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Wikipedia talk:Wikipedians/Technical Communicators

message: I've begun to ask the people on this list what they do for a living and how they'd define "technical communicator." I'd love to have a full-time job editing sites like Wikipedia. Does anyone know of any avenues that would make this a possibility for me? Others have already mentioned looking into my local STC group as well as offering to guest-blog and get my name out by contacting websites that I admire. I'd love to get my Scripture Database idea on the ground someday; megsnjj.com is my most recent site. Any other recommendations would be very much appreciated! Feel free to e-mail me if you have more personal recommendations.
I'm watching this page, so you can reply here. Thanks! --J. J. 14:08, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Leads into the profession 

message: I'm Konrad Roeder, a systems engineer at T-Mobile and an author of technical books.  To me in order to be an effective engineer, you really have to be a good technical communicator.  About half of my career depends on reading and writing technical documents.  My audience of my engineering work is my engineering department, the marketing department, the operations department, equipment vendors, contractors, airport officials, city and county officials, railroad and subway officials.  As an author of technical books and Wikipedia, I have a much broader audience.
There are many jobs that entail technical writing.  Here are a few ideas:
1) Technical Writer
2) Technical News Service
3) Technical Book Author
4) .. My favorite .. Engineer
Kgrr 18:51, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Technical Communications Professions 

message: I am the Senior Editor, Avid Administrator and a Technical Director at a broadcast television station located in Michigan, USA.  I also train producers on editing techniques and work as a liason between the Creative Services and Engineering departments.  I graduated from Oakland University with a B. A. in Communication Arts, so I enjoy writing manuals and standard operating procedures.  I am willing to edit and add to existing articles to better explain technical details to laypersons.Thomprod 16:22, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Thomprod
Talk:Gorizont

message: BTW, "Gorizont" name was quite popular for different devices in the USSR. There are belorussia-made TV-sets of such name, for instance. --jno 14:14, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Disambig? 
Talk:Rōmusha

message: Romusha does not translate to 'wood blocks' in Japanese. The correct word for that is maruta (丸太).
:Neither of those words transaltes to "wood blocks". The word maruta is translated to "logs", as noted in the linked article. The word romusha translates quite literally to "laborer". Boneyard90 (talk) 14:17, 4 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: translate
Talk:North Leicestershire Football League Premier Division

message: I have created this page as a redirect to the main league (albeit reluctantly, but consensus must be respected!) per these comments made by fchd. In the distant (or even near) future, if consensus changes about the notability of these divisions (so long as the information is verifiable), I would gladly re-create this page into a proper article. --Siva1979Talk to me 14:20, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Redirect
Talk:Literary Machines

message: I can't find any evidence of Eastgate having republished Literary Machines in any format at their web site. Perhaps this information is out-of-date? Szarka 14:22, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Eastgate URL has been added. -Classicfilms 19:04, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Plymouth and West Devon Combination Premier Division

message: I have created this page as a redirect to the main league (albeit reluctantly, but consensus must be respected!) per these comments made by fchd. In the distant (or even near) future, if consensus changes about the notability of these divisions (so long as the information is verifiable), I would gladly re-create this page into a proper article. --Siva1979Talk to me 14:25, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Redirect
Talk:Aldershot Senior League Division One

message: I have created this page as a redirect to the main league (albeit reluctantly, but consensus must be respected!) per these comments made by fchd. In the distant (or even near) future, if consensus changes about the notability of these divisions (so long as the information is verifiable), I would gladly re-create this page into a proper article. --Siva1979Talk to me 14:31, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Redirect
Talk:Concentric objects

message: This should become a disambig page, with dictionary stuff being sent to Wiktionary. Thoughts? --Dweller 14:32, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Belongs at Wiktionary?

message: I came here to find out how concentricity is measured or expressed - what are the units of non-concentricity - percentage? (4crates 05:24, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Measuring concentricity?

