Wikipedia:Reference Desk archive unanswered 2003

See also: current, 2002, 2003, 2004

Convention for Typing Accents/Diacritics in Email

What's a convention, like SAMPA for IPA, for typing accents/diacritics in emails or newsgroups that do not support them? I mean like typing something like:

e` instead of è
a' instead of á
ue instead of ü.

--Menchi 03:55 Feb 23, 2003 (UTC)

Most abundant proteins

I'd like to know which proteins are the most abundant in the whole body of a mammal. I happen to know that collagen in its various forms is the most abundant, but what about the next few most abundant? Or if you know the most abundant proteins in a particular tissue type, that would help also. User:ike9898

Does anyone know anything about the Oracle Encyclopædia?

I've just acquired an encyclopedia called The Oracle Encyclopædia. Nearly everything I know about the work and its editor is in the stub article I created for it. My initial web search only turned up that Eastwick's wife, Mary Eastwick, was a novelist who had the same publisher. I'll be bothering my university librarians when I have the time, but until then, does anyone know anything about this work? -- Stephen Gilbert 19:15 Apr 12, 2003 (UTC)

Simultaneous German pronunciation

Were W and V pronounced the same in Middle High German? (See Talk:V)
--Menchi 02:06 24 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Calling European-history buffs

French Revolution needs a substantial amount of work. I was about to rewrite it myself when I saw a long comment on talk: that contradicted much of what I thought I knew. Could someone familiar with this topic post on talk and clear things up a bit? -Smack 22:01 30 Jun 2003 (UTC)
P.S: Reworded to make my desires clear -Smack 01:17, 12 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Private overprints

Can anyone give me information, or just edit into the appropriate article, about private overprints (distinguishing them from private cancellations, as explained in the private express statutes article) in the United States, particularly the recent Florida overprint? --Daniel C. Boyer 22:11, 30 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Any engineers available to take a look at the Screws article?

Please take a look at my comments on screw at talk:screw (the first one) and edit the article if I'm right, or dump them otherwise. -- Gutza 23:11, 11 Aug 2003 (UTC)

Princeps Senatus

I just created a stub for princeps senatus, ancient Rome's speaker of the House. Does anyone have an idea of where to get information to compile a list of them? I'm not very optimistic about results to this question but... Muriel Gottrop 15:36, 31 Aug 2003 (UTC)

Stsrting with Augustus Ceaser the princeps of senate was always the always emperor Rome. This was more than defacto office, the Roman emperor was not thought of as an Emperor the way people of emperor now (a larger version of a king). In reality the Roman Emereror was more like dictator, his rational based authority was based a public office he held. The referred now as the emeror of Rome, always held the office of Chief priest the Roman State religion, the legion rank imperator and office president of the Senate. Possibly it could found in scholarly work on the Roman political system. If I where I would go to a university library and search

Jordan History and Geography Questions

1). What is the reason and history of the numeros Rock Walls east of Azraq?

2). Who was the Hiden in Wadi Hiden?

requested by: awheiden@aol.com

Summation of squares of binomial coefficient

I want to find a closed form for

\sum _{j=0}^{M+1}{\left({{M+1} \choose {j}}M^{j}\right)}^{2}

If it helps, I do know that

\sum _{j=0}^{M+1}{{M+1} \choose {j}}^{2}={{2M+2} \choose {2j}}

- Dominus 02:00, 15 Oct 2003 (UTC)

Feeding the first into Maple gives

(1-M^{2})^{(M+1)}\mathrm {LegendreP} (M+1,{M^{2}+1 \over 1-M^{2}})

where LegendreP represents the Legendre function of the first kind, it seems Dysprosia 09:22, 17 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Postal code and telephone numbers in Japan

Does anyone have a list or table of postal code or telephone numbers in Japan? I mean not a complete list but those of prefixes or area code. -- Taku

This article may be of some help. --Yellow1996 (talk)

Nagoya, Nagasaki

What is it? I think the city doesn't exist today. The article sounds correct but can anyone tell me more about it? Thanks in advance. -- Taku 06:18, Nov 3, 2003 (UTC)

Citing Wikipedia

How does one cite a Wikipedia page in Turabian Style (using 6th edition of the manual)?

The page on Citing Wikipedia suggests a format for the APA style, but Turabian is oh so very different.

I am writing a paper using the Turabian author-date Parenthetical Reference format in text, and the reference list rather than bibliographic format. I need to cite several different Wikipedia pages such as Wikipedia:Copyrights, Wikipedia:Ignore all rules and http://wikimediafoundation.org/fundraising as I am writing about wikis and have referred to several different Wikipedia pages.

A collection of FAQ's on different writing styles might be a very handy thing to have in Wikipedia - you know, all those questions not covered in the manuals! Noconnotations 20:03, 8 Nov 2003 (UTC)

I created the page Wikipedia:Citing Wikipedia Turabian-style that you might want to look at. I'm not really an expert at citations, but I have, over the past few years, written several graduate-level papers using Turabian (footnotes). -Anthropos 13:41, 22 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Lovers by Pablo Picasso

Heavily refactored from Talk:Pablo Picasso:

I really need some help. The thing is I am looking for Picasso's creation Lovers I found it but i also need to know, when he created it, what did he use, and where did he create it?

