User talk:DavideAndrea

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Translation
Thank you, I appreciate it! Sarge Baldy 22:07, 6 November 2005 (UTC)

Chimonanthus
Hi Davide - Many thanks for the compliment! If you would like to translate it back into Italian, please do (I fear my knowledge of Italian is close to zero) - MPF 10:29, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

Cascata delle Marmore
Beautiful translation, thank you! Molte grazie! :D -Yupik 17:42, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

PHEV
Looks like you've been talking to Felix. Thanks for inserting his edits. I spaced. Fbagatelleblack (talk) 03:28, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

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Wikiproject Electronics collaboration
Hi, I am writing to you because you have listed yourself as a member of the Electronics WikiProject. Sadly, this project is pretty dead, but I propose to resuscitate it with a collaboration. The idea is to have a concerted effort on improving one article per month, hopefully to GA or FA status and nominate the very best of them for the front page. I have prepared a page to control this process at WikiProject Electronics/Collaboration (actually, I mostly shamelessly stole it from WikiProject Mammals where a collaboration of this sort was succesfully run). There you can make nominations for articles for collaboration or comment on the nominations of others.

If you want to take part you might like to place this template  on your userpage which will give you a link to the current collaboration. If you are no longer interested in Wikiproject Electronics, please remove yourself from the members list, which is now at WikiProject Electronics/Members

Thanks for listening,  Sp in ni ng  Spark  17:17, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

Sliding mode improvements
In February, you made comments on the sliding mode control article. Have the recent major changes addressed your concerns? If not, could you add to the talk page with some suggestions? Thanks! &mdash;TedPavlic | (talk) 18:33, 29 November 2008 (UTC)


 * Ted,


 * Thanks for your concerns. After re-reading the article introduction, I still feel the same way. It's missing a key phrase at the beginning, something like: "Sliding mode is a technique to (do something or other, to solve a particular problem) which is otherwise hard to do because (reason it's hard to do). It is used in (how it's used)...". Having said that, let me say that its perfectly OK for you to just dismiss me as an uninitiated person, and say that the article is intended for people who already have some understanding in the field.


 * Thanks,


 * D'de
 * Davide Andrea (talk) 16:50, 30 November 2008 (UTC)


 * Davide &mdash; Thanks for your response (you can respond here if you like). Nonlinear control pages need to be made accessible to everyone --- regardless of whether or not they're initiated. It sounds like you would like a more general introduction to control or stability, yes? That is, do other nonlinear control pages (like the backstepping page) do a better job? Or are they all plagued by this problem? &mdash;TedPavlic | (talk) 17:37, 30 November 2008 (UTC)


 * ...do other nonlinear control pages (like the backstepping page) do a better job?


 * Indeed, yes: I found that introduction much more helpful to the uninitiated.
 * Thanks,


 * D'de
 * Davide Andrea (talk) 02:50, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

Casing seems dubious
Whether commutors are in the casing or not doesn't seem to make a difference to what type of motor it is.

You could have two otherwise identical motors, but one with a slightly bigger casing, containing the electronics, and the other with the electronics external, and the table as you did it claims that they're completely different motors.


 * Indeed you are correct: they are completely different motors. Specifically, a BLDC with integral controller is a 2-wire, DC motor (you connect a battery to it, and it runs), while a controller-less BLDC (or an BLAC, which is nearly the same motor) is a 3-wire, AC motor: you need a motor driver that generates AC to drive it. So, yes, they are very different motors.
 * Here is an example of a DC BLDC (integral electronics): http://smartautomation.en.made-in-china.com/product/IoxESDMYZKcs/China-36mm-12-V-or-24-V-Brushless-DC-Motor-Bldc-Motor.html
 * And here is an example of a AC BLDC (no electronics): http://kellycontroller.com/hub-motor-48v3kw-high-torquedisc-brake-p-158.html
 * In the first case, all you need is the motor. In the second case, once you have the motor, now you have to go look for a motor driver.
 * Just like two motors, one with and one without a brushed commutator, are very different motors. Right?


 * The definition of an AC motor versus DC motor is solely regards the line voltage, and here one actually has an electronic commutator and the other hasn't. So they're rightly considered different motors, and they have different names, and they have different components and probably different behaviors as well. -Rememberway (talk) 01:11, 30 May 2011 (UTC)

I don't think that's right. They're the same, it's just a construction detail. I think that what we're mostly interested in is how the motors work, their topology. So we draw the system boundary so that even physically external electronics are still part of the motor. And so far as I know that's how the terms are used in the real world too. People talk about BLDC motors, but they usually have physically external electronics that produces the right signal to drive the coils, but it's still considered a DC motor, because that's the power supply you need to use it with.


 * I know, people are confused about this. But the fact they make that confusion doesn't make it factual. I mean, people say that the sun rises in the morning, even though that is not what happens, and saying that the Earth rotates is actually what is really happening.

