This file is an archive - please do not add new discussion here - add it to my Talk page
Hey JPD, thanks for supporting my recent RfA. It passed with an amazing final tally of 160/4/1. It was awesome having so many fantastic Australian editors get behind me. Thanks JPD. :) Cheers, Sarah Ewart ( Talk) 04:27, 20 September 2006 (UTC)\
You disappoint me. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.33.29.56 ( talk • contribs) 15:45 20 September 2006
Please return the article on John Medica. He is a personal friend of ours and knows all about this article. We were doing it as a celebration of one of his recent accomplishments and so he could get a good laugh about it. His other friends would appreciate it as well. We only wanted it to be up for a week or two. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Flowjd ( talk • contribs) 14:40, 21 September 2006
Hey JPD. I'm not sure why you deleted the link to swift city. We don't make any money off the site - there is no advertising, and people don't have to pay anything to view the content. Also, businesses can't pay us to be included. We have a bunch of people from around the world who are writing articles on their favourite places to go etc. We will be launching many new cities soon. When you read the Wiki guidelines on what is link spam, this doesn't fall under that. Hope you can reconsider. Thanks!
Hej JPD, I'm working on some Australia related articles on the french language Wikipedia and I wanted to know if I can use the maps you uploaded on en.wikipedia such as this one Image:City of sydney.png, first on Commons and then on fr.wikipedia. You can answer me here, I'm watching you :-) Thanks -- Sam67fr 10:11, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
Hello. I wonder if you can you help me? I came across a rather eccentric page entitled Anti-Germanism, which seems to have no place in an encyclopedia. I began the 'put forward for deletion' process-labelling the page as a start-and then discovered that there seems to have been a previous deletion of the same (or similar?) item. I am not quite sure how to proceed. I have given my reasons for requesting deletion on the present article's talk page. I turn to you because your signature is on the previous deletion's entry page. I'm a fairly new user and this is all becoming horribly complicated! Sorry to bother you. White Guard 05:21, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for your help!
White Guard
21:59, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
I apologize for the false reverting, but, I didn't realize that the articles were already being edited at the time.-- Mr Fink 15:55, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the note JPD. For one of my admin chores, I've been trying to help with some of the image licensing categories-- the ones with incomplete source or copyright info to be deleted after 7 days. However, these are often left until around 14 days, and there are multiple categories, so as you can see, there are almost too many to deal with. Its a lot of work just deleting them and there aren't many people doing this. I have noticed this concern elsewhere, just yesterday, that the ones deleting them should remove the links, and I'll try to do this from now on. Regards, DVD+ R/W 00:18, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
Hi JPD. Looking for a quick opinion from a professional mathematician who wrote stuff about Hopf algebras. Errm, User:LW77 has put a couple of articles I created Quasi-Hopf algebra and Quasi-triangular Quasi-Hopf algebra into the Category:Hopf algebras. I only tried looking at this stuff for an honours project last year and didn't get too far, but if I'm not mistaken Hopf algebra is a subset of Quasi-Hopf algebra and not the other way around. Also it seems that User:Figaro is another Australian mathematician (QLD) who is active in this area with Yang-Baxter equation - is Australia a hopf algebra place?!?!!? Regards, Blnguyen | BLabberiNg 00:50, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
Has he gone? Finally got bored? Is a Woo-Hoo! in order? lol -- Merbabu 02:58, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
You might be interested in the recent addition to the page Waynflete Professorships! QuantumGroupie 10:49, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
This bears looking into. If I knew for sure what a quantum group was, I'd be that much further forward. A Category:Quantum groups could house that article, compact quantum group, locally compact quantum group, and could be a subcategory of a Category:Coalgebras, and of Category:Mathematical quantization. A Category:Coalgebras could be a subcategory of Category:Abstract algebra, with Category:Hopf algebras another subcategory of Category:Coalgebras. Quasi-Hopf algebra could lie in Category:Coalgebras and in no subcategory. (If I have the wrong idea about the definitions, please just point this out.)
In any case, the approach should really be: small glitches in the category system are tolerable, but at a certain point of acccumulation of articles revamping the system is a good idea. That is, the system adapts to what is actually posted here. Charles Matthews 10:45, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
I saw you made the colours on the Marrickville by-election page on the election boxes and I was wondering if you could finish making the remaining colours. I am currently working on making election boxes on some the electorate pages of the Victorian state elections and I need the colours for the Liberal, National and Family First parties. Please contact me on ny talk page once you either :
Hi Jp. Have you worked out what all the buttons do yet? -- WikiCats 10:15, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a deletion review of Blake Bowden. Since you closed the deletion discussion for (or speedy-deleted) this article, your reasons on how or why you did so will be greatly appreciated in the above review.
