User talk:Materialscientist

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Ratings

Do you agree with quality and importance ratings at the Talk:Hiromichi Kataura and Talk:Mitsutaka Fujita? --Nano lab (talk) 06:26, 28 November 2008 (UTC)

I found another rating in Talk:Optical properties of carbon nanotubes. --Nano lab (talk) 06:31, 28 November 2008 (UTC)

Organic metal

Hi again, you will notice that this article and some related ones are strangely written. The problem historically is that few editors at Wikipedia knew much about the topic and none were willing to contend with user:Pproctor, who maintains that his coworker or boss named McGinness has been overlooked by history and should have gotten a Nobel Prize. A few articles were strongly dominated by Proctor, usually indicated by the same image of the melanine-based device that you see on the organic metal page, it is sort of his trademarked homage to McGinness as is the emphasis on an (obscure) article by Hush that credits McGinness with a significant role in the field. The highlighting of the work by Weiss (Aust J Chem) is also intended to deflect glory from the Alan MacDiarmid et al Nobel. My guess is that all wikipedia articles on organic metals need housecleaning and rewriting, so your efforts are welcome.--Smokefoot (talk) 14:29, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

A request

I saw claims of plagiarism on a group of people made by user "Dian john1" at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Dian_john1. Although I am a part of this group, I am not going to discuss this issue there, since Wikipedia is not a place to make such claims and rebut them. "Dian john1" is trying confidentially to disseminate lies and slander on people in the public place, devoted to scientific discussions. Could you please remove this discussion from Wikipedia? Thank you in advance. Sincerely yours, Yaroslav Filinchuk, 27 Feb. 2009 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 160.103.2.224 (talk) 14:23, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

GA Moscow

I was asked to review good article nomination Moscow by user:SkyBon, whom I know briefly from his previous GA nomination Russian language. What worries me is that I see the same story repeating: he made 1 edit into a well-written article, nominated it and then could not cope with the review comments. You are one of the main contributors to this potentially excellent article (Moscow), and I was wondering what do you think about it. Russian is fine with me, but I can't type cyrillic. Zhdu otveta. Materialscientist (talk) 05:21, 24 May 2009 (UTC)

• Я думаю, что еще рановато номинировать статью на хорошую, много спорных моментов (сейчас, например, обсуждаем с пользователем User:Ezhiki инфобокс о Москве - спорные моменты - агломерация, высота над уровнем моря) ( смотрите здесь - talk, (Infobox Russian federal city), также о многих фактах нет ссылок на источники. К тому же слабоваты некоторые разделы - Religion, Demographics например. Сделать статью GA очень долгая и сложная работа, у меня, к сожалению, нет сейчас столько времени, да и свободно писать по-английски, я, к сожалению, могу не особо. Если у Вас есть время и желание довести статью до уровня GA, то я буду только за, поддержу и помогу вам чем смогу. Texmon (talk) 19:58, 24 May 2009 (UTC)

COROT-1 nomination

Hey, Materialscientist.

Well, I figured COROT-1 was ready for good article status because I have been looking at other articles. HD 40307 and HD 2039, for example, had passed a while back; for stars like COROT-1, I figured there simply wasn't enough to expand it into a Solar System-style article.

I'll work on improving other articles of the type, but I feel my efforts in further expanding COROT-1 are limited. Thanks for taking the time to look at it, though. Jayhawke (talk) 21:04, 29 May 2009 (UTC)

Elementbox fix

Hi, here's how I fixed the element box: a look at phosphorus reveals that the elementbox is not coded directly on the page, but uses Template:Infobox phosphorus. That template, in turn, uses another template to format the box, Template:Elementbox. Digging into the innards of the Elementbox template shows that it only implemented one set of parameters for the boiling point, as opposed to the three for the melting point. So it was just a matter of making another copy of the boiling point parameters and renaming them appropriately (suffixing "2"). You can look at the history of Template:Elementbox to see what I did. I did have to make one ugly hack to avoid the use of #expr, since that wouldn't let me write "(red)" to indicate the allotrope in the parameters, since that wouldn't parse as a number. So the Celsius value has to be hand-calculated (not too big an annoyance, the same thing is being done for the melting point parameters).

Anyway, this really is the first time I made a non-trivial change to a template, so you might want to ask someone more skilled to take a look at the result and fix up any glaring bugs I introduced in the process. :-) Hope this helps.—Tetracube (talk) 01:23, 11 June 2009 (UTC)

Congrats...

