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Archive: 2004

[edit] Pointing out vandal

I have seen numerous complaints on User talk:139.84.48.249. Someone noted on his talk page that the address is from la salle university, but I know who the vandal is. That would be Corey Anotado or "pacdude". As proof, you can see that he edited his own page from the 139.84.48.249 address. Can you do something about him? Lasallefan 01:24, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Nomination

Thanks for your support on requests for adminship. Happy new year. Tim Ivorson 17:11, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] men nguyen

-why did you revert my changes of men nguyen? --Bnguyen 00:56, 6 Jan 2005 (UTC)

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--thanks for the input with making the corrections, you are definitly right after i reviewed the differences in the biographies.--Bnguyen 06:47, 6 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Bastard administrator

Thanks for cleaning up the mess. Cheers, -Willmcw 21:51, 7 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Ditto. Mackensen (talk) 23:13, 7 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Boundary Bend

Hi there. I noticed you placed a verify tag on Boundary Bend. Could you please state why in the talk page there? Thanks. JoaoRicardo 04:45, 17 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] David Pham

-I wrote them a email about three days before I posted the photo and recieved an email from them agreeing to post it for the encyclopedia or school heritage for Asian Pacific Islander Month in the United States this May 2005. The person that answered the email, just signed it Poker Pages Staff. I dont know if the same person, that you wrote and I wrote. But just to keep wikipedia safe, I would suggest then, we remove if you have not already, the photo, and I will just contact another more reliable source for a photo of David Pham. thanks for looking into it, it is good that we cover our bases to protect wikipedia.--Bnguyen 18:28, 20 Jan 2005 (UTC)

-I removed the photo from Poker Pages and will also follow up on it--Bnguyen 19:13, 20 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Discovery Channel Pompeii images

Hi, CryptoDerk. I noticed that you posted some excellent images from the Discovery Channel's "Last Day of Pompeii" TV program (in the Commons). They're quite good, but are you sure they are freely redistributable?

I poked around @ the Discovery Channel web site, and found the following licensing language [1] that seems to cover the entire web site:

Although we make the Discovery Sites freely accessible, we don't intend to give up our rights, or anyone else's rights, to the materials appearing on the Discovery Sites. The materials available through the Discovery Sites are the property of Discovery.com or its licensors, and are protected by copyright, trademark and other intellectual property laws. You are free to display and print for your personal, noncommercial use information you receive through the Discovery Sites. But you may not otherwise reproduce any of the materials without the prior written consent of the owner. You may not distribute copies of materials found on the Discovery Sites in any form (including by email or other electronic means), without prior written permission from the owner. Of course, you're free to encourage others to access the information themselves on the Discovery Sites, and to tell them how to find it.

Sounds like the photos are not appropriate for any of the Wikipedias, unless --- did you get prior written consent? There wasn't any indication of such consent at the Commons.

Could you kindly update the image page with a link to the specific licensing language that you found? Or, if this is the only license, could you remove the photos from the Commons?

Thanks a lot! -- hike395 05:27, 21 Jan 2005 (UTC)

OK, I'll ask User:Danny if he could put more explanation on the Commons pages. Sorry to bother you. -- hike395

Hi CryptoDerk,

I've removed Image:Pompeii the last day 1.jpg from the articles on which it was featured and I've listed it on WP:CP due to the lack of any licence or attribution. I'm afraid a verbal statement to User:Danny isn't good enough - we really need to have something concrete here. -- ChrisO 10:01, 21 Jan 2005 (UTC)

I think this is all sorted now - we have a statement on each of the images, and a fuller statement on the Commons gallery page. If you can think of anywhere else we need to confirm the info, then we can add it there too. The main point to note is that we have a record of the email correspondence to the foundation, and Danny has also talked to the company by phone. So everything should be clear here. CryptoDerk, let me know if anyone asks for more info. And thanks for helping with getting these on-line -- sannse (talk)

[edit] In the news

Came up fine for me! Do you want to give it a try yourself? I found it hard to believe such a major event wasn't even in current events, let alone the news headlines. Grunners 01:13, 23 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Ok, I'll leave it a while and let you try your hand at it. In the meantime i'll get back to reading your debate with our oh-so knowledgeable critic :). Grunners 01:18, 23 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Good job, keep up the good work. Nice to meet you. :) Grunners 01:23, 23 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Independence Hall photo

You can replace my IH photo with yours if you want. It's up to you. Moncrief 04:33, Jan 24, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] IN SOVIET RUSSIA, AWARD TAKES YOU!

IN SOVIET RUSSIA JOKE MAKES YOU!!! This prise is for givink to those that have made the best IN SOVIET RUSSIA jokes on IRC #wikipedia. So, The Party Degrees that Komrade CryptoDerk is beink awarded with the Red Flag of the Motherland! AAAAH! MOTHERLAND!!! Komrade CryptoDerk, we salute you! DA!

AH! MOTHERLAND! CryptoDerk 21:51, Jan 25, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Yes, Emory conference

I'd be quite interested, that's not that far from where I live (o.k., well it is a long way) and I could visit Mav while I'm up there. Can you have him contact me by email? Make sure he knows to mention wikipedia in the subject or body to get through my spam filters. :-) --Jimbo Wales 18:17, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] re:Panick attack

Redirs from common mispellings aren't really a bad thing. --Dante Alighieri | Talk 23:41, Jan 28, 2005 (UTC)

Ah, didn't realize that the redir was new. BTW, it's not exactly an uncommon "error". [2]. My guess would be because of panicky, panicked, and panicking ... all with K's. Isn't English wonderful? ;) --Dante Alighieri | Talk 23:55, Jan 28, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] PM exchange lists

CryptoDerk: Before Oleg goes to the trouble of generating all the PM Exchange lists, It might be good if we made the "announcement" I suggested first, to make sure anyone who hasn't been following the discussion here, and wants to comment on it gets a chance to. Paul August ☎ 05:54, Jan 31, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Subsequence

Your formal definition only works in the infinite case, whereas the concept is for finite sequences too (like the example). --Zero 02:40, 2 Feb 2005 (UTC)

[edit] edit conflicts - oops

Sorry about the edit conflicts I will try and stay out of your way. Mathematical proof refers to an "existence proof" as a nonconstructive proof. Paul August ☎ 06:32, Feb 2, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Several variables -- addition of "indeterminate"

Hi Crypto. You added the following text on polynomial:

Additionally, in multivariable polynomials in equations, an indeterminate is a variable that is not known or cannot be solved for.

I am not sure what its purpose is. I mean, polynomials are mostly those funny things which contain x, y, z, etc, and their products and sums. Your paragraph has more to do with solving equations than polynomials, or that's how I see it (these two have some things in common, but overall are different things). Maybe you could just put the stuff from PM straight on indeterminate. What do you think?Oleg Alexandrov | talk 18:01, 2 Feb 2005 (UTC)

PS: You can reply here. I will check this page. Oleg Alexandrov | talk 18:05, 2 Feb 2005 (UTC)

I thought about indeterminate a while. The way I saw it, it fit best in the polynomial article (especially since indeterminate has a link to polynomial and the polynomial article didn't use the term once). What I inserted was basically a restatement of the first sentence of the PM article. Maybe there is some nuance of indeterminates I don't understand, but what I basically get is "If you have an equation involving polynomials, some variables are either indeterminates or one can solve for them" and "Knowing whether some variables are indeterminates or not may allow us to gain knowledge about other variables". I'm not sure if that even warrants mentioning anywhere, and if it does, if it should go in the polynomial article or somewhere else. CryptoDerk 19:24, Feb 2, 2005 (UTC)

You certainly have a point. What I am not sure, if that is the best place to put it. You see, the concept of indeterminate is actually about equations. And polynomial equations are just a particular case of equations, I mean think sin(x-log(y))+4z=0.

And it also goes in reverse, a polynomial equation is just a small part of what polynomials are about.

Whoever linked from indeterminate to polynomial I think did not mean solving equations. What that person meant (I think), is that, a polynomial is an expression in which all variables are indeterminate, so we don't even talk about P(x)=0, so not about equations.

In short, there is of course connection between indeterminates, and polynomials, but there are some distinctions between these, so that (in my opinion) a full-fledged article on indeterminates could be a better place to talk about all this rather than polynomial.

