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[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)

[edit] Image Licenses

I've been tagging untagged images and I stumbled across three that were uploaded by you: Image:Ribosome.png, Image:Ribosome subunits.png, and Image:Ribosome structure.png. I feel like these might be your original creations, but after reading your userpage it doesn't really match up with your other contributions. Anywhoo, I've tagged them as {{unverified}} for now. Feel free to retag them with the correct tag (maybe {{GFDL}}). If you don't feel like tagging them yourself, let me know and I can take care of it for you. Thanks! --MaxPower 17:23, 2005 Jan 6 (UTC)

You're right I think, the Nupedia article states: "Nupedia was always intended as a free content encyclopedia. Initially the project used a homegrown license, the Nupedia Open Content License. In January 2001 it switched to the GNU Free Documentation License at the urgings of Richard Stallman and the Free Software Foundation." So I will just go by that I suppose. I haven't been around long enough to ever have been to Nupedia ; ). Thanks for the info though, I should have used my brain some more! --MaxPower 18:12, 2005 Jan 6 (UTC)

[edit] Whether you wear boxers or briefs

Do you wear boxers or briefs, Heegoop, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] John A Roebling-- August v. Augustus

I get 8600 hits on "John Augustus Roebling" and 675 hits on "John August Roebling". It is possible he used both forms. I am inclined to change the article name to the Augustus form, due to the prevalence-- also, Britanica uses Augustus, and his son's middle name appears to have been Augustus. Any arguments against the move? (you made the Augustus article a redirect to August back in Sept 10, 2003, maybe because they were both stubs but the August article was a tad longer?) TIA, Mwanner 21:46, August 16, 2005 (UTC)

At that time, the "Augustus" article was only one sentence long, and i did not think carefully about the naming issue. It seems to me that "Augustus" is clearly an angliciszation of his original name "August", just as "Roebling" is an angliscization of "Röbling", so having the main article under "John August Roebling" does not make too much sense. But really the right thing to do is to find some authoritative source (not a Google search) and put the main article under the name under which he was primarily known in his lifetime, and redirect everything else to there. Thanks for noticing this issue. -- Dominus

[edit] User categorization

Greetings, Dominus! Please accept this message as an invitation to categorize your user page in the category Category:Wikipedians in Pennsylvania and removing your name from the Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Pennsylvania page. This page will be removed when all users have been removed. Even if you do not wish to be placed in a category, could you take a moment to remove your name from the Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Pennsylvania page? Thanks!

For more information, please see Wikipedia:User categorisation and Category:Wikipedians by location. -- CComMack, fellow Pennsylvanian, on behalf of the User Categorization Wikiproject

[edit] Latitude city list

Hi: Have taken a few liberties with your city list - you might like to have a look and see if i've mortally offended you with any of my edits :) It also needs some maintanance that i'm not sure how to do...

[edit] Mega Society

I have summarized my arguments for including an article on the Mega Society in Wikipedia here:

Talk:Mega_Society

[edit] Wikimedia Pennsylvania

Hello there!

I'm writing to inform you that we are now forming the first local Wikimedia Chapter in the United States: Wikimedia Pennsylvania. Our goals are to perform outreach and fundraising activities on behalf of the various Wikimedia projects. If you're interested in being a part of the chapter, or just want to know more, you can:

Thanks and I hope you join up! Cbrown1023 talk 03:03, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Cheong Inji

Hello, this is a message from an automated bot. A tag has been placed on Cheong Inji, by 에멜무지로 (talk · contribs), another Wikipedia user, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. The tag claims that it should be speedily deleted because Cheong Inji fits the criteria for speedy deletion for the following reason:

Wrong title. Only "Jeong" is correct.


