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 * I added a "cc-by" tag which seemed the closest to what I know. Further details/discussion on the image's discussion page. crandles 23:26, 15 August 2005 (UTC)

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Hi. Thanks for drawing that to my attention. See my reply on my talk page (I don't know how you like to do these things, but I prefer to answer where the question was, so don't talk here talk there) and on the trop cyc page. William M. Connolley 19:34:18, 2005-09-05 (UTC).

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Can you give source for the image please.--Pixel ;-) 22:15, 28 October 2006 (UTC)


 * I took the image from http://www.climateprediction.net/project.php where it is called http://www.climateprediction.net/images/sci_images/ipcc_fig1-5.jpg so I believe it comes from an IPCC report (probably a figure named 1-5). So far I haven't actually found the exact image in an IPCC report - I tried to find it to see if there was a better quality image. I have now referenced a very similar image in an IPCC report. Hope that is sufficient.crandles 11:39, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

Image:Wikigrowthlogistic.PNG
Hi C-randles, have you seen the recent Wikipedia_talk:Modelling_Wikipedia%27s_growth and the picture of Gaussian growth? It is interesting that you name your image Wikigrowthlogistic.PNG HenkvD 11:38, 14 April 2007 (UTC)


 * Yes I had seen the talk which didn't seem to be improving the article though to me there seemed agreement that the growth was no longer exponential. So I decided to be bold. Assuming it is now linear growth seems a bit presumptuous. (The lines on the graph allow people to conclude that if they want but I am not forcing them to decide that.) Simply calling it logistic seemed a more general term than linear and that was what the discussion was about. crandles 12:59, 14 April 2007 (UTC)


 * I find it hard to convice people that the number of articles in not an exponential graph any longer. Some say it is still exponential as on a logarithmic scale it gives a more or less straight line others call it sub-exponential growth. On de:wikipedia it is already for 3 year a constant growth of about 500 to 600 articles per day. See Image:Neue Artikel.png and Image:Meilensteine.png. HenkvD 14:37, 14 April 2007 (UTC)


 * It should be much easier to convince people it is not exponential than it is to persuade them that it is logistic. Just calculate a best fit for steady growth and for exponential growth and see which is a better fit by calculation the least square errors. Suggesting logistic growth is probably not going to get agreement. You will get a better fit but that is only to be expected due to the higher number of degrees of freedom. With my edits I tried to leave a large number of options being possible without saying which one is to be preferred. (eg exponential, steady growth with or without annual cycles and with or without weekly cycles (7 day average selected to make these disappear) or logistic (in name of file).) crandles 15:20, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

2007 AHS
Why are you creating a new "season INVEST history" section when all of the INVESTs have already been documented and archived in the respective month archives? – Chacor 12:01, 26 July 2007 (UTC)


 * They probably are, but isn't a single summary easier to follow? Also helps you know which months archive to look at. The main point was I disagreed with removal of July invests from the talk page. I felt it more appropriate to not only restore but have a season record. If people disagree fine. crandles 12:07, 26 July 2007 (UTC)


 * Oh now I realise we already have a July archive before end of July. Bit odd - but anyway self reverted. crandles 12:28, 26 July 2007 (UTC)


 * Yeah pretty much as soon as each INVEST dies after a few days it gets archived. – Chacor 12:42, 26 July 2007 (UTC)


 * 95L was gone on 1 July but it was still on the page on 23rd July and July archive hadn't been created then. Anyway, where do I find the details of 91L? If it is missing from the monthly archieves is that a good reason for having an INVEST history summary page to prevent that happening? crandles 13:05, 26 July 2007 (UTC)


 * 91L probably got lost in the hoopla around Andrea. The INVESTs are documented like that only the help in article-writing for storm history. Otherwise they serve no purpose (all storm discussion is at the Wikia, which is where you'd probably be able to find info on 91L). So there's no real need for having an INVEST history page. – Chacor 13:13, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

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Image:CPView.JPG
I've noticed that this image has contradictory copyright tags - surely it can't be CC1.0 and a non-free screenshot? If it is non-free then it needs a fair use rationale. I know it's quite an old image now but since it's still in use it might be worth clarifying which of the tags is correct? Ta, Purgatorio 19:05, 8 November 2007 (UTC)


 * As I mentioned on the discussion page, I am sure I have seen something by the author saying images can be used provided they are attributed. However, I couldn't find it. I did ask on the development thread here but the only answer was not by the author here. I am not at all sure about tags; does this mean images that have to be attributed like this one should not have the non-free tag? crandles 23:44, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
 * That means they're not free (even if you find the permission, it would have to be emailed to permissions@wikimedia.org to get proper OTRS clearance). I have updated the image page to suit, however it does need a Fair Use Rationale for each page that it's on. Cheers! --Storkk (talk) 23:27, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

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 * Hope that rationale is sufficient. crandles (talk) 22:57, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

gaussian process emulator
Wonder if gaussian process emulator will survive? I don't know anything about it just had it mentioned as al alternate technique to a neural net and random forests. —Preceding unsigned comment added by C-randles (talk • contribs)

See my recent edits to Gaussian process emulator. Wikipedia conventions require complete sentences, not dictionary-style definitions, and the title phrase must be set in bold at its first appearance, usually in the first sentence. Michael Hardy (talk) 05:51, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

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Interesting invitation thank you. I suspect I would fail for lack of experience moving pages. Had a brief read of some of this, but doubt that gives enough experience. crandles (talk) 23:32, 28 November 2017 (UTC)

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What is the correct name of the conjecture? Some IP keeps changing it, but then you changed it to something else, not what it originally was. Could I please be provided some clarification on this? ᴀɴᴏɴʏᴍᴜᴤᴤ ᴜᴤᴇʀ (ᴛᴀʟᴋ) 23:17, 4 March 2019 (UTC)

