User talk:JackSchmidt/Archives/2008/03

Fair Housing Act
Jack Schmidt, you removed text related to a HUD letter sent to my firm 10-02-1996. The letter referenced is available at <>. Please read the letter. It cleared up many misconceptions about the Act. Best regards. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.221.150.98 (talk) 04:36, 1 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Howdy, I did not remove any of your text. I fixed a technical problem with your edit: you had an opening, causing a significant amount of the article not to display.  I also added a references section so the reference would display.  Along with the ref tag fix, I restored a standard cleanup tag refimprove, since such a long article should have more than one citation. JackSchmidt (talk) 06:18, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

WP:VPT
Hi, JackSchmidt! Thanks for the note on WP:VPT. Let's say I'm interested in following how that issue is progressing. How would I keep track of it? How will I know when talk pages are automatically included - other (of course) than seeing them on my recentchangeslinked :) Thanks again! -- SatyrTN (talk / contribs) 22:16, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Unless someone volunteers to handle the category links, I may have to find several hours to devote to cleaning the patch up enough to get the idea approved. I've written the part where it automatically adds talk pages (or from talk pages adds the article) when you check the Recentchangeslinked for a not-category, but for a category it is completely different.  I've also written the main user interface part, and I think that is all the documentation that is needed.
 * I don't know any friendly developers who have tons of free time to devote to it, so I want to get it as close to perfect as possible before having the developers check it. I figure I have until Monday sometime before the paid developers have a chance to reject it :)
 * At any rate, you can check 13202 to see that nothing much has happened, and I'll drop you a note on your talk page when something final is decided. JackSchmidt (talk) 04:16, 2 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Awesome! As a PHP coder, if you need anyone to look things over, I probably won't be able to help.  But I'm willing to try! :)  And thanks *VERY* much for your work on this!! -- SatyrTN (talk / contribs) 06:27, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

Rollback

 * (replies to messages)

As I look into what I revert, I googled up the book and found the IP edit was a vandal
 * http://www.voyageronline.com.au/traciharding/books/celestial.htm
 * http://www.voyageronline.com.au/books/author_search.cfm?txtSearch=TRACI%20HARDING&SearchBy=Author

The IP edit had two series of books from the same author mixed up. While I agree the reverted edition looks weird, it is nonetheless have the correct information as so far I can see.--Cahk (talk) 02:05, 5 March 2008 (UTC)


 * The problem that I see is because the IP edit copied the text, word-by=word from this site: http://www.voyageronline.com.au/books/title.cfm?ISBN=0732278511&Author=18, clearly marked Copyright © 2003 HarperCollinsPublishers Australia. All rights reserved. In so far as I know, that's a copyright violation and should be reverted.--Cahk (talk) 02:18, 5 March 2008 (UTC)


 * 10-4--Cahk (talk) 02:38, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

Multiplicative functions
Thanks, Jack, I may look at the examples on Friday. Rich Farmbrough, 02:57 5 March 2008 (GMT).

Minimal prime
Your move is fine. A dab is best if there are multiple articles. I just don't want a redirect to a page if it's the only one.

Cheers,

CRGreathouse (t | c) 22:57, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

LCS and Fitting series
Hi Jack,

I only recently noticed your reply to my question about intersection of LCS.

Thanks—I've incorporated your comments and made corresponding changes.

I've incorporated your comments in Central series.

I've made significant changes to Fitting length. I rather like the "ruler" analogy for the Fitting series as coarse division, and LCS as fine division; is there anything more to this? (Do people use this sort of merged series, or rather do they generally break up solvable groups into nilpotent groups, and individual nilpotent groups into LCS/UCS/etc., but not a whole solvable group into an "abelian series"?)

I've also reworked Normal series to include Fitting series and draw out the analogy between Fitting series and central series.

Nbarth (email) (talk) 01:38, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

No clue
I have no clue. I've deleted the redirects that were left-over from the moves, and you were totally correct to move his page back to userspace. There seems to be a long-standing but fairly low-level amount of weirdness having to do with Brazil and Mexico between Mhsb and Opinoso, with Dúnadan trying to help out. But it's all beyond me and I don't have the energy to deal with it. I've put a note on ANI: Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents - feel free to watch, chime in, whatever =D Thanks for the heads up! -- SatyrTN (talk / contribs) 05:16, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

Kumi Miyasato
Have you had any luck finding any references for Kumi Miyasato? You mentioned that you'd check around.

I added some additional suggestions on Kumi's talk page. Please get back to me on those. Tuxedo Mark (talk) 02:28, 12 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Nothing substantial, but I only looked at it for about an hour. I was planning on asking a Japanese librarian here if she knew good places to get archived copies of Japanese papers, but she has been exceptionally busy lately so I have not bothered her.  I'll be on the road for the rest of the month, but I'll post back on your user talk if I find anything useful. JackSchmidt (talk) 03:15, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

Admin Noticeboard
Hi, I saw your username in the admin noticeboard. Also, I noticed that you reverted the changes I made on my page. The incident that you've created in the board is now archived. I've been out for a few days and I didn't have the chance to discuss that. What I have to say is that the two incidents are unrelated and I tried to rollback the changes in both cases, since I realised what I was doing. I know that by just looking to what I did it seems quite strange but I think we do have to use common sense when judging other people. Self edit warring? My God! Do you think this makes sense at all?? Please, give me a chance, I a relatively new user here and some mistakes are expected, the most important is to fix them. --Mhsb (talk) 02:36, 13 March 2008 (UTC)


 * I replied on your talk page. Short version: undo double move is two step process, no worries about mistakes, if you can't fix them, then helpme will let people know you need help. JackSchmidt (talk) 03:15, 13 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Thanks. Cheers.

--Mhsb (talk) 03:36, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

Special:Recentchangeslinked
Will you let me know on my talk page if/when this gets implemented? Many thanks! -- SatyrTN (talk / contribs) 03:07, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

Representation ring
Hi Jack - I have started a page on this topic (as you hinted at - you may remember). It's only a stub at the moment, and is on my user page []. Please add to it if you'd like before I put it in its proper place. Simplifix (talk) 12:53, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

User:JackSchmidt/Citation
It might be a good idea to move this from your user space before using it in encyclopedia articles; linking to user space seems to be frowned upon. R.e.b. (talk) 03:06, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

Come to think of it, a better idea would be to expand the Harvard citations and Harvard citations/core templates to include more authors; unlike the Harvard citation you can edit these. R.e.b. (talk) 02:51, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

Undo edit on Endomorphism page
Hi Jack,

I added a Software section to the Endomorphism page as well as a link to my Ph.D. dissertation on iterated endomorphisms. You backed those changes out. What was the problem ?

Thanks for any help - I'm just getting started editing pages. Please let me know what I can do to improve my contributions. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Doctorfree (talk • contribs) 02:04, 26 March 2008 (UTC)