User talk:DonSiano

Hi. May I know why my addition of Ayodele Awojobi under the List of inventors was undone by you? The man invented a hybrid vehicle called Autonov 1, sometime in the 1970s. Thanks.Krrush (talk) 19:13, 26 February 2010 (UTC)

I got "your" answer here - and I quote - "What this page is for:

This page is for listing inventors of significant inventions. It is not for listing scientific or mathematical discoveries for scientists, regardless of how famous or significant the discoveries may be. Nor can it be for any old patent that the author wants to have immortalized by listing it in wikipedia. The US patent office grants about 500 patents per day--they cannot all be listed on this page, which should therefore be restricted to notable inventions that were commercialized and have been noted in references such as other encyclopedias, histories of technology and such. Strange, or funny half-baked ideas of cranks don't belong here either. This is an encyclopedia, not a book of humor". Thanks.Krrush (talk) 19:35, 26 February 2010 (UTC)

Methods and "p"ersonality
Please. This "p" should be lower-case, not capital. Similarly with a section heading that says "Early Professional Years", etc. See Manual of Style. Michael Hardy 20:14, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

History of Science
Please consider joining the History of Science WikiProject. It also deals with the history of technology, which seems to be of particular interest to you.--ragesoss 18:28, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

Dimensional Analysis
Please check out new additions to Dimensional Analysis. It probably still needs work, but I think it is an improvement. Thinking about it, I will remove your name from the section header, because it might seem self serving for you to work on it. Thanks for your help on this subject. PAR 15:15, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

Hi Don - I have answered some of your statements on my talk page. PAR 17:24, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

Hi PAR--Have you seen what happened to the dimensional analysis article recently? What a mess! This is not even dimensional analysis now, and the guy who did this does not even have a talk page. I think the entire page should be reverted to the way it was. And I still think the Huntley's analysis should be toned down, or perhaps it should actually have its own article. You are clearly much more experienced in wikistuff than I, so you probably have better judgement on how to handle this than I. DonSiano 22:48, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

Hi Don - I will take a look at it and get back to you, and we can discuss the state of the article, ok? PAR 00:22, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

Liesegang
Saying that they were first noticed "over a hundred years ago" is problematic, because that phrase will become increasingly misleading as time goes by. It won't ever actually become inaccurate, true, but the sentence "the dinosaurs died out over a hundred years ago" isn't strictly inaccurate either. Can you provide a year, or a decade, for the rings' discovery? Thanks. DS 16:51, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

Industrial Revolution
Thought you might like to know.--ragesoss 21:32, 12 March 2006 (UTC) Ok, Wikipedia is having some lag issues and apparently my fix only covers one portion of the bug not all of it, sorry about that warning message / I hope this comes out properly, I'm using lynx on a console to bypass a few sharedip blocks here -- Tawker 17:49, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

You have eliminated my comment on industrial Revolution, Why in Europe... I am new to participate Expedia. Please read my argument in the discussion page of the same topic and review my addition again. Let me know of your suggestion.

User:Hiromiando 15:56 Jan. 20, 2007

PCR
Hi Don,

I left a little a response to the removal of my text and commment on the PCR page. Please let me know what you think. If I don't here a response, I'll change it back eventually. Thanks --Skosuri 03:47, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

Western Culture
Hi Don,

I hope you will discuss your recent edits on the Western Culture talk page (See Talk:Western_culture).--Daanschr 14:25, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

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deleted url
Dear Editor,

You deleted an URL from a reference in Historiometry:. However, I checked, and the URL works fine here. Can you explain what the problem was that you encountered?

--Cpt. Morgan (Reinoutr) 18:54, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Never mind, I was not paying attention, I'll fix it. --Cpt. Morgan (Reinoutr) 19:13, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

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Racism
Hello! I saw your message at Talk:Scientific racism. You might want to remove personal info which you have put for privacy purposes (you're inviting spam). Cheers, Tazmaniacs 15:57, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

James Watt
Don, Thanks for recent real editing - too rare these days!--John of Paris 13:20, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

AfD nomination of List of eugenicists
I've nominated List of eugenicists, an article you created, for deletion. We appreciate your contributions, but in this particular case I do not feel that List of eugenicists satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion; I have explained why in the nomination space (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and the Wikipedia deletion policy). Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Articles for deletion/List of eugenicists and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes ( ~ ). You are free to edit the content of List of eugenicists during the discussion but should not remove the articles for deletion template from the top of the article; such removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. -- Charlene 06:14, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

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Edits to C. D. Darlington
You have been removing links from the C. D. Darlington entry to my review of Harman's biography of Darlington. Please explain your exact basis for doing so. I am assuming you are aware of some factual or other error in that review. If so, please point it out. -- GT

You claim in justification that "style" forbids adding a link to a book review in the reference section. Please provide a reference to a WikiPedia style guide advising this - stating that some other entries do not have such links is not persuasive. Regarding the notion of a "vanity" link, please state which WikiPedia guideline is relevant. I see no reason why I cannot link an entry to a review I have written. Why not? If you do not provide substantiation I will declare a dispute and ask for arbitration. -- GT

Joseph Priestley
I was wondering if you had time in the next few weeks or months to look over Joseph Priestley. I have put the article up for scientific peer review because I need someone to check my explanations of his experiments and discoveries. From your listing at the HPS Wikiproject, it looked like you might be interested in JP. He isn't exactly part of the Industrial Revolution, but he's from that time. I would greatly appreciate the help. Awadewit | talk  04:43, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

