User talk:Materialscientist

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CIA Factbook is not a reliable source

What is supporting CIA information ? The last census in Columbia was on 2005 and the government has a lot of information about it and it is open to public, it is not possible for CIA World Factbook to make a census with the same accuracy as Colombian government, in CIA Factbook is not posible to find their sources. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Malr210 (talk • contribs) 04:44, 14 May 2012 (UTC)

Yobot

So, what is your plan on this block? Do we wait for this discussion to develop further on the talk page? And then?

Do you think you could give Yobot a chance to prove that thinks with the new skip condition have been improved and see if the things can get better in the next week or so? -- Magioladitis (talk) 19:09, 16 April 2012 (UTC)

I support the suggestion by Carl and believe it is best to re-run the bot approval application, clearly specifying the tasks. The skip condition is only part of the complaints about the bot. Materialscientist (talk) 23:41, 16 April 2012 (UTC)

Which CHECKWIKI errors you think could be ficed by Yobot and which not? -- Magioladitis (talk) 20:40, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

I have no clear answer at the moment, for various reasons, such as (i) I think Yobot may fix any Checkwiki "error", but only when combined with some major fixes, i.e. I disagree with the practice of taking one (minor) checkwiki error and systematically eliminating it through the whole wikipedia (this also makes little sense because those "errors" are being constantly reintroduced). (ii) On what to consider as "major fixes", several editors were unhappy about recent Yobot edits, and thus I prefer to have a consensus. My own criteria for saving minor edits are too high for Yobot. Materialscientist (talk) 08:14, 27 April 2012 (UTC)

Structure of octafluoroxenate

See Talk:VSEPR theory. Its Lewis structure does not convince me of a steric # of 8, but a steric # of 9.--Jasper Deng (talk) 01:54, 27 April 2012 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for the quick action here. Best wishes DBaK (talk) 09:27, 27 April 2012 (UTC)

IP asking for it

Why don't you just block this guy? - M0rphzone (talk) 06:34, 28 April 2012 (UTC)

Because he edited for 1/2 hour on 18 April - there is little chance he will return to this IP, but there is a chance someone else will. Materialscientist (talk) 06:37, 28 April 2012 (UTC)

It's a proxy? - M0rphzone (talk) 03:06, 29 April 2012 (UTC)

It is very difficult to give a 100% certain answer that a certain IP is not an open proxy, but this one seems unlikely. Materialscientist (talk) 03:39, 29 April 2012 (UTC)

Wondering

I was looking at Marco_Antonio_Barrera - and the IP has violated 3RR by putting the same content back on the page 4 times. --Tomtomn00 (talk • contributions) 12:01, 28 April 2012 (UTC)

It is banned user User38563 (talk · contribs) aka UkBoxen (talk · contribs). Materialscientist (talk) 12:14, 28 April 2012 (UTC)

It's now hit 5RR. --Tomtomn00 (talk • contributions) 17:57, 28 April 2012 (UTC)

Someone is pretending to be you vandalizing.

See diff Hghyux (talk to me)(talk to others) 23:28, 28 April 2012 (UTC)

Thanks, to you and Tiderolls who blocked him (I was away for a moment; this is not my geolocation, if it matters). Materialscientist (talk) 23:56, 28 April 2012 (UTC)

Your welcome. Just your typical wiki troll;) Hghyux (talk to me)(talk to others) 00:36, 29 April 2012 (UTC)

Userbox overcast

Can I ask a favor? I made a userbox User:Slightsmile/Userboxes/overcast (lowercase by mistake) and then moved it to User:Slightsmile/Userboxes/Overcast (uppercase). Could you delete the lowercase User:Slightsmile/Userboxes/overcast? Only admins can delete pages, right? SlightSmile 01:03, 29 April 2012 (UTC)

Yes, deleted. Materialscientist (talk) 01:22, 29 April 2012 (UTC)

Thanks. btw that was my first time using the Move feature. Always wondered about that. SlightSmile 01:29, 29 April 2012 (UTC)

