User talk:Ketiltrout

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[edit] Welcome!

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Evidently a link-fixer after mine own heart... Alai 07:42, 2 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Thank you so much for your cleanup on the Organic Reaction page. --Arcadian 03:03, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] E=MC² Barnstar

I, Fire Star award you this E=MC² Barnstar for the consistently excellent quality of your star articles and other contributions to Wikipedia's astronomy section. May we never run out of stars!

[edit] Distance error measurements

Hi Ketiltrout. I'd like to ask you not to include error measurements after the star distances when it it already covered by the parallax error. This messes up the formating and I don't believe the parallax error directly translates into a distance error. (For example, 100 ± 10 mas (10 parsecs) is the same as .090&ndas;.110", which is 11.11–9.09 (or 10+1.11 to 10-0.91) not 10 ± 1.) Thank you!!! — RJH 20:59, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

• Thanks for taking an interest in my contributions. Quoting a measured quantity without quoting its significance is a bit misleading, so I'd like not to do it. Can't we change the formatting? Also, that's not a good way to calcuate the error on the distance. These errors aren't hard limits, they're 1-sigma points. So, since distance is:, the error in d is:, so using your example, π=0.1″, δπ=0.001″, gives: , so the proper distance to quote is, in fact, 10 ± 1 pc. -- Ketil Trout 22:09, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Salvatore Fiume

Thank you for correcting my article! Just a question: in this sentence In 1962, a hundred pictures of Fiume's toured through several German museums, including those of Cologne and Regensburg., I think that the 's should be omitted, shouldn't it? I would say a hundred Fiume's pictures toured.... Where do you come from? --Daĉjo^почта 19:40, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Central Asian geo-stub categories

Hi. I'm concerned to see you've recently created five new categories for geography stubs of countries in Central Asia. New stub categories are only created when they are viable for use by editor - which by long-standing convention is when there are 60-65 stubs which can use the new category. They are then proposed at WP:WSS/P, as stated at WP:STUB and at the top of almost all stub categories. The goegraphy stubs for individual nations are tallied every two to three weeks to check when new categories reach that level. None of the ones you created yet do, and two of them are severely undersized. All five of these new categories are now listed at WP:WSS/D, and it is likely that a couple of them may be proposed for deletion unless they quickly reach the standard threshold for stub categories. In the case of Cat:Kyrgyzstan geography stubs, this is a re-creation of a category that was only recently deleted after vote at WP:SFD. Please, in future, do not create new stub templates or categories without first going through the normal proposal process. Grutness...wha? 01:20, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] link to 3-d

Hello, when you want to link to the article about something 3D, please do not link to 3-D, as that is a disambiguation page (which nothing should be linked to). Instead link to the one of the options found on that page such as 3D computer graphics by writing out [[3D computer graphics|3-D]] Regards, -- Jeff3000 03:03, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Source question

Hi. I noticed you created the article Sigma Tauri, and I wondered what source you got all that information from. Just googling isn't turning up a reliable source very quickly, so I thought I'd go straight to the author. Thanks in advance for your help. -GTBacchus^(talk) 04:49, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for pointing me to the source. I wasn't able to make heads or tails of that site, but I believe that someone with more knowledge than I could use it to find information, and I added a link to the article. -GTBacchus^(talk) 21:20, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Information Literacy

Thanks for the definition you added. But have you any ideas how to straighten out this extremely illogical page? Ity seems to have been started to expound a particular method of library instruction, and then had a number of completely incompatible things added. ?DGG 05:28, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] FamilySearch

As you have contributed to a related article, you might want to know about the AfD for FamilySearch. --

[edit] Please vote

Please vote to keep "The n00b" article at Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/The_noob - Timmccloud 18:25, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] BLAST is not in the List_of_astronomy_acronyms

Now it is. Thanks, CarpD 14/12/06

Brookie :) - a will o' the wisp ! ^(Whisper...) has smiled at you! Smiles are good! and hopefully this one has made your day better. Why not smile at someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend? Happy editing!

[edit] ALU

Thanks for the DABs! Maury 20:36, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] International banking

In re: Bank of Portugal et al: In looking over my watchlist, I am pleased by your interest in corporate nomenclature and English translations of bank names, and I hope you are aware that in some cases there are name overlaps between the English versions of a company name and an extant company that could lead to a re-move; just in case it comes up in the future. Although the English names are nice, there do exist cases in which the original name is selected over a translation to avoid confusion. (I am not checking any of these moves, and I am definitely not aware of any such name confusion in these articles at this time.) Cheers. --McTrixie/Mr Accountable 13:19, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

Nor am I aware of why there is a smiley on this post. Cheers again. --McTrixie/Mr Accountable 13:19, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Central banks

Hi Ketiltrout, I've noticed that you've went through all the "Central banks" redlinks in Wikipedia:Requested_articles/Business_and_Economics and started stubs. Although your efforts are commendable, "The Central Bank of X is the central bank of X" blurb is not useful at all. Do you plan on expanding these articles? If not, I either have to request speedy deletion so the request links stay red, or tag them with {{expand}} so that somebody will start working on them. -- Emana 20:54, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] List of central banks

As an editor who has been so keen to improve the list, guess you'd perhaps be interested to take a look at user:Huaiwei's recent edits. :-) He insisted the Hong Kong Monetary Authority and the Monetary Authority of Macao to be listed under the People's Bank of China, and insisted to spell Macao in Monetary Authority of Macao different from its official name as according to the official website. — Instantnood 18:00, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Roundels

Ketiltrout, mah man!

Thank you for your assistance in plugging in national roundels! I have been trying to follow a policy of using military insignia for military crashes, and national flagicons for civilian crashes - though c.n. 3118, a military Herc flown by an Air America crew (10 April 1970) was a toss-up... I opted for the flag as it was a civilian flight crew.

I hadn't been able to figure out how the describe the roundel svg. image for smaller air arms. I surely do appreciate your help!

Sub* Mark Sublette 09:13, 26 February 2007 (UTC)Mark SubletteMark Sublette 09:13, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Please let us know what your edits are about

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Montenegro Roundel- how shure you are that there is no gold eagle n the middle of roundel, just based on one picture? THank you!

[edit] Thank You

Dear Ketiltrout, Thanks for your edits in William of Baskerville page. Much appreciated. --Cyril Thomas 01:10, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Invitation

I've seen your work on Zwingli, and I thought you might be interested in this project:

You are cordially invited to participate in WikiProject Calvinism The goal of WikiProject Calvinism is to improve the quality and quantity of information about Calvinism available on Wikipedia. WP:WikiProject Calvinism as a group does not prefer any particular tradition or denominination of Calvinism, but prefers that all Calvinist traditions are fairly and accurately represented.

--Flex (talk|contribs) 14:22, 2 April 2007 (UTC)