User talk:Lightmouse/Archives/2008/March

Fear Factory
dude, wtf ist going on with FF? o.O the last few days there was written "on hiatus" why is it no more there? did FF split again? is FF gone? o.O pls just tell me what is going on with FF :/


 * User:Segvaj_42 —Preceding comment was added at 18:16, 6 March 2008 (UTC)


 * I do not understand what you mean. I looked at the article and it is still there. Can you try to restate the problem? Lightmouse (talk) 09:16, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

ok look the last few days where it is written years active: 2004-2007 there actually was written years active 2004-2008 (on hiatus)

why is the "on hiatus" removed? does that mean FF are dead?


 * User:Segvaj_42 —Preceding comment was added at 12:07, 7 March 2008 (UTC)


 * I do not know. Lightmouse (talk) 12:57, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

Unlinking Dates
You recently unlinked the dates in Getafe and 189th Airlift Wing. According to the Manual of Style, dates and years should be linked to facilitate date autoformatting and to facilitate the increase of the reader's understanding of the time period. I have reverted these edits. -- Mûĸĸâĸûĸâĸû 22:51, 6 March 2008 (UTC)


 * You misunderstand Manual of Style. It does not require all date fragments to be linked. The autoformatting mechanism has nothing to do with solitary years, solitary months and solitary days. If you want to know more, perhaps you might wish to discuss it there. Lightmouse (talk) 09:21, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

---Hello lightmouse. I agree with Mukkakukaku. You have also unlinked dates in other articles making the context of time and history totally meaningless. No one says we are "required" to link "all" dates, but totally taking dates out of articles that relate to specific periods in history reduces the value of the wiki's power of helping find related information. Thank you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.149.90.137 (talk) 22:04, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

AWB use on A Perfect Circle
Hi, you recently edited A Perfect Circle using AWB and changed all the Nine Inch Nails references to Nine Inch (229 mm) Nails. For the record, that's a band name, not an actual description of the length of nails. Happy editing! -- Evan ¤  Seeds  22:03, 10 March 2008 (UTC)


 * You are absolutely right. Thanks for spotting that and for letting me know. Regards Lightmouse (talk) 22:04, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

Editing US locations
I notice you're converting units in articles for US cities to metric. I don't think you should be doing this - the US goes by English units. Please stop. --JaGa (talk) 18:36, 13 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Mea culpa. I was under the impression you were replacing English units with metric in US locations (which would have been a problem for the US readers of Wikipedia). I've undone all changes I did to your edits.  My sincere apologies. --JaGa (talk) 18:51, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

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DDR articles
Uhh, why did you convert the units of DDR foot rsnkings to meters? We call them FEET because in DDR games, the difficulty of a song is represented by a number of icons of footprints! Though, from now on, I shall refer to Max 300 as being a 3 meter on Expert mode XD ViperSnake151 17:16, 14 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Man, what are you talking about. I have .6096 meters on the end of my legs.  He's correct, don't diss. 75.89.67.237 (talk) 21:34, 14 March 2008 (UTC)


 * This sounds like a mistake. Please give me a link to one of the articles and I will investigate what happened. Thanks. Lightmouse (talk) 09:33, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

Years
Discussion moved to Wikipedia_talk:Manual_of_Style_%28dates_and_numbers%29. Lightmouse (talk) 14:41, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

History of the petroleum industry in Canada
I notice that you recently went through this article with a Wikipedia program to make some automatic changes and metric conversions. I wonder whether you would do that with the other articles in this series: I'm especially concerned that I have used cubic metres in some places and cubic feet (for natural gas) and barrels (for oil and liquids) in others. Also, there is the matter of miles and kilometres, etc.

The correct conversion for oil is as follows: 1 cubic metre = 6.29 barrels.

1 cubic metre of natural gas = 35.49 cubic feet.

Please note that the spelling of metre, kilometre, etc. is correct in this note.

16:27, 21 March 2008 (UTC)~


 * I have generally avoided automated conversion of 'barrel' due to its ambiguity. But I think it is certainly a common unit in need of conversion. As far as miles and kilometres and all the other units are concerned, it would be easy enough to go through the series. I will take a look and let you know. Lightmouse (talk) 15:04, 24 March 2008 (UTC)


 * These conversions need more thought. For example, at Ghawar you now have "71,000,000,000 US barrels (11,300,000,000 m³)" - half a linefull for what was a single, easily read and widely understood quantity ("170 billion barrels").  The template is the problem.  We should do it manually until they fix it.


 * I'd suggest the form "71 billion barrels (11,300 GL)". There's no need for "US barrel" or "US oil barrel" - it's an oil field, so obvious.  And barrel is wikilinked higher in the article. --Gergyl (talk) 03:52, 29 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Thank you for your feedback. The 'US barrel' is a feature of the template. I will ask for this to be corrected. The use of zeros rather than words (e.g. billion) is also a feature of the template. I have asked the developers for a word option to be provided. In the meantime, feel free to update the articles as you think best. Lightmouse (talk) 09:24, 29 March 2008 (UTC)


 * I've seen your edits to Petroleum, Tar sands, etc using the convert template. I appreciate the intention, but please be careful.  You've been changing the number of zeroes in some of the input figures (you changed 25 to 25000, 15 to 15000).  Also please do not add convert inside direct quotations (or if you must, please surround it with sincle square brackets to preserve the integrity of the quotation.)  Thanks, LeadSongDog (talk) 20:16, 28 March 2008 (UTC)


 * The change to the number of zeros is an error with the conversion script. It has now been corrected. As you suggest, conversions inside quotes should not have been done with round parentheses, they should have been done in a different way. Thanks for spotting that. Lightmouse (talk) 09:24, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

HE-AAC changes
In changing terms on the HE-AAC article, you also changed the title text of 2 citations. Mis-quotes are decidedly worse than inconsistently used abbreviations, so I reverted your change. Please be more careful in the future. On a lesser note you also left a number of similar terms untouched. Rcooley (talk) 14:18, 30 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Thank you for spotting and correcting those. The ones that were not touched were a consequence of conservative coding, I have now updated the article accordingly. Thanks again. Lightmouse (talk) 15:31, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

Hungarian language
Thank you for the cleanup. Squash Racket (talk) 04:31, 31 March 2008 (UTC)


 * You are welcome. Lightmouse (talk) 08:17, 31 March 2008 (UTC)