User talk:Johnbibby

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You put a pic of Danish bonfire to the midsummer page; the bonfire, however, wasn't Danish, and the same pic was already on the page. Please read the pic texts before linking. Sigmundur 20:39, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

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Lady Howard of Effingham

Proteus changed this. I concur with his changes. The original title 'Lady Effingham' was incorrect. Her step-mother-in-law, Madeline, Countess of Effingham, could be addressed as "Lady Effingham", but not the wife of the eldest son of the Earl of Effingham. She was "Lady Howard of Effingham", to show that she was not the wife of a peer, but the wife of his eldest son, who had the courtesy title of "Lord Howard of Effingham".

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[edit] Sudan

Hi. I greatly appreciate your efforts to help Wikipedia curb vandalism. Please, however, do not add large letters into the page: "VANDALISM WAS THE FOLLOWING:". You may want to see WP:VANDAL, especially the section "Dealing with vandalism". Thanks, Storkk 21:27, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

I also, of course, realize that it wasn't you that added it in the first place, but please be conscious of how you revert. :-) Thanks, Storkk 21:28, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] York

If you could provide some reliable sources to back up your claims for the page, I would have no qualms about adding the information back in. --Wafulz 20:34, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

I'm not sure what 'claims' you are referring to....

Have you confused me with another user? Johnbibby 20:43, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

I'm talking about this edit on my talk page. --Wafulz 01:15, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

Yes, but the 'claims' were not mine - they were put in by somebody else. I was simply stating a view that it wd have been beter to develop the idea than to delete it.

Johnbibby 08:31, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hull Literary and Philosophical Society

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We appreciate your contributions to the Hull Literary and Philosophical Society article, but we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material. Perhaps you would like to rewrite the article in your own words. For more information, take a look at Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Happy editing!Grutness...wha? 00:16, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

Hi Grutness. (I too was born in Barnet - lived near Ravenscrpft park!!)

I came back to re-edit the narticle today and it seems to have disappeared! - where has it gone to?

(I don't thnk it offended the copyright esp. as I have been in touch with the copyright holder. But anyhow i am happy to edit it so ti is OK if it can be reinstalled!

Johnbibby 17:37, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

Hi John - small world! We may even have both gone to the same school (Foulds) - I lived up towards Hadley Common. As far as the article is concerned, I listed it on the copyright problems page and it's been deleted, by the look of it (which is what normally happens if the material's copyrighted). If you've got permission to use the material, though, it's a case where undeletion's likely to be warranted, so you could list it at WP:DRV. The other possibility would just be to write it again. In either case, if you've got permission, you should note that on the article's talk page so that it doesn't look like it's breaking copyright. Grutness...wha? 04:50, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

I went to Underhill and then to QEGS.

Not sure where the articles gone to .... I spent some time last night trying to fix it - where will it be now?

Johnbibby 07:33, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] License tagging for Image:Peregrine Lascelles epitaph CIMG6155.JPG

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[edit] Your edit of Cambridge University Library

Your change to the page Cambridge University Library was determined to be unhelpful, and has been reverted. Please use the sandbox for any tests you want to do. Take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing. Thanks. -- wrp103 (Bill Pringle) 13:43, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

My apologies if it was a valid edit. It appeared to me that you had entered something and then tried to back out most (but not all) of the changes. I almost didn't send the comment to you, since it looked like you had been making productive edits. If that is the case, then welcome to wikipedia and thanks for helping. wrp103 (Bill Pringle) 15:41, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Cachoeira

I removed the link to the Portuguese article because it was already linked at the top with a [[pt:Cachoeira (Bahia)]]. It was redundant, unless the text with translated. However, this is not the case, since I wrote the article based on 1911 encyclopaedia brittanica. - SpLoT / ^(talk) 17:21, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

It's ok, don't worry. Good that you clarified. Keep up the good work. - SpLoT / ^(talk) 17:32, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Warnings