... on your successful FA nom of Synthetic diamond. I remember reviewing this as a GA nom, and I am impressed with the speed and quality of the improvements made. I'm glad to see it on the front page. Keep up the impressive work. --ErgoSum•talk•trib 17:18, 20 October 2009 (UTC)

Pre-emptive congrats

I won't be around much over the weekend, so I thought I'd jump the gun and be the first to warmly welcome you to the admin team. (Sure it's not official yet, but I'm old and crusty and can thus get aware with this sort of crap.) You'll have fun, no doubt. Cheers Manning (talk) 14:55, 23 October 2009 (UTC)

RFA

I think I can congratulate you on the successful adminship request (expired but not closed yet). Hope you will continue to spend at least some time writing articles. Ruslik_Zero 07:58, 25 October 2009 (UTC)

Your Request for Adminship

Dear Materialscientist,

I have closed your recent RfA as successful per the consensus of the community. Congratulations, you are now a sysop! Please make sure you're aware of the Administrators' how-to guide and the items on the Administrators' reading list. Finally, please don't hesitate in contacting me if you need anything. Best of luck in your new position! —Anonymous Dissident^Talk 08:52, 25 October 2009 (UTC)

I'm really glad to see another scientist in the admin corps. Please don't hesitate to ask for help, and best of luck. - Dank (push to talk) 15:48, 25 October 2009 (UTC)

Congrats, MS! --Dylan620 (contribs, logs, review) 20:24, 25 October 2009 (UTC)

Dang. Didn't even know you were up for RfA, or I'd have voted for you. Congrats also. SBHarris 20:35, 25 October 2009 (UTC)

Welcome to the mop crowd, don't let mopwork interfere too much with your content work. Glad the "canvas" drama fizzled out. Enjoy the "power" B-) Vsmith (talk) 21:24, 25 October 2009 (UTC)

Well done, but of course, it was never in doubt. Feel free to ask if you need to know where anything is kept (careful with the delete button, it's right where the "watch" button used to be - so far I've managed not to permanently "unwatch" anything by accident, but give me time). SpinningSpark 22:31, 25 October 2009 (UTC)

Too bad your stuck with the pepper spray/mop combo instead of the flamethrower/mop combo. Stupid budget. Anyway, congrats! Abce2|This isnot a test 23:18, 25 October 2009 (UTC)

Congrats on your successful RfA. ♠ B.s.n. ♥R.N. 07:06, 26 October 2009 (UTC)

Well, I need to jump in and say "congratualtions" as well. You will do fine, I am sure. Steve Quinn (formerly Ti-30X) (talk) 19:04, 26 October 2009 (UTC)

Congratulations from me too. If you ever need any help just say the word. --John (talk) 01:42, 28 October 2009 (UTC)

Pile on congrats. /mav recalls asking Jimbo eons ago about becoming an admin. His reply was something to the effect of 'I don't really know you, but haven't heard anything bad, so sure, why not?' Boy, those were the days when it really wasn't a big deal to be an admin. Now you have to go through an excruciating interview process and public beating. --mav (talk) 03:47, 29 October 2009 (UTC)

• Congratulations. Racepacket (talk) 14:02, 30 October 2009 (UTC)
  • Hey Materialscientist, congratulations on achieving administratorship. All the best to you, and I hope you continue to contribute content. Good luck, Drmies (talk) 22:30, 1 November 2009 (UTC)

DYK - prep 1

I see you have prepared Template:Did you know/Preparation area 1. I have taken a look at it and it seems to be in order. Just remember that as soon as you upload an image from Commons, fully-protect it. And in the upload form include {{c-uploaded}} directly above the copied information from Commons. And remember, when filling a queue with your prepare set, cut+paste the whole prep area, not only the hooks section and it will be fine. :-) Regards SoWhy 14:08, 6 November 2009 (UTC)

Same goes for File:Zigzag coral (Madrepora oculata).jpg which you added to queue 5 today. Although the queues are cascading protected, images may not be affected by this for several hours (see Bugzilla:18483) and thus need to be manually protected before adding to a queue to avoid a vandal taking advantage of this bug. Regards SoWhy 09:17, 7 November 2009 (UTC)

DYK medal

Thanks. But I am a little uncertain as to what you mean by your comment. Do palaces/monasteries, museums. observatories and towns/counties not appeal to you? What exactly does then? Its not as if I write about comic books or video games or anything. Well I think I don't write about topics which are beyond our expertise but help towards it. They are typically on solid encyclopedic subjects but the country they are about may seem obscure to the western eye because I insist on trying to see us from a neutral world viewpoint. But it isn't really. Of late I've been expanding articles about districts/counties and have not been nominating them for DYK. Himalayan 11:15, 19 November 2009 (UTC)

