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Sorry about the late response. Anyway, I think the picture is of relatively good quality quite informative, but I'm not an expert on hurricanes (I just thought the previous image I nominated was impressive). Anyway, if you would like to nominate it, I would be glad to help you, or even co-nominate. First however, a few questions: Are you sure that it's a free image? Second, do you know how to convert it to a .ogg? If you can't convert it, that's fine, but I'll have to find someone who can. I've tried before with other videos and failed, so I'd have to find someone more qualified that myself. In all in all, though, it's a great image (to my untrained eye). NauticaShades12:55, 23 August 2008 (UTC)
By the way, I've also found this while checking the copyright status and I like it lot. I think it could potentially be featured. What do you think of a co-nom? NauticaShades00:44, 26 August 2008 (UTC)
Ah. Didn't notice the topic heading. Yes, I have some ideas. I've been meaning to get going on that but have been sidetracked. I'll get going on it now if you want. Serendipodous15:03, 24 August 2008 (UTC)
Actually, I started college yesterday. :P Um, to tell you the truth, I will be taking a break from reviewing articles, as they are a "big" hassle to deal with. I'm sorry, I hope you can understand. :( -- ThinkBlue (HitBLUE)15:08, 26 August 2008 (UTC)
Well, I gotta tell ya, I got lost going to my first class. :) But, managed to actually like my first day. I'm starting to like college, since its my second day. When do you enter college? -- ThinkBlue (HitBLUE)15:14, 26 August 2008 (UTC)
Indeed, thank you, again. I've been around for awhile, but I haven't really started playing up until recently. Thank you for being my mentor. If I'm a little slow to respond, I apologize in advance. A little hectic today. ClosedEyesSeeing (talk) 18:13, 26 August 2008 (UTC)
Is there any particular place you would like to talk? If anything, I'm interested in keeping the peace (mediation, reverting vandals, etc) but I'd like to grow my article skills and learn more about the layouts of Wikipedia. ClosedEyesSeeing (talk) 14:05, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
I've went ahead and taken this to the adoption page. Is there any way to have it notify me of changes there (other than watchlisting)? Kind of like when I get messages on the talk page. ClosedEyesSeeing (talk) 14:16, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
Just thought I'd reply to your offer as well. I think it'd be great - I second ClosedEyes' gratefulness! I'm currently a Geology student, so the WikiProjects you're a part of are an interest to me as well. The technicalities of Wikipedia are still a little over my head, and I'd love to learn exactly how to go about contributing to the project. Dougano (talk) 17:39, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
The Reboot of Wikiproject New Jersey has certainly stirred up some new activity at the project. Discussion on several improvements and new initiatives have been going on at the talk page. There has been an involved discussion regarding our 29unassessed articles, especially those on municipalities. The current goal is to review and assess all 566 New Jersey muncipality articles by September 30. A suggestion has been made to intiate Wikipedia Takes New Jersey to begin clearing the large backlog of articles needing photos. Let's all grab our cameras and head out into the vast wilds of the Garden State. Town Halls, High Schools, Historic Places - every article deserves a picture.
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Not Serendipodous this time? ;-) Most of the writing seems fine. I found a few more issues:
* Per "Although the numbers of objects in the Kuiper belt and the scattered disc are thought to be more or less equal...", to the reader this may be comparing apples and oranges. It may be more helpful to compare the net masses of the two.
"Due to its unstable nature, astronomers now consider the scattered disc to be the place of origin for most periodic comets observed in the Solar System, with the centaurs, a population of icy bodies between Jupiter and Neptune, an intermediate stage between the scattered disc and the periodic comets." Is this trying to say that comets migrate inward from the scattered disc to become centaurs, then are perturbed into periodic comets? This was not clarified until near the end of the article.
Please reference the last two sentences of the lead paragraph in the "Subdivisions of trans-Neptunian space" section.
