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Aleko

Great to see another fan of this cool car, this is the one of mine (JS's Aleko:-)

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Standard Vanguard

Can you provide references for the comparison to the Russian car ? RGCorris (talk) 08:20, 12 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Your recent edits

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Apologies for not replying, I don't generally watch the IfD pages. Everything you say is correct, and I do apologise if it seems like I have assumed bad faith or offended you in any way. It does look like a rather professional photograph (I guess that is a compliment) and my guess that it was taken from a website was obviously correct- in the vast majority of these cases, the images have just been casually stolen. I have closed the discussion and will remove the deletion notice from the image page in a sec. J Milburn (talk) 21:07, 13 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Image copyright problem with Image:Mod tod file format.gif

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Violation of Wikipedia rules and best practices: Pixel Aspect Ratio

Greetings, Mikus.

I'm calling in to inform you that we are irritated by your constant violation of Wikipedia rules and best practices in Pixel aspect ratio article. Me and my colleagues have worked for weeks to perfect the aforementioned article. While we are open to criticism and appreciate positive editing, you have twice added POV materials to it, disrespected us by initiating an edit war and failed to explain your misbehavior in the talk page. Please kindly report to the talk page and explain yourself. Fleet Command (talk)

We are still awaiting your explanation, Mikus. Please report in and resolve the dispute. I've fixed the link for you to point right to discussion thread. Fleet Command (talk) 07:08, 16 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

HDV introduction

In your February 13th edit of the HDV video format introduction you changed the wording to describe it as an "entry level" format and wrote in your notes "Anything worse than it?". These are subjective comments which do not belong in an impartial discussion of the format, which is widely used for many professional purposes including broadcast television programming. And yes, there are HD variants which are "worse" than HDV, like AVCHD at low bit rates or other low-bandwidth HD solutions. Please refrain from any future edits of the HDV page which reflect a bias against the format relative to other alternatives, especially in the introduction section.Kwshaw1 (talk) 15:46, 24 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Don't get hung up on comments, what counts is actual article content. Sony itself defines HDV as an entry-level HD standard, period. If you want, I can provide a reference. It was the cheapest and the lowest quality HD standard before AVCHD appeared. AVCHD is no worse than HDV, and no better, these are pretty much comparable standards. The fact that HDV is used for broadcast does not change the fact that this is one of the lowest forms of HD. Anything can be used for broadcast if content is interesting. BBC still considers HDV as form of standard definition video, if you did not know. But BBC is snobbish about that and breaks its own rules often. I am not saying that HDV is bad. I never expressed negative opinion about HDV. I own an HDV camera myself and if you have noticed, I made quite a few edits in this article to expand the information on the subject. Please refrain from any future edits of the HDV page which reflect a bias towards the format relative to other alternatives, especially in the introduction section. Also, do not litter the intro with information that is already discussed and linked to in the article body. Mikus (talk) 17:17, 24 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Insisting on describing HDV as "entry level" seems biased to me, but for the sake of keeping things civil I'll leave that in for now. How Sony describes it for marketing purposes is irrelevant to an impartial definition, and you've also mischaracterized the BBC definition of HDV - which I have researched and corrected previously on the HDV page. And while AVCHD can be better than HDV at high bit rates it is worse at low ones, so with AVCHD you have to know the recording bandwidth to assess the quality level. I find it amusing that you quoted my advice to you about keeping the HDV intro impartial when you're the one using non-neutral terms like "entry level", but I took some of your recommendations into account in revising the text to combine our respective comments. Kwshaw1 (talk) 15:58, 27 March 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kwshaw1 (talk • contribs)

