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Welcome to the APhiO Wikipedians! Naraht 15:04, 5 January 2006 (UTC) AIDvoter

COTW Project
You voted for Humanities, this week's Collaboration of the week. Please come and help it become a featured-standard article. -- King of Hearts | (talk) 00:36, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

Thank you
Thanks for the support in the ArbCom elections - I'm taking part to help enhance my knowledge of, and standing in, Wiki, and will keep on editing! Didn't expect to do well but at least some people have faith in me =) Take care bud, doktorb | words 10:10, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

Looking for articles to work on?
Hello, Ragesoss. I'm SuggestBot, a Wikipedia bot that helps new members contribute to Wikipedia. Based on your previous edits, I have made a list of articles you might like to work on. I hope you find this useful. -- SuggestBot 12:58, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

And now I have to look up the definition of anachronistic.

Michael McNett

AID
If you have time, please take a look at my concerns about the Article Improvement Drive nomination of Cold War posted here. Thanks. 172 23:22, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the invite to the History of Science Project
I wont formally put my name on the project list just at present. Too busy! Also the article subjects you have at present are pretty obscure to me. If anything my interests/knowledge tends to be extend to British Science esp. physics and engineering from 1900 to the present day. More recently especially Space Science, which perhaps only partly qualifies as history! Know I have a link to your project page I will keep monitoring it for areas I contribute to, and will then put me name up there. -- Op. Deo 20:13, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

Mervyn Pike
Can you please change the name of Mervyn Pike's Wikipage to "Irene Pike" or "Irene Mervyn Pike"--she was a woman, not a man (Mervyn is a man's name, and her maiden name). Unfortunately there is a Wikipedia editor named Demiurge who is a complete moron, and does not realize this, and says that I am a "vandal" for requesting the name change, and threatens to block me if I continue to make the request. Thanks!! 67.101.192.188 20:52, 24 January 2006 (UTC) email: rms125a@hotmail.com

User:67.101.192.188
Hi Ragesoss,

Noticed your comment on User talk:67.101.192.188. I wouldn't have used the term "vandalism" if it was an honest mistake by a new user who was unfamiliar with Wikipedia procedures. However, this IP is the same person as User:Rms125a@hotmail.com, who has been here for months and has been blocked multiple times for hate speech, personal attacks, vandalism of user pages and ignoring Wikipedia conventions. Putting editorial comments on the article page once or twice is understandable; doing it over and over again for months even after being told not to is plain vandalism. Hope this explains my use of the word! Demiurge 10:51, 25 January 2006 (UTC)


 * Thanks for letting me know that; it does. All I saw was the two instances on that article (and no other warnings or explanation on the IP talk page), so I assumed the user was unfamiliar with policy.  May the Wiki be with you--ragesoss 15:50, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for voting!
Hello there! I wanted to thank you for taking the time to vote on my arbitration commitee nomination. Although it was not successful, I appreciate the time you spent to read my statement and questions and for then voting, either positively or negativly. Again, thank you!  Páll  (Die pienk olifant) 22:10, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for inviting me to History of Science
Hi ragesoss,

I've followed your invitation to WikiProject History of Science. Thanks! - Samsara contrib talk 00:36, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

7 mile AfD
Thanks. I notied that as well. But since the re-write contained little or no new information not found at Mile Road System (Detroit) I really didn't have a problem with a redirect. TMS63112 20:33, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

Float float
On that particular page, it made the graph cut in to the side template table in a very jarring way. On WP:WPHOS, the only thing negatively affected by it is the HistSci template, which cuts into the template/table on the right. It's not the end of the world in that instance, in my opinion, since that's in the project rather than the article namespace, and it isn't hard to see what is meant by it (and Safari users are only, what, 7% of the internet browsers?) but I thought on the other one it was safer to just avoid the float. I could send a screenshot if that would be of use to you. --Fastfission 04:00, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

