User talk:Shimmin
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Names of People
Please see my comments on Talk:Sharaku about your name change; see also
PS: By the way, I actually agree with you that it would preferable to file articles for people under their full names, with redirects from "common" names to the article. Alas, that's not the policy on the Wikipedia (as I found out painfully when I tried to reorganize the Medici pages into rational order). So now I dutifully file articles under the most common form of the name, even when I really don't like it (e.g. see my comments on the Talk:Toyokuni page. Noel 16:17, 20 Aug 2003 (UTC)
Names of Chemicals
I've been away for a few days, just seen your message. My recollection is that the convention is to use the IUPAC name unless there the substance is almost invariably known by the common name (like water) - can't rember where it says that though. jimfbleak 15:08, 24 Aug 2003 (UTC)
Names of Schismatic Religious Institutions
Hi there. Just a short note to say that your change of true Catholic Church to True Catholic Church was incorrect and I have changed it back. It deliberately lowercases the word true in its name. The first letter of a link is not case specific, though unfortunately in the actual title is automatically begun on our pages with in upper case, which causes problems for things like iMac, eMac, tCC, etc that use the lowercase. But the text of the article on the tCC makes it clear that the word true in the church name is lowercase. FearÉIREANN 20:52, 24 Aug 2003 (UTC)
Complaint about Death in Canada
Hello, why did you delete the stuff realted to Canada in the death aticle? Also why did you mark that change as a minor edit? - SimonP 22:14, Aug 26, 2003 (UTC)
Multics and ASCII-1963
Your recent edit of
While I certainly defer to your source's knowledge of Multics, the story does not jibe with published standard for ASCII-1963, which does not contain a separate codepoint for newline.
In 1963 ISO's draft standard said:
The controls CR and LF are intended for printer equipment which requires separate combinations to return the carriage and feed a line.
As an alternative, for equipment which uses a single combination for a combined carriage-return and line-feed operation (called New-Line), NL will be coded at F 2 or FE 2 [i.e., 6-bit 0/2 or 7-bit 0/10, LF]. Then F 5 [6-bit 0/5, CR] will be regarded as a Spare Control, and FE 5 [7-bit 0/13, CR] will be regarded as Backspace BS.
If the latter type of equipment has to inter-work with the former, it may be necessary to take steps to introduce the CR character.
But ASA's standard made no such provision. In 1967 John Booth (who was AT&T's representative on the ASCII committee, and so may have known about Multics) proposed that LF as NL be allowed in the American standard, but he only got the following compromise language which appeared for the first time in USASI's 1968 standard:
Where appropriate, this character may also have the meaning "New Line" (NL), a format effector which controls the movement of the printing position to the first printing position on the next printing line. Use of this convention requires agreement between sender and recipient of data.
Booth tried again in 1972 to make 0x0a primarily a newline character, rather than a codepoint that could be used as a newline with prior agreement bewteen parties, but this change, while existing in some drafts for a revised ASCII, did not make it into the 1977 standard.
So basically, there never was a standalone newline character in any version of ASCII, and LF is the only character with even approximately this meaning.
Since your source worked on I/O code, perhaps his complaints related to EBCDIC, which Multics would have had to convert to if it wished to output to an IBM peripheral. Many versions of EBCDIC do contain all of CR, LF, and NL.
- Thanks for the details. Hopefully next time I run into Jerry and/or Corby I can put this question to them directly. 18.24.0.120 06:22, 22 Feb 2004 (UTC)
Galileo and the telescope
If he did not invent it, who did? He certainly improved the quality of the instrument (he learnt lens-grinding painstakingly to do so), and was the the first to point it skyward. Lenses were "invented" in Holland, that much I know...
Urhixidur 01:33, 2004 Jul 29 (UTC)
- The telescope was invented in the Dutch Republic, probably in late August or early September of 1608. No one knows who exactly deserves credit. A Dutch newspaper briefly mentions the new device being shown off to visiting dignitaries on 10 September 1608, and in the last week of September, three different lensmakers all applied to the Dutch government for patents on the device. Hans Lippershey's application made it in first. None of the patents were granted. Also in the last week of September 1608, a telescope was for sale in Frankfurt. Galileo heard about the instrument through diplomatic correspondence, and from the descripton given, set about constructing his own instruments sometime early in 1609. By the fall of that year, he had built a 10x instrument, which was almost certainly the most powerful in the world at the time.
- As for being the first to point it skyward, sorry again. It's simply a natural thing to do if you have one, and that same 10 September 1608 news report lists the skies as among the objects viewed by those first known telescope users. In June 1609, Thomas Harriot made a sketch of the moon as seen through a 3-power scope, and Galileo did not make any record of his lunar observations until October.
- By fall of 1609, Galileo did have the best telescopes in the world, and his Siderius Nuncius (March 1610) was the first scientific treatise based on telescopic observations, but the evidence simply does not support crediting him with either inventing the telescope or making the first telescopic astronomical observations.