Soyuz-2

In response, I did not revert your edits because I do not like them. There are some policies that you violated with those edits. You can not just simply replace most if not all of the contents of an article with your version and expect that to stand. We work on a consensus-based editing philosophy. Simply put, if you want to make drastic changes to an existing article, you must discuss them first on the talk page with the editors who have and are actively involved with the article. Also, creating an article which closely mirrors or even duplicates the content of another article is also something that is not encouraged, especially since the information on Soyuz-ST could and was easily be integrated into the Soyuz-2 article. And finally, the images that you uploaded were copyrighted and are not permissible for use here. I believe that GW Simulations (talk · contribs) incorporated the cited and verifiable information from your edits into the article as it currently exists. If you have more information you wish to contribute to the article, please make a proposal on the talk page along with liberally citing your verifiable and reliable sources. If you wish to upload images, please be sure that they meet the image use policy. -MBK₀₀₄ 05:19, 8 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Articles for deletion nomination of Samsung BD-P1200

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This article is not an advertisement like the S1. Quite contrary, this is supposed to be a collection of useful knowledge about the player. Do not even think about deleting it. Mikus (talk) 16:51, 12 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia is not supposed to be a collection of useful knowledge about the player, the player in itself isn't notable. See WP:NOTCATALOG

Articles for deletion nomination of Canon HV30

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Articles for deletion nomination of Canon HF100

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Articles for deletion nomination of Canon Elura 100

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Talkback

Hello, Mikus. You have new messages at GW Simulations's talk page.
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G W… 18:34, 18 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Another one --G W… 20:14, 18 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Rocket Science (miniseries)

I saw this article, and it seemed like you wanted to use it as a temporary page to construct the article. If you want a place to use while you construct the article you can create it at your own personal sandbox such as User:Mikus/Sandbox. After you have finished making the article it may then moved into the article space. Feinoha ^{Talk, My master} 21:41, 23 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of A Very English Murder

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FYI

RE: Sony BDP-S1

You participated in the first AFD, there is now a third: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sony BDP-S1 (3rd nomination) Please take the time to comment. Ikip (talk) 02:24, 8 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Was it the first one? Ikip (talk) 04:12, 8 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Reverted at f-number again

Mikus, no problem if the material is sourced, but you've put it back again without citing your source, so we can't verify it. Next time, include a citation that shows those numbers, and it will be OK. Dicklyon (talk) 22:46, 25 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. It has nothing to do with what I believe, except that I believe we should stick to policy when editing areas that traditionally accumulate a lot of junk otherwise. Dicklyon (talk) 23:08, 25 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Re: The New Great Game

Hello Mikus, I basically already wrote what you're asking on the article's talkpage. I moved the quotes to wikiquote:The New Great Game because Wikiquote is a much more suitable place for a collection of quotes than Wikipedia. In Wikipedia, you should only write articles with your own words. Of course, it's perfectly fine to quote reliable sources, but the quotes should be integrated into the prose of your article. If it's just a collection of quotes, it's better to put them at Wikiquote and provide a link to the Wikiquote page in the Wikipedia article. You can see a Wikiquote template containing such link in the Additional Reading section of the article. — Kpalion^(talk) 10:07, 3 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Re: HDV

As previously requested, please try to keep your comments on the HDV page more neutral. For example, the use of the term "non-HD format" may be an accurate reference to some broadcast standards documents, but it's potentially confusing given that HDV *is* an HD recording format whether the BBC and PBS accept it as such or not.

I continue to wonder why you put so much emphasis on the negatives of HDV without posting similar comments for other recording formats like AVCHD - which also doesn't satisfy the BBC and PBS HD standards. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kwshaw1 (talk • contribs) 14:24, 8 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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January 2010

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BBC HD, HD Lite

The BBC is a broadcaster not an service provider/operator. They have reduced the bitrate of BBC HD on Astra 2D themselves, there has never been a reduction in resolution or re-transmition. The BBC does not cite limitations of existing HD video cameras, different shooting style and improved codec as reasons to reduce the bit rate, they say that it is because of the introduction of new transmission encoders.[1] - Jasmeet_181 (talk) 07:35, 26 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

