User talk:Hipal/Archive 15

could you please do me a favor?

Hello,

I am a master student at the Institute of Technology Management, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan. Currently I am wrapping up my master thesis titled “Can Wikipedia be used for knowledge service?” In order to validate the knowledge evolution maps of identified users in Wikipedia, I need your help. I have generated a knowledge evolution map to denote your knowledge activities in Wikipedia according to your inputs including the creation and modification of contents in Wikipedia, and I need you to validate whether the generated knowledge evolution map matches the knowledge that you perceive you own it. Could you please do me a favor?

1. I will send you a URL link to a webpage on which your knowledge evolution map displays. Please assign the topic (concept) in the map to a certain cluster on the map according to the relationship between the topic and clusters in your cognition, or you can assign it to ‘none of above’ if there is no suitable cluster.
2. I will also send a questionnaire to you. The questions are related to my research topic, and I need your viewpoints about these questions.

The deadline of my thesis defense is set by the end of June, 2008. There is no much time left for me to wrap up the thesis. If you can help me, please reply this message. I will send you the URL link of the first part once I receive your response. The completion of my thesis heavily relies much on your generous help.

Sincerely

JnW^talk 07:36, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

While I'd like to help, I don't know if I can commit the time that may be required to help. Go ahead and I'll do my best. --Ronz (talk) 14:59, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

Hello, here is the link

Pretest webpage

If you have any question during pretest, please contact me.

Please finish it before 25 June. Thanks a lot. :)

JnW^talk 14:57, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

I'm not able to get it to work with Firefox. If I have time, I'll try to update my copy of IE to try, but I may not able to get this done by your deadline. --Ronz (talk) 16:32, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

Actually, it is now work on Firefox. I have no idea about this, but maybe you can try to update the version of Firefox and Java. The link will exist after my deadline. I still hope that you can help me, but just take your time. Thanks a lot. :)

JnW^talk 09:25, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

Hello, the questionnaire is completed. Link:

evaluation questionnaire

thanks for doing this questionnaire, and I hope that you will feel interested about this. :)

JnW^talk 04:37, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

When I was finally able to run the questionnaire, I don't think it recorded any but my last response. Sorry that I forgot to tell you earlier. --Ronz (talk) 13:46, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

Humm, it seems that some other problems existed. Anyway, I still appreciate your help. :)

JnW^talk 08:06, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

FYI

Created formal mediation request. If you want to agree. Agree. If not, do nothing. The link :

• http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Requests_for_mediation/bates_method&action=edit&section=5

Seeyou (talk) 20:25, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

Take a peek

I just got here to see this,[1]. Take a read of this talk page, it's really sad reading. I've been seeing this kind of attitude a lot lately and hope it's just a 'moment' that needs wiki breaks for returns. Just thought you would be interested, --CrohnieGal^Talk 09:46, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

Yep. I've contributed there a bit. The discussion fizzled out after awhile. Looks like the recent discussion is trolling more than anything. --Ronz (talk) 16:05, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Warren Patrick Casey

A proposed deletion template has been added to the article Warren Patrick Casey, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but this article may not satisfy Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and the deletion notice should explain why (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{dated prod}} notice, but please explain why you disagree with the proposed deletion in your edit summary or on its talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised because even though removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, the article may still be deleted if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria or it can be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. Do you want to opt out of receiving this notice? davidwr/(talk)/(contribs)/(e-mail) 04:37, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

That's fine. All those Wicked Tinkers articles need to be merged into a single article. --Ronz (talk) 05:03, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

Aaron Shaw (piper) seems to be notable in his own right. Wicked Tinkers may not meet the musical group criteria but it seems to meet the default WP:N criteria. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs)/(e-mail) 11:24, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

Wicked Tinkers should stay. Aaron Shaw (piper) if references can be found. The other group members and the individual albums should be merged into Wicked Tinkers. --Ronz (talk) 00:27, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

Bled eConference @ E-Commerce Electronic commerce

Dear Ronz, I do not think that the link I added is in anyway promotional. To the contrary, this conference web-site provides a valuable resource for people interested in E-Commerce and its history. The proceedings the conference are freely available as pdfs. Maybe I should link directly to the proceedings? Cheers Kai —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.212.214.236 (talk) 19:20, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for responding here. The best solution would be to find the proceedings papers that could be used as references and list them on the talk page so others can help in adding in the referenced information. A link to the conference website itself fails WP:EL, WP:SPAM, and WP:NOT#LINK. --Ronz (talk) 23:31, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

Why did you remove the link to my article "History of Ecommerce" from Electronic commerce?

HEllo, my name is Jareme.

