User talk:Elf

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I am taking along wikibreak and will be back on Wikipedia probably at random long intervals for minor edits and sometimes to check for messages, but 2 years of one's life is a long time to devote to something for which one doesn't get paid, no matter how interesting it has been.

Double redirect cleanup award[edit]

For your help with the May 16, 2005 double redirect cleanup project you are given this award.

Cool song[edit]

I heard you wrote this [1]? Nice! R adiant _>|< 14:57, Jun 21, 2005 (UTC)

Barnstar[edit]

For excellent edit after edit after edit after edit, I award you the Tireless Contributor award.

By the way, your dogs are adorable, especially Jake! smurrayinchester^{(User), (Talk)} 20:43, 31 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

You're welcome! By the way, if it is your birthday, Happy Birthday! smurrayinchester^{(User), (Talk)} 21:56, 31 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Image:0407-06-06WeakSubway wb.jpg[edit]

Hi, Elf. Any idea why this image -- as used as Subway (underpass) -- will not allow itself to be re-sized? Should you answer this, please bear in mind that you will be addressing a technoramus... ;) -- Picapica 21:56, 22 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Books[edit]

I've heard you say you have quite a collection of dog books. Any chance you could list them for us? Vortex 00:51, 13 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

OK, I added User:Elf/dog book database and I also included a link to it from my main user page where I say that I have a lot of books about dogs. :-) Enjoy. Don't know how useful it is without ISBNs or detailed descriptions, but it's what I've got. Elf | Talk 21:57, 17 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Oh wow. This is extremely helpful. All I need is the title and author anyway, I can look for descriptions myself. Many thanks my friend. I shall start searching for these immediately. I'm sure others will appreciate this list as well. :) Vortex 22:19, 17 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I also suspect that a lot of these are out of print. And note that I'm not saying how *useful* any individual one is. :-) Anyway, glad I could add cheer to your day. Elf | Talk 22:40, 17 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Barnstar, yeah that's right, a barnstar![edit]

		The Oddball Barnstar
		I, User:Pedant hereby award you the Oddball barnstar for your creation of the Category Category:Physical activity and dexterity toys on June 14 2005

The Oddball Barnstar is for editors who create ... something that one wouldn't expect to find in more traditional encyclopedias. Please take a moment to see how 'your' category has grown in just over a year. User:Pedant 21:18, 6 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I was working on Juggling, and related hard-to-categorise subjects, and your category helped to group some dissimilar things that seemed to need to go together. I'll be likely to add some more things to that category too. Thanks again, and remember even if you don't come around much, your contributions will continue to be both welcome and valued. User:Pedant 23:25, 6 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Long overdue recognition and thanks[edit]

		The Fauna Barnstar
		I can imagine few if any people who are more deserving of this recognition than you. Your tireless efforts to date to improve and maintain the quality of the dogs articles has been invaluable to wikipedia, and I hope that you will accept this small token of our appreciation and recognition. I regret to say that it is not in my power to grant what I believe to be a citizen of the United States an official title, but I believe few other people are more deserving of receiving wikipedia's OBF (which is as close as I can approximate OBE). Thank you again for all your extraordinary work. Badbilltucker 15:34, 26 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

And, by the way, this is not an effort to prevent you from leaving, if you so desire. I for one would be very sorry to see you leave completely, but can understand how you might view it as the best of a group of bad options. Certainly, no one wants to see your own life hurt because of your efforts here. However, whether you do come back or not, I have no doubt that this little recognition is more than adequately earned. Badbilltucker 16:30, 30 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Image:PoisonOak wb biggerLeaves.jpg[edit]

Can you replace this with a higher resolution version? It's an attractive picture, and I would like to continue using it in the article, because it looks like the Bay Area poison oak I am so familiar with, but the resolution is much too low. Let me know on my talk page, or better yet, just upload something. Thanks. KP Botany 19:42, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I see you're on Wikibreak. When you get around to is fine. KP Botany 19:43, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It's archived onto CD; I'll have to search it out. Suggestion on what you'd like to see in the way of resolution? Elf | Talk 20:10, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Heh. What's 7 years between friends? Elf | Talk 16:54, 28 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Larger version of LabradorWeaving.jpg?[edit]

Hello! I was wondering if you have a larger version of LabradorWeaving.jpg; I would like to nominate it for Quality Image on the Commons, but the guidelines require that images be roughly 1600x1200 or larger. grendel|khan 12:42, 29 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sadly, no; I can upload one that's slightly larger, but the camera I used did not take large photos. I probably already covered this with you back in 2007 (I hope), but replying here so I know. Elf | Talk 22:54, 1 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Nope, wrong; that was cropped out of a barely large enough photo, and hence it became the size that it is. Elf | Talk 22:58, 1 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Proposition[edit]

Hi, this is AlexHillan. I am the composer of the wikisong, "Wikipedia the Beautiful." Recently, I have proposed that it become the official theme song. I know that you are the composer of the current theme song, "Hotel Wikipedia", so I want your opinion onthis matter. Please post a meesage on my talk page stating your opinion.