Thank you for experimenting with Wikipedia by creating the page B.O.O.K. Your test worked, and has been or will soon be removed. 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. --ArmadilloFromHell 15:38, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

Please do not add nonsense to Wikipedia, as you did to Book (disambiguation). It is considered vandalism. If you would like to experiment, use the sandbox. Thank you. --ArmadilloFromHell 15:40, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Timbuktu

Hi - thanks for cleaning up your addition to the article. I initially removed it, as it didn't seem to make sense and it linked to xxx - this made me suspect that it was vandalism. Warofdreams talk 01:43, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wahabbism

Im slightly concerned by the edits you made to this article, Ive made one change but want to discuss what should be done about the rest.

--Mazzarin 11:40, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

I'm not an expert Mazzarin - I suggest you just go ahead and make the changes - if you want to copy them here too, then I will be sure to look at them.

Cheers & thanks for writing

Johnbibby 20:41, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Abraham crocker

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate your contributions to the Abraham crocker article, but for legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted.

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You might want to look at Wikipedia's policies and guidelines for more details, or ask a question here. You can also leave a message on my talk page. NickelShoe (Talk) 22:57, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Your edits to Tangram

Hi, I reverted your recent two edits to the Tangram article, because the first of your two edits resulted in the blanking of nearly the entire article. I'm assuming this was accidental. If you had some constructive edits to make, feel free to go back to the article and try again, ensuring that you do not remove large parts of the article by mistake. Phidauex 21:26, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

Sorry - I don't know how I did that!

Johnbibby 21:45, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] List of project management software

Thanks for contributing to Wikipedia, but unfortunately the commercial links you added to the page List of project management software were inappropriate -- Wikipedia is an encyclopedia and should not be used for advertising or a collection of external links. See also Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not and the notability guidelines for corporations. Thanks. -- Renesis (talk) 23:54, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

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Hi Renesis.

I have no association with the given company, but the software is important.

Other software items are already listed.

Many links on Wikipedia refer to commercial products - indeed I often use it for precisely this reason.

Are you sure you are acting correctly?

Regards

Johnbibby 09:47, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

Hi John, thanks for your question. This is a common problem - users want Wikipedia to be useful, and therefore in good faith add links to software products they feel are notable. However, we should be careful to abide by several policies and guidelines concerning external links and software products. Firstly, Wikipedia is not a web directory, or collection of links. See also WP:EL and WP:SPAM for more information about external links. Also, commercial products mentioned on Wikipedia must be notable. For this reason, we have limited the page List of project management software to include only links to articles. If you can tell why the product is notable and cite reliable sources, you are welcome to begin an article about the product. Before doing so, please be sure it qualifies under the notability guidelines at WP:CORP. Thanks again. -- Renesis (talk) 10:07, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

The article alredy includes the following references:

• Cando Projects
• Microsoft Project
• MPMM
• Planisware OPX2
• Primavera
• Phoenix Project Manager

None of these have links.

The software I listed is used throughout the health service in the UK. I guess it is a UK product while the others are from the USA. Is this another case of the small-boy being hounded out of the market because he/she is not 'notable'?

I don't know what you mean by saying those don't have links. If you are saying they don't have articles, you are wrong. If you are saying they are not external (non-wikipedia) links, that is exactly what we want. I don't have time for ridiculous arguments about UK vs USA. I gave you several links above to read, which you obviously have not done. If the product is in fact not notable, I don't understand why you think it "deserves" to be covered on Wikipedia, just because it exists. -- Renesis (talk) 17:32, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

I'm not an expert in this area - I may be better informed after a course next week.

Johnbibby

John, Do you need some help with this?--Nowa 02:31, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] George W. Hart

I just put up an article on George W. Hart. Care to add anything?--Nowa 21:10, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] modulo

In this edit, why in the world are you writing "modulus" rather than "modulo"? That's weird. "Modulo" is the correct ablative case and goes back to Gauss himself, and is what everyone else says. It's virtually become a part of vernacular English. Michael Hardy 02:34, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

I don't have strong feelings either way. I sense that when I learnt this stuff in the 50's, everyone was very precise about the ablative etc. nananana, but nowadays people are much more laid back.

