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Dear Axel,
I think your revisions of the hyperventilation article have improved it generally. Thank you. I do have one reservation though. I would like to somehow restore the information that breathing is the primary pH regulation mechanism both because it gives some perspective on how hyperventilation can get pH out of whack, and because this important fact is not easy to find. What do you think?
--AJim 01:26, 2 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Oh yes certainly, I didn't really mean to cut that. Please restore. (Perhaps one could also mention this function of breathing in the respiration article.) Maybe you have also something to say regarding my question on Talk:Hyperventilation. Cheers, AxelBoldt 18:57, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Hello dear. You are a wiki admin and I need your help. Can you explain about this changes to my page? [Insulting, abusing and vandaling language!] He is flooding page Kourosh ziabari with under-18 langauge all time and I don't know what to do 70.52.6.147 He uses many IPs and Wiki IDs and I don't know what to do. 70.52.6.147 is his last IP. and also visit this comparation page that shows the changes of main page to the insulting content
Hello Axel. I don't know what you think about the barnstars that are often awarded for outstanding contributions to Wikipedia, but I have taken the liberty of placing one on your user page after being amazed that there weren't a whole string of them there already. Feel free to move it to a more convenient location, change the caption, or remove it altogether as you wish. And keep up the good work! — Trilobite (Talk) 03:13, 7 Jan 2005 (UTC)
You deleted useful information about the neologism usage, replacing it with a wikilink to a nonexistent article. Are you creating or planning to create such an article? If not, the Santorum page should go back to its previous state. JamesMLane 06:56, 24 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Hi Axel,
I came across your article on the gyrocompass.
I'm curious: do you agree that the physics involved in how a gyrocompass works corroborates a hardly known aspect of general relativity? Many books on general relativity, especially books that popularize science, claim that all acceleration is as relative as the relativity between inertial velocities. If that would be true, the gyrocompass would violate general relativity. So a proper interpretation of general relativity must contain that angular velocity can be measured locally, without reference to other local matter.
An observer can measure an anisotropy in the Cosmic Background Radiation, presumebly that is the closest he can come to measuring his velocity with respect to the part of the universe visible to him. But it appears to me that a gyrocompass measures its own rotation with respect to the universe by comparing itself with local space-time.
I noticed the link to Reflections on Relativity, at mathpages.com, that's where I get most of my information on relativity. Cleon Teunissen 19:27, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)
I noticed you've done some work on Mathematics articles. I wanted to point out to you the new Mathematics Wikiportal- more specifically, to the Mathematics Collaboration of the Week page. I'm looking for any math-related stubs or non-existant articles that you would like to see on Wikipedia. Additionally, I wondered if you'd be willing to help out on some of the Collaboration of the Week pages.
I encourage you to vote on the current Collaboration of the Week, because I'm very interested in which articles you think need to be written or added to, and because I understand that I cannot do the enormous amount of work required on some of the Math stubs alone. I'm asking for your help, and also your critiques on the way the portal is set up.
Please direct all comments to my user-talk page, the Math Wikiportal talk page, or the Math Collaboration of the Week talk page. Thanks a lot for your support! ral315 02:54, Feb 11, 2005 (UTC)
Hi. The Image was on the commons, and got deleted because Stock.xchng images are not 100% free. I have uploaded it again to the english wiki. -- Chris 73 Talk 00:10, Feb 19, 2005 (UTC)
Hi, Axel,
you were the original one to create the hydrogen chloride wikipage, to distinct it from hydrochloric acid, which is chemically correct. As the major product, the hydrochloric acid page has been up for review for some time, and now the question is asked whether it is optimal to re-combine the two or not. Would you please be so kind as to add to the discussion? Wim van Dorst 17:18, 2005 Mar 13 (UTC)
Hi Axel. After some discussion here, I've converted the "WikiProject Mathematics Participants List" into a table. It is now alphabetical, includes links to the participant's talk page and contribution list, and has a field for "Areas of Interest". I'm letting you know, so you can update your entry, if you want.
Paul August ☎ 22:41, Mar 18, 2005 (UTC)
Hi Axel,
I'd like an outside opinion on my article on fictitious force. Reading through early versions of the article and conversations on talk pages, I saw that a lot of people are struggling to make sense of it. I was a struggle for me too. My current article on fictitious force is rather long, and very detailed. I did that on purpose, knowing how confused many people are about it; I strive to dispell all confusion.
