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* 1 Thanks!
* 2 You can call me "STEW"PID
* 3 Kindly point me in the right direction
* 4 Re:_Vandalism
* 5 File copyright problem with File:Japan-Korea tunnel.png
* 6 Canadian Parliamentary Motion 37/1-1205
* 7 Unreferenced tag
* 8 Articles for deletion/Russell Blaylock
* 9 Japan-Korea Undersea Tunnel
* 10 KV33 changes moved to TT33
* 11 File permission problem with File:Ericsson videophone -color image w-licence- GetImage.ashx.jpg
* 12 Congratulations.
* 13 Hydyne
* 14 File permission problem with File:Ericsson_videophone_-color_image_-_GetImage.ashx.jpg
* 15 Please help in deletion
* 16 Meucci's 1871 caveat
* 17 DYK nomination of Alexander Graham Bell
* 18 Links
* 19 LAV III
* 20 ICU Global
* 21 Transcluding page content
* 22 Pre-WWII public videophone services
* 23 errata
* 24 Removal of 'Alleged holocaust perpetrators' cat from the Charles Zentai webpage
* 25 Possibly unfree File:Ericsson videophone -color image w-licence- GetImage.ashx.jpg
* 26 First Telephone Central Office photo
* 27 Notice: Use of Holocaust template on Zentai bio
* 28 Improper warning of 24.173.92.65
* 29 WP:AIV
* 30 Videophone / Video phone
* 31 Re: ISP Followup
* 32 Fonts – Inability for browsers to render all characters or ligatures within an article
* 33 File:Ericsson videophone -color image w-licence- GetImage.ashx.jpg
* 34 In regards of external link-spam. Yes or no? That is the question ;)
* 35 approaching 3rr
* 36 Barry Fox as RS?
* 37 Meucci
* 38 V-mail
* 39 False vandalism report on IP address
* 40 Which Britannica editions are Public Domain and available for inclusion into Wikipedia?
* 41 Your warning on User talk:76.206.249.101
* 42 User :115.117.8.5
* 43 Bell Postage Stamp
* 44 CSI
* 45 Elisha Gray and Alexander Bell telephone controversy
* 46 Personal Attacks
* 47 RE:Using Wikipedia for advertising or promotion on Camgirl.
* 48 Formatting unique to Video Relay Service
* 49 Rank bias and inaccurate POV against Meucci's contributions to invention of telephone by editors...
* 50 Japan–Korea Undersea Tunnel
* 51 Michaëlle Jean
* 52 Japan–Korea Undersea Tunnel
* 53 Sign language
* 54 Whitespace
* 55 TIN CAN PHONE
* 56 Re: Removal of section heading blank lines and spaces
* 57 No offense was intended
* 58 Georg Rosen
* 59 Grammar and Michaëlle Jean
* 60 Jesus Christ
* 61 AT&T
* 62 Refspam in Pragmatics article
* 63 William James Wanless GA review
* 64 Telectroscope
* 65 Selection of Today's Featured Article (TFA)
* 66 Bell Telephone Memorial
* 67 WikiLeaks
* 68 Pedro II and Bell
* 69 Merry, merry
* 70 Happy, happy
* 71 Please Explain (American Telephone and Telegraph)
* 72 Happy 10th Anniversary of Wikipedia!
* 73 Food for thought, knowledge for change
* 74 thank you Mr. Zilber
* 75 BTMC History
* 76 Meucci and Telecommunication
* 77 a level 4 warning to User talk:198.38.68.5
* 78 Blockquotes
* 79 Jewish settlement in Imperial Japan
* 80 Harvey Fletcher
* 81 Chernobyl disaster
* 82 Volta Laboratory
* 83 WP:AIV
* 84 Airspeed
* 85 Thank you
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Did You Know: ... that Alexander Graham Bell's Volta Laboratory, funded by France's Volta Prize, invented the world's first non-electrical radiophones and tape recorders during the 1880s? 5x expanded by Harryzilber (talk) at 19:46, 18 March 2010 (UTC)Reply
The Barnstar of Diligence | ||
Awarded to a conscientious editor who is always on the lookout for ways to improve article quality. Johnfos (talk) 00:21, 16 July 2011 (UTC)Reply |
Please, note that your recent actions were contested. Regards, Incnis Mrsi (talk) 13:46, 23 July 2011 (UTC)Reply
This is another case of zealous template spam, that almost borders on vandalism, since the author does not seem to have any sensible idea of what is appropriate. Please stop spamming articles with this template. With similar intent, every article on WP could have dozens of templates attached. Kbrose (talk) 15:40, 2 August 2011 (UTC)Reply
Frankly, I agree. Navboxes are usually only trans lyres in the articles that are included in the navbox. The idea of a general link would be better served by a link to the telecommunications portal. That would allow readers to explore the topic without placing an overly large navbox (which loads slowly) on the page. oknazevad (talk) 21:51, 2 August 2011 (UTC)Reply
I second Kbrose's words. You are acting in complete disagreement and ignorance of each other editor that commented on this issue, and you continue to add the telecom navbox to articles clearly dealing with subjects that are studied under computer science and computer networking. As I have said before adding the navbox to each and every article is not helpful; any reader interested in an overview of telecom subjects when reading a very specific article such as VoIP is going to look up those articles by him/herself. Arguing that the navbox will help readers "explore the topic" of telecommunications is just plain wrong. Considering this ongoing attitude of you I will support any other user bringing this up at AN/I or a similar place. (I just don't find the time and energy to start it on my own.) Cheers. Nageh (talk) 20:13, 12 August 2011 (UTC)Reply
