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[edit] Initial Developer's Public License

I agree that this article should not be on Wikipedia, but it seems to me to be very appropriate for Wikisource. I'd prefer to see it transwikied instead of just being deleted. Can I ask you to list it on WP:AFD instead of WP:PROD? GeorgeStepanek\talk 09:12, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

OK; done. --Craig Stuntz 17:51, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
Thank you! GeorgeStepanek\talk 04:43, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh

Hi - I gave the IPA a go, but I'm no expert. Maybe you could consider this: Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh (pronounced mɑː.ˈɹɪəd niː ˈwiːˌneɪ (IPA); sounds like: "Muh-reed Nee Wee-ney") --Mal 21:58, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for trying, but I'm sufficiently unfamiliar with the IPA to even know if that's close! :) --Craig Stuntz 00:52, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

Me too - but at least I tried! I think we should look out for articles that have IPA references, find out who added the pronounciation and leave them a message. :) I'll keep my eyes peeled. --Mal 13:42, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

I went ahead and stuck in your version for now. Fergananim had changed it to "Mhar-aid Nee Mh-way-ney," which, when you think about how Americans vs. Irish folks might read this, is a good example of why the MoS recommends IPA in the first place! --Craig Stuntz 14:24, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Fiddling

You're probably right. I don't know why someone thought Fiddle needed a disambig page in the first place. I've given up on that one for a while and moving on to others where I understand the substance of the articles a bit more. --Russ Blau (talk) 21:06, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Help request

Good evening. I've seen your edits on several talk pages, so I imagine you are quite adept at it. How do you add a poster's IP address if they've forgotten to sign? Many thanks. Kilbosh 17:51, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

First, you need to figure out who it was. To do that, look at the page history. If they added their comment a while ago this may take some trial and error, but use the (diff) button for an individual edit to see what was changed in each edit. Once you've figured out who made the change you can note the fact. Let's say the username was "Foo". Edit the talk page, find the comment, and add {{subst:unsigned|Foo}} to the end.
Some explanation of this: unsigned is a template which expands into the full message. subst means that your edit should contain the expanded template text rather than {{unsigned|Foo}}, which is what would show in the "edit" screen if you didn't use subst. This means Wikipedia doesn't have to re-expand the template every time the page is loaded, and also means that if the template is vandalized your comment won't be vandalised. "|Foo" means pass the value "Foo" as the first parameter to the template. In this case the first parameter is the username. You can find out what the parameters for various templates do by visiting their Talk page. --Craig Stuntz 18:03, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks !

Thanks for the suggestions regarding the Dál Riata things. Much appreciated. AWB certainly looks like it might be the way to fix the Lists of State Rulers in year X things (but my "technical solution" question was a bit vague: it was directed more at having those pages built automatically). Cheers ! Angus McLellan (Talk) 17:30, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Just a Hello

I was going through the revision page of the flute article, and saw your name! Small internet, huh? I sent you a C&F PM. Daiv

[edit] Military history WikiProject Newsletter, Issue I

The Military history WikiProject Newsletter
Issue I - March 2006
Project news
From the Coordinators

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[edit] Abhai Gulab McShah

Thanks. I agree. I'll delete it. There was already a speedy delete tag on it, but another vandal came along and added more nonsense and removed the tag. AnnH ♫ 11:30, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Ref converter

Just a note for the future, once you've used Ref converter it will return with an "edit page" link right above the output. If you follow that link it takes you back to the appropriate edit box on Wikipedia with the edit summary already filled out; this should save a bit of time in converting references. Thanks for your help with the project! --Cyde Weys 14:29, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

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Hi Craig, I was going to put a [citation needed] for the gaelic influence part of the clarsach, as bluegolds P.O.V has no empirical backup. But decided not to bother as bluegold would start all his sockpuppetry again. Didnt sign in but I hope this verifies it was me.[[User:Celtic harper ] 14:40, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

Can't see big probs with the sceala crowd, there is bigger spamlinks on some of these pages.86.42.153.163 01:43, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

