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• Archive 1 - Alameda Measure A archive
• Archive 2 - Engineering-related talk archive
• Archive 3 - Discussions about nationalist revisionism
• Archive 4 - The Barrington/YouTube/Sir Nicholas mess
• Archive 5 - General political topics talk archive
• Archive 6 - IRA AfDs archive
• Archive 7 - Cluebat archive, in which various users (including me) are administered clue. It sticks, sometimes.
• Archive 8 - everything else up through April 2008
• Archive 9 - Random discussions which don't categorize elsewhere
• Archive 10 - Discussions about University Students' Cooperative Association houses
• Archive 11 - Random discussions through 2012.
• Archive 12 - Discussions with monomaniac about Standard penetration test.

Roman calendar

Please see September (Roman month) for how to decline the Latin name of the months from September to December. There are specific examples under September (Roman month)#Dates. Cynwolfe (talk) 22:03, 3 September 2013 (UTC)

Talkback

Arun Kumar SINGH (Talk) 18:28, 20 January 2014 (UTC)

Hydrology

You recently restored, and then modified slightly, an edit by 117.193.221.118. The original edit was a verbatim copy from the UGS web-site, which although not itself a breach of copyright nevertheless it is highly undesirable for Misplaced Pages to being a mirror of another site , especially without the source being acknowledged. Your revised text still has considerable sections of identical text to the source web-site. This particular IP has also dumped a great slab of cut and paste material into Groundwater which has been reverted. This is not an editing pattern to be encouraged.  Velella    00:31, 21 January 2014 (UTC)

I'll clean up some more and source the material at groundwater if the IP doesn't in the next day or so. The material is useful, though it does need some rewriting to be properly encyclopedic, and my edits didn't do a full job of that. I'm not going to mess with the hydrology article. Argyriou (talk) 00:39, 21 January 2014 (UTC)

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Re: Marion Zimmer Bradley edits by Moira Greyland

geotechdata.info

Well if they keep doing it there is always the spam Blacklist.©Geni (talk) 19:43, 30 April 2015 (UTC)

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Portland cement

Portland cement is a patented product only used in a few specific engineering situations, not usually in home construction. Portland cement posts are quite obviously designed to advertise Portand cement incorrectly as the only pozzolan across wiki subjects cement, concrete and pozzolan. If wiki policy allows advertising then I am wrong. I have also included a post from an article of a published author. Please let me if that information is allowed. OldyJohn. — Preceding unsigned comment added by OldyJohn (talk • contribs) 02:09, 21 July 2015 (UTC)

You're wrong. Portland cement was invented in 1824, and even if it were patented back then, the patent expired over a century ago. "Portland Cement" is the generic term for a hydraulic cement which has calcium, aluminum, and silicon oxides in a form which creates calcium-aluminum-silicates when mixed with water. Portland cement is not a pozzolan, though its manufacture can include pozzolans. Argyriou (talk) 02:16, 21 July 2015 (UTC)

Reference errors on 22 July

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Moving Burma to Myanmar - new 2015 poll

You participated in a Burma RM in the past so I'm informing you of another RM. I hope I didn't miss anyone. New move attempt of Burma>Myanmar Fyunck(click) (talk) 08:16, 7 August 2015 (UTC)

A Barnstar for you!

		Copy Editor's Barnstar
		I award you this Copy Editor's Barnstar for insisting on clear, comprehensible, and grammatically correct articles. For your great efforts on the Bethel, Alaska page! Bravo!!! Juneau Mike (talk) 16:25, 6 November 2015 (UTC)

ANI post

Thanks for finding and reporting that. Per WP:EMERGENCY, I've emailed the WMF, who have people on staff who evaluate these kind of things and decide what to do. To keep this low-key, I've removed your post from ANI. --Floquenbeam (talk) 19:14, 30 November 2015 (UTC)

Thank you. The edit was made almost exactly 48 hours before I noticed it; I hope it wasn't too late. Argyriou (talk) 19:19, 30 November 2015 (UTC)

