User talk:CryptoDerk/2004

Old Talk

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You're welcome. Greeting is one of my self-appointed jobs here (actually all jobs here are self-appointed pretty much.) Incidentally, since you have an interest in mathematics and computer science you might want to take a look at Wikipedia:WikiProject Mathematics and Wikipedia:WikiProject Computing. Those are coordination pages for the math and CS articles respectively, and have some useful information for people who want to contribute in those areas. Isomorphic 08:00, 31 Mar 2004 (UTC)

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CryptoDerk,

I've noticed your activity in and around various crypto pages in the last few days. Welcome to the WP and in particular to its Crypto Corner. Those of us active here could use another quality set of eyes and fingers.

You may find interesting the Talk:Cryptography (and User Talk:Arvindn/crypto) pages for some background on treatment of crypto on the WP. MattCrypto has made considerable recent efforts at some major structural changes in the overall coverage, and some major edits at cryptography as well. Some of these were already under consideration as can be seen from the relevant talk pages, but he got things off what seemed to have been a bit of a metastable balance point, as it were. List of cryptography topics used to be 'list of cryptology topics', for instance.

There is some need, in my view, for more on the Books on cryptography article (and as a recent/current student your experience may be of particular relevance) but please see the Talk page as there is some agreement on attempting an annotated for usefulnees (and so possibly attackable as POV) approach here as most useful (and less misleading) for WP readers.

There would appear to be a considerable chance at making publicly available (in a net of chasing links around sense) a responsible and accurate crypto reference. I hope you can continue to help with that.

ww 15:35, 1 Apr 2004 (UTC)

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Hi, CryptoDerk, and welcome. I'm a fairly experienced Wikipedia author in the mathematics and computer science area, and I'm probably to blame for a lot of the writing you'll see, especially in pages related to data structures (see my user page for details). I noticed your edits to linked list and agree; in fact, for a long time I've wanted to rip out that horrid example and put something a lot simpler in that doesn't require so much knowledge of C. I'd like your opinion. If you have any questions about how things work on here, or any suggestions for articles I can help with, please feel free to contact me. Derrick Coetzee 23:33, 1 Apr 2004 (UTC)

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You are a very quick learner, just a few days after you discovered WP you already become a Recent Changes junkie fighting vandals. Good work. Just a small note - filling "Summary" field would help to notice your alert on the Vandalism page; you couldn't know I was watching that user as well and was ready for blocking the IP. andy 10:10, 2 Apr 2004 (UTC)

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May I ask why you moved message authentication code to Message Authentication Code? Usually gratuitous capitals are not used in article titles. And why did you leave the links to that page unchanged, in lower-case, rather than bypassing the newly created redirect page? Michael Hardy 00:12, 5 Apr 2004 (UTC)

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Hi CryptoDerk! Though this is a (somewhat) belated welcome, thanks for your contribs (especially to crypto) all the same. — Matt 22:42, 12 Apr 2004 (UTC)

WikiProject Cryptography

Thought you might like to know about the proposed Wikipedia:WikiProject Cryptography — the idea is to collect together some useful information about the cryptography pages and have a place for general discussions. Let me know if you have any ideas or comments, thanks! — Matt 10:13, 26 Apr 2004 (UTC)

spellyng (or spelling)

CD, I just noticed one of your edits which prompts me to drop you this note. It's not likely to take too much time from your studies, and may provide some 'donnish' amusement. There is now an official discussion page on the question of cypher v cipher. (See the WikiProject Cryptography page and follow the discussions link). As you can see there is some furiously active involvement. Reminds me of the (what I've heard about it anyway) London Times letters to the editor page.