So what do you think? Should I go ahead and import the indeterminate article from PM and try to explain what that word means? (Actually, the bigger problem with "indeterminate" is that the word itself is indeterminate -- pun intended. I mean, it is not always a clearly defined word, and can have many meanings). Oleg Alexandrov | talk 19:48, 2 Feb 2005 (UTC)

I have to take some of that back. I read again the PM article, and the connection between polynomials and indeterminates is stronger than I thought. But I still somehow think that the short sentence you put on polynomial does not quite drive the point home as the "indeterminate" article on PM. So, I would still say that we better copy the PM article altogether rather than trying to put a piece of it in polynomial. What do you think? Oleg Alexandrov | talk 19:54, 2 Feb 2005 (UTC)

I will take care of it. Will also ask Charles Mathews for advice, that guy knows a lot. Oleg Alexandrov | talk 20:02, 2 Feb 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Vandermonde interpolation approach

Perhaps you already noticed it, but the subject of this article that you copied from PlanetMath is already treated in polynomial interpolation. I am not sure Vandermonde interpolation approach adds anything new. Keep up the good work in PMEX! -- Jitse Niesen 11:24, 3 Feb 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Conway's chained arrow notation

Crypto: It turns out we already had an article on this: Conway chained arrow notation. So I changed Conway's chained arrow notation to a redirect, and updated Wikipedia:WikiProject Mathematics/PlanetMath Exchange/00-XX General accordingly. Paul August ☎ 13:42, Feb 4, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] "Saddle point approximation" vs. "Method of steepest descent"

Crypto: Do you understand the relationship between the newly created Saddle point approximation and Method of steepest descent?

I'm not familiar with either, but looking at the two, they seem to me clearly different, but also clearly related. For example, the latter says it is the same as "saddle-point method" (in fact it is listed as the first meaning mentioned in the article), and saddle-point method redirects to it. Also at the bottom under "See also", "method of stationary phase" is listed, which, I have seen mentioned as a synonym for "stationary phase approximation", which Saddle point approximation says is the same as "saddle point approximation".

So these two articles should probably refer to each other in some way.

Also if "method of stationary phase" = "saddle point approximation" = "stationary phase approximation", then we should decide under which title the article belongs and create redirects for the other two.

If you can't answer any of these questions, I can take this up on talk:Method of steepest descent or the on the Mathematics Project talk page.

PS. I'm glad you started this project, it's proving very fertile ;-) Paul August ☎ 15:23, Feb 4, 2005 (UTC)

No privacy! Big brother and other equally evil people are watching! :)

"stationary phase approximation" is of course the same as "method of stationary phase". "saddle point approximation" I think should be the same as "Method of steepest descent". And they are all somehow related by the fact that you estimate an integral with a big parameter. I should know something about these. These days I will try to deal with these articles. Oleg Alexandrov | talk 15:58, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Let me butt in as well. Bender & Orszag: Asymptotic methods and perturbation theory, which I had nearby, distinguish the following cases for integrals with a big parameter denoted $x$: Watson's lemma treats $\int_0^b f(t) e^{-xt} dt$, Laplace's method treats $\int_a^b f(t) e^{x\phi(t)} dt$, method of stationary phase treats $\int_a^b f(t) \exp^{ix\phi(t)} dt$, and method of steepest descent treats $\int_C h(t) e^{x\rho(t)}$; here, $f$ and $\phi$ are real functions, $h$ and $\rho$ are complex functions, and $C$ is an integration contour in the complex plane. The first three methods work by expanding $\phi$ around a local minimum/maximum in a Taylor series. The method of steepest descent moves the integration contour in the complex plane until it passes through a saddle point, you can then use the method of stationary phase. Now, looking at the articles, my first impression is that both saddle point approximation and method of steepest descent describe the same approximation, with according to Bender & Orszag should be called Laplace's method. In short, it's a bit of a mess. Fortunately, Oleg volunteered to sort it out for us! -- Jitse Niesen 17:39, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Holy crap get off my talkpage! :O (Kidding) CryptoDerk 17:40, Feb 4, 2005 (UTC)

OK, I will do that. But, since you have the Bender & Orszag book, I have a suggestion. When you have absolutely nothing better to do in the future, an idea would be to write a method of stationary phase article. The PlanetMath people say it is the same as "saddle point method", but it is not! Oleg Alexandrov | talk 19:38, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)

PS: Sorry, Crypto. Oleg Alexandrov | talk 19:38, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)

PSS But I don't have anything as big in mind as what Jitse suggested, I will just do some harmonization (I don't have the book either). After I join two articles in one, Jitse could add more stuff on top of it. Oleg Alexandrov | talk 19:38, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Usage of planetmath template

I haven't checked over what all you've done with the amenable group article, but if you just want to link back to PM as a reference you should use Template:Planetmath reference. You should only use Template:Planetmath if you copied over text. Also, when using Template:Planetmath we generally don't put it in the references section, it just goes at the bottom of the article (much like the EB 1911 template). CryptoDerk 01:53, Feb 13, 2005 (UTC)

The earliest versions of amenable group (last March) came from PlanetMath. I suppose that means the Template:Planetmath reference has to remain in the article forever, even if all the text is eventually replaced. Good point about the "References" section, though. By the way, I like the improved smiling action. dbenbenn | talk 03:27, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Yidlix

Thanks for clobbering that simple idiot. Somehow, I'd always managed to avoid seeing that "Goatse" thing...until now. Eww. Anyway, I owe you one. - Lucky 6.9 01:50, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Thank from me too! You clobbered it by the time I found out out what happened. iMeowbot~Mw 02:21, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Rv Vandalsim

umm ok, so i'll just let vandalism stand then --User:Boothy443 | comhrÚ 06:04, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)

oh well thanks for bashing me over the head for a stupid thing tlike that. --User:Boothy443 | comhrÚ 06:14, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Adminship

Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Brian0918 Please strike out any parts of your objection which you believe are no longer valid, such as possibly the first, third, and fourth items. Thanks. --brian0918™ 16:51, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Hebranaut

Thanks CryptoDerk. I assume he will e-mail several admins, so I've responded on my Talk: page. Jayjg ^(talk) 04:16, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] User:Wheee!

Good work deleting those; have you reported the bug which makes the "redirected from" not show? (using en:de: in redirect) Thue | talk 19:18, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] planet math

Wouldn't it be better to only put neeeds to be merged in bold, whereas WP article is more complete isn't .. that way, one can see more quickly and easily what articles need attention? (User:Linas forgot to sign).

Hey Crypto. The script has actually been ready for a while. And no, it does not care about what happens in each individual entries, spelling or all. All that matters is the article ID and the section in which the article shows up (recall that an article can show up in many sections). Now, sticking to a fixed and predicatable format is good for another reason. I wrote another (very simple) script, to do automated statistics (you know, how many articles are copied, how many are not needed, etc). One day we might use that.

Now, the reason I did not tell you guys about the script being finished, is that I still have no good way of doing uploads and downloads from/to Wikipedia. wix (the perl script which does that) got updated, but I have issues with the version of Perl installed on my school system where I do the work, so I can't use it. There could be a Python bot I could use, I need to investigate more. Oleg Alexandrov 00:05, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Moulin Rouge

Do not remove that Madonna link. Madonna alone goes back to a disambiguation page and not the Madonna article itself. I don't know what your idea of a "good" version is, but removing something like that is IMO bad editing. Megan1967 01:59, 20 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Thank You! from Carbonite

Thank you for supporting my RfA. I very much appreciate your confidence in me. Please let me know if you see something I should (or shouldn't) be doing as an admin. Regards, Patrick. Carbonite | Talk 13:41, 20 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] New Mathematics Project Participants List

Hi Crypto.

In case you didn't follow the discussion on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Mathematics here: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Mathematics#Reformat of Participants list, I' wanted to let you know that I've converted the "WikiProject Mathematics Participants List" into a table. It is now alphabetical, includes links to the participant's talk page and contribution list, and has a field for "Areas of Interest". I thought you might want to check and/or update your entry.

By the way, although our pace has slowed somewhat, the PM Exchange project seems to be making steady progress.

Cheers, Paul August ☎ 19:18, Mar 20, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Vandalism

Some vandal is using your name, Netoholic and SPUI in es:wikipedia, do you have any idea of this user?? --Rafa

Thanks for the information. bye --Rafa

[edit] Tau Bate

I also just started List of Tau Beta Pi chapters. Please feel free to edit away. The year of initiation (or should it be induction?) might take some work searching around since tbp.org doesn't readily list them. Though, I think I saw a list in The Bent recently having that....

I haven't been able to make it to a convention yet. Perhaps after I finish with school and am free from homework and exams. 6 weeks of classes and a thesis away from getting my MS. Cburnett 01:39, 29 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Yes, I'm Tau Bate also -- Computer Science, University of Kansas. *waves* Hi! This place is WAY too addictive... ~ Sairen42

[edit] Vandalism

Someone at Klingon Wikipedia who is obsessed with the Autofellatio picture is trying to frame you and other English Wikipedia administrators. → JarlaxleArtemis 23:47, Mar 29, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Vandalism in Spanish

Hi Crypto! I'm Jondel from the Philippines. Are you fighting or are you an admin at the Spanish wiki? Spanish is not my native language. Adminsitrator Dodo at the Spanish wiki unilaterally edited some of my articles and did some things no admin would do here in the English which would be construed as vandalism. More details available but I just need to know if you are an admin there. Thanks.--Jondel 02:19, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Thanks for the quick revert of the vandalism on my user talk page. --cesarb 18:42, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Our Chat

OK, didn't know what was going on. Gotta admit, it's confusing as three other admins deleted is well in 10 minutes. Perhaps a more clear message, or an edit summary that better describes what's going on? Fuzheado | Talk

CryptoDerk, perhaps we should use another message? The template now says:

Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name.

