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| name = The Happening |
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| image = Thehappening1 large.jpg |
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| caption = Danish Theatrical release poster |
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| director = [[M. Night Shyamalan]] |
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| producer = [[Barry Mendel]]<br>[[Sam Mercer]]<br>M. Night Shyamalan |
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| writer = M. Night Shyamalan |
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| starring = [[Mark Wahlberg]]<br>[[Zooey Deschanel]]<br>[[John Leguizamo]] |
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| music = [[James Newton Howard]] |
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| cinematography = [[Tak Fujimoto]] |
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| editing = [[Conrad Buff]] |
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| distributor = {{flagicon|USA}} [[20th Century Fox]] <br/> (except India and Netherlands) <br/> {{flagicon|India}} [[UTV Software Communications]] <br/> {{flagicon|Netherlands}} [[Warner Bros.]] |
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| released = '''[[June 11]] [[2008]]:'''<br/>[[Belgium]], [[France]]<br/>'''[[June 13]] [[2008]]:'''<br/>[[United States]], [[United Kingdom]], [[India]], [[Brazil]] |
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| runtime = 90 min. |
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| country = [[United States]] |
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| language = English |
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| budget = [[United States dollar|US $]]60 million |
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| gross = '''Domestic'''</br>$64,505,912</br>'''Foreign'''</br>$98,834,810</br>'''Worldwide'''</br> $163,340,722 |
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'''''The Happening''''' is a [[2008 in film|2008]] [[United States|American]] [[Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction|apocalyptic]] film written, co-produced and directed by [[M. Night Shyamalan]]. It stars [[Mark Wahlberg]] and [[Zooey Deschanel]]. Production began in [[August 2007]] in [[Philadelphia]]. |
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* [[User talk:Deco/Archive 2007 2 21|2003 – 2007/2/21]] |
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==Plot== |
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At the very beginning of the movie, we see a clear sky turn into a dark and overcast sky. |
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== You archived! \o/ == |
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In the [[Northeastern United States]], people inexplicably begin committing suicide en masse. First they become disoriented, then stop moving, and finally find the quickest way to kill themselves. The [[pandemic]] begins in parks, and quickly spreads to nearby population centers. Initially believed to be a [[Bioterrorism|bioterrorist]] attack, it later seems less likely, as the events increase in ever smaller population centers. |
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First post on a fresh page! Thank you for going against your principles for the good of those on slow connections/computers ''':-P''' And thanks for the image, it's lovely... [[:Image:Ballet dancer heart.svg|you inspired me to make my own!]] — <font face="papyrus">[[User:E@L|<font color=darkred><font color="darkgoldenrod">E</font>ditor <font color=black>at</font> <font color=darkgoldenrod>L</font>arge</font>]][[User talk:E@L|<sup><font color=darkgoldenrod>(<font color=black>speak</font>)</font>]]</font> 18:50, 22 February 2007 (UTC) |
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Elliot Moore ([[Mark Wahlberg]]) is a [[high school]] science teacher in [[Philadelphia]] discussing with his students the [[Colony Collapse Disorder|sudden disappearance of the honey bee]]. When news of the sudden mass [[suicide]]s spreads, school is cancelled, and he decides to leave the city by train with his wife, Alma Moore ([[Zooey Deschanel]]), his friend and fellow teacher, Julian ([[John Leguizamo]]) and Julian's eight-year-old daughter, Jess ([[Ashlyn Sanchez]]). The train services stop in the small town of [[Filbert]] in western [[Pennsylvania]], after the crew loses contact with "everyone." Julian finds out that the "attacks" have affected [[Princeton, New Jersey]], where his wife was located, and leaves Jess with Elliot while he [[hitchhiking|hitches]] a ride in an attempt to find her. Soon after arriving in Princeton, he and his fellow passengers fall victim to the strange calamity, and promptly commit suicide by crashing their vehicle into a tree. |
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:Ooo, your image is even prettier. :-) Regarding archiving, I figured a more effective way of protesting wikithreads that wouldn't penalise innocent dial-up users would be to post [[User:Deco/Why_wikithreads_are_bad|an essay on the topic]] and see how I can get involved with efforts to improve them. Thanks for writing. :-) [[User:Deco|Deco]] 19:23, 22 February 2007 (UTC) |
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== Explaining the obvious == |
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Meanwhile, Elliot, Alma, and Jess manage to [[hitchhike]] with a [[botanist]] and his wife; the man explains his theory that plants are attacking people as a [[Plant defense against herbivory#Chemical defenses|defense mechanism]]. He elaborates on the complex mechanisms that often seem to appear spontaneously, involving strategies such as attracting predators to kill off specific threats and fostering communication between different species of plants. As they drive, they find themselves surrounded on all sides by affected towns. A number of other cars arrive in the same crossroads, all fleeing places hit by the suicide pandemic. A [[United States Army|U.S. Army]] Soldier, [[Private_First_Class#United_States|Private First Class]] Auster, suggests moving away from the population centers on foot to avoid being affected, as the effect has been occurring in smaller and smaller populations. |
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I like your edit on the [[Condom]] page. It's good to make things clear. Especially on this sort of topic, where some people who aren't sure may be embarassed to ask. --[[User:Coppertwig|Coppertwig]] 17:35, 25 February 2007 (UTC) |
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The group of survivors splits into two, with Elliot, Alma, and Jess in a smaller group. Auster's group, arguing amongst themselves are caught within the effect, and Elliot, hearing the other group kill themselves one after another with a single pistol, concludes that it is likely caused by an airborne [[neurotoxin]] exuded by the surrounding plants. The larger the group of people, the more likely it is to trigger the defense mechanism. Elliot makes the group split into three smaller ones with Elliot, Alma, Jess, and two teenage boys staying together. |
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== Welcome to [[User:AmiDaniel/VandalProof|VandalProof!]] == |
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While looking for food for Jess, Elliot's group come across a boarded up house with survivors inside, still believing the pandemic to be a terrorist attack. They are unwilling to open the doors, and when the two teenage boys begin to aggressively force an entry, they are shot dead and Elliot's group is forced to leave. They make their way to the house of a woman living in complete isolation; thus, she is ignorant of the pandemic. Though she allows them to stay, she proves to be a harsh and paranoid host. In the morning, Elliot finds himself alone; going downstairs, he hears the voices of Alma and Jess but cannot find them. He inadvertently enters the old woman's room and she angrily insists that they leave immediately. |
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Thank you for your interest in VandalProof, Deco! You have now been added to the list of authorized users, so if you haven't already, simply [[User:AmiDaniel/VandalProof|download and install VandalProof from our main page]]. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me or any other [[User:AmiDaniel/VandalProof#Moderators|moderator]], or you can post a message on [[User:AmiDaniel/VP/Discuss|the discussion page]]. [[User:Betacommand|Betacommand]] <sup>([[User talk:Betacommand|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Betacommand|contribs]] • [[User:BetacommandBot|Bot]])</sup> 02:58, 26 February 2007 (UTC) |
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:Thank you! [[User:Deco|Deco]] 03:00, 26 February 2007 (UTC) |
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The woman storms out of the house into the garden, where she becomes affected, and kills herself by smashing her head through the windows of the house, exposing Elliot to the neurotoxin. Realizing that the defense mechanism has become even more sensitive, affecting individuals, Elliot shuts himself inside the house. Elliot finds himself in a room where he can hear Alma and Jess. He finds a [[speaking tube]], which leads to a [[spring house]] some distance from the house. Conversing with his wife, he decides that if he is to die, he would prefer to spend his remaining time with her. They leave the safety of their buildings, meeting in the yard between the two, but are surprised to find themselves unaffected by the neurotoxin. The effect seems to have abated as quickly as it began. |
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I fixed the approval bug from last night. [[User:Betacommand|Betacommand]] <sup>([[User talk:Betacommand|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Betacommand|contribs]] • [[User:BetacommandBot|Bot]])</sup> 15:53, 26 February 2007 (UTC) |
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== Check it out == |
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Three months later, Elliot and Alma have adjusted to a new life with Jess as their adopted daughter. On television, an environmentalist warns that the pandemic may only have been a warning, like a rash that precedes an infection. Elliot takes Jess to the bus stop for the first day of school while Alma stays at home, timing a home pregnancy test; it is positive. When he returns, Alma greets him with a smile, and they embrace. |
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Check out [http://www.codecodex.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page codecodex]. --[[User:Ideogram|Ideogram]] 11:33, 28 February 2007 (UTC) |
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In [[France]], the effect appears to happen once again as everyone in sight suddenly stops moving as the wind suddenly moves the trees, and the sky turns dark and cloudy. |
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:Thanks for the link. I think a lot of these are going to pop up. I need to come up with a plan to avoid fragmentation of effort. Hmm. [[User:Deco|Deco]] 04:13, 1 March 2007 (UTC) |
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==Survey Invitation== |
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==Cast== |
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Hi there, I am a research student from the [[National University of Singapore]] and I wish to invite you to do an online survey about Wikipedia. To compensate you for your time, I am offering a reward of USD$10, either to you or as a donation to the Wikimedia Foundation. For more information, please go to the [http://www-appn.comp.nus.edu.sg/~seahruho/ research home page]. Thank you. --[[User:WikiInquirer|WikiInquirer]] 01:27, 4 March 2007 (UTC)<sup>[[User talk:WikiInquirer|talk to me]]</sup> |
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*'''[[Mark Wahlberg]]''' as '''Elliot Moore''', a high school science teacher from Philadelphia, who is married to Alma. |
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*'''[[Zooey Deschanel]]''' as '''Alma Moore''', Elliot's estranged wife. |
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*'''[[John Leguizamo]]''' as '''Julian''', a high school math teacher and Elliot's friend. |
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*'''[[Ashlyn Sanchez]]''' as '''Jess''', Julian's daughter. |
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*'''[[Spencer Breslin]]''' as '''Josh''', a teenage boy who with his friend Jared temporarily travels with Elliot, Alma, and Jess. |
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*'''[[Betty Buckley]]''' as '''Mrs. Jones''', a woman who lives in an isolated home in rural Pennsylvania. |
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*Jeremy Strong as '''Private Auster''', a private in the US Army who fled from his station after finding all of the soldiers having killed themselves in the barbwire. |
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*'''[[M. Night Shyamalan]]''' is credited as "Joey", the man with whom Alma secretly meets, although [[unseen character|the character does not appear on-screen]] |
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==P and NP== |
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OK, I see now that I read your edit summary too fast. The statement should still not be there, at least not in that form. ("Trivially easy to crack"? Who found that out?) Even if the wording were repaired, it's unencyclopedic chatter and speculation; doesn't really belong in an encyclopedia article. --[[User:Trovatore|Trovatore]] 02:55, 10 March 2007 (UTC) |
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In [[January 2007]] Shyamalan submitted a [[spec script]] entitled ''The Green Effect'' to various studios, but none expressed enough interest to purchase the script. The director collected ideas and notes from meetings, returning home to Philadelphia to rewrite the script, and [[20th Century Fox]] greenlit the project.<ref>{{cite news | author=Michael Fleming | url=http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117958169.html?categoryid=13&cs=1 | title=Shyamalan re-working 'Green' | work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] | publisher=[[Reed Business Information]] date=2007-01-28 | accessdate=2007-03-22}}</ref> Now titled ''The Happening'', the film was produced by Shyamalan and [[Barry Mendel]] and was the director's first R-rated project.<ref name="lands">{{cite news | author=Michael Fleming | url=http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117960659.html?categoryid=13&cs=1 | title=Fox lands Shyamalan movie | work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] | publisher=[[Reed Business Information]] | date=2007-03-06 | accessdate=2007-03-22}}</ref> Shyamalan compared the film to ''[[The Birds (film)|The Birds]]'' (1963) and ''[[Invasion of the Body Snatchers]]'' (1956).<ref>{{cite news | title=Shyamalan to find form with new apocalyptic thriller | work=[[Turkish Daily News]] | publisher=Doğan Media Group | date=[[2007-03-20]] }}</ref> |
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:Although it might seem odd to put so much attention on a problem not known to be complete, the connection between P=NP and factoring and RSA cryptography is quite frequently mentioned in publications on it, including [http://www.math.ohio-state.edu/~friedman/pdf/P=NP10290512pt.pdf these lecture notes] and [http://www.claymath.org/millennium/P_vs_NP/pvsnp.pdf Stephen Cook's official description of the Millenium Prize problem]. I think it deserves some kind of mention - why not just quote Stephen Cook? No greater authority than that. [[User:Deco|Deco]] 06:33, 10 March 2007 (UTC) |
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== Hi Deco, == |
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Later in March, Wahlberg, with whom Shyamalan had been negotiating at the same time as his deal with Fox, was cast into the lead role of the $57 million project. Shyamalan had previously cast Wahlberg's brother [[Donnie Wahlberg|Donnie]] in ''[[The Sixth Sense]]''. An India-based company, UTV, co-financed 50 percent of the film's budget and distribute the film in India, with Fox distributing in the rest of the territories. Production began in August in Philadelphia.<ref name="wahlberg">{{cite news | url=http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117962103.html?categoryid=13&cs=1 | author=Michael Fleming | title=Wahlberg to star in 'Happening' | work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] | publisher=[[Reed Business Information]] | date=2007-03-29 | accessdate=2007-03-29}}</ref> The release date for ''The Happening'' was on [[June 13]], [[2008]], intentionally set for [[Friday the 13th]] to suit the thriller.<ref name="wahlberg" /> |
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I've recent had some time to devote to convert some old programs I previously wrote as standalone programs for personal computers to run as distributed programs suitable for utilization by multiple computers via the Internet. |
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== Critical reaction == |
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''The Happening'' has received mostly negative reviews from film critics.<ref name="meta"/> [[Rotten Tomatoes]] reported that 18% of critics gave the film positive reviews, based upon 163 reviews.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/10007985-happening/ | title=The Happening Movie Reviews | work=[[Rotten Tomatoes]] | publisher=IGN Entertainment, Inc | accessdate=2008-06-22 }}</ref> At [[Metacritic]], which assigns a [[normalization|normalized]] rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the film has received generally negative reviews of 34/100, based on 38 reviews.<ref name="meta">{{cite web | url=http://www.metacritic.com/film/titles/happening | title=Happening, The (2008): Reviews | work=[[Metacritic]] | publisher=CNET Networks, Inc | accessdate=2008-10-07 }}</ref> |
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To get started I posted a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007_March_3#Multiple_state_logic question on the science desk] requesting collaborative assistance to develop a distributed data packet protocol with the result of receiving an excellent response from a user and consequently adapting his modified suggestion as the core payload of the distributed program data packet protocol. |
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Kirk Honeycutt of ''[[The Hollywood Reporter]]'' said the film lacked "cinematic intrigue and nail-biting tension" and that "the central menace ... does not pan out as any kind of Friday night entertainment."<ref name=HR-review>Kirk Honeycutt, "[http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/film/reviews/article_display.jsp?JSESSIONID=2YnCLTzhP5DvnnDjzvQ5zN7fW9tCBlvSJZpHYl0B60T4pQvTdBTY!-314364425&&rid=11241 Film Review: The Happening]", ''[[The Hollywood Reporter]]'', June 10, 2008, Accessed Jun 13, 2008.</ref> ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'' 's Justin Chang thought the story "... covers territory already over-tilled by countless disaster epics and zombie movies, offering little in the way of suspense, visceral kicks or narrative vitality to warrant the retread."<ref>{{cite web |
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|url= http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117937379.html?categoryid=31&cs=1 |
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|title= The Happening |
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|accessdate= 2008-06-14}}</ref> Mick LaSelle at ''[[San Francisco Chronicle]]'' felt the film was entertaining but not scary. He commented on Shyamalan's writing, saying "... instead of letting his idea breathe and develop and see where it might go, he jumps all over it and prematurely shapes it into a story."<ref>{{cite web |
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|url= http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/06/12/DDS5117GQK.DTL&type=movies |
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|title= Movie review: Urban flight in 'The Happening' |
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|author= Mick LaSelle |
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|publisher= San Francisco Chronicle |
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|date= 2008-06-13 |
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|accessdate= 2008-06-14}}</ref> ''[[Time (magazine)|Time's]]'' Richard Corliss saw the film as "dispiriting indication that writer-director M. Night Shyamalan has lost the touch" <ref>{{cite web |
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|url= http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1813911,00.html |
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|title= Shyamalan's Lost Sense |
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|author= Richard Corliss |
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|date= 2008-06-12 |
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|accessdate= 2008-06-14}}</ref> ''[[Chicago Tribune]]'''s Michael Phillips thought the film had workable premise, but found the characters "gasbags or forgetful".<ref>{{cite web |
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|url= http://chicago.metromix.com/movies/movie_review/movie-review-the-happening/454271/content |
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|title= Movie review: 'The Happening' |
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|accessdate= 2008-06-14}}</ref> Joe Morgenstern of ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]'' said the film was "woeful clunker of a paranoid thriller" and described it as "befuddling infelicities, insistent banalities, shambling pace and pervasive ineptitude". <ref> {{cite web |
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Packet protocol, however, is dynamic at this stage while the program is being converted and even though I can continue seeking program conversion collaboration by posting questions on the science/computing desks I was wondering if you might be interested in helping to fast track the conversion from standalone to distributed in light of the time it would most likely take to explain the algorithm to non or elementary programmers. |
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[[Roger Ebert]], of ''[[Chicago Sun-Times]]'' awarding the movie 3 out of 4 stars, found it oddly touching and commented that "It is no doubt too thoughtful for the summer action season, but I appreciate the quietly realistic way Shyamalan finds to tell a story about the possible death of man."<ref>{{cite web |
