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Speedy deletion nomination of Discrete exponential function

Hello Garfield Garfield,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged Discrete exponential function for deletion, because it doesn't appear to contain any encyclopedic content. Take a look at our suggestions for essential content in short articles to learn what should be included.

If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to work on it, you can contest this deletion, but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.

You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. Karlhard (talk) 19:00, 30 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to Wikipedia. You've been working a lot on the Discrete exponential function article. How do you feel about merging its content into the related article Modular exponentiation? See also Exponentiation by squaring, which covers much of the same material too. Ideally we would end up with one article per topic, rather than several articles on a single topic. Mgnbar (talk) 13:42, 2 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Foot locker protocol

This is very interesting, but it's not an encyclopedia article, because it involves original research, and is not tertiary. Do you have access to ArXiv? That might be a better place to post your new ideas. Bearian (talk) 15:46, 2 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Anecdotes on Mathematicians

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Nomination of Anecdotes on Mathematicians for deletion

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Speedy deletion nomination of NSA's Hard Drive Hacking

Hello Garfield Garfield,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged NSA's Hard Drive Hacking for deletion, because it appears to duplicate an existing Wikipedia article, [[{{{article}}}]]. PLEASE: WHAT'S THE NAME OF THE ARTICLE?

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You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. ubiquity (talk) 22:04, 17 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

There is a substantial article on the National Security Agency, including a section on their hacking operations. If you have sourced information that is not already in that article, that is where it belongs. I'm sorry it took me so long to respond, but I didn't see your request. In the future, please put comments on User Talk pages, not User pages, and please sign your comments using four tildes (~~~~). This will facilitate communications. Thanks. ubiquity (talk) 18:50, 12 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Accelerating universe

Hi,

A pair of IP editors are adding massive amounts of bad material and this is being discussed at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Physics#Accelerating universe. When I reverted the IP stuff, some of your changes went with it, I am afraid. I have requested page semi-protection. so it might be better to wait for that to be decided before attempting further corrections. — Cheers, Steelpillow (Talk) 19:03, 24 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

March 2015

Hello, I'm SummerPhD. Wikipedia is written by people who have a wide diversity of opinions, but we try hard to make sure articles have a neutral point of view. Your recent edit to Zulu (1964 film) seemed less than neutral to me, so I removed it for now. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. SummerPhD (talk) 00:47, 9 March 2015 (UTC) I replaced it with a neutral article.[reply]

Please do not add promotional material to Wikipedia, as you did to Zulu (1964 film). While objective prose about beliefs, products or services is acceptable, Wikipedia is not intended to be a vehicle for soapboxing, advertising or promotion. Thank you. Thelimiter (talk) 14:57, 9 March 2015 (UTC) I'm sorry. I will stop doing this. (I am not being paid, honest.)[reply]

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to add soapboxing, promotional or advertising material to Wikipedia, as you did at Born Free, you may be blocked from editing. Also, King Kong (1976 film). TJRC (talk) 18:34, 9 March 2015 (UTC) But I did stop. Those were old edits. I made them before I received your complaint. I was going to try and track them down and remove them. You beat me to it. I will confine my unpaid salesmanship to amazon.com from now on. Garfield Garfield.[reply]

Please do not add or change content, as you did to Lawrence of Arabia (film), without citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Wikipedia:Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you. DonIago (talk) 23:22, 19 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

re gold

Yes, your explanation explains why the elements in that row are so dense. But it doesn't fully explain the Au–Pb density difference, as the contraction of the inner electron orbitals (especially 1s) is about the same for both (as they're not far apart in atomic number, relativistic effects should be pretty similar in magnitude – the relativistic mass of the electron in Pb⁸¹⁺ is only 2.46% more than that of the electron in Au⁷⁸⁺, for example). If I had to guess, I think one reason is because Pb has 6p electrons and Au doesn't, and due to the inert pair effect the 6s–6p difference is high enough to cause this sort of effect. That's not even the full story, probably: Au and Pb both have a cubic closed-packed crystal structure, but the unit cell is smaller for Au (407.82 pm) than for Pb (495.08 pm), so Au is packed more densely. I don't think that's all the reasons yet: I'd expect it to be complicated still. This illustrates why we need a citation to a reliable source for any explanation posted. Double sharp (talk) 17:09, 20 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Erdos most visited places