Joke's RfA
Hi Sage, thanks for your support in my (successful) RfA! I've also followed your invitation to join the history of science WikiProject. I don't know how much I can contribute, but I have done some work on biographies of important cosmologists. –Joke 16:31, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

User
Yes, I'm the same user :) Just thought I'd go for a little more anonymity and a fresh start (product of some wikistress). --- Kripkenstein 10:59, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

Featured Picture
Congratulations, and thanks for uploading it for us. Raven4x4x 09:07, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

Enola Gay in Pop Culture
Hello! This is an invitation to comment on the section on Enola Gay in Pop Culture that is part of the main article on the Enola Gay. The reason for this is to find a solution regarding the section getting too long and the information being added is overshadowing the main reason for the article itself.

Please feel free to visit the talk page to make comments or suggestions on how this can be improved. Thanks for your input! Davidpdx 11:24, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

Translation of plate legend
Hi ragesoss, not sure how good your German is, but you may be interested in my translation-in-progress of the legend to the 68th (frog) plate of Haeckel's: User:Samsara/Haeckel Plate 68. - Samsara contrib talk 04:30, 18 February 2006 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the heads-up. No worries about accuracy - I'm a native. I may not always get the frog names taxonomically correct, though - they are literal translations. I do intend to match up the historical with current Latin names, though. - Samsara contrib talk 17:54, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

Vote on natural selection intro passage
As a contributing editor of the English wikipedia article on natural selection, you are being invited to vote on two different versions of a controversial passage of the introduction. Please see details on the talk page, Talk:Natural selection.

Yours sincerely,

Samsara contrib talk 01:40, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

Another FP
These Haeckel illustrations are just wonderful. Congratulations again. Raven4x4x 10:28, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

Noah's Ark featured article candidate
Hi R.

I'd like to put up Noah's Ark as a candidate for featured article. Since you've taken a recent interest in it, I thought you might like to have another look to see if there are any further tweaks you'd like to make to that end. (I've made some small edits to your previous input, aimed at integrating it into a section dealing with the Ark and the early develipment of modern science during the Renaissance and Enlightenment). Cheers PiCo 12:32, 24 February 2006 (UTC)


 * Notes on my history with "Noahs Ark" translating, from 3 separate parts, 3 separate times(over 24 months):Mmcannis 15:02, 24 February 2006 (UTC)


 * Using the clay Tablet(Chapter 11) tablet pic: I had entered the four lines (as pictured) that are identical. After some months an editor removed the translation as not good for the Epic of Gilgamesh article. It goes:


 * Instead of emplacing the flood, Lions increase, People decrease.
 * Instead of bringing-on the flood, Wolves increase, People decrease.
 * Instead of emplace-ing the flood, Famine is emplace-ed, the Land dies.
 * Instead of bringing-on the flood, the God of disease, of pestilence increase, People decrease.

The author Maureen Kovacs, takes liberties with the precise words, and free forms some of her translation.

However my comment concerns the size and the boat construction near the beginning of Chap XI. I used the word Fantastic because an adjective was the last word to select and the Nat'l Basketball Asso. had the ad for the Fans, as "Fantastic". Here is the line: line 30, Kovacs has: "its length must correspond to its width". The line sequentially, word for word is:
 * "Equally wide, Long, Dimensions–Fantastic ".

I cannot read the entire Noah's Ark article, but I hope it deals with some non-religion viewpoints. I recently pointed out on Talk:Existentialism that had many of the great authors of Existentialism had access to the Epic of Gilgamesh, they would have known that their existential ideas had been already covered, in depth in the Epic. That is its whole purpose. The poor fellows who were writing were living in a world of chaos, as we still do today. (Please take these comments for what they are worth, words on a page. I got to the Epic clay translating, after 20-30 Amarna letters, thru the Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project–as my 30 page Akkadian dictionary, etc. .) MichaelMcAnnisYumaAZ--Mmcannis 15:02, 24 February 2006 (UTC)


 * Ragesoss: I've put up the nomination. If you want to vote, go to Featured_article_candidates and scroll down till you find the article link. Whether you support or object to the nomination, you need to explain your vote in terms of whether the article meets all the criteria for FA (to be found at the top of the page). (P.S. - I have no idea what Mmcannis is talking about...) PiCo 12:12, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

Gresham (cont)
Replied there :-) JackyR 18:31, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

Kunstformen der Natur plate gallery
As I couldn't find one already, I've put together a gallery of all the available plates from Kunstformen der Natur. There's 78 numbered plates (plus 1 duplicate and 2 unnumbered plates--not your uploads).

