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Handing

To continue your brilliant exercise in orientation - take a look if you would at handing (no, it's not some perversion, it's absolutely safe for work. It is about work, that is, woodwork). Or let it do down the drains of Wiktionary? East of Borschov 21:10, 30 September 2010 (UTC)

Hmm, I'm betting that an article could be written on that -- it's a design decision, and one can find books that spend paragraphs on it. But those books make my head hurt. :-) Melchoir (talk) 00:17, 2 October 2010 (UTC)

Any idea why the Toilet paper oritnetation page is suddenly active again? Is it being linked off site somewhere? I dont see it on the Main Page or as a secondary link from something that is. —Soap— 12:54, 31 January 2011 (UTC)

Well, it's been linked from Fark, but the traffic spike started at least 12 hours before that link went live. I don't know what the initial cause was. Melchoir (talk) 21:31, 31 January 2011 (UTC)

Block of User:Tcshasaposse

Some time ago you have blocked User:Tcshasaposse due to a conflict with the WP:NOSHARE policy. I wonder whether this issue could be solved in the positive since these user(s)' additions were quite helpful in the coverage of complexity-theoretic topics. It would have been a serious loss in qualified input if we'd just told them to go away. Unfortunately, the block entry points to the user talk page, which has been deleted. Can you provide some insight into this? Nageh (talk) 12:49, 31 January 2011 (UTC)

Sure! The user talk page was apparently deleted as part of a now-defunct process; see Category:Temporary Wikipedian userpages and Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2010_July_12#Category:Temporary_Wikipedian_userpages. Since you've asked about its contents, I've simply undeleted the user talk page: User talk:Tcshasaposse. Thanks, Melchoir (talk) 21:27, 31 January 2011 (UTC)

Thanks a lot for the reply! I wonder though whether violating WP:NOSHARE was such a serious concern that the account had to be blocked. I'm worried that we may have lost help from a group of students. On the other hand there wasn't a lot of activity during the latter months so it probably wouldn't have changed anything. Well, thanks again! Nageh (talk) 23:22, 31 January 2011 (UTC)

No prob! Yeah, I'm not sure if I scared them away, or if they were done anyway, or if they found other ways to edit but never said so... or what. I probably should have been more patient. Melchoir (talk) 02:49, 1 February 2011 (UTC)

Toilet paper orientation

Hi, seeing that you created this article, you may want to have a look at this: The J-Walk Blog: Toilet paper orientation. —Bruce1ee^talk 07:05, 1 February 2011 (UTC)

Thanks!

And this. --candle•wicke 01:39, 7 February 2011 (UTC)

Nice. In other news, Michael Bywater hates knowledge. ;-) Melchoir (talk) 06:36, 7 February 2011 (UTC)

Garrick Mallery

I came across the Mallery article with AWB. The article appears to be word for word from the Brief memoirs of Colonel Garrick Mallery book. You may want to rewrite the article and trim it down. Bgwhite (talk) 05:59, 15 March 2011 (UTC)

You're absolutely right, and that's a good idea. Melchoir (talk) 06:19, 15 March 2011 (UTC)

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Re: Gullibility

Semi'd. Good luck, Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs^(talk) 15:21, 2 April 2011 (UTC)

Nice job

Perhaps your well done expansion of Baby Got Back will quiet some of the clamor that the article desperately needs a lyrical synopsis. Cheers, OhNoitsJamie ^Talk 15:39, 5 April 2011 (UTC)

Let's hope! :) Melchoir (talk) 17:27, 5 April 2011 (UTC)

BTW, I later realized that I'd left a dismissive comment to your suggestion on the Baby Got Back talk page. I've retracted it, and sincerely apologize for not reading it closely enough, and as a result, misinterpreting your intention. Kudos to your patience; I guess mine was running thin yesterday. OhNoitsJamie ^Talk 20:08, 5 April 2011 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Euler on infinite series

The article Euler on infinite series has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Not an encyclopedia article. This quote is not itself a notable topic for an article, and although Euler's treatment of divergent series might be sufficiently notable, that's not what's in this article. Has been tagged for transwiki for four years with no progress.

