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I originally posted the following in the article itself. I am not having the problem now, but leave this here, as I would still like to know what caused the problem.
Sorry to use this page for what might seem illicit purposes, but it's the only page I've found that offers me the option of editing. A lot of articles show me a "view source" tab, but not an "edit this page" tab. Nor do articles show the "edit" option for each section. I have only recently returned to Wikipedia after a year without a computer.
When I try to log in under my old username of Copey 2, I get a message saying there is no such user, although I found my user page. I created a new user name, Koro Neil, but my attempt to log in with it also got a no-such-user response. I now see Koro Neil at the top of the page, so perhaps the problem has sorted itself, but I will leave this here in case it hasn't.
When I was trying to use Wikipedia without logging in, the figures (ISP?) 127.0.0.1 appeared at the top of the page. I went to its user page, and found someone was discussing banning the user for vandalism. This ISP (if I'm using the right term) is that of ihug.co.nz, one of New Zealand's biggest internet providers. In banning this ISP, Wikipedia cowboys are blocking several hundred thousand users. The user page of one of the proponents of the banning does not inspire confidence in his responsible use of Wikipedia privileges. Unfortunately, I cannot join the discussion, as I have no "edit this page" option.
If I find things have sorted themselves out by the time I post this, I will leave time for some friendly and knowledgeable wikipedian to explain what has been going on, then erase it. I apologize for using this page for purposes unrelated to its subject matter, but it it's the only page I've found where I can edit. Koro Neil ( talk) 23:27, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
You were inquiring why you could edit some pages and not others. The are three classes of pages of Wikipedia:
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If you have any more questions, you can ask me, at my talk page or ask at the help desk. CIreland ( talk) 05:54, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
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talk) 05:57, 19 January 2008 (UTC)Thanks for your help guys. The computer I had when I set up Copey 2 died, and I no longer have the password for the email address I used, one which I created exclusively for blogging and wiki activities. I can probably delete that email address and resurrect it again with a new password. It wasn't just the Main page, it was nearly all pages, including ones I've edited in the past. I seem to be continuing trouble free—fingers crossed! Koro Neil ( talk) 12:57, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
Could you review your comment on the talk page to that article as I am interested in the point you were making. Thanks. Str1977 (talk) 22:43, 29 September 2007 (UTC)
Hi Neil. Yes, was a pity about Blokes and Sheds. Just reading your userpage, got to say i totally empathise with yr comments in inerrancy, radically changed my spirituality when it ironed out that crease in my theology, but certainly made me no less orthodox an Anglican!!! A.J.Chesswas ( talk) 23:40, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi A.J. Good to hear from you. I first spotted you as a contributor to pages on places in Taranaki. I grew up in Waitara, apart from the first 19 months, when I lived in Midhirst. Although my parents were not churchgoers, I went to St John the Baptist Anglican Church as a child, but (ironically) became a Baptist at 16. However, the greater part of my Christian walk has been as an Apostolic, first in Christchurch, then here in Dunedin. But I don't really see my shift to the North East Valley Baptist Church in 2001 as a return. I have recently started taking services once a month in the Owaka Presbyterian Church, 110 or so km south of here. I also preach once, or occasionally twice a month in our own church. Interesting position for me, as the two churches are at different ends of the conservative evangelical spectrum.
Is there such a thing as an unorthodox Anglican? I mean, does anything count as unorthodox in Anglicanism? Oddly, I find that my shift from inerrantism doesn't stop God from speaking to me through Scripture. For example, there are things to be learned about the church if you're allowed to see the divide between Paul and James as possibly bigger than that between Protestantism and Catholicism. That's once you've sorted out that the two men gave different meanings to the words faith and works. So far as I can see, if you sorted out the church into Christians by Paul's definition or James's, you'd still end up with only one group of people. The Book of Jonah has a very "Once upon a time" feel to it, but if it's fiction, then it's divinely inspired fiction. Do I really believe that we may suffer because God has taken a bet with the devil? No, but the Book of Job says deep things about our human condition, and teaches us not to judge.
Not sure where I am these days on the Calvinism thing, except basically not. I was a moderate Calvinist (C.H. Spurgeon/Francis Schaeffer) for many years. Both hyper-Calvinism and an extreme Pelagianism sometimes seem to me to be valid these days. I even have the odd mystic moment of seeing them as really the same thing. I am a very great fan of G.K. Chesterton and C.S. Lewis.
