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I saw your comment at Talk:Ubykh phonology, you might consider asking User:Thefamouseccles about it, as he seems to be the expert in that area. Cheers, — Khoikhoi 22:23, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
Hi, I noticed that you made these comments to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Shi'a view of Muawiyah I after the AfD was already closed. After the AfD is closed, there should be no more comments to the AfD. As such, I have reverted your edits to remove the comment from this AfD. If you wish to make new comments that may reverse the decision in the AfD, you may do so in WP:DRV, but only if your comments point out how the Deletion process wasn't correctly followed. -- Deathphoenix ʕ 06:09, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
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Hi, I noticed you removed the "Perpetual Motion Machine" from the "List of Holy Grails". I am extremely unknowledgeable regaring physics so you may be dead right on this one, but could you explain why? I thought the key to "perpetual motion" (unlimited energy) was a kind of mythical quest scientists would love to discover. Lawyer2b 21:56, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
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Hi, I'd like you to elaborate on your statement that you could find "only one reputable source" on State terrorism by United States of America. There are dozens of sources cited in the article, which one did you find reputable? (My question is posted on the AfD above) Cheers, Self-Described Seabhcán 09:00, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
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I have commented on your additions to the Schönhage-Strassen algorithm, please see Talk:Schönhage-Strassen algorithm —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bfg ( talk • contribs)
Please stop removing references: they will need to go back. You might not find them necessary: they are all there for a reason. Thanks, Sandy 00:16, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for restoring the POV tag: after vandal-fighting all day, I didn't want to risk another revert. Sandy 01:27, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
To Greehouse, First with the exception of one of the poster, the lack of respect came from the other side, especialy Sadena. If I claim Fox news from 10/9/06 would that be acceptible. I think by definition if is reported by every major news outlet resports Chavez is meeting with someone and negotiating with someone that is a fact. Tannim 09:13, 10 October 2006 (UTC)Tannim Tannim 09:13, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
I'm hoping you might give me some advice on this. I am adding info and edits which I am backing up, it seems the majority of the people who are unhappy are guilty of intolerance or political correctness. I am being threatened for blocking because they don't like to hear crticism. They come with the NPOV threat when these are facts. Thanks Tannim 11:50, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
I am unsure if you were right to remove the NPOV tag over at the Ivan Matveyevich Vinogradov article. The tag remained there since the math achievements section remains a stub whilst the section on his Soviet system complicity is way longer. While I do despise I.M.V. for his behaviour outlined in the later section, I think that the imbalance mentioned above (and also is discussed on the talk page; b.t.w., I don't see how this has been addressed despite your check-in comment) is worth the tag kept. I suggest you either restore the tag, or, especially if you are good enough at number theory and history of mathematics, expand his math achievements/general bio. -- BACbKA 15:10, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
Thanks. I did some minor fixes to your edit and posted my opinion on the article talk page; basically, I agree it should no longer be POV-tagged. My only request now is that you incorporate your book by Ball in the list of references as, if I got it right, you've just mentioned on my talk page you had your edit based on its contents. -- BACbKA 07:55, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
Wow, you're right. I tried putting in "1, 2, 3, 4" and A27 came up as the first result. That wouldn't've happened as recently as a year ago. I think they've made the search engine give greater weight to sequences with the "core" keyword. Anton Mravcek 15:18, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
I wasn't quite sure how to label it...it didn't seem well placed, it wasn't cited, it was phrased as if it was a personal observation, and the wikilink to elements seemed out of place. Here's the sentence again:
The phrasing also struck me as misleading because "all other non-prime numbers" would include all other real and imaginary numbers, which aren't built up from primes. Possibly "all other non-prime positive integers" would be accurate?
Is there a useful thought in there that we want to retain in the article? -- Jim Douglas (talk) (contribs) 20:45, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
Based on some of the edit history and commentary on the Chavez talk page, I'm going to stay away from that one. Besides that, I don't know how to cite TV shows. I wish someone would come along to *really* help out with the POV there, with well-reasoned, well-sourced neutral edits that will help combat the POV-pushing there: I'm going to invest my efforts when that person appears. I'm busy trying to clean up the wreck that has been made of Joe Lieberman. Sandy 00:19, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
Great work on the Policylistfull template. Ever thought of making a similar userbox? Ekantik 19:15, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
Thx for your prompt, CRG, as to the latest response in the above. There is an online version of Arrow (1951): http://cowles.econ.yale.edu/P/cm/m12-2/index.htm . The relevant pp. are 15, 23, and 27. If you have any reactions you'd like to share, I'd be interested. BW, Thomasmeeks 16:06, 6 December 2006 (UTC) Edited to include p. 23 SWF def. where he refers to the social ordering R. Thomasmeeks 16:34, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
Dear CRG—you may be interested in putting your name to, or at least commenting on this new push to get the developers to create a parallel syntax that separates autoformatting and linking functions. IMV, it would go a long way towards fixing the untidy blueing of trivial chronological items, and would probably calm the nastiness between the anti- and pro-linking factions in the project. The proposal is to retain the existing function, to reduce the risk of objection from pro-linkers. Tony 14:56, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
Hi CRGreathouse. I've replied on my talk page. Paul August ☎ 16:56, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
Hi CRGreathouse,
I really appreciate that you spend some time correcting my somewhat loose English but in fact when I'm modifying a section I can change several times the same sentences. So in order that you don't spend your time in an useless task I suggest you polish another section than the first one. I have planned to change the introduction too so it is better not to change it in fact. Happy new year. -- Frédéric Liné 11:47, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for keeping an eye out and reverting those recent bipolar/mulipolar edits. We might have more or less finished off the article, but it will probably be a long-term job to keep it free of OR statements.
