User:Velella/archives/Archive3

See also User talk:Velela/Archive1 for talk from Jan 05 to 2006

Great Yarmoth Bridge Collapse

Hey thanks for your help with the yarmoth bridge collapse info. I can't seem to collaborate the new date for the event and there are tons or references for the date I had, whats your source? Thanks! Paul E. Ester 13:55, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for updating the entry with the citation and getting back to me, I really appreciate your being so thoroughPaul E. Ester 18:11, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Welsh Wikipedians' notice board

I've created a fairly simple Wikipedia:Welsh Wikipedians' notice board (shortcut WP:WWNB) to try to get things started. Please have a look and consider signing on, adding it to your watchlist and helping to make sure any users with an interest in the subject know about it. Also please feel free to add things and to change anything you feel needs changing – I'm not under the impression that I own it! Rhion 19:50, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

water pollution regulatory info

thanks for the great reg info on UK in water pollution article...wish we could find a specialist on china or russia to chime in...do you have any info on EU regs....by the way im looking for any photos of thermal pollution fish kills to put on Thermal pollution article...do you have any ideas?....cheers Anlace 13:47, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

appreciate the quick reply you sent...hope we can communicate on other water quality issues in the future, best regards Anlace 14:36, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

Account Unjustly Blocked

I have discovered that my account "Happyjoe" is blocked from editing due to some sort of misunderstanding over the Big Spring, TX article. I am uncertain who to contact to have this mistake fixed. Please remove this block so that I may complete necessary editing on other articles. Thank you for your timely assistance in resolving this problem... Happyjoe 69.145.215.206 04:25, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

Photography

I've just edited the list of "further considerations" you added to the photography article.

• I thought that "Technologically, there is no system of storage of digital images that gets close to this, even for hard-copy prints" was a little unfair. After all, digital technology is still quite young. So I mentioned this, and noted that already a whole bunch of media and formats have been abandoned.
• I tried to improve the wording about long exposures. I dunno, maybe it wasn't needed. I made specific mention of thermal noise and manufacturing defects, which I thought was important.
• Likewise, I also tried to make the point about dust more specific - mentioning that digital sensors are static but film is always being fed through the camera. I also thought the mention of non-SLR digitals wasn't needed. Is dust really a problem for them?

Apart from that, I toned it down it a bit by removing a few "very"'s. Hope you don't mind my edits. Imroy 16:15, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

Re-categorizing

You wrote: Excellent work on assigning categories for soil sciences articles...

Thanks for reviewing my re-cat. I will mark them as minor edits from now on. Paleorthid 21:58, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

RESOLFT

hi there. Please take a look at microscope. The principle is pretty simple actually. It's a more precise formulation of the simple Abbe law, thus effectively making Abbe law a special case. Be welcome to research and extend it. Seriously 90% of the wikipedia articles are not yet usuable, but this is what it is all about. An article here usually gets usable and objective after several hundret edits. Anyways it is all on the microscope page. regards Slicky 21:02, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

TENOM microscopy

Hi. You are right. However it is a university and i didn't have the time to make my own entry. In the future in case i do something like this i will place the copyvio accordingly. That may not make it any better but IMHO it gives other users a start basis and reminds them that heavy editing has to be done in this article.Perhaps u have some spare time and would like to gather information. If nothing helps place a one liner and let the link. Also place a redirect from ANSOM to TENOM: Apertureless NSOM Probes (ANSOM or TENOM) Slicky 08:04, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

Microscope

Indeed, the text you removed contained a lot of waffly information; the article looked more like a page from a catalogue than an enyclopaedia article! Simplicity and summary style are definitely the way to go - especially on an article such as this, which could potentially cover a huge range of topics. Mushin^talk 21:05, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

Microscope

hi velela. I realize i haven't expressed my intentions earlier and i contributed them to this page. Please gimme your input and invite others to the discussion thanks. Moreover you are more experienced with all the wikipedia tags - to place a discussion tag etc. Slicky 11:56, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

Request for Assistance

I'm planning to revise the Devil's Bridge entry in the near future and would like to solicit your input and assistance. I have also requested input from other editors, and will also post a request on the Devil's Bridge page. Please enter the discussion on my Talk page. Thanks, Woodlandpath 18:25, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

Your edit to Brown alga

Your recent edit to Brown alga was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to recognize and repair vandalism to Wikipedia articles. If the bot reverted a legitimate edit, please accept my humble creator's apologies – if you bring it to the attention of the bot's owner, we may be able to improve its behavior. Click here for frequently asked questions about the bot and this warning. // Tawkerbot2 17:28, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

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Sedimentation (water treatment)

Good work! I just noticed your improvements. --Singkong2005 13:42, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

List of Welsh lakes

The new format looks good - nice work. I'll try to add a bit more here and there. It might be worth adding a sentence on minimum size as an introduction to stop people adding things like my neighbour's duckpond to the list. Rhion 11:29, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

