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Re MPs: if you insist on editing the next name in the list ahead of me, you will just get your work over-written. If you want to help with this, start at the other end of the alphabet. And please follow the format I have established. These are not stubs. Adam 11:10, 28 Mar 2004 (UTC)

I didn't intend to pick the next name in the list - I just picked him at random (Apologies for stepping on your toes). I'm still trying to get the hang of these articles, so please bear with me. Dysprosia 11:12, 28 Mar 2004 (UTC)

OK, well go to List of members of the Australian House of Representatives, and you can see I am working my way down the list. If the topic interests you, I suggest you start with Christian Zahra and work your way up. Get one of my articles and use it as a template. The photos are downloadable from here. Happy editing. Adam 11:51, 28 Mar 2004 (UTC)

No problemo, mate. It was an easy one to sort. In any case, I should know better. I confess to an irrational dislike of headings, and I tend to ignore them a lot of the time - which is one of the great things about a community-written project: one can afford these little lazy luxuries, as someone else will always come along and attend to the parts you don't do yourself. Tannin 11:22, 28 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Financial Measure

To avoid conflicts I'll let you tidy up if that's ok. My clean-up skills aren't that hot anyway!Rjstott 07:28, 29 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Vabis

I find it interesting that there is a related link to Scania Vabis trucks. Must be some confusion or some copy right infringements are in order Thuyen

Yeah, though as much! ;) Mark Richards 22:59, 29 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Can't stand people who try and advertise here. It's..ugh! Dysprosia 23:01, 29 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for the Welcome

Dysprosia, I finally looked at my own talk page, and saw your welcome. Thanks for that. I guess you are the nice neighbor that comes around with the basket of fruit.

I have been posting here and there as time allows, but nowhere near the level of devotion I see from you and other prolific editors. I mostly stick to Asian and Japanese issues, as those are my strengths. However, I have set my browser homepage to open a wikipedia random page, and found myself doing minor edits or fixes as they arise.

Ganbaro-! Davejenk1ns 06:52, 30 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Numerology

Ahh yes, the numbers. Well, I can't keep track of any of these project pages, so I'm not contributing there, but see what else you want to do with the numbers now. I'm done with my sweeps through the 1-10k range; note that "divisors" is only part of the template for numbers with more than 2 non-trivial divisors (else the factorization says it all). other than that, I think all numbers-page editors are on the same page. (-: +sj + 06:45, 2004 Mar 31 (UTC)

Thanks re welcome & red links

Thanks for your welcoming message, which I appreciated, as I have only been in wikipedia for a week and have mostly been proceeding on a trial and error basis - having fallen in love with the Wikipedia structure and process, and trusting in the error correction properties of digital information systems.

This is my first attempt at using the talk function, which feels fairly cumbersome, imho. I did begin a response to you yesterday - but ended up not posting it.

Btw, my preferred modality of communication is IRC - is this available anywhere in Wiki world? If not, you are welcome to visit me at irc://irc.oftc.net/ie, which I will keep open today - and I will keep an eye open for any visitors to the channel.

I have continued to pursue my hunch as to the significance of red links, In the process of revising many such links I had created at collective intelligence agency - to which I have ported the matrix that I had come up with on my first visit to red links - I had come up with an idea for an alternative construction of red links as search links - see red links - having made use of WordPerfect 5.1+ styles and macros to convert what I had listed under Define into an ad hoc demonstration of an alternative construction of red links.

I look forward to finding more about how Wikipedia works, and appreciate the valuable contribution that you make - judging by the messages on your page yesterday.

Robert - User:Information-Ecologist

Slut

Haha, thanks for the help on fixing the slut article, i wasn't sure what i did there...:) --JonMoore 10:26, 31 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Just a reminder: It's April Fools day...