Boethius65 is a very close friend of mine. He shares with us a Taranaki upbringing (Eltham) and a Christian faith. He lived in Dunedin for quite a number of years, but moved a few years ago to Tokoroa.
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Taifar ious1 09:45, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
G'day Neil...
Was having a look at your list of folkie performers with non-red links a moment ago. Apart from Mahinarangi Tocker (let's face it, there could only be ONE of her :), many of the links there point to people other than the intended bod.
In other words, folks with the same name from other places. Both Martha Louise and Shiner are cases in point. Martha Louise points to a Scandinavian princess, and some American band have stolen the name from our favourite foursome :(
What needs to happen here is two fold. First, a disambiguation page for each name needs to be built, with a link on it to each occurrence of the name. If you're not sure what I mean - go to my user-page and click on one - as I've worked on a few of them. Second, a separate article need be written for the New Zealand equivalent to, say, Shiner, and linked to the disambiguation page. That way - people have a choice as to which version of Shiner they want to read about - and (of course!) choose the right one :)
Now I think about it - I might just have that backwards - but BOTH steps are necessary.... lol
Finished a bibliography for Te Rangi Hiroa yesterday - please feel free to comment. Have one to do for Charles Wilkinson (more MY end of our birth province :) later on. Kia kaha... Boethius65 ( talk) 07:54, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
Neil,
I suspect you could POSSIBLY "pass muster" for notability with a (brief, perhaps) article on the Shiner himself: and then justify an article on the band by claiming that there was only one New Zealand outfit claiming inspiration from the name (and being from the very approximate geogrphical vicinity of his haunts). Not sure I'd try that trick with the "Jean-Paul Sartre Experience", however... lol Boethius65 ( talk) 12:40, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
BTW - I think a better strategy may be to stress some of the original material on Shiner recordings: Vic's stuff for example. That'll mean an annotated discography with the entry (with tracklists, composition credits, etc.) - or a series of subpages: one for each recording. That establishes notability in my book... PLUS Vic's paean to older women deserves a MUCH wider audience... Boethius65 ( talk) 12:55, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
I've addressed your comment at talk:Ogden Nash with a bit of historical American linguistics. I hope this clarifies things a bit for you and the everyone else in the world who doesn't speak our weird colonial variant of English. --14:48, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for catching that. Cheers, · AndonicO Engage. 10:27, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
For this nice note. I have to admit that sometimes I feel more diabolical than saintly for having written it, though. Cheers! Antandrus (talk) 18:54, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
Per your addition to this article's talk page, it has been removed for two reasons. 1. Talk pages are only for discussing improvements to an article and 2. The posting of copyrighted song lyrics to articlespace or talk pages is forbidden per WP:LYRICS and Wikipedia's copyright policy. 23skidoo ( talk) 18:32, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
Hello! I made a request on Commons to rename this image to a correct name because the current is misspelled. Regards, Sdrtirs ( talk) 22:56, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
The following is an exchange I have had with Duuude007 on his talk page.
Hi Duuude007. I was looking up the article on the New Zealand Democrat Party, and found that you had changed the name of the Party to "New Zealand Democratic Party". I then found that you had gone through a number of articles on "Democrat Parties" in a large number of countries on September 18, and changed them all to "Democratic Party" on the ground that the use of "Democrat" was incorrect. Well that's an argument in itself, which I won't enter now, though I disagree with you.
I know of two cases where you don't correct grammar, and this is one. You don't correct the grammar of a direct quote, unless you know (and have sources to prove it) that it is a misquote, and that your correction is identical to the original. The other case is really a sub-class of the same thing. YOU DON'T CORRECT THE GRAMMAR OF A NAME OR TITLE, IF THAT IS ITS ORIGINAL FORM.
If the party name of a "Democrat Party" is English in its original form, then it stays "Democrat Party", irrespective of errors (or perceived errors) in the grammar. If it is "Democratic Party", then it stays "Democratic Party". New Zealand has had both, and they are completely different parties, separated in time and separate in philosophy.
If the name is in another language, then you use the closest corresponding form in English. Spanish Partido Demócrata is "Democrat Party", not "Democratic Party", which is Partido Democrático. If you do not know the original language, then you use the established English form - that normally used by English-speaking authorities on the subject.
In the interest of "grammatical correctness", you have created a large number of historical inaccuracies, which you should be the one to fix, rather than leave it all to someone else. I'm sure you have acted in good faith, but what you have done is effectively vandalism, which will be compounded if you leave it, and will become real vandalism if you revert anyone else's attempts to restore the names originally given to the parties by their own founding members.
