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Article Feedback Tool update

Hey N2e. I'm contacting you because you're involved in the Article Feedback Tool in some way, either as a previous newsletter recipient or as an active user of the system. As you might have heard, a user recently anonymously disabled the feedback tool on 2,000 pages. We were unable to track or prevent this due to the lack of logging feature in AFT5. We're deeply sorry for this, as we know that quite a few users found the software very useful, and were using it on their articles.

We've now re-released the software, with the addition of a logging feature and restrictions on the ability to disable. Obviously, we're not going to automatically re-enable it on each article—we don't want to create a situation where it was enabled by users who have now moved on, and feedback would sit there unattended—but if you're interested in enabling it for your articles, it's pretty simple to do. Just go to the article you want to enable it on, click the "request feedback" link in the toolbox in the sidebar, and AFT5 will be enabled for that article.

Again, we're very sorry about this issue; hopefully it'll be smooth sailing after this :). If you have any questions, just drop them at the talkpage. Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) 21:48, 1 September 2013 (UTC)

Conflict of Interest & Disruptive Editing by Spammer

Hello N2e: I found you on Among Men's page. We have been working on the Article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warm_Mouse

Thank you for offering your help because Help is needed.

In reference to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warm_Mouse

IP address 99.151.22.177 is the owner of the changes made and has a clear conflict of interest: 1. added their product's name 2. removed images uploaded to Commons

http://myip.ms/view/ip_addresses/1670845952/99.151.22.0_99.151.22.255

The owner of WarmMe Warm Mouse is trying to SPAM this article for self serving purposes. The owner resides in Ventura California. New user making two changes only to that page to include the name of the product they sell online and it is not mentioned at all in any of the references listed on the page.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/99.151.22.177 Can we monitor this page a little more closely so it does not turn into a disruptive situation? I also added this to the article's Talk page.

I am fairly new here -- editing for a few months. Been gone due to business & medical. Was notified of this spam.

Thank you for your guidance and support. 301man (talk) 09:27, 4 September 2013 (UTC)

Thanks. I'll look into it. Policy is pretty clear on that sort of thing. N2e (talk) 12:48, 4 September 2013 (UTC)

Thank you for the welcome and support! 301man (talk) 18:55, 4 September 2013 (UTC)

Thank You

Seeing as you are always giving out cookies, I wanted to say, "Thank you" for the help you've given me to learn a few new editorial tricks today. It was a trying experience to figure out how to use the same cite more than once, and I did it. Thanks for you help. And, here's a snack for you in return. I enjoyed my cookies, too!

301man (talk) 01:44, 10 September 2013 (UTC)

Well, thanks. And you're welcome. Always happy to help a new editor get a little air under their wings. N2e (talk) 04:41, 10 September 2013 (UTC)

Thanks, and you should pride yourself for doing that.... because when I first started I was initiated by a few heavy hammers! It scared the living daylights out of me, and I thought I had made the wrong decision to enter the Wikipedia arena! :-) You are making a difference here, and it's a good one for sure! There's tons to learn, and my free time seems to be getting swallowed up by many projects! Thanks again for your help and guidance because now I have a good project to use as an example going forward. I Respect YOU! 301man (talk) 16:16, 10 September 2013 (UTC)

September 2013

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Fixed Thanks. I fixed it. N2e (talk) 03:45, 7 September 2013 (UTC)

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Fixed N2e (talk) 20:03, 20 September 2013 (UTC)

Some bubble tea for you!

Look....a Butterfly Lukscheese (talk) 20:58, 27 September 2013 (UTC)

Thanks. N2e (talk) 03:38, 28 September 2013 (UTC)

Mars 2

Hello. Back in April you added the "Derelict satellites orbiting Mars" category to the article Mars 2. I was wondering if you had a source that states that the satellite is definitely still in orbit, because I've been asked about it on my talkpage. Cheers, Reyk _YO! 21:17, 8 October 2013 (UTC)

Good question. For the Martian planetary orbit insertions into Areocentric orbit, at orbital altitudes well outside the 100-year altitude for an Earth orbit (where Earth has a much thicker atmosphere), the usual view of NASA and Roscosmos is that these will remain in Martian orbit for many centuries. Mars 2 was in an orbit of 1380 x 24,940 km when it ceased operation, an orbit that would not reenter Earth's thicker atmosphere for over 100 years.