• Start the Mediawiki:noarticletext article

It's inviting folks to edit with the standard mediawiki message. Shouldn't there be a better message than this? Fuzheado | Talk 03:47, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Our Chat

Oh, OK. that explains it. Sorry... Fire Star 03:45, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Air Florida Flight 90

The sentence you mentioned was taken from one of the sources I found on a websearch. It shoudl have been attributed. The duplicate sections came about because I originally was only writing to that article, and ended up with red links. I was there the day it happened (not directly involved, thank God) and it is a subject I feel strongly about. I'll put it back on my to-do list to improve. Thanks. Mark in Richmond. Vaoverland 22:21, Apr 11, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] University of Waterloo Federation of Students

Hi. I'm not sure if you were an undergrad at Waterloo, but in any case, could you take a look at University of Waterloo Federation of Students? More voices on the page would be good. Thanks. Revived 02:04, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you

Thanks for your highly enthusiastic support on my RfA! I shall attempt to put the shiny new buttons to good use. Mindspillage (spill yours?) 20:12, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you

Hi CryptoDerk. Thank you for supporting my RfA. I will make sure you don't regret it. Cheers. Phils 19:40, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Copyright status on images Azathar put up

You might as well delete them (the pictures) then, which will suck, since the articles should have pictures so people will know who they are, but all but one of the pics I have owned for over a year, and have no clue where I got them from anymore, except that I got them from fan sites, which are usually ignored (copyright wise), as far as I know, about having pictures up.--Azathar 01:24, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Why couldn't a notice have been placed under the pics like the one that is used for Hilary Duff: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Hilary_Duff_Photo_Shoot_August_2004.jpeg

{{fuus}}

The pictures should qualify as fair use under US copywrite law.--Azathar 03:15, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Notability not established

Yes, you are correct on that account. I assume you are familiar with the guidelines on WP:MUSIC? Radiant_* 07:54, Apr 25, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Cricket

Hi. You commented on the move of the cricket portal to cricket. Having moved the whole affair back, I have made my own proposal. Could you come and comment, so that we can get consensus for the best version. Cheers, Smoddy (Rabbit and pork) 19:57, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] I did NOT call it a joke.

The heading of that section says The "joke" is useful. You referred to it twice as such and I called it the same thing (even using the same quotes) because it had been referred to before as such by both you and Matt. CryptoDerk 00:05, May 2, 2005 (UTC)

I did NOT call it a joke. I put the word "joke" in quotes. Don't you know what quotation marks mean? They mean I'm saying somebody else called it that. Michael Hardy 00:12, 2 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Confrontational

No big harm, Derek. We all get cranky sometimes, but it's always nice when Wikilove prevails. :) Cheers -- Cecropia | explains it all ® 00:17, 3 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Georgia Link

So what? It's a perfectly valid link. Adam 03:52, 4 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Copyvio

Sorry, the deletion of the copyvio list articles was an accident caused by connection problems here in France. Have rapped myself on the wrist, shall try not to do it again! Physchim62 19:45, 4 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Image deletion

Hi, just to let you know I've re-uploaded my images from en: to commons, so you can delete them in the english section. To go to the pictures, go to my user page - there is a list of 17 images - delete them all - in the english part - not in the commons, because it took me a lot to upload them there. Thanks in advance. --Dungodung 15:35, 5 May 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for taking out of your time. Cheers! --Dungodung 16:28, 5 May 2005 (UTC)

Allright, you can delete those two images I put up. --User:Flamedude

[edit] Anon edits 200.46, at Japanese nationalism and elsewhere

Please note that much of this page has been built up by editing and cleaning contributions from the anon 200.46.X.Y; who is a Spanish speaker. Also, around 30 other related pages (list at User:Charles Matthews/Imperial Japan); he is a prolific guy, with bad English though.

Just today, it seems, he has been adding copyvio stuff, which obviously causes problems. He edits from a constantly varying IP; I have left a note about copyright once.

Charles Matthews 15:55, 8 May 2005 (UTC)

Forgive my interjection. This prolific person also does not put spacing after commas, periods and parantheses, and does not start sentences with capital letters. We certainly need to convince this person to make an account (I can also help do some semiautomatical cleanup if you think is needed). Oleg Alexandrov 16:04, 8 May 2005 (UTC)

Well, he was once User:Wlad k. If he chooses to edit as an anon, I think the WP convention is just to accept that. The clean-up has to involve things that are rather deeper than standard syntax, though; I have a fair idea of the 'dialect'. But there is just so much of it - several new pages a day, sometimes - and it requires structure, moving and so on. Charles Matthews 16:50, 8 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Decimal expansion of pi

I see that you are the original creator of the Yasumasa Kanada article. I've recently tagged this article disputed, since the claim of pi having only 1.3511 trillion digits would have some serious consequences for the status of pi being a irrational number. Would you please comment on this isue on Talk:Yasumasa Kanada. --Fredrik Orderud 17:08, 9 May 2005 (UTC)

Thanks a lot! --Fredrik Orderud 17:40, 9 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] not guilty

well - i never wrote something so stupid as 'You'll never stop me' what you did was erase info from a vfd article that should be there- i don't bother anyone, and i'm not looking for trouble. I just want this article to remain where it is. Tparker393 16:55, 10 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] ok

Fair enough- i put them back as they should be. I'm having some trouble with an admin who calls himself Jerzy-t. I don't know much about it, but his aggresive deletion actions make me wonder if he should hold this status. Tparker393 17:09, 10 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Flowbee

Wasn't trying to "vandalize", just put something more legitimate in its place. Since there is no disputing that what lies in the edit history is a blatant rip from the Salon article, why not be bold and remove it from the history? On that same token, please see the disruption in progress at Dieselboy, your feedback on how to proceed is requested. —RaD Man (talk) 00:25, 11 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Is there something going on with reverts right now?

I just tried to revert the vandalism of an anon. user to the article "Fag," and the revert shows up on my contribution history, but it doesn't show up on the article's edit history. It shows that it's been reverted when you compare the current version to the last version using the "diff" link in my contribution history, but it's still showing up as the vandalized version when you go to the article. What gives? --Chanting Fox 19:51, 13 May 2005 (UTC)

• I think we have a bigger problem. It looks like the anon. user may have done something that screws around with the article when it comes to it being reverted. According to the edit history, my revert took effect 10 minutes before the vandal... and the content of that version is the same as the vandal's version! I just tried another revert... it didn't show up on the edit history, and the page remained as it was... vandalized! I'm no expert, but I seriously doubt this is a mere database glitch. --Chanting Fox 20:22, 13 May 2005 (UTC)

• Well THAT'S helpful... the IP address appears to trace back to Montreal.... problem is that the IP range I get is too large to be anything but an IP service provider.... since I don't think the vandal needs an IP adminstrator. I'll check on the article again.... maybe THIS time the revert took effect. --Chanting Fox 20:30, 13 May 2005 (UTC)

• I think you're right... considering that it took half an hour for me to be notified about the second message you posted about that. I think I'm going to log out for the day... hopefully the time glitch will be fixed soon. --Chanting Fox 20:49, 13 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] My AOL blocking

Ah, I missed it being an AOL-ip. Yeah, should have gone for a shorter block. Thanks for notising. Shanes 01:10, 15 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Blocking of Me

Over the weekend I have been blocked by you. My I.P address is 80.5.160.8. I don't think you ment to block me, I have noted b4 that other edits are made that seem to come from the same adress as mine and these may indeed have been vadalism. Not quite sure why some one else has got my I.P I am the only person who uses this computer. I have a broadband connection. Anyway I was a bit pissed off at being blocked. Please don't do it again. --JK the unwise 11:25, 16 May 2005 (UTC)

I tryed to contact you by email. It didn't work, don't know why maby I was doing something wrong. I emailed another administrator (ABCD I think) - No reply. You say it makes no sense for me to be pissed of at being blocked because an IP vandalizes, it gets warned, it gets blocked but 1. I am relativly new to wikipedia, still finding stuff out 2. Its not my fault that some annon vadalises from the same I.P as me!!! Why should I be penalised? Why can't annon's be blocked but logged in users of same I.P not be blocked? (If its tec' reason, why don't they sort it out?). If my I.P is dynamic why is it staying the same? Lastly I would put up that Proxy thingy except I don't really know what its talking about. I don't know if I am using a Proxy or not.--JK the unwise 15:22, 16 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] NPOV in Alexander (movie)

Sorry for not logging in. Well, I meant "mild" by European standards... I could never understand the whole fuss about this movie that was being made during the US release. en.wikipedia.org is not the American wiki, and so some pages could be written a bit more liberal. And about the movie: Though I'm not being a gay, I was really disappointed by the reluctant depictions. Regards, --Keimzelle 15:05, 17 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Alexander MacGregor

Dear Cryptodirk CryptoDerk, could you please block the following 2 IPs? (216.234.37.150 and 216.234.37.151) This is related to vandalism to Alexander MacGregor. Its a bit of a strange story... I was working the other day on a stub about Canada's first Black Canadian physician, and added the link to the list of notable Black Canadians on that page. At that time I noticed a link to the MacGregor page, which I then checked out. At first it looked like a vanity page, so I tried to check out if the guy was actually notable. Well, I found out he was, based on a bunch of not-so-pleasant newspaper stories about him and his company. Anyway, I changed the article to get rid of the systematic bias, and to report the things I found out that were a matter of public record (all of which are carefully documented on the page). It's not my fault that it turns out to be pretty unsavoury. But anyway, either the guy himself or a supporter keeps blanking the page or adding non-verifiable rants. One of the last edits I interpretted as a not-so-subtle threat against my person, I actually found it frightening... I would appreciate if you would check it out. Regards, Fawcett5 17:20, 17 May 2005 (UTC)

Many thanks! By the way, based on the edit history I have reason to believe that 24.43.219.27 is probably the same persons home IP, they all resolve to Toronto, Ontario Fawcett5 17:41, 17 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] 2+2 and the poker page

As you possibly have noticed, User:2005 disagrees with you about 2+2's propriety as a link. So be it. I sorta understand the point, that you have to draw the line somewhere and you might as well draw it somewhere that stops the link proliferation problem before it starts. My thinking is just that it seems weird to link RPG but not 2+2 since they're generally accepted as the two canonical sources of poker discussion, and the latter is better organized. But I can live with not including it.

