User talk:71.41.210.146/Archive 1

Articles Created
(Redirects are not counted, so converting a redirect to a real article is counted,)
 * Vacuum Tower Telescope
 * Template:cleanup-reorganize
 * ‎Template:AT power connector
 * ‎Template:ATX power connector
 * Template:Edit semi-protected
 * RBU (radio station)
 * Template:Codon table
 * Template:Inverse codon table
 * SOML (disambig)
 * VHB (disambig)
 * JN53DV
 * Template:Densely packed decimal
 * Template:Underground laboratories
 * China Jinping Underground Laboratory
 * Template:′ a.k.a. Template:Prime
 * Template:Italics correction/calc
 * Template:Elc

I think there are a couple of redirect-to-article conversions missed here...

Zegoma Beach
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MESSENGER
Thanks very much for the excellently worded paragraph you added to the MESSENGER article. It does a great job of explaining both the reasons for, and consequences of, the gravity assist mechanism! (Sdsds - Talk) 07:04, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

Unicursal Hexagram
Nice edit for grammar! Be encouraged! docboat 08:50, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

Successful AFC
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AFC's on hold
Hi there! Because your request requires a rename of an existing page, I'd like to make sure that there is consensus within the community to make the move. I posted on the article talk page, so perhaps if you would like to communicate with other users interested in the telescopes and point me to that I would be happy to do the move for you! Basically, I don't want to step on any toes if the move is controversial, and I requested expert assistance because I'm not at all knowledgable about the topic. Are you aware of any controversy that making the move might cause, or can you provide me with some resources so I can learn more about the topic? Thanks for staying involved, and I'd like to make sure that your requests are dealt with! --Xnuala (talk)(Review) 23:35, 30 May 2007 (UTC)
 * You've definitely convinced me. I see no controversy evident, and appreciate the time you have taken to educate me on the topic! The move shall be performed shortly.  Have you thought at all about registering for an account?  No pressure, you are definitely welcome to contine contributing as an IP if you wish.--Xnuala (talk)(Review) 00:59, 31 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Ok, all done! Let me know if you have any other requests!--Xnuala (talk)(Review) 01:10, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

T.H. Huxley page
Dear 71, Thanks for your input, which I've adjusted so that the article follows the same pattern right through (as per Wiki editing guidelines).

First, I've added a Hux-Wilberforce debate sub-section. As the article is much longer than it was these sign-posts are needed.

Lucas 1979 ref was already in the reference section under Links, and yes, I did read it! Now I've added it to the sub-section Hux-Wilberforce debate as a standard reference. The Browne and Desmond references already there contain a whole slew of previous refs to this topic (there are many), and are actually the best sources. But I'm happy to have Lucas in even though it's something of a minority view. And direct to the on-line version is still available in Links.

Because the article now has detailed accounts in sub-sections, details need not be put in the intro. Readability of intros is important. So you'll find the exact date of the debate in the sub-section. Everything in the intro is well justified by what follows. The Encyc Brit link is an exception, because that was the starting point for so many Wiki stubs. Macdonald-ross 15:13, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

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Regarding edits to Mistress Matisse
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Hyphens and n-dashes
Is there any particular reason for your pathological hatred of hyphens? Why are you changing them to n-dashes? Grant |  Talk  10:16, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Because they're often used incorrectly in Wikipedia, as people aren't used to typing the proper dashes, even though they're the first things available in the Insert box at the bottom of every edit page. See [Dash] for full details.
 * It just happens to annoy me, so since I'm improving wikipedia in a small but finite way, and the difficulty of making the edit is very low, I do it a lot. Most recently, I edited every link to Philippines campaign (1944-45), making it link to the page (that it already redirected to) whose title properly includes an en-dash, Philippines campaign (1944–45). 71.41.210.146 02:21, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
 * D'oh, I beg your pardon; you obviously know what you're doing :-) I'm too used to the reverse case, in which people use hyphens in place of n-dashes or even m-dashes.


