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WikiProject Cryptography

Hi there, welcome to WikiProject Cryptography! (An introduction: I'm Matt, I've been editing at Wikipedia for a couple of months, and my most detailed knowledge is about block ciphers, though I like to read/edit other stuff too.) If you have any thoughts on how we can improve cryptography articles, I'd be keen to hear them (we can put them in the "List of open tasks" section). — Matt 12:00, 21 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, Matt, for organizing the project and getting people involved. I've been following crypto on and off since reading the RSA Technical Memo in 1977. I analyzed the PGP web of trust in 1996, and have helped organize the PKI R&D Workshop the last three years. NealMcB 18:38, 2004 May 24 (UTC)

spelling

Neal, We now have a formal discussion page for the TT issue, cypher v cipher. It's at the WikiProject Cryptography under discussions. I've taken the liberty of summarizing folks views on the question insofar as I know them under current standings. You might want to chime (or chyme) in there. ww 17:54, 26 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

Finnegan "breakthrough"

Neal, Thanks for reverting the 'news'. I spent 20 minutes searching and couldn't turn up even a hint. Looks like sneaky vandalism, and some extended editing effort to do it, too. So thanks again.

And thanks for the line at treecat. It made the warning much more apparent. ww 17:39, 1 Jun 2004 (UTC)

WikiProject Cryptography mailshot

Hi, quick note to let you know about what's happening with the WikiReader in Cryptography. There's now a provisional Table of Contents to work with, and for the next 68 days or so there'll be an "Article of the Day" scheme: each day there'll be a particular article highlighted for reviewing and fixing. There's two templates for this purpose: Template:WikiReaderCryptographyAOTD and Template:WikiReaderCryptographyAOTD-Verbose. The smaller one looks like this:

WikiReader Cryptography — article of the day edit
 MRR
Sunday, 24 July Playfair cipher (Talk) (History)
                   
Monday, 25 July Message authentication code (Talk) (History)
                   
Tuesday, 26 July Digital signature (Talk) (History)
                   
Wednesday, 27 July Block cipher modes of operation (Talk) (History)
                   
Thursday, 28 July Export of cryptography (Talk) (History)
                   
Notes: If you find problems that you can't fix (or it's too much effort), it would be very helpful if you could place a note on the Talk: page. Articles need to be checked for 1) Accuracy (Factchecking: Are there any mistakes? Is the writing precise? Are sources cited?), 2) Completeness (Any obvious omissions? Does it need illustration?) 3) Quality of writing (Copyedits: Grammar and spelling, phrasing, structure) 4) Neutrality (Is it written from the NPOV? Do we document all relevant points of view?) — Thanks!
— To-do list for Digital signature edit
  • Describe cryptanalysis of digital signatures -- what are the various notions
(See all to-do lists for this WikiReader)

These articles are likely to be some of the earliest English Wikipedia content to get turned into a print version, and any help in making them as good as possible would be much appreciated. Thanks! — Matt 01:51, 29 Jul 2004 (UTC)


Something to read

Please consider reading this: 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Snowspinner/Avala_Evidence

and then voting here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship#User:Snowspinner_.2854.2F6.2F2.29_Ends_17:06.2C_31_July_2004

-- orthogonal 18:23, 29 Jul 2004 (UTC)

New Mathematics Wikiportal

I noticed you've done some work on Mathematics articles. I wanted to point out to you the new Mathematics Wikiportal- more specifically, to the Mathematics Collaboration of the Week page. I'm looking for any math-related stubs or non-existant articles that you would like to see on Wikipedia. Additionally, I wondered if you'd be willing to help out on some of the Collaboration of the Week pages.

I encourage you to vote on the current Collaboration of the Week, because I'm very interested in which articles you think need to be written or added to, and because I understand that I cannot do the enormous amount of work required on some of the Math stubs alone. I'm asking for your help, and also your critiques on the way the portal is set up.

Please direct all comments to my user-talk page, the Math Wikiportal talk page, or the Math Collaboration of the Week talk page. Thanks a lot for your support! ral315 02:54, Feb 11, 2005 (UTC)

Getting Psychotherapy into This Week's Improvement Drive

Hi there! I noticed that at one time or another you helped contribute to the article on Psychotherapy. As it stands this article could use a lot of help, and thus I've taken the liberty of trying to get it to be the focus of a week's improvement drive. All we need to get it for a week's worth of focus and improvement is enough votes, so go to Psychotherapy's vote page and help out this very needing article! JoeSmack (talk) 18:16, July 25, 2005 (UTC)

Phaeno Science Center

Please note two things from Wikipedia:Manual of Style: (1) The title phrase should be bolded at its first appearance, and (2) Don't use too many capital initial letters in section headings---in particular, it should say External links with a lower-case initial "L", not a capital. I fixed these problems in Phaeno Science Center and also in the section heading you added to The Wisdom of Crowds. Michael Hardy 00:23, 5 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

