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Waste management discussions

Well done & proposal for WikiProject Water and Sanitation

		The Original Barnstar
		Excellent work on Upflow Anaerobic Sludge Blanket, categorisation of waste treatment technology and more besides. Singkong2005 talk 01:58, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Please see my comment at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Water purification - I've suggested moving it to WikiProject Water and sanitation. Singkong2005 ^talk 01:58, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

ArrowBio & mechanical biological treatment

I have reviewed the above on several occasions and is there any way this can be re-configured and re-names to describe the process rather than the commercial entity? Velela 13:51, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

Hi Velela, its a bit tricky as the process is unique to the industry but is also at the forefront of waste treatment technology. The industry is in a rapid period of change so all of the true altenatives to incineration and landfill have not yet been proven but they really essential to carbon management, resource management and waste technology. I have tried to balance out the waste management articles with full lists of technology types that are relevant, multinationally and not just to the UK. I will try and edit it further to make it less commerically orientated and more technical if this would answer your doubts? --Alex 14:26, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

I guess what I was thinking about was enlarging mechanical biological treatment with most of the text from the ArrowBio article and leave a re-direct from ArrowBio. You still have the external links in the MBT article. Just a thought - I'm not going to get too aggravated over it! Velela 14:41, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

No problems I can expand mechanical biological treatment and I could use it as an example of a MBT system?

That would seem to be fine by me. Velela

I've done it and also removed some of the links to ArrowBio in the main MBT article, I also dont want it to appear like a sales pitch more a reasoned article on different systems, but also avoiding misinformation which is rife in this area.

Editing of incineration & waste-to-energy plant

Alex, I see that you merged the Waste-to-energy plant article into the Incineration article, with which I agree. However, you still left the redundant article Waste-to-energy. I don't understand your logic for doing that. Would you please explain your thinking?

Also, on the surface, it appears that when you merged Waste-to-energy plant, it was simply added in total to the Incineration article. I always thought that merging meant "blending" two articles together rather than simply adding one to the other. Have you any plans for doing some blending? Or could the merged article now be tagged with some sort of "needs more work" tag?

I will watch for your reply on the Talk:incineration page where I have added this same comment. - mbeychok 16:14, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

Hi mbeychok I have now restructured and combined the articles for incineration and waste-to-energy plant. The temporary edits I made have been adjusted to allow me time to restructure the links to and from waste-to-energy and differentiation with waste-to-energy plant. Please take a minute to look at my work and give any feedback and comments. Cheers --Alex 09:45, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

Alex, I think you did an excellent job of editing the Incineration article. I have only one major comment, namely that the "Pollution" section and the "Outputs from incinerators" section needed to be combined, which I took the libery of doing. Once again, great work!! - mbeychok 15:52, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for your kind comments! --Alex 15:57, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

Waste collection comments & redirects

When you moved these pages, you didnt really do much of a thorough job. You left double and single redirects all over the place. Also, in an edit summary, you said "Garbage truck is a US American terminology where as dust cart is British English. Waste collection vehicle is the standard across both". In fact, waste collection vehicle is the standard across neither. It would be better to have it named as one and have the other version redirect, rather than move it to a mutually inconvenient location. I haven't fixed anything, just letting you know - when you move pages, you should do all the work, not a half job. SECProto 14:37, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

Quite to the contrary, if you were to check your facts in the waste management industry the correct terminology for a dust cart or a garbage truck is a waste collection vehicle (WCV). The term waste collection vehicle is neutral and fits into the category of WASTE MANAGEMENT (not garbage management or rubbish management)--Alex 14:53, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

Ok, well you should still fix the redirects :) I've known people who work in the "waste collection industry" and they call them either garbage trucks or dump trucks SECProto 14:55, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

No problems. I am working on the waste management section and it has been extremely disjointed with the use of either rubbish or garbage (terms of which are more closely related to slang than waste). The industry bodies regulating waste in the USA and the UK are the Solid Waste Association of North America (SWANA) and the Chartered Institute of Wastes Management (CIWM) whos titles do not include regional variations for the term waste--Alex 15:00, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

Incidentally there was ONE double redirect I accidentally missed that has now been corrected.