Re: Willy Wonka Article

Hey I see you removed the Willy Wonka trivia fact I wrote on the "password" wikipedia page. I thought that was a valuable contribution as it showed another way that a password could creatively and unconventionally exist. The film cited was the original in the 70's, in the beginning of the film. A popular culture connection. I'm going to undo it, though perhaps the article could be given another pop culture section or rewrite including more password ideas. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.56.165.100 (talk) 04:12, 29 April 2012 (UTC)

Your recent rvv

You recently undid some vandalism on a page that should probably be revdel'ed. Are you still online? ˜danjel [ talk | contribs ] 08:58, 29 April 2012 (UTC)

Online. Materialscientist (talk) 08:59, 29 April 2012 (UTC)

your diff. Point #2 on WP:CRD. ˜danjel [ talk | contribs ] 09:08, 29 April 2012 (UTC)

Done. Materialscientist (talk) 09:14, 29 April 2012 (UTC)

Cheers. I'm not connected with the school or the teacher named, but it's a professionally dangerous thing to have said anywhere on the internet. ˜danjel [ talk | contribs ] 09:15, 29 April 2012 (UTC)

User:Sathy3g

FYI, I reset the block for this user to indefinite and revoked their talk page access after they put the spam on their own talk page. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 17:19, 29 April 2012 (UTC)

Megitza

Could you re-add the image to Queue 6, I have forwarded Megitza's photo permission to permissions-commons @ wikimedia . org --Tomtomn00 (talk • contributions) 18:40, 29 April 2012 (UTC)

I would be glad to, but I can't quickly find an evidence that the license has been confirmed. Please link me if/when available. Materialscientist (talk) 22:19, 29 April 2012 (UTC)

Email me and I will forward you Megitza's 3rd Email. --Tomtomn00 (talk • contributions) 22:30, 29 April 2012 (UTC)

We need the Commons OTRS team to confirm the permission and retag the files - I am not part of the OTRS team, and thus can't change OTRS tags; thus formally we would be in trouble even if I could verify the permission. Materialscientist (talk) 22:38, 29 April 2012 (UTC)

The Avengers (2012 film)

Hi, Materialscientist. Shortly after his block ended, Danratedrko began edit-warring again at The Avengers (2012 film) with the same OR edit that several editors reverted the day before. I thought you want to know, and I hope you can help. --Tenebrae (talk) 22:42, 29 April 2012 (UTC)

Re.: — user:112.119.185.218 and the Delia School of Canada, Hong Kong.

Repeated restoration by IPs of POV words and information into the entry and article, and a possible wikipedia:COI. User appears to be confused between and unable to distinguish between a school IN the Province of ONTARIO, in Canada, and a school IN HONG KONG with an external, international program/programme approved by the Provincial Ministry of Education in Ontario. — 94.72.206.26 (talk) 00:11, 1 May 2012 (UTC)

Mercury in thermostats

Hi - just restored the thermostat bit in mercury (element) - see Mercury switch. :) Vsmith (talk) 01:00, 1 May 2012 (UTC)

Ah, mercury switches, but they are not specific to thermostats, and have been removed globally quite some time ago (everywhere I worked at). Mercury thermometers, while becoming unpopular are still hanging in our labs. Materialscientist (talk) 01:04, 1 May 2012 (UTC)

You may already know this, but if I may offer some insight: The thing about mercury switches, although no one manufactures thermostats with them anymore, is that they are extremely reliable. Because they rarely malfunction, you can still find them in use, at least, that is, on this part of the globe. (I have two sitting right here on my desk, which I need to properly dispose of. I still have one running the gas heater in my house.) Thermostats are probably the most well-known use for the switches, but, unlike a thermometer, the mercury only acts as a switch, because the temperature sensing is done with a bi-metal strip. Zaereth (talk) 01:23, 1 May 2012 (UTC)

Yes, reliable and handy (especially for tilt-sensitive devices), but we had to dispose Hg switches, whereas while more and more people dislike Hg thermometers, they are still tolerated. The issue is about current applications (in the mercury article). Materialscientist (talk) 01:36, 1 May 2012 (UTC)

That's difficult for me to give an opinion on. These are still (currently) being used, but rapidly becoming historical. So does it belong in the lede? The historic or current uses section? Would the article suffer from its deletion? Personally anyone of these options work for me, although I would lean toward moving it to the most relevant section, whatever consensus deems that to be. Zaereth (talk) 01:50, 1 May 2012 (UTC)

