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I have been cleaning up Camcorder a bit and decided to remove the addition of your image of Indymediavid act.jpg for three reasons.
Halfblue 14:42, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
I linked you toward Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information WP:NOT and Wikipedia is an encyclopedia because the pages both put forward the concept of "Wikipedia is an encyclopedia". What you may need to grasp in your edits is that even "providing practical examples of theoretical concepts" has to have a logical structure re: what article you drop it into (on other words "Encyclopedic). The right stuff in the wrong article does not work very well. I don't know if you have a problem with someone editing your stuff (if you do Wikipedia warns you off the bat that this may not be the place for you.) Your recent edits have been bold but indiscriminant. Moving stuff wholesale without taking into account where you move it, not adapting to where you are moving it, not making it work with other articles and inter-article structures that have been affected, and not even discussing it on the respective articles talk page makes allot of work for other people. Maybe you are planning to clean it all up in the future but a little more care would be appreciated. Halfblue 23:59, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
With respect, don't try to lecture me on wikipedia policy as I have been editing long enough to know what is what.
I chopped some bits out and moved them and did not have time to finesse the moves immediately. My observation is that those that have an interest in a particular article will usually start integrating new changes almost immediately, as you have done, so no real harm done.
I appreciate that you are taking a bold position as am I, however I have contributed to this article and many others over a period of time and have been in a situation a number of times where someone comes in with a strong view and starts rewriting at an existing article citing blanket policies.
If I said that the purpose of the reflecting telescope article was to summarise designs and their implementation, then specific implementations would be valid. Of course the article doesn't specifically state that, but over a period of time, that is the flavour the article has taken. You have chosen to decide the article shouldn't reference implementations. That doesn't make you right, it just means you have a different view of the purpose of the article.
Based on my experience on wikipedia, I'm going to leave some of these related articles alone for now as I can see you have strong views and we may otherwise clash further, which I see no value in. Good luck with your editing. Garglebutt / (talk) 22:08, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
What's up with focal ratio?? It is redundant with the preexisting f-number. These are two names for the same thing, so they should be covered in a single article. I switched the former back to a redirect.
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talk:f-number.) --
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Halfblue, please slow down on the link changing to your new redundant focal ratio article. When we revert it back to a redirect, all those will ideally need to be fixed back again. Also, please be careful when changing "aperture" to "f-number", especially when there's a numerical comparison involved that becomes inverted due to higher f-number being a smaller aperture. I fixed one for you already. Dicklyon 20:12, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
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Halfblue, Recently I uploaded my own images of some of the Messier objects. I only uploaded images in cases where I felt that my image was superior to the image already posted in the article. I used the previous M13 article as a model. It had a picture with a credit line. Hence, I updated both the picture and the credit line. You removed that credit line as well as the credit line to the other Messier object pictures I uploaded. If it is inappropriate to have used a credit line, then that is fine, I don't mind you removing them. But, many of the other Messier objects have pictures with credit lines and you didn't remove them... only mine. Is there a reason for that? PS. I'm rather new to this Wiki stuff, so I'm not sure that posting here is even the correct way of contacting you. I hope it is. Vanderbei
Sorry, I signed incorrectly (forgot the time stamp). Vanderbei 00:32, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for the explanation posted to my Talk page. Grok. Vanderbei 12:51, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
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Well it needs to be condensed of course. And this is a start. An article on a telescope without even mentioning its history is pretty crap to be honest. If anything I'd suggest copy the history into the tlak page and then somebody consensing atwriting it properly. You compare this article to the one on the Hubble ♦ Hairless Blofeld ♦ "Expecting you?" Contribs 17:33, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
Both the telescope and history pages are very poor indeed. Bla bla. The writing such as "A gentleman from Essex" sounds rather pompous almost as if it has been copied from a 1768 encylopedia. Both need a complete rewrite most of the text is not comprehensive -this is an encyclopedia after all. Given the high standard of other articles on astronomy and space related topics -I am very surprised that articles that form an important basis for the subject are given such little attention ♦ Hairless Blofeld ♦ "Expecting you?" Contribs 17:45, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
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I think we measure consensus differently. I see consensus more for going toward a comprehensive version rather than the version to which you reverted. I also think that your concerns about the principle of least astonishment are valid. What we should do is concentrate on improving the prose in the Earth-based observation section. That way you can pipe directly to that section in articles which refer to the Milky Way as a band across the sky. Nondistinguished 21:08, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
On my talk page, you wrote that there was "overwhelming reference that the GA version of this article deficient in the fact that it has the wrong name and totally ignores the thing that has that name." Please present that evidence in a concise manner. So far, I have seen none. — Viriditas | Talk 12:17, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
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