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[edit] Helmholtz Coils

Hello and welcome to Wikipedia. Your editing of Helmholtz Coils prompts some comments:

  • Under Wikipedia conventions found at Wikipedia:Manual of Style, the c in coil in the article title should be lower-case, and the word coil in the title should be singular. Since there was already an article titled Helmholtz coil, with a lower-case c and singular title, the one with the plural and the capital C should be a redirect page pointing to the one with the lower-case c and the singular coil. Knowing these conventions is a way of avoiding the problem of needing to merge two similarly titled articles on the same subject. After the information from your new article gets incorporated into the other article, the new one should become a redirect page.
  • Conventionally one highlights the title word or title phrase at its first appearance, thus: Helmholtz coils are named in honor of Hermann von Helmholtz etc., etc., etc.

Happy editing!

Michael Hardy 20:51, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Nikki Hemming

I have rewritten her article in order to establish notability. I would be grateful if you could have a look at the page and see what you think. Capitalistroadster 05:06, 13 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] German WMD

The article Germany and weapons of mass destruction has been mostly rewritten and I think it is a good, NPOV article though slightly stubbish. I was wondering if you would reconsider your vote at its VFD, since the POV issues seemed to be a major reason for your vote to delete. Thanks. Christopher Parham (talk) 19:11, 2005 August 14 (UTC)


[edit] Harrow Football

Following your comments last week, I've had a go at writing the rules for Harrow Football. Take a look and tell me what you think! Thanks --Jamesedmo 21:30, 23 August 2005 (UTC)

Apologies. You already have! --Jamesedmo 21:32, 23 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alleged causes of Hurricane Katrina

I realize that there were strong feelings on both sides with respect to the outcome of the AfD for this article, now located at Alternative theories regarding Hurricane Katrina. I would like to assure those who expressed concerns about the content, tone, and potential for degradation of this article that I intend for it to continue to exist only as long as is necessary to draw the contributions of fringe theorists away from the more substantial Hurricane Katrina articles. Once interest in this topic dies down, I'll quietly trim and merge this information into the appropriate general-topic articles. In the interim, I will carefully watch this page to prevent it from being abused, and I will continue to work towards making this article NPOV, properly sourced, and useful to those seeking an accurate record of the hysterics that so often follows catastrophe. Cheers. -- BD2412 talk 00:55, 14 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Talk pages

I'm sure this was well-intentioned but generally one does not change other people's texts on talk pages, not even to improve them. It's not an iron-clad rule, but I thought I'd let you know someone might get angry over an edit like this: some people are very touchy about it. -- Jmabel | Talk 06:23, 23 September 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads-up, I'll make sure that I'm more careful which namespace I'm in in the future. --Apyule 07:57, 23 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Jack Sarfatti

Hi, thanks for your help on this. Unfortunately, Jack did go ballistic, as I feared he might (I've dealt with him before). What do you think of this threat he place on my user talk page? This is the first time I've had to deal with something like this, so any advice would be appreciated. (Please reply on my user talk page).---CH (talk) 00:07, 24 September 2005 (UTC)

Please see my response to your message. Uncle Ed 13:31, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Jornbarger

Hello, I noticed you tagged Jornbarger as an A7 WP:CSD deletion. A7 only applies to people, not to anything else, unfortunately. Jornbarger will, sadly, just have to go through AfD. Yours, --Blackcap | talk 05:07, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

I listed it under A7 because I contend that it is about a person. Looking more closely though, a redirect to Jorn Barger might be better. --Apyule 05:46, 29 September 2005 (UTC)
Yeah, but it doesn't actually say that, so it can't be speedied under A7. It can, however, and has been, speedied under A6, the attack page clause, for being an attack page of Jorn Barger, whom I didn't realize existed. Either way, it dies, and I'm satisfied :). Take care, --Blackcap | talk 16:20, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Brain Teasers/Trivia:

Hi, I'm just posting a friendly notice stating that I have got Brain Teasers/Trivia on my user page that you're welcome to have a go at. Will post new questions one day after they have been answered. Thanks... Spawn Man 09:36, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] My RFA

