User talk:AxelBoldt

Please add new comments at the bottom. I will reply on this page. If I wrote something on your talk page, please reply there. The idea is to make quoting easy and keep conversations in their logical order.

Older talk can be found in

• User_talk:AxelBoldt/Archive July 2001 - December 2004
• User_talk:AxelBoldt/Archive December 2004 - December 2006

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Johnnyfrank

Thanks for editing referenced material on the article devoted to Valeria Messalina. However, according to Prosopographia Imperii Romani, Messalina's paternal grandfather was not Marcus Valerius Messalla Messallinus but Marcus Valerius Messala Barbatus Appianus (PIR1 V 89), a Claudius Pulcher by birth (son of Appius Claudius Pulcher, cos. 38BC) adopted by Marcus Valerius Messala, cos. suff. 32 BC. Also, PIR doesn't list Marcus Valerius Messala Corvinus as Messalina's brother. This Corvinus was, in fact, from another branch of the Valerii Messalini gens. See the stemmata published in PIR.

--Johnnyfrank 10:00, 19 november 2007 (UTC)

Andy Warhol

You are the earliest contributor to Andy's article:

(cur) (last) 07:58, 22 May 2002 AxelBoldt (Talk | contribs) m

So I thought it appropriate to contact you!!

I'd like to DOUBLE the image of ANDY. What do you think? Can you comment on his artcle/discussion page please?? Thanks, Thanks, --Ludvikus 05:23, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

Habibti/Habibati

The former (Habibti) is colloquial Arabic, while the latter (Habibati) is Modern Standard, I believe. There are various forms of colloquial, however, so it could be different depending on what modern colloquial language that's being referred to. In general, however, on Arabic pages in Wikipedia, the forms cited are Modern Standard (MSA). — ዮም | (Yom) | Talk • contribs • Ethiopia 06:25, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks! AxelBoldt 07:53, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

Polyacetylene

Thanks for the over-due edits to polyacetylene. Please keep an eye on this article as topics related to this have been controversial (suprisingly). Please keep up the good work in this area. I would be glad to help.--Smokefoot 20:03, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

Bacillus oleronius

Hi,

It's an ingredient in a commercial mix I use, not sure what it's supposed to do exactly, which is part of why I started the stub (i.e., in the hopes of finding out). It's in a mix called "biostart plus", used for newly transplanted materials. --SB_Johnny|^talk|_books 11:50, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

Age of Consent

• There isn't really a lot of information on this regard in Thai Wikipedia. There are no specific articles about Age of Consent and even law related articles are mostly stubs such as th:กฎหมายอาญา (criminal law). I will try to ask around and let you know if there are updates on this --Jutiphan 20:42, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

• In Thai Law, there are many specific ages for legal purpose
  • Age of Consent for juristic act According to Civil and Commercial Code of Thailand, Section 19. A person, on completion of twenty years of age ceases to be a minor and becomes sui juris. This Section is the general provision which measure the person whether he/she is a minor or not.
  • Age of consent for marriage Book 5 of the Civil and Commercial Code states that marriage can be done when both parties are seventeen (17) years of age but with a reasonable ground , the court may permit them to be married before.
  • Age of simple majority According to the Prostitution Prevention and Suppression Act, " child " means a person who is not yet over 18 years of age.

I wish my reply can help you. Vetbook (talk) 19:11, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

• I think recent case of the lead singer of the Thai music group Big Ass was charged with statutory rape would be involved with section 283 bis. The text of Penal Code of Thailand, section 283 bis is

"Section 283 bis. Whoever brings a person over fifteen years but not yet over eighteen years of age for an indecent sexual purpose, even with the consent of that person, shall be punished with imprisonment not exceeding five years, or a fine not exceeding ten thousand baht, or both.

If the commission of the offence in the first paragraph is committed against a person not yet over fifteen years of age, the offender shall be punished with imprisonment not exceeding seven years, or a fine not exceeding fourteen thousand baht, or both. Whoever conceals the person who was brought away as provided in the first, or second paragraph, shall be punished with the punishment accordingly provided in the first, or second paragraph.

The commission of the offence as provided in the first and third paragraph against a person over fifteen years of age is the compoundable offence.”

This section is not involved with the Age of Consent. Its purpose is only the children protection.

I wish my reply can help you. Vetbook (talk) 19:21, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

• Ok, that's the difficult question.

There're 2 main theories about the word "bring" in Section 283 bis First, It means "to take away from from his/her own position". And the other is "to prevent him/her from exercising of parental power over him/her"

However, there's no any decided case in Thailand that indicate which theory is the most applicable. Both of theories were showed together in each of the decided cases. The Judges use both of them with equity.

In my opinion, the first theory is more applicable than the other one. Because this section is not protect only the minors, but persons over fifteen years but not yet over eighteen years of age, even though they are not a minor anymore.

I wish my reply can help you. Sorry, if my english is ambiguous. Vetbook (talk) 22:55, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

RAW

I'm curious as to your recent revert; you mention it is a copyvio. But visiting that website, it seems to be Freely licensed and acceptable for inclusion. It also seems to have left a bad taste in a new contributor's mouth: "Unfortunately all my additions were reverted again. I give up...." --Gwern (contribs) 23:57 12 January 2007 (GMT)

Thanks for letting me know, I'll answer in Talk:Robert Anton Wilson. AxelBoldt 01:32, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

Riverside Church

It is situated in Morningside Heights, Manhattan. It just is. Please don't "correct" it if you think that's in the Upper West Side. You are mistaken. in this. --Wetman 02:45, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

I didn't "correct" anything, I just rewrote whatever information was already there. AxelBoldt 04:45, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

Ackermann function

Could you provide another round of informal review on this article on its talk page? Thankx.--199.33.32.40 01:49, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

