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[edit] Current talk items

Also see archive.

[edit] Beagle 2 pic

OK. I'll email NASA. Hope we don't cause an international incident here! Guinnog 13:14, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

Done. This will be interesting. Guinnog 14:25, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Gold Foil/Geiger-Marsden experiment

Hi. I always think of it as the Geiger-Marsden experiment too. The Geiger-Marsden experiment article was a redirect to Rutherford scattering, and I changed it to point to the pre-existing Gold foil experiment article. If I had started the Gold foil experiment article I would have called it Geiger-Marsden experiment since I had never heard of the other name before I read the article, and if I had been aware of it then Gold foil experiment seems a bit imprecise. However, the article already existed under that name and there are vast numbers of Google hits for Gold Foil experiment, as well as for Geiger-Mardsen experiment, and so it seemed a bit of a moot point about which was the best known. One of the changes I made to Gold foil experiment in my very first edit was to add the Geiger-Marsden name as a synonym[1], so editors before me presumably only knew it as the Gold Foil experiment. I have speculated that perhaps this name has come into use because it is more straightforward for school kids to remember. I don't currently have an opinion about which name is best because I don't know which is more widely recognised. By redirecting Geiger-Marsden experiment to the existing article I was sitting on the fence rather than expressing a view. Jll 00:31, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

Alright, thanks for the input. Awolf002 00:55, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Unblock me

Please ublock me, someone block my IP address , issue , resolved

[edit] Talk Ex-Yugoslavia

Talk:Kosovo#2 Administrator for Ex-Yugoslavien articels in Wikipedia- The voice of Kosovar

[edit] New look for box headers

There's a discussion on the WikiProject Astronomical objects page regarding a new look for box headers. I was hoping you could drop by and comment. Thank you. — RJH 14:42, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Current events box

Check my reply to your comment at Template talk:Current events box#Other current events redundant for Portal...I wanted to see if you thought an alternative was acceptable. Thanks—Kayaker 06:08, 1 July 2006 (UTC).

[edit] Thanks for keeping Current science and technology events current

I was wondering if the shuttle launch had happened and was about to head to http://nasa.gov/ when I decided to check out Current science and technology events first and saw confirmation of its delay. Thanks for keeping it current.

BTW, I was going to post this on Talk:Current science and technology events but that talk page is currently redirected to Talk:June 2006 in science. I didn't know whether to create Talk:July 2006 in science and post it there or overwrite the redirect and post it that way. Kayaker 18:53, 2 July 2006 (UTC).

[edit] Template:H5N1 cases

Augh! I have yet to get an edit to that template completely right! Thanks for catching the mistakes. Trying hard to make sure there aren't any, in spite of obvious proof to the contrary. :-( Waitak 15:14, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

That's a gracious reply, thanks. Especially appreciated from another person who had to wear one of those funny hats two or three times. Waitak 15:23, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

Hope I got it right this time. Want to take a look, please? Waitak 13:48, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Request your attention to the GoldToeMarionette case

GoldToeMarionette (talk · contribs) had a WP:RFCU inappropriately completed on their account by Jayjg (talk · contribs) and Hall Monitor (talk · contribs) blocked the account after it was identified as a multiple account despite their being no violation of Wikipedia policy by GoldToeMarionette. These users did not respond to requests to undo the action.

Other steps in dispute resolution have been tried

Comments on RFCU itself [2]

Other Admins contacted [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]

Hall Monitor was emailed with no reply

GoldToeMarionette posted on the account's User and Talk Pages seeking assistance when the talk page was protected without the issue being discussed. User:GoldToeMarionette User_talk:GoldToeMarionette

GoldToeMarionette notified article contributors that illustrative examples were subject to an AfD. The account strictly followed the WP:SPAM#Internal_spamming guideline. The AfD was without controversy. GoldToeMarionette did not participate in the vote. HereToCleanup removed the posts following the AfD in accord with the widely accepted Wikipedia Guideline Wikipedia:Spam#Internal_spamming that states "Clean up your mess. For example, after engaging in cross-posting to promote some election, be sure to remove those cross-posts after the election is complete." [8]

