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I don't think it was harsh at all, indeed, I thought it was exceptionally helpful - for comparison you should look at some of my comments at my declines at WP:PERM that I've been doing for years without any recrimination. In fact I didn't even look at the article that was involved; I was far more concerned with the the experience required for policing pages in general, something that I have been campaigning for for years and been largely successful in achieving some results, not only with the individuals involved but with getting meta solutions developed. If you really want want to work a lot on EAR - which you have apparently made your domain since I have basically moved on from being one its major contributors for a long time, please consider answering customers' queries without constantly criticising your experienced collaborators. Happy New Year :) Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 00:27, 30 December 2013 (UTC)
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A waveguide filter is an electronic filter that is constructed in waveguide technology. Waveguides are hollow metal tubes inside which an electromagnetic wave may be transmitted. Filters are a basic component of electronic engineering designs and have numerous applications. Waveguide filters are most useful in the microwave band of frequencies, where they are a convenient size and have low loss. Examples are found in satellite communications, telephone networks, and television broadcasting. Waveguide filters were developed during World War II for radar and electronic counter-measures, but afterwards soon found civilian applications. Post-war development was concerned with reducing size, first with new analysis techniques that eliminated unnecessary components, then by innovations such as dual-mode cavities and ceramic resonators. Waveguides can support a variety of electromagnetic wave modes: both a disadvantage, spurious modes frequently cause problems, and an advantage; dual-mode designs can be much smaller. The chief advantages of waveguide filters are ability to handle high power and low loss. The chief disadvantages are bulk and cost compared to technologies like microstrip. ( Full article...)
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Hi Spinningspark,
You are seems to be a very contribint user to wikipedia. Thank you for that.
II just now see that, you had editted the entry: /info/en/?search=Rubiks_Cube
It was a bit more than half a year ago:
08:10, 15 April 2013 Spinningspark (talk | contribs) . . (53,419 bytes) (-65) . . (→External links: Attempts to run a program, probable malware)
You had removed the external link for solving the rubiks cube as he was there: www.rubiksplace.com
I'm am a speedcuber (I solve the cube sub 15 sec) and I spent weeks crafting this guide myself which most of the cubers community uses. This is maybe the most quality guide on solving the cube (including the speedcubing method) online. and thats why the link was there.
The "message" you get is a standard Java applet alert showing before launching a java application! I had made much effort to make this applets run on this site so new cubers could see a "live" example of the rubiks cube steps and algorithms rather than just explanation that are much harder to understand. as it is really difficult to get it on the first time. The java applets make it 10 times easier to understand. Please take a look!
Please revise it again..
Thank you! Maor.
Thanks for notifying me. I had researched this issue and became aware to a lot of problems and issues arising from using java applets sometimes (browsers not responding, crashing, not supporting everyone, etc..), therefore many people had problem using the guide properly.
I did modified the solution, and removed all the java applets (imaged-based solution), and added an animation solution as an option on another page (warning it includes java applets) so everyone could now use and control it. I would be grateful if you could restore the edit now,
Thank you! Maor. — Preceding
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I understand why you merged these, but I deliberately set them up as separate AfDs because past AfDs on this topic were done as batches and came to no consensus as a result of the variety of lists included. Merging them after being a participant in them also gives me some pause. IronGargoyle ( talk) 15:53, 19 January 2014 (UTC)
I was trying to create a full article about this topic, which included as reference Fleming's laws. However, a reviewer suggested that it should be shortened and included in Electromagnetic induction, so I shortened it. I am confused. Can I discuss all the issues with an editor? Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Makkabi ( talk • contribs) 20:45, 19 January 2014 (UTC)
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I posted a better derivation of Ampere's force law here. The question has already been moved to the archives, so I figured you'd probably never find my post unless I mentioned it here. I will watch that archive page for a while, in case you make any follow-up posts. Red Act ( talk) 04:53, 28 January 2014 (UTC)
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I know it may be a tad late, but thanks for the whole adoption thing four years ago. Sorry you had to put up with me then. Abce2 ( talk) 18:14, 4 February 2014 (UTC) |
Given jps' history, don't you think it would be better to get an uninvolved admin to work with you, and try to resolve the problems by email since you obviously are concerned about further outing problems? -- Ronz ( talk) 17:39, 21 February 2014 (UTC)
Seems fine, but can't reasonable people disagree on what constitutes a COI? What if you disagree with me that there is a COI, what then? Am I supposed to bind myself to your determination before I understand how you interpret the situation? Just curious. jps ( talk) 15:09, 23 February 2014 (UTC)
