Woodstone, I just wanted to add to today's discussion over at Noetica's page, that your request that our proposal be accompanied by "hard-space-reversing" markup is not a killer for me, if you can get support for that. I'm just saying that I'm making a judgment call that the simplest possible, most bulletproof, obvious, omg-why-would-you-not-want-to-do-this kind of proposal would be the kind I'd prefer to make at bugzilla. But it's just a judgment call, and not a very important point to me. - Dan Dank55 ( talk) 14:42, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
Sorry if I stepped on any toes, but I was only removing "See Also" listings from where they duplicate links on the template. Many articles have excessively long See Also lists, that append without adequate explanation, and templates seek to address that.
Specifically regarding 12-hour clock and 24-hour clock articles, references to each are in the body of either article, making the See Alsos redundant, even without the Time Measurement Template. Also, in the 12-hour clock article, Comparison of the 12-hour and 24-hour clocks is linked twice in the article above, in appropriate places, and should probably not be in the See Also list a third time.
In any case, no page has been left unlinked where it was linked before. I'm very careful about that. Cheers. -- Yamara 16:04, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
You seem to be very active on article that regard Time. Why don't you join WikiProject Time? You are formally invited, by me. Zginder ( talk) ( Contrib) 02:48, 12 January 2008 (UTC)
Undiscussed change? [1] Have you read the talk page, which is running 100% in agreement? SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 20:11, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
Sorry, I didn't notice your revert before I added more tie-bars. What do you suggest we do about these affricates then? The whole point of them is that they are linked in some way (so there's a difference between tch and t+ch). With some of them we can use ligatures, but what about those where no ligature exists? -- Kotniski ( talk) 16:36, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
Still on the same topic, but in general this time. I'm planning to add phonetic transcriptions to large numbers of articles on Polish towns. For the most part this shouldn't create too many problems, but I'm not sure what style to use for the affricates - tie-bars, ligatures, or nothing. Are there any guidelines on this anywhere? To achieve overall consistency for Polish tie-bars seem to be the only solution, since not all the combinations in question have ligatures available, and Polish distinguishes affricates from stop-fricative combinations (czy is not like trzy). So, how bad are the problems you report with the IE display? So bad as to be prohibitive on the use of tie-bars? If so, what do you suggest instead? In particular I'd like to develop some vaguely authoritative guideline on this, otherwise I foresee lots of edit disputes as others stick their oar in over transcriptions in individual articles. -- Kotniski ( talk) 17:11, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
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Hi Woodstone,
The problem I have with separate US & UK pronunciations is, why stop at that article? We'll start getting people adding alt. pronunciations to all of them, and what is a reader to make of it when they're incompatible, which they often will be (say due to s.o. who adds a alt. pronunciation but doesn't know the difference between ʊ and ʌ)? Or when there are three common pronunciations of a word -- are we now to make it six, three each for the US and UK? Better to nip it in the bud, in my not-very-humble opinion. kwami ( talk) 21:52, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
thank you for your recently contributed article of thailand about sex tourism and child sex in economy section, but i worry that your article is not related to the topic at all. Could you please contribute your article in the right place? There are many sex articles that you can be part of them in wiki. I hope you will enjoy to contribute and learn in that sections rather than post in the wrong section. Feel free to understand this situation with the right to protect a quality article to the public. Nat ( talk) 03:03, 16 February 2008 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Atichart ( talk • contribs) 00:31, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
so sorry for my misunderstand and thank you very much for your help. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Atichart ( talk • contribs) 15:21, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