• GoldToeMarionette Contributions
• Breakdown of GoldToeMarionette's Posts
• Example post to 66 article contributors
• Example post removal from 66 article contributors
• HereToCleanup's Contributions
• No AfD participation

Since GoldToeMarionette was strictly following Wikipedia Policy, there should not have been a Check User completed by Jayjg. Hall Monitor only blocked the account because it was labeled as a sockpuppet by Jayjg's completed Check User. Absent policy violation it should not have been processed in RFCU or been blocked. I am asking for your help to confirm that policy was not violated, administrative action should not have been taken, and request that the administrative action be reversed by unblocking GoldToeMarionette and unprotecting the talk page. Thank you for your time with this request. RealTime 02:08, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

This user went around spamming all the admins beginning with A, see my talk page Ashibaka tock 18:55, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 3 Juno

Re your movie of 3 Juno, could you make it somewhat larger (match the template's width)? Also, there are resolved images from Mt. Wilson AO, reported in a Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics press release. The image should be licensed for public distribution. Michaelbusch 16:20, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Portal Space exploration

I hope you don't mind - I changed the name on the Portal page for naming conventions. I had to adjust the links to go to the individual templates - and changed the formatting to black/white as is already set up in wikiproject space. Let me know if you like/dislike the changes and we can correct it as needed. Cheers --Exodio 03:01, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

I like the look of the Portal - you are probably right about having different color schemes for the Portals - i know Mars is a pink color, etc. The only thing is you might want to not say it is based on NASA colours or you will have the Russian lovers all over your case :D --Exodio 14:28, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Portal peer review

Hello, Awolf002! Since it has been a month since you nominated the Space exploration portal for peer review, I hope you received good feedback on how the portal could be improved. If you would like, you could keep the portal listed at the portal peer review for more suggestions for improvement and ask the Wikipedians here for feedback. Also, if you think the portal is ready, you could nominate the portal for featured status. Either way, I hope you've received helpful reviews! Cheers, S.D. ¿п? § 02:03, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Reply to years in science

I changed these as they were all coming up as red links therefor I changed to the year xxxx. If there were not a red link I would have left them alone. I am trying to add years of death births, plus cleaning valelism, and Wikifying red links. Dfoley51 01:46, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

As this the only year in whatever page that has these links, rather than year links, I am only trying to make this clear. Transparency is a nice thing. This is why I accidently whiped out the older links, if they had showed up as red "xxxx in science " I would have left them alone as would have meant that page has yet to be to be put up, but red year number indicate something was "busted". I hope this explains my rational. Dfoley51 01:46, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

I knew to what you were refering to, as I said tranparency is a woderful thing. A user that clicks on a year link would expect to go to the year vs. XXXX in science. My action eliminates any confusion. Dfoley51 02:02, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Messier 67 and Blue stragglers

Thanks for editing the German Messier 67 page. In looking at it, I went to the German Blue straggler page and discovered a gross error:

sind extrem heiße Sterne mit mehr als 50 Sonnenmassen

From Zhang etal: " ... the mass of S1280 is calculated to be 1.63±0.10 M , that for S1284 is computed to be 2.15±0.15 M ."

When I tried to login on the German side, I discovered my account does not work. Vegasprof 11:14, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

Awolf, I have created an article Mass segregation. There is no corresponding article on the German side. Vegasprof 20:42, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Embedded Java Applets at Wikiversity

Are you heading this work up or is there another person doing so? I lost the test location and have some information that may be of some use in building robust code. If you could tell me who you think is in charge it would be very helpful to me. Wikiversity user:mirwin

P.S. I go now to look at your photos to see if they are big enough with detail sufficient as textures in animation of planets. I can get these from NASA but more fun to have our own GPL'ed! 8)

