User talk:Salih

List of fluid flows named after people

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Thomas Ponniah

I just wanted you to see the new article with an entry at WP:AFD, and wondered if you think notability is now established? (Mind meal (talk) 07:12, 13 February 2008 (UTC))

• • All the facts mentioned in the article are verifiable. But, being a co-editor of a book and writing a couple of articles in academic journals may not automatically ensure a place in an encyclopedia. No doubt sooner or later Dr. Ponniah will become notable enough to find a place in Wikipedia. A. Salih (talk) 09:07, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

Malayalam Wikipedia

Hi, Inviting you to Malayalam Wikipedia.Please contribute there also!--Anoopan (talk) 12:35, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

Dear Anoopan, it's so nice of you to invite me to Malayalam Wikipedia. Thanks. I would like to contribute to Malayalam Wikipedia also, but time is the major constraint. That's why I am sticking only to the English Wikipedia. Hope one day I will join with you in Malayalam Wikipedia. Salih (talk) 16:34, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

Atholi

Thanks for editing and contributing to the page. please let me know where I could be helpful.--Kuniyil (talk) 08:47, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for extending your help. I have a request. If you can start articles on Grama Panchayaths (which is of interest to you) in Kozhikode with basic informations, I can further edit and expand them. Thanks once again. Salih (talk) 16:05, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

Restoring comments on other people's talk pages

Acutally, Nintsunny has every right to delete your comment from his talk page. Please see WP:DRC. --Jaysweet (talk) 16:23, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

OK I agree and respect WP:DRC. But people usually delete or revert vandalism. I think my edit does not amount to vandalism. Salih (talk) 17:05, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

Oh, quite agreed, your edit was completely in good faith, and I don't think there was any reason for Nitinsunny to delete it. But for whatever reason, that's his choice. Some people are just grouchy about comments on their talk pages, I guess. I think it is better to archive, and to tell you the truth, I don't entirely agree with WP:DRC myself :) --Jaysweet (talk) 17:14, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

I think you got my point. Thanks for your opinion. --Salih (talk) 12:37, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

• I am extermely s0rry that I deleted your message. Wont repeat it

Nitinsunny (talk) 18:57, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

OK Nitinsunny, I have taken it in good spirit. --Salih (talk) 12:41, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. Nitinsunny (talk) 13:08, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

Hydrodynamics merge

Hi Salih, a month ago I placed the merge tags on Hydrodynamics. Besides your objection on my personal talk page, there were no reactions on Talk:Fluid_dynamics#Hydrodynamics_merge_proposal. I would very much appreciate to hear your present view on the subject, preferably on Talk:Fluid_dynamics#Hydrodynamics_merge_proposal. The idea is to transfer the relevant parts of hydrodynamics to fluid dynamics and its talk page. Best regards, Crowsnest (talk) 10:27, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

I have posted my comments in Talk:Fluid_dynamics#Hydrodynamics_merge_proposal. Regards, --Salih (talk) 13:01, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

Your message

Hello. Please be civil. Please do speak sarcastically, as you did on my talk page. Thank you. Nick Graves (talk) 02:52, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

You are probably right me wrong about Calicut

I replied to your comment on my talk page. Uzhuthiran (talk) 12:56, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

malayalam actors

there is a lot of duplication between the pages Category:malayali actors & malayalam actors ,pls improve clarity jeph (talk) 07:11, 13 September 2008 (UTC)

NITT

The 192 faculty was taken from here. I guess that must not have been updated for some time. Typical with the college. In future, I'll try not to make bulk edits at one time.. Sorry about it. Ecthelion 8 (talk) 12:41, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

That's good.Ecthelion 8 (talk) 04:44, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

Perumbadavam Sreedharan

Ping, again :) TravellingCari 19:25, 1 November 2008 (UTC)

Let me add an apology on behalf of the encyclopedia for the entirely unreasonable attacks on this article. I've commented further on my talk page. Not that I speak for the encyclopedia really, but in this matter I hope i do speak for most of us and I wish i spoke for all. DGG (talk) 04:49, 2 November 2008 (UTC)

About CsDs

Thank you for letting me know.

I'm still a beginner in New Page Patrolling, so I'm still learning.