So I'm writing to ask you to take on the burden of updating the gallery when you upload new plates.. I'm guessing that's only 20 to go. I'd do it myself but I think it would be difficult to tell when new ones are uploaded.

Also if I could somehow help with labelling or getting species names added to the descriptions, please let me know.

&mdash;Pengo 12:26, 26 February 2006 (UTC)


 * Thanks for taking on the gallery, and cleaning it up.


 * I've been looking for online versions but none seems to have descriptions. If you have a digital camera, it could be a good way to quickly digitize the description pages, as quality isn't so important. Otherwise copying out of just the species names of some of the larger and more fantastic creatures would be really great. Some I'd really like to have species names for would be Ophiodea, bats, fish, Copepoda, hummingbirds, lizards, Arachnida, and Discomedusae. I suspect a number of the hummingbirds and lizards would have associated articles at the least. I might also see if I can get my hands on a copy of the book myself so as not to trouble you too much :) Cheers &mdash;Pengo 03:22, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

Ernest William Brown
Why have you put a merge request into the article on Ernest William Brown? There isn't an article on Ernest S. Brown. Who is/was he? --Portnadler 18:58, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

Scala naturae
Do you know whether there is a page on this that goes by a more cryptic name? I've tried the major variants, and used Google "site:wikipedia.org", which turned up a stub on the Danish WP. This seems a grave omission, and I am considering nominating it for WP:SCOTW. No wonder we have such trouble battling this misconception on Wikipedia, if it's not even acknowledged to exist! - Samsara contrib talk 00:29, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the Invite to the WPHoS
Thanks for the invitation to the History of Science Wikiproject. I think about it every once in a while, but I've been very eclectic in my editing. I'd like to return the invitation and ask if you'd like to contribute to STSWiki. I see that your blog is listed there and that you've promoted STSWiki elsewhere (and thanks for that too).--RedJ 17 03:09, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

My RFA
Thank you for supporting my successful request for adminship. I'll try to put the admin tools to good and responsible use. If I do anything wrong you know where to find me. Raven4x4x 08:43, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

Artforms of Nature
Thank you for scanning and uploading these excellent pictures. I took the liberty of adding a gallery to User:Ragesoss/Haeckel and linking Haeckel's names to make it easier to find places articles where these images would be suitable. Gdr 19:52, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

It's been quite fun tracking these down, as it reveals lots of interesting quirks in nomenclature, for example: Gdr 19:47, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Different inflection conventionns applied to Latinized Greek, e.g. "Ctenophorae" becomes modern Ctenophora.
 * New naming conventions, e.g. "Orchideae" becomes modern Orchidaceae, since ICBN have a rule that plant family end in -aceae.
 * Older names revived, e.g. "Acephala" was Cuvier's name for Linnaeus' Bivalvia.
 * Names referring to groups that are now considered invalid, e.g. "Aspidonia" for a grouping of Merostomata and Trilobita.

Kunstformen der Natur again
Hey. I've added keys to the figures for all those images now, and tagged them in the commons gallery as such. See Kunstformen der Natur

There's a couple of missing species names though, so if you could fill those in, that'd be great (or digitize more description pages, whatever). and.