Sawasdee krap. Hope you are ok. Can you please comment on my question here? I am not trying to troll or cause commotion, but would just want to be fair on the encyclopedia. That is the reason why am not reverting your change into a dab page. Cheers :) Wiki San Roze †αLҝ 11:12, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi Woodstone. I've tried formatting the IPA in List of albedo features on Mercury and Classical albedo features on Mars, but the author (RandomCritic) rejects this as 'incorrect'. (Several were straight from the OED or Random House, but in the past he's refused to accept those as sources.) He believes that the IPA should indicate a specific dialect, and that the Help:Pronunciation chart is spurious. He even refuses to use the {{ IPA}} template, and seems to believe that he has ownership of these articles. I'd appreciate your comments. kwami ( talk) 21:44, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
He's responded by nominating the key for deletion. kwami ( talk) 19:06, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
G'day,
I noticed you removed some links from the Alphabet, and was wondering if you could explain your rationale. It seems to me that that both a pen and the vocabulary are intimately linked to the alphabet. The last particularly so since I'm in the process of refuting that the English alphabet is dissimilar to Latin alphabet, and has 26 letters. Cheers-- mrg3105 ( comms) ♠♥♦♣ 23:00, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
Hello. I noticed that you edited the introduction to European Union. I'm sorry, but I don't really understand the sentence Currently in vigour is the treaty of maastricht, concluded in 1993. I know what you intended, because I am familiar with the article. But I think an outsider just happening upon the article would be completely confused by that statement. The question of whether the EU was founded in 1993 or 1957 has come up on the talk page. Strictly, the European union did not exist before 1993. Something else did exist and still exists, but the event in 1993 was not simply a name change. There is a separate article, talking about the European Community, which is what existed pre 1993, and which you dropped from mention in the introduction. Sandpiper ( talk) 10:55, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
I think they used the same institutions, if wikipedia is to be believed, In 1967 the Merger Treaty was signed, which combined the institutions of the ECSC and Euratom into that of the EEC, they already shared a Parliamentary Assembly and Courts. Sandpiper ( talk) 19:16, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for proofchecking the delimitnum template Woodstone. Does your being the first to try it out indicate that you like what it has to offer (if the darn thing would work right)? Greg L ( my talk) 02:55, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
Hello Woodstone,
I noticed that you know the Thai language. Someone has edited the Interlingua article, changing the Thai translation of Interlingua from ภาษาอินเตอร์ลิงกวา to ภาษาอินเทอร์ลิงกวา. He made the same change to the Thai article on Interlingua. Could you tell me if this is correct? Thank you for your help. Valerius ( talk) 03:10, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
Regarding this edit here. The debate that we are currently engaged in on MOSNUM is about binary prefixes in articles that relate to the computing industry. Do you agree?
Why did you remove the links that I inserted into those articles? It is not my website (obviously) and was relevant to the articles. Might as well remove all non-official links from such articles if that is the case. Somebody in the WWW ( talk) 15:13, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
Hi,
Templates such as "pronounced-en" are rather long to type multiple times. Any way of making them shorter? kwami ( talk) 09:03, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
I responded to you on the talk page and received no reply. There, I asked you several days ago to revert your changes on the basis that there did not appear to be consensus for them. Are you now claiming that there is consensus for the changes? If so, please tell me where. Joeldl ( talk) 07:51, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
Hello, I am writing here because it seems you are the author of Template:Audio-pipe, concerning which I recently raised a question at Village Pump that elicted no response at all, probably because few editors see a page that contains this template.
In a recent discussion with User talk: Kwamikagami, it was seen that Mr. Kwamikagami (and others) see the rendering of this template as containing a "speaker icon," whereas I only see a superscript (i) -- and no icon. The wikitext of the template contains: <sup>(i)</sup>.
Note that the Help:IPA article specifically refers to this icon. Since you worked on this Template, I thought that you could clarify the matter. What must I do to see this icon in my browser (IE7)? Is this being caused by Cascading Style Sheets (something I have never understood)? Please let me know if you can resolve the matter. Morris K. ( talk) 22:30, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
Hey-
I'd be careful; you're bordering on a WP:3RR violation on Earth. There's no rush to implement any change, and leaving the page to reflect the clear previous consensus while waiting for any discussion to play out would be a good demonstration of good faith.