The lead says "perihelion distances near 35" AU, then "approached by scattered objects is less than 40 AU, but they can reach distances well beyond 100 AU". The body says "Scattered disc objects come as close to the sun as Neptune (30 AU) but at their farthest distances, their orbits reach beyond the edge of the Kuiper belt (50 AU)." Could these be modified to communicate more consistent ranges?
Likewise, the lead says "inclinations as high as 40°" while the body says, "the orbits of scattered objects can be inclined as much as 45° from the ecliptic." Later it says that, "(ranging up to 40° from the ecliptic)". Which is correct?
* Is the stub sub-section "Resonances" needed? Couldn't that just be merged with the prior text? Or are there plans to expand it?
Could this be referenced: "a second posits that the scattering took place relatively quickly, during Neptune's early migration epoch."
Um, I'm still waiting for Serendipodous to ref that. it's been three weeks, but he says he's busy, So I'll bother him about that next time. --Lord₪Sunday23:23, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
The "Beyond Pluto" refernce needs an author.
The format of authors in the citations section are inconsistent. E.g. "Marc W. Buie" vs. "Schmadel, Lutz D." vs. "RA Gomes". Perhaps some cleanup can be performed for consistency?
Lykawka/Mukai shows some odd formatting: Kobe volume=189
* Hahn (2005) and Thommes (2002) have an arXiv value in parentheses. Is this needed? I'm not sure most readers will know what that means. The Hahn article has doi: 10.1086/452638.
Thanks.—RJH (talk) 17:51, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
You did request it in the first place. If you don't like the response then I'll have to reply: tough nuggies. You'd have seen the same set of issues at the FAC.—RJH (talk) 19:37, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
I have replied to all your comments. I was originally not going to tell you about this, but then I got bored from waiting so long for it to be reviewed. Do you think JHA is long enough to submit for FAC? I just think it would be interesting for the date Obama gets elected president. :) --I'm an Editorofthewiki[citation needed]23:21, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hyperactive (disambiguation)
I noticed that you're interested in earthquakes and volcanos. It would be great to have someone like yourself (who's not a political junkie) helping to keep an eye on John McCain from now until the November election. Could you please? It recently made featured article, and it will probably be subjected to a lot of vandalism and other questionable edits between now and the November election. The more eyes the better, if you can spare the time. Cheers.Ferrylodge (talk) 06:28, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
You seem stressed, so I thought you deserved one of these. Don't get too worked up; these things do take time, and really when editing Wikipedia you never get the recognition you deserve. But I wanted to know I appreciated the work you've done. Serendipodous13:24, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
I've fixed, or at least patched, all of RJ's issues. If you want to nominate, go right ahead, but don't forget to make LingNut a co-nominator. Serendipodous19:10, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
OK. I archived it. by the way, to archive you swap the {{peerreview|archive=1}} at the top of the talk page with {{oldpeerreview|archive=1}} Serendipodous19:45, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
Thank you for adding my name to the FAC nom of Scattered disc. I know you wanted to reward me for the work I put into it. I really think that Serendipodous put in more work, though...
Arranging the nominator(s) of a FAC is a delicate business. If someone's name is up there, they should be prepared to help defend/improve the nom. Moreover, all major contributors should be consulted before a nomination is made. Sometimes one person thinks an article is ready, but someone else may not.
You have done an awesome job, being so eager to help out. I hope you will continue to be wise enough to ask others for input, and to learn from them how things work on Wikipedia.
Above is a link to the WP:FPORTC discussion where you can see the list of things to work on. Sorry it did not turn out successfully this time, but thank you very much for your work on the portal and I hope you continue to work on it. Cheers, Cirt (talk) 19:29, 31 August 2008 (UTC)
Don't mention it. I think I'll see if I can find any more problems with the article (I'm not much of a copyeditor or reviewer) and then I'll switch to Support. I can't wait to work on 2003 Bam with you, and I have added a bit, but I have FHB, M'ba, and 1964 Gabon at the top of my agenda. I'm also woring on developing Nki National Park into a GA--it needs an image, a longer lead, and I'm still combing for info (there isn't much)--though I'd love to hear your thoughts. --I'm an Editorofthewiki[citation needed]22:51, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
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Dude; I think you need to relax
These things take time to do right. I don't get FAs for the sake of getting FAs. Right now my main priority is to get the Jupiter topic up and running, which means focusing on Moons of Jupiter and Atmosphere of Jupiter. Since I've done hardly any work on either, I don't expect to get an FA co-nom on either of them. But they're what needs to be done, so that's what I will do. Serendipodous07:41, 3 September 2008 (UTC)
RfA thanks
Thank you for voting in my RfA, which succeeded with 71 support, 14 oppose, and 5 neutral. Thanks for your participation. I hope I serve you well!
