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User talk:Salix alba/Archive 5Oxford Wikimania 2010 and Wikimedia UK v2.0 NoticeHi, As a regularly contributing UK Wikipedian, we were wondering if you wanted to contribute to the Oxford bid to host the 2010 Wikimania conference. Please see here for details of how to get involved, we need all the help we can get if we are to put in a compelling bid. We are also in the process of forming a new UK Wikimedia chapter to replace the soon to be folded old one. If you are interested in helping shape our plans, showing your support or becoming a future member or board member, please head over to the Wikimedia UK v2.0 page and let us know. We plan on holding an election in the next month to find the initial board, who will oversee the process of founding the company and accepting membership applications. They will then call an AGM to formally elect a new board who after obtaining charitable status will start the fund raising, promotion and active support for the UK Wikimedian community for which the chapter is being founded. You may also wish to attend the next London meet-up at which both of these issues will be discussed. If you can't attend this meetup, you may want to watch Wikipedia:Meetup, for updates on future meets. We look forward to hearing from you soon, and we send our apologies for this automated intrusion onto your talk page! Addbot (talk) 23:00, 30 August 2008 (UTC) Modulo operationThanks for your improvements to the modulo operation article. Can you please fix this sentence you added, though? IEEE 754 defines a remainder function where the quotient according to IEEE standards. The sentence itself doesn't make sense (something is missing after the word "quotient"), and the link should be rewritten to avoid a redirect: [[IEEE 754-1985|IEEE 754]]. Thanks! —mjb (talk) 17:17, 8 September 2008 (UTC) HiHi Richard... Yeah, we did meet last year. I hope you're well. I shall take a look at WikiProject Mathematics now. Thanks for the tip. Declan Davis (talk) 20:36, 8 September 2008 (UTC) Image:Quadric Ellipsoid.jpg.No problem. It was a judgement call on my part (perhaps a bad one) and should be reviewed. -Regards Nv8200p talk 19:39, 10 September 2008 (UTC) ReferencesRichard, could you help me with David Trotman's page? There are lots of external links in the text which need to be removed and replaced with references to external links. I don't know how these work. I've added the command line to get an automatically reference list from the exisiting references and it's not turned out quite right. I guess the in text references, as they stand, are incorrect. Let me know if you can help, and if you have any tips for referencing. Declan Davis (talk) 19:15, 19 September 2008 (UTC) p.s. have a read of the talk page too. Cheers.
infraneologismHi, the article inframetric is a good candidate for deletion, I would not waste time on edits there. Katzmik (talk) 11:25, 21 September 2008 (UTC)
Plant MathHi, Salix. I saw your singular edit over at mathematical proof (where I responded to it) and thought I would come over here and tell you what your name meant, but saw your user page and you beat me to it. I am writing the Flora of the Santa Monica Mountains contrib, and I am in up to my ears in a project to restore the LA River right now, where Salix still is king (at Glendale Narrows), with some nasty non natives trying to depose him, and I recently explained the etymology of a little plant named Chamaesyce albomarginata to a kid in the part. I like your pre Feb 06 Pfarfetched name, too. EricDiesel (talk) 23:42, 21 September 2008 (UTC) List of edible flowersHey, on the list of edible flowers you forgot the tastiest edible flower of them all, Feijoa sellowiana! I fixed it. And they forgot to write this fact in the main article, so I fixed it, but may have violated NPOV in my description there. EricDiesel (talk) 00:04, 22 September 2008 (UTC) Ship of TheseusI helped to build an EXACT COPY [1] of the Ship of Theseus, with the Extra Action Marching Band, later altered, modernized and renamed to La Contessa, out in the Blackrock Desert. I contributed the hemp silk lining and the authentic lanterns (OK, they were from India, but still hundreds of years old), and helped do the soundtrack. I was one of the drummers and dancers for the associated Extra Action Marching Band, but I quit prior to the 2005 Hollywood Bowl gig, too mainstream (the main stream it sailed up was the Blackrock desert).