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Hi. Since you have edited on pages with disputes about the names of Polish/German locations, I would invite you to vote on Talk:Gdansk/Vote to settle the multi-year dozens-of-pages dispute about the naming of Gdansk/Danzig and other locations. The vote has two parts, one with questions when to use Gdansk/Danzig, and a second part affecting articles related to locations with Polish/German history in general. An enforcement is also voted on. The vote has a total of 10 questions to vote on, and ends in two weeks on Friday, March 4 0:00. Thank you -- Chris 73 Talk 00:42, Feb 18, 2005 (UTC)
Muhammad/Mohammed/etc.
Hi. My intent wasn't to annoy others (and I certainly hope that hasn't happened), but while I can see that making substantive posts to wikipedia is perhaps a better use of time than standardizing spelling, I still feel that a name should not be spelled 9 different ways across Wikipedia (Muhammad, Mohammed, Mohammad, Muhammed, Mohamed, Muhamad, Muhamed, Mohemed, Mahomet). Within some individual articles, 2 or even 3 different spellings were used. The easiest way to fix this, in my opinion, was to simply change all of these spellings to Muhammad. I believe that many of the misspellings were typos, and others were due to articles being from the 1911 Brittanica, etc. I don't really see any harms associated with a standardized spelling. So I'm sorry again if I angered anyone. Hopefully consistency will help Wikipedia more than hurt it.
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User:Jcbos and "Christian Bible"
User:Jcbos has started another vote on the "Christian Bible" issue, at Talk:Bible. Thought you'd want to know. Jayjg (talk) 18:34, 17 Mar 2005 (UTC)
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- I have never before heard used "left behind" as a euphemism for "beheaded."
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Prophecy of the Popes
Hi!
Why did you remove the part that refers to the history of the article as an example of postdiction in Prophecy of the Popes (Talk:Prophecy of the Popes)? I think it was perfectly appropriate. Is there a Wikipedia policy not to do self-references?
Thanks,
UnHoly 01:09, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)
- Yes, according to semi-policy, self-reference is poor form. Please see WP:ASR. Shimmin01:34, Apr 20, 2005 (UTC)
- Ok, thanks. I tried a rewrite. UnHoly 14:47, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Comet references
Thank you very much for your efforts. It's been an uphill battle to spread the word about how important citing sources and verifiability is, but we're getting there. What you've done is great, and keep it up. The thing I like better about the
Thank you for contributing to Wikipedia:Naming conventions (chemistry). I have now summarized the discussion on that page and added certain points which have been discussed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Chemicals. Any comments, and especially improvements, on the results would be more than welcome. Physchim62 7 July 2005 11:03 (UTC)
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Please don't change american spellings to british spellings. Unless its a british topic, articles which start as american spelling stay that way (same for articles that start as british spelling). See
- Oops, sorry. --Duk 15:56, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
Citation issues
You may be interested in reference/citation content/format issues in Talk:Global cooling#Citation format poll (see preceding discussion) and Wikipedia:Requests for comment/SEWilco#Response. (SEWilco 05:54, 30 November 2005 (UTC))
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Sources for Prout's hypothesis
Hello, some time ago you added a fair bit of content to
Glucose
Do you think User:BorisTM is unreasonable on the Glu/Glucose issue? GraemeLeggett 16:06, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
Yes. Looking at his contributions and talk page, he does appear to be acting in good faith, but his behavior in this instance seems to me an unreasonable pursuit of poor prose. Shimmin 18:00, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
North American area codes
Uncle G's major work 'bot is about to move another ... er ... small hill. But a consensus is required on the naming scheme to be employed. Please review Category:Greek Area Codes, Category:United Kingdom area codes, and Category:North American area codes, and then contribute to the discussion at Talk:North American Numbering Plan#US-centric_area_code_page_titles. Uncle G 21:11, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
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Silane
Thanks for the Silane article improvement a while back. Do appreciate it. Do you buy the "Silicon Based Life Forms" Theory or is that SILI? Mike Hooten Concord, NC mlhooten(at)gmail.com michael.hooten.name
In the article Trichloroethylene you created in August 2003, you note that TCE is insoluble in water. I thought it was quite soluble. Do you have a reference? Nfitz 20:37, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
- I probably got that from the uakron database: [1]. However, the version of that page presently linked from the article [2] gives a solubility of 1 g/L in water. Shimmin 22:59, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
Iron and steel
I note that you have amended the hisotrical section of the article on steel in the past. I have merged with with a similar section in
request to move to kyiv
Hello,
I have set up a request to move the page Kiev to Kyiv.
I have outlined four key reasons for doing so in the discussion section of the page.
Looking through the archives, I saw that you had contributed to this page earlier. I would like to hear what you have to say on this topic.
Thank you
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