User talk:ArielGold/Archive 22
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NASAJust wanted to thank you for your dedicated updating of the Space Shuttle mission pages. Czolgolz (talk) 17:42, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
Halt! Stop it immediately.Dude, stop deleting my message. The user reverted one of my edits here, and was not realizing it WAS constructive. So this user did something wrong. Toothy the beaver (talk) 04:59, 24 May 2009 (UTC)
STS-125 ground trackingOoooops.... I forgot, so jazzed i found the pics, spaced it out. LanceBarber (talk) 15:41, 24 May 2009 (UTC)
wave vs. waiveI won't quibble with you. My complaint wasn't with the word "waive" but with the phrase "waive off". That is, I think, a misuse of "waive" and that "wave" was better. Your reference, although it allowed the phrase, indicated it was influenced by "wave". If "waive off" is coming into use (I hadn't seen it before), I won't stand in the way of progress. The only injury to my pride was that you indicated that "wave off" was incorrect. It's not. Admittedly, the use of the phrase is more obvious on an aircraft carrier (http://usmilitary.about.com/od/glossarytermsw/g/w6770.htm), but any time an aircraft (or, in this case, a spacecraft) is ordered to "go around again" rather than landing, it has been figuratively, if not literally, waved off. Thanks for the comment, though. Paul D. Anderson (talk) 05:36, 25 May 2009 (UTC) PingIt regards what we discussed a few months ago. :) Enigmamsg 07:01, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
Good chuckleNot a problem. I'm glad a good laugh ended your day. (:--The Legendary Sky Attacker 09:32, 5 June 2009 (UTC) Neapolitan articlesAfter thinking about what you said, I've decided that Wikipedia probably isn't the place for what I was trying to present. It is mostly the issue of references as they just don't really exist... at least not in English. In fact, they don't even exist in Neapolitan. The only Neapolitan grammars I have ever been able to find are written in Italian. What I wrote was based on two works: ’A lengua ’e Pulecenella by Carlo Iandolo (an Italian work despite the Neapolitan title) and Il napoletano parlato e scritto by Nicola De Blasi and Luigi Imperatore, but is much more than just a translation. But now I can't delete some of the articles I wrote, because their urls have been changed to redirect to the Neapolitan language page. I will however delete the article on Neapolitan articles and remove the references I put in Neapolitan language to point to them. I apologize for any trouble I've put you to, and will now retire from Wikipedia. --Casaerwin (talk) 14:08, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
With the redirection of two of my pages to the Neapolitan language page two-thirds of the work I had completed has been lost and I don't know how to recover it. That represented quite a few hours of work for me, and I don't want to have to deal with that sort of thing. I've decided to put my work on my own web site as soon as I can acquire a new domain for it.--Casaerwin (talk) 20:26, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
OK, that wasn't so bad. I have merged all three of those articles into the Neapolitan language article under the heading of Neapolitan Grammar. Now I will begin work on the other sections. Is there a way to save unfinished work without publishing it? I was thinking possibly of making it all a comment, then removing the comment tags after it's finished unless there is a better way. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Casaerwin (talk • contribs) 19:02, 6 June 2009 (UTC)
COI issuesHey, I'd posted a COIN on the now deleted Andrea Rodgers and you went through that after you saw it, so I wanted to enlist your help in looking at something else, if you don't mind. I've come across a rather odd situation during NPP now, but I'm not sure that it's a blatant COI and/or a vio of another sort beyond WP:EL, so before I went ahead and posted a note on the notice board, I wanted a second opinion. This concerns Ken Wahl and Corinne Alphen. User:KenWahlFan has been making some changes based on a lawsuit for which there seems to be no real public references, and he's been linking the law suit file from his google account (which I reverted a couple of times and sent him a message saying it wasn't allowed per WP:EL) and now (s)he's uploaded a pdf file on some hosting space and has linked to it and removed a public domain reference saying something to the contrary. I don't know what to make of it, (s)he has been cooperative with me, but I'm not sure I'm well acquainted with these technicalities to decide what the required action should be. Can you take a look? Thx -SpacemanSpiff (talk) 23:54, 8 June 2009 (UTC)
Ken Wahl PageI was told by Wiki user to upload a pdf of the lawsuit and link to that. I did that. What is the problem? That is the file. It's signed. I can't link straight to lasuperiorcourt.org document because you must pay money to buy the file. How else am I supposed to do this? People need to read that lawsuit. The tabloids did a hack job reporting the situation. Thanks. KenWahlFan (talk) 17:00, 9 June 2009 (UTC)
It may be a puny stub, but you might be pleasantly surprised. Feel free to jump in. :) – B.hotep •talk• 14:30, 12 June 2009 (UTC)
