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Emporia State University

Hello! I was wondering what your thoughts were about the Emporia State University article? What needs improvement? What should be removed or added? Things like that... I'm running out of ideas! I have my opinions on what I've added that I think may need removed, but seeing what others say will help out with my opinions. Your help would be much appreciative! User:Corkythehornetfan 04:31, 9 January 2015 (UTC)

I'm not a college article expert, but I feel a college article should be useful to high school students and parents that are looking for a college, so think about that type of approach too. Maybe add a table about the dorms, like at University_of_Kansas#Student_and_faculty_housing. The Foundation section should be tweaked, because the long subsection name should be removed as a subsection or renamed to "campaign" or something more generic. If you can find an official campus PDF map (that lists the name of each building), then add it to the external links section. Look at college article in other states, especially along the coasts to see what they include in articles. • User:Sbmeirow • 20:41, 9 January 2015 (UTC)

Okay, thanks! The foundation section was one opinion I had, especially the name. I'll also add the map of the campus. I never thought of the "high school students and parents" approach.. I'll definitely keep that in mind! Thanks again, User:Corkythehornetfan 22:15, 9 January 2015 (UTC)

WP:OVERLINK

Please review this Wikipedia policy. We do not link ordinary English words, and we don't link the same things repeatedly. User:Ground Zero 22:25, 9 January 2015 (UTC)

Please remind youself to leave a link to the article in question. • User:Sbmeirow • 01:54, 10 January 2015 (UTC)

This was a general comment as it seems that you edited several articles in this way, including: Ottawa County, Kansas, Sedgwick County, Kansas, and Saline County, Kansas. User:Ground Zero 16:59, 10 January 2015 (UTC)

Thank you. • User:Sbmeirow • 20:22, 10 January 2015 (UTC)

County navboxes

County navboxes are solely meant for locations within the county: municipalities, minor civil divisions, and unincorporated communities. These lists are none of those things. User:Nyttend 13:18, 3 February 2015 (UTC)

Where is the "County navbox" guideline? • User:Sbmeirow • 13:22, 3 February 2015 (UTC)

Here. County templates are always used for things related to the county, and state templates for things statewide. User:Nyttend 13:40, 3 February 2015 (UTC)

Ok. • User:Sbmeirow • 13:49, 3 February 2015 (UTC)

What's your definition of a microarchitecture?

Given that you're classifying cores with quite distinct internal designs as having the ARMv7-A or ARMv8-A "microarchitecture", your definition must be different from the one used in the microarchitecture article ("the way a given instruction set architecture (ISA) is implemented on a processor"). What definition are you using, and what does that make the instruction sets of the cores in question - AArch{32,64}? A{32,64}? ARM's not different from other ISAs here - there's the ISA specification, independent of the organization of the system blocks used to implement it, and there are the implementations, just as there are for System/3x0, x86, SPARC, MIPS, Alpha, etc., etc.. User:Guy Harris 23:19, 9 February 2015 (UTC)

Per my comment in that User Talk section, I meant that ARMv7-A is an ARM architecture and NOT an instruction set, to ensure that readers don't think they are the same thing. ARM has many different instruction sets and instruction extensions, and a specific subset are grouped together for an ARM architecture. The big problem is that ARM cores have flexibile options that allows IC manufacturers to DISABLE some instructions, which makes it even harder to describe. I might be over aggressive on my statements, but I'm still correct that everyone needs to be careful how "ARMv7-A" is used in descriptions. • User:Sbmeirow • 00:08, 10 February 2015 (UTC)

OK, so the "ARM® Architecture Reference Manual ARMv7-A and ARMv7-R edition" section A4.1 "About the instruction sets" says:

ARMv7 contains two main instruction sets, the ARM and Thumb instruction sets.

and in section A1.3 "Architecture versions, profiles, and variants" says:

ARMv7 provides three profiles:

ARMv7-A Application profile, described in this manual:

• Implements a traditional ARM architecture with multiple modes.
• Supports a Virtual Memory System Architecture (VMSA) based on a Memory Management Unit (MMU). An ARMv7-A implementation can be called a VMSAv7 implementation.
• Supports the ARM and Thumb instruction sets.

so presumably all cores implementing the ARMv7-A architecture should list "ARM" and "Thumb" for its instruction sets, and can also list Jazelle or ThumbEE if they implement them.

The "ARM® Architecture Reference Manual ARMv8, for ARMv8-A architecture profile" speaks of "The AArch64 Instruction Set" in Part C but then starts talking about the "A64" instruction set, and speaks of "The AArch32 Instruction Sets" in Part F, with those instruction sets being "T32" and "A32", so presumably "The AArch64 Instruction Set" means "the instruction set included in AArch64" rather than "the instruction set named AArch64", that instruction set being "A64". So presumably cores implementing the ARMv8-A architecture have A64 and possibly also A32 and T32 as instruction sets.