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Sausenburg

Greetings, I am trying to get an article written about a castle ruin in the Schwarzwald. There is a German Wikipedia article on Sausenburg, but my translation skills are very sub-par. Would you be willing to help by taking a look at this article, and the sandbox version in my userspace? Thanks a lot.--Eva ^bd 13:29, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks so much. I very much appreciate this.--Eva ^bd 04:58, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

Invariance of domain example

At invariance of domain, I believe it is you who added the example (t^2-1,t^3-1) as an example of an injective continuous non-homeomorphism. Can you explain this to me, it seems to be a homeomorphism onto its image as I see it. Thanks. MotherFunctor 00:06, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

Hi, I like your nick. The function (t^2-1,t^3-1) is indeed a homeomorphism onto its image, but the function from the article, (t^2-1,t^3-t) for t>-1 is injective but not a homeomorphism. Cheers, AxelBoldt 05:49, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

Of course! the old rap around line. I was too busy squinting at the poor autoformatting of the exponents, misread the t for a 1. Glad I asked, makes sense now, thanks. MotherFunctor 10:41, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

Excuse me ,but did you really....

...Write this text:

"Nijvel gang From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Revision as of 12:09, 8 March 2004 by AxelBoldt (Talk | contribs) (diff) ← Older revision | Current revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff) Jump to: navigation, search The Nijvel gang (Flemish: Bende van Nijvel) is the group thought to be responsible for the massacre of Brabant, a series of violent attacks that occurred in Brabant, Belgium from 1982 to 1985 and resulted in 29 deaths.

The group that carried out these armed robberies of bars, supermarkets and a weapons depot initially identified itself as the "Fighting Communist Cells" (CCC), supposedly acting in protest against NATO plans of deploying MGM-31 Pershing missiles in Europe. The attacks were carried out with almost military precision, leading to suspicions that this effort to destabilize the country came from disgruntled right-wing members of the Rijkswacht, a national military-style police force. The weapons used to carry out the murders were stolen from a police arsenal. The crimes were never solved.

Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nijvel_gang"

Because,mostly,the C.C.C are discribed as people from

the left sides

of politics scenes in Belgium,

and because in the same text ,you are saying that the actions,the attacks :

"(...)were carried out with almost military precision, leading to suspicions that this effort

to destabilize the country

came from disgruntled right-wing

members of the Rijkswacht,

a national military-style police force ."

Thank you for your attention.

A reader . BElgium.--213.49.135.135 22:35, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

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Yes, I wrote that and I stand by it. I'm aware of the fact that the CCC is left and the Rijkswacht is right. I wanted to express the fact that the group initially identified themselves as acting from the left, but then suspicions arose that they were actually acting from the right. Cheers, AxelBoldt 01:39, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

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TO AXEL BOLDT

Thank you for your very fast answer,sorry for my very slow respons.

It is true that I heard someone telling me that it could be (that was the opinion of that

person)the C.C.C. responsible for the factslike Braine l'Alleud,Overijse or Alost,but

I don't know who is truely responsible for those facts.

I don't know if,yes or not , the C.C.C. is left or right.

I don't know if the Rijkswacht ( belgian gendarmerie or Rijkswacht) is (or was) right or left.

Did you read the recent declarations of mister Robert Beijer about the body of mister Francis

Zwarts?

Are you still following just a bit the cases of what happened in Braine l'Alleud,Overijse or

Alost in 1985?

Miss Patricia Finné opened a few blogs about it.

Her father died ,killed with four other people(gunfired apparently), for so far she says,

and for so far I know,a friday twenty seventh of september,1985,around 20:30 P.M.,

on the parking of a DELHAIZE (from DELHAIZE LE LION),in Overijse ,Brabant,Belgium,Europe.

A reader .Belgium.--213.49.135.135 21:23, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

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A few differents sources:about Patricia Finné: "http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache:doUCuFqLDgkJ:michelbouffioux.skynetblogs.be/post/2778138/tueries-du-brabant-011105+patricia+finn%C3%A9+delhaize&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=3&gl=be".

"http://tueriesbrabant.skynetblogs.be/"+COMMENTS:"http://tueriesbrabant.skynetblogs.be/post/3223315/rene-haquin#comments".

And :"http://tueriesbrabant.skynetblogs.be/post/2752534/nbsp".

Also interesting from my point of view:"http://www.tueriesdubrabant.be.cx/"

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Locations up for discussion

Locations 37°N 122°W to 38°N 123°W

Hi. I encountered a series of puzzling categories which you created. I have put them up for discussion for people to judge their usefulness. Please pop over to Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2007 February 22#Categorization of location and give your views. Regards. SilkTork 22:15, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

I noticed

I noticed you created a similar category to Category:Cities in the UTC timezone but called Wikipedia:Categorization of location. Your comments on the CfD and our possibility of future interactions may be something forseable. --CyclePat 20:59, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

Can you update?

Do you think you can update this list?

Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by number of edits

--Parker007 22:18, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

Hello. To be honest, I'm not that interested in that type of work. Cheers, AxelBoldt 16:28, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

Do you know who usually updates that? --Parker007 20:31, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

The last one was made just today by User:Dev920; see [1]. The previous one was made by User:Yao Ziyuan, see [2]. Cheers, AxelBoldt 00:59, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

Barnstarred!

• 
  Awarded to AxelBoldt, for being an outstanding contributor with a plethora of fine contributions, particularly to mathematics articles, the barnstar of math and science. Herostratus 17:20, 13 March 2007 (UTC)}}

Archimedes

There is a reply to your comment at Talk: Archimedes.--Ianmacm 07:14, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

Invariant Basis Number question

Hi, I have a question regarding your article Invariant basis number: when you say "R^m is isomorphic to Rⁿ" do you mean "as left-R modules" or "as right-R modules" or "as both left and right R-modules", or "as R-R bimodules", or does that not make a difference? Thanks and cheers, AxelBoldt 02:44, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

Hi Axel. Actually, the article already has a sentence addressing that question. It says:

"If a ring has invariant basis number with respect to left R-modules, it also has IBN with respect to right R-modules. For this reason, the choice between left and right R-modules is left unspecified."

