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ClockworkTroll 02:03, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Stirling Newberry 12:38, 27 Jun 2004 (UTC) thanks, typing isn't my strong suit.

When you take part in Talk discussion, add new sectiosn at the BOTTOM of the page and remeber to sign your posts. I have replied at Talk:Partitions of Poland. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus ^Talk 00:48, 9 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Note to self: I really have to sign my edits in the talk page. I constantly forget, and apologise in advance if you came here after seeing one of my edits. --Stereo 12:16, 14 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your recent addition to TIA-568A/B. The table and image are very useful.

Unfortunately, the colors represented do not match the standard. Perhaps you could correct the table and drawing? In both the T568A and T568B termination standards (both current in TIA/EIA-568B), there are no color/white conductors - only white/color and solid color.

For example, the T568B termination standard is: white/orange, orange, white/green, blue, white/blue, green, white/brown, brown.

dpotter 18:58, 14 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I recently noticed that you made the same edits, on the RJ45 page, which also needs fixup. dpotter 15:58, 15 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

You are absolutely right. I had noticed this, but then forgotten about it. The error is common to pretty much all wikipedia articles related to ethernet, as can be seen on the page on the mythical orange-white cable. All that stuff should be merged in one place, really. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Stereo (talk • contribs)

You could have given me a barnstar :P The awesome thing was difficult to format ;) Btw, Userboxes should be "subst"'d. with the exception of babel boxes. See WP:TGS. And if you understood half of what I wrote there you edit Wikipedia too much :) - FrancisTyers · 12:03, 7 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

:)) - FrancisTyers · 14:04, 7 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I thought you argued well re removal of Lactose intolerance#Lactase-enzyme medication section, given that "citation needed" tags had been lying throughout :-) I found a few more PubMed refs, certainly enough to verify discussion of the various products (pre-hydrolysed, liquid and tablets forms) and how they fit in with overall management approaches. So I have reinserted the section, but with a considerable rewrite - let me know what you think :-) Yours David Ruben ^Talk 01:38, 15 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I put up an announcement of this new planet yesterday, and it was deleted per Wikipedia desire not to breach the embargo on the news from ESO. The embargo is until 19:00 ET today, so please be patient. Since the embargo has been leaking like a sieve, I've been deleting stuff all day; but I think we should, for the sake of good public relations for Wikipedia, respect it. Vegasprof 20:51, 24 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I removed the radius value from Gliese 581 c, because I find it very hard to believe that “about 50% bigger” translates to an occlusion area exactly 50% greater – this would be one of the greatest coincidences in the history of the universe. -Ahruman 22:02, 24 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello Stereo! Thank you for your contributions. I am a bot alerting you that 1 of the articles that you created is tagged as an Unreferenced Biography of a Living Person. The biographies of living persons policy requires that all personal or potentially controversial information be sourced. In addition, to ensure verifiability, all biographies should be based on reliable sources. If you were to bring this article up to standards, it would greatly help us with the current 3 article backlog. Once the article is adequately referenced, please remove the {{unreferencedBLP}} tag. Here is the article:

1. Jean-François Rischard - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

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