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Humourous

Hi. I saw this. Contrary to your assumption, it isn't an ENGVAR issue; humourous is definitely incorrect in all dialects. --John (talk) 05:35, 6 February 2010 (UTC)

No it isn't. It's perfectly valid. Headbomb {_{κοντριβς} – WP Physics} 05:49, 6 February 2010 (UTC)

Care to show some evidence for that? I'm pretty sure you're wrong. --John (talk) 05:51, 6 February 2010 (UTC)

The Free Dictionary, amongst others. Headbomb {_{κοντριβς} – WP Physics} 06:01, 6 February 2010 (UTC)

The Free Dictionary and a Google search aren't reliable sources. --John (talk) 06:05, 6 February 2010 (UTC)

If you aren't happy with these, then search for them yourself. Headbomb {_{κοντριβς} – WP Physics} 06:13, 6 February 2010 (UTC)

I have done, which is how I know it's wrong. Here is a good reference for you. --John (talk) 08:54, 6 February 2010 (UTC)

I found several old (before 1909) books (google book search) using ou, while newer books skip the u.--Stone (talk)

Nebulium

Hi Headbomb, please revert the citation style to the way I created it in the beginning, this is conform with all the rest of the chemical elements.--Stone (talk) 08:20, 7 February 2010 (UTC)

Done. Headbomb {_{κοντριβς} – WP Physics} 00:32, 12 February 2010 (UTC)

Ideal gas law edit

http://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=Ideal_gas_law&diff=next&oldid=342941660

Oops, my bad - I wanted to remove the pipe but ended up deleting a lot more... sorry :S.     — SkyLined (talk) 17:08, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

No biggie. Headbomb {_{κοντριβς} – WP Physics} 00:30, 12 February 2010 (UTC)

fixing cats

Thankyou for cleaning up some cats - I think my eyes went crossed ! Have I broken something - as I've been categorizing a fair bit the last couple of days, but am happy to clean up after myself if I have made a booboo? Lee∴V (talk • contribs) 00:23, 12 February 2010 (UTC)

No you haven't broken anything. My edit summaries have been a bit misleading, you haven't broken the categories, things were not just sorting properly. When you place a category like ] on Help:Books, the page sorts as "Create a book" in the category, but still displays as "Help:Books". In this case "Help:Books" would be found under "C", as "Help:Books", and not as "Help:Create a book" (which is what you probably wanted to happen). Headbomb {_{κοντριβς} – WP Physics} 00:28, 12 February 2010 (UTC)

Ah, you are correct - I thought it was a page cache thing - ah well might as well leave them out then! cheers Lee∴V (talk • contribs) 01:52, 12 February 2010 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages talk:Books/1973 Atlantic hurricane season

Thanks for tagging Misplaced Pages talk:Books/1973 Atlantic hurricane season for deletion. But in future you should simply move the old talk page to the new page's talk page (really X! should have done so when moving the page). Rather than doing what was essentially a copy-and-paste move (although you did change the text slightly, it would have been better to do so after the move). However, since this talk page contains no important information, I've deleted it. Best, - Kingpin (talk) 15:24, 17 February 2010 (UTC)

I patrol the Book:... and Misplaced Pages:Books/... pages independently. So when I saw the Book without banners, I added them (didn't know it was a leftover from X!'s moving spree, since I requested both the books and their talk page to be moved on the original BOTREQ). I just stumbled on the old talk page when doing some cleanup in the book-related categories. Headbomb {_{κοντριβς} – WP Physics} 17:58, 17 February 2010 (UTC)

Infraparticle

I realize now that you were involved in this article, and you found the source listed. I read that source, and found the original source for the argument provided in the original article. I would appreciate it if you leave the text alone, barring some discussion of the material, because it is very very good material which was deleted frivolously because the original editor left this site years ago.Likebox (talk) 02:25, 19 February 2010 (UTC)

Out of curiosity--- what makes you think this material is original in any way?Likebox (talk) 02:31, 19 February 2010 (UTC)

I took pains to find the source for the argument that was presented. That source was fortuitously referenced by the source you found (thank you). I hope that you will either discuss what your problem is with the text, or restore it with the source. Also, please be careful to double-check when challenging material contributed by User:Phys, as it is almost always not properly sourced, because it is from 2004, but it is almost always 100% correct.Likebox (talk) 05:27, 19 February 2010 (UTC)

If you don't discuss, how are people supposed to know what is wrong?Likebox (talk) 17:58, 19 February 2010 (UTC)