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Exotic Probability
Can you give cites for the topics in this article, please? Many of the terms used in it cannot be found anywhere on the Web. -- The Anome 01:45, 8 Mar 2004 (UTC)
Image:Schr-harmonic.png
Yes, this is a nice illustration. I'd love to have a look of the code; is it possible for you to mail it to me? — Sverdrup 21:05, 25 Mar 2004 (UTC)
- Oh, I see. I understand completely. I will be interested in May again, though. :-) — Sverdrup 11:41, 26 Mar 2004 (UTC)
I'm interested in the C program too! Do you now know wether you can disclose the code?
Also, would it be possible to remove the condition from the image page, and instead make it GFDL? The GFDL does not disallow use as homework, but it requires attribution and reproduction of the license, so I don't think it could be used to cheat with. ;-) -- David Remahl 01:06, 21 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Seconded. As you've made the image yourself, I think putting conditions on its use may disallow its uploading to Wikipedia. I know that we all license our text contributions the same way as a condition of submitting them to the project; the only reason there's such a hubbub with graphics is because it's harder to attribute them. It's a really nice diagram; I'd like to see it GFDL'd. (And, as the comment above mine states, it's still against the GFDL to use it unattributed in coursework or homework.) grendel|khan 18:51, 2004 Dec 21 (UTC)
A Fellow Churchillian?
Hey
Nice snowman!
A fellow Churchillian mathmo perchance?
Arbiter
You probably do
What year are you in?
I'm in the 4th, doing the M.Phil in stats
Wik
Huh? --Wik 00:36, Apr 24, 2004 (UTC)
Because he is utterly unable to admit being wrong about anything, Dmn. Don't worry about it. It's just the way he is. Tannin
If you continue to revert random edits of mine (and vandalize my talk page) without explanation, I will revert random edits of yours. --Wik 15:30, Apr 25, 2004 (UTC)
Hope you don't mind Dmn, I've added that threat of Wik's to the list of 'Defamatory statements and rudeness' on the evidence page for Wik2 at "Requests for arbitration". You've got to laugh ;-)Daeron 16:29, 25 Apr 2004 (UTC)
Yes, we should feel privileged to be among Wik's chosen few. -- VV 03:26, 1 May 2004 (UTC)
Kylie
Hi Dmn
thanks for your comment. I was thinking exactly the same about the Fever photo. I was actually thinking about adding the international one and leaving the US one there also. Hadn't thought about deleting it. Running out of time now though. May get to it.
cheers
Ross
Auto rickshaw
Whats lacking in the article auto rickshaw ? Ur feedback shud help me in providing the missing element - Kesava 05:28, 27 Apr 2004 (UTC)
Compliments
User:209.242.30.26 is indeed advertising on talk pages. I'm reverting the whole kaboodle. Hope he goes away. JFW | T@lk 19:15, 29 Apr 2004 (UTC)
Split
I wasn't sure whether to split Stockport. (unlike say, Wigan, where the case is quite clear that it should be split). Generally I have been splitting articles about districts and towns, unless the district is only slightly larger than the town. I have also been taking into account local identity (as gleaned from webpages), and the way the urban area looks on a map.
If someone who lived in Bramhall was going shopping in Stockport town centre, would they say "I'm going to Stockport?" Would they consider themselves as living in Stockport (as opposed to the borough of Stockport)? If places like Cheadle and Bramhall have no separate identity other than as areas of Stockport, then that's fine, we can keep the article merged. Morwen 11:41, May 6, 2004 (UTC)
British
Referring to the article Lewis Hamilton: I believe a British person is someone from either Britain or Great Britain, just as it states in the British article. --Vikingstad 23:22, May 23, 2004 (UTC)
- On a second thought, it's probably right to link to United Kingdom although the British Isles might be better? --Vikingstad 23:26, May 23, 2004 (UTC)
Complaint from Chris Martin
What on earth is your problem?
Will you please leave the contributions alone.
I really don't see what it has to do with you - why not just let the people who want to comment on my work alone?
