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[edit] The Wheel of Time Merge

Since you worked on this page recently, I wanted to let you know that Lowellian (talk) has reverted all the articles involved in the merge. Please join the discussion and see if we can all come to an agreement. This note is to alert you -- I hope that future discussion of this can mostly take place at talk:The Wheel of Time#Book Merge. I will be following that page. DES 16:31, 12 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] By-elections

We could, but I don't really see the point, as the result is clear in all three cases. Ambi 01:30, 18 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Suburb disambiguations

I just noticed that you've been creating some for New South Wales towns - but is there any chance you could do a bit of a search when you add them, so as to catch some of the other potential meanings? As an example, there's about five people called Ashcroft in Wikipedia, a court case and a couple of towns. It's not that important, but it does make the disambiguation pages somewhat more useful. Ambi 07:40, 18 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Re:Chance in NZ/Vic

Hi JPD - as I told Cassowary, I'm just going from the people I know from around Aus - so I must simply know the "posher' Victorians. Mind you, my view may be a little unusual in that my own accent still has strong southern English overtones so I don't really have a "natural" ear for NZ or Australian accents. Grutness...wha? 09:43, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] French ensigns

Thanks for your comment on my RfA! By way of explanation (also posted to the RfA),

I reverted that (yesterday) coming directly in from IRC, and when I double checked the edit I noticed the pointer to the talk page from the anon. However when I looked at the talk page, I didn't really see anything that maintained a clear consensus for removing that section, indeed I didn't really see anything that I felt gave me clear guidance as to the consensus on that section, but that's also me looking at an unfammiliar discussion on an unfamiliar page. I did however, see Talk:French_ensigns#Reverting_User_69.156.107.3_changes.__Please_stop_your_un-warranted_deletions, which was a comment asking the IP that had just blanked a serious portion of the article to not do so. Noting that, I felt reasonably safe in letting the reversion stand. Had I seen something that gave me clear guidance otherwise, I would have reverted back to the anon's edit, but I didnt feel like I had. Thanks for your comment. Ëvilphoenix Burn! 16:32, 13 October 2005 (UTC)


Hello JPD,

Just to let you know, I can't argue the French ensigns, and related French colonial flags issue on their related talkpages due to a stupid injunction. However, I can continue the defense on the user talkpages.


Marc Pasquin's userpage

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Marc_pasquin

ArmchairVexillologistDon 20:47, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] My RfA

WikiThanks!

Hi JPD! Just wanted to thank you for supporting my RfA. I hope I will be able to live up to the confidence placed in me. --Cyberjunkie | Talk 04:27, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Category rename

It should be fine to go ahead and rename it without submitting it to CfD. If anyone has a problem with it, it is always reversible. Though, I don't see why anyone would. --Cyberjunkie | Talk 12:38, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Negawatt

Hey. I changed your db-copyvio to a copyvio since I didn't see that green-trust was directly involved in making money from that content, which is the criteria for deletion in that manner. It was blatant copyvio though but I don't think it fits the CSD. Feel free to comment on my talk. gren グレン 10:55, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

No problem whatsoever, it's always good to see people involved in cleanup work and we all miss a few things. :) gren グレン 11:01, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Re: March 1 rail transport

Doh! Fingers are moving too fast. I'll fix it. Thanks for the notice. slambo 17:37, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] User pages

D'oh! He/she was a new user without either a user or a talk page, and I got the wrong one. Thanks for catching that, I've moved my message. --Bob Mellish 16:20, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Football project

Cheers mate, thanks for the feedback. No-one has really helped me with the project as yet, so thanks for acknowledging it. See the discussion page for my comments.Rogerthat 09:58, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Batting Graphs

Actually, I was just thinking that I probably should do that for the current players, so I will. I plan to update them after each test series. Thanks for the comments. Raven4x4x 11:26, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Western Sahara Infobox/Vote

I'm going to remove my comments form the talk page (including your reply) although they will be preserved in the history. I see that Daryou has previously addressed this question in a prior section and I'm satisfied with his response. He's also convinced me to change my vote, although there doesn't seem to be a section that will allow me to support the no flags with information option. I now understand what you meant (and what you were referring to) in your initial reply. Sorry for the confusion. --Viriditas | Talk 14:09, 11 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Australian Aboriginal flag is the current ACOTF

Hi. You voted for Australian Aboriginal flag to be selected as Australian Collaboration of the fortnight. It has now been selected. Please improve it in any way you see fit. Thanks. --Scott Davis Talk 13:57, 27 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] WP:Cricket

He is a troll who has been doing this sort of stuff for a few weeks now. Shane Warne used to be the main scene of his activity, now it is Adam Gilchrist. It is better to ignore him on the talk pages. Tintin 14:22, 28 November 2005 (UTC)

