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Your lagged feedback question
I gave some sort of answer. Sorry it was too late to make the normal page! You may reply here. --Tardis (talk) 06:45, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

Deletion request for sheep-goat chimera image
Please see commons:Commons:Deletion_requests/File:Sheep_goat_chimera.jpg. There is a potential issue with the license terms. Dcoetzee 01:25, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

User:NeonMerlin/Main Page
There's a discussion about a deleted page in your userspace at User_talk:TenPoundHammer. Emmette Hernandez Coleman (talk) 19:26, 23 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Now it's at User_talk:Emmette_Hernandez_Coleman. Emmette Hernandez Coleman (talk) 21:20, 23 October 2012 (UTC)

April - National Contribution Month
Good day NeonMerlin,

During the month of April, Wikimedia Canada is preparing the National Contribution Month, and we are looking for experienced contributors to organize a contribution day (or half-day) in their region.

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Amqui (talk) 00:46, 11 February 2013 (UTC)

Nomination of ILeap for deletion
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Merge discussion for Discount window
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Cool user page, but the answer to this riddle eludes me!
I like how you use the green and red CSS to create a look and feel that seems genuinely BBS-like, even though so many details of the text are actually different from how they used to do it. Monospaced font, black backgrounds, colored text, inverse highlighted text... it doesn't take much to remind us of some things we miss.

But what I can't figure out is why, so far as I can tell, your list of contributions has since 2006 pointed to an editor "Seahen" who only started editing (only five edits total) in 2013. I thought maybe it was a SUL thing, but the logs don't show me that anything has ever moved. Just curious... Wnt (talk) 18:05, 26 July 2014 (UTC)


 * I had my account renamed in 2006; the process may not have been as automated then as now. Neon  Merlin  03:13, 27 July 2014 (UTC)

You're welcome!
Re. and, it was a pleasure! Joys! Painius 22:52, 18 September 2015 (UTC)

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Lowercase title
A problem you had at Template talk:Lowercase title is discussed at VPT. GeoffreyT2000 (talk) 15:52, 8 November 2015 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!
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Professor X had one weakness listed at Redirects for discussion
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🦔 listed at Redirects for discussion
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Alternative medicine
You've missed the most obvious option, which is to combine Western medicine with alternative medicine. For example, if somebody has high blood pressure, a vasodilator may be prescribed, along with some alternative medicine relaxation techniques, like meditation, massage, aromatherapy, etc. (Cutting down on sodium would also help if they have sodium sensitive hypertension). StuRat (talk) 19:16, 1 August 2017 (UTC)

October 2017
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And I removed the second one you added. I hope you weren't involved in it's spamming years ago. --Ronz (talk) 01:52, 24 October 2017 (UTC)

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Five-suit poker probabilities
I may eventually get around to coding a brute-force computation for this problem and the other poker question on the math desk from last week, so I wondered about definitions. When counting possible seven card deals from which you "can build a hand of 5 that contains ... [a] shulf with a pair", do you only count those for which one pair is the strongest shulf hand you can build? In other words, you presumably don't count K♠ Q♠ J♠ 9♣ 8♥ 8♦ 8• since any shulf hand has not just a pair, but also three of a kind. But what about 8♠ Q♠ J♠ 9♣ 7♥ 8♦ 8•? With the proper selection you can build a shulf with a pair, but an even better choice would give you a shulf with three of a kind. I assume that you wouldn't count that one either as you are looking for the odds of the best shulf hand you can built being one pair. -- ToE 01:57, 28 December 2017 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Nekojishi


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At this page you wrote:
 * The examples in the article seem to me to have been contrived specifically for the purpose of demonstrating that dependence without correlation is possible.

This brings to two the number of persons writing on that page who missed the point of the article with such stunning completeness. This makes me suspect this would be a commonplace misunderstanding among those who don't know this subject. This is not a good example for illustrating that point because far simpler examples exist. I regret that I did not respond to your comment on that page. The point of the examples is to illustrate that the assumption of JOINT rather than separate normality cannot be dropped from the proposition that JOINTLY normal uncorrelated random variables are independent. The article illustrates something about joint normality. Michael Hardy (talk) 17:39, 16 August 2018 (UTC)

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Neurotypical syndrome listed at Redirects for discussion
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"Califronia" listed at Redirects for discussion
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Nomination of Power-Up (book) for deletion
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