User talk:Hayford Peirce

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--Thomas Simmons 23:42, 10 May 2007 (CDT) +17 hours (EPT)

Ben Tilden

Hayford, good to see you fast at work already! If you give me the exact diff at wikipedia that you parsed the article from, I can help to verify that you wrote most of it, then we might be able to take off the "content is form WP" from the bottom of the page. Also, did you see CZ:Introduction to CZ for Wikipedians. Leave a message on my talk about the wikipedia diff and I'll see what I can do. --Matt Innis (Talk) 20:39, 11 May 2007 (CDT)

Okay, I looked through the history and saw that you definitely wrote most of it, but I think we would have to go back further before we could take off the checkbox. Such a shame :-) You wrote most of it for sure. Though, if you make enough changes that it no longer resembles the wikipedia article, we can still take off the checkbox. You can look at it again once you've finished cleaning it up. Don't forget to add the CZ:The Article Checklist to your articles! It helps your workgroup keep track of the status of articles so you can get them approved. If you need help on the first one, let me know. --Matt Innis (Talk) 22:00, 11 May 2007 (CDT)

WPauthor template

By the way, where did you find that {{WPauthor}} template :-) --Matt Innis (Talk) 13:57, 16 May 2007 (CDT)

My apologies for sending you on a wild goose hunt. Hopefully, I fit somewhere between the nutz and the crazies and nowhere near the Nazis. --Matt Innis (Talk) 19:30, 16 May 2007 (CDT)

links

see my talk --Matt Innis (Talk) 13:37, 16 May 2007 (CDT)

The Catcher in the Rye

When you see articles like that, put the Template:Speedydelete on it and then a constable (like me) will look at it and decide if it fits any of Article Deletion Policy guidelines that we can use. Otherwise, bring it to the attention of an editor. If you put a speedydelete template on this one, I could technically delete it as an "imported article with no significant changes in 2 weeks". Go ahead and give it a try. --Matt Innis (Talk) 21:41, 16 May 2007 (CDT)

There you go! If you find anymore of those, just slap that tag on them and we'll take it from there. --Matt Innis (Talk) 22:24, 16 May 2007 (CDT)

Image:Smallbone Deceased cover.jpg

Hi Hayford. Please see Help:Images#.22Fair_use.22. In this case, the thing to do is to seek permission from the copyright holder of the book and document each attempt to reach them while trying to achieve this. Then if that fails consider whether to make a fair use claim. Stephen Ewen 16:48, 18 May 2007 (CDT)

{{[[Template:{{{1}}}|{{{1}}}]]}}

Hayford, I'm the one who originally posted about the cover of Smallbone Deceased -- let me also look into whether I can find a fair-use or licensed version of this image. I have the book, and can scan it -- I am hoping I can also find an appropriate license or fairuse way to have it here on CZ! Russell Potter 22:16, 18 May 2007 (CDT)

Information Template

Hi Hayford, I saw your note on Steve Ewen's talk page about the upload process. It's kind of a hassle to have to open a new program just to upload a photo, so I've copied below the template sans contents. Just be sure to copy it as it shows up here and not the way that I typed it into the editing box because I added in some formatting code that doesn't belong in the template. :) You might also copy it to your user page, if you think that would be helpful. Hope this helps. --Joe Quick (Talk) 15:14, 21 May 2007 (CDT)

{{Information
|Description=
|Source=
|Date=
|Author=
|Permission=
|other_versions= (optional variable, can be left out)
}}

I am in process of figuring out how to improve the Special:upload page and did figure out, for now and so far, how to at least enlarge the tiny Summary window on the page. It only takes replacing the number 6 with 25 in a certain place in a file called SpecialUpload.php; so, I emailed the tech guys and hopefully they'll make that change very soon. Stephen Ewen 00:23, 22 May 2007 (CDT)

Image

Note how I tidied Image:Fred_Perry_Statue_at_Wimbledon.jpg. That sort of precise data is the goal. Stephen Ewen 01:21, 22 May 2007 (CDT)

Before asking that permission

See my talk again. Stephen Ewen 18:41, 24 May 2007 (CDT)

