User talk:Henning Makholm

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

If you post a message here, I will reply here unless you explicitly ask me to do it on your talk page. - Henning Makholm

[edit] Welcome

Welcome to the Wikipedia

I noticed you were new, and wanted to share some links I thought useful:

For more information click here. You can sign your name by typing 4 tildes, like this: ~~~~.

Be bold!

User:Sam Spade

[edit] Codesgroup

Yup, you're right. I forgot about that. Thanks for the reminder.Gator (talk) 01:01, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Soundtrack to your life

Thanks for remedying my tag for speedy deletion; either way it deserves a speedy. Thanks, Gwernol 02:29, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] r.e Edits

Wikipedia welcomes contributors regardless of age, but it would be nice to see you actually contribute. So far most of you (with the exception of Dbmag9) seem to have been more interested in building and editing each other's userpages. If your interests go mainly in that direction, perhaps your needs would be better served by getting MySpace or LiveJournal accounts? Remember that Wikipedia is not a free host, blog, or webspace provider.

It is OK to have a Wikipedia account without editing (e.g., in order to keep a watchlist or a non-default skin). But to maintain an elaborate userpage without actually contributing to the actual encyclopedic borders on being a waste of project resources. Henning Makholm 21:46, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Tdmj"

Mr Makholm I have taken your message under my wing and thought about it for a long time.Your hilarious comment about getting a MySpace or LiveJournal accounts have brought me to the decision that I would very much like to have them, however i will not publize them to you because you will not (obviously) apreaciate them. I have started editing and creating pages (as my "classmates" have from now starting with yours!!! (Comment left by Tdmj)

Again, I apologise for my "classmates"'s behaviour. I do try my best. Daniel (☎) 20:57, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Importance

Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire is important. Use your brain and don't be so trigger happy. — Dunc|☺ 15:55, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

I did. How can I put this any other way? To be create DBE you need to have done something important. Read article on Brain. Please use it. — Dunc|☺ 16:06, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

Another word for it is common sense. Do you want to list it on WP:AFD and show everyone how much you have? — Dunc|☺ 16:11, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

Duncan, rather than engaging in name-calling, as the creator of the article, could you at least add some info on the important thing she did to get awarded a DBE? After all, that only makes for a better article, right? --Chan-Ho (Talk) 02:38, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Redirecting

I noticed you did some redirecting work, and i was wondering if you could show me how to do that. I think you set it up to redirect, Theodore Jacobson Observatory to Theordore Jacobsen Observatory, which would be correct. Anyways, any help would be great. Thankszoreos--Geppy 02:13, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] San Girolamo degli Illirici

You're quite right - in fact I've just being trying to do that, but not sure if I set up the redirect right. Would you have a quick look? Thanks, Bengalski 15:57, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] I'm Luffy! The Man Who Will Become Pirate King

Yes, I did find the right template. Thanks anyway, though! :) This is why I should not edit Wikipedia at 4 AM, eh? --Trafton 04:09, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Shadowbox

"Are you sure you meant to delete the AfD discussion and not the article being discussed?" LOL!! Sorry, I'm an idiot. I've restored the discussion and deleted the article. Thanks for pointing it out. :-) SlimVirgin ^(talk) 00:10, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Phoenix

I was thinking of inviting the admin who helped me with Hazel (disambiguation) to offer an opinion from a disambiguation expert perspective. Do you agree? -- Usgnus 18:29, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

Might be an idea. Or perhaps I should just unwatch the page and let it deteriorate in peace. Though I'm perfectly sure I'm right, I can feel that the conflict is making me more upset than the subject deserves. Henning Makholm 18:33, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Daloonik

Hello, bonjour, monsieur ! User Daloonik is not a sock puppet (poupée de chausette) of bongout Bongout. Thank you ! W4rez 21:59, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] ratio equal to 4 or 3.2 or ...?

Thanks for the note. I made the edits during a pass by following a link. The purpose was to lighten the tone a bit, and they were done from memory. Now that it's come to my attention there is a separate article on the bill, I've checked and realized a couple of my memorized points were a bit shaky. I'll go back and take a look in a couple of days.

Glad to see someone from another linguistic perspective is adding material at the English WP. Thanks. ww 05:38, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] wikistalker?

you're following me around now?--Heliac 19:13, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

So I am. You are way, way too trigger happy with unexplained reversals. Half of what I see you revert appears to be good-faith additions that I refuse to believe you have any reason to know are worse than the version you revert to. Take a chill and start thinking before you revert something that is not obviously vandalism. Henning Makholm 19:20, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

Also blanking your talk page after one day's activity just because it shows criticism against you (which you haven't bothered to reply to) is seriously antisocial. Stop that. Henning Makholm 19:20, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Developement

This edit changed "developent" to "developement". The former is a typo all right, but so is the latter. The correct spelling is "development". Henning Makholm 14:28, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

It certainly is. *sigh* I took a whole bunch of typo corrections from one of the AutoWikiBot pages and it looks like not all of them are correct. I think I'd better go spellcheck all the corrections. Thanks for that. CmdrObot 14:33, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] history of numerical computations of pi

I've replied to your last reversion on the Talk page of the article. - DavidWBrooks 20:04, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] What??

