User talk:Tamfang/Archive 2012

NPA
Your editing is in violation of WP:CITEVAR. Furthermore, per I'm reminding you of WP:NPA. Gimmetoo (talk) 13:21, 3 January 2012 (UTC)


 * Combining repeated references is not changing the style of the references themselves. Criticizing your actions is not a personal attack.  Thank you for playing.  —Tamfang (talk) 05:28, 4 January 2012 (UTC)

Metro Walk
Hi, you have edited Metro Walk and this article is currently under a contentious debate on a possible merger or deletion, your opinion on the matter and content might be useful in resolving the issues and reaching consensus, perhaps you would then like to do so at your convenience. Thank you.LuciferWildCat (talk) 00:06, 6 January 2012 (UTC)

Swedish heraldry FAC
I recently nominated Swedish heraldry for WP:FAC, and we need knowledgeable editors to comment on the article. Since you have been a contributor to that article, I hope you will take some time to look it over and leave your comments at Featured article candidates/Swedish heraldry/archive1. Thank you for your time and your contributions! Wilhelm Meis (Quatsch!) 14:26, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

Your invitation to participate in a Wikimedia-approved survey in online behavior.
Hello, my name is Michael Tsikerdekis, currently involved as a student in full time academic research at Masaryk University. I am writing to you to kindly invite you to participate in an online survey about interface and online collaboration on Wikipedia. The survey has been reviewed and approved by the Wikimedia Foundation Research Committee.

I am contacting you because you were randomly selected from a list of active editors. The survey should take about 7 to 10 minutes to complete, and it is very straightforward.

'''Wikipedia is an open project by nature. Let’s create new knowledge for everyone!''' :-)

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Research Participation Barnstar

 * I hesitate to put this on my page with the other barnstars, but only because I have no memory of participating! —Tamfang (talk) 08:58, 2 April 2012 (UTC)

Meridian naming
The named meridians are proper nouns and like "Mountains" in Rocky Mountains and Pole in South Pole is capitalized, Meridian in Paris Meridian should be kept capitalized. I started a talk at Talk:Meridian (geography). HTML2011 (talk) 21:52, 18 April 2012 (UTC)

DVD Capture
I'm running 10.5.8, and this version of DVD Capture works fine for me so far. By now, there may be better apps to do the job, but it was free, and it seems to work. – Kerαu noςco pia ◁ gala xies 12:23, 23 May 2012 (UTC)


 * The download is in StuffIt format, which my system doesn't handle. —Tamfang (talk) 16:30, 23 May 2012 (UTC)


 * You mentioned that earlier. I thought maybe this website was different (I didn't read through it—it's just where I downloaded it long ago). – Kerαu noςco pia ◁ gala xies 17:49, 23 May 2012 (UTC)

Minkowski's cousins
You are welcome. And I will forgive you if you will take that into consideration and not ask me geometry questions again.:D Legolover26 (talk) 19:45, 24 May 2012 (UTC)
 * I was just taking your question personally, as if you were asking me it instead of just anybody. Legolover26 (talk) 19:45, 24 May 2012 (UTC)

Count du Monét
Considering the geographic area the Baltic languages are connected to (and unfortunately the trouble it tends to breed on here) and that the new user has about 5 edits, yet throws around WP:OR, WP:SYN, WP:UNDUE, WP:NPOV and other terms like nothing, is it possible this user is a sock? I figured I would ask you what you thought since you have interacted with them and have a much longer history on the article (Indo-European languages) than I do.  He  iro 07:27, 25 May 2012 (UTC)


 * I haven't noticed anyone riding the Count's hobbyhorse before, for what little that's worth. —Tamfang (talk) 07:42, 25 May 2012 (UTC)
 * I knew I had seen it at least once, the IP who started the section the user posted to on the article talkpage 217.64.252.30 . Oh well, was hoping you'd know more. Guess we'll see where it goes now at the talk page. Cheers and thanks,  He  iro 07:52, 25 May 2012 (UTC)


 * At Neutral point of view/Noticeboard monsieur says "I have been observing this behavior for a few years". Draw your own conclusions. —Tamfang (talk) 19:51, 25 May 2012 (UTC)

