User talk:Dmccreary

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[edit] Welcome!

Hello, Dmccreary, Welcome to Wikipedia!
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Happy editing!

Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 17:47, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Hello, and welcome! You might want to know that the Wikipedia:naming conventions generally suggest using lowercase in names except where required in proper names and other special cases.

Dan, I have made some proposals for sections in ISO/IEC 11179 related to naming to be moved to Data element name (discuss), and for Data element name and Data element definition to be merged into Data element (discuss). Let me know what you think.
RayGates 23:42, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Too many capitals

Please see Wikipedia:Manual of Style and my recent edits to level of measurement. You're using too many capitals in section headings. Michael Hardy 21:29, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Edit counter

Dan, you can include a link to an automatic edit counter as follows: Edit counter.
RayGates 15:44, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Ultimate

You seem to be a big fan of a disambiguation page! Is this intended to keep the reader guessing? :) RayGates 18:56, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Original research

Dan, original research doesn't belong in Wikipedia but it is welcome at Wikisource. I'm sure you can put it up there. Ifnord 15:05, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

Note: After I put the article on wikisource I was told to put it back on Wikipedia.

Hi Dan I saw your comment over at Wikisource and I am sorry you were given the above information as it is incorrect. Wikisource accepts research that has already been published only, therefore not original research. The article read like encylopedia article to me, which is probably why you were advised to put in on Wikipedia. However it seems there are objections to it over here. I understand why this has frustrated you, and I am sorry you had to put work into moving this article around. I left note at the AfD discussion so hopefully this will not happen to anyone else in the future.

I think your best options to preserve this information are to cite sources as much as possible and make it a sub-section on another economics page. Even with your best effforts however, it may still be significantly altered or deleted. That mainly depends on what kind of sources you are able to provide. Because if it truly is original research I do not know of anywhere it will be accepted. However the mathmatical models must be based on something so I think you should be able to put some of this information somewhere. I wish I knew more about the subject to give you more specific advice. If I can help you at all, please ask.--Birgitte§β ʈ Talk 15:16, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

I am glad I have been able to make you feel a bit better about the situation. I suggested making a subsection of another article mainly because that answer the objection that it is a Neologism. I was also just thinking it might work as a section of Wiki rather than an economics article. Although I 'm sure some of info would fit in both places.--Birgitte§β ʈ Talk 18:28, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

Hi, Dan. I agree with Birgitte. I apologize for this frustration--this sort of thing happens not uncommonly, unfortunately. Unfortunately, my only suggestion would be to find economics articles that relate to such things as you're talking about in the article. The math--did you devise it yourself or did you take it from somewhere else? Also, the benefits you refer to--did those come from another source or are they original? I'm just trying to brainstorm ways that will help you give your article more credibility so that it stands a better chance of surviving at a wiki, although I can't guarantee that that will be the case.—Zhaladshar (Talk) 18:39, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Request for edit summary

Hi. I am a bot, and I am writing to you with a request. I would like to ask you, if possible, to use edit summaries a bit more often when you contribute. The reason an edit summary is important is because it allows your fellow contributors to understand what you changed; you can think of it as the "Subject:" line in an email. For your information, your current edit summary usage is 5% for major edits and 28% for minor edits. (Based on the last 150 major and 60 minor edits in the article namespace.)

This is just a suggestion, and I hope that I did not appear impolite. You do not need to reply to this message, but if you would like to give me feedback, you can do so at the feedback page. Thank you, and happy edits, Mathbot 21:02, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Semiotic \mathcal{4}

JA: Hi, thanks for the note. Plane in the morning so have to rush off. I think the actual triangle figure of the shape and labeling that one usually sees is due either to Charles W. Morris or to Ogden & Richards, and it was later a favorite figure of Walker Percy. The basic idea goes back to Aristotle's On Interpretation — if he drew figures we have lost them. Like the use of figures in geometry, though, the semiotic triangle can be misleading, especially if one thinks that a sign relation is a single triple (o, s, i) instead of being usually a whole set of them. You might want to take a look at this fine paper:

  • Awbrey, Jon, and Awbrey, Susan (1995), "Interpretation as Action: The Risk of Inquiry", Inquiry: Critical Thinking Across the Disciplines, 15, 40–52. Eprint

JA: Bye for a while, talk to ya later. Jon Awbrey 04:48, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for log graph

Thanks for updating the log graph of wikipedia's English growth. I'm amazed at how straight the line is! Andjam 00:26, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

How about starting off with an article within your user space, eg "User:Dmccreary/Wikipedia growth" and advertise the essay in Wikipedia talk:Modelling Wikipedia's growth. If enough people like it, someone may decide to link from a Wikipedia: page to the essay. I don't know anything about semantic wikis, so I can't help you there. Andjam 13:22, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Talk:Push poll

I would write a letter to the editor of my local paper relating my experience. — goethean ॐ 19:57, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Minnesota meetup

A meetup of Wikipedians in Minnesota is proposed: please stop by the discussion page if interested. Jonathunder 01:54, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

Reminder: Meetup October 29, one o'clock, Mall of America. Jonathunder 20:08, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Technology evangelist merged; please help

I have merged your work at Technology evangelist with Technical evangelist. You might like to drop by and copyedit the new combined article. --Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 10:49, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Simple Metadata Registry

Dan, I have come across this article you wrote. Please can you provide links to examples of this style of registry, or site other sources. I have never heard of this before, and I have been involved with ISO/IEC 11179 for 10 years. Thank you. RayGates 23:05, 19 February 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Minnesota Meetup

Minnesota Meetup
Sunday, 2007-10-07, 1:00 p.m. (13:00)
Pracna on Main
117 Main SE, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Map
Please pass this on! RSVP here.
Spam delivered by Jonathunder 16:57, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Meetup

Hi, Dmccreary. Someone wearing a dark colored t-shirt took photos at the meetup. Was that you by any chance? -Susanlesch (talk) 15:47, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

OK. Thanks much for your quick reply. Hope to have a chance to speak with you in person next time. Cheers. -Susanlesch (talk) 17:30, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Castor (software)

A tag has been placed on Castor (software), requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a very short article providing no content to the reader. Please note that external links, "See also" section, book reference, category tag, template tag, interwiki link, rephrasing of the title, or an attempt to contact the subject of the article don't count as content. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content.

Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself. If you plan to expand the article, you can request that administrators wait a while for you to add contextual material. To do this, affix the template {{hangon}} to the page and state your intention on the article's talk page. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Berserkerus (talk) 14:07, 29 March 2008 (UTC)