(See the recent contributions by the article's author/subject.) -- Tim D 18:45, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
Just wanted to let you know a featured article you worked on, 0.999..., was featured today on the Main Page. Tobacman 00:27, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
Melbourne's founding by free-settlers is a distinct point of difference between it and other major Australian cities, and relevant to understanding the cultural makeup of the city. Have removed the 'not by convincts' stuff and replaced with a link to free-settlers which I hope someone else will create.
Cultural capital is also a well known characteristic of the city, have removed link to tourist guide per your suggestion (though Fodor's is a large, reputable source) however you're free to add other references - a Google search for 'Cultural Cpital of Australia' should reveal a variety of sources to choose from, some of which will likely meet your standards.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 220.253.52.114 ( talk • contribs) .
Hi JPD,
I noticed that you left several comments on Talk:Victorian legislative election, 2006 about the length of that article. I recently severed the section about the campaign and placed that in a new article 2006 Victorian election campaign. There is now a dispute about how that article should be re-structured if at all and we need more opinions of more editors to reach a consensus. Could you please take a look if you are still interested? Grumpyyoungman01 03:05, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
Hi JPD.
Sorry to ask, but I am hoping you can help or point me in the right direction.
It seems that I have embarassed a (schoolboy?) editor into asking for their hoax/vanity page to be removed - see name removed, Talk:name removed, and also on my own Talk page where what seems the same User has added: "Please delete the article: 'name removed' as soon as possible.".
Obviously I cannot delete the article myself, and I am still very much struggling through the labrynth of Wiki procedures. Are you either able to meet user 529's request yourself or demonstrate/direct to me what action I should be taking from here?
Cheers. Pudgey 05:04, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
Hi J, I've had another go at this and — since you did all the work on the last one — thought I'd ask you before I put it up for discussion at Talk:Football. See what you think. All suggestions welcome. Cheers, Grant65 | Talk 08:36, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
I am 99% certain this is Jackp: User:RaptorRobot. But, he seems to be smart enough except on one occassion not to go near Sydney (which is a dead give away), he just uses his anon IP for those edits. But his film contribs are all the same. Also Raptor Robot likes to change Sydney, Australia to Sydney etc, just like Jackp. he also like to play around with the image sizes on Sydney and edited Sydney as an anon 4 mins later. -- Merbabu 04:54, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
Oh yeah.... I picked the wrong version to revert to! Thanks for fixing that. I'm sure it's him too. JPD ( talk) 12:32, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
I would like to express my appreciation of the time you spent considering my successful RfA. Thankyou Gnangarra 13:15, 26 November 2006 (UTC) |
I've been off line for a while. How are things? -- WikiCats 11:03, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
Hi JPD - would you be keen to have an article on public transport in Sydney? I know you were a little concerned about its recent change to "metropolitan New South Wales", and I'm not intending to delete that, but surely a good article on that would be a good link from the Sydney page? JROBBO 10:16, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
Hi Ekotkie. Thanks for trying to fix the short ISBN at Flag of Australia. I changed it back, because it looked like the ISBN you gave was for the second edition in 1985, rather than the 1982 edition mentioned in the reference. However, I then noticed that the 1988 edition is mentioned online with the same ISBN. Is it normal for different editions to have the same ISBN? If so, I'll correct it again. If you correct it in the meantime, please read WP:MOS#National_varieties_of_English and don't change the Australian spelling again. Thanks, JPD (talk) 19:54, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
Please excuse my rather quick msg. above. I mistook your id for another Australian who is involved in a Wiki project of correcting ISBN's in error. If you would take a quick spin over to CAT:INVALID you will find a whole category of invalid ISBN's that a group of us are correcting. A quick bit of history. Back in 2000 the ISBN committee started plans for expanding the ISBN format from 10 digit to 13 digits. Unfortunately (My words here) the plan has been very haphazard. What has been found is that past ISBN's first had to be validated and then, in some cases, modified to preclude no falling into areas that were not allowed. (Very complex) The next step, Jan 2007, is to start converting these corrected ISBN's over to proper 13 digit ISBN's. Wiki has a smart bot that has been reviewing all of Wiki-land and when it spots an errant ISBN it attaches a "Template statement" and a flag note at the bottom of the page so indicating an invalid ISBN exists. Please excuse my intrusion onto your page but thank you for challenging why I was there. I use Firefox and it flags *spelling* **errors** (Firefox needs to learn how to speak Australian) and I focus a bit closer to ISBN's (bad me). Ekotkie 20:58, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
Hi. Thanks for your message. I knew that this was house style for references, but didn't realise it was the case for tags. SP-KP 17:38, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
This file is an archive - please do not add new discussion here - add it to my Talk page
Hey JPD, thanks for supporting my recent RfA. It passed with an amazing final tally of 160/4/1. It was awesome having so many fantastic Australian editors get behind me. Thanks JPD. :) Cheers, Sarah Ewart ( Talk) 04:27, 20 September 2006 (UTC)\
You disappoint me. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.33.29.56 ( talk • contribs) 15:45 20 September 2006
Please return the article on John Medica. He is a personal friend of ours and knows all about this article. We were doing it as a celebration of one of his recent accomplishments and so he could get a good laugh about it. His other friends would appreciate it as well. We only wanted it to be up for a week or two. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Flowjd ( talk • contribs) 14:40, 21 September 2006
Hey JPD. I'm not sure why you deleted the link to swift city. We don't make any money off the site - there is no advertising, and people don't have to pay anything to view the content. Also, businesses can't pay us to be included. We have a bunch of people from around the world who are writing articles on their favourite places to go etc. We will be launching many new cities soon. When you read the Wiki guidelines on what is link spam, this doesn't fall under that. Hope you can reconsider. Thanks!