Vincent Poursan
Hello. This message is being sent to inform you that there is currently a discussion at Dispute resolution noticeboard regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is "Achille Talon". Thank you. Kleuske (talk) 10:18, 28 May 2012 (UTC)

Cheers!
Wishing you all success! Tom Harrison Talk 21:01, 30 May 2012 (UTC)
 * I wish you every success on your crusade. bobrayner (talk) 22:26, 30 May 2012 (UTC)

Bum cheques story
I liked your story, but please do remember that WP:BLP doesn't only refer to celebrities and it doesn't only apply to article space. --Dweller (talk) 08:42, 31 May 2012 (UTC)


 * Okay. Of course, I don't know that there was a real person by that name in 1986, let alone now. —Tamfang (talk) 18:32, 31 May 2012 (UTC)

Patterns in nature
Hi Tamfang,

of course you are correct, patterns in nature are universal and if taken in the widest sense, are of every type, found at all scales and would be detectable by every sense, human or artificial. Astronomers detect patterns in microwaves and infer structures that existed near the start of the universe. All this is granted, you are correct.

However... that poses a mighty problem for a mere article. If patterns cover every topic, every scientific law, every regularity of mathematics and natural philosophy, then they will fill a million books, or at least all of some millions of Wikipedia articles.

... Therefore, I hope you will grant me the minimal and reasonable request, that we attach, nay, reattach, a single criterion to limit the vast scope of this subject: we are writing in this modest article only about visible patterns. Just those are already a large array of phenomena, and the article can merely hint at them and at the literature that covers them; and of course, you are further correct in believing that the visual patterns themselves are merely the surface coverings, as it were, of deeper regularities in nature that often cause the visual effects that the article describes.

Please understand, therefore, that I do not disagree with your view - no-one familiar with the subject reasonably could do so - that patterns are more than visual. But unfortunately they are by the same token far, far more than visual: far too large indeed for a whole nest of Wikipedia articles.

Therefore I repeat my request: please may we have back the necessary constraint on the article, to patterns that are seen. The rest are of immense importance, and are covered, as best as may be, in all the other articles in Wikipedia. Chiswick Chap (talk) 08:03, 5 June 2012 (UTC)

Etymology of Assam
The discussion is currently under dispute resolution: Dispute_resolution_noticeboard. Please contribute there. Chaipau (talk) 19:42, 9 June 2012 (UTC)

My Rookie Mistake
Thank you for letting me know I didn't follow etiquette when editing the talk page. I will remember to add new sections at the bottom of talk pages from now on. --Kaiomai (talk) 04:42, 25 June 2012 (UTC)

The Copyeditor's Barnstar

 * There's a couple that I'm not sure I agree with but that could just be me. Overall thank you! KTC (talk) 05:28, 29 June 2012 (UTC)


 * I happened to be passing by ... —Tamfang (talk) 05:31, 29 June 2012 (UTC)

Cyclic permutations of A~8
Hi Anton, if you're up for a challenge, there's one simplex honeycomb article in need of 45 permutations: 8-simplex_honeycomb. I think I got the 31 symmetric ones done. Tom Ruen (talk) 04:25, 6 July 2012 (UTC)

Nomination of Mario Rabinowitz for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Mario Rabinowitz is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/Mario Rabinowitz until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion template from the top of the article. Srleffler (talk) 02:28, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

Peerage categories
Category:Earldoms in the Peerage of Ireland and Category:Extinct earldoms in the Peerage of Ireland and their equivalents are normally used for peerages articles. The first category giews a good overview of all titles created while the other gives information on extinct titles. Tryde (talk) 07:17, 16 July 2012 (UTC)


 * What's your point?
 * When Category:Y is a member of Category:X, an article in Y is also considered to be in X, and therefore it is customary not to include any article in both X and Y.
 * Are you saying Category:Extinct earldoms in the Peerage of Ireland ought not to be a subcat of Category:Earldoms in the Peerage of Ireland? —Tamfang (talk) 07:33, 16 July 2012 (UTC)


