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| Key Kevin, ] page is getting long. I gather it requires admin power to archive (because it's a page move?). If it's not too much trouble could I ask you to do this? If you're busy I have a short list of other folks I can ask... Cheers, ] 05:18, 16 February 2006 (UTC) | Key Kevin, ] page is getting long. I gather it requires admin power to archive (because it's a page move?). If it's not too much trouble could I ask you to do this? If you're busy I have a short list of other folks I can ask... Cheers, ] 05:18, 16 February 2006 (UTC) | ||
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| do you know how to read? then do it below. i've made my point very clear many times beyond what you can read below; and the last time i did not "revert" (how horrible!) but rather eliminated the problem with a new, neutral formulation. it's the others who are truly being obnoxious on top of being wrong and insisting in peddling misleading "scholastic" garbage. | |||
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| wrong and short is not sufficient. it's simply wrong. darwin is talking about the case in which the stuff is heritable because he cares about evolution by natural selection. however the definition of natural selection has nothing to do what darwin thinks about how evolution by natural selection takes place. ever taken a logic class? furthermore i) in evolutionary biology this distinction is crucial, standard, and widely exploited when measuring natural selection in the wild; and ii) this distinction is also crucial to avoid that people mix up the two things and come with all kind of messes when thinking "conceptually" about selection. finally don't you know that the fitness-wise most important phenotypic variation is either genetic but not heritable in the narrow sense or is not genetic at all? Marcosantezana 22:53, 18 February 2006 (UTC) | |||
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Archive 1 (my creation - December 6, 2005)
complaint
I have a complaint to make. I've submitted several relevant links for UCI students. One, being UCI Housing and the other Off-Campus Housing (presently removed) which points to a community website that is completely free and has been mentioned by CSUF's newspaper as a great resource for students. Furthermore, I have read your spam page on the guidelines of posting links, and I feel that due to the fact that my link points to relevant information and has non-promotional language, I should be allowed to post my link. Many people are thankful that I have created iHomeConnect as way of helping people find housing. When people like you remove quality links like mine, you are restricting the exchange of information and taking the power out of the hands of the people and giving more power to corporate entities. Please stop removing my link, or I will seek legal action against those who continue to deprive Misplaced Pages users of relevant information by removing my contributions. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.24.130.247 (talk • contribs)
bulgarian solitaire
Hi kzollman. Thanks for your comments. I'll dig out the ref and source it. And while I'm writing, could you check out Varma Division please? The article seems to be OK, but I cannot find a single reference to it anywhere, either Google, or any of the several online literature searches our library provides. I have half a mind to VfD it, but what do you think?
best wishes, Robinh 22:20, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
Secretary for Commonwealth Relations
First point - please don't leave me form comments on my talk page. I am not a new user, and it's a bit patronizing. Second point, the list of Secretaries of State for Commonwealth Relations comes straight from the FCO website - here. It can be verified from numerous other printed sources, however. john k 03:11, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
It's okay, I seem to feel patronized fairly frequently. Glad to be able to provide the citation - that one turned out to be an easy one. There's some articles I've done where it would be harder to find the citation. john k 05:18, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
Bjerknes (lunar crater)
- Ages ago, you wrote Bjerknes (lunar crater). I've been doing the ol' random page browsing and I stumbled on it. You don't happen to remember your references for it, do you? If you do, it would be great if you could add them. Thanks! --best, kevin 18:22, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
The table to the upper right of the Bjerknes (lunar crater) has a row labelled "References". That link points to the page containing the references (and external links) I used. I didn't see the point of listing the same dozen or so references on all 1600+ crater pages. Is that not satisfactory? If not then I guess I'll have to build a reference template for all the lunar crater pages. Thanks. — RJH 18:46, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
- I've built a template that I'll start using, which should address all these issues. It'll take me a few weeks to finish adding it to all the crater pages. — RJH 19:00, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
American Soccer League
Let me echo this request for American Soccer League. Thanks! --best, kevin 03:04, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
- Kevin, sorry to say, but my source for the above article was also the American soccer history archives, which is already listed. Chris Edgemon 20:06, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
Maintained
Whups, I'll go read the fine manual! Cheers, Pete.Hurd 18:37, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
- Hey Kevin, I was just admiring the most recent anon edits to Game theory, and thought it might be time to take a first peek to compare the number of constructive/non-constructive anon/non-anon edits to articles, Counting from the time since they had maintained templates put on them, versus the equivalent time before the templates... It's probably too early for the data to be convincing, but my gut feeling is that there's no dissuasion effect. -Cheers, Pete.Hurd 16:56, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
- Sorry, I meant that I don't think anon IPs (or anyone else) would be dissuaded from making useful contributions by the template. This would be evidence against the 'ownership' argument I hear that suggests that the template acts as some sort of territorial urine tag which will act to dissuade constructive editorial contributions. Pete.Hurd 18:54, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
Conspiracy (civil)
I am way out of date on this fast-moving commercial field but have done my best to add some more detailed material and some reference material. David91 09:18, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
Re: Welcome, signing.
I appreciate the welcome and the tip. I was wondering how to sign my name.
Thanks again, and I hope you have a good...whatever you celebrate. :)
--DodgerOfZion 23:45, 24 December 2005 (UTC)
Can you....
Can you monitor both articles ? I'll find the two Users who may start one by accident. Told them that this is a encyclopedia, NOT a means to prove or disprove that aliens are around. Martial Law 09:08, 25 December 2005 (UTC)
== can you helis there a Adult Swim page?
Hi Kevin, thanks very much for the welcome message. I'm hoping to have a crack at the Prisoner's Dilemma article as soon as I get some time, to add some information about evolutionary models, tag-based cooperation and spatial models.
