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Welcome to WikiProject CS
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Edit summaries
I have noted that you often edit without an edit summary. Please do your best to always fill in the summary field. This is considered an important guideline in Wikipedia, and even a short summary is better than no summary. Thanks. Picaroon9288 01:38, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

Please support complement EU !!!
Hi,as a EU supporter maybe you´d like to support this: I´m trying to implement the 'EU' in the city-templates of European city articles. The EU should be mentioned next to the country; like country : Spain / EU  Please support the enhancement in these templates and argue for the innovation if you want to. Would be great.
 * Template:Infobox City Poland
 * Template:Infobox Town GR
 * Template:Infobox Municipality pt
 * Template talk:Major French Cities
 * Template:Infobox City Spain
 * Template:Infobox Town DE
 * Template:Infobox CityIT
 * Template:Infobox London

all the best Lear 21 22:43, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

Pronunciation of Debian
I am wonerding what is the pronunciation of Debian? Zhangyunfan 18:29, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

email bounced
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Thanks for your kind words.

Our lab is trying to contribute to the OLPC (aka $100 laptop) effort. I'd welcome your help. If you're interested, consider creating a Greek demo of an educational application; probably based on the Squeak platform . In this way you can work on your own machine, and then we can then demo it on the actual OLPC hardware.

--Diomidis Spinellis 19:58, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

Tor Lillqvist
A tag has been placed on Tor Lillqvist, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done because the article seems to be about a person, group of people, band, club, company, or web content, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is notable, that is, why an article about that subject should be included in Wikipedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not assert notability may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable, and if you can indicate why the subject of this article is notable, you may contest the tagging. To do this, add  on the top of the page and leave a note on the article's talk page explaining your position. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would confirm its subject's notability under the guidelines.

For guidelines on specific types of articles, you may want to check out our criteria for biographies, for web sites, for bands, or for companies. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Angus McLellan (Talk) 15:27, 24 December 2006 (UTC)
 * I've restored the article and moved it to User:NerdyNSK/Tor Lillqvist. J Di  talk 12:09, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Thank you very much, J Di! NerdyNSK 13:48, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
 * You're welcome. If you believe that Lillqvist merits an article, you can ask at WP:DRV for it to be undeleted. I suspect that the article wouldn't survive at WP:AFD, but you can certainly ask for other opinions. Very best wishes, Angus McLellan (Talk) 13:51, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

Nea Potidea
I created a Nea Potidea article:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nea_Potidea Could you please take a look at it and edit it? and Could you also put it into catagories? Also can you tag http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potidaea as the main article? Thanks! Neptunekh 07:27, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

Translation Request
The article Velanidia (Laconia), Greece has been put on the English Wikipedia written entirely in Greek. It has been proposed for deletion for this reason. Can you look at it, and if worth saving, remove the undefined template and translate? Thanks. (I picked you from the bottom of the list at Translators available. GRBerry 00:07, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

AfD Alert
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UCFD
I have nominated Category:Wikipedians in the American Telecommuting Association, a category you created, for deletion. You can contribute to the discussion at User categories for discussion. Thanks, VegaDark 11:17, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject Free Software
Hi NerdyNSK, I notice that you're interested in open-source/free software. Please consider joining WikiProject Free Software. We're just starting out, and we could really use some members. Thanks! Geekman314(contact me) 18:27, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

Helping out with the Unassessed Wikipedia Biographies
Seeing that you are an active member of the WikiBiography Project, I was wondering if you would help lend a hand in helping us clear out the amount of [unassessed articles] tagged with. Many of them are of stub and start class, but a few are of B or A caliber. Getting a simple assessment rating can help us start moving many of these biographies to a higher quality article. Thank you! --Ozgod 21:42, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

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AfD nomination of Canadian Telework Association
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WikiProject Free Software AFI
In the absence of other nominations, free software is the article for improvement by the WikiProject for the week of 4/22-4/28. Please help rearrange the article, primarily, and make any improvements that you can think of. Hopefully, as the article is already pretty good, we can bring it to an FA. Thanks! --Liπus the Turbogeek(contact me) 18:53, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

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Wikiproject PL Userbox
Hi, I am using a shot of the identification mark of Programming Languages Wikiproject in my userpage. Hope you have no objections. -- soum  (0_o) 05:20, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

Mathematics CotW
Hey NSK, I am writing you to let you know that the Mathematics Collaboration of the week(soon to "of the month") is getting an overhaul of sorts and I would encourage you to participate in whatever way you can, i.e. nominate an article, contribute to an article, or sign up to be part of the project. Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks--Cronholm144 23:49, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

Request for comment on computer program
The Computer program article is in need of repair. Would you comment on any improvement suggestions? I joined the talk starting with the thread talk:computer program. Timhowardriley 15:53, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject Biography Summer 2007 Assessment Drive
 WikiProject Biography Summer 2007 Assessment Drive! WikiProject Biography is holding a three month long assessment drive! The goal of this drive is to eliminate the backlog of unassessed articles. The drive is running from June 1, 2007 – September 1, 2007.

