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User talk:Reify-tech/Archive 1Welcome! Hello, Reify-tech, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:
I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place Some comments / ideas regarding Coaxial power connector articleHi, I stumbled onto the Wikipedia article, Coaxial power connector today and enjoyed it very much. I notice it is relatively new and you seem to be the only content contributor so far.
I was going to make a few edits in the article but thought I'd list some suggestions here for you since you obviously have spent a lot of time on this article and are probably much more knowledgeable - and more willing to spend time / energy - than I am on this particular topic. First, I'm a big fan of this kind of article myself (don't ask me why) - Technical standards (or lack thereof) in different areas of our daily lives - especially electronics / consumer goods. And I think this article is a great / comprehensive introduction to the particular topic of these kinds of power connectors. My comments / suggestions are more related to Wikipedia guidelines regarding "how" articles should be written - particularly Wikipedia guidelines on original research, verifiability and neutral point of view. I hope these suggestions are useful and taken in the spirit offered. Best regards. Pugetbill (talk) 16:08, 2 April 2011 (UTC)
Try to avoid personal opinions / predictions (even when relatively 'benign' / harmless / obvious) unless quoting (and citing) an independent source (book, newspaper article, etc.). There are certainly many gray areas and this is often a "judgement call." For example, many "facts" (like "Paris is the capital of France") do not require citations because verifiability is "assumed" / is not controversial. But many opinions typically require an independent source for verifiability - or can be left out of the article entirely:
Pugetbill (talk) 16:10, 2 April 2011 (UTC) Hi again. And apologies for my confusion. I see now that when I first looked at the "View History" tab in the Coaxial power connector article, I only saw / looked at your entries (the latest ~50) and I jumped to the (false) conclusion that it was a new article with you the only author. Don't know why I assumed those were the only entries - I should have clicked through to see earlier entries. Again, my apologies for jumping to conclusions. As for reading the German DIN standards, I was also curious about DIN 45323 and had tried to find a copy or German reference to the standard but all I found was advertisements for connectors / cables / parts for sale that claimed conformance to DIN 45323 - but provide no particular history or info on the connector or its typical / original intended application. I tried both the German and English Google search pages. Even the German DIN site itself returns no result when you search for "45323" or "DIN 45323." Neither does it show up on the German Wikipedia article "List of DIN standards" (Liste_der_DIN-Normen). I suspect it may be a standard that has been retired / superseded by something newer??? But I haven't been able to find anything that references a newer / similar DIN (or EN... / IEC / Euro) standard. Example of connector & socket: Best regards, Pugetbill (talk) 00:34, 3 April 2011 (UTC) Your edits to IBM Selectric typewriterA very nice set of additions. With strong references! Thank you! Jeh (talk) 17:18, 9 April 2011 (UTC)
Thank you
Category Pratical JokesHi. I noticed you added more information to the practical joke list. You may have noticed that there is a discussion on Talk:Practical_joke#Well_known_practical_jokers. I am very interested in what you have to say about the need for such a list. I didn't realize this before, but I believe that the lists are redundant with the Category Practical Jokes Blackwidowhex (talk) 16:20, 23 April 2011 (UTC)
GreenspeakGreenspeak is not a bad section topic, per se, and, in an edit summary and talk page postingig, it has been explained and re-explained why the initial attempt at the topic was not up to standards. Nonetheless, that clear rational has been ignored or unacknowledged by you, and a baseless charge of a hidden agenda -disguised as a suggestion, was made. The Artist AKA Mr Anonymous (talk) 16:20, 9 May 2011 (UTC)
Tips on engaging objective discussionsHello Reify-tech! I appreciate your stopping by the Lightning_rod page the other day and providing assistance and recommendations. I have indeed set up a user front page as you suggested, User:Borealdreams. As I've known all along, I've entered a boiling cauldron in this discussion, [redacted WP:NPA by Borealdreams (talk) 22:19, 12 March 2012 (UTC)] Over and over I dispute his positions and edits due to his repeated violations of Wiki Pillars #1 & #2, Objectivity and Non-Promotion, discrediting his rational using his own words clearly violating The Pillars. Any suggestions on how to engage others who are willing to approach this topic from an objective position? p.s. I hope I did this correctly by posting on your page. Borealdreams (talk) 23:58, 5 March 2012 (UTC)
