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Re: Home computer
Yes I did, there is a much bigger and detailed article there, please don't blank it with your one sentence description. -GregAsche (talk) 02:44, September 9, 2005 (UTC)
 * I did do that because I took "Home computer" literally.

Regarding your edit to Windows Server 2003.
Hi, I'm just wondering what on earth happened here. A bunch of HTML and JavaScript code was inserted into the article and made quite a mess. Did you run some kind of experimental toolbar or something? It only seems to have happened that one time, so the damage was minimal, just pleace make sure whatever it was doesn't happen again. Thanks. --Sherool 00:51, 24 October 2005 (UTC)

 * It was a browser plug-in that caused the damage. -- Yuhong 22:14, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

Page concatenation demo
What are you doing at Page concatenation demo? User:Zoe|(talk) 03:11, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
 * I was copying Pioneer-12's Page concatenation demo.
 * It doesn't belong in article space, and it's entirely too large for a meaningful page. User:Zoe|(talk) 03:51, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

Regarding your Edit to Microsoft Outlook
Why did you remove the sentence about Outlook 2004 for Mac?---B- 08:12, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Because there is no such product. But there are Entourage 2004 for Mac however. -- Yuhong 21:12, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

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 * Yes, I am willing to do this.

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 * My entries on the talk pages got deleted. - Yuhong (talk) 02:17, 5 December 2019 (UTC)

 * Ah. I understand. It looks like you meant no harm and tried to do the right thing, but were not aware of Wikipedia's rules about talk pages. Let me try to explain:

 * First, read WP:OWNTALK. Go ahead and read it now. I will wait (smile).

 * That page is an English Wikipedia behavioral guideline; a generally accepted standard that editors should attempt to follow, though it is best treated with common sense, and occasional exceptions may apply.

 * In particular it says
 * "Users may freely remove comments from their own talk pages... There are certain types of notices that users may not remove from their own talk pages, such as declined unblock requests and speedy deletion tags (see User pages § Removal of comments, notices, and warnings for full details)."

 * Now read WP:TPOC. That page gives you the rules for editing others' comments. Note that deleting a comment is considered to be editing that comment, as is inserting your own comment in the middle of another person's comment.

 * In particular it says
 * "The basic rule—with exceptions outlined below—is to not edit or delete others' posts without their permission."
 * And below that it lists the specific exceptions where you are allowed to delete someone else's comment.

 * So in the edit I asked about at the top of this page, you deleted one of my comments (it may help to look at the very bottom of the page before and after your edit side by side; do you see where my comment at the bottom went missing?

 * You need to not do that again. Only delete or edit other people's comments in the ways that WP:TPOC allows. If someone else deletes or edits one of your comments, check WP:TPOC to see if it is allowed. --Guy Macon (talk) 03:51, 5 December 2019 (UTC)

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 * I am OK with userfication. - Yuhong (talk) 09:49, 2 February 2020 (UTC)

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Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/Clockhouse Primary school

Rationale
Firstly, Schools/Arguments. Secondly, I believe schools are encyclopedic. Lastly, Verifiable and NPOV articles can be written and Jimbo says Verifiable and NPOV are enough.

I don't always believe notability is a necessary factor for encyclopedic articles but I do believe that schools are important centres in a community, in children's lives, and in parents' and society's desire for improving. A news story I heard over and over today in Ontario is the release of Fraser Institute's annual "Report Card on Ontario's elementary schools" which ranks data on the 2850 schools.

People do have an interest in reading about schools, their history, their programmes, and their facilities. Obviously if people are interested enough to write a school article, if people are interested enough to start a schools project, and if many people are motivated to vote keep for schools, then some people are interested in having encyclopedic, neutral articles about schools. Wikipedia is, I suspect, the best place for these. School and board websites are not neutral and often too expansive for a brief encyclopedic read. Government websites and other "stat" websites: too uninteresting. "Rate-my-School" websites: too narrow, POV, and unverifiable.

I agree with the proposals at WP:SCH and abide by them but I don't see any necessity to merge school-stubs and will vote keep for verifiable and NPOV school articles. In the future, when I say Verifiable and NPOV, please read it as I stated here.

11111, on the other hand, had no information or hope for expansion, as I read the debate, beyond its non-prime attribute which it shares with most numbers.

If I understand your reference to Votes for deletion/Wikimedia In Memoriam 9/11 correctly, you wonder if I judge an article on whether anyone will look for that article. I don't. I know there are many articles on important things that I have no interest in and hope that there are some that the vast majority of people don't. The deciding factor is unfortunately the imprecise belief that it is "valid material for an encyclopedia". That's why we have human votes for deletion rather than beefstew-type calculations for deletion.

I understand those who think non-notable schools are not encyclopedic but I respectfully disagree.

Cheers, Double Blue  (Talk) 00:57, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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Buratto is an Italian needle lace made by darning on a net. It is quite similar in appearance to filet lace but with one important distinction—it is darned onto a woven net, rather than the knotted net used for filet. Buratto tends to also be heavier in appearance due to the woven nature of the netting used

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Tormato

Tormato is the ninth studio album by English progressive rock band Yes. It was released on 22 September 1978 on Atlantic Records, and is their last album with singer Jon Anderson and keyboardist Rick Wakeman before their departure from the group in 1980. After touring their previous album Going for the One (1977), the band entered rehearsals in London to record a follow-up. The album was affected by various problems, such as internal disputes over the direction of the music and artwork, and the departure of engineer Eddy Offord early into the sessions, resulting in the group producing the album themselves.

The album received a mixed response from critics but became a commercial success. It reached No. 8 in the UK and No. 10 in the US, where it became the band's fastest selling album and reached platinum certification by the Recording Industry Association of America within two months for selling one million copies. "Release, Release" and "Don't Kill the Whale" were released as singles. "Release, Release" was a Canadian exclusive single. "Don't Kill the Whale" managed to reach No. 36 in the UK. The band's 1978–1979 tour was their first with concerts performed in the round on a central revolving stage. Tormato was remastered in 2004 containing previously unreleased tracks from the album's recording sessions.

Background
In December 1977, the Yes line-up of Jon Anderson, Chris Squire, Steve Howe, Alan White and Rick Wakeman wrapped their 1977 tour of North America and Europe in support of their eighth album, Going for the One (1977). The album marked a return to commercial success after it went to number one in the UK for two weeks and spawned a UK top-10 single in "Wonderous Stories". The 84-date tour was considerably taxing on the group, and they took a short break at its conclusion.

