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Could you help?

I am currently writing an article on Ward leonard control, which is a type of DC motor speed control system. I noticed that you contributed on Brushed DC Electric Motor. Since I am new to wiki,it would be great if you can take a look at mine and give me some feedback or improve the acticle.Spaceel 15:26, 17 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Dioxin in incineration article

Hi DMahalko, Thank you for your knowledgable contribution on dioxin to the incineration article. I have edited your contribution somewhat to integrate it better with the existing text. I also changed the info on auxiliary heatersburners, as they actually only work as backups in modern plants, not as general temperature aid. I hope you agree with these edits.

Sincerely, Claus Hindsgaul

--Claus Hindsgaul (talk) 15:14, 11 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hawkins Guide

That is a spectacular find. Good work, man. I've commented out some of the more personal notes, though - such Mahalko-focused details are really only relevant in userspace. DS (talk) 14:28, 11 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hawkins Guide redraws

If you are not happy with any of the redraws, ie. if I've made something unclear or done it wrong, then please tell me and revert it back to the original etc. I don't really have any idea what I'm drawing, well I know enough to know that the direction of a coil is important etc., but not the specifics... so it's possible I have omitted something important or made something unclear... So just let me know :) Thanks -- Borb (talk) 14:55, 1 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ubiquitous energy from atomic and chemical bonds

Thanks for the excellent contribution!Kmarinas86 ^(6sin8karma) 04:26, 2 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Since you're the one who added text to WP:CMF describing how videos should not be thumb'ed or resized, could you please comment at WT:FA#Videos? I raised a question there about getting captions on embedded video (whether it should be done with thumb or with some sort of video template). Thank you, rʨanaɢ ^talk/_contribs 03:31, 7 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion at Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/Pinball

You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/Pinball. — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ʕ(^Õل^ō)ˀ Contribs. 18:23, 18 January 2010 (UTC) (Using {{Please see}})[reply]

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Enhanced Random Articles

In response to Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)/Archive_76#Somewhat_less_than_random_articles.3F, I have created the following script that you can use, called Enhanced Random Articles, which skips disambiguation and stub pages: User:Gary King/enhanced random article.js. Gary King (talk) 23:04, 9 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! I don't have much experience with Javascript, so how are exclusions specified? Are they inserted directly into the code, by replacing where you have "undefined" in there?

Also, is there a way for me to give the script a list of article title keywords to exclude?

Is this inserted into the monobook.js, or whatever it is? DMahalko (talk) 07:26, 10 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Edit Special:MyPage/skin.js. Insert the following code:

importScript('User:Gary King/enhanced random article.js');

enhancedRandomArticle = {};
enhancedRandomArticle.showDisambiguationPages = false;
enhancedRandomArticle.showStubs = false;
enhancedRandomArticle.patterns = [];

The .showDisambiguationPages is set to false, meaning not to show disambiguation pages (change to true to show them). Same with .showStubs; false means not to show stubs, true means to show them. The .patterns line is to exclude certain keywords from article titles. This is done like so:

.patterns = ['(album)', '(singer)', '(song)']

Which would exclude article titles with those keywords, so The Beatles (album), Pink (singer), and White Christmas (song) are excluded. Gary King (talk) 19:09, 10 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Dioxins

Hi, I noticed your recent edit of the dioxin disambiguation stub to move all information relating to dioxin toxicity and contamination incidents to the article polychlorinated dibenzodioxins. I have to say I do not agree with this decision as many incidents mentioned, such as the Irish Pork Crisis, or the Belgian incident are in fact incidents of PCB contamination, with PCDDs forming on a very minor part of the overall "dioxin like toxin" load. I think the way things are arranged currently is counterintuitive and in some ways in accurate. A discussion is ongoing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Medicine/Toxicology_task_force#Dioxin as to the best way to re-organise the topic in a more coherent and accurate way.Arthurbagwaste (talk) 08:37, 15 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Thanks (Patent)

