User talk:Dominus/Archive (2006)
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Articles For Deletion
Hi, a while ago you made some comments about the presence of bible-verse articles, and/or source texts of the bible, and you may therefore be interested in related new discussions:
- A discussion about 200 articles, one each for the first 200 verses of Matthew - Wikipedia:Centralized discussion/200 verses of Matthew
- A discussion about 18 articles, one each for the first 18 verses of John 20 - Wikipedia:Centralized discussion/Verses of John 20
- A discussion about whether or not the entire text of a whole bible chapter should be contained in the 6 articles concerning those specific chapters - Wikipedia:Centralized discussion/Whole bible chapter text.
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ENIAC
Hi, I'd like to make a change to this article, for clarity. Can I ask you to check over what I'm doing on Talk:ENIAC, to stop me straying? Most grateful if you can, JackyR 18:05, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
Paris Hilton
Hiya, there seems to be an edit war going on at the Paris Hilton article. I think it would be a good idea to thrash things out on the talk page there so that people stop reverting each other over and over again. I'm neutral on the issue of whether the article should be part of the Category: American porn stars but others editing believe that the category should stay and will revert your removal automatically. Can we talk about this?--Rhi 15:59, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
- I have started this discussion on the Paris Hilton discussion page. Please do contribute. --Yamla 17:28, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
Please check your WP:NA entry
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Thank you, and have a wiki wiki day! bd2412 T 04:12, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
merging what s left of professors category pages into academics pages
hello there. i couldn t ask for your vote in a nomination that i ve just made at
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New Video Game Article
Hey! I saw that you created a new video game related article- consider joining the
Schwartzian Transform
Hey, MJD, can you make your way over to the talk page for the Schwartzian Transform and help get this article back into shape? Joseph N Hall 00:02, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
See WP:NOT
I read your User page and I think you have violated some of the wiki guidelines for the user page. Pls understand that Wikipedia is not a free host, blog, webspace provider or social networking site or a resource for conducting business-.Bharatveer 14:52, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
- I think that Bharatveer is referring to is the “It can be ordered online” link as overt advertisement. Other biographical references could be construed as implicit solicitation for your services-for-profit, but perhaps they are a borderline grey compared to the “It can be ordered online” link. —optikos 18:22, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
- Thanks for pointing out that the book sale link was inappropriate; I have removed it. -- Dominus 14:02, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
Nonnotable profs
I suspect from the message that you left on
- I have no opinion on your strategy or on Dr. Pierce's notability; if I had, I would have said something in my note. I agree with your opinion that the article needs better sources. -- Dominus 01:40, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
Chomsky hierarchy
On a more extend-olive-branch note, I have been none too pleased lately about the movement of
- My answer to your first question is "yes". My answer to the rest of the questions is "I don't know". -- Dominus 01:42, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
- Thanks. I myself am still investigating the latter questions before I start taking action (either discussion or insert [citation needed]). Surveying other languages' Wikipedias, only the German-language analogue offers Chomsky–Schützenberger hierarchy (i.e., Chomsky–Schützenberger-Hierarchie) as an alternate name in the Chomsky-Hierarchie titled article. No others co-attributed the hierarchy to Schützenberger. —optikos13:02, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
- Thanks. I myself am still investigating the latter questions before I start taking action (either
- The issue now seems quite clear to me: google search for "Chomsky Schutzenberger hierarchy" produces 15 hits, some of which are Wikipedia; search for "Chomsky hierarchy" produces 68,000 hits. It is completely obvious that "Chomsky-Schutzenberger hierarchy" is a neologism that has little currency, and that the article should be named "Chomsky hierarchy".
- A (perhaps similar) matter came up in connection with Zorn's lemma. Zorn did not invent Zorn's lemma; he invented a different principle, which was in fact anticipated by many others, including Kuratowski. The lemma is sometimes called the Zorn-Kuratowski lemma. But the article should nevertheless be listed as Zorn's lemma, because, however unjust that may be, that's what people call it.
Classical Ramsey number notation
Hi, Dominus! The notation of classical Ramsey numbers is a very minor matter (since any well-defined explicit notation should be OK within a given article). However, if some notation should be preferred, it should be the prevalent one. You recently happened to revert an edit by an anonymous user, who actually changed the notation to a much more employed convention; and if the user was a new-comer, this could be very discouraging.
The 'classical' notation for an r-colour Ramsey number (on a complete graph of ordinary kind), forcing the existence of a clique of colour i for some i, is . (The number of colours is not given, since it follows from the arity. If all are equal, on the other hand, it is normal to use an alternative notation with r explicitly given.) As for modern usage, if you look e.g. at Landman-Robertson, p. 8 (or at their notation summary at p. 294), you'll find that they use the same (classical) notation. Also, if you look at the first one of the Dynamic Surveys of the Electronic Journal of Combinatorics, by Radziszowski, (which I think should be added as external link to Ramsey theory), you'll find the same usage at the notation summary on p. 3. Worse, as you can see, Radziszowski uses the notation for something rather different; he considers complete s-hypergraphs instead of ordinary complete graphs (but still with r colours, not s ones). The concepts coincide iff , when indeed he drops the ";2" part.
I preferred to make the points here; as I wrote, if the editor was a new-comer, (s)he should not be disencouraged from making valid changes by too complex discussion, either. However, if you don't object, I'm going to revert your reversion to-morrow - or, better, if you agree with me you could do it yourself!
Best wishes, JoergenB 21:23, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
Higher-Order Perl
Hi, I just wanted to tell you that I just recently read your book Higher-Order Perl and I wanted to tell you it is excellent—one of the most useful books on Perl I've read in a while. I look forward to using some of the techniques in the book at my day job. I don't really have anything Wikipedia-related to say to you; just sending my regards. Thanks! Nohat 04:05, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
- Thanks. I'm really glad you liked it. -- Dominus 07:55, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
Invite
You are invited to participate in Philadelphia . We are currently discussing prospects for the project. Your input would be greatly appreciated!
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--evrik 18:48, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
Philly meetup
Hi! There will be a Wikipedia Meetup in Philadelphia on 4 November. If you're interested in coming, RSVP by editing Wikipedia:Meetup/Philadelphia 2 to reflect the likelihood of your being able to attend. If you have any questions, feel free to ask CComMack's. Hopefully, we'll all see you (and each other) on the 4th! --evrik 18:48, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
Theory of Deadly Initials
Hi. Thanks for your message from 6 Dec, and your edits to the article. In fact, I removed the patent nonsense notice which had been added by another editor. As you say, it clearly doesn't qualify as patent nonsense. All the best SP-KP 14:48, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
Mega Society
I have summarized my arguments for including an article on the Mega Society in Wikipedia here:
—Preceding unsigned comment added by Canon (talk • contribs) 20:15, 24 November 2006 (UTC)