Genocide denial links are not appropriate —Preceding unsigned comment added by 154.5.106.66 ( talk • contribs) 04:13, January 13, 2006 (UTC)
Hi, Niesen. I am really tired of watching how this user: Nikola Smolenski ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) keeps destroying articles. This user for the last few months is continuing to destroy any compromise made by people that edit articles. He keeps destroying articles related to Bosnia. AMA requests didn't help. This is not a dispute issue, this is purposely spreading incorrect information about Bosnian language in the Republika Srpska article and other Bosnia related articles.
Other user tried with AMA requests, and other type of requests. This is not dispute issue. We all know that. Nikola is keeping to destroy articles not today or yesterday, but for the last few months. Discussion didnt help, he just returns after a while and destroys any compromise that other users made (Serb and Bosniak). For instance in Meša Selimović article and many, many other articles. This behaviour is not honest, it is pathetic.
Administrator Deathphoenix said in Administrator intervention against vandalism: "this is for cases of CLEAR vandalism;". He instructed me to bring this in WP:RFC, but I think this will not help because noone cares. I repeat he is doing this for the last few months, not for the weeks, but months, and nothing helped to stop him. -- Emir Arven 18:37, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi Jitse ,As mentioned in the talk page of this article ,as an encyclopedia we ,unlike other sources around the net should put on the display a more accurate epproximation of Pi. This article is extensive enough as it is ,we can at least be slightly more accurate than the rest of the Google serachers. I'm reverting back to the 100 digit version. (further discc' in the talk page) The Procrastinator 19:42, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
Sorry for editing error in Pi, I had two windows open and wanted to put it in Pythagorean theorem. Lakinekaki
Hi, Jise
We have worked together on the Finite Difference article, maybe you can look onto my Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Alex Bakharev? abakharev 12:22, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
I would like to express my thanks to all the good people who spent their valuable time time and effort working on my (failed) RfA voting. Especially for those who actually voted to support me :). Lets move on and make together our Wikipedia an even greater place abakharev 10:08, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
Hello Jitse, I have noticed that you have a tool for a Random article in mathematics. That is of great interest to me (please see my discussion of the issue). Do you have any remarks on what is said in that discussion? Do you know a way to make such a tool more built-into Wikipedia? -- Meni Rosenfeld 16:35, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
I'm glad I have an opportunity to make you glad :)
-- Meni Rosenfeld 13:56, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
Thanks Jitse and Oleg for your replies. -- Meni Rosenfeld 14:48, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
Okay :) Now for a more concrete one. Is it possible to add to the mathematics portal an up-to-date (more or less) indication of the number of mathematics articles, based on the data in current activity? -- Meni Rosenfeld 16:41, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
I couldn't find a place in the portal where this information naturally fits, so I've put it in the intro box. Hopefully that doesn't upset anyone :) -- Meni Rosenfeld 16:59, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
BTW did you see my newly created formal calculation? -- Meni Rosenfeld 17:05, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
Thanks, fixed. I proposed banning him from editing all physics articles, but maybe this is too broad. --- Charles Stewart 21:38, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
The issue is that there are no banknotes of Ulster. The term doesn't exist. It is simply a made-up term created on WP as part of a POV word game by a particular user. Banknotes of Ulster is a bit like Banknotes of the pacific rim of the Americas within 100 miles of California , Banknotes of the south of Paris or Banknotes of the north of Vatican City. There ain't no such term. Even people who call Northern Ireland "Ulster" aren't likely to use such a term. Ulster is used as a propagandistic term to refer to a state, not to coinage or banknotes. It is like creating Banknotes of the Americas and directing it to Banknotes of the United States for no other reason than to piss off Canadians and people in all other states in north and south America. All it is is a silly game from a user who has been doing this all over to wind up the other side, who invariably get wound up and create their version, and then both sides fight edit wars over each other's names. Believe me, Irish users have spent months trying to stop the assholes on both sides from their edit wars and POVing and creating makey-up terms — one user tried to redefine the geographic entity Ulster from a province to a "historic province" to then claim Northern Ireland as the modern province called "Ulster". The problem is that when one side gets their phoney name added into an article or as a redirect, the other side then does the same, and the whole saga goes off again, with reversed directs, etc!!! Irish users know exactly what the game plan of both sides is, and how innocent users are victims of the antics. Each side creates phoney names to say "See! Wikipedia believes us more than you. We're winning. They are accepting our terms are real." Then the other side retaliates. etc etc etc. It is a cycle Irish Wikipedians are only too aware of. They can see the next battle looming, especially as one of the Republican POV-pushers' blocks is about to expire. He'll see what Aidan has got away with his dodgy made-up Ulster stuff in the money pages, then respond in kind, and off we go again.
