User talk:Finn-Zoltan

I do not exist.

Wooster

or Woozier, as spellcheck would have it.

You a Wooster alumn/student? Snowspinner 18:13, 18 May 2004 (UTC) ('03)[reply]

Semi-alum- left in a hurry.

Whenabouts, where'd you live, etc? (I graduated in '03, English major, and lived in the Science and Humanities program for most of my time) Snowspinner 18:31, 18 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

I left in '97 - a fellow Douglasite, eh?

Yeah. Though the program eventually moved on to Andrews. Why am I not surprised that Douglasites would be the ones to go on to edit Wikipedia, though. :) I'm Phil, btw, not that you'd probably have heard of someone who showed up two years after you left. Snowspinner 18:41, 18 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

I heard about the move- distressing. The Douglas attic and lounge cultures were always part of the appeal. (By which I refer not to the mold cultures that could usually be found in the corners) I wonder if they'll ever move back- would be nice.

Relatively unlikely - program membership has been declining since departure from Douglass - it's getting to the point where they can't even fill Andrews, unfortunately.

What's your name, anywho? Curious whether we have friends (Or mortal enemies) in common. Snowspinner 18:56, 18 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. I was second-to-last president of the Science and Humanities Program. It's dead dead dead dead dead, sadly - as if you didn't already know. We just lost any form of housing whatsoever this year, thanks to a combination of apathy on the part of the majority of members and absurd requirements on the part of Housing. --Chris

Henry Hunt

Did you really stumble across another of my articles by accident, or are you looking through my contributions? Just curious... Isomorphic 00:38, 26 Jun 2004 (UTC)

No, I didn't even realize it was yours until just now- I was working through Civil War Generals for the list of military commanders. FZ 13:05, 28 Jun 2004 (UTC)

VfD

From VfD -

Keep, I suppose- it is useful information, though I think it would be moreso if it were sorted by date. Besides, don't we already have a list of people who died from their own stupidity? -FZ 18:00, 22 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Touché. ;-) - Ocon | Talk 04:28, 24 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Set theory

A cursory glance at language of set theory reveals two things:

The article needs major help.
I don't know for sure where to start either.

I guess it should talk about the basic terminology: definition of a set, definitions of the various basic symbols like "element of" and "is a subset of". Then maybe it could talk about how to express ideas in set theoretic terms that are usually expressed differently. For example, ordered pairs and functions can both be expressed purely in terms of sets. Isomorphic 02:31, 4 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Sympson the Joiner

Sympson the Joiner survived VfD with two Del votes (including the nomination to VfD), three explicit Keep votes, and two arguable implicit Keeps (via mentions of Cleanup).
In accord with WP:CU suggestions(rather than the Wikipedia:Pages needing attention one you advocated), it
1. went on,
2. got your one-word M(inor) edit after 18 minutes, and
3. was kicked off by one editor after 14 hours, with summary "nothing more is likely to turn up".
Your comment at Talk:Sympson the Joiner#Should this be Merged? would assist me in determining what next.

--Jerzy (t) 04:33, 2004 Aug 16 (UTC)

Mountbatten

Thanks. He doesn't have the simplest ancestry to sort out - His parents (Prince and Princess Louis of Battenberg) were first cousins once removed, so his grandfather was his father's his first cousin. Even more intertwined than usual. --garryq 19:09, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC)

VfD

Not a problem. My dialup modem response time is slow this afternoon, so you were able to check out the article and post to the VfD page during the time it took for the VfD page to reload for me to get to it to edit it. Rick K 23:27, Aug 17, 2004 (UTC)

stolen with permission

The rapidly rising current creates a rapidly rising magnetic field along the axis of the coil, which in turn induces an electric field going in circles inside the coil. The induced electric field causes an electron current in the can which experiences a vxB force in the magnetic field of the coil, causing the can to break into two pieces which are blown to the opposite sides of the lecture hall. The plasma "theta pinch" phenomenon occurs when the capacitor is discharged. This effect causes radiation pressure on the can which breaks it in two and blasts apart the two halves. Compare shark infested waters.

Thanks

Thanks for the cleanup on RTKL. The stuff you fixed was in the original article. Strange things apparently occur when you copy and paste text into Wikipedia from a ten-year-old word processor. Isomorphic 02:32, 4 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Wikilinking

Hey man, you don't need to link words like "is" in articles, alright? –Andre (talk) 17:17, Oct 12, 2004 (UTC)

Astrochicken

Hi, Finn-Zoltan. :) I'm letting everyone who voted on the VfD for Astrochicken know that I have placed it on Wikipedia:Votes for Undeletion. I would appreciate any comments there that you may have. func (talk) 17:03, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Redirect you created at "The Fabulous Lorraine"