Would it be appropriate to link some of their specific forums, though? Like, say, Omaha/8 on the Omaha page or such?

BTW, I'm also trying to talk up the idea of a poker wiki over there (for strategy, etc.) -- do you know of such already existing?

Thanks -- PhilipR 00:09, 19 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Bathroom Reader Image

I removed the Bathroom Reader Image, thank you for consulting me about it. I guess you can delete it from Wikipedia. By the way, I like your user name "CryptoDerk" it sounds kinda cool.

Dbraceyrules 04:26, 19 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] For the message

I thought that the images that leave in Google are of public dominion, of something they are in favor there...Good, it does not matter...

Yo creía que las imágenes que salen en Google son de dominio público, por algo están allí...Bueno, no importa...

I don't talk good english... For another problem in the future...talk me in Spanish, if you can, please. DaniBos 18:00, 23 May 2005

[edit] Hi

Hy Crypto Derk: nice to meet you. I think that images are representative of the country. I don´t believe is a good idea erase it. Please send me your oppinion. Thanks.

For me images are nice. Many countries has a lot of images. Granada

[edit] Thanks

CryptoDerk, I tried out your IRC tool today, and, wow, it's brilliant! See right. :) Smoddy (Rabbit and pork) 15:06, 24 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Request

As an active vandal-fighter, I wondered whether you could take a look at Wikipedia:Vandalism in progress#East Africa vandal. A 24-hour ban would be much appreciated. Btw, your IRC program looks amazing. Many thanks. TreveX^talk 20:54, 24 May 2005 (UTC)

I knew User:BanyanTree was an admin but wasn't sure how comfortable he would feel about a block as he is already an interested party in this dispute, having engaged in a heated exchange with the culprit already. I was looking for someone more neutral - thanks for your help! TreveX^talk 21:10, 24 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Speedied VFD debates

I've re-added the VFD debates for the two articles that you speedied, and put the close tags around them. It's best to leave such debates in place for transparency, in case anybody wants to dispute the deletion. See Wikipedia talk:Votes for deletion#Speedying speedy debates. sjorford →•← 08:37, 25 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] CDVF

Just a stupid question. What file do you need to open and with which program? I can't see any executables. Mgm|^(talk) 12:43, May 25, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Slot machine

I just noticed how much that article is being "attacked" lately. Just now, which is kind funny, since I've been watching it forever. It seems like the same user has been adding a link to some online casino there, regularly. I just wonder if something could be done about that, since it's been happening for quite a while. His IP is dynamic, so he can't be blocked normally. It points to Passau in Bavaria, Germany. I've already checked. Also, I've never tried range blocking. Seems like it's not encouraged, and it doesn't look simple either. Protecting the page might not be good, since his changes on the article are not that frequent. But I'm not sure. What do you think?--Kaonashi 16:43, 25 May 2005 (UTC)

Alright then. Sounds good to me. I'll keep an eye open and fix things if it happens again. Thank you.--Kaonashi 16:52, 25 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Max Stern (Poker player)

Howdy,

I just created Max Stern (Poker player), take a look and see if you can make any improvments.

Klonimus 06:08, 26 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Rovoam

I was only made aware of him on his spree yesterday. Chanting Fox seems to be up to date on Rovoam, and might be able to further advise. From what I leaned from the template that gets stuck on the IP page, he's a long term vandal and it might be worth trying to take other action against him--nixie 06:34, 26 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Rovoam's vandalisms and Azerbaijanis

Hi Derek,

First, I want to thank you along with many other editors for joining in struggle against Rovoams vandalisms. As I said before, without exagerration Wikipedia has never seen such obsessive and persistent vandal before, and unlikely there will emerge another such vandal in the future.(for details you may see disclaimer on this person[3])

The major reason why I am writing you is to attract your attention to Rovoam's vandalisms in Azerbaijanis. Unfortunately, the page version you have protected is the product of his vandalism and most surprisingly, all the editors including myself, somehow overlooked this.(!). As you probably know, Rovoam was vandalizing about 20 entries simultaneously and was acting behind a whole army of anon IPs. Therefore, sometimes it required a lot of attention to track down all his actions and revert his vandalisms, and it appears now that sometimes we overlooked some of his edits.

Here's how it happened (and btw, all of it took place just in one day, May 20, when Rovoam was reverting almost 10 times(!!) a day):

• [4].

This was Rovoam acting behind one of his anon IP. It may not be obvious at first glance but he vandalized the page (sneaky vandalism) by completely changing the content and including many nonsense statements and blatant POV. (the content he introduced doesn't matter now, what matters that this was a vandal edit).

• [5]

Then, amazingly User:Dante Alighieri, who himself was reverting even without consideration all his vandal edits, somehow overlooked this vandalism and did not revert it (perhaps thinking that this was a different person or being tired of constant reverting, maybe..). Dante simply puts cleanup tag but leaves all his edits intact.

• [6]

Here Rovoam removes cleanup tag introduced by Dante, just for the sake of keeping the page under constant revert (b/c I dont think he really cared about this tag, he simply wanted to disrupt WP further)

• [7]

And here's the most interesting part. Just like Dante, I amazingly overlooked Rovoam's vandalism and simply reverted his edits to last version by Dante, thus effectively, "endorsing" his earlier vandal edits...

After this edit, I and many other editors, including you, were simply reverting Rovoam's further vandalisms but in fact left his previous vandal edits intact. I noticed how the original page changed only much later and initially did not even know that it was Rovoam. At that time I simply placed totallydiputed tag, then looked at history log, and only afterwards I realized how the entry changed in such drastic way and I realized my mistake.

In short, I just wanted to ask you to unblock the page, at least temporarily, so that I could re-establish the original entry. You can see it here, when Dante himself reverted Rovoam's identical edits to the original version [8]. You can also re-establish that version by yourself and if necessary protect the page again. In any case, I ask you to help me to correct our common mistake as soon as possible. Thanks for everything, once again. --Tabib 13:06, May 26, 2005 (UTC)

• Rovoam is far more persistant a vandal than any I've come across. I had to revert his edits via 2-3 anon. IP addresses to the Turkey article 11 times, and I had to revert quite a few of his edits to Azerbaijanis as well. Furthermore, when one IP he used was blocked, he was back in 5 minutes using another anon. IP. I've taken to looking at the block log every once in a while just out of curiosity... I've seen a 72 hour block applied to an IP with no previous warnings because it was used by him to vandalize articles. He's vandalized quite a few user pages... but if you want to know in great detail about him, the above user (Tabib) is who you should ask. I just became aware of Rovoam a few days ago... and so far he doesn't look like somebody who'll stop due to anything that Wikipedia can apply against him... he's definitely using a dynamic IP, and we all know how annoying that is. --Chanting Fox 23:01, 26 May 2005 (UTC)
• I'm not sure if you're aware of this... but it's NOT good news. I posted on the admin noticeboard about Rovoam, and I asked about some of his edit summaries, and what they could mean. Tony Sideways said that the edit summary I was asking about suggests that Rovoam may have been experimenting with a bot, either one that checked articles at certain intervals and reverted them to his version, or one that checked whether his current IP was blocked and if it was, would switch the IP to another. That sounds like bad news to me.... --Chanting Fox 23:19, 26 May 2005 (UTC)

---

Derek, thanks for fixing the old vandalism in Azerbaijanis by Rovoam. He is still vandalizing Nagorno-Karabakh page, which has been his "traditional" target and some other pages. But, I am pretty much sure that he is rather demoralized by now and if we, editors, stay united, he will eventually retreat. I am grateful to you, Chanting Fox and many other editors, above all Tony Sidaways, for all your support. Without such honest people like you, I would quit for long time ago and Rovoam would get along with his vandalisms. --Tabib 11:45, May 27, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] {{cleanup-verify}}

You have attached {{cleanup-verify}} to Quaesitosaurus. It is often helpful to specify the information that should be verified on the talk page. I verified pretty much every claim made in that article, but I still might have missed what you were thinking of. I removed the template, feel free to add it back, though. Rl 20:15, 26 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Vandalism to Turkey

Do you know if this can be accounted to anything in particular? It certainly seemed ceasless yesterday. El_C 23:17, 26 May 2005 (UTC)

Roger that, thanks for the prompt response. My response is also here. El_C 23:24, 26 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] We've got an impersonator....

