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Welcome to my talk page! Please feel free to leave me a message below the archives. My next WikiProject on my "to-do" list is to make a nice talk page for myself. Suggestions and commments generously welcomed! Welcome to my talk page! Feel free to post below the archives below. --] 08:15, 14 May 2009 (UTC)


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]] has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at ]. Thank you.<!--Template:Tfdnotice--> ] 22:37, 9 January 2011 (UTC)
Well done. The author is rather confused, methinks. ]&nbsp;|&nbsp;] 06:54, 31 July 2005 (UTC)


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Hi camper.r u a friend of fir0002?i m asking cause i saw ur name in his archives.Now,i saw the images uploaded by him they are awesome man i dont know why hes gone retired i was going 2 appreciate his work by talking means sending messege 2 him but what the h***.He is now retired and not now 2 yrs ago and on the same day 31 august.I have passed only 4 months here.so do u know why he walk out of wiki?reply pls?.TK..] (] <span style="font-size: smaller;" class="autosigned">—Preceding ] comment added 12:26, 30 June 2011 (UTC).</span><!--Template:Undated--> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->
I like the word association game a lot. But I must admit, I sort of cheated. The very first thing that came to my mind after octopus card (what the heck is that?) was giant squid, but since I thought I was supposed to use only one word, cuttlebone came next. Next visit, I'll be more spontaneous. I mean - "octopus card" - two words ''there''.


== Wikiversity ==
The wiki vacation was very healthful, and I highly recommend it. I have come back with a deep appreciation and devout admiration for the reference desk. Not that I didn't appreciate and admire it before, but it feels different when you are just entering wiki to ask a question (however inane). It's like a miracle ocurring on-screen. Ask and ye shall receive, etc. Which reminds me, I must go back to the pumpkin person with a question. Thank you for thinking of me! --] <small>]</small> 19:57, 4 August 2005 (UTC)


Hmmm seems i found you! --] (]) 17:43, 2 December 2011 (UTC)
:Jello belt - let's do it! You'll help me through the horse hoofs, I trust. Sounds like fun. I'll start looking. trying yp typer eiyh e vsy cas ccat ! sharing the cvhair --] <small>]</small> 21:31, 4 August 2005 (UTC)


==You're still here... me too==
==Copyright problems in "His Divine Grace..." articles==
Pleased to see your post just under mine at RD/M. Reminded me of the "old" days when some critters around your campsite were making you an un-happy camper. Regards, ] (]) 23:17, 29 December 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for your message. The author of ] has posted all these articles as well:
:Oh yes, I remember that...my manual archival of the reference desks! :P --] 03:46, 30 December 2011 (UTC)
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All appear to be directly lifted from . I guess I ought to be tackling the copyright violations myself, but I feel I lack the experience in Misplaced Pages to be doing so.--] 23:57, 5 August 2005 (UTC)


== Interwikilinks == == Hello again! ==


I've been away from Misplaced Pages for a long time, but I'm easing back in by drifting through my talk page archives. I saw your name on a comment and dropped by. It's great to see that you're still active here. Cheers! ] | ] 01:12, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
Hi HappyCamper! As with all articles, interwiki-links appear in the bar on the left side, under 'in other languages'. I remember I was lost too when I added them first to my page. As an aside, I very much like your work over at the Reference Desk (which is why I checked out your userpage). Kind regards, &mdash; ] ] 07:57, 8 August 2005 (UTC)


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Hi, thanks for your supporting vote for ]. The Idrive works this way: anyone can nominate an article to be improved. The article with the most votes becomes the project article for this week. So that the list does not become endless, we need a pruning system: articles with less than three votes per week are pruned. So history of chemistry stays on until the 25th of August now, if it gets more votes the deadline is extended. Currently History of chemistry is number 7, so it might drop out, but it is doing well compared to others. If it does drop out, I will renominate it on the new ], where it is likely to win. Best wishes --] 08:45, 8 August 2005 (UTC)


