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| | ==Milt== |
| | Milt was a great contributor to our project who invested a lot of his own knowledge and time in it; Citizendium is much poorer without him. He was highly trusted and respected, previously serving as the project's Treasurer and on the elected Management and Editorial Councils. However, we were a small part of a long life: Milt completed his degree in 1944, but his graduation was delayed while he saw action in Europe during the Second World War. Decades of experience in both chemical and environmental engineering followed, and he would become a well-published authority on various aspects of these fields, as recognized by his Fellowship of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. His daughter also tells me he liked to apply his engineering approach to everyday life by collecting recipes and carefully replicating dishes he'd enjoyed. Milt stood firm against pseudoscience and other nonsense, as we at Citizendium can attest, and was a strong proponent of the science and the facts. I am sure I speak for those who knew him here when I say that we will miss him. [[User:John Stephenson|John Stephenson]] ([[User talk:John Stephenson|talk]]) 12:27, 28 February 2015 (UTC) |
| | :RIP Milt. He was a nice gent. [[User:Ro Thorpe|Ro Thorpe]] ([[User talk:Ro Thorpe|talk]]) 14:04, 28 February 2015 (UTC) |
| | :RIP Milt. [[User:JeromeDelacroix|Jérôme Delacroix]] ([[User talk:JeromeDelacroix|talk]]) 18:22, 28 February 2015 (UTC+1) |
| | :RIP Milt. You embodied the true spirit of Citizendium at its best.[[User:Roger A. Lohmann|Roger A. Lohmann]] ([[User talk:Roger A. Lohmann|talk]]) 04:11, 1 March 2015 (UTC) |
| | :RIP MIlt. As a collaborator and colleague, he will be missed. [[User:Russell D. Jones|Russell D. Jones]] ([[User talk:Russell D. Jones|talk]]) 16:33, 1 March 2015 (UTC) |
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| ==Updated article on TSCF==
| | Milt had an abundance of wisdom, passion and knowledge. He was with Citizendium from the early days, and embraced fully the spirit and idealism with which Citizendium was launched. He made an enormous contribution to the project. [[User:Gareth Leng|Gareth Leng]] ([[User talk:Gareth Leng|talk]]) 21:07, 1 March 2015 (UTC) |
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| Milton, I just made small updates to the article on The Social Capital Foundation, corrected links. Could you please approve the new version. Thanks [[User:Koen Demol|Koen Demol]] 19:18, 25 February 2011 (UTC)
| | I have missed Milt ever since he needed to leave the project, and I will always remember him fondly.[[User:Pat Palmer|Pat Palmer]] ([[User talk:Pat Palmer|talk]]) 01:18, 9 March 2015 (UTC) |
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| :Hi, Koen. I moved your posting to the bottom of this Talk page where it belongs. For a new article to be approved, or for re-approving a revised version of an existing article (which is the case with [[The Social Capital Foundation]]), requires that it first be nominated for approval or re-approval by either:
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| :* A single editor who has not participated significantly in creating the article, or
| | Let us temper our sadness in the passing of our esteemed colleague with a celebration of his achievements in his field of endeavor. Google Scholar has tabulated 111 articles he published between 1951 and 2005, with links to them and to all the articles that cited them. |
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| :In either of the two cases above, the nominators must be editors in the workgroup categories specified in the article's Metadata template. In this case of [[The Social Capital Foundation]]. the categories specified in the Metadata template are Sociology, Politics and Anthropology. Since I am not an editor in any of those categories, I cannot nominate the article for re-approval. | | See: [https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=kBHMSC4AAAAJ&hl=en&oi=sra MR Beychok] |
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| :You should read [[CZ:Approval process]]. In some cases, if the revisions to an approved article are very minor (like adding or revising wiki links or fixing a few typos), I believe that a constable can do a re-approval without going through any formal nomination and approval procedures. I know that Matt Innis has done that in the past. Perhaps other constable have also done that, but I really don't know if they have. [[User:Milton Beychok|Milton Beychok]] 19:46, 25 February 2011 (UTC)
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| ::Yes, Milt, I did make some *very* minor changes to Approved articles while I was a Cop. But they were incredibly trivial matters, removing a comma, changing two spaces to one space, correcting the spelling within a link, etc. And even those changes generally had to be run pass three or four editors or authors in an informal manner, generally on the Talk pages.... [[User:Hayford Peirce|Hayford Peirce]] 20:09, 25 February 2011 (UTC)
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| == Valve ==
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| Milt, are you writing or planning to write an article on '''[[Valve]]''' ? If so, let me know, so I will not bother to do it. Otherwise, I may write a [[Valve]] article. I'm trying to avoid interferences between us and duplication of effort. [[User:Henry A. Padleckas|Henry A. Padleckas]] 05:34, 27 February 2011 (UTC)
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| :We could use an articles about valves ... please go ahead if you wish to write one. We could also use an article about pressure vessels. [[User:Milton Beychok|Milton Beychok]] 16:56, 27 February 2011 (UTC)
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| == your pH scale pic modified ==
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| Milt, I modified your pic '''[[:Image:PH scale.png]]'''. If you don't like it, you can revert back to your old one. The gradient colors I used were supposed to be reminiscent of litmus paper color change.