That said, it is doubtful that either NASA or Roscosmos has Earth-based sensors capable of detecting such a dead satellite on an ongoing basis, and I'm certain it would not be cost-effective to mount future science missions to scan Martian near-space to look for it. So I would be rather doubtful that anyone has really "known" precisely where it is since the time the satellite ceased operation. It's somewhat analogous to electron probability space around protons; we know they are there, but not precisely where. Feel free to ask over at Wikipedia:WikiProject Spaceflight, where a fair number of spaceflight-knowledgeable folks hang out. They might be able to provide some better info. N2e (talk) 03:07, 9 October 2013 (UTC)

BACKLOG OF THE WEEK Category:Pages with broken reference names

Hello - some editors fight off the vandal hordes, as I do repairing pages with citation errors. If I didn't - there would be a large backlog in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting and in Category:Pages with missing references list as in Category:Pages with broken reference names (more than 1500 yesterday). But it is impossible to work it alone. Do you know how to do a "Blitz" (excuse the comparision) to find willing editors to work on it. It is much more easier to repair references if you do it one hour, one day or one week ago after the errors were made instead of months and years after the error was done. Very, very difficult to find these errors.

Only with WikiBlame Search it is possible to find and repair such errors.

Best wishes & thanks --Frze ^{> talk} 09:01, 10 October 2013 (UTC)

Salopian James

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Launch articles

I've drawn up a couple of prototype launch articles to see if they are feasible. They're not finished yet, but could you possibly have a quick look at User:WDGraham/LA and User:WDGraham/LA2 and let me know what you think. --W. D. Graham 21:03, 14 October 2013 (UTC)

I like what you've done there. Good to see the progress on the basic infrastructure that will help facilitate any launch articles that get started following changes to WP:LAUNCHES have some degree of standardization.

Here are some general comments:

is there a limit in the templates for no. of stages? or can you just keep using "| stage_n = ..."?
I'm not clear on how "Target orbit" would work in the templates for a wide variety of launches. I can see a singular "orbit" working when all (or the only) sats go to the same orbital regime, but it seems quite probably we'll be experiencing LEO dropoffs where the upper stage kicks to MEO or HEO or GTO.
I very much like how you are thinking about derelicts and debris from the get go. In general, I definitely think we ought to consider in advance how derelict upper stages that remain in orbit for more than a few days ought to be handled in these articles. Perhaps, these launch articles could be the place in WP article space where derelict stages are explicitly to be handled; perhaps not, in which case long-term derelicts would probably warrant a small satellite article of their own. From your LA draft, I'm thinking your are thinking the former; is that correct?
The LA approach for showing multiple "artificial satellites" per launch, including derelicts and debris, in a table rather than in an infobox template, seems to me to be the most flexible approach. Moreover, the LA approach seems best able to handle multiple orbital derelicts like the LADEE mission, which left both the 4th and 5th stages in long-term orbits, I believe.
If we do handle derelict upper stages and orbital debris in these articles, are you thinking that AstRoBOt could be modified to handle the orbital element updates?
In the LA "Payloads" table, I think it was a real good idea for you to add the satellite bus column!
If satellite orbital lifetimes are typically published as part of launch documentation (I imagine they are required for launches licensed from the US, maybe ESA; not sure about Russia), and can be publically obtained, then maybe a column for planned sat orbital lifetime might be useful.
In the LA "Objects catalogued" table, I'm curious as to how much of such data might be able to be filled in by a bot? For example, I like the colored background scheme for presentation to the reader, but am wondering how easy it will be for articles to not get outdated if only manual updates are used to set/tweak the background colors, etc. Are the orbital object databases good enough/consistent enough that we might be able to pick up "type" from the database, along with "name" and the orb elements given either SATCAT or COSPAR ID?
I'm not very familiar with the WP articles that track all launches, but I know you and a few other editors do a great job in keeping them up. How much of this sort of summary of each launch might be able to be coordinated with, or bot fed from, the work that already goes into populating those summary articles with proper data?
It seems that the "Target orbit" info in the infobox of LA2, or at least the full six-element detail of it, will inevitably get confused with the info in the "Objects cataloged" table. In cases where they overlap, the data will likely be unevenly kept current, and therefore, would be better not to have two locations in the article for such data. So maybe lose the target orbit from the infobox?

Those are some initial thoughts. Let me know if you were looking for something else, or of course, if you want me to look more closely at some other areas, or other questions you have.

