User talk:Meatwaggon

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Gunpowder

Hi Meatwaggon, Please can you supply a page number of the Blockquote from Partington. I would like to verify it.Pyrotec

I cannot. I did not insert the Partington passage, nor can I verify its authenticity. I have serious misgivings about this particular quote as it goes against traditionally accepted understanding of a diffusion of gunpowder knowledge out of China, so I edited the quote to reflect that the only author who attributes multiple locations for the invention of gunpowder is Partington. Please see my own brief discussion on the talk page. Meatwaggon 19:43, 16 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I have now removed the paragraph, I cannot find the quotation in his book and the paragraph appears to misrepresent the contents of his book; and he always quotes his sources.Pyrotec 19:59, 16 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The quote in question is from the introduction to the 1999 edition of A History of Greek Fire and Gunpowder, page xvii. this link shows it in Google Book Search. I'm not currently participating in editing the Gunpowder article, so no argument from me if you want to leave this passage out. RedSpruce 10:19, 17 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wahaha Danone joint venture

I just created this article on this very topical subject. The subject matter would make for a good featured article, so I am hoping to enlist your help to get it there qualitatively. Ohconfucius 02:47, 17 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Deleting sourced information from article/possible vandalism.

Could you please explain this deletion: http://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=ACAC_ARJ21&diff=219215427&oldid=217379810 Source clearly states: Scheduled to enter its detailed development phase next month, the ARJ21 would use a supercritical wing designed by Ukraine’s Antonov. It do really looks like a vandalism. TestPilot^{talk to me!} 04:05, 14 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Did you follow the link and see what it says? Where is the mention of Antonov designing a supercritical wing for the ARJ-21? Meatwaggon (talk) 04:39, 14 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

So you think if the Internet server is down or page no longer available - then you can remove valuable information from the article? And why you removing only part that point to non-Chineese participation in the project? Why don't you remove whole sentence? I see you member wiki project China - and in this context such editing stinks. TestPilot^{talk to me!} 04:55, 14 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Because that was the only part potentially contentious in the paragraph. I see you have a new link. That's what was necessary to keep that sentence in. Meatwaggon (talk) 05:48, 14 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

EU section

Hello Meatwaggon, I have moved the EU section you just added at Talk:Potential superpowers. It's a wikipedia guideline to "start new topics at the bottom of the page". And you added it at the top ;) =Species8473= ^(talk) 17:36, 26 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Michigan Wikipedians

Greetings Meatwaggon! I noticed that you made mention of the University of Michigan or Ann Arbor on your userpage. If you are a current student, faculty, or other affiliate at the University of Michigan, I would like to welcome you, on behalf of the Michigan Wikipedians, to our next weekly meeting on Monday September 30 (and every Monday thereafter). The meetings are held at 8:00 PM (EDT) in the University of Michigan Shapiro Library, room 4041. New and experienced editors alike are most welcome. Do not hesitate to leave me a message if you have any questions, and feel free to stop by the MWiki talk page. The Michigan Wikipedians are excited to meet you! Arbitrarily0 ^(talk) 00:47, 24 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Asian 10,000 Challenge invite

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