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That is all. Lesqual (talk) 02:34, 27 July 2010 (UTC)

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Your WXK92 Coverage map

Hey, I finished working on your coverage map of the WXK92 station, and I posted it at Wikipedia:GL/MAP. If you need anything fixed, feel free to contact me, otherwise I'll mark it as done. Thylacine222 (talk) 21:56, 3 August 2010 (UTC)

Severe thunderstorm warning

Thanks for reverting my edit on Severe thunderstorm warning. Item 1 under references on that page still referred to the 0.75" standard, so I thought I was correct. Geognerd (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 05:06, 5 August 2010 (UTC).

The WP:FEED backlog

Hello, I see you made a request at WP:FEED a long time ago, but have continued to be active on Wikipedia and made good edits to the encyclopedia. Since you have posted on WP:FEED in the past, I would like to suggest that if you want please try and help out at the page, as we have a massive backlog. It'd be really great if you provided some advice to other, new users on their articles.

To do this, you'll just need to take a look at their article, which they'll post the link to, and maybe see what perhaps can be improved, like adding sections, references or links, much like you would do with any other article, except you are giving feedback rather than making actual edits. After getting some idea of what needs to be improved, you just need to tell them briefly underneath. It's really simple but incredibly useful to new users and their articles, and helps to overall increase the quality of these new articles.

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RE: Helpme

Thank you for making the change to the description on the Calvary Cemetery Page regarding the Blissville Map. However, the exact same map is also on the Blissville page, with the old description. Is there a way to change the descriptor so that it goes along wherever that map is used? (I don't know how to find if it is on other pages as well -- I'm brand new to this, but I do know my Blissville history.)BoulderZiggle (talk) 03:22, 8 August 2010 (UTC)

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May tornadoes

I know there are huge differences, and they are out. Given the large amount of tornadoes to be added for May (293 total), it may take a bit of time, and I have been busy on the hurricane pages. May 1 and 2 are complete on List of United States tornadoes in May 2010 though. CrazyC83 (talk) 15:02, 3 September 2010 (UTC)

I would suspect that some county-crossing tornadoes were counted twice (since each county segment in Storm Data is listed separately - watch the times and coordinates to link them up) or combined, and in the actual totals (both on WP and in the SPC final total chart), they are only counted once if they cross county lines. I know a few tracks initially believed to be separate were combined in that outbreak, especially on April 30. I am done up to May 13 so far. CrazyC83 (talk) 01:36, 4 September 2010 (UTC)

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List of extreme weather records in Pakistan

Hello ! my article List of extreme weather records in Pakistan, is currently going under peer review, if you are interested your suggestions and improvements for this article will be appreciated. Regards.

Nabil rais2008 (talk) 16:18, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

Help with 3O

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Wikipedia:Pending changes/Straw poll on interim usage

Hi. As you recently commented in the straw poll regarding the ongoing usage and trial of Pending changes, this is to notify you that there is an interim straw poll with regard to keeping the tool switched on or switching it off while improvements are worked on and due for release on November 9, 2010. This new poll is only in regard to this issue and sets no precedent for any future usage. Your input on this issue is greatly appreciated. Off2riorob (talk) 23:39, 20 September 2010 (UTC)

Unblock from autoblock request

I was actually just on my way to request semi-protection of Salina, Kansas because of vandalism (including from this Freakingfireballz account) when I got caught in the guy's autoblock. I'm currently editing from my school, so I'm guessing that I got caught in this autoblock because this Freakingfireballz guy is a student in the same district. Ks0stm ^(T) 18:46, 21 September 2010 (UTC)

FYI, if you can edit Xeno's talk page, you are no longer affected by the autoblock :) T. Canens (talk) 19:04, 21 September 2010 (UTC)

I don't know, I think I could edit user talk pages, because Rodhullandemu came by because I left a note on his talk page...but I think I got unblocked while I was typing that note to xeno, so you might be right anyway =). Ks0stm ^(T) 19:09, 21 September 2010 (UTC)

If you are blocked, the only page you can edit is your own talk page, so if you can edit Rodhullandemu's talk page, then you are no longer blocked at that point (perhaps changed IP or something?). T. Canens (talk) 19:10, 21 September 2010 (UTC)

Not sure. Either way, I'm happy with the result. Ks0stm ^(T) 19:11, 21 September 2010 (UTC)

Plague of The Dead article

Hey, im just wondering why you nominated my article for speedy deletion. I want a full explanation. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jimmydee15 (talk • contribs) 23:57, 22 September 2010 (UTC)

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PD source

Really, it is okay to cut and paste from a gov. source? All this time I've been doing it the hard way. I serously did not know that. I think I will stick to putting it in my own words.--Ishtar456 (talk) 22:51, 24 September 2010 (UTC)