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|url= http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080612/REVIEWS/545929629 |
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|title= The Happening |
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|accessdate= 2008-06-14}}</ref> ''[[The New York Times]]'''s Manohla Dargis praised [[Mark Wahlberg]]'s lead performance and said " [the film] turns out to be a divertingly goofy thriller with an animistic bent, moments of shivery and twitchy suspense".<ref>{{cite web |
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|url= http://movies.nytimes.com/2008/06/13/movies/13happ.html?8dpc |
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|title= Something Lethal Lurks in the Rustling Trees |
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|accessdate= 2008-06-14}}</ref> Philipa Hawker of ''[[The Age]]'' gave it 3.5 out of 5 stars, commenting on "the mood of the film: a tantalising, sometimes frustrating parable about the menaces that human beings might face from unexpected quarters" and highlighted "sinister recurring moments is the sound of the breeze and the sight of it ruffling the trees or blowing across the grass - an image of tension that calls to mind [[Michelangelo Antonioni|Antonioni]]'s ''[[Blowup]]''."<ref>[http://www.theage.com.au/news/film-reviews/the-happening/2008/06/12/1212863797111.html Philippa Hawker, The Age]</ref> |
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If you would be interested please let me know. [[User:Leasing Agent|Diligent]] 15:51, 10 March 2007 (UTC) |
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==Box office performance== |
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:My experience in distributed processing, and particularly massively distributed processing, is quite limited. I'm afraid I couldn't be of assistance, and would have trouble finding the time if I could be. [[User:Deco|Deco]] 20:09, 10 March 2007 (UTC) |
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On its opening day, ''The Happening'' grossed $13 million. Over the weekend, the total gross came in at $30,517,109 in 2,986 theaters in the United States and Canada, averaging to about $10,220 per venue, and ranking #3 at the box office, behind [[The Incredible Hulk (film)|The Incredible Hulk]] and [[Kung Fu Panda]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=weekend&id=happening.htm |title=The Happening (2008) - Weekend Box Office Results |accessdate=2008-06-16 |publisher=[[Box Office Mojo]]}}</ref> Foreign box office gross for opening weekend was an estimated $32.1 million.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.comics2film.com/index.php?a=story&b=33859 |title='Happening' hammers 'Hulk overseas |accessdate=2008-06-16 |publisher=[[Comics2Film]]}}</ref> Total gross for that weekend was $62.7 million. |
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The total lifetime gross of the film as of [[17th September]] [[2008]] stands at $163.3 million. |
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::The project itself seems right up your alley having an interest in P and NP (above) and all that. If you change your mind please let me know. Thanks. [[User:Leasing Agent|Diligent]] 01:36, 11 March 2007 (UTC) |
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==Foreign releases== |
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In [[France]] and the [[French language|French]]-speaking part of [[Belgium]], it was released under the name ''Phénomènes'' ([[Phenomena]]) on [[June 11]], [[2008]] while in the province of Quebec in Canada, it is titled ''L'évènement'' (The Event). In Spain, the film is known as ''El Incidente'' (The Incident). In most Latin-American countries, it is known as ''El Fin de los Tiempos'' (The End of Times). In Italy, it is known as ''E venne il giorno'' (And Then Came The Day), in Hungary the title is ''Az esemény'' (The Event). In Bulgaria the title is ''Явлението'' (The Event). In Turkey it is ''Mistik Olay'' (The Mystic Event). In Russia the film got the title ''Явление'' (The Phenomenon). In Germany and Sweden the original title was kept. |
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The film was released on DVD and [[Blu-ray Disc]] on October 7th, 2008. |
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Hello, Deco, just decided to leave a message on your talk page.. I must say, looking at your User Page, you appear to be an expert on programming and code :P .. I'm not too good at it, even a bit of wiki-code I cannot understand :P .. Anyway, in our chat in IRC, you said you were a member of many wikipedia languages, so (this is JUST an idea, friendly advice), perhaps you should add like <nowiki>[[es:User:Illyria05]]</nowiki> to the bottom, so people who wander around (like me) on different wikipedias can see what wikipedias you are associated to.. Again, just some friendly advice... :) Leave me a message on my talk page if you want.. <small>[[User:Illyria05|Illyria05]] ([[User talk:Illyria05|Talk]] <small>•</small> [[Special:Contributions/Illyria05|Contributions]])</small> 07:34, 11 March 2007 (UTC) |
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:Hi Illyria05, thanks for writing! Feel free to ask me for help with admin stuff any time. Hmm, interwiki links, that sounds like a great idea. Take care! [[User:Deco|Deco]] 07:45, 11 March 2007 (UTC) |
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*[http://web.archive.org/web/20070808001852/http://www.latinoreview.com/scriptreview.php?id=49 Script Review of ''The Green Effect'', 01/07/07 draft] by LatinoReview.com |
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== User:Dcoetzee on HE WP == |
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Hello, please do not operate bots on HE WP without checking first and obtaining a bot flag. Your bot was blocked and all its edits were reverted, becaude it deleted section names and introduced other errors. [[User:Odedee|Odedee]] 05:56, 21 March 2007 (UTC) |
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:I'm sorry, I didn't realise the bot was causing problems or that HE requires obtaining a bot flag. Please unblock my username and I won't run automatic processes on HE in the future. [[User:Dcoetzee|Dcoetzee]] 06:34, 21 March 2007 (UTC) |
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::I'll lift the block in a minute. Please review the bot diffs and see the damages it created. [[User:Odedee|Odedee]] 06:38, 21 March 2007 (UTC) |
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Could you remove them? I made sure that the image stay PD precisely so there was no need to credit so all the things like [[Wikipedia:Fromowner]] stayed clean and focused on function.[[User:Geni|Geni]] 02:19, 25 March 2007 (UTC) |
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:I think it's important for people who want to find more information about the image - it seems reasonable to suppose that at least some people clicking on the image do so with the intention of finding out more about it, rather than about uploading. I can deemphasise it with small tags. [[User:Dcoetzee|Dcoetzee]] 02:27, 25 March 2007 (UTC) |
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::then they can try visting the talk page. The vast majority will not be and those that will will likely consider the talk page (and [[:Image:Male no free image yet.png]] isn't original and is on en rather than commons).[[User:Geni|Geni]] 02:31, 25 March 2007 (UTC) |
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:::I think the proportion of people interested in the image itself is larger than you think. I for one didn't even think of looking at the talk page. And the information I added to the image page is hidden by the redirect and only visible in the wikitext. I don't see any easy way for anyone to find this info right now if that link is missing. [[User:Dcoetzee|Dcoetzee]] 02:36, 25 March 2007 (UTC) |
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::::The talk page contains a link to [[Wikipedia:Fromowner documentation]] which covers pretty much everthing.[[User:Geni|Geni]] 02:39, 25 March 2007 (UTC) |
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:::::It's good that there's a page for that, and that it's linked from somewhere, but I honestly don't think people looking for that info will look there. It's not the logical place to look. I didn't look there. I don't think a single link excessively complicates or clutters the interface. If you want to further minimize its visual impact in some way I have no problem with that. [[User:Dcoetzee|Dcoetzee]] 02:43, 25 March 2007 (UTC) |
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== Fire safety and daylight saving time == |
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The change log for your [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Daylight_saving_time&diff=117862497&oldid=117781746 recent edit] to [[Daylight saving time]] says "any biannual activity could be used as a reminder". While that's true, it's also true that [http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml07/07124.html fire safety officials do use daylight-saving changes to remind citizens]. Officials do not use any other semiannual or annual event as far as I know. Residential fires cause about 3,000 deaths per year in the U.S., so a brief mention in the intro of this common use of DST does not seem out of place. |
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If the previous wording didn't seem quite right, how about adding the following to the intro instead, as a new first sentence in the last paragraph? "Fire safety officials suggest using DST's clock shifts as reminders to replace batteries in smoke detectors and review fire escape plans. However,…" [[User:Eubulides|Eubulides]] 05:17, 26 March 2007 (UTC) |
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:I think this placement makes it sound like it's describing an advantage or disadvantage of Daylight Saving Time, which it really isn't, it's more just related to it. I'd prefer a sentence at the end of the intro, if anything. [[User:Dcoetzee|Dcoetzee]] 09:17, 27 March 2007 (UTC) |
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== Wavy Lines? == |
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There are questions about the wavy lines in the graph you drew for the [[Optimal substructure]] and [[Dynamic programming]] articles. It would be great if you could stop by and answer them. -- [[User:Mikeblas|Mikeblas]] 09:46, 31 March 2007 (UTC) |
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== I've "reactivated" you == |
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Hi Deco, [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Mathematics/Participants&diff=119373914&oldid=119345361 I've "reactivated" you]. Were you ever gone? [[User:Paul August|Paul August]] [[User_talk:Paul August|☎]] 23:59, 31 March 2007 (UTC) |
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:Nope, not sure why I was removed. [[User:Dcoetzee|Dcoetzee]] 01:32, 1 April 2007 (UTC) |
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== [[:Image:Carl Hiaasen.jpg]] == |
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It's been a while ago you uploaded this image, but I just wanted to inform you I put a {{tl|Replaceable fair use}} tag on it. [[User:Garion96|Garion96]] [[User talk:Garion96|(talk)]] 19:19, 4 May 2007 (UTC) |
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:That sounds fine. You could probably say the same of the other photos from the same photographer. Fair use wasn't so strictly enforced in those days. [[User:Dcoetzee|Dcoetzee]] 00:04, 5 May 2007 (UTC) |
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::Ok, I did that. It is too bad really, but perhaps now someone will find a 100 procent free content image. Also, you might want provide a source on [[:Image:DavidAndGoliath.jpg]]. Otherwise [[User:OrphanBot|OrhanBot]] will eventually find it and tag it as having no source. [[User:Garion96|Garion96]] [[User talk:Garion96|(talk)]] 10:14, 5 May 2007 (UTC) |
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== Possibly unfree Image:Pademelon.jpg == |
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== Mathematics CotW == |
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hey Dc, I am writing you to let you know that the Mathematics Collaboration of the week(soon to "of the month") is getting an overhaul of sorts and I would encourage you to participate in whatever way you can, i.e. nominate an article, contribute to an article, or sign up to be part of the project. Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks--[[User:Cronholm144|Cronholm144]] 21:00, 13 May 2007 (UTC) |
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==Hi There== |
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I am a British Lit doctoral student with a masters in classics and 18th century politics/history/society. I've recently got into a few scuffles. One was based on a few people taking offense to my user page (I find the page hillarious, and tried only to quote things that are interesting from the wiki project), and over the creation of another page. I originally created a page to deal with the [[Warhammer 40,000]] universe's cross over/cross promotion campaign between its comic series and its miniature war game. The wiki page is [[List of Warhammer 40,000 graphic novels|here]] and you can look through it. It seems that people disagreed with my original project and wanted to make it a page just discussing comics (even though the individual comics have their pages discussing such. I have continued working on the original project, and it can be found [[User:SanchiTachi/Graphic Novels Current|here]]. If you would like to look it over, tell where it should be expanded, that would be a great help. Its about 60% done now. If the other individuals are unwilling to let my version become the page, then I will probably chop up the critical review sections, put them in their individual comics section, and then have a page titled "cross over (warhammer 40,000)" or something similar. (I prefered the original name "Graphic Novels (Warhammer 40,000)" because it was clean and too the point, but, if you look over there, that would be impossible to attain now. But yeah. If you could look at my user sandbox version, that would be great. [[User:SanchiTachi|SanchiTachi]] 03:41, 27 May 2007 (UTC) |
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== David and Goliath image? == |
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Hello, Dcoetzee. |
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I am searching for the source of an image currently existing in the English Wikipedia, Image:DavidAndGoliath.jpg. A copy of this image used to be in [[Sling (weapon)]], but that copy has now been removed from the Commons due to lack of proper source information. The person who uploaded it to the Commons, tells me he copied your image. Therefore I am now asking you where you found it. It is listed on your user page under the heading "Not created but uploaded by me" and there is no source information on the image page. So did you upload a digitized photo that you found somewhere? Did you scan it from a magazine or a book? Something else? I would really like to find proper information about this photo, and add it to the image page, so that the image does not vanish again. Thanks! — [[User:Swwright|SWWright]]<sup>[[User talk: Swwright|Talk]]</sup> 20:11, 5 June 2007 (UTC) |
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:I just found it on the web somewhere. It was much too long ago to remember where. It really ought to be deleted unless someone can establish its source. [[User:Dcoetzee|Dcoetzee]] 20:30, 5 June 2007 (UTC) |
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::Uh, yeah, well, that's what I'm trying to do... Guess I'd better save a copy of the image, in case it vanishes again while I'm trying to track it down. — [[User:Swwright|SWWright]]<sup>[[User talk: Swwright|Talk]]</sup> 03:39, 6 June 2007 (UTC) |
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== Primorials == |
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saw your comment on this - I have no interest in defending anymore against PrimeHunter but if you have interest, I will post my source/exe hopefully this w/e at my Talk page. You'd have to see the entire discourse - aside from any wiki content, which I have never asked for, my Conjecture works bang-on despite what anyone else says. The pgm is in C++, I code for myself so will try to add some annotation but I do try to be rigorous, in that I wouldn't have submitted the sequence to OEIS until it had proved out. Tried emailing the other fella, he has no interest but email me, visit my wiki page as you see fit. I have a cohort Phil Dempster (invented the BodPod) looking my stuff over, but it is really a self-proving sort of thing - it either works or it doesn't. Thus, I was missing 2 numbers in the sequence, and so was miscategorizing a single prime thru 10^6. Once corrected. all is fine. Of course feel a bit bruised in the only commentary being fairly condescending (sp.), but the proof's in the pudding. Thanks for your time ...--[[User:Billymac00|Billymac00]] 17:57, 9 June 2007 (UTC) |
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:My mistake. I wished to oppose your position, not to support it. [[User:Dcoetzee|Dcoetzee]] 21:12, 9 June 2007 (UTC) |
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:I'll note that I didn't upload the current version. Nevertheless the objection stands. Go ahead and delete it. [[User:Dcoetzee|Dcoetzee]] 08:02, 24 June 2007 (UTC) |
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== [[Deterministic algorithm]] : what's the little story ? == |
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You seem to have written there about cheating at blackjack by guessing the deck. I put a notice there for citation, because no proof is given, but also because I'd would enjoy reading more about this :). Where did you get this from ? --[[User:Zogromalvus|Zogromalvus]] 01:19, 1 July 2007 (UTC) |
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:Hi, I'm afraid your mistaken - I wasn't the one who added this particular fact, although I may have edited it. Sorry! [[User:Dcoetzee|Dcoetzee]] 02:41, 2 July 2007 (UTC) |
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::Ok, I guess from [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Deterministic_algorithm&diff=prev&oldid=10696554 (diff)] that you copied it from somewhere else, or I'm reading bad. Could you tell where you got that from, if it's not too old. The trouble is I feel like this particular information may be erroneous, because I saw on TV, and [http://www.wildjack.com/mit-blackjack-team.php] is about it, that people from MIT trained themselves guessing a casino blackjack deck, by using a well designed method, which involved counting the cards and probability, and needed few people to work. But I don't think this is the same as guessing a deck generated by a computer with a random generator number, and I didn't find anything about that, which is rather curious. --[[User:Zogromalvus|Zogromalvus]] 15:54, 2 July 2007 (UTC) |
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:::Hmm, maybe I did write it. I believe the article is accurate but you misunderstood it - real decks aren't shuffled using well-known pseudorandom number generators, but "virtual" decks on online gambling sites certainly are, and because they use a PRNG they can be anticipated in advance (see for example [http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/s-playing/#h4 this link], which I will add as a citation). [[User:Dcoetzee|Dcoetzee]] 20:32, 2 July 2007 (UTC) |
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::::I did understand well, but I didn't find any facts about that, and I supposed it could be a confusion with what I knew, that would have gotten worse and worse with copy/paste ([[Chinese whispers]]). --[[User:Zogromalvus|Zogromalvus]] 21:38, 2 July 2007 (UTC) |
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:::::I certainly didn't mean any insult - this statement needed a citation and now has one and the article is improved. Thanks for bringing it to my attention. :-) [[User:Dcoetzee|Dcoetzee]] 21:52, 2 July 2007 (UTC) |
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==Dynamic Array== |
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Dear Dcoetzee, thank you for expressing interest in the topic of [[dynamic array]]. I can explain my reasons for the revert. Whether dynamic array is array or not depends on [[point of view]]. I think the best way to contrast fixed sized arrays and dynamic arrays is focus on properties of each data structure. The original overview section started off with some motivational material that demonstrated the reason for dynamic array's existence. Your edit moves that material to a later point in the topic, and jumps into technical discussions before the background is laid out. One final issue deals with the cost of expanding the dynamic array. When n element sized array is expanded to 2n, in principle only n additional memory space need to be allocated, and this is an order n operation. When amortized over the entire range of n additions, the resize operation becomes order 1, which is already described in the 'amortized analysis' section. Best Regards, [[User:MegaHasher|MegaHasher]] 04:35, 1 August 2007 (UTC) |
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:You still don't understand the n<sup>2</sup> thing - that was intended as motivational material. The point is that this is how much it costs to greedily expand the array one element at a time, which motivates resizing it by a larger amount. I wrote the amortized analysis section and already understand it - please don't be pedantic. |
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:I understand your desire to discuss motivation up front, but my goal was to expand on the motivation and make it clearer, not to remove it. I did add too much detail perhaps. I'll try to edit this again, please take another look when I'm done. |
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:I'll ignore the issue of whether it's an array or not as I'm okay with the current wording. [[User:Dcoetzee|Dcoetzee]] 04:42, 1 August 2007 (UTC) |
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:Feel free to delete. [[User:Dcoetzee|Dcoetzee]] 13:20, 11 August 2007 (UTC) |
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==RfC - thought you might be able to help== |