--Chris Martin 17:07, 10 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Rude
In reply to your message, yes, I considered you to be exceptionally rude in removing the sections about my work, especially those pieces added by my colleagues from around the world. I can only presume that you failed to read the "Discussion" section, where I explained the situation. I have now had to explain to a number of humiliated people that the removal of their considered contributions was not due to any inadequacy on their part but solely to your presumptive and astonishingly arrogant decision unilaterally to withdraw their work. In future please have the good grace to check your facts and investigate the situation with a little more thoroughness and a lot more humility.
- See edit history of Chris Martin [[User:Dmn|Dmn / Դմն ]] 03:29, 19 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Sidney photo
Hey, what was wrong with the old Sidney photo? Marnanel 01:18, 19 Jun 2004 (UTC)
White Line death
Hi Dmn,
I see you don't like White Lines at the top of articles — which is fine with me (not that they bother me much either, the seem like pretty harmless creatures). I just thought to suggest moving [:category] tags from the top to the bottom whilst you were at it — if you felt so inclined. In the first few days of categories, it was recommended to put the tags at the top, but it is no longer necessary and they are better off at the bottom. -- Solipsist 18:52, 24 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Template talk:Europe#Poll: Which items should be listed?
I am confused by your votes to oppose Kazakhstan, and vote to support Armenia. Could you please explain here? Please see comments at Armenia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template_talk:Europe#Armenia) and Azerbaijan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template_talk:Europe#Azerbaijan). Thanks. Pædia 04:04, 2004 Jun 25 (UTC)
Mondrian
Hi - I've a couple of queries for you at Talk:Art. Could you take a look when you've got a minute? Ta. --Camembert
Reformatting Opera
I don't see why you reduced the image at Opera to leave all that blank space. An esthetics thing? Is there something about Wikipedia page layout I don't understand? Wetman 09:31, 29 Jul 2004 (UTC)
- Never mind. Now that I've read other people's remarks here, I see that you don't know the Wikipedia rule: Avoid unnecessary interference. Wetman 09:34, 29 Jul 2004 (UTC)
List of Number 1 Hits (UK)
Please do not remove valid information from Wikipedia. Thanks. -- 141.40.169.176 19:32, 1 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Malicious Deletion Attempt
Hello. Sorry for the imposition, but I thought you might be interested to note that an article you supported in the past on vfd has been listed again under malicious circumstances - the 3rd such attempt in 7 months. Please feel free to review the discussion and cast your vote as you feel appropriate: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion/Atlantium --Gene_poole 10:37, 10 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Khor Virap
Hey, I just got an edit conflict while writing the Khor Virap article, and I noticed you uploaded a picture of Yerevan while looking through your pages. I was wondering if you have any more photos of locations in Armenia, as I'm slowly adding articles on varios places there (I recently wrote Haghpat and Sanahin for example), and was hoping to find a good source for photos. --Aramgutang 14:36, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC)
VampWillow
Hi thanks for your message. If you feel that the above sysop's deletion of Empire of Atlantium is a serious matter, then I am happy to support any action you take to draw it to attention. I am not too familiar with such processes, and I am not otherwise familiar with this sysop, so I don't know if she has a history of non-consensus deletions of this nature. I note that the most virulent of those who voted against the article on VfD are all voting to keep it deleted, without addressing the non-consesus nature of the deletion itself, so perhaps if you are aware of others who might be concerned by the matter you could bring it to their attention and encourage them to vote to undelete.--Gene_poole 23:07, 18 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Sockpuppet vandalism
Hi again. I've just noticed that someone has created a sockpuppet Natryn to vandalise the Empire of Atlantium article, which has now been forwarded to my user page and nominated for speedy deletion. Do you know how to reverse this? You can see the edit history of the sockpuppet here: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Contributions&target=Natryn --Gene_poole 23:57, 19 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Yes I know you're not a sysop - I just thought you might have a better idea than me how to reverse sophisticated vandalism of this nature :-) I agree the article is better placed under Atlantium - I think that's actually how it was originally. Obviously there are a few people out there who really seem to be on some sort of personal crusade against this article for some reason, so if you can help me keep an eye on things it would be appreciated. --Gene_poole 00:14, 20 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Thanks for the vandalism listing, and for taking an informed and responsible approach to a "controversial" subject. If people spent half as much time writing real articles as they do getting worked up trying to expunge facts they disagree with Wikipedia would be heaven!
