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Let me explain why I was editing the above article.
Many people don't understand alot about math, espesially about dimensions, so I just added info. about vectors and dimensionality so people could get a better understanding of what the fourth dimension might mean. I reintroduced the 'dimensionality' section so people could see how a higher dimension would relate to a lower dimension, and vice-versa. Thanks! -- 219.79.88.246 ( talk) 11:26, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
I agree that the article needs more work to make it accessible to people without a math background. But copy-and-pasting a large amount of text about vectors and dimensions is not the right way to do this, because there are already other articles explaining what vectors are, and what dimensions are. It is more appropriate to link to them with something like:
That way, we don't unnecessarily duplicate stuff that is already covered in other articles. The Fourth dimension article should only explain the parts that are specific to 4D vectors, instead of duplicating the material. The same goes for the definition of dimensions. And just to be clear, I was the one who wrote most of those deleted paragraphs on vectors and dimension, and I agree with the other editor(s) that it should be removed.— Tetracube ( talk) 22:15, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
You seem to say you are four dimensional on your user page?
I would take a look at
WP:VG/I, which has a good summary about video game related images. As far as a screenshot goes, I think you can use one of the ones mentioned and use {{
vgrationale|Mazera|type=gameplay|subst=subst:}}
and {{
Non-free game screenshot}}
, but I'm also not that familiar with image policies.
MrKIA11 (
talk)
13:49, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
76.120.151.113 recently added surface/volume formulas to Pyramid, Bipyramid and Prism that made an unstated assumption about height. I removed them. — Anyway, it appears that the clown is on the brink of being banned. — Tamfang ( talk) 19:09, 26 March 2009 (UTC)
The entity's latest batch of edits include some valid ones – it's so confusing! By the way, what is {{#if ...}} for? — Tamfang ( talk) 16:43, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
Look, man, I didn't vandalize anything; I made a stupid edit. You corrected me, rather rudely, I might add, I didn't dispute you, and we can leave it at that. Stay the hell off my talk page. That's my business, and you have no ownership over it. For the record, I don't like you and I think you're unnecessarily snotty. You should learn the difference between vandals and real editors. Graft | talk 21:58, 9 April 2009 (UTC)
Don't edit-war with people on their own user page. Not to mention that good-faith edits are not vandalism. In addition, the statement that Graft removed was not supported by the cited reference. More importantly - people are free to remove warnings from their user page. It isn't OK to repeatedly reinstate them. Especially if they are are dubious as yours was. Guettarda ( talk) 22:01, 9 April 2009 (UTC)
I am not sure why you deleted the links I placed to SPG, Inc's web page. While I am a member of the company, I see no reason that references to our work is any less deserving that SpaceDev or any of the other groups doing hybrid work documented on the page. In fact, if you had bothered to check the website out, you would see that we are not selling anything throught the site and that there is a significant amount of technical information available. It is, in this respect, far more relevant than anything on many of the other hybrid rocket sites that are referenced in the article. Am I missing something here? Jonny.dyer ( talk) 23:32, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
Ok, after reading the wikipedia article on spamming, I think I understand your intention. Let me rephrase my question - how can I put information on this page about our activities in the hybrid rocket community without it being considered spam? Jonny.dyer ( talk) 23:32, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
Ok, I will post to the discussion page although there doesn't seem to be much their for hybrid rockets Jonny.dyer ( talk) 00:03, 23 April 2009 (UTC)
Tetra, will you please have a look at the mods I made to the hybrid page and critique it (gently). I am trying to learn to do this in the proper way. Thanks Jonny.dyer ( talk) 02:49, 23 April 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for making the chemistry articles, Acid–base reaction in particular, better today! Who knew 4D polytopes are so useful? -- Cubbi ( talk) 19:15, 1 May 2009 (UTC)
I made a few minor changes but otherwise the text you have looks good. I think that it should be part of the Square-1 article rather than a separate one. On a related note, do you think the Void Cube should be its own article or a subsection of the Rubik's Cube article?