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There's an RfC up on [[Talk:History of Japan#Request for Comment]]. I notice that you were involved in a similar discussion on the [[Japan]] page and that your views might be useful to the conversation. Thanks, [[User:John Smith's|John Smith's]] 18:12, 13 August 2007 (UTC) |
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Thanks. [[User:John Smith's|John Smith's]] 20:15, 13 August 2007 (UTC) |
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== Polynomial-time reductions == |
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Thanks very much for your reply [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:EXPTIME#EXTIME-complete_requires_a_polynomial-time_reduction here]. --[[User:P3d0|P3d0]] 13:21, 14 August 2007 (UTC) |
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:No problem. Thanks for your factchecking and constructive edits. :-) [[User:Dcoetzee|Dcoetzee]] 22:21, 14 August 2007 (UTC) |
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== Please explain Collection classes == |
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hello |
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what is a collection classes and how should i actually code it in my project |
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do you have a sample code |
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:A collection class is a class that stores some collection of values, such as the numbers 1, 2, 5, and 7, or a set of strings. There are various types of collections for different purposes that allow different operations, many of which are listed at [[List of data structures]]. You should generally not code collection classes but use the existing ones supplied by your environment, which should be documented in your language's online documentation. [[User:Dcoetzee|Dcoetzee]] 21:26, 17 August 2007 (UTC) |
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== Answer on my [[User talk:Paolo.dL|user talk page]] == |
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My answer to your comment is on my [[User talk:Paolo.dL|user talk page]]. Please read it. I will archive it soon. Thanks, [[User:Paolo.dL|Paolo.dL]] 21:46, 26 August 2007 (UTC) |
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==Wikimania in Atlanta!== |
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{{User:Mike Halterman/WM2008Atlanta}} [[User:Mike Halterman|Mike H.]] [[User talk:Mike Halterman|I did "That's hot" first!]] 09:36, 31 August 2007 (UTC) |
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:Hi Mike. As you know I no longer live in Atlanta, so I'm not terribly motivated to get it coming there. Sorry. :-) [[User:Dcoetzee|Dcoetzee]] 22:13, 31 August 2007 (UTC) |
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== CSD A7 exclusivity == |
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Hi - since you were the original source for me of the info that the list of A7 article types was intended to be exclusive - after having my clarification reverted from the rules page and a discussion come from it, I've started a poll on the subject on the [[WP:CSD]] discussion page. You might want to come along and chime in. --[[User:Alvestrand|Alvestrand]] 12:45, 1 September 2007 (UTC) |
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:Feel free to delete. [[User:Dcoetzee|Dcoetzee]] 22:21, 9 September 2007 (UTC) |
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==Good catch== |
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...on [[Fightin' Texas Aggie Band]]. Thanks! <span style="background-color: maroon; color: white">[[User:BQZip01|<font color="white">'''— ''BQZip01'' —'''</font>]]</span> <sup>[[User_talk:BQZip01|talk]]</sup> 17:24, 11 September 2007 (UTC) |
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==Talk:Physician== |
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I'm having a little trouble pointing out on this page that physicians are the most likely profession to be a serial killer (5 sources cited in favour of this point, including the [[British Medical Journal]]) - the medics there don't want to accept this bit of info. Could you take a look and comment if you feel so inclined? Thanks:) [[User:Malick78|Malick78]] 08:41, 26 September 2007 (UTC) |
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:Feel free to delete. [[User:Dcoetzee|Dcoetzee]] 23:23, 7 October 2007 (UTC) |
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:Feel free to delete. [[User:Dcoetzee|Dcoetzee]] 04:22, 9 October 2007 (UTC) |
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:Feel free to delete. [[User:Dcoetzee|Dcoetzee]] 18:02, 10 October 2007 (UTC) |
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== Trivia == |
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Hi. I just read your thoughts on trivia and I was wondering if you would be interested in this. |
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Here is a wikiproject proposal for trivia and a fresh look at trivia policy by the admins. Support the wikiproject proposal. Add your name to the list here: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Council/Proposals#Trivia_and_In_popular_culture wiki project proposal for wikitrivia]] |
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Please send this link to other users that you feel would be interested. Thanks [[User:Ozmaweezer|Ozmaweezer]] 19:30, 17 October 2007 (UTC) |
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==Yellow stop sign on [[Commons:OTRS|OTRS]]== |
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Hi |
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I noticed that you got usage permission for [[:Image:Yellow stop sign.jpg]]. Would you be willing to put the permission email on [[Commons:OTRS|OTRS]]? It's just nice to have these things on record. [[User:Samuell|Samuel]] 21:55, 29 October 2007 (UTC) |
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:Okay. I'm not confident that they'll approve it though since no explicit free license statement was made. Maybe I should go back to the source first. [[User:Dcoetzee|Dcoetzee]] 21:58, 29 October 2007 (UTC) |
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== The third time is a charm? == |
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See my reply at [[Wikipedia talk:Avoid self-references#Proposal to change this guideline's title]]. |
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[[User:The Transhumanist|The Transhumanist]] 10:21, 13 November 2007 (UTC) |
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: I've come up with another idea which you might like. [[User:The Transhumanist|The Transhumanist]] ([[User talk:The Transhumanist|talk]]) 17:52, 18 November 2007 (UTC) |
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== Franz Josef Strauß == |
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Might I ask you to take a look at the new discussion going on at [[Talk:Franz Josef Strauß#Requested Move, 2007|Franz Josef Strauß]]? Yes, it ''is'' an ancient topic (the use of '''ß''' on en-wiki), but this is one of the most prominent articles in which this issue is of significance. Given your experience, your input would be very much appreciated. [[User:Unschool|Unschool]] ([[User talk:Unschool|talk]]) 01:39, 21 December 2007 (UTC) |
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== Request for comments: "the" verifier or "a" verifier? == |
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FYI. I have opened an RfC on this question. See [[Talk:P = NP problem#Request for comments: "the" verifier or "a" verifier?]]. You receive this message because you are one of the participants in the earlier discussion. --[[User talk:Lambiam|Lambiam]] 08:53, 22 December 2007 (UTC) |
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==[[Wikipedia:WikiProject League of Copyeditors|League of Copyeditors]] roll call== |
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==Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Pat Benatar-Innamorata.jpg== |
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==[[m:Wikicommunity]]== |
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Here is a proposed off-Wikipedia site for community-building. If you would like to signify interest in the Wikicommunity project, please put your name at [[m:Proposals_for_new_projects#Wikicommunity]].[[User:Sarsaparilla|Sarsaparilla]] ([[User talk:Sarsaparilla|talk]]) 05:13, 4 January 2008 (UTC) |
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==Computational complexity theory== |
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Thanks for that posting on [[Talk:Computational complexity theory]]. I fear that [[User:Scottcraig]] might himself be a troll engaging in baiting, but for now, I'll continue to assume good faith, even if he won't. [[User:Groupthink|Groupthink]] ([[User talk:Groupthink|talk]]) 18:09, 15 January 2008 (UTC) |
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:Feel free to delete. [[User:Dcoetzee|Dcoetzee]] 16:59, 21 January 2008 (UTC) |
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== Reply to your comment about Haruhi Suzumiya entry == |
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Thank you for your comment about my note on the talk page for [[The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (anime)]] entry. I've answered it there. If you're interested in who I am, I wrote the bulk of the text of the current versions of the [[Manga]] and [[History of manga]] articles. [[User:Timothy Perper|Timothy Perper]] ([[User talk:Timothy Perper|talk]]) 23:07, 21 January 2008 (UTC) |
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== Speedy deletion of [[Template:Listen small vertical]] == |
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:Feel free to delete. [[User:Dcoetzee|Dcoetzee]] 23:02, 13 February 2008 (UTC) |
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== Constant factor approximations of Karp's problems == |
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I thought that MAX-CUT could be easily approximated to within a factor of 2 (and also within a factor of 1/0.8... using semi-definite programming). How can a special case not be approximable within any constant factor? Please reply on the [[Talk:Karp's_21_NP-complete_problems|discussion page]]. Thanks, [[User:LachlanA|LachlanA]] ([[User talk:LachlanA|talk]]) 19:07, 21 February 2008 (UTC) |
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==Comment on your primality certificate article== |
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Hi Deco, thanks for writing this up. This is just a quick note suggesting you source "Although not the first primality proof invented" in [[Primality certificate]]. I'd be very interested in seeing anything earlier written about even long proofs of primality. |
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In hindsight one can say that it is so obvious that any failed computation of a deterministic search for a factor can serve as such a proof that it must surely have at least been a folk theorem that there were exponentially long proofs. However I'm not aware of anyone having accorded that approach to proving primality even that status, let alone an actual written claim to that effect. To the best of my knowledge my primality prover was the first documented primality proof system of any kind. The whole concept of primality proofs simply didn't exist prior to my paper (which I first wrote up in 1973 though I had the result in 1972), though it certainly could have if anyone had thought to bring it up. --[[User:Vaughan Pratt|Vaughan Pratt]] ([[User talk:Vaughan Pratt|talk]]) 04:09, 28 March 2008 (UTC) |
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One other minor point: the original paper, which can be seen at http://boole.stanford.edu/pub/SucCert.pdf, gives an upper bound of O(log<sup>3</sup>(''n'')log log ''n'') for the time required to check the proof on a random access machine (with an additional log log log ''n'' factor for a Turing machine), based on Schönhage-Strassen, the best available multiplication algorithm in 1975, considerably less than the O(log<sup>5</sup>(''n'')) in your writeup, which otherwise is spot on. --[[User:Vaughan Pratt|Vaughan Pratt]] ([[User talk:Vaughan Pratt|talk]]) 04:43, 28 March 2008 (UTC) |
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:Thank you for your feedback, it's quite an honour to have my article reviewed by Vaughan Pratt himself! I don't know why I claimed "not the first primality proof invented" - proofs requiring exponential time verification aren't all that useful when you might as well take the prime as the certificate and have the verifier perform trial division. I probably just lacked insight about the historical context of the work and I apologise for the error. You're also right that my analysis was terribly imprecise - my original point was just to show that you didn't need any complex algorithms or analysis to achieve polynomial-time verification, but it's also important to describe the best-known bounds, and Schönhage-Strassen can be treated as a black box. I also expanded on the explanation bounding the size of the tree, since I was handwaving that. Thanks again, I really appreciate your feedback. [[User:Dcoetzee|Dcoetzee]] 20:11, 28 March 2008 (UTC) |
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:While I was at it I added a bit of info on Atkin-Goldwasser-Kilian-Morain certificates. :-) [[User:Dcoetzee|Dcoetzee]] 22:46, 28 March 2008 (UTC) |
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The changes look great, thanks for making them. Concerning the difficulty of factoring ''n''−1, this is indeed a drawback of my approach if one wants a method that can reliably generate a certificate for ''any'' prime, the problem addressed by AGKM. However if the goal is merely a large supply of certified primes then I'm aware of at least two strategies for efficiently producing Pratt certificates and producers of certified primes may well know of more. The naive one is based on the considerable variability of difficulty in factoring large numbers: simply abandon attempted factorizations that go over some time limit, or alternatively run many in parallel and take whatever proofs turn up. The second strategy is to generate a supply of "somewhat" smaller (say a fifth to half as long as the desired final certified prime) certified primes, and in parallel apply the Strassen-Solovay or Rabin probabilistic test to one plus various products of these and whenever a prime is encountered complete the proof (which is now very easy since it involves no factorization). That said, I consider any number that "looks" prime according to a probabilistic test to be as adequately certified for all practical purposes as one "perfectly" certified by these "ideal" methods (but I don't consider myself an expert in applications of certified primes). --[[User:Vaughan Pratt|Vaughan Pratt]] ([[User talk:Vaughan Pratt|talk]]) 00:54, 29 March 2008 (UTC) |
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:Those are actually really interesting ideas - and they seem like they could be applied recursively to construct arbitrarily large primes with proofs. However I wasn't able to find a specific citation for these and it would be original research to add them without one. Could you provide one? Thanks again for your help. [[User:Dcoetzee|Dcoetzee]] 06:15, 31 March 2008 (UTC) |
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The vandal listed the "practical Satan" of the Legend of Zelda series under "Fictional Jews". That kind of BS is not only blatant vandalism, but completely intolerable. I can understand being polite to other editors you may have legitimate editing disagreements with, but this kind of jackass doesn't deserve that benefit of the doubt. |
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:Feel free to delete. [[User:Dcoetzee|Dcoetzee]] 15:29, 17 April 2008 (UTC) |
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== Hi Deco == |
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You probably do not remember me. You wrote a C++ version of a [http://academia.wikia.com/wiki/Rapid_sort sort algorithm] which took me a surprising number of years to develop through the process of trying to minimize the Metzner-Shell sort as I recall. |
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I began thinking in the early sixties of a way for a computer to reach a conclusion about whether God existed or not. The results turned out to be a program which reduces multiple state logical equations to minimum form. Developing the program to the point where it would satisfy proof of concept burned me out and left the program unfinished without a front end. The program can be used without a front end but a front end would make it possible for anyone to create a decision table and form the logical equations but more importantly would hopefully be able to automate construction of the decision table and formulation of equations. |
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I've completed another program which implements an algorithm to optimize a classification table. Since I repaired refrigeration equipment and computers a natural use for the program is to optimize troubleshooting charts. What I want to do is to apply the program to both medicine and law and these applications also require a front end to convert legal verbiage to logical elements and their characteristics and characteristic states. |
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Long story short I was wondering if you might be interested in developing front ends to create decision tables for the logical equation reduction program and classification tables for the optimization program. The front ends need do little more than to ask the user to enter values which define characteristics of the elements, whereas an automated version would have to figure this out for itself. The challenge then is creating an intelligent front end. |
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:Hi, thanks for your note. I'm afraid my obligations don't permit me to get involved in a new project like this right now, but I wish you luck. [[User:Dcoetzee|Dcoetzee]] 20:34, 21 April 2008 (UTC) |
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::Okay, there is no rush in completing this project on my part, since as I said I am truly burned out and my main goal has been long since satisfied which was only proof of concept. However, since you are an administrator I might also mention to you that both programs can be applied to Wikipedia policy for the benefit of both user and administrator alike, especially in the construction and evolution of the rules. The advantage of their use would be to reduce or eliminate misinterpretation of the rules which seems very common now-a-days with so many new administrators using the rules as virtual excuses to accomplish some personal agenda or goal. Also I might add that most, if not all, parts of both programs can take advantage of a parallel machine. Have a nice day. <small> [[Special:Contributions/71.100.13.197|71.100.13.197]] ([[User talk:71.100.13.197|talk]]) 22:12, 21 April 2008 (UTC) </small> |
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:I forgot where I got this one. Feel free to delete. [[User:Dcoetzee|Dcoetzee]] 00:27, 13 May 2008 (UTC) |
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Sorry, wrong "miscellaneous!" (I was aiming for the Reference Desk. Oops.) -- [[User:Mwalcoff|Mwalcoff]] ([[User talk:Mwalcoff|talk]]) 03:44, 16 May 2008 (UTC) |
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:No problem! [[User:Dcoetzee|Dcoetzee]] 06:28, 16 May 2008 (UTC) |
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== Copyedit request == |
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Hello, I am contacting you because you're a member of the League of Copyeditors. Would you be interested in taking a look at [[Highlander: The Series (season 1)]] which is currently a [[Wikipedia:Featured_list_candidates/Highlander:_The_Series_(season_1)|Featured List Candidate]] ? The quality of the prose is the only remaining objection to its promotion and I would really appreciate your help. Have a nice day, [[User:Rosenknospe|Rosenknospe]] ([[User talk:Rosenknospe|talk]]) 12:57, 17 May 2008 (UTC) |
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:No problem. [[User:Dcoetzee|Dcoetzee]] 02:11, 18 May 2008 (UTC) |
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::Thank you so much for doing it, and so quickly ! And I really like your prose, too. You have greatly improved that list. I'm thinking about reintroducing the paragraph about star billing, but I can't think of a way to do it right now, so I'll give it some time. I'm really grateful and if I can return the favor (no copyediting though ;), please let me know. Have a nice day, [[User:Rosenknospe|Rosenknospe]] ([[User talk:Rosenknospe|talk]]) 15:42, 19 May 2008 (UTC) |
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== Looking for Someone to Adopt Me == |
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I'm just so confused! I guess I'm sort of afraid to edit articles. Where are good sources found? I'm interested in chemistry and animals, particularly saving them from harm. Could you adopt me? [[User:Pozilla|Pozilla]] ([[User talk:Pozilla|talk]]) 22:55, 24 May 2008 (UTC) |
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:Sorry for the slow response! Looks like [[User:Cyclonenim]] is taking care of you, but feel free to ask me if you have any questions. [[User:Dcoetzee|Dcoetzee]] 08:49, 27 May 2008 (UTC) |
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== A barnstar == |
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|style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | For helping me in my time of need, and rising magnificently to the occasion in the process, I hereby award you this Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar. [[Highlander: The Series (season 1)]], which you copyedited, is now a Featured List. You can be proud of yourself. Thank you again for your invaluable help. Cheers, [[User:Rosenknospe|Rosenknospe]] ([[User talk:Rosenknospe|talk]]) 07:42, 26 May 2008 (UTC) |
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:Thank you. :-) [[User:Dcoetzee|Dcoetzee]] 11:25, 26 May 2008 (UTC) |
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== Pronunciation task force == |
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Hi! I was meaning to comment when you first put your proposal at [[WP:SPOKEN]], but real-life busy-ness took over. I was going to say: excellent idea, and sounds similar to a mini-project I put together for pronunciations of British place names. It has been moribund since an early flurry of activity; perhaps it could be absorbed into the task force? The link is here: [[Wikipedia:WikiProject UK geography/Embedded Audio Pronunciations]]. All of the pronunciations I have added have been uploaded to Commons in a standard naming format. |
