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Causality

Thank you for your correction. I was reading through it a little too fast, and I could not comprehend it at that speed. Therefore, now, after I looked it over i saw where I erred. Thank you for your constructive critisism. Alvinrune 10:16, June 18, 2005 (EST)

Category economics game theory

Hi, I readily acknowledge my ignorance of the subject and accept direction you wish to give me. A number of articles are categorized in both "Economics" and "Game theory", but a number of other articles are just in "Game theory." Do you know whether it would make sense for me to take those that are in both categories out of the main "Economics" category? I will undo the "Economics game theory" if that's best. Thanks. Maurreen 18:17, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Maurreen - Good you noticed that! I think probably the appropriate action would just be to remove the economics category from those pages and leave the game theory one. The reason I'm worried is that game theory is highly interdisciplinary (involving sociology, economics, biology, political science, and philosophy) and so I wouldn't want to mislead people by making a special category "economics game theory". Thanks for your quick response, and I'll try to keep my eye out for those duplicate categories! best, --Kzollman 18:21, Jun 25, 2005 (UTC)

Game theory wikiproject

You could certainly count me in. I have created and contributed to many game theory articles - it's probably the area to which I have contributed the most. I don't know anybody else who would be interested, except perhaps bluemoose. I don't know if you can acquire the 5-10 wikipedians recommended. Also, I have little time at the moment to spare for Wikipedia and my contributions tend to be infrequent flurries of activity rather than steady flows. Nonetheless, I'm certainly interested. Treborbassett 16:37, 29 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Yes a game theory project would be nice, possibly a better idea may be to make an Economics wikiproject which encapsulates game theory (which we amazingly dont have in the economics and business section of projects! ), because a project just for game theory may be a bit specific to gain any popularity. User:Wragge will no doubt be interested. Bluemoose 11:17, 30 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I could start it off etc, you could just add your bit to the subsection of gametheory, but I wouldnt really know what other issues to deal with, I havent been too busy in the economics section recently, I guess things like categorisation and expanding all those stubs need to be dealt with. How do you think Game theory would benefit, just out of interest? One thing i can think of is if we copyed the idea of my other pet; Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles, and got a good economics/game theory encyclopedia/dictionary and make sure we cover everything it does. Bluemoose 23:17, 30 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

OK, I'll start it off tomorrow (Wikipedia:WikiProject Economics), standardisation of notation etc. over all economics articles is a great idea. First I've got to sleep, its 1:40am here. thanks Bluemoose 00:38, 31 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Just noticed Wikipedia:The Business and Economics Forum and Wikipedia:Wikiportal/Business and Economics, do you think a project would duplicate these? Bluemoose 19:30, 31 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah thats probably a good idea, count me in on what ever you decide. Bluemoose 21:42, 31 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like a good idea. I'm tempted to volunteer (there are a few game theory pages I wish I had time to have a go at) but I expect to be pretty heavily time-invested in other areas over the next month or so. Good intentions, bad habits. I have a grad student who is starting up on a game theory thesis project next month. I was considering assigning him some pages to get him up to speed, but I'm not convinced this is the best thing to do. Pete.Hurd 18:35, 1 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I note that you've added winning strategy to this project. I had thought of that article as being mainly about determinacy (that is, infinite games). There are certainly some points of commonality with the more practically-oriented game theory used by economists, but I wonder if they're enough.

On the other hand there's a lot of work to do on the determinacy-style games (see Talk:Winning_strategy#Organizational_questions), and help would be welcome.

So I see several possibilities:

Try to to deal with both sorts of games in a common framework. This has the advantage of avoiding duplication of articles. But I think there could be some awkwardness too.
Start another Wikipedia:WikiProject Determinacy, and try to avoid getting in each other's way. But would there enough people to work on it?
I could write a Game (set theory) article, and point everything from the determinacy stuff there. Probably there should be a dab on winning strategy.

What do you think?

