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Alexander Mirzayan

Good job on the Alexander Mirzayan article! Eixo 01:50, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

Pruning

Hello, welcome to Wikipedia! Please see my response to your proposed pruning policy for the Jewish Encyclopedia topics. Thanks, Defrosted 01:37, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your voting!

Thanks!

Hi, thanks for your voting on my RFA. It has finished with the result 88/14/9, and I am promoted. I am really overwhelmed with the amount of support I have got. With some of you we have edited many articles as a team, with some I had bitter arguments in the past, some of you I consider to be living legends of Wikipedia and some nicks I in my ignorance never heard before. I love you all and I am really grateful to you.

If you feel I can help you or Wikipedia as a human, as an editor or with my newly acquired cleaning tools, then just ask and I will be happy to assist. If you will feel that I do not live up to your expectation and renegade on my promises, please contact me. Maybe it was not a malice but just ignorance or a short temper. Thank you very much, once more! abakharev 07:34, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

Okkervil River

Hi there! Are you an Okkervil River fan too? I've posted a comment on Talk:Okkervil River about the Tolstaya and Tolstoy. Are you certain they're not related? I'd appreciate your comments. Thanks. :) 71.240.184.165 03:30, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

Copy edit on web based email

Thanks - definite improvement! Regards --Nigel ^(Talk) 10:34, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

CALUMO

I did what you said and created an article on CALUMO and then reinstated the link which you (I think) had removed. All hunky dory. But within ONE minute (I kid you not) there was a speedy delete tag on the article and now it has gone. I assure you the product is real and live and is, essentially (although perhaps SPF wouldn't want to see it phrased quite like this), SPFplus re-worked and ported to a MS platform, albeit with enhancements along the way. And that product has 200 sales and 9500 users under its belt so it does exist. CALUMO is live at roughly half a dozen sites now. But I am not employed by (or otherwise involved with) the company and so cannot vouch for the exact number. How do I go forward from here? Paul Beardsell 04:25, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

Image copyright problem with Image:David_Ionovich_Bronstein.jpg

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Wikipedia:WikiProject Bridges

Considering your interest in these structures, you may be interested in joining Wikipedia:WikiProject Bridges --Ghirla ^-трёп- 12:42, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

Chizhik-Pyzhik

Thanks for your message on my talk. Please consider nominating the article on T:TDYK. You may also want to check Portal:Russia/Things you can do. --Ghirla ^-трёп- 17:12, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

Template:Microsoft

I've started a new discussion to reach a true consensus about what to include on the template. As a frequent contributor, I would like to ask that you join the discussion. I look forward to talking with you. --W. Flake ( talk | contribs ) 01:18, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your contributions! Already I can see progress, something that seemed to be lacking in previous discussions. --W. Flake ( talk | contribs ) 04:13, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

Allow me

I, Alex Bakharev, hereby award you this barnstar for your fine work on the Saint-Petersburg article. Keep it up!

Did you know?

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-- Congrats on getting the lead spot. The article was kindly nominated by User:Odengatan GeeJo ^(t)⁄_(c) • 16:44, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

An article which you started, or significantly expanded, Pavel Luspekaev, was selected for DYK!

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Thanks for your contributions! Nishkid64 23:00, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

Orphaned fair use image (Image:WindowsLiveSearch.png)

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You helped choose Vladimir Lenin as this week's WP:ACID winner

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Panorama Software

I may need help with completing the removal process request. The article was up for deletion before and was recreated. If you type "panorama software" in the search it come to this page rather then the categories page about panorama photography. Your help would be appreciated ! John Spikowski 19:20, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

The redirect doesn't solve the problem. We are back to square one. If you search on "panorama software" then your directed to this renamed page. Can the redirection be removed and "Panorama Software" page be declared a category and not reused again? John Spikowski 05:54, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Panorama_Software_%28BI%29"

The best solution would be to remove the Panorama Software page altogether so the "Panorama Software" category is found when doing a search instead of this blank page with a category reference. John Spikowski 18:18, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Panorama Software (BI)