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Anyway, must go now, but I will add my name to the list and take a closer look tonight. As a regular contributor of full spoken articles, I have the facilities and time to provide pronunciation files on just about any topic, so I'm looking forward to being able to help in any way! <font face="Helvetica">[[User:Hassocks5489|<font color="#00BFFF"><b>Hassocks</b></font>]][[User talk:Hassocks5489|<font color="#228B22">5489<small> (tickets please!)</small></font>]]</font> 07:54, 27 May 2008 (UTC) |
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:Hi, and thanks for your interest! I like your idea of absorbing the UK geography project - they're great existing examples and I'm taking the liberty of adding them to [[:Category:Articles including recorded pronunciations (UK English)]]. Feel free to add [[:Category:Requests for audio pronunciation (UK English)]] to other UK place names and people (I'm using this category hierarchy as the task force's "to do" list). Thanks for joining and I'll be happy to hear any other feedback you have. [[User:Dcoetzee|Dcoetzee]] 09:13, 27 May 2008 (UTC) |
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== Spoken pronunciations == |
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Hi. I wanted to ask if you could record a spoken pronunciation of "Newcastle-upon-Tyne" is the way in which it is spoken by Novocastrians (and a good proportion of people elsewhere) i.e. newCASSul. There is a "southern English" pronunciation (NEW-caah-sul) in the article at present, but it would be better to replace this with the "correct" pronunciation, or better still, include both with a note that the second is how (some) people with southern English regional accents pronuounce it. [[User:SP-KP|SP-KP]] ([[User talk:SP-KP|talk]]) 18:07, 27 May 2008 (UTC) |
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:Hi SP-KP - although I could do this recording, I am myself an American and I feel it would be best for a British person to record this name (preferably one from the city in question). You might contact [[User:Hassocks5489]] with this request. Another thing you can do is modify the text yourself to note the two pronunciations, then add the article to [[:Category:Requests for audio pronunciation (UK English)]] so that someone will record the other one. Hope this helps! [[User:Dcoetzee|Dcoetzee]] 22:28, 27 May 2008 (UTC) |
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::''(Also copied to SP-KP's talk page)'' I did the "NEW-caah-sul" version in question. I deliberately didn't attempt the local pronunciation because I thought I couldn't really achieve the accuracy and authenticity required (although I consider myself able to make passable or good attempts at most British accents). Unfortunately, since the conversation we had at the time I uploaded the file, nobody has uploaded a local version. Perhaps if I record two or three versions and upload them, SP-KP may be able to help by identifying the best one or providing guidance for me to get it sounding as accurate as possible? I don't mind making several attempts at getting it right; I would rather have both pronunciations featured on the article than just the [[Received Pronunciation|RP]] one we have at the moment. <font face="Helvetica">[[User:Hassocks5489|<font color="#00BFFF"><b>Hassocks</b></font>]][[User talk:Hassocks5489|<font color="#228B22">5489<small> (tickets please!)</small></font>]]</font> 07:57, 28 May 2008 (UTC) |
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It was such a pleasure meeting you and talking to you! Sorry I had to run. Hope we get to talk again soon. Peace, [[user:delldot on a public computer|<font color="#990066">delldot on a public computer</font>]] <small>[[user talk:delldot on a public computer|<font color="DarkRed">talk</font>]]</small> 07:43, 31 May 2008 (UTC) |
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:You as well, Dell. Sorry I didn't get a chance to say goodbye, and I hope we'll speak again soon. :-) [[User:Dcoetzee|Dcoetzee]] 08:26, 31 May 2008 (UTC) |
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== A toughie for pronunciation == |
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Heres a puzzler for you. While I was filling the request for pronouncing "[[Dr. Suess]]", I found there's the Americanized pronunciation we're all familiar with "/ˈsuːs/" (Soose), and the correct German pronunciation "/ˈsɔɪs/" (Soice). I recorded using both "Theodor ''Soose'' Geisel OR Theodor ''Soice'' Geisel. I'm torn on whether or not to use this, or split into 2 using EN and GE distinctions. What do you think? [[User:Reason turns rancid|Reason turns rancid]] ([[User talk:Reason turns rancid|talk]]) 13:03, 8 June 2008 (UTC) |
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:Hi Reason, thanks for your contribution. Since IPA are included for both, I think it's likely that both will be useful, add both to the page, and let the page authors decide which they want to keep. [[User:Dcoetzee|Dcoetzee]] 21:18, 9 June 2008 (UTC) |
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== Seattle meetup 5 == |
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Hi Derrick, the [[Wikipedia_talk:Meetup/Seattle4|next Seattle meetup]] is going to take place sometime soon. It would be great if you can make it. [[User:Bestchai|Bestchai]] ([[User talk:Bestchai|talk]]) 02:36, 10 June 2008 (UTC) |
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== Seattle meetup this thursday (6/19) == |
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Hi Dcoetzee, just a reminder that you've signed up to attend the Seattle meetup this Thursday (6/19). This one's going to take place at 7:30PM at Thaiku -- a restaurant\bar in Ballard. See the [[Wikipedia:Meetup/Seattle5|meetup page]] to add more agenda items, see attendees, etc. Hope to see you there! [[User:Bestchai|Bestchai]] ([[User talk:Bestchai|talk]]) 02:32, 18 June 2008 (UTC) |
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== A copyedit request == |
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Hello, '''Dcoetzee'''. I noticed that you are a part of the Copyeditors League, and I was wondering if you wouldn't mind copyediting the [[Bianca Montgomery and Maggie Stone]] article. I already listed it at the league, but I've noticed that listing requests there actually take a long time before they are granted. I mean, last time I listed this article there, it got no assistance at all. So would you be willing to take this on? I'm not sure how much copyediting it needs. I mean, most of it is decent, but I have some more tweaking to do to it before I nominate it for FA (Featured Article) status, and an awesome copyedit is a part of that. |
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That said, I'll completely understand if you are too busy at the moment to work on this article. [[User:Flyer22|Flyer22]] ([[User talk:Flyer22|talk]]) 00:55, 21 June 2008 (UTC) |
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:Sorry for the delayed response. I would like to help and can look at this tonight if it's not too late. [[User:Dcoetzee|Dcoetzee]] 18:04, 23 June 2008 (UTC) |
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::Ack, I forgot again. Tonight for sure. :-) [[User:Dcoetzee|Dcoetzee]] 02:52, 25 June 2008 (UTC) |
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:::Okay, too late now. :-( But will get this tomorrow. [[User:Dcoetzee|Dcoetzee]] 10:08, 25 June 2008 (UTC) |
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:Copyediting this now. :-) [[User:Dcoetzee|Dcoetzee]] 18:37, 28 June 2008 (UTC) |
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::Thanks. Good copyedits. [[User:Flyer22|Flyer22]] ([[User talk:Flyer22|talk]]) 20:28, 30 June 2008 (UTC) |
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:::Unfortunately it's a rather long article and it would take me some time to get through it all. I only got through the first two sections so far, but I plan to continue. [[User:Dcoetzee|Dcoetzee]] 23:56, 30 June 2008 (UTC) |
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::::LOL. You see it as unfortunate that it's so long; I see it as a good thing. But I know what you mean...so long to copyedit. Don't worry, I'm in no rush to nominate it for FA. |
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::::Also, I'm not sure that the Storyline section really needs copyediting, unless it's tweaking punctuation. What I mean is that I worked in all of the relevant/important information into that section without going overboard. Nothing really needs to be taken out of it, though some parts could still probably be reworded better. |
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::::Oh, and I'm unsure now whether to remove this article from being listed as needing copyediting...since you are now copyediting it. |
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::::Anyway, I'll talk with you later. [[User:Flyer22|Flyer22]] ([[User talk:Flyer22|talk]]) 19:08, 1 July 2008 (UTC) |
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:::::Not unfortunate, it's a nicely detailed article. :-) Just unfortunate that I can't complete it quickly. Leave it on needing copyediting, as others might get to it before me, or refine the sections I already edited further. [[User:Dcoetzee|Dcoetzee]] 23:29, 3 July 2008 (UTC) |
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==[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Computing|WP Computing]]== |
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Greetings. You are receiving this note as you are a member of this WikiProject. Currently there is not much of activity in the project and I am hoping to revive the project with your help. I have made a few changes to the project page [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia%3AWikiProject_Computing&diff=220726288&oldid=220373936 Diff]. You are welcome to make suggestions of improvement / changes in the design. I have also make a proposal to AutoTagg articles with {{tl|WikiProject Computing}} for the descendant wikiprojects articles also. Please express your opinion [[Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Computing#Proposal_to_AutoTagg_articles_with_.7B.7BWikiProject_Computing.7D.7D_for_the_descendant_wikiprojects_articles|here]] -- [[User:Tinucherian|'''<em style="font-family:Kristen ITC;color:#ff0000"> TinuCherian </em>''']] <sup> [[User talk:Tinucherian| (Wanna Talk?) ]] </sup> - 12:46, 23 June 2008 (UTC) |
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== Adopt? == |
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I'm looking for an adopter. Would you like to adopt me? |
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I'm not too new here, but I am looking for someone to answer any questions I have. |
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[[User:hypergeek14|-Keith (Hypergeek14)]][[User talk:Hypergeek14|<sup>Talk</sup>]] 18:50, 2 July 2008 (UTC) |
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:Sorry for the slow response, looks like someone else got to you first. Let me know if you have any questions. [[User:Dcoetzee|Dcoetzee]] 06:13, 24 July 2008 (UTC) |
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== Adoptee == |
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I would definitly love to get into using Wikipedia. Only problem is when it comes to editing a page with weird stuff like javascript and stuff, its like trying to solve pi for me haha. so if you would like to adopt me and show me the ropes, then it would be much appreciated. |
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--Will Willcox 16:01, 18 July 2008 (UTC)Will561 |
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:Sorry for the slow response, looks like someone else got to you first. Let me know if you have any questions. [[User:Dcoetzee|Dcoetzee]] 06:13, 24 July 2008 (UTC) |
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== [[User:Pce3@ij.net]] == |
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Hi Derrick - you were involved in a AfD in 2006 ([[Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rapid sort]]) in which the article was deleted for verifiability issues. Since then, [[User:Pce3@ij.net]] has been infinitely blocked (for reasons unknown to me at the moment), but I have reasons to believe that he has created three more accounts: |
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:*[[User:Adaptron]] |
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:*[[User:Ἀριστοτέλης]] |
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:*[[User:Julie Dancer]] |
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Which he used to create another hoax article [[optimal classification]]. (Pce3@ij.net has a history of such contributions at Wikia [http://academia.wikia.com/wiki/User:Pce3%40ij.net here], including the rapid sort algorithm). I was wondering if you have any insights on this situation, and how it should be handled. Thanks! |
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: And please reply here instead of on my talk page. --[[User:Jiuguang Wang|Jiuguang]] ([[User talk:Jiuguang Wang|talk]]) 04:49, 24 July 2008 (UTC) |
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: Pce3 is a persistent proponent of original research. The most effective way of dealing with him is to direct him to appropriate venues for publishing his results - which for now are likely to be a personal webpage or a blog. Avoid confronting the accuracy of his work, because he's likely to defend that viciously - stick to the no original research policy and suggest alternatives. [[User:Dcoetzee|Dcoetzee]] 06:11, 24 July 2008 (UTC) |
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:: Thanks. I have taken the article to AfD - [[Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Optimal classification]], and would appreciate your comments there. --[[User:Jiuguang Wang|Jiuguang]] ([[User talk:Jiuguang Wang|talk]]) 11:16, 24 July 2008 (UTC) |
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== [[Six Sigma]] == |
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Hi, could you have a look at the [[Talk:Six_Sigma]] page? The article has been stable for a good while, but an editor has been edit-warring recently, wishing to argue his own [[WP:OR]] against what [[WP:RS]] say. Thanks. --<font color="#0000FF">[[User:Jayen466|Jayen]]</font>''<font color=" #FFBF00">[[User_Talk:Jayen466|466]]</font>'' 14:35, 25 July 2008 (UTC) |
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== Context of computational complexity == |
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Nice work on [[Context of computational complexity]]! I don't know if the article will live at that location forever, but it's great to see this kind of information being collected in one place. --[[User:P3d0|P3d0]] ([[User talk:P3d0|talk]]) 04:31, 27 July 2008 (UTC) |
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:Thanks for your praise! :-) It still needs to be properly linked up and catted and possibly moved, but I think it covers an important topic. [[User:Dcoetzee|Dcoetzee]] 18:56, 27 July 2008 (UTC) |
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== My old friend DECO == |
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It kept hitting me that there was something familiar about your user name but I did not have time to take a break until now to check it out and then realized that yes it was in fact you. Sly devil! |
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If you have not yet checked out the discussion which began on user [[User:Jiuguang Wang|Jiuguang]]'s robotics project page [[Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Robotics|here]] and on his talk page [[User_talk:Jiuguang_Wang#Logic |here]] after he posted his robotics project banner on the Optimal classification discussion page, doing so now might help clarify the reason for his nomination for deletion. Honestly, I think that if he were not a backstabber he would have merely added methods to the article which perform the same function. |
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Thanks again for alerting me that the deletion on the discussion page was most likely due to my edits. Thanks. [[User:Julie Dancer|Julie Dancer]] ([[User talk:Julie Dancer|talk]]) 09:46, 28 July 2008 (UTC) |
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:Yes, I changed my username at some point. I'm not aware of the robotics conflict, but I do continue to support deletion of [[optimal classification]] for my own reasons - I believe your arguments will also be more persuasive if you ignore the robotics conflict and focus on the article and the arguments presented by others regarding that article. [[User:Dcoetzee|Dcoetzee]] 00:02, 29 July 2008 (UTC) |
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== Ease up == |
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Dude, your comment on [[Wikipedia talk:Trivia]] obviously shows that you aren't assuming good faith. I know that my petition was deleted for a reason, did I ever say that I think it wasn't. Everyone makes mistakes, an then you let them go. Besides, its my first essay, no wonder I'm gonna make mistakes. Learn how to assume good faith, and then message me back. --[[Image:Peace_symbol.svg|35px]][[User: Alien joe|Oh no! it's Alien joe!]] 22:00, 28 July 2008 (UTC) |
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By the way, is it your job to hound on me at [[Wikipedia talk:Trivia]]? --[[Image:Peace_symbol.svg|35px]][[User: Alien joe|Oh no! it's Alien joe!]] 22:04, 28 July 2008 (UTC) |
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:To the contrary, I didn't ever attack you, only your essay, which I believe to be misleading and unpersuasive. I'm sure you mean well and I'm not upset or frustrated with you. I apologize if I came off as antagonistic. [[User:Dcoetzee|Dcoetzee]] 23:58, 28 July 2008 (UTC) |
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== Thank you for ''[[Context of computational complexity]]'' == |
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I hereby award you a [[Kinkajou]] [[Image:Kinkajou.jpg|50px]] for creating the article ''[[Context of computational complexity]]'' after I asked some questions on this topic on ''[[Talk:Computational complexity theory]]''. Thank you very much! (By the way: don't worry, Kinkajous have a conservation status of ''least concern''). --[[User:Abdull|Abdull]] ([[User talk:Abdull|talk]]) 14:33, 30 July 2008 (UTC) |
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:Thank you! :-) I'd appreciate any help you can offer in linking and summarizing it from necessary places. [[User:Dcoetzee|Dcoetzee]] 17:51, 30 July 2008 (UTC) |
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== Its me again == |
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Hey, I took your advice and fixed my essay up. Sorry if I was hard on you. --[[Image:Peace_symbol.svg|35px]][[User: Alien joe|Oh no! it's Alien joe!]] 20:18, 1 August 2008 (UTC) |
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== [[User:Eastlaw/Not all business articles are spam]] == |
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Dear Mr. Coetzee, thank you for your comments on my essay. I am still in the process of improving it. I have taken your suggestions under advisement, and have modified some of the language in the second and third paragraphs. --[[User:Eastlaw|Eastlaw]] ([[User talk:Eastlaw|talk]]) 04:17, 3 August 2008 (UTC) |
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==Integrated banner for WikiProject Computer science== |
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I have made a proposal for a integrated banner for the project '''[[Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Computer_science#Integrated_banner_with_.7B.7BWikiProject_Computing.7D.7D| here]] ''' . I invite you for your valuable comments in the discussion. You are receiving this note as you are a member of the project. Thanks -- [[User:Tinucherian|'''<em style="font-family:Kristen ITC;color:#ff0000"> Tinu</em>''']] [[User talk:Tinucherian|'''<em style="font-family:Kristen ITC;color:#ff0000">Cherian </em>''']] - 09:52, 3 August 2008 (UTC) |
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== Hi DECO == |
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I was looking at the Check sort and Rapid sort we wrote programs for and could not believe how confusing the description was. Last I remember it made perfectly good sense to me. Would you have any objections to looking at it and seeing if there is anything you would change? I tried to make the text clearer but I do not know if I did. |
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[http://academia.wikia.com/wiki/Check_sort Check sort] |
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BTW - I have moved [[w:wikibooks:Optimal Classification|Optimal classification]] to the Wikibooks project where it has been reformatted to accommodate other methods besides Dr. Rypka's which are capable of performing the optimization function. Do you know of any methods that can be published under Chapter 2? --iggy 19:35, 3 August 2008 (UTC) |
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:Frankly, the descriptions of the check sort/rapid sort never made very much sense to me - if I recall correctly they were variants of [[radix sort]]. It's also not a good idea to move the optimal classification article to Wikibooks, because I don't believe they allow original research either (ref [[w:wikibooks:optimal classification]]. And please don't call me Deco, as that is no longer my username. [[User:Dcoetzee|Dcoetzee]] 17:44, 5 August 2008 (UTC) |
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::Why the [[Chip on shoulder|chip]]? I do not recall doing anything to you which might merit such response. If I have then I am sorry. |
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::As for the Check sort description I never put a lot of effort into the text saved it for the algorithm and the program in hopes that questions would help me to clarify any issues with the description. Looking at the Check sort, however, from a rejectionist's point of view I can see the reason for my plan to fail. Instead of asking questions in line with [[Wikipedia:Assume good faith|AGF]] there was nothing. |
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::The Check sort and Radix sorts are quit different actually and next opportunity I get I will point that out in the description. Briefly the Radix sort, sorts on digit significance of a number rather than using the number as a "serial number" of a truck and a "check mark" or count as the truck's cargo. |
