User talk:Zippy

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Hey, how's it going? I've been meaning to ask you about something. On many user profile pages I've noticed lots of interesting user info boxes, and I was wondering where people get those and if there might be some sort of a big collection of those for users to pick and choose from. I was also thinking of having one that says "This user is a padawan animator." This sort of thing seems like lots of fun! Happy editing,--Padawan Animator (talk) 23:55, 28 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. I don't have a link handy, but the templates on Wikipedia are organized into a browsable hierarchy, so you can see the ones that people tend to use on their pages. I put them in some time ago, and have forgotten exactly how I found them. --Zippy (talk) 09:20, 27 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi, it's a stub-article, certainly. I've added some references to it, and will search for more. Becker was the commander of the sub during multiple notable wartime patrols (multiple battle stars) and is written up in several naval history publications. I think that, given some time, this stub article can be developed into a biography of a notable WWII military commander. --Zippy (talk) 18:50, 22 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I appreciate your kind note regarding my modest contribution to this article.—Roman Spinner (talk) 11:23, 25 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Heya. Couldn't help but notice you've got a bit of interest in the Cobia; I'm currently one of the tour guides there. I'll see what I can do about the log book for the sub. I don't believe we have it...but I'll try. On a related note, Captain Becker commanded the Cobia from commissioning through the entire war, all six patrols, not just the first 5. If you have any more questions, leave them here or on my Talk page and I'll see what I can do about answering them! ArrowQuivershaft (talk) 21:32, 28 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I can definitely check into it. I don't know of the top of my head, other than some of the summaries we have in the quick answer manual. Also, I'm not sure if you're the person who added it to the article on the Cobia or not, but Gato-class submarines had a crew of 80 men, not 60. Crew of the Cobia was 72 enlisted and 8 officers. I'm looking for documentation to counter that in place on the article, because that's dead wrong according to the sub vets I have spoken with through the museum. (It seems that the Gato was originally designed for a crew of 60, but they ultimately staffed them with 80 men.)

Also, want to put this on one of our talk pages so we don't keep playing tag on each other's? I'm not using mine for anything else. ArrowQuivershaft (talk) 16:23, 30 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Should this be deleted? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:The_SRS/Secret_Page --What does this button do? (talk) 04:33, 20 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

FYI there is some (old) discussion on the Impala page regarding full versus mid size classification for it...looks like the discussion was never resolved and even with your edits Wikipedia still provides conflicting information about the same car. Might want to take a look and add your two cents Ayocee (talk) 05:43, 21 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I have removed the internet discussion forum from Progressive bulbar palsy again. Please do not re-insert it. Instead, please read the information I posted on the Talk:Progressive bulbar palsy page about the guidelines for external links. WhatamIdoing (talk) 01:02, 24 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, Disavian. I saw that you undid my edit of Georgia Tech Alumni. Let's talk about it on the talk page for the article, OK? --Zippy (talk) 19:35, 28 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Finally got around to replying. Link: Talk:List of Georgia Institute of Technology alumni#referenceforbusiness.com reference revert. —Disavian (^talk/_contribs) 03:20, 1 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Zippy,

Not too long ago I created a page for "Nick Savoy", a notable member in the dating world, and it seems the page got deleted for no apparent reason by an administrator. The page conformed to the Wikipedia standards. Is there any way you could help with reviving the page?

Thanks in advance. Camera123456 (talk) 05:40, 6 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Zippy! Thank you for your contributions. I am a bot alerting you that 1 of the articles that you created is tagged as an Unreferenced Biography of a Living Person. The biographies of living persons policy requires that all personal or potentially controversial information be sourced. In addition, to insure verifiability, all biographies should be based on reliable sources. if you were to bring this article up to standards, it would greatly help us with the current 743 article backlog. Once the article is adequately referenced, please remove the {{unreferencedBLP}} tag. Here is the article:

1. Carl Feynman - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

Thanks!--DASHBot (talk) 21:44, 8 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi dear adminstrator, I am a user in Persian Wiki and I have an on going discussion with a Persian adminstrator about the userboxes we can create or not in Wiki. The question is: Is making userboxes like: "This user supports independence of Tibet from China" or "This user supports independence of Azerbaijan from Iran" or "This user is against Hizbullah terorist group." illegal according to Wiki userbox rules or not? R these rules same in all Wikis or different from one Wiki to another? I'm waiting 4 ur answer a.s.a.p. Regards, Pournick (talk) 04:00, 15 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your note. Honestly, I do not know the rules around userboxes on the Persian Wiki. I'm sorry that I can't tell you more. --Zippy (talk) 21:14, 8 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

What is your password? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.238.135.165 (talk) 16:32, 8 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

My password? It's the thing I type in order to sign in, but that's not important right now. --Zippy (talk) 21:16, 8 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Good to see you Zippy, I think that gal came across a hibernating admin list or something. :P Cheers. --Wgfinley (talk) 05:29, 15 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Release the Kraken! --Zippy (talk) 08:37, 15 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I have a request, can you please delete everything I had worked here http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:The_Proposal.jpg&action=history and here http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Proposal_(film)&action=history. I am Corey.7.11.1992. I admit that I was doing rubbish and if you can delete I'll be very grateful. I asked another administrator to delete, and he replied that there was no need. I know that was no need but I really can't watch that. Please delete. That's what I worked, not someone else. How much can be difficult. Thanks in advance. Corey.7.11.1992 6:42, 23 July 2010.

