User talk:Seans Potato Business

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[edit] Welcome back

Welcome back. Glad I could help. :) Enjoy! – ClockworkSoul 20:46, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

I see that ClockWorkSoul has been faster than me, so I think that he will help better than me. But if you need help with something else, don't hesitate in contacting me. See you! - eu:Lankide:Theklan

[edit] Your Banana bread

According to one editor, rotten apples are carcinogens. So please do not eat any more of your banana bread. Theresa Knott | Taste the Korn 06:41, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

It wasn't rotten so much as bruised. Besides, carcinogens build character... Thanks for the warning though :) --Seans Potato Business 19:10, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Please don't add nonsense to the ref desk

Please do not post nonsense on the ref desk. Friday (talk) 15:56, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

Oh, okay then... --Seans Potato Business 19:08, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks!! :)

Thanks, Sean! Your "barnstar from the blue" made me wonderfully happy; I'll be glowing all day. :) You should be proud of your own contributions, too, an amazing list that's helped me learn a lot of molecular biology; we're all lucky that you're here. Looking forward to your next contributions in the MCB-verse, Willow 17:31, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Re: When an article is finished...

I've replied to your topic on the Village Pump with some information you might find useful. If you have any further questions, don't hesitate to ask them at my Talk page. --Slowking Man 21:06, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

Annnnnnnd I finally got around to replying to the message you left. Terribly sorry about the wait; I've been busy with school lately, and my mind has a bad habit of letting things slip. --Slowking Man 09:16, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Reply from userpage

Hey Sean, the usernames which I trialled at WP:RFCN were Poo Poo Masta (talk · contribs), Poo Poo Gang (talk · contribs), Poo Folk (talk · contribs) and the copy of the RFCN comments can be found here. Can I just be nosey and ask why you want them? hope they help anyway! RyanPostlethwaite^{See the mess I've created or let's have banter} 20:49, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

I was just concerned with Jesse that he was going to plough through the list of usernames and take every single one to AIV. Many inactive inappropriate usernames have been created that have never been blocked and never been used, if they were all put to AIV, it would put massive strain on admins where there isn't a real need to. With regards to his Rfa, as you say, its definately not a reason to oppose, in my personal opinion it shows he would look out for the wikipedia community.

As for my edit count, its bad - I'm just addicted to wikipedia! My friends keep reminding me that I've got a degree to pass this year! Can I just say, I really respect you for researching this Rfa to the degree that you have done, many people simply support ot oppose based on other peoples comments without looking at the editors conrtibs - well done! RyanPostlethwaite^{See the mess I've created or let's have banter} 22:57, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wording

That wording has been expressly left out. Kindly inform yourself fully of the nature of how that new section came into existence. You can start with Wikipedia_talk:User_page/UI_spoofing followed by WT:UP#JOKE. (→Netscott) 22:43, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

Also see Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Straw_poll. (→Netscott) 22:46, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

Yes that cite you've made is a good one particularly as it applies to article space. What the "new message" joke banners is about is practical jokes in user space. (→Netscott) 01:50, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

Funny but your editing seems somewhat out of discord with this userbox:

This user would rather write articles than play wiki-politics.

(→Netscott) 03:22, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

Only recently. I'll get back to it pretty soon. --Seans Potato Business 10:26, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Further to banana nutrient:size ratio

I've added a response to your query on this Science Reference Desk topic. As the original query has already been archived, you might want to look for it there. -- FWIW, Deborahjay 04:49, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Spellings

" All my contributions are signficiant, godamnit! " [I am forgetting how I can automatically sign off my name, and failed! It's been a while since I came to WP]

Thanks. To sign your name you can type four consecutive ~ symbols or click on the squiggily icon at the top of the edit box (the one to the right of the one with red in it). --Seans Potato Business 07:59, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Replicon (company) tagged for speedy deletion