Anyway, you might want an amusement break or even to chime (or chyme, though that joke has been exploded by Securiger) in. Best wishes, ww 18:32, 1 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Pillar of Autumn speedy delete

Why did you mark Pillar of Autumn for speedy deletion? --Diberri | Talk 18:23, Aug 26, 2004 (UTC)

"Fairly obvious" is fairly subjective :-) I asked because it was not obvious to me why you marked it as such. IMO, the article didn't deserve an SD flag; it lacked context and just as easily could have been placed on cleanup. --Diberri | Talk 18:46, Aug 26, 2004 (UTC)

Userpage vandalism

Thanks for reverting the vandalism on my userpage. Much appreciated. --Diberri | Talk 20:49, Aug 26, 2004 (UTC)

On Testament (metal)

Good work. I would have suggested moving to Testament (band), but you have already done that. Unless you're about to create articles on the albums, don't create links to them. [[User:Poccil|Peter O. (Talk)]] 21:05, Aug 26, 2004 (UTC)

re: Academic Decathlon

Yeah, in my 2 years, the highest my team made was only 4th in TX regionals (altho it was later found the 3rd place one was disqualified by grades but we found out too late for State). Too bad they cancelled the program the year after I left, now no schools in Abilene, Texas have AcDec anymore.

Anyway, it is nice to see the article spruced up.  :) -- EmperorBMA|話す 18:36, 29 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Adminship

Hi there. Thanks for your vote- I really appreciate it! To my dismay, I just found out that the number of contributions listed is not correct. Rather than the 1,906 that it states, I have 1,492. If you want to change your vote, you can (of course) feel free to do so. I will in no way hold it against you, and you have my appreciation no matter what you decide to do. Thanks for your time! -[[User:Frazzydee|Frazzydee|✍]] 23:33, 29 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Al Fasoldt

Hey. I just thought I'd let you know that I've also had a little email exchange with Al of the Syracuse Standard here. Alex Krupp 16:41, Aug 31, 2004 (UTC)

Support

Thank you very much for your support during my recent run for adminship. It meant a lot to me, especially since you did not know me that well. Hopefully we can get to know one another more extensively in future. Mike H 03:15, Sep 7, 2004 (UTC)

Thanks.

Thanks for your support for my adminship. Jayjg 16:43, 14 Sep 2004 (UTC)

As of (DATE)

It is proper to link [[As of 2004]] instead of As of 2004 because we can regularly check what links to "As of 2004" to find articles that might go out of date. We can't tell that from a link to "2004" because that won't tell the difference between "In 2004 he won the World Series of Poker", which will always be true, and "As of 2004 he is the world poker champion", which may change. - Furrykef

Doyle Brunson

Heya. I just wanted to say that you've done a great job fleshing out Doyle Brunson. Thanks for your work. Kairos 23:41, 18 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Woolgatherer

I am sorry, I just LOVE this wikipedia format stuff.. it's great. What I had planned was to get my page all set up and then never touch it again... cept for the articles I edited and such... I plan on being a significant contributor to wiki, and you have no idea how much I learned in the 24 hours that I built that userpage regarding all aspects of editing a wikipedia page. Does the ammount of text on my userpage significantly affect storage space? Woolgatherer

Reply

"A good start is to add a little information about yourself, possibly including contact information (email, instant messaging, etc), a photograph, your real name, your location, information about your areas of expertise and interest, likes and dislikes, other homepages, and so forth. Obviously, this will depend on how comfortable you are with respect to privacy." basically what I have right... says up to couple pages of personal info... I am right in the margins... it will look better once I include more about wiki..

Poker

Excuse my newbie cluelessness in figuring out this talk stuff, but... good work on the poker players. I'll go around and try to add stuff where I can, when I can. 2005

Candidate Scratched

Since there is great opposition to my nomination for administratorship, I've asked for it to be withdrawn. I've posted an explanation of frequent edits on Wikipedia:Requests for adminship. Ave! PedanticallySpeaking 19:16, Sep 22, 2004 (UTC)

Amarillo Slim

Yet another instance of my following the letter and not the spirit of Wikipedia policy. I had blindly assumed that nicknames should be avoided as titles if possible. I didn't know who or what Amarillo Slim was until I visited the article; keep that in mind. [[User:Poccil|Peter O. (Talk)]] 18:05, Sep 26, 2004 (UTC)

Stu Ungar image

I'm not sure that image of Stu Ungar is fair use. Several of the images on the page that is on are taken from other websites and news sources. I've contacted both him and the owner of this site where he originally took it from. I'll let you know what I hear back from them. If you have any additional information, let me know.

