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Cleanup on Michael A. Wiener
Thanks for taking the time to look over and clean up the Michael A. Wiener I had just created. It was late and well past my bedtime, and I didn't catch the errors. Thanks for looking through and actually reading the article to make the needed fixes. Alansohn (talk) 14:59, 4 August 2009 (UTC)

Revolution Mini-500
Thanks for your note on this article, it is good to question everything that doesn't look right. I actually personally know the author of this book and he is pretty reliable, although in this case I agree that he may have got the model number wrong. Here is an exact quote of what that section says:

The problem with helicopters is that they are slow, noisy, inefficient, they vibrate a lot, and explode an awful lot of fuel to fly a pound of payload a mile. Right? Wrong! Recent advances in rotor heads, blades and engines have made the evolution of fling wings a revolution—especially at the Revolution Helicopter Corporation. Dennis Fetters, designer of the super successful Air Command gyroplane series, has completed the evolution of his helicopter dream with the advent of the Mini 500. Initially, he teamed up with Argentinean helicopter designer Augusto Cicare to develop the original C-6 test platform into the Mini 500. However, failure to reach an amicable financial contract forced Fetters to redesign and patent "a newly improved control system." - Armstrong, Kenneth: Choosing Your Homebuilt - the one you will finish and fly! Second Edition, page 202. Butterfield Press, 1993. ISBN 0-932579-26-4

I think we need to confirm some other refs and see what they say. This forum which quotes Cicare seems to think it was the CH-6, so I suspect that Armstrong lost the "H" there somewhere. Dennis Fetters also presents his side of the controversy there, too, including most of an article written by Ken Armstrong! - Ahunt (talk) 18:08, 4 August 2009 (UTC)


 * I think your analysis is spot on there. Based on what we have turned up I think it is safe in the article to make C-6 into CH-6, instead and put it down to a typo! I'll take care of that! - Ahunt (talk) 22:43, 4 August 2009 (UTC)

Recent death
Please see this discussion which is related to a proposed change to Recent death. An example of how this change would appear is on this userpage. --Brian McNeil /talk 00:21, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

Kennebec River Lights
Thanks for your careful editing. I sometimes forget to use em dashs instead of "--" and so forth. A couple of questions, though. You added two blank lines between the Categories and the stub tags on Perkins Island Light. Since the stub tags set at the bottom of the page, the effect of this was to insert two blanks lines between the NRHP box and the two stub tags. My theory has been to set these tight to minimize the use of screen real estate for items which are auxiliary to the main article. Is the extra space Wiki policy?

Also, at Doubling Point Light, you changed the NRHP infobox from "COAST GUARD" to "U.S. Coast Guard". I agree that the latter is preferable, but it has been my habit to leave the NRHP infobox as the Elkman tool creates it -- with all of the fields filled out as they appear on NRIS. This appears to be the policy of the NRHP Project group as well. Thus the NRHP infobx title for the Doubling Point Range Lights is "Kennebec River Light Station" because that is the NRIS name, even though the Coast Guard and everybody else calls it by the article name. Jim. . . . Jameslwoodward (talk • contribs) 22:42, 4 September 2009 (UTC)

Did you trying to be nice or mean to User:64.252.124.238?
Did you trying to be nice or mean to User:64.252.124.238? Is difficult to be nice? Or is possible? Thanks.--B767-500 (talk) 06:01, 29 October 2009 (UTC)

Dashes
Just a note to point you in the direction of MOS:DASH. DrKiernan (talk) 09:25, 6 December 2009 (UTC)

von Kluge
Wow, thanks! I had forgotten about this. Great job! I will try to remember your suggestions the next time I visit a museum. Thanks MisterBee1966 (talk) 18:53, 6 February 2010 (UTC)

Redirect at Bixby Creek Bridge
I've deleted the redirect, per your request. You may move the article when ready. Best, UltraExactZZ Said~ Did 13:24, 9 March 2010 (UTC)

Peter Foster
Thanks for fixing the references section - single column is much more readable!Autarch (talk) 21:38, 13 March 2010 (UTC)

T-6 Texan II ref list
I noticed that you changed the reflist on this article from two column to one with the note "2-column mode unusable". I am just wondering if you are using Google Chrome for a browser (as I am)? In Chrome the two column mode just shows up as a single column on all articles where or greater is used. However it still seems to work fine on other browsers, such as Firefox and Epiphany. It seems that Chrome doesn't like the coding for the pages, as it is a very strict browser.