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::The move of the Optimal classification article to the Wikibooks has already occurred and survived Jiuguang Wang's effort over there to have it deleted. He is an atheist and Communist Chinese so I do not want anything to do with him. I have already begun adding page references to the text for the primary reference. From what I remember of you, I would not have expected for you to have believed the article was original research without reading the primary reference or the references it contained. Although I was both skeptical and elated when I came across Dr. Rypka's paper I did not stop with reading it or the references it contained but went on to write a computer program to implement it. I believe you have cheated yourself out of knowing something which I consider essential. |
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::But bottom line on your old user name is that I was only trying to be friendly. If you are unable to loose your [[Chip on shoulder|chip]] then you will not have to worry about my using either your old or your new user name again. <small>—Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[Special:Contributions/71.100.162.249|71.100.162.249]] ([[User talk:71.100.162.249|talk]]) 19:17, 7 August 2008 (UTC)</small><!-- Template:UnsignedIP --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot--> |
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:::I'm aware of what occurred at Wikibooks, and I agree for now with the outcome of the deletion discussion. Your attitude of discrimination is disheartening, and I encourage you to be more tolerant of the religious and political beliefs of others, and of other cultures. I also invite you to continue your studies and hope one day you will derive original work which is published. [[User:Dcoetzee|Dcoetzee]] 22:09, 7 August 2008 (UTC) |
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::::In fact the opposite case is true. I am the one discriminated against for believing in God which user Jiuguang Wang stated was his motive for nominating the article for deletion in the first place since he felt that such belief destroyed, in his humble opinion, my scientific credibility regarding ''anything'' I did. As for your agreeing with the deletion decision, it is obvious that you did not accept the verified source, much less open the primary reference and read it, much less read the references it cites when the article was published here in the Wikipeida. As for accepting other cultures, you know nothing of the different cultures, which make up my daily environment or the interactions I have with Christian Chinese everyday. As for my Check/Rapid/Simple and Instant sort routines, they are both original to the extent of computer sort routines and are published despite most institutions of higher learning refusing to release a degree until ''all'' fees are paid, which exposes their true motive for requiring peer review in the first place, as the basis for acknowledging valid work or accepting it into their sphere of influence. Valid work tends to eventually be accepted by them anyway, although not until the originator is dead so that he can be rightfully punished for not accomplishing his work within the academic system to generate revenue or some other reward for the system. My only crime has been to inform the World academic system of formal education that I have no desire to pay its fees or to do a dance that will. Ironically, my publication in the Wikia gives that benefit to commercial interest in the form of advertising revenue of which I receive no portion. |
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== [[Amazon Kindle]] == |
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I'm not sure I agree with this edit [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Amazon_Kindle&curid=14312829&diff=230045301&oldid=229882894], calling it a ''computer appliance''. While it is an embedded system, IMO, computer appliances are in a different realm (think [[Chumby]]). [[User:Yngvarr|Yngvarr]] [[User talk:Yngvarr|(t)]] [[Special:Contributions/Yngvarr|(c)]] 19:46, 5 August 2008 (UTC) |
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:I didn't add that - and don't particularly agree with it. I was just retaining existing text. [[User:Dcoetzee|Dcoetzee]] 19:52, 5 August 2008 (UTC) |
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::Yes, and I should pay more attention to what I am reading. My apologies. But I am going to change it. I wanted to give you courtesy, but since we both agree that we disagree with it, there you have it! [[User:Yngvarr|Yngvarr]] [[User talk:Yngvarr|(t)]] [[Special:Contributions/Yngvarr|(c)]] 19:54, 5 August 2008 (UTC) |
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== Adopting == |
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I'm looking for an adopter. If you're interested, I could really use some guidance getting started. |
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--[[User:Ships at a Distance|Ships at a Distance]] ([[User talk:Ships at a Distance|talk]]) 16:30, 9 August 2008 (UTC) |
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== Thanks Derrick!! == |
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Hey Derrick! Thanks for the info u gave me. It was a kind of Spanish for me as i cudnt make much of it.... but of course i would like to correct you at one place. As far as i hv known.... prototype of scanf function is to have atleast '''two''' arguments. Do correct me if I am wrong. I wud love to read from you.--[[User:Gloriousgini|Gloriousgini]] ([[User talk:Gloriousgini|talk]]) 07:46, 10 August 2008 (UTC) |
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:Actually the scanf() function can be called with only one argument, as in "scanf("")" - it just isn't very useful since it doesn't do anything. I'm glad my response was helpful, and please let me know if there's anything I can do to make it clearer. [[User:Dcoetzee|Dcoetzee]] 07:52, 10 August 2008 (UTC) |
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::I think i got one more question. Try doing this on 'C'..... Write printf(4); and run the program (without including headers). Now, repeat the same task with different numbers starting from 1 to say 10. you will notice the change. Can u please eplain me why. And u still cudnt make me clear that why the difference occurs when the headers are included?--[[User:Gloriousgini|Gloriousgini]] ([[User talk:Gloriousgini|talk]]) 08:09, 10 August 2008 (UTC) |
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:::Got ur answer. Its true that nobody does this but the thing is that i was asked this by an examinar and above all this makes me curious! Anyways, thanks again.--[[User:Gloriousgini|Gloriousgini]] ([[User talk:Gloriousgini|talk]]) 05:16, 13 August 2008 (UTC) |
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==Image more complicated than I thought :)== |
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Thanks so much for helping out at WP:CP! Much, much, much appreciated! |
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[[:Image:Croatian first team.jpg]] looks a bit more complicated than I thought. The uploader has altered the licensing information since I last looked in. It now has a FUR. Does this seem to cover it, do you think? --[[User:Moonriddengirl|Moonriddengirl]] <sup>[[User talk:Moonriddengirl|(talk)]]</sup> 02:45, 13 August 2008 (UTC) |
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:Glad to help. :-) Re Croatian first team, yeah, I think they were pretty thorough with their FUR, and their argument is credible. The mentioned fact that Wikipedia-only permission was granted is irrelevant but not damning. [[User:Dcoetzee|Dcoetzee]] 02:53, 13 August 2008 (UTC) |
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==Image on commons, how to handle?== |
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The uploader of this image doesn't seem to understand copyright. I've tagged for deletion three images he uploaded there as "own work" which were painted by a man who died in 1963. I don't know if he can adequately address those concerns. He uploaded this historical photograph under the same rationale: [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Paul-Cranfield-Smyth.jpg]. (I know there's some way to "wikilink" to commons. I think. I don't know how.) I don't know if this might be public domain, because I don't know when it was taken. It's a uniform of some kind. WWI? WWII? Not my arena. :) If it's not PD, it's almost certainly fair use. If it's fair use, it needs to be moved to Wikipedia, right? Not sure how to handle this one. Input much welcome. :) --[[User:Moonriddengirl|Moonriddengirl]] <sup>[[User talk:Moonriddengirl|(talk)]]</sup> 12:40, 13 August 2008 (UTC) |
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:Hey. :-) From [http://www.finchleygallery.com/index.htm this webpage], which links to the guy's Wikipedia article, it appears that the same people who run this site, his two granddaughters, also created the article and uploaded the artist's photo and the paintings by him ([http://www.finchleygallery.com/the-artist.htm same photo also on this page]). If you view [http://www.finchleygallery.com/contact-us.htm their copyright terms], they assert that "www.finchleygallery.com holds the copyright for all the photographs of paintings in the collection displayed on this website." If this is true and not just wishful thinking, the paintings may actually be legitimate releases. As for the photograph, the [[Copyright law of the United Kingdom]] specifies that works produce by the British government fall under [[Crown copyright]], and for such works "Photographs taken before 1 June 1957 expire 50 years after creation." Commons has [[:Commons:Template:PD-UKGov]] for this purpose. If it was taken by a civilian, then the relevant template is probably [[:Commons:Template:PD-UK-unknown]], and the photograph must be both taken before and first published before 1938, which is likely the case based on [http://www.finchleygallery.com/the-artist.htm Smyth's history] (he had left the military long before 1938). As for linking Commons, just do it like this: <nowiki>[[:Commons:Image:Paul-Cranfield-Smyth.jpg]]</nowiki>. :-) [[User:Dcoetzee|Dcoetzee]] 01:18, 14 August 2008 (UTC) |
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::I wrote to the webmaster yesterday about those paintings and the need to clarify. He seems to be a webdesigner for hire, and the copyright notice on that website makes me worry that he is unaware that placing those images on Commons means releasing them into public domain. In any event, of course, that copyright notice also means that verification needs to be provided that he has authority to release those images into public domain. I have no idea if Commons has something like [[WP:CP]] that should be used to handle such concerns. :) Commons is a strange and unfamiliar beast to me! Thanks for the information on the photograph. Image copyright is also a somewhat strange and unfamiliar beast to me. :) As far as the photograph, what should be done now? Should the license tag on the photo be changed? Should a suggestion be made at the uploader's talk page that he change the license tag? --[[User:Moonriddengirl|Moonriddengirl]] <sup>[[User talk:Moonriddengirl|(talk)]]</sup> 13:22, 14 August 2008 (UTC) |
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:::Hmm, if the website was a work for hire I seriously doubt that the website master has any legal rights to the works. I'm not sure about the granddaughters - the rights might have been inherited by them somehow. Some of the paintings may already be in the public domain due to age, but it's hard to tell with no specific dates attached to them. Generally copyright questions about images at Commons are raised at [[:Commons:Deletion requests]]. I think the photograph should probably just be retagged with something reasonable, as it's almost surely in the public domain due to age, and you can go ahead and do that. Let me know if I can do anything else to help. :-) [[User:Dcoetzee|Dcoetzee]] 19:45, 14 August 2008 (UTC) |
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== Adopt me please == |
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Hi Dcoetzee, you would be a perfect adopter, as an administrator of WikiCommons and frequent contributor of images - I'm experienced in Illustrator and fireworks and am very interested in SVG-ising the gross amount of raster images on Wikipedia. Please adopt me. |
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Thanks |
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== A7 == |
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I think you misunderstood me [[Wikipedia_talk:Criteria_for_speedy_deletion#A7|here]]. An IP had to point it out to me too! <font face="papyrus">[[User:Ctjf83|'''<font color="#ff0000">C</font><font color="#ff6600">t</font><font color="#ffff00">j</font><font color="#009900">f</font><font color="#0000ff">8</font><font color="#6600cc">3</font>''']][[User Talk:Ctjf83|Talk]]</font> 19:48, 23 August 2008 (UTC) |
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:My mistake. :-) A lot of people took the point of view in the past I was assuming and I jumped to conclusions. [[User:Dcoetzee|Dcoetzee]] 21:57, 23 August 2008 (UTC) |
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:: Nah, I have no problem with high school articles <font face="papyrus">[[User:Ctjf83|'''<font color="#ff0000">C</font><font color="#ff6600">t</font><font color="#ffff00">j</font><font color="#009900">f</font><font color="#0000ff">8</font><font color="#6600cc">3</font>''']][[User Talk:Ctjf83|Talk]]</font> 21:59, 23 August 2008 (UTC) |
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== Need Review Help == |
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I am looking to create a new article for Abaca Technology Corp, an anti-spam provider. I do in fact work with the company. I was told that the best way to get some info is to get adopted or consult with some experienced folks. |
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Would definitely appreciate some help/feedback/comments or some direction. And hopefully get this posted |
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Can you adopt me? |
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[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jbiggs19/abaca Draft on my user page] |
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Thanks in advance |
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[[User:Jbiggs19|Jbiggs19]] ([[User talk:Jbiggs19|talk]]) 16:25, 3 September 2008 (UTC) |
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== The "tally" sort == |
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When someone told me about this and asked me what the difference was between it and my Check sort routine I started digging, found an online copy of the Bentleys publication and realized how easy it would be for any programmer to have seen the web page I published in 1996, commit the routine and code to memory and passed it on to Bentley over the phone. I published it online in 1996 while he did not publish "Programming Pearls" until 1999 (first edition) and 2000 (second edition). The real clue comes, however, from the fact that the name "tally" sort is does not appear in the book. (Incidentally the last name of one of the programmers who worked at the school where I got my degree was, you guessed it, Tally.) |
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So how do you account for the fact that the name "tally" is not in the book and only a description that sounds very computer scientific with pseudo code (use of the term was also a give away) in which Phase 1 uses a loop to clear the array instead of a dim, redim or erase statement? I find it very plausible that a programmer saw [http://mysite.verizon.net/adaptron/rapid.html this page] published online, memorized the method and the code, passed it on to Bentley by phone and Bentley then published it in print either knowing or not knowing it was already published online and copyrighted. A very clever way to circumvent a copyright don't you think? Clever devils. Have to give them credit for something even though they gave me none. Have a nice day. [[Special:Contributions/71.100.3.239|71.100.3.239]] ([[User talk:71.100.3.239|talk]]) 06:17, 13 September 2008 (UTC) |
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:Hi, I appreciate your concern, but the article does not claim that ''Programming Pearls'' invented tally sort, as there is no source to support this claim, just that it popularized it. Your imaginary scenario for how the book discovered the sort is quite unlikely, as it was relating an incident that happened long before its publication, and in any case this sort is a trivial variation on counting sort that has probably been reinvented many times. Please don't take it personally. [[User:Dcoetzee|Dcoetzee]] 23:35, 13 September 2008 (UTC) |
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: Hi Derrick - just as a heads up, 71.100.*.* started inserting random tags in articles related to classification and sorting ([[Cluster analysis]] and [[Counting sort]] so far). Since you are more active on the algorithms side, please keep a close watch. --[[User:Jiuguang Wang|Jiuguang]] ([[User talk:Jiuguang Wang|talk]]) 13:02, 15 September 2008 (UTC) |
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==Image copyright problem with Image:Impact Comics logo.svg== |
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==Adopt me!== |
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I saw you were on the list of "Adopters" - have room for another pupil? |
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[[User:Daviddoria|daviddoria]] ([[User talk:Daviddoria|talk]]) 23:48, 30 September 2008 (UTC) |
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:Hi David - I must apologize that I don't have time to adopt right now and have removed my adopting tag, but I wish you luck in finding someone. [[User:Dcoetzee|Dcoetzee]] 02:04, 4 October 2008 (UTC) |
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== Merge proposal == |
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Please see [[WT:Only_make_links_that_are_relevant_to_the_context#Break 1]] for the current discussion. I'm letting everyone know who has a comment on the relevant talk pages. Obviously, we're not going to push anything through without a full discussion of every issue, including whether to merge at all. My sense is that there's wide agreement on all the big points, but the devil is in the details. - Dan [[User:Dank55|Dank55]] ([[User talk:Dank55|send/receive]]) 19:02, 3 October 2008 (UTC) |
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== [[Digital zoom]] == |
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I reverted your change summarized as "Reword and rearrange a bit", since it added unsourced assertion of a main benefit, and unsourced assertion of the behavior of photographers. It would be OK to add those things if you cite sources that support them. [[User:Dicklyon|Dicklyon]] ([[User talk:Dicklyon|talk]]) 23:42, 5 October 2008 (UTC) |
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:Okay. It was based on personal experience and I have no sources, so I'm just going to forget about it. Apologies for the misleading edit summary, I forgot to account for all my changes. [[User:Dcoetzee|Dcoetzee]] 23:43, 5 October 2008 (UTC) |
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== Trivia sections talk page == |
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You are aware that I saw your comment about me. I watch that page and that I frequently comment on it. I also have feelings, you know. --[[User: Alien joe|Oh no! it's Alien joe!]]([[User talk: Alien joe|Talk]]) 20:17, 6 October 2008 (UTC) |
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:Of course I am. I respect your feelings and your opinions. I just disagree with your methods for going about criticizing the guideline, which I believe are counterproductive. Please don't take it personally. [[User:Dcoetzee|Dcoetzee]] 04:03, 7 October 2008 (UTC) |
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Hi Dcoetzee, my name is Romanoff3. I kindly ask you for assistance. Together with my German Mentor Nolispanmo we have developed Wikipedia contributions about Russian painters - see "Sacharow" or "Repin" on the Wikipedia German pages. We would like to open this information to people speaking an internationally widespread language like English. My German mentor recommended to get in touch with an English speaking mentor. We have translated the German language contribution already. Would you be in a position to help? Kind regards--[[User:Romanoff3|Romanoff3]] ([[User talk:Romanoff3|talk]]) 08:40, 11 October 2008 (UTC) |
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:Sure, no problem. Just go ahead and create articles here based on your translations, and then I can help to clean up the English, add links and categories, and format according to local conventions. [[User:Dcoetzee|Dcoetzee]] 09:29, 11 October 2008 (UTC) |
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You archived! \o/
First post on a fresh page! Thank you for going against your principles for the good of those on slow connections/computers :-P And thanks for the image, it's lovely... you inspired me to make my own! — Editor at Large(speak) 18:50, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
- Ooo, your image is even prettier. :-) Regarding archiving, I figured a more effective way of protesting wikithreads that wouldn't penalise innocent dial-up users would be to post an essay on the topic and see how I can get involved with efforts to improve them. Thanks for writing. :-) Deco 19:23, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
Explaining the obvious
I like your edit on the Condom page. It's good to make things clear. Especially on this sort of topic, where some people who aren't sure may be embarassed to ask. --Coppertwig 17:35, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
Welcome to VandalProof!
Thank you for your interest in VandalProof, Deco! You have now been added to the list of authorized users, so if you haven't already, simply download and install VandalProof from our main page. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me or any other moderator, or you can post a message on the discussion page. Betacommand (talk • contribs • Bot) 02:58, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
- Thank you! Deco 03:00, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
Welcome to VandalProof!
