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[edit] ultrasonic welding

Hi Mac Davis,

I'm working on the ultrasonic welding article. I've been trying to add more information and make the site more factual. I'd like to add some visuals to the ultrasonic welding article but am having trouble finding pictures that aren't copyrighted. I'd also like to add more information on the process parameters. I noticed that you had edited this article a while ago and were wondering if you would take a look.

Thanks, Marylee23 (talk) 22:23, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Steak sauce

Hi there,

Although I agree with your moving of the material from brown sauce into steak sauce, I'd appreciate it if you could note that the material has been moved (or taken from another article in the summary). Thank you. Fourohfour 17:54, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Microwave gun

We should start that article as it seems to brought up alot recently. what do you say? or if not add a paragraph about it on the microwave article. User:Maverick423 If It Looks Good Nuke It 21:30, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

Heh that would be fun =) something like this user has fiddled with EM weapons on his spare time =P. but well as soon as i get home if not tommarow i'll start working on this. what should we call this anyway? Microwave guns or EM weapons? i think their might be a EM weapon article already ill look for it. User:Maverick423 If It Looks Good Nuke It 21:59, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

that was painless. nope no article yet. User:Maverick423 If It Looks Good Nuke It 22:00, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

Alright ill start the article up soon. ill add as much as i can on the subject and maybe a picture or 2. User:Maverick423 If It Looks Good Nuke It 13:34, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

alright just started the article im ganna add everything that i reasearched its quite a bit of info well anyways check it out whenever you can im still expanding it right now but if u see any errors in grammer or spelling or just too much content feel free to fix it up a bit =) User:Maverick423 If It Looks Good Nuke It 16:15, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

I have commented at the Talk:Microwave_gun page. Please be sure to base this article on factual, cited sources. From what I see so far, it needs a lot of work. The best thing to do is really just to redirect to the Active Denial System article, and add any other content to the Microwave article. Nimur 18:13, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

Ah thanks much i was about to put the sources but i kept getting edit conflicts so now that it seems to have calmed down ill place the sources.User:Maverick423 If It Looks Good Nuke It 19:15, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

yep i was reading it just now. wow everything changed so quickly i dont know where to put my sources any more. there is the police use and the arts and crafts use heh i just never got to those. ill probably add it right now at least the arts and craft use. User:Maverick423 If It Looks Good Nuke It 19:20, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

i found out where they mentioned that it could be used for arts and stuff right here http://www.whynot.net/ideas/1085

i dont know if this counts as a relyable source or just a plain idea so check it out and u tell me =)User:Maverick423 If It Looks Good Nuke It 20:33, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

==Hi Mac, not sure if I'm posting this correctly (am following my previous poster's formatting) but just wanted to thank you for your help in editing the band page. As I was creating it, I was trying to keep track of all of the necessary wiki formatting, but as it was my first page, knew I was falling short. I appreciate your help in this, particularly since I really needed someone to lend a hand to the necessary formatting. Much thanks! Pinotgrigio 09:26, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Welcome to the Wikipedia 1.0 Review Team!

Hi Mac, Thanks for signing up for the review team. We just released our test CD, which received a surprising amount of press coverage - this indicates that there is a lot of interest in what we're doing. Please help to make the next release even better! Let me know what you're interested in, or if you want some guidance. If you prefer, just take a look at the FAQ page and get started. Thanks! Walkerma 02:19, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2007_March_28#Limit.3F

Hi, sorry i came back after a while and read your really long reply, the 2nd last one near the end with the equation. Thanks for it, though it was abeit confusing. Thanks.100110100 05:57, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

Your welcome. Well, the whole Equation reply was mostly jargon, so it was extremely hard to understand; I tried reading most of the artilces you cited, but they were very long.100110100 22:09, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] User trouble

Hi I wasn't sure who to go to but you seemed like the right person :P someone keeps removing links from the coilgun section and they claim that the links are broken or contain explicit content even though they do not. This normally wouldn't be a big deal but it's been going on for a long time (check out the history) there was even a RfC at one point and it was decided that the links should stay in but the user seems to be ignoring that. His name is TTLLOGIC. Sorry to bug you for something so trivial but I just hate it when good information is left out of an article :D especially since information on coil guns is pretty scarce even on the internet.Wonkothe31337 04:15, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

What I hate is knowing that some kid in school is browsing wikipedia, and looks up coilguns and clicks on your link and it sends him to porn. Please take your link elsewhere. Also info on coilguns is quite abundant on the internet, just type coilgun into Google, if you feel you must post a link to coilgun content you can find thousands of non explicit links that contain information pertaining to coilguns on Google. Thank You! TTLLOGIC 05:00, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

There is no porn on the link! here it is: (explicit content) it's been on the wiki for years and there is nothing wrong or broken about the link. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Wonkothe31337 (talk • contribs) 05:33, 4 May 2007 (UTC).

