Did you know that this article is still around even though it was voted for deletion?
TheRingess 02:07, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
In a German book ("Die Olympischen Spiele 1936 in Berlin und Garmisch-Partenkirchen" I think), I came across a photo of some bobsledders (Britain I) competing. Would you happen to know whether such a photo would count as a "Photograph" or a "Photographic work"? Thanks, Andjam 23:49, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
Hello Physchim! First of all I wanted to wish you a (quite belated) Happy New Year. Then I wanted to thank you for catching the vandalism to my user page, that was quite fun to see.
There a few chem-related things for which I wanted to hear your opinion. I was thinking of putting Raney nickel up for FAC this weekend, now that I added the pictures I took in December and clarified some bits for non-chemists. Your expert opinion regarding the handling of the nomination would be more than welcome.
About the pictures of chemicals, I was a bit disappointed to find out that all the technicians I used to hang out with were already on holiday when I arrived to the lab. I could only take pictures of raney nickel because I still had a sealed flask on my bench, but not of other chemicals. I'll try to get those pics once again sometime in March.
Also, I realized there are many "standard enthalpy of..." articles that right now are stubs because they are little more than a dicdef. I was thinking that merging all of them under standard enthalpy would be far more useful, specially for students trying to build born-haber cycles. What do you think?
Finally, I just wanted to share with you that I graduated last December! Now I have a shiny BSc in Chemistry diploma begging for some wall space in my room, and lots of applications to masters programs claiming most of the Real State on my desk :D
Thank you for reading, looking forward to hear from you. Cheers! -- Run e Welsh | ταλκ 17:32, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
Hallo see Pleas User talk: Muhamed
Hi there! Thanks for your work on this; I've tweaked the template you created, incorporating notions from the pre-existing 'upcoming election template', and your and my predecessors. Should we mention Elections Canada at all? (Note: I've since updated the template to include this.)
Anyhow, please feel free to edit it as needed, and contact me if you've any questions. Thanks! E Pluribus Anthony | talk | 00:34, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
I have just placed the template on the article, replacing {{ future election}} but not {{ currentevent}}, to let people know what the consensus position is before polling starts. It should remain until 03:00 UTC, and preferably until CBC start giving out results: on the other hand, if anyone insists on removing it at 03:01 UTC, it's not worth a fight over a question of minutes! I also placed the template on the timeline: no point in putting it on the opinion polls page (although there is another section of the CEA which prohibits us from publishing new opinion polls...) I have created {{ ERCARiding}} if the need arises to place a template on an individual riding. Physchim62 (talk) 09:49, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
Thanks. No hard feelings. -- Ray Oiler 14:15, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
I was monitoring Canadian federal election, 2006 to check for the previously threatened violations of Wikipedia policy ( WP:NLT), and I noticed that you placed an improper block on User:Mirror Vax. First of all, according to Wikipedia:Blocking policy, you are not allowed to block users engaged in an edit war with you. Secondly, both you and Mirror Vax had made exactly three reverts - not the fourth revert that would justify a 24-hour block. This is clearly an inappropriate use of administrative powers. I have asked for its reversal at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents. Crotalus horridus ( TALK • CONTRIBS) 18:53, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
On the trancluded cheminfo infobox talk page and the normal chembox talk page there is some question of how to customize it. I'm two new to the wikipedia & mediawiki to understand what can and can't be done by normal users. There are probably additional sections that consensous would recommend adding but I'm not sure anyone knows how. In any case, the current template is very nice. The syntax is fantastic. I switched over a few pages to use it. Thanks in advance, Jeff Carr 17:05, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for your message on my page... I've indeed noticed linkimage is not currently being used on lolicon - the question of whether the image in question should be kept inline or linked is in fact currently the subject of a straw poll. Attempts to keep the image linked have resulted in an edit war which I'm trying to keep out of... WRT the "doesn't allow for legal warnings" issue, what do you mean? That there is no functionality in this regard or that it is not allowed by policy? If the former, this is what I have in mind. If the latter, would you perhaps elaborate? Thanks -- Mikkerpikker ... 20:06, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
Thank you for your response and invitation! I have uploaded several works from 1919-1922 by the German artist Max Ernst and two by the Spanish artist Salvador Dali from 1921 and 1922. In future I would also like to use pre-1923 works by the Dutch artist M. C. Escher.
My main question is if it is legal for an American user to apply the template PD-US to images from other jurisdictions? This question mostly concerns works by the Italian artist Giorgio de Chirico from 1911-1917. Justin Foote 00:51, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
Herr Physchim62
You seem to be making friends. I have no idea who you are, but upon seeing the clearly incomplete pages on DU and the Gulf War, I decided to offer a small portion of the large amount of information I have collected about DU. Since you provided almost no information about your subsequent reversion, and what you did provide was not only inaccurate but entirely cryptic to me, it took me some time to understand why my comments were immediately censored, based on a login technicality referencing one of my IP addresses and a user I know nothing about, but whom perhaps I should now get to know. I've reposted the comments to the DU page with my correct login, which Wiki sometimes fails to keep. I will now repost to the Gulf War page, being careful my login is maintained. Barring a timely response, I plan to contact some type of Wiki "ArbCom" about the wrong assumption you apparantly have made about my identity, and what I think is overstepping whatever authority you seem to have within Wiki, though I know nothing about that process and no information seems to be provided by you or Wiki in that regard.
Please note:
Please be more careful next time. SeparateIssue 07:20, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
UPDATE:
When I posted this, I was not aware that new posts are normally added to the bottom, but in retrospect, posting to the top may have been justified. I will move it if requested.
Als Wissenschaftler (Dr. phil., Jg. 1958, an die 200 wissenschaftliche Fachpublikationen v.a. zu Themen der Geschichte) liegen mir freie Inhalte und insbesondere bildrechtliche Korrektheit der Wikipedia-Projekt sehr am Herzen. Da mein Englisch eher mittelmäßig ist, fällt es mir schwer, juristische Spezialfragen angmessen auf Englisch zu kommunizieren. Der Streit um das Template GermanGov hat einige deutschsprachige Benutzer, die auch in en angemeldet sind, frustriert, da es nicht möglich war, die klare Rechtslage zu vermitteln. Es wurde immer wieder revertiert, ohne die Autorität der deutschen Benutzer, die oft erhebliches Ansehen in der deutschsprachigen WP genießen, anzuerkennen oder auf ihre Argumente einzugehen. Ich bitte meine diesbezügliche Unfreundlichkeit auf meiner Benutzerseite zu entschuldigen und würde vorschlagen, dass jeder seine Muttersprache gebraucht. Möglicherweise ist es auch einfacher, mein deutsch zu verstehen als mein Englisch. Lies bitte Fotos als amtliche Werke unter [1] und du wirst feststellen, dass es ausserhalb der Wappen, der Briefmarken und der Abbildungen in amtlichen Werken wie Patentschriften oder Urteilen keinerlei Anhaltspunkte dafür gibt, dass irgendein Foto von einem deutschen Gericht oder einem deutschen juristischen Autor jemals als Fall von § 5 Abs. 2 UrhG betrachtet wurde. Es gibt kein Sonderrecht für Nazi-Bilder und der einzige Fall, wo eine Karte als amtliches Werk betrachtet wurde, ist eine Karte des Meeresstrands zum Zweck von Warnungen vor Badeunfällen. Es muss also ein besonderes Interesse vorhanden sein, dass ein amtliches Werk unter Absatz 2 fällt. Dieses Template aber suggeriert, dass es genügt, wenn eine amtliche deutsche Stelle das Bild veröffentlicht hat. Das ist irreführend, denn z.B. Nazi-Bilder fallen online nicht unter § 5 Abs. 2, sondern unter das Urheberrecht des Fotografen bzw. unter die Nutzungsrechte des Rechtsnachfolger des damaligen Dienstherrn, möglicherweise aber eher ersteres. Bei jedem Foto amtlicher Herkunft aus Deutschland hilft es aber auch nichts, dieses Template als Ergänzung zu einem fair use-Template einzusetzen, denn zum einen ist der Verweis auf § 5 UrhG verfehlt und zum anderen besagt es nichts anderes als: Möglicherweise hat der Rechtsnachfolger der damaligen amtlichen Behörde das Urheberrecht, möglicherweise aber auch die Nachkommen des Urhebers. Daher ist auch der Nutzen als Quellenangabe nicht gegeben. Alles sehr schwere juristische Kost, aber ich bin gern bereit, auf Verständnisfragen klärend einzugehen, wenn du bitte meine Meinung/Angaben dann auf Englisch bei den entsprechenden Diskussionen einbringst. Danke -- Historiograf 20:59, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Templates_for_deletion#Template:GermanGov Sherurcij ( talk) ( Terrorist Wikiproject) 21:24, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
Es wäre schön, wenn Du, Lupo und ich eine kleine Bildrechte-Arbeitsgruppe bilden könnten, wobei ich meine guten Kenntnisse des deutschen Urheberrechts einbringen könnte, denen leider nicht entsprechend gute Englischkenntnisse entsprechen und leider auch nur rudimentäre Kenntnisse des US-Copyrights. -- Historiograf 15:31, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
Historiograf, I am cautious because I know that I am going to have to explain my reasoning to many, many people who desperately want to show a WW2 battle photo on Wikipedia! We already have (small) problems with editors who have discovered § 72 UrhG— see above. For the moment, I still find inconsistencies in your argument: I prefer to think that they are my fault for not understanding German law well enough and it is for that reason that I am still reading around the subject—including the articles in Archivalia—and consulting my contacts here in France (who have contacts in Germany). I am sure that we can come to a consensus, but it will take a little bit of time. Physchim62 (talk) 21:18, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
I think it is NOT fair a) not to say WHERE are inconsistencies b) not to give a mail that I can send you 2 MB page images from a German "Urheberrechtskommentar" (2004). § 72 UrhG is another question and en WP has the possibility unlike Commons to use fair use. It is not necessary to clear clear things for months if an expert user of the German WP like Steschke or me is saying that a template is full nonsense. -- Historiograf 17:09, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
Sorry if I misunderstood that. Frankly I am not familiar with German copyright law (Dutch yes, English/American yes, German no). But neither is TFD, so yes, this merits closing a discussion there because it will not yield the right answer (either it's legally sound, in which case the nomination is pointless, or it's legally wrong, in which case the debate is pointless). What I usually do myself is ask either BD2412 (USA lawyer), or drop a line on WP:CP. R adiant _>|< 20:46, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
If you could do it, that'd be great—I'm rather busy off-Wikipedia right now. Can you ask not only whether these images are copyrighted in the U.S., but also when and in what publication they were first published, and when the copyrights were renewed? After all, Mr. Fiedler may also have an economic interest in these images... And hey, maybe he'd even agree to release these JPG versions into the public domain also outside Canada. (Unlikely, but one may hope.) While they're of decent quality, they're nowhere near good enough for people to be able to produce full-scale prints from them. These Karsh images are printed and sold at sizes of the order of 50×40&nbasp;cm, or at least as glossy full-page prints in art books. Lupo 08:02, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
I agree with Lupo. It would be a great help. -- Historiograf 15:27, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
I owe a lot to the people in WP:Chem, and your personal help was invaluable as well. Now that I think of it the notion of having a featured grey powder sounds rather funny indeed... I look forward to the day I see the article in the front page! Cheers. -- Run e Welsh | ταλκ 20:54, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
Regarding the images previously tagged as {{ GermanGov}}, if they are tagged correctly and are indeed works commissioned by the German government or one of its legal predecessors, they are all copyrighted. Do help tag and source them properly over at WP:PUI where they are listed now. (Originally I did put them up at WP:CP, but WP:PUI is the more appropiate forum.) Some of them can be used under the fair use doctrine, but all need sourcing. There is much to be said for proper sourcing to help out folks when the licence tag turns out to be wrong.
"Messing with image copyright tags" - that's the wrong attitude when it comes to legal issues that you don't like. One doesn't determine what the law says in a debate, one consults a legal text or an expert. After dinner: a consensus discussion on the subject why the sky is green. Pilatus 22:42, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
I have seen a 1989 DDR Gorbatchev photo in this category. We have other G. photos and for the DDR there is no separate law but according to the Einigungsvertrag the relevant law is only Western germany law (UrhG 1965 sqq.). This photo can not be used as fair use because it is not neccesary for the G. article. -- Historiograf 17:12, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
Hi PC,
I wanted to ask for your (& Wim's) opinion. My work on WP1.0 has got me interested in how articles are "arranged" in a hierarchy, since we need to work out a set of articles to put in 1.0. On Wikipedia we currently have categories, but I personally find these very "clunky" and it's hard to see the bigger picture. There is (in some obscure corner of Wikipedia) a way of expanding these in a "tree" format using a script from de, but this is only a little better IMHO. We have a few nice boxes like Template:PeriodicTablesFooter, but these are rare and usually only cover major topics. Over the last month or so I have been experimenting a bit with what I call a tree, and although it's technically very crude (like most things I do!) I do like the basic idea. I wanted to get your thoughts on the basic concept and, if you like it, how it might be improved. There are some symbols I'm using, ↓ means go one level down (↑ to go up), @ means go to the article, = means go to the list and © means go to the category. I have a few test pages, these don't have every link done yet, but you can go all the way through to iron(III) oxide (or any other oxide up to SeO2). Can you try looking up an oxide starting here, and let me know what you think?