BTW, if you would rather have this dialogue somewhere other than my Talk page, feel free to move the entire discussion elsewhere and give me a pointer. N2e (talk) 03:50, 15 October 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for the feedback. I'll try to respond to all of your questions:

Stage lists: I've put six stage fields in for now, which covers every rocket I can think of, however it can be increased indefinitely should it become necessary to have more. In addition to these six fields, there is a separate "upper stage" field to handle launches were the upper stage is a distinct unit but still considered part of the rocket (e.g. Proton-M/Briz-M, Titan/IUS, etc) and "additional stages" to cover stages that are considered part of the payload.
Target Orbits: It wasn't needed in either of the examples, but the last field in the target orbit section is called "For". In cases where the rocket deployed satellites into different orbits, this can be used to denote which payload the data applies to - my recommendation is that it should be the last primary payload. In more complex cases, the section can be omitted entirely and mentioned in the body of the article instead. Although the section can display many different parameters, it is unlikely that they would all be present at once - different companies present their target orbits in different ways so I put in enough fields to handle all the regular combinations, but it is rare, for example to see SMA/eccentricity and apses in the same press kit - while it is easy to convert between the two, the idea I had with that section is that it would only show the data that was announced before launch.
Upper stages: I think it would be difficult to assert notability for articles about individual upper stages, and short of including a large amount of launch information or a long table of orbit data over time, it would be hard for these to ever get beyond very short stubs. Particularly interesting cases might warrant a paragraph in the launch article, and there's plenty of space to accommodate this. Otherwise the table gives coverage.
Automation: I'm looking into how AstRoBot would best be modified to accommodate updating the orbital elements in the table, but I fully intend to provide this functionality in an on-demand manner similar to how the bot currently updates infoboxes. There will be a global opt in for the whole table, with individual opt-in/out fields in the rows (e.g. a launch which placed one object beyond Earth orbit could be fully-opt-in with that one object opt-out, while a launch which dropped one satellite off in LEO en route to escape could just have that payload opt in. With regards other data besides the orbits, the colours shouldn't need to be changed too much - I wasn't planning to recolour payloads as debris once they become inactive. It might be useful to have a bot add new debris when it is discovered, however there is no way to query the HA and N2YO databases directly so short of trawling the entire sites page-by-page at the start of a run, I can't think of a way to find new data, and I can't really support over 75,000 pagegrabs before every run.
Orbital lifetime: I'm not sure where this information would be available - and for many satellites the value is more or less infinite - once satellites are high enough drag is so low that they will more or less never decay. To avoid a lot of empty cells it might be better to mention this in remarks rather than as a separate field.
List coordination: I think having some coordination between updating a) list, b) launch and c) payload articles would be useful - the problem with a bot is that there is no way for it to know which version is correct. There are plenty of sourcing problems on the timeline of spaceflight articles as well, which shouldn't really be allowed to propagate to the launch ones.

There are still a few things that need to be ironed out, including:

naming the articles
what level of detail is required
how much of this is applicable to Space Shuttle articles
handling launches with thousands of debris objects (e.g. CZ-4B Y2, Kosmos-3M 47135-601, Pegasus F5, etc)
the best way to provide links to launch articles in payload articles, launch lists for that type of rocket and the timeline of spaceflight

--W. D. Graham 11:11, 15 October 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for the substantive response. I appreciate it. Looks to me like you are really pretty comprehensively thinking about this proposed change, and doing great groundwork leading up to it. I have just two more comments.

On Upper Stages, I agree with you. If a new WP:LAUNCHES that supports having launch articles under some circumstances, I believe the best place for the derelicts to be recorded on the English Wikipedia is in the objects table you have proposed for these launch articles. Having said that, I do believe that a long-lived derelict rocket body, orbiting in the near-Earth orbital area for years/decades/centuries is likely sufficiently notable not for a separate article but for making the launch article notable that would, ostensibly, include the derelict orbital elements, if they are known and can be cited.

On Target Orbits in the infobox. I'm ambivalent. Given the complexity of the various missions with diverse multi-satellite (primary and secondary) payloads, I'm thinking we may just be making a future cleanup mess by attempting to include the "target" orbits in the infobox. If I'm right, then would be better to allow the target orbit(s) to be discussed in article prose, and keep the launch infobox cleaner.