[redacted WP:NPA by Borealdreams (talk) 22:19, 12 March 2012 (UTC)] [Comment self-deleted: Borealdreams has expressed a desire to make a fresh start.] --Guy Macon (talk) 23:38, 12 March 2012 (UTC) Skidmore, Owings & MerrillHello Reify-tech, I noticed the promotional tag that you had placed on the SOM page, and tried to remove the 1) blatantly inaccurate info and 2) promo material that someone added. Could you take a look + remove the promo tag if you agree with the edits? I should note that I work at SOM, and am not the original author of the article. Thanks. Kmsom (talk) 20:09, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
FYI about wikilinksJust noticed something very minor with your edits to the Red Line article. If you're wikilinking to something followed by a parenthetical part,, just use the pipe - and no text - after the destination and it gives you the first part. For example: [[Red Line (MBTA)|]] gives you Red Line. It's not a big deal, though I have a habit of fixing them when I do copyedits so as to make wikitext a little easier to navigate. Pi.1415926535 (talk) Cheers!
About your request for image of a roof-top cooling towerHi, Reify-tech: Here are 3 photos of roof-top air conditioners that may be what you are looking for:
They were all found very easily in Wikimedia Commons. Pick one and place it in the Cooling tower article. But PLEASE use only one of them. In my opinion, the article already has too many images (22 of them). mbeychok (talk) 20:15, 20 March 2012 (UTC)
Film capacitor
Hi Reify-tech, maybe you remember helping me for better English with “Capacitor plague”. Now I wrote a new article "Film capacitor" and put it under "User:Elcap/Film capacitor". This article is not only a translation from the German Wikipedia article ([[1]]) but have a lot of additional informations especially written in respect of new information. May be I am an expert of capacitors but not of the English language, that is the reason to ask for help in grammar, wordings and so on. Please have a look at my draft and may be you have a little bit time to make a good English article out of this. (I ask "SpinningSpark" for the same) Thanks for helping. --Elcap (talk) 00:32, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
It would be better to discuss all future questions on the film caps discussion page. (where I have written a.m.o.??) And shure, if you want to change some descriptions in the drawings I easily can do it. But somebody have to tell me what. Maybe it takes a little bit time (holydays now). --Elcap (talk) 00:40, 26 March 2012 (UTC)
Whew! I've finished an initial copyedit sweep, and the article is now ready for review and further revision. I suggest holding back its release a couple of days, to allow User:Elcap and interested others to do any last-minute editing before public rollout. I have used the tag template {{elucidate}} to flag items that I couldn't figure out immediately on this first pass, so I or somebody else can go back later and find them quickly in the Wikisource code to resolve them. I think most of these items can be resolved by Elcap, or by referring back to the original German version. Once a stable and consistent terminology, spelling, and style have been settled upon, the labeling text inside some of the diagrams should be revised, probably by Elcap, since I think he originally produced them. Thank you for your patience in waiting for me to finish the heavy editing. We should try to loosely coordinate with each other, to avoid WP:Edit conflicts (really, "edit collisions"), and edit only one subsection at a time (when possible), to reduce the likelihood of a collision. I'm going to take a rest break now, and let other editors have a look at the article. I hope you like it. I've definitely learned a lot from reading (and editing) it. -- Reify-tech (talk) 15:28, 27 March 2012 (UTC)
Just to be clear, I've finished my complete copyedit sweep of the entire article, and appreciate other editors standing aside while I worked, to avoid "edit collisions". I consider this initial phase completed, and invite other interested editors to work on the article in tandem with me. I will try to stay out of other's way as I edit within sections, and expect other editors will try their best as well. The article is in much better shape now, but still needs a lot of work before rollout, if we want to try for DYK as discussed above. --Reify-tech (talk) 17:34, 28 March 2012 (UTC)
Section headings
The Wikipedia Manual of Style recommendation on "Section headings" (MOS:HEAD) says:
Following this recommendation, I [had] removed the many redundant "film capacitors" references in the section headings, except where they were necessary for clarity. I'm not going to be doctrinaire about this, but I do think that following the Wikipedia guideline does result in a better, more readable article. --Reify-tech (talk) 02:12, 28 March 2012 (UTC)
