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June 2009

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Two accounts

Hi John,

Thanks for uploading images to the Wikipedia Commons. This is an excellent way to make images available to a broad audience.

Regarding User:Johnelson and User:John Elson, you may wish to read Wikipedia:Sock puppetry for information about when it is appropriate for one person to have more than one account on Wikipedia.

Also, please see Help:Minor edit for when it is appropriate to mark an edit as minor – adding new content to an article, even just a link or a picture, is not regarded as a minor edit.

Thanks, Adrian J. Hunter^{(talk•contribs)} 10:03, 17 June 2009 (UTC)

Cross-posted to User talk:Johnelson

WHOIS for 3dham.com shows registrant Name: John A Elson[2] --Guy Macon (talk) 03:07, 26 April 2014 (UTC)

That other account was created by accident and I don't know how to get rid of it, I haven't used it for years. John Alan Elson★ WF6I A.P.O.I. 05:26, 26 April 2014 (UTC)

The standard way to handle an old, unused account is delete the content of that user page and user talk page and replace the content with {{retired|date=date 2009}} with an edit summary saying Retired account. Now using [[User:John Elson]]. --Guy Macon (talk) 15:20, 26 April 2014 (UTC)

Digital 3D

Hi, I noticed you've been doing some work on imaging / film pages, and thought I'd draw your attention to this. A new user has just created a page Digital 3D (Which used to redirect to Disney Digital 3D). I dont know much about digital standards but to me this appears to duplicate material on the 3-D film page and the Disney page. Do you think its notable material worth keeping or should it be reverted to the redirect? Cheers Clovis Sangrail (talk) 12:59, 16 April 2010 (UTC)

The locking out of jokers

Out of interest, what did you mean by "Isn't there some way to lock this joker out?" - is this a recurring style of vandalism you've noticed on this or other articles? The IP address itself only has one other edit, from a few weeks ago. --McGeddon (talk) 16:20, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

If it starts happening multiple times per day, you can request that the page be semi-protected so that anonymous IP editors can't edit it for a while. It doesn't look like it's getting that much vandalism at the moment, though, and getting recurring joke vandalism from shifting IPs can just mean that it was a joke made on a TV show or something, that different people are repeating. --McGeddon (talk) 17:29, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

Preview, Group, Summarize

Please Preview, Group, Summarize

Thank you for your edits on the Stereoscopy and related articles. Please consider 1) Using the Show Preview button (beside the Save Page button), 2) Grouping edits together to avoid clogging the page's edit History which makes it hard for fellow editors to monitor the edits, 3) Describing each edit with the Edit Summary box (above the Save Page button).

Too many small edits bulk out the article histories and make it more difficult to find important edits. Previewing saves some doing and undoing edits. Thanks. Hu (talk) 12:08, 18 September 2011 (UTC)

Cross Eye 3D image

If I open up the cross eye image on the 3D article page and attempt to look at it cross eyed, the image is patently 'inside out'. Looking at it in parallel view, it is the right way out. The cross eye image is identical to the parallel view image. But don't take my word for it - they link to exactly the same image. And to prove the point, I placed the following comment on the 'parallel view' image discussion page: "=== Same Image? ===". That same comment is now also on the cross-eye image discussion page, because they are the same image and the same discussion page. 109.153.242.10 (talk) 17:54, 12 December 2011 (UTC)

The poster is using Wikipedia's built in stereo image support. If you look at it in the page it will be normal or cross as appropriate but saving it to your computer will give you the original, normal image.

John Elson★3Dham★ WF6I A.P.O.I. 05:28, 13 December 2011 (UTC)

Fulgurite

What is the point I having a stereoscopic image? If you want to show variety, a single image of either irregular specimen would be sufficient. --TimL (talk) 12:50, 29 June 2012 (UTC)

You could say the same thing about color images, since all the characteristics except color would be apparent in a black and white image which may clearer and sharper than a color image. The flat image would show all the characteristics except the depth. Many flat images are misleading with regard to the actual shape of objects and this is a good example. The more regular of the two tubes looks more like a blade when viewed as a flat image and many people see it that way, but when it is viewed stereoscopically the shape becomes clear.