Thinking further ... I'd agree thermostat use doesn't belong in the lead and it is covered in applications - altho' it says there they are still used in many modern home thermostats -- with a ref, hmm. Work/cleaning needed there, but not tonight. Vsmith (talk) 02:38, 1 May 2012 (UTC)

If it helps, here is a report on mercury use in thermostats in the US. http://www.newmoa.org/prevention/mercury/imerc/factsheets/thermostats.pdf Although their use has gone down considerable in the past few years, (~ 15 tons Hg in 2001, and only ~ 4 tons in 2007), there are apparently companies still manufacturing and selling them, albeit, there is also a whole list of companies shown that have phased out prodution. Digital/solid-state is becoming cheaper and cheaper, but I think it's still fair to say that Hg 'stats are still used in modern homes, businesses, HVAC, ovens, etc... but probably not for much longer. Zaereth (talk) 22:41, 1 May 2012 (UTC)

Thanks. I had a thought yesterday and came to the same conclusion - that they are still used (because of the old devices still staying around, but hardly because of current production), and will be gone within a decade. Actually, many of the uses for elements (on WP, Britannica, etc) are echoes of the old sources like the CRC Handbook and are slow for updates; some applications are becoming obsolete due to recent safety restrictions. Materialscientist (talk) 22:48, 1 May 2012 (UTC)

Tweaked the article and added your link - it is good to have actual numbers for the decline in mercury use. @Vsmith: as I recall, the mercury article was written many years ago and then was just quickly patched by random editors like myself, saving it from GA delisting. Materialscientist (talk) 02:06, 2 May 2012 (UTC)

Thank you

...for blocking this user. He is probably a sock of User:Arkellproductions who started harassing me on YouTube, labeling me as a sneezer, and then moved to Wikipedia to continue his disruption. NHRHS2010 the student pilot ✈ 12:07, 1 May 2012 (UTC)

Amrit Sorli and ip 90.157.141.96

Hi Matsci, could you please have a look at what anon 90.157.141.96 (talk⁺ · tag · contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · proxy check · block user · block log · cross-wiki contribs · CheckUser (log)) aka Amrit Sorli (talk · contribs) is doing? Apparently they are pushing their own work (nonsense) on various articles. I had given Sorli a final warning in December 2011. The IP continued in December after the warning and then became quiet for a while. Today (this morning) they started again at Time dilation. I gave another final warning at their talk. This evening another addition at Spacetime. Could you perhaps look into this? Thanks and cheers - DVdm (talk) 15:59, 2 May 2012 (UTC)

Blocked both - not blatant vandalism, but disruptive propagation of fringe theories, ignoring warnings. Materialscientist (talk) 00:38, 3 May 2012 (UTC)

Persistent indeed. Thx! - DVdm (talk) 07:39, 3 May 2012 (UTC)

64.228.156.246

Could you extend the block of 64.228.156.246 (talk · contribs)? He is a long-term troll ("The Haim Saban troll") who has been doing this for years:

• 70.48.113.183 (talk · contribs)
• 70.52.172.51 (talk · contribs)
• 70.52.174.124 (talk · contribs) (still blocked)
• 76.64.21.149 (talk · contribs)
• 70.52.175.89 (talk · contribs)
• 67.70.153.125 (talk · contribs)

If it is possible, revoke his talkpage access. If you decline to do this, add his talkpage for a while, just to be careful about this. Thank you. Tbhotch.^™ Grammatically incorrect? Correct it! See terms and conditions. 05:34, 4 May 2012 (UTC)

Extended and revoked. I usually don't really care what they do on their talk page and set the block duration by the period of editing, which was brief from this IP (but extended the block anyway given the past nastiness). Cheers. Materialscientist (talk) 05:40, 4 May 2012 (UTC)

