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Zundark, you seem to have redirected the pages with titles like "EndlÃf¶sung" to something, but because the titles are in UTF-8 which our software doesn't support, they don't even redirect properly. If you know what they redirect to, let me know and I'll try to make sure they are coded correctly. --LDC

They redirect to Endloesung. The redirects worked when I tried them, but the pages need to be deleted anyway. I only put the redirects in because I hoped it would discourage whoever created these articles from adding content to them. --Zundark, 2001 Nov 30

Thanks for taking out the Amazon links -- how did you do it? JHK

You can see by editing the page. I just put <nowiki> </nowiki> around the ISBN number. --Zundark, 2001 Dec 6

Thanks for redirectiong DoD and Department of Defense. Next time I'll look a little harder for an existing page before creating a stuk. --Ed Poor

I'm sorry I forgot to check if something was already written about the Riemann Zeta function and thanks for redirecting the page. --Georg Muntingh

On Arc of minute you expressed a preference for a new article on Angular measure, though such an article doesn't exist yet. You also asked where the links to the stub were found. I happened to find several of the links. I'd be quite happy to clean up what I found, but I'm PAINFULLY new to the Wikipedia, and I'd be more comfortable if you could point me in the right direction on a few things. --Romaq

I suggested an article on angular measure, because this seemed to make more sense than separate articles on arcseconds, arcminutes, degrees, radians, etc., and we can just create redirects from all of those (except "degree", which has other meanings). You can move the information that is currently at radian, and add information for arcseconds, arcminutes and degrees. That's about all that's needed to start with - it would be better than the present situation at least. --Zundark, 2002 Feb 2

Question. I just created the entry on digital circuits. I had to capitalise it: Digital Circuits, because that was the only way I could get the link from Boolean algebra to work properly. You obviously know somthing I don't, because you got it to work without the unnessasary Capital Letters. Please explain what you did, and I will try and get it right next time. Thanks, user:Perry Bebbington

I didn't do anything special. I've no idea why it didn't work for you. What exactly did you do, and what happened? --Zundark, 2002 Feb 13

Zundark, you wrote: Improving the English isn't going to help this article much. It's really just one person's point of view. I don't see how to turn it into an encyclopedia article, even though the basic idea may be correct.

What do you mean by the basic idea being correct? --Chuck Smith

I thought the article was trying to say that learning Esperanto is a good way to understand the difficulty of foreign language learning. This may be correct. (But then again, it may not.) --Zundark, 2002 Mar 12

I thought the point was to say that speaking other languages was virtually impossible and it was practically a waste of time to try. But with something that poorly written, it's hard to figure out the main idea. If he had written in Esperanto, then I might have understood it...  ;-) --Chuck Smith

151.24.144.34 writes:

Thank you for help with Sardinian language. Is there a way to use the slash without creating other sub-pages?

With the new software, slashes never create links to subpages. The links in Sardinian language were caused by a bug in the script which was used to convert to the new page format. Unfortunately, it messed up a lot of other pages too. --Zundark, 2002 March 12

Zundark, I have an inkling that you can speak Latin. How would you translate Humanae Vitae? AxelBoldt

I can't claim to know much about Latin. If the title were "De Humanae Vitae", I would translate it as "On Human Life". I suppose "Humanae Vitae" is intended to mean the same. Have you tried asking Michael Tinkler? I think he does know some Latin. --Zundark, 2002 Mar 23

But looking at the encyclical, I see that the title is also the first two words of the text of the encyclical itself, and in this context the natural translation is "of human life". --Zundark, 2002 Mar 23

I tend to agree with the "of" translation. The "-ae" ending can be genetive or dative singular or nominative plural. The correct translation will depend on the grammatical context in the rest of the sentence. "De humanae vitae" would be grammatically incorrect since the preposition "de" always takes the ablative case: "De humana vita" with macrons on the a's, which can't be represaented in 8859-1. Also ;-) since we're contributing to it, we might as well use it, see Latin language/Declension. Eclecticology

