User talk: Sam Hocevar
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Welcome to Wikipedia
Hello there Sam, welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you ever need editing help visit Wikipedia:How does one edit a page or how to format them visit our manual of style. Experiment at Wikipedia:Sandbox. If you need pointers on how we title pages visit Wikipedia:Naming conventions. If you have any other questions about the project then check out Wikipedia:Help or add a question to the Village pump. Romanm 08:17, 24 Jun 2004 (UTC)
BTW, do you happen to have Slovenian ancestors? Your surname looks similar to Hočevar, which is quite common around here. --Romanm 08:19, 24 Jun 2004 (UTC)
- Yes, my father's father was born in Trzic, before emigrating to France. Although I spent some time in Bled during the holidays every now and then, I never met my possible Slovenian family. --Sam Hocevar 16:44, 24 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Thanks for catching a couple of my typos! I have a tendency to write it’s when I mean its :-) Nicholas 01:17, 13 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Thanks for catching all the Xth/Xrd mistakes in the Congressional tables. I copied from one template which had the errors, and didn't catch it until I was several states in. Thanks! :) --Golbez 21:25, Oct 13, 2004 (UTC)
You should realize that some people purposeley leave grammatical mistakes so that others will fix them and add more information. ;-) Thanks for correcting some of mine. --Macrowiz 21:50, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Spelling checker
I admit, my impulse was also to fix the "it's" in the poem in the spelling checker article, but this is in fact an intentional error, demonstrating a very common homonym error. Derrick Coetzee 18:22, 17 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Sorry for this one; I sometimes do these it's/its checks when terribly tired, and I missed the context of this one. Sam Hocevar 21:55, 18 Oct 2004 (UTC)
it's v. it is
Thank you for the corrections of my its/it's. Wikipedia recoments the removal of all contractions: Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Contractions, so you might want to change all instances to "it is". Now it is time to take my own advice. Cacophony 21:34, 17 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- This is something I am seriously considering, because otherwise every single "it's" would have to be checked again, and there are more than 8,000 articles matching this contraction. --Sam Hocevar 21:54, 17 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Afterlife
Thanks, Sam, for your contributions to afterlife. I'm not sure they fit very well where you placed them. I'm going to leave them for a while for you to fix (though another editor may revert them). Can you consider carefully the purpose and organization of the article and how you can contribute to its being a respectable encyclopedia article? Tom - Talk 21:22, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Hi Tom, I think you messaged the wrong person about the Afterlife article. My only contribution to it was an "a" changed to an "an". :-) Sam Hocevar 22:05, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)
GNAA Popeye
Hi Paul. After receiving no answer from Silsor and being quite rudely ignored by Arminius about the permanent blocking of GNAA Popeye, I have eventually written this RFC. I hope Silsor will not consider this a personal attack, but it seems like the only way to get the questions answered. Since your questions to Silsor were unanswered as well, I was wondering whether you would consider certifying the RFC? Of course I would understand if you preferred not to be involved, or if you did not feel that strongly about the issue. Thanks. Sam Hocevar 03:16, 14 Nov 2004 (UTC)
- Hi Sam. I'm not sure yet exactly what involvement I want to have in all this. I do think the issue of possible abuse of administrator blocking powers is an important and serious matter, as well as a possible attempt to stifle unpopular speech. It's also quite easy for me to imagine that GNAA Popeye might have done things which would warrant an indefinite block. I've asked Silsor on his talk page to please explain to me the reasons and grounds for the block. We'll see where that leads. Regards, Paul August 05:40, Nov 14, 2004 (UTC)
- Thanks Paul, Silsor has now answered on the RFC page and I have good hopes that he will answer the real questions. Regards, Sam Hocevar 14:00, 14 Nov 2004 (UTC)
- Well, unfortunately I have to withdraw that. Quoting him: I don't feel I need to defend myself any further, as this RFC will be deleted in about 24 hours. Sam Hocevar 13:34, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Silsor's RFC
It had been 48 hours and you were the only user to complain. Before Silsor undeleted the page and removed the first paragraph, it read:
- In order to remain listed at Wikipedia:Requests for comment, at least two people need to show that they tried to resolve a dispute with this sysop and have failed. This must involve the same dispute, not different disputes. The persons complaining must provide evidence of their efforts, and each of them must certify it by signing this page with ~~~~. If this does not happen within 48 hours of the creation of this dispute page (which was: 02:48, 14 Nov 2004), the page will be deleted. The current date and time is: 23:25, 7 October 2008 (UTC).
I was simply performing routing maintenance. — Dan | Talk 23:43, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Nice profile link.
