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Hello I am a new user and have been working (logged or not) on Antonio Meucci's and Alexander Graham Bell's page. I apologise for not having answered to your comments in the history page but it took me some time before I learnt some wiki devices. I am not a telecommunication expert, just an Italian curious to know the "truth" if there is any about Antonio Meucci's priority. I'm actually being a little disappointed because up to now I found evidence brought only by researcher Basilio Catania (everybody else is just ---lazily? --- following his statements). Catania's work I have been able to read on the internet is a summary of research done in 16 years, so Catania is comprehensibly cutting up some information. What I am trying to discover is whether Catania found evidence of Meucci's work BEFORE his deposition in the trial. Before beginning I was perfectly sure Meucci was the inventor of the telephone, now I see there were at least SIX people working separately!!!!!! O_____o Cheers -- S vecchiato 08:43, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
Hey ! Just a few minutes ago I found new evidence. \(^.^)/ C U later (^_^) S vecchiato -- S vecchiato 09:03, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
I noticed your comment on the list talk page, and it happens to correspond exactly to a guideline that I have already proposed here. Feel free to read it and let me know what you think. Best wishes, AdamBiswanger1 16:36, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
I am writing to inform you, and many others, that an AfD in which you voted delete, List of automobiles that were commercial failures, was already unsucessfully nominated a short time ago, but under a different title. This was not noted in the nomination. Please read the opposing arguments here, and reconsider your vote, because it is important that the opinions of previous voters be considered. Thanks! AdamBiswanger1 23:46, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
Naw, I ain't that smart! I know *vaguely* they're called something like that, but I wasn't thinking of it at the time, hehe. Just too lazy to write "them" in full. But now I ought to be able to remember what they're called.... Cheers! Hayford Peirce 01:19, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
I agree the discussion has morphed, but I don't yet have enough WP experience to know where the discussion should be held if not on the AfD page. My vote has already changed to Keep on that page.
I think it's a notable political act, but not a successful coinage. It should be in WP somewhere. The article as it stands seems intended as an attack on Rick Santorum; the prominent formatting of the definition is presumably done to maximize the impact of the statement, and so is a political statement. The article should describe the political act only. I'd be OK with it staying in Savage Love but the comments on the AfD have convinced me that it is a notable enough act to deserve its own page. I don't feel strongly either way on this.
The page moves seem likely to have been done just in order to ensure that a search term of "santorum" leads straight to this page, again for political reasons. That doesn't make the moves wrong, though. WP:DAB seems pretty clear to me; I think most users searching for "santorum" would expect to find the senator, and I'd suggest they be directed to that page. A dab link can take them to the dab page which would lead them to the term. That's the solution I'd propose. Google counts: "Rick Santorum" -fecal = 3.52M, "Rick Santorum" +fecal = 30K.
If you can tell me the right forum to post the above, I'll post there; the AfD seems wrong, since my vote is keep. Should we be requesting an admin to terminate the discussion and repost the content to the talk page? Or is that something I can do, as nominator? The latter seems wrong to me, since I have no special role in the discussion beyond having initiated it. Is there policy that applies here? Mike Christie 23:30, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
At Wikipedia_talk:List_guideline#Criteria Thanks! -- Anthony Krupp 00:01, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
I'm trying to shift the focus of the schools debates from the various "stuck record" arguments that have bogged editors down for so long onto the finding, reading, citing, and evaluation of sources, using the new WP:SCHOOL criteria to do this in the same way that the WP:CORP did this for companies and products. As an editor who has done that very thing in the past, please consider helping by setting an example. Please independently consider the topic at hand from the perspective of locating and evaluating (in terms of its provenance and depth) the source material on the subject, and see what conclusions you come to. Uncle G 10:37, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
Hi Dpbsmith. Please see my reply to you at Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Santorum. Your Google SafeSearch filter was turned on. I've included instructions for seeing the unfiltered results over at the AfD page. — Coelacan | talk 23:19, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
I've just read some stuff at Wikipedia talk:Citing sources, and I was most impressed with the range of citations you provided covering the topic of "the sky is blue". Do you have that permanently stored somewhere as an example? I think many people would find it very instructive. Carcharoth 20:59, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
Newsweek decided to generate a list of New Ivies, which, lo and behold, now has an article up. As this is your area of interest, if not expertise, I was wondering what you thought about the merit of this list having an article. JDoorj a m Talk 02:12, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
Hi, again! Could I get your opinion of whether, say, an old Time Magazine cover of Joan Baez is permitted in the Joan Baez article or not? I put one in several months ago. Now an officious busybody is going around removing images from various articles. I went to his user-talk page and found the following dialogue between him (her?) and another upset editor. I'll paste it in below. And I'd greatly appreciate your thoughts on this subject -- it seems to me that there are *gazillions* of mag. covers being used and no one else seems to object as long as the pertinent copyright info is given, along with the appropriate fair-use tag.... Many thanks! Hayford Peirce 21:16, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
xxRemoval of imagesxx Please stop removing images from articles, as you did with Jenny Lynn, Raye Hollitt, Guy Lafleur, and others. Using images of book and magazine covers is acceptable under WP:Fair use. fbb_fan 00:18, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
New Ivies has been recommended for deletion, click here — ExplorerCDT 06:42, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
Re. the user who said he was immediately banned- he chose the username Obvioustroll, which is apparently one of his normal online usernames, but per our guidelines, is blockworthy. Ral315 ( talk) 20:46, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
Apologies, I thought it was black & white. Most film entries from this time on Wikipedia state if they were done in Technicolour, hence why I added the B&W category. - User:Lugnuts
I agree that facts should be cited. However, articles can clog with references and when something does not seem controversial, I question why a cite is necessary. Rkevins82 15:36, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
Allegations of sock puppetry have been made against some of the accounts that have edited the Center for Science in the Public Interest page. I have instigated the wiki process for handling such allegations. See Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/David Justin. As someone who has contributed to the CSPI page, please add your views to the Comments section. You have up to 10 days to make comments on the allegation. Nunquam Dormio 19:23, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
-- Malber ( talk • contribs) 14:37, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
some things just won't go away... for example: New Ivies Cornell Rockey 15:28, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
Per your suggestion, I added a short "Other Ivies" entry under Ivy League. I welcome your thoughts. -Joshua
The deleted reference to UCI aspiring to become a flagship campus was replaced, as it is a stated goal of the Strategy for Academic Development, UCI's long-range development plan. This statement is part of the charge to planning committee members and may also be found throughout the PDF report. These websites have been cited.