But perhaps you think something should be mentioned of this earlier in the article? -lethe ^{talk +} 18:05, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

Oh yes, I didn't see that statement. It might be useful to clarify it earlier, right in or after the definition. So is my understanding correct, the three statements

1. For all m and n, if R^m is isomorphic to Rⁿ as left R-modules, then m=n.
2. For all m and n, if R^m is isomorphic to Rⁿ as right R-modules, then m=n.
3. For all m and n, if R^m is isomorphic to Rⁿ as left- or right-R modules, then m=n.

   are equivalent, and either can be taken as definition of IBN? I suppose the following two statements are weaker:

4. For all m and n, if R^m is isomorphic to Rⁿ as left- and right-R modules, then m=n.
5. For all m and n, if R^m is isomorphic to Rⁿ as R-R bimodules, then m=n.

AxelBoldt 21:33, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

Hm. Actually I expect all five statements to be equivalent?

That's certainly possible, but it would need some theorem that I'm not aware of. All the examples I know of rings R with R isomorphic to R ² only work as one-sided modules, not as bimodules. But that isn't saying much. AxelBoldt 18:24, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

It seems to me that statement 4 follows from logical considerations alone (if a→c and b→c and a↔b, then a∪b→c (#3) and also a∩b→c (#4)). As for statement 5, I would expect the following to be a theorem of module theory: if M and N are isomorphic as left R-modules and isomorphic as right R-modules, then they are isomorphic as bimodules.

Yes, if a ring satisfies #1 (and therefore #2), then it must satisfy #3 and #4, but the other direction is not clear to me. Unless we knew that for any ring R and all m and n the following is true: Rⁿ is isomorphic to R^m as left module if and only if Rⁿ is isomorphic to R^m as right module. I doubt that though.

Regarding the bimodule isomorphism statement: I doubt that also. The left- and right-R isomorphisms could be different maps; for a bimodule isomorphism you need a single map that's linear both on the right and on the left. AxelBoldt 04:29, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

You say you're aware of rings which lack the IBN property for left modules but not for right modules? That would be a counterexample to the equivalence mentioned in the article, wouldn't it? -lethe ^{talk +} 16:33, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

Maybe I'm confused. Do we have a reference for this material somewhere? AxelBoldt 04:29, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

Anyway, I've made an edit to the article. Feel free to make further improvements. -lethe ^{talk +} 03:48, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

Hey Axel. OK, so about the alleged bimodule theorem, I think you're right. I gave it a try, and as you point out, the possibility of distinct left- and right- isomorphisms seems to kill that idea.

I haven't found a reference for you. I was working through Rotman's Homological algebra when I wrote this article, but unfortunately he breathes not one word about the issue of both modules. I think I had some supplementary sources, and I must have gotten it from one of them. I don't think I would have made that up. Let me take some more time. -lethe ^{talk +} 23:32, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

An answer

I've finally answered your question on my talk page. I hope the answer is interesting enough to warrant the 2 month lag. :) MotherFunctor 05:22, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

RE

Hey, Thats a matter of opinion. Thanks for dropping by! - Mike Beckham 05:19, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

Iron Mountain Mine

On 6 May, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Iron Mountain Mine, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

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Mathematics CotW

Hey Axel, 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 17:38, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

P.S. The article on Cauchy is FA class in de.wiki, I would appreciate it if you would "steal" all of their good work and bring it over here to en.wiki;)

braid group

I re-edited braid group so as to eliminate the confusion. Sorry about the poor form of the earlier edit. linas 20:50, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

Why?

Hello AxelBoldt :-) Why are you pressing the point with a RFC? A good number of experienced users have looked at this issue and explained why the information is being removed. You need to understand that those of us that answer OTRS tickets are regular users that understand and fully support Wikipedia policy. We evaluate tickets and then decide if there is a valid request based on policy. We do not automatically remove information if that is the request. Your comment is s/w odd given the fact that the people answering the ticket have more information about the situation than other users. How will bringing in more people with less information help the situation? I ask you to reconsider prolonging the discussion as it causes more stress to the person and will eventually have the same outcome. FloNight 01:40, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

I don't think it's a matter of lacking information about the ticket; it's pretty clear and also understandable that the person wants their name removed. Instead it's a matter of policy: should individuals get veto power over including verifiable information about them (information that they have republished themselves!), even in the absence of any legitimate expectation of privacy? Several people, including you, have mentioned "policy" to me without ever pointing to the specific published rule that's being applied. I suspect that OTRS people have developed their own unpublished rules for dealing with these matters, and if so this is not a good thing, and needs to be discussed by the community at large. Cheers, AxelBoldt 02:02, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

Whenever someone makes contact with Wikipedia about a concern related to a living person we fully evaluate the situation whether the issue is raised on a talk page, by OTRS ticket, or an email. Handling the situation is given a high priority if the person makes a valid request about the harm being caused by the inclusion of the information. That is exactly what happened here. Information about a living person is held to the highest standard. As always, content decisions are made for individual articles on individual articles. That is why discussion occurred on the talk page of the article. Including information about a non-notable person against their will needs to be fully supported by multiple non-trivial mentions to overcome the burden of harm that occurs from being mentioned on one of the largest web sites in the world. Several experienced editors disagree with your opinion that the content is well supported. We have explained why the content was removed. You do not have to agree with us, but I ask you to gracefully accept our interpretation of policy and let the subject drop. Take care, FloNight 02:57, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

"Including information about a non-notable person against their will needs to be fully supported by multiple non-trivial mentions" Finally we have a concrete policy statement. That should settle the matter. Where can I read up on that one?

