User talk:Patrick1982

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Cat's Eye Nebula[edit]

Hi Patrick - just wanted to explain why I reverted your edits to Cat's Eye Nebula - the Wikipedia policy on British v. American spelling is that for topics related to the country concerned, the relevant spelling should be used, but for other topics there's no preference other than consistency. If an article uses British spelling there's no need to change it to American, and vice versa. There's more about this at the manual of style. Thanks! Worldtraveller 11:12, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Sorry, I should have explained my thinking on milliarcsecond as well - I think either is OK really, but in the astronomical literature, milliarcsecond is much more common than milli-arcsecond: see these links for a comparison [1], [2], the unhyphenated form wins 171-19 on appearances in journal article titles, so I thought it was better. I think where the prefix ends with a vowel and the unit begins with one, a hyphen is optional, but it seems more common not to have it.

I am shocked that a close European neighbour didn't know that colour was a British spelling - it's enough to make me a eurosceptic :) Cheers - Worldtraveller 12:04, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Magnetar and categories[edit]

While cleaning up the electromagnetism category, I removed categories from Magnetar as articles are generally supposed to be in their most specific category, and Magnetars is a sub-sub-sub category of stars. I was going to, I had yet to do so, add the Category:Pulsar -- the supercat of Magnetar -- as a subcat of electromagnetic radiation, and Category:Magnetar to Magnetism, as opposed to listing individual articles within electromagnetism. The removal of Stellar Phenomena was a mistake I see now. Most people don't seem to care enough about categories to discuss them, with rare exceptions, on the talk page. I'm going to remove the electromagnetism and stars categories from Magnetar, and finish adding the Pular and Magnetars cats . Salsb 13:24, August 16, 2005 (UTC)

Titanic budget[edit]

On the List of most expensive films, you have Titanic's budget at "$198,000,000." You say in the history section that most sources just round to "$200,000,000." However, I can just find one source for this $198 million figure, and that is a recent story about the "War of the Worlds" remake. Not even in contemporary (1997 and 1998) news stories about Titanic can I find this figure. Where did you get this $198 million number? PBP 19:23, 5 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Protected Media Path[edit]

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"which would mean that the founder of the Beta Israel was a female"[edit]

Hello Patrick,

When you remarked that the founder of the Beta Israel may have been a female, did you come up with that conclusion by yourself? Best, ליאור (talk) 13:16, 28 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Lior, I saw it was a misread from the book, I've updated the article with the exact quotation of the intended phrase. Kind Regards, Patrick1982 (talk) 22:58, 28 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you Patrick, I've corrected the Hebrew translation of this article accordingly. Ciao, ליאור (talk) 16:28, 29 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Kharsag[edit]

A new article by the same person, who I think is acting in good faith but this one is no better. Do you think it can be rescued with that title, or shall I just take it to AfD? Dougweller (talk) 05:39, 29 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It's hopeless, Wikipedia is not a Geocities were you can just build webpages. The new article was created by User:Paul Bedson, the same (and only) guy that is pushing this whole "Kharsag" thing. Actually he just copied O'Brien's Wiki and then started modyfing it into Kharsag, see his first version: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kharsag&oldid=346975371. This needs to be speedy deleted, he cannot just create a new Kharsag site when we just agreed to move Kharsag Epics‎ to Christian O'Brien by consensus! So rescue is not required, as there is nothing to rescue: too fringe, too unnotable. Patrick1982 (talk) 22:51, 30 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Q stars, Exotic star[edit]

What happen to Q stars? Has that theory been less followed? I saw you removed it and was wondering if the theory is dead? Thanks, Marasama (talk) 19:18, 20 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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