Waste-stub

I appreciate your thanks for supporting the waste-stub, but I'm a little concerned about some other things. I noticed that in supporting other stubs, you asked people for their opinion on your waste-stub. It's generally not a good idea to go around scrounging for votes. It's frowned upon during a RfA (see "advertising"), and it doesn't look that great on WP:WSS/P either. Also, there is a 7 day waiting period between the proposal and the creation. Meaning, since you proposed it on the 7th, you should wait until the 14th to create it, thereby allowing enough time for discussion and debate. It's too late to bother in this case, but that's something to keep in mind for the future. Thanks for your participation in WP:WSS. Have a great day and happy editing. ~ Amalas rawr ^{=^_^=} 14:17, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

Hi Amalas, I had been watching the WP:WSS for a few days and no one had made any comments on my suggestion. It's not the most interesting area and I didnt really expect a great deal of interest in waste, that was the reason I opened dialogue with other project suggesters. I didn't really consider it advertising, just asking for an opinion. Sorry for the mistake--Alex 07:43, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

Image:Waste hierarchy

An image that you uploaded or altered, Image:Waste hierarchy.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Possibly unfree images because its copyright status is disputed. If the image's copyright status cannot be verified, it may be deleted. Please go to its page for more information if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. -SCEhardT 01:43, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

This picture is available through creative commons website and is flagged as free to adapt and use. Its origin is http://www.wasteonline.org.uk/resources/InformationSheets/WasteDisposal.htm. --Alex 08:36, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for clarifying the source, but I still don't see a creative commons license. Could you point it out to me? Thanks! -SCEhardT 21:25, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

Nice reworking by User:Drstuey See Image:Waste-hierarchy.png

Thanks for your support Alex. If you ever need any more diagrams created for environment articles, I'm happy to have a go at it. - Drstuey 11:05, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

If you are up for the challenge I have proposed the creation of a barnstar for the Environment pages of Wikipedia. Please see the following pages Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Environment Wikipedia:Barnstar_and_award_proposals. My design skills arent good enough or I would have a go myself! --Alex 11:23, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

Soil and waste treatment

Noting your efforts initiating Category:Soil improvers, I am hoping you might have some time to help out with the soil article improvement project. I am trying to pull together some concise and coherent content on the theme of Soil#Waste_treatment but without much success. Wicked writers block, which is ironic because soil science as applied to waste treatment is what I do professionally. Maybe you have some bits handy related to that you could start in with, and then I could build on it based on my industrial and agricultural wastewater treatment, biosolids, septic drain field, and soil contamination perspective? Just a thought... -- Paleorthid 21:26, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

Glad to help out where I can. I have some knowledge of soil science from my background in biology, the environment and from a personal enjoyment in gardening. I also have friends who work in contaminated land and remediation.--Alex 07:58, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

MixAlco process

Hoi Alex, heavy discussions going on about this mixalco, still in the abstract phase and some small projects (5 barrels), most publications are done by Dr. Mark Holtzapple President/Co-Founder of the StarRotor and his companion pro G. P. van Walsum.

Few options come up. He is right in the claim, or it stays as a concept like Zinc economy (it couldn't compete with another concept) or it can be moved to pseudo science like the water fuel cell. Some work on the article is done, can you have a look on the title, see Talk:MixAlco process, or maybe the titel should stay like it is, otherwise the article isn't found in google.

Interesting article. reg. Mion 12:50, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

Cant get hime to give proper references on the statement:it is ensured that more energy from the biomass will end up as liquid fuels. As i am not a chemist it needs your reflection.see Talk:MixAlco process reg. Mion 13:53, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

I agree on changing the title, the intro can be shortened to make 1 clear explaining line as wel,just pushing te rest down.It was an interesting exercise in abstract arguments.Mion 10:38, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

Ok, intro is shortened as well.-:).Mion 10:48, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

and also under [1],OK, the article, since the commercial revert on 26 september, Ag2003 had only 3 edits on 4 october with more proces description, if the description in itself is correct, which i cant judge, than the article is fine.Mion 10:09, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