Reminder re exact mass in infoboxes

Just a reminder about the discussion last month at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Chemicals#Exact mass. I think we reached a consensus to disable the parameter. I also posted a notice at the discussion for the infobox to give others a chance to comment, but there has been no response for 2 weeks. So I would just go ahead and delete it myself, but this template is protected so changing the source code requires an administrator which I am not. Perhaps you could take care of it? Dirac66 (talk) 15:19, 5 May 2012 (UTC)

Removed. Materialscientist (talk) 01:47, 6 May 2012 (UTC)

3RR case mentions your name

Please see WP:AN3#User:Mirror89 reported by User:Judgeking (Result: ) where your name was mentioned. It's possible that you were concerned about BLP, but you can comment there if you wish EdJohnston (talk) 16:03, 5 May 2012 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
	Thank You for reverting the edit and blocking the user who vandalized my talk page. Electriccatfish2 (talk) 01:33, 6 May 2012 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for the swift revert of the vandalism on my talk page. - Zhou Yu (talk) 02:06, 6 May 2012 (UTC)

Noelia

Hello MaterialScientist, first of all thank for your valueble contributions to Noelia"s page, am a contributor researcher @ the online Department @ Univision.com I can tell you that we have Driver License records of Noelia and she was born on 1979, Noelia have a lot of hatter's who like to leak wrong information, this hatters are the Fan Base of her Mother Yolandita Monge, by the way her Mom;s page is full of inconsistent information, please help us to reiforce the DOB of Noelia 1979, they want to make Noelia look older righ when she is on promotion of her new Album. please help us to revert this information, God Bless and Thank You !! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.119.172.35 (talk) 09:22, 6 May 2012 (UTC)

NOELIA

Materialscientist : People @ Noelia office are waiting for your mail to reply with a Official Doc, and finish this non sensce battle, because now seem to us that you are taking sode insted of doing the right thing, so .. please DO THE RIGHT THING.... email contact@noelia.tv or jr@noelia.tv , lets wrap this for good, you want proff??, they will send it to you now. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.119.172.35 (talk) 22:53, 6 May 2012 (UTC)

IMPORTANT !!!!!!!!!!!!! This link is the public proff of the DOB of Noelia.... Please do the right changes ASAP... Thank you  !! I colaborate convicing the management to do this to finish an ignorant debate. http://www.noelia.tv/noeliadocwikipedia/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.119.172.35 (talk) 18:13, 9 May 2012 (UTC)

Nazi-symbol vandal back

Hi, Materialscientist. You've helped me before with a serial vandal who places Nazi symbolism on my and other's talk and user pages. I guess my talk page's IP protection expired, since he's back, as User:203.134.140.116, and did this. I hate to bother you again, but if you could re-protect that page, I'd be very much obliged. Sorry for the bother, and I thank you for all you help. With best wishes, Tenebrae (talk) 18:47, 6 May 2012 (UTC)

Refreneces about Noelia , Born in 1979 http://www2.esmas.com/ritmoson-latino/artistas/251406?page=2

 Very Reliable Link : http://www.peopleenespanol.com/article/noelia-tiene-festejo-sorpresa

  Just a very important NOTE : If some one in the entertainment Business keeps the best Track on Ages and Dates of Birth is People Magazine. 

Univiosn always tackles miss information about Artits Age her some links; http://musica.univision.com/instudio/noelia/fotos/slideshow/2011-09-02/fotos-noelia-cumpleanos-32 Any mentions from her own mother saying the age of Noelia is not accurate due to the fact that Noelia's Mother and her self been in a nasty fight for years, Noelia will say that her mother is 65 and Noelia mother will say that Noelia is 40 just to mess around with each other. Noelia's Mother is well known for making false statements about Noelia just to continue the battle with her doter, any information from Noelia"s mother is welll known as totally unreliable, Noelia's mother have a war against her for the last decade. Lest not take Noelia's mother as a reliable source, any member of the media knows that only a few Puerto Rican News papers and few show will reproduce all the statements from Yolandita Monge, Noelia is well known for her honesty , and she was born in 1979, I can tell you that I have access to Noelia's management and told them about this and they are willing to send you passport copy to finish with this non sense if want id proof write to thsi email address

  contact@noelia.tv   , 

Material !!!! The whole information about her DOB is WRONG, , they are waiting in her office in Mexico right now for you to write them they will pass a passport Copy .. now you are becoming part of the hate crew from Noelias' mother??, do the right thing man, do it , you are smart guy, dont fall for this suckers who just want to hurt Noelia, PLEASE !!