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[edit] "Indiscriminate" information

You asked what I meant by:

The simultaneous claims that this information is both mathematically trivial and "indiscriminate information" only shows that "indiscriminate information" is the new "I don't like it"

I don't remember the exact AfD that this came up in. If I remember right, it was some kind of listing of mathematical information, properties of a set or some such thing. (Mathematics is not my strong suit.) At any rate, claims were made in that AfD that the data presented by the article was both mathematically trivial, generated by simple proofs or operations; and that it was "indiscriminate information".

What "indiscriminate information" means, God only knows, although a claque of noisy deletionists think they know it when they see it. At any rate, "indiscriminate" suggests random disorder, and it struck me as inherently contradictory that a page of data could be both mathematically trivial and "indiscriminate" struck me as inherently contradictory. Those who argued for the deletion of that page were making mutually exclusive claims. That's what I was getting at there. - Smerdis of Tlön 04:07, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Moravian -> Moravian (religion)

Greetings,

One of the items in your To do list is:

  • Clean up the links to Moravian that should instead be links to Moravian (religion).

Should you ever get around to this, please be aware that the correct destination is now Moravian Church.

Also, if you would kindly fix the link on your To do list, that would help my exercise to empty the What links here of Moravian (religion).

-Arb. 17:35, 26 September 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Lincoln University

You raised a point regarding the use of "unprecedented" when referring to Lincoln University alumni with commemorative stamps, and I have removed the word. It would however be interesting to verify whether Harvard has alumni who were honored with commemorative stamps.

Njlincolnlion 17:27, 2 November 2007 (UTC)njlincolnlion

Seventy-five Nobel Prize winners and seven U.S. Presidents have graduated from Harvard. Is it possible that none of them is commemorated by a U.S. postage stamp? -- Dominus 17:58, 2 November 2007 (UTC)


[edit] 132.181.160.42

FYI: In addition to the edits to Zorn's lemma, which you remarked upon, User:132.181.160.42 also made related edits to Claude Chevalley and Kazimierz Kuratowski which you might want to take a look at for correctness. --Pleasantville 15:24, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

I already hit them, thanks. -- Dominus 15:31, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] "fix instruction block"

  • I don't understand what this means.[1] JuJube (talk) 18:30, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
  • My apologies. I was trying to fix the misformatting that (unknown to me) were simultaneously being fixed by Ioeth. Ioeth got there first, and fixed the problem; you can see this in the edit just before mine. Then my edits went in, and for some reason they wiped out your vandal addition without causing an edit conflict. -- Dominus (talk) 18:43, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Harry "S" Truman

Hello. You just changed the title of the Truman-article in the lb:Wikipedia from "Harry Spencer Truman" to "Harry S. Truman" stating that "Truman's middle name was not "Spencer". And what do you know is the S. standing for? --Cornischong 15:24, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

I'm sorry, I can't understand your question.
And where do you take the full stop after the "S" from? Plaese have a look at this webside ( http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/ht33.html ). --Cornischong 15:37, 3 December 2007 (UTC)
Please see Harry_S._Truman#Truman.27s_middle_initial. Consensus on the English Wikipedia is that "S." is correct. -- Dominus 17:36, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] AfD nomination of Correct answer

An article that you have been involved in editing, Correct answer, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Correct answer. Thank you. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 23:50, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] An article you helped edit is now on WP:UNI/COTF

The current University Collaborations of the Fortnight are:
Editor Nominated Topic East Carolina University
B-Class Improvement Drive Mills College
Start/Stub Improvement Drive Jamia Millia Islamia

Every fortnight three higher education-related topics, stubs, or red linked articles are chosen for you to improve. Be bold!
This COTF is organized by Wikipedia:WikiProject Universities. (Nominate future collaborations or see past collaborations.)
This WP:UNI/COTF is effective: Apr 18, 2008 ~ May 01, 2008.