Also, do you think that the OTRS volunteer handling the issue was aware of the fact that the individual in question republished the Maxim article (which states his true identity as co-owner of the business) on his own website? I don't think you can complain about violations of your privacy if you have committed them yourself.

Also please note that several experience editors disagree with the removal of the name. Cheers, AxelBoldt 03:14, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

Mobius strip plagiarism issue

Hi. It's been noted that David Darling's encyclopedia entry for Mobius strip is remarkably similar to the Wikipedia entry, especially early versions of it, which you created. A couple people have staunchly risen to Darling's defense, basically accusing you of being a plagiarist. Please see Talk:David_Darling_(astronomer) for the discussion. My investigation into the matter has convinced me that Darling has plagiarized (rather heavily) here and I've laid out the evidence on the talk page, but I think it would still be worth hearing your comments on this issue. --C S (Talk) 15:53, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know! I have replied on Talk:Möbius strip. Cheers, AxelBoldt 18:19, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

Video blog article

Hi AxelBoldt,

I'm looking to get the video blog article expanded and I noticed you've contributed to the article in the past. It would be great if you could check it out again. It could use some help. Thanks! Pdelongchamp 22:32, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

hormesis: possible explanations

The page on hormesis has a possible explanations seciton that you created (in 2004) in February of this year, some fact tags were added. I'm informing you because I think the seciton needs cleaning up and you seem like an interested editor. Pdbailey 17:26, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

Weed music distribution service

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References don't increase Wikipedia's reliability.

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Wikimoney

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Image copyright problem with Image:Stein by picasso.jpg

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Everleigh Club

I hadn't really looked at the information the anonymous user added in relation to the PBS site, but as I add to and rework the articles, moving info about the brothel to the club page and making the articles about the women more specific to each of them, I'll make sure there is no copyvio. Shsilver 15:21, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

Multiple_Sclerosis

I'd appreciate your review of Multiple_Sclerosis. -WikiSkeptic 20:49, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

I'm sorry, but I don't think I know enough to be of any help there. AxelBoldt 15:06, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

Nana Plaza owner

Lek Nana owned land around Soi Nana area (Sukhumvit 3 and 4). So the Soi is named Soi Nana. And Nana Plaza name came from the Soi. That was intention of my edit. He is the same Lek Nana you found in those websites. He is a notable person. I don't know who owns those land and the Nana Plaza now. The value of land has gone up very high in the last few decades I am not surprised if he sold them and made a huge profit. -- Lerdsuwa 09:46, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

From various Thai language web (most are not good as reference source), he not only own land around Soi Nana, he also owns some in Yaowarat [3] (Adsite, not a good source), donated a lot of land for The Prince Mother Memorial, Democrat Party headquarter (from th language of Democrat Party article), a hospital, etc. -- Lerdsuwa 17:23, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

Removal of broken links

In the article on Charles Keating, I ran across this colloquy:

I dropped this from the article:

* News Release by the U.S. Department of Justice on Keating's guilty plea

This link is broken. Ellsworth 15:20, 13 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Please do not remove broken links. Most everything is still available from the Internet Archive. AxelBoldt 22:23, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

This link is still broken. It leads one straight to a "404 Page Not Found" error page.

Although I've been using the Web since it's public debut in '94, I'd not heard of the "Internet Archive" until I read this.

I'm glad someone's doing this, but I question as to whether US (and other nation's) copyright laws do not limit what this "Internet Archive" can, in fact, store.

After all, I just saw Rush the week before last, I can't take the pictures my friend took with his camera phone and post them on a website or publish them in a book or magazine without Rush's permission.

I didn't see an exemption in Federal law--or an international convention--to allow the "Internet Archive" to do its work (though I admit I didn't have time to read the entire article).

Perhaps a template (?) could be created similar to the warning that Rush Limbaugh uses on his site whenever there's a link to source material:

"*Note: Links to content outside RushLimbaugh.com usually become inactive over time."

Perhaps a link to the Internet Archive could be included?

After all, if the webpage is inaccessible at its original URL, what is the point of keeping that URL in the article?

PainMan 17:52, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

The link at the bottom of the article Charles Keating to the Justice press release works; it goes straight to the Internet Archive. This cannot possibly be a copyright violation since Dept. of Justice press releases are in the public domain. As to the general legality of the Internet Archive: I don't think they have ever been sued; people can have their material removed if they don't like it being archived. Cheers, AxelBoldt 18:26, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

It's true, of course, that government documents are in the public domain.

As for non-governmental material, before there's a lawsuit--at least according to US (i.e. Federal) law--a letter is sent to the ISP and or the website operator demanding removal of the contested material.

PainMan 05:47, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

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Khalistan movement edit

Quick response to your message: the edit is clearly not NPOV, although in one instance it corrects a POV statement tilted the other way: "unsubstantiated allegations" of attacks on civilians, which in fact have been substantiated to one degree or another. However, the edit is so poorly written that a total revert seems justified. It's true that Amnesty International condemned human rights abuses by the Indian army, but that should be referenced as well. I recall that there's something on amnesty.org about this.--Jsorens 19:09, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

Replacing superoxide.png

Please evaluate the image Image:superoxide.svg to see if it is equivalent to the png image you had uploaded. If it is, I will replace the png image where it is used. Thank you. --DoSiDo 01:42, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

Yes, they're equivalent. Thanks, AxelBoldt 01:58, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

Re: AWB

the links were removed because there was more than one of them in the article, and the rogue e is an accidental addition.--Kerotan^{Leave Me a Message} Have a nice day :) 07:24, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

Grey's Anatomy episodes summary

Axel, The summaries listed are completely different from what I wrote for the article. The first two summaries are definitely copied from that website. I really have no idea how they got there or who posted them but thanks for spotting them out. Sfufan2005 16:01, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

Wikiporno links

Why are removing wikiporno links? There is clearly informative value on that site that is not available on wikipedia, such as opinions, pricing, and additional info. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bvggle (talk • contribs) 21:58, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

