Saw your apt suggestion about Métis and moved the article, as explained at Talk:Métis and substituted a stub. If you can supply some information about Vietnamese métis but don't want to edit the article, you could leave the information on the talk page for someone else to put in. That's how I got to contribute to the French article – left my copy which was then corrected by the people who can actually speak French and added to the article. John FitzGerald 18:43, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)
I like how you fixed things up :)
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Hi Mistersheik. Sorry for saying you were anonymous, which was a careless error on my part. But you did not explain your edit, and I think it would have been better to do so. Why a link to Phosphor? Because the paragraph is specifically about objects that "emit light that they generate themselves", and phosphors are a major genus of objects that do that. In fact, they cover a good number of those that emit light "for other reasons", as the text says immediately before the link in question. (Why have this link rather than one to Phosphorescence? I see little reason to prefer one rather than the other. But since you like it better, I'll now change it to that.) Anyway, it is reasonable after such a link to link also to List of light sources, because that moves from the specific that had just been treated to something more general, rounding off the discussion of emission of light. OK, I'll make that compromise change I mentioned; and I'll post this note also in the Discussion page. – Noetica 10:31, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
Response on the talk page. Jheald 16:08, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
You seem to have misunderstood the (loose, everyday) sense in which the word "outcomes" was being used in some of your recent edits to various pages on information theory. See Talk:Information_entropy#H(X), H(Ω), and the word 'outcome' for a discussion of the misunderstanding.
Could you fix some of the errors you have introduced, please ?
In general H(X), not H(Ω), is what these pages should be introducing and discussing. Jheald 11:48, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
Your recent edits to the information theory article are incomplete; for example, the penultimate quantity declares that it is the final quantity. Cut-and-paste is not good enough; please proofread and edit this or I'll revert (though you can always use your reverted copy as a reference). More importantly, your edits lengthen the article; the intent in having a separate quantities of information article is to conform (somewhat) with Wikipedia:Article size#Splitting an article. I realize that important information is missing from the article, but those who desire it will go to the linked articles; the article should be an overview of the topic. For example, divergence is important, but &mdash unlike entropy, conditional entropy, and mutual information — it is not needed to understand the most basic ideas of compression and communication, so including it for completeness is unnecessary. Considering this and the frequency of your edits, perhaps a sandbox or talk page would be a better place to make your edits before incorporating them into the article itself. Calbaer 21:02, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for your comments on my talk page. You're right that I should probably use a sandbox to do my edits instead of doing them one-by-one: I ended up getting distracted, and left things a bit sloppy (though I think it's still moving in the right direction).
I guess what I find is that my use of wikipedia is as a reference (so that I often have a question that I'm trying to answer) and that I don't read pages from start to finish. For that reason, my edits are geared to keeping articles structured so that information can be quickly found and to keep out redundancy so that you don't waste time reading things twice. With that in mind, I hope that the quantities of information section on the inf. the. page will have a list of all of the quantities of information, and will mathematically express them in terms of entropies, so that it's easy to understand them all as a whole.
Let me know what you think :)
MisterSheik 23:26, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
You're right. However, right now, the information theory article has three sections: history, applications, and quantities of information. An article about information theory should really, like you say, summarize the main points of information theory. For that reason, I'm not really convinced that quantities of information is a good idea for another article (unless it is expanded to include the measures that you mentioned.) In my case, I was looking for some information and had to check 4 different articles to find it. Ideally, I should see how the main quanties are related on one page, and if I need more information I can find it on the subpages. MisterSheik 01:33, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for your phrasing changes on conditional entropy; I think your phrasing is clearer than mine was. (I can only plead that I originally wrote the intro a few years ago, and hopefully my writing's improved since then.) Good work. -- Creidieki 18:47, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
Hi,
Of course they are pods but they are so often called beans !(on Google : 48,900 occurings for vanilla pods, 364,000 for vanilla beans). So, if you choose to be accurate in the article, you need to explain that the word bean though of common use is not right.
Channer
13:24, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for your corrections; how did they creep in? How embarrassing! Tony 02:55, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
Could you please sign your comments on talk pages? All it takes is for tildes: ~~~~. That automatically puts your user name and the date and time of the edit there. Michael Hardy 17:16, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
People don't understand what that means, there is no wiki definition for it, and it is not in the dictionary. You are doing a disservice to wikipedians by putting this back in the article. Daniel.Cardenas 18:39, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
Good work over at the C# article! Angus Lepper 22:13, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
Hi Mr Sheik. I have a small request. It would be good if you could use the edit summary more often, it helps others understand what you changed and looks good in the article history. Thanks. Oleg Alexandrov ( talk) 23:52, 19 May 2007 (UTC)
To answer your presumably rhetorical question (do you capitalise dog?), no, but it is ornithological convention to capitalise the common names of species, and we follow that convention on Wikipedia. It has been discussed at length, please see Wikipedia:Naming conventions (fauna)#Capitalization of common names of species, as well as the archived talk pages of Wikipedia:WikiProject Birds. Hope this helps! Sabine's Sunbird talk 07:23, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
Hello,
I noticed a comment in one of your edits in the Bayesian network article said 'merged from d-separation.' The D-separation article has been deleted. Do you know which admin deleted it? I think it should either be restored or d-separation should be discussed at far greater length in the main Bayesian network article itself. Unfortunately the delete happened a while ago, and I can't find it in the logs anymore.
