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photos of alan turing building

Hi. Now that it's summer (you wanted to wait for a sunny day...) maybe you would be able to take some new photos? both inside and outside are more finished now. regards, Marmelad (talk) 20:08, 6 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ole Nydahl article

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JCM telescope

this article, on which you have edited, contains a statement re. the completion of scuba-2 in early 2008. this needs updating. is the detector online? thx.Toyokuni3 (talk) 14:33, 5 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry I don't know.Billlion (talk) 14:52, 5 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Nice work with electrical impedance tomography

Good work with the EIT article. I found it to be surprisingly informative and well-written given the relatively small number of editors who have given it attention. I did make a few fixups mostly to bring it into conformity with MoS. Robert K S (talk) 18:56, 12 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ancoats

I think the URL in question is www.mm2manchester.com. Whether it's any good as a source, I have no idea. Regards, Mr Stephen (talk) 18:11, 28 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

higher-dimensional Möbius transformations

Hi Billion -- I've added a comment at Talk:Möbius_transformation#Higher_dimensions regarding higher-dimensional Möbius transformations. Joriki (talk) 08:57, 10 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

4th floor Alan Turing

Hi Bill, the 4th floor is not just plant space, there is a kitchen, 3 large labs, clean room, shielded room, network hub room, server room, cleaners cupboard and a loo ;-) - All 'user space' so I think is worth including. Cheers, Ant Holloway.

Thanks, you are right my mistake. Is it documented somewhere?Billlion (talk) 18:19, 30 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

File:Fish at Lakes Aquarium Cumbria.jpg

My pleasure to help you illustrate your article. Thanks for the Flickr courtesy note. Computerjoe 's talk 17:11, 31 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Thanks for your input at the SSEM article on the thorny issue of what arithmetic operations it implemented. I'm conscious that I may be too close to it to always be entirely objective, and perhaps sometimes too protective, but I was deeply unhappy about the recent addition. --Malleus Fatuorum 23:24, 16 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I hope I added to the clarity. Its not clear to everyone that subtraction and conditional branching is enough so it could be explained a bit better.Billlion (talk) 23:28, 16 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I agree, and thanks once again for clarifying what I must admit I thought was obvious. --Malleus Fatuorum 23:30, 16 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Please look at Radon transform

Hi. Could you please have a look over at Radon transform. There is an editor insistent upon adding another reference to the article, to a recent book by Gabor Herman. (This same editor, incidentally, is spamming the same reference over many related articles.) Initially I removed it because it already has enough references—many of which were presumably used in writing it, some were added awhile back by you I think. The editor then re-inserted the reference, claiming on my talk page that it was superior to the others (a dubious claim that I have replied to). At any rate, while I will certainly defend my decision to remove the reference, I'm ultimately not that invested in it one way or the other. An outside opinion would be helpful here. Thanks, Sławomir Biały (talk) 16:40, 2 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

See Talk:Radon transform Billlion (talk) 19:28, 2 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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math notation

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TeX is sophisticated. If you write 4 \mathrm{sup}_f A, it looks like this:

4\mathrm {sup} _{f}A\,

But if you write 4 \sup_f A, it looks like this:

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Thanks Michael, that was a subtlety I missed.Billlion (talk) 06:17, 21 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Mathematical physicists

Hi,

for some strange reason, Jean Ginibre appears in the category under 'J' (and not under 'G'). Do you accidentally know how to fix this? (I am asking you since you created the category, I apologise if this is the completely wrong address).

Best, Sasha (talk) 03:32, 24 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I fixed it with the Defaultsort template, have a look and see how I did that. Billlion (talk) 05:41, 24 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

thanks!Sasha (talk) 05:50, 24 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Isn't that other article a POV fork?

Re 'Mongol invasions'. There are 2 POVs. The Tibetan religious historical tradition see negotiations with the Mongols from 1206 to 1251 as precluding invasion by an agreement between the Mongols as the Sa-skya religious authority. The essentially Sinocentric view cites a cavalry incursion that burnt two monasteries to the north of Lhasa and killed several hundred monks in 1240 as an 'invasion'. 34 years ago, Wylie showed these are just POVs simplying a period which, for the obscurity of testimonies, we know little about, and the misinformation is repeated in many secondary sources. But it is certain that there was no 'Mongol invasion' of Tibet (the whole ununified plateau) in the sense that there was a Mongol invasion of 19 other countries in that century. The 'main article' is no such thing. It cites a few sources, but is thinner in substantive detail than the History of Tibet section I was editing. A lot of these pages seem intent on establishing retroactively the modern Chinese case for sovereignty over Tibet (which it indeed now exercises) on the basis of (a)Mongols unified China (b)Tibet acceded to Mongol claims for submission (c)therefore China's claim to Tibet dates from these invents. On this principle, China's soverenty extends to Hunbgary and Baghdad. I'm not interested in POV battles. I'm interested in what the best academic intelligence says about the specific facts of any period, and the word 'invasion' here is inappropriate.Nishidani (talk) 13:27, 17 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I see your argument and it certainly has a lot of merit, but I think you should edit the main article first Mongol invasions of Tibet(especially change the title to Mongol incursions in to Tibet) even if it is a fairly poor atrticle, or at least have the debate on the talk page and then change History of Tibet to agree. As you say you will be up against editors who seem to advocate a view that supports the Chinese calim to soverenty over Tibet on that atricle as well. Perhaps citing academic articles that confirm at least that there are two points of view might be the way forward?Billlion (talk) 14:50, 17 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Metal detector split tag