While the wording of the deleted reference might require slight revision, UCB and UCLA are generally known as flagship UC campuses (which UCI and UCSD have explicitly stated they aspire to become). Therefore, the context in which the term "flagship" is used in the Strategy for Academic Development, while having the formal origin which you cited, also can have an informal application among those unfamiliar with California higher education history. It also has relevance to the discussion of UCI's future growth, since its objective is to develop resources commensurate to UCB and UCLA. Fueltheburn 20:34, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
Re Lux: See WP:MOS#Scientific style. "For units of measure, use SI units as the main units in science articles, unless there are compelling historical or pragmatic reasons not to do so"-- Srleffler 14:12, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
Hi, could you take a look at the above, sigh John Holmes (actor). Some dingbat is cutting out large sections of it because he objects to the content, which might shock a 7-year-old. I've reverted a couple of times but I'm too tired to get into a revert war with a crazy. Could you maybe revert to the original and then put a block, or semi-block, on it? Or, of course, whatever other appropriate action you deem fitting. I remember a couple of years ago on the Discussion page of, I think, "Pornography" there were endless millions of words written about Wiki censorship, or lack of it, viewership, children, etc. etc. Eventually the forces of censorship were outgunned, but I don't want to go through all of this again on the Holmes page, if possible. Many thanks.... Hayford Peirce 17:58, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
Assuming I'm a guy is like assuming censorship is a bad thing!
And what about Mr. Peirce's reference to me being a "dingbat" and "crazy"(?), doesn't that qualify as a personal attack?
I have pre-teen and teenagers who get their sources from school. Apparently Mr. Holmes has become a topic with the pictures from the links. Makes teens more curious than they already are and Jimbo Wales and Mr. Peirce are contributors as well as yourself if you adopt the same view. I do have filters, they don't detect the content from Wikipedia or have a fail safe system. Personally, I am getting a committee together here at the school and ban Wikipedia from the schools because of the content and inform parents. Hopefully this will be a grass roots movement and get Wikipedia out of all decent places. If Jimbo, Peirce and yourself endorse these links and behavior on Wikipedia, someone from a moral background has to intercede. Try showing those links to your local sheriff's kids, your immediate families kids and see if your explanation to me works! 2HOT2 21:51, 26 September 2006 (UTC)2
Thanks for uploading Image:4790 a philip randolph.jpg. I notice the 'image' page currently specifies that the image is unlicensed for use on Wikipedia and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently orphaned, meaning that it is not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful.
Just so you know, even though you had marked this as GFDL, under US copyright law, statues and other 3D artworks are copyrighted by the artist and photos of them are considered derivative works. Thus, I applied the {{ Statue}} fair use tag on your photo, and it can only be used in an article about the artist or about the statue itself. Please see Commons:Derivative works for more information. Regards, howch e ng { chat} 03:27, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
Hi! I was checking the Famous Madisonians list and verifying from the text of the pages of the individuals named on the list, and I removed a couple that were, as you point out, "dubious".
However, I hope you don't think that I was adding names willy nilly. All of the names you indicated require a citation were already on the list and I was verifying by the text of the individual pages of those concerned if they indeed qualified to be included on the list and if they qualified to have a category (i.e. Category:People from Madison, Wisconsin) to that effect.
Anyway, you can count on me to help. I just wanted to make sure there were no misunderstandings. HOT L Baltimore 14:25, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
You left it off on your last Don Paul Afd comment. Morton devonshire 22:40, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
I just came across yet another one of your excellent, sensible comments on the subject of citation, and references, and so on, and I just wanted to say thanks. The (two) citations to "the sky is blue" were much fun, and informative, too. Keep up the fight. JesseW, the juggling janitor 00:41, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
I am quite busy this week, and I do not feel strongly enough about the issue to become engaged in it, but I nevertheless am appreciative that you thought to bring the matter to my attention because I might be interested. Always nice to hear from good editors that I've worked on articles with in the past. Happy editing! — Lowellian ( reply) 05:27, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
For one reason and another, I've decided lately to pack up my Wikipedian tools and go ply my wordsmithing skills elsewhere. It's been a great ride — I got five of my own pet projects on the Main Page, after all! — but gravity is setting in, potential energy has changed for kinetic and then degraded into heat, and everything that sounds like fun seems to involve more than a little capital-R Original Research. A few things remain to be wrapped up, but all the places where I figured "I'm the only one who can do this" are basically as good as I can leave them.