The second thing, horizontal linking in other articles is in itself a good thing, the only thing off course is that we want a link on the name of the article and not MixAlco, a check with [[2]]

(an internal search of the name) reveals only the anaerobic digestion, if it is the proper article to make a horizontal link, instead of removing, just change the link Mixalco in a link to the article name. In short, i am assuming that Ag2003 just has acces to multiple computers, and he stopped reverting, my guess is that he wont change the POV anymore, lets check back on the article and its refs in a few weeks reg .Mion 10:09, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

Not meaning you have to wait with edits on the article, found a nice tool, {subst:navpop}}) and how is the vandaltool working ? reg . Mion 13:32, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

History of Waste Management

Hi, thanks for your suggestions. I actually posted the page as a project for one of my classes, attempting to verify the validity of Wikipedia (and what it represents). I was actually quite surprised that the errors (which were for the most part intentional, and would have been removed after the experiment) were corrected within 24 hours of my posting. So keep up the good work! You actually proved my hypothesis wrong, although my theory that Wikipedia is kept reliable by only a few knowledgeable people still holds true, as you are one of the only people on the Waste Management page to ever make any real revisions. User:Rvogt0505

Environment discussions

WikiProject environment help

Hi Vortexrealm,

I just joined the Wikiproject Environment. I notice there is a list of pages requiring improvement. e.g. take Green_building for example. How do I know what is wrong with the article? Any suggestions?

Thanks Prospect77 14:50, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

Hi Prospect77,

Welcome to WikiProject Environment. The level of editing you carry out will relate to your level of experience in that subject. Minor edits such as typos and wikification of articles can be carried out by almost anyone. If you find articles with obvious errors take a bold step and change them. If you are uncertain of certain points in articles, open a discussion in the talk section related to that article. Personally I have concentrated on the waste management section in which I have a relatively large amount of knowledge. I have also contributed to articles such as List of organisations with a Royal Charter. Although I did not have any personal knowledge of this I used official references from the Privy Council I found. I hope this is of help. --Alex 15:00, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

Hydrogen economy articles

Hi , I see you're busy with adding proper cat's to hydrogen related and other articles, and removing them from the see also sections. I used to do the same, but, there are people aka the cat cleaners who wil clean out all the categories from the article except 1, naming it tuning the cat. (thats why you see so many See Also links) which will result in no right categories anymore, and the See Also links are also gone. It's just a note, i appreciate your contributions .reg. Mion 21:33, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the note Mion. I think it isn't a good idea for the categories to be cleaned out in the Environment section as there are so many interrelating forces with climate change and man's impacts/technologies. How are people supposed to understand the different issues at stake when Wikipedia may try and box things off too much?--Alex 09:56, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

I totally agree with you, however cat cleaners can't be stopped, if you don't know the proper name and it isn't mentioned in the article its hard to find the related article. The templates function quite good, i had a look at the hydrogen technology page, a sort of listing, is it the start for a portal ? reg. Mion 11:08, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

I am working on the WikiProject Environment especially environmental technologies. Presently they are quie disjointed and in different vague categories such as Sustainable Technologies and a template that had been badly designed- {{environmental technology}}. Really its just working on these to bring a more logical approach. WikiProject Environment does need a portal although I think this would be beyond my abilities at this stage. Cheers --Alex 11:21, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Yes, but making a listing of fuel cells which are already in the Template:FuelCellGroup, its more simple to make 1 link to the template. For the others links, maybe its better to ad a horizontal line Hydrogen technology in Template:Sustainability and energy development group. This template is already under most of the articles. just an idea.