Can you please check out the article, and tell me whether you feel I have reached my objective? --Cleon Teunissen | Talk 13:44, 19 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Hi, I don't really know enough about physics to meaningfully evaluate the article, but nevertheless here are a couple of random observations:
Cheers, AxelBoldt 00:45, 20 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Hi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia%3AVillage_pump_%28miscellaneous%29#Retrospective
Anthere 06:01, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Hi - I wanted to construct a cycle diagram for one of the order 12 groups listed in the "list of small groups" article. Its the one with the following description:
Can you give me a product table for this group? Thanks - PAR 15:52, 29 Mar 2005 (UTC)
I'd rather not write down the whole table with its 144 entries, but you should be able to construct it from the following information: take as elements the pairs (x,y) with x in {0,1,2} and y in {0,1,2,3} and define the group operation * by
where φ(y) is defined to be +1 if y is even and -1 if y is odd. The neutral element is (0,0). Cheers, AxelBoldt 23:54, 29 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Hi again- I wanted to construct cycle graphs for all 16-element groups, but I don't have an exhaustive list or their product tables. I can figure out the ones that are composed of lower order groups, but I will have a hard time with the others. Do you have a least a list of all 16-element groups, and at best, an algorithm or table for the difficult ones? Thanks - PAR 23:17, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Would you happen to have a citation handy regarding the cause of tiny moving dots in the field of vision? See my question at Talk:Retina. Thanks - mjb 08:44, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Hi Axel,
Just to let you know that I have nominated for deletion the image Image:Death of Marat.jpg that you uploaded. It seems to have largely been obsoleted by Image:Death of Marat by David.jpg now. -- Solipsist 20:23, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for letting me know! I'm not opposed to the deletion, but when comparing the two images I just noticed that they differ substantially in their color and in the inscriptions on the wood block and on the paper. Interesting! Cheers, AxelBoldt 18:44, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Are you sure antibodies are not glycoproteins? JFW | T@lk 08:03, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)
I noticed you contributed to the twin paradox in special relativity. I wonder if you would comment on the arguements going on on the ladder paradox page. We could really use your help. PAR 05:16, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)
I know you may be busy and its a pain to go thru the arguments on this thing, but we are going around in circles and really need a third (fourth or fifth) party in the discussion. If you could participate, that would be good, if not, do you know anyone who understands special relativity enough to add something here? Thanks - PAR 28 June 2005 15:40 (UTC)
The Gauss article which you started is having a FAC here and looks likely to pass. Would you mind having a look at it, seeing if it needs any imoprovement, and hopefully support? Thanks Borisblue 3 July 2005 16:44 (UTC)
I suggest you read "Capitalism: the Unknown Ideal" by Ayn Rand et. al. It will set you straight. Kurt Weber 5 July 2005 02:01 (UTC)
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)
You can change the tag if you would like. I only did that project for a few days when I realized I wasn't doing it correctly, so I stopped working on it. --Woohookitty 04:39, 4 September 2005 (UTC)
Is there a point you have in mind for the WWeM lead, or are you just trying to be over-literal about Miller (but still not really literal). To my mind, the sexual conduct bit is not the chief interest in a "quasi-Miller" analysis. Or course we're not actually lawyers arguing Miller before a court, so literalness is irrelevant. I would like editors/members to think also about other offensive material, such as violent or scatological, that is not necessarily sexual. In judging the WP-merit of such content, keeping in mind a quasi-Miller SLAPS framework could be useful. But if the lead insists we only care about "certain sexual conduct", it excludes the WikiProject from thinking about that other content. Lulu of the Lotus-Eaters 18:40, 2005 September 8 (UTC)
I'm not really involved in your WikiProject, and you are certainly free to consider both sexual and non-sexual materials, formulate the lead section to properly capture your intentions, and use whatever definition of "obscene" you prefer. I just don't like it if you try to pretend that the Supreme Court agrees with your definition. For the Supreme Court, only patently offensive depictions of specified sexual conduct can be obscene, nothing else. This is not being "over-literal"; the Miller test has three prongs and you cannot simply leave one of them out because you don't like it. You can of course say something like "SLAPS is part of the Miller test...".
But if I were you, I would stay away from Miller, because Miller considers the work as a whole, which in our case is Wikipedia, and there can be no doubt that Wikipedia passes SLAPS with flying colors, no matter what image we present on Clitoris. What's more, pretty much every porn site on the internet passes Miller. Cheers, AxelBoldt 22:34, 8 September 2005 (UTC)
I'm still failing to see any point in your change. I really want to think you're not simply being dissiumulative, but it's harder to find another explanation now.
I had quoted a brief extract from the Miller test. You insert a slightly longer extract from the Miller test. Neither one of them is anything close to the full Miller description. In my opinion, the extra part you insert is not relevant to the Wikiproject in question, which is why I wish to omit it. If your edit comments had stated "the certain sexual conduct" part should be the core of this Wikiproject, I would understand your edits; I wouldn't necessarily agree with the goal, but it would make sense conceptually.
The actual Miller test includes (take a look at the opinion at ):
In other words, there are numerous aspects of Miller that your slightly expanded excerpt still omits, e.g.:
So clearly what you characterize is not Miller itself, but a slightly larger quasi-Miller.
But, of course, as I have tried so many times to state, this Wikiproject is not a court case, and we are not lawyers. And it is not Miller that is being presented, but "those aspects of Miller that may be illustrative."
Is it honestly just that you like to stick in the phrase "sexual conduct"?! It obviously has nothing to do with your edit comment that "mischaracterization of Miller is not acceptable", since your characterization is probably slightly farther from a good characterization of Miller than is the shorter version. Lulu of the Lotus-Eaters 16:55, 2005 September 9 (UTC)
You cannot write "Miller defines obscenity as..." if you then go on to provide only a shortened quasi-Miller that leaves out features that don't fit your purposes. It is false and unacceptable. Why don't you simply openly state the SLAP standard you'd like to use, and say that it is inspired by part of the Miller test? AxelBoldt 17:39, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
Dear AxelBoldt, as I having seen your edition at the article Rosicrucian and a related article, I come to request your support to this article that I have just purposed for nomination at Wikipedia:Featured_article_candidates#Rosicrucian. May you may give a look into it? And, if you consider it acceptable, then may you support it? Thank you! :) --GalaazV 02:42, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
Hello Axel. I'm contacting you since you are listed at Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Minnesota. I'm going to be at a conference in Minneapolis and am planning a Wikipedia meetup for October 8. If you are near Minneapolis at that time, please see Wikipedia:Meetup/Minneapolis. Angela. 20:57, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
Please vote at Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of lists of mathematical topics. Michael Hardy 20:18, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
Thank you, my first crack was quite unrefined. lots of issues | leave me a message 02:03, 6 November 2005 (UTC)
Hi! I just wanted to tell you that you're doing a good job fixing up those typos- It's a dirty job, but somebody's got to do it :), and for doing some nice cleanup on Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare, which has been on my to-do list for some time. All these horror movie articles are a pretty weak, and I'm glad that they're slowly, but surely, improving. Thanks again, and keep up the good work!--Sean|Black 03:54, 7 November 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for your message. You are right. I just corrected my previous edit on [Patpong]. Cheers. --Anagnorisis 22:21, 7 November 2005 (UTC)
Could you take a look at the question? Thanks. Superm401 | Talk 04:11, 8 November 2005 (UTC)
According to someone I emailed an article to -- he was prompted with a login page when he tried to open the pdf link. lots of issues | leave me a message 16:44, 8 November 2005 (UTC)
Yes lots_of_issues at hotmail lots of issues | leave me a message 16:51, 8 November 2005 (UTC)
Hmmm...it was a pdf attachment, worked. Don't know what happened with the other person.