 * As a hard-working and valuable contributor, I suggest you create a Wikipedia account, there are a lot of advantages if you do. Grant  |  Talk  02:59, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Another dash-fascist! I do in fact edit some articles solely to put en- and/or em-dashes where they belong, where previous editors have put hyphens (or used en dashes where em dashes should go). Well met, and I'm not going to pressure you to create an account. (If I had a static IP address, I might not have logged back in this year...) —GrammarFascist (talk) 10:42, 16 September 2015 (UTC)

Style
Note that ==See also== goes before references, and is written with small "a" in "also", so not ==See Also==. Would be nice if you make an account, since you contribute a lot. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 04:00, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Apologies; thanks for fixing that. 71.41.210.146 15:19, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

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AfC
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Could you possibly edit the page Template messages to list and describe the template you have designed? If this is a problem please let me know. Thanks. MSGJ (talk) 19:41, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

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Wombat
You are right, a wombat is in fact a boring machine. the result was a long, thin tunnel in which a mine change was laid, thus creating a Wombat mine. I don't have a whole lot of academic sources, but will see about adding some. You should add this subject discussion to the Battle of Vimy Ridge talk page so that further discussion becomes possible.Labattblueboy 17:11, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

editsemiprotected
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Mersenne prime 45?
I have removed the leading digits you added for the size. Do you have a reliable source (forum speculation not allowed) for them? PrimeHunter (talk) 02:47, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

October 2008
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6b/8b encoding‎
Thank you for your useful and factual filling out of the 6b/8b encoding‎. Much appreciated! —Sladen (talk) 14:30, 2 November 2008 (UTC)

8b/10b encoding‎
Further to your earlier work on the 6b/8b encoding article, thank you for your recent clean-ups to the 8b/10b encoding‎ article. Appreciations! —Sladen (talk) 03:07, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

Re: WWVB
I made this edit so it matched up with the time code diagram above and the weighting of the other fields in the time code. --  Denelson83  07:34, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

I have reverted your last change. The statements "as of 24:00Z today" and "as of 00:00Z today" don't make any sense. My wording makes sense to me because you're "adding up" the values of the DST status bits. --  Denelson83  07:07, 1 April 2009 (UTC)
 * The reversion to the coordinates table was accidental, and has been undone. The DST status explanation as you put it doesn't match up with the status explanation in the graphic.  The wording that I use explains the sequential nature of the DST status bits in a clear and concise way.  Plus, I don't think very many readers are going to want to wrap their heads around ISO 8601. --  Denelson83  08:13, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

Addition to Kill A Watt
Please note that I moved your recent addition to the Kill A Watt article to the talk page for improvement talk:Kill A Watt (needs better sources, needs clarification). Please contribute to improving it there before restoring it to the article. Thanks. 00:36, 11 April 2009 (UTC)

Re: Nice work on Template:Time signal stations!
Thanks. I thought the columnar format was much more legible. You'll also notice that I added a link to another time signal station, HLA. --  Denelson83  05:12, 11 April 2009 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for your constructive edits on DDR3 SDRAM (amongst several others in the last while). It's been appreciated. :) 03:59, 7 May 2009 (UTC)

PCI bus protocol
OK, I will read the new section. I'll post a reply tonight or tomorrow. JMiall ₰  16:26, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Apologies but I've not finished this yet and I'm about to go away for the week. It's possible I won't be able to post a reply until a week on Monday. Hope you can wait this long. JMiall  ₰  06:03, 12 July 2009 (UTC)
 * And a second lot of apologies for the long delay. I hope to have some time at the weekend to get back to this. JMiall  ₰  23:28, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

Comments on new section for PCI article
(please post these to the talkpage there if you wish):


 * You asked first of all if it read well to someone unfamiliar with the specs. I think that basically it does.
 * I'm a bit worried though that there is too much detail, I'm not sure where is a good place to draw the line though. Possibly all this information should be split off to (an)other article(s) and summarised within this one?
 * I've not looked at everything you have put on the talkpage yet, I'll come back with some more comments if you found these useful.