Sincerely, AlexHillan 04:24, 10 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Useful template for random dog hybrid articles[edit]

{{subst:prod|reason = {{{concern|The subject of the article is only verified though membership in the American Canine Hybrid Association (which only entails a $5 fee was paid as dues for recognition) and is not [[WP:N|significantly covered]] in any [[WP:RS|reliable sources]].}}}|month = August|day = 27|year = 2007|time = 03:37|timestamp = 20070827033738}}

Barnstar[edit]

		The Invisible Barnstar
		For being with us for so many years, and for many years to come, raise a glass. Marlith ^T/C 05:39, 20 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Online, so....[edit]

...Naturally had to drop my favourite dog person a note! Hope all is well. Quill (talk) 22:03, 6 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Wikipedia:Song[edit]

Hallo, I am from the german Wikipedia from the sociologic section, and I found out that you wrote a song text on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Song . We want to know the reason(s) why you wrote this song. It would be kind of you to leave an english (or german) comment on http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Wikipedistik/Soziologie/Musik&action=edit&redlink=1 . Thank you --84.166.123.219 (talk) 07:26, 9 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations![edit]

Congratulations Elf! Your image Image:OrangeBloss wb.jpg was the Random Picture of the Day! It looked like this:

Random picture of the day

An Orange Blossom, the state flower of Florida

Image credit: [[User:Elf (talk)|Elf (talk)]] ([[User talk:Elf (talk)|talk]] · [[Special:Contribs/Elf (talk)|contribs]])

. - Talk to you later, Presidentman (talk) Random Picture of the Day 21:06, 27 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! Elf | Talk 00:36, 29 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Possible misuse of spaniel photo[edit]

Dear Elf, Found this while surfing the web this morning, I don't know if anything can be done about it since they do have the website name on it, but I wasn't sure if you'd want your photo being used on a list of the most aggressive dogs breeds. It is a pic of a Springer. They originally had one up from the Zim Family Cocker Forum, but someone caught on and notified Jim Zim and it was pulled, only to be replaced with your pic!

http://www.dogcentral.info/worlds-aggre ... og-breeds/ 05:44, 11 February 2010 (UTC)05:44, 11 February 2010 (UTC)05:44, 11 February 2010 (UTC)05:44, 11 February 2010 (UTC)~ —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.20.254.104 (talk)

Thanks, I'll check it out. At least they need to give credit & link back to wikipedia. Elf | Talk 07:38, 24 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

tomcue note[edit]

Moved this from my user page to here. Elf | Talk 04:09, 16 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

As an admirer of your work/contributions, look me up when you return from your break. I would like run some things by you. Tomcue2 (talk) 16:38, 20 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You're in a book[edit]

I'm sure you knew this anyway, but I thought it was pretty neat -- your work with dog articles has certainly made an impact. The title is Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything; here's the link on Google Books. — anndelion ❋ 07:37, 15 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, so COOL! I'd not have known if you hadn't pointed it out. Thanks so much for taking the time. Elf | Talk 19:28, 22 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

No problem, I'm surprised you didn't know! – anna 16:52, 23 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Newbery Honor winners (book)[edit]

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Category:Newbery Medal winners (book)[edit]

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MSU Interview[edit]

Dear Elf,

My name is Jonathan Obar user:Jaobar, I'm a professor in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University and a Teaching Fellow with the Wikimedia Foundation's Education Program. This semester I've been running a little experiment at MSU, a class where we teach students about becoming Wikipedia administrators. Not a lot is known about your community, and our students (who are fascinated by wiki-culture by the way!) want to learn how you do what you do, and why you do it. A while back I proposed this idea (the class) to the communityHERE, where it was met mainly with positive feedback. Anyhow, I'd like my students to speak with a few administrators to get a sense of admin experiences, training, motivations, likes, dislikes, etc. We were wondering if you'd be interested in speaking with one of our students.

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Bottom line is that we really need your help, and would really appreciate the opportunity to speak with you. If interested, please send me an email at obar@msu.edu (to maintain anonymity) and I will add your name to my offline contact list. If you feel comfortable doing so, you can post your nameHERE instead.