Some closing remarks from Elcap
I found the time to read the actual version once and made some smaller remarks. Now I Think, the article is better than the German one. In the German Wiki the power capacitors do have their own article but for the English version I want to underline the common relationship between the “film capacitors for use in electronic equipment” (heading of the generic specification 60384-1) and the power (film) capacitors. Out of my feeling now you can move the article to the “wiki”. But please inclusive our discussion here on this user page. If you want to change some descriptions in the drawings please feel free to ask me. Sorry that I did it not in inkscape but I do not master tis software. Once again, thank you so much in helping to correct my German sounding language into English. I gave you a nugget, you polish it. By the way, the German article got the award “Lesenswert”. Kind regards --Elcap (talk) 01:20, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
Meetup address correctedHi Reify-tech, tonight's meetup is at 33 Harrison Avenue, not 33 Harrison Street as was listed on the event page and meetup.com. Both of those are now fixed and I've sent an email to the Boston mailing list, but I wanted to let you know here in case you happened not to catch those other fixes. Map: https://maps.google.com/maps?q=33+Harrison+Ave,+floor+5,+Boston,+MA+02111&hl=en&geocode=+&hnear=33+Harrison+Ave,+Boston,+Massachusetts+02111&t=m&z=16. Best, Emw (talk) 22:06, 14 May 2012 (UTC) Harvard BridgeThanks. It was a typo I went to fix and found you'd put the missing letter in square brackets. Something you should know is that Wikimarkup will treat something in a single pair of square brackets as an external link. If you want the square brackets to show, you need to enclose the whole thing in <nowiki></nowiki> tags, like [so]. Thanks for the assist! - Denimadept (talk) 23:08, 17 April 2012 (UTC) DYK for Film CapacitorHi Reify-tech. Please see User talk:Elcap#DYK now?. Regards,--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 12:09, 4 June 2012 (UTC) only a questionHi Reify-tech, maybe you remember your lot of work correcting the article Film capacitors. Now I closed another project and I kindly would ask you, if you want to help in grammer and writing mistakes. But it is a lot of work, please before say anything, have a short look at this revised article: User:Elcap/Types of capacitor. Kind regards and greetings from wet and dark wintertime in northern Germany. --Elcap (talk) 11:49, 2 December 2012 (UTC) Jury rigJesus H Christ, does deleting an IP editor's entirely unsupported additions to an article require a full Support/Oppose voting process now or what? Kolbasz (talk) 00:37, 28 February 2013 (UTC)
Electric double-layer capacitorHi Reify-tech, I saw, You put a remark "introduction to long" to the EDLC article. I just (since 4 month) write this article complete new, following the German article. If You wat, please have a look at User:Elcap/Supercapacitor. Finishing this article I think the introduction is even to short. Greatings --Elcap (talk) 14:36, 28 February 2013 (UTC)
Soldering articleHi! You appear to have blanked the page accidently. I reverted your edit using STiKi. If i've made a mistake let me know. Thanks! ★★RetroLord★★ 09:21, 3 March 2013 (UTC)
MITShould include C. W. Eliot as a faculty member who later headed "another school" <g>. We should have the "Wright Flyer" incident - as the Great Lawn was the only American exhibit site for it for many years due to the Smithsonian claims, and the Wright Brothers Wind Tunnel was partially funded by Curtiss-Wright and some of Orville Wright's friends in the 30s (he attended the dedication). Also the Naval Architecture ship model museum.[2]. Also the MITSFS library which, IIRC, is largest of its kind. And, of course, the MIT connections to other technical schools (some of which were basically founded by MIT). Lastly, how can we omit Tom Lehrer? Collect (talk) 17:11, 8 March 2013 (UTC)
Article Feedback deploymentHey Reify-tech; I'm dropping you this note because you've used the article feedback tool in the last month or so. On Thursday and Friday the tool will be down for a major deployment; it should be up by Saturday, failing anything going wrong, and by Monday if something does :). Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 23:50, 13 March 2013 (UTC) Beanie
Thank you! It's nice to be appreciated, especially from the other side of the earth. I actually spent several weeks Down Under during the 1990s, and had a great time there. Aussie blokes have great sense of humour. G'day, mate! Reify-tech (talk) 03:24, 21 March 2013 (UTC)