[edit] Additional function suggestion: decapitalisation of headings

According to Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style_(headings), only the first word and proper nouns should begin with a capital letter. Would it be possible to differentiate between names and other proper nouns and non-proper nouns? Perhaps it could check a dictionary and if it's listed as a regular noun, it gets marked for decapitalisation. If a word were entirely capitals, then it would be left as an acronym. --Seans Potato Business 20:28, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

Hi Sean, thanks for the suggestion. It's a good idea, but I suspect not quite so easy to determinte what's a proper noun as it might first appear (eg Potter, Cooper, Smith, Archer). Also, what if you had something like an embedded movie name, like "The public debate on 'Mortal Combat'", or an official title, such as "Reaction to the Director General's report"

For what it's worth, my bot already does 'case normalisation' for some common headers, such as 'External links', 'See also', 'Plot summary', 'Track listing' and so on. Hopefully this is enough for the moment. Thanks again, CmdrObot 20:43, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Anonymous editing

You asked on the help desk aboout feelings about anon editing. You may be interested in m:Anonymous users should not be allowed to edit articles, a meta proposal that has been commented on by many users (the majority opposing). Mr.Z-mantalk¢ 19:53, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] References

Dear Mr. Seans,

On [1] you wrote:

"If I have a paragraph consisting of three consecutive sentences backed by the same source, should I put the reference at the end of every sentence? This seems like a good idea, since further editing could lead to the addition of facts not supported by my source but which may appear to be, if the source is cited only on the first or last sentence. I think this should be addressed on the project page."

Unless you knew already, you may be interested to know that that sort of problem is addressed by an alternative style of referencing that has never really made it. It involves having a separate talk page, named e.g. "Talk:Bill Clinton/Facts" where facts stated in the article can be individually referenced with as much or as little "granularity" as is needed. Examples of it can still be found in some dark corners such as here and here, but it is probably frowned up these days.

Yours, Anon. (May 17 2007.)

[edit] nucleosome images

the updated nucleosome image looks great; thanks for letting me know it was updated! i'll take your advice and leave feedback on the user pages next time... honestly, i felt a little bit of a jerk for telling so many people that their otherwise excellent images had mistakes... anyhow, nice work and thanks for the update! --chodges 06:02, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Counter selection in yeast

Hi Mr. Sean,

First of all, I really admire your Wikipedia dedication. I removed G418 as a gene for counter selection in the yeast two-hybrid article. I have some experience with G418, also known as geneticin, from my research as well its "cousin" nourseothricin. Should G418 be listed as a gene that can be used in counter selection screens? First of all, it is not a gene, even though it is written as such in the review. It is a compound that is toxic to fungi. Resistance is conferred by the kanMX cassette that is transformed into the yeast. This is often used to create knockouts of genes. I am not aware of any compound that counter selects for the kanMX cassette or any gene that is counter selectable by G418. The article cited in the review is, judging by the abstract, about selection, rather than counter selection.

However, the other counter selection markers mentioned are valid. URA3 and CAN1 are well known and especially URA3 is quite common. As far as I can gather CYH2 works but is not widely used.

I hope this is useful to you!

Kind Regards

—Preceding unsigned comment added by Halfdanb (talk • contribs)

[edit] User:80.109.70.192

Hiya - are you sure the IP user's userpage is the correct place for a vandal template? Was it your intention to report the user to WP:AIV? Giles Bennett ^{(Talk, Contribs)} 22:30, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

Alien language? Doesn't look like vandalism to me - the diff is here [2]. Have a look - the paragraph you reverted the vandalism on (capital letters, random "Dad" at the end) was already there when they made their edit - all they did was (correctly) capitalise a "With", unless I'm much mistaken. Giles Bennett ^{(Talk, Contribs)} 22:48, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

No worries. Interesting name, by the way. Do you actually have a potato business? If so, any chance of a pound of Jersey Royals?  :-) Giles Bennett ^{(Talk, Contribs)} 22:59, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

Nice one. You may mock with the "9V potato" but I did once buy a girlfriend a potato clock. It was crap, though, and disintegrated about two weeks later. As did our relationship. Well, it was her Christmas present. Anyway, I digress. Happy editing! Giles Bennett ^{(Talk, Contribs)} 23:11, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] User Name

