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I wanted to see how long it took before someone caught my little Magritte joke. Thanks for giving it a place of (quasi)-honor, and not simply reverting it. Sr.Wombat 03:45, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
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No offense taken but, how much research do you conduct on cellular automata? While there may be acceptability in the use of the word *automata* regarding plurality, the Cellular Automaton page has error with regard to the difference between a systems of cellular automata (a set of cells, each of which can assume a state from a set of states) and the pattern of such states (a cellular automaton) which may be exhibited within that cellular automata. This is the problem that I am trying to correct, and which you seem to have missed. The rule-set and state-set define a system of cellular automata, and every such set is a different system of cellular automata. They are not systems of cellular automaton. Notice the plurality problem in the previous sentence.
So, perhaps the revert you made is not all wrong but, it does serve to retain error in the article, by failing to exhibit the difference between patterns of cell states (automatons) and the system of cells (automata).
I invite your email, to the address given on my personal page. William R. Buckley 22:25, 22 October 2005 (UTC)
What's with the spree of changing redirects from the prefixed units of measure to orders of magnitude, rather than to the base units? Has this been discussed anywhere? There were discussions before the time the articles under micrometre and the like were changed to redirects, and part of the deal was that the base units articles would also include prefix information. I don't think your changes are acceptable. Various discussions have been collected at Talk:Units of measurement/Format of articles about units. Gene Nygaard 02:20, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
>>Would you be interested in joining my proposed WikiProject, WikiProject Tunings, Temperaments, and Scales? — Keenan Pepper 18:32, 19 November 2005 (UTC)<<
I noticed you have listed yourself in Category:Atheist Wikipedians. That said, you will probably be interested in my suggested featured article for December 25th: Omnipotence paradox. The other suggestion being supported by others for that date is Christmas, although Raul654 has historically been against featuring articles on the same day as their anniversary/holiday. — BRIAN 0918 • 2005-11-28 08:21
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Good job with the pictures, thank you. ^_^ Jack Cain 03:45, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
Hi Keenan! I wonder if you are aware that capitalization of terms like polar bear is controversial? "Whether the common names of species should start with a capital letter has been hotly debated in the past and has remained unresolved. As a matter of truce both styles are acceptable (except for proper names), but a redirect should be created from the alternative form." See WP:MOS. Earlier, the MOS advises "do not enforce American rules on pages about Commonwealth topics". Since polar bears live in both America (Alaska) and Canada (as well as other non-English countries), their nationality may be disputed.
The article was started in October 2001 with polar bear uncapitalized. [1] It was changed in March 2004. However, most of the edits have occurred since the latter date. It is possible that other changes occurred; my search was not exhaustive. I think the article history is sufficiently checkered that neither side can claim significant support from it. [2]
I have little interest in this argument since it affects the content not at all. Moreover, it seems to me to be one of the delights of editing Wikipedea to learn about this sort of thing. But, I thought some background on this matter might be helpful to you, in case you were unaware of it. Best wishes, Walter Siegmund (talk) 06:26, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
I was hoping that advocates of Lucy tuning would tell me more about what they think the relevance of π is. After all, NPOV says we should report beliefs whether they are objectively true or not.... -- Macrakis 20:29, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
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I noticed from Category:Wikipedians in Florida that you are a floridian and I have created a state wikiproject, Wikipedia:WikiProject Florida. So far is it very small but it could be expanded later. Join it if you want and help set tasks etc. Thanks -- Jaranda wat's sup 06:28, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
Please do not use __NOTOC__</wiki> on a VFD page, as it prevents the VFD for the day ([[Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2005 December 20]]) from having a table of contents. --~~~~
Hi, I updated my userpage.. Can you check it out and rate it or something? And feel free to edit anything you feel is not correct. And also can you help me with the copyrights to the picture? Or my pic is gonna be deleted in a week.
Thanks a lot.