Adding to this, inserting the navbox into an article is useful and helpful when the article itself is covered by the navbox, so it is possible to jump between these articles. If the navbox were helpful in articles of more specialized subjects then why wouldn't it cover also an outline of that subject's related articles? Because that is what more specialized navboxes would be for. So in the end you would accumulate more and more navboxes in an article the more specialized a topic it covered. Not helpful. Nageh (talk) 20:22, 12 August 2011 (UTC)Reply
Why do you remove the redlinks from IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal?Ntsimp (talk) 17:49, 17 August 2011 (UTC)Reply
Category: Aircraft flown by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, which you created, has been nominated for discussion. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. Binksternet (talk) 23:34, 2 September 2011 (UTC)Reply
Hello, Harryzilber. I read your suggestion for rewarding contributors and other stakeholders in Wikipedia [1] and I immediately thought, this reminds me of Project Xanadu. The Wikipedia article doesn't really convey the richness of the Xanadu idea, but it lists 17 rules for Xanadu documents including (relevant here) #5: "Every document can consist of any number of parts each of which may be of any data type," and #9: "Every document can contain a royalty mechanism at any desired degree of granularity to ensure payment on any portion accessed, including virtual copies ("transclusions") of all or part of the document."
Rule 5 (with rule 10) means that every word of every edit to a Wikipedia article (or anything else on the Internet) can be a "document" in the Xanadu universe, each with a unique address and a registered 'owner'. Rule 9 means that the owner can specify if and how that document may be used or reused and put a price on it. In the context of your 'food for thought' proposal I suppose the owner of each document (sentence, word) would be (say) Wikimedia_Foundation/Contributor_UserName with the Foundation setting the rules and the contributor getting the pro-rated credit along the lines you suggested.
I gather that the problem with Xanadu (as you will discover should you follow the links from the article) is not in its conceptual quality (quite brilliant) but in the difficulty of its software implementation. I can't help thinking that somewhere in the multiverse there is a parallel world where Wikipedia is implemented inside a Xanadu framework and that the two could still merge in this world, should people with better technical and organizational skills than myself start talking about it.
According to Xanadu creator Ted Nelson's current Transliterature website Xanadu (in the Transliterature form -- I'm not sure about the distinctions) is now being developed open source at: University of Oxford; University of Southampton; Project Xanadu; Xanadu Australia; Liquid Information, London; and University College, London. As you probably know, the Wiki software is open source and it is within the Wikipedia license to fork the entire Wikipedia, which means that a proof-of-concept Wikipedia under Transliterature could certainly be attempted. I venture to say that everyone at all of these projects is familiar with Wikipedia, but who knows if they would agree with me that a marriage would be possible and desirable? I will copy this message to Ted Nelson at the address he posted at Transliterature.org and I'll let you know if I get a response, or better, perhaps he would leave a comment here on your page: User_talk:Harryzilber.
More food for thought? —Blanchette (talk) 18:36, 12 September 2011 (UTC)Reply
Great idea, Harry! How can I sign up to receive my payments? -- -- -- 22:31, 27 September 2011 (UTC)Reply
Hello, Harryzilber. You have new messages at Talk:Gyrocompass. Kubanczyk (talk) 21:02, 1 November 2011 (UTC)Reply
fwiw - unlinked numbers in [brackets] are a dead giveaway to a copy/paste, usually from a wiki page. I just didn't have time to hunt down the source. --Versageek 20:19, 12 November 2011 (UTC)Reply
Harry, I think you're being unreasonable here: it's a pavilion, not a film. Can I suggest you create a redirect for the film which was shown in the pavilion? That way, we can categorize that and it will make sense. I'll even help you. We could add a section on the film to the article. In time, it could even become a stand-alone article, if merited. What was the name of the film, again? I saw it as a kid, but that's all I know. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 02:09, 23 November 2011 (UTC)Reply
Harry, you said "I recommend that when we revert those edits, we click on the 'Revert vandalism' button, so that 'vandalism' shows up on the history tab."
