User talk:Ahy1

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Thor Heyerdahl

Could you please give an accont for Thor Heyerdahls formal qualifications as a scientist? Norwikinator 16:24, 26 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I do not know of any formal qualification, but I consider him a scientist and I am not the only one (google: Thor Heyerdahl scientist), but I do not have any good references.

I suggest you revert my revert, and put up a note on Talk:Thor Heyerdahl about it. Ahy1 16:44, 26 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Computer science

I was wondering if you might be interested in joining WikiProject Computer science. If you haven't looked at it yet, please stop by the project and project talk pages to get a feel for what the project is about. --Allan McInnes (talk) 00:27, 26 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I have now added myself to Wikipedia:WikiProject Computer science/Participants and will try to contribute where I can. Ahy1 00:56, 26 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Great! Welcome aboard! --Allan McInnes (talk) 01:16, 26 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Stord Airport, Sørstokken

I need a hand with this airport. The official Aeronautical Information Publication says that the airport is 13 km west of Leirvik. I find that I'm a bit confused over Leirvik and Stord. Can you help by putting in information about Leirvik. Thanks. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 09:29, 26 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Leirvik is the administrative centre of Stord municipality, which is one of two municipalities in the Stord island. The other is Fitjar. I agree, it is confusing :-).

I added a link to Leirvik to the article. Those interested in the details could click there for the detailed information. Ahy1 10:23, 26 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

That was quick. Thanks for the help. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 10:30, 26 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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speed deletion of smartassembly contribution on obfuscation software theme

Hello,

Having a look at the 2 Wikipedia articles regarding: a) obfuscated code and b) obfuscation software, I found the following links: - Wikilinks to Dotfuscator, an obfuscator from Preemptive. a very short page. In the category software stub. - External links to the "How to select guide for an obfuscation tool", an interesting guide to obfuscation tools, but which was published in August 2005, and was never updated since then.

I added a few links myself: - A link to a more up-to-date obfuscation tools list, on sharptoolbox - A link to a new created page on smartassembly, which is an obfuscation tool for .NET applications. - an external link to the website for this tool.

Everything was immediately deleted.

I am totally new to Wikipedia. And I'm sincerely sorry if I did something wrong. My intention is absolutely not to "pervert" the wikipedia philosophy with commercial elements, or with inappropriate contributions. And my intention is not to advertise on Wikipedia. But as there is already such type of reference in the article, with Dotfuscator, I thought it appropriate to mention our obfuscation software too.

Deleting my references/resources, while keeping a link to Dotfuscator obfuscation tool, that doesn't look fair, and innevitably results in biaised information for any wikipedia user.

Information on obfuscation software is already somewhat biaised on the net, because many resources lists on the subject were made by benevolent people. And these are unfortunately not updated any more...

Please advise me what I can do. I sincerely tried to keep the links and the smartassembly page neutral and objective. But maybe it wasn't. I'm of course ready to take any comment or to adapt the description to better suit the Wikipedia guidelines. So please be so kind to get back to me as soon as possible.

Thank you :-) --Smartassembly 17:18, 7 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I just removed the link to dotfuscator. It shouldn't be there, as it IMHO doesn't provide any extra value to the article.

I did not have anything to do with the speedy deletion of your article. I never saw the article before it was deleted and now it is inaccessible for all editors without admin rights. The reason I reverted your edits, was that it looked to me like an ad. Seeing that your user name is exactly like the article and product name and also the fact that when I saw the link, it was red (pointing to an at that moment non-existing article) made me come to that conclusion.

To keep Wikipedia in a NPOV state, I don't think people associated with a product or company should edit articles about that product/company.

If you, after this not so warm welcome to Wikipedia, still want to work on it, I suggest you find another article to edit. There are lots of stubs and poorly written articles that need work. Ahy1 23:29, 7 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Progress Party (Norway)

I've always used the talk page, ever since I first got involved in the article. I have presented several reputable sources that state that the Progress Party is radical right, and their findings merit mention in the lead. One cannot stifle those sources simply because they disagree with what they have to say. Nobody has even presented evidence that the FrP is not radical right, nor has anyone proposed an alternative label for them based on reputable sources. -- WGee 18:41, 5 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I asked about Wikipedia:Words to avoid at October 27. Neither you or anyone else replied to that. I then removed the sentence (November 4), and said so on the talk page.

When you then reverted my edit, you should have given a reason on the talk page, so that it is possible to discuss it. You have still not given a reason for why the guideline should not be followed int this case. Ahy1 00:43, 6 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, I gave a reason in this edit summary. In addition, it is OK to use those relative terms if they are the opinions of reputable sources. Note the difference between the following examples: It is classified in academia as a radical right-wing populist party. versus It is a radical right-wing populist party. The latter is what the guideline wants editors to avoid; the former is acceptable and encouraged according to WP:V and WP:RS. Also, guidelines are not set in stone; in fact, that one should be changed, because all political scientists and reputable political journals use those relative terms. -- WGee 01:06, 6 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The point is that if you gave your reason on Talk:Progress Party (Norway), where it belongs, it would be possible to reply/discuss it in context. Anyone interested would be able to follow the discussion. Currently this is difficult, as my original question on Talk:Progress Party (Norway) is still unanswered. Ahy1 15:33, 6 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It's answered now; and if you would like to post the answer on the article's talk page for everyone to see, feel free to do so. -- WGee 02:23, 7 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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