Stereo images have become common enough to be used in articles not specifically about stereo images just as color images are used in articles not about color photography. The stereo support built in to Wikipedia allows only the right image to be shown by default so that to those not inclined to view it stereoscopically it looks like a flat image but the stereo viewing options are available to those who appreciate the clarity a stereo image offers. John Elson★3Dham★ WF6I A.P.O.I. 15:08, 29 June 2012 (UTC)

[[user Endophasy removed this text from the article, as multiple problems are evident. You cannot assume petrogenetic mechanisms simply by intuition; these intuitions are not validated by research and not consistent with the physical properties of electricity and plasma]]

Shapes

[Fulgurites may be classified in a number of different ways, but one of the more obvious is by their shape. Though subtle variations make fulgurites almost as unique as snowflakes, they can be classified into a few general categories.

Tubes: This is the most common fulgurite shape and is what people normally think of when they think of fulgurites. Tubes may be branched or unbranched and are generally rather rough on the outside with bumps and ridges. Sometimes openings are found in the middle and one end may have collapsed, leaving only one open end.

Blades: A blade is a tube which collapsed, leaving a relatively flat formation. Blades are not completely flat, however, and usually have a crumpled appearance.

Rods: Rods are similar to tubes, but, as the name suggests, they are solid rather than hollow. This can occur when a strike has partially dissipated and lacks enough energy to blast out the inside or a tube may have become filled with sand or other material which subsequently hardened. Like tubes, rods may be branched or unbranched. Some rods resemble fossilized roots.

Spheres: If material is sufficiently heated it may melt into a roughly spherical shape.

Irregular: This category is for shapes that defy classification. These can be formed when other shapes fold in on themselves before fully hardening. It is also possible that an already formed fulgurite was hit and partially melted by a subsequent strike. It is even possible that two or more fulgurites were partially melted and fused together by a subsequent strike.]

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Fulguritics (talk • contribs) 23:26, 12 August 2015 (UTC)

A bowl of strawberries for you!

Welcome to WIKIPEDIA............. Kelenna (talk) 22:38, 27 July 2012 (UTC)

Some baklava for you!

Hey John Elson it is a pleasure to meet you respond on my page Kelenna (talk) 23:25, 29 July 2012 (UTC)

Why

does your signature not link to either your User or Talk page? --Lexein (talk) 08:09, 11 August 2013 (UTC)

January 2014

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April 2014

Please remember to assume good faith when dealing with other editors, which you did not do on Talk:Avocado. In addition, your signature appears to violates WP:SIGLINK. --Guy Macon (talk) 03:03, 26 April 2014 (UTC)

Microscope

Before raising an issue on the article talk page, I thought I had better try and discover why you believe that Microscope should be written in American English. The first recorded edit is by Sodium, an editor who says of himself that he is an English doctor in London. The article then goes through very many edits before any words that can be assigned to American of British English are encountered. Can you please give your reasoning for tagging this article please ? Thanks.  Velella  ^{Velella Talk}   20:11, 3 August 2014 (UTC)

August 2014

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Eye of a needle

Hello John,

I think you didn't understand well and some explanation would be useful. I NEVER said that the Jaffa Gate already existed in the time of Jesus. The "Eye of a needle" is a generic name for the little door inside a big one. You can see a lot of "Eye of a needle" in Jerusalem until today. Almost every big door in Jerusalem has a small door inside i.e. an "Eye of a needle". The Jaffa Gate is an exemple of that.

That's the "Eye of a needle" Jesus was talking about. It's important to know that it was a small gate, and not a literral needle. The difference is that a camel cannot enter through a needle in the literral meaning, but a camel can actually enter through the narrow door, although it is not easy. it is difficult, but not impossible. That make a big difference...

The little gate in Jaffa Gate is a good exemple of that kind of small door, even if that gate didn't exist in the time of Jesus.

Djampa (talk) 08:31, 1 September 2014 (UTC)

No, it was a literal needle the fact that it is impossible is the entire point. With man it is impossible, but with God all things are possible Just as Jesus himself explains in the very same passage.

John Alan Elson★ WF6I A.P.O.I.

Talk:Bath School bombings

Wanted to let you know that your signature there seems to be somewhat mangled and does not provide linkage to your talk page or your contributions. As a matter of fact, your user name comes up as an empty page. Shearonink (talk) 05:13, 30 October 2014 (UTC)

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Your signature

Your signature to posted items violates Wikipedia's rule that some part of your signature must link to one or more of your user pages (see WP:SIGLINK). Your signature contains no links to this account's user space, though it does contain a redlink to a non existent account User:John Alan Elson. I suspect that this may be an error on your part, in that you have created the signature incorrectly.

