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Hi Jitse,
I made a couple of minor edits to the Carl Runge article, specifically on the infobox. After making the changes I performed a quick review of previous edits. I noticed that previously, 30th March, you had made an edit removing the German flags. I've partially reverted my edit so that flags I reintroduced are no longer present - apologies again for making this edit without going over the history or discussing.
The principal reason I am sending you a note is that there is an active discussion going on to define a guideline for the use of flags in biographical articles, and in particular within infoboxes. The current working essay is here. Two relevant elements on the talk page are (older) here, here and (almost current) here. Just noting in case you would like to become involved.
I've been editing in Wikipedia for under a month, principally infoboxes and minor categorising of biographical articles related to mathematicians. Prior to noticing your comments on Carl Runge I had assumed, from viewing other articles, that small flags should be used in both residence and nationality fields within any infobox. A quick check of two scientist featured articles does show their absence: Charles Darwin, but also their presence: Isaac Newton.
Apologies again for inserting an item you had previously removed on the Carl Runge article.
Regards, Asperal 23:36, 30 June 2007 (UTC)
PS I agree that the noble prize icon is confusing, I didn't work out what it signified for some time until I looking at Einstein where the prize description follows immediately after the icon.
PPS Happy for you to post any reply here.
Could you keep an eye on the brewing edit war with Loom91 at integral? He's now done the same excisions repeatedly (and not just to me), and I think you can see my patience is in short supply. (I'm usually so polite; well, usually.) I'd like to be able to concentrate on implementing my few remaining thoughts for the rest of the article, not arguing and certainly not warring over absurdities like "the fundamental theorem doesn't belong in the lead". (By the way, it is nowhere explained in the article!) I've rebutted his latest charges on the talk page, as an easy place for you to get a sense of what's up. Sorry to trouble you; I'm sure you don't like head-butting any more than I do. Thanks for anything you can do.
Aside: This is my first serious contribution to a COTM, and it troubles me that I've done so much alone. I was kind of hoping for a party, of the "many hands make light work" sort. As it happens, I spent a lot of time designing, researching, and computing pretty pictures and examples. You'll be happy (?) to know I invested special care in expanding the numerical quadrature section. But I think I'm going to sit out geometry, this month's project, partly from burnout and partly because I'm too close to the topic and partly because it is constantly vandalized. -- KSmrq T 13:13, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
The conflict continues and I can't deal with it any more. Please intervene. I have also posted at WT:WPM. Cheers-- Cronholm 144 12:38, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
Gregbard 07:14, 14 July 2007 (UTC)
I'm not sure of the protocol for this: Can you undelete Code2000?
Although there was an AfD with almost no participation (who knew?), and all that on one day, we depend on being able to point people at this font. With 75 linking pages, so do others. Yet the nomination claimed it was not notable, presumably based on deep ignorance. I politely asked Sr13 to undo this a few days ago, but I have not even had the courtesy of a response despite much other activity.
Thanks. -- KSmrq T 23:36, 14 July 2007 (UTC)
Hi Jitse, I think it's time to take an administrative action against the anon editor who ruminates on his half-baked ideas about what does and doesn't constitute Calculus, and keeps pushing for insertion of dubious (and irrelevant) material into the article. If in the beginning it had seemed as if (s)he were seduced by an alternative approach that promises to rebuild all of Calculus on a new foundation (or rather, without the old foundation, the limit) and tried proselytizing (without seeming to have a deep enough understanding of calculus to accurately judge the accuracy, let alone relevance, in my opinion), in the last few days his/her behaviour has shaped itself into trolling. Do we have to keep writing polite rebutals, which only lead to escalating the tone of the discussion on the other end, or would it be better to simply give him/her a warning, followed by a ban from editing? Cheers, Arcfrk 23:01, 4 August 2007 (UTC)
Jitse, could you please comment on how the personal watchlist works? For some reason items keep disappearing from my watchlist. For instance, your edit at Bolza surface appeared on my watch list, but only for a split second, and it is not there anymore. Katzmik 11:15, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
I'm not sure Buffon's noodle was a joke. The fact that the expected number of crossings remains the same if you bend the needle (although the probability distribution of the number of crossings changes) is actually useful in geometric probability theory (see Klain & Rota's Introduction to Geometric Probability). I'm not sure it merits its own article, but perhaps there should be a redirect and merge. At any rate, I know I've seen the term before, although I don't remember where. Michael Hardy 19:36, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
The problem with SundarBot has been fixed and what's running currently is the latest version of pywikipediabot from svn. Please lift the block so that the bot can run. -- Sundar \ talk \ contribs 07:48, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
