User talk:Eric119

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Hey, welcome to wikipedia! Just curious; it's been over a decade since I read the LOTR series and I can't even remember if I finished it, but--are the elves, orcs, etc. always capitalized? Otherwise, it's probably best to leave them uncapitalized. Koyaanis Qatsi

I believe so. Whenever a race is mentioned in LOTR it is capitalized. (Actually, sometimes "hobbit" is capitalized and sometimes it isn't. I don't know why.) Eric119

Ok, that sounds fine, then. Thanks. :-) Koyaanis Qatsi

Re your edits to the Asperger's disorder page, what did you actually do? I tried to look at the diff for your edit but it highlights everything, including a load of stuff that doesn't seem to have changed. I'm assuming that you simply re-formatted some stuff but I don't want to miss any substantive changes Phil 08:35, Oct 31, 2003 (UTC)

Well, I noticed that there was a lot of extra space between the sections. I looked at the source and found that many of the lines had white space at the end. I went through and removed all of it, and the spacing then looked normal. Of course, there is no way to see that in the diffs. Eric119 00:09, 1 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Thank you. Phil 11:46, Nov 3, 2003 (UTC)

Images to be deleted -> wikipedia:images for deletion. :) Martin 22:19, 8 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Whoops, sorry. Didn't notice that. Eric119 03:23, 9 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Dude, I didn't know you had AS until I checked the list. See if you can give me a personal account of your battle with AS sometime. JB82 00:50, 26 Apr 2004 (UTC)

IMVVVHO DNA is definately a form of programming langauge. Some people do actually write small amounts of code with it, though most current-day work involves reverse-engineering. I put it under esoteric langauges just to be sure.

The code in question can for instance be inserted into a relevant plasmid (common plasmids are 6000-8000bp in length, code not included for brevity) which includes an "always on" promotor site, and can be inserted into bacteria which will then run your program.

In this case the program just instructs bacteria to build up a store of HELLQWQRLD in their cytoplasm. If you lyse the bacteria, and isolate peptides, the text will show up in the analysis with a very strong signal.

A future improvement might be to include an export sequence, so that you can skip the trouble of doing lysis.

Kim Bruning 09:03, 8 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Battle of the Morannon — D'oh… very stupid of me not to correct that. I was only focusing on the broken english, not the facts. Good catch. [[User:Anárion|Ана́рыён]] 20:51, 11 Sep 2004 (UTC)

On the GPS page, I changed the spelling back to cesium from your change of caesium. According to numerous dictionaries, the spellings are interchangable. In most of the documentation from the US government on the GPS system and their atomic clock systems, cesium is used. I am therefore keeping it within that context and reverting back to that spelling. --Richss 01:01, Sep 24, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Lord of the Rings storyline

I'm concerned that if we start explaining the entire storyline, it's going to take over the article, which is already quite long enough. (There are also numerous articles that already discuss many of the events. (See History of Arda, Timeline of Arda, Third Age.)

The individual articles for the volumes already contain brief synopses.

Perhaps it would be better to simply link to those pages under "storyline" (maybe with an extremely brief synopsis, a couple of sentences at most) and then if you would like to develop it a bit further, do that on the individual pages. I would go ahead and do that, but I don't want you to lose all of your text so I thought perhaps you might like to do it yourself. [[User:Aranel|Aranel ("Sarah")]] 14:20, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Hmmm. I think maybe we should just link to the individual articles then. I'll go do it. Eric119 15:36, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Faramir the Steward

By a technicality, Faramir *was* the last Ruling Steward: Aragorn did not take the crown until after Faramir had recovered, so Faramir was Ruling Steward from at least March 15th 3019 T.A. (death of Denethor II) to May 1st 3019 T.A. (Coronation of Elessar). That gives him a month and a half, although probably less than a week or two in health. During his illness Gandalf followed by Imrahil ruled, as Aragorn refused. Anárion 21:35, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)

I agree with this reasoning. However, in Appendix A to LotR, where Tolkien lists the "Heirs of Anárion" (Hey, it's you!) he wrote "He [Denethor II] was the last of the Ruling Stewards, and was followed by his second son Faramir, Lord of Emyn Arnen." So, while what you're saying makes perfect sense to me, and that's how I'd make it if it were my choice, I think Tolkien overrules this. Eric119 04:25, 20 Oct 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Martin the Warrior

Oh, you're right. I forgot that book existed; I'll move it back - the disambig is necessary. Cheers, Whosyourjudas (talk) 21:50, 31 Oct 2004 (UTC)

You added to the articles needing attention Peter Armbruster, not sure whether he discovered a bunch of other elements besides 118. I did some work, he did and so I removed the attention tag and the listing from Wikipedia:Articles_Needing_Attention EagleFalconn 20:29, 22 Nov 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Minor edits

In recognition of your dedicated use of the minor edit, I award you the Minor Barnstar ClockworkSoul

You and the rest of your team have been making excellent and much needed minor edits. In recognition of your dedication, I offer you my sincere gratitude, and this Minor Barnstar. -- [[User:ClockworkSoul|User:ClockworkSoul/sig]] 07:09, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)