Hi Corey. I looked at the page and saw nothing wrong with the content. If you want to delete what you've contributed, you can do so by editing the page and removing what you added. But when I looked at the page, it looked fine to me. If there is something more to this request that I am missing, please tell me. --Zippy (talk) 04:06, 14 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

A discussion has begun about whether the article Carl Feynman, which you created or to which you contributed, should be deleted. While contributions are welcome, an article may be deleted if it is inconsistent with Wikipedia policies and guidelines for inclusion, explained in the deletion policy.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Carl Feynman until a consensus is reached, and you are welcome to contribute to the discussion.

You may edit the article during the discussion, including to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion template from the top of the article. VsevolodKrolikov (talk) 18:23, 18 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The article Patrick Tufts has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

no sources, quick searches turn up nothing remotely close, too old for BLPPROD

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Hi there. Thank you for the note. I've added some references and clarified one section. I've now removed the unreferenced tags. --Zippy (talk) 21:22, 28 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The assertion about the Prince Regent doesn't seem to be correct and you were right to remove it. However, it was not that far out: several sources agree that he did visit a flagellation brothel but that the establishment was that of Mrs Collett, not Theresa Berkley. See, for example, the reference by Autumn Stanley (1995). Kenilworth Terrace (talk) 20:55, 21 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

To be honest i am a bit unclear over how much of the design work was really his. The general design seems to have been guided by a committee with input from the navy before arriving at a general design. Detailed finishing seems then to have been done by designers at the two yards which each built a slightly different ships, lusitania and mauretania, actually with significant differences which must have required entirely different plans. Other people designed the inrteriors. So I am a tad unhappy at giving him billing in the first sentence of the article.Sandpiper (talk) 19:46, 23 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Peskett says in I believe the Titanic Inquiry that he was "ultimately responsible" for the Lusitania's design. My impression from the sources I've read (mostly the linked ones) is that he was the overall architect for the ships and had a significant role (in another ship design which IIRC the military didn't dictate, perhaps the Mauritania, Peskett said that he designed the ship to be suitable for a military application if needed, which indicates significant independence of action on his part). --Zippy (talk) 03:37, 24 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

He is the person who gets named but you know how it is, these things get simplified. One of the issues on my checklist for the article is exactly what he did do. He was the company naval architect who drew up some sort of plans for an initial design, but this seems to have been entirely rewritten once the navy became involved. The original plans had three funnels, which implies a significantly different layout. Then, turbines were a late addition and the stern design was not finished until after building had started, because they were still deciding about propulsion. The turbines themselves were built by the main contractor, so did they simultaneously redesign the ship? I would guess there was a lot of coming and going about the propellors, which went up from 3 to 4. None of which says peskett wasnt making all the changes, but it is another of those things which is unclear. i was puzzled about the statements that design details were left to the yards. I dont undertsand how lusitania and mauretania ended up with Mauretania significantly bigger despite both being to Peskett's plans for a pair of ships. My first thought was that Swan Hunter deliberately made Mauretania bigger so that their ship would hold the world size, speed etc records instead of Lusitania. But if they made such major changes off their own bat, it doesnt sound as if Peskett had such huge input. Then again, I could imagine Cunard being happy to claim the world record with their new ship Lusitania, and then a few months later get the publicity all over again when mauretania came along. Maybe it is the way victorians thought, but the navy made ships in batches to the same designs (at least as regards all the major details), so why would Cunard create two different designs when ordering two ships at the same time to the same government specification for the same route? So there is a puzzle here somewhere. I think the reality must be that the two yards had major influence on the designs, and then there is the question of what input came from the navy and their model testing tank people. I suspect that the reality was you decided roughly what size ship you wanted and what layout, and then a shipyard would sort out the details. Obviously it did have the capability to do this, but where did the balance lie in this case? Sandpiper (talk) 18:43, 26 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I wouldn't be surprised if there were committees, push-back on designs, collaboration, and so on. I'm not sure where we could look to get this level of insight though - perhaps there were minutes taken at the design meetings? But were they published anywhere? --Zippy (talk) 20:03, 26 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Zippy,

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.

So a few things about the interviews:

• Interviews will last between 15 and 30 minutes.
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• All interviews will be completely anonymous, meaning that you (real name and/or pseudonym) will never be identified in any of our materials, unless you give the interviewer permission to do so.
• All interviews will be completely voluntary. You are under no obligation to say yes to an interview, and can say no and stop or leave the interview at any time.
• The entire interview process is being overseen by MSU's institutional review board (ethics review). This means that all questions have been approved by the university and all students have been trained how to conduct interviews ethically and properly.

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