User talk:Onebyone

Hey Onebyone :) I hope you like the place and choose to stay.

Some links that may be of use:

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Wikipedia:How to edit a page
Wikipedia:Village pump - ask questions you may have here, or leave a message on my talk page

Nice work on Lagrange's four-square theorem, but have a look at that and see how I edited the math. You can do the way I've done it there, or use TeX in some situations if you're familiar with it.

Anyway, have fun and keep editing! :) Dysprosia 22:45, 24 Sep 2003 (UTC)

Hi 1/1, thanks for putting up the Asoka film info on Ashoka. i was thinking of doing the same since a long time, but didn't know how to add it. Jay 14:15, 28 Sep 2003 (UTC)

I wrote a paragraph at Unix epoch explaining the Java and JavaScript situation in more depth. LDan 14:22, 28 Sep 2003 (UTC)

Well, you know infinitely more than me about Java. I just started learning. But aren't old programs still affected? LDan 23:42, 28 Sep 2003 (UTC)

I changed the 2038 article as you requested, but could you please correct the Unix epoch page? As I said, I am fairly ignorant about the matter when it comes to Java. LDan 01:18, 29 Sep 2003 (UTC)

You've made my day Oneybyone. Looks like you will fit here 'cos you 've got the necessary strange pseudonym!! Write nice things to me on my talk page and criticism by email! This morning I feel vindicated 'cos using Sir T.B. Library as a template to checks links I found aforementiioned poor Atheaeus article. Now to ammend it. Thanks for the encouragement. What's your speciality ? The Norwikian 10:00 Brit Summer Time

Are you prophetic? :) I've just glimpsed an article listing Radio Stations in Ontario. O dear hope I've not started a trend. Mea Culpa. Sometimes I just feel like Homer Simpson User:Norwikian 21:33 Brit. Summer? Time

What exactly does your remark about TB catching mean?:)) Just an aside on a medical doctor whose initials form Tuberculosis or something else? Amuse me more and elucidate!! [User:Norwikian]]22:07

Yep, that was pretty much what I meant - more people were getting involved in the Thomas Browne discussion. I think there was some other edit I made about the same time with a similarly bad pun, but I've got better now ;-) Onebyone 10:08, 2 Oct 2003 (UTC)

Thanks. Bad pun appreciated, as is almost any humour. I can usually make some connection or another with T.B. to almost any topic. With Maths (your speciality??) all i can think of is that there is a book by Outhred in Library who was the guy who intoduced the X symbol into Maths, but that's pretty tenuous. Yes i have seen some v. odd 'lists', of mountains and railways so i guess unless it's my monthematic approach (not really) I can't see a problem. Your contributions might survive 3 days or 300 years here. It all seems a bit arbitary really. Apparently the nature of the beast wiki is alive, unpredictable, capricious,world-concious, draconian, whatever . I shall check out VfD debate. Keep a' troshin' bhoy as the dialect around here goes. Are you in U.S.? Norwikian 17:18, 2 Oct 2003 (UTC0

Now i have ascertained the logical progression of your user name to your topic! Pythagoras is really Browne's man, but look at the truly weird 'Garden of Cyrus' a whole Discourse based upon the number 5 , figure X, a pile of pyramidal dots called the tetraktys etc. So you are from the City of dreaming spires and Inspector Morse, its a relief to communicate with someone who knows a little about old Blighty. Maybe i send you a list of names from the Maths section of B. lib. to identify, i knowa nuthin' 'bout Maths. What percentage of wiki's are from the other side of the pond do you estimate 50 %? So what kind of world-view will wiki end up with ? One whilst writing someone kindly inserted the word PSEUDOSCIENCE in my para on physiognomy, which is fair enough i suppose ! My favourite mathematician? Probably Lewis Carroll, some weird mathematical conundrums can be found there. He's not seen as to 'politically correct' those these days 'cos of his fondess for young girls. But what has that to do with Maths or art? What is not understood is worthy of fear and as the world dumbs down there are some prety frightened people about. Let the wiki be a light! I say , only before hitting the VfD button perhaps the poster should be gently warned first, consoled, reassurred, comforted, calmed and destressed then let every page they wrote be permantle deleted! Only joking. Must dash , job interview as Father Xmas beckons, that will level out my danger of becoming a wikiholic. 'It's more fun to compute'! Sir T.B. the FIRST to use the word COMPUTER in English language!Norwikian 09:25, 3 Oct 2003 (UTC)

O dear ! So Pyhagoras was a nutter, then that deflates this quote "I have often admired the mystical way of Pythagoras and the secret magic of numbers" but we often cast out judgement of mad upon those we don't understand, so is number the root of all phenomena? Is number ultimately merely a physicially perceivable or a numinous symbol? In Sir T.B.'s day both but one side was begginning to be debunked.

