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You said you were going to redirect Macedonian Question to Macedonia (terminology). You didn't so I did. - Francis Tyers · 11:11, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

Dealing with vandalism

Hi Nwbeeson, Thanks for your note on my talk page. Information about dealing with vandalism can be found at Wikipedia:Vandalism. Repeat offenders can be reported at WP:AIV. Regards, Accurizer 00:57, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

An alternate theory

I undid your deletion of Bird article about "an alternate theory". It referenced, but sounds somewhat suspicious. Could you please explain why you deleted it? Curious:) TestPilot 01:11, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

Thanx for explanation! You have totally convinced me. It is actually a good idea to respond on the talk page of the guy, but sure it is up to you. As to "how" - simply edit yr talk page. Ironically, today I read another story of new huge feathered dinosaur discovered in China. You might find it interesting - http://sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=25D2F86A-E7F2-99DF-3873E5C5CA34D5E8&chanID=sa003 . Regards, TestPilot 01:50, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

Hi. When making a major change like that while being bold is good it is also good to discuss the change and check with other users. I agree that the dinosaurs are the ancestors of birds, but enough scientists disagree that we have to at least mention dissent. We don't give it equal weight and we can further modify the paragraph, but please come and join a discussion at Talk:Bird#Alternative theories and Alan Feduccia et al. Cheers. Sabine's Sunbird talk 02:31, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

Sorry, haven't got yr question first time. Yes, the best way to respond to comments on yr talk page is to leave your comment on the talk page of the guy who wrote to you. The reason behind it - lot of guys have hundreds Wikipedia edits every day - and it would be unfair to expect them to check yours talk page regularly to understand if you replied to their question or not. On the other hand - some ppl do reply on their talk page. In that case they keep conversation clean and neat for 3d party readers - but they risk to be unheard by whoever they try to communicate to. I have never came across any formal policy or manual of style regarding matter - but would not be very surprised if one exist out there. Regards, TestPilot 03:56, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

List of sequenced prokaryotic genomes

You're welcome!, and thank you for sharing your knowledge!. Seba5618 (talk) 18:06, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

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triceratops

I love the triceratop dinosaurs.

I am often disappointed that most museums display their skulls with the back to the wall. This makes it impossible to see that the skull to first-vertebra joint was a perfect socket and ball joint. The base of the skull has a perfect hemispherical socket for the first-vertebra to sit in.

I spent decades looking at them before I saw the back of one. All that time I assumed but did not *know* that they would be able to quickly turn their heads. One glance and it is obvious that my assumption was correct.

Nick Beeson (talk) 23:31, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

Hi Nick!

I like Triceratops too. Do you know of the other horned dinosaurs like Styracosaurus, Protoceratops, and the many other Ceratopsians? Firsfron of Ronchester 03:12, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

Wheelset (disambiguation)

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Irish Mist (disambiguation)

I have proposed the deletion of this disambiguation page. It no longer seemed necessary as most internal links point to the drink article (thanks for creating that, by the way), and that article has a hatnote to the book article. Weigh in if you see any issues.--Kubigula (talk) 22:27, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

Copyright issue: Michigan Court System

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January 2009

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I'm guessing it was a problem on your end. Before and after your edit I saw the Japanese characters. I wasn't sure why you removed them, hence why I used the test template (if I thought you were vandalizing I would have used the vandalism template). TJ Spyke 03:19, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

ITN for Orbiting Carbon Observatory

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Proposed deletion of Fortune and Fate

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Air well (condenser) Picture

Hi, and thanks for re-doing the picture in Air well (condenser) - is is much better than my poor effort. From the look of it, you must have gone to the source to get a better view of the original; is this is special interest of yours? Will you consider putting the image into wikipedia commons? Regards Gaius Cornelius (talk) 15:38, 2 May 2009 (UTC)

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edit summary cut short

But what I was going to say was that you can't use another wiki page as a source. Serendi^podous 15:37, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

You can't use wikipedia as a source because wikipedia articles change every day. The information you cite in one article may disappear tomorrow and never come back. Besides, if Wikipedia only cited itself, it could say anything at all. Also, don't post comments on other people's user pages, but on their user discussion pages. Serendi^podous 17:49, 2 March 2010 (UTC)