Regarding "bigger spamlinks," do feel free to remove those, too. But consdering the "sceala crowd," which is likely one person, please review this threat to disrupt Wikipedia should the Sceala links be removed. --Craig Stuntz 01:47, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] -Barry-

I'll try to review what I type for tone, but neither of the notes that you left are what I would term "attacks" in any way. I'm not saying, "this asshole is going around spewing his filth," etc. I'm saying, "User:-Barry- has been taking heat for injecting these flawed benchmark results in Perl, so he's come here. Good faith credulity is strained." (that's the exact edit summary that you cited as an "attack".) [1]

The fact of the matter is that I have made gestures to try to get -Barry- to be a contributor, rather than a POV-pusher on Perl. I've re-written his contributions (against my better judgement, when others have simply reverted them) to try to make them more encyclopedic [2] he has then immediately reverted those attempts at compromise [3]. I've consistently been the "good cop" when he is being directly attacked [4], asking others to cease their personal attacks, and I was even the one who brought the mediation page to his attention. [5]

So, I guess I'm asking for you to help me by explaining what it is that you consider "attackish", here. Help me to understand how you're interpreting policy so that I can bring that to my own work.

Thanks. -Harmil 14:02, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] article on W. H. Grattan Flood, june 2006

Craig: thanks for editing my page on W. H. Grattan Flood. it certainly looks a lot better after your cleanup. i am slow at picking up on all the wikipedia protocols but i am progressing. i guess wikipedia does not have a spell checker?. in any event i am so thankful that we have the wikipedia resource.

[edit] spell checker

Craig: mucho gratias; why didnt i think of that? joebrophy

[edit] Relational database

Hi, I've started to invite other people to work on relational database. It would be great if you could come back. (you can reply here I'll watchlist you) Ideogram 02:21, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

I'm still around; just very busy at the moment. --Craig Stuntz 12:12, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Tip of the day project update

Just trying to get things better organized around there. Toward that end, I've created a task list template for the project. If all the members of the project placed it on their user page, we could all keep in touch more easily (with announcements, alerts, etc.). It, and the latest announcements can be found at:

totd task list template

--Go for it! 17:19, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Tannahill Weavers

Hi Craig. In case you don't already know, the Tannahill Weavers will be appearing in Brittany (Sunday 6th August 2006) at the closing concert of the [Festival Interceltique de Lorient].

--maelor 12:16, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Category sorting

I did know that, but I didn't know an Ó fell under that too. I thought an Ó was a totally different character than a normal O? Or do you simply pronounce it the same way so it doesn't matter. Obviously I am not Irish. :) Garion96 (talk) 18:38, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

Plus, of course, thanks for fixing it. Garion96 (talk) 18:44, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
Learned something new today. Thanks for the explanation. Garion96 (talk) 18:58, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] to be or not to be rennet

dear Craig - I do not know if this is the right way of comunication, but I try it this way. I know somethig about rennet and about interests of big companies and all that stuff and I know that there is alot of miss-information going round - especially considering the information of vegetarians. I wrote "the most common" because rennet is ex difinitionem natural rennet and 99.9% of the rennet comes from cows and calves.

Everything else is an artificial coagulant or chymosin produced by genetically modified bacteria or yeast or mould. So these things are rennet-substitutes.

This is like cheese and analog cheese - cheese has at least to have seen milk - analog-cheese you are mixing with some ingredients in a mixer - has never seen any milk.

But compliments to you - you are quick in reaction - as soon as I know how to start it, I will start my user page - kind regards from Austria - my name is wolfgang (Bioren 14:38, 2 August 2006 (UTC))

[edit] "Symmetrical relativity"

I am going to propose this article for an AfD, and will add the other one to the discussion as a related article. It doesn't look like we are going to get the author to co-operate. I also don't want an edit war over talk page reversions, of all things. We can then have one, centralised, discussion on the AfD page. I hope this works. Byrgenwulf 19:35, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

Sounds good. I wanted to give him the chance to fix the article, but I think you all are confirming my suspicions that it isn't fixable. --Craig Stuntz 19:36, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Halting Problem

While I agree that we should have a source for the paragraph you eliminated, I am surprised that you disagree with it -- it seems nearly self-evident to me.

