User talk:Modest Genius

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Hello Modest Genius and welcome to Wikipedia!

After seeing one of your contributions, I just thought I'd stop by and say hello. There can be a lot to Wikipedia, so I thought I'd let you know of some important links, such as:

If you have any questions, check out Wikipedia:Where to ask a question or you can just ask me on my talk page Alternatively, you can just type {{helpme}} on your user page, and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions.I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. Again, welcome!

P.S. I know you have been around for awhile, but I noticed that your talk page didn't have a welcome message, so I thought I'd give you one anyway.

--PS2pcGAMER (talk) 11:49, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

cool. despite the fact ive read all those several times ;) Modest Genius 17:47, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

testing Modest Genius 15:47, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

1 Uni of Nottingham logo
2 University of Nottingham
3 Modest Genius isn't nearly as smart as he thinks he is
4 myg0t
5 Greetings
6 6Q0B44E
7 Bot changes
8 Squircle
9 Commons doodah
10 Patent Nonsense
11 POTY 2006
12 Vandalism to your userpage
13 UK infobox templates

[edit] Uni of Nottingham logo

[edit] University of Nottingham

Does you know the endowment for this university? It seems like it recieves around £100 million in research grants but what about its own development fund? I know it's pretty substantial since alumni giving is over £1 million. Also, what is the true number of enrolled students? Thanks for any feedback. ArchonMeld 04:28, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

All I really know is gleaned from the website, they're not in the habit of emailing interesting facts and figures to students.

[1] and subpages 'The University is regularly placed within the top five UK universities in terms of the amount of research funding it has generated from the private sector; in 2003-2004 this figure was £11 million.' '4,000 former students having contributed a total of more than £800,000 to the University's development fund.'

I cant find any official numbers of students, on the university, DEL, HESA or HEFCE websites. Sorry thats not much help. Modest Genius ^talk 22:36, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Modest Genius isn't nearly as smart as he thinks he is

It's true >:( —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Skyler Streng (talk • contribs) 23:33, 23 April 2006.

I agree —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Mystrick (talk • contribs) 23:36, 23 April 2006.

[edit] myg0t

Hi, I noticed you had some history reguarding the myg0t article. Well, the article is up for DrV, and I ask that you post your thoughts on whether or not it should be undeleted. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Deletion_review#myg0t - thanks, cacophony 23:24, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

Another one? I've made a contribution - my position has not changed Modest Genius ^talk 11:13, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Greetings

Hi there.I don't really know what to say. It's hard for me and I assume it must be complicated for all the people in my situation to try a new language out. You see, I've been studying English language since 1995 but, for some reason, I still keep my doubts on the subject. I joined Wikipedia on July 26, 2006 —the Spanish version — and as for a sudden I became deeply acquainted with the English one. I cannot trust myself to do it better, but I would like to; believe me when I say that is my priority. Up to now I've written an average of 30 articles in the Spanish Wikipedia, most of which are based on English and American literature authors and movements. My best ones for so far are es:Frederick Douglass and es:William Shakespeare. On the same way I wrote one article for this wikipedia, originally a translation from Spanish into English. I also added further information to a geography stub. My intention is to help and take part of this wonderful experience, but to do that I may need a hand. Can we work together? Do you want to keep in touch with me? I'm on the web almost all the time. If I'm not here I'm there, always fooling around. Thanks for reading my terrible message. God save me, lol. --Gustavo86 20:20, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

Hello there! Welcome to the english wikipedia ;). I wouldn't worry too much about your English, it appears to be better than a lot of our English and American contributors', and besides, someone else can always correct any small spelling or grammar errors. Be bold and go ahead and write stuff - an article with content but a few spelling mistakes is infinitely preferable to no article at all.

Just wondering though, what made you approach me? I'm not a particularly active editor, nor do I speak Spanish, nor am I active in the subject areas you appear to be... Modest Genius ^talk 23:11, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 6Q0B44E

On 8 September 2006, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article 6Q0B44E, which you created. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

I was gunning for the all-space DYK but fell short. Would have been quite neat. Many thanks for the DYK contribution -- Samir धर्म 18:19, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

cool, thanks. An all space DYK wouldve been amusing mind, although I'm not sure it wouldve been overly popular... Modest Genius ^talk 22:02, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bot changes

Hey there. The bots that changed your userpage are doing it in accordance with CFD policy, where categories are voted to be merged, moved or deleted from Wikipedia. If you don't wish for individual edits on your userpage when we have to carry out renames/merges or deletions - consider using the actual templates for your userboxes - rather than pasting the raw code. If you use templates - no one need edit your specific page in order to update the categories. Thanks --Sagaciousuk ^(talk) 00:05, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

Proper CFD is fine. Proper bot edits are fine. Consistently breaking the pages when doing bot-automated CFD is not. Not even providing a link to the CFD or re-categorising as suggested in the CFD is bad manners. If you want to implement the CFD, do it properly. Fix your bot.

Incidentally, the templates were substed because of continual deletion, DRV, and assorted messing around of the userboxes.

I'm going to rv the changes back to the latest version of the page that actually worked, which was (surprise-surprise) the last one by me. Go ahead and do your CFD, but do it properly. Modest Genius ^talk 14:47, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

I am sorry that your page appears to have broken as a result of the bots' edits. Essentially, the bot didn't remove anything but the category it was set to - the breaking of your userpage is caused by other erroneous tags that are not related to what the bot deals with. It would be more helpful if you could fix the page after the categories are removed - rather than simply revert the bot's changes - the categories no longer exist, and so it is pointless in keeping adding them back :) --Sagaciousuk ^(talk) 19:36, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Squircle

On 22 November 2006, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Squircle, which you created. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

Thanks for the article. An interesting read -- Samir धर्म 08:47, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

Hey genius (sorry, couldn't resist), something is very wrong with the illustration of a squircle, the equation, and/or the informal description.

Drawing a radial line at about 20 degrees shows that the intersection with the "squircle" is NOT midway between the square and the circle, but very much closer to the square. Can you check into it? --Shyland 10:56, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

Hmm, you're right, I think it's probably my description that's off... I'll investigate Modest Genius ^talk 21:04, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Commons doodah

Hereby verifying my commons identity Modest Genius ^talk 00:52, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Patent Nonsense

MG - aplogies for the Squircle confusion. I intended to revert the patent nonsense, but ended up undoing your reversion. Oops. Will be more careful in future. Ukslim 17:31, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

np ;) Modest Genius ^talk 18:15, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] POTY 2006

Please refer to the IP address you used when voting - Alvesgaspar 16:00, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

<sigh> it was 86.21.14.113 Modest Genius ^talk 16:06, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Vandalism to your userpage

I've reverted some vandalism to your userpage by User:Blitz8boi and will now warn the vandal using uw-v. Walton ^{Vivat Regina!} 20:44, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, but don't bother, he's already been blocked. Modest Genius ^talk 20:45, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

Yes, in fact when I visited his talk page to place the warning, there was already an indef-block notice in place; I'm not sure how he managed to edit despite the block. Strange. Walton ^{Vivat Regina!} 17:28, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] UK infobox templates

There is currently a debate about replacing the existing UK place infoboxes with a unified one. I generally support this proposal but there is an attempt to remove the historic county information that a lot of people worked on and where a consensus was reached. I would appreciate your input into this. Thanks. Owain (talk) 11:05, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

BTW, the discussion is at Template talk:Infobox GB place#Straw polls Owain (talk) 14:55, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

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