User talk:Sifaka

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Hello everyone and welcome to my talk page! I love feedback. One quick note on talk page cleanup, I may add to the titles of discussions so I can look for a discussion more easily in the menu! If the topic has no title, I will add one. Sifaka talk

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[edit] Welcome to Wikipedia

Welcome!

Hello, Sifaka, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Where to ask a question, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome!  Dr Debug (Talk) 00:42, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] A Shout-Out from your friend in Brown

Hi Sifaka, I'm Prionesse. I live on your hall. Guess who.

By the way, your userpage is awesome! ;-)

[edit] Help with stopping vandals

I RC patrol and I often catch a lot of sockpuppets being created, usually willy on wheels related, and I want to know how to report their sockpuppets to sysops because I can’t block them myself. Who do I report to? Sifaka 05:56, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

I'm looking into it, you will have an answer soon.--Commander Keane 06:00, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
OK, you can just put the name at Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism. But Curps runs a bot to find fake user accounts like these, and other admins keep an eye on new user accounts - so don't worry too much about it, an admin will probably block the sockpuppet before you get a chance to list it.--Commander Keane 06:08, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
Thanks
I'm dealing with Wonderware--Commander Keane 06:49, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] More links to help newcomers

I placed a collection of links at User:AlMac/Wiki beginners to help newcomers to Wiki see where there are pages to help them get started. I hope some of them help you out. User:AlMac|(talk) 05:27, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Talk page (which was deleted when I tagged an article for speedy)

Oh no, you did absolutely nothing wrong. I deleted the article as fairly obvious vandalism; it's just standard to delete the talk page of an article that gets deleted, to prevent orphaned talk pages from floating around ;-) —Kirill Lokshin 04:12, 14 February 2006 (UTC)


I don't know how to contact you but I have info on one of the pages you are watching. How do I reach you?

[edit] User Complaint by 70.29.239.249 on March 1

I don't no how to use usertalk so I am posting here. Please mind your own business and refrain from messaging me again. Thank you kindly. 70.29.239.249 02:37, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

I would post this on your page, however you asked me not to. In general if you want to comment on someone's user talk page, especially if they have a lot of talk, create a new category by making two equals in a row followed by your heading and then two more equals. Then on a new line, write your comment. Then sign your name by making four tildes in a row. If you need to add a comment below someone elses, use the colon in front of your message. You pretty much did it right. Sifaka 02:58, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] How to tag Spam articles

Is there a specific tag for articles that appear to be spam? Under the speedy deletion policy guidelines it says to list an article that may be spam with a typical speedy deletion tag. Specifically I am referring to this article which is quite obviously spam. However in the future I don't want to accidentally tag somebody's article as spam when it is well intentioned. A spam tag might be a good template to create and add to the speedy deletion page because it is more specific. Should I propose its creation on the village pump? Sifaka 21:16, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

If a company does not comply with WP:CORP, you can place it on WP:AFD. The instructions for doing so are on WP:AFD. Pepsidrinka 21:20, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Response to question about when New User Status ends

There is no official criteria to determine who is and isn't a newcomer. It's all up to individuals, some may still consider you a newcomer, whilst others will not. It's a gradual thing, more and more people will no longer consider you a newcomer as time goes on. - Akamad 23:58, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] User complaints by I forget who and 169.229.89.171

Oh no! don't remove my Wikipedia priviledges! I'm so sorry!

Am I allowed to write on here without your omniscient self coming to devour me? I think I am, but I honestly can't tell on this one. Anyway, is this seriously what you do with your free time? Play evil dictator and squash the fun from life? Shouldn't you be doing schoolwork, or meeting girls, or something? I dunno, just curious, man. 169.229.89.171 05:40, 21 March 2006 (UTC) (4 tildes, you claim? that's intuitive)

Yes you can write here. I RC patrol in my free time... which is non-existent. Mainly I do this to avoid real work. I probably should be doing schoolwork. Adding random stuff is fun for some but not for everyone. The whole point of Wikipedia is to be useful. I use it a lot. If you want to make joke pages go to Uncyclopedia - Wikipedia's evil twin. There you can post all the jokes and stuff you want... Sifaka 05:47, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
Some people do hook up on/through Wikipedia. I mean, what else are meetups for other than to act out what Sean Black says on the irc channel? :)—WAvegetarian•CONTRIBUTIONSTALK• EMAIL• 06:00, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Periodic table

Ignore my edit -- good or bad timing depending on how you look at it! Dbchip 23:06, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Helen Keller

Hi there, just a small request; please watch what you revert, as in this edit you mistakenly restored some vandalism. Thanks, MoppEr Speak! 00:31, 4 May 2006 (UTC) I was wondering about that. I noticed I did it wrong. You got to it first, thanks. Sifaka talk 00:33, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

Sorry about my evil behaviour; I usually hate being a back seat driver. But no need to thank me, give yourself a pat on the back for helping Wikipedia ward off evil trolls. :D MoppEr Speak! 00:36, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 2006 Duke University lacrosse team scandal

Wonderful contrib on the timeline. Abe Froman 04:05, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. I had been meaning to do it for a while but exams have made me busy. It is such a good article, at least information wise. Sifaka talk 04:07, 6 May 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Possible solution to your physics problem

Here's an idea, Sifaka. And I think it's correct. Assume an infinite amount of points in the rod and an infinite amount of surfaces of the incline plane. Each member of each set will correspond to a member of the other set. This follows since the rod will contract and force will pass almost instantaneously from point to point. Upon initial contact with the plane, the right-most point on the rod will be forced perpendicular to the plane, resulting in a post-impact trajectory the same angle to the normal of the plane as pre impact trajectory. This force will pass to the next point and the next point and so on, theoretically losing nothing. The rod will therefore remain perpendicular to the ground, with each point of the rod propelling as though it made contact with an indentical plane situated a minute distance to the left of the previous plane. Of course, experimenting won't help you arrive at an answer, since you have to worry about the force of gravity, wind resistance, the imperfection of the initial trajectory, etc. Anyways, as someone who codes in Java, know that all coding programs follow this rule for a rod hitting an incline plane--152.3.247.211 07:50, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Sifaka

Your taxonomy edit was incorrect. See http://nmnhgoph.si.edu/msw/ - UtherSRG (talk) 16:52, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

Milne-Edwards's Sifaka is the offical name according the MSW3, which is the leading authority. It is no longer considered a subspecies of the Diademed Sifaka. See: Groves, Colin (16 November 2005). Wilson, D. E., and Reeder, D. M. (eds): Mammal Species of the World, 3rd edition, Johns Hopkins University Press, 120. ISBN 0-801-88221-4. - UtherSRG (talk) 18:56, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Working on a Duke Community Wiki

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