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bird

What exactly are you doing to bird? I realise the page has a lot of refs but I don't see how puting breaks in helps. Could you discuss changes with the formatting of the page on the talk page with the editors who work on this article a lot? And what does an edit summary of rrr mean exactly? Sabine's Sunbird talk 02:15, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

Inexact differential

I finally tracked down the origin of this concept (term), it is from German mathematician Carl Neumann (1875). If you know how to make a "d" (with a cross-bar hat going through the handle of the d), please add it to the article. Thanks: --Sadi Carnot 05:32, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

Yawn

"However, both of these are as controversial as a debate over yawning can be."

ROFL. Pure comic genious! 81.156.79.119 19:04, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

'Don't Destroy' essay

Hi there. I just saw your essay at User talk:Fresheneesz/Don't Destroy, and posted a lengthy comment at User talk:Fresheneesz/Don't Destroy#Highly dubious argument. Please don't take my criticism personally - it's not directed at you, but at the essay, and the inclusionist/deletionist dichotomy I feel it promotes. Feel free to let me know if you have any comments in return. Terraxos 18:29, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

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Happy Halloween!

As Halloween is my favorite holiday, I just wanted to wish my twenty favorite fellow Wikipedians a Happy Halloween! Sincerely, --Le Grand Roi des Citrouilles 04:10, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

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MLA Format

I agree, it is retarded as hell. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.146.54.139 (talk) 06:34, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of Impactful

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Misplaced Pages-only permission not good enough

Regarindg Image:SkyTran_Seattle2.jpg, permission to use it on Misplaced Pages is not good enough. Those kinds of images were banned over two years ago. You must get Douglas J. Malewicki to license it under a free license – such as Creative Commons BY or Attributon 1.0, 2.0, 2.5, or 3.0, the GFDL, in the public domain/{{copyrightedfreeuse}}. If he agrees to this, please have him send an email to permission AT wikipedia DOT org with a statement like this: "I, Douglas J. Malewicki, certify that I am the copyright owner of http://en.wikipedia.org/Image:SkyTran_Seattle2.jpg and license it under license. I understand that the image can be used for commerical purposes and have deravatives without my permission or without payment." hbdragon88 08:29, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

That refers to permission for a free license; the page just doesn't clarify it. Fair use? To only be used under the direst of circumstances. The SkyTran image looks easily replaceable – that is, a Wikipedian in the Seattle area could take his/her own picture of it and put it under a free license. If it's at some special event, sure, fair use can be used, but otherwise it will generally be deleted. hbdragon88 09:33, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

Ah – didn't know that it was concept art...that does throw more weight on it being used under WP:NFCC. hbdragon88 22:10, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

I just added a fair use rationale to the picture. A much smaller version of the picture should be uplaoded, but I think we're all set for now. it would be very nice as well if you oculd convince Malewciki to release it under a free license, but, like I said, I think we're good for now. hbdragon88 08:43, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

Happy Thanksgiving!

I just wanted to wish my fellow Wikipedians a Happy Thanksgiving! Sincerely, --Le Grand Roi des Citrouilles 17:00, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

AfD nomination of List of state machine CAD tools

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Iomanip

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Joyeux Noël

I just wanted to wish my fellow Wikipedians a Merry Christmas! Sincerely, --Le Grand Roi des Citrouilles 21:33, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

List of Emacs commands

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Lagrange's formula

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AfD nomination of List of Emacs commands

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Redemptiedorpen

On your map, Image:The Low Countries.png, there are small enclaves of land in the Bishopric of Liege that are labelled "Redemptiedorpen." What does that mean? I couldn't find an article that referenced it and, unfortunately, I don't speak Dutch.

