User talk:Nixdorf

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Hello and Welcome to the English Wikipedia! --mav

[edit] Emerald tablet

Hi Nixdorf: I just noticed your question about the Emerald Tablet under Hermetica. Probably due to forces only Hermes Trismegistus himself could adequately explain, I'd already just did a re-edit of Hermetica and a new Emerald Tablet article that should answer your questions. Spooky. Bacchiad 16:12, 8 Jul 2004 (UTC)

[edit] SDK

Hi Nixdorf. The Software Development Kit article looks fine. I just have a question as to why you moved it. See the talk page for the article. Looks nice, though. : ) --Frecklefoot

Oh well, moved it back now. Sorry.

[edit] Benjamin Franklin quuote

"Remember that time is money"
Benjamin Franklin Advice to a Young Tradesman
Source: http://greenwich2day.com/fun-n-fact/timequotes.htm
MB 20:36 May 13, 2003 (UTC)

When you remove a redirect as you did at jargon please check the links to the article and correct those which should properly go to the article it was redirected to. Fred Bauder 10:05 1 Jun 2003 (UTC)

[edit] XServer

Nixdorf, the Xserver that Keith is working isn't a branch. He rewrote quite a bit of the Xserver itself. It was originally intended for embedded X. We should clarify a little more. spstarr 6:58, 01 Dec 2003 (UTC)

OK let's fix it all so it's correct... While I wrote "a branch of the X Window System" (and not "XFree86") I obviously was aiming at the protocol itself. Will clarify. Nixdorf 20:33, 1 Dec 2003 (UTC)

[edit] Categories

Hi there Nix ! thanks for doing the sub-catagories for the wiki. It makes for useful connections for the 'pedia. i note your two main spheres appear to be I.T. and the esoteric, a curious blend; also that you have access to Agrippa's tres libra, a work which heralded the English esoteric revival of the 1650's and 60's . If ever you get to find a picture of a dolphin in the Agrippa book then i would be v. interested for in his Pseudodoxia Epidemica Sir T.B. informs his reader that- 'And answerably hereto may we behold them differently bowed in medalls, and the Dolphins of Tarus and Fulvus do make another flexure from that of Commodus and Agrippa. (P.E. Bk.2 chap 7. But enough of my hobby-horse. Thanks once again for your working on the sub-cats's, a well useful contribution Norwikian 16:08, 14 Jul 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Simulated reality

Hi Nixdorf! Sorry, but I have removed a lot of your recent contribution to Simulated reality. The Buddhist concept of Maya, for instance, is a good example of anti-realism but does not involve the actual simulation of the perceived reality. These are related concepts but reality not being 'real' does not necessarily imply it is simulated. Nevertheless, in general your comments are interesting and perhaps they can be integrated into Idealism or Anti-realism. -- Gdm 00:45, 2004 Aug 4 (UTC)

[edit] Rewrite of Newton polynomial

Hi, I did a complete rewrite of Newton polynomial. As most of the previous article was contributed by you it would be nice if you could have a short look at the article and tell me your opinion. I am not to sure about the notation and perhaps you know a better structure (like using N, n, ν for the indices). Thanks. MathMartin 13:20, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC)

[edit] FGCS

I just noticed your Fifth generation computer systems project, which is the identical topic in my fifth generation computer. I think some merging is in order, which I'd be happy to do. My reason for writing is to ask which direction you think we should merge -- your name is more historically accurate, but is a mouthfull and my version is more generic. Comments? Maury 14:08, 18 Sep 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Data Management Wiki Committee

Thank you for your contribution to one, or more, articles that are now organized under Data management.

Because of your previous intrest, you are recieving an invitation to become a founding member of the Data Management Wiki Committee.

The members, of course, will form and solidify the purpose, rules, officers, etc. but my idea (to kick things off) is to establish a group of us who will take responsiblity to see that the ideas of Data management are promoted and well represented in Wikipedia articles.

If you are willing to join the committee, please go to Category_talk:Data_management and indicate your acceptance of this invitation by placing your three tilde characters in the list.

KeyStroke 01:23, 2004 Sep 25 (UTC)

[edit] Codex Runicus

On Codex Runicus you say:

Codex Runicus has number AM 28 8vo and is stored in Copenhagen.

