User talk:Spangineer/archive04

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This archive page includes discussions that occurred approximately between the dates 2005-12-01 and 2006-02-05.

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Gibraltar

Hi Spangineer. I'm spending a lot of time and even money to explain what's going on (see Talk:Disputed status of Gibraltar. I expect a strong position on how Gibraltarian must play from now on. I do know that he won't provide any source but the usual crap of qualifying me as a troll, fascist and so on, but as long as I'm playing by the very wikipedia rules, I'm expecting some "protection" from the administrators. I've seen that your Request for Comments has gone nowhere, so that I'm just waiting your instructions on how to proceed (arbitration, for instance?). Best regards --Ecemaml 13:22, 26 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you Spangineer for your help. I'll begin to gather all the information I need to start the request for arbitration. I'll keep you informed :-) --Ecemaml 08:53, 28 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Spangineer. I'm finishing my request for arbitration. I'm planning to post it by tomorrow. Best regards --Ecemaml 20:14, 1 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Spangineer. It's done now :-) . I've just put the request in Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration#Gibraltarian. Any help or opinion will be indeed welcome. --Ecemaml 07:19, 2 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Celine Dion

Hi. Ive been trying to improve on the Céline Dion article, incorporating many of your suggestions. Could you take a look (please) and maybe offer advice and comments on Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Céline Dion? Thanks in advance. Oran e (t) (c) (e-mail) 04:29, 1 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Disputed states of Gibraltar

Gibraltarian is requesting unprotection (again). What do you think? I'm not unprotecting it until you say so. If you don't feel like it's ready, we'll keep it protected. Gibraltarian used the *Exact* same language he did last time when he requested unprotection. That bugs me a little. --Woohookitty^{(cat scratches)} 16:48, 1 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I see that you are no longer mediating this dispute. I would still like your opinion as to whether it should be unprotected since you are more involved in it than anyone else. --Woohookitty^{(cat scratches)} 17:22, 1 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Don't sweat it man. I'm an admin remember? :-) Been there many times. I just went through a 2 month period where I had 2 arbcoms back to back. One finished...and then the moron that got me into the 2nd one came back from a 6 month suspension. So I understand ya. Well keep an eye on it. Yeah usually people play more nicely when they are in arbcom. Usually. --Woohookitty^{(cat scratches)} 20:21, 1 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Neptune - peer review

Can you look over the article and tell me if your concerns have been met? Thanks. Pentawing 02:41, 2 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, that is exactly what I need to know. I combined the two sections (after another look, I certainly agree that the two sections are essentially the same thing. I have no idea why the two sections were separate in the first place) and linked the terms in the table headings to sub-articles. Though you said that you are not an expert in astronomy, what you told me indicates that you are experienced with making articles as clear as possible. In that case, if possible, I would appreciate your helping me out with these problems (given that no one else is willing nor able to work on this article). Pentawing 04:01, 2 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
I read your comments on peer review and would suggest that you talk to Evil Monkey about your concerns (I've already requested his assistance with the article). As for the table, it seems to be similar to all other planetary articles. Pentawing 23:01, 2 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I've left some comments on the peer review page. As for the retrograde link, what you changed it to is correct. It has little to do with prograde and retrograde orbital motion. Evil Monkey - Hello 23:37, 2 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the sources

For your hard work on retrieving sources and providing me with such help, I, User:Journalist, award Spangineer the *Barnstar of Diligence*. Thank you very much. Oran e (t) (c) (e-mail) 06:00, 3 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, Ill be needing those sources. However, I wont be able to work on the article until the middle of next week→ work and school are tedious. Oran e (t) (c) (e-mail) 03:26, 4 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Gibraltarian again

Hi, Spangineer. Gibraltarian, now anonymously (212.120.229.182) has removed again the {{disputed}} template from both History of Gibraltar and Disputed status of Gibraltar. I don't want to enter again in an edit war so this this message is just for your information. Best regards --Ecemaml 17:02, 3 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Request for Mariah Carey