If you want labels on any others, let me know, otherwise I might take a break from drawing numbered circles. Thanks for scanning and uploading so many great images. &mdash;Pengo 12:30, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

My RfA
Thank you for your support in my request for adminship. I'm delighted that the RfA succeeded with a final consensus of 52/17/7, and receiving comments including having 'excellent potential to become a great moderator', and I am now an administrator. It did however only just pass, and I shall do my very best to rectify any of my errors, including the general belief that I should do more article work. If you have any concerns, or if you ever feel that I may be able to help you, please feel free to leave a message on my talk page. Again, thank you! Ian13/talk 19:28, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks
Here's a userbox for you. -- Cyde   Weys  04:36, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

Frogs promoted!
Congratulations on a unanimous promotion! ~ Veledan • Talk 00:05, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

please refrain from editing others' user pages
please refrain from editing others' user pages. i was quite aware of the apostrophe issue and chose it as a matter of "my" style. if you care to respond to this posting, please do so on your user talk, not mine. thank you Anlace 15:50, 12 March 2006 (UTC)


 * I apologize; I didnt mean to cramp your style--ragesoss 17:38, 12 March 2006 (UTC)


 * thanks, hopefully we'll meet again on a higher plane, cheers Anlace 05:42, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

Socialized Medicine "Tisk, Tisk, Tisk"
All I can ask is why and all I can say is that it has failed everywhere it has been tried. This even goes for our "enlightened" neighbor to the North, Canada. When rich Canadians and Brits fly to the US for all of there surgeries I think it is safe to assume that Socialized Medicine does not work although it sound great it only serves to reduce the quality of health care. I've had the pleasure of being sick in England and experiencing there health care first hand and I had to wait for a week just to see a doctor in a cramped dingy clinic were he prescribed redimntary antibiotics and sent me on my way. Our health care system has its flaws but as always in capitalism competion has bred inovation and our system has the best porcedures, drugs, technology and doctors in the world. Frivalous law suits are the scurge of health care costs and simple measures such as Tort Reform and creating a reformed and complete medicare system would solve our problems. --Ian 02:57, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Just because it hasn't worked well before doesn't mean it can't work if it was better implemented; it also has the advantage of actually encouraging preventative measures, which receive so little attention it's appalling. But I'm not gung-ho about it, it just seems like a good idea.  Capitalism in the medical field definitely has a big downside; it naturally leads to a focus on the conditions of the middle classes and the rich (even if it has to invent new ones), while it provides nearly zero incentive for keeping populations healthy (as opposed to curing the already sick).  I definitely agree about tort reform.  I also think they ought to loosen up the admission standards and increase the numbers for med schools... make doctors actually compete for patients and not have to live such an intense lifestyle.--ragesoss 03:35, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

aviation list
Really, that list was just a splitoff of List of miscellaneous commercial failures. --Nintendude 09:19, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

environmental science
on the right margin of the history of science portal is a list of the sciences by topics. earth science and earth ecology are both listed but environmental science does not appear. environmental science actually embraces both earth science and ecology per broad scientific usage and per the wikipedia hierarchy: see environmental science hierarchy. as a matter of fact, i would vote to replace earth science with environmental science on the science portal page as well. Anlace 19:36, 20 March 2006 (UTC)


 * thanks for your quick and responsive change to the nav bar. by the way i try to include history of science context in the science articles i write. today i just published Noise health effects, which has a little sense of evolution of understanding health effects of environmental noise, cheers Anlace 20:09, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

conflicts and boundaries
I don't know how keen you are to sociology of science, but I created a little article on boundary-work which you might find fun to play with. Also, re: the science and religion page, I think it should probably be re-written anyway from a historiographical point of view (i.e. how has the relationship been theorized, rather than an attempt to "state the relationship"), but I suppose all of that will come in due time... --Fastfission 03:09, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

Featured_picture_candidates/Typeset_writing_examples
I have uploaded, and propose supporting the original, unmodified scan - historical significance. If you agree, please feel free to re-consider your vote. Greetings, --Janke | Talk 14:36, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

FPC Successful
Congrats and thanks for your contribution. --PS2pcGAMER (talk) 09:02, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

Haeckel Kunstformen der Natur
Where did you get this book, and are there more of them? These illustrations are excellent. &mdash; 0918 BRIAN &bull; 2006-03-28 23:38

