User talk:68.148.164.166

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[edit] Re: iPod timelines

What is your justification that YOURS is better? You didn't provide any reasoning for changing the templates. Here's my reason for keeping it the way it is. When you see the timeline on the iPod pages, it provides an integrate appearance. Not only that, but the main iPod timeline (and most Apple-related timelines) were formatted that way, and therefore the spin-off timelines (compact and full-size iPods) are in the same format. Butterfly0fdoom (talk) 06:27, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Admin

No, I'm not an admin. Why do you ask? -- Zsero (talk) 17:08, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

Actually I didn't. Removing false accusations from a user's talk page is not subject to 3RR, particularly when uninvolved WP:DICKs started re-adding them just to make a WP:POINT. Even if there was some rule violated, it was clearly a case for IAR. Anyway, what's your sudden interest in it, and why would you think I was an admin? -- Zsero (talk) 20:18, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Stroke order

Stroke orders start from top to bottom and left to right. At the same time, the other rule is that they go in this order: "horizontal, vertical, left diagonal, right diagnoal, dot." --PalaceGuard008 (Talk) 10:49, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Simplest character

As far as I know, "一" would still be the simplest character in Chinese, Korean, or Japanese. --PalaceGuard008 (Talk) 10:57, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

I'm not familiar with the old Zhuang script. However, I think it's hard to get much simpler than a single stroke. --PalaceGuard008 (Talk) 08:54, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] March 2008

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Wikipedia:Manual of Style (disambiguation pages). Note that the three-revert rule prohibits making more than three reversions in a content dispute within a 24 hour period. Additionally, users who perform a large number of reversions in content disputes may be blocked for edit warring, even if they do not technically violate the three-revert rule. If you continue, you may be blocked from editing. Please do not repeatedly revert edits, but use the talk page to work towards wording and content that gains a consensus among editors. If necessary, pursue dispute resolution. --Sturm 08:31, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

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[edit] Tabs at the top

First, please do NOT post the same question to multiple village pump pages. I have removed your postings at VPP and VPM; as it is, your posting is still on two other pages. Please consider that other editors have better things to do than answer the same question multiple times.

Second, you were told (but I'll restate this, in case it wasn't clear) that when it comes to changing tabs, there are two options:

(a) One editor (that would be you) doing some personal tailoring of what he/she sees, using Javascript
(b) Changing what ALL editors at Wikipedia see

I hope it's obvious that option (a) is much more likely to happen - since it's entirely up to the editor (you) to make it happen). Option (b) is only going to happen if there is general agreement among editors who express an opinion (that's consensus) that a change is good. Since editors at Wikipedia seem generally satisfied with what they have (if that wasn't true, things would have changed), it's very unlikely that such a consensus will occur in favor of the tabs the way that you prefer.

Getting back to your situation - if you really want the tabs to be changed, you need to (1) become a registered editor (because anonymous IP editors can't tailor what they see in Wikipedia), (2) learn a bit about user scripts in general (take a look at the index for editors to find the relevant pages) - at least enough to ask intelligent questions; and then (3) ask at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject User scripts for help in finding or creating a user script that does exactly what you want; and (4) ask at the help desk if you have any problems installing and using that user script. -- John Broughton (♫♫) 12:56, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Warning

Please see Wikipedia's no personal attacks policy. Comment on content, not on contributors. Personal attacks damage the community and deter users. Note that continued personal attacks will lead to blocks for disruption. Please stay cool and keep this in mind while editing. Thank you. -- John Broughton (♫♫) 13:36, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Improperly formatted warning

If you should have an occasion to actually post a valid warning - as opposed to your false warning on my user talk page, please note that warning templates are supposed to be substituted - see Template:Uw-vandalism2 for the proper formatting. -- John Broughton (♫♫) 17:09, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Your second "warning" on my user talk page

I'm not quite sure how to deal with you. If you were just doing vandalism (including posting false warnings on my user talk page, as you just did again), I'd simply escalate warnings and then get this IP address blocked. But you're doing useful work at Wikipedia with your other edits. So I'm going to simply delete your warning (please note that you again failed to do a subst:; you don't seem to be that quick a learner) and let you continue to do the constructive editing that you're now doing. But you might want to glance at Wikipedia:Harassment#User space harassment. -- John Broughton (♫♫) 12:45, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

Note: the posting above was in error in using the term "vandalism" - I got this IP address and another I was dealing with (which was in fact vandalizing pages) mixed up. The review I just did of the edits by this IP address found no edits that I would label "vandalism". I apologize for the use of that term. -- John Broughton (♫♫) 14:39, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] A puzzle

(1) You're clearly an experienced editor, since you know how to do wikitables, as in this edit.