I fixed the approval bug from last night. Betacommand (talk • contribs • Bot) 15:53, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
Check it out
Check out codecodex. --Ideogram 11:33, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
- Thanks for the link. I think a lot of these are going to pop up. I need to come up with a plan to avoid fragmentation of effort. Hmm. Deco 04:13, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
Survey Invitation
Hi there, I am a research student from the National University of Singapore and I wish to invite you to do an online survey about Wikipedia. To compensate you for your time, I am offering a reward of USD$10, either to you or as a donation to the Wikimedia Foundation. For more information, please go to the research home page. Thank you. --WikiInquirer 01:27, 4 March 2007 (UTC)talk to me
P and NP
OK, I see now that I read your edit summary too fast. The statement should still not be there, at least not in that form. ("Trivially easy to crack"? Who found that out?) Even if the wording were repaired, it's unencyclopedic chatter and speculation; doesn't really belong in an encyclopedia article. --Trovatore 02:55, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
- Although it might seem odd to put so much attention on a problem not known to be complete, the connection between P=NP and factoring and RSA cryptography is quite frequently mentioned in publications on it, including these lecture notes and Stephen Cook's official description of the Millenium Prize problem. I think it deserves some kind of mention - why not just quote Stephen Cook? No greater authority than that. Deco 06:33, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
Hi Deco,
I've recent had some time to devote to convert some old programs I previously wrote as standalone programs for personal computers to run as distributed programs suitable for utilization by multiple computers via the Internet.
To get started I posted a question on the science desk requesting collaborative assistance to develop a distributed data packet protocol with the result of receiving an excellent response from a user and consequently adapting his modified suggestion as the core payload of the distributed program data packet protocol.
Packet protocol, however, is dynamic at this stage while the program is being converted and even though I can continue seeking program conversion collaboration by posting questions on the science/computing desks I was wondering if you might be interested in helping to fast track the conversion from standalone to distributed in light of the time it would most likely take to explain the algorithm to non or elementary programmers.
If you would be interested please let me know. Diligent 15:51, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
- My experience in distributed processing, and particularly massively distributed processing, is quite limited. I'm afraid I couldn't be of assistance, and would have trouble finding the time if I could be. Deco 20:09, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
- The project itself seems right up your alley having an interest in P and NP (above) and all that. If you change your mind please let me know. Thanks. Diligent 01:36, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
Hello
Hello, Deco, just decided to leave a message on your talk page.. I must say, looking at your User Page, you appear to be an expert on programming and code :P .. I'm not too good at it, even a bit of wiki-code I cannot understand :P .. Anyway, in our chat in IRC, you said you were a member of many wikipedia languages, so (this is JUST an idea, friendly advice), perhaps you should add like [[es:User:Illyria05]] to the bottom, so people who wander around (like me) on different wikipedias can see what wikipedias you are associated to.. Again, just some friendly advice... :) Leave me a message on my talk page if you want.. Illyria05 (Talk • Contributions) 07:34, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
- Hi Illyria05, thanks for writing! Feel free to ask me for help with admin stuff any time. Hmm, interwiki links, that sounds like a great idea. Take care! Deco 07:45, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
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User:Dcoetzee on HE WP
Hello, please do not operate bots on HE WP without checking first and obtaining a bot flag. Your bot was blocked and all its edits were reverted, becaude it deleted section names and introduced other errors. Odedee 05:56, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
- I'm sorry, I didn't realise the bot was causing problems or that HE requires obtaining a bot flag. Please unblock my username and I won't run automatic processes on HE in the future. Dcoetzee 06:34, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
- I'll lift the block in a minute. Please review the bot diffs and see the damages it created. Odedee 06:38, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
edits to Wikipedia:Fromowner
Could you remove them? I made sure that the image stay PD precisely so there was no need to credit so all the things like Wikipedia:Fromowner stayed clean and focused on function.Geni 02:19, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
- I think it's important for people who want to find more information about the image - it seems reasonable to suppose that at least some people clicking on the image do so with the intention of finding out more about it, rather than about uploading. I can deemphasise it with small tags. Dcoetzee 02:27, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
- then they can try visting the talk page. The vast majority will not be and those that will will likely consider the talk page (and Image:Male no free image yet.png isn't original and is on en rather than commons).Geni 02:31, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
- I think the proportion of people interested in the image itself is larger than you think. I for one didn't even think of looking at the talk page. And the information I added to the image page is hidden by the redirect and only visible in the wikitext. I don't see any easy way for anyone to find this info right now if that link is missing. Dcoetzee 02:36, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
- The talk page contains a link to Wikipedia:Fromowner documentation which covers pretty much everthing.Geni 02:39, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
- It's good that there's a page for that, and that it's linked from somewhere, but I honestly don't think people looking for that info will look there. It's not the logical place to look. I didn't look there. I don't think a single link excessively complicates or clutters the interface. If you want to further minimize its visual impact in some way I have no problem with that. Dcoetzee 02:43, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
- The talk page contains a link to Wikipedia:Fromowner documentation which covers pretty much everthing.Geni 02:39, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
- I think the proportion of people interested in the image itself is larger than you think. I for one didn't even think of looking at the talk page. And the information I added to the image page is hidden by the redirect and only visible in the wikitext. I don't see any easy way for anyone to find this info right now if that link is missing. Dcoetzee 02:36, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
Fire safety and daylight saving time
The change log for your recent edit to Daylight saving time says "any biannual activity could be used as a reminder". While that's true, it's also true that fire safety officials do use daylight-saving changes to remind citizens. Officials do not use any other semiannual or annual event as far as I know. Residential fires cause about 3,000 deaths per year in the U.S., so a brief mention in the intro of this common use of DST does not seem out of place.
If the previous wording didn't seem quite right, how about adding the following to the intro instead, as a new first sentence in the last paragraph? "Fire safety officials suggest using DST's clock shifts as reminders to replace batteries in smoke detectors and review fire escape plans. However,…" Eubulides 05:17, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
- I think this placement makes it sound like it's describing an advantage or disadvantage of Daylight Saving Time, which it really isn't, it's more just related to it. I'd prefer a sentence at the end of the intro, if anything. Dcoetzee 09:17, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
Wavy Lines?
There are questions about the wavy lines in the graph you drew for the Optimal substructure and Dynamic programming articles. It would be great if you could stop by and answer them. -- Mikeblas 09:46, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
I've "reactivated" you
Hi Deco, I've "reactivated" you. Were you ever gone? Paul August ☎ 23:59, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
- Nope, not sure why I was removed. Dcoetzee 01:32, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
It's been a while ago you uploaded this image, but I just wanted to inform you I put a {{Replaceable fair use}} tag on it. Garion96 (talk) 19:19, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
- That sounds fine. You could probably say the same of the other photos from the same photographer. Fair use wasn't so strictly enforced in those days. Dcoetzee 00:04, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
- Ok, I did that. It is too bad really, but perhaps now someone will find a 100 procent free content image. Also, you might want provide a source on Image:DavidAndGoliath.jpg. Otherwise OrhanBot will eventually find it and tag it as having no source. Garion96 (talk) 10:14, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
Possibly unfree Image:Pademelon.jpg
Mathematics CotW
hey Dc, I am writing you to let you know that the Mathematics Collaboration of the week(soon to "of the month") is getting an overhaul of sorts and I would encourage you to participate in whatever way you can, i.e. nominate an article, contribute to an article, or sign up to be part of the project. Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks--Cronholm144 21:00, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
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Hi There
I am a British Lit doctoral student with a masters in classics and 18th century politics/history/society. I've recently got into a few scuffles. One was based on a few people taking offense to my user page (I find the page hillarious, and tried only to quote things that are interesting from the wiki project), and over the creation of another page. I originally created a page to deal with the Warhammer 40,000 universe's cross over/cross promotion campaign between its comic series and its miniature war game. The wiki page is here and you can look through it. It seems that people disagreed with my original project and wanted to make it a page just discussing comics (even though the individual comics have their pages discussing such. I have continued working on the original project, and it can be found here. If you would like to look it over, tell where it should be expanded, that would be a great help. Its about 60% done now. If the other individuals are unwilling to let my version become the page, then I will probably chop up the critical review sections, put them in their individual comics section, and then have a page titled "cross over (warhammer 40,000)" or something similar. (I prefered the original name "Graphic Novels (Warhammer 40,000)" because it was clean and too the point, but, if you look over there, that would be impossible to attain now. But yeah. If you could look at my user sandbox version, that would be great. SanchiTachi 03:41, 27 May 2007 (UTC)
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David and Goliath image?
Hello, Dcoetzee. I am searching for the source of an image currently existing in the English Wikipedia, Image:DavidAndGoliath.jpg. A copy of this image used to be in Sling (weapon), but that copy has now been removed from the Commons due to lack of proper source information. The person who uploaded it to the Commons, tells me he copied your image. Therefore I am now asking you where you found it. It is listed on your user page under the heading "Not created but uploaded by me" and there is no source information on the image page. So did you upload a digitized photo that you found somewhere? Did you scan it from a magazine or a book? Something else? I would really like to find proper information about this photo, and add it to the image page, so that the image does not vanish again. Thanks! — SWWrightTalk 20:11, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
- I just found it on the web somewhere. It was much too long ago to remember where. It really ought to be deleted unless someone can establish its source. Dcoetzee 20:30, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
Primorials
saw your comment on this - I have no interest in defending anymore against PrimeHunter but if you have interest, I will post my source/exe hopefully this w/e at my Talk page. You'd have to see the entire discourse - aside from any wiki content, which I have never asked for, my Conjecture works bang-on despite what anyone else says. The pgm is in C++, I code for myself so will try to add some annotation but I do try to be rigorous, in that I wouldn't have submitted the sequence to OEIS until it had proved out. Tried emailing the other fella, he has no interest but email me, visit my wiki page as you see fit. I have a cohort Phil Dempster (invented the BodPod) looking my stuff over, but it is really a self-proving sort of thing - it either works or it doesn't. Thus, I was missing 2 numbers in the sequence, and so was miscategorizing a single prime thru 10^6. Once corrected. all is fine. Of course feel a bit bruised in the only commentary being fairly condescending (sp.), but the proof's in the pudding. Thanks for your time ...--Billymac00 17:57, 9 June 2007 (UTC)
- My mistake. I wished to oppose your position, not to support it. Dcoetzee 21:12, 9 June 2007 (UTC)
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- I'll note that I didn't upload the current version. Nevertheless the objection stands. Go ahead and delete it. Dcoetzee 08:02, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
Deterministic algorithm : what's the little story ?
Hello
You seem to have written there about cheating at blackjack by guessing the deck. I put a notice there for citation, because no proof is given, but also because I'd would enjoy reading more about this :). Where did you get this from ? --Zogromalvus 01:19, 1 July 2007 (UTC)
- Hi, I'm afraid your mistaken - I wasn't the one who added this particular fact, although I may have edited it. Sorry! Dcoetzee 02:41, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
- Ok, I guess from (diff) that you copied it from somewhere else, or I'm reading bad. Could you tell where you got that from, if it's not too old. The trouble is I feel like this particular information may be erroneous, because I saw on TV, and [1] is about it, that people from MIT trained themselves guessing a casino blackjack deck, by using a well designed method, which involved counting the cards and probability, and needed few people to work. But I don't think this is the same as guessing a deck generated by a computer with a random generator number, and I didn't find anything about that, which is rather curious. --Zogromalvus 15:54, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
- Hmm, maybe I did write it. I believe the article is accurate but you misunderstood it - real decks aren't shuffled using well-known pseudorandom number generators, but "virtual" decks on online gambling sites certainly are, and because they use a PRNG they can be anticipated in advance (see for example this link, which I will add as a citation). Dcoetzee 20:32, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
- I did understand well, but I didn't find any facts about that, and I supposed it could be a confusion with what I knew, that would have gotten worse and worse with copy/paste (Chinese whispers). --Zogromalvus 21:38, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
- I certainly didn't mean any insult - this statement needed a citation and now has one and the article is improved. Thanks for bringing it to my attention. :-) Dcoetzee 21:52, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
- I did understand well, but I didn't find any facts about that, and I supposed it could be a confusion with what I knew, that would have gotten worse and worse with copy/paste (Chinese whispers). --Zogromalvus 21:38, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
- Hmm, maybe I did write it. I believe the article is accurate but you misunderstood it - real decks aren't shuffled using well-known pseudorandom number generators, but "virtual" decks on online gambling sites certainly are, and because they use a PRNG they can be anticipated in advance (see for example this link, which I will add as a citation). Dcoetzee 20:32, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
- Ok, I guess from (diff) that you copied it from somewhere else, or I'm reading bad. Could you tell where you got that from, if it's not too old. The trouble is I feel like this particular information may be erroneous, because I saw on TV, and [1] is about it, that people from MIT trained themselves guessing a casino blackjack deck, by using a well designed method, which involved counting the cards and probability, and needed few people to work. But I don't think this is the same as guessing a deck generated by a computer with a random generator number, and I didn't find anything about that, which is rather curious. --Zogromalvus 15:54, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
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- Feel free to delete. Dcoetzee 22:50, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
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- I did not create the original version, but its copyright is suspect. Feel free to delete. Dcoetzee 22:50, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
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- Feel free to delete. Dcoetzee 07:43, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
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Dynamic Array
Dear Dcoetzee, thank you for expressing interest in the topic of dynamic array. I can explain my reasons for the revert. Whether dynamic array is array or not depends on point of view. I think the best way to contrast fixed sized arrays and dynamic arrays is focus on properties of each data structure. The original overview section started off with some motivational material that demonstrated the reason for dynamic array's existence. Your edit moves that material to a later point in the topic, and jumps into technical discussions before the background is laid out. One final issue deals with the cost of expanding the dynamic array. When n element sized array is expanded to 2n, in principle only n additional memory space need to be allocated, and this is an order n operation. When amortized over the entire range of n additions, the resize operation becomes order 1, which is already described in the 'amortized analysis' section. Best Regards, MegaHasher 04:35, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
- You still don't understand the n2 thing - that was intended as motivational material. The point is that this is how much it costs to greedily expand the array one element at a time, which motivates resizing it by a larger amount. I wrote the amortized analysis section and already understand it - please don't be pedantic.
- I understand your desire to discuss motivation up front, but my goal was to expand on the motivation and make it clearer, not to remove it. I did add too much detail perhaps. I'll try to edit this again, please take another look when I'm done.
- I'll ignore the issue of whether it's an array or not as I'm okay with the current wording. Dcoetzee 04:42, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
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- Feel free to delete. Dcoetzee 13:20, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
RfC - thought you might be able to help
There's an RfC up on Talk:History of Japan#Request for Comment. I notice that you were involved in a similar discussion on the Japan page and that your views might be useful to the conversation. Thanks, John Smith's 18:12, 13 August 2007 (UTC)
Thanks. John Smith's 20:15, 13 August 2007 (UTC)
Polynomial-time reductions
Thanks very much for your reply here. --P3d0 13:21, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
- No problem. Thanks for your factchecking and constructive edits. :-) Dcoetzee 22:21, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
Please explain Collection classes
hello what is a collection classes and how should i actually code it in my project
do you have a sample code
- A collection class is a class that stores some collection of values, such as the numbers 1, 2, 5, and 7, or a set of strings. There are various types of collections for different purposes that allow different operations, many of which are listed at List of data structures. You should generally not code collection classes but use the existing ones supplied by your environment, which should be documented in your language's online documentation. Dcoetzee 21:26, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
Answer on my user talk page
My answer to your comment is on my user talk page. Please read it. I will archive it soon. Thanks, Paolo.dL 21:46, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
Wikimania in Atlanta!
Hi! I noticed your involvement on U.S. South-related articles, categories and WikiProjects, and I wanted to let you know about a bid we're formulating to get next year's Wikimania held in Atlanta! If you would like to help, be sure to sign your name to the "In Atlanta" section of the Southeast team portion of the bid if you're in town, or to the "Outside Atlanta" section if you still want to help but don't live in the city or the suburbs. If you would like to contribute more, please write on my talk page, the talk page of the bid, or join us at the #wikimania-atlanta IRC chat on freenode.org. Have a great day!
P.S. While this is a template for maximum efficiency, I would appreciate a note on my talk page so I know you got the message, and what you think. This is time-sensitive, so your urgent cooperation is appreciated. :) Mike H. I did "That's hot" first! 09:36, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
- Hi Mike. As you know I no longer live in Atlanta, so I'm not terribly motivated to get it coming there. Sorry. :-) Dcoetzee 22:13, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
CSD A7 exclusivity
Hi - since you were the original source for me of the info that the list of A7 article types was intended to be exclusive - after having my clarification reverted from the rules page and a discussion come from it, I've started a poll on the subject on the WP:CSD discussion page. You might want to come along and chime in. --Alvestrand 12:45, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
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Good catch
...on Fightin' Texas Aggie Band. Thanks! — BQZip01 — talk 17:24, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
Talk:Physician
I'm having a little trouble pointing out on this page that physicians are the most likely profession to be a serial killer (5 sources cited in favour of this point, including the British Medical Journal) - the medics there don't want to accept this bit of info. Could you take a look and comment if you feel so inclined? Thanks:) Malick78 08:41, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
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Trivia
Hi. I just read your thoughts on trivia and I was wondering if you would be interested in this.
Here is a wikiproject proposal for trivia and a fresh look at trivia policy by the admins. Support the wikiproject proposal. Add your name to the list here: [wiki project proposal for wikitrivia]
Please send this link to other users that you feel would be interested. Thanks Ozmaweezer 19:30, 17 October 2007 (UTC)
Yellow stop sign on OTRS
Hi
I noticed that you got usage permission for Image:Yellow stop sign.jpg. Would you be willing to put the permission email on OTRS? It's just nice to have these things on record. Samuel 21:55, 29 October 2007 (UTC)
- Okay. I'm not confident that they'll approve it though since no explicit free license statement was made. Maybe I should go back to the source first. Dcoetzee 21:58, 29 October 2007 (UTC)
The third time is a charm?