Specific questions/issues to be going on with:
 * Why is "asserted" in quotes?
 * 'controlled by 5 main control signals' etc - is signal the right word here? ie are FRAME# etc the name of a particular line or the signals that are present on that line?
 * Also the when the lines/signals are mentioned they sometimes are put in brackets, sometimes commas and sometimes nothing.
 * 'will remain high' - add 'voltage', also voltage needs linking in the main article
 * 'each bus line be undriven' - given the potential for confusion for someone not too familiar with English is it possible to reword?
 * Link Pull-up resistor
 * 'Signals nominally change' - should this be 'nominally' or 'normally'? Is the spec not specific about precisely when they should change?
 * The wording rather implies at that all the PCI devices are concious intelligent beings. It is probably worth toning this down a bit. ie 'decides', 'promise', 'generally attempt', 'desire'
 * '(There are rules for how it is supposed to behave, but they will be mysterious to any single device.)' - is this necessary?
 * link 'bus master'?
 * 'but may not start one unless it observes GNT# asserted the cycle before it begins a transaction' - unclear 'it's
 * 'so there are actually three signals' - fairly colloqial language
 * 'Actually, it has 2.5 cycles' - 'they' not 'it'?
 * 'On the fifth cycle...' - I'm unsure what this paragraph means.
 * 'Access to PCI configuration space is a special case' - of what?
 * 'enables' - link or explain?
 * 'In case of a write' - missing 'the'
 * 'more purely'?
 * Several times you use 'read' or 'write' when it would probably be clearer to use 'read signal' or something similar
 * 'line turns around during' - what does turns around mean here?

Main article:
 * 'However, they are not wired in parallel as are the other traces' - this needs explaining. Traces have not been mentioned yet and it is unclear what this means any way due to the 'are not...as are...' JMiall  ₰  23:16, 2 August 2009 (UTC)

AFC accepted: Template:Densely packed decimal
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"proper minus sign" at WWVB
Unfortunately if someone now does a text search on the page for "-17", they won't find it. Jeh (talk) 10:13, 26 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Yeah, it's a bit of a pain. Using a hyphen sure looks a lot worse.  Hopefully, browsers will start considering the variants different "cases" and so will match if case-insensitive matching is desired.  I don't know a perfect solution.  71.41.210.146 (talk) 23:28, 26 February 2010 (UTC)

The time code format table WWVB
One thought I had was to add a fourth column, "value of bit from example diagram." Put an M in those cells for the markers. One thing that has stopped me from doing that is that I can't think of a concise column heading. Is it ok to use an asterisk and explain it in a footnote to the table? Jeh (talk) 18:31, 26 February 2010 (UTC)


 * I used "Ex" as a column header, which I think is good enough. Done.  71.41.210.146 (talk) 23:29, 26 February 2010 (UTC)


 * Definitely so, with the added text in the "meaning" column. Better than I'd envisioned! Thanks! Jeh (talk) 01:48, 27 February 2010 (UTC)


 * So based on your example I did the analagous thing at WWV (radio station). Would not have tackled the table munging without seeing what you'd done. Thanks again. Jeh (talk) 04:20, 27 February 2010 (UTC)

Conflicted licensing on image File:ApolloLunarEscapeSystemExample.jpg
The above noted image or media file appears to have conflicted licensing. As an image cannot be both 'free' and 'unfree', a check of the exact status of this media/image concerned is advised.Sfan00 IMG (talk) 19:21, 14 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Er, why can't it be both free and non-free? As the Template:PD-Pre1978 says, it's in the public domain in the United States.   It might be non-free in other jurisdictions; I'm not certain enough to remove the other notice.  (If you are, feel free.)  71.41.210.146 (talk) 06:55, 16 March 2010 (UTC)


 * If it has ANY non-free component that it cannot be tagged as PD, but if you can prove it was first published in the US prior to 1978 then only the PD-Pre 1978 is applicable...
 * Sfan00 IMG (talk) 11:34, 16 March 2010 (UTC)


 * Easily enough done, as the image description links to the original source as a scanned PDF, which is dated June 1970 and does not bear a copyright notice. 71.41.210.146 (talk) 12:59, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

New tables at WWV
Great work, again! Jeh (talk) 05:54, 25 March 2010 (UTC)

Changes and requested change
First, let me say how happy I am that someone is using it.

