User talk:Salix alba

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1 Re: adminship
2 Derivative
3 Ah, the King weighs in!
4 A question
5 About the x^y image
6 What!
7 Oh
8 For you, with deep felt appreciation

[edit] Re: adminship

As a follow up of the discussion above, now that the Starwood arbcom case is over, what do you think of candidating for admin? You've been here for a long time, did a lot of work, and I think you will have very good chances of passing. So what do you think? You can reply here. Cheers, Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 20:03, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Derivative

Hello Salix alba - you commented on the GA status of Derivative a while ago. In the course of rewriting the article, I believe your comments have been (at least partially) addressed. Your further comments would be much appreciated. Geometry guy 18:43, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Ah, the King weighs in!

Do you know everything that goes on? You seem to turn up everywhere! Well, it's nice to see you -- even though your math guys nearly gave Pigman a nervous break down. I guess you math people are a story unto you selves. And you will forever remain a mystery. Some one was musing to me the other day about your support of User:Ekajati and I said that I really could not complain because you have been wonderful to me. Sincerely, --Mattisse 20:20, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

P.S. I am referring to Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Association of Members' Advocates. I realise that was not clear. --Mattisse 20:22, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

Its easy really, I have your talk page on my watchlist - just watching it in case theres any trouble brewing, thankfully things seem quite. Occasionally something of interest pops up.

I'll say nothing on starwood, case closed and its best forgotten.

Pigman and addition was interesting. Yes we could have been a bit more supportive. I think there is something intrinsically dificult with expressing mathematics in english. You can see this as the reason for actually developing mathematical notation. With the mathematical language and notation it becomes posible to express certain concepts easilly, which become quite convuluted in english. --Salix alba (talk) 21:40, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] A question

To man who knows all,

Dinesh and I are working on an article in a sandbox of mine. When the time comes to move it out into the mainspace, how is that done? Can one just rename it and move? Or is it more like blank the page and cut/paste into new article (thereby losing edit history, I presume). Thanks! Sincerely, --Mattisse 00:03, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

P.S. When I was a kid and just into Algebra, I bugged my father a great deal over "what does a function f(x) mean?" ). I couldn't get it through my thick head then, no matter what he said.

In college calculus, everyday a lecturer would walk in, scribble a bunch of stuff on the board and walk out. One day about two-thirds of the way through the semester, a student raised his hand and asked, "Why would you want to know that?" The instructor explained, giving some real world examples, and suddenly everything was clear. Sincerely, --Mattisse 00:15, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

(I know now what a function is -- don't know what the problems was then, except maybe I expected the answer to be more complicated than it was.)

Yes. Moving an article from a sandbox to main space is a prefered way of doing this as it should keep the edit history.

Indeed a good load of examples help at lot. --Salix alba (talk) 09:17, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks! Sincerely, --Mattisse 15:34, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] About the x^y image

Hi, it's Xedi, I saw you nicely modified some things on the Media:x^y2.png image. I'm not at home right now, but would you like me to do another export of it with your additions ? And any other things you would see fit ?

Thanks. --Xedi (not logged)

Not entirely sure what your after. I do have an svg version of the image. I did cheet a bit and used the points on the grid to construct the green curves y=+/- x/2. It would be interesting to see the image of y=x^2, which I think is should be a smooth curve through 1. I don't have access to Mupad so its quite hard to plot other curves on it. --Salix alba (talk) 23:05, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] What!

Your archived! Must be change in the wind. (I have my suspictions.) Sincerely, Mattisse 00:27, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

Indeed, just beging to go self-employed. Theoretically this means less time for wikipedia. --Salix alba (talk) 01:10, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

But better for you. Once I discovered I could not work for others, the world opened up. I became blessed. May the same happen to ou. Freedom! Sincerely, --Mattisse 01:20, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Oh

I've already decided to ignore the rest of it. Ridiculous stuff! At least my case has be closed today which is all I have been wanting anyway. Thanks so much for your message and your concern. It means a lot to me. You have been a good friend and I appreciate you. Sincerely, Mattisse 22:56, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] For you, with deep felt appreciation

		The Surreal Barnstar
		For being a true friend through thick and thin. No Barnstar good enough to give to you for being my kind guiding light of reason in this wilderness. Mattisse 00:58, 9 April 2007 (UTC)