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Leave your hands off MY talk entries

You changed my entry on the Browser page, and I am NOT happy about it. DO NOT edit other person's talk page entries. Do you know nothing about wikiquette? Leave my words alone. I wrote exactly what I wanted to write. ----- I am so angry, right now.... argh!!!! RUDE. Extremely, extremly, extremely rude of you. - Theaveng (talk) 20:20, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

P.S. I am now in the process of filing a report with an adminstrator. - Theaveng (talk) 20:30, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

Not even an apology? Jerk. - Theaveng (talk) 18:02, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

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Stone Bridge (St. Petersburg)

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--howcheng {chat} 00:08, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

Your bridge articles

You rock man! I added you a barnstar on the user page. Kostan1 (talk) 20:42, 18 August 2008 (UTC)

DYK

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--Gatoclass (talk) 05:27, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

XMLA

List of XMLA Consumers - WIkipedia is not list of products, and with OLEDB for OLAP and ADOMD.NET supporting XMLA - such list is moot anyways)

Why don’t to complete this list instead of deleting it? --Igor K (talk) 20:54, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

DYK

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Fixed. Wikiolap (talk) 17:20, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

Annenschule WPSchools assessment

Regarding your reassessment of Annenschule: the school is probably High-importance for the schools project, but articles rated High are typically mentioned at the assessment summaries section. Part of the reason it was rated Mid/C-class according to our criteria is because a B-class article should have in-line citations/footnotes per Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Assessment/B-Class criteria and this one only has external links as references. See Category:GA-Class school articles and Category:FA-Class school articles for examples of relatively well-sourced school articles. Thanks, --Jh12 (talk) 07:03, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

No problem, and many thanks for your efforts on the article. --Jh12 (talk) 08:46, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

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DYK for Chicherin House

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AfD nomination of Technical fellow

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DYK for Kotomin House

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DYK for Stroganov Palace

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DYK for Jelgava Palace

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Gatoclass (talk) 09:23, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

DYK for Konstantin Danzas

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Annenschule re-assessment

I changed the assessment on the article Annenschule to Start-class as part of a review of all B-class articles at Wikipedia:WikiProject Schools, I note you changed it to C-class. I have reverted this change. The article has no in-line citations, and only three references at the bottom of the article, which is good given the time period of the school, but is usually barely enough to get past WP:N. In addition, it is a little short still and only has two sections plus a lead (could it be split up into more per WP:WPSCH/AG?). It is close to C-class, but not quite there I think. According to WP:ASSESS this is what a Start article looks like, which bars a lot of reasonable to the article in question. If you disagree with the assessment I would suggest going to WP:WPSCH/A and asking for a re-assessment, or I could get someone to re-assess the article myself. I also take note that you created the article, thank you for your contributions, but please be careful when assessing articles you have created or heavily involved in, as it considered to have a potential conflict of interest. Camaron · Christopher · talk 19:50, 15 August 2009 (UTC)

I have responded on my talk page. Camaron · Christopher · talk 10:17, 16 August 2009 (UTC)

Comparison of OLAP Servers

Hi, to the one who changed Comparison of OLAP Servers, how do you add MDX functions in Analysis Services ? Thanks for the changes, —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.72.111.107 (talk) 06:15, 12 October 2009 (UTC)

Using server-side ADOMD.NET inside stored procedures. Wikiolap (talk) 06:24, 12 October 2009 (UTC)

--Alvarez 08:47, 14 October 2009 (UTC) : I'm not sure I understood, can you point me to an article for this ? What I wanted to say with Custom MDX functions: lets imagine a new MDX function returning the weighted average -> WAvg( {Set}, Value, Weight ). How can you define this new function in SSAS and use it in all you new MDX functions. What about performance ? -> it's the advantage of open source where you can inject your own functions directly into the server using the same language (Java/C++). I'm newby to wikipedia, sorry for the little mess