 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.119.172.35 (talk) 21:54, 6 May 2012 (UTC) 

Confused

The post i was editing said had a [citation needed] (that means it isn't true) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.111.225.2 (talk) 22:21, 7 May 2012 (UTC) And the original post was definitely promotional, not neutral. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.111.225.2 (talk) 22:27, 7 May 2012 (UTC)

Why are you reverting my edits?--Flex3000 (talk) 00:37, 9 May 2012 (UTC)

98.70.94.0/23 is active again

98.70.94.0/23 who you last blocked for 3 months last September is active vandalizing again. See also [1]. I noticed that you warned User talk:98.70.94.149 in that range for vandalism on May 2. This is the same person as 98.85.0.0/20 you blocked for 6 months in April. --Geraldo Perez (talk) 00:52, 8 May 2012 (UTC)

Thanks, I've blocked 98.70.64.0/19 for a month and reblocked 98.70.94.0/23 for 6 months. Materialscientist (talk) 00:59, 8 May 2012 (UTC)

re File:Air New Zealand Flight 901.jpg

I was wondering whether you could check two deleted files for me. I wanted to know whether File:AirNewZealandFlight901.jpg or File:2004a.jpg is the original upload of the Commons file File:Air New Zealand Flight 901.jpg. I am also wondering whether 2004a is the full version and AirNewZealandFlight901 is a cut down square version for an infobox. Thanks :-) --Tony Wills (talk) 07:37, 8 May 2012 (UTC)

File:AirNewZealandFlight901.jpg is a very different image, whereas File:2004a.jpg is identical to File:Air New Zealand Flight 901.jpg. Both redlinked files contained only one image and a short edit history. The only text in File:2004a.jpg was "Photo: ©Copyright 2005 Subritzky Collection, {{PD-self}}". The original upload was on 8 September 2006. Materialscientist (talk) 07:52, 8 May 2012 (UTC)

Thanks very much for your rapid reply :-) --Tony Wills (talk) 07:56, 8 May 2012 (UTC)

TECH.FOOD page deletion

i tried to upload the TECH.FOOD wiki article in order to better give the public the opportunity to be informed about tangible results of an EU funded project. However, because of misreading the directions given by Wikipedia, I tried to remove the speedy deletion tag but then I realized I wasn’t allowed to.

How can I upload the wiki article ( - reading & respecting the rules clearly this time -)?

Thank you in advance. KiNNO (talk) 09:11, 8 May 2012 (UTC)

WP:WIZARD may help. The issues with that article were mostly related to our policies on WP:Copyvio (the content was borrowed from a copyrighted web page) and WP:Notability. Materialscientist (talk) 09:20, 8 May 2012 (UTC)

• KiNNO, I assume you have a COI. I have seen several articles about projects sponsored by the European Commission deleted in the past for lack of notability. In the unlikely event that this one is notable, I suggest you follow this advice. — RHaworth (talk · contribs) 10:41, 8 May 2012 (UTC)

Yobot again

I don't know whether you are already aware of the discussion at Wikipedia:Bot owners' noticeboard#CHECKWIKI errors needs to be fixed but as the blocking admin you should probably leave a comment at least. SpinningSpark 13:54, 8 May 2012 (UTC)

Thanks. I was unaware, and have to go offline shortly. I'll try to read a bit. Materialscientist (talk) 13:58, 8 May 2012 (UTC)

Turtlefever

I do not agree with your edits. They were perfectly accurate and true and if you look at the other turtle links they are highly promotion and link to sites that are clearly not authorities about turtles. My additions were not spammy but contributed to the subject matter and linked to relevant content. I think you are coming down hard on me unfairly. I would appreciate if you reconsidered and if not you should evaluate the rest of the turtle links on that page because they could easily be argued as promotional. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.225.31.137 (talk) 15:24, 8 May 2012 (UTC)