Cheers. N2e (talk) 12:37, 16 October 2013 (UTC)

I would consider long-lived upper stages notable, but I think it would be difficult to convince the rest of the editor community of this, particularly those not involved in the field of spaceflight. I can see your point on target orbits, I'm not sure what the best course of action would be - when we open a wider discussion on launch articles, this is probably something which should be addressed. --W. D. Graham 16:20, 16 October 2013 (UTC)

Agreed, a worthy topic of further discussion. And at some point, there will be additional support for such things simply because Earthbound environmentally-aware folks will add their voices to the idea that these "costs" on the broader community from space junk should be both public and more easily transparent. Negative externalities only go unnoticed in the early decades of any large scale pollution. They will not stay "under the radar" forever. In the meantime, I'm quite happy to grow Wikipedia organically; some notable rocket bodies with sources etc. will be annotated in the growing/evolving Wikipedia, while others won't. Eventually, more will be. Cheers. N2e (talk) 18:59, 16 October 2013 (UTC)

Floating wind turbine

Hi N2e, please take over from me on the floating turbines. I just added the big Bossler report. The Maine Hywind text should probably be moved to Proposals. Those two projects are too much for me now; I invite you and others to go ahead. TGCP (talk) 12:59, 17 October 2013 (UTC)

AGF

You claim that I am not assuming WP:AGF. I am saying that the original editor who demonstrated his promotional behavior to advance his commercial interest rather than accurately conveying information in objective manner is not acting in good faith, because he's demonstrated so. I'm objecting the reinsertion of his biased sales speak, not that you're doing so in bad faith. Cantaloupe2 (talk) 01:22, 20 August 2013 (UTC)

You failed to follow WP:BRD with respect to an editing dispute. The matter in question did not concern the "original editor", as it happened after the matter with that editor was over. N2e (talk) 16:13, 20 August 2013 (UTC)

This user (Canteloupe2) was ultimately indefinitely blocked for disruptive editing in Sep 2013, in a process where a large number of editors weighed in on the disruptions caused by C2. N2e (talk) 13:13, 17 October 2013 (UTC)

Need your assistance

i noticed there are two articles about the exact same thing. both have been heavily edited. List_of_production_battery_electric_vehicles and Currently_available_electric_cars. the titles mean exactly the same thing. what do you propose we do about it? Among Men (talk) 03:24, 11 October 2013 (UTC)

also see: List of modern production plug-in electric vehicles Among Men (talk) 03:28, 11 October 2013 (UTC)

Yes, it does seem like some merging might be in order. The usual way to do this is for some editor to propose a merge on one of the relevant Talk pages, and then add {{mergefrom}} or {{mergeto}} tags on each of the related article pages, all with a good quality pointer to the single place where the discussion is occurring.

If you do that, please be sure to ping me so I can go over and comment on the matter. If the task seems too daunting, I might be talked into helping coach you through the steps, if this is your first merge proposal. Cheers. N2e (talk) 19:08, 16 October 2013 (UTC)

I Don't know what ping is but yes i'd love to be coached into starting this merger,thanks.Among Men (talk) 01:25, 18 October 2013 (UTC)

ping–see the fifth sense given for a verb in Wiktionary, here.

I'll get back to you on the merger later, when I have a bit more time. In the meantime, be sure to read the three hyperlinked articles I linked to above. N2e (talk) 04:02, 18 October 2013 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Revert only when necessary

I think you should read Wikipedia:Revert only when necessary especially when dealing with good faith efforts. Ajh1492 (talk) 20:24, 20 October 2013 (UTC)

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New REFBot

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Here is a Barnstar

		The Original Barnstar
		For your tireless work in editing articles related to spaceflight and positive contributions you have made to Wikipedia. I have appreciated your contributions to articles we have collaborated upon in the past, and I hope that you will continue to perform these kind of heroic tasks into the future. Don't let current events drag you down, as you have made Wikipedia a better place by simply doing what you are doing right now. Robert Horning (talk) 17:46, 23 October 2013 (UTC)

Talkback

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I replied to your question about the proposed essay. By the way, there's also been another round of comments on the Atlas talk page. W. D. Graham 20:39, 23 October 2013 (UTC)

Please don't post in the middle of my text

Looking at this post of yours, you've inserted it in the middle of my text. It would be nice if you could find somewhere else to put it - after mine, for example - or just remove it completely, as it apperantly serves no useful purpose other than commentary. Thanks. --Pete (talk) 18:38, 23 October 2013 (UTC)

I think you've got that wrong. I posted at the end of an article section when I left that comment. Just looked, it is still at the end of an article section. Cheers. N2e (talk) 20:46, 23 October 2013 (UTC)

