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Please do not attack other editors. Comment on content, not on contributors. Personal attacks damage the community and deter users. Please stay cool and keep this in mind while editing. Thank you. Your personal attacks have been removed. — Sebastian 18:54, 31 December 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for adding the direct quotation from Taylor; that should end a dispute. Would you mind putting quotation marks around the quoted language? I don't have the book. Thanks again.—Finell 03:17, 19 January 2010 (UTC)
"Consider something falling into a black hole, say a human body – feet first. ... A body falling into a black hole will be stretched feet from head and crushed side to side. This is known jocularly as the "noodle effect." Anything falling into a black hole will be noodlized, as shown in Figure 9.2" Cosmic Catastrophes by J. C. Wheeler, p. 182.
I made the edit at the library and tried to remember the exact word from memory. I thought Wheeler had said "noodlization" at some point; I was mistaken. --Cryptic C62 · Talk 22:49, 20 January 2010 (UTC)
Sorry! I was reverting the page and did not know that you had fixed the problem in the meantime. Please forgive me. Regards, —mattisse (Talk) 16:58, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
As long as the word "metal" isn't anywhere near - yuck! ;-) DVdm (talk) 17:05, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
If you're going to edit war over things, please have the decency not to compound the problem by sending fake "vandalism" messages to editors who have provided clear edit summaries. Chris Cunningham (not at work) - talk 10:14, 28 January 2010 (UTC)
DVDm, I think it's ridiculous that you deleted my information on Moffatt's new ideas in the Inertia page. Your reason? "This bold new theory threatens to undermine everything we've worked towards." You think you can delete a scientific theory from a wikipedia page because you don't agree with it? Do you consider yourself a scientist who considers all options before making a decision? Apparently not. Even if it was a theory with major flaws, it would still have a right to be represented, albeit appropriately criticized. This theory is more robust than any gravity theory ever proposed, INCLUDING Einstein's. It has agreed with all observations to date, and has made predictions that have been fulfilled properly, all without ridiculous dark matter or other scientific inventions made to fit Einstein's theory, and it's the only theory that gives a good reason for the origins of inertia. I'm going to file a complaint about you if you don't respond and give me a good reason why Moffatt's excerpt should be deleted. SAxelrod —Preceding undated comment added 01:09, 5 February 2010 (UTC).
Hello, DVdm. This is to inform you that there is a request for amendement regarding an arbitration case that you have commented on.Likebox (talk) 05:03, 8
The Earth's rotational energy is not straightforward to calculate, due to non-uniformity of composition, giving a complicated calc for a precise moment of inertia. However, once that's done and we have a cite for the rotational energy in joules, I think a simple division by c^2 = 9e16 m^2/sec^2 is simple and routine enough. Hope you agree.
I was shocked that the spinning Earth includes more than TWO BILLION tons of pure kinetic energy! SBHarris 19:27, 10 February 2010 (UTC)
Nothing spectacular, but I just noticed we appear to have the same initials. If that is what your user name stands for, that is. I use DvdM as a user name at other sites, wich is why your user name caught my eye. DirkvdM (talk) 16:01, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
Groetjes uit B.! - DVdm (talk) 16:40, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
Sorry to bother you like this, and I know that you must feel that I am quite impatient for your response on my previous talk page, and coming from a new IP user like myself, but I wanted your response to the two questions that I addressed on my talk page, that is the talk page of this IP address: 71.118.39.165. I wanted to provide a link to the Simple English Wikipedia for Complex Number and Cubic Function, but I do not know how to do so; I turn to you, a more experienced Wikipedian, could you please provide the link for me? I would greatly appreciate it. 71.118.39.219 (talk) 06:17, 27 February 2010 (UTC)
(See context)
Wikipedia:Appeals to Jimbo Guy (Help!) 21:27, 1 March 2010 (UTC)
I see you already have a long story of edit warring. I still can come with an explanation of the above sentence for you.
A condition is a condition.
True is the opposite of false.
