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Articles for deletion/Alleged causes of Hurricane Katrina
I realize that there were strong feelings on both sides with respect to the outcome of the AfD for this article, now located at Alternative theories regarding Hurricane Katrina. I would like to assure those who expressed concerns about the content, tone, and potential for degradation of this article that I intend for it to continue to exist only as long as is necessary to draw the contributions of fringe theorists away from the more substantial Hurricane Katrina articles. Once interest in this topic dies down, I'll quietly trim and merge this information into the appropriate general-topic articles. In the interim, I will carefully watch this page to prevent it from being abused, and I will continue to work towards making this article NPOV, properly sourced, and useful to those seeking an accurate record of the hysterics that so often follows catastrophe. Cheers. -- BD2412 talk 00:53, 14 September 2005 (UTC)

U. Miami
Thank you for clearing that up for me. Ryulong 20:31, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

Wilson Hall Photograph
Remember to take the photos. Thanxs! =D  Jumping  cheese  Contact 21:59, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Great! Upload the pics and make the page look better. =D   Jumping  cheese  Contact 03:12, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanxs for the pic! Keep up the good work!  =)   Jumping  cheese  Contact 23:31, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

Modern geocentrism
Did you know that User:Lucaas considers you as being on his side in an ongoing content dispute at Modern geocentrism: ? I thought you should be aware of this. --Lambiam Talk 23:46, 6 September 2006 (UTC)


 * No, I didn't know that he considered on his side of the dispute. I knew nothing about it until you directed me. I assure you that I had done nothing more than fixed a spelling error of his. Besselfunctions 04:14, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

Total re-write of the main Physics page is in progess
You might like to join us at Physics/wip where a total re-write of the main Physics page is in progess. At present we're discussing the lead paragraphs for the new version, and how Physics should be defined. I've posted here because you are on the Physics Project participant list. --MichaelMaggs 08:04, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

Orphaned fair use image (Image:RPI-seal-t.gif)
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LOL my bad
LOL I can't believe I wrote November, I was reading the sentence before it. hehe thanks! Fedayee 21:37, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

RSE
Yeah, I took RSE off the template. I was surprised they even had a page, and it needs to be expanded. Otherwise, I am fairly pleased with it. Danski14 17:07, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

commons:User:Besselfunctions
I assert to be the same user as commons:User:Besselfunctions Besselfunctions 17:03, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
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Quick CSD comment
Heya Besselfunctions, and thanks for doing some patrolling for bad pages. Just wanted to let you know that H1 was a disambig page and an IP replaced it with a nn-band description, so i reverted and declined the speedy. It's helpful to check the page's edit history to make sure it needs to be deleted and not reverted. Thanks and keep up the good work! ~ Eliz 81 (C)  18:22, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

Recent changes to bicycle and bicycle performance articles
Although the actual change to the text of bicycle appears benign, I believe the explanation you gave is mistaken: "the drag would increase linearly with speed, since the drag is proportional to the square of the speed". Proportionality to the square of an input variable is one of the most common examples given for a nonlinear relationship.

I reverted the change to the text of bicycle performance "aerodynamic drag, which increases linearly with speed" because drag increases with the square of speed, and that is not a linear relationship. -AndrewDressel (talk) 16:18, 26 December 2007 (UTC)


 * I don't quite understand what the problem was. Drag is quadratic in speed, so it increases linearly with speed. Power is cubic in the speed, so it would increase quadratically. The source says that the drag is ρAV2, so when one speaks of the drag's increase with speed, not the drag itself, why is it not the derivative of that expression, i.e. the drag increases linearly with speed? Besselfunctions (talk) 20:26, 26 December 2007 (UTC) (Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:AndrewDressel")


 * Ah, now I see. It appears to be just an issue of semantics, not mathematics. You are interpreting "is quadratic in" to be equivalent to "increases linearly with". However, the cited source, in discussing air drag explains that "the force exerted by the drag is seen to increase as the square of the velocity." The author does not use the derivative of the derived expression to describe how a change in velocity translates into a change in drag. Instead, he uses the original, quadratic relationship. For example: doubling speed results in a four fold increase in drag, even though the derivative of the drag with respect to velocity is proportional to the velocity and not its square. -AndrewDressel (talk) 20:55, 26 December 2007 (UTC)

New WP:UNI/COTF!
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Wilderness Diarrhea Getting Killed
Bessel:


 * Dunno, but it seems remotely possible you'd be interested in this. Wilderness Diarrhea is getting merged into Travelers Diarrhea by a couple of zealots who seem to have no concept of outdoor interests.

