User talk:Saros136

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Okay, this is my talk page, if anyone wants to talk. I'll add to this later.

Please feel free to add metric mmeasurements where they are lacking but please do not remove English/traditional/customary measurements when you do so. Rmhermen 05:07, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

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[edit] Foul Ball Page

Is a ball foul if it lands in foul territory, touching no part of the foul line, but a portion of the ball is above the foul line? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Billt4 (talk • contribs) 20:12, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Volcano Page

Thanks for fixing the phallic related volcano page, I was just about to do that myself. When are people ever going to growup. I wish I could just message the thanks instead of writing to your page

You're welcome:) I've got Volcano on my watchlist, and I check the list fairly often when I'm online...so I'll be back. Saros136 09:39, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Asteroid orbits

Hi Saros, thanks for fixing those dates and stats on the asteroid pages. I notice you are using a different formula for the mean orbital speed than good old \frac{2\pi a}{T}, and obtain consistently slightly slower speeds. Do you know what the reason is? Does the standard formula we've been using require a correction? If so, the article Orbital speed eagerly awaits an update! Deuar 12:43, 10 December 2005 (UTC)


Hi. The formula you cited calculates the circumference of a circle with a given semimajor axis, and divides by the orbital period. But the circumference of an ellipse is less than that of a circle with the same semi. The greater e is, the smaller it will be.

I'm using the first formula listed in the circumference section of ellipse . I'm using two more terms, for good measure (big overkill!). I get the elements from JPL Horizons...the telnet version, which will email the results. Then I copy and paste it to my spreadsheet, and I've set it up to calculate it.

I don't know how to write math in wikipedia, but here's what I use in Excel: 2*PI()*a*(1-(e/2)^2-((1*3)/(2*4))^2*(e^4)/3-(1*3*5)/(2*4*6)^2*(e^6)/5)-((1*3*5*7)/(2*4*6*8))^2*(e^8)/7-((1*3*5*7*9)/(2*4*6*8*10))^2*(e^10)/9

Thanks for asking, and I'm glad to help

Great! That's very useful. By the way, if you're interested, math is written in a simplified LaTeX format enabled by tags like this: <math> the expression </math>. Details at Help:Formula. Deuar 19:28, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Check with Webster's

I noticed your change of "determinators" to "determinaters" at Earth. It's often a good idea, when attempt to correct spelling, to check a dictionary first. Merriam-Webster Online (U.S. English) agrees with the original author in "determinator"; Cambridge Dictionaries Online (UK English) doesn't even have a version of this word. Your implication that "-er" is the sole correct suffix for "one who determines" (in the edit summary) is inaccurate. Many nouns that represent "one who does" use "-or" (e.g., actor, distributor), although "-er" is common as well (flier, singer). I agree that "determinator" sounds awkward in this context, as "-or" words (as far as I can recall) always imply a person, whereas the Earth sentence was talking about inanimate objects (ocean currents). I rendered the issue moot by replacing this awkward word with "determiners". (It's a pet peeve of mine that English speakers have this irrational need to -ate everything.) Just to be sure, I verified "determiner" with Webster's before making the change. (Cambridge, which despite its large collection of references tends to miss a lot of words, had "determiner", but only mentioned its narrower grammatical sense.) ~ Jeff Q (talk) 16:42, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

I had checked onelook, before editing.(The definition is from a 1913 edition; I should have searched more.) It said only "one who determines" for the "-or" version, and since(as you said) the sentence refers to an inanimate object, I changed it. It's good that you changed it, though.

[edit] Contractions

With regard to your note: no contractions in encyclopedia Contractions are a normal part of formal English, and there is nothing against them in Wikipedia:Manual of Style. Ordinary Person 09:20, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

Not true. The style guide says, "In general, formal writing is preferred. Therefore, avoid the use of contractions — such as don’t, can’t, won’t, would’ve, they’d, and so on — unless they occur in a quotation.", from the style guide

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style#Contractions Saros136 00:18, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

My apologies. Thank you for that correction. Ordinary Person 01:03, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Welcome to Wikipedia!!!

