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Bubble universe theory and renaming pages

There's no need to change the title of the redirect Bubble universe theory (and {{DISPLAYTITLE}} won't do that anyway; see below). All that matters is whether someone might use the term to search for the relevant info. If you think there should be a redirect from the name Bubble universe model, then simply create it anew.

When there is a need to move a page to a new title, you should use the move function (there's an introduction to this at Help:How to move a page). DISPLAYTITLE is just for formatting page titles (eg, italicising). Thanks, VeryCrocker (talk) 05:38, 12 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, I didn't know exactly how to do that. Thanks for telling me, though. And yeah that makes sense: redirect pages aren't so much about accuracy as they are about getting the users TO the article that's accurate, right? — Preceding unsigned comment added by SarahTehCat (talk • contribs) 08:41, 12 March 2015‎

Yep, that's right. --VeryCrocker (talk) 08:57, 12 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Cool, thanks for clarifying.

Signing comments

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Just for your information, it's standard practice to sign your comments on talk pages and other discussions by using four tildes (~~~~) or pushing the "sign your posts" button at the bottom of the edit window. I've added a signature for you at User talk:Peter Gulutzan. Happy editing! —Alex (ASHill | talk | contribs) 17:27, 16 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Cool, thanks. I actually did not know that, so I'm glad you told me. Thank you very much! ^_^ SarahTehCat (talk) 05:36, 17 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

And I'm sorry that you got dragged into the argument between me and another editor. Honestly, I've been editing here off and on for eight years, and I only remember a small handful of arguments that have been this unpleasant (maybe even none). I really do enjoy contributing to Wikipedia and often learn a lot from doing so. I hope this won't deter you from contributing as well, as you appear to be! —Alex (Ashill | talk | contribs) 14:48, 17 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

No problem. :) I understand; it sounds like a very unpleasant discussion has been ongoing; even I was a bit irritated by the other editor's stubbornness, so I can only imagine how frustrating it's been for you. Lol. And nope! I've been editing on and off for a couple years now, but only recently have I been much much more active, so I still consider myself...oh, I don't know, "quasi-new"? Haha. xD Also, technically, I went through several accounts throughout that time, so my account, actually, is quite new. Haha. SarahTehCat (talk) 05:26, 23 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

great :-)

Hello good morning :-) Gwen racaza (talk) 01:20, 26 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Haha, good morning. Or, rather, evening now, 'least according to my region. xP – SarahTehCat (talk) 20:31, 27 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Worldview

Hi. You added to unit of time that The base unit of time in the International System of Units (SI), and by extension most of the Western world, is the second. I'm all for a global view of things, but surely in this case the second is used by everyone on this blue green planet? most of the Western world implies that a) there are people in the Western World using another time system, and b) that the use of this system not used outside the western world. The number of people using another time system must be insignificant or nonexistent. Or do you have info to the contrary? --Cornellier (talk) 20:46, 18 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

First off, sorry for my late reply. Anyway, thanks for being so courtious as to post on my wall instead of just reverting my edit or whatever! I really appreciate it! :D

In response to your points, yes, there are other base units of time that at least have been used in the past, if not are still in use in some remote areas nowadays, although surely most people on Earth use the SI Second nowadays. Lol. For instance:

• The French Revolutionary Second^[1] was used as the base unit of time by France's First Republic for about 2.5 years from 1793-11-05 to 1795-04-07^[2], and was equal to 0.864 SI Second. (Or should I say the SI Second was equal to 1.157 FrRev Seconds? ;P )

• In fact, for most of history, the base unit of time was the Apparent Solar Day. This was not only the case with the ancient Egyptians^[3] as well as the Jains of ancient India^[4], but also the ancient Romans, Greeks, Chinese, and Japanese. And even the day varied by country in terms of when they started or ended, as some countries started the day at sunset, others at sunrise, others at midnight and still others even other times altogether.

In fact, I recently read a fascinating article from Scientific American about this exact topic. Here's a great quote from it:^[5]

Minutes and seconds, however, were not used for everyday timekeeping until many centuries after the Almagest. Clock displays divided the hour into halves, thirds, quarters and sometimes even 12 parts, but never by 60. In fact, the hour was not commonly understood to be the duration of 60 minutes. It was not practical for the general public to consider minutes until the first mechanical clocks that displayed minutes appeared near the end of the 16th century. Even today, many clocks and wristwatches have a resolution of only one minute and do not display seconds.

• Also, Ancient China and Japan didn't even use the Second, but a decimalised system where a day would either start at 23:00 or 00:00 local time and would be divided into 100 ke, each thus being about the duration of 14.4 minutes. And each ke would be divided into some number of fen (it varied from dynasty to dynasty).^[6]

• The Jains of ancient India also didn't use the Second. They divided a day into 15 Muhūrtas, which was further divided into 30 Trutis, 30 Kalās, 30 Lavas, and then finally 12 Nimesas, equal to about 0.018 Second. At one point, the Nimesa was actually the base, thus defining a day as 4 860 000 Nimesas.)^[7]

In any case, this is an encyclopædic entry about units of time, not units of time that are common, although the latter topic most certainly would be appropriate for a small portion of the lede as well as a significant section of the body. So it doesn't matter whether there are 12 people or 12 000 people using an alternative method—if it's known about and sufficiently documented, other Wikipedia policies notwithstanding, then it should be included in this article.

(Fyi, regarding the sources, in all instances where specific pages are cited, unless there is no in-text pagination, just go by the PDF pagination.) – SarahTehCat (talk) 21:53, 19 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Speedy deletion nomination of The Collection (Frank Sinatra album)

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I wanted to let you know that I just tagged The Collection (Frank Sinatra album) for deletion, because the article doesn't clearly say why the subject is significant enough to be included in an encyclopedia, and the artist doesn't have an article.

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.

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[1] ttp://io9.com/5886129/the-short-strange-history-of-decimal-time

[2] ttp://www.iso.org/sites/edumaterials/trbsaunders.pdf (page 29)

[3] ttp://www.rmg.co.uk/sites/default/files/media/pdf/Calendars-from-around-the-world.pdf (page 10)

[4] ttp://www.insa.nic.in/writereaddata/UpLoadedFiles/IJHS/Vol15_2_3_SSLishk.pdf (page 194)

[5] ttp://www.scientificamerican.com/article/experts-time-division-days-hours-minutes/

[6] ttp://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2004PASJ...56..887S and https://books.google.com/books?id=aLNH6p719q4C&lpg=PA8&ots=rmuUbh1aEQ&dq=%22ancient%20china%22%20AND%20%22unit%20of%20time%22&pg=PA42#v=onepage&q&f=false

[7] ttp://www.insa.nic.in/writereaddata/UpLoadedFiles/IJHS/Vol15_2_3_SSLishk.pdf (page 194,195)

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