lots of issues | leave me a message 17:11, 9 November 2005 (UTC)
I had moved that text, as I said in the comments, from the Cherry Patch Ranch since it was not right there either. Not sure where it should go, so I have no problem with what you did. 06:05, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
Read your request and fullfilled it. Rewritten it a bit. Soi Cowboy was a bad example, is a special case. Given better examples. Greetings from Bangkok Thanon Pracharat Bamphen soi 7 ;) Waerth 22:36, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
I see that you asked about the meaning of Sukhumvit. According to th:ถนนสุขุมวิท it was named after the fifth chief of Department of Highways, Phra Pisan Sukhumvit. -- Lerdsuwa 12:42, 26 November 2005 (UTC)
"Soi Sukhumvit 4", "Sukhumvit Soi 4", or "Sukhumvit 4" are all equally popular way of saying. The most formal way of the three, for writing address on letter, road signs, etc., is "Soi Sukhumvit 4".
"25 Soi Sukhumvit 4": here 25 is the house number, where houses on one side of the road are all odd-numbered (1, 3, 5, ...) the other side are all even.
Most Soi doesn't start its own number (except big ones) and use the number system of its street. Ex: you may see number 848 for a house on the main road next to a soi, number 850 to 928 used in the soi, number 930 next house on the main road. -- Lerdsuwa 10:46, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
(copied from my user page) Hi! Thanks for starting the Artemis (brothel) article, that was indeed missing. I hope you don't mind that I changed it a bit and added some information. Cheers, AxelBoldt 17:38, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
You are very welcome. Mind? Are you kidding? I love it when people add to subjects I have added to. As for changing, well I'll take a look and get back to you.(I notice from your user page that we share a lot of interests and I want to say something about that, too). WAS 4.250 19:44, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
OK, I'm back. I have no problem with the changes. Some of the data varied from one report to the next (number of people it holds and cost of services). But that is variable by its nature (one might be with tax and another not; one might be people allowed by law due to fire codes and the other number might represent number of people it was designed to comfortably fit). Bottom line, I see no reason to change anything there.
Next subject similar interests: Evolution needs a few words on molecular biology. Multiverse (science) needs something (maybe something from User:WAS 4.250/1 and maybe not). And Mass, Relativistic mass, and E=mc² (with regard to relativistic mass versus rest mass; see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Physics). Do nothing ... do something ... just thought I'd mention a few things you might care to look into. Thanks again for helping on Artemis (brothel). Cheers. WAS 4.250 20:05, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
Yes, it would be nice to get a few. I'm not usually out where they are so that makes it difficult to get a picture. I'll see if I can find someone who has some to upload. I suspect that there are a few pictures for Sherry's out there and I don't think it has an article yet. Vegaswikian 01:09, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
Hi, I noticed your addition to Forer effect of additional variables influencing the effect. While I found the information interesting and totally reasonable, I noticed that there were no references to the specific studies where these conclusions came from. It would be greatly appreciated if you could cite the studies that derived these conclusions. P.S. I know that unsourced stuff is all over Wikipedia, and that it's unreasonable to try to track it all down, but you seem to be a fine contributor and the addition could be isolated to edits by you, so I figured it would be a fairly easy task for you to find your original sources. Alas, I don't have access to databases with abstracts for these psychological studies, so I can't do it. Thanks for reading this message! — Ambush Commander(Talk) 20:45, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
I think I got if from the web somewhere at the time, I don't really remember. But this article seems to be the right one:
I'll check later. Thanks! AxelBoldt 22:44, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
Hi, Axel! I don't know enough Swahili to say with much certainty, but fungu'lu and unguru (span (unit)) do appear to be hoaxes. I guess you also saw this edit and Oliver Bayley, which are equally suspicious. (There's also a poet by the same name mentioned here, but he's probably genuine.) Even _if_ they are true (very unlikely), none of these contributions seem to be able to be substantiated. I would delete the lot. (But if you do want to check for certain if these words are Swahili or not, you could ask sw:User:Ndesanjo or sw:User:Marcos.) --Chamdarae 02:28, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
Hi Axel. I'm in the midst of a debate with an anonymous user at Talk:Rat who claims that a source states that Black Rats are listed as an endangered species (local listing, not IUCN) in Germany and other parts of Europe. The source is in German and really requires splitting hairs over the wording. If the animals are "in decline" or "becoming scarce", then that does not translate to legal protection. I thought if it's not too much trouble you might be able to help. Thanks. --Aranae 11:53, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
I just want to say you rock!. Peace out Funkyj 07:10, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
Well thank you. Cheers, AxelBoldt 19:14, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for your help with info. If my "E-mail this user" button is not working, please send info to: lessogg att gmail.com. Thanks, mervyn 10:07, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
Hi Axel, just wanted to let you know that I'm attempting to start a metadata project on the English Wikipedia similar to the German Personendaten project. I would love to get feedback from people experienced with the German project. Do you know much about it? Kaldari 16:55, 24. Dez 2005 (CET)
I like your work. Very logical. Why no "beauty of these girls is legendary" in De Wallen? It's a very basic fact. -MPD 09:04, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
Having continued to read your work, I can conclude only that your Weltanschauung fails to account for the fact that many individuals consider pain to be merely data. In any case, thanks for the laughs. - MPD 08:02, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
Hallo Axel,
könntest Du den Artikel German Wikipedia nochmal erweitern um folgende Fakten: -in der de.wikipedia werden an stubs höhere ansprüche gestellt als in der en.wiki -in der de.wikipedia werden an Lemmas höhere ansprüche gestellt, so sind zB Artikel über fiktive Personen (zB einzelne Charaktere aus Herr der Ringe,...) generell nicht gewünscht (es sei denn, sie haben Bedeutungen in mehreren verschiedenen Werken). mein englisch reicht nicht aus um das schön zu formulieren.
