User talk:DaveJB

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Hi Dave, and welcome to the 'pedia. Good to see you picked up on the incorrectly named entries on the Nvidia cards.

Just a litte tip for you. When you move a page, use the sidebar controls to do it, as a cut & paste move results in the loss of the page history. I've just:

deleted your new GeForce 4 entry
reverted the (incorrectly titled) GeForce4 to get the text back (instead of the redirect)
moved that page over to the crrect title

In a moment I'll do the same with GeForce 2

Next time you edit either of those pages, you'll be able to hit "Page History" and all the previous edits will be there.

Best -- Tannin 10:52, 9 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Thanks! I'd moved a few pages that way before I registered; I just didn't know that there was an easier way for registered users to move pages! DaveJB 14:19, 9 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Dave, shouldn't List of Intel chipsets be titled just Intel Chipsets ? -- Ian

The main reason why it was called that was to keep consistency with the List of Intel microprocessors article. Since it seems to have become the standard format (as evidenced by the List of AMD microprocessors), it's probably best to leave it as is. --DaveJB 23:16, 9 Apr 2004 (UTC)

1 Mavic Chen
2 NOES
3 Persil Power
4 hykade

[edit] Mavic Chen

How is Mavic Chen notable aside from his presence in The Daleks' Master Plan which pretty much says all there is to be said about him? We're duplicating a lot of information unncessarily if we're going to write articles for every minor character. --khaosworks 08:45, May 25, 2005 (UTC)

Sorry, for some reason I thought that there was also a Big Finish audio or New Adventure about him (hence why I left it as a stub to begin with). I must have gotten him mixed up with someone else.

Having said that, couldn't the same argument be made about Sara? --DaveJB 16:51, 25 May 2005 (UTC)

Well, Sara is one of those special cases - same argument could be made for Katarina - because she's not just a character in Master Plan, but is considered by some to be a companion, and thus more notable because of that status. She also appears in the Dalek comic book annual of 1965, which I should mention at some point, now that I'm reminded of it. --khaosworks 16:57, May 25, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] NOES

Good job on catching the correct writer for that film. I never noticed that it said Wes Craven, probably because I didn't create that infobox template. Keep up the good editing. Bignole 21:38, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Persil Power

Hi Dave,

According to the history, you wrote originally the article Persil Power. Thank you for that. I just cannot find anywhere on the internet another source for the last paragraph:

The effects of the chemical reaction could be counteracted by adding a relatively cheap chemical inhibitor to the formula, but considering the embarrassment the episode had caused Unilever (together with what the costs of recalling the old formula and manufacturing a new formula with the inhibitor would have been) they decided to issue a recall and then simply abandon the brand. A number of lawsuits were issued against Unilever by retail chains and consumers, but the vast majority of them were settled outside of court. Afterwards, a less powerful version of the catalyst (and the inhibitor agent) was added to Persil's main formula. The corrosive effects were not reproduced, and many people didn't notice the change in the formula. This led to a discreet relaunch of the super-compact format as "Persil Performance".

Could you please help me finding out how I can refer to this? I am currently writing an article on the Dutch Wikipedia about this subject. I hope you can answer soon. Thanks a lot. effeietsanders 09:23, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

The source I used for that section was a Business Studies textbook I was using at the time. I have not been able to track a copy of it down, unfortunately, and the fact that nowhere else cites anything about this "inhibitor" suggests that the textbook might have been wrong about it. Either way, I've edited part of the paragraph down, at least until I can find a more robust source. Thanks for bringing this to my attention. --DaveJB 21:35, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for your research. Maybe you know the title of that textbook? I study chemistry myself, and could take a look in our library here or otherwise in the Royal Library in The Hague. effeietsanders 08:48, 10 October 2006 (UTC)