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I certainly applaud your efforts to use this opportunity to improve our articles, but I wonder if there isn't a better way to do it than using the "dispute" tag. (Independent of you, for example, I dropped a note on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Clinical medicine.) We have no way of knowing what version of the articles were used, and so no idea if Nature's reviewers would have any issues with current versions, and we will have no way of knowing if or when all the issues have been/will be addressed. (Also, Nature's numbers refer to "factual errors, omissions or misleading statements" not "errors". I don't know how we can identify what their reviewers mean by that without the input of the reviewers, which I hope we will, directly or indirectly, get). - Nunh-huh 02:44, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
Specifically, the Disputed template is intended to be used in conjuction with the procedure outlined at []. In particular, it invites the reader to see the details of the dispute in a Disputed section of the talk page. But without the details of which statements are considered wrong, it is impossible to use this procedure, and the use of the Disputed tag confuses as much as it informs. Shimmin 03:41, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
I object to claiming x number of errors without identifying the errors. It is PREMATURE, rather than wrong. We need to know what errors are CLAIMED. Then we can act. I bet at least ONE claimed error is not an error. That they made an error is at least possible. And until the actual errors are identified, who knows really? Ommisions? maybe its on a see also page. Are spelling errors counted? Is our "NPOV" counted against us (they have a POV too ya know). WAS 4.250 05:18, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
It would be nice to include a # in the template to indicate how many errors Nature found... speaking of which, is there any info on whom is in contact with them re: their standards and definitions of inaccuracy? +sj + 05:39, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
How is the Robert Burns Woodward comparison wrong? I can't find his name anywhere else in Encyclopedia Britannica, just in that 2-sentence entry. We have 13.5 KB and 3 errors, they have 2 sentences (200 bytes), and 0 errors. — 0918BRIAN • 2005-12-15 15:32
Did Nature take any unbiased random sample and report in how many of the sampled articles errors were found, and the total number of those errors, and the sample size? That could serve as the basis for an estimate of Wikipedia's error frequency in articles of the kind from which the sample was taken. Michael Hardy 17:38, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
Yes ... word count should also be included in such data... Michael Hardy 18:29, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
"Somewhat arbitrarily" is a notorious way of allowing inadvertent biases into the analysis. But on the other hand, estimating rates at which errors enter was probably not really their purpose. Michael Hardy 18:32, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
I now find it reported that they also counted Brittanica's errors and looked at how Wikipedia compares. I hadn't realized that when I saw what you've posted on this. It seems the score is Wikipedia: 4 errors, for every 3 errors in Brittanica. So we're not doing too badly. Michael Hardy 01:16, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
At http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Discrete-time_Fourier_transform&diff=32124402&oldid=32123635 I don't think you quite grasped the significance of "DFT". There is one underlying DTFT, which contains an infinite number of non-zero values. Since we cannot compute all of them, we choose a DFT size (N) to sample the DTFT. Different choices produce different DFT's (i.e. different resolution). So "DFT" is really what I meant to say. --Bob K 18:11, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
I've raised this question here, as now it's actually real and happening I expect more people will want to comment. Dan100 (Talk) 14:55, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
Nice work getting hold of the Nature review details and mirroring them. I've created Wikipedia:External peer review/Nature December 2005/Errors from that document now. violet/riga (t) 17:58, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
I think the Nature reviewers are authoritative sources in and of themselves (more references would of course be useful). I agree, it was wrong of me to mark my edits as minor (I have it set to make all as minor and sometimes I fail to take it off, I think I'll change that setting now). I was in to much of a rush to make the changes and should have been more careful. As to your other point: yes, many of these articles do need larger fixes but, for the moment, I think the greatest need is the correction or removal of the specific errors or facts . Broken S 22:50, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
Image:Nagasaki.jpg I corrected. --WonYong 10:25, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
Hi Steven - your input on the scalar (physics) talk page would be welcome. I am having a discussion with another editor and the more opinions the better. PAR 17:00, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi Steven - thanks for your input (even though I disagree with part of it) - also, please note that logical positivism is the polar opposite of the metaphysical. PAR 20:56, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
Could you tell me why you reverted me on this page/--Light current 02:01, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Rbj and possibly add a comment, if you feel so inclined? r b-j 16:09, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