Sorry for taking a while to get back to you; my computer's been under the weather. Hellbus ( talk) 23:37, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
I boldly added a paragraph to Duocylinder#Relation to other shapes. I imagine it might well be deleted on the grounds that squarinder and spherinder are non-notable neologisms. Are they? — Tamfang ( talk) 03:56, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
I have un-undeleted the image. You should be able to put it back in the article now. I have been through all this over Magic5D before with OTRS, and the permissions are already registered with them. In the future, if you want to use images from 5D, tag the image page with {{permissionOTRS|2008080110032078}}
which is the OTRS ticket number for this and everything should be ok.
SpinningSpark
17:53, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
Hi. With your edit here you reverted a change made from British to American English. However, the article is written in primarily American English, so the edit you reverted was in fact a proper conversion to the prevailing spelling system used in the Gold article. I have reverted back to the American spelling as per WP:ENGVAR. If you have any questions let me know on my talk page, or reply here and place a talkback template on my talk page. Thank you. The Seeker 4 Talk 19:01, 16 June 2009 (UTC)
Hi, thank you for your message. Comes just in the good moment. I'am leaving now. Could you possibly have a look at the activities of User:Logger9. He is very likely to revert everything I cleaned up today. He has dumped material from his 1983 PhD thesis and loquacious dissertations on a few topics at a considerable number of locations - and nobody has noticed for several months. His trick is quite simple: he adds tons of references, so that people are impressed, think it's their fault if they don't understand, and let the nonsense pass. -- Paula Pilcher ( talk) 19:03, 26 June 2009 (UTC)
Don't know if you'd come across it or not, but Meffert is going to do a limited run of the "Holey Megaminx," a Void Cube-like version of the puzzle. It doesn't look like he's doing any more than what people preorder, so I wanted to make sure you knew about it. The deadline is Monday. It's the last one on the list. Hellbus ( talk) 22:13, 4 July 2009 (UTC)
Hello Tetracube, and thanks for your work patrolling new changes. I am just informing you that I declined the speedy deletion of Tribromoamine - a page you tagged - because: Tribromoamine shows in google as a synonym, if my understanding of the search results is accurate. Please review the criteria for speedy deletion before tagging further pages. If you have any questions or problems, please let me know. KillerChihuahua ?!? Advice 17:15, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
Perhaps these should all be put into an redirects for discussion. They seem to have some usage as synonyms, even if rarely used. What do you think? -- TeaDrinker ( talk) 18:36, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
Hello!
You removed this [2], saying the contribution was inaccurate. Now the reason that you can digest silicates with hydrofluoric acid (and not at all with other mineral acids) is the extraordinarily high bond enthalpy of the Si-F bond, which makes tetrafluorosilane and the hexafluorosilicate anion thermodynamic sinks. This is as much as was said in my contribution. Merely saying that aqueous HF is "corrosive" does not make that point. "Corrosive" does not mean much in fact, because it describes a reactivity between two substances, one cannot really say that something is corrosive, something is always corrosive in regards to something else. (Besides, beyond glass and living tissues, HF does not attack that much, in fact it is pretty tame.) 128.226.130.90 ( talk) 16:28, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
Hi. I notice that you go around a lot replacing things like H[AuCl4] with things like HAuCl
4. However, the latter is wrong, and I'd be grateful if you stopped doing it!; see
[4] for a discussion at the wikiproject. Thanks!
