User talk:Keenan Pepper

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External link in Ant-fungus mutualism
Can you please explain to me why it is important to keep the external link to the abstract of "Coevolved Crypts and Exocrine Glands Support Mutualistic Bacteria in Fungus-Growing Ants"? As you may or may not be aware, the subject of attine ant-fungal symbiosis has been an important topic in the study of fungal and insect ecology, with many (probably several hundred at least) papers having been published on the topic since the early 1990s. This isn't exactly one of the key articles on the subject and also, the link leads only an abstract, not even an entire article. Hence "low-value link", and its choice as an external link strikes me as pretty random. My reading of Wikipedia's external links policy suggests that its not policy to fill external links lists with just anything. The reason I added the link that I did is because its a good general introduction to the topic, and is particularly useful due to the highly incomplete nature of the article itself. Peter G Werner (talk) 03:07, 27 October 2009 (UTC)


 * OK - I didn't realize it was a misplaced reference. Thanks for clearing that up. Peter G Werner (talk) 03:43, 27 October 2009 (UTC)

blahblah at Solid and elsewhere
Hi Keenan, as I appreciated your comment at Talk:Solid, I wanted to tell you that this dispute is close to a sustainable solution: perhaps you would like to express your opinion at Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents. Regards, -- Marie Poise (talk) 18:16, 29 November 2009 (UTC)

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Please note the multiple notices that are up regarding the fact that my edit of the Mössbauer spectrometry page is IN PROGRESS. Therefore your jumping in and editing at the same time is causing a loss of both of our time. PLEASE feel free to contact me to give me feedback but DO NOT EDIT while the CopyEdit notice is still up!!

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 * Sorry about that, I didn't notice there was an important template there. —Keenan Pepper 19:53, 3 June 2010 (UTC)


 * This reads as a sarcastic response. However, I am choosing to accept your apology as exactly that, as my original message reads as rather a harsh rant now that I come back to it. I can only apologise myself and claim frustration as I had worked for several hours on a section without having saved it and risked losing all my changes because of the edit conflict. I see this was my fault for not working in more sensible, shorter chunks and can only put this down to a learning experience. However, I would prefer that you did not refer to other people's analogies as 'weird sentences'! Whether you agree to the inclusions or not, you will have noted that those lay explanations were fully referenced so you were insulting the original author rather than just me. Next time, please make your changes and note any kind of overtly judgemental comment on my User page instead. --SciHound (talk) 08:31, 7 June 2010 (UTC)


 * I did mean the apology earnestly, sorry if it didn't sound sincere. It's easy to get off on the wrong foot, especially when I do things like ignore messages and step on people's feet. I feel embarrassed about it.
 * I only noticed two or three sentences that seemed "weird" to me (not sure how else to put it): One was "...the gamma-ray energy of the source is accelerated...", in which it seems weird to say that the energy is accelerated, instead of just saying the source is accelerated. Another was "When this effect occurs in spectroscopy, the emitting and absorbing nuclei are known to be identical.". That makes sense, I guess, because there's no way you're going to see the effect with different nuclides, but it just seems like a weird thing to say because it should already be clear that you have to use the same nuclide to get the Mössbauer effect. On second thought, it's certainly possible that you don't know anything about the composition of the sample a priori, so the most basic conclusion you can make from Mössbauer spectroscopy is "We got a signal from 57Fe Mössbauer spectroscopy, therefore the sample indeed contains 57Fe.". If it was meant that way then I suppose the sentence is perfectly relevant, but it just struck me as weird when I first read it.
 * The only other weird sentence seems like it could still be an issue for the article that concerns all potential editors, so I'll reply on the article talk page. —Keenan Pepper 09:59, 7 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Fair enough. Let's start again. :)
 * Those particular sentences were not the ones I thought you were refering to but, I can confirm that the second point is NOT in fact obvious to anyone not deeply involved in the science without a great deal of mental acrobatics. Sometimes it is necessary to make a clear, concise statement of the obvious to help a reader along. We can't expect them to draw scientific conclusions themselves.