Official invitation
Hi!
This is a message to let you know that there is now a UK-specific Wikipedia community page at Wikipedia:UK wikipedians' notice board. It would be great if you could come and get involved! -- Graham ☺ | Talk 22:59, 1 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Explain Yourself
Explain your alteration of the word "sophomore" to "second" in the Corona (singer) article please.172.147.111.208 17:37, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)
SysOp
In reply: I'm currently not a SysOp but wouldn't mind helping out a little more. Sounds like something I'd be interested in - thanks for letting me know about it. violet/riga (t) 16:07, 31 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Deletionist campaign
Hi there. As someone who has displayed a fairly rational and objective attitude towards micronation articles in the past I thought you might be interested to note that the rabid deletionist lobby is on the march against them again.
The latest target is New Utopia, which although a poorly written article in its current form concerns a subject that is eminently encyclopaedic, being the latest in a long line of libertarian "new country projects" (and therefore representative of a notable social/historic phenomenon), being the subject of dozens of international press and TV stories, as well as the subject of a widely-known US Securities & Investment Commission investigation for fraud.
You might want to take a look at the VfD (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion/New_Utopia) and respond accordingly.
For future reference you might also want to note the articles in the Micronations Category (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Micronations), in order to keep an eye on its contents; I’ve been adding a number of well-researched, illustrated, fully referenced articles to this category in recent months, but there are moves afoot thanks to a highly suspect ongoing arbitration of process to have me banned (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Gene_Poole_vs._Samboy/Proposed_decision) completely from writing anything at all about micronations on the basis that as the founder of one, anything I write is somehow self-promotional and/or controversial. --Gene_poole 22:16, 1 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Culture of Greece
Culture of Greece is this week's Collaboration of the week. Please come and help it become a featured-standard article.
Wikiquote logo
hello,
i'd like to know what kind of font you have used in Wikiquote logo? we'd like to have polish version as close to the original as it's possible.
kocio 14:15, 8 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Economy of Europe
Hi, I noticed you'd earlier supported this new article's nomination for Collaboration of the Week. It has been re-nominated, having been worked on a little and has gained backers. Simply add your support here. Obviously such a big project needs as many users with relevant knowledge as possible, so hopefully this will promote it a little. Thanks, Grunners 00:37, 21 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Wagga wagga
...which I believe is Burbelese for Congratulations! It's my pleasure to let you know that, consensus being reached, you are now an administrator. You should read the relevant policies and other pages linked to from the administrators' reading list before carrying out tasks like deletion, protection, banning users, and editing protected pages such as the Main Page. Most of what you do is easily reversible by other sysops, apart from page history merges and image deletion, so please be especially careful with those. You might find the new administrators' how-to guide helpful. Cheers! -- Cecropia | explains it all ® 03:20, 26 Nov 2004 (UTC)
- Congratulations, Dmn! [[User:Neutrality|]] 03:22, Nov 26, 2004 (UTC)
- Well done! David 5000 12:32, 27 Nov 2004 (UTC)
- Congratulations, Dmn! [[User:Neutrality|]] 03:22, Nov 26, 2004 (UTC)
Partition of India
You voted for Partition of India, this week's Collaboration of the week. Please come and help it become a featured-standard article.
The Humungous Image Tagging Project
Hi. You've helped with the Wikipedia:WikiProject Wiki Syntax, 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)
Article Licensing
Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 1000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:
- Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
- Multi-Licensing Guide
- Free the Rambot Articles Project
To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:
- Option 1
- I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:
- {{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}
OR
- Option 2
- I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to any [[U.S. state]], county, or city article as described below:
- {{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}
Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=User_talk:Ram-Man&action=edit§ion=new)| talk)
RFC pages on VfD
Should RFC pages be placed on VfD to be deleted? I'm considering removing Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Slrubenstein, Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Jwrosenzweig and Wikipedia:Requests for comment/John Kenney from WP:VFD. Each of them was listed by CheeseDreams. Your comments on whether I should do this would be appreciated. - Ta bu shi da yu 03:35, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Victory is ours!
