User talk:Kusma/Archive 1

Minimal surfaces
Your edit summarized by saying "minimal surface need not have minimal area" causes me to wonder if at least it's some sort of local minimum; i.e., among all surfaces with the same boundary that are in some sense close to the surface in question, it is the one with the smallest area? If so, I think that information should be added to the article. Michael Hardy 03:19, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)


 * No, there exist unstable minimal surfaces that are critical points of saddle point type. Unlike local minimizers, these are impossible to realize as soap films. While the term "minimal surface" suggests minimality, it is generally used to mean a solution of the appropriate equations. --Kusma 22:32, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Thanks. Michael Hardy 00:54, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

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And thanks for your changes to Neumann boundary condition. Oleg Alexandrov 23:45, 15 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Georg Forster
Thanks for your contribution to Georg Forster :-). Alx-pl   D  13:16, 8 November 2005 (UTC)

I have trouble with the anti-Polish statements too. In fact I did some effort to somehow make them better suited to the character of Forster. As you can probably see there are wikipedians who fight teeth and claws to make sure a strong anti-Polish label is attached to the person. Anyway, my opinion is that the biography section should be extended now to make it much bigger than the nationalist stuff. As for Forster-Russian relations I could find hardly a message about it. In fact nothing that can be attributed to a decent source. I have also some doubts about the current phrasing of the Russian episode. It says that Forster (father) was sent. From the (not necessarily only) Polish point of view this expression means more or less he was sentenced to go to which is probably not what you meant to express. I guess Forster was hired by tsar (or answered to a research proposal, or maybe even gave the proposal to tsar authorities) to go to the steppe and decribe the territories there. Alx-pl  D  08:56, 11 November 2005 (UTC)

As you can probably see there are wikipedians who fight teeth and claws to make sure a strong anti-Polish label is attached to the person A man who calls Poles "cattle"... --Molobo 12:24, 11 November 2005 (UTC)

...and spy through all my edits too. :-) Alx-pl   D  12:26, 11 November 2005 (UTC)

I found this sentence In 1765 he went to Russia to investigate the conditions of a German colony settled on the Volga River; after handing in a critical report the following year, he never received fair payment for his work. here which clarifies a bit the Russian question. Alx-pl  D  15:56, 26 November 2005 (UTC)


 * The translation you asked me for looks as follows:
 * Forster was born as a subject of the Polish king and some authors consider him to be Pole. However his family was completely germanized, and as he wrote himself he did not learn Polish in his childhood. His diary from the journey through Poland together with his letters contributed to spreading of a number of negative stereotypes concerning Poland and Poles, including depreciating term "Polnische Wirtschaft".
 * Alx-pl  D  18:27, 2 December 2005 (UTC)


 * I'm trying to get some more information on the diary from the author of the Polish text. BTW. I mistranslated the name of the diary a bit, as I did not suspect that Dziennik... is a title. This should rather be sth. like Diary form the Journey through Poland. Alx-pl   D  19:48, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
 * This page suggests that the diary was in fact private:
 * W czasie podróży pisał pamiętnik „Dziennik podróży po Polsce”, którego interesujące fragmenty zostały opublikowane w 21 tomie „Archiwum Historii Medycyny” w l958 r. (During his journey he was writing a diary Account from the Journey through Poland the interesting fragments of which were published in 21th volume of Medicine History Archive in 1958. - the word pamiętnik suggests that the notes were of the private kind).
 * I don't suggest that the diary should not be mentioned in the article, but I think the description concerning the text should be precise. Maybe you know on some German bibliography database (or reliable bibliography with editions of Forster works) in which we could find when the diary was published in German? I don't mean that you should look for the information yourself. I can do the job, but I need to have an appropriate bibliography database to look for and possibly you are more aquainted with German bibliography databases than I am. Alx-pl   D  17:29, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
 * I looked through throughly the first bibliography source you gave me and I could not see anything that could clearly be the publication of the diary from the Polish journey. The book you mentioned in the later post probably contains his diaries from other journeys only (in Western Europe, Netherlands, France, England). Unfortunately, the case becomes really difficult and requires a good Forster expert. Alx-pl   D  08:33, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

I would like to ask you to copyedit my translation. It is especially important in case of the quotations. Forster uses an old German and it was sometimes very difficult for me to get the understandable content out of his sentences. This also means that I could get some things wrong. Please take a look also at the German references section. Alx-pl  D  19:54, 12 December 2005 (UTC)