Yeah, I agree that we also need to be looking at what articles get the most traffic and improving them. Unfortunately given the way people are they generally tend to always be on popular culture, sex and a lot of topics that most traditional encyclopedias wouldn't have. You probably don't know but I have been expanding the Clint Eastwood article, so it is not as if I am stuck in obscuredom all the time! This article gets 6,000 odd hits a day so in a week it will have been viewed by 42,000 people. But sticking to fully expanding other articles which may get a lot of hits but don't interest me, paid editing might get me to do it... TThis is the reason though why we still have truck loads of stubs about world topics outside the "popular" zone because there just arne't enough people interested in them to expand them. To date wikipedia has relied on the contributions of a few individuals who are interested in seemingly obscure countries and topics and they do the brunt of the work in expansion, but for it to all be a big success, quality, we really need more numbers. BUt I am in the frame of mind that if the articles which get a lot of traffic and are cared for by a lot of people then they don't need me hanging on to them and I should be doing my best to try to even up coverage elsewhere... I just try to give wikipedia information about parts of the world they otherwise would not know about, as much as for myself than anybody else. I personally would like to know more about rural counties in say Tibet or Ghana or something than reading about some all-star American baseball pitcher or sitcom star... Yeah its balancing what is personally fun to you and what interest you and doing it in a way which maximises interest and benefit to others. Everybody is different, so it is not always easy to assess what or what not is useful to others, but I have actually had many emails from people in places like Nepal, Guatemala, Slovenia and all over the world who have said they are grateful for my work on their part of the world which has given them a chance to expand on what I have started so even if the majority of readers couldn't give a damn about Likir Monastery for instance, I am sure that some people somewhere who are going to northern Indian on a trip or are interested in Tibetan Buddhism will be very grateful to have an article about it or just those who like browsing and learning about any topic!. The problem is catering for all interests and possibilities and maintaining quality. Personally from my viewpoint I think the work I do adds to the interest and depth of wikipedia even if some of them seem very obscure. If there is a particular article you'd like to see expanded on a core topic like a major river etc please let me know, I'll be glad to help! I'd be happy to help you expand some articles on earth science/geology etc, it is a shame there aren't more interested in it because these are the real topics we should be covering!! Just let me know if you want an article expanded, as long as it isn't mathemetical/physics oriented as although I got A grades in school about them, they give me a headache! Earth science, geology, astronomy and ecology are subjects I am highly interested in. Himalayan 12:32, 19 November 2009 (UTC)

You in the states I gather? Get some sleep!! Its lunch time here! Best regards. Himalayan 12:53, 19 November 2009 (UTC)

86.96.226.89

Please don't block addresses such as 86.96.226.89 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) which originate in the United Arab Emirates; the whole country is funneled through just a few IP addresses. Instead, unless it is totally out of hand, monitor anonymous edits and revert them. This one is an address used by Emirates Telecommunications Corporation, but there is also another provider. Fred Talk 15:33, 8 December 2009 (UTC)

I've also unblocked 86.96.227.91 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) for the same reason. Please do a whois on addresses before you block them. This one is also Emirates which uses 86.96.226.0 - 86.96.239.255. Fred Talk 12:58, 10 December 2009 (UTC)

SCIRS

I have made a stab at adapting WP:MEDRS for more general scientific topics at User:2over0/SCIRS. For reasons I may or may not be able to recall at the moment, you crossed my mind when I was considering other editors who might be interested in working on such a thing. The page is strictly preliminary for now, but this invitation to take a look and offer suggestions, comments, and improvements is open to everyone. - 2/0 (cont.) 21:22, 12 March 2010 (UTC)

Autoreviewer Privileges

Hi Materialscientist! I am trying to figure out which Admin granted a particular new editor autoreviewer status. I cannot remember how to generate the report that states who gave a particular editor what privileges. The reason I am interested is that I wanted to approach that Admin to consider revoking the privilege from this particular editor as many of the new pages that s/he creates borrow heavily from copyrighted sources and should not be exempt from patrol by new page patrollers. Thanks! — SpikeToronto 04:57, 30 March 2010 (UTC)

P.S. For convenience, please reply here. Thanks! — SpikeToronto 04:59, 30 March 2010 (UTC)

The tab to click is user right management (don't know if it is available to non-admins). The admin to contact in this case is user:PeterSymonds. Materialscientist (talk) 05:01, 30 March 2010 (UTC)

 Done  With this edit here. Thanks! — SpikeToronto 05:23, 30 March 2010 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) For the record, non-admins can't view Special:UserRights. Instead, the way to check is by using Special:Log --Shirik (Questions or Comments?) 05:25, 30 March 2010 (UTC)

Thanks! I forgot to mention that the other link did not work for ’lil ’ol moi, as I am way too low down on the totem pole. But, the link you provided, Shirik, works just fine. Now, if I could only remember it next time I want to look up such a thing … — SpikeToronto 05:30, 30 March 2010 (UTC)

Update:  Taken care of by other admin with this edit. Thanks Materialscientist and Shirik! — SpikeToronto 23:40, 1 April 2010 (UTC)

You've been mentioned at 3RR

Revert-warring on Marx's theory of history at [1]. I closed this as an incomplete report. Very hard to understand. An IP is concerned about your actions, but his diffs don't work, and if you've already blocked him it may not be worth trying to sort this out at present. EdJohnston (talk) 02:42, 5 April 2010 (UTC)

To access the actual edits one has to review deletion of Marx's Historical Stages. In short, someone moved Marx's theory of history to Marx's Historical Stages using copy/paste, erasing the history, back in february. Since then, there was a single constructive edit, the rest being rvv. Thus I deleted the article and redirected back to "Marx's theory of history" to keep the article history; restored the constructive edit. As to 3RR on Marx's Historical Stages, while it was still standing: two anons were repeatedly adding inappropriate images, ignoring the warning. Materialscientist (talk) 03:16, 5 April 2010 (UTC)