It doesn't look like I'll be able to revamp Massachusetts Institute of Technology into a sterling piece of encyclopedic scholarship, but such are the vicissitudes of academic life.
Be seeing you. Anville 18:48, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
Um, yes...except that Arbee's and Boston Market didn't exist during Roy Rogers' heyday, and Wendys was the first of new fast food restaurants offering more than just burgers and fries. Roys was pretty unusual back in the day, it was literally Macdonalds, Arbys, and KFC combined. You would have been hard pressed to find other "fast food" restuarants in the 80s offering so many different types of food. 209.92.136.131 18:01, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
Arby's certainly existed (I misspelled it). Our article says, 1964. Also Sambo's (1957), Denny's (founded 1953 but not clear from the article when they started to offer a wide menu, and many others that blurred the distinctions between what is now called "casual dining," fast food, and traditional "short-order." McDonald's and Burger King were unusually specialized. Dpbsmith (talk) 18:09, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
Hi. I dunno if you follow that page ( John Holmes (actor), but over the last couple of months (at least) dubious info keeps being put into it. Various people revert it, including me a few minutes ago. I then got the following message on my Discussion page:
I dunno if this is anything that you can do something about or not. The story is easy enough to revert, but it's annoying that it keeps cropping up. Best, Hayford Peirce 00:30, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
Thank you for the information Dpb, and I will remember to do that from now on. I did not know we had to be that specific as the other information in the article(s) does not have cites, but no biggie, I will add them and edit as necessary to fit the cites. Dbp-Question, how do you cite websites properly on Wiki? WWW adress and date? Thank you. JM
Thank you for you assistance Dpbsmith. I answered your remarks on the Holmes discussion. Tried my best to keep it impersonal MeAgain2006 23:44, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
Dpbsmith, I have finished my edits for content and added the proper citations. The problem now is that I cannot use any of the "debunking" information as it appears on person blogs, public messages boards, and websites. In light of the strident tone of the other messages, and in trying to be impartial and fair, I would like to include it but cannot and keep within the guidelines as far as I can see. MeAgain2006 mentioned 2 sites but both are someone's personal blog and website. The second one had 1 article from a newspaper I thought I could use but it does not link the two murder stories, nor the two women in those stories. I am extremely hesitant about referencing that site anyway as it appears to be a carefully constructed log of one person stalking and harassing another, with nothing more than suspicion and one persons word that any of the ISP addresses listed or message board identities belonging to whom they purport them to belong to. I would like to add the information I have back in with the edits I have completed but fully anticipate being reversed again if I do not include the contrary information. Any advice you can give on this matter would be appreciated. JM
Dpbsmith, I put in the cites as you asked and put it on the Talk/Discussion page. It may need to be trimmed down I understand that and I tried to cite as well as I could but putting something at the end of every sentence or in the middle of it reads as very annoying. Alas, I tried. Let me know if any additional corrections need to be made. JM
Split infinitive is up for a featured article review. Detailed concerns may be found here. Please leave your comments and help us address and maintain this article's featured quality. Sandy 16:25, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
Hi, some other people who had nothing to do with the dispute of several weeks ago about "science-fiction writers write science fiction" have now stepped into the article on Science Fiction and are insisting on taking out the correct hyphens. I, and an English teacher, have tried to get them to read the article on compound modifiers but apparently to no avail: they prefer to have their own way rather than being correct. Since I feel that everything in Wiki ought to be *correct* instead of merely being subject to a vote, I would appreciate it if you could look this situation over and do whatever you can to restore the correct order of things. Many thanks! Hayford Peirce 20:54, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
A continuation of the old "when not to cite" discussion from WP:CITE is at Wikipedia talk:Scientific citation guidelines, listed as a "science" "guideline" now at WP:CITE, without consensus from science areas other than math/physics. Sandy ( Talk) 17:53, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
Could you take a look at this article, and related discussion on the talk page, if you have some time. I'd appreciate getting another perspective. Thanks. -- Allan McInnes ( talk) 21:00, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
Please review and correct the licensing tag on the image. There is a copyright symbols listed, which contradicts the license tag. Cheers! Royalbroil Talk Contrib 05:18, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
Hello again: It occurs to me you may well know about this item. Many years ago (probably 30 or so) I remember reading (I think in Newsweek) about a Canadian who had devoted much of his career (maybe at the Univ. of Western Ontario) to research in two-dimensional things; he had invented a whole world of two dimensions and was always trying to figure out how living things in such a place could do A, B, or C. Somewhat whimsical, yes, but I also remember that his research had proven useful in some areas of science and engineering. This is obviously related to Abbott's "Flatland" but goes much further. Does this ring any bells with you? Or do you have any ideas on how I could learn more about it? Ever since I read the article I have had a solution for one problem he had encountered but have no idea how to proceed, or even if he is still doing this, still teaching somewhere, still alive, etc. Merci! -- Wspencer11 (talk to me...) 15:15, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
Thanks. I've also appreciated your work on this, colonial colleges, ivy league and a few academic-related other articles I try to keep an eye on. You usually beat me to the punch on correcting or reverting with the Ivy League article. — ExplorerCDT 00:10, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
Hi! I suggest you take a look at The Boris Yeltsin article and either delete it, mark it for speedy deletion, or at least put it up for deletion. Apparently there is just this one obscure restaurant that is serving it. Bon appetit! Hayford Peirce 18:54, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
An image or media file that you uploaded or altered, Image:Lancaster courthouse.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion. Please look there to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in its not being deleted. Thank you. — Nv8200p talk 13:05, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