Thanks. AxelBoldt

Zundark, thanks for disambiguating Mercury, but the parenthezized word should be in lower-case, as in Mercury (god) -- or better yet, Mercury (mythology). Ed Poor

The article is already at Mercury_(god). I was just fixing a broken redirect to it. --Zundark, Friday, April 12, 2002

Zundark, do you know if every Hausdorff space admits a continuous bijective map to some compact Hausdorff space? AxelBoldt, Thursday, June 6, 2002

It's not true. If you have access to Steen and Seebach's Counterexamples in Topology, their #100 ("Minimal Hausdorff Topology") is a counterexample. It's Hausdorff and non-compact, and every strictly smaller topology on the same set is non-Hausdorff. --Zundark, Sunday, June 9, 2002

Thanks! AxelBoldt

Thanks for fixing my "occasionly" everywhere. I got it now. AxelBoldt 16:48 Sep 18, 2002 (UTC)

Zundark, have you heard anything about the correctness of Nikitin's latest proof attempt of the Poincare conjecture? AxelBoldt 01:49 Oct 31, 2002 (UTC)

No, but I'll tell you if I hear anything. --Zundark 09:26 Oct 31, 2002 (UTC)

What??? I removed you???. I really don't remember. Why would I have done that? Only if it was a terrible mistake. Sincerely I don't remember. If i did it, I appologise.Bogdan Stanciu,

See [the diff of your edit]. But as it was a mistake, I accept your apology. --Zundark 13:26 Nov 26, 2002 (UTC)

Howdy Zundark. Since you seem to have an interest in the mathematics articles, I wanted to call to your attention the WikiProject we're developing at Wikipedia:WikiProject Mathematics, which attempts to provide some standards and goals for math articles. Contributions requested and welcomed! Chas zzz brown 21:43 Dec 1, 2002 (UTC)

I noticed that in People on stamps you changed Great Britain to United Kingdom. The former is more correct and is what is used by the Stanley Gibbons Company. It is important to note that the Channel Islands produce their own stamps, and that British stamps are not valid for postage from those Islands. The Isle of Mann also produces its own stamps, but I don't have the information at my fingertips about the validity of British stamps there. There have also been separate regional issues for Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, but not to the exclusion of English stamps. Eclecticology 20:40 Jan 7, 2003 (UTC)

The Channel Islands and the Isle of Man are not part of the United Kingdom, so I don't understand your point. The only question is whether or not we want to include Northern Ireland - and clearly we do, since British stamps are used there. Therefore United Kingdom is more correct than Great Britain. --Zundark, 2003 Jan 7

Hi Zundark. I just wanted to thank you for showing me the better way to align photos on the Boeing 747 article. Thanks, I'll use your method from now on.
Arpingstone 21:11 Feb 14, 2003 (UTC)

Hi! Just for the sake of my "education" was the final tr and td code removed from my La Defense picture formatting because it did nothing at all? Just interested (I don't know HTML code). Thanks,
Arpingstone 11:53 Feb 21, 2003 (UTC)

A TR element has to contain a TD or TH element.. (At least, I think it does. Offhand, I can't find such a requirement in the HTML specification, but the W3C validator marks empty TR elements as invalid, and I assume they know what they're doing, as it's their specification.) So it's best to remove it, as it could conceivably cause problems for a compliant browser. The stray I removed at the same time wasn't a problem, just untidy. --Zundark 13:13 Feb 21, 2003 (UTC)

Thanks for correcting the mistake in cyclic group! AxelBoldt

Your heavy-handed treatment of the "Harmonic series" page is just what we don't need. To say that "everyone expects" to see an article about music is obviously nonsense, and that those who do expect that should be protected from learning anything they didn't already know is bigotry. Michael Hardy 17:14 Mar 5, 2003 (UTC)