User talk:TJBoy

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I feel a bit silly welcoming you, since your earliest contribs are earlier than mine. However, welcome anyway, and thanks for your work on Itanium. Do you happem to have a citation for the recent use of Itanium in biochem? -Arch dude (talk) 20:08, 17 October 2008 (UTC)

Reference for 2008 sales figures for Itanium?
I shifted the article back to the 2007 numbers from the cited reference. If you can provide a refrence, we put your mid-2008 numbers back in. If you do not want to mess with the bizarre "cite web" formatting, just cram in the URL any way you want, and I will put it in proper form for you. -Arch dude (talk) 17:17, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Hi Arch dude. Thanks for the welcome. I'm definitely a novice on Wikipedia, so I appreciaite the information. I think you've done a great job with this article. I really don't have a citation for the use of Itanium in biochem. That insertion was based on what I've seen on the Gelato, ISA, and Intel SGI web sites and collateral(hardly unbiased sources). I know bio science is a key area for them...but I can't really justify Itanium's uptake in that area beyond a number of case studies, Gelato presentations, etc. As for the mid-2008 sales numbers, those came from IDC Server Tracker. It's copyrighted info, so I could only link to a purchase site, which I'm guessing isn't really appropriate for Wikipedia. I have no problem with you deleting either or both of these items, if you think that's appropriate. I can just repost if and when I get appropriate references I can cite. Thanks again for the welcome...keep up the great work. TJBoy (talk) 18:03, 23 October 2008 (UTC)
 * [I took the liberty of moving your above response. Our (extremely poor) thread convention on talk pages is to place the reply below the OP, indented.]
 * Actually, citing a for-purchase paper is perfectly acceptable, although not all editors understand this. Furthermor, in this case I feel that citing the Gelato blog is about the best we can hope for for th ebiochem ref. Let's just go for it: put the cites in even if you don't have a URL, using any approximation for the cite you would use in an academic paper for the IDC study. For the Gelato blog, put in the URLs. -Arch dude (talk) 23:39, 23 October 2008 (UTC)
 * A further note: It is EXTREMELY frustrating when you actually know something to be true because of personal observation, but you cannot add it to Wikipedia without being hassled. When you are frustrated in this fashion, you need to understand why the wikipedia rules exist. Here is a brief description:
 * Anybody can edit, but we have no way to certify who the editor is or what the editor's credentials are, and we have no mechanism to validate the edits. Therefore, we cannot accept an edit based solely on the knowledge of the editor.
 * valid external sources are assumed to have mechanisms that verify their sources: someone is responsible and there is a verifiable name with contact information associated with the source. Yes, this assumption is arguable, but it's the best we have.
 * These two fundamental premeses are the basis of Wikipedia. Scary, isn't it? the weird thing is that it actually works. -Arch dude (talk) 01:32, 24 October 2008 (UTC)