Hi, could you take a look at the George Jones article and give us your opinion about the listing of Jones's hits about half-way down the article? It's "Songs In Top 100 Since 1955 — (In parentheses: weeks at #1, #2, or #3)[8]". I spent a certain amount of time putting this info in and formatting it, so I feel a certain proprietary interest in it, without, of course, feeling that it is sacrosanct or can't be improved. For a couple of months now, various other editors remove, from time to time, the section of the header that reads "(In parentheses: weeks at #1, #2, or #3)[8]". I feel fairly strongly about one part of this deletion -- that by doing so, they are removing a vital reference, ie, to a Joel Whitburn book that contains all this info. I think that this listing of his hits can't just be conjured out of the blue, so that the reference (and footnote) is essential. The portion of the header that reads "(In parentheses: weeks at #1, #2, or #3)" apparently upsets other editors, although none of them have actually told me why except to say that this info isn't needed. Maybe simply because it doesn't look very pretty the way it is formatted. I spent a long time trying to make this parenthetical remark look either smaller or on a second line below the main header but couldn't succeed in doing so. My own feeling is that these somewhat mysterious numbers in the list of hits should be explained. Others apparently feel that they are self-explanatory. If you would take a look at the list, and its header, and give us your judgment on the matter, I would be happy to abide by your decision -- it's not something I want to spend the next 5 years fighting about.... Thanks! Hayford Peirce 03:54, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
Hello, I am Tony Pierce and I am very new to Wikipedia so I apologize if you are the wrong person to come to with this. If I am on the wrong page, could you please contact the moderator MONDO who was quite helpful last night with me. Anyways, I noticed that you were the one who MONDO asked to remove the link to my resume on this page. Unfortunately there are still two lies in that comment by user timecop so I went to his Talk page and asked him to delete.
One is a major lie and libelous (that I haven't held a job for more than a year) something that a good reading of the above resume that he found and linked to could determine. The other is a trivial lie, but a lie never-the-less that I claim to be the Blogfather.
If this particular AfD had not made the front page of Digg yesterday I would let it slide, but because it did, and it indirectly points to that discussion, I feel it's necessary to fix this issue ASAP. Regardless of what the outcome of this debate on if I'm notable turns out yea or nay, I am notable enough that these two lies could easily hurt my good name and whatever (nerdy) standing I have in the blogosphere.
I am a professional blogger, the Editor of LAist, and currently mired in this weird turmoil at Wikipedia. All I want is for the debate to be honest and truthful and focused on my so-called notability. The user timecop stubbornly refuses to remove the lies, does not deny that they are not lies, and asked me not to discuss the matter with him any longer, which tells me that he intends on keeping the lies up there.
To add insult to injury in his latest comment on my AfD he added a third, far more trivial, lie that I haven't been read by millions, when indeed my first year on the blogosphere I received over 3 million hits. All I want is for the two lies to be removed. If Wikipedia somehow punishes people who knowingly keep lies on a very public debate for the sole purpose of defaming an innocent blogger, then so be it. I respect everyone's opinions about my place on Wikipedia, but I can't have those two lies floating around as one effects my present and future livelihood and the other effects my good standing in the dorky world of the blogosphere. Thank you! - Tony Pierce 75.200.116.69 05:51, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
See [2], [3], and [4]. Everything is listed in numbers not Roman numerals. Just a mere "Course VI" does not mean every department uses Roman numerals. If you can find two or three official sites with all the courses listed in Roman numerals, then you are right. MITBeaverRocks 15:07, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
I thought you had rv'd all my edits (which would have been malicious) rather than just added your choice bit back in. I apologize for the tone of my protest. When I just checked the article, I saw that my comment re: Newfoundland and your quote re: Oregon are side-by-side. Since I don't want to create a "too many cooks" situation I'll leave you to remove my comment and harmonize the text. Best wishes. ◄ HouseOfScandal ►01:53, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
A lot of town on the North Shore of Boston have them. Rockport, Gloucester, Danvers, Manchester-by-the-Sea, Beverly Farms, to name a few. There are a good deal of them though, I thought it was odd to just name Chepachet. Jgdann 01:41, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
Please adhere to Wikipedia policies and post your change "In" the discussion section of an article before making your change. -- Roger the red 20:26, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
On the "Biograph" article, which I am thouroghly sick of, there has to be a deletion of repetative material. This article is up for peer review as well as with Wiki-Film. It is acceptable to be clear but have everything in this article stated ONCE, not two, or three times. This is idiotic and makes the article look like a 3rd grade essay. Notice the "B" grading. There are also more references and citations in this one article than any other film article on Wikipedia. This is why I have a morbid curiosity on this. I have little time and on here very little, but when I am, I will make contributions. -- Roger the red 20:41, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
Although I have no detailed knowledge of the matter, it's my understanding that the BIOS source code appeared in the "purple book" that IBM provided to other companies under NDA. Did IBM publish it more openly than that? Gazpacho 00:38, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
Thought you might want to take a gander at that article. If you don't think there's merit to it, perhaps it ought to go? JDoorj a m Talk 18:19, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
I found a reference to a treatise written by William F. Buckley about elitism at Yale; I thought this might be a good counterweight to George H. W. Bush's statement about the levels of elitism there. FWIW, I think the section is growing nicely, especially considering the regular authors of that article are practically an Ivy League students and alumni association and no one has cried foul about the elitism associated with their degrees. JDoorj a m Talk 01:21, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