Large copy-edits to MBTA-related articlesHey, you're very good at copyediting, and I've appreciated the work you're done on MBTA-related articles. Would you mind taking a look at the recent edits by this IP user to a couple articles about the T? They've made some extensive copyedits which strike me as tightening the wording too much, but I wanted a second opinion. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 22:29, 21 March 2013 (UTC)
OK, I've waded through a detailed comparison of Green Line (MBTA) before and after edits by the IP editor in question. While many of the cuts were beneficial, or at least "mostly harmless", a number of them go too far, and impair the readability and clarity of the entire article. Some general observations:
In many cases of marginal ambiguity, it is certainly possible for the reader to puzzle out what the writer meant. But this slows down and impairs what should be free-flowing and easy communication of facts and ideas, and their relation to the interests of a reader. An article should be more than a dry catalog of minimally-connected facts, which give no hint of why the reader should even care about them. What is harder to put a finger on is the effect on the entire tone of the article. While the more laconic style may be thought to be "more professional", I think it is also more off-putting to the general reader. The tone is very much like the terse, endlessly detailed catalogs of British rolling stock published in fine print on thin paper in the 1950s, when paper and ink were still scarce and expensive. Partly, this parsimony is a question of style. But the MBTA is located in Boston, not the UK, and I think that Americans in the 2010s prefer a less formal, less elliptical style, even at the expense of a few hundred extra bytes of computer storage. Wikipedia policy is to place the interests of the reader ahead of the preferences of the writers. I don't like sacrificing readability, clarity, and even some pleasure of reading, on the altar of what was viewed as high style in years past. I'm not sure what to do about this. From examining the logs, the IP editor seems to have a mission of paring down as many bytes as possible from a large number of railway articles, mostly in the UK and Commonwealth, but also in the US and elsewhere in the world. Re-inserting the unhelpful deletions is going to be a lot of work; certainly, removing them must have taken a while. From the User Talk page, it is apparent that he (or possibly she??) has been repeatedly warned against obsessively overlinking calendar dates, and consistently declining to provide any edit summary. The vast majority of edits have been deletions, with rare and minimal exceptions. In spite of consistent activity since 2009, this editor has spurned repeated invitations to register for a permanent account, and appears to avoid engagement of any kind with fellow editors. I think that we will get minimal (or no) response from this reticent editor, and may have to infer responses from whatever behavior is visible. I have not researched the reactions of other editors to the roving IP editor's changes, or his reactions in turn (if any). I have the impression that he makes a single pass through an article, and does not return to contend with other editors, but wanders off to whittle away on the next article. Thankfully, the IP editor seems to know better than or is loathe to engage in edit warring. Some digging through edit summaries (say, for New York, San Francisco, or Chicago) should reveal how other editors have reacted, and what they have done. We New Englanders are hardly the first to encounter this lone meandering editor. Before asking, with due respect, that the IP editor restrain or modify his paring instincts, the other active editors here would need to establish some kind of (at least informal) consensus on some stylistic conventions. There has been a largely unwritten consensus on the style of the MBTA and New England transit articles, and most editors new to the topic seem to adopt and adapt to the local conventions. But perhaps a brief page-length "style guide" may be in order, claiming no global applicability, but adopted wherever there is a local consensus to do so. What do you think? Reify-tech (talk) 04:22, 23 March 2013 (UTC)
VandalismInteresting exchange, have you been to these places too? Wikipedia:Counter-Vandalism Unit, and Wikipedia:Recent changes patrol, these would appear to be places that NEED you! ;-) Talkback: you've got messages! Message added by Theopolisme at 22:10, 24 March 2013 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template. Your submission at Articles for creation The article has been assessed as C-Class, which is recorded on the article's talk page. You may like to take a look at the grading scheme to see how you can improve the article. You are more than welcome to continue making quality contributions to Wikipedia. Note that because you are a logged-in user, you can create articles yourself, and don't have to post a request. However, you may continue submitting work to Articles for Creation if you prefer.
