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This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Ssd (talk | contribs) at 23:55, 21 May 2006 (→[]: I will not vote on a category someone campaigns by polluting my talk page.). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

If I answer your comment within a day of you posting it, I'll answer here unless you request otherwise.

I don't bother archiving what was here. If you wanna see it anyway, look for DELETED in the history.

Sysop

Congratulations! After receiving 100% support on RfA, you are now an administrator. You should read the relevant policies and other pages linked to from the administrators' reading list before carrying out tasks like deletion, protection, banning users, and editing protected pages such as the Main Page. Most of what you do is easily reversible by other sysops, apart from page history merges and image deletion, so please be especially careful with those. You might find the new administrators' how-to guide helpful. Good luck. Angela. 21:10, Jul 24, 2004 (UTC)

That's a helpful link! I've put them all in my watch list, and downloaded for later persual the ones I dind't read on the spot. I'll go through all of them in the next couple of weeks (offline) and read the relevant ones sooner. --ssd 03:51, 26 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Categories for deletion maintenance

Hey, I need a sanity check on this, and since you're one of the other administrators that works on CfD, I thought you'd be a good person to ask.

I've done some restructuring at Misplaced Pages:Categories for deletion/resolved which I think brings it closer to what it's supposed to be. (That is, interesting decisions are summarized, not included in full unless they are likely to be controversial, in which case I have archived them on sub-pages.) Is that acceptable? (I'm not done with all the summaries, obviously.)

I'd like to move on to archiving the entries at Misplaced Pages:Categories for deletion/unresolved, which is generally a much bigger mess. I figure that individual entries there ought to all be archived on sub-pages, since they wouldn't be on unresolved if the discussion weren't worth retaining. I'd like to have my work checked by someone else before I start on this enormous project, however. --Aranel ("Sarah") 15:01, 23 Dec 2004 (UTC)

I love the summaries you've written, very nice! Including the date was a good idea. It may be a good idea to also include the final vote count (this is even more important on unresolved). I'd like to see links to the archived discussion; I don't know if the discussion is important on /resolved, but it is fairly critical on unresolved. People might add their comments to unresolved, so it might be a good idea for the date to indicate when the count on the summary page was last updated/changed. Good work! --ssd 15:56, 23 Dec 2004 (UTC)

anti-dejavu?

Ok, so I'm reading along in this discussion, and I find this fairly long and really pecular comment, and I think to myself either "What fool wrote this garbage, must have been half asleep" or "What clever guy wrote this? I agree with it totally!" and I get to the end, and it's ME!! Ugh. Creepy. --ssd 2:30am EST, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

The same thing sometimes happens to me as well. Tell me if there's a better name for this than anti-dejavu.

--DavidCary 02:53, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

I think some call it CMS (crumbling mind syndrome), but I don't think that's a better name. Do you? --ssd 04:04, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

One of the funnier things I have seen on Misplaced Pages. I can imagine the same thing happening to me some day. Why don't we see more humor and humanity around here? Kd4ttc 16:54, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

I don't want to go on the cart!! --ssd 01:49, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

Category:Years in Canada

I notice you created Category:Years in Canada, which contains articles whose titles begin with a year. If you have time, could you please go through and make sure the articles are sorted in their respective year (or year-in) parent categories using sortkeys as outlined at Misplaced Pages:Categorization#Year categories? (Don't forget to start the sortkey with a capital letter.) If you've done this already, thanks and sorry for bugging you about this. I plan to go through a ton of such pages early next year; it would be nice if some of the work were already done... - dcljr (talk) 01:29, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

Semi protection is NOT to be used for edit wars

It's for vandalism only. I don't even see a real edit war there. Too slow simmering. --Woohookitty 19:59, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

I thought the purpose for semi-protection was to reduce vandalism from anonymous sources. That's exactly what this looks like to me. --ssd 20:14, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

How many bad faith edits from an anonymous user who does not honor consensus and won't discuss changes can a page get before it becomes eligible for semi-protection? 100? 200? 500? How many IP's need to be blocked before it would be better to semi-protect the page than block the ip's? What if they are AOL addresses? How "fast" does this problem have to occur? 1 edit a week? 1 edit a day? 10 edits a day? --ssd 14:12, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

electricity

I'm enjoying the discussion at Talk:Electricity#Voltage_doesn.27t_exist_.28or_does_it_.3F.29 . I like to think that I understand this stuff, but sometimes it's difficult for me to explain. I hope that Misplaced Pages helps people find better, less-confusing (but just as accurate) explanations. --DavidCary 02:53, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

Not quite done. --DavidCary 07:56, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

Dipole antenna

SSD - wait a second, let me re-incorporate your additions Kgrr 19:37, 8 January 2006 (UTC) I fixed your reference for the ARRL handbook and moved the other one to the Balun article. Kgrr 19:46, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

I'm surprised the balun reference wasn't already in that article. --ssd 02:52, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your message. I put a little time in to re-organize the article, but have not created the diagrams yet. If I find a little time later today, I will create them. In turn, it would be useful to fill-in the sections for the balun article. Kgrr 22:16, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

Ssd, I have replaced the hand drawn diagrams for the dipoles with baluns and made a few corrections along the way. Let me know what you think. Konrad Kgrr 18:30, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

I'll proof read and expand where I can. I already found some mistakes and fixed 'em, but looks like I forgot to save, oops. --ssd 02:33, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

Something about those diagrams bothers me. I'm starting to doubt the correctness of the arrow directions. The two halves of the dipole are fed 180 degrees out of phase, and the arrows make it look like they are in phase. When I get a chance, I'll check them against references. --ssd 02:40, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

The arrows are correct. Except that there are not enough of them. There should be an arrow for the center conductor, that is opposite the shield normally. In the common mode current diagram, there should be a second arrow on the shield that is the same direction as the center conductor. There's a nice confusing diagram showing this on page 1 of the balun book. Essentially, a portion of the shield current flows back down the shield instead of through the half of the dipole connected to the shield, forming an "inverted L antenna" between the shield and the other half of the dipole. --ssd 07:30, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

Anyone running the Amateur Talk page?

I was looking around to see who in the community is tending to the success of the amateur radio articles. Have you been taking on that role? If not, anyone who is keeping an eye on things? Steve Kd4ttc 16:51, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

There are a number of very active hams on wikipedia, although some non-hams have complained that the relevant articles are overly technical. There are a handful of amateur radio and radio related catagories, and I peridocally check changes to all those articles, but I wouldn't say that I "run" anything per se. --ssd 01:45, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

Tom Swift

Since you protected it (Against that vandal), I request you add some protection notice to it. Thanx 68.39.174.238 04:28, 15 February 2006 (UTC)