I could not find a 'Revert vandalism' button. Where do I look for it? Or do you mean I should put the words 'Revert vandalism' in the comments field? Greensburger (talk) 05:51, 7 December 2011 (UTC)Reply
Hi there, I see you changed license for above to {{PD-because|the drawing was likely a Work For Hire first published more than 90 years ago.}}. I originally used PD-US because it was published in Britain before 1923 but drawn by a cartoonist who died in 1953 (i.e. less than 70 years ago) - which as I understand it means it is PD in US only but is still under copyright in UK until 2024, i.e. original country of publication, and hence cannot be moved to commons until then. What does the license you give indicate ? The distinction between being PD only in US or in original country of publication is crucial as it determines whether the image can be transferred to Commons - if somebody goes ahead and transfers it to Commons when it is still under copyright in UK, Wikimedia is guilty of a copyright infringement, and the license info I used was intended to prevent this. regards, Rod. Rcbutcher (talk) 23:57, 14 December 2011 (UTC)Reply
Discussion ensuing. FWiW Bzuk (talk) 18:05, 23 December 2011 (UTC).Reply
To you and yours, Have a Merry ______ (fill in the blank) and Happy New Year! FWiW Bzuk (talk) 23:54, 21 December 2012 (UTC)Reply
Perhaps you can explain why my recent edits to history of wind power are wp:vandalism? Please also see talk:windmill and talk:history of wind power before threatening blocks. Ghughesarch (talk) 01:18, 31 December 2011 (UTC)Reply
Don't know what happened here, but it appears to be a "midnight" move when no one was watching. FWiW Bzuk (talk) 06:22, 11 January 2012 (UTC).Reply
Harry, thank you for the link to the American Haritage viewable version. I just used it to replace the broken link in the Elisha Gray and Alexander Bell Controversy article. Also, thank you for all the work you have done improving Wiki articles on the telephone and other subjects. When I was about 11 or 12 I began taking apart old abandoned telephones and other electrical equipment. I still have a small bottle of carbon granules from serveral telephone transmitters that had mica disk diaphragms. I also still have a carbon amplifier from my uncle's hearing aid. My interest in Bell and the telephone began when I first watched the Don Amiche bioflick. Greensburger (talk) 19:53, 15 January 2012 (UTC)Reply
HarryZ, Thanks for the barnstar. Only this hour I finished briefly covering the Young People's Literature awards in all of our articles on the books. See Category talk: National Book Award winners - Young People's Literature.
When I returned to the Category, i noticed the call for speedy deletion (rename). Some rename of the category(s) is appropriate but i'm not sure which. Maybe the articles should be renamed in accord with wiki policy. See Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Speedy, which includes my brand new Comments. You may be interested.
Now I must run. --P64 (talk) 20:15, 26 January 2012 (UTC)Reply
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Sorry for the quick revert, but either I'm not reading your edit summary right or you're mistaken. You say in your edit summary that "Source states specifically that Heartland's message "...however, has no basis in fact."" If by "source" you mean the NYT piece that was supporting the sentence you removed, that's inaccurate. Do you feel that the claim made - that the document alleged to be false detailed these curricular plans - is not supported by the NYT piece? Could you explain? Sindinero (talk) 17:52, 20 February 2012 (UTC)Reply
Nobody was "trashing" anything [in ref. to this section of the article ]. It was the nature of the quote itself---"genocide" was only mentioned in passing in an article that wasn't even about the Nanking Massacre, and based on that and that alone, "genocide" was added to the opening sentence of the article. You're not seriously suggesting that was an acceptable thing to do, are you? I mean, if one random quote like that is acceptable, then it would be easily countered by the multiple, sometimes book-length sources that claimed the massacre never even happened at all. Is that what you want to see happen to the article?
Also, on neither page of the Christian Scinece Monitor article is the word "genocide" used, nor in the HyperWar or Hata articles, and the Kasahara article is a dead link. Please don't play fast and loose with your sources. The Massacre is heavily documented, and outside of Japan denialists are extremely rare. If it were widely believed to be a "genocide", then you should be able to find a mountain of sources that describe it so. The fact that none of the major sources do (even the ones that go out of their way to demonize the Japanese) suggests strongly that maybe it is not widely believed to be a genocide. If you strongly believe it was, then feel free to go blog about it, but please quit sticking your POV in the article until you can unambiguously back it up. CüRlyTüRkeyTalkContribs 23:26, 26 February 2012 (UTC)Reply
Thanks are extended to User:Cold Season and to you, Curly Turkey, for coming to a consensus view on the inclusion of the usage of 'genocide' withing the body of the article. I agree with the new wording in that subsection (Massacre of civilians), and I also agree to refraining from its usage in the lede (unless new major reliable sources describe it as such) to avoid WP:Undue.