Thanks for the feedback on my talk page. I found this while looking for a Java based mud server and client. http://developer.berlios.de/projects/quizmaster/ It is in beta but it seems like it might be good to use to prototype the applet@wikiverisity code. Might get some more interest from some of the educators clamouring from quizzes in actually helping implement it. mirwin@wikiversity

Airwolf, you could really help me out by going here

[9] and adding yourself in the role of systems analyst, java integrater, whatever. You are fulfilling this function for us by working on the embedded applets thing as it will be critical to our mud server for our class project (a project provided for when no one has other ideas they wish to work on while studying at our learning trail). It would boost my morale plus seeing there are multiple people working on different aspect of the common project will, I think, encourage further participation. If you would rather not I understand but I sure would appreciate it the assistance! Lazyquasar 01:22, 7 November 2006 (UTC) aka mirwin@wikiversity

[edit] Retrocausality

As per JzG's recommendation, I've totally reworked the above article as a revamped stub. Please take another look if you like. Thanks Bwithh 20:38, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Lutheranism

The WikiProject Lutheranism Collaboration Project is under way. Please help improve this month's article, or make a suggestion for next month's article. To add the collaboration banner to your userpage or talk page, use {{Lutheran COTM}}. -- Pastordavid 19:41, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Barnstars

Please stop by and give your opinion on the two proposed barnstars for WikiProject Lutheranism. Pastor David ^† _(Review) 18:35, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Hymn Template

Nicely done! The only logistical issue for very popular hymns is what to pur in the translator field. 8-) --CTSWyneken 12:56, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Possibly unfree Image:67p 05.jpg

[edit] Re: Template:Astronomy portal daily picture

The template was deleted because it is unused anywhere. Was it being subst'd? --MZMcBride 03:08, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

I checked your contribs and saw your posts to ^demon's user page. I now have a better understanding of what happened. Because the template was "unused" (i.e., it had no transclusions), it was marked as {{deprecated}} as part of WP:DOT. There's supposed to be a fourteen day wait between the tagging and the deletion to allow for any unknown substitutions or transclusions to be discovered. ^demon jumped the gun and inadvertently deleted the template early (along with several others). I spoke with him and explained the two week wait and it's reason. A couple of notes for the future: it would be really helpful if templates that always subst'd would be marked somehow; also, if the template is for "personal" use, i.e., only you use it regularly for a particular purpose, it really doesn't need to be in the Template namespace. A user subpage with the content would act identically when subst'd. I hope this clarifies matters. Cheers. --MZMcBride 03:29, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Why did you revert my edit in 32P/Comas Solá

This revert: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=32P%2FComas_Sol%C3%A1&diff=169494695&oldid=169483150 Honest question. I checked When to revert. and still don't understand. Thank you. 89.129.186.159 15:28, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Kaufmann-Neumann experiment

Are you still working on this User:Awolf002/Kaufmann-Neumann experiment article? --D.H (talk) 15:36, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] POV

The POV-pushing in the article on Aristarchus of Samos has been removed. You complained about it earlier. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.41.51.240 (talk) 12:45, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] RE: Merged Portal "mock up"

I think the exact rotation spans would be best discussed at Portal talk:Spaceflight, but in my opinion, it would be best to have both the selected article and picture rotating weekly, and the biographies monthly. I agree with your comment about pictures being easier to rotate, and so I think that it would be a good idea to rotate these on a weekly basis, however I think that there should be no problem with keeping the article rotation weekly as well. In my experience at Portal:Spaceflight, there's been no problem in keeping the page up-to-date, and we've only missed one week since around this time last year. With the status indicator which I have developed, it should be easy to prevent this happening again. Assuming the merger goes ahead, which seems very likely, we will presumably have a few more people working on the portal, making it easier to maintain. Randomisation may be something to look at for the "did you know..." section. --GW_Simulations_{User Page | Talk} 22:16, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

By the way, I'm probably going to close the proposal off and merge in two hours or so, if nothing more is said. --GW_Simulations_{User Page | Talk} 22:20, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

