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Andy Warhol

You are the earliest contributor to Andy's article:

(cur) (last) 07:58, 22 May 2002 AxelBoldt (Talk | contribs) m

So I thought it appropriate to contact you!!

I'd like to DOUBLE the image of ANDY. What do you think? Can you comment on his artcle/discussion page please?? Thanks, Thanks, --Ludvikus 05:23, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

Habibti/Habibati

The former (Habibti) is colloquial Arabic, while the latter (Habibati) is Modern Standard, I believe. There are various forms of colloquial, however, so it could be different depending on what modern colloquial language that's being referred to. In general, however, on Arabic pages in Misplaced Pages, the forms cited are Modern Standard (MSA). — ዮም | (Yom) | Talk • contribs • Ethiopia 06:25, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks! AxelBoldt 07:53, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

Polyacetylene

Thanks for the over-due edits to polyacetylene. Please keep an eye on this article as topics related to this have been controversial (suprisingly). Please keep up the good work in this area. I would be glad to help.--Smokefoot 20:03, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

Bacillus oleronius

Hi,

It's an ingredient in a commercial mix I use, not sure what it's supposed to do exactly, which is part of why I started the stub (i.e., in the hopes of finding out). It's in a mix called "biostart plus", used for newly transplanted materials. --SB_Johnny||_books 11:50, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

Age of Consent

There isn't really a lot of information on this regard in Thai Misplaced Pages. There are no specific articles about Age of Consent and even law related articles are mostly stubs such as th:กฎหมายอาญา (criminal law). I will try to ask around and let you know if there are updates on this --Jutiphan 20:42, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

RAW

I'm curious as to your recent revert; you mention it is a copyvio. But visiting that website, it seems to be Freely licensed and acceptable for inclusion. It also seems to have left a bad taste in a new contributor's mouth: "Unfortunately all my additions were reverted again. I give up...." --Gwern (contribs) 23:57 12 January 2007 (GMT)

Thanks for letting me know, I'll answer in Talk:Robert Anton Wilson. AxelBoldt 01:32, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

Riverside Church

It is situated in Morningside Heights, Manhattan. It just is. Please don't "correct" it if you think that's in the Upper West Side. You are mistaken. in this. --Wetman 02:45, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

I didn't "correct" anything, I just rewrote whatever information was already there. AxelBoldt 04:45, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

Ackermann function

Could you provide another round of informal review on this article on its talk page? Thankx.--199.33.32.40 01:49, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

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Sausenburg

Greetings, I am trying to get an article written about a castle ruin in the Schwarzwald. There is a German Misplaced Pages article on Sausenburg, but my translation skills are very sub-par. Would you be willing to help by taking a look at this article, and the sandbox version in my userspace? Thanks a lot.--Eva 13:29, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks so much. I very much appreciate this.--Eva 04:58, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

Invariance of domain example

At invariance of domain, I believe it is you who added the example (t^2-1,t^3-1) as an example of an injective continuous non-homeomorphism. Can you explain this to me, it seems to be a homeomorphism onto its image as I see it. Thanks. MotherFunctor 00:06, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

Hi, I like your nick. The function (t^2-1,t^3-1) is indeed a homeomorphism onto its image, but the function from the article, (t^2-1,t^3-t) for t>-1 is injective but not a homeomorphism. Cheers, AxelBoldt 05:49, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

Of course! the old rap around line. I was too busy squinting at the poor autoformatting of the exponents, misread the t for a 1. Glad I asked, makes sense now, thanks. MotherFunctor 10:41, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

Excuse me ,but did you really....

...Write this text:

"Nijvel gang Revision as of 12:09, 8 March 2004 by AxelBoldt (Talk | contribs) (diff) ← Older revision | Current revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff) Jump to: navigation, search The Nijvel gang (Flemish: Bende van Nijvel) is the group thought to be responsible for the massacre of Brabant, a series of violent attacks that occurred in Brabant, Belgium from 1982 to 1985 and resulted in 29 deaths.