Yes reconvened at Sound Associates in Bayswater, London in mid-February 1978 to write and rehearse material for a new studio album. The majority of the songs on Tormato were written during soundchecks and rehearsals on the 1977 tour, as the group decided to develop fresh ideas rather than using older material. The original plan was for Yes to release Tormato in two parts, with the first put out in July 1978 and the second by Christmas time. The second release was to be completed in Barbados, but this never happened and a single album was released instead. The album's original working title was Eleventh Illusion, a reference to the band's desire to base their live stage sets around illusions.

Recording
Tormato was recorded from February to June 1978, and is the band's first recorded in two different London studios, Advision Studios in Fitzrovia and RAK Studios in Regent's Park. Initially they were split where the recording should take place; Howe and Squire wished to stay in London and suggested somewhere "warm and comfortable and easy", while others preferred to return to Switzerland where they had recorded Going for the One. The early studio sessions saw the return of Eddy Offord working with the band as their engineer and producer since Relayer (1974), but his involvement came to an end soon after. Left without a producer, the band decided to produce and mix the album themselves and hired Geoff Young and Nigel Luby, who had assisted with the production of Going for the One, as the engineers. This way of working caused internal issues as Wakeman recalled: "No one was afraid to say, 'Well, Jon, I think you should sing this part.' Or 'Steve, that's a bad guitar part.' Tempers got frayed." Howe agreed with the view, and believed such tensions affected the album's sound quality and tone as a result. By the end of the recording sessions, Yes had recorded enough material to fit on one and a half albums. Tormato was released with nine tracks (although "Future Times" and "Rejoice" are linked together), the most on a Yes studio album since Fragile (1971).

The album features the band playing new instruments that were not used on previous Yes albums. By the time of recording, Wakeman had changed his keyboard rig to incorporate the Polymoog, a polyphonic analog synthesiser which he said was used mainly for "soloing and filling", and the Birotron, a tape replay keyboard which he had co-funded during its development and manufacturing four years earlier. Wakeman reduced the number of keyboards he typically used so the tracks could relate to each other, thus creating an album that "flowed a bit more". In one incident, the band laid a prank on Wakeman while he was on a break by replacing the Birotron cartridges with a tape of Seals and Crofts. Howe said: "When he pressed the keys he went, 'What the hell is this?'" and "got quite cross", to the point that he walked out of the studio afterwards. In 1979, Wakeman looked back on the album and said he got it "60 percent right and 40 percent wrong", and wished he had played things differently. One of Howe's criticisms of Tormato was that the Polymoog and Birotron did not complement his guitar sound and noted they often "cancel each other out". Squire felt as if Wakeman and Howe tried to play more notes than the other in a single bar, which was caused after Anderson would put down basic chords on an acoustic guitar and then take it out of the mix, leaving gaps in the music.

In 2013, engineer and producer Brian Kehew, who has worked on the remastering of other Yes albums, explained that the album sounds "thin, flat and terrible". He said that Offord usually incorporated Dolby A, a type of Dolby noise-reduction system, in his production work, but upon examination of the original tapes Kehew could not locate any sign that Dolby A was used. After applying Dolby A to the tapes, Kehew said "everything – except for some of the later overdubs – sounded amazing". Kehew then realised that the engineers who replaced Offord may not have known that the Dolby reduction had in fact been used.

Howe picked out "Madrigal", "Release, Release", and "On the Silent Wings of Freedom" as the tracks he liked best. Howe has been quoted as saying that none of the band can possibly remember how to play most of the songs on the album. He confirmed this in his 2021 memoir, All My Yesterdays, noting that Yes has not performed much from Tormato since the ensuing tour, and even then some songs from the album proved unworkable. "'On the Silent Wings of Freedom' was actually often tried at tour rehearsals but it would just fall apart. 'Future Times/Rejoice' was similarly unsuccessful" he recalls. Howe attributes this failure to the songs bringing back memories of the emotions their recording aroused. "The improvised sections didn't jell and the songs somehow didn't sit comfortably enough."

Side one
Anderson wrote the music and lyrics to "Future Times"/"Rejoice" and said his words are more explicit in meaning than his usual style. It features Squire playing bass with a Mu-Tron pedal effect.

"Don't Kill the Whale" originated from a bass line and a passage on an acoustic guitar that Squire had devised which he presented to Anderson, who proceeded to write lyrical ideas off of it using a poem that he had written on the subject as a basis. The acoustic line was worked into the song's chorus. Squire had the idea while the group were in Switzerland working on Going for the One, and the lyrics were inspired by a television program that Anderson saw about saving tigers, which prompted him to write words for a song about saving whales. The song was also inspired by the band's friendship with Terry Doran, who had invited Yes to perform at a benefit concert for the whale movement, but they were too busy working in the studio. The keyboard solo involved Wakeman adapting a sound that he had configured on his Polymoog which produced "weird sounds" that resembled a whale.

"Madrigal" features Wakeman playing a Thomas Goff harpsichord. Anderson had suggested to Wakeman that they write a madrigal, a form of English evening song.

"Release, Release" was developed by Anderson and White, and features automatic double tracking applied onto White's drum tracks to achieve a bigger sound. Its original title was "The Anti-Campaign", referring to the political and social changes at the time before it was changed in favour of the lyric "Release, release" that is sung multiple times at the end. The instrumental section includes a crowd cheering with the guitar and drum solo, which Wakeman reasoned was added because it "sounded a bit dry" on its own. He claimed the crowd was taken from an English football match. Atlantic Records president Ahmet Ertegun visited Yes in the studio and heard "Release, Release", which he liked and suggested the whole album sound like it. The song was difficult for Anderson to sing on stage as the many high notes in the song strained his voice, and it was dropped early into the tour.

Side two
"Arriving UFO" is based on a tune that Anderson had developed, inspired to write a science-fiction song having seen Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) twice. Wakeman wrote the instrumental section.

"Circus of Heaven" tells the story of a travelling fantasy circus and its visit to a Midwestern town, featuring unicorns, centaurs, elves, and fairies. Its direction came from Anderson's pursuit of writing songs aimed at children, and gained inspiration from a book by Ray Bradbury ten years before which he subsequently told to his son Damion, who speaks at the end of the song. Squire thought the track was an interesting one musically as it features him playing a reggae-style bass riff.