Are you a contributor to Wikiweise? I have some questions about it if so. --Angr (t·c) 22:22, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
To clarify... no, the Foundation is not paying anyone to develop grants. Danny was made the grant officer maybe a year ago. Later (this fall), we started needing very badly an assistant to help us in the office with all the paperwork. Jimbo hired Danny to do this (not grants). So, Danny is now working full time to take care of paper stuff, answering phones etc.... but is not taking care of grants. So... basically, no one is taking care of grants right now. One idea was to find another assistant, so that Danny could work at least part time on doing grants. But to be fair, we first need the money to hire another person and second, even two assistants would be well used I guess :-) Another point is that we could also benefit of hiring another developer to work full time for us, and we also badly need a CEO. So, budget considerations run high there :-) Anthere
Hi, I recieved a rather flattering offer to consult on Wikis for the International Rice Research Institute in the Phillipines. They are using MediaWiki for a few intra-institution wikis. I really doubt I'd be what they are looking for, they are looking for someone with knowledge about Wikis and molecular biology (especially plants and agriculture). Anyway you came to mind when I was thinking of other suitable people, since you know about wikis, biochem, and bioinformatics - if you email me I can foward you the email from IRRI.--nixie 14:35, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
Hallo Axel,
ich habe gesehen, daß Du im Artikel en:Batangas erhebliche Kürzungen vorgenommen hast und u.a. auch interwiki-Links entfernt hast. Bevor ich die Änderungen vorschnell rückgängig mache, wollte ich mich nach den Motiven erkundigen. Martinwilke1980 11:59, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
No problem; fixed and referenced. You caught me with some free time while doing my laundry! :) Semiconscious (talk · home) 01:24, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
Hello! You were listed on the Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Germany page as living in or being associated with Germany. As part of the Wikipedia:User categorisation project, these lists are being replaced with user categories. If you would like to add yourself to the category that is replacing the page, or one of the Bundesland-based subcategories, please visit Category:Wikipedians in Germany for instructions. --Angr (tɔk) 14:46, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
I added the URL for the actual image file as well as the search site at the CDC i used to retrieve the picture. Unfortunately I can't directly link to the image description page there, but a quick search on "helicobacter" will pull it up. Zvesoulis 03:50, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
I reckon that geo refs should be used in entries-I think that user Adam Carr is too old and hasnt caught up with the electronic age. Also he is a notorius bully. So dont let him push you around. Ill reinstate geog refs Personpersonperson 05:28, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
You shouldn't need to check or uncheck anything. I tried to open the link you used as an example and was able to replicate the behavior you described. However, the link did appear in the Temporary Places folder where from I was able to double click it and get to Bangkok. I then closed Google Earth and tried another random placemark and in its case it did go to the position as it was supposed to. I then loaded your placemark (while GE was open) and this time it went straight to Thailand. (The GE worked a little slowly, so it might have "forgot" that it was supposed to go to a placemark while it was waiting for the graphics to load... This is of course just an uneducated guess, but I can't come up with a better explanation anyway.) Does it work for you if you first start and let GE load and then click the placemark? --ZeroOne 22:47, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
Sure, you can display it on your user page. You deserve this barnstar and keep up the good work! --Siva1979Talk to me05:32, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
No problem; sorry for not catching it earlier. But I really do wonder why someone bothered to create multiple accounts just to insert that URL several times over. Fredrik Johansson - talk - contribs 23:26, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
To make you feel better, I'll keep your page on watch for a week or so. I hope Fredrik does the same as well ;) Dr Debug (Talk) 23:35, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
To avoid flip-flopping between 'degree Fahrenheit' and 'Fahrenheit' or 'degree Celsius' and 'Celsius', I propose that we have a discussion on which we want. I see you have contributed on units of measurement, please express your opinion at Talk:Units of measurement. Thanks. bobblewik 23:09, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
I've proposed on Talk:Quotient field to rename the page. I'd be very grateful to hear your comments there on what you think - thanks!
Just noticed your excellent feedback on the ABC article. I've answered the questions, but I won't do anything about the article until tomorrow as I'm heading to bed. G'night! - RoyBoy 800 08:36, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
The following was originally posted by user:203.218.226.51 to user talk:AxelBoldt/Archive (see ). I moved it here. AxelBoldt 23:27, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
All germans are arrogant and racists as if Adolf Hilter
Anti- German Group 13:58 17 Feb 2006
I think many users of this wikipedia are humiliating female, and sadly, the wikipedia is without much professional supervision, many obscene/indecent articles, illustrations can be easily read. Wikipedians can "legally" being offensive, in the sense of upholding "freedom of speech", the results of this will be like the destructive events after the danish "Islamic Cartoons" posted. I hate promiscousity and notorious womanisers/menisers who bullsit here and everywhere. Please shut up!