I suspect this is a returning vandal... the user is named Chantin' Fox, and he redirected the Faggot article to my userpage. --Chanting Fox 23:28, 26 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] JiangsMonkeyUncle

Have you seen any of this user's edits?? I told him not to vandalize Wikipedia, but he then says he is making good edits. What do you think?? Georgia guy 23:47, 26 May 2005 (UTC)

He vandalized my talk page, so he crossed the line. He was reported to WP:VIP, so I expect a block soon. Also, thanks for reverting my talk page Crypto. Zscout370 (Sound Off) 00:00, 27 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Cryptodurk

I've just banned this impostor. Any idea as to his reason for registering this name? Mgm|^(talk) 22:21, May 27, 2005 (UTC)

• Another IP to add to my CDVF blacklist (just to be sure). Thanks for the info. Mgm|^(talk) 14:33, May 28, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Nomination for admin

Hey Weyes. After a brief look at your contribs, I'd like to put you up for admin on June 12 or so. Is it something you'd be interested in? CryptoDerk 23:17, May 27, 2005 (UTC)

I'd be most honoured, thanks. --W(t) 23:23, 2005 May 27 (UTC)

On second thoughts, I think I'll give it a skip. Thanks anyway though, it's always nice to be offered. --W(t) 10:37, 2005 Jun 3 (UTC)

Heya, as you might have noticed, I've since been nommed for admin, and foolishly declined. I've now decided I do want it after all (you're allowed to roll your eyes at me at this point), and self-nommed. I just want to make clear that this is in no way intended as a slight of your kind offer, and I am still very grateful for it. Happy wikiing! --W(t) 18:33, 2005 Jun 13 (UTC)

[edit] banning

Apologies. It was a typo. I meant to do 1 hour. I corrected it immediately. However there is a problem. One vandal using that a/c is causing all sorts of problems, notably on the Pope Benedict XVI page. What do we do? FearÉIREANN\^(talk) 17:31, 28 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] banning

crypto, why was I banned and will it recur? Banno 23:33, May 29, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Monkeynerd

Sorry, I didn't know it existed. Howabout1 23:50, 29 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Aquarium

Hi, I noticed your note at aquarium and was just wondering how you cracked the case. I consider myself the "keeper" of that article, and have been overwhelmed by the masses of contributions to a specific section that were both well-intentioned and mostly inappropriate for the article in question. I have already deported most of the additions to a new article (see edit summaries), and will clean up the remainder soon. I was wondering though, how you figured out it was a class project? I had my suspicions given the apparent University of Washington ties, but couldn't find any proof. Also, do you think that it might be a good idea to email the instigator of the project (presumably a professor) and suggest that the project caused some amount of difficulty here, and maybe shouldn't be conducted again in quite the same way?

Thanks! - Bryan is Bantman 18:48, May 31, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] thanks!

Thanks for nominating me, supporting me and saying really nice things for me on WP:RFA! I may not be able to spend as much time as I'd like to on adminny tasks this month, but I look forward to lots of quick reversions and speedy deletes of vandalism. Mooah ha ha. :-) FreplySpang (talk) 01:25, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] May 29

Happy belated BDay! and thanks for CDVF. Guy M/LV ^(praise) 08:17, Jun 1, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks, and CDVF is cool

Hey Crypto, Thanks for your nice words and vote of support and on my admin nom. Also I wanted to say I've just discovered your CDVF program, way cool! Now I'm torn between vandal fighting with my new superpowers, and working on WP:PME. I guess I'll still be your "homie" either way ;-) Paul August ☎ 16:30, Jun 1, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Brilliant!

I'm sure you've heard this many times before, but I'd just like to say CDVF is fab! I certainly won't use Recent Changes or New Pages again. Keep up the good work! :-) Craigy (talk) 05:16, Jun 4, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] CDVF-thanks

Hi! Just a quick note to say thanks for CDVF. Also, some feedback to let you know that it works great on Mac OS X (10.3). Thanks again, JeremyA 22:00, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Works just perfectly on Tiger (10.4.1), too! Thanks, also .. :-) - Pete C ^✍ 22:49, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] My RFA

Hi Derek, thanks for your vote of confidence on my recent successful RFA, it was much appreciated. I will work to demonstrate that your trust was well-placed. Fawcett5 19:30, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] SPUI

SPUI keeps leaving pictures of ducks on my talk page. I've told him to stop twice, but he hasn't. Can you get him to stop, please? --WikiFan04^{ß 8:31, 10 Jun 2005 (CDT)}

[edit] Woman

I have noticed that you have marked woman as protected, but the article isn't protected. You may want to fix that. - Mike Rosoft 15:59, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Move of Gradient to Gradient (calculus)

Hi Crypto, I need some admin advice. Oleg Alexandrov pointed out to me here that sans discussion gradient was moved to gradient (calculus) and gradient was turned into a disambiguation page, and none of the over 280 links were changed. Oleg wants the page moved back and I agree. I know I could just delete gradient, and move gradient (calculus) back. But I don't think this qualifies for speedy deletion. Do we have to go the VFD route? Paul August ☎ 20:26, Jun 14, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks Crypto. I've moved gradient (calculus) back to gradient. Paul August ☎ 21:05, Jun 14, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks from me too, Crypto. Oleg Alexandrov 01:21, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] You may find my bot on irc usefull.

It detects vandals rather well. Oh good wheeler catch btw. :) --Cool Cat ^{My Talk} 15:10, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] PokerWiki

Hey Derek,

I don't know if you saw my comment on Talk:Poker, but since you were the first person to welcome me to WP I figured I'd give a personal invitation. We've got a poker-specific wiki running at http://poker.wikicities.com . We're intentionally planning to minimize overlap with WP's poker content, but that still leaves a lot of ground untilled. Anyway, if you check it out lemme know what you think.

Thanks,

PhilipR 16:11, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the tips, that's some good info! - PhilipR 16:36, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks!

Thanks for supporting me on my RfA. It's always nice to get some positive feedback. I hope I can put my new abilities to some good use. -- grm_wnr Esc 17:41, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Dr. Michael Anshel's page you excised

The page I put into Wikipedia, is from the brief CV he and I wrote on his page. The text from the place you mentioned used the text provided by Dr. Michael Anshel. He is a world known cryptographer and mathematician. I had intended to re-work the article. But as it stands, it violates no copyright that we know, since it was originally written by him and myself.

As far as Jane Gazzo's Dream Ticket article, it was written from scratch by me. Also, the Jane Gazzo article was written by me with permission of the original biography to adapt it, which I did. I will read the regulations again.

On the NPOV and cross-links to other items, I saw what you were talking about. Nothing was done intentionally out of bounds. I saw your edits and took note of your points.

But Dr. Anshel's page should be restored. We will re-work it to be more in line with other cryptographers on Wikipedia.

Dr. Anshel's work is very well known in mathematics and cryptography.

Many major works cite him, and major textbooks on cryptography have articles on him and his methods. For example, "Making, Breaking Codes" by Paul Garrett, Prentice-Hall has a chapter on the Arithmetica Key Exchange which he co-invented.

We will re-work the page once it is restored. Also, any malevolent implication should be extricated.

