User talk:A. di M./Archive 3

Non-autoconfirmed accounts
As you may have noticed at WP:VP/T, someone suggested that you could request that the alternative account be blocked if you don't want accidentally to edit enough times to get it autoconfirmed. If you'd like this to happen, let me know at my talk page and I'll block the account in question; this is surely an exception to the no-blocks-upon-request rule. Nyttend (talk) 04:12, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

193,118
Hiya, A. di M. Thank you for formatting my recent edit. I attach my source here, which is actually a quote from a letter by JC Maxwell. Further reading makes me realise that Maxwell was wrong - it was not Fizeau but Kohlrausch who made the 193,118 measurement. I am sorry to have wasted your time. If Maxwell were alive I'm sure he would apologise too. Tom Pippens (talk) 10:56, 23 October 2011 (UTC)

Footnote, Speed of light
Hi. Could you explain your edit summary, " “position” is even more ambiguous"? --Bob K31416 (talk) 18:36, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
 * See Distance measures (cosmology). ― A. di M.​  18:39, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
 * I looked at it and I didn't find the explanation for your edit summary. In your own words, could you explain what you meant by your edit summary? --Bob K31416 (talk) 19:12, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
 * That's a list of some of all possible things position could mean in that footnote, whereas now it's obvious it's the light travel distance (LTD) that is meant. ― A. di M.​  19:32, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Re "That's a list of some of all possible things position could mean" - I did an edit-find for that link and the word "position" didn't appear even once. I'm still curious what you meant in your edit summary. Here's the original footnote for reference.
 * "position of galaxy 13 billion years ago when it emitted the light that reaches Earth today"
 * What did you find ambiguous about the phrase "position of galaxy 13 billion years ago"? Perhaps you can give two possible interpretations of this phrase to demonstrate the ambiguity that you have in mind? --Bob K31416 (talk) 19:54, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
 * That could mean that the light travel distance between that galaxy and Earth is 13 billion years, or that 13 billion years ago the comoving distance between (the stuff which would originate) that galaxy and (the stuff which would originate) Earth was 13 billion light years. Given the context of the list, if there were no footnote it would be obvious that the former is meant, but with the footnote one might wonder if we're actually talking about the latter. ― A. di M.​  20:19, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Perhaps you mean that the phrase "position of galaxy 13 billion years ago" by itself is not ambiguous, but the way it is used in the column leads to an ambiguity? --Bob K31416 (talk) 20:29, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
 * I just noticed a message of Quondum's that explains the problem. I see the problem now. Thanks. --Bob K31416 (talk) 20:50, 3 December 2011 (UTC)

Higgs boson nominated for GA
Hi,

You recently contributed to the Higgs boson article.

Now that the article is stable, relatively consistent, comprehensive, easy to read, and balanced, I wondered what more you think it needs to get to Good Article quality? It would be nice to get it there as it's a "top importance" article in its field, and the Higgs boson is of considerable popular interest.

I've summed up the points I can think of on its talk page and linked a few others to the post. Thorough review, fixes, and comments appreciated, and - shall we go for it :)

GA criteria are here.

FT2 (Talk 09:46, 27 December 2011 (UTC)

Jiz Lee
Perfect. Morbidthoughts (talk) 19:28, 29 December 2011 (UTC)

Analysis at WT:MOSCAPS
A di M, I'm glad you are involved with the discussion of proper names and reliable sources at WT:MOSCAPS. I hope you will maintain that involvement. I am a little mystified by your alteration from 10 to 5, for your support regarding RSs. In the scheme I set up, that means you are equally in favour of the old and the new lead. But it's a matter of the content, not of the wording (see notes at the end of my post). Of course it's negotiable whether we make it "consult", "respect", "follow", or whatever; the obvious implication is that MOS guidelines, consensually derived from common practice and reliable sources, have priority because they have already been formed in that way, without innovations. A delicate area in which we must strive for the clarity that has been so seriously lacking. This discussion has major implications for the whole page, of course. And beyond.

From what you had written before I thought you were much more positive about taking things in this direction. No big deal, I just wondered. I could easily have assessed others as more favourable on the basis of their complex comments; but I thought I had yours right!

N oetica Tea? 11:26, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

Hermitage, Dorset
Hello A. di M.. Many thanks for taking ages to parse the sentence at the above article - I don't think this tiny village could be familiar with all this attention! However (haha), I'm still unsure if On the other hand works as well as the original However (oh, I'm so ungrateful..), because I think it more firmly asserts an absence of building remains in the previous sentence (i.e. I think it somehow presents a greater contrast between the existence of the well and the non-existence of anything else - whereas the article doesn't refer specifically to what became of the hermitage, other than that it was abandoned). Does that make sense? (Actually I've just noticed that the other editor has taken it back to beginning the sentence with simply The Lady's Well - haha) PaleCloudedWhite (talk) 17:05, 25 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Maybe merging the two sentences together and keeping but (or maybe whereas) could work... ― A. di M.​  17:51, 25 January 2012 (UTC)

Unit conversion in Private Stock
I just looked up 40 ounces in Wolfram Alpha and apparently it's a quantity of mass and it's equal to 1.134 kg. How do you know that a 40-ounce bottle of Private Stock contains 1.18 L? You would have to know the density of the liquid, which could be dubious if you're just doing your own original research. It's certainly good to have normal units included in the article, but accuracy is still a priority. (WP Editor 2011 (talk) 11:11, 29 January 2012 (UTC))
 * See Fluid ounce. (I assumed it was the US customary one.) ― A. di M.​  11:47, 29 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Glad someone knows about this crazy stuff. Thanks for improving the article. (WP Editor 2011 (talk) 13:26, 29 January 2012 (UTC))

Template:Tq
Here's a variant of for you and others who like the effect of it, customized specifically for talk page quotation (uses a different CSS class, and may help uncloud the issue I raised at WT:MOS about misuse of the xt template to indicate deprecated or no-consensus examples). — SMcCandlish   Talk⇒〈°⌊°〉 Contribs. 16:31, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Thank you! ― A. di M.​  16:48, 8 February 2012 (UTC)

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A barnstar for you!