(the writers here - licensed offenders - enjoy what G-spot, mating, menstruation.....I think it is time of Mr Jimbo Wales to do something with his brain right now)
Mens rea v Cheung 13:51 17 Feb 2006
Hello! A while ago, I came across this article about the nine lemma and the five lemma - if you have a spare moment, could you tell me where these lemmas are used, and why they are useful? Thanks for your help! --HappyCamper 12:53, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
Re: information request on the Thailand-related topics notice board, the senate in Thailand is (supposed to be) non-partisan, and senators independent. Paul C 11:13, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
This isn't Wikipedia related, so feel free to delete if you're not inclined to answer for whatever reason. I'm told the field trace has the property that for any linear function f from GF(pn) -> GF(p), there is an element β of GF(pn) s.t. f(x) = <β,x>. I have been Googling around for a proof without success, and I haven't managed to figure it out for myself. If you could point me in the right direction I'd be most grateful. I am not a student and this is not a homework question. Thanks! — ciphergoth 10:19, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
I added a barnstar to your user page. You may not know me, but I've definitely noticed your edits. So... keep it up. Cheers! :) Gflores Talk 18:31, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
Sources! Answers! It's a miracle! (Why I can't apply myself like that to the paper I'm supposed to be writing instead, I don't know...) -- stillnotelf has a talk page 20:05, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
Hallo Axel,
da mein Englisch nicht gut genug ist, möchte ich dich bitten folgende Punkte in German Wikipedia zu ergänzen:
vielen dank
Congratulations Axel, you're one of the very few people i've seen who is a stage 6. Cheers. JoeSmack Talk 20:12, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
Some authors have the transcendental numbers a subset of the real numbers, other authors have them a subset of the complex numbers. But if the transcendental numbers are a subset of the complex numbers, and all transcendental numbers are irrational, then the rational numbers are a subset of the real numbers but the irrational numbers are not. Is this your intention? Rick Norwood 21:06, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
Hi! The photos you added to Sonagachi were much needed for the article. Thanks a lot, and thanks to J. Gresham as well. I wish the photos were color! Of course B&W has its own appeal, still...
Oh well, Mr Gresham is the same person as BorisEarth! Great. He has lots of great photos in FlickR also. I already saw those. And in photonet as well! He must be a great photographer. Bye--Dwaipayanc 17:51, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
Greetings! Yes... the CD is http://fixedreference.org/2006-Wikipedia-CD-Selection/ and the relevant WikiEN-l discussion of it began here. Cheers, Mindspillage (spill yours?) 18:21, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
Thanks a lot for the links; I'll announce it at the Village pump. AxelBoldt 18:45, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
Hi AxelBoldt, I noticed that you added (a version of) the following regarding women in the renaissance to the article on atropine:
Would it be possible to get a source for this? All the best, Eric 19:36, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
Yes it would! PMID 324554. AxelBoldt 19:57, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
AxelBoldt,
I don't understand your rationale for removing my numerous additions to what goes on in FKK clubs. I've been to many FKK clubs there and what I wrote is from personal experience. What I said about "unlimited foreplay" is true. In fact, I am friends with a guy who has a company leading tours from the U.S. to FKK clubs six or seven times a year, and this is what all the customers will tell you. I notice you also deleted the information I gave about the men being given towels to wear, the fact that some of the girls are as beautiful as in Playboy, the fact that session fee doesn't run until you take the girl to the room, etc. What are the reasons for these other deletions?
--Liem
Replied at Talk:Prostitution in Germany. Cheers, AxelBoldt 13:55, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
Hey,
I saw that you're interested in the P versus NP question. I thought you might be interested in checking out [www.qeden.com], a wiki dedicated to the Millennium Prize Problems. Cheers!
DiceDiceBaby 14:22, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
On the Buffer overflow page you added references to the Metasploit project. I don't feel that this is particularly relevant to a discussion of Buffer Overflows. I think a mention in the references section is sufficient. Also the comment you made about the opcode database makes perfect sense to somebody already familiar with the subject, but not to a general reader. Please tell me what you think. -- Tompsci 12:21, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
I agree that it is rather technical information, and so it might be over the head of the general reader. If it can be phrased more gently and/or farmed out to a special article, I'm all for it. However, I find that it is important to provide this technical information, and especially tell the reader how buffer exploits are actually constructed in practice. It isn't some black art only open to experts; it's pretty simple in fact and every computer science student can do it. We mention a list of ways a stack overflow could be exploited, but most of these are mere theoretical possibilities; we need to explain how they actually are exploited in practice. The standard way of doing it is a rather straightforward procedure, and does involve the Metasploit database at a crucial step (on Windows; on Unix it's a lot simpler still because you know where the stack is). With that database, every kiddie can do it; without it, only experts could do it.
