User talk:JackofOz

HISTORY

• Archive 1: up to 30 June 2005
• Archive 2: 1 July 2005–31 January 2006
• Archive 3: 1 February–30 June 2006
• Archive 4: 1 July 2006–28 February 2007
• Archive 5: 1 March–31 May 2007
• Archive 6: 1 June–31 October 2007
• Archive 7: 1 November 2007–29 February 2008
• Archive 8: 1 March–31 July 2008
• Archive 9: 1 August–31 October 2008
• Archive 10: 1 November 2008–31 January 2009
• Archive 11: 1 February 2009–31 May 2009
• 1 June 2009 onwards, see below

ACT entry

Thanks for tidying up my edits. That's what Wikipedia is about Chrisfromcanberra (talk) 03:20, 5 June 2009 (UTC)

The Ballad of Reading Gaol

Hi JACK OF OZ.

Thanks for your offer of assistance. Would a copy of the album be a ref. I see your a reader of Wilde and a musician maybe I can send you a copy of the cd or perhaps send a link for you to download it. I have not released the album as I am developing a script for stage. If lack of public domain ref precludes mention on Wiki well then as they say in the Navy "rules is rules"!

Yours Sincerely

FeargaloFeargalo (talk) 08:35, 5 June 2009 (UTC)5 th june 2009 ............d-day minus 1

Hi. No, it wouldn't be sufficient. Anyone can get a CD produced, but it's not notable until and unless an independent 3rd party writes something about it and publishes their commentary/critique in a reputable 3rd party publication. Even then, it may not pass our notability guidelines, but that would be the absolute minimum before we'd consider something as notable enough for inclusion in an article, or for an article of its own. -- JackofOz (talk) 08:45, 5 June 2009 (UTC)

Leonard Borwick

Dear Jack, Thankyou for your very thorough and sympathetic work cleaning up the text I wrote. You make me feel like a lazy b*****! (You may agree if you wish...) I have just looked through and you did a fine job. I ought to go through and stick in inline citations I suppose - cheers, Eebahgum (talk) 10:32, 5 June 2009 (UTC) PS In case you're wondering I was Dr Steven Plunkett in them days Eebahgum (talk) 10:44, 5 June 2009 (UTC)

DYK for Evelyn Scotney

On June 8, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Evelyn Scotney, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Giants27 21:56, 8 June 2009 (UTC)

admin

Hey. I've seen your many edits around and was wondering if you were interested in running for adminship. I'd gladly nominate you at WP:RFA if you're interested; let me know. Wizardman 00:26, 14 June 2009 (UTC)

And I would like to second that, though I think I may have asked you previously and you declined. Rockpocket 00:38, 14 June 2009 (UTC)

And from the peanut gallery comes . . . I'd be happpy to support you in this endeavour, but would think you entirely mad to do it. :-) Is a three-"p" "happpy" more ebullient than a two-"p" "happy"? // BL \\ (talk) 00:40, 14 June 2009 (UTC)

Wow. Thanks, Wizardman, Rock and Bielle. I've previously been asked to nominate for admin, and without getting too big-headed about it, I'd be surprised if I had any problem being accepted, particularly with the support you've already given me. However, I've always declined, and I think that will remain my position for the forseeable future. My interests are very wide ranging and I have difficulty getting my watchlist below 6,500 articles. I wouldn't want to add to that load by doing the things admins are regularly called on to do. I'd prefer to be of wiki-service in the way I have always been. But there's another reason. For the past 2½ years I've been in the fortunate position of being virtually a full-time Wikipedian (on many days, more than full-time), which has been great. However, that's shortly about to change. I'm certainly not going away, but my availability is about to become severely restricted, thanks to a job I've been offered, which is going to be full-on. So, it's just not practical for me to be an admin, even if I were disposed to nominate, which I'm not. But thanks anyway, I do appreciate the thought. -- JackofOz (talk) 00:46, 14 June 2009 (UTC)

Well, it must be a rather spectacular job to persuade you to leave the mega-salary and perks the comes with being an editor here! Congratulations on that, and - of course - should you change you mind at anytime in the future the offer will stand. Rockpocket 00:54, 14 June 2009 (UTC)

