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Hello, Hydrargyrum, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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[edit] Märklin

Hi, Hg!

I had many different sets, too, and I still have Märklin catalogues from the early 60s. Sure, they did good stuff! But: If you re-insert the comment, could you do it so that it doesn't sound POV, i.e. instead of better quality you could say of heavier gauge metal or something. A comment that sounds POV is so easily erased by others... just like I did, in response to another user's comment. Regards, --Janke | Talk 17:14:51, 2005-09-05 (UTC)

[edit] User:Kilo-Lima

Thank you very much for pointing out that grammar mistake! --Kilo-Lima 19:33, 16 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Date links

Hello, thanks for your edits on the Drill bit page. However, you will note that I have unlinked many years, while linking the dates. The only reason for putting square brackets around dates is so that different people's date format preferences work. See: Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)#Date formatting for instructions. Like you, when I first started editing, I was putting square brackets around all years thinking it was the right way to do things until I ran across the page on date formatting. Cheers & keep up the good work. Luigizanasi 05:51, 19 November 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the pointer. I thought linking the years, which I've seen on quite a few pages, was for categorization purposes. Now I'll have to go back to the dozens of pages I've edited to see if I did the same thing on them! --QuicksilverT @ 06:19, 19 November 2005 (UTC)
Add this string to Edit summary:

removed [[WP:MOSDATE#Date_formatting|date overlinking]]

which produces

removed date overlinking

[edit] East German research

Hi, I (sort of) answered your question on Talk:Prenatal hormones and sexual orientation. I can dig through my bibliography for more references if you want, or e-mail you pdfs if you're keen to write something up. Pete.Hurd 07:26, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] New category

Of possible interest, [[Category:Wikipedians who are pilots]]. Best regards, CHAIRBOY (☎) 18:56, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Data

I've reverted your changes to the grammar in the usage of the word Data on SHOUTcast only to clarify that it is okay to use it as a mass noun. This little nuance will make its usage on Wikipedia less cumbersome and more natural for native English speakers. I hope you'll agree.

Kind regards, CobaltBlueTony 17:30, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

I haven't reverted your change to the Prograph:Talk page, just want to point out that correcting the grammar of someone's comment on a talk page seems a bit excessive. (Especially since both usages are now commonly accepted, even if the plural is the more historically correct.) RJCraig 05:14, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Wiki for Engineering

Engineering Wiki is a wiki entirely dedicated to collecting information about Engineering. The Engineering Wiki is in early development stages at the moment. We invite you to help devlope this wiki.

[edit] Your help

I'll be doing some watching of my own now that it's been drawn to my attention, but we'll have to keep an eye on user:beckjord on the unidentified flying object page. He is clearly incapable of NPOV, and someone will need to keep an eye on him. I'll do my best, hope you'll help. Duke nemmerle 19:37, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Disambiguations

Please stop making disambiguation pages for acronyms that have only a single meaning. This is really pointless and harmful. Disambiguation pages are for the case where two or more meanings of a word or title need to be disambiguated. I understand that you're trying to get the acronyms to appear in the "x letter acronyms" categories. The fact that you have to go to such a contortion to make this work may well be a good argument that these categories should not exist.--Srleffler 05:23, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

Maybe you have a better idea to fix the stuff that User:Gjs238 has been doing, adding [[Category:4-letter acronyms]] and [[Category:5-letter acronyms]] links to the bottom of numerous articles, such as Texas Instruments OMAP. It's been creating a mess at Category:4-letter acronyms and Category:5-letter acronyms. If you have a better way of handling it, tell me about it. QuicksilverT @ 05:30, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

I don't see the problem with putting the actual articles in the x-letter acronyms categories even though the names are not acronyms. I also don't have a problem with just skipping them altogether. I don't really see why we have these categories anyway. I'm not sure what value they add. The distinct disambiguation template for acronyms is kind of useful, since someone may come in looking for a word that is also an acronym for something else. That isn't an issue when the acronym has no other uses.--Srleffler 05:36, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Styrax

Hi Hydrargyrum - the reasons I changed it were that I felt the wording was rather confusing, as it implied that polystyrene is/was made directly from Styrax resin, whereas it actually only contains a very small amount of styrene (if any at all - I'm finding even this very hard to verify; most references seem to suggest it may be from storax, the resin from Liquidambar species). I think this one needs more careful checking; do you have any detailed science references? - MPF 19:35, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

