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Hello, and Welcome to the Wikipedia, FrostyBytes! Thanks for the copy edit over on the 7 World Trade Center article. Hope you enjoy editing here and becoming a Wikipedian! Here are a few perfunctory tips to hasten your acculturation into the Wikipedia experience:

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Best of luck, FrostyBytes, and most importantly, have fun! Ombudsman 23:50, 30 January 2006 (UTC)Reply

Category:Aspergian Wikipedians

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Category:Aspergian Wikipedians which you have included on your user page has been proposed for deletion you can comment at Wikipedia:Categories for deletion#Category:Wikipedians by mental condition. The is also a proposal to create an association to meet the needs of users with mental health conditions. --Salix alba (talk) 18:38, 15 May 2006 (UTC)Reply

== Criticism by 151.203.243.251 ==

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Why don't you shut the fuck up nigga.You seriously think telling me to play nicely is gonna effect can change my view of something?Ha NO.Also to add the fact saying play nice is not gonna happen OH IM GONNA PLAY NICE LOLZ shut up your making an abymsal fool of yourself.Your comments won't change my intention to do anything so just fuck off ass wipe. --151.203.243.251

Would you like a cookie? Seems like you need one. Anyway, I apologize for offending you by asking you to change your behavior. Of course, if you're going to act that way, then I can't do anything about it.... before the fact. --FrostyBytes 10:46, 4 June 2006 (UTC)Reply
And so, I present you with the following cookie:
 
A cookie. Please enjoy.

License tagging for Image:AtheismImplicitExplicit3.png

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Thanks!

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Thanks for improving the image on atheism! I agree that the former version was quite ugly (and I made it), and am glad to see a more aesthetically-pleasing (and compact) depiction of the interacting dichotomies. -Silence 23:25, 25 October 2006 (UTC)Reply


How is this true?

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"Please do not add nonsense to Wikipedia. It is considered vandalism. If you would like to experiment, use the sandbox. Thank you." -FrostyBytes 14:52, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

Vandalism??

I contributed what I thought was a fact. That's not nonsense, or vandalism. People like you make websites like this horrible and not worth going to. I don't need the sandbox or you telling what I need or should do. Next time, think who you are talking to before you come out with holier than thou art. Your statements came out Rude....the same way mine did just now. Now you know how I felt when I got your message. -2-Bar Quack

I am sorry if I have offended you. However, your statement of "This is also the best Show ever on Adult Swim!" which you added to the Fullmetal Alchemist article is quite clearly not fact, it is an opinion.

While I too have enjoyed the show greatly, it is not proper to add one's own opinions to articles in Wikipedia. I take no offense to your reply, and would like to apologize for any perceived hostility on my part. -FrostyBytes 20:49, 13 November 2006 (UTC)Reply

Accepted and I'm sorry that you thought I wasn't being too much of a fan, but the fact is that during it's playing time, it had better numbers than all the other series until the new ATHF shows came back out. It's play time and numbers proved that it was the best at one time. But I could have used better way to describe it.

Play time and other related statistics do not generally indicate whether a show is "good" or "bad", as that is an entirely subjective judgement. However, if you were to have indicated the shows position as the top rated show on Adult Swim, then that would have been just fine. In fact, since you seem to be aware of the relevant statistics, why don't you add that info, or mention it's top ratings in the intro? That's just a friendly suggestion, feel free to act on it or ignore it as you please :) -FrostyBytes 20:13, 14 November 2006 (UTC)Reply

PNG vs JPEG

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I agree with most of your comment on my discussion page. However, when I made the template, I was also considering the fact that a PNG file can be edited with no loss of quality and does not require a patent license to use (as GIF does - does JPEG??). Also, PNG has the advantage over JPEG and BMP of optional transparency and PNG is better than BMP because it is compressed (losslessly of course). I will, for now, follow your suggestion about using Template:ShouldBePNG, but would you please post your concerns on the Template talk:ShouldBePNG page so others can discuss them as well? Thanks! --Anthony5429 01:07, 25 November 2006 (UTC)Reply

Thanks! --Anthony5429 04:17, 25 November 2006 (UTC)Reply

Orc image in SVG

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Can you join discussion here Talk:Scalable_Vector_Graphics#Orc_image_-_and_others GameKeeper 10:01, 25 November 2006 (UTC)Reply

Non-expert comprehension of mathematics articles

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Is it just me, or do a lot of mathematics articles need to be improved for readability by those with less experience with mathematics? Or is it just the nature of mathematics, that even basic comprehension of complicated mathematical concepts require extensive familiarization with underlying concepts? -FrostyBytes 20:21, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

Hi, FrostyBytes! I was poking around the talk pages in the Math areas when I ran across your questions. You received a somewhat clumsy response indicating that the questions should be posted in a different forum, but when I checked over there, I couldn't find your questions. So I'm writing back to you here.

  • It's not just you. I have quite a lot of experience with mathematics, and I think many of the math articles are waaaay too technical.
  • The answer to your second question is "yes, that is the nature of mathematics, sort of". It's certainly true that certain basic math concepts must be thoroughly understood before one can learn much about more advanced mathematical topics. At the same time, mathematicians are often interested in a lot of gory details that should be left out of a Wikipedia article, if it's going to appeal to the general reader.

Anyway, I would like to push the existing math material in the direction of improved readability. I think the right way to do this is to identify some articles as being of general interest, and then working hard to make them more accessible. Other articles, which deal exclusively with more advanced concepts, probably must either include a lot of explanatory material, or else use very technical language that very few readers would understand.

If you're interested in improving the readability of math articles generally, please contact me. DavidCBryant 19:33, 12 December 2006 (UTC)Reply

Image:Linguistics_stub.svg

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Thanks for redoing this! The one I made was just a quick trace... I don't think I linked it anywhere but you found it and replaced the PNGs. The PNG however is something like 8 times smaller, and is usually rendered very small. .. --Indolences 01:42, 14 December 2006 (UTC)Reply

Hmm, hadn't noticed the size difference. Just assumed that an SVG version would be smaller. But then again, the total difference isn't much at all, even if the proportional difference is vast.

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Sorry, clicked the wrong button. I first, accidentally reverted it, and then I put it back to your version, since I made the issue. Sorry! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Downy (talkcontribs) 17:06, 12 March 2007 (UTC).Reply

WikiProject Iceland

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Maybe you are interested in this project... --Michkalas 14:50, 26 April 2007 (UTC)Reply

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WP Computing

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Greetings. You are receiving this note as you are a member of this WikiProject. Currently there is not much of activity in the project and I am hoping to revive the project with your help. I have made a few changes to the project page Diff. You are welcome to make suggestions of improvement / changes in the design. I have also make a proposal to AutoTagg articles with {{WikiProject Computing}} for the descendant wikiprojects articles also. Please express your opinion here -- TinuCherian (Wanna Talk?) - 12:47, 23 June 2008 (UTC)Reply

File:Atheism Implicit - Explicit3.svg listed for deletion

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