Nothing all that spectacular, really, but it will provide me with some money (Money? What's that?). The other thing is that my partner and I share a computer; while he's at work during the day, I have unrestricted access, and when he comes home, that's his time online (he's even worse than me in his way, but is not remotely a wikipedian). Unless we get a 2nd computer (not on the list of priorities right now), we're actually going to have to share online time - what an unusual concept, partners actually sharing things.  :) -- JackofOz (talk) 01:18, 14 June 2009 (UTC)

View from the sidelines: some things in relationships are meant to be shared, like meals and beds and even possibly, cars. However, I would personally draw the line before I got to bathrooms or computers. If you have dial-up and only one phone line (something else I don't think we were meant to share), even having two computers wouldn't be sufficient. I wish you all the best in sorting out your new schedules. I'd be off at the local library and its cable Internet access as soon as the dinner dishes were done; my partner does the cooking. // BL \\ (talk) 01:38, 14 June 2009 (UTC)

Dial up? - hack, spit!! No, we're on broadband, so that should't be a prob. By bathrooms, do you mean rooms with a bath/shower, or do you mean "bathrooms"? -- JackofOz (talk) 02:21, 14 June 2009 (UTC)

Dame Mitsuko Uchida

Hi. I read about Uchida's recent damehood, but it seems she is only a resident in London and not a British citizen or national. In that case her damehood would be honorary, not substantive. If that's the case, as I suspect, the category she would belong in would be Category:Honorary Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire, not the other. Please drop me a line on my talkpage if you find out definitively one way or the other, Thanks. Rms125a@hotmail.com (talk) 01:30, 14 June 2009 (UTC)

Yes, exactly the same thought occurred to me, I must admit. However, there are many ghits now for “Mitsuko Uchida made a Dame of the Order of the British Empire”, and “Congratulations, Dame Mitsuko”, etc etc. No mention anywhere of it being honorary, and I have searched. The official list of honours does not seem to be available yet, and that would be the definitive source.

However, I note that when she got her CBE in 2000, it was honorary because she was still a citizen of Japan – see [1]. I’ve searched for any evidence she has acquired British citizenship in the meantime, but no luck. But there’s nothing to say she hasn’t, either. It’s quite possible she did but it never made the news. At this stage, given that a number of UK newspapers have made no mention of the DBE being honorary, I’d prefer to believe it’s substantive. At the end of the day, that's all we at Wikipedia can do. It's been reported in reputable sources, and in the absence of anything definitive either way about her current citizenship, we must assume it's been correctly reported. -- JackofOz (talk) 01:52, 14 June 2009 (UTC)

Hello. You could ask GuillaumeTell about Uchida. I think he will know. Regarding your query here please see the CM guideline. We've long had a good consensus on not using them. Regards. --Kleinzach 00:53, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

Thanks, but it's been resolved now. She was in the London Gazette's list of 2009 DBEs, with nothing about it being an honorary award. I've amended the article already. Cheers. -- JackofOz (talk) 01:20, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

Anna Anderson

Jack just be careful editing this page as it is currently before admin over a number of issues okay? Finneganw 22:39, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

How are you?

I hope your fine! Just come here to say hello. I like to see music-lovers in wikipedia, such as me. My current translation work is all the symphonies by Haydn. You can check to progress at my Spanish user page if you wish. Cheers! OboeCrack (talk) 01:02, 16 June 2009 (UTC)

Come Up and See Me Sometime!

Posted here also, for your benefit. :-)) Ana Clio the Muse (talk) 02:21, 16 June 2009 (UTC)

Ah, dear, dear, Jack! They seek her here, they seek her there, those Wikipedians seek her everywhere; is she in heaven, is she in hell, that damned elusive Clio.  :-) Actually, no she's on Blogger under her own identity! Oh, I'm a shameless self-promoter, but then I always was! Drop in sometime, my dear friend, if you want. It's anatheimp.blogspot.com I started this in April, though I've been part of a team blog with Retarius, a countryman of yours, since last year. Check out Retarius and Anastasia for my remarks on Gordon Ramsay in Oz! Lots of love, Ana, the artist formerly known as Clio the Muse (talk) 02:21, 16 June 2009 (UTC)