User talk:PierreAbbat
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Hello there, welcome to the 'pedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you need any questions answered about the project then check out Wikipedia:Help or drop me a line. Cheers! --maveric149
About methionine and disulfide bonds: If methionine tried to form a disulfide bond X-S-S-Y it would no longer be methionine, since it would have to lose its terminal CH3 group. So I'm 99.99999% sure the answer is no. -- Marj Tiefert, Monday, May 20, 2002
I left a note for you at Talk:Chiroptera. --Cheers! --maveric149
Good work ploughing through taxonomy! One suggestion: this comes from looking at your entry on fouquieria. The article is about a genus, and it would really be helpful in such cases if you provided a link to the family where it belongs. Eclecticology, Tuesday, May 28, 2002
- Not linking the sub-classes in magnoliopsida was actually intentional. My hope was to limit the overall number of articles (could be VERY big) by restricting them to the principle classifications, and discouraging articles in the most sub-, infra-, super-, etc. categories. Any opinions? --Eclecticology
Interesting point that you make about what ITIS has done with those birds. I've been so focused on setting up the 67 orders of magnoliopsida, that I haven't given much thought to the animal kingdom. What you say about the birds does make sense. The book that I quickly put my hands on by the International Council for Bird Preservation seems to agree with you. The overriding problem in taxonomy is that no single source will always be right; ITIS is no exception to this. My thinking in using ITIS was based more on its broad comprehensiveness than any belief in its unique correctness; I'm already getting flak from cladists on my choice. For me ITIS becomes more a reference system to draw things together. My approach would be to use their system of ciconiformes as a starting point with adequate explanations of alternatives. Not everybody that uses this order name cuts as broad a swath. Some use "ciconiiformes" with a double "i" for the term as used more or less by ITIS, and reserve the single "i" form for a narrower subset. May I suggest the order "plasticiformes" for the various flamingoes and vultures that appear on lawns for certain festive occasions? --Eclecticology, Saturday, June 1, 2002
No problem about those two genera. I've used a "piping" format [Augusta (plant)|Augusta] -- This would appear as Augusta in the list but would direct to an article called "Augusta (plant)". This is a usual disambiguating technique in Wikipedia. 600 genera! while ITIS has only 79!! That should get somebody's attention! I look forward to your writing every one of them up:-) ...as if it madders. --Eclecticology, Saturday, June 1, 2002
Your last pointed red comment proves how important sleep can be. -- Ec.
"Censored.jpg" was a good article illustration at the time. After it served it's purpose it was deleted.
Just wanted to drop a note saying "thanks" for cleaning up after me on the Semitic stuff, and for adding in the triconsonantal roots information in Semitic languages -- I saw it and went "D'oh! Why didn't I think of that!" :-) Pgdudda, Friday, June 21, 2002
I'm sure you were right about "femtofortnight", so I removed it from Femto-. On the other hand, see overhand knot, and particularly Talk: Overhand knot for my observations on "spontaneous generation". Best regards, Ortolan88
Most acronyms, especially short ones, stand for several things. The extremely helpful acronym and abbreviation database at http://www.ucc.ie/cgi-bin/uncgi/acronym gives Utah, the Universities of Tennessee and Texas, and User Terminal as alternate meanings of "UT". Please be careful about redirects from acronyms. Vicki Rosenzweig, Monday, July 8, 2002
Thanks for pointing out the articles giving the convention for the tree of life. I've taken a look and the suggestions are very reasonable, so I'll try and format my future submissions according to this template. Ramin Nakisa, Sunday July 14, 2002.
