Hello there Hfastedge, welcome to the 'pedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you ever need editing help visit Wikipedia:How does one edit a page and experiment at Wikipedia:Sandbox. If you need pointers on how we title pages visit Wikipedia:Naming conventions. If you have any other questions about the project then check out Wikipedia:Help or add a question to the Village pump. Cheers! --maveric149
Hi, Hfastedge. Welcome! There are some good articles on Wikpedia on how to add things. For example, Wikipedia is helpful. I just discovered this and I've been here for about a year.
Hello. The duplication between athletics and track running was well-spotted, but in the changing of one to a merge stuff was lost, such as the link to the 100m record list. I've pasted the older verion of track running to Talk:Athletics, as it seems to me that there are some things in that text that aren't mentioned in the ahtletics[?] article. If you're knowledgeable on this subject (I'm not), could you take a look? thanks. -- Tarquin 14:54 Sep 22, 2002 (UTC)
No, it was not my intent to make the MySQL database directly accessible from outside, which is one reason I was curious :-) If you're just accessing through URLs and parsing history lists, etc., that's great, and shouldn't place any load on the server unless you're hitting Recent Changes constantly or something. Keep in mind that I do update the software now and then, so you might want to keep an eye on the mailing list to see if I announce changes (one I have planned soon will change the format of history pages, which I why I bring it up).
eYou asked: explain how the article count just jumped 5000 articles in a day user_talk:hfastedge
I have no idea. I have had nothing to do with the article count since january; I used to run a script to request the list of all articles and then do some subtracting of users, pages about wikipedia etc.; but the old wiki software timed out when the list got past 20K articles, so I couldn't run it anymore, and the new wiki software has it built in, AFAIK Malcolm Farmer 15:59 Oct 20, 2002 (UTC)
Hi there. I don't think pages like "2000 years ago" are a good idea. -- Tarquin 18:19 Jan 2, 2003 (UTC)
Hfastedge -- to revert a page, go to the "Older versions" link and click on the one you want to revert to. When that comes up, edit and save. -- Zoe
Hi, google gave several pages with some information on simulated annealing, but I couldn't find one place with all the information. I'm still searching, if I find one I'll add it. Arvindn 17:55 Jan 21, 2003 (UTC)
Hi Hfast - on the US Bill of Rights article , why wasnt it simply reverted back to before it was vandalized? -Stevert s
Hi, greetings from Korea! -- User:Hyungjin Ahn
The page Game of go gives not the number of games, but the number of positions. This is in first estimate equal to 3361: Each point can be either black or white or empty. A friend of mine has once let the computer generate a large number of random positions, and concluded that about 10% of them were legal, so a good estimate of the number of actual Go positions would be <math>\frac{3^{361}}{10}</math>. Andre Engels 05:14 Mar 2, 2003 (UTC)
I have a bad news for you. You have been accused of violating copyright by uploading the image :Image:Tibetmap.png. In your interest, I have asked this question in the Village pump for you. Speak for yourself. --142.103.108.105[?] 23:51 Mar 26, 2003 (UTC)
Re: "Give me an argument defended your rash action of deleting it". Here's an argument: the map is copyrighted. It's the intellectual property of a third party, whose permission you do not have to reproduce it or redistribute it under the terms of the GFDL (whether you knew it or not). Thus, Wikipedia cannot reproduce and redistribute it under the terms of the GFDL (particularly now that we know it's copyrighted). Leaving it on the wiki once we knew this would be to knowingly continue to reproduce and redistribute it without the permission of the copyright owner, leaving the project open to claims of copyright infringement.
Now, if you did as you say get the map from [1] (http://www.milarepatravels.com/Tibetmapbig.gif), had you investigated you'd have seen this notice on the site's main page: "© Copyright Milarepa Travels. All rights reserved." Maybe they stole the map too, maybe they licensed it; either way, you can't assume it's public domain when it's not marked as such and is clearly newer than the 1920s -- and certainly not when copyright notices are splashed over the page.
Please don't submit any more third-party material without verifying that it's public domain or GFDL-compatible. If you want maps, either find clearly marked public domain ones or make your own (http://leuksman.com/misc/maps.php). --Brion 20:54 Mar 27, 2003 (UTC)
See Talk:Engine displacement for discussion from the 1 E-3 m3[?] page. -- JohnOwens 02:53 Mar 27, 2003 (UTC)
Hi Hfastedge,
Thanks for your note on Zofiabaatar and well spotted. It's pretty much copied in from http://home.arcor.de/ktdykes/plagiau.htm. At the end of the entry is: "MESOZOIC MAMMALS; Basal Multituberculata, an internet directory. Both this page and that internet project are the work of Trevor Dykes."
In other words, I am the original author. I'll see what I can do about Wikification.
Hi Hfastedge,
I'm glad that's cleared up. I'm leaving a somewhat altered note on them, which states I'm the authour of the source material. I realized the original attempt seemed to be claiming some kind of 'ownership' of the relevant Wikipedia pages.