ASHill ( talk | contribs) 14:03, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for reverting my edit on EU. As you can see from my edit summary my intend, too, was to delete this nonsensical paragraph. unfortunately, due to some confusion, I had done just the opposite. Good you corrected that. Tomeasy ( talk) 08:09, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
IEC prefixes aren't anymore banned than they were in your previous vote. I've unstrucked the text that says bytes and bits should be used for disambiguation since they are not prone to revert-warring and I put a section who was there at the time of your previous vote in bullet form. Headbomb ( ταλκ · κοντριβς) 05:44, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
I am unable to edit any more on the MOSNUM talk page because I cannot load it in my browser (I think the page is just too big), so I will comment here instead, as you 2 are already discussing a related point. I am concerned about the text
I reworded it to remove the reference to IEC, which (seemed to) serve no useful purpose. Headbomb reverted my edit, claiming that the words do have a purpose. My point is that if those words serve a purpose, I cannot see what it could be, other than to imply exact numbers of bytes are preferred to IEC units. A couple of questions follow from that:
Thunderbird2 ( talk) 12:15, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
Could you please update your vote on the greenbox now that FCL has been split into the redbox (and also vote on the redbox)? Headbomb ( ταλκ · κοντριβς) 14:59, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
FYI, I'm discussing your recent edit at Talk:Maxwell's equations. :-) -- Steve ( talk) 19:36, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
Hi. Can you be more specific than “ table format was rather messed up?” I made some content changes, and the tables looked better in both Safari and Firefox on the Mac. — Michael Z. 2008-06-29 22:50 z
Yes, that's better. Did you delete the orphaned images? Pawyilee ( talk) 14:09, 5 July 2008 (UTC)
MC dead syllables use only 2 & 3. High-class live syllables use only 1 & 2 and HC dead syllables none at all. Low-class consonants shift "key" down one tone, LC live syllables use only 1 & 2, and LC dead syllables use only 1 or none if the LC dead syllable's vowel is long. Too, absence of a tonal marker can spell ANY of the tonal sounds starting with สามัญ (ordinary, or what was called 'toneless' when I was a child learning to read aloud with expression in my native English), but also any of the tonal-sounds 1-4. Alphabetical order follows the spelling, not the sound. Believe me, I cannot remember the rules but can see them at a glance when I look at the chart I've drawn on the back flap of all my dictionaries. Meanwhile, back at Thai numerals, I have not figured out how to make a concise statement that tonal-marker and tonal-sound number, while having the same number-name, do not necessarily correspond to the same tonal sound! Pawyilee ( talk) 03:42, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
I have completed a request for cabal mediation here. Thunderbird2 ( talk) 15:36, 13 July 2008 (UTC)
You may be interested in this Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)#Change_DATE_from_monthname_year_to_year-month. Nsaa ( talk) 07:09, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
Thanks, I use MS IE and I program in HTML and I have never had a problem with it not working in MSIE and the only problems I have seen is when something is wong with the users software. I only do those changes if I am making other changes at the same time since some don't like or understand making those changes. There are 2 reasons I make those changes, the first is that using <br/> is almost always better than using <br> and because I and other users use AWB to make changes within wikipedia its easier to make those changes if we don't have to sort for breaks 5 or 6 different ways. I hope that helps but please let me know if you have any more questions.-- Kumioko ( talk) 20:18, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
Please read the link you have deleted from the article on Massage before you delete it again. As for myself, I am a Licensed US massage Therapist and have run a massage school for 12 years. The article on massage overall is deeply in need of corrections and of additions in several parts (such as the very poor definitions of the various strokes used in massage). I added the reference to the article I found specifically because it explains massage regulation in the US extremely well and is an issue so many of my students and graduate therapists are confused about. Please also note that the link to the "how to Massage" videos lead to a You Tube promotion for someone who sells videos on massage, yet I agree with them staying as they are of benefit in that they do provide decent information that is of benefit to those interested in the topic. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Serrac ( talk • contribs) 20:42, 25 August 2008 (UTC)
Could you assist me in writing a compromise formulation? I don't see why you care strongly. You view dates in ISO, if I read correctly; and you don't deal with articles which are deeply chronological.