I don't know if that helps at all? - Ahunt (talk) 17:48, 18 March 2010 (UTC)


 * Thanks for your note on this, makes sense to me. Using Chrome (at least on Linux) I always see reflists as just one column anyway, so I am not about to reverse your work there! - Ahunt (talk) 22:41, 18 March 2010 (UTC)

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Thanks for your edits on Ed Roberts
Thank you for correcting my poor grammar in the Ed Roberts biography. You are welcome to improve any of my contributions. I don't know why I am so poor with grammar; I took English 101 three times in college. (I really did that.)

On your talk page you mention rotary dial phones, slide rules and key punch machines. I have done that also, we need an article on changing TV channels with a pair of pliers. -- SWTPC6800 (talk) 19:01, 5 April 2010 (UTC)

You're right
A number of us have dealt with myriad sock puppets created by the banned sockmaster Nyannrunning. User:My account now is yet another in a very long line of socks. One can tell by the articles he edits and the content he adds. Wildhartlivie (talk) 00:39, 5 June 2010 (UTC)

Main sequence
Greetings,

Regarding your well-intentioned edits to the Main sequence article, I would just like to mention a couple of things. First, per WP:EMDASH, either unspaced em-dashes or spaced en-dashes can be used. However, one style should be used consistently throughout an article. If an article is consistent in its usage, it is unnecessary to switch from one style to another, and doing so may be considered bad form. Second, per WP:NOTBROKEN, there is no need to fix a redirect, except in certain rare cases. Thank you.&mdash;RJH (talk) 21:06, 2 July 2010 (UTC)

Explanation
Here, you asked why that page had previously been deleted.

Answer: there had been a previous article by the same name; that article was much too spammish. It was deleted (in 2007), and the talk page was deleted along with it. Simple. DS (talk) 14:29, 9 August 2010 (UTC)

Re: Talk:Hollywood
I am sorry that I can not figure out how to add at the bottom of this page other than this. I am Johnstone Whitley the grandson of H J Whitley "The Father Of Hollywood". I would like to thank you for your support. It has been very difficult to correct history at 86 years of age. The family has personal journals, business records and much more. Much of it is in the Whitley Papers which my mother gave to the UCLA special reference Library in the 1950s. Thanks again. I really appreciate your support.—Whithj (talk) 05:19, 25 August 2010 (UTC) (This is a response to my comment at Talk:Hollywood on August 20, 2010.)

RE: Harrison Schmitt POV
Public polling does not, and never correctly has determined scientific consensus, and it adds no support to your argument. That being said, you provide no evidence for your statistic, and I therefore have no reason to believe it.

For what it's worth, a Gallup poll from March of this year (after the Climategate debacle) shows clearly that more Americans believe climate change is mostly caused by humans than that it is not [March 11, 2010, The Gallup Organization: "Americans Divided on Causes of Global Warming", "[D]o you believe increases in the Earth's temperature over the last century are due more to -- the effects of pollution from human activities [50%] (or) natural changes in the environment that are not due to human activities [46%]". Americans clearly view the threat as exaggerated, which is shown on the same link, but more still attribute it to human activities.

Climate change may or may not be anthropogenic, but the overwhelming majority of scientific consensus agrees that it is anthropogenic. The article I linked to is titled List of scientists opposing the mainstream scientific assessment of global warming. I did not name that article nor was involved with its creation; if you have a problem with that take it up with those who did.

Further, the correction I made was removing the phrase global warming hoax, which is absurdly in violation of the requirement of a neutral point of view. Imagine if one of the Moon landing hoax clowns came along and put in the article's lead, "Harrison Schmitt...was a participant in the Apollo 17 hoax mission". Do you think that would remain in the article long? It would not and should not. Likewise, it was right to remove the statement global warming hoax. Anyway, your revert has been reverted itself, and not by me.

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Chile mining accident
Hi, I see you tried to create previously consensus to keep the article on one place, and you opted to keep it at [{2010 Copiapó mining accident]] (the most accurate title). I invite you to take part of the latter discussion on the matter, located here. Thanks, and have a nice day. Diego Grez (talk) 01:14, 30 August 2010 (UTC)

The dots in Adaptations of Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Hello, just wondering if the dots are after Dr and Mr in Stevenson's original? It's just the main article on Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde doesn't have them, and the picture of the first edition doesn't either. Bob talk 20:52, 31 August 2010 (UTC)


 * According to the etext at Project Gutenberg, the punctuation after "Dr" and "Mr" is there. Project Gutenberg has a fairly rigorous proofreading process, and I don't think they'd do it if it were incorrect.  I can't say if the punctuation is missing in the original edition, because all we see is a picture of the cover, all in capitals, and that may have been done for stylistic reasons.  As far as the article missing the punctuation, I've wondered, too, since it is considered improper according to all the English teachers I've had from the first grade onward.  I think not using periods after abbreviations is a fairly recent development by British journalists, because I've examined 19th century and early 20th century British writings, and they indicate abbreviations such as "Mr.", "Mrs.", "Dr.", etc. with a period, just like the rest of the English-speaking world.  Maybe it's laziness or ignorance, who knows?&mdash;QuicksilverT @ 21:05, 31 August 2010 (UTC)