The merger has been completed. Discussion about rotation intervals should be made at Portal talk:Spaceflight. --GW_Simulations_{User Page | Talk} 01:09, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Mr. anti-POV

For a long time a throwback-Catholic-POV vandal, Holy Hydra, has been successfully demonstrating the inefficacy of Wikipedia anti-vandalism alerts and safeguards. HH's above January 5 flattering contact to you regarding the Aristarchus of Samos article is actually part of a typical HH tantrum, vandalizing anything connected to Dennis Rawlins or DIO since December DIO-citing insertions of comparison of Aristarchus's persecution to Galileo's. Your original query on earlier citations of DIO suggested POV (arguable) and OR (hardly). Later you evidently understood that the Rawlins discoveries were published in the leading forums of the field — a class which includes DIO, a journal backed by some of the most able scholars connected with the subjects discussed. As for "site-pushing" — over the last century-plus most of the discoveries of the bases of the few surviving key numbers of Aristarchus have been by Paul Tannery, Thomas Heath 1913 (the Dover reprint of which provides accessible relay of Tannery's germinal researches), and DIO. There isn't much, which is part of the reason the article is so short but why make it shorter? HH has no demonstrated expertise in this area so his almost-daily chippings at the article are not going to improve much and have generally degraded it. The removal of source references just destroys readers' access to the researches and mathematical developments underlying the text.

Suggestions. Do a revert to December 24. But include reference at least in a footnote to Luther's disbelief in the earth's motion, adding that though Luther did not threaten heliocentrists Lutherans in the U.S. were attacking geomobilists in the late 19th century long after Catholicism had let the matter drop. Add a reference to Otto Neugebauer's History of Ancient Mathematical Astronomy (Springer, 1975) pages 634-643 (which takes a different view from Rawlins's on the value of Aristarchus's work) and to philologist Beate Noack's Aristarch von Samos (Wiesbaden, 1992, part of the Serta Graeca series) a careful investigation of the manuscript ancestry and establishment of the text of "On the Sizes and Distances of the Sun and Moon" (a work of which Neugebauer's discussion is one of the clearest). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.220.212.171 (talk) 23:10, 24 January 2008 (UTC) Note that Dennis Rawlins uses 128.220.212.171, although it is registered to an American university. Kowal, a friend of Rawlins, works at the same uni. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.152.174.243 (talk) 10:57, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

See below at "The Quality of Wikipedia…".

[edit] Portal:Current events/Science and technology

A comment in the Portal specifies "Please add new stories at the top of the current day"; does this mean if I want to add a story from earlier in the month; I have to put it under today? I would like to significantly add to the Portal... but with such a restriction it really limits what and how much I can do. - RoyBoy ⁸⁰⁰ 00:54, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] The Quality of Wikipedia Editing. And Oversight

As noted above under "Mr. Anti-POV" the Aristarchus of Samos article has been repeatedly censored by a defender of the Inquisition (87.194.4.21, 86.152.174.243, etc; see above through the "Holy Hydra" link for others among HH's various IP numbers) who is simultaneously upset when (alert) Wikipedia monitors undo any of HH's many months of equally aggressive vandalisms, e.g., on September 22 inserting into the Alex Ferguson biography the helpful information "he is a pig and he sucks cocks for money". If this is the brand of editor Wikipedia wishes to have deleting citations to researches presented at the University of Zürich (van der Waerden, through a Johns Hopkins University-edited journal) and the British Museum (Rawlins), then the unkind press Wikipedia has been getting in recent months is understandable.

It is probable that restoration of the Aristarchus article will unloose further persistent vandalism of the Rawlins biography. (HH has been going at the Richard Dawkins circle in the same fashion interminably. It is HH's well established routine to pest-vandalize those who engage in the defiant sin of error. By the implicit threat of this, HH apparently hopes to force upon Wikipedia correctness according to HH.) But a revert (adding further citations for neutral balance) should be risked and carefully watched since Aristarchus's importance greatly exceeds Rawlins's.