Are you affiliated with the site? Adding links in order to promote sites is not permissible. AxelBoldt 22:30, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

No, I am not. However, I do believe they are fulfilling a important niche not being addressed by Wikipedia. Wikipedia is fact based, not opinion based, and therefore fails in the areas of reviews, analysis and comparisons. The two pages you removed links from are vastly under summarized on wikipedia. I am placing the links back active and look forward to your thoughts. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bvggle (talk • contribs) 01:41, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

My thoughts are: your only contributions to Wikipedia have been to promote Wikiporno, and minutes after I removed the links you had already noticed and replied on my Talk page. Wikipedia is not a platform for free advertising. The article on Wikiporno will have to be deleted as non-notable and the links to the site have to go. AxelBoldt 04:17, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

Replacing Glucuronic acid

Can you also evaluate the image Image:glucuronic acid stereochem.svg to see if it is equivalent to the png image you had uploaded. If it is, I will replace the Image:glucuronic acid.png image where it is used. Thank you. --DoSiDo 01:03, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

Yup, looks good! AxelBoldt 03:03, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

"Taburiente" translation?

Hi, Axel. I've found your question in the wikipedia in spanish. It's prehispanic, and the investigators talk about "plano" (plain, level).

Book: Carmen Díaz Alayón (1987): Materiales toponímicos de La Palma, Excmo. Cabildo Insular de La Palma, págs. 142-145

Regards. --Owdki ^talk 03:50, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks! AxelBoldt 04:06, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

Meetup RSVP

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Minnesota Meetup

Sunday, 2007-10-07, 1:00 p.m. (13:00)
Pracna on Main
117 Main SE, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Map

Please pass this on! RSVP here.

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Spam delivered by -Susanlesch 15:28, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

Image:Tree_graph.png listed for deletion

An image or media file that you uploaded or altered, Image:Tree_graph.png, has been listed at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion. Please see the discussion to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. Calliopejen1 01:05, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

Admin

Hello! Have you considered becoming an admin? I feel that your contributions here demonstrate you are suitable to become one. Feel free to leave your thoughts on my talk! Phgao 14:14, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

Achso! Tut mir leid :) Viel Spaß! Phgao 13:49, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

Logo

Hi. Re your addition to the petition, see the last 2 threads at User talk:Ambuj.Saxena/Wikipedia-logo#All the related discussion links for details/explanations. That's all I know ;) --Quiddity 22:50, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

Regarding Children's Pachinko version

I honestly do not know if Japan has a children's version of pachinko but I do know this tough... Japan sells toys similar to pachinko sort of like mini pinball machine but with no paddles. I know for sure Taiwan has the home-made glass marble type version on the night markets because I was born in Taichung, Taiwan. Children redeem the glass marbles for toys and candy. I guess I will clarify that on the Pachinko article. Thanks for the question.

Sincerely,

          Neoking  10-23-07

Kathoey picture

Hi. I was wondering, where was this picture taken please? The person at the far left looks like Areeya (areeyaladyboy.com). Thanks, --Rebroad 11:07, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

Hi. Thanks for replying, Cheers, --Rebroad 11:15, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

Feedback

Hi,

In response to your comment, "Hi, it appears to me that you are trying to promote a website on Wikipedia, Pornhub. This is not permitted; see for instance Wikipedia:Conflict of interest and WP:NOT#ADVERTISING," I find it interesting that when the Porn 2.0 article makes reference to websites PornoTube and YouPorn you do not consider that publicity, but when it references PornHub, you do. Porn 2.0 is an evolving market and PornHub, though new, responds to challenges of the Web 2.0 economy in new and original ways. If it is reasonable to outline the difficulties of a Web 2.0 website, is it not also reasonable to outline ways in which pioneers are seeking to answer the complicated issues of web copyright and monetization in a 2.0 environment? If all mention of companies in Wikipedia is "publicity" then ALL trade names should be removed. Or is there a particular reason that you singled out PornHub as "inappropriate" while leaving other websites of it's kind in place?

Thanks Jbffed 13:47, 2 November 2007 (UTC)jbffed

Technical help

Hi. There seems to be a problem with the template of the article of the week (featured article) in the portal of Mathematics. The articles are not getting archived since june (Portal:Mathematics/Featured_article_archive) and i think that it gets updated automatically, often resulting in an empty article. There are some messages about the problem in the talk page, but we need the help of an administrator. Crisófilax 15:19, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

DYK

On November 7, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Birdie Reeve Kay, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Hi there Axel. Thanks for pereservering to expand the article. Well done, Blnguyen (bananabucket) 05:45, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

On November 16, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Le Chabanais, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Blnguyen (bananabucket) 03:52, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

YouPorn page help

Hi Alex,

Any chance you could properly add the Cleveland Free Times article into the "References" section in the YouPorn article? I could not figure out the "reflist" to save my life and the link ended up just sort of getting tacked on. Sorry to be a pest. I really tried to figure out that reflist thing, searching through the help pages, but could not locate anything on how to add a reference. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.226.71.244 (talk) 11:40, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

Hi, the references/footnote feature is explained in Wikipedia:Footnotes. You can find material like this from the Help link in the left sidebar. AxelBoldt 19:27, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

Citizendium

Hi Axel,

If you aren't familiar with it already, I thought that you, as a proponent of a Wikipedia policy for contributors using their real names, might be interested in Citizendium, which has it as a fundamental policy. -- Meni Rosenfeld (talk) 18:36, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

Re:Wikipedia logo - mistake with Tamil

Hi,

Sorry for late reply. I don't get much time for Wikipedia nowadays. The problem with Tamil character in the logo is explained by Ganeshk in this section. The alphabet still has rounded edges. It should have sharp one for it to be "Wi". Regards, — Ambuj Saxena (talk) 14:19, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

Re:Tamil letter in Wikipedia logo

Replied here. Regards, Ganeshk (talk) 16:06, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

Classification of admins

Hi AxelBoldt. Please consider adding your admin username to the growing list at Classification of admins. Best! -- Jreferee t/c 23:06, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

Still Life with Geraniums

This seems to be the correct name. Article moved. Redirect deleted to avoid confusion with other similarly named paintings which also exist including by Matisse. Tyrenius (talk) 23:43, 25 December 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for the heads up! I'm happy to see that Tyrenius (talk) has really come through on the question. Modernist (talk) 12:58, 26 December 2007 (UTC)

Proseline tag on OSx86

Hi,

You recently removed a tag I'd placed on this article with the summary

don't litter Wikipedia with tags. Fix the text if you don't like it.

