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sig Ancheta Wis talk 15:47 (UTC) April 26, 2024 Category:Stub categories science

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Ancheta, it may appear to you now that I ignore your comments on the scientific method article. Truth is that I'll be 'out of office', so to speak, for a couple of days and I won't have chance write anything here. Nevertheless I thought it about time to show my appreciation for the effort you are spending on the article. There was a time when things were looking pretty grim. Now I feel the material is really starting to appear and take shape and that is largely thanks to you. For my part I hope to add a few words about Charles Peirce (on abduction) and to fill in some gaps in the history section. I only hope that it will be weeks rather than months before I get chance. Chris 21:28, 12 May 2005 (UTC)

Society Portal

Hi Ancheta,

I'm currently working on rewriting Religious Pluralism, which is quite a confusing article, and while I was looking around a bit for related articles, I noticed that many of them are rather miserable as well, either too short or biased (just take a look at Diversity, Pluralism, Religious toleration; Poverty not too good either; that's as far as I got...) So I thought about founding a Wikipedia:Wikiportal/Society, and I'm glad to see you have already done that. I think this could be very useful for coordinating activites in the area of society, if articles on society are currently one of the weak sides of Wikipedia.

I personally would like to start a wikiproject on Religious Pluralism and related pages, because it seems to me that it requires a whole lot of coordination, and I would like to link to it from the Society portal. By the way Religious Pluralism is nominated for Wikipedia:Article Improvement Drive, but we're currently lagging behind a bit, so you're invited to vote.

Do you have a list of Wikipedians interested in social affairs? I think it would be good to do a bit of co-ordination there, but perhaps you've already done that.--Robin.rueth 08:20, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

To make the Society Portal more known in the community, I've added it to the little overview of portals you get at the bottom of every portal Template:Portals, and I've modified Wikipedia:Portals#Existing Wikiportals. I thinks there's some more updating to be done, but I don't really know, being a newbie. --Robin.rueth 08:38, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

Slugs and slime molds

Flatworms, Slugs, and slime molds, as well as the well-known mudskippers, Theropoda, Platypus and horned toad constitute my biology Top 7 life forms, which appeal to my sense of humor.

Example for SPR

I saw a great example for maintaining articles: This is from Three laws of robotics {{tl|Maintained|{{User:Anville/maintenance}}}} which expands to {{Maintained}} This might even help the watchlist problem which was noted by Linas. --Ancheta Wis 12:47, 21 March 2006 (UTC) {{Maintained}}

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Arial symbols

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These are all the Latin symbols, excluding IPA and parenthesized symbols:

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Here are the Hebrew characters (mostly diacritics, note the spaces I put in between each):

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The (Un)Enlightenment

Hi Ancheta,

Don't worry too much about Category:The Enlightenment being on WP:CFD. User:Postdlf has been doing a lot of work trying to clean up isolated and annomolous categories, and he may have been just a little too quick off the mark on this one.

I know a little philosophy, but probably not enough to make an informed decission. You mention 'some eastern philosophies view enlightenment as a fundamental topic'. Are you suggesting that ideas from the western Age of Enlightenment spread to the east (or vice versa), so that there are topics in both eastern and western philosophy which have the same roots and come together under Category:The Enlightenment?

If by 'enlightenment' in eastern philosophies you mean the enlightenment or bodhi of Buddhist, then I doubt there is any association. Buddism started around the 6th century BC, there was very little communication with the west. The only connection with the west's Age of Enlightenment of the 18th century would be a coincidence in the name.

There is an article on Enlightenment (concept) that suggests they are connected. But I don't buy it, except in a fairly loose sense on 'convergent evolution'. There is a similarity in the 'eureka' moment which perhaps give a degree of connection, but its not a philosophical movement. -- Solipsist 10:07, 22 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Eye of Providence

I like the start of the Eye of Providence article. I'm surprised it doesn't have any reference to Freemasons though. In particluar the symbol's precense on the $1 dollar bill is often thought to be due to freemasonary, although this article makes quite a good case that it is just a coicidence (again co-convergece in similar ideas). Of course that could add up to making a rather interesting article. -- Solipsist 10:14, 22 Aug 2004 (UTC)

... actually novus ordo seclorum is on the Great Seal (as shown at the top of page), which is where the one dollar bill gets it from. -- Solipsist 23:06, 22 Aug 2004 (UTC)

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abstraction, problem of universals, phenomenology, abstract structure, reification, fallacy, list of Latin phrases, unobservables, Category:Anomalous phenomena

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Kai-hsu Tai's Typographic Outcry: "I am a letter among the hieroglyphs ... How I wish I had my own alphabet!" (Published in Landlubber, December 2001. See for example, revision 12, dated 2004-01-05)