Presumably you are user:Turtlefever not logged in. Don't make me laugh, any page that begins "Yesterday we went out for a ride on our boat and saw something..." is a blog, or worse, and certainly not a reliable source. The purpose of the site is to sell properties, so is inherently unsuitable as an encyclopedia reference. Whether or not other links are suitable is entirely beside the point, we are discussing the link you added - see Wikipedia:Other stuff exists. SpinningSpark 16:56, 8 May 2012 (UTC)

BiominWiki

http://www.mycotoxins.info offers a scientific but concise overview on mycotoxin and mycotoxin related topics with useful information for researchers, animal husbandry and agricultural entrepreneurs or simply for mycotoxin-curious minds throughout the entire supply chain. Why is this link deleted from the Mycotoxin page? - Mycotoxins.info is not commercial. — Preceding unsigned comment added by BiominWiki (talk • contribs) 11:51, 9 May 2012 (UTC)

I seriously doubt that all external link sources on Wikipedia mention references or information on the source. mycotoxins.info does mention the publisher: http://mycotoxins.info/myco_info/disclaimer.html --BiominWiki (talk) 13:31, 9 May 2012 (UTC)

User blocked as open proxy

See User talk:Aharon Mathews - I'm not sure where to report this? WP:OP only seems to be for reporting IPs. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 13:01, 9 May 2012 (UTC)

I've replied on his talk. We need his IP to check the proxy block. If privacy is an issue, the IP can be emailed to an admin and then posted on the open proxy project as a standard request to check for proxy (we do not need to know usernames for proxy checks anyway). Materialscientist (talk) 13:30, 9 May 2012 (UTC)

Thanks. JohnCD (talk) 14:16, 9 May 2012 (UTC)

Thanks!

I would just like to say thanks you for all the work you have done to wikipedia. two examples affecting only myself is the blocking of school IP's and protecting pages.Thank You -- Turbo₅₆₆ ^talk 13:02, 10 May 2012 (UTC)

Delete User:Jfd34/common.js

Please delete User:Jfd34/common.js. I cannot place the db-u1 tag on it as it is a script page. jfd34 (talk) 04:46, 11 May 2012 (UTC)

Done. Materialscientist (talk) 04:53, 11 May 2012 (UTC)

Misuse of Talk Page

MS, could you take a look here? The IP is misusing their talk page. Thanks. - Zhou Yu (talk) 04:49, 11 May 2012 (UTC)

Revoked. Materialscientist (talk) 04:53, 11 May 2012 (UTC)

GA

What category would Jacobus Deketh come under for a GA? --Tomtomn00 (talk • contributions) 08:44, 11 May 2012 (UTC)

I am not a specialists in that, but my first choice is Warfare: Military people. Second choice is History: Historical figures: other. Materialscientist (talk) 08:50, 11 May 2012 (UTC)

Could you also take a look at my GA nomination for Compton-Belkovich Thorium Anomaly? --Tomtomn00 (talk • contributions) 08:59, 11 May 2012 (UTC)

71.136.225.105

Looks like the IP [2] needs to have editing privileges taken away from his/her talk page. Any help would be appreciated, thanks. --ḾỊḼʘɴίcả • Talk • _{I DX for fun!} 23:59, 11 May 2012 (UTC)

Border

Hi. Could you please be so kind as to add a border to the image on Template:Portal/Images/Pakistan. I am unable to, as the template is protected. The reason I think a border should be added is because in the current form, the white strip of the Pakistani flag does not show quite clearly and becomes camouflaged with the background. Adding a border will help show the entire flag and distinguish the white strip. See for example how it's been done for Template:Portal/Images/Military of pakistan. Regards, Mar4d (talk) 01:33, 12 May 2012 (UTC)

Sorry for delay - added the border, now the stripe is more distinct. Materialscientist (talk) 05:41, 12 May 2012 (UTC)

Thanks! Mar4d (talk) 05:57, 12 May 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for the tweak on Calcium Carbonate

I swear, between you and Vsmith these articles are getting better by leaps and bounds. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Riventree (talk • contribs) 09:17, 12 May 2012 (UTC)

Question

New ? here: Wikipedia_talk:Did_you_know#Hermaphrodite. PumpkinSky talk 20:48, 12 May 2012 (UTC)