Now Imagine five elephants , now imagine these 5 elephants are pink. Have you got the 5 pink elephants fixed there in your head ? WEll you must have a capacious skull indeed to accomodate 5 elephants. Perhaps not so much point in sending a list of those who are consigned to the dust-bin of history? Had you heard of WilliamOughtred circa 1631? Perhaps the Oxford-based Carroll is a better mathematician to discuss, he's also a candidate for nutter too i fear. It is only post-Cartesian thinking which designates number as a strict quantiable entity, Kepler and Dee, Kircher and Browne all held something different, perhaps from the endorsement of sacred number in the Old Testament which abounds in numerological symbolism. we can barely perceive blinded as we are by the light of reason. Jung looked at little at the phenomena of number and coincidence. Now ther is a subject intersting in maths synchronicity, but as ever when it does fit in with the fixed rules(which coincidece transcending our understanding of time and space doees) then it is immediately rejected out of hand. I grant you Pythag was a bit of a nutter in his fear of farting letting the souls escape and hence his ban on beans but also meat bless him, and as for the transmigration of souls, but he is credited for introduing in Greek the concept of 'cosmos'. So you will probably file Browne and ultimately myself in the same box, for entertaining notions of pre-scientific thinking upon number. Best write for the 'pedia than chin-wagNorwikian 16:47, 3 Oct 2003 (UTC) --- Not sure what spinning the cloth means and its consequences. Old Py did coin the word 'cosmos' into Greek language. Plato picked up a bit from him. May email fossil maths list, i am here to stay for a while, just got to keep my head down and not upset anyone. I filed all your replies under one sub-section as you sem to be sole replier. O well. What about the Tetkratys ? The pyramid of dots 1+2+3+4=10 the symbol of THE ALL which the PY's swore by. Is there really any number bigger than ten, but howcome measurement of time and seasons is in units of 12 from the Babylonian still? 10 v. 12. Do you rate Carroll as a mathematician at all? Yes Browne is omewher between Descarts and Bacon and Kepler and Dee that's what makes him so fascinating, not a case of indecision but hedging one's bets as to which direction the intellect will sway next. But Browne was not so daft to see what would happen to a 'strict enquiring world' where maybe and perhaps don't enter at all Norwikian 20:27, 6 Oct 2003 (UTC)

Thanks for the "bases". I actually wrote bases but someone put "basis" saying it was a "spaniardism".

re: List of people who have created pointless inappropriate lists, and List of people who have attempted to argue by flawed analogy that if X list is kept/deleted then so must Y be

giggle. Nice line: please spam it every time we go through these repetitive discussions... :) Martin 21:51, 24 Oct 2003 (UTC)

Nice addition for logic and model theory. I am actually quite biased towards the geometrical notion of valuation (my PhD is on that). I am sectioning it properly bc I fear it is quite long by now. Pfortuny 15:45, 25 Oct 2003 (UTC)

Queers on wikipedia lists

Only a sidenote, but anyway: I hope you've noted the substantial presence of queer wikipedians - something which obviously is to the advantage of wikipedia.
--Ruhrjung 09:56, 26 Oct 2003 (UTC)

I hadn't noted it in particular, to be honest. Wikipedians seem to be a mixed bunch of people, which certainly is an advantage, so I'd assume that there are plenty of queer Wikipedians (and plenty of multiracial Wikipedians, since that's the other case we were discussing). But I'm not really into Wikipedia as a "community" yet, so I don't generally look at people's user pages for personal information unless there's a specific reason. For 99% of the usernames I've seen, I couldn't tell you basic information like approximate age and nationality, let alone personal stuff like sexuality... Onebyone 12:39, 27 Oct 2003 (UTC)