A new round of WikiProject Universities Collaboration of the Fortnight will begin on 04 Jan 2008. Please take a look at our WikiProject article guidelines and help improve the articles. If you have any questions regarding the COTF or have questions/problems on how to improve the article, please place them here. Thanks and Happy Editing! - Jameson L. Tai talk ♦ contribs 11:06, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Per Stirpes

I am curious to learn why you delete the link to a Per Stirpes Calculator from the Per Stirpes article. Particularly as per stirpes most often applies to intestate distribution and the link is to a site providing detailed information about intestacy.

Thank you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.255.5.152 (talk) 22:03, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

Because Wikipedia is not a catalog of links. It is an encyclopedia. Your Per Stirpes calculator is irrelevant to Wikipedia's function as an encyclopedia. -- Dominus (talk) 23:07, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

Beginning with the hard bound, printed versions, encyclopedias have routinely cited references to sources of further information. Doing so did not cause them to become nothing more than collections of references.

Links to tools and further explanatory information not only fulfill the goal of providing people with the greatest amount of quality information, they are also quite prevalent at Wikipedia.

Choosing "Random Article" five successive times revealed the following articles, four of which contain links under th heading "External Links" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_R381; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aliex_Yuill; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Schalck-Golodkowski; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pud_Galvin; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvert_railway_station)

Accordingly, the link will be re-added beneath such a header. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.255.10.205 (talk) 23:22, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

Lots of articles have external links. The question is whether the external link is to a resource that advances Wikipedia's mission as an encyclopedia. For example, the article about Aliex Yuill links to Aliex Yuill's web site. The link you added has no such authority or relevance. It's just one of many finanical calculators.
Moreover, the existence of inappropriate links in one Wikipedia article can't be used to justify inapparopriate links in another article. People come along all the time and want to add links to their own sites to improve their search engine ranking or to get outbound referrals. Wikipedia is edited by volunteers, and not all inappropriate links are removed timely, or at all. I think your link is clearly inappropriate, and it should be removed regardless of what links are still present in a random sample of articles.
-- Dominus (talk) 00:29, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
I checked with some other folks to see if they shared my opinion that your link lacked encyclopedic value, but they did not. Thanks for your contribution. -- Dominus (talk) 00:38, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for taking the time to check with others.

Given your interest in and knowledge of this subject, I did not expect your reaction to my site. Particularly as it is a free resource. While I am not a software engineer and I'm certain that my programs are very, very sloppy, they do the trick and provide valid results. I've never seen any others that perform similar calculations to my Intestacy Calculators.

Now that these are complete, I'm also spending more time responding to user emails by writing 'articles' that I post at the site and which people seem to be interested in reading.

Thank you again for your time and objectivity, which are greatly appreciated. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.255.10.205 (talk) 03:28, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Rice's Theorem

Thanks for fixing the red. Very nice. I'm a newbie, I'm learning...
BBar (talk) 05:25, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Stub

Thanks again for the time explaining and helping educate me with the new information. I'm looking into Stubs now. Lots of good stuff.
BBar (talk) 15:26, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Commons

See your commons talk page. — Rlevse • Talk • 13:35, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Golden emergency

I'm trying to create a category to list all the works that were designed with golden proportions or at least been studied because of it's coinciding properties in diverse publications (say, like Stone Henge or the Arc of Noah)... but I can't figure out the right name for such category. I'll also bee needing at least some peer review o the experts. --20-dude (talk) 11:58, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Goatse

I've just tagged your page, User:Dominus/Goatse for deletion. It's obscene and inapropriate for wikipedia, there is no need to have that for a userpage and many will find that extremely offensive (such as me). AndreNatas (talk) 18:33, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Cayley's theorem

I replied to your WP:RDM post. For what sort of groups are you trying to find m? JackSchmidt (talk) 19:57, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] A word of thanks

Dear Dominus,

I just wanted to thank you for recently having me blocked. It's not so much the blocking I'm thankful for, but the fact that you recognized that the majority of my edits have been constructive. There is one thing I'd like to point out though. When I blank my own user page it is not done with intent to obscure warnings I've been issued. If a warning or any other message on my user page is outdated or not relevant to an ongoing issue, then I clear that comment.