Hi Sean: Your user name, absent one apostrophe, at any rate, appears to be the name of your business. As this is one of the reasons new user's name choices are blocked on a speedy basis, I am wondering if anyone has ever questioned yours. Perhaps, if there has been something like an RFC on it, you might point me to it. If there hasn't, I 'd be pleased to learn your rationale for keeping it in light of the "spam" guidelines. I'll keep a watch here for anything you can tell me. Thanks Bielle 01:41, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

I don't actually own a real potato business. It's kind of a joke. I have a website (www.seanspotatobusiness.com) but it's not actually possible to buy anything. My edits are very seldom in any way potato oriented, and when they are, I try to refrain from forcing my skewed POV. I hope this exempts me. --Seans Potato Business 08:30, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

Oh dear! So I guess that means you won't be interested in buying my collection of photographs of potatoes that bear an uncanny resemblance to rude parts of the human anatomy then -(thank you, Terry Pratchett).? Or the Wayne Newton lookalikes? Oh well. Thanks for the explanation. I will be keeping you on my watchlist, however; you can never yell when a POV-editing attack will manifest itself. :-) Bielle 15:55, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Barnstar:

For your awesome and hilarious userpage! Spawn Man (talk) 01:08, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

To add to your empty awards box - you deserve it. :) Have a great day! Spawn Man (talk) 01:08, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

Awesome! What were you doing, sneaking around my userpage in the first place?? --Seans Potato Business 14:38, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

Trying to steal a potato for a stew of course! I think I saw a link to your page off some blocked guy's user page with the title "Cool user names" or something like that. See you around. :) Cheers, Spawn Man ^{Review Me!} 03:20, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Image background color

I came across your plea to fix your image backgrounds - while I believe the background color is dependent on the skin, you can change it in your monobook (at least that's what Google says, no guarantees!):

/* Makes the background of a framed image white instead of gray. */
/* Only visible with transparent images. */
/* See #Framed_image_background_color */
div.thumb div a img {
    background-color:#F8EABA;
}

Note that this will be site-wide: I'm not sure if you can make it only apply on one page, and if so I have no idea how. -Wooty [Woot?] [Spam! Spam! Wonderful spam!] —Preceding comment was added at 12:59, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Username Hall of Fame

You're a contender, along with User:Zimbardo Cookie Experiment. Happy holidays -- Raymond Arritt (talk) 20:24, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] ln can be defined as the integral of the reciprocal function

I've replied on the maths Reference desk.  --Lambiam 20:31, 26 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Advice on subheading capitalization

Thanks for your recent recommendation on wikipedia subheading format. Sounds fine to me. I think that convention is called downstyle or sumthin. Anyway, cool. Happy New Year Tombadog (talk) 19:18, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] I'm willing to do so

Yes, I will change the distortion in the picture, but I just got a new laptop and don't have photoshop on it yet. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Blacklemon67 (talk • contribs) 06:50, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Your mouse

Hi,

I took the outline of the mouse, and did "Path - break apart", and then deleted the inner path. Then I gave the outside path a dynamic offset, and moved it inwards until the tail was a line. Then I did "object to path" on that, and thickened the path up to the the thickness of the ears. I also did a gradient fill so that you could see the change. Just because I could, I combined the whiskers into a single path, and gave them round ends.

Feel free to put a {{db|obsolete}} tag up once you have downloaded the file. --Slashme (talk) 10:40, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Ooops...thanks for your help!