Call for vote

Hi, I've called a vote on Talk:Mother Teresa to clarify once and for all what people think about the current article and what we should do about it. Please express your opinion. lol FearÉIREANN 23:05, 26 Oct 2003 (UTC)

Football Players

I damaged a link onUser:Onebyone by moving Sam Adams (footballer), and couldn't bring myself to fix the damage by editing your main page. I assume you know what to do about it, but ask if not. [smile] --Jerzy 15:40, 2003 Nov 20 (UTC)

Well, I've got no real problem with linking to a redirect, I'll probably change it at some point. By the way, according to my dictionary, a "footballer" is "an athelete who plays football", and thus is synonymous with "football player". Do you disagree? Onebyone 16:17, 20 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Hmm, mine says "...football or soccer", but yes, that's a surprise to me, & yes, i disagree -- to this extent:

i've never before heard it used for Amer. football, and assumed that you were a non-US editor who (reasonably) assumed the term was equally (or rather proportionally) used for both games, and

people who know that "football" means different games inside and outside the US, and that "footballer" is much more standard for "soccer" than for US-football, are likely, in the multi-national context that is implicit in en:WP, to infer from "footballer" that "soccer" is being referred to. (What i am saying here is that footballer was more acceptable for US football before "soccer" became better known here, and is less acceptable on WP than in contexts that create a presumption that American matters are the subject.) --Jerzy 18:39, 2003 Nov 20 (UTC)

Ooops. I must remember not to trust Google! Thanks for fixing it. :) Angela . 01:08, 7 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Dear Oneybone, i dont mean to be disencouraging, but why dont you make a real family tree for the Tudors? Its more clear and neat than the present format in the Tudor pages. I also placed a link in that page for the general tree of the kings of England. Cheers, Muriel Victoria 16:10, 7 Dec 2003 (UTC)

I write them and draw the lines in Corel Draw (you can use other draw program), then export them to a png file. Does this count as doing by hand?? If you lack the patience i can hardly blame you. Just make the list in the Tudors page as complete as possible, and i can do it for you. Muriel
- I see your point. The ideal would have the corel diagram with links - impossible, i'm afraid. I have no strong feelings about if the list should or shouldnt be kept. Tell me what you prefer and what i can do to help. Muriel
  - Sounds reasonable. Muriel

LOL. RickK 00:17, 8 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Idiosyncratic

As I am not a linguist myself, I am note sure if the categorization I used is unique to this French language Website :http://www.tlfq.ulaval.ca/axl/monde/index_politique-lng.htm. I will ask the author if that is a common categorization in the scientific community or if that is the result of his own research. Unfortunately for me (and Wikipedia), I do not yet have the author's approval to write an article that will be under the GFDL based on his work. He doesn't mind people quoting his work (http://www.tlfq.ulaval.ca/axl/monde/citations-references.htm), but if I were to do that, I'd be quoting pretty much half of the site. So far, he didn't bother to reply me on this which worries me. I hope he agrees, because that is by far the best source I know on this subject. Otherwize, I'll have to delete the article or become a linguist and be my own source. ;-) -- Mathieugp 16:41, 9 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Don't worry, I am not stupid enough to start a war with some members of the Orange Order. ;-) I will essentially put a definition a each type of law and in which country they are being applied. If I introduce innaccurate data, someone out there will be able to prove it and correct it in the article. If you read French, we could work together. -- Mathieugp 07:49, 11 Dec 2003 (UTC)

VfD

They are a bit odd. Thanks for spotting it. Unfortunately, sysops do not have access to IP numbers, so if he does get an account, I won't necessarily know about it. I'll bear it in mind when the time comes to delete it. Only developers with access to the logs can find out IP numbers of logged in users. Angela . 18:20, 14 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Hi Onebyone ! How is it going in Oxford? A very worrying thought has just occurred to me. If as you state Pythagoras was a nutter, and if as is commonly recognised Plato was deeply influenced by him, where the hell does this leave Western Philosophy????!!! I shall try to remember to list maths books in T.B. Library this Xmas and when completed shall draw your attention to them, best wishes Norwikian 03:44, 15 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Cleanup

There aren't really any rules as such. I made up a new header yesterday called not very new and just placed it randomly. Perhaps it needs to be formalised a little more. The problem was that the scheme was largely dreamt up by Stevertigo who has since left Wikipedia unfortunately, and no one else has seemed interested in making the procedure any clearer. There is a page called Wikipedia:Cleanup process where such things should be written, but currently aren't. Happy new year, Angela . 14:48, 1 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Jack Kerouac's On The Road etc.