"Onward" is solely credited to Squire, who had produced a demo version of the song on vocals and piano and presented it to the band. It features orchestral arrangements by his friend Andrew Pryce Jackman, who had worked with Squire as members of The Syn and on Squire's solo album Fish Out of Water (1975). Squire later considered "Onward" as one of the best songs he ever wrote. "Onward" was performed live in 1996 and features an acoustic guitar introduction from Howe entitled "Unity". This was released on their live/studio album Keys to Ascension (1996).

"On the Silent Wings of Freedom" features Squire playing with a Mu-Tron Envelope Shaper effect.

Artwork
As with Going for the One, the album's cover was designed by Hipgnosis but retains the band's logo designed by Roger Dean. Howe pitched the album's original title of Yes Tor, referring to Yes Tor, the second highest hill on Dartmoor, an area of moorland in Devon, England. Wakeman claimed to have thrown a tomato at the pictures taken for the album as he recalled the band were disappointed with the initial artwork which had cost a lot of money. The album's title and cover was changed accordingly. Howe said it was someone at Hipgnosis who threw the tomato and they did so on purpose, which insulted him. According to White, the band was unable to decide on a cover and the tomato was thrown by Hipgnosis designer Aubrey Powell: "I think Po ... put a picture of a guy with divining sticks on the front. Po took the artwork home one night and decided it wasn't working. So he threw a tomato at it". Yes manager Brian Lane said the band disliked the pictures that Hipgnosis had taken at Yes Tor, "and we threw the tomatoes. [...] It wasn't Rick". Squire compared the tomato gimmick to the lunacy of the Marx Brothers.

The sleeve includes a photograph of the band that was taken in Regent's Park, London, with each member wearing a bomber jacket and sunglasses and looking in a different direction. Each jacket was labelled with the member's name on the front, but Squire had forgotten his and had to wear one labelled "Jim", belonging to tour manager Jim Halley. The word "Chris" was then drawn onto the final cover.

Release
Tormato was released in the UK on 22 September 1978. Upon its release in the US, the album was broadcast in its entirety on WIOQ in Philadelphia at midnight on 29 September. It reached No. 8 on the UK Albums Chart and No. 10 on the US Billboard 200. On 25 August 1978, "Don't Kill the Whale" was released as a single in the UK which peaked at No. 36. Yes donated money for every copy of the single that was sold to Greenpeace, a charity helping to end large scale whale slaughter.

The album reached Gold certification by the British Phonographic Industry on 13 September 1978. It became Yes's first album to be certified Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America for selling one million copies in the US. A reception for the band was held after their gig at the Los Angeles Forum to commemorate the award and their tenth anniversary.

Reception
Record World summarised that Tormato brings "the Yes stamp of intriguing music" and recognised "Don't Kill the Whale" as a potential hit single. Audio magazine gave the album's sound an "A" and the performance an "A−" rating. In its review, Tormato "shows the most song consciousness of any Yes has done in a long while", with its "song-sized ideas, instead of murals". The result shows Yes more economical in its song arrangements, with "exemplary" production and "excellent" sound quality. "Don't Kill the Whale" was praised for its musical power and message without sounding "heavy-headed", as was "Future Times/Rejoice" and "Release, Release" for their "progressive thrusts with solid beats". The review compared "Circus of Heaven" to the fantasy comedy film 7 Faces of Dr. Lao (1964). Cash Box thought with Tormato, "Yes reaffirms its strong artistic and popular stature" and, like Going for the One, "is a welcome away from Yes' extended jamming and massive concept works of the mid '70s". The album has "intricate, sophisticated yet rocking textures" with "first-rate" riffs from Howe and Wakeman.

A more critical review was published by Sheila Prophet in Record Mirror, who considered summaried it as "The Sunday school of rock" and "maximum pomposity, maximum pretension, maximum elaboration, all covering up minimum inspiration". Steve Pond gave a mixed review in the Los Angeles Times, noting a lack of distinctive melodies and more experimental and extended instrumental sections similar to that of Tales from Topographic Oceans (1973) and Relayer (1974), which made them "distant and unappetizing". However, Pond continues to note that "eventually, it emerges as one of Yes' strongest and most important albums" with its balance of songs that display the band's traditional sound along with the contemporary progressive rock approach. He picked up on the album's "raw energy and forcefulness" which made Going for the One such a success, with "Future Times/Rejoice" as a good example of the band's new approach and praised White and Squire as a rhythm section. Pond was critical of "Arriving UFO" and "Circus of Heaven", which he considered are overwhelmed by "studio trickery and sound effects". Yes biographer Chris Welch said the weakest thing about the album is the production quality, typified by a compressed and dull sound. Wakeman later called Tormato "a tragedy" because of its poor artwork and production, despite the record containing good music.

Reissues

 * 1988 – Atlantic – CD
 * 1994 – Atlantic – CD (Remastered)
 * 2004 – Rhino – CD (Remastered with bonus tracks)
 * 2018 – Atlantic – LP (40th anniversary picture disc edition issued for Record Store Day, limited to 5,400 copies).

Tour
Yes supported the album with a 101-date tour of North America and the UK, between 28 August 1978 and 30 June 1979. The UK dates comprised just six consecutive nights at London's Wembley Arena in October 1978. The tour featured the band performing in-the-round with a six-ton circular revolving stage placed in the middle of the arena that cost £50,000 to build, with a 360-degree lighting and sound system fitted above it. Anderson stood on a raised platform in the middle of the stage that turned the opposite way to the band to avoid dizziness. The sound crew sat beneath the stage in an area that had a drinks cabinet. The stage revolved at 1 mph four times per hour; the driving motor failed during one early gig, so the band's roadies had to come out and rotate the stage by hand. The idea was conceived by their longtime technician Michael Tait, who worked with their sound company, Clair Brothers, to develop the sound system to go with it.

Yes entered the stage to different pieces, including The Firebird by Igor Stravinsky, The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra by Benjamin Britten, and an excerpt from the soundtrack to Close Encounters of the Third Kind. The tour marked the group's tenth anniversary, and the band performed a 30-minute medley that included excerpts from as far back as their debut album, Yes (1969). The 1978 leg included four consecutive sold out nights at Madison Square Garden in New York City that sold out in three days and earned the group a Gold Ticket Award for selling 100,000 tickets and grossing over $1 million in box office receipts. Yes performed three additional dates there in June 1979. Recordings from the tour were included on the live album Yesshows (1980).

Personnel
Credits adapted from the album's 1978 liner notes.