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| I got some software that can make linear or radial color gradients. Windows-Paint does not make such gradients (easily). If you ever need any color gradients, tell me whether you want linear or radial, and what colors you want. I can then e-mail them to you. Then you can use Paint to scale them, skew them, and apply them to any drawing you want. Also, if you want them at a certain angle, I have software that can rotate too. [[User:Henry A. Padleckas|Henry A. Padleckas]] 12:07, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
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| :Its a nice improvement, Henry ... thanks. [[User:Milton Beychok|Milton Beychok]] 16:49, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
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| == [[HUBO]] ==
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| Milt, I've looked at your edits on HUBO and see that they are only copyedits, so you can not only join in the approval (you could do that even if they were content edits), but you can still approve as a "single editor approval" if necessary (should Alexander not return to update the version number to include any new changes). [[User:D. Matt Innis|D. Matt Innis]] 23:41, 9 March 2011 (UTC)
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| :Matt, I had planned to update the version number when I sign on as a co-nominator. Is that okay? I had always thought that any of the nominators could change the version number. [[User:Milton Beychok|Milton Beychok]] 23:54, 9 March 2011 (UTC)
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| ::All editors have to approve the same version, so if there were some changes since the first editor endorsement, he/she would have to agree to the new version. That way their name doesn't end up on something they may disagree with. In this case, though, since you have not made content edits, you don't need the other editor necessarily, but, should he return, he can join you in the approval as well. [[User:D. Matt Innis|D. Matt Innis]] 00:17, 10 March 2011 (UTC)
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| == Query on links to WP ==
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| Hi Milt:
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| The article [[Schrödinger equation]] on its [[Schrödinger_equation/External_Links|External links page]] connects to the article on WP. Is that a customary practice? It seems to me to go against the notion of linking to a reliable source. [[User:John R. Brews|John R. Brews]] 20:03, 26 March 2011 (UTC)
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| :John, that was a reference at one time and it was created back in 2007 ... and later moved to the External Links subpage. It should be deleted. We do not use Wikipedia articles as references or external links. [[User:Milton Beychok|Milton Beychok]] 21:05, 26 March 2011 (UTC)
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| == Vacuum ==
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| Hi Milt:
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| As you know, there are a lot of articles about vacuum in physics. They include [[Vacuum (laboratory)]], [[Vacuum (partial)]], [[Vacuum (quantum electrodynamic)]] [[Vacuum (classical)]] [[Vacuum (disambiguation)]] [[Vacuum (science)]] [[Free space (electromagnetism)]]. I hope I've got them all. I think they should be pared down to three (apart from a revamped disambiguation page): [[Vacuum (quantum electrodynamic)]] [[Vacuum (classical)]] [[Vacuum (partial)]]. The first is pretty straightforward and probably is OK as is. The second would be instead of [[Free space (electromagnetism)]] and I'd pretty much copy that article under the new name. The third, [[Vacuum (partial)]], would be intended to cover terrestrial vacuum as in [[Vacuum (laboratory)]] and [[Vacuum (science)]].
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| The question is how to approach this project. It requires some reorganization and possibly making redirects out of several articles and putting their content in the surviving articles. It appears that [[User:John_Stephenson|John Stephenson]], you and I are the only ones at all interested in this matter. Do you think this has to be taken to a general airing, or shall I just go at it and let you and John pick it over? [[User:John R. Brews|John R. Brews]] 18:16, 27 March 2011 (UTC)
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| :If you look at [[User:John_Stephenson|John Stephenson]]'s user page, you will see that he is no longer with CZ ... unless he changes his mind and returns.
