User talk:Dysprosia/Archive

Hello, Dysprosia. Welcome to Wikipedia.

A few tips for you to start going. (I'll send more if I see that I can help you :-)

  • Check out Wikipedia:Welcome, newcomers + the links in there.
  • Sign your stuff on talk pages with ~~~~ It will convert to your username + the time.
  • If puzzled, put a question on Wikipedia:Village pump, or feel free to ask me on my talk page if it's a very general question.
  • Have fun.

-- Cimon Avaro on a pogo-stick 07:14 2 Jul 2003 (UTC)


thanks cimon... i've been editing on and off a bit nameless so i thought i should sign up! :) appreciate the welcome...

Dysprosia 07:47 2 Jul 2003 (UTC)

I see that most newly signed users tend to be much more experienced than I was when I first created a Username. I had done a handful of edits at the most without logging in. And of course, for that matter, I am still learning new things :) -- Cimon Avaro on a pogo-stick 08:01 2 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Here's another link for you, I suspect you will be able to make a useful contribution to it, judging by your recent edit of University of New South Wales :) -- Tim Starling 08:32 2 Jul 2003 (UTC)

thnx for reminding me Tim ;) Dysprosia 08:37 2 Jul 2003 (UTC)

On the subject of notation for inverse trig functions: I'm not sure which to use. Ask at the WikiProject Mathematics page. Nice start with Minor (mathematics), but two things to note:

  • only the first instance of a term needs to be linked
  • do this for plurals to save on typing: [[determinant]]s . It doesn't matter that the first letter of the link is lowercase.

welcome to the 'pedia! -- Tarquin 14:27 6 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Heh, yeah, I just realised that halfway through my umpteenth edit or whateverf :) And thanks for the linking tip, I thought doing what I've been doing might have been a little excessive. I'll fix these all up :) Dysprosia 22:59 6 Jul 2003 (UTC)


You want to collaborate on the Organic Chemistry stuff and the math stuff?? Are you right now an undergraduate student? Your fields of interest seem to be similar to mine, as well as knowledge actually.

-Jack (JackPo)

What do you mean, I just write what I know :)
I mainly taught myself a lot of O-Chem stuff, but I'm more knowledgeable in math.
Dysprosia 07:06 18 Jul 2003 (UTC)

sweet on the electric. one should never let oneself edit their own work. thx good job. Dmsar 13:19 26 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Hey no problem, that's what wikis excel at :) Don't forget to use the user talk page in future ;)
Dysprosia 13:22 26 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Hello Dysprosia, Thanks for adding stuff and doing some corrections on the CityRail article which I started - I've got an idea - how about we merge all the articles on CityRail rolling stock that you wrote, like the Tangara and Millennium train articles into one article called CityRail rolling stock and have that page linked from the main CityRail article? Just a thought ... if I ever remember to do it, I'm going to create a HTML table with colour codes showing details for each line - take a look at London Underground for my inspiration - the LU article inspired me to write about CityRail too. Anyway, cheers! Humehwy 00:14, 29 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Sounds OK, but maybe it should be a kind of "mother" article for the articles? I don't know, I'll think about it some more before I act, or if you wanna go ahead, then go for it, if you like :)
The advantage of having a mother article is putting the info on the R and S in without having to start up a new article, because I have no idea what to title it -- you know the silver trains? They don't have an actual "name"... Dysprosia 05:29, 29 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Re copypastes on your page: you may find Wikipedia:Boilerplate text useful also. Regards, --Trainspotter 10:52, 30 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Hi Dysprosia Hope we didn't get in each other's way too much over Manchester encoding. I got there after spotting something about code violations in Token Rings, and noticed there wasn't an entry - only for diff. encoding. I think the article is looking a lot better now, though probably both should have diagrams. Also, I think you refer to transitions, and I've used the analogy of low-high. I think this is common, but I'm not sure whether it might actually be permitted to use phase changes as transitions instead of amplitude changes. This wouldn't require any more bandwidth, but would be a different implementation. One could also use frequency changes, but I don't think that would be sensible, and would use up more bandwidth. Best wishes. -- David Martland 11:11, 4 Aug 2003 (UTC)

That wasn't me who wrote about transitions, but what you say sounds correct - go contribute! :)
I just formatted up and copied your information to the first article.
I don't know enough for the Token Ring article, but I still need to formulate the diagram for Manchester code!
Thanks for the message :) Dysprosia 11:19, 4 Aug 2003 (UTC)

Hi Dysprosia,

Please confer my user talk page: User talk:Tonius

Merci,

Tonius

PS: Please see the Timeline of video games User talk:Tonius 03:28

Boontling is just a tease, you horrible person! Give us more!! ;) There must be quite a history behind, please let us know. --Dante Alighieri 08:50, 23 Aug 2003 (UTC)

Oh I know nothing of Boontling, sorry! I just moved added info by Lypheklub from Boonville, California about it into its own article. User:Lypheklub is the one you should be speaking to :) Dysprosia 08:52, 23 Aug 2003 (UTC)
Ah, I'll run off and ask him... that Boontling sure caught my interest!! --Dante Alighieri 08:53, 23 Aug 2003 (UTC)
I started the Boonville and Boontling articles. It is an actual language spoken only in Boonville, CA. If you have any more questions, post them on my User Talk page. Lypheklub 08:56, 23 Aug 2003 (UTC)