Check box

Now THAT is responsive! Thanks! Mark Richards 23:17, 1 Apr 2004 (UTC)

blows smoke from gun ;) Dysprosia 23:19, 1 Apr 2004 (UTC)

About the byte pages

I edited all the pages of megabyte, gigabyte, terabyte, petabyte, exabyte, zettabyte, and yottabyte to include the histories of the SI prefixes. Look at those of zettabyte and yottabyte. Do you know exactly why they were chosen?? 66.32.96.177 00:26, 2 Apr 2004 (UTC)

What is a transsexual woman??

Let me see if I got this correct: A transsexual woman is a woman who was born as a boy, but who became a woman later in her life?? Does Wikipedia have a page that lists women of this kind?? 66.32.96.177 00:35, 2 Apr 2004 (UTC)

At my user talk page, it says:

Let me see what you mean: A transsexual is a woman who was a born as a boy, but became a woman later in her life. A transgender is someone who this doesn't officially happen to, but who sort of behaves like this. Can you modify the list of transgendered people so that the page can identify which one it is??

Goldberg Variations

You may have mastered the beauty of Bach, but can you do this? :) -- Decumanus | Talk 08:11, 3 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Oh heck, I'm a bit slow, aren't I? -- Decumanus | Talk 08:17, 3 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Hm? Sure, I'll give it a go! But I think it comes with chordal accompaniment and I don't have the original sheet music... Dysprosia 08:20, 3 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Thanks

For removing the vandalism from my page. Pfortuny 12:25, 3 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for the compliment. I'm the one who was editing Wendy Carlos and other gender-related stuff.--Sonjaaa 15:46, Apr 3, 2004 (UTC)

CMYK

Thanks for fixing my formulas. I sort of suck at formulas, give me an algorithm anyday.

Now for some strange reason the algorithm at "the site" has RGB with 8 bit integers for each channel, and CMYK uses floating point proportions for each channel. Eh what!? So at some point, someone should either write everything using proportions, or write everything scaled to 8 bit integers. :-)

But that's neither here nor there, like, thanks again! :-)

No problem :) A formula in some instances is an algorithm, by the way ;) But that's beside the point.

I'll see if I can write some method of getting things to integers properly instead of reals, but don't hold your breath - I'm soooo busy nowadays! Anyway, thanks again :) Dysprosia 08:32, 4 Apr 2004 (UTC)

uh oh

Where did I put the test message? Please tell me I didn't put it on the article... :( - Tεx τ urε 22:32, 5 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Yes. No problems, I redirected, anyway . Dysprosia 22:34, 5 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Thank you :) - Tεx τ urε 22:35, 5 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Thanks and I hope I get this talk msg right

I'm totally new here (as a user and contributor) but thought I'd try adding something that I searched for and was not there. Thanks for fixing what I wrote on the Campaign for Dark Skies! I went back to correct it when I realised that the keyword should be emboldened but someone had already done so for me. /me decides that I really should read the FAQ's &c first before jumping in to this, so I've just tree-killed them. I like the whole Wikipedia thing--I've been an DMoz/ChefMoz/&c editor for some time but I like the freedom over here (both everyone can edit and the licensing)(as a liberally-minded person & an FSF member).

Thought I'd add a response to your comments on my talk page to yours. Thanks so much for that helpful intro info--it ca be daunting being a newbie :-) . Wikipedia seems like my ideal of how the WWW should be, and I'm not sure why I did not come across it before. Unfortunately, I do not have Internet access at home (too expensive) and I'm busy ATM (in college--should be doing work) but I'd love to do more wiki-ing(?) when I have more time in the future.

Joeblakesley 13:19, 6 Apr 2004 (UTC)

P.S. /me wonders if it is possible to change the dates (like the one in .sig above) I read to another format (e.g.: big-endian Iso8601 [ooh...that doesn't exist looks like another node (or whatever you call them) to make](YYYY-MM-DDTHH:mmZ) which I find easier to read).

Make sure you make the links properly/check to see if a page exists already! -- ISO8601 ;) To change the date style, have a look in your preferences.

P.P.S. When finding info it would probably be very useful if Wikipedia had its own search function (not just using Google). Do you know why it does not?

