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[edit] Request for Assistance

Hi there, I'm pretty new here... like 2 days old :) Primarily, I'm reverting vandalism and nonsense, and I've come across a tricky situation where I don't really want to stuff it up. The article for Garlic has had some section blanking done to it, and I've left some messages and had a short discussion on the user in questions Talk Page, though I'm concerned I'm doing something wrong. Would you mind having a quick gander for me? Hopefully I'm helping and not hindering. :) Sorry for the trouble. Pursey 14:49, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

OK, I'm taking a look. --Ed (Edgar181) 14:56, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for that. I prefer to only stuff up for as long as I need to in order to learn new things and further my own knowledge :) I'm more than happy for that content to remain removed, and always happy for people to disagree with me. My only concern was with the way it all happened. Well, I'll get back to reverting that pesky vandalism and slowly going insane - thanks again :) Pursey 15:16, 11 October 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Why did you ban my school IP?

When I'm at school it's such a hassle to log into Wikipedia. But now I always have to because you banned my school IP. Just curious as to why. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by SophiaRyu (talk • contribs).

I'd be happy to answer that question, but you must let me know what IP you are referring to first. --Ed (Edgar181) 16:42, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Big Thanks

Thanks for fixing that vandalism on my user page, appreciate it :) Pursey 02:40, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

You're welcome. --Ed (Edgar181) 09:32, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanx for your msg

Hi Ed ! Got you msg about adding links The links are not promotional but links to real information. Nevertheless I got the idea. I actually would like to contribute in a more Wiki way I am working in drug discovery, more on the biology side. Where should I start ? Vardar

In general, I think it's much better to contribute content to the articles than to simply add external links. It sounds like you're interested in doing just that. I'd recommend starting with what you know and taking a look at articles that you find interest in and seeing if there is anything that can be improved (and, to be honest, most articles around here need quite a bit of improvement.) You can also look at Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory/Science and see if there is a WikiProject community you might like to join. If you have additional question, please don't hesitate to ask. --Ed (Edgar181) 20:18, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 80.1.73.83

Thank you for bringing the vandalism to my attention. I have temporarily blocked Wikipedia using our content filtering. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 80.1.73.83 (talk • contribs).

[edit] Chalcones

Hi Edgar

Thanks for the clean up. I do want to point out that Green Chemistry refers to the concept, rather than the journal. Also, the term used in the paper I cited was "high temperature water" which they abbreviated HTW, rather than being any generic hot water. --Rifleman 82 17:22, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

The changes I made were to reflect the fact that on Wikipedia Green Chemistry and green chemistry are different articles - the first is the journal, the second is the scientific discipline. Both of which have the proper capitalization the way they are (right?). Also, I've gone back and undone the splitting of the concept "high temperature water" in chalcone. Thanks for the letting me know. --Ed (Edgar181) 17:31, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
Oops. I didn't realize that the capitalization made a difference. Most of the time when I search in without caps, I get what I want. Perhaps we should move the journal article to Green Chemistry (journal) to prevent any ambiguity? --Rifleman 82 17:40, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
That's probably a good idea. --Ed (Edgar181) 17:46, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
Done. FYI. Thanks. --Rifleman 82 18:19, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
Just so you know, I changed the Green Chemistry redirect from the journal article to the main article. --Ed (Edgar181) 19:07, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hey Edgar 2

I'm terribly sorry for the inconvenience my "nonsense" may have caused you on your userpage. I was very proud of my smily faced star and I wanted to share it with my first wikipedia friend. I suppose we aren't as good of wikipedia friends as I once may have thought. Regarding my original posting, I am not as upset about my school's IP address being blocked as I am curious about whether or not you would delete a joke if it was funny. Please respond back as quickly as physically and emotionally possible. Thank you, Esteban

p.s. how do you message someone?!—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Espanolquatro (talk • contribs).

I only delete funny jokes, but leave the bad ones. I want Wikipedia to be as humorless as possible. --Ed (Edgar181) 15:41, 20 October 2006 (UTC)


Good Call Eddy, so tell me the truth: are you jealous of my star?

p.s. have you ever laughed at a joke you saw on wikipedia before you deleted it?

No, Espy, I've never laughed at any joke since I lost my sense of humor in a freak farm accident when I was a child. --Ed (Edgar181) 15:55, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

Actually, It's Esteban, and I'm terribly sorry about your sense of humor. If you happen to find it here's a joke: What did the buffalo say to his son when he left for a trip? Answer: Bison Get it? Bye son... Bison HAHAHAHAHAHA

[edit] Block

Why did you block my school from editing. Just because some dumb kids vandalized this sight I can't edit.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Mealy (talk • contribs).