Perhaps this should be rephrased as:

Codex Runicus is stored in Copenhagen under (whatever coding system) number AM 28 8vo.

Or similar. - dcljr 16:03, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)

It's an international standard I think, will try to find out its name. Thanks! Nixdorf 20:49, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Rolle theorem illustration

Hi! I see that you produced a nice illustration of Rolle's theorem at one point, and then somebody else removed it from the article. I'd like to restore it, but I have one request: your picture doesn't show f(a) = f(b); it appears the two values are different. Could you make a version where they are really on the same height? Thanks, AxelBoldt 17:59, 16 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Image:Rolles theorem.png

Oh I'll see if I can locate it, read the article as it is now, and adjust it properly. I think it was Michael Hardy that removed it, must check what he said about it... Nixdorf 17:14, 17 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Can this image be deleted as a new version now exists? The only page that links to the old image is this here talk page. I am going to tag this as {{GFDL}} for now, but if you think it can be deleted maybe you could stop by and re-tag it as {{delete}}. Also if you want me to do it for you, just leave a message on my talk page! Thanks! --MaxPower 19:03, 2005 Jan 21 (UTC)

[edit] greetings

Hi. I am looking of people interested in computers and computer science. I found you via the history of the ATI Technologies article. You say in your userpage that you are interested in TCP/IP and I checked your Wikipedia contributions and found them to be very good. I contact you in order to ask you whether you would be interested to work in a non-Wikipedia project for the creation of a wiki related to your interests. If you like this idea, you can see User:Npc/List. If you are not interested just ignore this msg and you will not receive anything more. Thanks! Npc 15:50, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Perhaps a good idea, and thnaks, but my time is limited and I want to spend it on Wikipedia mainly. Perhaps some day when I retire, I can put time aside for projects like this too... :-) Nixdorf 19:06, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Did you know has been updated

And an article you created recently has made the line up and is now featured on the main page. Enjoy! -- [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|^(talk)]] 09:35, Nov 11, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Rydberg formula

Hi Nixdorf, you contributed a very nice facsimile of the Rydberg formula. I like to publish it in the German Wikipedia. Could you please tell me if this picture is public domain or free because the German copyright permissions are treated in a very ;) restrictive way. --Kiko2000 20:54, 13 Nov 2004 (UTC)

It is public domain, I have permissions of free use from the Lund University. Nixdorf 20:56, 13 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Thank you :) !!! I will use it soon. --Kiko2000 22:24, 19 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Just for information: I uploaded your jpg to Wikimedia Commons. I Hope this is ok. I use this file in the German Wikipedia in the article Balmer-Serie. Kiko2000 23:12, 20 Nov 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Article Licensing

Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 1000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:

• Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
• Multi-Licensing Guide
• Free the Rambot Articles Project

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

Option 1

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

OR

Option 2

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to any [[U.S. state]], county, or city article as described below:

{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk) 18:58, Dec 8, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] The Golden horns of Gallehus

Hej Nixdorf

You asked me on my userpage on the danish Wikipedia ([1]) how the licensing was to the danish article on this subject. The text I have written are GFDL and I have just uploadet my photos to Commons under the GFDL licens, so they should be easy for you to use now :-) I placed them at the page: Golden horns of Gallehus

Med venlig hilsen Malene Thyssen [2]

[edit] acausal system

I think the real name should be "anticausal system" since acausal is shortened from anticausal. Cburnett 06:35, Apr 6, 2005 (UTC)

OK moving it back then.

[edit] Personal Privilege

Please do not create my User page again. I prefer it as a non-link; it makes my watchlist easier to read. Septentrionalis 17:24, 5 May 2005 (UTC)

Hey sort of looks weird to me, but whatever is fine with you is fine with me. Nixdorf 20:43, 2005 May 8 (UTC)

It is quite simple: it means that, as long as I am a minority in this weirdness, I can tell at a glance which pages I am still the top edit on, by whether the link is red or blue. (I might be able to do this by coloring my id, but I'm not sure about that.) Septentrionalis 21:16, 10 May 2005 (UTC)

Oh now I get it... I think it is indeed possible to color your ID, but the best thing would be for MediaWiki to support some special emphasis for articles edited by the current user, like red color, large font, blinking text or whatever. Nixdorf 21:36, 2005 May 10 (UTC)