Regards.--Environnement2100 (talk) 21:43, 2 March 2010 (UTC)
Hi! There is no need to uppercase also the first letter of the article name because it is not case sensitive (Wikipedia:Linking#Piped links). I mean [[dual number#cycles|cycles]] does not work, but [[dual number#Cycles|cycles]] or [[dual number]] works. Moreover upcasing only the useful letter keeps the code as simple as possible and permits to avoid special cases. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 12:33, 7 March 2010 (UTC)
Hi! Thanks for your clean up of Quadratic_equation#By_shifting_ax2. I went overboard on the details, haha. Wikipedia rocks :D Elgooog (talk) 13:49, 20 March 2010 (UTC)
I noticed you've cleaned up this article before so I thought I'd let you know that User:Brianoc1129 who has recently been warned for vandalism has made a series of edits that probably need checking out. I have absolutely no idea if they are valid or not. Vrenator (talk) 15:29, 1 April 2010 (UTC)
Favonian (talk) 21:48, 10 April 2010 (UTC)
My deepest, most heartfelt apologies for causing you to open Watson's book - something no man should ever have to do lightly. Jokes aside, he tends to have his chronology straight (as he does in this instance) - just start flipping pages once he starts talking about music or psychology. Zappa's a bit problematic from a Wikipedia standpoint, as the most reliable sources are web-based (globalia.net and lukpac.org), and the vast majority of the printed biographies are varying degrees of rubbish - basically, the more spectacularly a given source fails WP:RS, the higher chance it has of actually being correct! Anyway, in the case of this, the whole "named on Mother's Day" story reeks of apocrypha, but it's the sort of apocrypha that's pretty hard to actually disprove in any meaningful way. Even though Zappa himself pegged 1964 as the "start date" for the MOI, a much better case can be made for the bands in 1963 and 1965; the 1964 band had very little in common with what most would consider the "MOI sound". Starting to ramble here, so I'll just remind you to watch out where the huskies go. Badger Drink (talk) 09:31, 11 April 2010 (UTC)
I'd be happy to continue discussing, but can we do it without cluttering poor Jimbo's page any more?EGMichaels (talk) 15:45, 11 April 2010 (UTC)
Note that I use endless IP's. Try banning me, stupid drool. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.177.171.194 (talk • contribs)
Try banning me, stupid drool. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.184.201.103 (talk • contribs)
Try banning me, stupid drool.
Try banning me, stupid drool. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.139.112.229 (talk) 13:44, 11 May 2010 (UTC)
Hi DVdm, this the new account I have created: :| TelCoNaSpVe :| (talk) 04:46, 23 March 2010 (UTC) . I was wondering, since you seem to remember our little discussion from approximately two months ago if you could tell me how to move everything from that IP address to this new account.
When you write on talk pages (article and user), don't forget to sign with the four tildes (~~~~). Happy editing! DVdm (talk) 06:58, 14 April 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for telling me that.I´m new here so I have to get used to all the rules.Thank you again.--Knight1993 (talk) 17:48, 15 April 2010 (UTC)
Hi DVdm. Since your warning to this person, he has vandalised Cricket and I am reverting his edit. It looks as if it is a vandalism only account and I think he should be closed down. All the best. ----Jack | talk page 19:23, 18 April 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for your note - I intentionally removed those 'See Also' links, either because they were not relevant, or because they were already linked from he main article. I've redone this, with an edit summary that explains it in detail, as I should have done to begin with. Momma's Little Helper (talk) 15:41, 24 April 2010 (UTC)
In Square root#Computation, you write:
The problem is that the function is actually
-- Glenn L (talk) 14:53, 27 April 2010 (UTC)
So in your battle with the good the bad the evil, you managed to do harakiri.
Editing this way is stuck and loose the fun, any content that has any level of complexity would be killed. What is the sourceability of common knowledge ? what if any statement will be challenged by all the crackpotters world wide ? you go an tell them study physics full time for a couple of years and then come back ? Professionals doing physics will simply bounce off this crap and if you loose credibility with somebody once you loose his help forever.—Preceding unsigned comment added by Flyredeagle (talk • contribs)
I wasn't trying to call you out or anything. There are just a lot of misconceptions flying around because this is such a charged discussion. I feel your pain in dealing with some of the editors on that page, to be nameless. It's probably hardly worth it and every time I comment I feel like I'm making a huge mistake. Anyway happy editing.Griswaldo (talk) 16:39, 29 April 2010 (UTC)
Hello DVdm. Thanks for your recent AIV report, but two points: Most importantly, please don't repeat a vandal's BLP violation in your reports. Also, for future reference, new reports go at the bottom of the page so that we can keep them in age-order. Thanks again —DoRD (talk) 14:37, 30 April 2010 (UTC)
Okay, how about if I propose something like "Apart from some Christian theologians, most current scholars consider it to be a creation myth [See #questions of genre below]" - as a possibly promising compromise ... ? Could you live with that? Til Eulenspiegel (talk) 18:03, 1 May 2010 (UTC)
I noticed your deletion of various Benjamin Gal-Or references. Just to note that I've proposed deletion for Gravitational Thermodynamics, which appears to be nothing more than a promotional page for the same person (and edited by Bengalor (talk · contribs)).