The group that carried out these armed robberies of bars, supermarkets and a weapons depot initially identified itself as the "Fighting Communist Cells" (CCC), supposedly acting in protest against NATO plans of deploying MGM-31 Pershing missiles in Europe. The attacks were carried out with almost military precision, leading to suspicions that this effort to destabilize the country came from disgruntled right-wing members of the Rijkswacht, a national military-style police force. The weapons used to carry out the murders were stolen from a police arsenal. The crimes were never solved.

Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/Nijvel_gang"

Because,mostly,the C.C.C are discribed as people from

the left sides

of politics scenes in Belgium,

and because in the same text ,you are saying that the actions,the attacks :

"(...)were carried out with almost military precision, leading to suspicions that this effort

to destabilize the country

came from disgruntled right-wing

members of the Rijkswacht,

a national military-style police force ."

Thank you for your attention.

A reader . BElgium.--213.49.135.135 22:35, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

Yes, I wrote that and I stand by it. I'm aware of the fact that the CCC is left and the Rijkswacht is right. I wanted to express the fact that the group initially identified themselves as acting from the left, but then suspicions arose that they were actually acting from the right. Cheers, AxelBoldt 01:39, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

TO AXEL BOLDT

Thank you for your very fast answer,sorry for my very slow respons.

It is true that I heard someone telling me that it could be (that was the opinion of that

person)the C.C.C. responsible for the factslike Braine l'Alleud,Overijse or Alost,but

I don't know who is truely responsible for those facts.

I don't know if,yes or not , the C.C.C. is left or right.

I don't know if the Rijkswacht ( belgian gendarmerie or Rijkswacht) is (or was) right or left.

Did you read the recent declarations of mister Robert Beijer about the body of mister Francis

Zwarts?

Are you still following just a bit the cases of what happened in Braine l'Alleud,Overijse or

Alost in 1985?

Miss Patricia Finné opened a few blogs about it.

Her father died ,killed with four other people(gunfired apparently), for so far she says,

and for so far I know,a friday twenty seventh of september,1985,around 20:30 P.M.,

on the parking of a DELHAIZE (from DELHAIZE LE LION),in Overijse ,Brabant,Belgium,Europe.

A reader .Belgium.--213.49.135.135 21:23, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

A few differents sources:about Patricia Finné: "http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache:doUCuFqLDgkJ:michelbouffioux.skynetblogs.be/post/2778138/tueries-du-brabant-011105+patricia+finn%C3%A9+delhaize&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=3&gl=be".

"http://tueriesbrabant.skynetblogs.be/"+COMMENTS:"http://tueriesbrabant.skynetblogs.be/post/3223315/rene-haquin#comments".

And :"http://tueriesbrabant.skynetblogs.be/post/2752534/nbsp".

Also interesting from my point of view:"http://www.tueriesdubrabant.be.cx/"

Locations up for discussion

The related Category:Locations 37°N 122°W to 38°N 123°W has been nominated for deletion, merging, or renaming. You are encouraged to join the discussion on the Categories for discussion page.

Hi. I encountered a series of puzzling categories which you created. I have put them up for discussion for people to judge their usefulness. Please pop over to Misplaced Pages:Categories for discussion/Log/2007 February 22#Categorization of location and give your views. Regards. SilkTork 22:15, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

I noticed

I noticed you created a similar category to Category:Cities in the UTC timezone but called Misplaced Pages:Categorization of location. Your comments on the CfD and our possibility of future interactions may be something forseable. --CyclePat 20:59, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

Can you update?

Do you think you can update this list?

Misplaced Pages:List of Wikipedians by number of edits

--Parker007 22:18, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

Hello. To be honest, I'm not that interested in that type of work. Cheers, AxelBoldt 16:28, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

Do you know who usually updates that? --Parker007 20:31, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

The last one was made just today by User:Dev920; see . The previous one was made by User:Yao Ziyuan, see . Cheers, AxelBoldt 00:59, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

Barnstarred!