With that out of the way, I made it so long ago that I'm not quite sure why I put the trailing brs, I think it was something to do with a spacing problem. That aside, as said, it's been awhile since I've made it, but I'm fairly certain you should be able to specify a custom color. I'll check the code after this message to check.—  Dæ dαlus Contribs 23:14, 3 October 2010 (UTC)
 * The parameters you want should be fontcolor1 and fontcolor2, as well as background2 for the blue part of the bar being something other than blue. As to the computed percentage, I'll get to work on that.—  Dæ  dαlus Contribs 23:37, 3 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Done.—  Dæ dαlus Contribs 06:34, 10 October 2010 (UTC)

Account?
Presumably the current user of this IP has seen welcome-anon already. Thanks for your contributions. -Atmoz (talk) 16:18, 10 February 2011 (UTC)

WP:FFU
Hello, and thank you for your request at Files for Upload! The file has been uploaded. You can find it at File:SpongeConstruction.svg. See Images to learn image syntax, or Creation and usage of media files for other types of files. Regards, Armbrust  Talk  Contribs  02:38, 20 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks for creating File:SpongeConstruction.svg, but it looks like the original CC-by-3.0 license got changed to by-sa, and the (um, legally required) attribution to the original authors got lost. I'd do it myself, but I'm not sure if you intend to claim any interest in the converted file. 71.41.210.146 (talk) 08:39, 20 February 2011 (UTC)
 * In accordance with WP:BB, I went ahead and made the changes to commons:File:SpongeConstruction.svg. I hope I did it right; I'm not really familiar with the Commons' annotation standards and standard templates.  If I was too aggressive in removing your credit or something else, please fix or revert as you see fit. 71.41.210.146 (talk) 09:32, 20 February 2011 (UTC)

Lists of earthquakes
Hi, thanks for taking the discussion on this to the talk page. Would you consider removing or rewording the "This list is heavily biased to recent years or due to the development and widespread deployment of seismometers. Large earthquakes were not less common in the past, just records detailed enough to make magnitude estimates." text from the main page until this is resolved, since it reads like a personal viewpoint? (At least the second sentence, and perhaps change "This list is" to "This list may be".) I agree your statement is correct, just not worded well. The article is likely being heavily hit at the moment due to links from the Japanese earthquake article, so it's important it look good, thus me contacting you instead of letting this work itself out more leisurely. –flodded ☃ (gripe)  16:20, 13 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Someone else found a reference, so I edited it lightly enough to not break WP:3RR... I think it's mostly fine now, though still reads slightly biased but that could just be me. –flodded ☃ (gripe)  17:46, 13 March 2011 (UTC)

End of validity of IDEA patent
In International_Data_Encryption_Algorithm 71.41.210.146/you wrote, circa May 19, 2009 about U.S. Patent 5,214,703, issued May 25, 1993, that is has an expiry date of January 7, 2012.

That date was later justified by another user with this reasoning:

"Note that the PGP FAQ still claims the expiry date of the US patent to be May 25, 2010. However, US patent law was changed in 1995 such that patents now expire 20 years after filing, not 17 years after issuing. This holds retroactively for all patents that had not yet expired at the time the changed law came into effect, and it thus holds for IDEA."

Agreed, the stated change in patent law did occur and does applies retroactively to U.S. 5,214,703. But IMHO the patent still expires 17 years from issue date, that is after May 25, 2010 as claimed in the PGP FAQ.

The key point is that the protection under the new law, as defined by 35 U.S.C. 154(a)(2), lasts "20 years from the date on which the application for the patent was filed in the United States or, if the application contains a specific reference to an earlier filed application or applications under section 120, 121, or 365(c) of this title, from the date on which the earliest such application was filed.". The patent claims priority w.r.t. a Swiss patent filed May 18, 1990, and that is the start of the 20 years period, which thus ends May 18, 2010, that is slightly before the end of the 17 year period which ends May 25, 2010. The protection afforded to the licensee by the old law is NOT removed retroactively, and thus protection ends May 25, 2010.

I located the Swiss patent by checking under foreign priority in the status of the US patent 5214703 at 

I am open to contradiction, and more than willing to examine any reference to the January 7, 2012 date.

