Soltras

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Hello Soltras, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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I appreciate the welcome, BlankVerse. Thanks! Soltras 17:07, 3 December 2005 (UTC)

Just to let you know, most conversations between Wikipedians end up being disjointed ping-pong-like conversations as they bounce back and forth between the user's talk pages. Luckily I put your user page on my watchlist (the "watch" tab at the top of the page) so that I caught your reply.

Since you are in San Diego, you may be interested in the Southern California WikiProject. Please take a look at the project and see if there is anything that interests you. If you have any comments or questions, please contact me on my talk page. BTW: I lived in the San Diego area for ten years before moving back to the LA area. ^BlankVerse 17:19, 3 December 2005 (UTC)

Visiting Help:Edit summary led me to Wikipedia:Edit summary legend. That page explains most of the common edit summary abbreviations, such as "rvv".

The other thing you can do is set your internet browser to remember what you've typed, which is what I've done for Mozilla FireFox. As you type, it will narrow down the drop-down selection to things you've previously typed. For example, if I type "cop" in the Edit summary field, I will see "copy-edit" and anything else that I've previously typed in the Edit summary box that started with "cop". ^BlankVerse 10:21, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

The specific edit summary you mentioned is one that is created when a Wikipedia administrator uses their rollback capabilities. There are ways for non-admins to do something similar to rollbacks using various Wikipedia tools and user scripts. ^BlankVerse 08:13, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

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UCSD Article

You mentioned something about UCSD's rich history so instead of digging it up myself since I've been working on the article for the past week, I think you should go ahead and make the new section since the article as a whole still needs some work. Thanks. ArchonMeld 08:06, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

Anaheim Hills

Thanks for your kind note about the Anaheim Hills dispute. Mike Dillon 15:12, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

I do understand that people like Will Beback need to be part of the project (but not Mike Dillon), but come on. If you get the chance to look at the What Links Here on the Anaheim Hills talk page, look at some of the things he has said to other editors about me and he has even created a page devoted to being against me. I mean, I dont edit other pages like I edit this one, which is obvious, and I do greatly respect Will Beback, but Mike Dillon is someone I cannot seem to gain respect for. Once I think I am starting to mend ends with him, I find another insulting comment about ANaheim Hills, and previous edits on someone elses talk pages that are just downright uncalled for. I know that he is a highly respectable person in the Wikipedia coroporation, but I just dont understand him sometimes. Since he is so authoratative, he should be more like Will, and just go in, make the eidt, do some explaining, and leave. Not like Mike Dillon who goes in, makes pages dedicated against you, go tell people about how retarded you are, create fights on the talk page, etc. Its just tiresome to get nowhere in the project when I cannot even edit one page. Every word that I add seems to be controversial with him. I do hope to resolve this fight with him, which is really getting out of hand, and I do understand your position towards the goals and actions of Mike Dillon for he is respected in Wikipedia, (trust me I hear how wonderful he is and how bad I am every time I log on to my accound). And I want you to know that I dont edit form any other accounts except Es92808 and Ericsaindon2, and can swear upon that one. I did have anonomous edits in the past, but that was when my screenname was having issues with Wikipedia (which caused me to create a new one which is Es92808). THat is another issue I did have with Mike is that he asumed he knew my intentions of creating a new account when my other one was tampered with about a month ago. He really did hurt the feelings of the editor (who I now email quite often) when he blocked er for holding the same views I shared. I just wanted to clarify my position with Mike Dillon with you, and I resprect your opinions. No hard feelings. :) --Ericsaindon2 05:28, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

If you revert it for the third time, I will report you for the 3RR rule! --Ericsaindon2 02:53, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

Just leave the infobox be. It is not hurting you in any way, and it looks good. --Ericsaindon2 03:02, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

Mintor Gardens

Hey, thanks, I was working on cleaning them up and re-editing and writing some of the botanical gardens articles. Your observations are great and I guess it means I missed one !! Thanks again and I will take a look and make the corrections I missed. I had been working on other things these past few weeks. WayneRay 21:49, 21 May 2006 (UTC)WayneRay

Anaheim Hills Discussion 6/3/06

Anaheim Hills. Sypathy?