 * What I am saying is that they both fill useful purposes. Category:Earldoms in the Peerage of Ireland gives an overview of all earldoms created in that peerage while the other category gives an overview of the extinct ones. With your system we lose the overview of all earldoms created. We have had Category:Earldoms and Category:Extinct earldoms for many years (and I am now diffusing them) so I don't see why this should change. Tryde (talk) 08:39, 16 July 2012 (UTC)


 * If you're saying that a flat list of all earldoms is so valuable that duplicating List of earldoms is worth demolishing (or preventing further development of) the natural hierarchy of subcategories, I disagree. —Tamfang (talk) 08:52, 16 July 2012 (UTC)


 * Diffusing? More like you're non-diffusing them. —Tamfang (talk) 09:41, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

Plouffe's Inverter
Your question from May on the availability of Plouffe's Inverter is answered. &#x2013; b_jonas 10:02, 26 July 2012 (UTC)


 * I saw that yesterday, but thanks for alerting me! —Tamfang (talk) 17:13, 26 July 2012 (UTC)

House of FitzJames: Scotland missing from armorial template?
Tamfang, can you help with this? __Qexigator (who came to the article 'House of FitzJames' via Eugénie de Montijo and a line of previous articles) sees nothing in its edit history to explain the omission of Kingdom of Scotland (which is represented in the second quarter of the armorial) from the template . Qexigator (talk) 22:32, 4 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your response on my Talk page. That is probably the reason. Qexigator (talk) 08:59, 5 August 2012 (UTC)

PS re User page

 * ...and thank you for Wikifying my User page. I have been signing there to remind me of dates done. Qexigator (talk) 09:58, 5 August 2012 (UTC)
 * ...and thanks for the 5 tildes tip; that's neat. Qexigator (talk) 21:28, 5 August 2012 (UTC)

More Culture renaming
Seems I started a trend. See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Science Fiction. Barsoomian (talk) 02:52, 9 August 2012 (UTC)

thanks
Thank you is a term used to describe appreciation for the recognition that articles are not about words. — kwami (talk) 06:58, 9 August 2012 (UTC)
 * It is important to note the fact that there are a number of redundant words, phrases, and sayings that are redundant. — Æµ§œš¹  [ãːɱ ˈfɹ̠ˤʷɪ̃ə̃nlɪ]  14:08, 9 August 2012 (UTC)


 * But Kwami, that article is about words! —Tamfang (talk) 15:12, 9 August 2012 (UTC)

Schlaefli symbols
Thanks! (I'm planning to add CD diagrams soon.) Double sharp (talk) 09:16, 9 August 2012 (UTC)
 * And for your question on why the tesseractihemioctachoron (the 4D tetrahemihexahedron) is counted as regular: it's obviously not regular, but (1) is a faceting of the 16-cell, which is regular and (2) doesn't fit well anywhere else, unlike thah which can easily go with the quasiregulars (which is where Bowers places it). Another point to take note of is that truncating and rectifying the tesseractihemioctachoron also lead to uniform polytopes. Double sharp (talk) 09:47, 9 August 2012 (UTC)

Disestablishments of WWI‎
Hi Tamfang, I'm working on a new royals/heraldry/houses/flags &c project User:Stephen2nd/Disestablishments of WWI‎, and could do with some of your expertise. It needs a new Wikitable for the Austrian/Russian/Ottoman sections, as they do not have individual heads and houses, like the German Empire sample. I propose a top "kindom/state" section, with three boxes for arms, map, flag. With two tables side by side, due to the size/length of these empires. It needs an appropriate title, and especially lead-descriptions of each Empire. Also all the sections filling in. Do you think it will fit into one article, or should it be split into each empire, or German/Austrian as (WWI or 1918)-European and Russia/Ottoman as (WWI or 1918)-non-European? If you are interested edit in or out whatever you think relevant, and I'll see you on its Talk:page whenever I can contribute more. Ta SteveStephen2nd (talk) 14:59, 27 August 2012 (UTC)

Thank you
Thanks very much for the tip about linking to categories I'd never thought about it before, cheersTheroadislong (talk) 19:48, 31 August 2012 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for catching my mistake in my attempted reversion of vandalism to Bauxite. I noticed it just after you did, and I went to fix it, but you had already done so. Thanks! —Bkell (talk) 05:01, 3 September 2012 (UTC)

