User talk:85.114.137.152

November 2010

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to Wikipedia, at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to Byford Dolphin, did not appear to be constructive and has been reverted or removed. Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and read the welcome page to learn more about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. Thank you. emerson7 21:46, 10 November 2010 (UTC)

If this is a shared IP address, and you didn't make the edit, consider creating an account for yourself so you can avoid further irrelevant notices.

Please don't edit-war by re-reverting when your edits have been reverted. Some of your changes were improvements, but you made some mistakes in your edit and the bot properly reverted it. In English, we don't use a colon as list separator, and there is no such word as 'indiscovered'. Piped article titles might as well be capitalised, so there's no point in changing them to lower case. In addition, 'large' is usually preferred to 'big' in the context of this article, and it is inappropriate to change the case of the name of a citation template, so whatever was used should be left alone, although I haven't bothered reverting those parts of your edits. Please feel free to discuss any disputed edits on the article talk page, but further reversions without engaging in discussion is likely to lead to your IP being blocked. --RexxS (talk) 22:51, 10 November 2010 (UTC)

Big is about mass, not size. Do you know anything about Wikipedia?

I'm sorry, but that's nonsense. "Big" and "large" are synonymous in meaning, but "large" is normally preferred in formal use, while "big" tends to be used more colloquially – a distinction that applies in a similar manner to "little" and "small". The article used as a source for the disputed paragraph reads:

Jupiter is the most obvious planet to analyze since its four large Galilean satellites stand apart from Jupiter's other much smaller orbiting bodies. Uranus also has four or possibly five satellites that stand out from its other smaller satellites. However, both Saturn and Neptune each have only one large satellite making it difficult to look for an orbit spacing rule.

and I can see no reason to change the wording used in the source, apart from your own idiosyncratic understanding of the nuances of the English language. The answer to your second question is 'quit trolling'. --RexxS (talk) 00:18, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

Large is the same word for broad, in another dialect. Big is the cognate of mag and mac, and has little to do with size, but with power and craft. If you want to learn English, you should read this list. Little is the mate to mickle, frequentative/diminutive of their roots. 85.114.137.152 (talk) 00:27, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

I don't think I need any lessons in the use of English from somebody who thinks 'indiscovered' is a word. Regardless of the arguable etymology of many words in common use today, their modern meaning and usage are all that concerns us when writing articles for a general audience. Look at the sources and try to figure out why the source refers to the Galilean moons as "large" satellites, not "big" or "mag" or "mac". There's no craft or power associated with those four Jovian satellites, just size. When you've got it clear in your head that "large" is the appropriate word to use, just go back to the article and fix your mistakes. --RexxS (talk) 02:53, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

I've just reverted your last edit to Byford Dolphin for similar reasons. Please discuss on Talk:Byford Dolphin if you feel any of the changes you made had merit. --RexxS (talk) 22:56, 10 November 2010 (UTC)

I see you removed a warning from this talk page. The convention on Wikipedia is that registered users are free to remove warnings from talk pages as an acknowledgement that it was read, but IP users generally are not free to do so, because a dynamic IP (such as yours) may be used by many different IP editors and there is no way of knowing that the message was acknowledged. I'd recommend registering a username if you want to treat your userpage as your own. --RexxS (talk) 00:18, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

Where does it say about IP warnings?

I'm sorry if I wasn't clear enough. Look at it this way then. This is a wiki and you're free to edit and remove what you like. Nobody is going to bother to put stuff back that you take off here. All I'm trying to explain to you is that the next time you log on, you may have a different IP and somebody else may be using this one. That's in the nature of dynamic IPs. Nobody knows whether you removed a warning for yourself or for somebody else, so what's the point? If you registered, you'll always have the same talk page and keeping it tidy would make sense. --RexxS (talk) 02:53, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

Replacing largest with greatest and fast with swift?

Dear IP, I have noticed that in Makemake you replaced the word largest with the word greatest? Why? In 2002 TC302 you also replaced large with great. Somewhat strange.

In precovery you changed fast computers to swift computers. Why?

Largest means broadest. Satellites are 3D, not 1D. The newer computers had nothing to do with fastness; they were all on the board the same strength. See Talk:Byford Dolphin#RexxS.2C what is wrong with you.3F. 24.118.14.160 (talk) 17:25, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

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