User talk:Constant314

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I didn't even know I had a user page until today. Thanks for the greeting and I apologize for it taking so long.

Adding References to Articles

I have added references to a few articles that had no references. It has been a few months, but the articles ares still flagged as having no references. How do I get that changed?70.123.153.103 (talk) 11:09, 20 October 2010 (UTC)

If you are sure that a warning notice is redundant, you can remove it yourself by editing the article in the normal way. Right at the top you will find something like "{{Unreferenced|date=somedate}}" or perhaps "{{Multiple issues| ... Unreferenced=somedate ... }}". Be sure to fill in the edit summary clearly, something like "Removing the unreferenced tag because there are now 8 references", so that other editors know what you are doing. Do not mark the edit as "minor" -- John of Reading (talk) 12:13, 20 October 2010 (UTC)

Thanks Constant314 (talk) 12:15, 20 October 2010 (UTC)

Toroidal inductors and transformers

I added to Talk:Toroidal inductors and transformers. Your pix would be good in Rogowski coil. Thanks for your efforts. Glrx (talk) 03:08, 20 October 2010 (UTC)

Yes, I know your pix are public domain. I pointing you to an interesting topic and offering you the edits. Glrx (talk) 03:23, 20 October 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the kind words, but I don't know anything about Rogowski coils.

I read some of your page, most of it is books and thought these internet links might be useful, this one has some pictures.[1]. This one has some more diagrams.[2] The rest are a bit complicated to explain.[3],[4],[5],[6],[7],[8]. This is a good one,[9],[10],[11],[12],[13],[14],[15]. I`m not sure if you got this one already.[16]. That`s all I can find at the minute. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.1.33.76 (talk) 14:32, 13 December 2010 (UTC)

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Requesting help on misspelled file names

I recently uploaded numerous files to wikimedia commons and then noticed that I consistantly misspelled one of the words in the names.

Do I have to reload each file again with the correct spelling and then nominate the old files for deletion?

Or is there an easy way to correct the spelling?

And if not, maybe there is an easy way to make a copy of each file with a new name and thhen nominnate the old files for deletion.Constant314 (talk) 19:24, 20 December 2010 (UTC)

Fixing now for you using rename template. -- DQ (t) ^{Merry Chrismas}_{and a Happy New Year!} 19:44, 20 December 2010 (UTC)

 Done now awaiting commons administrator. -- DQ (t) ^{Merry Chrismas}_{and a Happy New Year!} 19:53, 20 December 2010 (UTC)

Thank-you very much. How long does it usually take for the renaming process to complete?Constant314 (talk) 20:28, 20 December 2010 (UTC)

Watchlist etc

Re your question, I use a the watchlist (click "my watchlist" top right corner of screen) and have my preferences set to add any page I edit. See Help:watching pages for more information. You can also set up an RSS feed for selected pages - see Wikipedia:Syndication.

Redlinks arise when a wikilink is made to a page that does not exist. If you copied an existing table with links to the units and then changed the units, that would explain the redlinks. You named units that do not have a page.

Hope that helps. SpinningSpark 14:36, 21 December 2010 (UTC)

Yes, that helps, thank you.Constant314 (talk) 15:10, 21 December 2010 (UTC)

What Wikipedia is not

Just been looking over your recent work in attenuator (electronics). This is good stuff, but I have a couple of comments. Firstly, most of the component calculation information is probably better off in the individual articles for specific attenuator circuits. Indeed, there seems to be some duplication. You could put a summary in the attenuator article and use the {{main}} template to link to the details. Secondly, I would like to draw your attention to the WP:NOTTEXTBOOK policy. Wikipedia is not meant to be a textbook teaching the subject and lengthy formula derivations are getting close to being in breach of this. You might want to consider whether some of your material is more suitable for the sister project Wikibooks. Wikibooks can be linked into a Wikipedia article with the {{Wikibooks}} template. SpinningSpark 12:21, 24 December 2010 (UTC)

thank you for your comments. I will consider them carefully, but maybe not until tomorrow. Merry Christmas and thanks for the help and advice in the past.Constant314 (talk) 23:46, 25 December 2010 (UTC)

Happy holidays. I have removed the examples and derivations. The article should be much less like a text book now. As for where to put the information, I have pondered this and come up with a dilemma. There is a lot of overlap between T-pad and pi-pad. It is not a matter of effort; it is just a question of how to organize the information. Should it be in two or three places or should it be in one place with links to it in other articles? The problem with having it in two articles is that improvements, error correction, additions may be made in one article and not the other. So, I'd rather just put it in one place and attenuator looked like a good place since it treats T-pads and pi-pads equally. I got advice on this from Dicklyon who suggested " Don't make a new article that overlaps the other two; it's better to merge all into one of the existing ones, move it to Impedance matching pad or something like that, then convert the others to redirects. " I thought attenuator would be a good candidate for something like Impedance matching pad . As always I appreciate your comments.Constant314 (talk) 15:00, 27 December 2010 (UTC)

Dicklyons solution is workable, but personally, I like to see the details of specific circuits in their own articles. The general article is less hard going for the reader that way. Another possible approach is to write the common material in the template namespace and then transclude it into both articles. This would solve your problem of maintainability since any change will automatically be reflected in both articles. If you go down this path, make sure the first line of the template is a heading as this will make for easy editing of the section. SpinningSpark 23:17, 28 December 2010 (UTC)

That sounds good. Can you point me to an example?Constant314 (talk) 14:13, 29 December 2010 (UTC)

If you take a look at Talk:Aboriginal Memorial you will see that there is a GA review going on. The review can be seen on the talk page, but is actually on a different page, Talk:Aboriginal Memorial/GA1. If you look at the talk page in edit mode you will see that the review page is transcluded on to it by writing the page between double curly braces like so {{Talk:Aboriginal Memorial/GA1}}. Note that the review can be edited as if it were a section of the talk page because it begins with a heading. In the article space, pages which are to be transcluded in are placed in the "template" namespace. In those cases the namespace "template" can be omitted as "template will be assumed if nothing is specified, see for instance Heartbreak Hotel which has a list of {{Elvis Presley singles}} at the bottom of the article which also appears in many other articles. SpinningSpark 23:47, 29 December 2010 (UTC)

I think I understand that. Is the page to be transcluded just an ordinary page? Constant314 (talk) 14:57, 30 December 2010 (UTC)

Yes, any page can be transcluded on to any other page, but it is the convention to put the page to be transcluded in the template namespace rather than the main namespace because the latter is reserved only for self-contained articles, not fragments. SpinningSpark 16:36, 30 December 2010 (UTC)

image on user page

I assume you did not want this to happen. Feel free to revert if I am wrong. SpinningSpark 20:36, 23 January 2012 (UTC)

thanksConstant314 (talk) 23:51, 23 January 2012 (UTC)

Transit

I've been doing some research on Transit tracking stations, and I was wondering if you knew anything about the other installations. I assume that 019 is atypical, since it is in Antarctica, but have you seen what any of the others look like? I assume that they all have similar antenna installations and would be readily recognizable. If you think you might be able to help me with some information on Station 002, can you leave me a message on my talk page? Thanks. ℱorƬheℒoveofℬacon ✉ • ✍ 04:45, 24 April 2012 (UTC)