User talk:Merphant

Hello there, welcome to the 'pedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you need any questions answered about the project then check out Wikipedia:Help or drop me a line. BTW, I like what you have done with the place. Cheers! --maveric149

Please check Musical genre. You and I just collided and something you did may have been lost. Ortolan88 14:36 Aug 1, 2002 (PDT)

Santa Cruz Operation is listed as created by you, today (Oct 3), as a new page. I could have sworn the page existed before today. Have I lost my mind?

It doesn't appear to have existed previously under that title, but Merphant seems to have cut-n-pasted it from the long-existing SCO, then redirected that page to the new one. Merphant, you might want to check out Wikipedia:How to rename a page for a cleaner way to rename/move pages. (Which I've just performed on the page in question.) --Brion 10:21 Oct 3, 2002 (UTC)

Hi - I just extended the dynamics article, and made all of your little stubs on dynamic indications (forte, fortissimo and pianissimo) redirects to there. Hope you don't mind. I think it's better this way, because I can't think of a way to make those little articles more than stubs, and they're all closely linked anyway, so I think it's best to have all the stuff in one place. --Camembert

You're right, it is better this way. I made those because they were empty articles linked from a prominent page like music basic topics. I tend to make a lot of stubby articles which should probably be combined, like F clef, G clef, etc. as in the discussion on Talk:treble clef. My strategy is to fill in the badly needed info first, then go back and polish later. -- Merphant

I think that's a pretty good strategy, and you're doing pretty well by it :) I like what you did with clef by the way - I added a couple of comments to the talk page there. --Camembert

I do wish you wouldn't keep altering/redirecting flautist. A flautist is the British term for flutist, based on the word flauto, and retained due to 18th Century Italian influence. If you don't want to have this, perhaps you can suggest some other way round the problem. DM

I thought it redundant to have an article for both flutist and flautist; let's pick one (obviously I chose flutist, but if you prefer flautist, well let's call the whole thing off ;-) -- Merphant

In a sense it is redundant, but I can't see how to get the different term in otherwise. Flautist is commonly used in the UK, and perhaps other European countries, but flutist is (apparently) commoner elsewhere. Can you think of a way of including the following text ....

Flautist: British term for flutist, based on Italian word flauto, and adopted due to 18th Century Italian influence. Outside the United Kingdom it is more common to refer to flutists or flute players.

Also, is there some way that using "flautist" will actually link directly to this text - I'm not sure if Wikipedia has something similar to the internal labels for URLs/HTML - see www.xyz123.com#link 34 for example.

Actually - I think I'll fix it - I'll edit flutist.

Have done it - think it's much better - hope you do too. Best wishes DM.

Ok, glad we got that resolved :) -- Merphant

Actually you might also be able to help - I don't think that the flute head joint is ever hyperbolic - see flute - I've made an amendment - I'm 90% sure this must be incorrect - they are parabolic surely? OK - so you altered the text - that's OK - but we should know for sure whether the interior can ever be a hyperbola - I think not.

They probably are parabolic. I'll just delete the hyperbola part. -- Merphant

OK - thanks - that makes sense. Is this the "right" way to communicate, or are we supposed to use "Talk" - I haven't a clue - only just started (a few days back). It seems to work! DM.

Moved from User:Merphant/sandbox:

Suggestion make the image pages redirects to the apropriate piece article.

That would be neat, click on a piece, go to the article. I'm not sure how to do that; making the image pages redirect seems like a bad idea, though. This is actually just a testbed for a chess gameboard like the ones in Lir and Ram-Man's chess games. -- Merphant

is it possible to have just the image without a background? Lir 00:14 Nov 21, 2002 (UTC)

http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/A00_Sokolsky_Opening

I'm not sure what you mean. The images in my sandbox should have a transparent background; they do in Mozilla, at least. The ones in the article linked above are of somewhat better quality; they seem to be the same pictures, just scaled and shaded a little. I also found some public domain chess books on the internet which have some very nice images: look here for an example. These would be very easy to convert to usable PNGs. -- Merphant

I've uploaded the new images. They look nice, but they are a bit larger than the old ones (like twice as big). -- Merphant

Just read your note about the musical terms lists - quite fair. I like meddling too!