Silya 23:52, 9 August 2007 (UTC)
I noticed that you deleted part of my addition to Comparison sort because you thought it redundant. I agree that technically it does not give any information that is not repeated later on, but I think it's very important didactically. For one thing, it provides a link to Information theory which is important for people not familiar with that subject. More importantly, it briefly but clearly states the premises for that result. Too often this lower bound is quoted without stating clearly and exactly the assumptions under which it holds. This then leads to other people coming up with counterexamples outside of its applicability, with confusion resulting. I wrote my contribution mainly to end that confusion. Do you see my point? Grotendeels Onschadelijk 01:57, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
I have now (approximately) reinstated the first paragraph, which captures as briefly as possible the gist of the section and can be read on its own by someone who does not wish to read the whole story. Instead, I have removed a glaring repetition from the second paragraph. As far as I can see, there is nothing else that can be cut without decreasing readability. Grotendeels Onschadelijk 10:54, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
Vow! :) -- Merzul 20:18, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
Or, well, it was the kind of obvious reply one can't resist giving... -- Merzul 20:21, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
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Ok, how do I cite this without linking to a commercial site? FiveRings ( talk) 06:12, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
Coconut oil in the context of this article is not the same thing as sodium cocoyl isethionate, which is a semi-synthetic surfactant salt produced from coconut oil. I see where some MSDS sheets are called coconut oil a synonym for sodium cocoyl isethionate, but this makes no sense from a chemistry perspective. Halogenated ( talk) 05:50, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
Hi - thanks for your comment - a perfectly good point. I've responded on the talk page. Here cheers -- Merbabu ( talk) 06:32, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
I found your "derivation" of entropy from probability theory very illustrative: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Entropy_(information_theory)
Is there a reference you used so that I might explore this discussion further?
Thanks, Wolfworks ( talk) 01:32, 1 August 2009 (UTC)
Hi, on the Garden Strawberry page you asked "Where on the linked page are you looking? "Anaphylactoid response" is synonymous with "anaphylaxis"."
The Anaphylaxis page has the following: "Researchers typically distinguish between "true anaphylaxis" and "pseudo-anaphylaxis" or an "anaphylactoid reaction." The symptoms, treatment, and risk of death are identical, but "true" anaphylaxis is always caused directly by degranulation of mast cells or basophils that is mediated by immunoglobulin E (IgE), and pseudo-anaphylaxis occurs due to all other causes.[8] The distinction is primarily made by those studying mechanisms of allergic reactions."
Anaphylactoid means similar to anaphylaxis, not the same as.
P.S. Actually, I'd dispute that the symptoms are identical, since the rapidity of the response can be much slower.
Peace. Nadiatalent ( talk) 14:37, 1 December 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for your recent edits to Dietary fiber. They offer a significant improvement to the article. -- 4wajzkd02 ( talk) 07:08, 9 December 2009 (UTC)
The definition of Confirmation bias I've given seems to fit the Oswald ref. I expect it can be improved and am open to suggestions. What do you think is terrible with the definition? Thanks in advance, MartinPoulter ( talk) 11:19, 29 December 2009 (UTC) Would it help to add "subjectively" before "confirm"? MartinPoulter ( talk) 11:49, 29 December 2009 (UTC)
While I agree in principle that removing redundancies makes for a better text, I fear that you overlook other issues. Consider e.g. your claim "It should be the other way around: words should contribute the maximum significance with the minimum ostentation. Writers who use words as ornaments come across as pretentious at best, and ignoramuses at worst.": Is this really the best way to bring over your point? I suspect that Strunk would have made several alterations. I also note that the second sentence comes across as involuntary irony.
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Saw your apt suggestion about Métis and moved the article, as explained at Talk:Métis and substituted a stub. If you can supply some information about Vietnamese métis but don't want to edit the article, you could leave the information on the talk page for someone else to put in. That's how I got to contribute to the French article – left my copy which was then corrected by the people who can actually speak French and added to the article. John FitzGerald 18:43, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)
I like how you fixed things up :)
Congratulations, First Indochina War has been voted this week's Wikipedia:Collaboration of the week. Please edit it to help raise it to featured article status.