Maybe you could comment at WP:COIN#Acupuncture so I could get a feeling for how you approach this subject more generally? jps ( talk) 15:14, 23 February 2014 (UTC)
I don't want to start and edit war or get bureaucrats involved given your "stong" history of some kind of ownership of this meaning! However, it should be mems(computing) NOT mem. Get it right please, or I'll reverse/undo you. Pdecalculus ( talk) 15:35, 22 February 2014 (UTC)
This editor not only reverted my edits but started a systematic campaign to spam other edits based on history. He/she should be removed as an admin for this practice. Bureaucrats take notice. I am a large contributor to wiki and will let the core team know about this practice and this admin. This person is small minded, into revenge, and using their "power" to harass other new editors rather than educate. No place here for that kind of pettiness! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pdecalculus ( talk • contribs) 17:06, 22 February 2014 (UTC)
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Thanks for the vote of confidence. I'm really concerned about JesseRafe nonetheless; while I think there's a legitimate content dispute going on, we're seeing the result of a definite pattern of poor editing practices on his part. From looking at his past edits, I'm now considering drawing up an ANI thread to address civility and general policy issues (use of WP:TW as a substitute for rollback, for instance). The incivility bugs me, at least insofar as it evinces a tendency towards BITEyness. Realistically though, I think the likely outcome will be a warning plus a recommendation to start a RfC/U (and I'm sure you know as well as I do how often those get anything useful done). At any rate, I guess we should keep an eye on things. —/ Mendaliv/ 2¢/ Δ's/ 01:01, 1 March 2014 (UTC)
I thought I would let you know that I have initiated a request for comments at Talk:Pablo Casals, as you suggested. Since you have already looked at some of the issues, I thought I would inform you in case you might like to leave a comment there. 131.111.185.66 ( talk) 21:49, 2 March 2014 (UTC)
You might want to chime in at WP:REFUND#David Jay Brown concerning an article you deleted. ~ Amatulić ( talk) 23:17, 4 March 2014 (UTC)
Hi! While participating in an RfC in which you commented, I noticed that there seemed to be a nesting error in your sig. While this may not be visible while viewing the page, users with syntax highlighters (like myself) might find this annoying. Your current sig, with the offending tag highlighted, is:
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It would be nice if you changed it to:
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Thank you very much! APerson ( talk!) 22:28, 11 March 2014 (UTC)
Regarding the RfC, have you contacted WP:Administrators about this RfC off Wikipedia somewhere? The RfC died down with overwhelming support for "no softening." And suddenly, starting on March 10th, there's been a wave of WP:Administrators (and a couple of others) voting in the Support softening, not necessarily Spinningspark's text section. Flyer22 ( talk) 22:57, 11 March 2014 (UTC)
Thanks for restoring the history of David Jay Brown. Geo Swan ( talk) 20:30, 12 March 2014 (UTC)
Greetings and felicitations. I noticed that you reverted my edit to the " Mole (architecture)" article, with the notation "See talk", though I can't find any comments about it on either of our talk pages. Did you have something specific in mind?— DocWatson42 ( talk) 03:29, 27 March 2014 (UTC)
Regarding your edit: if you think that "zener diode" should be capitalized, why didn't you change the other occurrence (in "Use of the E series is mostly restricted to resistors, capacitors, inductors and zener diodes.")? Also, to be consistent, you should go to Zener diode and capitalize it everywhere there. And then go to Diesel engine and capitalize "diesel" as well... :–) — Mikhail Ryazanov ( talk) 00:02, 28 March 2014 (UTC)
Hi,
Sorry to disturb. The idea came up to make an april foolsday joke about mutated woodworms that could damage electrical components, but i dont really have any wikipedia experience, so i cant link, or upload pictures. so the intention of this email is to ask for some help or support. I dont own the idea, but i just like to spread it, so if you like it and would have any ideas and time to contribute please feel free.
Greetings, — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cpugeek82 ( talk • contribs) 12:09, 1 April 2014 (UTC)
Is the endlosung for "April fools" wikipedia policy or personal judgement? Just asking because maybe they would accept it in other language pages? If it is policy just to write "facts" i could write it in hypotetical a way like it is recent work in progress (as if discovered today), there are more examples of such articles: /info/en/?search=Life_on_Mars , /info/en/?search=Multiverse , /info/en/?search=Big_Crunch . In fact it would be quite easy to have more "supporting evidence" for plastic eating beatle larvae then for many of the examples, that some people take seriously because they are written here, but are in the end no more crazy speculation then this joke that would remain here for a day. But those jokes remain. So if there is a policy about factual information, it would be interesting to test a lot of such articles with the same criteria. The only thing missing, seems that the people who came up with those idea didnt provide the april foolsday disclaimer. "Some people are fools, the others are ignorant" ( Cpugeek82 ( talk) 13:11, 1 April 2014 (UTC))
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Hi, can you please userify the Michael B Glenn page? I will trim it up to make it worthwhile after fully studying the Wikipedia requirements.