No. my post commenced with the first sentence: This is truly a Big Bang moment. and ended with my signature. You plonked your post between those two points, right after the colon. What did you think the colon was for? --Pete (talk) 21:00, 23 October 2013 (UTC)

You know, I went and looked at that diff a second time. I absolutely did post my comment at the end of an existing section; and my comment was about the material in the section that preceded it. So I don't really get what you're saying, and am beginning to think that there may be more than a little bit of trolling in your behavior. But since I don't have a solid case on that, I'm not starting an administrator review of your behavior at this time; I will continue to merely treat you with civility, while still occasionally challenging your disruptive editing and repeated refusal to follow the standard WP:BRD process on article content discussions (other readers: see Talk:Lynx (spacecraft) for a great deal of this Skyring/Pete behavior, all exposed in plain view).

I'm wishing you well here, but do think that a good dose of chill would be good for you, and for the encyclopedia. Cheers. N2e (talk) 23:46, 25 October 2013 (UTC)

Thanks. Yes, I started a subsection within my comment, in response to your request. You're forgiven. As to your excellent advice, I find that if I give advice, it's generally advice I should follow myself. How do you see this - is advice something that others should follow, or is it something that everyone should follow? --Pete (talk) 01:37, 26 October 2013 (UTC)

October 2013

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methane

We are both updating the methane article at the same time. Please put back my new paragraph on Project Morpheus. Andrew Swallow (talk) 17:44, 28 October 2013 (UTC)

Whoops. Sorry, Andrew, for doing something like that. I'll go over there right now and endeavor to tidy up. Stand by... N2e (talk) 17:48, 28 October 2013 (UTC)

... okay, back now. I looked real hard—here's the diff—and I don't see where I deleted your Project Morpheus paragraph. If you have something else to show me, I'll be glad to get back here to this Talk page later on in a few hours and look again. In the meantime, I will stay out of the article for a while in the event you decide to do more with it. Cheers. N2e (talk) 17:52, 28 October 2013 (UTC)

Panic over. The problem appears to have sorted itself out. I added an extra reference to complete the section. Note:Some odd error messages are being generated by Wiki at the moment. Andrew Swallow (talk) 22:16, 28 October 2013 (UTC)

No worries, then. Consider this one

Done. N2e (talk) 22:33, 28 October 2013 (UTC)

Lynx

N2e, if you could just hold back on trying to nail the article down to some fixed point, that would be great. Wikipedia articles change, they mature with collaborative input, they get better. The Lynx article has some major problems, particularly in sourcing, and we're going to fix them. I'm particularly heartened by the interest shown by all editors in improvement. Now, I try not to be wedded to any one viewpoint - none of us "owns" the article and if evidence or consensus moves away from my preferred position, that's fine. I'm often wrong. But the big thing is that we have robust, fact-based discussion, we play by the rules, we work together. It doesn't help us move the thing forward by being overly fixated on any one preferred version. I wasn't wedded to "concept", nor am I committed to "program". I'm flexible and I'm concerned that you aren't. That's not an attitude that can work in a collaborative environment such as Wikipedia. Attachment necessarily leads to conflict and unhappiness.

Certainly I'm playing devil's advocate here, but within myself I'm as big a spacenut as anybody.

The bottom line is that Wikipedia isn't about any one editor. Not me. Not you. It's about coöperation.

Lastly, let me commend to you the words of Marsilio Ficino: Three things in particular patience teaches us, it seems to me: first, that you should be willing to bear cheerfully the ills that nature herself bids you bear unwillingly; second, that you should make those things that fate has decreed to be inevitable, agreeable to your own will; third, that you should turn any evil whatsoever into good, which is the office of God alone. in the first of these, patience requires you to oppose nature, in the second, to confound fate, and in the third, to raise yourself to the level of God. --Pete (talk) 22:11, 24 October 2013 (UTC)

Couldn't agree with you more, Skyring/Pete, patience is a virtue.

I've been working on that daily for a couple of weeks now, endeavoring to be steadfastly civil with you, and constructive in working to improve the article content, despite your generally disruptive editing, your edit war on the first BRD, your WP:FORUMSHOPPING (all of which have not been supporting either your specific edits, nor of your disruptive actions), your WP:AfD of a notable and sourced article (on which you received no support from over a half dozen uninvolved editors), and your repeated refusal to allow an article to rest in a base state (for the benefit of our readers, and also per WP:BRD process) during an active Bold/Revert/Discussion cycle on the Talk page.

