User talk:PierreAbbat

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Hello there, welcome to the 'pedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you need any questions answered about the project then check out Wikipedia:Help or drop me a line. Cheers! --maveric149

About methionine and disulfide bonds: If methionine tried to form a disulfide bond X-S-S-Y it would no longer be methionine, since it would have to lose its terminal CH3 group. So I'm 99.99999% sure the answer is no. -- Marj Tiefert, Monday, May 20, 2002

I left a note for you at Talk:Chiroptera. --Cheers! --maveric149

Good work ploughing through taxonomy! One suggestion: this comes from looking at your entry on fouquieria. The article is about a genus, and it would really be helpful in such cases if you provided a link to the family where it belongs. Eclecticology, Tuesday, May 28, 2002

Not linking the sub-classes in magnoliopsida was actually intentional. My hope was to limit the overall number of articles (could be VERY big) by restricting them to the principle classifications, and discouraging articles in the most sub-, infra-, super-, etc. categories. Any opinions? --Eclecticology

Interesting point that you make about what ITIS has done with those birds. I've been so focused on setting up the 67 orders of magnoliopsida, that I haven't given much thought to the animal kingdom. What you say about the birds does make sense. The book that I quickly put my hands on by the International Council for Bird Preservation seems to agree with you. The overriding problem in taxonomy is that no single source will always be right; ITIS is no exception to this. My thinking in using ITIS was based more on its broad comprehensiveness than any belief in its unique correctness; I'm already getting flak from cladists on my choice. For me ITIS becomes more a reference system to draw things together. My approach would be to use their system of ciconiformes as a starting point with adequate explanations of alternatives. Not everybody that uses this order name cuts as broad a swath. Some use "ciconiiformes" with a double "i" for the term as used more or less by ITIS, and reserve the single "i" form for a narrower subset. May I suggest the order "plasticiformes" for the various flamingoes and vultures that appear on lawns for certain festive occasions? --Eclecticology, Saturday, June 1, 2002

No problem about those two genera. I've used a "piping" format [Augusta (plant)|Augusta] -- This would appear as Augusta in the list but would direct to an article called "Augusta (plant)". This is a usual disambiguating technique in Wikipedia. 600 genera! while ITIS has only 79!! That should get somebody's attention! I look forward to your writing every one of them up:-) ...as if it madders. --Eclecticology, Saturday, June 1, 2002

Your last pointed red comment proves how important sleep can be. -- Ec.

"Censored.jpg" was a good article illustration at the time. After it served it's purpose it was deleted.

Space Cadet

Just wanted to drop a note saying "thanks" for cleaning up after me on the Semitic stuff, and for adding in the triconsonantal roots information in Semitic languages -- I saw it and went "D'oh! Why didn't I think of that!"  :-) Pgdudda, Friday, June 21, 2002

I'm sure you were right about "femtofortnight", so I removed it from Femto-. On the other hand, see overhand knot, and particularly Talk: Overhand knot for my observations on "spontaneous generation". Best regards, Ortolan88

Most acronyms, especially short ones, stand for several things. The extremely helpful acronym and abbreviation database at http://www.ucc.ie/cgi-bin/uncgi/acronym gives Utah, the Universities of Tennessee and Texas, and User Terminal as alternate meanings of "UT". Please be careful about redirects from acronyms. Vicki Rosenzweig, Monday, July 8, 2002

Thanks for pointing out the articles giving the convention for the tree of life. I've taken a look and the suggestions are very reasonable, so I'll try and format my future submissions according to this template. Ramin Nakisa, Sunday July 14, 2002.

The version of Bennelong that The Epopt deleted was a blank page. Nothing wrong with deleting blank pages created by newbie experiments. --maveric149

Thanks for deleting my requested blank page. Starting yesterday, I have moved dozens of articles from "Middle Earth/Gandalf" to "Gandalf" or "Gandalf (Middle-earth)", leaving behind empty pages. Is there a better way to mark empty pages for deletion than simply writing "please delete" in the edit summary? Ed Poor 08:05 Jul 23, 2002 (PDT)

Pierre; when going through the orphan images, you might try putting the filenames into my multilingual Wikipedia meta-search page. (Note that sometimes the individual searches time out, if you don't see an "X pages found" message for a language, click the individual link to load it up separately.) --Brion VIBBER 17:42 Jul 23, 2002 (PDT)

