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Delivered by Mike Peel (talk) 08:29, 20 August 2009 (UTC)
Thank you for the help! I still need to work on the page more just getting used to Wiki right now.Gsmith53515 (talk) 18:28, 7 July 2010 (UTC)
It seems that you were right that editing others comments is frowned upon. I want you to understand that I was simply tyring to help. The OP posed a rather technical question and I thought that more links would make the question more accessable. It seems that my attempts to help over stepped the mark. Thank you for pointing that out. I wish you all the best. ~~ Dr Dec (Talk) ~~ 23:02, 7 September 2009 (UTC)
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Delivered by Mike Peel (talk) 12:34, 27 September 2009 (UTC)
Algebraist - Thank you for informing me of your request to delete David Cook (line of succession). The reason that you gave for deletion - "no sources" - would have been valid, if it were true. However, it was not true. The source was very clearly stated at the bottom of the article, under the heading "Reference". The fact that the basis for deletion was not actually true voids the whole discussion. The other issue raised - that of "notability" - is a red herring. "Notable" is nothing but Wikipedia code for, "I don't find this interesting," and as such has no value as an argument. Wikipedia is an encyclopaedia, and so, by definition, all-encompassing. Subject matter which is considered uninteresting by any reader may simply be ignored by that reader. -- Oliver P. (talk) 00:42, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
Was your revert of the rule of inference article based on your evaluation of the content or the process? I presume you read what you reverted. Is it your belief that its not the case that "Every valid rule of inference is put forward as a logical truth and every logical truth can serve as a valid rule of inference" as supported by the leading expert on the subject? I am quite puzzled by this behavior.Pontiff Greg Bard (talk) 19:55, 21 January 2010 (UTC)
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algebraist, would you mind answer thw questions I put you on the Talk:Diagonalizable matrix page? and then revert your reversal? --Kjetil Halvorsen 16:14, 30 January 2010 (UTC)
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For helping me to solve the mystery of the double spaced text! Thanks! CTJF83 chat 19:22, 5 February 2010 (UTC) |
I'm taking your advice, and I'd like to ask: How doesn't it still exist?
You seem to be judging it on the size of it; tiny, but it isn't the size that matters. Its what the empire contains that matters, colonies. Surely you, british yourself (i think), would still like something to be proud of? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.98.162.226 (talk) 17:27, 23 March 2010 (UTC)
79.98.162.226 (talk) 17:32, 23 March 2010 (UTC)
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For helping sort out the spers all the time. And 'coz your talk is too quiet :-) Chzz ► 00:18, 26 March 2010 (UTC) |
Algebraist, a few days ago you responded to a "helpme" posted on my talk page with several suggestions for formatting that I was having a problem with (and thanks again for that). One of your suggestion was to "escape" the closing square bracket character I couldn't get to display correctly, with the sequence ampersand-hatch-93-semicolon, which took care of the problem.
I'm not unfamiliar with this type of sequence and have had occasion to use it before years ago, but now my wetware memory fails, and I can neither think what the charset is called, nor am I finding a list of the available characters. About the only special character I've had occasion to use for a very long time is alt-255 to insert an FF, forcing an apparent "space" - I'm not even sure if this is part of the same "&# ;" charset. (I'm old enough that I'm much more accustomed to working with DOS than with Windows, but have forgotten nearly everything I ever knew about it. (In fact, I'm old enough to still being resentful of DOS having taken over the world from CP/M, which had a much more intuitive set of commands.)) I wonder if you could point me to either a discussion or a full listing of these. Thanks very much for your help. Milkunderwood (talk) 16:24, 24 April 2010 (UTC)
BRAVO! You are the king! Now this article looks nice. I hope you'll argee that the explanation of the Greek origin of the word "Nomocanon" should remain. I wish you well! :) Пера ложач (talk) 04:32, 4 May 2010 (UTC)
I believe that you'll agree with me that this article is just fine now. C U on Wikipedia! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Пера ложач (talk • contribs) 05:29, 4 May 2010 (UTC)
Zakonopravilo is the original article with the original title of this legal act, and both articles have the same text and description. The articles "St. Sava's Nomocanon" and "Sava Nomocanon" have been redirected to Zakonopravilo. Please, redirect article "Nomocanon" to "Zakonopravilo". Thank you for understanding. Пера ложач (talk) 06:51, 4 May 2010 (UTC)
I had asked some admins on the IRC and raised an issue at WP:UAA who think that such name is perfectly within bounds. However, I think otherwise. So what is the "official" standpoint. --Tyw7 (☎ Contact me! • Contributions) Changing the world one edit at a time! 20:25, 10 May 2010 (UTC)
Please do not move pages to nonsensical titles. It is considered vandalism. If you would like to learn more about moving pages, please see the guidelines on this subject. If you would like to experiment with page titles and moving, please use the test Wikipedia. Thank you.
