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Happy editing! -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:03, 4 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome and the 1947 flying disc 'craze'

Hi, welcome to Wikipedia! I just wanted to explain why the word 'craze' is appropriate and consistent with a Neutral Point of View. In this case, UFO believers and skeptics and historians ALL use the same name. If it had been up to me, I might have called it a "flap" or a 'wave' or something, but the reliable sources use "craze" for '47. Per WP:COMMON, I'm supposed to use the most common name, not substitute my own language. Feoffer (talk) 11:11, 15 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello and thanks for the welcome! In Rhodes UFO photographs you returned the Arnold drawing which I had previously deleted - which I now have added a link and the relevant dates into which I think is helpful to compare with the dates of the Rhodes date - the year does help as the reader could think someone forgot to add the year - seeing the year simply confirms the information without needing to presume to almost 100% certainty that the day and month corresponds to the year 1947 - which is obvious it should but knowing it does does confirm this - for those who are doubt prone - and UFO as a subject matter I think does tend towards irrational doubt - the uncertainty involved. After I made the edits I noticed: the Background - it isn't the background of the Rhodes images and is actually information on Arnold and "1947 craze" - shouldn't this be changed? The tone of the passage seems to imply that the craze produced the images - but this isn't possible: in any situation - if an extraterrestrial craft existed in the air and Rhodes was present to take the images the fact of the so-called craze would make no difference to Rhodes's decision - to capture the image of something extraordinary. Onemillionthtree (talk) 17:19, 15 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Reverted

@Stepho-wrs: I am sorry ! Onemillionthtree (talk) 05:52, 20 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

No worries - this is how we all learn. Stepho talk 05:58, 20 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Re: Flying saucer

Hey, a lot of people worked hard to make this a good article. Could you have some respect and not edit war about silly things like linking and redundant wording? Thanks. Viriditas (talk) 00:14, 3 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I just think not everyone would know what a saucer is. For those who know it is obvious: for people who don't they accept the term "flying saucer" as being the photograph - the mystery of both is mixed together and they don't necessary ever question what the saucer word actually means. Onemillionthtree (talk) 18:32, 8 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

"Page loading time"

Hi! I saw your recent edits and edit summaries. I'm pretty sure that edits like this have no effect on the page loading time for readers, since the edit makes no difference to the resulting HTML that is transmitted to their browsers. If you are concerned about wasting the time of Wikipedia editors, then, again, I think the edits don't help, as these changes pop up on people's watchlists, and make it more difficult for editors to follow the history of the page. -- John of Reading (talk) 08:01, 8 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

That's correct. I checked the rendered HTML before and after these edits to Help:Creating a bot and there was no difference. Anomie ⚔ 13:26, 8 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

How does reducing the bytes of the document not increase processing speed? In a sample from this: Simon E Spero Analysis of HTTP Performance problems www.w3.org @ "HTTP Illustrated" "This page is 1668 bytes long" indicates bytes is the determination - @"Very nice, but what does it all mean": "Another important metric is the bandwidth of the connection. This is a measure of how many bits per second our connection can carry." this would indicate that reducing the bits decreases bandwidth load. Understanding latency developer.mozilla.org: "the HTML includes requests for multiple CSS, scripts, and media files. The greater the number and size of these requests, the greater the impact of high latency". In my imagining (this is to say I don't know exactly how the server scans the data for retrieval): if a server scans a page with gaps the motion is from the 1st byte to the last byte in sequence: like a sensor which receives the imprint at each position- although the whitespace has no textual element the scan would need to pass through the byte of the space to reach the last datum in the stored document. Onemillionthtree (talk) 17:12, 8 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

REDIRECT ⇒ Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)#Page_loading_time

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