message: Hi! I'm no expert on math and geometry, but (or so) I have a question about the sentence, "Circles, tubes, cylindrical shafts, disks, and spheres may be concentric." May a circle be concentric, or IS a circle concentric? Thanks!
Ulrik
:Two given circles either are or are not concentric. A single circle being concentric or not makes no sense, because the meaning of concentricity is that two (or more) objects share a center. What the sentence tries to say is that objects that do not have a radial center (e.g. squares) are not called concentric, even if they would share the same centroid. -- Jao 10:43, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Usage
Talk:David W. Dyer Federal Building and United States Courthouse

message: The sculpture shown in the photo was on the left side of the Miami-Dade County Courthouse which is located at 73 Flagler Street, not the David W. Dyer Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse which is located on 300 Northeast First Ave. The sculpture has been removed for construction of the new courthouse. 2600:1700:6820:5490:B5E4:2D6C:89F7:5E4A (talk) 09:28, 30 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Photo of sculpture in front of courthouse
Talk:Plymouth and West Devon Combination Division Two

message: I have created this page as a redirect to the main league (albeit reluctantly, but consensus must be respected!) per these comments made by fchd. In the distant (or even near) future, if consensus changes about the notability of these divisions (so long as the information is verifiable), I would gladly re-create this page into a proper article. --Siva1979Talk to me 14:38, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Redirect
Talk:19 September Network against Coup d'Etat

message: I deleted some sentence based on NPOV. It is redundant and suggestive (viewer can click on 2006 Thailand coup d'état article to read what happen). Please feel free to make any change as long as it is NPOV and balanced. Thanks~ --underexpose 14:42, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: NPOV

message: Proposed merge since the information in this page is the same as appeared in 2006 Thailand coup d'état --Manop - TH 20:45, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I think we should give some time to this group to see if it evoilves into a political actor. Roger jg 08:50, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The group has ongoing activities. Patiwat 05:49, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge 
Talk:Residually finite group

message: :An equivalent definition is that a group is residually finite if the intersection of all its finite index subgroups is trivial.
Er, really?  Without thinking about this, at all, it is quite obvious that a group is RF if the intersection of all its finite index normal subgroups is trivial.  Can someone provide a proof for the other equivalence?
RandomP 14:45, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Probably an error? I changed it to "normal", which generally occurs in the definition of "residually something". - Momotaro 14:00, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It wasn't an error: in any group, the intersection of all subgroups of finite index is the same as the intersection of all normal subgroups of finite index. (By the way, the merge tags you added have been there for more than a month, and nobody has disagreed, so I suggest we go ahead and merge. The merged article should be at residually finite group.) --Zundark 07:57, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: This is true, because any finite index subgroup contains a finite index normal subgroup:  A finite index subgroup has only finitely many subgroups conjugate to itself.  Hence the intersection of all subgroups conjugate to a given finite index subgroup is of finite index; it is obviously normal, too.  Thus the intersection of of finite index subgroups is contains the intersection of all f.i. normal subgroups.  The other inclusion is obvious, I guess.138.246.7.146 (talk) 11:24, 11 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Unsourced (nontrivial?) theorem
Talk:Antonio Pittman

message: This article is one of thousands on Wikipedia that have a link to YouTube in it.  Based on the External links policy, most of these should probably be removed.  I'm putting this message here, on this talk page, to request the regular editors take a look at the link and make sure it doesn't violate policy.  In short: 1. 99% of the time YouTube should not be used as a source. 2. We must not link to material that violates someones copyright. If you are not sure if the link on this article should be removed or you would like to help spread this message contact us on this page. Thanks, ---J.S (t|c) 05:55, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  YouTube links 

message: He was logged into facebook at 11:30 pm (EST) on May 13 2008. He signed off at about 11:45pm
--130.108.185.192 (talk) 03:48, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Facebook 
Template talk:Virginia Woolf

message: It seems a bit whimsical to list Orlando and Flush as "biographies."
Dybryd (talk | contribs) 02:24, 17 November 2006
: Agreed.  I'm moving Orlando under novels; I haven't read Flush, so I'm unwilling to judge where it should go. faithx5 01:15, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Whimsy
Talk:John Hay Beith

message: I am currently reading an old original volume titled 'All In It! "K(1)" Carries On' by Ian Hay, published November 1917. In the preface, it mentions that it is a continuation of sorts (my words) of "The First Hundred Thousand".  I expect the list of books on the main page may need some correction or clarification.  
23.243.62.41 (talk) 22:02, 8 September 2014 (UTC)

message: Is this the Ian Hay mentioned in Robert A. Heinlein's Glory Road?  The narrator of GR cites a Major Ian Hay as saying that all military bureaucracies consist of a Surprise Party Department, a Practical Joke Department, and a Fairy Godmother Department. Cactus Wren 17:39, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mentioned in Heinlein? 

