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Govind Singh

I don't know how to talk or reply your message, if it is not right place than please remove it and i'm sorry about it. I removed some information from that page due to that was not authentic, I've mentioned proper references to political career. Private websites or news websites could not always authenticate data.Thanks. 122.175.141.231 (talk) 17:27, 3 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, with this edit you seem to have added a reference without having added any content. Moreover, you added the reference to a section header, which is something we can't do—see MOS:HEADER. - DVdm (talk) 17:30, 3 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

	The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
	Excellent work! Thanks for helping keep the place tidy :) — MusikAnimal ^talk 18:09, 3 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

My pleasure, so to speak. In turn, thanks for the often blazingly swift responses to some of my reports

. - DVdm (talk) 18:25, 3 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Inertial frame edit

Please note the difference between the axis of rotation vs angular velocity vector. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coriolis_force#cite_note-D.Hestenes-11

I believe my edit was correct. Cmfuen (talk) 15:59, 6 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Re your edit [1]: please note: "The angular velocity vector Bv of a rotating object points along the axis of rotation."^[1]

References

^ Cutnell, John D.; Johnson, Kenneth W. (2014). Physics, Volume One (illustrated ed.). John Wiley & Sons. p. 210. ISBN 978-1-118-83688-0. Extract of page 210

There's some more of these to be found with Google Books. Hope this helps. - DVdm (talk) 16:17, 6 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Uh

Excuse me, can I ask you a question? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Zefyrin (talk • contribs) 13:31, 13 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Please put new talk page messages at the bottom of talk pages and sign your messages with four tildes (~~~~). Thanks.

If you get unblocked, by all means, ask away. - DVdm (talk) 14:36, 13 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Huggle patch

Hey, can you please send me your patched version of huggle to benapetr /at/ gmail /./ com? Thanks Petrb (talk) 13:27, 14 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Petrb: Gmail seems to refuse the attachment, even without the compiled exe. Email sent and zipped source copied in shared dropbox folder, with an invitation. Let me know when you have it? Cheers - DVdm (talk) 14:14, 14 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Petrb: I have left a new version 2.1.27.2 in the shared dropbox folder. This one traps the HTTPS warnings at an earlier stage, and thus for all the API-calls.

By the way, have you read the email and have you found the folder? - DVdm (talk) 09:39, 17 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

speedy A7

With respect to Pratap Singh Khachariyawas. members of national or state legislative assemblies are notable, however incomplete or poorly written the article. I'll follow up with the new editor. DGG ( talk ) 16:18, 16 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Ok. But I remain skeptic about the future of this, ahem, article. Cheers - DVdm (talk) 16:26, 16 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you

Thank you so much for changing my error greatly appreciated DumaTorpedo (talk) 03:29, 18 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

03:31, 18 February 2016 (UTC)~~ — Preceding unsigned comment added by DumaTorpedo (talk • contribs)

HG

Hello, did u find a way to upload ur Version of Huggle 2.1.27? --Traeumer (talk) 12:02, 23 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Der.Traeumer: no response on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T126357. As you can see above, I have sent one to user Petrb, but I have no idea whether he got it. Meanwhile I have a version 2.1.27.4 that's preforming pretty well. Perhaps you can ping Petr about it. Anyway, if you send me a valid email adress, I will invite you on that shared dropbox folder. You'll find a zipped source, plus a compiled exe. Whenever I have a new build, I will put it in there. Cheers - DVdm (talk) 12:29, 23 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thx, my Email is der.traumer /at/ gmx /./ net . Regards --Traeumer (talk) 12:33, 23 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Invitation sent. Please let me know if/when you get it? Thx. - DVdm (talk) 12:39, 23 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Im sry, spelling error. der.traeumer /at/ gmx /./ net. Pls try it again. --Traeumer (talk) 12:41, 23 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Invitation sent to new address. - DVdm (talk) 12:48, 23 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, its working on german wiki too. I will test it later more. Greets --Traeumer (talk) 12:51, 23 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Petrb and Der.Traeumer: new version 2.1.27.5 in shared dropbox. Caught another bug: stripping of html diff table is corrected. The original program counted on finding single quotes in result, but API returns double quotes. Removed a few dirty error traps. - DVdm (talk) 15:11, 25 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Petrb and Der.Traeumer: there's one thing that I really have great difficulty with: in H3, when new entries are added to the queue, the user warning level (1,2,3,4) is correctly shown in the coloured blobs in the queue ^{(not in the strips or in the user windows, but that's an H3-problem).} Since quite some time, this does not happen in H2 anymore. I have tried to trace the reason for this, but I really can't find it... - DVdm (talk) 15:52, 25 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I never note it, so i can life without it. --Traeumer (talk) 10:43, 26 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Petrb and Der.Traeumer: new version 2.1.27.6 in shared dropbox. Caught bug reading resources file WarningSummaries.txt. Separator char CRLF was used instead of vbLf, resulting in a corrupt lookup table. I made the config reader try both split schemes. User warning levels (1,2,3,4) correctly appear in the coloured blobs in the queue. Please try it out. Thanks. - DVdm (talk) 15:10, 2 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Petrb and Der.Traeumer: new version 2.1.27.7 in shared dropbox. I also did something with a pull request at Github, but I have no idea whether I did it right. The Github logic and interface are a mystery to me. - DVdm (talk) 13:43, 5 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

A brownie for you!

