User talk:Mrand

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Really the last test of the emergancy broadcast system.

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[edit] Welcome to Wikipedia!

Hello Mrand, welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you like it here and decide to stay. Here are some tips:

If you feel a change is needed, feel free to make it yourself! Wikipedia is a wiki, so anyone (yourself included) can edit any article by following the Edit this page link. Wikipedia convention is to be bold and not be afraid of making mistakes. If you're not sure how editing works, have a look at How to edit a page, or try out the Sandbox to test your editing skills.

If, for some reason, you are unable to fix a problem yourself, feel free to ask someone else to do it. Wikipedia has a vibrant community of contributors who have a wide range of skills and specialties, and many of them would be glad to help. There are also the help pages for self-help and the village pump and IRC Channels, where you are more than welcome to ask for assistance. You should also feel free to ask me on my Talk page.

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! By the way, you can sign your name on Talk and vote pages using three tildes, like this: ~~~. Four tildes(~~~~) produces your name and the current date. Please do not add this signature to encyclopedia articles you may edit, however, even if you have created them. Wikipedia articles are owned by the community, not by any one person. Again, welcome! —WAvegetarianTALKCONTRIBSEMAIL 18:02, 20 February 2006 (UTC)



[edit] Testing

Hi again. I just noticed your testing. While it is fine for you to do this on your talk page, it does tend to clutter up the history. You can do testing in the Wikipedia:Sandbox; that's what it's there for. You can also do testing in your own personal sandbox. If you ever want to create subpages of your user page just make a page at User:Mrand/Page_name. —WAvegetarian•CONTRIBUTIONSTALK• EMAIL• 01:41, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the reminder! Mrand 02:36, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Fast Ethernet and various 100BASE-* standards

Should the various 100BASE-* pages be folded into the Fast Ethernet page, the same way you folded the various 1000BASE-* pages into the Gigabit Ethernet page? Guy Harris 02:10, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

Yes, I believe so. Having little tid-bit details spread across many tiny articles doesn't make sense to me. However, I don't know that I'll have time to do the folding, so please feel free. Mrand 14:07, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Ethernet over SDH

While you're working on it, I recommended merging Ethernet over SONET... — RevRagnarok Talk Contrib 03:13, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] FPGA

Can you explain why you removed NI LabVIEW from the list of third-party tool suppliers on the FPGA page? Your comments said that NI is not directly FPGA related. However, like many of the other vendors on the list, NI provides both programming tools and COTS FPGA-based hardware platforms. LabVIEW FPGA works by translating graphical G code to VHDL and then automatically compiles to a bitstream using the Xilinx ISE. Also, HDL code can be used within LabVIEW FPGA using a special node. NI offers plug-in boards for PCI/PXI/CompactPCI and also a FPGA-based ruggeddized embedded system called CompactRIO. This technology opens FPGA design to novice programmers with little or no hardware design experience-- only a basic knowledge of LabVIEW is required. --AustinLiveOak 02:50, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

Howdy... thanks for your note. I misunderstood what you were describing in the addition: when I read "a high level graphical programming language for off-the-shelf FPGA-based embedded systems", I mistakenly misinterpreted that it was for TESTING off-the-shelf FPGA-based embedded systems... i.e., the classic LabView test environment. After your detailed description and reviewing the NI website, I agree that NI definitely provides FPGA specific items. A different matter is that of listing commercial links in the article. For now, the consensus for this page seems to be to list them, so I've added the NI entry back. At some point in the future though, I suspect the list will get too large and will have to be removed. Thanks again for the civil note. I've added back an entry based upon yours. Mrand 13:50, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
Sounds good. Thanks. --AustinLiveOak 15:25, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Removing unsourced statements

It seems to me that the style of editing changes from article to article. What I mean is that some editors allow statements to stay without proper sources, but tag them as such for other editors to hunt them down and some editors simply remove them instead of tagging them. Both ways are fine, but I thought the Corvette article was one in which we tag instead of just remove. Your last edit has shown me it's the latter and, therefore, I'm going to just start removing unsourced statements from the article. Just thought I'd give you a little heads-up so you understand my edits. Roguegeek (talk) 15:47, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