I am trying to clear up the backlog of split tags. Taking a quick look, I think the proposal to split the article was opposed and would therefore have removed the split tag. If you have a clear idea on what you want then I suggest that you do it, otherwise the split tag ought to go. It has been on rather a long time. regards Op47 (talk) 18:31, 30 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I suggest we drop the split tag. I only know about certain non-controversial aspects of metal detectors and it needs some diplomacy and understanding to do the split well, so as to reduce rather than fuel edit wars. Billlion (talk) 23:10, 30 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Thanks I have changed the tag to GFDL-self to make it unambiguous. I think the message is a bit strange as it seems to ask fro a source, as though copying images from other websites rather than making them oneself was the norm. Billlion (talk) 16:45, 5 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Bach, Cotton, Lanczos, Schouten tensors

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Minor edits

This edit should not have been marked as minor. Anything that chops around the substantive text of the aricle is not minor, even if nothing new was added. Anything that another editor may want to revert (and this certainly met that category) is not minor. You seem to be doing this quite a lot: I did not have to look far into your history to find these example breaches of WP:MINOR: [1] (adding a visible tag), [2] (adding content - and by the way that edit has at least two spelling errors so other editors will certainly want to look at it), [3] (changing meaning), [4] (removing an external link). Please take the time to read the guideline. Spinning Spark 14:17, 17 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The edit you referred to is the movement of one sentence to a different section. It is very much out of place. Please have a look at that edit, as I have reverted your revert. I think you are wrong in that case but you might be right in some of the others. Not that you are not immune to spelllling mistakies yourself (see above) ;-). Billlion (talk) 14:36, 17 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I am not wrong, you are. First of all, please check the article history, I made several subsequent edits, all of which you reverted, some of which made completely separate contributions, and one of which fixed (properly) the issue you are complaining about. Your version on the other hand reads as if optical filters are used to filter cyclones from weather data. Do you actually know anything about filters? You cannot make an optical filter to filter week long periods because those frequencies are not within the optical band. Your edit is completely incompetent. I politely request that you self-revert it.

You also need to read WP:BRD. Redoing an edit that has been reverted is the beginnings of edit warring and is extremely poor behaviour for an editor that has been around as long as you.

The point about the spelling errors was not to beat you up for making them, but that you had marked the edit as minor so other editors who might otherwise have seen and corrected them will not look bcause of the minor mark. My spelling errors here are completely irrelevant and unimportant and it is rather churlish of you to point them out. Yours, on the other hand, are in article space and your first response should have been to hustle on over there and fix them rather than start an edit war with me. Spinning Spark 15:26, 17 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Please read WP:MINOR "and rearrangements of text without modification of its content." I just moved a sentence. There is certainly no spelling mistake in moving a sentence. It is not an edit war and I do not like the tone your are adopting. Please feel free to move the sentence to somewhere where it might be better to mention optical filters, perhaps it deserves another section. Billlion (talk) 17:53, 17 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I have read WP:MINOR and fully understand it. You added the word "and" (as well as adding the sentence to an entirely inappropriate paraagraph). That has made a crucial difference to the meaning of the whole paragraph and is thus NOT a minor edit. From WP:MINOR " any change that affects the meaning of an article is not minor, even if the edit concerns a single word". I already did move the sentence you object to somewhere else but YOU REVERTED ME, along with some additional explanation. That might well explain some of my tone you don't like. Once again, please CHECK THE EDIT HISTORY and self-revert. Alternatively, if you have some objection to this version of the article, please explain what it is on the talk page. Spinning Spark 18:30, 17 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

...and besides that, you were wrong to restore your version without discussion after you were reverted however right you are. Spinning Spark 18:49, 17 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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We are working on it. There will be some official obituaries published and they will serve as authoritative sources, and we will see if we can find a photo which we can make open. Billlion (talk) 06:06, 1 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I added a couple of photos to the commons. Let me know if you have any others, especially from his younger years. Do you know if the school will be releasing an obituary? U+003F^? 12:18, 21 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Mark Muldoon wrote a nice obituary that just came out in the LMS newsletter.Billlion (talk) 15:52, 21 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Thanks for your help User:Philg88. I will go back to the Talk and try to explain the article naming style guide.Billlion (talk) 10:06, 20 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Thanks User:Streetdeck. I had not used the phone interface before and was working on low bandwidth in Africa so I saved the article prematurely in error. I think it is pretty much ready now. Billlion (talk) 16:16, 20 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Thanks for the advice. Still trying to find my feet so will stick with one page for the moment. I've been mainly checking info and inserting citations. I am finding that on a biographical page most of the information cited either comes directly from the subject himself or those associated with him. I've tried looking at academic papers but to be honest, if you look at them most tend to cite the same sources. I didn't think Wikipedia would accept personal blogs etc as credible independent sources because when I try to add a link to an academic paper it wasn't accepted because the site hosted personal blogs which were not deemed credible. However, I will take on board your advice and try to find more independent sources as you suggest to ensure that there is no bias. Have a great day.

Hi User:Sarahcannell‬ yeah it is hard to get biographical sources of recent people. Newspaper sources are often useful at least to establish dates, but so often they actually just parrot a press release. Obituaries in newspapers may help in this case? How about reputable Buddhist magazines that might have run a biography but are not connected to a specific tradition? Also Government web sites in England and Scotland for the registration of Charities can at least confirm dates when things were founded. By the way when you leave a message like this you can sign it by typing four tilde things which it expands to a link to your talk page etc. Like this: Billlion (talk) 13:55, 11 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Billlion, sounds like a stupid question, but can I can add references from other Wikipedia pages? Sarahcannell (talk) 16:06, 11 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Absolutely, you can just copy and paste the template code from the citation (thing between curly brackets or ref tags) if it supports what you are saying in this article. Could save a lot of work. Note how I started this reply with a colon and that just indents the reply. I see you mastered the tilde things! Billlion (talk) 17:23, 11 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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