Awards to be won range from delicacies such as the WikiCookie to the great Golden Wiki Award. There are over 110,000 articles to assess so please visit the drive's page and help out!

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Invite


Gregbard 21:46, 14 July 2007 (UTC)

Re: usefulness of redlinks
Yes, it is true that Wikipedia would not have 2 million pages articles today, if it weren't for red links. I agree that red links is not a bad thing when used appropriately, but I don't think its so suitable to use it for inappropriately things like people who don't have sufficient notability to warrant an own article. 7-Zip is a great software, which I use myself. But it along with the SDK is the only thing hes known for, hes not known for anything else. -- Frap 16:57, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

graphism
Per your suggestion I moved the reference to graphism to Philosophy of mathematics, but I'm a bit unsure whether I put in the correct place within that article. A paper indicated that maths use less graphs than natural sciences, and there is a proposition that graph use is higher in hard sciences than soft sciences. Therefore, if the proposition is true, we see that the graphism thesis has a direct relation to the question "is maths a science?". I know this has to be expanded further, but for now that's what I can do, and I hope someone else can step in and improve on my contribution. NerdyNSK 16:43, 16 September 2007 (UTC)


 * It might be a good idea to broach the subject at the article talk page, or at WP:WPM (the project for coordinating maths articles) to get wider input on this. I'm only one chap, and my expertise in mathematics, such as it is, is directed towards mathematical analysis and its implications. --Mark H Wilkinson (t, c) 16:55, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

Your edits to Swarm Intelligence
I have reverted a batch of your changes to Swarm Intelligence. For one, you added few ambiguous wikilinks that do NOT lead to the relevant wikipages (such as Beni and Wang). Secondly, there is absolutely no value in wikilinking trivial common words that are not important in the context of the article; like movie, mathematics, environment, etc. Wikipedia is not a Hyperdictionary. Please consider the relevance of wikilinks if you are going to re-add them into the article. Thanks. Alex Pankratov 19:53, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

OpenLearn
A template has been added to the article OpenLearn, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but this article may not satisfy Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and the deletion notice explains why (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). You may contest the proposed deletion by removing the  notice, but please explain why you disagree with the proposed deletion in your edit summary or on its talk page. Also, please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Even though removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, the article may still be deleted if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria or it can be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. If you endorse deletion of the article, and you are the only person who has made substantial edits to the page, please tag it with db-author. Phgao 18:19, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Plesae note, I did that as the article currently is very short, and perhaps it should redirect instead. Thanks! If you don't agree, feel free to remove tag. Phgao 18:20, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Yes, I agree in some point, but in the end, I did not redirect it, I left that up to you. You may wish to do drafts on a subpage of your user page next time or like you say place that tag up! As I patrol new pages, one must make those decisions. See you around! Phgao 18:35, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

State geological article requests
Hi. I honestly expected wikipedia to have full detailed articles on Geology by state e.g Geology of California or Geology of Utah. I'm not even from the States but I had fully expected a detailed article on each state. Some of the American geological articles are very poor or non existent see Basic geologic features of each state. PLease could your project aim to start these articles and develop them. All the best and thanks  ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦       "Talk"? 13:09, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject Biography Newsletter 5
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GNU/Linux
Hi. I just saw the discussion on User talk:Thumperward about the GNU/Linux name.

FWIW, his claimed consensus does not exist. If I had had time, I would have contested Thumperward's "tidying" wave where he removed all "GNU/Linux" links from en.wikipedia.org. --Gronky 01:00, 11 October 2007 (UTC)


 * Consensus does exist, and contrary to Gronky's claims he knows full well that I'm as clued-up to the history of GNU, Unix and Linux as he is. I do not, however, interpret the history of the project the same way he does. Wikipedia's free software articles would improve immeasurably faster if the pro-FSF people would stop finding conspiracies to force them off Wikipedia wherever they turn and instead actually engage in discussion in the appropriate places rather than hanging around each other's talk pages congratulating each other of not being as "ignorant of history" as the rest of the project. Gronky's seemingly given up trying to sway the project, and is instead engaging random editors on their talk pages. That's not a way to build consensus. Chris Cunningham 10:07, 16 October 2007 (UTC)


 * I've replied on User talk:Thumperward. --Gronky 10:51, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

WXXS Article Request
76.118.247.91 03:19, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

Not to be over-demanding but do you think you could visit the WXXS discussion page and read the final section of the page? If not, I was just asking. Thank you for your time. Management has confirmed the format for WXXS Kiss 102.3 is Diverse Hot AC / Top 40 Variety. This just means their edge up on competition is that they play a much wider selection of music, particularly older Top 40 hits that no longer get airplay on most radio stations. Anyway, if you have anything to say about this topic, please leave the comment on the WXXS discussion page, not this page.