My interest is not in either format; I would equally resist a date warrior from International to American; possibly more strongly, if he were an idiot American nationalist. Since both conventional formats are intelligible to everybody, although there are feelings of attachment, date warring does not improve communication; but it does annoy editors. On that ground, it is a net harm to the encyclopedia, and should be discouraged. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 02:54, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
Kotniski objects to aligning to the sequence of Polish, but thinks a similar guideline as WP:ENGVAR should be applied. I still think it makes sense to include the date style in the spelling style. that would then be extended to read:
Connected to this I think it should also align to the variant of English most used in the bound country. I'm fairly sure there once was a clause like that, but cannot find it in the MOS history. − Woodstone ( talk) 17:15, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
So how about just the most minimal link as above, only adding date to spelling and grammar? − Woodstone ( talk) 18:11, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
Please supply an instance of where {{ ndash}} is less appropriate than mdash. Thank you. Sardanaphalus ( talk) 13:03, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for fixing it! Tony (talk) 12:25, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
Hey. Are there still issues going on with Greg L from this RfC? Since it's been three months now I thought I'd ask, since I'm not really sure how to close it at this point. If there's still issues (you're the only certifier left who's actively editing, so i'm asking you) maybe it should go to arbcom, but if not then that works as well. Wizardman 15:51, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
Woodstone, regarding your suggestion to use a total time derivative in the differential form of Faraday's law of induction, such a form, exactly as you suggested was put on the main article of 'Faraday's law' a few months ago. It was removed because it was not backed up by any modern source. The only known source is equation (54) in Maxwell's 1861 paper. The rationale behind it is that the convective component of the total time derivative incorporates the E = vXB effect. See the conclusion at the end of appendix A, page 20 of http://www.wbabin.net/science/tombe.pdf 86.154.132.215 ( talk) 21:36, 18 September 2008 (UTC)
Your claim that "by far" the main use of "RTGS" is in relation to Thai linguistics is patent nonsense. Not one of the items on the first five pages of google search results has anything to do with the Thai language. This is a typical example of how academics lose perspective on the realities of the wider world. Piccadilly ( talk) 18:43, 5 October 2008 (UTC)
I suppose the whole section on complex logarithm cold be made simpler since there is a main reference. But as a general thing could you leave atan2 alone please. If you look in the complex number article it is used in the definition of polar form and also in the article you mentioned polar coordinates. arg() is there for the maths form, and using tan-1(y/x) will just make things go wrong. It is used in maths packages like Mathemaica also beause is so useful. There is nothing wrong and 'unmathematical' with atan2 and it is very useful. Dmcq ( talk)
The article is not solely for pure maths people, it is for a general audience including people who want to actually use the information. Defining a value by saying the conditions it must satisfy rather than giving a well defined function that just produces it is not very useful in applied mathematics. And arg is not as well defined as atan2 as it could be multivalued or map to [0, 2π) even if the principle value is conventionally (-π,π]. I really think that the complex number article for instance would be much worse if it did not include atan2. If you're really determined about removing references to it would you be happy with me raising a question on the Maths reference desk about what people think is best or how would you like to resolve the dispute? Dmcq ( talk) 23:05, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
You may wish to comment on this discussion at MOSNUM. Thunderbird2 ( talk) 18:20, 24 October 2008 (UTC)
Woodstone, You recently asked this question,
Would it not be better to write: ?( Woodstone ( talk) 17:17, 8 September 2008 (UTC))
There is a textbook, 'J.A. Stratton, Electromagnetic Theory, (McGraw-Hill, New York, 1941). In 23, Chapter 5 is to be found a total time derivative version of Faraday's law. The justification is that the convective component is the curl of vXB. Stratton's words are “If by E we understand the total force per unit charge in a moving body, then curl E = −∂B / ∂t + curl (v × B) . Moreover, dB / dt = ∂B / ∂t + (v.grad)B , so that curl E = −dB / dt .“
This would suggest that Faraday's law is simply the curl of the Lorentz force. David Tombe ( talk) 06:44, 15 November 2008 (UTC)
I added many references to Thai_numerals#Alternate_numbers, from both the Online Royal Institute Dictionary and Sir Ralph Lilley Turner's A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, but only one (from the ORID) appears under References. What did I do wrong? Pawyilee ( talk) 14:35, 24 November 2008 (UTC)
Your move of the Thai solar calendar weekday colours up into the table is a welcome improvement; but your comment was tedious. Pawyilee ( talk) 18:38, 19 December 2008 (UTC)
Woodstone, I just wanted to add to today's discussion over at Noetica's page, that your request that our proposal be accompanied by "hard-space-reversing" markup is not a killer for me, if you can get support for that. I'm just saying that I'm making a judgment call that the simplest possible, most bulletproof, obvious, omg-why-would-you-not-want-to-do-this kind of proposal would be the kind I'd prefer to make at bugzilla. But it's just a judgment call, and not a very important point to me. - Dan Dank55 ( talk) 14:42, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
Sorry if I stepped on any toes, but I was only removing "See Also" listings from where they duplicate links on the template. Many articles have excessively long See Also lists, that append without adequate explanation, and templates seek to address that.
