User talk:Richie

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Good work on the Cambridge articles and all those [de: links [[User:Dmn|Dmn / Դմն ]] 21:42, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)

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Do you have user pages on EVERY Wikipedia? Even the "inactive" wikis? I didn't know what to say when I saw all those language codes on your user page. Scott Gall 05:37, 2005 Apr 15 (UTC) PS: I only have user pages on en: and Simple.

Yes :-) It's quite useful if you want to change something and you don't need to sign up beforehand, if you have the same username and password everywhere. But most of these 200 wikipedias are actually quite inactive. By the way, my bot is also signed up everywhere. — Richie 08:45, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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Wasn't Joseph Needham a Fellow of Gonville and Caius? Varada

Yes. "In 1924, he took his doctorate and became a fellow of Caius College, an institution that (apart from the years which he spent in China and Paris) was to remain his home-base almost till the end of his life." [1] (http://www.iias.nl/iiasn/iiasn5/eastasia/needham.html) — Richie 15:29, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)

The reason why I asked you this question was I did not find his name listed among the famous fellows of G&C in the wikipedia article. Thanks. Varada

Thanks. I don't know why he wasn't in there. — Richie 18:42, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Alumni

I suppose I do agree, otherwise the list will be endless. But it's hard to judge the criteria for inclusion in such a short list. For example, I see that Turing is not there (this is based on a glance, so I could be wrong) and nor is Keynes. On the other hand, more WP readers will have heard of Peter Cooke and John Cleese than Turing or Keynes. So do we go by fame or by significance of work? SlimVirgin ^(talk) 17:04, May 2, 2005 (UTC)

I think we should find a balance between fame and significance of work (focus). This should also be seen more generally and not too UK-centric. I don't know Peter Cook, but think that John Cleese definitely deserves to be listed there. I would also like to see Sacha Baron Cohen (Ali G) listed there, but I accept that some wouldn't like this. I would remove John Harvard (clergyman) Sylvia Plath, Siegfried Sassoon, Ted Hughes and Graham Chapman from the list, maybe also William Harvey. Added Turing. — Richie 19:29, 2 May 2005 (UTC)

Richie, we should probably have this discussion on the talk page there, so I'm copying this to there. However, I'd say that Peter Cook is probably a more eminent comedian than John Cleese, Sacha Baron Cohen I wouldn't include, and I'd see no argument for excluding Ted Hughes as a poet laureate. Perhaps we should just leave it until it becomes too large, which hasn't happened yet. SlimVirgin ^(talk) 19:51, May 2, 2005 (UTC)

Divert to Samoa briefly?

As one of only half a dozen registered members of the Samoan WP who have User pages, would you please have a quick look at http://sm.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Community_Portal&action=history and write a comment on the discussion page? - Robin Patterson 06:27, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I don't speak Samoan and have little time right now, sorry. — Richie 10:02, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)