User talk:Swwright/Conversations

This page archives my conversations with other Wikipedians. The purpose is to gather scattered remarks together, since the conversations were originally dispersed among various talk pages. Comments I added to article talk pages, and comments that did not elicit a response, are not included here; nor are conversations that took place entirely in my talk page or someone else's.

Links are provided to the original instances of messages, if those have not been archived or removed.

Robinh re Quantum Tic Tac Toe
Hello, Robin! Some months back, I registered with Wikipedia with the intent of writing an article about QT3. Unfortunately, after I had perused some of the policies, guidelines, suggestions, opinions, et cetera ... I was forced to conclude that I could not do so. I am therefore delighted to find that you have created an article referring to the game.

I am yet a WikiNewbie (if I may coin such a word, unless someone else has already done so), and have many questions about the proprieties of this place. I am therefore writing to ask you for help (or at least, pointers to the necessary (more!) reading) so I can figure out whether it is proper for me to add anything to your article. I have an interest, and a possible conflict of interest, in that I am a friend of the inventor of Quantum Tic Tac Toe, and am the author of a version of the game for the Palm PDA.

If you would be so kind as to reply to my (as yet non-existent) talk page, it would be greatly appreciated. And if this is not the appropriate venue for having contacted you, please also let me know that. As I said, I am as yet a stranger here.

Thank you for your kind attention.

Swwright 04:58, 27 December 2006 (UTC) (Original)


 * Hello Swwright!


 * thanks for your message. It's good  to know that someone is reading my edits!  Anyway, I'm no great expert on quantum tictactoe; my entire knowledge of it comes from reading an excellent article in American Journal of Physics a few months back.


 * I'd say that you would be better informed than me about the game...so be bold and edit my pitiful stub as you see fit! This way, we all benefit.


 * Enjoy, Robinh 17:45, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
 * (Original)

Andonico (and RyGuy) re Roosevelt quote

 * "There is nothing to fear except fear itself"|can someone help me out? I forget where I heard this and who said it|  Ry Guy    Sign Here!   My Journal
 * These words were spoken by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, at the opening of his first inaugural speech in 1933, when the Great Depression seemed an insuperable obstacle. The full quote is: "So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance."  (Franklin D. Roosevelt, Inaugural Address, March 4, 1933, as published in Samuel Rosenman, ed., The Public Papers of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Volume Two: The Year of Crisis, 1933 (New York: Random House, 1938), 11–16.  Citation retrieved from http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5057/ on 2007-01-22.)  --Swwright 22:08, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
 * (Original)
 * Hi Swwright! Thanks for clarifiying who had said "Fear only fear itself". I'm guessing it was a proverb before that, but his speech probably made it famous. Thanks again! | A ndonic O Talk · Sign Here 11:53, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
 * (Original)

Particle Spin
(All rules have exceptions. This comment is recorded simply because the article is now gone, and the talk page will probably disappear.)

The remark about spinning a particle is just wrong. One does not spin a particle. Spin simply is a property that particles have. It is not even spin in the sense that we normally consider (e.g., a baseball or a soccer ball); it is so called because the equation describing the property is practically identical to the equation describing the angular momentum of a spinning ball. All subatomic particles have a characteristic spin value, either an integer or a half-integer (1/2, 3/2 and so on). Particles which are entangled with respect to spin, will exhibit correlations (e.g., the direction of one may be "up" and the direcion of the other will be "down") during a given pair of measurements. After those measurements are done, nothing further can be said about the spin of those particles, and subsequent measurements in different directions (e.g. "left" and "right") will show no correlation whatsoever. Now, I am just a physics amateur; somebody who really knows this, please write a correct description of this phenomenon. --Swwright 20:14, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
 * The article "Relativity and quantum mechanics" now re-directs to Quantum gravity. The above comment is therefore now irrelevant. — SWWrightTalk 22:39, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

(Original)

Conrad Falk re Kirby Grant
(Note: this person has since been recognized as, or decreed to be, a sockpuppet, and has been blocked. Scary.)

Greetings! Dzien dobry! I like the "welcome" message you received from Piotr Konieczny; there is much useful information for a "WikiNewbie". I also am fairly new to Wikipedia, and am still "learning the ropes" as it were.

I am writing to you concerning your recent revision of the article on the actor, Kirby Grant. I like most of what you did, but not all. I decided to write to you, when I read the second sentence of the article; the prior version and your version are factually equivalent, but the prior version is more neutral in tone, where your revision seems to have a tone of dismissal. But reading the rest of your revisions, I decided that overall it is better. For instance, the speculation about what might have been had he worn a seat belt, was inappropriate and I am glad you removed it. The remark about his demeanor at fairs and aviation events (along with some other material) sounded like personal recollections from someone who had met him; however, they were added by somebody that we cannot contact (he/she is known here only by IP address and has no talk page). Without some citation, or at least a footnote stating that it is based on personal experience, it was probably proper to remove that material.

If you wish to discuss this article further, we can do so here or in my talk page (since the Grant article has no talk page of its own). Or perhaps we should start Talk:Kirby Grant, since no one else has. Perhaps our unknown source might join us there. Your thoughts? — SWWrightTalk 20:04, 15 February 2007 (UTC) (Original)


 * Jak się masz?


 * Just a warning - I am not fluent in Polish -I was born in the US and my parents didn;t speak much either. I can speak a little and write even less. My best friend is Polish (from Stalowa Wola, among other places).


 * Just got your message; just specify what you don't like about the Kirby page and we can discuss it.


 * Cześć. Conrad Falk 23:15, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
 * (Original)


 * I just read your message in my talk page. Thank you for replying.  Unfortunately, my polski is even more limited.  I know but a few words, from corresponding with a friend in Poland.  I am myself American (whatever that is).
 * Perhaps I used too many words in my message above. Conciseness and "getting to the point" is a skill I have not. My reservation about your work on the Kirby Grant article, lies in the difference between these two sentences:
 * Grant is remembered mostly today as playing the title role in the television series Sky King.
 * If remembered at all it is for playing the title role in the television series Sky King.
 * Both sentences state the same fact, but the first sentence is gentler, while the second seems to exhibit a negative attitude toward the man.
 * It is a small point, but of a multitude of such small points is quality writing made.  I suppose I could just have reverted that one sentence in the article, but I preferred to talk with you, so to speak, and see what your point of view is. — SWWrightTalk 02:07, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
 * (Original)


 * Sounds OK--just do whatever you think is best for Wikipedia.Conrad Falk 02:09, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
 * (Original)