 * Mmm, I had a look at that as well - they are there in the e-text. What I'm looking for now is a photo scan of the 1st edition. For consistency, though, it would be best for the spin-off article to have the same format as the main article. Maybe you could put in a proposed move for the Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde article? Bob talk 10:43, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

Yvon Chouinard
Hello, Thanks for the many improvements to this article. I disagree with just one. Every reference I've ever seen renders the name as TM Herbert rather than T.M. Herbert. It seems he did not use periods. If you have other information, please let me know. Cullen328 (talk) 05:45, 4 October 2010 (UTC)

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2010 Copiapó mining accident
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Portable water purification
Hallo , I translated Portable water purification to another language. The guys there asked me for citations for verification for: 

Therefore I sought the revision-history and found your edit here ( 20.06.2006 )(#12/20/2010#). Can you help me to find some documents or images proving this? This would be great. Probably, you know somebody able to take a photo of such a device.

You may use my discussion page on commons: commons:User talk:Rillke/Discuss

Thanks --Rillke (talk) 15:05, 24 February 2011 (UTC)


 * (Copy of reply left at Rillke's Commons talk page)
 * I was writing from memory. I saw such a portable device on a television news report or program, or perhaps an engineering journal, some 10-20 years ago.  Also, similar devices have been offered for sale in outdoor sporting goods stores for the civilian market and as survival equipment with inflatable life rafts.  Mechanics' grease guns are designed to create a very large mechanical advantage with their pump levers, because it often takes high pressure to inject grease into bearings and movable joints.  Similarly, reverse osmosis requires considerable pressure, more than one can provide with direct muscle power alone, so the designers of the hand-held devices borrowed from the mechanisms used in grease guns to increase the mechanical advantage.  It took a bit of searching with Google, but I eventually located a couple of photos of such devices at Amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com/Katadyn-8013418-Survivor-06-Desalinator/dp/B000F395X0/ and http://www.amazon.com/Katadyn-Survivor-35-Watermaker-Used/dp/B0012YS3XE/.  The second example, the Katadyn Survivor 35 Watermaker, has the classic "grease gun" appearance.  I don't own one, and most likely never will, due to the high price, so I can't be of help in getting a first-hand photo.  Maybe a footnote referencing the Katadyn devices at the manufacturer's Web site might be sufficient.. &mdash;QuicksilverT @ 19:04, 24 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Thank you for the fast, comprehensive reply. I did not recognize that it would be superior to search the web for desalination of water and I'm sorry for the incorrect date. (Of course it should be 20 December 2006) --Rillke (talk) 11:48, 25 February 2011 (UTC)

fukishima reactor
hi. could you please take a view on whether there should be a separate section on evacuations or whether info about evacuations should be dispersed through the text. Sorry, but it is quite urgent to settle this as lots of edits are running by while we argue about it. thanks. Sandpiper (talk) 02:28, 13 March 2011 (UTC)

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Cleanup
Thanks for the note, all should be well now. Rich Farmbrough, 19:28, 2 February 2012 (UTC).

Convert template removal
Just curious. I don't understand why you have removed the convert templates from the leads of several articles. What's the problem with their relation to tooltip. What is meant by, they "break tooltip preview"? Is the use of certain templates in the leads of certain articles something to be avoided? and/or removed if found? --Racerx11 (talk) 00:15, 29 February 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for the explanation.--Racerx11 (talk) 00:35, 29 February 2012 (UTC)

Signature
Has anyone ever pointed out that Wikipedia generally considers it poor talk page decorum to have a signature that signs a word or name that is completely unrelated to your username? "Quicksilver" sounds neat, but it is confusing that you are signing this when your username is Hydrargyrum. Would you consider amending your signature to make it easier for users to identify you ? Magog the Ogre (talk) 20:12, 2 March 2012 (UTC)

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 * Note to self: Reverted Pioneer Corporation article to use SVG version of logo.  User:Hoikka1 improperly uploaded a 2000px PNG derivative of this logo to Commons, then improperly replaced the SVG version in the article, violating Wikipedia "fair use" guidelines. &mdash; QuicksilverT @ 07:19, 5 March 2012 (UTC)

WikiThanks
Thanks for your recent contributions! 67.80.64.128 (talk) 01:18, 15 April 2012 (UTC)

