User talk:Decoy
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Good work on wilderness first aid!
Thanks! Mark Richards 03:25, 12 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Unable to find the precise help pages
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I'd like somebody more knowledgeable than me to help me in a couple of tasks, after failing myself:
1) Find the metapage where the fountainhead of the last few updates to Wikipedia, as a whole, regardless of type, is listed. Say, every single update that happened in the past minute. If such a page is not available, I'd like to propose (where?) something like that for patrol purposes, and to also propose some programmatic support for its efficient utilization.
2) Find the editorial guideline which says that information should not be duplicated across articles. Again, if such a page is not available, tell me: I'd like, from my database maintenance background, to argue somewhere (where?) that such duplication is a bad idea. Also, if not already reflected in the meta-articles, I might volunteer to write a guideline. And, finally,
3) Find some editorial forum where I could propose that extra, semantic structure be added to the rapidly proliferating arsenal of metatags that is being used on Wikipedia. I for one find the tags exceedingly difficult to use because there are so many of them, so some streamlining might be in order.
Decoy (talk) 21:08, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
- 1. "Recent changes" on the left side.
- 2. As far as I know, there's no such editorial guideline. Closest I can think of is Wikipedia:Summary style.
- 3. Wikipedia:VPR is a good place to propose changes to Wikipedia.
Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • (Broken clamshells • Otter chirps • HELP) 00:53, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
September 2009
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Time dilation
Hallo Decoy, I'd just like to apologise for being unable to see any alternative to reverting your edit of Time Dilation, for reasons discussed on the talk page. To mend the edit in situ would take much work and in the meantime there are substantial errors introduced. Please may I suggest that discussion takes place on the talk page to reach consensus on a suitable way to introduce your ideas, -- of course to the extent that the resulting proposed amendment text is correct, clear and sourced. With good wishes, Terry0051 (talk) 21:34, 19 October 2009 (UTC)
How to request attention to a cluster of pages, not one page?
Once again I'm at a loss myself. I've been buzzing about the cluster of interlinked pages which have to do with event processing in its many forms. That cluster is now tightly interlinked with stuff that I don't really think belongs there, and utilizes terminology which, as a whole, comes from marketing material. Yet no single page is downright bad. This might just be my overactive intuition -- it wouldn't be the first time -- but my spider sense says some folks have been building their own nest there. If not commercial (which is not impossible either with the long outward link farms towards 10-20 variable products over the cluster), then at least ideological.
Is there any way to formally request attention from the community to a vaguely defined cluster of articles, instead of just a single one? If not, I'd definitely go with Google and add a \Template:Fraternization tag or something alike. I'd also consider mechanized cluster analysis, against a) people who are editing in concert, b) linkages between the pages edited, and c) the outside links originating from those pages.
Magnetorquer
Hi, was just reading your rewrite of Magnetorquer and it seems you've missed out the end of this sentence: "As long as current is flowing through the coils and the spacecraft hasn't yet stabilized in a fixed orientation with respect to the external field, the craft's spinning will" ... I presume the missing word was '...continue.', but since your rewrite was quite recent I thought I'd ask if you could fix this, rather than put in my guess. Bazzargh (talk) 10:57, 18 February 2010 (UTC)
world98 blank map help
tried responding to you on my talk page also tried Bazzargh (talk's talk page to no avail. trying not to give up on getting that map updated ubernaut (talk) 16:52, 25 February 2010 (UTC)
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Len Sassaman
Just FYI edit summaries are usually brief - for longer statements, we usually discuss in Talk. See Help:Edit summary. Otherwise, please see Talk:Len Sassaman --Lexein (talk) 20:49, 4 July 2011 (UTC)
Template:Cat nomore has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Bulwersator (talk) 15:16, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
Supernova
In terms of your mass edits to the Supernova article, please note that this is a featured article that has undergone extensive updates by experts and people knowledgeable in grammar and editing. The fact that you completely demolished the lead exposes your lack of knowledge of the standard Wikipedia layout. Please familiarize yourself with WP:LEAD before making further mass edits to high quality articles. Thank you. Regards, RJH (talk) 15:02, 19 June 2012 (UTC)
- Thank you for your comment. I in fact read said guideline repeatedly before editing, and believed I was within it when making my changes. My rationale was to improve the flow of thought within the article so that definitions, empirical facts and theoretical reasoning would be separated better within it. I try to be bold that way, and tried to solicit others from my physical circuit to help keep it real while making said changes.
- I hope that some of my reasoning was retained instead of just undoing everything en masse, because I at least was happier with the outcome than what was before. Decoy (talk) 17:28, 20 June 2012 (UTC)
Join WikiProject Microsoft!
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Your fix in Meltdown (security vulnerability)
Great thanx for fixing the fundamental mistake about the supposedly "safe from reading kernel memory". Obviously the whole point of this exploit is to get to kernel memory. That mistake got put in the article when someone (LittleWalrus) edited my original "Mechanism" section for the grammar/style. I do not know if that means I had written the original too nebulous, or that someone was reading without comprehension. But obviously it had to be fixed, thank you for doing this. Szafranpl (talk) 19:21, 4 January 2018 (UTC)