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Again, welcome! It's great to have you. Happy editing!--May the Force be with you! Shreshth91($ |-| r 3 $ |-| t |-|) 14:10, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

6yd proposed for deletion

Images

• Image:1-over-x-plus-x.png
• Image:1-over-x.png

If you created these images, since they don't show any of the actual software, only a graph, you should change the copyright to a free copyright like GFDL. If you didn't create them, they will most likely have to be deleted as nonfree images that could be replaced by free images. — Carl (CBM · talk) 01:52, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

I've released them into the public domain Eraserhead1 17:02, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

Style note

Hi. I have a small style note. On Misplaced Pages, one should use lowercase in section headings, so for example,

 ==Vector defintion==

instead of

 ==Vector Definition==

This is a small thing, but I thought I'd let you know. See also the style manual. Cheers, Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 02:29, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

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Copyright information already displayed, so the tag has been removed and the bot talk page updated with the error. Eraserhead1 (talk) 12:37, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

Erp

Thanks, I was pondering over the move before, and I think it was a good idea. Thanks again.--Pecopteris (talk) 22:42, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

Unix diagramm

Please don't delete Jean-Baptiste Campesato's diagramm but create another picture. Indeed your diagramme contains some errors: Where is Unix ? Is it died in 1969? OpenSolaris is not a successor to Solaris There is no link between Minix and Linux Unics didn't exist... It was first called something like "Ken's new system" Thanks.

--See Image_talk:Unix_history-simple.svg for responses.

unix diagram

no problem :) i was sure i'd typed something into a summary box of changes i made but i can't find it now. talk page is more verbose anyways. -- infinity0 12:08, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

+689

Hello. I redirected your stub to List of country calling codes since I saw absolutely no need for this number having its own article. What would be interesting though: if you're in the know you might want to write something about the telephone system in general in French Polynesia? I guess it's French standard though. Regards, De728631 (talk) 19:06, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

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Re: Unix history + colour-blindness

Re File:Unix history-simple.svg, yes I can make out the hue and luminance differences in the new version. I cannot speak for all colorblind and color-deficient people, but I do have a very common color vision deficiency, so it's a reasonably good indication of the image's color accessibility. Thanks for taking the effort to make it more accessible. -- Brhaspati\/_contribs 01:03, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

Duplicate Unix history diagram

Why create http://en.wikipedia.org/File:Unix_history-simple.en.svg when there is already an identical file (http://en.wikipedia.org/File:Unix_history-simple.svg) which is also in Wikimedia Commons? Eraserhead1 (talk) 22:43, 2 September 2009 (UTC)

Reply at file talk:Unix history-simple.svg#Merging_various_Unix_history_diagrams. ¦ Reisio (talk) 00:11, 3 September 2009 (UTC)

Great Job on Unix history-simple.png

Just wanted to say I really love your diagram. The only fault I could find with it is that the OS X box should probably be labeled Darwin. --SelfStudyBuddy-- 16:16, 15 November 2009 (UTC)

File:1-over-x-plus-x.png listed for deletion

An image or media file that you uploaded or altered, File:1-over-x-plus-x.png, has been listed at Misplaced Pages:Files for deletion. Please see the discussion to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. JaGa 05:44, 5 December 2009 (UTC)

Your reasoning is reasonable - go ahead and delete it. Eraserhead1 (talk) 16:12, 6 December 2009 (UTC)

Succession boxes for Underground lines

I see that you have been editing LU line articles, specifically the boxes headed "London Underground's Newest Line". You might like to know of the discussion at Misplaced Pages talk:WikiProject London Transport#Succession boxes for Underground lines. --Redrose64 (talk) 14:40, 24 December 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for that :). Eraserhead1 (talk) 16:53, 24 December 2009 (UTC)

Summary deletion of new sections

EIC : Early Aspirations of Sovereignty ?