Specifically regarding 12-hour clock and 24-hour clock articles, references to each are in the body of either article, making the See Alsos redundant, even without the Time Measurement Template. Also, in the 12-hour clock article, Comparison of the 12-hour and 24-hour clocks is linked twice in the article above, in appropriate places, and should probably not be in the See Also list a third time.
In any case, no page has been left unlinked where it was linked before. I'm very careful about that. Cheers. -- Yamara 16:04, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
You seem to be very active on article that regard Time. Why don't you join WikiProject Time? You are formally invited, by me. Zginder ( talk) ( Contrib) 02:48, 12 January 2008 (UTC)
Undiscussed change? [1] Have you read the talk page, which is running 100% in agreement? SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 20:11, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
Sorry, I didn't notice your revert before I added more tie-bars. What do you suggest we do about these affricates then? The whole point of them is that they are linked in some way (so there's a difference between tch and t+ch). With some of them we can use ligatures, but what about those where no ligature exists? -- Kotniski ( talk) 16:36, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
Still on the same topic, but in general this time. I'm planning to add phonetic transcriptions to large numbers of articles on Polish towns. For the most part this shouldn't create too many problems, but I'm not sure what style to use for the affricates - tie-bars, ligatures, or nothing. Are there any guidelines on this anywhere? To achieve overall consistency for Polish tie-bars seem to be the only solution, since not all the combinations in question have ligatures available, and Polish distinguishes affricates from stop-fricative combinations (czy is not like trzy). So, how bad are the problems you report with the IE display? So bad as to be prohibitive on the use of tie-bars? If so, what do you suggest instead? In particular I'd like to develop some vaguely authoritative guideline on this, otherwise I foresee lots of edit disputes as others stick their oar in over transcriptions in individual articles. -- Kotniski ( talk) 17:11, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
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Hi Woodstone,
The problem I have with separate US & UK pronunciations is, why stop at that article? We'll start getting people adding alt. pronunciations to all of them, and what is a reader to make of it when they're incompatible, which they often will be (say due to s.o. who adds a alt. pronunciation but doesn't know the difference between ʊ and ʌ)? Or when there are three common pronunciations of a word -- are we now to make it six, three each for the US and UK? Better to nip it in the bud, in my not-very-humble opinion. kwami ( talk) 21:52, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
thank you for your recently contributed article of thailand about sex tourism and child sex in economy section, but i worry that your article is not related to the topic at all. Could you please contribute your article in the right place? There are many sex articles that you can be part of them in wiki. I hope you will enjoy to contribute and learn in that sections rather than post in the wrong section. Feel free to understand this situation with the right to protect a quality article to the public. Nat ( talk) 03:03, 16 February 2008 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Atichart ( talk • contribs) 00:31, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
so sorry for my misunderstand and thank you very much for your help. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Atichart ( talk • contribs) 15:21, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
Sawasdee krap. Hope you are ok. Can you please comment on my question here? I am not trying to troll or cause commotion, but would just want to be fair on the encyclopedia. That is the reason why am not reverting your change into a dab page. Cheers :) Wiki San Roze †αLҝ 11:12, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi Woodstone. I've tried formatting the IPA in List of albedo features on Mercury and Classical albedo features on Mars, but the author (RandomCritic) rejects this as 'incorrect'. (Several were straight from the OED or Random House, but in the past he's refused to accept those as sources.) He believes that the IPA should indicate a specific dialect, and that the Help:Pronunciation chart is spurious. He even refuses to use the {{ IPA}} template, and seems to believe that he has ownership of these articles. I'd appreciate your comments. kwami ( talk) 21:44, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