Not that I hadn't seen Goatse before, but was it really necessary to do it again? It's never an enjoyable sight. --Mr Bound 21:59, Nov 20, 2004 (UTC)
- I am sorry you clicked on the link. I mean it. It is here for a purpose, but I will eventually remove it, don't worry. --Sam Hocevar 23:30, 20 Nov 2004 (UTC)
- At the very least, I'm going to keep my eye out for URLs titled hello.jpg from now on. Just a little bit surprised, that's mostly it. --Mr Bound 03:23, Nov 21, 2004 (UTC)
What purpose? Theresa Knott (The snott rake) 10:54, 30 Nov 2004 (UTC)
- Calming my nerves when someone has enough time to waste to avoid simple questions for 2 months (despite claiming to enjoy controversial topics), anonymously eavesdrop my IRC discussions, insult me on at least three different places (including a discussion page I only saw by chance), make a biased webpage with carefully selected discussion excerpts that make me appear like a conspirator, revert at least six of my attempts to answer the accusations. I'm sorry Mr Bound saw the offensive image, he shouldn't have, I messed up something (fortunately he had seen it before). Sam Hocevar 14:39, 30 Nov 2004 (UTC)
- OK I understand - but it was probably poor judgement never the less. What would have been funnier IMO would be to name the file something like improved-goatse and then had everyone (including silsor) see the mouth image.That way you still have a laugh - without offending anyone by trying to get back at him.(The goatse image isn't all that offensive anyway, it has a yuck factor, as does tubgirl but there are far more shocking images around) Other things you can do wheb you are stressed are try to win Danny's contest, participate in the wikifun pages, help newbies on the help pages or everyone at the reference desk. I find that doing feelgood activities calms me down when someone upsets me. 11:53, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Message from 67.163.34.32
--- Note, feel free to edit, of course: Hey Sam, thanks for fixing my vandalisms... ^^; I had only just discovered the edit button, and was kind of confused as to whether or not it changed it only for me, or for everyone. Sorry. Although I am curious, how did you get both of my random edits? Sorry for having to contact you like this, you can reply to webmaster@gknetworks.net
Thanks, Alex ---
Your work
Hi Sam, I have noticed your name on Wikipedia because of your impressive amount of contributions with fixing spelling, grammar, and similar errors. I have recently started a project which also aims to improve this aspect of Wikipedia: User:Sietse_Snel/Fix_common_mistakes. I thought you might be interested in joining, or maybe you have ideas about ways to improve this project. If you don't feel like joining, maybe we could coordinate our activities a bit so that we are not both trying to fix the same things at the same time. Compliments for your work and best regards, Sietse 14:32, 30 Nov 2004 (UTC)
- Hi Sietse, and thanks for pointing me to that page. I was currently fixing duplicates such as and/and and the/the, so I will subscribe and update the page. I'm glad to see I'm not alone! --Sam Hocevar 15:18, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Minor edits
You and the rest of your team have been making excellent and much needed minor edits. In recognition of your dedication, I offer you my sincere gratitude, and this Minor Barnstar. -- ClockworkSoul 07:08, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)
hear hear! thanks for fixing all those miscapitalisations of mine (most date from my early days on WP, and I never went back to fix them ) good job! dab (T) 07:28, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)
The Humungous Image Tagging Project
Hi. You've helped with User:Sietse Snel/Fix common mistakes project, so I thought it worth alerting you to the latest and greatest of Wikipedia fixing project, User:Yann/Untagged Images, which is seeking to put copyright tags on all of the untagged images. There are probably, oh, thirty thousand or so to do (he said, reaching into the air for a large figure). But hey: they're images ... you'll get to see lots of random pretty pictures. That must be better than looking for at at and the the, non? You know you'll love it. best wishes --Tagishsimon (talk)
- Thanks for the offer, Tagishsimon, but I still have much work to do on common mistakes (I am working on the French wikipedia as well) so I'll stick to that for now. But when I am fed up I promise I'll give your project a try! Also, I have mediocre Internet access and I disable most pictures, so I'd probably miss the only enjoyable part of that job :-) Regards, Sam Hocevar 01:11, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- Your contributions to the fixing monnom mistakes project does not go unnoticed, at least by me, but I thought it would be unfair to leave you out. I'm shocked to hear you're doing this from a steam-driven internet connection, though. I trust you're not neglecting your PhD whilst improving the Wiki... --Tagishsimon (talk)
Translation help
As you apparently speak French, could you please take a look at Image:Cathédrale de rouen.jpg? I can't read the copyright info the uploaded put, so I can't tag it. Can you help? Thanks, Whosyourjudas\talk 00:37, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- Sure, the licence reads: "Copyleft: this work is free [as in speech], you can redistribute and/or modify it under the terms of the Free Art License." Sam Hocevar 00:49, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC)