...same two things at James Stoll; again I fixed them. Michael Hardy 00:25, 5 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

...same thing with the See also heading; the a in also should be lower-case. I've fixed this in about a half-dozen article where you added "see also" sections. Michael Hardy 00:30, 5 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, thanks, thanks, Michael. I often get to the point where after researching all the content, I'm tired and/or forget some of the details of editorial style. So I appreciate it when someone who is more up-to-date on such things helps out like this. --NealMcB 23:43, 5 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Initial capitals for standard protocol names

JA: With regard to your message:

You changed the name of Border Gateway Protocol to Border gateway protocol. But the article is about a specific, named, standardized protocol which is always written with initial capitals. In accordance with the Wikipedia:Naming conventions It should be changed back, along with other similar articles. --NealMcB 05:16, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

JA: The way I read "most common usage" (MCU), it does not apply to orthography, and does not override local standards of orthography, as all sorts of people think that it's MCU to capitalize all of the major words in article headings, and then again we would have every condition in DSM being capitalized, for example, "Passive-Aggressive Personality Disorder", but we don't do the likes of that here in a host of similar cases. Jon Awbrey 05:34, 11 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I (and others) disagree, as discussed in the Requested move discussions at Talk:Border gateway protocol. --NealMcB 18:23, 24 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

admin?

Hi Neal - You're pretty clearly not a Wikipedia addict, but I was wondering if you might have any interest in becoming an administrator. If so, I'd be happy to nominate you (I've been one for nearly a year). -- Rick Block (talk) 14:27, 24 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Howdy, Rick! Thanks for your hard work here, and the offer! From looking at RFA, it seems that many folks want more edits than I have. For now I'll stick to content. --NealMcB 18:42, 24 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
OK. I won't really push it, but I think edit history dating from 2002-09-28 (!) provides ample evidence that you're not a troll. -- Rick Block (talk) 23:10, 24 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Capitalization for Titles

Sorry my position was unclear. I say all of this in the full awareness that language is malleable and the product of group consensus. I'd just as soon not get bogged down in a debate about the sociology of linguistics. If you open any grammar book (Chicago, Harbrace, whatever) it tells you that titles for articles, books, whatever are capitalized in a particular way (barring exceptions for things like eBay or e.e. cummings). Ordinarily, you capitalize the first and last word of the title (regardless of whether they're direct articles or verbs) and any words in the body of the title that are important (typically the verbs and the nouns). I moved Criticism of Atheism to Critique of Atheism. Shortly thereafter, someone changed it to Critique of atheism and directed me to the naming conventions for Wikipedia, which state that only the first word of a title and Proper nouns are capitalized. Being someone who writes, is published, and works in a library, I found that convention to be amateurish. MerricMaker 19:17, 29 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

RE:NASA Budget fraction of US budget, population effects

In response to your comments posted on the NASA Budget discussion page in March 2006, please visit the page at your first convenience once again and provide any additional comments or suggestions for improvement. Regards, ~JS~ WSpaceport 17:10, 6 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks - the changes are helpful! Some lines in the graph would be even nicer, of course. --NealMcB 23:38, 8 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hope you don't mind

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User%3ANealmcb&diff=145954038&oldid=56210144 -Wafulz 17:10, 20 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! I think I figured that interwiki syntax out later on, but forgot that I wanted to use it here. --NealMcB 17:25, 20 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Polo Shirt

Mea Culpa, I thought I had moved the talkpage as well. Thanks for the note, I have fixed. (Preserving both edit histories) Brian | (Talk) 04:09, 27 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Thanks for the well-presented tips. The text in question (one phrase) was marked as a quote, and the page I got it from was listed in the external links section. But now I've moved the citation to be a proper reference directly after the quote. --NealMcB (talk) 22:36, 28 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Parliamentary Procedure

I just wanted to let you know about the formation of WikiProject Parliamentary Procedure. We hope to cover all the major motions and parliamentary procedure terms. You are welcome to join. Thanks, Obuibo Mbstpo (talk) 19:42, 8 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Thank you for your reversion of the vandalism on the Eye of Horus article. Please continue the great work. Sephiroth storm (talk) 14:08, 15 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Internet Communications Engine - Advertisement ?

Internet Communications Engine How come ! This is free s/w. I am a software architect in the finance industry and use not only this product but also a set of others. I did not create the article; I have rebuilt most of it to describe important mechanism and concepts in the field of middleware. The article needs improvements, but it should not at all be subject for deletion. --Malin Randstrom (talk) 08:52, 18 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

updated the article I have changed the article to be less advertisy Internet Communications Engine. What do u think? --Malin Randstrom (talk) 04:45, 1 February 2009 (UTC)?[reply]
I responded on the ICD talk page --NealMcB (talk) 00:27, 2 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Replied to you on the ICE talk page. --Malin Randstrom (talk) 11:05, 3 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Edits to EML page...

