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Francis Nepveu

Hi, if you have a moment can you find some sources for this/improve the text?♦ Dr. Blofeld 13:11, 18 October 2010 (UTC)

"François Nepveu" is a better bet as name. I have done the interwiki to the frWP page, not that it has so much. Charles Matthews (talk) 15:40, 18 October 2010 (UTC)

Categories for discussion nomination of Category:Bishops of Meath (Roman Catholic)

Category:Bishops of Meath (Roman Catholic), which you created, has been nominated for deletion, merging, or renaming. 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. Kittybrewster ☎ 11:07, 25 October 2010 (UTC)

Heads up about an RfC

Please note that there's a new discussion at Wikipedia:Requests for comment/2010 ArbCom election voting procedure in which you may wish to comment. It is expected to close in about a week. You have received this message because you participated in a similar discussion (2009 AC2 RfC) last year.  Roger ^talk 05:28, 27 October 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Giovanni Francisco Vigani

— Rlevse • Talk • 00:06, 30 October 2010 (UTC)

Cassels & the Shapley-Folkman lemma

Dear Charles,

I remember that you had studied with Cassels , so I would alert you that David Eppstein has written an article on the Shapley-Folkman lemma, to whose literature Cassels has contributed an elegant article and a book of economics --- both left-hand pieces. You might enjoy looking at the Cassels article cited.

(Also, there is a brief note about J. W. S. Cassels's lectures in Peter Whittle's memoir of the Statistical Laboratory.)

Best regards, Kiefer.Wolfowitz (talk) 05:56, 30 October 2010 (UTC)

Thanks. Actually I remembered something Cassels had said about that work - I did see the article; I don't think he felt it was at all profound. Charles Matthews (talk) 08:02, 30 October 2010 (UTC)

Not profound, just insightful and easy to read. :) Kiefer.Wolfowitz (talk) 08:08, 30 October 2010 (UTC)

Here's a Cassels story, explaining some of my interest in Vigani (see the DYK above). There is a Vigani Room in Trinity College, Cambridge, and Cassels took me with a visiting mathematician there, to drink sherry. The sherry was there because J. K. Galbraith gave Trinity some money, to spend on something "they couldn't otherwise afford". Afterwards Cassels told me about counterexamples he had found to the mathematician's work. Charles Matthews (talk) 08:59, 30 October 2010 (UTC)

Henry Percy, 5th Earl of Northumberland

Please see Talk:Henry Percy, 5th Earl of Northumberland, I think we had already put this to bed, but perhapse you would like to move your comment from my talk page over to that page so there is a record of you point where others can see it if this comes up again in the future. -- PBS (talk) 18:00, 30 October 2010 (UTC)

Done. Charles Matthews (talk) 18:05, 30 October 2010 (UTC)

your Census post

Charles, could you slightly clarify "The tool I have mentioned above" in your 'Census' post on the DNB talk page. (I ask here so as not to amplify another thread on a project talk page which I expect to become monstrous in size!). Sorry not to be able to make the Cambridge meetup, btw. Next time I hope. Best, Dsp13 (talk) 16:27, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

See Wikisource thread. The tool is nice to use, but touchy like everything that drives the toolserver to its limits. http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/User:Charles_Matthews#Tools for more. Charles Matthews (talk) 16:47, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

'Tis indeed good, though I find integrating DNB material sensitively into an existing WP bio takes me an enormous time! Dsp13 (talk) 16:58, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

RE:CSD

I am not sure whether my BOLDNESS is enough to start such a complex subject. It is nice to see an editor who uses WP:AGF. I wish all the best in the future. Many Regards, Yousou (report) 17:14, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

Kehrli new POV dispute

You were involved in an arbitration a couple years ago. [[1]] A nearly identical behavior and dispute has arisen. [[2]] I was wondering if you could pop in there and try to clearly define the scope and purpose of Wikipedia to Kehrli [[3]] as apparently the outcome of the last dispute and the resulting ban did not make such things clear. To summarize: He/she has chosen a different obscure unit-like scaling procedure and is trying to synthesize a well defined unit based on selective use of a few literature examples in combination with the widely accepted rules of metrology. Very elegant work that might be a good idea, but novel nonetheless, and thus not for Wikipedia. I am not a primary participant in the dispute. He/she has also been going over much of the material that he/she was banned from (for 1 year) and is persisting in the course of action that he/she was banned for now that the ban is expired. I have not been policing these actions and the pages have fallen into subtly novel/POV pages.--Nick Y. (talk) 20:06, 1 November 2010 (UTC)