FearÉIREANN
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03:14, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi Jitse,
I created the "Democritus" account last month, that being the first time I felt moved to engage in a discussion on Wikipedia. I have noticed now that there are four entries under this same name, from almost four years ago -- before I knew much about Wikipedia, let alone had an account. How could this happen? Is it possible that someone had an account with this name, and abandoned it, leaving it free for someone else to use, but with the previous user's activity intact?
If it is possible to remove these, or somehow distinguish between the two owners of the name, that would be very helpful.
Thank you kindly, Democritus
Thanks for catching that notational issue on the perfect number page regarding the Nielsen result. I should have been more careful looking over what was already there prior to editing. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.36.90.248 ( talk • contribs)
Jitse,
I would appreciate your comments and suggestions on the following:
Wikipedia talk:Autobiography#Not banning intellectuals and_scientists (proposed language)
Thanks, -- Carl Hewitt 08:55, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
I tend to use BC or BCE depending on what my source uses. I only use AD or CE in those rare cases where it is unclear which era is intended. There are people who go through wiki changing all BCs to BCEs and other people who go through wiki changing them back, so it probably doesn't matter what I write -- it will be changed sooner or later. But I'll try to be more consistant, and you should feel free to change everything to whichever you prefer. Rick Norwood 19:14, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
I'm copying my answer to the question you asked on Oleg Alexandrov's talk page. Randall Holmes 02:56, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
How many requests are there? You say that "[t]he Arbitration Committee is visibily overburdened and backlogged with CheckUser requests"; where can we see that? -- Jitse Niesen (talk) 19:05, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
Just for the record (to avoid any confusion) I got frustrated and went over to edit my proposed function (set theory) (to be paired with the not-yet-existant function (analysis) just before you (very sensibly) protected the article. I was not circumventing your protection but stepping out of the edit war... Randall Holmes 21:46, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
Could anyone tell me why do
and
thanks...
the page of that simplied too much ,i need a lot of noting help to the result... -- HydrogenSu
I have read a exercise about L.I. . could any one please tell me that their process of thoughts? See [4]
by what? then we're able to get
(where I need to replace Return...back in English phrases into the pct.-file)
After that's finished,I'm going to be happy China New year coming..-- HydrogenSu 19:19, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
Hello there! I wanted to thank you for taking the time to vote on my arbitration commitee nomination. Although it was not successful, I appreciate the time you spent to read my statement and questions and for then voting, either positively or negativly. Again, thank you! Páll (Die pienk olifant) 22:42, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
[6] Hi Jitse. Awesome work with Wikipedia:WikiProject Mathematics/Current activity/Lists! I have just one remark. Not many people know about that page, and where it is now is not the most likely place people would look for it. Since your page contains very important information, about math pages needing cleanup, and it should be as visible as possible. Maybe an idea would be to translude it at Wikipedia:Pages needing attention/Mathematics, replacing my half-cooked attempt at getting information from templates? Wonder what you think. Oleg Alexandrov ( talk) 17:27, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
Why create a Wikipedia:WikiProject Mathematics/Pages needing clean-up? There, it is still going to be under the bushel, instead of shining for the whole world at Wikipedia:Pages needing attention/Mathematics. That also may answer the question about the Book (I did not mean anything deep :) About the beer, I never heard of Grlolsch. I believe it is most likely Heineken, which I do drink every now and then. Retrospectively, I should have had the label of the beer bottle face the camera, but I guess I was preoccupied with other things at the moment. Oleg Alexandrov ( talk) 20:19, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
No pressure :) And I would be more than happy to try Grolsch, if I ever see it in stores, and don't forget its name by then. But no, I won't forget, it looks just like a clone of Heineken with a strange name. :) Oleg Alexandrov ( talk) 01:20, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi Jitse, waldo here. I added the link back under symmetry because someone had deleted it. It was there for a very long time and I noticed it was gone so I added it back. I am an artist and did the two paintings showing up on the top right hand side of the article that show and example of D4 group symmetry. The link is to my site that shows many examples of (a)/symmetry. Cheers... 0waldo 16:25, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi,
User:Dmharvey suggested I get in contact with you with regards to coding blahtex. I'm very keen to see MathML intergrated into MediaWiki and I'm up for helping where needed. I've many years of mathematical coding behind me and I've written a few mathematical parsing libraries (have a look at my home page singsurf.org). I've not really messed with mediawiki yet, or done much with MathML, but I'm up for helping where I can.