He's responded by nominating the key for deletion. kwami ( talk) 19:06, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
G'day,
I noticed you removed some links from the Alphabet, and was wondering if you could explain your rationale. It seems to me that that both a pen and the vocabulary are intimately linked to the alphabet. The last particularly so since I'm in the process of refuting that the English alphabet is dissimilar to Latin alphabet, and has 26 letters. Cheers-- mrg3105 ( comms) ♠♥♦♣ 23:00, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
Hello. I noticed that you edited the introduction to European Union. I'm sorry, but I don't really understand the sentence Currently in vigour is the treaty of maastricht, concluded in 1993. I know what you intended, because I am familiar with the article. But I think an outsider just happening upon the article would be completely confused by that statement. The question of whether the EU was founded in 1993 or 1957 has come up on the talk page. Strictly, the European union did not exist before 1993. Something else did exist and still exists, but the event in 1993 was not simply a name change. There is a separate article, talking about the European Community, which is what existed pre 1993, and which you dropped from mention in the introduction. Sandpiper ( talk) 10:55, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
I think they used the same institutions, if wikipedia is to be believed, In 1967 the Merger Treaty was signed, which combined the institutions of the ECSC and Euratom into that of the EEC, they already shared a Parliamentary Assembly and Courts. Sandpiper ( talk) 19:16, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for proofchecking the delimitnum template Woodstone. Does your being the first to try it out indicate that you like what it has to offer (if the darn thing would work right)? Greg L ( my talk) 02:55, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
Hello Woodstone,
I noticed that you know the Thai language. Someone has edited the Interlingua article, changing the Thai translation of Interlingua from ภาษาอินเตอร์ลิงกวา to ภาษาอินเทอร์ลิงกวา. He made the same change to the Thai article on Interlingua. Could you tell me if this is correct? Thank you for your help. Valerius ( talk) 03:10, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
Regarding this edit here. The debate that we are currently engaged in on MOSNUM is about binary prefixes in articles that relate to the computing industry. Do you agree?
Why did you remove the links that I inserted into those articles? It is not my website (obviously) and was relevant to the articles. Might as well remove all non-official links from such articles if that is the case. Somebody in the WWW ( talk) 15:13, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
Hi,
Templates such as "pronounced-en" are rather long to type multiple times. Any way of making them shorter? kwami ( talk) 09:03, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
I responded to you on the talk page and received no reply. There, I asked you several days ago to revert your changes on the basis that there did not appear to be consensus for them. Are you now claiming that there is consensus for the changes? If so, please tell me where. Joeldl ( talk) 07:51, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
Hello, I am writing here because it seems you are the author of Template:Audio-pipe, concerning which I recently raised a question at Village Pump that elicted no response at all, probably because few editors see a page that contains this template.
In a recent discussion with User talk: Kwamikagami, it was seen that Mr. Kwamikagami (and others) see the rendering of this template as containing a "speaker icon," whereas I only see a superscript (i) -- and no icon. The wikitext of the template contains: <sup>(i)</sup>.
Note that the Help:IPA article specifically refers to this icon. Since you worked on this Template, I thought that you could clarify the matter. What must I do to see this icon in my browser (IE7)? Is this being caused by Cascading Style Sheets (something I have never understood)? Please let me know if you can resolve the matter. Morris K. ( talk) 22:30, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
Hey-
I'd be careful; you're bordering on a WP:3RR violation on Earth. There's no rush to implement any change, and leaving the page to reflect the clear previous consensus while waiting for any discussion to play out would be a good demonstration of good faith.
