User talk:SPat/Archives/2011/August

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Tagging attack pages
Thanks for tagging Beth Larkin just now, but when a page is a personal attack like that, there is a better way to do it: blank the entire content, and replace it with db-attack or db-atk. That gets the attack off the screen so the attacker can't giggle over it, reduces the risk of it being picked up by mirror sites, generates a suitably fierce warning for you to copy to the attacker's talk page, and puts the article in a high-priority queue for admin attention. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 14:53, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

A3
Vinegar. You A3'd this in a minute. A little too fast! Polargeo (talk) 13:27, 24 March 2010 (UTC)
 * No worries. You were spot on. I was just about to redirect the article when I noticed it had been CSD tagged. No issue with your CSD tag it is just that A3 and A1 should be held off for a bit per the advice at the top of Special:NewPages :) Polargeo (talk) 13:46, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

Jatt Sikh
Thanks for spotting the reference error. best Wishes--Sikh- History 16:46, 1 April 2010 (UTC)

Rubot II
Hello. Just following on from the DYK nom. Perhaps you didn't know that we just aren't allowed to lift whole sentences from someone else's work and copy them into our articles (unless we make it clear that it's a direct quote, obviously). This is mainly for copyright reasons: published stuff legally belongs to its authors and publishers, unless it's licensed for anyone to copy it. For instance, the RuBot II article says"To start, the robot accepts a Rubik's cube from a human. It then grabs the cube and hoists it up to eye camera level, where its deft manipulators scan all sides of the cube. The robot can solve the Rubik's cube puzzle in remarkably short order"

which is basically the same as the source's"To start, the robot accepts a Rubik's cube from a (mere) human. The 'bot then grabs the cube and hoists it up to eye camera level, where its deft manipulators scan all sides of the cube. The robot can solve the Rubik's cube puzzle in remarkably short order"

That source has this line "Copyright © 2010 TechMediaNetwork.com All rights reserved." at the bottom, which means it isn't licensed for anyone to copy it. It's always best to write stuff in your own words, both to avoid plagiarism or copyright problems, and also to structure your article better, so it doesn't read like random sentences just stuck together. Hope this helps, and sorry if it sounds like I'm being patronising, it's not meant to. Happy editing, cheers, Struway2 (talk) 09:47, 23 April 2010 (UTC)

Deletion nomination of File:RuBot II.jpg
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Aline Rhonie
thanks for your help, my dad also has a bunch of info on her, i am trying to get them into the WP. here is another article i found : http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1961&dat=19580226&id=pIEhAAAAIBAJ&sjid=dosFAAAAIBAJ&pg=5103,5058421 James Michael DuPont 10:42, 24 May 2010 (UTC)

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The Polish Rider
If we work on The Polish Rider it could be featured on the front page as a good new article, see The Polish Rider. Proxima Centauri (talk) 17:44, 11 June 2010 (UTC)

You are now a Reviewer
Hello. Your account has been granted the "reviewer" userright, allowing you to review other users' edits on certain flagged pages. Pending changes, also known as flagged protection, is currently undergoing a two-month trial scheduled to end 15 August 2010.

Reviewers can review edits made by users who are not autoconfirmed to articles placed under pending changes. Pending changes is applied to only a small number of articles, similarly to how semi-protection is applied but in a more controlled way for the trial. The list of articles with pending changes awaiting review is located at Special:OldReviewedPages.

When reviewing, edits should be accepted if they are not obvious vandalism or BLP violations, and not clearly problematic in light of the reason given for protection (see Reviewing process). More detailed documentation and guidelines can be found here.

If you do not want this userright, you may ask any administrator to remove it for you at any time. —DoRD (talk) 12:52, 25 June 2010 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Quantum rotor model
Hello! Your submission of Quantum rotor model at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and there still are some issues that may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Nsk92 (talk) 06:46, 13 July 2010 (UTC)

WP:DFTT
I rolled back your edit to WP:DFTT because DFTT stands for Don't Feed The Trolls and the troll redirects all soft to the Don't feed the trolls page on WikiMedia. If you would like to discuss this further, contact me on my talk page. Bob the Wikipedian (talk • contribs) 21:49, 12 September 2010 (UTC)

"To center around"?
I corrected the phrase "...(to) center around ..." to "... (to) center on ... in the introduction of the article about the Ayodhya debate. Almost immediately you reverted this change and declared it to be "vandalism". Can you please explain what you mean if you say something centers "around" an object? To me this is contadictory and just bad English. I also think you are going a little bit too far to declare my correction an act of vandalism. Ekem (talk) 18:48, 30 September 2010 (UTC)
 * I understand. Thanks. Ekem (talk) 20:44, 30 September 2010 (UTC)

Informal Review inputs for Indian Astronomical Observatory article
Thank you for some of the work you have done on contributing to Wikipedia articles on Indian astronomical observatory. I have been working on adding and improving the articles of 12 functioning observatories in India. In January, I have been focussed on the Indian Astronomical Observatory.