Hi eraserhead1 - Attempted to add a new section on Early Aspirations of Sovereignty in India of East India Company, under the Foothold in India Section. The entire section was summarily reversed by Fowler&Fowler - flimsy subjective grounds were given : Did the East India Company and some of its earliest Governor Generals have early aspirations of sovereignty in India ? Lets say in late 17th century ? Josia Child has been one of the earlier Governor Generals and he fought a war with Emperor Aurangzeb. He has explicitly noted his motivations for war with the Mughal emperor. Notes : Despatch Book June 9, 1686, vol 91 pp 142, 145 cited in K. N Chaudhuri, The Trading World of Asia and the English East India Company, 1600-1760 Cambridge University Press, p 454 I have given serious references, but the reference has been referred to as quote ("polemical" and "flimsy paperback" by an "anthropologist") by Fowler&fowler. In my humble opinion, this is simply ridiculous patrolling of history. Imperial Historiography, a superimposition of a distorted version of Imperial history by self assigned experts Oskanpur (talk) 15:44, 28 December 2009 (UTC)

Hey, I've answered your question on the East India Company talk page. Eraserhead1 (talk) 17:02, 28 December 2009 (UTC)

RfD nomination of External links

I have nominated External links (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) for discussion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you. — Gavia immer (talk) 19:34, 2 January 2010 (UTC)

Thanks :). Eraserhead1 (talk) 20:55, 2 January 2010 (UTC)

Re:Forced Prostitution

I removed the "sex trade" category from the Forced Prostitution article because the Forced Prostitution article is already in the category of "prostitution", which in turn is a subcategory of "sex trade". Therefore, the sex trade category is redundant, as the prostitution category already covers it. Asarelah (talk) 21:42, 10 January 2010 (UTC)

I've responded on the talk page for the article. -- Eraserhead1 <talk> 21:55, 10 January 2010 (UTC)

Hi, I got your message. I have made several changes to the Voluntary vs involuntary prostitution section from Forced prostitution. Basically, what I've done is tried to offer a clear and detailed view on the debate about whether prostitution should or should not be considered "voluntary". I've started by explaining the three classical "worldviews", abolitionism, regulation and prohibitionism (there's also a new classification of prohibitionism, abolitionism, neo-abolitionism, regulation and decriminalization, but I've used the "classical" classification). Then I went on with explaining the abolitionist point of view (that prostitution is always coerced and exploitative) and explained that such views have led to the laws from Sweden, Norway and Iceland. Then, below, I presented the pro-legalization/pro-sex workers' rights perspective (that prostitution is a free choice which should be respected) and explained that such views have led to full legalization in countries such as Germany, the Netherlands and New Zealand. I think that right now the article is much more balaced, and both "sides" are similar in size. So, if there are any problems, we can discuss them, before removing the tag. Skydeepblue (talk) 02:05, 11 January 2010 (UTC)

Great. I've posted what you wrote above on the article's talk page. I'll respond in more detail there later. -- Eraserhead1 <talk> 14:11, 11 January 2010 (UTC)

Railway Station

Hi, thanks for the message, I've been trying to clear up the article. There are definately too many photos on the page, to the point where it is splitting up the text making the page look messy and making it harder to read. I added the photo of Curzon Street station because of its historic importance as the oldest station in the world, but deleted a couple that had no historic importance or particular interest to the article. What are your thoughts? Villafanuk 16:33, 27 Jan 2010.

Sounds good. -- Eraserhead1 <talk> 18:39, 27 January 2010 (UTC)

Vandalism Reversion

Hi there, you recently undid an edit I did to the article iPad, if you had read more carefully, you would have noted that by so doing, you restored vandalism I had reverted, namely the removal of the phrase "iTampon" from the article. I don't want to gain a reputation for vandalism when I have done no such thing. Thank you.Windward1 (talk) 23:56, 27 January 2010 (UTC)

Yeah, my bad, I misread the history. -- Eraserhead1 <talk> 00:01, 28 January 2010 (UTC)

other things called iPad

Hi, i disagree with your recent reversion. The ipad article is not a disambiguation page, we should not be listing unrelated, non-notable products on it.--Terrillja _talk 19:44, 30 January 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for your message, can we discuss this on the iPad talk page? -- Eraserhead1 <talk> 22:48, 30 January 2010 (UTC)

Talk:Climatic Research Unit hacking incident

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Table

Read and feel free to comment on the project page linked to in the edit summary.Cptnono (talk) 09:28, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

Your edit summary didn't link to the right piece on that talk page ;). I've now removed the ranking from the Institute for Peace but I've left the others in place. -- Eraserhead1 <talk> 09:47, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

Sorry about that! Thanks for chiming in. There still might be a way to present it but there were to many red flags that I thought removing it would be good until sorted out.