Howdy - Tagging is fine with me. I was really just pointing out that the cite that was included in that link did not make any mention of "and have many publishers speculating that there may not be a higher performance C6 in development", nor have I heard or read that from anywhere else. Mrand 15:57, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] MA Userbox

Today, there was a merger of Category:Martial Artist Wikipedians into Category:Wikipedian martial artists. This resulted in a userbox {{User:TonyTheTiger/Userboxes/Martialartist}} being added to the category. This userbox is available to you. TonyTheTiger 21:06, 17 January 2007 (UTC)


Aikido has been submitted to FAC. Lets take it that final mile.Peter Rehse 02:32, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Links removal from Field-programmable gate array‎ article.

Dear Mrand. I agree that Wikipedia is not a link farm, but I think that the links to the relevant software tools were useful without adding unnecessary visual information to the article. Now a visitor will have to perform a search to reach each tool's web page. I just do not understand the harm in these links. Respectfully Michagal 16:06, 9 May 2007 (UTC).

I agree that the lists can be useful, but lists of links have to be maintained. We can see what opinions others have on this topic on the FPGA talk page... Have fun, Mrand 16:08, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Vertex4

I started an AfD for Vertex4. I think, if the creator disputes the prod, that's the better way to handle the situation than simply adding the prod back. —David Eppstein 15:43, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

No problem - I'll watch it there. Mrand 22:54, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Aikido

Hi I just resubmitted the Aikido article for Featured article status. Hopefully we can get over the hump this time.Peter Rehse 09:24, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Contradict flag on Qi

I suppose so, the original editor has allowed it to be taken down from aikido, but there haven't been any significant changes. Feel free to take it down. Bradford44 14:17, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] about the william L. Whittaker article

sorry, my bad. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.86.74.135 (talk) 03:24, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] NoMoreLinks template

Coyedit from my page: "Howdy Bzuk, I agree that I wouldn't have written it in quite that tone, but the nomorelinks template has been discussed and is generally accepted: see TfD:NoMoreLinks. Of course, that isn't to say that it couldn't be improved (and shrunk!). I'll see what I can do.—Mrand T-C 14:27, 21 September 2007 (UTC)"

Thanks for the clarification, I thought it might be a "home made" version but even if it is the standard "tag," I agree that it could be written in a bit less aggressive fashion. Take care. Bzuk 14:56, 21 September 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Marvin Perry

Well said. Cheers, :) Dlohcierekim 14:39, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Incomplete AfD

Hi. You forget to create Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Madelyne Woods, where a rationale for deletion is supposed to be provided. Tizio 11:58, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] sOURCES

I know what you mean. Cheers, :) Dlohcierekim 23:31, 25 October 2007 (UTC)



[edit] Deleting important information

Why was the information I placed on the site deleted - and then the article locked??

The 'Renewable Energy in Scotland Inquiry', compiled by the Scottish Parliament, was one of the most detailed and important studies into wind power. Yet every time I put so much as a snippet of this report on the site, it is deleted. Tell me - is this for eco-political reasons?

The Scottish report concluded that:

When a wind power station is connected to the grid a similar conventional capacity must be maintained as spinning reserve to cover the uncontrolled intermittency. The presence of an increasing number of distributed intermittent and unreliable micro-generators to replace more secure forms of generation leads to grid instability.[1]

Wind energy will always be a secondary, intermittent, unreliable energy source and can never satisfy a base load demand. (Wind energy) is a profligate waste of our most precious resource - wild land.[2]

This is a good honest report into the benefits and pitfalls of of wind power, and if this report does not deserve to be on this Wikki page then nothing does.


