
:::::''[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Henrygb&action=edit§ion=new Add a new section]'' ==Welcome== Hello, Wikipedia:Welcome, newcomers to Wikipedia. Here are some useful links in case you haven't already found them; *Wikipedia:How to edit a page *Wikipedia:How to write a great article *Wikipedia:Naming conventions *Wikipedia:Manual of Style If you have any questions, see the Wikipedia:Help, add a question to the Wikipedia:village pump or ask me on User_talk:snoyes. I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedia:Wikipedians! User:Snoyes 01:58, 25 Nov 2003 (UTC) ==Voting systems== Hi Henrygb, it's great to see you here! I just wanted to let you know about List of voting systems topics and Wikipedia:WikiProject Voting Systems. You'd probably be qualified to contribute to these! Also, in the Maltese and N. Ireland STV elections, was the non-proportionality caused by small districts? User:DanKeshet :I don't know all the reasons, but it looks as if Malta has a two party system where both parties have almost equal support, so the rounding associated with having STV constituencies at all makes this quite possible. In Northern Ireland in 1998, one cause may have been more small Unionist parties and a greater tendancy to transfer votes on the Unionist side than on the Nationalist side. --User:Henrygb ::It was also caused by differential turnout - higher in the more Nationalist West, lowest in the strongly Unionist Belfast suburbs. Your analysis of Malta is spot on. User:Gerry Lynch 17:10, 19 Jul 2004 (UTC) ==Greenland Dock== Henry, you've modified Greenland Dock to say that it's one of only a few surviving docks on the south bank of the Thames. What are the others? -- User:ChrisO 10:48, 16 Mar 2004 (UTC) :South Dock (south of Greenland Dock) is clearly one [http://www.sdockmarina.co.uk/]. Surrey Water and Canada Water are also survivors as bodies of water with dock walls, though they cannot be accessed by boat. --User:Henrygb 12:00, 16 Mar 2004 (UTC) ::Good point re South Dock - and considering that I live on the dockside I should have realised that myself (doh!). I'm reluctant to consider Surrey or Canada Water as being docks, though, as they are purely ornamental ponds - clearly a major change of use. By that token, you could call Norway Dock a dock on the basis that it still has water in it. Greenland and South Dock are the only south bank docks ''which can still be used as docks''. -- User:ChrisO 12:12, 16 Mar 2004 (UTC) ==MANOVA== Please don't use so MANY capital letters. "Analysis of Variance", with an incorrectly capitalized "V", is a redirect page, as it should be. User:Michael Hardy 18:35, 27 May 2004 (UTC) :Be grateful I didn't write ANalysis Of VAriance (ANOVA) --User:Henrygb 00:07, 28 May 2004 (UTC) ::OK. Another point. You just linked to dispersion, which is a disambiguation page. What would have been appropriate is eitherstatistical dispersion or statistical dispersion . You should always check your links to see if they point to something appropriate. Notice, for example, that "dispersion" of light is dealt with in optics and is not at all the same thing. User:Michael Hardy 22:02, 2 Jun 2004 (UTC)
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Why the funny "nbsp" character you keep introducing into articles, as you just did in Bayes' theorem? Apparently it just produces a blank space. Is it in some way preferable to a simple plain-text blank space? User:Michael Hardy 22:00, 11 Jul 2004 (UTC)
:It produces a nON-bREAKING spACE, which can be useful for two things:
:#putting more than one space between words
:#ensuring that equations written in text do not break across lines while having spaces inside them; I prefer '''''f''(''y''|''x'') = ''L''(''x''|''y'') either to ''f''(''y''|''x'')=''L''(''x''|''y'') or to ''f''(''y''|''x'') =
''L''(''x''|''y'')'''. :--User:Henrygb 22:16, 11 Jul 2004 (UTC) ==move Danzig== ''see User talk:Angela for other half of conversation'' Sorry, I can't move it as there doesn't seem to be consensus on Talk:Danzig for this to happen. User:Angelauser talk:Angela 22:16, 14 Jul 2004 (UTC) :I don't think there is any history at Danzig (disambiguation) that needs to be merged. The first revision of that was a cut and paste from Danzig in the first place and all later edits were reverts or minor changes, so I believe that can stay as a redirect. User:Angelauser talk:Angela 22:58, 14 Jul 2004 (UTC) ::It turns out that it wasn't frozen, but simply had the problem of two pages having a history (of little interest), so couldn't be "moved". User:Henrygb == Please stop profanating Polish cities == May I ask you to stop profanating the Polish city of Gdansk. The German name of Danzig was used by the Nazis, and this is still thought to be a profanation to use it today. Thank you. User:PolishPoliticians 22:55, 19 Jul 2004 (UTC) Please stop profanating Polish cities with these Nazi stuff. The full name are essencial. I don't see why you remove them from the header of the Gdansk article, without any discussion. User:PolishPoliticians 23:05, 19 Jul 2004 (UTC) ::This just shows your POV position. You cannot even get consensus in the [http://pl.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Gda%C5%84sk&action=history Polish Wikipedia] to call it ''The Royal Polish City of Gdansk'' in the introduction (and I thought that Poland no longer had a monarchy - so it is hardly essential at the top). On the other hand ''Danzig'' is important to the casual visitor as the starting point of World War II, and was the name used in English for centuries before 1945 - the Nazis did not invent it. The article was unblocked on the understanding that it would be clear to the casual reader in the introduction that Gdansk and the former Danzig were the same city. Your lack of understanding of this point suggests to me you would be wise to refrain from editing the English version of Wikipedia while you calm down and reflect. You might also consider the Wikipedia:Revert#Revert_wars_considered_harmful_.28the_three_revert_guideline.29. --User:Henrygb 23:28, 19 Jul 2004 (UTC) I am sorry I don't think you are right in this case. The German names of Polish cities are insulting to Polish people (beacause of WWII casualties, etc.) and I don't see why the full name like The Kashubian Capital City of Gdańsk should be erase by you in this article: Please be informed that other Polish cities have also such names like The Royal Capital City of Cracow and The Capital City of Poznan User:PolishPoliticians 23:34, 19 Jul 2004 (UTC) :#Saying that the city now called Gdansk in English used to be called Danzig in English should not be insulting to anybody - if you find it insulting, you might consider stopping reading any history in English. I accept people died in World War II; that too is part of history, and so is the former city name ''Danzig''. :#I didn't erase your long names from the article, just from the introduction where they are a distraction and not apparently accepted by anyone else. They remain elsewhere in the article, whether they are in fact still the names or not. :#Excessively long historical names are not needed in the introduction when they prevent more useful information being there. I note that the name is not obviously used by the Gdansk city council [http://www.google.pl/search?q=+site%3Awww.gdansk.pl+%22Kr%C3%B3lewskie+Polskie+Miasto%22] [http://www.google.com/search?q=+site%3Awww.gdansk.pl+%22royal+polish+city%22]. I take your point about Cracow being known as a royal city: I don't speak Polish, but the nearest I got to finding the Gdansk site talking about a royal city was at [http://www.gdansk.pl/gdansk/cat.php?cat=2], but it seemed only to be talking about Cracow and not Gdansk. :#I suggest you deal with this on the correct talk page and stop writing here. I see that have put something on Talk:Gdansk. Your Nazi comment seems to have been rejected. We will see what happens to your Royal/Capital comment, though I think it will confuse readers if they think Poland has several capitals. :--User:Henrygb 01:26, 20 Jul 2004 (UTC) ==TeXnicality== Your comments on Box-Muller transform prompt this comment. Notice the difference in appearance between this: and this: And, as with \sin and \cos, so also with \log and \det and \max and \exp and \sup, etc. User:Michael Hardy 23:03, 20 Jul 2004 (UTC) ==Map== [http://en.wikipedia.org/upload/archive/d/dd/20040612113709%21LocationScotland.png] was even worse! User:Morwen - User_talk:Morwen 21:08, 23 Jul 2004 (UTC) == The Drapers' arms == I've no idea why it was originally stored here as a .png-- the .jpg is so much smaller. I'm guessing someone wrote to the Drapers and asked for a copy and