Yes you can create new MDX functions, like weigthed average which accepts set, value expression and weight expression and return number. Or it can return any MDX data type, like set or tuple. Unlike open source model you describe - this is portable, because these custom MDX functions are inside .NET assembly and can be brought from server to server. For many examples check out http://www.codeplex.com/ASStoredProcedures. Wikiolap (talk) 07:27, 15 October 2009 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Jewish Encyclopedia topics

I have been making some changes at WP:JE. (See WT:JE#Changes). I hope these make sense, and have your approval; I'd welcome your thoughts on them in the discussion there. Jheald (talk) 21:43, 18 October 2009 (UTC)

Template:Browser marketshare

Allow me to explain my edit to Template:Browser marketshare. I noticed that the median values of the chart in the article Usage share of web browsers varied widely compared to their mean values, therefore the "Other" entry's percentage is currently derived from the median values of the named browsers. Since they vary so much compared to their mean values the "Other" entry would be rendered meaningless if the medians added up to more than 100% (which they don't at present but they could). The mean values on the other hand produce an "Other" entry value that is the mean of the percentage of marketshare that is left over when you subtract the named browsers for all the sources thus giving a percentage that is always valid. If you disagree please tell me why.Thorenn (talk) 17:17, 26 November 2009 (UTC)

The chart values should use the median instead of the mean. This is true for at least two reasons (1) the number of sources is small and the median is less effected by outliers (2) we have no idea how the sources created their percentages in most cases, So median results in a more accurate estimation in this case. Also the reason the median and mean where so far off was because someone messed with the numbers. I re-looked at the sources and re-calculated. The result is both the mean an median very close. Next time send me a message before you change the chart (I'm the original creator). Jdm64 (talk) 10:09, 27 November 2009 (UTC)

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Dispute resolution for Usage share of operating systems

Hello. This message is being sent to inform you that there is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Dispute resolution noticeboard regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is "Usage share of operating systems, Usage share of web browsers". Thank you. --Jdm64 (talk) 00:47, 11 November 2011 (UTC)

Mediation Cabal

As advised by ItsZippy at Wikipedia:Dispute resolution noticeboard‎, applied to Mediation Cabal. — Dmitrij D. Czarkoff (talk) 00:42, 14 November 2011 (UTC)

Mediation Cabal: Request for participation

Dear Wikiolap: Hello. This is just to let you know that you've been mentioned in the following request at the Mediation Cabal, which is a Wikipedia dispute resolution initiative that resolves disputes by informal mediation.

The request can be found at Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal/Cases/13 November 2011/Usage share of operating systems.

Just so you know, it is entirely your choice whether or not you participate. If you wish to do so, and we'll see what we can do about getting this sorted out. At MedCab we aim to help all involved parties reach a solution and hope you will join in this effort.

If you have any questions relating to this or any other issue needing mediation, you can ask on the case talk page, the MedCab talk page, or you can ask the mediator, thehistorian10, at their talk page. MedcabBot (talk) 20:59, 14 November 2011 (UTC)

Non-free rationale for File:Luspekaev Vereshagin.jpg

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File permission problem with File:Trinity Bridge St Petersburg.jpg

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Orphaned non-free media (File:Adcenter promo.gif)

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Proposed deletion of Fauntleroy Park (Seattle)

The article Fauntleroy Park (Seattle) has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

non-notable park

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Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Weihang7 (talk) 14:42, 25 December 2012 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:Yuri Vizbor.jpg

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Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. Stefan2 (talk) 22:36, 15 May 2014 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!

Hi,
You appear to be eligible to vote in the current Arbitration Committee election. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability 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. If you wish to participate, you are welcome to review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. For the Election committee, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:40, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:Cougar mountain zoo logo.gif

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Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in section F5 of the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. --B-bot (talk) 17:07, 19 May 2017 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:Cougar mountain zoo logo.gif

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Thanks for uploading File:Cougar mountain zoo logo.gif. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).

Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in section F5 of the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 11:28, 12 July 2017 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:Cougar mountain zoo logo.gif

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A barnstar for you!

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