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| :So that leaves you and I ... and I think you should just go ahead and do what you think is best. I might also point out that we also have a [[Vacuum distillation]] article which I wrote quite some while ago ... altho that really isn't too relevant to what you are proposing to do. - [[User:Milton Beychok|Milton Beychok]] 18:37, 27 March 2011 (UTC)
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| ::Hi Milt: I've made these changes, and I hope you will check out the various cross links etc. and add [[Vacuum distillation]] to the disambiguation box if you wish. [[User:John R. Brews|John R. Brews]] 20:34, 27 March 2011 (UTC)
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| ::John, when you redirected [[Vacuum (science)]] to [[Vacuum (partial)]], you still left the subpages [[Vacuum (science)/Definition]] and [[Vacuum (science)/Related Articles]]. I will request that those two subpages be speedy deleted unless I hear differently from you. Are there some links in [[Vacuum (science)/Related Articles]] that you want to salvage (copy and paste) and use in [[Vacuum (partial)/Related Articles]] before I ask for speedy deletion?
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| ::Are there any other redirects that left behind some some subpages? [[User:Milton Beychok|Milton Beychok]] 21:07, 27 March 2011 (UTC)
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| :::Hi Milt: Thanks for bringing this up. I transferred the Related Articles to the new pages. I didn't find anything else.
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| :::The disambiguation page [[Vacuum]] uses the definition of the redirect [[Vacuum (laboratory)/Definition]], so maybe that should be kept unless this category is removed from the disambig. Likewise for [[Free space]] and [[Free_space_(electromagnetism)/Definition]] [[User:John R. Brews|John R. Brews]] 22:03, 27 March 2011 (UTC)
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| ::::I think that only existing main articles (or red links to articles yet to be written) should be listed in the DAMB page. Redirects and/or definitions that exist for any redirects should not be included. [[User:Milton Beychok|Milton Beychok]] 02:35, 28 March 2011 (UTC)
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| == I love this!! ==
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| Milton: thank you for all the help so far. Mostly I wanted to let you know I've contacted a good friend and encouraged her to join us. She is also a PhD candidate in philosophy and has an MA in Classics. She's an expert on the philosophy of Plotinus, for whom Citizendium does not have a page. I have asked her to consider creating one. <small>...said</small> [[User:Maria Cuervo|Maria Cuervo]] ([[User_talk:Maria Cuervo|talk]]) {{#if:20:29 April 2, 2011|20:29 April 2, 2011|}}
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| == University host ==
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| Milton: I am finally thinking about the request for monthly donations and want to first understand CZ's long term plans. Where can I find details of the efforts to find a university to host CZ? Thanks - [[User:Robert Badgett|Robert Badgett]] 12:39, 8 April 2011 (UTC)
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| :Robert, the best person for you to contact on that is Dan Nessett. He has handled the efforts to find a university. [[User:Milton Beychok|Milton Beychok]] 15:12, 8 April 2011 (UTC)
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| :::I didn't know about this effort but I had already considered last week speaking with someone at VU about this. It seems like something my university would really appreciate. I was also wondering if students could work on basic definitions and sections under the supervision of an editor who also happens to be their teacher. But maybe that is too out there. I for one would be tempted to get my students working on this project.--[[User:Maria Cuervo|Maria Cuervo]] 16:25, 8 April 2011 (UTC)
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| ::::Maria, our current hosting costs are $320 per month. The money we raised in our recent donation drive will carry us through for almost 6 more months. Please contact [[User:Dan Nessett|Dan Nessett]] on our Management Council about the possibilty of being hosted by Villanova University ... please do so as soon as possible. [[User:Milton Beychok|Milton Beychok]] 16:48, 8 April 2011 (UTC)
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| ::::: Milt, similar as Robert, I was thinking of asking this for some time, but in face of our current discussions I do not want to raise it on the forum right now:
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| ::::: It would be nice to have some information on what hosting options have already been checked and why they failed or were rejected. I am aware that last year a quick solution had to be found, but now there is still half a year, and this information could helpful when thinking about options.
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| ::::: Maria, CZ is open for collaboration with teaching -- the project is called Eduzendium. How this collaboration is organized may be adapted or changed, reflecting past experience (some problems exist) and the needs of the course.