Chris (
talk)
16:02, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
Much better! Thanks. Chris ( talk) 20:20, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
I agree "sides" is not clear, but how can a face be congruent with an angle? The point is that the faces are congruent to each other. How about my original wording but replace "sides" with "surfaces?" Bucksburg ( talk) 20:11, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
I've looked through the history, put the article in my watchlist and will keep an eye on it. The current version (with Y on the right side) seems Ok. Don't hesitate to drop such notes - I simply missed to add that article to my watchlist before. I'm sure I am missing many others. Cheers. Materialscientist ( talk) 22:39, 14 October 2009 (UTC)
If you revert a lot of vandalism, it makes it easier to use an automated tool such as Twinkle or Huggle. With Twinkle it will automatically warn the user as soon as you revert their edits ... so I would recommend Twinkle if youre just starting (Huggle is an external program that browses the wiki for you, automating essentially everything). -- Soap Talk/ Contributions 18:58, 16 October 2009 (UTC)
Hello-- Not sure why the changes I made to the Columbian Exchange page were reverted. The list as it currently stands (post-reversion) has blatantly incorrect information, which can be corroborated through other Wikipedia pages. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.111.31.203 ( talk) 18:38, 24 October 2009 (UTC)
I am probably the one that inserted the statement "A semiconductor is a compound whose electrical conductivity is inversely proportional to temperature." Apparently you disagree, which is fine, but you might recheck your source. I learned my definition from an materials prof and need to recheck on the source. It has the advantage that the slope of the conductivity vs T dependence is unambiguous whereas a definition based on conductivity at any given temperature requires comparisons. There are lots of poor metals. I'd be interested in your thoughts. I checked the IUPAC goldbook which does not agree with my definition, but the Goldbooks is probably written by chemists, not materials scientist.
Thanks for removing it. What I meant to say that "A semiconductor is a compound whose electrical conductivity is proportional to temperature."
I also noticed that you are working on Molecular electronics and related areas. I took these articles off of my watchlist because I became frustrated by User:Pproctor and his very close friend User:Drjem3. Both are admirers of John McGinness, Proctors thesis advisor. At one time, these articles emphasized McGinness' work and tended to diminish contributions by the Nobelists by highlighting fairly obscure papers. Check out Conductive polymer. Feel free to ask for help if you need it. Good luck,-- Smokefoot ( talk) 00:23, 27 October 2009 (UTC)
I've just seen some edits to the formlulae in transition metal that give the wrong notation. There are rules for round and square brackets. VO43- and [V(CO)6- are correct notation. Petergans ( talk) 20:12, 27 October 2009 (UTC)
Hi Tetracube,
Apologies for my mistake; Big thank you for your corrections!
--
Shirt58 (
talk)
11:35, 5 November 2009 (UTC)
I removed the references to WSEAS conferences from the article on topological computing regarded as unreliable. The introduction will be expanded shortly
Please check the documentation of
Template:Citation needed. the correct way to use this template is {{
Citation needed|date=July 2024}}
. I have been cleaning up after you, but better you should get it right yourself.
Debresser (
talk)
11:45, 6 November 2009 (UTC)
Hey sorry about editing the GEcko page with something that was considered "vandalism", but the geico commercials are funny, and putting in some information about them from the commercials isnt harming anyone....unless there are people who are doing things that are hurting someone, but seriously who thinks that a gecko talks with an accent and eats potato chips from a bag? I see wher you are getting at, but also, why can't there be any humor at all?
Tjgnumber13
Tetracube this is User talk:99.7.172.132 responding to your concern that I posted advertising sounding content on the Vaporizer page. I will work on toning down the superlatives in reference to the vaporization system approach to vaporizing that is not well represented on the page but is 100% encyclopedic in its need to be included. There are multiple companies that sell modular "vaporization tools" that function as a "vaporizer" when assembled and I am not doing marketing for any of them. Hope that clarifies and I hope that my next attempt at expanding the encyclopedic content of the page is more neutral in read and satisfactory. please let me know. Thanks---Vapor Afficiando —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.7.172.132 ( talk) 02:29, 30 November 2009 (UTC)
Why do you continuousy delete links to university founded non-commercial pages marking them as spam?
What is your special interest in doing so?
Who are you?
Why are you publishing entire articles advertising stupid commercial software on Wikipedia? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.64.138.41 ( talk) 18:23, 8 December 2009 (UTC)
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Archive 1 | Archive 2 |
Let me explain why I was editing the above article.
