User talk:Grahams Child

Welcome

Hello, Grahams Child, and welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you are stuck, and looking for help, please come to the New contributors' help page, where experienced Wikipedians can answer any queries you have! Or, you can just type {{helpme}} on your user page, and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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Grahams Child Links

User talk:Grahams Child/Sandbox1 — Concrete
User talk:Grahams Child/Sandbox2 — I've placed a 'welcome page' for newcomers in this one. Play with it. It's meant to be a HowToDo demonstration + Advise. FrankB
User talk:Grahams Child/Sandbox3 — tbdl02

Helpful users

user talk:fabartus — FrankB

Saw you've been ignored

Your Technical Questions, on Village Pump

Not sure if this is the appropriate place for this posting, if not i'd be obliged if it was moved to a more suitable place by a more experienced user than myself. It has struck me in my limited time as a user of Wikipedia that the "search" engine is a bit of an oxymoron. It appears to be more of a database index. It seems incapable of discerning that two identical searches, one with capitals the other without, are looking for the same article. Is there a possibility that the search engine could be changed/developed to ignore whether capitals so that less redirected articles are required? I am completely unawares as to the technical difficulty of this so you will have to excuse me if I am asking something that is alot more difficult than it appears. Regards. Grahams Child 16 May 06

It got ignored, as the question is one of design, not technical by that page's lights. Still, someone should have answered you. The WikiSearch engine is designed to be case sensative, because an encyclopedia needs case selection, see WP:NC. The Search window itself, is dual purpose with two buttons. Consider the debate at talk:ebook over the name for the article. Names here matter a lot, including capitalization. Consider a book or film title; virtually every major word is capitalized. Other proper names like the magazine: Jim Baen's UNIVERSE, all need proper capitalization.

On redirects, if you can't find the title in another online or paper encyclopedia, I'd suggest waiting until you are more familiar with the system before creating such. In particular, mere capitalization is a fairly poor reason to create an aliased name. Most anyone experienced with encyclopedia's learns to know the pattern of words capitalized in various kinds of titles, it's part of secondary schooling, if not elementary school courses... thus a necessary skill for anyone owning any claim to acedemic prowess. (Still, I know what you mean, I've totally missed things here using the wrong caps. Best advice: When in doubt, search wiki via google.)

OTOH, if you want to do a case insenative search, you can do so using google, especially if you use a google toolbar in your browser. WP:Tools, probably has some hints as well. Mine the links I've got on my user page. There is a lot of goodies. I'm going to take the liberty of creating a 'sandbox' for you and moving your article text inside that. User:Fabartus/Welcome message FrankB 16:34, 25 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding some answers to your questions

I left you an answer Here<g>.
You're email is 'Off', you have to activate it under the preferences TAB when logged in.
As noted, your questions will get faster responses on email. Or at least an estimate and a quick and dirty answer on what seems most important!

Best wishes, FrankB 20:26, 26 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Chiming in 'cos i'm nosy like that ;) You (both) may like these 2 pages. Template:Writing guides, and Wikipedia:Grading scheme. -Quiddity 06:35, 6 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Gee Thanks, Q! (Where's my Aston-Martin!) See you're organizing still! Quiddity's a good egg to know for procedures and guidelines. I think he's got a doctorate in them! FrankB 07:57, 6 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Image Tagging Image:Hyena.PNG

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Just checking in

Hi! Thought I'd see how you're doing. Need any help? // FrankB 16:05, 26 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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GFDL disclaimers

Hi. Please consider removing the GFDL disclaimers from Commons:File:Porters five forces.PNG. Thanks! — $Jeff G. ツ$ 04:37, 27 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Contact re Euler buckling mode model

I am a university student in structural engineering, and one of my professors would like me to build a demonstration model showing the impact of boundary conditions (effective length) on columns. I was hoping you might have more information about the model shown in your image Buckledmodel.JPG. If you could please contact me at mcwqy9@mail.missouri.edu I'd love to pick your brain. Thanks! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.206.18.147 (talk) 18:52, 9 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

File:Lateral torsional buckling in aluminium alloy plate girder.PNG needs authorship information

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