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Hi, I saw your photos of Theaker in the commons, and corrected the caption. She was born in NZ, but lives locally. Do you have any other photos? or know of any? She is performing on Sat and Sun next at the Zummerfestival in Freidrickshafen(?) so if you know of anyone going to that, photos of that show would be very welcome. She has her own web site BTW, http://www.artyms.com. Would you mind your photos being used on it? with atribution of course.

--Prep 18:46, 30 July 2005 (UTC)

Feel free to use the pictures on the web site. All in all I made a few dozen photos of her during her stay in Linz; of course not all of them are worth being published. Anyway, if you give me some address (email, ftp, postal), I can send them to you and you can make your own selection. --NeoUrfahraner 06:21, 2 August 2005 (UTC)

Thanks, my e-mail address is prep@prep.synonet.com, drop me a message and we can go from there. Prep 18:57, 2 August 2005 (UTC)

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Prostitution in Austria

Hi NeoUrfahraner. You are off to such a great start on the article Prostitution in Austria that it may qualify to appear on Wikipedia's Main Page under the Did you know... section. Appearing on the Main Page would help bring publicity to the article. However, there is a five day from article creation window for Did you know... nominations. Before five days pass from the date the article was created, please consider nominating the article to appear on the Main Page by posting a nomination at Did you know suggestions. Again, great job on the article. -- Jreferee ^(Talk) 14:33, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

I am glad to hear this. As I understand, it is not required that I nominate the article myself - if you think it may qualify, feel free to nominate it. Since I am not a native English speaker, however, I am afraid that the language of the article is not yet good enough; maybe it would be helpful if you could make some language improvements before nominating it. Thank you, --NeoUrfahraner 15:12, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

Why is the p-value not the probability of falsely rejecting the null hypothesis?

The p-value is not the probability of falsely rejecting the null hypothesis. Why? "the p-value is the probability of obtaining a result at least as extreme as a given data point, under the null hypothesis" If a reject the null hypothesis when p is say, lower than 5%, and repeat the test for many true null hypotheses, than I will reject true null hypotheses in approx. 5% of the tests. --NeoUrfahraner (talk) 05:57, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

Maybe you're mistaking p-values with significance levels. 5% is the significance level, not the p-value. If you get a p-value of 30% and your significance level is 5%, then you don't reject the null hypothesis. 5% would then be the probability of rejecting the null hypothesis, given that the null hypothesis is true, and 30% would be the p-value. Michael Hardy (talk) 19:35, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

Revanche

I don't really mind which way round this happens - I'll add from the de-Wiki, and perhaps if you would check it afterwards to make sure I've got it right.HeartofaDog (talk) 10:26, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

OK. --NeoUrfahraner (talk) 17:09, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

OK, done - please look it over.HeartofaDog (talk) 18:38, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

Just for the records I added the translation source in the references. I removed some parts which actually did not happen in that way in the movie. I changed "Susanne says that he shouldn't do that, and shouldn't even think about doing that." to "Susanne says that he can't do that, and mustn't even think about doing that." because Susanne said this very heavily. From my understanding, the new version is more forcing, but correct me if I am wrong. Thank you. --NeoUrfahraner (talk) 07:52, 1 February 2009 (UTC)

'Left hand side of the Danube'

Hello NeoUrfahrener, When I read this remark on your User page, I was curious about it. Here in the United States, I am unaware of any habit of speech that would enable a listener to know from what vantage point the left hand side, or right hand side, was intended to be understood. Perhaps their is an upstream, or downstream habit that I have not heard about. You seem confident that the reader will understand. Is this because in Austria, or elsewhere within your experience, there is some habit of speech by which listeners would know which side was considered the left side? Do all cultures follow this convention? I took a quick whirl at trying to find out these answers elsewhere and came up empty, so I figured I'd just ask you. Thank you. Publius3 (talk) 06:04, 3 February 2010 (UTC)

Good question. I use to the convention that left and right is defined looking downstream, which is also defined in de:Orografie. I was thinking that this convention is international, but it seems that this assumption is wrong. Since the Danube in Linz is flowing from west to east, left means north and right means south, so maybe I should better change to that notation. --NeoUrfahraner (talk) 19:00, 5 February 2010 (UTC)

No need to change, I think. After reading your response, I was able to locate a few discussions in English that mentioned the left/right side convention in 'orography', -- which itself was a new word to me. It appears quite likely that

this convention is common amongst at least European/American geographers. Vielen Dank! Publius3 (talk) 05:19, 8 February 2010 (UTC)

Voestalpine

I'm so confused!