And Nuclear is not a clean energy. reg. Mion 11:58, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

I'm quite relaxed as to the format. Its more the interelations between environmental technologies I am concentrating on. I never claimed Nuclear is a clean energy but some advocate its use in the production of hydrogen. It's a balance between fossil fuel emissions, production of hydrogen using nuclear or ideally production using renewable resources. --Alex 14:37, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

I never claimed Nuclear is a clean energy, i didn't say that you claimed it, but its in the first lines of hydrogen technology page, never mind, and about the format, i'm shure it will end up well. reg.Mion 16:11, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

Water fuel cell

Water fuel cell was in the history section of fuel cell, somebody cleaned it out, together with a lot of other info. It's a hoax, so it should be in the cat hoaxes, i will place it back in the fuel cell article, reg. Mion 17:45, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

Bio-Batch

Hi Velela, can you take minute to give me a second opinion, have a look at this article and the contributions by Callsign [3] along with this article which seems to be an advert Bio-Batch. Thanks Alex 10:52, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

Yes - absolutely - most (all ?) of the links I would rate as commercial link-spam and ought to go. The article itself is more intersting, although of very poor quality at present, since it appears to document a generic process albeit with constant references to Bio_Batch, an undoubtedly proprietary name. However I do wonder whether this isn't actually just a proprietary process dressed up. When I have some spare time I will try and tidy it up and see whether the original author re-edits it. Regards Velela 20:39, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

Proprietary Process, that is trade Secret. Masterbatch- inorganic materials added to manufacture plastic - Bio-Batch organic and inorganic materials added to make petroleum into a protein by using organic hydrocarbons such as olefins, PS, and PET Callsign

Please explain your "opinions" on the Bio-Batch work, as well as your "opinion" on biodegradation. According to ASTM 5511 ASTM 5338 as well as the ISO 14001.

Thank you, ASTM 6400 is a unique test made only for industrial composting facilities that do not exist in numbers in the US. Also Composting is much different then Biodegradation, you can look this up in any dictionary, and if rightfully so, then PLA and PSM do not fit in this category of composting and should be labelled as Industrial Composting Only. Callsign

Biodegradation is The breakdown of organic materials into simpler components by microorganisms, composting is also the breakdown of organic materials into simpler components by microorganisms and hence composting is a form of biodegradation. The Bio-Batch article reads like an advert for the Bio-Batch technology and the links you have inserted into articles such as biodegradation read very much like spam. I suggest you tweak your article to be NPOV and place links to the Bio-Batch website where it is relevant- i.e. bioplastics and on the Bio-Batch article. A link to the Bio-Batch website is not appropriate on the biodegradation article. --Alex 13:50, 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)

I've had a look at bioplastic which seems a commendable article in its own right, separate and different from Biodegradable plastic. The first is made from non-fossil carbon sources, whereas the second, although made from fossil carbon sources includes materials to facilitate biological breakdown. Both articles related but different. I was just wondering why the suggested merge ? Mrs Trellis 22:52, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

(The Biodegradable plastic article has several sentences that are the same or very similar to sentences in this one paragraph source: http://www.bio-tec.biz/biobatch.html . Is it a copyright violation? Or did you perhaps write both sources? Cardamon 15:57, 26 August 2006 (UTC)) Taken from Callsigns discussion page.)

Hello Mrs Trellis, the reasoning behind our work on bioplastics and biodegradable plastics originate through User:Callsigns advertising of the Bio-Batch technology and links into anything remotely related to biodegradable plastics. We have no problems with the two different article but we were trying to tidy up the mess that was made. If you have knowledge of the subject I would appreciate and input you can give on disambiguating the two topics. Many thanks --Alex 15:42, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

Biogas

I saw your comment, I had forgotten about biogas (doubtless others as well), but I'm not sure it is a direct biofuel as it is defined (or as least as it is defined here, I have not seen the term used elsewhere, but it seems useful to have, so I decided to expand it). Biogas needs a different fuel system, and thus engine modifications. Compare to biodiesel which can be used in any diesel engine by just pulling up to the biodiesel pump instead of the D2 pump. (If you can find such a pump, but that isn't the issue here). BluGill 16:25, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

Hi BluGill I am confused by your definition of "direct biofuel". Biogas can be used directly into a standard gas engine. I understand where you are coming from regarding vehicle transportation but the standard car engine is not the only engine that is available. I'm also not an engineer so I can't get into the specific debate on engines, however I think if you dont accept biogas as a direct biofuel you need to be clear on your engine definitions. Cheers --Alex 16:09, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

Suspended solids

Hi Alex,

I've just created Suspended solids - would appreciate it if you checked it.