• You are probably right. I don't have any additional information. I stumbled upon the Stu Ungar page by pressing "Random Page". I thought it might be nicer with a picture.--AAAAA 23:12, 26 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Incidentally, I'm currently trying to get permission to use poker photos from various places, and I'm working on poker player bios.. you may be interested in User:CryptoDerk/poker. Cheers. CryptoDerk 23:06, Sep 26, 2004 (UTC)

• Nice. I will check it out.--AAAAA 23:12, 26 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Doyle Brunson photo

Go ahead and put it up for deletion. Nido 01:01, 28 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Poker Player Earnings

While I think in general your work on the poker players is awesome, I'd suggest no posting career earnings in the articles. This information is subject to change daily, literally. Unless someone stayed on top of it basically forever, the information will be always outdated. Also, I doubt the numbers will ever truly be accurate, as there is no central repository of results prior to about 1999. Having a link to something like the Hendon Mob database, while also not really accurate, does cover the base pretty well. 2005

You're a sysop!

I'm pleased to let you know that, consensus being reached, you are now an administrator. Congratulations!. You should read the relevant policies and other pages linked to from the administrators' reading list before carrying out tasks like deletion, protection, banning users, and editing protected pages such as the Main Page. Most of what you do is easily reversible by other sysops, apart from page history merges and image deletion, so please be especially careful with those. You might find the new administrators' how-to guide helpful. Cheers! -- Cecropia | Talk 01:56, 30 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Hello

I see you voted against my nomination for adminship w/o comment. I enquire as to your motivation / reasoning utilized in reaching such a conclusion. We have not, to my knowledge, had any contact previously whatsoever. Thanking you in advance, Sam [Spade] 15:06, 4 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Well, while I don't intend to make much use of them, I would actually enjoy the show of community support, and would also be willing to use them when necessary (as requested primarilly, I'd assume). Frankly, not having them now its hard to imagine what they are like, or how I would have time for a whole new set of chores which I am not currently engaged in. That said, I am regularly in contact w new users and others w problems of various sorts, and am never adverse to providing assistance. In summary, while I don't know you well enought to expect your vote in favor, I would ask you to consider withdrawing your opposition. Win or lose, I consider the whole process a signifigant componant of the wiki-community process, and would like to feel that a minimum of persons sincerely oppose my empowerment, however modest. If you would like more information regarding myself, I would recommend reviewing my talk page archives, or user page. Thank you for your kind attentions, Sam [Spade] 16:26, 4 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Subst:VFD

The text of subst:vfd is a violation of Wikipedia:Avoid self-references. anthony (see warning)

Because it is possible the message might be unprotected in future, and would be a likely candidate for vandalism. - That's a pretty dumb reason to use subst. Just don't unprotect it.

Actually, the reason is that VfD is a message that will only stay for a short time, so the advantages of msg (mainly being easy to replace) don't matter much, while the disadvantages (mainly being harder to understand in wikisource) matter more. - the violation of Wikipedia:Avoid self-references is a far greater factor than "being harder to understand in wikisource". I find the template much easier to understand, anyway.

I just thought of a new reason. When the discussion moves from VfD to the talk page as a result of the discussion getting too long, the VfD notice is changed to add a link to the talk page telling people to discuss it there. If subst is used, this involves changing "that page" to "the talk page". - This is completely obsolete. We no longer move discussion to the talk pages before the VfD is over, and we allow parameters in messages anyway.

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IMO it is smarter to use {{msg:vfd}}, because that makes it easy to find all places by looking at Special:Whatlinkshere/MediaWiki:Vfd. - One point in favor of using the message.

And for me {{msg:vfd}} is easier to read than the pasted version :). - Another.

Using SUBST instead of message makes it much harder to find instances of the message which have mistakenly not been removed. - this is the same as the first.

And, of course, using msg avoids the violation of Wikipedia:Avoid self-references.

So, to sum up, using subst does not have consensus support, and violates Wikipedia policies, so I will continue to switch it. anthony (see warning) 14:42, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Welcome back

I see that you are now back to contributing in the crypto corner and have even entered your name at the WikiProject. Glad to have you back from your move to (grad school was it?) and to learn that you have not only been proposed but added to the sysop list. I would have added my two cents (favorable) but didn't even notice it was happening.