Wikiklrsc 06:57, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC) (Talk)

[edit] Armenian Genocide

Hi CryptoDerk, I am new to these pages, but I see that you have removed information about the Armenian Genocide several times on the History of Turkey. Surely, whatever happened it was a significant event in Turkish history, since a large and old minority virtually disappeared from Turkey. Of course the discussion has to be NPOV, but I don't think removal is the proper way of handling it, IMHO.--Wiglaf 10:10, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I see. It seems to be a very volatile subject on Wikipedia.--Wiglaf 13:31, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Dr. Michael Anshel

I took your points, but you have removed a link to a page full of information on crypto on the cryptography page. Dr. Anshel's page is used all over the world for information on crypto. The one other page with such info (Helger Lipmaa, who we know personally) has many dead links. So I am not sure of what you're doing. I have some idea of your reasonable motivation, but beyond that it seems a bit over the top. Dr. Michael Anshel, as I explained to you is a well known mathematician and cryptographer. You've restored the page but put it on the delete list. I will re-work it, to fit the cryptographer's general style article. But, in essence you appear to be slandering two well-intentioned people, who don't deserve such words. And "this guy" is not really a polite way to refer to people, but we'll take it as your way of expression, and not pejorative. I hope there are sensible people out there, and would hope to put you in that category. Wikiklrsc 18:04, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC) talk

[edit] More on Dr. Anshel's page

I saw what you wrote. I think you have underestimated his stature. But,that is my opinion, and may very well be the opinion of many of the cryptographers you named. He is a colleague. So, at this point, to save any further embarrassment to you, MattCrypto, and Dr. Anshel on this issue, DELETE THE PAGE immediately. As far as I can tell, you gave me no chance to rewrite it as I had asked. So be it. There were things said which I take issue with that you and MattCrypto wrote. But one must live with these human frailities. Let's call it a day. DELETE THE PAGE NOW. That is what you wanted from the start, after all. Wikiklrsc 19:48, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC) talk

[edit] Turkey sockpuppets

Heya, what's up with the flurry of turkey sockpuppets? Do they need (re)RfAring or can they be blocked? --W(t) 17:57, 2005 Jun 22 (UTC)

Nah, it's just some guy who uses a bunch of open proxies. I don't even follow him around, just when I hop on the computer to check email and whatnot. There was already an RFAr and he's basically banned from editing, so there's not much that can be done. Just keep reverting — a good way to get the edit count up :) CryptoDerk 18:00, Jun 22, 2005 (UTC)

Can edits by hard banned users be reverted beyond the 3RR? I'm running into it on a few articles. --W(t) 18:06, 2005 Jun 22 (UTC)

Yes. All edits by this guy can be reverted no matter what. He's vandalized pages, violated the 3RR rule a hundred or more times, and has made legal threats and DOS threats against Wikipedia. CryptoDerk 18:10, Jun 22, 2005 (UTC)

Ah, one of those. Wfm, thanks. --W(t) 18:12, 2005 Jun 22 (UTC)

He's not hard-banned, but probably should be. Has he made threats to disrupt Wikipedia like this before? You should really protect the page's he's obsessed with. I've made this request on Wikipedia:Requests for page protection also. -- Netoholic @ 19:43, 2005 Jun 22 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Thanks for the congratulations! Clearly, marking the change to my userpage as a minor edit wasn't sufficient to slip it past unnoticed...The CDVF looks pretty cool, by the way - I'm tempted to download a JRE just to play about with it. — Matt Crypto 21:28, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Newbie Bluxo

Hi, not sure we've met. But I just created Wikipedia:Policy enforcement as a place to record admin actions that may need more than a single line to explain.

Also, your block of User:Bluxo seemed a bit hasty. Wasn't it just a Wikipedia:newbie experiment? Anyway, I unblocked him. Best regards. -- Uncle Ed (talk) 19:59, Jun 23, 2005 (UTC)

I understand your re-block. I also blocked Bluxo32. Um, can we be on the same side? -- Uncle Ed (talk) 21:33, Jun 23, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] CDVF and sound

Hi, I hate to, like, beg, but is there any chance you can do a version of CDVF with audio alerts (you did say it would be easy!)?

It's just that on Wikinews we have a guy plasters 'ass puss' and goatse stuff all over the site everyday. I often miss him "in action" because although I'm editing the site, I'm not on the main page (which we can't lockdown due the nature of the site). If CDVF could just bleep every time someone made an edit (the guy creates a new account for every attack) it would mean we could stop in his tracks, every time. I can't tell you how good that would be! Dan100 (Talk) 09:00, Jun 24, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Arcade Game Infobox Edit War

Seeing as you are an administrator, and have an interest in computer and video games, could you check the bottom of Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Arcade_games/Infobox? There's an edit war going on between myself and another user, and due to lack of other participants, it seems to be going nowhere (I have however listed it on the RFC, and requested comment from the Computer and Videogames Wikiproject). He and I may have both broken the three-revert rule as well. --Poiuyt Man ^talk 14:20, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Tool feed

Hi, I've been using the Vandal Fighter, but it seems the IRC feed has gone dead since the upgrade to 1.5. Any way to turn it back on? Thanks, great tool by the way. Fuzheado | Talk 29 June 2005 03:07 (UTC)

• I took the liberty of adding the above information to the relevant section of the CDVF page. I've made it quite clear that as far as anybody knows right now, the CDVF is inoperable for the time being. At least that's what I believe the above means... you can change it if I'm wrong about that. --Chanting Fox 29 June 2005 03:52 (UTC)

[edit] Template to mark pages under vandal attack

As you know certain pages such as George W. Bush are being vandalised constantly. I propose a template to mark these pages and detect if these templates are removed. Vandals will likely remove them, and if they dont the pages will be listed in the category properly. It wont use too much bw to read first few lines of articles. What do you think? --Cool Cat ^{My Talk} 2 July 2005 17:51 (UTC)

I had the template Template:CVIP (ConstantVandalismInProgress) but it was deleted for being redundent" as "vandals will remove the template". But thats the thing i am counting on. Such pages can be blacklisted automaticaly. And watched more closely. --Cool Cat ^{My Talk} 2 July 2005 17:56 (UTC)

[edit] IP address 217.140.193.123

hi there Crypto Derk,

me and a couple of other users are having constant trouble with this user, who refuses to register, but nevertheless leaves abusive messages from behind the veil of anonymity. I have [9] Redux who has experienced this, and Deb who will vouch as well.

I have a pretty good idea what the user´s real registered name is, however he will just simply post as unregistered, and go completely crazy in the end. he has basically mobbed me out of the discussion board on naming conventions, [10] , left abusive messages on my talk page which was so embarassing i had to delete them obviously (you can check the history), and just rambles on without letting someone else speak. ask anyone who had to deal with him, Martg76, to be honest i am fed up with this and this is not what i thought wikipedia should be about.

are users allowed to get away with this, can administrators do something about this? can we report this guy? thank you for your help Antares911 4 July 2005 19:18 (UTC)

[edit] Computer science WikiProject

Hi CryptoDerk. I've opened Wikipedia:WikiProject_Computer_science using the latest and greatest Template:WikiProject and seeded a few of the documents it referenced. I haven't signed up as a participant yet, because I don't feel competant enough to be the founder of such a significant project. I feel that you or someone you know would be more qualified to lead the project. So there she is.

I call this a MotherWikiProject because there exist many WikiProjects like:

• Wikipedia:WikiProject_Programming languages
• Wikipedia:WikiProject_Computer_and_video_games
• Wikipedia:WikiProject_help_desk
• Wikipedia:WikiProject_Keywords
• (several others)

that could benifit from having a logical parent project.

Please have a look and let me know something. I'm pretty sure _sj_ and others will be willing to help out too. This is, in my opinion, a good next step for the Revision_review_group to assert some positive enfluence on the Wikipedia. Your input will be of great value. Thanks in advance. Quinobi 18:28, 10 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Review needed

Hey CrypoDerk, I sent User:Matt Crypto the following message, and have just noticed he hasn't responded yet (probably too busy or just not interested), so I'm copying it over to your talk page:

I have some work for you. I have just finished a rough translation of E0 (cipher) from the fr: article, and I thought you might want to review it. My knowledge of cryptography is next to nil (I have once implemented Playfair as a training exercise for the Intl. Informatics Olympiad, but that's about it), so it probably shows in the translation. To my discharge, the original article was also somewhat confusing; however, I think you should have no problems understanding what is meant, especially because it is your area of expertise. User:Dake is the original author of the fr: article, so you might want to contact him for further, technical questions (I suspect he might be in contact with Vaudenay, who found the best cryptanalysis, according to the article, and is a professor at the same institution Dake studies at). Cheers.

Phils 17:13, 11 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Sorry!

I swear I didn't do that on purpose. Mouse problem and I didn't realize I had inserted my sig into your comment. All apologies! --Etacar11 00:57, 16 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Comunlang VFD-2

You are receiving this notice due to a consideration that has come up during a VFD for the article Comunleng. As there was no clear consensus in Comunleng's previous VfD, it has been nominated again. Some people participating in the new deletion discussion have decided that as a matter of fairness, since only 4 weeks have passed, everyone involved in the previous discussion needs to be notified, to protect the VFD process. Please see Votes for deletion/Comunleng 2 for comments. The Literate Engineer 23:46, 16 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Porn inserter Numpty on the loose

Dear Cryptoderk, there is a numpty on the loose who is inserting porn links into the WikiPedia. Could you please use your administrative powers to force him to desist? He is at 69.50.184.214 and similar. I have been listing the various nonsenses under speedy deletion, but there is no stopping him! Thanks Brequinda 12:44, 20 July 2005 (UTC) P.S. I don't comprehend the vandalism in progress page properly.

[edit] Kitchener City Hall

Hello, I just got this article up this morning and was wondering if you could take a look. Any comments, edits, or additions you can provide would be appreciated! Radagast 14:03, July 21, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for putting the images en bloc; that does work better. I don't think there are too many, personally; the text is likely to expand and that should buffer it somewhat. Radagast 19:29, July 21, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Caucasian Albania protection

Hi, can you do a null edit to this article to refresh the {{hist-stub}} category; as per Cfd. Thanks. ∞Who?¿? 23:25, 21 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Hey Derk :)

Hey Derk! i'm trying to decide on a logo/insignia for the wikiproject computer science. Can i pick your brain? thanks in advance Project2501a 23:46, 22 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Protect Common image for Main Page

Hi CryptoDerk, could you exercise your admin abilities on Commons to protect Image:Teller-Ulam device 3D.png there (I've already protected it locally), as it will soon be on our Main Page here? Thanks.--Pharos 23:03, 24 July 2005 (UTC)

Sorry to bother you again; could you protect Image:Joburg top.jpg on Commons (the template's on it, but it's not actually protected). Thanks.--Pharos 01:05, 25 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Ever heard of DJ Vadim?