 * OK, thanks a lot. I see that the only serious mistranslation was the way I got the "noble savage" thing. It is very good that you can copyedit the article, as probably it is not the only mistake that I made there. My German is really on the level of de-1 :-) Unfortunately, the libraries that I have within the reach of my library cards have only biographies in German. I'll try to find some articles in Polish. Alx-pl   D  09:21, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

I don't know if your message was directed to me. In principle all the italic pieces and pieces in {} usually remain on RFC pages. Alx-pl  D  21:14, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

SW films lead sections
Yes, your formatting, I think, best organizes the content of the opening, while retaining all information. No one seems to have a problem with it really. However, I'm sure if User:Copperchair were aware of this, he would revert, knowing that I made the changes. ;).The Wookieepedian 03:41, 11 November 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the helpful information, which I appreciate. David Justin

Kusma, danke schoen. -Hal Hgparker 00:41, 22 November 2005 (UTC)

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Thanks, Kusma. I didn't realize the search feature would take care of the problem. SamJB

[Reichskommissariat Kaukasus]]
Maybe it wasn't translated - maybe it was written by someone with a poor command of English - if so, where would I list it for help? Thanks - Her Pegship 00:39, 30 November 2005 (UTC)

Touch AM
My bot is touching all the AM "whatlinkshere" as we speak. I guess for 25 entries it would have been faster to do it manually (since I was alseep when your request came in), but it's so much more fun to use a bot! In case you were wondering it took me a couple of mintues to set up the bot to work on AM, and then the bot can touch one pages every ten seconds. I always like using the bot, so keep the requests flooding in! Oh, and good work on AM.--Commander Keane 08:38, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
 * I have created Disambiguation pages with links/Bot requests. I used the AM request as a example. It didn't really occur at the Bot requests page, if you mind just delete it.--Commander Keane 10:19, 3 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the note...
I will avoid disambiguating links in timelines, but hopefully a permanent solution will arise so that future disambiguaters can avoid the same pitfall! BD2412 T 22:08, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
 * No such thing as nitpicking - we're doing a job that requires that level of concentration, and I made an amateur assumption! BD2412  T 22:54, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
 * I'm sure I made an amateur assumption or two when I cleared a few of the dabs. To couter this, I've written a script that will do two things:
 * Tell me if there are any dabs on the list which don't have any templates linking to them (ie, they are finished)
 * Tell me if any dabs were inappropriately deleted off the list (ie they are not done). I can then go and finsih them off properly.
 * This should be done in a couple of hours, hopefully.--Commander Keane 20:17, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
 * I've speedy deleted Template:X (band), in case you wondered where the TfD nomination went.--Commander Keane 23:55, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

EasyTimeline

 * Brion broke EasyTimeline is a shortsighted attempt to bring unicode quick and dirty, without telling or asking me. See also my post at . Brion choose to ignore this, although he did read it. Please complain to him, through wikitech or chat. I can't work on the definitive solution right now. Erik Zachte 01:56, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

Page layout in firefox
OK, check it now. I think I've formatted my userpage correctly now. The Wookieepedian 16:19, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

What was repeated in
Forster article ? I made sure no repeat of information is existant. I am also concerned that your edit hides the fact that not all nations were viewed as humans by Forster and tries to portay a picture that is different from what he wrote. In other words you try to present only some of his views, while avoiding others.Why ? --Molobo 00:12, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

I have reverted your edits because I believe Bismarck and Hitler have no place in an article about Georg Forster Both Bismarck and Hitler believed Poles to be animals. And as far as I know Forster was the first one to seed this belief into German society.If you know an earlier German author that believes that Poles are animals let me know.But you are right-the wording was good enough.I think we should state"Georg Forster was one of the the first known German figures to classify Poles as animals.Such views were later presented by both Bismarck(compering them to wolves) and Hitler(who classified Poles as subhuman). What do you think ? --Molobo 00:16, 5 December 2005 (UTC) I believe Bismarck and Hitler have no place in an article about Georg Forster This is not the opinion of the book The Racial State: Germany 1933-1945 by Michael Berleigh, Michael Burleigh, where Forster's beliefs about Poles are linked to Nazi ideology.