For some time I've posted a link on Wikipage devoted to ecommerce. This link was to the article "History of Eccomerce". You've deleted it as a promotion, poor quality article... So I wonder where do you find any promotional materials in my article? And what article is good quality, if mine is poor? My article has been written together with professionals and all the materials are unique and good. No advertising links, no any advertising contents, just detailed description of history of ecommerce! And I want to mention that as opposed to two paragraphs in Wiki devoted to history of ecommerce (that of course is not enough), my article contains a lot of interesting details since the ecommerce began and even some research materials.

So please provide me with the detailed explanation why it has been deleted.

Looking forward to hear from you soon.

Regards, Jareme —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jareme (talk • contribs) 12:10, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

You're saying you're the author of the article? --Ronz (talk) 15:35, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

Depression and natural therapies

Do you think that a merge of Depression and natural therapies to Major depressive disorder would be in order, or is there yet another of these little walled POV-magnets to which it could be de-forked? I rewrote a couple of the entries about a month back, but I am unconvinced that we need to separate this loose conflagration of treatments and "treatments" from the main article. - Eldereft (cont.) 21:45, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

Absolutely! This has been discussed in detail. The only other solution would be to make a separate article on the treatment of depression, which would be a better solution overall given the size of the depression article currently. --Ronz (talk) 22:09, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

Let's try that--a separate article--much easier to maintain. DGG (talk) 02:06, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

message on image tagging

Hi, Im not sure Im doing this right--I tried to upload an image on the entry Yorick Wilks---the image YW.JPG and it was removed by an Image bot because not tagged. I want to add the tag

but cannot see from your (?) instructions where to go to do this--can you help?

I've never tried it. Have you followed the instructions on your talk page? --Ronz (talk) 16:04, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

Hi Ronz hope all is well. I just noticed this and thought I would help out a little by showing him/her the way to an editor who is excellent in this type of thing, [2]. She helped me with one image I put up and she really knows her way around with the policies to load images and the requirements. I think she would be able to help get this all sorted. I can help if I see the situation myself, the upload request, but it takes me a while till I too get it right but Durova will be able to aid and help get it done the right way much quicker than I can. I hope this helps and that I am not intruding.

On a different note, Ronz, where are you lately? I haven't really seen you around. Are you still on break? I haven't looked at your contributions so excuse me if this is a stupid question! ;) Again, hope you are well. --CrohnieGal^Talk 14:12, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

Hi Crohnie! Thanks for the note. Hope you're well. I'm still fairly busy, but have enough time now that I'm officially back from wikibreak. I'm trying to stay away from drama for the most part, though stepping in where it's needed, like Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/TheNautilus. --Ronz (talk) 16:03, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

Hi, Glad you are still busy, me too. Been dealing with some blockages that stink of late but feeling a bit better today. I have been doing a little here lately but not too much other than mostly vandal reverts. I have been tempted to speak up at The Nautilus for comments page but I have done so well avoiding him since the problems I had with him at the Barrett page and prefer to keep it that way, though the temptations are overwhelming at times, I think it is best to stay out and just watch it. I feel a lot is being shown there. Have you read the comments by Shoemaker Holiday? I found that of interest and almost put my endorsement to it, but I didn't. I will continue to 'watch' though. You take care, bad storms coming and my connection is getting flaky. Talk to you soon, any suggestions are welcomed though about this. --CrohnieGal^Talk 20:15, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

Why did you remove the link to my article "History of Ecommerce"?

Yes, I'm the author of the article "History of Ecommerce" published on http://spam.ecommerce-land.com/history_ecommerce.html . I've posted the link to this page on Wiki with the sole purpose to enable Wikipedia users to get more information about history of ecommerce. But you've deleted it as spam. I think it is not fair.

Sincerely, Jareme —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jareme (talk • contribs) 14:07, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

You've added the link, and nothing else to the article, twice. No one has said it is spam, but the manner in which it has been added violates Wikipedia:Spam#How_not_to_be_a_spammer. It think it's a poor quality article and too promotional. The other editor that removed it thought it was too commercial. --Ronz (talk) 15:52, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

External link guidelines

I do not understand why you would feel that a link to a website that has valid Q&A about the topic in hand is spamming. It is not a personal website, it doesn't sell anything, it is HIGHLY relevant. Are you just trying to limit "competition" with other wikis?

Hagoleshet —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hagoleshet (talk • contribs) 07:21, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

You added similar links, and nothing else, to a large number of articles through your account and 212.143.232.2 (talk · contribs). You were warned that this is inappropriate by another editor. See Wikipedia:Spam#How_not_to_be_a_spammer. --Ronz (talk) 15:58, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

RE: Why did you remove the link to my article "History of Ecommerce"?

So if I edit wikipedia article about the history of ecommerce, add some interesting facts from my article and after that put a link to the page where my article is posted, will it be OK? Am I right? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jareme (talk • contribs) 12:54, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

The facts need to be verifiable by reliable sources. Further, you should be aware of the conflict of interest policy. The best approach would be to start a discussion on the talk page, and include a list of references that you used for your article. --Ronz (talk) 15:47, 25 June 2008 (UTC)