Check him out. I was just blown away by his "Your revolution" Project2501a 00:25, 25 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Need help with problem editor, personal attacks...

Greetings,

I am sorry to have to ask your help while you're moving, but I am having a terrible time with the article Code of Hammurabi -- with an editor and his sockpuppets' activity that is borderline vandalism (repeatedly blanking legit info, just because he doesn't like it) and personal attacks.

The problems began on last 20 July... Up to that date, the article had contained a section with a comparison of some of the differences between Hammurabi's Code, and Mosaic Law... correctly noting that a majority of scholars think the latter was influenced in some way by the former.

On 20 July, a very nasty anonymous editor not only blanked it out, but put on the talk page, a very offensive and slanderous obscenity against followers of one of the world's major religions.

Naturally, my response was to revert the blanking, as well as cut the offensive attack out of the talk page.

About 5 hours later, user "Stargoat" appeared and basically repeated the blanking and put a nearly identical, but cleaned-up comment on the talk page.

Although myself and others pointed out to him that numerous sources have noted the obvious connections between Mosaic Law and Hammurabi, he will not listen to reason and will not allow any mention of Moses to be made in the article at all. If you check it out, you can see how pathetically weak his arguments are - he is apparently some kind of militant minimalist who insists that the Exodus never even happened, and that the books of Moses were written centuries later than the conventionally accepted date. (First he said 300 BC, now he is denying that he ever said 300 BC although it is still on the talk page, and claiming 650 BC)... Although he hasn't offered one shred of support, and I have presented tons of evidence and quotes, he is blind to reality and insists that it is the other way around, along with lots of personal ugliness both from him and from at least 3 other anonymous IP's that all work out to the same DNS range. Amazingly, in one breath, he denied having any socks at all, while actually confessing to being 2 of those 3 IP's (who have been doing things like write "me too" comments)...

As if that weren't enough of an open-and-shut case, yesterday I rewrote the entire section in accordance with the advice of some other editors who have been working on this article, to make mention of a wider range of Near Eastern laws influenced by Hammurabi's, while providing examples of some quotes showing sections of both Hammurabi's and Moses' laws that read practically word-for-word, showing a clear and definite influence. Today both he and his personal attack-socks began repeatedly blanking that out too, calling me a "loser" (!) and a pov-pusher. However, a discussion of Hammurabi's legacy in the Near East is crucial to the article, and I have no doubt that one hour in any library could turn up dozens of reputable references to the clear similarities with Mosaic law.

I even incorporated the following sentence from the 1911 article Babylonian law: The greater part of it remained in force, even through the Persian, Greek and Parthian conquests, that affected private life in Babylonia very little; and it survived to influence Syro-Roman and later Islamic law in Mesopotamia. He has just now blanked it out yet again, responding on the talk page: "the Code of Hammurabi was not long lived after the death of Hammurabi. It certainly did not matter to anyone again until the 20th century..."

At this point, I'm not sure how to proceed; I've never been thru the arbitration process and it hardly seems worth it for what is not really a controversial point so much as hard-headedness, blanking vandalism, puppeteering and personal attacks... I would much prefer to see the page locked for a time, making sure the new "Legacy" section I have written is up there when it is locked... What do you suggest??? Regards, Codex Sinaiticus 03:30, 27 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] planetmath template

FYI, there's a subtle bug with one of the planetmath templates; please see the bottom of my talk page. I've asked Oleg to fix it up. linas 01:04, 30 July 2005 (UTC)

See my talk page too, I don't think there is a problem. Oleg Alexandrov 02:06, 30 July 2005 (UT)

[edit] GF

Actually, I placed this image alone temporarily. I was doing some research and was going to return and edit the page. Alvinrune

[edit] Jacoby symbol

That's right. J(a,mn) = J(a,m)*J(a,n) is the most useless Rule (looking here (Die allgemeine Berechnung des Jacobi-Symbols)) --Arbol01 17:29, 2 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] re: your "Please do not remove material from WP" message

I resent your characterization of a redirect, a perfectly legitimate thing to do in WP, as "removal of material." 172.197.72.66

[edit] External links of Rosicrucian research

Please do not add commercial links or links to your own private websites to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or a mere collection of external links. See the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. Thanks. CryptoDerk 10:23, August 7, 2005 (UTC)

• Each external link posted in the "External links" section of each related article were not intended as publicity towards any organization but promotion of knowledge (and esoteric knowledge) from research done by a Rosicrucian organization during our entire 20th century. Each article, as you may read/study it, is a small text on the research related to the given subject and it is valid as source for users as any other serious link posted in the related Wiki articles. Please, I request dear CryptoDerk your benevolence to revert your changes; thank you.

:Wikipedia policy prohibits mass external linking. Additionally, if you are affiliated with this group in any way, and it sounds like you are, then this is considered self-promotion and that is also against policy. CryptoDerk 11:16, August 7, 2005 (UTC)

I apologize for the appearent inconvenience of these actions of myself (posting the external link in each related subject Wiki article); as I have stated before, they were not intended as promotion, and less even as any way of vandalism. I regret that type of policy you refer, but not so much as I regret the unapproval, of the links to this type of knowledge and research studies (perpspectives not common to find on the whole Internet), to be included in this Free Encyclopedia (an outstanding basis of research for many people like myself). I thought to myself of it, Wikipedia, as being an embrionary system of knowledge pursuit and collaboration work worldwide among ourselves, human beings. Hope still it may be or continue to be that way; Anyway it was a pleasure to be allowed to collaborate a little in earlier articles. Thank you.

[edit] checking IP addresses of registered users?

Hi CryptoDerk,

I have a request at User talk:BanyanTree#Request to investigate some registered users to see if they had asked for a new password for another user by checking IP addresses. I was not aware that admin's could see IP addresses for registered users. (???) Could you tell me if this is possible and, if so, where the relevant how-to page is, as I can't find any mention of it in in the admin essential reading. I figured I'd come to you before WP:AN. Thanks, BanyanTree 00:06, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Policy consensus for what is acceptable Wikipedia sources needed

User:CryptoDerk - There has been a lengthy and exhausting discussion at Talk:Abraham Lincoln and now at Talk:Elvis Presley and its archived Talk pages surrounding the exact same issue as was discussed and voted upon already on the Abraham Lincoln matter. Because this has the potential to create a new standard for what is acceptable Wikipedia sources, I thought that you might want to be aware of it. If the policy consensus arrived at on the Abraham Lincoln issue is set aside in the Presley article it will result in new ones for countless others. I think the existing determination of what constitutes a proper source should be defined by the Wikipedia community and set as firm policy which would go a long way in helping to substantially reduce the tiresome and repeated edit wars. Thank you for your interest. Please note I have left the same message for others who worked on this matter. Ted Wilkes 20:32, August 18, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] CDVF

Hi CD. I hope this isn't too awkward. There's no rush, anyway. Just a thought: when you next update CDVF, would it be possible to hide edits by users to their own user pages? Cheers, [[smoddy]] 14:22, 19 August 2005 (UTC)

Also, it seems page moves no longer show up? I just started using CDVF, and was sure they did a few days ago, but now not... Evercat 18:02, 19 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Again Why deletion?

at least have the decency to answer, so my question again: Why did you delete http://actresses5.babevortex.com/Babes/JAlba/ ?