Shovel ready
Get where you're coming from at Shovel ready (and I certainly won't stand in the way of a holy mission) but the resulting intro wasn't really accurate. It seems to redraft the para as though the term is commonly (more commonly than reality) used to describe projects that meet that criteria. It's most definitely a political catch-phrase or neologism which is used by politicians and media but not many others, and only in fairly specific circumstances. Is there a way we could redraft it to get the proper context while still complying with your holy mission? (Love where Holy Mission links to btw!) Cheers, Stalwart 111  (talk) 05:02, 5 September 2012 (UTC).

Minor quibble
Hi Tamfang. This is going to sound like needless nit-picking, for which I apologise in advance, but a couple of your recent responses at the Helpdesk have been a little... jaded, perhaps, is the right word? I'm thinking of edits like this, this and this. New editors come to the helpdesk precisely because they aren't sure about how Wikipedia works; dismissing them with "*sigh* Use the talkpage" as though they ought to know better isn't terribly... helpful. I realise that you probably didn't intend to sound patronising or flippant, but like many more experienced editors, you've probably answered these questions a thousand times and have gotten tired of trotting out the rote responses - the important thing is to remember that each individual newbie has only asked the question once, and doesn't realise that there's an obvious answer. Cheers, Yunshui 雲&zwj;水 10:43, 15 October 2012 (UTC)

Reverted recent edit to Balanced ternary
I just wanted to let you know that I reverted your recent minor edit to Balanced ternary, as well as the larger anonymous edit before it. If you want to way in on the issue, see Talk:Balanced ternary. Otherwise, thanks for the copyedit! --Quantum7 22:11, 26 October 2012 (UTC)


 * What if I'd rather weigh in? —Tamfang (talk) 23:14, 26 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Please comment on the Talk:Balanced ternary if you have an opinion on notation. I'd like to fix up this page but I want to reach a consensus on notation first. --Quantum7 08:25, 28 October 2012 (UTC)

Prezrenje Hm..
Why? Sej negovorš Slovensko, do you speek Slovene? it seems much more likely that Prezrenje got its name because, being on a hill, it looks over the valley Prezreti meens overlook, if you were right it would be just Zrenje = The Look yes? Why am i debating this with foreign ppl?! What you are right and everybody here is wrong, we are just wrong yes? Come here and tell that to my village and every village around us, oh you would hear a moth full Who gives names to enithing, ppl that matter aka ppl with money aka rich ppl It saddens me that my little contribution made such a.. i dont even know what to call it but i know that its wrong what you are doing

I know my village and i know my ppl and i know our story, do you? — Preceding unsigned comment added by MitjaBene (talk • contribs) 20:41, 6 November 2012 (UTC)


 * I don't speak Slovene but I do know something about how places are commonly named. Your grandfather's story implies that the village was not named until some rich people rode by without looking; how likely is that?  How does anyone know that the rich people did not look up? —Tamfang (talk) 05:09, 12 November 2012 (UTC)

Greeting
Did not know (did I forget?) that you edit WP... Gordo (talk) 08:46, 22 November 2012 (UTC)

German rank and noble styles in orders of precedence
Hi Tamfang, I have a problem with creating an info-box on the “rank and noble styles” of the emperors, kings, princes, grand dukes and dukes &c of the German monarchy. I would like to have the German translations with each title, mediatized nobility refs, with a (1st) image section for “crowns,” and ending with a notes section for such explanations. The problems are creating the sections for the “princes” titles. Also, fully covering all the necessary topics relevant and compatible with the List of German monarchs in 1918‎. I am also compiling text to accompany this section; obviously this depends on the finished info-box. I am storing these references in Sandbox User:Stephen2nd/Prussian Empire. I hope to add about 30 pages of images, trees &c to this (Empire) article, as a template for other 1918 Empires, re our earlier discussions. Hope you are having a nice time of year. Ta Steve Stephen2nd (talk) 20:52, 28 December 2012 (UTC)