Macrakis |
I d like to welcome you to Wikipedia myself and suggest that you may add yourself to the lists of 08:23, 23 Dec 2004 (UTC)
= Greetings from Ireland =
Hi Stavros! Nice to see you on the Wikipedia. 10:48, 2005 Mar 3 (UTC)
= Jean Ichbiah article =
Yes, I wanted to make a reference to Louveciennes, France but because it didn t exist I finally make a link to France. If you encountered it inappropiate change de link to the first location. And if you can, please write a small stub of Louveciennes too (I don t speak french). And thank you for making this article of 08:28, 2005 Apr 1 (UTC) – PS: Do you know what is the middle name of Jean Ichbiah If so, add it to the article. Thank you again!
= Ernst Herrera Legorreta =
Hi!
On the matter of , but almost all of them are in Spanish. I believe the most recent edition of Karttunen s Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl makes reference to Legorreta s oligosynthetic work. I couldn t be sure.
I ll move the relevant paragraph to the talk page until some conclusive evidence can be found. 04:11, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)
If you aren t aware of it already, you may want to read my reply at 08:42, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)
= Quotes =
It is the Wikipedia house style to use plain ASCII quotes, rather than left/right quotes. See 14:55, Apr 18, 2005 (UTC)
= Aleph (letter) etc =
My reason for putting two font versions of the Hebrew letters is that the ordinary sans version is generally used by default within Wikipedia, but most users who have (like myself) had only relatively little exposure to Hebrew may have seen only the normal printed versions, in a serif font (I believe this is not exactly the correct term) and they are quite a bit different in some cases, so I thought there was a need to show both side by side to avoid confusion. I ve done something similar on the small table on the 10:48, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC) :I should have added that I was following the precedent of articles such as 11:46, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)
= Greeks =
Will keep an eye on 19:04, 1 May 2005 (UTC)
Hello Stavro! Thanks for letting me know about the goings on; you ll already have seen that I made a few small edits (I hope that you re not regretting contacting me...). Is there something about this people vs nation business that I m missing 14:16, 2 May 2005 (UTC)
omothriskos is not in LSJ (hard-copy); although of course its components are. But the article is quiet - let sleeping nationalists lie. 05:19, 3 May 2005 (UTC) :Well, that should do it. Will observing that the Greek language, religion, and customs have changed over the last two millennia cause too much trouble 22:20, 3 May 2005 (UTC)
=RE: Block on 128.113.201.75=
Hi Macrakis. Thankyou for the information on this user. Unfortunatly there is not much I can do when this user is not editing; I am severely restricted as to the length of ban I can give to anonymous IPs, even if they are used by only one person. I will try to keep on the situation as much as I can. Thanks anyway. 00:58, May 5, 2005 (UTC)
= endnotes =
the Harvard endnotes were right before, but someone added some sources out of order, and so it got messed up. thanks for pointing it out. It s fixed now, though there s one article, referenced as yaletfteach2 or something like that, whose pointer got lost. I m going to try to figure out where it belongs in a couple of days. For now, I stuck it at the end of the list, where it s just an orphaned endnote, but not messing up the numbering. -- 19:25, 11 May 2005 (UTC)
=hellenes=
unfortunately, this consensus was not visible to people watching only the Hellenes, but not the Greeks article, was it I am not completely opposed to the merge, in that the Greeks article will focus on history anyway. Of course Greeks tends to refer to the modern population, while Hellenes is a rather polyvalent term, referring to ancient peoples. Anyway, the discussion of this is also possible on the Greeks page, so I ll just have a look at that now. regards, 14:51, 13 May 2005 (UTC) :I think I agree with your characterization. Greeks is the unmarked term, for ancient and modern peoples. Hellenes is either grandiloquent (i.e. used for the modern population primarily by romantic Hellenophiles wishing to emphasize real or imagined cultural or genetic continuity), or used in Bronze-Age contexts for the earliest settlers. 09:41, 14 May 2005 (UTC)
=Slavery and Old Oligarch=
I was taught to take pseudo-Xenophon seriously, as saying: these are the most prudent measures to maintain a democracy, for those vile enough to want one; and this is why they work . However, your Sprachgefühl may well be better than mine.
By the way, the douloi-were-free people have taken to misquoting Old Oligarch in 16:51, 21 May 2005 (UTC)
Also 20:43, 23 May 2005 (UTC)
No problem, it looked a little spurious, but I m not interested in getting involved in any POV dispute. 11:47, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
=Wade-Giles Superscripts=
Thank you for adding those superscripts! I knew I was missing something with my Wade-Giles transcription. 07:59, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)
=Greek cuisine=
I couldn t be bothered to login. Contact me in .