All the best. –Syncategoremata (talk) 07:28, 7 May 2010 (UTC)
re your remark "David, it appears that you are trolling. Please stop." - Where did that remark come from? Thanks. --Bob K31416 (talk) 18:13, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
Parsing out the elision and rendering the sentence as:
This pair-instability supernova creates a larger quantity of elements which are heavier than helium ("metals") than in other types of supernova and which are not leaving a black hole remnant.
does not rescue it. The most natural interpretation of the second "which" clause now has it referring to "elements," but it is not "elements" which are "not leaving a black hole remnant." Gomphothere 16:17, 19 May 2010 (UTC)
And this one was much better as well. You're learning fast. Keep up the good work :-) - DVdm (talk) 18:05, 19 May 2010 (UTC)
This looks like it might be resolved at Talk:The Apprentice (U.S. season 3)#Table colour - can you confirm this before I try to figure out why the table uses such hideous colors? Thanks, - 2/0 (cont.) 21:36, 19 May 2010 (UTC)
I now had a look at the article. I.m.o. both colour schemes are a torture to the eye, so it doesn't really matter to me either way. Don't they have any nice pastels? Hope this helps? Cheers. DVdm (talk) 21:46, 19 May 2010 (UTC)
Thanks. --Bob K31416 (talk) 11:55, 24 May 2010 (UTC)
You removed a link: [*Golden ratio at the orthodox church on red square in Moscow showing examples of the golden ratio at the orthodox church in Moscow on the basis that the text surrounding the pictures and diagrams were not in English. To see the pictures and get the point you don't need to read anything. And it's only a link, after all, and to a very famous example. Brews ohare (talk) 00:28, 27 May 2010 (UTC)
Is it possible to topic ban User:Til Eulenspiegel and User:Cush ? Their recent edits to the talk page are in violation of Wikipedia policy, and they're preventing constructive work being done on the article. A full ban would be excessive, but would it be possible to ban from editing just this page ? Thanks. Claritas (talk) 16:27, 27 May 2010 (UTC)
I have found that it is not necessary to remove WildBot's messages (as you did at Talk:Richard Dawkins). It doesn't matter, but FYI I have oberved that WildBot returns to check articles in due course, and will update its message (removing the message if it thinks all issues are fixed). Johnuniq (talk) 08:03, 28 May 2010 (UTC)
Hi. Did you have any thoughts re Option 7? --Bob K31416 (talk) 12:50, 28 May 2010 (UTC)
Hi. It's been kinda quiet over there. From the lack of response, I'm not sure whether or not I've satisfactorily answered the objections to option 7. Did any part of my responses to you and Dick answer any of your objections satisfactorily? If not, I'll probably drop the subject of angle brackets. Regards, --Bob K31416 (talk) 23:46, 30 May 2010 (UTC)
It is also people the way speak but with sources... Santé also! Did you drink this extraordinary beer? José Fontaine (talk) 13:24, 30 May 2010 (UTC)
Dear user, you seem to consider my latest attempts in stopping wrong information from being published in a public article to be somehow inappropriate. I haven't been putting too much of an effort in the article, I only tagged it for improvement, and did so partially, and the misconceptions were introduced again as I left the article unattended in favor of paying attention to real world stuff. Therefore as the article's tag suggests there is a root problem with the article, a discussion (that shouldn't be so excessive, as the concept is quite simple) in the appropriate section in the article, that you failed to use, also notice that a summary for every edit was provided then and the suggestion to use the discussion as well.
I'm replacing the previous message here, which I have to recognize was provocative and excessive, for a more appropriate and polite as you deserve your respect too.
I'm reverting, therefore, the article to a point that doesn't have any conceptual errors.
—Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.71.18.167 (talk) 23:05, 15 May 2010 (UTC)
Now, in answer to your statement that "there's not such thing as a green light for reverting articles in favor of wrong information...", please have a close look at the policy page Wikipedia:Verifiability which says:
The threshold for inclusion in Wikipedia is verifiability, not truth—whether readers can check that material added to Wikipedia has already been published by a reliable source, not whether editors think it is true.
Okay, please accept my apologies DVdm. I am used to speaking frankly, but depending on your standards of communication, that may come up as a bit blunt. I did take your advice in going to Wikipedia talk:Identifying reliable sources as you can check by going there. Meanwhile Johnuniq told me that was not the appropriate place to make a case, because only specific details of guidelines are debated there. I then moved my discussion to the NoticeBoard page. To me it seems that if showing my points with the strength intended, editors will notice, and the arguments will be carried into the deep recesses of Wikipedia. Of course I am assuming people will take the time to read them.