You may be correct. I'm unable to retrace my exact Google search that I used to assemble the history of polystyrene development, but searching the Web on "Eduard Simon" and "styrax" produced a hit on the German language Wikipedia [1] for the article on Styrol, wherein the species Liquidambar orientalis is specifically named as the source for the resin in Simon's experiments from 1835-1839. My English version of the history of polystyrene turns out be be eerily similar to the German version, now that I've had a chance to compare it. The German article also calls the resin of Liquidambar orientalis "styrax". Some Web articles I consulted (also in German), were unclear about distinguishing the resin "styrax" from the plant "styrax", implying they were one and the same. Other references [2] state that Styrax and Storax are different names for the same thing, creating even more confusion. With this new information I'm inclined to re-edit polystyrene and change the link from Styrax to Liquidambar orientalis. I just hope the author of the German Wikipedia article got it right. It does seem more reasonable to be extracting significant amounts of resin from a large tree than from a shrub, with the aim of developing a marketable product. -QuicksilverT @ 01:04, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Image help

I uploaded a cleaned-up version of Image:Wildbluelogo.gif, replacing a 304x69 image with a 176x38 image. All I did was trim some white space and irrelevant pixels from the image, leaving the logo at the original scale. Now, when I view WildBlue, I see the old graphic resized to the dimensions of the new graphic. Utterly bizarre. I think it's a bug in the Wiki database software. Deleting the older file might fix the problem, but I need an administrator to do it for me. Please help. -QuicksilverT @ 11:25, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

Refresh your cache. (Ctrl+F5) :-) — Omegatron 14:45, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
I did flush the browser cache, multiple times. I even shut down the browser and restarted it, to no avail. Anyhow, it looks OK now, some six hours later. I guess the Wikipedia database just has these strange quirks. I've noticed an editing latency of hours with text-only edits on occasion. Thanks, anyway. -QuicksilverT @ 17:38, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Reverts

I was reverting the spam edits of this chap Mrhazelj (contrib) to 6 articles and somehow got ABC Family and Dish Network muddled up in the rush. Thanks for flagging my mistake to me and I will double check in the future, SqueakBox 02:19, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Rifle research

Hi, I'm doing research for a novel, and I was wondering, since you contributed to the Henry Rifle article, if you know of resources available online or to you regarding breechloader availability in the period 1850-1860. Specifically, how likely would it be that a cowboy could own a breechloader rifle during this time period? (Likely suspects: M1819 Hall rifle, maybe?) Thanks in advance, Guapovia 14:53, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, I kinda figured on the revolver, but wasn't really sure about rifles. Many thanks! Guapovia 17:04, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] By whatever name...

...you are unquestionably a mercurial character. :) Wahkeenah 17:53, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

  • I was just about to ask if you have a mercurial personality. Looks like I beat myself to it. :) Wahkeenah 02:06, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Memory leak

Just a note to let you know I left a comment regarding your last changes at Talk:Memory leak. If you want to respond, please do so there. – Doug Bell talk•contrib 08:54, 27 January 2006 (UTC)


[edit] TARGET 3001!

Hello Hydrargyrum,

I have cleaned up the TARGET 3001! entry. Unfortunately I am not a native english speaker, but I did my very best. I am new to wikipedia, and not that experienced like others. Is my work automatically recognized in respect to the the cleanup header? How can be made clear that an cleanup attempt already has been made?

Best regards, Bubbles5

[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:Frank Slide1.jpg

Thanks for uploading Image:Frank Slide1.jpg. However, the image may soon be deleted unless we can determine the copyright holder and copyright status. The Wikimedia Foundation is very careful about the images included in Wikipedia because of copyright law (see Wikipedia's Copyright policy).

The copyright holder is usually the creator, the creator's employer, or the last person who was transferred ownership rights. Copyright information on images is signified using copyright templates. The three basic license types on Wikipedia are open content, public domain, and fair use. Find the appropriate template in Wikipedia:Image copyright tags and place it on the image page like this: {{TemplateName}}.

Please signify the copyright information on any other images you have uploaded or will upload. Remember that images without this important information can be deleted by an administrator. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me, or ask them at the Image legality questions page. Thank you. Sherool (talk) 13:01, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