Fgrieu (talk) 16:44, 24 May 2011 (UTC)


 * It sounds like you're right (you considered a detail I didn't), but you could explain the logic better: patents pending when the change was made (like this one) got the benefit of both rules, so the later of the two dates applies. 71.41.210.146 (talk) 19:46, 24 May 2011 (UTC)


 * Correction: which of the three named sections (120, 121, or 365(c)) do you think applies? I see how 365(a) applies, but I'm not sure about 365(c).  Do you understand that bit about "designating"? 71.41.210.146 (talk) 20:03, 24 May 2011 (UTC)
 * I have started a discussion at Talk:International Data Encryption Algorithm. 71.41.210.146 (talk) 20:47, 24 May 2011 (UTC)


 * In my reading of 35 U.S.C. 154(a)(2), the applicable section would be 120 referencing 363: "An application for patent for an invention disclosed (..properly..) in an application previously filed (..) as provided by section 363 of this title (..reading:) An international application designating the United States shall have the effect, from its international filing date under article 11 of the treaty, of a national application for patent regularly filed in the Patent and Trademark Office except (..)". I am not at all sure about all this, but at one point was told (on another case) by a real patent lawyer that the "foreign priority" section is precisely here to record which foreign patents shall serve as reference for both the start and end of the protection period, that is 20 years from the moment the first patent on the subject was submitted. My reasoning depends heavilly on that. At any rate, if the Swiss patent does not suit, the WIPO/EPO patent could, and that would put the reference filing date on May 16th, 1991, and expiry on May 16th, 2011 together with the EP patent. As of "designating", I understand this as the statement to the patent office of what foreign patent the applicant ask shall serve to establish the start (and end) of the protection period, which is to be performed as required in section 120.Fgrieu (talk) 05:37, 25 May 2011 (UTC)

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Talkback #2
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New message from Gareth Griffith-Jones
Gareth Griffith-Jones (talk) 09:22, 26 July 2012 (UTC)

I have replied to your reply
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 * Your final version looks fine now to a layman like me!
 * I have replied to you, and copied'n'pasted to my Talk, your final version to the revision in order to complete our strand on my Talk. -- Gareth Griffith-Jones (talk) 07:22, 27 July 2012 (UTC)

EM6600 core
EM Microelectronics, part of The Swatch Group makes a series of ultra-low-power 4-bit microcontrollers, the EM66xx series. These are Mask ROM microcontrollers, although higher-power EEPROM versions (EM65xx) are available for development purposes.

These processors have 16-bit instructions, 12-bit ROM addresses (up to 4096 instruction words), and 7-bit (128 nibble) RAM space, of which up to 96 nibbles (48 bytes) are available as general-purpose RAM.

The instruction set is accumulator based, with most instructions operating on the accumulator and a specified RAM locations. Additionally, two RAM nibbles (0x6E=IXLow and 0x6F=IXHigh) make an 8-bit index register which may be used as a pointer register to select arbitrary RAM locations.

Three 12-bit program counters make up a hardware stack. This allows one level of subroutine calling plus an interrupt, or up to two levels of subroutine calls when interrupts are disabled.

A status register provides Z and C flags. All registers which write the accumulator also set the flags. Logical and move-to-accumulator instructions clear the carry bit. Stores do not affect the flags.

There are no add-with-carry instructions; the only instructions which depend on the carry flag are the conditional jumps.

Non-immediate operands use an 8-bit register specifier field. The most significant bit is the I bit:
 * If I=0. the operand is one of 128 RAM nibbles, selected by the least significant seven bits.
 * If I=1, the operand is specified by the IX register pair. The mnemonic has "X" appended, and no register operand is provided.  (E.g. ADDX)

Because the unused register bits are conventionally set to 1, indexed instructions always end in hex FF and it would be easy to extend the architecture to 255 nibbles of RAM by assigning addresses 128–254.

ALU operations may also be modified by the S bit. If this is set, the menmonic has S appended, and the instruction performs a 5-bit rotate right through the carry bit after the ALU operation. The carry in is from the ALU result (0 for logical operations), and the carry out is the lsbit of the ALU result.

The 32 ALU instructions include all 16 2-input binary operations. Not all are documented, but it is clear that 4 bits of the instruction are used as a lookup table.

Judging by the small number of the 16 possible addition opcodes which are documented, there are additional undocumented instructions, but the pattern is not as clear.


 * Instruction not documented, extrapolated from others. Mnemonic hypothetical.

