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Sam [Spade] 18:04, 1 Aug 2004 (UTC)

TextPad tool
Hi Alex. Your TextPad clip library looks useful. You might want to document it at Meta and add it to the MediaWiki tools category so more people know about it. Angela. 19:22, Aug 9, 2004 (UTC)

ISBN bug
Hi Alex. In clearing old sections from the village pump, I noticed you said "Perhaps this should be reported as a MediaWiki bug, but I don't know how to do that" in the Shipping Forecast section. There are instructions on this Bug reports. All bugs are reported at. Angela. 14:34, Sep 10, 2004 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the tip; looks like User:Kate has already fixed that problem. AlexG 15:55, 11 Sep 2004 (UTC)

George Fox
I just thought you'd like to know: I nominated George Fox as a featured article candidate. That's some impressive work you did there. Quadell (talk) 03:23, Sep 11, 2004 (UTC)


 * Thank you very much! I'm amazed that it only took two hours between my last major edit and your FAC nomination: Wikipedia works fast. --AlexG 11:45, 11 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Re:Earth (Foundation universe)
I confess, I have not actually read the material from which these events come. I found it on a website that I found to be very meticulous and not at all frivolous, so I trusted its information, and picked a number of relevant fictional dates in Earth history. Unfortunately, its references are somewhat lacking, so I can't provide them. But there are a large number of obscure books floating around; after all, Asimov wrote several hundred. I can find some references to the Yoshida-Lefebre expedition, but the Prometheus seems quite obscure (only one English-language hit), so I'll try to investigate further. Cheers, &bull; &rarr; I&ntilde;g&oacute;lemo  &larr;&bull;  02:56, 2004 Sep 13 (UTC)
 * Could have been fanfiction yes; but I doubt it. The website that I got the information seems to be exclusively Asimov.  The list of planets has no planet described in the Second Foundation series (example: Panucopia, Sarossa), or from the Caliban series (example: the Spacer world Inferno).  I haven't scrutinised the timeline to heavily, but it probably follows the same Asimov-only patern.   &bull;  &rarr;  I&ntilde;g&oacute;lemo  &larr;&bull;  18:35, 2004 Sep 14 (UTC)

Combinatorial species

 * F.H + G.K


 * F&middot;H + G&middot;K

I wonder if the second of the two displays above may be closer to what you intended? Michael Hardy 03:20, 2 Nov 2004 (UTC)


 * Oooh, that's very nice! I didn't know about &amp;middot;. I've updated Combinatorial species to use this (and \cdot in TeX) instead of ".". Thanks for \varnothing as well, which I agree is better than \emptyset. AlexG 20:25, 2 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Vampire watermelon
Hi, AlexG. Vampire watermelon was vandalized again today. As far as I can tell from reviewing its talk page, the question of whether or not the legend is a hoax hangs mostly on the contents of some papers you were waiting to receive from the British Library. Have you received them yet? It's been two months. I'm sure all concerned are eager to have this issue settled one way or the other. &mdash;Triskaideka 18:55, 8 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Hello, I just came across this page too. (It's been linked on memepool.) I'm also wondering if you've gotten those papers from the British Library yet. If you haven't yet, I can go look up the JGLS at my Uni library. I've already checked that we have it, and it's all in microfilm, it seems. mako 21:20, 8 Nov 2004 (UTC)


 * Sorry for my lateness in replying; I've been away for a few days. I'm afraid the British Library has failed to send me anything... my faith in them is severely dented. Mako, if you could find the relevant documents that would be superb and you would have my undying gratitude. I would really like to get this page sorted out. Thanks also to Triskaideka for watching out for vandalism&mdash;from the language, it looks to be Andrew Heenan again. AlexG 18:14, 12 Nov 2004 (UTC)


 * I went to the library this afternoon, and the naysayers are going to be mighty disappointed. One section of Vukanovic's article covers "Vampires of Vegetable Origin"; the next covers "Vampires originating from Agricultural Tools".  Mention is made of pumpkins and watermelons, their transformation, and methods of destruction. Also, this belief is held by "Moslem Gypsies", and the date of Christmas is mentioned. I'll make scans of my copies ASAP. (I didn't need to bother with microfilm, as the hard copies are still on the shelf.)


 * My library also has a copy of Perkowski's Vampires of the Slavs. This book is actually a compilation of articles by various authors, and in fact reprints Vukanovic's piece in its entirety. While I was at the library I felt compelled to look for any earlier references to vegetal vampirism.  A cursory search found a 1914 work (Dudley Wright's Vampires and Vampirism), but it focused on human vampirism and associated sensational tales. All of the scholarly-type accounts appear to be written in Czech.  - mako 02:46, 20 Nov 2004 (UTC)


 * This is magnificent work, mako! Well done, and thank you so much for your effort. I will be very interested to see what Vukanovic actually said. AlexG 19:10, 20 Nov 2004 (UTC)


 * I'm working on putting together a page for the scans. You'll be able to find them here.  The rewrite is all yours; have fun! - mako 07:39, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC)

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Hi, just to let you know that the list of UK participants at the UK notice board was getting rather long, so I have replaced it with the above category which I have added to your user page. -- Francs2000 | Talk 30 June 2005 18:35 (UTC)

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Nomination of Matrix unit for deletion
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FAR for George Fox
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