See my reply at Wikipedia talk:Avoid self-references#Proposal to change this guideline's title.
The Transhumanist 10:21, 13 November 2007 (UTC)
- I've come up with another idea which you might like. The Transhumanist (talk) 17:52, 18 November 2007 (UTC)
Franz Josef Strauß
Might I ask you to take a look at the new discussion going on at Franz Josef Strauß? Yes, it is an ancient topic (the use of ß on en-wiki), but this is one of the most prominent articles in which this issue is of significance. Given your experience, your input would be very much appreciated. Unschool (talk) 01:39, 21 December 2007 (UTC)
Request for comments: "the" verifier or "a" verifier?
FYI. I have opened an RfC on this question. See Talk:P = NP problem#Request for comments: "the" verifier or "a" verifier?. You receive this message because you are one of the participants in the earlier discussion. --Lambiam 08:53, 22 December 2007 (UTC)
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Here is a proposed off-Wikipedia site for community-building. If you would like to signify interest in the Wikicommunity project, please put your name at m:Proposals_for_new_projects#Wikicommunity.Sarsaparilla (talk) 05:13, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
Computational complexity theory
Thanks for that posting on Talk:Computational complexity theory. I fear that User:Scottcraig might himself be a troll engaging in baiting, but for now, I'll continue to assume good faith, even if he won't. Groupthink (talk) 18:09, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
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- Feel free to delete. Dcoetzee 16:59, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
Reply to your comment about Haruhi Suzumiya entry
Thank you for your comment about my note on the talk page for The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (anime) entry. I've answered it there. If you're interested in who I am, I wrote the bulk of the text of the current versions of the Manga and History of manga articles. Timothy Perper (talk) 23:07, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
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Constant factor approximations of Karp's problems
I thought that MAX-CUT could be easily approximated to within a factor of 2 (and also within a factor of 1/0.8... using semi-definite programming). How can a special case not be approximable within any constant factor? Please reply on the discussion page. Thanks, LachlanA (talk) 19:07, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
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Comment on your primality certificate article
Hi Deco, thanks for writing this up. This is just a quick note suggesting you source "Although not the first primality proof invented" in Primality certificate. I'd be very interested in seeing anything earlier written about even long proofs of primality.
In hindsight one can say that it is so obvious that any failed computation of a deterministic search for a factor can serve as such a proof that it must surely have at least been a folk theorem that there were exponentially long proofs. However I'm not aware of anyone having accorded that approach to proving primality even that status, let alone an actual written claim to that effect. To the best of my knowledge my primality prover was the first documented primality proof system of any kind. The whole concept of primality proofs simply didn't exist prior to my paper (which I first wrote up in 1973 though I had the result in 1972), though it certainly could have if anyone had thought to bring it up. --Vaughan Pratt (talk) 04:09, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
One other minor point: the original paper, which can be seen at http://boole.stanford.edu/pub/SucCert.pdf, gives an upper bound of O(log3(n)log log n) for the time required to check the proof on a random access machine (with an additional log log log n factor for a Turing machine), based on Schönhage-Strassen, the best available multiplication algorithm in 1975, considerably less than the O(log5(n)) in your writeup, which otherwise is spot on. --Vaughan Pratt (talk) 04:43, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
- Thank you for your feedback, it's quite an honour to have my article reviewed by Vaughan Pratt himself! I don't know why I claimed "not the first primality proof invented" - proofs requiring exponential time verification aren't all that useful when you might as well take the prime as the certificate and have the verifier perform trial division. I probably just lacked insight about the historical context of the work and I apologise for the error. You're also right that my analysis was terribly imprecise - my original point was just to show that you didn't need any complex algorithms or analysis to achieve polynomial-time verification, but it's also important to describe the best-known bounds, and Schönhage-Strassen can be treated as a black box. I also expanded on the explanation bounding the size of the tree, since I was handwaving that. Thanks again, I really appreciate your feedback. Dcoetzee 20:11, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
- While I was at it I added a bit of info on Atkin-Goldwasser-Kilian-Morain certificates. :-) Dcoetzee 22:46, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
The changes look great, thanks for making them. Concerning the difficulty of factoring n−1, this is indeed a drawback of my approach if one wants a method that can reliably generate a certificate for any prime, the problem addressed by AGKM. However if the goal is merely a large supply of certified primes then I'm aware of at least two strategies for efficiently producing Pratt certificates and producers of certified primes may well know of more. The naive one is based on the considerable variability of difficulty in factoring large numbers: simply abandon attempted factorizations that go over some time limit, or alternatively run many in parallel and take whatever proofs turn up. The second strategy is to generate a supply of "somewhat" smaller (say a fifth to half as long as the desired final certified prime) certified primes, and in parallel apply the Strassen-Solovay or Rabin probabilistic test to one plus various products of these and whenever a prime is encountered complete the proof (which is now very easy since it involves no factorization). That said, I consider any number that "looks" prime according to a probabilistic test to be as adequately certified for all practical purposes as one "perfectly" certified by these "ideal" methods (but I don't consider myself an expert in applications of certified primes). --Vaughan Pratt (talk) 00:54, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
- Those are actually really interesting ideas - and they seem like they could be applied recursively to construct arbitrarily large primes with proofs. However I wasn't able to find a specific citation for these and it would be original research to add them without one. Could you provide one? Thanks again for your help. Dcoetzee 06:15, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
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"Attacks"
The vandal listed the "practical Satan" of the Legend of Zelda series under "Fictional Jews". That kind of BS is not only blatant vandalism, but completely intolerable. I can understand being polite to other editors you may have legitimate editing disagreements with, but this kind of jackass doesn't deserve that benefit of the doubt.
If my attack truly does drive the bastard off, all the better. There is no reason for us to pussyfoot and act nice with "editors" who are only here to spread nonsense and hate-fulled drivel.Not even Mr. Lister's Koromon survived intact. 03:02, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
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Hi Deco
You probably do not remember me. You wrote a C++ version of a sort algorithm which took me a surprising number of years to develop through the process of trying to minimize the Metzner-Shell sort as I recall.
I began thinking in the early sixties of a way for a computer to reach a conclusion about whether God existed or not. The results turned out to be a program which reduces multiple state logical equations to minimum form. Developing the program to the point where it would satisfy proof of concept burned me out and left the program unfinished without a front end. The program can be used without a front end but a front end would make it possible for anyone to create a decision table and form the logical equations but more importantly would hopefully be able to automate construction of the decision table and formulation of equations.
I've completed another program which implements an algorithm to optimize a classification table. Since I repaired refrigeration equipment and computers a natural use for the program is to optimize troubleshooting charts. What I want to do is to apply the program to both medicine and law and these applications also require a front end to convert legal verbiage to logical elements and their characteristics and characteristic states.
Long story short I was wondering if you might be interested in developing front ends to create decision tables for the logical equation reduction program and classification tables for the optimization program. The front ends need do little more than to ask the user to enter values which define characteristics of the elements, whereas an automated version would have to figure this out for itself. The challenge then is creating an intelligent front end. 71.100.13.197 (talk) 08:32, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
- Hi, thanks for your note. I'm afraid my obligations don't permit me to get involved in a new project like this right now, but I wish you luck. Dcoetzee 20:34, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
- Okay, there is no rush in completing this project on my part, since as I said I am truly burned out and my main goal has been long since satisfied which was only proof of concept. However, since you are an administrator I might also mention to you that both programs can be applied to Wikipedia policy for the benefit of both user and administrator alike, especially in the construction and evolution of the rules. The advantage of their use would be to reduce or eliminate misinterpretation of the rules which seems very common now-a-days with so many new administrators using the rules as virtual excuses to accomplish some personal agenda or goal. Also I might add that most, if not all, parts of both programs can take advantage of a parallel machine. Have a nice day. 71.100.13.197 (talk) 22:12, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
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- I forgot where I got this one. Feel free to delete. Dcoetzee 00:27, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
Oops
Sorry, wrong "miscellaneous!" (I was aiming for the Reference Desk. Oops.) -- Mwalcoff (talk) 03:44, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
- No problem! Dcoetzee 06:28, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
Copyedit request
Hello, I am contacting you because you're a member of the League of Copyeditors. Would you be interested in taking a look at Highlander: The Series (season 1) which is currently a Featured List Candidate ? The quality of the prose is the only remaining objection to its promotion and I would really appreciate your help. Have a nice day, Rosenknospe (talk) 12:57, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
- No problem. Dcoetzee 02:11, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
- Thank you so much for doing it, and so quickly ! And I really like your prose, too. You have greatly improved that list. I'm thinking about reintroducing the paragraph about star billing, but I can't think of a way to do it right now, so I'll give it some time. I'm really grateful and if I can return the favor (no copyediting though ;), please let me know. Have a nice day, Rosenknospe (talk) 15:42, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
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Looking for Someone to Adopt Me
I'm just so confused! I guess I'm sort of afraid to edit articles. Where are good sources found? I'm interested in chemistry and animals, particularly saving them from harm. Could you adopt me? Pozilla (talk) 22:55, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
- Sorry for the slow response! Looks like User:Cyclonenim is taking care of you, but feel free to ask me if you have any questions. Dcoetzee 08:49, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
A barnstar
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| For helping me in my time of need, and rising magnificently to the occasion in the process, I hereby award you this Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar. Highlander: The Series (season 1), which you copyedited, is now a Featured List. You can be proud of yourself. Thank you again for your invaluable help. Cheers, Rosenknospe (talk) 07:42, 26 May 2008 (UTC) |
- Thank you. :-) Dcoetzee 11:25, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
Pronunciation task force
Hi! I was meaning to comment when you first put your proposal at WP:SPOKEN, but real-life busy-ness took over. I was going to say: excellent idea, and sounds similar to a mini-project I put together for pronunciations of British place names. It has been moribund since an early flurry of activity; perhaps it could be absorbed into the task force? The link is here: Wikipedia:WikiProject UK geography/Embedded Audio Pronunciations. All of the pronunciations I have added have been uploaded to Commons in a standard naming format.
Anyway, must go now, but I will add my name to the list and take a closer look tonight. As a regular contributor of full spoken articles, I have the facilities and time to provide pronunciation files on just about any topic, so I'm looking forward to being able to help in any way! Hassocks5489 (tickets please!) 07:54, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
- Hi, and thanks for your interest! I like your idea of absorbing the UK geography project - they're great existing examples and I'm taking the liberty of adding them to Category:Articles including recorded pronunciations (UK English). Feel free to add Category:Requests for audio pronunciation (UK English) to other UK place names and people (I'm using this category hierarchy as the task force's "to do" list). Thanks for joining and I'll be happy to hear any other feedback you have. Dcoetzee 09:13, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
Spoken pronunciations
Hi. I wanted to ask if you could record a spoken pronunciation of "Newcastle-upon-Tyne" is the way in which it is spoken by Novocastrians (and a good proportion of people elsewhere) i.e. newCASSul. There is a "southern English" pronunciation (NEW-caah-sul) in the article at present, but it would be better to replace this with the "correct" pronunciation, or better still, include both with a note that the second is how (some) people with southern English regional accents pronuounce it. SP-KP (talk) 18:07, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
- Hi SP-KP - although I could do this recording, I am myself an American and I feel it would be best for a British person to record this name (preferably one from the city in question). You might contact User:Hassocks5489 with this request. Another thing you can do is modify the text yourself to note the two pronunciations, then add the article to Category:Requests for audio pronunciation (UK English) so that someone will record the other one. Hope this helps! Dcoetzee 22:28, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
- (Also copied to SP-KP's talk page) I did the "NEW-caah-sul" version in question. I deliberately didn't attempt the local pronunciation because I thought I couldn't really achieve the accuracy and authenticity required (although I consider myself able to make passable or good attempts at most British accents). Unfortunately, since the conversation we had at the time I uploaded the file, nobody has uploaded a local version. Perhaps if I record two or three versions and upload them, SP-KP may be able to help by identifying the best one or providing guidance for me to get it sounding as accurate as possible? I don't mind making several attempts at getting it right; I would rather have both pronunciations featured on the article than just the RP one we have at the moment. Hassocks5489 (tickets please!) 07:57, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
^_^
It was such a pleasure meeting you and talking to you! Sorry I had to run. Hope we get to talk again soon. Peace, delldot on a public computer talk 07:43, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
- You as well, Dell. Sorry I didn't get a chance to say goodbye, and I hope we'll speak again soon. :-) Dcoetzee 08:26, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
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A toughie for pronunciation
Heres a puzzler for you. While I was filling the request for pronouncing "Dr. Suess", I found there's the Americanized pronunciation we're all familiar with "/ˈsuːs/" (Soose), and the correct German pronunciation "/ˈsɔɪs/" (Soice). I recorded using both "Theodor Soose Geisel OR Theodor Soice Geisel. I'm torn on whether or not to use this, or split into 2 using EN and GE distinctions. What do you think? Reason turns rancid (talk) 13:03, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
- Hi Reason, thanks for your contribution. Since IPA are included for both, I think it's likely that both will be useful, add both to the page, and let the page authors decide which they want to keep. Dcoetzee 21:18, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
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Seattle meetup 5
Hi Derrick, the next Seattle meetup is going to take place sometime soon. It would be great if you can make it. Bestchai (talk) 02:36, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
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Hi Dcoetzee, just a reminder that you've signed up to attend the Seattle meetup this Thursday (6/19). This one's going to take place at 7:30PM at Thaiku -- a restaurant\bar in Ballard. See the meetup page to add more agenda items, see attendees, etc. Hope to see you there! Bestchai (talk) 02:32, 18 June 2008 (UTC)
A copyedit request
Hello, Dcoetzee. I noticed that you are a part of the Copyeditors League, and I was wondering if you wouldn't mind copyediting the Bianca Montgomery and Maggie Stone article. I already listed it at the league, but I've noticed that listing requests there actually take a long time before they are granted. I mean, last time I listed this article there, it got no assistance at all. So would you be willing to take this on? I'm not sure how much copyediting it needs. I mean, most of it is decent, but I have some more tweaking to do to it before I nominate it for FA (Featured Article) status, and an awesome copyedit is a part of that.
That said, I'll completely understand if you are too busy at the moment to work on this article. Flyer22 (talk) 00:55, 21 June 2008 (UTC)
- Sorry for the delayed response. I would like to help and can look at this tonight if it's not too late. Dcoetzee 18:04, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
- Copyediting this now. :-) Dcoetzee 18:37, 28 June 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks. Good copyedits. Flyer22 (talk) 20:28, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
- Unfortunately it's a rather long article and it would take me some time to get through it all. I only got through the first two sections so far, but I plan to continue. Dcoetzee 23:56, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
- LOL. You see it as unfortunate that it's so long; I see it as a good thing. But I know what you mean...so long to copyedit. Don't worry, I'm in no rush to nominate it for FA.
- Unfortunately it's a rather long article and it would take me some time to get through it all. I only got through the first two sections so far, but I plan to continue. Dcoetzee 23:56, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks. Good copyedits. Flyer22 (talk) 20:28, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
- Also, I'm not sure that the Storyline section really needs copyediting, unless it's tweaking punctuation. What I mean is that I worked in all of the relevant/important information into that section without going overboard. Nothing really needs to be taken out of it, though some parts could still probably be reworded better.
- Oh, and I'm unsure now whether to remove this article from being listed as needing copyediting...since you are now copyediting it.
- Not unfortunate, it's a nicely detailed article. :-) Just unfortunate that I can't complete it quickly. Leave it on needing copyediting, as others might get to it before me, or refine the sections I already edited further. Dcoetzee 23:29, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
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Adopt?
I'm looking for an adopter. Would you like to adopt me?
I'm not too new here, but I am looking for someone to answer any questions I have.
-Keith (Hypergeek14)Talk 18:50, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
- Sorry for the slow response, looks like someone else got to you first. Let me know if you have any questions. Dcoetzee 06:13, 24 July 2008 (UTC)
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I would definitly love to get into using Wikipedia. Only problem is when it comes to editing a page with weird stuff like javascript and stuff, its like trying to solve pi for me haha. so if you would like to adopt me and show me the ropes, then it would be much appreciated. --Will Willcox 16:01, 18 July 2008 (UTC)Will561
- Sorry for the slow response, looks like someone else got to you first. Let me know if you have any questions. Dcoetzee 06:13, 24 July 2008 (UTC)
Hi Derrick - you were involved in a AfD in 2006 (Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rapid sort) in which the article was deleted for verifiability issues. Since then, User:Pce3@ij.net has been infinitely blocked (for reasons unknown to me at the moment), but I have reasons to believe that he has created three more accounts:
Which he used to create another hoax article optimal classification. (Pce3@ij.net has a history of such contributions at Wikia here, including the rapid sort algorithm). I was wondering if you have any insights on this situation, and how it should be handled. Thanks!
- And please reply here instead of on my talk page. --Jiuguang (talk) 04:49, 24 July 2008 (UTC)
- Pce3 is a persistent proponent of original research. The most effective way of dealing with him is to direct him to appropriate venues for publishing his results - which for now are likely to be a personal webpage or a blog. Avoid confronting the accuracy of his work, because he's likely to defend that viciously - stick to the no original research policy and suggest alternatives. Dcoetzee 06:11, 24 July 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks. I have taken the article to AfD - Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Optimal classification, and would appreciate your comments there. --Jiuguang (talk) 11:16, 24 July 2008 (UTC)
Hi, could you have a look at the Talk:Six_Sigma page? The article has been stable for a good while, but an editor has been edit-warring recently, wishing to argue his own WP:OR against what WP:RS say. Thanks. --Jayen466 14:35, 25 July 2008 (UTC)
Context of computational complexity
Nice work on Context of computational complexity! I don't know if the article will live at that location forever, but it's great to see this kind of information being collected in one place. --P3d0 (talk) 04:31, 27 July 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks for your praise! :-) It still needs to be properly linked up and catted and possibly moved, but I think it covers an important topic. Dcoetzee 18:56, 27 July 2008 (UTC)
My old friend DECO
It kept hitting me that there was something familiar about your user name but I did not have time to take a break until now to check it out and then realized that yes it was in fact you. Sly devil!
