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Hello Gecg. I see I am the first person to leave a message on your talk page, so let me belatedly welcome you to Wikipedia. If you run into any difficulties or have questions, please let me know.

Regarding the page Turing completeness, could you leave a note on Talk:Turing completeness explaining what you are concerned about there? I would look into it, but I am not sure exactly what you would like to see improved. Thanks, — Carl (CBM · talk) 11:53, 24 April 2010 (UTC)

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April 2010

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Citation needed

Re this edit - please note that the date must be placed in the relevant named parameter, ie |date=August 2010, and not in an unnamed parameter; this is to ensure that the automatic categorisation is carried out correctly. Further, a planned improvement to {{citation needed}} will cause text in the first unnamed parameter to display, like this:

glass and all metals except iridium.

A bot has fixed your edit, and the page now shows in Category:Articles with unsourced statements from August 2010. --Redrose64 (talk) 13:00, 2 August 2010 (UTC)

Pradyot Patnaik

I am trying to figure out why you are citing the book Pradyot Patnaik. Handbook of Inorganic Chemicals. So far as I can tell, this is an pretty obscure source, but maybe I am mistaken. I have spent some time replacing references to this book so your additions are of interest to me. Is Patnaik widely used in Brazil?--Smokefoot (talk) 12:52, 15 June 2011 (UTC)

My point is that, despite teaching inorganic for many years, I had never heard of Patnaik or the scientist until I started checking Wikipedia. So I am suspicious of the authority of the source. For preps and basic properties, I prefer Brauer's Handbook/Handbuch because he and his coeditors were obviously close to the chemistry (published scholars), and the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics because it has been through so many editions and thus so much checking. My guess, and that is all I can do since I have never seen the book, is that Patnaik is a consolidator of work published by others and the book is lacking in stature/credibility. That is the reason you will find me occassionally replacing refs to Patnaik with other sources. In any case, thanks for the response.--Smokefoot (talk) 11:54, 16 June 2011 (UTC)

Replaceable fair use File:Hp10s- scientific calc-frontal-image.jpg

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Proposed deletion of HP-10s

The article HP-10s has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Can't find any coverage of this device apart from sites selling it, and no indication of notability

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