If you have questions or concerns at any time, feel free to email me at obar@msu.edu. I will be more than happy to speak with you.

Thanks in advance for your help. We have a lot to learn from you.

Sincerely,

Jonathan Obar --Jaobar (talk) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chlopeck (talk • contribs) 23:17, 14 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Thanks, bot. Fixed. Elf | Talk 17:43, 26 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Photo usage[edit]

Hi, I've been working on a small game built around animal quizzes and I wanted to let you know I've used one of your pictures.

I found your picture here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:BostonTerrierBrindleStand_w.jpg

And I attributed the picture like this: Elf with this link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Elf and also added a link to the license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

I hope you're happy with it, please let me know if this is not the case. You can find the game here: http://apps.facebook.com/animalalbum Or through here: http://www.facebook.com/pages/AnimalAlbum/156339584490672

Kind regards, Garfunkel Jansen (talk) 08:43, 13 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

P.S. Thanks for taking the picture and making it available.

Pretty cool. Thanks for giving attribution and for letting me know! Attribution could be Ellen Finch instead of ELF. Elf | Talk 17:53, 26 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

No problem, I'll make sure it gets updated. Garfunkel Jansen (talk) 05:58, 29 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Sugarlumps! Has it really been three years?[edit]

Was just looking something up, and noticed something silly. Instead of just ignoring it as usual, I decided to sign in and edit for some reason.

I'm unbelievably busy these days, too busy to risk rekindling a WP addiction.

Be well.

Quill (talk) 00:36, 24 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

"Sugarlumps" Ha, ha - Yeah, well, I didn't feel like swearin'. Quill (talk) 22:36, 3 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Dear Bot: You wouldn't have noticed, but I did put a note about that very thing on the talk page. I'm amazed at how good bots have gotten. Elf | Talk 21:30, 12 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

RE: Heterochromia photo[edit]

Hello there. I finally found the time (and I admit I was kind of procrastinating :)) to upload a new photo to the Heterochromia iridum page, as you suggested on my talk page. It's the first photo in the gallery. Do you think the quality of the photo is good enough this time? Would be glad to know and thanks in advance. :) --- ☣ Hardstylehunt3r ^(talk)_(contribs) 21:04, 22 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Responded on your talk page. Thanks. Elf | Talk 21:08, 22 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Image discussion at article 17 Mile Drive[edit]

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Oh hello, Elf[edit]

Tempus fugit

Hello, Elf. I was just looking through my old talk page archives, and I saw that you were one of the very first people to ever say hello on my userpage, way back in April of 2004, before I had even figured out how signatures work. Oh, how time flies. My beloved Groenendael has passed away long ago, and I have retired and returned many times, but Wikipedia remains. I'm glad to see you're still around. All the best, – Quadell ^(talk) 19:51, 16 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Request for comment[edit]

Hello there, a proposal regarding pre-adminship review has been raised at Village pump by Anna Frodesiak. Your comments here is very much appreciated. Many thanks. Jim Carter through MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 06:46, 28 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Canine to canidae, etc.[edit]

Hi Elf, I want to say thank you for your contributions to the Wikipedia. I noticed your excellent comment of January 14, 2006 (!!!!) at Talk:Canine. I arrived because I was disambiguating a recent usage of ambiguous "canine" to "canidae" instead, I believe correctly, in this edit. Funny that 10 years ago you were bemoaning the information lost as disambiguating editors do their damage, which seems very familiar to me. I have recently been participating in the massive disambiguation efforts of wp:DPL and have been seeing damage done by disambiguators sometimes, perhaps especially within wp:DPL's Monthly Disambiguation Challenge. And sometimes I have been bemoaning loss of information by disambiguations done, including yesterday within a requested move at Talk:Paperboy. Interesting to see your concern 10 years ago.

From your note above I gather you were very active during two years ~~up to some point in 2013~~ and now are not active, but I also see you made an edit in 2015 not too long ago. And I see you have an archive about dog-related discussion from this talk page, so I am going to go ahead and ask you if you can help on a dog-related issue right now:

At the Canine disambiguation page, there is the following hierarchy given:

Canidae, domestic dogs, wolves, foxes, jackals, coyotes, and other dog-like mammals
Caninae, the sub-family
Canis, a genus including dogs, wolves, coyotes, and jackals
Dog, the domestic dog

But, it begs the question for me of what is "Caninae, the sub-family", and couldn't that be better explained to help users of the dab page. I wanted to fix that up. Usage of "the sub-family" implies it is the only family within Canidae, which apparently is a family, so I wondered if perhaps it would be correct to revise that to something like "Caninae, the only current family within the order Canidae although there were other now-extinct families", if that was a fair description (apparently it is not, including because Canidae is apparently a family). But the Caninae page is really poor, in my view, or something else is wrong, because it is not even clear that Canis is within Caninae, though it must be if the hierarchy at the dab is correct.