BBC HD has been at 1440x1080 since it began as a trial service, the resolution is within European Broadcasting Union guidelines for HD broadcasts.[2] If you have a source to back up your claim that it has changed, then cite it, the burden of evidence is with you. Yes, I have read the article and some of the things you have said (HD cameras and shooting style) are cited as reasons that the picture may not always be sharp or can give poor results but not why the bitrate has dropped. From one of Andy Quested's own posts "But in this case (and because some of the posts had asked for the results) we did because we were making a comparison between two devices using the same codec through the same path."[3] Negating you claim of new codecs. I don't find comments from the general public to be acceptable sources, I will specifically refer you to this "Posts left by readers may never be used as sources."[4] I see that you've also now added that the BBC wish add more HD channels, what is this other channel? "The BBC is not launching BBC One HD early next year on Freeview - as one newspaper report has suggested."[5] A different platform (digital terrestrial television) and a denial. Admittedly, I am not familiar with the term HD Lite but in this case the source (BBC) has reduced the bitrates by themselves, through an advancement in technology (new transmission encoders), rather than an operator intentionally altering and re-broadcasting the channel at a lower quality. - Jasmeet_181 (talk) 21:02, 26 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Replacing good edits with rubbish

Your edit to the article AVCHD has been reverted. Check with the Panasonic specifications before you replace material with your rubbish.

The HDC-xx700 series camorders support true full HD progressive video recording in 1080/50p in Europe and 1080/60p in the US. The Panasonic specification for the camcorders (now cited from the article) says so and the real camcorders also say so. The video is written at 28 Mbps (double the 17 Mbps for the interlaced format - the data rate would be the same if the progressive were to be encoded into an interlaced frame). The resultant AVCHD format is proprietary to Panasonic.

It would be quite impossible to format 1080/50p or 1080/60p video using a progressive segmented frame technique as it would require the video to be carried in a 1080/100i or 1080/120i signal respectively. Such a signal format does not exist and no display that I am aware of supports it. 86.176.155.137 (talk) 16:49, 5 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Unfortunately,it is you that needs to learn about the subject. You claimed that the 1080/50p mode was PsF in your edit summary which it most certainly isn't. Also do not remove citations which are mandatory in wikipedia. I will conceed the point on 1080/24p which obviously has to be PsF. I regard it as a totally pointless format in a camcorder anyway.

86.176.155.137 (talk) 13:23, 7 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Your change reverted and corrected. Rather than correct, you just delete an important point. It didn't strike me as right anyway. Still a totally pointless format in any context.

Quote from your edit summary "50Hz model still uses PsF, 60Hz model uses 24p-in-60i pulldown, just like the previous models." Both statements are quite wrong. You seem hell bent on removing the statement that these camcorder models operate to full the 1080/50p and 1080/60p format (respectively) suggesting that you do not accept it. In which case: produce a valid citation that supports your position and proves that Panasonic know nothing about their own products.

Also for your information: Windows Media Player is not a linear editing package despite your claim to the contrary.86.176.155.137 (talk) 06:51, 8 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Once again you have removed the words 'Full Specification' from the article AVCHD. Once again you have failed to provide a valid citation as to why the camcorder models are not full specification 1080/50p or 1080/60p respectively. You are unlikely to find such a citation because like it or not the camcorders are full specification 1080/x0p.

I have to point out that simply removing other people's contributions without providing a valid citation as to why is vandalism under Wikipedia's editing policy (See WP:VANDAL) 86.183.27.13 (talk) 13:17, 9 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Persistent Vandalism

Please stop. If you continue to blank out or delete portions of page content, templates or other materials from Wikipedia, as you did to List of Panasonic Camcorders, you will be blocked from editing.

Once again you have vandalised a Wikipedia page in that you have removed the contributions of another. If you have not already done so then review the vandalism policy at WP:VANDAL. Citations have been added for my restored comment - and from Panasonic no less. 86.179.109.42 (talk) 15:15, 17 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Further Vandalism and now Abuse and Ownership of Articles

This is the final warning you will receive regarding your disruptive edits.
The next time you delete or blank page content or templates from Wikipedia, as you did to List of Panasonic Camcorders, you may be blocked from editing without further notice.