they sent their lossless version. User:Marnanel 01:36, 30 Jul 2004 (UTC) == Naming wars == Since you were either directly or indirectly once involved into edits revolving around "proper" naming of cities like Gdansk/Danzig etc i thought you may be interested in my proposition in User:Szopen/NamingWar. I would want to create a way aimed at stopping the revert wars in future - through creating something like a msg (in see also list or header) explaining that's there is compromise and why, and by linking to the article explaining changes of the statuses of the Royal Prussia province (I would prefer it ot have it as separate article, not scatter it in plethora other articles). I would be happy to hear from you. User:Szopen 09:14, 5 Aug 2004 (UTC) == Anglo-Norman and Anglo-Norman language == You wrote ''Info merged from Anglo-Norman language since all language links come here'' just as I was in the middle of disambiguating the links. (No harm done, just thought you'd like to know.) User:Gdr 19:39, 2004 Aug 8 (UTC) :Thank you for telling me. I was not prepared to go through changing so many links, but if you are that is fine by me. --User:Henrygb 21:47, 8 Aug 2004 (UTC) ::There were only about 20, and some of them weren't links to the language but to the people so didn't need to be changed. User:Gdr 23:24, 2004 Aug 8 (UTC) == States of Malaysia == Hi henrygb. I'm just wondering whether you might like to comment on Talk:States_of_Malaysia regarding the official states names. -- User:Sabre23t 03:33, 15 Aug 2004 (UTC) == Canada goose image == Hi. It appears you uploaded :Image:CanadaGoslingRotherhithe.jpg but did not provide any information on its copyright status. I have marked it as unknown for now. If want to release it under GFDL or public domain, please mention this on the image description page. Thanks. User:RedWolf 05:44, Aug 22, 2004 (UTC) :The image description page says "''personal photograph''" which I think is enough of a source. Apart from that, my text and image contributions (unless otherwise stated) are covered by Wikipedia:Copyrights#Contributors' rights and obligations, i.e. GFDL by default. I see no need to go any further than checking the box in the upload process. --User:Henrygb 14:01, 5 Sep 2004 (UTC) == Statistics lead section == I've proposed a new lead section for the Statistics article. See Talk:Statistics#My attempt at article lead section and my comment immediately above that one. Comments welcome. - User:Dcljr 19:40, 2 Sep 2004 (UTC) == Slashes in wiki-links == Thanks for fixing the slashes in list of Khoisan languages and //Gana language. --Merovingian">User:MerovingianTalk">User talk:Merovingian 23:15, Sep 14, 2004 (UTC) == Draperstown == Apologies for that slip. Bah! I knew I would make it on one of the pages (going from editing hundreds of RoI town articles to some NI ones!). Quite a serious mistake to make! Thanks for fixing it! User:Zoney ♣ User talk:Zoney 11:12, 18 Oct 2004 (UTC) ==Football World Cup 2006 - North, Central American and Caribbean Qualification Groups== Hi there - noted your comment on this page - I really dont think it's matter of merging this with the main front page ; the main World Cup 2006 page should be reserved for the Finals. I reckon the current Football World Cup 2006 page just needs to be tidied up to reflect the fact that I have put up the match lists for all the qualifying confederations - I'll be in a position to do it in the next day or so. -- User:Zaphod Beeblebrox 15:32, 20 Oct 2004 (UTC) == Vedic Mathematics == Hello Henry, I see that you are the source of misinformation in this section. You should not believe everything you read on the internet as their are strong political reason for some to descredit every Indian accomplishent as a form of "Hindu Nationalism." Not all Vedic and Sanskrit literature is of a theistic nature. The reason for this fallacy is that the interest of westerners towards an "exotic" culture has always been towards the "spiritual" and the "occult." This ignores a large part of ancient Indian history. What many have failed to notice is that mathematics played a large part in the ancient Indian culture. Panini's Sanskrit grammar texts are based on the principles of algebra and what we would today call semiotics. Aryabatta and Charvaka were examples of two ancient philosophers who emphasised that this material world is the only world and that we should only believe that which we can observe and analyze. A term given to this thought is called Lokayatra or "layman" school which is entirely materialistic. Mathematical formulas are in the Vedas for the building of architecture and the designing of Yantras which are very complex. The verses are also mathematical based so they can be memorized. A logic system called Nyaya - literaly "not this" - encourages doubt and skeptism. It is an analyitic system based on logic, proof and observation in much the same way as the scientific method is in the west. Vedic mathematics is quite well known many south Indians of the previous generation as they had a much more complete text of the Arthaveda in Tamil. Written Tamil carved into wood slabs is much older than written Sanskrit texts though the later is usually credited as the source. This is where much of what is called Vedic mathematics originated from. It has been questioned if the Arthaveda - along with maybe 11 other lesser known Vedas - are actually part of the original Vedas. This is mostly due to the translations into local dialects being the only known or existing source, yet this does not question the age in which these works were made nor that they were indegous to India as they all were. :Thank you for pointing out the POV edits to Vedic mathematics [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Vedic_mathematics&diff=6992548&oldid=6960277]. I have reverted it. The issue is whether the following questions are legitimate for the article: :# Did Shri Bharati Krishna Tirthaji state he based "Vedic mathematics" on an appendix of Atharvaveda, rather than Atharvaveda itself? :# Does this appendix exist now or did he lose it? :# Is there any evidence that this appendix existed before the 20th century? :# Are the contents of "Vedic mathematics" consistent with the known mathematics of ancient India? :# Are the contents of "Vedic mathematics" consistent with "Vedic science", i.e. are they a philosophy or are they a set of mental arithmetic shortcuts which work in a few cases? :# Is "Vedic mathematics" being promoted by those often described as "Hindu nationalists"? :# Are there serious critics of "Vedic mathematics", and if so, should they be mentioned in the article? :--User:Henrygb 22:29, 30 Oct 2004 (UTC) I would sign up except that I have a fear that this can turn out to be a time drain on my allready busy life. But one fallacy has all ready put your article under suspect and that is the questioning of decimal fractions. I should know this because I studied some of the passages in the Vedas concerning architecture. The western method of deviding a circle is in degrees where 360 measures the full continuum. This was derived from the ancient Greeks. India had an independent method of measuring a circle which was to have the full continuum measure 1. This meant that the angles would be broken into decimal fractions as apposed to degrees. It was introduced into modern mathematics in the west as radions and is not widely used. The division of circles and angles was very important in the designing of yantras and the building of architecture for the ancient Hindus. So to say that the decimal system did not exist in Indian mathematics already discredits your article by showing that a thorough and rigorous attitude has not been used even in your elementary research that would give you the authority to write on this topic. :Those of my comments you object to have been quotes of critics. You seem to be saying that ancient Indian mathematicians measured angles as a fraction of a circle. That implies neither radians nor decimal fractions. If you look at the article on Decimal#Decimal_writers, you will see that it says :*"''c. 598–670 Brahmagupta – decimal integers, negative integers, and zero''" :*"''c. 920–980 Abu'l Hasan Ahmad ibn Ibrahim Al-Uqlidisi – first direct treatment of decimal fractions''" :So to be clear, this is not an attempt to put European mathematics first. Are you saying that this is wrong and that the Vedas, more than a thousand years before the latter of these dates, used decimal fractions directly? That would be news indeed and well worth clarifying. "Vedic mathematics" does deal with decimal fractions directly: see Vedic_mathematics#Method_1:_using_multiplications for an