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Who is the new foot-covering for this old hand? Did you mean this guy? davidwr/(talk)/(contribs) 22:16, 23 January 2021 (UTC)

Indeed. Thanks! My computer has been having trouble cut'n'pasting between windows:( DMacks (talk) 22:19, 23 January 2021 (UTC)

Sigh, and the non-empty suspected sock cat is still red too. I told you that installing double-pain windows would hurt! davidwr/(talk)/(contribs) 22:25, 23 January 2021 (UTC)

And that's an annoying step I usuaally forget regardless of glazing. Would be nice if Easyblock would prompt for it, but that tool's unmaintained and now has n+1 bugs. DMacks (talk) 22:29, 23 January 2021 (UTC)

18:30, 25 January 2021 (UTC)

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22:38, 1 February 2021 (UTC)

Hi DM, I was just wondering if you'd mind chiming in on my request to restore a contemporary fair-use image of a now-recently-deceased individual? Cheers, ‑‑Neveselbert (talk · contribs · email) 20:57, 6 February 2021 (UTC)

17:40, 8 February 2021 (UTC)

A discussion is taking place to address the redirect Starf*ck (party). The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2021 February 15#Starf*ck (party) until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. Hog Farm _Talk 03:54, 15 February 2021 (UTC)

17:54, 15 February 2021 (UTC)

This user, whom you blocked indef 31⁄2 years ago, has requested unblock. Any thoughts? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Daniel Case (talk • contribs) 04:29, 16 February 2021 (UTC)

Seems like a reasonable WP:Standard offer. I really don't care about his topic-area as long as his edit behavior is improved. DMacks (talk) 04:40, 16 February 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for contribution Science&potato (talk) 20:09, 16 February 2021 (UTC)

I don't understand why you are trying to remove my contributions.

I have already had my house burglarized on several ocassions as well as my salary digits stolen from me.

I don't understand what it is about other people trying to Rob & Burgle from me.

It's foul behaviour. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.12.182.103 (talk) 17:56, 21 February 2021 (UTC)

Wikipedia is only about wikipedia, and there's no hurry--it's okay to take some time to get your "real life" back together before editing.

medical-topics reliable-sources are a non-negotiable basis for any content. Not what you personally think or can figure out. Not what you have heard or your opinions on any of it. Your edits match in several ways those of an editor who is forbidden from editing Wikipedia altogether (regardless of what account they use, or what information and sources they would add). DMacks (talk

) 18:11, 21 February 2021 (UTC)

00:16, 23 February 2021 (UTC)

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I am new to Wiki and seems those editors are the same person! Please check on Tigrayan history and talk Clownshking (talk) 01:30, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

Hi Dmacks, I have a non-chemistry question for you for once. I've noticed that User:Ivan Humphrey has been engaging is numerous changes in

Thanks for your recent edit on Fluazifop. I should have thought about just using R and RS rather than 2R and 2RS! As to the removal of the Q number (which links the ester to the corresponding Wikidata item), it was added by Graeme Bartlett in this edit [[25]], As he is normally pretty hot on these things, maybe he would like to comment here on why he added it and whether it should be reinstated? Mike Turnbull (talk) 13:00, 6 March 2021 (UTC)

I may add a qid to a draft if I found out the wikidata item when looking at ids. We don't add drafts to Wikidata. Also qid1 qid2 may apply if there are multiple wikidata items for one chemical, eg if the chemical has indexed entries - such as for isomers. For this one qid2 was the butyl ester, that was previously linked from Wikidata, but I changed the linkage from the base chemical Wikidata item. I don't mind it being removed, but I think that chembox should support it, especially when grabbing wikidata values for indexed boxes. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 20:32, 6 March 2021 (UTC)

17:50, 8 March 2021 (UTC)

Hello DMacks,

Thank you very much for indicating me the trick to overcome the problem encountered with the sign "=" in the Short description template by replacing it by {{=}}. I have to confess that my trick with the sign ≐ (with a point above =) was not very orthodox. ;-)

{{Short description|Organic compounds containing a diazoamino group −N(R)−N{{=}}N−}}.

I am happy that you rapidly find a solution and share it with me. There is still two or three edits in "Short desc" to correct. I will have a look immediately. :-) Shinkolobwe (talk) 16:05, 10 March 2021 (UTC)

You're welcome! Turns out I'm seeing a bug...somewhere...in the shortdesc handlers that our work on that page has uncovered. So this will be a win all around. Why does

{{short description|Organic compounds containing a diazoamino group −N(R)−N=N−}}

actually display properly in {{annotated link}} even though it throws a warning, and why does the 1= resolve the warning but not display properly? I think there is some deep magic in the internal annotated-link handlers. DMacks (talk) 17:36, 10 March 2021 (UTC)

Bug in {{Template parameter value}} when calling a positional parameter from a template that is called using named (or explicitly numbered) parameters. That's apparently been known for a year, according to Template talk:Annotated link and Template talk:Template parameter value. Grr. DMacks (talk) 17:48, 10 March 2021 (UTC)

That citation you removed is 100% proof of the origin of the term 'GameLit'. Not only do the posts throughout reference it several times, but it also predates any public usage of the term by months. GuyOnACouch (talk) 22:34, 28 February 2021 (UTC)

Our

reliable source guideline are not satisfied by our own data analysis and digging. If this is a serious enough genre to merit an article at all, surely it has been analyzed in actual scholarly publications, including some history of it. Simply "this is the oldest I could find" or a facebook post do not suffice. DMacks (talk