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MOS:COMMAI have opened a new RFC at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style § RFC: Proposed amendment to MOS:COMMA regarding geographical references and dates. —sroc 💬 08:31, 7 November 2013 (UTC) November 2013 Your recent editing history at NEMA connector shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war. Being involved in an edit war can result in your being blocked from editing—especially if you violate the three-revert rule, which states that an editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. Undoing another editor's work—whether in whole or in part, whether involving the same or different material each time—counts as a revert. Also keep in mind that while violating the three-revert rule often leads to a block, you can still be blocked for edit warring—even if you don't violate the three-revert rule—should your behavior indicate that you intend to continue reverting repeatedly. To avoid being blocked, instead of reverting please consider using the article's talk page to work toward making a version that represents consensus among editors. See BRD for how this is done. You can post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, you may wish to request temporary page protection. De728631 (talk) 19:34, 18 November 2013 (UTC)
Thanks, BracketBot (talk) 17:36, 29 November 2013 (UTC) Disclosure requestEvidence indicating that the General Body or Executive Board voted to derecognize the group can be disclosed at Talk:MIT Crime Club. --Dervorguilla (talk) 04:42, 21 November 2013 (UTC) 05:06, 21 November 2013 (UTC) Wikipedia Page Change - Mac Address? 71.95.207.102 (talk) 18:45, 25 November 2013 (UTC)Hello, Reify-tech. I have recently gotten a message from you stating that the Escalator Wikipedia page was edited by somebody using our IP Address (71.95.207.102). I had not made the edit, and was wondering if you could send me the Mac Address so I can find out who in my class had edited a page. The message had said this: Hello, I'm Reify-tech. I wanted to let you know that I undid one or more of your recent contributions to Escalator because it did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, you can use the sandbox. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks! Reify-tech (talk) 18:00, 11 November 2013 (UTC) If this is a shared IP address, and you did not make the edits, consider creating an account for yourself so you can avoid further irrelevant notices. Thank you!
Black iceSorry, The IP was wrong to have removed the text about sea/lake ice end rock ice from the article "Black Ice" as these are know as black ice by the WMO (http://www.eumetcal.org/resources/ukmeteocal/rapid_cyclo/www/english/msg/glossary/index.htm). I have to reinput them. Furthermore, this is not a precipitation and thus not Freezing rain, it is a form of glazed ice. Sorry that this IP had to make you work and thanks for thinking that the text was worth something! Pierre cb (talk) 11:00, 28 November 2013 (UTC) The Wikipedia Library's Books and Bytes newsletter (#2)Books & Bytes
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Digit ratio editsHi, the source I cited was a scientific study. The average male digit ratio according to that is .969, with a standard deviation of about .03. The current number on the article is off by nearly a full standard deviation, and the only source cited to back it up is a blog post. I've never added a source to a Wiki article before, so perhaps I made an error while I was submitting it, but the information I added is correct, and the source I tried citing is academic. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.9.55.71 (talk) 06:53, 31 January 2014 (UTC) blank lines after headingYou seem to like to squeeze out the space after headings, between File: and paragraph, etc. These single blank lines make it much easily to find the structure you're looking for visually, so are a benefit to editors; they are optional, but changing optional things without good reason is generally frowned on; so please don't. Dicklyon (talk) 16:02, 11 February 2014 (UTC) You're invited: Women's History Edit-a-thons in Massachusetts this March
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ThankyouI accept your rebuke. I have removed the sentence that was problematic and not tried to insert an explaination of what it was trying to explain. I am not a new user but an old one, who stopped due to excessive unhelpful reversions when new or foreign language users attempted to create good content in short articles that was just removed rather than fixed some times after I spent significant time trying to fix it. Regards46.208.39.53 (talk) 16:40, 26 May 2014 (UTC) A barnstar for you!
