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Latitude city list

Hi: Have taken a few liberties with your city list - you might like to have a look and see if i've mortally offended you with any of my edits :) It also needs some maintanance that i'm not sure how to do...

—Preceding unsigned comment added by Ender3057 (talk • contribs) 07:16, 28 November 2005 (UTC)

Mega Society

I have summarized my arguments for including an article on the Mega Society in Misplaced Pages here:

Talk:Mega_Society

—Preceding unsigned comment added by Canon (talk • contribs) 20:15, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

A word of thanks

Dear Dominus,

I just wanted to thank you for recently having me blocked. It's not so much the blocking I'm thankful for, but the fact that you recognized that the majority of my edits have been constructive. There is one thing I'd like to point out though. When I blank my own user page it is not done with intent to obscure warnings I've been issued. If a warning or any other message on my user page is outdated or not relevant to an ongoing issue, then I clear that comment.

Nevertheless, cheers, and keep up the good work.

P.S. - Is there a reason this post keeps showing up in the Contents as 71.1 instead of 72?

P.P.S. - That would do it. Thanks. Swamilive (talk) 18:15, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

P.P.P.S. - I sincerely want to thank you for reverting my previous vandalism on DVD-RAM. I have resolved to only make constructive edits to Misplaced Pages from now on. I encourage you to continue your tremendous work preventing vandalism. Your steadfastness has been encouraging. Swamilive (talk) 22:40, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

P.P.P.P.S. - I noticed that you're not an admin. Yet, you're rather prompt at fixing bad edits. Just curious why you don't become an admin. Personal choice? Swamilive (talk) 11:12, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

George Mark Bergman photos

I was very glad to hear you had gotten a GFDL release from Bergman. It's a great favor of him to release his photos under a free license, and great legwork on your part to contact him to arrange it. You should know that a lot of people appreciate it.

I'm writing to ask you to send a copy of his permissions letter to be stored by Misplaced Pages, if you haven't done so already. We like to keep records of those things, since we can never tell when an individual editor will have to leave or will lose the letter accidentally. You can just send (a scan of) the release to permissions-en@wikimedia.org, and they will take care of it. Or if you want to send it to me, or just upload a scan as an image, I will take care of it. — Carl (CBM · talk) 12:40, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

I emailed it yesterday. My question at WP:M was about how to communicate to the project members that these photographs were available for use. -- Dominus (talk) 13:35, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

I don't know if we have a good system for that. One thing we can do is add a note to the appropriate category page on commons, explaining which photographs from the MFO collection can be used here. — Carl (CBM · talk) 11:53, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

Copyright: George M. Bergman, Berkeley

Hi, could you provide a link to George M. Bergman's GFDL release, coulden't find it on the http://owpdb.mfo.de/ page. Tried his homepage as well as the departemental page with no luck. /Lokal _Profil 21:18, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

It was sent to me in email. I forwarded a copy to permissions-en at wikimedia dot org. I don't know what happens to permissions after that. -- Dominus 13:39, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

Yes, the process is somewhat opaque. The email will sit in a "queue" until one of the OTRS clerks reads it and marks it as acceptable. What I will want to do is to get the "ticket number" from them and make a note of it on the images in question, so that if anyone in the future questions the copyright it will be easy to resolve. You have already done the actual work of getting the release; the rest is just bureaucracy. Your work getting the release is very much appreciated. — Carl (CBM · talk) 11:51, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

Upcoming edits not to be mistaken for vandalism

Hi Dom,

How are you this morning? I'm just writing to let you know that in the next few days I will likely be making similar edits to a number of related pages. I am aware that you are watching what I do here on Misplaced Pages, so before I begin this rather tedious, but very necessary series of edits, I wanted to make you aware that they are well-intentioned. Basically, I'm going to be editing instances of miscapitalization of the title of a book. The book is called PiHKAL (Phenethylamines i Have Known And Loved). It is a book written by Alexander and Ann Shulgin about a group of psychoactive drugs called phenethylamines. The lowercase i is intentional and should not be reverted to uppercase. Likewise, the uppercase A is also intentional, and should not be reverted to lowercase.

