Is it possible to change an Edit summary in the article page history? I just made a change to the Hitler page, and in the edit summary, I wrote "mother" when I meant "paternal grandmother". I know its trivial, and the edit itself was correct, just the edit summary was wrong, but is there a way to change it anyway? ChessPlayer 17:38, 19 May 2004 (UTC)

It's intended to be difficult to go back and change the history. Just make a trivial edit (eg add a few spaces), and add a note to this effect -- The Anome 19:32, 20 May 2004 (UTC)

Moving of Whip

Hi. Could you explain why did you move Whip to Whip (politics)? I can see any reason for that (except lots of links needed to fixed). Przepla 18:52, 20 May 2004 (UTC)

The primary meaning of whip is a thing you hit people or animals with. Whip (politics) is a secondary meaning, just like whip antenna. Currently, almost all of the links to "whip" are for the political meaning. Just wait a bit, and someone will come round with a semi-automatic link-fixing bot and sort the links out. It's all for the best, for the future when we have a better disambiguation feature added, and right now all the links go to the right place via the redirect. -- The Anome 19:30, 20 May 2004 (UTC)

I see. So after such link fixing we will move Whip (implement) to Whip? Thanks for clarification. Przepla 10:01, 21 May 2004 (UTC)

Yes, with references to the other secondary meanings (whip-like antennae, people who "whip" other politicians into line, etc.) in that article, so we will no longer need a separate disambiguation page. -- The Anome 10:05, 21 May 2004 (UTC)

Jewish symbols

Hey, I just noticed you created this, Jewish symbols. This page is going to be a major lightning rod, like any article about Jews. Got any stratgies for keeping it (relatively) NPOV? Burgundavia 09:21, 24 May 2004 (UTC)

I've discovered that we already have a much better article, Jewish symbolism, and so I've turned it into a redirect to that. There is a big fuss in Talk:Jew from someone who believes that the Star of David is offensive to some Jews, but will not be specific -- I'm trying to direct an argument about symbols into an article about symbols. Hopefully if the contributor will be specific, and has a valid point, we may learn something. -- The Anome 09:27, 24 May 2004 (UTC)

Having just read his comments, it appears that is probably little likelyhood of reformation (or actual effort), he just wants to gripe. Meanwhile, the rest of us get on with the task of writing an encyclopedia. Burgundavia 09:37, 24 May 2004 (UTC)

Secure operating systems

The Anome, we were in the middle of a discussion about what was the best way to move the article and preserve the point when you preemtively redirected it. Please at least read the talk page and comment there before changing an article to a redirect. Thanks. - Taxman 15:14, May 28, 2004 (UTC)

My apologies. I didn't see your discussion. -- The Anome 15:17, 28 May 2004 (UTC)

Ok, no big deal I guess. I'm not sure there really needs to be a separate page about operating systems that have met CC certification anyway. - Taxman 15:39, May 28, 2004 (UTC)

How about this: "some operating systems meet certain evaluation criteria: they can be described as security-evaluated operating systems; but this as such does not make them secure." -- The Anome 15:56, 28 May 2004 (UTC)

Onion juice

Way back in 2002 you wrote in fish and chips that they were served with vinegar or onion juice. I'm sure you're right, but in my travels I have never seen them served with onion juice. Do you know if this practice is restricted to a particular part of the UK, or do you know it to be widespread? Thanks. -- Heron 22:05, 30 May 2004 (UTC)

I can't speak for all of the UK, but this certainly seems to be the case in most chip shops in London. -- The Anome 22:25, 30 May 2004 (UTC)

When you get a chance, please see Talk:Psychohistory_(fictional). Thanks, RK 03:15, Jun 11, 2004 (UTC)

Tmxxine

Just as a little note, I'm in the process of moving the "wacky User:tmxxine guys" (we're actually approximately half girls, but oh well) over to blogspot as I think it is a more appropriate forum for what we are trying to do. After our initial deletion, we were advised that we could put whatever we liked on a wikipedia user page, and had done that thinking no-one would mind. yours in cheerful migration, Kaiel 00:38, 16 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Thank you! Good luck with your project. -- The Anome 07:32, 16 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Undeletion request

Need support on an undelete. Talk:Nazism/Seperate-National Socialism I would like your support to undelete this and restore as a proper standing article. Some content was moved to the Nazism article and has been made a redirect. The Nazi article is too long. *National Socialism* was not created by either Mussolini nor Hitler and the history of its development needs to have a seperate article upon it. Please see Wikipedia:Votes for undeletion.WHEELER 18:47, 24 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Something about redheads