Termite mounds attribution
Hi. Yes feel free to use it - thanks for asking. The creative commons licence has its own symbol, but it's a pain toi use, so feel free to use a regular (c) symbol with a link to the wikicommons page where the licence is spelled out.

I'd be interested in seeing how you use, and would be grateful if you could send me a link when you do so.

The human being is my wife who has agreed to its use in this way.

All the best

Ray RayNorris (talk) 08:11, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

AfD nomination of HP Photosmart E427
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Speedy deletion of EQF
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Meetup in Athens
Hello! I'd like to turn the first meetup of Wikipedians in Athens, Greece to your attention. We're a group of students involving three German Wikipedia admins and have set up this meetup for March 31st, 6:00 PM (18:00). The location is (to be exspected) the Ama Lachi. We'd very much like seeing as many Wikipedians from Greece as possible. We'd also like some help with the setup of the meeting; we need a contactsman in Athens. Yours, Sarazyn &bull; 丁人LK &bull; DE 13:31, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

Please participate
There is a heavy discussion right now, in this article, Miss Pakistan World here and it was nominated for deletion here; your opinion will be highly appreciated, especially your vote. Your participation in this matter is noteworthy, in view of the fact that you are a member of the Wiki Project Beauty Pageants. It doesn’t matter if your vote is favorable or not, but what matters most is your involvement since it seems to me that some commenter are against pageantry. Personally, I think that the article should be kept but should be freed from tremendous advertisement lines.--Richie Campbell (talk) 00:20, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

WP Computing
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Greek question
You are listed at WP:BABEL as someone who can provide Greek -> English translations. There is some confusion as to whether the name "Alvanoktonos" is Greek and if so, what the intended meaning may be. Is there any way you can help? <b style="color:#0000FF;">Sher</b><b style="color:#6060BF;">eth</b> 18:31, 24 June 2008 (UTC)


 * "Alvanoktonos" (Αλβανοκτόνος) means "a person who kills Albanians", "Albanians-killer", or "Albanian-slayer" in Greek. Other similar words against other ethnic groups of the Balkans exist.  Sometimes politicians or military commanders may be given such nicknames, such as Basil II who is known as Boulgaroktonos (Βουλγαροκτόνος) which means "a person who kills Bulgarians", "Bulgar-killer", or "Bulgar-slayer" in Greek.  See also Thomas II Preljubović, who in Wikipedia is described as Albanoktonos, although right now I do not really remember having heard his nickname before.  NerdyNSK (talk) 18:03, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of "Newropeans"
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Thanks. BigHairRef | Talk 22:12, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

Aki Paasovaara
The article Aki Paasovaara has been speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This was done because the article seemed to be about a real person, organization (band, club, company, etc.), or web content, but it did not indicate how or why the subject is notable, that is, why an article about that subject should be included in Wikipedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not indicate the notability of the subject may be deleted at any time. If you can indicate why the subject is really notable, you are free to re-create the article, making sure to cite any verifiable sources.

Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable, and for specific types of articles, you may want to check out our criteria for biographies, for web sites, for musicians, or for companies. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. NawlinWiki (talk) 00:39, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

You are invited...
to join the Volcanoes Wiki! Questions can be directed to my main user page. MeldshalP (talk) 14:36, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

deletion
The article consisted only of an inuse tag, and had no history. Make more sense to start the article and then tag jimfbleak (talk) 12:10, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

Integrated banner for WikiProject Computer science
I have made a proposal for a integrated banner for the project  here . I invite you for your valuable comments in the discussion. You are receiving this note as you are a member of the project. Thanks -- <em style="font-family:Kristen ITC;color:#ff0000"> Tinu  <em style="font-family:Kristen ITC;color:#ff0000">Cherian  - 13:54, 3 August 2008 (UTC)

Re:Tarator/Cacık
Hi. I have reworded the passage in the article and replied on the talk page.  Balkan <font color="#008">Fever  10:58, 8 August 2008 (UTC)

2008 South Ossetia War
Hi again. Just so you know, you shouldn't archive any ongoing discussions. Only old and reolved discussions should be archived.  Balkan <font color="#008">Fever  12:26, 9 August 2008 (UTC)
 * It's quite hard to archive a talk page like this one, because there are some more discussions from 8 August. If you look at some more sections, you'll see they have the last reply on the 8th, yet sections above have the last reply on the 9th. Current events get pretty disorganised. Someone has set up automatic archiving now, so hopefully that will take care of everything. Cheers,  Balkan <font color="#008">Fever  12:38, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