Hey i noticed you blocked user 68.249.7.171 for vandalism. I was the one who warned him (and reverted) all of his vandalism. But i was unaware of how i could report him. Can ya let me know so i can report these individuals in the future? Also did i go about warning properly? Debeo Morium 08:52, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
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- WarthogDemon 00:44, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
It was a slip of the tongue. And right now after those "big" words... well, you could say the same thing. Sorry. But did learn a lot about no wiki.-- Angel David 19:56, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
I'm not so sure that such a detailed computation belongs in an encyclopaedia, but that's another matter. -- Jitse Niesen ( talk) 02:07, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
Thank you, that's much better. I have one question remaining: why is XXX the correct generalization of 1 / (N−1) for the unbiased estimate? If you can't answer this, it's fine. Oh, and the Python documentation is probably not the best reference, but I guess you also realize that. -- Jitse Niesen ( talk) 02:01, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
I think you did an excellent job on system of linear equations (but what is a flat, in the sentence "the flat for the first equation can be obtained by …" in the last section?). It may be a basic topic, but those are often the most difficult articles to write. Thanks very much. -- Jitse Niesen ( talk) 07:49, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
Hi Jitse, I replied to your bug report with the zeteo reference tool here. Jakob.scholbach 16:35, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
Hey, are you knowledgeable with MySQL? Actually I was working on the problem you reported on the here, and I have some trouble overcoming the following error:
INSERT INTO table_0 SELECT books.id,books.authors,books.title FROM books WHERE INSTR (books.title, 'test')
gives me the error "#1305 - FUNCTION myDB.INSTR does not exist", whereas
INSERT INTO table_0 SELECT books.id, books.authors, books.title FROM books WHERE books.title = 'test'
or just the subquery
SELECT books.id,books.authors,books.title FROM books WHERE INSTR (books.title, 'test')
work properly. I'm not that much of an expert in MySQL and on some forums, nobody told me how to fix this... Thanks. Jakob.scholbach 19:15, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
Hi Jitse,
I have another question for you. I'm adding a feature which gives a list of websites where a user could find more appropriate information/the full article etc. What are notable online sources for references you are using? (Currently I have books.google.com, digizeitschriften.de, archive.org). Thanks. Jakob.scholbach 21:28, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
Jitse, thanks for adding to the list of linear algebra references. I'm glad that you like the article.
By the way, I'm sorry to be picky about the formatting. I'm new to Wikipedia, so I'm still fighting the urge to be possessive about things that I write. ;-)
Jim 03:09, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
Hi Jitse. Thank you for removing International Journal of Ecology & Development (IJED) from the statistics journals category where it did not belong. And a note. I think you run into this journal via the current activity bot. In that case, since the article was not about statistics (so neither about mathematics), I think it is good if the article is also removed from the list of mathematics articles. (The bot does not do that automatically.) Thanks for looking after the math articles. Cheers, Oleg Alexandrov ( talk) 21:34, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
Per your treatment of Algorithmic reducibility as a redirect, I took the liberty of doing the same for the term Polynomial reducibility which was an undefined link in the deleted article; somebody can do justice to that article topic later if needed. Hotfeba 18:01, 17 September 2007 (UTC)
please don't subst the copyvio tag, as you did on Structural equation modelling. It just confuses things. But thanks for flagging it! (and apologies that it takes *forever* before someone follows up...) -- Alvestrand 15:23, 24 September 2007 (UTC)
Hello Jitse Niesen. As you are administrator, who is active in Bosnian War related topics, I am asking you to intervene in Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia article. There is a user: LAz17, who imports WP:NOT material into the article, political promotion (section called: "Current Situation"). I was trying to discuss with him, but he doesn't want to listen. You can see the whole dicussion here (not too long): Talk:Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia. When I tried to explain to him that Wikipedia is not place for promoting political ideas, he insulted me saying: "It's because you are a pro-Bosniak nationalist who hates the thought of the Croats having a third entity, so you do not want this to be shown on the page." which is totally not true, because his material is not even related to Herceg-Bosnia, but to so called "third entity". Herceg-Bosnia stopped to exist in 1994. Please help to improve Wikipedia. Many people, just want to misuse it. The Dragon of Bosnia 06:10, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
An image or media file that you uploaded or altered, Image:Interpolation_example_linear.png, has been listed at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion. Please see the discussion 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 it not being deleted. Thank you. Calliopejen1 22:51, 29 September 2007 (UTC)
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