User talk:Samy23

Welcome!

Hello, Samy23, 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 name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome! —MJCdetroit 04:08, 16 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Edits dealing with units of measurement.[edit]

Hello Samy23
I notice that you just started editing to Wikipedia and have been changing the units of measurement in some articles. Many of your edits went against the Manual of Style section on units of measurement (commonly call the MOSNUM). Please click the link to familiarize yourself with it. The MOSNUM has taken a very long time to develope and its rules work very well in the English Wikipedia. Some of the things I noticed and corrected in your edits were:

removal of conversions (articles should have both metric and U.S customary or Imperial units)
spell out units in text and abbreviate in parenthesises, e.g. 100 miles (62 km) or 62 kilometres (100 mi).
try to use a non-breaking space ( ) between the converted number and the abbreviation, i.e. 62 km.
if you don't use a comma to separate the numbers every three places then you must use a   so the number doesn't break.

Please review your edits and my corrections to them to better understand this. I hope that this doesn't come off as too preachy because I'm not trying to bite your hand —just to give direction. Hopefully we'll have another fine editor who helps maintain the standards of the Manual of style and in particular the Units of measurement section. Also, I replied (actually I'm about to) to your post at Template talk:Infobox Weather.

If you have any questions let me know and again welcome. —MJCdetroit 04:38, 16 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hello MJCdetroit

Thanks for welcoming me to Wikipedia. I have reviewed the MOSNUM and am now familiar with it and have reviewed the your edits to the articles I edited. As it is policy it seems I do not much choice in the matter. I don't agree with it however; frankly I don't care at all for the US Customary or any other nation's customary units other then for historical purposes. To be honest I can't understand why anyone would want to use anything but SI besides inertia and/or apathy. In response to your stance on SI, I think (any) customary measurements are clumsy, flawed and thus obsolete. I really think you should read this as well: http://www.metricationmatters.com/docs/DontUseMetric.pdf

Sorry to be blunt but its the truth and after reviewing your stance on political correctness it made me feel relatively comfortable being straight to the point with you :).

However, don't misunderstand me; I am not here to cause trouble and I will abide by policy. Standards can be changed however and if there is any motion to make Wikipedia SI-only (or at the very least forcing all non-metric units to be prominent) you can be sure I will be pushing for it. Ironically enough, meeting someone with such strong "anti-metric" feelings is making me feel as if I should just give up on it on Wikipedia and let inertia do the work for me. After all, the vast majority of the world's population uses metric. Its only a matter of time before we all go metric.

In any case, I hope I didn't come off as cold and hostile. Its just that your userpage struck a chord with me. Thanks again for welcoming me to Wikipedia.

(Oh and I think you got your kilometres and miles mixed up there. 100 km = 62 mi. Not the other way around :) ) Samy23 06:34, 16 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, You may be surprised to know that I am not so much anti-metric as I am in favor of displaying both systems. I have to disagree with forcing any changes that would make this encyclopedia less-universal for readers, such as using only one system. I happen to prefer U.S. Customary as my user page notes but I use the metric system everyday at work for small-scale bench-work. I am a chemist and any formulations that I start at my lab bench usually start out as 100 or 200 g batches (the math is easier) but anything bigger than that it usually gets done in pounds. Industrial chemistry is much different than the stuff that you will learn in college.

You're right on mix up sorry, I was typing fast. Good catch, that's why we need more good editors. You'll learn quickly. Any questions or problems give me a shout and I'll help you. —MJCdetroit 17:04, 16 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Good job with the Toronto article units. However with the MTS Centre article, remember to always have the sourced unit be the first unit, in this case square feet was the unit stated on MTS Centre's web site and not square meters. Also, I seen by your edits that you were a Family Guy fan. Me too. I think there are some family guy userboxes out there for your user page. —MJCdetroit 02:20, 27 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. As for the MTS Center... Well its unfortunate some (I guess even most) buildings still constructed with imperial measurements heh. Its cool that you like Family Guy too. I'll keep my userboxes as it right now though and maybe add some more later. Btw, is it possible to see how often a certain article is viewed? Samy23 03:34, 27 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I wouldn't call it unfortunate but actually (I read this somewhere) even in countries that have been strictly metric for many years like New Zealand and Austrila, the construction industry still uses mostly Imperial measurements.

As for seeing how often an article is viewed: I'm not sure, I'll see if I can find an answer. 13:02, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

Looks like that is disabled for performance reasons. Only the top 1,000 pages are tracked in such a fashion. Here's some of the discussion I found. —MJCdetroit 13:58, 27 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Userbox and message responses[edit]

Thanks for your userbox MJCdetroit. How did you measure it out to those exact specifications? And how could I make my own userbox in metric dimensions? Oh and do I have to reply to your message using the colon symbol for you to see that you have a new response from me? Or is it ok if I made brand new heading?

I used a ruler. It was a joke. The userbox will expand to as big as it needs to be as long as you keep the userboxes above the {{userboxbottom}}.

As for the colons: the colons only act as indenters. It is best to indent somehow between responses; it's easier to read. The only reason I can respond is because you are on my "watchlist". I place people on it that I left messages for on their talk-pages.

Here are a few other tips:

An asterik at the beginning of a sentence will act as bullet and

a pound symbol at the begining will start numbering a list
like this.

In my opinion, it is best to start a new heading with a new subject. —MJCdetroit 14:29, 19 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I also wanted to start a new heading, thats why I asked (although as I look at my response, it wasn't clear) if making a new heading will still how that the person being replied too will be notified. Thanks for the tips btw. Samy23 15:12, 19 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

There is not a "notification" per se, but just manually being able to see on my watchlist that you replied. When you watch a page, you watch the entire page (both article and talk and in this case the user page and talk page) and not just the individual headings. If you create a new heading then it will be displayed in the Edit summary. This Edit summary is /* Userbox and message responses */ which will show up on the watchlists. If you're unsure how a watchlist works, go to Canada and click the "watch" tab at the top of the page. Then click on the "my watchlist" on the top of the page. You're welcome. —MJCdetroit 16:28, 19 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Mike Adams (writer)[edit]

I see you tagged Mike Adams (writer) as an autobiography. What evidence do you have that this is the case? Please respond on my talk page. Thanks. — Swpb ^{talk contribs} 19:05, 20 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You're a star[edit]

As a connoisseur of irony I must say I very much enjoyed your brief edit sumnmary [1]. It's rare to come across Wikipedians with the degree of self-awareness you possess and your comment was a brilliant situationist parody of the psychological projection we see all too frequently among Wikipedia's nationalist editors - they're always pointing out the mote in others' eyes while ignoring the glaringly obvious beam in their own. You must have looked at the article talk page to find out that I was not in fact an Arab but merely someone with a concern for encyclopaedic accuracy before proceeding with your brilliantly concise satire on the ethnic feuding over trivia which your contribution history shows you clearly deplore. Thanks again. It's Wikipedians like you who have made this place what it is today. --Folantin (talk) 08:33, 23 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

ArbCom elections are now open![edit]

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