I'd be happy to answer that question, but you must let me know what IP address you are referring to first. --Ed (Edgar181) 18:26, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
I'm not sure if the user above represents Homestead High School or not, though it is one of the school IPs you've blocked: 205.173.47.254. As a student at HHS, I was going to make a similar request to unblock, but honestly, after looking at the warnings and the inane vandalism that our student body has perpetrated, I think it is a good thing that that IP has been blocked. Those of us with accounts can still create edits, and it prevents further vandalism. Thank you for taking the right step. (The Swami 17:21, 23 October 2006 (UTC))

Hi, Ed. I'm not asking why you blocked the IP of my school (207.73.105.250), I'm just saying I understand, and I apologize for the stupidity of some, which affects the freedom of the rest. It really is quite embarassing when the majority of the talk page for your school's IP is reprimands for vandalism. In fact, almost all of it is. So, I just wanted to say I'm sorry the immature people from my school have made so much trouble for the wikipedia community in general. Thanks; D_Lord_Strife.

From what I can tell, the talk page for the IP address of every school in the US, Canada, and the UK is filled with vandalism warnings, so your school is nothing different. I always place blocks on shared IP addresses that block anonymous users only and allow creation of new accounts. That way those people that want to contribute positively may still do so. --Ed (Edgar181) 15:00, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Chemical Contributions

Hello! I like the work you did on the Theanine page. I also appreciate you opening my eyes to the WikiProject: Chemicals, as the goals of that project have been my passion since I've been using wikipedia. This site is amazing for the chemistry student. I am currently studying organic chemistry with the goal of researching structure-activity relationships of molecules in the development of new substances. It seems that you are in a similar field, although a lot further along than I :] Did you receive your education in the USA? -- Ccroberts 22:53, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. Yes, I obtained all my education in the USA. It sounds like you are interested in pursuing a career similar to what I do. If you would like to know more about what I do, or about careers for organic chemists in general, feel free to email me. --Ed (Edgar181) 00:47, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Special:Chemicalsources

Hi! I just decided to spam some people directly, who I know are very active on chemicals. There is now a wiki running on http://chemistry.poolspares.com (a site created by Nickj from the wikimedia IRC channel, the site will be taken offline again in a couple of weeks), where I have now hosted a small wikipedia. It runs two extensions I have written to the wikipedia software, a special page (for chemical sources, see also wikipedia:chemical sources and a chemform tag (for easy input of chemical formulae). Could you have a look, and comment on it (if useful I would like to try to let Tim or Brion enable it on wikipedia, though I feel some resistance there). Cheers! --Dirk Beetstra T C 16:57, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

OK, I took a quick look. At first glance, I think those features would be useful. I'll get back to you soon with a more a thorough answer when I have some time to look at it more closely. Also, if you encounter resistance to enabling these features on Wikipedia, I'd be willing to back you up. --Ed (Edgar181) 18:07, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
I must add, that I do understand the reluctance, they can't have everybody just come and add some extensions to wikipedia. I hope I can get some positive votes (I'll also post in some other countries), and see what comes out of it. --Dirk Beetstra T C 19:27, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Removing warning tags

Hi Edgar, nwe (talk • contribs) removed his 3RR warning from his talk page here [1]. I reverted it because I believe that users cannot do this and that, as I recall, policy says that it is technically vandalism to remove a warning tag. I cannot find that policy right now, however. Is that still the case? I think that it's odd that editors would be allowed to remove warnings from their talk page particularly when they're still violating the warning. --Strothra 15:40, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

If I recall correctly, there is no definite policy regarding the removal of warnings on one's own talk page. Many admins consider it a bad idea, but the prevailing attitude seems to be that people can control what is on their own talk page. Removing the warning is an acknowledgement that they have seen the warning. My opinion is that it's not worth fighting over. If administrative action is ever taken against that user, the fact that they've been removing warnings will be considered and will probably count against them. For now, my advice to leave it alone, and report any additional 3RR violations, vandalism, incivility, etc. on the appropriate admin pages. Hope this helps. If you have additional questions, just let me know. --Ed (Edgar181) 15:49, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
Good points, Thanks for the advice :) --Strothra 16:00, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
Hi, I saw this edit due to the title of the post of Strothra, but Wikipedia:Template messages/User talk namespace has a whole set of warning templates for reverting warnings on ones own talk page. The warning templates do not give a general policy, I indeed think it is just considered a 'bad idea'. --Dirk Beetstra T C 16:04, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
I found the relavent discussion on this topic: Wikipedia:Centralized discussion/Removing warnings and its talk page. --Ed (Edgar181) 16:09, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hey

I just want to know what program you use to make all your models, or how you make them. I'm in high school biology and its the inevitable truth that i will need to make something like this, so that would be extremely helpful. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 69.249.88.89 (talk • contribs).

I use ChemDraw to make the 2D images. ChemDraw is commerical software without any free versions (as far as I know), but you may have access to it at a school computer because it is by far the most popular chemistry drawing program. There are probably other free software packages out there too (ISIS/Draw has free version if I remember correctly). And I use Accelrys Visualizer to make the 3D images. There is a free version of this software available. You can also check out this nice writeup that Benjah-bmm27 (talk • contribs) has: User:Benjah-bmm27/MakingMolecules. Hope this helps. If you have other questions, don't hesitate to ask. --Ed (Edgar181) 23:31, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
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