PLEASE HELP, OR I'LL FAIL MY TEST & GET A BIG fat C!

I love your website extremely; now it's one of my favourite places.

Please email me as soon as possible if you can help me out.

MAIL ME!

Majordancing123@aol.com

If you help me out I will be ever so grateful.

Unknown Artist 1935-1950

can you help me identify a NYC artists? His water color was given to my wife's grandfather, then to her by her grandmother. The signature seems to read Gaylwing , the picture is of a large pear shaped cop with a brace and bit at a ballpark fence. please help Larry Borkowski larrybhi@bellsouth.net

Original UN Charter

Note: this was originally posted on Talk:UN Charter by an anon user, but I felt it might be better off here. -- Mattworld Question: Is there an original UN Charter document? esp. scans of an original document online?

Indus-Sarasvati

I'm wondering whether the Indus-Sarasvati script is in any way related to the Sabaean script used by the early Ethiopians... Given the time frames that you've mentioned in some of your articles, I'd guess that late second or early first millennium B.C. would need to be the time when the development occurred. Is this possible?

scottaldenfisher@hotmail.com

Lester R. Ford, Sr.

Can anyone verify the following dates for mathematician Lester R. Ford, Sr. (father of Lester R. Ford, Jr.) ? The dates I have are born 29th Oct 1886, died 7th Mar 1975. These come from
http://www.shsu.edu/~smm_www/Genealogy2/fam00001.html
but I was wondering if someone can find another source to verify them.
Gandalf61 21:31, Nov 12, 2003 (UTC)

Loose Shoes

Malcolm mentions a film from the '80's called Loose Shoes. I remember it well! Can you tell me where I can get a copy, either VT or DVD? I live in the UK. Thanks. 62.254.64.8

Such will surely be advaiable at Amazon.

Indian Tribes that were around Statesboro or Brooklet,Georgia

I am trying to find out what Native Americans were around the Mill Creek area in Bulloch County. We have found numerous arrowheads and pottery peices nearby... 65.37.106.202

51 Pegasi

I am interested in further information about the Turtle or Tortoise Constellations, particularly in pre-dynastic Egypt. Is there someone in your group working on this project? Andrew Eddy - andrew.eddy@athenaglobal.com

The Zirbaghali- goblet drum of Afghanistan

I'm trying to find information on the making of this drum, particularly in regard to the skins i.e., the animals they may come from, choosing the proper part of the hide, the curing of the hide, and what possible blemishes are to be avoided in deciding what part of the skin to use? Also, if an improper part IS used, what are the possible effects in sound?

Catherization and Catheterization

What's the difference between catherization and catheterization? The article on Urinary catheterization seems to use the two words interchangeably, and elsewhere they also appear to be synonyms. Both appear in the literature, but nowhere that I can find is it actually said that they are synonyms, nor is any difference spelled out. Andrewa 02:26, 7 Dec 2003 (UTC)

It seems to be a case of synonyms. Many articles I found on the web use them interchangeably. Probably just laziness actually. Just like, how come the operation to remove an appendix is often incorrectly referred to as an append-ectomy rather than appendic-ectomy. They're not removing an "append" but an "appendix". Cheers JackofOz 02:35, 5 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

There's nothing "incorrect" about the word "appendectomy". - Nunh-huh 02:37, 5 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Question from anon

By User:193.220.20.84 posted on D-Link Systems

how can you set more than 8 IP route forwarding addressing in the Routing Table of the DI-704P Ethernet Broadband Router

Emmanuel Mbewe

emmanuel@microlink.zm

Seattle / WTO question

I'm currently working on material for the History of Seattle. Clearly, in that context the events of N30 (and the local aspects of the growth of the movement against global corporatism) are significant: without them, you can't understand the present-day politics of the city. I get the sense that material related to these events has been repeatedly added to wikipedia and then deleted; for example, the Anti-globalization movement article has a broken link to what must once have been a first-person account (or accounts) of the events. It seems to me that the first serious confrontation between the forces on both sides of this conflict deserves article-length discussion just as much as does a military battle. Is it hard to get to NPOV on controversial, recent material? As they say in Ballard, "Ja, sure, you betcha." But I get the sense that material keeps being deleted from the wikipedia instead of accumulated and balanced.

I suspect that such material has been placed on various pages, many of them now deleted, and even what is on existing pages is liable to be only found through the history logs. Can anyone help me track down (even deleted) material related to the events so I can mine it for the context of Seattle history? -- Jmabel 18:34, 11 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Anticipation and Inheritance of Schizophrenia

Does anyone know anything about anticipation in terms of genetic basis of schizophrenia (as a means of questioning its genetic inheritance, or confirming same)? --Daniel C. Boyer 21:44, 18 Dec 2003 (UTC)

cheap .ca-domain (Canada)

If somebody knows a cheap registrator for a .ca domain please inform Jimmy - jwales AT bomis.com. 62.235.20.21

media power

i am currently writing my dissertation, concentrating on media power, hidden agendas, propaganda etc. and i want to use the quote "Question everything, believe nothing, trust no-one" as my title. i have trawled through quotation books and websites without any luck, trying to find out who or where the quote is from. Does anyone have any ideas? User:80.225.212.227

Wikiquote is a good place to search quotations, though you should probably just google it first. --Yellow1996 (talk)