example. --User:Henrygb 23:48, 31 Oct 2004 (UTC) ==An inequality on location and scale parameters== Hello. In consequence of your editing, the "displayed" TeX is no longer indented (as by a colon, as follows): : Also, the two lines are closer together than they would be if separated by a blank line, as above. I am not adept with tables, or I would have adjusted these matters. Can you help? Thanks. User:Michael Hardy 22:09, 22 Nov 2004 (UTC) ==The Humungous Image Tagging Project== Hi. You've helped with the Wikipedia:WikiProject Wiki Syntax, so I thought it worth alerting you to the latest and greatest of Wikipedia fixing project, User:Yann/Untagged Images, which is seeking to put copyright tags on all of the untagged images. There are probably, oh, thirty thousand or so to do (he said, reaching into the air for a large figure). But hey: they're images ... you'll get to see lots of random pretty pictures. That must be better than looking for ''at at'' and ''the the'', non? You know you'll love it. best wishes --User:Tagishsimon User_talk:Tagishsimon :Thanks for the invitation, but as you will see above on the Canada goose image section above, I think the project may be a diversion. --User:Henrygb 12:28, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC) == Article Licensing == Hi, I've User:rambot#Free the Rambot Articles project to get users to Wikipedia:Multi-licensing all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (''CC-by-sa'') v1.0 and v2.0 Creative Commons Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The ''CC-by-sa'' license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the Wikipedia:List_of_Wikipedians_by_number_of_edits Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at ''minimum'' those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information: *User talk:Ram-Man#Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered *Wikipedia:Multi-licensing *User:rambot#Free the Rambot Articles project To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "I agree to Wikipedia:Multi-licensing all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:
:I agree to Wikipedia:Multi-licensing all my contributions to any U.S. state, county, or city article as described below:
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Ogmore River v. River Ogmore All the other Rivers in Wales are designated by River Name. I would suggest that this Article by moved to River Ogmore and Ogmore River be used as the redirect. Is thatOK ?
User:Velela 22:58, 6 Feb 2005 (UTC) :I have no objection - I was probably following an existing red link. But I note that [http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=%22Ogmore+River%22+-wikipedia "Ogmore River"] is marginally more common on Google than [http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=%22River+Ogmore%22+-wikipedia "River Ogmore"]. --User:Henrygb 23:48, 6 Feb 2005 (UTC) ==Vote on Talk:Gdansk/Vote== Hi. Since you have edited on pages with disputes about the names of Polish/German locations, I would invite you to vote on Talk:Gdansk/Vote to settle the multi-year dozens-of-pages dispute about the naming of Gdansk/Danzig and other locations. The vote has two parts, one with questions when to use Gdansk/Danzig, and a second part affecting articles related to locations with Polish/German history in general. An enforcement is also voted on. The vote has a total of 10 questions to vote on, and ends in two weeks on Friday, March 4 0:00. Thank you -- User:Chris 73 User talk:Chris 73 00:43, Feb 18, 2005 (UTC) == A Doomsday question == Hi Henry. I've put a question to you at Talk:Doomsday_argument, but I thought you may not see it, so here I am, pointing it out. --User:Noetica 06:37, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC) Thanks. I'd be grateful if you would visit the page again, as I have replied there. (Have you got it watchlisted?) --User:Noetica 13:33, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC) I appreciate your last reply, but I have a further question. Please Talk:Doomsday_argument#A_query_for_Henrygb, if you can find the time. --User:Noetica 21:47, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC) Talk:Doomsday_argument#A_query_for_Henrygb --User:Noetica 01:08, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC) Talk:Doomsday_argument#A_query_for_Henrygb (But I'll assume from now on that it's watchlisted.) --User:Noetica 03:21, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC) Damn! It was only a comment on an apostrophe... (:| --User:Noetica 00:57, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC) ==Image:Primrose League.jpg== Your picture at :Image:Primrose League.jpg is really impressive. Where did it come from? --User:Audiovideo 23:06, 27 Feb 2005 (UTC) :I inherited a collection of badges dating from 1885 to 1895, so thought a picture (with a bit of compression) might help illustrate the article. I'm glad you like them. --User:Henrygb 23:12, 27 Feb 2005 (UTC) ::Let's hope you have more treasures hidden away. BTW, I read the link on your user page. As far as I can see the arguments against you being an admin didn't hold water. It is not as if Wikipedia has a surplus of admins and a lack of tasks. Next time I suggest you show a bit of keenness and argue with the idiotic negative comments. Then you can just go back to continuing the good work. --User:Audiovideo 23:34, 27 Feb 2005 (UTC) ==vanavsos== I am all for changing the title of the article. I may have been ignorant in my naming of the article and it is a simple mistake on my part. People are right now discussing changing it. I would like to ask for a reconsideration on your part to change your vote to "keep". Thanks.User:WHEELER 18:45, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC) == South Africa FA == Hello, thank you so much for pointing out the copy vios on the South Africa article. It was horribly embarassing to me. I have completely rewritten these sections and they are no longer copywrite violations. I look forward to hearing your updated opinion at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/South Africa. User:PZFUN 23:48, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC) == Redirecting Race denial to Validity of human races == Thanks a bunch for finding that article. I wasn't particularly looking forward to the discussion on the original one. User:82.92.119.11 00:48, 7 Mar 2005 (UTC) ==Genealogy== I object to you referring to my link additions as spam. There is no intention to spam. These sites are important and genealogy should be included on each state page. User:Cribbswh 21:26, 11 Mar 2005 (UTC) ==Toxicology== Do you think the various articles you are creating such as Adequately wet etc. will ever amount to more than dictionary defition stubs. I would just hope you could consider the issue before you move onto the Bs. --User:Henrygb 01:03, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC) :Do you think I shouldn't include such topics, or should I try including them in relevant articles instead? (unless there is a decent amount to write about the topic). --brian0918™ 01:05, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC) ::Happy to discuss here, because I only have one small screen. I don't think some of them will ever expand, but I would have no objection to "adequately wet" being mentioned on the asbestos page for example. So I would suggest either inserting them into other articles or grouping them together by topic. --User:Henrygb 01:12, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC) ==:Image:Bernabeu.jpg== ''Discussion moved to Image talk:Bernabeu.jpg#Copyright.'' == Absolute poverty and relative poverty == I made some edits to these articles and their talk pages which may clarify my thinking. -- User:Beland 05:21, 24 Mar 2005 (UTC) == Elona Bojaxhi == Hiya.. thanks for pointing that out, I have deleted the temp page as a recreation of a VFD-deleted article. —User:Stormie 03:12, Mar 25, 2005 (UTC) == Northumbria == Why are you putting Northumbria in wherever you fin North East England? It is not the official name, and to the extent it has a geographical or historical meaning, it also includes much of Yorkshire. --Henrygb 15:33, 25 Mar 2005 (UTC) :I am putting Northumbria wherever North East England is because today it is a common name for the region especially since Northumbrian culture as it is called is to be promoted more actively throughout the region. Are you sure that that name includes much of Yorkshire? As far as I know it is only used for the NE. Also, why did you remove the table I added to the article? That certainly wasn't my POV. There were encyclopaedic facts on the region. User:REX 20:14, 25 Mar 2005 (UTC) ::Northumbria