Thank you for dealing with all the sports-related vandalism. GAB^Hello! 20:55, 25 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Yum! Thanks - DVdm (talk) 21:09, 25 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Talk:Cantor's diagonal argument

Hi

I noticed your correction of a small typo (chance -> change) in someone else's post, and then in your Edit summary write: " just a stray typo, this now largely being off-topic chat per wp:TPG". I'm confused. Firstly according to that ref you gave the thread isn't off topic as it is discussing ways to improve the readability of the article - exactly what Talk pages should be used for. But I'm also confused as to why you should make the claim in such a way, as a byline to such an unusual edit. For me it seems rude to correct someone else's post in that way, or indeed in any way, but to then use doing so as a platform for criticising - what? The thread? That particular post? - seems doubly odd. You didn't think or mark your edit as Minor so that also makes it seem you meant to use your minor edit as a vehicle for your criticism. I'm confused. Would you share your thinking behind your edit. LookingGlass (talk) 23:19, 1 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @LookingGlass: as you can verify with the signature, this edit was a typo correction of my post

. Yes I know, the thread started as a discussion about how to improve the readability of the article. But after my reply, in my opinion it somewhat slipped into an explanation of the subject, other contributors good-naturedly helping a fellow editor, which alas is not what talk pages are for. On other articles I usually make a little remark about that, or, with unexperienced or new editors I put a friendly formal warning on their user talk page, but in this case I merely stopped commenting. Glancing the thread, I noticed my typo, so I corrected it, and I took the opportunity to let you (and the other editors) know why I had stopped commenting after my first reply to you. That's probably why I didn't mark it as minor. It was not meant as criticism, but as a motivation for my abandoning the thread. OTOH, in my edit summary, in stead of the word "largely" I probably should have used "somewhat", for which my apologies. Cheers! - DVdm (talk) 07:59, 2 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Apologies for my oversight and thank you for pointing it out. The distinction between improving the account/explanation the article provides and explaining the subject in the Talk page seems a fine line to me as the two seem inextricably linked. If the subject is not explained clearly then the questions raised and discussions that result indicate in what ways the article should be changed to better suit it to its primary purpose: general readers not subject matter experts. The "explanation" aspect of articles is a primary not a secondary feature of Wiki. In this case I have not noticed any exchanges on the Talk page that do not further the article's clarification, but we can agree to differ. LookingGlass (talk) 09:30, 3 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

A fine thin line indeed. Sometimes it is quite thick though: [2]

. Cheers and happy wikiing! - DVdm (talk) 09:34, 3 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

regarding Rook

I don't think we're supposed to include sources on disambiguation pages to avoid cluttering them. Rook is introduced in "The War for Dimension X", more details about this are present on the TMNT wikia, I can cite dialogue from the episode if necessary but thought we were not supposed to add references to disambig pages, just articles. 184.145.18.50 (talk) 23:42, 1 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Indeed, but I actually removed your entry from the wp:DAB because the word "rook" didn't even appear in it. The unsourced warning was a poor choice, sorry. Anyway, I notice that Bkonrad took care of it. - DVdm (talk) 08:10, 2 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Tank thingy

So...

What is going to happen to the page? If the page were exclusively on British tanks (i.e. Churchill) then yes, it should be spelled 'armour', but seeing as most tanks across history are American, the default should be American English.

Also, how do I find pages that need work? Most pages on the site don't, and I want to help where help is needed.

Helpingoutagain (talk) 18:07, 3 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think that you will find a wp:consensus to change it, but the current longstanding variation of English on article Tank should of course be discussed at Talk:Tank. As for your other question, I recommend that you take quite some time following the links in the welcome message on your user talk page. Good luck! - DVdm (talk) 18:13, 3 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

You're fast

;-) fredgandt 10:41, 4 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Huggle 2 is back in business, at least it is for me

. See above. - DVdm (talk) 10:45, 4 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I really should try. You'd finished while I was looking up the first template name

. fredgandt 10:52, 4 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Way back, before I used it, I used to copy the HG-messages left on user talk pages by other users. At the point where I decided to create my own warning templates, I decided to try Huggle first... and I guess that was a good idea. Magnificent tool. Apply for rollback again, pratice a bit, and try HG. - DVdm (talk) 11:05, 4 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

"again" - mhmm - maybe not. I was just reading about Twinkle, Huggle and ended up reviewing teh rulez; I think there's room for another tool, I have some ideas about building. Larry the Insane went from a 31 hour block to indefinite after appeal; a short and useless tenure. fredgandt 11:52, 4 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I admit, that mere 31 hours had made me frown. But apparently he took the rope and tightened it a bit... - DVdm (talk) 11:58, 4 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

thanks a tonne

Hey man I really appreciate how you reverted my edits and left a nice stinky little turd on my page, great job man, two thumbzup 0_o

[1] Cutnell, John D.; Johnson, Kenneth W. (2014). Physics, Volume One (illustrated ed.). John Wiley & Sons. p. 210. ISBN 978-1-118-83688-0. Extract of page 210

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+== thanks a tonne ==
+Hey man I really appreciate how you reverted my edits and left a nice stinky little turd on my page, great job man, two thumbzup 0_o