Thanks --Singkong2005 ^talk 15:07, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

Category:Water quality measures?

I think there should be a category for water quality measures such as Suspended solids, Total suspended solids, Biochemical oxygen demand and dissolved oxygen. Can you think of a better name than Category:Water quality measures? --Singkong2005 ^talk

I agree it seems like a good idea. I think water quality measures sounds fine as it is logical and descriptive. I can't think of anything conciser at this stage. --Alex 08:02, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

Hi Alex, I ended up creating Category:Water quality indicators instead of Category:Water quality measures. --Singkong2005 ^talk 10:16, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

To be done

• Ammonium concentration(NH₃)
• BMWP Biological monitoring working party (biological invertebrate analysis) [4]
• Dissolved oxygen
• KH (hardness)
• Settleable solids
• Nitrate concentration
• Nitrite concentration
• Phosphate concentration
• Sulphate concentration
• Conductivity (electrical measurement of ions in water)

What do you think regarding nitrate, nitrite, phosphate concentrations etc? The wikilink to each of these will give you the chemical properties, not necessarily the effects of them on aquatic environments and ecosystems. --Alex 11:08, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

Not sure, but I'm inclined to add the category tag to any article on a substance or indicator that discusses its use as an indicator. I've added it to Nitrate for this reason (see Nitrate#Effects on aquatic life). The other articles don't mention theor use as indicators, so perhaps they should be expanded first. Water quality mentions various indicators, so I added the tag to that article too.

There are certain indicators which are very standard (esp. fecal coliforms) but many more which potentially could be used. I haven't done a lot of study on this, so I'm not sure where we draw the line. I suppose we just include anything that is notable as an indicator.

Arsenic would qualify in Bangladesh, but I'm not sure which article is most suitable - Arsenic contamination of groundwater seems more relevant than Arsenic or Arsenic poisoning, but isn't about arsenic as a water quality indicator. --Singkong2005 ^talk 15:05, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

Arsenic is an important factor in analysing water as are other heavy metals. It is quite expensive to test for individual heavy metals and require the use of OES (optical emission spectroscopy) or AES (atomic emission spectroscopy), or x-ray fluorescence. Usual proceedure is to use conductivity as a measure of ions in the water. There is also the relationship between acidity and increased heavy metal dilution in the case of acid mine tailings.--Alex 15:17, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, I wasn't aware of that. Would this be a reliable way of ensuring that toxic metals are at or below a safe level? Definitely not where there is a salinity issue, but it seems from the following quotes that arsenic levels are much lower than salinity levels even in fresh water: The World Health Organization recommends a limit of 0.01 mg/L (i.e. 0.001%) of arsenic in drinking water (from Arsenic poisoning); and The actual amount of salt in fresh water is, by definition, less than 0.05%. (from Salinity).

I realize that conductivity is not directly proportional to salinity in g/L or percentage, but I'm assuming that there is a reasonably strong relationship, and this would imply that conductivity is not very helpful as an indicator of danger from arsenic or other metals.

It would be great to have info on this at Electrical conductivity. --Singkong2005 ^talk 15:35, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

Category:Hydrogen discussions

Hoi Alex, i agree but i had a look at it in the past and decided that there are too many wikipedia subcats, if you are in the wrong subcat its impossible to find the right article, haha, No, there are people who love to reorganise cats and i am not one of them (next to the fact that it takes a lot of time to figure out how the cat system works), maybe worth a line on the ToDo project page. Reg. Mion 16:49, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

Hoi Alex, i did some clean up, Category:Hydrogen reg. Mion 07:00, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

WikiProject Hydrogen

Welcome to the WikiProject Hydrogen Alex. Cheers Mion 13:30, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

Renaming category

Category:Hydrogen cars has to become Category:Hydrogen vehicle to make it possible to add aircraft into the cat, any idear how it works ? reg. Mion 17:11, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