Copied from my talk page. --Sherool (talk) 21:53, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
There is no image copyright problem. The only problem is that Wikipedia doesn't have a Canadian version of the {{PD-USGov}} template used for U.S. Government images. If you had read and understood the text under Licensing, you would have seen that Natural Resources Canada has released this image into the public domain for non-commercial and educational use. I think that falls well within the scope of what we are doing here in Wikipedia. Please direct your energies toward creating new templates, not taking down images that fall within Wikipedia's use policies. —QuicksilverT @ 16:32, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
Hi, I'm afraid there is a reason we don't have a {{PD-USGov}} equivelent template for Canada. You see public domain basicaly means "without copyright", not merely free for non-commercial use. Furthermore Wikipedia actualy require images to allow commercial use to be considered compatable with our GFDL license regardles of the fact that the Wikipedia site itself is non-commercial, see {{noncommercial}} and a mail from Jimbo.
However on closer examination this particular image seems to be out of copyright in Canada due to old age (I'm asuming the photo was taken not too long after the slide, though an exact date of publication would have been good), and by extention is also PD in the US because it expiered prior to 1996 (these things can be horrebly complicated). I have upldated the tagging of the imaghe to reflect this, and sorry I missed it the first time around, I got distracted by the "non-commercial" restriction in the license text.
P.S. A copyright tag is required these days, if you find none that fit please double check that the image is usable, and use either {{PD-because|whatever}} or {{CopyrightedFreeUseProvided|whatever}} to enter the info in "canonal" form. Thanks. --Sherool (talk) 21:53, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Why so few Wikipedians are engineers?

I am trying to understand why there are so few Wikipedians who are graduate engineers. Once I get a grasp on that, perhaps I may be able to formulate some ideas on how to attract more experienced engineers to become Wikipedians. It would be very helpful if you would respond to these a few questions:

  • Are you a university graduate engineer?
  • Please indicate in which of these engineering disciplines you obtained your degree:
    1. Aeronautical or aerospace engineering
    2. Bioengineer or biological engineering
    3. Chemical engineering
    4. Civil engineering
    5. Electrical engineering
    6. Environmental engineering
    7. Mechanical engineering
    8. Petroleum engineering
    9. Other
  • In what year did you obtain your degree?
  • What attracted you to participate in Wikipedia?

If you would rather not answer these questions on your Talk page, then you may respond on my User talk:mbeychok page. Or you may respond to me via Wikipedia's email which I have enabled on my User:mbeychok page.

If you would rather not respond at all, that's fine also. Regards, - mbeychok 04:28, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Water conservation

I started Water conservation - have a look at it if you have time. --Singkong2005 02:06, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Quantum Corporation

I saw your notes and additions on the Quantum article, but I also had a few questions (which I left on the talk page), and I also notice someone from a Maxtor Shrewsbury IP [3] has shown up and made some rather NPOV edits. Are there any public sources for any of this? -lee 23:50, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Star Chamber

Hola! Can you provide a full citation for the "Blackstone" quote you mention on Talk:Star Chamber? Tkinias 06:43, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Message from Eric to Hydrargyrum

Hi- Hope this is the right method to contact you for something unimportant. A note: Talk:LORAX (robot) Eric 17:44, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

Re: Travel(l)ing in the past -- Thanks! --Eric 12:59, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Spanish War Ensign 1785-1931 deletion

It was, like a lot of other flags, tagged as speedy improper license (non-commerical use). See Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion#Images/Media #3. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 13:08, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

You are probably right and the correct place to put a request like that in would be Wikipedia:Village pump either the "Technical" or "Proposals" section. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 19:31, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 24.181.67.89

Yeah, he's got a two month block now. He's been blocked repeatedly for deliberate misinformation related to movies- it, and three other of my blacklisted IPs (User:168.9.128.173 and User:168.9.128.157- I can't remember the last) are socks of User:Woodylogan. Basically, the user uses Georgia-based IPs to deliberately insert misinformation. He normally strikes family movies and changes things like the cast and voices, and then goes to the articles of the actors themselves and changes them accordingly as well. This person really needs a life. --Wafulz 05:13, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Response

It was not vandalism; the article in it's current state is nonsense. Looking over your edits, I don't believe you are the sort of mindless person that intentional adds crap to the project, so I suggest you remove the db-nonsense tag and replace it with an inuse tag, which would allow people to see that work was going on and tell us to leave it alone. - Blood red sandman 23:53, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Argentine ant

Hi. Although Argentine ants probably nest in many places that happen have electrical currents nearby, I'm not so sure that they are attracted to electricity. As far as I know, there is nothing in the scientific literature about this. If you have a citation, I would love to know what it is. Argentine ants have been the focus of my research for about ten years now, and much of what is known about their behavior and genetics stems from the contributions of myself and my colleagues (you can find a summary my research and copies of my publications on my webpage: tsutsuilab.bio.uci.edu). I noticed that you also removed what I had added about the Argentine ant's native and introduced ranges. Was this deletion inadvertent? JubJubBird 23:13, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Henri Sarolea translation cleanup needed

Hello Quicksilver Agreed, the translation needs a clean up. I'll have a go at it, but it won't be done in one shot because it will be time consuming. Peter Horn 23:17, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] de:Niklaus Riggenbach translation

Thanks, I have done some minor edits on it.

