User talk:Lexor/Archive Jul 2005-Mar 2012

Group behaviour self-optimisation system creates soccer players specializations

Dear Lexor,

Maybe You can help me with starting/finding the source of the research:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Artificial_life#Group_behaviour_self-optimisation_system_creates_soccer_players_specializations

Or maybe You know anyone from the scientific AI community who could be aware with the experiment I described in the provided link?

Intelligence

How do you know that "most common definitions [of intelligence]] include "the ability to reason, plan, solve problems, think abstractly, comprehend ideas and language, and learn""? That quote is from Wikipedia's article on intelligence, not from a nebulous "most definitions." Other definitions may well differ, but I chose to use that one. You have now changed a correct statement to an unverifiable and possibly wrong one. Since you have created this problem I expect you to solve it. Adam 12:46, 23 August 2005 (UTC)

OK Adam, feel free to revert it if you don't like it. No need to lecture. Lexor|Talk 12:50, August 23, 2005 (UTC)

It's a fair point, however, so I fixed it now. Lexor|Talk 13:02, August 23, 2005 (UTC)

Katrina/New Orleans article

Thanks for contributing to the article, but please respect the Inuse tag — it's the section I'm in the process of condensing and cohereifying (I swear that's a real world, really), and it's difficult to do so when somebody's editing it at the same time. I should be done within an hour, at which point I'll remove the tag. Deadsalmon 11:33, 4 September 2005 (UTC)

Yeah, sorry, but somebody had added an entire section specifically on the New Orleans to the main Hurricane Katrina article, that needed moving swiftly else it would be expanded on. They are clearly isolated subsections, so should be easy to spot "Summary" and "Declaration of "state of emergency" versus "martial law"". I don't plan any more moving to that article. Lexor|Talk 11:40, September 4, 2005 (UTC)

Didn't notice that; thanks for doing so. Deadsalmon 11:43, 4 September 2005 (UTC)

Nice cleanup, by the way. It certainly needed some "cohereify" (I often use "sectionify" and "proseify" articles, so cohereify is fine by me!) Lexor|Talk 17:09, September 4, 2005 (UTC)

Hurricane Katrina

Ah, can you explain what happened here? Specifically the top diff? Thanks for clearing up the bottom diff, I miss merged across an edit conflict. --24.165.233.150 17:04, 4 September 2005 (UTC)

Somebody must have inserted this text during that edit conflict resolution. Stuff happens like that sometimes. Edits can get out of order a bit with database servers which have to sync with the master servers if they receive requests almost simultaneously, or something like that, I think. Lexor|Talk 17:08, September 4, 2005 (UTC)

Yea, thats what I thought... Just wanted to make sure. :) --24.165.233.150 17:16, 4 September 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the edit work you've put in lately — having done some myself, I know it's a hard thing to take on. Deadsalmon 18:57, 5 September 2005 (UTC)

Thanks. The hardest thing is having to constantly filter changes in Hurricane Katrina down into the subarticles and keep the main article sections nice self-contained summaries. What part of "Main article:" do people not understand? Lexor|Talk 07:54, September 6, 2005 (UTC)

re: cctld

I pondered this question a while ago...

• Template_talk:Infobox Country#Should cctld be raw? eg .nl => or just nl and then annointed in the template?

Either way is OK as I dont currently have time to write a bot to uncook the cctld template. ¢ NevilleDNZ 10:55, 8 September 2005 (UTC) ¢

Template:Genomics-footer

Hi! I came across Bioinformatics and found the footer you created. Technically speaking, though, glycomics and proteomics are really genomics fields. Would you mind if I (or you) changed the template and put those under "Similar fields:..." or something? - Mgm|^(talk) 18:33, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

Metrication is FAC

Hello, because of your interest in science articles, I thought you might like to know that the article on Metrication is a featured article candidate, please vote here: Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Metrication. Thanks Seabhcán 13:24, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

Fixed-wing aircraft/temp

Oops! Missed that. Cat tags did not even occur to me at all after spending hours wading thru the bad Portugese translation I got from babelfish. Next time hopefully I will remember... Zotel - the Stub Maker 01:10, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

could you help?

Hi, could you look at my comment here [1]? Might you be one of the people who could respond to my point by adding accurate information to the "gene" article? Slrubenstein | [[User talk:Slrubenstein|Talk]] 19:14, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

Request For Protection Until Dispute Resolved

Hi, i want to know if its possible to protect the Gothic Metal article. A while back i performed a revision of the page after a near 2 month dispute on the articles contents. After intense discussion and several revisions of the talk page on the since deleted temp article, one of the users has proceeded to start vandalising pages ive edited. This user is DanteInferno. This user was involved in the debate in opposition to the revision i wished to make, which was made due to consensus being reached on the revision and the argument being abandonded against it being posted. Since the users return he has demanded that i am vandalising pages, and has claimed me of using sock puppets to make edits to pages, and has claimed several users dislike me and refuse to work with me. Both of these claims are unsourced. Dante also seems to exhibit Meglomanical Point of View, reverting any edits made to pages listed on his user page, on the basis he 'owns' the articles. I do not know clearly how to deal with this user, and i have posted this message to several admins as i wish to ask advice from several admins i have had no previous contact with, as i do not wish to seem biased. I hope that the page can be protected against this vandalism, as it is disrupting Wikipedia to prove a point, which along with the users other actions against me, is in violationg of several Wikipedia policys. Sorry for having to seek help this way, but i am at a loss at the best way to handle this users personal vendetta against me. Leyasu 17:16, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

