User:Coppertwig

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“ Mathematicians make up the rules as they go along. (Ash and Gross) [1] ”
“ Rules are not made of stone! (Igorberger) [2] ”
“ The rules are a colander or a minefield, depending where you are. (Rodhullandemu) [3] ”
“ The Just Society will be one in which the rights of minorities will be safe from the whims of intolerant majorities (Pierre Trudeau) [4] ”

Multilicense -- see below. Today's date: June 10, 2008 h

My essays:

Contents

[edit] Planned wikibreaks

Approx. May 16-19 and June 6-9, 2008.

[edit] Simple English Wikiquote

[edit] More quotes

“ As a mathematician, I get to just make stuff up and publish it in peer-reviewed journals, so it counts as a primary source. (Ramsey2006) [5] ”
“ Please don't quote WP:AGF at me that you don't have to assume good faith in the presence of evidence to the contrary - that's utterly contrary to the point of AGF, which is meaningless except in the presence of evidence to the contrary. (GTBacchus) [6] ”
“ Looking for cases where you're "allowed" to drop assumption of good faith is a fool's errand, because there is no situation in which it's remotely useful to drop assumption of good faith. (GTBacchus) [7] ”
“ I've personally blocked people, and supported community bans against people, all the while assuming good faith (GTBacchus) [8] ”
“ The winner of an edit war (slow, fast, whatever) is the one who stops reverting first. (GTBacchus)[9] ”
“ The problem with Wikipedia is that it only works in practice. In theory, it can never work. (Zeroeth law of Wikipedia) [10] ”
“ Individually we are weak, like a single twig. But as a bundle we form a mighty faggot. (Martin Prince)[11] ”
“
Über den Wolken muß die Freiheit wohl grenzenlos sein.
Alle Āngste, alle Sorgen, sagt man,
Blieben darunter verborgen und dann
Würde, was uns groß und wichtig erscheint,
Plötzlich nichtig und klein. (Reinhard Mey[12])
Over the clouds freedom knows no border nor wall.
All our worries unbidden, they say,
Stay down below, hidden away,
Things seeming big and important are all
Suddenly faint and small. [13]
 ”
“
Did you ever
fly a kite
in bed?
Did you ever walk
with ten cats
on your head? ...
If you never did,
you should.
These things are fun
and fun is good. (Dr. Suess) [14]
 ”

[edit] Nicknames

I have been called:

  • Copper
  • Coppertwine
  • Twiggy
  • CT
  • C-Twig
  • CuTwig
  • Mr. Twig

[edit] Etc.

Re use of the word "vote": I know perfectly well that a "vote" is not a vote. Er, that is, that those thingies people post in discussions are not votes. I just use the word "vote" as a convenient term to mean "thingy", not to mean "a thingy is a vote," which I don't mean, because it isn't, and even if it were, I prefer to represent a statement with a sentence rather than with a word. Voting wouldn't work on a sockpuppet-prone wiki.

Help put in interwikis: links between similar articles in different languages. One tool for doing this is: Flacus' Interwiki Link Checker . It's a fun and convenient way to quickly help add many interwikis. You choose two languages, and it shows you pairs of pages with the same name on two different language Wikipedias. You click "yes" or "no" to indicate whether they're about the same subject or not. You can go through many pages quickly. After a small number of people (3) agree that two pages are about the same subject, a bot puts an interwiki link between them.

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Translation in progress: Safavid art fr:Art safavide

A userpage worth reading: User:Wetman

Pages I'm involved in editing or have been involved in editing include: AIDS | Shock wave | Talk:Birth control | Eicosanoid | Canada's Food Guide | Essential nutrient | Hellenistic art(translation) Derveni krater(translation) | Pain and nociception; Links among nutrition articles; disambiguation; some Statistics pages; some corporal punishment pages



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How to fix double redirects after moving a page

Re templates: meta:ParserFunctions

I started on Wikipedia on Nov. 2, 2006. I'm also Coppertwig on meta and on a number of other projects.

User:Coppertwig/homepage


Interests:

  • Doing some French/English translation.
  • Adding citations to Corporal Punishment-related articles and thinking of merging/rearranging some of these articles
  • Minor contributions to statistics pages
  • Adding lots of redirects so I and others can find things, for example the pages of instructions and guidelines
  • Writing definitions for Simple English Wikipedia
  • Translated Canada's Food Guide page into French
  • Translating Hellenistic art into Simple English
  • Added minerals to the Hrvatski version of Essential Nutrient
  • Translated Essential Nutrient into French
  • Putting links among many nutrition-related articles in many languages
  • Other miscellaneous contributions

Ik kan enkel een klein beetje Nederlands spreken, tussen 0 en 1. Ich kann mehr Deutsch sprechen als Nederlands, zwischen 1 und 2. I have access to TERMIUM, an extensive online French/English/Spanish phrase dictionary. More precise Babel might be en|fr-3|la-1.5|de-1.5|nl-0.5|grc-0.5.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Ash, A. and R. Gross, Fearless Symmetry, 2006.
  2. ^ Igorberger, March 5, 2008 Emphasis mine.
  3. ^ Rodhullandemu on my talk page
  4. ^ June 10, 1968 Official Statement by the then Prime Minister of Canada Pierre Elliott Trudeau. http://ajustsociety.blog.ca/2005/12/14/pierre_trudeau~384965
  5. ^ Ramsey2006 09:09, 15 September 2007 (UTC) on Wikipedia talk:No original research. [1]
  6. ^ GTBacchus at Wikipedia talk:Ignore all rules
  7. ^ GTBacchus at Wikipedia talk:Assume good faith
  8. ^ GTBacchus at Wikipedia talk:Assume good faith
  9. ^ GTBacchus at Wikipedia talk:Ignore all rules
  10. ^ The zeroeth law of Wikipedia. See Raul's laws.
  11. ^ Martin Prince in The Haw-Hawed Couple
  12. ^ From the song "Über den Wolken" by Reinhard Mey. This song, steadily popular in Germany since the 1970s, is about someone wistfully watching airplanes take off at an airport. lyrics at Mey's website.
  13. ^ Translation by Coppertwig.
  14. ^ One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish by Dr. Suess as cited here
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