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[edit] Seizure

Thanks for noticing the insulting text. I've looked at the history and discovered that a whole bunch of bizarre edits were made a week ago by an anon. I've reverted them all. Colin°Talk 22:46, 7 September 2006 (UTC)


Your welcome. And thanks for the great editing job.



Your request to be unblocked has been granted for the following reasons:

Autoblock of 152.163.100.71 lifted. Sorry for the trouble!

Request handled by: Luna Santin 06:07, 18 October 2006 (UTC)


[edit] My fault

I was wrong to revert. I saw a word that got added that looked like "talia", a name this vandal keeps adding. I rushed too much. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Saros136 (talk • contribs) 03:21, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

No problem, keep up the good work (and don't forget to sign your talk page posts with the old four squiggly things ~~~~ — Matt Crypto 02:52, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] popups

Popups undoes multiple edits if you use the page history and revert to your target version from there. --Neurophyre(talk) 03:13, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

Ok, thank you. And good work by you, I see. Saros136 06:25, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Welcome to VandalProof! 1.3

Thank you for your interest in VandalProof, Saros136! You have now been added to the list of authorized users, so if you haven't already, simply download and install VandalProof. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me or any other moderator, or you can post a message on the discussion page and please note this is VP 1.3 not 1.2.2 see this for the approved list. Betacommand (talk • contribs • Bot) 17:14, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Earth

Stop lying to the public! The Earth did not just "form". GOD CREATED IT! Switchfo0t813

I disgree. And the Earth article is about scientific findings, not religious claims. Saros136 20:42, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Draconian or draconian?

I moved the discussion to Talk:Eclipse cycle; please see my answer there. Tom Peters 13:07, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] United States

Please stop removing United States from all the entries. This is a global encyclopedia and according to the correct way of writing articles, that has to stay. If you don't believe me, check out FA Detroit which has US State right in the first sentence. Thanks.--Kranar drogin 11:12, 30 April 2007 (UTC)


I just wanted to tell you I responded to you comment on Derek Balsam's talk page. If you would like to read it (assuming you don't have it on your watchlist) just click here : Derek's talk page . Have a nice day. Gloern 20:49, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Solar System and "Terra Firma"

Saros136,

Thanks for your discussion with Gloern on my talk page. I appreciate your help in maintaining the quality of wikipedia. Please see further discussion on my talk page as well. Thanks, Derek Balsam(talk) 17:13, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Comet

Thanks for the right revert - apparently I almost missed the second vandalism the anon did in a row and reverted back to that. ;) --Ubardak (talk) 01:38, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

You're welcome! Saros136 (talk) 01:54, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] AfD nomination of 16 August 2008 lunar eclipse

An article that you have been involved in editing, 16 August 2008 lunar eclipse, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/16 August 2008 lunar eclipse. Thank you. --CWY2190TC 00:43, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Giovan Battista Bellaso

Hi, I probably overwrote a modification you made. If I did, it was inadvertently, we just happened to be on the same page at the same time. Please redo the modification as needed. I still have to add the illustrations to the page, I will do it in a second time, so please leave alone the "insertion points" that now looks like unrelated lines, but eventually will become the notes to the illustrations. To have an idea of the illustrations, you can refer to the Italian page:

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--SUSSI (talk) 14:18, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Lunar eclipses

Hi! I finally got a start on a lunar eclipse database, tested some new static tables in list of lunar eclipses which can be converted to templates for substitution into varied formats. SockPuppetForTomruen (talk) 01:36, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

See my sort of log/project page at: User:SockPuppetForTomruen/saros_project

[edit] Bismarck

I have reverted your "edits" on this page. You removed citations/sourced material and then inexplicably moved the information regarding A. Schneider. Please do not do this, it is important information. It came mighty close to being vandalism. Dapi89 (talk) 19:33, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

I'm sorry, I don't know what happened. Something got accidentally deleted, when I was editing. I think I had it in Word. Check my contributions, and you'll see that a lot of my edits are reverting vandalism. Saros136 (talk) 20:31, 21 March 2008 (UTC)