Maybe I didn't explain the basic problem properly: the attacker puts payload on the stack, and now wants to jump into the payload. So on Unix they simply overwrite the current function's return address with the start of the payload, and it works. On Windows you can't do that, because you don't know the location of the stack. So you experimentally find a register R which currently points to a location on the stack, and then you use the Metasploit database to find a command C somewhere in the system which will jump to the location contained in R. Then you overwrite the current function's return address with the location of C, and you put the start of your payload at the address contained in R. You see how important the Metasploit database is in this scheme. AxelBoldt 15:55, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
Hey, I have written exploits myself, so you don't need to explain it to me, but you would to the reader, which isn't currently the case. I think that paragraph needs to be rewritten, so that it's much clearer. Also it needs to be clear that Metasploit isn't the only (or best) method of locating byte sequences that can be used for "trampolining" or whatever it's called. I'll rework it when I have time. What's your relationship to the MetaSploit Project? I personally wasn't impressed, it just appears to be a collection of customisable exploits for script kiddies. -- Tompsci 17:29, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
Yes, we should clarify that paragraph explaining the writing of exploits. I have no relationship with Metasploit, it's just the only opcode database I know. Other such databases should definitely be mentioned as well. Cheers, AxelBoldt 21:08, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
Hi, I partially undid/rewrote your edits to basal lamina and wanted to drop you a note explaining why. As you can see, basement membrane is a redirect to basal lamina and I felt the former deserved a mention in the first sentence of the latter's article. This redirect strikes me as somewhat bizarre, partly because the basal lamina is a component of the basement membrane (though I agree with you basement membrane is not really a 'more general' term) but mostly because there are no articles for other structures associated with the basement membrane such as the reticular lamina, lamina densa, and lamina lucida. I was considering incorporating the basal lamina content into a basement membrane article that includes subsections for basal lamina as well as the other terms (instead of the other way around), since that would allow description of all the layers together. Do you think this is a good idea? Robotsintrouble 12:47, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
I replied in Talk:Basal lamina. Cheers, AxelBoldt 16:31, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
Talk:Kosovo#2 Administrator for Ex-Yugoslavien articels in Wikipedia- The voice of Kosovar
You made a good point adding the material "addition and multiplication in F are restrictions of the corresponding operations in E". This is missing on the main article field extension too. I wonder however if there is a more accessible way to state this, i.e. without using the word "restriction", which may be slightly too high-tech for people just learning this stuff. Perhaps just "the same as"? In field extension, the formal definition given later in terms of ring injections covers this issue automatically anyway. Dmharvey 19:36, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
You wrote that the idea of a conformal map is that “such a map preserves the shape of any sufficiently small figure, while possibly rotating and stretching it”. I don't agree with this, because the conjugation would then be a conformal map. One must add that such maps also preserve angle orientation. What do you think? JCSantos 16:32, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
I was just thinking, how do you like this: "such a map preserves the shape of any sufficiently small figure, while possibly rotating and stretching (but not reflecting) it." Cheers, AxelBoldt 19:19, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
It's better. Do it. Best regards, JCSantos 13:41, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
Your latest edit of the Transcendental Numbers entry contains the statement (for example e, whose continued fraction terms are bounded), which is not correct.
Hi, ich hab auf User:Elian/comparison mal einen Vergleich der deutschen mit der englischen Wikipedia aufgestellt, vielleicht kann man einige Sachen daraus für den Artikel brauchen. Würde das aber ungern selbst einarbeiten, nachdem ich bei dem Thema etwas biased bin. --Elian Talk 19:00, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
Looking at the article history, it seems that you originally wrote most of the text in that article, so I think you should probably be involved in revising it now. I've commented on the talk page there with my issues about the article, basically that it's written more like a math lesson than an encyclopedia. It's good work but needs to have its tone changed to fit in here. would you mind helping out with that process a bit? Night Gyr 23:08, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
Hallo Axel, da Du Deutsch als Muttersprache angegeben hast, schreibe ich Dir auf Deutsch. Ich habe deine Stimmabgabe auf der Diskussionseite "Ignore all rules" gesehen. Ich selbst bin zwar auch ein wenig verwirrt darüber, doch noch mehr wundere ich mich über die Versuche, deine Stimme zu interpretieren. Kannst Du bitte auf der Seite nachlesen und entweder der Interpretation widersprechen oder deine Haltung präzisieren. Meinen Kommentar kannst Du dabei gerne löschen. Gruß, Str1977 (smile back) 21:24, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
You are familiar over this topic, you don't have a wife? why not? Anon.
Can you post a nicer personal photo on your user page? You look weird.. Anon.
Ill check on that in a bit. BTW, the addition article used to be a rather nice overview that took the reader from elementary concepts all the way up to advanced summation and series examples. While some of the splitting and development looks good, Im not sure I like excessive simplification. Maybe just some examples would be useful? -Ste|vertigo 20:11, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
I think there is no translation from Taburiente to English nor Spanish. Taburiente is a guanche word, a old language related to bereber that is spoken no more since 5 centuries ago. The word is nos properly Spanish, and its etimologic meaning has been lost over the years. The name the guanches give Caldera de Taburiente was Aceró which means strong place, but Aceró is used no more, instead now we use Taburiente. Sorry for my bad English. Felipealvarez 05:44, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
Do you happen to know the proof (or where it can be found) of the statement
A metric space X is compact if and only if every metric space homeomorphic to X is complete.
that you added to the compact space entry in 2002? Slawekk 17:41, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
Read through WP:RFD. --SPUI (T - C) 15:39, 28 May 2006 (UTC)
Sorry - Wikipedia:Redirects for deletion#When should we delete a redirect? --SPUI (T - C) 16:16, 28 May 2006 (UTC)
My specific reason is that it's harmless. --SPUI (T - C) 16:22, 28 May 2006 (UTC)
Hello Professor Boldt,
In response to your question about my edits on the Amistad (case) page, I did remove the information because I believed the page's intent was to focus on the Supreme Court's ruling in the case, and that that information belonged elsewhere. However, I believe I still have the information on my computer, and would be happy to provide it to you should you want it.
Thanks, Buckaroo54 05:42, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
Hi Axel, I was just reading the sedimentary basin page, and you were the most recent editor. It says that lithospheric stretching can be caused by things like trench-pull and ridge-push. Doesn't ridge-push cause lithospheric compression? Gcolive 17:25, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
Hi Axel, how come that I can't place comments on:
www.gendergeek.org??????
