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Zach4636 ^Talk 13:18, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

BMW OHV V8 engine

Nice summary. Thank you. Charles01 (talk) 11:41, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

Rolls-Royce Phantom (disambiguation)

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could you please do me a favor?

Hello,

I am a master student at the Institute of Technology Management, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan. Currently I am wrapping up my master thesis titled “Can Wikipedia be used for knowledge service?” In order to validate the knowledge evolution maps of identified users in Wikipedia, I need your help. I have generated a knowledge evolution map to denote your knowledge activities in Wikipedia according to your inputs including the creation and modification of contents in Wikipedia, and I need you to validate whether the generated knowledge evolution map matches the knowledge that you perceive you own it. Could you please do me a favor?

1. I will send you a URL link to a webpage on which your knowledge evolution map displays. Please assign the topic (concept) in the map to a certain cluster on the map according to the relationship between the topic and clusters in your cognition, or you can assign it to ‘none of above’ if there is no suitable cluster.
2. I will also send a questionnaire to you. The questions are related to my research topic, and I need your viewpoints about these questions.

The deadline of my thesis defense is set by the end of June, 2008. There is no much time left for me to wrap up the thesis. If you can help me, please reply this message. I will send you the URL link of the first part once I receive your response. The completion of my thesis heavily relies much on your generous help.

Sincerely

JnW^talk 07:37, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

Hello, here is the link

Pretest webpage

If you have any question during pretest, please contact me.

Please finish it before 25 June. Thanks a lot. :)

JnW^talk 14:14, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

Hello, the questionnaire is completed. Link:

evaluation questionnaire

thanks for doing this questionnaire, and I hope that you will feel interested about this. :)

JnW^talk 04:02, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

You don't have to bother any more, I've done it for you. You should expect fifty dollars to start winging your way real soon now. -Ashley Pomeroy (talk) 13:14, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

Hello, thanks a lot for your help on filling out the questions on the pretest and questionnaire. In order for us to interpret the answers you gave, I have two additional questions to ask you.

1. If we have taken some percentage of your compensation to donate it to the charitable institutions, how much percentage do you consider it is proper?
2. Do you have any comments on the knowledge service which we plan to develop? In this knowledge service, we will allow users to ask their questions, and the system will forward these questions to the users who edited wikipedia and were identified by our system as the domain experts. Which business model do you think is more proper? The expert can be compensated by the fee paid by the seekers or do it for altruism with no charge.

JnW^talk 13:47, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

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-) thanks for fixing the Concours link in the Top Gear article, and doing it more gracefully than mine. I was just going back to fix the further mistake made in my own "fix" of it to find you'd already done it. Speedy work there. (I couldn't even remember the proper term, or how to properly do the hidden-address links, was part of the problem). Happy viewing, now! 77.102.101.220 (talk) 23:16, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

please reach treaty in revert war

Hi Chaparral2J, Can you please discuss with User:El Greco what should stay on Top Gear (series 11) here: Talk: Top Gear (series 11) and end this miserable revert war.

Srsly guys - you are clogging up my watch page! :P

--Carbonrodney (talk) 03:11, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

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Eugene Bordinat

I notice that you created the article on Eugen Bordinat in 2008, with information on his death, that he died with an undiagnosed lung ailment. Where did this information come from? Can I get a source for this? 842U (talk) 13:15, 7 September 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for looking into it. I read this in a Ford history book which is at my dad's house in another state, and I may not get a chance to read it for a long while.

For now, feel free to remove the detail as unverified. Chaparral2J (talk) 13:23, 8 September 2023 (UTC)