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Hi. I'm surprised no one has yet welcomed you to Wikipedia. So, welcome! You might want to read this, if you haven't already. Maurreen 17:35, 22 Nov 2004 (UTC)
I didn't know about the nor ruling, so I will publish the research on my personal web pages and x-ref from wikipedia. I must admit I was baffled and annoyed at the loss of my changes, but I now understand and apologise for using up your time.
Thanks for the follow-up hints. Speculatrix 17:18, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
You might be interested in my draft proposal about reviewed articles. It's near the bottom of Wikipedia talk:Forum for Encyclopedic Standards. Maurreen 17:35, 22 Nov 2004 (UTC)
I responded on my talk page. [[User:Poccil| Peter O. ( Talk)]] 16:53, Nov 25, 2004 (UTC)
Thank you for adding the bit/s column to the List of device bandwidths. I wonder what the reaction would be if I added a "symbol rate" column ? -- DavidCary 02:19, 13 Jan 2005 (UTC)
I have never heard the term "flopping an image" before; a Google search for "flip an image" vs. "flop an image" (18,200 vs. 56), among other similar searches seems to confirm this. In fact, "flip an image horizontally" has more hits (187) than "flop an image". Stev0 18:35, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
Thank you for cleaning up my Wiki article entitled " AAL5." AAL5 was my first Wikipedia article, and I was surprised how quickly it was found by someone else.
Thanks again!
The reason for the difference in the number of beers is that the Brits are piss artists and the Yanks are sensible :-)
Great and simple idea. It could also be used to filter for stubs, POV tags, clean-up tags,... But there are a lot of...ownership issues with many things around, it seems. I accidentally went behind the curtain last November, from my normal editing pastime, and what a turbulent and territorial place it is. I now feel like a maniac, with my usually against-the-tide comments and votes in various areas. Every once in a while, someone tries to pat me on the head and go, yes, I know, it can be frustrating, but you'll get over it. Really! (Sorry, I'm not trying to commiserate with you or anything. Just recognizing your fine tagging proposal, and also the fact that you're trying to get it noticed. This is not (meant to be) a pat on the head. :) -- Tsavage 00:52, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
I noticed the page on Vanco. Very cool. Are you an employee? Rarelibra 04:22, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
That was a very good edit adding lots of understandable information about how the leaders and family members were viewed and respected by others. Mark in Historic Triangle of Virginia Vaoverland 18:25, 1 April 2006 (UTC)
Thank you so much for your mediation, WLD. Some judgment was called for and, luckily, many people out there can still use their sense. Thanks again, JackLumber 12:08, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
Still foolin' around. Darn it, this spat is way time- & energy-consuming. This morning I was supposed to do much more than bickering with Mark the Aussie---we're quite a duo, huh? If you followed our wrangle (and if you did, that would mean you were not that busy :-)... well, don't tell me you forgot to laugh. Back to more serious topics, if you've got the time, check out the Talk:List of words mainly used in Commonwealth English, (Yet Another) Requested Move and Requested move redux, and put in your $0.02... um, £0.02. Thanks as usual, JackLumber 21:11, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
! I hope (FOR YOUR SAKE!) that you were just kidding!! (maybe you were just drowsy!) The problem is, forget about nations different from the U.S. or the UK for a moment. Let's face the facts---we can't put Canadian English, Australian English, etc. on the same level as British and American. (Let alone non-native English speakers.) If you didn't yet, please read the sense of the move proposal. -- JackLumber 13:56, 21 April 2006 (UTC) Oh yea, just try to tell Ben Arnold that New Zealand speaks British English...
Noticed your interest in "Cable landing points". I wonder if you come across the site at Scad Head on Hoy in the Orkneys? Five cables come ashore to a small hut near an old WWII gun battery. I asked around after visiting the site for any information on the site but did not get any satisfactory answers . There was relatively modern BT equipment in the hut though I suspect no longer operational.
What puzzled me is that
My theory is that the gun batteries were interconnected by submarine cables and the GPO reused some after WWII for telephone communications between the islands.
