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Welcome!

Hello, Xxanthippe, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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Not linkspam

Please do not remove the Folie a Deux Winery link from the Folie a Deux page. Thank you very much. I would also like to add that I am a fairly new contributor to Wikipedia and I am trying very hard to adhere to all the standards. I appreciate your Folie a Deux page, and I feel the winery is a valid link due to my participation in WikiProject Wine.Lucy456 (talk)

Help with Eastbourne

I am trying to gather a small group of people to improve the Eastbourne article and writing to you as you have edited that page recently. I have set up a what needs to be done section on the talk page, and I am hoping that I will get a few people to start a discussion. It would be wonderful if you could spare a few minutes just to look at the current Eastbourne article and give your opinion. It would be evern more wonderful if you could join in with this small project as well. Thank you MortimerCat 12:07, 7 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The Strand Magazine..co.uk

I went ahead and nominated the article for deletion. Just wanted to let you know. Cheers. -- Seed 2.0 01:15, 9 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Preview

Jim, it is possible to preview your changes before saving them and thus avoid producing dozens of versions. Xxanthippe 22:33, 1 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I know. I often preview my changes five or six times between each save. Infuriatingly, my keyboard has a "back" button next to the arrow keys that sometimes causes me to lose my work, so I like to save every few minutes. Because I save so many times, I usually copy an article to my user page and edit a draft there, which avoids cluttering up the history of the main article.

Thanks for the tip, though. Aside from cluttering up history pages (which I try to avoid), is there any reason saving so often would cause trouble? Jim 22:48, 1 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

As far as I know not apart from that. I agree that it is a good idea to do most of the editing off-line. Xxanthippe 03:43, 2 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Protest the Hero

They are on wikipedia, thus they are notable. I'm not even a fan of the band, but I think that is some noteworthy information, and the revision I made does not violate any wikipedia guidelines. In fact, it upholds them. I decided not to start a Trivia section because they are discouraged, so I included it in the influence section. Even as we speak, there is an AfD discussion on this article, so that type of information will soon be included in the influence section based on how things are going now. Your revision will be undone. --Pwnage8 (talk) 22:42, 17 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comment by Xxanthippe (talk) 01:35, 4 February 2008 (UTC): The above concerned a proposal by Pwnage8 to place a reference to a popular music band Protest the Hero in the article on the Russian novelist Dostoevsky.[reply]

Azure Bonds etc

I think the best form of defense is attack. If the articles do not have proper referencing, citation, critical comment, assertions of notability and verifiability, then find the material and add it. If these things cannot be found then "maybe" the article is not actually supportable. :: Kevinalewis : ^{(Talk Page)}/_(Desk) 09:12, 31 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Your words are wise ones. The problem is that the subjects of this genre, although having a vast fan base and being a significant manifestation of popular culture (and what is wrong with that?), get little exposure in authoritative venues. Few D&D novels, no matter how good they are, are likely to be reviewed by the Times Literary Supplement. So it can take some effort to find sources that give ironclad protection against the scattergun approach of quibblers, such as those active in this area at present. Xxanthippe (talk) 01:22, 4 February 2008 (UTC).[reply]

While I don't like the attack metaphor, Kevin is spot-on that sources should be found — if they exist. And if they don't, articles here are not warranted. If authoritative sources do not comment on a subject, then it is not notable --Jack Merridew 10:06, 4 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Note added: Jack Merridew has been revealed as a sockpuppet and has been blocked indefinitely. Xxanthippe (talk) 07:16, 14 April 2008 (UTC).[reply]

Please cease and desist from removing the Notability template without reasonable justification

Please cease and desist from removing the Notability template (and other cleanup templates) from Azure Bonds, an article which does not have any reliable secondary sources. There is no reasonable justification for removing the template which was put there to address this problem. The reason why I ask you to do this in the strongest possible terms is that you appear to be POV pushing, as the explanations for removing the template are not supported by a rational interpretation of the notability guideline WP:BK and WP:RS which applies to this topic.--Gavin Collins (talk) 09:40, 4 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Reply on user page of Gavin Collins talk where there is so much of similar nature. Xxanthippe (talk) 05:20, 9 February 2008 (UTC). See also this Wikipedia talk:Requests for comment/Gavin.collins, this Wikipedia:Requests for mediation/Kender and this Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Dungeons & Dragons. Xxanthippe (talk) 23:19, 13 May 2008 (UTC).[reply]

Wilson

These are the bot's changes. Regards, Rich Farmbrough 09:12 18 February 2008 (UTC).