Indra's Pearle's and New Sections in "Mathematical Proof"What, have you hacked into my life? I co-choreographed anopera about Indra, with "pearls", in 1998. It had 2,000 performers and an audience of 30,000 people. It, too, was in the desert, performed during a night time eclipse of the moon, during a violent storm (a perfect storm, in fact). The interesting thing was that I was pulled in to help with the choreography, as a Butoh dance teacher for the Melancholic Sect at first, but more importantly, as a probabilist, as the choreography degenerated due to shuffling problems, as the dance rehearsed with a small group of people in SF, was enlarged to include 2,000 people. The opera was called "Temple of Rudra", and I am the guy in the vintage vaudville top hat at the very end of the "documentary" of the same name, by Dean Mermell. EricDiesel (talk) 21:18, 22 September 2008 (UTC)
MathematicsHello... FYI, I've restored the conversation at Talk:Mathematics as it should remain for future reference. However, to help facilitate the discussion, I've removed the quote from the web site. (As explained at Wikipedia:Editor_assistance/Requests#Please_Remove_Copyrighted_material_from_Wikipedia.27s_servers, it was in no way a "copyright infringement".) Thanks. --Ckatzchatspy 08:10, 23 September 2008 (UTC) Peter Giblin's PageI was trying to put together a Wikipedia page for Peter... he has seven published books and over 100 articles! I've tried to do it the best I can but there seem to be problems with my refs. I've got the hang of making refs, but now there's 'link rot'. The refs are the the British National Library, but some user doesn't think that that's good enough. PLEASE HELP! Declan Davis (talk) 02:44, 26 September 2008 (UTC) p.s. Just help me with the links. I want to do the article. Cheers. Declan Davis (talk) 02:44, 26 September 2008 (UTC) Declan Davis and friendDragons? You think? [2]. --jpgordon∇∆∇∆ 14:41, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
Talk PagesSorry... I didn't know. I didn't want people to read that on my talk page and get the wrong idea about me. I seem to spend more of my time getting told off that I do editing. I'll get there in the end. Declan Davis (talk) 00:38, 28 September 2008 (UTC) mathematical softwareHello there. Can you tell me the name of the mathematical software/programming language you were using in trying out the various graph colorings in regard to my question yesterday. I think it might be useful for me too. Thanks a lot. Regards--Shahab (talk) 05:29, 28 September 2008 (UTC) import java.util.Arrays;
/*
Created 27 Sep 2008 - Richard Morris
*/
public class GraphCount {
int n; // no of vert
int min = Integer.MAX_VALUE;
enum Colours { NULL,RED,BLUE };
boolean[][] cols;
/**
* @param args
*/
public static void main(String[] args) {
(new GraphCount()).run();
}
private void run() {
for(int i=3;;++i){
n=i;
cols = new boolean[n][n];
min = Integer.MAX_VALUE;
cols[0][1] = true;
generate(0,2);
System.out.println("i "+i+"\t"+min);
}
}
private void generate(int i,int j) {
if(i==n-2 && j==n-1) {
cols[i][j] = true;
count();
cols[i][j] = false;
count();
}
else if(j==n-1) {
cols[i][j] = true;
generate(i+1,i+2);
cols[i][j] = false;
generate(i+1,i+2);
}
else {
cols[i][j] = true;
generate(i,j+1);
cols[i][j] = false;
generate(i,j+1);
}
}
void count() {
//System.out.println(Arrays.deepToString(cols));
int nred = 0;
int nblue = 0;
for(int i=0;i<n;++i)
for(int j=i+1;j<n;++j)
for(int k=j+1;k<n;++k) {
if(cols[i][j]==true && cols[i][k]==true && cols[j][k]==true) ++nred;
if(cols[i][j]==false && cols[i][k]==false && cols[j][k]==false) ++nblue;
}
//System.out.println("red "+nred+" blue "+nblue);
if(nred+nblue<min)
min=nred+nblue;
}
}
It gets extreamly slow after n=8, I ran it for most of the day and it did not calculate n=9. --Salix (talk): 06:45, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
ISBN NumbersHi Richard. Where did you get the ISBN numbers for Peter G's article? Do you know a good site? All the Google searches want to find a book given the ISBN or, worse still, sell me something! Δεκλαν Δαφισ (talk) 17:40, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
Julia SetsHow does one link to a difference page? Before you'd made your comment I had worked out how to find the user, and had found the difference page showing my changes, it was http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Julia_set&diff=prev&oldid=242767998 but how do you make that into an internal Wikipedia link? Δεκλαν Δαφισ (talk) 16:12, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
...named after George Direction (1492–1686)?Is there a reason to capitalize the initial "d" in "direction cosine"? Michael Hardy (talk) 17:56, 5 October 2008 (UTC)