Regards -- Salix alba ( talk) 23:50, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
OK I've installed MathPlayer on IE 6.02 and guess what. The BlahTex wiki page works fine! It renders a little different to Mozilla, but still good. See meta:Talk:Blahtex.
The bug you mention seems to be a missing space see talk page for details. -- Salix alba ( talk) 00:41, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
Gallery tag, see [7] which breaks. -- Salix alba ( talk) 09:55, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
For now I've decided it's better to work within the confines of the proposed Computer science Manual of Style where algorithmic guidelines are more natural. I do think this is something worth pursuing, at least as far as getting some general guidelines on style. Please feel free to edit, add to, or delete material from Wikipedia:WikiProject_Computer_science/Manual_of_style_(computer_science)#Algorithms. I would like to try and get something both robust and flexible enough to provide solid guidelines but still be acceptable to the majority. Leland McInnes 22:18, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi. The change you requested on Template talk:Context changed the category from in which articles with this template are placed from Category:Wikipedia articles needing context to Category:Wikipedia articles needing clarification. Did you intend to do this? If yes, I wonder why, and the description at the bottom of Template:Context needs to be adapted as well. -- Jitse Niesen ( talk) 12:42, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
It seems like it's still not working(the test-n script). Help? Thanks, -- Urthogie 20:13, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
Hi Jitse. I forgot to thank you. You did a great job with transcluding the page generated with your script to Wikipedia:Pages needing attention/Mathematics. I am sure that will be very helpful. Oleg Alexandrov ( talk) 01:18, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
Hi Jitse,
There is a difference in the meaning of my statement that most potential applications, etc. and your edit that "alternative addition can also be expressed in terms of the usual entrywise addition and multiplication with unit vectors."
Also, there is a problem with your suggestion that I use the standard notation. I was struggling with this problem and editors of the stat journals for years. You can either keep the standard notation and run into logical consistency problems with other matrix operands, or change the notation and run into problems with the traditionalists who insists that the status quo must exist forever, or keep the + sign throughout and run into problems with your inner sensibilities that tell you that within the same context, it is difficult to justify the signification of different operations with the same operand.
Take care,
David
Cruise
16:09, 7 February 2006 (UTC).
P.S. My niece married a Dutch guy and they live in Utrecht. Nice country I am rather fond of as the Vinden zoekt keeps my "visual statistics" number one for years.
Hi Jitse, thanks for your support and kind words in my (successful) RfA! – Joke 16:11, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
Your
couldn't have come at any better time - I have been blocking a bunch of sockpuppets almost non-stop today, and was looking for a convenient excuse to relax and try something else. --
HappyCamper
14:26, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
Hi Jitse. Does it appear to you, as it does me, that the closing was premature? I thought it was up to the discretion of the closing admin whether to extend the closing deadline if there was consensus forming. It certainly seems to me that there was significant comments being made and very likely that some sort of consensus would have formed. It's also rather strange that the AFD discussion would be closed so soon after some comments were made that I think would have swayed voters. Do you think a deletion review is appropriate or what? -- C S (Talk) 21:24, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
Your edit on the 11th on the Frechet derivative does not parse. Just thought you would rather fix it yourself than have someone else try to fix it. Rick Norwood 17:39, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
I don't know how, but the problem seems to have fixed itself overnight. Maybe the problem was in my browser.
