Welcome!

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Edit summaries

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Would it kill you to use them? —Keenan Pepper 20:12, 16 April 2006 (UTC)Reply

If you're talking about the Solar eclipse article, I'm adding content, so I would have to include too much. By the way, I think that the subsection titles usually say enough. I'll try to pay attention to them in the future though. Nick Mks 20:19, 16 April 2006 (UTC)Reply
Just a few words would be better than nothing. By the way, Solar eclipse is looking good, keep it up! —Keenan Pepper 21:11, 16 April 2006 (UTC)Reply

solar eclipse

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The images were clumped together...I thought it looked better but whatever. --Osbus 20:51, 20 April 2006 (UTC)Reply

Solar eclipse

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Congratulations on getting Solar eclipse to FA status. Great article, I enjoyed it. --BillC 23:16, 22 April 2006 (UTC)Reply

Thanks! Nick Mks 09:00, 23 April 2006 (UTC)Reply

I orginally wrote astronomical, but then i thought that only means large and changed it. I guess I was right the first time.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Ace of Sevens (talkcontribs)

Yup! Nick Mks 18:52, 2 July 2006 (UTC)Reply

Spoken article - you're welcome!

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Thanks for the note. Glad to help! I'm just happy I got it done in time for the main page :) --Laura S 19:47, 4 May 2006 (UTC)Reply

Please help on Mathematics

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Binary Star

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I award Nick this twinkly barnstar for their excellent editting at Binary Star. Happy star gazing, Highway Rainbow Sneakers 23:38, 10 June 2006 (UTC)Reply
Thanks! Nick Mks 09:06, 11 June 2006 (UTC)Reply

For contributing heavily to one of the finest Featured articles I have seen in a long time, I hereby award you this Wikimedal. Keep up the stellar work! Srikeit (Talk | Email) 10:38, 11 June 2006 (UTC)Reply

Thanks! Nick Mks 13:03, 11 June 2006 (UTC)Reply

Spoken Binary Star

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I have it all recorded :) Now comes the tricky (and time consuming) part of cleaning it up. This one was especially challenging in terms of pronunciations, so I hope I got them all right. Had to look up nearly all the star and constellation names, and "spectroscopic" is a tongue twister! -- Laura S | talk to me 00:54, 21 June 2006 (UTC)Reply

With time to spare. I hope you like it! -- Laura S | talk to me 03:09, 22 June 2006 (UTC)Reply
Wow thanks!!! for the barnstar :) That made my day. Do let me know when you have another article coming up, the astronomy articles are really interesting and I learn a lot recording them. -- Laura S | talk to me 10:28, 22 June 2006 (UTC)Reply

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WikiProject:Space/Members

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Hello - WikiProject:Space/Members has been moved to WikiProject_Space/Members to meet naming conventions. Just an FYI in case you had the page Watched. --Exodio 13:52, 6 August 2006 (UTC)Reply

Thanks. Nick Mks 15:28, 9 August 2006 (UTC)Reply

Forgive me, Nick, but I'm confused

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Many of those discussions concerned issues that affected the wording of the article directly. How can we be sure how to fairly word an article if we can't discuss what it's about, especially a controversial topic like this? Serendipodous 18:24, 17 August 2006 (UTC)Reply

It is indeed very possible that I have been too enthousiastic in selecting. Feel free to move any discussions back up if you feel that they are essential to article content. Nick Mks 18:26, 17 August 2006 (UTC)Reply

From PlanetCeres

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Sorry, not sure if I'm doing this right. My intention is to add content which is contextual, true, and verifiable. This addition seems to upset people. So, I moved the addition topic to the discussion area. But, then my contributions to discussion had been deleted. It's an important topic to myself. So, is there anything I can do? PlanetCeres

Yes, if you really want to debate your contribution in a decent way, you can propose it on one talk page, as you correctly did here (I did move it to the appropriate section and corrected the layout). However, starting a debate about this on every even remotely related talk page, and especially inserting controversial text into articles multiple times, is not considered as good conduct. For now, you'll just have to wait until more people give their opinion about your proposal at the above location, but I'm afraid most turned it down already last night. Nick Mks 09:29, 18 August 2006 (UTC)Reply

Total re-write of the main Physics page is in progess

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You might like to join us at Physics/wip where a total re-write of the main Physics page is in progess. At present we're discussing the lead paragraphs for the new version, and how Physics should be defined. I've posted here because you are on the Physics Project participant list. --MichaelMaggs 08:04, 11 October 2006 (UTC)Reply

