The message that appears in the reputation tab of a user's profile when they gain or lose reputation due votes disappearing when another user is deleted is simply:     user was removed   This message is confusing and unhelpful. Below are comments that demonstrate this confusion, . I don't have any quotes from the users who could not find it and remained confused.  There is , and . However, the message has not been changed.  I know that in the past the developers have been reluctant to direct users to meta in some situations, such as question bans, because it may cause users to post here appropriately. That does not seem to apply to this case. This is not typically a case of ""; most of us have probably seen the message at some point.  Why is this message vague and unlinked? What negative behaviour does this confusion mitigate?       My first interpretation was that I was the user who was removed!        I just simply wished the explanation on the reputation page was better. Seems like I shouldn't have had to come to the meta section to figure this out.        It must be better to show "User  was removed". For a moment I just thought that I was removed :-(        the information should be better. I lost 10 points yesterday by "user removed" and assumed that I was the one being removed, leaving me wondering why and feeling somewhat embarrassed.         The recalc policy is fine. But the red mark and "user was removed" looks cryptic and unnecessarily negative--especially since the only user name mentioned on a profile is one's own. So the natural impulse is to bind "user" to the account you're looking at. (It was jarring to me and I could tell what it meant, but still this could be clearer.) I agree that orange is better than red and ideally all of these things would have hyperlinks to a help page (or at least a meta post) explaining what the deal is.        +1 (to HostileFork) for the idea of linking to an explanation of 'User was removed'. It just took me 10+ minutes to find this particular thread and read through, when I could have simply clicked through! I would also like a little more info on why user was removed (abuse, friend upvotes, rules, etc) , as that could help educate the community as a whole on what behaviors to report.        I could care less about the rep gain or loss, but when you have a loss it is a scary message without context. I honestly thought for a moment that my account had been inhibited in some way. No, it didn't say "Your account was removed." Still, there is that moment of "what did I do wrong?" which seems silly to cause simply by not posting a few extra words. A clearer "A user who voted on your posts was removed along with reputation changes they caused" would have gone a long way to not cause me to question my participation in the review queues as of late.         My problem is that the message "user has been removed" is not a clickable link like the other messages - so I had to search meta to discover this question to find out what it meant.
Currently, when rep is changed due to the removal of another user account (to undo the rep gain/loss that happened when they up-/down-voted/accepted/were downvoted by you), the associated message is simply "User was removed". I am not the only one who found that message rather cryptic (I had to go search meta when I saw it, and I found my answer in a duplicate, so that makes me at least the 3rd person to not understand it).  I think it's a good idea to add a link to  or some more descriptive text to that.  Edit: e.g.     Another user was removed; reputation changes linked to the user's activity were reverted.   (I can see how it's hard to fully explain the event succinctly, that's why a "what is this?" link to meta or an FAQ question/answer might be better.)
Significant figures vs. absolute error On , $N_A = 6.022\;141\;29 \times 10^{23} \text{ mol}^{-1}$ has 9 significant figures and a standard uncertainty of $0.000\;000\;27 \times 10^{23} \text{ mol}^{-1}$.  First, can it be written as the following?  $$ N_A = 6.022\;141\;29 \times 10^{23} \pm 0.000\;000\;27 \times 10^{23} \text{ mol}^{-1} $$ If yes, consider the following quote from  (emphasis added):     Whenever you make a measurement, the number of meaningful digits that you write down implies the error in the measurement. For example if you say that the length of an object is 0.428 m, you imply an uncertainty of about 0.001 m. To record this measurement as either 0.4 or 0.42819667 would imply that you only know it to 0.1 m in the first case or to 0.00000001 m in the second. You should only report as many significant figures as are consistent with the estimated error. The quantity 0.428 m is said to have three significant figures, that is, three digits that make sense in terms of the measurement. Notice that this has nothing to do with the "number of decimal places". The same measurement in centimeters would be 42.8 cm and still be a three significant figure number. The accepted convention is that only one uncertain digit is to be reported for a measurement. In the example if the estimated error is 0.02 m you would report a result of 0.43 ± 0.02 m, not 0.428 ± 0.02 m.   and the following quote from  (emphasis added):     The absolute error places bounds telling you that the actual value is expected to fall between x - D x and x + D x. The absolute error is an easy way to report the error and makes it easy to check that you are not reporting too many significant figures. For example, suppose you had a measurement that was reported to be 10.02 ± 0.3 m. Because the reported value is uncertain in the tenths place, it is wrong to report it to the hundredths place. It should be reported to the same decimal place as the absolute error: 10.0 ± 0.3 m. Another point is that the absolute error and the reported value must have the same units.   