User talk:QEDquid

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Great work!

Great work so far! Encyclopedist (talk) 21:38, 27 November 2005 (UTC)

db-contact

Please learn what {{db-contact}} means. I have removed your tags from Sdc.com and Robert Cibis because neither article was an attempt to communicate. -- RHaworth 19:05, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

Again William Everly is nn-bio not attempt to communicate. -- RHaworth 19:38, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

Here is an example of an article which would qualify for {{db-contact}}. (Although in this case the correct treatment was "revert" because there already was a valid article on this title.) -- RHaworth 21:50, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

1-bit DAC

Sorry. It was (and still is now that you've reverted) an orphan article, any person (technical or otherwise) is unlikely to find it. If you create an appropriate link from the main article, it will be safe from my "wrath". --W.marsh 14:17, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

Then you did a good deed. But those links are removed once someone completes them, it seems. So there was nothing linking to 1-bit DAC (other than this talk page, now). I guess it's a pet peeve of mine, I was wrong to redirect like that. But something from Digital-to-analog converter should link to it, otherwise it will appear on the list of orphan pages. Sorry about all of this, really I understand your confusion, like I said, it's just a peeve of mine and I didn't handle it properly. --W.marsh 19:46, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

Hi! I've just created a Bitstream (disambiguation) page which includes Bitstream (DAC), currently a redirect to 1-bit DAC. Would you mind if 1-bit DAC was the redirect instead? SDS 01:36, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

Fixing monobook.js for afd helper

Hi. You tried to install the afd helper, but it seems you copied the script at a time when some things had accidentally been capitalised, breaking the script. Please replace AFD_helper with afd_helper in your monobook.js. Thanks and enjoy! jnothman ^talk 22:25, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

Complaint

I am disappointed in the overert aggression against postings I have made to which I DO have copyright permissions to post. It is bothersome that legitimate articles are being deleted by "Editors." This is regarding the biography of Anni Adams entitled "The Meeting of Anni Adams: The Butterfly of Luxembourg." These articles can be found on hundreds of web searches and throughout the Internet. (text from User:Sail44 moved here)

Aaron Arvey

Hi QEDquid! I'm afraid I had to remove the speedy tag from the above article - as part of the deletion process I checked the history and found that there had been content there, and that it was blanked by someone other than the orginal author. The article still needs deleting, but I don't reckon it's speedyable so I've had to nominate it the long way round at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Aaron Arvey - thought I'd let you know in case you wanted to have your say there! Cheers, CLW 10:11, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

Irma board

I'll admit to a certain curiosity; why shouldn't the Irma board article be exposed with the IBM PC compatibles category? That category page begins This category, IBM PC compatibles, includes articles having to do with IBM PC compatible computers as well as related hardware and software. While many of the articles do not exclusively pertain to PCs, they are most commonly encountered in that area of computing..

thanks 69.106.234.9 06:19, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

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E.W. Padwick or Eric William Padwick?

I was going by Wikipedia:Naming conventions (people), which includes: General Wikipedia Naming Conventions start from easy principles: the name of an article should be "the most common name of a person or thing that does not conflict with the names of other people or things". This boils down to the two central ideas in Wikipedia article naming:

1. The name that is most generally recognisable
2. The name that is unambiguous with the name of other articles

I can't find anything that says that initials must not be used. I think that Padwick's books all had "E.W. Padwick" as the author's name. Later on, I did find: ...if the version with the first and middle names written in full is used nearly as often as the version with abbreviated names followed by a period, prefer the version with these names written in full. But that's not the case here. JH (talk page) 17:08, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

SVG drawing

Sure, no problem at all. Give me a couple of days as I'm out of town right now. — BillC ^talk 14:59, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

How's that? It's no problem making changes, so let me know if there are any adjustments required. Regards, — BillC ^talk 23:55, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

Very nice, only one change - the two source terminals should be those connected directly, so the p-channel FET should have S/D swapped. Thanks!--QEDquid (talk) 21:06, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

Now done. — BillC ^talk 04:01, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

AfD nomination of List of places by name

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Your edits to Charles Wheatstone

Thanks for your time and effort in your edits to Charles Wheatstone (oldid=35660396) back in January 2006.

10:28, 18 January 2006 QEDquid (Talk | contribs) (structured, re-arranged paragraphs, added links)

Unfortunately (you probably didn't realise this) you were re-arranging and changing a large piece of text which a user at 62.211.229.5 had lifted verbatim out of Heroes of the Telegraph by John Munro (from 1891) on 16:44, 7 October 2002 without acknowledging the source. By your changing the wording and order of the paragraphs without paying attention to the meaning of the content you were actually damaging the article by orphaning it from its historical source without correcting the content errors this created, which I'm sure wasn't your intention!

If it was unchanged from the original, it would have been easy enough to mark the whole copied portion as being a quote from that source, but you have changed the wording in a number of places making it your work. Not wanting to destroy the fruits of the effort that you put into it in the first place, I'm writing to respectfully ask if you'd be willing to have another look at the article, and using the Project Gutenberg text as a reference, see if you could perhaps either roll back your changes to the original wording and order and cite the appropriate references, or maybe if you had the time and energy to re-factor the bits that don't make sense.

The first thing I noticed which told me something was wrong with the page was:

"In the Postal Telegraph service this apparatus is employed for sending Press telegrams, and it has recently been so much improved, that messages are now sent from London to Bristol at a speed of 600 words a minute, and even of 400 words a minute between London and Aberdeen."

Which is interesting from a historical context, but nonsense if read as being current information.

As far as I know, we don't have a Postal Telegraph service any longer, and hopefully the bandwidth between London and Aberdeen *after recent improvements* is today somewhat better than 1891's 0.260416667 kbps! ( taking 400wpm to mean 400 x 5 character words = 2000 bytes per minute = 0.260416667 kilobits per second )

For example, that same section in the original text starts with "Wheatstone's next great invention was the automatic transmitter...", which you changed to "Wheatstone further invented the automatic transmitter...", meaning that that section can now not be cited as a quote from the original work - unless it is rolled back first. If it's not rolled back, then it's incorrect, and needs to be re-factored to make sense of its content.

Many thanks & kind regards. JohnGH (talk) 01:47, 19 December 2008 (UTC)

Heath H89

Hello. Back in 2006 you created a redirect for Heathkit H89. If you have any interest in the history of these computers, you may want to look at History of personal computers where a discussion of the significance of the Heath machines is ongoing. --Wtshymanski (talk) 17:58, 20 December 2008 (UTC)

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RE: David Walsh (art collector)

I dont have to prove that they dont have permission to post the copyright article from a magazine. The person wishing to include the link DOES have to show that they DO have permission to post the copyright material or that the material is not copyright by the original publisher. Active Banana (^bananaphone 18:38, 1 February 2011 (UTC)

Petar Zrinski

Hi, you added a reference using "ibid". Unfortunately, no one can tell which reference it refers to, as both books you cited there are offline. Would you mind updating the citation so that it uses the author's last name? Thank you. howcheng {chat} 00:43, 28 April 2011 (UTC)

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Ways to improve Loebe Julie

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Shtil, di nakht iz oysgeshternt

Song lyrics from 1942 are likely still under copyright, so we can't include them here. Sorry, — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 20:18, 11 October 2016 (UTC)

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