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Wikipedia:RVAN listed at Redirects for discussionAn editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Wikipedia:RVAN. Since you had some involvement with the Wikipedia:RVAN redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. Beeblebrox (talk) 20:42, 3 November 2016 (UTC) ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open!Hello, The Transhumanist. Voting in the 2016 Arbitration Committee elections is open from Monday, 00:00, 21 November through Sunday, 23:59, 4 December to all unblocked users who have registered an account before Wednesday, 00:00, 28 October 2016 and have made at least 150 mainspace edits before Sunday, 00:00, 1 November 2016. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate in the 2016 election, please review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:08, 21 November 2016 (UTC) I invite you to an ongoing RfD discussion about those redirect to WP:AADD#Just a vote. --George Ho (talk) 19:55, 2 December 2016 (UTC) This Month in Education: December 2016
To get involved with the newsletter, please visit the newsroom. To browse past issues, please visit the archives. Home • Subscribe • Archives • Newsroom - The newsletter team 18:51, 22 December 2016 (UTC) When redirecting talkPlease copy the contents of older talkpages when centralizing discussion. If this is not done the concerns risk being lost. Best wishes and happy holidays, Carl Fredrik 💌 📧 22:26, 25 December 2016 (UTC)
Just a quick and small pointIf you edit someone's talk page repeatedly in quick succession, they get inundated with pings and, if email is enabled, emails. Each time you leave me a message, I tend to get lots of such interactions. The emails in particular are a nuisance, as my phone buzzes every time, which is very distracting. I know I'm probably being hypocritical here, but please could you try to make more use of the preview button and/or leave windows open with messages half written before clicking save, so you can think of everything in one go? Apologies for sounding petty. --Dweller (talk) Become old fashioned! 11:48, 16 January 2017 (UTC)
Capital of Washington listed at Redirects for discussionAn editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Capital of Washington. Since you had some involvement with the Capital of Washington redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. - CHAMPION (talk) (contributions) (logs) 03:08, 26 January 2017 (UTC) Reference errors on 5 FebruaryHello, I'm ReferenceBot. I have automatically detected that an edit performed by you may have introduced errors in referencing. It is as follows:
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Donald Trump, please resignThe Transhumanist 07:26, 7 February 2017 (UTC) Love the outlinesHi there! I just wanted to let you know that I think your planet outlines are really cool. I have long thought it was a shame that only Wikipedians seem to know about Books or Portals, because they are really great tools for structuring knowledge (while everyone loves diving down the Wikipedia rabbit hole, we could really do with some better content organization). The outlines strike me as a great way to bring that sort content organization to mainspace, where it will actually reach a large number of readers. I notice that I am the first one to edit them besides yourself, and I hope you know that I do so with love.
Some geography articles needing attentionSince on your user page or somewhere, you call yourself an expert in geography, you would perhaps want to look at these articles, which are in desperately in need of some attention. 103.6.159.65 (talk) 18:55, 15 February 2017 (UTC) Wikipedia:Opera basic topics listed at Redirects for discussionAn editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Wikipedia:Opera basic topics. Since you had some involvement with the Wikipedia:Opera basic topics redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. GeoffreyT2000 (talk, contribs) 03:26, 21 February 2017 (UTC) This Month in Education: [February 2017]
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We hope you enjoy this issue of the Education Newsletter.-- Sailesh Patnaik using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:54, 28 February 2017 (UTC) Automatic Taxonomy ClassificationHi, you've probably seen already but just wanted to give you a heads up that I did some work on the article. I know it still needs a lot more work but I think its an improvement and at least it has inline references and (I hope) makes some sense. I wasn't familiar with the terminology of hyponyms and hypernyms (its amazing how different groups find ways to give different names to concepts that are essentially the same). I thought that the idea of is-a hierarchies was more familiar so at first I went with that but the more I looked at all the papers the more I realized they all use (which I should have realized) the linguistics terms of hypernyms and hyponyms so I felt it was important to describe those terms. For people who start digging into the actual papers I hope at least they will start with a basic understanding of the terminology. I almost then deleted what I wrote about is-a but as I said I think that concept is more widely understood, especially these days with object-oriented programming so popular so I felt it was worth leaving both terms. I think the original article used both concepts as well although it wasn't clear to me what hypernyms were from what was in the original article. Let me know if you have feedback or of course feel free to just edit. I've asked some colleagues for more references on the topic but so far no one has come through. If they do I may update some more, or if you have some feedback and want me to address it I'll give it a shot but otherwise moving on. Thanks for asking though it was actually fun to do some non-trivial editing, haven't done it in a while. It helped that I had some actual work that I didn't want to do so this was a nice distraction ;-) --MadScientistX11 (talk) 21:49, 9 March 2017 (UTC)
OutlinesWhy are you moving outline pages from "Outline of..." to "Outline about..."? The former is more natural and, perhaps more important, is the long standing naming convention as described at Wikipedia:Outlines. "Outline about xxx" is not even normal English usage - I would always use "outline of" something and expect to see it, and an Ngram confirms it is about 1000 times more common.--JohnBlackburnewordsdeeds 12:22, 10 March 2017 (UTC)
Re: Tip of the day monitoringThanks for your message about proofing Tip of the Day posts in advance. I'll be glad to try to do that, although I may forget sometimes. If I spot an error or something that raises a question, should I notify you directly or post my concerns on the Tip of the Day talk page? Eddie Blick (talk) 02:02, 14 March 2017 (UTC)
Outline of human communicationUser:SuggestBot pointed me towards Human communication as a page I might want to edit, which is tagged for cleanup. While a full article might be worth writing, it occurred to me that it might be a good case for an outline. It already gives a list of blue-linked topics to read for communication broken up by group type (with oneself, with multiple people, within a group, within an organization, etc), and it could be broken up in other ways similarly (mode: written, verbal, gestural, ...; intent: informative, expressive, persuasive, ...; register: formal, informal, slang, vulgarity, ...; relationship to truth: nonsense, lies, evasiveness, honesty, ...; transmission: physical writing, live speech, recorded speech, video, digital equivalents, ...; target-type: human-human, human-machine, human-animal, ...; ...) plus related topics such as translation, linguistics, the history of these various things, ... . Even in outline this might be too broad to be manageable, but perhaps with judicious links to sub-outlines it could work. Since it's such a large topic, I don't know that a prose article can reasonably work. Of course, having said that, even more expansive topics such as philosophy, art and science do have solid prose articles, so perhaps I'm just being timid. What do you think? Would your normal prescription be to aim to have both, one for encyclopedic description and the other for navigability? I don't really believe I'm qualified to do justice to either but I'm interested in learning more about the outline approach and how it slots in to other types of article writing, and this seemed like an interesting example. Mortee (talk) 00:23, 15 March 2017 (UTC)
Reply to computer programming questionsHi, I've now taken time to read your questions about computer programming. Unfortunately, I don't think I'll be able to help you with your scripting, at least not the ones you are developing, as I'm really not up to scratch with Wikipedia's more complicated script syntax. I would, however, be interested in starting a WikiProject with you. Wikipedia:WikiProject JavaScript, perhaps? Linguisttalk|contribs 16:10, 16 March 2017 (UTC)
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