I probably won't get around to starting this until Sunday night as I've got a weekend planned of picnicking and being out in nature with my girlfriend. The snow has finally melted and we're getting some warmer weather, so it's time for some outdoorsiness. Should be fun.

Anyway, just giving you the heads-up so that you don't assume I'm vandalizing all these pages with the same bit of text.

Take care,

Swamilive (talk) 13:09, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

Hi Dom,

I'm just curious if there's any way for me to select a category of articles en masse to add to my watchlist. Mainly, as I've been editing the PiHKAL drugs, I've been selectively "watching" those pages, but I've forgotten to do so with all of them. Since there is a PiHKAL table (I guess you'd call it that) with all of the drugs listed in it, can I somehow get them to all be watched without having to go into each article individually? Any help would be appreciated.

Swamilive (talk) 23:52, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

Hi Dom. Wow! What a time-consuming effort! I finally finished making the necessary changes to the many psychedelic phenethylamines listed in PiHKAL (Phenethylamines i Have Known And Loved). I was surprised to find a few blatant typos and other anomalies in the articles. I have, of course, corrected all errors found. I should inform you that Alexander Shulgin has also written a book about tryptamines called TiHKAL (Tryptamines i Have Known And Loved). I will be making the necessary adjustments to the articles under that book as well. On a more personal level, you should SEE the weather we're getting here :) I purchased a few house plants yesterday, including a very odd cactus. Also, I've now (quite proudly) got a glass centrepiece of an amanita muscaria. Anyway, enjoy your day, and write me back if you can find the time. Swamilive (talk) 18:28, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

Vov Abraxas vs. VOV

Hi Dom,

I see that you removed an entry I made on the Internet slang article, assuming that it was related to earlier instances of "Vov Abraxas". That edit is completely separate, however. VOV (capitalized) is a fairly well-known bit of net-slang. It stands for "Very Odd Verbiage" and is in common use among Canadians, Britons, and Australians. Evidently, it's not in very common use in the US, but its regionality should not make it a candidate for deletion. Please recognize that while you yourself may not be familiar with a term, there are hundreds of thousands, if not millions of individuals in other parts of the world who use it on a daily basis.

I will put my edit back in, but I will clarify that its use is primarily restricted to Canada, the UK, and Australia.

Please apply a bit more discretion when reverting.

Swamilive (talk) 15:02, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Google search finds no mentions of it, so please provide a citation this time. -- Dominus (talk) 16:25, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Shannon Switching Game

Hi Dominus,

You reverted my edit to Strategy-stealing argument, saying that the Shannon switching game is a symmetric game, although the symmetry isn't obvious at first. Would you mind explaining why this is? I know the two players have essentially the same moves, but their objectives are different, so I don't understand how it can be considered a symmetric game - especially since it's quite possible to design graphs that are a trivial win for Cut or a trivial win for Short. Actually, a proof of symmetricity would make a good addition to the Shannon Switching Game page, if you have the time. I'll leave your edit in, and try to find this information out on other sites in the mean time. 212.44.19.62 (talk) 10:24, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

I think an illustration will make it clear. I will try to post one, or a reference to one, this week. -- Dominus (talk) 10:29, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

Requesting your help

Hi Dom,

I posted the following paragraph a few days ago to you, but got no response. Maybe you didn't see it?