No, i didn.t , but found it [[5]] 70 mph its a start, i think this could be promising: Arcjet rocket, the subcats are to much, it will take 10 years to find more than 3 articles about planes, in this setup we have to ad another sub for rockets, shall we drop them all in hydrogen vehicles until we exceed 50 articles ? reg.Mion 08:36, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

I dropped them in Category:Hydrogen vehicles, lets see how it goes. reg. Mion 09:00, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

I'm dutch, living in The Hague and where are you living ? Mion 09:06, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

Good beach in Tel Aviv Mion 09:39, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

Blue energy

Hoi Alex, we need somebody else to give some imput Talk:Blue energy otherwise we end up in a yes and no discussion, please have a look at it. reg. Mion 13:40, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

Hydrogen technology?

Hydrogen fusion redirects to nuclear fusion. Consider a hydrogen technology?--Alex 08:33, 22 September 2006 (UTC). No, see Nuclear power phase-out. reg Mion 10:18, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

Category:Hydrogen biology

nice :-) Mion 10:27, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

Photogeneration

Hi Alex, can you have a look at Photoelectrochemical cell I'm not sure the term Photogeneration is correct for the second type. thanks. reg .Mion 10:49, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

Hi Mion, looks like an interesting article but I do not know if this is the correct term or not. --Alex 07:58, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

Morning, Alex, , if its wrong i am sure its corrected in time. reg. Mion 08:25, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

Hydrogen Production structure

Hoi Alex, I stumbled on another aproach/structure of the hydrogen production section: Main:

• Hydrogen production

Sub:

• Electrochemical
• Photobiological
• Photoelectrochemical
• Thermochemical

Source: NREL: [6]. Mion 10:47, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

General discussions

Warwick School

Interested that you consider Warwick School to have Royal patronage. Technically Henry VIII refounded the school in 1545, but no serving monarch has ever visited. A successful example of patronage?? Best wishes, Gervald (Warwick School Archivist).--G N Frykman 14:21, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

Hi there,

I found the full list of organisations with Royal charter at the Privy Council website http://www.privy-council.org.uk/files/excel/Record%20of%20Charters%20Granted.xls . Perhaps this should be reworded this group list of organisations granted a Royal Charter.--Alex 07:57, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks ever so much for the link, Alex. The Charter of 1545 has never been revoked, merely substantially changed in 1906. So we are pretty high up on the list! Best wishes, Gervald.--G N Frykman 11:00, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

You are welcome Gervald, glad I have been of help. --Alex 14:50, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

Hello from Didgepenguin

Thanks for the note and I'm happy to lend you the userbox. You have seen a lot of places (from your flags) and I hope to have a collection like that someday too. Bye

Cheers Didgepenguin, I love to travel! --Alex 14:50, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

Usage of the user Monty Python userbox

Hello there...I have come up with a whole slew of new usages for the User Monty Python userbox. They are currently located in my sandbox. I would like your opinion before I put them up for general consumption, and if you have any other suggestions, please let me know.
—Lady Aleena talk/contribs 21:45, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

Hiya

Hello fellow Mancunian Ecco1983 16:00, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

Barnstar

Alex, thanks for the star, but actually you and the others on the project are the ones deserving it. Mion 21:45, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

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Reproduced with permission of author Uri Zackhem House from Al-Kheiriyya village near Ramat Gan, Tel Aviv

As per email:

Hi Alex, here are some Khieriyya images. If you like you can add them to your article about the Palestinian village Kheiriyya. The images were taken in July this year by me. Some also appear in Palestine Remembered as well. But you can use them freely. Don't worry. I own the copyright and I wish that they will be distributed freely, no charge. Image ---16 is inhabited, Hebrew wikipedia says by an Armenian family. That is interesting. They may have stayed after the occupation. The rest are used by the Ramat Gan municipality. Uri

Thanks... and a bit about my special interests

Hi, Alex

Thanks for the welcome to the Environment project group.

I've just returned from Scotland and London. In Scotish Highlands, I stayed for about four days in an east-coast (former) fishing village called Lybster, then went down east of Inverness, rented a car, talked with people in a forest-restoration project in that area, and drove up around the north coast (up into the Orkneys, too) staying in B&Bs, then around to the west and down the western coast, hiking in some of the "Glens" on the way back to Inverness; finally, down to London on a train... then five nights in London, and on back to B.C., Canada where I live and work.

