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Google Web Accelerator Problem

unblock-auto|1=64.233.173.85|2=To edit, please disable Google Web Accelerator for Wikipedia. Please see http://webaccelerator.google.com/support.html#preferences2 for details.

Are you haing problems disabling web accelerator? --pgk 17:21, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

No, I've disabled it. I added en.wikipedia.org to its list of disabled sites. I thought the next step was to add that unlock line to here. Let me know if there's something else I need to do. --TedPavlic 17:55, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

If it's been disabled then you should be ok to edit, it was the IP address which was blocked so disabling web accelerator fixes that. --pgk 18:27, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

Request for edit summary

When editing an article on Wikipedia there is a small field labeled "Edit summary" under the main edit-box. It looks like this:

The text written here will appear on the Recent changes page, in the page revision history, on the diff page, and in the watchlists of users who are watching that article. See m:Help:Edit summary for full information on this feature.

Filling in the edit summary field greatly helps your fellow contributors in understanding what you changed, so please always fill in the edit summary field, especially for big edits or when you are making subtle but important changes, like changing dates or numbers. Thank you. – Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 03:04, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

Redirects

Hi. Just a note. Creating redirects of the form Ordinary Differential equation (mixed capitals) is in the long term not so helpful. If you type that in the search box the software is smart enough to figure out the correct capitals for you and direct you to the appropriate article even if the above is a redlink. On the other hand, having the above mixed capitalization link would I think encourage typos in articles (if you type the above and see it is red, you may think you did something wrong and may fix it, if you see it blue, you may think all is fine and leave it that way).

You can reply here if you have comments. Cheers, Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 18:44, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

I understand your concern; however, I create these entries to aid Mozilla Firefox and Camino users who define smart search bookmarks to get to Wikipedia pages. For example, when I type wikiped (string) into the URL box of either of these browsers, because of a quick search setup in the bookmarks, I am taken to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/(string). Unfortunately, if the capitalization is not correct, I am taken to the "Edit this page" page rather than the "Search" page that does the search for me. It's true that I can click the "Search for ..." link directly, and I often do, but this one extra click gets frustrating after a while. It's especially frustrating because WikiWords force the first letter to be capitalized, so that letter in the quick search gets capitalized automatically while the first letter of the second word retains its quick search case. Personally, I think that the WikiMedia software could be made user-friendly in this respect. It makes looking things up quickly much more convenient. Does that make sense? Am I the first person to use Wikipedia as a Mozilla quick search? I would be happy if instead of being taken to the "Edit this page" page, I was taken to the same page that results from clicking the "Go" in theOrdinary Differential equation search box on the left of the page. --TedPavlic 19:02, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

Additionally, I would argue that creating these entries prevents others from creating duplicate entries that simply have different case. I'm sure there are SOME stubs out there that are simply the result of people creating pages that they thought didn't exist. --TedPavlic 19:02, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

I think you are correct if you talk about links of the form Ordinary Differential Equation, but I would doubt your reasoning for links of the form Ordinary Differential equation. Given a link made up of three words as above, there are 8 possible choices of uppercase/lower case for the first letter, and adding one more word doubles the number of cases (and except for one or two, all those combinations are not grammatically correct) . While I understand your reasoning, I'd still think that doing all possible combinations of upper/lower case in the long turn would not provide gain, perhaps even the other way around. But there is room for disagreement. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 21:31, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

I'll give it more thought. For now, I'll just stick to whatever case is necessary for a Firefox quick search to return the correct thing provided all lowercase was used in the quick search. I think that should work, right? Thanks. --TedPavlic 16:07, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

OK. Cheers, Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 23:37, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

"lilliopsida"

I don't remember the specific circumstances, but it's usually helpful to have redirects for the most common misspellings are alternate spellings - not unknown for someone to see a red link and create a duplicate article. Higher-level taxa in plant taxoboxes is an unsettled situation right now, I wouldn't expend too much brainpower on it. When we come to a decision, we'll probably mass-change boxes with a bot. Stan 23:12, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

apes

There are 7 species of great apes: 2 are gorillas, 2 are chimpanzees, 2 are orangutans, 1 is human. If we are going to note that there are two different species of chimps, we should do the same for gorillas and orangutans. But that's overly pedantic. This line isn't the place to show there are two species of chimps. - UtherSRG (talk) 15:28, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

