Hello Lisa4edit! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions to this free encyclopedia. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you you need any help, check out Getting Help below, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Below are some useful links to facilitate your involvement.

Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Happy editing!  Netsnipe  ►  11:57, 28 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The reason why VoABot was tagging your edits as vandalism was because you weren't using proper Wiki mark-up/code. On Wikipedia we DO NOT use underscores to draw lines in articles. Long repetitions of a single character or punctuation is automatically treated as vandalism by the bot. Please read Help:Editing and Wikipedia:Manual of Style. What you should have done was start a new heading for each of your sections. --  Netsnipe  ►  11:56, 28 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Also, don't start a newline for each sentence. Only leave a blank line during editing when you want to start a new paragraph or else your article will be distorted by lots of gaps everywhere when the article is displayed on someone else's monitor whose display resolution is different from yours. --  Netsnipe  ►  12:03, 28 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Lisa4edit. I think the best explanation I can give you is that all contracts are agreements, but not all agreements are contracts. A contract is merely a type of agreement; that is, an agreement which is legally enforceable. If an agreement does not meet the legal requirements of contract law, it cannot be legally enforced. I hope this clears things up. --Eastlaw (talk) 20:41, 6 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You're welcome. Funnily enough I'm an accountant myself and I also work for an international organization, so I know what you're talking about. On BE vs US usage, the basic idea on Wikipedia is that articles should be written in the variety of English most closely related to the article's topic. So if it's a page on American accounting practice, it should use US usage, but if it's about British accounting practice, it should use BE. Have a look at Wikipedia:Manual of Style#National varieties of English. American and British English differences might also be of interest. Have fun, --Richardrj ^{talk email} 08:10, 15 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I'd probably just call it "rental expenses". Would that work? --Richardrj ^{talk email} 09:33, 15 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

'Other occupancy expenses' sounds good to me. Go for it. --Richardrj ^{talk email} 12:19, 15 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there. In case you didn't know, when you add content to talk pages and Wikipedia pages that have open discussion, you should sign your posts by typing four tildes ( ~~~~ ) at the end of your comment. If you can't type the tilde character, you should click on the signature button located above the edit window. This will automatically insert a signature with your name and the time you posted the comment. This information is useful because other editors will be able to tell who said what, and when. Thank you! --SineBot (talk) 11:59, 15 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

If you haven't seen this yet, you might find this tool helpful for formatting PubMed citations - http://diberri.dyndns.org/cgi-bin/templatefiller/?type=&id= . --Arcadian (talk) 11:35, 23 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You might want to take a look at how piped links work. For example, I modified you edit to Quantitative trait locus with a piped link here. It improves appearance and, in this case, reduces wordiness and cleans up grammar. Thanks. Ward3001 (talk) 16:47, 25 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I noticed you are responding to questions on the Ref Desk now, that's wonderful, glad to have you aboard ! I do have one formatting suggestion for you, however. It is customary to use one more tab/indentation than the post to which you are responding. This allows us to keep straight who is responding to whom. The number of indentations/tabs is controlled by the number of leading colons (":") in your response. To demonstrate need, consider the following question:

Is it the US ? -OP

No, it's Canada. -You

I don't think so. -Me

So, it's not clear whether I'm responding to you or the OP. This is most likely with an edit conflict, where your response gets in just before mine. If you indent your response, on the other hand, it's clearer. That way, if I responded to you it would look like this:

Is it the US ? -OP

No, it's Canada. -You

I don't think so. -Me

While, if I responded to the original poster (OP), it would look like this:

Is it the US ? -OP

No, it's Canada. -You

I don't think so. -Me

Thanks, and I hope to see many more of your Ref Desk responses. StuRat (talk) 15:38, 27 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for clarifying the problem of counting the casualties on this flight. It seems an obvious explanation, but my lateral thinking capacity was impaired by some original research into the preceding question (dealing with vodka, salmiak, Pernod and the French spelling of anis).
PS: I enjoy your contributions to the WP:RD. --Cookatoo.ergo.ZooM (talk) 21:37, 1 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there. In case you didn't know, when you add content to talk pages and Wikipedia pages that have open discussion, you should sign your posts by typing four tildes ( ~~~~ ) at the end of your comment. If you can't type the tilde character, you should click on the signature button located above the edit window. This will automatically insert a signature with your name and the time you posted the comment. This information is useful because other editors will be able to tell who said what, and when. Thank you! --SineBot (talk) 22:11, 1 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

