User talk:Salix alba

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Re: adminship

As a follow up of the discussion above, now that the Starwood arbcom case is over, what do you think of candidating for admin? You've been here for a long time, did a lot of work, and I think you will have very good chances of passing. So what do you think? You can reply here. Cheers, Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 20:03, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Derivative

Hello Salix alba - you commented on the GA status of Derivative a while ago. In the course of rewriting the article, I believe your comments have been (at least partially) addressed. Your further comments would be much appreciated. Geometry guy 18:43, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

Ah, the King weighs in!

Do you know everything that goes on? You seem to turn up everywhere! Well, it's nice to see you -- even though your math guys nearly gave Pigman a nervous break down. I guess you math people are a story unto you selves. And you will forever remain a mystery. Some one was musing to me the other day about your support of User:Ekajati and I said that I really could not complain because you have been wonderful to me. Sincerely, --Mattisse 20:20, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

P.S. I am referring to Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Association of Members' Advocates. I realise that was not clear. --Mattisse 20:22, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

Its easy really, I have your talk page on my watchlist - just watching it in case theres any trouble brewing, thankfully things seem quite. Occasionally something of interest pops up.

I'll say nothing on starwood, case closed and its best forgotten.

Pigman and addition was interesting. Yes we could have been a bit more supportive. I think there is something intrinsically dificult with expressing mathematics in english. You can see this as the reason for actually developing mathematical notation. With the mathematical language and notation it becomes posible to express certain concepts easilly, which become quite convuluted in english. --Salix alba (talk) 21:40, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

A question

To man who knows all,

Dinesh and I are working on an article in a sandbox of mine. When the time comes to move it out into the mainspace, how is that done? Can one just rename it and move? Or is it more like blank the page and cut/paste into new article (thereby losing edit history, I presume). Thanks! Sincerely, --Mattisse 00:03, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

P.S. When I was a kid and just into Algebra, I bugged my father a great deal over "what does a function f(x) mean?" ). I couldn't get it through my thick head then, no matter what he said.

In college calculus, everyday a lecturer would walk in, scribble a bunch of stuff on the board and walk out. One day about two-thirds of the way through the semester, a student raised his hand and asked, "Why would you want to know that?" The instructor explained, giving some real world examples, and suddenly everything was clear. Sincerely, --Mattisse 00:15, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

(I know now what a function is -- don't know what the problems was then, except maybe I expected the answer to be more complicated than it was.)

Yes. Moving an article from a sandbox to main space is a prefered way of doing this as it should keep the edit history.

Indeed a good load of examples help at lot. --Salix alba (talk) 09:17, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks! Sincerely, --Mattisse 15:34, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

About the x^y image

Hi, it's Xedi, I saw you nicely modified some things on the Media:x^y2.png image. I'm not at home right now, but would you like me to do another export of it with your additions ? And any other things you would see fit ?

Thanks. --Xedi (not logged)

Not entirely sure what your after. I do have an svg version of the image. I did cheet a bit and used the points on the grid to construct the green curves y=+/- x/2. It would be interesting to see the image of y=x^2, which I think is should be a smooth curve through 1. I don't have access to Mupad so its quite hard to plot other curves on it. --Salix alba (talk) 23:05, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

What!

Your archived! Must be change in the wind. (I have my suspictions.) Sincerely, Mattisse 00:27, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

Indeed, just beging to go self-employed. Theoretically this means less time for wikipedia. --Salix alba (talk) 01:10, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

But better for you. Once I discovered I could not work for others, the world opened up. I became blessed. May the same happen to ou. Freedom! Sincerely, --Mattisse 01:20, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

Oh

I've already decided to ignore the rest of it. Ridiculous stuff! At least my case has be closed today which is all I have been wanting anyway. Thanks so much for your message and your concern. It means a lot to me. You have been a good friend and I appreciate you. Sincerely, Mattisse 22:56, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

For you, with deep felt appreciation

		The Surreal Barnstar
		For being a true friend through thick and thin. No Barnstar good enough to give to you for being my kind guiding light of reason in this wilderness. Mattisse 00:58, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

Cool ;-) --Salix alba (talk) 01:00, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

1^infty

I accidentally left out an edit summary when I undid a reversion of yours; I left an explanation here. CMummert · talk 17:02, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

Whoopse, sorry. --Salix alba (talk) 19:18, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks!!

I was angry that my AMA Advocate refused to let me contact him for two months and then made disparaging remarks about me on talk pages. That is what this latest dust up is about. The person who scolded me for being angry at my Advocate is the one making the posts on my page now. But my new Advocate is very calming and has a quieting effect on me, similar to you, and I will follow his advice and yours. Thank you so much! Sincerely, --Mattisse 19:50, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

I getting closer to doing what I agreed with you I wouldn't do. In fact, I think I will do it. People should know how incredibly sloppy and unprofessional they are. And I don't really care what happens to me. I know I can alway write and edit for Dinesh no matter what. And since I am trashed anyway, why not trash an organisation that does evil by existing. If I were the only person who felt this way it would be one thing, but there are massive amounts of legitimate people who want that thing shut down. I would be crusading for the good! Sincerely, Mattisse 21:00, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

Nooo Don't do it. I don't think I could handle the fallout. --Salix alba (talk) 10:03, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

I have not yet. I have sent emails to my Advocate and a former Advocate of my sockpuppet adversary (who is my friend) and finally posted on My Advocate's page as he does not acknowledge email. If I let this go, the next sock puppet ring (as it surely will spring up again and still has not been thoroughly eradicated) will use this. They will and the whole thing will start up again. One thing I have learned, and should have learned a long time ago, is how to stand up for myself and not just let myself be walked over passively. If I do not stop this now there will never be any hope for me. I have done nothing wrong, except the relatively comparatively mild act of having sock puppets on my computer for a short time and not being fully aware that was happening. I was punished for that and have done nothing wrong since. That was in September, I believe. This is May. There are still sock puppets after me -- fortunately at the moment there are some who look out for me and email when a sockpuppet is changing my email and doing other sly things that i do not detect. You do not understand. And you are not aware of all that has happened. I would be sorry to lose you as a friend but I am not going allow this to continue without standing up for myself. Sincerely, Mattisse 14:49, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

CMSP

Salix alba,

your comments on the AfD page were fair, but even more your expansion of the article convinces me that it should be kept. Thank you. Jd2718 23:50, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

Indeed, improvements to the article are often the best result of an AfD. Care to change your vote? --Salix alba (talk) 08:47, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

knot theory: A-class ready?

Hi Rich. What do you think about the knot theory article? Do you think it'll pass an A-class nom? Or is there some serious issue with it? --Chan-Ho (Talk) 12:10, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

Category:Complex systems

Thank you for your contribution to Category:Complex systems in the past. There is currently a Call for Deletion for this category. If you would like to contribute to the discussion, you would be very welcome. Please do this soon if possible since the discussion period is very short. Thank you for your interest if you can contribute. Regards, Jonathan Bowen 14:18, 16 April 2007 (UTC)