User talk:Sgt. Salt
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[edit] Great catch and a welcome!
Great job reverting that vandalism the bot missed on The Cask of Amontillado! I can't believe how long it lasted and I didn't notice it! While I'm here, since I'm your first talk page visitor, I leave you one of these:
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[edit] Why remove the pronuciation of methemoglobin?
This is one of those words which is not obvious how to pronounce, especially for nonscientists. Like periodic acid. So why remove the information? One of the rules in Wikipedia is: don't delete, improve! If you think the problem isn't real, write the word on paper and give it to ten of your non-scientifically trained friends and ask them to say it. You'll be entertained. SBHarris 21:35, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
- I thought that since hemoglobin was linked in the very first sentence it made it pretty clear that the correct pronunciation was met + the pronunciation of hemoglobin. If you think either the pronunciation of hemoglobin or the link between methemoglobin and hemoglobin is unclear feel free to add the IPA notation, I myself am not well-versed in IPA and the hemoglobin page doesn't have an IPA so I didn't bother. --Sgt. Salt (talk) 11:31, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
- While I have nothing against IPA as a supplement, unfortunately I have the same problem as you (and everybody else) does with it: it's so foreign as not to be useful. And as for it being obvious that methemoglobin is prononced without the dipthong, you didn't try the test I suggested with your friends, did you? I've even heard medical people say meth-hemoglobin, as thought it somehow had a methyl group on it. They never looked to see, or though about it very hard. So, for the love of God, Montressor, put it back! SBHarris 01:07, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
- Yes, for the love of God, Fortunato. Though Montresor takes a single s, and I would think it's pronounced like a z -- now here's another article that needs you to clarify the pronunciation :-] I wouldn't view IPA as useless, I mean even without being an expert you can easily see the difference between t+h and th; however actually writing it is much more difficult, you have to know the right symbols for the vowels, know whether to use Am.E or Br.E (don't know what the wikipedia rules say), and so on. So whatever floats your boat, I do think it would be best to ask the local wikipedia IPA experts to contribute the correct pronunciations for hemoglobin and methemoglobin, but if you disagree then just put it back -- we'll call my revert an excellent jest and have many a rich laugh about it at the palazzo. --Sgt. Salt (talk) 12:16, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
- Hey, now, no Poe references without informing me! Sgt. Salt, I got your message and it made me laugh. Anyway, back to your regularly scheduled discussion... --Midnightdreary (talk) 14:59, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
- Yes, for the love of God, Fortunato. Though Montresor takes a single s, and I would think it's pronounced like a z -- now here's another article that needs you to clarify the pronunciation :-] I wouldn't view IPA as useless, I mean even without being an expert you can easily see the difference between t+h and th; however actually writing it is much more difficult, you have to know the right symbols for the vowels, know whether to use Am.E or Br.E (don't know what the wikipedia rules say), and so on. So whatever floats your boat, I do think it would be best to ask the local wikipedia IPA experts to contribute the correct pronunciations for hemoglobin and methemoglobin, but if you disagree then just put it back -- we'll call my revert an excellent jest and have many a rich laugh about it at the palazzo. --Sgt. Salt (talk) 12:16, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
- While I have nothing against IPA as a supplement, unfortunately I have the same problem as you (and everybody else) does with it: it's so foreign as not to be useful. And as for it being obvious that methemoglobin is prononced without the dipthong, you didn't try the test I suggested with your friends, did you? I've even heard medical people say meth-hemoglobin, as thought it somehow had a methyl group on it. They never looked to see, or though about it very hard. So, for the love of God, Montressor, put it back! SBHarris 01:07, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Fair use images in the userspace
I have removed the image Image:Pepper's.jpg from your userspace User:Sgt. Salt. Please be aware that images that are clamied as fair use have a restriction in location:
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- From the policy page Wikipedia:Non-free content criteria
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Placing non-free images in a userspace such as User:Sgt. Salt is a violation and has been removed. Please do not restore this image without consoltation. Thank you. — Κaiba 11:10, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