If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding ((hangon))
to the top of the page that has been nominated for deletion (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag - if no such tag exists then the page is no longer a speedy delete candidate and adding a hangon tag is unnecessary), coupled with adding a note on the talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the page meets the criterion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the page that would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Lastly, please note that if the page does get deleted, you can contact one of these admins to request that they userfy the page or have a copy emailed to you. Algebraist 10:36, 31 May 2010 (UTC)
Hey,
First, thanks for getting back to me. I posted the below in the new contributor questions page, but no one's answered it yet. Also, I am unable to connect to the IRC channel (is it down or is it me?), so:
Hey, I'd like to expand the parks section of Richmond,_va by including info on parks I've visited + pictures (I have a toddler, so I go to several Richmond and surrounding area parks each week). I would like to do this with other locations and things to do in Richmond. I guess the idea is just to get more information out to people; for instance, I often will mention a park or a thing to do in Richmond to someone who says he/she has lived here for 10 years or whatever, and the person has never heard of it. I've lived in several cities across the US, and this kind of thing always happens to me. Even with the internet, it is still often difficult to find out about the area you are looking in. Another example of the sort of thing I would like to add to city pages is the James river water levels (with a link to the NWS, of course). It is these kinds of things that take so long to figure out, but which are important parts of living in a city or area. So...one additional question I have is, would this kind of info be added to the same page, or should there be an additional page added like 'Things to do in Richmond, VA?
Originally, I was going to start my own wiki, but I figure that everyone already uses Wikipedia, and I love Wikipedia, so...;) Mattthehall (talk) 12:48, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
Please reply on my talk...thanks!
Mattthehall (talk) 18:00, 2 June 2010 (UTC)
There is no reason to change to British English on 2010 FIFA World Cup. The policy on Wikipedia is to leave international differences in the state it was after the article is past the stub stage unless there is a compelling national reason to change it. Since the subject is neither English nor American, it appears that it should stay. Please discuss on the article's talk page. The article itself is starting to load too slowly due to the multitude of edits so I would appreciate not entering an nationally-based edit war over this. For the record, I am Canadian and have never heard hosts used in this way. --Walter Görlitz (talk) 15:31, 25 June 2010 (UTC)
Thank you for your help. I can work with what you have started. Probably, I'll just leave one side of the equation as computer code (Mathematica) and the other side of the equation as the "closed form" math you have started. Bridgetttttttebabblepoop 15:39, 26 June 2010 (UTC)
Bridgetttttttebabblepoop 09:32, 29 June 2010 (UTC)
Hiya - re our brief IRC chat re Go (game) and ELO rating system.
The European Go ratings website says that
"System description: The rating system is derived from ELO rating system used by International Chess Federation (FIDE)."
I think it may have only come in during the past year or 2, hence not in your book?
Anyway, glad to hear you enjoyed the game. (I'm sure an algebra-fan is being modest, saying it hurt his brain - lol.)
Regards, --Trafford09 (talk) 10:29, 9 July 2010 (UTC)
Earlier, you opposed adding a thin space as italics correction to the ((sic))
template because, as you stated, the version without was much better with your browser and settings.
