JediCarlos 01:38, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

Hi ClockworkSoul, I saw a discussion about a bio-barnstar on the barnstar proposal page. Like Francisco, I would also like to see the addition of a barnstar specific for the life sciences. Here's my suggestion:

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You wrote there "you do have the option of proposing a wikiproject barnstar for one of the biology-related wikiprojects". I am not sure where I would propose the above award. Could you let me know?

I agree that one cannot have a barnstar for every category, only for the big ones. But aren't the life sciences a sufficiently big category? I like the E=mc2 icon but it would rather choose the normal barnstar when honouring the work on a biology article, since the E=mc2 icon looks like nuclear physics and is in fact more often awarded for work on physical or mathematical items because of its look.

Hope to hear from you. Jasu 15:29, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

Thank you ClockworkSoul for your hugest of all possible support during my third RFA (and second as well). The last nomination turned out to be a success, with an unexpected number of participants from all over. If you ever need anything, are feeling snackish, or would just like to chat, please feel free to visit me on my talk page; I never sleep. Can't sleep, clown will eat me 19:45, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

I just found [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3AZapatancas_Archive&diff=13599640&oldid=13560879 this] edit of yours. Would you be williong to make a statement at Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration#SqueakBox and Zapatancas, SqueakBox 13:24, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

Hey there, ClockworkSoul! I know I haven't talked to you in a while, but I was wondering if you could help me with something. For some time now, I've been displeased with my username, and wanted to change it up to something different. I'd gone over to Essjay's page, and the ever-so-kind Talrias chipped in that I might want to talk with you, regarding your name change. I've seen several cases like yours; Lifeisunfair --> David Levy, and a couple others that I can't remember right now. Despite my seive of a mind, I'd still like to ask for your assitance in helping me chose a new name. Talrias suggested that I have a "name the admin" contest, but I'm not sure how many people would turn up, as I haven't exactly been active for the last few months. In any event, if you'd get back to me on this subject, it'd be greatly appreciated, and I'll thank you evermore. -Mysekurity ^[m!] 22:09, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

:A "name the admin" contest would be great for you. :) Unfortunately, you won't be able to carry your edits over, but that's really no big deal. First, take a look at my old Name the Admin Candidate page, which might give you some leads. The next hurdle is publicity, of course. While I had the benefit of an RfA, you have the advantage of a much larger user base than I. I recommend that you do the following:

:# Place a notice and cheerful request for some publicity on the Esperanza talk page. They;re always looking for a projects like this one to help the community morale.

:# Choose at least ten people you know might be interested, and leave them a note regarding the contest on the user page. Make sure that one of those people is User:Can't sleep, clown will eat me, because for some odd reason everybody has his page on their watchlist.

:# Finally, a quick note on the Administrators' noticeboard would not be inappropriate, and may be helpful as well.

:I'll be happy to help in any way you need, so feel free to drop me a line! Good luck! – ClockworkSoul 22:35, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

I had a question about the userpages. I used a table in mine (check it out!), but if you look really closely, you can see that the borders are white. I finally changed the bg color to match that of the page (it took me three weeks to find the color!). I was wondering how to change the border color.

Note: I use a template for my user page---you must scroll down to the bottom of the page, and select edit user page, that way, you edit the template to which the user page refers.

Primate#101 05:10, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

P.S. How many years did it take you to make your userpage?

:Thanks for the tag---it worked. The user page I currently have is temporary---I'm creating a new one after seeing yours! Anyway, it won't be visable for a while, because I have trouble with pipe syntax. Again, thanks for the tip.

—Primate#101 23:24, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

• My pleasure. – ClockworkSoul 16:18, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

I have a quote for you:

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

—Mohandas Gandhi

P.S. I also used your template on my userpage! I'm working on it right now. You can see it at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Primate?redirect=no http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Primate?redirect=no].

--Primate#101 03:33, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

• Thanks, I'm honored. :) I like the quote, by the way. I'll use it soon, I promise! – ClockworkSoul 16:16, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

NOTE: When you view your user page in Internet Explorer, the Userboxes get cut off (you only see half of them). It's the same in mine, as I copied most of your userpage (check it out).

--Primate#101 04:23, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

Since this isn't the result of an AC meeting, I have decided to go Old Skool. This note is to remind you that the elections are taking place now and will end at 23:50 UTC on 2006-04-29. Please vote here. Thanks. --Celestianpower ^háblame 20:42, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

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• Those images were incorrectly tagged as {{PD-CAGov}}, which is an obsolete tag anyway, so I replaced it with the more appropriate {{PD-USGov}} template. That should do nicely. – ClockworkSoul 16:15, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your kind words about the Tabun article. Best wishes Jll 16:05, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

Hi, Rmhermen! These templates were designed to contain a list of chemical warfare agents, but I see that you added a handful of precursors used in binary munitions. I'm not certain that this is the best approach, because binary agents differ from unary agents only in the manner and timing of the final step of their synthesis. I'm rolling back the changes for now, but if you feel strongly about them I'm more than happy to talk about them. Cheers! – ClockworkSoul 04:15, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

Yes I do feel that they should be there - and so should Novichok agent. The sidebar says "This article forms part of the series Chemical warfare", not "this is a list of unary agents. Binary precursors are specifically banned under the CWC and should be collect in the navigation box. Rmhermen 04:37, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

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Hi ClockworkSoul, I really like your page design but since I'm relatively new to the wikipedia & it's syntax I got lost in your code. Are there help pages that explain a little about tables, formating, etc. In particular, I don't understand the use of special characters like | and |- and

• I think I managed more or less to understand your cool & fancy table system. Very nice work. Ciao, Jasu 17:05, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

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There was much talk lately about the bio-barnstar proposal, but these past 5 days there hasn't been more said. What is next? What is there to be done? Can we move this foward...? It is the first time I involve myself in a barnstar proposal and I do not know what is the procedure. I seem to read there is quite a support for a bio-barnstar and a considerable preference for the second proposal... Please, could someone tell me what next? Thanks.--Francisco Valverde 17:35, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

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