In addition, my section on grid storage was also deleted. As it stands, the information given makes it look to readers as though there are storage mediums available that could store enough energy to cover for a few windless days. This is utter nonsense, and so this Wikki page is giving a dangerously biased view of wind power. Is this Wikki's directive - to give out biased information to conform to some eco-political viewpoint? This page needs to add something like the following, in order to balance the information given.

Quote:

The problem that all grid energy storage systems face, is that wind-power generation system can go off-line for prolonged periods. For example, meteorological reports for Newport Rhode Island, a typical coastal site favoured for wind generation, show that in the month of September 2006 the wind rarely got above 4 kts (5 mph),[3] whereas a typical wind generator requires at least 15 kts (8m/s or 18 mph) to start generating significant amounts of power.[4] This means that significant amounts of energy need to be stored to cover these outages, which none of the methods cited above can fulfil. At present, pumped water storage systems have the greatest energy capacity, and the Dinorwig is the largest example of this technology in the UK; but about 140 Dinorwig-sized plants would be required to fulfull Britain's energy requirements for just two days. See grid energy storage systems for further details.

End quote.

Narwhal-tooth (talk) 19:42, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] NOR in Wind power article

I found your NOR removal policy very harsh in the Wind power article. I looked up the old version to check out the passage you deleted and it seems that whoever wrote it had made an effort to include references. Writing in a neutral fashion is not a natural skill and I feel that one should not simply remove original research. At the most, that passage could have been trimmed down to include the facts, especially considering that the point being made is indeed a well known problem. I'll try adding a trimed down version of the passage. Let me know what you think. Ga2re2t (talk) 14:07, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

I appreciate the fair tone of your inquiry. The main reason I felt justified in removing that paragraph completely was exactly the same as what Wtshymanski later points out in his editing: the article is full of references to that very topic. Also, I thought that most of that data is already contained where it really belongs: in the grid storage article. I hope that makes my edits more clear! If you feel something is missing and can be added in a concise manner (the article is already too long), please feel free - I have no agenda for or against any of the topics in the article. Best regards —Mrand T-C 04:51, 21 November 2007 (UTC)


This is not editing by Mrand, it appears to be the imposition of a Wikki eco-policy. Mrand has reduced my item on the Energy in Scotland Inquiry to: "the Energy in Scotland Inquiry noted the intermittent nature of wind power"

No they did not - they condemned the entire industry - they said that wind power was 'a waste of space'. Is this what Mrand wants to cover up?[1]

Likewise, he has reduced the summary on 'grid storage' to only items which suggest that grid storage is a viable system for storing energy to cover for windless days, which it cannot do. Again the summary on this page is far from balanced. Either Wikki is neutral, in which case it presents both sides of the argument, or it has a political agenda. Which is it?Narwhal-tooth (talk) 19:39, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

I feel others have responded to and addressed this topic acceptably here: Talk:Wind_power. If you have a specific question for me, please let me know. —Mrand T-C 14:01, 25 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Rosa Parks Peace Prize

Hi. I saw you tagged Rosa Parks Peace Prize for speedy deletion. I never saw the page you tagged so I'm not quibbling even a little! Still, I'm curious because the article on Rosa Parks mentions this prize but it's staggeringly undocumented. (Plenty of mentions that she received it, but nothing obvious about who awarded it etc.)

Did the article you tagged for deletion say anything useful in respect of this? Thanks. Nick Levine (talk) 10:23, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

No, the article was a hate page. You can see a few words of it by going attempting to edit the page and looking at the deletion log.—Mrand T-C 14:43, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Howdy!

Hello, Mrand ... I ran across the comment you left on Template talk:Nn-warn back in July, and I have replied there ... Happy Editing! —72.75.72.63 (talk · contribs) 16:05, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] MUTCD

Mrand-

Thanks for making the corrections on the City of Phoenix section on the MUTCD page. It seems to flow better.

