CGPGrey

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Hello, CGPGrey, 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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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{helpme}} before the question. Again, welcome! œ^™ 04:21, 5 September 2010 (UTC)

Venn diagram

That's a very nice diagram you linked from the Reference Desk. I have a suggestion -- no, two suggestions -- for making it even more complicated. (1) Some people are under the impression that the pound is one of those currencies that have been replaced by the euro. Adding the set of those countries whose currency actually has been replaced might therefore be informative. (2) Certain European countries are in customs unions, meaning that people and goods can generally pass freely between them without border checks. I know of at least three separate customs unions: the UK plus Ireland (I don't know if Man and the Channel Islands are included), the Nordic countries, and the largest group, the Schengen countries. Oops, while setting up those links I see that I'm out of date; the last two unions have now combined into one. Anyway, these groups might also be worth depicting. If you like.

If you want to comment, please reply here, I don't always use the same IP address. Actually, don't even comment; just do it or don't do it, as you wish. --70.48.228.57 (talk) 05:52, 6 February 2011 (UTC)

Gerrymandering Mathematics

With reference to your question, when I designed that image to illustrate the article, I realised that in an election with 2 parties, 3 was the smallest number of districts to produce a winning minority, if ties cannot favour either party (so must not happen). Obviously, 1 district can lead only to the stronger party winning. With 2 districts, the best the weaker party can do is to force a 1-1 draw.

I then calculated the fewest voters that 3 districts could be equally divided to yield 3-0 (a), 2-1 (b) and 1-2 (c) results. Let's call give the stronger party S and the weaker one W. S has s voters and W has w voters, making a total of n = s + w voters. The critical cases to satisfy are extreme cases (a) and (c).

Case (a): In each district, S must beat W by the slimmest possible margin i.e. 1 vote (assuming no tie-breaks). Thus for 3 districts, S beats W by 3 votes in total, so s = w + 3.

Case (c): In one district, S must beat W by the greatest possible margin i.e. 100% votes, using up (n/3) S votes. In the 2 remaining districts, W must beat S by the slimmest possible margin i.e. 1 vote (i.e. 2 votes in total), hence w = (s - n/3) + 2. ("- n/3" is due to the votes used up earlier.) Substituting n = s + w gives w = s - (s + w)/3 + 2 or 4w/3 = 2s/3 + 2. Multiplying both sides by 3/2 gives 2w = s + 3.

Solving the 2 simultaneous equations gives s = 9 and w = 6, as in the example. Hope that helps! cmɢʟee☺τaʟκ 00:21, 17 July 2011 (UTC)

P.S. I may not check this page again, so please leave any replies on my talk page. Thanks!

Quick formatting note

Hello: I decreased the size of your map by converting it into a thumbnail. I hope you don't mind; the original image was extremely large. You can do this yourself in the future by using the "thumb" parameter, e.g. [[File:NavajoNation_map_en.svg|thumb|left]]. Regards, Orange Suede Sofa (talk) 17:00, 12 October 2011 (UTC)

Dual License of Photo / Permission?

Send me an email and we can discuss. --Stefan ^talk 00:52, 9 December 2011 (UTC)

Got a resume?

Hi, I just found your videos on the Electoral College to supplement my explanation to a friend. They're great! but I think my friend will have a hard time with the speed; she's older and doesn't hear the best, so I think it just goes whizzing by too fast for her. Do you have them posted somewhere else in slower speed?

But what I'm here about is wondering just who C.G.P. Grey is, besides a dual citizen of the EU and the USA. Wanna tell? Best regards, Yopienso (talk) 16:55, 5 September 2012 (UTC)

You can read the text of the videos on my blog. --CGPGrey (talk) 17:14, 5 September 2012 (UTC)

Ah, thanks! That's a great help. Yopienso (talk) 17:18, 5 September 2012 (UTC)

Image WiIlemstad harbor

Hey! Thanks for your message, feel free to use it. :) Regards, Mtmelendez ^(Talk) 14:42, 15 October 2012 (UTC)

Hello!

TheOneSean  |   Talk to me has given you a cup of coffee, for taking the time to weather a dispute. Thanks for staying calm and civil! Coffee promotes WikiLove and hopefully this has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by giving someone else a coffee, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or someone putting up with some stick at this time. Enjoy!