(In any case, none of ARMV{7,8}-{A,R,M} are microarchitectures. The microarchitecture of, for example, Cortex-A15 is the Cortex-A15 microarchitecture, unless multiple different cores share the same microarchitecture.) Guy Harris (talk) 01:13, 10 February 2015 (UTC)

Yes, for all of the 64-bit cores it a lot easier to describe instruction sets, because I think both AArch32 and AArch64 exist in core, and you are executing either one or the other depending on which rights a specific "task" (not the correct term) is allowed". I'm glad that ARM starting grouping everything together into new names, such as AArch32 and AArch64, because its less confusing! • Sbmeirow • Talk • 01:41, 10 February 2015 (UTC)

I'm pretty sure that AArch32 can't be used to describe 32-bit-only ARM Cortex-A cores, because they aren't the same. • Sbmeirow • Talk • 01:41, 10 February 2015 (UTC)

So ARM has:

• The "ARM architecture", which has multiple numbered versions and, for ARMv7 and ARMv8, multiple profiles (A, R, and M for v7, and A and R for v8);
• For ARMv8-A, AArch64, an entity of some sort with no obvious noun or phrase used for the category to which it belongs, which has an "Application Level Architecture", an "Instruction Set" (A64), and a "System Level Architecture", and AArch32, a similar name with no obvious category, which has an "Application Level Architecture", two "Instruction Sets" (A32 and T32), and a "System Level Architecture";
• For ARMv7-{A,R}, multiple instruction sets (ARM, Thumb, ThumbEE - Jazelle appears to be deprecated);

and so on. So ARMv[3-8] are versions of the ARM architecture, but aren't instruction set architectures, as they include multiple incompatible instruction sets and encodings, and ARMv[3-8]-[ARM] are profiles for those architectures.

Unfortunately, the "arch=" parameter in the infoboxes for processors has a tag of "Instruction set", so it's not entirely appropriate for ARMv[3-8]-[ARM], and the best you can do, if you don't want to just ue the architecture+profile, is enumerate the instruction sets and perhaps put the architecture version+profile in parentheses after the enumeration. Guy Harris (talk) 02:04, 10 February 2015 (UTC)

EXAMPLE 1 - Let me step back in history just a little bit, lets take the ARM7TDMI core, it has both the ARM (32-bit) instruction set and Thumb (16-bit) instruction set in the same core. You can ONLY use one or the other instruction set, but NOT both at the SAME time. You have to go through a special step to move between these two instruction sets. One of the crazy things it that all interrupts force you back into ARM instruction temporarily then when it ends you go back to the previous instruction set, whether ARM or Thumb. Depending on the compiler, if your main program is compiled for Thumb instruction set, you may have to put your interrupts in another file and compile them for ARM instruction set, or better compilers you do something special in the C code to force an interrupt function into ARM instruction set. • Sbmeirow • Talk • 01:28, 10 February 2015 (UTC)

EXAMPLE 2 - I think all the cores that have Jazelle instruction sets are "toggled" kind of like my above ARM7TDMI example. You only execute one instruction set at any point in time, otherwise you have to switch over to a completely different instruction set. • Sbmeirow • Talk • 01:32, 10 February 2015 (UTC)

EXAMPLE 3 - All of the Cortex-M cores are different than the ARM7TDMI. Though a specific Cortex-M core has different combinations of various instruction sets, they ALL are combined together and exist at the same time. NO alternate instruction set to toggle into. • Sbmeirow • Talk • 01:32, 10 February 2015 (UTC)

Yes, just as the processor in the machine on which I'm typing this has two instruction sets in the same core, which can't, as far as I know, both be used at the same time - the "long mode" instruction set and the "compatibility mode" instruction set. Yes, the "long mode" instruction set and its encoding is, 99 44/100% of the time, a straightforward superset of the "compatibility mode" instruction set but, as I remember, there's one prefix byte that's interpreted differently in long mode and in compatibility mode.

The difference here is that the A64, "ARM"/A32, and Thumb/Thumb-2/T32 instruction sets have completely incompatible encodings, so the mode bits have a bit stronger effect, and people might be more willing to call x86-64 an instruction set (the instruction encoding differences between long and compatibility mode nonwithstanding) than to call ARMv8-A an instruction set. System/3x0 also had mode bits, but they affected instruction behavior rather than instruction encoding, e.g. whether, in 32-bit code, the upper 8 bits or the uppermost bit of an address were ignored.