I believe it is "Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture" per this or this. The relevant wikipedia page is Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture. I just changed a capital C for conjecture to small c so that link works. "Castillo-de Caro Conjecture" is as far as I can tell just vandalism, two different problems have been changed to this then changed back. Hope this answers your question. crandles (talk) 16:55, 5 March 2019 (UTC)

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Hello, back in Jan 2016 in this edit you added a tag to our article on Satellite Temperature Measuremrents. The tag was removed today when someone else wasn't sure what the tag was for. I don't know either, to be honest. But I thought I'd drop a note here and encourage to take a look at the current text in case you can think of RS based improvements that still need to be made. Have a happy! And if you're so inclined, check out WP:WikiProject Climate change, which is just getting off the ground. New members welcome!NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 18:00, 4 August 2019 (UTC)


 * Thanks. Looks much better and fine without the tag now AFAICS. crandles (talk) 21:31, 4 August 2019 (UTC)

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 * Thank you for the welcome. crandles (talk) 10:00, 5 August 2019 (UTC)

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Hi, just wanted to say thanks for all your thinking about categories at WP:PROCC. Long ago and far away I did relational database programming. The concept of categorization is very much something I understand, but the wikipedia way of doing it is not. I confess I haven't studied your ideas and contribs there yet. Some of the help pages I've studied for the first time recently were hard to internalize and I'm giving project work a bit of rest. But I'll be back. Keep it up! NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 20:21, 24 August 2019 (UTC)

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 * I suspect I may be more in the dark about usefulness than you. First item on to-do list was categories and it seemed useful to have a list of what categories are in use. Thought this was something I could usefully do even if no particular expertise. I'm still finding some. I think it would be useful to have project discussion on scope of project (maybe that is too much a moving target), intended use of Categories... Re how are we doing it to best HELP us I have no idea, any indications of intended uses might be helpful. So far my approach is not very systematic, aimed at finding as many of the categories as I can fairly quickly. A more systematic approach may evolve. In short, don't assume I know what I am doing. crandles (talk) 12:56, 26 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Well, we are in the same boat. I'm an old guy.  My programming skills are obsolete but for awhile I was a relational database programmer.  Setting up table structure and running set queries is an awful lot like wiki categorization.   But, like you, I don't know how to match our editing goals with cat and banner design.  For that matter, I'm not sure what the first editing goals even are.  So your suggestion of a bigger picture discussion at the project page is a point very very very very well made.  We need that. NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 15:20, 26 August 2019 (UTC)

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 * I've moved it to Draft:SpaceBEE so you can work on it more - get rid of all the copied text and please don't cut-and-paste from any source in future. Fences  &amp;  Windows  01:05, 18 February 2021 (UTC)

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The link you should have provided is Dispute_resolution_noticeboard. I didn't know that was ongoing as my username was not correctly spelled and I have only seen it now after it is closed. It's conclusion says "The dispute is about original research. The simple answer is this- if a source does not currently exist which clearly calls the launch a success or failure- any analysis of the data is original research and does not belong on WP at all." However there are plenty of sources which all prominently say it exploded, if that is not virtually indistinguishable from saying failure, I really don't know what you can reasonably expect to find. But if this conclusion tells us anything it is that "partial failure" is not supported. The talk page discussions discuss in more detail and I take it as saying show as failure but show the controversy ie that SpaceX did claim it as a success but later admitted that there were problems with engine thrust leading to hard landing way past leg loads. So the latest from SpaceX and Elon Musk twitter account is an official channel of communication is that the landing certainly had issues and you can't put it down as partial failure. crandles (talk) 23:28, 1 April 2021 (UTC)

Note about named references on Falcon 9 Page
Saw your note. Was curious if there is an easy way to do that with 800+ references on the page, other than a search through them?  DGrundler  talk 22:10, 15 April 2021 (UTC)


 * If there is an easy way to find one ref amongst 800 then I don't know how, I suppose you could edit entire article and do a search for the URL. The ref concerned just happened to be one of three listed just under the Future Launches heading which I monitor for changes. That ref lists changes it makes on a date near the top so I try to update all changed dates (you missed one but no worries) then update the ref date. So I was just familiar with it rather than any clever trick. C-randles (talk) 22:28, 15 April 2021 (UTC)

Thanks. I appreciate the time you took to explain that.  DGrundler  talk 22:40, 15 April 2021 (UTC)

super heavy lift SpaceX LV from 2012
Thanks for finding that in the source, and cross-referencing it to the wiki definitions used for what mass cat LVs are super heavy lift. Might be a little bit of synthesis, but is okay by me since it is descriptively accurate and arguably not WP:SYN. N2e (talk) 13:45, 16 May 2021 (UTC)

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 * I have gone ahead and nominated you. See Requests for adminship/C-randles. StarshipSLS (Talk), (My Contributions) 01:02, 25 May 2021 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the nomination. Not sure whether I want the bother of going through the process or do many admin things but it is nice to receive such a nomination. C-randles (talk) 11:31, 25 May 2021 (UTC)
 * @C-randles: Nomination canceled. I still think you would be a great admin, but other users think I don't have enough experience to make a RFA. Maybe I'll renominate you in the future. StarshipSLS (Talk), (My Contributions) 15:11, 25 May 2021 (UTC)


 * I've had a look at your statistics, and although you've done a lot of writing for the encyclopedia, you've not participated in many admin areas (eg: four AfDs in 15 years), so I think you would get a tough time at RfA. I would leave it for now, unless you take an interest in the maintenance side. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont)  22:20, 25 May 2021 (UTC)

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 * Hi, I never did very much so I doubt I have much of interest to say.C-randles (talk) 20:00, 29 April 2022 (UTC)

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