(2) In fact, one editor thinks you're a banned user.

(3) You're doing a lot of minor, but constructive edits; so you do care about improving Wikipedia.

(4) But rather than doing this as a new, registered editor, you're doing it from an IP address, so you're not building yourself a new reputation. (In general, Wikipedia has a live and let live philosophy; there are no checkusers run on new accounts, or even matches of email addresses on new accounts. As long as a editor doesn't cause problems, no one is going to notice that a banned user is back.)

(5) In addition to constructive edits, you also do things like:

(a) Revert an edit of an established editor, bringing attention to an edit mentioning the belief that you're a banned user.

(b) Respond with an an obscenity on a user talk page when you think that you've been attacked.

I'll admit that learn a bit about user scripts in general (take a look at the index for editors to find the relevant pages) - at least enough to ask intelligent questions can be taken as an attack. I'll say in my defense that the multiple postings to village pump pages (wrong) and the question you asked on my talk page - How couldn't I get consensus? - indicated to me that you should do more background reading, and take things a bit slower, than you were/do. I'll also point you to Wikipedia:Assume good faith, Wikipedia:Forgive and forget, Wikipedia:No angry mastodons, and Wikipedia:A nice cup of tea and a sit down.

(d) Get into a back-and-forth with a very experienced editor (that's me), making it much more likely that someone is going to analyze this account. (I'm assuming that this posting on your user talk page was because another editor became interested.)

(e) Either not use a spell checker in your web browser, or ignore words it flags (there a misspelling in your last posting on my user talk page, in addition to a misused adjective).

So I suggest we cal this a draw - I'll leave your warning up on my page (it's kind of amusing at this point, and one could make an argument that there is some validity), and you'll do more of the constructive edits you've been doing and at least consider following some of the advice in the essays and guideline listed above. Deal? -- John Broughton (♫♫) 14:34, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Jacques-Yves Cousteau

Hi, any reason you're removing the more descriptive section headers in this article? --NeilN ^{talk ♦ contribs} 01:17, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

Yes, I'm taking out the pov. I'll try to explain in my edit summary.68.148.164.166 (talk) 01:18, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

How are: Invention of modern deep-sea diving (1943), GERS and Élie Monnier (1946-1949), The Calypso and French oceanographical campaigns (1950) POVish? --NeilN ^{talk ♦ contribs} 01:20, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

Sorry, checked back on the article; in fact, the year info did nothing to infomationalize the section headings.68.148.164.166 (talk) 01:23, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

Great, thanks very much. --NeilN ^{talk ♦ contribs} 01:30, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] April 2008

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to make constructive contributions to Wikipedia, at least one of your recent edits did not appear to be constructive and has been reverted or removed. Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. STORMTRACKER 94 ^{Go Irish!} 02:42, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

If this is a shared IP address, and you didn't make the edit, consider creating an account for yourself so you can avoid further irrelevant notices.

The recent edit you made to Samaria constitutes vandalism, and has been reverted. Please do not continue to vandalize pages; use the sandbox for testing. Thanks. Creamy!^Talk 02:46, 26 April 2008 (UTC))

Please do not vandalize pages, as you did with this edit to Dispensationalism. If you continue to do so, you will be blocked from editing. Creamy!^Talk 02:46, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Thread moving

If you continue to move the thread at Wikipedia:Reference desk/Language#Cantonese Writing to the bottom of the page every time you add to it, your further contributions will be considered vandalism and reverted accordingly. Thank you. Deor (talk) 01:29, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Gingivitis

The story was about people regrowing their fingertips. Refdesk pages get moved to the archive after a while. It has a link to a SciAm article. (Haven't read that one yet.) I've done a fair amount of source research for bone and cartilage growth. All that indicated that once the growth plate closes, the mesemychal cells switch to "replace" instead of "build". No idea what is going on with the finger tips. Grafting and autologous cell transplants are hot research topics. They are already doing a lot in connection with implants, but I'm afraid we are still some time away from knowing how to stop or reverse gingivitis. Remember that the cure to the common cold has been justs around the corner for centuries. Oral hygiene is only part of the picture for developing gingivitis. Our pages, once you follow all the links are quite extensive. Maybe also google a couple of key words. The Oral microbiology is influenced by many individual factors and one can actually grow nasty species by knocking out the lame ones through some oral hygiene measures. Another thing to look at is mechanical stress. It sounded as though you have a good dentist. If you want to try something tedious you might try a rotation diet with leaving out selected foods for 2 weeks in a row. It's a headache to stick to it and pretty impossible if you can't cook at least a little bit. Leave out foods from the same group e.g. 9carbonated sodas -phoshorus; wheat, oat, corn -grass) If you notice any change you might want to discuss the results with your doc or just stay away from whatever caused the change. If the change is persistent - congratulations. If it comes back, well, back to square 1. (This is no medical advice, just a couple of pointers.) Good luck. Lisa4edit (talk) 19:20, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] NPOV