Also, I like the chess board - if it were easier to edit, Wikipedeans could take time out to play chess - when they get bored with playing with Wikipedia, that is! -- User:David Martland

I've tried to make it a bit easier to edit, with coordinate ids for each table cell. There is some discussion of wiki table syntax on meta-wikipedia, but who knows if/when this will happen. I'm actually pretty bad at chess, but I thought it would be fun; also, some of the chess pages might be able to use it, like the Sokolsky opening linked above. -- Merphant

Sorry, I was just including some translations. Well I will wait that we set up a clear policy on inclusion of words English-English dictionary versus English-Other language dictionary. Regards -- Youssefsan

Oups. I didn't catch what you mean. I thouht it was a list of words by alphabetical order, since the link was on the main page next to by topic. Youssefsan

Modern Art is NOT contemporary art. Please do a little research and fix this article. Thank you.....DW

I'll leave it to you and others who know more about the topic. -- Merphant

Hi,

In Harmonic series I am slightly confused by this: "The fundamental is called a pedal note or pedal tone and can be faked." From my point of view as a trumpet player, pedal notes are mostly fakes, but the fundamental isn't a fake, though I think people do call it a pedal note. Or maybe not, I'm really not sure. In other words, the "real" range of the instrument goes down to, say, a concert E, then a good player can fill in with a pedal D and C - which are not fundamentals of anything, as they are too high - before getting down to a Bb which I suppose is the fundamental being one octave below the 2nd harmonic Bb which is the lowest "normal" note. I should add that when I play any of these notes they sound rubbish, and that the Bb is very very out of tune - only on my flugel do I get a good, in-tune Bb presumably becase the physics is so different.

Oh dear, this is a pretty annoying paragraph really, I'm sorry - all I've done is to say that there is something wrong with what you've written then admit I haven't got a clue how to fix it! Hm let me think. OK. (1) I am not sure the fundamental is called a pedal tone; (2) I am sure that the intermediate notes below the normal range but above the open or 1st position fundamental are pedal notes; (3) I am sure that these intermediate notes are faked, as they do not fit the harmonic series; (4) I think that the fundamental is not really a fake, as it belongs in the harmonic series, and is certainly not a fake in the same sense as those intermediate pedals are.

Does that make any kind of sense at all??!! Sorry! :) Nevilley 08:32 Mar 25, 2003 (UTC)

It makes a lot of sense; it's a very interesting question. I did a little research; see Talk:Harmonic series (music). -- Merphant

Wiktionary-WordNet

You have a message at wiktionary:User talk:Merphant. --Menchi 07:12 May 7, 2003 (UTC)

Thank you thank you thank you for creating the art history article. hard to believe that such an article didn't yet exist. Kingturtle 22:32 7 Jun 2003 (UTC)

My pleasure. I just wish I knew more about it; the current page is pretty weak. Something to look into when I have the time, I guess. -- Merphant

Congratulations, you have just been made a sysop! You have volunteered for boring housekeeping activities which normal users sadly cannot participate in. Sysops basically can't do anything: They cannot delete pages arbitarily (only obvious junk like "jklasdfl,öasdf JOSH IS GAY"), they cannot protect pages in an edit war they are involved in, they cannot ban signed in users. What they can do is delete junk as it appears, ban anonymous vandals, remove pages that have been listed on Votes for deletion for more than a week, protect pages when asked to by other members, and help keep the few protected pages there are, among them the precious Main Page, up to date.

Note that almost everything you can do can be undone, so don't be too worried about making mistakes. You will find more information at Wikipedia:Administrators, please take a look before experimenting with your new powers. Drop me a message if there are any questions or if you want to stop being a sysop (could it be?). Have fun! --Eloquence 21:15 14 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Hi, you cast a vote in the TEMP5 debate. The Temp5 proposal was voted down by 61.3% to 38.6%. We seem to be going around in circlces on the whole issue of the main page. A new vote is now taking place to clarify what exactly we want, namely

Do we actually want to have a new page?
If so when (immediately, after a pause, timed to the press release, etc)?
What do people want on the front page and what do they want excluded?

As of now, the whole issue seems surrounded by complete confusion. This way, finally and definitively, we will know what we want and when we want it. So do please express your opinions. The vote is on the same page as the previous votes. FearÉIREANN 20:17, 13 Aug 2003 (UTC)

Wow! That's amazing. Much better than my old thing. I took that link away anyway as I realised it didn't work at all in Mozilla and I hadn't got round to fixing it yet. I won't need to now - yours is much more impressive! Angela 01:01, Sep 15, 2003 (UTC)

Hope you don't mind but I switched my link to yours at Wikipedia:Friends of Wikipedia/Miscellaneous. Angela 17:26, Sep 17, 2003 (UTC)

Art history

Thanks. --Alex S 02:31, 19 Sep 2003 (UTC) Question: How does one become a sysop?