Tags aren't just there for the benefit of the editors who place them there; they add articles to cleanup categories which allow editors who are interested in this kind of work to identify areas of concern. That an editor might not have the time nor inclination to clean up a section at the time does not mean that he should not flag it for the attention of the community. Please don't remove tags like this in future without addressing the issue at hand; the community at large has agreed that they are useful to the project as a whole, and do not count as "litter". I'd appreciate it if you'd restore the tag if you're not willing to work on the section for now. Thanks. Chris Cunningham (talk) 02:08, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

Tags such as these don't help our readers; editors' bookkeeping tags shouldn't be the first thing a reader sees, in screaming orange at the top of an article. Place the article in the category or put the tag on the Talk page if you must; the far preferable cause of action would be to fix problems you identify yourself, rather than asking others to do it for you. The logical end point of your attitude would be a long list of trivial complaints at the top of every article. AxelBoldt (talk) 02:27, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

This is certainly a logical line of thought, but it isn't policy. I'm not going to argue the whole issue of the merits of cleanup tags with every editor who disagrees with them; I'm going to continue placing them on articles for the reasons I've given, and on my next pass of the article I'll probably re-tag it if policy hasn't changed. I'd rather that you didn't remove tags because they disagree with your sense of aesthetics when there's a body of editors who rely on said tags to organise their cleanup work. I hope you can appreciate that I've got enough mainspace edits under my belt to be trusted to use these tags appropriately. Chris Cunningham (talk) 02:42, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

There is no policy that says that you must litter articles with tags, or that I can't remove them if I deem them inappropriate. Like pretty much everything else having to do with article editing, it's up to editor judgment. AxelBoldt (talk) 04:00, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

So did you actually disagree with the point the tag was making (that a bulleted list of dates is not the best way to represent the section)? That's not the point you've been arguing thus far, which indicates that you categorically dislike mainspace tagging. If you feel that the best way to express your dislike of mainspace tags is to rip them off of articles, I really do think you'd be better off discussing the issue upstream. It's easy enough to add something to your site CSS to hide said tags if you find them aesthetically displeasing, but removing them entirely on the principle of disliking tags does a bit of a disservice to the cleanup community. I took this to your talk page because it's not very productive if we just go around undoing each other's edits. Chris Cunningham (talk) 09:38, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

Commons copyvio

Please see Commons:User talk:AxelBoldt#Image:Richter-Fenster.jpg and Commons:User talk:AxelBoldt#Image:Cologne Cathedral Window by Gerhard Richter.jpg. Both flickr images are copyvios because they are derivated works of copyrightes artwork. 91.0.75.72 (talk) 20:35, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

WikiMoney revival

I see that you are the founding member of the program WikiMoney and I am very interested in it. I think that the concept might be more successful if it was done as a WikiProject. That is why I made the suggestion for it to be revived as a WikiProject, Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals#WikiProject WikiMoney. If you are interested in a revival please sign up.--Uga Man (talk) UGA MAN FOR PRESIDENT 2008 05:01, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

Marsupial RBCs

I cannot recall where it was that I heard this, and upon searching, I could not find a source. I will remove it from the article at once. DRosenbach ^{(Talk | Contribs)} 02:17, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

Spam on page you've edited

Hi AxelBoldt, I was reveiwing a page that you've edited the title is Prostitution in Nevada. It's come to my attention that they same web site that has hacked our site and spamed our blogs is using their link on the bottom of the page as an authoritive resource however this company is not an authority in the industy but a comment spammer and wiki spammer from diferent i.p. address. Please verify by the link that was added to the site and note that theyre are no other "useful" outbound links in any other articles. I read wikipedia often but am not an editor, the reason this particular situation concerns us is we were the only "Licensed" entity in the State of Nevada to solicit prostitution. You can verify this via the Nevada Secretary of State, the name of our corporation was Las Vegas Escorts until the laws were changed and the name could no longer be used and we then changed the name to JGG of Las Vegas (all documented with the secretary of state) we've also been the first to enter the internet market with the domain of www.lasvegasescorts.com, and currently have the largest group of people handing out literature on the street.

We're not looking to have our name or link put on this article but rather rectify what is not suppose to be here and since I'm not an editor I felt the best way to ask for help was to contact an editor thats added content in the past to the article. If you have any question or need any type of documentation to verify my statement please contact me at webmaster@lasvegasescorts.com, thank you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.189.198.229 (talk) 14:37, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, I removed the commercial external links from that article. AxelBoldt (talk) 18:36, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Thumbnail gallery post

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re portrait

No firm idea as to when the photo was taken. Dobson was a guitar performance graduate from Canada (can't recall what University/conservatorium)who emigrated to New Zealand in 1960's. I presume, with no proof whatsoever, that the photo was pre 1970. RichardJ Christie (talk) 06:42, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

PS Why do you ask? Sorry for answering your msg here, but I had overlooked your preference as given above RichardJ Christie (talk) 10:36, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject Germany Invitation

Hello, AxelBoldt! I'd like to call your attention to the WikiProject Germany and the German-speaking Wikipedians' notice board. I hope their links, sub-projects and discussions are interesting and even helpful to you. If not, I hope that new ones will be. Wikipedia:WikiProject Germany | watch Wikipedia:German-speaking Wikipedians' notice board | watch

