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I'm quite irritated and disappointed that in this edit you chose to revert what I had done, and you hadn't discussed this at all on Talk, or responded to my reasoning for doing so. What was the point of me responding to you, or editing further, for that matter, if you weren't going to discuss it and just go and revert anyway? Dysprosia 23:39, 15 May 2005 (UTC) I am sorry you feel that way. As I see it, I did not revert but re-wrote the section to accommodate your critique, which I thought reasonable. Your main argument seemed to be that the points were merely stated without clear attribution, and so this time I dug up what attributions I had ready at hand (more can be added as time allows) and eliminated those arguments I could not back up as per your advice. As for your disagreement with bulleted lists, if they are to be replaced they should be replaced with real substance. As far as the text that I removed, I hope you will admit that a lot of it was simply verbal filler, replete with vague generalizations like It is a perception by some that. . . and Homosexuality has been associated with hedonism and promiscuity by some, and many refute the argument of . . . with nary a word about who these "some" or "many" may be. Like this at least we know who the material is attributed to. As for your suggestion that presenting examples of biased arguments is in itself biased, I respectfully disagree. In the proper context they are historical information. As you saw for yourself, an anonym reverted you before I had a chance to do any work, accusing your edits of being far more NPOV than my original rendition. His revert was itself instantly reverted by some experienced user who flew in for the purpose, never having contributed a jot to the article before or since, and without any explanation. I was shocked by the authoritarian nature of that action, but did not challenge it as it seemed to me upon cursory investigation that both you and him belong to groups of long-time users who are busy awarding each other medals and who may be acting in concert, and I did not want to cross any power group. I am not here to fight, but to write. Finally, if we are to air out our annoyances, I thought you original edit (some desperately needed NPOV, and replace the "he said/she said" points with a bit more cogent paragraph outlining some of the) was anything but considerate. I thought it hubristic and demeaning, and the sad crowning irony was that the paragraph you contributed was certainly not "cogent" by everyone's lights. But despite having started on that less-than-collegial note, perhaps we can now work together to resolve any outstanding issues. Haiduc 01:47, 16 May 2005 (UTC)
I think that it is good practice in a case like this to first work on things that can be more easily resolved. Rather than discuss the format, on which we hold diametrically opposed viewpoints, why do we not examine what information is missing from this section. Since you have re-opened the discussion, what would you like to see included there? Haiduc 04:45, 16 May 2005 (UTC) PS We should probably continue this on the Homosexuality talk page, so that others can participate. Haiduc 04:47, 16 May 2005 (UTC)
If you don't mind, I do think the issue should be opened to others working on the article, a kind of mini-RfC, if you will. Haiduc 01:53, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
Pretty-printingI removed the section on text formatting (a.k.a. word processing) from the prettyprint article and explained my reasoning on the Talk page. Text formatting is an important and wonderful thing, but in my experience, the term "prettyprinting" is not used for text formatting as done in WYSIWYG word processors or off-line formatters like WikiMedia or TeX. You reverted my deletion. I'd appreciate it if you'd explain your reasoning in the Talk page, not just in a short edit comment. Thanks. --Macrakis 13:44, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Boys are stupid etc.Thanks for all the work cleaning up the Boys are stupid, throw rocks at them article. I started fairly recently so I thought I'd take the opportunity to ask some questions regarding your edit. You put a lot of the external links in the article (which is fine with me). I was pretty sure though, that in one of the instructions to write good/great/perfect articles, it said to put external links a the end and reduce the ones inside an article to a minimum. Could you explain? Also, could you explain why calling NOW feminist is POV? I don't really care whether it says "some" or "feminists", but writing the article I felt that the feminist perspective on the issue would be especially interesting. And just because Glenn Sacks things feminist is a bad word that doesn't make it one, hopefully?bastel 13:30, 1 August 2005 (UTC)
I saw your comment for the International Writing Contest about the acronyms not being explained until a couple of sentences after first being used. Could you show me where this is? It is hard for me to see as I'm an Apollo nerd so so what TLI, CSM, LM, AGC, S-IC all mean :-). Evil Monkey∴Hello 00:29, Apr 19, 2005 (UTC)
