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Archiving?

Hi Cyp and Happy New Year. Now that you've returned to adminship do you think you could do some archiving on this talk page, to reduce it to a manageable size? The Talk page guidelines recommend archiving when the talk page exceeds 75kB, and this one is 135 kB and goes back 13 years. Thanks: Noyster (talk), 23:47, 31 December 2016 (UTC)

I guess it's probably not too soon to do an archive… Κσυπ Cyp   09:39, 1 January 2017 (UTC)

To err is human

Hello Cyp. Can you explain your deletion of that article per A3? It was a soft redirect and was created using the appropriate template for such. It did not qualify for a speedy or any other deletion since we having pages like that is very normal. I would appreciate if you can restore it. Best,  — Yash ^talk stalk 05:42, 14 January 2017 (UTC)

@Yash!: Yes, sorry, it's because I didn't realise it was actually a redirect. I somehow missed in the preview that {{wtr}} adds a redirect box. I've restored it now. Κσυπ Cyp   09:40, 14 January 2017 (UTC)

Thank you, Cyp. I just realized that you returned to active editing after a long time. Welcome back - it is always great to see positive editors like you returning back to the project. I hope you have fun! :)  — Yash ^talk stalk 11:03, 14 January 2017 (UTC)

Thanks Yash!, it's good to be back. ☺ Κσυπ Cyp   13:02, 14 January 2017 (UTC)

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Articles for deletion/Victor Ike

Hi! Cyp, Please why exactly was Victor Ike article i wrote deleted? thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tracy Williams (talk • contribs) 12:53, 28 February 2017 (UTC)

@Tracy Williams: Because it was recently voted to be deleted at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Victor Ike. If you think it shouldn't have been deleted, you can ask at Wikipedia:Deletion review – please don't just recreate it repeatedly. Κσυπ Cyp   13:01, 28 February 2017 (UTC)

Use of golden spiral image

Hello, Cyp

I was wondering if you would allow me and the college at which I work to use (without attribution) your fine image of the golden spiral appearing on W? Every year we run a math contest for secondary school students, and one of the perks we give them is a custom designed t-shirt with a mathematical image and a quote from a famous mathematician. I think your image of the golden spiral might be appropriate for this purpose.

The contest is completely non-profit, and only about 60 t-shirts are printed. The reason I would prefer to do it without attribution is that it kind of ruins a t-shirt to have copyright symbols and text on the shirt (unless I can place it along the bottom of the back edge).

Thanks for your consideration of my request, and, of course, I understand completely if the answer is no.

Nicholas Buck Instructor of Mathematics College of New Caledonia Prince George, BC — Preceding unsigned comment added by Aliotra (talk • contribs) 15:07, 16 March 2017 (UTC)

@Aliotra: That sounds fine with me. I'm not sure how well thin bright-coloured lines would be printed on dark backgrounds (if printing on t-shirts is anything like printing on regular paper with a cheap printer), so you might want to consider lightening the background colours, in case – the t-shirt-printing place should know whether that's required, though. Κσυπ Cyp   16:03, 16 March 2017 (UTC)

Hi!

Hello there, I hope you are doing great! The page Talk:PieShell was deleted under A3 CSD criteria, but it does not fall under it. See this discussion that we had at the teahouse. Thank you. Adityavagarwal (talk) 22:36, 9 August 2017 (UTC)

Thanks a lot Cyp

Plz if you can help me nominating for admin on wiki.

Reagrds , — Preceding unsigned comment added by Aggarwal1981 (talk • contribs) 09:52, 11 August 2017 (UTC)

I'm sorry, but I don't feel comfortable nominating you for adminship at this time. For a higher chance of success, it might help to have a higher ratio of contributions to deleted contributions. Κσυπ Cyp   10:42, 11 August 2017 (UTC)

LOL just the right amount of humor for my night :) Legacypac (talk) 07:34, 10 September 2017 (UTC)

2600:1003:B466:14DA:94A8:EBDE:DDEB:FBC4 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Please revoke this IP from editing their talk page as this IP is still vandalising their talk page even after being blocked. Pkbwcgs (talk) 16:02, 25 September 2017 (UTC)