[edit] Uppsala Cathedral

I wonder why you have moved this page. English style seems to favour uppercase in cases like this (see Category:British cathedrals for many examples). Tupsharru 21:10, 17 May 2005 (UTC)

See Wikipedia:Naming conventions. Nixdorf 21:14, 2005 May 17 (UTC)

My personal inclination would be to regard "Uppsala Cathedral" together as a proper noun, in contrast with Swedish practice but in analogy with e.g. the names of British cathedrals. I think that would be better English. A Swedish analogy would be Uppsala University, which has an uppercase U, although Swedish uses lowercase for the second word. Tupsharru 21:53, 17 May 2005 (UTC)

Well I'm not certain as to what applies. The church does not officially call itself "Uppsala Cathedral" The Swedish name is Uppsala domkyrka unless the church has themselves capitalized the first letter in "Domkyrka". We have a rule in Swedish that organizations are to determine for themselves how their names shall be capitalized. Nixdorf 14:37, 2005 May 18 (UTC)

Hi, Nixdorf. User:Tupsharru asked me for a second opinion about the capitalization, and I thought I might as well weigh in here. I'm Swedish, too. The rule that organizations determine their own capitalization can't be transposed from Swedish to English usage the way you're doing, IMO. Don't you find Tupsharru's analogy of Uppsala universitet versus Uppsala University convincing..? I do. The organization itself—Uppsala University—has indeed determined both the "Uppsala universitet" and the "Uppsala University" spelling—both appear on their letterhead. The reason the organization has capitalized itself one way in Swedish and a different way in English is of course that they're aware of the difference between English and Swedish usage on this point. In other words, that page surely does needs moving back to Uppsala Cathedral. --Bishonen | talk 19:22, 18 May 2005 (UTC)

OK I revert all these changes for the time being then, if you are two against me I won't persist... Nixdorf 21:20, 2005 May 18 (UTC)

Thanks! Tupsharru 08:19, 21 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Your Linux edits

Hi. You just added the following line to the Linux article:

Linux started out as a terminal emulator written in Intel 80386 assembler which would boot from floppy and run outside of any operating system...

However, the line right after, which was already there, directly contradicts this:

Although a running Minix system was originally necessary in order to install and run Linux, the Linux system quickly surpassed Minix in functionality.

I'm no expert in this; can you rectify it? Thnks—Sean κ. + 01:35, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] lots of edits, not an admin

Hi - I made a list of users who've been around long enough to have made lots of edits but aren't admins. If you're at all interested in becoming an admin, can you please add an '*' immediately before your name in this list? I've suggested folks nominating someone might want to puruse this list, although there is certainly no guarantee anyone will ever look at it. Thanks. -- Rick Block (talk) 17:48, Jun 21, 2005 (UTC)

Um yeah I've sort of thought about it but its so much fun editing and so boring to administer things, but anyway, I guess I'm old enough here to sort of candidate out of duty if the 'pedia wants me. Nixdorf 19:35, 2005 Jun 21 (UTC)

[edit] Thurn und Taxis

May I direct your attention to this article? I notice that you wrote the bit about how the T&T company was bought out by "the heir to the Spanish throne" in the 18th century. To my knowledge, this is not true (and seems a bit odd, in any case, given the identities of the heirs to the Spanish throne in the 18th century). Do you have a source on that? john k 5 July 2005 17:50 (UTC)

[edit] Images

Thanks! Well, I took a picture of the top, but unfortunately the picture is too dark.--Wiglaf 21:44, 9 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Early Swedish history

Hi Nixdorf. I have checked your additions and they were fine. I deleted a section which was misplaced and had the same content as a later section. I am flattered that you think I am an expert.--Wiglaf 20:12, 10 August 2005 (UTC)

You asked me about the Nordic Stone Age. I have expanded the stone age section at History of Scandinavia, and there may be stuff that you'd like to use.--Wiglaf 07:36, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] individualist anarchism

Thanks man. RJII 21:49, 29 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Rosicrucian article

Dear user Nixdorf, as I have seen a edition of yours at the article Rosicrucian, I come to request your support to this article that I have just purposed for nomination at Wikipedia:Featured_article_candidates#Rosicrucian. May you may give a look into it? And, if you consider it acceptable, then may you support it? Thank you! :) --GalaazV 02:49, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] History of the Internet

I have replied to your question at Talk:History of the Internet; I hope my reply (which I took a while to compose) will be a clear answer. Noel (talk) 11:54, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

PS: I don't usually check other User_talk: pages (so that I don't have to monitor a whole long list of User_Talk: pages - one for each person with whom I am having a "conversation"), so please leave any messages for me on my talk page (above); if you leave a message for me here I probably will not see it. I know not everyone uses this style (they would rather keep all the text of a thread in one place), but I simply can't monitor all the User_talk: pages I leave messages on. Thanks!