Hello Pierre, I see you're working on the Wikiproject Tree of Life. What kind of advice would you give someone who's not knowledgeable about biology? I'm taking pictures of flowers, veggies, and fruit periodically, and wanted to contribute them, but I don't want to make things more difficult for others. For instance, I just wrote a brief article on canna lily so the picture had a home, but it's an orphan and I'd love it not to be. --KQ

Ok, thanks for the tip. I'll look into it--not tomorrow, probably, and so probably also not until I get back from L.A. on August 18. --KQ

Hi Pierre. My Aramaic is definitely rusty and it could be a dialect difference, but I would have said leshana de'arama (with a shewa after the d). I could certainly be wrong though. Danny

Pierre, your change of the French characters in the Lyapunov article was unnecessary, but harmless; you are incorrect about the Cyrillic requiring UTF-8 encoding. The English wiki is encoded in ISO-8859-1, and is best viewed with ISO-8859-1 set as the default encoding. The character repertoire of the pages is, however, Unicode--but don't confuse the character set with the character encoding. So any characters you want to use that are outside the ISO set must be encoded as HTML entities, but those entities will be sent across the wire as plain old ASCII, and the browser will render the correct Unicode character, regardless of what encoding it is set for, so everyone with good fonts installed should have seen both the Cyrillic and the accented Latin characters just fine. It is only characters that are not coded as HTML entities that care what the browser encoding is, and that's always ISO-8859-1 in the English Wikipedia. Just thought I'd save you the future work. --LDC

I believe this has come up before; Pierre mentioned he uses Konqueror 2.something. At least the older Konqueror versions had terrible font management support; as I recall, unless you enable font smoothing, character references outside the document character encoding don't render, because it blindly follows that encoding when requesting a font from the X server and silently drops anything outside that range (as boxes or question marks or some such). With font smoothing enabled it was a little better; everything was Unicode internally, so as long as the currently selected font had glyphs for those characters, they got rendered... but you had to choose a font with a big enough repertoire to cover anything you expect to see, it still wasn't smart enough to check other fonts. I don't know if the 3.x Konqueror is better, I've long since given up on it in favor of Mozilla (which unfortunately is slower and hogs more memory, but work on more things that I want/need). Anyway, as explained before forcing your browser to read ISO-8859-1 pages in UTF-8 is not a good solution to your browser's bug; it's like driving on the sidewalk because traffic is slow on the street. --Brion 18:41 Aug 19, 2002 (PDT)

Sorry about missing the entire URL on coleus. I didn't remember that that was how we were supposed to do it. I'll check for other I may have missed and copy your format. --KQ 19:38 Aug 19, 2002 (PDT)

You ask why allotropy is a misnomer! The existence of various ALLOTROPES of a given element is not the result of any particular phenonmenon other than the well known principlesof chemical bonding and structural chemistry. Allotropes can be in any state(Gaseous, Liquid, solid) as in C2(gaseous), graphite vapor,solid graphite, solid diamond,solid Fullerene, gaseous fullerene. The difference is of chemical bonding and not some pheno which is the same for all of these. Please see Macmil;lan Encyclopedia of Chemistry, Ed.J.J.Lagowski,1997, Simon Schuster. User:Mercury610 22:36, Aug 23, 2002 (PDT)

Thanks for your Greek work in the Septuagint article, and for adding the etymology note. Well done! Wesley 07:52 Aug 26, 2002 (PDT)

Pierre, do you think the dynip info is relavent on the Sarnia, Ontario page? Surely they are not a significant company to the Sarnia economy or history? Frank Warmerdam

Pierre, Dynamic IP ISPs might be important to you, and I am happy that Dynip is listed on the Dynamic DSN page, but I don't feel it belongs on the Sarnia page. Every city has thousands of service companies but generally only a few would be important enought to appear on the city page.

PS. coming from Sarnia, I know that locals take great pride in the NHL hockey players that come from the area.

All this said, I am not going to remove the dynip item from the Sarnia page, but I would encourage you to reconsider it. Frank Warmerdam

Thanks, Pierre. I was too timid to do the redirect myself...... user:renata

Here is the link to the copyright violation template along with some other stuff; Wikipedia:Boilerplate text --mav

I wonder if you have been keeping an eye on the Aria Giovanni talk webpage. The situation there is out of control.