BTW, I put a merge notice on oxoanions --> oxyanion. Do you happen to know which term is preferred by IUPAC? Google prefers oxyanion, so I chose that as the home for the combined article, am I right? I also noticed that iron(II) oxide has a merge notice on it. Do we have a list of chem merge notices, for the portal? Regarding the portal, I'm thinking we should update the "news" section, any suggestions? Finally, could I persuade you to look at doing a decent hazards section for sulfuric acid, I think it might just tip it over to be A-Class, as Wim suggests. What do you think? Cheers, Walkerma 07:37, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
Thanks a lot for clearing up a lot of things. I'll fix the merge later. I understand that the articles are NOT in a simple hierarchy, certainly below the top 2-3 levels they can be more like a set of neurons with connections. For example to find iron(III) oxide, you might go Chemistry -> Subdisciplines -> Inorganic Chem -> Inorganic compounds -> Iron compounds -> iron(III) oxide. Alternatively you might go Chemistry -> Chem substances -> Chem compounds -> Inorganic compounds - Oxides -> iron(III) oxide. Although I call this a tree, if the system is complete one should be able to take either routse very easily. One reason why I don't like categories alone is that they are too one-dimensional - if you take a wrong turn, you can end up in a dead end. This new system couldn't prevent that totally, but it gives a much wider view of the subject area so have more chance to see where you want to go. It also allows you to jump 2 levels down at a time - try going through the latter sequence on my tree, and compare it with the same navigation through categories. I also find this approach helps to see how things all link together, something you can't visualise with cats alone. Finally, what do you mean by "criteria for your lists", do you mean the table headings? Cheers, Walkerma 22:28, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
These are in fact related, since the article list on level 1 provides the basis of the column headings in level 2. OK, in chemistry I mostly used our project worklist to guide me through things like the list of chemists. If I don't have that to go on I just picked what I thought was important, knowing that someone else could easily edit things, Wikipedia-style. I realise it's subjective, but we have to start somewhere. Also, many of our category structures are likewise subjective, but they often evolve over time into something effective. Walkerma 23:03, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for your comments, Wim, I hope PC doesn't mind me continuing the discussion here. I wanted to refine (or abandon!) the idea before I took it further, e.g to WP:Chemistry. I would add
I have started to describe the idea in the following way. To find out about a topic is rather like making a journey. Using categories is rather like making a journey using only road signs - you probably get there, but you can't know much about far ahead, you don't easily know what's nearby, and if you take a wrong turn you can get lost. The tree is supposed to be more like a map, where you can get a sense of the article landscape, so you (the user) can poke around and explore more easily. It also serves a second (related) purpose. From the admin perspective that type of map is (IMHO) essential for WP1.0 as we try to see what articles we have in a given area. We need to be able to visualise a subject, IMHO. Is there a better way? I would love to find a way to make the system dynamic (like cats) rather than static (like lists), but my tech expertise doesn't allow it. Any suggestions? Thanks, Walkerma 06:27, 6 February 2006 (UTC)
Just a quick question: you've mentioned the LUG 1901. I thought we were discussing primarily images. AFAIK, the LUG 1901 does not cover photographs and other artwork, they were instead covered by the KUG 1907 (and before, photographs were covered by a law from 1876). So what does the LUG have to do with all this? Lupo 13:59, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
I have redone the indef. block on User:PPEist. I stated my full reasoning on AN but in short I feel that it is beyond the required cause needed within blocking policy to indef. block a user who has stated that he is planning on reporting Wikipedia editors who are located in England to the police, you also ignored the fact that other editors had chimed in supporting the block. I do not want to edit war if at all possible but this block is more than justified by the user's behavior. Jtkiefer T | C | @ ---- 02:34, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
Physchim62 - my comments on PuO2 are directed at a student who is assigned to growing, ever so slightly perhaps, this entry. For example, that it has a CaF2 structure. In this particular case, Trying reinforce the difference between molecular and non-molecular structures. Their first instinct is that PuO2 is like CO2. We are working on ca. 25 entries this week. You are welcome to continue to join in. Smokefoot 06:17, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
I think you have a good point regarding the images on Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy. You can revert them if you'd like while I let WP:CP deal with the underlying issue; I won't mind. -- Aaron 01:14, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
Hello, Physchim62! I noticed that you blocked 203.162.2.133 indefinitely for being an open proxy, citing APNIC. Would you mind clarifying this? It does say "Allocated portable" on there, but I'm not sure that that means it is an open proxy. I'm not that technically proficient, but I used the site to check a few of the IPs I have edited from before (workplace, library, etc.) and some said "Allocated portable"; however, those IP addresses certainly weren't open proxies but instead just public-use computers or a high-use network used by a company, system, district, etc. Would you mind clarifying this? Thanks! Flcelloguy ( A note?) 01:32, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
Look up the user history of the IP User:165.230.149.152 - and you'd see that there was no repeat cartoon blanking vandalism on the Mohammed controversy from that IP. 165.230.149.154 05:33, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
I have added a complaint to the Wikipedia block discussion pages, normally used by admins. 165.230.149.154 05:55, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
I've opened a straw poll on the issue, which I hope will be more productive than my previous nomination attempt proved to be. Please see Wikipedia:User RFC reform, which is now open. I've announced it on WP:AN and WP:VP/P. Crotalus horridus ( TALK • CONTRIBS) 04:26, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
I left a note at Template talk:PD-because, but it hasn't gotten any reponse yet. There is an svg version of Image:Achtung.png available, and it is suggested at Commons:Images for cleanup that svg replace png where practical due to a number of reasons. I would make this change myself, but the template is protected. You are listed in the edit history for the template, so I figured I'd leave a message. Thanks. McNeight 16:59, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
You are deleting templates that garnered overwhelming support in W:TFD. If I started going around deleting pages that I didn't like, I would expect to be booted off of Wikipedia. If you do not restore those and any other pages that you deleted without first reaching a consensus, I think that we should take this to the Wikipedia:Mediation committee. -- M @ r ē ino 04:06, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
A home-delivery Welcome to the Arabic wiki. -- Tarawneh 06:26, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
Hi there. I noticed you removed a block of text from the Brian Peppers, citing the reason as it being unsourced. The problem is, however, that it is impossible for this information to be sourced as the page that first declared this information has been taken down by the news site that originally posted it. Archived versions of the page couldn't be found by me after searching, other than a YTMND page I came accross. Previous versions of this article have included this information with the source listed, and there was no complaint. Furthermore, I personally visited the source when the page was still up and can verify that the information you deleted was correct. How do you propose this is dealt with? VegaDark 08:50, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
I have undeleted {{ User Unionist}} and {{ User Irish Republican}} because there was a consensus to keep them on Wikipedia:Templates for deletion when they were speedily deleted. If you think they should be deleted again, feel free to nominate them on TFD. — Guan aco 21:14, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
Thank you for your offer to mediate the Depleted uranium dispute. I hope the arbitration committee agrees. -- James S. 23:18, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
I would add:
Arfsten, D.P.; K.R. Still; G.D. Ritchie (2001) "A review of the effects of uranium and depleted uranium exposure on reproduction and fetal development," Toxicology and Industrial Health, vol. 17, pp. 180-91: http://www.bovik.org/du/reproduction-review-2001.pdf Summary contains: "A number of studies have shown that natural uranium is a reproductive toxicant...."
Hindin, R.; D. Brugge; B. Panikkar (2005) "Teratogenicity of depleted uranium aerosols: A review from an epidemiological perspective," Environmental Health, vol. 4, pp. 17: http://www.ehjournal.net/content/4/1/17 "Conclusion: In aggregate the human epidemiological evidence is consistent with increased risk of birth defects in offspring of persons exposed to DU."
Domingo, J.L. (2001) "Reproductive and developmental toxicity of natural and depleted uranium: a review," Reproductive Toxicology, vol. 15, pp. 603-9. Abstract: "Decreased fertility, embryo/fetal toxicity including teratogenicity, and reduced growth of the offspring have been observed following uranium exposure at different gestation periods."
Durakovic A. (1999) "Medical effects of internal contamination with uranium," Croatian Medical Journal, vol. 40, pp. 49-66: http://www.bovik.org/du/asaf_99.htm Abstract: "well documented evidence of reproductive and developmental toxicity...."
McDiarmid, M.A., et al. (2006) "Biological monitoring and surveillance results of Gulf War I veterans exposed to depleted uranium," in International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health, vol. 79, pp. 11-21. Abstract: "genotoxicity measures continue to show subtle, mixed results...."
Schröder, H.; A. Heimers; R. Frentzel-Beyme; A. Schott; W. Hoffmann (2003) "Chromosome aberration analysis in peripheral lymphocytes of Gulf war and Balkans war veterans," Radiation Protection Dosimetry, vol. 103, pp. 211-220: http://www.bovik.org/du/chromosome-abberations.pdf Abstract: "there was a statistically significant increase in the frequency of dicentric chromosomes (dic) and centric ring chromosomes (cR) in the veterans. group...."
Miller, A.C.; M. Stewart; K. Brooks; L. Shi; N. Page (2003) "Depleted uranium-catalyzed oxidative DNA damage: absence of significant alpha particle decay," Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry, vol. 91, pp. 246-252: http://www.bovik.org/du/Miller-DNA-damage.pdf Abstract: "chemical generation of hydroxyl radicals by depleted uranium in vitro exceeds radiolytic generation by one million-fold...."
Briner, W. and J. Murray (2005) "Effects of short-term and long-term depleted uranium exposure on open-field behavior and brain lipid oxidation in rats," Neurotoxicology and Teratology, vol. 27, pp. 135-44: http://www.bovik.org/du/du-on-rats.pdf Abstract: "DU is a toxin that crosses the blood-brain barrier, producing behavioral changes in male rats and lipid oxidation regardless of gender in as little as 2 weeks...."
Monleau, M.; C. Bussy; P. Lestaevel; P. Houpert; F. Paquet; V. Chazel (2005) "Bioaccumulation and behavioural effects of depleted uranium in rats exposed to repeated inhalations," Neuroscience Letters, vol. 390, pp. 31-6. Abstract: "depleted uranium is able to enter the brain after exposure to repeated inhalation, producing behavioral changes."
Abstract of Mishima's late 1970s work [3] (search for "75 percent"; observe only particulate measurements);
The 2000-era vet birth defect stats [4];
Evidence of uranyl ion near DU munitions fires [5];
Health Physics Society's study of particulate (non-gas) dispersion patterns [6];
A. How accurately will isotope ratio urine studies which depend on particulate uranium aerosol remaining undissolved in the lung measure total inhalation exposure?
B. Can the value of a poison be known without knowledge of its long-term effects? -- James S. 01:42, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
Will be ready in about half an hour, I've just got some chemistry cleanup to do first :) Physchim62 (talk) 22:31, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
TDC suggested that I scan in Ackermann et al. (1960); I'm working on that now. -- James S. 23:20, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
Hi, Psychim62 - Could you please revert the Kaiser Permanente back to the Omsbudsman version (or mine before it) and then re-protect it. You put on the protection after FCYTravis had made major deletions. If you check the Kaiser Permanente talk page, I intended to source the questioned areas and had asked for the best way to do it. Putting the protection on after Travis's deletions amounts to a decision that approves suppression of criticism.-- Pansophia 07:18, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
Please, immediately revisit {{ user Irish Republican}} and {{ user Unionist}} and wrap {{ deletedpage}}'s in <noinclude></noinclude> tags. Tagging people's user pages with {{ deletedpage}} is just short of being considered vandalism. Thank you! Misza13 (Talk) 11:16, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
Could you elaborate on why it was deleted? Moe ε 02:25, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
New CSD criteria T1. Also, because userboxes don't belong in template space. -- Cyde Weys 05:32, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
Hi, I need help from an Admin, preferably a chemist. The article Henry F. Schaefer, III was started by me and I included a section of his home page bio, but in quotes and referenced. Later an anon editor removed the quotes and it was later tagged as a copyvio and blanked. I have fixed the article in Henry F. Schaefer, III/Temp as the tag box indicated. The user who put the copyvio tag on it is happy (see my talk page), but is not an admin. Could you please fix up putting the fixed article back in place? Thanks. -- Bduke 20:58, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for turning Haydar into a proper disambiguation page. I wasn't quite sure of the format.
Perhaps that will keep the Shi'a zealots at bay. Zora 01:07, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
I am no longer interested in continuing this farce. The uranium trioxide article's section on UO3 gas is an embarrassment to your project in particular and Wikipedia in general. If you care to spend the next few months dealing with Salsman's delusional views on science, his stonewalling, and bullying, then be my guest. I have had more than enough of it. If he will not yield on something as elementary, and obvious as this, it is unlikely that he will show any flexibility on the more contentious topics listed.
It is unfortunate that so much time and effort is spent in the vain attempt to save the intellectually bankrupt. I wish you luck. -- DV8 2XL 01:33, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
I have just done a massive refactoring of Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Tony Sidaway/Workshop, in order to
As your words appear on that page, I'm letting you know so that you may review the changes. I have tried not to let any bias or POV I may have color my summaries; however, it's a wiki, so if you think I've misrepresented your words, please fix them. Wearily yours, Mindspillage (spill yours?) 08:12, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
Thank you for your advice, but i do not appreciate the deletion of information in order to rename the article to a diambig page. You are in practice deleting it without a afd, and i cant accpet that. -- Striver 10:42, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
It appears that you are saying that James S. provides genuine citations, but that the article does not state the opinion that he attributes to it. That is a common problem. It is also very subtly misleading, because the typical editor will believe that the article at least states the opinion that is attributed to it. I will not advise you to read the arbitration case against EffK, but he repeatedly cited various historians whom he claimed supported his position that there had been a deal between the Vatican and Adolf Hitler. In fact, the historians, in each case, discussed Hitler at length, but were at most tangential to his claim of a conspiracy. A non-chemist is very unlikely to check a reference in an article on chemistry. For that matter, someone with a B.A. in chemistry who has not done chemistry (myself) for 35 years is unlikely to check such a reference. References that do not say what the editor says they say are a common problem with disruptive editors. Sympathies. Robert McClenon 00:14, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
Thank you for responding, but you did not address my question. I was not trying to investigate what amount of blood loss is tolerable. That is an easy figure to find. I am specifically trying to determine how much blood can be lost into each leg. Shaggorama 23:31, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
I have just added articles for two French chemists, Raymond Daudel and Bernard Pullman. Would you consider translating these into French for the French Wikipedia? I am sure that people there would add more usefull information. My French is pretty rusty and I would not want to write an article, but I can probably translate back anything that is added to the French article. Any comments on the articles would be welcome of course and in particular whether the redlinks actually do have a page, possibly on the French wikipedia. I will add an article for Alberte Pullman soon. I am working through the membership of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science. These two at least complete the five founding members mentioned right at the top of the article. -- Bduke 07:14, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
Thanks. Sorry, I missed your response. There are several redlinks to Radium Institute. I'll just fix them to go to Curie Institute. Any chance of you translating these bios? -- Bduke 22:24, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
Hi, I'm not seeing any warning note on Babajobu's talk page, and this block seems a bit, err, hasty. Care to come and chat on IRC about it?
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"However, do not forget that blocks are meant to be preventative, not punitive". So, uh, what was the intent of the block then? Were you worried he was going to place multiple messages on WP:AN/I? Ashibaka tock 03:34, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
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Hi PC, Thanks for writing a good safety section on H2SO4 that went beyond "What Johnny thought was H2O..". I think sodium hydroxide still needs some of your caustic comments on safety. Do you think the sulfuric acid article is ready to be A-Class now? Wim will probably be working on the statistics this weekend and he'd no doubt love to see at least one article upgraded from B to A-Class (so would I, it's been a while since we upgraded any!). Please leave comments here. Warning: If you don't, I'll create a new UserBox that says, "This user thinks PC should spend more time on chemistry articles"! Hope your term/semester is going well - mine is busy but good. Talk & posters at Atlanta ACS very soon, fortunately we have spring break to work on htem. Cheers, Walkerma 16:34, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
Hello,
An Arbitration case involving you has been opened: Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Depleted uranium. Please add evidence to the evidence sub-page, Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Depleted uranium/Evidence. You may also contribute to the case on the workshop sub-page, Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Depleted uranium/Workshop.
