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[edit] You're posted on the Vandalism page, thought I might give you a heads up-

203.198.242.116 is at it again:

This seems to be a way for them to avert the three revert rule.--203.198.242.116 12:09, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

This may have arisen since I noted the anon's actions on various pages here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Vandalism_in_progress#IP_Moderate

You might want to watch the page. --Mdziesinski 13:19, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Merge of Frey effect / microwave auditory effect

I agree, but where should they all redirect to? Frey effect or Microwave auditory effect? Personally I prefer Frey. --AI 05:05, 7 September 2005 (UTC)

Sorry, I didn't see this comment until after I'd already done the merge. I merged to "microwave auditory effect" because that article is older and there is evidence that the Frey effect article was created with the intention of a "fork". I have no strong preference for it to be in one place or another -- and Google hits for the two names are almost equally common -- but decided it was best to merge the two pages now as opposed to later, especially since I intended to spend some time cleaning up the Frey effect article and it seemed to make more sense to merge first so that the final result is hopefully more coherent overall. If there is substantial consensus that the page should be moved to Frey effect later, I am fine with that. Colin M. 09:54, 7 September 2005 (UTC)

As long as the redirect remains at Frey effect, the actual artice name doesn't concern me. Also, I think people are more familiar with the term "Frey" than "microwave auditory effect". --AI 06:47, 11 September 2005 (UTC)

I've taken the liberty of merging the Frey effect page into the microwave auditory effect page. The microwave auditory effect page has now inherited the cleanup tag, as I believe most of the sections of the Frey effect page needed heavy copy editing and fact checking. I still plan on going through and finishing up this dirty work at some point soon. In the meantime, it's still the case that many references are duplicated. In fact, this has probably gotten worse because of the merge. Sometime in the next week or so I intend to be done with the cleanup and will remove the tag at that point unless someone objects. Colin M. 09:17, 7 September 2005 (UTC)[1]

Colin, did you trim any of the contents of Frey Effect while merging? --AI 07:26, 11 September 2005 (UTC)[2]

[edit] Information preserved during merge

Hi there! The only contents change that I made during merge was a slight rewrite of the introduction, to better explain the different names (it would have been confusing to have it referred to as the Frey effect and microwave auditory effect inconsistently). You can see the two versions here: Frey Effect before merge Microwave Auditory Effect after merge Colin M. 08:57, 11 September 2005 (UTC)

I see that you did make a clean merge. A related issue: User:Salsb relied on his own opinion to decide[3] that he should remove an entire section.[4] I don't think this should be done until other knowledgeable contributors have provided discussion. I haven't reverted his blanking, I only brought this up on the talk page. Please post if you have any comment about this. --AI 09:29, 11 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Public school (UK)

Request for comment re Talk:Public school (UK). There is unreasonable resistance to acknowledging Scottish linguistic differences.--Mais oui! 09:01, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] RE: Picture of Tokyo

Hey there! Thanks for the update; I was wondering, too, what had happened to the prior picture of Tokyo ... it looked really good. In any event, I've been focusing on a 'compromise' addition for the 'global city', which I requested a mediation regarding over another user's willful editions; this has consumed much of my time as of late. Thoughts? Thanks again! E Pluribus Anthony 23:33, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

Hi again! I hope you're well. Thanks for your comments; I've replied to them on that/my user page. More are invited!
By the way: spurious commas, or furious ones? Personally: I tend to remind members of the fairer sex (and 'unfair' ones, too) that I do not have a period, but definitely have a colon. (ha) Merci! E Pluribus Anthony 04:42, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] spurious commas

For some reason I laughed out loud at "rm spurious commas" on Global City. I hate them almost as much as recalcitrant semi-colons and specious question marks. ;) Marskell 23:36, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] RoboCup

Hi, I just happened upon your profile and I am interested in the RoboCup competition and hoped you can help. I'd love to see this, but is it open to the general public? Is there anywhere I can get more information? Smoove K 02:58, 20 October 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for your help! Smoove K 02:28, 21 October 2005 (UTC)


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[edit] question

hey, I've a short question... Where I can contact you? Or maybe, you can contact me. Send a short mail to upimchen at yahoo dot de. thanks.