User talk:Deryck Chan/Archive 4

This is a page of archived comments about Deryck. Please post any new comments and comments about this archive at User talk:Deryck Chan, thanks. Deryck C. 10:29, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

Page rebuilt

Again, this talk page is rebuilt after archiving. Happy discussing! Deryck C. 07:38, 9 August 2005 (UTC)

Ahhhaaaa

A, well, quite funny comment is put onto the archive page:

This is an archive of old discussion. Read it if you like (although I don't think anybody, including myself, will). Any new comments please post to User talk:Deryck Chan. Deryck C. 07:40, 9 August 2005 (UTC)

XDDDD. Deryck C. 07:42, 9 August 2005 (UTC)

Chinese name

(original message on User talk:Mcy jerry)What is your chinese name? Deryck C. 09:00, 9 August 2005 (UTC)

Why ask? :) -- Jerry Crimson Mann 09:19, 9 August 2005 (UTC)

Okay, so what does Mcy as in Mcy jerry stand for? Deryck C. 09:24, 9 August 2005 (UTC)

Mcy is my initials. I've the same surname as Mencius. -- Jerry Crimson Mann 09:29, 9 August 2005 (UTC)

But it spells "Mann"? Deryck C. 09:31, 9 August 2005 (UTC)

Originally it spells "Mang". I changed it into "Mann", which sounds like a western surname. -- Jerry Crimson Mann 09:33, 9 August 2005 (UTC)

Why don't you just hide the spelling of your surname then? (like what I'm doing) Deryck C. 09:36, 9 August 2005 (UTC)

In fact I'd like to ask you: people ususally "hide" their first name but not surname (e.g. D. Chan), but why did you do the opposite? -- Jerry Crimson Mann 09:38, 9 August 2005 (UTC)

I'm not really doing the opposite. Many people from my school hide his surname on electronic signatures such as those on Xanga, Wikipedia, etc. Deryck C. 09:42, 9 August 2005 (UTC)

Well actually the common practice is to make the middle name, or the first name as well, or sometimes the full name, as initials. — Instantnood 09:55, August 9, 2005 (UTC)

"Common practice" depends on how we do it. Deryck C. 13:58, 9 August 2005 (UTC)

Chinese translation of the week

Should it be part of WP:HKWNB, WP:TRTNB and WP:CRTNB, or attached to or devolved from them? — Instantnood 09:54, August 9, 2005 (UTC)

Separate thing. Deryck C. 13:59, 9 August 2005 (UTC)

Hmm. Would be a great idea. Share your idea at the talk pages of those notice boards and get some feedback. :-) — Instantnood 18:18, August 10, 2005 (UTC)

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Frankly I'm not too sure if it's gonna be sucessful. I know it's a great idea. — Instantnood 18:59, August 27, 2005 (UTC)

Eigenvalue, eigenvector, and eigenspace

Hi Deryck. You made this the math collaboration of the week. I have one request. Would you mind putting an edit summary when you do things of such caliber? (Well, edit summaries don't hurt in any case, and I think I mentioned this to you before, but at least in important cases, do provide one.) Thanks, Oleg Alexandrov

Thanks for your note. Deryck C. 09:52, 10 August 2005 (UTC)

Welcome message

Hello, Deryck

Thanks for the welcoming message :-) Made my talk page a little less lonely ^_^ Claus Aranha 09:05, 10 August 2005 (UTC)

Thanks. Deryck C. 10:15, 10 August 2005 (UTC)

Joke

Was this you?~ (Just kidding ;-) ) -- Jerry Crimson Mann 14:44, 10 August 2005 (UTC)

Could be. Any other secret u're hiding Deryck? :-D — Instantnood 18:32, August 10, 2005 (UTC)

That's not me. I've refused the nomination to the children's council. Deryck C. 05:02, 11 August 2005 (UTC)

Your signature

I guess you can use a template under your user space (e.g. {{User:Deryck Chan/sig}}) for your signature. The html script is a bit too long. — Instantnood 18:18, August 10, 2005 (UTC)