  1. All practical computers are deterministic finite-state machines.
  2. A deterministic machine's next state is completely determined by its current state (program, data, processor state).
  3. Therefore, if a machine in state Q evolves once again into state Q, the program will never halt.
  4. Because the number of states are finite, albeit large, the machine must either halt or reach state Q in a finite time.
  5. Simulating the machine is, perforce, an algorithm, and the algorithm is guaranteed to produce a result in a finite time.
  6. Therefore, a solution for a finite-state machine may require simulation on a machine orders of magnitude faster than that of the machine itself, but it is not formally undecidable.
  7. For a Turing machine, there is no upper bound to the run time of such a simulation.

Unsourced, yes. Untrue, I don't think so. Robert A.West (Talk) 17:10, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

You say deterministic; the section I removed linked Linear bounded automaton which Wikipedia has as "a restricted form of a non-deterministic Turing machine." There is a problem with the precision of terminology, I think. Second, in addition to requiring a computer orders of magnitued faster than the machine itself, the storage would need to be orders of magnitude larger. Is that a reasonable solution? Maybe, maybe not. I wasn't comfortable with the way it was, and I wasn't prepared to write a better version without any source.
Nice to hear from you, Robert! --Craig Stuntz 17:41, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
I am using terminology from ancient memory, so the fault of terminology is undoubtedly mine there. I meant predictable as opposed to stochastic -- a quantum computer might not be fully predictable from its state and input. I agree that the practical conclusion from the halting problem that it cannot be solved even for finite machines of any useful size given a program of any useful complexity, but I am not sure how that statement is (or if it can be) formalized. Still, I think there is in there a real point about the application of theoretical results to real-world machines that should be properly researched, source and included. Something else to do in that faroff day when I have time. Robert A.West (Talk) 18:18, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
Termination analysis is presently red linked, but coverage of that area seems to me to be a good way to discuss practical applications. --Craig Stuntz 18:23, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
My mention of practical applications was an aside. To look at it another way, applying both the diagonalization proof and my observation above to a machine with finite memory proves that to solve the Halting Problem on machine M0, you need a bigger machine M1. Since any Turing machine is, in this sense, M\aleph_0, they are all the same size, and the halting problem for a program on a Turing machine is undecidable on Turing machines. It might not be undecidable on hypercomputers. This ought to be sourceable, but it is the sort of trivially-proven unsourced statement that is tolerated in many CS and math-related articles. Robert A.West (Talk) 18:01, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
As far as I'm aware hypercomputers can solve the halting problem pretty much by definition but they have the downside of not existing.
I don't have a problem with the statement as you express it above, as I think it's more precise and makes it clear that it's not refuting Turing's proof.
As an aside, hypercomputing discusses Ω, but it doesn't seem to be in Halting problem. That's a bit odd (although not as odd as Ω itself). --Craig Stuntz 18:18, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] wikEd

The wikEdlogo

Hi, I have seen that you are using the Cacycle editor extension. This program is no longer actively maintained in favor of its much more powerful successor wikEd.

wikEd has all the functionality of the old editor plus:• syntax highlighting • nifty image buttons • morefixing buttons • paste formatted text from Word or web pages• convert the formatted text into wikicode • adjustthe font size • and much, much more.

Switching to wikEd is easy, check the detailed installation description on its project homepage. Usually it is as simple as changing every occurrence of editor.js into wikEd.js on your User:YourUsername/monobook.js page.