Anagrams

OK, so colour me curious: I have a feeling that your user-name (Ancheta Wis)is an anagram, but I can't work out for what! Am I wrong, or what? Also, why did you reckon I'd be interested in the Stata center thing? Are you someone I knew IRL at MIT? Noel 14:24, 29 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries

Yes, Ancheta Wis, I can look into those 'Selected Anniversaries'. And, thanks for the tip. :-) -- PFHLai 04:58, 2004 Aug 30 (UTC)

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Picture of the day

Lichfield Cathedral is a Church of England cathedral in Lichfield, in the English county of Staffordshire. A cathedral was first built on the site in 700, by Bishop Headda, to house the bones of St Chad. The original wooden building was replaced by a Norman cathedral made from stone, which in turn was replaced by the present Gothic structure, begun in 1195. The fabric of the cathedral suffered in the English Civil War, when it was used as a defensive structure. In the 18th century the interior was extensively remodelled, with major structural work organised by James Wyatt; this involved removing the high altar to make a single worship area consisting of the choir and lady chapel, and adding a massive stone screen at the entrance to the choir. This photograph shows the choir of the cathedral, which was built around 1200.Photograph credit: David Iliff

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Edward Gibbon, The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Pluralism

Hi Ancheta, I'm thinking again about your proposal you made on the Talk:Religious pluralism page. Could you somehow integrate that idea into the Diversity article, because that is where, imho, it should go.

Moreover, since you seem to be into scientific theory, could you help us with Pluralism and explain in Pluralism#Pluralism in other areas what pluralism means in the sciences, if there is any such thing. This might help me to formulate a definition of pluralism in the context of religion (since religion and science are both somehow about searching for truth), and anyway, it would be a valuable addition.

Kind regards, --Robin.rueth 15:14, 25 November 2005 (UTC)

Incorporating portals

I notice you incorporated the portal into the cultural category. Did you get permission to do that? Is that now what we're going to do with all of the subject categories? I was wondering whether to do it with the Geography category - that is, add the portal to the main page. What do you think? --komencanto 00:33, 13 July 2005 (UTC)

reply on my talk page --komencanto 01:06, 13 July 2005 (UTC)

Critical theory

That gets a lot of it, but it doesn't really get the psychoanalytic theorists like Lacan. Snowspinner 14:40, Oct 21, 2004 (UTC)

Chicago Meetup

It was a pleasure to meet you today. I think your summary covered the main points of the talk pretty well. -Pete P. Riis 00:46, 25 Oct 2004 (UTC)

History of Telegraphy

Hi, Ancheta Wis. I just reverted your date change in the Ground (electricity) article, and I thought you might like an explanation. My information was based on an article called The Electromagnetic Telegraph, which gives a detailed history of telegraphy from long before the 19th century. 1820 appears to be the date of the first electromagnetic telegraph, built by Baron Schilling. Like you, I was surprised by this early date. It appears that electromagnetism was put to practical use within a year of Oersted's discovery, and long before anybody had a mathematical model of how it worked. --Regards, Heron 13:49, 1 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Scientific method

Hi there! I knew what the link was for, but the title of an article shouldn't be linked (per the Wikipedia:Manual of Style). --David Iberri | Talk 22:58, Nov 11, 2004 (UTC)

Just two short paragraphs later, the MoS says (in bold):

Do not link words in article titles; find other ways to include and then link those words.

And Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Headings says to "avoid links in headings". Looks like you stopped reading a bit too soon ;-) Best, David Iberri | Talk 00:46, Nov 12, 2004 (UTC)

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• Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations that we can perform without thinking about them. --Alfred North Whitehead
• Any technology which is sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic -- Arthur C. Clarke

Vote on Creation Science

You may wabt to keep an eye here as the vote to merge or keep creation science takes place. 81.158.16.79

Vandalism In Progress page

Hello. We haven't met before, but I think I should inform you of a recent development on the "Vandalism in progress" page which may have affected your contributions.

About an hour ago, I attempted to report an act of vandalism in the "Current Alerts" section. Unfortunately, as I was doing this I accidentally deleted an important section of the "Vandalism in progress" main page -- possibly accounting for some of the confusion which other users have reported in the last hour.

I've fixed the situation now. Please note that the difficulty arose out of a misinterpretation on my part, and was not a deliberate act of vandalism. I apologize for any inconvenience that my actions may have caused. (Please also note that it took me almost an hour to identify and solve the problem.)