It seems I wrote 'modiulus', but that was just a typo.

Generally I would say and write 'mod' as abbreviation for either modulus AND modulo. It is tricky if the same abbreviation is used for both words.

However, whatever word we use, it seems to have several meanings (see mathworld.com) e.g. the base of the modular algebra and also the binary function a mod b.

I'm happy for my word-endings to be edited .... anything for the sake of greater clarity!

Greetings .....'

Johnbibby 08:31, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Karl Pearson

You don't put pictures of someone's grave before the picture of the person. If you don't know how to use images on Wikipedia correctly please see the Wikipedia:Manual of style or Wikipedia:Image use policy. I have put it in a more appropriate place in the article, it looked awful at the top of it next to the main infobox. --24.147.86.187 15:13, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, that seems fine.

Johnbibby 17:14, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Robert Sutherland Rattray

I nominated the article for deletion because I cannot find any information on him via Google and there is no biographical information in the article. If you can expand the article, please do so. However, as it currently stands, the article states Rattray's name and lists his work. That does not assert notability. — BrotherFlounder (aka DiegoTehMexican) 17:30, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] quadratic residues and theorems about them

Hello,

I have reverted two of your edits on quadratic reciprocity and quadratic residue. There are many notations in use to express the concept of quadratic residue, and the one used in Hardy and Wright (which is actually the notation used by Gauß in Disquisitiones Arithmeticae) is far from the most common one. More importantly, I felt that the comments were somewhat unfortunately placed in the intro sections of both articles---given that notation is not essential to either concept, this did not seem to be the appropriate place.

sincerely yours, Lenthe 19:17, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for pointing this out: I did not know that Gauss used the notation. However, I do not think that is sufficient reason for taking it out.

The "R" and "N" notation are much clearer than the usual mathematical notation. Please remember, this is a general encyclopedia, not one for mathematicians. So it is important that the beginning of each article states succinctly in terms that the general reader will understand.

I'd appreciate if you would edit and improve my edits, rather than peremptorily remove them.

Thanks

Johnbibby

[edit] Israel

I reverted your edit because it is not the only country in the world that defines itself according to a particular religion. Other examples include the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, the Islamic Republic of Mauritania and the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Kari Hazzard (T | C) 23:33, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

A "Jew" is not necessarilly an adherent of the religion Judaism. See Who is a Jew? for more information about that. The point is that Israel being a Jewish state has less to do with the Jewish religion (Judaism) as it does with the defined ethnic groups identified as being compnents of the Jewish people. It's more of an ethnic or cultural definition than a religious thing. Kari Hazzard (T | C) 23:40, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

You're welcome to modify your edit with the appropriate changes and commit it. I don't own the article and have no control over the edits you make beyond my personal decision as far as whether or not I feel they are in line with fact and Wikipedia policies. If I disagree with your edit, I can revert it, but you can revert my edits too. If we can't resolve a dispute, we have an edit conflict that we need to discuss to work out. If you're going to make some changes to the wording of your original edit, go for it. Remember, be bold. :) Kari Hazzard (T | C) 23:56, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Early photographers of York

This doesn't seem like an article; it only has links. There's also no context to indicate what "early" and "York" mean (there is more than one York in this world.) If you wanted to create a list, please read the guidelines at WP:LIST. It'll prevent more trouble down the line. ColourBurst 15:25, 11 February 2007 (UTC) ^{Superscript text}

[edit] Hi

I went to your talk page whilst stub sorting. Whilst I decided not to mention about stubs, as your mnemonic was difficult for me to sort, so I'm not suprised you used {{stub}} I noticed that the welcome message has gone AWOL.

If you want to sort this out I did it by using the babel template and putting in an extra

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For you, overall, it would look like:

{{Babel|en|de-2|fr-2|es-1}}

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Just in case it helps. Ksbrown^talk 21:00, 26 February 2007 (UTC)