If no other information is given, it would be conventional to assume rms values are being quoted. The stated voltage of 230V also indicates rms as this is the nominal rms voltage throughout Europe (and in the UK too, but in our case it really is only nominal as most of the grid is still in reality working to the old 240V standard). My take on the OP for that question was that he/she is not yet at the ac circuit stage so any of that kind of information would only confuse them. The question seems to be specifically worded for someone at that stage. The formula you left on my talk page is incorrect, we do not normally deal with rms power, it is average (mean) power that is significant. The correct formula is;

Ask me if you need an explanation of why this is so. SpinningSpark 14:05, 5 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Did you think that there is something wrong on the root-mean-square page? It looks ok to me at a casual glance. Do you need some help with the TeX (math) mark-up? If you link me to something you are trying to do which isn't working I will try and sort it out. Or ask a specific question. Cheers. SpinningSpark 15:26, 5 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ah now I see your problem. Easy enough to fix. Your mistake is that the math formula needs to go between <math> tags. So you write <math> write your formula here </math>.

So for example if I write <math>1+1=2\,</math>, it will display as;

You can learn more at Help:Displaying a formula

As for your notebooks "effective power". There is no real difference to average power. My understanding of effective power is the energy flow that ends up as heat or work (ie is not stored in the circuit). This will always be identical to average power when averaged over a whole number of cycles. SpinningSpark 16:06, 5 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

(see Refdesk, "Humpty" May 2 )???68.148.164.166 (talk) 09:39, 8 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your perceptive take on my Language desk query — and also for the handy heading on your non-logged-in User Talk page. (I ought to do something like that myself...!) Since your User name is familiar from your previous Reference Desk activity, this seemed a reasonable way to follow up. -- Cheers, Deborahjay (talk) 12:20, 8 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I noticed the A***l L*****e pictures cluttering the ref desk too. Seems the event has been deleted by an admin. The AL trolls are still out in force, it seems. Fribbler (talk) 19:48, 16 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Reading through recent days' worth of RD/Humanities, I saw your comment on the idea of civilians defending their town against soldiers, and was quite curious: what is "toadstool casserole"? Nyttend (talk) 03:05, 18 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

A tag has been placed on Monotone (common), requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to have no meaningful content or history, and the text is unsalvageably incoherent. If the page you created was a test, please use the sandbox for any other experiments you would like to do. Feel free to leave a message on my talk page if you have any questions about this.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding {{hangon}} to the top of the page that has been nominated for deletion (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on the talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the article meets the criterion it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Lastly, please note that if the article does get deleted, you can contact one of these admins to request that a copy be emailed to you.  Chzz  ►  01:24, 24 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The G1 specifications say, "(G1: Patent nonsense, meaningless, or incomprehensible)"; the incomprehensible item I deleted seemed to be written by somebody trying (and failing) to force the word "monotone" to mean something it doesn't mean. --Orange Mike | Talk 23:09, 24 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there. In case you didn't know, when you add content to talk pages and Wikipedia pages that have open discussion, you should sign your posts by typing four tildes ( ~~~~ ) at the end of your comment. If you can't type the tilde character, you should click on the signature button located above the edit window. This will automatically insert a signature with your name and the time you posted the comment. This information is useful because other editors will be able to tell who said what, and when. Thank you! --SineBot (talk) 11:45, 25 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. What about phthalate?68.148.164.166 (talk) 06:51, 26 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

With regard to Refdesk/Science. "flexible graphite" probably is article-worthy. Now that I look at the article I referenced for Grafoil, it was created by User:ConaxTech, describes how Conax Technologies developed compression seal fittings, links to a Conax website, and has a list of component series that correspond to the Conax Tech product line. Curious, no? Franamax (talk) 13:35, 26 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I've made this edit :) hydnjo talk 23:41, 1 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Frowny-face: generally we don't look kindly on association of usernames and IP addresses - but of course it's up to Lisa to make the call.

And hello Lisa, nice to see you back, I was wondering what had become of you! :) Franamax (talk) 01:34, 2 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]