You may wish to review your recent contributions to the "Vandalism in progress" page, to ensure that everything you intended to write ended up in its proper place. CJCurrie 02:15, 17 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Voyager 2

What's so special about Voyager 2 and August 24? The article on the probe only reports the distance at that date, there's nothing special about it... 193.216.55.231 19:31, 24 Aug 2004 (UTC)

I would like to ask the same question. Anyway, someone else (maveric?) has taken that item off the 'selected anniversary' template. -- PFHLai 07:55, 2004 Aug 25 (UTC)

Vandalism on Tundra

Hi, Ancheta Wis. Tundra is being pestered by vandals with lots of different IP addresses. To me, it seems that all progress on the article has halted, we're just trying to fend off the vandals. Is this a candidate for semi-protection? I don't have a feeling for how severe the problem has to be before semi-protection is a legitimate tool. Thanks! -- hike395 16:40, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

Another complaint about VeryVerily

Would you mind checking into this user's complaint about VeryVerily? I hate to bother you, but he is being quite annoying. Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Gzornenplatz, Kevin Baas, Shorne, VeryVerily/Evidence#VeryVerily and the cold war Thank you. Shorne 11:06, 19 Nov 2004 (UTC)

In response to comment.

Shashank Shekhar (User:203.145.144.118) 10:13, 24 Nov 2004, removed his experiment on Community Portal page at 10:14. This response 26 Nov 2004 (see hist. for text).

Article choice

Fascinating collection of articles you have on your user page. I always enjoy how one edit can lead you down so many fascinating roads. PMcM 03:22, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Article Licensing

Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 1000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:

• Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
• Multi-Licensing Guide
• Free the Rambot Articles Project

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

Option 1

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

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Option 2

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to any [[U.S. state]], county, or city article as described below:

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Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk)

Image:TRex9.JPG

Hello, Ancheta. I noticed you uploaded Image:TRex9.JPG. Where did you get that from? Did you take it yourself, get it from another website, etc.? If you know be sure to put a copyright tag on it. [[User:Neutrality|Neutrality/^talk]] 05:26, Dec 13, 2004 (UTC)

Edit summary

Hello. Please provide an edit summary. Thanks and happy edits. Hyacinth 04:06, 2 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Concensus science

Hi - it's been a while sinse we chatted. There is a new article Consensus science which is in dispute and has been listed for deletion. Take a look if you have the time and interest and weigh in with your wisdom :-) Thanks. Vsmith 03:12, 25 Jan 2005 (UTC)

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Selected anniversaries

Hello, Ancheta Wis. Thought I should let you know that, as you have previously requested on my Talk page, I have filled up the templates for the Selected Anniversaries to almost the end of February. It was fun.  :-) -- PFHLai 11:40, 2005 Feb 21 (UTC)

Whao !!! A barnstar for me ? This is a pleasant surprise, Ancheta Wis ! Thank you very much ! :-D -- PFHLai 22:41, 2005 Feb 22 (UTC)

Re:Seeking attribution

Sorry, I have no clue. I googled the specific quote and didn't get anything... I might be able to find a copy in one of my school's libraries, but do you know which volume/pg no.? --Jiang 21:28, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Image:SumerianClayTablet,palm-sized422BCE.jpg

hi Ancheta -- I find if almost impossible that the tablet can be dated to the year, as late as 422BC (well into the Persian Empire), and that it is still in the Sumerian language. Do you have any reference to back that up? I'm not saying its flat impossible, but it would have to be among the very youngest Sumerian records. In any case, it would be much too young to serve as an illustration for "Ancient Mesopotamia". A very nice example of a Sumerian tablet (dating to Sumerian times) would be this or this. regads, dab (ᛏ) 10:23, 27 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Ah, it's perfectly possible that it dates to 422 BC (although the precision of the date is still suspicious), but in that case it is certainly not from "Ancient Mesopotamia" but was probably created by a conservative priest locked away in some corner of the Persian Empire. Not what you'd want as a showpiece for the "Mesopotamia" article. Maybe it would be more appropriate on Chaldea.