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Minor mistake in image

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I too noticed the shaded area (part of the large arthropod segment) and assumed that it might represent the non-insect arthropods, illustrating how numerous insects are even within their own phylum, but that was just a guess. What does it represent, or is it just a blemish?CharlesHBennett (talk) 23:00, 8 December 2010 (UTC)

Hayabusa

Hi! I saw your copyedit on the article. You changed "its heat shields" to "its heat shield". It consists of two pieces. See this and this. That's why I wrote "shields". I have no idea what is the most appropriate way to describe it as en is not my first language. If you think a more accurate description is needed, please edit it again. BTW, according to Japanese newspaper sites, unfortunately JAXA couldn't find anything bigger than 1mm in the capsule through X ray scan. Regards. Oda Mari (talk) 16:18, 18 June 2010 (UTC)

Mari: I work in medical research with many people who are not native speakers of English. You did very well. What you wrote was excellent. I thought from what you wrote that it might be two parts. I will look again and see what sounds best in English. Nick Beeson (talk) 16:36, 18 June 2010 (UTC)

I saw your latest edit. Thank you, Nicholas. Happy editing! Oda Mari (talk) 17:14, 18 June 2010 (UTC)

Francevillian Group Fossil

Hi, thanks for the interesting material at the above article. I think you screwed up the reference format (it prevented the subsequent display of the eon banner, for example). I've corrected it - but I thought I'd let you know to save further reworks in future. Cheers, --Michael C. Price ^talk 11:01, 1 August 2010 (UTC)

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Proposed Image Deletion

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Bird

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Isotopes of iron

I just saw and answered your 3-year old question at Talk: Isotopes of iron, in case you are still interested. Dirac66 (talk) 20:03, 12 November 2011 (UTC)

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Proposed deletion of Fractal fraction

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• Nick, I think its great that you attempted to explain the hoax, etc. Unfortunately, content like this gets deleted all the time because its more original research than anything else. The "Wau" video is amusing and clearly a hoax and people will look for a place to verify that, and wikipedia won't help them. I would like to publish your article as is or modified on my blog [1] if you are ok with that. See, e.g, [2], a reprint that gets a fair number of hits today. You are welcome to flesh it out without wikipedia's WP:OR concerns too. Cheers.--Milowent • ^hasspoken 17:16, 13 February 2012 (UTC)

Sure it is in the public domain. Feel free to copy and use it. Nick Beeson (talk) 17:40, 13 February 2012 (UTC)

Body Plan

I reverted your edit to Body plan because the concept applies to all organisms, not just animals. Google "body plan plants" or "body plan fungi". -- Donald Albury 11:07, 23 May 2012 (UTC)

Donald: I am aware that plants and fungus have "body" plans. But "plant", "plants", "fungus", and "fungi" do not appear in the Body plan article, so the layperson has no way of knowing that this term and article applies to those organisms. I made the change only after carefully reading the article. I found only one instance of one word (fern) not related to animals. I made the change precisely because the article does not speak at all about any organism but animals as having body plans. This article is entirely and only about animal body plans. In addition the Wikipedia article body also speaks only of animals, which means that there is absolutely no way for most readers to learn from these articles that plants and fungus can have a body. Nick Beeson (talk) 14:42, 23 May 2012 (UTC)

The second sentence of the article reads, "One of the key issues of developmental biology is the evolution of body plans as different as those of a starfish, a fern, or a mammal, from a common biological heritage, and in particular how radical changes in body plans have occurred over geological time." If you feel that the article should only be about body plans in Animalia, you should edit that sentence, as well. -- Donald Albury 23:52, 23 May 2012 (UTC)

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J0651

Where did you get that information? constellation; HR, CCDM, HIP catalogues; HIP , HD catalogue numbers? I can't find any of that. When I look up the HIP and HD numbers, they don't match the coordinates of this star system. When I check the coordinates, they don't seem to fall in the Auriga constellation. what's up with that? -- 76.65.128.252 (talk) 10:59, 5 September 2012 (UTC)

If you're going to copy another article as a "template" to create a new article, then please remove all identifying information from it, its infobox, and don't copy the categories. -- 76.65.131.248 (talk) 07:54, 7 September 2012 (UTC)

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Article name editing

You can use the "move" button under the down-arrow shaped button menu in the upper right hand corner near the search box, and you can change the article name there. Hope that helps! Regards, smileguy91^talk 14:04, 18 May 2013 (UTC)

No problem, Nwbeeson. smileguy91^talk 17:10, 18 May 2013 (UTC)