Sorry, people with degrees who know what they are talking about are not permitted on wikipedia. :) Pfalstad 06:05, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
Thank you! It has been a long day trying to clean out the anon user's spam without triggering a 3RR myself. --StuffOfInterest 01:00, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
linkspammer is back from another ip, spam notice added to User talk:195.56.8.125. Note also left with User talk:Splash — Graibeard 08:57, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
The editor uses one IP at a time. One IP can be blocked on sight in this case, without needing the 3RR. I don't think we need to prevent all anons editing if blocks have not even been tried properly yet. -Splashtalk 15:47, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
How did you find out the length of the EB article on Dolly the sheep for the Nature review project? I can't even find an article on Dolly on EB Online or EB on CD. -- mav 18:42, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi, you wrote on my talk page about changing the style of the other plots in the Bessel function article. I'm not very sure about it... My aim was to make a plot in SVG, with colors to make it nicer, but it had to be understandable in grayscale as well. That is why I used dotted lines and a legend. My model was Image:BesselJ plot.svg. In the legend I wrote J_n instead of Jn because, as far I know, SVG does not support subscripts on text. All you can do is to make it similar to a subscript putting a different text box in the bottom right. But that is something you can do post-processing with Inkscape or similar, while I wanted to keep it as close as possible to the original output of the gnuplot code I used to make it. I don't know. I think we should ask the people of Wikipedia:WikiProject Mathematics for help: they made a useful Manual of style, but they don't talk about any plotting standard. We should propose a discussion about it and, once a decision is taken, I'll change all the plots to the standard format we agreed. Alessio Damato 13:35, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
You reverted a more general formula to a more specific version for consistancy. I posted comment on the talk page for it. Fresheneesz 21:59, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
If you are going to add a "disputed" tag to an article, you could at least have the courtesy to write a brief explanation on the discussion page for what facts are in dispute, and what your position is on those facts. I have read your comments on the emf discussion, and I cannot tell what your opinion is, or even what you think is in dispute. -- Metacomet 18:37, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
Hello there... I see you're going round protecting some articles. I don't want to get into a wheel war with you, but I don't think you should be protecting articles that haven't actually been receiving large amounts of vandalism recently. Cheers, — FireFox • T • 18:33, 5 March 2006
You mean well but we don't normally sprotect pages except when there is a dire need. Haukur 18:42, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
A good rule of thumb: Is the vandalism infrequent enough that it can be effectively reverted and the users warned/blocked as needed? If yes, then there is no justification for sprotection. See m:Foundation issues for more about why we shouldn't be mass-sprotecting articles. (ESkog)(Talk) 18:49, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
I have posted the pages as a request for unprotection at WP:RFPP, trying to seek a broader consensus one way or the other. (ESkog)(Talk) 19:50, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
REHupa published Image:Nyumbani.gif in a fanzine from 1978, that is where the original image appeared. Which is why the organization was given as a reference. The map was reproduced here http://www.dodgenet.com/~moonblossom/Iatlas.html and this was my source. Would you rather I changed the source to the website it was gotten from? Basique 16:28, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
Hi Steven,
About the image you mentioned, it's the same situation of Image:Milena_5.jpg, but I've never used that image, maybe I should just let it be deleted.
Thanks,
Milena 14:19, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
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--PS2pcGAMER (talk) 06:14, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
Hi, thanks for helping out with the red hot stuff, nice work. Sorry for the pun, I couldn't help it. Hmm... If I add puns to the category:accordionists will you help me there too? This Wikipedia has all too few articles on accordion competitions and festivals. --LA2 22:41, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
> It might be clearer if you didn't center the FFT spectrum, however.
do you think so?? representing the DFT shifted as I did is a standard way to represent it... I find it more confusing in the non-centered version, because you can find lower frequencies on different parts of picture. But, on the other hand, it may be clearer having the lower frequencies on the top left for both pictures... I don't know, tell me what you think is better and I'll change it according to that. Alessio Damato 10:00, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
The photos which i uploaded from trekeart.com, are for free use and copyrights of images do not belongs to TrekEarth as you can see here: "TrekEarth is not responsible for unauthorized usage of your images outside the TrekEarth site." a web-site everyone sharing their photos eachother.
Ajda 15:15, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
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