Source of image

Image:Gene-duplication.png is a high quality drawing, and I would like to transfer it to commons. The link to the source is dead, however - it seems they moved the image. Do you possibly remember where on the site you found it? I have tried to find it on the web site, but I have not succeeded. Of course they could have removed it altogether, in which case I guess I'll transfer it to Commons with the available info. // Habj 02:29, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

I was too quick, sorry! It must have been here, right? [2] It seems they removed the entry. // Habj 02:37, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

Lost (TV series) Peer Review

Thank you for you suggestions and revisions to the Lost article(s); I have a sense that the editors are particularly enthusiastic about making any improvements that will lead to the article getting closer to "featured" quality. So any additional ideas you might have would be warmly welcomed. Regards,—LeFlyman 07:15, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

I'd like to contribute myself, I think Lost is a great series, but I way am pressed for time now (watching Lost is about my only regular media distraction). I originally went looking for background info on the production of Lost, where it was shot etc. (I know that all of it is on Oahu and they do a great job of faking it to look like other locations), thinking that this is the kind of material that Wikipedia normally excels at, and I was sort of disappointed that there was none. I did some web searching for info, but as you found, there is really not very much on the web. People seem excessively focused on the story (understandably), but having solid production information has the potential to be more encyclopedic and make the article more solid and less of a "fan-site" with random speculation (which would be much more like Original Research).

I rented the Lost Chronicles, but it would be good if some fan had time to extract some nuggets from the commentaries on the DVDs for the actual episodes. I used to be a regular contributor, but only login to my account every other week or so these days. I'm mainly a reader these days and don't actually login, I only edit when I see something I can do quickly. Hopefully this will change and I can return to being a more active contributor. --Lexor|Talk 07:56, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

Biology Portal

I see that you at one point helped to maintain the Biology portal. I was just wondering if you'd consider helping to maintain it again. Thanks a lot. --Cyde Weys 21:55, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

neuro cybernetics

Hi, i saw this in the diff history: "Lexor ({{merge}} with computational neuroscience (neurocybernetics gets 3700 hits vs 140,000 for "computational neuroscience"))"

computational neuroscience is ultimately one of the fields that will have to be matured and progressed far enough to further advances in terms of applications of neuro cybernetics but is essentially something completely different than neuro cybernetics. They all clearly are subject to neurology though and as such could be seen as subgroups or branches of this discipline!

Also it is usually referred to as neuro cybernetics or bio cybernetics ( i dunno if there really is a difference; at first guess i would say the first is more microscopic and not necessarily restricted to living / macroscopic organisms, neither would be the latter but it implies a certain tedency towards the application in higher organisms). When doing research search always for both as both are essentially underlying the same fundamentals. User:Slicky

Simply put, "neuro[ ]cybernetics" is simply not well established in the literature as a separate field to warrant a separate entry in Wikipedia. It's a name that is used by some more as a buzzword. However I agree with you that perhaps it would be better merged to the main article on cybernetics itself and discussed within that article. Also, please don't forget to sign your comments with four tildes ~~~~. Thanks. Lexor|Talk 14:27, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

You may be interested

Hi Lexor! You may be interested in having a look at the WikiProject for Preclinical Medicine. Thanks! -- Serephine / talk - 02:28, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

Template talk:Infobox Journal

Please take a look at a problem I have put on this talk page. Thanks. --Bduke 02:58, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

Electronic Music

Hello, I've noticed that you are the first editor of the Electronic music template. Modern dance music and its styles and substyles are "THE electronic music" , according to that template. May I ask you to quote references on this matter? I can realize that searching on the web any info on electronic music, still some universities' webpages can be found among other results. None mention modern dance music as a subgenre of electronic music. The term "Electronic art music" is very recent, and still is not accepted everywhere.

In other words, electronic-music-as-a-style is one of the experimental genres of modern music. The use of electronics as-a-playing-technique is very common in modern dance music, and actually there is no acoustic modern dance music, that I am aware of.

So, why there is confusion between styles and techniques? Between the mean and the message? Could we change that template and others that are similar? Brian Wilson 21:17, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

Tnavbar

Thanks for your printing related modifications to Tnavbar. :-) Netscott 08:28, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

do you have some extra time?