) 03:46, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

Yes, because LitRPG (the genre of the source article) has sooo many scholarly publications and it's history isn't at all just links to other Wiki pages and non-scholarly Russian websites. The 'well, Facebook doesn't count' flew in 2012 because it was essentially exclusively a public diary with memes, but acting as if because something was come up with and talked about on Facebook it's no longer relevant or worth the hyperlink in a post-2015 is about as ridiculous as the crowd who disregarded information back in the day because it was found on the internet. GuyOnACouch (talk) 22:29, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

It's a shame that some things that are "known" still can't be written on Wikipedia because there is no valid

reliable source available. DMacks (talk

) 16:09, 13 March 2021 (UTC)

I'd like to clarify that the edit I made at 22:35, 12 March 2021, stating no article, which you deleted entirely was in no way malicious. My first thought was to delete the text but I concluded relocating the extract was the best course of action. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 51.7.242.215 (talk)

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Hi 51.7.242.215,

I see no evidence of malice in your edit. The content was written by someone else before you. If that content were to remain in the article, your moving it is a fine action (and specifically one I would actually probably support in this case). If it were to have citations to

reliable sources, there would be no problem at all. Unfortunately, Wikipedia software doesn't always know "who did what" (create a sentence vs change a word in it vs relocate it in the article), just that "these were the set of edits and editors who were affected by the action". DMacks (talk

) 16:14, 13 March 2021 (UTC)

23:20, 15 March 2021 (UTC)

Shortly after the death of his wife Mansoora Begum, Nasir Ahmad started making plans for a second marriage. He made predictions and prophecies that this marriage will bring blessings for Ahmadi Jamaat. On 11 April 1982,[9] he married Tahira Siddiqua Nasir, daughter of Abdul Majeed Khan of Verowal. She was in early twenties and more than 50 years younger. Approximately within a week of marriage Nasir Ahmad had a heart attack in Islamabad and died.

Can you give a reason for doing so? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (talk • contribs) 17:36, 17 March 2021 (UTC)

You are welcome to propose changes on the article's talkpage. However, the majority of your edits have included changes that remove mentions of the Ahmadiyya as being Muslims. It is not your place to make that determination, and it is not Wikipedia's place to allow any sect to dictate how other sects should be viewed. DMacks (talk) 07:25, 18 March 2021 (UTC)

You placed the Pending Changes protection on the

Done. Prior to that protection, there had been a multiple-year problem with no evidence of slowing down. Definitely looks alright now. Especially likely no further major problems given he's no longer in office. Let me know if a problem arises. DMacks (talk) 20:57, 20 March 2021 (UTC)

OK, great, thanks! Nsk92 (talk) 12:43, 22 March 2021 (UTC)

16:51, 22 March 2021 (UTC)

Hi DMacks.

A newly-created account has altered the Rosalind Franklin page in its lede section in what MAY hsve been five good-faith edits but has left it in a bit of a mess, with the first "minor" edit in particular repeating what is already in a later part of the lede (and less accurate). I'm not confident I know how to revert back to your last good version, so could you do that, please? Mike Turnbull (talk) 13:51, 23 March 2021 (UTC)

 Done. DMacks (talk) 15:02, 23 March 2021 (UTC)

Noticed you had fixed some things on 1-Pentadecanol, specifically some weird infobox parameters I didn't even know existed. It looks great now -- thanks! jp×g 04:58, 24 March 2021 (UTC)

Delicious (thank goodness it's non-toxic). Thanks for writing a nice chemistry article. I think the scientific term for the infoboxes is "deep magic":) DMacks (talk) 05:08, 24 March 2021 (UTC)

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Hello. Probably easier to ask here: Please move

 Done. Probably not hard to pull a list of all chem/drug articles whose first letter isn't a capital. I can try to work on that in the next day or three. DMacks (talk) 13:52, 1 April 2021 (UTC)

There are no mainspace articles containing drugbox or chembox whose title does not contain any capital letters. DMacks (talk) 05:47, 2 April 2021 (UTC)

19:38, 5 April 2021 (UTC)

wishing you a very good afternoon sir! my topic of discussion is regarding the wikipedia page "atomic radius data page". would like to know if I want to study the trends of radius in periodic table, should i refer to the data given under "empirical" section or under "calculated" section? Vanshita poddar (talk) 07:50, 25 March 2021 (UTC) vanshita poddar

please respond sir. Vanshita poddar (talk) 18:30, 6 April 2021 (UTC)

Sorry, I did not notice this first message:( The choice of empirical vs calculated depends on the context or purpose of your studies. Generally empirical is better because it is experimentally validated (actually measured data). Calculated is a theoretical analysis (prediction), so it can be used even for elements that have not been measured experimentally. DMacks (talk) 15:39, 8 April 2021 (UTC)

Hello DMacks. I'm just letting you know that an Arbitration Case has been filed and you have been listed as a party. — Ched (talk) 08:33, 12 April 2021 (UTC)

The arbitrators have voted to decline the case request you were a party to, China-Taiwan articles, for reasons including the dispute being a content dispute and because previous conduct

Thanks for adding chemical structure images to all the articles I've been working on! May I ask what you use to create them? proton donor ^H+ 20:48, 16 April 2021 (UTC)

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skeletal diagrams and Avogadro (software) for 3D (ball&stick, etc.) covalent molecules. DMacks (talk

) 04:15, 17 April 2021 (UTC)

16:47, 19 April 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for reviewing my edits to Molecular orbital. Since then, I have tried to make the article exactly agree with the source, as well as eliminate the circular definition. Please take another look at what I did. Thanks again. Comfr (talk) 22:04, 18 April 2021 (UTC)

@Comfr: looks good! I like the clearer distinction between the plain-language adjective (the idea of "orbits" being old) vs the novelty of the noun. DMacks (talk) 10:34, 20 April 2021 (UTC)

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