It had some nice pictures

Thanks

[edit] CDVF

Thanks for the CDVF :) Hashar 03:10, 6 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] User Categorization

Hi, CryptoDerk! Your user page is protected so I wasn't able to take care of this for you. Your User page was listed on the Wikipedians/Kentucky subpage. With the new User Categorization scheme, that is now going away and being replaced with [[Category:Wikipedians in Kentucky|{{PAGENAME}}]]. If you still wish to be listed in Kentucky, please add the category tag to your user page at your convenience. Thanks! Roby Wayne ^{Talk • Hist} 20:28, 7 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Mark Hildreth (actor)

Hi, I just like to inform you of the constant vandalism by 67.168.252.57 on the Mark Hildreth (actor) page. --Dysepsion 18:20, 10 September 2005 (UTC)

You were listed on the Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Ontario page as living in or being associated with Waterloo, Ontario. As part of the Wikipedia:User categorisation project, these lists are being replaced with user categories. If you would like to add yourself to the category that is replacing the page, please visit Category:Wikipedians in Waterloo, Ontario for instructions.--Rmky87 02:27, 10 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Science pearls

Hello,

Since you contributed in the past to the publications’ lists, I thought that you might be interested in this new project. I’ll be glad if you will continue contributing. Thanks,APH 11:05, 11 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] CDVF

I know I've commented on this elsewhere, but I want to say to you again what a great program you've wrote. I use it quite a bit, and it does just about everything I could want it to. It's fantastic, the best thing there is for RC patrol. Thanks for having wrote it. Yours, --Blackcap | talk 05:33, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] CDVF

I read on the CDVF talk page that you want to implement collaboration between the clients. I guess that means that people can see which edits have been checked by other users they trust (maybe also users that these users trust?). That would be fantastic and a huge motivation for people to start patrolling the recent changes again! I guess you'll need a central server for this, so please take a look at meta:Toolserver and see if this might be helpful for you.
Maybe you could also integrate the information of de:Benutzer:Marco Krohns copyvio check on http://www.itp.uni-hannover.de/~krohn/wscan.html.utf8 ? Anyway, CDVF is a great tool! Please tell me when the new version comes out and I'll help doing a big internal promotion campaign on the German Wikipedia for it. --Kurt Jansson 16:30, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] PMEX and GFDL

I know your net access is somewhat limited net access right now, but, could you comment at the planetmath site on the issue of PMEX and GFDL? Wiki: [11] PM: [12] I appreciate your comments since I'm a bit confused -- (☺drini♫|☎) 22:33, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Revert of anon's linking several christian bands

You recently reverted a load of different edits by an anon that linked to a website with lyrics for the bands. While it was clear that he was advertising, I checked the site he was linking to and it seemed fine for linking to, and it had the information that he said it would. I went through and changed the links' names (where they said the name of the site instead of the name of the band), but figured it was fine to leave them there. This goes especially for those bands that didnt already have a lyrics page linked. I'd like to put back the links on those pages now left without a lyrics link, unless you felt there was a reason for removing the links. Thoughts? Kertrats | Talk 16:32, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] External link on Central dogma

I've restored the external link you removed from the article, though under the heading "external links". While the page linked to is not authoritative, and as such should not be cited as the source of the information in the page (which it is now not), it is informative. Some better links might be helpful, though. I'll see if I get time to find some: I'll be working on the article as a whole over the next few days. -Kieran 09:16, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Pope CryptoDerk the VI

Hey Crypto. Thought you mght like to know about this. Paul August ☎ 19:53, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Please vote on list of lists, a featured article candidate

Please vote at Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of lists of mathematical topics. Michael Hardy 20:24, 13 October 2005 (UTC)== Hey ==

For excellent contribs. Molotov (talk)
22:34, 18 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Reverted multiple edits

Just now when you reverted the contributions of User:Tbc123, did you have to do them one at a time, or is there some admin tool that can revert all edits made by "X"? If there is not such a tool, maybe we should suggest it? So an Admin can select either revert "all" or from "time A" to "time B"? WikiDon 17:16, 28 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Firefox extension

Would you happen to know how to make a firefox extension? It would be very simple and used to fight vandalism. The basic idea is to feed RC diff's into firefox, and let it determine which pages contain text (such as an obscenity) listed in a file. For pages that don't contain anything on this list, the tab is closed. The others remain open and ready to be examined. If you can't figure out how to hookup the IRC RC output into firefox, then it could be used with CDVF to open new tabs in firefox to be checked. I found a guide to making extensions, but it says you need to know Javascript. Thanks. — BRIAN0918 • 2005-10-30 03:46

[edit] CDVF rocks!

I started using it in HuWiki and this tool rocks!!! Kudos.

Any chances of i18n in the near future?

Thanks, nyenyec ☎ 20:40, 3 November 2005 (UTC) (HuWiki sysop)

[edit] Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Halibutt

Since you have supported me during my RfA, I wonder if you could review and comment on the RfA for Halibutt, the first person I have nominated myself. There seem to be a heated debate and votes of experienced, unbiased editors would be appreciated. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus ^Talk 17:14, 19 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] User categorisation

You were listed on the Wikipedia:Wikipedians by alma mater page. As part of the Wikipedia:User categorisation project, these lists are being replaced with user categories. If you would like to add yourself to the category that is replacing the page, please visit Category:Wikipedians by alma mater for instructions. --Cooksey 22:08, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] 68k_ttl.jpg

Wow. Is that a 68K computer built on breadboards? Did you build that? --Geoffrey 03:19, 26 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] External Links Added

Crypto Derk

Many of the External Links I added you seem to have taken out. These are not commercial sites or are they personal web pages. Most of these are collections (linked to their web pages) at the Archives Center, the National Museum of American History (NMAH). I retired as Senior Archivits from the Smithsonian two years ago, after thirty six years at NMAH. I am currently trying to link these valuable finding aids to Wikipedia. I do not understand why you have taken them out. Have you looked at the websites?

For example, why did you take out the link to the Spencer Fullerton Baird Papers the Smithsonian Archives. Anyone who want to know about Baird would be remiss in not checking out the on-line finding aid. These papers are the principal source on this scientist. Many of the other external links to collections at the Smithsonian are the primary materials on these people or subjects.

Would you please reconsider your changes. Robert S. Harding 05:01, 29 December 2005 (UTC)Robert S. Harding

[edit] Joe Louis Scrapbooks Link

Can you please explain why you reverted my edits to Joe Louis page and also all my other edits for different boxers?

These links go to a federal government site that is in the public domain. The link I made to the Joe Louis Scrapbooks- http://americanhistory.si.edu/archives/d9002a.htm -are scrapbooks that Joe's manager had made of all of his fights. They include newsclippings of all the separate boxers that I linked to. Why would the Wikipedia user not want to know about this important resource on the career of Joe Louis? Will you please reconsider your reverts and let me know. Thank you.

Robert S. Harding 19:15, 30 December 2005 (UTC)Robert S. Harding

[edit] Banno RfA

There was mention of an exchange between us in my RfA - thought I would let you know, as a courtesy. Banno 06:23, 5 January 2006 (UTC)== WikiProject Poker == We now have a Poker WikiProject. You are welcome to join if you want to contribute. We're getting alot done already. :) --Woohookitty^{(cat scratches)} 05:44, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WP:CDVF online: a proposal

Note: this comment is part of a synchronised thread. You can reply by clicking the [edit] link next to the comment's heading, or following this link. To ensure that you can see any further responses I make, add this page to your watchlist. Once you have replied, feel free to remove this boilerplate.

I often edit Wikipedia from computers other than my home computer, and from there I can't access the Vandal Fighter—not that I do so often anyway, but that's another story. Is there any way that the Vandal Fighter could be made available on a website so that I wouldn't have to download the Java Executor every time I try to use it? I don't think it'll work, but I thought I should suggest it. Thanks, Ingoolemo ^talk 19:07, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Vandalfighter

Are you still working on vandalfighter? Henna 21:56, 15 February 2006 (UTC)== CDVF ==

Heya, to prevent duplication of effort, please give a sign of life ASAP. Kim Bruning 14:03, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Vandalism

209.129.85.4 was cited as being a vandal - the IP leads to a large network of computers at the Saddleback College. Really no way to single one person out.

[edit] Barnstar, OTR & PUA Review

FYI. You may want to look and comment here: Wikipedia:Barnstar and award proposals/Proposed Changes. For your reference, the guidelines are referenced here: Barnstar Proposal Guidelines. Thanks -- evrik 18:39, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] zech's logarithm

hi cryptoderk, I just ran into zech's logarithm accidentally. It strikes me that the opening sentence doesn't make a whole lot of sense, specifically "a high-degree polynomial that is not in the field". Presumably you mean rather "a high-degree polynomial in (say) α which is not in some kind of standard form". I mean, in the first example you give, if α is a root of x^3 + x^2 + 1 = 0 (say over GF(2)), then α^3 = α^2 + 1, which is fine, but you can't really say that α^3 is not in the field. It is in the field! All you can say is that it isn't currently written as a polynomial in 1, α, α^2. I was wondering if you could clarify. I can sort of imagine what the procedure is supposed to do, but not 100% sure. Dmharvey 01:20, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Texas Hold'em

is that kind of poker u playing? West Brom 4ever

[edit] Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday, CryptoDerk, from the Wikipedia Birthday Commitee!!! Have a great day!

Many happy returns! Sergeant Snopake 18:41, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WTF?

Hi..I go by the name GrandMasterGalvatron I got this message from you

"Please stop adding nonsense to Wikipedia. It is considered vandalism. If you want to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. CryptoDerk 20:00, May 23, 2005 (UTC)"

just what are you talking about...I haven't added any nonsense whatsoever

[edit] So I was listening to Dr. Octagon....

and then i remembered when you introduced me to Poetry Bumm, and i thought i'd stop by and say hi :)

Hi. Project2501a 22:27, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Survey Invitation

Hi there, I am a research student from the National University of Singapore and I wish to invite you to do an online survey about Wikipedia. To compensate you for your time, I am offering a reward of USD$10, either to you or as a donation to the Wikimedia Foundation. For more information, please go to the research home page. Thank you. --WikiInquirer 22:45, 3 March 2007 (UTC)^{talk to me}