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 * It was nothing, just finding a URL for an article I was curious about. (If you want to be nice, though, feel free to review Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_creation/Template:Underground_laboratories, which is a much more substantial edit.) 71.41.210.146 (talk) 08:39, 27 September 2014 (UTC)
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 * Wow. Actually I thought it was a pretty low-quality article; I just found every decent reference I could and dumped it all together on a page, like an essay I hope will get me a C.  But the lab is clearly notable (and will become more so), and I had created some redlinks to it a few months ago in places like SNOLAB, so I needed to write something.


 * If you don't mind my asking, what led you to notice its creation? I just realized (will fix!) I didn't put it in any categories.  71.41.210.146 (talk) 18:08, 20 November 2014 (UTC)


 * Although it's not long on prose, you hit the key facts with proper citations, which is more than can be said for most new articles. I created PandaX a few weeks ago, and I created China Jinping Underground Laboratory as a redirect to that page, so it was on my watchlist. Watchlists are a nice benefit of having an account, as is the ability to create pages yourself (since, clearly, Articles for Creation is beneath your level). —Swpbtalk 19:00, 20 November 2014 (UTC)


 * Oh, D'oh! Yes, I saw that redirect to a paragraph you'd included in PandaX and decided to fill it in.  Er, what do you mean AfC is beneath my level?  I use it often.  Is that a joke about my most recent use of it, Template:Underground laboratories? 71.41.210.146 (talk) 19:07, 20 November 2014 (UTC)
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 * Thanks for the notice; if there were a way to move the page with history, I would have done it. 71.41.210.146 (talk) 23:24, 2 April 2015 (UTC)

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 * .--Mark Miller (talk) 19:16, 3 May 2015 (UTC)
 * I know which edit; I only made one recently. Obviously, I felt it was constructive; I felt the phrasing I changed was giving an WP:UNDUE impression of the "global" protests, so I kept the fact (there were protests outside the islands) while trying to describe the scale better.
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 * Ooh, exactly what I wanted. Thank you very much! 71.41.210.146 (talk) 02:26, 16 August 2015 (UTC)

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Thank you for your follow-up to my answer to Action Hero's question over at the Teahouse! You're right that I (or someone) should have linked to the coordinates template page for its documentation. Thanks for taking care of it. —GrammarFascist (talk) 10:59, 16 September 2015 (UTC)
 * I do a fair bit of adding ISO 3166-2 region codes and similar hidden metadata to coordinates. (Along with, as you noted, fixing up dashes!) 71.41.210.146 (talk) 11:07, 16 September 2015 (UTC)

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 * Hi! Thanks for replying. I don't find it "obvious", personally; all of these terms are derived from "happening". And I think this is a very relevant place for WP:OR and Verifiability, not truth: WP should not claim something just because "it seems that way". Either a source exists, or we don't have a basis for that claim.
 * A consensus on Talk:SHA-1 would probably be OK too, but I don't think you'll find many people agreeing with you.
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 * Well, you said "leave me a message on my talk page", so that's what I did; I just also wanted to include at least a brief reply here, too. 71.41.210.146 (talk) 09:09, 27 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Ah ok, sorry, that comes with the "unsourced" template. :) -- intgr [talk] 09:24, 27 October 2015 (UTC)

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Please do not optimize C code as was done at Gray code. Articles are to explain concepts and a short program can be helpful for that, but not if it uses syntax like. The loop was clear, and inserting clever code will only result in it being removed as unhelpful. Johnuniq (talk) 01:09, 4 November 2015 (UTC)


 * It wasn't a micro-optimization; it reduced 32 steps to 5, and got rid of a bunch of hard-to-follow loop control as well. I can avoid op= syntax if you think that's confusing, but it seems like an important and useful change, not a stylistic one.  Note that I also added a comment explaining it as well. 71.41.210.146 (talk) 01:12, 4 November 2015 (UTC)


 * How does that change look? The two versions correspond to the optimization cited in the preceding text. 71.41.210.146 (talk) 01:28, 4 November 2015 (UTC)
 * I don't have time/energy to look now, but might later. I just wanted to alert you in case you start on other articles. Stuff which looks too much like a program (that is, it deviates too far from understandable pseudocode) is routinely deleted. Johnuniq (talk) 01:44, 4 November 2015 (UTC)


 * Well, that certainly hasn't been my experience. I agree that WP is not a place to dump source code, but the goal of example code is to be useful, which includes reasonably efficient. 71.41.210.146 (talk) 05:24, 4 November 2015 (UTC)


