User talk:Josh Parris

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Disambiguation, pointing to a page that precisely reflects the intention of the writer. I monitor a number of ambiguous pages for incoming links (using wikipedia:what links here) and disambiguate or dab them. In my edit I put dab <ambiguous word>. Oh, and sometimes I change a few other things while I'm there - adding categories, fixing obvious spelling errors and typos, etc. But generally I only came to disambiguate a single word.

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[edit] Question from Windwall

Hi Josh, I'm wondering if you had a chance to read the comments and footnotes that I referenced in response to your questions regarding points 5, 7, 8, 9, and 10 in the criteria for musicians and ensembles regarding the article that you and I were discussing. The article was deleted by Coredesat a few days ago! I worked the entire weekend researching and re-writing to substantiate the points we discussed... it's all there!

I had the unfortunate luck of meeting Coredesat on his first day as an editor. I can't really tell for sure but it appears that the day he deleted my article was his first day on the job!

I read through the deletion process and I understood that if the writer is able to substantiate her work, then the article survives regardless of the number of deletes. If that is the case, then it appears Coredesat may have deleted my article prematurely, perhaps unknowingly going by majority vote rather than reading through the points I was making. I'm hoping you can shed some guidance.

Your feedback is appreciated. Thank you. Windwall 21:25, 17, January 2007 .

[edit] Salk School of Science

Hi,

I noticed that you contributed to the AfD debate on this school. I have made a contribution to this debate in which I discuss why the school is notable, and edited the article a bit. Any comments you could make would be much appreciated.

Thanks for your help with this.

Sincerely,

WMMartin 15:22, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

The improvements to the article have raised it's WP:BEEFSTEW rating to 7/10. I have changed my vote. Josh Parris 23:38, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Say what?

What was this about? [1] Stevage 05:13, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

I intended to revert this - I'm going to a) blame my tool b) not use it that way in the future Josh Parris 05:25, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
Ah, that makes sense. Yeah, I got that one - after I made my change. Stevage 06:10, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] This is what I would Like to do

"You are encouraged to ask for feedback about the quality of an article at any time. Ask your fellow editors for their opinions, list outstanding issues and areas to improve on article talk pages, get other editors involved. Networking to identify like-minded Wikipedians is one of the most important (and enjoyable) aspects of the project."

This is why I want to do this. I would like to get other peoples opinions on the issue before I post it on the site. I feal that it may be to opinionated or biased to be posted at this time so I have contained it within my own page for editing before "releasing" it.Stanler 15:04, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

See User_talk:HighInBC for some context Josh Parris 22:38, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] G-force

G-force is not an acceleration due to gravity, it is a general term for a measure of apparent acceleration (for example in centrifuges and in aeroplanes or rockets). It's now found in g-force. I've also separated out the discussion about the algebraic quantity g into standard gravity.WolfKeeper 03:23, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

The term acceleration due to gravity always refers to the effect of gravity on a body from the point of view of an inertial reference frame, so g-force was out of place in the article of this name.WolfKeeper 03:23, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] RFD for Manual of Style (disambiguation pages)

I have suggested that Manual of Style (disambiguation pages), a redirect page which you created, be deleted as a cross-namespace redirect. If you would like to comment in the discussion, it is found here. -- Black Falcon 00:28, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] STEP & Step - disambiguation pages

I combined these 2 pages according to the following standard:-

Page naming conventions

"Usually, there should be just one disambiguation page for all cases (upper- or lower-case) and variant punctuation.

For example, "Term xyz", "Term Xyz", "Term X-Y-Z", and "Term X.Y.Z." should all redirect to one page."

I noticed you reverted my changes to both STEP and Step. Is there something I'm missing?

Regards, JohnI 04:46, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

No, you've not missed anything. It seems I haven't been keeping abreast of changes to dab policy. Your change was correct. Josh Parris 05:29, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
Thanks. For a minute there I thought i HAD missed something. Regards, JohnI 06:04, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Edits to Fist Pound

If your edits to Fist Pound were intentional, they were unhelpful and vandalistic. If done by mistake, please be aware of your Wikipedia actions. Muslim astronomy and greetings have absolutely nothing to do with each other. XParadigm777x 00:21, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Wow. That's the last time I use CorHomo. It swapped in another article. What a piece of shit. Josh Parris 00:28, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Help Request: Lost And Found (Christian Rock Band)

I've been trying to edit the photos so they'd be better and not in a long line, but everything I do just causes them to overlap and makes the page look like a mess. Can somebody please help? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_and_Found_%28Christian_rock_band%29 Stein Auf! KagomeShuko 05:39, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

Looks fine now. Josh Parris 03:42, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Orphaned non-free image (Image:Triple_J_Hottest_100_Volumne_12.jpg)

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[edit] Can you help change my user name?

Hey there Josh, how are you? listen i need to change my user name, so can you tell me how, please? Due to privacy issues.

Pece Kocovski 04:48, 9 September 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Redirect of Train (MMORPG)

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[edit] Template:MelbStation/rev

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[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Christine Nixon (TV interview).jpg

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