--Zeitgespenst (talk) 07:51, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

"Synthase" is a word

Rule fixed. Thank you for pointing that out! TestPilot 19:11, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

Foxy Brown (rapper)

In general, I happen to agree with your admonition to wiki contributors ("Don't litter article with tags; if you see something wrong, fix it") which you posted on the Foxy Brown article. But you have to concede that there are times when a contributor sees a problem but is unable to fix it. E.g. lack of properly released photographs, need for a clearer scientific text, etc. -The Gnome (talk) 08:00, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

Sure, I agree there are cases like that, missing references would also sometimes fall into that category. But in general I think the growing tagging-craziness for minor style issues is a pox. Some contributors seem to think that they somehow improve the encyclopedia by placing a fitting tag at the top of an article (and there's always a fitting tag out there somewhere). That's certainly a lot easier than fixing the problem at hand. And ultimately it doesn't do anything except make the encyclopedia uglier. Also, I believe that some people take tags to be somehow "official", and adding (or removing) a tag is seen as somehow at a different level of editing than changing ordinary text. And clearly that is completely mistaken; they have no special status whatsoever. AxelBoldt (talk) 17:04, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

Looking for Wikipedians for a User Study

Hello. I am a graduate student in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota. We are conducting research on ways to engage content experts on Wikipedia. Previously, Wikipedia started the Adopt-a-User program to allow new users to get to know seasoned Wikipedia editors. We are interested in learning more about how this type of relationship works. Based on your editing record on Wikipedia, we thought you might be interested in participating. If chosen to participate, you will be compensated for your time. We estimate that most participants will spend an hour (over two weeks on your own time and from your own computer) on the study. To learn more or to sign up contact KATPA at CS dot UMN dot EDU or User:KatherinePanciera/WPMentoring. Thanks. KatherinePanciera (talk) 01:30, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

4/22 DYK

On 22 April, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Christian Stangl, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--Bedford 02:02, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

Monty Hall problem

Hi - Looking through the history it seems you were the original creator of Monty Hall problem. I'm responding to some sourcing concerns raised at WP:FAR and can't find a source for the "two player" variant which was in the very first version. I know it's been kind of a long time, but do you happen to remember where this might have come from? Thanks. -- Rick Block (talk) 18:51, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

The early history of very old articles is not to be trusted because of several software switches. While I did contribute a lot to early versions of that article, I didn't write all or even most of this initial version. I seem to remember that I did write this paragraph though:

There is one additional twist. In the original game show, there were in fact two contestants. Both of them chose a door; they were not allowed to choose the same one. Monty then eliminated a player with a goat behind their door (if both players had a goat, one was eliminated randomly, without letting the players know about it), opened the door and then offered the remaining player a chance to switch. Should the remaining player switch?

The answer is no. The reason: a switcher in this game will lose if and only if neither of two initial choices of the two contestants was correct. How likely is that? Two-thirds. A sticker will win in those 2/3 of the cases. So stickers will win twice as often as switchers.

I believe the fact that the original show used the two player variant was mentioned in the big New York Times article about the problem that included an interview of Monty. I'm not sure if the article mentioned the differing analysis of that variant or if I added that.

Reading over the sentence above again, I notice that it is incorrect. It should say "The reason: a switcher in this game will lose if and only if one of the two initial choices of the two contestants was correct. How likely is that? Two-thirds. A sticker will win in those 2/3 of the cases. So stickers will win twice as often as switchers."

Cheers, AxelBoldt (talk) 20:24, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

The paragraph morphed into Monty Hall problem#Two players over time (which fixed the wording). The NY Times article is online here and doesn't mention the original show had two contestants. I've seen descriptions of the show that do mention this (not that it matters but I watched the show and don't remember this). I guess the thing to do is to delete this section since the only reference I can find [4] seems likely to be based on some historical version of the Wikipedia article (it doesn't cite any references so it's hard to tell if there would be a circular reference issue). I'm generally against deleting content but the citation cabal is in full force at WP:FA (and, hence, WP:FAR). -- Rick Block (talk) 21:36, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

You're right, it's not in the NYT article. It seems Monty would have mentioned such an important detail if it really were true. [On the other hand, maybe the two-player version was only occasionally used, maybe if the two players got the same number of points in some preceding game, and Monty didn't believe that fact to be relevant.] I honestly don't remember where I got it from -- possibly from an even earlier version of the article, or from one of those descriptions you mention. I guess removing the whole paragraph is fine; it's a fun little riddle-on-top-of-the-riddle that illustrates the subtlety of the situation, but not that important overall. Everybody who truly understands the analysis of the one-player version should be able to correctly analyze the two-player version.

If the FA fails, you can always put the paragraph back in :-) AxelBoldt (talk) 22:42, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

I thought of this, too (BTW - it's already an FA, I'm just trying to keep it that way). Thanks again. -- Rick Block (talk) 23:07, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

Help with Emmy Noether

Hi Axel,

I don't think we've been introduced before, but I'm wondering if you could spare some time to help us with Emmy Noether and the list of publications by Emmy Noether. You seem to have a real clue, whereas my friend Scartol and I are struggling to catch up on the two centuries of math that our education skipped over. Could you at least look over our work and offer us some pointers for things we should improve? Thanks muchly! :) Willow (talk) 20:54, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

Solingen arson attack of 1993

		The Original Barnstar
		Brewcrewer, a newpage patroller, rarely comes across any great new articles, but when he does, like the Solingen arson attack of 1993, he can't help but plaster its creator's talk page with a barnstar. brewcrewer (yada, yada) 04:52, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks a lot! I hope you don't mind if I copy this to my user page. Cheers, AxelBoldt (talk) 16:27, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