Jayant, 17 Years, India (Talk) 16:43, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
Ever heard of CoC, Pepper? -:) Ozzyslovechild 22:12, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
In WP:RD/M, you wrote:
Well, The Iliad is a pangram in Ancient Greek. If you're looking for a single-sentence pangram, I can't help you. :) -- Mareino 15:28, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
Why did you redirect Bohr bug to Unusual software bugs? From the article content, it is apparent that a Bohr bug is exactly your basic, normal, common-or-garden software bug. — JIP | Talk 23:09, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
I think it's really cool that u r only 19 and are already a physicist and have colaborated in the Mu Alpha Theta project, sorry, team... which I know nothing about cause I'm a psychologist...but I think it's really cool anyway :). can I talk to u about physics and ask you some questions so that I'm not such a physics illiterate? cheers. -- Cosmic girl 13:48, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi Keenan Pepper. I saw your comment on the above talk page. I agree, so I've proposed some changes to the articles on the topic of developmental disability at Talk:Mental retardation#Mental retardation. Please let me know what you think. Natgoo 14:32, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi Keenan,
So I think Category:Infinity might be a reasonable idea, but I don't agree with moving it down exclusively into Category:Philosophy of mathematics. Not everything done with infinity is philosophy; some of it is just plain mathematics. This is a general problem for the whole category scheme, especially when categories are viewed transitively—it would be nice to see philosophy mentioned, but we really shouldn't have Extended real number line winding up by heredity in Category:Philosophy. -- Trovatore 17:17, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
I'm sorry about that...I was called for dinner while I was in the middle of doing that, and when I turned around to respond my hand moved and I clicked on Save Page. Yeltensic42.618 ambition makes you look pretty ugly 16:47, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
This article is turning out pretty well. I'd suggest putting it up on WP:DYK (by adding it to the list here), if you can think of a decent one-line statement. — 0918 BRIAN • 2006-01-11 04:56
-- Gurubrahma 22:20, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
Actually, the noquestion template isn't on that list (i don't think it is a template, even). I did get it from Cernen; i just copied and pasted it from where he had used it earlier. It probably should be a template, though. СПУТНИК ССС Р 12:51, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for putting the request up to move the page back and notifying me right away. I am new to this, but what I read says that for a consensus to be reached, you have to put comments in at Talk:Assyro-Babylonian mythology. Castanea dentata 00:59, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
Okay -- will remember to do that more often -- it bothered me too, to be making so many long lists of little changes. But sometimes if I wait too long to make seveeral changes "take" at once, I lose them somehow and have to start over -- At 70 (3.684210526316 times your age), eyes not so sharp anymore.
I note I share many of your interests -- I wrote a book on the evolution of matter into humankind -- called "Continuum" based on physics, relativity, cosmology, et al -- and also on the emergence of a secular "collective mind" -- You might enjoy some of my URLs (...or not):
65.255.225.37 04:28, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
Why do stable isotpes have such a box with a "decay chain" link which is not related at all? And the un-initiated reader has no clue or way to find out how to find out where to glean some info about the meaning of the boxes within the template. Please clarify. Jclerman 12:18, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
Thanks. I've tried Cleanup and topic RFC already, but no takers. I feel like this about the damned bone by now, so I don't trust my objectivity on the topic enough to edit it myself (and besides, anything I did to tidy/trim it would be taken as hostile). See also Talk:Bob Fink, where the same users are arguing the toss about the Bob Fink bio. Eurgh. Tearlach 22:10, 5 February 2006 (UTC)
Just wondering why you thought that the primitive lattice vectors for FCC were not useful on the diamond article? I put them there as there is no explicit statement of the FCC vectors on the crystal structure page.
Thanks, Lukehounsome
hi.... i mentioned on my user page that i wanted to be in a band....well........i have formed a band and we just recorded our first single....... we are 3 people in our band.... I play bass.... Danish sings and plays the rythm guitar.....SriChu plays the lead guitar.....and we are looking for a drummer.... this single was made without the drums and only bass , acoustic and a lead guitars...
anyways heres the link for our single.... Please download it if you can and rate it....
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And you want more details about the band or the lyrics of the song please dont hesistate to ask me.... and if you like please feel free to distribute the song over the internet....
thanks a lot....
Jayant, 17 Years, India| (Talk) 04:52, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
P.S. by the way..we still haven't named our band yet... so any suggestions would be welcome....
Hi....
Thanks a lot for the comments on the song... we will definetly try to do whatever you asked... but we just have a single laptop mic to record all the music....and we had lots of problems picking up all the music.... we'll try to get some better recording instruments...but we are recording this stuff in my room... and we dont have access to a studio or anything like that... so i guess you just have to bear with us until we get enough money to buy the proper stuff we need....and we dont have any one else who can sing.... we are actually looking for a drummer right now.....and we plan to release a few more songs by the end of april.... Anyways... Thanks a lot again... Jayant, 17 Years, India| (Talk) 13:47, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
Hi Keenan. My last name is pronounced "ti-MOS-ko." As to joining the Wikiproject on Tunings, etc., I'm happy to do it. However, I've noticed that a lot of the Wikipedia music articles are written from a fairly non-standard music-theoretical perspective. In particular, a lot of them are written from the standpoint of people who are particularly interested in tuning matters. My own goal is to try to bring a more mainstream tenor to these articles. Tymoczko 19:54, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
Keenan. I saw this comment of yours:
The first time I went to Bali to study music, I was introduced to the man who was to become my teacher. He wanted to get to know me before deciding if I should become his student. After a few discussions, he said "I like you", "I can become your teacher". I've thought about this quite a bit over the years. I think this attitude is very important in Balinese culture. The gamelan is thought to be imbued with great powers, which cannot be given to just anyone. You can say that his view is just superstition, but I think it has some deeper meanings. For one, it makes the relationships very personal and keeps things at a human scale. Here in the west, music has lost much of this power. It has become a commodity. The Balinese are keenly aware that everyone's actions have an effect on everyone else. A person asking for advice about suicide is likely crying out for help. To provide the information about how to do it just sends the message that nobody cares. The world does not run on information. It runs on interpersonal relationships. -- Samuel Wantman 11:55, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
Hi, I can help you with any article translation you need, just tell me! :)-- Cosmic girl 02:05, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
Hii.....
