User talk:Smurrayinchester/Archive 11

And now, for FV's traditional last-minute nonsectarian holiday greeting!

Here’s wishing you a happy end to the holiday season and a wonderful 2010.
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Winter Service Vehicle

Hi I've noticed that you have contributed considerably to the Winter Service Vehicle page, I have recently tried to add a subbmission on the leading UK gritter manufacturers but due to a COI could not, I am looking for an editor with an interest in the industry who would be willing to take on the article to see if you belive the topic submitable and remove myself, would you be interested in recieving the information or could you reccomend someone who would? Tench1970 (talk) 14:21, 12 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Barnstar

For being a great wikichum! Wikiwoohoo (talk) 22:21, 15 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, although I'm not sure if you're active on Wikipedia anymore but I am retiring properly now for good and wanted to say it was great knowing you on here. Best wishes! Wikiwoohoo (talk) 22:21, 15 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Chester Midsummer Watch Parade

I recently did some work on this article, which you started. Much of it is completely without reference, although there are several quotes within the text, which seem as if they would be easy to source. I realize you are not very active, but when you pop back in, I would be very interested to know where you did some of your research, with an aim to improve the article. Cheers, PrincessofLlyr ^{royal court} 16:29, 3 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

	The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
	Thanks for How to's UserBobherry talk Contributions 00:56, 9 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

	The Barnstar of Good Humor
	For being an all-round nice chap. Cloudbound (talk) 13:35, 18 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

A kitten for you!

OMG TEH KITTEH 4 U :D ENJOY MY FREIND

The Pikachu Who Dared (talk) 02:18, 3 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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MSU Interview

Dear Smurrayinchester,

My name is Jonathan Obar user:Jaobar, I'm a professor in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University and a Teaching Fellow with the Wikimedia Foundation's Education Program. This semester I've been running a little experiment at MSU, a class where we teach students about becoming Wikipedia administrators. Not a lot is known about your community, and our students (who are fascinated by wiki-culture by the way!) want to learn how you do what you do, and why you do it. A while back I proposed this idea (the class) to the community HERE, where it was met mainly with positive feedback. Anyhow, I'd like my students to speak with a few administrators to get a sense of admin experiences, training, motivations, likes, dislikes, etc. We were wondering if you'd be interested in speaking with one of our students.

So a few things about the interviews:

Interviews will last between 15 and 30 minutes.
Interviews can be conducted over skype (preferred), IRC or email. (You choose the form of communication based upon your comfort level, time, etc.)
All interviews will be completely anonymous, meaning that you (real name and/or pseudonym) will never be identified in any of our materials, unless you give the interviewer permission to do so.
All interviews will be completely voluntary. You are under no obligation to say yes to an interview, and can say no and stop or leave the interview at any time.
The entire interview process is being overseen by MSU's institutional review board (ethics review). This means that all questions have been approved by the university and all students have been trained how to conduct interviews ethically and properly.

Bottom line is that we really need your help, and would really appreciate the opportunity to speak with you. If interested, please send me an email at obar@msu.edu (to maintain anonymity) and I will add your name to my offline contact list. If you feel comfortable doing so, you can post your name HERE instead.

If you have questions or concerns at any time, feel free to email me at obar@msu.edu. I will be more than happy to speak with you.

Thanks in advance for your help. We have a lot to learn from you.

Sincerely,

Jonathan Obar --Jaobar (talk) 07:26, 12 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Happy Adminship Anniversary

Wishing Smurrayinchester a very happy adminship anniversary on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Armbrust, B.Ed. ^{Let's talk}_{about my edits?} 02:31, 18 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Signature colour argument

Hi, Smurrayinchester. Please comment here. Axl ¤ [Talk] 21:30, 27 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Signature Problem

Hey, my signature looks like (see below), how come? I am new to Wikipedia, and i really need some help.-- [[User:Earth100|UserEarth100]] [[User talk:UserEarth100|talk]] (talk) 05:17, 12 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Never mind, fixed.-- ✯Earth100✯◕‿◕^Talk_Contribs 05:27, 12 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

DYK nomination of Hessian cuisine

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DYK for Hessian cuisine

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DYK nomination of Fanny Murray

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DYK for Fanny Murray

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Signature ain't working...

Hey, I followed instructions in your tutorial and pasted this into my sandbox. It looks perfectly fine on my sandbox, but when I go to put it into my signature area, it says invalid raw signature. Can you please shed some light on what I am doing wrong?? Apple Jack 7 06:54, 27 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Chester Meet-Up

Hello, I noticed you have done a lot of work on Chester related articles so thought you might also be interested in the 1st Chester Wikimeet on 21 July. Maybe see you there? ツStacey (talk) 15:11, 24 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Signature tutorial - update?