There's no call for snide remarks about Rutgers, and I would appreciate it if you'd remove the remark you made at Talk:University_of_Pennsylvania#Admissions_Selectivity. No, I'm not a Rutgers alum. Dpbsmith (talk) 01:35, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
This is tantalizing: I ran a search for "Rutgers Ivy League" at Google Books and found this snippet from a 1933 issue of Newsweek, which explicitly mentions the Ivy League, and Yale being a member, but I can't see the rest of the text, and I don't know what the "Rutgers" mention is that brought this page up. It also only says the year (but not week) of publication, and doesn't give a page number. Aside from finding and reading 52 issues of Newsweek from 1933, is there an easier way to find out what is on this page that you're aware of? JDoorj a m Talk 20:56, 24 December 2006 (UTC)
Cornell printed that motto on their promotional material for a while in the 90's; I'm having a hard time finding a documented source for it, but think it would be a great addition to the elitism section of Ivy League. In case you find yourself thumbing through Cornell literature for any reason, it's something to keep an eye out for.... JDoorj a m Talk 05:27, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
When you create stub articles such as Showscan, please try to find the appropriate specific stub tag(s) on the page WP:STUBS. This saves other editors work in categorizing the page, and makes it easier for editors with experise in the subject to find pages that need work. Thanks, — Swpb talk contribs 21:33, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
Looking to nominate this article as a Featured Article candidate in a few weeks. As you are the de facto guru of higher education issues, I would be grateful if you'd pipe in with some brutal suggestions to improve the article here: Wikipedia:Peer review. Thanks. — ExplorerCDT 23:06, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
Wouldn't you agree that your quote:
would be appropriate somewhere in the United States Information Agency article? ...or that there should perhaps be a public diplomacy article? Cheers for digging up that quote, to by the way. Hope your New Year is going well for you. User:Pedant 23:01, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
Looking at the fact that you reduced the said article to a stub without warning, I am going to have to lambast you for that as being vandalism. The marketing language can be lost, but please don't overly purge the article to just a one-sentence wonder as I'm going to take that as vandalism. There are plenty of ways to improve the article, but your idea of reducing the article to a one-sentence blunder is just a bit too extreme and constitutes vandalism (drastic edit without discussing). — Vesther ( U * T/R * CTD) 03:42, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
Do you think the article should include a list of the football champs (perhaps B-ball as well)? After all its an athletic conference, and Big East, Pac 10 and Big 12 all list at minimum the annual football champs. Cornell Rockey 14:42, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
Please do not make reverts without discussion, or use edit summaries falsely claiming consensus to do so. This could be considered edit warring and disruption.- Cindery 21:37, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
An editor has nominated the article Jane Dark for deletion, under the Articles for deletion process. We appreciate your contributions, but the nominator doesn't believe it satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and has explained why in the nomination (also see What Wikipedia is not and Deletion policy). Your opinions on why the topic of the article meets inclusion criteria and what should be done with the article are welcome: participate in the discussion by editing Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jane Dark. Add four tildes like this ˜˜˜˜ to sign your comments. You can also edit the article Jane Dark during the discussion, but do not remove the "Articles for Deletion" template (the box at the top of the article), this will not end the deletion debate. Jayden54Bot 15:10, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
I don't think Turdus migratorius is a good example. The biological editors and various WikiProjects are in debate back and forth over whether articles should be by common name or scientific name (binomial nomenclature), and the results on Wikipedia are appalling. Thanks for chiming in though. — ExplorerCDT 14:25, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
On the advice of another admin, I've posted the material about Roger to the AN. Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#Roger the red. Since you've dealt with the editor your input would be valuable. - Will Beback · † · 05:57, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
FYI, I've sent you an email. JoshuaZ 02:43, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
Your explanation is very good, and I think it should be posted as an essay, which can then be conveniently linked to from relevant places. Tyrenius 18:58, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
In case you haven't noticed, the bit about the sexuality of Abraham Lincoln being disputed hasn't been on the article for very long. And also in case you didn't notice, I was the one who put a {{ totallydisputed}} tag on it to try to push people to sort out the POV problems. - Ta bu shi da yu 02:57, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
Hi, Dpb. Someone has gone to a lot of trouble to create a hoax article at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkeyman_Bald_Eagle_Meat_Taco_Company
Can you delete it instantly, or do whatever needs to be done? Thanks, Hayford Peirce 16:42, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
Hi there, I am a research student from the National University of Singapore and I wish to invite you to do an online survey about Wikipedia. To compensate you for your time, I am offering a reward of USD$10, either to you or as a donation to the Wikimedia Foundation. For more information, please go to the research home page. Thank you. -- WikiInquirer 21:47, 3 March 2007 (UTC) talk to me
Hi - I notice you were active a bit on the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons article last month. I've gone through and expanded it, trying to use the organization's website and articles from their Journal to describe their position as much as possible, along with some third-party sources (e.g. NY Times). Anyhow, if you feel like popping back to take a look at the article, I'd appreciate your feedback. MastCell 19:52, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
I am inviting all recent editors of Joseph McCarthy to comment on a current dispute. User:KarlBunker, in his stated view out of concern for WP:NPOV#Undue weight, has reverted, deleted, and selectively reinstated factually accurate sourced information that I have added. I contend he is in error. Please see the discussion at Talk:Joseph McCarthy. Thank you. Kaisershatner 17:32, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
"And why do you use a signature which adds every page on which you use it into the category of pages that need source citations?"
