User talk:DVdm

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RE: Kalp (Aeon) Revision

Thank you for pointing out that mistake. I was attempting to rollback another edit on my watchlist and some how ended up rollbacking this user's edit. I would not have seen that with out your watchful eye. ^The World 02:09, 18 October 2010 (UTC)

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		Thank you for finding my mistake. I believe you deserve this The World 02:09, 18 October 2010 (UTC)

Heh... Thanks :-) - DVdm (talk) 17:09, 18 October 2010 (UTC)

Time discussion

A discussion has begun (on the talk page) concerning the lede in the article Time. I invite you to join here: Introduction, take 2 ---- Steve Quinn (talk) 00:30, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

Hi Steve, thanks for the invitation. I have skimmed though it, but I'm afraid that, to me, time is just what a clock reads, and we already have that in Time in physics, so I don't think there's much to contribute for me to the current discussion at Talk:Time. I'd rather see just one article on time, shoving the (i.m.o. useless) philosophical musings into some obscure corner, but that's not going to happen. Enjoy and keep up the good work. Cheers - DVdm (talk) 19:15, 24 October 2010 (UTC)

Reply is on my talk page

Feel free to delete this section; I've just responded, as you request, on my own talk page. 71.41.210.146 (talk) 07:44, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

Criticizing statements is not improper conduct under Wikipedia guidelines

DVdm, although it is improper conduct to directly insult a person by for example calling the person a moron or something like that, it is not improper conduct to criticize the statements made by a person. Therefore it is OK to say, that is an idiotic statement. But it is improper conduct to say, you are an idiot. RHB100 (talk) 20:48, 1 November 2010 (UTC)

I'd like you to stop saying that I make idiotic statements. DVdm (talk) 22:37, 1 November 2010 (UTC)

Weightlessness

Hi, we met recently discussing about inertial frames. Now, I would appreciate if you could give a look at the article Weightlessness (particularly its second paragraph), to my (reverted) edits to it, and to the endless discussion with Sbharris concerning the question whether weight is a force. Thanks. --GianniG46 (talk) 08:57, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

Hi GianniG46, I made a comment on the talk page. I also made a subtle article edit, which might help (perhaps). Cheers - DVdm (talk) 10:13, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

Table salt?

I checked your book Bender, David A.... page 459. Nice reference, but where does it say that ferrocyanide is "used in ... table salt" (emphasis added). Anyway, this is probably better material for ferrocyanide.--Smokefoot (talk) 13:11, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

I have added another (much better) source that says it is used in table salt. Bender is now used for a list of the 3 varieties. I have reworded and elaborated a bit ([1]). I think we can use this in the cyanide article. Cheers - DVdm (talk) 13:16, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

Nice. Probably the table salt aspect is a rare application, but it is illustrative of the fact that [Fe(CN)₆]^4- behaves quite differently from CN^-. I would move your section to ferrocyanide.--Smokefoot (talk) 13:51, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

Well, it wasn't really my section, but I'd like to keep this little remark (as a sub-sub-section) in the current article. O.t.o.h. I think it's a good idea to copy and elaborate a bit on it in the ferrocyanide article, so by all means go ahead - good idea. DVdm (talk) 15:17, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

Feynman Lectures

Thanks for your remark on my removal of Amazon reviews as a source from the Feynman Lectures! Because I only work as an IP, I usually get anything from insults to blocks for being insulted (you read that right), so this was really refreshing. Keep it up! --193.254.155.48 (talk) 17:11, 3 November 2010 (UTC)

Likewise! DVdm (talk) 17:49, 3 November 2010 (UTC)

Centripetal Force

Dvdm, if you have any issues regarding why I made those edits at centripetal force then raise them on the appropriate talk page. The section was entitled 'sources of centripetal force'. There was no need for all the extra details about centres of mass etc., and besides, it wasn't written very clearly. If you are interested in that article there is plenty of stuff which could be tidied up to make it shorter and more concise. Don't post messages of the kind which you did at my talk page. Those kind of messages are designed for vandalism and newcomers. David Tombe (talk) 22:32, 4 November 2010 (UTC)

I usually don't template the regulars, but as a regular editor you should know that deleting properly sourced content is usually considered to be vandalism. So you got the message. You can use the article talk page to explain and discuss your deletion. This is not the place for that. DVdm (talk) 22:45, 4 November 2010 (UTC)

Dvdm, I wasn't even finished my tidy up session when I received your templated message on my talk page. My purpose was to shorten the section by removing unnecessary material. That was not a section for discussing planetary orbits in detail. It was sufficient to point out that in the case of planetary orbits, the centripetal force is supplied by gravity. That is all that was needed. It is perfectly in order to remove sourced material if the material is irrelevant to the point. I have given my views on the talk page at centripetal force and so I suggest that we carry on the discussion there if you so wish. David Tombe (talk) 22:52, 4 November 2010 (UTC)