I thought the signature field says "please don't use templates here"? Deryck C. 05:00, 11 August 2005 (UTC)

I'm not sure, quite many users are using templates for signatures. — Instantnood 16:12, August 11, 2005 (UTC)

For example? Deryck C. 05:20, 12 August 2005 (UTC)

Eh... I don't remember the names of these people... :-| If you've notice some signatures are like {{User:Username/sig}}. — Instantnood 15:36, August 13, 2005 (UTC)

Ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase

Much like noone calls DNA deoxyribonucleic acid, the common name of the protein is RuBisCO, it's simpler. Since RuBisCO it a better known name and would probably be a better name for the article if / is a problem. I'll move it.--nixie 05:25, 11 August 2005 (UTC)

(also at User talk:Petaholmes) No, please don't. It's not a common practice to use abbreviations instead of full names as titles. Deryck C.

Actually that's not the case. The MoS says always use the most common name. That is why DNA is at DNA. --nixie 05:29, 11 August 2005 (UTC)

Is it? If that's the case I'll just leave it. Afterall I know nothing about Rubisco before I saw the article. Deryck C. 05:33, 11 August 2005 (UTC)

Thanks!

Er...thanks! Moldy bread—just what I've always wanted! I wish I could be more active in the SCOTW, but currently the topics are too far outside my expertise—I'm just an amateur. I'll keep watching the page though, in case anything grabs my attention. I'm very happy that there is a science collaboration; in fact, I remember when it was revived a little while back and that planted the idea for me to start the Medicine COTW. I'm extremely pleased with how it's turning out so far. Looking forward to working with you! — Knowledge Seeker দ 05:59, August 11, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks! BTW, you said you STARTED the MCOTW? Deryck C. 06:02, 11 August 2005 (UTC)

Heh...yes, I started it back on July 25th. It was in response to a comment by User:PhatRita at the Doctors' Mess (for clinical medicine) regarding starting a similar project for preclinical medicine. Somewhat tangentially, I mentioned in passing that a medicine collaboration might be a good idea...then the more I thought about it, the more excited I got. As soon as PhatRita said he'd be interested too, I went about setting it up. I'm very proud of the support it's received from physicians and medical students (and friends) on Wikipedia, and I hope the level of interest remains (we're only in our third week). — Knowledge Seeker দ 06:16, August 11, 2005 (UTC)

In fact I'm one of the relaunchers of SCOTW, however I joined it after the relaunching program had been announced. Deryck C. 05:22, 12 August 2005 (UTC)

Congrats

Hello! I see you are now a Form 4 student. Congrats!

As for the Flag of Hong Kong article, I wonder if you can take a picture of some official place in Hong Kong which contains a picture of the flag in a more prominent place. The pictures in the article look fine, but the flag seems somewhat diminished in importance, say, when compared to the policeman or the boat. --HappyCamper 06:13, 11 August 2005 (UTC)

Does it? It's not likely for me to go to Golden Bauhinia Square in the coming few weeks, so It's not likely possible for me to take pictures. Deryck C. 05:23, 12 August 2005 (UTC)

Clear Right

{{clearright}} (which is actually <div style="clear: right; float: right"></div>) and <br clear="right" /> are different, though they can sometimes accomplish the same thing. I'm not quite sure what the difference is between the two; I think they might produce different results in Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox.