• Awarded to AxelBoldt, for being an outstanding contributor with a plethora of fine contributions, particularly to mathematics articles, the barnstar of math and science. Herostratus 17:20, 13 March 2007 (UTC)}}

Archimedes

There is a reply to your comment at Talk: Archimedes.--Ianmacm 07:14, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

Invariant Basis Number question

Hi, I have a question regarding your article Invariant basis number: when you say "R is isomorphic to R" do you mean "as left-R modules" or "as right-R modules" or "as both left and right R-modules", or "as R-R bimodules", or does that not make a difference? Thanks and cheers, AxelBoldt 02:44, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

Hi Axel. Actually, the article already has a sentence addressing that question. It says:

"If a ring has invariant basis number with respect to left R-modules, it also has IBN with respect to right R-modules. For this reason, the choice between left and right R-modules is left unspecified."

But perhaps you think something should be mentioned of this earlier in the article? -lethe 18:05, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

Oh yes, I didn't see that statement. It might be useful to clarify it earlier, right in or after the definition. So is my understanding correct, the three statements

1. For all m and n, if R is isomorphic to R as left R-modules, then m=n.
2. For all m and n, if R is isomorphic to R as right R-modules, then m=n.
3. For all m and n, if R is isomorphic to R as left- or right-R modules, then m=n.

   are equivalent, and either can be taken as definition of IBN? I suppose the following two statements are weaker:

4. For all m and n, if R is isomorphic to R as left- and right-R modules, then m=n.
5. For all m and n, if R is isomorphic to R as R-R bimodules, then m=n.

AxelBoldt 21:33, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

Hm. Actually I expect all five statements to be equivalent?

That's certainly possible, but it would need some theorem that I'm not aware of. All the examples I know of rings R with R isomorphic to R only work as one-sided modules, not as bimodules. But that isn't saying much. AxelBoldt 18:24, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

It seems to me that statement 4 follows from logical considerations alone (if a→c and b→c and a↔b, then a∪b→c (#3) and also a∩b→c (#4)). As for statement 5, I would expect the following to be a theorem of module theory: if M and N are isomorphic as left R-modules and isomorphic as right R-modules, then they are isomorphic as bimodules.

Yes, if a ring satisfies #1 (and therefore #2), then it must satisfy #3 and #4, but the other direction is not clear to me. Unless we knew that for any ring R and all m and n the following is true: R is isomorphic to R as left module if and only if R is isomorphic to R as right module. I doubt that though.

Regarding the bimodule isomorphism statement: I doubt that also. The left- and right-R isomorphisms could be different maps; for a bimodule isomorphism you need a single map that's linear both on the right and on the left. AxelBoldt 04:29, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

You say you're aware of rings which lack the IBN property for left modules but not for right modules? That would be a counterexample to the equivalence mentioned in the article, wouldn't it? -lethe 16:33, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

Maybe I'm confused. Do we have a reference for this material somewhere? AxelBoldt 04:29, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

Anyway, I've made an edit to the article. Feel free to make further improvements. -lethe 03:48, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

Hey Axel. OK, so about the alleged bimodule theorem, I think you're right. I gave it a try, and as you point out, the possibility of distinct left- and right- isomorphisms seems to kill that idea.

I haven't found a reference for you. I was working through Rotman's Homological algebra when I wrote this article, but unfortunately he breathes not one word about the issue of both modules. I think I had some supplementary sources, and I must have gotten it from one of them. I don't think I would have made that up. Let me take some more time. -lethe 23:32, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

An answer

I've finally answered your question on my talk page. I hope the answer is interesting enough to warrant the 2 month lag. :) MotherFunctor 05:22, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

RE

Hey, Thats a matter of opinion. Thanks for dropping by! - Mike Beckham 05:19, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

Iron Mountain Mine

On 6 May, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Iron Mountain Mine, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

--howcheng {chat} 00:03, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

Mathematics CotW

Hey Axel, I am writing you to let you know that the Mathematics Collaboration of the week(soon to "of the month") is getting an overhaul of sorts and I would encourage you to participate in whatever way you can, i.e. nominate an article, contribute to an article, or sign up to be part of the project. Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks--Cronholm144 17:38, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

P.S. The article on Cauchy is FA class in de.wiki, I would appreciate it if you would "steal" all of their good work and bring it over here to en.wiki;)

braid group

I re-edited braid group so as to eliminate the confusion. Sorry about the poor form of the earlier edit. linas 20:50, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

Why?