You most likely understand that there are no specific black-and-white definitions of 'genocide', such as committing X number of murders. What may be considered a 'war crime' today by the international community may be reclassified as a 'genocide' or a 'crime against humanity' tomorrow since sociological and legal perspectives are always subject to change. As an example, from the article Crimes against humanity: "The definition of what is a "crime against humanity" for ICC proceedings has significantly broadened [around 2002] from its original legal definition or that used by the UN19..... " Let's hope all such events disappear from humanity's record forevermore. HarryZilber (talk) 18:33, 27 February 2012 (UTC)Reply
Thank you for your additions of Climate change denial regarding The Heartland Institute and Climate change policy of the United States. Please see wp:Tea. [Original post contributed by: 108.73.113.5 (talk) 10:03 pm, Yesterday (UTC−5)]
I'm genuinely curious to know where the MOS allows for accentuation in image captions by bolding. I've skimmed Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Captions and Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Text formatting#Boldface, which don't seem to endorse it. The boldface article only endorses using bold in table captions, not image captions. A.Roz (talk) 04:26, 1 April 2012 (UTC)Reply
There is never any need to say the same thing twice in same sentence. The guideline gives the example of Calvin Coolidge. If you give his full name, you don't have to mention that he was also called "Calvin" and "Mr. Coolidge". See Wikipedia:Lede#Alternative_names. Kauffner (talk) 22:53, 29 April 2012 (UTC)Reply
Hi, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you recently tried to give Musée de l'Air a different title by copying its content and pasting either the same content, or an edited version of it, into another page with a different name. This is known as a "cut and paste move", and it is undesirable because it splits the page history, which is needed for attribution and various other purposes. Instead, the software used by Wikipedia has a feature that allows pages to be moved to a new title together with their edit history.
In most cases, once your account is four days old and has ten edits, you should be able to move an article yourself using the "Move" tab at the top of the page. This both preserves the page history intact and automatically creates a redirect from the old title to the new. If you cannot perform a particular page move yourself this way (e.g. because a page already exists at the target title), please follow the instructions at requested moves to have it moved by someone else. Also, if there are any other pages that you moved by copying and pasting, even if it was a long time ago, please list them at Wikipedia:Cut and paste move repair holding pen. Thank you. MilborneOne (talk) 20:07, 17 August 2012 (UTC)Reply
HiBZuk,Greetingstoyouthisfinefallday.WhileIrecognizethatextraspacingwasanissueattheearlystartofthecomputerandITerainthe1950sand1960s,itismuchlesssotodaywhenoodlesofcomputermemoryareavailableforafarthing,oritsmoderndayequivalent.Additionally,whilewritingformachinereadersisanicetouchIalsotendtothinkitsnicetowriteforthebenefitofhumaneditorsaswell,whousuallyliketoseeclearlywhatthey'retryingtoread.Justathought. Best:HarryZilber (talk) 18:59, 30 September 2012 (UTC)Reply
You have threatened to block me, for making changes to the Antoine de St-Exupéry page. I don't know what changes you mean, and I imagine you've already reverted them. I wish to avoid trouble, but am not able to communicate with WP.
My name is Don F B Reed. I used to be registered as "donfbreed", but my 2005 Mac Mini computer died in October 2011, and my WP password was lost with it. (I bought a newer one, which is similar but not the same.) My IP address, which miraculously has been constant for over a year, although AT&T U-Verse doesn't guarantee it, is 192.168.1.65 . I have had several email addresses over the past decade. The only one now working is "donfbreed@att.net". I've asked WP to send me my password (or a new one)> Possibly one was sent to an address that no longer works, or it was received and buried by bulk emails I never asked for: I am unable to filter msgs and am about 1000 msgs behind in my reading. If you send me a msg, I will look for it, but I may not find it. Alternatively, my listed phone number is 408-257-6859. My snail mail address is
Don F B Reed 19608 Pruneridge Ave, Apt 3107 Cupertino, CA, USA 95014-6759
99.57.136.216 (talk) 01:44, 26 October 2012 (UTC)Reply
99.57.136.216 (talk) 09:16, 27 October 2012 (UTC)Reply
Hello, HarryZilber. I'm glad you replied to my post on this page. I am trying to avoid damaging people's work and irking their ire. I am not exactly sure what constitutes removing or blanking page contents or templates on the page in question. I'll try examining the change logs for the page.
PS: Why do you refer to me as IP 99.57.136.216 ? My machine's System Preferences:Network page says I'm at 192.168.1.65, and have been there for over a year. (My last ISP used to switch me all around randomly. Perhaps you're seeing the IP address of a gateway, switch, or name server along the route between me and you. Is 216 a reserved value with a special meaning, like 0 and 255 ?
Believe me, I am considering creating a new user account—without one I feel like an outsider or a pirate—but my efforts have been unsuccessful. My proposed userid's and passwords have been rejected, without explanation.