Thanks for the heads up. As you can see, I'm quite busy, but if I find some time I'll drop by. Nick Mks 08:37, 11 October 2006 (UTC)Reply

But but but

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Your assertion on WP:AIV that I ignored a final warning is a lie. I stopped making any malicious edits immediately upon final warning. 151.202.154.225 18:21, 1 November 2006 (UTC)Reply

I listed you before you received the warning that reads this is your last warning, but after you vandalised despite a third level warning, which according to Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism, is also a final warning. If you care that much, please become a legitimate editor as soon as your block expires (if there will be any at all). Nick Mks 18:27, 1 November 2006 (UTC)Reply

Your GA nomination of Supernova

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The article Supernova you nominated as a good article has passed  , see Talk:Supernova for eventual comments about the article. Good luck in future nominations. --Split Infinity (talk) 00:20, 17 December 2006 (UTC)Reply

Thanks for letting me know. Nick Mks 13:01, 17 December 2006 (UTC)Reply

Request

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Dear Nick,

I noticed that you have a lot of experience with getting articles to FA status. I have been working on the Ohio Wesleyan University page article and am trying to get it to FA status. I was wondering if you could provide some advice on how the article can be improved? Also, any contributions to it will be even more appreciated! Thank you so much for your time! I greatly appreciate it! WikiprojectOWU 01:56, 23 December 2006 (UTC)Reply

The articles I usually work on are about scientific subjects, which is not quite comparable to one about a university. I'll see what I can do in the peer review though. Nick Mks 17:58, 23 December 2006 (UTC)Reply

You helped choose Universe as this week's WP:AID winner

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Science Collaboration of the Month

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ArticleHistory

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Re your query here, the answer is no :-) The template doesn't handle FAC/FAR, as those templates should be displayed outside of the history (see the instructions at {{ArticleHistory}}). Once the FAR is closed, GimmeBot will automatically archive all the pieces and update the ArticleHistory template. Regards, SandyGeorgia (Talk) 13:54, 3 April 2007 (UTC)Reply

I see, thanks for the explanation. Nick Mks 14:11, 3 April 2007 (UTC)Reply
No problem; soon you'll be an ArticleHistory template expert :-) Regards, SandyGeorgia (Talk) 19:06, 3 April 2007 (UTC)Reply

Moon/Alternative1

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I don't think you can create sub pages of articles in that manner, and, as such, that is now in the article space, as an article. Perhaps it would be better to put it in user space? J Milburn 13:50, 7 April 2007 (UTC)Reply

Okay, I did so. Sorry and thanks for the warning. Nick Mks 14:00, 7 April 2007 (UTC)Reply

Moon FAC

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If you can't "see" the dash problem, it's not a big deal. I can fix them if you get everything else in order, but the footnotes need a lot of work. Sources need a publisher, correct article title, and author and date where available. All websources need a last access date. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 03:35, 8 April 2007 (UTC)Reply

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http://isthis4real.com/orbit.xml Intelligent design bit: It's sort of subtle. I played with it a bit, and thought it was fun, and it didn't bother me that I couldn't do it - it took me hours before I could do the Lunar Lander (computer game) too, so I just blamed my own clumsiness. Then I decided to find out who the author was to fulfill my own FAC gripe. It carefully doesn't say the author's name on the page. I did a Google, and found this discussion: http://developer.mozilla.org/webwatch/?p=117 which mentions the issue. From the page source it looks like http://philholden.me.uk/ is the author's personal page. --AnonEMouse (squeak) 15:03, 9 April 2007 (UTC)Reply

Okay, if you want to put it back go ahead, but I found it a bit weird to include a link in a scientific article which needed the sort of disclaimer you added... Nick Mks 16:20, 9 April 2007 (UTC)Reply
Oh, no. I don't want to put it back, I just wanted to explain my reasoning. Leaving it out is fine. --AnonEMouse (squeak) 16:50, 9 April 2007 (UTC)Reply
Fine, but I'll give it a try anyway when I'm on a Firefox containing computer ;) Nick Mks 16:53, 9 April 2007 (UTC)Reply

Moon Textures For Google Earth

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Just curious why you keep removing the External Link to the Moon Textures for Google Earth (http://www.gelib.fox-fam.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/moonoverlay.kml)?