Yes
 * Jon Anderson – vocals, 10-string Alvarez guitar (1, 5, 8)
 * Steve Howe – Gibson Les Paul Custom guitar (1, 2, 5-7), Martin 000–45 (1), Fender Broadcaster (4), Gibson ES-175 (8), Gibson acoustic guitar (6), mandolin (6), Spanish guitar (3), vocals
 * Chris Squire – harmonised Rickenbacker bass (1, 2, 5-8), Gibson Thunderbird bass (4), bass pedals (1, 3, 5), piano (2), vocals
 * Rick Wakeman – Birotron (1, 2, 4-6, 8), Hammond organ (1, 4), Polymoog synthesizer (all but 3), piano (5), harpsichord (3), RMI Electra Piano (8)
 * Alan White – drums (1, 2, 4-6, 8), military snare drum (1), glockenspiel (1), crotales (1, 3, 6, 7), cymbals (3), bell tree (3), drum synthesizer (5), gongs (5), vibraphone (7), percussion and vocals (4)

Technical personnel
 * Geoff Young – engineer
 * Nigel Luby – engineer
 * Peter Woolliscroft – additional engineering
 * Pete Schwier – additional engineering
 * Sean Davis – disk cutting at Strawberry Studios, London
 * Brian Lane – executive producer
 * Hipgnosis – sleeve design, photography
 * Rob Brimson – photography (Yes Tor and tomato)
 * Colin Elgie - graphics
 * Roger Dean – Yes logo design

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Märklin
Hi, Hg!

I had many different sets, too, and I still have Märklin catalogues from the early 60s. Sure, they did good stuff! But: If you re-insert the comment, could you do it so that it doesn't sound POV, i.e. instead of better quality you could say of heavier gauge metal or something. A comment that sounds POV is so easily erased by others... just like I did, in response to another user's comment. Regards, --Janke | Talk 17:14:51, 2005-09-05 (UTC)

User:Kilo-Lima
Thank you very much for pointing out that grammar mistake! --Kilo-Lima 19:33, 16 November 2005 (UTC)

Date links
Hello, thanks for your edits on the Drill bit page. However, you will note that I have unlinked many years, while linking the dates. The only reason for putting square brackets around dates is so that different people's date format preferences work. See: Manual of Style (dates and numbers) for instructions. Like you, when I first started editing, I was putting square brackets around all years thinking it was the right way to do things until I ran across the page on date formatting. Cheers & keep up the good work. Luigizanasi 05:51, 19 November 2005 (UTC)

 * Thanks for the pointer. I thought linking the years, which I've seen on quite a few pages, was for categorization purposes.  Now I'll have to go back to the dozens of pages I've edited to see if I did the same thing on them! --QuicksilverT @ 06:19, 19 November 2005 (UTC)

Add this string to Edit summary : removed date overlinking which produces removed date overlinking

East German research
Hi, I (sort of) answered your question on Talk:Prenatal hormones and sexual orientation. I can dig through my bibliography for more references if you want, or e-mail you pdfs if you're keen to write something up. Pete.Hurd 07:26, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

New category
Of possible interest,. Best regards, C HAIRBOY (☎) 18:56, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

Cleanup - articles in need of attention
Hi! I'm going through the articles in need of attention page and removing any user pages I see and generally trying to clear up a bit!. I realise your attention tag was shown as a resource to others, but it is making your user page show up on the attention list. I hope you understand! Thanks KC. 18:20, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

Data
I've reverted your changes to the grammar in the usage of the word Data on SHOUTcast only to clarify that it is okay to use it as a mass noun. This little nuance will make its usage on Wikipedia less cumbersome and more natural for native English speakers. I hope you'll agree.

Kind regards, CobaltBlueTony 17:30, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

I haven't reverted your change to the Prograph:Talk page, just want to point out that correcting the grammar of someone's comment on a talk page seems a bit excessive. (Especially since both usages are now commonly accepted, even if the plural is the more historically correct.) RJCraig 05:14, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

Wiki for Engineering
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Your help
I'll be doing some watching of my own now that it's been drawn to my attention, but we'll have to keep an eye on user:beckjord on the unidentified flying object page. He is clearly incapable of NPOV, and someone will need to keep an eye on him. I'll do my best, hope you'll help. Duke nemmerle 19:37, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

Disambiguations
Please stop making disambiguation pages for acronyms that have only a single meaning. This is really pointless and harmful. Disambiguation pages are for the case where two or more meanings of a word or title need to be disambiguated. I understand that you're trying to get the acronyms to appear in the "x letter acronyms" categories. The fact that you have to go to such a contortion to make this work may well be a good argument that these categories should not exist.--Srleffler 05:23, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

 * Maybe you have a better idea to fix the stuff that User:Gjs238 has been doing, adding and  links to the bottom of numerous articles, such as Texas Instruments OMAP.  It's been creating a mess at Category:4-letter acronyms and  Category:5-letter acronyms.  If you have a better way of handling it, tell me about it.  QuicksilverT @ 05:30, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

I don't see the problem with putting the actual articles in the x-letter acronyms categories even though the names are not acronyms. I also don't have a problem with just skipping them altogether. I don't really see why we have these categories anyway. I'm not sure what value they add. The distinct disambiguation template for acronyms is kind of useful, since someone may come in looking for a word that is also an acronym for something else. That isn't an issue when the acronym has no other uses.--Srleffler 05:36, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

Styrax
Hi Hydrargyrum - the reasons I changed it were that I felt the wording was rather confusing, as it implied that polystyrene is/was made directly from Styrax resin, whereas it actually only contains a very small amount of styrene (if any at all - I'm finding even this very hard to verify; most references seem to suggest it may be from storax, the resin from Liquidambar species). I think this one needs more careful checking; do you have any detailed science references? - MPF 19:35, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

 * You may be correct. I'm unable to retrace my exact Google search that I used to assemble the history of polystyrene development, but searching the Web on "Eduard Simon" and "styrax" produced a hit on the German language Wikipedia  for the article on Styrol, wherein the species Liquidambar orientalis is specifically named as the source for the resin in Simon's experiments from 1835-1839.  My English version of the history of polystyrene turns out be be eerily similar to the German version, now that I've had a chance to compare it.  The German article also calls the resin of Liquidambar orientalis "styrax".  Some Web articles I consulted (also in German), were unclear about distinguishing the resin "styrax" from the plant "styrax", implying they were one and the same.  Other references  state that Styrax and Storax are different names for the same thing, creating even more confusion.  With this new information I'm inclined to re-edit polystyrene and change the link from Styrax to  Liquidambar orientalis.  I just hope the author of the German Wikipedia article got it right.  It does seem more reasonable to be extracting significant amounts of resin from a large tree than from a shrub, with the aim of developing a marketable product. -QuicksilverT @ 01:04, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