Hi, while we are certainly not encouraging people to dump their term papers on Wikipedia, we shouldn't delete them on sight either. All I'm saying is that we should be patient: Someone may turn up and actually volunteer to rewrite the text and turn it into an encyclopaedia article.

If people feel better about it, we could, in such cases, move the current text to the talk page. (That's what I did some time ago with To Kill a Mockingbird -- someone had added a page stupidly titled Prejudices in mockingbird.) All I'm trying to prevent is the original text from being deleted altogether. The important thing is that it can be retrieved like in the Vanity of Duluoz case. --KF 12:09, 5 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Hi. I'd just like to say that your fix of the nonsense Vanity of Duluoz article was hilarious. I read your summary: BS removed... and read the article as it stood: one sentence. Nicely done. It needed doing, too. Ensiform 04:36, 6 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for the disamb page for thing. - Scooter 06:40, 9 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Perhaps wikipedia:inclusion dispute will be a more tactful way of doing your Wikipedia:Complete garbage idea? :) Martin 00:20, 10 Jan 2004 (UTC)

You can redirect to a section of another page using # like something#section Rmhermen 21:10, Jan 17, 2004 (UTC)

Transwiki

Saw your question on User:Angela's page and thought I'd answer. When a page is transwikied to another project, the page history from the old location is copied into the talk page at the new home, as is the address of the old page so it can be undeleted if needed. Hope that answers your question. Gentgeen 06:26, 23 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Sorry, for some reason I didn't get any message notification so I only just saw your question. The authors should be noted in the edit summary when you copy the page to the new location. If there are too many authors to put in the edit summary, this can be written on the talk page. This is explained more at m:transwiki. Currently, the page history can be exported but not imported, so until the import feature is available, the actual page history can not be moved, only the list of authors. However, if you write in the edit summary where the page was originally from, that page could be undeleted and the history moved properly once there is an import function. Hope that help. Angela . 19:53, Jan 23, 2004 (UTC)

Orders of magnitude

See Talk:Orders_of_magnitude -- User:Docu

What exactly is happening at Wikipedia:Cleanup? Thanks much, Meelar 00:14, 16 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Thanks very much. I remember that edit--I should have noticed something was amiss when it showed up twice in recent changes. Sorry about all this--I have no idea what I did to cause this. If there's anything I can do to help, let me know. Yours, Meelar 00:24, 16 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Tnx, 1-by; that's a nice resolution to come home to. I read what you told Meelar, and i'm guessing you had in mind the alternative of deleting the duplicate parts rather than adding back the edits. I was worried that not all the edits were made to the first copy, which may be a more than a little paranoid; on reflection, i realize that even while catering to my paranoia, i should have compared the two nearly identical "tails" via Sandbox -- just as i had compared the two identical heads before i realized the nearly everything appeared twice.

In any case, thanks for letting that cup pass from me, and i learned something even from the little you've already had to say abt it, even if i haven't guessed everything you had in mind. [smile] --Jerzy 04:26, 2004 Feb 16 (UTC)

Article Licensing

Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license 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 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 top 2000 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:

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To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

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Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk)

Votes requested on cfr Tudor and Plantagenet

Hi! I note your input on the Tudor dynasty page, I would greatly appreciate your voting on the proposed renaming of Category:Tudor to Category:House of Tudor, and Category:Plantagenet to Category:House of Plantagenet it seems the vote was suggested by obsessed with uniformity, however renaming the categories would be a mistake in my opinion, due to the fact that Tudor people is a sub category of Tudor, and having it as a sub category of House of Tudor would make no sense. Also, in my opinion House of Anjou is the more normally used phrase for the descendants of Geoffrey of Anjou rather than House of Plantagenet. please vote here Thanks, Arnie587 21:44, 28 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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