Mall Police
Please Check MY TALK on username MALL POLICE to talk of such! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mall Police (talk • contribs) 06:22, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

Grape manganese
Nerdy -- I have seen manganese data at this level. Is there a way to reconcile these differences? --Paul144 (talk) 00:24, 22 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the feedback on the manganese issue. I have researched nutrient content on several berry species, most having exceptional Mn contents, leading me to think maybe this is a common characteristic of berries. Mineral contents, however, likely derive both from the plant genetics and especially the soil and/or fertilization methods, so are difficult to nail down. It's not an area where I've been able to find much research.


 * Thanks also for looking over the Frank Gross article. Appreciate your comments.--Paul144 (talk) 12:33, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

Muntz page trivia
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5-GENIN
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Lunar Laser Communication System
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Sarah Palin
Oh lord I did not even see that addition! If we find the editor who did that they will be very much in trouble. .:davumaya:. 10:56, 30 August 2008 (UTC)

Libel lawsuits
Please don't put statements like that in the edit summaries. All those things are close enough to the truth, regardless of phrasing, and there is zero chance of Palin suing Wikipedia about it. Phlegm Rooster (talk) 10:59, 30 August 2008 (UTC)

Palin videos
Hi, Nerdy! Yes, DVIDS is a U.S. military site, and all works produced by the military are public domain - see Copyright status of work by the U.S. government. For example, this video was produced by Private First Class Jake Marlin. I've uploaded hundreds of photos from DVIDS at Commons, but I've never been able to figure out how to convert the video to Theora/OGG - what software do you use? Kelly hi! 13:46, 30 August 2008 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of Aragonese Wikipedia
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your "see also" in tourism article
Hello! Just a question: I didn't quite understand the "see also" section in the Greek Tourism article. How is Laiki Agora associated with tourism? Cheers! Pel thal (talk) 18:53, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

Date formats after autoformatting
With the recent deprecation of date autoformatting, "raw" dates are becoming increasingly visible on Wikipedia. Strong views are being expressed, and even some edit-warring here and there. A poll has been initiated to gauge community support to help us develop wording in the Manual of Style that reflects a workable consensus. As you have recently commented on date formats, your input would be helpful in getting this right. Four options have been put forward, summarised as:


 * 1) Use whatever format matches the variety of English used in the article
 * 2) For English-speaking countries, use the format used in the country, for non-English-speaking countries, use the format chosen by the first editor that added a date to the article
 * 3) Use International format, except for U.S.-related articles
 * 4) Use the format used in the country

The poll may be found here, as a table where you may indicate your level of support for each option above. --Pete (talk) 18:09, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

Merger of WikiProject Free Software and WikiProject Software
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Date format poll confirmation
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Regarding your request on hidePane
I've replied to on User talk:Gerbrant/hidePane.js. In summary: colours are now customizable. Shinobu (talk) 12:55, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

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Sitting defecation posture
If you want to do this, I think you should do it properly and source it. -FisherQueen (talk · contribs) 12:20, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

List of defecation postures
The merge makes all kinds of sense. I would suggest that List of defecation postures instead be blanked, and you put a tag on it, since there isn't a reason for a redirect (no one would accidently go to it), then I can non-admin close the AFD. P HARMBOY ( TALK ) 13:17, 4 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Ok, I made the last change, nothing else links to it except user pages/afd/incidentals. I also close the afd debate.  Please remove the redirect and request speedy delete.  P HARMBOY  ( TALK ) 13:34, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia growth
Hi, before you write this, just to make a note that such an article about us is not likely to be acceptable in the mainspace, it will get deleted, trust me. It would be perfectly acceptable as a wikipedia essay though. It belongs in Category:Wikipedia essays and statistics, not as a mainspace article. <font style="color:#fef;background:black;">The Bald One     <font size="-4"><font color="Black">White cat 17:14, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

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Show/hide link
I just noticed the discussion at Masturbation about using the feature. I'm just wondered if you aware that the feature does not work in IE (6 or 7), which means that, if the figures at Usage share of web browsers, a possible 70% of Wikipedia readers may not get anything out of it. In fact depending on how it's used some readers may find it hidden and not be able to open it. Cheers. CambridgeBayWeather Have a gorilla 22:39, 11 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Never mind. I'm using my sons computer right now and it turns out that he has java disabled so while it works in FF it won't work in IE. CambridgeBayWeather Have a gorilla 22:52, 11 October 2008 (UTC)

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