ASHill ( talk | contribs) 14:03, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for reverting my edit on EU. As you can see from my edit summary my intend, too, was to delete this nonsensical paragraph. unfortunately, due to some confusion, I had done just the opposite. Good you corrected that. Tomeasy ( talk) 08:09, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
IEC prefixes aren't anymore banned than they were in your previous vote. I've unstrucked the text that says bytes and bits should be used for disambiguation since they are not prone to revert-warring and I put a section who was there at the time of your previous vote in bullet form. Headbomb ( ταλκ · κοντριβς) 05:44, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
I am unable to edit any more on the MOSNUM talk page because I cannot load it in my browser (I think the page is just too big), so I will comment here instead, as you 2 are already discussing a related point. I am concerned about the text
I reworded it to remove the reference to IEC, which (seemed to) serve no useful purpose. Headbomb reverted my edit, claiming that the words do have a purpose. My point is that if those words serve a purpose, I cannot see what it could be, other than to imply exact numbers of bytes are preferred to IEC units. A couple of questions follow from that:
Thunderbird2 ( talk) 12:15, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
Could you please update your vote on the greenbox now that FCL has been split into the redbox (and also vote on the redbox)? Headbomb ( ταλκ · κοντριβς) 14:59, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
FYI, I'm discussing your recent edit at Talk:Maxwell's equations. :-) -- Steve ( talk) 19:36, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
Hi. Can you be more specific than “ table format was rather messed up?” I made some content changes, and the tables looked better in both Safari and Firefox on the Mac. — Michael Z. 2008-06-29 22:50 z
Yes, that's better. Did you delete the orphaned images? Pawyilee ( talk) 14:09, 5 July 2008 (UTC)
MC dead syllables use only 2 & 3. High-class live syllables use only 1 & 2 and HC dead syllables none at all. Low-class consonants shift "key" down one tone, LC live syllables use only 1 & 2, and LC dead syllables use only 1 or none if the LC dead syllable's vowel is long. Too, absence of a tonal marker can spell ANY of the tonal sounds starting with สามัญ (ordinary, or what was called 'toneless' when I was a child learning to read aloud with expression in my native English), but also any of the tonal-sounds 1-4. Alphabetical order follows the spelling, not the sound. Believe me, I cannot remember the rules but can see them at a glance when I look at the chart I've drawn on the back flap of all my dictionaries. Meanwhile, back at Thai numerals, I have not figured out how to make a concise statement that tonal-marker and tonal-sound number, while having the same number-name, do not necessarily correspond to the same tonal sound! Pawyilee ( talk) 03:42, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
I have completed a request for cabal mediation here. Thunderbird2 ( talk) 15:36, 13 July 2008 (UTC)
You may be interested in this Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)#Change_DATE_from_monthname_year_to_year-month. Nsaa ( talk) 07:09, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
Thanks, I use MS IE and I program in HTML and I have never had a problem with it not working in MSIE and the only problems I have seen is when something is wong with the users software. I only do those changes if I am making other changes at the same time since some don't like or understand making those changes. There are 2 reasons I make those changes, the first is that using <br/> is almost always better than using <br> and because I and other users use AWB to make changes within wikipedia its easier to make those changes if we don't have to sort for breaks 5 or 6 different ways. I hope that helps but please let me know if you have any more questions.-- Kumioko ( talk) 20:18, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
Please read the link you have deleted from the article on Massage before you delete it again. As for myself, I am a Licensed US massage Therapist and have run a massage school for 12 years. The article on massage overall is deeply in need of corrections and of additions in several parts (such as the very poor definitions of the various strokes used in massage). I added the reference to the article I found specifically because it explains massage regulation in the US extremely well and is an issue so many of my students and graduate therapists are confused about. Please also note that the link to the "how to Massage" videos lead to a You Tube promotion for someone who sells videos on massage, yet I agree with them staying as they are of benefit in that they do provide decent information that is of benefit to those interested in the topic. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Serrac ( talk • contribs) 20:42, 25 August 2008 (UTC)
Could you assist me in writing a compromise formulation? I don't see why you care strongly. You view dates in ISO, if I read correctly; and you don't deal with articles which are deeply chronological.