Available energyI noticed your comment, "It would be interesting to see data which showed the energy it would be technically possible to extract from each source." and had tried to consider this, but with no reliable source available, which seems credible, it really seemed impossible to do this without doing a lot of synthesis. For example, it is easy to find estimates of how much wind energy is available, and how much solar energy is needed, and if you look at the numbers it is interesting to note that we already are extracting I believe about half of the available hydropower, although that seems implausible. Anyway, like I said, I thought about it, but the best I could find is how much we are currently using (shown in Image:Ren2006.png), and how much the total is, shown in the Available energy diagram. It also seems that economics is a bigger factor in determining how much can be extracted than any other factor. By the way, the person who originally created the diagram has left Wikipedia. I have updated and improved it only because of a desire to display the relative sizes of the data in a meaningful format. All data was carefully taken from a single source to avoid complaints of synthesis, although it was meaningful to provide a separate reference for consumption. Delphi234 (talk) 20:55, 5 October 2008 (UTC)
Wikipedia guidelinesHi Richard, sorry to bother you again. I have a question about UK and US spellings. I have read somewhere in the WP guidelines that if an article relates to the UK then the UK spellings are prefered, and if it relates to the US then the US spellings are prefered. I can't seem to track it down anymore. All the guidelines that I can find on the UK and US spellings seem to be quite neutral; but I know I've seen it somewhere! Δεκλαν Δαφισ (talk) 11:09, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
 You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template. RE: CoinsHi, The following script may help, you can use it with greasemonkey on firefox or include it your monobook.js. It finds and parses the tags produced in the coins data and dispalays they one per line // ==UserScript==
// @name Coins
// @namespace wikipedia
// @description display Coins information
// @include http://*.wikipedia.org/*
// ==/UserScript==
var tags = document.getElementsByTagName("span");
for(var i=0;i<tags.length;++i) {
var tag=tags[i];
if(tag.getAttribute('class') == "Z3988") {
var title = tag.getAttribute('title').replace(/\+/g," ");
var parts = title.split("&");
var res=""; //<br/>" + title + "<br/>";
var o = new Object();
for(var j=0;j<parts.length;++j) {
var keyval = parts[j].split("=");
var decoded = decodeURIComponent(keyval[1]);
var replaced = decoded.replace(/[\[]http(\S+) ([^\]]*)[\]]/g,"<a href=\"http$1\">$2</a>");
//res += keyval[0] + "=[" + keyval[1] + "]<br/>\n" + decoded + "<br/>\n" + replaced + "<br/>\n";
//res += "["+parts[j]+"]";
res += keyval[0] + "=" + replaced + "<br/>\n";
if(keyval[0].substring(0,4) == "rft.")
o[keyval[0].substring(4)]=replaced;
}
tag.innerHTML = "<br/>" + res;
}
}
/*
var cites = document.getElementsByTagName("cite");
for(var i=0;i<cites.length;++i) {
cites[i].style.display="none";
}
*/
For example
Should render as Viollet B; Andreelli F; Jørgensen SB et al (January 2003). "The AMP-activated protein kinase alpha2 catalytic subunit controls whole-body insulin sensitivity". J. Clin. Invest. 111 (1): 91–8. doi:10.1172/JCI16567. PMID 12511592. PMC:151837. ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004 rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal rft.genre=article rft.atitle=The AMP-activated protein kinase alpha2 catalytic subunit controls whole-body insulin sensitivity rft.jtitle=J. Clin. Invest. rft.date=2003 rft.volume=111 rft.issue=1 rft.au=Viollet B; Andreelli F; Jørgensen SB ''et al'' rft.pages=91–8 rft_id=info:pmid/12511592 rft_id=info:pmc/151837 rft_id=info:doi/10.1172/JCI16567 rft_id=http://www.jci.org/articles/view/16567 --Salix (talk): 08:03, 30 October 2008 (UTC)
PubMed linksPMID links in Cite journal aren't working, and I saw this change; any connection? SandyGeorgia (Talk) 02:22, 30 October 2008 (UTC)
I added the references based on what he suggested on my talk page and also the fact that you said the information was no big deal to get. Guilt trip for me! It looked reasonable, but my brain is fried. Maybe you could give it a glance. Thanks, —Mattisse (Talk) 22:05, 30 October 2008 (UTC) citation punctuation(copied over from TT:Citation:) Can we have this returned to previous punctuation? Both moves here are moves backwards, in my view. Thanks. --jbmurray (talk • contribs) 09:18, 2 November 2008 (UTC) Benjamin Franklin Medal LinkThis may be a bit trivial... Your uncatagorised maths page User:Salix alba/maths/uncategorised maths#1101 section 1101 links to Benjamin Franklin Medal This is the Royal Society of the Arts page. There is no "math" on either page. Did you want your link on 1101 directed to the Franklin Institute page? I was planning on moving Benjamin Franklin Medal and providing a Benjamin Franklin Medal (disambiguation) page. Thanks! Jim1138 (talk) 09:52, 19 November 2008 (UTC)