Mel EtitisYes, saw it thanks, Dysprosia. It's fixed. Best, SlimVirgin (talk) 07:09, Apr 20, 2005 (UTC) why so negative?Who stole your milk? The reason I removed the Goldberg variations reference was that this was by no means the only or most significant improv that J.L. has made. But anyway... Dewet 16:59, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC) GLB vs GLBTelements cross-posted Please do not add the gay, lesbian and bisexual category to transpeople who do not identify as such, for example, Georgina Beyer and Kamikawa Aya. GLB does not include the T. Thanks Dysprosia 22:42, 4 May 2005 (UTC)
Spam filterI was attempting to create links to each of the nations in: Particracy_(web_game)#The_World, however to my despair, I found no-ip.info on the block list. Regards, Cerceole|(talk) 06:10, 7 May 2005 (UTC)
My protected user and talk pagesI thought I had removed that - sorry. I was being harassed by the impostor vandal: for reasons that I cannot explain, he seems to have an odd fascination with me. – ClockworkSoul 14:12, 8 May 2005 (UTC) ChessTalk to your opponent, who I believe is User:H Padleckas and decide with him. I only care who wins :P Gkhan 00:11, May 16, 2005 (UTC) In order to get going on the game, I made the first move. 2. Nc3 ... Your turn. H Padleckas 12:03, 16 May 2005 (UTC) 3. Nf3 ... Your turn. H Padleckas 00:40, 17 May 2005 (UTC) Vote for DeletionHi; I'm sorry to be bothering you concerning this, but Wikipedia:Chess championship is up for a VfD. Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion/Chess_championship Please vote to keep this thing alive... this is so lame that I need to ask people to help out here. Linuxbeak | Desk 03:45, May 19, 2005 (UTC) Chess - Your 24 hours is up. Are you moving?It's been 24 hours since I made my last move in our Chess Tournament game. Are you going to respond? There is a 24-hour limit on time beteween moves. Awaiting your response. Chess - Game 4 - your turnIf you play 30. ... RxR on d8, I play RxR on d8 check If you play 30. ... QxR on d8, I play RxQ on d8 check If you play 30. ... move king, I play RxR on a8 H Padleckas 07:54, 26 May 2005 (UTC)
thank youThank you, for the welcome Dysprosia, I've used Wiki a lot but this is my first time signing up, and creating a page.
gaymapOk, could you clarify which colours you want for each state and territory? -- Earl Andrew - talk 04:37, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Thanks :-)Happy to be around! - Ta bu shi da yu 07:48, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC) When does the show actually screen on US TV? Dysprosia 05:17, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC) Weeknights at 11:35 PM EST on CBS. --Gus 08:05, 2005 Jun 8 (UTC) "Please do not double tag images where a derivation is made unless you are sure that you know what license the deriver is using. [...]"
Chess TournamentCongratulations on your 21-move win in DE Game 2, Dysprosia. H Padleckas 05:58, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Please always check the EB article when making a redirect, Arrau is a kind of turtle, not a pianist. Its only 1 click to check (see [1])! thanks Bluemoose 08:49, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Lagrange interpolationHi. Thanks for your message. I'm still a bit annoyed at the layout my picture has caused... If you have any idea to fix it, well go ahead. Happy edits, Julien Tuerlinckx 13:25, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)
AMS Euler sampleI noticed the sample of the AMS Euler font made by you (Nice example) and I've noticed that you mix it with Computer Modern. To be honest, that's a very bad combination IMO, because the faces are quite dissimilar (The EulerVM packages explicitly discourages this combination. OTOH, this isn't that big an issue, but it would be nice if you would update the image using Palatino or Aldus perhaps. If it was made with LaTeX you can probably simply use DYSPROSIA HELP REQUIRED FROM VANDALISMDysprosia, hi, could you please take a look at:- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Wellesley%2C_8th_Duke_of_Wellington, User:Proteus keeps deleting the image of the 8th Duke of Wellington from the page. I'm the archivist at the Duke's Regimental HQ and the Photo and Title on it are the official ones used by the Duke but Proteus doesn't seem to want the picture there. Could you kindly intervene, to prevent an editing battle? This sysop does appear to be rather aggressive and unhelpful, re the discussion page, which is most unusual for this website. If you take a look at the History Page User:Proteus & User:John_Kenney, whose comments are offensive and unrequired, do seem to keep reverting edits to keep their preferred version on the page.Richard Harvey 5 July 2005 15:24 (UTC)
IE:- Original uploaded image on the left, and ---------> Cropped, copied image on the right. .