can mean many things: anywhere in England north of the Humber; the Humber to the River Forth (so SE Scotland as well); the River Tees to the Tweed, perhaps plus Berwick; the River Tyne to the Tweed, perhaps plus Berwick (i.e. the old Northumberland) and perhaps plus Gateshead, South Tyneside and Sunderland (e.g. the area of [http://ww3.northumbria.police.uk/northumbria/main.asp Northumbria Police]). Many people in County Durham would reject the idea of being in Northumbria. But if you think Middlesbrough or Redcar (ex-Yorkshire) are in Northumbria then it would be quite difficult to say Whitby was not, and I would say Hull as well. As for the box - it was about North East England and belongs on the North East England page. I added two extra links to North East England near the top of the Northumbria page, but the two are not equivalent. --User:Henrygb 22:43, 25 Mar 2005 (UTC) ==Drapers' Company== Thanks for pointing me to the information about two kings of Norway being members of the Company. I've translated the article now, at :no:Worshipful Company of Drapers. I did look at it earlier, but only read the first paragraph as I felt I wasn't quite prepared to dive into the livery companies at the time. User:Cnyborg 09:20, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC) == Some quick questions, since you welcomed me! == Hello Henrygb, I've just made a comment to yours on the Jaynes prior probability question ("prior probabilities"). But I note that some things did not come out as I expected... Namely, I can't figure out how to get the UTC date and time of my comment to appear. Also, my identifier comes out in red...I am presuming that this is an invitation for me to create a page for myself, but I don't want to do this unless it is appropriate. (I am presuming that this page is the sort of thing needed) Thanks, Bill Jefferys User:Billjefferys I assume you found out what to do as you blanked your question, but for the record: *Put what you want on your user page - what you have done is fine. Comment to others on a talk page (yours, theirs, an article talk page, wherever). *~~~ produces your name: User:Henrygb
*~~~~ produces your name and date: User:Henrygb 20:54, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)
*~~~~~ produces the date: 20:54, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)
*the penultimate icon above the edit box makes --~~~~ which may make signing comments quicker (sign comments on talk pages, but not contributions to articles) --User:Henrygb 20:54, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Yes, Henry, I did find it after some effort; and thanks for your interest and assistance.
I have in mind to add to the prior probability page and to create one on admissible decision rules, which seems to be sitting in limbo.--User:Billjefferys 20:42, 5 Apr 2005 (UTC)
==Thank you==
Thank you for supporting my adminship — I vow to use my super powers for good not evil. User:Mel Etitis (Μελ_Ετητης)">User talk:Mel Etitis 09:27, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)
== Images and media for deletion ==
I am contacting people who previously helped to vote to delete a generally objectionable photograph by a vote of 88 to 21, and who might be unaware that immediately after that image was voted to be deleted someone posted Wikipedia:Images_and_media_for_deletion#Autofellatio 2 My objections to this, and the previous image that was voted to be deleted might be based upon reasons far different from any that you have, but I do object to it, and consider the posting of such images to be acts of asinine stupidity, which burdens the project and its major educational aims in ways that they should not be burdened, and can be extremely detrimental to the acceptance and growth of WIkipedia's use and influence. Thus far those who I believe to be in the extreme minority of Wikipedians who would like to include these images, many who have been channeled to the voting page from the article with which it is associated have dominated the voting, 23 to 12 (as of the time that I composed this message). I would like to be somewhat instrumental in shedding a bit more light upon the issue, and if possible, helping to turn the tide against its inclusion. It might also be necessary to begin making an effort to establish an explicit Wikipedia policy against explicit photographic depictions of humans engaged in erotic, auto-erotic, or quasi-erotic activities. To my limited knowledge such images have ''not'' been accepted as appropriate ''anywhere'' else within this project, and frankly I can agree with those who are casually labeled ''prudes'' for opposing their inclusion, that they should ''not'' be. '''Vitally important information that might be unwelcome by some is one thing that should never be deleted, but ''un-needed'' images that can eventually prevent or impede many thousands or millions of people from gaining access to the great mass of truly important information that Wikipedia provides is ''quite'' another matter. There are vitally important distinctions to be made. Whatever your reasons, or final decisions upon the matter, I am appealing for more input on the voting that is occurring at Wikipedia:Images_and_media_for_deletion#Autofellatio 2'''. ~ User:Achilles User_talk:Achilles 04:39, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC)
== Re:RfA thanks ==
Sorry, I guess my clock was slow, only by ten minutes... User:Zzyzx11 02:07, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)
No problem. If I can make admin, then you definately deserve it! User:Ilyanep — Ilγαηερ">User:Ilyanep (Tαlκ)">User talk:Ilyanep 23:26, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)
== Congratulations! ==
Congratulations! It's my pleasure to let you know that, consensus being reached, you are now an Wikipedia:Administrators. You should read the relevant policies and other pages linked to from the Wikipedia:administrators' reading list before carrying out tasks like deletion, protection, banning users, and editing protected pages such as the Main Page. Most of what you do is easily reversible by other sysops, apart from page history merges and image deletion, so please be especially careful with those. You might find the new Wikipedia:Administrators' how-to guide helpful. Cheers! -- User:Cecropia | User talk:Cecropia 02:53, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)
:Congrats from me too. Good luck as an admin! User:Grutness|User_talk:Grutness 05:06, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)
:Congratulations, and you're very welcome! --Merovingian">User:Merovingian User talk:Merovingian Special:Contributions/Merovingian 05:36, Apr 8, 2005 (UTC)
:: Welcome aboard! --User:Tony Sidaway|User talk:Tony Sidaway 07:29, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)
:::Congratulations, and just to let you know I am the David Boothroyd who posts to uk.p.e. User:Dbiv 22:39, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)
: Henry, congrats on your RFA. I am sure you will continue to be a great asset to Wikipedia, as you always have been. All the best, User:Wile E. Heresiarch 14:46, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)
== ValueFirst Messaging ==
Even if it's an employee that copies the text, shouldn't there be some indication that the company is permitting the release of the text under GFDL? Not that it matters so much in this case, since it doesn't look likely to survive Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/ValueFirst Messaging. But, as a matter of principle, I'm not sure that employees automatically have the right to GFDL their companies' text. Anyway, congratulations on becoming an admin! User:FreplySpang User talk:FreplySpang 21:02, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)
== The Value of Coins ==
Just curious -- what criteria of speedy deletion did that talk page fail to meet? There's no associated article, it's a pointless comment, it looks like a user test, and it adds no value to anything. —:Clawson (User_talk:Clawson) 03:13, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)
:Thanks for the update. What happened was that I initially blanked the page to remove the useless comment, then I realised "Maybe this would be better deleted" and then I found the speedy deletion page :) Chalk that somewhat confusing series of events up to a first-time experience with page deletion. —:Clawson (User_talk:Clawson) 17:28, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)
== Deliberate spelling mistake on Henrygb user page? ==
Hello Henrygb,
I noticed that the last line on your user page is:
:"''Remeber'' [sic] ''to sign comments on talk pages, but not contributions to articles..."''