You might be interested in a friend's website on Indicator Loops if you are interested in submarine cables -- jmb 11:35, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
Check this out. JackLumber. 22:50, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
I have never heard the term "flopping an image" before; a Google search for "flip an image" vs. "flop an image" (18,200 vs. 56), among other similar searches seems to confirm this. In fact, "flip an image horizontally" has more hits (187) than "flop an image". Stev0 18:35, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
I've started over from scratch and have posted a new proposal at Wikipedia talk:What Wikipedia is not#Slang glossaries. I've placed the following neutral language announcement and statement of the issue at the talk page of all the slang glossaries I could find:
Attention: Slang Glossary policy discussion underway
Slang glossaries violate the following policy:
Wikipedia is not a dictionary or a usage or jargon guide. Wikipedia articles are not:
Due to the many AfDs which are initiated to enforce this policy and due to the resistance to such deletion by defenders of the glossaries, I have started a discussion at Wikipedia talk:What Wikipedia is not#Slang glossaries to rewrite the policy in order to solve this problem and to readdress this question: should slang glossaries by allowed on Wikipedia? -- List Expert 23:57, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
Cheers! Hey - good point, I will edit the Vanco list to include only those places where we have offices/subsidiaries. That cool with you? :) Rarelibra 13:53, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
Good day! I'm working a bit of cleanup of Samuel Foote's article. I noticed that you added the section on the Great Panjandrum. Can you provide a source for this? Thanks! *Exeunt* Ganymead | Dialogue? 17:33, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
Thank you for your quick response! I'll add the citation. You've been most helpful! Take care! *Exeunt* Ganymead | Dialogue? 20:58, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
Hi, are you aware that there is already an article called Timeline of telescopes, observatories, and observing technology? I have dropped a MERGE tag at the top of your article. Very good information in your article and it looks like it should just be merged into to the other article but will leave that up to others to decide. Fountains of Bryn Mawr 17:08, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
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"Without wishing to be insensitive, I really don't think that two people dying in a road accident constitute a disaster."
About 40 people were injured. If everyone on the cach had died, it would have been worse than the London Bombings -- Arriva436 21:30, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
I have opened a discussion about whether the "Common Era" article should use US or UK spelling. -- Gerry Ashton 20:48, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
Hi, I closed up the MFDs and speedied the now-transwikied subpages you had for the lists of English language idioms. Thanks for doing all that work! Since your subpages were not the original text with the original attribution, they have been safely deleted. I wasn't sure what you wanted to do with the other subpages at User:West London Dweller/Idioms, etc, but if you want those deleted too, the quick way is to place the {{ db-owner}} template on them. Happy editing! -- nae' blis 23:57, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
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Dear WLD, Doc0tis, hAl, Gazpacho and BCube --
I've been following (and partially contributing) to the discussion of the whole "Microsoft edits" issue on Talk:OpenDocument. My own experience with editors who have "conflicts of interest" (on very different topics: FIRE and John Templeton Foundation) is that while such folks can be tedious at times and definitely need to be "educated" on things like WP:NPOV and WP:CITE, that they are capable of valid, good faith edits and that it would be a net detriment to wikipedia if such editors were banned from editing and forced to simply post suggestions on a talk page.
(In the case of Microsoft vs. Open Source pages I think the problem is particularly acute because by definition "one side" of the story is unpaid and thus does not fall under the COI guidelines -- if we were to ban employees, say, from editing pages, we would end up with a net POV slanted towards open source.)
I went to the WP:COI page (a guideline I'd never noticed before in years of editing) and tried to make some edits to make this clear. These were quickly reverted, but there is now at least a discussion of sorts on the talk page. The basic problem is that the editors on that page believe pretty much that such editors should be banned, should be forced to seek permission from other editors, or something of the sort.
My sense from your contributions to the Open Documents discussion is that you have similar feelings to mine. I think it would be a good idea for you to contribute your views at the WP:COI page if you have the time. I don't usually like to "recruit" people, but the essential problem is that the editors currently feel that "consensus" is on their side.