It's an interesting article. I notice that it does not agree with the corresponding article in mathworld, but I think we're right and mathworld wrong on this one -- or maybe the expression is used in different ways by different authors. Rick Norwood 13:23, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
Hi Jitse. On Feb 8, you deleted Articles that need to be wikified, which was a redirect to Category:Articles that need to be wikified. Some guy said it failed rule 5 - which it did - but one of the exceptions was if 'someone found them useful' - if someone had bothered with a 'what links here' check, they'd have seen someone did (I use it on my user page). There's no handy WP:WIKIFY or something similar, unfortunately.
It's no big deal, and you're doing an great job keeping the RfD page tidy, but maybe it would be helpful if you just checked before deleting, especially when the entire 'consensus to delete' was one single nomination. Thanks. Proto|| type 11:05, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
Firstly, I appreciate your feedback. It seems that some people are hesitant to comment on adminstrative actions because these sometimes lead to angry responses; this worries me greatly.
Stop interfering with Bonny and deleting his "valuable" comments. He will continue trolling until someone permablocks his latest sock. -- Ghirla | talk 12:55, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
Note that User:WAREL's editing style and articles of interest seem to be an aweful lot like User:DYLAN LENNON's, and I think we are having a sockpuppet here. Not that it matters now, but it may be good to keep in mind. Oleg Alexandrov ( talk) 23:29, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
Hi Jitse,
if you look at "Newly designated maths" for 21 February, you'll see a whole bunch of Indian names, most of which do not seem to be the names of mathematicians. At least one is not in any category at all, and many are actually redlinks. Can you figure out how they wound up on the page? -- Trovatore 06:16, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
My behavior in en.wp might have been improper. Sorry. But,I think that you begin to understand what User:DYLAN LENNON did in ja.wp. And, he is cunning. Example:
Do you understand the meaning of this words "From English Version"? He trusts en.wp. And he think that other people also trust it. His scenario was...
In a word, by using the authority of en.wp, Dylan tries to have his opinion admitted in ja.wp. He did other variously bad things and banned from ja.wp. It might be a similar reason that he is holding out here now. He thinks if he is admitted in en.wp, he is admitted in ja.wp. I expect your actions. Please hold out.... -- Schildt.a 07:20, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
Hi, thanks for your voting on my RFA. It has finished with the result 88/14/9, and I am promoted. I am really overwhelmed with the amount of support I have got. With some of you we have edited many articles as a team, with some I had bitter arguments in the past, some of you I consider to be living legends of Wikipedia and some nicks I in my ignorance never heard before. I love you all and I am really grateful to you.
If you feel I can help you or Wikipedia as a human, as an editor or with my newly acquired cleaning tools, then just ask and I will be happy to assist. If you will feel that I do not live up to your expectation and renegade on my promises, please contact me. Maybe it was not a malice but just ignorance or a short temper. Thank you very mach, once more! abakharev 07:34, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
Beste Jitse Niesen,
Al enige tijd is er een Nederlandstalig chapter in oprichting, te vinden op http://nl.wikimedia.org . Dit wordt de Vereniging Wikimedia Nederland (VWN). Je kunt je interesse om lid te worden van deze vereniging hier aangeven.
Deze vereniging gaat eind augustus/begin september een Wikimedia Conferentie in Nederland (WCN) houden, volgend op Wikimania in Boston, gedeeltelijk erop inspelend middels een aantal discussiegroepen. Om iets dergelijks te organiseren is imput erg gewenst. Dus als je wilt meehelpen, of als je interesse hebt om bij een dergelijk evenement aanwezig te zijn, geef dat dan aan op nl.wikimedia. Ik hoop daar snel je imput tegemoet te zien! Met vriendelijke groet, effeiets anders 21:31, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for your note about PDE. I'm new to Wiki stuff, so any help will be appreciated.
I have taken the position that the role of Wikpedia should be to supply basic information to a wide audience, such as the significance of various fields of mathematics, and supply references and guidance for further study. I especially would like to reach talented but untutored people who might then be inspired to further study.