Featured picture candidates/Alchemist's Laboratory
I've cropped the text from around the edge of the image. &mdash; 0918 BRIAN &bull; 2006-03-29 04:56

History of Earth
I appreciate your comments regarding History of Earth, and I hope you enjoyed the article. I have tried to rewrite the origin of life section to better reflect the current state of scientific knowledge as you suggested. It's by no means perfect&mdash;do you have any other suggestions on how I might tweak it? Or if you have an idea in mind, please feel free to reword it. Also, I'd appreciate any other suggestions on the article. I'm only an amateur in these fields and I appreciate any help I can get! &mdash; Knowledge Seeker &#2470; 06:20, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks! I appreciate the feedback! &mdash; Knowledge Seeker &#2470; 02:11, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

Hummingbird FPC
Thanks for your nomination. --PS2pcGAMER (talk) 09:24, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

Thank you very much!
You've been very helpful. I don't know why, but I've tried to archive/add the History WikiProject template to my pages a 100 times. I was wondering could you also please remove the template from my talk page and archive it? If you don't have time/speedy internet, freely ignore the message, but I have been stuck this way for a long time... --HolyRomanEmperor 17:15, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

A KISS Rfa Thanks
Thank you, I've been promoted. psch e  mp  |  talk  01:24, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

Rosalind Franklin
Thanks for your support. I'm having a go at rewriting the article. Would appreciate your comments when it is completed, hopefully this week sometime. Alun 05:41, 11 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Hi, I have finished my rewrite of the Rosalind Franklin article and would welcome your comments if you have time. Cheers, Alun 12:40, 15 April 2006 (UTC)


 * I have requested that the article be peer reviewed. Alun 13:52, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

History of ecology
Just to clarify - I would like to move most text from the History of Ecology section (now) titled "Ecology and environmentalism" into the Environmental Movement page. I think the rest of the H of E page is a good start, but needs considerable more work to bring it up to date. Let me know what you think. Best, -Scott D. White 03:36, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

help please
For some reason I can't figure out, the "Read more" link won't show up on these pages: Portal:History of science/Article/Week 16, 2006; Portal:History of science/Article/Week 14, 2006. However, it shows up on Portal:History of science/Article/Week 12, 2006 and Portal:History of science/Article/Week 18, 2006, which use the same code.--ragesoss 16:31, 27 April 2006 (UTC)


 * It is there on all the pages for me, although at the first one it is far, far on the right (off the screen almost).--Commander Keane 16:41, 27 April 2006 (UTC)


 * I guess it's there for me as well, if I scroll over. What's the problem, though?  Why is it like that on one page and not another, and how can I fix it?--ragesoss 16:43, 27 April 2006 (UTC)


 * It appears to be missing the - template, which clears the margins, so the image doesn't push the table over. -Dawson 16:48, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
 * That did it, -. Thanks.--ragesoss 17:00, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

Euler:Discoveries
Thanks for your corrections of over-wikization. I understand that one shouldn't see Sun wikified several times in one article. However, would you agree that a first references to well-known mathematical objects and topics should be wikified? For example, in "Discoveries" subsection: And now that you scared me to death with over-wikization, I suggest you do all this work.--Alex 04:12, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
 * hypergeometric series
 * q-series
 * continued fractions - they mentioned in two different bullets in "Discoveries", they should be mentioned only once, of course.
 * hyperbolic trigonometric functions notice, that I replaced geometric with trigonometric
 * contour integration
 * complex analysis
 * elliptic integrals
 * binomial theorem
 * Bernoulli's numbers
 * Fourier series
 * Venn diagrams
 * e
 * Pi

Jabir ibn Hayyan
Hi Saga!

Im sorry to bother you. But since you have been involved in many history science related articles, your neutral stand is needed in the Jabir ibn Hayyan article, regarding his ethnicity. Nearly all reliable sources say that he was an Arab. I listed all sources here:.

Thank you!

jidan 01:40, 29 April 2006 (UTC)