Hi, you created a redirect from The Fabulous Lorraine to Lorraine Garland, but there is currently no article at Lorraine Garland. (It may have been deleted since the redirect was created.) Wikipedia policy is to get rid of redirects to non-existent pages, and someone listed The Fabulous Lorraine on WP:RfD If you want the redirect to stay, you will need to create something at Lorraine Garland (even a stub will do), or else the redirect will go away. If you do create the target, you don't have to do anything on WP:RfD (we'll eventually notice the target is there), but if you do, just delete the entry for The Fabulous Lorraine. Thanks! Noel (talk) 13:17, 29 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Sure, no problem. Don't wait too long, though! :-) Noel (talk) 16:27, 29 Nov 2004 (UTC)

No, you're set, I'll remove the RfD listing. Thanks! Noel (talk) 19:04, 29 Nov 2004 (UTC)

(See also other half of conversation)

Kumeyaay-Digueno

I created the redirects at Digueno and Diegueno. Have you ever seen the compound vesion actually used, or can I nuke that one? Thanks! Noel (talk) 13:32, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Well, if you have actually seen it, I'd say keep it (if nothing else, to prevent creation of a duplicate article). What about Kumeyaay-Diegueno? Ever seen that one? Noel (talk) 18:44, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)

OK, so we're done then. Thanks! Noel (talk) 22:54, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)

PS: that target is going to go away as I refactor my talk pages, move stuff to archives, etc... Sorry! Noel (talk) 22:54, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)

(See also other half of conversation)

Collaboration of the Week

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Article Licensing

Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 1000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:

Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
Multi-Licensing Guide
Free the Rambot Articles Project

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

Option 1

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

OR

Option 2

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to any [[U.S. state]], county, or city article as described below:

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk)

A familiar, um, face

You might find Aaron Kraus amusing. Isomorphic 21:17, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)

DC Meetup will be May 7/8

The DC Meetup date has been finalized to May 7/8. Even if you can only come one of the days, that's still fine. Please watch this page for new details, which will be posted in the next couple days: Wikipedia:Meetup/Wikipedians of the East Coast field trip --brian0918  16:12, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Acronym finder

This looks like it would be useful for the disambiguation pages you do sometimes. It even lets you search by the field the acronym comes from (military/government, science, IT, etc.) Isomorphic 14:18, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)

lots of edits, not an admin

Hi - I made a list of users who've been around long enough to have made lots of edits but aren't admins. If you're at all interested in becoming an admin, can you please add an '*' immediately before your name in this list? I've suggested folks nominating someone might want to puruse this list. Thanks. -- Rick Block (talk) 18:44, Jun 14, 2005 (UTC)

Please check your WP:NA entry

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Thank you, and have a wiki wiki day! BD2412 T 04:08, 17 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Fomites

FYI, I just replied to a comment you made years ago on Wikipedia:Pages needing attention/Health science#Other. --JVinocur 23:08, 16 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

qy re librarians

I've been editing "the list of librarians" & there's a note that you made many entries.Did you use a particular source? I'm having trouble finding a few. DGG 23:30, 27 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

happens. lots of things I said I'd do months ago that I haven't done. As I say to people when they cant find a book they borrowed, if you ever do find it let me know. :)DGG 22:58, 14 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Madeline Pierce

You created the above page as a redirect to Blacklist I cannot see why, so have tagged as a speedy deletion candidate, Davidprior 14:54, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Leo Ford

Hello. I've changed this dab to a redirect as there were only two entries and one was a red link with nothing else linked to it. I thought I'd let you know, as I could see that it would potentially be a useful page, so if you were planning to create an article on the one without, the redirect would need to be change dback to a dab. Thanks, Hndis (talk) 16:10, 30 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Bubbles in beer

Go read bubble chamber; it addresses your question from the talk page. DS (talk) 01:00, 23 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Unreferenced BLPs

Hello Finn-Zoltan! Thank you for your contributions. I am a bot alerting you that 4 of the articles that you created are tagged as Unreferenced Biographies of Living Persons. The biographies of living persons policy requires that all personal or potentially controversial information be sourced. In addition, to ensure verifiability, all biographies should be based on reliable sources. If you were to bring these articles up to standards, it would greatly help us with the current 232 article backlog. Once the articles are adequately referenced, please remove the {{unreferencedBLP}} tag. Here is the list:

Celia Correas de Zapata - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL
Richard Ellis (biologist) - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL
Madaline Lee - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL
James Clark (British diplomat) - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

Thanks!--DASHBot (talk) 05:33, 25 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Heron of Alexandria

Hi, Finn-Zoltan. I believe that you are the owner of the user name "Heron" on commons.wikimedia.org. Would you be prepared to pop into existence for a short while so that I can ask you about your contributions to that site? Best wishes --Heron (talk) 12:59, 16 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination of List of fictional sports teams for deletion

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Nomination of Britt Nichols for deletion

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ArbCom elections are now open!

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Richness listed at Redirects for discussion

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Nomination of Clinton Ford (painter) for deletion

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"Wizard of Yendor" listed at Redirects for discussion

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Nomination of List of veterinarians for deletion

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Proposed deletion of Barry Perowne

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