[edit] The Humungous Image Tagging Project

Hi. You've helped with User:Sietse Snel/Fix common mistakes project, so I thought it worth alerting you to the latest and greatest of Wikipedia fixing project, User:Yann/Untagged Images, which is seeking to put copyright tags on all of the untagged images. There are probably, oh, thirty thousand or so to do (he said, reaching into the air for a large figure). But hey: they're images ... you'll get to see lots of random pretty pictures. That must be better than looking for at at and the the, non? You know you'll love it. best wishes --Tagishsimon (talk)

[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:

Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
Multi-Licensing Guide
Free the Rambot Articles Project

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:

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:

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] Period at the end of formula

Hi there. Having nothing better to do, I am now leading a Crusade about style in math articles. Very ofthen I encounter formulas which are at the end of a sentence. Then, I think one should put period at the end of formula, because the sentence ends threre. Anyway, you did not put period at the end of a formula when you contributed to division. It was just several occurences, and it clearly was not a big deal, however, I would like to mention this to you, because it is easier to notify people about something than to always fix things long after. Happy editing! Oleg Alexandrov 23:57, 8 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Interesting. I always disliked putting a period in those places, because it looks like part of the formula. But anyway I guess I'll be putting them in from now on. Or else contriving it that no sentence ends in a formula. :) Eric119 06:15, 9 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Actually I am not perfectly sure about the style, but I think this is the convention on wikipedia, and also on math papers. Thanks for not getting mad at me. :) Oleg Alexandrov 09:48, 9 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Just a thank you note.

I just wanted to thank you for proofing my Wheel of Time edits, also for correcting my erroneous treatment of past comments on the 'The Wheel Of Time' talk page.

Have I committed any other improprieties of which I should be aware? I am new at writing for Wikipedia. -- The Confessor, posted 18FEB2005

[edit] WP:WS and R from templates

Hi Eric, Thank you for your note, and the "R from templates" problems look to have been due to things like this [1], where the template was closed with the wrong brackets - where I saw these I've tried to fix and remove these types of problems from the list, so hopefully all that's left are straight situations of the link pointing to something that doesn't exist. -- All the best, Nickj (t) 05:30, 16 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Game of Life

Hello Eric119, i don't understand your difference of Game of Life and CA. For me, Game of Life is a 2D-Simulation and Game, which runs on a squared Field, which every Field is in relation to it's eight Neighbars. If it is 23/3 or 34/3 or 245/3 or 1357/1357, it is for me Game of Life, if all eight Neighbars count. If the CA is 1D or if only the 4 direct Neighbars or the 24 surrounded Neigbars counted, every CA ist different from Game of Life. But if the number of eight neighbars to the middle cell count, it is Game of Life, how ever the rues is (from / to 12345678/12345678). --Arbol01 22:04, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)

The "Game of Life" refers only to rule 23/3. Some other rules are said to be in the "Life family" or are "Life-like". And as you state cellular automata themselves are much more general, allowing an arbitrary number of dimensions and states, and an arbitrary neighborhood. Eric119 01:11, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Still life

Regarding Oscillator (CA), I just wonder, is the plural of "still life" indeed "still lifes"? I should have asked you this quiestion a while ago, but I never quite got to it. Thanks. Oleg Alexandrov 01:06, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Yes, I'm certain the plural is "still lifes". My dictionary corroborates. Eric119 05:13, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] hi Eric,

Say, thanks for the edit you made to Planck units. that was an ambiguity that slipped by me. BTW, i, too, am a Christian that's into physics. professionally, i design and code signal processing algorithms for audio and music signals (an electrical engineer). but the concept of "natural units" and that these dimensionful constants like $c \$ and $\hbar \$ and $G \$ and $\epsilon_0 \$ are nothing other than human constructs (they help us understand the natural scaling of nature) and that only dimensionless constants ( $\alpha \$ being the most prominent) are numbers (possibly defined by God) that are the "fine-tuning" settings of the universe. these concepts are intriguing to me. welcome to wiki. r b-j 01:35, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC) <rbj@audioimagination.com>

[edit] Hello to you too

And thanks for the welcome! Truth be told, I've made a few edits here before, but only just now gotten around to making an account for myself.

BTW, you forgot to sign your welcome message... I had to poke around in the History tab to know where it came from. :-)

cheers

Typogfk 20:04, 11 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] chess template

Hi,

I've been trying to figure out the best way to put chess position templates into a thumbnail box with a caption (as is done with images), and also the best way to float such templates to the right. In my experience, just telling tables or divs to float right sometimes results in bad rendering, with overlapping items pushing each-other horizontally, and cramming the text to the left. So I've been putting them inside a div with class="thumb tright" which is the class used in mediawiki-generated html to generate a floating thumbnail. class="floatright" seems to be the one used for unframed images. I'm not really clear on the difference between these two css classes.

Anyway, I noticed that you altered the "Excelsior" chess problem article to use a simple right-aligned table, and also got rid of the border. I'd prefer finding a way to get these darn things to render just like other images in thumbnails, but I can't figure out exactly how. Any thoughts on the best way to do this?

