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Cadell/Sinden trivia

Hi, I'm happy to be corrected, but isn't an apostrophe after the name 'possessive'? So surely it should be correct? Manxwoman (talk) 00:05, 17 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I stand corrected and your explanation's'(!) were very clear. Thank you! Manxwoman (talk) 16:56, 17 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Baron

What a lovely article on Baron. I've been meaning to create it for a while. Do you know of any more sources for Marcus Adams? Gareth E Kegg (talk) 11:02, 8 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Fermat's little theorem

Your edit preserves exactly the meaning of the sentence, so if you believe it's right now then you should also believe it was right before. (I think that your edit has probably made it clearer.) --JBL (talk) 14:58, 17 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

In the statement "X if and only if Y", the "if direction" is "Y implies X" and the "only if direction" is "X implies Y". So, to abstract slightly, the previous version was "in the expression 'X if and only if Y', the implication 'X implies Y' is true but the implication 'Y implies X' is false." You've changed it to "in the expression 'Y if and only if X', the implication 'X implies Y' is true but the implication 'Y implies X' is false." So you have not changed the content at all. However, I agree with you that the previous wording was a confusing way to express this content, and that the way you've rephrased it is clearer and less confusing. --JBL (talk) 18:36, 17 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Reign of Cleopatra

Thanks for spotting that. Apparently the page was vandalized by "74edit86" on 22 November 2019 and nobody bothered to revert his edit or fix the damage until now. You only spotted one of his bits of vandalism, though, as he also changed the reign dates for Ptolemy I Soter and Alexander the Great, along with changing several words in the main body of the article, such as "exile" to "ecstasy" that nobody has noticed until now. I'm rather embarrassed that I didn't even catch any of this given how I'm the creator and nominator of the article for "Good" status. Pericles of Athens^Talk 09:43, 13 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Glad if I was of some help. Well done for spotting those other vandalisms. Silas Maxfield (talk) 23:32, 13 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Chelyabinsk accident of 1949 in Igor Kurchatov

Hi,

I notice that you've also noticed the confusion between the 1949 and 1957 accidents around Chelyabinsk in Igor Kurchatov. I was unable to find either reasonably complete sourced about it nor an article on Wikipedia about it, so that I'm not even sure what's the most common name given to that accident. Do you maybe have a reference to some reasonable source, so that I could create at least a stub article about it?

Robryk (talk) 19:58, 29 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'm afraid not. I think I just pieced the story together from the existing online sources. He suffered in a lab accident, 1957 was a major incident. I really know no more than you. Silas Maxfield (talk) 22:34, 29 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the reply nonetheless. Robryk (talk) 19:20, 1 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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