You are completely disgusting, you know that? The original version of the image which you uploaded didn't have the caption on it. The version I put up was exactly the same as the image which you originally put up and said was fine to use so long as we didn't defame the Duke. You do not get to win an argument by default. Until you put back up the version of the image without the caption, I am going to keep the image out of the article. john k 7 July 2005 15:18 (UTC) I assume that this user is a sysop and as such should not be allowed to act this way. Richard Harvey 7 July 2005 15:41 (UTC) As this is the message placed on my talk page by [user: John Kenny]] I can only assume that he is being personally offensive and immature. You are completely disgusting, you know that? The original version of the image which you uploaded didn't have the caption on it. The version I put up was exactly the same as the image which you originally put up and said was fine to use so long as we didn't defame the Duke. You do not get to win an argument by default. Until you put back up the version of the image without the caption, I am going to keep the image out of the article. john k 7 July 2005 15:18 (UTC) Additional comments from user:John Kenny like this:- I said on the description page that if you didn't like it, I would delete it, you asshole. You are a completely absurd person, fuck you. john k 7 July 2005 15:05 (UTC) BTW, the caption is not part of the image, and you don't get to decide the caption for an image just because you upload the image. Your version of the image is not going to be in the article. john k 7 July 2005 15:11 (UTC) Also from the page history list:- (cur) (last) 15:07, 7 July 2005 John Kenney (Wow, that Richard Harvey sure is a prick, huh?) This sort of personal attack from a Sysop is very damaging to the Wikipedia name. I also now note that he is working his way through, and deleting, images I have uploaded to other pages, such as those of the 6th and 7th Duke of Wellington Pages. ~~
La Monte Young's early Fluxus-esque worksI'm sort of smiling and thinking - "Once again, Wikipedians show they collectively know almost everything. That is so amazing!" -- I had forgotten about these Fluxus-esque works, and you just helped remind me of them again. Thanks again for your post on the reference desk, you put a smile on my face and made my day! :-) --HappyCamper 07:34, 12 July 2005 (UTC) WikiProject Computer scienceWikipedia:WikiProject_Computer_science is just getting underway. Your input/ ideas are coveted. Quinobi 07:50, 13 July 2005 (UTC) cellular automataI agree that my post was "badly written and unsourced" but the current state of the page is not good eather. I have sent a link to the page to the usenet groop on Google [2] to get some feedback, now thay can not see the page... (there may be a better way but I am a novice to Wikipedia) If you have any better "concrete definitions of CA" than please post your sugestions, I used the next definition (aproximately) from CA-FAQ [3] (be carufull there is an anoying java fire).
My intention is to continue with the article on computing preimages but I need a clear definition to start with. As you can see I used the neighborhood size k and the output cell shift as such a definition is more usefull when inplementing software, and may be useful to descbibe hexagonal laticess too. P.S.: I just moved the page to my personal sandbox User:Iztok.jeras/Sandbox I would apeciate comments and edits. --Iztok.jeras 12:40, 18 July 2005 (UTC) I have moved the conversation to the CA discussion page hopefully to get more comments. --Iztok.jeras 21:18, 20 July 2005 (UTC) Please adviseDysprosia, Hi. Could you take a look at:- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habbo_Hotel - there appears to be two links at the end of the article which take you to sites selling Mob Phone ringtones etc, is that permitted? Richard Harvey 03:13, 8 August 2005 (UTC)
Definition of level setHi Dysprosia. I've posted a question about the definition of a level set at Talk:level set. Since you wrote the initial article I thought you might be able to answer it. Thanks. — Paul August ☎ 15:13, August 8, 2005 (UTC) Sesame Street on FACHi there, you supported Sesame Street becoming a featured article by in 2004, I was wondering if you'd mind looking again at the article, and possibly supporting the current campaign? Thanks for your time! -- user:zanimum
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