In intrests of keeping this co-ordinated, please see my responces on wikipedia_talk:Requests_for_mediation/Jnc_and_Barberio#Disputes --John R. Barberio ^{talk, contribs} 21:30, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Help with Translation!?

Can you help translate this for me to swedish? Many thanks in advance!

The communist government allocated substantial resources to the development of agriculture. Large-scale programs of land reclamation, soil improvement, and irrigation, as well as increased use of fertilizers, all contributed to a significant expansion of agricultural production. Yet, despite impressive gains, agricultural production continues to be hindered by the persistence of traditional farming methods, low mechanization, and a lack of material incentives to encourage farmers to produce. This lasting legacy of the forced collectivization of agriculture and the abolition of private property has made it necessary to return land to the peasants and allow them to raise crops and livestock for private profit. The expansion of private agriculture is intended to pave the way for the introduction of new farming techniques and mechanization.

--Armour 14:27, 22 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Adminship nom

BTW I'd suggest not bothering with those lame questions (I didn'), just put something about who you are and how you might use admin functions. Dan100 (Talk) 21:18, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

I put in lame answers, anyway I think some may want them. Nixdorf 16:13, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Congratulations!

Congratulations! It's my pleasure to let you know that, consensus being reached, you are now an administrator. You should read the relevant policies and other pages linked to from the administrators' reading list before carrying out tasks like deletion, protection, banning users, and editing protected pages such as the Main Page. Most of what you do is easily reversible by other sysops, apart from page history merges and image deletion, so please be especially careful with those. You might find the new administrators' how-to guide helpful. -- Cheers, Cecropia 20:04, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks! Nixdorf 20:16, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Runestone

what's wrong with The Dynna stone? dab (ᛏ) 12:40, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Gnosticism page

Hey Nixdorf! Hope life's treating you well - I've just put up a lengthy suggestion concerning the Gnosticism page, and I was hoping that I could get comments from you, as you seem to be one of the main contributors to that page. Cheers, Visual Error 09:41, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

Glad you liked the new layout! A thought occurs - I've done a simple copy-and-paste job, but I don't think I'm able to delete the old article (to be honest, I'm not exactly sure of the protocol). Is there any way you could take care of it? Cheers again! Visual Error 17:59, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Need some advice, please...

Hey Nixdorf - I was wondering if I could request some advice (as you've no doubt gathered by now). I made some edits on the Plotinus page which an anonymous user disagreed with - in light of which he sent PDF copies of the article to some of the professors at my old university, telling them to email me about it. I'm gonna contact them and apologise for the intrusion upon them, but I was wondering whether there was any Wikipedia policy governing this sort of thing? I'm not requesting a ban or an apology or anything, I'm just wondering what to do. Thanks for your time Visual Error 18:27, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] thanks!

Thanks for making your photo of the electrical transmission lines available! I've used it in my online textbook Electricity and Magnetism, on p. 79. You are of course properly credited in the photo credits in the back of the book, and the licensing information is given. The book is dual-licensed under GFDL and CC-BY-SA.--Ben Crowell, crowell06 at lightandmatter dot com

[edit] Faust

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Georg_Faust This article has been copied from the Walter Kaufmann introduction to his translation of Goethe's Faust, Part 1, published by Anchor Books (a division of Random Books) in 1961. I am reading portions of this word for word. Walter Kaufman is a professor at Princeton University. If you have questions or concerns, please email me at bfalcon.cf@gmail.com Philip Lockwood

[copied from Wikipedia:General complaints by -Will Beback 04:58, 2 April 2006 (UTC)]

