I was wondering if there was a good reason to have separate entries for K-selection and r-selection, could these not be combined, and have the old pages redirect to one new page? -- Pete.Hurd
Havok (T/ C) 11:35, 15 August 2005 (UTC)
A while ago on the Half-life 2 talk page, there was a discussion about what kind of screenshots to use. You said you would go take some, so anytime this week or whenever really, could you take a few and put them on the talk page and we could see which ones to use? In reality, only a couple (probably 2 or 3) will be actually used. Try to get one with the hunter-chopper and Gordon in the "mudskipper" and maybe another one with Gordon using the gravity gun on a Combine soldier. We just need some that have varied gameplay. Thunderbrand 02:48, 27 September 2005 (UTC)
Hey thanks for the info, it worked! :) Now all we need are some shots of Black Mesa and Race X.... --
Rusty2005 16:09, 28 September 2005 (UTC)
-- Chaosfeary 00:24, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
Hi Yar. Are any of these better than the one already on the page? The final one has the advantage that the Controllers are actually firing on Gordon (rather than simply looking like alien Buddhas). -- Plumbago 08:40, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
Hi Plumabago. Nice to see all your edits; when it comes to ocean chemistry there aren't too many wikipedians. I think the issue I was trying to edit out were the comments on charge balance. The wording can become very difficult when talking about charge balance, because if it isn't written just right people will believe the ocean's charged state varies(which it doesn't). For example, if Na+ is added, an anion must also be added, such as Cl-, leaving total charge neutral. Neither of these species have any influence on Alkalinity. However, if Na2CO3 is added, this will have a strong influence on alkalinty. Depending on pH, CO3-2 will remain in solution (increasing alkalinity by 2 units), 2 H+'s will be consumed (again increasing alkalinty by 2 units) or somthing in between. And you're right, the charge balance of the species involved in the alkalinity changes (because Na+ is not involved in alkalinity), but the total charge remains the same. I'll improve the Alkalinity article sometime this week to try to clear things up. I think I need to learn the math functions first - so it might take a little while! Regards
Piyrwq 19:31, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
Hi again, hope all well! I've bought HL2 and I'm loving every second of it, but I think there's a few things missing. The videos of Dr Breen/Dr Kleiner in the train station, etc don't have any audio accompanying them, I think I'm meant to be able to see the G-Man at the very beginning but I only hear him, and the game as a whole is pretty slow. I don't suppose you have any idea why? Rusty2005 01:04, 24 October 2005 (UTC)
Good day. I would like to discuss the a few new screenshots that could be in use for the Black Mesa Research Facility article. I have taken screenshots of various areas of the research facility, but the number of (personally deemed) appropriate screenshots has totaled to about 15 images.
The images taken lack both a weapon and a HUD on screen. The list of areas includes the following, in chronological order:
With Xen having additional screenshots, including those displayed in a section specifically for them, would it still be acceptable to supply the Black Mesa Research Facility article with an equivalent number of pictures? ╫ 25 ring-a-ding 17:46, 28 October 2005 (UTC) ╫
Thanks and cheers for your excellent rewrite of Neo-Creationism. Nicely balanced and a much better read now. Well done. Do you take requests? FeloniousMonk 03:32, 29 October 2005 (UTC)
How about - Category:Wikipedians named for plant genera? Guettarda 16:55, 8 November 2005 (UTC)
Hi, Plumbago. That is an excellent point about scale! Scale is depicted well in Image:A Yool DevilsTower 04Sep03.jpg. Your point about layout is valid too. But, I'd like to see Image:Devils Tower portrait.png] (largely redundant with the first) replaced eventually by a closeup of rock, rock climbing, flora or fauna characteristic of the area to contrast with the other two images and add more content. Also, I wonder if Image:Devils Tower.jpg might be improved (given the 250px width) by cropping some of sky and sides? Walter Siegmund (talk) 05:48, 10 November 2005 (UTC)
