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User talk:Spinningspark/Archive 1
German occupation of Luxembourg in World War II didn't delete your reference. I integrated it into the article using the appropriate template ({{Cite web}}), which - as you can now observe - has a function to link to both the original and archived versions. I very much appreciate your checking that link and finding the archive link for it. Bastin 11:01, 25 December 2007 (UTC) Yes, I had seen that you had used the "cite" template. No problem, but that was not the issue. Perhaps you had not noticed, but not only did I create an archive (yes I created it, did not just find it), but I also repaired the original link. Actually the repair was quite simple as all the site has done is changed the file type from .html to .php. If you substitute .php in your template you will find that the link now works. I suggest you still retain the link to the archive though, in case the site moves or changes the page again. Spinningspark (talk) 12:57, 25 December 2007 (UTC)
Hunter Ice FestivalIf the user adding the material to Wikipedia is the original author of the material, then they need to prove that (the instructions are here). If the copyright issue is cleared up then the material cannot be speedy deleted but we may end up at another deletion discussion if someone still doesn't think the festival is notable. Hut 8.5 17:58, 29 December 2007 (UTC) ThanksThanks for that. --Lholden (talk) 23:16, 29 December 2007 (UTC) Ye Art Cordially Invited to the AnnexHello, My good Fellow, listen and I shalt telleth Ye a Tale of a Wiki that well comes All Manner of Articles relating to Fiction. What is This wonderful Place of Fantasy, You ask? It is the Annex, Haven to All fiction-related Refugee Articles from Wikipedia. Before nominating or proposing a fiction-related Article for Deletion, It is My sincerest Hope that Ye import It to the Annex. Why do This, You wonder? Individuals have dedicated an enormous Amount of Time to writing These Articles, and ’twould be a Pity for the Information to Vanish unto the Oblivion where only Administrators could see Them. Here is a Step-by-Step Process of how to Bringeth Articles into the Annex:
Thank Ye for using the Annex, My Friend — the Annex Hath Spoken 01:43, 30 December 2007 (UTC) Duplicate images uploadedThanks for uploading Image:Combination Puzzle 7x7 sliding piece.jpg. A machine-controlled robot account noticed that you also uploaded the same image under the name Image:7x7 Sliding Piece Puzzle.jpg. The copy called Image:7x7 Sliding Piece Puzzle.jpg has been marked for speedy deletion since it is redundant. If this sounds okay to you, there is no need for you to take any action. This is an automated message- you have not upset or annoyed anyone, and you do not need to respond. In the future, you may save yourself some confusion if you supply a meaningful file name and refer to 'my contributions' to remind yourself exactly which name you chose (file names are case sensitive, including the extension) so that you won't lose track of your uploads. For tips on good file naming, see Wikipedia's image use policy. If you have any questions about this notice, or feel that the deletion is inappropriate, please contact User:Staecker, who operates the robot account. Staeckerbot (talk) 14:59, 31 December 2007 (UTC) Thank you mister robot but I new that already. I was trying to speedy delete it myself when you got in the way.Spinningspark (talk) 15:05, 31 December 2007 (UTC) Black holesHave you cleared up that doubt about the formation of black holes you said you had? The one that if black holes are constantly sucking matter but we, from our frame of reference, would see that matter just touching the event horizon forever, how can they actually grow? I'm wondering exactly the same thing. --Taraborn (talk) 11:40, 5 January 2008 (UTC) Not really, I might take it up with some of the editors who actually know about the mathematics of the subject one day. But for now I am staying away from the Helpdesk question as this discussion is not really answering the OPs question. Of course, none of this would exclude black holes being formed in some other way, it is only gravitational collapse of a star that is at issue here. SpinningSpark 11:55, 5 January 2008 (UTC) UserboxesWhy you cheeky...thanks a lot, that's great. And highly unexpected. :D Lady BlahDeBlah (talk) 22:55, 5 January 2008 (UTC) "Big grey box"That would be Wikipedia:Reference desk/header, which admittedly doesn't mention the "don't solve their homework" guideline, but I think gets close enough to it in spirit. Confusing Manifestation(Say hi!) 02:15, 6 January 2008 (UTC) re Vandalism to Science PortalPlease note that I have removed your report from AIV to WP:ANI here, as being the most appropriate place for the query. LessHeard vanU (talk) 14:42, 19 January 2008 (UTC) Your posting re Wiki TrustNot sure why you commented as you did on my user talk page. Yes, I posted a link to the Wiki trust site, but I don't know anything about the "Wiki Trust Mailing Group" that you mention, and I'm not associated in any way with the work being done on this concept. So Colin's comment (that you cited) about language links isn't really relevant to me, I think. If there was a question or suggestion, for me, somewhere in your comment, please post again, and I'll be happy to respond directly. -- John Broughton (♫♫) 15:24, 26 January 2008 (UTC) Something strange is still going on: no matter how many ways I try to remove the vandalism, the article history never shows a change. Strange. Thanks for the note. —EncMstr 21:02, 31 January 2008 (UTC) Suspected sockpuppet caseA case you opened at SSP a few days ago, Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/Webmasteralex, has been closed. You can view the page there for the reasons provided. Regards, Rudget. 18:49, 1 February 2008 (UTC) antilogarithmantilogarithm should redirect to logarithm or to exponential function rather than to exponentiation, because it is the inverse to a logarthm, and the same thing as an exponential function, but Nth root is the inverse to exponentiation. Do you know how to fix the redirect? Bo Jacoby (talk) 21:35, 3 February 2008 (UTC).
