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Hi MeanMother...

I just tried the link and didn't have any problems. Try again and see what happens: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Tutorial/Editing

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Hi MeanMother, You were quite right. Well spotted and thanks for telling us. Someone had made a mistake and replaced the text of the tutorial with an article about an Nepalese village. I reverted it but you must have come upon it while it was wrong. These things happen sometimes!!--Harkey (talk) 19:59, 9 March 2012 (UTC)

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The userbox gallery has lots of userboxes you can pick from.

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Use

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Userboxes
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to display them in a row on the right side of your userpage.

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This should work: add

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   display: none;
}

to your skin.css page. This was discussed at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#Small new feature coming on Thursday.

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Human vs. manned vs. crewed

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Request for dispute resolution re: Moon Landing

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Mosin-Nagant

Hi, I just wanted to mention that when you were editing Mosin-Nagant, you somehow changed .308 inches and .312 inches to "2.8mm/.11in" and "2.9mm/.11in". I see the rest of your edits are in good order, but you might want to watch out for that; I suspected someone was vandalizing the page at first. AnnaGoFast (talk) 02:14, 21 July 2016 (UTC)

I just reverted an edit of yours on Grand Rapids, Michigan for errors along the same line. Please familiarize yourself with Template:Convert and use it instead of manually calculating conversion. It will give better more uniform appearance to the articles, save you from having to calculate and save others from having to fix miscalculation. Thanks. John from Idegon (talk) 00:06, 14 September 2016 (UTC)

The reason I rounded to 50 km is because 30 miles is equal to ~48.28, and the article reads that Grand Rapids is "located on the Grand River about 30 miles east of Lake Michigan". The "about" suggests that the value of "30 miles" is an approximation; I tend to round values that are approximation, and also tend to avoid the convert template you recommend because it often gives unnecessarily precise values; I did not know of a way to around them at least to the closest whole (or half) number. I'll try heeding your advice from now on. Thanks --MeanMotherJr (talk) 01:55, 14 September 2016 (UTC)

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Of course I thought I was reverting in the opposite direction! Silly old man. --Soundofmusicals (talk) 02:36, 14 February 2018 (UTC)

Compact Cassette

I did not "hastily revert" anything (and I object to your assumption that I did). I thought about it for some time. The article is better without misleadingly "precise" measurements in it.

Good faith is great but is not a sufficient defense of measurements given to an unsupported degree of precision.

You wrote "the unsourced imperial measurements are almost certainly conversions themselves from metric." And those conversions were almost certainly rounded off at some point. You can't just multiply inches by 25.4 and post the result to three significant figures, just because the conversion factor has three digits, unless you know that the measurement being converted is also that precise. These things matter. If you really want to improve the article, I suggest you find the standards on cassette dimensions and quote and cite them.

You are correct about the prime and double prime notation. Jeh (talk) 22:17, 30 August 2018 (UTC)

Hm. Here's a standard document, though not one from Philips. http://www.richardhess.com/tape/history/NAB/NAB_Cassette_Tape_Standard_1976_searchable.pdf It's not in metric but at least it doesn't claim the shell is exactly four inches wide.

I agree with you that the measurements were almost certainly "metric-based" originally, except for the tape speed. 1-7/8 in/s was a standard tape speed before cassettes developed (half of 3.75, which was half of 7.5, which was half of 15, etc.). Whether Philips deliberately picked "about 1/8 wide" as half of the typical quarter-inch audio tape, vs simply picking a metric number that came close to that, is less certain. It is certainly a "more round" number in inches (0.15 inches)! But not really 1/8 inch. Jeh (talk) 22:36, 30 August 2018 (UTC)

Metric

I noticed you've been adding quite a few conversions to metric. First of all, that's totally fine, but we do have {{convert}} to help with that. It keeps a standard style, is less error-prone, and is more maintainable than adding conversions manually, so it would really be a good idea to start using the template. If you have any questions about its use, I'd be more than happy to help. –Deacon Vorbis (carbon • videos) 03:34, 22 October 2018 (UTC)

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