On behalf of the Arbitration Committee, -- Tony Sidaway 19:23, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
Thank you for leaving me to twist in the wind over in arbitration. Salsman was more or less under control in mediation and prior to your generous offer to interfere with the first trip to arbcom my co-litigants weren't, as they are now 'too busy' to engage.
But you know what? It really doesn't matter now, because I am not going to soil myself with this issue or this crank anymore - but now he is running barefoot through all of the uranium compound articles spuing his nonsense ideas about UO3 gas. And all I can get out of Chem Project is some vague promises 'to help clean up when all this is over'. Well if you guys don't give a damn about the integrity of the compound topics, why should I? A simple show of consensus was all I needed to put a lie to his contention that it was only the three originals that don't believe this gas exists at STP and you have wimped out.
Well have fun 'cleaning up after 'cause he's going to float through arbitration with a slap on the wrist, unopposed. -- DV8 2XL 02:20, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
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I had asked before, but you probably missed it. Did you ever send that e-mail to Mr. Jerry Fiedler on the subject of these Karsh photographs? Did you ever get an answer? Lupo 09:44, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
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Cheers! -- Run e Welsh | ταλκ 12:38, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
While you attempt to show that I should have known that Smokefoot was not a sockpuppet of DV8 2XL, I suggest that you examine the history of DV8 2XL's user page in relation to the creation date of Smokefoot's account and initial burst of editing activity. I am still not entirely convinced that there is no attempt to manufacture an apparent consensus going on under our noses. I wish you could have been a neutral mediator, but your edits show that you took sides a few days after you took the case. That would have been fine for an outside observer, but I guess you didn't review the mediation policy and guidelines pages. Also, taking sides on the factual issue of UO3 gas vapor before reading the Wilson (1961) reference I cited seems like another big mistake to me. Good luck. -- James S. 18:00, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
Hallo, I'm cleaning up the Wikipedia:Translation into English/French page (categorizing articles, removing completed translations, etc.), so I was wondering if you'd finished fr:Droit d'auteur? The original French article is longer than the tranlated version ( French copyright law), though I haven't looked through it yet. Also the French grammar and Morphology of the french verb articles, and Occitan language--are they done as well? You can reply on the talk page here Wikipedia talk:Translation into English. Thanks so much! Tamarkot 21:45, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
Hi PC,
Hope you're well. I have a favour to ask - could you give me any statistics on the Chemistry pages on Wikipedia for my Atlanta talk on Sunday morning? I have no clue how to locate such information, I'm afraid. I'm looking for basic stats like total no. of chemistry articles, no. of chemical compounds covered (about 4000, I think Wim said, is that right?). I'd also love to know which chemistry articles get the most traffic, which are the most popular Google searches, etc. Any such information would be helpful. Probably none of these numbers are essential to the talk, but the audience will be mainly Chemical Info people who will no doubt love to see statistics like that! Many thanks, Walkerma 05:25, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
Thanks a lot, that's a great start! Yes, Wim was including at least prescription drugs in that posting, he mentioned those explicitly. Any further info would be most welcome. Cheers, Walkerma 15:25, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
Ich habe nie gelaubt, dass es soviel Arbeit macht zwei Artikel gegen einen hartnäckigen und verbohrten möchtegern Wissenschaftler zu verteidigen. Ich habe mehr zu abgereichertem Uran und Uranoxiden gelesen als ich eigentlich wollte. Vielleicht bekommen wir es ja gemeinsam mit den anderen hin das Gespenst vom Urangas zu vertreiben!-- Stone 11:51, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
In Wikipedia:Pages_needing_translation_into_English#19th_Waffen_Grenadier_Division_of_the_SS_.282nd_Latvian.29, you ask for "translation or gloss of names of German army units". Presumably, it is not just this particular page that would need glossary/translation, but all pages referring to units of the German army. Some page comparing the different ranks, plus a page comparing the unit sizes, as well as the different types could be created (if it's not already there). And then it could be auto-linked by category or whatever (sorry, I'm new here; not familiar with all the auto/semi-auto features of Wikipedia. If you point me in the right directions I'd be willing to help. Nczempin 14:46, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
There is another stawpoll on the disputed offensive image currently underway at Talk:Lolicon. Hipocrite - «Talk» 21:02, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
Hi there, you removed the value of the oxygen partial pressure from the paragraph that gives the UO3 vapor pressure in the UO3/U3O8/O2 system.
Obviously the position of the equilibrium is dependent on the oxygen pressure:
Ackermann (1960) has several series of measurements in figure 6 of the paper, some at 0.2 bar (air?) and others at 1 bar (oxygen at ambient pressure). If I read that right I think we can put the pressure back in. 129.215.37.163 14:18, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
I added the cite. You gotta give a person a second - man you reved that way too fast. Just add the cite needed tag next time, and remove the text only after giving a chance for that.
I just came across this page by random browsing through the Template categories. It looks like a very nice idea, but it seems like you stopped working on it a long time ago. Is there anything that speaks against completing the page by adding more languages and linking to it more prominently from WP:PNT? Kusma (討論) 04:03, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
The uranium trioxide gas reached the uranium page! -- Stone 09:24, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
Did some work on Erbium(III) chloride and Boron trichloride and found the new page on Tellurium tetrachloride, maybe you have a look?-- Stone 15:44, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/86.10.231.219 You are mentioned in it. Midgley 20:02, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
This arbitration case has closed. James S. is banned from depleted uranium, placed on probation, and placed on general probation. Those opposing editors who have made personal attacks on James S. are reminded of the policies regarding courtesy and personal attacks. TDC is placed on revert parole. For further details, please see the arbitration case. On behalf of the arbitration committee, Johnleemk | Talk 17:05, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
Hi PC, I have used your version of the transcluded chembox in the lead(II) nitrate article. As you can see, it shows two similar errors in tranclusion: solubility (water/other) and Other compounds (anions/cations): the lower entry unexpectedly copies values from the upper entry. Do I do something wrong? Wim van Dorst ( Talk) 20:15, 10 May 2006 (UTC).
I am sorry, but I do not understand why you have moved Blatnica (Slovakia) to Blatnica, Martin. Blatnica is an independent municipality in Slovakia, not a part of the city of Martin. I think the previous name of this article (which I originally created) is more appropriate than your change because we usually use the name of the state to disambiguate whenever two towns having the same name are icluded in the Wikipedia. Moreover, as far as I know, there are no more municipalities called "Blatnica" in Slovakia. I would be grateful if you can explain or eventually revert this edit. Well, perhaps the best alternative would be to move the article to Blatnica, Slovakia. Tankred 14:17, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
Physchim62 (talk) 14:48, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
You are absolutely right about the comma convention and it was my mistake not to use a comma in the original article. But do you really think it is necessary to disambiguate the names of Slovakia's municipalities to the district level? Slovakia is a tiny country and there are not many cases of duplicates. I guess this rule makes more sense in the case of large countries, such as the US (with four or so different settlements called Geneva). But even in the case of the US, names are disambiguated to the state level and not to the county level. Slovakia's size makes it similar to a rather smaller state within the US while Slovakia's district is even smaller than an average American county. Back to the Blatnica case, there is one Blatnica in Croatia and another in Slovakia. That is it. Why should it be called Blatnica, Martin? Since there are no other municipalities with the same name in Slovakia, its case is similar to any other Slovak town. But we have an article Ducové and not "Ducové, Piešťany". If another municipality with the name Ducové exists in Poland for instance, would it make sense to create an article "Ducové, Piešťany"? I do not think so. This disambiguation goes too far in my opinion. It would be more user-friendly to base it on the most obvious difference (the state level in this case). What do you think? Tankred 15:24, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
I see your point. I still think that disambiguation to the district level is unnecessary (especially while compared with the cases of some other countries, such as in my US example cited above), but you are absolutely right that redirects are more important than the actual title of the article. In my opinion, Blatnica, Martin District would be definitely more accurate than Blatnica, Martin. Martin is the name of a town, so the current title of the article may suggest that Blatnica is a part of that town, though it s a separate municipality in the Martin District. The title "Blatnica, Martin District" is a clear description where the village is situted. Btw, I forgot to thank you for the ammount of work you have done writing all those articles about districts of Slovakia. Great job! Tankred 10:57, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
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Hi Physchim, and thank you ajodisajoidj for your comments in my request for adminship. With a final tally of (109/5/1), I have been entrusted with adminship. It's been several weeks since the conclusion of the process, so hopefully you've had a chance to see me in action. If you have any issues or comments, please let me know what you think! Thanks again, and while I realise I did not have your support, I will do everything I can to justify the trust others have placed in me! + + Lar: t/ c 03:25, 28 May 2006 (UTC) |
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I will not be adding the NFPA 704 images to IMD. I thought that since we have an NFPA 704 template, the images would be pointless. Thanks for proving me wrong. :)
-- Evan Robidoux 19:33, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
Where you are substituting {{ Spanish comarca}} into articles on the Catalan comarques, you appear to be dropping comarcal coats of arms because they don't fit the template. When you do things like this, could you please at least place the lost image elsewhere on the page, or note the lossiness in the edit summary, or something? You are removing an image from an article, and nothing in your edit summary lets someone easily work that out. Also, fr what it's worth, I notice that the new template provides only the file name as "alt" text for the map. This is not usually considered good in accessibility terms: it can be very hard for a blind person to know what the image is. - Jmabel | Talk 15:56, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
You have changed the entry for Poyntzpass to Poyntz Pass. I understand that the NISRA entry had the second incorrect spelling (I have now corrected). Can you please reset the title back to Poyntzpass. I moved to Poyntzpass in 1974 and lived there for 14 years and my parents and brother still live there. The correct spelling, if you following the external links to local sites, you will find the same correct spelling as 'Poyntzpass', just because someone in NISRA decided to change the spelling on their documents does not mean that the vilage has this incorrect spelling.
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I'm just learning about all th userbox controversy of late. do you know of one good central location where I can see comprehensive list of userboxes that have been permanently (or until further notice) deleted? your page is a good one. this one has a big list- some listed there survived. thankz, McKzz Fizzer 18:32, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
Please answer my question at Category talk:Municipalities of Croatia before going on to recategorize another few dozen articles... -- Joy [shallot] 14:23, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
What's the point of moving Nin, Croatia to Nin, Zadar County or Obrovac, Croatia to Obrovac, Zadar County when there are no other Nins or Obrovacs in Croatia (at least no other notable ones)? This does not contribute to the disambiguation in any way and only lengthens the title and adds information that is not useful or particularly intricate to the topic, since županija affiliation is not generally used in the name of the villages in Croatia, in cases where it is actually useful, rather the closest city (at dzs.hr you will note "Otok (Vinkovci)" and "Otok" for the two of those). -- Joy [shallot] 14:29, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
Why do you feel I wsa blaming you for the infoboxes? I liked a lot your template. The problem is that the infoboxes have the peculiraty the that city of the active entry is represented in bold: if there are other cities names in bold, this will be lost. My advice is to differentiate "grads" and normal cities writing them in different lists, as in some German infoboxes (where there are "free cities" and "municipalities"). Ciao and good work! -- Attilios 15:07, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
Hi. Your block of User:SPUI has come up as a topic at WP:AN. Jkelly 22:55, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
I tried to start a discussion about this article at Talk:Original research but I see you deleted the article again. May I ask what reason you deleted this redirect without a AfD since I don't see a speedy delete reason to justify this action. Best, -- Alabamaboy 13:55, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
I hope you agree to the current compromise. Physchim62 (talk) 14:32, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
Don't forget to sign your comments. This is even more important for closing of policy stuff. -- Cyde↔Weys 18:42, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
Take a look at the upload log. It shouldn't take much looking to discover that the percentage is closer to the other way around. Jkelly 22:33, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
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See User:Kotepho/reports/Images by copyright status statistics for more information. Commons has around 677 000 media files at the moment. Jkelly 17:29, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
Hi, when moving page titles, please remember fixing links (eg Jelsa). Thanks! Cheers, Punkmorten 14:39, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
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For your hard work in adding template information to geographical articles in Europe, you are awarded this barnstar. Blnguyen | rant-line 08:01, 18 July 2006 (UTC) |
I'm shocked that this is your first. Blnguyen | rant-line 00:25, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
I happened to tune in to WP Entropy the last of June, thinkng that it would welcome the revolution in US first-year university chem (+ Atkins (Oxon.) phys chem) texts that delete 'disorder. The widely published textbook replacement (see http://www.entropysite.com/#whatsnew, scroll to "December 2005) is simple intro to the subject by viewing entropy increase as,usually, the spontaneous dispersal of molec motional energy -- spatially and temporally (the latter in a 'dance' over a greater number of quantized microstates). What a shock (and waste of my last three weeks) to learn that the two total obstacles to any suggestions were pure information 'entropy' specialists whose view was stated by Nonsuch on 2 July:
Of course, I challenged him (twice) to cite any chemistry textbook that made or supported such a statement and equally, of course, he has not been able to do so. Then, following up, two or three times I have told the Talk:Entropy of my solution to the old argument (that is now under second review for publication in JChemEduc; should have final response in 4-6 weeks): Thermodynamic entropy increase is a two component concept: In chemistry, it is enabled most commonly by molecules' motional energy, but only actualized if the process provides an increased number of accessible of quantized microstates, a most probable/maximal distribution of energy. The latter is indeed a Shannon probability.
Yes, that last 'solution to the stupid joke of von Neumannn' probably can't be in the WP Entropy until it has been peer-reviewed and published. But the private acceptance by others supports me in believing that it is the ultimate solution that will be accepted by thermodynamicists, if not by information 'entropists'.
As an experienced teacher of beginners, I urge that you consider those who probably will be the largest segment of those who look in WP for "Entropy": young people confused by their texts or inadequate instructors and non-scientists who have seen the word entropy in news reports or their fiction reading. Thus, I hope you will approve: at least a half-page or so of slow entree -- that already-present ice melting example, then (what is conventional in US texts), gas expansion (molecules' motional energy becoming dispersed in a greater volume/additional accessible microstates/ due to denser energy levels in larger volume) and fluid/substance mixing (again, molec. motional energy becoming dispersed, etc., etc.) BEFORE your use of chem reactions (These would be very scary to the naive non-chemist reader without a 'running start' I think.)
