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Edit to Kilowatt hour

Your contributions suggest you know a great deal about electric power. It may very well be that the electrical power engineers you deal with usually write the symbol "kWh". But an encyclopedia article about a unit is aimed at people who are not familiar with the unit. For such people it is more helpful to use symbols that follow the same pattern for all SI, "kW⋅h", rather than a special exception that only applies to this one unit. Jc3s5h (talk) 15:52, 17 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

"kWh" hour is the usual kind of writing 1000 times Watt times hour. kWh is also a quite widespread units which you find on your electricity bills. The dot is not needed and artificially divides the kilowatthour. --Gunnar (talk) 13:40, 19 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Requesting an IP address block exemption, because it obviously probhibits me to participate in the improvement of Wikipedia. Please consult with my provider Deutsche Telekom, about IP misuse issues. Gunnar (talk) 13:37, 19 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Caught by a web host block but this host or IP is not a web host. Place any further information here. Gunnar (talk) 22:11, 19 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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It appears that you are editing from a web host. Please use your normal ISP and you should be able to edit without difficulty. Mike V • Talk 22:57, 19 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Caught by a web host block but this host or IP is not a web host. The ISP I use is Deutsche Telekom, and I am not using it's web hosting, but IP connection. This is the only ISP I have. Gunnar (talk) 17:14, 20 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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How to cite sources

There is a guide to citing sources here: Wikipedia:Citing sources. But I reverted your edit to Kilowatt hour because Yahoo Answers is not a reliable source. Reliable sources are described here: WP:RS. Also there is a discussion on the article talk page concerning the necessity of the "cn" tag, and you may want to join the discussion. Kendall-K1 (talk) 10:49, 3 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Ways to improve Julien Abraham

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Actually IMDB was linked from the very beginning, but I added an additional reference. --Gunnar (talk) 01:31, 22 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Fixed --Gunnar (talk) 11:13, 25 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Would you be able to take a look at Greenhouse gas emissions by Turkey?

Hello Gunnar,

I see you are very knowledgeable about climate change. As I am trying to improve Greenhouse gas emissions by Turkey to FA standard would you be able to read it and point out what could be better? Even if you don't have much time I am sure you will be able to quickly spot at least one or two areas for improvement which I have missed.

Regards

Chidgk1 (talk) 09:54, 3 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Chidgk1: If you want to use some data, I recommend this source on historical CO2 emissions (country specific): https://folk.universitetetioslo.no/roberan/GCB2020.shtml --Gunnar (talk) 20:57, 3 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Ah thanks for your changes and that link - interesting I had not seen a Kaya identity graph before. I think when I put the article in for FA there will be plenty of comments on the grammar so I don't need to take up your time with that, but have you any comments on the technical side? For example have I presented any tech info in a misleading way? If so please could you drop me a note on Talk:Greenhouse gas emissions by Turkey Chidgk1 (talk) 11:29, 5 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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You should stop your vandalism and use the Talk page to discuss the content of given paragraphs. --Gunnar (talk) 23:12, 11 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi, I've moved this back to drafts, because otherwise it would have been likely taken to AfD. When I moved it, it had only one valid source (IMDb not being accepted as reliable); I can see that as I was moving it, you added another source, but that still leaves the referencing rather weak. For example his personal/family details are only supported by IMDb, which isn't acceptable in a BLP article. Please ensure that notability is properly established, and all material statements fully supported by reliable sources, before publishing this. Thanks, -- DoubleGrazing (talk) 05:16, 14 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

cf. "Marina Lopatonok." Biographies.net. STANDS4 LLC, 2022. Web. 14 Jun 2022. <https://www.biographies.net/biography/marina-lopatonok/m/0hzgjnx>. --Gunnar (talk) 05:27, 14 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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... and the Revolution of Dignity was no coup. I kindly asked you to stop flooding my user's talk page with pro-war propaganda. You didn't respect that demand. Claiming that U.S. involvement in that revolution was one of the reasons the Russians boiled over is pro-war propaganda and is hateful to me personally, not least because four of Putin's (not "the Russians'") victims are now studying in my class. Learn how to find good sources at WP:RS (I especially recommend section 4), read Andreas Kappeler and Serhii Plokhy, and listen to Timothy Snyder's lectures before going to my talk page again. Rsk6400 (talk) 16:01, 1 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Well, some say that the Maidan revolution was a coup, where people were killed on both sides [1], and some say it wasn't. Let's wait until the historians find out after they had access to the secret archives to choose a final answer. By the way, dignity is defined as "a calm and serious manner that deserves respect" [2]. I don't believe that this includes a violent uprising with many killings. --Gunnar (talk) 16:35, 1 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

This is in line with your comment but in social sciences like history where we still are in the process of putting pieces of the puzzle together at Ukraine on Fire. Please let me say that I as a historian feel that you are wrong. And I also think that you are depreciating the work of social scientists. It is not "we" who are "putting pieces ... together", but academics. And I think we should (and can) trust that they know their jobs and the limits of their knowledge. I don't think that you should compare real experts on Ukraine (like Kappeler or e.g. Karl Schlögel) with all those people you mentioned. That was the opinion of a historian, but we also have a rule on WP, which is neutrally reporting what reliable sources say, without OR. Rsk6400 (talk) 07:22, 2 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Let me just point that with "we" I often mean the whole of mankind. By the way, the special class of historians which are experts in classical antiquity may have less know-how in contemporary history. For instance, it took only a few days for The Nation to comment on the leaked phone call between Nuland and Pyatt: "In the course of a little over four minutes, the two American diplomats exchange ideas about who ought to be promoted, and who ought to be demoted, by the United States inside Ukraine, which is suffering through a difficult and even violent political dispute over whether Ukraine will tilt east, toward Russia, or west, toward the United States and Europe. [..] As if it’s any of her business, Nuland says" Yatseniuk should go in and Klitschko shall stay out. Can you tell me how the historians you prefer interpret this conversation? --Gunnar (talk) 13:33, 3 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

About putting pieces together: In Operation Ajax you can read the sentence: "In August 2013, the U.S. government formally acknowledged the U.S. role in the coup by releasing a bulk of previously classified government documents that show it was in charge of both the planning and the execution of the coup, including the bribing of Iranian politicians, security and army high-ranking officials, as well as pro-coup propaganda." In this case it took 60 years for putting the pieces together. There may have been different theories and some evidence available in the decades directly following the event, but the clear picture only became visible after public access to the archives was granted. --Gunnar (talk) 13:41, 3 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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The mentality (and also the rules) here at the English WP are a bit different from those of the German WP. Since you are a very productive editor at the German WP, I have no doubt that you are acting in good faith, but your edit warring at Ukraine on Fire still could lead to a block if you continue. Rsk6400 (talk) 06:40, 2 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

As you refer most probably to the improvement of the synopsis of a film, I can only state that I see it as a kind of vandalism, if you revert without giving some good reasoning the changes. --Gunnar (talk) 13:44, 3 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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