Unfortunately no practical system for calculating with numbers is able to express

π

exactly. Though this fact was only proved rigorously in recent time, it has been suspected since the earliest times,

???

What "fact" that was recently prooved is referred to? And since when is pi the ratio of circumference to radius, rather than circumference to diameter? Michael Hardy 20:25, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

Now I've posted these comments at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Mathematics:

[edit] "History of numerical approximations of π" really weird edit war---mathematicians please help

Look at the recent edit history of history of numerical approximations of π. User:DavidWBrooks has inserted this bit of wisdom into the article:

It has been known for millennia that π, the ratio between the circumference and radius of any circle,

("radius"! Sic.)

is a mathematical constant, but no method of calculation was available until fairly recently.

Of course someone came to clean up this nonsense, but here's what he (user:Henning Makholm) wrote:

Unfortunately no practical system for calculating with numbers is able to express π exactly. Though this fact was only proved rigorously in recent time, it has been suspected since the earliest times

Is there something remotely approximating some correct statement in that? If so, what is it? (Makholm left the ratio as circumference-to-radius rather than circumference-to-diameter.) Michael Hardy 21:05, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: my signature

Hey... thanks for catching the signature thing at Talk:Pluto. ~~I'm not sure what's up with that, since a minor edit by Osgoodelawyer resulted in the same change in many of my signatures on that page.~~ Scratch that - they were all changed during Thegreatdr's edit. Bizarre... --Ckatz^chat_spy 22:06, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] French fries

Read the talkpage - we Brits have never been happy with that page - whole sections reads like nonsense to us (french fries are often eaten with fried fish in the UK - em...no) because it suggests that Chips are a type of French fry and therefore presents an American-biased page. --Charlesknight 14:23, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

If you're not happy with the page, you should improve it rather then just erasing the information about what they are called in the UK. From the knowledge I have of the UK, fries/chips are served with deep-fried fish, as well as to many other meats, quite often. Henning Makholm 16:34, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] pi image

Please stop removing the pi number image. I don't find it silly and actually it's a good way to present pi because first of all it has good quality and second of all, it far more interesting than the plain pi number. You are not allowed to remove anything from wikipedia because of you own person valor and tastes. If you want to reply, please do so on my talk page. --Arad 00:13, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Beach Jumpers / The Shadow

The Shadow was the mascot of the Beach Jumpers, due to his ability to "cloud men's minds so they could not see him." That is what the Beach Jumpers attempted to do. The picture really belongs in the article. Perhaps it could be better explained, but there is a definite relationship. Regards, Lou Sander 12:41, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

If there is a connection, you should explain it rather than assume that the reader can figure it out telepathically. Henning Makholm 13:06, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

Like Greek poets and Danish fairy-tale producers, we do not rely on "telepathy" for readers to understand cultural and literary allusions. Neither do we require everyone to "get" those allusions. But we hope that those who do not "get it" will be cautious about removing well-considered material that they don't quite understand. If an article contains longstanding material that you question, you might want to discuss it before deleting it. This page contains other comments on that subject; perhaps you could take them to heart. Lou Sander 14:14, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

If you want your material not to be removed, it is your task to explain ahead of time what its relevance is. It's that simple. An encyclopedia is not a place for unexplained "cultural and literary allusions". Henning Makholm 14:35, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

Nor is an encyclopedia, I hope you would agree, a place for people to repeatedly "correct" articles about which they have no subject matter knowledge, or to lecture others who DO have such knowledge. It's that simple. Lou Sander 16:30, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

You are wrong. Wikipedia is a place where it is expected to correct articles when they include material whose relevance to the subject matter is not explained in the article. It is not sufficient that you claim to have some private knowledge of the image's relevance - it must be said in the article itself. Henning Makholm 16:44, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

For editors who question the content of the Beach jumper article, it has a discussion page, three external links, and two references. Some people take advantage of these things before making uninformed changes to an article. Others, I suppose, require that everything in the references also be included in the article, or else they just decide that anything they don't immediately understand doesn't belong, because somebody else owes them an explanation.

Bertrand Russell once said "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." I hope you don't require that Russell's Wikipedia article include that famous quotation, or an explanation of its meaning, or explicit definitions of words like "cocksure," to illustrate the frequent validity of what that wise man said. Many of us can learn from it. Lou Sander 17:50, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hutber's law

Hi, on this AfD you voted delete per my arguement that it did not meet WP:NEO. Since then new citations have been brought forth and I have changed my mind and now think is does meet WP:NEO. You may wish to review the new evidence and revisit your decision, or perhaps you like it how it is. Feel free to ask me any questions here. HighInBC ^{(Need help? Ask me)} 23:50, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Venetia Burney/Phair

Thanks for catching that... I think we were of like mind, wanting to identify her at that point in her life. However, for some reason, I had the surnames reversed. I'm glad you were paying attention... --Ckatz^chat_spy 10:04, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] AfD

Greetings. You may be interested in Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/University of North Carolina Tower Chapel Hill, which I have just listed. I would appreciate your input. --Descendall 09:25, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org../../../h/e/n/User_talk%7EHenning_Makholm_1762.html"