Here is another approach to doing the italics correction:
More examples:
Could you tell me how their looks compare with your browser and settings? --Lambiam 15:58, 31 July 2010 (UTC)
Hello there! I started an article on the Pinched Torus. It would be nice if you might like to help me develop the article. It's an example of an orientable, compact 2-dimensional pseudo-manifold. It an example that turns up in intersection homology. I tried to calculate the homology groups and got
Does this look right to you? Where did one of the cycles go? (The Torus T has ) If you cut the punctured torus through the whole then you get a cone, and not a cylinder as you would with the torus. Is that why we lose a homology class? (A cylinder is a 2-chain, but a cone is not). — Fly by Night (talk) 18:53, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
I was reading the reference above and started to think. Take a sphere and glue the North and South pole. Do it pulling the points away from the centre around in an arc and then together. You will end up with the pinched torus. Now identify the same points by pushing the poles towards the centre. I've made a plot of this object. Is the pinched torus and this new object homeomorphic? After all, in both cases we started with the sphere and identified the poles. Or does the way you identify the points change the topology of the resulting quotient? — Fly by Night (talk) 14:37, 4 August 2010 (UTC)
Thank you for your help in my confusions. Your proofs are eutifull. I hope I'll be lucky enough to have more of them in the future! Topologia clalit (talk) 10:13, 7 August 2010 (UTC)
Many thanks for the help on the question I had on correlation coefficient. You helped me a lot :-) - 114.76.235.170 (talk) 14:08, 12 August 2010 (UTC)
Thanks! --Andreas Philopater (talk) 17:48, 13 August 2010 (UTC)
Please make sure not to confuse minus signs (−) and en dashes (–), like you did here. Thanks. —bender235 (talk) 15:36, 28 August 2010 (UTC)
Hello my math friend! I know you want me to learn TeX when you helped me before. But I have discovered the MS Word 2010 Equation Editor as being very friendly. Do you know if that Word set stuff can be used here on Wikipedia? All I can do is take a screen shot and insert images at this time. I thought that's not a good idea because nobody would be able to modify those equations and I don't think they would be searchable as images. My guess is that you are going to say, "Too bad Word doesn't save in TeX!". Bridgetttttttebabblepoop 17:31, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
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I suppose I should've timed this message at 10:10:10 too, but frankly, I can't be arsed. You know how it is.
Did you know... that tenten in Japaense writing are a little wiggly thing, a bit like a quotation-mark, which makes e.g. "ka" (か) into "ga" (が) or "fu" (ふ) into "bu" (ぶ) ?
So, take time out to have a bit of a giggle.
Not seen you around too much, recently; hope you are OK, etc.
All the best, and 10-10 'till we do it again. Chzz ► 08:49, 10 October 2010 (UTC)
Hello Algebraist, I was glad to see your advice at VPT. Do you think the possibility of making quote boxes with colored backgrounds might be worth documenting somewhere? (Though we should hardly recommend your shade of green :-). I have been using hacky ways of highlighting pieces of text that I copied from other people, without knowing of any official method. So there could be a pent-up demand for something like this. Thanks, EdJohnston (talk) 17:33, 8 December 2010 (UTC)
Template:For3 has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. -DePiep (talk) 04:28, 17 January 2011 (UTC)
Hi! Since you've been identified as an Awesome Wikipedian, I wanted to let you know about the Wikipedia Ambassador Program, and specifically the role of Online Ambassador. We're looking for friendly Wikipedians who are good at reviewing articles and giving feedback to serve as mentors for students who are assigned to write for Wikipedia in their classes.
If that sounds like you and you're interested, I encourage you to take a look at the Online Ambassador guidelines; the "mentorship process" describes roughly what will be expected of mentors during the current term, which started in January and goes through early May. If that's something you want to do, please apply!
You can find instructions for applying at WP:ONLINE. The main things we're looking for in Online Ambassadors are friendliness, regular activity (since mentorship is a commitment that spans several months), and the ability to give detailed, substantive feedback on articles (both short new articles, and longer, more mature ones).
I hope to hear from you soon.--Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 21:51, 26 January 2011 (UTC)
Here's what I just posted on CBM's talk page. I have had this conversation several times over the years I have been contributing to the Reference Desks. I'm sorry you see my actions as rude, I see yours as rude. I am not trying to be disruptive;
(Later)
I have accepted that I have been in the wrong on this issue, after
CBM cited WP:SIGN#Internal links. I reverted your
addition an "unsigned" template. your edit
as tantamount to altering content I posted, but that was
wrong, because I should not have posted the original item in that way.
I'm only surprised that nobody else pointed out the strongly worded
policy until now, when I've been posting in that way for years. --208.76.104.133 (talk) 20:48, 13 February 2011 (UTC)
Curb Chain (talk) 14:53, 18 April 2011 (UTC)
I have some comments about an amazing discussion (between JackSchmidt and you!) I discovered!!
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