My interest is not in either format; I would equally resist a date warrior from International to American; possibly more strongly, if he were an idiot American nationalist. Since both conventional formats are intelligible to everybody, although there are feelings of attachment, date warring does not improve communication; but it does annoy editors. On that ground, it is a net harm to the encyclopedia, and should be discouraged. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 02:54, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
Kotniski objects to aligning to the sequence of Polish, but thinks a similar guideline as WP:ENGVAR should be applied. I still think it makes sense to include the date style in the spelling style. that would then be extended to read:
Connected to this I think it should also align to the variant of English most used in the bound country. I'm fairly sure there once was a clause like that, but cannot find it in the MOS history. − Woodstone ( talk) 17:15, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
So how about just the most minimal link as above, only adding date to spelling and grammar? − Woodstone ( talk) 18:11, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
Please supply an instance of where {{ ndash}} is less appropriate than mdash. Thank you. Sardanaphalus ( talk) 13:03, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for fixing it! Tony (talk) 12:25, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
Hey. Are there still issues going on with Greg L from this RfC? Since it's been three months now I thought I'd ask, since I'm not really sure how to close it at this point. If there's still issues (you're the only certifier left who's actively editing, so i'm asking you) maybe it should go to arbcom, but if not then that works as well. Wizardman 15:51, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
Woodstone, regarding your suggestion to use a total time derivative in the differential form of Faraday's law of induction, such a form, exactly as you suggested was put on the main article of 'Faraday's law' a few months ago. It was removed because it was not backed up by any modern source. The only known source is equation (54) in Maxwell's 1861 paper. The rationale behind it is that the convective component of the total time derivative incorporates the E = vXB effect. See the conclusion at the end of appendix A, page 20 of http://www.wbabin.net/science/tombe.pdf 86.154.132.215 ( talk) 21:36, 18 September 2008 (UTC)
Your claim that "by far" the main use of "RTGS" is in relation to Thai linguistics is patent nonsense. Not one of the items on the first five pages of google search results has anything to do with the Thai language. This is a typical example of how academics lose perspective on the realities of the wider world. Piccadilly ( talk) 18:43, 5 October 2008 (UTC)
I suppose the whole section on complex logarithm cold be made simpler since there is a main reference. But as a general thing could you leave atan2 alone please. If you look in the complex number article it is used in the definition of polar form and also in the article you mentioned polar coordinates. arg() is there for the maths form, and using tan-1(y/x) will just make things go wrong. It is used in maths packages like Mathemaica also beause is so useful. There is nothing wrong and 'unmathematical' with atan2 and it is very useful. Dmcq ( talk)
The article is not solely for pure maths people, it is for a general audience including people who want to actually use the information. Defining a value by saying the conditions it must satisfy rather than giving a well defined function that just produces it is not very useful in applied mathematics. And arg is not as well defined as atan2 as it could be multivalued or map to [0, 2π) even if the principle value is conventionally (-π,π]. I really think that the complex number article for instance would be much worse if it did not include atan2. If you're really determined about removing references to it would you be happy with me raising a question on the Maths reference desk about what people think is best or how would you like to resolve the dispute? Dmcq ( talk) 23:05, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
You may wish to comment on this discussion at MOSNUM. Thunderbird2 ( talk) 18:20, 24 October 2008 (UTC)
Woodstone, You recently asked this question,
Would it not be better to write: ?( Woodstone ( talk) 17:17, 8 September 2008 (UTC))
There is a textbook, 'J.A. Stratton, Electromagnetic Theory, (McGraw-Hill, New York, 1941). In 23, Chapter 5 is to be found a total time derivative version of Faraday's law. The justification is that the convective component is the curl of vXB. Stratton's words are “If by E we understand the total force per unit charge in a moving body, then curl E = −∂B / ∂t + curl (v × B) . Moreover, dB / dt = ∂B / ∂t + (v.grad)B , so that curl E = −dB / dt .“
This would suggest that Faraday's law is simply the curl of the Lorentz force. David Tombe ( talk) 06:44, 15 November 2008 (UTC)
I added many references to Thai_numerals#Alternate_numbers, from both the Online Royal Institute Dictionary and Sir Ralph Lilley Turner's A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, but only one (from the ORID) appears under References. What did I do wrong? Pawyilee ( talk) 14:35, 24 November 2008 (UTC)
Your move of the Thai solar calendar weekday colours up into the table is a welcome improvement; but your comment was tedious. Pawyilee ( talk) 18:38, 19 December 2008 (UTC)