Recently I created a ]. It has been ] to me that the quantum optics template has been in existence for a long time, and according to the history you are the author of the template. It makes sense to merge the quantum optics template with the more general one. What do you think? =) --<span style="font-family:'Gill Sans MT'"> ](])</span> 17:21, 12 January 2012 (UTC)
==Jello disclosure==
We should probably tell each other where we are doing our research. And I have to disclose that a traditional holiday salad in my family involves green jello (and canned pears and cream cheese), but it is from my Lutheran maternal side, and I don't know any Mormons. Still, I have something of a bias in favor of green jello salads due to this (although ''not'' the shredded carrot kind), so you may have to edit me for POV. --] <small>]</small> 15:57, 8 August 2005 (UTC)


:Thanks for your permission - replied at my talk page. =) --<span style="font-family:'Gill Sans MT'"> ](])</span> 11:16, 14 January 2012 (UTC)
:Pourquoi pas? Only now, with Shimgray's incredible site, I'm thinking the bumper crop of milkweed pods could be augmented by ''Queen Anne's Lace''. But really, milkweed is pretty much my favorite plant, and I have been wanting to make paper out of it for several years. This winter, I'm going to do it! I'll send you some when it's done. --] <small>]</small> 14:29, 9 August 2005 (UTC)


::] The ] is now a re-direct to ]. =) --<span style="font-family:'Gill Sans MT'"> ](])</span> 11:51, 14 January 2012 (UTC)
::Better than that, I'll send you the real thing with the familial recipe for green jello salad inscibed upon it. But I get ahead of myself. First I must make the paper. And the pods are still in relative infancy. --] <small>]</small> 16:47, 9 August 2005 (UTC)


==Multi-licensing==
:::''Of course'', I read your question about bales of hay. I have intimate knowledge of bales of hay - the easy-to-deal-with cubes, and the massive loaves of bread. Snakes love bales of hay, but fortunately, none are poisonous where I live. --] <small>]</small> 00:18, 11 August 2005 (UTC)


Answered your question on my talk page. Cheers, ] ] 03:30, 22 January 2012 (UTC)
Ack - I haven't started yet. I slacked off. I think we need to look into Mormon socializing, Mormon cookbooks, and damn that no original research in this case, because it would be useful. But it would be wrong. Books about growing up Mormon. And there's also how jello fits into the ''whole'' American church culture (i.e. my family's Lutheran recipe). Data about Mormon populations by state would be helpful. Where Mormons are, green jello surely follows. I wish I had access to the secret files of the Jell-O company.


== MSU Interview ==
Alas, I haven't made the wonderful salad dressing yet, because I have no working refrigerator, and I would have had to eat the whole bowl the day it was made. Which I could have done. But again, it would be wrong. The weather is starting to cool off, though, so in a few weeks... --] <small>]</small> 15:28, 18 August 2005 (UTC)


Dear HappyCamper,
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I responded to your question at ] about common misspellings but I don't know what ''ESL student'' means. ] ] 00:39, 9 August 2005 (UTC)


:Ahh, now I understand the root of your question much better. Thank you, ] ] 01:06, 9 August 2005 (UTC)


My name is Jonathan Obar ], I'm a professor in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University and a Teaching Fellow with the Wikimedia Foundation's Education Program. This semester I've been running a little experiment at MSU, a class where we teach students about becoming Misplaced Pages administrators. Not a lot is known about your community, and our students (who are fascinated by wiki-culture by the way!) want to learn how you do what you do, and why you do it. A while back I proposed this idea (the class) to the community ], were it was met mainly with positive feedback. Anyhow, I'd like my students to speak with a few administrators to get a sense of admin experiences, training, motivations, likes, dislikes, etc. We were wondering if you'd be interested in speaking with one of our students.
== loop quantum gravity ==