Even if this page says it was created by me, it was just a copyedit to break it out of the Faust article, so that entire entry also needs checking. (See old version of Faust.) Nixdorf 21:45, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, I'll try to keep tracking this down. Cheers, -Will Beback 00:32, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] the illuminatus trilogy

i saw you voted on the FAC for this article; unfortunately this vote closed weeks ago, and The Illuminatus! Trilogy is already a featured article. thanks for your support anyway! ;-) Zzzzz 22:34, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The Anthroposophy Vandals

Thank you for flagging the Anthroposophy article. I became aware of this cult, it really is a cult, only within the last few days, while researching Waldorf schools. I am more than a little shaken that there is such a network out there that, only moments after adding additional critiques (in the CRITIQUES section, no less!) someone removed it. Truly, it was FOUR MINUTES later. My husband yesterday tried to add information on the Waldorf page and it was changed THIRTY SECONDS later. The Waldorf schools, I'm coming to believe, are a huge coverup for the missionary work of Anthroposophists. Thank you for attempting to bring some balance to this article which is clearly just a PR pamphlet for these guys.

I'm also happy to lend a hand in trying to keep this article from sliding into madness. It appears that there has been a lot of very biased editing going unchecked for a long time on the article. I've put up a totally disputed tag for now and deleted some of the more obvious rubbish. Jefffire 12:52, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

Actually, I got tired about the whole thing half a year ago and have not been involved since. I don't think I've flagged the article as breaking the NPOV but who knows. Anyway I was set to let it decompose below ground during the winter and pick it up and work on it in the summer, as you can see this follows strict biodynamic agriculture priciples ;-) ;-) ;-) Nixdorf 13:09, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hougomont

No special reason why I am asking you - I uploaded some pictures on this page without noticing that in fact the title is wrong. The farm is called Hougoumont and not Hougomont. Would you be so kind to change the title? Thundercloud 22:09, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

You can do that yourself... Copy the contents from Hougomont to Hougoumont and make a #REDIRECT [[Hougoumont]] on the old page. (Also incorporate the references presently on the target page into the header.) Nixdorf 20:30, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Articles listed at Articles for deletion

The following article is listed at Articles for deletion:

• Business logic (AfD discussion)

Please contribute to the discussion. Uncle G 09:16, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] image source

Hi. I'm sorry to trouble you, but Wikipedia image use policy has gotten much stricter, and you need to provide the source of Image:FGCS computer-pim-m-1.jpg, and verify that it is really PD. Images cannot just be assumed to be PD. Thank you.

Fred-Chess 12:19, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] "Aleph" by Georg Brandes

Hi,

I'm curious about the Wikipedia entry for "Aleph," which cites a short story of that name by Georg Brandes. The Danish library has no record of such a story, and neither can the head of the Brandes Society find it. If I understand the page correctly, that was your addition--do you know of such a story?

Thanks, Lise Kildegaard

Gah it's an error must have been a late night edit :-( The short story is not written by Georg Brandes but by Jorge Luis Borges I don't understand why I confuse these two people but it's something perceptual. Thanks for bringing this to my attention, I will edit it out immediately. Nixdorf 06:43, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Agrippa caption

We're trying to determine whether the caption — Pentagram image from Heinrich Cornelius Agrippas "Libri Tres de Occulta Philosophia" illustrating the golden symmetry of the human body — has a source for the "golden symmetry" reference, whether that refers to something like "golden ratio", or whether this is an unsupportable modern interpretation. It looks to me like you are the one who added that, at least to pentagram article in April 2003, so maybe you can help. Dicklyon 22:13, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

Probably not provable to be his intentions. Editing it out... Nixdorf 22:11, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image:MOS Technologies.jpg listed for deletion

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[edit] Transclusion question

Not too long ago, I made a change to a template which was on several pages. The change involved adding two links, and adding the template to the two 'new' pages. I had previously noticed that a link in the template had was not a live link. That is, instead of saying, Flu research on the Flu research page, it was just "Flu research". I replicated this idea to all the other sites. For H5N1, I only put "H5N1" in template instead of making it a link. My assumption was that there was no reason to link the the same page, only to show that the "Flu research" was indeed part of the list in the template. After I did this, I got a short message from someone asking what the heck I was thinking. He followed up with a link to transclusion, suggesting I read it. I'd appreciate your thoughts.Brian Pearson 00:58, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Article in need of cleanup - please assist if you can

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