Hi, Plumbago. I added the new infobox to the article. Although the topic doesn't seem to be one of your major interests, this project might interest you. See also the new template that has been developed. It needs to be inserted in over two thousand articles so your help would be welcome. - Walter Siegmund (talk) 03:16, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for your courtesy in letting me know of the revert. It was made in the context of an AfD vote on unguided evolution, where I supported the proposal that this creationist fork be deleted and redirected to evolution. In my opinion redirects should take you to a page that openly refers to what you were looking for, and while I appreciate your concerns feel that this is better than a fork duplicating arguments. The scientific purity of the page is already sullied by reference to the controversy, in my opinion quite rightly. No doubt others will chip in on this, and I'd appreciate it if you can give this your consideration.... dave souza 19:12, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
Hi. Intrigued by one of your edits (something mentioning polytheism which I cannot find) I looked at some of your pages. In regards to your language interests I saw mention of the old chestnut about Eskimos having many words for snow. In 1973 (approx) I spent a summer in Holland and learned the language fairly well. I was amused at a TV show (in Dutch) about some woman in the US trying to get her child support funding. She went from office to office and window to window as various agencies pawned her off on the next. The English had a lot of different words for yelling - "Stop yelling at me," "You don't have to scream at me," "Stop shouting at me" all of which verbs were translated in the Dutch subtitle with use of the verb "schreeuwen." Turns out the Dutch, being rather moderate folks, emotionally, have only two verbs for loud verbal expression: "gillen" - to yell as for example across a field to get the attention of another (not expressing anger) and the one in the subtitles! PS: I used to grow Plumbago Larpentae - a nice plant (leadwort) - did you pick your name therefrom? Carrionluggage 20:40, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for speedy reply. I have two more queries: (A) does this "I can be found at 50.893°N, -1.395°W" mean you can be found at 1.395° East (which I doubt) or +1.395° W? I count East as positive, so a negative and the word West would seemingly be a double negative, and hence East. (B) With your botanical experience/handbooks/whatever, can you tell me if Hawkeye is a weed, and if so, its botanical name? I used to work at the U of Iowa and the state symbol (adopted by sports teams) was said (I thought) to be the hawkeye weed, elevated and transmogrified to a hawk's eye. I've tried the Web, but it's like "Hey, Rube" (was a shout by carnival workers to gather forces against a miscreant, such as a thief) or "Banana Messenger" (was an employee of, for example, United Fruit, who accompanied a shipment of bananas; now it's a girl's backpack logo). In other words the weed if it exists is drowned out (figuratively) by the noise level. If you don't know, I will eventually look it up at a library and if I am right enhance Wikipedia disambguation on the term. Thanks Carrionluggage 23:16, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
Thanks - no worry - when the snow here abates I'll check some botanical references for hawkeye. Are you in Southampton? At the university? I am in Colorado.
By the way, on language, most others I know are very different from English in having fewer homonyms, homophones, etc. I am told that puns are hard to do in Russian, for example. So humor must be directed a bit differently for the most part. Carrionluggage 22:05, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
A post is up in the discussion section of the Xen (Half-Life) article, describing the reasoning behind the (admittedly extensive) changes.
The basic gist is that the article was originally loaded with speculation, but not many facts. The attempt was to balance that fact/guess ratio out a bit more in favour of things that have been confirmed.
If you read over the changes, I think you'll see there's a lot more substance to the article, while very little was outright removed.
I'm pretty newb, so I don't know how to un-revert an article. If you can do that, I would appreciate it.
I would like to wish you and your family a Merry Christmas and all the best for the New Year. Guettarda 17:10, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
Thank you for your reply to my question on pro-life. I have edited the current version so far as it can go. Please cast an eye over it as and when you have time. Also encourage others. I mean what I say in Talk:Pro-life#Text_removal about what the article needs. It still reads like an extract from a dreary civics text book.
Bilbo or no Bilbo the dragons are awaking. Stroika 13:45, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
When I think of all of us who worked together so hard for so long, I think of the line from Henry V We few, we happy few, we band of brothers...
It was a fun ride, wasn't it? So thanks you guys, that meant a lot to me.