You have once again deleteted properly cited and important material. Fortunately restored by another editor but that does not excuse you actions. If you vandalise one more article, you will be reported for suspension of your editing rights. I have now counted no less than five instances of vandalism in just the last month.

This is the final warning you will receive regarding your disruptive comments.
If you continue to make personal attacks on other people, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. Comment on content, not on other contributors or people.

Your false allegations of vandalism in the article edit summary is abuse of another editor (not close to as I.B.Wright suggests). If you do it again, you will be reported for abuse and your editing rights will most likely be revoked. It is all the worse as your response is a repost to your own vandalism.

Please stop assuming ownership of articles. Doing so may lead to disruptive behavior such as edit wars and is a violation of policy, which may lead to a block from editing.

You do not own any of the articles that you persistently vandalise (as you hint at in the discussion page and have practiced in at least 2 articles - the ones I know about). You are not the arbiter of what belongs in an article and what doesn't as you seem to have appointed yourself. If just 2 people vote that it is irrelevant to the article, as seems to be the current case then you are out voted and your content does not belong. Content is by consensus.

As you clearly have not yet done so, I suggest you review WP:VANDAL without delay before you lose your editing rights. 86.181.52.243 (talk) 07:19, 20 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You've been warned

You have now been formally reported for vandalism; abuse and taking ownership of pages.

Your recent vandalism of AVCHD for blanking a whole section of material that you had no right to delete is the last straw. It is clear that you acting as arbitrator as to what may or may not appear in articles which is resolutely dissallowed. I trust your editing rights will be permanently revoked. 86.176.155.85 (talk) 16:25, 30 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

"Dude, if you cannot discern vandalism from normal editing process than I cannot help you."

How you can possibly believe that deleting a whole section (Compatibility between Brands) complete with 2 paragraphs of material is normal editing is anybody's guess. Under the Wikipedia rules it is vandalism. In spite of what you may believe, you have no right to decide what others put in articles. Ownership of articles is also expressly forbidden. 86.176.155.85 (talk) 16:38, 30 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

How you can possibly believe that deleting a whole section (Compatibility between Brands) complete with 2 paragraphs of material is normal editing is anybody's guess. Under the Wikipedia rules it is vandalism. In spite of what you may believe, you have no right to decide what others put in articles. Ownership of articles is also expressly forbidden" -- This is editing, not blanking. I moved the info into relevant sections, corrected it and removed unverified claims. If you don't appreciate the change, put the old stuff back, and if I still want to make my change I will discuss it with you like in a civilized manner. Instead you are reporting me as a vandal. Geez. Mikus (talk) 17:55, 30 April 2010 (UTC)

The emboldened part above is your self confession at vandalism. Verified or not, you have no right to just remove any content whatsoever. That's 'blanking'. It's also ownership of articles - also expressly forbidden. You clearly still haven't read the material on vandalism. Much material on wikipedia is 'unverified' in that it doesn't include a citation (even some whole articles). However, the contribution stands by concensus. Just because you as an obvious 'knowitall' doesn't happen to know one bit of information doesn't make it untrue. Your vandalism has been reverted with a citation. 86.176.155.85 (talk) 07:33, 1 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

"Verified or not, you have no right to just remove any content whatsoever. That's 'blanking'." -- Do you understand what you are saying? That articles can be only added to, not edited? You have some perverted idea of blanking. Mikus (talk) 23:05, 1 May 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia's rules not mine.

You still haven't read the rules have you? You can add content. You can edit what's there (provided you improve it). What you can't do, is delete someone else's contribution just because you don't want it in 'your' article - or the know it all in you doesn't know it after all. That's vandalism. It's also ownership of articles, both of which are forbidden. How would you like it if I started deleting all your contributions? 86.176.155.85 (talk) 15:14, 3 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

A further example of your persistent vandalism and ownership of articles has been restored - and refered to the administators as further evidence of your persistent vandalism despite the final warning above. Your above confession has also been refered. 86.176.155.85 (talk) 14:39, 3 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I B Wright – what's up with that guy?