@Pkbwcgs: Thanks, did it just as you were posting your comment, don't know who was faster. Κσυπ Cyp   16:05, 25 September 2017 (UTC)

Sanjay Rungta Group of Institutions

Previously i was created an article named Sanjay Rungta Group of Institutions which is a group of educational institutions located in Bhilai, Chhattisgarh, India. This article should be published because people are confused with similar names of institutions such as Rungta Group Of Institutions both are different groups of educational institutions but are considered as same, so to solve the confusion i want to publish Sanjay Rungta Group of Institutions with a strong source and all the bugs fixed. Sanjay Rungta Group of Institutions is popularly known as Rungta Group of Colleges. sources http://www.rungtacolleges.com/the-gdr-society.php (for name Sanjay Rungta Group of Institutions). This group owns 4 (four) degree college which are - RSR Rungta College of Engineering and Technology, GD Rungta College of Engineering & Technology, Rungta College of Dental Sciences & Research, Rungta College of Science & Technology which are located in same place at same campus. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sumitsharaf (talk • contribs)

@Sumitsharaf: Note that it wasn't me that deleted Rungta Group of Colleges, and Sanjay Rungta Group of Institutions was just a redirect to it. I deleted the redirect, since there's no point redirecting to a deleted article. RHaworth deleted Rungta Group of Colleges due to it not being notable enough. I haven't looked into the actual article, so I don't know whether it should qualify as being notable. Κσυπ Cyp   12:05, 8 October 2017 (UTC)

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Use of some of your polyhedra figures

Hi Cyp! Thanks a lot for creating all those fantastic figures! I wanted to use some of them (and they are licensed by Creative Commons), but there I had one problem: Some of the figures were uploaded by other users (like Hellisp or André Kjell). So how is it with the license, should I still name you or the other users? Thank you in advance for an answer and I wish you nice holidays!! :-) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Malvi90 (talk • contribs) 13:42, 18 December 2017 (UTC)

@Malvi90: I think linking to the original images is usually considered sufficient, and probably easier than figuring out who did exactly what. Nice holidays to you, too! Κσυπ Cyp   17:21, 18 December 2017 (UTC)

142.40.135.244

Question: did you happen to see my request on IRC regarding 142.40.135.244? Thanks for blocking 142.40.135.244. Cheers Jim1138 (talk) 09:31, 22 December 2017 (UTC)

@Jim1138: No, you might have messaged another Cyp on IRC. I revoked TPA, though. Κσυπ Cyp   09:36, 22 December 2017 (UTC)

Just curious. I had added an AIV report for the anon, didn't get any response, then went to the admin IRC channel. Seems like when nobody's watching AIV, nobody's watching IRC. I've gotten chastised a few times for not using IRC instead of repeatedly reverting an LTA. But, the five or six times I've used IRC when AIV has been backlogged, it's never helped. Thanks for your reply. Cheers Jim1138 (talk) 09:42, 22 December 2017 (UTC)

Looks like we have a similar spam-bot - Special:Contributions/45.122.138.58 - adding talk pages in Korean to articles that don't exist. Pete AU aka --Shirt58 (talk) 09:14, 28 December 2017 (UTC)

Oops. Cancel that. Special:Contributions/119.206.249.167 was the adding talk pages in Korean to articles that don't exist was the spambot you blocked. Special:Contributions/142.40.135.244 unrelated. I got that wrong. --Shirt58 (talk) 09:54, 28 December 2017 (UTC)

@Shirt58: Yes, 119.206.249.167 and 45.122.138.58 look the same. If you come across similar spambots in the future, you can use Special:Nuke/45.122.138.58 instead of deleting each page individually. Κσυπ Cyp   10:35, 28 December 2017 (UTC)

Test filter in disallow

If we want to enable any actions then I think we should use a dedicated filter with a descriptive title. This makes for easier tracking, as seeing "Test filter" in the logs doesn't tell us much, and it would be hard to determine what version of the filter disallowed the edit. Regards, — MusikAnimal ^talk 22:45, 7 January 2018 (UTC)