Who did the Thelonious with a mop artwork? Brilliant! FeloniousMonk 08:22, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
I was wondering if there was a good reason to have separate entries for K-selection and r-selection, could these not be combined, and have the old pages redirect to one new page? -- Pete.Hurd
Havok (T/ C) 11:35, 15 August 2005 (UTC)
A while ago on the Half-life 2 talk page, there was a discussion about what kind of screenshots to use. You said you would go take some, so anytime this week or whenever really, could you take a few and put them on the talk page and we could see which ones to use? In reality, only a couple (probably 2 or 3) will be actually used. Try to get one with the hunter-chopper and Gordon in the "mudskipper" and maybe another one with Gordon using the gravity gun on a Combine soldier. We just need some that have varied gameplay. Thunderbrand 02:48, 27 September 2005 (UTC)
Hey thanks for the info, it worked! :) Now all we need are some shots of Black Mesa and Race X.... --
Rusty2005 16:09, 28 September 2005 (UTC)
-- Chaosfeary 00:24, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
Hi Yar. Are any of these better than the one already on the page? The final one has the advantage that the Controllers are actually firing on Gordon (rather than simply looking like alien Buddhas). -- Plumbago 08:40, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
Hi Plumabago. Nice to see all your edits; when it comes to ocean chemistry there aren't too many wikipedians. I think the issue I was trying to edit out were the comments on charge balance. The wording can become very difficult when talking about charge balance, because if it isn't written just right people will believe the ocean's charged state varies(which it doesn't). For example, if Na+ is added, an anion must also be added, such as Cl-, leaving total charge neutral. Neither of these species have any influence on Alkalinity. However, if Na2CO3 is added, this will have a strong influence on alkalinty. Depending on pH, CO3-2 will remain in solution (increasing alkalinity by 2 units), 2 H+'s will be consumed (again increasing alkalinty by 2 units) or somthing in between. And you're right, the charge balance of the species involved in the alkalinity changes (because Na+ is not involved in alkalinity), but the total charge remains the same. I'll improve the Alkalinity article sometime this week to try to clear things up. I think I need to learn the math functions first - so it might take a little while! Regards
Piyrwq 19:31, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
Hi again, hope all well! I've bought HL2 and I'm loving every second of it, but I think there's a few things missing. The videos of Dr Breen/Dr Kleiner in the train station, etc don't have any audio accompanying them, I think I'm meant to be able to see the G-Man at the very beginning but I only hear him, and the game as a whole is pretty slow. I don't suppose you have any idea why? Rusty2005 01:04, 24 October 2005 (UTC)
Good day. I would like to discuss the a few new screenshots that could be in use for the Black Mesa Research Facility article. I have taken screenshots of various areas of the research facility, but the number of (personally deemed) appropriate screenshots has totaled to about 15 images.
The images taken lack both a weapon and a HUD on screen. The list of areas includes the following, in chronological order:
With Xen having additional screenshots, including those displayed in a section specifically for them, would it still be acceptable to supply the Black Mesa Research Facility article with an equivalent number of pictures? ╫ 25 ring-a-ding 17:46, 28 October 2005 (UTC) ╫
Thanks and cheers for your excellent rewrite of Neo-Creationism. Nicely balanced and a much better read now. Well done. Do you take requests? FeloniousMonk 03:32, 29 October 2005 (UTC)
How about - Category:Wikipedians named for plant genera? Guettarda 16:55, 8 November 2005 (UTC)
Hi, Plumbago. That is an excellent point about scale! Scale is depicted well in Image:A Yool DevilsTower 04Sep03.jpg. Your point about layout is valid too. But, I'd like to see Image:Devils Tower portrait.png] (largely redundant with the first) replaced eventually by a closeup of rock, rock climbing, flora or fauna characteristic of the area to contrast with the other two images and add more content. Also, I wonder if Image:Devils Tower.jpg might be improved (given the 250px width) by cropping some of sky and sides? Walter Siegmund (talk) 05:48, 10 November 2005 (UTC)