 * From an algorithmic perspective, I think you confuse conciseness with efficiency. For algorithms, the focus is usually on something countable such as comparisons and often ignores overhead issues. Efficiency is minimizing the count. For the Gray code, we can compare doing 32 shift-XORs versus 5 shift-XORs. That's the gem. Trying to minimize the number of instructions is not an algorithm issue but rather a programming/compiler issue. It may be very important for an actual implementation, but it's not about the algorithm. Glrx (talk) 16:10, 7 November 2015 (UTC)

Your expertise with coordinates
Hello again! I was hoping you could help me add coordinates to Shooting of Jeremy Mardis — either by making the edit yourself, or by walking me through the process. Both an intersection and a building with a known address are substantiated as the location where the shooting occurred... do I just go to Google Maps and input that information to find the coordinates? Thanks in advance, GrammarFascist   contribs talk 01:19, 18 November 2015 (UTC)


 * That's one way that works fine. Template:Coord explains most of it; it's just the "coordinate parameters" that are weird.  They're all glommed together in one template argument right after the coordinates proper, in the form "name:value_name:value_...".  I started from an existing location Marksville State Historic Site, used GeoHack to pull that up on both Google maps and OpenStreetMap.
 * The I'm guessing the dead end is, the stub between the intersection and the gate visible on satellite view. Does that seem right to you?
 * Coordinate parameters I added are:
 * type:event &mdash; this is a one-time event, not a landmark.
 * region:US-LA &mdash; The ISO 3166-2 region code for the U.S. state of Louisiana.
 * dim:50 &mdash; Show a 50 m diameter are around the coordinate; it's a pretty local event.
 * If you want to cut & paste that in, decide if you want it displayed in line, at the top of the article, or both, and adjust the "display=" parameter accordingly: "i" or "inline", "t" or "title", or "it" or "inline,title".
 * Also change the "name=" parameter, or delete it entirely if the article title is fine.
 * 71.41.210.146 (talk) 09:59, 18 November 2015 (UTC)
 * P.S. I went ahead and WP:BOLDly edited the article. Please check if it's okay! 71.41.210.146 (talk) 10:07, 18 November 2015 (UTC)
 * That's fantastic, 71.41.210.146, thanks so much! I did move the title display into the infobox, because I at least find that my eye ignores title-level coordinates if there's also an infobox in the article in question. This way the infobox display will also be preserved if some other editor boldly removes the inline coordinates template entirely. Anyway, thanks again, and let me know if there's ever anything I can give you a hand with. — GrammarFascist  contribs talk 13:16, 18 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Ah, didn't see the infobox. Made the infobox coord have the extra info (why'd you delete it when copying?), removed the one in line with the text, added a comment describing how the coordinate was derived. 71.41.210.146 (talk) 13:31, 18 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks again! I think the info is most accessible yet least intrusive the way you did it. (As for why I left out the other info when I put the coordinates into the infobox, it was entirely because I didn't actually know what I was doing. ) You are a peachy keen Wikipedian. — GrammarFascist  contribs talk 02:39, 19 November 2015 (UTC)

More discussion at Talk:Shooting of Jeremy Mardis
Hi 71.41.210.146! I responded to you over at Talk:Shooting of Jeremy Mardis about the circa issue, and also started a new section I hope you'll comment on. Thanks again for your continued contributions to this article, they've been very helpful. — GrammarFascist  contribs talk 23:35, 21 November 2015 (UTC)

SNOLAB
I have made one edit to SNOLAB and also responded to you at Talk:SNOLAB. — GrammarFascist  contribs talk 20:09, 6 December 2015 (UTC)

Hyphens
WP:HYPHEN is quite clear: "A hyphen is not used after a standard -ly adverb (a newly available home, a wholly owned subsidiary)". I see no reason not to follow that guideline in the case of ACCC conductor. Do you have some problem with that guideline? Chris the speller  yack  22:29, 16 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I did not see that you left a message on its talk page. I will answer there. Chris the speller   yack  22:40, 16 January 2016 (UTC)
 * (For anyone following along, it's at Talk:ACCC conductor.) 71.41.210.146 (talk) 02:19, 17 January 2016 (UTC)