If you have not yet checked out the discussion which began on user Jiuguang's robotics project page here and on his talk page here after he posted his robotics project banner on the Optimal classification discussion page, doing so now might help clarify the reason for his nomination for deletion. Honestly, I think that if he were not a backstabber he would have merely added methods to the article which perform the same function.
Thanks again for alerting me that the deletion on the discussion page was most likely due to my edits. Thanks. Julie Dancer (talk) 09:46, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
- Yes, I changed my username at some point. I'm not aware of the robotics conflict, but I do continue to support deletion of optimal classification for my own reasons - I believe your arguments will also be more persuasive if you ignore the robotics conflict and focus on the article and the arguments presented by others regarding that article. Dcoetzee 00:02, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
Ease up
Dude, your comment on Wikipedia talk:Trivia obviously shows that you aren't assuming good faith. I know that my petition was deleted for a reason, did I ever say that I think it wasn't. Everyone makes mistakes, an then you let them go. Besides, its my first essay, no wonder I'm gonna make mistakes. Learn how to assume good faith, and then message me back. --
Oh no! it's Alien joe! 22:00, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
By the way, is it your job to hound on me at Wikipedia talk:Trivia? --Oh no! it's Alien joe! 22:04, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
- To the contrary, I didn't ever attack you, only your essay, which I believe to be misleading and unpersuasive. I'm sure you mean well and I'm not upset or frustrated with you. I apologize if I came off as antagonistic. Dcoetzee 23:58, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
Thank you for Context of computational complexity
I hereby award you a Kinkajou 
for creating the article Context of computational complexity after I asked some questions on this topic on Talk:Computational complexity theory. Thank you very much! (By the way: don't worry, Kinkajous have a conservation status of least concern). --Abdull (talk) 14:33, 30 July 2008 (UTC)
- Thank you! :-) I'd appreciate any help you can offer in linking and summarizing it from necessary places. Dcoetzee 17:51, 30 July 2008 (UTC)
Its me again
Hey, I took your advice and fixed my essay up. Sorry if I was hard on you. --Oh no! it's Alien joe! 20:18, 1 August 2008 (UTC)
Dear Mr. Coetzee, thank you for your comments on my essay. I am still in the process of improving it. I have taken your suggestions under advisement, and have modified some of the language in the second and third paragraphs. --Eastlaw (talk) 04:17, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
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Hi DECO
I was looking at the Check sort and Rapid sort we wrote programs for and could not believe how confusing the description was. Last I remember it made perfectly good sense to me. Would you have any objections to looking at it and seeing if there is anything you would change? I tried to make the text clearer but I do not know if I did.
BTW - I have moved Optimal classification to the Wikibooks project where it has been reformatted to accommodate other methods besides Dr. Rypka's which are capable of performing the optimization function. Do you know of any methods that can be published under Chapter 2? --iggy 19:35, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
- Frankly, the descriptions of the check sort/rapid sort never made very much sense to me - if I recall correctly they were variants of radix sort. It's also not a good idea to move the optimal classification article to Wikibooks, because I don't believe they allow original research either (ref w:wikibooks:optimal classification. And please don't call me Deco, as that is no longer my username. Dcoetzee 17:44, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
- Why the chip? I do not recall doing anything to you which might merit such response. If I have then I am sorry.
- As for the Check sort description I never put a lot of effort into the text saved it for the algorithm and the program in hopes that questions would help me to clarify any issues with the description. Looking at the Check sort, however, from a rejectionist's point of view I can see the reason for my plan to fail. Instead of asking questions in line with AGF there was nothing.
- The Check sort and Radix sorts are quit different actually and next opportunity I get I will point that out in the description. Briefly the Radix sort, sorts on digit significance of a number rather than using the number as a "serial number" of a truck and a "check mark" or count as the truck's cargo.
- The move of the Optimal classification article to the Wikibooks has already occurred and survived Jiuguang Wang's effort over there to have it deleted. He is an atheist and Communist Chinese so I do not want anything to do with him. I have already begun adding page references to the text for the primary reference. From what I remember of you, I would not have expected for you to have believed the article was original research without reading the primary reference or the references it contained. Although I was both skeptical and elated when I came across Dr. Rypka's paper I did not stop with reading it or the references it contained but went on to write a computer program to implement it. I believe you have cheated yourself out of knowing something which I consider essential.
- But bottom line on your old user name is that I was only trying to be friendly. If you are unable to loose your chip then you will not have to worry about my using either your old or your new user name again. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.100.162.249 (talk) 19:17, 7 August 2008 (UTC)
- I'm aware of what occurred at Wikibooks, and I agree for now with the outcome of the deletion discussion. Your attitude of discrimination is disheartening, and I encourage you to be more tolerant of the religious and political beliefs of others, and of other cultures. I also invite you to continue your studies and hope one day you will derive original work which is published. Dcoetzee 22:09, 7 August 2008 (UTC)
- In fact the opposite case is true. I am the one discriminated against for believing in God which user Jiuguang Wang stated was his motive for nominating the article for deletion in the first place since he felt that such belief destroyed, in his humble opinion, my scientific credibility regarding anything I did. As for your agreeing with the deletion decision, it is obvious that you did not accept the verified source, much less open the primary reference and read it, much less read the references it cites when the article was published here in the Wikipeida. As for accepting other cultures, you know nothing of the different cultures, which make up my daily environment or the interactions I have with Christian Chinese everyday. As for my Check/Rapid/Simple and Instant sort routines, they are both original to the extent of computer sort routines and are published despite most institutions of higher learning refusing to release a degree until all fees are paid, which exposes their true motive for requiring peer review in the first place, as the basis for acknowledging valid work or accepting it into their sphere of influence. Valid work tends to eventually be accepted by them anyway, although not until the originator is dead so that he can be rightfully punished for not accomplishing his work within the academic system to generate revenue or some other reward for the system. My only crime has been to inform the World academic system of formal education that I have no desire to pay its fees or to do a dance that will. Ironically, my publication in the Wikia gives that benefit to commercial interest in the form of advertising revenue of which I receive no portion.
- I'm aware of what occurred at Wikibooks, and I agree for now with the outcome of the deletion discussion. Your attitude of discrimination is disheartening, and I encourage you to be more tolerant of the religious and political beliefs of others, and of other cultures. I also invite you to continue your studies and hope one day you will derive original work which is published. Dcoetzee 22:09, 7 August 2008 (UTC)
I'm not sure I agree with this edit [2], calling it a computer appliance. While it is an embedded system, IMO, computer appliances are in a different realm (think Chumby). Yngvarr (t) (c) 19:46, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
- I didn't add that - and don't particularly agree with it. I was just retaining existing text. Dcoetzee 19:52, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
Adopting
I'm looking for an adopter. If you're interested, I could really use some guidance getting started. --Ships at a Distance (talk) 16:30, 9 August 2008 (UTC)
Thanks Derrick!!
Hey Derrick! Thanks for the info u gave me. It was a kind of Spanish for me as i cudnt make much of it.... but of course i would like to correct you at one place. As far as i hv known.... prototype of scanf function is to have atleast two arguments. Do correct me if I am wrong. I wud love to read from you.--Gloriousgini (talk) 07:46, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
- Actually the scanf() function can be called with only one argument, as in "scanf("")" - it just isn't very useful since it doesn't do anything. I'm glad my response was helpful, and please let me know if there's anything I can do to make it clearer. Dcoetzee 07:52, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
- I think i got one more question. Try doing this on 'C'..... Write printf(4); and run the program (without including headers). Now, repeat the same task with different numbers starting from 1 to say 10. you will notice the change. Can u please eplain me why. And u still cudnt make me clear that why the difference occurs when the headers are included?--Gloriousgini (talk) 08:09, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
- Got ur answer. Its true that nobody does this but the thing is that i was asked this by an examinar and above all this makes me curious! Anyways, thanks again.--Gloriousgini (talk) 05:16, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
- I think i got one more question. Try doing this on 'C'..... Write printf(4); and run the program (without including headers). Now, repeat the same task with different numbers starting from 1 to say 10. you will notice the change. Can u please eplain me why. And u still cudnt make me clear that why the difference occurs when the headers are included?--Gloriousgini (talk) 08:09, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
Image more complicated than I thought :)
Thanks so much for helping out at WP:CP! Much, much, much appreciated!
Image:Croatian first team.jpg looks a bit more complicated than I thought. The uploader has altered the licensing information since I last looked in. It now has a FUR. Does this seem to cover it, do you think? --Moonriddengirl (talk) 02:45, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
- Glad to help. :-) Re Croatian first team, yeah, I think they were pretty thorough with their FUR, and their argument is credible. The mentioned fact that Wikipedia-only permission was granted is irrelevant but not damning. Dcoetzee 02:53, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
Image on commons, how to handle?
The uploader of this image doesn't seem to understand copyright. I've tagged for deletion three images he uploaded there as "own work" which were painted by a man who died in 1963. I don't know if he can adequately address those concerns. He uploaded this historical photograph under the same rationale: [3]. (I know there's some way to "wikilink" to commons. I think. I don't know how.) I don't know if this might be public domain, because I don't know when it was taken. It's a uniform of some kind. WWI? WWII? Not my arena. :) If it's not PD, it's almost certainly fair use. If it's fair use, it needs to be moved to Wikipedia, right? Not sure how to handle this one. Input much welcome. :) --Moonriddengirl (talk) 12:40, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
![[3]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Paul-Cranfield-Smyth.jpg){kind=link}
- Hey. :-) From this webpage, which links to the guy's Wikipedia article, it appears that the same people who run this site, his two granddaughters, also created the article and uploaded the artist's photo and the paintings by him (same photo also on this page). If you view their copyright terms, they assert that "www.finchleygallery.com holds the copyright for all the photographs of paintings in the collection displayed on this website." If this is true and not just wishful thinking, the paintings may actually be legitimate releases. As for the photograph, the Copyright law of the United Kingdom specifies that works produce by the British government fall under Crown copyright, and for such works "Photographs taken before 1 June 1957 expire 50 years after creation." Commons has Commons:Template:PD-UKGov for this purpose. If it was taken by a civilian, then the relevant template is probably Commons:Template:PD-UK-unknown, and the photograph must be both taken before and first published before 1938, which is likely the case based on Smyth's history (he had left the military long before 1938). As for linking Commons, just do it like this: [[:Commons:Image:Paul-Cranfield-Smyth.jpg]]. :-) Dcoetzee 01:18, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
- I wrote to the webmaster yesterday about those paintings and the need to clarify. He seems to be a webdesigner for hire, and the copyright notice on that website makes me worry that he is unaware that placing those images on Commons means releasing them into public domain. In any event, of course, that copyright notice also means that verification needs to be provided that he has authority to release those images into public domain. I have no idea if Commons has something like WP:CP that should be used to handle such concerns. :) Commons is a strange and unfamiliar beast to me! Thanks for the information on the photograph. Image copyright is also a somewhat strange and unfamiliar beast to me. :) As far as the photograph, what should be done now? Should the license tag on the photo be changed? Should a suggestion be made at the uploader's talk page that he change the license tag? --Moonriddengirl (talk) 13:22, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
- Hmm, if the website was a work for hire I seriously doubt that the website master has any legal rights to the works. I'm not sure about the granddaughters - the rights might have been inherited by them somehow. Some of the paintings may already be in the public domain due to age, but it's hard to tell with no specific dates attached to them. Generally copyright questions about images at Commons are raised at Commons:Deletion requests. I think the photograph should probably just be retagged with something reasonable, as it's almost surely in the public domain due to age, and you can go ahead and do that. Let me know if I can do anything else to help. :-) Dcoetzee 19:45, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
- I wrote to the webmaster yesterday about those paintings and the need to clarify. He seems to be a webdesigner for hire, and the copyright notice on that website makes me worry that he is unaware that placing those images on Commons means releasing them into public domain. In any event, of course, that copyright notice also means that verification needs to be provided that he has authority to release those images into public domain. I have no idea if Commons has something like WP:CP that should be used to handle such concerns. :) Commons is a strange and unfamiliar beast to me! Thanks for the information on the photograph. Image copyright is also a somewhat strange and unfamiliar beast to me. :) As far as the photograph, what should be done now? Should the license tag on the photo be changed? Should a suggestion be made at the uploader's talk page that he change the license tag? --Moonriddengirl (talk) 13:22, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
Adopt me please
Hi Dcoetzee, you would be a perfect adopter, as an administrator of WikiCommons and frequent contributor of images - I'm experienced in Illustrator and fireworks and am very interested in SVG-ising the gross amount of raster images on Wikipedia. Please adopt me.
Thanks
Will —Preceding unsigned comment added by WillT.Net (talk • contribs) 14:24, 22 August 2008 (UTC)
A7
I think you misunderstood me here. An IP had to point it out to me too! Ctjf83Talk 19:48, 23 August 2008 (UTC)
- My mistake. :-) A lot of people took the point of view in the past I was assuming and I jumped to conclusions. Dcoetzee 21:57, 23 August 2008 (UTC)
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Need Review Help
I am looking to create a new article for Abaca Technology Corp, an anti-spam provider. I do in fact work with the company. I was told that the best way to get some info is to get adopted or consult with some experienced folks.
Would definitely appreciate some help/feedback/comments or some direction. And hopefully get this posted
Can you adopt me?
Thanks in advance
Jbiggs19 (talk) 16:25, 3 September 2008 (UTC)
The "tally" sort
When someone told me about this and asked me what the difference was between it and my Check sort routine I started digging, found an online copy of the Bentleys publication and realized how easy it would be for any programmer to have seen the web page I published in 1996, commit the routine and code to memory and passed it on to Bentley over the phone. I published it online in 1996 while he did not publish "Programming Pearls" until 1999 (first edition) and 2000 (second edition). The real clue comes, however, from the fact that the name "tally" sort is does not appear in the book. (Incidentally the last name of one of the programmers who worked at the school where I got my degree was, you guessed it, Tally.)
So how do you account for the fact that the name "tally" is not in the book and only a description that sounds very computer scientific with pseudo code (use of the term was also a give away) in which Phase 1 uses a loop to clear the array instead of a dim, redim or erase statement? I find it very plausible that a programmer saw this page published online, memorized the method and the code, passed it on to Bentley by phone and Bentley then published it in print either knowing or not knowing it was already published online and copyrighted. A very clever way to circumvent a copyright don't you think? Clever devils. Have to give them credit for something even though they gave me none. Have a nice day. 71.100.3.239 (talk) 06:17, 13 September 2008 (UTC)
- Hi, I appreciate your concern, but the article does not claim that Programming Pearls invented tally sort, as there is no source to support this claim, just that it popularized it. Your imaginary scenario for how the book discovered the sort is quite unlikely, as it was relating an incident that happened long before its publication, and in any case this sort is a trivial variation on counting sort that has probably been reinvented many times. Please don't take it personally. Dcoetzee 23:35, 13 September 2008 (UTC)
- Hi Derrick - just as a heads up, 71.100.*.* started inserting random tags in articles related to classification and sorting (Cluster analysis and Counting sort so far). Since you are more active on the algorithms side, please keep a close watch. --Jiuguang (talk) 13:02, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
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Adopt me!
I saw you were on the list of "Adopters" - have room for another pupil? daviddoria (talk) 23:48, 30 September 2008 (UTC)
- Hi David - I must apologize that I don't have time to adopt right now and have removed my adopting tag, but I wish you luck in finding someone. Dcoetzee 02:04, 4 October 2008 (UTC)
Merge proposal
Please see WT:Only_make_links_that_are_relevant_to_the_context#Break 1 for the current discussion. I'm letting everyone know who has a comment on the relevant talk pages. Obviously, we're not going to push anything through without a full discussion of every issue, including whether to merge at all. My sense is that there's wide agreement on all the big points, but the devil is in the details. - Dan Dank55 (send/receive) 19:02, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
I reverted your change summarized as "Reword and rearrange a bit", since it added unsourced assertion of a main benefit, and unsourced assertion of the behavior of photographers. It would be OK to add those things if you cite sources that support them. Dicklyon (talk) 23:42, 5 October 2008 (UTC)
- Okay. It was based on personal experience and I have no sources, so I'm just going to forget about it. Apologies for the misleading edit summary, I forgot to account for all my changes. Dcoetzee 23:43, 5 October 2008 (UTC)
Trivia sections talk page
You are aware that I saw your comment about me. I watch that page and that I frequently comment on it. I also have feelings, you know. --Oh no! it's Alien joe!(Talk) 20:17, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
- Of course I am. I respect your feelings and your opinions. I just disagree with your methods for going about criticizing the guideline, which I believe are counterproductive. Please don't take it personally. Dcoetzee 04:03, 7 October 2008 (UTC)
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Hi Dcoetzee, my name is Romanoff3. I kindly ask you for assistance. Together with my German Mentor Nolispanmo we have developed Wikipedia contributions about Russian painters - see "Sacharow" or "Repin" on the Wikipedia German pages. We would like to open this information to people speaking an internationally widespread language like English. My German mentor recommended to get in touch with an English speaking mentor. We have translated the German language contribution already. Would you be in a position to help? Kind regards--Romanoff3 (talk) 08:40, 11 October 2008 (UTC)
- Sure, no problem. Just go ahead and create articles here based on your translations, and then I can help to clean up the English, add links and categories, and format according to local conventions. Dcoetzee 09:29, 11 October 2008 (UTC)