Excellent map, by the way. Coemgenus 19:28, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free media (Image:SkyTran Seattle2.jpg)

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I would really like some feed back on this Please send comments to wiki@profusionenergy.com --Regsoft (talk) 06:07, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

Deletion of UniModal

Hello Fresheneesz, I deleted the UniModal article as purely promotional material which had then been whittled down by well-meaning users to conjectures based on hypothetical statements made by the organization in question, and having no actual, proven basis whatsoever in reality. No third-party references exist for UniModal's assertions about their products, except those that are based purely off of UniModal promotional materials. This should have been deleted long ago under speedy deletion criterion 11; that instead it was slowly whittled down to a few sentences and a fair-use (promotional!) photograph doesn't change that. You are free to request undeletion of the article, but I believe I was within the letter and spirit of the policy to delete it. Truly, JDoorjam JDiscourse 07:21, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for your comments on my talk page, and for the link to your essay. I believe you're referring to a string of articles I deleted about a year and a half ago, when I deleted a number of porn stars' bios where the articles made no real assertion as to their notability. Of the hundreds of "pornographic actor" bios, I deleted a couple dozen, all but a small number of which stayed deleted, though it was mildly controversial at the time amongst the small circle of Wikipedians who tend to the pornography articles on the project. I do try to be as objective as I can in all of my edits, especially administrative actions, and most especially deletions, but they are sometimes controversial nonetheless, and my first priority is the good of the project, rather than trying not to step on toes (though that is a priority too). I commented at the DRV. Thank you for being polite as well. Truly, JDoorjam JDiscourse 15:51, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

Clesh

Hi, if you have time any input on Clesh would be appreciated. It's a new article for a sister of FORscene. It is being proposed for deletion. Your ID is on the original discussion trail for FORscene and think the Clesh discussion would benefit from any input you can offer. Regards, mk (talk) 12:43, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

Speedy deletion

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SkyTran

Would you like to start merging Unimodal into SkyTran? Stephen B Streater (talk) 10:00, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

Re: Image:SkyTran Seattle2.jpg

Image restored, happy editing! east.718 at 20:49, May 13, 2008

Let it go man...

It's not worth it. Just ignore him and focus on the article. ATren (talk) 20:47, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

Stop it. Now. Channel your energy into the article if you're frustrated. Firing back does nothing but get you into hot water. ATren (talk) 01:52, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

Yes - remember to be civil. And come and visit me when the Terminal 5 PRT is up and running :-) Stephen B Streater (talk) 06:23, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

Oxyhydrogen

Does a probable scam really seem like it merits inclusion in wikipedia? Should Aquygen be able to use wikipedia as a tools to gain notoriety and credibility? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Guyonthesubway (talk • contribs) 22:20, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

SkyTran

Fresh, JDoorjam is essentially correct in his concerns. We can't just have claims that are unsourced or poorly sourced, even if we know they're correct for this system. I could swear there were some reliable third party sources for many of the claims, but I've been looking and I can't locate them. Maybe it was relying solely on the unimodal website as the source for technical details? I don't know.

Now, initially, JDoorjam appeared to react hastily, when he put up the AFD and then added the Malewicki quote. But since then he's been very accomodating, requesting citations and politely explaining his changes. This is not a whitewash, he has legitimate concerns - if you allow unsourced claims to describe the system, you open up the floodgates to all sorts of unsourced allegations, and we all know where that will lead.

So, I suggest you work with JDoorjam and try to locate some sources. One that I seem to recall was a Malewicki IEEE (or something like that) paper that described a hypothetical city in 2050 with SkyTran - that might be a source for system details, but I can't find it online (maybe you can get that issue from a library?). Otherwise, it will have to remain little more than a stub until sources document it. ATren (talk) 12:04, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

RfD nomination of Point of view forking

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RE: Deletion of processing delay

Sorry for missing your last message. It was deleted because an editor Proposed it for deletion, with the reason WP:WINAD. I don't know why you weren't notified - you'd have to ask the user who added the PROD tag. - Rjd0060 (talk) 02:57, 7 November 2008 (UTC)

I've restored it. - Rjd0060 (talk) 03:15, 7 November 2008 (UTC)

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"Etymology" section of article Chastity

There is no "Latin word" kes-; there is only a hypothetical reconstructed proto-Indo-European root kes-. No ancient Latin-language speaker could have reasonably deduced from the contemporary Latin language that the Latin word castus "pure" had anything to do with a word meaning "to cut". Furthermore, the concept of "caste" in its Hindu form was completely unknown to the ancient Romans; the English word "caste" originated from the use of a PORTUGUESE word in India in the 16th-century A.D. For these and other reasonms, the "etymology" section was unfortunately very poor... AnonMoos (talk) 10:06, 22 November 2008 (UTC)