I am a bit appalled with some of the things you have here in your talk page. Though I took your intervention in good faith, it seems much of what you do is to hassle and dispute edits, without any constructive purpose in mind, and blocking anyone who disagrees with you. I cannot be sure but that's what it looks like. Deep Atlantic Blue (talk) 20:31, 6 June 2010 (UTC)
Hello. Your account has been granted the "reviewer" userright, allowing you to review other users' edits on certain flagged pages. Pending changes, also known as flagged protection, is currently undergoing a two-month trial scheduled to end 15 August 2010.
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Kindly explain in detail which part of my editing of Achatina achatina you regard as "original research or novel syntheses of previously published material". cheers Androstachys (talk) 11:33, 19 June 2010 (UTC)
Oh, thanks. Sorry! Mayurvg (talk) 18:32, 24 June 2010 (UTC)
Hello DVdm. I noticed you left a cautionary message about reverting on TSRibeye's Talk page, warning him about provocative reversions and asking that he use the article's Talk page to pursue consensus. I agree with the sentiment of your message to TSRibeye.
I can offer the same cautionary message to you. I recently did some re-working of the opening sentence of Potential energy. I also cited a reputable Physics textbook. (Prior to that, the opening paragraph was devoid of any in-line citation.) I see that you have deleted my work, including my in-line citation, and replaced it with uncited text. That is a provocative act. Deleting cited text and replacing it with uncited text is incompatible with WP:Verifiability. It would have been much better if you had resorted to a suitable Talk page in an attempt to achieve consensus or at least some mutual understanding. I am entitled to revert your edit to Potential energy but I have decided against doing that. I will watch for your next move.
In my re-work on the opening paragraph I introduced mention of conservative force which I know to be central to the concept of potential energy. After your reversion of my work, mention of conservative force is again absent from the opening paragraph of Potential energy. Do you agree that potential energy is only defined for conservative forces?
I look forward to working closely with you on this article. Dolphin (t) 07:47, 26 June 2010 (UTC)
Concerning your phrase "... and replacing it with original research or material not adequately supported by citations": I showed on the talk page that the original wording can be backed by a Feynman citation, or slightly modified. DVdm (talk) 13:19, 26 June 2010 (UTC)
Hi DVdm. You recently undid a !vote by Hoecjok in the AfD discussion. While I agree that his edit was not contructive, I do not agree with undoing it. I think a better way to handle it is to strikethrough the comment and/or add the "little or no contributions" disclaimer template after his comment. I could undo it, but I think it might be better if you did it yourself. Of course, if you feel I am off base feel free to let me know where I have erred. Cheers. Movementarian (talk) 09:50, 28 June 2010 (UTC)
Hey, thanks for the feedback on my talk page. I am finished with the Jack Sarfatti article for now. I have serious doubts about his supposed early life and academic background. The whole story seems to rely on one source: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1997/08/17/SC46892.DTL this doesn't seem like a credible source to me. Can you offer any advice/comments? --DFRussia (talk) 22:33, 29 June 2010 (UTC)
Would it be possible to put the article on the discussions page of Time Dilation? (Cyberia3 (talk) 18:36, 30 June 2010 (UTC))
A few days ago, I nominated the articles "Frank Lambert", "Entropy (energy dispersal)", and "Introduction to Entropy" for deletion. So far the vote is going unanimously against me, but nobody has provided any evidence whatsoever for Frank Lambert's notoriety. One guy keeps repeating Lambert's claim that he has caused the majority of new chemistry textbooks to adopt his idea of replacing "entropy is disorder" with "entropy is energy dispersal", but nobody has cited any evidence for that. They have failed to cite a single acknowledgment of Lambert in any textbook, nor any journal article citing an article by Lambert. Please help. Ray Eston Smith Jr (talk) 11:53, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
Hi. Thanks for DELETING my entry on Time Dilation! However, I would be glad to understand the deeper reason for it and on what grounds you consider my entry false (mass increasing with speed). Did you ever see (heard) about that mass indeed increases with speed, though significantly only at relativistic speed? There is nice formula for that:
m = m0 /square root of [1 - (v2/c2)]
where m0 is the rest mass
v is velocity
c is the speed of light.
Perhaps I am wrong (or Einstein was too) but is that alone not preventing any particle with meaningful mass (including any collection of them, and yes: living body!) from ever reaching the speed of light, or even close to it??
