User talk:Anthony Argyriou

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Tasks: start a new article • add basic, wanted or requested articles • add definitions • add metadata • edit new pages

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Good to see!

Anthony, I see you are hard at work!!! Keep going,,,, so much to do, so little time:) and welcome again. Matt Innis (Talk) 20:24, 27 February 2007 (CST)

I went ahead and added you to the engineering authors list (see your user page). You would certainly qualify as an editor. Look into it after you get comfortable here. You can add yourself as an author to any group that you would like to edit. Have fun. -Matt Innis (Talk) 20:36, 27 February 2007 (CST)

8 sentences

Hi. The issue is being discussed, see User talk:James F. Perry and User talk:Larry Sanger#On WP credits. Actiually, I have no strong opinions, just would like to set up _some working standards (considering that no author is supposed to "guarantee" his texts forever). As for Irish dance, look at this

1. Irish dance comes in several forms, which can broadly be divided into social dances and performance dances.
2. Most competitive stepdances are solo dances, though many stepdancers also perform and compete using traditional set and ceili dances.
3. Set dances are folk dances of Ireland based on French quadrilles.
4. There is a distinction between the noun ceili, and the adjective.
5. A ceili is a social gathering featuring Irish music and dance.
6. Ceili dancing is a specific type of Irish dance.
7. Irish solo stepdances fall into two broad categories based on the shoes worn: hardshoe and soft shoe dances.
8. Reels are in 2/4 or 4/4 time.

Well, I do not know whether 1,2, 5 or 8 identical sentences is enough to give credits (formally it is, assuming we know nothing about authorship). In view of some recent criticism (see CZ:Notice Board#March 27, 2007), I acted quite formally :-) AFAIK, we have a few hundred articles more in need of the WP-credit... Best, --AlekStos 15:39, 29 March 2007 (CDT)

I've looked through these: #1, #2, #7 were introduced by me in this edit (credited when I created the article here). #3 is a rewording of a different sentence I made in this edit. You've got me on #4, #5 and #6 - those three were introduced by 204.73.55.90 in the edit immediately previous to the one where I rewrote #3. #8 has been in the WP article for a while, but it's also rather hard to restate well.

I've removed sentences 4, 5, and 6, and rewritten 8 to expand on it a little. With your approval, I'll remove the content from Wikipedia tag. Anthony Argyriou 19:42, 3 April 2007 (CDT)

Imported articles from WP

Hi Anthony. May I ask your intentions with the articles you've imported from WP? Please have a look at CZ:CZ4WP#Citizendium_is_not_a_mirror and let me know. —–Stephen Ewen 22:46, 14 April 2007 (CDT)

Some articles I imported with extensive edits at the time of import, others I copied pretty much bodily because the WP article was fairly good, and felt that the article was worth having, or necessary to have. Details:

• Geotechnical engineering - I've edited and intend to clean up some more
• Foundation - Expand
• Bearing capacity - Minor cleanup
• Civil engineering - hoping others will work on this as well
• Colombia - hoping others will work on this as well, but have some ideas for cleanup
• International System of Units - made some edits, don't know if it needs much more
• year - only partially from WP
• star - minor cleanup, hoping others will work on
• calendar - partial import from WP, will do more, and hope others will also

Anthony Argyriou 22:56, 14 April 2007 (CDT)

re environmental engeneering

Technically speaking, no identical sentences found :) I'll always readily check an article if you need a test. Just to let you know that a version of the comparison script is available online at [1]. Unfortunately, it is not very convenient, as it requires manual copy-pasting html source code from your browser. Further, the result needs to be interpreted, as this is just a stupid script. When it says that there is a sentence in common, this is often true. When it says "there is nothing in common" then it should be taken with a grain of salt (perhaps a better test would detect something). But I'd say at this stage it is reliable enough. You can check it! Any bugs reports, special cases, improvements suggestions, etc., would be appreciated. --Aleksander Stos 04:07, 26 May 2007 (CDT)

re WPauthor

Hi, IIRC, I had the same problem with embedded links... --Aleksander Stos 09:24, 23 June 2007 (CDT)

Deep foundation

Hi, I noticed that you tagged this article as CZ Live and External (checklist). It seems to be a contradiction... IMHO the checklist entry is more accurate, see the definition in CZ Live Category -- but I took no action. Could you please decide the status? I'm trying to finally equalize CZ Live and Internal articles (theoretically they are of the same scope, see e.g. the forum here or here). Thanks in advance. --Aleksander Stos 11:11, 27 June 2007 (CDT)

I'll retag it as "developing", as I have edited it significantly from the Wikipedia article. Anthony Argyriou 15:59, 27 June 2007 (CDT)

Polynesian dancing

If you live in Alameda, you should check out the Forbidden Island on Lincoln and try to interest them in Polynesian dances such as the tamure or even, groan, the hula. It's a great place for a drink, too! Hayford Peirce 16:32, 1 August 2007 (CDT)

Re: Finance

Thanks for notyfying. I took a look at this and I agree. Well, the article is deletable by the very first point of CZ:Article Deletion Policy. Furthermore, it is in the scope of CZ:What Citizendium articles are not, another reason to suppress the article on the spot. So I should do it. Just letting you know -- in case you want to work on it, you may start from scratch. If you want to I'll leave the checklist on the talk; otherwise it'll disappear with the article. Aleksander Stos 11:11, 2 August 2007 (CDT)

I'm not going to restart that article any time soon, as it's not something I know lots about, and I didn't start it in the first place. I was just skimming through the needs-checklist list when I saw it. Anthony Argyriou 11:13, 2 August 2007 (CDT)

So thanks again, the case is closed. Aleksander Stos 11:26, 2 August 2007 (CDT)

irrational number

What in the world do you mean by saying prime numbers are infinite? They are nothing of the sort. "Infinite number" at the very least means a number larger in absolute value than any of the natural numbers 1, ,2 ,3 ,...etc. If you mean the decimal expansion is infinite in the sense that it neither terminates nor repeats, it's horribly sloppy language to express that by saying the number itself is "infinite", and I think that's certainly a far less important fact about irrational numbers than what's there now (not that it shouldn't be included eventually). Michael Hardy 20:12, 3 August 2007 (CDT)

replied at Talk:Irrational number. Anthony Argyriou 01:14, 4 August 2007 (CDT)

Sorry!

Anthony:

Sorry we had to "meet" this way, and my apologies for the mess I created; I hope its temporary! I thought I had gotten everything, but the full implications didn't occur to me. Please let me know if I need to do anything to help you get it straightened out. (BTW, Foundation (Construction) is a well done article. I hope the eventual Foundation (Financial) will be equally interesting.

Roger Lohmann 19:46, 13 September 2007 (CDT)