User talk:Y256

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Hello, Yaniv256, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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Mizar system

Hi. I made a few minor formatting changes, but otherwise the article looks great. Thank you! —Ruud 23:14, 22 July 2012 (UTC)

Yaniv, this could interest you. Boris Tsirelson (talk) 20:40, 23 July 2012 (UTC)

The land of Talk

Hi Yaniv: I read your poetic expression of what Talk pages might aspire to in your piece The land of Talk. I hoped it would demonstrate a new form for discussion, one where some actual imagination might take place. The language seemed likely to provoke real reflection, because its meaning revealed itself quite differently from the usual infertile legalistic court-trial kind of language found on AN/I and described by WP documentation outlined in my essay WP:Editing environment. However, it seems that your effort got archived without understanding. I was sorry to see that. Brews ohare (talk) 14:22, 27 July 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedians have a wide variety of cultural backgrounds, so it generally not a good idea to expect them to be able to grasp your comments if you're trying to be anything but as concrete as possible. To be honest, I'm not really certain what he was trying to say there, but I doubt it belonged on the administrator's noticeboard. There's enough posted there already to also deal with "abstract thought-provoking poetry". Perhaps try the village pump for that, although in my experience such poems are rarely appreciated by anyone but their author.

Yaniv, you might want to familiarize yourself with the community's talk page etiquette, in particular: talk pages are not formal argumentation systems and it generally frowned upon if an editor acts as both a participant and a as moderator in the same discussion. You seem to be a very decent article writer, but your behaviour on talk pages—for whatever reasons you have to behave in such a way—is only annoying your colleagues. —Ruud 15:48, 27 July 2012 (UTC)

You are right, of course, I'll try. With that in mind allow me another worn out koan as a reply. How do we know what a thing is? Yaniv256 (talk) 16:26, 27 July 2012 (UTC)

Talk pages have a function when the participants actually want to sort out what an article should say and how it should be presented. But those goals are too boring for many, so Talk pages are diverted to more entertaining purposes. One might hope poetry could make Talk-page utility an engaging subject, but it seems not? Brews ohare (talk) 18:38, 27 July 2012 (UTC)

Mizar system external links

I strongly agree with the suggestion that you ask about Mizar system external links at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Mathematics, which is the right place to ask about making structural changes to many math articles, and include your pro/con tabulation. You might ask whether a template for the external links, or perhaps a modification to some infobox, would be most appropriate, and see if someone can help you create such a template or modification. Then, if people there agree that the links would be helpful, you can ask on WP:BOTREQ for help automating those additions. Good luck and welcome! I really liked your Pearsons-vs-regression R^2 answer on the Math Desk. 207.224.43.139 (talk) 00:22, 29 July 2012 (UTC)

Thanks! I agree, but given that no support for the idea has shown up I am afraid that for me, "that is that". Yaniv256 (talk) 18:02, 29 July 2012 (UTC)

Re Global Financial Crisis close

Yaniv256, as much as I would like to help, it really isn't appropriate for me to close another RM on this article since I closed the original one. See RM closing instructions conflicts of interest --Mike Cline (talk) 20:16, 10 August 2012 (UTC)

Sorry, I thought it would be more appropriate to call you because you were familiar with the case. Could you refer me to another admin? →Yaniv256 ^talk _contribs 20:27, 10 August 2012 (UTC)

Teahouse talkback: you've got messages!

Hello, Y256. Your question has been answered at the Teahouse Q&A board. Feel free to reply there!
Please note that all old questions are archived after 2-3 days of inactivity. Message added by NtheP (talk) 17:47, 12 August 2012 (UTC). (You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{teahouse talkback}} template.

ANI

Are you requesting a block of yourself? GiantSnowman 10:12, 13 August 2012 (UTC)

Your post here certainly has generated quite a bit of confusion amongst several bystanders, myself included. Would you care to provide a more cohesive explanation as to why exactly you're requesting a 24-hr block on this account? Kurtis (talk) 10:13, 13 August 2012 (UTC)

• Are you OK? Hope all is well and you can return to normal editing in due time. Don't be too hard on yourself, we all have bad days. If you feel you need a break from Wikipedia, log off for a while, find something else to do to relax, maybe go for a nice walk. For what it's worth, nothing you said was really all that block-worthy (except maybe the AN/I post itself, ironically enough). But don't sweat it, all right? =) Kurtis (talk) 15:44, 13 August 2012 (UTC)