Vega2 (talk) 01:15, 30 July 2010 (UTC)
Hi DVdm. OK, I accept your argument. Any maybe "relativistic mass" is indeed old fashioned. But can you explain to me why it is so that particles possessing mass cannot ever be accelerated to the speed of light by their "own making" if their mass is not increasing? Is it not contradiction? Is it not the case that to be capable to accelerate so much would require infinite amount of energy (that is an amount of energy of WHOLE Universe plus much, much more)? I did not make it up, that doubt about uncertainty for survival of living bodies in such conditions. I read it in one encyclopedic Polish book written by professionals (source I attached to my original entry now removed). Cheers Vega2 (talk) 23:13, 30 July 2010 (UTC)
Hi again! Yes, I understand! I heard that photons alone can travel at the speed of light because they do not possess ANY mass (in fact "they cannot help" but to travel ALWAYS at that speed, never any slower, forever "imprisoned" by that traveling speed (and any multitude of absorptions and emission on their way with other particles). End of story. However, as far as I know (returning to my initial question), because so far only with some subatomic particles it was proven that their mass increase (at least for us, outside observers), plus any contraction or time dilation, and because we cannot guess what "they feel" or notice themselves (because we are outside), I guess only in far future we could hope to determine "inside" effects of traveling at such huge speeds, or do practical experiments if that would be ever possible for living bodies to survive. I know it is rather long way to go, leaving all philosophy or religion aside. (How big speed we achieve so far? Voyager II around 17 km/s ? Oh yes, and no living cell even at that, yet!) Cheers! Vega2 (talk) 16:13, 31 July 2010 (UTC)
Talk:Cloud_chamber#Link_Removal - could you please read my request there? Thank you, --Superbass (talk) 17:54, 2 August 2010 (UTC)
Are you are aware that a website can't mandate you can't link to the site without their permission, theres tons of caselaw to back that up, so regardless of the clause on http://mathematics.laerd.com, there is no legal obligation to abide by it or not link to them. — raekyT 21:48, 2 August 2010 (UTC)
see here Count Iblis (talk) 17:20, 10 August 2010 (UTC)
Hi there,
It seems you are the one that deemed fit to censor a posting of mine on the theory of relativity discussion site. I think my post was quite relevant to the topic. Please read it again, I am quite sure you would find it relevant. Mind you, I am going to try and post it again: and not because I am looking for someone to agree with me LOL. It's simply because I am right in raising those issues and by censoring me you might very well reduce the chances of a future scientist to come out with a better theory that would benefit all :-).
Thank you for reconsidering your position, Diana —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mdiavaro99 (talk • contribs) 22:35, 13 August 2010 (UTC)
As you commented in the pending closure discussion I am notifying you that the Wikipedia:Pending changes/Vote comment is now open and will be for two weeks, discussion as required can continue on the talkpage. Thanks. Off2riorob (talk) 23:45, 21 August 2010 (UTC)
Hey DVdm,
Here's a follow up question to our previous chat about the quadratic formula page. It's also on my talk page. I would prefer if you could respond there. Thanks a bunch. Get to me when you can. 76.14.39.209 (talk) 00:50, 26 August 2010 (UTC)
So the only way I can add my proof is if I can get some reliable source to publish it first? Do you have any suggestions as to who I can ask to publish it so I can finally get my edit into the Wikipedia article?
Thanks for the note. I don't use socks in the sense that you should be concerned with. See WP:SOCKS#Legitimate uses.-Stevertigo (w | t | e) 22:40, 4 August 2010 (UTC)
hey there. i was the one that left the comments on the "regular polygon" page a couple of weeks ago. at first i was kinda pissed that my little bit got deleted. but then i found your note. i understand completely now. cheers! 75.147.97.62 (talk) 20:59, 8 September 2010 (UTC)
Please do stop following me around and criticising and/or modifying my contributions, often peppering your edits with provocative remarks. If you persist in this behaviour I intend taking this to the ANI and charging you with stalking. Androstachys (talk) 15:32, 28 August 2010 (UTC)
Hi DVm. As a mathematician, you might like to offer you opinion on this AfD. I personally do not think it justifies an article, but I'm not fussy and I'm not an expert. It just needs deciding whether to keep it or not. --Kudpung (talk) 13:14, 4 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi, since this borders more on discussion of my intent, than on the topic of Atheism, I figured I would continue it here. Though I am not religious in the normal sense (spiritual at best, perhaps bordering on atheism due to not believing in a specific god), I am not at odds with Daunemen's addition if properly worded and properly cited. It seems a major viewpoint on the topic of atheism, held by various religious authorities and thus is a form of criticism of the concept of atheism. Though it may be or seem like circular reasoning and may seem like it does not have a logical basis, it is an opposing viewpoint, possibly a majority one by those who deny/refute atheism (from my experience - hence the need of cites to authorities on the matter). In this, though I am at odds over another contribution by Daunemen, I cannot say I am at odds with this (if all Wikipedia rules and guidelines are met). Disagreeing with a contribution does not make me summarily disagree with the contributor or other unrelated contributions. Hope that helps explain my intent, and my request for clarification of Daunemen's proposed addition. RobertMfromLI | User Talk 16:24, 7 September 2010 (UTC)