 * Thank you. This goes straight into my Barn-o-meter on my user page. (It's nice to be awarded for procrastinating the crap out of my life a month before I'm supposed to hand in my MSc thesis, anyway.) ― A. di M.​  08:32, 11 June 2012 (UTC)

Ngram
After you post, I tried Ngram a bit just to experiment. Something I noticed in following your link is that you searched for "10 %" with a space instead of "10%" with no space. Wikipedia guidelines dictate the latter, so I tried to change the search to use "10%" with no space. The result is strange - it finds no occurrences of "10%" at all. I found that no matter what I put for "X%" it returns no hits. Do you have any idea why it's doing that? Coastside (talk) 11:46, 12 June 2012 (UTC)
 * The Ngram tokenizes punctuation away from the preceding word (e.g. “this.” is treated as “this .”), so that searching for “this” will also match “this .”; of course in principle they could do that in the input as well, but maybe they just don't bother. See http://books.google.com/ngrams/info (scroll down to “What about punctuation?”). ― A. di M.​  15:10, 12 June 2012 (UTC)

Double spaced
Lately, your signature has been appearing between double- and triple-spaced, that is, 1 1/2 blank lines above and below the line that contains the signature. But it only happens on my Windows XP, Service Pack 3 computer, and only on Firefox. Art LaPella (talk) 16:03, 15 June 2012 (UTC)
 * It had a 3px padding; maybe that version of Firefox interprets that in a weird way. (I've removed the padding now, anyway.) ― A. di M.​  18:21, 15 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Actually, the above comment has the same spacing problem. Art LaPella (talk) 22:07, 15 June 2012 (UTC)

United States Military Date Proposal
A discussion on the encyclopedic need for the use of military dates on United States military related articles is taking place at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers. Please join in.-- JOJ Hutton  23:29, 23 August 2012 (UTC)
 * No, thanks. &mdash; A. di M.  01:28, 24 August 2012 (UTC)

over/underlinking
Could you take another look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Manual_of_Style/Linking#What_generally_should_not_be_linked_--_can_we_bring_this_to_closure.3F

The "one link" rule/enforcement has gotten out of hand, I'm trying to get something closer to rationality. You supported my proposed change once, could you edit the proposal, and/or chime in again with a statement of support. Thanks Boundlessly (talk) 22:10, 23 October 2012 (UTC)

New MOS:CAPS discussion
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help needed-Phonetics IPA- newbee
Hi, I saw your comment in the IPA talk page. If possible could you please help me fix the phonetics. The English is Thalassery biriyani  I tried to convert this into a modified format found in the page Hyderabadi haleem. But this did not work for thalassery biriyani. This is what I tried, but it showed error. I am trying to learn. If possible please help me fix this. I tried to study phonetics but did not work :-).I am trying to learn by developing an article to a higher quality scale. Thanks and Regards --Sunaina Kunju (talk) 15:47, 5 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Template:IPAc-en is intended for English pronunciations and only works with English phonemes. So either you show the Malayalam pronunciation with Template:IPA-ml, or an Anglicized pronunciation (something like, I'd guess?) with IPAc-en (or both). &mdash; A. di M.  17:18, 9 August 2013 (UTC)

Thanks you--Sunaina Kunju (talk) 12:46, 10 August 2013 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!
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Nomination for merger of Template:Thinspace
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Template:Xt
Hello. Through your other account, you are the creator of Template:Xt. I was a bit puzzled as to why the first letter after the colon isn't capitalized. I initially opened a discussion on the template's Talk page, but when I noticed the last discussion reply being dated 7 years ago, I reverted said edit and opted for a proper Requested move. About the same time, another editor replied to an unrelated inquiry on my own talk page, in which they pointed out the reason the 'X' was lowercase and why Template:Requested move was saying the move had already been completed, was that someone added Template:Lowercase title to the doc.

This is an edit I can perform, but I'd rather ask you first: would you consider removing Template:Lowercase title from the Template:Xt doc, in keeping with WP:TITLEFORMAT? I will be satisfied by whatever reason you provide. &#8212;&#160;CJDOS,&#160;Sheridan,&#160;OR&#160;(talk) 08:30, 12 June 2021 (UTC)

If not removed from the doc, should Lowercase title be added to the Talk page so their titles match their letter case? &#8212;&#160;CJDOS,&#160;Sheridan,&#160;OR&#160;(talk) 09:26, 12 June 2021 (UTC)

✅ I believe a sufficient amount of time has passed that this section should have at least been noticed. Without a reply. I will take it upon my self to: A,&#160;leave the main page as-is; B,&#160;add to the Talk page; C,&#160;will leave the subpages alone. &#8212;&#160;CJDOS,&#160;Sheridan,&#160;OR&#160;(talk) 06:50, 28 June 2021 (UTC)
 * I have no particular preference either way — the first letter of templates is case-insensitive anyway ( example and example both work the same). &mdash; A. di M.  08:22, 28 June 2021 (UTC)