Xdamr talk 01:04, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
I don’t want to persuade your vote in any way, but I would like for you to take a second look at the article Saga (singer), an article you recently voted to delete. I, among other users have vastly improved the article, as well as the sourcing. Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Wikischmedia ( talk • contribs) 2007-01-02T21:59:00
Responded on my talk. -- Trovatore 06:12, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
Hello, CRGreathouse. I am responding to your message that you left in my talk page (sorry I couldn't do so earlier, but I was away.)
Anyway, the reason I wanted to bring up the whole multipolarity question is because if the world is indeed multipolar or headed that way, then the so-called poles would be composed of either great powers or of super-national groupings. If it's the former, then that should be mentioned in the Great Powers article.
It seems to me that the whole idea of a superpower became obsolete (at least for now) with the end of the bipolar world. As I see it, no nation in the world has the kind of overwhelming influence that the U.S. and the U.S.S.R had during the Cold War, thus the idea of a superpower no longer applies to present-day nations.
Essentially the point I would like to have in the article is that the Great Powers become more influential in a world that's not dominated by one or two superpowers, which is exactly what we have had since the end of the Cold War, IMO.
Of course, the whole idea of a multipolar world certainly bears more discussion that we can or should give it in the Great Powers section, though I am not sure if it's entirely appropriate to have exclusively in the superpower section either. I'll see if I can put something interesting together along with appropriate sources, which we can then discuss.
The tripolar world you mentioned is an interesting concept...I take you have the U.S., the E.U., and China in mind? I'd like to discuss this sometime as well. One of the things I'd be interested in discussing is how we would classify major powers that don't fall under the influence of those three poles?
Khelnor 23:11, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
I noticed you munged an e-mail address to prevent spammer spiders from spotting it. How effective do you think what I did on my user page is? I broke my e-mail addresses up such that people could read it but parsers would not see it. Will ( Talk - contribs) 06:02, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
It's been changed now. The Charles de Gaulle is, indeed, the only nuclear-powered aircraft carrier in the world not operated by the Americans. UberCryxic 20:49, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
A dispute has arisen on the talk page (and unfortunately a bit in the history page) on the article on Hugo Chavez, related to two thoroughly sourced quotes I added to the "Criticism" section of the article from two editorials from the Argentine daily Ambito Financiero (www.ambitoweb.com) - An editor very zealously deleted and reverted and, on the history page, made some very political statements that were politburo'ey in nature. I was trying to improve the article -- it has, as I've seen on the talk page over why its FA status went in and out, been plagued with problems of imbalance in the past. I was trying to improve it, and feel that my addition was spiked for no good reason without a discussion. I could be wrong - I need help to see for sure.
Anyway - if you're at all interested, I'd appreciate your opinion back there. Thanks. NYDCSP 07:47, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
Please let me know why you edited my addition to the foriegn policy section of Hugo Chavez? Thanks.
Reapor
22:52, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
Reapor is a confirmed sockpuppet of MagicKirin (see Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/Decato). I've already asked for admin intervention. JRSP 20:59, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
You might to be interested to know that the Superpower page now looks as if it is going to have a Great power-style rewrite. Things seem to be starting off quite nicely on the talk page—we'd be pleased to hear your views.
Regards, Xdamr talk 23:38, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
I quoted in Great powers an official speech of the head of state saying that Germany is a middle power. It is an important issue in German politics to deny being a great power, but emphasizing its role as a strong middle power, no matter what party. Wandalstouring 00:05, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for the heads-up on Great power. You are right, it will probably need a bit of looking at, but I think we've taken things as far as we usefully can at the moment. Before making a move perhaps wait a few hours and see what the likes of Nobleeagle and Brendel think.
On another matter, your recent vote on the Category:American conservatives CFD. I've raised a small query re. your delete vote. If you could perhaps see you way to taking a look at it ( Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2007 January 21#Category:American conservatives) then that would be excellent.
Best wishes, Xdamr talk 02:41, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
Emerging superpower articles are up for deletion. — Nobleeagle [TALK] [C] 06:46, 2 February 2007 (UTC)