Kivaan

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Wow, philosophy and robotics? fascinating! You have my full attention. Also welcome to WP:TIMET. If you need some bearings, here are some links:

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I also left you a nice boxie in your userpage, just take it away if you don't like it, I just thought about it as a welcome gift Jenny^Len☤ 17:33, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

Robotics

Would you please give a look at Robotics and any linked articles and see which WP:TIMET tag they should habve and place it? Thank you Daoken 09:04, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

WP:TIMETRACE

Hello, I wonder if you could, while editing diverse articles, check if they have sources in their history or chronology (or when they mention any important date. If they don't, could you please place inline {{Timefact}} calls where those citations to sources are missing, this will display . If you find an article with too many inline calls to place or totally lacking needed history of the subject, you can instead place {{histrefm}} at the footnotes of the article's main page, just before Categories. If you could add this to your routines, it will most certainly help WP:TIMETRACE. Thank you for your help. Daoken 06:45, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

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Hello. You may have seen that some Wikipedia articles lack sources to given dates, timelines and chronologies.
If you feel that you could like to help in making all articles more reliable and well sourced in this regard, we would like to encourage you to use, as part of your daily editing and when {{fact}} is not enough for requesting clearly and specifically a citation or source for dates, timeline or chronology, the following inline tag:

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At WP Timeline Tracer, we thank you for using these tools and for helping to make Wikipedia articles more accurate and reliable.

Daoken 10:27, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

RecirculatingBall.png

Hi Kivaan! Nice picture, but I'd like to suggest that you change the label "Recirculating Ball Bearings". You see, although a lot of people keep referring to steel balls as "ball bearings", this is technically incorrect. A bearing is a mechanical device for a kinematic connection, and a bearing ball used in a rolling-element bearing is only a part of the whole and should not be called a "bearing" by itself. How about just "Recirculating Balls"? Best regards --BjKa (talk) 09:09, 9 October 2009 (UTC)

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Yemeni Missiles

Hey Kivaan I wanted to thank you for creating the Volcano 1 article as I have been busy ever since I did the Volcano H-2 article, and never managed to get around to do it, if you need help finding sources or are interested in finishing the rest of the Yemeni missiles (As I believe there are about another 4 types of missiles that are still missing) I will be happy to work with you. Chilicheese22 (talk) 17:30, 12 November 2017 (UTC)

Hey Kivaan sorry to get back to you so late, but I wanted to make sure that I had an idea of what types of missiles were being used on a weekly or daily basis against the Saudi Led Coalition that may not be garnering the same amount of attention as the Volcano H-2. What I was able to find was that the articles that needed to be created were the Volcano 2 (Just the regular plain one without the "H" at the end") the Zelezal Series (English Translation-Quake) (There are three Variants 1,2,3) the Qaher series (English Translation-Conqueror) (I believe there are three variant also 1,2,M2) and the newly released anti ship missile Mandab which is named after Bab-el-Mandeb strait and I believe there is one variant of this. Also what I found that's interesting is that these shorter range missiles are shot at 3 or 4 at a time see the Qaher M-2 video that I attached. Chilicheese22 (talk) 17:24, 19 November 2017 (UTC)

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