Image:ColumbusOH.gif

Hello, TedPavlic. An automated process has found and removed an image or media file tagged as nonfree media, and thus is being used under fair use that was in your userspace. The image (Image:ColumbusOH.gif) was found at the following location: User:TedPavlic. This image or media was attempted to be removed per criterion number 9 of our non-free content policy. The image or media was replaced with Image:NonFreeImageRemoved.svg , so your formatting of your userpage should be fine. Please find a free image or media to replace it with, and or remove the image from your userspace. User:Gnome (Bot)-talk 22:39, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

Limit superior and limit inferior

Hi. I left a comment at Talk:Limit superior and limit inferior#Recent shape of this article. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 12:15, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

I have acted as you wish. The changes have been made to the article. I have added to the discussion. I have also responded on your talk page. --TedPavlic 13:52, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

I replied there too. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 18:32, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

Your move on Dormand-Prince

I noticed you moved the Dormand–Prince to Dormand-Prince. This is wrong with regard to WP:DASH, where the Michelson–Morley experiment is the example. Dormand and Prince are two persons, thus Dormand–Prince should have an "en dash", not a hyphen. Would you please revert your move unless you disagree? --Berland (talk) 19:57, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

I was using the style guidelines from The Chicago Manual of Style. Now that I see that Wikipedia has its own bizarre style, I suppose I'm forced to agree. There's no argument. There's WP and there's the rest of the world. So I guess I must change things back. How silly. Thanks for pointing out WP's strange choices. Wisdom of the crowd! --TedPavlic | talk 20:40, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for reverting. Just as a sidenote, I am accustomed to using the en-dash for these cases in publications, so for me the hyphen is just as bizarre (though I see it a lot). However, I am plainly following Wikipedia conventions on this issue. --Berland (talk) 21:15, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

Transistor circuits

Hi Ted. Thanks for your work on the various transistor amplifier articles. User:Brews_ohare and myself spent some time working on them last year, but there's still a lot to be done. If you feel inclined, check out some of the discussions/ideas we posted on the various talk pages. I'd love to see, and help, these articles become more substantial. -Roger (talk) 16:16, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

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Wikiproject Electronics collaboration

Hi, I am writing to you because you have listed yourself as a member of the Electronics WikiProject. Sadly, this project is pretty dead, but I propose to resuscitate it with a collaboration. The idea is to have a concerted effort on improving one article per month, hopefully to GA or FA status and nominate the very best of them for the front page. I have prepared a page to control this process at Wikipedia:WikiProject Electronics/Collaboration (actually, I mostly shamelessly stole it from Wikipedia:WikiProject Mammals where a collaboration of this sort was succesfully run). There you can make nominations for articles for collaboration or comment on the nominations of others.

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Thanks for listening, SpinningSpark 17:47, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

PS, I know you work on the project page so have probably got it watchlisted and have seen what I am doing, but have the standard message anyway!SpinningSpark 17:47, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

Changes made by SmackBot

Hi, thanks for your message, SmackBot makes a number of changes that are available to all WP:AWB bots - in general these provide a number of non-controversial minor improvements.

The issue you raise is related to these, and has been discussed in the past. The present arrangement is the result of consensus.

MoS says: "Use the simplest markup to display information in a useful and comprehensible way. Markup may appear differently in different browsers. Use HTML and CSS markup sparingly and only with good reason. Minimizing markup in entries allows easier editing."

YOu can of course bring this up at WP:AWB if yu think it worth-while - a change in AWB has more effect than simply changing SB's behaviour

Regards, Rich Farmbrough, 15:47 27 November 2008 (UTC).

