User talk:Karlhahn
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[edit] Lead
Hi, someone was vandalising while you were editing lead, I hope I did not demolish your edits while removing the vandalism. Nice work on lead, by the way! Keep up the good work! --Dirk Beetstra T C 20:43, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Lead smelting
I expect that what you have done is an improvement (though not helped by vandalism). However there is a need for a rather more wide-ranging article on the metallurgical processes in producing lead and its derivatives. This may need to be a separate article. See for example reverberatory furnace. I do not think we have smelt mill or bolehill yet, but we seem to have cupellation - a desilvering process. These are historic processes (now obsolete). My expertise is in iron, rather than lead and I am not sure that I have the time to write the articles in question. Peterkingiron 10:21, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
- The Lead Development Association website looks a suitably autorative source. I raised the query because historically smelting was in a cupola (reverberatory furnace). I think ther eis probablky enough on lead smelting in the lead article, which is a general one concenred with it as a chemical eleemetn, but it may be useful to have a more detaild article on lead smelting. Some one else has been working on a general one on smelting and the two lines of work need joining up. There are also other metals that need similar attention (for example copper. Peterkingiron 15:09, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] tag
Question for helper: Please see User:Karlhahn/Tide Prediction/sp98ref, which is a template, and the draft, User:Karlhahn/Tide Prediction for usage of the template. The purpose of the template is to provide a shortcut for referencing various pages of a certain book on the topic. The problem is that although using the template does produce the [2] indicator, but the expansion of the reference fails to show up in the <references/> section. What am I doing wrong?? Thanks for any help you can provide.
- You can't have the ref-tag in a template, it does not transclude correctly. Limitation of the software. --Dirk Beetstra T C 20:34, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
Thank you for experimenting with the page usertalk: anonymous on Wikipedia. Your test worked, and it has been reverted or removed. Please use the sandbox for any other tests you may want to do. Take a look at What Vandalism Is not learn more about treating people like vandals who havent vandalized our encyclopedia. -- 24.63.142.101 19:05, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] No Problem
"my generation did some weird stuff there too back in 1970" :D hahahahha!
it wasnt so much a bad editing job... it was reverting the page to something that was pretty bad already. ive combined the new and old pages, so its better now. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.63.142.101 (talk) 10:52, 20 January 2007 (UTC).
[edit] Testing new signature
Test: --Karl Hahn (T) (C) 02:24, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Log
Hi Karlhahn, thanks for considering me for helping out to find out the log for Image:SurfaceTension.jpg. You may find out this here. Cheers, Shyam (T/C) 14:59, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] lenntech.com
Hi, I saw you added a link to lenntech.com to the external links section of some articles. I reverted Chlorine, but saw that there are 13 more in article space. To me this looks like a commercial link, which woud not be allowed by WP:EL. Does that link really add information that cannot be incoporated into wikipedia, and which is not available from non-commercial sources? --Dirk Beetstra T C 21:07, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
- I knew you were not spamming, I see your name regularly in my watchlist, and know you from many good edits. I know that there are reasons why one has to link to commercial sites, and that was why I was not mass removing them now, I wanted to discuss this with you. In general, links should be kept to a minimum, and when things have to be linked, only official sites, etc. In my interpretation of WP:EL, I start with the first sentences of WP:EL, which state that links can be added, but that that should only be done for pages from which the information can not be incorporated into the wikipedia .. which makes for me almost every external link superfluous, though I can come with examples where one cannot avoid linking externally to commercial sites. The problem with commercial sites is, whenever there is one link, other people will start adding their links (because my/that site is also providing that information, so if there is one ..), hence a bit inviting spam. Though I am not lenient to the 'someone has done it, so I can too', it is indeed better to avoid commercial links altogether and to try and find non-commercial sites first (and some in the wikiproject spam are even more direct in axing down external links sections). Hope this explains a bit. --Dirk Beetstra T C 23:17, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
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- There is a simple and effective solution: since you use the site for writing of the articles, and the site contains reliable information, you could in this case use the site as a reference i.s.o. an external link. References are hardly ever spammed because that would be too obvious. You used this site, not another one that another person might add. Hope this helps. --Dirk Beetstra T C 23:53, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] citizendium
www.citizendium.org maybe you would enjoy editing here as well.
[edit] CHLORINE, First Aid
My contribution to this subject is based on personal observations; I have worked a lot with chlorine. Unfortunately I have no reference and I do not know, whether the procedure sugessted will provide only symptomatic relief or also has some therapeutic value. If you feel that my comments should be deleted, I will not be offended.
Recent events in Iraq have prompted me to write; similar incidents may happen in the USA.
The first aid suggested in the MSDS sheet ("move victim to fresh air") is not only self-evident, but may also be of little value to a victim trapped in a building surrounded by chlorine gas (I work in a lab within 500 meters of a chlorine plant). Because the chemicals I suggested ( ammonia and ethanol) are available in many households, it may be worthwhile to determine whether they are also effective in decontaminating air in a building.
Comments are invited
Walther Grot —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 151.197.54.195 (talk) 00:50, 24 February 2007 (UTC).
[edit] Re: Truman administration category
I've replied at the UCFD discussion. VegaDark 21:45, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