Many people don't understand alot about math, espesially about dimensions, so I just added info. about vectors and dimensionality so people could get a better understanding of what the fourth dimension might mean. I reintroduced the 'dimensionality' section so people could see how a higher dimension would relate to a lower dimension, and vice-versa. Thanks! -- 219.79.88.246 ( talk) 11:26, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
I agree that the article needs more work to make it accessible to people without a math background. But copy-and-pasting a large amount of text about vectors and dimensions is not the right way to do this, because there are already other articles explaining what vectors are, and what dimensions are. It is more appropriate to link to them with something like:
That way, we don't unnecessarily duplicate stuff that is already covered in other articles. The Fourth dimension article should only explain the parts that are specific to 4D vectors, instead of duplicating the material. The same goes for the definition of dimensions. And just to be clear, I was the one who wrote most of those deleted paragraphs on vectors and dimension, and I agree with the other editor(s) that it should be removed.— Tetracube ( talk) 22:15, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
You seem to say you are four dimensional on your user page?
I would take a look at
WP:VG/I, which has a good summary about video game related images. As far as a screenshot goes, I think you can use one of the ones mentioned and use {{
vgrationale|Mazera|type=gameplay|subst=subst:}}
and {{
Non-free game screenshot}}
, but I'm also not that familiar with image policies.
MrKIA11 (
talk)
13:49, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
76.120.151.113 recently added surface/volume formulas to Pyramid, Bipyramid and Prism that made an unstated assumption about height. I removed them. — Anyway, it appears that the clown is on the brink of being banned. — Tamfang ( talk) 19:09, 26 March 2009 (UTC)
The entity's latest batch of edits include some valid ones – it's so confusing! By the way, what is {{#if ...}} for? — Tamfang ( talk) 16:43, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
Look, man, I didn't vandalize anything; I made a stupid edit. You corrected me, rather rudely, I might add, I didn't dispute you, and we can leave it at that. Stay the hell off my talk page. That's my business, and you have no ownership over it. For the record, I don't like you and I think you're unnecessarily snotty. You should learn the difference between vandals and real editors. Graft | talk 21:58, 9 April 2009 (UTC)
Don't edit-war with people on their own user page. Not to mention that good-faith edits are not vandalism. In addition, the statement that Graft removed was not supported by the cited reference. More importantly - people are free to remove warnings from their user page. It isn't OK to repeatedly reinstate them. Especially if they are are dubious as yours was. Guettarda ( talk) 22:01, 9 April 2009 (UTC)
I am not sure why you deleted the links I placed to SPG, Inc's web page. While I am a member of the company, I see no reason that references to our work is any less deserving that SpaceDev or any of the other groups doing hybrid work documented on the page. In fact, if you had bothered to check the website out, you would see that we are not selling anything throught the site and that there is a significant amount of technical information available. It is, in this respect, far more relevant than anything on many of the other hybrid rocket sites that are referenced in the article. Am I missing something here? Jonny.dyer ( talk) 23:32, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
Ok, after reading the wikipedia article on spamming, I think I understand your intention. Let me rephrase my question - how can I put information on this page about our activities in the hybrid rocket community without it being considered spam? Jonny.dyer ( talk) 23:32, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
Ok, I will post to the discussion page although there doesn't seem to be much their for hybrid rockets Jonny.dyer ( talk) 00:03, 23 April 2009 (UTC)
Tetra, will you please have a look at the mods I made to the hybrid page and critique it (gently). I am trying to learn to do this in the proper way. Thanks Jonny.dyer ( talk) 02:49, 23 April 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for making the chemistry articles, Acid–base reaction in particular, better today! Who knew 4D polytopes are so useful? -- Cubbi ( talk) 19:15, 1 May 2009 (UTC)
I made a few minor changes but otherwise the text you have looks good. I think that it should be part of the Square-1 article rather than a separate one. On a related note, do you think the Void Cube should be its own article or a subsection of the Rubik's Cube article?
