User talk:Matt Deres/Archive 2

Donitz

The reason I called the sentence "weasel language" is because it sought to convey an impression which the facts do not, in fact, support. The reason for this mis-impression lies in the structure and contents of the paragraph rather than the sentences themselves.

The paragraph opens with "Ideologically, Dönitz was antisemitic", an introductory sentence, and the rest of the paragraph, including the impugned sentences, deal with the subject of "Donitz and antisemitism". There are two problems with the impugned sentences.

First, they do not fit with the introductory sentence to the paragraph. That he was at an event also attended by an anti-semite does not show that he is "ideologically anti-semitic."

Secondly, it does fit in with the next sentence about his denial of knowledge of the holocaust, because it tends to show that he should have been aware of it. However, that's all it does - it "tends to show". The way the sentenceds are currently arranged implies that there is some direct relation between this event and his denial of knowledge - for example, that he had actual knowledge. This is either Original Research, or it is misleading. To play devil's advocate for a moment, it is by no means a trivial deduction that Donitz was aware of the Nazi Jewish policy, or supported it, simply because he gave a speech just before Himmler did. If I attend a conference, where the next speaker advocates for the abolition of banks, and that turned out to be government policy, it doe snot mean that I necessarily knew of the policy or supported it.

If you feel the sentence deserves to be preserved, then I believe the two paragraphs need to be re-arranged, and it should be made clear what this content shows, instead of implying something that it does not necessarily show. For example, we could say "[new paragraph]Donitz denied all knowledge of the Nazi Jewish policy at Nuremberg. However, it is known that he was at least present - and gave a speech[ref] - at a conference also attended by Himmler who spoke about the need to "exterminate" the Jews.[ref]" --PalaceGuard008 (Talk) 00:05, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

Valued Pictures Proposal

Hi Matt. Have made some developments on this project. There is a trial version at User:Jjron/VP Trial. I have put up a discussion at PPR talk - Wikipedia_talk:Picture_peer_review#Valued_Pictures_Proposal for comments. Drop by and give your thoughts. --jjron (talk) 16:54, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

Hello again

Hi Matt, thank you so much for getting back to me, see my detailed reply on my talk page. Cheers, -- Slaunger (talk) 20:16, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

Yellowlegs FPC

Hey Matt. Can you see Yellowlegs - natures pics. I have tried to remove the stone. Muhammad(talk) 18:43, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for your careful delineation of my Lamarck-evolution-blurred query at the hum desk, Matt. I found it really clear,  : ) Julia Rossi (talk) 01:25, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

Temperature in Houses

Hi Matt:

I wonder if the differences in our views is because of the type of housing we are discussing. I am thinking of a two-storey building where, because it has been divided into two flats, the second floor is almost completely sealed off from the first. (Thus my comment about heat rising to the ceiling of the first floor and staying there: it has no more "up" to go.) You speak of a "back split" which, in my neck of the woods, is a house with not two separate levels, but one-and-a-half levels where there is wide-open cross ventilation from about mid-room height up, in your case, across the back of the house. In this back-split, if my descritpion is correct, you would have the uppper part of the split acting as just a higher ceiling to the lower part and I would expect the upper part to be warmer than the lower. If I have it all wrong, we shall just have to conclude that our experiences are different. As I child, when houses did not have more than one thermostat, when we had one of the first natural-gas furnaces installed in the city, because my dad sold them, the upstairs was always cold. Getting into and out of bed was a major exercise in hardy acceptance of what cannot be changed. The downstairs, once we got there, was warm, and the cooking in the kitchen may have been helping that along. ៛ Bielle (talk) 15:35, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

RefDesk Apples

Ha! OTOH, you don't really believe that a stork brought them to Great Grandma Smith-Apples, do you? DMacks (talk) 16:32, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Monmouth School

An article that you have been involved in editing, Monmouth School, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Monmouth School. Thank you. Do you want to opt out of receiving this notice?Redgator5 (talk) 02:43, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

