User talk:ReyHahn

Hello ReyHahn,

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Happy to be addressing you on your talk page for the first time, ReyHahn, and beh-ta-reen-ha ro ba-rat a-re-zoo da-ram! As a former developer of "automatic translation" (usually called machine translation in English), I was interested to read your comments on your user page. I see that despite various discussions, you have now removed references to Eiffel Tower naming from several other articles related to the 72 Eiffel Women. May I simply request that before you make any further edits along these lines, you wait for some kind of consensus to be established. In all my years with Wikipedia, I have never entered into edit wars by reverting changes made by other editors. Instead, I have found discussions on talk pages to be a far more constructive way forward. If we can agree to a "crease-fire" along these lines, I may be able to continue my work on improving the biographies related to the Eiffel Women. If not, I hope there will be others who are willing to take up the challenge. Happy editing! And please forgive me for copying this to Victuallers, Rosiestep and MumphingSquirrel.--Ipigott (talk) 14:30, 7 July 2026 (UTC) Reply

Thanks for the message. Yes, I will stop removing lines about the Eiffel Tower addition while the discussion is on. Just to be clear I was not edit warring or anything I discussed this before with other users and in others there was no even other edits so I thought it was ok. Again I am trying to improve the articles too and I will continue. Please let me know if there any specific strategy on other points ReyHahn (talk) 14:39, 7 July 2026 (UTC) Reply

Also please next time do not bring more people to my talk page without justification. Also please consider specifying why you bring certain people to discussions. To avoid WP:CANVAS accusations. -ReyHahn (talk) 14:42, 7 July 2026 (UTC) Reply

Thanks a million for your cooperation. I will try not to upset you further on your talk page or ping other collaborators but I really considered this to be a serious matter in connection with my own interests. Tomorrow I'll try to get back to improving Eiffel Women articles. You may be interested to know that through my family I have has close relations with Farsi and that this also extended to my development of machine translation from the 1970s when the Americans, especially the US Air Force, were particularly concerned about developments in Iran and the middle east. Thanks to AI, today machine translation is becoming a real asset, even for languages like Farsi. Please let me know if I can help you along with anything.--Ipigott (talk) 20:11, 7 July 2026 (UTC) Reply

As I said I will stop editing the specific line in discussion while we settle this up. I will try to help on the rest. I would like to let you know that I am not all (not even an inch) related to Iran, some users suggested that because my username sounds like "basil" in Farsi. Nevertheless, I am also happy to help with related articles. I have my issues with machine translation but that is not important for now. Thanks for reaching out and remaining very polite.--ReyHahn (talk) 07:32, 8 July 2026 (UTC) Reply

Super polite. Please stop anything that looks like stalking. If you are not doing anything that looks like stalking then that's great. Victuallers (talk) 15:23, 8 July 2026 (UTC) Reply

You have been more on the defense. Please consider discussing editorial and consensus rules that you have in a public page. My manner of editing in Wikipedia is to edit here and there when I see something I can help with. It is not helpful to call this stalking. I have been working in some of the Eiffel women articles even before the announcement. Please if you have any important issue to discuss let us discuss it in the appropriate page.--ReyHahn (talk) 15:27, 8 July 2026 (UTC) Reply

Also I read the Event:EiffelWomen and joined. Hope it is allowed.--ReyHahn (talk) 15:29, 8 July 2026 (UTC) Reply

Information icon Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. Regarding your recent edits to Christfried Kirch when you modified the page, you introduced unknown parameters. Just because you specify |some_param=some_variable does not always mean that variable will display. The |some_param= must be defined in the template. You can look at the documentation for the template you are using but it is also helpful to use the preview button before you save your edit; this helps you find any errors you have made and ensure that the values you have added are displaying correctly. Below the edit box is a Show preview button. Pressing this will show you what the page will look like without actually saving it. It is strongly recommended that you use this before saving. Note I have likely fixed the error by now so check the history of the page to see how it was fixed. If you have any questions, contact the help desk for assistance. Thank you. Zackmann (^{Talk to me} /_{What I been doing} ) 14:31, 16 July 2026 (UTC) Reply

Information icon Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. Regarding your recent edits to Bianca Tchoubar when you modified the page, you introduced unknown parameters. Just because you specify |some_param=some_variable does not always mean that variable will display. The |some_param= must be defined in the template. You can look at the documentation for the template you are using but it is also helpful to use the preview button before you save your edit; this helps you find any errors you have made and ensure that the values you have added are displaying correctly. Below the edit box is a Show preview button. Pressing this will show you what the page will look like without actually saving it. It is strongly recommended that you use this before saving. Note I have likely fixed the error by now so check the history of the page to see how it was fixed. If you have any questions, contact the help desk for assistance. Thank you. Zackmann (^{Talk to me} /_{What I been doing} ) 00:06, 22 July 2026 (UTC) Reply

Hi ReyHahn. Thank you for your work on Dubreil-Jacotin–Long equation. Another editor, Ldm1954, has reviewed it as part of new pages patrol and left the following comment:

An image would be good to add, there are some in Wikipedia commons such as Shallow water waves.gif. Maybe not the best, but better than none?

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Ldm1954 (talk) 19:40, 16 July 2026 (UTC) Reply