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Hello. When you write a new article on mathematics, could you add it to the list of mathematical topics? (E.g., I see that predual is not there. Thanks. Michael Hardy 00:54, 8 Feb 2004 (UTC)

OK, I'll try to remember. Lupin 19:44, 8 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Lupin, you removed my reference to the BLT-theorem in operator norm, commenting that it is not standard terminology (which is probably correct). Unaware of this, I went on and made a page at BLT-theorem. Can you suggest an alternative name for this article? Any advice is appreciated. -- Jitse Niesen 16:51, 8 Feb 2004 (UTC)

My suggestion would be "continuous linear extension". BLT made me think of bacon, lettuce and tomato :-) Lupin 19:44, 8 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Hi Lupin, I'm sure your edit to Template:NW England was done with the best of intentions, but please note that it is a list of districts, not of towns. Also, general practice is only to mark edits as minor if they do not involve adding or removing text. Thanks, Warofdreams 18:59, 25 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Lupin, don't keep replacing Corel Draw, Illustrator, et al, I've added "List of vector graphics software". -- user:zanimum

ok - sorry about that. hastily merged edit problems. Lupin 15:41, 2 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Well done on the Jimmy Blades ex-stub! :) Nevilley 13:48, 12 Mar 2004 (UTC)

ta! Lupin 00:01, 13 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Hi Lupin, I hope you are not offended by some changes I made at Royal Academy of Music. I felt that the "see alsos" weren't quite right, and that the article was better served with a link to Music school, which can then act as a hub to all appropriate institutions and catch the requirement for lists of them in other articles, but with lower maintenance. Hope this is OK. Also, should the article mention the RAM's view of itself as the best, a view shared with some others? I note that that RCM article also says it's one of the most prestigious ... I dunno, is this a bit of a can of worms?? Nevilley 08:54, 17 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Looks fine to me! As to the prestige thing, I'm not really qualified to comment... but there is an informal ranking of these places which varies depending on who you talk to. It may be worth preserving some flavour of that, assuming NPOV issues can be resolved. Tricky though. Lupin 10:10, 17 Mar 2004 (UTC)

A comment - It can be stated that the conservatory and the academy both view themselves as highly prestigous institutions without POVing - all that says is that they think highly of themselves, which nobody would trust any more than, for example, a gold medal issued from one's own private event in which they are the sole judge. At least, I hope nobody does. Falcon 06:21, Mar 23, 2004 (UTC)

Hi it's PD not pd in the msg tag (it's case sensitive). Secretlondon 19:46, 24 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Yup, thanks. Lupin 19:58, 24 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Hello. I'm new here. I noticed your change of formatting to remove the subscripts in the "LaTeX" logo. I know in Tex its LaFailed to parse (unknown error\TeX): \TeX . Is there anyway to include that within the refrence to solve the problem? Sreyan 22:27, 31 Mar 2004 (UTC)

I think the picture of the logo on theLaTeX page makes it clear how it should look. Is that what you mean? As you can see, the wikipedia TeX support doesn't include the \TeX macro. Lupin 22:55, 31 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Hey just wondering why you edited out all of the links that I added. I looked though Wikipedia guidelines and did not see anything that I was doing wrong. I felt my additions of external links was right in line with what has been done on pages such as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibson http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_guitar and also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_lessons. I was just curious as to how my sumbissions were different from the one's mentioned above. I felt that on a page about the violin etc. it was reasonable to add a link to a site that teaches how to play the violin in addition to providing free tablature. Jeremy Casey

As far as I could see, you were linking to websites selling teaching materials rather than teaching materials per se. This seems silly at best (should we link to every book on Amazon covering a particular subject?) and also open to abuse as a way of getting free advertising. Since I don't spend my time reading the guidelines I don't know of any specific guideline which says this is Bad, but I have a feeling that there probably is one. Lupin 09:22, 25 May 2004 (UTC)

That's fine. I just felt like that links to commercial sites should all be allowed or none. I will just go ahead and delete the links that lead to the Fender and Gibson sites.

Actually I think these should stay, since linking to a company's website from an article about a company is perfectly natural. On the other hand, linking to a retailer's page selling a specific product from a page dealing with the product but not directly related to that retailer seems to cross the line. Lupin 16:24, 25 May 2004 (UTC)

1 TeX
2 Categorization
3 OBJECTION!!! re: Jewish "mythology"
4 Emmanuel College picture
5 Skull and crossbones
6 Crumbs saucer fork.jpg
7 Love the new...

[edit] TeX

Hello. On Wikipedia, TeX looks very good when "displayed", but often looks hideous, sometimes nearly to the point of illegibility, when embedded in lines of text. I've fixed the problem in free probability. I will add that article to the list of probability topics. Michael Hardy 17:49, 25 May 2004 (UTC)

I was hoping that the stuff on that page would end up rendered in html automagically. I don't really understand why it wasn't as it was all simple stuff... but point taken. Lupin 18:15, 25 May 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Categorization

Thanks for the heads-up. I agree with you. I guess everyone is still learning how to make best use of categories. Pete/Pcb21 (talk) 12:53, 31 May 2004 (UTC)

Why not? Dysprosia 22:21, 31 May 2004 (UTC)

I think mathematical analysis is a strict superset of calculus. The way it was said that it's a subcategory of calculus. Lupin 22:25, 31 May 2004 (UTC)

Thanks. Consider an edit summary to say so, in future? Dysprosia 22:36, 31 May 2004 (UTC)

Uh, yeah :P Lupin 22:37, 31 May 2004 (UTC)

[edit] OBJECTION!!! re: Jewish "mythology"

OBJECTION!!!

I OBJECT most strongly to placing the classical Jewish texts under the category "Jewish Mythology". "Category:Jewish mythology" and the Subcategories being "Category:Jewish texts" And then God becomes ARBITRARILY part of "mythology"! Perhaps Midrash could go with it, BUT not these others. I vote that the titles be REVERSED and that "Jewish mythology" become a Subtext of Jewish texts. I plan to take this to arbitration!IZAK 12:25, 6 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Yes, I think this is very offensive to large numbers of people, too. If you took the time to check the edit history of Category:Jewish texts you'll find that it wasn't me that made this change, it was User:Eequor. I "fixed" that page, but I've yet to become embroiled in controversial issues and don't intend to start, so if this becomes contentious I won't make further changes. You could of course have made this change yourself... I suggest you do so on the God page. Lupin 14:27, 6 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Dear Lupin: Thanks. I have done some follow-up...IZAK 08:25, 10 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Hey, thanks for placing my Ont_Uni template on all the university pages... I just made it this morning and was planning to place it on all the pages now, but found it done!

Thanks again, Radagast 22:56, Jun 9, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Emmanuel College picture

Thanks loads for fixing the picture of Emmanuel College! :) I have taken some more pictures and listed them on my user page — would you like to fix those too? One of them is too dark, for example. Thanks! — Timwi 06:48, 11 Jun 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Skull and crossbones

((User 216.68.189.162 posted this on my User page by mistake. BTW thanks too. Jorge Stolfi 04:46, 12 Jun 2004 (UTC)))

Thank you for placing a fiercer looking crossbones on the skull and crossbones page. That crossbones looks more like a poison skull and crossbones than the Jolly Roger. The Jolly Roger looks more like a pirate skull and crossbones.

[edit] Crumbs saucer fork.jpg

The image Crubs saucer fork.jpg that you uploaded on the 26th March isn't being linked to anything - isolated images aren't much use on Wiki...was this originally planned for an article? If not, perhaps this image could be deleted... Nick04 14:33, 14 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Try Fork. Lupin 22:23, 14 Jun 2004 (UTC)