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Marek.69 ^talk 01:20, 30 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Well, feel free to change it if you really disagree. It's somewhat a matter of personal taste, but I think there are good arguments to using the standard kilobyte/megabyte/gigabyte terms. There has been a lot of discussion about it on Wikipedia, and

suggests to use kilo/mega/giga as they're better understood than kibi/mibi/gibi, though it does offer some exceptions.

Seems to me that in every article using the IEC prefixes, they're hyperlinked to a long page explaining their meaning and history and justification. The added confusion doesn't seem at all helpful to readers, having to force new words upon them before they can continue reading the original article (though it should probably be decided on a per-article basis).

Anyone reading that technical section would be perfectly familiar with the de facto standard meanings, and it's clarified in the Description section. The specific meaning of the terms in an article can be clarified more easily with a quick note than using unfamiliar prefixes throughout. The IEC prefixes were created to reduce confusion, but in practice do they ever do that?

But the other reason I changed kiloword to kibiword in that article is the aesthetic advantage. Nobody really goes around using terms like "kibibyte" and "mibiword" and "gibibit". They sound silly, and they're almost distracting.

I did use the binary prefixes for a while in many contexts, but I drifted gradually back to the de facto standard ones because they seem to be much better understood. • Anakin ^(talk) 17:57, 4 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks - perfectly clear. Lissajous (talk) 18:38, 4 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

No problem. As I say, feel free to disagree. I was just passing by the article really, and thought kilo would be better. • Anakin ^(talk) 19:07, 5 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

ok. but I would change the number aboard "2240". thanks.

I need someone to make

) articles better. You can see the list of passengers of RMS Titanic on the article. Could you check the grammar and spelling? thanks so much :)

I'm Japee, by the way

Hi Japee, I can have a look, but I'm not terribly happy with the references used for them - my experience on passenger numbers was that the encyclopedia titanica was not particularly reliable - when I checked they had three different numbers for total passengers on board; maybe something from the US senate inquiry would provide more reliable info.

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Thanks. I'll be careful. Lissajous (talk) 11:24, 30 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Varlaam (talk) 21:24, 25 December 2009 (UTC) (editor of War Books)[reply]

He seems to have been generally referred to as William L. Nagle, in credits etc. Feel free to move things around to something like "William Nagle (author)" if it troubles you, to distinguish him from "William Nagle (football coach)". Lissajous (talk) 21:42, 25 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

William L. Nagle is fine, if that is in fact his public name. He himself, in all likelihood, would have selected a name to distinguish himself from other Bill Nagle's and we can just follow his lead.

Varlaam (talk) 23:24, 25 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Done. Kudos for the work you've done on it. Lissajous (talk) 07:24, 28 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Always happy to help. Schmidt, ^{MICHAEL Q.} 16:37, 28 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Deleting userpages

Blanking a userspace subpage doesn't mark it for deletion. What you want to do is add {{db-u1}}.

No harm done; this is just so you know for next time. DS (talk) 14:36, 1 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Ack. Thanks. Thought G7 or G8 covered it, but checking I see user pages are explicitly excluded. Lissajous (talk) 16:07, 1 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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the page was last updated in 2011. is Lissajous still active? 120.21.164.156 (talk) 07:51, 2 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]