Matters have deteriorated to a highly abusive level over a website link. Of special concern is the general conduct and attitude of someone called NetEsq, who claims in his details to be a lawyer.

He has repeatedly abused anyone who opposed the idea of the website link with such tactics as net misettiquete ( eg the use of the word 'you' in capitals and bold to emphasise shouting), a poor grasp of history, the unrepentant use of such termsas Nazi, out of context quotes and attempted alienation ("only YOU opppose it").

Regardless of the rights and wrongs of his beliefs, it is very advisable to bring this most unruly and arrogant person into line.

Given that your name is on the list of persons who can ban users, I thought it advisable to bring this to your attention, before it leads to persons leaving the wikipedia - something likely to stroke Netesq's already aggressive actions.

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Hey, I'm not sure what a "box character" is. The only punctuation I remember using in those new redirects was a comma, apostrophe and circumflex (all of which I've seen in other titles). What did I do wrong? I made redirects rather than change the original because they are each alternate spellings, or at least really common typos, that I've seen in multiple places. Tokerboy 03:35 Oct 15, 2002 (UTC)

Hello Pierre, you suggested that I shall delete nonsense articles on my own. First, I'm not an administrator, thus I can't delete an article. Second, after many discussions on the mailinglist I hold the opinion that a 4-eye principle of proposal and deletion is best to avoid errornous deletion. -- JeLuF

give it some time. Im pretty sure they got them. Lir 11:22 Oct 24, 2002 (UTC)

Re the "Lyapunov" article. I'm a little puzzled about your change for the french accents. I have my browser set to UTF-8, and I always use "Alt+0233" for the e-acute. I never have anym problem with it appearing correctly, it's certainly more convenient than the ampersand format.. Eclecticology 23:17 Aug 19, 2002 (PDT)

I'm confused- what box characters??? quercus 05:47 Aug 31, 2002 (PDT)

re box charcaters- I didn't know I was- all the pages that I've put up look fine in my browser (IE 6), as far as I'm aware I havn't entered any unusual characters???

where abouts are the boxes appearing?

About Aztec mythology (and various other kinds), I group together individuals if they come in some sort of logical group on their own. I wouldn't want to give the impression that a half-dozen random gods are connected when they're not, and I think putting unrelated gods on the same page would do so. Plus, all of these may be expanded in the near future (by myself or someone else); there is probably more to say about all of them, and making a separate page for each god makes that easier--especially with variant spellings, trying to move a god about whom I just recieved new information to a new page, and moving all his alternate-spelling redirects from the old page would be complex. User:Tokerboy

Did you get permission to use the Drexel logo's? I am almost certain that if you didn't they would not approve of it. MB 16:24 Sep 30, 2002 (UTC)

LOL..

"I wish I had more to add!"

Wladimir C. Mourao Jr. wrote those famous words in self-reflection at his life's accomplishments, right before his momentary fame as the wikipedia censors came sweeping through.

My thoughts, exactly!! You're an amazing psychic, or I'm an extraordinary communicator :-)

Wladimir Mourao

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Howdy Pierre:

I just created a WikiProject for math; aka Wikipedia:WikiProject Mathematics. I'd love to see any input comments, etc. you might have. Cheers. Chas zzz brown 00:00 Nov 18, 2002 (UTC)

Thanks for the definition of Chiaroscuro... I'll have a more complete article coming _soon_. Annie

Ah. I was a bit confused by Wikipedia:Vandalism_in_progress which reads "If you don't want to call attention to your report, be sure to check the box marked "this is a minor edit" (so it won't show up in most users' recent changes)". I can see this should apply only to the "Vandalism in progress" change. Sorry. I'll leave vandalism alone then. -- Someone else 04:36 Jan 4, 2003 (UTC)

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I left a note for you at talk:Farnsworth Hirsch Fusor (or whatever the spelling is). User:Ray Van De Walker

Hi Pierre, you wrote about the meaning of Lifter in signal processing. Someone wanted to rename it to filter. Which one is correct? Please be not offended, but you seemed to have been a bit dyslexic when you wrote that article, because you also wrote gamnitude and quefrencies instead of magnitude and frequencies. -- Stw 17:09, 24 Feb 2004 (UTC)