I suspect there is a policy page somewhere stating this, but I don't know what it is. If I find it, I'll get back to you.
If you respond to this, I would be grateful if you answer me here, but drop a note on my talk page. I find it fiddly to conduct a conversation on two different pages, and confusing to try to follow it afterwards.
Best wishes, Koro Neil ( talk) 03:49, 9 November 2008 (UTC)
Found it: Manual of Style 16.10.1 Consistency within articles—
Koro Neil ( talk) 14:02, 10 November 2008 (UTC)
Duuude007's response at this point was to delete the whole exchange. I have transferred it here, as I may need it as I attempt to sort out the issue at hand. I will contact him and offer to continue the discussion here. If he agrees, I will erase this paragraph.
Hi, I decided to remove your speedy tag from this article, as I felt that the English wasn't at all incomprehensible. Besides, being poorly written is not really a criteria for speedy deletion. decltype ( talk) 12:03, 22 March 2009 (UTC)
Hi, Please see: Talk:Mariology#Eastern_Mariology based on your request. There is more to do, but I have started it. Your comments will be appreciated. Cheers. History2007 ( talk) 17:03, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
Hi, I undid your undo on Talk:IBM, only because the threads were not gone, they were moved to archive: Talk:IBM/Archive 1. It's okay to undo that archiving (and I think archiving everything was too extreme), but if you undo, undo completely including getting the archive page cleaned up, too. TJRC ( talk) 01:32, 28 February 2012 (UTC)
Hello, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. I noticed that you recently added commentary to an article, Bushfires in Australia. While Wikipedia welcomes editors' opinions on an article and how it could be changed, these comments are more appropriate for the article's accompanying talk page. If you post your comments there, other editors working on the same article will notice and respond to them, and your comments will not disrupt the flow of the article. However, keep in mind that even on the talk page of an article, you should limit your discussion to improving the article. Article talk pages are not the place to discuss opinions of the subject of articles, nor are such pages a forum. Thank you. 220 of Borg 10:34, 9 January 2013 (UTC)
Cheers, Koro Neil ( talk) 14:24, 9 January 2013 (UTC)
What lightning strikes in Tasmania in January? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.171.115.172 ( talk) 04:42, 18 October 2013 (UTC)
Dear Neil,
Imagine my delight when I discovered (a few minutes ago) the article you created about Marcus Turner! This is because I have today created a new article on Andy Irvine's album Way Out Yonder which, as I am sure you know, featured Marcus's song "When The Boys Are On Parade".
As usual, I was in the process of creating wikilinks to other Wikipedia articles and was very pleased that there is one about Marcus. So, thank you Neil!
Another reason for contacting you is out of courtesy, to suggest a few minor updates to the article:
I think these few changes would make the article look even better than it already is and I am hopeful you'll agree.
If you concur with my proposal, then I'd be happy to do some of this but I don't wish to stand in your way if you'd rather do any or all (or none!) of it yourself. For the 'Infobox', you'd need to supply me with Marcus's date of birth and we'd also need the names of his recordings, if any.
So, please let me know what you think and, if you decide you wish for me to do some or most of this, then I'd be only too pleased to assist.
Looking forward to hearing from you, Neil, at your convenience.
Until then, please keep well and joyful.
With kind regards;
Patrick.
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Not interested in an edit war so I am not going to, at least fo the time being, revert or edit using similar characterisations..., but let me just say the following:
In other words, thought it could certainly have been improved, the aforementioned idiotic and inaccurate sentence, the one written in non native English, had been added in order to convey specific messages and emphases... ;-)
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I've occasionally asked people with science degrees what is meant by squaring speed. I ask, what's the square of a kilometre per second? They answer, a kilometre per second. I then ask, what's the square of 1,000 metres per second? They say, ah yes, I see what you mean. And then they say, it's really just a number, which I think means they don’t really know.
If you square a/b, you get a²/b². if you square a length or a distance, you get an area. If you divide a distance or a length by the square of an amount of time, you get a measure of acceleration. So, what do you get if you square both the distance and the time? The only answer I can come up with is that the area is increasing at an accelerating rate. This seems counter-intuitive, but I'm guessing, with not much certainty, that this might be connected with the accelerator used in generating nuclear power.
So – is there areal acceleration at the rate of nearly 90,000,000,000 square kilometres per second per second? Any help here? Koro Neil ( talk) 03:46, 26 January 2021 (UTC)
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Copied from Talk:Glossary.