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Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. The speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. —David Eppstein (talk) 04:25, 13 April 2011 (UTC)

(shrug) Perhaps it wasn't meant to be. Melchoir (talk) 03:21, 14 April 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Gullibility

The DYK project (nominate) 00:04, 14 April 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the ref help

I've been trying to figure out how to consolidate the refs--now I can work from your example. Cheers, Khazar (talk) 01:47, 17 April 2011 (UTC)

No prob, glad I could help! Melchoir (talk) 01:48, 17 April 2011 (UTC)

Marsupial Lawns

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Hello! Your submission of Marsupial lawn at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and there still are some issues that may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Shadygrove2007 (talk • contribs) 13:13, 22 April 2011

See User talk:Mmdrewser... Melchoir (talk) 09:58, 24 April 2011 (UTC)

Chowk Bazaar

The user replied, see User talk:Eshahalim#Chowk Bazaar. Cheers,  Chzz  ►  09:26, 24 April 2011 (UTC)

Right, thanks! Melchoir (talk) 09:55, 24 April 2011 (UTC)

Thanks For Fixing The References.

I appreciate it. I'm kind of new to Wikipedia, so I'm glad you helped me. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Logan The Master (talk • contribs) 02:28, 25 April 2011 (UTC)

I fixed the Ultra Machine article.

At least I think I did. I changed it a bit because I realized it was extremely similar to the Nintendo Wiki's article. I really wasn't trying to plagiarize. Logan The Master (talk) 14:41, 28 April 2011 (UTC) Logan The Master

Vopenka

Hi, Are you familiar with the motivation for his set theory? I couldn't really make heads or tails of it on the related pages. Tkuvho (talk) 08:52, 29 April 2011 (UTC)

Nope, never heard of him until today. :-) Melchoir (talk) 08:58, 29 April 2011 (UTC)

Syzygy (astronomy)

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Opinion on APG III

Hi Melchoir,

First of all, I am flattered by your curiosity with my opinion on APG III system. As always I say: classifications are mere suggestions, with weak and strong points.

I was against APG I system by its tendency in to found only in researches in the chloroplast genoma and to do drastic changes in the Angiosperm families; and against APG II system by the informality of taxa (bracket taxa, plain clades, etc) and in a general way by its intransigence in accepting paraphyletic groups as being natural groups (and even polyphyletic, in my opinion: in essence all taxa are polyphyletic ones), because I see them it taxa as a structure more than three-dimensional, an element can in your two-dimensionality to seem not to have phylogenetic relationship with another, but arranged (graphically, like a reticular system) of another way like the three-dimensional manner this would be evident.

Other critic is that APG always tended to "lumping" taxa in entities unprovided morphological characteristics clear that distinguished them (i. e., the synapomorphies) turning them metaphysical "entities" without the necessary practicability to work with the real biodiversity.

But I have faith that APG in its version III made a very positive effort to improve the acceptance of its schema in a more universal way. I see this version as a "ripening". Cheers. Berton (talk) 14:27, 3 May 2011 (UTC)

Very interesting, thanks for explaining! Melchoir (talk) 18:01, 3 May 2011 (UTC)

Redirecting Superchalifraglisticxpealidocious

What is your opinion on just having that page deleted? The spelling differences between that and Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious are more than minimal, as there are 4 differences between the two? Inks.LWC (talk) 00:51, 20 May 2011 (UTC)

(shrug) That would be fine, go ahead and prod it if you want. Melchoir (talk) 01:03, 20 May 2011 (UTC)

Request unprotection

would you please consider un-protecting ITalkBB (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs) please? I understand that "continually recreated" can be a problem, but permanently protecting a page which could be used to describe a corporation that actually exists based on the meager participation at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/iTalkBB seems like overkill, to me. Especially considering that you've salted the entire history by moving and deleting the userfied page as well (User:Banazir/ITalkBB (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)). Thanks.
— V = IR (Talk • Contribs) 01:42, 23 May 2011 (UTC)

Okay, fair enough! Done. Melchoir (talk) 01:49, 23 May 2011 (UTC)

Need Some Help

Could you help me categorize this?: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Nintendo arcade games. I don't know what it falls under. Logan The Master (talk) 15:33, 28 May 2011 (UTC)

Sure! I put it under cat=O. Games/Sports and Science/Technology didn't really seem to fit. Melchoir (talk) 19:16, 28 May 2011 (UTC)

Thank you! Logan The Master (talk) 14:09, 29 May 2011 (UTC)

Ken Allen

The Ken Allen article, to which you recently added some "further reading" references, spiked to 3,500 page views that day - as opposed to the usual average of 20-30 per day. Do you have any idea why? Do your "further reading" posts have that much power? 0;-D Thanks --MelanieN (talk) 02:53, 31 May 2011 (UTC)

Well, I found it here: http://www.reddit.com/r/wikipedia/comments/hninf/ . Who knows how they found it? :-) Melchoir (talk) 02:57, 31 May 2011 (UTC)

