User talk:Earthsound

Concerning your comments at Talk:1948 Arab-Israeli War, Please be proactive and work on the article itself. Of course you are right that there are lots of problems with the article as it stands. Btw, the Bernadotte assassination is at Folke Bernadotte and Lehi so maybe no more than a pointer is needed here. -- zero 06:10, 24 Aug 2003 (UTC)

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 * I replied here. – Quadell (talk) (random) 14:34, 18 June 2007 (UTC)


 * I have replaced the image with PascuaLamaPlanMap.png Earthsound 04:19, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

Thank You!
Thanks for helping me in the Wikimedia Commons :) FF MM (talk) 13:23, 29 March 2010 (UTC)

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 * I have no idea how that edit was saved like that. I didn't even see this note in my talk page until today. How odd. Earthsound (talk) 17:33, 25 October 2011 (UTC)

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 * Thanks Kumioko, I've (finally) added myself as an active member. Earthsound (talk) 19:30, 25 October 2011 (UTC)

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User:Earthsound/spamwatch
Salutations Earthsound! Recently the subpage User:Earthsound/Spamwatch had been vandalised here. I think it was intentional since the IP address had an history of adding spam links. I'm too ignorant on how Bryanbot works but if this is important, shouldn't protection be requested on such a page? It looks quite important to me, anyway do the needful. -Ugog Nizdast (talk) 17:32, 23 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Thank you for the effort, however it's a pointer to the spam blacklist talk page and is automatically updated by bryanbot. The entries aren't outside links. :) Take care! Earthsound (talk) 01:59, 24 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Then it's all good and I simply worried. Anyway, thanks for your time. Have a nice day, Ugog Nizdast (talk) 06:29, 24 September 2013 (UTC)

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Solar eclipse of July 28, 1851
Reviewing your change to this article: are you saying that there were earlier correctly-exposed photographs of solar eclipses? Removing the claim that this was the first implies that there were others. While the corona is an important part of the photograph, it might reasonably be implied that a correctly-exposed photo of the eclipse would include the corona. The reverse isn't obviously the case. If there's no evidence of an earlier correctly-exposed photograph of a solar eclipse, then the previous wording would seem to be preferable, since that would be at least as significant, and include the presumption that the corona was also correctly exposed. P Aculeius (talk) 00:28, 21 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Yes, earlier, correctly exposed photographs of eclipses were made before this one, though not of a total eclipse to my knowledge (and none have survived AFAIK). It would be incorrect to assume that a correctly exposed photo of an eclipse would include the corona which is why his photos of totality that day were so useful at the time. Previously, sketches were used to record observations of the corona based on memory of the event. What the corona was and where it came from were debated and not understood at the time. Additionally, coronagraphs didn't exist until the 1930s, so observing the corona was only possible during totality. I'm going to take another stab at cleaning up the intro a bit in an attempt to be more accurate and concise. Earthsound (talk) 18:56, 22 December 2017 (UTC)

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