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Public domain images

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Thank you, Sam Spade and Trilobite. I was mostly looking for pictures of scientists, and the Library of Congress is down today, so no luck. I did fix a link on one of the pages though. That must be a very common need here, isn't it?

KGB

Hi!

I certainly didnt mean to sugest your edit was vandalism... it was the annons edits after yours ( diff) which I objected to. In fact, I reverted to your version diff. I appologise for my ambiguous edit summary: it was inteneded to imply "rv to last version by spalding, due to anon vadalsim of that version". I hope that this apology satisfys you with out clogging up the page history further, but if you still feel it needs clarifying there, please drop me another line! cheers, Iain 08:39, 10 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Very good. Thanks! Spalding 11:28, Sep 10, 2004 (UTC)

Assembly language link

Hi, I just wanted to thank you for the link you added to assembly language. It's a very good site that I've read myself but had forgotten all about. Thanks again. Derrick Coetzee 06:47, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)

You're very welcome. That's been in my favorites for quite a while, even though I only have fond memories of assembly language programming, since I haven't done any in ages. There was a broken link to it in the other external link. It is an excellent article - a great example for Wikipedia. Spalding 11:29, Oct 19, 2004 (UTC)

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License of image

Could you clarify the license of the picture Image:Swiss Chard.jpg. Is it {{GFDL}}?Rasbak 14:28, 15 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I just put a {{PD-self}} tag on it. I didn't originally because that was my first image upload and I didn't know how to edit the description page. Spalding 20:20, July 16, 2005 (UTC)

Denver

Can you vote for John Denver on the Article Collaboration Drive? Thanks. Carolaman 19:57, 21 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Judith Crist

Thanks for your edit! SaraK 23:01, 7 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Werner S. Pluhar

Thanks for the editorial work on the Pluhar article. I'm delighted to see that no one else seems to have noticed its existence. I've been engaged for a few months in a discussion of the problems of Wikipedia and the Pluhar article is an interesting experiment. Pluhar is sufficiently obscure to filter out nearly everyone who frequents this website but the article is still open to change. We'll see how things proceed.

No problem - that was pretty minor - I just now added his personal web page for more context.

Walter A. Shewhart

Spalding, There is a factual error in the Watler A. Shewhart article which is similar to the one you corrected recently in the control chart article: "In 1938 his work came to the attention of physicists W. Edwards Deming and Raymond T. Birge. The two had been deeply intrigued by the issue of measurement error in science and had published a landmark paper in Reviews of Modern Physics in 1934. On reading of Shewhart's insights, they wrote to the journal to wholly recast their approach in the terms that Shewhart advocated." There may be some useful information in this reference mixed in with the factual errors. Deming didn't write to the journal because he had just discovered Shewhart's work. Whatever was written to the journal probably came about because of insights caused by Shewhart's lectures at USDA. Since there is no reference to a specific journal article this appears to be speculation. I would appreciate you views on this section of the article. Thanks. Leaders100 12:45, 28 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Bicycle physics

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Wow, that is very courteous of you to make all these notifications, Andrew! You are one serious bicycle/motorcycle physics dweeb! I fell in love with the concept of countersteering when I first encountered it in the Motorcycle Safety Foundation course. Thanks, and I'll take a look. Spalding 16:44, 29 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Conspiracy of Fools Edit

What is your source RE the namesake for Eichenwald's book? Curious.--Utahredrock 04:06, 19 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I don't have one. I just was curious what the name of the book was so I found and added it. User Tazmaniacs had put the author there previously. A surface glance at a Google search for both titles together just turned up Wikipedia clones. Spalding 22:06, 19 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Requested change in redirect for IPA from International Phonetic Alphabet to IPA (disambiguation)

Please comment. --Karnesky 15:39, 13 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

You wrote

I think like most TLAs with multiple meanings the TLA itself should go to the disambig page. The reason is the user can then choose for themselves what they are looking for. I'll bet most direct queries here are people looking for India Pale Ale, and like me, are too lazy to type it out. I was going to be bold and just move it, but all the links here make that difficult or inadvisable. Any suggestions? Spalding 00:33, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

I have since fixed the incoming links, so this is no longer a concern. If you feel the same as you did back in April, please consider voicing your support for the change in redirect. --Karnesky 21:14, 17 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

OK, I supported the move. Thanks for your initiative in this. Spalding 23:16, 17 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Pi-unrolled

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Disambig statements

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World Class Standards

Since you were curious, the previous version of the article was deleted because it was an essay, not an article. DS 17:33, 2 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

World class standards

It was mainly just a procedural thing. Your recreation of the article (a much better start than the direction taken by the old articel, BTW) counts as objecting to the deletion. I would have recreated it for you, but, quite frankly, I like where you're going with it. Good luck. youngamerican (ahoy hoy) 02:31, 3 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Well, I saw this after the article was deleted. Edward Tenner wrote a well known book, so I think that's enough notability, but fighting deletionists is just too hopeless.