Um...I never thought about that, and I'm changing it immediately! Thank you. -Sue Rangell
Nice work! Encouraging to know that there are a few articles yet to be written ... Let's see, there's Horatio Parker's Mona, George Wakefield Chadwick's The Padrone, and probably a whole lot of stuff from the early 20th century "Indianist movement". Cheers! Antandrus (talk) 02:31, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
i appreciate your editorial input. the material you added is new and appears to conflict with NPOV and not cited. please consider making your introductory input succinct and developing your input in the body of the article and add the necessary citation. i'm new at this and you can do whatever you want so you do not have to heed my input! warm regards παράδοξος 05:54, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
Hoping that the good people at Conservapedia haven't tied you to a stake yet and you'll be back to witty banter at the MIT page(s) sometime soon. Or otherwise enjoying a wikibreak? Madcoverboy 23:14, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
Hey there! I found that all that was left for me to do on WP, by the time I got here, was fix the occasional comma. And I'd put it back later that afternoon... oh, wait, no, that was Uncyclopedia... but, on the other hand, CP is a rich mine of room for improvement, a veritable sandbox of opportunity to make a difference in the world. You (Dpbsmith) seem to be doing very well over there so far. And I haven't been banned yet... Anyway, just saying "hello"! Huw Powell 00:59, 10 April 2007 (UTC) (PS, I'm "human" at CP)
Your name is listed at Wikipedia:School and university projects - instructions for students so I welcome you to join the new WikiProject that covers classroom assignments. Regards, Durova Charge! 19:09, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
I disagree with your reversion of wikifying edits made to Goddard Lieberson, and have added my arguments to the Wikify project talk page. Windymilla 21:18, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
Dear Dpbsmith,
Your comments on a page about me, Jeanne Fleming, was just brought to my attention. I just wanted to let you directly that my bio there on Wikipedia says that I designed and produced Harbor Festival 1986 (and also 85 and 84 for that matter !)....which was The Official Land Celebration for the Centennial of the Statue of Liberty. This is not "wildly exaggerated." "Liberty Weekend" was presented in several parts--David Wolper produced the VIP and television event held at the Meadowlands in New Jersey and on Governor's Island. I produced the Land celebration--that is the celebration for the millions of general public in Lower Manhattan that involved 12 stages, 7 parades daily, an ethnic food festival, authentic performers from all over the world and across the nation and many, mnay other things! Then, there was Op Sail, which was the water event. The Fireworks were done by Tommy Walker of Disney with several different fireworks companies. Wolper came under a lot of criticsm for his events because they were limited to VIPS and ticket holders. The public event was three days of pure fun for abosultely everyone !
I think what the bio says is, therefore, accurate--I designed and Produced Harbor Festival 86 --the Official Land Celebration for the Statue of Liberty--to which millions of people came and which is the event that most folks remember...
J —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 74.32.46.209 ( talk) 22:45, 6 May 2007 (UTC).
Dear dpbsmith,
I am not sure where you could look...it was interesting time and my role --though I appeared right beside David many, many times (and was consulted by him many times) as we presented the weekend to police, press etc., my role was not a "Celebrity " one---there was a lot of politics going on at the time and a great deal of "sexy" attention was given to Lee Iacocca and others as part of the VIP events--my role was not advertised and promoted like that--I was just the person who did the major public celebration...honestly speaking I work in NYC all the time doing various things--Wolper came in from LA and then left...for me it was my work in the City and that everyone knew what I did that mattered..I was not so interested in publicity, just that I could keep working in NYC and had the respect of city officials and the police--with whom I have a close relationship after our event went so perfectly that weekend--nine births, no deaths, or robberies ! Just a wonderful time was had by all... It really came in handy when I had to do the Halloween Parade just 7 weeks after 9/11 and Guiliani trusted me todo that and show the world that NYC wsa going to okay. J
I also just thought of something else--because this WAS 20 years ago !!!--the Harbor Festival was sponsored by NY Newsday(which was making a move into Manhattan at the time)---and the Times and the Daily News had a competitive relationship with them...as a result, the publicity of Harbor Festivbal and its story was not carried by the other papers as much...it was actually a problem leading up to the event--and the final schedule published by the Times was innaccurate. I had forgotten all that part !!! J
Also ! How do you find out who wrote a Wikipedia article about you?? I had never even seen this before !!
J
Dear Dpbsmith,
Thank you for all your help and advice. Yes, Paul Klenk wrote the article about the Halloween Parade for Wikipedia and I think that is how this article came to be. I really do not look for publicity--don't seek it--am a behind the scenes sort of person... so I never even looked at all this. Right now it is a bit odd, since I am making a couple of new events, if folks go there they will question my role in the Statue when they see your post...Is there a way that the "true" story can come out in a reasonable way...J
Dear DP,
I am sorry I have been very busy and have not had a chance to check back and answer your question re: Paul Klenk --no, I do not know who he is, but he did communicate with me that he was doing an article--and most recently asking for a Press Pass for this year's Halloween Parade..so perhaps I will meet him then..
Thank you for the corrections...I would never have noticed it, but my friend Shannon (who is ALWAYS on the computer) did and pointed it out...