Link still contains porn so nice try on posting it in more places. Thank You! TTLLOGIC 05:42, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

Now that guy is posting warnings on my talk page and one of the warnings he posted and I didn't even add the link back in! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Wonkothe31337 (talk • contribs) 05:49, 4 May 2007 (UTC).

• I hate to butt into the thread, but it felt appropriate... :P. I have indefinitely blocked User:TTLLOGIC, not only for his repeated 3RR/edit warring, but for a blatant legal threat he posted on my talk page (and reiterated on his) after I protected the article. I still have no idea what the problem is (I only found the article 10 minutes ago, saw the edit war, determined the link was not what he claimed it to be, and reverted) but it's hard to assume good faith with an editor like that. Thank you for your help in reporting the problem to WP:AIV... I hope this causes the problem (whatever it might be?) to die down, at least temporarily. --Kinu ^t/_c 06:37, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

You might want to check out the (talk looks like TTLLOGIC was right. Theacused 12:02, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] heylo there!! ;-)

Dear Mac Davis,

Hello, it's RR! You might remember me from August 2006, when someone tried to delete a whole bhambhoozles of Halo articles. ;-)

Well, most of those articles I believe have been deleted, and I've drifted away from Wikipedia in disgust of other AfDs...but, erhm, I've come back, and...whas'up, m'man? ;-)

BTW, there is a Halo Wikia: http://halo.wikia.com . If you're interested, I'm sure that your contributions would be most invaluable there! ;-)

Cheers,

RelentlessRecusant 11:57, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Squid

Sorry about that, I must have made the edit right as Kurini made his/hers. Wildthing61476 19:40, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] References

Yes, I will make this... Felipe ^{( talk )} 00:38, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Chicago Midway Airport

Hey Mac Davis-

In order to get KMDW to GA Status, Zeus1234 has requested I provide a fair-use rationale for the picture of Flight 1248. I don't know what that is...do you? Sox23 01:12, 14 May 2007 (UTC) (by the way, I didn't want to delete that info I just did so MDW would pass and finally become the GA I know it is)

Thanks a lot! Sox23 01:15, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

Thats okay -- I was done editing Sox23 01:16, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Garrett A. Morgan

Hello, I see that you have played a part in recent changes at Garrett A. Morgan. I ask you to please have a look at the Talk page for this article. I have been at pains for months to undo edits which fly in the face of well-documented facts, and I fear that, recently, you have ended up in the midst of this fray. I am a researcher, historian, and admirer of Morgan, who has spent many years working with Mr. Morgan's papers; I only seek to have his entry reflect the facts as they are, follow NPOV, and to link to any and all relevant pages which reference them, but I have been inundated by folks who just want to use Morgan to blow their own horns. I can't keep up. If you agree that what I have tried to maintain here is reasonably accurate, please protect this page; I can't keep up with the mix of reverts and vandalism, and am at my wit's end. Clevelander96 01:59, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] User_talk:Clevelander96#Garrett_A._Morgan

I've asked Clevelander for further details. - Mgm|^(talk) 07:55, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

Hello, and many thanks for your reply -- I have responded to your request for details on my own Talk page. Clevelander96 08:25, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Admin Coaching

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[edit] May 2007

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Actually it turns out they were already warned three times before I reported the IP, and blocked right before you responded back. [Mac Δαvιs] ❖ 09:06, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Re:Hello

Hello again CattleGirl, I see you've made your way to becoming an administrator! *high five* Anyway, I've come here because I noticed constant revisions while I was monitoring the #vandalism-en-wp IRC channel on User_talk:Dfjng. I peeked back in the history and noticed that you added a block notice and the phrase "Please note that continuous reversions of this page may result in the page being protected." This is definitely what is happening, as you can see. User:DarkSaber2k and User:Stephenb may be making quesitonable amounts of reversions that are mucking up my vandal hunting spaces. We've got much better things for them to do than revert a blocked user's talk page! Thanks, [Mac Δαvιs] ❖ 10:21, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

Hi, Mac Davis, *high five* :)

Yes, I blocked the user, but as he can still edit the talk page, that is what he'd been doing... you see, whenever I tried to protect it he reverted back right at that second... frustrating. I've fully protected the page for a week now, and have added a note. Cheers- CattleGirl ^{talk | sign!} 10:27, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Tagging of Unicorn gallery

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[edit] Tintern Abbey Move

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