I've been looking through "The lakes of Eryri" by Geraint Roberts, and found that there are a large number of lakes of 1-3 acres or so in the area. I thought I knew the lakes of Snowdonia pretty well, but there are some in there I've never heard of. Should the lower size limit be increased to 3 or 5 acres I wonder? It would only affect one or two of the ones aleady listed I think. Rhion 17:03, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

Welsh geography

User:Owain is a very well-known political activist for the Association of British Counties and County Watch. For examples of how popular his particular POV is here at Wikipedia you may wish to review Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_(places)#Counties_of_Britain, Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (places)/Archive 4, Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (places)/Archive 3, etc, etc, etc, almost ad infinitum. Do not be intimidated by him. He is also a proven sockpuppeteer. --Mais oui! 19:41, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

Helianthemum

Hi Velela - noticed you'd removed a link to Helianthemum nummularium because it was just a redirect to the genus; I know redirects like this are a nuisance, but it's best not to remove them outright as then (a) the unlinked species looks odd in the species list, and (b) no-one may ever know that there's an article waiting to be written there (tho' I have done a quick stub for it now). I've also done up the taxobox at H. canum as requested by your edit summary - MPF 23:52, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Lower Swansea valley

Wow, you've started already! This is great stuff. Telsa (talk) 12:05, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

Shanghai Xiangzhi paper company

Hello, Velela. I noticed earlier that you were helping revert spam additions by the user 147.46.152.45, who later came back under 211.108.131.125. His IP was blocked for a week and his username, User:Moldedpulp, indefinitely. Please feel free to add AIV notices if you see any further spamming of that kind of thing. Thank you. :) --Kuzaar^-T-C- 15:19, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

Re: Moldedpulp spammer

Someone beat me to it :) RadioKirk (u|t|c) 15:51, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

Septic tank fact

You added a parenthetical ((fact)) to a statement when I think you intended to tag it {{fact}}. Hopefully, anyway because I think it deserves such a tag. The last sentence (3rd) in particular seems like it should be referenced or removed. The 2nd sentence need to be qualified as misleading - the danger of pathogen movement is related to a combination of short-circuiting in the septic tank and anaerobic failure in the leach field and needs to be so specified. I have been looking for a reference to address this and the 1st sentence "Many pathogenic bacteria can survive in septic tanks for a very long time, owing to the anaerobic conditions." I believe this 1st sentence is highly inaccurate as to normal operation. It is an error based on a simplistic undertanding of the range of reducing environments that are covered by the term anaerobic. My understanding is that the deep anaerobic (methane producing) conditions in a properly working septic tank are toxic to facultative anaerobes. This is a more extreme reducing environment than occurs in the body tissue where disease organisms operate. Those species which do survive extreme reducing chemistry are those particularly vulnerable to the aerobic conditions in the leachfield. My understanding was that this 2-stage redox shift disinfection was by design. That is, we do not depend on just oxidative conditions to protect human health as it relates to groundwater. So far, I am still looking for the reference to corroboarate this. You have a background in the little critters, perhaps you can comment here. Please encourage/discourage me as needed. - Paleorthid 19:58, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

Bio-Batch advertisting

Hi Velela, can you take minute to give me a second opinion, have a look at this article and the contributions by Callsign [1] along with this article which seems to be an advert Bio-Batch. Thanks Alex 10:52, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

This chap Callsign is very keen on the old Bio-Batch! He repeatedly & persistantly puts spam links on biodegradation, plastic carrier bags and anything related to them. --Alex 14:33, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

I have done a mega edit of this to make it generic and then moved it to Biodegradable plastic. See what you think - its a bit scruffy at present and I expect some flack too! Velela 15:04, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

That's looking better. There is a bioplastic article which I will also work on moving into the biodegradable plastic section. I'm sure some flak will be coming, I have already had some with minor removals of links!--Alex 15:17, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

MixAlco Process

Hi Velela, I would appreciate if you can give your oppinion on the MixAlco process article. It is a good article related to the production of chemicals from biodegradable substances. It does seem to have a commercial plug attached to it and is being vigorously defended. --Alex 08:28, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

I have removed the multiple plugs to MixAlco. Do you think that it should be moved to an article with a neutral title?--Alex 08:39, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

Mountain ash

Hi Velela--I saw your edit to the Mountain ash disambig page. Could you please also look at the Sorbus and Rowan pages to see if they accurately reflect the UK viewpoint on the common names for these species? MrDarwin 15:46, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

Thank you! MrDarwin 17:19, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

Cannot understand

What is the text you put on my discussion? I cannot understand, it it supposed to be addressed to me? --Kostisl 13:14, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

River article

Thanks for your massive rehaul on "River", which was long overdue. I had been thinking about it myself, but will stay away for a week or so to allow you to complete whatever it is you plan to do. It's already 2000% better, beginning with the beginning--I couldn't believe that there wasn't even an accurate first statement. Good job. Unschool 00:17, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

Bala Lake

In the monobook and blue cologne skin, one version of the coordinates shows up in the infobox, the other on the usual places for the articles. This is comparable to other infoboxes. Some skins haven't been updated though to display coordinates properly, thus I was wondering which one you are using. Maybe I can help. -- User:Docu