Talk:Main Page/Archive 36

message: Simple question as many people in college and elsewhere have roommates, we now live in suites so why is suitemate not a word?
:1-Guess you could say that it is a word.  http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Word
:2-http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=suitemate&go=Go
:3-http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Neologisms
:4-http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Protologism
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:-:)Selah 02:55, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why isn't suitemate a word? 

message: If Johburg is considered stable then why was I carjacked?
:People get carjacked everywhere. Tim Rhymeless  (Er...let's shimmy)  02:02, 1 May 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Norway doesn't have carjackers. Jørgen 19:21, 9 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  RSA Most Stable 

message: "Compared to" should be "compared with".
:So Shakespeare really meant to write "Shall I compare thee with a summers day"? Both forms are equally acceptable. Filiocht | Blarneyman 09:13, Apr 29, 2005 (UTC)
Regarding someone so many hundred years dead as an authority on the modern English language probably isn't so clever. The OED prefers "with".
The OED is not a grammar reference. Fowler, for example, gives both. Our own Wikipedia:Manual of style has nothing to say on the matter. Check this out for a good discussion. Filiocht | Blarneyman 12:41, Apr 29, 2005 (UTC)
Also, you really can't compare the rediscovery of a woodpecker thought to have become extinct in 1954 to the rediscovery of the coleacanth, a species that had been presumed to have died out during the Cretaceous period, 65 million years ago. Proto 13:28, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ivory-billed woodpecker 

message: I have been trying to figure out how make good of this website, but i have not been able to find out how. There is so much content and so many links, that it is impossible to understand how to go about and write new articles or how to edit present pages.
Tihsa.
:The introduction on the Main Page has a link to this Wikipedia:Introduction --Clawed 04:26, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Too many links and confustion 

message: I know of a little program known as Mozilla Composer. This is a VERY useful program for making web pages. I don't know how to get it alone, but it would be VERY useful if it was in Wikipedia, for things such as tables. If it was the editor used in Wikipedia, it could really help. Although it is included in Mozilla Suite, Wikipedia might be able to get it as their editor, directly from the people who make Mozilla, on special order.
--Jon
*I don't really think that that's really a good idea. Wikipedia is generally against too fancy design and too complicated html. Also it's best to use the styles form the wikipedia style sheets. I think that the current simlpicity is simpler and cleaner. Sure it might be confusing for those who don't know html but I think that html is easy to learn. Jeltz talk 18:50, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mozilla Composer Compatibility 

message: We have, just have to have the next front page article in English be about the Hitchiker's guide to the Galaxy. While Wikipedia is completely different from the guide...come on...you what I am talking about!!! This is closeset thing to a guide!!! I would carry Wikipedia with me whereever I went updating articles while I hitchiked the galaxy!!!!
I have always thought of Wikipedia as a bit of a Guide, because of the antagonism with the more staid (& less informative) Encyclopedia Galactica, but I did look again and saw this quote "The Hitch Hiker's Guide ... has been compiled and recompiled many times over many years and under many different editorships. It contains contributions from countless numbers of travellers and researchers." Who would have thought how prescient the concept was? Still, best not to push the analogy too far - I wouldn't like to alienate those who can't stand the Hitch Hiker books/series/film RMoloney 01:10, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: While I'm sympathetic to this idea, there is a more or less official attempt to create an online Guide: h2g2. It's not nearly as comprehensive or as useful as Wikipedia, but it has a quirky charm all its own. Shmuel 03:00, 1 May 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I gotta go with RMoloney on this.  S/he(?) wasn't suggesting renaming Wikipedia to h2g2, nor changing Wikipedia's mission to sync with the Guide, Shmuel.  S/he was just suggesting that a front page article be devoted to h2g2.  With the movie just now coming out, I think think that would be a not only a cool, but also perhaps a froody idea.  BTW, the movie's fuckin great, and, should there be ir is a Wikicities h2g2 project? -Ozzyslovechild 03:33, 2 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hitchiker's guide and wikipedia 

message: I've been going to this site for a while now, it's pretty cool. I don't know why but I keep getting this "you have new messages" thing at the top of pages, and when I click them, they say I've been vandalizing. So uh...I'm kind of confused. Sorry if this post doesn't belong here and stuff (I'm a noob) .
:It would appear that you're sharing an IP Address with someone is spamming. There's not much you can do, BUT, you can get a Username! Then the messages for your IP go away. :) Ambush Commander 23:37, Apr 30, 2005 (UTC)
::It might also be the old bug that gives anonymous users messages corresponding to a different (wrong) IP address. (If that bug hasn't been fixed yet.  I think it was probably related to caching.) DBrane 12:36, 1 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hey... 