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I added a link to where the book was used as a reference in a scholarly article, and noted my objections on the talk page, that it is an important link in building the web on the important subject of traffic safety. Spalding (talk) 15:28, 12 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I'm deleting the proposed deletion tag for the article since you clearly contest it, but just remember in the future that when you oppose the proposed deletion that you can simply delete the tag from the article. The instructions written above outline this. Thank you. -- Atama ^chat 18:08, 16 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, I appreciate the advice, but I see I am too late and the article has been deleted anyway. This is getting frustrating. Spalding (talk) 04:25, 3 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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RfD nomination of Wikipediaholic

OK, it looks like it was only deleted out of the main namespace but is still in the Wikipedia namespace, so I can live with that. . Spalding (talk) 04:25, 3 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Thanks for the notice, Matisse. It has resulted in an improvement to Wikipedia since I was using the wrong name for the article. I have renamed it to Description error, which is the accepted name for the concept. I also added an external link and expanded it, and linked to it from other articles, then removed the proposed deletion tag. Spalding (talk) 14:16, 8 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Please, have a look on

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Something is wrong with this process since the article was deleted before I even got this. Oh well, I'm not going to aggravate myself fighting it. Spalding (talk) 15:18, 16 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Joining in the fun more seriously

Hi Spalding - I've done a few edits to Checklist over the last few days, just got back from a talk by Atul Gawande (author of Checklist Manifesto) and finally looked to find out who'd created the page in the first place. I don't have any pages I am currently feeling responsible for, and would be happy to adopt this one - I've got a lot of good content from other credible sources that I could add to it. And it connects with several of my passions (checklists & passions sounds strange, right? but its still true - I've also got a thing for rubrics and worksheets, but I haven't looked at those pages yet).

I am profoundly impressed with what wikipedia had already accomplished and have high hopes for its continued growth and the influence it can have to help promote positive change in the world. I'm checking in here because I haven't been an active member of the wikipedia editing community yet - just an occasional interloper (although I have managed to teach >40 undergrads how to edit wikipedia pages for their first time). Would love to connect and learn more about how best my skills can support the wikimedia hivemind. Pop me a message when you can? Melissaganus (talk) 06:12, 11 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Oops, sorry, I just now noticed this! That's great, Melissa, edit away! The talk by Atul Gawande sounds great - after going back and reviewing his Checklists article in the New Yorker, I want to read more by him. He seems like a great documenter of a huge current issue, medical safety. I am in constant awe of what the aviation industry has achieved in making an inherently risky endeavor like air travel very safe, and it is probably my main interest in life to see the elements of this success story applied to other fields like medicine and engineering where ever possible. And it all started with a humble checklist.

One interesting facet of this story may be instruction creep, where the well-intentioned development of the simple checklist can lead to long and unwieldy "improved" checklists, and usability suffers as a result. Just a thought.

I'll continue this epistle over on your talk page. Thanks for seeking me out for a conversation, Dr. Melissa. By all means, join in the fun more seriously! And I am honored to help you do that where ever I can, especially since I share some of your interests. Spalding (talk) 15:52, 5 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Yay! The article was improved and therefore saved. A nice example of Wikipedia in action. Maybe deletionists aren't ALL bad. :) Spalding (talk) 13:41, 9 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Kenneth Craik & mental models

Thanks. Been a while since I revamped Kenneth Craik article, but would be interested in your interest. Photo of KC would be nice if doable; more critique on his pioneering 1943 thesis (section on book?) on mental models awesome. (Latter article in great need of improvement, esp. 75+year history of evolving concept, & linkage.) Let me know your particular interest - some matter available for scholarly purposes. -- Paulscrawl (talk) 02:25, 25 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I got interested in his work through my interest in human factors, usability and the work of Donald Norman. I would love to read his book again and maybe include some points from it in the article. Spalding (talk) 16:19, 27 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Proposed deletion of Mr. Know-It-All

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Ueferenced article about a TV show's segment. The coverage (references, external links, etc.) does not seem sufficient to justify this article passing Wikipedia:General notability guideline and the more detailed Wikipedia:Notability (fiction) requirement. WP:BEFORE did not reveal any significant coverage on Gnews, Gbooks or Gscholar. No objection to bold redirecting like has been done with most other similar plot summaries seen at Template:The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends.

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Islands of automation

Proposed deletion of Islands of automation

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Entirely unsourced, and not even a dictionary definition, since it tells us that the phrase 'islands of automation' has been used to describe two different things. A Google search finds some usage, but nonthing to suggest this is more than vague IT-market-speak jargon. Arriving at any sort of overarching definition would require WP:OR. The last sentence is unadulterated waffle.

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Proposed deletion of User expectations

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No evidence of notability. Seems like a rehash of parts of user experience.

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Proposed deletion of David Boyle (author)

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No significant coverage in secondary sources (WP:BASIC).

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Proposed deletion of Water spot

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no sources for a decade, not encyclopedic

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Proposed deletion of Information sign

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Are not all signs supposed to be informative by definition?

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