Ta piata pou aneferes (shis, doner, gyros klp) den einai h pragmatiki Ellinika kouzina, einai i Elliniki kouzina gia tous touristes. H alithini Elliniki kouzina me ta thalassina tis kai ta kreatika tis den yparxei stin mesoanatoli. Akoma kai tin Tourkiki kouzina tha tin xaraktiriza 1/2 mesoanatolitiki kai 1/2 mesogiaki. To na peis oti i Elliniki kouzina pou exei stoixeia apo tin Tourkiki einai klasiki masoanatolitiki einai teleios atopo. Pigaine s ena arabiko estiatorio kai pes mou posa onomata piaton tha anagnoriseis. 09:53, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
= Poll (Macedonian Slavs or Macedonians) =
I hope that this message is of interest to you, if not please accept my apologies. There is an ongoing poll in the talk page of the Macedonian Slavs article here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Macedonian_Slavs#The_poll
Some people are lobbying for changing the article s name to Macedonians without any qualifier (compare to Macedonian). As it seems, the initiators of this poll were contributors from the Macedonian/Macedonian Slav wikipedia project. It seemed only fair to attract the attention of people that _possibly_ share or represent a different point of view. Your participation to the discussion and the poll, are very welcome.
=Third view=
I am insvolved in a POV dispute with a rather odd fish on 17:03, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)
:Thanks for looking; the only necessary point is that PR China was *not* in the Soviet bloc when they went to war with Vietnam. IIRC also Kampuchea was in their bloc, while it existed. But Ultramarine has removed the POV clause in that sentence. Now all I really want is for him to stop editing with an egg-beater: one sentence pro-Rummel, one sentence con, two sentences pro, and so forth. 15:30, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)
=Number of words in English=
If you were to nominate this for VfD, you certainly wouldn t get any objection from me. -- 07:22, 2005 Jun 23 (UTC)
PS meanwhile I ve put up 11:05, 2005 Jun 23 (UTC)
Hm, there really seems to be a tidal wave of this stuff. (Haw haw haw.) Yes, do please go ahead with VfD. I d do it myself, but right now I m connected by modem and overpriced phone line; I m not overjoyed by having to spend my time on this kind of thing, but the combination of time and money is too much. -- 00:13, 2005 Jun 25 (UTC)
04:15, 2005 Jun 25 (UTC)
Pjjp-irrelevant this time, but you might enjoy letting your mind boggle at the Deep Thoughts within 15:43, 2005 Jun 25 (UTC)
From PJJP: Pls remove my vfd pages immediately (since I do not know how to do this). I understand your arguments.
=Advice on Aliákmon=
Hi! You as a native speaker of Greek: can you help us out about how to call the river Aliákmon/Aliákmonas in this English wikipedia See the discussion at 19:25, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)
=Gimbutas=
Macrakis, you have to be specific about which theories of Gimbutas you are referring to. It is well known that towards her later life, she became more and more extreme, and hardly anything of this brute feminism phase is taken seriously. Nevertheless, in her earlier life, she was a very serious archaeologist, and just that she lost it later doesn t mean all of her theories are worthless. Her 5 July 2005 19:40 (UTC) :it s true that archaeomythology smells of Gimbutas and over-interpretation. But what s wrong with Old European The term is certainly preferable to Pre-Indo-European , which makes linguistic assumptions, and is not restricted to Europe (and may in principle applied to India and the Americas). I suggest the discussion of Gimbutas view is taken from the intro and given in more detail. The statement I removed seemed to refer to the whole paragraph, including mention of Kurgan . If you make explicit that Gimbutas socio-religio-mythological speculations are widely rejected, I have no problem with that. We should probably take this discussion to the article s talk page. 6 July 2005 13:10 (UTC)
= Grassmann s laws (color)=
You said what I wrote as Grassman is really Grassmann - I used the spelling from Wyszecki and Stiles which probably where the confusion originates, but googling both convinces me you are probably right. But how do you justify Grassmann I d like to put a note in the article, but not just say Google says Grassmann wins . 22:56, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
=Vedic civilization=
thanks for helping me watch this. The garbled passages must still be typos from my original entry, I ll try to fix them. 15:40, 12 July 2005 (UTC) :so it should, surely, but I haven t got the time to do it just now.... 06:20, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
= Your translation is fine... =
, , ; :) spellchecker . , : , . . Classic case of Not invented here syndrome. . . , .
