User talk:Andrew H Mackay

April 2012

Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute to the encyclopedia, but when you add or change content, as you did to the article Wave power, please cite a reliable source for your addition. This helps maintain our policy of verifiability. See Wikipedia:Citing sources for how to cite sources, and the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. E8 (talk) 00:32, 7 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

You ask for 'reliable sources' for my piece on wave power - it is a pity that you are not consistent in this regard for example the following is NOT a reliable source on your wave power page.

^ The energy flux is  with  the group velocity, see Herbich, John B. (2000). Handbook of coastal engineering. McGraw-Hill Professional. p. A.117, Eq. (12). ISBN 978-0-07-134402-9. The group velocity is , see the collapsed table "Properties of gravity waves on the surface of deep water, shallow water and at intermediate depth, according to linear wave theory" in the section "Wave energy and wave energy flux" below.

I attempted to cite myself but could not get it to work

Andrew H Mackay (talk) 15:59, 6 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

You wrote on the talk page of one of your articles: "This is all original work by myself." As people have already told you, Wikipedia is not a place to publish your original work. Please read Wikipedia:No original research, one of the key content policies, which includes:

If no reliable third-party sources can be found on a topic, Wikipedia should not have an article about it. If you discover something new, Wikipedia is not the place to premiere such a discovery.

Do not combine material from multiple sources to reach or imply a conclusion not explicitly stated by any of the sources.

JohnCD (talk) 17:47, 6 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Let's put it this way - you editors clearly do not have a clue about mathematics - you all think that you are smart but you are really pretty dumb. I have told you repeatedly that the wave energy formula is just plain wrong and should at least contain pi in the denominator. I realise that most of these editors were 'educated' in the US where they do not even know what algebra is, but maybe, one of you can explain where the pi went from the denominator.

I am really embarrassed for you but, hey, you never did have the intellect in the first place - tossers! Andrew H Mackay (talk) 22:28, 6 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

How to get your formula on the Wave Energy page

I looked around a bit, and I think that if you get yourself a website, and publish your formula (the page doesn't have to be pretty, it just has to be the formula) onto it. As long as it's public where everyone can see it, I think that it counts as published, and then it can be posted. I don't do that much on Wikipedia, so I don't know for sure, but it makes sense to me. 17:24, 26 November 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.5.166.66 (talk)