My source for the quantized time comment is a January 2004 article in Scientific American called "Atoms in Space and Time." It is, of course, speculation but it's an interesting article if you have access to old SA issues. (You can get the article online, but you have to pay.) --] 02:10, August 9, 2005 (UTC)
:Re: Your comment on my talk page: Yes, I'm interested in it, but my knowledge is limited to the books I could get from my library and various articles. I'm off to NYU in a few weeks, but I don't know how much science I'll be able to study due to the fact that I'll probably end up majoring in literature. I hope to go through general physics 1 and 2 and then take an astrophysics course. Cutting edge physics stuff is really higher level and probably is only taken by physics majors. Anyway. Does your job relate to this kind of stuff? --] 02:24, August 9, 2005 (UTC)


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I know it's been a few days since you posted the question about the bales of hay so I just wanted to make sure that you saw my response. I didn't know if you were still checking it or not for new replies. Any more questions about hay and cows and I'll be happy to ask my g/f for ya. ] 03:53, 9 August 2005 (UTC)


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I wonder where do you come from? You seem to have so much idea about Cantonese history. ]] 05:57, 9 August 2005 (UTC)


Thanks in advance for your help. We have a lot to learn from you.
:I did watch that. ]] 07:23, 9 August 2005 (UTC)


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Hi HappyCamper,
I am a specialist in quantum chemistry (9 years postdoc) and in particular in quantum chemistry of small molecules. The work I am referring at is the work performed by W. Domcke (TU Munich), A.L. Sobolewski (Polish Academy, Warsaw) and others. One ref is A.L. Sobolewski and W. Domcke, PCCP 1 (1999) 3065 but you should find many newer papers on citation index.
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Possible? Maybe. I've seen the size of the files, but not the contents. Those are truly big files. 22gb for old data? Wow! I don't have the room on this system to process that. I think I'll have to say no, I can't do it at this time. What's your goal? Maybe there's another way to achieve it. --] 19:12, 12 August 2005 (UTC)
*I looked up "stochastic signal processing" to get more information on just what that is before proceeding further. It's been a while since I could interpret such math :) So, you've effectively lost me unless I did some digging. I think your hurdle is with data, not how it's extrapolated. I suspect you can do the extrapolations. The original reference desk notations pointed you to places you could get the data. Such sources are admittedly large though. Another possibility is to do manual extractions of small sets of data. For example, ]. If you did 10 pages of that, it'd give you a 5000 element data set, though of course it would not tell you anything about the bytes of additional contributions per edit. I used the same method to generate the graphs you originally saw from me. I'm not sure this helps, but I hope it does. --] 22:43, 12 August 2005 (UTC)


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In seeing your edits, I think you would make a great admin. I will nominate you unless you don't want to, so let me know either way. Of course check out the ] and answer the standard questions once I create the nomination. Thanks - ] <sup><small>]</sup></small> 02:38, August 15, 2005 (UTC)
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Hey there HC, saw you over at the RD/MA. Good to know that you're alive and kikin'. Best, ] (]) 20:53, 8 February 2015 (UTC)
I really appreciate that you archive the reference desk, but the last time was somewhat disruptive with the large number of edits, which really clogs up the history page and makes it difficult to use the compare versions feature. May I suggest that instead you create a working copy of the page and move questions to the archive page from there? Then you can replace the page in its entirety with the version you finished with, leaving on new questions, of course, all with one edit. ] 03:03, August 17, 2005 (UTC)


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Hmm, not sure what to make of this one. The author has edited many quantum chemistry articles and seems to know what (s)he's talking about. The problem is that DNA is not particularly stable to UV light, so this is a non-phenomenon he/she is explaining. Now if he were to discuss electron transport in ]s, ''that'' would be interesting... ] 01:05, 18 August 2005 (UTC)


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The cool thing is that English has seperable prefixes, too, which native speakers often confuse with dangling prepositions. You can create vast lists of common ones if you're into that kind of thing, and one way to identify them in English is by the word order relative to their objects. Notice that ''I hand in the paper'' but ''I hand it in''; the order of ''in'' and the object depends on whether the object is a noun or pronoun. The word ''in'' is not a preposition in those sentences (''in the paper'' makes no sense here alone) but a fundamental part of the verb. In comparison German's word order is rather simple.


