User talk:Phoebe

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[edit] FAC

I noticed that you are a long time wikipedian. Just in case you have time and interest in the topic:

I would like to have your comments on my recent work for further improvement. Any suggestion will be very much appreciated. Thanks.Sangak 19:16, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] SF Meetup

Thanks for the info. Are we planning this around a Jimbo drop in?

lots of issues | leave me a message 01:20, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Science#Looking_for_source

Since you're part of Wikipedia:Newspapers and magazines request service I was wondering if you could help me with the linked issue on the science reference desk. - Mgm|(talk) 20:16, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Name changes rock

And tigers are amazing. Next up: the flying wallaby. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Sj (talk • contribs) 07:48, 18 March 2007 (UTC).

[edit] wikimania06

Hey! Long time no chat. :) I am sorry the Proceedings are in such an unfinished state; it's been something I've been meaning to get round to for the longest time but life has just been manic. Happily, I'm just about to start a month's vacation and I intend to use it to sort the Proceedings out properly. First step will be to tidy up what's on the wiki already: i.e. get the stuff we already have uploaded into a finalised state and iron out any inconsistencies (such as the way that BOFs are presented). Second step will be to get in touch with presenters whose material is still missing to encourage them to send in any material they have. --ⁿɡ͡b Nick Boalch\talk 17:51, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] I like your new name

The Transhumanist   18:35, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject History of Science newsletter : Issue I - March 2007

The inaugural March 2007 issue of the WikiProject History of Science newsletter has been published. You're receiving this because you are a participant in the History of Science WikiProject. You may read the newsletter or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Yours in discourse--ragesoss 04:13, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Mania6

Hi Phoebe,

After some search, I found this: <quote> Finally, 14:15h, I have my BoF-discussion about Localization on a globalizing project. The idea was to discuss the direction the Wiki-phenomenon would go. I gave two extreme alternatives: One big Wiki-Hive with all the content gathered together or on the other side a lot of fractioned wiki's with all specialized content. The discussion did not went as planned at all, we mostly discussed about languages, how the barriers between languages could be closed, how people from different projects, different languages could better cooperate. We came to one conclusion, that there should come a mother-wiki, connection all wiki's. That mother-wiki should link to all wiki's on a certain topic. For instance, when we talk about the topic of Amsterdam, it should link to the Wikitravel-article about Amsterdam, the Wikipedia-article (all language-editions) about Amsterdam, the quotations collection about Amsterdam in Wikiquote in all languages etc. Unfortunately we did not discuss who should set that up. </quote>

I wrote this ages ago, and this is the best I can get I think for LG1. Maybe I filled in one of your forms on the spot too, I recall there were forms, I don't whether I filled in one. Maybe I left some info there too. Note btw this quoted text comes from a text that is explicitly CC-BY-SA, and *not* GFDL. effeietsanders 00:38, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Children's encyclopedia

Phoebe, I apologise for not getting back to you on the Children's encyclopedia notion. I've just been very busy lately and will continue to be so (I'm in Chicago at the moment), but I wanted you to know I certainly haven't forgotten your posting. I'll get back in touch when things quieten down a bit. Hope you're well, Walkerma 08:08, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

See 2006 Wikipedia CD Selection etc --BozMo talk 14:59, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Grammar on DST page?

Your recent change to Daylight saving time left me puzzled. The original text "Having almost everyone agree about the layout of the day confers…" is proper grammar, just has "Having money makes me happy" is proper grammar. But I can't parse the revised text "Having almost everyone agrees that the layout of the day confers…". Perhaps the original text could stand improvement, but the revision seems to make things less grammatical. Eubulides 20:40, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

I replaced the wording with "General agreement about the day's layout confers…"; hope that suffices. Eubulides 20:55, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
you're right, I botched it; but see rewriting suggestions on your talk page. cheers, -- phoebe/(talk) 01:02, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
Hmm, well, the current sentence evidently isn't clear enough, since all the suggested paraphrases missed the point. The intent is that if society has general agreement about the day's layout, then society gets a lot of advantages (due to synchronized scheduling). It's not that we have general agreement that DST is good (we don't), nor is it merely that most of us use DST (it's obvious that we do); nor is it even that we agree that the day's layout confers many advantages (most of us have never thought about it). Admittedly the point is a subtle one, but in my defense I'm trying to use a single sentence to summarize a key point in a long paper by a winner of the Nobel prize in economics. Anyway, perhaps my explanation can help you suggest better wording? Eubulides 16:15, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Hi, and thank you!

Hi Phoebe,

Thanks for helping out with William Astbury! He was one of the first biographies I worked on here, and I still feel affection for him; he seemed so full of life and enthusiastic about science. And of course, he basically did all the pioneering structural work in molecular biology, even if his models weren't quite right.

I'm glad to meet you, too; what a nice serendipity! :) I've been here almost a year, and I can't believe that we haven't crossed paths before. I'm more of a knitter, and I dabble some in science; but I have been working on library science, too, sort of. That is, I've been working on the Encyclopædia Britannica, which is now at FAC. By the way, thank you so much for doing such a beautiful job with Ephraim Chambers and his encyclopedia; it really helped me! :) Willow 23:14, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

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