ID

Mr. Peirce, my ID is not to be seen related to a theory, as a mater of fact everybody has an ID. It seems to me id, or ID redirecting to intelligent design seems not a good idea. Robert Tito |  Talk  23:29, 24 May 2007 (CDT)

ID theft

good luck with that topic :) in the digital age that is important, so I still am not happy with your redirect. ID and ID theft are not related to your redirect but are important enough to discriminate them seperately and not according to a common short hand. Robert Tito |  Talk  23:40, 24 May 2007 (CDT)

Hello backatcha

I haven't even dipped a toe in the water here--just looked around. When I have more time, I'll see what I can get up to. Meanwhile, Locus wants a what-Heinlein-means-to-me essay for their RAH centennial issue, and I have just over three weeks to figure something out. Russell Letson 21:17, 28 May 2007 (CDT)

Quill Pens

Touché, Hayford. Touché.

--Robert W King 08:20, 31 May 2007 (CDT)

Toast

Hayford-

First I'd like to confess that I'm not an all encompassing expert on CZ style(yet..), however it seems to me that the Bread article is way too categorical, of which I am totally guilty of sometimes as well. I am under the impression that articles should be more or less a running narrative on the subject, so it might be reworked to be less sliced and more loafed.--Robert W King 15:44, 4 June 2007 (CDT)

Special characters

Hi Hayford --

Special alphabetical characters are available on most keyboards -- I'm a Mac man, for instance, so I can get my accents with option-downaccent-e, which gives me è, or option-e-e, which gives me é -- would this work for you?

I responded to you at my talk page

Thanks for showing interest in my contributions! I responded to you at my talk page. Nathaniel Dektor 19:54, 7 June 2007 (CDT)

copyediting

Hayford, I must beg to differ. As the author of two books and dozens of book chapters and journal articles, of course I have dealt with copyeditors before -- and yet, just as there is quality in writing, there is quality in copyediting. Indeed, there is even give and take (I have, on many occasions, decided not to accept one or another changed reading made by a copyeditor, and this has always been handled professionally, that is, discussed and then the final say was with me (provided there was no unquestionable departure from grammar or the publisher's own style sheets). Copyediting which changes the meaning of phrases and then gets defensive is not copyediting which would be very much valued in the world of print, no more than it ought to be in the electronic world. Russell Potter 18:41, 8 June 2007 (CDT)

Hey...

Is this you? Glad to see a sci-fi author on CZ. Just a question, I'm looking forward to write an article on Brave New World, does it count as sci-fi genre? Thanks. Yi Zhe Wu 19:18, 9 June 2007 (CDT)

John Franklin Bardin

Hayford, good heavens yes, I am a lifelong (well, since my college years) fan of John Franklin Bardin. Not only is he named after my favorite explorer, Sir John Franklin, but his blend of precipitous psychological terror with a freakshow's worth of human oddities is really without parallel!

Of course I am most fond of The Deadly Percheron, which I re-read at least once every five years or so; his others I have read once, but not recently. The newest edition of Percheron has a tempting excerpt from a "last unpublished novel" -- perhaps that will be out soon? The publisher is Millipede Press. Cheers, Russell Potter 12:04, 11 June 2007 (CDT)

dog/draft

Short answer: Yep--good call at Dog/Draft today. Aleta Curry 19:22, 13 June 2007 (CDT)

French fries

So, what time is dinner tonight, your place? :-D ---Stephen Ewen 15:18, 14 June 2007 (CDT)

Food pornography

Does the example photo I uploaded for food photography constitute "food porn"? :-) Yi Zhe Wu 17:12, 14 June 2007 (CDT)

Yep, because the guy who took it is a freelance photographer. I sent him a message notifying that the image is used here. But is there a possibility that he revokes the cc license after knowing it? Yi Zhe Wu 17:32, 14 June 2007 (CDT)

I will ask later. I have already posted several messages on Stephen's talk page, more ones would be bothering him too much. Yi Zhe Wu 17:42, 14 June 2007 (CDT)

Don't worry about "bothering me too much". It is too late for him to revoke the license, even if he wanted to. ---Stephen Ewen 18:23, 14 June 2007 (CDT)