Yours, Sdedeo ( tips) 00:15, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
Hi there, I noticed you moved some articles, for example SEA-ME-WE 4 to SEA-ME-WE 4 (cable system) a while back, referring to the standard naming for cable systems. I can't find anything on Wikipedia:Naming conventions, and I'm not sure why a specific convention would be required in the first place. I was going to move them back, since there is nothing else called SEA-ME-WE 4 that the cable system would get mixed up with, but thought I would check with you first. Regards, -- Chuq 05:09, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
Apologies - thank you for the instant rebuttal. I didn't notice that! Just getting used to AWB. Kbthompson 16:56, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
Hello, I thank you for you concern that I am a minor and that I am sharing this, but I do not particularly mind giving some personal information. I have my reasons, but I do not really feel like telling them, as it would take too long and you can easily disagree. Please respect my choice to share this. Thank you. Reywas92 Talk 22:55, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
Hello, user:West London Dweller I changed your copyright violation to a speedy delete. This was a blatant word for word plagiarism. Just a heads-up. Shoessss 22:57, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
I've converted the references in Vince's Bridge to Wikipedia's inline reference format - I see you've put references in some other articles, and it would be good if you could use the format as in Vince's Bridge - it should make things easier! For more infoormation on the referencing method, see here: Template talk:Ref and here: Wikipedia:Footnotes. Hope that helps. WLD talk| edits 16:04, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
Back to you at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:MSTCrow#Compact_Fluorescent_Lamp. - MSTCrow 20:29, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
Hi. I'm not having a go at you, because you don't have an axe to grind here, and you've been fair up to now, but I have to say that I disagree with some of the changes you've made in the DAB page intro. Firstly, I think it's wrong to say that DAB only sounds worse than FM on a hi-fi system, because DAB sounds worse than FM in general, and you can hear the difference on portable radios. I also don't see why you've removed the link to the page about worldwide DAB, because the direct link you've provided doesn't provide a breakdown of the bit rates used around the world, whereas the page linked to on my website does. You've also removed the comment about music stations being transmitted in mono, and in my experience people think is a very serious issue. And I disagree with what you say about there being a trade-off due to FM's reception quality at high speed, because that doesn't take into account people listening at home.
If you're annoyed with me because I reverted something of yours last week, the reason I reverted it was because you had changed that Norwegian nutter's intro, and his intro is nonsense, so I felt that it was better to revert the whole lot. It was nothing against what you'd put, but his intro is ridiculously biased. Digitalradiotech 14:02, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
It seem pretty clear the references Kenya mentiones are not normative references for OOXML. Also it seem fairly clear that Kenya has not written the objections reponse but IBM has.
It is not worth putting particular mentioning of this repsonse in the licensing section. all objections is already referencend in the critism section. Lifting out a pretty udbieus one like this seems not called for. there is absolutly not a single shred of other independant (as in non-IBM related)material supporting that you require licensing of other formats for OOXML.
I have not heard a single OO vendor or other office builder say that related format licensing does not allow them to use OOXML.
There seems some valid critisism on OOXML (like using bitmask or somthing) but this issue seems just a non-issue. hAl 08:43, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
The article mentions the responses of the national bodies and has a link to reference all those responses.
I saw you linked to the ANSI comments page.
When searching for comments pages like that it show that those pages are only linked to from blogs of strong anti-ooxml sites like IBM's Rob Weirs blog, Grokdoc, noooxml.org and the Opendocumentfellowship who just want their readers to put in objections to ooxml. [5]
It seems those sites are only used by the anti ooxml lobby to influence ISO standardisation rather than being a place for objective commenting on the standard.
I do not think that such pages and the way they are abused by anti ooxml activists making them a promotional weapon for them should have place on wikipedia article. hAl 13:54, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
...you started this article. I'm trying to get List of people associated with Jesus College, Oxford to Featured List status at present, and Lord McIntosh is proving a bit of a problem for me, as I can't find out (a) when he graduated (I assume 1954, after matriculation in 1951, but I need a reference) (b) what his degree subject was! Who's Who doesn't help me and nothing shows up on Google of any use. Do you happen to know of a source with these details? Bit of a long shot, I know... Regards, Bencherlite Talk 23:21, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
So do you know in what instances there are 10 bits in a byte? I think I might have incorrectly changed a couple of the entries, because I'm not entirely sure if there are start/stop bits used for internal computer peripheral communications like SAS and SATA. It doesn't make sense that SAS would be different than SATA and they originally were posted as being different (SATA was 8 and SAS was 10). Also what about PCI buses? Should PCI Expess really be 10?