Hej JPD, I'm working on some Australia related articles on the french language Wikipedia and I wanted to know if I can use the maps you uploaded on en.wikipedia such as this one Image:City of sydney.png, first on Commons and then on fr.wikipedia. You can answer me here, I'm watching you :-) Thanks -- Sam67fr 10:11, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
Hello. I wonder if you can you help me? I came across a rather eccentric page entitled Anti-Germanism, which seems to have no place in an encyclopedia. I began the 'put forward for deletion' process-labelling the page as a start-and then discovered that there seems to have been a previous deletion of the same (or similar?) item. I am not quite sure how to proceed. I have given my reasons for requesting deletion on the present article's talk page. I turn to you because your signature is on the previous deletion's entry page. I'm a fairly new user and this is all becoming horribly complicated! Sorry to bother you. White Guard 05:21, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for your help!
White Guard
21:59, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
I apologize for the false reverting, but, I didn't realize that the articles were already being edited at the time.-- Mr Fink 15:55, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the note JPD. For one of my admin chores, I've been trying to help with some of the image licensing categories-- the ones with incomplete source or copyright info to be deleted after 7 days. However, these are often left until around 14 days, and there are multiple categories, so as you can see, there are almost too many to deal with. Its a lot of work just deleting them and there aren't many people doing this. I have noticed this concern elsewhere, just yesterday, that the ones deleting them should remove the links, and I'll try to do this from now on. Regards, DVD+ R/W 00:18, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
Hi JPD. Looking for a quick opinion from a professional mathematician who wrote stuff about Hopf algebras. Errm, User:LW77 has put a couple of articles I created Quasi-Hopf algebra and Quasi-triangular Quasi-Hopf algebra into the Category:Hopf algebras. I only tried looking at this stuff for an honours project last year and didn't get too far, but if I'm not mistaken Hopf algebra is a subset of Quasi-Hopf algebra and not the other way around. Also it seems that User:Figaro is another Australian mathematician (QLD) who is active in this area with Yang-Baxter equation - is Australia a hopf algebra place?!?!!? Regards, Blnguyen | BLabberiNg 00:50, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
Has he gone? Finally got bored? Is a Woo-Hoo! in order? lol -- Merbabu 02:58, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
You might be interested in the recent addition to the page Waynflete Professorships! QuantumGroupie 10:49, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
This bears looking into. If I knew for sure what a quantum group was, I'd be that much further forward. A Category:Quantum groups could house that article, compact quantum group, locally compact quantum group, and could be a subcategory of a Category:Coalgebras, and of Category:Mathematical quantization. A Category:Coalgebras could be a subcategory of Category:Abstract algebra, with Category:Hopf algebras another subcategory of Category:Coalgebras. Quasi-Hopf algebra could lie in Category:Coalgebras and in no subcategory. (If I have the wrong idea about the definitions, please just point this out.)
In any case, the approach should really be: small glitches in the category system are tolerable, but at a certain point of acccumulation of articles revamping the system is a good idea. That is, the system adapts to what is actually posted here. Charles Matthews 10:45, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
I saw you made the colours on the Marrickville by-election page on the election boxes and I was wondering if you could finish making the remaining colours. I am currently working on making election boxes on some the electorate pages of the Victorian state elections and I need the colours for the Liberal, National and Family First parties. Please contact me on ny talk page once you either :
Hi Jp. Have you worked out what all the buttons do yet? -- WikiCats 10:15, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a deletion review of Blake Bowden. Since you closed the deletion discussion for (or speedy-deleted) this article, your reasons on how or why you did so will be greatly appreciated in the above review.