Triangle topicsI see that you created the article titled Viviani's theorem a year-and-a-half ago. I just added it to the list of triangle topics today. If you know of others that should be there but are not, could you add those too? Thanks. Michael Hardy (talk) 17:28, 2 December 2008 (UTC) Larry West pageHello. I wanted to write to thank you for the constant cleaning of the Larry West article and locking it when needed. The lock came off and I already had a ton of vandalism on the page (someone added date of death, for example). If you can give any more help or put it on your watch list or something, I would be grateful. Thanks! LuvataciousSkull (talk) 03:13, 6 December 2008 (UTC)
AfD nomination of List of edible flowers An article that you have been involved in editing, List of edible flowers, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of edible flowers. Thank you. Rkitko (talk) 17:43, 28 December 2008 (UTC) Paul JaworskiPlease comment on the request for merger for Paul Jaworski Pustelnik (talk) 15:44, 10 January 2009 (UTC) Template for journalHi,
Jo SelfSee Talk:Jo Self. If it were in the News of the World I'd agree, but airbrushing out something heading a Times article is another matter. Gordonofcartoon (talk) 01:20, 12 January 2009 (UTC)
Suspension bridgesHi. Thanks for your input to the AfD discussion re Suspended deck bridge. You suggest moving the article to Suspension bridge, and I do appreciate why, but have you seen my proposal to move Suspension bridge types to Suspension bridge? --Una Smith (talk) 14:45, 30 March 2009 (UTC) Closing afdsBefore closing any further xfds, please make sure you understand the entirety of the closing procedure. Thanks. Hipocrite (talk) 21:49, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
WonderfulHi, I just wanted to say I was impressed with the gentleness and sensitivity you showed in this comment. I've never seen anything but the best from you. ☺Coppertwig (talk) 22:13, 5 April 2009 (UTC) Button pushing messYes, the edit you referenced was an mistake. Huggle usually tells me when I'm about to revert someone on the whitelist. I know...no automated tools excuses. Let me know if there's more to be done besides taking more care of my actions. Thanks for the heads up. Tiderolls 01:15, 9 April 2009 (UTC) MentorAre you still willing to act as one of my mentors for my Arbcom proposal? I am working on a plan There is also another plan: I would really appreciate your feedback, as I have no idea what ArbCom wants, as indicated in their proposed decision. Thank you so much. Regards, —Mattisse (Talk) 23:32, 3 June 2009 (UTC)
Importing PicturesHow could I import pictures stored on the Spanish Wikipeida pages? I've been correcting some Texas Hold'em hand combinations on the Spanish site, and think that the same table would look good on the English Texas Hold'em page. SEE HERE I was going to cut and paste, the translate, the table, but here's the result (without translation):
Hi Declan. I think the way to do it is move the images to common. See Wikipedia:Moving images to the Commons Commons:Commons:First steps/File transfer and tools. Once there in commons they should be easy to use in en.wikipedia. You do need to check that the images are open content to host them on commons. I've not really done this though. Ah I see that some of the images are already on commons and hence on en.--Salix (talk): 21:25, 21 June 2009 (UTC)
You are requested to confirm!Hi Salix alba, I have developed a mentor/adviser plan (User:Mattisse/Plan) for which others have also provided input at User talk:Mattisse/Plan, Arbitration Workshop and Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Mattisse/Proposed_decision. Previously, you said you were willing to be one of my mentors/advisers. I think this plan will work. I have learned a great deal from this arbitration and feel comfortable with my panel of mentors/advisers and trust their judgment. Currently the ArbCom is in the process of rendering decision and have requested that my mentors/advisers confirm that they are aware of the plan and agree with their role in it. See Moving towards closure of the case. If you are still willing to serve as one of my mentors/advisers, and I fervently hope you are, I ask you to indicate your willingness by posting on the Proposed decision talk page. Thank you so much. Regards, —Mattisse (Talk) 16:28, 28 June 2009 (UTC) Wikipedia SignaturesHi Richard, I hope you're well. I fancy changing my signature, and thought I'd sign myself as Dr Dec. But this, of course, isn't my user name, and the user name is still available. What do you recommend? This is my new signature as it stands: ~~ Dr Dec (Talk) ~~ 16:27, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
I've added a lot more on how to recognise Ak singularities, and so how to recognise different kinds of cusp. Have look and tell me what you think. ~~ Dr Dec (Talk) ~~ 11:44, 30 July 2009 (UTC) Not quite sure all of this should go into the cusp article as we should really have swallowtail and butterful articles. The Catastrophe theory is quite good for thom's classification but there is really so much which is not covered. I'd like to see lips and beak plus a heep more images. I did some stuff a while back at A parade of surfaces maybe something from there could be worked in?--Salix (talk): 20:46, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