The VAX offered a PDP-11 compatibility mode as well; that's more like ARM, but I don't know whether DEC considered the compatibility mode to be part of the VAX architecture or not. Guy Harris (talk) 01:50, 10 February 2015 (UTC)

Back to the ARM7TDMI discussion... at a previous employer, we started with ARM instruction set and continued to use it until we ran out of memory. We couldn't go back and rev boards, so we were forced to move to thumb instruction set, and switch to ARM instruction set in a few custom algorithms that did lots of math. By switching over to thumb, we recovered enough memory to finish the project on that board. • Sbmeirow • Talk • 02:07, 10 February 2015 (UTC)

All the licensed cores with lots of flexibility to enable/disable features are a completely different mess compared to Intel or AMD. Though Intel and AMD have some common instruction sets and instruction extensions they are going down slightly different paths. ARM is crazy because ARM throws stuff over the wall to silicon makers and they get to pick and choose any darn combination they want to implement in their silicon, so a core from one silicon maker may have a different set of enabled features than a core from another silicon maker. • Sbmeirow • Talk • 02:07, 10 February 2015 (UTC)

One of the other problems we run up against is "microarchitecture" vs "ARM architecture", and "CPU" vs "ARM core". We can't completely ignore the terms used by "ARM Holdings", because "ARM architecture" and "ARM core" is what they use in all their documents. • Sbmeirow • Talk • 02:07, 10 February 2015 (UTC)

Microarchitecture vs. ARM architecture is a solved problem. A microarchitecture is what it says on the box in the article; it's "the way a given instruction set architecture (ISA) is implemented on a processor." None of ARMv[3-8] are anything like that nor are any of ARMv[78]-[ARM]; it's not what instruction encodings it accepts, it's now it decodes and executes those instructions.

The "ARM architecture" has multiple versions, that being the "v[0-9]" after "ARM". Some of those versions specify multiple instruction encodings, hence multiple instruction sets. Those instruction sets, like other instruction sets, have both "base" and "additional" features. For most other instruction sets, the "additional" features are new features added to the instruction set, with newer processors implementing the new features; for ARM, some of them are optional features licensees may or may not implement in particular cores. (In the old days, more ISAs had optional features, such as floating-point instructions, but, for general-purpose computing, it's more trouble than it's worth to offer processors without the additional features these days.) Perhaps one ARMv7-A core has VFP and/or Advanced SIMD and another doesn't, but, well, ARM's own documentation for the ARMv7-{A,R} architecture describes them as OPTIONAL, so they're just like floating-point in System/360 or in x86 prior to the Pentium. Guy Harris (talk) 02:37, 10 February 2015 (UTC)

Infobox discussion

I disagree how you are approaching the infoboxes. Instruction set edits are fine, but the "ARM architectures" need to be listed. • Sbmeirow • Talk • 02:20, 10 February 2015 (UTC)

Then list them under "arch=" - for example, in parentheses, as I think I suggested somewhere. They are NOT microarchitectures, and must not be listed under "microarchitecture="; as I said, "microarchitectures" vs. "ARM architecture" is a solved problem - they are two different things, with the only thing they have in common being the letters "a", "r", "c", "h", "i", "t", "e", "c", "t", "u", "r", and "e", in that order. A microarchitecture for an ARM core implements some particular version and profile of the ARM architecture, with some particular possibly-empty and possibly-improper subset of the OPTIONAL features for that version/profile. Guy Harris (talk) 02:40, 10 February 2015 (UTC)

Wireless speaker

Hi. I undid your cut/paste of the content of Wireless speakers to Wireless speaker, as that method of moving loses the article's edit history. I have submitted a request to WP:Requested moves, and it should be moved soon by an admin. Rwxrwxrwx (talk) 21:18, 5 March 2015 (UTC)

Minneola, Kansas

Per WP:USPLACE: "A placename that needs additional disambiguation should include its county or parish (e.g., Elgin, Lancaster County, South Carolina, and Elgin, Kershaw County, South Carolina)." I made this change, seeing as there are two Minneolas in Kansas (Minneola, Clark County, Kansas and Minneola, Franklin County, Kansas).--Gen. Quon (Talk) 03:21, 21 March 2015 (UTC)

Every state has numerous ghost towns and unincorporated communities (none of which are official legal names), and these are the articles that get the extra county name added to the article name. The primary community is suppose to have the "common name" article name, which is "City, State". See WP:PRIMARYTOPIC. Go try to pull this rename on a very populous well-known city and see what happens. • Sbmeirow • Talk • 03:29, 21 March 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for being so kind about this simple misunderstanding.--Gen. Quon (Talk) 04:16, 21 March 2015 (UTC)

http://i.imgur.com/J98euA5.gif • Sbmeirow • Talk • 23:05, 21 March 2015 (UTC)