Hi,

I am adding references to the addition in plagiarism story. Thanks.. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 146.151.108.189 (talk) 02:01, 13 May 2012 (UTC)

Note

Also, it was not necessery to delete them all. Simple, you could transfer them in another section e.g. etymology, history, origin or names (I didn't see if they are exist). These names used for many centuries from the local population (greek,turkish or other) before they transliterated fully in twentieth century to the turkish language. Thanks for your suggestion and historical accuracy! --ΩΑΡ (talk) 09:58, 13 May 2012 (UTC)

Page move

Materialscientist, can you fix the fragmented Talk pages for Softkey by moving Soft key to Softkey? Softkey is the more commonly used name. - M0rphzone (talk) 01:54, 14 May 2012 (UTC)

Question

Why did you change the information about my country Ecuador ?

I changed the information about the ethnic groups in my country because it is incorrect, according to the last census on 2010 this is the correct information http://www.eluniverso.com/2011/09/02/1/1356/poblacion-pais-joven-mestiza-dice-censo-inec.htm Thanks for your attention — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.136.155.85 (talk) 03:10, 14 May 2012 (UTC)

Colombian ethnic groups

The information about the ethnic groups in Colombia is wrong, why are you supporting your information with the CIA website?, I do not know where they are getting all this information, I was looking for their sources and I could not find anything, in the other hand census are more reliable because the information is provided by a Colombian governmental institution and its available in different newspapers.

http://www.colombiaya.com/seccion-colombia/etnografia.html

http://www.dane.gov.co/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=307&Itemid=124 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Malr210 (talk • contribs) 04:18, 14 May 2012 (UTC)

For undoing the damage...

	Vandalism Cleanup Badge
	Thanks for repairing those music articles damaged during the recent vandalism spree. Hobbes Goodyear (talk) 11:06, 15 May 2012 (UTC)

198.54.202.154

Sir, you used {{schoolblock}} on that IP, but it doesn't appear to be a school IP; based on RDNS, it appears to be an ISP proxy. PCHS-NJROTC (talk) 11:53, 15 May 2012 (UTC)

WT:CHEM - intermetallic compound or alloy?

Perhaps you can help. Are these compounds being discussed true compounds, or are they merely alloys? Perhaps you can enlighten us chemists. --Rifleman 82 (talk) 00:42, 16 May 2012 (UTC)

Promotion only user account User:Nilamanibhanja

Hello Materialscientist, need to inform you that this user account User:Nilamanibhanja is being only used for promotional purposes. I have already reported on Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism for ths report and have explained everthing over there in detail. This user created the same article Nilamani Bhanja just minutes after it got deleted. There are no useful contributions and not likely to be as promotion and advertising seems to be the only purpose. The user is also non-cooperative and just keeps on blanking the multiple warnings received on their talk page with no response. The filter log also tells the same thing. Therefore i kindly request you to please take the appropriate urgent action. Thank you TheGeneralUser (talk) 08:12, 16 May 2012 (UTC)

Vandalism on Barrett Brown

Could you protect this page temporarily? Right now the page has been apparently under attack by vandalism from one user under multiple IPs. PwilliamQ99 (talk) 01:03, 17 May 2012 (UTC)

Delinker

I restarted the delinker, that should clear the queue. Should be save to unblock now. What a mess with the Dino's..... Multichill (talk) 21:31, 17 May 2012 (UTC)

Unblocked. The bot started editing, and seems Ok. Now the concern is that it completes the accumulated non-dino tasks :-). Materialscientist (talk) 22:01, 17 May 2012 (UTC)

George Washington Riggs

Hi MaterialScientist, you wanted me to source my info, well here it is, please reinstate my edit you removed from George Washington Riggs, Banker. thanks Welshpeeress — Preceding unsigned comment added by Welshpeeress (talk • contribs) 21:41, 17 May 2012 (UTC)