Swamilive (talk) 18:03, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

Hi Dom. Just following up yesterday's request. Are you aware of any way to do what I've mentioned above? Swamilive (talk) 15:29, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

Hi Dom. Just warming up some fish sticks in the oven right now, which I'll be sprinkling some crushed black pepper and chili powder on shortly. But, I was curious if you got a chance to see any of my recent comments on your talk page. I am posing a legitimate question to you because I feel I could benefit from your help. Please let me know. Swamilive (talk) 23:18, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

The Bruce revert

Hi Dom. How are things? I'm just curious why you reverted my recent edit to the Bruce article where I added the part about domestic pets in Northwestern Ontario commonly being named Bruce. Please let me know. Swamilive (talk) 00:30, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

Legitimate edits which contain links to deleted articles

Hi Dom. How's it going? I've recetly made one or two changes to Graham. They are to list segments on a popular podcast. Now, originally, when I made the first edit, there was an article about the podcast's co-creator David Firth. But, as you'll see by the red link, the article has since been nominated for deletion, and deleted. As failing to link my edits to Graham to anything at all within Misplaced Pages would constitute unsourced material, I'm at a loss on what to do. I would gladly link externally to David Firth's website where the podcast is available, but that would go against WP:NOT's clause that Misplaced Pages is not a collection of links. What do you propose I do? Should I maintain the red link to the extinct David Firth page, or should I remove the link and leave the edits unsourced? Swamilive (talk) 16:46, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

YAPC2002 question

Hi Dom. I just finished watching the YAPC conference from 2002 and I really liked your bit at the end. However, I'm curious if you had any dental work done shortly before that part was filmed. You look a bit puffy in that video, compared to your userpic here on Misplaced Pages. Swamilive (talk) 03:59, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

Drake and Josh (videogame)

Although you can remove the PROD for any reason I was intrigued by the one you cited - that NN was not appropriate for a PROD. Can you cite the policy for my interest?

(FYI - I had returned to the article to remove the PROD and take it to AfD because I don't think it is necessarily NN as the PROD suggested.)

Thanks! Ros0709 (talk) 22:06, 28 August 2008 (UTC)

I screwed up. I confused PROD and SPEEDY. Sorry! -- Dominus (talk) 22:54, 28 August 2008 (UTC)

Thank you...

...for your note about WP:OWB! Appreciate it! I'm always a little surprised, but hugely pleased, when someone finds that page; it was fun to write. Cheers, Antandrus (talk) 22:38, 28 August 2008 (UTC)

Removing PRODs

Hi,

I see that you have not only removed my PROD on Portable Nintendo System (2009) but also another one because "WP:CRYSTAL is not a CSD" and "nn is not a legitimate reason for PROD". However, CSD has nothing to do with PROD. An article does not have to meet the criteria for speedy deletion to be prodded. On the contrary, a PROD is placed where there is no speedy reason but the article pretty obviously has to go anyway. There are no specific reasons a PROD is limited to. The only prerequisite is that the given reason cannot seriously be contested.

In the article I nominated it was crystal clear that it won't stand a chance in an AfD discussion. Now I will have to take it there anyway.

Regards,

Gunnar Hendrich (talk) 07:47, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

Yes, I screwed up; I was suffering from temporary insanity. I apologize for the extra trouble. I was planning to suggest that we just restore the PROD notices, but I see that it is too late now. Sorry! -- Dominus (talk) 13:35, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

No problem. It looks like it is going to be snowballed soon. Regards, Gunnar Hendrich (talk) 13:52, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

transfer principle

The discussion of the transfer principle at hyperreal numbers contains a serious conceptual error in my opinion. Katzmik (talk) 13:40, 9 September 2008 (UTC)

Blocked vs banned

I have Subliminal message on my watchlist so I saw this edit which has the edit summary of "(Undid revision 236583690 by Carbuncle delicious (talk) (Banned user))". They're not banned, just blocked, and some good-faith-engorged admin might be even unwise enough to unblock them if they changed their username. That's a long way from banned, unless you know something I don't. Regards. Delicious carbuncle (talk) 17:21, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the correction. I realized shortly afterward that I had used the wrong word. If you check my edit history, you'll see that I said "blocked" in my next edit. -- Dominus (talk) 17:23, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. Just caught the WP:AN thread. Am I right in thinking that Swamilive is just blocked, though? There hasn't been an official banning yet, has there? In the grand scheme of things he's barely an annoyance, and banning won't do much to stop his use of sockpuppets. Delicious carbuncle (talk) 17:46, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