It sis not completely clear to me what the significance of this list is, but more importantly: can any of it be sourced to anything? (The fact that he spent time at Memphis, sure; but the fact that it is a place he visited unusually frequently?) --JBL (talk) 14:01, 28 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

May 2015

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June 2015

Hello, I'm Fazbear7891. I wanted to let you know that I reverted one of your recent contributions —the one you made with this edit to Robot Hall of Fame— because it didn’t appear constructive to me. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. Fazbear7891 (talk) 23:13, 26 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

September 2015

Hello, I'm ScrapIronIV. I noticed that you made a change to an article, Rare-earth magnet, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so! If you need guidance on referencing, please see the referencing for beginners tutorial, or if you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Scr★pIron^IV 18:46, 24 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

November 2015

Hello, I'm Ï¿½. Your recent edit to the page Inline function appears to have added incorrect information, so I have removed it for now. If you believe the information was correct, please cite a reliable source or discuss your change on the article's talk page. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. According to http://stackoverflow.com/a/26978837 , “'inline' doesn't replace the text with the function body the way a macro does. It replaces the function call with the EQUIVALENT generated code, so that functionaly it's no different than if it weren't inline.” ï¿½ (talk) 15:18, 6 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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August 2016

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THIS IS RIDICULOUS. I LINKED THE BEATLES ARTICLE TO THREE OTHER WIKIPEDIA ARTICLES. IF ANY OF THOSE ARTICLES ARE VIOLATING COPYRIGHTS THEN THEY ARE THE PROBLEM, NOT MY EDITS.

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Thank you. I fixed them all. Garfield Garfield.

October 2016

Hello, I'm BilCat. I noticed that you made a change to an article, Airbus A380, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so! If you need guidance on referencing, please see the referencing for beginners tutorial, or if you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. BilCat (talk) 17:03, 27 October 2016 (UTC) I fixed it by adding a reference to the documentary "A380 SuperJumbo" aired on the Smithsonian channel. Garfield Garield.[reply]

Hello, I'm Julietdeltalima. Your recent edit to the page Associative property appears to have added incorrect information, so I have removed it for now. If you believe the information was correct, please cite a reliable source or discuss your change on the article's talk page. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Julietdeltalima (talk) 17:41, 27 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of Steve inwood

The article Steve inwood has been proposed for deletion because it appears to have no reliable references. Under Wikipedia policy, this biography of a living person will be deleted after seven days unless it has at least one reference to a reliable source that directly supports material in the article.

If you created the article, please don't be offended. Instead, consider improving the article. For help on inserting references, see Referencing for beginners, or ask at the help desk. Once you have provided at least one reliable source, you may remove the {{prod blp/dated}} tag. Please do not remove the tag unless the article is sourced. If you cannot provide such a source within seven days, the article may be deleted, but you can request that it be undeleted when you are ready to add one. —MRD2014 (talk • contribs) 02:46, 11 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah. Go ahead. This actor has so completely disappeared that it's hopeless. There is a German Wikipedia article on him and an Italian one, but they were written, I suspect, only because IMBD exists only in English, and they mostly just list his screen appearances. They ought to talk to IMBD about mirror sites. (Does Google translate work for them?) Garfield Garfield.

Hello, I'm DVdm. I noticed that in this edit to Richard Feynman, you removed content without adequately explaining why. In the future, it would be helpful to others if you described your changes to Wikipedia with an edit summary. If this was a mistake, don't worry, the removed content has been restored. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. DVdm (talk) 16:25, 11 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Edit summaries, multiple consecutive edits

Seconding the above requests regarding edit summaries:

Please make a habit of providing an edit summary when you make a change to an article. Doing so makes it easier for your colleagues here to understand the intention of your edit.
Plus, it will be easier for you and your co-editors to collaborate on articles if, instead of making multiple consecutive edits in rapid succession on an article, you use the "Show preview" button to view your changes incrementally before finally saving the page once you're satisfied with your edits. This keeps the page history of the article less cluttered.