....you know, about the article "Prostitution: Selling the Sisters (Out)".....
I don't understand. 1 minute after I placed a comment, the comment is gone, while at first it was there. And it happens all the time.
Plwleaase help me!!!!
(Such an interesting discussion).
--Bruno Junqueira 18:52, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
Can you add this page to your watch list: Amygdala. You'll soon understand why.MirnaSun 00:56, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
GoldToeMarionette (talk · contribs) had a WP:RFCU inappropriately completed on their account by Jayjg (talk · contribs) and Hall Monitor (talk · contribs) blocked the account after it was identified as a multiple account despite their being no violation of Wikipedia policy by GoldToeMarionette. These users did not respond to requests to undo the action.
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Vielleicht magst du einen Blick auf http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bibliotheksrecherche werfen und deine Erfahrungen mit dem magazin request einbringen? Gerade wird ein ANSI-Norm-Text gesucht (siehe Diskussionsseite). Many thanks! --Historiograf 02:51, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
Hello, I would like to explain some common misconceptions regarding DivX and XviD and your libavcodec edits - libavcodec does not implement DivX or XviD and it does not decode "DivX video" or "XviD video". As a mathematician, I'm sure you can appreciate the necessity of exact terminology (as opposed to a "muddy" way of thinking). DivX and XviD are MPEG-4 ASP codecs, video encoded with them is MPEG-4 ASP video. Saying that libavcodec can decode "XviD video" is exactly the same nonsense as saying that XviD can decode "libavcodec video". Codec is not a format, codec is only software that decodes/encodes data to/from some format. For example, when you encode an MP3 file with the LAME codec, you don't encode to "LAME format". It is MP3. And you don't call other MP3 codecs "alternative LAME implementations than can decode LAME audio". Or when you save a text file in Notepad and open it in PSPad, you don't say PSPad is an alternative Notepad implementation (unofficial Notepad) that can open "Notepad files". Yet, you apply the same twisted logic to video codecs - libavcodec is not an "alternative implementation of the official DivX codec that can decode DivX video", as you call it in the article:
Thanks for this explanation; I do indeed value proper terminology. I'm not sure however that your analogy between MPEG and ASCII holds water: the MPEG-4 Part 2 specs give a lot of leeway to the encoder, which ASCII does not. By looking at the structure of an MPEG-4 ASP file, one can immediately tell whether it was produced by XviD or DivX or neither. So instead of saying "MPEG-4 ASP video encoded with the XviD codec looks better than MPEG-4 ASP video encoded with the DivX codec" I think it is admissable (and common) to say "XviD video looks better than DivX video". Experts will know what is meant, and laymen won't be confused.
Also, when you buy a DVD player and it says "Plays DivX" on the box, that doesn't mean it can play every MPEG-4 ASP file, in fact it probably won't.
I agree with you that my phrase "official DivX codec" is nonsense. I do believe that XviD and libavcodec deserve to be mentioned in DivX, and DivX and XviD should be mentioned in libavcodec.
Cheers, AxelBoldt 01:22, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
I have done some work on Evolutionary developmental biology but I think it needs a lot more work and I have reached the limits of my competence. The May 11 issue of the New York Review of Books has an essay by Israel Rosenfeld and Edward Ziff on evo-devo, reviewing three books: From DNA to Diversity, Endless Forms and The Plausibility of Life. Are you familiar with any of these or other works by their authors (Sean B. Carroll, Jennifer K. Grenier, Scott D. Weatherbee, John Gerhart or Marc Kirschner)? Roland Deschain has done some good work on the article too, but it still seems woefully underdeveloped for such an important new field in evolutionary science. I´d appreciate it if you would look over it. Or perhaps you know other wikipedians who might be able to pitch in. Slrubenstein | Talk 20:49, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
Thanks Axel. I think it would be great if you could check with your biologist friends. It seems like an area that is just on the periphery of many of our more knowledgable (with regards to genetics and evolution) - and is certainly beyond my competence - but from everything I have read this article and the Embryology article both merit a lot more attention. Based on the NYRB review, all three books are good and when I am back in the UK I plan on getting at least two of them. If you read any of them, do let me know what you think. The NYRB review itself is very enjoyable and clear for the most part, but not detailed enough to provide the basis for expanding an article ... If you know of anyone who specializes in embryology, perhaps you can get them to contribute directly to Wikipedia, at least these two articles. Best, Slrubenstein | Talk 21:13, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
Hi, you added text to Riemann mapping theorem a few months ago implying that it holds for domains with fractal boundaries. However, the proof appeals to the Dirichlet principle which is painted as being somehow suspect. I was wondering if you would know enough about this to clarify the situation. In particular, does the Dirichlet principle hold for regions with fractal boundaries? What are the cases where the principle does not apply? linas 03:36, 26 August 2006 (UTC)
The theorem is true even if the boundary is a fractal. The proof given by Riemann and sketched in the article does not work if the boundary is a fractal, because the Dirichlet principle does not work in those situations. I don't know the precise conditions that make the Dirichlet principle work. AxelBoldt 03:57, 26 August 2006 (UTC)
Have you noticed the series labels on the right? If so hopefully the bars (number of admins) is clear, as that is the only series to be a bar. I realise the 3 lines might be hard to tell apart if you have trouble seeing different colours. Could you maybe suggest clearer colours? Petros471 19:27, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
Hi AxelBoldt, I was just going through the above page. This question refers to some bookmarklets created by you and gives an external link. The link is not working anymore. Thought I'd inform you -- Lost(talk) 08:57, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
Hi, Axel! I just logged in and noticed that my article is tagged as AfD. I read the comments and I think it is tagged for personal reasons of the AfD initiator. Would you pls leave your comment? As the author, I do not see myself the right person to give comments. I really appreciate your opinion, regardless of what you decide. Thanx! -DrMoslehi 00:47, 17 September 2006 (UTC+3:30)
Thank you for backing up my comment on the origins of "catbird seat" with a reference. I also found an article on the net that disagreed with Reb Barber's daughter's statement about where he first heard the term. But will the article cited a source, I couldn't find the orginal source, so I didn't add it to the article. WVhybrid 04:22, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
I am extremely sorry for not reply earlier regarding the correction I made to the H. pylori article. Apart from being rude, it was quite unlike me not to acknowledge receipt of a message. . I haven't had a chance to read the Science paper but I notice you've made a lot of significant changes. Thanks for that too. I'll do some reading up to see how I can contribute on the metabolism section soon. I would have replied at the bottom of my page but since it's been a while, I didn't know if you were still "watching" it. Regards. --Antorjal 00:02, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
Hi Axel, I've replied to your message on my talk page.