Signing in

You can stop telling me every time about the sign in. I have enough problems as it is. Maybe you can tell me how I can stop being signed out while I am editing? I use the proper procedure but I don't realize that I am not signed in any more. And before I even can rectify that you already see a need to remined me. And that already twice in a row! Have you nothing else to do? How about giving me more time before jumping on my back. Is that not included in the Wikimedia policy? --Martin Lenoar (talk) 10:16, 14 November 2010 (UTC)

Huh? As far as I know, I never told you about signing in. I only told you once how to sign messages with the four tildes (~~~~), but I never told you about signing in. Where did that happen? DVdm (talk) 10:56, 14 November 2010 (UTC)

Ok, I used signing in for logging in or out. So you want to help? Or is your reaction to my attempt to edit automated? How about stop repeating with bombarding me always with the same assumption that I dont know what I need to do. This is a form of help, apparently common on the internet, which stopped me to consider looking at "help" pages, they all tell you the same over and over again and maybe somewhere in there is a little real help.

Now if your are real, then maybe you can tell me why it is e.g. ok to write on your talk page without being logged out. Like now. But when I switched form the Article page to the Discussion page of the "Introduction to special relativity", and tried to edit the part I had put in before, I seem to was immediately logged out. The note: "You are not logged in", came on above the edit page. So I logged in again, but was thrown out from the edit page. Again I did not do anything except trying to edit. And there you were again??????????? with all your accusations and "helpfull" information. How do you think I was able to establish an account? By having the cookies switched off? Or that I am so dumb not to let the computer remember my password? Thank you for all this assumption which seem to be based on the assumption that every "new member" must make the same mistakes. (Like the oh so helpful "Frequently ask question" lists). I now about the policy of Wikipedia that nothing is alowed which is not already established. But I don't consider myself a member of Wikipedia even Wikiversity is part of it. So unless you can come up with some real helpful answers then I won't bother you again. I am wise enough to know when my type is not wanted.--Martin Lenoar (talk) 05:50, 18 November 2010 (UTC)

Hi Martin, actually I made only two edits to your talk page. The first edit was this one, where I put two standard templates for newcomers. Nothing personal, no accusations. This is more or less standard routine for new users who forget to sign a talk page message. This is what I wrote in the edit window:

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==Talk pages==

{{subst:uw-summary|Talk:Introduction to special relativity}} - ~~~~

and you see the result. My second edit was this one, where I gave a second answer to your question here on my talk page. If I somehow annoyed you with any of this, please accept my apologies. It was not my intention to bother you. If you don't like the current state of your talk page, feel free to remove anything you don't like there. It's all yours. Cheers - DVdm (talk) 11:48, 18 November 2010 (UTC)

References for "Theory of relativity"

Hi. I sent you two e-mails, which will help you verify the Groiler references. ---- Steve Quinn (talk) 18:37, 15 November 2010 (UTC)

Steve, that is very kind of you. Thank you very much :-) - DVdm (talk) 18:54, 15 November 2010 (UTC)

Formatting

I was willing to ignore my qualms about your and John's formatting doctrine over at talk:complex number. Now at logarithm, however, you seem to just override your own rule which I might paraphrase as: don't change an article's formatting without good reason. Even though this is a totally nitpickishy issue, you should still apply commonsense to it. Which means: simply because there are two math markup formulas and 5 HTML formulas nearby, this does not entitle you or anyone else to start changing the corresponding section. Then maybe you do the surrounding two sections, then, ooops, now we have an inconsistently formatted article, let's do whatever we want. I kindly, but firmly ask you to respect other people's work. I invested a lot in logarithms, which does not mean it is a perfect article, but which does mean that quite some thought has gone into this article, including markup. I'm happy to disclose my reason not to use math markup in elementary formulas which can be done using HTML: it just looks inconsistent, cause

$|z_{1}+z_{2}|=5$

will render for most users in this intermediate formate, not the same as

z₁ + z₂ = 5

(which is perfectly consistent with the text font in the main article) nor

$\displaystyle |z_{1}+z_{2}|=5$

which we (regret it or not) have to use for complicated, non-HTML-able formulas.

You were concerned about inconsistencies in complex numbers. I was unwilling to discuss it til the end there, but if you stir it up again, I have to ask you: don't introduce even more inconsistencies. If you have a liking for polish markup, there are plenty of articles which sorely need the work. Logarithm does not need it, IMO. Jakob.scholbach (talk) 07:38, 18 November 2010 (UTC)

Jacob, I have copied this to a new section Talk:Logarithm#Formula_formatting_consistency_-_informal_RFC, where I think it belongs. I gave a short reply and (informally) asked for comments from other contributors. See you there. Cheers - DVdm (talk) 10:40, 18 November 2010 (UTC)

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Tests of GRT

I have been adding a section with a new table 2 to the site http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tests_of_general_relativity You have deleted my addition without consulting me. You sited WP:NOR and WP:SYN. Neither apply. The addition is fully cited, and in a reliable source. The calculation of the precession of perhelion invalidates the conclusions that are drawn in table 1, so it leaves the conclusion to be drawn up to the reader.

Please do not remove my written material. I do not remove your material. 72.241.181.142 (talk) 02:19, 23 November 2010 (UTC)