Mirasmus

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Nate Washington

Hey, I noticed you prodded Nate Washington because his "club" didn't have an article. Thing is, that's actually a major American football professional team--the guy just misspelled it. Please also do not mark deletion proposals as minor. Make sure the edit summary makes it clear that you're proposing the article for deletion, not fixing a spelling error. NickelShoe 02:54, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

Sorry about that. Thanks for picking it up. Not being American I didn't notice that the club was misspelt. I should also change my preferences so that my 'this is a minor edit' box isn't checked by default. Apologies. Mirasmus 03:10, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

Prodding high schools

Please don't do it. High schools have been subject to fierce controversy, but they are never deleted and any that you prod will soon be deprodded. Honbicot 18:45, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for advice. Can you please direct me to the Wiki policy that says that all highschools are allowed to remain, no matter how non-notable they are? I would then be quite happy to abide by the view that they remain. I imagine that soon we will also have primary schools, kindergartens and day-care centres too. Sorry. Pardon the facetiousness but where will it end? Mirasmus 02:20, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

Schools are controversial. Some people seem to hate them. In terms of the economy, a single high school has a much much larger impact than any TV series, no matter how popular it is; yet WP has no problem documenting TV series episodes in painful detail. A single school-teacher has about the same economic impact as a single TV episode or a single rock-n-roll album. Imagine documenting the quirks of your high-school teachers in similar detail, as if they were Pokemon characters (of which WP has hundreds of articles on). Culturally, Americans do not value schooling and intelligence, and prefer action and adventure; your anti-high-school slant is typical of the anti-intellectual culture in the US. linas 17:26, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

Excellent points. However, I do not believe that TV episodes are notable, nor pokemon characters nor any of the Japanese cartoons that litter WP. I'd like to delete them all. If a high school (or any school) is notable, though being special in some particular way, then by all means include it, but not the myriad of schools with no particular claim to notability. My anti-school slant maybe typical of US anti-intellectualism, but I'm not American, and a glance at the articles I create or edit will show my true light. Mirasmus 01:55, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

If you find an insubstantial article on a public school, just merge and redirect it to an article on its parent school district. Postdlf 03:39, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

Adding USA to everything

Please use some judgment when adding the USA link to placenames. First of all, USA redirects, so please put in the correct link ([[United States|USA]]). Second, while some of your additions are reasonable (I wouldn't expect someone from Singapore to know too much about Oklahoma), some are totally unnecessary, such as clarifying that New York is in the US. Dbinder 14:35, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

I add country names to all locations, regardless of whether it is the USA, Madagascar or Australia. I do not assume that people all over the world automatically know where a place is, not matter how apparently famous it is. I am amazed that people assume that their little patch of this planet is known to everyone. Mirasmus 02:23, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

de Rham curve

I expanded the de Rham curve article, as per your request on my talk page. linas 17:26, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

Thank you very much. I appreciate it.Mirasmus 01:51, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

Khinchin's theorem

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Khinchin's theorem

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Uyot

Hello! This page you created in 2006 is currently under AfD. The main concern is that we can't determine what species this refers to. Do you happen to know the binomial that this common name refers to? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks! Rkitko ^(talk) 06:15, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

Unreferenced BLPs

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Thanks!--DASHBot (talk) 17:38, 17 January 2010 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Henci Goer

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