Thanks for that edit! I understand now. --Edcolins (talk) 11:06, 20 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

New section "Drive bay height" added to "Floppy Disk"

I've started a discussion of the relevance of the section "Drive bay height" that you added to Floppy disk yesterday, on the talk page there. My apologies for not adding this notice right when I started the discussion this morning. Rwessel (talk) 19:10, 26 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

help!

i am interested in a popular science article on a chrysler hybrid gas turbine. how would i find it?Mkoronowski (talk) 15:46, 23 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Start at Google Books: http://books.google.com/bkshp?hl=en&tab=wp

Though, your question intrigued me so I did the research for you. :-)

DMahalko (talk) 19:54, 23 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

you are great! thankyou so much. you actually found the second article I was looking for. with respect to this article, i worked with pampreen who was a key contributor to chryslers work. do you think it appropriate to add this to the gas turbines article?

if you have time, can you look up a newer article about a hybrid race car engine? i designed the compressors on it.Mkoronowski (talk) 21:04, 23 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Writing in the sand

Thanks. What an interesting...font. --Wtshymanski (talk) 21:58, 6 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Filesystems: human readable NOT

Sorry to disagree with you, but files systems are not human readable. There is surely a utility or several to display the entries is various human readable form. — Preceding unsigned comment added by DGerman (talk • contribs) 16:31, 29 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Your addition of 3D material at computer vision

It's nice to have someone knowledgeable in that field add material. The challenge is that in it's current state it's sort of specialty sidebar comments, and on one particular method (2d image based) of 3d. Would you be interested in writing it to be more of an introduction and explanatory? Thanks. Sincerely, North8000 (talk) 15:45, 27 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Would you be willing to do this? We sure could use this if so. Sincerely, North8000 (talk) 11:50, 23 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Your addition to disk formatting

I reverted your addition to disk formatting because it is inaccurate when you consider all disk drive history - most media had to be formatted to be accessed by the system and it had nothing to do with the somewhat unreliable mechanisms of some disk drives. BTW you could not tilt the earliest disk drives. In essence your addition was a non-sequitor. Some disk drives had unreliable mechanisms but most did not. Your conclusion that "The initial purpose of disk formatting was therefore to compensate for these mechanism misalignments and drifting" is simply not true. Tom94022 (talk) 05:08, 22 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

November 2011

Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute to the encyclopedia, but when you add or change content, as you did to the article Uninterruptible power supply, please cite a reliable source for your addition. This helps maintain our policy of verifiability. See Wikipedia:Citing sources for how to cite sources, and the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. You added what seemed to be good information, however we need a source for it—do you have one? Thanks! —danhash (talk) 16:23, 14 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Current consensus both here and on the article's Talk page is that you need to provide sourcing, Please do so or discuss the matter further rather than simply re-adding the material without references. Thank you. Doniago (talk) 21:19, 14 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

There is no "consensus", it's just you and maybe Wty out of 9 billion people. DMahalko (talk) 21:21, 14 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Giganews top 30

Hi, I was looking at the top 30 newsgroups in the article Usenet.[1]. Since this comes from early 2008, it might be helpful to update it. I would wager that alt.binaries.boneless is still at number one, but could not find an updated chart despite searching on Google. Could you help here? Thanks.--♦IanMacM♦ ^{(talk to me)} 22:45, 23 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

If you are a Giganews subscriber, the current list can most likely be derived from your newsreader's list of newsgroups, such as NewsBin. I currently do not have a UseNet subscription. DMahalko (talk) 01:16, 25 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

After some searching, here is a current list from Easynews. As predicted, alt.binaries.boneless is still out in front in the #1 position, but the other places have changed since 2008.--♦IanMacM♦ ^{(talk to me)} 20:06, 26 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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I've created the first catalog page by adapting content from Automotive light sources. Notice the images do not render in the catalog wiki. Kindly please assist? Thanks —Scheinwerfermann ^T·_C22:18, 3 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

1. I have migrated all images over from the Commons to Wikia, citing the Commons page for each one, for source/attribution.