I noticed that on Talk:Céline Dion, you collected quotes from reviews of Dion's work from ProQuest and left a list of them on the talk page. I was wondering if you could do the same for Mariah Carey? It would be extremely helpful to the article, as currently it relies a little too much on reviews from the website All Music Guide. Searching on ProQuest has been recommended to me before (see Wikipedia:Peer review/Robert Clark (actor)/archive1) for finding print references, but since I don't live in the United States, I don't have access to it. I will be eternally grateful if you could do this! Thanks. Extraordinary Machine 19:18, 6 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you so much! The quotes you found will help improve the article, as well as the relevant album and single articles. Thank you once again! If you need any help with anything, just ask me on my talk page. Thanks! Extraordinary Machine 18:47, 7 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Heyyy, wats up? Me again. I was wondering if you had the links or any other sources for the quotes you put on the Celine Dion talk page. I think that I will work on the article (Sunday maybe?), and the sources/links would help a bunch. Thanks in advance. Oran e (t) (c) (e-mail) 21:12, 9 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

DYK

Did you know? has been updated. A fact from the article electroslag welding, which you recently created, has been featured in that section on the Main Page. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

Wikiproject

I notice you're a fairly active on Mexico-related articles. I don't know if you know anything about Mexican-American topics, but some of us are putting together a Wikiproject and you might want to check it out. You can see the discussion on my userpage.--Rockero420 16:46, 8 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Featured article

After some editing Portugal from the Restoration to the 1755 Earthquake (now moved to History of Portugal (1578-1777) as considerably improved. If you want go there and vote. Thanks. Gameiro 22:45, 8 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Electroslag welding

That's a great image you added to electroslag welding. I know they take awhile to draw up, but do you accept image requests for other welding methods?

Hi, thanks for the compliment. Yes, I accept requests and will try to do one for GTAW. By the way, I really don't know that much about welding and created the image as best I could from reading about it. So if you can imrove it, go for it (or send suggestions). The working .svg file is at [1], I made it with Inkscape.--Duk 00:20, 9 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, the electroslag image is fixed (I think) and there is a new image at GTAW. Let me know if you see any mistakes. --Duk 09:00, 11 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Wow, thanks for the barnstar. I think the spelling mistakes are fixed now :) --Duk 21:04, 11 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Thanks for calculating the accuracy of my article count study. I've incorporated your chart into my subpage (it hasn't been updated to the wikipediaology page, at least not yet). I added some other new info as well. -R. fiend 19:15, 12 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Change of vote?

I've completed most of the requests in your post for the Dinosaur FAC. Is this criteria for a change of vote? Maybe a neutral vote? It would be greatly appreciated, as I would not want to see it fail a second time after all the work I've done... Thanks, Spawn Man 01:16, 13 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

GTAW

Hello Spangineer,

That article is pretty good! I made a couple minor changes and added a section on just why GTAW is so hard. The article does lack significantly in one place and I'm not quite sure where this would be worked in: the "cleaning action" required for good quality aluminum welds. I see some light details on this process but to me it is one of the most fascinating aspects of GTAW. There is mention that the gas ions only travel towards the negative electrode but no mention that the oxides are removed when the gas ions physically smack into them. A good GTAW machine will support waveform shaping on AC which lets the operator dial in the amount of time spent in the DCEN and DCEP phase, striking a balance between cleaning action and penetration. I'd work that all in there myself but I don't want to destroy the flow and great prose of the article. Let me know if you have any other questions. Triddle 00:56, 14 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

The waveform shaping is in addition to the square-wave output of the machine. The shaping (called balance/dig on our Miller machines (lower left control) lets you actually set the time spent in each part of the AC cycle. A balanced wave spends equal time at the + and - sections; the unbalanced wave would spend more or less time in the + side, for instance. This is how you choose between greater cleaning action or greater penetration during welding. As for pulsed and dabber - absolutely add it in. I've never heard of dabber so now you've got my curiosity. One more comment: an instructor at my school used to TIG up nuclear power reactor parts (I'm going to guess it was the high pressure system parts, but don't quote me on that). Each weld was x-rayed for quality and the only thing that could possibly do it with out inclusions or other garbage was TIG. It sure impressed us as its a great example of why the process is required. Triddle 01:41, 14 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Barry Wood

