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Sam Spade 06:53, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)

duplicate articles

Hey, thanks for finding that! You can simply add "{{merge}} [[St Peter Damian]]" to the top of the Peter Damian article, and "{{merge}} [[Peter Damian]]" to the St Peter Damian article. Then go to Wikipedia:Duplicate articles and list them so someone can see that they need to be merged, and eventually someone will merge them.

If you'd rather do it yourself, then you don't have to add merge notices the article. Pick the better name (which in this case would be Peter Damian, since we don't usually put titles in article names), and make that article contain all the important information from the other one. Then change the St Peter Damian article to just say "#Redirect [[Peter Damian]]". That way, both will redirect to the same place.

I hope this helps! – Quadell ^{(talk) (sleuth)} 01:29, Apr 25, 2005 (UTC)

Comorian franc

Hello again. If you go to the Comorian franc page and edit it, you'll see the line {{AfricanCurrencies}} where the table would be. What that means is, you can go to the Template:AfricanCurrencies articles to see the code for that table. Then you can edit the table, and it will update all pages that include it. I'm glad that an expert on the Comorian franc will be improving the article! If you have any other questions, feel free to ask. – Quadell ^{(talk) (sleuth)} 13:13, May 5, 2005 (UTC)

Poetry Chicago

Thanks for catching that. It was on a list of requested articles that I was going through about three or four months back and I must have either overlooked the Poetry (Chicago) page or not thought to check the "poetry" disambiguation. The original article looks better anyway. :) —chris.lawson (talk) 02:28, 28 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I've renamed the Poetry (Chicago) article Poetry (magazine) because that is a more natural place for someone to search. Redirects from Poetry Chicago and Poetry (Chicago) are in place. The talk page at Poetry (Chicago) had only one comment, agreeing that it should be at Poetry (magazine). If there are strong reasons why moving it was a mistake, let me know. Dystopos 16:34, 31 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Sulfur lamps

Hi. I know you contributed to the article I wrote on sulfur lamps. I'm not very familiar with the technology (I used to just see it at the Air and Space and the DOE building). Someone has lumped sulfur lamps in with inductive lighting, which is described as a fluorescent technology. This seems incorrect to me. The article "sulfur lamp" has been renamed to "inductive lighting". Can you take a look at this as see if it's all correct? Also, can you explain to me what became of this technology? It was billed in the Washington Post as the "technology of the future." I am unable to find an answer why it failed. Thank you. SDC 18:18, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Hmm, well, blowing through 90M$ with no viable commercial product to show for it doesn't help. I think the technology still exists but for various reasons like problems with the microwave generator power supplies and such it never took off. Shame really, it was a very cool idea. I think you are right to doubt the accuracy of lumping the S lamp with "inductive lighting". They are simillar though. Induction lamps do NOT use magnetrons to excite the emitting gas so far as I can tell and S lamps do not use induction from a coil to light. I see alot of things that make no sense in the article and I will flag it for accuracy. Anyway as to S lighting, it's strange and somewhat sad seeing how a technology once seen as THE problem solving technology of the future just sort of slowly peters out, dies and then just fades into history. :-( ....--Deglr6328 04:29, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Farquhar

Thanks for dealing with that article. The island names just seemed a little...odd. Joyous (talk) July 3, 2005 16:53 (UTC)

Atomic orbital

Hi,
I noticed your addition of a new paragraph to the introduction of Atomic orbital. As the author of much of what was there before, I have to admit that much of what you said is beyond my expertise, but as far as I can understand it, it looks very thorough. However, I would like to point out that you completely disrupted the flow of the article. If we want the article to stand together as a unitary whole, rather than as a collection of disjointed paragraphs, one of two things must be done:

The new material should be integrated into the existing article structure.
The article structure should be radically amended to include the new material.

I've watchlisted your talk page, so you can reply right here. --Smack (talk) 02:39, 26 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Nice to meet you Smack, but I'm afraid you made a mistake. I made a small change to that article, but I did not write that paragraph. It looks like it was 131.220.68.177. I made the latest addition to the article. I added the link to electron orbital—I was trying to figure out what the difference between those two topics was. I'm not knowledgeable enough of the subject to have written that paragraph. Hope this helps. SDC 02:59, 26 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Bah. --Smack (talk) 04:00, 1 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Broadway

Hi, I see you made a few edits to some Broadway articles. Would you be interested in joining The Broadway Wikiproject? Ëvilphoenix ^Burn! 16:43, August 12, 2005 (UTC)

Stubborn redirect

Well, that is very curious. I don't see any reason why there should still be a link to the redirect page. User:Mddake had a similar situation that seems to have been cleared up. I left a note with him to see if he knew how the problem there resolved itself. I'm stumped. Joyous (talk) 20:49, August 14, 2005 (UTC)

Image:500KMF obverse.jpg

What is the license status? What does the Bank of the Comores allow? Does the bank allow unlimited copying of this image? That would be called counterfeiting in most countries and I don't think I'm too forward in suggesting that you neither have the copyright nor permission from the bank to upload this photo to Wikipedia. Thuresson 20:00, 17 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Coty

Do you know how small the chance is that as I begun a new Coty (disambiguation) article I'd get an edit conflict??? So strange... I'll add what I have to yours, then. Jules LT 16:19, 15 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Streetcar article

First of all, re: the modern light-rail line in Anacostia, I think that's a better fit in the Washington Metro article, since I consider the Washington streetcars article as an article about the historic streetcars, with 1973 being a cutoff year in that regard, being when WMATA acquired all the assets of the former streetcar operator. Thus anything prior to 1973 should go with the streetcar article, and anything beyond that should go with Metro.

