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Link for giving input: [[Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Designing for virtual reality]]. [[User:Samsara|Samsara]] 14:46, 10 January 2017 (UTC)
Link for giving input: [[Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Designing for virtual reality]]. [[User:Samsara|Samsara]] 14:46, 10 January 2017 (UTC)

== Help fix the Windows Me article ==

The [[Windows Me]] article erronously uses the "ME" capitalisation instead of the more common "Me": [https://support.microsoft.com/EN-US/kb/315854 Microsoft uses the Windows Me spelling]. This is the most common spelling and [http://www.pcworld.com/article/165133/vista_or_windows_me.html PC World also uses it]. Google "windows me" on any search engine and you will see for yourself that Windows Me is more common than Windows ME. Should we use the "Me" capitalisation on our [[Windows Me]] article? Should we move the article to [[Windows Millennium Edition]]? [[User:Maria Kappatou|Maria Kappatou]] ([[User talk:Maria Kappatou|talk]]) 05:37, 16 January 2017 (UTC)

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Quote_notation: overly optimistic

The article on "Quote_notation", although sort of interesting, is overly optimistic on the usefulness of this notation for general computation with fractions. There is an obvious problem that the length of a quote notated fraction is linear in its denominator, often even close to it.

This optimism is already there in the original article.

For example, the suggestion is that subtraction of two quote notated number is "just subtract". Here a bad counterexample: To subtract 1/19 from 1/17 (giving 2/323), you compute 2941176470588235'3 - 894736842105263159'9, and after subtraction you get a number with a repeating part of 144 digits, ending in ...4334365325077'4

This is not easy by any stretch of the imagination. However, the notation is still an interesting thought experiment, so I would suggest not to remove it, but just make it a bit more realistic.

Software update as a redirect to Patch (computing)?

Please see Talk:Software update#Software update as a redirect to Patch (computing)? --5.170.9.7 (talk) 20:34, 9 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

RFCs on citations templates and the flagging free-to-read sources

See

Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 16:51, 29 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Bird–Meertens formalism

Hello,

I have added enough material to Bird–Meertens formalism to revoke its stub status, in my estimation.

However, this is fresh paint and not my field, so if anyone is interested in the topic, their eyeballs (or any other relevant body parts) are welcome.

Cheers — Gamall Wednesday Ida (t · c) 16:43, 30 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Reassessment request for article "Pointing device"

Could somebody from the assessment team have a look at Pointing device and update the quality/importance class, please? A student in my course significantly extended the article compared to the previous state which (imho) improved it quite a bit. As I was involved in the writing of the article, I would prefer not to do the reassessment myself. Raphman (talk) 14:53, 2 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Greetings WikiProject Computer science Members!

This is a one-time-only message to inform you about a technical proposal to revive your Popular Pages list in the 2016 Community Wishlist Survey that I think you may be interested in reviewing and perhaps even voting for:

If the above proposal gets in the Top 10 based on the votes, there is a high likelihood of this bot being restored so your project will again see monthly updates of popular pages.

Further, there are over 260 proposals in all to review and vote for, across many aspects of wikis.

Thank you for your consideration. Please note that voting for proposals continues through December 12, 2016.

Best regards, Stevietheman — Delivered: 17:57, 7 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Missing topics list

My list of missing topics related to computers is updated - Skysmith (talk) 19:31, 8 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Designing for virtual reality at AfD

Link for giving input: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Designing for virtual reality. Samsara 14:46, 10 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Help fix the Windows Me article

The Windows Me article erronously uses the "ME" capitalisation instead of the more common "Me": Microsoft uses the Windows Me spelling. This is the most common spelling and PC World also uses it. Google "windows me" on any search engine and you will see for yourself that Windows Me is more common than Windows ME. Should we use the "Me" capitalisation on our Windows Me article? Should we move the article to Windows Millennium Edition? Maria Kappatou (talk) 05:37, 16 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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