So I will continue to stay civil. And, as again today, I will refuse to edit war with you. But I will call out your repeated refusal to comply with standard BRD process, when you insist that your Bold edits should stay despite multiple other editors on the Talk page telling you they should not. I'm rather committed to endeavoring to improve the encyclopedia, one article at a time, and Lynx (spacecraft) appears to be a very active place to be doing that just now. Cheers. N2e (talk) 02:08, 25 October 2013 (UTC)

Cheers. I don't think you've grasped the intent of Ficino, but that's okay. --Pete (talk) 02:16, 25 October 2013 (UTC)

I just want to say thank you for your patience and diligence on the recent BRD process on the Lynx page. I think the discussion generated is twice as long as the actual page! --IanOsgood (talk) 05:13, 4 November 2013 (UTC)

Subscription template

Hey N2e, thanks for placing those Subscription templates, but note that you've been placing them inside the citation template. Might want to move them outside for display purposes, and so there's no potential muckups for future formatting. — Huntster (t @ c) 15:46, 3 November 2013 (UTC)

Oh, bummer. I really tried looking up things like "WP:subscription required" and "WP:CITE" and "WP:citation templates" before I did that, searching for "subscription required" before I made the edits. Couldn't find anything. (which may be a deficiency worth fixing if you know how best to do such things...)

In any case, I finally just located another use in some article of {{subscription required}} and used that format. I also carefully checked my first use to ensure it looked okay in the article. All the changes I made seem to show the info about the paywall and subscription required just fine. Is there some bot that can detect whatever you think may be wrong, and do the magic to put the {{subscription required}} info in the correct place?

I'll be sure not to so locate them inside the cite templates in the future.N2e (talk) 01:18, 4 November 2013 (UTC)

P.S. Only after I started the updates to reflect that newspacewatch.com has gone to a paywall business model, only then did I see at least one instance somewhere (don't recall where) where someone changed a {{subscription required}} inside a citation template to a "|subscription=yes" parm/value pair inside the cite template. Don't yet know if/how that is preferred to the {{subscription required}} approach, but it looked promising if I ever need to do a bunch of these cleanups in the future.

So net, there is a LOT I don't know about this. But I do think that any known paywall-source is worth noting, and maybe some archiving bot will figure out how to find the old sources through use of the wayback machine or some such technique/technology that I'm not particularly knowledgeable about. I thought flagging these was important, especially since I probably am the editor who added a lot of the newspacewatch.com cites to those many articles, as it's on my regular reading list, and for many months did not have a paywall in place. Unfortunately, with the paywall in place, I'm hardly ever sourcing anything to NewSpace Watch any longer as I don't think paywall sources are optimal for Wikipedia.N2e (talk) 01:18, 4 November 2013 (UTC)

I completely agree...I won't be using that site again. It is rather on the fringe of awareness anyhow, with Space.com and NASA Spaceflight being far more prominent. As for the display issue, when placed inside the "cite ..." template, the tag gets stuck inside whatever parameter it was with. For example, placing it like "|date=2013-05-07 {{Subscription required}} }}</ref>" renders as "Lindsey, Clark (2013-05-07 (subscription required))." However, I was unaware of the |subscription=yes parameter, which after testing shows itself to be perfect here, since it includes a mouseover note stating that "Sources are not required to be available online." I would definitely recommend it in the future, and I'll go through and fix the misplaced templates now. — Huntster (t @ c) 04:09, 4 November 2013 (UTC)

Cool, it was Fixed by Huntster, and we both learned about the new cite template parm "|subscription=yes" in the process. Thanks for your efforts to use AWB and clean that up! N2e (talk) 14:10, 4 November 2013 (UTC)

BTW, although I've never used AWB (to my recollection), I had a vague memory that perhaps I had intended to do so. I just checked the AWB check list and found my name is on it, so I guess I was approved by an admin (probably several years ago...) and then just never took the time to get over the hurdle of learning enough to actually do it. Looks like maybe I should do so, to help automate some of this sort of repetitive cleanup of various articles.N2e (talk) 14:10, 4 November 2013 (UTC)

Suburban Express

N2e, I just wanted to point out that User CorporateM removed your recent contribution to Suburban Express article in a stealth edit which supposedly added a clarification:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Suburban_Express&diff=580292474&oldid=580259980

This is a pattern which CorporateM seems to routinely follow when twisting this article to his POV. If you are an admin, perhaps you will want to look at SlimVirgin's suggestions on the article's talk page.