I guess I don't get around much to some places on WP! Glad to see you back. ww 20:39, 5 Oct 2004 (UTC)

WP:VFU

Okay okay, I get it. I'm quite new to this thing, sorry for the error. Gabs 06:03, Oct 6, 2004 (UTC)

Edits to WSOP

hey thanks for reverting my redundant linking on the wsop page. i was trying to do it myself right after i realized it was already there but i just started wiki and didnt know how. made the hold em page because there were a few articles linking to an empty hold em page; didnt realize there was one already. (From User:Yojimb0)

The Crew

The "crew" are just a bunch of friends (now some ex-friends) who ESPN decided to play up. They are no more notable in talking about Moneymaker than 100 other entities that offered him something, but it's no surprise that ESPN might want to bring that up since ESPN was trying to pretend like this crew was something. In other words, ESPN wanted to promote what they were promoting. Also, Boyd probably has the most negative reputation of any human in poker, so its kinda like "Charles Manson wanted him to join the Family." I don't think it is a good idea to link any innocent person with someone most people see as dishonorable, unless there is a genuine link of course. 2005

Neutrality's RfA

Oh dear. Thank you for picking that up. I didn't recall having voted, but I was obviously wrong. Ambi 07:32, 9 Oct 2004 (UTC)

My nomination for adminship

Thank you for supporting my nomination for adminship. I will do my best to serve Wikipedia. --Slowking Man 23:57, Oct 12, 2004 (UTC)

Admin nomination

Thanks for voting for me! - Ta bu shi da yu 06:12, 17 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Hi, just saw your user-page note about your eye; hope it improves and that it wasn't Wikipedia-induced! — Matt 17:46, 18 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Re: Confused

Beats me what that's about. I guess whoever it is has visited one day and found a message left for a previous user of whatever IP address he was using at the time (the IP address he used to post on my user page has only had one message left on it, and not by me).

Not understanding that he shares an IP address with other people, and has recieved someone else's message because he hasn't got a user account, he's gone into a huff (and formed some vaguely amusing elistist conspiracy) over what's probably one of the standard boilerplate texts. Without knowing who he is or what he's referring to, there's not a lot I can do about it.

If you can figure out who it is, then by all means let me know or (if you feel like it, or can be bothered) explain the situation to them.

-- Cheers, BW 21:37, Nov 2, 2004 (UTC)

Zech's logarithms

Why the plural article title, rather than the singular? Singular is the default in Wikipedia style. Some obvious exceptions exist: Beattles, Joint Chiefs of Staff, orthogonal polynomials. Why is this an exception? Michael Hardy 23:38, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I haven't spammed you yet!

Hi! I don't think I spammed you with a note about a WikiReader Cryptography the last time round, so I thought that you might like to know about the "Article of the Day" box, located here Template:WikiReaderCryptographyAOTD-Verbose. It cycles through the 70 odd articles for the WikiReader, and hopefully they'll all eventually get good enough so we can publish a WikiReader. That's the plan, anyway...but, of course, you should be concentrating on recovering with your eye and your finals! — Matt 23:53, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Hello again; I'm quite intimidated by your new photo! Is it to help scare off potential vandals? ;-) Best regards. — Matt 22:04, 21 Nov 2004 (UTC)

US place names

My main gripe with US writers (human and robotic) is that they assume that a state name is sufficient identification of a place. The state name is important (and I do not believe I have ever deleted one unless it was already in the name), but USA (or similar) needs to be added for complete definition.

Those of us outside USA often joke that USA-ites are unaware of anything outside their country. This is used as evidence of US arrogance. We read of surveys in US showing people in favour of "troops in the Persian Gulf" but being unable to show where the Persian Gulf is. (Us Wiki types know it is really called "The Gulf" which makes it even harder to find!).

In my travels around Wikipedia I have found many nations leave out the country name. In some cases I had to do research to find the country name. I have even found that some of my contributions were guilty!

The one nation that always seems to get it right (IMHO) is Japan. So far they are spot-on.

If including the country is not part of the "rules", then please change the rules.