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New SDS
Hey, when a user puts a "merge" tag on an article, it would be really nice if you discussed it on the articles talk page instead of just removing it. I'm readding it and starting the discussion. Feel free to participate. Murderbike 22:34, 17 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Ok, so now I see that there is an old discussion about creating the new article. I didn't see that before I added the merge tag. I'll remove it. However, I still wish you would have pointed it out to me before just removing the tag and not mentioning it in your edit summary. Good luck on the article. Murderbike 22:45, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

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Survey request
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Photosensitive Glass
I am researching to write a new article on photosensitive glass. I notice you have some images I believe may qualify for this. Do you know for sure if they are? --Doug Coldwell talk 23:43, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

No, these are not examples of photosensitive glass and the objects shown within the glass are not images, but examples of lampwork. DonSiano (talk) 14:35, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

Madoff
This information needs a reliable source. The source you tried to add links to some guy's personal website. See the home page. Go ahead and add the content back in when you find a reliable source. Thanks.Notmyrealname (talk) 19:42, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

Students for a Democratic Society (2006 organization)
As you have been involved in editing this article you may wish to participate in this discussion. Phil Bridger (talk) 18:25, 17 December 2008 (UTC)

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Maurice Hilleman
I corrected the spelling of the first name of Maurice's father to "Gustav" from "Gustave" in the section of Maurice Hilleman's biography you may have contributed. No doubt the error originally came from Paul Offit's book Vaccinated...

By the way, this is the first time I have ever made an editorial contribution to Wikipedia (and I'm just beginning to learn how to use it). CraigHillemann (talk) 12:47, 23 May 2010 (UTC)

Industrial revolution
The general strike is one of the consequences of the Industrial Revolution and all the rest of the page shows also other social effects of the IR (but doesn't speak about the General strike, a world phenomenon evidently linked to the IR). So I don't agree with what you changed or removed and I want to replace what you removed (a few lines), without taking account of the fact the page now doesn't work good (the images in front of the text). You have likely arguments and I am waiting for them in order to have a discussion without a war edition, I don't want to have. Sincerely, José Fontaine (talk) 20:36, 20 July 2010 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Electrons and Holes in Semiconductors with Applications to Transistor Electronics


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Thomas MacDonald
Thomas MacDonald was not responsible for the Interstate Highway System. MacDonald was opposed to rural freeways; a report authored by him entitled "Toll Roads and Free Roads" showed that the majority of traffic was concentrated in and around cities and thus any freeways built should be built there. He found rural freeways unnecessary. (He basically supported only the sort of thing that would later be found in the Yellow Book.) This put him in opposition to President Eisenhower, who made the Interstate System a priority of his administration, who asked for MacDonald's resignation in 1953. My source for all of this is The Roads That Built America by Dan McNichol. If anything MacDonald should be known as part of the Good Roads Movement and as a booster of the United States Numbered Highways system. Is there any source you have that MacDonald was, in fact, known for his participation in early Interstate System planning? —Scott5114↗ [EXACT CHANGE ONLY] 02:38, 5 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your reply; I know how easy it is to get busy and not get a chance to respond to talkpage messages. MacDonald was certainly a visionary and an extremely important figure in the early development of the American highway system before the Interstate era. (I must add, he certainly makes a fascinating figure. Upon hearing of Eisenhower's request for his resignation, he informed his secretary with something along the lines of "I have just been fired, so we may as well get married." She accepted, they got married, and the two left Washington by train.) MacDonald's career is also covered in The Roads That Built America; it's a few years older but if you enjoyed The Big Roads you'd probably like McNichol's book too. Though it focuses mostly on Interstate System there are quite a few chapters of history going all the way back to circa 1900, in which MacDonald plays a more substantial part. —Scott5114↗ [EXACT CHANGE ONLY] 14:26, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

paperweight fires
I have re-written the part about paperweights causing fires and included a ref. Were you aware that many new paperweights have liability disclaimers on them stating that they should not be placed onto window ledges or similar area in case they cause a fire? If you google "fires caused by paperweights" you will find out that it is quite a well know thing.Markdarrly (talk) 06:34, 3 October 2012 (UTC) .

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Wikipedia article on Maurice Wilkins
Dear DonSiano,

Earlier this year I contacted the wikipedia team with the following query:

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=================================================================================================================================================================================================== Dear Sir / Madam,

I have previously contacted you about the possibility of me editing the wikipedia article about my father Maurice Wilkins. While the article at present is factually correct, i feel further information could be of benefit  to readers in particular about the important work carried out by my father between 1953 and 1962 to verify the structure of DNA.

While I believe that anyone is permitted to edit an article, I feel underqualified! I have also noticed that contributor DonSiano has made several edits to the article recently. Therefore, might it be possible for DonSiano to be given my contact details on the off chance that he / she might be willing to help me in this task? Alternatively, might it be possible for me to contact DonSiano directly?

I hope you may be able to help me on this matter.

With very best wishes,

George Wilkins

I have now contacted you on your talk page as recommended by the Wikipedia team. Is this a project you might be interested in please? If so do you require further verification that I am who I say I am?* Basically my priority is to make the page as accurate and informative as possible as Wikipedia  is likely to be the primary source of information used in 99 % of searches.

Please note that I am very new to Wikipedia and don't fully understand how communication between contributors works. therefore could I ask you to contact me on the following email address  and perhaps you could tell me how to move this forward if you're interested?

With very best wishes,

George Wilkins

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v496/n7446/full/496434b.html
 * To help with this, the following link is to a letter I contributed to Nature magazine earlier this year.

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