I also don't know how to consolidate the two sets of changes. Is there some way I can actually converse with an administrator who could help me? My goal is simply to become a useful contributor, one among many, worthy of at least a little trust. I have done silly things before (under another name) but nothing malicious. In general, I started with commas. I then looked at obvious errors and inconsistencies. Eventually I filled in details. It's hard to the limits without guidance: commonly, the first hint I get is:"You've just gone too far. Do it again and you're exiled." I'd like to know where the line is, before I reach it. I'd like to stay well within normal limits, and I think I can. 99.57.136.216 (talk) 09:16, 27 October 2012 (UTC)Reply
Issuing this uw-delete4im warning for the simple removal of an external link is highly inappropriate and just plain wrong. You have no indication that the editor acted with a deliberate intent to harm the encyclopedia. There is no history of disruption from that address, and the blanking was absolutely petty. Any 4im warning is completely inappropriate in a case like that. In fact any message stronger than {{Uw-delete1}}
is probably not cool.
You owe that IP an apology and consider this a warning for WP:BITE and WP:WikiBullying. Toddst1 (talk) 16:53, 28 October 2012 (UTC)Reply
This page appears to have been fully protected by you on October 20th, 2012, with the comment: "Protected 2012 Quebec student protests: Persistent sock puppetry: sock(s) of MrBoire still targeting this article (which led to previous protections) ([edit=sysop] (expires 14:43, 20 April 2013)"
I can see putting full protection in place for a short period of a few days while dealing with the sock puppets noted, however lengthy protection for a period of six months is overkill and does a disservice to Wikipedia. For example the Liberal Charest Government is no longer in power, yet it still referenced as the government in power within the article's lede sentence. Newer events are missing from the article, which also contains numerous grammatical errors. Kindly remove full protection from this article and reduce it to a lower level of protection if needed. Best: HarryZilber (talk) 14:20, 28 October 2012 (UTC)Reply
{{edit request}}
template on the talk page.{{edit request}}
is ->that way. Toddst1 (talk) 23:27, 28 October 2012 (UTC)ReplyI'll look at it later. Can you try to match the article referencing format? If that's difficult, I'll see if I can do something about it. I guess a brief mention is OK. I think you should try to integrate it in the existing sections, though. In addition to whatever's put in granddad's article, I do encourage you to start an article on the grandson, it would be good for DYK credit for one thing.--Wehwalt (talk) 06:18, 13 November 2012 (UTC)Reply
Fair enough. Once the article is written and a link is available for interested readers, it may be wise to shorten it. Thanks for matching the referencing.--Wehwalt (talk) 17:02, 13 November 2012 (UTC)Reply
The Biography Barnstar | ||
Excellent work on Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Pleasure to read. Parsh (talk) 13:42, 2 December 2012 (UTC)Reply |
On December 18th I added the following elaboration to the last sentence of the article on the mass murders in Newtown, CT, referenced to a reliable source. There was no synth involved, but elaboration on the contrast to what the NRA said in this instance and what they have repeatedly done for the past many years:
After editors opposed to that statement removed it twice with various arguments, I replaced it with a direct quote from its source, saying instead:
A very loose interpretation of Wikipedia's own rules on edit warring is used to knock out editors that this Admin doesn't agree with. When does 3 reverts mean 2 reverts, or 1 revert? When does deleting other people's work mean that others can delete your work without gaining consensus per established protocols or BRD? Take a look at the results below and judge for yourself. HarryZilber (talk) 07:49, 19 December 2012 (UTC)Reply
AzureCitizen: if you choose not to read the section above on the timing of the posts in the 'Discussion', then you are only adding noise here by repeating yourself. Given that you are a contributor to a number of weapons and warfare articles, that appears to make sense. You hardly appear unbiased in this matter. HarryZilber (talk) 17:04, 19 December 2012 (UTC)Reply
Ryan Vesey: I've participated in Talk discussions that have run days or even a week before consensus was reached to allow or disallow an edit. Your reaction to remove the edit and have me blocked without due time to discuss it on the Talk page was a mistake on your part whether or not you want to admit it. The fact that there are many dozens of editors who are NRA supporters and who will seek to eliminate uncomfortable truths about the NRA from WP is not a valid reason to support censorship. Please review Wikipedia's policy on censorship. HarryZilber (talk) 18:39, 19 December 2012 (UTC)Reply
I will rephrase the last sentence to my earlier posting to Ryan Vesey above (which Ryan Vesey removed by himself) to comply with Wikipedia's guideline's on propriety between editors, which was earlier lacking on my part (after being accused of animal cruelty ;-) :
That's enough said on this issue; no further response is needed. Best HarryZilber (talk) 17:33, 21 December 2012 (UTC)Reply
{{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}
, but you should read the guide to appealing blocks first.During a dispute, you should first try to discuss controversial changes and seek consensus. If that proves unsuccessful, you are encouraged to seek dispute resolution, and in some cases it may be appropriate to request page protection. Drmies (talk) 05:40, 19 December 2012 (UTC)Reply
Harryzilber (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))
Request reason:
Since I did not perform more than three reverts, and since I did not remove other editors' material—they were removing my elaboration—Drmies imposed censorship on a protion of an article he didn't agree with using the flimsy argument of edit warring, without even applying its rules intelligently. I categorically did not violate the 3RR rules given that my edits were being deleted and that I revised an edit others didn't agree with by providing a direct quote from its reliable source. I am very well aware of 3RR and edit warring policies and rules.