Image help
I uploaded a cleaned-up version of Image:Wildbluelogo.gif, replacing a 304x69 image with a 176x38 image. All I did was trim some white space and irrelevant pixels from the image, leaving the logo at the original scale. Now, when I view WildBlue, I see the old graphic resized to the dimensions of the new graphic. Utterly bizarre. I think it's a bug in the Wiki database software. Deleting the older file might fix the problem, but I need an administrator to do it for me. Please help. -QuicksilverT @ 11:25, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

 * Refresh your cache. (Ctrl+F5)  :-)  — Omegatron 14:45, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

 * I did flush the browser cache, multiple times. I even shut down the browser and restarted it, to no avail.  Anyhow, it looks OK now, some six hours later. I guess the Wikipedia database just has these strange quirks.  I've noticed an editing latency of hours with text-only edits on occasion.  Thanks, anyway. -QuicksilverT @ 17:38, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

Reverts
I was reverting the spam edits of this chap Mrhazelj (contrib) to 6 articles and somehow got ABC Family and Dish Network muddled up in the rush. Thanks for flagging my mistake to me and I will double check in the future, SqueakBox 02:19, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

Rifle research
Hi, I'm doing research for a novel, and I was wondering, since you contributed to the Henry Rifle article, if you know of resources available online or to you regarding breechloader availability in the period 1850-1860. Specifically, how likely would it be that a cowboy could own a breechloader rifle during this time period? (Likely suspects: M1819 Hall rifle, maybe?) Thanks in advance, Guapovia 14:53, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I kinda figured on the revolver, but wasn't really sure about rifles. Many thanks! Guapovia 17:04, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

By whatever name...
...you are unquestionably a mercurial character. :) Wahkeenah 17:53, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
 * I was just about to ask if you have a mercurial personality. Looks like I beat myself to it. :) Wahkeenah 02:06, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

Memory leak
Just a note to let you know I left a comment regarding your last changes at Talk:Memory leak. If you want to respond, please do so there. – Doug Bell talk•contrib 08:54, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

TARGET 3001!
Hello Hydrargyrum,

I have cleaned up the TARGET 3001! entry. Unfortunately I am not a native english speaker, but I did my very best. I am new to Wikipedia, and not that experienced like others. Is my work automatically recognized in respect to the the cleanup header? How can be made clear that an cleanup attempt already has been made?

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Image copyright problem with Image:Frank Slide1.jpg
Thanks for uploading Image:Frank Slide1.jpg. However, the image may soon be deleted unless we can determine the copyright holder and copyright status. The Wikimedia Foundation is very careful about the images included in Wikipedia because of copyright law (see Wikipedia's Copyright policy).

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 * Copied from my talk page. --Sherool (talk) 21:53, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
 * There is no image copyright problem. The only problem is that Wikipedia doesn't have a Canadian version of the  template used for U.S. Government images.  If you had read and understood the text under Licensing, you would have seen that Natural Resources Canada has released this image into the public domain for non-commercial and educational use.  I think that falls well within the scope of what we are doing here in Wikipedia.  Please direct your energies toward creating new templates, not taking down images that fall within Wikipedia's use policies. —QuicksilverT @ 16:32, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

 * Hi, I'm afraid there is a reason we don't have a PD-USGov equivelent template for Canada. You see public domain basicaly means "without copyright", not merely free for non-commercial use. Furthermore Wikipedia actualy require images to allow commercial use to be considered compatable with our GFDL license regardles of the fact that the Wikipedia site itself is non-commercial, see noncommercial and a mail from Jimbo.

 * However on closer examination this particular image seems to be out of copyright in Canada due to old age (I'm asuming the photo was taken not too long after the slide, though an exact date of publication would have been good), and by extention is also PD in the US because it expiered prior to 1996 (these things can be horrebly complicated). I have upldated the tagging of the imaghe to reflect this, and sorry I missed it the first time around, I got distracted by the "non-commercial" restriction in the license text.

 * P.S. A copyright tag is required these days, if you find none that fit please double check that the image is usable, and use either or  to enter the info in "canonal" form. Thanks. --Sherool (talk) 21:53, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

Why so few Wikipedians are engineers?
I am trying to understand why there are so few Wikipedians who are graduate engineers. Once I get a grasp on that, perhaps I may be able to formulate some ideas on how to attract more experienced engineers to become Wikipedians. It would be very helpful if you would respond to these a few questions:

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If you would rather not respond at all, that's fine also. Regards, - mbeychok 04:28, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

Water conservation
I started Water conservation - have a look at it if you have time. --Singkong2005 02:06, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

Quantum Corporation
I saw your notes and additions on the Quantum article, but I also had a few questions (which I left on the talk page), and I also notice someone from a Maxtor Shrewsbury IP has shown up and made some rather NPOV edits. Are there any public sources for any of this? -lee 23:50, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

Star Chamber
Hola! Can you provide a full citation for the "Blackstone" quote you mention on Talk:Star Chamber? Tkinias 06:43, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

Calling programmers
We need coders for the WikiProject Disambigation fixer. We need to make a program to make faster and easier the fixing of links. We will be happy if you could check the project. You can Help! --Neo139 09:01, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

Message from Eric to Hydrargyrum
Hi- Hope this is the right method to contact you for something unimportant. A note: Talk:LORAX (robot) Eric 17:44, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Re: Travel(l)ing in the past -- Thanks! --Eric 12:59, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

Spanish War Ensign 1785-1931 deletion
It was, like a lot of other flags, tagged as speedy improper license (non-commerical use). See Criteria for speedy deletion #3. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 13:08, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
 * You are probably right and the correct place to put a request like that in would be Village pump either the "Technical" or "Proposals" section. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 19:31, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

24.181.67.89
Yeah, he's got a two month block now. He's been blocked repeatedly for deliberate misinformation related to movies- it, and three other of my blacklisted IPs (User:168.9.128.173 and User:168.9.128.157- I can't remember the last) are socks of User:Woodylogan. Basically, the user uses Georgia-based IPs to deliberately insert misinformation. He normally strikes family movies and changes things like the cast and voices, and then goes to the articles of the actors themselves and changes them accordingly as well. This person really needs a life. --Wafulz 05:13, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

