User talk:Ocolon

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Hi, Ocolon. I saw that you wrote an article about Frobenius matrices, so I thought I'd stop by to say hello.

Here's a page that you might want to check from time to time. Members of the math project on the English Wikipedia get together there to discuss topics of current interest. I'm sure you'll like these guys. They're good to know.

Have a great day! DavidCBryant 01:14, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

Thank you very much for the warm welcome - and for your numerous contributions to wikipedia of course! Ocolon 09:51, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject Mathematics

Hello again, Ocolon!

I saw your response to JRSpriggs over on the project's talk page. Just so you'll know, JRSpriggs sort of rubbed me the wrong way when I first started editing Wikipedia about 3 or 4 months ago. But he's really a very nice guy, who has helped me out by making good solid suggestions every once in a while.

Overall I think the group of mathematicians on the forum are very cordial and polite almost all the time. And some of the "rules", like WP:AGF, end up being more of an impediment than a help. I'm always willing to assume good faith – as long as that looks like a reasonable assumption. But I don't think there's any reason to make a bad assumption, once I have enough evidence to draw a conclusion. Some of the nastier editors on Wikipedia accuse me of violating the "rule" AGF. I just tell them, "No, I did make an assumption in your favor. You just proved to me that it was a bad assumption."

I'm not sure if you noticed it, but Linas was trying to keep the whole discussion light-hearted, by making a little joke about there only being three formulas in all of mathematics. I thought that was funny! DavidCBryant 00:35, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

Oh, yeah. I laughed about that. :-)

I just thought the word dumb might be inappropriate. I don't want people to be afraid of being politically incorrect when rejecting bad ideas. I don't want people to be afraid of being called dumb when making suggestions either. However, I get KSmrq's point on the difference between calling someone dumb and calling something dumb that someone said.

Thank you for leaving a message here again! It's very kind of you to introduce me like that. I see that mathematicians at Wikipedia are nice people. I won't have a negative impression because of such a direct — but honest — statement as JRSpriggs's one. Ocolon 09:16, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

Gnu, I like goats box

Thanks for pointing that out to me. I would never guess that is a Wildebeast as the image of the Gnu looks alot like a goat, mainly due to its color. I will keep that image as a goat for now until I can come up with a public domain picture of a cute goat. I might actually create a new box with it saying I like Gnu's. Sawblade05 19:33, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

bot

All i want to know is how damn hard is it to make one of these boxbots?!--Takaomi I. Shimoi 16:54, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Yes, sure, no problem. :-) I explained my deletion of your request at your talk page — Ocolon 17:03, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

blocked?

all i did was request a bot like it said! I wanted a bot but i get this! I dont understand what you expect from me! I did what i was told to! so what?--Takaomi I. Shimoi 16:00, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

No, not blocked. → Your talk page

well thanks for the invitation

Thank you very much for the invitation to wikipedia.

You're welcome! — Ocolon 12:24, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

Hey

I really liked your userpage design, so I decided to copy it. Hope you don't mind. :-( Khoikhoi 07:55, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

No, I don't mind. Thanks for telling me though, thank you for the compliment. :-) — Ocolon 09:05, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

Mathematics CotW

Hey Ocolon, I am writing you to let you know that the Mathematics Collaboration of the week(soon to "of the month") is getting an overhaul of sorts and I would encourage you to participate in whatever way you can, i.e. nominate an article, contribute to an article, or sign up to be part of the project. Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks--Cronholm144 23:52, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

Ocobot

I'm currently writing a wikipedia bot which finds dead external links, like Ocobot (which is where I got the idea from). I just wanted to check that it would be ok for me to use the same output format as you, since I think it's good. I haven't seen any Ocobot source, and I'm not aiming to clone your bot - I'm just interested in writing my own bot with similar functionality. Is this alright? PeteMarsh 12:36, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

Dead link bot

Seeing as how your bot was some of the inspiration for my spider I invite you to check it out. It doesn't do the link history of Ocobot, nor a something other things. Any comments, suggestions, or criticisms is welcomed. Cheers, Dispenser 09:02, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

Hey, Ocolon!

I noticed that you wanted to help get WP:WPEL off the ground. I am also interested in doing this. Also, as you requested, I've spiced up the project banner a bit and added a comments bar for commenting on why exactly the template is on that page, along with an auto-updating task list where tasks can be added in a uniform format to add clarity and ease of use. If you need any help with any other templates or getting the project page a little more interesting, just tell me on my talk page or here (I'll watch this page anyway). Cheers, Arky ^¡Hablar! 21:15, 13 September 2007 (UTC)