User talk:StradivariusTV

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I reverteed your edit of octopuses => octopi. See octopus for reason. - UtherSRG 01:05, Feb 15, 2005 (UTC)

VERY INTERESTING.

Isn't it, though? StradivariusTV 20:42, 6 August 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for your contributions

Thanks for all the work you've done in putting in the conjugations for Old English and Greek (and maybe elsewhere, i haven't noticed). These things are very important but time-consuming, and I'm glad you're willing to do some of the work. Benwing 05:21, 10 August 2005 (UTC)

Thanks! Sorry for the mess I made of Greek nouns before. I thought character codes were preferred, so I had to enter them by hand (which is bound to introduce error). StradivariusTV 06:15, 10 August 2005 (UTC)

aslımda biz ameliyat görüntülerini izlemek istiyorduk ama bir türlü bulamadı lütfen bize yardımcı olun

aslımda biz ameliyat görüntülerini izlemek istiyorduk ama bir türlü bulamadı lütfen bize yardımcı olun

You might want to check out the Turkish Wikipedia. Strad 00:06, 17 November 2005 (UTC)

Question

Why is vandalism a loser that nobody will ever like?

Just curious, but what is your opinion about political stencils? Are the vandalism, propaganda, or art?

-Nina

If you have a response email me: ninas(at)easystreet.com

Good Catch

Thanks for fixing Transmission Control Protocol - that darned Google Toolbar bug strikes again! I usually double check, but I was at work and heard somebody coming... forgot to go back. ;) — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib Reverts} 01:20, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

No problem! Strad 01:26, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

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In re campi

See Wiktionary’s entry for campi. I have provided three citations for it, thereby proving that it exists. Raifʻhār Doremítzwr 19:07, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

Works for me. Strad 20:32, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

TeX

Hi. Just a note. It is not good to convert HTML to TeX in certain inline formulas, per WP:MSM. The reason is that TeX formulas can look too large and take too much room when embedded in text (as opposed to when they are on their own line). Just I thought I'd let you know. You can reply here if you have comments. Cheers, Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 16:39, 22 July 2007 (UTC)

I know, but I thought exp(x²) looked bad right next to a closing parenthesis. I'll keep what you said in mind the next time I decide whether to change inline formulas. Strad 19:39, 22 July 2007 (UTC)

You're right too. Uhm... :) Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 00:50, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

An old Proto-Germanic contribution of yours

Hi, Stradivarius!

In 2005, you put a table of a demonstrative pronoun into the article Proto-Germanic. This was translated into the corresponding German article, when it was created in 2006. Recently, the table has been suggested for deletion from the German article, because of lack of sources. (Incidently, you added a source to the English article, in the same edit; but you have not explicitly stated that this was the source for your edit.)

If you remember or could reconstruct your source, could you please provide it? Cf. de:Diskussion:Urgermanisch#Ulmos Allzweck-Pronomemfrage, and the further links and references there.JoergenB 21:30, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

Diophantus

Hi Strad. Rewording from integral to integer is fine. I'm a bit confused by the other change you made, which was not mentioned in the edit summary. You changed "he calls the equation...'absurd' because it would lead to a negative value for $x$" from "$4=4x+20$" to "$4x^{2}=4x+20$." Neither seems obviously a wonderful example. In the first, the solution is negative, but it's not a quadratic. In the second, there is one positive and one negative solution, and from the article I'd have thought Diophantus would take the positive and disregard the negative one. I just need you to clarify your source, since of course the article presents this as an example from Diophantus. Unless you had a good reason for the change, it should go back; in any case, the sentence, while confusingly placed sandwiched between references to quadratic equations, simply speaks of solutions he accepted, presumably more generally. Wareh (talk) 19:02, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

My mistake. I just got confused by the fact that it's a linear equation surrounded mainly by discussion of quadratics. Strad (talk) 00:42, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

Well, it is confusingly presented, but to really clarify it we'd need a citation to a source that could be checked. Wareh (talk) 03:12, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

Hard spaces again

Hi Strad. Your further contribution at our little development page User:Noetica/ActionMOSVP would be appreciated. I hope you'll come back and take another look, now.

