User talk:Marc Venot

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Again, welcome! - UtherSRG 20:50, 10 Jan 2004 (UTC)

No, not at all, that's the beauty of it. Consider if this was not the case; given the example of PABX and it's full term "Private branch exchange". Then, when writing about PABX systems, one would have to always use the full expansion. Since we have the "pipe trick", you need only link as [[Private branch exchange|PABX]], and that'll show up as PABX, and will act as if you have typed Private branch exchange. All that does is change the text of the link. HTH and don't hesitate to ask me any other questions you may have. Thanks Dysprosia 09:19, 30 Jul 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Ben Nevis

In Talk:Ben_Nevis, you wrote "cable car to Torlundy, 701 m ?" What do you mean by that?

Also it is considered polite to sign your additions to talk pages. --Grouse 20:22, 21 Aug 2004 (UTC)

I have seen it on a brochure but since I have never been there it's a question if it exists? Marc Venot 20:51, 21 Aug 2004 (UTC)

[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 2000 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:

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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] Vasco da Gama

An article that you've edited before (Vasco da Gama) is nominated for Article Improvement Drive. If you want go there and vote. Thanks. Gameiro 02:58, 31 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Question

Why do you keep bypassing redirects containing mathematical relation? Any reason in particular? There is nothing wrong with using redirects on Wikipedia, in some situations it actually makes sense. You can reply in here, I will keep this page on my watchlist. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 01:44, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

on which situations a redirect make sense? Marc Venot 01:45, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
For example, if I want to refer to the Hahn decomposition theorem, I'd rather put a link to the redirect [[Hahn decomposition theorem]] than to [[signed measure|Hahn decomposition theorem]]. This because maybe in the future Hahn decomposition theorem will become its own article.
And let me answer also with a question. Why are you spending time bypassing those redirects? It is chasing the windmills if you ask me. Redirects are cheap. And if you do bypass them, please put a small "r" at [[Relation (mathematics)|mathematical relation]], as the way it is now it looks bad in the middle of sentence. Thanks. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 01:53, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
For the first in principle it could be changed back when the article is done for probably few? - For the second redirects are cheap in process time but we are supposed to do it for the very long term and to do what we can to maximize clearity in this jungle of links, in particular in matematics. I can do the small cap but it's on the "kitchen" side. Marc Venot 02:12, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
It is very hard to change back things, and most people will not bother. And there is no jungle, redirects are a great way to go. Anyway, if you keep on bypassing redirects, don't forget about the small "R" business I mentioned.
By the way, a great way of helping the math project is checking the recent changes to the math articles from the list of mathematical topics. One can uncover vandals that way. Another useful thing is to visit Wikipedia:WikiProject Mathematics/Current activity and help polish new math articles. If you want more, I can give you more. :) Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 02:35, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
Yes but my main goal is for the wikipedia in Ido. So I will do only marginal changes to the English one (and look if some of the French one can be used) but I certainly wish that the maze is more graphically "grasping". Marc Venot 02:44, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Sharon and Caliban

I reverted the addition of a link to Caliban from the Ariel Sharon page. I apologize if I've removed a good faith edit, but it looked like vandalism, and I fear I cannot see the connection. Justin Eiler 07:50, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

Did you look at the link to the Shakespeare play? (the clue is that Ariel and Caliban are two main characters of it). Marc Venot 08:10, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
why this link ? Even if this is a funny coincidence, what is the *real* link ? Christophe Greffe 10:24, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
To ask for a "real" link on something which is a cultural buildup for illustration, almost a metaphore, is the paralysing stroke. If you can read French more explanations there Bruno Testa. Marc Venot 21:51, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
Est-ce que l'avis de Bruno Testa mérite d'être cité ? Je pense que non car trop orienté mais si vous pensez que oui, je vous suggère de rajouter le lien dans external links, de préciser qu'il s'agit d'un écrit de Bruno Testa et de créer l'article expliquant succintement qui est Bruno Testa (nationalité, carrière, notorité, points marquants). Christophe Greffe 12:38, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
Je ne connais pas Bruno Testa (et je suis domicilié à des milliers de km de la Réunion) mais je suis un lecteur assidu de ses éditoriaux dont j'en apprécie environ quatre sur cinq. Ce rapprochement littéraire me plait beaucoup mais j'admet qu'il est difficile à intégrer ici. C'est pourquoi il est désormais réservé à la version en ido. Marc Venot 01:04, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Battle of Dakar

Hi, on the Battle of Dakar page, you've added something about the gold of France and Poland that's not quite understandable (what was the relation of this gold to Dakar and the attack?). Could you please elaborate a bit? Thanks! Semprini 14:47, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

During the nazi invasion France central bank's gold, along with the one of Poland it had in dépot, moved it to one of its best defended city in its colonies, Dakar. But of course it was another reason for de Gaulle to want to capture it. Marc Venot 08:00, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
OK, merci. I've changed the wording of the paragraph a bit to clarify that. Semprini 09:50, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Category:Systems

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