User talk:RockMagnetist/Archive 3

Re Bibliography Project Moves
I am a little miffed at the move because I was doing some behind the scenes coordinating to get some more support. Curb was wrong to move it, but its mature enough, we should just press on getting all together. Your fixes are fine, please continue. I'll find a civil way to deal with Curb. Thanks for the support and the Biology Biblio is coming alone nicely. Good Job. --Mike Cline (talk) 22:21, 2 November 2011 (UTC)
 * I can quite understand you're miffed - I would hate to think that someone would do the same to one of my draft articles! On the plus side, now we can put the project box on some talk pages. I notice it doesn't have assessment - is that deliberate? RockMagnetist (talk) 22:24, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

Please take a look at Outline of biophysics
... to see if you can improve it.

Thank you. The Transhumanist 19:44, 3 November 2011 (UTC)
 * o.k., but I can't promise much. I have been spending too much time on Wikipedia recently, and I need to get on with real life. RockMagnetist (talk) 20:04, 3 November 2011 (UTC)

Another title proposal
So, what's wrong with "Bibliography of notable publications in X"? RobHar (talk) 03:12, 8 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Nothing, really. It's a long story. When we had all those AfDs, Mike Cline pointed out that "bibliography" is a recognized form of list, so it seemed like a good idea to call these lists by that name. Under its previous name, Bibliography of biology had been deleted, and we restored it after improving it. I decided that we might as well try renaming it and using it as a demonstration page for our new style guidelines (unlike some of the lists, it had no constituency that would care what the name is). At the time, the word "notable" was not in the lead. Then we were still getting objections that there wasn't a clear enough selection criterion, so we added "notable" (have you noticed where it links to, by the way?). Personally, I would rather just focus on the content, but there are so many editors that have problems with the idea of a list of publications that we end up going through all sorts of contortions in an attempt to satisfy them. RockMagnetist (talk) 04:03, 8 November 2011 (UTC)
 * I think if you read WP:LISTNAME you'll find that using words like notable in the title is discouraged. The lead takes care of inclusion criteria. --Mike Cline (talk) 04:15, 8 November 2011 (UTC)

Template:Did you know nominations/History of geomagnetism
I can't find any evidence that Henry IV of France had son called Oliver Cromwell.©Geni 17:22, 12 November 2011 (UTC)
 * He didn't. Oliver Cromwell was Lord Protector of England, and le Nautonier's son tried to sell the book to him. I added a little qualifier to make that more clear. RockMagnetist (talk) 17:54, 12 November 2011 (UTC)

Field for project mathematics
I see that you listed Talk:List of books in computational geometry and Talk:List of books about polyhedra with Algebra in the mathematics banner. The correct choice in both cases was Geometry. —David Eppstein (talk) 00:48, 15 November 2011 (UTC)
 * I don't know why I entered Algebra - my fingers and brain not working together, I guess! RockMagnetist (talk) 01:04, 15 November 2011 (UTC)

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Re List of children's classic books
Rock, saw your edit summary and then looked at the list. This is a list of children's classic books published at least 60 years ago and still in print. Wouldn't it be even more precise if it said: This is a list of children's classic books published before 1952 and still in print? Additionally, am curious as to your interpretation of still in print. If works were published before 1923 and are being made available by 'Print on Demand publishers, does that mean they are still in print. Just a question to help me understand. --Mike Cline (talk) 17:12, 2 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Hi, Mike. Pol098 changed the criteria, I just removed the tag. If you think the criteria could be improved, go for it. Mind you, I think there is a larger issue that needs to be resolved. I tried to start a discussion about the roles of Children's literature canon and List of children's classic books, but so far there has been no response. WikiProject Children's literature seems nearly moribund. RockMagnetist (talk) 17:30, 2 December 2011 (UTC)

Re: 70.24.248.23 RFC idea
Rock, FYI This is a message I left 70.24.248.23 this morning. --Mike Cline (talk) 21:34, 6 December 2011 (UTC)

Please add this to your watchlist:

 * Outline of the United Nations

Thank you. The Transhumanist 02:32, 28 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Why me? RockMagnetist (talk) 05:02, 28 December 2011 (UTC)

Watchlist you added to WP Geology
Hi RockMagnetist, I don't think that the watchlist that you added to WP:Geology is what you think it is - it's just showing the history of the Project page (currently showing just your recent edit). Mikenorton (talk) 21:00, 1 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks for pointing that out, Mikenorton. I have corrected the link. RockMagnetist (talk) 22:24, 1 January 2012 (UTC)

Darcy–Weisbach equation
Why are hydraulics and fluid mechanics not appropriate categories? Likewise hydrology. - Ac44ck (talk) 22:31, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
 * They are already represented by subcategories (Hydraulic engineering, Equations of fluid dynamics, and Hydrogeology). In general, only the most specific relevant category should be used (see the guidelines in Categorization). If you think it would be more appropriate to replace one of these subcategories by its parent, that's fine. RockMagnetist (talk) 22:44, 11 January 2012 (UTC)

What is fiction?
Is this section accurate? Is it complete? Please take a quick look. Thank you. The Transhumanist 00:04, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

Hawaii hotspot
I'm planning to send Hawaii hotspot of to FAC again. Heh, again. Anyway, I need to get the thing ship-shape, and first step is getting it right content-wise, which is why it failed its third nom two years ago. So, basically, I'd appreciate an expert's help here =). Thanks, (here's the PR) Res Mar 04:21, 20 January 2012 (UTC)
 * I'm not much of an expert on this subject, but I do have online access to academic journals. I'll help however I can. Looks like a very promising candidate. Nice work! RockMagnetist (talk) 07:00, 20 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Indeed! In terms of style I have a handle on the article (although it will need proofreading), it's the content that always threw me off; so I would really appreciate if you could go through it and point out inconsistencies, errors, etcetera =) Thanks, Res Mar 04:59, 21 January 2012 (UTC)

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Earth's magnetic field
Can you check the way I reworded the last sentence of the intro of Earth's magnetic field? Thank you. RJFJR (talk) 17:07, 25 January 2012 (UTC)

Barnstars!
Its only fair that I give you these in return:

(There were also two cases stopped by JRSpriggs). Also:


 * You're right, it's nice to receive barnstars. Thank you! RockMagnetist (talk) 05:01, 2 February 2012 (UTC)

...especially after me! I notice you do this almost each time I look in the edit history of an article I edited earlier, it really is a tedious job which is why you need this award! -- F = q(E + v × B) 18:56, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

MS in Landau–Lifshitz–Gilbert equation?
Copied from the talk page

Hello, you made many positive edits to the article just recently, but there is still zero explanation of what the scalar parameter MS is. I claimed I would find its meaning but couldn't anywhere... =(

If you could state what it is I would be very grateful. Thanks! =)

P.S. Thanks for fixing even more typos I caused today, such as magnetic moment.

-- F = q(E + v × B) 22:28, 20 February 2012 (UTC)

Broader impact
Students are the easiest ones to convince, of course, but I hope to get converts from postdocs and early faculty as well. The session at the biophysical society happens this Sunday - so I'll know a lot more then, and even more when we see if people really do get into editing.

I'm certainly planning to claim broad impact from this on the progress report for our structure-validation web service grant, once I do an article on structure validation. If nothing else, getting the WikiProject going and having people join and do stuff has psyched me up. Thanks very much for your help! Incidentally, do you mind if I put back Biology as a parent project? I think it might reassure new editor prospects to feel that we had some infrastructure and backup. Dcrjsr (talk) 21:20, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Glad to help. I don't mind if you make it a parent project - I was being overly fussy about that. In fact, it probably be a good idea to list physics as a parent as well. But we should also let those projects know that they have a child! RockMagnetist (talk) 21:29, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
 * In most cases that would be broader impact of a person. But one can claim a broader impact for the NSF if her/his project creates an information resource to be shared on-wiki (such as Rfam or ProteinBoxBot). My very best wishes (talk) 16:24, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

Talkback
N o f o rmation Talk  03:08, 25 February 2012 (UTC)