I'd like to contribute but sure as hell don't want to labor as much I've already done -- putting something up in the Article and then having it deleted by the self-certified cognoscenti. (They undoubtedly understand high level straight thermo, but never taught youngsters and have abandoned thermo entropy for the fun game of info 'entropy'!)
THANKS for bringing chemistry back to thermo entropy! Best to you, and please -- in your enormous span of work on WP, put some of that aside for your extremely needed aid in making the WP article on Entropy, a treatment of thermodynamic entropy -- what else!!!-- with appropriate refs to other uses of the word :-) FrankLambert 15:46, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
(If you'd send me email to flambert@att.net, it would be more time-economical and private.)
But 1. I use 'thermodynamic entropy' ALWAYS in the sense of Clausius PLUS B. because that's the only way in which B. referred to his conclusions involving H -- they led to the entropy of HIS day. Of course you can (correctly!)call them statistical, especially when you are showing the identical results from Clausius expansion of a gas to 2V (q/T, calculated from reversible compression of the gas) and contrasting yet correlating B. calcn of Wfinal/Winitial = 2^N, etc., etc. The prime importance of classifying both as 'thermo entropy', an evaluation of a physico-chemical change that involves energy dispersal (I'll come back to this, later!!), is to keep both Clausian and Boltzmannian treatments distinguished from information or any other non-energy-consideration-requiring (!)'entropy'.
2. We absolutely agree that US "thermal entropy" and US "positional entropy" (more dignified as "configurational entropy" are wave and particle (QM) or momentum and location (classic stat mech) are EQUIVALENT. But, are there NO UK or French/Spanish texts for first-year college (your 'upper form'?) youngsters, as our several prominent US texts that have that abominable division into "two entropies"? Describing gas expansion, fluid mixing as "positional entropy" using little squares for larger volumes, etc.? Total distinction from "thermal entropy". (No mention that these squares happen to represent energetic molecules, but no comment about how they GOT to those squares! i.e., no mention of momentum or wave relationship?) Seemingly therefore, NO possible relation to 'thermal entropy'! Stupid. Why haven't a host of thermodynamicists knocked that down years ago?? THAT is what I am yelling about -- the best selling US texts in the past and maybe 2-3 today took/take that approach and I'm just old Don Quixote riding into them after knocking off that absurd 'disorder' windmill :-)
3. Hey! Hold the phone! The ice water example...re-glance at it. It quietly develops the idea of entropy (as q/T) -- NOT telling or requiring you to know ANYTHING about the 'entropy of liquid water' or the 'entropy of ice'! Starting from ground zero, and 'adding some heat' to the system, you are led -- unbeknownst even to a good thermodynamicist! -- to see the power of the entropy concept by realizing that the same amount of 'heat energy' in a hotter (surr)/T is lesser than that energy/T in a cooler (sys). Voila! (My only French but, I hope OK, here :-) ) So if q/T is entropy, it always will be increased by a spontaneous flow from hotter to cooler. Great. Who needs to know the entropy of ice at 273.14 K - or ice water (or surroundings) at 273.16 K? But the reader knows that the system (and the only thing changing in the system is the ice melting to liquid water) has increased its entropy... and student or layperson has seen the power of the entropy concept. (Though they may not be in as much awe of Clausius ingenious ratio as they should be!)
4. Why load the kids with Ficks? I know UK (and French) education is vastly more in- and ex-tensive than US chem but do they really need to be loaded with one more calculation, rather than a qual description..? So, whythell not just get them to think (as I've pleaded 3x-5x with these abstract info 'entropy' types) about thousand mile an hour particles in a LeMans constantly-colliding and undamagedly-bouncing existence that, of COURSE, would result in movement into a vac, into another fluid, etc. (That's component #1, energetic particles. THEN, perhaps much later, tell them about the absolutely essential other component of probable energy distribution, to complete the 'what is entropy, REALLY' explanation :-)
5. PLEASE send me email re the equivalence you mention in your next to last paragraph!
6. Also please challenge me specifically about points re the dispersal of energy as fundamental to understanding entropy change -- the spreading and sharing of energy, spatial and temporal, (the latter neat combo, as Harvey Leff, taught me...!!)
Thx so much for info and for stimulus!! FrankLambert 22:49, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
Hello - thanks for your reply, and thanks a million for forwarding the question to the French copyright pages for me. By what I read there the application of that copyright is rather flou even in France - but I think you are correct as far as international standards are concerned. I think it's best to be sure though, so thanks for your help in this. THEPROMENADER 15:36, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
I should be careful with this image. The more I read the Court of Cassation judgement, the less I feel it can apply in this case. It is argued on the basis of Art 544 of the Code civil, in other word on the general provisions of French Law concerning "property". The petitioners (owners of a hotel in Rouen) did not argue that they held any rights under the Code de la propriété intellectuelle (CPI), merely rights as owners of the physical structure of the hotel. As in most countries, France has distinct rules concerning specific types of property—the CPI is one such set of specific rules, and it confers rights and imposes obligations beyond what is contained in the Code civil. Art 422-1 (check ref) governs the droit de représentation in intellectual property law, and seems to apply here. One must assume that the SNTE has bought the droit de representation from the company which designed the lighting.
The droit de representation has become less absolute in recent years: as I have argued on French Wikipédia, a strict reading of article would effectively prevent the publication of almost any photo of a French city! The strict reading is tempered both by informal arrangements (which architect objects to images of his/her work being published for free?) and by European law. However both Euroepan Union law and interpretations of Art 11 of the European Convention on Human Rights are more concerned with "events" (ie, news) than with ongoing situations: in any case, the provisions and interpretations are only to limit the exercise of the droit de representation, not to abolish it altogether. It would seem to need a drastic change of opinion by the European Court of Human Rights to make an unlicensed image of the illuminations legal in France.
The question remains as to whether these rights could be enforced in the USA. American law does not afford any greater protection to French (or other Berne Convention) works that that enjoyed by American works. The illuminations are freely visible, without charge or other restriction: to what extent is such a work of architecture or such a theatrical performace in USA protected by copyright? The illuminations could be considered to be either.
A fair use claim could certainly be made for some uses of the images, provided that there is sufficient encyclopedic discussion in the relevant articles: to use the image to illustrate Paris does not seems to be fair use, and so is only possible if the image is free of US copyright. Physchim62 (talk) 14:59, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
Just in case anyone else is following this discussion, the droit de représentation in French copyright law is CPI Art. 122-2, and the ECHR reference should be to Article 10. Apologies for not checking before posting! Physchim62 (talk) 17:37, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
Is this what you were looking for? Physchim62 (talk) 17:48, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
From 17 U.S.C. 120:
§ 120. Scope of exclusive rights in architectural works
I've just found this:
§ 113. Scope of exclusive rights in pictorial, graphic, and sculptural works
(a) Subject to the provisions of subsections (b) and (c) of this section, the exclusive right to reproduce a copyrighted pictorial, graphic, or sculptural work in copies under section 106, includes the right to reproduce the work in or on any kind of article, whether useful or otherwise.
(b) This title does not afford, to the owner of copyright in a work that portrays a useful article as such, any greater or lesser rights with respect to the making, distribution, or display of the useful article so portrayed than those afforded to such works under the law, whether title 17 or the common law or statutes of a State, in effect on December 31, 1977, as held applicable and construed by a court in an action brought under this title.
(c) In the case of a work lawfully reproduced in useful articles that have been offered for sale or other distribution to the public, copyright does not include any right to prevent the making, distribution, or display of pictures or photographs of such articles in connection with advertisements or commentaries related to the distribution or display of such articles, or in connection with news reports.''
...but in looking at the definitions of the above types of work, lighint falls into none of the categories above. Puzzling. thepromenader 09:33, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
Yes, I'd seen §113 and decided that it didn't really apply. As I mentioned above, the best comparison apart from architecture would be to a theatrical performance such as a street parade. One of the characteristics of the current lighting is that it glitters, ie it is not static. Other similar events would be the laser light show, or a firework display. I think the problem will be that US law will use a concept of "tacit licence", which could not be transferred to a foreign work: I may be wrong though, I am neither a lawyer, nor American! Physchim62 (talk) 14:54, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
Evidently the anon IP was not james, but this individual most certianly is: SeparateIssue [9]. Torturous Devastating Cudgel 18:18, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for creating articles about Catalan locations! Please do remember to include all interwiki links present in the ca: version. See for instance the diff to Castellgalí. Thanks, Punkmorten 20:18, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
There are another thirty or so Catalan articles to come, with as many template again for existing articles. Unfortunately, I cannot add the es: wikilinks by hand (I can guess that nl: and it: will have articles on these towns, but hell, YurikBot will get round to it and it doesn't seem as important as having the encyclopedic information available on en). I know that ca: has 100% coverage (though not always with complete sentences...), so as you say adding the Catalan interwiki ensures that the articles don't get lost. Version 1.2 of the template will be coming soon, to take account of geographic coordinates, postcodes and other info which is available and to remove the map-in-place-of-location-map from the bottom. Physchim62 (talk) 16:32, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
Hi you have done a super job on the templates in SLovakia but is it possible you could create on for the Poltár District as this seems to be missing. thanks James Janderson 11:13, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
Hi there! I have pointed out 17 USC 104A (or the URAA) repeatedly... Lupo 10:44, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the reminder and the explanation. I answered on the talk page for the chemboxes. Cheers! -- Dirk Beetstra T C 21:01, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
I just thought I'd ask what was your rationale for adding designs to {{ IPL-EU}}, as I'm not positive, but I'm fairly sure that they'd fall into one of the others already there, or a mix of them.
I have not removed it, as I just wanted to ask you first, however I have removed the bottom row of articles you added. They were not directly related to the EU, so therefore don't belong there. I'm sure you'll notice most templates of this nature only include links to articles specific to the region in question (in this case the EU) and rarely include links to generic articles (as the ones you added were generic). More specifically, links are usually only added to articles the template is embedded in, and it would be crazy to add {{ IPL-EU}} to the list you added. - Рэд хот 15:12, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
I can see the problem—the box is too big! Industrial design rights form a specific part of European IP law, and so I added them to reflect that. There is, for example, a Community-wide protection system on the same lines as Community trade marks. I feel that the solution is to split these boxes along the lines of {{ Copyright-EU}} with a smaller template for the top level articles. On the other hand, we also need better articles on the main foundations (where they exist, which for various reasons they don't for patents) of EU IP law. I am working on the latter. If you really feel that the box has become too large, then take out the national law links for all categories of IP law (most are red anyway); otherwise lets take another look in a few weeks time. Physchim62 (talk) 14:25, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
I do believe that you get the award for creating the longest legit title in Wikipedia history. :) - Lucky 6.9 14:45, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
Hi I noticed your good work on Sant Esteve Sesrovires. I was wondering if you would consider turning your attention to a quick stub for Sant Feliu de Codines which is currently a red link on a few pages - notably my entry for Enric Miralles - he died there. Many thanks. -- Mcginnly | Natter 17:46, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
Hmm...you know, the WikiProject seems to have evolved into something more like a place for resolving editing disputes. Something doesn't feel quite right about it. Note the double meaning intended here. I'd like to help more actively, but I think I'm stretched a bit thinly at the moment. -- HappyCamper 18:54, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
Could you take a look at User talk:Lupo#Licencing of suicide notes and speeches? What do you think? Lupo 13:50, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
Interesting name? Can you (admin needed) move this back to its correct home at lead(IV) oxide or lead dioxide, whichever you prefer? Greenwood & Earnshaw (p386) indicate that it usually exists as the lead(IV) compound, though a lead(II) polymorph (a peroxide, presumably) is also known. I really don't think we have a superoxide of otherwise unknown lead(I), do we....! Thanks, Walkerma 23:38, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
Yoh, PC, I just put the lead(II) nitrate article up for FA-class. Feel free to contribute your support. Wim van Dorst ( Talk) 21:00, 2 November 2006 (UTC).
Hey Physchim62, don't worry about this too much if you're busy. But if you've got a spare minute, would you mind taking a look at my sandbox? I've made some proposed additions to the main portal page, and I'd like some feedback on them before I actually launch them (I'm not that bold!) Cheers, riana_ dzasta 02:50, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
I have seen some mention of the idea of radioactive thallium before, if active thallium was used then it would be more difficult to detect in the human body as the chemical concentration would be much lower. What do you think about the idea of active thallium being used to poison spys ? Cadmium
Polonium 210 (as is speculated on the article page) seems a more likely radiological candidate that thallium 201 (still not the one that I'd use though...)! Physchim62 (talk) 15:49, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
Just an fyi, the above template is currently under a TFD. IF you want to keep it, you should userfy it. --- J.S ( t| c) 20:18, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
Could you please speedy delete this redirect which was a typo (no final bracket)? Nothing goes there. Chemical Biology (journal) has now been merged into Royal Society of Chemistry and redirects there. Thanks. -- Bduke 02:54, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
Aren't translations derivative works under U.S. law, and as such copyrightable as they contain original elements (choice of words, phrasing)? See s:Talk:1924 Constitution of the USSR... I have currently two different translations of section IV of the 1961 Fundamentals of the USSR, one by Levitsky, published 1964, and one by Newcity, published 1978. The two English texts differ quite a bit, although they say the same and are both obviously translated from the same Russian source. The differences between these two translations clearly shows that translating allows enough creativity to warrant copyrightability. I have the impression that s:1924 Constitution of the USSR is actually a copyvio... I'd hate to see it deleted, though. Any way to save it? Lupo 23:41, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
Given that a total of two people commented on its talk page other than yourself and me, how can you claim this has consensual support? I'm sure it was advertised in a lot of places, but for whatever reason people weren't interested enough to give feedback. ( Radiant) 10:04, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
Please see Wikipedia:Citing_sources#What to do when a reference link "goes dead". A replacement link for the edit you removed wasn't hard to find, but it could easily have been overlooked when you simply removed the old link. - Jmabel | Talk 01:27, 25 December 2006 (UTC)
Yikes - whatever you just did, it's moving the wrong direction. The article had nicely laid out Footnotes and References; now it has information in Footnotes repeated because references were deleted. I'd like to revert to what was there before - the way you've set it up is less than the standard on current FAs, which tend to show repeat refs in References, which individual pages in Footnotes - it was fine before. Hope you understand, Sandy ( Talk) 19:50, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
Did you know that this article is still around even though it was voted for deletion?
