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Hi, I have seen that you are using the Cacycle editor extension. This program is no longer actively maintained in favor of its much more powerful successor wikEd.

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Cacycle 21:57, 8 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Perfluorocarbon

Hi Patrick. I have noticed your edit in the PFOA article. Hence, you might be able to contribute to this talk: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Chemicals#Perfluorocarbon. 77.56.108.47 00:32, 12 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Red Letter Days Fallout

I'm preemptively creating a section to handle fallout from all of the changes I've made to the "Red Letter Days"-series of articles (note caps). Please note the following:

If you wish to move the current Red Letter Days to Red Letter Days Ltd or Red Letter Days (company) or whatever the style guide says is correct, please do so--don't let me stop you.
I think there is a fundamental difference between Red letter day and Red Letter Days (note caps and plural) such that Red Letter Days should *not* be a redirect to Red letter day, but instead to Red letter day (disambiguation) if the above change is made.
This whole thing stems from looking up Theo Pamphitis on Wikipedia after watching Top Gear, finding a link to the company Red Letter Days, and finding that link redirected to Red letter day, which is clearly not the intent of the link. Any solution that solves this problem that is more consistent with Wikipedia norms is fine by me. If I've done something outside the norms, don't hesitate to fix it and let me know what I screwed up.

Thanks! Patrick O'Leary (talk) 01:15, 24 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Why the Redirect?

Greetings & salutations. I was wondering why you redirected Airborne Collision Avoidance System to Traffic Collision Avoidance System? TCAS is a proprietary system, originally developed by Honeywell (I believe). ACAS is the generic term used by researchers (myself included) to describe such systems. To be bold (as you suggest on your talk page!), this is like redirecting "aspirin" to "Bayer aspirin."

All due respect & no offense intended, of course.

Technically, we researchers are now starting to make a distinction between ACAS and ASAS (airborne separation assurance systems). The new definition has ACAS representing short-range systems (literally, collisions), with ASAS aimed at representing longer-range systems, specifically protecting the 5 nm / 1000' protected zone surrounding aircraft in the en-route environment.

I guess my main concern is that we are providing free advertising for a specific manufacturer, when we should be keeping up with current research practice.

Best regards PrairieOjibway (talk) 17:51, 5 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

PririeOjibway, if you check the edit comment for the redirect creation, I created the page to redir to TCAS because (from the edit comment) "TCAS is the only implementation of ACAS (according to the TCAS article)". Note that this was written in 2007! Wikipedia is always changing. I didn't know about the article under the full name Airborne Collision Avoidance System, and looking at the most recent revision at the time I set up the redir, that article added nothing to what was in the TCAS article (if I had known better, I probably would have suggested a merge of TCAS->Airborne Collision Avoidance System and set the redir appropriately). Naturally, you're free to correct my mistake, and I've got no problem with that.

I'm looking at your diff, and see that you added text no one would see due to the redir. I will update the redir template to R from alternative capitalisation (see WP:TMR) and point it at the more generic article. However, I appreciate you pointing it out.

By the way, I'll note that I'm not responsible for the "Be Bold" appearing on this page; it was put there long ago by another editor (along with the rest of the standard Wikipedia welcome template). I will say the same applies to you, and I am always happy to see when CNS articles get improved, but I appreciate your courtesy. You can check the edited page to see how to update the redirect. I've removed your text as it is more appropriate for the Talk page, but hopefully this addresses your concern. Patrick O'Leary (talk) 22:58, 6 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

A pleasure to meet you, Patrick. I'll check out what you've done, and thanks. I'm new to editing Wikipedia, so feel free to point out ways to help me improve. If you get a moment, you can get a sense of me from www.maneuverspacetechnologies.org, which is my private stuff. My public stuff is as a human factors researcher for FAA in Oklahoma City. For them, I look at how general aviation pilots deal with weather issues. Next big project will probably be looking at how to extend flight envelope protection down into GA aircraft. How about you? What are you working on these days?

Oh, btw, I actually do live on the prairie (on a small ranch) & am 1/16 Ojibway, hence the name. Perhaps one day I'll get bold enough to use my real name on Wikipedia. What's your opinion on that? I see you're a Ramblin' Wreck. Did you know Amy Pritchett? She and I have done a bit of work together.PrairieOjibway (talk) 02:23, 7 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

In fact, Dr. Pritchett is my adviser. We've got a long distance academic relationship going since both of us have other jobs outside Atlanta. My current work is mostly out of the cog realm; I'm a GNC engineer with SAIC in Huntsville. Dr. Pritchett, as you may know, has almost another year with NASA's Aviation Safety Program Office before returning to Tech. I've just gotta finish this MS thesis up and defend it. Anyway, small world, innit?

Regarding using my name, it's just my preference. I have no problem with anonymous editors though. Patrick O'Leary (talk) 03:23, 7 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Small world indeed! She & I have worked one small project together. Yesterday, I e-mailed her to see if she'd like to write a chapter for a book I'm (hopefully) editing on ACAS/ASAS. May be too busy, dunno. Unfortunately, I'm not overly sure abt the ASP address I have. Her lab address bounced. The one I have probably goes to a gatekeeper who may not recognize it's to be forwarded. We'll see. Anyway, I got commitments from Walt Johnson, Jacco Hoekstra, Martin Eby, so the initial outlook is good. What's your thesis topic?PrairieOjibway (talk) 22:38, 9 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

PS: I talked with Amy at the ISAP convention this week & she agreed to work with us on the book. PrairieOjibway (talk) 02:30, 2 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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