Sorry, the Gauss quotation doesn't ring any bell. nachvollziehbare? dab (ᛏ) 15:51, 27 Feb 2005 (UTC)

sorry for nitpicking; I uploaded the 24th century tablet to make up for it ;o) regards, dab (ᛏ) 17:21, 27 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Image copyright tags

Thanks for uploading Image:SueTrex.jpg. I notice it currently doesn't have an image copyright tag. Could you add one to let us know its copyright status? (You can use {{gfdl}} if you release it under the GFDL, or {{fairuse}} if you claim fair use, etc.) If you don't know what any of this means, just let me know where you got the images and I'll tag them for you. Thanks so much, BCKILLa 10:38, 6 May 2005 (UTC)

My proposal

Thank you for your very interesting comments. If you are willing to do the work, I actually encourage you to make a separate proposal. You can do what I did, which started with following this link Wikipedia:How to create policy and looking at the policy "think tank." I think I like your proposal. However, we may disagree in one regard. If your proposal is meant to facilitate people accessing and using calendars of their own choosing for their personal use, I support your proposal wholeheartedly. If, however, you are suggesting that people be able to use any calendar in any article, I do not, at least, not fully. For me, it is an issue of distinguishing between POV and NPOV text. All articles must be NPOV, but within them they often provide accounts of a particular POV or express a particular POV. In the case that provoked me to develop my proposal, I though that the Jesus article has to be written in an NPOV way, and use an NPOV dating system. I have no problem with using BC and AD in any section explicitly expressing or describing a Christian point of view. Similarly, I think an article on a Jewish topic should be written in an NPOV way, although if within it it there is a section explicitly expressing or describing a Jewish POV, the Jewish calendar should be used. Likewise, an article on a Bangladeshi topic should be written in an NPOV way, but in any specific passage expressing or describing a Bangladeshi view, the Bangladeshi calendar or dating system should be used. If I understand you correctly, your proposal would be a technical improvement, facilitating our being able to use the right calendar or dating system when appropriate. But the concern that motivated my proposal is that I think people are not distinguishing between appropriate and inappropriate situations. But we still need an NPOV dating system. I picked BCE and CE because it is one I have seen many people, especially scholars use. If you want to propose a different NPOV calendar or dating system, I would be open to the suggestion as long as there is some precedent. People are criticising me because they think no one ever uses BCE/CE!! Any NPOV dating system has to have some degree of widespread usage, whatever it is. Am I misunderstanding you? I hope not, and hope you will explain if I am. Slrubenstein | Talk 22:48, 16 May 2005 (UTC)

Chicago Field Museum Images

Hi Ancheta Wis, I notice you've been multi-licencing your chicago field museum images (i.e. TRex1.jpg an others), so I took the liberty of creating a template that you can add to the description page of those images. {{User:Ancheta Wis/Chicago Field Museum Gallery}} can be edited to add other pictures and modified as you see fit. Hope you find this useful. --BCKILLa 17:07, 21 May 2005 (UTC)

Image:TheAmericas.jpg

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lots of edits, not an admin

Hi - I made a list of users who've been around long enough to have made lots of edits but aren't admins. If you're at all interested in becoming an admin, can you please add an '*' immediately before your name in this list? I've suggested folks nominating someone might want to puruse this list. Thanks. BTW - I find your talk page fascinating, but haven't figured out how it's organized. Sorry if this question doesn't end up in the right spot (should it be under 'L'?). -- Rick Block (talk) 14:44, Jun 10, 2005 (UTC)

Portal organization

I see you've made some portals on fundamental categories. Is it your hope to organize portals the way other pages are sorted? And perhaps to reorganize the {{wikiportals}} template to fall in line with {{Main Page banner}}? If so you may want to check out my page User:Trevor macinnis/Portal Work and comment before I go too far and step on your shoes.Trevor macinnis 04:08, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Poll (Macedonian Slav or Macedonian) I hope that this message is of interest to you, if not please accept my apologies. There is a poll in the talk page of the 'Macedonian Slavs' article here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Macedonian_Slavs#The_poll

Some people are lobbying for changing the article's name to Macedonians without any qualifier. As it seems, a number of these people come from the Macedonian/Macedonian Slav wikipedia project. It seemed only fair to attract the attention of people that _possibly_ share or represent a different point of view. Your contributions to the discussion and the poll are welcomed.

Interested in an L.A.-area Wiki meetup?

It appears as though L.A. has never had a Wiki meetup. Would you be interested in attending such an event? If so, checkout User:Eric Shalov/Wikimeetup.

- Eric 06:11, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Image:Wallace's line.jpg

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Image:People3.jpg

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Southeast Asia

Nice work on the page. Hasn't seen it being edited much till now. __earth 13:46, July 10, 2005 (UTC)

RFC on DotSix

I have filed a request for comment on DotSix's conduct. It is available at Wikipedia:Requests for comment/DotSix. Since you are involved in this dispute, you may want to certify the RFC or add your own comments. Thanks. Rhobite 01:57, July 27, 2005 (UTC)

eigth portals links

sorry, for the late reply, i didn't have the template on the watch list. When I 'reverted' the template it looked not as you claim however (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Eight_portals_links&oldid=19571884). --R.Koot 00:12, 3 August 2005 (UTC)