I was looking for someone who contributed to the much longer German Wikipedia article, but I didn't know who would know English. I thought I had seen your name in both histories, and I was right.

If you'll look at the article's talk page, you'll see what my problems are, sort of. Only someone who has seen the sources used for the German article would understand, and none of the English ones seem helpful.

Thanks.Vchimpanzee · talk · contributions · 19:20, 20 May 2010 (UTC)

I've had a lot more luck reaching you on your German-language talk page. Anyway, I still hope you'll take a look at what I've done, especially under "American operations". There's really a lot of confusion there. I'm ready to conclude that nothing uner that section is about the company voestalpine AG.Vchimpanzee · talk · contributions · 20:11, 8 June 2010 (UTC)

I would like those interested to look at my comments on Talk:Voestalpine and Talk:VA Tech Wabag. There are three options:

• • Leave VAI as it is now, which doesn't make sense because it is a separate company that was only 21.25 percent owned by the company the article is about.
  • Add VAI to the VA Tech Wabag article, though I haven't proved it was the biggest unit of VA Tech. I've just found more information about VAI than any of the others.
  • Start an article about VAI, though I don't really have enough information about it.Vchimpanzee · talk · contributions · 21:10, 8 September 2010 (UTC)

Soory for my late reply; I was several weeks on vacation. I agree that the best solution is an article about VAI on its own (cf. de:Siemens VAI and ru:Siemens VAI Metals Technologies. Unfortunately, I currently do not have the time to start such an article. --NeoUrfahraner (talk) 16:53, 1 October 2010 (UTC)

Thanks. I don't feel comfortable with using just the information that I have now, but it would still be a better article than the German one. And most definitely it would be better than the Russian one. Sorry I took so long to reply but I don't go back through my history that often and you responded here.Vchimpanzee · talk · contributions · 16:46, 19 October 2010 (UTC)

I did it. See what you think.Vchimpanzee · talk · contributions · 17:12, 19 October 2010 (UTC)

Again sorry for my late reply. I now checked Voest-Alpine Industrieanlagenbau and agree that it is already better than de:Siemens VAI. Thank you for your work. What is still missing is a seperate article for VA Technologie. The redirect to VA Tech Wabag is a bit misleading. From the currently available information, however, it is not so easy to extract a separate article. --NeoUrfahraner (talk) 06:20, 6 January 2011 (UTC)

Are you still around? I would like to know the sources for de:Siemens VAI because the translation of that article reads very much like what was Siemens VAI in English. Someone suggested merging the historical content of that article with Voest-Alpine Industrieanlagenbau and I did the merge but have so far found no sources.— Vchimpanzee · talk · contributions · 19:25, 8 December 2012 (UTC)

Hello Vchimpanzee. The essential part of the article was written by user User:Siemens Metals (de:User:Siemens Metals) in 2011. I guess this is some more or less official representation of the company. You could try to contact User:Siemens Metals at the user page. Unfortunately this user is not very active (the last edit was in Sept 2011 in the German and in Oct 2011 in the English Wikipedia). In addition, on the English Wikipedia User:Siemens Metals is blocked since June 2012 for reasons that are not clear to me. --NeoUrfahraner (talk) 13:03, 9 December 2012 (UTC)

My feeling on the subject is that there was some official web site that said all this, because the Voestalpine web site's history of the company is divided into similar time periods. I could tell the German article was unsourced, but I was hoping you might have some knowledge of what was going on. I don't know that contacting Siemens Metals would work, since the name is blocked for being that of a company. You can't use your company's name if you work for that company. On English Wikipedia that is considered promotion.— Vchimpanzee · talk · contributions · 21:30, 9 December 2012 (UTC)

So on the Englisch Wikipedia, companies have to use a less obvious accounts for less obvious promotion. AFAIK there is no such an easy to bypass policy in the German Wikipedia. Anyway, I saw that you already contacted de:User:Siemens Metals - maybe this will help. In addition you could try to check some brochures from the official website that might contain some further information. --NeoUrfahraner (talk) 16:05, 12 December 2012 (UTC)

No answer from this person. I may email Siemens. Even worse, some of my links no longer work.— Vchimpanzee · talk · contributions · 21:40, 17 December 2012 (UTC)

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