I have written an article on Barry Wood (cricketer). If, as appears likely, the current article on Barry Wood is deleted, I would like to move the article on the cricketer to the Barry Wood namespace as most of the links are for him anyway. Capitalistroadster 10:06, 15 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Monte Crisio Gold Mine

Your Message:

Please do not copy information from commercial websites, as you did on Monte Crisio Gold Mine. I have deleted the article because it was copyrighted text. If you wish to summarize the information, feel free to do so, but please do not just copy it. --Spangineeres (háblame) 15:37, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

My Response:

I wrote the article on the Monte Cristo Mine on Millsite.com and I give Wikipedia the rights to use the information. Please let me know if you have any further questions.

Best Regards,

Bob Kerstein Bob.com —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ootsark (talk • contribs)

Lightsaber combat Copyright

The article in question is in direct violation of Wizard of the Coast's copyright and, as I understand it, in direct violation of Wikipedia policy. The removed portion of the article is not open gaming content and is considered part of product identity. Reproducing it here is a violation of US copyright law. —Preceding unsigned comment added by JuJuJuJu (talk • contribs)

First of all, your threats are both unconstructive and could be used in as proof of your inappropriate attitude towards the law. Cease your threats of imposing a "ban" at once. My edits are far from unconstructive, they are keeping Wikipedia in line with the law. Yes, the text is directly lifted from the WotC published book "Power of the Jedi" and so is in direct violation of US copyright law. Additionally such information is not considered Open Content by the company and reproduction of such content in any form is a violation of the OGL under which the content was distributed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by JuJuJuJu (talk • contribs)

WikiProject:Engineering?

I was wondering if you are game for starting a wikiproject engineering. I started Wikipedia:WikiProject Mechanics, which might be of interest to you. I don't know whether there are many engineers around here, but it seems technology here has come to exculsively mean information technology. deeptrivia (talk) 05:30, 18 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Hello - Request for help on Wiki

Hello,

I am impressed with your wiki skills. I have about 10 wikis that are desperately in need of some good contributors. I would enjoy your presense on my sites. Please contact me privately so I can chat with you away from wikipedia.

Thanks,

Robert wikimanager@yahoo.com

Welding power

For impressive contributions to the underdog topic of welding and for good use of inline citations in your FA articles, I, User:Piotrus, present you The Featured Article Medal on 02:51, 20 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Yes! Fantastic work. TTLightningRod 05:44, 22 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Gettysburg Address

Hi, just wanted to say thanks for your feedback at Peer Review. It sounds from what you're saying that the remaining quotation mark and inline reference issues are more or less minor, so I won't sweat those details much. I hope you enjoyed the article, I think it's pretty good. And I can respect that you even have a position on the appropriate placement of commas w/r/t quotation marks, even if it differs from my own. :) Kaisershatner 12:59, 20 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I revised again according to your views at WP:FAC. Thanks! Kaisershatner 19:36, 23 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

DYK

Did you know? has been updated. A fact from the article Electrogas welding, which you recently created, has been featured in that section on the Main Page. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

--Gurubrahma 14:37, 23 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Wiki for Engineering

Engineering Wiki is a wiki entirely dedicated to collecting information about Engineering. The Engineering Wiki is in early development stages at the moment. We invite you to help devlope this wiki. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 219.65.123.231 (talk • contribs)

wishes

I wish you and your family a Merry Christmas and a happy New Year. --Bhadani 15:14, 25 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

University of Miami criticism section=

thanks for previously removing the vandalism from the UM page. The criticism section has been repeatedly deleted for maybe a dozen times now, and we have been having to just keep putting it back up. Finally, someone prtotected it- but with the vandalsim up (and the criticism down). If you could add your input on the discussion section it would be helpful. Thanks, jcdpi

Concerning welding power supplies:

Should we split out the transformer welding power supplies and the inverter supplies, so it will have three sections:

    Transformer power supplies
    Motor-generator supplies
    Inverter supplies

I should also be able to get some decent photos of the inside of a transformer supply showing the sliding-core arrangement that varies the inductive coupling between the primary and secondary, and a photo or three (shot through a microscope) that shows the surface etching in TIG welding.

