Chris Pickett

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Well, let me start by saying that I hate to write this since I am not one of those guys that stand up again if someone destroys their work for no apparant reason. Nevertheless I will try.
I am sorry I can not write on the discussion page of the article in question instead of here about your edit . You made a proposal to delete List of commercial Linux games and categorize it instead. As I learned, it seems you meant to integrate the listed games in the Category:Linux games instead. Well, how should I say this..? I know you develop on Java but that should not refrain you from understanding that Linux games and commercial Linux games are not the same. If you need an example to understand this: On The Linux Game Tome are over 2000 entries but only about 150 of those are commercial games. -- Darklock 13:30, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

I proposed deletion of all three of those lists because they were not being maintained properly and because Wikipedia is not a repository of lists, particularly lists of articles that do not exist. I did follow the proper process, the deletion was uncontested for five days, and an admin deleted it, not me. Go ahead and create a "commercial Linux games" category if you like and tag all articles about commercial games. I've stopped editing Wikipedia but saw this old note and thought it would be polite to reply to you. Chris Pickett 11:05, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

Linux

Hey, saw you changed my parenthetical thing back to your approach. Let's talk about it on Talk:Linux; look for a section titled "Outcome by Warrens". Thanks. -/- Warren 23:29, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

Barnstar

		The Original Barnstar
		Hey Chris, I just think that you seriously deserve one of those for your contributions to the Linux article. I knew that someone would come and do the improvements that needed to be done, but you went above and beyond my expectations. Thanks for everything. Now unfortunately comes the difficult task of citing all this info... :) Freedom to share 17:13, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

Wow, thanks, that was a nice surprise. I basically decided to pick an article and focus on it a little bit each day until it reaches FA status. We'll see if Linux gets there, there's a lot left to do! Cheers, Chris Pickett 19:42, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

We just have to add citations to everything that was added during this huge revision, then a mass delete of all info that is not useful (25% - 40%) and we are there, at FP status. That was not just a small contribution, but a huge edit. Thanks for your help, Freedom to share 21:21, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

Comparison of Linux distributions#File system support draft

I'm sorry if I messed up your ordering. Anyway, I'd like your thoughts on this. Do you think that's an appropriate way to display the information? Is there anything that I should add,remove,or rearrange? Mike92591 23:51, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

It seems fine, but I don't think you want an "others" column. I'm not really sure the table is even really that important---isn't file system support mainly handled by the kernel? The difference seems to be a question of whether the distro enabled support for it directly, which is pretty minor. But maybe I'm missing something... Chris Pickett 23:58, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

I was skeptical myself of it's usefulness but, I'll just keep it there if someone thinks otherwise. Thanks for the feedback. Mike92591 00:08, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

Linux (again)

Hi, Chris. I think that a little more work on Linux would bring it to Featured Article status. I would grateful for your comments here. Thanks. Axl 12:09, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

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Windows (disambiguation)

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Proposed deletion of Speculative multithreading

The article Speculative multithreading has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Draftify:This seems to be a loose collection of references and no real article body. I can't see any way that something can possibly be parallelised by a thread but not instructions. It appears to be describing a virtual machine that makes determinations about thread execution order without programmer intervention in a manner that cannot be done ahead of time. If an the claim is that an AoT algorithm may be unable to auto-vectorize a process because of unresolved variables, such as indexes into an array in a for loop. But that being the case, it would still be an AoT algorithm on the for loop with just a lazy evaluation. I'm not even certain that would be possible without a perfect oracle. I think it might have merit but in its current state it looks too suspect to be in the main article space.

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Proposed deletion of IBM Centers for Advanced Studies

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