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Hello Reify-techThat is why there is a heading called EXTERNAL LINKS cos they lead you out of the wiki. WE use Wikipedia for the sake information and the link I shared in the EXTERNAL LINKS is also an information. I'm confused how are you telling me that it's inappropriate. The link you're talking about MIT, it leads you to the top ten Universities in US in which MIT is on the top. [Unsigned by Umarblog12 (talk · contribs)] Hi, Reify-tech. This is just a note that I've warned this editor – Umarblog12 (talk · contribs) – on his talk page against continuing to add external links to this site. —SMALLJIM 16:14, 29 June 2014 (UTC)
Your comments on my editing on "Bookmark" page84.226.171.199 (talk) 11:17, 15 July 2014 (UTC) Hi, thank you for commenting on my edits. I deleted a broken link and have moved an advertising link from the first place further below in the list of references. In the main text, I deleted the word "leatherette" as this is surely not a relevant material for bookmarks to be mentioned. So, I can't see any marketing activity in my edit, excuse me. Regards. Re: HVAC and Plumbing editorial help neededHi, thanks for leaving a comment on my user talk page. Yes, I'm actually planning to go through the articles in the category "Heating, ventilating, and air conditioning" since the topic is very interesting to me. I'm not a true expert in that particular field, however I do have quite a few years of other technical experience, namely in electrical engineering and electronics. I can try looking into the category "Plumbing" as well, but I might be limited to correcting typos, style, etc. there. My plan is this: I check which articles have an importance-rating above "low" and try to improve what I can there. For things that are beyond my knowledge, I'll probably leave a "clarify", "citation needed", "why", etc. in the article and check back later if someone else contributed. It is a continuous process and will probably never be really finished ;-) Noggo (talk) 15:51, 15 July 2014 (UTC)
Tagging of Adrian Smith (architect)Hi, I notice you recently added a cleanup tag to a large new addition of text on Adrian Smith (architect). There were various things in the added text (particularly the tone and the lack of wikilinks) which made me suspicious, and sure enough the text was copied wholesale from this bio page (you may need to click the "more" button at the bottom to see it). If an IP dumps a lot of unformatted but nonetheless well-written content into an article, it's worth having a quick Google to see if it might have been copied from elsewhere. In that case the best thing to do is to revert the edit, rather than tagging it for cleanup, as it isn't appropriate for copyright violations to remain in place longterm. Thanks! Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward) (talk) 16:44, 22 July 2014 (UTC)
Boston-area trackless trolleysNice edits on the article. I've been thinking of a move (Trolleybuses of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority would nicely match the Commons category) since the article is primarily about MBTA TTs as currently operated. I'll do a formal move request if you think it's necessary, but as the only other editor who's done heavy editing on it in a long while, I'd consider it an uncontroversial move if you agree. Also, I believe the Silver Line should be (briefly) mentioned, as it would fall under either title. A one or two-paragraph section with a single images of a SL bus under wires (I know I have one at Silver Line Way), would be plenty. You're by no means obligated to add it, but you're certainty welcome to. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 20:43, 22 July 2014 (UTC)
Willis tower (edit request)hello there, plz add this: in willis tower article before the line: "The Willis Tower was the first building to utilize Khan's bundled tube structure.[10] This innovative..." — Preceding unsigned comment added by 180.149.12.219 (talk) 2014-07-25T14:06:40
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On further consideration, the link on Pipe is probably appropriate for newbies and such. (Someone else restored it) Thanks for your help copy editing my proposed addition there :) –xenotalk 11:08, 15 August 2014 (UTC)