Thanks again,

—Mooshykris (talk) 01:36, 2 November 2008 (UTC)

• Huh, what do you mean by that? What were they like? --Mooshykris (talk) 04:38, 2 November 2008 (UTC)

See the discussions here and here. Salih (talk) 08:18, 2 November 2008 (UTC)

Anand

Thanks for your edits on the Anand page.

j Jay4905 (talk) 11:21, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

Afd section

The section you refer to was not removed, it was moved, and to talk, which is the place for such discussions, as per endless precedent. Thanks, SqueakBox 19:17, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

CFL Condition

The condition

$\left|a{\frac {\Delta t}{\Delta x}}\right|\leq 1$

is commonly referred to as CFL condition and is derived by performing a von Neumann stability analysis. I think it is appropriate call it CFL condition. Salih (talk) 06:43, 8 December 2008 (UTC)

You are right - this result is the same as what is commonly referred to as the CFL condition. However, as I explained in my comment, the CFL condition in general gives a necessary *but not sufficient* condition for stability; it is therefore incorrect to state that the Lax-Friedrichs method is stable if *and only if* the CFL condition is met - one can only state that the Lax-Friedrichs method is stable *if* the CFL condition is met. von Neumann stability analysis gives a necessary and sufficient condition, and can thus be qualified by "if and only if." Also, the CFL condition need not be derived from von Neumann stability analysis. It is usually derived from a domain of dependence argument. For more information, I refer you to "Computational Fluid Dynamics" by J. Blazek, section 10.3.6 and 10.3.7 on pages 347-349, especially the concluding remark:

"It is important to note that the CFL condition (10.42) is not sufficient (however necessary) to guarantee stability of the numerical scheme. Therefore, the von Neumann analysis should be carried out as well." Lgstarn (talk) 07:17, 8 December 2008 (UTC)

Alright. I agree with you. Thanks. Salih (talk) 07:46, 8 December 2008 (UTC)

No problem. Thank you for your contribution on the FTCS link on that page! I feel we might want to add that for the example listed on the Lax-Friedrichs page, FTCS is never stable. Let me know what you think. Lgstarn (talk) 08:23, 8 December 2008 (UTC)

Yes, that’s an excellent idea! Please carry on. We might also want have an article on von Neumann stability analysis, I suppose. Salih (talk) 09:55, 8 December 2008 (UTC)

thanks!

Thank you for creating Vladimir Zakharov. Happy editing, Kingturtle (talk) 22:14, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

You are welcome! Salih (talk) 06:52, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

Username

Hi would you like to usurp the Salih username from Salih Abdusamad? =Nichalp «Talk»= 18:05, 17 December 2008 (UTC)

Yes, it's a good idea! Please do it for me. Thanks. Salih (talk) 07:57, 18 December 2008 (UTC)

If you do not own the Salih account, then you need to place a request at WP:CHUU and wait for instructions. If you own the CHU account, please log in as Salih Abdusamad and place a request at WP:CHU, and then log in as Salih and place a confirmation below the post that you own the account. A bureaucrat there will then rename you. =Nichalp «Talk»= 12:09, 18 December 2008 (UTC)

I tried... -- I'm not sure what statement this is in response to. Could you please clarify? =Nichalp «Talk»= 16:56, 18 December 2008 (UTC)

I placed a request at WP:CHU after logged in as Salih Abdusamad. But, the SoxBot VI says that it "has analyzed this request, and a problem(s) was found. Although the requested username exists, the user has not made any contributions to Wikipedia. Therefore, you can place a request to usurp the username at WP:USURP." Salih (talk) 17:04, 18 December 2008 (UTC)

I'm assuming that you cannot log in as Salih. If that is the case, please place a usurpation request at WP:USURP. If you can login as Salih, please add a message below Soxbot's post that you want to proceed with the rename. =Nichalp «Talk»= 17:46, 18 December 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, I am unable to login as Salih. So, I'll try usurpation request at WP:USURP. Salih (talk) 18:15, 18 December 2008 (UTC)

Shannon kernel

A quick search shows me that there is indeed a Shannon kernel, but I can't find any evidence to associate it with Shannon. Why don't you make an article on it, and if you find that it's something that Shannon is known for, then you can add that back. Dicklyon (talk) 06:47, 27 December 2008 (UTC)

Well. I reintroduced it because I thought the red link was your concern. As for your doubt regarding the evidence to associate Shannon with Shannon kernel, please see [1] and [2]. If you are convinced you may include it. Even otherwise it’s not a problem. Salih (talk) 07:57, 27 December 2008 (UTC)

You may like to see this also. Salih (talk) 09:42, 27 December 2008 (UTC)

So Shannon kernel is just a variant term for a sinc function? In all my years, I've never heard it called that, and these papers that call it that don't seem to even mention Claude Shannon, so I don't think this usual term is something he's known for, except maybe by the more common term Whittaker–Shannon interpolation formula. Dicklyon (talk) 16:55, 27 December 2008 (UTC)

A recent research paper discussing Shannon kernel may not mention Claude Shannon in a similar way that a recent research paper discussing Newton's rings may not mention about Newton himself. Anyway, no worries. Salih (talk) 17:06, 27 December 2008 (UTC)

Sure, but here are papers that mention Newton with respect to Newton's rings. Are there papers that mention Shannon with respect to the Shannon kernel? When did it first appear? Who coined the term or used it early on? If Shannon is known for it, there should be some evidence of that. Dicklyon (talk) 00:38, 28 December 2008 (UTC)

