User talk:Schapel

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[edit] Wikipedia:Microsoft notice board

Are you interested? I hope to get info on Microsoft related topics up2date, accurate and presented neutrally. - Ta bu shi da yu 02:43, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Requesting comments on template alteration

Hello. I see you are using one or more of the User instruments templates in your Babel box. Inspired by some recent developments, I want to rework all the templates in there (including ones used on user pages), to make them more like the regular Babel templates. However, I thought I should hear from the people this would affect before actually doing it. Please weigh in at User:Ddawson/User instruments. Ddawson 10:23, 6 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Firefox & Adblock

Hi there. You reverted an edit by me (no problem there) about adblock causing memory issues. I'll agree with the revert and leave it because this is actually a confusing situation being that there are 2 adblock extensions.

The first, adblock, has caused some problems. The adblock plus version also had issues but they were sorted out after I gave a detailed analysis of my problem to the developer. The largest issue can be with people upgrading from Firefox 1.0.x to 1.5 and not unloading extentions beforehand. But, the adblock plus programmer has fixed that in [version 5.11.1] and asked for people to test it. Shazam! The problems went away for me and others.

I'm mentioning this in case you are having memory issues with Firefox and Adblock. There isn't any way I can think of to add that information to the Firefox article without 1) taking up a lot of space and 2) it looking like a POV in favor of using that particular extention.

Thanks for your time and edits here. Take care, -- That Guy, From That Show! 04:31, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

I just wanted to list Adblock specifically, first, because many users aren't aware that's causing their memory problems, and second, because I explain the memory issue in the Adblock article, and I use that article as the source for the claim that some extensions are causing memory problems in the Firefox article. -- Schapel 02:38, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] D'oh

My bad. Thanks for correcting it. EVula 01:17, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Fallacy of Many Questions

I addressed this issue on the talk page, as well as in my expanded version of that paragraph.

Although "are you still" may be more correctly phrased than "have you stopped", "have you stopped" is in fact the standard phrasing. Google reveals endless variations on "have you stopped beating":

"Have you stopped beating your children?" "Have you stopped beating your customers?" "Have you stopped beating your dog?" "Have you stopped beating the economy, Mr Greenspan?"

Furthermore, of course it doesn't make strict logical sense. That's because it is, as the article indicates, a fallacy.

If you still disagree , please explain your reasons on the talk page before reverting again. DS 15:21, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

  • Can I ask what precisely you perceived as having been "original research"? The lengthy explanation, I added so as to accomodate the complaint on the talk page that it's "not logical". DS 21:22, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Firefox "Broken Calendar" comment

I'm sorry, that was brilliant. Wikipedia is such a better place when there are people about to make you laugh. :) --T. Moitie 11:20, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Injection.svg and others

Hi, would you mind uploading the graphics to Commons:, in order to make them available to other Wikipedia sections. TIA, Goldie (tell me) 13:04, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Browser stats

Could you explain why W3school usage data is not representative of overall usage? What's a good place to get representative usage data on browsers & OS? Thanks, Jasu 08:20, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

It's data for only their own site, which attracts mainly web developers. You can read the usage share article for more information than you could ever want on browser stats. -- Schapel 12:11, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Browser Stats

Great work with this page. Just thought I'd let you know it's very much appreciated. Nach0king 21:51, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

Due to violation of the three revert rule, you have been temporarily blocked from editing Wikipedia. Please feel free to return after the block expires, but also please make an effort to discuss your changes further in the future. — FireFox (talk) 16:59, 24 October 2006

[edit] User:41.243.17.117 sockpuppetry

You suspect User:41.243.17.117 of being a sockpuppet of User:JohnLattier. I happen to disagree:

  • 41 claims to have been banned, and you read that as him admitting to being JohnLattier evading a ban. But JohnLattier never was banned.
  • While JohnLattier and the anon troll whose incarnations seem to include User:198.54.202.254 (who has been banned) and 41 edit the same talk page and have similar points of view, JohnLattier to my knowledge never has been incivil to his opponents.

If you agree with my reasoning, you might want to remove the sockpuppetry accusation, which I consider unfair to JohnLattier. Yours, Huon 18:51, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

I agree. 41 and 198 are (is) abusive and from a South African address. JohnLattier, 68.158.245.160, and 68.211.104.154 are (is) from BellSouth. I'm thinking that these are two people with five aliases, not one person with one footprint in the U.S. and another in South Africa. Calbaer 20:18, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bijection Composition

The image representing the composition of bijections that you created (Bijective_composition.svg) is incorrect. The function from X to Y is not a bijection because it does not span Y, and the function from Y to Z is not a bijection because it is not one-to-one. I would sort this out myself but I dont know what program you used to create them and I dont want to change the general theme from the other images relating to bijections, surjections and injections. Please sort this out if you get a chance. --Nappyrash 01:41, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

I did some research to see if you're correct. I couldn't find anywhere that said a "bijective composition" is a composition of two bijective functions. I suppose we could change the caption to read something like "a bijective function composed of an injective and a surjective function," which is what the image is demonstrating. -- Schapel 01:54, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

Yep you're right. --Nappyrash 05:12, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

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