Welcoming Spiral5800Just so's you know, I already welcomed him (with the beautiful {{welcomeg}} using WP:FRIENDLY), but he blanks his talkpage regularly (something I consider extremely bad Wikiquette, but others don't seem to mind) so the message isn't there any more. Remember to check the History! :D —Vanderdecken∴ ∫ξφ 15:08, 14 June 2009 (UTC)
Would appreciate your comments....Just saw Sweethearts (film) on YouTube for the first time, so updated the page here. Would appreciate your 'take'. Thank you, and all the best. Shir-El too 20:13, 14 June 2009 (UTC)
Thank you for that resounding vote of confidence! I appreciate it. BTW how do I tag an article that is poorly researched and biased? I looked up Catherine the Great and it reads like an old Soviet schoolboy's copybook. Do you know how she cut through controversy, superstition and political intrigue to introduced mandatory smallpox vaccination into Russia? She had herself inoculated first! Cheers! Shir-El too 22:55, 21 June 2009 (UTC)
PS: that is a lovely lift-off shot on your page - really spectacular. Shir-El too 20:02, 22 June 2009 (UTC)
Spaceflight crewStarting a discussion about Template:Spaceflight crew regarding its aesthetics and whether it's an improvement on the text listing we had before. Please join in. Rillian (talk) 22:35, 14 June 2009 (UTC) Thanks for the WelcomeThank you very much for the welcome and for the advice, Ariel. And Vanderdecken - I never noticed that you welcomed me, and I didn't blank my talk page on purpose except for the other day to remove all the default "welcome to wikipedia" stuff that appears there initially - it was empty of comments when I did that. But, I also recently have edited my page to add info about myself and I may have inadvertently erased your welcome and never noticed. My sincere apologies - I will be sure to check the history. In the future, I don't have any plans to erase anything anyone takes the time to write on my page - any and all comments are of course welcome. And again, thank you both for your kind welcomes to wikipedia =)
STS-127Ariel I am not trying to sound like a cock here, but bite me! It doesn't look like your an Admin, but I could be wrong. I was watching NASA TV when they announced the scrub, so I added it. What the fuck do you think it is that I speculated? I speculated nothing. On NASA TV they said the launch was scrubbed due to the leak, that is not speculation, that is a fact. As for breaking news edits, you have done twice as many edits as me, in the past hour updating every little thing, so who is being abusive there? Just admit it, if you can't be first to edit articles in your favorite topic your life would have no meaning. I get that, there are a bunch of you wienies here, that is what ruins this site. Again not trying to be a cock, but I take offense when someone accuses me of doing something wrong, when they are the one doing it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Subman758 (talk • contribs) 07:14, 17 June 2009 (UTC)
NASA TV NOT A RELIABLE SOURCE?? I guess NASA.GOV is not reliable either. Just Curious How can a live TV feed from Mission Control, with the Flight Director Miked could not possibly be reliable? Let me use this as an example since I was there. On 9/11 guess we were not Officially attacked until the President said we were Attacked? Maybe I would have been speculating about seeing the plane go into the North Tower, because I would have written about it before the President said that is what happened. YOU MADE SIX EDITS AFTER I DID. SO YOU DID MAKE TWICE AS MANY EDITS WITH IN THE HOUR, WHEN EVERY LITTLE THING WAS UPDATED. Fight your own battles, if you pick a fight, fight it yourself. You accused me of doing exactly what you did, and that is why I reacted the way I did. You don't own the article, and you don't own the website, so stop acting like you do. You have no right to criticize other peoples edits. Especially when those people probably know way more about the subject then you do.--Subman758 (talk) 12:13, 17 June 2009 (UTC) Oh one other thing. You say that Wikipedia is NOT a news site. I believe you are wrong on that that one. What is that template? I think it goes "This article documents a current event, information may change rapidly as more becomes known." Something like that. The two articles that come to mind most recently, David Carridine, and Air France Flight 447.--Subman758 (talk) 12:31, 17 June 2009 (UTC)
New contributing memberHi and thanks for all the work you put in to Wikipedia. I'm wondering if you can help me get starting to be a contributor for Wikipedia. I wan't to helpout with the Human Spaceflight information and obviously your name came up. unfortunately I did see that your'e not accepting adoptes at the moment but maybe you can give me some hint on where to start? Arkaska (talk) 16:51, 17 June 2009 UTC Launch Scrubs, beta cutout, etc.Hey Ariel - thanks again for all your constructive criticism. I just wanted to pop by and say that, despite your being totally right about my source being unverifiable and the "crystal ball" thing, it seems to have turned out that my crystal ball was right - we all get lucky occasionally right? I'm hearing that the next viable launch window will be July 12th? Or was it the 21st? I'm sure you know more accurately than I do - you really keep up on this stuff which I think is awesome.