Irradiation treatment of Topaz

Hi Materialscientist,
I think you removed my commentary on Topaz and the impact of irradiation on the gemstone...not sure why? The distinction between Swiss Blue, London Blue topaz is, in my opinion, significant given the price difference paid by the retail consumer. Further, I think there is a need to ensure awareness of the safety aspect associated with irradiation of the stone since natural blues are hard to come by in Topaz. Whilst the industry ensures appropriate safety standards, the awareness of the treatment is a requirement in the US as a result of FTC regs...
Lafirt (talk) 22:52, 17 May 2012 (UTC)Lafirt

Please use reliable, non-advertising sources. Materialscientist (talk) 23:09, 17 May 2012 (UTC)

Hi again,
Actually I thought I did use non-advertising sources. All the sources I could find online were either gemstones sales or gemstone sales sites, some of which were pretty inaccurate. Any others with reliable material had google adwords advertising in them - this one did not have either, hence my usage
From a reliability standpoint, I looked through some of the sources already being used by the article as well as those in use in similar articles. I could not see the distinction between the sources I used versus those currently there or in other articles..The availability of material in this space is relatively limited, especially in terms of gemstone treatments, the impact of color (vs cut, clarity etc). For example, the point around irradiation on topaz, availability of untreated blues, as well as the points around garnet color that i made in the other article.
Not sure I understand the issue with the source...could you please clarify?
Thanks
Lafirt (talk) 01:15, 18 May 2012 (UTC)Lafirt

Sorry for delays - was clearing some backlog. This reference does not cite any source and offers spammish advice on "how to buy"; its author is not identified as a distinguished specialist (better say, not identified at all). I would try to add only information based on reliable and low-spam references or not add it. Such refs are more difficult to find in the gem area, but it is well possible. I would start with Google books; then go for material science, geology and finally gemology journals and magazines. Gem websites are known to propagate hypes and are often biased (commercial interests or just self-promotion). Materialscientist (talk) 01:45, 18 May 2012 (UTC)

hi
No worries...am not in any rush :)
...i actually checked thru the links on the "how to buy" page....they relate to other articles on the same site and not links to sales sites...and with more "buyer beware"-type statements than a sales pitch. I agree the look and feel are not the most academic, but the content seems kosher so to speak. So, my question would be, how do i add content that I know to be accurate, but published material is not as update?
Btw - The links I could find to external sites were those back to references in wikipedia for more specific info (for example to almandine etc specific members of the Garnet family)..per the site, the writers are GIA qualified, which in the industry is as high a standard as you can get. The issue, like i mentioned to BorgQueen, is that written material gets dated quickly and is as open to question as anything else but I think folks have a right to know, or they may end up buying something that ten years later gets identified as treated.
Lafirt (talk) 02:14, 18 May 2012 (UTC)Lafirt

It's a can of worms. Wikipedia is designed not to be a buying guide, thus any talks about what and how (not) to buy raise suspicion about the site, if not for spam then for reliability. Another issue is notability of information. At some stage, I thought to add interesting facts to wikipedia that were stuck somewhere in my head; checked for references, and found that many were dubious (hearsay, might be right or wrong or just opinions, or published once and then disproved) and many were just not notable enough for an encyclopedia - too technical. Thus these days if I can't find supporting refs in Google books or (multiple) journal articles then I just don't write about it. For example, the materials science and related literature (say, chemicals, but gems also) of the early-mid 20th century was full of terms and classifications which are hardly used anymore and are needed only to read old literature :-). Materialscientist (talk) 04:04, 18 May 2012 (UTC)

Hi
Understood, thanks for taking time for the clarification.
Will go back to the drawing board, think i need to be able to distinguish, like you say, fact from advice.
Lafirt (talk) 10:57, 18 May 2012 (UTC)Lafirt

'Your edits do not appear to be constructive'

my edits are about bricks. you as a material scientist should understand that they are constructive 98.169.117.124 (talk) 23:45, 17 May 2012 (UTC)

A photo of just a person doesn't belong in an article about bricks. - Zhou Yu (talk) 02:17, 18 May 2012 (UTC)

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Just wanted to bring to your attention - this IP has been adding [[Category:Freemasons]] to a bunch of articles which make no mention of such affiliation.-Cntras (talk) 14:52, 18 May 2012 (UTC)

Sorry, I have minutes left online - try ANI or similar board. Materialscientist (talk) 15:07, 18 May 2012 (UTC)

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