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Bull Ring neolithic henge

I'd not heard of that lol, thanks for fixing.:) Sticky Parkin 13:22, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

Meetup

For your interest Wikipedia:Meetup/Birmingham_3. Majorly talk 19:21, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

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Hi Mike,

Sorry our first meeting was not so good lol

It's nice to see someone with some real knowledge on astronomy in here.

I really do have some questions, but can't seem to find answers, so hope you won't mind me asking a few !

One of my trains of thought is concerning your thesis actually, so maybe you can cast some real light on it for me. It's mainly concerning horizons, and the point stated so well in the big bang page. The other part is to do with whether or not there was one or more than one big bang, basically if we are in a multiplicity of bangs, each one limited to its own galaxy. As for the Horizon question, as it rightly states the time taken for the light to reach us is so long that I can't see how we can estimate the weight of matter in the universe/s if we don't know if it's still there or not.

Nice pics from the Hubble deep field, and also the first from CERN LHC although they didn't really get many images out (i think it was 3 - all of collisions with the collimator) before it went kaputnik lol

Nice to meet you and hope it goes well with your studies so we can call you Doc !

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Hi again - sorry you are so busy

That makes perfect sense - homogenous and isotropic - I didn't realise it was done on that basis. So I suppose it could be the case that some areas are more or less dense - we'll have to wait till we get proper space travel, and I suspect by that time we probably will be long gone in a volcanic/meteoric/disease event lol

The LHC gave three pics, although I must admit I am confused as to what they are after reading your note. They come from the Images -> Particle Collision Tracks -> LHC, but state "One of the first images from CMS, showing the debris of particles picked up in the detector's calorimeters and muon chambers after the beam was steered into the collimator (tungsten block) at point 5"

Anyway, they are pretty, not at all like the images I am used to seeing of a cloudy bulb with a few tracks on it !

Hope the workload eases - I found the Jodrell bank site v interesting, I was friendly with a local man near my home in Manchester in the 70's, he had a huge great refractor in his garden, and we used it many times, even looking at Jodrell once ! I seem to remember it took about 10 minutes to sight it and get the weights stabilised - wonderful to first see the sun and draw it's spots. Amazing thing.

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Diffusion damping's Peer Review

Hello. I noticed you sometimes like to perform peer reviews of scientific articles in need. Would you mind checking out Diffusion damping? -- rmrfstar (talk) 15:26, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

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((adminbacklog)) autohide feature

Hi Mike. I am planning to add an autohide feature to ((adminbacklog)). This is based on a code idea I saw you use on a category page, so I thought you might be interested and have some comments. See my explanation at Template talk:Adminbacklog#Autohide feature.

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A reminder that the Manchester meetup is this Saturday. Hope to see you there! Majorly talk 18:56, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

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Request for peer review for asteroid 243 Ida

Hi, I know you're very busy, but I just wanted to thank you again for your very helpful comments on Gerard K. O'Neill, and also to let you know that I've put 243 Ida up for peer review. I would appreciate any help you can provide. Wronkiew (talk) 06:43, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

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Wikimania 2010 bid

Yes, I do have some questions, as I found it very difficult to understand what was going on when I first looked at the page - which I suppose is one reason I haven't pushed myself forward. But no doubt it will become clearer in time if I pay attention! Deb (talk) 21:55, 10 April 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for signing up as a minion. :-) Please, ask your questions, and let me know which parts of the bid you find confusing (I've tried to rearrange it logically in the past, but perhaps it isn't quite there yet...). Mike Peel (talk) 22:03, 10 April 2009 (UTC)

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Parking in London

On a Sunday? There should be plenty of street parking near the pub... Gordo (talk) 17:50, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the advice: I managed to park just around the corner from the pub. Hope to see you at a future wikimeet! Mike Peel (talk) 20:43, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

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Help for template

Hello, I've seen your name on the project template and I permis myself to ask you help: I've just created a new portal Portal:Lyon and I would like to create the templates for the subways, trams, bus. They already exist on the french wikipedia of Lyon metro for example. would you accept to help me ? Thank you Lulu97417 (talk) 16:36, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

I'm afraid that I'm too busy right now to offer general help; if you have any specific questions, though, I'd be more than willing to answer them. Mike Peel (talk) 20:45, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

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NASA one

I have a photograph I would like to add to the NASA one article but I don't know how to add it. I think that the addition of a picture would aid a degree of credibility to it.

