Mr. Ninja Pirate,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture Image:STS-116 spacewalk 1.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on April 10, 2007. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2007-04-10. howcheng {chat} 16:34, 13 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

While your intentions in adding referenced distance measurements to articles on galaxies (such as the Sunflower Galaxy) is respected, the references that you used are unreliable. In particular, the seds.org website tends to use unreferenced or out-of-date information in general (although some of their articles are exceptions). Distance measurements from scientific articles are preferable; a couple of us have been working on adding such references to articles on galaxies. See Messier 94, for example. If you would like more information, please contact me; I can point you towards a few reliable references for distance measurements. Thank you, Dr. Submillimeter 11:58, 28 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Dear User:Imaninjapirate,

Slow down a little! I recently marked a page named Ben Tesner for speedy deletion, which prompted you to leave me a VandalProof warning. Apparently my conversion of this page from AfD to speedy (aka "removing content") was a concern. I may note the previous content of the page:

== BEN TESNER == He is a boy. He lives in Oak Park. His house is under construction.     == INTRESTS == Hot wheel collecting Creating wiki pages. TREECKO                                      == FRIENDS == BEN GALPER BRAD HOLIDAY TROY TROY11 BLAKE LEE GARCIA TREVOR WILKIE 

Material like this doesn't need a knight in shining armor to defend it. I'm sure it was an honest mistake and nothing else needs to be said. Reswobslc 02:45, 29 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Ninja Pirate. In case you did not put my talk page on your watch list, please check it for my comment back to you here  Sean Lotz  talk  04:00, 29 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

P.S. I said it in my edit summary at my revert of your revert, but should have said it here. Thank you for your vigilance protecting WP from vandalism. I was a bit grouchy when I got your message and as a result let myself feel offended. Not appropriate. I really do appreciate your work. If that's the worst mistake you ever make, you're doing better than I.  Sean Lotz  talk  04:27, 29 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

WilliamKF and I have done most of the work on the galaxy articles. At the moment, I tend to add textual information on galaxies; WilliamKF has been filling in the article infoboxes (although it is based on a system we both developed together). I suggest looking at the Messier 94 or Sombrero Galaxy articles for good examples of how to create galaxy articles and how to reference information.

I strongly recommend using the NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED) for data on nearby galaxies, including positions, sizes, and redshifts. The morphological types are useful, although NED also provides (unreliable) AGN information in the same line; you will need to understand how to separate the two pieces of information to use NED's morphology information correctly.

For distance measurements, I suggest using the following papers to begin with:

• Ferrarese et al. 2000
• Karashentsev et al. 2004
• Tonry et al. 2000

Note that many other papers have measured distances to individual galaxies as well (see the discussion on the distance to Messier 74, for example). However, you should avoid referencing distances in papers that do not actually measure distances (see my paper on NGC 4631, for example).

I have mixed feelings about the list of spiral galaxies. It looks like it is nicely formatted, but it becomes yet-another list of galaxies that needs to be maintained (see the list of galaxies, for example). At the very least, I suggest the following changes to the list:

• Create just one list. Aside from the Messier and NGC catalogs, you could potentially include the IC catalog, the UGC catalog, the PGC catalog, the 2MASS catalogs, the SDSS catalogs, etc. Segregating the objects based on which list they appear in is not useful.
• Merge the "Designation" and "Common Name" columns; most spiral galaxies do not have common names.
• Add right ascension and declination to the list.
• Remove the distance column; extragalactic distances are difficult to measure (at best). Instead, use redshifts, which are easier to measure and give implicit information on distance.
• Change the word "classification" to "type".
• Put references to the source of information in the header rows of the tables.

You may also want to see the tables that I have created in many pages on galaxy groups; see M51 Group, NGC 5866 Group, or Sculptor Group, for example. Also, let me know if I can try reformatting the pages that you have already created.

Finally, I suggest looking at Wikipedia:WikiProject Astronomy and Wikipedia:WikiProject Astronomical objects, both of which function as good forums for astronomy-related discussions.

Please contact me if you have any questions or comments. Dr. Submillimeter 14:22, 29 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

No info was removed. An external link section was added. If you had looked closely you would see I removed some empty headers with no info, and moved the transit route info above the See More section.

What are you talking about? That's not nonsense. A lot of sites have said that Sony has failed with the PS3. Don't give me your nonsense warnings. Are you some stupid PS3 fanboy? Go read news articles - even Time magazine has the PS3 in its list of "5 Things That Went From Buzz to Bust."

Please be more careful when utilizing software liek VandalProof, for example you've just reverted a perfectly legitimate edit: [1] thanks/Fenton, Matthew Lexic Dark 52278 Alpha 771 23:30, 5 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, you just reverted one of my edits and it wasn't vandalism. Please be more sure of yourself! 76.178.95.219 22:31, 10 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

How do you revert an edit using VP? I've learned pretty much everything I needed to know and got used to using it to warn users and all. The rollback buttons (on top) never appear to be "clickable" (only as soon as I log in but that's it, its gone...) when I need them to revert constant vandalism. So how in the world do I get 'em to activate? How do you get 'em to activate? Power level (Dragon Ball) 06:39, 16 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You online? Power level (Dragon Ball) 20:58, 16 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Your "Here" was linked incorrectly to the Here article. I still can't revert an edit using VP. Please help me. Power level (Dragon Ball) 04:13, 17 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The Wikipedia:Counter-Vandalism Unit project is under consideration to be moved to {{inactive}} and/or {{historical}} status. Another proposal is to delete or redirect the project. You have been identified as a project member and your input as to this matter would be welcomed at WT:CVU#Inactive.3F and at the deletion debate. Thank you! Delivered on behalf of xaosflux 15:50, 10 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of spiral galaxies until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. StringTheory11 (t • c) 00:42, 2 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hi,
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Hi,
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