Hi. You might be interested in participating in new Wikipedia:WikiProject Contract bridge. Regards, Duja 10:17, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the great copyedit on Canada -- Jeff3000 21:15, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
Hi Mistersheik. Sorry for saying you were anonymous, which was a careless error on my part. But you did not explain your edit, and I think it would have been better to do so. Why a link to Phosphor? Because the paragraph is specifically about objects that "emit light that they generate themselves", and phosphors are a major genus of objects that do that. In fact, they cover a good number of those that emit light "for other reasons", as the text says immediately before the link in question. (Why have this link rather than one to Phosphorescence? I see little reason to prefer one rather than the other. But since you like it better, I'll now change it to that.) Anyway, it is reasonable after such a link to link also to List of light sources, because that moves from the specific that had just been treated to something more general, rounding off the discussion of emission of light. OK, I'll make that compromise change I mentioned; and I'll post this note also in the Discussion page. – Noetica 10:31, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
Response on the talk page. Jheald 16:08, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
You seem to have misunderstood the (loose, everyday) sense in which the word "outcomes" was being used in some of your recent edits to various pages on information theory. See Talk:Information_entropy#H(X), H(Ω), and the word 'outcome' for a discussion of the misunderstanding.
Could you fix some of the errors you have introduced, please ?
In general H(X), not H(Ω), is what these pages should be introducing and discussing. Jheald 11:48, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
Your recent edits to the information theory article are incomplete; for example, the penultimate quantity declares that it is the final quantity. Cut-and-paste is not good enough; please proofread and edit this or I'll revert (though you can always use your reverted copy as a reference). More importantly, your edits lengthen the article; the intent in having a separate quantities of information article is to conform (somewhat) with Wikipedia:Article size#Splitting an article. I realize that important information is missing from the article, but those who desire it will go to the linked articles; the article should be an overview of the topic. For example, divergence is important, but &mdash unlike entropy, conditional entropy, and mutual information — it is not needed to understand the most basic ideas of compression and communication, so including it for completeness is unnecessary. Considering this and the frequency of your edits, perhaps a sandbox or talk page would be a better place to make your edits before incorporating them into the article itself. Calbaer 21:02, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for your comments on my talk page. You're right that I should probably use a sandbox to do my edits instead of doing them one-by-one: I ended up getting distracted, and left things a bit sloppy (though I think it's still moving in the right direction).
I guess what I find is that my use of wikipedia is as a reference (so that I often have a question that I'm trying to answer) and that I don't read pages from start to finish. For that reason, my edits are geared to keeping articles structured so that information can be quickly found and to keep out redundancy so that you don't waste time reading things twice. With that in mind, I hope that the quantities of information section on the inf. the. page will have a list of all of the quantities of information, and will mathematically express them in terms of entropies, so that it's easy to understand them all as a whole.
Let me know what you think :)
MisterSheik 23:26, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
You're right. However, right now, the information theory article has three sections: history, applications, and quantities of information. An article about information theory should really, like you say, summarize the main points of information theory. For that reason, I'm not really convinced that quantities of information is a good idea for another article (unless it is expanded to include the measures that you mentioned.) In my case, I was looking for some information and had to check 4 different articles to find it. Ideally, I should see how the main quanties are related on one page, and if I need more information I can find it on the subpages. MisterSheik 01:33, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for your phrasing changes on conditional entropy; I think your phrasing is clearer than mine was. (I can only plead that I originally wrote the intro a few years ago, and hopefully my writing's improved since then.) Good work. -- Creidieki 18:47, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
Hi,
Of course they are pods but they are so often called beans !(on Google : 48,900 occurings for vanilla pods, 364,000 for vanilla beans). So, if you choose to be accurate in the article, you need to explain that the word bean though of common use is not right.
Channer
13:24, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for your corrections; how did they creep in? How embarrassing! Tony 02:55, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
Could you please sign your comments on talk pages? All it takes is for tildes: ~~~~. That automatically puts your user name and the date and time of the edit there. Michael Hardy 17:16, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
People don't understand what that means, there is no wiki definition for it, and it is not in the dictionary. You are doing a disservice to wikipedians by putting this back in the article. Daniel.Cardenas 18:39, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
Good work over at the C# article! Angus Lepper 22:13, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
Hi Mr Sheik. I have a small request. It would be good if you could use the edit summary more often, it helps others understand what you changed and looks good in the article history. Thanks. Oleg Alexandrov ( talk) 23:52, 19 May 2007 (UTC)
To answer your presumably rhetorical question (do you capitalise dog?), no, but it is ornithological convention to capitalise the common names of species, and we follow that convention on Wikipedia. It has been discussed at length, please see Wikipedia:Naming conventions (fauna)#Capitalization of common names of species, as well as the archived talk pages of Wikipedia:WikiProject Birds. Hope this helps! Sabine's Sunbird talk 07:23, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
Hello,
I noticed a comment in one of your edits in the Bayesian network article said 'merged from d-separation.' The D-separation article has been deleted. Do you know which admin deleted it? I think it should either be restored or d-separation should be discussed at far greater length in the main Bayesian network article itself. Unfortunately the delete happened a while ago, and I can't find it in the logs anymore.