Hi. After a rather unpleasant, grueling experience with I B Wright (and what currently seems to be his alter ego, 86.182.66.217) on my talk page and elsewhere, I decided to take a look at the history of his talk page and and wasn't too surprised to find that he clashed with many other users in the past, you among them.

And while I think it was wrong of some of you to threaten him with being blocked (for tendentious editing, personal attacks, harassment or whatever), he's really damaging Wikipedia, putting falsehoods in article after article (I'm still not sure as to why he does what he does: Is he really serious, or is this all some kind of a very bad joke? Or maybe he's got some, um, "other issues" to deal with?). Isn't there anything that can be done short of revoking his editing rights (which already had been tried once before)? Couldn't it be arranged that his changes must be approved by someone higher up before they are applied? Oh, well, that's probably not feasible, still, it's comforting to see that I'm not the only one who's had a close encounter of the third kind with this unnerving guy... Thanks!

By the way, did you ever read the self-description on his user page?

"[...]he has a wide ranging knowledge on some often surprising subjects.

Note: I B Wright is not his real name, but an apposite if modest description."

It doesn't get much more disconnected from reality than that.

Regards – ὁ οἶστρος (talk) 21:49, 7 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Tragic new developments on my talk page. Regards – ὁ οἶστρος (talk) 12:33, 8 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, Mikus. I just wanted to let you know that, should you decide to take steps against I B Wright (who's still lying low, it seems), I won't be able to chime in until the end of July, as I'm goin' travelin' some. Would be great if you could check my talk page for vandalism by our mutual "friend" every now and then (and maybe tell Ginbot86 where I am, in case he should ask); DON'T feel in any way obliged to do so, though.

Regards – ὁ οἶστρος (talk) 10:53, 12 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

After two months of silence, the sage continues here and here. – ὁ οἶστρος (talk) 14:34, 10 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

AVCHD

Hi. Why you keep insisting on the example with 18Mbps? 18Mbps is the maximum, the average will be lower. 12Mbps average is reasonable.--Ancient Anomaly (talk) 23:17, 12 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, it was me who put down 12 Mbit/s number. I thought I did not pull it out of thin air. Indeed, I checked all DVD-based models ever produced (not that many), and they are all capped at 12 Mbit/s (Canon, Sony) or 13 Mbit/s (Panasonic). So I modified the section on DVD media, and wanted to make the same change you just made to justify this number in the "distribution" section. I hope this works for everybody. Mikus (talk) 23:42, 12 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure if you understand why I think that 12Mbs is a better example. Material intended for distribution is usually not encoded with maximal or any other constant bitrate, but for roughly constant quality. So if the maximum is 18Mbs, the average will be lower. (likely even below 12Mbs)--Ancient Anomaly (talk) 12:30, 13 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It really does not matter whether you think 12 Mbit/s is a good figure or not, it was out of context, and I tried to put it back into context. Values should come either from specs or from real-life bitrates. What about a BD rip on a DVD disc with 4 Mbit/s rate? Is it too low? It can still look very good depending on material. YouTube uses 2 Mbit/s for 720p, which still looks pretty good. So let us not use arbitrary numbers pulled out of thin air and let us not make conclusions of how high or low average bitrate might me, and let us not treat readers as being so dumb that they cannot multiply or divide whole numbers. Anyway, I hope that the current state of the article works for you. Oh, and by the way, Panasonic's 13 Mbit/s rate is CBR, I am not sure about 12 Mbit/s rates from Canon and Sony, I will check sometime later.Mikus (talk) 21:07, 13 July 2010 (UTC)

What do you mean out of context? Now you claim that even 4Mbs can look good (and I agree) so why you think we should use the maximum that is very unlikely to be used?

Video from camcorders is CBR, of course.--Ancient Anomaly (talk) 22:06, 13 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

YouTube

As it happens, I do agree with you about the need to create modern video material in progressively scanned format as far as possible. However, this is beyond the scope of YouTube, because people will upload videos in a range of formats.--♦IanMacM♦ ^{(talk to me)} 15:25, 16 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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H.262/MPEG-2 Part 3 ?