Sorry for taking a while to get back to you; my computer's been under the weather. Hellbus ( talk) 23:37, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
I boldly added a paragraph to Duocylinder#Relation to other shapes. I imagine it might well be deleted on the grounds that squarinder and spherinder are non-notable neologisms. Are they? — Tamfang ( talk) 03:56, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
I have un-undeleted the image. You should be able to put it back in the article now. I have been through all this over Magic5D before with OTRS, and the permissions are already registered with them. In the future, if you want to use images from 5D, tag the image page with {{permissionOTRS|2008080110032078}}
which is the OTRS ticket number for this and everything should be ok.
SpinningSpark
17:53, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
Hi. With your edit here you reverted a change made from British to American English. However, the article is written in primarily American English, so the edit you reverted was in fact a proper conversion to the prevailing spelling system used in the Gold article. I have reverted back to the American spelling as per WP:ENGVAR. If you have any questions let me know on my talk page, or reply here and place a talkback template on my talk page. Thank you. The Seeker 4 Talk 19:01, 16 June 2009 (UTC)
Hi, thank you for your message. Comes just in the good moment. I'am leaving now. Could you possibly have a look at the activities of User:Logger9. He is very likely to revert everything I cleaned up today. He has dumped material from his 1983 PhD thesis and loquacious dissertations on a few topics at a considerable number of locations - and nobody has noticed for several months. His trick is quite simple: he adds tons of references, so that people are impressed, think it's their fault if they don't understand, and let the nonsense pass. -- Paula Pilcher ( talk) 19:03, 26 June 2009 (UTC)
Don't know if you'd come across it or not, but Meffert is going to do a limited run of the "Holey Megaminx," a Void Cube-like version of the puzzle. It doesn't look like he's doing any more than what people preorder, so I wanted to make sure you knew about it. The deadline is Monday. It's the last one on the list. Hellbus ( talk) 22:13, 4 July 2009 (UTC)
Hello Tetracube, and thanks for your work patrolling new changes. I am just informing you that I declined the speedy deletion of Tribromoamine - a page you tagged - because: Tribromoamine shows in google as a synonym, if my understanding of the search results is accurate. Please review the criteria for speedy deletion before tagging further pages. If you have any questions or problems, please let me know. KillerChihuahua ?!? Advice 17:15, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
Perhaps these should all be put into an redirects for discussion. They seem to have some usage as synonyms, even if rarely used. What do you think? -- TeaDrinker ( talk) 18:36, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
Hello!
You removed this [2], saying the contribution was inaccurate. Now the reason that you can digest silicates with hydrofluoric acid (and not at all with other mineral acids) is the extraordinarily high bond enthalpy of the Si-F bond, which makes tetrafluorosilane and the hexafluorosilicate anion thermodynamic sinks. This is as much as was said in my contribution. Merely saying that aqueous HF is "corrosive" does not make that point. "Corrosive" does not mean much in fact, because it describes a reactivity between two substances, one cannot really say that something is corrosive, something is always corrosive in regards to something else. (Besides, beyond glass and living tissues, HF does not attack that much, in fact it is pretty tame.) 128.226.130.90 ( talk) 16:28, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
Hi. I notice that you go around a lot replacing things like H[AuCl4] with things like HAuCl
4. However, the latter is wrong, and I'd be grateful if you stopped doing it!; see
[4] for a discussion at the wikiproject. Thanks!