Please reconsider closing the "speed with respect to what?" discussion. It revolves around a proposed modification to the introduction to the special relativity article, and besides, it should be over soon, assuming the questioner is not trolling. PAR (talk) 17:53, 18 September 2010 (UTC)
Because you were involved in some of these disputes you might (or might not) be interested in commenting at this ANI thread Stevertigo's Pattern of Problematic Editing ---- Steve Quinn (talk) 09:03, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi. As you recently commented in the straw poll regarding the ongoing usage and trial of Pending changes, this is to notify you that there is an interim straw poll with regard to keeping the tool switched on or switching it off while improvements are worked on and due for release on November 9, 2010. This new poll is only in regard to this issue and sets no precedent for any future usage. Your input on this issue is greatly appreciated. Off2riorob (talk) 23:31, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
I am willing to mediate this dispute, if all participants find me acceptable, and the dispute is still live. Thanks! Hipocrite (talk) 14:40, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi DVdm!
I am hungarian WP user (Fizped) and Commons user (Fizped). I am physics teacher. My hompage: www.fizkapu.hu. Deleted link in page Cathode ray:
is a link to animation my photos. Have you looked at the animation? It helps to understand the cathode ray? If yes, please set it back to the site! Thanks!
I don't speak English. Sorry! Fizped —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.92.185.43 (talk) 18:47, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
[5] You have mis-read your own reference! It says only that the relativistic mass of a photon is indeterminate IF you use the equation m = m(rest)*gamma. However, that only means you can't use THAT equation! It does't mean that the value for the relativistic mass of a photon actually IS indeterminate. As the book correctly says, the relativistic mass of a photon is E/c^2 where E is the photon energy hf. Naturally, this is frame dependent. SBHarris 01:06, 30 September 2010 (UTC)
Just a quick note; I see you removed the claim that Einstein was a socialist. I don't know whether he was or not. But I do think you should not have marked that edit as "minor". --bodnotbod (talk) 22:38, 2 October 2010 (UTC)
Thank you for pointing out that mistake. I was attempting to rollback another edit on my watchlist and some how ended up rollbacking this user's edit. I would not have seen that with out your watchful eye. The World 02:09, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
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Thank you for finding my mistake. I believe you deserve this The World 02:09, 18 October 2010 (UTC) |
A discussion has begun (on the talk page) concerning the lede in the article Time. I invite you to join here: Introduction, take 2 ---- Steve Quinn (talk) 00:30, 21 October 2010 (UTC)
Feel free to delete this section; I've just responded, as you request, on my own talk page. 71.41.210.146 (talk) 07:44, 31 October 2010 (UTC)
DVdm, although it is improper conduct to directly insult a person by for example calling the person a moron or something like that, it is not improper conduct to criticize the statements made by a person. Therefore it is OK to say, that is an idiotic statement. But it is improper conduct to say, you are an idiot. RHB100 (talk) 20:48, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
Hi, we met recently discussing about inertial frames. Now, I would appreciate if you could give a look at the article Weightlessness (particularly its second paragraph), to my (reverted) edits to it, and to the endless discussion with Sbharris concerning the question whether weight is a force. Thanks. --GianniG46 (talk) 08:57, 2 November 2010 (UTC)
I checked your book Bender, David A.... page 459. Nice reference, but where does it say that ferrocyanide is "used in ... table salt" (emphasis added). Anyway, this is probably better material for ferrocyanide.--Smokefoot (talk) 13:11, 2 November 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for your remark on my removal of Amazon reviews as a source from the Feynman Lectures! Because I only work as an IP, I usually get anything from insults to blocks for being insulted (you read that right), so this was really refreshing. Keep it up! --193.254.155.48 (talk) 17:11, 3 November 2010 (UTC)
Dvdm, if you have any issues regarding why I made those edits at centripetal force then raise them on the appropriate talk page. The section was entitled 'sources of centripetal force'. There was no need for all the extra details about centres of mass etc., and besides, it wasn't written very clearly. If you are interested in that article there is plenty of stuff which could be tidied up to make it shorter and more concise. Don't post messages of the kind which you did at my talk page. Those kind of messages are designed for vandalism and newcomers. David Tombe (talk) 22:32, 4 November 2010 (UTC)