Then I'm baffled. I knew it hadn't been at DYK, and I couldn't find anything in the news. Life's little mysteries! --MelanieN (talk) 03:09, 31 May 2011 (UTC)

Christian Menses

Stop deleting/blocking the creating of this page. It was put upon to make the page as I see fit for him. And I can verify this anyway you need me too. — Preceding unsigned comment added by B5nny (talk • contribs) 03:59, 11 June 2011 (UTC)

Your fix of my manual page redirect

Hi. Regarding your fix of my manual page move/redirect (at O lucenti, o sereni occhi (Handel)): thanks for doing that. I was just realizing the problem with my manual move (no history) when you came along and saved the day. For my own information, what is the official procedure I should go through if I want to have a page renamed? Thanks again. GFHandel ♬  21:02, 19 June 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for your helpful additions to Nasothek

I usually look for appropriate categories to use in articles similar to the one I'm creating, but it did not occur to me we would have a category for Noses. Thanks for finding it and congratulations on your DYK for Toilet paper orientation. Sharktopus ^talk 06:59, 28 June 2011 (UTC)

No prob, and thank you! Melchoir (talk) 21:23, 28 June 2011 (UTC)

Zombo.com

You can ask for the title to be unsalted at WP:RFUP and move your draft out of userspace. No need to go to DRV. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • ^{(Otters want attention)} 01:25, 28 July 2011 (UTC)

You're probably right, but it's a strange case... anyway, since it's already at DRV, we might as well let it play out there. Melchoir (talk) 02:27, 28 July 2011 (UTC)

PTF 11kly

I finished my editing pass about 3 minutes after your talk page post; it's all yours! --Christopher Thomas (talk) 09:20, 26 August 2011 (UTC)

Thanks! Melchoir (talk) 09:30, 26 August 2011 (UTC)

DYK for 2011 University of Miami athletics scandal

Casliber (talk · contribs) 16:03, 27 August 2011 (UTC)

Chandravadana and Mohiya

It's not clear to me why they are notable from the text you have restored. Or are Indian saints (if that's what they are) notable by definition? And why are saints in a census?Jimfbleak - talk to me? 16:00, 13 September 2011 (UTC)

Okay, so the prose sucks, but that's not an excuse to speedy an article with four sources. I keep telling the newbies that sources are all you need to guarantee that an article survives; I'd hate to be made a liar on that account!

They're categorized as saints because they're described in the book on saints. Unfortunately, I only have small snippets from Google, so I'm not sure exactly what the book says about their status. They're described in the census not in a listing of residents, but in an expository section about the town. Again, I have only snippets; I don't know the full context. The census seems to cite another source for the stories, but I can't tell what that other source is. And the census isn't carried by any libraries near me. Melchoir (talk) 21:40, 13 September 2011 (UTC)

I wrote a bit more. Melchoir (talk) 21:44, 13 September 2011 (UTC)

Rage comic

It is not a website, but it is web content. That is covered by db-web as "an article about a web site, blog, web forum, webcomic, podcast, browser game, or similar web content", right? →Στc. 04:34, 20 September 2011 (UTC)

No, it's a format that web comics can take, rather than a webcomic in itself. In other words, it's more like Mobile comic or Pixel art than A Softer World or Dinosaur Comics. It doesn't have a homepage, and there's no one trying to promote it to increase ad revenue. It's just a meme. Melchoir (talk) 04:39, 20 September 2011 (UTC)

A kitten for you!

this means war, no further comment

SEinternational (talk) 02:00, 26 September 2011 (UTC)

Richat Stucture Comment

In Talk:Richat Structure, you asked:

"Are you one of the authors of the paper?"

After I posted my comments to the talk section for the Richat Structure, I looked up the ISPs for "83.44.199.232" and "81.34.65.152". They both belong to Telefonica de Espana (AS3352), Madrid, Spain. Paul H. (talk) 04:28, 8 October 2011 (UTC)

Thank you, I will read.

Thank you, I will read. I do not need help so far but it should be made easier to make new articles entries. I copied from other similar articles for the wikicoding and the duplicate reference part was more complicated but I found the help page. If I made mistakes please accept my apologies, I used a lot the preview function to see if it was showing properly. Nottan Oakser — Preceding unsigned comment added by NottanOaks (talk • contribs) 07:03, 12 October 2011 (UTC)

Asmara

Thank you for that. Can you help me out with the Asmara page, I don't want anything I've edited to be deleted without a valid reason. --Tron9698 (talk) 20:16, 15 October 2011 (UTC)

I'm not too familiar with that page. What are you concerned about, that might be deleted? Melchoir (talk) 20:18, 15 October 2011 (UTC)