Yes, it's really ok. All United States Federal Government documents and pictures are public domain unless stated otherwise. See for example [1], {{PD-NWS}}, etc. It's very convenient when it comes to writing articles on things which USGOV sources are available. Paraphrasing is a good option, but the ability to copy-paste is always there, and pictures on USGOV servers are also in the public domain (as that NWS template I linked to says). Ks0stm ^(T) 22:59, 24 September 2010 (UTC)

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Salina, Kansas

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Academy Group Speedy Deletion

Dear Ks0tm, The page I was created was speedly deleted while awaiting Academy Group's fax/email for the authorization of content, it was on the discussion page with the tag -hang on-. All the Academy Group related articles were managed to stay after I got confirmation for each member including Roger Depue, the FBI profiler and co-founder. Academy Group's page was being repeatedly deleted for copy right infringement mainly for a wikinin article (sadly it was also written by me). Seems like I was losing this page mainly against me because of my first article became a source for numerous articles which in turn found its stand as a source for copyright infringement :) It's a vicious circle. Guess, I need to go to the wiki review form. Just letting you know about the validity of the article and there was no copyright infringment issues from Academy Group side. Thanks, --Cyril Thomas (talk) 10:28, 3 October 2010 (UTC)

You know, you can probably get your article back by explaining this at WP:Userfication or WP:Deletion Review if you go through the WP:Requesting copyright permissions process. Or am I misunderstanding what your saying (is the article deleted or not right now)? Ks0stm ^(T) 17:16, 3 October 2010 (UTC)

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Happy 10/10/10

Double Ten Day is, really, unrelated—but we don't appear to have a cool pic for this one

I suppose I should've timed this message at 10:10:10 too, but frankly, I can't be arsed. You know how it is.

Did you know... that tenten in Japaense writing are a little wiggly thing, a bit like a quotation-mark, which makes e.g. "ka" (か) into "ga" (が) or "fu" (ふ) into "bu" (ぶ) ?

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Image was deleted from the article 10 Oct 2010

The image M734_Parts.jpg has a CSD8 warning tag, is it at risk of being deleted?

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ITN

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Response to you

Ks0stm, there are very few circumstances in which the police would report back the outcome to us, and even fewer under which I'd be free to share it, unfortunately. Philippe Beaudette, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 08:44, 25 October 2010 (UTC)

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Tornadoes: Oct 24

I think you might be right actually and they should be split off. It will be interesting to see if an article is required, although I haven't heard of any severe tornado damage yet today. Straight-line winds are the main story. CrazyC83 (talk) 18:53, 26 October 2010 (UTC)

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UAA Report

Erm, it appears you've taken over my UAA report? diff. Was this accidental? --Addihockey10^e-mail 16:25, 10 November 2010 (UTC)

Oh I see - nevermind ;) Keep up the good work! --Addihockey10^e-mail 16:26, 10 November 2010 (UTC)

Yeah, sorry about that. I'm forced on Internet Explorer at the moment, so I'm stuck without twinkle...then when I got the edit conflict I just pasted mine in (for some reason it didn't show your's)...Just goes to show that automated editing sometimes really is more efficent. =) Ks0stm ^(T) 16:29, 10 November 2010 (UTC)

Gotta love IE ;). Don't worry about it - it happens. Keep up the good work at UAA ;) --Addihockey10^e-mail 16:33, 10 November 2010 (UTC)

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Cleveland, OK map

Sorry it took so long, but your requested map is done, check out File:Cleveland County Oklahoma Incorporated and Unincorporated areas blank.svg. I wasn't sure what to do about Oklahoma City, I decided to clip it to the county boundary, the full city boundary is in there but hidden, I would've had to shrink the county by 50% or so to show the whole city - Purcell got the same treatment. Anyway it should be easy to make specific city maps from that. Kmusser (talk) 15:08, 3 December 2010 (UTC)

Norman

Just FYI, I'm planning to use your University of Oklahoma photo, cropped to emphasize the phone booth, with full attribution of course. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 17:41, 4 December 2010 (UTC)

Sure thing, although as to me taking another close up picture of one (as you mentioned on the reference desk), that will have to wait until either another college visit in the spring or until I go off to college next fall, as I'm still a senior in high school at the moment, and the picture was taken while on a college visit. Ks0stm ^(T) 21:29, 4 December 2010 (UTC)

I kind of thought that was the case. It's a bit of a drive, and hardly worth the trip just to take a picture of a phone booth. The interesting part for me was figuring out where the photo was taken. The vital clue was the sign for the college of education. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 21:34, 4 December 2010 (UTC)

The result is here. A little fuzzy, but good enough for this purpose. You had a pretty good camera. When it was working. :) ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 21:44, 4 December 2010 (UTC)

Actually hold for a moment, I might just make your day...I found two other pictures I took with my cell phone camera after my regular camera went on the fritz...which they're not the best, but ok for a cell phone picture. File:Picture on the University of Oklahoma campus 2.jpg and File:Picture on the University of Oklahoma campus 3.jpg are where they can be found. Anyway, that camera actually worked for over a year before failing me this November, but considering that I got a Canon T2i as a replacement, I'm not that fussed that it quit working. =P Ks0stm ^(T) 22:05, 4 December 2010 (UTC)

