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Message from Mowglinova

I'd seriously like to know how it broke the rules.. they only state that he can only carry himself & I item IN the boat, and as even an infant knows that a goose swims, its actually obvious, especially as he is a farmer, that he would tether the goose to the outside of the boat & let it swim across.. its not my fault that I came up with a way simpler answer than you did, so why not leave my answer on the page, to allow dialogue on this subject?

mike — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mowglinova (talk • contribs) 00:49, 18 January 2014‎

Nomination for deletion of Template:Starbox 2

Template:Starbox 2 has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. eh bien mon prince (talk) 22:18, 18 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Wikilinking

Hi, and thanks for your work on the English Wikipedia.

I noticed an article you worked on. Just a short note to point out that we don’t normally link:

dates
years
commonly known geographical terms (including well-known country-names), and
common terms you’d look up in a dictionary (unless significantly technical).

This applies to infoboxes, too.

Thanks, and my best wishes.

Tony (talk) 08:32, 13 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Earth

DON'T REVERT TO "THE EARTH"

please, it hurts my eyes.

Hey, I see you're into space stuff. You might wanna check out my new wikiproject, Wikipedia:WikiProject Cosmology. Thanks Tetra quark (talk) 02:45, 9 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

you're being insistent

please stop. Saying "Earth" is enough, and it is not wrong, so there is no reason to revert it Tetra quark (talk) 04:36, 9 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

This issue should be discussed at Talk:Earth rather than here. Also, neither "it hurts my eyes" or "it is better this way" are substantive arguments. Spacepotato (talk) 21:30, 9 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Earth

Please beware of WP:3RR. I know you mean well but until there is an established consensus let's try not to clutter the page history and get everyone all worked up. This is all very trivial, anyway. Clearly the talk page discussion is going to need closure to settle the matter. — MusikAnimal ^talk 05:46, 9 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Buchstab function

Two things to work on:

The article tacitly says this is named after someone named Buchstab. Who is that? The article doesn't say.
No other articles link to this new article.

Michael Hardy (talk) 21:28, 15 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

It's named after Александр Адольфович Бухштаб [1] who has an obituary at doi:10.1070/RM1991v046n01ABEH002726. Spacepotato (talk) 07:16, 16 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

American Spanish. listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect American Spanish.. Since you had some involvement with the American Spanish. redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. Mikeylito^TALK 16:56, 10 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of LP 658-2

The article LP 658-2 has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Doesn't seem to meet WP:NASTRO. Not visible to the naked eye, not in a catalogue of note to amateurs, not discovered before 1850, and no significant coverage in studies. Being the 8th closest white dwarf isn't enough for a standalone article, as it's not within 20 light-years.

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Category:Redditors

Category:Redditors, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. Nymf (talk) 09:45, 21 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Use of Template:Starbox 2 in user space

Hi Spacepotato. I'm in the long overdue process of merging {{Starbox 2}} into the various templates {{Starboxes}} as per this incredibly old discussion. I noticed that you have used this template in your user space at User:Spacepotato/Starbox example and User:Spacepotato/Albireo. Are you still using those pages? This particular conversion is a bitch to do. If possible, I'd appreciate it if you either updated the examples with the current versions in the main space or removed the {{Starbox 2}} templates in some other manner. It would save me at least a half hour, maybe more. If not, I'll convert them sometime soon. Thanks! ~ Rob^Talk 03:23, 3 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I disabled the use of {{Starbox 2}} on these pages. Spacepotato (talk) 04:13, 3 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Thanks

For your work on virus classification! All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 15:49, 26 November 2015 (UTC).[reply]

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Distance to Proxima Centauri

Hello Spacepotato, you changed on 11 August 2008 the parallax of Proxima Centauri from 771.99 to 768.7 mas and hence the distance from 4.224 to 4.243 ly and Wikipedia retains this value in the article of the star up to now. But the discoverers of Proxima Centauri b still use 4.224 ly for the distance of the star (and therefore in the wiki-article of the planet that value is given). Of course this is only small difference, but it is nevertheless interesting. Are there conflicting measurements? --Fb8cont (talk) 09:11, 26 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

There are a number of recent measurements:

772.33±2.42 milliarcseconds (original Hipparcos catalogue, 1997, VizieR I/239)
771.64±2.60 milliarcseconds (revised Hipparcos catalogue, 2007, VizieR I/311)
768.7 ±0.3 milliarcseconds (Bibcode:1999AJ....118.1086B, Table 7; using the Hubble Fine Guidance Sensor 3)
768.13±1.04 milliarcseconds (Bibcode:2014AJ....148...91L, Table 1; the RECONS project)

The last value, #4, is the one currently in the Proxima Centauri article; it was placed in this edit on 3 Sep 2015. Spacepotato (talk) 02:55, 8 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Precious

stars math virus

Thank you for quality articles about stars, astronomers and mathematicians, such as Murray S. Klamkin, Andrew M. Gleason, GRW +70 8247 and Capella, for work on List of virus species and categories, for creatung hundreds of meaningful redirects, - you star, you are an awesome Wikipedian!

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Two years ago, you were recipient no. 1885 of Precious, a prize of QAI! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:42, 21 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination of LP 658-2 for deletion

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Speedy deletion nomination of E. C. Stoner (disambiguation)

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muslimheritage.com as a source

Hi Spacepotato. What do you think of muslimheritage.com as a source? I found your User:Spacepotato/Examples of source inaccuracy (muslimheritage.com). The RSN discussions aren't very detailed or conclusive, and the organization behind the site, FSTC, seems wanting. --Ronz (talk) 18:06, 6 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Your article

Hi Spacepotato, Thanks for creating 2020 Kenai Peninsula mid-air collision. In the future when you create a new aircraft related article, could you please add it to Wikipedia:New articles (Aircraft)? This will help the article to get more exposure. Thanks! - Samf4u (talk) 15:55, 7 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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