message: Why is there a picture of a mushroom cloud on the main page? I know it is relevant, but a lot of people might see that picture under "news" and fear something pretty horrible -- I know I did. What about that three-circles hazard symbol instead? 72.1.206.21 17:01, 2 May 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: good for you. You see, the warheads are still in place, so it's good to remember to worry, from time to time... dab (ᛏ) 17:21, 2 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mushroom cloud 

message: The article on the May 3rd constitution had a slew of small typos—not unusual, but shouldn't we comb through an article for errors such as these before posting it as the Article of the Day? And repeating "througout" on the main page itself is eye-catching, but not in the way you want it to be. --Italo Svevo 05:48, 3 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nitpicking 

message: What other reason is there besides greed that communism never works.....i mean reading about it, it seems perfectly plausible that it could work without serious issues in a govt...FOR GODS SAKE Y?!!!
:Greed is big, and I've also heard some stuff about how a non-market economy will inevitably collapse due to misinvestment (some sort of principle, don't remember the name though, but it was supposedly a major cause of the collapse of the Soviet Union). Nickptar 22:56, 3 May 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Also competition.  Competition is fundamentally opposed to a communist system, but the human condition seems to be pretty competitive.  Having a bigger house and coveting your neighbor's ass are pretty inherent to all people.  There are volumes written about why communism fails, but this is a simple answer. - Che Nuevara, the Democratic Revolutionary 03:44, 4 May 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: having said that, it should be pointed out that communism has worked on a small scale. It seems that the concept is entirely feasible as long as peer pressure (your neighbor's opinion of you) works. Above village level, that sort of control breaks down. Hence -- does the "global village" bode new hope for the feasibility of communism? I don't know. dab (ᛏ) 18:49, 4 May 2005 (UTC)

text: THanks. Please sign your comments, using ~~~~. Nickptar 23:27, 4 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Communism 

message: Does anyone have any theories for the JFK assassinationl I'm working on a final report and this is my topic of choice. Links to good sites would help too. Thanks to all who respond.
*Well, there's the single bullet theory (Alan Specter cooked that one up), the theory that Castro did it because of the repeated attempts on his life by the CIA, the theory that the mob did it because of RFK's crackdown, the theory that LBJ did it because he wanted to be president, the theory that the Russians (because they're russian), and the theory that the aliens did it so they could replace him with LBJ who had already been replaced during his time in the Senate (this last one is a joke). →Raul654 20:32, May 4, 2005 (UTC)
*you're doing the "final report" on the JFK assassinations? Be sure to let us know what happened! :P dab (ᛏ) 20:43, 4 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  JFK assassination 

message: I'm kind of new to wikipedia and don't know if it was already suggested, but while reading an article it would be nice to see what other articles link to it. Maybe it is already implemented but I'm sure i double-checked and didn't find anything.
:In the Toolbox at the side of the page, the "What links here" item will do this. Example: Special:Whatlinkshere/Wikipedia. Oh, and welcome. Nickptar 23:29, 4 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Links 

message: This page is for discussion of the Main Page only. Try Wikipedia: Reference Desk--Fangz 22:01, 5 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  i'm new what exactly is quantam gravity and mechanics? 

message: I don't know if it's due to the recent db lock but when you click 'Wikipedia' in 'Welcome to Wikipedia' on the Main Page it says there's no such article... Dan100 04:05, May 6, 2005 (UTC)
*It looks fine to me now. It was probably some sort of vandalism you looked at. Mgm|(talk) 09:12, May 6, 2005 (UTC)
* That was my fault - I was trying to delete a redirect left over from page move vandalism, but someone beat me to moving it back to its proper title, and due to the subsequent server slowness, I couldn't manage to restore it right away. — Dan | Talk 11:56, 6 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wikipedia link in 'Welcome to Wikipedia' doesn't go anywhere 

message: Why do you don't integrate a link-block containing all wikipedia-mainpages in all the different languages on the left part of the page below "toolbox", in order to have a quicker link to Wikipedia-worldwide? It could make research more easy and could show the cultural wealth of wikipedia directly on the main page.  
--Dorjedrak 10:15, 8 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Links to international Wikipedias

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What does it do? -MarSch 17:02, 8 May 2005 (UTC)
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