DYK

Did you know? has been updated. A fact from the article Plumpy'nut, which you recently created, has been featured in that section on the Main Page. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently-created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

Flcelloguy | A note? | Desk 20:52, 11 August 2005 (UTC)

DotSix

That was an excellent piece of research on DotSix's other identities. Well done. Banno 21:10, August 14, 2005 (UTC)

Template talk:Box portal skeleton

I'm not sure I should offer to improve this template, but I can certainly offer to help document it. Perhaps you can talk to me a little about what you intended and why you went about it that way. — Xiong熊talk* 23:44, 2005 August 15 (UTC)

Newton's Laws and Earth's Axis

The precession of the Earth's axis is due to the torque of the Moon on Earth's equatorial bulge. The period is 26,000 years. Apparently the ancients did get some measure of it [1] but it is not central to Newton's laws of planetary motion or his law of gravity - these initially explained the orbital motion (around the Sun) with periods of 88 days (Mercury) to hundreds of years (Neptune). Newton also did some work on precession of the equinoxes (precession of earth's axis) [2] but it was not central to developing the laws of motion and gravity - these were validated by planetary orbital motion (and of the satellites) not by axis precession. Please revert the changes you made. The same word "precession" is used for planetary axes of rotation for orbital perihelia, which evidently is causing confusion. Pdn 18:56, 28 August 2005 (UTC)

Well, you have broad interests and accomplishments. But I still disagree with this sentence under Scientific method

"Newton was able to condense these measurements into consequences of his laws of motion. "

which references precession of the Earth's axis. My understanding is that Newton first worked out the orbit of the Moon, and then explained Kepler's laws with the 1/r^2 law of force and his laws of motion. Only later would he have tackled the axis precession. Hope you will reconsider and we can haggle this out - I did not amend your material as I hoped you would agree on the sequence of events. Pdn 03:27, 29 August 2005 (UTC)

Image:NMRioGrandeRift.jpg has been listed for deletion

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Image is still an orphan. Please link the image to an article or vote for deletion as Wikipedia is not a repository for images (See Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not). Thanks. --Nv8200p (talk) 23:55, 5 September 2005 (UTC)

Science pearls

Hello,

Since you contributed in the past to the publications’ lists, I thought that you might be interested in this new project. I’ll be glad if you will continue contributing. Thanks,APH 10:33, 11 September 2005 (UTC)

Ralph Bunche

Thanks for your help on Ralph Bunche, a promising piece on an amazing American. PS Are the people on your user page articles you have contributed most to, or just people you admire/are interested in? --Dpr 21:56, 9 October 2005 (UTC)

Thanks again. And I appreciate your effort to get that pic. We can try to find folks in NYC and DC to get one or more of the other memorial sites. --Dpr 00:28, 10 October 2005 (UTC)

Metrication is FAC

Hello, because of your interest in science articles, I thought you might like to know that the article on Metrication is a featured article candidate, please vote here: Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Metrication. Thanks Seabhcán 13:24, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

Z

#I #?

Talk:Model

I responded to your hidden comment at Talk:Model.--Commander Keane 09:32, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

Philosophy portal

Ancheta, you might be interested in the present discussion at Category talk:Philosophy - Banno 17:20, 2 December 2005 (UTC)

?!?

Let me get this straight, now - you're not an admin? Time to fix that! BD2412 T 01:32, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

• Excellent - let me know when you're ready to have it posted on the main RfA page - you may do that yourself, but I'd be glad to do the honors. Cheers! BD2412 T 13:30, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
  • ... looks done - is it ready for the main page? BD2412 T 03:51, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

Avraam Benaroya

I recently came across 68.102.13.123's edit to Avraam Benaroya. I found it odd that an anonymous user was posting with the edit summary "robot-disambiguated" edit so I viewed the talkpage where you said he had vandalized a page...but this appears to be a bot by Guanaco...perhaps you mixed up anon editors??? freestylefrappe 23:27, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

Oops :-D

Hi sorry about that, I was thinking to myself dejá vú when I was viewing your contributions. Now I know why. I've crossed my second vote out. Good luck. KnowledgeOfSelf | talk 19:33, 24 December 2005 (UTC)

• Not that it much matters when your vote is 27-0 in favor of adminship! BD2412 T 19:39, 24 December 2005 (UTC)

Howcheng's RfA

Thank you for your support in my recent request for adminship. I was successfully promoted with a final tally of 74/0/0. I will endeavour not to let you down. Thanks again. howcheng {chat} 07:33, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

Congratulations!