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Wi-ViThis is the source: --Pediainsight (talk) 19:44, 21 December 2014 (UTC) Regards --Pediainsight (talk) 19:50, 21 December 2014 (UTC) Anchor linksHi, Reify! I just noticed this edit you made to Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Tables a while back. Amongst the changes, you changed the heading "Appropriate" to read "Appropriate use". You will note the {{shortcut}} template by that heading refers to WP:WHENTABLE but that shortcut stopped working because it redirected to "#Appropriate" which no longer existed. When changing headings, it's a good idea to add the {{anchor}} template with the old heading as a parameter so that links to the old heading will still find the right place: === {{anchor|Appropriate}}Appropriate use ===I have made this change now but just wanted to give you the heads up. —sroc 💬 13:06, 5 January 2015 (UTC) Edits to Thermoplastic-Sheathed Cable entryHello Reify-tech, Thank you for your edits to the section of the Thermoplastic-Sheathed Cable (TSC) entry regarding Southwire Company's ROMEX trademark. The line "Type NM cable is often incorrectly referred to generically as 'Romex'..." appears to be a matter of opinion rather than fact. The "Electrical Wiring" entry that is linked to Romex makes no mention of Romex or its use generically. Further, though Bruce Barker's "Old Wiring Methods" article notes "The most common example of a wiring method is nonmetallic sheathed cable (NM), often referred to by the trademark name Romex®," there is no evidence to support the assertion that the trademark is "often" used to refer to NM cable generally. Mr. Barker also notes that "The Romex trademark is owned by Southwire, and only Romex brand NM should be called Romex." Perhaps the following change might be more appropriate and devoid of promotional language: Old - "Type NM cable is often incorrectly referred to generically as 'Romex', but the Romex name is a trademarked brand of the Southwire Company." New - "It is incorrect to use 'Romex' to refer to NM cable generically, as the Romex name is a trademarked brand of the Southwire Company." Let me know your thoughts. CS30308 (talk) 17:45, 9 April 2015 (UTC)
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Winchester CenterHey, I don't mean to arbitrarily delete your good work. However, I think having three images in the article is currently problematic for entirely functional reasons. I mostly edit on a 1366-pixel-wide display which is pretty average; on that, two photos fit cleanly within the History section, but three stretch all the way to halfway through the references. On wider displays, the formatting is even more broken. I think for now (until I inevitably end up expanding the prose even more) we should only have two photos in that section. I like the ramp detail because it shows the actual deterioration, but you present a good argument for having the wider shot instead. (I'll also try to head over there sometime on a sunny day to get better photos, especially of the damaged section.) Pi.1415926535 (talk) 17:03, 2 August 2015 (UTC)
Comma after e.g.Five of six style guides recommend putting a comma after "e.g.": [3]. Why are you removing them, as here? (You can read my opinion about this in more detail here.) --Steve (talk) 15:20, 13 August 2015 (UTC) Hello, I noticed that you reverted my redirect of Office toy to Executive toy. Both articles are almost same so no need to merge them. I think that now will be redirect better. Also I think that office toy and executive toy have same meaning. I will not change it. It's up to you.--Sevela.p 14:43, 23 August 2015 (UTC)
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'Opsit' screw drive imageHi, I noticed that you added an Opsit image to the List of screw drives page. From what I can find out, Opsit just means a tri-wing (or tri-point) that has an opposite thread (i.e., no difference in screw drive), so I'm not sure that it's named appropriately. But secondly, the image consists of a black background and white centre, and from all the other screw drive graphics, white denotes the higher part and black denotes the recessed part. Therefore, is the purpose of the image to show an alternate "raised" (external) form of tri-wing? As otherwise it seems redundant. C0nanPayne (talk) 23:05, 28 February 2017 (UTC)