Why do you say that green is surely not the most common eye color for redheads. Please give me some proof on this at my talk page and tell me what the most common eye color you think is. User:Heegoop, 26 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Please see my reply on your talk page, and on Talk:red hair. -- The Anome 00:11, 28 Jun 2004 (UTC)

I'm going to agree on the fact that brown is the most common eye color for redheads. In fact I have red hair and brown eyes. Heegoop 17:40, 28 Jun 2004 (UTC)Heegoop

More about colors

This was not meant as a segway. Thanks for removing "ghastly colours out of table box", it looks so much better. 03:41, 30 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Vandal

Thanks about that. The comments were very immature. I had to switch the flaccid sizes, too. Mike H 01:05, Jul 4, 2004 (UTC)

Renaming and VfD history

Thank you for the disambiguation of Spreadeagle, and for moving everything to the appropriate namespaces. One thing I was curious about -- since the text that is now at Spreadeagle (position) survived VfD under the name of Spreadeagle, should the VfD history be moved with it, maybe with a note explaining the name change? I've not run across this situation before. I'm hoping you can fill me in. Thank you. SWAdair | Talk 23:50, 10 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Yes it should. I'll move it. -- The Anome 23:58, 10 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Is Wikipedia a cult?

Hello the Anome, do you think that Wikipedia should be on the list of purported cults? Please read this article Wikipedia:controversial issues. Thanks in advance Andries 14:54, 25 Jul 2004 (UTC)

No, I don't think so. -- The Anome 22:18, 27 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Orbits

Now, where did I put that Physics 101 text book? You have called my bluff: I know what I would like to see but if it's me who has got to write it it's going to take a little time to review what I once knew. Thanks for the encouragement, I think! Paul Beardsell 13:30, 26 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Subud or SUBUD?

Is it appropriate to get a message to you like this? I clicked on "emial this user" but got a "no email address" message. I see you're active on these matters, and I have a question: Is SUBUD an acronym or an anacronym? I would argue it's still an acronym, because SUBUD has about 12,000 members worldwide, and I'm quite sure that 100% of them could vocalize that SUBUD stands for "Susila Buddhi Dharma." If this is the case, then aren't acronyms, in general, capitalized? If so, then the title of this article is wrong. It's "Subud" and it should be "SUBUD." Does this mean that the page has to be "moved?" I'm new here, so I don't want to muck around too much. Please advise. Aloha, Aliman 06:52, 26 Jul 2004 (UTC) Aliman 01:02, 27 Jul 2004 (UTC)

In general, acronyms are capitalised. However, Subud appears to be a special case. A google search for "subud" (http://www.google.com/search?q=subud) shows that the common case in official Subud sites is to treat the word as a proper noun, not an acronym, whilst acknowledging its origins as an acronym. See in particular http://www.subud.org/english/english.Btalk.html . Based on this evidence, I see no reason to move the page, but I've created a redirect from SUBUD to the Subud article to help with the less-common capitalization. -- The Anome 08:39, 27 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for doing that (the redirect). This will be fine. I must also say, being in Subud for 18 years, that I'm quite sure that nobody in Subud carefully thought through this issue and began representing the name in a deliberate way based on that careful thinking through. However, like legally changing a name by the "useage" method, we'll just have to go with what's been done in the past. (P.S.: If I send a note to someone like I did you, I'm supposed to check their "User:Talk" page for a response?) Mahalo. Aliman 18:03, 27 Jul 2004 (UTC)

What I tend to do is to reply here, and drop them a note on their own page that a reply is waiting for them. You can also use the "watchlist" feature to automatically watch any page you want. -- The Anome 21:44, 27 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Starvation economy

I'm curious as to why you removed my 'starvation economy' reference from the polyamory page. It's certainly not essential to the article, but as a fairly commonly-used name for that particular argument I thought it was relevant enough to merit inclusion.

If that's the case, please put it back. However, I'm unsure of the wisdom of linking the words "starvation economy" in the polyamory article, as the term is used figuratively and has nothing to do with real starvation. -- The Anome 08:52, 28 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Hence, "This is sometimes referred to as..." But I'll try to make it a little clearer this time around. - Calair

Laser star hypothesis

Take a look at who the creator of that page was... perhaps the name will ring a bell. Nothing links to it, I think we can just let it sit there. It shouldn't be incorporated into a mainstream article. -- Curps 17:13, 29 Jul 2004 (UTC)