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I think just a case of image rules tightening up from 2006 to today. I am uploading some images from 1903 that are public domain to replace it. Regards, Resolute 01:04, 30 April 2012 (UTC)

Polar bear edit
Hi Hydrargyrum: I deleted your edit at 16:18, 8 May 2012‎ on the Polar bear page. Some how it duplicated some or part of the article. At first I thought I had made a mistake (I initially thought it was vandalism!). Then, I reverted my initial deletion after I saw you were making good edits up until the last one (which was good plus the duplication). But then on studying the edit, it was clear that a huge block of text had somehow been duplicated. Please check your edit to see what went on. My feeling is that some good changes got fouled up with bad. You might wanta try to re-do the good. Regard, Pinethicket (talk) 17:02, 8 May 2012 (UTC)

Kinkade
I can't understand the why people want the famous dead to be either a 100% sinner or saint. I admire Mr Kinkade's building a business and making a lot of people happy. If lots of people think a picture is worthwhile, it is worth noting. I was not a fan of his work but beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I also admired his pluck in pulling himself out of obscure, dire poverty and first attracting positive attention from the "fine art" world. Their criticism has as much to do with marketing as it does content. In their eyes, a work of art is a limited production seen in a museum or on the wall of the rich. --Javaweb (talk) 19:55, 8 May 2012 (UTC)Javaweb

File:Jack Lord Hawaii Five-O title 220px.png
I have replaced this image with another image in Jack Lord article [and Hawaii Five-O article]. What must this image be? --George Ho (talk) 03:54, 11 May 2012 (UTC)
 * I don't understand the question. &mdash; QuicksilverT @ 21:22, 12 May 2012 (UTC)
 * I'll rephrase: should this image be deleted? --George Ho (talk) 21:25, 12 May 2012 (UTC)

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Em dashes with spaces
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Talkback
JetBlast (talk) 21:45, 19 August 2012 (UTC)

Em dashes
Hey, just a friendly note that em dashes are to be unspaced per WP:DASH. Unspaced em dashes or spaced en dashes are equally good for punctuation within sentences, but they should be used consistently throughout an article. I fixed your dash changes at Sylvia Plath (which already had unspaced em dashes) here, but you may want to go back and fix the ones at Natalie Wood and others. María ( yllo submarine ) 20:56, 16 September 2012 (UTC)


 * The information at WP:DASH was developed by incompetent individuals operating in an information vacuum, who apparently never took a course in typing, nor are they familiar with how line wraps are handled in browsers and other software. You actually broke what I fixed in Sylvia Plath.  If an em-dash or en-dash is used without a preceding non-breaking space, some browsers will break a line before the dash, i.e., the dash ends up in the first column of the next line.  This is considered bad typography:  You will rarely see this error in commercial printed material, unless both the typesetter and the proofreader screwed up.  Wikipedia isn't printed material, but it should still adhere to common typesetting standards insofar as the electronic environment permits.  That's why em-dashes and most en-dashes are offset by a leading non-breaking space and trailing space. &mdash; QuicksilverT @ 21:09, 16 September 2012 (UTC)


 * Okay, so why not petition to change WP:DASH if it's so wrong? María ( yllo submarine ) 21:14, 16 September 2012 (UTC)


 * Hydrargyrum, I see that you keep changing unspaced em dashes to spaced em dashes, recently in the article amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. As per WP:PUNCT, em dashes should be unspaced. I reverted your edits (which also happened to contain other unnecessary changes, like changing US to U.S. or replacing en dashes with commas). kashmiri 15:00, 3 October 2012 (UTC)


 * The article used en-dashes where it should have used em-dashes. This is simply incorrect punctuation.  Moreover, the information at WP:DASH was developed by incompetent individuals operating in an information vacuum, who apparently never took a course in typing, nor are they familiar with how line wraps are handled in browsers and other software.  You actually broke what I fixed in Amyotrophic_lateral_sclerosis.  If an em-dash or en-dash is used without a preceding non-breaking space, some browsers will break a line before the dash, i.e., the dash ends up in the first column of the next line.  This is considered bad typography:  You will rarely see this error in commercial printed material, unless both the typesetter and the proofreader screwed up.  Wikipedia isn't printed material, but it should still adhere to common typesetting standards insofar as the electronic environment permits.  That's why em-dashes and most en-dashes are offset by a leading non-breaking space and trailing space. &mdash; QuicksilverT @ 15:50, 3 October 2012 (UTC) (Copied from User_talk:Kashmiri)


