User talk:Ruakh

My to-do list

• Rewrite examples of differential equations to fix inaccuracies and bêtises, to add more examples, and possibly to move a lot of its content to other pages that deal with the different kinds of examples it gives. (There's already a lot of duplication between it and other pages.)
• Somehow address the major duplication between differential equation and method of undetermined coefficients, variation of parameters, linear differential equation, etc. This will probably involve adding lots of links from differential equation to related pages and vice versa, as well as links between various related pages. It will also probably involve creating some pages. Also, differential equations should discuss the history, major people, etc. of that field.
• Add a specific (or more specific) example at Clairaut's equation. (Possibly move example from singular solution to Clairaut's equation? Possibly just say at Clairaut's equation, "see singular solution for a specific example"?)
• There should be more/better/different links between Subject (grammar), Expletive, Dummy pronoun, Null subject language, Pro-drop language, and Impersonal verb.
• Fix French grammar. (See User_talk:Ruakh/French grammar.)
• Add more explanation to Glasgow Coma Scale.

Pages I find useful

• Wikipedia:How to edit a page
  • m:Help:Formula (explains how to use <math> markup)
  • m:Help:Table (explains how to use Mediawiki's pipe syntax for tables)
• Wikipedia:Template messages

Comments

The following are comments I've received from other users and have kept for whatever reason. Feel free to add your own!

From snoyes

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From deus ex machina

The French grammar article really does need help. Does there really need to be verb charts? Maybe have a separate French verb conjugation article? I'd appreciate your views on these matters, and you can use my talk page to reach me.

24.151.231.81 16:21, 19 July 2005 (UTC)

I've replied to your comment at Talk:French grammar, as I think our discussion might be useful to other people working on that article (if there are any). Ruakh 18:53, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

Sorry about the -ir table! I didn't check the information before transferring it. — deus ex machina || talk || contributions | 05:02, 22 July 2005 (UTC)

From Ken H 00:19:30, 2005-08-05 (UTC)

Regarding http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modal_auxiliary_verb and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Modal_auxiliary_verb:
Thank you for these descriptive expansions. Now I guess, we run into the issue of how long (i.e., "complete") entries should be.
Should they avoid as much anglo-centricity as possible and be 'inflected' per admin policies with respect to other languages
(thus offloading many specific lexical expansions into the [en wikidictionary] and other country-code versions)?

0. Some time in the near future:
1. Copy wikisource.org --> {en fr ro es de pl} wikisource.org (apparently =86% of wikipedia)
2. Admin/bot pg DEL, MERGE conforming to policy for {en fr ro es de pl} WPs & wikidicts.
-- Transwiki decisions will force reduction of some of the wefts in the re-weaving, won't they?

Do you have time to suggest more ideas and references? That is, downstream, won't these be pared off to country-code wikidicts
with skeletal redirecting mirrors retained within the associated wikipedias?

I am new and trying to understand these issues with respect to future planning for grammatical modality and grammatical mood,
and especially transwiki (e.g., http://wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource_talk:Language_domain_requests/Moving_pages_to_language_domains)
and anywhere else that determines top-down structure that will ultimately under-determine anything we might do.

I am studying what I can concerning this. Could you recommend other interested users? Again, much appreciated, and no rush.
But please let me know if you think answering these questions might be pivotal, or am I off-target?
Soon, I'll try to do more work regarding modal auxiliary verb following your lead. Ken Hughes 20050804:0119 (UTC)