January 2016
Hello, I'm Gareth Griffith-Jones. I wanted to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions to Dark matter has been undone because it did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, please 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. — &#124; Gareth Griffith-Jones &#124; The Welsh Buzzard&#124; — 14:40, 18 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Further discussion at Talk:Dark matter 71.41.210.146 (talk) 20:17, 18 January 2016 (UTC)

Later
Posting here in case you're still working there, so as not to cause more EC. Time for my sleep period, back in about 8 hrs. &#8213; Mandruss  &#9742;  14:04, 21 January 2016 (UTC)
 * It wasn't a serious complaint; just after the second edit conflict I noticed how often you'd revised your comments and felt entitled to grumble slightly. The thoughtful reply is worth more than the pique. 71.41.210.146 (talk) 02:55, 22 January 2016 (UTC)

Reference errors on 24 January
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 * Yes, thank you, I know. The work has a long subtitle, which I included as undefined which I wish I could include in the citation, but it a bit unwieldy to append to the main title.  So I left it as an obviously-named parameter to let another editor figure out what to do. The error is fundamentally harmless. 71.41.210.146 (talk) 01:29, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

Coords precision
Hey, I hope you intend to return to our mini-project. We've invested a lot in it, we're close to something good for the project (but not quite there), and you're the key player. See my latest comments, if you haven't already. Shane, come back! &#8213; Mandruss  &#9742;  02:35, 28 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Absolutely! Sorry, I was sick for a few days, which led to a backlog on non-wikipedia tasks, which I'm trying to dig out from. 71.41.210.146 (talk) 08:37, 28 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Hello again. After seven months, is it safe to assume that your interest in this has evaporated? Is that because you disagree that a one-peer review is needed? I could seek that review myself, but the request would likely be ignored coming from me. If anyone were going to speak up in favor of accepting the table without a review, I think they would have already done so in that thread. Convenience link: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Geographical coordinates. &#8213; Mandruss  &#9742;  06:05, 1 September 2016 (UTC)
 * No, it's just embarrassment about having dropped the ball. No disagreement of any sort at all. 71.41.210.146 (talk) 17:22, 1 September 2016 (UTC)
 * The cure for that is to pick up the damn ball again. :) But, should you choose not to, I won't bother you about it again. &#8213; Mandruss  &#9742;  03:10, 2 September 2016 (UTC)

Talkback
 B E C K Y S A Y L E S  13:37, 7 July 2016 (UTC)

Non-free logo usage
Thank you for contributing to Wikipedia. We always appreciate when users upload new images. However, it appears that one or more of the images you have recently uploaded or added to a page, specifically List of political parties in Austria, may fail our non-free image policy. Most often, this involves editors uploading or using a copyrighted image of a living person. For other possible reasons, please read up on our Non-free image criteria. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. -- Marchjuly (talk) 21:59, 13 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Just to clarify, the logo files you re-added to the article are non-free which means that each use of them is required to satisfy all 10 non-free content criteria listed in WP:NFCCP. Non-free logos are not allowed to be used like "pseudo-icons" because such usage is primarily decorative as explained in MOS:LOGO and WP:NFTABLES/WP:NFLISTS. Such usage typically does not provide the context required by WP:NFCC or satisfies the minimal use required by WP:NFCC. The use in the list article also failed WP:NFCC. If you disagree, and feel that such use does satisfy WP:NFCC, please provide a non-free use rationale explaining how for each use. If you're not sure, feel free to ask for the opinions of others at WP:MCQ or WT:NFCC.
 * FWIW, linking to non-free files is something that is allowed and is often prferred by some editors over outright removal; in this case, however, the use of even freely licensed logos as "icons" is something not recommended by MOS:LOGO, so all the logos should probably be removed. -- Marchjuly (talk) 22:12, 13 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the info. I always assumed that political parties would want to be associated with their logo, so it wasn't a big deal, but you're right WP has to be careful in general.  Even though it is clearly "fair use", you're right that it doesn't meet the stricter WP:NFCC; while it's nice to have, it doesn't "significantly increase readers' understanding".  As for WP:NFCC, I think you're misreading it.  The minimalism addressed is the amount of source material used (3a: the number of items or 3b: the size/extent of each item), more than the number of times it is used. 71.41.210.146 (talk) 16:22, 14 August 2016 (UTC)