Thanks!
Tommy — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dogtimecat ( talk • contribs) 00:16, 5 April 2014 (UTC)
Spinningspark, I read your deletion comment and understand that your decision was based on the comments from the two editors. Rest assured there was no heavy socking and no intention of canvassing. It states in the WP:DRVPURPOSE that I need to resolve this with you before going through the Deletion Review process. That said, should new information arise (e.g., continued publications within the field and programs continue to grow - both certificate and doctoral), would someone be able to re-create this page? I have attempted to elicit feedback from other editors but had no luck. Specifically, I have asked within the Articles for Deletion discussion if the edits are satisfying Wikipedia's guidelines. I think I am abiding by Wikipedia's guidelines (I am attempting to edit the article based on comments from others - to show that this isn't original research/that I'm not promoting a novel concept/that I am not a single purpose account with an agenda/conflict of interest, etc.) but I could be wrong. -- Lsudano ( talk) 17:49, 5 April 2014 (UTC)
I just read a comment above regarding "Userify." Is this the ability to make a published article on Wikipedia a draft? If so, I would like for the Medical Family Therapy page to be "userify" (I know I am not using that term correctly). My [limited] understanding of it is that you can make a page into a draft form and not formally published within Wikipedia. If this is the case, that would be most ideal. This page is going to be very helpful in making sure that I meet your standards. -- Lsudano ( talk) 17:56, 5 April 2014 (UTC)
Hi there, I am wondering why my page got deleted? I am willing to make the necessary updates to the references, but need more guidance as to how to keep the page up in accordance with Wikipedia guidelines since there seems to be issues. — Preceding unsigned comment added by MileyBean025 ( talk • contribs) 21:58, 11 April 2014 (UTC)
Are you auditing all 40,000+ edits since 2004 or is there some special concern you have? -- Wtshymanski ( talk) 15:40, 12 April 2014 (UTC)
Spinningspark, please have a look, here, thanks. Prokaryotes ( talk) 17:24, 12 April 2014 (UTC)
Saw
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You're right that the source is useless. Monthly prices can't be verified. The claim should be removed from the article or changed to calendar-year average prices. Also, for the claim of price volatility to be relevant, copper's price variance would have to be compared to price variances of other commodities. Copper's price variance might in fact be relatively normal, and therefore not notable enough to be mentioned in an encyclopedia. Many Minerals ( talk) 16:45, 13 April 2014 (UTC)
Hello, Spinningspark. This message is being sent to inform you that a discussion is taking place at Wikipedia:Fringe theories/Noticeboard regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. Prokaryotes ( talk) 17:16, 13 April 2014 (UTC)
Hi,
in the image you have created on Hog morse, is there not a few errors? The image has "....."=P and "-"=L. While the Wikipedia entry on morse code has ".--."=P and ".-.."=L for example..
Dr bab ( talk) 13:58, 18 April 2014 (UTC)
I think it was better as Latex. Latex is used elsewhere in the article. Up near the top there is an example with subscripts that are not Italic. I have no idea what MOS:ACCESS is, but I see no difference between using Latex at that point in the document versus anywhere else. It seems to me that if Latex is unacceptable where you reverted it, it must be unacceptable everywhere. Constant314 ( talk) 18:02, 18 April 2014 (UTC)
Could you explain this edit? Who has which problem with what, and who didn't read what? (And what are your 'Math' settings under Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-rendering?) Thanks. — HHHIPPO 22:42, 20 April 2014 (UTC)
<math>...</math>
. Does this display ok for you?
<math>...</math>
, the reader will usually end up with an image and
screen readers just can't read images. You've taken the trouble to add alt text to those images and you've really done more than 99.9% of editors in those circumstances. Those using screen readers (as well as folks in countries who have such small bandwidth that they have images switched off) will thank you for your efforts.Hello! You recently reverted an illustration I changed on the https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:E12_series_tolerance.svg page. I have now made an improved version while taking your comments in to account, but I feel the need to comment on two of your remarks so that you will not revert the new one again!
1) "lost the colour".