Hello

I believe that the reverts I did just then are not vandalism. If you look properly, I actually undid edits such as "TOASTED TV (despite its inferiority to Cheez TV)". Please check properly next time. Thank you —Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.172.34.81 (talk) 04:29, 11 October 2008 (UTC)

Replied here. Matt Deres (talk) 16:20, 11 October 2008 (UTC)

CDRW Problems

Yes I'm using windows explorer. He put a patch for one of my games and a mod for another on the disk. Using IsoBuster, I've been able to determine that the mod is a ZIP file, and the other is an executable I've been able to use disks with the exact same specs, so I know for sure that it's not a case of a disk being to advanced for my drive. --AtTheAbyss (talk) 01:18, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

Replied here. Matt Deres (talk) 00:34, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

Well, I took the disk to my old man's house, and I was able to read it on his computer. I burned the files to another disk, which I am able to read on my computer. I installed the mod, but when I try to install the patch, I come up with this: "Could not initialize installation. File size expected= 121137572, size returned= 121139200. The parameter is incorrect." Any ideas? Thanks. P.S. The reason I am responding here is because when I try to respond at the ref desk it only edits the archves. --AtTheAbyss (talk) 18:01, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

Hmm. An extra 1628 bytes isn't very significant; the fact that it's extra is a little weird though. When your friend initially burned the disc, did he burn it as a bunch of files (using Nero or something similar) or did he burn a specific CD image using something like ImgBurn or CDRWin? If he burned an image and you just copied the files over, that could result in the CRC failing or the file size being off. It could also be that the patch wasn't designed for a Win98 environment. I'm afraid we're reaching the end of my limited knowledge here and it's not like there'll be tech support for an illicit patch. You really do get what you pay for, you know. ps - It's okay to add replies to the archives; they still show up on the refdesk for a few days. Matt Deres (talk) 21:32, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

Messiah edits

_{moved from top of page} Do not tamper with what you do not understand Matt. First corroborate using the scientific process. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Itegrity (talk • contribs) 19:43, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

Hi, Itegrity is complaining about your revert of Messiah and has vandalised it again. It's been reverted again. Feel free to revert his nonsense on your talk page and my response! Unusual? Quite ^TalkQu 20:08, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

POTD notification

POTD

Hi Matt,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture Image:Alice 05a-1116x1492.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on October 28, 2008. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2008-10-28. howcheng {chat} 05:26, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

Your comment about Blade Runner ...

Saw this remark of yours while looking over the archived FPC during its run on the Main Page today.

You're hardly alone in noticing that ... postmodernist cultural critics have devoted whole papers, and collections of them, to the influence of Blade Runner on the contemporary urban environment (or, did Blade Runner just reflect what was already there?). In one of the documentaries included with the 25th anniversary edition, they do talk about this. Ron Moore says that Times Square today looks like a clean version of the movie, and here's the best of several photos on Flickr making the same point. Daniel Case (talk) 03:21, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

replied here. Matt Deres (talk) 02:04, 13 November 2008 (UTC)

Uncivil Comment

I would recommend striking your uncivil comment in WP:Reference desk/Science. -t BMW c- 20:16, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

Done. Matt Deres (talk) 11:30, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

Dreams from My Father / Ghostwriting

Sorry, I should have read the discussion page first. --80.242.205.254 (talk)

replied here. Matt Deres (talk) 02:43, 13 November 2008 (UTC)

VANDALISM????

Please explain what you mean —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.112.130.129 (talk) 02:36, 10 November 2008 (UTC)

replied here. Matt Deres (talk) 03:38, 10 November 2008 (UTC)

This was not vandalism as you know. I will assume good faith Matt, that you merely didn't read the policies. Please do. Read up on vandalism and that wikipedia is not censored. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.112.130.129 (talk) 09:19, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

replied here. Matt Deres (talk) 00:31, 13 November 2008 (UTC)

WP:IDONTLIKEIT is not the same as WP:VANDALISM it is notable, and that's what that "notes" section is for. like did you see the one that says "straight to dvd"? whooo reading the terri hatcher article cares if that movie wennt straight to dvd? i guess far more are interested in the time she went nude. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.112.130.129 (talk) 08:00, 13 November 2008 (UTC)

replied here. Matt Deres (talk) 11:48, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

Black and Tan edits

_{moved from top of page} I am correcting the page Black and Tan. It is historically correct to state that the Black and Tan auxiliary force in Ireland was the brainchild of Winston Churchill who oversaw their deployment into Ireland - one of the reasons why De Valera had no respect or love for Churchill and also why Churchill was especially disliked in Ireland. Also "Black and Tans" was a nickname - it was not their official name. You took out these facts for some reason and I put them back.