Response
It was not vandalism; the article in it's current state is nonsense. Looking over your edits, I don't believe you are the sort of mindless person that intentional adds crap to the project, so I suggest you remove the db-nonsense tag and replace it with an inuse tag, which would allow people to see that work was going on and tell us to leave it alone. - Blood red sandman 23:53, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

Argentine ant
Hi. Although Argentine ants probably nest in many places that happen have electrical currents nearby, I'm not so sure that they are attracted to electricity. As far as I know, there is nothing in the scientific literature about this. If you have a citation, I would love to know what it is. Argentine ants have been the focus of my research for about ten years now, and much of what is known about their behavior and genetics stems from the contributions of myself and my colleagues (you can find a summary my research and copies of my publications on my webpage: tsutsuilab.bio.uci.edu). I noticed that you also removed what I had added about the Argentine ant's native and introduced ranges. Was this deletion inadvertent? JubJubBird 23:13, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

"Henri Sarolea translation cleanup needed
Hello Quicksilver Agreed, the translation needs a clean up. I'll have a go at it, but it won't be done in one shot because it will be time consuming. Peter Horn 23:17, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

de:Niklaus Riggenbach translation
Thanks, I have done some minor edits on it.

Now we need a translation for Carl Roman Abt

likewise various translations needed:

 * Austria
 * Achenseebahn, Tyrol de:Achenseebahn etc.
 * Germany
 * Switzerland

likewise various translations needed:

 * Austria
 * Germany
 * Switzerland

Peter Horn 03:02, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

de:Niklaus Riggenbach and other translations, additional note
What I mean is that where English articles do exist at all in Rack railway and Mountain railway for Austria, Germany and Switzerland (see above), they are mostly short and incomplete. Peter Horn 18:21, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

Henri Sarolea translation cleanup "finished"
I took a stab at it, someone else check my work. Peter Horn 22:46, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

More about translations

 * List of cog and rack railways &
 * Liste der Zahnradbahnen

In the case of Austria, Germany and Switzerland someone removed my links to the German articles in those cases where the English aricles do not yet exist, see the revisions of "History" Rack railway. This was not done in the case of Mountain railway. The reaon I put these was to help translators easily link the two. Peter Horn 00:51, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

Austria

 * Achenseebahn, Tyrol de:Achenseebahn
 * Erzbergbahn, Styria de:Erzbergbahn
 * Schafbergbahn, Upper Austria de:Schafbergbahn
 * Schneebergbahn, Lower Austria de:Schneebergbahn

Germany

 * Wendelstein Railway de:Wendelsteinbahn
 * Zugspitze Railway de:Bayerische Zugspitzbahn

Switzerland
Peter Horn 02:15, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Bergbahn Rheineck-Walzenhausen (RhW) de:Bergbahn Rheineck-Walzenhausen
 * Chemin de Fer de Martigny au Châtelard (MC/TMR) fr:Chemin de fer Martigny-Châtelard de:Martigny-Châtelard-Bahn
 * Chemin de fer Martigny-Orsières, de:Transports de Martigny et Régions
 * Chemin de fer Montreux-Glion-Rochers-de-Naye, fr:Chemin de fer Montreux-Glion-Rochers de Naye, de:Transports Montreux-Vevey-Riviera
 * Chemin de fer Montreux-Territet-Glion-Rochers-de-Naye (MTGN/MVR), de:Transports Montreux-Vevey-Riviera
 * Dolderbahn (Db) de:Dolderbahn
 * Wädenswil-Einsiedeln-Bahn de:Wädenswil-Einsiedeln-Bahn

It's
Hi Hydrargyrum!

Thanks for your edits to It (film). However, your recent edit here indicates (in the edit summary) you believe "It's" is the "possessive form" of "it". Actually, "it's" means "it is" or "it has"; it never means "belonging to it". Don't feel bad; I have fixed your grammar "corrections", and I do hundreds of these corrections every week. You can learn more about the correct use of the apostrophe here. Take care and happy editing! :) Firsfron of Ronchester  02:02, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

NY, NY
You wrote:
 * Support. All other city/town entries in Wikipedia are in the City, State format.  New York City is inconsistent and "breaks" searches.  New York City should be a redirect entry to "New York, New York".  —QuicksilverHydrargyrum @ 03:59, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

This a confusing comment for a couple reasons. You might want to re-examine the context and make sure you said what you meant to. — CharlotteWebb 18:02, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
 * 1) "New York, New York" as a postal address, refers to Manhattan, not the five-fold whole of New York City. If we were going to go that route, we would move Manhattan to New York, New York and Brooklyn to Brooklyn, New York, and so on. Probably not going to happen, but the idea has some basis in principle (consistency).
 * 2) You said "Support", but your comments do not appear to support having a (mostly non-geographical) disambiguation page at New York, New York (instead of a redirect), which is the change that User:Georgia_guy proposed.

Art Arfons
Regarding the Art Arfons page. Thank you for correcting my grammar. It reads better now. Jameywiki 23:10, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

Re: NFPA 704 template
That's because you don't put a number in the "other hazards" field. It's either " W " (reactive to water) or "OX" (oxidizes rapidly). --  Denelson83  22:01, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
 * That's correct. "OX" would not fit in the white section if its font size was "large". --  Denelson83  22:09, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

Your edits on Polar Bear
An edit summary is important if you delete any text; otherwise, people may think you're being sneaky. Also, mentioning one change but not another one can be misleading to someone who finds the other one more important; add "and misc." to cover the other change(s). Thanks! Xiner (talk, email) 18:18, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

 * I agree with you that most of the date links in the article were unnecessary. I just think that 1774 is an early date in terms of biology, and people may be interested in what was happening in the world then. In any case, it's a minor issue that I won't fight over.
 * About the scientists' views, if you could take a look at the talk page, including the archive, you'll see that we've had a lot of discussion recently about exactly that issue, and most editors on the page have agreed to that statement, which carries multiple citations. The section on Size and weight has more references. In fact, a major argument erupted over whether the sentence was too soft. Xiner (talk, email) 19:14, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

Invitation
Hello – Based on your significant contribution to one or more San Francisco Bay Area-related articles and/or stated interests on your homepage, I thought you might be interested in this project:

Peter G Werner 05:31, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

Triple Falls
As I stated on my User Talk Page: I did not hijack that article. The standards set down by the [Waterfalls WikiProject] state, and I quote: "Due to the fact that there are countless waterfalls in the world with the same name, the following method of disambiguation is proposed: The most important waterfall can stay at the undisambiguated title, lesser known ones add a qualifier." Based on that standard, the constantly-flowing Triple Falls of NC far exceeds this standard when compared to Triple Falls of California, which by its own article's admission is "seasonal". I was simply going with the proposed standard. If you have a problem with it, I'd suggest you take it up with them. 5minutes 14:58, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

Father Damien
You asked me why I added the word "reversed" to the death image of Father Damien. I'm sorry I took a month to respond; I haven't logged in for a while.