"by the sentence from the Polish wikipedia I am awfully sorry but Polish wiki is very poorly done.And it certainly doesn't included much of information found on English wiki.Forster's article for example doesn't included much of information from Lukasiewicz books.As to Forster's hatred for Poles and his belief they are animals-I think it needs to be added, since It led to such horrible things as German politicians saying Poles are wolves to be shot etc. Since you added East German relation to Forster-it intersting that his prejudice against Poland was reflected in the same prejudice about Polish economy in campaign made by East German authorities. --Molobo 00:26, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

AfD on Wikifiddler
Hi. I was wondering if you could reconsider your stance here. You favor merger into CoW, but CoW seems like a general article on criticisms of Wikipedia and this a very specific attack on Wikipedians. I favor keeping the article the way it is and maybe making a new article Attacks on Wikipedia and using some of the information contained within this article. Aucaman 01:02, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

Therese Huber
Indeed, she was a very interesting person. It looks that most of her work was done after he got rid of her husband. I've read the German wikipedia article on her and decided to leave a link to her future bibliography in the translation. She will eventually get into English wikipedia I think. Alx-pl  D  17:38, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

Bremen (plane) from Tedernst
Are you going to write that article? I look forward to it. Tedernst | talk 07:01, 11 December 2005 (UTC)


 * Excellent! Tedernst | talk 19:25, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

Gold Rush
Thanks for fixing the link in 49ers. Your work also looks most fascinating (over my head a bit). Carrionluggage 21:14, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for fixing my Roaman disambiguation link, I've set to fixing the rest now!! Ciriii 21:22, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

Nondimensionalization in German
Hello! I wonder if you could help me translate nondimensionalization into German? --HappyCamper 01:55, 19 December 2005 (UTC)


 * Oh yes, if you could add it to de:Entdimensionalisierung that would be great! I have been waiting for a very long time to have it translated. I tried to do that earlier this year, but had a lot of problems because I didn't know much German. Do you have an account there for which you can attribute your translation effort to your credit? --HappyCamper 02:48, 19 December 2005 (UTC)


 * [[Image:WikiThanks.png]] Thank you so much - you are wonderful! --HappyCamper 00:10, 20 December 2005 (UTC)


 * Hm...my German is only good enough to guarantee that I can get food and water...not much else! :-) Right now, I can think of electronic pH meters as one example. They are always calibrated to a particular standard before a pH is measured. I think a radar gun also works in this manner - the speed is measured as a ratio of the speed of light; the absolute value of the speed is not measured. I don't have any means to confirm this though, so write what you think is best. If I think of better ideas, I'll let you know! --HappyCamper 03:29, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

Hiuen Tsang
Hi! At least in the Indian subcontinent, English history textbooks use this name. Here's a google search: Thanks for the redirect! deeptrivia (talk) 05:32, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

Ships of the U. P.
I have no problem with the fix proposed nor with proposing a change of Category:Ships of the United Provinces to Category:Ships of the Dutch Republic if that is more accurate. Joshbaumgartner 02:05, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

Santaduck
Hi and thanks for the welcome. No worries on the afd, it's a learning experience to figure out what is acceptable and what is not here (NPOV is something I'll watch out for), and how the community behind-the-scenes works. As I'm learning more, I'm getting very impressed and more hooked. It reminds me of the old days of posting RFDs etc. on usenet on News.announce.newgroups, when I was trying to make some big-5 hierarchy newsgroups, there's a whole community underneath making it work smoothly as it can with volunteers.

I can still see there are huge gaps as I'm learning the coding as well as which nooks and crannies to look for resources hidden in the site. I'm still not sure where to look sometimes (unless I run across a link), and often blissfully unaware I've missed something, but I figure I'll be further along in a few months. Thanks again. Santaduck 06:38, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

RE: Schengen treaty > Schengen Agreement
Hello! I hope you're well and thank you for weighing in regarding this proposed move. I've replied to your query regarding alternate names; if you're so compelled, please weigh in. Thanks again! :) E Pluribus Anthony | talk | 21:53, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
 * TY! And regardless of where the article is moved to, I'll create redirects. :) E Pluribus Anthony | talk | 21:56, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

Battles of Bespin
You're right, they should not be merged, as they are two separate events. But to solve this, I think that Battle of Bespin should have its name changed to Battle of Bespin (Galactic Civil War), and Battle of Bespin (Clone Wars) be left alone. This will best distinguish the two from each other. The disambiguation page can be created as you suggested. I'll do this myself. The Wookieepedian 13:03, 16 January 2006 (UTC)


 * There. I took care of it. :) The Wookieepedian 13:25, 16 January 2006 (UTC)


 * No problemo. :D The Wookieepedian 13:40, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

