User talk:Guyburns

Welcome to Wikipedia. Thanks for pointing out the problem at carboxymethyl cellulose. I have fixed it now. (However, in the future, it would be better to make comments about the article on the talk page instead - Talk:carboxymethyl cellulose, in this case.) ChemNerd (talk) 13:48, 18 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I reverted several of your recent changes to Circle of confusion, for reasons I've explained on the talk page. Some of the later changes might be OK, but Wikipedia articles need to be based on widely accepted facts or supported by reliable sources; cambridgeincolour does not qualify as such a source, and the values you support with that site are markedly at odds with values from several reliable sources. You also removed several nonbreaking spaces between quantity values and unit symbols; although that may not reflect your personal preference (or that of many photographic equipment manufacturers), it's required by the Wikipedia Manual of style, as well as by ISO and NIST. If you disagree with some of these points, please discuss them on the talk page.

Please don't be discouraged by the revert and my comments; these issues come up frequently with new editors. Hopefully, you'll stick around to contribute to Wikipedia. JeffConrad (talk) 08:55, 13 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I reverted one of your recent changes to Circle of confusion, and revised another, because these changes weren't correct, for reasons indicated in the history. Although Wikipedia policy encourages editors to be bold, it also urges them to be careful. Your comments on the talk page suggest that you're fairly new to this topic, and I would encourage you to ensure that you really understand the material that you consider revising. In the long run, you'll be a far more effective contributor.

I've once again restored defocus in several places; we sometimes need to make the distinction. For example, it makes absolutely no sense to talk about “blur spots” and “general blur spots” in the same context. Please don't remove these references again. I added mention of defocus in the first case under Two uses; hopefully this will make the term more clear. JeffConrad (talk) 04:14, 19 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

If something seems wrong with an article, but you're not quite sure how to make it right, the best approach is to so indicate on the talk page (as you've just done). As I've indicated in detailed replies on that page, I agree with many of your points. Unfortunately, fixing some of them may not be something that's done in a few minutes. JeffConrad (talk) 04:16, 17 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Generalized gamma?

Why did you mangle the formula for generalized gamma, and replace it with one that only works for power laws? Dicklyon (talk) 05:27, 15 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for fixing it. I did some copyedits on your new stuff. Dicklyon (talk) 07:18, 15 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Pink Floyd

Hi, I'm sorry about the revert to the Pink Floyd article summary saying your edit was vandalism. it wasn't in any way vandalism. Unfortunately my browser expanded the page just as I clicked on "undo", instead it hit "rollback vandalism" instead. The reason for the undo was that you cannot use Wikipedia itself as a reference as, ironically, it's classed as an unreliable source. Once again, sorry about the mistaken click. --The Pink Oboe (talk) 15:54, 19 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Pink Oboe is correct in that you may not use Wikipedia as a self-reference. References must be from 3rd-party reliable published sources. You may cut & paste the references from one article to another, however. Thank you,
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