Thanks again,

Midnight XII (talk) 19:53, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Wind Power

You're quite right, the Wind power article had grown in the last year without adding any really useful information. I'm still going to whack away at it over the coming few days. I strongly suspect it should be around 64k, down from the 109 K it had ballooned to over the last 12 months. --Wtshymanski (talk) 00:12, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Thanks for your help with removing the TV links. --Hans Adler (talk) 00:27, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

You're welcome - glad to see that it got caught before it got really out of hand!—Mrand T-C 00:28, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Michael Jackson

Hey i havent altered your edit to Michael Jackson because I like most of it, but now there is NO mention of Thriller in the lead, that really needs to be there, would you rectify this please. YoursRealist2 (talk) 17:37, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

I agree that a few words would seem to be appropriate... I added it. —Mrand T-C 17:57, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
 :-) Realist2 (talk) 03:41, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks!

Thanks for reverting the vandalism to my userpage; keep up the good work! --Farosdaughter (talk) 22:48, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

You're very welcome. Same to you!—Mrand T-C 22:48, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for the message!

Thanks so much for the message! I really get exited when people look at my page. I was very interested in the akido article. I love to read about martial arts and was very exited that a martial arts article was featured. I encouage you to take part in some disscussions on my talk page! I really like to discuss things with other people on the net!Historybuffc13 (talk) 19:53, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Wow, someone else has this?

you know, I just discovered I have a talk page really, much more that others did. As you can tell I just kinda flow in and out of articles.

The reason I was cursing, and insulting, and doing as I do, in the Corvette page is because I am tired of the misuse of Wikipedia. huh, I guess you could say I am a militant Wikipedian.

I hold this personal motto: "Society should not operate at the level of its lowest common denominators." When I see those people running roughshod all over human intelligence and sanity, I tend to lose a bit of that last one.

Also, I am a member of the Cult of Jeremy Clarkson, and stating it as it is is sort of what we do. Yah.Scryer_360 (talk) 02:20, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Macronizing

Before you go to a lot of trouble adding macrons to names like Tokyo (c.f. Kenji Shimizu), please note that the MOS recommends not macronizing certain words, including Tokyo, essentially because they are well-established in foreign languages without the diacritics (I believe aikido would fall into this category as well). Please check this link, under number 9. Thanks for editing aikido articles. I feel like I'm working alone lately :-) Djiann (talk) 03:15, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for pointing it out - I hadn't had a chance to look it up myself. I copy and pasted it within that one article from one instance to another so that the article would be consistent, but had no plans on doing it elsewhere. Be sure to pipe in on the "uke vs. attacker" terminology discussion on the aikido talk page if you get a chance.—Mrand Talk • C 11:47, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for the invite, but that sort of argument is exactly why I avoid the Aikido article at all costs :-) Djiann (talk) 20:25, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] GM Vortec engine

Hi. You recently reverted my edits of ft-lb/ft-lbf. Please don't change these back. I know that the templates say ft-lbf, however this is incorrect. The accepted forms are either ft-lb or lb-ft. If you take issue with this, please let me know. I'll refrain from changing anything until I hear back from you.--Flash176 (talk) 14:03, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

Howdy - thanks for discussing before reverting. The problem that you are changing the input to the template - which expects ft-lbf. If you'll go back and look at the rendered version of your edit, you'll see a red-link (i.e., missing template). What you really want is to change the output of the template - if you really are interested in gaining consensus for changing it, you would need to take it up with the template maintainers. Best regards!—Mrand Talk • C 16:17, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] FPGA Inventor...

Mrand: whoever put the Xilinx founder down as the inventor as the creator of the FPGA was highly misinformed and failed to do their due diligence. Ross Freeman references the Petterson/Page patent's in all of his patent's and their work predates his by a minimum of five years. In fact all FPGA design patents reference the foundational work. There are two patents by Peterson/Page done at this time, one for shift programmable and one for Ram programmable. Where Freeman expanded the number of gates at the programmable node the single gate approach shown in these first patents clearly show that the design for field programmable logic( or re programmable logic) was patented and in use years before Freeman made his marketing claim. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.148.72.66 (talk) 14:58, 2 June 2008 (UTC)