Could you take a look at this for DYK

Template_talk:Did_you_know#2010_Georgian_news_report_hoax had some 'problems', which I believe are now sorted, as there has been nothing further on the talk page in relation to the alleged problems. User:Cmadler has done some minor editing to the article, but nothing that indicates that there is a huge POV problem with the article at all. If you could give it the once over for DYK nom I'd appreciate it. --Russavia ^{I'm chanting as we speak} 09:43, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

Distributed element filter

The paras on the work of Richards and Kuroda was quite deliberately in present tense. The reason for doing so is that their methods are still in use today and I wanted to avoid the impression that the difficulties are only of historic interest. Indeed, the comments are more relevant to modern designs than they were historically. SpinningSpark 06:23, 12 April 2010 (UTC)

I understand that and changed only for the (grammatical) flow of the entire section (history, evolving in the past tense). Thus please have another look and amend as you wish - I am not an expert in this area. Materialscientist (talk) 06:27, 12 April 2010 (UTC)

One other little thing, I don't understand why you remove the thumb|right parameter in images. I know the default is right, but it is very helpful to have it "on show" when an image is inserted in a long article and the alternation needs to be changed all the way down. SpinningSpark 06:32, 12 April 2010 (UTC)

I understand it helps new editors to change left/right placement, but otherwise, I see it only as code clutter. Materialscientist (talk) 06:35, 12 April 2010 (UTC)

Change hook

Hello Materialscientist. Is it possible to slightly change the 7th hook in Q3 (my nom), to:

• ... that stamps of the British Egyptian Expeditionary Force were available in Syria between September 23, 1918 (1918-09-23) and February 23, 1922 (1922-02-23)?

I feel it's more representative of the main article this way! Thanks, Yazan (talk) 08:32, 12 April 2010 (UTC)

Indeed. Changed. Materialscientist (talk) 08:40, 12 April 2010 (UTC)

Ford Thunderbolt DYK

Hi...I found some more references including the very print article I remembered reading which told of the plate. It was in no less than Hot Rod Magazine and can be found here: [2]. I shortened the hook somewhat; please feel free to trim it further if you feel it's necessary. --PMDrive1061 (talk) 15:48, 12 April 2010 (UTC)

User:Himalayan Explorer

Hello Materialscientist. I am rather concerned about User:Himalayan Explorer. If you look at the Revision history of User:Himalayan Explorer which you can find by examining the history of the redirect to user:Dr. Blofeld here, you will see that on 15 March, Nvvchar and Plastikspork replaced HE's user page with "retired". Then on 29 March, there was a redirect to user:Dr. Blofeld. The new Dr. Blofeld page appears to me to have a very strange introduction, strange photographs and even stranger alt text attached to the map image. Perhaps all this is indeed the work of Himalayan Explorer himself but I thought I would bring it all to your attention, familiar as you are with HE's high productivity. If it is a case of vandalism, then you can probably sort it out. -- Ipigott (talk) 20:51, 12 April 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for bringing this to my attention, but I see no reason to worry. There is no secret that User:Himalayan Explorer and user:Dr. Blofeld are one very active user, who thought of retiring at some point and who might use some unusual tweaks to his userpage. Plastikspork is an administrator and Nvvchar is his long-term collaborator. Materialscientist (talk) 22:19, 12 April 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Carbon nanocone

On April 13, 2010, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Carbon nanocone, which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check ) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Materialscientist (talk) 11:12, 13 April 2010 (UTC)

Talkback

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WikiDan61^ChatMe!_ReadMe!! 12:20, 13 April 2010 (UTC)

Thank you!

Thanks for the information on my page about The Jewish Documentation Centre !! Thank you for expanding my article ! JesuitsAlly —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jesuitsally (talk • contribs) 07:00, 14 April 2010 (UTC)

Thank you!

Thanks for the revert. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 03:22, 14 April 2010 (UTC)

Mausoleum of Saladin

Hello Materialscientist. Could you please update hook no. 7 (Mausoleum of Saladin) in Q4, to say that it was under the patronage of German Emperor Wilhelm II, instead of William II. It was a lapse of attention when I wrote the article and nominated it. Wilhelm being William in German, and all. Thank you. Yazan (talk) 10:36, 14 April 2010 (UTC)

Done. Materialscientist (talk) 10:42, 14 April 2010 (UTC)

Yay!