Best Arri at Suburban Express (talk) 14:55, 5 November 2013 (UTC)

No, not an admin. But I'll try to get over there and take a look in the next day or so. N2e (talk) 15:11, 5 November 2013 (UTC)

Hi, n2e. It's great to have someone with an econ background looking at the Suburban Express article. You've proposed some sensible changes. But, as you can see, CorpM has a very strong point of view. The Suburban Express story is about a 19 year old kid who attacked incumbent Greyhound, decreased fares, increased frequency, and decreased travel times and then weathered attacks based on regulatory capture, predatory pricing, and (not covered in any press) harrassment by the Chicago Transit Authority, which leased space to Greyhound. It is novel in that S.E. sidestepped economic regulation which was designed to ensure legacy carriers (greyhound, et al) a fair return on their investment but which had morphed into a system that supported inefficiency, high fares, and lousy service. Since you teach, I imagine you can appreciate the issues we have with students trying to get what they want, regardless of the agreement they have with us.

e have battled all sorts of fraud during the course of our history - people making fake tickets, tons of bad checks, people passing their receipt out the bathroom window to a friend who then tells driver he is getting back on, and so forth. Fraud has lead to collection action of various forms, and it recently got some negative press because a small handful of nasty little assholes decided to devote their lives to trashing us. Their actions have not impacted ridership, but they have frustrated my employees and I by trashing us online wherever they get the chance. My instincts tell me that the user who is most committed to injecting POV into the article was contacted by one of the haters, who works in PR for the university and has contacts in that world.

The supposed "controversy" is a mish-mash of different issues that the haters are promoting, all rolled into one: 1) we filed 100ish small claims suits in a short period of time. the number was unusual because we had about a 2 year backlog of debts to collect; 2) A subcontracted driver was rude to a student who does not speak english. He was promptly reprimanded and we sought to apologize to the passenger, but did not succeed in identifying her. A loudmouth narcissistic attention seeking student who was on the bus posted the story to facebook from the bus and spent every waking moment posting the story everywhere he could. 3) This led to a situation on Reddit where the loudmouth and his friends were trashing S.E. as best they could and the moderator started manipulating the conversation, by deleting comments made in support of S.E. That got out of hand and our attorney sent a demand letter to the moderator. The moderator then exploited free-speech bloggers and caused the BIG STORY to spread. Self-interest came into play - Reddit is owned by conde nast. Reddit benefits from awareness of reddit. Reddit can only exist if users are free to say whatever they want. Conde Nast also owns Ars Technica. Ars Technica wrote several blog posts about how horrible SE is for trying to suppress free speech on reddit. See how this works? Downstream lower-quality blogs regurgitated the free-speech story.

Two of the haters, now armed with SOURCES, took to Wikipedia and transformed this https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Suburban_Express&oldid=542659074 into a very skewed mess. Then the problem became recursive - bloggers mentioned wikipedia, which led readers to trash the wikipedia page even more. Wiki editors cited the articles that cited wikipedia and the list of blogs that had covered the matter grew and grew. Now, the haters assert that the body of trash-news justifies giving the trash significant weight in the article - to the point where the real story of the company is pushed out. You can see this in corpm's proposed edit. He wants to remove from the lede the fact that the company was started by a student, and other key facts.

In any event, I applaud your efforts to move the article in a more academic direction, and I'm glad that someone with an econ background has arrived on-scene. You may find some stuff here interesting: http://www.toeppen.com

Best Arri at Suburban Express (talk) 16:23, 6 November 2013 (UTC)

You will now note that CorporateM changed the lede even though discussion had not completed and a user voiced support for your approach. Arri at Suburban Express (talk) 18:20, 6 November 20

Reverts

Hi! I made some corrections to the Bed sizes article (not the most important one...), which immediately got reverted by you. I'd recommend you to save these kind of reverts to slightly more important issues, and that you consider the rest of the article before you press revert...

From the other comments on your talk page (and in the archive) I see that you hit the revert button quite often, and that you leave somewhat paternalistic messages when you do. I think you should read Wikipedia:Revert only when necessary especially when dealing with good faith efforts.

Ebben (talk) 00:25, 4 November 2013 (UTC)

Your additions were unsourced, and therefore appeared to be original research. There are no articles in the English Wikipedia that are so unimportant that the Wikipedia core policy of verifiability does not apply.