TheRingess 02:07, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
In a German book ("Die Olympischen Spiele 1936 in Berlin und Garmisch-Partenkirchen" I think), I came across a photo of some bobsledders (Britain I) competing. Would you happen to know whether such a photo would count as a "Photograph" or a "Photographic work"? Thanks, Andjam 23:49, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
Hello Physchim! First of all I wanted to wish you a (quite belated) Happy New Year. Then I wanted to thank you for catching the vandalism to my user page, that was quite fun to see.
There a few chem-related things for which I wanted to hear your opinion. I was thinking of putting Raney nickel up for FAC this weekend, now that I added the pictures I took in December and clarified some bits for non-chemists. Your expert opinion regarding the handling of the nomination would be more than welcome.
About the pictures of chemicals, I was a bit disappointed to find out that all the technicians I used to hang out with were already on holiday when I arrived to the lab. I could only take pictures of raney nickel because I still had a sealed flask on my bench, but not of other chemicals. I'll try to get those pics once again sometime in March.
Also, I realized there are many "standard enthalpy of..." articles that right now are stubs because they are little more than a dicdef. I was thinking that merging all of them under standard enthalpy would be far more useful, specially for students trying to build born-haber cycles. What do you think?
Finally, I just wanted to share with you that I graduated last December! Now I have a shiny BSc in Chemistry diploma begging for some wall space in my room, and lots of applications to masters programs claiming most of the Real State on my desk :D
Thank you for reading, looking forward to hear from you. Cheers! -- Run e Welsh | ταλκ 17:32, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
Hallo see Pleas User talk: Muhamed
Hi there! Thanks for your work on this; I've tweaked the template you created, incorporating notions from the pre-existing 'upcoming election template', and your and my predecessors. Should we mention Elections Canada at all? (Note: I've since updated the template to include this.)
Anyhow, please feel free to edit it as needed, and contact me if you've any questions. Thanks! E Pluribus Anthony | talk | 00:34, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
I have just placed the template on the article, replacing {{ future election}} but not {{ currentevent}}, to let people know what the consensus position is before polling starts. It should remain until 03:00 UTC, and preferably until CBC start giving out results: on the other hand, if anyone insists on removing it at 03:01 UTC, it's not worth a fight over a question of minutes! I also placed the template on the timeline: no point in putting it on the opinion polls page (although there is another section of the CEA which prohibits us from publishing new opinion polls...) I have created {{ ERCARiding}} if the need arises to place a template on an individual riding. Physchim62 (talk) 09:49, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
Thanks. No hard feelings. -- Ray Oiler 14:15, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
I was monitoring Canadian federal election, 2006 to check for the previously threatened violations of Wikipedia policy ( WP:NLT), and I noticed that you placed an improper block on User:Mirror Vax. First of all, according to Wikipedia:Blocking policy, you are not allowed to block users engaged in an edit war with you. Secondly, both you and Mirror Vax had made exactly three reverts - not the fourth revert that would justify a 24-hour block. This is clearly an inappropriate use of administrative powers. I have asked for its reversal at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents. Crotalus horridus ( TALK • CONTRIBS) 18:53, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
On the trancluded cheminfo infobox talk page and the normal chembox talk page there is some question of how to customize it. I'm two new to the wikipedia & mediawiki to understand what can and can't be done by normal users. There are probably additional sections that consensous would recommend adding but I'm not sure anyone knows how. In any case, the current template is very nice. The syntax is fantastic. I switched over a few pages to use it. Thanks in advance, Jeff Carr 17:05, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for your message on my page... I've indeed noticed linkimage is not currently being used on lolicon - the question of whether the image in question should be kept inline or linked is in fact currently the subject of a straw poll. Attempts to keep the image linked have resulted in an edit war which I'm trying to keep out of... WRT the "doesn't allow for legal warnings" issue, what do you mean? That there is no functionality in this regard or that it is not allowed by policy? If the former, this is what I have in mind. If the latter, would you perhaps elaborate? Thanks -- Mikkerpikker ... 20:06, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
Thank you for your response and invitation! I have uploaded several works from 1919-1922 by the German artist Max Ernst and two by the Spanish artist Salvador Dali from 1921 and 1922. In future I would also like to use pre-1923 works by the Dutch artist M. C. Escher.
My main question is if it is legal for an American user to apply the template PD-US to images from other jurisdictions? This question mostly concerns works by the Italian artist Giorgio de Chirico from 1911-1917. Justin Foote 00:51, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
Herr Physchim62
You seem to be making friends. I have no idea who you are, but upon seeing the clearly incomplete pages on DU and the Gulf War, I decided to offer a small portion of the large amount of information I have collected about DU. Since you provided almost no information about your subsequent reversion, and what you did provide was not only inaccurate but entirely cryptic to me, it took me some time to understand why my comments were immediately censored, based on a login technicality referencing one of my IP addresses and a user I know nothing about, but whom perhaps I should now get to know. I've reposted the comments to the DU page with my correct login, which Wiki sometimes fails to keep. I will now repost to the Gulf War page, being careful my login is maintained. Barring a timely response, I plan to contact some type of Wiki "ArbCom" about the wrong assumption you apparantly have made about my identity, and what I think is overstepping whatever authority you seem to have within Wiki, though I know nothing about that process and no information seems to be provided by you or Wiki in that regard.
Please note:
Please be more careful next time. SeparateIssue 07:20, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
UPDATE:
When I posted this, I was not aware that new posts are normally added to the bottom, but in retrospect, posting to the top may have been justified. I will move it if requested.
Als Wissenschaftler (Dr. phil., Jg. 1958, an die 200 wissenschaftliche Fachpublikationen v.a. zu Themen der Geschichte) liegen mir freie Inhalte und insbesondere bildrechtliche Korrektheit der Wikipedia-Projekt sehr am Herzen. Da mein Englisch eher mittelmäßig ist, fällt es mir schwer, juristische Spezialfragen angmessen auf Englisch zu kommunizieren. Der Streit um das Template GermanGov hat einige deutschsprachige Benutzer, die auch in en angemeldet sind, frustriert, da es nicht möglich war, die klare Rechtslage zu vermitteln. Es wurde immer wieder revertiert, ohne die Autorität der deutschen Benutzer, die oft erhebliches Ansehen in der deutschsprachigen WP genießen, anzuerkennen oder auf ihre Argumente einzugehen. Ich bitte meine diesbezügliche Unfreundlichkeit auf meiner Benutzerseite zu entschuldigen und würde vorschlagen, dass jeder seine Muttersprache gebraucht. Möglicherweise ist es auch einfacher, mein deutsch zu verstehen als mein Englisch. Lies bitte Fotos als amtliche Werke unter [1] und du wirst feststellen, dass es ausserhalb der Wappen, der Briefmarken und der Abbildungen in amtlichen Werken wie Patentschriften oder Urteilen keinerlei Anhaltspunkte dafür gibt, dass irgendein Foto von einem deutschen Gericht oder einem deutschen juristischen Autor jemals als Fall von § 5 Abs. 2 UrhG betrachtet wurde. Es gibt kein Sonderrecht für Nazi-Bilder und der einzige Fall, wo eine Karte als amtliches Werk betrachtet wurde, ist eine Karte des Meeresstrands zum Zweck von Warnungen vor Badeunfällen. Es muss also ein besonderes Interesse vorhanden sein, dass ein amtliches Werk unter Absatz 2 fällt. Dieses Template aber suggeriert, dass es genügt, wenn eine amtliche deutsche Stelle das Bild veröffentlicht hat. Das ist irreführend, denn z.B. Nazi-Bilder fallen online nicht unter § 5 Abs. 2, sondern unter das Urheberrecht des Fotografen bzw. unter die Nutzungsrechte des Rechtsnachfolger des damaligen Dienstherrn, möglicherweise aber eher ersteres. Bei jedem Foto amtlicher Herkunft aus Deutschland hilft es aber auch nichts, dieses Template als Ergänzung zu einem fair use-Template einzusetzen, denn zum einen ist der Verweis auf § 5 UrhG verfehlt und zum anderen besagt es nichts anderes als: Möglicherweise hat der Rechtsnachfolger der damaligen amtlichen Behörde das Urheberrecht, möglicherweise aber auch die Nachkommen des Urhebers. Daher ist auch der Nutzen als Quellenangabe nicht gegeben. Alles sehr schwere juristische Kost, aber ich bin gern bereit, auf Verständnisfragen klärend einzugehen, wenn du bitte meine Meinung/Angaben dann auf Englisch bei den entsprechenden Diskussionen einbringst. Danke -- Historiograf 20:59, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Templates_for_deletion#Template:GermanGov Sherurcij ( talk) ( Terrorist Wikiproject) 21:24, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
Es wäre schön, wenn Du, Lupo und ich eine kleine Bildrechte-Arbeitsgruppe bilden könnten, wobei ich meine guten Kenntnisse des deutschen Urheberrechts einbringen könnte, denen leider nicht entsprechend gute Englischkenntnisse entsprechen und leider auch nur rudimentäre Kenntnisse des US-Copyrights. -- Historiograf 15:31, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
Historiograf, I am cautious because I know that I am going to have to explain my reasoning to many, many people who desperately want to show a WW2 battle photo on Wikipedia! We already have (small) problems with editors who have discovered § 72 UrhG— see above. For the moment, I still find inconsistencies in your argument: I prefer to think that they are my fault for not understanding German law well enough and it is for that reason that I am still reading around the subject—including the articles in Archivalia—and consulting my contacts here in France (who have contacts in Germany). I am sure that we can come to a consensus, but it will take a little bit of time. Physchim62 (talk) 21:18, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
I think it is NOT fair a) not to say WHERE are inconsistencies b) not to give a mail that I can send you 2 MB page images from a German "Urheberrechtskommentar" (2004). § 72 UrhG is another question and en WP has the possibility unlike Commons to use fair use. It is not necessary to clear clear things for months if an expert user of the German WP like Steschke or me is saying that a template is full nonsense. -- Historiograf 17:09, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
Sorry if I misunderstood that. Frankly I am not familiar with German copyright law (Dutch yes, English/American yes, German no). But neither is TFD, so yes, this merits closing a discussion there because it will not yield the right answer (either it's legally sound, in which case the nomination is pointless, or it's legally wrong, in which case the debate is pointless). What I usually do myself is ask either BD2412 (USA lawyer), or drop a line on WP:CP. R adiant _>|< 20:46, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
If you could do it, that'd be great—I'm rather busy off-Wikipedia right now. Can you ask not only whether these images are copyrighted in the U.S., but also when and in what publication they were first published, and when the copyrights were renewed? After all, Mr. Fiedler may also have an economic interest in these images... And hey, maybe he'd even agree to release these JPG versions into the public domain also outside Canada. (Unlikely, but one may hope.) While they're of decent quality, they're nowhere near good enough for people to be able to produce full-scale prints from them. These Karsh images are printed and sold at sizes of the order of 50×40&nbasp;cm, or at least as glossy full-page prints in art books. Lupo 08:02, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
I agree with Lupo. It would be a great help. -- Historiograf 15:27, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
I owe a lot to the people in WP:Chem, and your personal help was invaluable as well. Now that I think of it the notion of having a featured grey powder sounds rather funny indeed... I look forward to the day I see the article in the front page! Cheers. -- Run e Welsh | ταλκ 20:54, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
Regarding the images previously tagged as {{ GermanGov}}, if they are tagged correctly and are indeed works commissioned by the German government or one of its legal predecessors, they are all copyrighted. Do help tag and source them properly over at WP:PUI where they are listed now. (Originally I did put them up at WP:CP, but WP:PUI is the more appropiate forum.) Some of them can be used under the fair use doctrine, but all need sourcing. There is much to be said for proper sourcing to help out folks when the licence tag turns out to be wrong.
"Messing with image copyright tags" - that's the wrong attitude when it comes to legal issues that you don't like. One doesn't determine what the law says in a debate, one consults a legal text or an expert. After dinner: a consensus discussion on the subject why the sky is green. Pilatus 22:42, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
I have seen a 1989 DDR Gorbatchev photo in this category. We have other G. photos and for the DDR there is no separate law but according to the Einigungsvertrag the relevant law is only Western germany law (UrhG 1965 sqq.). This photo can not be used as fair use because it is not neccesary for the G. article. -- Historiograf 17:12, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
Hi PC,
I wanted to ask for your (& Wim's) opinion. My work on WP1.0 has got me interested in how articles are "arranged" in a hierarchy, since we need to work out a set of articles to put in 1.0. On Wikipedia we currently have categories, but I personally find these very "clunky" and it's hard to see the bigger picture. There is (in some obscure corner of Wikipedia) a way of expanding these in a "tree" format using a script from de, but this is only a little better IMHO. We have a few nice boxes like Template:PeriodicTablesFooter, but these are rare and usually only cover major topics. Over the last month or so I have been experimenting a bit with what I call a tree, and although it's technically very crude (like most things I do!) I do like the basic idea. I wanted to get your thoughts on the basic concept and, if you like it, how it might be improved. There are some symbols I'm using, ↓ means go one level down (↑ to go up), @ means go to the article, = means go to the list and © means go to the category. I have a few test pages, these don't have every link done yet, but you can go all the way through to iron(III) oxide (or any other oxide up to SeO2). Can you try looking up an oxide starting here, and let me know what you think?