@MusikAnimal: Ok, sorry – I've moved it to its own filter now. Κσυπ Cyp   07:54, 8 January 2018 (UTC)

YouTube/Mathologer use of polyhedron animation

Hi Cyp - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rhombicdodecahedron.gif shows up in Mathologer video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEhLNS5AHss at 8:10. I don't know whether he/they asked you for permission to use it without attribution or whether the attribution is well hidden. Andrew Kepert (talk) 02:18, 21 January 2018 (UTC)

Thanks AndrewKepert for mentioning. I don't think I gave them permission to use them without attribution. They give attribution for lots of stuff though, so I'm guessing it's left out by accident. Κσυπ Cyp   14:11, 21 January 2018 (UTC)

Blocked

Whoops I misused the template. It should have been {{RFPP|b|197.34.44.9|Cyp}}. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Sunasuttuq 07:28, 3 March 2018 (UTC)

Ok, that's fine – glad I'm not blocked. It looked to me like Sunasuttuq was commenting that Cyp and CambridgeBayWeather were blocked by Uqaqtuq, so I got a bit confused. Κσυπ Cyp   06:59, 4 March 2018 (UTC)

Question

Would it be alright if I continued to make Joe Walz edits? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:387:9:5:0:0:0:57 (talk) 15:33, 14 April 2018 (UTC)

Use of Polyhedra images for a thesis

Hi Cyp, thank you for your nice polyhedra pictures! I would like to include them in my thesis. I would insert the following footnote on the pages containing your pictures:

Picture made by Wiki User Cyp using POV-Ray. (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Is there another expression that I should include? Shall I include you full name? If so, what is it?

Thank you in advance,

Viviana — Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.159.67.44 (talk) 09:56, 14 May 2018 (UTC)

That's fine. It might be better to say Wikipedia than wiki, since there are many wikis and only one Wikipedia (not counting mirrors). Κσυπ Cyp   10:23, 14 May 2018 (UTC)

Great, thanks a lot! Viviana 131.159.67.44 (talk) 11:57, 14 May 2018 (UTC)

73.16.107.72

I think 73.16.107.72 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) needs their talk page access reviewed per this abuse Thank you Jim1138 (talk) 08:07, 27 May 2018 (UTC)

Faster than I! Cheers Jim1138 (talk) 08:08, 27 May 2018 (UTC)

Sorry, I thought you had removed talk page privileges. The anon is again adding personal attacks/abuse. Jim1138 (talk) 08:15, 27 May 2018 (UTC)

Ok Jim1138, done. I wasn't fast revoking TPA, I was just slow adding the block notice. Κσυπ Cyp   08:16, 27 May 2018 (UTC)

About filter syntax

Hi, I noticed this filter change by chance, together with some perplexity regarding filter maths. Since the filter is private I won't expose too much details here, so sorry for being a little cryptic. The "problem" here is that a while ago we changed the way integers are handled (see phab:T191688). Those changes especially affected comparisons using === and !==, except for integer/integer, which is now a float when it needs to be. So yeah, the rounding isn't in place anymore.--Daimona Eaytoy (Talk) 22:44, 8 June 2018 (UTC)

@Daimona Eaytoy: Ok thanks, that explains it. Was wondering if something had changed, or if it had actually never worked in the first place. Κσυπ Cyp   10:17, 9 June 2018 (UTC)

J Walz troll

Thanks for blocking the J Walz troll at 2600:387:9:3:0:0:0:70 (talk · contribs · WHOIS). I realize this is a tough troll to deal with due to the dynamic IP. Would you be willing to implement a temporary range block that would also include 2600:387:9:3:0:0:0:ae (talk · contribs · WHOIS), 2600:387:9:3:0:0:0:AF (talk · contribs · WHOIS), 2600:387:9:3:0:0:0:75 (talk · contribs · WHOIS), 2600:387:9:3:0:0:0:9E (talk · contribs · WHOIS), and 2600:387:9:3:0:0:0:71 (talk · contribs · WHOIS), which have also been active over the last couple of weeks? Thanks. --FyzixFighter (talk) 22:08, 29 July 2018 (UTC)