Now we need a translation for Carl Roman Abt

likewise various translations needed:

likewise various translations needed:

Peter Horn 03:02, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] de:Niklaus Riggenbach and other translations, additional note

What I mean is that where English articles do exist at all in Rack railway and Mountain railway for Austria, Germany and Switzerland (see above), they are mostly short and incomplete. Peter Horn 18:21, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Henri Sarolea translation cleanup "finished"

I took a stab at it, someone else check my work. Peter Horn 22:46, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] More about translations

In the case of Austria, Germany and Switzerland someone removed my links to the German articles in those cases where the English aricles do not yet exist, see the revisions of "History" Rack railway. This was not done in the case of Mountain railway. The reaon I put these was to help translators easely link the two. Peter Horn 00:51, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Translation from German (or in some cases from French) to English required (Rack railway)

[edit] Austria

[edit] Germany

[edit] Switzerland

Peter Horn 02:15, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] It's

Hi Hydrargyrum!

Thanks for your edits to It (film). However, your recent edit here indicates (in the edit summary) you believe "It's" is the "possessive form" of "it". Actually, "it's" means "it is" or "it has"; it never means "belonging to it". Don't feel bad; I have fixed your grammar "corrections", and I do hundreds of these corrections every week. You can learn more about the correct use of the apostrophe here. Take care and happy editing! :) Firsfron of Ronchester 02:02, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] NY, NY

You wrote:

  • Support. All other city/town entries in Wikipedia are in the City, State format. New York City is inconsistent and "breaks" searches. New York City should be a redirect entry to "New York, New York". —QuicksilverHydrargyrum @ 03:59, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

This a confusing comment for a couple reasons.

  1. "New York, New York" as a postal address, refers to Manhattan, not the five-fold whole of New York City. If we were going to go that route, we would move Manhattan to New York, New York and Brooklyn to Brooklyn, New York, and so on. Probably not going to happen, but the idea has some basis in principle (consistency).
  2. You said "Support", but your comments do not appear to support having a (mostly non-geographical) disambiguation page at New York, New York (instead of a redirect), which is the change that User:Georgia_guy proposed.

You might want to re-examine the context and make sure you said what you meant to. — CharlotteWebb 18:02, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Art Arfons

Regarding the Art Arfons page. Thank you for correcting my grammar. It reads better now. Jameywiki 23:10, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Re: NFPA 704 template

That's because you don't put a number in the "other hazards" field. It's either "W" (reactive to water) or "OX" (oxidizes rapidly). --  Denelson83  22:01, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

That's correct. "OX" would not fit in the white section if its font size was "large". --  Denelson83  22:09, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Your edits on Polar Bear

An edit summary is important if you delete any text; otherwise, people may think you're being sneaky. Also, mentioning one change but not another one can be misleading to someone who finds the other one more important; add "and misc." to cover the other change(s). Thanks! Xiner (talk, email) 18:18, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

I agree with you that most of the date links in the article were unnecessary. I just think that 1774 is an early date in terms of biology, and people may be interested in what was happening in the world then. In any case, it's a minor issue that I won't fight over.
About the scientists' views, if you could take a look at the talk page, including the archive, you'll see that we've had a lot of discussion recently about exactly that issue, and most editors on the page have agreed to that statement, which carries multiple citations. The section on Size and weight has more references. In fact, a major argument erupted over whether the sentence was too soft. Xiner (talk, email) 19:14, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Invitation

Hello – Based on your significant contribution to one or more San Francisco Bay Area-related articles and/or stated interests on your homepage, I thought you might be interested in this project:

You have been invited to join the WikiProject San Francisco Bay Area, a collaborative effort focused on improving Wikipedia's coverage of the Bay Area. If you'd like to join, just add your name to the member list. Thanks for reading!

Peter G Werner 05:31, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Triple Falls

As I stated on my User Talk Page: I did not hijack that article. The standards set down by the [Waterfalls WikiProject] state, and I quote: "Due to the fact that there are countless waterfalls in the world with the same name, the following method of disambiguation is proposed: The most important waterfall can stay at the undisambiguated title, lesser known ones add a qualifier." Based on that standard, the constantly-flowing Triple Falls of NC far exceeds this standard when compared to Triple Falls of California, which by its own article's admission is "seasonal". I was simply going with the proposed standard. If you have a problem with it, I'd suggest you take it up with them. 5minutes 14:58, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Father Damien

You asked me why I added the word "reversed" to the death image of Father Damien. I'm sorry I took a month to respond; I haven't logged in for a while.

In the image in question, the body of Fr. Damien clearly is wearing a maniple on his right arm, when it was properly worn only and always on the left. Such was my reason for declaring the image reversed. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Cj watson (talk • contribs) 04:41, 8 March 2007 (UTC).

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