Hi, Plumbago. I added the new infobox to the article. Although the topic doesn't seem to be one of your major interests, this project might interest you. See also the new template that has been developed. It needs to be inserted in over two thousand articles so your help would be welcome. - Walter Siegmund (talk) 03:16, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for your courtesy in letting me know of the revert. It was made in the context of an AfD vote on unguided evolution, where I supported the proposal that this creationist fork be deleted and redirected to evolution. In my opinion redirects should take you to a page that openly refers to what you were looking for, and while I appreciate your concerns feel that this is better than a fork duplicating arguments. The scientific purity of the page is already sullied by reference to the controversy, in my opinion quite rightly. No doubt others will chip in on this, and I'd appreciate it if you can give this your consideration.... dave souza 19:12, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
Hi. Intrigued by one of your edits (something mentioning polytheism which I cannot find) I looked at some of your pages. In regards to your language interests I saw mention of the old chestnut about Eskimos having many words for snow. In 1973 (approx) I spent a summer in Holland and learned the language fairly well. I was amused at a TV show (in Dutch) about some woman in the US trying to get her child support funding. She went from office to office and window to window as various agencies pawned her off on the next. The English had a lot of different words for yelling - "Stop yelling at me," "You don't have to scream at me," "Stop shouting at me" all of which verbs were translated in the Dutch subtitle with use of the verb "schreeuwen." Turns out the Dutch, being rather moderate folks, emotionally, have only two verbs for loud verbal expression: "gillen" - to yell as for example across a field to get the attention of another (not expressing anger) and the one in the subtitles! PS: I used to grow Plumbago Larpentae - a nice plant (leadwort) - did you pick your name therefrom? Carrionluggage 20:40, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for speedy reply. I have two more queries: (A) does this "I can be found at 50.893°N, -1.395°W" mean you can be found at 1.395° East (which I doubt) or +1.395° W? I count East as positive, so a negative and the word West would seemingly be a double negative, and hence East. (B) With your botanical experience/handbooks/whatever, can you tell me if Hawkeye is a weed, and if so, its botanical name? I used to work at the U of Iowa and the state symbol (adopted by sports teams) was said (I thought) to be the hawkeye weed, elevated and transmogrified to a hawk's eye. I've tried the Web, but it's like "Hey, Rube" (was a shout by carnival workers to gather forces against a miscreant, such as a thief) or "Banana Messenger" (was an employee of, for example, United Fruit, who accompanied a shipment of bananas; now it's a girl's backpack logo). In other words the weed if it exists is drowned out (figuratively) by the noise level. If you don't know, I will eventually look it up at a library and if I am right enhance Wikipedia disambguation on the term. Thanks Carrionluggage 23:16, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
Thanks - no worry - when the snow here abates I'll check some botanical references for hawkeye. Are you in Southampton? At the university? I am in Colorado.
By the way, on language, most others I know are very different from English in having fewer homonyms, homophones, etc. I am told that puns are hard to do in Russian, for example. So humor must be directed a bit differently for the most part. Carrionluggage 22:05, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
A post is up in the discussion section of the Xen (Half-Life) article, describing the reasoning behind the (admittedly extensive) changes.
The basic gist is that the article was originally loaded with speculation, but not many facts. The attempt was to balance that fact/guess ratio out a bit more in favour of things that have been confirmed.
If you read over the changes, I think you'll see there's a lot more substance to the article, while very little was outright removed.
I'm pretty newb, so I don't know how to un-revert an article. If you can do that, I would appreciate it.
I would like to wish you and your family a Merry Christmas and all the best for the New Year. Guettarda 17:10, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
Thank you for your reply to my question on pro-life. I have edited the current version so far as it can go. Please cast an eye over it as and when you have time. Also encourage others. I mean what I say in Talk:Pro-life#Text_removal about what the article needs. It still reads like an extract from a dreary civics text book.
Bilbo or no Bilbo the dragons are awaking. Stroika 13:45, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
When I think of all of us who worked together so hard for so long, I think of the line from Henry V We few, we happy few, we band of brothers...
It was a fun ride, wasn't it? So thanks you guys, that meant a lot to me.
Who did the Thelonious with a mop artwork? Brilliant! FeloniousMonk 08:22, 27 December 2005 (UTC)