I have done some work on Evolutionary developmental biology but I think it needs a lot more work and I have reached the limits of my competence. I think you were asn early contributor and have actually already contributed a lot to the article. I am wondering if you would look it over and see if you have more to add. The May 11 issue of the New York Review of Books has an essay by Israel Rosenfeld and Edward Ziff on evo-devo, reviewing three books: From DNA to Diversity, Endless Forms and The Plausibility of Life. Are you familiar with any of these or other works by their authors (Sean B. Carroll, Jennifer K. Grenier, Scott D. Weatherbee, John Gerhart or Marc Kirschner)? Roland Deschain has done some good work on the article too, but it still seems woefully underdeveloped for such an important new field in evolutionary science. I´d appreciate it if you would look over it. Or perhaps you know other wikipedians who might be able to pitch in. Slrubenstein | Talk 20:56, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

Your Opiniion On Article Merge Requested - Priority: Low

Should knockout mouse be merged into and become a section of gene knockout? Answer here --Username132 (talk) 19:24, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

Category:Wikipedia categorization

Hello, you created this category. Can you add a short descritpion explaining the aim of this category ? Thank you. 16@r 11:56, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

Gosh, that was a while ago! Done. Lexor|Talk 12:40, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

Survey Invitation

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can you help me?

Hi, I know you have contributed to articles on genomics and molecular genetics. Could you go over this section of the race article and check it over for accuracy and clarity? I have been working on it a lot recently, although I did not write everything in the section. Just so you know: I happen not to believe that the lineages Cann and Wells write about = races. However, there is currently a debate among anthropologists over those who see this as a new scientific discourse on race, and those who oppose it, and I think the article needs to cover both sides. Thanks, Slrubenstein | Talk 13:50, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

New task force

You are being recruited by the Environmental Record Task Force, a collaborative project committed to accurately and consistently representing the environmental impact of policymakers, corporations, and institutions throughout the encyclopedia. Join us!

Hi Lexor,
I notice the broad range of science and popular culture edits among your extensive contributions...I am hoping you'll come by and check out the task force several editors have just started. We could really use your experience and skills. Please let me know what you think!
cheers
Cyrusc 01:46, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

TfD nomination of Template:Electronic dance music-footer

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AfD nomination of List of electronic music artists and DJs

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CfD nomination of Category:Cultural movements

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I don't understand Sir. Whatever did I do wrong? —Preceding unsigned comment added by PawtucketFacts (talk • contribs) 08:17, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

Electronic music

Hi, I see that you have written the most part of the article Electronic music, and wonders if the references in the text is covering the entire text, and if the "citation needed" really is needed in the article. I have been translating the text into swedish, and that is why I wonder if those templates really is needed. //moralist 16:43, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Can you help???

this is a wiki that I made. Can you please help me with this project?? thanks.Sternhe (talk) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sternhe (talk • contribs) 15:52, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

Can you help???

this is a wiki that I made. Can you please help me with this project?? thanks.Sternhe (talk) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sternhe (talk • contribs) 15:52, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

CfD nomination of Category:Organ systems

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AfD nomination of List of psychedelic rock artists

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Unreferenced BLPs

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AfD nomination of Happy hardcore

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MSU Interview

Dear Lexor,

My name is Jonathan Obar user:Jaobar, I'm a professor in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University and a Teaching Fellow with the Wikimedia Foundation's Education Program. This semester I've been running a little experiment at MSU, a class where we teach students about becoming Wikipedia administrators. Not a lot is known about your community, and our students (who are fascinated by wiki-culture by the way!) want to learn how you do what you do, and why you do it. A while back I proposed this idea (the class) to the communityHERE, where it was met mainly with positive feedback. Anyhow, I'd like my students to speak with a few administrators to get a sense of admin experiences, training, motivations, likes, dislikes, etc. We were wondering if you'd be interested in speaking with one of our students.

So a few things about the interviews:

• Interviews will last between 15 and 30 minutes.
• Interviews can be conducted over skype (preferred), IRC or email. (You choose the form of communication based upon your comfort level, time, etc.)
• All interviews will be completely anonymous, meaning that you (real name and/or pseudonym) will never be identified in any of our materials, unless you give the interviewer permission to do so.
• All interviews will be completely voluntary. You are under no obligation to say yes to an interview, and can say no and stop or leave the interview at any time.
• The entire interview process is being overseen by MSU's institutional review board (ethics review). This means that all questions have been approved by the university and all students have been trained how to conduct interviews ethically and properly.

Bottom line is that we really need your help, and would really appreciate the opportunity to speak with you. If interested, please send me an email at obar@msu.edu (to maintain anonymity) and I will add your name to my offline contact list. If you feel comfortable doing so, you can post your nameHERE instead.

If you have questions or concerns at any time, feel free to email me at obar@msu.edu. I will be more than happy to speak with you.

Thanks in advance for your help. We have a lot to learn from you.

Sincerely,

Jonathan Obar --Jaobar (talk) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chlopeck (talk • contribs) 03:55, 20 February 2012 (UTC)

Happy Adminship Anniversary

Wishing Lexor a very happy adminship anniversary on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Armbrust, B.Ed. ^{Let's talk}_{about my edits?} 00:31, 12 March 2012 (UTC)