Cheers, Mike
WikiProject Game Theory
Thanks for the welcome. I've taken some classes on game theory (including a Combinatorial game theory class by Elwyn Berlekamp :) It's been a while but I'll dig out my reference books. —Quarl 2006-01-07 22:22Z
Hi!
Hi Kevin, thanks for the wonderfully nice comment on my talk, I was really pissed off, and was serious about leaving, but really I had just forgotten how many nice people like you there are around! Martin 21:57, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
Holidays & Mainpage
Hey Kevin, holidays... in the words of George Bernard Shaw:
- "I am sorry to have to introduce the subject of Christmas. It is an indecent subject; a cruel, gluttonous subject; a drunken, disorderly subject; a wasteful, disastrous subject; a wicked, cadging, lying filthy, blasphemous and demoralizing subject. Christmas is forced on a reluctant and disgusted nation by the shopkeepers and the press: on its own merits it would wither and shrivel in the fiery breath of universal hatred; and anyone who looked back to it would be turned into a pillar of greasy sausages."
anyway, wretched holidays over (don't suppose we can get Bill O'Reilly to put a stop to all that commercialization of christmass and have it turn back into an obscure little withered birthday appendix of a solstice holiday that we can then all ignore) and the crazy season of term has started. So far so good ... mind you last term wound up with me losing my temper at a colleague I collaborate with. He claims to have sustained a concussion when his head hit the floor after I choked him unconscious. I bought his wife chocolate and alcohol to appologize for the incident... It's spelled "academia" but it's pronounced "academentia". In any case, I put some comments on the brief summary for the main page where you have probably already noticed them. Best regards, Pete.Hurd 07:37, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
Re:University of California, Irvine project
That's an interesting project. Misplaced Pages community definetly appreciates such interesting projects - kudos to both prof. Jeffrey Barrett, you and all others involved in this. Based on what I have seen in the past, I am sure the results will be impressive.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 00:39, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
mop and bucket
I have just been presented with a mop and bucket. Thanks for your kind comments and support. Looking forward to working with you in the future. Banno 03:20, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
Game Theory - inserted text?
The otherwise-excellent piece on 'Game Theory' appears to begin with an inserted 'joke' paragraph which is not available in editing mode (13/1/06 at 23.14 GMT). Strange?
- Thanks for the complement. Some inserted the joke paragraph at, but it was removed 3 minutes later. I presume that you saw this joke paragraph, but by the time you went to edit it it was removed from the article. Again thanks! --best, kevin 01:23, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
Vandalism rates
I havn't checked (obviously) but I'd be interested to know whether that rate of vandalism is typical of frontpage links, and I'd be keen to be pointed to any WP discussion forums on how better to deal with such things. Pete.Hurd 19:06, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
Game Theory project
Thanks for the pointer, I added my name to the list and will try to write something up soon. radek 21:53, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
Problems with Raul
I assume that you are the anonymous user who previously debated with Raul about three additions to this article. Let me begin by appologizing for Raul's terseness, there are lots of people who wish wikipedia ill and dealing with them can make people unpleasant. May I also suggest, humbly, that you try to turn the other cheek and try not to be so confrontational. This may go very far to encouraging active dialog. I agree with your regarding two of the three additions, and I have added my comments to Talk:List of famous experiments. I have invited Raul to engage in a discussion amongst the three of us regarding the appropriate status for those three contributions. Will you please contribute? Thank you and welcome to wikipedia! --best, kevin 23:28, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
Response: This Raul person deleted my additions with spurious reasons, and his statements were consistently insulting, right from the start. I would not describe Mr. Raul's statements as "debate". He just writes that I don't "comprehend" and deletes may prose. He needs to learn some manners.
I am glad to respond to a serious debate, but will not agree to be insulted by this person. I am glad to not be anonymous individually to serious and polite individuals, but I don't want the entire world to know who I am. Is there a way to have private communications?
Mr. Raul has now deleted my request for mediation. He should not be vandalizing reasonable additions. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Zeamays (talk • contribs) .
Dear Kzollman, Thanks for your assistance, but I don't understand why this Raul gets special privileges to delete other peoples' work. He needs to be restrained. -Signed Zeamays.
Project Game theory
Thanks for the welcome. I've had a look at the articles and I think that my basic grasp of game theory won't be enough to enable me to help that much. I'll do what I can though! RicDod 19:13, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
Archive a talk page
Key Kevin, Talk:Human_height page is getting long. I gather it requires admin power to archive (because it's a page move?). If it's not too much trouble could I ask you to do this? If you're busy I have a short list of other folks I can ask... Cheers, Pete.Hurd 05:18, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
do you know how to read?
do you know how to read? then do it below. i've made my point very clear many times beyond what you can read below; and the last time i did not "revert" (how horrible!) but rather eliminated the problem with a new, neutral formulation. it's the others who are truly being obnoxious on top of being wrong and insisting in peddling misleading "scholastic" garbage. ................ wrong and short is not sufficient. it's simply wrong. darwin is talking about the case in which the stuff is heritable because he cares about evolution by natural selection. however the definition of natural selection has nothing to do what darwin thinks about how evolution by natural selection takes place. ever taken a logic class? furthermore i) in evolutionary biology this distinction is crucial, standard, and widely exploited when measuring natural selection in the wild; and ii) this distinction is also crucial to avoid that people mix up the two things and come with all kind of messes when thinking "conceptually" about selection. finally don't you know that the fitness-wise most important phenotypic variation is either genetic but not heritable in the narrow sense or is not genetic at all? Marcosantezana 22:53, 18 February 2006 (UTC) .................