(I haven't figured out how to put up photos; any suggestions?)

Dr. Crash 16:28, 26 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Split out welding inverter, added references...

but I'm not truly happy with the text; it needs a little work.

On the good side, I do have some decent photos (taken by holding my digicam up to a microscope eyepiece) of aluminium TIG welds, showing accentuated etch from the AC.

Do they belong on Wikipedia? If so, where would you recommend?

Dr. Crash 17:52, 26 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Spanish help

Hey Spang, if you have some time on your hands, I wonder if you could offer some help. Although my Spanish is (very) rusty, I'm attempting my first major translation; both the full Spanish version and my English one are now at User:Dmcdevit/Workshop. I wonder if you could look over it. The major problems I have are:

"el patrimonio bibliográfico y hemerográfico" which I've awkwardly translated as "the bibliographic and periodical heritage"
"productores fonográficos" or "phonogramas" and "videogramas", which I just can't figure out
And this sentence which I can't make head nor tail of: "Fijar los derechos a cargo de los usuarios, cuando corresponda, por la utilización de sus servicios y bienes culturales, así como los derechos por documentos y publicaciones que emita."

Help, with those specifically, or anything else there, is greatly appreciated. (You can edit it, by the way.) I want to move it to article space soon! Dmcdevit·t 00:30, 29 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your help. I just moved it to article space. If you have any ideas after you get back, that'd be great. I hope you have a good vacation! Dmcdevit·t 23:19, 30 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you

For your support on AN/I. I have no idea how blocking one extremely disruptive user led to me being anti-Gibraltar. --Woohookitty^{(cat scratches)} 08:48, 31 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Sheffield

Hi! Thanks for your useful comments on the Sheffield article. I feel that the process of being a featured article candidate has greatly improved the article. Thanks again, JeremyA 17:46, 31 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

hi from paki.tv

Hi, thanx 4 the welcome.I'm sporadically working on the Afghanistan political pages - see also http://uo.dczn.net and http://ourmayday.org for other wikis i work on. Paki.tv 08:50, 3 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Penn State

Congrats to your school on the Orange Bowl. If you have any interest in football, hopefully you saw the game. Anyway, I created an article on Paul Posluszny, the team's current star, and thought you might want to take a look. Harro5 07:43, 4 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Michigan State

Thanks for taking a look at the MSU article's Featured Article candidate page. I fixed the footnote problem and fiddled with the pictures a bit. I also took a whack at the PSU article, organizing the section headers in the same way as the U-M/MSU articles. It has a long way to go, but as I said on the MSU FAC page, it's better than the MSU page was a month ago. Lovelac7 16:20, 6 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Cola de Caballo image

Thanks for the feedback on my FPC. I withdrew the nomination because it obviously wasn't going to pass, but I thought I'd ask you about one of your comments. What are you referring to when you say "purple CA"? Someone else mentioned purple near the top of the picture as well, but I'm not seeing it. That might be because I don't know what "CA" means. Any suggestions on how to avoid it (whatever 'it' is) in future shots? Oh, and there's no reason to be sorry; I like the picture enough to be able to still like it even after finding out that no one else does =). I thought people might have a problem with the overexposure of the sky, but that's part of the reason I like it. Again, thanks for the input! --Spangineer^es (háblame) 01:37, 7 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sure, "purple CA" (Chromatic aberration) or "purple fringing" is caused when the optics in a camera disperse the light (like a prism) as they focus it and cause the separation of colors which is most apparent where there is a very bright area right next to a very dark area in the image. --Deglr6328 01:50, 7 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Panama Canal

Thanks for your comment. I've filled out the history section, and I'd welcome your feedback. — Johantheghost 14:12, 7 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Reyes Taméz Guerra

Hi Spangineer, as far as I can tell you are the only admin in WP:Mexico. Could you please move Reyes Taméz Guerra back to Reyes Tamez (or at least send it to Reyes Tamez Guerra)? The title is misspelled.