Be well,
Jeanne
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If you have the time and/or inclination, I invite you to add back some of the deleted material in the Billy Sunday article. Not as a section at the end, but perhaps as a section near the "social and political views" section--in the body of the article, in other words. Best if you could incorporate the material into existing areas, with necessary editing.
If you are familiar with the discussion on the article, you will note that it is primarily written/edited/maintained by John Foxe. I have added/edited/maintained the material on Sunday's early life and baseball career, while attempting to edit and add more material on Sunday's cultural/historical importance. The discussion will also show that I feel that John Foxe's emphasis on theology and his unwillingness to include material in the article that rounds out the portrait of Sunday as a preacher (NOT minister, if that distinction makes sense) and a popular culture figure is a POV problem.
Anyway, I invite contributions from someone new to this debate. -- Rocketj4 12:26, 22 June 2007 (UTC)
Or Billy Graham, for that matter.-- Rocketj4 16:22, 22 June 2007 (UTC)
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Hello: We haven't been in touch in some time but I've just discovered a teensy tiny question that you will be the best possible person to answer. On the RPSmith page, the link shows that he attended Columbia University but shouldn't the link really go here? Hoping you are well! -- Wspencer11 (talk to me...) 17:42, 5 August 2007 (UTC)
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"personas, solicitiously primative minde" I guess these are correct spelling for these words. I would seem wikipeida is LCD (Lowest Common Denominator) for the educational level of young folk like yourself.
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Only a member can confirm such, and to ask a member to cite a membership directory is low _____, to say the least. You wikis need to grab tightly the above, and quit ruining the Yale-Harvard-Princeton society-final club-eating club entries. SLY111 ( talk) 00:53, 5 March 2008 (UTC)SLY111
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You stated on my talk page: "The Statue of Liberty is much closer to Jersey City than to New York City. That's not even possibly in dispute, it's a simple fact: just look at a map."
But I do dispute it. Liberty Island is _part_ of New York City, specifically the borough of Manhattan. You can't possibly get any closer than that. It's therefore incorrect to say Jersey City is the closest city to the statue. Jersey City is merely the closest city _other_ than the city in which the statue is physically located.
I'll wait for your comments before changing anything. Station1 ( talk) 03:45, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
I replied to your comment.-- Srleffler ( talk) 17:42, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
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If you want a multi-paragraph blockquote, you can use html BR tags, or just multiple blockquotes. Cheers, Dansiman ( talk| Contribs) 01:36, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
I've left you a message on my talk page. Have a great day! - Jameson L. Tai talk ♦ contribs 21:19, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
Hey there.
While it is not the most sophisticated link (I don't prefer to use retail sites, but I think it is relevant here), it is the most concrete link displaying the availability of red in stores (sans artwork), which is something I can vouch for as well as I sit here fiddling with my own. I'd prefer that the official site update itself soon enough, but I've found that more often than not that elaborately designed "official" sites often employ heavy flash animation and other bits and details and therefore can tend to be updated rather late (if hardly at all, as the Starcraft 2 official site exhibits).
The product was apparently released just a few days ago (this meshes with personal observation: I recall seeing it first on the 26th, while seeing the same shelf empty two days prior), and therefore this lack of currency is somewhat acceptable. The site will doubtless be updated soon enough, but it's not our business to exclude verifiable information simply because the official site lacks such information.-- C.Logan ( talk) 13:05, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
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Well said. view source and recoverability and sharing are perhaps the most important aspects of the XO design... 66.31.40.110 ( talk) 09:40, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
Hello. I noticed you were involved in the Bates method article a while back, and there are a few issues now on which third-opinions would be helpful. The article has improved a lot in the last few months, imho. However, the top has been heavily tagged since early March. See this discussion. Note also the resulting dispute over external links in the "Further Reading" section, and the accusations of harassment. Also, while re-organizing the article, I moved a bit of it back to Eye exercises, and issues have come up there as well. Since you are uninvolved in recent issues, but worked on the article before and thus are somewhat familiar with the subject, your opinions would be helpful here, if you have time. PSWG1920 ( talk) 06:17, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
Could you explain this image: ? It appears to be blurred by a strange point-spread function. It is blurred on the diagonal (this way: /) but there is more weight on the ends of the PSF than in the middle. That's a bit like what I see when I take my glasses off. What causes this? It doesn't make sense to me from geometric optics. —Ben FrantzDale ( talk) 21:08, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
Your understanding of WP policy is dead on (at least as I understand it). Did my comment at the talk page indicate that I felt otherwise?--Esprit15d • talk • contribs 00:34, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
There is a debate at WT:UNI#Rankings in lead about the consensus for including or excluding rankings from the lead of university articles. Your input would be appreciated. Madcoverboy ( talk) 18:18, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
I wanted to drop a quick note thanking you for your images and explanations on this article. They are very good at helping to explain the concepts. I was able to grasp them at once! -- Mdwyer ( talk) 06:02, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
Since few editors seem to contribute to this backwater technical school's page, I have given MIT a thorough scrubdown after comments at the good article reassessment and now I'm trolling for comments, feedback, and consensus. Please give it a once over for style and coherence since the words seemd to be burned into my retina. Cheers! Madcoverboy ( talk) 05:46, 26 July 2008 (UTC)
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Thank you for your advice 41.235.16.76 ( talk) 04:13, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
