User talk:Shreevatsa/Archive 1

(2005–2008)

Welcome!
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 * Your welcome. I believe I noticed your edit to constrained writing, and contacted you because you did not have a talk page, indicating you were a new user. Thus the welcome.
 * If I noticed the lack of edit summary I did not comment on it assuming you where fairly new to Wikipedia (at least as a signed on user) and that you may pick it up very quickly. The message I may have eventually used may be found at Template:Editsummarynew.
 * It sounds like you found it already, but you can find information about edit summaries at Edit summary.
 * If you have any more questions or concerns again feel free to contact me. Hyacinth 20:06, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Your userpage does not exist, so...
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Do not correct other user's comments
I noticed that you edited someone else's comment at Reference desk/Language for clarity, spelling or grammar. As a rule, refrain from editing others' comments without their permission. Though it may appear helpful to correct typing errors, grammar, etc., please do not go out of your way to bring talk pages to publishing standards, since it is not terribly productive and will tend to irritate the users whose comments you are correcting. For more details, see Wikipedia:Talk page guidelines. Thanks, —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Yarnalgo (talk • contribs).


 * Sorry about that. Even without reading the guidelines page, it was somewhat clear to me that editing others' comments on talk pages was awkward, but I thought that as the question was about English, it would be better to subject the other user to mild aggravation than to teach the person wrong English. I notice that you've also done the same :) --Shreevatsa 16:12, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

Hom&oelig;opathy article
I do appreciate your (small) contributions at homeopathy. As I'm making a new outline on homeopathy you might better do this here as the old page will be replaced soon and your corrections could be lost. --Homy 01:57, 6 August 2006 (UTC)
 * This was my comment, sorry if it did not 'belong' here. However I was trying to encourage you. Since you DID correct this comment, now it do belong here and I placed it back. Please continue your good work. High regards --Homy 11:11, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
 * I want to apologize for my past comments. You have the right to delete messages from others (it is polite to answer first). See Help:Talk page So feel free to delete whatever I wrote and you don't have to reply in my case. --Homy 16:57, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Hello. I'm sorry I didn't reply for so long. IIRC, it was only a minor change (a spelling typo, I think) that I made when I happened to encounter the page; I'm not otherwise greatly interested in actively editing that article. So I didn't bother to reply, but I realise now that it was impolite. Anyway, I'm curious about the process you are using: is it accepted practice on Wikipedia to edit an article at some location other than the page itself? Shouldn't there be a notice on the page if that is so? I find it odd. Anyway, sorry to have kept you waiting for a reply. Shreevatsa

Longest common subsequence
Dear Shreevatsa, could you please give a reference to the dynamic programming algorithm that you mentioned. Talk:List_of_NP-complete_problems --GrGr 07:42, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

Hindu mathematicians
Shakuntala Devi is a mathematician. She is also a Hindu. Therefore she is a Hindu mathematician. - User:Bakasuprman


 * Most people would categorize someone who can do the equation  7,686,369,774,870 x 2,465,099,745,779 in her head in under 30 seconds correctly a mathematicianBakaman%% 00:34, 6 August 2006 (UTC)


 * Whoever these "most people" are, they are wrong, and there is no reason for Wikipedia to perpetuate this misconception. Calling someone whose sole claim to fame is an ability to multiply numbers or extract 23rd roots a mathematician is akin to calling someone who is good at reciting the alphabet a linguist. FWIW, I know plenty of (good) mathematicians who would probably have as much difficulty multiplying two three-digit numbers as anyone else would. Look at the mental calculator page, it says "many are also experienced mathematicians, linguists, writers, and so on", implying (implicitly) that not all of them are mathematicians. Shakuntala Devi is no more a mathematician than a pocket calculator is. You might also want to look at the list to see that most of them are not categorised as mathematicians, except those (Riemann, Gauss, Euler, Ramanujan etc.) who really are mathematicians.
 * I won't edit that page till we reach a consensus, in accordance with the 3RR, but I hope we reach one soon. Regards, --Shreevatsa 06:17, 6 August 2006 (UTC)


 * Actually, I had other matters, so you can go ahead and take out the category if you so choose, but if you have the interest, I think the page really needs to be wikified. Thanks.Bakaman Bakatalk 14:49, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

List of accented words in English language
Hi, what did you mean by "every word is a reference :P"?--mrg3105 (comms) ♠ ♥ ♦ ♣ 05:59, 29 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Hi, I meant that it was not necessary, or possible, to provide references that the words on the page were indeed accented words. You might object to the page as not being encyclopedic material, or as WP:OR (not really), but it doesn't make sense to claim that the page has unverified material. One can see for oneself that the words on the page have accents/diacritics in them. --shreevatsa (talk) 06:16, 29 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Many words do not have references on their article pages. It was easier to post one unreferenced template on the list hen to go through the list one by one. Is the assumption that the average reader should take the editor's word for the words existing, and that their spelling is indeed with accents? Verifiability still applies I think.--mrg3105 (comms) ♠ ♥ ♦ ♣ 06:35, 29 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Ah, that's what you mean. Whether a word is spelt with accents or not is often a matter of house style, as some words have demonstrably lost their accents over time. The top of the article already says something to that effect; it would be better to expand on that (if you wish), instead of a baffling "needs references" notice. --shreevatsa (talk) 06:47, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

