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Hey, KQ, thanks a lot for finishing up that wikification of my text. I didn't notice that you'd finished. Anyway, thanks again, it looks a lot better. It still needs a lot of work wikifying (breaking into chunks, making less colloquial, and de-opinionating). I wish I had the time to do it. Maybe I'll take some time, do it for 15 minutes a day... --LMS :Well, I think it's only slightly too colloquial, but that's of course just my opinion. I like a certain amount of informality in discussion, and I think subjects should generally be presented as simply as possible. (I can see the troops gathering on the horizon against my "dumbing down" of edcuation....) :-D Thanks for cleaning up my birthday page (November 24)! I'm getting the hang of the format now. -- Claudine You're welcome. Glad to be of help. I think it was [Paul Robinson]? who started the date entries; he set up an example at Historical anniversaries/Example and I've just been following it. Unfortunately the link to it was deleted; I guess I must have done that in one of my many edits on the main page. --KQ If you have a message for me, can I suggest you add a pointer on my page drj. This re BCPL/Talk (where you said "message for drj" in the change log comment. Anyway, I've read what you have to say and done some editing back in. --drj Quick question: The Rouse... Page should really be re-named Rouse Ball... since W.W.'s last name is Rouse Ball. There's also a lecture series named after him (at Cambridge?), so it would recieve a seperate entry. How do you do that? --Eventi I'm taking your word on it because I'm not familiar with him. To do that select the entire text and copy it, then add a link to the new article name and save changes. Click on the link and add the text; then go back and change the old text to a redirect to the new one (e.g. #REDIRECT [[new article name]].) Be careful to move the subpages first so that you don't lose the discussion and letter etc. Some people follow up by changing links from the old article titles to the new ones; others don't. Personally I think it keeps wikipedia in better repair. :-)Do a quick Google search on 'Rouse Ball Lecture'... I've actually read one once, I believe by [John Searle]? but I'll have to be sure. At any rate, I'm sure his surname isn't Rouse... --e I'm an old hand at phrasing things wrong. I believe you. :-) It does make sense to redirect to the new page; it simply hadn't occurred to me. BTW, the above is really just a workaround; only admins are allowed to rename the pages themselves. I'm not sure if that's ever actually been done yet. Seems like a good chance to lose information permanently. OK, I found where I've seen it before. [Sir Roger Penrose]? (no Penrose page?) is the [Rouse Ball]? Professor of Mathematics, at the University of Oxford [he doesn't have a homepage]... I'll do the name change thingie --e I moved the discussion on the capitalization of surnames to Wikipedia commentary/How to write non-american names--AN |
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BTW, my disagreement about the foreign family names notwithstanding, I appreciate the huge work you have done, that makes minor points like that dwarf in comparison. --AN |
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