Since this is a small thing I would have changed it on your user page (especially because you are advising others to copy it to theirs) but I wasn't sure if this was intentional, or if it is considered rude to modify another Wikipedian's user page. User:Wragge 13:47, 2005 Apr 14 (UTC)
:It was not intentional - thank you for spotting it. You have to judge how someone will react to changes to their user page. I would not have minded. --User:Henrygb 13:59, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)
== The Illustrators ==
The reason for them is this I found an illustrator's guild aunnal best-of book from the 70's and I wrote down the names of some of the one's the liked and looked for more info. Well, there were ones like Ralph Steadman, Ronald Searle, and Holly Hobbie whom we all know about. Now, I know about Bernie Fuchs and Philip Castle thanks to their expansion! (from User:Hailey C. Shannon 01:14, 15 Apr 2005)
== Phantom Regiment ==
Why did you revert? Shouldn't the Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Phantom Regiment Drum and Bugle Corps apply to this redirect as well? --User:Fbriere 21:54, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)
:There were no pointers in the page history to Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Phantom Regiment Drum and Bugle Corps. But there was enough before the redirect to justify a stub or a disambiguation page. Looking at 10,000 hits at [http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Phantom+Regiment%22] suggests that the simple phrase cannot be described as not-notable. Just an opinion. --User:Henrygb 23:51, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)
::I submitted Phantom Regiment Drum and Bugle Corps for WP:VFU, since Phantom Regiment should actually be a redirect. (And there may be something useful in the deleted history.) Good eye. --User:Fbriere 17:44, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)
== VfD ==
Thanks a lot! Live and learn.... -User:JMBellUser_talk:JMBellSpecial:Contributions/JMBell 11:14, 5 May 2005 (UTC)
== Wikipedia ==
The article was victim to a page-move vandal, and I was trying to delete the redirect in order to move it back. However, due to server slowness, I kept getting error messages, which I thought indicated that the attempt had failed; in the meantime someone beat me to it and moved the real article back to where it belongs. The article still ended up deleted, despite the error messages, and though I tried many times to restore it, it timed out every time. I requested on IRC that someone restore it (and User:Kingturtle did; see [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=delete&user=&page=Wikipedia]), and it seems to be all fixed now.
I don't know what you mean when you say "keep being restored" - it's not as though I kept deleting it; you'll notice that my three deletes all occurred half an hour before the four restores. 11:53, 6 May 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for moving back the various Brisbane railway station entries. Cheers, User:Lacrimosus User talk:Lacrimosus 01:20, 14 May 2005 (UTC)
== A Thank You!!! ==
Having never really had occasion to, I had never reviewed the deletion log before; however, upon reviewing it to see if the templates I had marked for speedy deletion had been deleted, I came to appreciate the hard work you and others do. So Thank you for your efforts and the time you put into keeping Wikipedia functioning User:Trodel 21:28, 18 May 2005 (UTC)
== Another thankyou ==
Thanks for reverting my userpage. Due to a server error, i couldn't see what was vandalized, but it seems that i unwittingly started an edit war. Thanks for the help. --User:Happyfeet10 14:33, 19 May 2005 (UTC)
== Borough seat ==
Your additions to the article Borough seat would make an excellent addition to the article Borough, allowing Borough seat to be a disambiguation page. I have had a difficult time attempting to merge your portion of Borough seat into the appropriate sections of Borough. I thought you might do a better job. -User:Acjelen 17:19, 25 May 2005 (UTC)
== Peloponnese Vote ==
Hi,
I agree with your antique post (15 Sept., 2004) regarding ''Peloponnesos'' v. ''Peloponnese''. I'd like to initiate a vote on moving it, but I've never done such a thing before. Can you help? --User:Jpbrenna 00:35, 26 May 2005 (UTC)
:See Wikipedia:Requested moves --User:Henrygb 22:51, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
== Ultimate Tournament of Champions template ==
I reverted your edit to the "List of Contestants" template, because I'm using it as a temporary page while I convert the tables into WikiTable format. I'll redirect it once I get the entire set of tables converted, but for now, I'd prefer it stay the way it is (besides, I doubt anyone would go to the "List of Contestants" page anyway, since it's not linked from anywhere anymore). I appreciate the initiative in redirecting it, though. User:Ral315User talk:Ral315 22:40, May 27, 2005 (UTC)
:Fine by me. I went there when I was trying to stop a bunch of subpages with histories being speedy deleted. --User:Henrygb 22:44, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
== Jeopardy UToC ==
Thanks - I didn't think about the GFDL issues. However, I don't think we have copyright issues and the need to cover ourselves regarding the historical edits. The pages in question are reporting facts that are not be subject to copyright law. This is similar to the reasons that scores of professional sports can't be copyrighted or that the phone book phone numbers can't be copyrighted. Let me know if you agree and I will remark them for speedy. 00:56, 28 May 2005 (UTC)
:I don't agree. Everything in Wikipedia is supposed to be factual. Having the subpages as redirects causes no harm and preserves the history; I think it is necessary for GFDL purposes. Read Wikipedia:Redirects for deletion especially points 1 and 7 of the reasons for not deleting redirects. In any case, you you use that page rather than speedy deletes of redirects. --User:Henrygb 13:37, 28 May 2005 (UTC)
::Let's keep them then. Just to clarify, when I said they are "reporting facts that are not subject to copyright law" I didn't meant to imply that all facts are not copyrightable. Certain statistical information and other lists are not subject to copyright - like a list of IP addresses, or phone numbers, or sports statistics - there is a copyright in the presentation, and in certain computed information like the college rankings that take stats and weight them in a unique way, but not in the underlying data. 14:55, 28 May 2005 (UTC)
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:::::''[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Henrygb&action=edit§ion=new Add a new section]'' ==Welcome== Hello, Wikipedia:Welcome, newcomers to Wikipedia. Here are some useful links in case you haven't already found them; *Wikipedia:How to edit a page *Wikipedia:How to write a great article *Wikipedia:Naming conventions *Wikipedia:Manual of Style If you have any questions, see the Wikipedia:Help, add a question to the Wikipedia:village pump or ask me on User_talk:snoyes. I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedia:Wikipedians! User:Snoyes 01:58, 25 Nov 2003 (UTC) ==Voting systems== Hi Henrygb, it's great to see you here! I just wanted to let you know about List of voting systems topics and Wikipedia:WikiProject Voting Systems. You'd probably be qualified to contribute to these! Also, in the Maltese and N. Ireland STV elections, was the non-proportionality caused by small districts? User:DanKeshet :I don't know all the reasons, but it looks as if Malta has a two party system where both parties have almost equal support, so the rounding associated with having STV constituencies at all makes this quite possible. In Northern Ireland in 1998, one cause may have been more small Unionist parties and a greater tendancy to transfer votes on the Unionist side than on the Nationalist side. --User:Henrygb ::It was also caused by differential turnout - higher in the more Nationalist West, lowest in the strongly Unionist Belfast suburbs. Your analysis of Malta is spot on. User:Gerry Lynch 17:10, 19 Jul 2004 (UTC) ==Greenland Dock== Henry, you've modified Greenland Dock to say that it's one of only a few surviving docks on the south bank of the Thames. What are the others? -- User:ChrisO 10:48, 16 Mar 2004 (UTC) :South Dock (south of Greenland Dock) is clearly one [http://www.sdockmarina.co.uk/]. Surrey Water and Canada Water are also survivors as bodies of water with dock walls, though they cannot be accessed by boat. --User:Henrygb 12:00, 16 Mar 2004 (UTC) ::Good point re South Dock - and considering that I live on the dockside I should have realised that myself (doh!). I'm reluctant to consider Surrey or Canada Water as being docks, though, as they are purely ornamental ponds - clearly a major change of use. By that token, you could call Norway Dock a dock on the basis that it still has water in it. Greenland and South Dock are the only south bank docks ''which can still be used as docks''. -- User:ChrisO 12:12, 16 Mar 2004 (UTC) ==MANOVA== Please don't use so MANY capital letters. "Analysis of Variance", with an incorrectly capitalized "V", is a redirect page, as it should be. User:Michael Hardy 18:35, 27 May 2004 (UTC) :Be grateful I didn't write ANalysis Of VAriance (ANOVA) --User:Henrygb 00:07, 28 May 2004 (UTC) ::OK. Another point. You just linked to dispersion, which is a disambiguation page. What would have been appropriate is either