The version of Bennelong that The Epopt deleted was a blank page. Nothing wrong with deleting blank pages created by newbie experiments. --maveric149
Thanks for deleting my requested blank page. Starting yesterday, I have moved dozens of articles from "Middle Earth/Gandalf" to "Gandalf" or "Gandalf (Middle-earth)", leaving behind empty pages. Is there a better way to mark empty pages for deletion than simply writing "please delete" in the edit summary? Ed Poor 08:05 Jul 23, 2002 (PDT)
Pierre; when going through the orphan images, you might try putting the filenames into my multilingual Wikipedia meta-search page. (Note that sometimes the individual searches time out, if you don't see an "X pages found" message for a language, click the individual link to load it up separately.) --Brion VIBBER 17:42 Jul 23, 2002 (PDT)
Hello Pierre, I see you're working on the Wikiproject Tree of Life. What kind of advice would you give someone who's not knowledgeable about biology? I'm taking pictures of flowers, veggies, and fruit periodically, and wanted to contribute them, but I don't want to make things more difficult for others. For instance, I just wrote a brief article on canna lily so the picture had a home, but it's an orphan and I'd love it not to be. --KQ
Ok, thanks for the tip. I'll look into it--not tomorrow, probably, and so probably also not until I get back from L.A. on August 18. --KQ
Hi Pierre. My Aramaic is definitely rusty and it could be a dialect difference, but I would have said leshana de'arama (with a shewa after the d). I could certainly be wrong though. Danny
Pierre, your change of the French characters in the Lyapunov article was unnecessary, but harmless; you are incorrect about the Cyrillic requiring UTF-8 encoding. The English wiki is encoded in ISO-8859-1, and is best viewed with ISO-8859-1 set as the default encoding. The character repertoire of the pages is, however, Unicode--but don't confuse the character set with the character encoding. So any characters you want to use that are outside the ISO set must be encoded as HTML entities, but those entities will be sent across the wire as plain old ASCII, and the browser will render the correct Unicode character, regardless of what encoding it is set for, so everyone with good fonts installed should have seen both the Cyrillic and the accented Latin characters just fine. It is only characters that are not coded as HTML entities that care what the browser encoding is, and that's always ISO-8859-1 in the English Wikipedia. Just thought I'd save you the future work. --LDC
- I believe this has come up before; Pierre mentioned he uses Konqueror 2.something. At least the older Konqueror versions had terrible font management support; as I recall, unless you enable font smoothing, character references outside the document character encoding don't render, because it blindly follows that encoding when requesting a font from the X server and silently drops anything outside that range (as boxes or question marks or some such). With font smoothing enabled it was a little better; everything was Unicode internally, so as long as the currently selected font had glyphs for those characters, they got rendered... but you had to choose a font with a big enough repertoire to cover anything you expect to see, it still wasn't smart enough to check other fonts. I don't know if the 3.x Konqueror is better, I've long since given up on it in favor of Mozilla (which unfortunately is slower and hogs more memory, but work on more things that I want/need). Anyway, as explained before forcing your browser to read ISO-8859-1 pages in UTF-8 is not a good solution to your browser's bug; it's like driving on the sidewalk because traffic is slow on the street. --Brion 18:41 Aug 19, 2002 (PDT)
Sorry about missing the entire URL on coleus. I didn't remember that that was how we were supposed to do it. I'll check for other I may have missed and copy your format. --KQ 19:38 Aug 19, 2002 (PDT)
You ask why allotropy is a misnomer! The existence of various ALLOTROPES of a given element is not the result of any particular phenonmenon other than the well known principlesof chemical bonding and structural chemistry. Allotropes can be in any state(Gaseous, Liquid, solid) as in C2(gaseous), graphite vapor,solid graphite, solid diamond,solid Fullerene, gaseous fullerene. The difference is of chemical bonding and not some pheno which is the same for all of these. Please see Macmil;lan Encyclopedia of Chemistry, Ed.J.J.Lagowski,1997, Simon Schuster. User:Mercury610 22:36, Aug 23, 2002 (PDT)
Thanks for your Greek work in the Septuagint article, and for adding the etymology note. Well done! Wesley 07:52 Aug 26, 2002 (PDT)
Pierre, do you think the dynip info is relavent on the Sarnia, Ontario page? Surely they are not a significant company to the Sarnia economy or history? Frank Warmerdam
Pierre, Dynamic IP ISPs might be important to you, and I am happy that Dynip is listed on the Dynamic DSN page, but I don't feel it belongs on the Sarnia page. Every city has thousands of service companies but generally only a few would be important enought to appear on the city page.
PS. coming from Sarnia, I know that locals take great pride in the NHL hockey players that come from the area.
All this said, I am not going to remove the dynip item from the Sarnia page, but I would encourage you to reconsider it. Frank Warmerdam
Thanks, Pierre. I was too timid to do the redirect myself...... user:renata
Here is the link to the copyright violation template along with some other stuff; Wikipedia:Boilerplate text --mav
I wonder if you have been keeping an eye on the Aria Giovanni talk webpage. The situation there is out of control.