Hello, your creation of the article "H.262/MPEG-2 Part 3" is totally wrong and misleading:

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MPEG-2 Part 3 is not about MPEG-2 NBC / MPEG-2 AAC - a.k.a. MPEG-2 Part 7. (How can an article about "Part 3" describe the "Part 7"? [7]

Please, correct all the incorrect information or remove the whole article. --89.173.67.254 (talk) 22:18, 24 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The article was moved to MPEG-2 Part 3 after my Request for move. I also nominated the H.262/MPEG-2 Part 3 article for deletion: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/H.262/MPEG-2 Part 3.--89.173.65.121 (talk) 13:07, 27 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Capacity of DVDs

You reverted a sentence in the article on AVCHD claiming that the capacity of DVDs had reached their limit, with the observation that it was perfect English. I was not challenging the English. However, the factual accuracy of the claim is in question. DVDs have not 'reached' the limit of their capacity, because the capacity was never less than the current capacity of 4.7 GB (single layer) or 8.5 GB (dual layer) and so haven't reached anything. AFAIAA, dual layer were released at the same time as single layer.

The claim that DVDs have reached their limit is also not true as it is perfectly possible to create 3 (or even more) layer DVDs with correspondingly greater capacity. I grant no one is likely to do so at this stage of the game because of the lack of compatibilty with existing DVD video players but that doesn't make it impossible (but that may be just a matter of a firmware revision).

Indeed, if you eliminated the gaps in the layer 1 track (2 per revolution where the layer 0 track crosses it), it would result in a 9.4 GB dual layer DVD.

As the statement is unsourced, I have deleted it again. Should you wish to restore it please ensure that you include a verifiable citation in accordance with WP:VERIFY DieSwartzPunkt (talk) 14:37, 1 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

In fact it already has been done - in 2006. Not just 3 layers, not even 4 (I sound like a market trader!) but 10 - yes ten layers (I make that 47 GB if they don't include the gaps). So proof that it hasn't reached its limit see here, but I don't accept their claim that it trumps blu-ray. DieSwartzPunkt (talk) 15:01, 1 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion continued on my talk page, since that is where you responded. DieSwartzPunkt (talk) 12:51, 2 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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I noted that you seem to have kicked the discussion off. 109.157.161.93 (talk) 17:10, 5 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Multi layer optical discs

In view of our recent exchange on the development of optical discs, I thought you may be interested in a recent development. I refer in particular to my point that the introduction of extra layers in a particular medium is just a matter of a firmware update. It's rather strange how these coincidences seem to occur together, but around a week after I made the point, a firmware update for my 2 year old blu-ray disc burner became available. The update includes support for triple and quad layer discs. Since I can't actually find a source of blank discs (in the UK), I haven't actually applied the update - yet. The only question that I have (and I don't suppose you know the answer - but you never know), is why the triple layer format has a 100GB capacity, but the quad only manages to expand that to 128GB? DieSwartzPunkt (talk) 17:15, 9 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Optical disc based camcorders

You suggest that I check my facts first (about blu-ray camcorders)?

Then why did you post this on the AVCHD talk page: "1.4GB per one single-layer 8-cm disc is surely a disadvantage. No wonder that currently no company offers camcorders that record onto optical media. Even Blu-ray discs are not viable now when 32GB memory cards are ubiquitous"? Perhaps you should check what you have claimed before critisising others when they agree with you.

Or is it that you just had to restore your own material to an article that you think you own. Oh yes, and you conveniently (and probably inadvertently) provided proof of your perceived ownership (See AVCHD talk page for further information) - especially about your false view that because you have heard of 'AVCHD disc' it must be a commonly used and universal term - It isn't. DieSwartzPunkt (talk) 09:11, 31 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

You stated that Blu ray based camcorders are, "not viable". Perhaps you should check the definition of, "viable".

viable: adj;  Capable of becoming actual, useful, practical etc. [Collins English Dictionary]

Thus 'Not viable' means 'NOT Capable of becoming actual, useful, practical etc.' Thus you claimed that blu ray camcorders were incapable of becoming practical and actually stated that there are none (... currently no company offers camcorders that record onto optical media), and then critisise me when I stated those exact points. You need to make your mind up which argument you wish to persue.