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The honest answer to your question is that I don't know how the circular constellations are derived mathematically. I looked in a few books and they all just said the same: the 8-QAM constell is "known" to be optimal in the sense that it requires the minimum average power for a given minimum distance between signal points (in the diagrammed case, the distance is 2). However, by way of a handwaving explanation, look at the other 8-QAMs in the article. They are all ''really'' on two rings: one inner and one outer. If you work out the mean energy required for the three 8-QAMs shown, you'll find that the optimal one does indeed have the smallest, and that they all have min distance of 2. (I didn't label most constellations with coords &mdash; do you think I should, and then mention the need for energy normalization somewhere?) So looking back at the optimal 8-QAM, the inner ring cannot be made any smaller without breaching the minimum distance, the outer ring need be no larger to reach the minimum distance, and the angular separation between all points is maximal. The angular point can also be obtained by observing that changing the angular position of any point would breach the minimum distance either on its own ring or between it and the other ring. So I can see ''why'' it is optimal, but not ''how'' it would derived ''ab initio'', which I imagine some clever person had to do once.


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I am not sure the 16-QAM concentric rings has a derivation as such. I think it's just one way of arranging the points: although perhaps it is 'best' according to some metric or other: certainly the minimum distance is small but the angular separation is high. The optimal 16-QAM is two rings of 8, arranged like the 8-QAM. To complicate matters further there's lots of research on pre-rotating or pre-expand/contracting one ring or another to take account of channel impairments and wind up with the best error-rate given that ''a priori'' knowledge. Sometimes just parts of the rings are doctored in advance. I'd like to expand the article to include some of these really quite wacky designs, but I am unsure of the copyvio status of manually reproducing a design from a copyrighted paper or doctoral thesis (its not original research once its published though, so that point is ok).


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Yes, I'd be very interested in a Wikiproject along those lines. It concerns me more than a little to see that at least several such articles are in the top 2 or 3 Google hits but could use some major work. I sort of have a mental list of articles that need urgent work (and some on my user page) but just yesterday I discovered the ] article, for example. The comment on the talk page says it all, really and, argh, it's been added to the modulation category. Part of the reason I rework these articles comparatively slowly is that I know I ''can'' do decent job, but it's going to take me quite some time to do so. A project team would help a lot! I also have a mental list of questions I need to ask somewhere (e.g. should we include error-rate vs SNR curves), and a project would be a good place.


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Apologies for such a long answer! -] 18:48, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
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Good stuff on starting up a project. We evidently have a lot of work to do. I will have a think and hack at the project page over the next couple of days, and we should begin advertising it around the place. I think our biggest problem to begin with is working out what articles we do/don't have. So many of them are not categorised at all, and that makes it harder work than it might be.


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For such a fundamental topic of such obvious encyclopedic importance, we are sadly lacking ''any'' featured articles. Since this topic is about as NPOV as it is possible to be, is ultra-stable and mega-well-referenced getting FAs should be possible. To which end, I rewrote ] a while back and have finally got around to adding the other stuff in I wanted. I think (imnsho) that it's getting within reaching distance of FAC, so I've put it on ]. If you've got a few spare mins, go take a look. -] 23:46, 21 August 2005 (UTC)


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:Hey, good start. I think we should be careful about chopping too much out of the lead in since they get excited about them ober at ]. I left some comments on the article talk page. -] 01:15, 22 August 2005 (UTC)