Dvdm, I wasn't even finished my tidy up session when I received your templated message on my talk page. My purpose was to shorten the section by removing unnecessary material. That was not a section for discussing planetary orbits in detail. It was sufficient to point out that in the case of planetary orbits, the centripetal force is supplied by gravity. That is all that was needed. It is perfectly in order to remove sourced material if the material is irrelevant to the point. I have given my views on the talk page at centripetal force and so I suggest that we carry on the discussion there if you so wish. David Tombe (talk) 22:52, 4 November 2010 (UTC)
You can stop telling me every time about the sign in. I have enough problems as it is. Maybe you can tell me how I can stop being signed out while I am editing? I use the proper procedure but I don't realize that I am not signed in any more. And before I even can rectify that you already see a need to remined me. And that already twice in a row! Have you nothing else to do? How about giving me more time before jumping on my back. Is that not included in the Wikimedia policy? --Martin Lenoar (talk) 10:16, 14 November 2010 (UTC)
Ok, I used signing in for logging in or out. So you want to help? Or is your reaction to my attempt to edit automated? How about stop repeating with bombarding me always with the same assumption that I dont know what I need to do. This is a form of help, apparently common on the internet, which stopped me to consider looking at "help" pages, they all tell you the same over and over again and maybe somewhere in there is a little real help.
Now if your are real, then maybe you can tell me why it is e.g. ok to write on your talk page without being logged out. Like now. But when I switched form the Article page to the Discussion page of the "Introduction to special relativity", and tried to edit the part I had put in before, I seem to was immediately logged out. The note: "You are not logged in", came on above the edit page. So I logged in again, but was thrown out from the edit page. Again I did not do anything except trying to edit. And there you were again??????????? with all your accusations and "helpfull" information. How do you think I was able to establish an account? By having the cookies switched off? Or that I am so dumb not to let the computer remember my password? Thank you for all this assumption which seem to be based on the assumption that every "new member" must make the same mistakes. (Like the oh so helpful "Frequently ask question" lists). I now about the policy of Wikipedia that nothing is alowed which is not already established. But I don't consider myself a member of Wikipedia even Wikiversity is part of it. So unless you can come up with some real helpful answers then I won't bother you again. I am wise enough to know when my type is not wanted.--Martin Lenoar (talk) 05:50, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
Hi. I sent you two e-mails, which will help you verify the Groiler references. ---- Steve Quinn (talk) 18:37, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
I was willing to ignore my qualms about your and John's formatting doctrine over at talk:complex number. Now at logarithm, however, you seem to just override your own rule which I might paraphrase as: don't change an article's formatting without good reason. Even though this is a totally nitpickishy issue, you should still apply commonsense to it. Which means: simply because there are two math markup formulas and 5 HTML formulas nearby, this does not entitle you or anyone else to start changing the corresponding section. Then maybe you do the surrounding two sections, then, ooops, now we have an inconsistently formatted article, let's do whatever we want. I kindly, but firmly ask you to respect other people's work. I invested a lot in logarithms, which does not mean it is a perfect article, but which does mean that quite some thought has gone into this article, including markup. I'm happy to disclose my reason not to use math markup in elementary formulas which can be done using HTML: it just looks inconsistent, cause
will render for most users in this intermediate formate, not the same as
(which is perfectly consistent with the text font in the main article) nor
which we (regret it or not) have to use for complicated, non-HTML-able formulas.
You were concerned about inconsistencies in complex numbers. I was unwilling to discuss it til the end there, but if you stir it up again, I have to ask you: don't introduce even more inconsistencies. If you have a liking for polish markup, there are plenty of articles which sorely need the work. Logarithm does not need it, IMO. Jakob.scholbach (talk) 07:38, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
Started a discussion at Talk:Uniform acceleration about whether or not we should include that sentence. Alzarian16 (talk) 20:29, 29 November 2010 (UTC)
Hello, I have been reading Wikipedia for a long time but this is my first time trying to interact and use it, so I hope this is the right place to discuss this edit. It states it is reverting some changes that were deemed Vandalism, and the User was warned not to do it anymore. Vandalism is defined by wikipedia to be:
"Vandalism is any addition, removal, or change of content made in a deliberate attempt to compromise the integrity of Wikipedia. Vandalism cannot and will not be tolerated. Common types of vandalism are the addition of obscenities or crude humor, page blanking, and the insertion of nonsense into articles."