Question about a navbox

Hey Steve, what would you think if I created a navbox for the Kansas Board of Regents schools. Would it be redundant to the Template:Colleges and universities in Kansas template? The only thing different is it would be leaving out the private schools and federal/military schools because they aren't apart of the KBOR. I'd plan to make it look like the first navbox for the University of California as I like that navbox. I would make it a little different than the U of C one, but not much (I may or may not use a map). The one thing I like about that is the map. Now I know that isn't the actual navbox, but the way this fella has it designed on his user page is what I like. Another thing is that (in my mind), it is kind of like a system. For example, like the the Texas Tech System or the University of Texas System... although those templates really aren't decorative, but you get the point. I figured I'd ask you because I know you are a member of the WikiProject Kansas and you know more about this stuff on here than I do. If you think it is redundant, I won't be disappointed as it is just a thought. If you don't think it is redundant, I will create it in my sandbox and most likely ask your thoughts on it when I'm done before making it final. Thanks, User:Corkythehornetfan 10:33, 22 March 2015 (UTC)

I have mixed feelings about navboxes. Some of them I like, some of them I don't like because of too much overlap or redundancy. InTemplate:Colleges and universities in Kansas, are you saying that everything in the groups "Public institutions", "Community Colleges", "Technical Colleges" are part of KBoR? If yes, then maybe do something like Template:Dickinson County, Kansas, where you would put a "‡" next to the 3 sections on the left side and next to KBoR on the bottom for a total of 4 of them. Simple change that gets the point across without creating another template. • User:Sbmeirow • 04:49, 23 March 2015 (UTC)

Okay, thanks for the reply. I believe most, if not all of the Public, Community, and Tech Colleges are apart of KBOR. I know Washburn/Washburn Tech is a municipal university and doesn't belong to the KBOR, but they do have on seat of the Board. I will do what you've suggested and mess around with it a little bit. Thanks, User:Corkythehornetfan 06:20, 23 March 2015 (UTC)

Leawood, Kansas

Regarding your reversion of my edit to Leawood, Kansas in which you said "his article doesn't say anything about Leawood ," Nick Plott is the older brother of Sean Plott. If Sean Plott grew up in Leawood, Kansas, so did Nick Plott. Per Sean "Day[9]" Plott's about page on his website: "Sean plays random in StarCraft 2 as a top-rated master player. Day[9] grew up playing StarCraft with his brother, Nick (aka “Tasteless”), now a professional shoutcaster with GOM.TV in Korea." This is well-known public knowledge for anyone who knows about the bios of either of them and can be cited from any number of sources. The Sean Plott page even says that he grew up with his brother Nick. Feel free to listen to Sean Plott's own account about growing up with his brother.

Further sources:

• This public record (in which it also lists him as being related to Sean Plott)
• http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft2/Tasteless
• http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft/Tasteless

Why does Nick Plott's page list Kansas City, Kansas whereas Sean Plott's page lists Leawood, Kansas? Because he's also said that he's from Kansas City, the same way that people from a suburb of San Francisco say that they're from San Francisco because nobody's heard of the smaller towns around it.

User:OncMD 05:20, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

Thanks, but you or someone needs to add reasonable references to both of their wiki articles to prove that each was born or grew up in Leawood, which is the base requirement for allowing people to be posted in "Notable person" sections/lists. To be listed in a school's "Notable alumni/people", the persons article must provide references that state they attended or graduated from the school. BTW, I'm not going to listen to a 2 hour video. • User:Sbmeirow • 05:45, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

Here it says that Nick grew up in KC. The refs only talk about KC. Nick_Plott#Early_life

Here it says that Sean was born in Leawood, grew up in Leawood, went to High School in KC. But no reference to prove it. Sean_Plott

By the way, that radaris.com doesn't prove that person is the same person in the article. Multiple people can have the same name. • Sbmeirow • 05:48, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

Re: radaris.com. So, another Nicolas Plott, of the same age, also with a brother Sean, also of the correct age? Ok.