Nevertheless, cheers, and keep up the good work.

P.S. - Is there a reason this post keeps showing up in the Contents as 71.1 instead of 72?

P.P.S. - That would do it. Thanks. Swamilive (talk) 18:15, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

P.P.P.S. - I sincerely want to thank you for reverting my previous vandalism on DVD-RAM. I have resolved to only make constructive edits to Wikipedia from now on. I encourage you to continue your tremendous work preventing vandalism. Your steadfastness has been encouraging. Swamilive (talk) 22:40, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

P.P.P.P.S. - I noticed that you're not an admin. Yet, you're rather prompt at fixing bad edits. Just curious why you don't become an admin. Personal choice? Swamilive (talk) 11:12, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] George Mark Bergman photos

I was very glad to hear you had gotten a GFDL release from Bergman. It's a great favor of him to release his photos under a free license, and great legwork on your part to contact him to arrange it. You should know that a lot of people appreciate it.

I'm writing to ask you to send a copy of his permissions letter to be stored by Wikipedia, if you haven't done so already. We like to keep records of those things, since we can never tell when an individual editor will have to leave or will lose the letter accidentally. You can just send (a scan of) the release to permissions-en@wikimedia.org, and they will take care of it. Or if you want to send it to me, or just upload a scan as an image, I will take care of it. — Carl (CBM · talk) 12:40, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

I emailed it yesterday. My question at WP:M was about how to communicate to the project members that these photographs were available for use. -- Dominus (talk) 13:35, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
I don't know if we have a good system for that. One thing we can do is add a note to the appropriate category page on commons, explaining which photographs from the MFO collection can be used here. — Carl (CBM · talk) 11:53, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Truman pic

I found the full page of the HST picture, [2], but it's status is "undetermined", so I'm not sure we can upload it at commons. I'll ask. I'm going to go ahead and delete the X picture. — Rlevse • Talk • 13:33, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Copyright: George M. Bergman, Berkeley

Hi, could you provide a link to George M. Bergman's GFDL release, coulden't find it on the http://owpdb.mfo.de/ page. Tried his homepage as well as the departemental page with no luck. /Lokal_Profil 21:18, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

It was sent to me in email. I forwarded a copy to permissions-en at wikimedia dot org. I don't know what happens to permissions after that. -- Dominus 13:39, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
Yes, the process is somewhat opaque. The email will sit in a "queue" until one of the OTRS clerks reads it and marks it as acceptable. What I will want to do is to get the "ticket number" from them and make a note of it on the images in question, so that if anyone in the future questions the copyright it will be easy to resolve. You have already done the actual work of getting the release; the rest is just bureaucracy. Your work getting the release is very much appreciated. — Carl (CBM · talk) 11:51, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Upcoming edits not to be mistaken for vandalism

Hi Dom,

How are you this morning? I'm just writing to let you know that in the next few days I will likely be making similar edits to a number of related pages. I am aware that you are watching what I do here on Wikipedia, so before I begin this rather tedious, but very necessary series of edits, I wanted to make you aware that they are well-intentioned. Basically, I'm going to be editing instances of miscapitalization of the title of a book. The book is called PiHKAL (Phenethylamines i Have Known And Loved). It is a book written by Alexander and Ann Shulgin about a group of psychoactive drugs called phenethylamines. The lowercase i is intentional and should not be reverted to uppercase. Likewise, the uppercase A is also intentional, and should not be reverted to lowercase.

I probably won't get around to starting this until Sunday night as I've got a weekend planned of picnicking and being out in nature with my girlfriend. The snow has finally melted and we're getting some warmer weather, so it's time for some outdoorsiness. Should be fun.

Anyway, just giving you the heads-up so that you don't assume I'm vandalizing all these pages with the same bit of text.