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B of the Bang

Great new photo at B of the Bang. I'm very sad to see it, but it's a great image. Thank you for this and your other edits to the article - it's very good that it's being kept current. Cheers, DBaK (talk) 22:57, 19 July 2009 (UTC)

Thanks. :-) Mike Peel (talk) 12:15, 20 July 2009 (UTC)

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A meetup is taking place in Manchester if you are interested. Majorly talk 18:47, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

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Category:Cheese articles needing references

Please restore this category and talk page, it is supposed to be empty. It is only supposed to be used when an article is marked as needing references. --Jeremy (blah blah • I did it!) 05:12, 8 September 2009 (UTC)

My understanding is that the category was "redundant to correctly named" Category:Cheeses articles needing references, as the person who nominated it for speedy deletion said. Is that not the case? Mike Peel (talk) 08:50, 8 September 2009 (UTC)

WP:PAID

Thanks for the contribution to WT:Paid editing. I think that it is very important that folks realize what is happening with paid editing services, so a policy on this is quite important. Please don't take this next sentence as a criticism, only a call for input. I noticed on your user page that you might have edited articles related to your workplace. As the proposed policy is currently written, you might be required to post on your user page that you are a paid editor! This might be quite unfortunate. The problem is - how to write the proposed policy so that it prevents what we want to prevent, and how to not discourage editing that we don't want to discourage? i.e. where do we draw the line? Any input at WP:PAID would be very welcome. Thanks again. Smallbones (talk) 13:44, 9 September 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for pointing this out; I've left a rather lengthy response at WT:Paid editing [1]. Mike Peel (talk) 18:57, 9 September 2009 (UTC)
I responded there as well. Perhaps we were both a little over-dramatic? In any case, my apologies, if this offended you in any way. Smallbones (talk) 19:35, 9 September 2009 (UTC)

Just wondering

Are they going to update the spaceflight in 2012, 2013 and 2014? Mickman1234 (talk) 08:09, 13 September 2009 (UTC)

I assume that someone will create the pages at some point. They're linked to from Template:TLS-L, but they're currently red links. I think it's Wikipedia:WikiProject Timeline of spaceflight that keeps an eye on those pages. Mike Peel (talk) 16:49, 19 September 2009 (UTC)

Hello, there, Mike Peel. I hope I'm writing on the right space. I'm just wondering if your website is only temporarily down? Your photos are stunningly beautiful. I'm planning to use one of your photos in a short non-commercial video on Gurdjieff's teachings. Shall I send you the URL when it's done? Shall I credit your wikipage as well as your webpage just to be safe? Kind regards, Marnie Tunay of Fakirs Canada: http://fakirscanada.spaces.live.com 68.148.232.179 (talk) 15:42, 19 September 2009 (UTC)

Hi. It's always great to see my photos used in ways that I didn't expect - although please don't apply a non-commercial license to the result (it's not compatible with the CC-BY-SA license that my photos are licensed under). If you use my photos, then I'd love to see the result - please send me the URL. I need to update links - I've removed my photo gallery from my website, as I decided there wasn't much point in having it. I upload full resolution images to Wikimedia Commons, so you're best off using those. The standard credit I request is "Mike Peel, http://www.mikepeel.net/" - I'm happy for you to add "via Wikipedia" or "via Wikimedia Commons" to the end of that if you want. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 16:49, 19 September 2009 (UTC)

Nicholas U. Mayall

Hello,

I'm requesting peer review on astronomer Nicholas U. Mayall in the hopes of making it a Good Article. Please provide your feedback. Thanks.