Matters have deteriorated to a highly abusive level over a website link. Of special concern is the general conduct and attitude of someone called NetEsq, who claims in his details to be a lawyer.
He has repeatedly abused anyone who opposed the idea of the website link with such tactics as net misettiquete ( eg the use of the word 'you' in capitals and bold to emphasise shouting), a poor grasp of history, the unrepentant use of such termsas Nazi, out of context quotes and attempted alienation ("only YOU opppose it").
Regardless of the rights and wrongs of his beliefs, it is very advisable to bring this most unruly and arrogant person into line.
Given that your name is on the list of persons who can ban users, I thought it advisable to bring this to your attention, before it leads to persons leaving the wikipedia - something likely to stroke Netesq's already aggressive actions.
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Hey, I'm not sure what a "box character" is. The only punctuation I remember using in those new redirects was a comma, apostrophe and circumflex (all of which I've seen in other titles). What did I do wrong? I made redirects rather than change the original because they are each alternate spellings, or at least really common typos, that I've seen in multiple places. Tokerboy 03:35 Oct 15, 2002 (UTC)
Hello Pierre, you suggested that I shall delete nonsense articles on my own. First, I'm not an administrator, thus I can't delete an article. Second, after many discussions on the mailinglist I hold the opinion that a 4-eye principle of proposal and deletion is best to avoid errornous deletion. -- JeLuF
give it some time. Im pretty sure they got them. Lir 11:22 Oct 24, 2002 (UTC)
Re the "Lyapunov" article. I'm a little puzzled about your change for the french accents. I have my browser set to UTF-8, and I always use "Alt+0233" for the e-acute. I never have anym problem with it appearing correctly, it's certainly more convenient than the ampersand format.. Eclecticology 23:17 Aug 19, 2002 (PDT)
I'm confused- what box characters??? quercus 05:47 Aug 31, 2002 (PDT)
re box charcaters- I didn't know I was- all the pages that I've put up look fine in my browser (IE 6), as far as I'm aware I havn't entered any unusual characters???
where abouts are the boxes appearing?
About Aztec mythology (and various other kinds), I group together individuals if they come in some sort of logical group on their own. I wouldn't want to give the impression that a half-dozen random gods are connected when they're not, and I think putting unrelated gods on the same page would do so. Plus, all of these may be expanded in the near future (by myself or someone else); there is probably more to say about all of them, and making a separate page for each god makes that easier--especially with variant spellings, trying to move a god about whom I just recieved new information to a new page, and moving all his alternate-spelling redirects from the old page would be complex. User:Tokerboy
Did you get permission to use the Drexel logo's? I am almost certain that if you didn't they would not approve of it. MB 16:24 Sep 30, 2002 (UTC)
LOL..
"I wish I had more to add!"
Wladimir C. Mourao Jr. wrote those famous words in self-reflection at his life's accomplishments, right before his momentary fame as the wikipedia censors came sweeping through.
My thoughts, exactly!! You're an amazing psychic, or I'm an extraordinary communicator :-)
Wladimir Mourao
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Howdy Pierre:
I just created a WikiProject for math; aka Wikipedia:WikiProject Mathematics. I'd love to see any input comments, etc. you might have. Cheers. Chas zzz brown 00:00 Nov 18, 2002 (UTC)
Thanks for the definition of Chiaroscuro... I'll have a more complete article coming _soon_. Annie
Ah. I was a bit confused by Wikipedia:Vandalism_in_progress which reads "If you don't want to call attention to your report, be sure to check the box marked "this is a minor edit" (so it won't show up in most users' recent changes)". I can see this should apply only to the "Vandalism in progress" change. Sorry. I'll leave vandalism alone then. -- Someone else 04:36 Jan 4, 2003 (UTC)
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I left a note for you at talk:Farnsworth Hirsch Fusor (or whatever the spelling is). User:Ray Van De Walker
Hi Pierre, you wrote about the meaning of Lifter in signal processing. Someone wanted to rename it to filter. Which one is correct? Please be not offended, but you seemed to have been a bit dyslexic when you wrote that article, because you also wrote gamnitude and quefrencies instead of magnitude and frequencies. -- Stw 17:09, 24 Feb 2004 (UTC)
- I'm really sorry, it seems that not only you, but all mathematicians are dyslexics ;-) I just read about Cepstrum and now I understand why it's gamnitude and quefrencies -- Stw 17:15, 24 Feb 2004 (UTC)
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