''L''(''x''|''y'')'''. :--User:Henrygb 22:16, 11 Jul 2004 (UTC) ==move Danzig== ''see User talk:Angela for other half of conversation'' Sorry, I can't move it as there doesn't seem to be consensus on Talk:Danzig for this to happen. User:Angelauser talk:Angela 22:16, 14 Jul 2004 (UTC) :I don't think there is any history at Danzig (disambiguation) that needs to be merged. The first revision of that was a cut and paste from Danzig in the first place and all later edits were reverts or minor changes, so I believe that can stay as a redirect. User:Angelauser talk:Angela 22:58, 14 Jul 2004 (UTC) ::It turns out that it wasn't frozen, but simply had the problem of two pages having a history (of little interest), so couldn't be "moved". User:Henrygb == Please stop profanating Polish cities == May I ask you to stop profanating the Polish city of Gdansk. The German name of Danzig was used by the Nazis, and this is still thought to be a profanation to use it today. Thank you. User:PolishPoliticians 22:55, 19 Jul 2004 (UTC) Please stop profanating Polish cities with these Nazi stuff. The full name are essencial. I don't see why you remove them from the header of the Gdansk article, without any discussion. User:PolishPoliticians 23:05, 19 Jul 2004 (UTC) ::This just shows your POV position. You cannot even get consensus in the [http://pl.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Gda%C5%84sk&action=history Polish Wikipedia] to call it ''The Royal Polish City of Gdansk'' in the introduction (and I thought that Poland no longer had a monarchy - so it is hardly essential at the top). On the other hand ''Danzig'' is important to the casual visitor as the starting point of World War II, and was the name used in English for centuries before 1945 - the Nazis did not invent it. The article was unblocked on the understanding that it would be clear to the casual reader in the introduction that Gdansk and the former Danzig were the same city. Your lack of understanding of this point suggests to me you would be wise to refrain from editing the English version of Wikipedia while you calm down and reflect. You might also consider the Wikipedia:Revert#Revert_wars_considered_harmful_.28the_three_revert_guideline.29. --User:Henrygb 23:28, 19 Jul 2004 (UTC) I am sorry I don't think you are right in this case. The German names of Polish cities are insulting to Polish people (beacause of WWII casualties, etc.) and I don't see why the full name like The Kashubian Capital City of Gdańsk should be erase by you in this article: Please be informed that other Polish cities have also such names like The Royal Capital City of Cracow and The Capital City of Poznan User:PolishPoliticians 23:34, 19 Jul 2004 (UTC) :#Saying that the city now called Gdansk in English used to be called Danzig in English should not be insulting to anybody - if you find it insulting, you might consider stopping reading any history in English. I accept people died in World War II; that too is part of history, and so is the former city name ''Danzig''. :#I didn't erase your long names from the article, just from the introduction where they are a distraction and not apparently accepted by anyone else. They remain elsewhere in the article, whether they are in fact still the names or not. :#Excessively long historical names are not needed in the introduction when they prevent more useful information being there. I note that the name is not obviously used by the Gdansk city council [http://www.google.pl/search?q=+site%3Awww.gdansk.pl+%22Kr%C3%B3lewskie+Polskie+Miasto%22] [http://www.google.com/search?q=+site%3Awww.gdansk.pl+%22royal+polish+city%22]. I take your point about Cracow being known as a royal city: I don't speak Polish, but the nearest I got to finding the Gdansk site talking about a royal city was at [http://www.gdansk.pl/gdansk/cat.php?cat=2], but it seemed only to be talking about Cracow and not Gdansk. :#I suggest you deal with this on the correct talk page and stop writing here. I see that have put something on Talk:Gdansk. Your Nazi comment seems to have been rejected. We will see what happens to your Royal/Capital comment, though I think it will confuse readers if they think Poland has several capitals. :--User:Henrygb 01:26, 20 Jul 2004 (UTC) ==TeXnicality== Your comments on Box-Muller transform prompt this comment. Notice the difference in appearance between this: and this: And, as with \sin and \cos, so also with \log and \det and \max and \exp and \sup, etc. User:Michael Hardy 23:03, 20 Jul 2004 (UTC) ==Map== [http://en.wikipedia.org/upload/archive/d/dd/20040612113709%21LocationScotland.png] was even worse! User:Morwen - User_talk:Morwen 21:08, 23 Jul 2004 (UTC) == The Drapers' arms == I've no idea why it was originally stored here as a .png-- the .jpg is so much smaller. I'm guessing someone wrote to the Drapers and asked for a copy and they sent their lossless version. User:Marnanel 01:36, 30 Jul 2004 (UTC) == Naming wars == Since you were either directly or indirectly once involved into edits revolving around "proper" naming of cities like Gdansk/Danzig etc i thought you may be interested in my proposition in User:Szopen/NamingWar. I would want to create a way aimed at stopping the revert wars in future - through creating something like a msg (in see also list or header) explaining that's there is compromise and why, and by linking to the article explaining changes of the statuses of the Royal Prussia province (I would prefer it ot have it as separate article, not scatter it in plethora other articles). I would be happy to hear from you. User:Szopen 09:14, 5 Aug 2004 (UTC) == Anglo-Norman and Anglo-Norman language == You wrote ''Info merged from Anglo-Norman language since all language links come here'' just as I was in the middle of disambiguating the links. (No harm done, just thought you'd like to know.) User:Gdr 19:39, 2004 Aug 8 (UTC) :Thank you for telling me. I was not prepared to go through changing so many links, but if you are that is fine by me. --User:Henrygb 21:47, 8 Aug 2004 (UTC) ::There were only about 20, and some of them weren't links to the language but to the people so didn't need to be changed. User:Gdr 23:24, 2004 Aug 8 (UTC) == States of Malaysia == Hi henrygb. I'm just wondering whether you might like to comment on Talk:States_of_Malaysia regarding the official states names. -- User:Sabre23t 03:33, 15 Aug 2004 (UTC) == Canada goose image == Hi. It appears you uploaded :Image:CanadaGoslingRotherhithe.jpg but did not provide any information on its copyright status. I have marked it as unknown for now. If want to release it under GFDL or public domain, please mention this on the image description page. Thanks. User:RedWolf 05:44, Aug 22, 2004 (UTC) :The image description page says "''personal photograph''" which I think is enough of a source. Apart from that, my text and image contributions (unless otherwise stated) are covered by Wikipedia:Copyrights#Contributors' rights and obligations, i.e. GFDL by default. I see no need to go any further than checking the box in the upload process. --User:Henrygb 14:01, 5 Sep 2004 (UTC) == Statistics lead section == I've proposed a new lead section for the Statistics article. See Talk:Statistics#My attempt at article lead section and my comment immediately above that one. Comments welcome. - User:Dcljr 