There are usually eight bits in a byte, but the low speed modems, where the bit rate and the baud are the same use a scheme where each byte has to have its start and end 'flagged' - the so-called start- and stop- bits, and sometimes add a parity bit as well - so to transport an eight bit byte over a low speed modem, you may have to send one (or even two) start bits, a parity bit, the eight bits of the byte, and the stop bit. Usually, the scheme is one start, one stop and no parity, giving 10 buts. Other buses use a different encoding scheme such as 4B5B or 8B10B or even 64B/66B encoding. So, it is not always correct to simply divied the 'raw' bandwidth by eight. Hope that helps. WLD talk| edits 06:32, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
Hey there WLD! Been a while since we chatted. Yeah - I didn't know there was a way to do that, and didn't want the bad links to be out there for people (like me) to click on and not be able to use. I guess if I can see an example of how to label them, I will do so (to label them as formerly good/currently bad)? Rarelibra 16:24, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
Followed your advice, if you can add more please do so! :) Rarelibra 16:53, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
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For your huge help with updating the international submarine cable list and populating the domestic submarine cable list Thank you! Rarelibra 19:14, 23 August 2007 (UTC) |
Your revert is well intentioned as well. However, some of your edits in this article do not follow conventions of Wikipedia. For example, the external link titled "The first company in the world to produce reflective road markers." should be labeled as the company to which it points. The statement that it is the first company seems to be significant, so it really should be more detailed in the body of the article.
Also, in the section "Pedestrian Crossing Studs," it is not clean to include links to a URL except as a citation. The link should be footnoted as a reference, not included as a "see: http..." 12.126.133.22 19:00, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
If you could please put in your opinion at the talk page; we would like to have as many native-English speakers participate as possible. A certain user wants to revert back to a particular national POV. Icsunonove 00:50, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
I am sorry, but I feel that the same warning should be applied to you. As far as I see, some people have been deleting that link, and as I see these external links sections, I would refer to WP:NOT#REPOSITORY ánd WP:SOAPBOX. Both part of policy. For you both, discuss on talkpage in stead of keeping on reverting. -- Dirk Beetstra T C 17:10, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
Hey WLD! I honestly didn't know that it was microwave... I saw that TBL went from Albania to Italy and assumed it followed the cable that exists between those two. Do you have a source that explains the microwave capacity? I would be most interested... and we can remove from the sub cable list. I appreciate you and I helping each other, by the way! :) Rarelibra 13:43, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for the three revert warning on my talk page, but I do not think it applies because:
Kind regards, — SomeHuman 13 Sep 2007 23:28 (UTC)
Michael Busch has requested a straw poll of Anti-gravity. You may want to add your comments. Tcisco 00:24, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
Might I ask you to take a look at the new discussion going on at Franz Josef Strauß? Yes, it is an ancient topic (the use of ß on en-wiki), but this is one of the most prominent articles in which this issue is of significance. Given your experience, your input would be very much appreciated. Unschool ( talk) 01:39, 21 December 2007 (UTC)
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Hi. I'm surprised no one has yet welcomed you to Wikipedia. So, welcome! You might want to read this, if you haven't already. Maurreen 17:35, 22 Nov 2004 (UTC)
I didn't know about the nor ruling, so I will publish the research on my personal web pages and x-ref from wikipedia. I must admit I was baffled and annoyed at the loss of my changes, but I now understand and apologise for using up your time.
Thanks for the follow-up hints. Speculatrix 17:18, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
You might be interested in my draft proposal about reviewed articles. It's near the bottom of Wikipedia talk:Forum for Encyclopedic Standards. Maurreen 17:35, 22 Nov 2004 (UTC)
I responded on my talk page. [[User:Poccil| Peter O. ( Talk)]] 16:53, Nov 25, 2004 (UTC)
Thank you for adding the bit/s column to the List of device bandwidths. I wonder what the reaction would be if I added a "symbol rate" column ? -- DavidCary 02:19, 13 Jan 2005 (UTC)
I have never heard the term "flopping an image" before; a Google search for "flip an image" vs. "flop an image" (18,200 vs. 56), among other similar searches seems to confirm this. In fact, "flip an image horizontally" has more hits (187) than "flop an image". Stev0 18:35, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
Thank you for cleaning up my Wiki article entitled " AAL5." AAL5 was my first Wikipedia article, and I was surprised how quickly it was found by someone else.
