User talk:Dominus/Archive (2007)

50 Greatest Players in NBA History

Even as it was I who inflicted many of the tortorously tortuous locutions on the instant article, I rather enjoyed your em-dasherific edit summary and, more importantly, found myself to have concurred in your changes (if not in the explanation therefor); when I forget that one ought to edit other than excusively for his amusement, I sometimes—brace yourself—tend toward the unnecessary verbose (or, more perniciously, the unnecessarily complex) and subjugate readability to all else. I'm not at all sure, FWIW, that I think any particular formulation to have been solecistic, and I don't know that any of the sentence fragments or putative run-ons would have been disfavored as grammatically suspect by even the most rigid prescriptivist; I readily concede, though, that my dense phrasings, prior to your improving them. would have been disfavored by any sane reader as insufficiently clear, needlessly complex, or unencyclopedically obtuse (as is, for instance, this sentence). Cheers, then, for having simulataneously cleaned up my work and made me laugh... :) Joe 07:22, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. I tried very hard not to change the sense of the original text. -- Dominus 20:11, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

W.Somerset Maugham

Given your previous or current interest in Somerset Maugham - can you please add any thoughts you might have at Talk:W. Somerset Maugham#What next? Peer Review? so that we can move the article up a notch? VirtualSteve 09:10, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

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Thank you. —Remember the dot (t) 21:04, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

Formula for e

Hi. You are correct that the mysterious Hjb is in fact Harlan J. Brothers. As requested, I have posted a reply pointing to the formula in question. Thank you.

Hjb 07:47, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

Lloyd Leggett

Lloyd Leggett smells like a hoax. There is no trace of Lloyd Leggett or Ruth Leggett on Google, Google Books, or Google Scholar. The article was created by a new user who has no other edits to his name; another new user nominated for Speedy Delete -- perhaps a prank between two people who know each other. But you added the information that he was a "Welsh prince". You're a serious editor, so you must have a source for this other than the Lloyd dab page, though it doesn't appear in the article. But how can someone be a Welsh prince after 1409? (other than the Prince of Wales) If there really was such a person, perhaps he claimed descent from Welch princes, but that's not terribly interesting; most Europeans probably have a royal ancestor somewhere in their genealogical tree. So, what evidence do you have on this fellow? --Macrakis 19:11, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

I did not add the information that it was a Welsh prince; it was there already. It may be a hoax, and perhaps it should be deleted, but it shouldn't be speedied. -- Dominus 19:33, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

Ah, I see; I was going by the edit summary rather than the diff. But the claim that he is a Welsh prince is prima facie false, since there has not been a Welsh prince since 1409. I suppose the Speedy criteria talk about a claim of notability. Does that mean that it suffices to add "current King of England" to any biographical article to avoid speedy? e.g.

Jimmy Peters (born 1995 in Evanston, Illinois) is the current King of England and a clown in Miss Johnson's classroom.

Regards, --Macrakis 19:47, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

Given the speedy delete policy as it stands, yes. -- Dominus 16:38, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

Jonathan Hey - notable ??

I also suggest you to exame this article with the proceedings references and repeated links ... (?) --Overix 04:27, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. I have no particular opinion about this. -- Dominus 12:50, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

Mathematics CotW

Hey Dominus, I am writing you to let you know that the Mathematics Collaboration of the week(soon to "of the month") is getting an overhaul of sorts and I would encourage you to participate in whatever way you can, i.e. nominate an article, contribute to an article, or sign up to be part of the project. Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks--Cronholm144 23:14, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

Redirect of Ramaswami

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Wikimedia Pennsylvania

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Thanks and I hope you join up! Cbrown1023 talk 03:03, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

Cheong Inji

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Wrong title. Only "Jeong" is correct.

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"Indiscriminate" information

You asked what I meant by:

The simultaneous claims that this information is both mathematically trivial and "indiscriminate information" only shows that "indiscriminate information" is the new "I don't like it"

I don't remember the exact AfD that this came up in. If I remember right, it was some kind of listing of mathematical information, properties of a set or some such thing. (Mathematics is not my strong suit.) At any rate, claims were made in that AfD that the data presented by the article was both mathematically trivial, generated by simple proofs or operations; and that it was "indiscriminate information".

What "indiscriminate information" means, God only knows, although a claque of noisy deletionists think they know it when they see it. At any rate, "indiscriminate" suggests random disorder, and it struck me as inherently contradictory that a page of data could be both mathematically trivial and "indiscriminate" struck me as inherently contradictory. Those who argued for the deletion of that page were making mutually exclusive claims. That's what I was getting at there. - Smerdis of Tlön 04:07, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

Moravian -> Moravian (religion)

Greetings,

One of the items in your To do list is:

• Clean up the links to Moravian that should instead be links to Moravian (religion).

Should you ever get around to this, please be aware that the correct destination is now Moravian Church.

Also, if you would kindly fix the link on your To do list, that would help my exercise to empty the What links here of Moravian (religion).

-Arb. 17:35, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

Lincoln University

You raised a point regarding the use of "unprecedented" when referring to Lincoln University alumni with commemorative stamps, and I have removed the word. It would however be interesting to verify whether Harvard has alumni who were honored with commemorative stamps.

Njlincolnlion 17:27, 2 November 2007 (UTC)njlincolnlion

Seventy-five Nobel Prize winners and seven U.S. Presidents have graduated from Harvard. Is it possible that none of them is commemorated by a U.S. postage stamp? -- Dominus 17:58, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

132.181.160.42

FYI: In addition to the edits to Zorn's lemma, which you remarked upon, User:132.181.160.42 also made related edits to Claude Chevalley and Kazimierz Kuratowski which you might want to take a look at for correctness. --Pleasantville 15:24, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

I already hit them, thanks. -- Dominus 15:31, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

"fix instruction block"

• I don't understand what this means.[1] JuJube (talk) 18:30, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

• My apologies. I was trying to fix the misformatting that (unknown to me) were simultaneously being fixed by Ioeth. Ioeth got there first, and fixed the problem; you can see this in the edit just before mine. Then my edits went in, and for some reason they wiped out your vandal addition without causing an edit conflict. -- Dominus (talk) 18:43, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

Harry "S" Truman

Hello. You just changed the title of the Truman-article in the lb:Wikipedia from "Harry Spencer Truman" to "Harry S. Truman" stating that "Truman's middle name was not "Spencer". And what do you know is the S. standing for? --Cornischong 15:24, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

I'm sorry, I can't understand your question.

And where do you take the full stop after the "S" from? Plaese have a look at this webside ( http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/ht33.html ). --Cornischong 15:37, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

Please see Harry_S._Truman#Truman.27s_middle_initial. Consensus on the English Wikipedia is that "S." is correct. -- Dominus 17:36, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Correct answer

An article that you have been involved in editing, Correct answer, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Correct answer. Thank you. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 23:50, 12 December 2007 (UTC)