3753 Cruithne

Re: Earth-crosser asteroid, stating that 3753 Cruithne's orbit is � "locked" to the Earth's � is probably going too far. It is one of those horsehoe orbit arrangements --3753 Cruithne has nearly the same period as Earth, so it slowly drifts with regard to Earth (i.e., it has a large synodic period). Being eccentric, it describes a kidney-bean-shaped loop during every Earth year, and the bean drifts until it approaches Earth (every few centuries, if I remember correctly), at which point an exchange of angular momentum is undergone between the two bodies which sends 3753 Cruithne's relative motion going the other way. Now, to my point: 1) Because 3753 Cruithne crosses Venus' orbit, it is just a matter of time before Venus sends it on a different orbit altogether. 2) A large synodic period is not the same as a resonant lock. 3) There is nothing in the Earth-3753 Cruithne relation that dictates the specific orbit; you can freely change 3753 Cruithne's eccentricity (for example) and it won't matter one way or another --again, no lock.

I guess I'm hung up on the term "lock"...

Urhixidur 02:41, 2004 Aug 1 (UTC)

Perhaps "entrained" is a better word? It's the momentum exchange that I'm thinking of as the entraining process. Or maybe I'm using completely inappropriate language, in which case please correct my edit to something more sensible. -- The Anome 14:35, 1 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Islam and clothing

Often I get all pissy and proprietary when someone edits something I've written (yeah, I know it's wrong) but in this case you did a good job. Thanks especially for finding the reference to modest clothing in the Quran.

Zora 10:55, 3 Aug 2004 (UTC) (Buddhist, but trying to be respectful of Islam)

P.S. I'm not sure that my recent article on huna is as NPOV as it could be. Have a whack at it.

Richardchilton/Hanpuk/Oyecomova

Congrats on the fast response to our old friend. FYI, see also User:Shhlomo. V V 23:39, 5 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Can you remove Avigad Berman form the speedy deletion category

i see no reason to delete him, why did you put him there?

The creation of the article is controversial, and a number of things seem wrong with it. Most notably: how can there be a photograph of a fictious person? At the same time, there does not seem any reason for this person/character to be included in an encyclopedia. -- The Anome 17:27, 8 Aug 2004 (UTC)

The photo was given to walla by someone, Avigad is a comic character in the walla website... see what i wrote now in the discussion page of Avigad Berman.

Okay, please direct further comments to Talk:Avigad Berman -- The Anome 17:42, 8 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Human migration

I see that you haven't contributed to this entry since you labelled it Template:Dispute on April 6? Can you help improve it, or does it now meet with your approval? Would you consider removing your notice or contributing your reservations to the Discussion? Wetman 18:40, 9 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Done. -- The Anome 19:44, 9 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Zebibyte and Yobibyte

You deleted zebibyte, but not yobibyte. The Vfd template was for both articles. 66.245.78.88 00:34, 12 Aug 2004 (UTC)

The server was slow. I got there in the end! -- The Anome 00:35, 12 Aug 2004 (UTC)

AVP

Accodring to IMDb (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0370263/), the Alien Vs. Predator movie has capital Vs. in the title. Ausir 10:49, 13 Aug 2004 (UTC)

On the official movie website [1] (http://www.avp-movie.com/), the name is either rendered "Alien vs. Predator" or in all caps as "ALIEN VS. PREDATOR", used on the movie poster (but all-caps is common on movie posters). I assume that the latter is simply the former transformed to all-caps. See the HTML title of the entry page, or text on http://www.avp-movie.com/us/html/homepage.html -- The Anome 10:56, 13 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Seems like they're inconsistant even on their own webpage, as the "vote now" popup uses "Alien Vs. Predator" HTML title. Ausir 11:03, 13 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Then I suggest we go with the standard formatting of "vs.", since they can't make up their minds. -- The Anome 11:11, 13 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Why was clear plastic fetishm removed?

Why don't I see clear plastic fetishism removed? I added this on Aug 24 and I don't see it any more.

Mark Allyn

See Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Clear Plastic fetishism. After a deletion vote, the onus is on the proponents of a page to justify its restoration at Wikipedia:Votes for undeletion. -- The Anome 18:50, 25 Aug 2004 (UTC)

The business and economics forum

Anouncing the introduction of The Business and Economics Forum. It is a "place" where those of us with an interest in the business and economics section of Wikipedia can "meet" and discuss issues. Please drop by: the more contributors, the greater its usefulness. If you know of other Wikipedians who might be interested, please send this to them.

mydogategodshat 19:12, 26 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Mathing

I see you're putting the epidemiology articles into nice maths (a skill I haven't acquired yet). If you're at it and you don't mind, would you do all of them, make them nice and consistent (because they've been written by different people doing things different ways). I am having a big push on getting all the mathematical definitions I need into the section so I can write an article on mathematical modelling in epidemiology, so I will keep adding stuff.