WilliamKF (talk) 21:12, 13 September 2009 (UTC)

Hi. As you've probably guessed by the length of time it's taken me to reply to this, I'm afraid that I don't really have the time to carry out a full peer review. I've glanced through the article, and it looks great to me - I don't think you'll encounter many problems getting it to Good Article status. Nice work! Mike Peel (talk) 16:52, 19 September 2009 (UTC)

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dotAstronomy

Hi Mike. I noticed your post on the Dutch village pump about dotAstronomy. If there really are no wikimedians attending, then I might be interested. On and off, I have been maintaining the NASA and ESA related categories on Commons. Though my efforts have been mostly focused at human spaceflight, I have also encountered and dealt with many astronomy images mostly with regard to copyright issues and with cataloguing the images that we have. I think this experience related to reuse of the astronomy data on the web, and the problems related to this re-use can be an useful addition to this dotAstronomy conference. My most important problem is the timing of this conference. I don't have a full week available to spend on this unfortunately. But if the organizers think that this is something they are interested in, and if they don't mind that I cannot be there for an entire week, then we could certainly talk. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 12:56, 4 October 2009 (UTC)

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Thank you for the Barnstar: I hope what I am adding will be useful to somebody. The Manchester Museum article looked very poor and only a list of highlights was given until somebody added a long malacological section (too long in fact). After that I tried to build up the rest of the field by summarising from the 1985 guide.--Felix Folio Secundus (talk) 11:33, 16 October 2009 (UTC)

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Nice work on this. Improves the article greatly, always good to see timely photo contributions. MickMacNee (talk) 19:28, 22 October 2009 (UTC)

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standard solar model

Hello. Heeelp! Got seriously out of my depth. If you have time to check out my comments on the talk page, I've reached the point where I don't feel able to contribute further without some expert feedback. Sorry to randomly "poke" you, if that's the right term. Puzl bustr (talk) 23:23, 5 November 2009 (UTC)

Hi. I'll try to take a look when I can - but I'm very busy at the moment, so it may take a while. Sorry... Mike Peel (talk) 22:45, 6 November 2009 (UTC)
False alarm. I've now completed my re-write of the article, after being encouraged by an editor. Now have a new question. If mixing length theory (in the context of stellar structure and standard solar model) is phenomenological, requiring two free parameters which have to be chosen to fit observations, isn't there a possible circularity about stellar modelling? Can a stellar model really make predictions if it requires observations to calibrate it? The research papers I've read certainly seem to treat stellar modelling as a valid theory making predictions, and I'm prepared to take that on faith, but, not being an expert in the field, I've not been able to answer the question through my own researches.Puzl bustr (talk) 19:21, 8 November 2009 (UTC)
I'm far from an expert on solar physics (stars are rather too small and local for me. ;-) ), but in terms of multiple parameters: lots of models have multiple observational parameter inputs, but the parameters tend to control different dimensions. An example is a straight line - y=mx+c - where m and c are the parameters. These can be measured from a drawing of a straight line, and the two parameters will be independently measured (so there is no circularity). If you don't measure them well enough, then there are links between the parameters, however that's normally considered when talking about the parameter values.
Ideally, models would predict all parameter values, and we'd simply measure them to check them. However, the universe is very complex, and we don't yet know all of the physics well enough to be able to calculate every single parameter yet (in fact, we have a _long_ way to go before we're at that point.) Mike Peel (talk) 10:20, 9 November 2009 (UTC)

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Hi mike, the section does need a rewrite and is excessive, I wanted to suggest you do it as no one else is jumping up, I see no problem with you doing it and I will work with you if you like. Off2riorob (talk) 21:52, 25 November 2009 (UTC)

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