BTW, I put a merge notice on oxoanions --> oxyanion. Do you happen to know which term is preferred by IUPAC? Google prefers oxyanion, so I chose that as the home for the combined article, am I right? I also noticed that iron(II) oxide has a merge notice on it. Do we have a list of chem merge notices, for the portal? Regarding the portal, I'm thinking we should update the "news" section, any suggestions? Finally, could I persuade you to look at doing a decent hazards section for sulfuric acid, I think it might just tip it over to be A-Class, as Wim suggests. What do you think? Cheers, Walkerma 07:37, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
Thanks a lot for clearing up a lot of things. I'll fix the merge later. I understand that the articles are NOT in a simple hierarchy, certainly below the top 2-3 levels they can be more like a set of neurons with connections. For example to find iron(III) oxide, you might go Chemistry -> Subdisciplines -> Inorganic Chem -> Inorganic compounds -> Iron compounds -> iron(III) oxide. Alternatively you might go Chemistry -> Chem substances -> Chem compounds -> Inorganic compounds - Oxides -> iron(III) oxide. Although I call this a tree, if the system is complete one should be able to take either routse very easily. One reason why I don't like categories alone is that they are too one-dimensional - if you take a wrong turn, you can end up in a dead end. This new system couldn't prevent that totally, but it gives a much wider view of the subject area so have more chance to see where you want to go. It also allows you to jump 2 levels down at a time - try going through the latter sequence on my tree, and compare it with the same navigation through categories. I also find this approach helps to see how things all link together, something you can't visualise with cats alone. Finally, what do you mean by "criteria for your lists", do you mean the table headings? Cheers, Walkerma 22:28, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
These are in fact related, since the article list on level 1 provides the basis of the column headings in level 2. OK, in chemistry I mostly used our project worklist to guide me through things like the list of chemists. If I don't have that to go on I just picked what I thought was important, knowing that someone else could easily edit things, Wikipedia-style. I realise it's subjective, but we have to start somewhere. Also, many of our category structures are likewise subjective, but they often evolve over time into something effective. Walkerma 23:03, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for your comments, Wim, I hope PC doesn't mind me continuing the discussion here. I wanted to refine (or abandon!) the idea before I took it further, e.g to WP:Chemistry. I would add
I have started to describe the idea in the following way. To find out about a topic is rather like making a journey. Using categories is rather like making a journey using only road signs - you probably get there, but you can't know much about far ahead, you don't easily know what's nearby, and if you take a wrong turn you can get lost. The tree is supposed to be more like a map, where you can get a sense of the article landscape, so you (the user) can poke around and explore more easily. It also serves a second (related) purpose. From the admin perspective that type of map is (IMHO) essential for WP1.0 as we try to see what articles we have in a given area. We need to be able to visualise a subject, IMHO. Is there a better way? I would love to find a way to make the system dynamic (like cats) rather than static (like lists), but my tech expertise doesn't allow it. Any suggestions? Thanks, Walkerma 06:27, 6 February 2006 (UTC)
Just a quick question: you've mentioned the LUG 1901. I thought we were discussing primarily images. AFAIK, the LUG 1901 does not cover photographs and other artwork, they were instead covered by the KUG 1907 (and before, photographs were covered by a law from 1876). So what does the LUG have to do with all this? Lupo 13:59, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
I have redone the indef. block on User:PPEist. I stated my full reasoning on AN but in short I feel that it is beyond the required cause needed within blocking policy to indef. block a user who has stated that he is planning on reporting Wikipedia editors who are located in England to the police, you also ignored the fact that other editors had chimed in supporting the block. I do not want to edit war if at all possible but this block is more than justified by the user's behavior. Jtkiefer T | C | @ ---- 02:34, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
Physchim62 - my comments on PuO2 are directed at a student who is assigned to growing, ever so slightly perhaps, this entry. For example, that it has a CaF2 structure. In this particular case, Trying reinforce the difference between molecular and non-molecular structures. Their first instinct is that PuO2 is like CO2. We are working on ca. 25 entries this week. You are welcome to continue to join in. Smokefoot 06:17, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
I think you have a good point regarding the images on Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy. You can revert them if you'd like while I let WP:CP deal with the underlying issue; I won't mind. -- Aaron 01:14, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
Hello, Physchim62! I noticed that you blocked 203.162.2.133 indefinitely for being an open proxy, citing APNIC. Would you mind clarifying this? It does say "Allocated portable" on there, but I'm not sure that that means it is an open proxy. I'm not that technically proficient, but I used the site to check a few of the IPs I have edited from before (workplace, library, etc.) and some said "Allocated portable"; however, those IP addresses certainly weren't open proxies but instead just public-use computers or a high-use network used by a company, system, district, etc. Would you mind clarifying this? Thanks! Flcelloguy ( A note?) 01:32, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
Look up the user history of the IP User:165.230.149.152 - and you'd see that there was no repeat cartoon blanking vandalism on the Mohammed controversy from that IP. 165.230.149.154 05:33, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
I have added a complaint to the Wikipedia block discussion pages, normally used by admins. 165.230.149.154 05:55, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
I've opened a straw poll on the issue, which I hope will be more productive than my previous nomination attempt proved to be. Please see Wikipedia:User RFC reform, which is now open. I've announced it on WP:AN and WP:VP/P. Crotalus horridus ( TALK • CONTRIBS) 04:26, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
I left a note at Template talk:PD-because, but it hasn't gotten any reponse yet. There is an svg version of Image:Achtung.png available, and it is suggested at Commons:Images for cleanup that svg replace png where practical due to a number of reasons. I would make this change myself, but the template is protected. You are listed in the edit history for the template, so I figured I'd leave a message. Thanks. McNeight 16:59, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
You are deleting templates that garnered overwhelming support in W:TFD. If I started going around deleting pages that I didn't like, I would expect to be booted off of Wikipedia. If you do not restore those and any other pages that you deleted without first reaching a consensus, I think that we should take this to the Wikipedia:Mediation committee. -- M @ r ē ino 04:06, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
A home-delivery Welcome to the Arabic wiki. -- Tarawneh 06:26, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
Hi there. I noticed you removed a block of text from the Brian Peppers, citing the reason as it being unsourced. The problem is, however, that it is impossible for this information to be sourced as the page that first declared this information has been taken down by the news site that originally posted it. Archived versions of the page couldn't be found by me after searching, other than a YTMND page I came accross. Previous versions of this article have included this information with the source listed, and there was no complaint. Furthermore, I personally visited the source when the page was still up and can verify that the information you deleted was correct. How do you propose this is dealt with? VegaDark 08:50, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
I have undeleted {{ User Unionist}} and {{ User Irish Republican}} because there was a consensus to keep them on Wikipedia:Templates for deletion when they were speedily deleted. If you think they should be deleted again, feel free to nominate them on TFD. — Guan aco 21:14, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
Thank you for your offer to mediate the Depleted uranium dispute. I hope the arbitration committee agrees. -- James S. 23:18, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
I would add:
Arfsten, D.P.; K.R. Still; G.D. Ritchie (2001) "A review of the effects of uranium and depleted uranium exposure on reproduction and fetal development," Toxicology and Industrial Health, vol. 17, pp. 180-91: http://www.bovik.org/du/reproduction-review-2001.pdf Summary contains: "A number of studies have shown that natural uranium is a reproductive toxicant...."
Hindin, R.; D. Brugge; B. Panikkar (2005) "Teratogenicity of depleted uranium aerosols: A review from an epidemiological perspective," Environmental Health, vol. 4, pp. 17: http://www.ehjournal.net/content/4/1/17 "Conclusion: In aggregate the human epidemiological evidence is consistent with increased risk of birth defects in offspring of persons exposed to DU."
Domingo, J.L. (2001) "Reproductive and developmental toxicity of natural and depleted uranium: a review," Reproductive Toxicology, vol. 15, pp. 603-9. Abstract: "Decreased fertility, embryo/fetal toxicity including teratogenicity, and reduced growth of the offspring have been observed following uranium exposure at different gestation periods."
Durakovic A. (1999) "Medical effects of internal contamination with uranium," Croatian Medical Journal, vol. 40, pp. 49-66: http://www.bovik.org/du/asaf_99.htm Abstract: "well documented evidence of reproductive and developmental toxicity...."
McDiarmid, M.A., et al. (2006) "Biological monitoring and surveillance results of Gulf War I veterans exposed to depleted uranium," in International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health, vol. 79, pp. 11-21. Abstract: "genotoxicity measures continue to show subtle, mixed results...."
Schröder, H.; A. Heimers; R. Frentzel-Beyme; A. Schott; W. Hoffmann (2003) "Chromosome aberration analysis in peripheral lymphocytes of Gulf war and Balkans war veterans," Radiation Protection Dosimetry, vol. 103, pp. 211-220: http://www.bovik.org/du/chromosome-abberations.pdf Abstract: "there was a statistically significant increase in the frequency of dicentric chromosomes (dic) and centric ring chromosomes (cR) in the veterans. group...."
Miller, A.C.; M. Stewart; K. Brooks; L. Shi; N. Page (2003) "Depleted uranium-catalyzed oxidative DNA damage: absence of significant alpha particle decay," Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry, vol. 91, pp. 246-252: http://www.bovik.org/du/Miller-DNA-damage.pdf Abstract: "chemical generation of hydroxyl radicals by depleted uranium in vitro exceeds radiolytic generation by one million-fold...."
Briner, W. and J. Murray (2005) "Effects of short-term and long-term depleted uranium exposure on open-field behavior and brain lipid oxidation in rats," Neurotoxicology and Teratology, vol. 27, pp. 135-44: http://www.bovik.org/du/du-on-rats.pdf Abstract: "DU is a toxin that crosses the blood-brain barrier, producing behavioral changes in male rats and lipid oxidation regardless of gender in as little as 2 weeks...."
Monleau, M.; C. Bussy; P. Lestaevel; P. Houpert; F. Paquet; V. Chazel (2005) "Bioaccumulation and behavioural effects of depleted uranium in rats exposed to repeated inhalations," Neuroscience Letters, vol. 390, pp. 31-6. Abstract: "depleted uranium is able to enter the brain after exposure to repeated inhalation, producing behavioral changes."
Abstract of Mishima's late 1970s work [3] (search for "75 percent"; observe only particulate measurements);
The 2000-era vet birth defect stats [4];
Evidence of uranyl ion near DU munitions fires [5];
Health Physics Society's study of particulate (non-gas) dispersion patterns [6];
A. How accurately will isotope ratio urine studies which depend on particulate uranium aerosol remaining undissolved in the lung measure total inhalation exposure?
B. Can the value of a poison be known without knowledge of its long-term effects? -- James S. 01:42, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
Will be ready in about half an hour, I've just got some chemistry cleanup to do first :) Physchim62 (talk) 22:31, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
TDC suggested that I scan in Ackermann et al. (1960); I'm working on that now. -- James S. 23:20, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
Hi, Psychim62 - Could you please revert the Kaiser Permanente back to the Omsbudsman version (or mine before it) and then re-protect it. You put on the protection after FCYTravis had made major deletions. If you check the Kaiser Permanente talk page, I intended to source the questioned areas and had asked for the best way to do it. Putting the protection on after Travis's deletions amounts to a decision that approves suppression of criticism.-- Pansophia 07:18, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
Please, immediately revisit {{ user Irish Republican}} and {{ user Unionist}} and wrap {{ deletedpage}}'s in <noinclude></noinclude> tags. Tagging people's user pages with {{ deletedpage}} is just short of being considered vandalism. Thank you! Misza13 (Talk) 11:16, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
Could you elaborate on why it was deleted? Moe ε 02:25, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
New CSD criteria T1. Also, because userboxes don't belong in template space. -- Cyde Weys 05:32, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
Hi, I need help from an Admin, preferably a chemist. The article Henry F. Schaefer, III was started by me and I included a section of his home page bio, but in quotes and referenced. Later an anon editor removed the quotes and it was later tagged as a copyvio and blanked. I have fixed the article in Henry F. Schaefer, III/Temp as the tag box indicated. The user who put the copyvio tag on it is happy (see my talk page), but is not an admin. Could you please fix up putting the fixed article back in place? Thanks. -- Bduke 20:58, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for turning Haydar into a proper disambiguation page. I wasn't quite sure of the format.
Perhaps that will keep the Shi'a zealots at bay. Zora 01:07, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
I am no longer interested in continuing this farce. The uranium trioxide article's section on UO3 gas is an embarrassment to your project in particular and Wikipedia in general. If you care to spend the next few months dealing with Salsman's delusional views on science, his stonewalling, and bullying, then be my guest. I have had more than enough of it. If he will not yield on something as elementary, and obvious as this, it is unlikely that he will show any flexibility on the more contentious topics listed.
It is unfortunate that so much time and effort is spent in the vain attempt to save the intellectually bankrupt. I wish you luck. -- DV8 2XL 01:33, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
I have just done a massive refactoring of Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Tony Sidaway/Workshop, in order to
As your words appear on that page, I'm letting you know so that you may review the changes. I have tried not to let any bias or POV I may have color my summaries; however, it's a wiki, so if you think I've misrepresented your words, please fix them. Wearily yours, Mindspillage (spill yours?) 08:12, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
Thank you for your advice, but i do not appreciate the deletion of information in order to rename the article to a diambig page. You are in practice deleting it without a afd, and i cant accpet that. -- Striver 10:42, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
It appears that you are saying that James S. provides genuine citations, but that the article does not state the opinion that he attributes to it. That is a common problem. It is also very subtly misleading, because the typical editor will believe that the article at least states the opinion that is attributed to it. I will not advise you to read the arbitration case against EffK, but he repeatedly cited various historians whom he claimed supported his position that there had been a deal between the Vatican and Adolf Hitler. In fact, the historians, in each case, discussed Hitler at length, but were at most tangential to his claim of a conspiracy. A non-chemist is very unlikely to check a reference in an article on chemistry. For that matter, someone with a B.A. in chemistry who has not done chemistry (myself) for 35 years is unlikely to check such a reference. References that do not say what the editor says they say are a common problem with disruptive editors. Sympathies. Robert McClenon 00:14, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
Thank you for responding, but you did not address my question. I was not trying to investigate what amount of blood loss is tolerable. That is an easy figure to find. I am specifically trying to determine how much blood can be lost into each leg. Shaggorama 23:31, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
I have just added articles for two French chemists, Raymond Daudel and Bernard Pullman. Would you consider translating these into French for the French Wikipedia? I am sure that people there would add more usefull information. My French is pretty rusty and I would not want to write an article, but I can probably translate back anything that is added to the French article. Any comments on the articles would be welcome of course and in particular whether the redlinks actually do have a page, possibly on the French wikipedia. I will add an article for Alberte Pullman soon. I am working through the membership of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science. These two at least complete the five founding members mentioned right at the top of the article. -- Bduke 07:14, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
Thanks. Sorry, I missed your response. There are several redlinks to Radium Institute. I'll just fix them to go to Curie Institute. Any chance of you translating these bios? -- Bduke 22:24, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
Hi, I'm not seeing any warning note on Babajobu's talk page, and this block seems a bit, err, hasty. Care to come and chat on IRC about it?
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"However, do not forget that blocks are meant to be preventative, not punitive". So, uh, what was the intent of the block then? Were you worried he was going to place multiple messages on WP:AN/I? Ashibaka tock 03:34, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
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Hi PC, Thanks for writing a good safety section on H2SO4 that went beyond "What Johnny thought was H2O..". I think sodium hydroxide still needs some of your caustic comments on safety. Do you think the sulfuric acid article is ready to be A-Class now? Wim will probably be working on the statistics this weekend and he'd no doubt love to see at least one article upgraded from B to A-Class (so would I, it's been a while since we upgraded any!). Please leave comments here. Warning: If you don't, I'll create a new UserBox that says, "This user thinks PC should spend more time on chemistry articles"! Hope your term/semester is going well - mine is busy but good. Talk & posters at Atlanta ACS very soon, fortunately we have spring break to work on htem. Cheers, Walkerma 16:34, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
Hello,
An Arbitration case involving you has been opened: Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Depleted uranium. Please add evidence to the evidence sub-page, Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Depleted uranium/Evidence. You may also contribute to the case on the workshop sub-page, Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Depleted uranium/Workshop.
