User talk:Matt gies

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[edit] Thousand million

Hey, there; I just reverted a change you made of "thousand million" to "billenium." The reason is that, if I understand correctly, the American and British definitions of "billion" differ. Go figure; I remember it really surprised me to learn that (I'm American). In America, billion means "one thousand million," but in the U.K., it means, "one million million." That's why that article had that weird wording.

I added a comment to the article's talk page explaining in case someone else comes by and makes the same edit.

BTW, I may be completely wrong about this; feel free to correct me. :) Jdavidb 05:40, 27 Feb 2004 (UTC)\

[edit] Move this page

No, it's available to everyone. It's in the sidebar, right underneath "Watch this page". Also, I have a question: do you know a guy named Michael Williamson? He'd be a freshman at Reed this year, he's from the suburbs of Detroit? Sincerely yours, Meelar 22:33, 28 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Ah, thanks. Funny how I never noticed the link before. And no; I have never heard of that guy; in fact a search of the Reed directory reveals that nobody by that name is at Reed. Did you perhaps mean Michael Williams? He exists; although I don't know him.Matt gies 22:37, 28 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Adolf Hitler entry

Yes, your usage of "to have been" was incorrect. "Have been" would mean he is now considered to no longer be the instigator of World War II. It may not be a grammatical error, but it is logically incorrect.

Your understanding of that tense is clearly different than mine. As I see it, "he is considered to have been" simply takes the term "he is considered" and adds the information that he no longer is. Which is true--he was the instigator; he now is not, for he no longer exists (i.e., he is dead). I'm confident that most grammarians would corroborate my usage; but again I'm content to leave your edit simply because this (almost obsolete) verb tense is probably not universally understood (as evidenced by your finding it logically incorrect).Matt gies 00:28, 29 Feb 2004 (UTC)

The term "Bastard child" may once have been neutral, but it is now used in a derogatory sense. User_talk:63.159.212.188

Although it can be used in a derogatory sense, it is not inherently derogatory.Matt gies 00:28, 29 Feb 2004 (UTC)

I noticed you just marked that nonsense article Between Showers, and listed it on VfD. While VfD is a possible way to notify admins about it, that page is soooo overused already that the preferred way to handle such quick deletion candidates is to exchange them with {{msg:delete}}. Then they will be quite easy to spot with their small size in the New Pages list, and can also be found by the "What links here" list of the article referenced by the above message. But nevertheless - thanks for marking it. andy 09:46, 3 Mar 2004 (UTC)

United States

It's gotten so I recognize your name when I see it. I was pretty disappointed to see that edit to the U.S. page. Jdavidb 16:20, 3 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Huh? I'm not sure which edit you're referring to...Matt gies 01:28, 4 Mar 2004 (UTC)
OK, I checked my history and the only edit I have done to United States was back on 15 Feb, when I put in an admittedly non-NPOV bit about how Bush was not elected. However, in my defense I honestly don't think that an NPOV exists on the topic. The U.S. Supreme court only decided Bush v. Gore on a 5:4 margin. But at any rate, that's from a while ago and I have long since mended my ways.Matt gies 01:34, 4 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Ah, okay. I've mended some of mine, too, as I've gotten started. Didn't realize that was so long ago; I guess I should've paid more attention to the dates. (And, of course, everything goes faster in Internet time.) You know what's amazing; I've learned more about being NPOV and unbiased here (and also about picking up on biases I wouldn't have noticed in the past) in just the couple of weeks I've been here than I have in my entire life. I've gotten very sensitive to it in everything I read. Jdavidb 03:54, 4 Mar 2004 (UTC)


The Eisenhower silver dollars were from 1971 to 1978.

[edit] Spoilers

re: your attempt to add a spoiler warning to Singin' in the Rain: The correct msg tag is {{msg:spoiler}} -- singular, not plural. Hope this helps. --Paul A 08:47, 15 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Ah, thanks. I knew there had to be a simple explanation. Matt gies 02:56, 16 Mar 2004 (UTC)

[edit] April 20

Please consider allowing the removal of the deaths of non-famous Columbine victims from the death list of April 20. If readers are interested in the Columbine incident, a list of the victims is in the Columbine High School massacre article. For the time being, I have dewikified the non-notable victims.

[edit] Fox terriers

Hey, thanks for taking a look at the Fox Terrier pages. We had some debates on the WikiProject Dog breeds over time about how to name the pages and finally agreed to use a list based on the most common official breed titles from the various kennel registries. So the main pages will be listed with those names (e.g., Fox Terrier (Smooth)), even if they're not what most people would say when speaking (e.g., smooth Fox Terrier). Then we have redirects for other variations that we can think of. Just wanted to let you know why I put the links back. I'm thinking of having a generic dog-breed footer box that has a pointer to the dog breeds project exactly so that people can go get this kind of info from there. :-) Elf | Talk 18:39, 13 May 2004 (UTC)

Oh, okay. I wasn't aware of the WikiProject. The footer box sounds like a great idea. Matt gies 22:45, 13 May 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Soprano

Hi Matt--I've responded to your concern at Talk:soprano Quill 01:01, 25 Jul 2004 (UTC)

[edit] 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 2000 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:

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:
{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

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:
{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

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)

[edit] Crowd surfing

Hey, what was your source for [[image:crowdsrf.jpg]]? It needs a license. Thanks --Theaterfreak64 06:09, July 11, 2005 (UTC)