User talk:MattOates

Hi there irc!

^___________^ kekekekekeke - FrancisTyers 18:28, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

OMG Pthag 22:34, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

Coccolithovirus

there was a footnote that was not used in Coccolithovirus, you might want to check that out. Also see WP:FOOTNOTES for a way to easily avoid such problems in the future. Regards. Circeus 15:59, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

Please don't randomly alter citation styles if you aren't going to actually work on the article, some people prefer a maintainable system. Thanks :) - FrancisTyers 22:34, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

Circeus thanks for the heads up I've moved the extra citation, hopefully I'll get some more content soon to use it ;) MattOates 22:50, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

DYK Coccolithovirus

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Nice article! --Spangineer^[es] (háblame) 22:12, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

Talk:Coccolithovirus

Please read and respond to my comments there, thanks. By the way, your user page is effectively illegible in my browser (Safari), the columns overlap completely. —johndburger 19:47, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

I haven't got a Mac but if you're interested in fixing it I won't stop you ;) It looks fine under IE and Firefox, so I'm assuming it’s a floating bug with Safari. I can't really be bothered to spend much time worrying about ~3% of web users :P

More like it's a resolution problem lame :<

Evolution strategy

Hello, friend.

Please, see the evolution strategy article. I put there some arguments to change the text you wrote. But I would like that you read the discussion page before.

See you! :)

Welcome to WikiProject CS

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GA feedback on Mimivirus

See Talk:Mimivirus#GA_feedback, cheers, Pete.Hurd 02:12, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Matter is now the Core Topics COTF

You showed support for Matter at Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Core topics/Core topics COTF. This article was selected as our collaboration of the fortnight. Hope you can help.

Thanks, Walkerma 05:27, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

well, i did a revision of the slime mould page and

fixed a bunch of other stuff with the related pages.

i think there's more to do with the other pages and maybe 3 pages to get rid of. what do you think?Wikiskimmer 06:01, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

Artificial life

I understand your point of view. However, Alife is a little unique among the "sciences" in that it's less a field of knowledge and more a field of techniques. These techniques can be applied to scientific ends, but they are also applied towards artistic ends. In this regard it's rather unique. It'd be like if crosshatching could also be used as a method of gathering data in science. Or if Stoichiometry equations could be considered art. To be honest, I find the wording in that first section awkward. Maybe Alife isn't a field of study or an art form, maybe it's a technique. Or just a method of simulation. I'm not sure. It's rather difficult to define exactly what Alife is. Everyone seems to have a slightly different definition. Alife is alot like what it studies: there's so many different approaches. It's all so emergent. --Numsgil 12:37, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

Berkeley Algorithm

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How about you give the lad a chance to flesh out the template!!! MattOates (Ulti) (talk) 21:40, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

Ghost slug

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--BorgQueen (talk) 23:46, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

Integrated banner for WikiProject Computer science

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Slime Molds

I removed the sentence for there are just too many people on Wikipedia willing to compromise its integrity. I saw your citation I am surprised to read such a thing exists. However I still find such a thing highly unlikely, but at least you have a source. I just though of slime molds as being small things, I to my knowledge have no remembrance of a large blob anywhere. But you seem to have it under control. Thanks for adding a source at least its more reliable now, Good luck. --Zaharous (talk) 00:56, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

Charles Gillingham / User:CharlesGillingham

Howdy - I've removed the link you added from an encyclopedia article to a user page. User pages are 'internal' to wikipedia; links to them don't make sense on mirror websites. - TB (talk) 11:04, 5 July 2009 (UTC)

Nomination of IDsec for deletion

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JavaScript RegExp problem

I noticed you have experience in JavaScript. I'm hoping you can help me with a problem I've run into writing a userscript.

Please see my post at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject JavaScript#Nested RegExp.

Thank you. The Transhumanist 12:22, 5 May 2017 (UTC)

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