In the image in question, the body of Fr. Damien clearly is wearing a maniple on his right arm, when it was properly worn only and always on the left. Such was my reason for declaring the image reversed. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Cj watson (talk • contribs) 04:41, 8 March 2007 (UTC).

Big Beat Battalion
Please take a minute to review an article for deletion going on currently with an entry you have editied in the past. It is the Big Beat Battalion entry. If you enjoy this entry and feel it should stay on wikipedia, or if you feel it's gotta go, please weigh in on the vote page. Thank you - Hackajar 21:33, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker obit
Hydrargyrum/Quicksilver, I didn't say that ALL Nazis were German, and I certainly didn't say that all Germans were Nazis. However, the article I read online informed me that Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker worked for the Nazi Party as a nuclear researcher. Now, I am not a historian, but it seems to me that if you worked for the Nazis, and they paid you, and you took the money, that made you one of them. I am glad Herr von Weizsäcker later recanted his work for the Nazis, but let's face it, he did, in fact, work for them at one time.

Thanks for updating King-Harbor
I saw you added the most recent info [to Martin Luther King Jr.-Harbor Hospital] as it was developing, thanks so much for helping out. Since you added the information, the LA Times had changed the link to reflect a longer article they used in today's print edition (many papers do that), so I went ahead and tweaked it a bit and added new info. I'm out here in Minneapolis so I usually track the LA Times in the morning (most of the time), I'm glad you made sure this very key piece of info got in as I might have ended up missing it today. Thanks again --moments like these make me glad this is a collaborative project. --Bobak 16:22, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

Dawn's ion engines
Deep Space 1 may have been a technology demonstrator, but it also did a successful flyby of a comet, so it was also partly an exploratory mission. I wouldn't object to reinserting the factoid if it were qualified so that it does not seem to deny that Deep Space 1 happened. Cardamon 04:38, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

RE: The Rockford Files Copy Edit
THANKS~!WikiDon 00:48, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

LORD Corporation
A tag has been placed on LORD Corporation, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article seems to be blatant advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become an encyclopedia article. Please read the general criteria for speedy deletion, particularly item 11, as well as the guidelines on spam.

If you can indicate why the subject of this article is not blatant advertising, you may contest the tagging. To do this, please add  on the top of the article and leave a note on the article's talk page explaining your position. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would help make it encyclopedic, as well as adding any citations from reliable sources to ensure that the article will be verifiable. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Cap'n Walker 19:57, 30 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Your accusations of vandalism are, to say the least, cheap. I tagged the article based upon its content, which appears to me to be nothing more than spam.  No assertion of notability was even attempted.  As a wikipedian, I have the right to nominate an article I believe inappropriate.  You have the right to contest it.  Grow up.  Cap'n Walker 20:14, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

 * Maybe you should read my contributions a little more thoroughly, jackass. Stop crying about a speedy tag and be a man for once in your life.  Cap'n Walker 20:31, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:BrandDOA.JPG
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Orphaned non-free media (Image:Netscape-logo-icon.png)
Thanks for uploading Image:Netscape-logo-icon.png. The media description page currently specifies that it is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, it is currently orphaned, meaning that it is not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the media was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that media for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).

If you have uploaded other unlicensed media, please check whether they're used in any articles or not. You can find a list of 'image' pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "Image" from the dropdown box. Note that all non-free media not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. BetacommandBot (talk) 20:19, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

 * BetacommandBot, I think you need a tune-up. The image in question is styled after a product logo, but it is not the actual product logo.  Furthermore, it isn't orphaned; as of now it is used on 57 different pages.  I've examined your claims and find them to be sheer nonsense and totally without merit.  —QuicksilverT @ 23:05, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

Better source request for Image:Kachina_small_01.png
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John H. Reese
Well, how is it that you would know the year of his first marriage? Very interesting. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Serulean (talk • contribs) 02:12, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

Steve Fossett date links
Re the date links, although the automatic formatting continues to work, such linking has been deprecated:
 * From MOS:LINK
 * "The use of full date formatting is now deprecated. This refers to the system by which a date containing day, month, and year (25 March 2004) or day and month (February 10) permits Wikipedians who are logged in and have selected to see the format they have pre-set in their preferences."

 * From MOS:NUM
 * "Dates (years, months, day and month, full dates) should not be linked, unless there is a particular reason to do so."

--Danorton (talk) 07:10, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

Scuba set
First, you've done a great job in copy-editing Scuba set and I'd love to have your help on a mountain of scuba-related articles that need clean-up, but I know I'll have to get in the queue, as copy-editors are a rare bunch!

This is just a minor point and I really don't want you to think your work isn't appreciated, but may I ask why you prefer the " — " construction for a list, rather than the ": " construction (e.g. "...according to the diver's orientation in the water: head-up, head-down, level" in this section? WP:DASH says "Em dashes (—) indicate interruption. They are used in two roles ... Em dashes should not be spaced." and WP:MOS says "A colon informs the reader that what comes after it proves, explains, or modifies what has come before, or is a list alluded to before." - which seems to me that the colon construction would be preferred in this case? Anyway, I'm not an experienced editor, so I thought I'd better ask, rather than just reverting changes. Thanks again --RexxS (talk) 20:17, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

Please stop editing for 3-4 days
Please stop editing for 3-4 days while damage control teams can be formed. You inserted wrong information about Steve Fossett. I don't accuse you of vandalism but your work needs to be checked. Please don't edit and create more work for us. After 3-4 days, you may resume editing. This is being discussed on ANI. Whatever the result of the ANI discussion, please take a wikibreak. Fossett&Elvis (talk) 20:07, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

Your offending edit is from February 2008. The wrong information has been in place for months. This is why a review of your work is needed. Nobody is calling you a vandal but insertion of misinformation is potentially the worst kind of vandalism because it destroys the trust of Wikipedia. By voluntarily not editing for a few days, others can assess your edits.