Decline reason:
It's surprising, then, that you indeed were edit warring. Perhaps this is the first time the situation has come up for you (and that's why you only drew a three hour block); regardless, you are not blocked for 3RR, you are appropriately blocked for edit warring. --jpgordon::==(o) 07:09, 19 December 2012 (UTC)Reply
If you want to make any further unblock requests, please read the guide to appealing blocks first, then use the {{unblock}} template again. If you make too many unconvincing or disruptive unblock requests, you may be prevented from editing this page until your block has expired. Do not remove this unblock review while you are blocked.
Hammer: "get real youself" as per the comment to AzureCitizen above on the timing and title of the discussion. Please don't bother replying to this. HarryZilber (talk) 15:59, 19 December 2012 (UTC)Reply
Harry, you need to stop the personal insults (now removed) if you want to continue editing here. At this point, you've had a block, a declined review, a declined ANI report, and you've insulted an editor. Maybe you need a break for a few days. I would rather it be voluntary rather than imposed, so please do yourself a favor and go have a tea. Dennis Brown - 2¢ © Join WER 20:07, 19 December 2012 (UTC)Reply
Happy holidays to you too, sir! Ramwithaxe talk 20:32, 21 December 2012 (UTC)Reply
To you and yours, Have a Merry ______ (fill in the blank) and Happy New Year!]] FWiW Bzuk (talk) 23:48, 21 December 2012 (UTC)Reply
CambridgeBayWeather (talk) is wishing you a Merry Christmas! This greeting (and season) promotes WikiLove and hopefully this note has made your day a little better. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Merry Christmas, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Happy New Year!
Spread the cheer by adding {{subst:Xmas2}} to their talk page with a friendly message.
CambridgeBayWeather (talk) 23:44, 22 December 2012 (UTC)Reply
Hello Harry, a belated thank-you for your greetings before Xmas! (At the moment I'm only occasionally logged in.) I'm pleased with your wishes. I wish you a Happy New Year! Henrig (talk) 20:44, 1 January 2013 (UTC)Reply
I note the concerns you expressed regarding the side by side photos at Optical_communication:
Please limit the number of photos in this article as too many create a cluttered appearance; as well side-by-side images create pinched text on low-aspect ratio displays. There are already two photos of naval signalers.
The two photos of naval signalers lack diversity not only in the user and application, but in the method employed. I would like the article to include a photo of a naval signal lamp. Naval signal lamps have been used for over 140 years, from the 1860s to the present day. There are many naval signal lamp photos from the last ten years here: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Naval_signalling_lamps . I could simply replace the first (b &w) naval signaler flag photo with the color US naval shutter-lamp picture that you removed. I think this addresses the issues you raise - Would this be acceptable? If you have any issues with the specific photo, I could select another from the wikimedia page I cite above. Macchess (talk) 07:29, 15 February 2013 (UTC)Reply
Harry Z, unfortunately the prior discussion you cite did not reflect concensus to move, plus it was not conducted via the RM process which advertises all potentially contested moves much more widely. Only those who watch the article would have been aware of the prior discussion. --Mike Cline (talk) 14:04, 27 February 2013 (UTC)Reply
Hello. Please refer to the following text to back up my note about the accident site of Saint-Exupery in 1935 :
Le C630 F-ANRY du raid Paris-Saigon qui se posera dans le désert Libyen (MA6088, avec l'aimable autorisation de la Succession Saint-Exupéry-dAgay).
Saint Ex descend dans le noir le plus complet. 1.000 mètres … 500 mètres … l’avion descend toujours. L’altimètre indique 300 mètres lorsque le F-ANRY accroche le sol fait de cailloux et de sable, à la vitesse de 270 km/heure. L’appareil est détruit mais, premier miracle, l’équipage est indemne. L’auteur décrit alors les angoisses des hommes perdus dans le désert, loin des routes commerciales, sans pouvoir espérer le moindre secours avant plusieurs jours … pour autant qu’on les retrouve. La situation est d’autant plus grave que les réserves d’eau se sont répandues sur le sable lors de l’impact. Commencent alors plusieurs jours d’errance où l’équipage, tour à tour, s’éloigne de l’avion et y revient. L’écrivain nous fait part de ses réflexions lorsque, parti à la recherche de quelque chose qui puisse étancher leur soif qui devient de plus en plus intense, il découvre que les fennecs, ces petits renards du désert à grandes oreilles, gèrent avec parcimonie et intelligence les colonies de petits escargots dont ils font leur nourriture. C’est sans doute à cause de ce paragraphe qu’est née la légende de Saint Exupéry élaborant le projet de son prochain roman du Petit Prince en attendant les secours qui tardent tant à venir. (Ce n’est peut-être qu’une légende mais tellement belle, qu’on a bien le droit de la considérer comme vraie). Finalement, deuxième miracle, le quatrième jour deux bédouins retrouvent l’équipage exténué mais finalement sain et sauf.