I just dropped in to say thanks a lot for your comments on our song... Sorry i couldn't reply earlier...... i've been busy lately....i have my exams in 3 days... :-(...anyways.... thanks a lot again.......
Jayant, 17 Years, India| (My Talk) 15:41, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
Keenan, I was the guy who slightly edited the Equal Temperament article. I could not view #'s or b's and saw only . I am using IE ver. 6.0.2800.... using UTF-8 encoding. I also installed the latest version of Mozilla Firefox and instead of seeing # or b, I now see a question mark. I went to the local library ('s Hertogenbosch) where they recently installed new computers using Windows XP - the _same_ problem exists on those computers. I know I am not alone in this problem. I posted this situation at the Keyboard Magazine online forum and I was not alone there with seeing . Many of the others did however see # and b, but I can't figure out why they did and several of us did not. If you have any suggestions, please pass them on. Davehorne 21:19, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
Keenan, you're probably right. Many years ago I owned a Sony Betamax system. It was superior to VHS, but more people bought VHS and we know the outcome of that. I'm sure your GNU/Linux OS is superior to Windows, but if the vast majority of folks use Windows (to include the computers in public libraries), doesn't it make more sense to use a simple # or b to convey more information to more people? The broader issue is communication ... and I am still trying to come up to a solution to view those characters. Davehorne 10:05, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
Hello, Keenan. I'm Brek, the violist in the string quartet Kepler Quartet. I'm the one who posted additions pertinent to our release of the Johnston CD and the ongoing recording project. I also altered formatting (italics) a bit to be consistent with the way quartets are listed on the CD's liner notes and with what I've experienced to be the norm in this. (The same applies to Trios and Septets, as far as I understand it.) And, although certainly not meaning to step on any toes, I tried to make an alteration in the second sentence of the first paragraph to avoid the repetition of "best known" from the first sentence, which I see you have now 'reverted'.
I am new at this (as you can probably tell). And I will get the hang of Wikipedia protocol, over time. But I would like to suggest to you that you might wish to come up with an alternative to "best known" in the second sentence. The repetition is a bit jarring for the reader; it interrupts the flow.
If I had known this was your edit (i.e., if I had known about edit histories before launching into what was, in any case, hardly a revision besides mentioning Kepler/Johnston-related activities), I might have known to address you personally. Now that I know how this talk page business works, I can tell you all this ... after having spent literally my entire day at Wikipedia over the matter! Oh, well. Better to try to get a thing right than not. Brek 01:46, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
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Hii...
Hows everything going..?? I just recorded my first solo song...!!! its instrumental actually.... It'd be cool if you can listen to it and tell me what you think of it.....Heres the link......
I still haven't named the song or written the lyrics yet.....so any suggestions are welcome.. :-D.....
Thanks a lot...!!!
I was wondering if you understood what's going on with the edits on Maslow's hierarchy of needs. Are the bad language links the result of intentional vandalism? The edits seem really weird to me, and I'm curious.-- Bkwillwm 04:37, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
The flatulence "question" was asked by a vandal who's been messing up several pages over the past hour. I think it's safe to delete. -- Mwalcoff 02:47, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
Hii...
Sorry about this....but a page Spawn Man had created and put as a sub-page on his user page has been put up on AfD.... i really see nothing wrong in the page but still people are fighting over it.... and SpawnMan has lost all faith in Wikipedia.... It'd really be nice of you if you could lend your support to Keep the page....as it does not violate any rules of user pages... any kind of support would be truly appreciated...... Thanks a lot!!! Jayant, 17 Years, India • contribs 17:49, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
And if it is, do you remember me?
And if you do, can you give me hint on USAMO 2002.3 _without_ ruining the problem? I've shown it as long as there is at least one real root. J. LaRue 01:33, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
You're absolutely right about adding the time signature analysis to the song's article. I somehow missed that the song had an article in the first place. Now I just have to figure out how to reconcile my analysis (for which I can cite a source--it was not my own personal opinion of the meter) with the one that is already on the song's article. -- Jemiller226 07:00, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for catching the additional typos on the biceps brachii muscle page. There were a lot of them, and I guess I missed a few. Thanks also for making the moves on the other pages to correct spellings. -- EncycloPetey 01:22, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
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Hi there. I dropped by the Harry Partch article and saw that you had expanded the instruments section. I've just read the new section and found it very interesting. Thanks for that, and thanks again for mentioning the musical instrument, as I would never have found that one. Carcharoth 17:13, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
Hi, the article List of school pranks has been targeted by the Wikipedia Thought Police™. Please help preserve this marvellous testament to human inventiveness—and cruelty—from certain extinction by voting Keep at the article's deletion page if you haven't already done so. May algid reason never reign supreme! Thanks, Maikel 15:20, 4 April 2006 (UTC) PS: This is a generic message that has been hand-posted to you as a former contributor—hope you won't mind.