HTH. Thortful 06:38, 22 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Poker

16:48, 25 Nov 2004 CryptoDerk m (See also - link to poker jargon.. it's needed in the "See also" section because of the length)

16:47, 25 Nov 2004 CryptoDerk m (Reverted edits by Gtabary to last version by 82.173.12.52)

Hi, your revert is more that meaningfull: I did not spot the link poker jargon first. Though the initial 14:47, 25 Nov 2004 24.154.189.13 Sandbag (poker) contribution was richer than what is available on the jargon page. I actually merged it into poker. Aren't we losing a nice contrib ?  :-) --Gtabary 18:02, 25 Nov 2004 (UTC)

USA

That's fine. Let me know on toadhall@fastmail.fm when the authors of USA pages decide to add the country name, or a program goes around adding whatever you think is a PC name. Meanwhile I'll avoid Wikipedia. Thortful 21:41, 27 Nov 2004 (UTC)

RfA

When I VfDed Lil Jon it had no edit history, the hoax article was created in a single edit (I suspect the undeletion restored history of previously deleted articles of the same name too). At later points I have readded the VfD header because voting was going on at VfD and not having a VfD header while it's being voted on is bad form. --fvw*† 05:33, 2004 Dec 3 (UTC)

Adminship

Salve, CryptoDerk!
Back in September I was a candidate for adminship, but I withdrew and since then, I've been working away and have now decided to try again, nominating myself. Though you voted to oppose at that time, you seemed receptive to a future candidacy and, therefore, I'd appreciate your vote on the new candidacy at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/PedanticallySpeaking2. Ave atque vale! PedanticallySpeaking 19:09, Dec 9, 2004 (UTC)

RFC pages on VfD

Should RFC pages be placed on VfD to be deleted? I'm considering removing Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Slrubenstein, Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Jwrosenzweig and Wikipedia:Requests for comment/John Kenney from WP:VFD. Each of them was listed by CheeseDreams. Your comments on whether I should do this would be appreciated. - Ta bu shi da yu 03:30, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)

USAD

Being in AD you idiot, I would think I would know more than you. Science is not an area of study. Super quiz is. It isn't always science either, but I guess you already knew that. It is true that Demidec is quicker than Acalon in releasing their materials (by almost 5 months). Demidec isn't better, it is error-prone, i've used the darn thing. It's riddled with typos. I guess that's POV though. You are so stupid. I will continue to change it back regardless of what happens.--naryathegreat 16:27, Dec 12, 2004 (UTC)

Okay, sorry, I didn't really mean to write that. I just felt angry. What you have to realize is that you do not own the AD page, I can edit too. What I stated about Demidec (which I went back and looked at) is true, and I think it is unbiased. There is POV and then there are thing s that are just true (you can say the statement "Hitler was deranged" is POV, but it's still true). Anyway, you can't just eliminate all that stuff.--naryathegreat 16:35, Dec 12, 2004 (UTC)

Okay, first things first: I have been doing Acadeca (what we call it here, it's amazing the diversity of short names for AD) for 2 years. The first however, was just Junior Varsity, so I couldn't be on a team. Anyway, I did pretty well at our last competition so I like to think of myself as being good at it. Also, even if the tied into theme thing did evolve over time, what it's like now is a revolution about the theme. So we should say that in the article. As for Demidec, my experience with them has been the same consistently and my coaches say the same- and yes by error-prone I meant errata, and yes the official USAD material does have errata, but it is important to note that almost all tested info comes from it now, so no sane person doesn't buy it. And the math doesn't change- well question wise, but does the SAT change every year? No one would say yes, because changing questions is a given. I would say the same thing here, but mention it if you like, I don't care. In mathematics, I meant the subjects covered does not change. And also, geometry always manages to sneak in somehow, even if it's not as Geometry, so that seems irrelevant. As to the references to 2004, I was trying to put it into context for someone who doesn't already know exactly how AD works. I didn't remove your general statements either - I added mine in parenthesis. What I said about Demidec wasn't meant as abuse, I meant it as fact.--naryathegreat 01:10, Dec 13, 2004 (UTC)

Yes, much better. I never meant there was anything wrong with it in the first place, I was just trying to expand it. I guess the addition of the picture can't make anyone too mad :). Nice to have met you, and good luck in the future!--naryathegreat 03:31, Dec 13, 2004 (UTC)

courtesy request

Hi CryptoDerk, would you object to your picture being used on Widow's-peak? Duk 19:13, 12 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Thanks! Duk 02:03, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Nomination

Hi Crypto, yes sure, you may nominate me. And thank you for vote of confidence.