I think you're over-reacting. Edit comments can't be edited, anyway, and no-one is going to look at the page history and think ZOMG... Rich Farmbrough, 22:22 20 February 2008 (GMT). O.K. but please try not to do it again. Xxanthippe (talk) 01:24, 22 February 2008 (UTC).[reply]

Waterwindsail

Can you please review this sandbox article and let me know your thoughts on notability at this time ?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Waterwindsail/Sandbox thank you --Waterwindsail (talk) 06:12, 5 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Angular_momentum 10:07, 10 April 2008 Xxanthippe ... (consistent)

You undid some of my corrections on the angular momentum page. The problem is that in a single formula the letter $i$ is used as an index and as the imaginary number at the same time. While you and I might not have too many problems understanding this it is a incredibly confusing for people who do not know the topic so well.

For example look at the exponential function:

$e^{ix}=\sum _{i=1}^{\infty }{\frac {(ix)^{i}}{i!}}$

and ask yourself who would understand that notation (correctly).

To be correct and consistent one would have to change all indexes. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 140.181.86.1 (talk) 14:04, 10 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

This is a good point. I have changed the indices to {l,m,n} as these are more conventional than {a,b,c}. Discussions such as this are better placed on the talk page of the article. Xxanthippe (talk) 00:19, 11 April 2008 (UTC).[reply]

Sorry for the wrong placement ... but it can be removed now anyway ... ;) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 140.181.86.1 (talk) 09:16, 11 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

John Gallaher AfD

I'd invite you to revisit this AfD, as I've found evidence that Gallaher has been a finalist in several other awards including the Walt Whitman Award. Thanks, Espresso Addict (talk) 06:51, 16 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Request for Mediation?

Hello - you participated in Gavin.collins' Request for Comment, so I am alerting you that we are preparing a Request for Mediation regarding him. BOZ (talk) 03:16, 22 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I am alerting you that we are now considering a Request for Arbitration regarding him as an alternative to mediation, and would like your opinion on the matter. BOZ (talk) 13:41, 24 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/John Dwyer (professor)

This AfD has recently been closed by an admin as "no consensus", defaulting to keep. This decision has been taked to a deletion review, at Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2008 April 27#John Dwyer (professor). Since you have voted in the original AfD, you may want to comment in the deletion review discussion. Nsk92 (talk) 20:01, 27 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Mosley

Hi Xxanthippe. Re: Oswald Mosely, removed items were unsourced assumptions, hence entirely removable per WP:V and not valid for restoration without a source, and trivial items in an already well populated trivia section, which are discouraged on Wikipedia and, if and when present, should be concise, and contain sourced or bluelinked items with direct relevance to the subject. The point of such sections is not to list every instance where a person or entity has appeared in popular culture, but simply to show that the subject has appeared in popular culture. That "so-and-so" was based on Mosely may be a widely held belief, but remains unsourced speculation without appropriate sourcing. Hope that clears things up for you. Deiz talk 12:01, 3 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Frederick Crews

Xxanthippe, I have undone your recent edit to the article on Frederick Crews. If you are going to undo my edits, you might at least be sure to get your facts right - Slate Magazine is not a "blog." Skoojal (talk) 06:17, 27 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Folie a deux winery

I've reverted your removal of the external link in Folie a deux winery. An external link to the website of the article subject is compliant with WP:EL, and spcifically, "Articles about any organization, person, web site, or other entity should link to the official site if any." If you fee that the article itself is spam, then you could propose it for deletion, but I don'y see how it is spam. -- Whpq (talk) 10:52, 30 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Children's

Please be sure of your facts before editing. In English, the possessive of a plural word that is not formed by adding "s" to the singular form is formed by adding an apostrophe and "s"—thus, children's, men's, feet's, mice's, etc. Deor (talk) 12:07, 5 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, you are correct. Does Wikipedia acknowledge a canonical source for such matters? Xxanthippe (talk) 12:35, 5 June 2008 (UTC).[reply]

Spin in magnetism

I'd love to discuss your recent revert at Talk:Magnetism. Thanks!! --Steve (talk) 00:54, 8 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Florence

Next time please use tag {{fact}} and do not just remove edit. Or you can post comment to my user page.

Florence is one of the proponent for Miasma theory ^[1] ^[2] ^[3], therefore she and her colleagues began by thoroughly cleaning the hospital and equipment and reorganizing patient care. Yosri (talk) 13:00, 10 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

^ BRIEF HISTORY DURING THE SNOW ERA (1813-58)
^ Who was William Farr?
^ [http://www.scpub.org/data//files/revinfdischron-9694.pdf Development of the Germ Theory of Disease]

[1] BRIEF HISTORY DURING THE SNOW ERA (1813-58)

[2] Who was William Farr?

[3] [http://www.scpub.org/data//files/revinfdischron-9694.pdf Development of the Germ Theory of Disease]

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