Instead of responding here or on my talk page, I think it'd be better to keep discussion on template talk:chess position. Thanks! --jacobolus (t) 11:04, 25 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Metric prefixes articles

Since you are cleaning up redirects, are you the one who cluttered up Unofficial SI prefixes with prefixes which are not SI, have never been seriously suggested as candidates for inclusion in SI, and which should not be in this article under its current name? If it wasn't you, who did it? See Talk:Unofficial SI prefixes. Gene Nygaard 02:17, May 29, 2005 (UTC)

I guess I forgot to mention that myria-, at least, is an official prefix. It has been, for example, part of United States law for nearly 139 years (Act of July 28, 1866, codified in 15 U.S.C. §205). It is one whose use is now deprecated, but that doesn't make it an "unofficial SI" prefix. Gene Nygaard 02:36, May 29, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] GoE

Would you mind commenting on Talk:Garden of Eden pattern? Dysprosia 23:25, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia widow

As the author and after further reflection under more sober circumstances I have tagged this article for speedy deletion as I believe it meets the criterion of General article 7 (1.2.7) at WP:CSD. hydnjo talk 20:43, 4 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Visual Basic Classic Wikibook

I see you have contributed to the Visual Basic article on Wikipedia. Any chance you would like to join in editing the wikibook: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Programming:Visual_Basic_Classic? --Kjwhitefoot 09:50, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

No, sorry, not really. I haven't used VB at all in years. I looked into the article history and all my "contributions" were minor changes to the wikisyntax, and changing "Gnome" to "GNOME". Actually, I think I can see a way to improve the wording... [vanishes] Eric119 05:32, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] WP:CP

Hi, you've reported copyright infringements to WP:CP in the last week, a new measure was recently passed to allow the speedy deltion of new pages that are cut and paste copyvios. Please follow these instructions if you come across this type of copyvio. Thanks. --nixie 00:22, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

Blatant copyright infringements may now be "speedied"

If an article and all its revisions are unquestionably copied from the website of a commercial content provider and there is no assertion of permission, ownership or fair use and none seems likely, and the article is less than 48 hours old, it may be speedily deleted. See CSD A8 for full conditions.

After notifying the uploading editor by using wording similar to:

{{nothanks-sd|pg=page name|url=url of source}} -- ~~~~

Blank the page and replace the text with

{{db-copyvio|url=url of source}}

to the article in question, leaving the content visible. An administrator will examine the article and decide whether to speedily delete it or not.

[edit] Template question

Eric119, I've used Template:Db-talk (which you wrote) a couple of times recently, and I've realized that, because it goes on a talk page, the link for "its talk page" becomes [[Talk talk:{pagename}]]. Probably that part of the text should just be removed. I'm not really up on template-editing, so I thought I should point it out to whoever created it. Thanks. Chick Bowen 21:19, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia Watch

is this the only sock puppet of Daniel Brandt?? --23:51, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

Er, I have no idea. Eric119 05:02, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Neologisms

Hi Eric, a while ago you made comments on the Wikipedia:Avoid neologisms guideline. I am proposing a revision to the guideline and I'm soliciting your comments. You can find the link to my rewrite at Wikipedia_talk:Avoid_neologisms -- cmh 00:51, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] King's Quest The Silver Lining

Hi Eric, saw that u made some corrections to King's Quest 8 sometime back. Almost a yr. back. Now that King's Quest 9 is a work in progress, was wondering if u would be interested in writing something about that. You can find the latest things at www.tsl-game.com. I have also said the same on the talk page at King's Quest_VIII http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:King%27s_Quest_VIII:_The_Mask_of_Eternity#Inconsistencies05:35, 2 June 2006 (UTC) --[[User:Shirishag75|Shirishag75]] 08:09, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] TfD nomination of Template:Db-r4

Template:Db-r4 has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you. ais523 09:49, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Today's featured article

Just wanted to let you know a featured article you worked on, 0.999..., was featured today on the Main Page. Tobacman 00:26, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] addLoadEvent

Hi, one of your user scripts uses the addLoadEvent( func ) function (see [2]). This function will be removed from MediaWiki:Common.js soon. Please modify your scripts to use addOnloadHook( func ) instead. —Ruud 18:36, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Life32

A {{prod}} template has been added to the article Life32, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but this article may not satisfy Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and the deletion notice explains why (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). You may contest the proposed deletion by removing the {{dated prod}} notice, but please explain why you disagree with the proposed deletion in your edit summary or on its talk page. Also, please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Even though removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, the article may still be deleted if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria or it can be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. If you endorse deletion of the article, and you are the only person who has made substantial edits to the page, please tag it with {{db-author}}. Whispe ring 11:40, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Mirek's Cellebration

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[edit] The Barnstar of Diligence

		The Barnstar of Diligence
		I hereby award you with a shiny barnstar of dilligence for your work in getting rid of inapropriate new pages on wikipedia. you deserve it. Kerotan ^{Leave Me a Message} Have a nice day :) 17:18, 9 November 2007 (UTC)