Duk 07:05, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Email re blocking

Hi Crypto, I had sent you an email about being accidentally blocked due to my AOL IP address being the same as that of someone named Slim Jim. While I saw from the note on your user page that you're pretty busy right now, I think it would be good if accidental blockings could in general be reverted as soon as possible. Note that the block has expired now, so no harm done I guess. Thanks, — Asbestos | Talk 11:53, 19 Dec 2004 (UTC)

That's fine, like I said: no harm done, I wouldn't even have had a chance to get on Wikipedia these last two days anyway. It's odd that IP blocks bock registered users as well, but I guess that's an issue that can't be dealt by you. Thanks, — Asbestos | Talk 14:49, 19 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for catching and reverting the latest vandalism to my User page. --Slowking Man 18:41, Dec 23, 2004 (UTC)

Blocked IP-address 80.202.28.39

You blocked the IP-address 80.202.28.39 accusing him of vandalism and adding nonsense on the page about Pornography. However, what he wrote is true. – Peter J. Acklam 23:51, 23 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Golden Nugget casinos

Would you have a second to go to Talk:Golden Nugget (resort) and comment on the organizational question? The issue is whether to keep both GN casinos in the same article, as they are now, or to break them out into Golden Nugget Las Vegas and Golden Nugget Laughlin (which are now redirects). In light of the amount of work you've done on gambling-related articles, I'd appreciate hearing your thoughts. Thanks! JamesMLane 00:00, 24 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Blocking of 62.255.32.9

I've now removed that block. Said IP address has now been reallocated, and is currently the one that my connection is on. I am certainly not a vandal personally! David Newton 00:05, 24 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Actually, thinking about it that IP address must be one of the NTL proxy servers. Still, it is an understandable mistake, since it really was vandalism that prompted the block. David Newton 10:02, 24 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for revert

Hey CryptoDerk, thanks for reverting the vandalism to my user page. —Tkinias 02:06, 24 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Six degrees of separation?

Hiya. I came across your user page as I was browsing the history for an article, and I started reading and found that you went to the Speed School and just finished your M.S. there. You probably know one of my closest friends from undergrad, who also just finished his M.S. in computer science from Speed -- Ty Anderson. I went to Transy with him in the class of '98. Animated Cascade ^talk 10:25, 24 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Merry Christmas

and thanks again! Duk 21:55, 24 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Block

I was blocked (by you) as a IP when under my user name. Please explain. Lee S. Svoboda 23:02, 25 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Re: Hello!

Just saying hello, from one Waterloo student to another. There are a few UW students around here, in case you're interested. Looking at the page history of the University of Waterloo article is a good place to find them! Good work on the Keith Geddes article. If you work with the Maple group you might want to seriously expand the article on Maple, as I think it's lacking a bit now. Cheers. CryptoDerk 03:02, Dec 28, 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for the kind words. I'm not actually "working with the Maple group"; in fact, I'm an undergrad Software Engineer! I merely take a very active interest in the goings on of the School of Computer Science and, to a somewhat lesser extent, the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. I may take a look at the Maple article sometime this week. Revived 03:48, 28 Dec 2004 (UTC)

List of people on stamps of Nigeria note

The "continue from 1996" notes are reminders that only stamp appearances up to a certain date are included. In retrospect, it would be less confusing to incorporate into the article directly - "...people appearing on stamps between 1840 and 1996" or some such. Stan 23:47, 29 Dec 2004 (UTC)

External link(s)

Is there a reason you're changing External links to remove the s when there is only one link? This seems pointless, and will have to be changed back if another link is added. --SPUI 02:11, 30 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Ban

I would like you to Ban 64.12.117.13 for vandalism on WP:VIP. Ask User:Evercat for details. Lee S. Svoboda 03:50, 1 Jan 2005 (UTC)