Thanks for helping me with the DYK on the Thunderbolt. Looking forward to seeing it on the main page! Regards, --PMDrive1061 (talk) 15:43, 14 April 2010 (UTC)

John Dugan Entry

Thank you for reverting my edits that were ridiculously removed by 199.83.40.35. I didn't have the page on my watchlist and it only dawned on me today to make sure someone hadn't removed that clearly relevant, NPOV information. Thanks again --BasilSeal (talk) 21:50, 14 April 2010 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for adding that "blocked indefinitely" template to Uesr:Papabear36. I can never remember the name and always waste time looking them up! -Frazzydee|✍ 04:30, 15 April 2010 (UTC)

Never mind, according to the log you blocked him before I did. -Frazzydee|✍ 04:31, 15 April 2010 (UTC)

Note related to DYK Otto Eisler

I have added this to my own page in response to the way you and Crypto dealt with the DYK nomination for Otto Eisler:

The biggest threat to Wikipedia

Ever since I started editing Wikipedia, I have noticed a tendency among a certain class of editors - and they are in a minority - to use this as a place to exercise as much authority as the place affords them. They are prone to obstructionist behavior while self-righteously hiding behind guidelines and policy, typically by picking nits in other people's work rather than doing any of their own. And whenever they are called on this, they demand that others assume good faith.

This behavior typically provokes a response in kind, and we get bogged down in endless posturing in various conflict resolution stages, all too often ending up in Arbcom cases that tend to focus on eliminating the conflict rather than improving behavior.

I believe that good Wikipedia editors should be guided by the credo that they first be helpful. If we see something that should be improved (and there is plenty of it), improve it rather than pointing out its limitations the way an armchair football fan would. And if you choose to be the kind of editor who criticizes other people's good efforts, you have to be prepared to be criticized for the way you do this. Leifern (talk) 07:00, 15 April 2010 (UTC)

We are wasting precious time in discussions instead of getting things done. It is so easy to fix articles, but I can't do it for everyone. Materialscientist (talk) 07:03, 15 April 2010 (UTC)

Claude Phillips

Hey there. Thank you for the DYK nom award for Walter Harris Pollock (for some reason I didn't know the people who nominated got these as well!). But just re the above nomination, I accidentally didn't include my name when I nominated it [3] so sorry for the trouble/confusion (as in, ughhh did this get nominated by a phantom?!?!). Kind regards!Calaka (talk) 09:54, 15 April 2010 (UTC)

Hahaha talk about fast service and delivery! Keep up the great work. :)Calaka (talk) 10:06, 15 April 2010 (UTC)

196.211.52.174

196.211.52.174 is vandalizing again. See his/her recent work at Electric car. Could you please block him/her? Many thanks. Ebikeguy (talk) 13:38, 15 April 2010 (UTC)

Unblocked an IP you blocked

Hey there Materialscientist. I unblocked this IP, as I could not see the supposed vandalism that you blocked for. Just thought I would let you know. Best, NW (Talk) 00:43, 16 April 2010 (UTC)

Er .. I guess I clicked on wrong IP. Thanks. Materialscientist (talk) 00:52, 16 April 2010 (UTC)

DYK favor...

Hey, you've checked out DYK stuff for me before. Could you check out my April 10 DYK hook for Andre Laguerre. It seems to have missed being verified or checked and the date has now rolled into the "older nominations" section. I don't want it to be missed, its a pretty good article (if I do toot my own horn.. ;)) Thanks a bunch in advance. --Jayron32 04:22, 16 April 2010 (UTC)

• Thanks!. If you ever need a favor, let me know... --Jayron32 04:44, 16 April 2010 (UTC)

Victor Ivanovich Nikitin

Thanks for advice on this DYK nom. I agree with your points. We do have a number of recordings of this fine lyric tenor; they are all on Youtube, including the 1948 Peace Concert recordings. I'm in communication with someone who was in the Ensemble choir with him and later became a soloist of the Ensemble. However, as far as I can make out, all official record of him has been lost for whatever reason. Many records were lost in the time of Stalin. Even his fellow-soloist only knows that Nikitin was born in Veronezh and that he returned to the choir in 1952. He also knows that Nikitin had a squint (which explains his apparent insouciant expression in the second photo), but I'm told it would be hurtful to mention it so I didn't. So I had reservations about suggesting his page for DYK but felt that the need for worldwide knowledge of, and respect for, this great singer was an overriding consideration. But I now think that the nomination puts the article at risk of damaging edits, and this artist deserves respect after being totally unknown and unappreciated in the west due to the Cold War. You would be very lucky if you could find official verification of anything connected with Nikitin's life; I have been searching for a year, along with some people in Moscow, and we have found nothing beyond what is in the article. Therefore I would like to delete this nom. I'm going out today, and when I come back, if there have been no developments, I'll delete the nom. Hope that's OK - I want what is best for this tenor's reputation and respect.

NB: The article by Kompaniets is OK, as he is a respected journalist and writer who knew Boris Alexandrov. The interview of Maleev is OK because he is director of the Ensemble, and his interviewer is a respected journalist. Therefore Nikitin's part in the 1948 Peace Concert and the first-Mr-Kalinka story are properly verified. There is also film (from an archive in Berlin) on Youtube of Nikitin singing at the Peace Concert. --Storye book (talk) 09:01, 17 April 2010 (UTC)

In short, it is a good attempt, but indeed, there is too little verifiable info (I cross found your refs, but nothing more). It must be available in Russia because he died in Moscow around 1988, but I have no access to that. Yes, I would delete the DYK nom. Materialscientist (talk) 09:20, 17 April 2010 (UTC)

Done. Thanks for your kind help.--Storye book (talk) 19:52, 17 April 2010 (UTC)

Protection request?