From a text on the airplane Caudron. de: handcuff36@gmail.com VE2NIC — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.131.171.82 (talk) 15:37, 28 February 2013 (UTC)Reply
I'm floating a comment to you (hoping to spark curiosity) re http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelyabinsk_meteor directly to you because I'm not sure where to put it, and it relates to a difficulty that must affect many articles. The meteor article irritated me for drifting between using "ton" and "tonnes" even in the same sentence. I'm an American with a scientific bent left wondering which system is being referenced. A metric ton (tonne) is about 10% larger than the short ton" Americans intend. In many places the article attempts to give metric/English equivalents, so I have no way to know if I can safely change ton to tonne without actually altering the number. Regardless this must be a frequent problem. Articles on scientific issues should always be in metric, but a lay audience expects conversions and, well, it's confusing.
I appreciated your comments on deducing the meteor's altitude from its recorded shadows. (see, e.g., http://ogleearth.com/2013/02/reconstructing-the-chelyabinsk-meteors-path-with-google-earth-youtube-and-high-school-math/ ) I am very perplexed by the attempts to estimate the explosion and/or kinetic energy of the meteor in kilotons. (Now, would that be a metric ton?) It is evocative to compare it to a nuclear weapon—got my attention!—I dont think it communicates the effect of the shock wave. An atomic bomb would of course have produced a lot more radiation damage, not just ionizing radiation but the thermal radiation that caused so much of the fire that really destroyed Hiroshima. So ... as long as I'm on units, where is the kinetic energy estimate in something like joules(?) useful for describing events as large as earthquakes. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Doug123w (talk • contribs) 17:13, 6 March 2013 (UTC)Reply
Regarding your recent changes to Chevrolet Volt. The normal style for WP is to make a claim and tag it with a reference - there is no need to say 'magazine xxx says ...' unless it was particularly significant that magazine xxx said it (ie a prestigious magazine vs the opposite claim in some two-bit magazine). Also, that article does references with the {{cite web}}
family of templates - all your additions are in a completely different style. It would be appreciated if you could use the same styles that are already in use in the article. Thanks. Stepho talk 22:23, 13 March 2013 (UTC)Reply
Thanks for the link to the new photo of Onoda. It's interesting. Evenrød (talk) 22:05, 14 March 2013 (UTC)Reply
Hi, I appreciate your effort to reach BoundaryLayer. I haven't studied your comments so I neither agree nor disagree with the content. I am stopping by to suggest you might wish to consider tweaking the section heading, since the talk page guidelines say "Don't address other users in a heading: Headings invite all users to comment. Headings may be about specific edits but not specifically about the user. (Some exceptions are made at administrative noticeboards, where reporting problems by name is normal.)" Cheers, NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 20:05, 27 March 2013 (UTC)Reply
Although the image and the report in the reference are both about Croatia the link between the two is tenuous. If you want to include that reference (and I cannot see why you should not) then it should either be placed appropriately in the article text, or you should upload one of the images from the reference and put the reference on that. It is not logical to put the reference on any arbitrary image of a dead bat. I hope you understand why I have removed the reference again. Djapa Owen (talk) 05:55, 8 April 2013 (UTC)Reply
I commend the {{cite}} template to you. While it may look complicated, it's easy to fill in the bits that apply and it then does all of the formatting for you. Please take a look sometime. It really does make the job easier. :) -- 212.139.96.122 (talk) 11:31, 18 April 2013 (UTC)Reply
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Thanks very much for the awesome da Vinci Barnstar and the kind words. I'm always hesitant to "be bold" and do that sort of ploughing through others' material, especially when dancing near the edge of my very limited technical competence (I'm a complete dunce when it comes to electronics), but a score of little incremental edits is an even more daunting prospect and usually produces a much less coherent result. The obvious downside of Wikipedia is the designed-by-committee, too-many-cooks hodgepodge that often results from an accretion of what are, in the main, individually perfectly good smaller contributions. An occasional major overhaul seems to be the only effective treatment.
Clarity is tough—lots of rewriting and fussing trying to get there and it's hard to be objective about the success of the results, so your positive review is very gratifying.