Heya Neal, I just wanted to point out that EML expert and extraordinaire David Webber has just made massive changes for the best to the EML page. Thanks for starting it... and may it grow. Joebeone (Talk) 23:40, 30 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding your post on the BLP RFC

Hey there. I saw this post of yours. If you would like to email me the article name, I'd be happy to take a look at it. I'd of course apply the same rules of confidentiality that I do when dealing with OTRS work. NW (Talk) 06:07, 2 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for you offer. It all worked out fine in this case. Viewing this from the viewpoint of a particular "living person" gives me more respect for people's privacy and prompt me to ask more critically why any given person merits an article on Wikipedia, where messy things can happen to innocent people who deserve relative obscurity. --NealMcB (talk) 20:50, 28 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

VLC and SHOUTcast

FYI - someone from VLC posted on Slashdot (not a reliable source, I know) that there's been a big misunderstanding and that they're going to 'reach out' to the VLC folks to get it resolved. It sounds to me like perhaps either serious backpedaling, or maybe just a case of the suits screwing up and the rank-and-file rushing in to fix it. Anyway, I hope you're keeping an eye out for news from reliable sources re: VLC's point of view.

Also, it's not clear from the edits you made what kind of SHOUTcast support has been removed. Is it no longer possible to listen to SHOUTcast streams in VLC, or did they just remove more advanced features like accessing the directory (SHOUTcast Radio) and/or creating a stream? Thanks. —mjb (talk) 20:28, 22 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of Journal of Physical Security

The article Journal of Physical Security has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Irregularly appearing journal (4 issues produced since 2004) with only few articles published (and several of those not peer-reviewed). Apparently not indexed anywhere, does not even seem to have an ISSN. Does not meet WP:Notability (academic journals) or WP:GNG.

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I couldn't find much more to add, and guess that deletion is what the current policy calls for. But his makes me wonder whether the policy is overly restrictive. It is a highly important field, and this is the best source of information in it. Hopefully JPS will mature and we can revisit this then. Thanks, --NealMcB (talk) 20:58, 28 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Hmm, this was unfortunate... we'll just have to see it published more frequently, I suppose. --Joebeone (Talk) 12:09, 10 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

NTLM

Sorry about pulling out worthy citations from NTLM. So much of it low quality, it was hard to find the good/relevant stuff.

Not to be argumentative, but I'm not apologetic for the freetard comments. I've donated time to a GNU project, and I know exactly how they operate.

Jeff 74.103.117.187 (talk) 00:37, 4 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Damn, forgot to log in before signing.
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Web document

Web document is a old (2006) article and there are some relevant articles linking to it. Please help us to do a better article. --Krauss (talk) 15:57, 27 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Invitation to join WikiProject United States

Hello, Nealmcb! WikiProject United States, an outreach effort supporting development of United States related articles in Wikipedia, has recently been restarted after a long period of inactivity. As a user who has shown an interest in United States related topics we wanted to invite you to join us in developing content relating to the United States. If you are interested please add your Username and area of interest to the members page here. Thank you!!!

--Kumioko (talk) 03:58, 5 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Colorado

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The year 2011 has brought many changes to the State of Colorado. Several users have asked us to reactivate WikiProject Colorado. We have a new Governor and other state officers, two new U.S. Representatives, many new state legislators, and a new Mayor of Denver. Many articles about Colorado need to be updated and many Colorado places, people, and organizations need new articles. Portal:Colorado needs some new featured articles.

Can you help us? Please see our list of some requested articles. If you would like to remain an active member of WikiProject Colorado, please leave me a message at User talk:Buaidh or e-mail me at Special:EmailUser/Buaidh. If you cannot help right now, you can go to inactive status and then reactivate your status later. Thanks for any help you can provide. Yours aye,  Buaidh  17:22, 14 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia 10th Anniversary Celebration

Don't forget the Wikipedia 10th Anniversary event in Boulder tomorrow. Yours aye,  Buaidh  22:18, 14 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Neal

Colorado Wiknic

All Wikipedians are cordially invited to the Colorado celebration of the 2011 Great American Wiknic on June 25. We will meet Saturday afternoon from 3:00 to 5:00 at the D Note, 7519 Grandview Avenue in Arvada. Please e-mail Jacques Delaguerre at Special:EmailUser/Jaxdelaguerre if you plan to attend. Be there or be square! –  Buaidh  22:06, 8 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Fun party - thanks! Next time I hope we find a more quiet spot though. ★NealMcB★ (talk) 15:37, 11 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Lockman Hole

It looks good to me. I always feel hesitant about removing tags, especially ones saying a page is too technical. This is mainly because I've had a couple of articles that I contributed to get tagged as too technical, even when I was trying not to. That said, I would support the removal of both tags. James McBride (talk) 16:22, 20 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you

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In recognition of all the work you’ve done lately! 66.87.2.116 (talk) 13:49, 5 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
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