Some time back you assisted on the Tom Van Flandern page by resolving some arguments and blocking a disruptive user. We now have a brand new user using the same arguments and making machine-gun edits (I don't know what else to call them - multiple edits in a short time span that seems to be designed to confuse other editors trying to track changes and making it almost impossible to revert or undo an edit because it has already has further edits on top of it). We also have two users arguing the point you put to rest, that the company website is just a personal website. I monitor that page every day, and it gets old defending the folks I call "the haters." I do not know the procedure, or the qualifications, to ask that an article be protected, but I think with the subject deceased there aren't a lot of changes that are going to be needed down the road. Can the page be protected? Akuvar (talk) 14:47, 17 April 2010 (UTC)

No protection is needed at this time. If anything, a sysops warning to Akuvar to refrain from repeated edit warring and page ownership should be considered. Tim Shuba (talk) 00:18, 18 April 2010 (UTC)

Materialscientist, I am disappointed that you have not taken the time to give me an answer or direction in regards to my query, even if it is not what I want to hear :) I would like your input before having to go back and begin the entire process of removing the negative-toned material and editing on the Tom Van Flandern page. As you can see from the above comment, the "new" editors are willing to contribute-stalk me to see where I am leaving comments and questions. Akuvar (talk) 00:20, 26 April 2010 (UTC)

cite pmid

Hi, thanks for trying to fix the citations on the retigabine page. Just wanted to let you know that {{Cite pmid|012345}} is syntax fully supported by the citation bot - so usually there is no need to do anything about it if you encounter it in a page. In this case the User:Citation_bot had some difficulties. Richiez (talk) 21:05, 17 April 2010 (UTC)

Thanks. I know, but wikipedia is for readers, not for our experiments with the citation templates and citation bot :-) I personally prefer {{Cite journal|pmid=012345}} instead, because {{Cite pmid}} is more difficult to troubleshoot - for example, all 200+ refs once collapsed in one article because of a problem with one doi, and it was not evident in which one. Materialscientist (talk) 00:45, 18 April 2010 (UTC)

Interesting, does it regularly happen that the {{Cite journal|pmid=012345}} version is more reliable? Might be worth adding it as a workaround to the documentation of the cite pmid template.Richiez (talk) 08:38, 18 April 2010 (UTC)

We've had a discussion on that 200+ ref article after its crash (forgot the name, but can dig it out) - whether or not convert all "cite pmid" to "cite journal". "Cite journal" allows easy location of a citation problem - because all the code is in the main article whereas mistakes in "cite pmid" or "cite doi" are hidden (as I understand, cite pmid adds invisible subpages, but I don't know and am keen to learn details) - but with 200+ refs "cite journal" blew up the article size almost twice. As I recall, the refs were silently converted to "cite journal", but there was no clear consensus for that. Materialscientist (talk) 08:57, 18 April 2010 (UTC)

Was it Vitamin D? I saw something along these lines over at WP:AN3 about a month back. - 2/0 (cont.) 18:58, 18 April 2010 (UTC)

Yes. Materialscientist (talk) 22:06, 18 April 2010 (UTC)

DYK recheck?

Hi there; I appreciate all your DYK work.

Can you re-check Template talk:Did you know#Native American jewelry please? I think it was overlooked because someone marked it as out of the timeframe, though it was not - it was created earlier, but not moved to mainspace until later, see log.

I think it could make a nice DYK, and now has some lovely pics too.

Thanks,  Chzz  ►  10:19, 19 April 2010 (UTC)

DYK Alliance of Hearts

Thank you, again. History2007 (talk) 12:26, 19 April 2010 (UTC)

Alliance of the Hearts of Jesus and Mary

The DYK credit for this has been wrongly placed in my talk page. I have not made any contributions to this article. Please put toe credit in the talk page of the correct author. Thanks--Nvvchar (talk) 12:49, 19 April 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Canadian women's ice hockey history

Thank you for the great news. This is wonderful! Maple Leaf (talk) 00:05, 20 April 2010 (UTC)

DYKSTATS deletion

Consistent with recent discussion, I removed several hooks from the all-time lead and non-lead lists. These include several South Park episodes and Obama's acceptance speech. In each case, correction of the hit count for the average hit level on surrounding days showed that the DYK "boost" for these articles was below the applicable threshold. In the case of Todd Palin, Saxbe fix, and Neel Kashkari, such an adjustment results in a lower "boost" level than currently indicated. The other day, you adjusted the count for a couple similarly-situated articles. As I'm unsure what methodology you used, I'm reluctant to make adjustments on these three articles. If you agree and have a few moments, you may want to consider doing the same sort of adjustment on these three hooks. Cbl62 (talk) 02:36, 20 April 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for maintaining DYK stats. My proposed "background subtraction" and adjustment to Todd Palin's stats are reflected here. I am somewhat reluctant to adjust Saxbe fix and Neel Kashkari because it would be about 3%, which is comparable to the accuracy of the "method" :) I am also unsure about "background" in the stats for Bradd Stevens. Materialscientist (talk) 03:20, 20 April 2010 (UTC)

