User talk:Philyao

Phil Yao
I have placed a tag on the article Phil Yao, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. I did this because the article seems to be a biographical account about a person, group of people, or band, but it does not indicate how or why he/she/they is/are notable. If you can indicate why Phil Yao is really notable, I advise you to edit the article promptly, and also put a note on Talk:Phil Yao. Any admin should check for such edits before deleting the article. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. You might also want to read our criteria for speedy deletion, particularly item 7 under Articles. You might also want to read our general biography criteria. Please do not just remove the speedy deletion tag yourself. -- Avi 02:46, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

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Laser shaping
I was going to ask for some more information about the paragraph you added at Laser science, but I see that another editor has removed it, because it doesn't belong in that article. He is right. Maybe there is a better article to mention laser shaping in. Perhaps you could add it to Laser applications instead, or maybe there is already an article on this technique, or something related to it. Have a look around, and see if you can find a good place.

Here is the paragraph I am referring to: Also associated with laser science is laser shaping, the goal of which is to shape objects with pinpoint precision. Many academics and professors, such as Professor Y. Lawrence Yao are working to improve or upgrade the technique or expand it for a wider scope of versatility.

One change I would like to request, if you add this back in to another article: please don't say that the goal is to shape objects with "pinpoint precision". This is vague, and leaves the reader with no idea how precise this technique is. I'm not familiar with "laser shaping", so I honestly don't know if you mean shaping materials with precision comparable to the tip of a pin, or shaping materials to micrometer precision, or perhaps the technique actually shapes materials on nanometer or atomic scales. Please give the reader a clearer idea how precise it is.--Srleffler 04:43, 26 June 2006 (UTC)