Thanks again!
The reason for the difference in the number of beers is that the Brits are piss artists and the Yanks are sensible :-)
Great and simple idea. It could also be used to filter for stubs, POV tags, clean-up tags,... But there are a lot of...ownership issues with many things around, it seems. I accidentally went behind the curtain last November, from my normal editing pastime, and what a turbulent and territorial place it is. I now feel like a maniac, with my usually against-the-tide comments and votes in various areas. Every once in a while, someone tries to pat me on the head and go, yes, I know, it can be frustrating, but you'll get over it. Really! (Sorry, I'm not trying to commiserate with you or anything. Just recognizing your fine tagging proposal, and also the fact that you're trying to get it noticed. This is not (meant to be) a pat on the head. :) -- Tsavage 00:52, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
I noticed the page on Vanco. Very cool. Are you an employee? Rarelibra 04:22, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
That was a very good edit adding lots of understandable information about how the leaders and family members were viewed and respected by others. Mark in Historic Triangle of Virginia Vaoverland 18:25, 1 April 2006 (UTC)
Thank you so much for your mediation, WLD. Some judgment was called for and, luckily, many people out there can still use their sense. Thanks again, JackLumber 12:08, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
Still foolin' around. Darn it, this spat is way time- & energy-consuming. This morning I was supposed to do much more than bickering with Mark the Aussie---we're quite a duo, huh? If you followed our wrangle (and if you did, that would mean you were not that busy :-)... well, don't tell me you forgot to laugh. Back to more serious topics, if you've got the time, check out the Talk:List of words mainly used in Commonwealth English, (Yet Another) Requested Move and Requested move redux, and put in your $0.02... um, £0.02. Thanks as usual, JackLumber 21:11, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
! I hope (FOR YOUR SAKE!) that you were just kidding!! (maybe you were just drowsy!) The problem is, forget about nations different from the U.S. or the UK for a moment. Let's face the facts---we can't put Canadian English, Australian English, etc. on the same level as British and American. (Let alone non-native English speakers.) If you didn't yet, please read the sense of the move proposal. -- JackLumber 13:56, 21 April 2006 (UTC) Oh yea, just try to tell Ben Arnold that New Zealand speaks British English...
Noticed your interest in "Cable landing points". I wonder if you come across the site at Scad Head on Hoy in the Orkneys? Five cables come ashore to a small hut near an old WWII gun battery. I asked around after visiting the site for any information on the site but did not get any satisfactory answers . There was relatively modern BT equipment in the hut though I suspect no longer operational.
What puzzled me is that
My theory is that the gun batteries were interconnected by submarine cables and the GPO reused some after WWII for telephone communications between the islands.
You might be interested in a friend's website on Indicator Loops if you are interested in submarine cables -- jmb 11:35, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
Check this out. JackLumber. 22:50, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
I have never heard the term "flopping an image" before; a Google search for "flip an image" vs. "flop an image" (18,200 vs. 56), among other similar searches seems to confirm this. In fact, "flip an image horizontally" has more hits (187) than "flop an image". Stev0 18:35, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
I've started over from scratch and have posted a new proposal at Wikipedia talk:What Wikipedia is not#Slang glossaries. I've placed the following neutral language announcement and statement of the issue at the talk page of all the slang glossaries I could find:
Attention: Slang Glossary policy discussion underway
Slang glossaries violate the following policy:
Wikipedia is not a dictionary or a usage or jargon guide. Wikipedia articles are not:
Due to the many AfDs which are initiated to enforce this policy and due to the resistance to such deletion by defenders of the glossaries, I have started a discussion at Wikipedia talk:What Wikipedia is not#Slang glossaries to rewrite the policy in order to solve this problem and to readdress this question: should slang glossaries by allowed on Wikipedia? -- List Expert 23:57, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
Cheers! Hey - good point, I will edit the Vanco list to include only those places where we have offices/subsidiaries. That cool with you? :) Rarelibra 13:53, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
Good day! I'm working a bit of cleanup of Samuel Foote's article. I noticed that you added the section on the Great Panjandrum. Can you provide a source for this? Thanks! *Exeunt* Ganymead | Dialogue? 17:33, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
Thank you for your quick response! I'll add the citation. You've been most helpful! Take care! *Exeunt* Ganymead | Dialogue? 20:58, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
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"Without wishing to be insensitive, I really don't think that two people dying in a road accident constitute a disaster."