Nonlinear observability

Thanks for the explanations in lyap theory based control. Can you write something about nonlinar observability ??? Thanks مبتدئ (talk) 01:58, 28 November 2008 (UTC)

Can you be more specific? Is there a particular page that you think needs work? Can you provide some suggestions or some questions that you're having? Nonlinear observability and nonlinear observers/estimators are in principle no different than their linear counterparts; however, you have to use nonlinear methods to guarantee convergence to the desired state vector. There are lots of directions we can go in from here. For example, researchers are now experimenting with using variable structure controlled observers (in particular, sliding mode controlled observers) so that the state vector can be estimated very quickly (in particular, in FINITE TIME) even in the presence of uncertainty. That's a nice property. Give me a few more specifics on what (and where) should be improved, and I can see what I can do. —TedPavlic | (talk) 23:56, 29 December 2008 (UTC)

Hi Ted, Thanks for your detailed response in my discussion page (i will need to read again attentively in order to be able to discuss!!). Concerning the Nonlinear observability: I was thinking about the equivalent stuff to formulas in the linear case like a system is observable if [C,CA,CA^2,...CA^n] has full rank or the extension of the concept to nonlinear systems (like flatness which extends the concept of controllability). If i m not wrong there are also a lot of specific jargon for nonlinear observability (local observability, the use of lie derivatives, uniform observability, the observability space,etc...). All this is not existant in the article Observability. I thought that may be an expert can give more information about that!?

What you wrote about observer is also very interesting (i think this is an advanced topic). May be a new article for that (called nonlinear observer) will be the best solution. I ll be grateful if you gave any information about any of both topics!!!! Best Regards! مبتدئ (talk) 23:06, 30 December 2008 (UTC)

Sliding mode improvements

"In February, you made comments on the sliding mode control article. Have the recent major changes addressed your concerns? If not, could you add to the talk page with some suggestions? Thanks! —TedPavlic | (talk) 18:33, 29 November 2008 (UTC)"

Ted,

Thanks for your concerns. After re-reading the article introduction, I still feel the same way. It's missing a key phrase at the beginning, something like: "Sliding mode is a technique to (do something or other, to solve a particular problem) which is otherwise hard to do because (reason it's hard to do). It is used in (how it's used)...". Having said that, let me say that its perfectly OK for you to just dismiss me as an uninitiated person, and say that the article is intended for people who already have some understanding in the field.

Thanks,

D'de Davide Andrea (talk) 16:50, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

Muttator promotion

Please stop inserting inappropriate promotional material into the Mutt (e-mail client) article. WP:SEEALSO states that redlinks do not belong in "See also" sections. WP:EL states that external links should be provided sparingly, and that promotion of external resources should be avoided. I'm planning on reverting these changes; please do not continue to add such material to other articles. Chris Cunningham (not at work) - talk 17:20, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

Do you approve the move to external link? Muttator is certainly related in a significant way to mutt. —TedPavlic | (talk) 17:23, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

"In a significant way" would require that a significant number of reliable secondary sources had covered the software in question. I don't believe that this is currently the case. Certainly a lot of software is inspired by mutt, but that doesn't make it appropriate to add to the links section. Chris Cunningham (not at work) - talk 17:45, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

You're the boss. It's removed. —TedPavlic | (talk) 19:00, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for understanding. Chris Cunningham (not at work) - talk 21:33, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

Spaces before infoboxes

No, I don't believe we should add spaces (as either wikitext blank lines, or HTML empty elements). A better solution in terms of both semantics and presentation is to change the CSS of the infobox's container, so that the margin-top property is larger. That has better behaviour when rendered, related to the "collapsing margins" behaviour of CSS.

This is an easy change, but I imagine the legwork of changing a widely used setting like this (probably inherited into every infobox) is impractical in the wikiverse.