I accept your revision over the 'AVCHD disc' by the way. As far as I am aware, it is not a formal term, as it seldom turns up in any documentation on the subject, but just occasionally enough that it would seem informal (much from Sony). Some engineeres that I deal with use the term and some don't (probably around 50:50). Those that do tend to work together. It is quite probable that it may become a more formally accepted term used in the future.

I note that you have not answered the allegation of WP:OWNERSHIP, but prefered to supply even more evidence. DieSwartzPunkt (talk) 13:39, 1 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

"There WERE BD camcorders produced, for example by Hitachi. But they turned out to be NOT VIABLE." If Hitachi produced them then they were viable (in that they became actual). If Hitachi did as you claim then they were most likely an economic failure but that in itself does not make them non viable (though some might argue that they were 'economically non viable' but that would be a misuse of the word (from the dictionary definition). Try and use English the same way as the rest of the planet. DieSwartzPunkt (talk) 11:34, 5 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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no harm no foul, I didn't care about what was stated, it just read like un-related tidbit of information. 5 or 6 edits later it was modified again to properly fill out the statement so that it related. I probably should have, in hind sight, looked at the reference included and filled it out myself, but I didn't. Thanks and apologies for not being more proactive. - speednat (talk)

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I've closed this report with a warning to you. --NeilN ^{talk to me} 17:15, 5 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

NeilN, Mikus is not the only user incapable of gaining consensus on the talk page before reverting, JohnBlackburne is equally guilty as they are currently unwilling to participate in the talk at Proportion, instead choosing to revert their perceived consensus achieved by the past edit warring.Polyamorph (talk) 06:52, 24 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Please remember to assume good faith when dealing with other editors, which you did not do on Wikipedia:Administrator's noticeboard/Edit warring#User:Mikus reported by User:JohnBlackburne (Result: Warned user(s)). Additionally, I still stand by my claim that NeilN's warning (I guess I'll ping you, NeilN, for that matter) is perfectly valid and reasonable, and agree that you SHOULD NOT add back the things you added to Proportion until you gain a consensus on the talk page. Good night. ToThAc (talk) 14:12, 9 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@ToThAc: Good faith would be to follow the links, to realize that proportion and proportionality are different things, and to allow me to fill an empty page. Instead the other editors bunched together like a wolf pack without any understanding of my edits. As for the talk page, I already said that no one will come there as it is a redirect page. Unless I ping them... Which is a thought. Mikus (talk) 19:32, 9 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Just so you know, you CAN check out Wikipedia:Requested articles or create a draft. ToThAc (talk) 01:43, 10 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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You have been blocked from editing for a period of 48 hours for edit warring, as you did at Proportion. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make useful contributions.

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What warring are you talking about? Have you seen the references? Is it shoot first, ask later? This is stupid. Mikus (talk) 04:21, 24 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

You were warned to get consensus before making your change here. You did not do this. --NeilN ^{talk to me} 04:25, 24 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Consensus of whom? Of three people who do not know middle-school math? Hilarious. Mikus (talk) 04:41, 24 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Mikus. There are rules against reverting other peoples edits, regardless of who is right. On wikipedia consensus should be agreed on talk pages before making too many contested reverts, again regardless of whether you are right or not. Take the time out the block will provide to calm down, gather some more reliable sources (as some users have complained about the quality of your references) and don't make personal attacks in edit summaries of talk page comments about who is stupid or not. It is far better to show provide your evidence in a calm authoritative yet considerate manner. Best wishes Polyamorph (talk) 06:31, 24 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I DID provide more and better references. Please, read them. Also, it is hard to get consensus when a page is redirected - no one goes to a redirected page, it is as if it does not exist. Anyway, there was no page for this entry, there was a redirect. I created a page for the entry, and instead of being praised I am being punished for knowing a bit more middle school math than those who feel themselves knowledgeable enough to make judgement on the content of the page instead of checking the links, and who are now defending their prior incorrect position for fear of losing face. I did not make personal attacks, I was questioning their qualifications in the subject of middle-school math, that is all. Mikus (talk) 06:56, 24 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Yes but criticising other peoples qualifications, or lack of, is not going to make them warm to you. The other editor seems to think the concept is already addressed adequately in Proportionality (mathematics) or Ratio. In ratio it is stated