(See the recent contributions by the article's author/subject.) -- Tim D 18:45, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
Just wanted to let you know a featured article you worked on, 0.999..., was featured today on the Main Page. Tobacman 00:27, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
Melbourne's founding by free-settlers is a distinct point of difference between it and other major Australian cities, and relevant to understanding the cultural makeup of the city. Have removed the 'not by convincts' stuff and replaced with a link to free-settlers which I hope someone else will create.
Cultural capital is also a well known characteristic of the city, have removed link to tourist guide per your suggestion (though Fodor's is a large, reputable source) however you're free to add other references - a Google search for 'Cultural Cpital of Australia' should reveal a variety of sources to choose from, some of which will likely meet your standards.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 220.253.52.114 ( talk • contribs) .
Hi JPD,
I noticed that you left several comments on Talk:Victorian legislative election, 2006 about the length of that article. I recently severed the section about the campaign and placed that in a new article 2006 Victorian election campaign. There is now a dispute about how that article should be re-structured if at all and we need more opinions of more editors to reach a consensus. Could you please take a look if you are still interested? Grumpyyoungman01 03:05, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
Hi JPD.
Sorry to ask, but I am hoping you can help or point me in the right direction.
It seems that I have embarassed a (schoolboy?) editor into asking for their hoax/vanity page to be removed - see name removed, Talk:name removed, and also on my own Talk page where what seems the same User has added: "Please delete the article: 'name removed' as soon as possible.".
Obviously I cannot delete the article myself, and I am still very much struggling through the labrynth of Wiki procedures. Are you either able to meet user 529's request yourself or demonstrate/direct to me what action I should be taking from here?
Cheers. Pudgey 05:04, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
Hi J, I've had another go at this and — since you did all the work on the last one — thought I'd ask you before I put it up for discussion at Talk:Football. See what you think. All suggestions welcome. Cheers, Grant65 | Talk 08:36, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
I am 99% certain this is Jackp: User:RaptorRobot. But, he seems to be smart enough except on one occassion not to go near Sydney (which is a dead give away), he just uses his anon IP for those edits. But his film contribs are all the same. Also Raptor Robot likes to change Sydney, Australia to Sydney etc, just like Jackp. he also like to play around with the image sizes on Sydney and edited Sydney as an anon 4 mins later. -- Merbabu 04:54, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
Oh yeah.... I picked the wrong version to revert to! Thanks for fixing that. I'm sure it's him too. JPD ( talk) 12:32, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
I would like to express my appreciation of the time you spent considering my successful RfA. Thankyou Gnangarra 13:15, 26 November 2006 (UTC) |
I've been off line for a while. How are things? -- WikiCats 11:03, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
Hi JPD - would you be keen to have an article on public transport in Sydney? I know you were a little concerned about its recent change to "metropolitan New South Wales", and I'm not intending to delete that, but surely a good article on that would be a good link from the Sydney page? JROBBO 10:16, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
Hi Ekotkie. Thanks for trying to fix the short ISBN at Flag of Australia. I changed it back, because it looked like the ISBN you gave was for the second edition in 1985, rather than the 1982 edition mentioned in the reference. However, I then noticed that the 1988 edition is mentioned online with the same ISBN. Is it normal for different editions to have the same ISBN? If so, I'll correct it again. If you correct it in the meantime, please read WP:MOS#National_varieties_of_English and don't change the Australian spelling again. Thanks, JPD (talk) 19:54, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
Please excuse my rather quick msg. above. I mistook your id for another Australian who is involved in a Wiki project of correcting ISBN's in error. If you would take a quick spin over to CAT:INVALID you will find a whole category of invalid ISBN's that a group of us are correcting. A quick bit of history. Back in 2000 the ISBN committee started plans for expanding the ISBN format from 10 digit to 13 digits. Unfortunately (My words here) the plan has been very haphazard. What has been found is that past ISBN's first had to be validated and then, in some cases, modified to preclude no falling into areas that were not allowed. (Very complex) The next step, Jan 2007, is to start converting these corrected ISBN's over to proper 13 digit ISBN's. Wiki has a smart bot that has been reviewing all of Wiki-land and when it spots an errant ISBN it attaches a "Template statement" and a flag note at the bottom of the page so indicating an invalid ISBN exists. Please excuse my intrusion onto your page but thank you for challenging why I was there. I use Firefox and it flags *spelling* **errors** (Firefox needs to learn how to speak Australian) and I focus a bit closer to ISBN's (bad me). Ekotkie 20:58, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
Hi. Thanks for your message. I knew that this was house style for references, but didn't realise it was the case for tags. SP-KP 17:38, 13 January 2007 (UTC)