In fact the Caninae article implies Canis is not within it, because it states that

Present-day basal Caninae include:
Genus Otocyon (probably a vulpine close to Urocyon)
Bat-eared fox, Otocyon megalotis

Genus Nyctereutes
Raccoon dog, N. procyonoides

Genus Cuon
Dhole, C. alpinus

Maybe the hierarchy changed? And further I note at Canidae that it includes "canini" and "true foxes" (vulpini) which perhaps should be mentioned in the dab hierarchy. I also made this edit at "Canini" which I hope is correct.

Could you help make a modified version of the hierarchy, to be more informative, perhaps something like the following? :

Canidae: family of all canids, which include canini (domestic dogs, wolves, jackals, coyotes, and other dog-like mammals) and vulpini (true foxes)
Caninae, the sub-family of just canini (is that correct?) which includes several genuses (?)
Canis, a genus including dogs, wolves, coyotes, and jackals
Dog, the domestic dog

More my speed: where Gustav Stickley invented the Craftsman architecture (on the inside, you can't see it, sorry!)

Help! I just wanted to edit the hierarchy at the dab page based on the corresponding articles, to make the dab page more useful. Can you possibly fix it up, and/or let me know how to? It is beyond what I can do, it seems. Editors sometimes say there is "no deadline" to making the Wikipedia perfect, but it would be nice to get this fixed up sooner rather than later, if there is indeed something wrong, IMHO. No problem if you cannot address this. Either way, thank you for your direct contributions plus the moaning which is an indirect one. :) --do ncr am 21:12, 7 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Responding on your talk page. Elf | Talk 01:56, 8 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hi again, that was quick! Thank you for the encouragement to go ahead, that helps a lot. Okay and then i am not so puzzled any more, having browsed a bit. The fact that Caninae has 3 "basal" ~~genuses(sp?)~~ genera is not what I thought it meant (i incorrectly thot it meant basic? and that the three were being presented possibly as an exclusive list); there's a whole lot more genera including Canis genus within it, as shown in the infobox. It helps to look at the infobox, apparently part of some comprehensive system of them! And whatever the recent "revisions of the subfamily" were (which worried me), they didn't change that. Certainly the Caninae article could/should say a bit more, even just drawing from its genera articles, and i now feel confident enough to go ahead and add to it. I will add the maybe-obvious-to-some but totally necessary statement IMHO that it includes Canis which includes dogs. And Caninae doesn't include the vulpini, it seems to be synonymous to canini, so I can revise the explanation of hierarchy on the dab page, too.

Very funny, your User:Elf#The horrible addiction...and recovery? tabulation is! :) Yikes, I have climbed back up to 223, after dropping pretty far from a peak of a couple years ago, somewhere around 170. It's because I have gotten into the disambiguation task, and even ended up "winning" the August Monthly Dab Challenge (though I promise I tried to do all good edits, and did other good work behind the scenes to help improve the general quality of dabbing going on). Very sick of me. :( Your 3579 is much better. Oh, i see your two very active years were 11 to 9 or so years ago, I don't know how i got the impression it was up to 2013. Congratulations! Thanks again for your complaining and encouragement, both helpful. :) cheers, --do ncr am 03:28, 8 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

another pic, and you've got mail... --do ncr am 04:53, 8 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Ouch. You are correct, DPL bot. I checked all the others, but this was a last-minute added link and I did not check it. Leaving this here to remind myself in the future. (Maybe.) Elf | Talk 16:35, 8 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Ways to improve Toy poodle[edit]

Hi, I'm Batreeqah. Elf, thanks for creating Toy poodle!

I've just tagged the page, using our page curation tools, as having some issues to fix. Please translate FROM Chinese to English.

The tags can be removed by you or another editor once the issues they mention are addressed. If you have questions, you can leave a comment on my talk page. Or, for more editing help, talk to the volunteers at the Teahouse. Batreeqah ^{(Talk) (Contribs)} 00:58, 10 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

RE: Messages[edit]

Hi, I was using a tool provided by Wikipedia that approves new pages. It was listed in the new pages list. Sorry for any misunderstandings! Batreeqah ^{(Talk) (Contribs)} 01:15, 10 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]