I am also still interested to know why you deleted the analogies? I acquiesce to the first, regarding the bullet and gun to explain recoil, as being potentially unnecessary (although I thought it added a little harmless polish and readability - but that's only my opinion) but I thought the second was highly useful to a lay person. Especially as the original copyedit request was for reasons of 'over technicality' and 'not suitable for a lay person.' I'm not upset - I communicate science for a living and would appreciate knowing your underlying thoughts. --SciHound (talk) 12:03, 7 June 2010 (UTC)


 * I don't understand... both of those analogies are still there, in the "Basic principle" section. I like them too. —Keenan Pepper 19:01, 7 June 2010 (UTC)

Animations
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Remember that Diesis sound example?
Hi there, do you remember about three years ago when you helped make a sound example for the Diesis page by rendering the MIDI file I had made into a nice sounding ogg with ZynAddSubFX? Yesterday User:Paolo.dL asked if it could be slightly changed so that the diesis was given in the form of 128/125 instead of 125/128 as it currently is--you can read his request and my response at. His request makes sense to me--I hadn't realized the way "descending" way I did it is backwards from how intervals are usually presented. But it's been years since I wrote the Scala script, and I don't even have Scala on this computer now. I could probably eventually find it in the messy pile of CD and DVD backup discs lying around in disorganized piles here--or just write a new Scala script (after remembering how!). But first I thought I'd ask you if you might still have the ability to render that MIDI file into an ogg, and if you could reorder the MIDI notes the way Paolo has pointed out. The relevant files are linked at Talk:Diesis. Don't worry if it would be troublesome to do. I can get to it sooner or later (I'd still have to ask about the rendering into ogg format--if you can still do that). I just thought I'd ask. Thanks! Pfly (talk) 21:51, 9 August 2010 (UTC)

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Euler–Fokker genus
Could you address my questions at Talk:Euler–Fokker genus? Michael Hardy (talk) 19:11, 10 October 2010 (UTC)

Source code for Pi Digit
Hey Keenan,

I'm impressed with your work on File:PiDigits.svg.

You claim to have written it in Gnuplot, an application which I am just beginning to use.

I was wondering if you could provide your source code for it. Feel free to post it it on my discussion page or here if you'd like.

It really doesn't seem to hard, and I think your code may be a good stepping stone for something simple.

Thanks! Teimu.tm (talk) 01:49, 26 January 2011 (UTC)


 * Yea, you know, I was a bit more persistent last night, and I'm getting it. I found some good tutorials. So, while the official docs were a bit dense at first, I'm now able to digest them a bit better. I could do your Pi Digits graph in my sleep now =). Thanks! Teimu.tm (talk) 21:03, 26 January 2011 (UTC)

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Got your message. Not sure why. I left the Tax day item on another user's talk page. Perhaps that user's talk page is on your watchlist? Oldtaxguy (talk) 05:41, 11 February 2011 (UTC)

Message from Annestultiens
Thanks for your advice! As you can tell, I am new to wikipedia and although the information is correct (it was an assignment at university), I don't really know anything about how wikipedia or internet browsers work. I'm glad there are people to help me! Annestultiens (talk) 10:28, 1 March 2011 (UTC)


 * No problem. Also note that when you leave a message on a talk page, you should start a new section unless you're replying to another comment (in which case you put it in that existing section). The "New section" button makes it convenient. —Keenan Pepper 13:51, 1 March 2011 (UTC)

Optical circulator
Hi. I reverted your change to Optical circulator. The non-reciprocal behavior is of course a break in time-reversal symmetry. The point of the sentence you changed, though, is that a break in ordinary spatial symmetry is required to make this possible.--Srleffler (talk) 05:30, 20 March 2011 (UTC)

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Roll (gymnastics)
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RM for "Musical scale"
Keenan, you expressed an interest in the title of Musical scale. After you did that, I initiated a formal RM action to change the title to Scale (music). Your comments would be welcome there, of course.

