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I undid you edits to Boston Marathon bombings as the article you linked to describes a person not an act. Therefore lone wolf is not the type but would be an acceptable description of the perpetrators. XFEM Skier (talk) 18:18, 12 June 2014 (UTC)
- Can we discuss this on Talk:Boston Marathon bombings? I wrote a bit of stuff on there --Mathnerd314159 (talk) 18:24, 12 June 2014 (UTC)
- Yeah, I saw that, I agree that is the right place for it. XFEM Skier (talk) 18:33, 12 June 2014 (UTC)
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Hi, sorry about the removal of the URL at Musa basjoo. I suspect, though, that readers with narrow screens won't find the relevant text, as it's not visible at the right unless you scroll. Still, it is correct. Peter coxhead (talk) 09:42, 27 May 2017 (UTC)
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Hi! Thanks for improving the caption. Indeed, the row-col order differs from Logical_matrix. I'd prefer nevertheless to keep x for the column and y for the row, since the is the usual order in cartesian coordinates. Maybe, the order in Logical_matrix could be mirrored (it seems to be unsourced, anyway)? - Jochen Burghardt (talk) 22:37, 31 December 2021 (UTC)
Btw: The full (I hope) description of the image can be found at commons:File:PartialOrders redundencies.pdf#Summary. - Jochen Burghardt (talk) 22:42, 31 December 2021 (UTC)
- Well, the order for the logical matrix follows from the fact that the general order for a matrix element is row, column. For example see File:Matrix.svg. I agree, it's annoying... but technically, you have matrices there, not graphs, so Cartesian coordinates don't apply. (Side note: the row-column order on matrix is unsourced too! But I feel like that's an oversight) --Mathnerd314159 (talk) 22:56, 31 December 2021 (UTC)
- The reference to general matrix order convinces me. I'll change the pictures and the caption. - Jochen Burghardt (talk) 09:28, 1 January 2022 (UTC)
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SiliconRed (talk) 14:30, 18 February 2022 (UTC)Julian calendar
In this edit you left the edit summary "aside: Since proleptic Gregorian is an ISO standard but proleptic Julian is not I would imagine proleptic Julian is used less".
In the historical papers and books I've read about the period in Europe and the Americas before the Gregorian calendar went into effect, the authors used the Julian calendar for all the times and places it was in force. It was in force for over 1600 years in Europe. During that time, a great many historical events occurred that could be dated to a specific date. Before 45 BC, when the Julian calendar began, the number of historical events that can be dated to a specific date is much less. So when referring to events in Europe and the Americas before 1583, I estimate the use of the Julian calendar greatly exceeds the use of the proleptic Gregorian calendar.
I have never read an article or book about history that made any mention of the International Organization for Standardization. I have read all but the latest version of ISO 8601, and participated in a discussion organized by the Library of Congress which heavily influenced the latest ISO 8601. In my view, the authors of all the versions before the latest had little or no interest in historical dates, and only cared about current dates such as airline reservations and financial transactions. Jc3s5h (talk) 22:09, 24 May 2022 (UTC)
- Well, the comparison is not between Julian and proleptic Gregorian; Julian was historically used to record dates and so would of course be more common in history discussing those time periods. Similarly in the history section of the article, the date was found based on the Julian calendar so using proleptic Julian makes sense there. The comparison is rather proleptic Gregorian vs proleptic Julian in the variants section. While there are a few history sources like [1] [2] that use proleptic Julian, all the Maya stuff uses proleptic Gregorian, and all the calendrical calculation / programming sources use proleptic Gregorian. Similarly JD is the only entry using the proleptic Julian calendar - all the variants use Gregorian / proleptic Gregorian. Even if it's not historically the right format, giving the proleptic Gregorian date is much more convenient for people doing calculations using the dates in the table. --Mathnerd314159 (talk) 23:05, 24 May 2022 (UTC)