Please do not add commentary or your own personal analysis to Wikipedia articles, as you did to aspartame controversy. Doing so violates Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy and breaches the formal tone expected in an encyclopedia. Thank you. ~Amatulić (talk) 17:55, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

Whoops, you are correct. The NPOV stuff was already there, it just looked new because you shifted things around a bit. My apologies. Article needs some cleanup, for sure. ~Amatulić (talk) 18:00, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] May 2008

Please do not vandalize pages, as you did with this edit to Bill Nye the Science Guy. If you continue to do so, you will be blocked from editing. ——Ryan | t • c 00:04, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] What about phthalate?

Sure also a hydrocarbon. Anything is possible, but crude oil is a mixture of them. If you could get, by the merest of coincidences the conditions to reformulate any hydrocarbon substance into another, that is what you'll get, but what is one molecule of a certain substance going to show. It would end up in a cloud of other molecules, get burned, disbursed, attacked by UV rays, reactants or enzymes. If you should be worried about effects on humans, they'd suffer from all sorts of effects after being in the vicinity of a volcano erupting under an oilfield, like, e.g. extreme heat, volcanic dust in their lungs; before they'd get any effect from one molecule of phtalate or bisphenole. What if they did, though, they'd suffer from some disease like cancer, liver failure, or some such. Who'd know and who'd care. Lisa4edit (talk) 07:24, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

Re:Brita, well, your best bet will be to email the manufacturer. They're usually quite efficient with user inquiries. Imagine Reason (talk) 13:56, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] June 2008

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to make constructive contributions to Wikipedia, at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to Civil society, did not appear to be constructive and has been reverted or removed. Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. ~Me ldshal 42 21:30, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
Please do not delete content or templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Entertainment/2008 June 3, without explaining the valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your content removal does not appear constructive, and has been reverted. Please make use of the sandbox if you'd like to experiment with test edits. Thank you. --Justpassin (talk) 20:28, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Discovery (Daft Punk album)

Regarding your recent contribution to the article, please see Wikipedia:WikiProject Albums for the standard formatting used for album articles. Just64helpin (talk) 20:17, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Ref Desk Moves

Please do not move whole sections of the reference desk pages. Your questions will receive replies where they are, by those interested and/or qualified. --LarryMac | Talk

[edit] Your question on the Reference Desk about Chinese

I'm certain that both Cantonese and Taiwanese have a history of finding ways to write down constructions specific to those dialects, even sometimes inventing new characters not used in written Mandarin. I strongly suspect this is also the case for all the other major Chinese dialects, including Shanghainese, Hunanese, etc., though perhaps their written forms are less well-known outside of China due to them not being spoken in areas like Hong Kong and Taiwan that have a history of being at least de facto politically separate from mainland China. —Lowellian (reply) 00:55, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

I strongly suspect this is also the case for all the other major Chinese dialects, including Shanghainese, Hunanese, etc.....

– Lowellian (reply) 00:55, 10 June 2008 (UTC), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:68.148.164.166#Your_question_on_the_Reference_Desk_about_Chinese

What are the other major Chinese dialects? Is there any way to get all those characters?68.148.164.166 (talk) 01:01, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

You can look at the articles Spoken Chinese and list of Chinese dialects for information and lists about the major Chinese dialects. As for getting those characters, I can't really help you there. For the dialects less well-known outside of China, you would probably only be able to find them on Chinese-language websites. Even for the dialects like Cantonese and Taiwanese more well-known outside China, it would be difficult to find them, because almost everything on the Internet written in Chinese is written as it would be in Mandarin. —Lowellian (reply) 01:06, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

I know probably the greatest standardized source of Cantonese characters are in the scripts of Cantonese operatists. Are there any other corpora for for any dialects? Thanks.68.148.164.166 (talk) 01:25, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

Probably, but I don't know where you would find them. —Lowellian (reply) 01:26, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

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