Congratulations! It's my pleasure to let you know that, consensus being reached, you are now an administrator. You should read the relevant policies and other pages linked to from the administrators' reading list before carrying out tasks like deletion, protection, banning users, and editing protected pages such as the Main Page. Most of what you do is easily reversible by other sysops, apart from page history merges and image deletion, so please be especially careful with those. You might find the new administrators' how-to guide helpful. Cheers! -- 14:53, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

• Congratulations from me as well! BD2412 T 19:53, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

• Congratulations man! --Jondel 06:19, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks

Hello Ancheta Wis/archive1,

I wish to thank you for your vote on my RfA. It has passed with a final tally of 59/0/0. If I can ever help with anything or if you have any comments about my actions as an admin, please let me know! KnowledgeOfSelf | talk 03:58, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

John company

Hi, I'm a bit baffled by your recent edit and summary regarding the East India Company's nickname. Could you expand somewhat? The nickname has been in the article since before the article was promoted to FA, and there was some discussion about it then which confirmed that the nickname was correct. Mark¹ 13:01, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

Preview

It is recommended that you use the preview button before you save; this helps you find any errors you have made, and prevents clogging up recent changes and the page history.SoothingR 12:25, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

It's ok. The article was Culture of Asia. Happy New Year, as well.SoothingR 13:01, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

You may be interested to see my response on the talk page of User:SoothingR. --Bhadani 14:18, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

Yes, I've read both your and Bhadani's comments on my talkpage. Thanks for the explanation. It's always nice to hear things from another perspective, that can free your mind. I will stop using Template:preview for all users that have more than 4 edits in a row, I will however look at the nature of these edits. If the first edit comes up with a broken template, and the other 4 fixes were intended to fix that, I think Template:preview will still serve its job. Thanks for the thorough explanation.SoothingR 17:44, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

My Request for Adminship

Greetings, Ancheta Wis! I wanted to sincerely thank you for voting in my RfA, which passed with a final result of 55/14/3. Your support means a lot to me! If you have any questions or input regarding my activities, be they adminly or just a "normal" user's, or if you just want to chat about anything at all, feel free to drop me a line. Cheers! —Nightstallion (?) 07:51, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

nomination

Ancheta, I am back on deck, and thankful for your suggestion. It might be interesting to pick up the mop and bucket. But I could not locate the actions template by BD2412. Banno 08:28, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

Thank you again, Ancheta. If you are still willing, please go ahead with the nomination. Banno 20:45, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

Questions answered, as you suggested - your comments would be invaluable. Banno 22:01, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

Again, thank you for your interest and support. Banno 02:58, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

Perhaps Slim virgin's objection is based on our exchange at Wikipedia talk:Requests for comment/Bensaccount, [[3]], [[4]]. Banno 03:27, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

Ancheta, I now have a few extra tabs at the top of my Wikipedia pages. Thanks for your very kind comments and support, and most of all for the nomination. Looking forward to working with you in the future. Banno 03:10, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

Query

Hi Ancheta, I've left a question for you on the nomination page about what exactly you meant by calling Banno an "expert contributor." He has said it is better if you answer it. Cheers, SlimVirgin ^(talk) 07:35, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

Thank you

Francs2000's Bureaucratship

Thanks for your support on my request for bureaucratship.

The final outcome was (70/5/0), so I am now a bureaucrat. I seriously didn't expect so many good comments from everybody and I appreciated the constructive criticism from those that gave it. If you have any queries, suggestions or problems with any of my actions as a bureaucrat then please leave me a note. -- Francs2000 21:34, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

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Thanks

For the star. I will do my best - if you see me in error, be sure to let me know. KillerChihuahua^?!? 18:37, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

History of science

Please consider joining the proposed History of Science Wikiproject.--ragesoss 01:10, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

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-Nv8200p talk 17:39, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

Admin star award

Thanks, arigatou, gracias, gratias ago, merci beaucoup, 謝謝(she-she), terimakasi,salamat.--Jondel 05:05, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

English Subjunctive

Hi Ancheta Wis, I was just reading your following comment on the subjunctive, and although I agree with you in principle that it should be retained, I'm not sure if I follow your exact argument as shown...

the English language badly needs to retain the subjunctive mood! I fear for countries that are giving up its usage. How else might one state things that are not yet true and yet very much need to be discussed? What other mechanisms of language might there be to work things out?