Excellent. Are those the same phone booth, or in different locations, and if so, where? ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 03:10, 7 December 2010 (UTC)

Those are other places, and I think they're on the north oval of campus, but I'm not 100% sure on that. Ks0stm ^(T) 14:05, 7 December 2010 (UTC)

OK, that's close enough that I should probably be able to figure it out from Google maps. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 17:20, 7 December 2010 (UTC)

Picture 2 was taken on Van Fleet Oval just a couple buildings north of the first picture you posted, and facing north instead of west-northwest. The phone booth is in front of George Lynn Cross Hall. The gingerbread building in the background is the Bizzell Memorial Library. Picture 3 was taken on North Oval, which is on the other side of the library, which is behind you in this northbound photo. The phone booth is in front of Jacobson Hall. The tower building in the background across Boyd Street looks kind of like a university building, but it's not identified on Google Maps. It might be a church. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 19:05, 7 December 2010 (UTC)

Sacramento climatic data

I decided to remove the snow averages since according to NOAA, from 1971-2000 Sacramento averaged only 0.1 in of snow. Not significant because, well... I don't think we should go around editing articles of tropical cities, inserting 26 zeroes. --HXL's Roundtable, and Record 03:05, 7 December 2010 (UTC)

Sounds ok to me...most of my goal was to insert missing information and correct anything that was wrong, but I can see how .1 average of snow isn't exactly significant. I have no objections to the removal. Ks0stm ^(T) 13:58, 7 December 2010 (UTC)

and thanks for heeding the notice about Weather Channel. Dubiousness like that occurs at times. --HXL's Roundtable, and Record 14:01, 7 December 2010 (UTC)

I knew first hand about the weather channel, having experienced the lovely task of fixing the record temperatures for Salina, Kansas. When I did so, the record low yearly temperature dropped by 10 degrees and the yearly record high went up by 4 degrees, and 8 monthly record highs changed and 9 monthly record lows see here. It's so horrible of data that the weather channel has that I'm wondering if I shouldn't bring it to editor's attention somewhere to try and get at least a strongly worded caution against its use somewhere. Ks0stm ^(T) 19:48, 7 December 2010 (UTC)

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• In the news: Amazon "shopping-enabling" Wikipedia; Al Jazeera interview; be like Wikipedia

• GLAM-WIKI London: British Museum hosts two days of talks between Wikimedia and the cultural sector

• WikiLeaks: Repercussions of the WikiLeaks cable leak

• WikiProject report: Talking copyright with WikiProject Copyright Cleanup

• Features and admins: Birds and insects

• Arbitration report: New case: World War II

• Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News

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The Signpost: 13 December 2010

• News and notes: Wikipedia articles expert-reviewed by Encyclopedia of Life, and more

• In the news: Confusion about Wikileaks continues, Wikipedia vs. Britannica in India, and more

• Rencontres Wikimédia: Wikimedia and the cultural sector: two days of talks in Paris.

• WikiProject report: WikiProject Algae

• Features and admins: The best of the week

• Election report: The community has spoken

• Arbitration report: Requested amendment re Pseudoscience case

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Merry Christmas!

May your family have
a joyous holiday season
and a new year blessed
with hope and happiness.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

• The Ceremonies for Christmas
  Day (Robert Herrick)
  
  Kindle the Christmas brand, and then
     Till sunset let it burn;
  Which quench'd, then lay it up again
     Till Christmas next return.
  
  Part must be kept wherewith to teend
     The Christmas log next year,
  And where 'tis safely kept, the fiend
     Can do no mischief there.

  

  ---

  If you don't celebrate Christmas ...

  Happy (belated) Hanukkah! Happy Eid al-Adha! Happy Kwanzaa! And of course, Happy Festivus!

  May this holiday season bring you the music of laughter, the warmth of friendship, and the steadying hand of love. ☃

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The Signpost: 20 December 2010

• News and notes: Article Alerts back from the dead, plus news in brief

• In the news: Faulty story urges for advertising on Wikipedia; brief news

• Image donation: Christmas gift to Commons from the State Library of Queensland

• Discussion report: Should leaked documents be cited on Wikipedia?

• WikiProject report: Majestic Titans

• Features and admins: The best of the week

• Arbitration report: Motion passed in R&I case; ban appeals, amendment requests, and more

• Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News

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The Signpost: 27 December 2010

• Ambassadors: Wikipedia Ambassador Program growing, adjusting

• News and notes: Director of Technical Operations hired; South Korean mayor sues; brief news

• In the news: Designing Wikipedia and the origin of page histories; brief news

• WikiProject report: WikiProject National Basketball Association (NBA)

• Features and admins: The best of the week

• Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News

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