I'd agree that 'bots are becoming a pain though. Especially that damned Lightbot. 8-( Andy Dingley (talk) 22:58, 29 December 2008 (UTC)

Editing

Try to use preview or userpages to make edits in "one-go". Less edit history that way and less database load aswell. Good work otherwise. Electron9 (talk) 16:10, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

Less database load? REALLY? I know that Wikipedia historically uses RCS as its behind-the-scenes SCM, but I don't think RCS was bogged down too much by extra changesets. It's good SCM policy to package a few small related changes within one changeset. Among other things, it makes reversions easier and more manageable. People who contribute to other major open-source projects (e.g., Linux, git, etc.) get exactly the opposite advice. Certainly those projects have different SCM priorities, but it's still interesting that Wikipedia editors would be given such totally different advice. Plus, because it's usually convenient to make edits to Wikipedia one section-at-a-time (with the section edit button), it's easy to make several edits to one page in a sitting, and I was given the impression that that was encouraged. I've recently modified the page on using external editors with Wikipedia so that the Vim section includes the ability to fold based on section... That should make it easier to avoid section-by-section commits. —TedPavlic (talk) 16:17, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

It was not the intention to offend. It's just easier to compare one edit than many edits. Electron9 (talk) 20:16, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

Do you use Wikipedia:Twinkle? If so, you can click the "since mine" tab and see a diff comparing your previous edit with the current edit that you're looking at. It's much easier. It "squashes" all intermediate diffs into one. Thanks. (and sorry for the bother) —TedPavlic (talk) 20:28, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

Changes made by SmackBot (self link removal)

Hi, thanks for your message, SmackBot makes a number of changes that are available to all WP:AWB bots - in general these provide a number of non-controversial minor improvements.

The issue you raise is related to these, it is an issue known to the developers of WP:AWB.
Regards, Rich Farmbrough, 04:31 29 January 2009 (UTC).

Thanks for your response. I've re-posted my concerns at the AWB talk page. —TedPavlic (talk) 13:39, 29 January 2009 (UTC)

Ohio meetup

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Flip-flop, set–reset, and hyphenation

I'm responding to a question you posed in an edit summary to Flip-flop (electronics). My own thoughts are that flip-flop should be hyphenated since it it a single term: referring to a flip or a flop by themselves does not make any sense in this context, and there is no difference to countless other hyphenated terms. Set–reset is slightly more troublesome. I would tend to agree an en dash is preferred but you could argue that since set–reset is a self contained phrase it is more appropriate to use a hyphen. I'm easy either way on that way provided usage is consistent. Flip-flop seems pretty clear cut in favour of hyphenation to me. CrispMuncher (talk) 17:43, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

Referencing the history section of the flip–flop page, it seems like the name is referring to a "flip–flop sound" (i.e., a sound that consists of a "flip" and then a "flop"). So it seems reasonable to me to use the en dash instead of the hyphen. I just don't like the hyphen because "flip" has nothing to do with "flop." It would be one thing if there were several types of "flop", and this type of "flop" was a "flip flop", and so this type of device was a "flip-flop device," but that's not the case. Of course, by that logic, the ball used in table tennis should be called a "ping–pong ball, but most references I've found drop the dash entirely. —TedPavlic (talk) 22:10, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

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Wikipedia_talk:Linking#RfC: self-links to conform to title reiteration style

I will probably be accused of Forum Shopping, but an opponent to my suggestion for using self-links for the bold reiteration of an article title gave a link to a previous discussion, where you suggested and gave a great comment on this, which I've quoted in the RfC discussion. There are about 3 weeks left to run on the RfC, with a dozen against, but one slightly shifting position on the principle, but not the practicality. I was hoping that you might give some critique of my essay on this, and perhaps give an appraisal of the proposal on the RfC - although it seems doomed to failure, but I live in hope!

The MoS is going beyond it's competence - I think - to dictate use of mark-up, also beyond the competence of it's regular contributors. Perhaps you would like to work with me on a proposal to change Policy to that effect? HarryAlffa (talk) 10:55, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

I think you may need to let this dead dog lie. The proposal was rejected, partly due to people not really understanding the issue, but that's just what you get with Wikipedia. The Wikipedia project gives lay people much more input than they would on any other formally published work, and for that editors should be grateful. Unfortunately, the democracy that underlies the organizational structure of Wikipedia means that sometimes good arguments (like good politicians) lose. It's best to move on.