[[[Special:Contributions/69.143.82.178|69.143.82.178]] (talk) 04:51, 18 November 2008 (UTC)]

replied here. Matt Deres (talk) 01:48, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

_{moved from top of page} Matt - As regards the Black and Tan change, I DID provide a reference for my change/addition. The book I added "In Search of Ireland's Heroes" by Carmel McCaffrey is my reference. It is # 1 ref. I am not very good at maneuvering myself around this format so please excuse me if I put it in the wrong place. Even answering you is a little iffy for me! 69.143.82.178 (talk) 00:42, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

replied here.

I think I have the reply format correct this time so here goes! Thanks for your helpful response as regards the oversight of articles. I do understand the real threat of vandalism and nonsense being added. I will try to learn how to get around the site a bit better. I have had problems in the past with editing and have often given up and canceled out because of the difficulty I encountered with adding refs etc in the correct place. It amazed me how easy it was to make a real mess!

Thanks also for your expression of welcome. [[[Special:Contributions/69.143.82.178|69.143.82.178]] (talk) 14:18, 21 November 2008 (UTC)]

Wujal Wujal Bordem =alcohol abuse??!!!!

Boredom.... thats what you think the cause of alcohol abuse is? Have you stopped to consider the many other social issues that could contribute the alcohol abuse that exists within Wuajal Wujal. You don't think that sexual abuse or the lack of adequate housing or the fact that this community in particular was compared with third world countries. Open up you eyes and see the holistic picture.... european invasion has had a huge impact on Aboriginal people of Australia and you think that the effects don't still ligure your kidding yourslef!! I come from wujal wujal and you need to get your facts right before displaying globally that bordem is the the number one contributing factor to alcohol abuse within Wujal Wujal!!! This does not represent wujal wujal trythfully at all!!! What you have written says that the "heroric" government has come in and impliemented their crappy policies and has given the communtity members work... wake up to yorslef right from the get go the governmen has been far from heroric.... they have treated Aboriginal people as social experients and still haven't work out that solutions lie with the people, a bottem up approach as a opposed to a top down!!! write the truth!!! the whole truth!! still today we a silencing aboriginal people...Give Aboriginal people a voice and stop contributing to the governments lies!!!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 114.72.140.92 (talk) 02:25, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

This drunken rant is a result of me removing this individual's vandalism here. Matt Deres (talk) 02:28, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

Vandalism thats what you say when your faced with the truth... have you been to Wujal Wujal... first of all it doesn't mean many waters it means beautiful waters and secondly this wasn't s-posed to be an attack on you personally but society in genral who continue to silence Aboriginal people in that they try to represent Aboriginal people without actually consulting Aboriginal people and this is what you seemed to have done... please understand!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 114.72.140.92 (talk) 02:45, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

Reference desk regulars

Hello, Matt. I took the liberty of adding your signature to this list. I hope that's alright. ---Sluzzelin talk 11:24, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

RE: Again

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Grace

For you Matt D, to keep you going on the desks, and to honour your self-correction which was above and beyond, etc. From me, Julia Rossi (talk) 10:26, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

replied here. Matt Deres (talk) 03:23, 6 December 2008 (UTC)

Goodbye, My Coney Island Baby, (reply)