I'm really sorry, it seems that not only you, but all mathematicians are dyslexics ;-) I just read about Cepstrum and now I understand why it's gamnitude and quefrencies -- Stw 17:15, 24 Feb 2004 (UTC)

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[edit] Tulip tree

Hi Pierre - wish I could cool it! The majority preference is for the commoner usage Tulip tree, but one person keeps trying to change it back to tuliptree, insisting that is the only permisssible orthography (and ditto for Cucumber tree and cucumbertree). I'm trying to at least keep the contents of the conflicting pages the same, except for the name orthography. There's a discussion started at the end of the Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Tree_of_Life page, any thoughts you have would be welcome - MPF 12:17, 1 Mar 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Tok Pisin

Bonjour Pierre,
Je voudrais créer une Wikipedia en Tok Pisin. J'ai demandé qu'un domaine soit ouvert, cf. Wikipedia:Complete_list_of_language_wikis_available; mais je ne sais pas ce que je dois faire maintenant. Comme je voulais commencer à y travailler, j'ai ouvert une page provisoire a partir de la page d'accueil du domaine bislama. Est-ce que tu pourrais y jeter un coup d'oeil et corriger mon Tok Pisin? (Je suis un débutant complet). I see you are very busy, but I hope you would find a minute to help me.

Best.

Jean-Luc --Milaiklainim 13:22, 10 Mar 2004 (UTC)

[edit] coi

coi .pier. mi'e .filip. -- pne 12:37, 20 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Bonjour, Pierre

Thank you for the note of welcome. You may have possibly seen my name in connection with some Perl web sites I participate in, such as Perl Monks. Or it's possible you're thinking of another person with my name; believe it or not, my name (first and last) is very common among Armenians.

Vahe Sarkissian -- VSarkiss 17:46, 18 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Hi; I'd just like to say thanks for catching that etymological error on Tetraodontiformes. How embarrassing. ;) Cheers, -- Hadal 04:23, 9 Aug 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:U.S. Southern Wikipedians' notice board

Hey! I've created this new notice board specifically for articles related to people from the U.S. South. If you are interested in contributing, leave a message on the page and add articles you feel need to be reviewed, contributed to, or started. Mike H 21:07, Sep 29, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Cornish Rex photo

The image you uploaded of a Cornish Rex (Image:CornishRexRopey.jpg) in June, 2002, doesn't have a copyright tag on it. Please place the appropriate tag on the photo's page. Thank you. [[User:Lachatdelarue|Lachatdelarue (talk)]] 21:55, 8 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Hi, I just updated your entry on Elisabeth Elliot - you had her name spelled, "Elliott," and it appears that her name only carries one t. I also linked the page to the page I just created on her husband, Jim Elliot. Let me know if there's a problem! --Spangineer 22:32, Nov 12, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Article Licensing

Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 1000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

Option 1
I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:
{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

OR

Option 2
I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to any [[U.S. state]], county, or city article as described below:
{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk) 18:41, Dec 8, 2004 (UTC)

Quoth: Being a Wikitraveler, I'm going to dual-license, but does that affect images too? In particular Ropey the Cornish Rex is not mine, he belongs to a friend of mine, I just uploaded the picture
Pictures that you create are not automatically included when you use a template, but you can add any special notes to the text directly before the template explaining your purpose. For instance:
I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my image and text contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:
{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}
For each picture, you must still place the proper image licensing template just so those who click on the picture can track its license, but this example would probably do what you want. Make sure on WikiTravel that you also multi-license so your changes can also be used here. See my example at wikitravel:User:Ram-Man. Hope that helps! For all pictures that you do not own you cannot relicense them without permission of the author. Make sure that you make a special note on the image page alerting them to this fact. The template that you use on your user page will necessarily exclude those contributions (image and text) that you do not own the copyright to. – Ram-Man (comment) (talk)[[]] 03:21, Dec 9, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Image license

Hi! Thanks for uploading Image:Draw1.png. I notice it currently doesn't have an image copyright tag. Could you add one to let us know its copyright status? (You can use {{gfdl}} if you release it under the GFDL, or {{fairuse}}if you claim fair use, etc.) If you don't know what any of this means, just let me know where you got the images and I'll tag them for you.

