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I have a strong dislike for splitting up conversations if i have posted on your talkpage i WILL have it on my watchlist Plugwash 15:24, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)

mains power plug

Is it a coincidence that your user name is Plugwash and I see you editing Mains power plug?  ;-) Chameleon 15:42, 11 Sep 2004 (UTC)

well no only in that i have always been interested in electrics

the name was a nickname i had a long time ago when i used to be in a resedential school and i had already gained the nickname pugwash for other reasons

then i decided to wash the socket end of a rather grubby extention reel ofc i forgot that the other end was still plugged in surprisingly it didn't hurt that much presumablly because the shutters made the contact area through the water very small

btw some of the anonymous edits to mains power plug were also me

Hi

Hi, Plugwash, and welcome to Misplaced Pages. I'm glad you have started to add information on mains wiring. We needed somebody like you who knows about this subject. It's particularly interesting to know how wiring practice differs from country to country. -- Heron 09:32, 14 Oct 2004 (UTC)

hi im british mnyself and don't really have a huge knowlage of how things are outside britan. I try to represent as neutral point of veiw as possible on the articles i edit but ofc on a subject with such great regional variation every editor is going to be pretty biased.

Yes, it will be difficult to write a fair overview of the whole world's wiring practices, but I live in hope. We started off with almost exclusively American information, so I'm glad that you are here to broaden the coverage a bit. Now I'm waiting for someone to explain how they manage earthing in desert countries where the soil is dry sand! Keep up the good work, --Heron 14:15, 14 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Kontek

Yes, the line goes to the Zealand you thought it did. :) Btw, can you explain (perhaps link to) what an "oil cable" as mentioned on that page is? Thue | talk 07:40, 24 Oct 2004 (UTC)

nah i don't know about this high voltage stuff i was just reading (because i find this stuff interesting) and i corrected a few blatent errors as i found them

Power strip

Plugwash, in your recent changes to Power strip, you removed the alternative terminology. Put it back! You also need to use capital letters sometimes! Chameleon 23:57, 14 Nov 2004 (UTC)

sorry if i removed something by mistake i rewrote quite a bit in the process of trying to orgnaise the article "trailing socket" is not another word for powerstrip its similar but its not equivilent which is why i seperated its mention from the other mentions of alternative names "As such is can be considered a type of trailing socket though that term is more often used for single and double cable mounted sockets" but i can't see any other changes to mentions of alternative terminology can you be more specific?

Ah, I though there was more, but it seems that you only removed "trailing socket", and you've given a reason for that. You do need to use capitals though! Chameleon 02:18, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)

it:

You're quite right in it:Discussione:Spina elettrica, the Italian language article (first translated when "Mains_power_plug", as was the former name for the original article was on en:wiki Main page) needs some more information about plug types. I'm going to translate some more in the future. Thank you, --M7it 20:36, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC)

User talk page

You put a user talk page for a user IP address that hasn't made a contribution since September. How could you memorize it?? Note that the IP address you wrote it on the User talk page of is one of those belonging to me, the Georgia Guy. 66.245.98.219 00:26, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)

i found your edit on Talk:National Electrical Code (U.S.) why don't you have an account do you have something to hide (the Georgia Guy rings a bell and its not a good bell to me)

Before I can get a user account, here is a question:

Suppose I get a new computer that uses a different set of IP addresses AFTER I register and I try to log on with the same User name. Will it do anything?? (I just feel that I might get a new computer soon according to possible expectation, sometime several weeks from now.) 66.245.98.219 01:00, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)

once you have an account then you can use it from anywhere (as long as you have the username and password of course)

this is the whole point of accounts to allow users to keep a permanent identity which can be contacted gain a reputation etc

an account is needed to become a real part of the community because without them its almost impossible to work out who people are or what they have been like in the past Plugwash 01:12, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)

That doesn't look like the answer to my question. My question is suppose I log in now, then after a while I get a new computer and I try to log in with the same User Name. Does anything happen?? 66.245.98.219 01:10, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)

you will be able to log in fine provided you have the password (which you set when you first create the account) Plugwash 01:12, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)

American circuit breaker

I think you wanted pictures of an American circuit breaker. I've taken some photos. Are any what you were looking for? I've put them all here, I can upload the "good" one(s) to Misplaced Pages. --Dante Alighieri | Talk 00:58, Nov 20, 2004 (UTC)