I originally posted the following in the article itself. I am not having the problem now, but leave this here, as I would still like to know what caused the problem.
Sorry to use this page for what might seem illicit purposes, but it's the only page I've found that offers me the option of editing. A lot of articles show me a "view source" tab, but not an "edit this page" tab. Nor do articles show the "edit" option for each section. I have only recently returned to Wikipedia after a year without a computer.
When I try to log in under my old username of Copey 2, I get a message saying there is no such user, although I found my user page. I created a new user name, Koro Neil, but my attempt to log in with it also got a no-such-user response. I now see Koro Neil at the top of the page, so perhaps the problem has sorted itself, but I will leave this here in case it hasn't.
When I was trying to use Wikipedia without logging in, the figures (ISP?) 127.0.0.1 appeared at the top of the page. I went to its user page, and found someone was discussing banning the user for vandalism. This ISP (if I'm using the right term) is that of ihug.co.nz, one of New Zealand's biggest internet providers. In banning this ISP, Wikipedia cowboys are blocking several hundred thousand users. The user page of one of the proponents of the banning does not inspire confidence in his responsible use of Wikipedia privileges. Unfortunately, I cannot join the discussion, as I have no "edit this page" option.
If I find things have sorted themselves out by the time I post this, I will leave time for some friendly and knowledgeable wikipedian to explain what has been going on, then erase it. I apologize for using this page for purposes unrelated to its subject matter, but it it's the only page I've found where I can edit. Koro Neil ( talk) 23:27, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
You were inquiring why you could edit some pages and not others. The are three classes of pages of Wikipedia:
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Could you review your comment on the talk page to that article as I am interested in the point you were making. Thanks. Str1977 (talk) 22:43, 29 September 2007 (UTC)
Hi Neil. Yes, was a pity about Blokes and Sheds. Just reading your userpage, got to say i totally empathise with yr comments in inerrancy, radically changed my spirituality when it ironed out that crease in my theology, but certainly made me no less orthodox an Anglican!!! A.J.Chesswas ( talk) 23:40, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi A.J. Good to hear from you. I first spotted you as a contributor to pages on places in Taranaki. I grew up in Waitara, apart from the first 19 months, when I lived in Midhirst. Although my parents were not churchgoers, I went to St John the Baptist Anglican Church as a child, but (ironically) became a Baptist at 16. However, the greater part of my Christian walk has been as an Apostolic, first in Christchurch, then here in Dunedin. But I don't really see my shift to the North East Valley Baptist Church in 2001 as a return. I have recently started taking services once a month in the Owaka Presbyterian Church, 110 or so km south of here. I also preach once, or occasionally twice a month in our own church. Interesting position for me, as the two churches are at different ends of the conservative evangelical spectrum.
Is there such a thing as an unorthodox Anglican? I mean, does anything count as unorthodox in Anglicanism? Oddly, I find that my shift from inerrantism doesn't stop God from speaking to me through Scripture. For example, there are things to be learned about the church if you're allowed to see the divide between Paul and James as possibly bigger than that between Protestantism and Catholicism. That's once you've sorted out that the two men gave different meanings to the words faith and works. So far as I can see, if you sorted out the church into Christians by Paul's definition or James's, you'd still end up with only one group of people. The Book of Jonah has a very "Once upon a time" feel to it, but if it's fiction, then it's divinely inspired fiction. Do I really believe that we may suffer because God has taken a bet with the devil? No, but the Book of Job says deep things about our human condition, and teaches us not to judge.
Not sure where I am these days on the Calvinism thing, except basically not. I was a moderate Calvinist (C.H. Spurgeon/Francis Schaeffer) for many years. Both hyper-Calvinism and an extreme Pelagianism sometimes seem to me to be valid these days. I even have the odd mystic moment of seeing them as really the same thing. I am a very great fan of G.K. Chesterton and C.S. Lewis.
Boethius65 is a very close friend of mine. He shares with us a Taranaki upbringing (Eltham) and a Christian faith. He lived in Dunedin for quite a number of years, but moved a few years ago to Tokoroa.
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Taifar ious1 09:45, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
G'day Neil...
Was having a look at your list of folkie performers with non-red links a moment ago. Apart from Mahinarangi Tocker (let's face it, there could only be ONE of her :), many of the links there point to people other than the intended bod.