Thanks for telling me about the possible copyright issue. I didn't know that full lyrics usually were not published, and it didn't really occur to me that the lyrics of such a popular song might not have been free for the public domain. I have now made enquiries and the song turns out to be still copyright. The original version was first came under copyright in 1948, and the copyright was later extended in 1975 by Mills Music Ltd. As it happens this particular song has been modified many times and there exist many other versions and arrangements, however of the few that I have been able to find none are not under copyright. You said that you generally don't include the full lyrics, but since I have rarely ever edited song or lyrics related articles I don't really know how to proceed next. Sorry if I have caused you or WikiProject Songs any problems, and I hope this helped answer your question.--P.Marlow (talk) 23:13, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

replied here. Matt Deres (talk) 03:22, 6 December 2008 (UTC)

Medical advice and the Ref Desk

Hi Matt. Just so we're all on the same page here, I wanted to drop by and clarify something about 'medical advice' and the Reference Desk. (I'm concerned that we might be talking past each other a bit on the talk page, and that the problem is one of semantics rather than any genuine disagreement.) When we talk about 'medical advice' at the Desks, we're actually using an in-house definition for the term. The full details are in the relevant guideline – Wikipedia:Reference desk/Guidelines/Medical advice#What does this guideline apply to? – but the short version is that we consider any comment offering any sort of diagnosis, prognosis, or treatment recommendation to be 'medical advice' for our purposes.

I suspect you might be reading 'medical advice' as meaning the same thing as 'practicing medicine'; if so, I can certainly see where you're coming from. I fully agree that talking about first aid doesn't rise to the level of medical practice, and I can understand why you'd be put out that people are jumping on you for it. To be completely clear, no one intends to suggest that you're practicing medicine without a license or anything of the sort. Instead, the concern is that you're treading close to (or, probably) slightly over the line of what we've decided – on Wikipedia – is the limit of advice that we're prepared to offer.

There are several reasons why we've set a much more restrictive standard at the Reference Desk. The very condensed version is that we're interested in avoiding harm to any of our readers, to any of our editors, and to the project itself. (The much longer, somewhat tongue-in-cheek version is at User:TenOfAllTrades/Why not?) Posts to the Desk are entirely unmoderated upon posting, and are very seldom altered or removed afterward. We often have no way to follow up with the original poster of a question if we discover that a response was erroneous, incomplete, or dangerous. Further, we don't have any sort of Wikipedia Medical Review Board to impartially and competently evaluate advice — even straightforward first aid instructions.

Consequently, we've chosen to take quite a hard line on giving out any sort of medical guidance. We're never going to be the best source for it, and the open, freewheeling nature of Wikipedia almost always makes us close to the worst possible source for that type of information, when guaranteed quality and reliability are paramount. (This is not to say that all questions on a medical topic are rejected out of hand; we're quite willing to address factual questions which don't require a component of advice or evaluation of a person's health.) I hope that that clears things up a bit. Cheers! TenOfAllTrades(talk) 22:07, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

Replied here. Matt Deres (talk) 23:38, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

First Aid

You appear to have intelligence, based on your posts, but your hard-headed opinion that first aid is in no way medical treatment just appears juvenile. You quoted OSHA guidelines but appear to purposely omitted the disclaimer "For the purpose of 1904..." What does that mean? It means "Under normal circumstances, first aid is medical care, but for the purpose of this specific guideline, we are not referring to first aid when we say medical care." Notice that there are a lot of other disclaimers that are clearly medical treatment - such as seeing your provider for a previously existing condition. It appears to me that you purposely edited the quote from the OSHA guideline in the hopes that nobody would read it and you'd look like you won some juvenile pissing contest. Notice that I've put this on your talk page - not in the public. If you have a reference that states, simply "first aid is not medical care", then produce it. If all you can find are quotes that under certain legal standards it will be considered uncovered medical treatment, then make some attempt to understand what you are reading. -- kainaw™ 00:48, 24 March 2009 (UTC)

replied here. Matt Deres (talk) 01:42, 24 March 2009 (UTC)

St. Lawrence High School

Thanks for trying to redeem that article. I'll take a look shortly and see which of the tags can be removed. - Triona (talk) 03:09, 11 April 2009 (UTC)

Most of the tags are gone now. Much improvement, especially for an article which was at first glance irredeemable. - Triona (talk) 04:19, 11 April 2009 (UTC)