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Moved Talk threads

2003-10-16: discussion on system moved to Talk:system. --Lexor 00:30, 17 Oct 2003 (UTC)
2003-12-31: discussion on ambient music moved to Talk:ambient music. --Lexor 11:05, 31 Dec 2003 (UTC)
2004-01-13: discussion on nervous system moved to Talk:nervous system
2004-05-04: discussion on New Age music moved to Talk:New Age music --Lexor|Talk 16:21, 4 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
2004-05-04: discussion on biology footers moved to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Evolutionary biology --Lexor|Talk 16:17, 4 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
2004-06-29: discussion with Jfdwolff moved to his talk page --Lexor|Talk 12:08, 29 Jun 2004 (UTC)
2004-07-19: discussion with User:Wilke on image repository moved to Wikipedia talk:List of images.

Archived threads

Group behaviour self-optimisation system creates soccer players specializations

Dear Lexor,

Maybe You can help me with starting/finding the source of the research:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Artificial_life#Group_behaviour_self-optimisation_system_creates_soccer_players_specializations

Or maybe You know anyone from the scientific AI community who could be aware with the experiment I described in the provided link?

Intelligence

How do you know that "most common definitions [of intelligence]] include "the ability to reason, plan, solve problems, think abstractly, comprehend ideas and language, and learn""? That quote is from Wikipedia's article on intelligence, not from a nebulous "most definitions." Other definitions may well differ, but I chose to use that one. You have now changed a correct statement to an unverifiable and possibly wrong one. Since you have created this problem I expect you to solve it. Adam 12:46, 23 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

OK Adam, feel free to revert it if you don't like it. No need to lecture. Lexor|Talk 12:50, August 23, 2005 (UTC)

It's a fair point, however, so I fixed it now. Lexor|Talk 13:02, August 23, 2005 (UTC)

Katrina/New Orleans article

Thanks for contributing to the article, but please respect the Inuse tag — it's the section I'm in the process of condensing and cohereifying (I swear that's a real world, really), and it's difficult to do so when somebody's editing it at the same time. I should be done within an hour, at which point I'll remove the tag. Deadsalmon 11:33, 4 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, sorry, but somebody had added an entire section specifically on the New Orleans to the main Hurricane Katrina article, that needed moving swiftly else it would be expanded on. They are clearly isolated subsections, so should be easy to spot "Summary" and "Declaration of "state of emergency" versus "martial law"". I don't plan any more moving to that article. Lexor|Talk 11:40, September 4, 2005 (UTC)

Didn't notice that; thanks for doing so. Deadsalmon 11:43, 4 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Nice cleanup, by the way. It certainly needed some "cohereify" (I often use "sectionify" and "proseify" articles, so cohereify is fine by me!) Lexor|Talk 17:09, September 4, 2005 (UTC)

Hurricane Katrina

Ah, can you explain what happened here? Specifically the top diff? Thanks for clearing up the bottom diff, I miss merged across an edit conflict. --24.165.233.150 17:04, 4 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Somebody must have inserted this text during that edit conflict resolution. Stuff happens like that sometimes. Edits can get out of order a bit with database servers which have to sync with the master servers if they receive requests almost simultaneously, or something like that, I think. Lexor|Talk 17:08, September 4, 2005 (UTC)

Yea, thats what I thought... Just wanted to make sure. :) --24.165.233.150 17:16, 4 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the edit work you've put in lately — having done some myself, I know it's a hard thing to take on. Deadsalmon 18:57, 5 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. The hardest thing is having to constantly filter changes in Hurricane Katrina down into the subarticles and keep the main article sections nice self-contained summaries. What part of "Main article:" do people not understand? Lexor|Talk 07:54, September 6, 2005 (UTC)

MediaWiki:Common.css

Hmmm. Why did you do this? First, I think there should be semicolons after "display : none ! important;", and second, plainlinksneverexpand should never expand links, whether in print or on screen... Lupo 09:13, September 8, 2005 (UTC)

I am stumbling around trying to ensure that external links with class="plainlinksneverexpand" embedded in infoboxes like Template:Infobox Country don't get expanded in the print backend especially. My CSS isn't great, if you can help me out, great. I fixed the semicolon problem. Lexor|Talk 09:24, September 8, 2005 (UTC)

e.g, try doing "Printable version" of United States, because of the external co-ordinate link for Washington, the whole infobox consumes the entire screen real-estate. I tried wrapping the link with a <span class="plainlinksneverexpand">, and added a corresponding CSS rule in Common.css for class='external text' but for some reason it doesn't work the same as for the class='external autonumber'. Lexor|Talk 09:28, September 8, 2005 (UTC)

Here's a standalone testcase: User:Lexor/test. If you click printable version, you should not see the external link in either case, but only the one with the autonumbering "[1]" is the external link supressed. Lexor|Talk

Yeah, I see what you mean. Beats me. The "a.external.text:after" case you added should suppress this. Why it doesn't, I do not know. Lupo 10:29, September 8, 2005 (UTC)