Thanks, Ruiz 02:37, 12 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Electrical engineering

Hi Nathaniel,

I have replied to your feature article comment on the EE article. I really would like to see electrical engineering's nomination succeed. So please keep in touch and hopefully we can resolve your issues with the article.

Cheers,

Cedars 00:29, 15 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Nathaniel,

Thanks for your edits, I didn't really know how to approach the formatting. I have added a reference for the portion of the article you requested it for. If you desire more references, just say so. The sub disciplines can be referenced by refering to the leading textbooks in each of the areas and, if you desire, I can provide these references in a few hours time. I have been trying to remove the second lead picture which I feel clutters the article but have been met by resistance from another editor. If you have any opinion on this (for or against), your viewpoint would be most welcomed. Otherwise thanks again for your work and comments.

Cedars 04:53, 15 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

thanks for the welcome

Hola Spangineer, I'm sure admins welcome everyone, but I wanted to personally thank you for my welcome message to Wikipedia that you left me last June and I just now read on my talk page ;) I really appreciate it and I hope to be of service to the WikiCommunity. --TwilaStar 03:22, 17 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Cheers

Thanks for the interest! I would have absolutely no problem if you shifted the inline citations to after the punctuation (.^[1] not ^[1].). I hope you'll vote your support for Cheers in it's FAC after that! :) Staxringold 17:46, 17 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Uh...

Thanks! Shiny things are nice... :) --Tsavage 03:10, 18 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Too busy to chat, but take a look at this. I was so surprised. Thank u very much for all u have done. Oran e (t) (c) (e) 23:12, 19 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Octavio Paz image

No problem. I'm very unfamiliar with copyright/fair use which is why I try to avoid uploading images. Thanks for the heads up. Gflores ^Talk 03:39, 24 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

SVG

Inkscape and Adobe Illustrator support svg drawings. You'll have to draw them by hand. Regards, =Nichalp «Talk»= 17:07, 24 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Check out autotrace - will automatically vectorize images for you. You'll probably still have to touch them up a bit. - JustinWick 17:23, 2 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Tooth development FAC vote

I am very, very late for this. Almost embarassingly late. Nonetheless, I did want to thank you for your vote of support for Tooth development as a Featured Article. Your comments helped us improve the article, and I think it is now a great source on the topic. Thank you once again! - Dozenist talk 20:56, 24 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipediology Elections

Voting for the positon of Regent Ñ will begin on February 5th at the voting page. All candidates should list themselves there before then. Please take the time to vote, and become more active in the Wikipediology Institute. Thanks - Pureblade | ^Θ 04:43, 30 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Cheers FAC

Spangineer,

Thanks so very much for supporting the recent FAC of Cheers. It was successful and Cheers has been promoted! I'm looking forward to hopefully getting Cheers on the front page. In the mean time, please accept this Beer as a token of my gratitude.

Cheers! Staxringold 12:00, 30 January 2006 (UTC) (UTC)[reply]

Patriots

Hey, thanks for the minor fixes! Deckiller 21:08, 30 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Congrats - GTAW Featured!

Congrats on getting GTAW featured! I enjoyed reading the article and learning something I probably never would have in any other circumstance. Honestly, if I hadn't been compulsively voting on featured article candidates out of the sheer fun of "having a say in something," I would not have chosen to read this article, which would be a mistake. Fourth featured article, I'm jealous! I would like to have one of my own sometime, but I really haven't found the article I want work on yet (though Astrometry is pretty cool). Best of luck on your next one! - JustinWick 08:29, 31 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, I can see how having a ton of reputable, citable knowlege would make the FA process go much better. I'll keep an eye out... - JustinWick 17:20, 2 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Shoshone National Forest

Thank you for your assistance...was that a BOT you used to fix the spacing?--MONGO 03:25, 2 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

That's interesting...I'm learning as I go...which is one reason Wikipedia is so great...thanks again!--MONGO 04:19, 2 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Shoshone National Forest is now a Featured article! I really appreciate you taking the time to read through it, offer suggestions and make some fine edits too. The improvements over the last week or so are due, in no small part, to your assistance. Thank you!--MONGO 09:19, 4 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]