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snoyes 19:57, 8 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Thanks for the welcome Snoyes

Silverfish 20:13, 8 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Hey Silverfish, the image I found "will smith" is taken from http://www.jdhodges.com/posters/will-smith-poster-275669.html

Badstue 14:08, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC)

You left a comment about the Quinlan redirect project a while back. To give you mu 2p worth of opinion... its a judgement call. I have changed some where it couldn't alter, but might clarify the discussion. OTOH if its a User or User Talk page, I'm more hesitant, since I view those as private property. Your strike and not approach is fine and can't bother anyone. Keep up the effort, and thanks ....Lou I 17:13, 6 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for your comments, I'll consider them, when I next do some redirecting. Silverfish 17:27, 6 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Why are you creating these strange redirects like England Hull, They seem completley unnecesary to me. Mintguy (T) 22:27, 11 Mar 2004 (UTC)

That would be because they appeared at Wikipedia:List_of_encyclopedia_topics, in particular for England Hull, on page 23. The idea, as I understand it, is to see where there are other encylopaedias with entries we haven't got. Without the redirects, it would look like we didn't have an entry on Hull, for example. The 'England' redirects are an exception, most seem to be more sensible re-directs, such as this one Eminent_Domain, re-directing Eminent Domain to Eminent domain. Silverfish 22:37, 11 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Yes I just discovered this after posting the above comment. Interesting idea. Mintguy (T) 22:42, 11 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Sorry about trampling your edit in Sideshow Bob. I agree it's a good one. Glad to see you put it back in. That was my first revert and I was only trying to get rid of the stuff added at the bottom. Maybe I should have just cut it instead. I guess I went for the revert because it somehow seemed a more neutral action. Oska 01:46, Jul 14, 2004 (UTC)

Hi. The edit from your IP has now been reattributed to your username. Regards — Kate Turner | Talk 22:18, 2004 Sep 4 (UTC)

[edit] The Humungous Image Tagging Project

Hi. You've helped with the Wikipedia:WikiProject Wiki Syntax, 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)

Interesting, I've had a bit of a look at it, and I'll probably give it a go at some point. Silverfish 00:28, 9 Dec 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:

Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
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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:

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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] Image sleuthing

There's a new project in town called Wikipedia:Image sleuthing, and you are hereby invited to become an official image sleuth. – Quadell ^{(talk) (sleuth)} 00:47, Jan 25, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] \ versus /

Hi Silverfish,

I moved User:Silverfish\Verifying Images to User:Silverfish/Verifying Images, and User:Silverfish\Images Uploaded to User:Silverfish/Images Uploaded. "Silverfish\Verifying Images" is a possible username, whereas "Silverfish/Verifying Images" is a subpage of "Silverfish".

Cheers, dbenbenn | talk 16:16, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Size

Hey, I just want to ask how you find out the information for size of an article? I noticed you listed the stats here Wikipedia:Gaming Collaboration of the week/History and I've wanted to know where this information can be found for quite sometime. Thanks. K1Bond007 00:28, Mar 3, 2005 (UTC)

Have a look at the discussion page for the GCOTW, there's instructions there, under the "article size stats" heading, where I had to ask. Silverfish 15:32, Mar 3, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Strike series

I've noticed it failed to get enough votes to keep itself on the GCOTW, but considering that I've spent an awful lot of time playing with them and the article I was planning to develop now (Constructor) still is in the GCOTW, I've picked up on it and wrote a few lines on the Mega Drive games. Since you proposed the article initially, I was wondering if you could give a little input there. Cheers, ^wS 07:29, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)

You seem to have covered a fair amount, so I could think of anything much to add, without further research. I have had a look through, copyediting. There were a few sentence fragments, that I've deleted. I've also taken a screenshot for Desert Strike. I'll probably do a bit more at some point. Thanks for getting in touch Silverfish 16:44, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Senator Images

Hi Silverfish, sorry to take so long to respond, buy you asked me back in January where I got my pictures of various Senators and Representatives. The source I've been using is the Biographical Directory of the United State Congress, http://bioguide.congress.gov/biosearch/biosearch.asp. The pictures of Senators and Reps are public domain, and provided for scholarship and educational purposes. Pm06420 02:18, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Comment

This article about silver is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

This article on a fish is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

Now seriously, thank you for sorting the math articles! Oleg Alexandrov 21:14, 18 September 2005 (UTC)

I'm glad I'm appreciated Oleg :) By the way, I've proposed a few more Mathematics stub types here: Wikipedia:WikiProject_Stub_sorting/Proposals#More_Math_stubs. Any comments would be appreciated. Silverfish 23:37, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

Good. I would like to see some specific suggestions for new math stub types. Then I will comment. :) Oleg Alexandrov 01:02, 27 September 2005 (UTC)

I've been more specific about what new stub types I'm proposing. Is that what you're looking for? Silverfish 17:11, 28 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Baker's map

The Baker's map was recently sorted as a stub in applied mathematics. Given the lack of a dynamical systems stub, I feel that math stub is more appropriate than applied math stub. I tend to think of applied mathematics as mathematics that is motivated by applications in physics, chemistry, economics, engineering, and other areas of human endeavor that deal with the physical world and human societies. The Baker's map is an example from dynamical systems, one of the largest areas of mathematics. Granted, dynamical systems had its origins in physics, but the field has evolved to a point where the majority of practitioners are motivated by the internal structure of the field rather than its applications (I am in the application camp).

A search through the SIAM journals will find few mentions of the Baker's map. Physics journals have many articles mentioning the Baker's map. Physicists also use calculus, but that does not make calculus a topic of applied mathematics. Could you create a new dynamical systems stub category or reverse it back to a math stub? XaosBits 22:44, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

I see where you are coming from. I don't know that much about Dynamical systems. My logic in including Dynamical systems is that from what I do know, it appeared that the subject linked reasonably closely to various applications. For example, it is a sub-category at the moment of Cybernetics and Mechanics, which are clearly physics or applied mathematics. In the case of the Baker map the article mentions applications to physics. Anyway, if there are enough entries then I have no objection to having a seperate Dynamical systems category. Until then, would you be prepared to accept having dynamical systems as part of applied mathematics (with a note to say that on the category page), to help reduce the size of the Math stub category, with a view to having a new category later if there are enough articles to make it worth it? Silverfish 13:13, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Distraction

I moved the game show information to Distraction (game show). If User:Roaming plans to expand on the term (and not the show), this would clean up the article. -- Perfecto 23:23, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

That seems very sensible. I was thinking of doing something similar myself. Have you checked that the links to the game show now link there? If not, I'll probably have a look at that myself. Silverfish 23:53, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

Actually, I've just checked the links, and updated those pointing to the game show.

[edit] Ken Kutaragi

I'm requesting your opnion about this dispute. Lot of POV-Pushing, the article is currently blocked.

[edit] Wikipedia survey

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[edit] Image:Killer instinct.png listed for deletion

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Drat (Talk) 08:52, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Hu Shuli.jpg

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