Michael Frind

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Recumbent bicycle

Hi... Your recent edits to the article leave me wondering as to the source. The edits you have made imply that the entire paragraph "Safety" is supported by the "Landis, Bruce; Petritsch, Theodore; Huang, Herman (2004)" source, but I don't think that's the case. Could you please take a second look at your edits and clarify sourcing as needed? Thanks! — Twisted86 - Talk - at 22:36, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

Okay, I will check that. Thanks for bringing it to my attention.

Your recent contributions

Please do not add original research or novel syntheses of previously published material to our articles as you apparently did to Thiomersal. Please cite a reliable source for all of your information. Thank you. DMacks (talk) 22:50, 29 November 2009 (UTC)

January 2013

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October 2013

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• Modest Suggestion (July 18, 2013) 16-18, available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2295245. ] </ref>
• which protect [[Internet service provider]]s from the consequences of their users' actions. (Similarly, the EU directive on electronic commerce provides a similar provision of "mere conduit"

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• specific countries; this approach serves as a means of implementing [[digital rights management]]). Use of [[proxy server]]s and [[virtual private network]]s may give a false location.

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OER inquiry

Hi Michael Frind, I'm sending you this message because you're one of about 300 users who have recently edited an article in the umbrella category of open educational resources (OER) (or open education). In evaluating several projects we've been working on (e.g. the WIKISOO course and WikiProject Open), my colleague Pete Forsyth and I have wondered who chooses to edit OER-related articles and why. Regardless of whether you've taken the WIKISOO course yourself - and/or never even heard the term OER before - we'd be extremely grateful for your participation in this brief, anonymous survey before 27 April. No personal data is being collected. If you have any ideas or questions, please get in touch. My talk page awaits. Thanks for your support! - Sara FB (talk) 20:45, 23 April 2014 (UTC)

Merge discussion for Wagon-wheel effect

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Martin Shkreli - Now or Later?

Hi! Just noted you changed "came" to "have been". This means that the text effectively loses temporal validity the moment you press the Save button. We need to write our material in the past tense to preserve its validity into an unknown future. If the investigation ends, your text is immediately outdated. So please consider reverting your edit. Thanks. sirlanz Sirlanz 03:18, 18 December 2015 (UTC)

Optimizely

Hi, you recently edited Optimizely's page saying "Optimizely's work inevitably focuses on advertising". I don't see why this is the case? Perhaps it is true of media companies that use the product, but a typical ecommerce or b2b company or non-profit is not going to be using Optimizely for advertising. This is even less true for A/B testing within mobile apps. A/B testing is simply a method of testing two versions of a page to see which one performs better, there is nothing which "inevitably" links it to advertising.

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Ernst Röhm

Hi Michael!

Sorry to pester you, I see you added content to the article in question. I'm having some trouble with one editor about what is allowed to be added and what isn't, regarding linking to an existing stand-alone article. I'm not asking for you to take sides, I'm trying to get some guidance here. I added to the content of the article by creating an Awards and Decorations section. I then added some awards and decorations and provided links to their own stand-alone pages on wiki. One editor in particular has now decided that some of them are "trivial" and I, and presumably anyone, is not allowed to refer to these stand-alone articles. I have had several sections of added content on the Röhm page, and others, deleted because of this so-called trivial/menial business, yet when I've asked for a hard and fast list of all the articles I'm not allowed to refer to via links, I've not been given one. I'm not sure why a stand-alone article exists if you're not allowed to link to it? What do you think I should do here? Just never refer to an existing article via a link or persevere and hope for the best. As it stands now I just add links and wait and see if they are deleted under this new totally ambiguous decision by this editor, and then wait for the inevitable aggressive warning. Not sure what to do! Sorry for bothering you Troy von Tempest (talk) 02:37, 16 July 2018 (UTC)

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ActCAD, AllyCAD etc...

Hi, I am an engineer from Poland. I'm interested in CAD software, I have written or modified several articles about CAD software. Among other things, about ActCAD (I moved from Polish Wikipedia), IntelliCAD, AllyCAD. I saw you wrote an article about BricsCAD. Could you join the discussion and review or improve the listed articles. I need an engineering approach to evaluate these articles. I will be very grateful.ZengaONE (talk) 21:55, 13 May 2020 (UTC)

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Background Music Edit

Hi Michael, in your recent edit of Background Music, I saw you said that "More recent types of such may be computer-generated." Do you mean that the score is generated by AI, or the musical instruments are played on a MIDI keyboard by a human, elaborate? Shlecko (talk) 11:05, 16 June 2021 (UTC)

Good point -- thanks for the clarification. I meant the score being generated by AI (and algorithms in general). I will clarify and add references. Thanks again.

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X-Mode social

Hi. Just to explain I reverted what you did to X-Mode social. Much of what you did was ok, but you interspersed it with your own analysis of the company's operations and motivations, and opinions on the acceptability of it. Please try and keep your edits neutral and a reflection of what is in the sources. Thanks. --Escape Orbit ^(Talk) 17:40, 3 February 2022 (UTC)

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