If you uploaded other images, please clarify copyright for them as well, otherwise the images will eventually be deleted.

Thanks, Denni☯ 01:39, 2004 Dec 13 (UTC)

  • The only track we can follow is the History, and you are the one and only name there. With no permissions, this image is probably doomed to erasure. Denni☯ 03:03, 2004 Dec 13 (UTC)

[edit] Language file

Sorry, but it's not something I can do. There's a page to request this at meta:Requests for languageXX.php update. I tried asking on the #mediawiki IRC channel but no one was available to do this at the time. Angela. 21:27, Jan 4, 2005 (UTC)

You could look at the CVS archives to see who else updates language files and ask them. I think Hashar has been involved with this a bit recently, so he might be a good person to start with. Angela. 18:13, Jan 10, 2005 (UTC)


[edit] LanguageJbo

La Wikipédie lojbane n'a pas de fichier de langue au présent, et je voudrais faire marcher le choisisseur de format de date (il y a deux systèmes de nommer les mois, et selon le grammaire on doit mettre "ca" avec une forme de date et "de'i" avec une autre). J'ai mis le fichier sur meta. Pourriez-vous m'aider? -phma 01:23, 12 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Bonjour,

Tu peux envoyer un message dans la liste de diffusion wikitech-l et demander une mise à jour du fichier.

Je regarderais çà dès que je peux :o)


Hello,

You can send an email to the wikitech-l mailing and ask a file update for LanguageJbo.php .

I will have a look at it as soon as possible :o)

Hashar 06:32, 12 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] New Mathematics Wikiportal

I noticed you've done some work on Mathematics articles. I wanted to point out to you the new Mathematics Wikiportal- more specifically, to the Mathematics Collaboration of the Week page. I'm looking for any math-related stubs or non-existant articles that you would like to see on Wikipedia. Additionally, I wondered if you'd be willing to help out on some of the Collaboration of the Week pages.

I encourage you to vote on the current Collaboration of the Week, because I'm very interested in which articles you think need to be written or added to, and because I understand that I cannot do the enormous amount of work required on some of the Math stubs alone. I'm asking for your help, and also your critiques on the way the portal is set up.

Please direct all comments to my user-talk page, the Math Wikiportal talk page, or the Math Collaboration of the Week talk page. Thanks a lot for your support! ral315 02:54, Feb 11, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] New Mathematics Project Participants List

Hello Pierre, in case you missed the discussion on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Mathematics here: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Mathematics#Reformat of Participants list, I'm writing to you 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". Since your name is on the list, I wanted to let you knoiw, in case you wanted to update your entry.

Regards, Paul August ☎ 20:40, Mar 19, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] New Mathematics Project Participants List

Hi Pyrop

In case you didn't follow the discussion on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Mathematics here: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Mathematics#Reformat of Participants list, I'm writing to you 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". Since your name is on the list, I thought you might want to update your entry.

Regards, Paul August ☎ 15:03, Mar 22, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Lojban wikipedia

There have been 2 request for sysop status on Lojban wikipedia. As you are the bureaucrat there, would you look at it please: m:Requests_for_permissions#Lojban_Wikipedia Thank you, it is also handy if you would make a second bureaucrat. Waerth 17:18, 12 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] I am related on my mother's side to Alicia Lardé, who married John Nash.

Which one?

[edit] Image:OcimumBasilicum.jpg has been listed for deletion

An image or media file that you uploaded, Image:OcimumBasilicum.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion. Please look there to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you.

[edit] Wikipedia in Tetum

  • Help building a Wikipedia in Tetum, the national language of East Timor. Give your contribution to the improvement of its test page -- Regards, 195.23.53.121 11:34, 15 February 2006 (UTC) Manuel de Sousa

[edit] Wiktionary adminship

I, an admin at English Wiktionary, would like to ask if you are the same user as wikt:User:PierreAbbat with no activity for long time there.--Jusjih 07:40, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

Are you still interested in keeping your adminship at English Wiktionary?--Jusjih 23:22, 25 June 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 21:50, 3 March 2007 (UTC)talk to me

[edit] Image:Astroid.svg listed for deletion

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