About 40 people were injured. If everyone on the cach had died, it would have been worse than the London Bombings -- Arriva436 21:30, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
I have opened a discussion about whether the "Common Era" article should use US or UK spelling. -- Gerry Ashton 20:48, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
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Dear WLD, Doc0tis, hAl, Gazpacho and BCube --
I've been following (and partially contributing) to the discussion of the whole "Microsoft edits" issue on Talk:OpenDocument. My own experience with editors who have "conflicts of interest" (on very different topics: FIRE and John Templeton Foundation) is that while such folks can be tedious at times and definitely need to be "educated" on things like WP:NPOV and WP:CITE, that they are capable of valid, good faith edits and that it would be a net detriment to wikipedia if such editors were banned from editing and forced to simply post suggestions on a talk page.
(In the case of Microsoft vs. Open Source pages I think the problem is particularly acute because by definition "one side" of the story is unpaid and thus does not fall under the COI guidelines -- if we were to ban employees, say, from editing pages, we would end up with a net POV slanted towards open source.)
I went to the WP:COI page (a guideline I'd never noticed before in years of editing) and tried to make some edits to make this clear. These were quickly reverted, but there is now at least a discussion of sorts on the talk page. The basic problem is that the editors on that page believe pretty much that such editors should be banned, should be forced to seek permission from other editors, or something of the sort.
My sense from your contributions to the Open Documents discussion is that you have similar feelings to mine. I think it would be a good idea for you to contribute your views at the WP:COI page if you have the time. I don't usually like to "recruit" people, but the essential problem is that the editors currently feel that "consensus" is on their side.
Yours, Sdedeo ( tips) 00:15, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
Hi there, I noticed you moved some articles, for example SEA-ME-WE 4 to SEA-ME-WE 4 (cable system) a while back, referring to the standard naming for cable systems. I can't find anything on Wikipedia:Naming conventions, and I'm not sure why a specific convention would be required in the first place. I was going to move them back, since there is nothing else called SEA-ME-WE 4 that the cable system would get mixed up with, but thought I would check with you first. Regards, -- Chuq 05:09, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
Apologies - thank you for the instant rebuttal. I didn't notice that! Just getting used to AWB. Kbthompson 16:56, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
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Hello, user:West London Dweller I changed your copyright violation to a speedy delete. This was a blatant word for word plagiarism. Just a heads-up. Shoessss 22:57, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
I've converted the references in Vince's Bridge to Wikipedia's inline reference format - I see you've put references in some other articles, and it would be good if you could use the format as in Vince's Bridge - it should make things easier! For more infoormation on the referencing method, see here: Template talk:Ref and here: Wikipedia:Footnotes. Hope that helps. WLD talk| edits 16:04, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
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Hi. I'm not having a go at you, because you don't have an axe to grind here, and you've been fair up to now, but I have to say that I disagree with some of the changes you've made in the DAB page intro. Firstly, I think it's wrong to say that DAB only sounds worse than FM on a hi-fi system, because DAB sounds worse than FM in general, and you can hear the difference on portable radios. I also don't see why you've removed the link to the page about worldwide DAB, because the direct link you've provided doesn't provide a breakdown of the bit rates used around the world, whereas the page linked to on my website does. You've also removed the comment about music stations being transmitted in mono, and in my experience people think is a very serious issue. And I disagree with what you say about there being a trade-off due to FM's reception quality at high speed, because that doesn't take into account people listening at home.
If you're annoyed with me because I reverted something of yours last week, the reason I reverted it was because you had changed that Norwegian nutter's intro, and his intro is nonsense, so I felt that it was better to revert the whole lot. It was nothing against what you'd put, but his intro is ridiculously biased. Digitalradiotech 14:02, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
It seem pretty clear the references Kenya mentiones are not normative references for OOXML. Also it seem fairly clear that Kenya has not written the objections reponse but IBM has.
It is not worth putting particular mentioning of this repsonse in the licensing section. all objections is already referencend in the critism section. Lifting out a pretty udbieus one like this seems not called for. there is absolutly not a single shred of other independant (as in non-IBM related)material supporting that you require licensing of other formats for OOXML.