"...a stochastic process where every linear combination of the values of which is normally distributed." ?? That doesn't make sense. The antecedents of "where" and "which" are the same, and "A dog is an animal where there are four legs" is ... um ... questionable. Michael Hardy 02:11, 24 Aug 2003 (UTC)

Sorry. It was worded a little strangely first to begin with, I was only trying to improve it. Dysprosia 02:39, 24 Aug 2003 (UTC)

Hi! I nominated you for sysop at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship. That would mean that you can delete pages and images, protect/unprotect pages, edit protected pages (including the main page), click on a "rollback" button on entries in a user's "user contributions" list to quickly revert bad edits, and ban non-logged-in user IPs. If you'd like to accept the nomination, wait a few days for others to comment, and if the comments are in your favor (as I expect they'll be), just reply there indicating that you accept. Or if you'd rather decline, reply there indicating that as well, of course. --Delirium 10:30, Aug 27, 2003 (UTC)

Aww thanks, that's sweet of you :) Dysprosia 10:35, 27 Aug 2003 (UTC)

Not sure if this is a silly question or not, I mean, how many Dysprosia's can there be, right? But, are you the same Dysprosia from the VE message board? (If not, please forgive my silly-question-asking-ness.) -Paige 16:30, 27 Aug 2003 (UTC)
Yes, I dragged User:Vremya here too. Dysprosia 20:09, 27 Aug 2003 (UTC)
Cool. :) I added my support to the request. I don't like to bother with that type of stuff, but after noticing the quality of your edits here, and your behavior there, I think you'd be a good admin. Paige 21:47, 27 Aug 2003 (UTC)

I don't mean to be rude, but what do you consider as a stub article - I thought it was articles with no relevant information or very little information that cannot be classified as an encyclopedia article. But, you seem to thinking it is an article shorter than 5 or 6 paragraphs and that doesn't contain information on every single aspect. You put a "That's a stub article" comment on the articles Rogerius and Waterloo, New South Wales. I don't understand how they are stub articles (I know they can be improved, and I will very soon do that, but are they really stubs?) and correct me if I'm wrong.


Anyway, besides that, thanks for doing a great job here at Wikipedia by editing all and structuring, etc so many articles!


From Wikipedia:Find or fix a stub, "A stub on Wikipedia is a very short article, generally of one paragraph or less."...maybe I've been a little overzealous with stubnoting, but if you're going to expand those, then that's okay too :) (I see stub as short and not covering just enough) Thanks for bringing this to my attention, however :) Dysprosia 20:08, 28 Aug 2003 (UTC)

Yup, i knew that Dysp: but I tend to aim for content instead of format markup whenever i can, and <var> is less flapdoodle than <math>. (Tho I admit to being not at all rigourous in my later pages =\) Also, I break lines so often to help the differ. Kwantus

Okey dokey. I mean, you dont have to do '', it's just nicer that way. Dysprosia 01:37, 29 Aug 2003 (UTC)

Hehee. Not "nicer" from my POV =) (easier, yes; but wrong.) Kwantus

We're supposed to be NPOV! How about half the article in ''s and half in <var>s? ;) Dysprosia 01:46, 29 Aug 2003 (UTC)

I didn't mean that to get into a fight. But there are reasons: on the WWW, content markup is preferred to format markup, since there's almost no assumption possible about what's on the client's end. It may seem all the same to use <i> <em> <var> etc. but only because your browser happens to do all the same thing with them. From my POV, a technical standpoint backed by authority such as the w³C, content markup is preferable.

The article that's half one and half t'other—dunno, may have been before i realised how lax was the general cuture and relented. I decided rather quickly it was better to follow the page's existing pattern...if there is one.

BTW Gonna take another crack at Conway arrow? I think I've got the top portion settled...the rest is mostly dispensible explanation why there are no good examples.

Aww, I was only kidding about the half/half :) But I might have another go at Conway arrow a little later...got a few other things in my sights right now :) Dysprosia 06:43, 29 Aug 2003 (UTC)b

Thanks for adding that intro sentence to Lincoln Continental Mark III - many of my automotive writings tend to assume an auto-enthusiast audience a little. I fleshed it out a little more, too. --Morven 07:30, 29 Aug 2003 (UTC)

OK, now it says that the word workstation is a term, rather than that a workstation itself is a term. Michael Hardy 13:54, 29 Aug 2003 (UTC)

Thanks, that's much better :) Dysprosia 13:55, 29 Aug 2003 (UTC)

See Talk:Jabez for a comment on the stub warning. Andrewa 21:34, 30 Aug 2003 (UTC)

About Humboldt University: for future reference, articles on Wikipedia are supposed to be named in English. The individual who moved it (contributions) is apparently the vandal User:Heine. Cheers, Cyan 02:04, 31 Aug 2003 (UTC)

Oh, ok. I'll remember that...Thanks for letting me know! :) Dysprosia 02:08, 31 Aug 2003 (UTC)

