User talk:Aldaron

Your exoplanet radius charts
Just to let you know I've started a discussion of your radius charts here. I suspect they may constitute original research and in some cases may be misleading. Icalanise (talk) 22:41, 8 January 2010 (UTC)

Re: COROT or CoRoT
There probably is a good case for moving the planet/star articles to CoRoT because the scientific literature appears to be fairly consistent in this usage. For the satellite itself it is less clear, certainly the various mission websites and press releases are quite inconsistent. You're also up against people claiming that the Manual of Style tells us to avoid odd capitalisation schemes, whether it actually does or doesn't may or may not be another matter. Presumably we should be consistent whatever the decision. As you can see the idea of using CoRoT was shot down when I tried to move it before. Icalanise (talk) 21:43, 21 January 2010 (UTC)


 * I agree with your thinking: the satellite and mission can stay COROT (there's enough inconsistency in the literature), but the planet and star articles should move to CoRoT (the relevant literature is quite consistent). I don't think those who would argue that Manual of Style has anything to say against this have a leg to stand on. — Aldaron • T/C 22:07, 21 January 2010 (UTC)

Babylon 5 Centauri not from Alpha Centauri
Hi, you made an edit to the Alpha Centauri page asking for a source on the changes I made. Later in the paragraph, I listed two possible explanations for the confusion, one with an external source, the other that was mentioned elsewhere in wikipedia but for which I could not find a source. I'm new to editing so wondering if I could have structured this better when providing the one source I could find? MikeBz (talk) 21:48, 27 January 2010 (UTC)

Renaming request
Hi, could you please confirm your request to be renamed at the Dutch Wikipedia? Please do so here and then notify us at w:nl:WP:HA. --Erwin (talk) 13:32, 29 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Confirmed. — Aldaron • T/C 15:13, 29 January 2010 (UTC)
 * OK, done. --Erwin (talk) 12:43, 31 January 2010 (UTC)

Planet radius of unknown size.
I read the section on the discussion of unknown radius of exoplanets. Possibly putting a question mark in the center of the circle would be good. Thanks, Marasama (talk) 23:58, 4 February 2010 (UTC)


 * I like that idea. Next time I update I'll experiment with it. — Aldaron • T/C 00:01, 5 February 2010 (UTC)

Extrasolar planet
Responded on talk.174.3.98.236 (talk) 16:00, 21 February 2010 (UTC)

Which rule?174.3.98.236 (talk) 16:00, 21 February 2010 (UTC)


 * WP:RELATED — Aldaron • T/C 16:03, 21 February 2010 (UTC)

Dreugol system
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Aldaron - Let's discuss
You reverted my Edit without any explanation. Let's discuss it. What do you require in order to reach consensus? Question: why did you revert my edit in Invention? Zutam (talk
 * See the article's talk page. — Aldaron • T/C 11:16, 5 July 2010 (UTC)

Come join us
in a Discussion re Invention. --Zutam (talk) 15:18, 6 July 2010 (UTC)
 * You can state there your comments.
 * If you accept my contribution - you don't make me a favor, it's for article's sake.
 * If you don't like it - you can amend my contribution as you like - the article is yours also.

See the article's talk page. — Aldaron • T/C 16:23, 6 July 2010 (UTC)

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Kepler-10b
I added a bit to Kepler-10b to get it eligible for Did_you_know, and plan to expand it a bit further. James McBride (talk) 00:14, 16 January 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Kepler-10b
HJ Mitchell &#124;  Penny for your thoughts?   06:04, 18 January 2011 (UTC)

Kepler infoboxes
Hello, Aldaron.

I saw you made the pages for a lot of the Kepler discoveries. I was wondering if you could help me set up a few exoplanet ones that are redirects at the moment. Are you up to it? --Starstriker7(Talk) 05:53, 25 February 2011 (UTC)

Lincoln Memorial section
We are currently attempting to bring the Abraham Lincoln article to FA status and are trying to establish consensus regarding images. Your consensus and opinion is needed on the Abraham Lincoln talk page. -- Gwillhickers (talk) 22:06, 25 May 2011 (UTC)

Solar flare
Hallo, as one of the major contributors of the article Solar flare I thought to write you. I'd like to have your opinion on this discussion. thanks in advance! --Dia^ (talk) 12:24, 9 August 2011 (UTC)

Images of Murasaki Shikibu Diary Emaki
Hi! I'd be very happy if you could help with this request. Particularly with the image which will soon be on wikipedia's mainpage as DYK. Thanks. bamse (talk) 09:02, 18 December 2011 (UTC)

Changes to ribbons
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File:Exoplanet Discovery Methods Bar.svg
Hi there! Is there any chance this image could be updated to cover the rest of 2012? A reader has asked via our ticketing system if this is possible. Thanks! &mdash; Joseph Fox 00:25, 1 February 2012 (UTC)


 * Yes, I hope to soon. A (now not so) recent update of the tool I use to make the my figures introduced quite a few bugs, and I'm struggling to fix them. — Aldaron • T/C 00:44, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

User:Aldaron/German-style Gamer
Hello. I have ensured that all transclusions to this page were updated. Would you please nominate the page for deletion with ? Thanks.  Hazard-SJ  ✈   00:54, 10 May 2012 (UTC)

inductive reasoning vs. scientific reasoning
Hi Aldaron, I came across this edit and was wondering what you mean by "scientific reasoning". Is there an article that describes the distinction you're making, and the sense in which the two are often confused? Scientific reasoning redirects to Models of scientific inquiry which mentions that both deduction and induction are used in science. Is that what you mean, that they're different in that induction is part of scientific reasoning but not the whole? --Allen (talk) 17:18, 3 October 2013 (UTC)

thank you
I just noticed the exoplanet graph had been updated and wished to thank you for producing such a nice figure.CyrilleDunant (talk) 16:32, 8 January 2014 (UTC)

NFPA 704
NFPA 704 has changed. You could use
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to keep original intention. -DePiep (talk) 16:53, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

Barnstar for you!

 * Thanks!  — Aldaron • T/C 01:22, 23 June 2014 (UTC)

Swift (programming language) revert
Hi, please explain your revert (and always do so in the summary), thanks. 209.6.114.98 (talk) 14:22, 12 November 2014 (UTC)


 * No problem: I see I wasn't following WP:ALSO.  — Aldaron • T/C 19:14, 16 November 2014 (UTC)

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Exoplanet by discovery method: transit at ~80 AU?
Hi, in your plot I noted the green dot far to the right. If it is not an error, which star is that? It is so far away from the other transit planets that it should get a label I think. --mfb (talk) 14:55, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

File: Exoplanet Discovery Methods Bar.png
Any chance this figure will be updated soon? Thanks! --MaEve (talk) 19:27, 29 June 2016 (UTC)

Gliese 581 g
Hello Aldaron. Are you taking part in the GA review of this article? If so, please introduce yourself on the review page and explain what your issue is. SpinningSpark 12:01, 15 February 2017 (UTC)

Necroedit/post
I don't know how you did it, but the singular concatenated symbol "ﬁ" was used instead of plain-text "fi" with this edit on Lissajous orbit, and not fixed until today (8.5 years later!). It broke (well, created what I thought was an exception to/a bug in) my script, so I thought I'd let you know to try to keep it from happening. ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf) 19:41, 19 November 2017 (UTC)


 * Wow, I have no idea how I did that. (More disturbing is that, 8.5 years later, I have hardly any idea what a Lissajous orbit is.)  — Aldaron • T/C 13:46, 21 November 2017 (UTC)

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