DYK Query

Hi. I thought one of the criteria for DYK is that the article use reliable sources, follow WP:MOS, and at least some shown notability? I noticed several articles from one editor with many of the same issues. Jack Agnew was just passed despite using IMDB as a source (unreliable), and some random person's family's personal tribute to him (not Agnew) that isn't even linked (#4, and also not reliable four Agnew)? Jerry Wray also passed, despite the first ref being broken and its having multiple MoS issues? (like several sentences in a row just running together). I haven't done reviews in awhile, so I'm wondering if the criteria has just been reduced lately? -- Collectonian (talk · contribs) 13:08, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

In the past Billy Hathorn's articles have received a lot of scrutiny for the reasons above, and at most half of them passed muster. I also haven't reviewed in a while though. Shubinator (talk) 14:33, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

The criteria haven't been reduced, it is just lack of manpower. We can be more careful to submissions from this editor (there are 2 in queues now, but they are better). In the past, I've raised a red flag for referencing from one editor (Filipino related articles) and it has been improved. Materialscientist (talk) 22:11, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

Request for DYK queue 6

Hello. I submitted a hook, T:TDYK#2009 International Bowl, that I was hoping to get on the main page at the time currently empty queue 6 is scheduled to be uploaded (Thursday at 8:00 PM EDT). The reason is that the hook directly ties into the NFL Draft, which will be airing its first round right around that time. I thought it would be a particularly timely hook to put on the main page. It doesn't need to be the lead hook, although I certainly wouldn't object (especially since I took that picture myself).

Would you mind reviewing and letting me know if it would be possible to do this? I have been preparing a lot of DYK sets recently, but I know the rules strongly discourage promoting your own hooks. Thanks for your attention. –Grondemar 02:51, 22 April 2010 (UTC)

Doing. Materialscientist (talk) 03:36, 22 April 2010 (UTC)

That's really awesome. Thank you very much! –Grondemar 04:19, 22 April 2010 (UTC)

Question?

Could the article "I Am... Sasha Fierce" be nominated to a DYK? I don't understand some things about the DYK. Thanks Tbhotch^{Talk C.} 03:30, 22 April 2010 (UTC)

DYK aims at new content, thus articles which were created or 5x expanded (counting only prose text) within the last 5 days or so. This article doesn't fit there. Materialscientist (talk) 03:36, 22 April 2010 (UTC)

OK, thank you. Tbhotch^{Talk C.} 03:38, 22 April 2010 (UTC)

Claus

Nice work! This will give a perfect DYK. --Stone (talk) 14:51, 22 April 2010 (UTC)

Barnstar

		The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
		By what it means --Extra999 (Contact me + contribs) 09:50, 23 April 2010 (UTC)

Thank you

Thanks for blocking all the IPs I report, and also for doing some frontline counter-vandalism yourself. I'd like to give you this to put on your user page from me. It's a personal project. More choices available at User: Deagle_AP/Fire Team Alpha. Deagle_AP (talk) 12:52, 23 April 2010 (UTC)

FTAThis user is persistent in the fight against vandalism. Hence, the user has been entrusted with membership into Wikipedia's Fire Team Alpha.

GiacomoReturned

GiacomoReturned is uncollapsing an ANI thread about himself after it was closed by an admin. I have repeatedly recollapsed it as he is just trying to fan the flames. I think it might be time for GiacomoReturned to have some cool-down time. - NeutralHomer • Talk • 09:58, 24 April 2010 (UTC)

User:SupaBGG

User:SupaBGG is the same user as 75.91.236.107, whom you recently blocked for harassment. SupaBGG returned to User talk:Deagle AP for further harassment. Goodvac (talk) 06:56, 25 April 2010 (UTC)

DYK nomination for Ethylammonium nitrate

Hi. I've nominated Ethylammonium nitrate, an article you worked on, for consideration to appear on the Main Page as part of Wikipedia:Did you know. You can see the hook for the article here, where you can improve it if you see fit. Ntsimp (talk) 16:08, 25 April 2010 (UTC) Ntsimp (talk) 16:08, 25 April 2010 (UTC)

Sorry for thr inconvenience...