Congratulations comrade, we have defeated the evil infidels, long live the list of songs with brackets in their titles! Shame about the X Factor result (I've updated the page, not entirely sure what to do with it now it's all done). Keep in touch. David 5000 22:51, 11 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- Sorry you're bored, do you have broadband at home? I don't, probably just as well otherwise I'd be on here all day. Steve's first single, released on December 20th (an odd date to choose, but a slow one in terms of releases), will be....Against All Odds. Great, another crap version of that getting to number 1, hopefully Band Aid, Kylie, Ronan, or Hot Pantz (!) can stop it from getting there. David 5000 23:32, 11 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Collaboration of the week
Template:CurrentCOTW Congratulations, the candidate you voted for, Underground Railroad, is this week's Collaboration of the Week. Please help edit the article to bring it up to feature standard.
Unverified image
Hi! Thanks for uploading the following image:
I notice it currently doesn't have an image copyright tag. Could you add one to let us know its copyright status? (You can use {{gfdl}}: Template:Gfdlif you release it under the GNU Free Documentation License, {{fairuse}}
This work is copyrighted. The individual who uploaded this work and first used it in an article, and subsequent persons who place it into articles assert that this qualifies as fair use of the material under United States copyright law.
P.S. You can help tag other images at Wikipedia:Untagged_Images. Thanks again.
ALSO:
RFA thanks
Salve, Dmn!
I wanted to drop you a line to thank you for your support in my successful RFA candidacy. It was very gratifying to see the kind remarks posted in the debate. Ave! PedanticallySpeaking 17:38, Dec 21, 2004 (UTC)
Image:Armenian terrain.jpg
Did you take Image:Armenian terrain.jpg yourself? Neutralitytalk 07:15, Dec 30, 2004 (UTC)
Image:Urn.jpg
Please verify that Image:Urn.jpg was taken by you. Great picture! Thanks, Kbh3rd 03:20, 8 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Misnomer
Your proposed reason why fundamental theorem of algebra is a misnomer was wrong: it's a misnomer because it's really a theorem of analysis, not of algebra. Michael Hardy 00:39, 6 Feb 2005 (UTC)
DYK
main page
hi dmn -- I'm new to meddling with ITN, but I do think you are suppose to protect any picture before including it in the template (and unprotect when removing). regards, dab (ᛏ) 14:52, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)
User:David 5000
It was brought to some admins' attention that David 5000 has created fake articles on Wikipedia. Do you know anything about this, or other users who have contributed, or other articles that have fake content as a result of his game with other forum members at [1] (http://www.coolclarity.com/forums/index.php?s=b3af9143a835b22f2eaadbdefe2d5944&showtopic=28458)? Please respond at Wikipedia:Requests for comment/David 5000. --User:Brian0918/sig 15:38, 19 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Are you ********? How do you know User:Plasmic Squonka!, and why did he create an article about a fake German Aristocrat *******? --User:Brian0918/sig 16:04, 19 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- I removed a name from above Dmn / Դմն 16:07, 19 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- Please see the discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents. Note that I do not believe you are involved with these vandals, although you do share an account with one. Please do not delete your name at that page, as it's evidence, although you can delete my message here to make the name much harder for non-admins to find. Blame these vandals for providing the connection of your name to your account. --User:Brian0918/sig 17:25, 19 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Mao
Please justify "more standard" introduction. I assert that the text you removed is the standard introduction to the game. New players should not even be informed that they will not be told the rules; the first penalty many players get is for asking about the rules.
The complete, correct, spoken introduction given to a new player consists of the words: "The only rule I can tell you is this one." All other information comes by way of example and experience.