2. Added References/Reflist to bottom. Where'd it go from the original?

3. Converted article wikilinks so that they still point back to Wikipedia-en. Underscores are needed in place of spaces for the cross-wiki link to work:

[[Wikipedia:Daytime_running_lamp|Daytime running lamp]]

(Oh wait, maybe not. A lack of underscores is not breaking cross-wiki links for article: http://catalog.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_7400_series_integrated_circuits

The Wikia easy-editing GUI does not handle the display of reference tags properly, but it all works normally as on Wikipedia after clicking Publish. To edit references, and links back to Wikipedia, use the "edit as Source" tab at the top.

Also I see on some occasions, wikipedia Templates will need to be copied over to Wikia but it's a one-time issue, and they appear to work properly over there.

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Вітаю! Прочитав на вашій основній сторінці розділ про мови. Я так розумію, що Ви з нашої діаспори. Цікаво, а Ви трохи українською (русинською) розмовляєте чи тільки виключно англійською спілкуєтесь? Якщо трохи володієте українською мовою, то можна було б більш якісно висвітлити деякі теми українського життя у англомовній вікіпедії. З повагою --ConsigliereUA ^(talk) 19:00, 8 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Google Translate, Ukrainian to English

Collaboration

Greetings!I read on your main page section about language. I understand that you are in our diaspora. I wonder You little Ukrainian (Ruthenian) speak only English or only communicate? If a little speak Ukrainian, it could be more efficiently highlight some themes Ukrainian life in the English Wikipedia. Yours - ConsigliereUA (Talk) seven p.m., 8 August 2013 (UTC)

Sorry I don't speak anything other than English. Even with the Google translate, I don't understand what you are trying to say. DMahalko (talk) 03:25, 17 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Undid your edit to Wikipedia:Spam

I undid your edit to Wikipedia:Spam. While what you say is true, that page is about other types of spam.

I don't know the best place to put such information, this isn't it. Perhaps you could write a user essay about the topic. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs) 00:11, 9 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

It is on topic and relevant to the article. That article is about all types of spam, as it is simply titled "Spam". The article is not titled "Wikipedia:Article Spam".

If I were to follow your logic then the most appropriate action is to turn the article into a disambiguation page, and create two new sub-articles, titled "Article Spam" and "Editor Spam".

DMahalko (talk) 06:26, 9 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I think the confusion is that the page is NOT an article, it is a "project page," that is, a page about or for the benefit of the administration of the English Wikipedia or the community of Wikipedia editors. Despite the title, is not meant to be a compendium of all possible ways spam interacts with Wikipedia. It doesn't deal with IRC-spam on Wikipedia IRC channels, for example. If you really want to get it added to that page, you might try opening a discussion on Wikipedia talk:Spam and see what the community consensus is. The article is Spam, which is about spam in general. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs) 16:55, 9 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Dubious on PTZ being unavoidably star

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Diving weighting system

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File:1917 Hawkins Electrical Guide 9 Volume Set.jpg

You still have these?

I would suggest getting someone like the Internet Archive to scan them, then the scans can be ranscribed on Wikisource possibly. Sfan00 IMG (talk) 08:53, 30 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

It's not really necessary, as they are already scanned by Google Books and listed on the article page for them: Hawkins Electrical Guide -- DMahalko (talk) 19:12, 31 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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New Rome, Ohio

Hi there. I'm not quite sure what the bibliography section is for at New Rome, Ohio. Thank you. Magnolia677 (talk) 23:21, 9 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I am only fixing the broken links. I assume they should be turned into inline citations, but I don't have much interest in this so will leave it to someone else to finish. -- DMahalko (talk) 06:25, 10 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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