He is no troll. Better to answer his queries. Steven Fitter 11:47, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
"If you can't accept that that is what I meant, then I do not see any point in continuing the discussion on that topic." Is the you referring to me? what a weird way to end discussion. Steven Fitter 12:09, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
Stop talking behind my back. I am not a troll. I was raising a legitimate point. Doesn't mean you have to ignore me. 210.56.64.239 12:20, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
I intend to ignore the continued misunderstanding of suggestions, whether it is deliberate (trolling) or accidental, since I don't see how it is a productive topic. I don't believe I ignored any legitimate points about what the article should include, and I don't intend to. JPD 13:45, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Northern beaches line

Thanks for adding the deletion comment. Steven Fitter 23:36, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Re:Other New Zealand Flag concepts

Not sure why you think that none of the flags shown on this page is from FOTW. As the designer of one of those flags, I can tell you that I drew the gif that is shown on this page as the proposed flag of Ross Dependency, and the only place on the web it has ever been sent is FOTW - so if it didn't come from there, someone must have stolen then from my computer. James Dignan, a.k.a. Grutness...wha? 11:54, 2 December 2005 (UTC)

I can easily believe that the only place you've sent the Ross Dependency proposal to is the Flags of the World mailing list, but it is not on the Flags of the World website, and as far as I can tell through various archives, including www.archive.org, it hasn't been for quite a long time if at all. JPD (talk) 12:42, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
As a regular on FOTW, I can tell you that it was on there for quite a long time. As far as I know it only came off the FOTW website a month or two ago. The template on the image page is also marked with {{FOTWpic}}, so the person who uploaded the file clearly thinks he got it from FOTW. Given that it was on FOTW until recently, and it was uploaded by someone who says he got it from FOTW, and it hasn't been anywhere else online (other than via FOTW), I'd say it's about 99.99% certain it came from FOTW. Grutness...wha? 12:54, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
I'll take your word for it that it was on FOTW-ws at some point, which suggests it is the source. I removed the notice because, I was and still am reasonably sure that it isn't there now, hasn't been removed from there since January, and hasn't been on the Ross Dependency page there since 2000 at least. Another factor that made me think there must be another source (possibly FOTW mailing list) is that the Dean Thomas proposals on the page also haven't been on FOTW-ws yet, including one that has been reported on FOTW-ml but has not as of today appeared on the website. JPD (talk) 18:52, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
Well, the reason I became involved in this to start with was that someone from FOTW contacted me offlist to complain that FOTW-ws images were being used on Wikipedia, and cited those pages in particular. BTW, I think I've finally clicked - it's Jonathan, isn't it? :) Grutness...wha? 22:53, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
 :) I did tell you who I was by email a few weeks ago, but I don't blame you for not remembering. JPD (talk) 17:57, 3 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Fitzroy

Because despite its claims,, the post merger club is not legally the same club as the pre-merger one - the original Fitzroy Football Club ceased to exist upon the merger just as the Brisbane Bears Football Club ceased to exist at the same time. Given who my grandfather was, i am hardly likely to disrespect Aussie Rules. PMA 19:08, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

I didn't think you were disrespecting the game - if I had thought that, I would have reverted without asking you why you did it! That sounds like a good reason, but it would be good to have a source showing that it was in fact a merger of the legal entities, not just a contract between them or something like that. I tend to think that the "modern" FFC should at least get a mention at Fitzroy Football Club, too, even if we don't support their claim that it's still the same entity. JPD (talk) 19:28, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

That's fine with me. PMA 19:35, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Cnwb's RfA

JPD,

Thanks so very much for supporting my Request for Admin. The final result was 38/0/0. I'm looking forward to spending my summer holidays shut away in a darkened room, drinking G&Ts and playing with my new tools ;-) Please accept this Tim Tam as a token of my gratitude. Cnwb 22:44, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] My RfA

JPD, thanks for your support on my RfA. The final count was 46/0/0. I hope I'll live up to your faith in me in my use of the mop and bucket. Please accept this wikithanks as a token of my gratitude ;) Another Swans supporter, eh? I was lucky enough to be at the G this year to see them bring it home! Too bad you couldn't be in Australia to see it. --bainer (talk) 23:43, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject AFL

Finally a WikiProject AFL has been set up! You may consider joining it. DaGizza Chat (c) 04:08, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

No problems, I was checking out what they were doing on the cricket page, and they had a link to the "cricket portal". But I guess projects are different. Good to have you on board mate, look forward to your contributions, Cheers. Rogerthat 22:30, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Ianbrown's RfA

Thanks for voting in my recent RfA. I was overwhelmed at the turnout and comments received.