If there is such a convention (cf. Rice's lab guide) and it is wrong to report more significant figures than is warranted by the absolute error (cf. the joint project's guidelines), and NIST should have adhered to such convention and striven to be correct, is it true that NIST adheres and is correct because the standard uncertainty has two least significant digits (i.e., $27$)?  Had the standard uncertainty been $0.000\;000\;2\text{ mol}^{-1}$, would NIST have reported Avogadro's Number as $N_A = 6.022\;141\;3\times 10^{23}$ with 8 significant figures? How do I give a villager trades with custom NBT tags Software to read a QR code? I saw a  reading a book, but I don't have a smart phone to check it.    So I just took a picture of it and saved my PC. And I downloaded libdecoderqr0, libdecodeqr-dev, libdecodeqr-examples for reading it. But I don't know how to use it.    What do I do next, or is there a nicer way to read QR codes? I am trying to install Microsoft Office 2013 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (32-bit). I have downloaded an iso file of said product and installed wine1.4-i386 using the apt-get command on the terminal.  The question is I don't know the steps how to install it. I can't get much tutorials on Internet how MSOffice2013 can be installed on Ubuntu.  If any versions of wine isn't an option, what other options can be used to run Microsoft Office 2013? Character Limit in HTML I am totally aware a question of similar nature is asked before. But the answer there is not doing any good for me.  I have installed python 2.7.6 in addition to system default 2.7.3. And now my system is screwed up completely. 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How can I decide whether my suspicion is correct? What handling times should I expect? Given some expected handling times, when should I act? How much leeway should I give? How should I act? Whom should I contact and what should I (roughly) write?   Note that I am interested on how I should approach this situation in general, and do not seek specific numbers for my specific situation. I am therefore looking for general answers that are independent of such factors as the field or individual journal (but mention them if they are relevant factors).  This is a canonical question on this topic as per . Due to its nature, it is rather broad and not exemplary for a regular question on this site. Please feel free to improve this question. Significance contradiction in linear regression: significant t-test for a coefficient vs non-significant overall F-statistic Interface naming in Java Most OO languages prefix their interface names with a capital I, why does Java not do this?  What was the rationale for not following this convention?  To demonstrate what I mean, if I wanted to have a User interface and a User implementation I'd have two choices in Java:        Class = User, Interface = UserInterface   Class = UserImpl, Interface = User      Where in most languages:     Class = User, Interface = IUser   Now, you might argue that you could always pick a most descriptive name for the user implementation and the problem goes away, but Java's pushing a POJO approach to things and   most IOC containers use DynamicProxies extensively.  These two things together mean that you'll have lots of interfaces with a single POJO implementation.  So, I guess my question boils down to: "Is it worth following the broader Interface naming convention especially in light of where Java Frameworks seem to be heading?" What are app domains used for? Allow deleting a tag wiki or excerpt Sometimes a tag wiki excerpt or body ends up with unacceptable or useless content: plagiarized text that must be removed, or a totally unhelpful dictionary definition. (For example:  — and I've seen this situation many times before.)  The only way to get rid of that content is to submit replacement text that meets the minimum length requirement. This is not always easy as writing a decent wiki, and especially a decent excerpt, requires subject knowledge.  Currently the users or even moderators who are alerted to unacceptable content in a tag wiki cannot remove that content without providing their own, which they are not always in a position to do. Yet these wikis would be better off with no content than with either unacceptable or unhelpful content, or some content written by a non-expert in a hurry.  Please provide a way for users to blank a tag wiki excerpt or body. 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Latexmk and the location of Asymptote's generated files I am trying out Asymptote with latexmk and I would like to automate the interaction.  Consider the following latex document test.tex:  \documentclass{minimal} \usepackage{asymptote} \def\asydir{asymptote}  \begin{document}  Testing Asymptote:  \begin{asy} settings.outformat = "pdf"; unitsize(2cm); draw((0,0) -- (1,0)); \end{asy}  \end{document}   In my latexmkrc I have the  for Asymptote integration:  sub asy {return system("asy -o asymptote/ \"$_[0]\"");} add_cus_dep("asy","eps",0,"asy"); add_cus_dep("asy","pdf",0,"asy"); add_cus_dep("asy","tex",0,"asy");   Running latexmk -pdf test.tex generates test.pdf in the current folder and test-1.asy and test-1.pdf in the asymptote folder -- but only if   I manually created the asymptote folder prior to running latexmk. The folder specification in the latex document (\def\asydir{asymptote}) and latexmkrc (-o asymptote/) are identical.   I would like latexmk to read asydir from the main tex file, create the directory if it does not exist and run asy with the read output folder.  Is this possible?