User talk:Tiredcleangate2

June 2012

Thank you for your interest in editing Wikipedia. Your edit to Fedorov Avtomat was successful, but because it was not considered beneficial to the page, the edit has been reverted or removed. If you would like to experiment with editing, please use the sandbox instead. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. And Adoil Descended (talk) 00:23, 20 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not remove content or templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to Fedorov Avtomat with this edit, without giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your content removal does not appear constructive, and has been reverted. Please make use of the sandbox if you'd like to experiment with test edits. Thank you. Jim1138 (talk) 03:02, 20 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. I noticed that you are marking most of your edits as minor. Edits should only be marked as minor if they are truly superficial and could never be the subject of a dispute. For example, fixing typos is a minor edit, while adding content or templates is not. Concretely, these are some edits that were marked as minor and should not be marked as such: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]. Thanks. Glaucus (talk) 15:15, 9 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Rhodesia

The current wording of the lede has been extensively discussed before, in particular [6]. If you disagree with it, the most effective way of changing is to address the original arguments (on the talk page) and point out, according to wiki guidelines (WP:POV, WP:RS etc), why and how it should be changed. Simply repeating the edits after others have reverted it is not a good way of getting your point across, and is a good way to start an WP:EDITWAR, which no one wants. Cheers. Glaucus (talk) 15:59, 9 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Talkback

Hello, Tiredcleangate2. You have new messages at Glaucus's talk page.
Message added 16:05, 9 November 2012 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.[reply]

Glaucus (talk) 16:05, 9 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome!

Welcome to Wikipedia, Tiredcleangate2! Thank you for your contributions. I am Glaucus and I have been editing Wikipedia for some time, so if you have any questions feel free to leave me a message on my talk page. You can also check out Wikipedia:Questions or type {{helpme}} at the bottom of this page. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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Reply to question about Fragmentation

I just tend to try and space out Wiki-links whenever possible rather than putting two in a row, since the identical color tends to decrease the individual impact of each link (and the likelihood that they'll be considered and clicked on separately). I could be wrong in this perception, it's just been a consistent practice of mine when possible. As for changing "filling" to "it is filled with", I have no good reason at all, and would be perfectly happy with either.

I try to walk a fine line between expressiveness ("it is filled with" being closer to that) and conciseness ('filling" being closer to that), but I don't feel strongly about everything, so have at it. Thanks a lot for your message, and happy editing! Court Appointed Shrub (talk) 12:46, 27 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

You're an explosives scientist? How interesting! During my time in the Army, you might say I was on the "applications" end of the field, so I am always excited to meet people from the "design" end. ;-) I currently work in security and risk consulting, so I tend to have to give a lot of advice on the various properties and relative risks of the various explosive compositions. Spent most of 2009 endlessly facepalming as America ran around in circles in terror when they realized there was such a thing as a liquid explosive. Spent an equal amount of time last month trying to patiently explain to people during the Boston marathon bombing that white smoke with white residue and an uncracked sidewalk meant a chlorate-based homebrew, not black powder bought legally from the hardware store. Sigh. Ignorance breeds panic. Court Appointed Shrub (talk) 02:51, 29 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Additionally, isn't it "explosive filler", not "filling"? Whichever, I don't really care. It's minutia to me. Court Appointed Shrub (talk) 02:54, 29 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Here's a tasty cheeseburger.

Thanks for asking instead of just insta-reverting when you had a question about the wording of my edit. Respecting each other's edits makes Wikipedia a pleasant place. Court Appointed Shrub (talk) 13:58, 27 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]