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Don't want to embarrass you but this "World Chess Federation" (WCF) is an absolute joke. I'd never even heard of them before today, nor have I heard of their "world champion" Stan Vaughan. The world chess governing body is called FIDE. MaxBrowne (talk) 13:06, 27 October 2013 (UTC) Chess players never talk about the "WCF". The guy's a total kook. http://www.chessbase.com/Home/TabId/211/PostId/4009383/the-april-fools-prank-that-was-and-wasnt-040413.aspx MaxBrowne (talk) 13:55, 27 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Interesting. I knew it was the FIDE so I wondered about the Wikipedia World Chess Federation link page. Amazing that the guy really weights the money put at stakes. --Askedonty (talk) 14:07, 27 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Your measurement conversion question

Hi,

The change I made was because 14,000 sq yd is not an exact measure, so to convert it to 11,706 (if I recall correctly) sq m was overprecise, hence I knocked down the precision in the {{convert}} template.

I'm a long-time WP editor (User:SimonTrew) but have lately been editing under IP as I am using a shared computer. Best wishes 82.22.227.170 (talk) 21:22, 22 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

UPS Hartford hub

Did you not see this????? http://www.pressroom.ups.com/Fact+Sheets/UPS+Air+Operations+Facts (HARTFORD IS NOT LISTED AS A HUB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) The source you provded only listed the airports that UPS serves, the source I provided lists the hubs the airline has, and Hartford is not listed as a hub (the airline still serves Hartford but it isn't a cargo hub). 68.119.73.36 (talk) 02:47, 23 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Fault Current Limiters

Hello and Good Morning! I took your good advice and referred the article on fault Current Limiters https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Fault_current_limiter to WikiProject Physics for advice on whether there should be a new article FCL, which reference both this article, which should be re-titled Superconducting FCL, and a new article on the mainstream technology (rectifier or solid state FCLs);

or

can I suggest recommend and begin a re-write of the current article in a more balance manner. I am happy with whatever advice WikiProject Physics gives. Thanks for your help! 1capybara (talk) 09:30, 7 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much, and, you're welcome! I do not think that I can be considered as a senior editor - my editcount! - but I took some pleasure and interest in reviewing that subject. I am not at all a specialist on the subject, I only collected what documents are available without searching in depth, e.g. I did not enquire about the companies. I expect that the article will go the way of a rewriting the way you are suggesting it. --Askedonty (talk) 16:43, 11 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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two questions please :)

1. my AFC [[1]] (on my talk page, article for creation on "Critical Power") was rejected for reasons I disagree with, that it "reads like an advertisement" even though it mentions 5-10 different providers of this product including the free, open-source Linux product. How can this read like an advertisement? Who do I appeal this to, and is this worth appealing, or am I thinking wrong?

2. how do I edit the article on [[2]] "Fault Current Limiter" offline, a little each day, and saving it as I go, without publishing it until it is ready and "finished." I'm thinking the only way is to copy the current page in Word, edit and save it there, then paste it into the published article when its "finished." Is that the best way to do it a little each day?

3. Thanks for your advice :) 1capybara (talk) 11:21, 20 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Emirates Flight 521

I want to thank you for your edit [3] on Emirates Flight 521. I noticed that your edit summery seemed a bit harsh, so I would like to gently remind you; Please don't bite the newcomers. Sario528 (talk) 16:22, 10 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for taking care. I do not think you're being wrong. I'll be reviewing AGF. --Askedonty (talk) 20:05, 10 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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got yr email but

After the initial "I think he meant" the rest was a hash of code, like an old-style gif coming across as characters. μηδείς (talk) 21:28, 26 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I'm sorry μηδείς, I should of course have given you the hint. It's the copy-paste of an html page ( an archived google search about hapax apophthegm, subject which was puzzling for me and remains so). You could paste it into a text file which you give a .html extension and open the file into a web browser using the File->Open menu. You may prefer not to as too much gibberish for you. As the send mail page is not tailored for including attachments I could not send a screenshot instead, or it would have been that old-style gif, with the same copy-paste save-file open-browser constraints anyway. --Askedonty (talk) 11:20, 27 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

This is all my fault. a hapax legomenonis a word that is only attested once. I was joking that the cucumbers of peace was a saying that was only attested once. μηδείς (talk) 17:43, 28 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

(edited) ~~This is highly interesting. Have you meanwhile~~ Oh I understand that I got you wrong. You mean Google was advertizing à côté the subject because the query looked to him like so. Sigh profoundly. --Askedonty (talk) 17:36, 29 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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