What I don't intend to do is directly copy all my Mesozoic mammals into Wikidom, but to mould the information in. Some of what I have available is unnecessarily detailed. Other bits are too speculative. In some cases, eg. Zofiabaatar, I don't happen to have much more than the barest details, so editing would be pointless.
By wikification, am I right in thinking you mean integrating the stuff with already existing entries; eg. linking the word Jurassic to the 'Jurassic' entry and so? That can be worked on. I think this'll be easier once I've imported all the multituberculate mammal material.
You got some gall asking for favors, buddy. --Brion 22:13 Mar 28, 2003 (UTC)
In response to your question:
The Constitution says in Article 1, Section 3, Clause 4:
The Vice President of the United States shall be President of the Senate, but shall have no Vote, unless they be equally divided.
When a Senator refers to Mr. President, this refers to three people: The Vice-President (Dick Cheney), the President Pro Tem (Ted Stevens), or whoever is in the chair during the session. When a Senator refers to George W. Bush, they refer to him as the President of the United States.
--hoshie
For example, Ken Buchanan, I thought he was a remarkable boxer, many call him the greatest world champion ever to come from Scotland. But most encyclopedias would overlook any other boxer that is not Muhammad Ali. Ken Buchanan beat guys like Carlos Ortiz and Ismael Laguna[?]. Not only that, bu because of boxing's often ridiculous policies, when it came down to his career, he was basically an expatriate in his own homeland. Not many outside scotland might know who he is, but he was a world champion boxer and he went through large personal tribulations because of being one. I thought that I'd write on him because the public should know about him.
As far as the commercials go, I am not sure I will write any articles about commercials anymore, but the Pepsi commercial with Shaquille O' Neal and the Southwest Airlines Wanna get away? ads are very famous, and in my opinion, funny, although I didnt critic the commercials because everyone has their own opinion about them and you know, these articles have to be kept npov.
Other than that, thank you for reading the articles ad God bless you.
Sincerely yours Antonio Spaced Out Martin
update
Well, after having looked at the pages in that site, it became rather clear that the more recent versions (2.1.1 or later) of mailman is supposedly free of the problem. Ours now is 2.0.13. I guess I should ask Jason if it is easy and possible to upgrade mailman to a later version. Tomos 06:19 May 9, 2003 (UTC)
Hi. Please see my note on the image of al-Aqsa. It is not the mosque discussed in the article. Danny
Concerning maps of Japanese regions: The resources I listed in the map are only a reference from where I got the outline for the Japanese prefectures. From there I did a some editing and added the colors. I also uploaded the original gimp file under Wikipedia:WikiProject_Japanese_prefectures/Images just in case someone wants to do their own version or wants to improve the images.
I'm not quite sure about the tempura pic I can try finding one on the net but usually I only use pics I have shot myself just to make sure the copyright is ok (I know I'm overly paranoid).
Can you clarify about the picture size ref. you made. Are you refering to images I uploaded or are you asking about how to do proper image processing? --cheers synthetik 13:55 28 May 2003 (UTC)
What's with busking? I think you've been around long enough to know that this is not even a stub. No intro, no complete sentence nothing. --Eloquence 15:01 29 May 2003 (UTC)
Mea culpa. Mea maxima culpa! I accidentially put this message on your main page:
Please follow the Wikipedia:Naming conventions (names and titles) when naming royal pages on wiki. Unless a crown prince has a specific title, they are put in as Crown Prince even if they haven't that formal title, to make clear that they are heir apparent to a throne. That is particularly with regard to principalities, to distinguish the reigning prince (often called the 'hereditary prince') from the heir. Those who don't know might not understand Prince Albert of Monaco is the hereditary prince yet but the crown prince. FearÉIREANN 22:29 28 May 2003 (UTC) FearÉIREANN 21:26 29 May 2003 (UTC)
I have several times seen you make additions which were simply false -- for instance, claiming that Python is an interpreted language rather than bytecode-compiled; that it is unsuited for large projects; or that its dynamic typing is a design flaw or oversight. These are not matters of opinion -- they are simply not true, and so it is entirely fitting that they be removed from the article.
I've also seen you use the article for what seem to me to be passing snipes against dynamically typed languages, for instance claiming that Python's Extreme Programming-informed unit testing framework exists to make up for the absence of static type checking. I don't know what your problem is with dynamically-typed languages, but that claim is also simply factually false. Unit testing is a valuable tool for correctness in just about any language, including statically typed ones.
You have also failed to respond to critiques of your changes on that article's Talk page. This is a far greater problem, in my opinion, because it suggests that you are not interested in cooperating or explaining your changes. This makes it extraordinarily difficult to work with your edits -- since they are neither explained when made, nor defended when challenged. --FOo 19:09 7 Jun 2003 (UTC)
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