Oh yes: and new sections to talk pages go at the bottom of the page (just like this one) and not the top. 86.153.133.193 (talk) 16:20, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

The above comment is correct. Also, your signature uses deprecated <font> tags, which are causing Obsolete HTML tags lint errors.

You are encouraged to change

<font color="red"><b>[[John Alan Elson]]</b></font>★<font color="blue"><b> WF6I A.P.O.I.</b></font> : John Alan Elson★ WF6I A.P.O.I.

to

<b>[[User:John Elson|John Elson]]</b>★<b style="color: blue"> WF6I A.P.O.I.</b> : John Elson★ WF6I A.P.O.I.

It would be good to put in a talk page link also, perhaps like this:

<b>[[User:John Elson|John Elson]]</b> ([[User talk:John Elson|talk]]) ★<b style="color: blue"> WF6I A.P.O.I.</b> : John Elson (talk) ★ WF6I A.P.O.I.

The talk link doesn't work here because this is your talk page, and on Wikipedia, when pages link to themselves, the link is suppressed and the linking text is bolded.

You can change your signature on the Preferences page. You can also revert to the default signature, as I do, by blanking the signature field and unchecking the box marked "Treat the above as wiki markup".—Anomalocaris (talk) 20:06, 18 January 2018 (UTC)

Most users are updating their signatures as requested. We hope you will also. —Anomalocaris (talk) 01:00, 3 May 2018 (UTC)

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WF6I

I noticed that you have WF6I in your signature, and out of curiosity I searched the FCC Amateur Radio database for that callsign. It's always nice to see other hams on Wikipedia. - ZLEA _T\^C 23:46, 5 April 2019 (UTC)

If you go to the QSL article you'll see mine. John Alan Elson★ WF6I A.P.O.I. 03:40, 6 April 2019 (UTC)

Please adjust your signature

Hello. Please adjust your signature so that it links to your user page. For more information about this, see WP:SIGLINK. Thanks. — Mudwater ^(Talk) 03:28, 22 May 2019 (UTC)

"P.S." I believe that you can fix things by doing this:

• Click on Preferences, in the upper right of any page.
• Go to the "User profile" tab if you're not already there.
• Scroll down to the Signature section. In the Signature text box I believe you will see this:

font color="red"><b>[[John Alan Elson]]</b></font>★<font color="blue"><b> WF6I A.P.O.I.</b></font>

• Change it to this, by adding User:John Elson| as shown:

font color="red"><b>[[User:John Elson|John Alan Elson]]</b></font>★<font color="blue"><b> WF6I A.P.O.I.</b></font>

• Click the Save button at the bottom of the page

This should make your signature link to your user page, even though it will look the same as before. — Mudwater ^(Talk) 10:29, 22 May 2019 (UTC)

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Reese's Pieces article

Hi John,

Please refrain from reverting my edit to the Reese's Pieces article unless you can source a citation which disproves the bit of historical information I am providing. As you have reverted these edits several times I must assume bad faith on your part. Please cease your bad faith edits immediately or I will have no choice but to raise the issue with arbitration.

Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 38.39.68.249 (talk) 04:01, 6 January 2020 (UTC)

I reverted vandalism. Who do you think you, a mere IP address, are to tell me I have to provide a source saying your garbage is fiction? Reese's Pieces were inspired by Reese's peanut butter cups which which were created by a man named Harry Burnett (H.B.) Reese in 1928. This story about some Reese brothers has nothing to do with the subject of the article! John Alan Elson★ WF6I A.P.O.I. 04:27, 6 January 2020 (UTC)

Furthermore, your vandalism has been reverted multiple times by multiple registered users! John Alan Elson★ WF6I A.P.O.I. 05:04, 6 January 2020 (UTC)

In case you run into this editor again, see User:Meters/Reese's hoax. Meters (talk) 01:26, 12 February 2020 (UTC)

A late note – thanks for reverting, but please keep the edit summaries civil. Whether someone is editing without or with an account is completely irrelevant on Wikipedia. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 02:15, 10 March 2020 (UTC)

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