User talk:Allenengel

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Regarding your recent edit to Dichroism: the article has used the British spelling "colour" since it was created back in 2004. I agree that "colour" looks odd to me also, but around here we compromise regarding differences in US/British spelling and first use or long use in a non-stub article is honored unless there is a consensus for change reached on the article talk page. Vsmith (talk) 03:00, 12 June 2015 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Allen H. Engel

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A tag has been placed on Allen H. Engel requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a person or group of people, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please read more about what is generally accepted as notable.

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Conflict of interest

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Speedy deletion nomination of Calling all cowboys

Hello Allenengel,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged Calling all cowboys for deletion, because it seems to be promotional, rather than an encyclopedia article.

If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to work on it, you can contest this deletion, but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.

You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. Sulfurboy (talk) 19:22, 18 June 2015 (UTC)

Guest Host Displays

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I removed the problem last week. No need to delete article. Thank you. Allenengel (talk) 17:13, 29 June 2015 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Guest Host Displays

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A tag has been placed on Guest Host Displays requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article or image appears to be a clear copyright infringement. This article or image appears to be a direct copy from http://www.personal.kent.edu/~mgu/LCD/gh.htm. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.

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I removed the problem last week. No need to delete the article. Thank you. Allenengel (talk) 17:15, 29 June 2015 (UTC)

L.E.D. to L.E.D. Communication

Allenengel,
please note that you cannot use Wikipedia (WP) pages as sources as you have done on this page just you created. This is per wp:Reliable sources (WP:RS). WP pages are nor considered to be reliable sources. - 220 of ^Borg 05:10, 29 June 2015 (UTC)

I am deleting the WP pages per your suggestion today. Thank you.Allenengel (talk) 16:37, 29 June 2015 (UTC)

But not like this [1]! Wikilinks are not references. Those links are needed! Strongly suggest you put them back. And we don't usually embed external links in the text like here, and here, please convert to references (<ref>link</ref>).
You have undone virtually all my 'fixes' to the page. Not happy! 220 of ^Borg 21:39, 29 June 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for the suggestions. Sorry for the errors, I am brand new to Wikipedia contributions. I will make the reedits soon. Allenengel (talk) 22:44, 29 June 2015 (UTC)

Yes no problemo¡ You did 'catch' me at a bad time though, hence the somewhat grumpy response. Early in the morning after little sleep and dealing with another editor, who while not new, suffers a bad case of 'deafness' known on WP as WP:IDHT. You may also notice that I have indented your replies per WP: Indent, use a leading : .
•The page title may need to be changed (WP: Moved) per WP: Title, there are standard practises, but I am not very familiar with them.

•I have doubts about the pages' WP: notability, so don't be surprised if it's tagged four deletion. Consider wp: draft.
• Nb. If people are searching for LED or L.E.D., you will likely find that one will redirect to the other. Personally I think that LED (like lead) is more common than 'ell ee dee' (L.E.D.), and I am an electronic tech. 220 of ^Borg 03:37, 30 June 2015 (UTC)

IDHT :) Indenting and formatting ideas are much appreciated. Thank you. I agree with you about noting about LED and L.E.D. I have been unable to figure out how to rename the page. If necessary I can note both L.E.D. and LED. ell ee dee  :) that's funny, I have not seen that before! Grins! Allenengel (talk) 02:11, 16 July 2015 (UTC)

Ext links

You're typically not supposed to add external links to articles. They should only be used in references and in the External links section. Please remove those that you've added recently. — Jeraphine Gryphon ^(talk) 13:41, 11 July 2015 (UTC)

Wikipedia and copyright

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I meant this [2] .Materialscientist (talk) 04:39, 16 July 2016 (UTC)

Nomination of Dave Larson for deletion

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Proposed deletion of Dichroic dyes, electronic dyes, liquid crystalline dyes

The article Dichroic dyes, electronic dyes, liquid crystalline dyes has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Three topics in one page, two of which have existing (and coherent) articles, and the other (electronic dyes) isn't mentioned in the article.

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