Silya 23:52, 9 August 2007 (UTC)
I noticed that you deleted part of my addition to Comparison sort because you thought it redundant. I agree that technically it does not give any information that is not repeated later on, but I think it's very important didactically. For one thing, it provides a link to Information theory which is important for people not familiar with that subject. More importantly, it briefly but clearly states the premises for that result. Too often this lower bound is quoted without stating clearly and exactly the assumptions under which it holds. This then leads to other people coming up with counterexamples outside of its applicability, with confusion resulting. I wrote my contribution mainly to end that confusion. Do you see my point? Grotendeels Onschadelijk 01:57, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
I have now (approximately) reinstated the first paragraph, which captures as briefly as possible the gist of the section and can be read on its own by someone who does not wish to read the whole story. Instead, I have removed a glaring repetition from the second paragraph. As far as I can see, there is nothing else that can be cut without decreasing readability. Grotendeels Onschadelijk 10:54, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
Vow! :) -- Merzul 20:18, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
Or, well, it was the kind of obvious reply one can't resist giving... -- Merzul 20:21, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
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Ok, how do I cite this without linking to a commercial site? FiveRings ( talk) 06:12, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
Coconut oil in the context of this article is not the same thing as sodium cocoyl isethionate, which is a semi-synthetic surfactant salt produced from coconut oil. I see where some MSDS sheets are called coconut oil a synonym for sodium cocoyl isethionate, but this makes no sense from a chemistry perspective. Halogenated ( talk) 05:50, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
Hi - thanks for your comment - a perfectly good point. I've responded on the talk page. Here cheers -- Merbabu ( talk) 06:32, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
I found your "derivation" of entropy from probability theory very illustrative: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Entropy_(information_theory)
Is there a reference you used so that I might explore this discussion further?
Thanks, Wolfworks ( talk) 01:32, 1 August 2009 (UTC)
Hi, on the Garden Strawberry page you asked "Where on the linked page are you looking? "Anaphylactoid response" is synonymous with "anaphylaxis"."
The Anaphylaxis page has the following: "Researchers typically distinguish between "true anaphylaxis" and "pseudo-anaphylaxis" or an "anaphylactoid reaction." The symptoms, treatment, and risk of death are identical, but "true" anaphylaxis is always caused directly by degranulation of mast cells or basophils that is mediated by immunoglobulin E (IgE), and pseudo-anaphylaxis occurs due to all other causes.[8] The distinction is primarily made by those studying mechanisms of allergic reactions."
Anaphylactoid means similar to anaphylaxis, not the same as.
P.S. Actually, I'd dispute that the symptoms are identical, since the rapidity of the response can be much slower.
Peace. Nadiatalent ( talk) 14:37, 1 December 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for your recent edits to Dietary fiber. They offer a significant improvement to the article. -- 4wajzkd02 ( talk) 07:08, 9 December 2009 (UTC)
The definition of Confirmation bias I've given seems to fit the Oswald ref. I expect it can be improved and am open to suggestions. What do you think is terrible with the definition? Thanks in advance, MartinPoulter ( talk) 11:19, 29 December 2009 (UTC) Would it help to add "subjectively" before "confirm"? MartinPoulter ( talk) 11:49, 29 December 2009 (UTC)
While I agree in principle that removing redundancies makes for a better text, I fear that you overlook other issues. Consider e.g. your claim "It should be the other way around: words should contribute the maximum significance with the minimum ostentation. Writers who use words as ornaments come across as pretentious at best, and ignoramuses at worst.": Is this really the best way to bring over your point? I suspect that Strunk would have made several alterations. I also note that the second sentence comes across as involuntary irony.
(This notwithstanding that my own writing tends to be overly complicated, overuse romance words, and so on.) 94.220.249.144 ( talk) 19:42, 27 February 2010 (UTC)
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Hello, MisterSheik. Voting in the 2016 Arbitration Committee elections is open from Monday, 00:00, 21 November through Sunday, 23:59, 4 December to all unblocked users who have registered an account before Wednesday, 00:00, 28 October 2016 and have made at least 150 mainspace edits before Sunday, 00:00, 1 November 2016.
The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.
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The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.
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The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.
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