Now, my bias is against such cruel games, and I am only too willing to have an article on Mao that discloses all the little nasty tricks played on victims. However, NPOV requires some even-handedness, and I see on the Talk page that some feel no explanation is appropriate. It seems clear to me that the correct WP introduction is therefore the correct spoken introduction. I considered moving the spoiler template to the very top of the page, but even the presence of the spoiler template gives away an important clue, since new players do not even realize they are being taken for a ride, or that any information is secret. The cryptic statement sets the tone for an entire game of paranoid intrigue (indeed, very like life under Communism during times of political campaign).
Is something gained by sanding this down to some universal blandness?
I like to reach concensus with editors of other opinions, so I ask you to support your version. Otherwise, kindly revert the edit, and take a penalty card. :) — Xiong (talk) 02:00, 2005 Mar 25 (UTC)
Please support your statement that the text you have written into the article is standard. — Xiong (talk) 02:12, 2005 Mar 25 (UTC)
Looking through the history, you appear to the be source of the statement that Mao was popular in Cambridge in 1975. Do you have any evidence for this? As far as I am aware, Mao was unknown in Cambridge immediately prior to the 1992-1993 academic year. Bluap 16:08, 18 May 2005 (UTC)
Thanks
Thanks for the support on the admin vote. Helpful Dave 13:39, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Zürich to Zurich
Zürich has been nominated on Wikipedia:Requested moves for a page move to Zurich. Being a contributor to the previous vote you might like to express your opinion about this proposed move in the new vote on talk:Zürich. Philip Baird Shearer 09:13, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Research project on wiki contributors
Hello-
I am aware that this is not the typical message usually posted, so I would like to apologize and ask for your kind understanding. I am a PhD student at Syracuse University School of Information Studies. My advisor and I are working on a research project on contributors to Wikis. This project received Institutional Review Board Approval number 05048. I would like to have a brief email dialog with you about your experience as a Wikipedia contributor. Please respond to this posting or send me an email at wikiresearch@hotmail.com, if you would be willing to answer a couple of quick questions. I would like to assure you that your comments will remain confidential.
Best regards, -Isabelle Fagnot
Cheers!
I know you're a northern mathmo @ church but I can't work out who...annoying...anyway imagine my suprise when my name was put on Wikipedia on the CUSU page!! I don't think there is a bigger honour ever. wicked. thanks, singhy!
Eurovision 2005
Hi, I just reverted your change. The significance of the 'Big 4'; UK, Spain, France and Germany being on the bottom of the table is as they automaticaly qualify for the contest, and contribute most of the budget of the EBU, therefore adding another other countries who didn't do well to the list is inappropriate. --Neo 12:19, May 28, 2005 (UTC)
The Message
I didn't send it, and I still stand by that statement. Neutral administrators are investigating (ie, not you, your bias for your friend is understandable and obvious). I'm as confused as you are about all of this, simply because I didn't send it, by the way David is putting it across suggests he genuinely feels he received it from my account. A number of 'theories' have been suggested by others, including the possibility of forging the message, and somebody else sending it other than me. And, I will be up for RfA again, and I trust you won't troll me about something I didn't write again - RfA isn't about personal grudges, its about ability as an administrator. Its clear that your biased. Hedley 14:19, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- I, of course, realise that. I'm sure that, if I lacked the abilities, I wouldn't of received so many support votes. I wouldn't of nominated myself if I wasn't ready. Hedley 14:38, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Mondale
Nope. Reverted self until he appears in the news, presuming it's not a hoax. User:Rdsmith4/Sig 00:07, Jun 5, 2005 (UTC)
Friendly suggestion
Hey. Yesterday you blocked a user:
00:17, 5 Jun 2005 Dmn blocked "User:User:JohnKenney" with an expiry time of indefinite (Oops, increased to indefinite)
00:14, 5 Jun 2005 Dmn blocked "User:JohnKenney" with an expiry time of 80 hours (Hoaxer & Name-thief)
I've got someone to fix the block, but hopefully you might consider checking blocks you make in future. Also, recently, you unblocked an impersonator because they were at Cambridge. This isn't a complaint, but I hope you'll look into things first in the future, and check your actions before and after you make them. Hedley 22:15, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)