PS: (YES, WE WON! No software pattents! woot!) 03:19, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
= explain this to me =
Why the hell do greeks that do not leave in greece go on to do lots of wonderful things and greeks that live in greece only try to kick each other s ass, rediccule, maim, shame hustle each other I really don t get this... why do i need to seriously consider migrating from greece, if i want to grow as a person and actually make a buck Why does it feel like the junta was never really overthrown
; $!$*%&#$# ; :~(
13:33, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
: , . . .-- 16:21, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
Re file Macraki mipos eisai kathisterimenos Me ti vlakeies kathesai kai asxoleisai Prospatheis na mas bgaleis blakes i pseutes diladi emas tous upoloipous Apla den katalabaino ti logous exeis na kathesai na asxoleisai me tis diafores tis arxaias kai neas koinis, les kai eipe kaneis allos oti prokeitai gia to idio kai to auto. Tis kseroume tis diafores, euxaristoume poly, einai grammenes kai sta arthra. Ton eksipno pas na kaneis 17:04, 21 July 2005 (UTC)
Ki esy re ProjectXXX me to sumpathio adelfe alla mipos se exei faei i malakia Se periptosi pou den to exeis katalabei, eisai eksisou karagkiozis me tous extremistes tis akrodeksias pou kathesai kai brizeis. Basika eisai ki esu o idios extremistis xoris na to katalabaineis. O sofos anthropos katigorei kai uperaspizetai ti xora tou analoga me tis sunthikes. To na kathesai apla na katigoreis tous Ellines editors stin wikipedia epeidi de sumfonoun me tis politikes sou pepithiseis, prokeitai gia malakinsi 1ou bathmou. Ante giati apo tote pou egine i aristera tis modas ntunontai oloi sta kokkina kai agourazoun kai prada. (This is addressed to Project2501a -- I am copying it to his Talk page. -- 17:31, 21 July 2005 (UTC))
= computer science categorization =
Hi. I apologise for any trouble I might have caused you. Anyway, here s something on topic: Me and a couple of friends are trying to fix up 20:05, 22 July 2005 (UTC)
= thanks for improving Imre Lakatos =
Macrakis, Thanks for your improvement. Cheers,-- 06:03, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
= Intuitional linking =
I have copied the relevant discussion from 16:54, July 26, 2005 (UTC)
= Nietzsche s Kundalini =
It has been some time since I scrutinized the 22:07, 27 July 2005 (UTC)
= automatic differentiation =
Thanks for your note. I added a link to this from computer algebra based on that article.From your comments it seems that the opening paragraph of automatic differentiation is incorrect. Could you take a look and fix it, if it indeed is incorrect
Thanks 18:48, 11 August 2005 (UTC)
= Woodworking wikiproject =
Hello Stavros, I noticed you made some valuable edits to woodworking-related articles 21:53, 5 September 2005 (UTC)
= Aëtius =
Why did you change Aetius in Aëtius ë was not part of Latin alphabet, neither it is currently used in English. He is widely known as Aetius.-- 10:44, 23 September 2005 (UTC)
:I am moving this to 15:06, 23 September 2005 (UTC)
::Ok, but be sure to add your answer, since you made the change! 
-- 16:18, 23 September 2005 (UTC)
:I will add, here, that my edition of Gibbon prints Aetius , and it is a fine reprint of Bury s edition (without the notes), so it probably has Gibbon s usage right; but I have no informed opinion more than I have said on the Talk page. I hope my 15:31, 24 September 2005 (UTC)
= When the OEIS omits zeroes =
Good job so far on formalizing the OEIS article. I noticed you left an HTML comment about the clarity of the paragraph on weight distribution codes with periodically recurring zeroes, such as (though it also applies to theta series of a lattice like and other types of sequences where the zeroes occur at predictable intervals). For example, if I wanted to submit the sequence
1, 2, 3, 0, 2, 3, 4, 0, 3, 4, 5, 0, 4, 5, ...
the [http://www.research.att.com/~njas/sequences/eishelp1.html OEIS Internal Format Specs] would suggest I send it in as
1, 2, 3, 2, 3, 4, 3, 4, 5, 4, 5, ...
But only if the recurrence of zeroes is painfully obvious. begins
1, -3, -4, 0, -6, 12, -8, 0, 0, 18, -12, 0, -14, 24, 24, 0, -18, 0, -20, 0, 32
and even some very smart people might not realize that the pattern of zeroes is given by . 16:07, 28 September 2005 (UTC)
= Archiving =
I understand the practical reasons for archiving. I do wonder, though, what this does to the cumulativity of discussions. Not that unarchived Talk pages are necessarily consulted for background systematically.... -- 18:19, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
:I didn t archive this particular page, but I do often archive after coming to a contentious page. Such pages usually have alot of long winded debate, and I find it best to clear the air and allow for people to take a fresh start periodically ;) 19:03, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
=Greek language=
I ve made a stab at cleaning up the nationalism; if you care to take a look, please do. The PoV brigade seems very quiet; have they been banned today 22:51, 20 October 2005 (UTC) :Clearly you have more Byzantine linguistics than I do; feel free to adjust. I was just adapting Buck s Comparative Grammar to the purpose. Is there really a difference between the various spellings of /i/ in Demotic, or is that a Katharevsa affectation I left it in the article because I didn t know it was false. 23:29, 20 October 2005 (UTC)|
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