Yes, but it makes sense to mention antilogarithm in either of these articles, I think. You can do it if you want to, otherwise I can do it. I just don't know how to fix the redirect. Bo Jacoby (talk) 13:12, 4 February 2008 (UTC). OK, tell me were you have written about antilogarithms and I will point the redirect to that page. SpinningSpark 22:29, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
Vandal NotificationThanks for notifing me; I forgot about that. Also, i noticed you were considering changing the title of Disaster!: A Major Motion Picture Ride...Starring You!; i have started a poll on the talk page on what it's title should be. You may vote if interested. Thanks.--Snowman Guy (talk) 23:01, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
That Universal GuyThanks much for the recent notification on my talk page. I am highly upset at That Universal Guy and am highly considering undoing his edits on the Disaster! article; however, he said that those who revert his edits will be prosecuted by Universal's legal department. If i undo the edits, he may attempt to put me in court. Why do you think i should do about this? Thanks.--Snowman Guy (talk) 23:29, 23 February 2008 (UTC) TuvaluHello, Tuvalu was a former british colony. It is an independent country in the South Pacific. hope that helps :). The Updater would like to talk to you! 11:48, 24 February 2008 (UTC) Welcome to VandalProof!Thank you for your interest in VandalProof, Spinningspark! You have now been added to the list of authorized users, so if you haven't already, simply download and install VandalProof from our main page. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me or any other moderator, or you can post a message on the discussion page. Finally, I'd like to appologise for any delay, and wish you luck with VandalProof! Ale_Jrbtalk 19:27, 6 March 2008 (UTC) Image copyright problem with Image:Zobel (4) Attenuator.PNG Thank you for uploading Image:Zobel (4) Attenuator.PNG. However, it currently is missing information on its copyright status. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously. It may be deleted soon, unless we can determine the license and the source of the image. If you know this information, then you can add a copyright tag to the image description page. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them at the media copyright questions page. Thanks again for your cooperation. Polly (Parrot) 20:28, 7 March 2008 (UTC) Ref deskTa for the help so far. IBangMyHead (talk) 19:57, 21 March 2008 (UTC) 1989/S Club"Kind of almost an article" still isn't an article. The main point of the rule as I understand it isn't for verifiability reasons, it's to avoid a slippery slope with notability. Seeing as how there are even arguments not to allow every person with an article on the birth lists, letting those without articles is sketchy. Then there's the issue of how much about them needs to be in another article to qualify, which is subjective. Those lists are already quite long and will likely be trimmed in a couple years anyway. --TM 06:47, 23 March 2008 (UTC) Image copyright problem with Image:Image_Z_(2).PNGThank you for uploading Image:Image_Z_(2).PNG. However, it currently is missing information on its copyright status. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously. It may be deleted soon, unless we can determine the license and the source of the image. If you know this information, then you can add a copyright tag to the image description page. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them at the media copyright questions page. Thanks again for your cooperation. Jusjih (talk) 03:42, 24 March 2008 (UTC) Perfect metal latticeCan you tell me what that source you cited in Ohm's law actually says about this hypothetical "perfect metal lattice". Does perfect include zero temperature, or what? Dicklyon (talk) 00:09, 6 April 2008 (UTC) Otto ZobelI have replied on my talk page.--Boson (talk) 23:29, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
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--Bobet 11:35, 18 April 2008 (UTC) Thank you for welcoming meThanks for welcoming me. So the reason I did not put the reference on the thunderstorm page is that I did not have time at the moment (I am 14 yrs. old, as you can guess I was in school at the moment, and not really having time to edit anymore). I was wondering if you could tell me how to get the user box's (like the ones that you have on your user page). I would like them to say something along the lines of "This user lives in Minnesota," "This user lives in America" and "This user is a Aspie." Oh, and I hope I am not asking to much but could you also tell me how many edits you need to make to be an administrator on wikipedia.Miagirljmw14 17:58, 18 April 2008 (UTC) Thanks for responding so soon! You are really a good 'welcomer'! It must have been only 30 mins. before I read your post. I expected to have to wait a few days (or at least a few hours). But thanks