19:40, 2 Sep 2004 (UTC) == Slashes in wiki-links == Thanks for fixing the slashes in list of Khoisan languages and //Gana language. --Merovingian">User:MerovingianTalk">User talk:Merovingian 23:15, Sep 14, 2004 (UTC) == Draperstown == Apologies for that slip. Bah! I knew I would make it on one of the pages (going from editing hundreds of RoI town articles to some NI ones!). Quite a serious mistake to make! Thanks for fixing it! User:Zoney ♣ User talk:Zoney 11:12, 18 Oct 2004 (UTC) ==Football World Cup 2006 - North, Central American and Caribbean Qualification Groups== Hi there - noted your comment on this page - I really dont think it's matter of merging this with the main front page ; the main World Cup 2006 page should be reserved for the Finals. I reckon the current Football World Cup 2006 page just needs to be tidied up to reflect the fact that I have put up the match lists for all the qualifying confederations - I'll be in a position to do it in the next day or so. -- User:Zaphod Beeblebrox 15:32, 20 Oct 2004 (UTC) == Vedic Mathematics == Hello Henry, I see that you are the source of misinformation in this section. You should not believe everything you read on the internet as their are strong political reason for some to descredit every Indian accomplishent as a form of "Hindu Nationalism." Not all Vedic and Sanskrit literature is of a theistic nature. The reason for this fallacy is that the interest of westerners towards an "exotic" culture has always been towards the "spiritual" and the "occult." This ignores a large part of ancient Indian history. What many have failed to notice is that mathematics played a large part in the ancient Indian culture. Panini's Sanskrit grammar texts are based on the principles of algebra and what we would today call semiotics. Aryabatta and Charvaka were examples of two ancient philosophers who emphasised that this material world is the only world and that we should only believe that which we can observe and analyze. A term given to this thought is called Lokayatra or "layman" school which is entirely materialistic. Mathematical formulas are in the Vedas for the building of architecture and the designing of Yantras which are very complex. The verses are also mathematical based so they can be memorized. A logic system called Nyaya - literaly "not this" - encourages doubt and skeptism. It is an analyitic system based on logic, proof and observation in much the same way as the scientific method is in the west. Vedic mathematics is quite well known many south Indians of the previous generation as they had a much more complete text of the Arthaveda in Tamil. Written Tamil carved into wood slabs is much older than written Sanskrit texts though the later is usually credited as the source. This is where much of what is called Vedic mathematics originated from. It has been questioned if the Arthaveda - along with maybe 11 other lesser known Vedas - are actually part of the original Vedas. This is mostly due to the translations into local dialects being the only known or existing source, yet this does not question the age in which these works were made nor that they were indegous to India as they all were. :Thank you for pointing out the POV edits to Vedic mathematics [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Vedic_mathematics&diff=6992548&oldid=6960277]. I have reverted it. The issue is whether the following questions are legitimate for the article: :# Did Shri Bharati Krishna Tirthaji state he based "Vedic mathematics" on an appendix of Atharvaveda, rather than Atharvaveda itself? :# Does this appendix exist now or did he lose it? :# Is there any evidence that this appendix existed before the 20th century? :# Are the contents of "Vedic mathematics" consistent with the known mathematics of ancient India? :# Are the contents of "Vedic mathematics" consistent with "Vedic science", i.e. are they a philosophy or are they a set of mental arithmetic shortcuts which work in a few cases? :# Is "Vedic mathematics" being promoted by those often described as "Hindu nationalists"? :# Are there serious critics of "Vedic mathematics", and if so, should they be mentioned in the article? :--User:Henrygb 22:29, 30 Oct 2004 (UTC) I would sign up except that I have a fear that this can turn out to be a time drain on my allready busy life. But one fallacy has all ready put your article under suspect and that is the questioning of decimal fractions. I should know this because I studied some of the passages in the Vedas concerning architecture. The western method of deviding a circle is in degrees where 360 measures the full continuum. This was derived from the ancient Greeks. India had an independent method of measuring a circle which was to have the full continuum measure 1. This meant that the angles would be broken into decimal fractions as apposed to degrees. It was introduced into modern mathematics in the west as radions and is not widely used. The division of circles and angles was very important in the designing of yantras and the building of architecture for the ancient Hindus. So to say that the decimal system did not exist in Indian mathematics already discredits your article by showing that a thorough and rigorous attitude has not been used even in your elementary research that would give you the authority to write on this topic. :Those of my comments you object to have been quotes of critics. You seem to be saying that ancient Indian mathematicians measured angles as a fraction of a circle. That implies neither radians nor decimal fractions. If you look at the article on Decimal#Decimal_writers, you will see that it says :*"''c. 598–670 Brahmagupta – decimal integers, negative integers, and zero''" :*"''c. 920–980 Abu'l Hasan Ahmad ibn Ibrahim Al-Uqlidisi – first direct treatment of decimal fractions''" :So to be clear, this is not an attempt to put European mathematics first. Are you saying that this is wrong and that the Vedas, more than a thousand years before the latter of these dates, used decimal fractions directly? That would be news indeed and well worth clarifying. "Vedic mathematics" does deal with decimal fractions directly: see Vedic_mathematics#Method_1:_using_multiplications for an example. --User:Henrygb 23:48, 31 Oct 2004 (UTC) ==An inequality on location and scale parameters== Hello. In consequence of your editing, the "displayed" TeX is no longer indented (as by a colon, as follows): : Also, the two lines are closer together than they would be if separated by a blank line, as above. I am not adept with tables, or I would have adjusted these matters. Can you help? Thanks. User:Michael Hardy 22:09, 22 Nov 2004 (UTC) ==The Humungous Image Tagging Project== Hi. You've helped with the Wikipedia:WikiProject Wiki Syntax, so I thought it worth alerting you to the latest and greatest of Wikipedia fixing project, User:Yann/Untagged Images, which is seeking to put copyright tags on all of the untagged images. There are probably, oh, thirty thousand or so to do (he said, reaching into the air for a large figure). But hey: they're images ... you'll get to see lots of random pretty pictures. That must be better than looking for ''at at'' and ''the the'', non? You know you'll love it. best wishes --User:Tagishsimon User_talk:Tagishsimon :Thanks for the invitation, but as you will see above on the Canada goose image section above, I think the project may be a diversion. --User:Henrygb 12:28, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC) == Article Licensing == Hi, I've User:rambot#Free the Rambot Articles project to get users to Wikipedia:Multi-licensing all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (''CC-by-sa'') v1.0 and v2.0 Creative Commons Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The ''CC-by-sa'' license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the Wikipedia:List_of_Wikipedians_by_number_of_edits Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at ''minimum'' those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information: *User talk:Ram-Man#Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered *Wikipedia:Multi-licensing *User:rambot#Free the Rambot Articles project To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "
Ogmore River v. River Ogmore All the other Rivers in Wales are designated by River Name. I would suggest that this Article by moved to River Ogmore and Ogmore River be used as the redirect. Is thatOK ?