I believe it puts too much a drain on the servers. Dysprosia 22:18, 6 Apr 2004 (UTC)

(i'm a moron (not a jet))

Never mind. Maybe you'll be a jet in your next life;) --Tagishsimon

lol Dysprosia 12:16, 7 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Thanks to your help, I managed to update all of THIS:

I've credited you on Talk:Color Thanks for your time! Kim Bruning 14:35, 7 Apr 2004 (UTC)

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I've re-edited the "transsexual" section according to best practice as advised by "Press for Change", the UK's main political source. I'm sorry if you do not agree with the importance with which I insist that "transsexual" be regarded as an adjective, but I have a very long experience with the subject, and long wnough to know that this usage is the correct one to show to the public. I hope you can agree that self-definition is the way forward. (Yes, I;m new here, but so were we all)

Annie 00:10 ,8 Apr 2004 (GMT)

Thanks for understanding, and for the tidying up! :)) Annie 23:39, 7 Apr 2004 (UTC)

CORBA vs COBRA vs Common object request broker architecture

68.167.249.197 23:40, 7 Apr 2004 (UTC): I received your message. To start, I'd suggest that it is standard practice to have the main article body for CORBA/Common object request broker architecture to be under the fully expanded version of the name (cf. Remote procedure call/RPC, and File transfer protocol/FTP to name two examples). Perhaps the order in which I made that change made you suspect vandalism.

Second, I understand that misspellings aren't typically disambiguated. I'd make this case an exception that proves the rules though, because it's two five-letter acronyms (I would never advocate it for TLAs). The idea behind "exceptions proving the rule" is that good rules do occasionally have reasonable exceptions.

I support Dysprosia here. As you surely know, everyone calls it CORBA. The expanded name is almost always found in parenthesis next to the acronym. -- Decumanus | Talk 23:42, 7 Apr 2004 (UTC)

68.167.249.197 00:16, 8 Apr 2004 (UTC): Everyone also says OSI, SNMP, IETF, LAN too. Internet technologies and standards are rife with acronyms and initialisms. Is there an important distinction to CORBA that I'm missing? See more at Talk:CORBA...

Chicago Blackhawks

I saw the changes you made to the Chicago Blackhawks page. I just wanted to comment that that format is pretty standard for most American professional sports team articles. Rick K 05:19, 9 Apr 2004 (UTC)

It's not a good format. There should be a better use of headers, and some full sentences used in the introduction. Where can I discuss changes to this? Dysprosia 05:20, 9 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Maybe at Wikipedia:WikiProject Sports Team Listing? Rick K 05:27, 9 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Muchas gracias! :) Dysprosia 05:28, 9 Apr 2004 (UTC)

sigh

I know. I wanted to put down vi, or even pico, both I had to look in the mirror and see what exactly was there. Sometimes it's not very pretty. :) -- Decumanus | Talk 11:36, 9 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Dependence/ance

The dictionaries I have access to don't have the -ance variations listed as being British (or American) spellings. Given that the ones listed on List of common misspellings were massively outnumbered by the "correct" spellings, I figured it was just an uncommon variant that should be corrected for consistency. -- Cyrius|&#9998 06:57, Apr 10, 2004 (UTC)

Here's a ref I found which references the "The Random House Dictionary of the English Language (the Unabridged Edition), 1969" [1]. I won't change your changes back, though :) Dysprosia 07:00, 10 Apr 2004 (UTC)

heteronormativity

I havn't been able to figure out your POV (which is probably a good sign ;) and I have only seen you make good edits thus far, so I wanted to compliment you on your NPOV. Sam Spade 03:41, 11 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Thanks Sam :) I don't intend to get too involved with heteronormativity though, maybe just a little dabblin' here and there... Dysprosia 03:47, 11 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Its messy, particularly since a huge percentage of the google hits are for the wikipedia version (#1) and various forks, and the rest are almost entirely non-professional academic mentions. The big sources are completely clueless as to the term (brittanica, dictionary/encyclopedia.com., etc... Sam Spade 03:49, 11 Apr 2004 (UTC)