Thanks! But if you do mind, I'll do it myself, later.

--Viki 10:33, 27 Aug 2004 (UTC)

You can find out how to do it at the Wiki maths formatting page (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Formula). Once you get used to it, it's as fast or faster than ASCII art. -- The Anome 10:35, 27 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Disclaimers

I saw that you removed the link to other disclaimers from Wikipedia:General disclaimer but didn't give a reason for doing so. What was it? Jamesday 04:48, 30 Aug 2004 (UTC)

The General Disclaimer should be just that, and not contain any other editorial material. I put the removed material on the talk page [2] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:General_disclaimer#Comparing_with_other_disclaimers) with the link to the page comparing disclaimers. -- The Anome 12:34, 30 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Mah Nah Mah Nah (or however you spell it)

Is it too late for a Did you know...? - can't believe it has pornographic overtones! Whilst I'm here...er, have you done something with the Wikipedia logo for your talk page? Cos the strange thing about it - if it is you to blame - is that it also overlays my other IE6 Wikipedia window! Disconcerting. --bodnotbod � .....TALKQuietly) 20:07, Aug 31, 2004 (UTC)

Categories.

Note: Discussion moved to Template talk:Categorybrowsebar

Small caps on categorybrowsebar

What's with the small caps? I think they're really sort of ugly, especially in my browser. AaronSw 23:13, 3 Sep 2004 (UTC)

What browser do you use? -- The Anome 23:14, 3 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Nice refs in a couple of articles; I expanded hypospadias

You have put really excellent online full text references in at least a couple of the articles I have contributed to (hypospadias and sexual differentiation come to mind). I just noticed you started the hypospadias article; I gave it some expansion this week. Alteripse 02:02, 11 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Thank you! And thanks for your work on these articles. -- The Anome 08:39, 11 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Leotard picture

I've restored the image of the Kigurumi costume incorporating a leotard again and raised issue with its removal over at Talk:Leotard. Just letting you know in case you wish to discuss it. Bryan 18:01, 11 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Paul Kurtz

That was not a personal attack on Paul. It was a valid criticism. When it comes to ancient history Paul is out of his field, just read his books. I can't understand you, guys. You just don't make sense. I tried to say Paul was just naive, but that was blown away. Someone likes anti-religious. I am sure you will put back the part that was my entry. Right? Charlie Turek magician charlesturek@comcaast.net

142.177.109.56

Please see my question at Wikipedia:Vandalism_in_progress#142.177.109.56. Thanks. -- orthogonal 14:16, 16 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Whitening

I see you listed Whitening on Wikipedia:Cleanup on September 10th (now at Wikipedia:Cleanup/September#September 10), saying

needs fact-checking and expansion

I disagree (as I stated on the latter page): I think it should just be (after a fact-check) merged with White noise. Feel free to either remove the cleanup directive and the Cleanup/September entry or remove the merge directive (I've kept both in the article). Please let me know if you do the latter. - dcljr 21:51, 23 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Data Management Wiki Committee

Thank you for your contribution to one, or more, articles that are now organized under Data management.

Because of your previous intrest, you are recieving an invitation to become a founding member of the Data Management Wiki Committee.

The members, of course, will form and solidify the purpose, rules, officers, etc. but my idea (to kick things off) is to establish a group of us who will take responsiblity to see that the ideas of Data management are promoted and well represented in Wikipedia articles.

If you are willing to join the committee, please go to Category_talk:Data_management and indicate your acceptance of this invitation by placing your three tilde characters in the list.

KeyStroke 01:13, 2004 Sep 25 (UTC)

Alexa reach rank measurement for wikipedia.org

If I follow the page history correctly, you started the Alexa reach rank measurement stats on Wikipedia:Awareness_statistics. I assume, without having researched, that that's different than the Alexa traffic ranking. Can you include a link to the query used to garner the data? I'll create a chart for it soon. Also, as time passes and data accumulate, you might consider the frequency of updates as discussed on the talk page. Thanks. --Kbh3rd 03:17, 29 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Chapman Stick page

Thanks for the correction.

Vancegloster 07:24 30 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Official invitation

Hi!

This is a message to let you know that there is now a UK-specific Wikipedia community page at Wikipedia:UK wikipedians' notice board. It would be great if you could come and get involved! -- Graham ☺ | Talk 23:07, 1 Oct 2004 (UTC)

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