User:Velela 22:58, 6 Feb 2005 (UTC) :I have no objection - I was probably following an existing red link. But I note that [http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=%22Ogmore+River%22+-wikipedia "Ogmore River"] is marginally more common on Google than [http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=%22River+Ogmore%22+-wikipedia "River Ogmore"]. --User:Henrygb 23:48, 6 Feb 2005 (UTC) ==Vote on Talk:Gdansk/Vote== Hi. Since you have edited on pages with disputes about the names of Polish/German locations, I would invite you to vote on Talk:Gdansk/Vote to settle the multi-year dozens-of-pages dispute about the naming of Gdansk/Danzig and other locations. The vote has two parts, one with questions when to use Gdansk/Danzig, and a second part affecting articles related to locations with Polish/German history in general. An enforcement is also voted on. The vote has a total of 10 questions to vote on, and ends in two weeks on Friday, March 4 0:00. Thank you -- User:Chris 73 User talk:Chris 73 00:43, Feb 18, 2005 (UTC) == A Doomsday question == Hi Henry. I've put a question to you at Talk:Doomsday_argument, but I thought you may not see it, so here I am, pointing it out. --User:Noetica 06:37, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC) Thanks. I'd be grateful if you would visit the page again, as I have replied there. (Have you got it watchlisted?) --User:Noetica 13:33, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC) I appreciate your last reply, but I have a further question. Please Talk:Doomsday_argument#A_query_for_Henrygb, if you can find the time. --User:Noetica 21:47, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC) Talk:Doomsday_argument#A_query_for_Henrygb --User:Noetica 01:08, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC) Talk:Doomsday_argument#A_query_for_Henrygb (But I'll assume from now on that it's watchlisted.) --User:Noetica 03:21, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC) Damn! It was only a comment on an apostrophe... (:| --User:Noetica 00:57, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC) ==Image:Primrose League.jpg== Your picture at :Image:Primrose League.jpg is really impressive. Where did it come from? --User:Audiovideo 23:06, 27 Feb 2005 (UTC) :I inherited a collection of badges dating from 1885 to 1895, so thought a picture (with a bit of compression) might help illustrate the article. I'm glad you like them. --User:Henrygb 23:12, 27 Feb 2005 (UTC) ::Let's hope you have more treasures hidden away. BTW, I read the link on your user page. As far as I can see the arguments against you being an admin didn't hold water. It is not as if Wikipedia has a surplus of admins and a lack of tasks. Next time I suggest you show a bit of keenness and argue with the idiotic negative comments. Then you can just go back to continuing the good work. --User:Audiovideo 23:34, 27 Feb 2005 (UTC) ==vanavsos== I am all for changing the title of the article. I may have been ignorant in my naming of the article and it is a simple mistake on my part. People are right now discussing changing it. I would like to ask for a reconsideration on your part to change your vote to "keep". Thanks.User:WHEELER 18:45, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC) == South Africa FA == Hello, thank you so much for pointing out the copy vios on the South Africa article. It was horribly embarassing to me. I have completely rewritten these sections and they are no longer copywrite violations. I look forward to hearing your updated opinion at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/South Africa. User:PZFUN 23:48, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC) == Redirecting Race denial to Validity of human races == Thanks a bunch for finding that article. I wasn't particularly looking forward to the discussion on the original one. User:82.92.119.11 00:48, 7 Mar 2005 (UTC) ==Genealogy== I object to you referring to my link additions as spam. There is no intention to spam. These sites are important and genealogy should be included on each state page. User:Cribbswh 21:26, 11 Mar 2005 (UTC) ==Toxicology== Do you think the various articles you are creating such as Adequately wet etc. will ever amount to more than dictionary defition stubs. I would just hope you could consider the issue before you move onto the Bs. --User:Henrygb 01:03, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC) :Do you think I shouldn't include such topics, or should I try including them in relevant articles instead? (unless there is a decent amount to write about the topic). --brian0918™ 01:05, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC) ::Happy to discuss here, because I only have one small screen. I don't think some of them will ever expand, but I would have no objection to "adequately wet" being mentioned on the asbestos page for example. So I would suggest either inserting them into other articles or grouping them together by topic. --User:Henrygb 01:12, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC) ==:Image:Bernabeu.jpg== ''Discussion moved to Image talk:Bernabeu.jpg#Copyright.'' == Absolute poverty and relative poverty == I made some edits to these articles and their talk pages which may clarify my thinking. -- User:Beland 05:21, 24 Mar 2005 (UTC) == Elona Bojaxhi == Hiya.. thanks for pointing that out, I have deleted the temp page as a recreation of a VFD-deleted article. —User:Stormie 03:12, Mar 25, 2005 (UTC) == Northumbria == Why are you putting Northumbria in wherever you fin North East England? It is not the official name, and to the extent it has a geographical or historical meaning, it also includes much of Yorkshire. --Henrygb 15:33, 25 Mar 2005 (UTC) :I am putting Northumbria wherever North East England is because today it is a common name for the region especially since Northumbrian culture as it is called is to be promoted more actively throughout the region. Are you sure that that name includes much of Yorkshire? As far as I know it is only used for the NE. Also, why did you remove the table I added to the article? That certainly wasn't my POV. There were encyclopaedic facts on the region. User:REX 20:14, 25 Mar 2005 (UTC) ::Northumbria can mean many things: anywhere in England north of the Humber; the Humber to the River Forth (so SE Scotland as well); the River Tees to the Tweed, perhaps plus Berwick; the River Tyne to the Tweed, perhaps plus Berwick (i.e. the old Northumberland) and perhaps plus Gateshead, South Tyneside and Sunderland (e.g. the area of [http://ww3.northumbria.police.uk/northumbria/main.asp Northumbria Police]). Many people in County Durham would reject the idea of being in Northumbria. But if you think Middlesbrough or Redcar (ex-Yorkshire) are in Northumbria then it would be quite difficult to say Whitby was not, and I would say Hull as well. As for the box - it was about North East England and belongs on the North East England page. I added two extra links to North East England near the top of the Northumbria page, but the two are not equivalent. --User:Henrygb 22:43, 25 Mar 2005 (UTC) ==Drapers' Company== Thanks for pointing me to the information about two kings of Norway being members of the Company. I've translated the article now, at :no:Worshipful Company of Drapers. I did look at it earlier, but only read the first paragraph as I felt I wasn't quite prepared to dive into the livery companies at the time. User:Cnyborg 09:20, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC) == Some quick questions, since you welcomed me! == Hello Henrygb, I've just made a comment to yours on the Jaynes prior probability question ("prior probabilities"). But I note that some things did not come out as I expected... Namely, I can't figure out how to get the UTC date and time of my comment to appear. Also, my identifier comes out in red...I am presuming that this is an invitation for me to create a page for myself, but I don't want to do this unless it is appropriate. (I am presuming that this page is the sort of thing needed) Thanks, Bill Jefferys User:Billjefferys I assume you found out what to do as you blanked your question, but for the record: *Put what you want on your user page - what you have done is fine. Comment to others on a talk page (yours, theirs, an article talk page, wherever). *
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