Why the GFDL is a bad license for individual photos

If someone wants to reuse a photo licensed under the GFDL, they must per the terms of the license include the full two-page GFDL license along with the re-use. So, for example, if I wanted to use your photo in a pamphlet, magazine, or book, I would have to reserve space to print the full GFDL license. The GFDL is a terrible license for photos. Creative Comons is much better, since the entire requirement is two sentences rather than two pages long. Most people simply reject using a GFDL photo, except within GFDL text. Stephen Ewen 18:53, 14 June 2007 (CDT)

Image licenses

Hayford-

Why don't you use Creative Commons cc-by-sa 3.0? http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

See http://creativecommons.org/about/licenses/meet-the-licenses for more information. --Robert W King 14:50, 15 June 2007 (CDT)

Image:Blanquette_de_veau.jpg

Something tells me "LeChatMachine" is not the fellow's real name. :-)

See Help:Images#Images_from_Wikipedia.2C_Wikimedia_Commons.2C_Flickr.2C_Openphoto.net.2C_etc.

I sent him the following:

Hi. 

A Citizendium author has uploaded your image for use 
in http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Blanquette_de_veau.  
However, per http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Help:Images
#Images_from_Wikipedia.2C_Wikimedia_Commons.2C_Flickr.2C_
Openphoto.net.2C_etc. I need to delete the image unless 
you can let us know your real name.  If you prefer, we 
can also remove the link to your flickr page in that case.  

Let me know!

http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/User:Stephen_Ewen 

Stephen Ewen 21:55, 17 June 2007 (CDT)

Well, yes, I myself had figgered that out, hehe. And in *real* French it woulda been LeChatMachin, not Machine. But I didn't know that requiring real names extended to the source of photos -- I thought it was just for our own humble selves. Anyway, I'm that this mini-crisis will be dealt with.... Cheers! Hayford Peirce 22:56, 17 June 2007 (CDT)

The matter is settled. :-) Stephen Ewen 12:30, 18 June 2007 (CDT)

Many thanks! But see my comment on your discussion page.... Hayford Peirce 12:32, 18 June 2007 (CDT)

Signing edits

Hayford, don't forget to sign your posts with --~~~~ --Robert W King 09:08, 18 June 2007 (CDT)

Diffusion of innovations

Looks like three folk from the same university, a prof, a specialist, and a student, are doing something. I am just going to let them go and watch a while. Stephen Ewen 17:03, 20 June 2007 (CDT)

McDonald's

I started McDonald's, since you are the expert on food, you may be interested in taking a look at it and/or make changes. Regards. Yi Zhe Wu 17:33, 23 June 2007 (CDT)

Hello, on McDonald's, what is the "false information" I wrote that you are referring to? Regards. Yi Zhe Wu 09:36, 24 June 2007 (CDT)

Thanks for pointing that out. It was my knee-jerk reaction to call the founders of corporations "industrialists" (JD Rockefeller, for example). I didn't know they were just small hamburger-sellers. :-) Also for the human rights part you disputed with John, McDonald's was not found of human rights violation by any British courts, but by the European Court of Human Rights, which ruled that British libel laws are over-oppressive and the environmentalists were denied legal aid, basically. Yi Zhe Wu 11:06, 24 June 2007 (CDT)

Image:Mai_tai.jpg

Hayford, the source link points to nothing. You probably still have it in your browser's history. Can you add it please? Thanks, Stephen Ewen 21:13, 25 June 2007 (CDT)

References

Hayford, here is my basic illustration for how to provide a reference:

website - <ref> {{cite web | url="" | date="" | author="" | title="" | accessdate="" }} </ref>
journal - <ref> {{cite journal | author="" | journal="" | year="" | title="" | number="" | volume="" | pages="" }} </ref>
book - <ref> {{cite book |last="" |first="" |authorlink="" |coauthors="" |title="" |year="" |publisher="" |location="" |isbn="" }} </ref>

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Citation_templates

Hayford's Bar

See this. :D --Stephen Ewen 22:27, 28 June 2007 (CDT)

And this :-D ---Stephen Ewen 19:44, 30 June 2007 (CDT)