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Revision as of 05:28, 26 November 2010

Grrr, Grr...go away

I'm an uncivil editor, I am, I am. I might dare to disagree with you. (I might even, rarely, be right).

Article discussions

If we're going to talk about article contents, please discuss on the article's talk page so everyone can see what's going on. If I've made a change, the article (and it's talk page) are on my watchlist and I'll see it. Also, discussing the article on the article's own talk page encourages anyone else who happens to be watching to chime in.

Edit warring.

You have been reverted by multiple editors. Continued reverting will result in a block. -DJSasso (talk) 15:17, 24 November 2010 (UTC)

Will no-one speak for the facts? --Wtshymanski (talk) 15:22, 24 November 2010 (UTC)

You have no sources to back up your "facts". The others have sources that back up their position. -DJSasso (talk) 15:23, 24 November 2010 (UTC)

And do the other editors quote any sources either? Oh, right, Misplaced Pages doesn't work by common sense, I stil have a hard time remembering that. What about ] for starters, showing all the French language services available from the province? And surely we can't be consistent with the Misplaced Pages article French language in Canada which says

Manitoba also has a significant Franco-Manitoban community, centred especially in the St. Boniface area of Winnipeg, but also in many surrounding villages. The provincial government of Manitoba boasts the only bilingual website of the Prairies; the Canadian constitution makes French an official language in Manitoba for the legislature and courts.

But why should an *encyclopedia* be internally consistent? --Wtshymanski (talk) 15:28, 24 November 2010 (UTC)

If you parse "official" narrowly enough, you can make it mean anything you want...though it helps to have an admin hammer to make consensus. --Wtshymanski (talk) 21:37, 24 November 2010 (UTC)

HDD Article Changes

I pretty much disagree with yr three recent changes to the HDD article but before I revert I thought we should talk about them.

• You removed SI Units fact from the lead section. IMO this is an important issue that belongs in the lead section and therefore should be restored. It is certainly something that could be a major issue to the target Wiki reader.
• You added a bunch of irrelevant current status facts to the Market Segmentation section. This market segmentation existed before and will exist after the specific examples you cited so I look as them as TMI that constantly will be necessary to maintain. I would remove them and put a link to the History of Hard Disk Drive article where past, present and future such facts are and will be recorded.
• You rewrote and expanded the material on SI prefixes in the HDD Formatting section in part copying the material from the lead section. Some of your facts are wrong (e.g., there are 520 byte sector drives today, probably 4 KiB tomorrow and many other sizes in the past) and some are TMI (e.g., adding address lines). On the whole I think the original version was better but it could probably be improved (e.g, drop the "Raw unformatted" introductory words.

Yr thoughts? Tom94022 (talk) 03:58, 25 November 2010 (UTC)

So fix it. No-one cares what MY opinion is. Goodness knows there's enough turds floating in water barrels on the Misplaced Pages, if you think this one should go back the way it is, I can find another one that could be skimmed out. One wonders why the Misplaced Pages municipal water intlet is immediately downstream of the Misplaced Pages town sewer, but such matters are decided well above my pay grade. Lately I can't change a comma without getting excited messages on my talk page, up to and including block threats by admins.. Certainly an overheated discussion of units of measure is entirely within the great Misplaced Pages tradition of articles that descend to trivia in the opening sectino. Does anyone find a reference to the lawsuit some half-wit launched against a drive company? NO, instead we have great slabs of semi-literate text powers of 10 vs powers of 1024 (sic). --Wtshymanski (talk) 14:21, 25 November 2010 (UTC)

OK, some editors are highly reactive to reverts; glad u are not. See how u like this one. :-) Tom94022 (talk) 18:41, 25 November 2010 (UTC)

The hard drive history article is also poor. Though I was cheered to at least see a picture of a disk pack. With some Wikpedia articles, after a few years of accretion someone has to go through and bubble-sort everything to put it into some logical sequence. --18:58, 25 November 2010 (UTC)

Manitoba

Hi Wtshymanski. I really think you should let this "Mantitoba is bilingual" business go. It's obvious that no one agrees with you. You can't change it back without support. A consensus has been reached and it is that Manitoba is not bilingual. English is the only de facto and official language. Please stop trying to force your opinion and try to accept that you may be wrong about this. Thanks, Nations United (talk) 05:28, 26 November 2010 (UTC)