The use of colours in the original plot is one of the reasons that made me make the new version. Graphs and plots should be designed to be as clear as possible, and colours that does not add any information is generally a bad thing. It makes it difficult to render the graphs in other formats than web (for example black and white printers, e-ink readers and such), and it distracts from the actual information. Another reason for not using colours is that it could affect the clarity for the not-so-insignificant part of the population that is colour blind in one way or another. Another reason is that it's visually distracting when reading the body text of the page. There are numerous reasons for not using colours in plots, but few reasons for using them.
2) " Going to svg is pointless if does not actually improve."
Going to SVG would then arguably always be pointless, because a pixel-based image is always optimal for web display, considering it is rendered specifically to the target resolution. The major reasons for moving to SVG are that it is much easier to make adjustments to the images, like translating labels to different languages, but most importantly that it's resolution independent. Wikipedia articles are written in a way that makes it easy to print out information or present it in other ways than on a computer screen. Because of this, an "uglier" SVG version of an illustration may be better than a fixed-resolution illustration, because it opens up the article for a wider use.
Thanks for the input! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pipatron ( talk • contribs) 11:13, 25 April 2014 (UTC)
Hi there. I see that you are an experienced user. Could you please help me out with the Amoudah Cinema fire? The stub is about ″a fire″, not really a movie theatre, but I could not find the correct wording for the stub template. Thanks. -- Why should I have a User Name? ( talk) 10:03, 27 April 2014 (UTC)
You are systematically targeting my edits and articles and reverting. I need a venue to have your privileges curtailed, monitored or suspended for this practice. I want to start a discussion on your practices in a bureaucrat forum here so YOU are watched for bad faith and vandalism! I don't need to waste my time on this venue if your MO is to play the cop! I have a PhD in a few of the areas you reverted with "wiki speak" references and no knowledge of the topic yourself. You are NOT an encouraging force for professional contributors, hence a non asset or at best a mixed asset to the site. Pdecalculus ( talk) 02:18, 30 April 2014 (UTC)
Why did you delete the page John Dennis (California Politician)? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.11.107.134 ( talk) 18:21, 3 May 2014 (UTC)
Spinningspark:
My name is Jason Gannon, and I am trying to make edits to Erno Rubik's Wikipedia page.
In one of my edit comments, I erroneously stated that I was a representative of Erno Rubik. I should have been more precise as to my association with Mr. Rubik. I am not in the employ of Erno Rubik, I have never met the man, nor have I ever corresponded directly with him.
I am a freelance writer and researcher and I am currently involved in a research project for the Hungarian Government and the European Union regarding Erno Rubik, and specifically the Rubik's Cube. During the course of this research project, we have compiled extensive information on Erno Rubik, including a detailed CV containing his occupation history, research projects, inventions, awards, etc. The point that I wanted to drive home in my comments is that the information I was adding to the Wiki page comes directly from our research. Some of the information (e.g. education history, employment record, patented inventions) was provided directly from Erno Rubik, but has been independently verified by independent researchers.
I have read the Wikipedia Conflict of Interest Guidelines and will adhere to them strictly. I am a big fan of Wikipedia and respect your concerns about CoI. I will not make edits or additions that serve the interests of Erno Rubik or any other subject above the interests of Wikipedia. I am a researcher, not a marketer. I have no intention of providing any information of a promotional or marketing nature, and I vow that all information I provide is a factual nature (e.g. education history). That is, I will restrict myself only to "hard data". Any favorable words or opinions regarding Erno Rubik that I add will only be shown as quotations from third parties and will be properly cited.
As Mr. Rubik's Wikipedia page is quite sparse at the moment, I wish to flesh it out with some of the research into Erno Rubik's life and works. I hope to have this opportunity.
Thank you for your time.