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Hey there. I know you're busy experimenting with your new buttons, but I wonder if you can help me? I've spent ages trying to draw the waveform for OQPSK. Dead easy to code, of course. But when I draw it I get 180degree shifts which simply shouldn't occur, as well as some of the legal 90degree ones. I'm using ] and I wonder if it is a numerical precision thing at symbol boundaries or something. Do you have access to a tool that can easily produce that kind of picture to see if I'm imagining things. I found PDF which has nice pictures in. But for the OQPSK example, using the same bit patterns, I get a little lump right at the start of my output wave, which those notes don't. Which do you reckon is right? -] 03:19, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
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'''''Click!''''' My timing diagram is all wrong. Too much copying Haykin! My constell diagram is 180deg out compared to his, so my signal space mapping on my notepad is wrong. I was just modulating I and Q according to whether the bit in question was +/-1 (ie 0 or 1 respec) but that's wrong with my constellation. Since Haykin's diagram is much more intuitive, I think I'll rotate mine to match his, but I'll check first. -] 00:27, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
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:Humph. Actaully, after reading several textbook chapters on this, I still can't decide. However, studying my new image carefully, I can see that the phase shifts ''are'' down to size but the signal does still go through zero on some transitions. Maybe that's just life if you this constellation. My original timing diagrams were wrong though, so I'll upload replacements in a bit (no pun).-] 01:35, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
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Well, there you go. Bend your brain and decide if think that &pi;4-QPSK timing is right, wrong or just alien. Some odd skips and jumps in it in places, but then it can make movements the other QPSKs can't. The edit conflict came as quite a surprise &mdash; spying on my contribs list, huh?? -] 03:53, 27 August 2005 (UTC)


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Hey, good picture. Couple of things: I reckon you need a NRZ encoder, else you'll be transmitting on the axes rather than off the axes when you multiply the I and Q components by zero. Also, I've changed the bit-stream in the timing diagrams to avoid the ambiguity we had before, so I wonder if you can twiddle your diagram to match? -] 03:38, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
:The one in bold at the bottom of the QPSK diagrams. It's that bitstream that gets split up between I and Q waves (except in diff. encoding since that doesn't need splitting). I used the same bitstream everywhere: '''1 1 0 0 0 1 1 0'''. The I-channel takes '''1 0 0 1''' and the Q-channel gets '''1 0 1 0'''.
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Hi again. Thanks for the notice and yes I was aware of RD/All (I even tried to help with the TOC problem). I had been a little frustrated with RD for all the same reasons. Long load times, too many questions to scroll through before getting to the active/new stuff and way too many edit conflicts so I was enthused to see a new approach being tried. My mind is having some difficulty with the new format in that I'm very used to mapping the RD in ''series'', relating one question to another by its serial positioning regardless of category. The new format requires that I map four categories in ''parallel'' with each other and then mapping the serial position within each. It's as though I'm having conversations with four users on their respective talk pages instead of four topics all running together with one user. Although it has only been one day, I'm finding myself less enthused about RD patrol than I was before the change. It's just more difficult unless you're a "one category guy" which I think neither one of us are. I know a lot of hard work went into the new fomat but it's difficult to make a call until it's actually in everyday use. As of right now I'm feeling a little negative and thinking that we made the solution too complex. Perhaps the energy should have been directed towards making the old format more manageable. Please feel free to comment to me about your own feelings after using the new format for a while. Regards, ] ] 00:32, 27 August 2005 (UTC)


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Hi Happy. This isn't a great time for me - I was just checking on a couple of things before bed. I haven't reviewed the case yet but I would think you could easily justify a 24h block as "apparent impersonation of ]. In fact I think that might justify an indef block according to ] but I'm not 100% certain. More than 15 min is totally doable. Keep in mind that if you try to impose a longer block while the short one is still active, the short one overrides. Either wait for the short one to end or go to ] and manually unblock it before imposing the longer block. Good luck! ] ] 03:34, August 28, 2005 (UTC)
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* Could you please remove that single paragraph with my IP from that page? The paragraph where I say my IP is different from that of 217.140.193.13. I already removed that paragraph twice today, so removing it a third time would "tecnically" fall under 3RR. I tried to explain to Arrigo on his talk page why it was important it should be removed from wikipedia, and why it even no longer has sense to stay on that page, see: ]. Nonetheless Arrigo put it back a second time...