Hallo, your tutorial at Wikipedia:Smurrayinchester's signature tutorial is helpful for those who want to tweak their signature, and is linked from Wikipedia:Signatures#Appearance_and_color, which is now Wikipedia Policy, not just a Guideline, but unfortunately its advice is out of date. You show how to use , but WP:SIG says "Avoid deprecated markup such as the tag." It would be great if you could update your tutorial so that editors get help in following current practice. I've raised it at Wikipedia_talk:Signatures#.22Font.22_Deprecated.3F. PamD 11:36, 18 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

ITN credit

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Signature Tutorial help

Thanks a lot for your signature tutorial! I have to say it has been very helpful. However, I wanted to ask you what is wrong with this code: [[User:Tary123|Tary]] ([[User talk:Tary123|Let's talk!]]) . What I get is this: Tary (Let's talk!) while I am actually looking for the username to be in green with the Comic Sans font and bold and the talk page link to be the usual blue, only bolded. I would appreciate it very much if you could guide me in this. Thanks again! Tary (Let's talk!) 16:12, 9 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Tary. The tags need to go inside the [[User:Tary123|Tary]] part, like so:

'''[[User:Tary123|<span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS, Arial; color:green">Tary</span>]]  ([[User talk:Tary123|Let's talk!]])'''

, producing this: Tary (Let's talk!). Hope this helps. Smurrayinchester 16:21, 9 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

	The Special Barnstar
	Thanks for your instantaneous response to my query! Appreciate it! Tary (Let's talk!) 16:33, 9 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Signature help

Hi, You have a really great tutorial on signatures. I've used it to create my design (Cuparsk | الحسين), but when I use the 'signature and timestamp' feature, it divides the User page link and the talk page link and posts them between dates. It shows up like this:

--Cuparsk | الحسين 09:05, 23 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Can you help me with this? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cuparsk (talk • contribs) 09:07, 23 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@Cuparsk: That seems like a problem caused by including right-to-left Arabic text in the middle of left-to-right. The Wikipedia page on bi-directional text may help you - you probably need to add something called a "left-to-right mark" to the end of your signature. I'm afraid I don't know enough about Arabic to tell you more than that. Smurrayinchester 08:50, 26 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Private Eye

Since the full story isn't online, and I doubt I'll be able to find a copy in my part of the United States, would you like to write it up for The Signpost? Unless there's more to the story, your comment says it all and I could just incorporate that into the next ITM. Gamaliel (talk) 20:19, 7 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! Gamaliel (talk) 00:09, 8 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

	The Special Barnstar
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A brownie for you!

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Cheshire West and Chester Council election, 2015

Hi, saw this article after visiting the project page. I'm not interested in GA status issues but agree with you that the article needs portraits. These are/should be available from the council website and could be used under fair-use if the council doesn't consent. I notice that the templates for the ward results you use does not include the section that indicates if and how seats changed hands. Including this would be an improvement and also be helpful to the reader. Impressive effort from you nevertheless. Graemp (talk) 16:21, 5 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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"Hijack"

According to the Collins English Dictionary, "hijack" can be defined as "to rob (a person or vehicle) by force: to hijack a traveller" in British English. Given that you're British, I'm inclined to assume that this is less common than the other meaning (which is an opportunity for commonality, regardless). —David Levy 15:19, 24 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@David Levy: I'd say that's a rather unusual usage - it doesn't appear in Chambers or the Oxford Dictionary of British English. A Google News search for "he was hijacked" (which to my ears, suggests mind control rather than piracy) mostly finds South African newspapers. Would it be valid in the US? Smurrayinchester 15:40, 24 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think so. It certainly isn't common in American English (though we do use "carjack" in that context, presumably because it would be redundant to state that a car was carjacked). Your rewording is consistent with the word's usual meaning in the US. —David Levy 17:04, 24 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Pentaquark image on Pentaquark

It appears that the charm and anticharm quarks are also blue and antiblue; would that make them particle and antiparticle and, if so, would they mutually annihilate? (Question brought up by a Slashdot question about particle/antiparticle annihilation within the pentaquark, my reply based on that image, and somebody pointing out that there is a particle and its antiparticle in that image.) Guy Harris (talk) 02:05, 16 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Guy Harris: I can't pretend to be an expert on colour charge or pentaquarks, but there are particles where that include a quark and its exact antiquark - the J/ψ meson (charm-anticharm) that the pentaquark decays to is one such particle. Such a combination is pretty unstable, but it certainly can exist. It's worth noting that colour is not fixed - quarks are constantly changing colour as they spit out colour-anticolour gluons - so it probably won't always be the case that the charm and anticharm are a colour/anticolour pair. The image that CERN produced is a bit unclear (they give each quark two colours - I think colour charge is the fuzzy colour on the inside of each quark), but it seems to show an almost identical colour configuration - charm blue, anticharm antiblue, down red, up green, up blue. They also released an alternative image which shows the possibility that the charm and anticharm are "shielded" from each other by the fact that they are in separate parts of a doublet-triplet pairing that only weakly interact with each other. I hope that helps. Smurrayinchester 04:33, 16 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Many thanks

For your post at the entertainment ref desk about the song. Even better was your using the word mondegreen. It filled my "learn something new every day" requirment. I had never heard it before but I certainly look forward to finding a place to use it in a future conversation :-) Cheers. MarnetteD|Talk 22:28, 23 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Stox

I updated 2015 stock market selloff with Monday's gloomy numbers. Perhaps you'd like to renominate? Sca (talk) 21:33, 1 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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