User talk:Dtrebbien/Archives/2007

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Using an image from German Wikipedia on English Wikipedia

{{helpme}} I would like to use the image at http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bild:BMBF_Logo.svg on the English Wikipedia page for the Federal Ministry of Education and Research in its {{Infobox Government agency}} transclusion. How do I do this?

Unfortunately, since it's not on Commons, you will have to upload the image here. See Wikipedia:Uploading images to see how to do this. NF24^{(radio me!)} 20:41, 5 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Headings

Yes, I understand, you should think of this as a standard heading like "contents". So SmackBot will make these headings plural (and correct a number of spelling errors and capitalisation errors) - per MoS [1]. Rich Farmbrough, 08:23 6 December 2007 (GMT).

Northern Arizona Ethnic Arts Network

Why doesn't this fit? I decided to write this after I found a local small town radio station KWMX. If they fit why doesn't the Northern Arizona Ethnic Arts Network?

I don't know about the KWMX article, but Northern Arizona Ethnic Arts Network is a copyright violation. Also, the group, while admirable in goal, is too new. « D Trebbien (talk) 20:52 2007 December 11 (UTC)

I saw the warning on the web page and removed the mission statement part but what does too new mean? It's a three year old organization. How old does it have to be? User:Craig1014

Thank you for removing the copied part. The only problem now is that the page does not assert significance of the group. Even though it's three years old, it is too new for it to have had a big impact.

I added {{hangon}} to the page. You should go to its talk page and write your comments. I don't decide if it gets deleted.

« D Trebbien (talk) 21:02 2007 December 11 (UTC)

No problems. Thanks for the info. I'll have to think about how I can write up something about the significance of the organization, though probably not today. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Craig1014 (talk • contribs) 21:08, 11 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sure. Don't forget to sign you comments with ~~~~. « D Trebbien (talk) 21:11 2007 December 11 (UTC)

Quadratic reciprocity

Regarding your self reverted [2]. Apart from the 'A', the Belgian city name supports Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet and I guess you best know who you are after. But he was born after Gauss' proof of quadratic reciprocity. Maybe that part of your recollection is about Adrien-Marie Legendre who conjectured quadratic reciprocity. http://mathworld.wolfram.com/QuadraticReciprocityTheorem.html says: "Legendre was the first to publish a proof, but it was fallacious." I haven't heard about a conflict between Legendre and Gauss. PrimeHunter (talk) 01:59, 16 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi PrimeHunter, it's exciting researching mathematics history, isn't it!

I am glad that you mentioned Legendre because I did some more research and found out that I was wrongly associating his conflict with Gauss to Dirichlet. According to MacTutor's biography of Legendre, Gauss was extremely critical of Legendre's lack of rigor in his 1798 proof of quadratic reciprocity and Gauss did not mention in his famous 1801 proof that he was improving Legendre's work. Gauss also claimed the result as entirely his own, prompting Legendre to write: "This excessive impudence is unbelievable in a man who has sufficient personal merit not to have need of appropriating the discoveries of others."

« D Trebbien (talk) 03:13 2007 December 16 (UTC)

http://www.mat.itu.edu.tr/gungor/bioindex.pdf pp. 17-18 says the quote is about the discovery of the least squares method. PrimeHunter (talk) 04:01, 16 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I think that that is correct. Legendre's dispute with Gauss seems to have been about the discovery of least squares regression.

« D Trebbien (talk) 23:02 2007 December 17 (UTC)

response

By this i mean that on most of the pages of scheduled drugs (before i edited them) they only had the US drug schedule markings and any mention to drug schedules when to the american banned substances act. So i updated the canadian controlled drugs and substances act page and all the controlled drugs pages as you may have seen. I also updated lots of microprocessor architecture pages which it seems you have read :). Rada (talk) 06:27, 27 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Okay. « D Trebbien (talk) 17:07 2007 December 28 (UTC)