User talk:Turgidson

Joan Birman

Please clarify why you removed Category: Barnard College alumni. It seems that there is support for this cat in the article. You can respond on the article TalkPage if you like. Thanks. Semper Fi! FieldMarine (talk) 12:35, 13 February 2018 (UTC)

Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2019!

Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2019!

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Akane Yamaguchi

Hello. Help copy edit and improvements for article. Thanks you. 58.187.77.36 (talk) 09:48, 11 June 2019 (UTC)

Macaulay2

Thanks for voicing an opinion on the Macaulay2/Macaulay merge, and thanks for adding the sentence about packages. I moved that sentence up to the top section, where it seemed to go better than in History, and wrote the wrong thing in the edit summary ('contributors' should be 'packages). David Eisenbud I think should go under history, since he wasn't originally listed as a main developer, but now is. Anyway, I hope you aren't offended that I moved your sentence (or confused by my summary). I'm certainly not trying to violate [WP:OWN], and it goes without saying that you should make any other changes that you think are appropriate.

Related to the same article, do you think it was correct to upgrade the article rating to Start? (I'm not sure what the etiquette is for articles covered by a project with no formal rating policy.) Russ Woodroofe (talk) 15:28, 8 October 2019 (UTC)

• No problem, it looks better this way! I think the rating of "Start" seems appropriate now, though I'm not sure what the formal rating procedure is, either. I would also argue that the M2 article should be of mid-level importance, rather than low-level importance, as it is presently rated. But the case for such a rating may have to be enhanced further, e.g., by highlighting the sheer number of associated packages and contributors, the (relatively) large number of users, the continued NSF support, and the significant number of publications that quote M2 as an indispensable research/computational tool in the area. Turgidson (talk) 15:39, 8 October 2019 (UTC)

Last questions

I do not know what it means to be an admin, and what it means to be a volunteer, but I went through hell to get someone to repair the damage on my biography page -- which was made by some troll whom they blocked 18 months ago, and who had an agenda against me, raising phony doubts. They simply went on in his track, pretended "verification" and "self-promotion", but would not make any search, leaving the page as it looked, damaged. I had to get really angry to get to talk to some halfways mature people: they did the repair, but of course, like in police, covered their younger colleagues. Briefly -- I remained quite disapointed of this environment, so I wanted to ask you: who is allowed to do what, and is there no practical way to get in touch directly with a mature and responsible person, when all kind of button-players seem to miss the point, but enjoy sending you to read all of the unrelated policies? Briefly: is there some escalation line, help line or similar, how does one get competent attitude, in this world? I would be grateful for some simple hints. Thanks!

PMPredaMi (talk) 20:49, 22 January 2020 (UTC) (Continuation of : Hello, Mr Turgidson,

I contact you since I have seen you are one of the last having done something on my Wiki page, which has been totally messed up. I do not know who is responsible for the vandalism, nore when this vandalism happened, since I do not visit often my own Wiki page; I do not even know if there is anyone responsible, and I would like indeed to know. I wish my page to be restaured to its normal state which it has since 15 years, and vandalism be blocked somehow. Or if nobody is responsible for blocking vandalism, let me know.

Hoping you can help me find an answer, I thank you in advance

Preda Mihailescu — Preceding unsigned comment added by PredaMi (talk • contribs) 21:35, 13 January 2020 (UTC)

Hi again -- Sorry, I do not know how to let you know I talk to you, other than writing here. My page was a normal functional one, with a picture and normal text, for 15 years. Now someone signaled me, it is a wreck -- and I see that there was a troll Skywalker or so, who boycotted it, and he was then removed, but the page was never restored. What the huck of an organisation is this. When it come to censoring a contribution which says things someone does not love to hear, Wiki immediately reacts. But when it comes to restore after vandalism, nobody around... Is it not possible to restore back to the FUNCTIONING condition before Skywalker jumped it? I talked to you, since my gut feeling was right -- at least you are a mathematician, I do not know what function you have here or so. So if your are not the right person, do not take it wrong - I simply want my personal page restored in a decent condition, how it has been around for 15 years. No restore facility around? Or did he succeed to destroy the backlog file?