Additionally, I've had a chance to give it a little more thought, and I'm not sure the issue is quite so black and white. For example, there is an argument that alternate forms of the same title should be bolded, but they certainly shouldn't be linked. It would be a pain to use the same Wikilink with different alternate text over and over again.

Really, I think the policy should be revised so that it just doesn't sound like, "Uh, bold seems better even though it's more characters to type for the same effect, and it's inconsistent with Wikimedia convention," but I don't think it matters that much in the end. —TedPavlic (talk) 13:17, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

As you say, people don't really understand it, "an abuse of wiki-syntax", was one comment! It's just that the MoS actively discourages this use (giving thin reason!) which I think is a bit daft, although sometimes it would be a bit of a pain repeating a piped link two or three times - but you could always just bold it! Anyway, swings and roundabouts! The advantages of Wikipedia outweight the disadvantages. It's a pleasure to interact with someone with a clear, analytical, intelligence - there's very few of us here! :) HarryAlffa (talk) 20:27, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

Restoring some references sections

I can't say I agree with changing all sections containing general references into "Further reading." This is problematic on many levels. The first of which is, of course, that the Manual of Style does have guidance on making sections containing general references: see Wikipedia:Citing_sources#General_reference. The template documentation for {{Refbegin}}, which I note that you have made extensive use of, also explains how to include general references in an article in a harmonious way. I should add that I disapprove of this particular template because it needlessly decreases the font size, creating potential accessibility issues for some readers. Secondly, if an article is written from sources, then those sources should be designated as references rather than merely "Further reading". Granted, in longer articles, there is a point at which it may be necessary to include inline citations. But for most short articles, a few general references are ordinarily sufficient. For these reasons, I am restoring the mistakenly retitled "References" sections on some of the articles that you have visited recently. Sławomir Biały (talk) 22:14, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

I'm sorry you feel that way, but the changes I've made do not come without precedence. They are the conventional way of dealing with inadequacies in MediaWiki's reference engine. Some things I'd like you to consider:

1. There's no need to throw out your civility on a talk page.
2. Something isn't a reference unless you refer to it explicitly in the document. A reader shouldn't be expected to search for a needle in a haystack when looking for verification.
3. The recommended {{reflist}} template uses the smaller font. {{refbegin}} and {{refend}} make other lists look consistent with ref lists.
4. (**) What happens when someone has explicit reference bullets shown and then later adds a or a {{reflist}}? The resulting list may be inconsistent (e.g., numbers in one part and bullets in another or different fonts in the different lists). Additionally, the resulting list will necessarily be out of order – the section will be ordered by appearance and the other section might be ordered, for example, alphabetically.

Ideally, we would like to have an Inline references (and notes) section and a References section and a Further reading section. It would be even better if MediaWiki's </nowiki>

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Hi. You may be interested in participating in the African Destubathon which starts on October 15. Africa currently has over 37,000 stubs and badly needs a quality improvement editathon/contest to flesh out basic stubs. There are proposed substantial prizes to give to editors who do the most geography, wildlife and women articles, and planned smaller prizes for doing to most destubs for each of the 55 African countries, so should be enjoyable! Even if contests aren't your thing we would be grateful if you could consider destubbing a few African wildlife articles during the drive to help the cause and help reduce the massive 37,000 + stub count, of which many are rated high importance. If you're interested in competing or just loosely contributing any article related to a topic you often work on, please add your name to the Contestants/participants section. Might be a good way to work on fleshing out articles you've long been meaning to target and get rewarded for it! Diversity of work from a lot of people will make this that bit more special. Thanks. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 04:58, 13 October 2016 (UTC)

Discussion at Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Notmuch

You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Notmuch. zazpot (talk) 19:02, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

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Invitation to take a look at our first article

Hi!

We are students writing an article on Colors of Biotechnology as part of our class Academic Discourse and Writing at Tec de Monterrey. Since you are an experienced Wikipedian and have interest in these kind of topics, we would like you to know if you could take a few moments to take a look at the article and give us feedback. Thank you for your time. --Nahomi Alonso (talk) 21:16, 23 March 2017 (UTC)

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