User talk:Spalding

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Sam [Spade] 01:36, 29 Aug 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Public domain images

Welcome! I noticed your question about public domain images on the New user log. You may be interested to read Public domain image resources, Public domain resources or the article public domain for clarification on what qualifies as public domain. If you upload any such images be sure to tag them with {{PD}} (see Image copyright tags). Oh and any mistakes you happen to make can be easily rectified, so don't be afriad to edit boldly. Hope this helps and happy editing! — Trilobite (Talk) 14:14, 29 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Thank you, Sam Spade and Trilobite. I was mostly looking for pictures of scientists, and the Library of Congress is down today, so no luck. I did fix a link on one of the pages though. That must be a very common need here, isn't it?

[edit] KGB

Hi!

I certainly didnt mean to sugest your edit was vandalism... it was the annons edits after yours ( diff) which I objected to. In fact, I reverted to your version diff. I appologise for my ambiguous edit summary: it was inteneded to imply "rv to last version by spalding, due to anon vadalsim of that version". I hope that this apology satisfys you with out clogging up the page history further, but if you still feel it needs clarifying there, please drop me another line! cheers, Iain 08:39, 10 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Very good. Thanks! Spalding 11:28, Sep 10, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Assembly language link

Hi, I just wanted to thank you for the link you added to assembly language. It's a very good site that I've read myself but had forgotten all about. Thanks again. Derrick Coetzee 06:47, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)

You're very welcome. That's been in my favorites for quite a while, even though I only have fond memories of assembly language programming, since I haven't done any in ages. There was a broken link to it in the other external link. It is an excellent article - a great example for Wikipedia. Spalding 11:29, Oct 19, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Article licensing

Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 2000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:

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[edit] License of image

Could you clarify the license of the picture Image:Swiss Chard.jpg. Is it {{GFDL}}?Rasbak 14:28, 15 July 2005 (UTC)

I just put a {{PD-self}} tag on it. I didn't originally because that was my first image upload and I didn't know how to edit the description page. Spalding 20:20, July 16, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Denver

Can you vote for John Denver on the Article Collaboration Drive? Thanks. Carolaman 19:57, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Judith Crist

Thanks for your edit! SaraK 23:01, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Werner S. Pluhar

Thanks for the editorial work on the Pluhar article. I'm delighted to see that no one else seems to have noticed its existence. I've been engaged for a few months in a discussion of the problems of Wikipedia and the Pluhar article is an interesting experiment. Pluhar is sufficiently obscure to filter out nearly everyone who frequents this website but the article is still open to change. We'll see how things proceed.

No problem - that was pretty minor - I just now added his personal web page for more context.

[edit] Walter A. Shewhart

Spalding, There is a factual error in the Watler A. Shewhart article which is similar to the one you corrected recently in the control chart article: "In 1938 his work came to the attention of physicists W. Edwards Deming and Raymond T. Birge. The two had been deeply intrigued by the issue of measurement error in science and had published a landmark paper in Reviews of Modern Physics in 1934. On reading of Shewhart's insights, they wrote to the journal to wholly recast their approach in the terms that Shewhart advocated." There may be some useful information in this reference mixed in with the factual errors. Deming didn't write to the journal because he had just discovered Shewhart's work. Whatever was written to the journal probably came about because of insights caused by Shewhart's lectures at USDA. Since there is no reference to a specific journal article this appears to be speculation. I would appreciate you views on this section of the article. Thanks. Leaders100 12:45, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bicycle physics

The article, now titled Bicycle and motorcycle dynamics, has been nominated for FA. Since you may have worked on it in the past, would you care take a look at it again? AndrewDressel 01:56, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

Wow, that is very courteous of you to make all these notifications, Andrew! You are one serious bicycle/motorcycle physics dweeb! I fell in love with the concept of countersteering when I first encountered it in the Motorcycle Safety Foundation course. Thanks, and I'll take a look. Spalding 16:44, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Proposal on Notability

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[edit] Conspiracy of Fools Edit

What is your source RE the namesake for Eichenwald's book? Curious.--Utahredrock 04:06, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

I don't have one. I just was curious what the name of the book was so I found and added it. User Tazmaniacs had put the author there previously. A surface glance at a Google search for both titles together just turned up Wikipedia clones. Spalding 22:06, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Requested change in redirect for IPA from International Phonetic Alphabet to IPA (disambiguation)

Please comment. --Karnesky 15:39, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

You wrote

I think like most TLAs with multiple meanings the TLA itself should go to the disambig page. The reason is the user can then choose for themselves what they are looking for. I'll bet most direct queries here are people looking for India Pale Ale, and like me, are too lazy to type it out. I was going to be bold and just move it, but all the links here make that difficult or inadvisable. Any suggestions? Spalding 00:33, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

I have since fixed the incoming links, so this is no longer a concern. If you feel the same as you did back in April, please consider voicing your support for the change in redirect. --Karnesky 21:14, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

OK, I supported the move. Thanks for your initiative in this. Spalding 23:16, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Pi-unrolled

I recently cranked out a new and greatly improved version of Pi-unrolled.gif and (why not?) nominated it for FP. Since you commented on the workshop page of this graphic, I'd like to invite you to comment on the new nomination. Thank you. John Reid 04:35, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Disambig statements

Hiya. Disambiguation statements should only be used if the Wikipedia user possibly came to the article looking for a different article. You are welcome to put these kind of links under a "See also" or "Further reading" section at the bottom, though, but the top of the article is only for quick navigation to the right article, not just further pedia-sploring. Learn more at WP:DAB. Camaro96 18:07, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] World Class Standards

Since you were curious, the previous version of the article was deleted because it was an essay, not an article. DS 17:33, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] World class standards

It was mainly just a procedural thing. Your recreation of the article (a much better start than the direction taken by the old articel, BTW) counts as objecting to the deletion. I would have recreated it for you, but, quite frankly, I like where you're going with it. Good luck. youngamerican (ahoy hoy) 02:31, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Notability of Edward Tenner

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Well, I saw this after the article was deleted. Edward Tenner wrote a well known book, so I think that's enough notability, but fighting deletionists is just too hopeless.

[edit] Human Factors for Highway Engineers (book)

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I added a link to where the book was used as a reference in a scholarly article, and noted my objections on the talk page, that it is an important link in building the web on the important subject of traffic safety. Spalding (talk) 15:28, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

I'm deleting the proposed deletion tag for the article since you clearly contest it, but just remember in the future that when you oppose the proposed deletion that you can simply delete the tag from the article. The instructions written above outline this. Thank you. -- Atama ^chat 18:08, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, I appreciate the advice, but I see I am too late and the article has been deleted anyway. This is getting frustrating. Spalding (talk) 04:25, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] AfD nomination of Human Factors for Highway Engineers (book)

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[edit] RfD nomination of Wikipediaholic

I have nominated Wikipediaholic (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs) for discussion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you. Pyrospirit (talk · contribs) 20:11, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

OK, it looks like it was only deleted out of the main namespace but is still in the Wikipedia namespace, so I can live with that. . Spalding (talk) 04:25, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Selection error

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Thanks for the notice, Matisse. It has resulted in an improvement to Wikipedia since I was using the wrong name for the article. I have renamed it to Description error, which is the accepted name for the concept. I also added an external link and expanded it, and linked to it from other articles, then removed the proposed deletion tag. Spalding (talk) 14:16, 8 March 2008 (UTC)