So I think you're making an arbitrary distinction, ...


 * Well, yes. That is the nature of taxonomy. You try to make the most meaningful classifications you can, but, by its nature, taxonomy is an arbitrary process. In this case the process is based on industry standards.

... and that's also why there's blanks in your table. There shouldn't be blanks- IRL there's too many different sorts of motors for there to be blanks!


 * I am sorry, but that does not follow. The fact that there do not exist examples that fit a particular permutation does not indicate that the taxonomy is wrong.
 * If a table of animals has blank spaces for animals that are both bipedal and have a trunk, does it mean that the table is wrong? It just means that that particular combination does not exist.


 * Right. But bipedalism and having trunks is not orthogonal, whereas if you can classify things via orthogonal features, then you get a table that fills completely, and in this case this turns out to be possible. By doing that I was also able to find classes of real motors that weren't in the table. -Rememberway (talk) 01:11, 30 May 2011 (UTC)

Yes? -Rememberway (talk) 00:08, 30 May 2011 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the feedback; please let's continue this conversation. Davide Andrea (talk) 00:30, 30 May 2011 (UTC)


 * If you still prefer your way we could get Andy Dingley or someone to look at it, and go with whatever he thinks perhaps (although he doesn't seem to like me very much, so he may well pick your organisation anyway!). -Rememberway (talk) 01:15, 30 May 2011 (UTC)

LogicalDOC translation
Hi Davide, i wish to ask you if you are available for translating the LogicalDOC article. Sprmw7 (talk) 09:17, 31 May 2011 (UTC)
 * In Italian? Mnhhh, nah. It looks like a self-generated article, not for general interest. So, sorry, I'll decline.
 * Thanks for asking. Davide Andrea (talk) 18:38, 31 May 2011 (UTC)

Nomination of Short Discharge Time for deletion
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translation
Hi, I was wondering if you might be willing to assist in a small translation job. Here is an illustration with Italian labels. Might you translate them into English? – JBarta (talk) 19:13, 4 February 2013 (UTC)

Baud or bit/s ?
Hi. I reverted your change to Serial port. The article section you linked in your edit summary actually states that bit/s is the correct unit of measurement:


 * "The term baud has sometimes incorrectly been used to mean bit rate" (emph. added)

Also, as it says in the external link to EDN magazine:


 * "Serial-data speed is usually stated in terms of bit rate. However, another oft-quoted measure of speed is baud rate. Though the two aren’t the same, similarities exist under some circumstances. This tutorial will make the difference clear."

What you set on a serial port is the bit rate, and this is measured in bit/s, not "baud". If you connect the serial port to a modem, then the comms on the analog line might have a different baud than the bit rate, if several bits are sent with one symbol change—which is common on modern modems. Incidentally, despite its use in the EDN article, "baud rate" is itself grammatically incorrect, as "baud" is already a "rate" (1 baud = 1 symbol change per second). Jeh (talk) 16:15, 14 April 2015 (UTC)

p.s. you might also take a look at the comparisons between bit rates and baud of some modem standards here. Jeh (talk) 16:25, 14 April 2015 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!
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Nomination of Alternative Radio for deletion
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Translation of Villa Annoni
Hi, are you available to translate this article https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villa_Annoni from Italian into English? There are a lot of American tourists coming to Cuggiono to see the Villa and I think it would be helpful to have an article in their mother tongue. --DelicateAloe (talk) 16:46, 20 May 2019 (UTC)

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Request for translation check
Hi DavideAndrea, I ask you a favor. I wrote the voice of an Italian artist "Andrea Benetti" and a Wikipedian expert, helped me create and improve the voice. Now he suggested that I contact an experienced Wikipedian (Italian-English) to help in checking the translation from Italian to English. If you can take a look to see if everything is fine, the link of the voice is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea_Benetti_(artist). Hoping you can help me, thank you for what you will do, --BarbaraLuciano13 (talk) 08:49, 21 May 2021 (UTC)

Want to add more value to existing article
I'm really sorry that I was added link directly without proper formatting. But, based on my knowledge the page is more relavant and helpful to the users. So, I request you to check it again and help me to add that article in external links. Please note, here my intention is not to add links into wiki. I want to share the best knowledge. Aditya3181 (talk) 13:04, 28 June 2022 (UTC)

Unicode chart translation request
Hello. I maintain multilingual Wikimedia charts showing roadmaps to the various planes of the Unicode Standard. I'm hoping you will provide Italian translations for me. (I noticed your user name on the Translators available list.) The specifics are at User:Drmccreedy/roadmap_multilingual. After the charts have been updated they can be added to this Italian Unicode article. Thank you for any help you can offer. DRMcCreedy (talk) 01:32, 18 October 2023 (UTC)