K. C. Wu
Either way would work, but since he resorted to using his anglicized name in the latter stages of his life I assume that that is the name he would have preferred. As long as the Chinese variant of his name is provided so as to assist in research I think it will suffice. [Not that I'm inferring that the main reason for including his Chinese name is to assist in research.] Moneyobie
 * Fair enough. :] Moneyobie
 * Fair enough. :] Moneyobie

Lord Sandwich
Oh, I'm so sorry, I've overlooked that message. I'll try to figure out exactly which Lord of Sandwich was involved and why I put the 5th one. I have very little time these days for wikipedia so it may last a bit, but it will be my priority now. alx-pl  D  04:19, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

Good point with the Lord Sandwich. It was the 4th one. It was my mistake. I chose the 5th one looking at the page Earl of Sandwich and comparing the dates and for some (lapse of) reason I thought Cook's expedition was in 1792. I'll answer the rest of your messages soon. alx-pl  D  09:09, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

Krawutschke Tower
Hi, Thanks for that - it's not the greatest article ever, but hopefully people who know the area will improve it over time. Dl yo ns 493  Ta lk  01:36, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

My User Warning templates
(Copied from User_talk:Werdna648) I just tried the attack warning template, and found that it places the talk page into the Category:User warning templates. I have tried to amend this on Template:Resume and Template:Attackpg-warn (and included a HTML comment as these templates are likely to be subst'ed,a dn I like being able to find out which template produces a message). I like having extra templates to warn users for specific speedy criteria. Good idea, even if the templates might still need a little polishing. Happy editing, Kusma (討論) 06:21, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks for letting me know, I'll try to remember this in future. I verified that your changes have fixed the issue. Werdna648T/C\@ 06:50, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

Re-nominating articles for deletion
''To renominate a deleted article (like our favorite Expansion Fleet), please use afdx instead of afd. (I have just done so and renominated Expansion Fleet (you may share your opinion here), as I was getting tired of putting a db-repost tag on it again and again. Thank you, and happy editing! Kusma (討論) 14:03, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

Hey, thanks for that. I'll bear it in mind for future EF deletions. ;) - Hayter 11:38, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

Friendly Reminder
When using template tags on talk pages, don't forget to substitute with text by adding subst: to the template tag. For example, use &#123;&#123;subst:test&#125;&#125; instead of &#123;{test}}. This reduces server load and prevents accidental blanking of the template. (FYI, this friendly reminder was spawned by your use of unsigned on Articles for deletion/Phytofruit). -- Thesquire (talk - contribs) 03:26, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Added to my brain's watchlist. Kusma (討論) 03:52, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

Union des étudiants juifs de France
Hey Kusma. Sorry about the translation. I thought I would be able to translate it but I failed. next time I will post it on Translations to English. Gadig 06:20, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

David Dom
I noticed this page missed AFD with no consensus. A shame - 3 wiki regulars voted delete, and 4 possible sock puppets voted keep. If you nominate again (in a month or so), suggest you ask me and 8 or 10 others to vote, so it will at least reach agreement.Obina 21:07, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
 * You are not the only person who thinks this should have been deleted. See this deletion review. I'm getting a bit tired of this druid group, so I'm still waiting to see if anybody else nominates Jenni Heiden for deletion. Thank you for your offer to help and happy editing! Kusma (討論) 21:14, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
 * I see :) Now we have the list of names to invite to the next discussion.Obina 21:23, 23 January 2006 (UTC)


 * '''Druids up for deletion today.Obina 21:05, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

Translation of Freiburg Münster
I had a go. Take a look and tell me what you think on my talk page. It's certainly far from perfect, but I think it'll be a good base for improvement on. --Nathan (Talk) 22:14, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

Wagnerites
Kusma - The Category:Wagnerites has now attracted a number of entries (and not only from myself) but it has now been put up for deletion on what I consider to be rather aggressively inaccurate grounds - Categories_for_deletion/Log/2006_January_25 - please consider voting for its retention as it serves (imho) a serious purpose in terms of musicology, music history and opera. Thanks - --Smerus 06:57, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

Phytofruit
Your nomination for AfD was appropriate, and it sure looked like a consensus to delete to me; it should be re-AfD'ed at some point. BTW, I once wrote a paper on a rather technical aspect of Georg Forster's scientific work, and was quite surprised to find out that he was a major figure in the Aufklarung.--MayerG 17:18, 28 January 2006 (UTC)