Sorry, I do not have all those details. This paper which discusses "Nonextensive Entropic Kernels" is citing a book "C. Shannon and W. Weaver. The Mathematical Theory of Communication. University of Illinois Press, Urbana, Ill., 1949." and a paper "C. E. Shannon. A mathematical theory of communication. The Bell System Technical Journal, 27 (3):379–423, 1948." Both are presumably by Claude Shannon. I do not believe that any other Shannon in "communication theory" is famous enough to have a kernel named after him. Salih (talk) 06:08, 28 December 2008 (UTC)

That's the two versions of the standard Shannon ref; I have the book. He used a sinc function in it, but nobody calls it a "Shannon kernel" as far as I know; he certainly didn't invent it. Furthermore, the paper you cite doesn't seem to mention a Shannon kernel, but rather "the Jensen-Shannon kernel, introduced and shown to be pd by Hein et al. [2004]". Dicklyon (talk) 06:14, 28 December 2008 (UTC)

I did not claim that Shannon invented the Shannon kernel. My point is that Shannon kernel is associated with Claude Shannon. I don't know who coined the word. Salih (talk) 06:19, 28 December 2008 (UTC)

The implicit claim was that Shannon "is known for" it. But we don't even know for sure what "it" is, and there's scant evidence that Shannon is known for it. Dicklyon (talk) 06:41, 28 December 2008 (UTC)

Yes, the point is we don't know what Shannon kernel is all about. Salih (talk) 06:47, 28 December 2008 (UTC)

Exactly. And if we find out, that might be the time to add it; not before. Dicklyon (talk) 06:58, 28 December 2008 (UTC)

That's fine. Thanks. Salih (talk) 06:59, 28 December 2008 (UTC)

Malayali

Hi,

I was wondering, what you meant by "could be dravidian and non-dravidian". In my opinion a Malayalee is a speaker of Malayalam, a Dravidian language. So they are clearly "Dravidian inhabitants" to me. The fact, that Malayalis may also be called "Keralite" doesn't contradict that statement. But a Keralite inhabitant is not the same as a Malayali, if he doesn't speak Malayalam or any of its dialects. I would like to hear your arguments.

Best regards, --Ultramegasuperstar (talk) 16:22, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

It may not be correct to say that all Malayalis are Dravidian. Among Malayalis there are many groups of people who speak Malayalam but migrated to Kerala several centuries ago from other parts of India. Salih (talk) 17:34, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

Dravidian is not a racial term. It's primarily linguistic. A seperate Dravidian race is rejected by genetic results. See Dravidian peoples. Besides this, I'm still not convinced about your statement. If somebody speaks Malayalam as mothertongue, than this person is a Malayali, hence a Dravidian (speaker). --Ultramegasuperstar (talk) 17:40, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

I took the Dravidian as a race and hence the objection. If Dravidian refers to the peoples who speak any of the Dravidian languages, no objection to call a Malayali a Dravidian. Salih (talk) 17:50, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

Again, this notion of an own Dravidian race is long time outdated. Was a pleasure to talk with you. I will re-edit the article, if you have no further objections :-) --Ultramegasuperstar (talk) 18:04, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

Just carry on! Salih (talk) 18:18, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

Vector soliton

I am the person who creates this article.

Because vector solitons are rather are ubiquitous and generic in the entire field of nonlinear systems, it should be very interesting to edit this concept in this famous website: wiki. However, as I am only a foreign student with poor English, this website is not well prepared. However, I promise that I would improve this website as best as I can. I am not intending to advise something in this website but just want to introduce the basic concept of wiki. So due to my limited knowledge on vector solitons, I could only dare to introduce our works on vector solitons. But I hope other researchers on vector solitons would try to improve this and make more people know about what vector solitons are. Please give me more time on improving this and I would try to clarify something inappropriate. Wish you could reconsider after a second thought as i have deleted and added something alread.

PS:I have rewrote the articles and hope you could give me another chance!

best regards,Vectorsoliton (talk) 13:58, 10 February 2009 (UTC)

I understand that the vector soliton is a notable concept. However, in order to survive the afd you need to add some inline sources to the article. Best of luck! Salih (talk) 14:54, 10 February 2009 (UTC)

Mappila

Hello Salih, I have noticed some useful edits that you have made on Wikipedia. Please feel free to add more to the Mappila or the newly created List of Mappilas articles. Remember: for a name to be added to the List of Mappilas, the person must already have a article named after him, otherwise the list will be considered as a general directory and will get deleted (putting an external reference is not enough either, if the external reference is good enough to make an article then first you should make the article then add the name to the list). Thankyou. Lightta (talk) 22:23, 15 February 2009 (UTC)