User talk:Eklipse

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[edit] Welcome to the Wikipedia

Welcome, Eklipse!

Here are some useful tips to ease you into the Wikipedia experience:

Also, here are some odds and ends that I find useful from time to time:

Feel free to ask me anything the links and talk pages don't answer. You can most easily reach me by posting on my talk page.

You can sign your name on any page by typing 4 tildes, likes this: ~~~~.

Best of luck, and have fun! ClockworkSoul 21:16, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Re: List of space telescopes

Hello. Thanks for your comments on Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of space telescopes. I'm replying here as that page seems to have been archived now...

I agree that adding some history to the page would be good, but I'm not a historian, and plain don't know it...

As for numbers: I could probably find the number of satellites currently in orbit, but it would take a while - I'd have to try to find out whether each of the satellites is still up there or not. Active is easier, but I'm not 100% confident that it would be the correct number - some satellites have possibly ended, but haven't said, and I occasionally find ones I missed (e.g. PAMELA which I added yesterday). It would also have to be updated fairly often (~ once a month).

What happens to terminated satellites is easier: they stay up there until their orbit decays and they fall back to Earth, when they burn up; or for those at Lagrange 2, they'll just stay there for a few million years until their orbit gets disturbed. I guess that could be added, so long as I can find a reference for it, but I'm not sure that it would fit in...

Having said all of that, I'll keep your comments in mind, and will try to modify the list in the future to accommodate some of your suggestions.

Thanks again. Mike Peel (talk) 18:35, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Lists of basic topics

I noticed you joined this WikiProject. Welcome.

As far as I can tell, the rest of the members are in it in name only. I've tried to stir them to action, but nothing has worked so far.

I hope you are an exception, and that you've added your name to the list because you want to make an impact.

This project is a very big undertaking. Only a few of the lists are complete. Which means there are hundreds of lists that still need work.

I've been picking away at them for over 2 years (I started out as User:Go for it!), and have done the majority of the work on them. The set is a lot more useful than it was, but there is still a looong way to go.

Even if the two of us worked on them full time, it would take years to complete the set.

We need help.

Lots of help.

Therefore, I believe we should take a strategic approach here.

The best thing we could do for this project is to recruit help.

Aggressively.

Are you in?

The Transhumanist    05:27, 25 March 2008 (UTC)


[edit] Pornography on wikipedia

I'm pleased that I've finally found someone who agrees with my views on the whole pornography issue, I am even considering leaving wikipedia because of it. I have already put the leaving wikipedia banner on my page, and am waiting to give it the green light! Britishrailclass91 (talk) 08:43, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

Since when did an image of a naked human being automatically equal pornography? Adambro (talk) 11:22, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
I would also like to see the pro-pornographic editors views on the situation. I feel it is annoying that an internet encyclopedia that was once respected should have thiss kind of content! Britishrailclass91 (talk) 11:53, 18 May 2008 (UTC)