It would be great to have an informal review of the article and post your comments here.

Prad2609 (talk) 06:38, 21 January 2011 (UTC)

Pune Revert and Hello
Hi, thanks for reverting edit on Pune. Seems that user is vandalizing other pages also, adding Kannada language. Btw,I am myself from Pune and a maths graduate :) See you around GreenEdu (talk) 17:11, 25 January 2011 (UTC)

Sonalee Kulkarni
Hi,

There is really no need for a discussion. When you find that a redirect is in the way of a new article, you can just convert the redirect into a proper page. Redirects really only need to be deleted if either a page has to be moved from mainspace to mainspace or if there is something fundamentally wrong with it for other reasons. So just go ahead and move your text to Sonalee Kulkarni. 11:27, 30 January 2011 (UTC)

Babri Mosque
If you check the Tully article, he writes there was a commitment to the courts and government was that there was only to be a religious ceremony. Your edit says that this is what happened, but this did not happen, this was only what was promised beforehand. Tully then goes on to describe a political rally, with flags, colours and speeches, which developed into a riot that was at first resisted by police. This is what the Babri Mosque article describes - a rally and a riot. Trying to describe these actions as a religious ceremony could not use this article as a source. If you wanted to add a detail about the promise of a religious ceremony then the line could read 'despite a commitment to the Indian Supreme Court by the rally organisers that they were planning a religious ceremony and the mosque would not be harmed.' but I would consider this excessive detail, making the paragraph less readable and inferior to what is there now. I was actually trying to use the Tully reference as the source for the reverted paragraph, but obviously messed it up. I'll fix it shortly. Mdw0 (talk) 03:41, 14 February 2011 (UTC)


 * Personally I think the article Demolition of Babri Masjid should be deleted because there is nothing here that isnt written in the Babri Mosque article. But in answer to your question - No, as we discussed, its not good in regards to the describing the event as a religious ceremony. Since most of the rest of the information in that article is a direct lift from the Babri Mosque artricle, a copy and paste of that section would probably be fine. Mdw0 (talk) 08:40, 15 February 2011 (UTC)

Edit-a-thon for Women's History Month
Hi SPat! We're organizing a Bay Area edit-a-thon in March, part of a series of global events in honor of Women's History Month. We're hoping to get some new editors involved and will need experienced Wikipedians like yourself to help out too! If you might want to participate, please take | this poll to let us know, or send it to anyone else you know who might be interested :-) Thanks, and hope to see you there! Sbouterse (WMF) (talk) 18:12, 23 February 2012 (UTC)


 * Thanks for letting me know! I just took the survey  S Pat   talk 21:57, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

Wikimedia Stories Project
Hi Shreyas!

It was nice to meet you this weekend! Is there a time that you would be interested in coming into the office for a one-on-one interview?

Victor Grigas (talk) 17:28, 8 February 2012 (UTC)


 * Hi Victor, thanks for arranging the meetup! I'd be happy to come. I'm usually busy during the week, but I think I can make it on weekends.  S Pat   talk 18:47, 8 February 2012 (UTC)

A cookie for you!

 * Thanks :)  S Pat   talk 15:18, 7 February 2012 (UTC)

Lunch tomorrow!
Hi, thanks for signing up for the meetup/lunch at the Wikimedia Foundation. Just a reminder that this is happening at noon tomorrow, Saturday the 4th. Our office is located at 149 New Montgomery Street in San Francisco, a short walk from the Montgomery Station BART stop – please see the meetup page for more details. Looking forward to seeing you there! Maryana (WMF) (talk) 00:51, 4 February 2012 (UTC)

Talkback
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San Francisco meetup at WMF headquarters
Hi SPat,

I just wanted to give you a heads-up about the next wiki-meetup happening in SF. It'll be located at our very own Wikimedia Foundation offices, and we'd love it if some local editors who are new to the meetup scene came and got some free lunch with us :) Please sign up on the meetup page if you're interested in attending, and I hope to see you soon! Maryana (WMF) (talk) 22:10, 10 January 2012 (UTC)

DYK for Quantum rotor model
I know almost nothing about this topic, and thus am not competent to advise on how should it written, but since you asked, I'll say something. (i) My motto is if I write technical articles for DYK, I focus more on laymen, i.e. define as many technical terms as possible (or simply ignore science conventions and use simpler language), even if professionals know that all. (ii) Some topics I don't dumb down, but don't sumbit to DYK either.

I tweaked the prose. Please check. If I were you, I would munch the math and consequences, explaining what the parameters imply, extreme cases, explaining a bit the meaning of O(N) symmetry. In other words, expand the article with details, avoiding throwing out isolated technical comments. This is all much work, and surely the mere fact you wrote this article is already great. Materialscientist (talk) 01:19, 25 July 2010 (UTC)