Ian ≡ talk 07:48, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Newtown High School of the Performing Arts

Hi there, just wanting your opinion on whether Newtown High School of the Performing Arts is a "selective high school"? User:Joestella says that it is, but I disagree with him: see User_talk:Joestella#Newtown_High_School_of_the_Performing_Arts_2. I guess it goes back to what we should include as a "selective school"? In its current form, it includes academically selective only I would say? enochlau (talk) 01:36, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] RE: Your RfC

I have noted your post, and will respond when I could find the time to shortly. Sorry for the delay.--Huaiwei 17:04, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Finding FOTWers

Hi JPD!

You may or may not want to place {{User FOTWer}} on your user page. What is q-Schur Algebra, btw? --Palnatoke 12:11, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

I guess the best answer to the q-Schur Algebra question is to see if Schur Algebra or even q-Schur Algebra is a blue link.. Turns out they are not - yet. :) --Palnatoke 16:53, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Queensland Governor's flag

I forget by now what the reference was. I'll try and find it again. I think I recall being awfully surprised by the late date, given (as you say) the age of the design. It might just've been a typo on my part, though. —Felix the Cassowary 10:35, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

I wouldn't be surprised if there was something from that date, so it'd be good if you could find it. Thanks, anyway. JPD (talk) 11:02, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
I can't seem to find that date again from the sources on the Internet I have, nor can I find anything about the flag at the Queensland Governor's website. For now I think I'll take the date off until someone can find a source. Thanks for pointing this out :) —Felix the Cassowary | toːk 10:05, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Melbourne edit

Oops. Sorry, I was browsing archived revisions to find the links I needed to dab and obviously forgot to return to the current version before editing. Thanks, --cj | talk 02:11, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WS

Hi! Can you give your opinion about naming the flag of SADR page. Thank you and best regards. :) Daryou 19:11, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Australian Customs Flag

Just incase if people ask for a photo of this flag, you can go ahead and use http://fotw.vexillum.com/images/a/au_cust.gif and put it under {{CC-by-sa}} under my name. User:Zscout370 (Return Fire) Fair use policy 06:50, 24 January 2006 (UTC) (Zach Harden from FOTW)

Thanks for the permission to use your image, Zach. I think I might try to add "Customs" to the national flag svg, thought - it shouldn't be too difficult. JPD (talk) 10:19, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
Pardon me if this is too late, but are you Johnathan from FOTW? If so, I am gald to see the AU flag article was made featured. User:Zscout370 (Return Fire) 07:04, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Centenary flag

Hi, do you have any idea how many points the Commonwealth Star on the Centenary Flag has? Also, from the details on the FOTW page it seems there is a ledger of use for the flag. Both these probably rate a mention in the section, I'll try and find some more concrete details, I'd appreciate if you'd look too, two sets of eyes are better than one. --nixie 22:19, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

Also, I think Sydney will be the next Australian article I'll attempt to get ready to be featured. I have previously done Canberra, I notice you're pretty active on the talk page and it'd be neat to work together again.--nixie 00:10, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
The ANFA website has a picture [1], showing that it has a seven pointed commonwealth star, being the current Australian National Flag, as suggested by the wording of the warrant. Their page about the flag [2] quotes the proposal for the flag, which includes maintaining a ledger of its use. I would expect that this is actually happening, but I can't find any documentation beyond Raymond Morris' comments. It may be mentioned in the latest version of the "Australian National Flag" pamphlet that he mentions on the FOTW page. You might be able to get your hands on one of those more easily than me. It's good to see what you're doing with Sydney - my knowledge, etc is probably less useful for that article, but I'll help out when I can. JPD (talk) 11:00, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Apology

My comment to you was totally uncalled for. The comment that your comment was "impressively restrained" put your comment in a much worse context to where I felt personally attacked. However, I should not have responded in the way that I did and I apologize. BlueGoose 02:21, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

No worries - I can see why you felt personally attacked in light of the next comment, even though I didn't intend it that way. JPD (talk) 12:58, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Petition

Hi, I was just wondering if you would like to sign this petition. It's a petition for getting the original voice actors back for the Sonic games (instead of the Sonic X voice actors). 71.105.13.135 01:39, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WS

Hi, Here is a vote related to Western Sahara. Neutrality of WP is dying, please save it! Daryou 07:49, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] My RfA

Thanks for your vote
My request for adminship passed with a final result of 78/2/0. Hopefully I will live up to everyone's expectations. Please ask if I can ever help out with anything in the future.
Martyman - 09:21, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Football

I realise that but rugby football is more of an umbrella term, but you're right, I should realise that when dealing with these hostile folks. Rogerthat Talk 11:20, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Dean McVeigh

I have edited this article removing the unverified stuff and adding verifiable material. I would be grateful if you could have a look. Capitalistroadster 10:02, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Green Point Observatory

Nice clean up on the article. I've been reading some of the other items on and off "you folks" have edited for your part of the world and find it very informative. Thank you.67.167.238.236

[edit] Thank you for your support of my RfA

Thank you for your support of my successful request for adminship. I am honoured that the nomination was supported unanimously and that the community expressed confidence that I would use the tools wisely. If you have any concerns please let me know on my talk page. Regards A Y Arktos 21:08, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Three forms of mathematical induction

This article was intended to be comprehensible to all mathematicians.