That was very kind of you to fix the alphabetization problem; I had also asked in the IRC channel, so I wasn't sure how it got fixed! This is my first time using Wikipedia, so I also wasn't sure how to reply to your message, so I thought it would just be deleted, like e-mail. I appreciate your help, and now I know how to reply to messages as well! Have a nice day/night, and thanks again. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Profroush (talk • contribs) 03:23, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Converting PNGs to SVGs for company logos

Is the conversion of a PNG to an SVG compatible with the fair use rationale which says something about low resolution (arguably doesn't exist in the world of SVG)? I guess it's tricky 'cause the law makers didn't envision the SVG. Although when you look at an SVG at wikipedia, it is of a limited size, this (as it says in the text below the image) is arbitrary since it can be enlarged as many times as person likes. --Seans Potato Business 18:52, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

The "low resolution" criteria does not apply to vector images. Basically, if an image can be vectorized then the image is simple enough that raising or lowering its resolution doesn't have an impact on our claim of fair use. —Remember the dot ^(talk) 19:09, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Germans: rudness vs openness/honesty

Regarding your question here: Why the limitation to German native-speaking users? That limitation I do consider as somewhat impolite or at least confusing, pending an explanation. Dorfklatsch 17:15, January 6, 2008

Why would you be interested in the French cultural perception of such forwardness? Because the probability of two Germans, two French people and a mixed German-French team displaying the exact same sensitivity, and the exact same standards as to what constitutes a civil and polite suggestion are exactly the same. If you think otherwise, then you are simply prejudiced against Germans for no good reason, based on a sample of one single person. Dorfklatsch 19:33, January 6, 2008 (I hope my English is good enough to get this point across, though it would be really hilarious if not :D)

I assure you I'm not offended at all, just curious. And German. And the issue of English language skills is indeed very important to myself. If you ever come across a suboptimal mainspace (or even talkspace) contrib of mine, by all means please notify me. I know my English is not the best, but I for one am always eager to learn more, because I love the English language. Dorfklatsch 19:40, January 6, 2008

Yes, thank you. If you're interested in my opinion: Don't overthink it. There are (almost) no general rules pertaining to national/language communication patterns, at least not via hypertext. Just tell 'em, and if they don't like it, then you did at least try your best, in Wikipedia's best interest. Dorfklatsch 19:56, January 6, 2008

[edit] Zinc finger chimera

The best way to protect your article (for a short time) while you work on it is to put an {{underconstruction}} tag at the top of it. I've done that for you. JohnCD (talk) 21:18, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

Yes, that is a problem with {{underconstruction}}. The one you want is {{inuse}}. But in the longer term, read WP:OWN - other people probably will edit the article in due course. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 21:31, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] TOC

Nice user page!

What's the matter with the TOC? If the issue is that it's too large, the best approach of course is to archive or delete a few messages ;) The technical way around it is to add __NOTOC__ at the top of your page, which will remove the TOC altogether. See Help:Magic_words#Table_of_contents. --kingboyk (talk) 23:55, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

It's fine here, in Firefox... --kingboyk (talk) 00:10, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

I moved your userboxes into a, well, box. Hope that's what you were wanting. Lara❤Love 03:33, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

That might well have fixed it. If not, try <br style="clear:both" /> immediately after the boxes. --kingboyk (talk) 14:42, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Potato Business

Haha, I've gotta say congratulations on your creative, funny potato business. I hope it thrives! Cheers. --72.69.146.41 (talk) 02:02, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

Ohh, thanks, but really... I put my trousers on one leg at-a-time, just like everyone else (of course I could put them on both legs at the same time, but I don't. Why? Because I'm a gentleman). ----Seans Potato Business 18:24, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Graphic lab

Is your immunology diagram now where you want it to be? Please comment at the Graphic Lab, because the request has been marked "stale". --Slashme (talk) 11:15, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Reminder to sign comments Reply

Thanks for telling me! :) --BLACKLEMON-67 yay! (talk) 19:55, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Quinoa

Check my reply here.