FormattingHello Richard, it's me again! I hope you're doing well. I'm not sure how to line users boxes up on my page. Take a look at my user page. As you can see, there's a big blank bit at the top right. I would quite like to fill that space with the welcome banner: [[Image:welcomebanner.gif]] and maybe some user boxes. The problem is that they all seem to allign themselves, and I've no clue how to fix it. I've tried to cut and paste some code from your user page but it all ended in tears. ~~ Dr Dec (Talk) ~~ 15:08, 1 September 2009 (UTC)
Saving PagesLet's say I wanted to save an edit history, or a given page. How would I do that? I've been granted roll-back status and have been reverting a lot of vandalism. I have been working on a page for when, in the very distant future, I apply for sys-op status. You know, basic problems I've come across that could have been avoided, if I were to have had sys-op status. One example was a 5 hour back log on the Request for page protection. I've copied the URL for the page, but I'm sure it will change as the edits happen. Is there any way I can link to fixed pages in the past, almost like an archived URL? ~~ Dr Dec (Talk) ~~ 22:19, 1 September 2009 (UTC)
...and moreover, how do I link back to old edit histories? ~~ Dr Dec (Talk) ~~ 20:01, 2 September 2009 (UTC)
Thanks!I will be better and think more clearly. Sounds stupid to say I didn't get it, but I didn't. Very stupid. I am a stupid person. —Mattisse (Talk) 21:04, 15 September 2009 (UTC)
Monitoring pageIf you could watchlist User:Mattisse/Monitoring' you could help me in dealing with future problems. Thanks! —Mattisse (Talk) 23:12, 15 September 2009 (UTC) SurformI saw your note on Talk:Surform and worked it into the article. Thanks. --Una Smith (talk) 16:16, 3 October 2009 (UTC)
ArbCom clarification on Mattisse's PlanRequest opened by Moni3 here. --Moni3 (talk) 16:25, 14 October 2009 (UTC) Please watchlist this page!This is the new page for editors who are not my mentors/advisers to make editorial comments on: User talk:Mattisse/Monitoring/Editorial comments. Please watch list this page. However, I would prefer that dissatisfied editors contact a mentor/adviser individual, to prevent a battleground or attack mentality from developing on that page. Please let me know if you object to this. Thanks! Regards, —Mattisse (Talk) 19:15, 14 October 2009 (UTC)
A start on the ArbCom reportHere. SilkTork *YES! 10:38, 18 October 2009 (UTC) Huh?Is this directed at me or Mattisse? In what way is the conversation heated that it might need to be cooled? Or is any communication with the user prohibited? Mattisse appears to have a somewhat revisionist attitude to her own history - I'd rather hoped you guys might suggest to her that is part of the problem. --Joopercoopers (talk) 14:41, 21 October 2009 (UTC)
I fear this is the endThank you so much for sticking by me all this time. You were the first, and for a long time only, glimmer of hope for me here. But it is too much of an uphill battle. My contributions are not valued, and that is all I have to offer. I feel internally deep grief. I am sorry to lose the pleasure of editing. Though now that I have been indoctrinated into internet posting, undoubtedly I will find other outlets for my energy. You have been wonderful throughout, and somehow you understood that my intentions were not to be evil or disruptive. Ironically, I believed in the ideals of wikipedia. Again, I thank you for giving so freely to me. You are a thoroughly kind person. I will never forget our connection and that you helped me and continued to believe in me. My deepest thanks to you. —Mattisse (Talk) 01:14, 23 October 2009 (UTC)
Mattisse reportWould you please read over User:SilkTork/Report#Draft_Final_Report and confirm (or otherwise) that you are content for this to be given as the requested report to ArbCom. SilkTork *YES! 20:47, 2 November 2009 (UTC)
Motion to reopen ArbCom case "Mattisse"ArbCom courtesy notice: You have received this notice because you particpated in some way on the Mattisse case or the associated clarification discussion. A motion has recently been proposed to reopen the ArbCom case concerning Mattisse. ArbCom is inviting editor comment on this proposed motion. For the Arbitration Committee, Manning (talk) 03:47, 10 November 2009 (UTC) MattisseHi Salix I have given Mattisse a warning not to post any form of comment on another Wikipedia editor without first getting advice to make such a comment. I have started a discussion on G guy's talk page. Your views are welcome and requested. SilkTork *YES! 09:43, 16 November 2009 (UTC) Arbitration Motion's regarding MattisseThe Arbitration Committee has passed a motion amending Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Mattisse The full voting and discussion for the original clarification and motions can be found here
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