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[edit] Welcome

Hello, Jim77742, and welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you are stuck, and looking for help, please come to the New contributors' help page, where experienced Wikipedians can answer any queries you have! Or, you can just type {{helpme}} and your question on your user talk page, and someone will show up shortly to answer. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

We hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! By the way, you can sign your name on talk and vote pages using four tildes, like this: ~~~~. If you have any questions, see the help pages, add a question to the village pump or ask me on my talk page. Again, welcome!Garrie 03:48, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Victorian Telecommunications Museum

I have listed this page for deletion. Please be specific about notable aspects of this museum, and ensure all material you add is attributable to a reliable source. Garrie 03:48, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

I have seen that the speedy was downgraded to a prod, which you have removed. Fair enough, but...
The article still fails to assert the notability of this particular museum. It is also unreferenced.
Please address these two issues or I will take the article to AfD.Garrie 02:37, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Note on reverting

Hi. Just a note. You should not revert another editor without an explanation. If you disagree, you should say why. Cheers, Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 15:59, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

I left a note on the talk page. Am I supposed to leave a note here as well? People have reverted my stuff without any notes to me at all. I'm fairly new and just trying to follow the crowd. It can be very frustrating sometimes. --Jim77742 23:19, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
I see. I missed the note on talk. I expected that there would be an explanation in the edit summary. Welcome! I hope you'll get to like the place. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 02:09, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] metric planets

Quickly done! It's nice to see :) Have you had a look at the other dwarf planets? In theory Earth and Sun could use some pruning as well if you're keen, although one could possibly argue that they are special cases and should have their miles, ponds per cubic inch or whatever. Speaking of weird units, I found a curiosity over at Eris (dwarf planet): distances were given in "Terameters". Deuar 15:16, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] planet infoboxes

Hi, I thought you might be interested in a discussion that has eventuated over at Talk:Jupiter#Orbital_elements_issues_generally also regarding infobox formatting, especially the last few posts in that thread. Deuar 15:27, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Changing units

Changing the primary units used in a cited reference to calculated approximate values seriously degrades the accuracy of articles (esp when somebody else subsequently does the same but to the opposite unit ; a couple rounds of that and the result is way off from the original value). Please don't do that again. This and other examples will be fixed accordingly. Please be more careful next time. Also, removing Imperial units altogether from running text (infoboxes are different; I agree that SI should dominate there for space considerations) makes the article less accessible to many readers. Please don't do that either. --mav 00:23, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Blocked when it's not me!

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Your request to be unblocked has been granted for the following reason(s):

Autoblock of 202.12.144.21 lifted or expired.

Request handled by: — Rlevse • Talk • 02:55, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] imperial units.

Hi. If you actually count the number of units that need to be converted in Moon, it is actually very small. From an editorial perspective I don't think that we need to convert all of them, and I am willing the leave the info box alone as this info is pretty esoteric for the average reader. The two instances in the abstract should definitely be converted (Earth-Moon separation, and radius of the Moon). If we convert 10 meters in one sentence, then we probably don't need to convert 5 meters in a sentence that follows. In my opinion, the unit should be tailored to the person who would eventually end up using it.

btw, my Ph.D is in planetary geophysics, and I don't even live in a county that uses imperial units!

I'm going to do some research on wikipedia's policy here. This must have come up before somewhere...

Lunokhod 19:33, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

"Why do you consider it important to have the earth-moon distance in miles? I'm trying, but I struggle to see its usefulness. (I'd much rather see a conversion to astronomical units in parenthesis than miles.)"
The usefulnes is that most people who come across the Moon page (in english) are not scientists, and most of them use imperial units. I wrote a large portion of Moon, and while I was active in editing it was clear to me that the majority of other editors were not scientists. If you read the talk page, you'll see that a large portion of the comments there are not made by scientists, and some are clearly made by children. If this page was for scientists only, I would totally agree with you. Lunokhod 18:20, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
Why would you think SI would be appropriate for the english speaking masses? 67% of native english speakers are americans if you believe english language). If you've ever been to the US, you'd see that SI is not used at all in daily life. Lunokhod 20:31, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Greenbox

There's been a Complete rewrite of section 4 (greenbox) of the MOSNUM in the last few days. Could you give feedback and vote?

While your at it, check out the bluebox and purplebox proposals.

Thanks. Headbomb (ταλκ · κοντριβς) 02:33, 24 May 2008 (UTC)