the proportion expressing the equality of the ratios A∶B and C∶D is written A∶B = C∶D or A∶B::C∶D. This latter form, when spoken or written in the English language, is often expressed as

A is to B as C is to D.

So it is addressed. But you want to expand this into a separate article? Polyamorph (talk) 07:17, 24 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, Polyamorph, for your effort to resolve this. Yes, I want to expand it into a separate article for multiple reasons, which I already stated on the talk page, or in my replies. In particular, the concept of proportion is usually studied in 6th grade, while proportionality and functions are studied in 8th grade at the earliest (now with changes in math education in the U.S. it is being pushed into high school... dumb and dumber). Anyway, kids learn about proportion earlier and use it in practical problems. And after all, this is a legitimate separate concept, and term, it is even bolded in textbooks, so it is only natural to make a separate page. As I said, proportionality is not a better page, it is a different page. Just like decimal fractions and percents. There are separate pages for versions of Windows, or for episodes of TV shows, but making a page for a known concept is somehow excessive? Mind blows. Do you want me to list all the reasons? If this means yay or nay for having the article separate, I need time to prepare it, but some people here prefer to shoot first :-( As for Ratio article, it needs serious cleanup, I would not use it for reference, very hard to fish out anything good from it. Mikus (talk) 07:25, 24 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

JohnBlackburne, since I cannot reply on the Proportion talk page, I will reply here. You wrote: "As for where this is covered, see Ratio#Notation and terminology for the mathematical definition, Ratio#Euclid's definitions for the history. In both cases Ratio is the much better article. This is just a pointless, badly written fork." -- First, it is not a fork. Second, I don't see why is it pointless if it writes about a known topic and concept. Third, the Notation and terminology entry in the Ratio article says: "The proportion expressing the equality of the ratios A∶B and C∶D is written A∶B = C∶D or A∶B::C∶D". You call this well written? What is proportion here? Where its definition? The Ratio article must be cleaned up, maybe I will do it later if I have time. But presently, I want schoolkids to be able to find answers to a very specific narrow question: what is proportion. Not proportionality, not function, not ratio. Just proportion. In and out. Your "solution" does not offer this. Mikus (talk) 07:40, 24 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

There is a section in Ratio, Proportions and percentage ratios. I think the best approach would be to see if you can improve that article / section, and if it turns out that there is enough material to warrant a new separate article then clearly and calmly state your case at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Mathematics. Best wishes, Polyamorph (talk) 08:39, 24 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Polyamorph, it is sad that you sided with JohnBlackburne. I don't know what words I should use to explain the same points again and again: there was - and again, there is - no page for Proportion. Ratio and Proportionality are closely related, but different topics. Are you suggesting instead of creating an entry for Windows, to make a chapter in a Mac article, because after all these are both computers? Yes, my article looks concise, this is the point! I don't see JohnBlackburne's fascination with Ratio article that looks like "proper article with chapters" to him - it lacks coherent structure, lacks concise definitions, and has many repeats, try reading it top to bottom. No one looked at my links, I take it? Mikus (talk) 16:49, 24 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Mikus, I have not sided with JohnBlackburne, only that the concepts which you wrote about in your new article ARE discussed in Ratio. I agree with you that the ratio article is far from perfect. As in my previous comment, my suggestion for you is to go to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Mathematics (when you are able to) and state your case for the separate article there, I hope that then you will find some mathematicians who will agree with you, or at least come up with a better solution than edit warring and blocking you. Best wishes, Polyamorph (talk) 20:40, 24 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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