Best regards,
Jason Gannon — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jasonmgannon ( talk • contribs) 00:36, 5 May 2014 (UTC)
Hi there - you said that the definition of ton in Dutch was relevant to the article on ton in English - I am not sure why this is relevant, as the article is about ton (the _concept_) rather than what the word ton means in a variety of languages -e.g. it means tone in French - is this also relevant? Sorry if this is not the best way to reply to your comment Skihatboatbike ( talk) 15:02, 5 May 2014 (UTC)
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As you put so much effort into finding sources for Atomic gravitational wave interferometric sensor in the recent AfD, you may wish to know that it has been proposed for a merge with another article. If you are interested in the merge discussion, please participate by going here, and adding your comments on the discussion page. Thank you. RockMagnetist ( talk) 23:04, 11 May 2014 (UTC)
I have absolutely no intention to raise any legal action with regard to Wiki editors having "pseudoscience" splashed all over my bio page. It will be settled in the court of public opinion, or even within Wikipedia. I see that the lead on the bio page has been toned down for the moment, to only one "pseudoscience." Thanks, Torgownik ( talk) 15:23, 12 May 2014 (UTC)Russell Targ
Remote viewing is not “pseudoscience.” Please immediately drop that inaccurate and insulting term that you have scattered throughout my Wikipedia bio-page. Wikipedia’s definition: “Pseudoscience is a claim, belief or practice which is presented as scientific, but does not adhere to a valid scientific method, lacks supporting evidence or plausibility, cannot be reliably tested, or otherwise lacks scientific status. The term pseudoscience is often considered inherently pejorative, because it suggests something is being inaccurately or even deceptively portrayed as science.” There are a number of reasons that editors at Wikipedia should not characterize remote viewing as pseudoscience, when it is not characterized that way by the informed scientific community. 1--In order to publish our findings in the 1976 Proceedings of the IEEE, we had to meet with the Robert W. Lucky, managing editor, and his board. The editor proposed to us that we show him how to conduct a remote viewing experiment. If it was successful, he would publish our paper. The editor was also head of electro-optics at Bell Telephone Laboratory. We gave a talk at his lab. He then chose some engineers to be the “psychics” for each of five days. Each day he hid himself at a randomly chosen location in the nearby town. After the agreed-upon five trials, the editor read the five transcripts and successfully matched each of the five correctly to his hiding places. This was significant at 0.008 (one in 5!, 5-factorial). As a result, he published our paper on “Information Transmission Over Kilometer Distances”. 2—In our 23 year program for the government at SRI, we had to carry out “demonstration of ability” tasks for the Director of CIA, Defense Intelligence Agency, NASA, and Commanding General of the Army Intelligence Command. (The names are available upon request.) For the CIA we were able to accurately describe and draw a giant gantry crane rolling on eight wheels over a large building, and draw the 60 foot gores, “slices” of a sphere, under construction in northern Russia. The sphere was entirely accurate, although its existence was unknown at the time. The description was so accurate that it became the subject of a Congressional hearing of the House Committee on Intelligence. They were afraid of a security leak. No leak was found, and we were told to “press on.” 3—Remote viewing is easily replicated and has been demonstrated all over the world. It has been the subject of several Ph.D. dissertations in the US and abroad. Princeton University had a 25 year program investigating remote viewing with more than 450 trials. Prof. Robert Jahn also published a lengthy and highly significant (p = 10-10 or 1 in ten billion) experimental investigation of remote viewing in the 1982 Proc. IEEE. 4—The kind of tasks that kept us in business for twenty-three years include: SRI psychics found a downed Russian bomber in Africa; reported on the health of American hostages in Iran; described Soviet weapons factories in Siberia; located a kidnapped US general in Italy; and accurately forecasted the failure of a Chinese atomic-bomb test three days before it occurred, etc. When San Francisco heiress Patricia Hearst was abducted from her home in Berkeley, a psychic with the SRI team was the first to identify the kidnapper by name and then accurately describe and locate the kidnap car. I was at the Berkeley police station and witnessed this event. 5—Jessica Utts is a statistics Professor at the University of California, Irvine, and is president of the American Statistical Association. In writing for her part of a 1995 evaluation of our work for the CIA, she wrote: “Using the standards applied to any other area of science, it is concluded that psychic functioning has been well established. The statistical results of the studies examined are far beyond what is expected by chance. Arguments that these results could be due to methodological flaws in the experiments are soundly refuted.… Remote viewing has been conceptually replicated across a number of laboratories, by various experimenters, and in different cultures. This is a robust effect that, were it not such an unusual domain, would no longer be questioned by science as a real phenomenon. It is unlikely that methodological flaws could account for its remarkable consistency.” 6--Whether you believe some, all, or none of the above, it should be clear that hundreds of people were involved in a 23 year, multi-million dollar operational program at SRI, the CIA, DIA and two dozen intelligence officers at the army base at Ft. Meade. Regardless of the personal opinion of a Wikipedia editor, it is not logically coherent to trivialize this whole remote viewing undertaking as some kind of “pseudoscience.” Besides me, there is a parade of Ph.D. physicists, psychologists, and heads of government agencies who think our work was valuable, though puzzling. Torgownik ( talk) 00:06, 13 May 2014 (UTC)Russell Targ, May 12, 2014
You kindly responded to my query about the Reflinks tool on the HD yesterday, and I have answered the questions you asked beneath your comment. Hope you can help!
Hiya,
Just wanted to apologize there, I just assumed you disagreed with what I said, Bloody glitches lol!,
Anyway happy editing :)
Regards,
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