message: I came to this page after starting to read The First Hundred Thousand. Based on what I've read so far Hay clearly felt himself to be Scottish and probably - I don't know, which is kind of the point - was. However, looking at the article alone, the statement he is "from Edinburgh" seems odd. He was born and died in England and the only mention in the article of Edinburgh is his time at Fettes College, admittedly both as student and teacher (though no time frames are mentioned; for all I know he could have taught at Fettes for a year). I could just edit the page and remove "from Edinburgh" but I'm sure it's pretty much true, it's just that the article doesn't really back it up and that phrase sticks out, to me, as odd. I don't know much about his life - that's why I looked at this page - but I think it needs some more background.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.20.13.45 (talk) 00:25, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edinburgh 

message: We list the birth name, John Hay Beith, and pen name, Ian Hay, but don't mention or explain the depicted signature, "Ian Hay Beith". Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:41, 1 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Names 

message: The six parts of The New America are now transcribed on Wikisource. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:14, 2 January 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Now also The America At War, again in six parts. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 17:07, 4 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  The New America on Wikisource
Talk:List of heads of government of the Gambia

message: :The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section. 
The result of the debate was PAGE MOVED per comment below. -GTBacchus(talk) 21:11, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

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* If "The Gambia" is the name of the country, rename to Heads of government of The Gambia. Regards, David Kernow (talk) 02:14, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Survey

message: There is currently a request for comments at Talk:The Gambia on whether to capitalize the definite article in the country name. Feel free to participate in the discussion. Jafeluv (talk) 05:41, 4 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  RfC: The Gambia or the Gambia
Talk:List of political parties in the Gambia

message: :The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section. 
The result of the debate was PAGE MOVED to List of political parties in The Gambia, using the correct name of the country. -GTBacchus(talk) 21:05, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

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* If "The Gambia" is the name of the country, rename to List of political parties in The Gambia. Regards, David Kernow (talk) 01:47, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Survey

message: There is currently a request for comments at Talk:The Gambia on whether to capitalize the definite article in the country name. Feel free to participate in the discussion. Jafeluv (talk) 05:41, 4 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  RfC: The Gambia or the Gambia 
Talk:Vagdavercustis

message: The article calls the scene a "ritual sacrifice", but reference #3 (www.spinfo.de) calls it a "Weihrauchopfer" (incense burning ritual). Incense was so expensive then that burning it had sacrificial overtones, even though no animal was sacrificed -- usually. If I had more than just the one German source, I would be happy to reword that part of the description. As it stands now, we don't have any expert opinion on whether this ritual actually involved the sacrifice of any animal. — Aetheling 14:59, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Incense?

message: If the goddess is believed to be Celtic or Germanic there must be an etymology attached to the name.--Berig 15:59, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Etymology?
Talk:ID-Ten-T Error

message: This article sucks.  --Xyzzyplugh 15:06, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: (With the digit one instead of the letter eye in the first position)
This appears to be a fairly common variant (I heard that version first), and the redirect is still there.
Unless there's an objection, I'll add it back in some fashion.   Rwessel (talk) 22:56, 25 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  What was the justification for removing the 1D10T Entry on 22-May-08? 

message: Shouldnt it be "an user error"? 89.249.0.170 (talk) 00:26, 8 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: No, "a user" is correct. See for instance http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=480322 -- intgr [talk] 12:56, 14 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Grammar
Talk:Ascendant

message: The provided formula is questionable. What does "a" in "cos a" stand for? Is it the same as "A" in "sin A"? What is the argument of the atan function? Why is it written as "atan-..." ?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.106.121.55 (talk) 09:17, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: This has been dealt with. Some knowledge of trigonometry is assumed. Michaelbarreto (talk) 07:16, 17 May 2010 (UTC)

text: Not only that. That formula actually gives only results in range -90° to 90°, which is only a half of the full zodiac. It hasn't been said, how to determine when 180° should be added to the result and when not. 本 Mihajlo [ talk ] 10:31, 16 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: To get the correct quadrant for this calculation one would use atan2. Michaelbarreto (talk) 06:30, 17 May 2010 (UTC)

text: The formula does work, as I have already said; use atan2 to get the result in the correct quadrant (i.e. 360° or the full zodiac). Perhaps you should include the alternative formulae? This formula is from a respected astronomical book. Michaelbarreto (talk) 04:02, 18 May 2010 (UTC)