No, the problem is you havent sypathized with me at all. You say you have, but I still hear criticism from you all over the talk page. I get no respect on WIkipedia. All I want to do is have the page I CREATED FROM TOP TO BOTTOM with the naming style that is like 1,000,000 other communities in the USA. And all I want is my infobox that is doing nothing to harm or irritate anyone. --Ericsaindon2 03:20, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

Anaheim Hills

I modified your vote for choice A to make it more concise with the voting poll based on what you said. Now because I put that choice, a particular user is having a cow, so could you go in there and put "Wote A" like I did on the previous vote. --Ericsaindon2 20:55, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

PLEASE

Stop making this difficult. Will you just vote and sign your name and leave the comments for the comment space below. We keep having to redo this poll because all the straw polls are full of comments, and very few actual votes. Use the system "Vote letter" to choose your vote like I did on the vote above it, please, just for confusion and organization sake. --Ericsaindon2 21:37, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

Can you just do it, please I really want to pull my hair out. I am doing it for organization. If you cant, then your vote wonte be counted at all. Please, just put A. I tried to do that for you, but you freaked out on me, so can you do it for yourself now? --Ericsaindon2 21:45, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

Vote

Sigh. All I wanted was for you to put your vote like the rest of them were. You can put your comments under the vote, but please state a, b, c, or d. I wasnt trying to manipulate your decision or anything, I just want you to state Vote A. That is all I want you to do. Pleas, just put that, and underneath it put your comment, (not on the comments portion, but right below it with a mild indent to separate your vote from your comments). That is all I am asking you to do, keep the structure. --Ericsaindon2 23:19, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

I have tried to reason with you, but I cant. I was asking you do do one simple task, put a letter instead of a paragraph, and put your paragraph either indented on the Vote Portion, or on the comments part. But since I cannot seem to win with you, suit yourself. --Ericsaindon2 23:30, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

User:Ericsaindon2 & Anaheim Hills, Anaheim, California

Please see Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Ericsaindon2. ^BlankVerse 08:58, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

City/Community naming conventions

Thanks for your comments on the La Jolla Talk page. It's heartening to hear my arguments aren't falling only on deaf ears. My goal is to professionalize Wikipedia in the area of U.S. city and community article names to be consistent with itself in most other areas (name only except when there is an ambiguity), and with all other professional reference publications including encyclopedias, newspapers, magazines, books, etc. I hope you will consider joining me in this effort. It won't be easy. --Serge 18:01, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

Promising discussion/vote at Chicago

Check it out: Talk:Chicago, Illinois --Serge 21:47, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

Weights and Measures

I do not know of any guidelines for measurements, but there may be something that I haven't run across. The two places to start at are the Wikipedia Rules and guidelines and the Wikipedia Manual of Style.

If there is nothing, I would say use common sense. If a place or discipline generally uses the metric system, then the all measurements should (at least) be in metric measurements, and for any place that still uses United States customary units or the Imperial system, those measurements should be the primary units used in the article. Any equivalent measurents should be in parentheses. If an unusual measurement is commonly used in a discipline (fathom, furlong, etc.), there there should always be an equivalent measurement in more commonly known units. ^BlankVerse 04:13, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

Let me know if you find any specific guidelines for measurements on the Wikipedia. If you don't find anything, A better version of my explanation above should probably be added to the MOS.

see WP:MOSNUM ^BlankVerse 14:15, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

BTW: the Request for comments on User:-Ericsaindon2 escalated to a Request for arbitration, and the current opinion of the ArbComm is for a one-year ban for Eric. ^BlankVerse 04:50, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

Requested move: San Francisco, California -> San Francisco

Please vote at Talk:San Francisco, California. Thanks. --Serge 18:13, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

I see your point

I see your point, but... my goal is not to create a strawpoll for every single city! I do want to establish a pattern, however. Not sure if that will be 6, 12 or 20 cities... taking it one at a time for now. In short, I want to be able to argue that we have X cities that do not follow the city, name convention for Y reasons. Right now, we only have New York City and Chicago. Adding Chicago to the list is a great help (it doubled the number of exceptions!), but it's still too small a number to make a point. I believe we need to establish that there is consensus to not use the city, name format, at least in some cases, and I would appreciate your help in doing that. We can't argue it's there until we show it's there. Thanks. --Serge 19:46, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

Canyon High School edit

You removed some of the content I added to the Canyon High School page. my content was properly-sourced and belonged on the page. I'm hoping you accidentally removed my edit. If not, please explain yourself. —XSG 23:39, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

Well jeez. If you didn't remove the content intentionally then it's no big deal.  :) —XSG 03:06, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

City naming convention - large U.S. city move request

Greetings Soltras,

A year ago you wrote this on my talk page regarding City/Community Naming Conventions.

Thanks for the note, Serge. I used to disagree with your cause, as recently as three or four months ago. However, you have convinced me with logic and reason. Soltras 19:01, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

So, I thought you might like to know about this move request and poll. --Serge 00:58, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Wikipedia Loves Art

First off, I apologize for the spam. You are receiving this message because you have indicated that you are in Southern California or interested in Southern California topics (either via category or WikiProject).

I would like to invite you to the Los Angeles edition of Wikipedia:Wikipedia Loves Art, a photography scavenger hunt to be held at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) on Saturday, February 28, 2009, from 1:00 to 7:00 PM. All photos are intended for use in Wikipedia articles or on Wikimedia Commons. There will be a prize available for the person who gets the most photos on the list.

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Thank you and I hope to see you there! howcheng {chat} 00:27, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

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