I think that is the case. As I said, my use of "banned" was wrong. -- Dominus (talk) 17:48, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

Just checking. The workings of community bans are beyond the scope of my WP knowledge (and I hope to keep it that way). Thanks. Delicious carbuncle (talk) 18:09, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

To do list

"Counting argument - example: existence of noncomputable functions" Nice! I'm looking forward to reading a few lines on the existence of noncomputable functions. Randomblue (talk) 23:00, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

your question

Hi, Concerning your question at the deletion page of non-Newtonian calculus, I expect what Arthur meant by saying that it is not mathematics is that there is no mathematical content in this so-called theory, as I described in my comment following his. Here again, I think the closure of the discussion was premature, coming as it did within seconds of a substantive edit. Perhaps a firm policy should be instituted that only administrators should close a discussion. Katzmik (talk) 11:52, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

Heads up!

In case you aren't watching your own bio, see . Delicious carbuncle (talk) 20:40, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. -- Dominus (talk) 20:59, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

this edit

anything in particular about this guy that you are interested in? Darkspots (talk) 22:33, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

I'm not sure exactly what you're asking, but I guess the answer is "no". Why? -- Dominus (talk) 22:35, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

Not a very specific question. Sorry. Most of your edits seem to be Swamilive-related. Obviously he's blocked indefinitely. Has there been a ban discussion? Darkspots (talk) 22:39, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

I fix things when I find things to fix. I don't know of any ban discussion, but I don't think it's very important either way. -- Dominus (talk) 22:41, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

Yes. Me too. The only importance that I see is in terms of 3RR on these articles. It's not obvious vandalism. I'm happy to help keep these cleaned up, but I don't fancy getting blocked for edit warring. I asked an admin about this specific issue and didn't get a clear response. You're right, it ain't no big deal. Darkspots (talk) 22:45, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

Oh, I understand now what you're asking. Yes, that user is a serial vandal, and has been repeatedly blocked. Just fix his edits and move on. -- Dominus (talk) 22:53, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

Judge, jury and executioner

Please restore Fishtown Effect and properly nominate it for deletion. Philly jawn (talk) 21:17, 5 November 2008 (UTC)

Image:PM1+1=2lemma.jpg listed for deletion

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Image:Kissing-2d.jpg listed for deletion

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Nomination for deletion

Please see; Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Fishtown Effect Steve Dufour (talk) 23:28, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

George Bergman, Berkeley pictures

Hello, could you have a look at commons:Commons:Deletion requests/Image:Julia Robinson 1975.jpg, please ? The OTRS ticket seems to be lost. Can you help us find it again ? Teofilo talk 20:51, 6 December 2008 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Bishop–Keisler controversy

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"Gadomski spam"

I'm not sure what you mean by "spam." I don't see the same editor adding this information. Do you mean that the sources are not reliable, or that it's been refuted perhaps? --Ronz (talk) 21:46, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

Gadomski habitually adds many references to his own work, which is either unpublished or self-published. The additions always come from his own computers at enea.it. If I have erroneously removed a reference to Gadomski's work that was definitely added by someone else, please revert the change. —Dominus (talk) 21:50, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

I'm not going to go through them. I just wanted to point out that removal of sourced information like this should be done with care. Minimally, the editors that added the information should be notified. --Ronz (talk) 22:46, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

The "sources" are in almost all cases self-published papers hosted on Gadomski's own servers. I agree that I should have used greater care in choosing what to delete, and I promise to use more in the future. —Dominus (talk) 18:43, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

To Dominus: What's your search string for "Gadomski spam". I only remove it from articles where it's not clearly relevant, but I think some of the edits you've reverted wouldn't trigger my filter.