 * Just a very polite reminder that it is not up to you or me to arbitrarily decide that WP:PUNCT should not be adhered to. This is a set Wikipedia standard that every editor here is required to adhere to. Just because some browsers (which ones?) might have buggy line break implementations (as you claim) does not justify breaching this standard. If you believe it should me modified, why don't you discuss this on the relevant talk page? But as long as it is not changed it plainly stands. Note that unspaced em dash is recommended by several English-language manuals of style, including The Chicago Manual of Style for American English and the Oxford Guide to Style for British English, and these are followed by major publishers. So, if you really wish to "adhere to common typesetting standard" as you claim, em dash must be left unspaced. Also, I would not use such a derogatory language about fellow editors who have put tremendous amount of work in developing this web service to the high standard it has. kashmiri 18:28, 3 October 2012 (UTC)


 * I've seen this line break behavior in numerous browsers — Netscape and its Mozilla derivatives; Microsoft Internet Explorer; Opera. I've also seen the behavior in various word processing programs, including the ever-popular Microsoft Word.  From your comments, it would appear that you've never taken a formal course in typing. or "keyboarding" as it is often called now, and is a common part of a business school curriculum: If you had, you wouldn't be arguing with me.  I also don't appreciate you lecturing me. &mdash; QuicksilverT @ 18:48, 3 October 2012 (UTC)


 * Believe me I know typography better than you might think, as perhaps do people who worked on WP:PUNCTUATION. Completing a typing course (which you boast so much about) might be truly a fantastic experience but I don't really see what authority it gives you to override the well-known, respected manuals of style that I mentioned above (by the way, which manual of style was your course based on?). From what you are writing it appears that – in all likelihood – you confuse em dashes (which are usually unspaced) with en dashes (which are spaced when they separate, not link, words/phrases). Maybe you'd like to double-check with course materials. Besides, I honestly don't appreciate your calling of fellow Wikipedians "incompetent individuals operating in an information vacuum" just because they did not complete your fantastic typing course and prefer to abide by the established Wikipedia policies. kashmiri 20:59, 3 October 2012 (UTC)


 * As a last word, you might like to read User:Art LaPella/Because the guideline says so and draw a conclusion for yourself. kashmiri 00:09, 4 October 2012 (UTC)


 * Will you please undertake to undo the damage you've done, by removing the spaces from interruptive em dashes? Otherwise, I'll have to see to it myself, which will be very annoying. Tony   (talk)  00:29, 4 October 2012 (UTC)

FYI, this is being discussed at WT:Manual of Style. I personally use the spaced en-dash in the manner shown in MOS because it looks better (than an un-spaced em-dash), and breaks/wraps correctly. —&#91; Alan  M  1 (talk) &#93;— 04:28, 4 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Yes, the spaced en dash is the mandated alternative, and is actually more common than the (unspaced) em dash. Spaced em dashes are not permitted, according to the style guide, which is why I've come to this page—to ask that this editor not go around spacing them. They are particularly undesirable in wrapped text against an image or table. Tony   (talk)  07:09, 4 October 2012 (UTC)
 * You have been politely asked to stop your tenditious violation of the Wikipedia Manual of Style by several editors. If you continue to change existing dashes into spaced em dashes, I will have to block your account from further editing of Wikipedia. I'm not interested in debating the grammar with you, I'm just here to give you fair warning before you lose your editing privileges. Kaldari (talk) 20:51, 9 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Also please desist from making personal attacks, such as calling other editors "incompetent". Civility and respectful collaboration are required of all Wikipedia editors. Kaldari (talk) 21:04, 9 October 2012 (UTC)

October 2012
Welcome to Wikipedia, and thank you for your contributions. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, please note that there is a Manual of Style that should be followed to maintain a consistent, encyclopedic appearance. Deviating from this style, as you did in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, makes articles harder to read. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. ''You have been asked several times to stop violating the Manual of Style, especially as regards WP:DASH. As you have not complied, I am left with no choice but to reluctantly give this level 1 warning to an otherwise active contributor.'' kashmiri 23:01, 3 October 2012 (UTC)

Please do not use styles that are unusual, inappropriate or difficult to understand in articles, as you did in Louis Armstrong. There is a Manual of Style, and edits should not deliberately go against it without special reason. Thank you. Stop applying your non-MOS em dash preference to articles. Binksternet (talk) 01:37, 14 October 2012 (UTC)


 * Surely you saw my post at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style. The problem you are concerned about cannot by fixed in any manner. If you put a non-breaking space in front of an em dash it does not fix the widow/orphan control text flow problem. No matter what fix you offer, I will be able to show you a pathological case where it fails completely because of window size or font size or whatever. Binksternet (talk) 01:47, 14 October 2012 (UTC)

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