User talk:Mak Thorpe
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[edit] Category redirects for placenames
I understand you have a bot doing patrolling for images stuck mistakenly in redirected cats. I am uncertain if you are patrolling all Category:Redirects or just some of the selected subcats.
My conversion bot is currently doing explicit #REDIRECT s from adjectival placenames to noun form categories (Brazilian locomotives)->(ChooChoos from Brazil) (what is the deal with all these train pics anyway?). Approximately 2,100 cats are involved. These old cats should not be deleted since some folks will definately type them in searches.
Do you prefer I add them to a new redirect cat or put them in an existing redir cat? If so, propose a name and it is done. -Mak Thorpe 17:21, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
- NO NOT add #REDIRECT to categories! They don't work.
- NO NOT add {{category redirect}}s with bot. To rename a category, you must see WP:CFD. See the Howto. And category redirects are used only with approval there!
- --William Allen Simpson 14:42, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Andre_Disdéri
Hey, the Disdéri camera looks good on the Andre_Disdéri page. I'm just wondering if he patented that 12 shot camera on November 27, 1854 as suggested in the article, or he patented an 8 shot camera at that time ... and then later refined it to 12 shots.
All the sources I've found suggest he patented an 8 shot camera on that date. Do you have research that shows it was a 12 shot camera?
Thanks,
--Mactographer 00:47, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
- I don't know. The information came from fr:Appareil_photographique_historique. If you don't understand french, you can try Babelfish.altavista.com. Anyway, to be precise, the article does not state that this image is of the 12 shot model. Nor does it mention anything about patent dates, so I am no help to you. Perhaps you would be interested in the 8 shot image in that french article though. Oddly, french wikipedia has no article on their own dude. Maybe they should learn english so that they could learn more about their culture. Just kidding. Heh heh. -Mak Thorpe 07:36, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Hard problem of consciousness
Hi. I just wanted to bring your attention to a comment I wrote in Talk:Hard_problem_of_consciousness#Need_an_explanation_of_the_Opposing_view, which you previously contributed to. I hope you find it useful and would give your opinions on it, if you have any. Remy B (talk) 09:40, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
