User talk:Mhardcastle

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Hello, Mhardcastle, 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:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! By the way, please be sure to sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~) to produce your name and the current date, or three tildes (~~~) for just your name. If you have any questions, you can post to the help desk or ask me on my talk page. Again, welcome! -- ALoan (Talk) 01:25, 8 September 2005 (UTC)

Hmm. Would you know what I meant if I said "MJH22"? -- ALoan (Talk) 01:25, 8 September 2005 (UTC)

Well, google finds the odd one or two who are not you. Appearances can be deceptive: there is a User:Psb777 who has nothing to do with Cambridge. Marnanel has gone for now, but Francis Davey is around.
I see you (as 147.197.230.144 (talk · contribs), 82.69.85.137 (talk · contribs), and 82.69.8.241 (talk · contribs)) have concentrated so far on astronomy and academia, with a dash of Tolkien and other stuff. Do you know Worldtraveller? He is a (mostly galactic) postdoc at UCL (PhD thesis on metal abundances in planetary nebulae) who has written or polished a bunch of astronomy-related Featured articles, but further assistance (copyediting, new information, etc.) is always welcome.
You may be aware that there is a process to select "featured" material at Featured article candidates and Featured list candidates. Polishing up someone else's work is generally a quicker win that contributing something new. The Wikipedia:Goings-on and the Wikipedia Signpost are good ways to keep track of what is happening on the community side.
Happy editing. -- ALoan (Talk) 09:25, 8 September 2005 (UTC)

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[edit] Square degree

Thanks - how is a lawyer meant to remember the difference between 4π steradians in a sphere and 2π radians in a circle (especially when it intuitively feels a bit like it ought to be (2π)² rather than 2×2π...). Within an order of magnitude should be good enough, I should think. ;) -- ALoan (Talk) 14:59, 8 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Lord Chancellor

Are you able to add inline citations to the Lord Chancellor article? If you cannot then the article will be removed from its featured status. Joelito (talk) 00:24, 30 July 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Brympton d'Evercy

Thanks for the copy edit, it needs it. I was going to make it a FA, but have never got arownd to finishing it or more polishing it. Thanks. Giano | talk 08:15, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] LINERs

I will create at least a short page on LINERs in the moderate future; I have professional experience with the objects. 13:00, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

I have now created a small page for low ionization nuclear emission regions. This page will grow substantially; I still have a lot of information from a couple of my scientific papers that I can copy into the article. (Having written on this topic before makes it easy to write a Wikipedia article on it.) Dr. Submillimeter 17:48, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Footnote-style reference

You may want to consider using footnote-style references in active galactic nucleus. Although what you did with active galactic nucleus was still very good, the footnotes indicate more clearly where information comes from, thus avoiding disputes or ambiguities over the origins of content. They can also be reused throughout an article. (I also prefer them because they work like journal referneces in some ways.) Please let me know if you would like more information. Thank you, Dr. Submillimeter 23:57, 3 January 2007 (UTC)