There are External Links to moon textures for World Wind and Google Maps so why not Google Earth? By the way, this has nothing to do with the Google Moon project (which is based on Google Maps, not Google Earth)....two completely separate platforms. And it does not mess anything up on the users computer, not sure where you get that idea. Mattfox22 04:07, 11 April 2007 (UTC)Reply

Well, while it was still there I just clicked on it to see what it was, and it immediately opened my Google Earth and changed the Earth into the Moon without warning. I'm unsure whether anyone would appreciate this. If you can get a link to a site, which explains the product and then offers the possibility to do this, fine, but I find such a direct link pretty invasive. Nick Mks 07:39, 11 April 2007 (UTC)Reply
Just to let you know, that link had been blocked by the spam filter, and was preventing people posting. I've disabled it using nowiki tags. --GW_SimulationsUser Page | Talk 08:10, 29 January 2008 (UTC)Reply

Sun

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Hi Nick Mks,

I saw your note that you'd removed the commented section of the Sun article. Good call. I tend to leave chunks like that behind for a while, when contentious or under discussion and had been monitoring it off and on. If there was ever a good need to create a separate article, that was one.

Larry — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lmcelhiney (talkcontribs)

Hello, and thanks for your message. Nick Mks 18:50, 17 April 2007 (UTC)Reply

Lunar eclipse picture

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The picture of the March 2007 lunar eclipse at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon is, IMHO, a bit crap. You can't really see the curved edge of the Earth's shadow. Would you like this instead? --Occultations 12:53, 18 April 2007 (UTC)Reply

This picture is indeed better. If you own the copyright to it and would care to upload, go ahead. Thanks. Nick Mks 08:16, 19 April 2007 (UTC)Reply
Ok, I've done that. I'm pretty sure that the picture I replaced [1] was not of a lunar eclipse - the edge of the dark area is not curved, and its metadata [2] says "Date and time of data generation 20:58, 3 February 2007". --Occultations 13:06, 20 April 2007 (UTC)Reply
Yeah, I had my doubts too. Weird... Thanks again for your pic. Nick Mks 09:14, 21 April 2007 (UTC)Reply

Gliese 581, the Hottest Star in the Galaxy!

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Hi Nick, I sympathize with you for deciding to withdraw from the discussion. I have never seen anything quite like the mania generated by the announcement of discovery of this new planet. Trying to keep the articles good is probably hopeless, so I will withdraw for some amount of time, and then perhaps come back. Vegasprof 20:12, 26 April 2007 (UTC) (Larry)Reply

Well, the same worked with Eris back in August, so we'll see what happens in a couple of weeks... Nick Mks 19:25, 27 April 2007 (UTC)Reply

Should I give up on Pluto's FA drive?

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I really want to know, because I think I'm slowly going insane. How long will it take? What will it take? Tell me this is going to end! Please!

Edited after a good night's sleep: Sorry. I just needed to vent. Thanks for your help with this; I do appreciate it. Serendipodous 20:30, 27 April 2007 (UTC)Reply

No, I think you're almost there. Getting rid of Tony1's oppose should do the trick, unless more comments surface of course. But I think it's about time to round this one up... Nick Mks 09:13, 28 April 2007 (UTC)Reply

December 2007

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  Hello. Please don't forget to provide an edit summary, which wasn't included with your recent edit to STS-122. Thank you. -MBK004 18:38, 4 December 2007 (UTC)Reply

Space missions WikiProject

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Hi, I noticed that you are a member of the Space missions WikiProject. A couple of weeks ago, I proposed that the Space missions and Space travellers projects, which both appear to be inactive be merged into the Human Spaceflight project. Whilst this is being done, the capitalisation of the Human spaceflight project's title would also be corrected (ie. Human SpaceflightHuman spaceflight). The projects are all doing the same/very similar things, and in my opinion, a single, larger, project would be more effective than three smaller, and somewhat inactive projects.. In light of very little response to messages on the project talk pages, I am now sending this message to all members of all three projects, inviting them to discuss the proposal on the Human Spaceflight project's talk page. I would appreciate your opinion on this. Thanks. --GW_SimulationsUser Page | Talk 08:10, 29 January 2008 (UTC)Reply

Thanks, I'll take a look at it. Nick Mks (talk) 19:13, 29 January 2008 (UTC)Reply


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Artificial Satellites

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In reference to this entry:

"At the altitude of the International Space Station, for example, an object would need to be about 3.35 km (2.08 mi) across to blot the Sun out entirely."

Is this the distance and the diameter needed to blot the Sun over the entire surface of the Earth, or just a portion of it and if so how much of a portion? Thx - L. Ancalimon (talk) 18:04, 25 January 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.255.98.200 (talk) 17:46, 25 January 2010 (UTC)Reply

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