Hello from your number one YouTube fan. Here's a cup of coffee so you can continue your work. Thanks.

Spread the lovely, warm, bitter goodness of coffee by adding {{subst:WikiCoffee}} to their talk page with a friendly message.

A photo of a tram in Dublin

Greetings. There is an ongoing deletion discussion on Commons here about an image you have been involved in to some degree. If you could go there and comment, that would help us to figure out what's going on. Thanks! – Quadell ^(talk) 17:13, 19 June 2013 (UTC)

Quick question

Dear Mr Grey,

Sorry for posting this here - but I did not know any other way to contact you. I tried YouTube but got a message saying that you have contact lock, which prevents you receiving messages from people you don't know. Not that I blame you of course :)

Firstly, it would not be possible to send you a message without telling you how much I love your videos. They're informative and amusing, and I very much like your style. Thank you!

I wanted to know what animation software you use to create them. I would like to create a similar informational video on a particular topic - and when I imagine making such a video, your own style of presentation jumps to my mind as an excellent way to do it.

So could you point me in the right direction?

Thanks,
Chris — Preceding unsigned comment added by Eurosong (talk • contribs) 20:38, 30 July 2013‎

‎ Eurosong, you could try E-mailing him from his Wikipedia account. He does have it 'activated'. 220 of ^Borg 18:38, 22 April 2016 (UTC)

His Wikipedia page currently states he "used to use Inkscape to make the key frames of his videos and Final Cut Pro X to edit them together from 2010 to early 2016; but now he uses Adobe After Effects to do both. The switch is primarily because he now works with other animators on most of his videos, and they use After Effects." Sam1370 (talk) 03:48, 11 March 2020 (UTC)

Feel Famous

You're now in this list. Zero Serenity (talk) 17:07, 19 February 2014 (UTC)

In addition, your picture of the British Library was used in the award ceremony here at Wikimania where the library won an honorary mention. --1Veertje (talk) 16:21, 10 August 2014 (UTC)

Invitation

Hello! As there is a Wikipedia article about you, you are cordially invited to contribute a short audio recoding of your spoken voice, so that our readers may know what you sound like and how you pronounce your name. Details of how to do so, and examples, are at Wikipedia:Voice intro project. Please feel free to ask for help or clarification on the project talk page, or my talk page. 1Veertje (talk) 16:16, 14 September 2014 (UTC)

An idea for your article

I have a little idea for the CGP Grey article. Could you create an image of your avatar that you use in your videos waving and saying "Hello Wikipedia", then upload it to the commons? This has been done for other articles (Example) and I think a snapshot of your art style might be useful. Thanks. Zero Serenity ^{(talk - contributions)} 19:15, 27 November 2014 (UTC)

Come on...

Grey,

I'd like to improve the Hello Internet article, but you're making it very hard for us. Is it too much to ask that you would give a few interview to random journalists about the podcast? We can't put the most basic facts about Hello internet in the article until they appear in some newspaper somewhere. Please bend your own rule. You will probably regret it, but it's worth it. Thanks. KarlPoppery (talk) 19:46, 4 May 2017 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Special Barnstar
	Thank you for not condoning such evil things as wikipedia vandalism ~~A Tim Einsteinium108 (talk) 16:29, 8 December 2017 (UTC)

ANI

Hi CGP Grey. Just to let you know, there is currently a discussion at the administrators noticeboard for incidents over whether to prevent your full name being put in your article via semi-protection or not. To be honest, I'm not sure your input would be welcomed, but I thought you should know.