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[edit] RE: Your edit to Object-oriented programming

Sorry I removed your edits. I was trying to get rid of vandalism, but I reverted too far. Thanks for fixing it.--Bkwillwm 06:23, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Divje Babe

Hi. I noticed that you are an active editor that at one time (a few months ago) made comments about the problem at Divje Babe (it may have been called Neanderthal flute at the time?). I am having difficulty finding a third party to discuss the issues with. You said at that time that "I find the above discussion disturbing on a number of levels." at Talk:Divje Babe. I was wondering if you're willing to step in and offer comment on the more recent developments on that page. Most editors seem to eventually be scared away by Mr. Bob Fink's lengthy tribe and give up. I have also received similar treatement from him when I attempted to remove his irrelevant self-promotion from the Musical acoustics article (a matter which is still in dispute), and expect more of it as I discover more of it embedded eksewhere into Wikipedia.

Would you care to offer any comment on this at Talk:Divje Babe? Thanks. - Rainwarrior 07:08, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

our == Pictish Dates ==

Hi Craig, I've tried to include dates for the Ultrich Palster and Pictish stones on the harp page but the post doesnt seem to load up as if I've never edited, but the history says I'm the only one to have edited lately. Any ideas whats wrong? Could you have a look at it to see if theres a problem. 23:59, 27 December 2006 Celtic Harper (Talk | contribs) Thank you. Celtic Harper 01:20, 28th December 2006 (UTC)

I can see your changes. What's missing?
As an aside, please use edit summaries when saving a page. --Craig Stuntz 23:55, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Advice on how to archive talk pages

Thanks for the advice on how to properly archive talk pages! I'll go back and fix up the pages I 'archived' by deleting them :-) --Surturz 22:16, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] List of All-Ireland Champions

I have been working on this for a while, fancy giving me a hand Beaumontproject 20:10, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

OK. I took the easy way out and emailed CCÉ to see if they already have a list. If I recall correctly, the citation for Micho Russell is Valelly's Companion and the source for Mary Bergin is the liner notes to one of her CDs, but I'd have to look them up to be sure. --Craig Stuntz 03:53, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
Cool, let me know how you get on, I actually know both of them All-Ireland Champions I was hoping that the source might lead to other champions. I do know of various other champions for other years but they are just listed in my Treoir magazines but I can not find the same references on the net. Also I have found a link of the CCE website with results since 1996 so those need to be inputted (I have start) it needs finishing, also anything before that needs to go in Beaumontproject 16:55, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
Any joy from CCE? Beaumontproject
No, no word yet. If I haven't heard anything in another week or two I'll ask elsewhere. --Craig Stuntz 03:13, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
No luck then I take it. Beaumontproject 12:53, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
I have not had time for serious Wikipedia work in several weeks. --Craig Stuntz 16:57, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
I understand.Beaumontproject 11:39, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] My edition was link spam?????

You recently removed the link Super Physics I added from IP 202.5.149.94 as link spam. Did you even properly read what was there, before so neatly removing the link? Agreed, it is my own website, but then, it is strictly in line with Wikipedia terms. And what good would I get out of having links anyway? For God's sake, it's based on a free server and it's not as if it's for business or anything. Consider a revision, if you please. By the way, that stuff on my site is an amalgam of many different encyclopedias - taken with permission. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 202.5.149.94 (talk • contribs).

Yes, I read what was there. I also posted information on the talk page for this IP on why the additions were inappropriate. Please read it carefully, in particular Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not. This is official Wikipedia policy, not my personal opinion. I could explain in detail why the links were inappropriate, but it's really already explained better in the articles I linked on your user page, so please do read them. If you'd like to contribute article text instead of links then your contributions would be most welcome. If you're just interested in promoting your personal web site, could I suggest http://dmoz.org ? --Craig Stuntz 20:39, 10 January 2007 (UTC)


Agreed. I had not read that specific page of Wikipedia ploicy. In my enthusiasm, I most probably skipped it. Thanks for for telling me about it, I was about to add more links elsewhere, about physics. And by the way, I'm not really interested in promoting my site, I'm just an 18 year old physics buff. Thanks again. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 202.5.149.94 (talk) 12:47, 11 January 2007 (UTC).

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