Oberlandesgericht

Thanks for the help. I started with Kammergericht and got a bit lost, as my German is a bit rusty. Could you help? Perhaps a Courts in Germany page is needed? Neddyseagoon - talk 09:01, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

Maybe that would fit in Judiciary of Germany. I'm afraid I don't know enough about it to contribute meaningfully though. Here's a nice poster of the structure of the German courts: [5]. Cheers, AxelBoldt (talk) 13:15, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

Solingen arson attack of 1993

On 1 June, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Solingen arson attack of 1993, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--BorgQueen (talk) 14:35, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

Victory

Today we march to victory, Boldt. Cancel all your classes. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.181.128.130 (talk) 14:12, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

Bikesharing

Hi Axel, vielen dank für den link auf die englischsprachige seite (community bike programm). den gabs früher schon mal, aber da zwei links auf Englishe Wikiseite verwiesen ist er irgendwann rausgeflogen, obwohl er der bessere ist. schade das das mit wikimoney nicht geklappt hat, ich bin aich ein LETS.befürworter und tauschringaktivist. --Stefanbcn (talk) 12:03, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

Ja, vielleicht sollte man nochmal versuchen, das WikiMoney System aufleben zu lassen, unter anderem Namen. Uebrigens, die franzoesische Seite hat sehr ausfuehrliche Informationen zum Pariser Velib System. Ciao, AxelBoldt (talk) 08:39, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

FAR Listing

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A request

Hey, I was wondering if you would translate the following text into English for me:

Reeves erklärte die neue Abwärtskompatibilität zu PS2-Singstar-Titeln genauer. Sie werde mittels einer Software-Emulation realisiert, die in einem kommenden Firmware-Update enthalten sei. Mit diesem ließen sich alle PS2-Singstar-Folgen direkt auf der PS3 abspielen. Man benötige kein PS3-Singstar. "Wir beobachten, bei welchen Titeln sich dies noch lohnen wird, und werden in Zukunft möglicherweise weitere PS2-Spiele auf der PS3 per Emulation zum Laufen bringen." Dies sei jedoch ein technisch sehr aufwendiger Prozess, weil die nötigen PS2-Chips den aktuellen PS3-Modellen fehlen.

Kind of an odd request I know, but I really want to know what it says and Google translator is somewhat inaccurate. Thanks. Thingg^⊕⊗ 04:18, 24 August 2008 (UTC)

Reeves explained the new downward compatibility to PS2-Singstar titles in more detail. It will be realized with a software emulation which is contained in a coming firmware update. With this, all PS2-Singstar episodes would be directly playable on the PS3. There is no need for a PS3-Singstar. "We will observe for which titles this would also pay off, and in the future we will possibly get other PS2-games to run on PS3 by emulation." This is however a technically very complex process, since the necessary PS2-chips are missing in the current PS3-models.

It's not completely clear to me what the "firmware update" refers to. Probably a firmware update for the PS3, then it would make sense. Cheers, AxelBoldt (talk) 04:41, 24 August 2008 (UTC)

Thank you very much. Regards. Thingg^⊕⊗ 06:00, 24 August 2008 (UTC)

btw, as an explanation, Sony removed PlayStation 2 backwards compatibility from the PlayStation 3 in models that were released after the original launch models and quite a few people are unhappy with that because they don't want to keep their PS2s plugged in. That quote was part of an interview with Reeves, who is the head of Sony Computer Entertainment Europe and it appears to point toward Sony adding PS2 compatibility to the PS3 via emulation, which is a significant challenge (some say it's impossible) because the PS3 lacks any RAM that is similar to the ultra-fast EDRAM included in the PS2. I wasn't sure if the Google-translated version was accurate or not so I asked you to help. (I've seen your name pop up a few places and I remembered that your userpage said you speak German natively and you obviously also speak English very well) Again, thanks very much for the translation. Thingg^⊕⊗ 06:08, 24 August 2008 (UTC)

Al-Azhar University

Hi AxelBoldt

You missed a very important point, Al-Azhar University was initially founded as a modern university, not a school, so it is the world's oldest surviving university.« PuTTY^SchOOL 00:01, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

If you can find a reference for that claim, you could add it to List of oldest universities in continuous operation. Cheers, AxelBoldt (talk) 04:26, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

Davida

On 28 August, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Davida, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--Cheers, Casliber (talk · contribs) 10:47, 28 August 2008 (UTC)

Anti-prostitution pledge

On 8 September, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Anti-prostitution pledge, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--BorgQueen (talk) 07:29, 8 September 2008 (UTC)

Ben Goertzel

Thanks for your thoughtful and well-researched edits on Ben Goertzel's page! sydhart (talk) 21:23, 21 September 2008 (UTC)

Red Blood Cells

I amended the definition of red blood cells as there seems to be an error in your source of information. Around 98% of oxygen is present in the blood as oxyhemoglobin and around 2% in the plasma and not the other way around. It also makes good sense. If oxygen was primarily dissolved in plasma would we have retained erythrocytes over millions of years? Another comment I would make is that whereas birds fish and few other animals have nucleated erythrocytes and can therefore be called cells, mature human erythrocytes do not have a nucleus and therefore should not be called red blood CELLS just like we do not call platelets cells. name5555yahoo.com —Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.114.188.150 (talk) 14:48, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

The article said that most of the CO₂, and less than 2% of the O₂, is carried dissolved in the plasma and not by erythrocytes. This is correct, and doesn't contradict what you say above. AxelBoldt (talk) 02:36, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Sophie (software)

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AfD nomination of Sophie (software)

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From --Geniusdream (talk) 11:42, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

Can you help me, this user Wynchard Bloom (talk) vandalizes my userpage and the article Sarah Geronimo, he keeps on putting back the version which has references to a version which has no references, I already gave a warning but he still continues to do his act. --Geniusdream (talk) 11:42, 29 October 2008 (UTC)