Happy you liked the Catalan talk -- you should come to China, there I give in March talks on recent work :-) — Preceding unsigned comment added by PredaMi (talk • contribs) 20:06, 14 January 2020 (UTC) )

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Wiki portal

Hello Turgidson, can you please update the Portal:Romania section. There are some articles in there which are not related to Romania. Make it similar like Portal:Italy. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 5.15.89.44 (talk) 11:12, 29 May 2020 (UTC)

Please upgrade that section see — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:2F08:46FF:FFFF:0:0:50F:E349 (talk) 23:38, 7 June 2020 (UTC)

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Hi! Go on, mate, and remove all of his irrendentist material from all the Romanian towns! Romania was not in the Kingdom of Hungary, but in the Habsburg Empire. Except some years. Kiengir is out from Wikipedia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:2F09:3712:3800:EDFE:8205:CA51:4457 (talk) 17:24, 7 April 2021 (UTC)

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AFAIK you're not an admin, you should move your comments to the appropriate section.Anonimu (talk) 20:37, 13 April 2022 (UTC)

Hi Turgidson. You suppose to bring some diffs to prove your assertions on AE. Without them, no one will pay attention, or even worse, your comments may be interpreted as an WP:NPA problem. My very best wishes (talk) 23:33, 13 April 2022 (UTC)

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Hi! But I didn't see any medal. It's ok, just hoping the users will replace photos of 2007 with some newer. Many have changed. .karellian-24 (talk) 20:46, 1 January 2023 (UTC)

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@SunDawn: Thanks for the kind note. Much appreciated. Turgidson (talk) 13:53, 3 February 2023 (UTC)

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Why colon?

Hi. I noticed that you changed a few <math>f: X \to Y</math> to <math>f\colon X \to Y</math>. There does not seem to be any point in doing so. Can you explain your reasoning here? PatrickR2 (talk) 03:22, 27 September 2023 (UTC)

I always use \colon (in latex, or in math mode on wikipedia) to denote functions such as $f\colon X\to Y.$ The reason is that this provides the "right" amount of spacing between the function f and the domain X (i.e., a tiny bit closer to f than to X), as opposed to the usual : used in normal punctuation, or sometimes in math mode, as in a set delimiter, such as $\{x\in \mathbb {R} :x>0\}$, where : (or the alternative, \mid) uses equal spacing on both sides. I hope this answers your question, but if need be, I can try to dig out a reference where this is explained (I'm sure I learned this tex rule a long time ago from a good source, but I forget right now which one). Turgidson (talk) 03:34, 27 September 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for the explanation. I have to admit that I never paid attention to this difference between $f:X\to Y$ and $f\colon X\to Y$. I see now that there is one, but it never bothered me before and still doesn't. I would venture that the number of people bothered by the first version here is an extremely small minority. It does not seem enough to merit these edits, in my opinion. But I see where you are coming from. PatrickR2 (talk) 05:03, 28 September 2023 (UTC)

And actually it could even be debatable which version is "better". PatrickR2 (talk) 05:06, 28 September 2023 (UTC)

This is the format recommended by the American Mathematical Society, according to their Short Math Guide for LATEX (page 12): "Note 1. The : by itself produces a colon with class-3 (relation) spacing. The command \colon produces special spacing for use in constructions such as $f\colon A\to B.$" Turgidson (talk) 11:30, 28 September 2023 (UTC)

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Romania location

Hello, can you help us revert the changes made to Romania's geographical position which indicate the crossroads version including the given sources, the account that kept charging was banned for sockpuppetry

Thank you Andymxm (talk) 13:29, 7 January 2024 (UTC)

• OK, thanks for letting me know. Turgidson (talk) 14:13, 7 January 2024 (UTC)

Gas field articles

Thanks for your work on these!

FYI, I have made a summary list of articles and their proposed deletion status at User:A. B./Sandbox2. --A. B. ^{(talk • contribs • global count)} 05:42, 25 January 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for the words of encouragement; I can certainly use some in the face of the relentless deletion juggernaut I am confronted with, one that can never be satisfied, no matter how many pertinent facts and references I adduce. And that's not an easy task, given the rather esoteric nature of the subject, and also because I do not have an infinite amount of time to deal with this. Turgidson (talk) 05:50, 25 January 2024 (UTC)

If you're satisfied with the references, just remove the proposed deletion tag. See WP:PROD#Objecting. At that point, deletion can only occur at AfD where other editors can evaluate your sources.

Also, a few days ago, I added some references to the bottom of List of natural gas fields in Romania - perhaps they can help some of these fields. --A. B. ^{(talk • contribs • global count)} 05:57, 25 January 2024 (UTC)

OK, thanks for the advice. I will look at those added references, but not right now, I'm out of gas. :-) Turgidson (talk) 06:12, 25 January 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for all the work you've done!

I've updated User:A. B./Sandbox2 to reflect the latest changes including recent additional proposed deletions. --A. B. ^{(talk • contribs • global count)} 07:39, 30 January 2024 (UTC)

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Thanks for creating this article, which I've reviewed, as the sources you've added seem fine to me. I was sorry to see from the above that you've been having deletion problems - it seems to be the flavour of the times, unfortunately. Nil carborundum.

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Thank you very much for the kind words. OK, keep on truckin'. Turgidson (talk) 14:59, 26 January 2024 (UTC)

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