It was not intended to teach mathematical induction. It was not intended to explain what mathematical induction is, nor how to use it.

What I see is (mostly) a bunch of non-mathematicians looking at the stub form in which the article appeared when it was nominated from deletion, and seeing that

  • It was not comprehensible to ordinary non-mathematicians who know what mathematical induction is, and
  • The article titled mathematical induction is comprehensible to ordinary non-mathematicians, even those who know --- say --- secondary-school algebra, but have never heard of mathematical induction.

And so I have now expanded the article far beyond the stub stage, including

  • Substantial expansion and organization of the introductory section.
  • Two examples of part of the article that is probably hardest to understand to those who haven't seen these ideas.
  • An prefatory statement right at the top, saying that this article is NOT the appropriate place to try to learn what mathematical induction is or how to use it, with a link to the appropriate article for that. It explains that you need to know mathematical induction before you can read this article.

Therefore, I invite those who voted to delete before I did these recent de-stubbing edits, to reconsider their votes in light of the current form of the article.

(Nothing like nomination for deletion to get you to work on a long-neglected stub article!) Michael Hardy 23:28, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Clemson University Football

Hi. I noticed you restored the prod tag on Clemson University Football after it was removed. Don't do that. Prod is only for uncontroversial deletions, so any objection counts. Please see Wikipedia:Proposed deletion#What this process is NOT for.

I've sent the article to AfD for you. Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Clemson University Football. NickelShoe 20:51, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] My Username

Hi. In June last year my username User:Jebus Christ was blocked. I discovered recently that the admin responsible User:Secretlondon was involved in protecting the article relating to the profet mahommed images under the banner of freedom of speach. I personally find this hypocritical.

I've started a petition to get my username back. If you support this can you please sign my petition on my talk page User talk:Jebus Christ.

Thanks Jimididit 12:04, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Portal:Sydney

Thanks for the heads-up. I'll take a look at it.--cj | talk 05:43, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The Irish Question

You may be aware that there has recently been a dispute about whether the {{British TOCs}} template should include Northern Irish train operators. In order to gain consensus and move forward there is currently a discussion about whether the scope of the template should be Great Britain or the United Kingdom. You have previously commented on this tempate but have not yet made any remarks in the latest discussion. If you would like to express your opinion please do so at Template talk:British TOCs#The Irish Question - What is the scope of this template?. Thryduulf 21:49, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Warwick Capper

Hi, Glad to see someone other than myself removing the trail of spam this editor is leaving in the relentless promotion of Antonella Gambotto-Burke Dlyons493 16:11, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Football

I noticed that you and User:Mr nice guy are coming close to breaking the Wikipedia:Three-revert rule with revert 1, revert 2 and revert 3. Another revert within the 24 hour period can lead to a block for up to 24 hours for either or both of you. I am not picking sides as to which is the correct version but just letting you know where you stand. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 05:54, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Sliat-1981

Ok then.

[edit] Gwydir move

I have reversed the edit and moved as suggested.Grahamec 01:31, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Reminders...

When using template tags on talk pages, don't forget to substitute with text by adding subst: to the template tag. For example, use {{subst:test}} instead of {{test}}. This reduces server load and prevents accidental blanking of the template. As a courtesy for other editors on Wikipedia, please sign your talk page and user talk page posts. By adding four tildes (~) at the end of your comments, your user name or IP address and the date will be automatically added. — Ian Manka Talk to me‼ 21:26, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Titles

Is it really necessary to have a new line in the members list when a member gains the title "honourable" at Electoral district of Marrickville?For one thing, other members on this list don't have their titles included. JPD (talk) 09:09, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

It's probably not necessary. Some existing pages such as those under Category:Electoral divisions of Australia use titles. I've split rows where titles have changed on a number of pages because I was uncertain what title I should use particularly because they change over the political career. If the consensus is that the split is unnecessary, I can go through the tables and remerge them. I'd like to know first if the preferrable format is all titles adopted in the person's lifetime, or no title or some other variant. -- Newhoggy | Talk 11:41, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

I have replied at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Australian politics/Electorates#Titles in member lists. JPD (talk) 13:59, 16 May 2006 (UTC)