for the information!Miagirljmw14 18:57, 18 April 2008 (UTC) Pooley'sPlease see my reply to you, on my Talk page - Adrian Pingstone (talk) 17:53, 25 April 2008 (UTC) Requesting a new featureThanks for the tip. I'll inquire at WP:Helpdesk. ~Kaimbridge~23:33, 26 April 2008 (UTC) Talk:Boltzmann constant You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template. So removing inaccurate and unsourced information is vandalism?So removing inaccurate and unsourced information and replacing it with a link to a primary source is vandalism? Yuck Flu By Road (talk) 21:52, 3 May 2008 (UTC) Image deletedThe image you requested to be deleted has been deleted. -- Natalya 23:12, 3 May 2008 (UTC) Refdesk question:Question regarding electricityWouldn't you have to use RMS values in and AC circuit?? P(RMS) = V{RMS} x I{RMS} or P= U x I x cos phi?? If you could spare the time to enlighten me I'd be most delighted. Lisa4edit (talk) 13:05, 5 May 2008 (UTC) Thanks for your reply Could you have a look the formula on the root mean square page? I looked at it and thought I remembered it differently. And yes, it should have been P(av) I copied that out wrongly. I can't get the math symbols to work so I tried to put it in words. (They display fine, but if I copy them into something I want to post they disappear for some strange reason.) Thanks for clearing things up. Lisa4edit (talk) 14:43, 5 May 2008 (UTC) From your message: The correct formula is; P_{av} = V_{rms} \times I_{rms} \times \cos{\phi} From root mean square P_\mathrm{avg} = V_\mathrm{RMS}I_\mathrm{RMS}.\,\!
From my old notebook P(effective) = U x I x cos{phi} If you could direct me towards a page that explains how to use the markup I'd be happy. Sorry for troubling you. Lisa4edit (talk) 15:45, 5 May 2008 (UTC) Resource requestIt's filled.--droptone (talk) 12:29, 9 May 2008 (UTC)
Z param 1.PNGWell, I'm sort of going through the PD-user category and tagging all potentially useful images that I find with that, and IFDing or speedying non-useful ones. I don't know, it's just sort of a little project I'm doing, because for some reason having free images here and not on Commons bothers me. If you'd like to make clean SVG versions of your hand-drawn diagrams, that'd be swell. —Scott5114↗ [EXACT CHANGE ONLY] 00:02, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
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Based on the reasons above, I'd like to move the page back to "Mihajlo I. Pupin". I'd like to hear your thoughts. Thanks! --Jiuguang Wang (talk) 20:18, 24 May 2008 (UTC) 5/28 DYK
--Bedford Pray 02:07, 28 May 2008 (UTC) Would be appreicated if you could provide a fuller description of what the circuit shows. Sfan00 IMG (talk) 11:04, 28 May 2008 (UTC) Math notation styleHello. You might want to notice these differences:
Generally in non-TeX mathematical notation, variables get italicized (but digits and punctuation don't) a minus sign differs from a hyphen, and spaces precede and follow "+", "=", minus signs, "<", etc. Hence n-dimensional, with n in italics, but 5-dimensional, with no italics. All this matches TeX style; in TeX it's taken care of by the software. (But "inline", as opposed to "displayed" TeX often is not a good idea in Wikipedia since it gets misaligned or fails to match sizes, etc.) See Wikipedia:Manual of Style (mathematics). Michael Hardy (talk) 17:16, 28 May 2008 (UTC) Can you shoot yourself in the head twice?—Reply"Why are you throwing WP:Point around in regard to this Reference Desk question? No one is being disruptive, with the possible exception of user:Bastard Soap and the only person who replied to his silly question was YOU. SpinningSpark 22:22, 31 May 2008 (UTC)"
Dealing with vandalsSince you have helped me out with two past vandals, I;ll ask you waht to do with a worse third one. 67.162.171.246 is currently adding advertisment similar, In-Universe style content to Men in Black: Alien Attack. Evreytime his edits are reverted by me, he reverts them. He has also vandalized My talk page, and his own talk page. He has been given three warnings already, and is now threatening to revert on the MIB page once more. What should I do on this issue?--Snowman Guy (talk) 22:58, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
Now I've come across 71.101.131.218, who has vandalized constantly including harassing me twice. After he was given a final warning, he vandalized twice more. Should administrators be notified?--Snowman Guy (talk) 00:36, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
Vandal IP 209.86.226.17 has now been blocked for 24 hours after I reported him to the Administrators.--Snowman Guy (talk) 23:19, 13 June 2008 (UTC) Composite image filters