– Noetica^♬♩ Talk 07:28, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

Hello

Hi Strad. I can't access the http://www.jstor.org/pss/606376 to get information about Manchu loanwords. Did you give me the right website address? Sonic99 (talk) 01:27, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Yes, it's right, but unfortunately JSTOR requires a subscription to access the articles and they don't let anyone reproduce them. Do you belong to a public library or have access to a university library? Chances are they can give you access. If you want I can give a bit of a summary of what they say about Manchu loanwords. Strad (talk) 02:49, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Hi Strad. I don't belong to a public library or an university library in the U.S. Yes, please give me some informations of what they say about Manchu loanwords in Mandarin Chinese from http://www.jstor.org/pss/606376. I want to provide more information to the Mandarin Language Wikipedia Article. Thanks. Sonic99 (talk) 03:09, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

cymraeg

Thanks for your work on the Welsh wikipedia. I took the liberty of making your user talk page over there redirect to this one, in case not everybody saw the message on your user page. Regards, — Alan^✉ 04:35, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

Thanks! Strad (talk) 04:47, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

Inline math notation

I am surprised that is the format being encouraged (no LaTeX inline). The problem with using regular text in line is that they do not look the same as the LaTeX symbols. This make the articles look sloppy, I think. Please see the discussion sanpaz (talk) 03:30, 17 July 2009 (UTC)

Buck Palace

Pnawn da i chi. Just out of interest - why is this and inappropriate use of cquote? Diolch. --Joopercoopers (talk) 14:42, 12 August 2009 (UTC)

Cquote is for pull quotes—that is, quotes that are not part of the flow of the article text. You can see in this article that there's an excerpt of a Kennedy speech that's just kind of floating there, isolated from the rest of the article. That's what cquote is appropriate for. Strad (talk) 17:42, 12 August 2009 (UTC)

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Appreciation of your edit to 'Newton's laws of motion'

Just to say that your changes look neat and rational to me. When I first saw the article, it struck me that it was an awkward amalgam of two things, trying to give the modern stuff in a straightforward way, and then mixing in the historical dimension. Lots of readers will want to skip the history and that's fine, it's good to have it there, but best in a way that's easy to skip. It looked like a big job of reorganization and repackaging, and I didn't dare then to try it, but it looks as if you've started it nicely. With good wishes Terry0051 (talk) 19:46, 7 September 2009 (UTC)

Thanks! Strad (talk) 20:22, 7 September 2009 (UTC)

Ox phos

Thanks for the formatting, I like the larger version since the subscripts are otherwise a bit small to read easily (I'm partially-sighted myself so it might be a bit easier for you). Tim Vickers (talk) 17:10, 25 September 2009 (UTC)

The larger version looks cleaner as well. Plain HTML can't deal with simultaneous superscripts and subscripts quite right. Strad (talk) 17:17, 25 September 2009 (UTC)

Floating Table of Contents

Could you explain me why some articles (particularly Boaz, on which I have been working for a long time, in my spare hours) supposedly do not need a floating toc? The Boaz article, per example, does not have extensive headlines or titles which make a floating toc inconvenient. My intention with a floating one is occupying less room, for practical and aesthetic reasons. I have an rsi, and it is very uncomfortable for me having to overuse my limbs to read long articles (and I like long ones).--Algorithme (talk) 22:43, 19 October 2009 (UTC)

There is a discussion about this here. Every time you have forced the TOC layout (and it seems you have done this numerous times), it has been reverted. Take a look at the featured articles; every one I've clicked on lets the TOC take the default position. Strad (talk) 02:25, 20 October 2009 (UTC)

File:Humanist_and_Italic_a.png

Could you correct the spelling of minuscule in this image, since it's displayed in an article? I'd do it myself, but I've never nearned to edit a PNG image. Many thanks, Wareh (talk) 19:02, 9 November 2009 (UTC)

Unfortunately I no longer have the image nor do I have equipment to create a new one. It's probably just better to remove it from the article. Strad (talk) 19:24, 9 November 2009 (UTC)

Ok, thanks for the reply. It doesn't bother me that much. Someone more skilled than I can correct it eventually. Wareh (talk) 15:27, 10 November 2009 (UTC)

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Ground meat

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