My message to you was quite gentle, and assumed good faith:

Hello, I'm N2e. I noticed that you made a change to an article, Bed size, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed 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.

It appears that you took the good advice for improving Wikipedia to heart, and added sources. So all is well now.

Fixed N2e (talk) 02:00, 10 November 2013 (UTC)

Edit on 3D printing page

Hi, not sure why you thought my change to the 3D printing page wasn't constructive, the 3D printer in question's name was incorrect (it was called the Peach Printer rather than the Peachy Printer), so I corrected it. If you don't believe me, then feel free to check their website: http://www.peachyprinter.com/ or even the reference given at the end of the sentence in question, which both give the correct name.

Thanks for the note. I have

Fixed it now, and have responded on your Talk page where the discussion started. Cheers. N2e (talk) 02:00, 10 November 2013 (UTC)

Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents post

I have mentioned you in an Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents post 24.15.78.1 (talk) 04:58, 11 November 2013 (UTC)

Well, thank you very much for notifying me of the AN/I incident. I appreciate it! I have read the description of the incident you mentioned, and see myself mentioned in only a very peripheral way, as an editor who has been a part of the editing and discussion on the Suburban Express article you mentioned. If I have anything of particular value to add to that discussion, I will do so on the AN/I item. Cheers. N2e (talk) 06:29, 11 November 2013 (UTC)

RfD nomination of Paranor

I've nominated Paranor for retargeting at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2013 November 13#Paranor. Since you participated in the AfD discussion for the page, you may be interested in commenting on this proposal. --BDD (talk) 19:13, 13 November 2013 (UTC)

please notice User ip 111.243.34.140

Hi, N2e , please notice , this User ip 111.243.34.140 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/111.243.34.140 , Vandalism a lot of article, please stop it , thank you Buglerazedg21dnlole (talk) 12:42, 19 November 2013 (UTC)

Hmmm. I looked at three or four of that editors edits. Does seem to be rather single purpose in focus, and is being done on a number of articles, and the editor tuypically leaves no edit comments with a rationale for their edits. However, 1), I am not an administrator, so I can't just "stop it", and 2) I'm guessing that there have been a LOT of debates/discussions over the years on what terminology is used in Wikipedia: Taiwan vs. REpublic of China. I have no idea what has gone on before, and would be reluctant to throw myself into that without learning the background.

However, Wikipedia was not built in a day, and so I'm confident it will all get sorted out soon enough. Thanks for asking. N2e (talk) 13:10, 19 November 2013 (UTC)

pressure fed cycle

Hi, i am sorry but this is beyond my competency.--Beaucouplusneutre (talk) 11:47, 23 November 2013 (UTC)

No worries. Just wanted to invite you to be involved in the discussion should you want to do so. Thanks for stopping in with your response.! N2e (talk) 11:52, 23 November 2013 (UTC)

November 2013

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Fixed. Thanks for the auto-bot detection and notification of that typo! N2e (talk) 13:52, 1 November 2013 (UTC)

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Mars

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn24715-fiercest-meteor-shower-on-record-to-hit-mars-via-comet.html Spooky. Derelict satellites or satellite pulp? -BatteryIncluded (talk) 19:11, 7 December 2013 (UTC)

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Tis the season

	Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!
	Hope you and yours have a happy holidays and a Happy New Year! — Huntster (t @ c) 22:03, 24 December 2013 (UTC)

Well, thank you very much, Huntster. I appreciate that. Merry Christmas to you, and all persons of good cheer! N2e (talk) 23:35, 24 December 2013 (UTC)

2013

		The Space Barnstar
		For contributions and editing on articles about space and spacecraft. Fotaun (talk)

		The WikiProject Barnstar
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		For editing and contributions in the year 2013.Fotaun (talk) 15:29, 27 December 2013 (UTC)

Supercharger networks other than North America

Supercharger networks other than North America:

Germany, the Netherlands: complete, mid-2014
Switzerland, Belgium, Luxembourg, Austria, Denmark: complete, late of 2014
France, England, Wales, Sweden: 90% of the population, late of 2014
Russia, Belarus, Lithuania, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, China, Hong Kong: 50% of the population, late of 2014

Tesla BlueStar first target area will be Great Britain. 180.199.56.180 (talk) 14:21, 29 December 2013 (UTC)

There is no particular problem with that statement, it just needs a source citation to be provided. On the addition that I reverted, there was no source given. I'll go over to the article and follow it there. N2e (talk) 15:11, 29 December 2013 (UTC)