@FyzixFighter: I've done a short rangeblock for now. Since not all edits from that range are bad, I think another solution may be needed longer term, if they don't stop. Κσυπ Cyp   06:38, 30 July 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for the GIFs

I love the spinning Octahedrons, so thank you for those, I gave creds to you on my page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Iamkasai (talk • contribs) 18:00, 28 August 2018 (UTC)

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Filter 883

Filter 883 currently does not do any actions, and only has 16 hits over ~14 months. With one false positive the highest setting possible would be warn, and I don't see any vandal determined enough to get autoconfirmed being stopped by a warning, and there are very few hits anyhow. So I'm thinking of disabling it - any objections? Galobtter (pingó mió) 16:19, 14 January 2019 (UTC)

@Galobtter: Since it's not even currently set to do anything, I guess there's no harm in disabling it — I've disabled it, now. Κσυπ Cyp   08:54, 15 January 2019 (UTC)

Thanks, and letting you know I disabled Filter 897 since the spambot appears to have stopped (or completely changed behaviour, at-least), and there were a couple of somewhat good-faith edits caught like Special:AbuseLog/20700242. Galobtter (pingó mió) 08:59, 15 January 2019 (UTC)

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Rhombicdodecahedron was nominated for deletion

Hello there, it seems like someone thinks the https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rhombicdodecahedron.jpg should be deleted just because there is a gif version. This doesn't make any sense for me, if you can help on voting to keep would be nice.

Also, is it possible to generate SVG versions with POLY ray ? I've never used such program and I am not familiar with the coding provided. Many thanks for your contribution. --Cyberpunk (talk) 17:48, 18 May 2019 (UTC)

I don't think there's any chance of it getting deleted (or even of anyone voting to delete), and even if a majority suddenly voted to delete, it's supposed to be based on reasoning rather than number of votes, so I think more votes are probably redundant now.

POV-ray is a raytracer, so I think there's no way it would be able to generate SVGs. I think it might be possible to make SVGs that look similar enough though, but haven't tried. Κσυπ Cyp   18:25, 18 May 2019 (UTC)

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Edit filter results review

Can you look at [:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrator_intervention_against_vandalism/TB2#Bot-reported] and let me know if 86.147.205.68 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) is part of the pattern you were actually targeting, or just an accidental false positive? Thanks. Georgewilliamherbert (talk) 08:29, 11 June 2019 (UTC)

My guess is a false positive in that case. I think anything with position:absolute is usually trying to mess with the site layout, so I think the few false positives on that one are considered acceptable. Κσυπ Cyp   12:09, 4 July 2019 (UTC)

lol

[1] .... but then again, given that both logic analyzers and programming compilers can be associated with those numbers, AND you do seem to be quite adept at math ... I'm just never quite sure when it comes to humor. — Ched :  ?  — 12:28, 23 July 2019 (UTC)

@Ched: They're 65536 = 2¹⁶ and 43046721 = 3¹⁶, which are common because they're the number of 16-bit numbers and the number of 16-trit numbers. Κσυπ Cyp   08:14, 24 July 2019 (UTC)

Serbs of Croatia

Could you please deal with the edit war at Serbs of Croatia? CLCStudent (talk) 14:22, 27 July 2019 (UTC)

@CLCStudent: I don't usually deal with edit wars, but the edit history over there looked a bit excessive… Hope I dealt with it right. Κσυπ Cyp   14:38, 27 July 2019 (UTC)

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	For asking the tough questions at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Floquenbeam 2. That made me chuckle. –MJL ‐Talk‐☖ 19:29, 29 July 2019 (UTC)

Shouldn't the bot do this?

[2] Agreed, it should, but it doesn't. I've meant to complain before, but I don't know where. Bishonen | talk 08:10, 3 August 2019 (UTC).