I've written (partially) a new determinacy article, and the notion of winning strategy I'm interested in is reproduced there. So you might want to reclaim winning strategy for game theorists. I put a dab notice at the top. --Trovatore 06:02, 2 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Thanks for expanding and fixing up the dominance article. Looks nice! Isomorphic 00:28, 2 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Game Theory

I'm not really an expert, I'm afraid - I've only a casual interest. Evercat 12:32, 9 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Well, I'm mainly a functional analyst/quantum information theorist, but I do have a strong interest in mathematical economics and did have at one point an interest in getting some mathematically accurate pages on fixed point theory/convexity theory etc, although that subsided somewhat since my wiki energy was largely sapped by a controversy over an article Bell's theorem. I'm not sure I'll be much help.--CSTAR 03:59, 10 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations, you just inspired me to write Shizuo Kakutani! On a more general note, I'm not an expert but I'll help where I can. I took several game theory courses, and I own some relevant textbooks including Fudenberg and Tirole. Isomorphic 02:35, 30 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Well, admittedly I don't know anything about him that wasn't in the New York Times obituary. I keep intending to write an article on the fixed-point theorem, which I saw as part of the formal proof for the existance of the Nash equilibria. Every time I sit down to write it, I end up sidetracked into writing a different article. First it was his daughter Michiko, and this time the man himself. I guess third time will be the charm. Isomorphic 02:45, 30 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Hey!

I blanked it as a result of a direct request from whoever owns Wikipedia. Didn't you see my notice? And even if you don't believe me - I didn't "blank" the page, per se, there was still content on it... JIMBO WALES! That's it! He told me to! Yes, that's right!

Thanks for your help

I bestow the PSI Award to polite, courteous, and helpful users. It is to be used in good mental health!

Thanks for reverting the vandalism to my user page. I really appreciate it. If I can help you with anything, please let me know. Psy guy ^(talk) 13:35, 8 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Science pearls

Hello,

Since you contributed in the past to the publications’ lists, I thought that you might be interested in this new project. I’ll be glad if you will continue contributing. Thanks,APH 11:21, 11 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Kevin,

Thanks for joining the project. Can you verify that the subcategories in the philosophy list are suitable? I would like to make sure that no important sub field was left out and that there are no unrelated entries. I assume that it should ok after all the work done there but it worth checking. Do you think that we should allow several hierarchies – by are, country, topic, etc? Thanks, APH 05:41, 13 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

persistence

Thanks. Banno 09:14, 13 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Long Beach

A lot of those ambiguous Long Beach links probably should go to either Naval Station Long Beach or Long Beach Naval Shipyard, rather than to the city of Long Beach, California. —wwoods 04:09, 18 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for fixing up my entry. I'm new to Wikipedia so any help is very appreciated! I applied your change to Long Beach to fix the Santa Ana link as well. Looks like we attend the same school too. Epheron 00:06, 19 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Popups

Hey, Kevin! I was wondering how you use Lupin's popup tool for disambiguation? I just started using it to preview links which is very cool. -Roby Wayne ^{Talk • Hist} 06:11, 24 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for sharing your "secret" ;-). I am gonna try it out. Let ya' know how it goes!! >: Roby Wayne ^{Talk • Hist} 22:16, 24 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

The dab option on popups works great! And it will attempt to repair multiple links per page--just have to double check each one in the preview. With the tool, I get to spend more time double checking the apropriateness of the re-direct than typing. Very very useful!! >: Roby Wayne ^{Talk • Hist} 17:46, 27 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Injoined user is back

Thanks for the barnstar. Unfortunately, it is not over yet. Alford (DotSix) returned about a week ago. Please see the section He's Baaaack on my talk page. --Nate Ladd 22:28, 24 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Kevin

Sorry I haven't helped more on the project, but unfortunately I dont have any of my textbooks anymore and I dont trust my memory! So I cant really input that much. Did you ever get round to standardising the payoff matrix tables like you planned to before? thanks Martin 23:07, 4 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Ninth Day Of Creation AFD

Kevin, you have two edits in the debate (Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ninth Day of Creation, one a vote for and the other against. What's up?

Sorry, it's early. Thanks for clarifying ;-) Daemon8666 16:33, 7 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Reply

I will definately get around the new game theory article within the next 24 hours. As for the rfa, to get an idea of what people are looking for then just check out the current and past nominations. I definately think you would pass easily, in fact I will happily nominate you myself if you would prefer. thanks Martin 16:30, 12 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Bluemoose would like to nominate you to be an administrator. Please visit Wikipedia:Requests for adminship to see what this process entails, and then contact Bluemoose to accept or decline the nomination. A page has been created for your nomination at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Kzollman/Archive1. If you accept the nomination, you must formally state your acceptance and answer the questions on that page. Once you have answered the questions, you may post your nomination for discussion, or request that your nominator do so.

See Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/nominate for what to do next. good luck Martin 17:26, 12 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I really like the Game theory article, all I could do was fix a couple of grammatical errors. Maybe we could consider nominating it for featured status? Martin 10:03, 13 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Jimbo Wales to Attend San Diego Meetup on October 18 2005

Hello, Jimbo Wales will be in San Diego to attend OOPSLA and has agreed to come by and visit with the San Diego wikipedians. If you are interested, you will find more info on my talk page. Johntex\^talk 00:54, 13 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Sysop

It's my pleasure to notify you that, consensus being reached, you're now a administrator. You may wish to read the reading list and how-to guide at your convenience. Most sysop actions are reversible, the exceptions being history merges and deleting pages (but it's a good idea to be careful with all of them). Again, congrats on becoming an admin. Pak aran 02:20, 20 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I may not know you too well, though I'm sure I'll get to know you, but anyways welcome aboard, and add yourself to WP:LA if no one has already. R e dwolf24 (talk) 02:23, 20 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

No doubt, Red...Kevin is a great addition to the janitorial staff!! >: Roby Wayne ^{Talk • Hist • E@} 02:55, 20 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Hey it was a pleasure voting for such a fine candidate. Congratulations, hope to see you doing good work for wikipedia! Ban e s 05:28, 20 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations, and you're quite welcome. --Merovingian (t) (c) (e) 05:38, 20 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations, and I become only more impressed by your conscientiousness that you are thanking everyone who voted for you! --- Charles Stewart 05:58, 20 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations. Don't worry about your eyes, just don't go nominating me for such a thing. I don't need the temptation. Keep up the good work, don't neglect your own research. I look forward to the normative signalling paper. Rock on, Pete.Hurd 06:29, 20 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations for the frozen north. CambridgeBayWeather 10:21, 20 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Wow, Gratz! KillerChihuahua

Alakon's edits

Have you ever heard of this book User:Alakon listed, or it's author? A quick look at some of this user's edits [1] makes me wonder if all his substantive edits are hoaxes. Pete.Hurd 22:19, 30 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I've been looking for tools for tracking IPs used by editors (stemming from suspicions that User:Fn is a User:Alakon sockpuppet), do you know of any? Pete.Hurd 02:54, 5 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

OK, just wondering if I couldn't find such a tool in user space. The WP:Sock puppet page is really vague about when it's appropriate to tag someone as a suspected sockpuppet, I'm not willing to do it on gut feeling alone. It's small potatoes, not worth waking up the grown-ups at WP:ANI over either... Cheers, Pete.Hurd 05:03, 5 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Judgment-proof

Hello:

FYI, judgment-proof is a slang term used among lawyers for a defendant with no substantial financial assets (for example, a typical welfare recipient who lives in public housing and takes the bus and only owns a few bits of used furniture and clothes). Therefore, that person cannot be rationally deterred from committing torts, since the person literally has nothing to lose but his liberty, and that can be taken away only when the state proves beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant has committed a crime.

In case you're wondering why injunctions and contempt wouldn't work as an alternative (a classic question in Remedies classes) it's because no court will issue a general order to obey the law (since that is presumed to be required of all members of society anyway). Injunctions (and the use of contempt citations and jail time to enforce them) are usually granted only when it is explicitly clear that the defendant will commit a particular tort in the near future unless stopped (such as abusing one's spouse or children for the fourth or fifth time in a week).