Or this: Resellers in the Netherlands

Or perhaps just one of these:

• La Yapa, TH. Schaepkensstraat 11 a, 6221 VX Maastricht, 043-3251021
• Estafette, Rechtstraat 48a, 6221 EK Maastricht, 043-3251137

(assuming you are currently in Maastricht) Johan Lont (talk) 16:25, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] I should have told you this earlier

Please go to user page Chris (クリス • フィッチ). Read the dates. This is a very bad time for him. I think at one time he was doing the simple artwork things himself. You seem to hit a raw nerve without intending to. Additionally the scouting images he brings in come from a committee which frustrates him tremendously. I think he's a good man who is going through a very difficult time. That's about all I know. Please try to be careful around him. Thanks If you have questions, post them here, please. I'll watch the page for a few days. Sagredo^{⊙☿♀♁♂♃♄} 04:54, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

I don't think that I've any questions that you can answer but I apologise for my disruption and I wont mention it anymore. ----Seans Potato Business 08:31, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

Thanks 168.103.5.237 (talk) 18:08, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] RfA nomination

--Solumeiras (talk) 12:29, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

Thanks but I prefer my life as an epsilon minus (as an epsilon minus should). ;) ----Seans Potato Business 23:18, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] thanks

Thank you for the apology, that's very big of you. Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 20:40, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Orphaned non-free media (Image:JamesClavell Gai-Jin bright.png)

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[edit] Correcting capitlisation

Would you be willing/able to have your bot adjust capitalisation of certain phrases? A common problem that seems to be sweeping Wikipedia at the moment is inappropriate capitlisation of the full-form of phrases that also have frequently-used acronyms. Take for example, suppressor of cytokine signaling proteins (SOCS); people assume that because SOCS is written in capitals, the first letter of each word of the full-form is also written in uppercase. Perhaps you could create a subpage for people to add to a list of suitable phrases for automatic de-capitalisation? I know certain items wouldn't qualify, since they might be likely to occur in capitlised-form in legitimate situations, but there are many cases such as the example above that would be apt. Should I start compiling a list? Thanks, ----Seans Potato Business 01:07, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

Sean, that sounds like a good idea. My bot can handle that no problem. I've created a page where you can add phrases. If you could sign each item you add, that would be good. Cheers, CmdrObot (talk) 12:58, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Cross-polymerization

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[edit] creating images

Sorry I was away for a while, I noticed you asked how I made SVG images on my talk page. Probably you figured this out by now, but basically I used Inkscape, it is a very cool program. Madeleine ✉ ✍ 00:59, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Gremlin (disambiguation)

Thank you for your comments on my edit, however, please review my edit and change carefully. I did not remove your entry. It is still there. I am also not sure what you mean by your statement that I don't "grasp the gravity of the situation" because all I did was follow Wikipedia guidelines. Specifically, the suggestions regarding the following items taken from Wikipedia:Manual of Style (disambiguation pages)

• "Disambiguation pages are not for exploration, but only to help the user navigate to a specific article."
• "If topical categorization of the disambiguation page seems to be needed, please bring this need up for discussion."
• "Disambiguation pages however are non-articles and do not need catgorization other than for maintenance purposes."
• "Separate the articles on disambiguation pages into categories only if the list is long."

I hope these answer your concers. The Gremlin (disambiguation) has only ten (10) items, thus no topical categories are needed on this page. It is easy to glance at all the links. Moreover, your edit adding separate categories put just one item under one topic, two under "corporations", and then lumped everything else under the "entertaiment" topic. This included an automobile and a surface-to-air missile system. Those do not seem like appropriate "entertainment" items and thus your edit did little to help readers find articles from this page. Cheers! CZmarlin (talk) 23:36, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] POTS POTS

yes well. I hope you do not send me a viral infection or a horse, because i will not be one happy chappy.

what country are youfrom. and guantamalu bay does not count. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.97.172.42 (talk) 04:51, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

Huh? I'm from the UK but living in the Netherlands... you? ----Seans Potato Business 15:50, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Redirection question

Hello. I have a question on this talk page. I'd like to know your opinion on this, since you redirected it. Thanks --Kimse (talk) 07:41, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Steatorrhea

It's only after you pointed it out that I noticed it could be taken the wrong way. I said it in jest, of course, but looking at it from another point of view it could seem offensive to the OP; as if I was disgusted by him/her or their question. Good catch, no problem with the editing there. Humour is often lost in the written word, as every girlfriend I've offended by text message can attest :-) Cheers! Fribbler (talk) 22:46, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] 14-3-3 delta

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