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Uffish: I undid your redirect of Percolation from an edit you made on may 4th, because you didn't edit the Percolation_theory page to account for the information that was in the Percolation page. In fact, it created a circular reference in the Percolation_theory page. I'm not opposed to the redirect, but the material needs to be folded into the theory page before the redirect is done. EdChi (talk) 22:28, 7 June 2010 (UTC)

Be Bold!

[[User:Sam Spade|Sam Spade Wants you to vote!]] 11:46, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Zeevi

Are you sure he only advocated the expatriation of Palestinians? My understanding is that like many extremist Zionists he was in favour of the "transfer" of any and all Arabs, to create as big a Jewish majority as possible.

As for the word "transfer", this should read "forced transfer", unless you quote his saying something about it, because the latter is absolutely what he meant. He subscribed to the school of thought that one could not bundle Arabs into lorries but could make life so intolerable for them that they "volunteered" to leave.Dr Zen 22:09, 22 Dec 2004 (UTC)

I'll answer that on the talk page. Uffish 04:28, 23 Dec 2004 (UTC)

List of statements undecidable in ZFC

Have you read my remark here? Kope (talk) 17:05, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

Question

What doe the hidded keys do to the Abundances of the elements (data page) ? --Stone (talk) 20:03, 22 May 2010 (UTC)

Without them the table sorts by the mantissa, ignoring the exponent, which is kind of stupid. Uffish (talk) 20:05, 22 May 2010 (UTC)

Right, but there should be a template to make it. The page gets really large, but its a solution.--Stone (talk) 20:08, 22 May 2010 (UTC)

Probabilistic proofs of non-probabilistic theorems

"Do we really want to go that way? This page could extend ad infinitum..." — Yes, I like your additions to that article. Let it extend ad infinitum together with the Wikipedia. However, I tried to sort items chronologically, and you probably did not. Boris Tsirelson (talk) 09:11, 4 July 2010 (UTC)

References

Hi, Uffish, thanks a lot for the certainly much needed expansion of applications of Schramm-Loewner Evolution!

Two remarks: 1. You should probably learn how to add references not as footnotes but as harvtxt (Harvard style, I think), which is more similar to the math citation culture. If you look at a source file, it's pretty self-explanatory how it works. Once you add citations as footnotes, it's much harder to unify the two styles, I think. 2. I probably should not do this edit, since I'm a coauthor, but between present footnotes [4] and [5], I would suggest adding [1], to appear in Acta Math. --GaborPete (talk) 02:22, 14 August 2010 (UTC)

People of Levantine-Greek Orthodox Christian descent

Dear Uffish,

Since you seem to be a rational soul and know about the « Byzantine » (no pun intended!) subtleties of MENA area historical & cultural categorization, I’m writing to draw your attention on the fact that some reckless Wiki-Boeotians wants to delete the “People of Levantine-Greek Orthodox Christian descent” and the “American of Levantine-Greek Orthodox Christian descent” categories!

See this page

Your editorial help in the current « deletion debate » would be appreciated

Cordially,

--B.Andersohn (talk) 18:24, 29 December 2012 (UTC)

APL (programming language)

Hi, the "criticisms of APL" material you added from a Russian site was actually taken from an old version of the Wikipedia page Criticism of APL. Though that article has some good points, it is not in itself a reliable source, doesn't have much in the way of sources itself, and generally seems to be a person essay. The claim "Developed in the 60's by Kenneth E. Iverson it never caught on in a big way due to various peculiarities, including use of non-ascii characters" is bizarre in a bunch of ways. First of all, "never caught on in a big way" is slangy and imprecise. It's also not very meaningful: compared to what? Sure, it was much less popular than Fortran or Cobol or even PL/I, but it was probably more widely used than Snobol or Lisp or Algol 68. So what? --Macrakis (talk) 02:55, 13 October 2013 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!

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