User talk:Seth Ilys/Archive:2005-Fall

South Dakota
Hi Seth, Just curious what drives your fascination with South Dakota...  I've lived here for 25 years and you beat me to starting most the articles. David Bergan 06:50, 24 September 2005 (UTC)

Congratulations on Harriet Miers
In case you are unaware, you created the article for the new nominee to the Supreme Court. Congratulations. NoSeptember 12:09, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

almost surely
Why delete "almost surely" from infinite monkey theorem? Michael Hardy 03:27, 13 October 2005 (UTC)


 * I removed "almost surely" because it added an uncertainty that doesn't exist: an infinite number of monkeys at an infinite number of typewriters *will* begin to produce every work *possible* immediately. Finding Hamlet among the infinite array of monkeys, though -- that would be a little trickier... :)

Do you likewise object to the standard use of "almost surely" to mean "with probability exactly 1"? If the phrase may be misleading to those not familiar with it, it would still seem to be a good idea to acquaint them with the fact that its use in that sense is completely standard, and to link to the article about it. Do you object to even linking to the article? As with most other instances of its use, this one involves a non-empty set of probability zero. Michael Hardy 19:06, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

Puerto Rico
from the Puerto Rico article

U.S. Commonwealth

Although Puerto Rico is, politically speaking, a Commonwealth of the United States, Puerto Ricans and people from other nations refer to the Puerto Rico as a país, a Spanish word for country. This is a very common and accepted international status given to all dependent territories, also called dependent "states" by the UN. This is highlighted by the fact, for example, that Puerto Rico is an independent country in the sports world, even having their own Olympic teams. In the jargon of international law, an inhabited territory that is not a first-order administrative division, but rather forms an external, non-sovereign territory governed by a sovereign one, is both a "state" and a "country". But none of these cases —neither U.S. "states" nor dependent "states/countries"—are considered sovereign international entities.


 * Puerto Rico is a country....the United Nations recognizes it as a country, whitout full sovereignty..... I will be passing on to you the resolution of the United Nations in a few days, I am currently contacting the Governor's office. It is a great debate, but many people are misinformed thinking that Puerto Rico is not a country.<> 02:45, 20 October 2005 (UTC)

Template:In the news
Couldyou remove or at least shorten this thing:

The editor of the Sunday Independent apologises to readers and the family of Irish politician Liam Lawlor for wrongly claiming Lawlor was with a teenage prostitute when he was killed in a Moscow car crash on Saturday. However Britain's The Observer controversially refuses to apologise for publishing the now disproven claim.

It really does not belong next to hurricanes and elections, and plane crashes, etc. Renata3 18:14, 24 October 2005 (UTC)

North Carolina A&T SU

 * Just wanted to thank you for creating the page for NCA&T. I'm a student there myself and figured I'd look it up here. Thank you for your contribution!

Largo, fl
I've been adding to the Largo, Florida page and I'm concerned with all the external links I've added. Is it possible to have too many? I also wonder if the timeline should have a page of his own.

Thanks,

Mikereichold 01:50, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

TXMap-doton-ColoradoCity.PNG
Hello, I noticed an anonymous user added the following comment to Image:TXMap-doton-ColoradoCity.PNG:

red dot is one county too far east.

I did a run through Google, and it turns out Colorado City, Texas is in Mitchell County. It looks like the dot is on Nolan County. I'm not sure how the dot project works, so I thought I'd let you know about it. –Abe Dashiell (t/c) 04:16, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

Image:AKMap-doton-Unalaska.PNG
It took me quite a while to pick out the dot in this image, as it's located in the middle of a bunch of islands. I don't know how you do the red dots, but if you would enlarge it, maybe, that might be a good thing. (It's pretty difficult for us colorblind Wikipedians at that size.) Thanks! Matt Yeager 00:58, 17 December 2005 (UTC)