Binary prefices
Hey Shreevy, I suggest you go look at a dictionary. Prefices is indeed a word and is the plural of prefix. 84.9.125.170 (talk) 05:10, 4 April 2008 (UTC)\

Dice
You recently made an edit to Dice suggesting that "Dice" was the plural form of the word "die" or "dice". The use of "dice" to describe a single die is overused, but incorrect. I am curious as to why you have made this edit. I have not reverted anything. There might be method behind the madness after all... Rekov (talk) 17:09, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Hello, I came to that page because someone confused me recently on what the singular form of "dice" was, and followed the reference in the first line to the Compact OED entry which says "USAGE In modern English the singular die (rather than dice) for sense 1 is now uncommon. Dice is widely used for both the singular and the plural." So I made that edit. But soon after doing that, I read a bit more from other places, and concluded that singular "dice" was incorrect, and the OED entry has been changed too, although that page does not reflect it yet. (Or something like that.) I changed my mind; I have reverted it now. shreevatsa (talk) 18:15, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

Defining GB
You made an edit to the HDD page signing it AFAIK - if you don't know you probably shouldn't make a change. If you took the time to research it, I am sure you would find in Apple, Microsoft and several Linux distributions, the statement 1 GB = 1,073,741,824 bytes or words to that effect. That probably rises to the level of definition. I leave it to you to decide whether a change is worth the effort. Tom94022 (talk) 18:40, 28 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Hi, I understood "define" as meaning that they were stipulating that the term generally be used, or is used, in that way. In this sense, only dictionaries, authors inventing new terminology, some standards bodies in a position of authority, etc. are in a position to "define". So it seemed a strong statement (and unsourced!) so I changed it (the "AFAIK" was for "I don't know of a source"). I realise now that define can also simply mean "this is what I mean (possibly to distinguish it from what others mean)". I don't particularly care either way. shreevatsa (talk) 02:59, 29 June 2008 (UTC)

thank you
Thank you for restoring a paragraph I wrote. --68.0.124.33 (talk) 03:48, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
 * You're welcome. Welcome to Wikipedia, seems like a tug-of-war sometimes :) shreevatsa (talk) 11:18, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

German film stubs
Greetings! Germany-film-stub is what's known as an "upmerged" stub template. There are fewer than 60 articles tagged with this template, and when it gets to 60 or more, it will receive its own category. For now, the template places those articles in the more generic. HTH, Her Pegship  (tis herself) 18:25, 21 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks! shreevatsa (talk) 20:12, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

Free content vandalism
Its now linked from the main page. its the "Free" in "wikipedia the free encyclopedia"User A1 (talk) 14:31, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Ah, that explains it, thanks! :) shreevatsa (talk) 14:39, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
 * I had a quick check, but I don't think you have Rollback privileges -- might make rv-ing that tiny bit easier ;), one click, no fuss. User A1 (talk) 09:16, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
 * You're right, I don't have rollback rights. How can I get them? Are you an admin? Shreevatsa (talk) 12:41, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Nope, I'm not an admin -- try placing a request at Requests_for_permissions User A1 (talk) 14:08, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

Olympics
Re your edit to 2008 Summer Olympics medal table, the answer was in the legend at the top of the table: . This convention is the same as used for similar tables from previous Olympics. Your edit has now been reverted. David Biddulph (talk) 21:32, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I hadn't noticed the legend. shreevatsa (talk) 16:50, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

Olympic medal table
Hi, I've reverted your edits at the article. We need a third party, reliable source to make the observation that ESPN changed their ranking system between Olympics. We can't do that ourselves, as it would be original research. The USA Today entry is fine, since it's been commented by the Guardian. Thanks. --Madchester (talk) 21:19, 29 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Hi, I read the policy, and it seems to me that simply quoting from a (relevant) website does not constitute Original Research. I reinstated the thing for now, because it seems significant. Shreevatsa (talk) 15:44, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
 * The source you are adding for ESPN does not show what you are claiming it does. I have also left messages for the other people involved in what is effectively an edit war at the page asking them to stop. If a verifiable third-party source showing that espn changed their ranking system is found then the infomation can be re-added. Thanks Basement12 (T.C) 13:28, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Yes, I know there is a stupid edit war going on there, but I'm not part of it; I mainly did some clean-up etc. This ESPN statement is the only thing I added that's been reverted, and the statement I added the second time is different from the other one :-) Shreevatsa (talk) 01:29, 7 September 2008 (UTC)

Exponentiation
It is good to be bold but it would be better if the version you put in was even one where you thought it was okay rather than needing cleaning up. How about proposing it on the talk page and see if other can clean it up first? Dmcq (talk) 17:17, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks!
Thank you very much for the explanation! Le Anh-Huy (talk) 12:20, 2 November 2008 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Permanent is sharp-P-complete
An article that you have been involved in editing, Permanent is sharp-P-complete, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Articles for deletion/Permanent is sharp-P-complete. Thank you. --Tznkai (talk) 19:09, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the notice. Shreevatsa (talk) 19:12, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

(2005–2008)