I get around a lot in the outdoors and rarely treat water, but WD article had some good stuff.


 * After a couple of weeks of calm discussion, I went ballistic and no longer want to participate. Rational voices might help.

These guys have irrationally convinced themselves that WD isn't a legitimate topic for a Wikipedia article.


 * I've pointed out several bomb-proof arguements to no avail. I'd say the strongest is the vast number of published articles that discuss WD as a separate concern from TD. They are both environmental health topics, and obviously the context of each are far different.


 * They simply ignore all this.

P.S., Do you know Prof. John Reppy at Cornell? Calamitybrook (talk) 16:17, 25 September 2008 (UTC)

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FA review?
Hello,

I noticed that you are involved with the physics articles on Wikipedia, and I was wondering if you could help me out. Right now, I'm working to bring the article AdS/CFT correspondence to FA status. So far, people have had many good suggestions and many positive things to say about the article, but I'm having trouble getting people to support or oppose the nomination.

I was wondering if you'd be willing to take a look at it and tell us your thoughts at this page. Please note that you do not have to be an expert on the subject. The article has already been checked quite carefully by other reviewers, and at this point, I'm just looking for people who can check that it meets the FA criteria.

Please let me know if you're interested. Thanks. Polytope24 (talk) 15:39, 28 October 2013 (UTC)

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Speedy deletion nomination of National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018


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Sorry biting on CFM56 talk page
Sorry for biting you here for a good faith addition at Talk:CFM International CFM56. I should know better. Regards, -Fnlayson (talk) 15:13, 18 April 2018 (UTC)

National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018
Hey, a fellow New Englander! I noticed you were the primary author for 2018 NDAA wiki page. By the looks of it further up your talk page, seems like the effort can be thankless at times. My friend and I are trying to help US constituents form opinions on bills, vote on them, track their representation, and influence the decisions of their reps. The legislation summaries we're getting from the Library of Congress aren't very approachable. As an example, we already edited down the LoC summary of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018 on our site, and it's still not great. Our goal with summaries on our site is to help an average American form an unbiased opinion on a piece of legislation in 3-10 minutes of reading. Would you have any interest in helping us simplify these summaries for an average American? Vf-lee (talk) 21:00, 20 April 2018 (UTC)

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Alfa Romeo Giulia (952)
pls dont remove stuff from articles with vague comments like "limited edition specifications failed verification)" if you need source add tag for it, and this was already cited in bread text -- >Typ932 T&middot;C 14:37, 8 March 2019 (UTC)


 * Sorry, what is bread text?Besselfunctions (talk) 16:28, 8 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Bread text is the article main text (body text), not tables or pictures etc ,actually Im not sure if this word is used at all in english :) -- >Typ932 T&middot;C 00:04, 9 March 2019 (UTC)

Not naked girls
I’ve undone your edit at Donald Trump re naked women and girls. The RS cited doesn’t say that, and if you follow the cite link to the Buzzfeed article, it has “in an adult pagent” for the person saying “we were all naked” (Miss Universe contest). There’s a separate story of Miss Teen USA saying “while girls were changing” and “rushed to cover up their bodies”, with one of the accusers being 17 at the time. So ‘naked girl’ isn’t directly in the RS, and also doesn’t seem the underlying report, and the long-standing content seems better. It also is open to misreading as being about the Jeffrey Epstein association speculations. I see archive 30 had some TALK of the 15 year old, but doesn’t seem a big consensus on wording here. A “naked teens” rather than “women and girls” might be an alternative, but I recommend not. If you want to reword the line I would suggest a TALK discussion. Cheers Markbassett (talk) 16:21, 13 July 2019 (UTC)

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