I'm not sure, but the bot's talk page redirects to @JamesR:'s talk page, so maybe he knows about it. Κσυπ Cyp   08:20, 3 August 2019 (UTC)

A kitten for you!

Your polyhedra are amazing. thank you for making so many and maintaining a consistent style. its really helpful

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Thank you. Buffs (talk) 16:14, 17 October 2019 (UTC)

@Buffs: Sorry, I've reduced it to “Require autoconfirmed or confirmed access”. I hope that was the right setting. Κσυπ Cyp   18:17, 17 October 2019 (UTC)

Sounds great! Thanks! Buffs (talk) 19:38, 17 October 2019 (UTC)

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What problem is this application of simulated annealing trying to solve?

Hello, I was reading about simulated annealing on its Wikipedia page, and was drawn to the example you added (according to the page history) illustrating the annealing schedule. I am drawn to this particular problem – that of rearranging pixels using this algorithm – for its connections to crystal formation, but I am finding it impossible to find a starting point to learn more about it on the internet. Thus I was wondering what this particular problem is called or the greater context it belongs in. I'd love to play around with its implementation. Thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Thegreatmochi (talk • contribs) 21:22, 5 February 2021 (UTC)

@Thegreatmochi: This particular example is just an image starting with randomly coloured pixels and then swapping them in order to minimise a potential function which favours similar colours at short range and varying colours at medium range. Mainly just to generate pretty pictures, although the result happens to looks like a crystal or amorphous solid depending on annealing speed. I imagine a potential function for realistic crystal formation would be a bit more complicated (requiring at least some approximation of quantum mechanics), and probably involve at least the coordinates of the atoms in the crystal, rather than an arbitrary continuous field of colour. Κσυπ Cyp   19:28, 6 February 2021 (UTC)

Hello, I was also interested in this nice pictures, and I tried to reproduce them. However you're quite vague in the parameters :)

Do you recall what was "short range" and "slightly less short range" by any chance?

thank

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Regarding Draft:Theranostics pages deletion

Hi Cyp Sir, I would like to submit an independent page on theranostics. While searching, I found you deleted the draft entitled theranostics. Can you please tell me the reason? Is it something about the notability, if so there is no meaning to create a new article. I think it is fast-growing research, so there should be an independent page on the topic. Kindly let me know whether to continue or not. I am attaching the details of the deletion log.

19:01, 22 August 2017 Cyp talk contribs deleted page Draft:Theranostics (G7: One author who has requested deletion – If you wish to retrieve it, please see

By seeing the log details it appears as an automatic deletion, that happened because no edits happened in the draft, even after six months of period. I am just a new user, so I could not get even more details about it. So kindly provide if you can provide.

If you have any suggestions regarding this topic please let me know.

I don't want the old deleted page. I would like to start it as new.

Thanking you Rahulsoman (talk) 10:10, 31 October 2021 (UTC)

Hi @Rahulsoman:, the reason was that the article's author asked for it to be deleted. I don't know why the author asked for it to be deleted. Sometimes authors ask for deletion after being told something isn't notable, or it could also be that they changed their mind about finishing it, or some other reason, but I don't know what the case here.

If someone asks for their page to be deleted, someone else may still create a page on the same topic (assuming there aren't any other reasons why not). Κσυπ Cyp   11:24, 31 October 2021 (UTC)

Hi Cyp Sir Thnks for your reply. I just started working on it, wanted to know whether the topic is having any notability issue. thank you Rahulsoman (talk) 12:21, 31 October 2021 (UTC)

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Could I use your images in a paper?

Dear Cyp,

I'm writing a math paper and would love to use some of your iconic polyhedra diagrams (with attribution) in a figure. I intend to submit this paper to a mathematics journal for publication when it's done. Please let me know if this is alright with you. I'll understand either way.

Best, Ewyman (talk) 12:47, 30 May 2024 (UTC)

@Ewyman: Sure, that's fine with me. In general, if you click on “View author information” for an image, if there's a section that says “This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. Subject to disclaimers.” or similar, then permission is already given. Cyp   14:56, 30 May 2024 (UTC)

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Green polyhedra should be PNG

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