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| ::::: --[[User:Peter Schmitt|Peter Schmitt]] 17:20, 8 April 2011 (UTC)
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| :::::: I am curious why so expensive. Is it bandwidth then? I have my own virtual server that I am setting up through a host for my own web projects and I imagine that the reason it is less than 50 a month is because I expect the traffic to be comparably low compared to something like Citizendium and don't need as much memory, space or other resources. I'll contact Dan and see how I should approach this and who I should approach.--[[User:Maria Cuervo|Maria Cuervo]] 18:18, 8 April 2011 (UTC)
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| :::::::Maria, keep in mind that we have the various forums as well as the live wiki and the test wiki. Dan is our computer guru and he has all of the technical specifications for what we need. [[User:Milton Beychok|Milton Beychok]] 19:29, 8 April 2011 (UTC)
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| ::::::: Peter, keep in mind that when Larry Sanger was still with us and our server costs were being handled by the Tidewater Foundation, they were $709 per month. The MC did nothing in haste ... Dan considered every alternative very carefully (in the U.S. as well as Europe) and he finally negotiated our current price of $320 per month with Steadfast. He explained it all to the other 4 members of the MC at the time and we all agreed that he made a good choice at that time. Please don't burden Dan with asking him to explain all of the searching he did. We have more pressing problems that need to be handled ... as you well know. Regards, [[User:Milton Beychok|Milton Beychok]] 19:29, 8 April 2011 (UTC)
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| :::::::: All, I have responded to Maria's request for an explanation of our computing service requirements here: [[User_talk:Dan_Nessett#Hosting_for_Citizendium | CZ service requirements]]
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| == HUBO ==
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| Hello. I last spoke to Daniel on e-mail chat around April 4th. I made one correction that he pointed out on the spot, but there are certainly more that needs to be done. He asked me to remind him again before deadline. I sent him an e-mail again, but he seems to have overlooked it. I sent him a chat message as reminder just now, although he is marked as offline. I hope he will be able to notice it soon.
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| But in the meantime, just to be safe, we should extended deadline, but not too far back because that might allow Daniel to procrastinate, and that would mean the article would never get approved.. Thank you very much! ([[User:Chunbum Park|Chunbum Park]] 02:24, 9 April 2011 (UTC))
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| == Edits on metre ==
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| Hi Milt:
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| I'm happy to see your interest in the article [[Metre (unit)]]. This article has caused me some problems, as my editing history indicates. I'd like to discuss a few of your changes, and get some feedback.
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| First, you apparently object to my characterization of LORAN as obsolete. The basis for this statement was a [http://books.google.com/books?id=dfOg7XZlNCwC&pg=PA155&dq=GPS+LORAN-C&hl=en&ei=5sGgTZ7INIjYiALz6LWBAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CE8Q6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=GPS%20LORAN-C&f=false book I did not cite] that, of course, suggests the GPS has pretty much taken over. Maybe you can explain to me what you are thinking about here, and why you decided to omit reference to GPS, and the links to the articles on [[GPS]] and on [[Laser rangefinder|LIDAR]]?
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| Those items are perhaps matters of taste. However, the reinsertion of the wavelength of the electron as ''λ'' = {{nowrap|''c<sub>0</sub> / f''}} is actually an error. This wavelength in fact is related to the electron beam energy, and the relation to the metre has to be established, say by comparison of two measurements of the same object using both electrons and photons. For example, [http://scitation.aip.org/getpdf/servlet/GetPDFServlet?filetype=pdf&id=PSISDG004889000001000343000001&idtype=cvips&doi=10.1117/12.467432&prog=normal this article] discusses traceability of standards, which I take to mean connecting to the basic definition of the metre in terms of wavelengths of light. [[User:John R. Brews|John R. Brews]] 20:31, 9 April 2011 (UTC)
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| :John, I am completely confused. I made no edits having anything to do with LORAN, GPS or LIDAR ... at least not intentionally. If such edits occurred, they must have happened accidentally or through some strange software bug. Please feel free to undo them.