In other words, folks with the same name from other places. Both Martha Louise and Shiner are cases in point. Martha Louise points to a Scandinavian princess, and some American band have stolen the name from our favourite foursome :(
What needs to happen here is two fold. First, a disambiguation page for each name needs to be built, with a link on it to each occurrence of the name. If you're not sure what I mean - go to my user-page and click on one - as I've worked on a few of them. Second, a separate article need be written for the New Zealand equivalent to, say, Shiner, and linked to the disambiguation page. That way - people have a choice as to which version of Shiner they want to read about - and (of course!) choose the right one :)
Now I think about it - I might just have that backwards - but BOTH steps are necessary.... lol
Finished a bibliography for Te Rangi Hiroa yesterday - please feel free to comment. Have one to do for Charles Wilkinson (more MY end of our birth province :) later on. Kia kaha... Boethius65 ( talk) 07:54, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
Neil,
I suspect you could POSSIBLY "pass muster" for notability with a (brief, perhaps) article on the Shiner himself: and then justify an article on the band by claiming that there was only one New Zealand outfit claiming inspiration from the name (and being from the very approximate geogrphical vicinity of his haunts). Not sure I'd try that trick with the "Jean-Paul Sartre Experience", however... lol Boethius65 ( talk) 12:40, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
BTW - I think a better strategy may be to stress some of the original material on Shiner recordings: Vic's stuff for example. That'll mean an annotated discography with the entry (with tracklists, composition credits, etc.) - or a series of subpages: one for each recording. That establishes notability in my book... PLUS Vic's paean to older women deserves a MUCH wider audience... Boethius65 ( talk) 12:55, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
I've addressed your comment at talk:Ogden Nash with a bit of historical American linguistics. I hope this clarifies things a bit for you and the everyone else in the world who doesn't speak our weird colonial variant of English. --14:48, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for catching that. Cheers, · AndonicO Engage. 10:27, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
For this nice note. I have to admit that sometimes I feel more diabolical than saintly for having written it, though. Cheers! Antandrus (talk) 18:54, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
Per your addition to this article's talk page, it has been removed for two reasons. 1. Talk pages are only for discussing improvements to an article and 2. The posting of copyrighted song lyrics to articlespace or talk pages is forbidden per WP:LYRICS and Wikipedia's copyright policy. 23skidoo ( talk) 18:32, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
Hello! I made a request on Commons to rename this image to a correct name because the current is misspelled. Regards, Sdrtirs ( talk) 22:56, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
The following is an exchange I have had with Duuude007 on his talk page.
Hi Duuude007. I was looking up the article on the New Zealand Democrat Party, and found that you had changed the name of the Party to "New Zealand Democratic Party". I then found that you had gone through a number of articles on "Democrat Parties" in a large number of countries on September 18, and changed them all to "Democratic Party" on the ground that the use of "Democrat" was incorrect. Well that's an argument in itself, which I won't enter now, though I disagree with you.
I know of two cases where you don't correct grammar, and this is one. You don't correct the grammar of a direct quote, unless you know (and have sources to prove it) that it is a misquote, and that your correction is identical to the original. The other case is really a sub-class of the same thing. YOU DON'T CORRECT THE GRAMMAR OF A NAME OR TITLE, IF THAT IS ITS ORIGINAL FORM.
If the party name of a "Democrat Party" is English in its original form, then it stays "Democrat Party", irrespective of errors (or perceived errors) in the grammar. If it is "Democratic Party", then it stays "Democratic Party". New Zealand has had both, and they are completely different parties, separated in time and separate in philosophy.
If the name is in another language, then you use the closest corresponding form in English. Spanish Partido Demócrata is "Democrat Party", not "Democratic Party", which is Partido Democrático. If you do not know the original language, then you use the established English form - that normally used by English-speaking authorities on the subject.
In the interest of "grammatical correctness", you have created a large number of historical inaccuracies, which you should be the one to fix, rather than leave it all to someone else. I'm sure you have acted in good faith, but what you have done is effectively vandalism, which will be compounded if you leave it, and will become real vandalism if you revert anyone else's attempts to restore the names originally given to the parties by their own founding members.
I suspect there is a policy page somewhere stating this, but I don't know what it is. If I find it, I'll get back to you.
If you respond to this, I would be grateful if you answer me here, but drop a note on my talk page. I find it fiddly to conduct a conversation on two different pages, and confusing to try to follow it afterwards.
Best wishes, Koro Neil ( talk) 03:49, 9 November 2008 (UTC)
Found it: Manual of Style 16.10.1 Consistency within articles—
Koro Neil ( talk) 14:02, 10 November 2008 (UTC)
Duuude007's response at this point was to delete the whole exchange. I have transferred it here, as I may need it as I attempt to sort out the issue at hand. I will contact him and offer to continue the discussion here. If he agrees, I will erase this paragraph.