Thanks in advance for considering these suggestions. Eric ^talk 12:06, 16 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

OK. I will do that. I just discovered the edit summary two days ago. It's a good idea--and it's new, isn't it? Garfield Garfield

No, edit summaries go back to the beginning of Wikipedia, I believe. And the standard way to reply on a talkpage is to go to the next line and indent it one notch with one more leading colon than the above post (and not bold the text). I have done that with my post and yours here; you can look at the code to see how it works. Also, the way to sign a post is with four tildes (~~~~). See guidance here: Wikipedia:Signatures#How_to_sign_your_posts. Eric ^talk 23:18, 20 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

OK. But I don't understand what you said about four tildes, and you didn't use them yourself.

Garfield Garfield (talk) 15:07, 22 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hi- Yes, I did use the four tildes, but the wiki software converts them into the code for your signature, so that's what you'll see when look the code in the next edit session. It looks like you figured that out, though, because your post has your signature. Did you take a look at the guidance I linked above? That should explain everything, though our help pages are sometimes chaotic... Eric ^talk 19:49, 22 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Magnetic compasses on submarines

Good day. I see that you are doing great work on Gyroscope. However, I am doubtful that a magnetic compass doesn't work in a submerged submarine. My source is a former submarine helmsman who reports that the magnetic compass works fine underwater. He reports that the compass is fixed with two large iron balls on the sides to compensate for the ship's field, same as a surface ship. He indicated the preferred method of realigning the gyro compass, if necessary, was Loran C or celestial fix. They would probably use GPS now. Still, if your reference explicitly says that a mag compass won't work in a submerged submarine, I'll take your word for it.Constant314 (talk) 03:44, 18 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

This is fascinating! My source was equivocal, so I removed the item! Garfield Garfield (talk)

Reference errors on 20 December

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Yes, I have been working on it. It should be fixed soon. Garfield Garfield (talk)

It is fixed now, isn't it? Garfield Garfield (talk)

Merry, merry!

From the icy Canajian north; to you and yours! FWiW Bzuk (talk) 23:10, 26 December 2016 (UTC) [reply]

Edit warring with unsourced content

You really should know better. You were invited twice to discuss on the article talk page. Please join it. See wp:BRD

I did participate in the discussion. Someone else moved my disputed item to a different location, where it fit better. Remember, a discussion can have more than two persons in it. Garfield Garfield (talk)

Your recent editing history at Richard Feynman shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war. To resolve the content dispute, please do not revert or change the edits of others when you are reverted. Instead of reverting, please use the talk page to work toward making a version that represents consensus among editors. The best practice at this stage is to discuss, not edit-war. See BRD for how this is done. If discussions reach an impasse, you can then post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, you may wish to request temporary page protection.

Being involved in an edit war can result in your being blocked from editing—especially if you violate the three-revert rule, which states that an editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. Undoing another editor's work—whether in whole or in part, whether involving the same or different material each time—counts as a revert. Also keep in mind that while violating the three-revert rule often leads to a block, you can still be blocked for edit warring—even if you don't violate the three-revert rule—should your behavior indicate that you intend to continue reverting repeatedly. - DVdm (talk) 16:05, 27 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Please stop adding unsourced content, as you did to Richard Feynman. This contravenes Wikipedia's policy on verifiability. If you continue to do so, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia. - DVdm (talk) 16:05, 27 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Before you threaten me, do me the courtesy of telling me what my unsourced content was. I might have a source available. Garfield Garfield (talk)

Edit summaries

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OK. Garfield Garfield (talk)

March 2017

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Nomination of Joyce Burditt for deletion

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