Take care,

Swamilive (talk) 13:09, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

Hi Dom,

I'm just curious if there's any way for me to select a category of articles en masse to add to my watchlist. Mainly, as I've been editing the PiHKAL drugs, I've been selectively "watching" those pages, but I've forgotten to do so with all of them. Since there is a PiHKAL table (I guess you'd call it that) with all of the drugs listed in it, can I somehow get them to all be watched without having to go into each article individually? Any help would be appreciated.

Swamilive (talk) 23:52, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

Hi Dom. Wow! What a time-consuming effort! I finally finished making the necessary changes to the many psychedelic phenethylamines listed in PiHKAL (Phenethylamines i Have Known And Loved). I was surprised to find a few blatant typos and other anomalies in the articles. I have, of course, corrected all errors found. I should inform you that Alexander Shulgin has also written a book about tryptamines called TiHKAL (Tryptamines i Have Known And Loved). I will be making the necessary adjustments to the articles under that book as well. On a more personal level, you should SEE the weather we're getting here :) I purchased a few house plants yesterday, including a very odd cactus. Also, I've now (quite proudly) got a glass centrepiece of an amanita muscaria. Anyway, enjoy your day, and write me back if you can find the time. Swamilive (talk) 18:28, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Vov Abraxas vs. VOV

Hi Dom,

I see that you removed an entry I made on the Internet slang article, assuming that it was related to earlier instances of "Vov Abraxas". That edit is completely separate, however. VOV (capitalized) is a fairly well-known bit of net-slang. It stands for "Very Odd Verbiage" and is in common use among Canadians, Britons, and Australians. Evidently, it's not in very common use in the US, but its regionality should not make it a candidate for deletion. Please recognize that while you yourself may not be familiar with a term, there are hundreds of thousands, if not millions of individuals in other parts of the world who use it on a daily basis.

I will put my edit back in, but I will clarify that its use is primarily restricted to Canada, the UK, and Australia.

Please apply a bit more discretion when reverting.

Swamilive (talk) 15:02, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Google search finds no mentions of it, so please provide a citation this time. -- Dominus (talk) 16:25, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Shannon Switching Game

Hi Dominus,

You reverted my edit to Strategy-stealing argument, saying that the Shannon switching game is a symmetric game, although the symmetry isn't obvious at first. Would you mind explaining why this is? I know the two players have essentially the same moves, but their objectives are different, so I don't understand how it can be considered a symmetric game - especially since it's quite possible to design graphs that are a trivial win for Cut or a trivial win for Short. Actually, a proof of symmetricity would make a good addition to the Shannon Switching Game page, if you have the time. I'll leave your edit in, and try to find this information out on other sites in the mean time. 212.44.19.62 (talk) 10:24, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

I think an illustration will make it clear. I will try to post one, or a reference to one, this week. -- Dominus (talk) 10:29, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Requesting your help

Hi Dom,

I posted the following paragraph a few days ago to you, but got no response. Maybe you didn't see it?

I'm just curious if there's any way for me to select a category of articles en masse to add to my watchlist. Mainly, as I've been editing the PiHKAL drugs, I've been selectively "watching" those pages, but I've forgotten to do so with all of them. Since there is a PiHKAL table (I guess you'd call it that) with all of the drugs listed in it, can I somehow get them to all be watched without having to go into each article individually? Any help would be appreciated.

Swamilive (talk) 18:03, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

Hi Dom. Just following up yesterday's request. Are you aware of any way to do what I've mentioned above? Swamilive (talk) 15:29, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
Hi Dom. Just warming up some fish sticks in the oven right now, which I'll be sprinkling some crushed black pepper and chili powder on shortly. But, I was curious if you got a chance to see any of my recent comments on your talk page. I am posing a legitimate question to you because I feel I could benefit from your help. Please let me know. Swamilive (talk) 23:18, 30 May 2008 (UTC)