Chris (
talk)
16:02, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
Much better! Thanks. Chris ( talk) 20:20, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
I agree "sides" is not clear, but how can a face be congruent with an angle? The point is that the faces are congruent to each other. How about my original wording but replace "sides" with "surfaces?" Bucksburg ( talk) 20:11, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
I've looked through the history, put the article in my watchlist and will keep an eye on it. The current version (with Y on the right side) seems Ok. Don't hesitate to drop such notes - I simply missed to add that article to my watchlist before. I'm sure I am missing many others. Cheers. Materialscientist ( talk) 22:39, 14 October 2009 (UTC)
If you revert a lot of vandalism, it makes it easier to use an automated tool such as Twinkle or Huggle. With Twinkle it will automatically warn the user as soon as you revert their edits ... so I would recommend Twinkle if youre just starting (Huggle is an external program that browses the wiki for you, automating essentially everything). -- Soap Talk/ Contributions 18:58, 16 October 2009 (UTC)
Hello-- Not sure why the changes I made to the Columbian Exchange page were reverted. The list as it currently stands (post-reversion) has blatantly incorrect information, which can be corroborated through other Wikipedia pages. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.111.31.203 ( talk) 18:38, 24 October 2009 (UTC)
I am probably the one that inserted the statement "A semiconductor is a compound whose electrical conductivity is inversely proportional to temperature." Apparently you disagree, which is fine, but you might recheck your source. I learned my definition from an materials prof and need to recheck on the source. It has the advantage that the slope of the conductivity vs T dependence is unambiguous whereas a definition based on conductivity at any given temperature requires comparisons. There are lots of poor metals. I'd be interested in your thoughts. I checked the IUPAC goldbook which does not agree with my definition, but the Goldbooks is probably written by chemists, not materials scientist.
Thanks for removing it. What I meant to say that "A semiconductor is a compound whose electrical conductivity is proportional to temperature."
I also noticed that you are working on Molecular electronics and related areas. I took these articles off of my watchlist because I became frustrated by User:Pproctor and his very close friend User:Drjem3. Both are admirers of John McGinness, Proctors thesis advisor. At one time, these articles emphasized McGinness' work and tended to diminish contributions by the Nobelists by highlighting fairly obscure papers. Check out Conductive polymer. Feel free to ask for help if you need it. Good luck,-- Smokefoot ( talk) 00:23, 27 October 2009 (UTC)
I've just seen some edits to the formlulae in transition metal that give the wrong notation. There are rules for round and square brackets. VO43- and [V(CO)6- are correct notation. Petergans ( talk) 20:12, 27 October 2009 (UTC)
Hi Tetracube,
Apologies for my mistake; Big thank you for your corrections!
--
Shirt58 (
talk)
11:35, 5 November 2009 (UTC)
I removed the references to WSEAS conferences from the article on topological computing regarded as unreliable. The introduction will be expanded shortly
Please check the documentation of
Template:Citation needed. the correct way to use this template is {{
Citation needed|date=July 2024}}
. I have been cleaning up after you, but better you should get it right yourself.
Debresser (
talk)
11:45, 6 November 2009 (UTC)
Hey sorry about editing the GEcko page with something that was considered "vandalism", but the geico commercials are funny, and putting in some information about them from the commercials isnt harming anyone....unless there are people who are doing things that are hurting someone, but seriously who thinks that a gecko talks with an accent and eats potato chips from a bag? I see wher you are getting at, but also, why can't there be any humor at all?
Tjgnumber13
Tetracube this is User talk:99.7.172.132 responding to your concern that I posted advertising sounding content on the Vaporizer page. I will work on toning down the superlatives in reference to the vaporization system approach to vaporizing that is not well represented on the page but is 100% encyclopedic in its need to be included. There are multiple companies that sell modular "vaporization tools" that function as a "vaporizer" when assembled and I am not doing marketing for any of them. Hope that clarifies and I hope that my next attempt at expanding the encyclopedic content of the page is more neutral in read and satisfactory. please let me know. Thanks---Vapor Afficiando —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.7.172.132 ( talk) 02:29, 30 November 2009 (UTC)
Why do you continuousy delete links to university founded non-commercial pages marking them as spam?
What is your special interest in doing so?
Who are you?
Why are you publishing entire articles advertising stupid commercial software on Wikipedia? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.64.138.41 ( talk) 18:23, 8 December 2009 (UTC)