text: For the third time: Use atan2 to get the answer in the correct quadrant, i.e. the full Zodiac. Please click on this link and have a look at the page on atan2. Michaelbarreto (talk) 04:02, 21 May 2010 (UTC)

text: I thought "Wikipedia is an encyclopedic reference, not an instruction manual, guidebook, or textbook". Michaelbarreto (talk) 06:18, 26 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Calculation 

message: hey, i think a good, simple definition of the Ascendant is the popular expression "the dough you are made of ".... what do you think ?81.44.21.123 (talk) 16:01, 17 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  the meaning of Ascendant 

message: Hi,
I'd like to know my ascendant. If someone can help me... I was born June 6th 1974, at 7pm.
Thank you very much,
Héloïse Lamirault-Oppelt  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.205.35.237 (talk) 01:11, 18 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ascendant 

message: The movement of the Earth in orbit around the Sun does not depend on the location on the Earth's surface. This means that the intersection of the horizon and ecliptic planes can be considered as an optical phenomenon, like the intersection of the silhouette of the Eiffel tower with the Milky Way belt, visible in the sky in clear weather. 85.249.45.182 (talk) 16:36, 17 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ascendant is optical fake
Talk:Tarar (surname)

message: Can someone please explain what this "database" is doing in a general encyclopedia article? Please move it somewhere else - it does not belong here. This is not a chat group. John Hill 23:01, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Tarar DataBase" 

message: Hi I am again removing non notable and repeated names from this list of notables. Please openly add those names of people who already have existing articles on Wikipedia thanks . 39.54.247.135 (talk) 16:16, 1 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Non notable names etc
Talk:Naval History

message: Naval History → Naval History (magazine)– The current title could be the target of a mistaken link for naval history in general. Naval history is a common term that should take the common name, and it has roughly 100 links as opposed to the magazine's 20ish. Thus the Naval history article should remain in place, Naval History (with two caps) should be a redirect to Naval history, and the article about the magazine should be Naval History (magazine). The magazine article was originally tagged for a merge, but a move is much more appropriate. - Draeco 02:43, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 

message: Add "* Support" or "* Oppose" or other opinion in the appropriate section followed by a brief explanation, then sign your opinion with ~~~~
* Support as nom. - Draeco 02:48, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Survey
Talk:Obligation

message: If obligation is not observable in a state of affairs, then it arises by ascription or utterance. Simply ascribing (i.e. writing to - from the Latin 'ad scribere') obligation to B doesn't establish the state of affairs where B is obliged and therefore doesn't establish the truth of the sentence 'B is obliged' just as simply saying "The cat is sitting on the mat" doesn't establish the state of affairs where the cat is sitting on the mat and therefore doesn't establish the truth of the sentence 'The cat is sitting on the mat'.
The process is one of magical incantation i.e. saying it's so makes it so.  Ash138.217.214.135 (talk) 11:40, 23 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Status of obligation. 

message: An editor added the following text from the lead, which I do not understand
*1 define obligaton matter of a single person (vs) obligatios that includes more then a sigle object,
*2 Obligation /Legal / Penalty/ shouln,t exsist wen the word choice is precent in any way of the context .
*3 (protection) there are diferent tipes of protections protection of a persons Rigths , protection of a persons from life trnt , protection in a way the that person dont die of starbing or hunger protection those definitions word baced or by far the most common life trnts for a person , there is a way of protecting a person in full gear under his or her rights of constitution or just under someone way of determination .
I have reverted this but suspect they were getting at something real, that might be relevant. If anyone else knows what it was, please feel free to add! Elemimele (talk) 20:42, 14 August 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  A good-faith edit that I reverted 

message: I am not a lawyer, but feel that other non-lawyers might be confused by second sentence of the lead: "People who are under obligations may choose to freely act under obligations". The natural definition of an obligation, is, after all, something where we do not have the choice to act freely.
I wonder whether this is because the article does not differentiate between being obliged and being obligated. A bank-teller is obligated to hand over the cash when I present a valid cheque (i.e. it is correct that he should, but he has a free choice not to act under the obligation, though his act would then be immoral). But he is obliged to hand over the cash when I turn up with stocking over my head and a gun (i.e. he has no free choice). Is this the point of the second sentence? Should it be clarified? I'm highlighting the confusion to an average reader, but cannot change the text as I know nothing of law. Elemimele (talk) 20:47, 14 August 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Obliged versus Obligated