I do more than just remove vandalism. But that is the main thing I do. Is there a reason that I cant be an admin that mainly removes vandalism? --☺Adam1213☺|talk 06:51, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

No, there is no reason that an admin can't focus on vandalism. However, when most of a users edits are reverting vandalism it is hard to tell much about them as an editor. --Apyule 06:58, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] a heads-up on the List of Guantanamo Bay detainees

Greetings,

Since you voted to keep the article List of Guantanamo Bay detainees I thought I would give you a "heads-up". A copyright violation was filed against the article, on October 11th. It was filed by someone who had voted to delete the article on October 5th.

I believe that the copyright violation is entirely bogus. I believe it is bogus because, as explained in Feist Publications v. Rural Telephone Service, lists of facts, like lists of names, cannot be copyright. This Feist v. Rural case went all the way to the US Supreme Court, which made the possibly counter-intuitive ruling that the amount of effort someone put in to compiling a list plays no role in determining whether that list is eligible for copyright protection.

Even if alphabetic lists of names could be copyright, I believe the wikipedia list would not be violating copyright since the list was compiled from various sources.

Yes, I have considered that this user invoked a bogus copyright violation to achieve a result that failed in the {AfD}. Yes, I asked them to terminate the copyright violation process, in light of Feist v Rural. They declined. The backlog in the administrators dealing with copyright violations seems to be on the order of a month long.

Anyhow, I wanted the people who had shown interest in the article to not freak out, or feel betrayed, by seeing the copyright violation tag. -- Geo Swan 11:21, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

Thanks.  :-) -- Geo Swan 15:09, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] I agree with you on deletion

I agree with you on deletion. My first encounter with an {AfD} was three weeks ago. Since then I have had almost a dozen {AfD}s filed on articles I started, all of them articles that touch on the "global war on terror". -- Geo Swan 11:21, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] White Boy Accuses Brown Boy of White Wash

Your commentsabout me notwithstanding, why not take a look at the following articles and tell me if I "whitewashed" the issue as you put it. Is the final product better? If not, feel free to revert to the last Geo Swan edit. For example, Clive Stafford Smith, Gareth Peirce Benyam Mohammed. As I posted on Geo Swan's talk page, e.g.

have edited Benyam Mohammed to cure the obvious POV issues and have added basic facts for any bio, such as date of birth, full name, the dates of events. The problem, Geo Swan is that when you create these hundreds of politically motivated stubs, for the sole purpose of getting more hits on Google, that you forget to include the basic information.

For the record, my position is numerous poorly written articles about Guantanamo does not vitiate. Joaquin Murietta 16:15, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Your comments on my talk page notwithstanding...

I have very little respect for bigots. So, let's talk about what you meant by "white wash" and then we'll address Geo Swan and Cactus Flower's comments about Mexicans, Mexican Bandits and Right Wing Cubans. Joaquin Murietta 07:57, 20 October 2005 (UTC)

  • You seem to be engaged in an active political campaign trying to remove content that is potentially damaging to the current government of the USA. Examples of this include the AfD for Bush on the Couch and the copyvio on List of Guantanamo Bay detainees. While we're at it, before this gets any further please read this very carefully. --Apyule 11:49, 22 October 2005 (UTC)
    • Actually, I am not, nor did I did not send this to fifty people, including you. My goal is to write well written articles. Joaquin Murietta 12:47, 22 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Please comment on Jamal Kiyemba

Jamal Kiyemba is one of the many Geo swan articles that I sought to improve. Please tell me if you object to the final product. Joaquin Murietta 16:37, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Whaling

Hi Apyule,

Having a wee bit of difficulty understanding why you reverted the whaling article (rv POV vandalism). Alleging that Japan is operating under a "guise" of scientific research is a POV .. I could just as easily allege that Greenpeace is an NGO that operates under a "guise" of environmental activism when in actual fact, they are simply in it for the money ;)- both are extreme POV´s ..