On behalf of the Arbitration Committee, -- Tony Sidaway 19:23, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
Thank you for leaving me to twist in the wind over in arbitration. Salsman was more or less under control in mediation and prior to your generous offer to interfere with the first trip to arbcom my co-litigants weren't, as they are now 'too busy' to engage.
But you know what? It really doesn't matter now, because I am not going to soil myself with this issue or this crank anymore - but now he is running barefoot through all of the uranium compound articles spuing his nonsense ideas about UO3 gas. And all I can get out of Chem Project is some vague promises 'to help clean up when all this is over'. Well if you guys don't give a damn about the integrity of the compound topics, why should I? A simple show of consensus was all I needed to put a lie to his contention that it was only the three originals that don't believe this gas exists at STP and you have wimped out.
Well have fun 'cleaning up after 'cause he's going to float through arbitration with a slap on the wrist, unopposed. -- DV8 2XL 02:20, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
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I had asked before, but you probably missed it. Did you ever send that e-mail to Mr. Jerry Fiedler on the subject of these Karsh photographs? Did you ever get an answer? Lupo 09:44, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
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Cheers! -- Run e Welsh | ταλκ 12:38, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
While you attempt to show that I should have known that Smokefoot was not a sockpuppet of DV8 2XL, I suggest that you examine the history of DV8 2XL's user page in relation to the creation date of Smokefoot's account and initial burst of editing activity. I am still not entirely convinced that there is no attempt to manufacture an apparent consensus going on under our noses. I wish you could have been a neutral mediator, but your edits show that you took sides a few days after you took the case. That would have been fine for an outside observer, but I guess you didn't review the mediation policy and guidelines pages. Also, taking sides on the factual issue of UO3 gas vapor before reading the Wilson (1961) reference I cited seems like another big mistake to me. Good luck. -- James S. 18:00, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
Hallo, I'm cleaning up the Wikipedia:Translation into English/French page (categorizing articles, removing completed translations, etc.), so I was wondering if you'd finished fr:Droit d'auteur? The original French article is longer than the tranlated version ( French copyright law), though I haven't looked through it yet. Also the French grammar and Morphology of the french verb articles, and Occitan language--are they done as well? You can reply on the talk page here Wikipedia talk:Translation into English. Thanks so much! Tamarkot 21:45, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
Hi PC,
Hope you're well. I have a favour to ask - could you give me any statistics on the Chemistry pages on Wikipedia for my Atlanta talk on Sunday morning? I have no clue how to locate such information, I'm afraid. I'm looking for basic stats like total no. of chemistry articles, no. of chemical compounds covered (about 4000, I think Wim said, is that right?). I'd also love to know which chemistry articles get the most traffic, which are the most popular Google searches, etc. Any such information would be helpful. Probably none of these numbers are essential to the talk, but the audience will be mainly Chemical Info people who will no doubt love to see statistics like that! Many thanks, Walkerma 05:25, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
Thanks a lot, that's a great start! Yes, Wim was including at least prescription drugs in that posting, he mentioned those explicitly. Any further info would be most welcome. Cheers, Walkerma 15:25, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
Ich habe nie gelaubt, dass es soviel Arbeit macht zwei Artikel gegen einen hartnäckigen und verbohrten möchtegern Wissenschaftler zu verteidigen. Ich habe mehr zu abgereichertem Uran und Uranoxiden gelesen als ich eigentlich wollte. Vielleicht bekommen wir es ja gemeinsam mit den anderen hin das Gespenst vom Urangas zu vertreiben!-- Stone 11:51, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
In Wikipedia:Pages_needing_translation_into_English#19th_Waffen_Grenadier_Division_of_the_SS_.282nd_Latvian.29, you ask for "translation or gloss of names of German army units". Presumably, it is not just this particular page that would need glossary/translation, but all pages referring to units of the German army. Some page comparing the different ranks, plus a page comparing the unit sizes, as well as the different types could be created (if it's not already there). And then it could be auto-linked by category or whatever (sorry, I'm new here; not familiar with all the auto/semi-auto features of Wikipedia. If you point me in the right directions I'd be willing to help. Nczempin 14:46, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
There is another stawpoll on the disputed offensive image currently underway at Talk:Lolicon. Hipocrite - «Talk» 21:02, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
Hi there, you removed the value of the oxygen partial pressure from the paragraph that gives the UO3 vapor pressure in the UO3/U3O8/O2 system.
Obviously the position of the equilibrium is dependent on the oxygen pressure:
Ackermann (1960) has several series of measurements in figure 6 of the paper, some at 0.2 bar (air?) and others at 1 bar (oxygen at ambient pressure). If I read that right I think we can put the pressure back in. 129.215.37.163 14:18, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
I added the cite. You gotta give a person a second - man you reved that way too fast. Just add the cite needed tag next time, and remove the text only after giving a chance for that.
I just came across this page by random browsing through the Template categories. It looks like a very nice idea, but it seems like you stopped working on it a long time ago. Is there anything that speaks against completing the page by adding more languages and linking to it more prominently from WP:PNT? Kusma (討論) 04:03, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
The uranium trioxide gas reached the uranium page! -- Stone 09:24, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
Did some work on Erbium(III) chloride and Boron trichloride and found the new page on Tellurium tetrachloride, maybe you have a look?-- Stone 15:44, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/86.10.231.219 You are mentioned in it. Midgley 20:02, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
This arbitration case has closed. James S. is banned from depleted uranium, placed on probation, and placed on general probation. Those opposing editors who have made personal attacks on James S. are reminded of the policies regarding courtesy and personal attacks. TDC is placed on revert parole. For further details, please see the arbitration case. On behalf of the arbitration committee, Johnleemk | Talk 17:05, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
Hi PC, I have used your version of the transcluded chembox in the lead(II) nitrate article. As you can see, it shows two similar errors in tranclusion: solubility (water/other) and Other compounds (anions/cations): the lower entry unexpectedly copies values from the upper entry. Do I do something wrong? Wim van Dorst ( Talk) 20:15, 10 May 2006 (UTC).
I am sorry, but I do not understand why you have moved Blatnica (Slovakia) to Blatnica, Martin. Blatnica is an independent municipality in Slovakia, not a part of the city of Martin. I think the previous name of this article (which I originally created) is more appropriate than your change because we usually use the name of the state to disambiguate whenever two towns having the same name are icluded in the Wikipedia. Moreover, as far as I know, there are no more municipalities called "Blatnica" in Slovakia. I would be grateful if you can explain or eventually revert this edit. Well, perhaps the best alternative would be to move the article to Blatnica, Slovakia. Tankred 14:17, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
Physchim62 (talk) 14:48, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
You are absolutely right about the comma convention and it was my mistake not to use a comma in the original article. But do you really think it is necessary to disambiguate the names of Slovakia's municipalities to the district level? Slovakia is a tiny country and there are not many cases of duplicates. I guess this rule makes more sense in the case of large countries, such as the US (with four or so different settlements called Geneva). But even in the case of the US, names are disambiguated to the state level and not to the county level. Slovakia's size makes it similar to a rather smaller state within the US while Slovakia's district is even smaller than an average American county. Back to the Blatnica case, there is one Blatnica in Croatia and another in Slovakia. That is it. Why should it be called Blatnica, Martin? Since there are no other municipalities with the same name in Slovakia, its case is similar to any other Slovak town. But we have an article Ducové and not "Ducové, Piešťany". If another municipality with the name Ducové exists in Poland for instance, would it make sense to create an article "Ducové, Piešťany"? I do not think so. This disambiguation goes too far in my opinion. It would be more user-friendly to base it on the most obvious difference (the state level in this case). What do you think? Tankred 15:24, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
I see your point. I still think that disambiguation to the district level is unnecessary (especially while compared with the cases of some other countries, such as in my US example cited above), but you are absolutely right that redirects are more important than the actual title of the article. In my opinion, Blatnica, Martin District would be definitely more accurate than Blatnica, Martin. Martin is the name of a town, so the current title of the article may suggest that Blatnica is a part of that town, though it s a separate municipality in the Martin District. The title "Blatnica, Martin District" is a clear description where the village is situted. Btw, I forgot to thank you for the ammount of work you have done writing all those articles about districts of Slovakia. Great job! Tankred 10:57, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
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Hi Physchim, and thank you ajodisajoidj for your comments in my request for adminship. With a final tally of (109/5/1), I have been entrusted with adminship. It's been several weeks since the conclusion of the process, so hopefully you've had a chance to see me in action. If you have any issues or comments, please let me know what you think! Thanks again, and while I realise I did not have your support, I will do everything I can to justify the trust others have placed in me! + + Lar: t/ c 03:25, 28 May 2006 (UTC) |
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I will not be adding the NFPA 704 images to IMD. I thought that since we have an NFPA 704 template, the images would be pointless. Thanks for proving me wrong. :)
-- Evan Robidoux 19:33, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
Where you are substituting {{ Spanish comarca}} into articles on the Catalan comarques, you appear to be dropping comarcal coats of arms because they don't fit the template. When you do things like this, could you please at least place the lost image elsewhere on the page, or note the lossiness in the edit summary, or something? You are removing an image from an article, and nothing in your edit summary lets someone easily work that out. Also, fr what it's worth, I notice that the new template provides only the file name as "alt" text for the map. This is not usually considered good in accessibility terms: it can be very hard for a blind person to know what the image is. - Jmabel | Talk 15:56, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
You have changed the entry for Poyntzpass to Poyntz Pass. I understand that the NISRA entry had the second incorrect spelling (I have now corrected). Can you please reset the title back to Poyntzpass. I moved to Poyntzpass in 1974 and lived there for 14 years and my parents and brother still live there. The correct spelling, if you following the external links to local sites, you will find the same correct spelling as 'Poyntzpass', just because someone in NISRA decided to change the spelling on their documents does not mean that the vilage has this incorrect spelling.
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I'm just learning about all th userbox controversy of late. do you know of one good central location where I can see comprehensive list of userboxes that have been permanently (or until further notice) deleted? your page is a good one. this one has a big list- some listed there survived. thankz, McKzz Fizzer 18:32, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
Please answer my question at Category talk:Municipalities of Croatia before going on to recategorize another few dozen articles... -- Joy [shallot] 14:23, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
What's the point of moving Nin, Croatia to Nin, Zadar County or Obrovac, Croatia to Obrovac, Zadar County when there are no other Nins or Obrovacs in Croatia (at least no other notable ones)? This does not contribute to the disambiguation in any way and only lengthens the title and adds information that is not useful or particularly intricate to the topic, since županija affiliation is not generally used in the name of the villages in Croatia, in cases where it is actually useful, rather the closest city (at dzs.hr you will note "Otok (Vinkovci)" and "Otok" for the two of those). -- Joy [shallot] 14:29, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
Why do you feel I wsa blaming you for the infoboxes? I liked a lot your template. The problem is that the infoboxes have the peculiraty the that city of the active entry is represented in bold: if there are other cities names in bold, this will be lost. My advice is to differentiate "grads" and normal cities writing them in different lists, as in some German infoboxes (where there are "free cities" and "municipalities"). Ciao and good work! -- Attilios 15:07, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
Hi. Your block of User:SPUI has come up as a topic at WP:AN. Jkelly 22:55, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
I tried to start a discussion about this article at Talk:Original research but I see you deleted the article again. May I ask what reason you deleted this redirect without a AfD since I don't see a speedy delete reason to justify this action. Best, -- Alabamaboy 13:55, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
I hope you agree to the current compromise. Physchim62 (talk) 14:32, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
Don't forget to sign your comments. This is even more important for closing of policy stuff. -- Cyde↔Weys 18:42, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
Take a look at the upload log. It shouldn't take much looking to discover that the percentage is closer to the other way around. Jkelly 22:33, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
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See User:Kotepho/reports/Images by copyright status statistics for more information. Commons has around 677 000 media files at the moment. Jkelly 17:29, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
Hi, when moving page titles, please remember fixing links (eg Jelsa). Thanks! Cheers, Punkmorten 14:39, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
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For your hard work in adding template information to geographical articles in Europe, you are awarded this barnstar. Blnguyen | rant-line 08:01, 18 July 2006 (UTC) |
I'm shocked that this is your first. Blnguyen | rant-line 00:25, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
I happened to tune in to WP Entropy the last of June, thinkng that it would welcome the revolution in US first-year university chem (+ Atkins (Oxon.) phys chem) texts that delete 'disorder. The widely published textbook replacement (see http://www.entropysite.com/#whatsnew, scroll to "December 2005) is simple intro to the subject by viewing entropy increase as,usually, the spontaneous dispersal of molec motional energy -- spatially and temporally (the latter in a 'dance' over a greater number of quantized microstates). What a shock (and waste of my last three weeks) to learn that the two total obstacles to any suggestions were pure information 'entropy' specialists whose view was stated by Nonsuch on 2 July:
Of course, I challenged him (twice) to cite any chemistry textbook that made or supported such a statement and equally, of course, he has not been able to do so. Then, following up, two or three times I have told the Talk:Entropy of my solution to the old argument (that is now under second review for publication in JChemEduc; should have final response in 4-6 weeks): Thermodynamic entropy increase is a two component concept: In chemistry, it is enabled most commonly by molecules' motional energy, but only actualized if the process provides an increased number of accessible of quantized microstates, a most probable/maximal distribution of energy. The latter is indeed a Shannon probability.
Yes, that last 'solution to the stupid joke of von Neumannn' probably can't be in the WP Entropy until it has been peer-reviewed and published. But the private acceptance by others supports me in believing that it is the ultimate solution that will be accepted by thermodynamicists, if not by information 'entropists'.
As an experienced teacher of beginners, I urge that you consider those who probably will be the largest segment of those who look in WP for "Entropy": young people confused by their texts or inadequate instructors and non-scientists who have seen the word entropy in news reports or their fiction reading. Thus, I hope you will approve: at least a half-page or so of slow entree -- that already-present ice melting example, then (what is conventional in US texts), gas expansion (molecules' motional energy becoming dispersed in a greater volume/additional accessible microstates/ due to denser energy levels in larger volume) and fluid/substance mixing (again, molec. motional energy becoming dispersed, etc., etc.) BEFORE your use of chem reactions (These would be very scary to the naive non-chemist reader without a 'running start' I think.)