New Page Patrol survey

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Re:Userspace draft template

Hi Melchoir, I have added the userspace draft template to all my sandbox pages. Thanks for letting me know about that template. — Ganeshk (talk) 10:36, 28 October 2011 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Order of the Occult Hand

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Net force versus resultant force

I have just started editing the net force article, as you suggested (see the article and its discussion). May need a few days to continue (as well as to join discussion on CG).--Ilevanat (talk) 21:00, 9 November 2011 (UTC)

Sounds good! Melchoir (talk) 22:07, 9 November 2011 (UTC)

I have finally completed the net force article, though it may need some polishing. Would appreciate your comments. Now can come back to the CG discussion, but for comments on potential energy minimum a few words on starting assumprions would be helpful.--Ilevanat (talk) 01:24, 23 November 2011 (UTC)

Thanks, I've commented there. I'll also add a short explanation at CG. Melchoir (talk) 03:03, 23 November 2011 (UTC)

Talkback

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African wax print

Hi

I noticed you were involved with the person who started the page, indeed some dialogue ensued between the two of you.

It appears that there may have been a little possibility of COI, as well as the copyright issue currently raised there. I do not know if there was any discussion over those two matters when the page was being created but, as the Wikipage was after the posted date on the website, you may want to weigh in on any discussions.

Thanks Chaosdruid (talk) 09:14, 16 November 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the notification! Although there's a clear case of COI, I think the article isn't too promotional; it would be easier to clean it up than to delete it and start over, if that were the only problem. However, the copyright issue is thornier. User:Juliakeck might be the copyright holder, but she might not be aware of our free licensing. I'll run the article through the process. Melchoir (talk) 08:25, 17 November 2011 (UTC)

I figured that any discussions about Juliakeck sending a note from the original website might receive a more favourable response if it came from you than someone they have not dealt with before (assuming they are the same Juliak Keck!). Hope it all works out :¬) Chaosdruid (talk) 21:27, 17 November 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Order of the Occult Hand

Panyd^{The muffin is not subtle} 08:02, 17 November 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Second Generation (advertisement)

Casliber (talk · contribs) 00:03, 20 November 2011 (UTC)

b:0.999...

Great to see you around WB. If you need any help let me know. For example if you want to transwiki 0.999... into WB to scavange from, that is within my abilities. Welcome again! Thenub314 (talk) 18:43, 27 November 2011 (UTC)

Thanks a lot! I'm not sure that the transwiki is necessary, but I'll keep the option in mind! Melchoir (talk) 19:22, 27 November 2011 (UTC)

Categories for discussion nomination of Category:Fans

Category:Fans, which you created, has been nominated for discussion. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 04:51, 5 January 2012 (UTC)

Nomination for merging of Template:Expand further/doc

Template:Expand further/doc has been nominated for merging with Template:Incomplete. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you. _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk to me} 22:30, 2 February 2012 (UTC)

Summation of Grandi's series

Hi. In early March, about 5 years ago, you added two notes that should've (probably / hopefully) been expanded by anyone knowledgeable enough. I'm sorry i don't fit that description, so i'm not able to do it myself. Could you please at least rephrase those two statements, so that they won't look so out of place? Thank you. -- Jokes Free4Me (talk) 05:19, 13 February 2012 (UTC)

Sure, I won't have much to say, but at least I can make them complete sentences. Thanks for checking! Melchoir (talk) 22:12, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

commons:File:3-adic integers with dual colorings.svg and commons:File:2-adic integers with dual colorings.svg

Nice idea to show values of characters! Also, tips in a SVG image is a novelty for me. Incnis Mrsi (talk) 10:32, 17 February 2012 (UTC)

Thanks! I was just reading the SVG standard to figure out how to generate such images, and I discovered that SVG documents can contain not only browser-readable semantics, but also CSS and Javascript! I have a scripted version that displays both groups side-by-side and colors one when you hover over an element from the other... but Wikipedia doesn't allow scripted SVG, so we can't use it anytime soon.

Anyway, if you have suggestions for improvements, just let me know! I'm heavily automated the production of these diagrams, so making changes is easy. Melchoir (talk) 01:38, 18 February 2012 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Expand further

Template:Expand further has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 23:36, 24 February 2012 (UTC)

Some thoughts about the center of mass article

After a while, I revisited the CM article, after Teapeat had merged CG into it. Not a bad merger, but I believe it could be improved, without re-engaging in the lengthy disscussion we previously had. Would you care to visit the article discussion page?--Ilevanat (talk) 23:32, 7 March 2012 (UTC)