User talk:DeepYogurt

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meco (talk) 08:22, 3 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Dams

Hey DeepYogurt. Are you interested in dam articles? (Don't mind the pun). If so, a bunch of us just started a WikiProject on dams, called WikiProject Dams, you can access it here. If you are interested in working on dam articles and want to learn more about Wikipedia, you're welcome to join. If you have any questions, hit me up on my talk page.--NortyNort (Holla) 08:45, 3 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Tianhe-I

Hi, I notice in one of your edits today of the article:

"The Tianhe-1A system is composed of 112 compute cabinets, 12 storage cabinets, 6 communications cabinets, and 8 I/O cabinets. Each compute cabinet is composed of four frames, with each frame containing eight compute blades plus a 16-port switching board. Each compute blade is composed of two compute nodes, with each compute node containing two Xeon X5670 6-core processors and one Nvidia M2050 GPU processor."

The reference is cited as follows: "Personal e-mail from Jack Dongarra of University of Tennesse's "Innovative Computing Laboratory" to contributor."

Do you mean it? Any citation that readers can access? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Now wiki (talk • contribs) 02:49, 31 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I came to discuss this too. I've removed this "reference" and added a {{fact}} tag. Please see the policy on no original research and the guideline on reliable sources. A "personal communication" cannot be used as a source for Wikipedia as it is not verifiable. Fences&Windows 20:46, 30 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Deepsea Challenger

Thanks for your contributions there, but we do not capitalise according to sources but according to our own style guide. --John (talk) 07:22, 1 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the tip about this sort of capitalization. I always thought it was a good idea to use whatever the original source seemed to prefer. I gotta say that this sort of way of doing things only leads to multiple ways to say the same thing - anybody can invent their own set of rules after all - seems like the originator should have the right to decide how to capitalize their own phrase and everyone else would follow suit. What would be the Wikipedia "way" to capitalize a quote from a book that an author has written a specific way for their own reasons? For example David Foster Wallace in his book "Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity" makes numerous references to "IYI" which is his way of saying "if you're interested". Surely that would not be changed to "Iyi" would it? (see page 1 of his book if you would like to see more) So perhaps the best question for me to ask is under what circumstances would capitals be used to maintain the original creation of someone? --DeepYogurt (talk) 05:04, 8 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

USB terminology

I made a change to the USB-C page in the "Specifications" section, as I thought the names of the "plug" and "receptacle" images were reversed as the "plug" image was a female receptacle it appeared to me and the "receptacle" was a mail plug, but a little more digging around seemed to indicate that the original was "correct", but wanted to see if someone knowledgable about USB-C could comment as to which is really the correct way to refer to the names of the mail and female connectors. Is it really the opposite of what they physically are?

Also wanted to see about changing the name on pin B5 from "VCONN" to "CC2" as the table above the image says. But the wiring table below the image calls B5 VCONN. So which is the correct title?

DeepYogurt (talk) 16:08, 24 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]