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Schwinger limit
Hi Keenan. I just created an article Schwinger limit that may be of interest to you based on your question. You are of course welcome to improve the article as you wish. Teply (talk) 07:21, 23 June 2012 (UTC)

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Cat Organ/Piano
It's a real musical instrument. The dude who invented it was mentaly challenged, though. I've seen a book about it's inventor that mentions it. Forget the title, though. So... this isn't a hoax article.--SmartyPantsKid, Signing off. 14:49, 23 January 2013 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by SmartyPantsKid (talk • contribs)

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LifeStyles data
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Contiguous USA graph source
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 * It's right here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:UnitedStatesGraphViz.png#GraphViz_Source —Keenan Pepper 05:35, 4 August 2014 (UTC)

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Disambiguating Bahr el-Ghazal
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 * That sounds good, feel free to go ahead and do it if I don't get to it first. —Keenan Pepper 20:43, 22 February 2017 (UTC)

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Trying to trace the source of an error
Greetings: Back in 2006 you contributed to article Shruti (music). The table of shrutis you included was referenced to Donald A. Lentz's book Tones and Intervals of Hindu Classical Music. But there is an error in that table you included. Was that table reproduced literally without change from Lentz's book? I'm trying to find out if there's an error in Lentz's book. Thanks. Cheers. Basemetal 02:18, 28 March 2018 (UTC)


 * What are you saying is the error in https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Shruti_(music)&oldid=46125896 ? —Keenan Pepper 02:22, 28 March 2018 (UTC)


 * The 12th shruti needs to be 729/512 for the interval between the 11th and the 12th to be pramāṇa and that between the 12th and the 13th to be pūraṇa. You can check that if the 12th shruti was 64/45 (as it is in the table), then the interval between the 11th and the 12th would not even be an interval recognized in the Indian system. It would be a so called diaschisma (2048/2025). Besides the content in cents of the 12th shruti, as recorded in the table, cannot be right, but that's not that important to me. Both numbers were corrected in https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Shruti_(music)&oldid=60864182, but my question is not about the accuracy of the current table, but what the source of that first error was, specifically if it came from Lentz's book. Basemetal  02:29, 28 March 2018 (UTC)


 * Well, I can't actually find the book at all right now. I'd guess I copied it from the book exactly, but it's certainly possible I altered it, especially since the discrepancy is exactly a schisma. —Keenan Pepper 14:49, 28 March 2018 (UTC)

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12 years of adminship, today.
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Danubian cycloid
Hello Sam Derbyshire, Could You do some maps of three phase cycloid Danube propagation and paleodynamics for open access sci article. It would be great breakthrough. After we can use it on Commons. Best, Lepota luba cosmo lepota.cosmo@hotmail.com--178.220.219.36 (talk) 03:48, 13 September 2018 (UTC)


 * No idea what you're talking about, I'm afraid. —Keenan Pepper 17:10, 13 September 2018 (UTC)

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Pizza Pop!
I restored the article which you made in 2006, which was deleted in 2007. Harizotoh9 (talk) 13:17, 24 December 2018 (UTC)

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Request of overview on a source contribution
Hello Mr Pepper,

I stumbled today on the article about DMSA, where you asked an unknown user to provide sources about the statement "DMSA cannot cross brain-barrier on humans". The user provided sources. I checked the sources and they appear to be insufficient to support that claim. I explained, with details, why, on the talk page. But I don't want yet to remove the doubtful claim before someone approved the necessity to do so, since I'm fairly new to Wikipedia and not sure on how things work here.

Here is the link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Dimercaptosuccinic_acid

Would you please give an eye to it ? Does it seem correct to you ?

Cordially, Eldieke (talk) 20:45, 5 August 2019 (UTC)


 * If there's information that isn't actually backed up by the sources, by all means please feel free to remove it. You don't have to ask me or anybody else. Be Bold. —Keenan Pepper 20:49, 5 August 2019 (UTC)

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Speedy deletion nomination of Garbanzo beans
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 * This makes no sense to me because it's just a redirect, and it seems like a totally average, useful redirect. I assume you have no issue with Garbanzo bean -> Chickpea, so why shouldn't we also have one for the plural? —Keenan Pepper 15:42, 20 November 2019 (UTC)

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 * Thanks, but I think your template or whatever might be broken for usernames with spaces in them! —Keenan Pepper 21:37, 1 May 2020 (UTC)

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File:Coord1b.png
Hi! Do you remember if you made this old file? It will probably look like ms:Fail:Coord1b.jpg. I ask because the file is used on ms.wiki. --MGA73 (talk) 12:08, 14 May 2020 (UTC)


 * I'm afraid I don't remember. I did a significant amount of converting image formats or sprucing them up, rather than creating them. —Keenan Pepper 16:25, 14 May 2020 (UTC)


 * Okay thank you! --MGA73 (talk) 07:12, 15 May 2020 (UTC)

Taxobox for species
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