In addition, the NGO interference in the IWC leading up to the 1982 moratorium and beyond is reasonably well documented. Not only does it provide a counterpoint to the obvious anti-whaling bias that pervades the article, it specifically shows that "vote buying" is not restricted to the Japanese - or do you disagree? SammytheSeal 12:08, 8 November 2005 (UTC)

I do disagree. Dealing with the points that you raise:
  • There are strong arguments that the Japanese whaling program is of very little scientific value compared to its commercial/social value.
  • Your comment about Greenpeace is a position that, while hard to refute, has little basis in reality.
  • Buying votes at the International Whaling Commission is difficult to analyse objectively as there are so many facets to international relations, but there is a very close relation between countries receiving aid from Japan and joining the IWC
I will add sources and references to the whaling articles as soon as I have time. It would be great if you would do the same. --Apyule 13:09, 8 November 2005 (UTC)

No worries, it looked like a mistake, but it looks like there is a few clashes of opinion on the whaling articles just now, so we need to be careful to work well with each other, Thanks. Pcb21| Pete

[edit] voting on afd

It maybe that articles on which I have voted to delete have been based on reliable sources but I think the burden of citing sources lies with the creating editor. Wikipedia:Verifiability is a policy whcih I believe is an absolute must for all articles. I hope that any afd closers would disregard my vote if reliable sources are added to articles after my vote and before closure — I will try to modify my votes to make this clearer. --redstucco 09:29, 24 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:Scott base & erebus.jpg

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[edit] Beer categories.

Hi Apyule, I hope you're sober. It has been suggested by User:BrianSmithson that the Beer and brewery categories should be renamed. The proposal has been supported by User:Syrthiss, and supported and expanded by myself. The notion is that the regional categories should follow the format of "Beer and breweries in Africa" /Europe/Asia/North America/South America/Oceania. "Brewers and breweries" could also be renamed "Beer and breweries by region". And all the countries should also be renamed (and merged if needed) as, for example, "Beer and breweries of Germany", "Beer and breweries of Britain", "Beer and breweries of Poland". The word in each case would be beer rather than beers to allow for general articles on beer culture in each region as well as individual beers.

Comments, suggestions, objections and simple votes to Wiki Beer Project SilkTork 15:07, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] User conduct RfC on Brian G. Crawford

Thought you might be interested in this:Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Brian_G._Crawford. -- backburner001 16:59, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know. --Apyule 14:27, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
No problem. Hopefully, something good will come of this. -- backburner001 16:20, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Poll

Your vote/opinion on brewery notability is requested here: [1] Sober up and come and vote! SilkTork 12:10, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Stub-Sorting

No problem! Just trying to find something to do on a boring Tuesday morning.StvnLunsford 14:22, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Ivory Coast move

Since you participated in previous discussions on Ivory Coast, you might be interested in the requested move at Talk:Côte_d'Ivoire#...Requested_move. —  AjaxSmack  08:46, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Don't bite the newbies

Do you have any specific examples? A really vague statement like this makes it hard for me to know exactly what you're talking about. Wibbble 12:49, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

I don't see anything wrong with that - my edit comment was perfectly reasonable, and it wasn't a correction since as far as I'm aware, Nokia say that the N95 doesn't actually support SDHC. I don't check the number of edits a user has made before I revert what is, AFAIK, incorrect information, and I don't think that saying 'if the N95 supports SDHC cards, please cite the Nokia reference, then it can be added to the article' is in any way biting the newbie. It was a polite request for sources, in case I was mistaken about the SDHC support Wibbble 17:33, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] AfD notification

First off I apologise if this is considered an attempt to "vote-stack", but I think it's a slightly different issue since you already" voted to keep the article George W. Bush pretzel incident back in March...it's now back on the AfD list, despite it's earlier "Keep" verdict - and I'd appreciate an extra voice if your opinions are unchanged. It is at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2002 George W. Bush pretzel incident (2nd nomination), much thanks. Sherurcij (Speaker for the Dead) 04:49, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] CMSimple

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