Cheers
Ben 21:25, 25 September 2006 (UTC)
I do believe it has a double bond at the top of the structure. Here are the three sources indicating it has a double bond furthremore my chem teacher actually commented and said it had a double bond but then again I'm not sure how much weight that would carry around here. Just let me know. SirGrant 20:18, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
I've updated the picture at commons which was inaccurate. You can take a look at commons:Image:Phenol red 2.png, commons:Image:Phenol red.png, and commons:Commons:Help_desk#Image:Phenol red.png. One of the admins there have moved from 2 to the phenol red.png file. It's not false; I believe it's just the server taking a while to refresh. Do assume good faith. --Rifleman 82 00:00, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
It's alright. I've added the acid base equilibria as you've suggested on the article talk page. Comments? --Rifleman 82 01:10, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
Yes, I have a couple:
AxelBoldt 02:16, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
I tried to search online, but I couldn't find much information. In my opinion, the neutral molecule will be an equilibrium between (II) in my diagram and the acyclic -SO3H form at the Chembox. I think of it as an extended keto-enol tautomerization. Why are you convinced that it is the cyclic form? While pubchem shows the cyclic keto-structure, I found a few other structures online which showed the enol form.
I'm not very sure what you mean by your second para. Usually, where there are more than one acidic protons, each pKa can be identified. However, if there is a keto-enol tautomerization like I think there is, that will be a bit complicated.
I've made the amendment for the yellow/red to be reversed: .
I don't understand what you mean about the rearrangement in the original diagram. It is not a rearrangement. Rather, the sulfate O- is acting as a nucleophile, making a conjugate addition to the extended alkene system finally ending up with the C=O being protonated. I am drawing the arrows in the same convention as electron pushing - the arrow represents the movement of an electron pair. --Rifleman 82 02:53, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
I copied this discussion to talk:phenol red since it seems to fit better there. AxelBoldt 15:44, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
AxelBoldt - thanks for the pics sent to my tiny comment on the Discussion page of the Chymical Wedding Of Christian Rosencreutz. How did you know? :-) ThePeg
Hallo Axel,
ich wende mich an Dich, weil du zum einen hier Admin und zum anderen des Deutschen mächtig bist.
Folgendes Problem: Ich hatte hier mal einen User "Frank C. Müller", allerdings ohne Emailadresse. Mittlerweile kann ich den User in der Userliste nicht mehr finden. Neu anlegen kann ich ihn aber auch nicht, weil ich dann lese, dass das Passwort nicht stimmt. Mag sein, dass ich das Passwort vergessen habe (eher unwahrscheinlich). Da aber keine Emailadresse von mir beim User eingetragen war, kann ich mir auch kein neues Passwort schicken lassen.
Kannst Du mir ein neues Passwort verpassen? Zu erreichen bin ich per Email über meinen deutschen Account Frank C. Müller.
Da ich in mehreren Sprachen wiki-aktiv bin, hätte ich gerne überall den gleichen User-Namen.
gruß, fcm 84.56.240.92 17:25, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
Super, das hat geklappt. Bin wieder drin. Vielen Dank, auch an User:JeLuF. Frank C. Müller 19:26, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
Added December 2003, thanks. --Lumidek 00:29, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
A meetup of Wikipedians in Minnesota is planned for Sunday, October 29, 2006 at one o'clock at the Mall of America. It would be nice to see you there if you can make it. Jonathunder 14:41, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
...here.--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 19:12, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
Please see your talk page at Commons . Thank you! --Matt314 20:11, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
Yes, I got your info about sir2=SIRT1, and I agree that the info on Sirtuin and sir2 is redundant. I think it will take some time to figure out the best way, because I'm no organic chemist, and it looks like, from the research I read, that they are still figuring out how to categorize them and what exactly they do (such as your Sinclair citation). So I'm in no hurry, but it would seem logical to find a broad header under which to include all of our information. Thanks, Rhetth 02:47, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
The Book 'Blowing Up Russia' was published in 2001, so I imagine the photp was taken shortly after that as it is a promotional photo for the book. codu (t/c) 17:25, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
I'm not sure if you've noticed, but I've added details to Image:A Litvinenko.jpg that you queried. —Leatheristough 00:10, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
Who sneaked 'a jew' in Alexander Litvinenko's bio? What's the source? I've also heard this but not sourced it.Chavatshimshon 06:11, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
Hi Axel! I took the image on December 3rd, 2003, five meters from the place where I sit now. ;-) It's written in the description of the file. --Lumidek 16:31, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
Yes, I saw that you added the date to the image caption in the article, thanks a lot! Cheers, AxelBoldt 18:17, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
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