User talk:PoptartKing

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In response to User talk:Ryokosha

You are referring to the trivia from there or something else? If you mean lists of roles then I think that falls under common knowledge. All of that is out there, perhaps scattered in seventy places or more but it is all out there anyway so it is not something that is considered sole domain of their site. I feel that so long as they are cited as a resource and so long as none of them complain then why worry? If and only if they complain do I think there is a need to worry about this, but if they do then I think most of what is in this encyclopedia in any article from any person has to be taken down since I think a lot of it comes from sites most don't put as a resource, I credit them as a resource, if I continually didn't and tried to claim all the information I ever posted was mine and mine alone then I see a problem, crediting them as a resource I don't see a problem. It's like copying something in a school paper then citing them as where you copied it from to show you copied it, in my opinion perfectly legit. Besides how do you think most printed encyclopedias get all the information they do? They just happen to staff one expert in every field on the face of the earth that just happens to know everything about that field, they too do what is being done here, get the information from another source and cite it as a resource. Do you not agree to any of this? Ryokosha 05:54, 19 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Not a problem and sorry for posting here too, just wasn't sure where to post to make sure it read as you were getting it. Ryokosha 06:07, 19 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ref converter

Wow, I didn't even know there was such a thing as {{rn}}. Anyway, I updated the ref converter to handle them as well. --Cyde Weys 07:40, 13 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

That was unexpectedly fast. Sure beats manually converting then running your converter. Much obliged! PoptartKing 07:47, 13 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Also, if you follow the "edit page" link after you've put in a page title and hit "go" it takes you back to the edit box on Wikipedia and automatically fills in a good edit summary. It's more efficient this way; try it! --Cyde Weys 07:58, 13 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

<language> icon templates

Hi there, I think what you have done with the <language> icon metatemplates is a bad idea. Has there been a discussion before such drastic change? If so, could you please point me to it? Thanks. PizzaMargherita 18:54, 31 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I would put it a bit more strongly. Please, revert *all* your changes. It is common data processing knowledge, popularized by Donald Knuth, that "premature optimization is the root of all evils". Please don't get involved into technical issues if you are not knowledgeable about them, as that will waste everyone's time, including yours. —Gennaro Prota ^•Talk 19:16, 31 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Reverting;thanks for pointing that out. PoptartKing 12:07, 10 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. PizzaMargherita 17:58, 23 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Assessment

Well done on putting the assessment thing on the Classical Greece and Rome WikiProject. It looks excellent, and when I looked at it earlier I couldn't quite get my head around it. I hope we've managed to kick start the WikiProject a bit more now. It would be really good if we could have one of those tables for our own project to put on the main page so we can see how many articles are labelled A or B or Start etc. Is this possible? Pjmc 18:43, 3 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Today's certainly been more active than any other. With regard to the question, as soon as we contact them or they contact us (I have no idea how that project's processes go about), a bot will start keeping tabs on all the statistics and we will indeed have a neat statistics box. It'd probably be wise to first start with the tagging though. PoptartKing 19:09, 3 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Proposing to merge List of basic classics topics to Classics

Seeking concensus on proposed merger at Talk:Classics. Cheers! Wassupwestcoast 01:18, 8 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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