User talk:JohnsonL623

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A brownie for you!

For your small but great addition of a link to Enthusiast in the Geek article, Steven Walling has given you a brownie! Brownies promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by giving someone else a brownie, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Enjoy!^†

Merge discussion for Ipse dixit

An article that you have been involved in editing, Ipse dixit , has been proposed for a merge with another article. If you are interested in the merge discussion, please participate by going here, and adding your comments on the discussion page. Thank you. SteveBaker (talk) 16:05, 19 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Glebe Island Bridge

Hi there, I've just gone through and removed the links you made from within the text on a couple of pages to images on Commons (specifically, of the old Glebe Island Bridge). No hard feelings, it's just not considered best practices to hide a link to another website (even if it is our own website!) within a text-link. Links to other places should be clearly indicated as such e.g. through footnotes. Much better would be to either embed the image or to create a prose description of what you are trying to illustrate.

On another note, I think you've got the same frustration that I do with regards to the three things that have been known as the "Glebe Island Bridge" - the initial causeway, the swing bridge, and the ANZAC bridge. Currently the article "Glebe Island Bridge" redirects people to the "ANZAC bridge" article, which includes a "history" section. If you'd be willing to differentiate out these three things - probably by creating a standalone article for the older two bridges - that would be great! Sincerely, Witty lama 06:05, 15 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Knot for evaluation, 'Kay88' or other.

Hello JohnsonL623, I am replying here to your query on the reef knot talk page since it is not directly related to that knot... For reference, I have included the knot diagram you uploaded yesterday below.

First I should mention that there is actually an Internet forum dedicated to discussions such as the one you are interested in. While it is run by the International Guild of Knot Tyers, Guild membership is not required for participation on the forum. There are sub-forums dedicated to so-called "new knot" investigations, the behavior of knots, practical and decorative knotting, etc. That would probably be a better place to post future queries about things like this. It can be found at the following URL:

http://igkt.net/sm/

But in answer to your query, the illustrated knot is shown in The Ashley Book of Knots as entry #805 (p. 146) and called a "Flat Lozenge-Shaped Knot". It appears in a chapter dedicated to two-strand lanyard knots, which are generally intended as decorative. (Though they might fulfill some structural purpose in an actual lanyard.) The knot in question does seem to behave as a reasonable bend if the lower left and upper right strands are loaded. While it is a bit on the bulky side, it might be said to be a figure-eight variation of the Zeppelin bend. As an aside, it is a common convention in diagrams of bend knots to have the standing parts exit the frame -- or otherwise make clear which are to be loaded.

I appreciate your enthusiasm and encourage you to continue your knotting activities. Please feel free to let me know if you have any questions regarding how you might help contribute to WP articles on more well-known knots. Have a good new year! --Dfred (talk) 17:20, 29 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

To extend my previous comments... I just wanted to add that the bend you illustrated it does not appear to be entirely stable and can collapse into different configurations. My comparison of the knot to the Zeppelin bend has more to do with its general structure than its behavior... --Dfred (talk) 18:50, 29 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Additions to self-reference

You added Metatron's cube and Post hoc ergo propter hoc to self-reference#See also. I don't see the connection, could you explain it? Paradoctor (talk) 05:03, 10 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Likewise I can't see what the real McCoy has to do with MacGuffin. WP:SEEALSO suggests that you "should provide a brief annotation when a link's relevance is not immediately apparent". --McGeddon (talk) 11:20, 12 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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