Could you maybe give me a couple of examples of how the subjunctive is used like that in English (excluding "I wish I were...)? Thanks, Brian 09:46, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

Brian, some examples can be seen in Jose Rizal, where he submits the Agenda of the Propaganda Movement to Spain. In this case, the Agenda does not exist, so everything is hypothetical. Thus subjunctive is a proper construction: "That the Philippines be a province of Spain". 'Another example might be this sentence.' "'Would you be a dear, and fetch me that pen? Thanks.' "If you were to see what I meant, then you could make even more examples." I have to admit that I do not understand the jussive mode, as I never knew about it before wikipedia. But it may be (note the subjunctive) that "God save our noble Queen" is jussive mode. I do not know (note the indicative mode). --Ancheta Wis 14:29, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

Cheers for that response. I agree that the first example ("Philippines") is the jussive subjunctive, and that the second ("if you were to see") is the hypothetical subjunctive, but I have to disagree about "would you be a dear", as to me that's a simple conditional interrogative. I feel dizzy using such big words this late in the afternoon! Do you mind if I mention it on the Subjunctive discussion page to see what other people think? Brian 16:00, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

Sorry - just one more comment! You said But it may be (note the subjunctive) that... but that definately isn't the subjunctive! Be is used there because may is a modal verb which is followed by the bare infinitive. The only time the subjunctive is used after the word but is when it has the meaning of "although". For example, the Bible verse "but he were dead, yet shall he live", and further note that it's the past subjunctive even though it refers to present time!

For such a simple form, the English Subjunctive is one complicated little thing! Brian 16:20, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

I don't think "would you be a dear" is conditional interrogative, rather it's borderline hortative, interrogative and imperative. Were it a conditional interrogative, its proper interpretation would result in two possible answers: "yes, fetching you a pen would make me a dear" or "no, fetching you a pen would not make me a dear". The confusion arises because generally speaking, the conditional is formed with "would", but that's not the only function "would" serves, nor is "would" the only means by which the conditional can be constructed. Tomer^talk 04:07, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

Page name for temperature articles

To avoid flip-flopping between 'degree Fahrenheit' and 'Fahrenheit' or 'degree Celsius' and 'Celsius', I propose that we have a discussion on which we want. I see you have contributed on units of measurement, please express your opinion at Talk:Units of measurement. Thanks. bobblewik 22:09, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

Page name for temperature articles

To avoid flip-flopping between 'degree Fahrenheit' and 'Fahrenheit' or 'degree Celsius' and 'Celsius', I propose that we have a discussion on which we want. I see you have contributed on units of measurement, please express your opinion at Talk:Units of measurement. Thanks. bobblewik 22:09, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

It is imperative that I be sorry!

Hi Ancheta, sorry for the delay in getting back to you regarding the subjunctive - I didn't even see your message on my sandbox discussion page until 5 minutes ago! I've made the very good changes that you suggested! Sorry again for the delay! Thanks very much and have a nice weekend! Brian 18:42, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

It is imperative that I be sorry!

Hi Ancheta, sorry for the delay in getting back to you regarding the subjunctive - I didn't even see your message on my sandbox discussion page until 5 minutes ago! I've made the very good changes that you suggested! Sorry again for the delay! Thanks very much and have a nice weekend! Brian 18:44, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks!

I just wanted to say thank you for voting for my RFA, of course if you ever need a hand, let me know :) - cohesion★talk 22:59, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

Need some help!

Hi, I need your advice per the 'syllogism' page. You've edited this page in the past and I see you've been editing since 2003. If you would take a look at what happened and what caused what happened to Ted's edits (Twrigely is username) in response to mediation I would appreciate the objective look. I have a dispute with SlimVirgin, Cberlet, and others over tactics used on another couple of articles, and asked for mediation to help a couple of users out. Ted responded to this (he was a member of the Mediation Cabal) and as a result SlimVirgin reverted the article after his verdict. I feel bad about this, as I wish he never got involved in the first place for what happened. I am new by all standards and am just learning the ropes here. I can't even get started in editing and helping here because of what has been done. Ted seems to have left because of his treatment, it is all so wrong. That said, I need a objective observer of this stuff to take a look. I feel SlimVirgin was wrong for what she did and how she did it. I tried to right the wrong, but what has resulted is a reverting war over a page she had no prior interest in. Could you offer any advice? Maybe protect the page in question or work out a solution here. I've used up so much time defending people from tactics that are not right, it is overwhelming and causing me to reconsider ever trying to edit in the first place, especially since a good man like Ted has left due to this. Thanks. --Northmeister 04:02, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

Northmeister, the indirect approach is the best strategy in life. For example, if you were to want A (as your heart's desire), you might propose Not A to other (spiteful) parties; the strategy of positing a counterargument ensures that your heart's desire is then accomplished, even by those who wish you harm, who would accomplish A for spite. Even a devil's advocate can do good, in the long run. But my personal advice would be to

1. state your propositions in subjunctive mood
2. propose test cases, like a scratch monkey or strawman.