I hope this helps. --Coolcaesar 04:13, 3 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, I prefer that you not use the above text for an article, because (1) it reflects my own personal bias too much and (2) there are a lot of subtle issues that I left out. Also, in case you're unaware, the American English spelling is "judgment." The British English spelling is "judgement." --Coolcaesar 21:04, 5 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

lysdexia

I made it indefinite because she has been trolling for months. I know I've blocked her at least once before; it doesn't seem to show up in the logs, so it must have been before the MediaWiki upgrade which created the new log (i.e. in late 2004). Incidentally, she's banned on Meta as well. — Dan | Talk 16:46, 7 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Best Response figures

Hey Kevin, go ahead and crop the figs any way you want. They could be greatly improved, thicker dotted lines etc. They're grabs from a book I started writing (before I came to my senses and abandoned it) and not really optimal for the web... Cheers, Pete.Hurd 17:36, 8 November 2005 (UTC).[reply]

Manhattan, Kansas

Thanks for your timely help with the MHK and KSU page. Kgwo1972 16:27, 10 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:School_and_university_projects#Oregon_State_University

I'd be very interested in learning how is your project progressing, as I am working on similar thing at the University of Pittburgh (unfortunately, my project was delayed a term). If you need any help, or just want to brainstorm some ideas, drop me a line. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus ^Talk 18:49, 10 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Sure I'd like to be kept updated. How have you solved the copyright issues? I and my teammeate have been running in circles trying to get a clear answer if we can order the students to sumbit their work on Wiki (under GDFL, obviously - thus forfeiting some copyrights). If you want, I can send you our brochure on this (not yet ready, but has some useful info). I am also working on a workshop (presentation) introducing people to Wikipedia:Researching with Wikipedia and Wikipedia as teaching tool. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus ^Talk 15:29, 11 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

reply

Kevin! Just when I was starting to think the world had gone mad! yes, I will only proceed with that issue when I have come to a conclusion with Noisy. thanks a lot! Martin 17:48, 13 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! Bluebot is very happy now, you have made her day! Martin 18:06, 13 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Re : AfD Tarrazu

Hi Kzollman,

In this case, I'll be relisting the article on AfD again for another 7 days. It seems other sysops that 2 votes are not sufficient as concensus these days, so just to stay on the safe side.

- Cheers, Mailer Diablo 17:58, 18 November 2005 (UTC) :)[reply]

The renomination is here. My apologies for any inconvenience caused. - Mailer Diablo 18:10, 18 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Got it. Thanks for the heads up! I notice the obvious surge in such cases now! :) - Mailer Diablo 21:06, 18 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I saw how bad was the backlog, I will help you guys out. Please do not start sending copyvios to VfD to have them settled, I believe we can have WP:CP cleaned up by itself. :) - Mailer Diablo 15:55, 20 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Game theory FAC?

On the Project Announcements secion you just put up "Game theory is not up for Featured article status" is the "not" a typo for "now", or an I just thinking you made some sort of a Freudian slip and you didn't? Pete.Hurd 00:25, 28 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

signatures

Hi there. As it turns out I independently created an identical sig to your's. I don't think I've ever seen your sig before, but perhaps it stayed around in my memory and I was pushed toward it. Or perhaps two great minds think alike. Anyway, I'll change mine soon to avoid confusion. --best, kevin _└^KZOLLMAN/_TALK^┐ 15:57, 28 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

hey Kevin, well it is quite a funky sig! I've only relatively recently started changing mine, but since then it's been through a fair few incarnations. I'd stored some useful characters (such as └) from other people's sigs, as possibly useful for the future, so perhaps I had seen yours previously and not recalled. I had a brief look through your contributions and can't see any articles which I have also made contributions to, though! Anyhow, not to worry, mine will get changed before long, I'm sure. Cheers, _└^UkPaolo/_TALK^┐ 13:44, 30 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

BHW

Holy shit, that's a belly laugh at the end of a mediocre day! I'm very curious. Please let me know what happens, if that's possible. If there's any way I can help, just let me know. Pete.Hurd 00:50, 3 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Nice to meet you!

lol Yeah, I'm his grad student - he asked me to come and do the edit for ESS as we've been mulling over Thomas's paper and ES Sets for a few days now. I'll probably be seeing you around here a bit. But thanks for the invite anyways; made me feel welcome. :-) Khamsin 06:59, 3 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

two recent edits

Ki Kevin. Have you seen these, [2]? First time I've heard of an equilibrium coarsening... but then there's lots I don't know about... Pete.Hurd 21:24, 5 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Game theory featured article status

Hey Kevin, Game theory is a featured article, and the whole project is coming along very nicely.