I'd like to contribute but sure as hell don't want to labor as much I've already done -- putting something up in the Article and then having it deleted by the self-certified cognoscenti. (They undoubtedly understand high level straight thermo, but never taught youngsters and have abandoned thermo entropy for the fun game of info 'entropy'!)
THANKS for bringing chemistry back to thermo entropy! Best to you, and please -- in your enormous span of work on WP, put some of that aside for your extremely needed aid in making the WP article on Entropy, a treatment of thermodynamic entropy -- what else!!!-- with appropriate refs to other uses of the word :-) FrankLambert 15:46, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
(If you'd send me email to flambert@att.net, it would be more time-economical and private.)
But 1. I use 'thermodynamic entropy' ALWAYS in the sense of Clausius PLUS B. because that's the only way in which B. referred to his conclusions involving H -- they led to the entropy of HIS day. Of course you can (correctly!)call them statistical, especially when you are showing the identical results from Clausius expansion of a gas to 2V (q/T, calculated from reversible compression of the gas) and contrasting yet correlating B. calcn of Wfinal/Winitial = 2^N, etc., etc. The prime importance of classifying both as 'thermo entropy', an evaluation of a physico-chemical change that involves energy dispersal (I'll come back to this, later!!), is to keep both Clausian and Boltzmannian treatments distinguished from information or any other non-energy-consideration-requiring (!)'entropy'.
2. We absolutely agree that US "thermal entropy" and US "positional entropy" (more dignified as "configurational entropy" are wave and particle (QM) or momentum and location (classic stat mech) are EQUIVALENT. But, are there NO UK or French/Spanish texts for first-year college (your 'upper form'?) youngsters, as our several prominent US texts that have that abominable division into "two entropies"? Describing gas expansion, fluid mixing as "positional entropy" using little squares for larger volumes, etc.? Total distinction from "thermal entropy". (No mention that these squares happen to represent energetic molecules, but no comment about how they GOT to those squares! i.e., no mention of momentum or wave relationship?) Seemingly therefore, NO possible relation to 'thermal entropy'! Stupid. Why haven't a host of thermodynamicists knocked that down years ago?? THAT is what I am yelling about -- the best selling US texts in the past and maybe 2-3 today took/take that approach and I'm just old Don Quixote riding into them after knocking off that absurd 'disorder' windmill :-)
3. Hey! Hold the phone! The ice water example...re-glance at it. It quietly develops the idea of entropy (as q/T) -- NOT telling or requiring you to know ANYTHING about the 'entropy of liquid water' or the 'entropy of ice'! Starting from ground zero, and 'adding some heat' to the system, you are led -- unbeknownst even to a good thermodynamicist! -- to see the power of the entropy concept by realizing that the same amount of 'heat energy' in a hotter (surr)/T is lesser than that energy/T in a cooler (sys). Voila! (My only French but, I hope OK, here :-) ) So if q/T is entropy, it always will be increased by a spontaneous flow from hotter to cooler. Great. Who needs to know the entropy of ice at 273.14 K - or ice water (or surroundings) at 273.16 K? But the reader knows that the system (and the only thing changing in the system is the ice melting to liquid water) has increased its entropy... and student or layperson has seen the power of the entropy concept. (Though they may not be in as much awe of Clausius ingenious ratio as they should be!)
4. Why load the kids with Ficks? I know UK (and French) education is vastly more in- and ex-tensive than US chem but do they really need to be loaded with one more calculation, rather than a qual description..? So, whythell not just get them to think (as I've pleaded 3x-5x with these abstract info 'entropy' types) about thousand mile an hour particles in a LeMans constantly-colliding and undamagedly-bouncing existence that, of COURSE, would result in movement into a vac, into another fluid, etc. (That's component #1, energetic particles. THEN, perhaps much later, tell them about the absolutely essential other component of probable energy distribution, to complete the 'what is entropy, REALLY' explanation :-)
5. PLEASE send me email re the equivalence you mention in your next to last paragraph!
6. Also please challenge me specifically about points re the dispersal of energy as fundamental to understanding entropy change -- the spreading and sharing of energy, spatial and temporal, (the latter neat combo, as Harvey Leff, taught me...!!)
Thx so much for info and for stimulus!! FrankLambert 22:49, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
Hello - thanks for your reply, and thanks a million for forwarding the question to the French copyright pages for me. By what I read there the application of that copyright is rather flou even in France - but I think you are correct as far as international standards are concerned. I think it's best to be sure though, so thanks for your help in this. THEPROMENADER 15:36, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
I should be careful with this image. The more I read the Court of Cassation judgement, the less I feel it can apply in this case. It is argued on the basis of Art 544 of the Code civil, in other word on the general provisions of French Law concerning "property". The petitioners (owners of a hotel in Rouen) did not argue that they held any rights under the Code de la propriété intellectuelle (CPI), merely rights as owners of the physical structure of the hotel. As in most countries, France has distinct rules concerning specific types of property—the CPI is one such set of specific rules, and it confers rights and imposes obligations beyond what is contained in the Code civil. Art 422-1 (check ref) governs the droit de représentation in intellectual property law, and seems to apply here. One must assume that the SNTE has bought the droit de representation from the company which designed the lighting.
The droit de representation has become less absolute in recent years: as I have argued on French Wikipédia, a strict reading of article would effectively prevent the publication of almost any photo of a French city! The strict reading is tempered both by informal arrangements (which architect objects to images of his/her work being published for free?) and by European law. However both Euroepan Union law and interpretations of Art 11 of the European Convention on Human Rights are more concerned with "events" (ie, news) than with ongoing situations: in any case, the provisions and interpretations are only to limit the exercise of the droit de representation, not to abolish it altogether. It would seem to need a drastic change of opinion by the European Court of Human Rights to make an unlicensed image of the illuminations legal in France.
The question remains as to whether these rights could be enforced in the USA. American law does not afford any greater protection to French (or other Berne Convention) works that that enjoyed by American works. The illuminations are freely visible, without charge or other restriction: to what extent is such a work of architecture or such a theatrical performace in USA protected by copyright? The illuminations could be considered to be either.
A fair use claim could certainly be made for some uses of the images, provided that there is sufficient encyclopedic discussion in the relevant articles: to use the image to illustrate Paris does not seems to be fair use, and so is only possible if the image is free of US copyright. Physchim62 (talk) 14:59, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
Just in case anyone else is following this discussion, the droit de représentation in French copyright law is CPI Art. 122-2, and the ECHR reference should be to Article 10. Apologies for not checking before posting! Physchim62 (talk) 17:37, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
Is this what you were looking for? Physchim62 (talk) 17:48, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
From 17 U.S.C. 120:
§ 120. Scope of exclusive rights in architectural works
I've just found this:
§ 113. Scope of exclusive rights in pictorial, graphic, and sculptural works
(a) Subject to the provisions of subsections (b) and (c) of this section, the exclusive right to reproduce a copyrighted pictorial, graphic, or sculptural work in copies under section 106, includes the right to reproduce the work in or on any kind of article, whether useful or otherwise.
(b) This title does not afford, to the owner of copyright in a work that portrays a useful article as such, any greater or lesser rights with respect to the making, distribution, or display of the useful article so portrayed than those afforded to such works under the law, whether title 17 or the common law or statutes of a State, in effect on December 31, 1977, as held applicable and construed by a court in an action brought under this title.
(c) In the case of a work lawfully reproduced in useful articles that have been offered for sale or other distribution to the public, copyright does not include any right to prevent the making, distribution, or display of pictures or photographs of such articles in connection with advertisements or commentaries related to the distribution or display of such articles, or in connection with news reports.''
...but in looking at the definitions of the above types of work, lighint falls into none of the categories above. Puzzling. thepromenader 09:33, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
Yes, I'd seen §113 and decided that it didn't really apply. As I mentioned above, the best comparison apart from architecture would be to a theatrical performance such as a street parade. One of the characteristics of the current lighting is that it glitters, ie it is not static. Other similar events would be the laser light show, or a firework display. I think the problem will be that US law will use a concept of "tacit licence", which could not be transferred to a foreign work: I may be wrong though, I am neither a lawyer, nor American! Physchim62 (talk) 14:54, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
Evidently the anon IP was not james, but this individual most certianly is: SeparateIssue [9]. Torturous Devastating Cudgel 18:18, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for creating articles about Catalan locations! Please do remember to include all interwiki links present in the ca: version. See for instance the diff to Castellgalí. Thanks, Punkmorten 20:18, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
There are another thirty or so Catalan articles to come, with as many template again for existing articles. Unfortunately, I cannot add the es: wikilinks by hand (I can guess that nl: and it: will have articles on these towns, but hell, YurikBot will get round to it and it doesn't seem as important as having the encyclopedic information available on en). I know that ca: has 100% coverage (though not always with complete sentences...), so as you say adding the Catalan interwiki ensures that the articles don't get lost. Version 1.2 of the template will be coming soon, to take account of geographic coordinates, postcodes and other info which is available and to remove the map-in-place-of-location-map from the bottom. Physchim62 (talk) 16:32, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
Hi you have done a super job on the templates in SLovakia but is it possible you could create on for the Poltár District as this seems to be missing. thanks James Janderson 11:13, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
Hi there! I have pointed out 17 USC 104A (or the URAA) repeatedly... Lupo 10:44, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the reminder and the explanation. I answered on the talk page for the chemboxes. Cheers! -- Dirk Beetstra T C 21:01, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
I just thought I'd ask what was your rationale for adding designs to {{ IPL-EU}}, as I'm not positive, but I'm fairly sure that they'd fall into one of the others already there, or a mix of them.
I have not removed it, as I just wanted to ask you first, however I have removed the bottom row of articles you added. They were not directly related to the EU, so therefore don't belong there. I'm sure you'll notice most templates of this nature only include links to articles specific to the region in question (in this case the EU) and rarely include links to generic articles (as the ones you added were generic). More specifically, links are usually only added to articles the template is embedded in, and it would be crazy to add {{ IPL-EU}} to the list you added. - Рэд хот 15:12, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
I can see the problem—the box is too big! Industrial design rights form a specific part of European IP law, and so I added them to reflect that. There is, for example, a Community-wide protection system on the same lines as Community trade marks. I feel that the solution is to split these boxes along the lines of {{ Copyright-EU}} with a smaller template for the top level articles. On the other hand, we also need better articles on the main foundations (where they exist, which for various reasons they don't for patents) of EU IP law. I am working on the latter. If you really feel that the box has become too large, then take out the national law links for all categories of IP law (most are red anyway); otherwise lets take another look in a few weeks time. Physchim62 (talk) 14:25, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
I do believe that you get the award for creating the longest legit title in Wikipedia history. :) - Lucky 6.9 14:45, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
Hi I noticed your good work on Sant Esteve Sesrovires. I was wondering if you would consider turning your attention to a quick stub for Sant Feliu de Codines which is currently a red link on a few pages - notably my entry for Enric Miralles - he died there. Many thanks. -- Mcginnly | Natter 17:46, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
Hmm...you know, the WikiProject seems to have evolved into something more like a place for resolving editing disputes. Something doesn't feel quite right about it. Note the double meaning intended here. I'd like to help more actively, but I think I'm stretched a bit thinly at the moment. -- HappyCamper 18:54, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
Could you take a look at User talk:Lupo#Licencing of suicide notes and speeches? What do you think? Lupo 13:50, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
Interesting name? Can you (admin needed) move this back to its correct home at lead(IV) oxide or lead dioxide, whichever you prefer? Greenwood & Earnshaw (p386) indicate that it usually exists as the lead(IV) compound, though a lead(II) polymorph (a peroxide, presumably) is also known. I really don't think we have a superoxide of otherwise unknown lead(I), do we....! Thanks, Walkerma 23:38, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
Yoh, PC, I just put the lead(II) nitrate article up for FA-class. Feel free to contribute your support. Wim van Dorst ( Talk) 21:00, 2 November 2006 (UTC).
Hey Physchim62, don't worry about this too much if you're busy. But if you've got a spare minute, would you mind taking a look at my sandbox? I've made some proposed additions to the main portal page, and I'd like some feedback on them before I actually launch them (I'm not that bold!) Cheers, riana_ dzasta 02:50, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
I have seen some mention of the idea of radioactive thallium before, if active thallium was used then it would be more difficult to detect in the human body as the chemical concentration would be much lower. What do you think about the idea of active thallium being used to poison spys ? Cadmium
Polonium 210 (as is speculated on the article page) seems a more likely radiological candidate that thallium 201 (still not the one that I'd use though...)! Physchim62 (talk) 15:49, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
Just an fyi, the above template is currently under a TFD. IF you want to keep it, you should userfy it. --- J.S ( t| c) 20:18, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
Could you please speedy delete this redirect which was a typo (no final bracket)? Nothing goes there. Chemical Biology (journal) has now been merged into Royal Society of Chemistry and redirects there. Thanks. -- Bduke 02:54, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
Aren't translations derivative works under U.S. law, and as such copyrightable as they contain original elements (choice of words, phrasing)? See s:Talk:1924 Constitution of the USSR... I have currently two different translations of section IV of the 1961 Fundamentals of the USSR, one by Levitsky, published 1964, and one by Newcity, published 1978. The two English texts differ quite a bit, although they say the same and are both obviously translated from the same Russian source. The differences between these two translations clearly shows that translating allows enough creativity to warrant copyrightability. I have the impression that s:1924 Constitution of the USSR is actually a copyvio... I'd hate to see it deleted, though. Any way to save it? Lupo 23:41, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
Given that a total of two people commented on its talk page other than yourself and me, how can you claim this has consensual support? I'm sure it was advertised in a lot of places, but for whatever reason people weren't interested enough to give feedback. ( Radiant) 10:04, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
Please see Wikipedia:Citing_sources#What to do when a reference link "goes dead". A replacement link for the edit you removed wasn't hard to find, but it could easily have been overlooked when you simply removed the old link. - Jmabel | Talk 01:27, 25 December 2006 (UTC)
Yikes - whatever you just did, it's moving the wrong direction. The article had nicely laid out Footnotes and References; now it has information in Footnotes repeated because references were deleted. I'd like to revert to what was there before - the way you've set it up is less than the standard on current FAs, which tend to show repeat refs in References, which individual pages in Footnotes - it was fine before. Hope you understand, Sandy ( Talk) 19:50, 29 December 2006 (UTC)