Thanks, GreyGreenWhy (talk) 16:23, 24 April 2018 (UTC)

Of course, as you know, when I said "your article" I meant the article CGP Grey which just happens to be about you and over which you have no ownership. Sorry about that, GreyGreenWhy (talk) 16:26, 24 April 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for commenting and sorry to bother you again, just wanted to let you know that there is now a suggestion there from User:GreenMeansGo for you to email WP:OTRS (the Wikipedia:Volunteer Response Team) to verify your identity. GreyGreenWhy (talk) 17:51, 24 April 2018 (UTC)

Thank you. It is done. CGPGrey (talk) 17:53, 24 April 2018 (UTC)

Got it. If you do not want to the template to persist on your userpage, you can remove it and if anyone has any questions you can point them to the diff of me adding it. GMG^talk 17:59, 24 April 2018 (UTC)

Your edits to Christopher Billopp (Royal Navy officer)

Hi Grey, Please treat the work people put into Wikipedia with a bit more respect. The story as put forward on the article wasn't correct, but someone wrote it based on the best available information with their sources cited. You deleted it without citing any sources. Amending it would have been the vastly better option since it's still a real story connected to him and an interesting bit of intangible cultural heritage. If you didn't feel like putting in the work of editing the article you could have started a conversation on the article's talk page or waited for the Wikipedians in your audience to pick it up. Blanking is just plain vandalism. In future, when you show an article being edited in one of your videos please drop a note at the Village pump ahead of time so admins can semi-protect it. The influx from your video isn't quite like "Last Week Tonight" but still 1Veertje (talk) 18:15, 12 September 2019 (UTC)

@1Veertje: I'm pretty sure it was an edit by an established editor made per WP:BOLD. Obviously, it would have been helpful to tip off admins on WP:AN or to have given a more helpful edit summary (something like: I just wasted several hours of my life looking into this claim, and it appears there is nothing in the historical record to justify it. Removing section per WP:BOLD), but I'm pretty sure the edit in itself (and in this context) is not worth a talk page warning about vandalism for. If CGPGrey was trying to improve Wikipedia in good faith, then that is all that really would be required. [Disclaimer: I watched the video an hour after it came out and am obviously a fan] –MJL ‐Talk‐^☖ 20:56, 12 September 2019 (UTC)

(by talk reader) @1Veertje: "Blanking is just plain vandalism" Not really. Per WP:V: "Any material that needs a source but does not have one may be removed". There are NYC-based journalistic sources about this legend that could have been added to explicate the degree to which this story has gotten around, but removing unsourced content only needs a brief edit summary. Chris Troutman (talk) 21:03, 12 September 2019 (UTC)

Grey is being a deletionist and if we want more people to contribute to the wikipedias we need less of that. Like I said: what stood there was somebody's work, and it might be their only work. It's very easy to take things down, it's harder to put things up right. Editing becaumes less daunting if you're told why things are taken down. It makes things way less adversarial and more nice. I've long suspected that Grey stopped editing Wikipedia because his photographs of Reykjavík were taken down on Wikimedia Commons for mysterious reasons. That reason being: an absence of freedom of panorama in Iceland, a freedom so commonly had or assumed in other places that the explainer video in the article starts out with the presenter telling you they really didn't take any crazy pills. I'm not without fault here: I'm very active on commons and explaining FOP to new users can be tiresome. The edit Grey made is an edit that's being viewed by a lot of people now and it would have been nice if it had been a better example of one, like the one recently featured by hbomberguy, made by his editor User:Strucci, where she inserted a citations needed template. 1Veertje (talk) 22:16, 12 September 2019 (UTC)

The passage was cited so it's not a matter of WP:V. I don't think the word "deletionist" fits here because the term and its corollary "inclusionist" are usually about WP:N. The most relevant policy IMO is WP:EP, which instructs us to fix whatever can be fixed rather than removing it. Nardog (talk) 22:25, 12 September 2019 (UTC)

There's nothing anyone can do about things now, so let's just move on and stop giving CGPGrey so many talk page messages. –MJL ‐Talk‐^☖ 17:29, 13 September 2019 (UTC)

References

userboxes

Grey,

I thought you would find this cool...

C.G.P.

This user watches CGP Grey.

... but do you mind if we use your logo instead of the text.

You seem to have fans everywhere (including myself)

THIS IS NOT MY USERBOX GriegMachine8 MADE IT

Best, Muffington (talk) 18:08, 13 November 2019 (UTC)

Talkback

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A cookie for you!

good videos Mores983 (talk) 04:37, 3 June 2023 (UTC)

Some baklava for you!

Thanks to you, I now possess great knowledge of Tiffany the name. Lover of the maths (talk) 09:37, 28 July 2023 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	much love Malachy20 (talk) 17:45, 30 October 2024 (UTC)