User talk:Radar33/Archives/2008/April

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Xiner (talk, email) 17:52, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

Huh?? I don't understand... Ajl772 17:56, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

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Thank you for experimenting with Wikipedia. Your test worked, and the page that you created has been or soon will be deleted. Please use the sandbox for any other tests you want to do. Take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. -- Merope 18:07, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

Thank you... I was trying to do something, but it didn't work :( Ajl772

Well, what were you trying to do? Maybe I can help. Or you can put {{helpme}} on your talk page with your question and an editor will be by to help you out shortly. -- Merope 18:30, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

{{helpme}}

How do I see a list of all my sub-folders / sub-articles?

Go to Special:Prefixindex and type in the name of the main page. For example, if you wanted to find all the subpages of your userpage, type in User:Ajl772. See Wikipedia:Subpage for more information. XENON54 | talk | who? | 01 Feb 2008 23:06_GMT

thanks

thank you for answering my question it really helped and will help. there are some riddles on my user page now. Chubbennaitor (talk) 20:05, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

riddles

first one correct. second one correct. most people say himself. Well done. oh and thanks for that I wanted at least one person to answer.Chubbennaitor (talk) 20:26, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

Shea Stadium

Thanks for your help. I guess the next part of my question would be how do I go about changing the name of the Shea Stadium (referring to the home of the New York Mets) to point to the newly created disambiguation page? Also, could you take a look at the disambiguation page to make sure I formatted it correctly?

Thanks!

--InDeBiz1 (talk) 02:40, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

My recommendation is that you don't change the name of Shea Stadium, because the disambiguation stuff at the beginning should tare care of that...

Ajl772 (talk) 03:05, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

Thank you! --InDeBiz1 (talk) 06:05, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

Formatting

Hi, I don't think there has been any Wikipedia-wide decision to decide to format vectors inline as $\langle a,b,c\rangle$ rather than (a,b,c). Let me give two reasons why I object to this choice of formatting. First of all, it forces the inline PNG rendering of the <math> environment, which is something that should stylistically be avoided whenever possible. Secondly, physicists, many mathematicians (including nearly all differential geometers) use $\langle \cdot ,\cdot \rangle$ as the preferred notation for an inner product (such as the dot product). I'd appreciate it if there can be a centralized discussion somewhere before you continue. Thanks, Silly rabbit (talk) 21:45, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

Well then, could we use <a,b,c> instead, for the reason that vectors are not points (i.e. (x,y,z) ), to distinguish between the two?

Ajl772 (talk) 21:50, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

Yes, I suppose this is a possibility which I hadn't considered. At least it addresses the first of my concerns, but not the latter. Indeed there may be some merit to having a notation which distinguishes vectors from triples of numbers. I have started a discussion at Wikipedia talk:Wikiproject Mathematics which you are invited to join, if you wish. Regards, Silly rabbit (talk) 22:29, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

helpme

{{helpme}} Can anyone help me with making this compatible with Wikipedia? If I paste this code into some other .html file, it works, so can anyone help me with this?

<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:POL" title="Wikipedia policies and guidelines">WP:POL</a>

WP:POL - see WP:LINK Stwalkerster [ talk ] 21:00, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

I know how to make external links, what I meant was how do I make the popup-text (usually a little yellow box) say "wikipedia policies and guidelines"... Maybe if I post an image, would it help?

Here is what it looks like it Wiki space:

File:Ajl772WikiExample.JPG

Here is what I would like it to look like:

Image:Ajl772NonWikiExample.JPG

Thanks, Ajl772 (talk) 19:38, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

WP:POL works. :) Stwalkerster [ talk ] 20:16, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Great! Thank you very much! --Ajl772 (talk) 20:18, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

National Amateur Super Heavyweight Champions

please explain the "vandalism" you moron!--Gueracuco (talk) 18:58, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

Explain hiw it is vandalism you total moron!--Gueracuco (talk) 19:00, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

Redirecting to a non-properly capitalized page is considered vandalism. Ajl772 (talk) 19:01, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

step away from the computer because you obviously havent the brain to use one. Instead of going around accusing people of being vandals try and discuss the matter. 1. what is the incorrect capitalisation? 2. the article titles are incorrect. Either use logic or stop editing.--Gueracuco (talk) 19:03, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

No answer - didnt think you would. That next step would usually be to issue an apology and admit you havent a clue what you are doing!--Gueracuco (talk) 19:09, 21 March 2008 (UTC)