Regarding Day 9's video the part you want is right at time point 1:36 (one minute, 36 seconds): (from the Google Docs transcript of the video) "So... let us begin at the very beginning, when I first bought Starcraft. I can still remember it. I grew up in a little town in Leawood, Kansas. Which is in the middle of nowhere. It's in Kansas right? Well, I mean, it's part of Kansas City but still, I'm from Leawood, Kansas, where the land is flat and evolution is still a theory. It's the line I always use. We lived in this awesome little house, that was right next to this mall that Nick and I could walk across the street to every day. And of course, there was like a computer software store there, where we would buy our various electronics. And we were super pumped for Starcraft, because we played Warcraft II baby... Yes, indeed! We were Warcraft II players! And like any kid, you just go up to your mom and you're just like "Mom! Mom!" and you tell your mom about this genius shit you have just devised in your head. "Mom, did you know that in Warcraft II, a catapult outranges a tower?" Uuh, baby, baby! Now... Now, all of a sudden, I can never lose to towers. You know, just simplistic junk like that. We were your standard little newbies my brother and I...

So, my brother Nick, who’s probably more commonly known as Tasteless in the Starcraft community, but he shall be Nick for this story"

I don't have any more time to spend digging up even more citations. If you feel so strongly about having the wrong information, I guess you're welcome to it, but this info should be sufficient. I was just trying to help.

1) As I stated before, radaris.com isn't proof that a person listed on it is the SAME person in a Wikipedia article. Yeah, they MIGHT be the same, but that isn't 100% proof. I've done a lot of searching for classmates and friends on the internet, and I've come across numerous people with same or similar names, and some names are so darn common that I found a bunch of them in big cities. At most, it's a possibility of being the person, but not proof, until you really contact the person and find out. Even if I wanted to call or write the person in your link, I can't use that type of information on Wikipedia because it would be considered research and not easily verifiable.

2) The references need to be added to their wiki articles, not the city or school articles!

3) I'm not trying to be a "butthead" about this issue, but biography articles and notable people sections need the required proof, ... and the required proof needs to be in the persons wiki article. Thanks!

• User:Sbmeirow • 06:03, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

What happened to the dinosaurs

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What really happened to the dinosaurs

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Citations for police departments

Another user and I are discussing the need for citations on the lists of police departments. Perhaps it would be best if you joined us before you start deleting all the cites off a page. Can you come to my talk page? User:PaulinSaudi|Paul, in Saudi 14:51, 22 July 2015 (UTC)

List of Law Enforcement Agencies in Ohio

Please excuse me, can you explain what "improper referencing, because no text in this list article summaries the reference" means? Is this the idea that only complete sentences need cites? User:PaulinSaudi 15:38, 23 July 2015 (UTC)

Shockers logo

Hey Steve. Do you know what the primary logo for Wichita State Athletics is? I know they use this logo on a majority of their things, including their website. I think they use this logo for some things, but mainly stays with the academics side (I think.) On their Licensing PDF page, they put both under Athletic Marks but don't state what is a primary or secondary. Here, they don't even put the "WSU" wheat logo in the Athletics section. What's your take? I've put WuShock on the main article's infobox until I can figure out what it is. Thanks, User:Corkythehornetfan 01:02, 3 April 2015 (UTC)

Sorry, no I don't know. You could go to their website and ask a question in their contact area. • User talk:Sbmeirow • 04:33, 3 April 2015 (UTC)

Alrighty, thanks! User:Corkythehornetfan 17:24, 3 April 2015 (UTC)

Titles in Infobox

Hey Sbmeirow, regarding to titles (e.g. Dr.) in Infobox university — is there a specific Wikipedia policy or is it just a common thing we do here? Someone has asked me on my talk page, but I don't know the actual answer to that... besides that we've never put them in the inboxes since I've been a member here! If you could let me know, I'd appreciate it for future references! Thanks. User:Corkythehornetfan 17:19, 12 July 2015 (UTC)

Note to self, I responded on Corkythehornetfan talk page. • User:Sbmeirow • 22:55, 12 July 2015 (UTC)

Secure Digital

Hello! A tiny quibble on your tiny edit here: Adding "can" isn't necessary. All SDHC and SDXC cards can switch to low-voltage. "On command", they do. User:Spike-from-NH 14:26, 25 August 2015 (UTC)

Recent BAD edit

Hi there, I saw that you edited the St. James Academy article. Thanks for adding the brackets where I forgot! I guess I'm confused on two parts. What does reflist|30em change from reflist, and why did you state that you "fix[ed] BAD edit[s]"...
-User:TheCaliforniaKansan 03:19, 10 November 2015 (UTC)

1) "fixed BAD edit" means I fixed the bracket problem, only meaning there was something wrong with an edit.

2) the "30em" means the width of the columns in the reference section. the wider the display, the more columns will be shown, and it will vary from user to user depending on their display size. in that article, it likely won't matter since the text isn't long enough to get past the infobox, but when it does then it will automatically do it. see Template:Reflist

3) • User:Sbmeirow • 04:01, 10 November 2015 (UTC)

Warnings