Really perplexed...Am expanding the article on Hunt Stromberg and doing my darndest to put in-line citations. The first references were more or less OK, but when I put in > [1] < (you'll have to view the programming on the edit page!) to re-use an already listed reference I get a "Cite error" message on the preview. Until it's sorted out I've put text [placeholders] where I want the references to go. What did I do wrong? Thank you, Shir-El too 00:05, 25 June 2009 (UTC)
Not an astronautI am perplexed by the fact you seem to have decreted that Anousheh Ansari is not an astronaut. As far as I understand an astronaut is a person who has flown beyond the conventional limit of space which is 50 miles if you like US units. The following source saysSo do you know better than the USAF ? Anyway, please provide me a verifiable source which explains why Anousheh Ansari is not an astronaut otherwise I will be in the painful situation to revert your edits. Hektor (talk) 20:15, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
Ariel is precisely right about the meaning of astronaut. Space tourists are not astronauts. — Rlevse • Talk • 23:52, 29 June 2009 (UTC) Calling ArielWhy aren't you in your corner? — Rlevse • Talk • 23:36, 29 June 2009 (UTC) CivilityHi, I noticed you have written material on and shown an interest in civility on wikipedia. I have created a poll page to gauge community feelings on how civility is managed in practice currently at Wikipedia:Civility/Poll, so input from as many people as possible is welcomed. Casliber (talk · contribs) 00:06, 30 June 2009 (UTC) Finally finished Hunt Stromberg...and removed the stub tag. Put in a link to his screen logo but it doesn't look right. What do you think? Candidate for anything? Will also fill in his son's page after a break. Good Night, and have a Good Weekend. God Bless, Shir-El too 01:04, 3 July 2009 (UTC) Neil Armstrong needs helpAs we near the 40th anniversary of Apollo 11, the article on Neil Armstrong could use just a little work.
Thanks for your help, JMG (talk) 07:31, 11 July 2009 (UTC) (Pasted from WT:SCOUT). — Rlevse • Talk • 12:22, 11 July 2009 (UTC) Could use your critical eyehey Ariel! I posted a comment on the discussion section of the beta angle page, concerning what seems to me to be a pretty obvious mathematical error in the article. Interestingly, this mathematical error - if it indeed is an error - comes directly from one of the cited sources for the info. in the article. As I say on the discussion page - I'm no astrophysicist, so it's very easily possible i'm overlooking something. Would you mind taking a quick look at my question there and perhaps commenting? Thanks a million, again. Spiral5800 (talk) 12:48, 11 July 2009 (UTC) Mission insigniasI noticed you've been hiding mission names and insignias for in progress missions from the Infobox Astronaut template on articles. On Template:Infobox_Astronaut the defition of the mission field is as follows "Insert the completed or in progress mission(s) that the person has been a part of. Do not enter future missions as crew assignments can change prior to launch." If you'd like to propose that in progress missions should not be included, please raise a discussion on the template talk page. Regards, Rillian (talk) 19:39, 21 July 2009 (UTC) Out of commission for a whileDue to an extended illness, my editing has been curtailed, as I am simply not up to the task while I'm sick. My apologies, and big ~*Ariel Hugs*~ to everyone who has inquired. Thank you all for your well wishes. Ariel♥Gold 13:39, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
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Ask for helpabout translation:I'm trying to translate the Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Booster into Chinese,in the Filament-wound cases paragraph I meet the words "twang" movement,can you explain them in a more understandable way?many thanks.--Woc2006 (talk) 08:00, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
Hello am a new editor with a few postings, which according to a few others are so far so good, was going to ask you to mentor me, but I see you are full and also note you have been less well, and am sorry about that. If you get a chance to look at my edits and changes, appreciated. I know that there may be bits and pieces I have not done as I am not sure how, which i why I hope to find and adopter, eventually, regards David Angliaman (talk) 07:10, 13 September 2009 (UTC) Mission insigniasWelcome back! I noticed you've been hiding mission names and insignias for in progress missions from the Infobox Astronaut template on articles. On Template:Infobox_Astronaut the defition of the mission field is as follows "Insert the completed or in progress mission(s) that the person has been a part of. Do not enter future missions as crew assignments can change prior to launch." If you'd like to propose that in progress missions should not be included, please raise a discussion on the template talk page. Regards, Rillian (talk) 01:10, 4 September 2009 (UTC) I hope you are OKI just saw your post above. My prayers are with you, God bless you. I was browsing around and noticed your userpage had some new good articles - I think you should send them up to FA. I love the one about On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog - what a classic! (Actually, I never told anyone but - I'm really a dog) :P NancyHeise talk 03:39, 5 September 2009 (UTC) Well be thinking of youI'm sorry to hear you have a (or some) medical issues you are having to deal with. Hang in there!!! I've not been on Wikipedia for a while now, but want to get back into the swing of things here. One question (and I hope someone else might respond also), how do I go about creating a new category? I was thinking it would be good to have a category for active astronauts. Then of coarse a "retired" and a "deceased" category would come next. Any help, comments would be helpful. Rocketmaniac RT 03:58, 5 September 2009 (UTC) God bless you ArielI see you have not been back on Wikipedia for over a month and a half now. I am worried about you and I hope you are OK. May God bless you wherever you are and whatever you are doing or going through. NancyHeise talk 04:10, 11 September 2009 (UTC)
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