I've long been meaning to dive into the Photophone article, if only to insert some mention of the early completely non-electronic version of the system. It is almost always entirely overlooked but I find it intriguing. Bell waxes whimsical and mentions a singing cigar in one of his accounts. As you are evidently interested in Bell, you might be interested to know (if you don't already) that he also found lampblack could serve, less efficiently, the same purpose as selenium—in addition to sounding, its resistance varies in modulated light—and that it would "speak" if electrically stimulated. Soot, the Wonder Substance. When I first discovered those dusty facts, I indulged myself in mentally tinkering together a video transmission system employing lampblack-based pickup and display elements. Not only did Bell come very close to inventing a sort of phonograph, but had he been more visually inclined he might have ended up amusing Queen Victoria with a demonstration of television. AVarchaeologist (talk) 23:15, 15 May 2013 (UTC)Reply
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On25 August 2013, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Bell Homestead National Historic Site, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that after nearly dying, Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in July 1874 at his father's home, the Bell Homestead? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Bell Homestead National Historic Site. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
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Harry, you've done a great job on the List of energy storage projects, and many other energy-related articles. Please accept this barnstar as a token of appreciation... Johnfos (talk) 07:36, 6 December 2013 (UTC)Reply |
Yahoo!_Messenger is currently in Category:Videotelephony, but I suspect it shouldn't be. Is this edit still valid? Open4D (talk) 13:13, 1 January 2014 (UTC)Reply
Hello!
First off, I want to thank you for your message informing me of your edit and invitation to further discussion if I had any disagreement. That was very nice, and thoughtful!
However, I do feel that my edit was constructive, for the reasons I posted on the Talk page for that article. I did post my concerns about that sentence on April 20, then waited 3 days, hoping someone would reply. When that didn't happen, I chose to make the changes myself.
I read quite a bit about NPOV and NOR, and that sentence seems to be a violation of at least one, if not both of those policies (I'm new, obviously, so I'm not too sure yet which it definitively is, or if it is a combination).
As I stated in my post on the Talk page, the sentence before that one states that astronomers linked the 2 events, and has 2 sources to back that up. Then the following sentence states that the events are unlikely to be related, yet has absolutely no sources listed as to why that is being stated. I even did a brief search trying to find a source for that claim, but could not.
I am new here (to editing at least), so I could be completely off base on this, but it just seems that a claim like that should have sources to back it up, especially when there is a claim that IS sourced saying the opposite.
OFFTOPIC: Just a quick question from a newbie, but is it normal to talk about edits to a page on other user's Talk pages, rather than on the Talk page of the article itself? I assumed that discussions such as these were to be posted on the article's Talk page, just from my experience poking around over the years. Hopefully me asking that doesn't upset you, as it doesn't bother me that you posted to my page, and asked me to post to yours. I'm just genuinely curious as to how things work here. :)
Thanks again! Elfglitter (talk) 09:09, 6 May 2014 (UTC)Reply
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In 2007 astronomers determined that the annual January Quadrantid meteor shower may have originated with the disintegration of comet C/1490 Y1, approximately a century after it was first identified in 1490 by Chinese, Japanese and Korean astronomers.[8][9] The large difference between the timing of the January meteor showers and the 1490 Ch'ing-yang event—which occurred in March or April of that year—makes a relationship between the two appear unlikely. |
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Instead of taking "no" for an answer, you made it happen the right way. Hard work, patience, using the process, getting others involved, proper sourcing, listening and making it happen the right way. Mario Ferri is looking better with each edit, great work! Dennis Brown | 2¢ | WER 01:52, 17 June 2014 (UTC)Reply |
Hi Harry, I accidentally came across your recent page move at Bob Ray , and have undone it because it's an incorrect use of parentheses, as there is only one person with a Wikipedia article known by this name. I then went through your page move log and undid your page moves to Antoine de Saint Exupéry Airport and Terre des Hommes for similar reasons. Graham87 10:04, 18 June 2014 (UTC)Reply
Hi there! Regarding your second move of this article, did you get a chance to look at my first edit summary? There is exactly one other article in Category:Meteorite falls which include the year, so the reasoning provided in your edit summary is simply not true. If you are referring to some other "other things", you are welcome to clarify them in a move request, which you'll need to submit if you intend to have the article moved to a new title. In the spirit of BRD, I'm asking you not to move the article for the third time. Cheers,—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); July 4, 2014; 23:53 (UTC)
The article you created is at Articles for Deletion, again. You are invited to go and participate. Dennis Brown | 2¢ | WER 01:46, 5 July 2014 (UTC)Reply
You have added an Alexander Graham Bell template to some articles. It's kinda big and dominates the page. Wouldn't you say it should appear collapsed on the page? Thanks. - GroveGuy (talk) 16:24, 24 August 2014 (UTC)Reply
Hi Harry, I've read your informative article on Exupery's Little Prince and am hoping you can provide the source for footnote 2: "The first English translation by Katherine Woods was published ... approximately one week prior to its first French printing by the same publisher...." Thanks Williamchrisant (talk) 14:43, 29 September 2014 (UTC)Reply
This article has too much information, much of it puffery and peacocking. Bearian (talk) 12:59, 14 October 2014 (UTC)Reply
Harry,
Thought you might be interested to look at Elisha Gray and Alexander Bell telephone controversy. I have added a large section about Bell's use of liquid transmitters over a span of 3 1/2 years before he allegedly stole the idea from Gray. Also added 10 images that I found in the Library of Congress. Next I will work on Meucci. No one seems to be looking at the lengthy decision of the judge in that case, which has some subtle judicial humor.
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