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Nomination for deletion of Template:RD header new

Template:RD header new has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you. Mhiji 22:37, 9 January 2011 (UTC)

User:Fir0002

Hi camper.r u a friend of fir0002?i m asking cause i saw ur name in his archives.Now,i saw the images uploaded by him they are awesome man i dont know why hes gone retired i was going 2 appreciate his work by talking means sending messege 2 him but what the h***.He is now retired and not now 2 yrs ago and on the same day 31 august.I have passed only 4 months here.so do u know why he walk out of wiki?reply pls?.TK..Adi21124 (talk2me —Preceding undated comment added 12:26, 30 June 2011 (UTC).

Wikiversity

Hmmm seems i found you! --My Sistemx (talk) 17:43, 2 December 2011 (UTC)

You're still here... me too

Pleased to see your post just under mine at RD/M. Reminded me of the "old" days when some critters around your campsite were making you an un-happy camper. Regards, hydnjo (talk) 23:17, 29 December 2011 (UTC)

Oh yes, I remember that...my manual archival of the reference desks! :P --HappyCamper 03:46, 30 December 2011 (UTC)

Hello again!

I've been away from Misplaced Pages for a long time, but I'm easing back in by drifting through my talk page archives. I saw your name on a comment and dropped by. It's great to see that you're still active here. Cheers! Joyous! | Talk 01:12, 4 January 2012 (UTC)

Template:Quantum optics operators

Recently I created a template for quantum operators in all generality. It has been pointed out to me that the quantum optics template has been in existence for a long time, and according to the history you are the author of the template. It makes sense to merge the quantum optics template with the more general one. What do you think? =) -- F = q(E + v × B) 17:21, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for your permission - replied at my talk page. =) -- F = q(E + v × B) 11:16, 14 January 2012 (UTC)
Its done. The Template:Quantum optics operators is now a re-direct to Template:Physics operator. =) -- F = q(E + v × B) 11:51, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

Multi-licensing

Answered your question on my talk page. Cheers, Kat Walsh (spill your mind?) 03:30, 22 January 2012 (UTC)

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Can you maybe help out with these articles...

They were created by a university class as part of their final grade/project, some of us were thinking the articles could maybe have a home at Wikiversity, but I need some guidance here. Can they be moved to Wikiversity, are they good enough, etc. (I understand the articles are now starting to be PROD'ed on WP, probably as 'subjects failing notability'.) Please see discussion on User talk:Dennis Brown at Curious about some new articles. Thanks, Shearonink (talk) 17:34, 10 December 2012 (UTC)

Long Time

Hey there HC, saw you over at the RD/MA. Good to know that you're alive and kikin'. Best, hydnjo (talk) 20:53, 8 February 2015 (UTC)

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What are these two solids called? -- Answer to your WP:RDMA question.

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your assistance please...

You deleted Image:Alaska canada border dispute 5.png. Your deletion log entry says "per Jimbo's new speedying of images policy. plus, uploader says image contains incorrect information..."

What is "Jimbo's new speedying of images policy?" Geo Swan (talk) 01:32, 23 October 2019 (UTC)

Move discussion at Talk:Standard cross-cultural sample

Hello HappyCamper, I recently started a discussion to move "Standard cross-cultural sample" to "Standard Cross-Cultural Sample." I have since looked back into the page's history and found that you originally moved it to its current name from the name I am suggesting, with your move citing WP:MOS. I do not think the style manual supports this current name and would instead support the one I am suggesting; you can read my reasoning at the discussion linked above. I wanted to make sure you were aware of the discussion so that you might contribute, if you do not find my explanation satisfactory. --Pinchme123 (talk) 03:50, 29 April 2020 (UTC)

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