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"Editorial note"This line -- "Editorial note: Template:Road redirects to here, and may also be used as a shortcut to invoke this template" -- appears on the bottom of Traffic barrier and I've now also seen it at the top of {{Template:Road types}}. I think it makes sense in the latter place but don't understand it at all in the former one. I can't see how it was added to Traffic barrier here (it wasn't there one edit-page back), by you maybe, and I can't see how to remove it if it should be removed. Any thoughts? Thanks. Swliv (talk) 23:06, 1 April 2017 (UTC)
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--Megalibrarygirl (talk) 20:32, 22 March 2019 (UTC) via MassMessaging Complaints about Technetium (99mTc) sestamibi articleThe deletions made from the Sestamibi redistribution comments were because they violated not only personal privacy but they are an ongoing attack which is biased, using wikipedia as a source of attack upon myself. The publications I posted yesterday were to two papers currently in press, which demonstrate that Sestamibi not only redistributes but that UCLA, Cedars, Harvard, Brigham Womans and multiple other University Hospitals have proven this as well. I don't believe Wikipedia is the site to be used for adhominem attacks which the submitter "Thats Regrettable" has been doing to multiple people publishing research he does not agree with. For that reason "Thats Regrettable" comments should be removed. This is not the applicable place. There really is not an applicable place. Respectfully, Prof. Fleming, PhD, MD, JD — Preceding unsigned comment added by RM Fleming, MD (talk • contribs) 16:24, 26 March 2019 (UTC)
Further explanation of stranded to bundled diameter ratios in American Wire GaugeHello Reify-tech, Thank you for your note. The numbers that I gave in that line follow directly from the equations in the article. It's just a matter of punching in the numbers. Although I don't know of a specific source for these particular calculations, you can easily check the accuracy of these numbers by simply plugging into the equations in the article. Because diameter and area are exponential functions of AWG, differences in gauge translate directly into ratios of diameters or areas. The reason for adding this paragraph to the article is because sometimes the gauge of an existing stranded wire needs to be measured, either because it has no label or to verify the marking. Since it's difficult to measure bundle diameter accurately, and measuring a single strand is much easier and can be done with a wire gauge go-no-go tool such as a Starrett 281 or Mitutoyo 950-202, the gauge of the bundle then needs to be figured. Knowing the diameter and count of the strands, simply subtracting from the strand gauge is quick and accurate. Here is a screenshot of a Mathcad worksheet showing the simple method of calculation:  Give this additional information, I hope you will reconsider your undo. Thanks again, and I look forward to hearing from you. Best Regards, Yankeepapa13 --Yankeepapa13 (talk) 19:33, 16 May 2019 (UTC)
I've reverted your edits here, with the summary "rvt blatent WP:ERA violation, with dishonest edit summary". Please don't do either of these things again. Johnbod (talk) 21:02, 24 May 2019 (UTC)
List of humorous units of measurementWanted to edit "List of humorous units of measurement" but it seems to be locked. You made the last edit, a month or so ago, so perhaps you have privilege and will accept the task of posting this suggestion:
rosebud (talk) 14:37, 2 June 2019 (UTC)
Parentheticals in the leadHi. In 2017, you performed a cleanup of John N. Shive, and in the process, you changed the parenthetical punctuation from commas to round brackets (parentheses) in the lead section. I’m curious as to your reasoning behind this change. Although it’s been a while, and it would of course depend on the usage and context, I seem to recall that commas are preferred in the lead section when used to separate a parenthesis, mainly due to readability. In the body, however, one can choose either commas, dashes, or brackets. Any thoughts on this? Viriditas (talk) 03:21, 14 September 2019 (UTC)
I would like to add this article to Miguel Rosales page. Please advise.https://www.acsp.org/news/471288/FALLS-PARK-AND-LIBERTY-BRIDGE-RECLAIMING-GREENVILLES-NATURAL-BEAUTY.htm?utm_source=Active+RBA+Mailing+List&utm_campaign=8f1fd08f70-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_04_09_07_04_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_a47230794d-8f1fd08f70-140055013 ˜˜˜˜ — Preceding unsigned comment added by Barbaragomperts (talk • contribs) 21:07, 10 October 2019 (UTC)
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