I have not heard a single OO vendor or other office builder say that related format licensing does not allow them to use OOXML.
There seems some valid critisism on OOXML (like using bitmask or somthing) but this issue seems just a non-issue. hAl 08:43, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
The article mentions the responses of the national bodies and has a link to reference all those responses.
I saw you linked to the ANSI comments page.
When searching for comments pages like that it show that those pages are only linked to from blogs of strong anti-ooxml sites like IBM's Rob Weirs blog, Grokdoc, noooxml.org and the Opendocumentfellowship who just want their readers to put in objections to ooxml. [5]
It seems those sites are only used by the anti ooxml lobby to influence ISO standardisation rather than being a place for objective commenting on the standard.
I do not think that such pages and the way they are abused by anti ooxml activists making them a promotional weapon for them should have place on wikipedia article. hAl 13:54, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
...you started this article. I'm trying to get List of people associated with Jesus College, Oxford to Featured List status at present, and Lord McIntosh is proving a bit of a problem for me, as I can't find out (a) when he graduated (I assume 1954, after matriculation in 1951, but I need a reference) (b) what his degree subject was! Who's Who doesn't help me and nothing shows up on Google of any use. Do you happen to know of a source with these details? Bit of a long shot, I know... Regards, Bencherlite Talk 23:21, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
So do you know in what instances there are 10 bits in a byte? I think I might have incorrectly changed a couple of the entries, because I'm not entirely sure if there are start/stop bits used for internal computer peripheral communications like SAS and SATA. It doesn't make sense that SAS would be different than SATA and they originally were posted as being different (SATA was 8 and SAS was 10). Also what about PCI buses? Should PCI Expess really be 10?
There are usually eight bits in a byte, but the low speed modems, where the bit rate and the baud are the same use a scheme where each byte has to have its start and end 'flagged' - the so-called start- and stop- bits, and sometimes add a parity bit as well - so to transport an eight bit byte over a low speed modem, you may have to send one (or even two) start bits, a parity bit, the eight bits of the byte, and the stop bit. Usually, the scheme is one start, one stop and no parity, giving 10 buts. Other buses use a different encoding scheme such as 4B5B or 8B10B or even 64B/66B encoding. So, it is not always correct to simply divied the 'raw' bandwidth by eight. Hope that helps. WLD talk| edits 06:32, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
Hey there WLD! Been a while since we chatted. Yeah - I didn't know there was a way to do that, and didn't want the bad links to be out there for people (like me) to click on and not be able to use. I guess if I can see an example of how to label them, I will do so (to label them as formerly good/currently bad)? Rarelibra 16:24, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
Followed your advice, if you can add more please do so! :) Rarelibra 16:53, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
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For your huge help with updating the international submarine cable list and populating the domestic submarine cable list Thank you! Rarelibra 19:14, 23 August 2007 (UTC) |
Your revert is well intentioned as well. However, some of your edits in this article do not follow conventions of Wikipedia. For example, the external link titled "The first company in the world to produce reflective road markers." should be labeled as the company to which it points. The statement that it is the first company seems to be significant, so it really should be more detailed in the body of the article.
Also, in the section "Pedestrian Crossing Studs," it is not clean to include links to a URL except as a citation. The link should be footnoted as a reference, not included as a "see: http..." 12.126.133.22 19:00, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
If you could please put in your opinion at the talk page; we would like to have as many native-English speakers participate as possible. A certain user wants to revert back to a particular national POV. Icsunonove 00:50, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
I am sorry, but I feel that the same warning should be applied to you. As far as I see, some people have been deleting that link, and as I see these external links sections, I would refer to WP:NOT#REPOSITORY ánd WP:SOAPBOX. Both part of policy. For you both, discuss on talkpage in stead of keeping on reverting. -- Dirk Beetstra T C 17:10, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
Hey WLD! I honestly didn't know that it was microwave... I saw that TBL went from Albania to Italy and assumed it followed the cable that exists between those two. Do you have a source that explains the microwave capacity? I would be most interested... and we can remove from the sub cable list. I appreciate you and I helping each other, by the way! :) Rarelibra 13:43, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for the three revert warning on my talk page, but I do not think it applies because:
Kind regards, — SomeHuman 13 Sep 2007 23:28 (UTC)
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