Just wanted to say good job on the recent additions to the history section of Crossword. I had wanted to expand that for a while, and I'm pleased to see you did such a good job. I'm normally pretty picky on new content, as there's usually something that could be worded better or have better sources, but that was very good. DreamGuy ( talk) 14:45, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
If you are still interested. I've been away for about a week. Cheers! — Slipgrid ( talk) 21:57, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
Dear Dpbsmith , If you have time and are willing to share your point of view. Can you give your comment arguments about the current discussion in the bates method article. Paragraph : The American acadamy of opthalmology link listed in the external link section ? appreciate your comment, Seeyou ( talk) 20:15, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
Wikipedia's article on the Seven Seas has one section for Venice and another section for Rome. The section for Rome was added first, and it looks like you were the one who added the section for Venice. But I think they might be referring to the same thing, in which case it would make sense to combine them. The section on Rome refers to a "navigable network in the mouths of the Po river." Venice IS in the mouth of the Po river. - Shaheenjim ( talk) 17:16, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
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Dear Dpbsmith, If you have time and are willing to share your point of view. Can you give your comment arguments about the current discussion in the bates method article. Paragraph : Elwin Marg was an optometrist ! appreciate your comment, Discussion is about whether or not the profession of Elwin Marg should be mentioned in the external link section. Seeyou ( talk) 21:41, 23 August 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for the heads-up. I thought you drove a stake through its heart, but it lives again! I've left a brief note at the talk page; hopefully this time it's [1] stake through the heart, [2] burn the body, and [3] burn the ashes. - Nunh-huh 13:45, 6 September 2008 (UTC)
Dear Dpbsmith,If you have time and are willing to share your point of view. Can you give your comment arguments about the current discussion in the bates method article.
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Please take a look at the Bates method article. Paragraph sunning and the arguments I gave on the discussion page.
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In my opinion a very important safety issue.
( Note also the wikipedia internal links have been removed ! )
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I was looking for one of Harold Edgerton's pictures to use on the history section of the flashtube article when I discovered you photograph of a bullet in supersonic flight. I went ahead and put it in the article. I just wanted to say that I think it's an amazing photo depicting supersonic flow dynamics. Rarely have I seen such a beautiful picture of the mach-cone. The way the bullet is cutting through the air faster than the compressible flow can fill the vacuum. It's a remarkable picture of transonic flight, just before the "breakout" (in aviation terminology, where the mach-cone moves to the trailing edge of the bullet and the oblique shockwaves form at the leading edge). I just wanted to say thanks for contributing this great piece of work, and thought you might like to know where i've placed it.
I also liked your essay on your user page. Although I might point out, which I think you touched on at the end, that while the National Enquirer might be a good source if properly cited, I would be hesitant to use it without checking the veracity of anything it says. Personally, I like to double and even triple-check any source I use. If you're interested, there is a good book out there on evaluating encyclopedias called Reference service and sources, which give some pretty good details on checking encyclopedias for citations, veracity, etc... Just thought I'd share that with you. Anyhow, thanks again and have a good day. Zaereth ( talk) 22:21, 15 October 2010 (UTC)
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However it seems that the actual vandalism is no longer in the page history. Do you remember if you asked a dev to delete it? It's not such a big deal, but I'm curious. Also see my message at Talk:Pulse-density modulation#Unsorted text.
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I noticed you reverted my edit to remove unsubstantiated info and an advertisement from the Myopia article, found under the section on Prevention. From what I could see, Stevebkny and 58.152.92.220 were responsible for adding the unsubstantiated info and ad. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 60.242.96.171 ( talk) 02:49, 4 February 2012 (UTC)
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Hi Dpbsmith, I enjoyed your user page ... and couldn't resist writing an article about Prof. Dendy. I've cheekily wiki linked him from your user page, not something I do a lot. Thanks for the stimulus. all the best Chiswick Chap ( talk) 08:26, 19 October 2012 (UTC)
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I saw the wiki page, but I couldn't find any examples using actual numbers evaluating the formula. Could you give some examples of convolution, please? Mathijs Krijzer ( talk) 22:16, 9 March 2013 (UTC)
The convolution of f and g is written f∗g, using an asterisk or star. It is defined as the integral of the product of the two functions after one is reversed and shifted. As such, it is a particular kind of integral transform:
The convolution of two complex-valued functions on Rd
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When a function gN is periodic, with period N, then for functions, f, such that f∗gN exists, the convolution is also periodic and identical to:
When a function gT is periodic, with period T, then for functions, f, such that f∗gT exists, the convolution is also periodic and identical to:
where to is an arbitrary choice. The summation is called a periodic summation of the function f.
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Hi, I am working on an article related to Jack London and noticed that you were one of the early contributors to his page. After looking at your page and some of the article that you have started, I think you might be able to help me build the article on Netta Eames. I'm a bit rusty on article building at WP and it seems kind of tough to get past the new page review process. There is an admin watching over the process, who seems pretty dedicated but doesn't see the notability of the subject. I'm pretty immersed in some Jack London research so I see her as very notable but could use fresh eyes and perspective.
One question is whether I am failing in some way to demonstrate the notability with the information I have put together. There is likely much more to include with more research, but I'd hate to lose the article to the deletion machine in the interim.
Also, how can I generate interest in this project?
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I've brought attention to Run it up the flagpole at Wikipedia:WikiProject Linguistics/Etymology#Articles needing attention. Feel free to comment there. Firestar464 ( talk) 05:57, 30 March 2021 (UTC)
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