User talk:Patrick1982

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[edit] Welcome

Hi and welcome to wikipedia. I noticed you had a blank talk page, so I decided to welcome you. I hope you like it and decide to stay. Here are some handy links for newcomers.

Also you can sign your name on talk pages and vote pages with three tildes like this ~~~, and your name with a time stamp with four like this ~~~~. Howabout1 22:35, 4 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Cat's Eye Nebula

Hi Patrick - just wanted to explain why I reverted your edits to Cat's Eye Nebula - the Wikipedia policy on British v. American spelling is that for topics related to the country concerned, the relevant spelling should be used, but for other topics there's no preference other than consistency. If an article uses British spelling there's no need to change it to American, and vice versa. There's more about this at the manual of style. Thanks! Worldtraveller 11:12, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Sorry, I should have explained my thinking on milliarcsecond as well - I think either is OK really, but in the astronomical literature, milliarcsecond is much more common than milli-arcsecond: see these links for a comparison [1], [2], the unhyphenated form wins 171-19 on appearances in journal article titles, so I thought it was better. I think where the prefix ends with a vowel and the unit begins with one, a hyphen is optional, but it seems more common not to have it.
I am shocked that a close European neighbour didn't know that colour was a British spelling - it's enough to make me a eurosceptic :) Cheers - Worldtraveller 12:04, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Magnetar and categories

While cleaning up the electromagnetism category, I removed categories from Magnetar as articles are generally supposed to be in their most specific category, and Magnetars is a sub-sub-sub category of stars. I was going to, I had yet to do so, add the Category:Pulsar -- the supercat of Magnetar -- as a subcat of electromagnetic radiation, and Category:Magnetar to Magnetism, as opposed to listing individual articles within electromagnetism. The removal of Stellar Phenomena was a mistake I see now. Most people don't seem to care enough about categories to discuss them, with rare exceptions, on the talk page. I'm going to remove the electromagnetism and stars categories from Magnetar, and finish adding the Pular and Magnetars cats . Salsb 13:24, August 16, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Titanic budget

On the List of most expensive films, you have Titanic's budget at "$198,000,000." You say in the history section that most sources just round to "$200,000,000." However, I can just find one source for this $198 million figure, and that is a recent story about the "War of the Worlds" remake. Not even in contemporary (1997 and 1998) news stories about Titanic can I find this figure. Where did you get this $198 million number? PBP 19:23, 5 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Unspecified source for Image:Abrah.jpg

Thanks for uploading Image:Abrah.jpg. I notice the file's description page currently doesn't specify who created the content, so the copyright status is unclear. If you have not created this file yourself, then there needs to be a justification explaining why we have the right to use it on Wikipedia (see copyright tagging below). If you did not create the file yourself, then you need to specify where it was found, i.e., in most cases link to the website where it was taken from, and the terms of use for content from that page.

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