Hiyas. I updated your boilerplate - could you put copyvios over on Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/copyvio. I know it's another change of venue and all, but I think splitting copyvios off will help a little :) Martin 12:53, 31 Aug 2003 (UTC)

Thanks for that. The copyvios I put at VfD straight were also dictionary entries as well as copyvios (first time I saw this) and wasn't sure what to do, so I put em on both...but for straight vios I know where to go! :) Dysprosia 22:53, 31 Aug 2003 (UTC)
I always figure that copyvio is pretty open and shut, whereas dictionary definition is a bit woolly and more debatable - so it's best to list in the forum that will result in the least debate :) Martin 23:01, 31 Aug 2003 (UTC)

Hmm, I don't see how a Binary prefix is a suffix when used as an abbreviation. Just the fact that these are used after a number doesn't make them suffixes, they are still prefixes for the unit, no? Care to clarify? Thanks, Colin Marquardt 11:07, 5 Sep 2003 (UTC)

You say a gigabyte, but you say 3G. The first's a prefix, the second's a suffix. Ohhhh but I see what you mean now. I'll go clarify, sorry. Dysprosia 11:10, 5 Sep 2003 (UTC)
Ah, now it makes sense, thanks. Colin Marquardt 11:37, 5 Sep 2003 (UTC)

Thanks for editing DWG page. I was in middle of entering stuff. So things were not as clear. Ddiinnxx

Thanks for the hint about comments, though I thought I'd previewed it this way round before without success! David Martland 06:24, 7 Sep 2003 (UTC)

Hey, are you following me? ;) Whatever entry I create you edit it in a few minutes :) Nikola 09:56, 7 Sep 2003 (UTC)

Hehe, nah, not on purpose, anyway. I probably creep out a lot of the contributors here, since I troll Recent Changes and just go round tweaking stuff :) Dysprosia 09:59, 7 Sep 2003 (UTC)

Do we really need an article on Eidion? They made exactly one product, filled with bugs, and never really sold or supported it. Do they really deserve an article here? User:Maury Markowitz

I created that in response to the article Eidolon on VfD - even if they made one notable product, lots of people in the NS/OS community speak and use of PopOver (and they made some other products lesser known, btw). Anyway, if it's of no use, it can go. I'm not really that attached to it! :) Dysprosia 12:27, 7 Sep 2003 (UTC)

Hi Dysprosia. I've just put together a register of Wikipedia developers, including phone numbers, email addresses, etc., which Wikipedians can use to contact developers in case of server failure. You have been selected to be one of about 20 people to receive this list, mainly because of your timezone. The only problem is that you don't have an email address registered which I can send it to. Could you please email me at t*starling&physics*unimelb*edu*au (or something like that, I can never remember the right punctuation)?

BTW, Peter Eckersley wants to contact you regarding what essentially amounts to a Wikipedia-related job offer. Would you mind if I gave him your email address? -- Tim Starling 03:10, Sep 13, 2003 (UTC)

Sent! :) Dysprosia 03:25, 13 Sep 2003 (UTC)

Hi - could you have a quick look at Talk:Steve Reich and see if you can put my mind at rest over Oh Dem Watermelons - I had the idea it wasn't a phasing work, but I could be wrong. --Camembert

Sure, no problem. You were right :) Dysprosia 12:38, 13 Sep 2003 (UTC)

Thanks for the welcome, for paying attention, and for the helpful links... and when will I learn to preview first! BCorr Bcorr 05:36, 16 Sep 2003 (UTC)

Hey, your user page is User:Bcorr. It's showing up in red because you don't have a user page yet. :) And thanks, it's no prob Dysprosia 05:39, 16 Sep 2003 (UTC)

Thanks for catching the bracket thing, didn't find that one in search... but maybe give me a couple minutes to change redirects myself, eh? :) Hit edit conflict when I updated it. -- Jake 08:40, 2003 Sep 19 (UTC)

Sorry, was only trying to help. I hate edit conflicts too. Dysprosia 08:42, 19 Sep 2003 (UTC)

From dbuckner

Thanks for the help. I still have huge problems with the editor. Some of the rhymes still are missing carriage returns. Also, the list of figures appears in most textbooks as a table. Is there an easy way to do this? At the moment there's too much white space.

Thanks, DBU

If you like, put a single semicolon at the front of a line and you'll get a tab out, like so

blah blah

It not only seperates into lines, but you get a blockquote effect appropriate for tabs. Otherwise you can just use a <br> tag at the end, but that's tacky IMO :) Dysprosia 09:56, 19 Sep 2003 (UTC)

Feel free :) Although, I don't know, you might find Image:Stravinsky-petrushka-fanfare.png a bit richer, perhaps? (it's got ledger lines and a time signature)--Camembert

Cool - thanks :) You should see a first draft up a bit later, if you're interested... Dysprosia 13:21, 21 Sep 2003 (UTC)
I'll keep an eye out for it - can't quite believe we've not had an image on that article before... --Camembert
Looks good :) --Camembert

Excuse me over there, is there going to be a full alphabetical list of first or baby names?

Pumpie