Also:
"Even if misguided or ill-considered, any good-faith effort to improve the encyclopedia is not vandalism. Even harmful edits that are not explicitly made in bad faith are not vandalism. For example, although reinserting it despite multiple warnings can be disruptive, adding a controversial personal opinion to an article is not vandalism."
This edit added information to the article. The original article stated only that "a user" was banned, the edit helped to identify the user in question and put the banning into context. This seems like the very definition of a good-faith effort to improve the wiki. If the edit was incorrect from a factual point of view, that is a completely different reason to remove it. As a result, I'm going to revert the change which obviously does not meet Wikipedia's definition of Vandalism.
Thanks, Bridger15 (talk) 18:34, 2 December 2010 (UTC)
Now, that specific edit could indeed have been vandalism (i.e. "made in a deliberate attempt to compromise the integrity of Wikipedia"), provided it was for instance the second or third time the edit was made and the user(s) had been been warned about this and had been made aware of the policies. I have not looked at the history or at the talk page, but it could be that Aldaron (talk · contribs) had already warned a few contributors that re-adding this kind of unsourced, non-neutral weasel phrases to the article would be considered vandalism, in which case it can indeed be labeled as such. But I have not looked into this. What you certainly should not do, is to revert because you think it is not vandalism. A much better way to go about is to inquire either on the article talk page or on Aldaron's talk page, but not on both - take it one at a time. Anyway, I'm sure you'll work this out. I have left a welcome message on your talk page, containing a large bunch of very interesting links about how things work at Wikipedia. Let me know if I can help...
The first peson who wrote a book on calculus is not relevant? Lorynote (talk) 21:00, 3 December 2010 (UTC)
I have nominated speed of light for FAC. As a major contributor, please leave your 2cents on the review page.TimothyRias (talk) 16:12, 6 December 2010 (UTC)
Hi DVdm. Thank you for going back and cleaning that up :). I would have done it myself, but doing so would likely have put me dangerously close to violating 3RR. Good job! Happy editing :). -- WikHead (talk) 12:29, 9 December 2010 (UTC)
I totally agree with your last comment on the talk page of cubic function. I agree also to delete the section Alternative solution: It is a verbatim copy of the link named source[3], without adapting the notation to be coherent with the remainder of the page. Moreover it is not really different of the formula in section general formula for the roots and is mathematically wrong as explained in this section. I could do it myself, but I am not enough accustomed with WP policies to provide the right motive of deletion. D.Lazard (talk) 20:50, 7 December 2010 (UTC)
Have you seen my last comment on my talk page? Cheers D.Lazard (talk) 03:12, 12 December 2010 (UTC)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villa_Soldati?diff=401772191 ???! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Leghacy of 444 (talk • contribs) 13:00, 11 December 2010 (UTC)
Hi! I noticed you have reverted here: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%D0%98%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%8C_%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%BC%D0%B8%D0%BD&action=historysubmit&diff=401988433&oldid=401988380 . What I think happened with the author was that they say the deletion tag so they blanked it to "delete" it themself. Instead of reverting it and warning the user, just tag it with ((db-blanked)) or ((db-g7)) to avoid confusing the editor. Happy editing! --Addihockey10e-mail 18:12, 12 December 2010 (UTC)
You may delete the articles that have been scheduled for deletion because I'm getting wrong information that I thought was right, but I didn't know. It's okay if you delete my articles that have been scheduled for deletion. If there's any suggestions about how I should make or edit a Wikipedia page, please don't hesitate to leave me a message. I'm new to this and I might need a few pointers. (Lilmizangel (talk) 14:16, 13 December 2010 (UTC))
I have been adding a section with a new table 2 to the site http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tests_of_general_relativity You have deleted my addition without consulting me. You sited WP:NOR and WP:SYN. Neither apply. The addition is fully cited, and in a reliable source. The calculation of the precession of perhelion invalidates the conclusions that are drawn in table 1, so it leaves the conclusion to be drawn up to the reader.
Please do not remove my written material. I do not remove your material. D c weber (talk) 02:23, 23 November 2010 (UTC)
Hi there - just a note to say please be careful not to break the three revert rule. You arguably did so at Progress (Take That album) - your reverts may have been justified, but the other editor's additions were not "blatant vandalism", so 3RR applies. --Mkativerata (talk) 00:11, 16 December 2010 (UTC)
I am sending you several emails, which will help you verify my references pertaining to my most recent talk page response over at "Time". ---- Steve Quinn (talk) 05:37, 17 December 2010 (UTC)
Lets all gather into a circle sing kumbaya and debate the philosophy of our mother earth :) Feast on my Soul (talk) 08:22, 22 December 2010 (UTC)