You have to admit that implying that Fossett was a Board of Trustee member in his teens is not right. Why not just take a break and don't edit. Editing now just creates more work for us to check. Fossett&Elvis (talk) 20:19, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

 * Note to self: Fossett&Elvis took this issue up at WP:ANI and only succeeded in getting him/herself suspended for 72 hours while attempting to get me suspended. The argument boiled down to the use of "has been" vs. "was" in a sentence.  Since Steve Fossett was declared legally dead, it is entirely justified to couch all events in his life in the past tense.  The attack on me was, essentially, over a non-issue. Strange.  23:30, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

Non-breaking spaces and the em dash
Hi there; thanks for your edits to Changeling earlier. But I just thought I'd let you know, as I noticed a similar edit of yours to another of my watchlisted articles, that as per WP:DASH, there shouldn't be a space before or after em dashes when they're used for an interruption. All the best, Steve  T • C 20:38, 1 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Fair enough! I know there are lots of Wikipedia MOS recommendations that conflict with other real world formats, and this sounds like one of them. Your reasoning sounds convincing, though no doubt I'd get an equally convincing reason not to use the space if I were to bring it up at the MOS talk page. I prefer to stay out of the MOS wars myself, so I'll leave well alone either way. All the best, Steve  T • C 22:15, 1 November 2008 (UTC)

Possibly unfree File:N grn blk icon.png
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Aviator/Aviatrix
I notice you made a change from aviator to aviatrix at Nancy Bird Walton, a change I agree with. It has since been reverted and there is a discussion about it at Talk:Deaths in 2009. The discussion has got rather heated, but I'm calming down... maybe you'd like to take part? Bretonbanquet (talk) 20:05, 14 January 2009 (UTC)
 * I agree with you completely - I just wish I'd employed that point of view this morning before it all kicked off. You live and learn! All the best, Bretonbanquet (talk) 22:47, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the head up on infectious obesity
Here is the study it is based upon.

I agree it is still too early to include this hypothesis. This article was published in Medical Hypotheses which says that the " purpose of Medical Hypotheses is to publish interesting theoretical papers. The journal will consider radical, speculative and non-mainstream scientific ideas provided they are coherently expressed."

People always seem to be looking for an outside cause that is beyond there control to blame there problems on. It is either genetics or their parent or now a viral illness. Lack of exercise and eating the fabulous food we are surrounded with is just not sexy enough I guess. Cheers

Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 21:05, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

En dash
Official policy is to use en dash where it is the correction punctuation, as in connecting two names. Dicklyon (talk) 23:26, 29 January 2009 (UTC)

Date delinking en masse is currently temporarily forbidden
See WP:Requests for arbitration/Date delinking.

Your behaviour currently trespasses that injunction, showing a few dozen delinkings of that type a day in your contributions list.

Just so you're warned. Continuing the behaviour will prolly be taken to WP:AE. --Francis Schonken (talk) 16:06, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

 * Actually, he's correct, although the tone could have been better. I've been blocked for doing far less than you have. Don't add the links back, just don't delink for now. Thanks for your understanding. Dabomb87 (talk) 02:48, 24 March 2009 (UTC)

Do not Americanise
Please observe Wikipedia conventions and do not randomly change British to American spelling, especially on article like Bar-headed Goose which have no connection with the US. Also, if you are "correcting" spelling, best to avoid Vermontt (sic) jimfbleak (talk) 06:36, 30 April 2009 (UTC)

 * The wikipedia hemoglobin article was written initially in American English, and subsequent editors have observed the convention and left it as that.
 * "hæmoglobin" (LOL) I assume you are using a dictionary from 1850. The "correct" spelling is that in current usage; all my (late 20th and early 21st century) British English dictionaries have "haemoglobin"
 * British English is not only spoken in the UK. Millions of Indians use it, and India is in the wintering range of the goose. In any case, the non-occurrence in the UK is irrelevant. You should not change the spelling unless it is something primarily and specifically American, clearly not the case here. Please read this policy.

 * jimfbleak (talk) 17:13, 30 April 2009 (UTC)

 * I've just read the comments above mine - explains a lot jimfbleak (talk) 17:16, 30 April 2009 (UTC)

Garage door opener
b.s. - there's no requirement for a "red" handle and a "red" rope

You should check references before you make statements like this. UL325 requires the manual release handle to be red - see http://www.dasma.com/PDF/Publications/TechDataSheets/CommercialResidential/TDS167.pdf - since UL doesn't make their standards web accessible, I can't link to the UL standard directly. 15 USC 2056 makes UL standard 325 a legal requirement for doors manufactured for sale in the US - see http://vlex.com/vid/sec-consumer-product-safety-standards-19232812

The original text was pretty poorly written, but I think that the requirement that the handle be red is relevant and belongs in the text. I haven't come up with a good way to word it, though. CruiserBob (talk) 12:47, 11 June 2009 (UTC)

 * The quick-release was written into the law to allow manual operation of the door in the event that other safety features fail and someone is trapped under the door. If I were codifying a requirement that was intended to be useful during a power outage, it would be a battery powered light that comes on in the event of a power failure to the outlet that the opener is plugged into, and require that the light shine along the track so that you can see the release handle. CruiserBob (talk) 02:27, 12 June 2009 (UTC)

Misuse of rvv, minor edits
Re this edit. Don't use "rvv" when reverting edits that aren't obvious vandalism (see the last paragraph of Vandalism). Don't tag non-minor edits as minor. And please familiarize yourself with WP:MOSDAB, as mentioned in the comment of the version you reverted. -- JHunterJ (talk) 12:46, 7 July 2009 (UTC)

VoIP article
Just a quick heads up, I reverted your edit here. I am assuming you made a mistake of some sort, and you may need to double check.  Nuβiατεch  Talk/contrib 17:07, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
 * I was using an external editor, and it looks like when I pasted the edited text back into Wikipedia, somehow two copies got pasted end-to-end. Thanks for catching it. I'll need to review the edits I made and see if I can reconstruct what I intended to do.—QuicksilverT @ 19:09, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Note to self: I split the article source in two, saved each as a separate edit in the Wikipedia Sandbox, then compared the two Sandbox versions. Sorting out the changes was easy after that.  19:34, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

Morgan Hill resident?
Hello Hydrargyrum, This is Natalie Everett from the Morgan Hill Times. I was just curious about who updates Morgan Hill's wikipedia page. Are you from Morgan Hill? Why do you update the MH page? Thanks, Natalie —Preceding unsigned comment added by Natalie212212 (talk • contribs) 00:47, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

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