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| :The only edits I made to [[Metre (unit)]] were to correct an incorrect conversion, add some wiki links, and a few other minor copy edits. Regards, [[User:Milton Beychok|Milton Beychok]] 21:55, 9 April 2011 (UTC)
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| ::Hi Milt: As you can see, my attempts at [[metre (unit)]] took me past any pretense of considering myself an "expert". I do believe I have properly understood the sources and made a reasonable presentation. It must be said, however, that the basis for the switch in definition of the metre in 1983 is described by the officiating BIPM and NIST in a very confusing manner, and I am led to believe what we are seeing here is "a camel is a horse designed by a committee". [[User:John R. Brews|John R. Brews]] 20:47, 10 April 2011 (UTC)
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| ::I'm not criticizing the 1983 resolutions, but the incoherence of the explanations for it. [[User:John R. Brews|John R. Brews]] 22:45, 10 April 2011 (UTC)
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| :::John, in my book, you are still an expert and I would still urge you to apply for an Editorship in the Physics workgroup. [[User:Milton Beychok|Milton Beychok]] 23:14, 10 April 2011 (UTC)
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| == Category:Sailing Subgroup ==
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| Hey Milton, I was looking at [[CZ:Engineering Workgroup]] and the template that is at the top of the page has items that do not appear on the Sailing subgroup template, especially the auto-generated cleanup lists. Have you any idea how I add to the Sailing template, or do you know if the template is fixed in that position? [[User:David Finn|David Finn]] 10:10, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
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| :David, I didn't even know there was a Sailing subgroup. Is it a subgroup of the Engineering Workgroup??? Should it not be in the Hobbies or the Sports Workgroups instead?
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| :In any event, I don't know the answer to your question. That is something that Chris Key normally took care of. Since he has now resigned, you may have to ask Dan Nessett for help or perhaps even Peter Schmitt. I don't have any Sysops privileges and I really don't know how templates are created. [[User:Milton Beychok|Milton Beychok]] 14:36, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
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| ::Fair enough, I'll look further. Yes, the [[CZ:Sailing Subgroup|Sailing subgroup]] falls under both sports and engineering, sports for the recreation side and engineering for the technology. Nowadays sailing is more recreational, at least in the West, but a little further back in history it was much more utilitarian. [[User:David Finn|David Finn]] 15:48, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
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| == Article moved. ==
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| "Vacuum cleaner" has been removed. Thank you for the Editorial ruling. I hope the EC comes up with a way to deal with this kind of "painful case," as Joyce would call it, wholesale. [[User:Bruce M. Tindall|Bruce M. Tindall]] 00:40, 13 April 2011 (UTC)
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| :Thanks, Bruce. [[User:Milton Beychok|Milton Beychok]] 01:17, 13 April 2011 (UTC)
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| == Speedydeletes ==
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| Sed tantum dic verbo! Done, avec plaisir. [[User:Bruce M. Tindall|Bruce M. Tindall]] 02:56, 13 April 2011 (UTC)
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| :"Avec plaisir" I understand. But my three years of high school Latin were in the 1930s (about 72 years ago) and I have forgotten all that I may have learned. Merci! - [[User:Milton Beychok|Milton Beychok]] 03:03, 13 April 2011 (UTC)
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| ::"But only say the word." [[User:Bruce M. Tindall|Bruce M. Tindall]] 03:05, 13 April 2011 (UTC)
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| == Boiling points ==
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| Milton, I would really like to end this practice of having multiple separate subpages for each element with one datum only. It seems like a really huge waste of computation/storage space to have these pages. Do we really need separate subpages for melting point, boiling point, molecular mass, etc?
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| However, I see that you have been busy working away at these singleton pages lately and so would like to know your thoughts on this before I consider annilating them all and fixing all of the elements in a more manageable "manual" fashion. [[User:David E. Volk|David E. Volk]] 02:54, 15 April 2011 (UTC)
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| :Yes, I was going through some of them to correct that same dead hyperlink to LANL. I found the correct link. But going through all of them was going to be a very tedious job that would take me days. If you can find a way to delete all of those singleton pages, it would be great. It would also be quite job for the constables to delete all of them, would it not? Or do you have some other way of deleting them?
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| :I will finish the few I started on and then quit to await whatever you can do to simplify things. [[User:Milton Beychok|Milton Beychok]] 03:02, 15 April 2011 (UTC)
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| :: See also [[CZ:Chemistry style guide]] on which I have no included actual text that one can copy and paste to start one's own chem infobox or elem infobox for new articles. One simply types in the correct values for the variables. [[User:David E. Volk|David E. Volk]] 03:48, 15 April 2011 (UTC)
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Where Milt lives it is approximately: 00:24