As for how likely Anacostia's streetcar line is to be built, I can't say, but I'd guess that the test project in Anacostia will probably be completed. Beyond that will depend on the success of the Anacostia line, though I know quite a few people that are hoping that it bombs in favor of expanding the existing Metrorail network. But we'll see.

As for interurbans, I think it would be appropriate to add it to the streetcar article, at least at first. If it gets really big, then we might want to spin it off into a separate article. I'm personally a big advocate of forking vs. creating from scratch.

Regarding a streetcar map, I think making our own would probably be easiest. If we can find a good street map of Washington that's in the public domain (and one probably does exist), then we can just place the streetcar routes on top of it. Where to go, I'm not sure. I'll have to think about it.

As for Metro maps, I've only developed the one map that's on the Washington Metro article, and that took me six hours to do, in a single marathon session.

SchuminWeb (Talk) 11:17, 19 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Calyon content Update

Hi SDC, I would like to thank you for you work on the Calyon content. I'm working within the Calyon online communication team in Paris and would like to get in touch with you so that we can coordinate our updates. I have updated the english content (as you have noticed) as well as the french one which is now available from the english version. I will need to update again the content for the english version. You will find me in the Calyon's directory (guerandel). Can you contact me by email ? Cheers Dixiweb2005

The Bible Unearthed

Thanks for you message, I have no problem withe the changing the title. Indeed it's a fascinating book, I am also very interested in Biblical and Abrahamic religions aspects along with commons beliefs and dogmas in those religions. On a moral note I think that it's a way to bring people together, I believe that this basically the same fate with different expressions because of geography, historical and poltical circumstances. I would compare that to local accents, cheers.--Khalid hassani 15:53, 18 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Woodward disambig

I painstakingly constructed a disambiguation page at Woodward (which used to redirect to Bob Woodward) and then realized you had already created Woodward (disambiguation). Since no pages currently link to the latter page, would you be averse to having it deleted in favor of my version? - dcljr (talk) 02:39, 10 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I just added three that you found that I hadn't yet come across. I think the page is now complete (except people with the middle name Woodward, which I'm not bothering with). The convention with surnames seems to be to not have "(disambiguation)" in the title. Witness: Smith, Jones, Tucker, Williams; but not: Smith (disambiguation), Jones (disambiguation), Tucker (disambiguation), Williams (disambiguation). I'm not sure if I should redirect your page to mine or put it up for deletion... - dcljr (talk) 03:13, 10 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, I've redirected Woodward (disambiguation) to Woodward and added Alfre Woodard to the "See also" section. I figured that's probably the one most people will be searching for. I would have linked to Woodard, but it hasn't been created yet. - dcljr (talk) 03:33, 10 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Edit summary

Hello. Please remember to always provide an edit summary. Thanks and happy editing. JoaoRicardo^talk 13:58, 28 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Streetcar Photos

Hey, not sure if you've seen this site http://www.clouse.org/dctrans.html#Dupont%20Circle%20Subway%20Station. but it has some good photos that might be appropriate. I haven't gotten around to figuring out how to upload them yet, so I thought you could have a look and make a call on it. Good work on the Streetcar site.

Help with Comorian franc

Sorry for the late response, as I was quite busy. As for the writing in Arabic on the coins this is simply : The Comarian Bank or in Arabic Bank Al Comore as Arabic is an official language in Comores, hope this helps.--Khalid hassani 14:09, 28 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Washington streetcars

Thanks for the comment on my talk page, re: my georgetown photo. I should be adding more in the next weeks/months. Also, I'm very impressed with the work you've done on the Washington streetcars article, and think it has potential for featured status at some point. --Aude (talk | contribs) 02:37, 7 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

User:SADC

Actually this user was one of a series of accounts that obviously belonged to the same person. Each of them got blocked after one edit, which was vandalism of Curps' talk page by blanking it with the words "SUPER COOL". Some of them happened to resemble the names of other Wikipedians, and were labeled as such. This particular case (SADC resembling SDC) may or may not have been intentional, but I labeled it as such, given the circumstances. This was occurred in Novemember, I wouldn't worry too much about it. — Feb. 24, '06 [06:49] <freakofnur_xture|talk>

Thanks for getting back to me. I had never seen that warning before. Glad to know it's not important. SDC 06:52, 24 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Template:AcademyAwardBestPicture

Just thought you might be interested that [[Template:AcademyAwardBestPicture] is being proposed for deletion. savidan^{(talk) (e@)} 10:22, 4 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Comorian franc

Hello SDC! i've just checked the transcription and found it correct. Good job. -- Szvest 15:22, 12 March 2006 (UTC) ^{Wiki me up}[reply]

Edit summary request

Hello. Please be courteous to other editors and use edit summaries when updating articles. User:Mathbot shows your usage of edit summaries to be very low: 15% for major edits and 6% for minor edits (based on the last 150 major and 150 minor edits). Thanks and happy editing! --Kralizec! (talk) 17:35, 3 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]