In writing a revision of the PDE article, I wanted to illustrate the variety and depth of the field, and a sense of its wider connection to a variety of scientific problems. What I did on heat equation and wave equation is intended as a summary and perhaps a teaser to inquire further. Hence I wanted to put it up front in an introductory section. I intend to do something similar for the 2D Laplace equation, describing its connection with complex analysis, fluid flow, electrostatic potential, etc.
As for the remainder of the main PDE article, I think it would mostly consist of references to more specialized articles, and maybe to a Wikibook on PDE. The Wikibook on ODE actually has a bit on PDE, but I think they should be separated.
I'm a student of Courant, and I helped with the English edition of Courant-Hilbert Vol II. I'd like to incorporate some of his point of view in the Wikpedia. My next project (after some preliminary work on ODE and PDE) would be Calculus of Variations, since that was Courant's favorite topic. Donludwig 20:16, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
Dear Jitse, I wish to ban Danko Georgiev from Wikipedia for his repeated accusations of Fraud to me regarding my experiment [8] on the talk pages. My experimental results were verified by faculty from Harvard and other schools. I will not allow this idiot to ruin my reputation. He must be repudiated by the Wikipedia community. Any help you can offer in this regard would be appreciated.-- Afshar 06:58, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
I'd like to discuss something outside wikipedia with you, but you don't have email enabled. JoshuaZ 04:50, 4 March 2006 (UTC) Actually, that isn't so accurate. I would like to discuss something wikipedia related that I don't think should go on a talk page. JoshuaZ 04:50, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
I think we are arriving at a consensus. The main PDE article should include enough introduction to make clear the nature and variety of the field, but can refer elsewhere for details. I'm not clear how to draw the line between exposition and details yet, since I am not familiar with what is already in Wikipedia and similar on-line sources. This will take a bit of time, especially for topics in mathematical physics and engineering. So I propose to write something first, and rearrange later. I'll insert something on potential theory today, but I proably won't have a very good set of references. Donludwig 17:38, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
Nice one for sorting that out. I made a bit of a pigs ear of redirects and such. I mistakenly created Academic dress of the Durham University with a silly extra the, could easily be deleted. -- Salix alba ( talk) 15:36, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
Hi Jitse. Thanks a lot for the new GMRES article! Yes, it was exactly you I had in mind when I put the request at the Wikipedia:Requested articles/Mathematics, but I did not think that it will work out so soon. Awesome! Oleg Alexandrov ( talk) 15:50, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
If you could look over at the perfect number page, and look at the last few edits and give us an opinion it would be helpful. Thanks. JoshuaZ 04:23, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
Warel has rved the pages 5 times in the last 1.5 days or so. JoshuaZ 21:32, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
Hi Jitse, I couldn't find any reference for zero row or column matrix you mentioned in degenerate matrix. Can you point a definition? Why is it useful? physicistjedi 23:39, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
Thanks. --
Mmounties (
Talk)
04:49, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
Your opinion would be appriciated here regarding deletion of the article Serbophobia. The article is making references to Srebrenica massacre and those who contributed to that issue. Thanks-- Dado 17:46, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
Hi Jitse, it was nice meeting you tonight. I'm always pleased to meet people who know the difference between it's and its, although you have an advantage here having learned English as a foreign language. You in turn will be pleased to know that I don't have the slightest idea about any of things you have written about, since this means we will never have an edit war. Adam 13:24, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
Hey, Warel and I have another disagreement, one I thought was settled earlier, if you could take a look at the last few edits I'd appreciate it. JoshuaZ 00:31, 24 March 2006 (UTC) nm, he seems to have made some edits that are an acceptable solution. JoshuaZ 04:03, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
Ik heb daar hiets mee te maken. Ben slechts een gebruiker in de bibliotheek. Val me niet meer lastig met je onzin.
Warel is again adding the comment about undecidability, although he is saying it is due to "Rosser's theorem" and I have no idea what he is talking about. The only theorems that go by that name that I am aware of have to do with analytic number theory. If you could take a look again, it would be helpful. JoshuaZ 20:53, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
The two have two separate articles (both stubs). As far as I am aware (and I could be wrong) they are the same thing. Therefore inquiring whether 1) this is correct and if so 2) which should reasonably redirect to which? I'm leaning towards making the first a redirect to the second. JoshuaZ 21:22, 27 March 2006 (UTC)