Tøpholm

Re: your comments on Template talk:Convert

In response to these questions, which were moved from an unrelated talk page:

You also made a small edit to the referenced Water page, which I almost accidentally undid with some unsaved changes. How do I avoid undoing others edits, when I'm taking long to review my edit, or if the page has high activity? Sorry if I could read this somewhere else - I'm new here.
This being resolved, should I just go ahead and remove this section again, or should it have some grace period to allow others to catch it? Thanks in advance, and sorry to flood with questions, you just seemed experienced :-) )

Welcome to WP.

Usually these talk page sections just stick around & eventually get archived.

If somebody changes a page while you're editing it, you get this "Edit conflict" page which says

Someone else has changed this page since you started editing it. The upper text area contains the page text as it currently exists. Your changes are shown in the lower text area. You will have to merge your changes into the existing text.
Only the text in the upper text area will be saved when you press "Save page".

In the first box will be the saved version (with none of your edits) and in the bottom will be your version (with none of the other person's edits). (Actually "other person" & "Someone else" are not 100% correct since you can edit conflict yourself.)

The trick then is to add your edits back into the top box or add the other person's edits into the bottom box. Of course, if you add the other person's edits into the bottom box, you'll have to cut & paste it into the top box. The "Differences" should help.

If it's just too much to handle just like that, you could copy & paste your edits into the top box (without worrying about the other person's edits), save the page, undo yourself (go to history & click on "undo" next to your edit), compare the two versions and either add your edits back to the then current version or add the other person's edits back to yours. JIMp _talk·cont 07:57, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

Thanks. I was just making small changes to my edit, and pressing "Show changes", and suddenly noticed something new (your edit) in the left "current" view which I was highlighted in red. I then copied my edit to the clipboard, didn't save it, and added it again. However I never noticed a Edit Conflict page. Maybe I overlooked it, and clicked by it. Or maybe it doesn't show up in "Show Changes".

Anyway thanks.Tøpholm (talk) 14:53, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

No, it only shows up if you click on "Save page". You can see what it looks like by opening two edit pages, editing and saving one then trying to save the other. JIMp _talk·cont 18:35, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

fluid ≥ liquid

On Ask123's talk page, you said "The remarkable thing about superfluids, is you cannot tell if they are a fluid or a gas".

Maybe it was just a slip of the brain, and you meant to say "liquid". But in case it wasn't, i'm compelled to point out that "fluid" does not mean the same thing as "liquid". Anything that flows—including gasses, as well as liquids—are fluids. :)
überRegenbogen (talk) 06:53, 22 January 2010 (UTC)