--BorgQueen (talk) 17:54, 7 June 2008 (UTC) Wikipedia's conventionsHello. I moved composite image filters (plural) to composite image filter (singular) for the usual reason and then I started trying to fixed the links to the plural title. In the course of this I noticed that in a number of articles you're not adhering to the usual formatting and style conventions of Wikipedia:Manual of Style (mathematics). Could you look at (1) that manual, and (2) the edits I recently did on those pages, and (3) my comments in an earlier section of this talk page above. Thanks. Michael Hardy (talk) 22:11, 7 June 2008 (UTC) Your MessagesOk, first of all the date removal was a (minor) oversight on my part, I was contemplating moving the tag to try to encourage the much needed improval of that article, then reconsidered and the date was lost at some point. Just to put your mind at ease, I am well aware of the purpose and addition of date tags. As for the redlink, perhaps it could stay, it seemed a little messy at the time especially as a relatively small scottish firm, I judged that it would probably be better stylistically for there not to be a link. As a very very minor change with little consequence, I didn't write out my train of thought in the summary. If you have any more queries as to my minor edits, I'm sure we can take the time to discuss them at length! ;-) -Toon05 15:08, 10 June 2008 (UTC) Electronics ProjectJust wanted to say thanks for the welcome. Unfortunately I don't have nearly the education level that I'm seeing of some of the individuals in the project, but I am more than willing to help. Most of my experience and education has been in Satellite Communications as an operator/maintainer. It's not often that I have to do component-level repairs, but I've been trained in basic electronics engineering and theory, so I figured I could be of some help. Thanks again for the welcome. Crmadsen (talk) 01:37, 15 June 2008 (UTC) conventionFine, i've changed everything to 'j' so not to be confused with the symbol for current. 130.216.24.128 (talk) 02:39, 15 June 2008 (UTC)
Calendar Cubea) just another Rubik cube like sudokube... well, delete also sudokube b) doesn't have an article this is no problem, someone can create a new article, I'm not english I believe that english calendar cube is an interesting variation of the wonderfull Rubik's cube bye bye —Preceding unsigned comment added by 151.49.25.207 (talk) 09:02, 15 June 2008 (UTC)
Thank you for the answer, you have cleared me the ideas. As soon as possible I will create an account. There are a lot of sources about calendar cube, ad example there is a patent [1], I think, ad example, is possible explane the disposition of the months and the days. If you belive that is a good idea to create a new article do it, unfortunately my english language is bad. good sunday bye —Preceding unsigned comment added by 151.49.25.207 (talk) 14:18, 15 June 2008 (UTC)
Alternative Userbox - User Exact AgeHi Spinningspark, I noticed you commented on the talk page for the Template:User exact age template. I have created an alternative userbox for the exact reason you had in your comment, which can be found at User:Relyimah/UserBoxes/User_Exact_Age. Feel free to use it. Cheers! — Relyimah (t-c-e) 01:42, 18 June 2008 (UTC)
Thank youThank you for finding the error on my userpage. —Preceding unsigned comment added by InfiniteCenturion (talk • contribs) 00:50, 20 June 2008 (UTC) Prototype filter
--BorgQueen (talk) 17:40, 21 June 2008 (UTC) Murphy drip
--BorgQueen (talk) 10:32, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
Number sign
There is an article about the number sign. Your last revert was pointless as "mesh" is another name for the number sign (as stated in the article) --Btx40 (talk) 14:21, 30 June 2008 (UTC) QuestionWhat is the OP? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.169.7.9 (talk) 07:15, 9 July 2008 (UTC)
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--BorgQueen (talk) 15:16, 17 September 2008 (UTC) Amongst FriendsAs unlikely as it may seem, the details you questioned in the article Amongst Friends are directly supported by the source provided. "Shooting on location in the Five Towns, the crew was so strapped for cash that when Mr. Weiss opened a bag of Doritos for a scene in which he (in a brief appearance) smokes pot with a group of disaffected youths, he found little torn-up triangles of yellow cardboard. 'I was like, we're making a film, and you don't have enough money for a bag of Doritos,' he said." (see here). Alansohn (talk) I think...that the user: 24.62.205.66 (talk), is a disruptive user. If you look at the user contributions associated with this IP address, there is only this one disruptive edit to the article thunderstorm. I have left this user a message, and there is no reply, so I assume this user never visited Wikipedia again, and only came to make one disruptive edit. Do you think the same thing? -- IRP (talk) 20:31, 21 September 2008 (UTC)
DYK
--Jordan Contribs 09:41, 24 September 2008 (UTC) London 14Following your participation the other Sunday, you may be interested to know that London 14 is scheduled for Sunday October 12 incase you weren't already aware. Best, WilliamH (talk) 11:28, 25 September 2008 (UTC)
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