User talk:LachlanA

Sorry I reverted your link thinking it was vandalism to Mobile phones, I would suggest though adding it to the references at the bottom of the article, instead of in the middle. http://www.att.com/attlabs/reputation/timeline/46mobile.html

Sorry Khukri ^{(talk . contribs)} 20:29, 4 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

AIDS first identified

Hi Lachlan

>Could you please specify what you mean about 1 December, 1981 being when "AIDS was first identified"? It is usually stated that the CDC report of 5 June is was the first time the phenomenon was identified. The only references to 1 December I can find are on (or copied from) Wikipedia.

I almost certainly copied it from elsewhere on Wikipedia - I doubt I had a separate source. Ben Finn 20:10, 11 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

United States Declaration of Independence

I Undid your revision 115366364 because I checked it- the date is correct per the Lee Resolution article JohnCub 18:23, 15 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Now that I go back and re-read it, it could be interpreted either way. maybe we need to clarify somehow. JohnCub 18:24, 15 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry to bug you, but how does [this] look? JohnCub 18:28, 15 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

History of Watsonia

Hi LachlanA. Sorry for the delay - I rarely visit Wikipedia these days (too busy). The information was from Monash University's Australian Place Names website. That website has since been taken down, but you can access the information via the Wayback Machine. Here is the link to the Watsonia entry - [1]. Cnwb 04:48, 23 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Template

Thanks. If you find any others I did that on, let me know. I've been doing it the correct way since about that day. --Woohookitty^Woohoo! 05:38, 31 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Brighton-Le-Sands

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Response on my talk page

I have responded to your question on my talk page. Why not have a look? thadius856_{talk|airports|neutrality} 01:58, 8 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Aug 6 reference

The book published by Allens: do you have it? Does it add anything to the texts already there?

I notice that none of the references provides a page range, which is a pity. I think they should rightly point the reader towards the relevant chapter or section, don't you? Tony (talk) 12:54, 28 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It's the only "Allans" book in the ref list at the bottom of that article. Trouble is, I'm pretty sure that it adds absolutely zilch to the modern view of the augmented 6th chord; i.e., that it's very old-fashioned. If it's like William Lovelock's amateurish harmony books of the ?60s, that is the case. I might consider removing it if no one knows what's in it in relation to the topic. Tony (talk) 12:45, 1 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Silly me: ambiguity can be elusive to the writer. Tony (talk) 07:10, 2 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Orthogonality of spheres

Re Talk:Inversive_geometry#Orthogonality_of_spheres.3F

I think it means that at the circle where the two spheres intersect, the tangent planes are orthogonal.

Draw two circles such that they intersect at right angles at their points of intersection, then spin the construction in 3d around the line passing through both centres. That gives you two orthogonal spheres.

When using the poincare model of hyperbolic geometry to represent 3-dimensional hyperbolic space, hyperbolic flat planes are projected as sections of a sphere orthogonal to the boundary.

Paul Murray (talk) 11:34, 26 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Your contributed article, Products manufactured in australia

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Thanks for your vigilance, iBen. I don't see how this page duplicates Economy of Australia, any more than say Mining in Australia does. The former page has links to industries like tourism, but none to manufacturing! Aside from that, the purpose of the article is to cover specific brands, including those in fields in which Australia has only vestigial manufacturing, rather than discuss what our main manufacturing is. Please remove the "speedy deletion" tag. Thanks :) LachlanA (talk) 06:14, 23 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Next time, please move the Draft version of an article back into main space, do not cut & paste content into a new main space article. As the notice states, this breaks up the edit history of the article. It properly should be history-merged to preserve the page histories. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 01:39, 9 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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