Sandbox

Hi, I replied in the sandbox, but I thought I'd better repeat it here as things aren't guaranteed to stay there. I find the interlanguage links in the sandbox useful for when I want to go to a sandbox of another Wikipedia. I wouldn't know where to find them otherwise. Angela . 00:01, Feb 24, 2004 (UTC)

quick note on cal

great job on redoing cal. Goodralph 08:00, 5 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Art categories

Hi,

I noticed that you have recently been active in categorising the visual arts. Can I also encourage you to join the categorisation discussion at Category talk:Art -- Solipsist 21:25, 6 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Your pic

Thanks for creating and uploading Image:Sixteenth notes and rest.png and Image:Sixteenth note run.png. I notice they currently don't have image copyright tags. Could you add one to let us know its copyright status? (You can use {{gfdl}} if you release it under the GFDL, etc.) Thanks so much, – Quadell ^{(talk) (help)}[[]] 01:57, Oct 5, 2004 (UTC)

Ok, done. -- Merphant 08:55, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)

A Request

Over at Culture of the United Kingdom one of the main things that is stopping us from putting it forward as a featured article candidate is the fact that the art section is so small (one small paragraph). You have listed yourself on Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by fields of interest as someone with an interest in art. Would you be able to pop over there at some point and help us to expand the section please? Many thanks. -- Graham ☺ | Talk 11:54, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Sorry, I live in California and have never been to the UK. I really don't know much about it. I'll be interested in reading what you all come up with, though :) Merphant 02:48, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)

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 1000 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:

Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
Multi-Licensing Guide
Free the Rambot Articles Project

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:

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:

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)

Image copyrights: chess images.

Hi! Do you know the copyright status of the following images? Are they from a copyrighted Unicode font, or did you roll them yourself? Any help would be appreciated.

grendel|khan 03:40, 2005 Jan 4 (UTC)

Image:2 against 3.mid

Image deletion warning

The image Image:2 against 3.mid has been listed at Wikipedia:Possibly unfree images. If the image's copyright status cannot be verified, it will be deleted. If you have any information on the source or licensing of this image, please go there to provide the necessary information.

Burgundavia (✈ take a flight?) 09:20, May 21, 2005 (UTC)

Image:3 against 4.mid

Image deletion warning

The image Image:3 against 4.mid has been listed at Wikipedia:Possibly unfree images. If the image's copyright status cannot be verified, it will be deleted. If you have any information on the source or licensing of this image, please go there to provide the necessary information.

Burgundavia (✈ take a flight?) 09:31, May 21, 2005 (UTC)

Image copyright

Thanks for that. For the future, Public domain stuff you create yourself can be tagged as {{PD-self}} cheers, Burgundavia (✈ take a flight?) 05:44, May 24, 2005 (UTC)

Bryce Harrington

Hi -- Since you've ben working on the Inkscape article, I thought you might be interested to know that the Bryce Harrington article is currently being voted on for deletion. --Bcrowell 16:13, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Chess pieces for deletion

Image:Chess black king.png has been listed for deletion

An image or media file that you uploaded, Image:Chess black king.png, has been listed at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion. Please look there to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you.

Toolserveraccount

Hello Merphant,
please write an eMail with your prefer login-name, your realname und the public part of your ssh-key to [email protected]. I will create your account soon, when I get your eMail. --84.58.193.118 12:50, 25 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Re: WP:TEST

The sub-question change was the only modification I made; I haven't much experience with Perl. :P æle ✆ 2006-05-25t20:12z

Image:Musical keyboard.png listed for deletion

An image or media file that you uploaded or altered, Image:Musical keyboard.png, has been listed at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion. Please look there to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in its not being deleted. Thank you.

Problem with the automated Wikiholic test

Hi Merphant -- I've been contacted by a user concerning your Wikiholic script. In short, the link points to a blank page on tools.wikipedia.de. No perl or HTML code, not even a stray alphanumeric character -- literally nothing. Do you have any idea what might be going on? If you decided to remove this useful tool, I apologize for not seeing your announcement. -- llywrch 22:06, 26 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The problem was a small bug in the script, which I have now fixed. Thanks, Merphant 06:54, 27 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you both Llwyrch and ele-maid for helping fix the test. ;-) | AndonicO Talk 10:11, 27 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

And thanks to Merphant for his prompt attention to this matter! -- llywrch 20:19, 27 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]