-- Regards, --Ancheta Wis 09:59, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

Thank you. --Northmeister 14:56, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

Vandalism

Thanks for experimenting with the page [[:]] on Wikipedia. Your test worked, and has been reverted or removed. Please use the sandbox for any other tests you want to do. Take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. Thanks. Anthony 19:11, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

{{Userwikipedia:RC Patrol}} Here is an explanation of this episode due to User:Anthony cfc 19:34, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

Classical theories of gravitation

You are right that the todo list should appear on the talk page, and thanks for moving it. But according to Wikipedia:Template_messages/Cleanup, cleanup tags should appear at the top of the affected article. ---CH 10:22, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

OK, I get it, you wrote some new code. I guess I still think the flag should appear on the article; otherwise, who will know it's there? And does your new code automatically put the page in some category? What would be most useful would be if you can get this shared watchlist to indicate somehow when an article has a todo list. If you can do that, then I'd agree that the flags are sufficiently distracting to the average user in the immediate present to justify changing policy to put them on the talk page. If you follow through, there are quite a few articles with todo lists listed in this watchlist, BTW.---CH 11:01, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

The template needs to include the category. So if an editor chooses Biology, the category would be category:Articles requiring a review by a biology expert. The idea is that members of the Scientific Peer Review project tag the page for review. I have asked for feedback on the name of the category to be placed in each template. --Ancheta Wis 11:07, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

admin barnstar

(Superbelated )I'm honored. I'm currently sooo busy with my daytime (real)job.Thank you!--Jondel 06:27, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

Image:CheerleadingStunt,UTEP,29November2005.jpg

Hi - This photo currently does not specifically state who took it. Assuming you took it, please change the copyright tag to {{GFDL-self}}. If not, please specify who took it and provide some proof that it has been released under the GFDL. Thanks! -SCEhardT 03:37, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

Same for Image:100 1915.jpg -SCEhardT 03:38, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

Image of Yama

Hello

I have upload this image on common. Can you verify the license. Dom

I do not have an account on Wikipedia Commons. I inserted a statement on the Yama image page. Does that suffice? --Ancheta Wis 17:53, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

I hope so ;-). For information, I have added the photo in the french article Yama. Dom

Image of Mourning Dove

I'm not certain but I think you were the person who uploaded the image labeled NestlingQuailAndMotherQuailCropped.jpg

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These birds look like mourning doves to me rather than quails. Is this image tag in error? If so, how do I go about correcting it? Thanks Ande B 22:43, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

Talk Ex-Yugoslavia

Talk:Kosovo#2 Administrator for Ex-Yugoslavien articels in Wikipedia- The voice of Kosovar

Happy earth day!

weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! __earth ^(Talk) 17:13, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

Re the whole de-bureaucrating thing

Hi, I never came to thank you for the message you left for me a month ago when I stepped down from being a bureaucrat. Thank you for the things you said, it's good to know there are still plenty of good people about in this project. I do not see myself standing for bureaucrat again anytime soon though who knows what the future may bring! Thank you once again. -- Francs2000 10:02, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

Moon Pix

Hi Ancheta Wis!
Were you reffering to this pic?. I'm glad you like it. AFAIK you don't need anything special to take a pic of the moon in daylight - all you need is a visible moon! I took this shot at 75mm (or about 3x optical zoom) and probably around f/4.5 and ISO 400. I big zoom would be handy, but only so that you could get closer in to the moon. The aperture and ISO certainly shouldn't affect your shot other than to lower camera shake. What are the problems you are getting with your camera? I honestly think you should be fine in getting a shot. I don't know what camera you've got, but if you are planning on getting a new one, and you don't want to spend a lot, go for the Canon S2 IS - a lovely camera. Hope this helps a little --Fir0002 www 09:01, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

History of science portal

Portal:History of science became a featured portal today. Thought you might like to know, since you started it. :) --ragesoss 06:00, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Article Improvement Drive for Southeast Asia

On these terrapins behalf, I'd like to say thank you for voting History of Southeast Asia. __earth ^(Talk) 03:08, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

Hello. I notice that you've been editing History of Southeast Asia (including some other articles related to SEA) for a long time now. So, would you mind supporting History of Southeast Asia as a nominee at Wikipedia:Article Improvement Drive? Thanks! __earth ^(Talk) 15:15, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

Image Tagging Image:TibetanWomen,ButterChurn.jpg

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Long talk page

Greetings! Your talk page is getting a bit long in the tooth - please consider archiving your talk page (or ask me and I'll archive it for you). Cheers! BD2412 T 23:26, 16 June 2006 (UTC)