To Ronz: As Dominus points out, almost all the additions are from IP addresses at enea.it, now that his primary account has been blocked for spamming. I think it's safe to say that they are all him, or possibly his colleagues. — Arthur Rubin (talk) 22:58, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

I have suspected for some time that User:Overix is a Gadomski puppet, since his entire Misplaced Pages career has been devoted to adding and maintaining mentions of Gadomski in prominent places. I found some of these articles by searching for "Gadomski" (and then ignoring the obvious false positives) and for "TOGA meta-theory", a non-notable invention of Gadomski's that he persists in mentioning. —Dominus (talk) 18:43, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

Possibly unfree File:Ribosome.png

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Sambo

I notice you have reverted the etymology part of sambo. The details given there are valid. As an indian I can say there is no other explaination of the name sambo for an indian name. what is your point of view about the etymology of indian name sambo? Do you have a better definition?

24.7.57.172 (talk) 10:03, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

I'll take this up at Talk:Little Black Sambo#Is_Sambo_really_Shambo.3F. —Dominus (talk) 16:02, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

Thank you

It is a pleasure. Nishanthb (talk) 13:00, 14 February 2009 (UTC)

DRV

I have opened a DRV on the wrangler categories, on which you opined. Occuli (talk) 02:44, 24 March 2009 (UTC)

A fine summary, I'd say so there except that I am sure that people are as tired of reading me as I am. The amazing interpretation of process of some of the deleters is more troubling than these deletions; I think many may look more closely at CfD after this.John Z (talk) 08:50, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

Stale-bread rebellion

I got that information when I was doing research on Marmaduque Grove. It seems that while he was a navy cadet, he led a group of students from the naval academy in a protest for the quality of the food that was being served to them and to the sailors in general (as compared to what was being served to the officers). The protest was probably based on the "Battleship Potemkin" incident of 1905. It didn't include people from outside the naval academy, but caused a big scandal at the time and meant he and other students were expelled. He subsequently joined the Army and the rest is history. I will look for the sources, but sadly, lost most of my documentation in a computer crash, so can't find it readily. I translated the name directly (la revolución del pan duro) and I don't believe I have seen any citation in English about it. --Mel Romero (talk) 23:10, 29 March 2009 (UTC)

Thanks very much. I'll see what I can turn up. Having the Spanish name will help immensely. —Dominus (talk) 01:31, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Date_formatting_and_linking_poll/Autoformatting_responses

I too am worried about the issue of metadata with regards to dates, and am not sure what you were referring to that alleviated your concerns. Since I no longer use this account (but it was the one I used when I got involved with the dates discussion, which is why I'm using it now) and in the interest of keeping the information in one place where other people can see it, would you mind responding on the poll page and expanding on your reasons? Cheers, --Sapphic (talk) 01:13, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

I found the reasons in the Metadata fallacy section of the "statement against" persuasive. —Dominus (talk) 04:47, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

Ah, I wasn't sure if that was what you were referring to, or some comment by a previous editor. The poll page includes a bunch of sub-pages, and depending on which sub-page you're looking at, people might see your comment on a page that doesn't include the "statement against" part. If it matters to you, I'd suggest making it a little more explicit in your comments. I apologize for having brought on the flood of other comments below, by people trying to "counter" my "attempts to influence your vote." Have a nice day! --Sapphic (talk) 06:34, 2 April 2009 (UTC)

Hi there, Dominus! I noticed that like me, you are opposed to any form of dates autoformatting. I have created some userboxes which you might like to add to your userspace to indicate your position. Having one in your userspace could deter unwanted canvassing on your talk page. ;-) You will find the boxes here. Ohconfucius (talk) 07:50, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

Do you have a userbox that tells people that I do not want spam on my user talk page? —Dominus (talk) 09:14, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

Oh snap! -- Earle Martin 13:59, 1 April 2009 (UTC)