One thing the Scotland portion of the trip impressed on me (ever more so): the loss of the major share of the large (or "noble") fishes in the world's oceans is both a huge environmental impact and a great tragedy in terms of the lives of persons, their way of living, and on fishing communities - economically and socially. I recently added some material to the Fishery article, based on the work of a Canadian fisheries biologist and academic.

Other interests of mine are forestry, greening of the home place (house, garden, lifestyle), and - though I'm no expert or technician - renewable energy. I recently expanded the article on Victor Papanek, which you might find interesting.

Joel Russ 15:32, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

Water window

Hoi Alex, need some expert opinion on [[7]]. Cheers/ Mion 16:59, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

Link to British

Hello, when you want to link to the article about something British, please do not link to British, as that is a disambiguation page (which nothing should be linked to). Instead link to the one of the options found on that page such as United Kingdom or Great Britain by writing out [[United Kingdom|British]] or [[Great Britain|British]]. Regards, Jeff3000 17:47, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

Welcome to VandalProof!

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ADL Process

You added this to the AFD log for today, but it is currently has a {{prod}} tag, so (since it doesn't need to come to AFD) I've removed the entry from the log. Cheers Yomangani^talk 10:04, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

No prob

Do not be afraid in the future to deprod any article to which you object the deletion or would like for there to be some discussion. Anyone can deprod for any reason (or no reason, for that matter, but elaboration is always smiled upon). youngamerican (ahoy-hoy) 14:48, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

I can assure you that deprodding an article in which you worked on would be more than appropriate. I was involved in the discussions leading up to the policy and the whole point was to eliminate the endless stream of unanimous delete-voted articles on AfD that were cluttering up the page. Articles should be deleted via prod if and only if no one, including the author, objects. In fact, it could be argued that you owe it to Wikipedia to remove a prod on an article (even if it is your own) that you do not wish to be deleted or that you would at least like for some discussion before such an action is taken. youngamerican (ahoy-hoy) 13:10, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the Barnstar, Alex

Alex, thanks for awarding me that Technology Barnstar. -mbeychok 22:58, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for your comments re British nuclear tests at Maralinga. Much appreciated. Jakew 11:22, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

Re. Lane End Primary School article

Hello. Thank you for contacting me. I reviewed the article, but there is still no assertion of notability, so my position on the AfD shall remain Delete. Primary schools are, in my opinion, notable only under very exceptional/rare circumstances. One primary school that I would consider notable is the one were the Dunblane massacre took place. Interestingly, that particular primary school does not have an article. As for Lane End Primary School, there is nothing encyclopedic about it, nothing that isn't better off on the school's website. Regards.--Húsönd 16:00, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

Just a reminder...

When editing an article on Wikipedia there is a small field labeled "Edit summary" under the main edit-box. It looks like this:

The text written here will appear on the Recent changes page, in the page revision history, on the diff page, and in the watchlists of users who are watching that article. See m:Help:Edit summary for full information on this feature.

Filling in the edit summary field greatly helps your fellow contributors in understanding what you changed, so please always fill in the edit summary field, especially for big edits or when you are making subtle but important changes, like changing dates or numbers. Thank you. --Alex (Talk) 16:04, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

No problems!--Alex 16:05, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

Global Warming

If you are looking for premier participants on WPE, might I suggest William M. Connolley for Global warming? He's top-notch, notable, published, and very active in the field professionally. And he's already a steadfast defender of the truth there anyway. Skyemoor 15:15, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

WikiProject Environment

Alex, thanks for the invitation. I would be glad to help, but because of my limited time, I will only be able to help sporadically. You are welcome to send my way, any time, any topic or article which you may think I might be able to give you a useful opinion about. Reaching me through email would be the fastest or easiest way. My email address was on the CC of the Email Mark Holtzapple sent to Dr. Finstein. Thanks, Cesar 02:12, 1 November 2006 (UTC)