Hello AxelBoldt :-) Why are you pressing the point with a RFC? A good number of experienced users have looked at this issue and explained why the information is being removed. You need to understand that those of us that answer OTRS tickets are regular users that understand and fully support Misplaced Pages policy. We evaluate tickets and then decide if there is a valid request based on policy. We do not automatically remove information if that is the request. Your comment is s/w odd given the fact that the people answering the ticket have more information about the situation than other users. How will bringing in more people with less information help the situation? I ask you to reconsider prolonging the discussion as it causes more stress to the person and will eventually have the same outcome. FloNight 01:40, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

I don't think it's a matter of lacking information about the ticket; it's pretty clear and also understandable that the person wants their name removed. Instead it's a matter of policy: should individuals get veto power over including verifiable information about them (information that they have republished themselves!), even in the absence of any legitimate expectation of privacy? Several people, including you, have mentioned "policy" to me without ever pointing to the specific published rule that's being applied. I suspect that OTRS people have developed their own unpublished rules for dealing with these matters, and if so this is not a good thing, and needs to be discussed by the community at large. Cheers, AxelBoldt 02:02, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

Whenever someone makes contact with Misplaced Pages about a concern related to a living person we fully evaluate the situation whether the issue is raised on a talk page, by OTRS ticket, or an email. Handling the situation is given a high priority if the person makes a valid request about the harm being caused by the inclusion of the information. That is exactly what happened here. Information about a living person is held to the highest standard. As always, content decisions are made for individual articles on individual articles. That is why discussion occurred on the talk page of the article. Including information about a non-notable person against their will needs to be fully supported by multiple non-trivial mentions to overcome the burden of harm that occurs from being mentioned on one of the largest web sites in the world. Several experienced editors disagree with your opinion that the content is well supported. We have explained why the content was removed. You do not have to agree with us, but I ask you to gracefully accept our interpretation of policy and let the subject drop. Take care, FloNight 02:57, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

"Including information about a non-notable person against their will needs to be fully supported by multiple non-trivial mentions" Finally we have a concrete policy statement. That should settle the matter. Where can I read up on that one?

Also, do you think that the OTRS volunteer handling the issue was aware of the fact that the individual in question republished the Maxim article (which states his true identity as co-owner of the business) on his own website? I don't think you can complain about violations of your privacy if you have committed them yourself.

Also please note that several experience editors disagree with the removal of the name. Cheers, AxelBoldt 03:14, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

Mobius strip plagiarism issue

Hi. It's been noted that David Darling's encyclopedia entry for Mobius strip is remarkably similar to the Misplaced Pages entry, especially early versions of it, which you created. A couple people have staunchly risen to Darling's defense, basically accusing you of being a plagiarist. Please see Talk:David_Darling_(astronomer) for the discussion. My investigation into the matter has convinced me that Darling has plagiarized (rather heavily) here and I've laid out the evidence on the talk page, but I think it would still be worth hearing your comments on this issue. --C S (Talk) 15:53, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know! I have replied on Talk:Möbius strip. Cheers, AxelBoldt 18:19, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

Video blog article

Hi AxelBoldt,

I'm looking to get the video blog article expanded and I noticed you've contributed to the article in the past. It would be great if you could check it out again. It could use some help. Thanks! Pdelongchamp 22:32, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

hormesis: possible explanations

The page on hormesis has a possible explanations seciton that you created (in 2004) in February of this year, some fact tags were added. I'm informing you because I think the seciton needs cleaning up and you seem like an interested editor. Pdbailey 17:26, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

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References don't increase Misplaced Pages's reliability.

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Wikimoney

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Everleigh Club

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Multiple_Sclerosis

I'd appreciate your review of Multiple_Sclerosis. -WikiSkeptic 20:49, 2 August 2007 (UTC)