I hope so too, but 99%+ of the time these are false alarms, so don't stress about it. Now that the WMF has a system in place to deal with this stuff, I report things like this out of an abundance of caution. They're likely to have better judgement than me. --Floquenbeam (talk) 19:28, 30 November 2015 (UTC)

"Fixing" archiving

Hello, you summarized this edit with "fix archiving, I hope". The archiving is not broken. The root cause is that apparently {{ESp}} is supposed to be substed, but there is no mistake-proofing for this at edit time, so the fix is to run a bot every few years to ensure that it is, effectively "refreshing" stale discussions. In other words, the unarchived discussions from 2010, left unmolested, would have been archived on the third anniversary (26297 hours) of the bot subst (January 18, 2014 → January 18, 2017). Also, just for the record, breaking up the ClueBot III parameters into separate lines has no effect on its behavior. I am glad to see that you use date-based archiving, however, as I believe it to be the best option for low-volume talk pages. -- DanielPenfield (talk) 22:34, 28 December 2015 (UTC)

So if I change the archiving schedule to less than one year, the things which have been changed more than a year ago (such as those edits) will be archived? I changed the archive interval to 3000 hours (125 days) in my recent edits. I'm not familiar with ClueBot's inner workings, so I don't know if it's going to wait until 2017, or if it will at some time go back and archive anything that hasn't been edited since August 25.

It also appears that ClueBot is not functioning properly right now, either. If it's not fixed soon, I might switch the talk page to lowecase sigma bot. Argyriou (talk) 22:56, 28 December 2015 (UTC)

So if I change the archiving schedule to less than one year, the things which have been changed more than a year ago (such as those edits) will be archived? Yes.

I don't know if it's going to wait until 2017, or if it will at some time go back and archive anything that hasn't been edited since August 25. In my experience, if you wait anywhere from a few hours to a few days, ClueBot III will do its work as advertised. If you want something immediate, you can always manually archive the discussions.

Note: "left unmolested" means "if you hadn't changed the age parameter". You changed the age parameter, so ClueBot III will honor those changes.

It also appears that ClueBot is not functioning properly right now. ClueBot III properly archived this page four hours ago. If you are patient, ClueBot III will do as you have directed in your updates to its template on Talk:List of multi-level marketing companies. -- DanielPenfield (talk) 23:28, 28 December 2015 (UTC)

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Testifying to Tom McClintock's abilities

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Komandorsky Village

I don't know if it exists today but it certainly did in 1967. I lived there with my mother while my step dad SK1 Kirby D Glasscock Jr. was serving a tour in Vietnam. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 143.120.100.114 (talk) 22:39, 20 March 2019 (UTC)

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komondorski Village.

I lived their as an AF Dependent form 1951 to 54. !st grade thru 3 grade. Dont remember Grammar school other than riding bus to school each day. Had two story wood buildings with each stair well have a 2 apartments down stairs and two upstairs. Had little river/creek with farm on the other side of river. Village had small grocery store and sold penny candy. We had three or four earthquakes while there. My Sister was born their. Apartment buildings were spread out. Each bldg had 8 apartments, I Believe. We had screened porch front of each 4 apartment entry. Good memories. Jordan Rudge was my Best Friend, His father in Navy. My father HJ Jackson and my Older sister Linda Brother, Larry and Me Jerry. Barbara was born at Parks AFB. Enjoyed going to Red wood Forest and Trips to Mountain Diablo/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2603:6081:6804:CF00:DCFC:11C2:14BB:BF1F (talk) 00:02, 1 January 2021 (UTC)

Your 2007 RFA oppose vote

In light of the imminent de-sysopping of the admin concerned, your oppose vote here appears almost psychic!

Concrete categories on Commons

Dear Argyriou,

I noticed you contributed to Concrete and mention concrete on your user page.

Would you maybe be inclined to contribute to the questions concerning the arrangement of the categories on concrete on Wikimedia Commons which JopkeB lists on my talk page.

We are in need of a native speaker with insight into the matter as currently me as a German, JopkeB from the Netherlands and a Portugese user are struggling with the correct terminology.

thank you very much for you attention,

KaiKemmann (talk) 12:10, 24 August 2023 (UTC)