Hi, I decided to remove your speedy tag from this article, as I felt that the English wasn't at all incomprehensible. Besides, being poorly written is not really a criteria for speedy deletion. decltype ( talk) 12:03, 22 March 2009 (UTC)
Hi, Please see: Talk:Mariology#Eastern_Mariology based on your request. There is more to do, but I have started it. Your comments will be appreciated. Cheers. History2007 ( talk) 17:03, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
Hi, I undid your undo on Talk:IBM, only because the threads were not gone, they were moved to archive: Talk:IBM/Archive 1. It's okay to undo that archiving (and I think archiving everything was too extreme), but if you undo, undo completely including getting the archive page cleaned up, too. TJRC ( talk) 01:32, 28 February 2012 (UTC)
Hello, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. I noticed that you recently added commentary to an article, Bushfires in Australia. While Wikipedia welcomes editors' opinions on an article and how it could be changed, these comments are more appropriate for the article's accompanying talk page. If you post your comments there, other editors working on the same article will notice and respond to them, and your comments will not disrupt the flow of the article. However, keep in mind that even on the talk page of an article, you should limit your discussion to improving the article. Article talk pages are not the place to discuss opinions of the subject of articles, nor are such pages a forum. Thank you. 220 of Borg 10:34, 9 January 2013 (UTC)
Cheers, Koro Neil ( talk) 14:24, 9 January 2013 (UTC)
What lightning strikes in Tasmania in January? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.171.115.172 ( talk) 04:42, 18 October 2013 (UTC)
Dear Neil,
Imagine my delight when I discovered (a few minutes ago) the article you created about Marcus Turner! This is because I have today created a new article on Andy Irvine's album Way Out Yonder which, as I am sure you know, featured Marcus's song "When The Boys Are On Parade".
As usual, I was in the process of creating wikilinks to other Wikipedia articles and was very pleased that there is one about Marcus. So, thank you Neil!
Another reason for contacting you is out of courtesy, to suggest a few minor updates to the article:
I think these few changes would make the article look even better than it already is and I am hopeful you'll agree.
If you concur with my proposal, then I'd be happy to do some of this but I don't wish to stand in your way if you'd rather do any or all (or none!) of it yourself. For the 'Infobox', you'd need to supply me with Marcus's date of birth and we'd also need the names of his recordings, if any.
So, please let me know what you think and, if you decide you wish for me to do some or most of this, then I'd be only too pleased to assist.
Looking forward to hearing from you, Neil, at your convenience.
Until then, please keep well and joyful.
With kind regards;
Patrick.
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Talking about
this.
Not interested in an edit war so I am not going to, at least fo the time being, revert or edit using similar characterisations..., but let me just say the following:
In other words, thought it could certainly have been improved, the aforementioned idiotic and inaccurate sentence, the one written in non native English, had been added in order to convey specific messages and emphases... ;-)
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Hello User:Koro Neil, because you have done benefiting edits to surname pages in past, was wondering if you can correct Maiorana page (look if the links are in right place or if they are even needed, and add/change written info). Here's the last version by User:Xezbeth [1]. If you can't do it then please let me know if you know some else you could, thanks.-- Theo Mandela ( talk) 03:20, 26 April 2017 (UTC)
It seems that you are the one who created that article [2].Do you have any supporting reference(s) to prove the existence of that settlement? Thanks. -- Jarl Sverre ( talk) 03:14, 9 September 2017 (UTC)
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I've occasionally asked people with science degrees what is meant by squaring speed. I ask, what's the square of a kilometre per second? They answer, a kilometre per second. I then ask, what's the square of 1,000 metres per second? They say, ah yes, I see what you mean. And then they say, it's really just a number, which I think means they don’t really know.
If you square a/b, you get a²/b². if you square a length or a distance, you get an area. If you divide a distance or a length by the square of an amount of time, you get a measure of acceleration. So, what do you get if you square both the distance and the time? The only answer I can come up with is that the area is increasing at an accelerating rate. This seems counter-intuitive, but I'm guessing, with not much certainty, that this might be connected with the accelerator used in generating nuclear power.
So – is there areal acceleration at the rate of nearly 90,000,000,000 square kilometres per second per second? Any help here? Koro Neil ( talk) 03:46, 26 January 2021 (UTC)
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