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[edit] Welcome

Hello, Zephalis, and welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you are stuck, and looking for help, please come to the New contributors' help page, where experienced Wikipedians can answer any queries you have! Or, you can just type {{helpme}} on your user page, and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! By the way, you can sign your name on Talk and vote pages using three tildes, like this: ~~~. Four tildes (~~~~) produces your name and the current date. If you have any questions, see the help pages, add a question to the village pump or ask me on my talk page. Again, welcome! --WS 22:48, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

And thanks for adding the locating table to myocardial infarction, very helpful, I just had a lecture about that yesterday. --WS 22:49, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

I'm trying to edit a page and I can't get tabs to show up...i've tried 	 and 	 to no avail. What i'm attempting is to line some text up Zephalis 21:15, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

What you need to do is use ':' symbols. This is wikisyntax for tab. —— Eagle (ask me for help) 21:25, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

Hrm, with a glance at the discussion at Eagle's talk, it sounds like you're looking for Help:Table. Hope that helps. Luna Santin 22:30, 8 September 2006 (UTC)


Hi - I, like Luna Santin, saw your help request. What you need to use are tables (WP:TABLE).


An easier method to get the two's complement of a number is as follows:
1. Starting from the right, find the first '1' ex. 0101001 or 0101100
2. Invert all of the bits to the left of that one ex. 1010111 or 1010100

Hope this helps :) Martinp23 22:34, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

thanks luna and martin ... i still couldn't get the tables to work the way i wanted (the help said you could use something like style="width:100px" to extend it but i couldn't get it to work so i faked it (see above) Zephalis 00:03, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
how do i make a normal wikilink to a wiktionary definition?
wikt:info type wikt: at the start. -Royalguard11(Talk·Desk) 03:16, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Phidippus audax

hi there,

i see you added lots of information on the Phidippus audax article. that's generally nice, but almost all of it was general salticid info, not specifically regarding P. audax. so i removed it (except for the bit with the eye movement, which wasn't yet on the page where general info like this belongs, Jumping spider, and where i moved it to). right now, there are dozens of salticid articles in wikipedia, and there are a lot more on the way, and it would not make much sense to repeat general information in each one. if you would like to know more about working on spiders on wikipedia, check out the WikiProject Spiders, or just leave me a note :)

cheers --Sarefo 22:57, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

PS: just saw that you removed information from the page (common name, and the distribution). please do not remove information unless you know it to be false or irrelevant for the article. also, species and genus names are always written in italics, like this: Phidippus audax (you removed the italics). also, i just realized that you just copied'n'pasted the dermatology article. this is generally a very bad idea, as it could result in copyright infringement claims, which could be a lot of trouble for wikipedia. please never copy whole articles into wikipedia unless you are absolutely certain that you are legally allowed to do so.

[edit] Wandering Albatross

I removed a line you added for a specific reason, namely that there is no evidence that albatrosses sleep and fly at the same time. It is a widespread legend and I've seen it repeated in even some respectable popular science books, but it has never made it into a peer reviewed journal, monograph or suchlike nor have any of the recorders placed on abatrosses for months on end produced any evidence for it. I also removed a second line that repeated everything you'd already said. I also removed a citation that was a copy of the article (what is known as a mirror. Sabine's Sunbird talk 03:44, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

  • Also I did not 'mirror' the article as there was no better was to put the flight fact from that article I'm sorry, I wasn't clear, I meant that the article you cited was a mirror or fork - the text there was a copy of our very own (old) article! Clearly you see that we can't go round citing copies of ourself, even if they are hosted elsewhere.
  • what is considered a "peer reviewed journal, monograph or suchlike" for ornithology? Any one of the dozens of journals like The Auk, Science (journal) etc, as well as any of the monographs written by experts like Warham's The Petrels series, Tickell's Albatrosses, Brooke's Albatrosses And Petrels Across The World or the Handbook of the Birds of the World.
  • I also mentioned that "some sources" announce the sleep while flying thing. Some sources state categorically that the quack of a duck doesn't have an echo. That doesn't make it true. It is another of those very widespread myths. Believe me, I tried my damndest to get to the bottom of this myth when I pushed albatross to featured status. I went through every journal and book I could find and found no scientific evidence for the myth. Moreover I have lived on an albatross colony and have seen them sleep and they do so in the same manner as almost every other bird, they tuck their bill under their wing and close their eyes. The only bird for which there is evidence of sleep in flights are migrating swifts, and they do so at high altitude in a 'holding pattern'. It is very unlikely that an albatross could do it at low altitude 1 m above choppy water while pulling off slope soaring and dynamic gliding.
  • Also note that a bird sleeping in flight would be very similar to a human sleepwalking It probably wouldn't actually.
  • the recorders placed on abatrosses [sic] for months on end [producing no] evidence for [flight while sleeping This paper makes refernce to the fact that albatrosses generally land repeatedly during the day and rest for long periods on the water. Weimerskirch H, Guionnet T, Martin J, Shaffer SA, Costa DP. (2000) "Fast and fuel efficient? Optimal use of wind by flying albatrosses." Proc Biol Sci 267: (1455) 1869–74. Sabine's Sunbird talk 20:47, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Speedy deletion of Internet Initiative Japan

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[edit] Speedy deletion of Template:Elementbox magnetic properties

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Thanks. --MZMcBride (talk) 03:38, 3 February 2008 (UTC)