If you want newcomers to welcome, just comb through recent changes for red talk page links. :) Oh, and squirrel talk... er, that's kind of hard to explain. XD Regards, Sango123 13:56, August 11, 2005 (UTC)

The result is quite the same. Just a quirk: If you want a line of space between the cleared stuff, br clear does it. While at the same time, clearright template makes no empty space. Deryck C. 05:25, 12 August 2005 (UTC)

IDRIVE

Thank you for your support of This week's Improvement Drive. This week Spice trade was selected to be improved to featured article status. Hope you can help…

Thank you. I'll help whenever possible. Deryck C. 17:04, 17 August 2005 (UTC)

History of South Carolina

Hello. History of South Carolina is on Featured Article Candidates for a third time due to recent controversy. Because you commented on one of its past nominations, you may be interested in commenting this time at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/History of South Carolina. Toothpaste 19:32, 23 August 2005 (UTC)

Currently I've voted objection due to the inadequate amount of images. Deryck C. 12:21, 25 August 2005 (UTC)

Little Astrology Prince

Hello Deryck what do you think can be to improve this article to save it from vfd? — Instantnood 10:45, August 25, 2005 (UTC)

My regrets, I'm not likely able to save the article. I've no knowledge about this person and I can't find real materials about him (persumably male). Deryck C. 12:03, 25 August 2005 (UTC)

Thanks anyways. :-D — Instantnood 18:59, August 27, 2005 (UTC)

Seems like it's now less easy to slip into deletion ^_^ Deryck C. 14:26, 28 August 2005 (UTC)

Nominations for WikiMedals

Hi Deryck. The WikiMedals aren't intended to replace Barnstars, but to complement them. Sorry if that wasn't clear. - Jakew 12:18, August 25, 2005 (UTC)

I don't think the current barnstar system needs an extra system to support. Deryck C. 12:22, 25 August 2005 (UTC)

Try FA?

Do you think Sun Yat-sen will be ready for FA? Maybe you should try- frankly I think it would be difficult for it to pass this time, but at least we'll get some idea of what we must do to improve it. WP:PR doesn't get that much comment. Borisblue 02:46, 29 August 2005 (UTC)

Wait till the PR falls into the second half of the PR page. Deryck C. 13:36, 29 August 2005 (UTC)

It's currently the 30th out of 59 entries.Borisblue 17:51, 29 August 2005 (UTC)

When you viewed the page. When I did it it was 27/59. Deryck C. 06:45, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

Chinese vs. Japanese

If you read other people response to my talk page, you will notice that my opinion regarding the topic is considered biased. I doubt such controveral and opinionated topic will make a good neutral wikipedia article. If you want to write an article, you are welcome to extract the list from my talk page. I have no plan to do it. Kowloonese 20:39, August 31, 2005 (UTC)

Later, maybe, I hope I'll have time to do that in the future. Deryck C. 09:18, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

Hi Deryck

開學快樂! ^-^ --K.C. Tang 03:30, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

Yep, I'm in the class with approximately the same teachers that produced 230A's in last year's HKCEE. Deryck C. 09:20, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

Haha, i've never had a A in my whole life, not even in conduct, or especially not in conduct. :P --K.C. Tang 09:32, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

Have you finished HKCEE or HKAL? Deryck C. 09:34, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

long long time ago...I am a bit of an "old cake" now. :( --K.C. Tang 09:39, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

No wonder you can do such significant contributions to 1970s in Hong Kong. Deryck C. 09:41, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

um...indeed i was born in 1980 :P --K.C. Tang 09:47, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

1980! Freshly baked cake! Deryck C. 09:48, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

Tks, I am working on the waitau article, so need to clarify the phonetics. --K.C. Tang 10:11, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

Wow so many As. Which school are you actually going to Deryck? (see how nosey I am. Lol~) — Instantnood 10:21, September 1, 2005 (UTC)

As far as I can recall you did work on a secondary school article, didn't you? :-D — Instantnood

That's not my school XD. I've no idea of how to improve the article about my school without facing copyvio. Deryck C. 10:24, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

Umm.. what about rewrite it completely? — Instantnood 10:26, September 1, 2005 (UTC)

Re: IPA symbols

Well I just copy and paste. :-P — Instantnood 10:25, September 1, 2005 (UTC)

Copy and paste... from what? Deryck C. 10:27, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

Move

Page move in progress... please don't talk... Deryck C. 10:28, 1 September 2005 (UTC)