Sorry for depositing invalid information on your beloved atom page I will no longer be putting information that is incorrect on any wikipedia pages.Thank you for noticing my 3 words on the atom page it shows that some people notice information that is incorrect on these pages. Thank you for your time good luck with your Wiki articles. Kind Regards, ChaitanaChaitana (talk)

Need your advice on a harasser

Hello again, could you please take a look at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#User:Rockyman512 and User_talk:Singlish_speaker#Vandalism warning? Thanks! --Dave ^{♠♣♥♦1185♪♫™} 11:00, 26 April 2010 (UTC)

Re: A block you made

"10:51, 23 April 2010 Materialscientist (talk | contribs) blocked 144.124.16.28 (talk) (anon. only, account creation blocked) with an expiry time of 3 years ‎ (Vandalism) 09:48, 15 May 2009 Mentifisto (talk | contribs) blocked 144.124.16.28 (talk) (anon. only, account creation blocked, autoblock disabled) with an expiry time of 6 months "
Three years isn't slightly excessive to you? Most degress last three years in length... Scarian^{Call me Pat!} 23:01, 26 April 2010 (UTC)

This IP has a 4-year history of blocks for persistent vandalism. Block duration increases progressively. Materialscientist (talk) 23:11, 26 April 2010 (UTC)

I understand that; I was an administrator. But from 6 months to 3 years? Scarian^{Call me Pat!} 23:26, 26 April 2010 (UTC)

Oh, and by the way, I think almost every IP has a "persistent vandalism" history attached to it; but you don't go and block for three years. Scarian^{Call me Pat!} 23:27, 26 April 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Karl Ernst Claus

The DYK project (nominate) 00:03, 28 April 2010 (UTC)

I need your help

Respond to this on my talk page, and we'll talk more... I love me! (talk) 01:22, 28 April 2010 (UTC)

I responded :) I love me! (talk) 01:30, 28 April 2010 (UTC)

Thanks! I love me! (talk) 01:40, 28 April 2010 (UTC)

DYKs

Hey Materialscientist. I saw your removal of 200 (South Park) from the DYK list, as well as the removal of other DYK hooks because the nom has a large number of lists no matter what the DYK day. I've seen other similar removals so I'm sure this is indeed some of policy or whatever, but can you direct me to the actual policy or the talk page discussion regarding this? Thanks. — Hunter Kahn 14:07, 28 April 2010 (UTC)

The discussion is here and its idea is to count views originating from DYK activity rather than from intrinsic popularity of the article name - for "fair" comparison between the noms. Materialscientist (talk) 00:16, 29 April 2010 (UTC)

What do you think of the possibility of having a separate list on DYKSTATS for hooks above a certain number (whether 11,000 or whatever) that normally have heavy hit levels on their non-DYK days? It seems to me that it's a correct argument that those kind of articles should not be part of the normal list because it's not proportional, but it also seems a bit unfair to exclude them altogether. I was going to bring this over to the talk page to see if there would be a consensus for it, and I suppose there we could hammer out the appropriate formulas. (Maybe it would be something like, if it has an average of 5,000 views on a non-DYK day, but reaches 11,000 or 15,000 or whatever on its hook day, it goes into the list.) But I wanted to hear your thoughts first... — Hunter Kahn 00:42, 29 April 2010 (UTC)

Well, DYK pages should reflect DYK activities. If a nom had a difference of 5k+ views before and after DYK day, it will get into the DYK stats anyway, thus I don't see a benefit for an extra page here. There might be some use in having a page on top peaks view stats (unrelated to DYK), but this is partly covered in general WP stats (can dig out that link). Materialscientist (talk) 00:50, 29 April 2010 (UTC)

But the problem is, articles that are still seeing spikes on their DYK dates are being excluded simply because they are popular and well-viewed on other dates. I'm proposing we come up with a formula that will exclude articles that have 5,000 views the days before, the day of, and the days after the DYK hook, but would INCLUDE articles that have 5,000 views the days before and after, but 10,000, 15,000, 20,000 etc. the day of the hook. For example, Fishsticks (South Park), in the month of April, usually had a few thousand visitors each week. In the days around the DYK hook date, it was higher, around 10,000 or 12,000 a day. But on the hook day itself, it reached levels of 23,500, which is still notable even among the other dates. That's a reflection on DYK activity, yet it gets excluded from this list because of the blanket procedure of removing already popular articles from the listing. Same situation for The Ring (South Park), which had between 7,000 and 9,000 page views in the days surrounding the hook date, but 19,700 on the day of the hook itself. Those spikes are reflective of DYK activities, and I don't think it's fair they get excluded altogether. — Hunter Kahn 01:02, 29 April 2010 (UTC)

If after subtracting the average views (half sum of the date before and after) the number of views on the DYK day exceeds 5k then the article can be included into the DYK stats page. As I recall, the past removals were not from the monthly stats, but from the DYK Hall of Fame, where the above difference should exceed 11k (20k). Materialscientist (talk) 02:36, 29 April 2010 (UTC)

• Ok, I wasn't aware of that formula reasoning. That seems more than fair to me. Thanks for walking me through all this. — Hunter Kahn 03:36, 29 April 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Yurii Lomonosov

-- Cirt (talk) 16:02, 28 April 2010 (UTC)

Could I trouble you to look at a post concerning me

Tonight an editor on Coffee Party USA accused me of being a sockpuppet. I have posted what happened on the article talkhere here:

Talk:Coffee_Party_USA#Requested_an_admin_who_knows_I_worked_on_and_developed_Norman_McFarland.27s_article_to_visit_this_conversation

On MookieG's talkpage, another editor took him to task. If after you read and believe I am a sockpuppet, please ban me. --Morenooso (talk) 06:59, 29 April 2010 (UTC)