I also took some photos of American power strips (surge protectors). They're here. Cheers! --Dante Alighieri | Talk 01:15, Nov 20, 2004 (UTC)

what im really looking for is replacements for http://en.wikipedia.org/Image:Breakerpanel-mechroom136rp.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/Image:Breakerpanel-mechroom136rp.jpg

im trying to eliminate untagged images from pages on my watchlist Plugwash 08:53, 20 Nov 2004 (UTC)

What's wrong with the photo you're linking too? The photographer pretty explicitly licenses it for use in Misplaced Pages. Sounds like we could safely tag it GNUFDL. --Dante Alighieri | Talk 19:32, Nov 20, 2004 (UTC)

He does however we accept imaegs for "use in wikipedia" that are not gfdl (cc fair use at one time even wikipedia specific was allowed) i have started a discussion on his user page and tried to start one on possiblly unfree images but we haven't had any response from him for a while. in the meantime i want to have possible replacements for his images in the articles i maintain availible.

Btw are there agreements on what the template:CopyrightedFreeUseProvidedThat tag can be used for this guy has used it one one of his images http://en.wikipedia.org/Image:One-of-three-phase-polemount-transformers-330dundas-d412closeup.jpg but im kind of unsure on the way he has used it?

Three Phase power change

You state that you don't see how 120 degrees is a maximum phase difference for a 3-phase system. 360/num_phases = max_difference. For 3 phase, 360/3 = 120, therefore 120 degrees is the maximum phase separation in a 3 phase system.

well no its perfectly possible to have 3 phases at say 0 140 and 300 of course in reality they are always spaced equally making the 120 neither a minimum or a maximum just an exact figure. Plugwash 00:44, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)

OK, I agree. Siliconwafer 13:59, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)

NZ power strip

You wrote: any chance of a picture of a AU/NZ power strip with a neon indicator to go against the Indication section?

I'm afraid I'll have to say no to that one. None of my power strips have neon indicators (I use ones twith automatic overload cutouts). Also, since I still use a film camera (I scan my pics in for Misplaced Pages), it'd probably be easier to find someone who has a digital camera. Sorry! ] 23:59, 11 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Analysis of resistive circuits diagram?

Hi Plugwash,

I noticed you added a comment to Analysis of resistive circuits, "this image needs layout changes but we need to wait for PUI to process it first". Could you explain what that means, please?

I was asked to redo that diagram (see the first comment on my talk page) because of its unknown copyright status. I have a new version, circuit equivalence.png that basically looks the same as the old version. But it would be terribly easy for me to lay it out differently. What do you have in mind? (Please reply here, I am watching.) Dbenbenn 03:16, 25 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Its kind of the wrong shape for the main image on a page. Can you rearange it so the cuircuits are one above the other. Plugwash 12:12, 25 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Done! Dbenbenn 04:11, 26 Dec 2004 (UTC)

My Bolivia maps

Heh, thanks for having an eagle eye. Robbot copied the commons:Image:Bolivia_departments.png, an older, GFDL version over to Commons when Commons first opened it seems; I have not made a VfD request for it, simply, because I expected to be made an admin over there, and that seems to be coming to pass. When that happens, I'll delete it myself.

commons:Image:Bolivia_departments_named.png, the newer, CC-by-SA version (I assume that if I made the original GFDL, I can change the license on my own work, especially when the former one is being deleted) is the newer version; note the much cleaner lines. I named it differently because I decided to move to a new naming format.

So, basically, the end to this story is, once I get admin over there, I'll go delete the older versions that I and Robbot uploaded there. :) Is there any problem with that that you see? --Golbez 03:58, Dec 31, 2004 (UTC)

Really unused - tell the culprits...

Hi - i would like to suggest a template that tells people to put their images into galleries/categories, so we don't have to sort through thousands of uncategorized images again and again... My proposal is here: Commons:Template:Please link images - what do you think? -- G. Gearloose (?!) 17:55, 17 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Please have a look at Commons:Village pump#Avoiding unused/uncategorized images, i elaborated on the idea there. -- G. Gearloose (?!) 21:22, 17 Jan 2005 (UTC)