A barnstar for all your efforts. Pete.Hurd 16:19, 6 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

complaint

I have a complaint to make. I've submitted several relevant links for UCI students. One, being UCI Housing and the other Off-Campus Housing (presently removed) which points to a community website that is completely free and has been mentioned by CSUF's newspaper as a great resource for students. Furthermore, I have read your spam page on the guidelines of posting links, and I feel that due to the fact that my link points to relevant information and has non-promotional language, I should be allowed to post my link. Many people are thankful that I have created iHomeConnect as way of helping people find housing. When people like you remove quality links like mine, you are restricting the exchange of information and taking the power out of the hands of the people and giving more power to corporate entities. Please stop removing my link, or I will seek legal action against those who continue to deprive Wikipedia users of relevant information by removing my contributions. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.24.130.247 (talk • contribs)

bulgarian solitaire

Hi kzollman. Thanks for your comments. I'll dig out the ref and source it. And while I'm writing, could you check out Varma Division please? The article seems to be OK, but I cannot find a single reference to it anywhere, either Google, or any of the several online literature searches our library provides. I have half a mind to VfD it, but what do you think?

best wishes, Robinh 22:20, 8 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Secretary for Commonwealth Relations

First point - please don't leave me form comments on my talk page. I am not a new user, and it's a bit patronizing. Second point, the list of Secretaries of State for Commonwealth Relations comes straight from the FCO website - here. It can be verified from numerous other printed sources, however. john k 03:11, 12 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

It's okay, I seem to feel patronized fairly frequently. Glad to be able to provide the citation - that one turned out to be an easy one. There's some articles I've done where it would be harder to find the citation. john k 05:18, 12 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Bjerknes (lunar crater)

Ages ago, you wrote Bjerknes (lunar crater). I've been doing the ol' random page browsing and I stumbled on it. You don't happen to remember your references for it, do you? If you do, it would be great if you could add them. Thanks! --best, kevin [kzollman][talk] 18:22, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

The table to the upper right of the Bjerknes (lunar crater) has a row labelled "References". That link points to the page containing the references (and external links) I used. I didn't see the point of listing the same dozen or so references on all 1600+ crater pages. Is that not satisfactory? If not then I guess I'll have to build a reference template for all the lunar crater pages. Thanks. — RJH 18:46, 12 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I've built a template that I'll start using, which should address all these issues. It'll take me a few weeks to finish adding it to all the crater pages. — RJH 19:00, 12 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

American Soccer League

Let me echo this request for American Soccer League. Thanks! --best, kevin [kzollman][talk] 03:04, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

Kevin, sorry to say, but my source for the above article was also the American soccer history archives, which is already listed. Chris Edgemon 20:06, 15 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Maintained

Whups, I'll go read the fine manual! Cheers, Pete.Hurd 18:37, 18 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Hey Kevin, I was just admiring the most recent anon edits to Game theory, and thought it might be time to take a first peek to compare the number of constructive/non-constructive anon/non-anon edits to articles, Counting from the time since they had maintained templates put on them, versus the equivalent time before the templates... It's probably too early for the data to be convincing, but my gut feeling is that there's no dissuasion effect. -Cheers, Pete.Hurd 16:56, 21 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, I meant that I don't think anon IPs (or anyone else) would be dissuaded from making useful contributions by the template. This would be evidence against the 'ownership' argument I hear that suggests that the template acts as some sort of territorial urine tag which will act to dissuade constructive editorial contributions. Pete.Hurd 18:54, 21 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Conspiracy (civil)

I am way out of date on this fast-moving commercial field but have done my best to add some more detailed material and some reference material. David91 09:18, 19 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Welcome, signing.

I appreciate the welcome and the tip. I was wondering how to sign my name.

Thanks again, and I hope you have a good...whatever you celebrate. :)

--DodgerOfZion 23:45, 24 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Can you....

Can you monitor both articles ? I'll find the two Users who may start one by accident. Told them that this is a encyclopedia, NOT a means to prove or disprove that aliens are around. Martial Law 09:08, 25 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

== can you helis there a Adult Swim page?

Hi Kevin, thanks very much for the welcome message. I'm hoping to have a crack at the Prisoner's Dilemma article as soon as I get some time, to add some information about evolutionary models, tag-based cooperation and spatial models.

Cheers, Mike