Hello, I notice you're using one of the {{motd}} templates, run by Wikipedia:Motto of the day. You may have noticed that some of the mottos recently have been followed by a date from 2006, or on occasion simply "Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia". The reason for this is that Motto of the day is in some very serious need of help. Participation in the project, which has never been especially high, has dropped considerably over this past summer, to the point we have had several days where no motto was scheduled to appear at all. Over the past several weeks, I've been the only editor scheduling mottos at all, but there aren't enough comments on some of these mottos to justify their use. If we do not get some help - and soon - your daily mottos will stop. In order for us to continue updating these templates for you, we need your help.
When you get a chance between your normal editing, could you stop by our nominations page and leave a few comments on some of the mottos there, especially those that do not have any comments yet? This works very simply; you read a motto, decide whether or not you like it, and post your opinion just below the motto. That's it - no experience required, just an idea of what you personally like and what you feel reflects Wikipedia and its community. If you do have past experience with the project, then please close some of the older nominations once they've got a decent consensus going. There are directions on the nominations page on how to do this.
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Hello! I just wanted to pass along my thanks for your support in my RfA from earlier this week. I hope I did not disappoint you. I am going on Wikibreak and I will let you know when or if I am back on the site -- I am trying to take time away to clear my thoughts and refocus on this and other priorities. Be well. Ecoleetage (talk) 04:57, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
Hi LordSunday - when you write, on Synergy's RfA, that the "Diligent Terrier" comment was a huge thing for you, are you referring to the comment on Wikipedia Review? Synergy has said, and I have no reason to doubt him in this, that the comment by maggot3 on WR was not from him. The nature of some of the other comments by that same poster on WR would, alone, lead me to believe that the two people are unconnected. Do you have a reason to doubt Synergy's word on this, or were you referring to another comment entirely? Thanks, Avruch T 21:56, 6 September 2008 (UTC)
Nki
Yes, please review this. I'm very happy with the result of the FAC, and I'm glad to see you have a star at WP:WBFAN to your name :) Bam will be at least 5 times harder, as many more people died, but hey, the sources are available. I can't believe how long 1964 Gabon's FAC has been running, it's a month as of tommorow! --I'm an Editorofthewiki[citation needed]19:20, 7 September 2008 (UTC)
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Hi LordSunday - sorry it's being a while but I'm coming back up to speed now! Did you want to carry on with the mentoring? Pedro : Chat 07:50, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
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Devil May Care, written by Sebastian Faulks ("writing as Ian Fleming"), has become Penguin Books fastest selling hardcover fiction title. It is the latest installment in the book series about British secret agent James Bond and was released to coincide with the 100th anniversary of late Bond creator Ian Fleming's birthday on May 28, 1908.
Me Cheeta: the Autobiography, written by a ghostwriter, is the autobiography of Cheeta the Chimp who is listed in the Guinness World Records as the oldest recorded non-human primate at the age of 76. He has appeared in various movie roles which included twelve Tarzan movies and even battled addiction to alcohol and cigars. The book is not published until October 1, but judges for the 2008 Guardian First Book Award were sent a early version and were so impressed that they have included it on the 10-strong longlist.
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After this whole scenario, and the fact I can't translate articles without first citing the sources, I don't feel the urge to contribute, at least for the moment. Thanks for making my life better, Sunday. I hope we meet in real life someday. Goodbye. --I'm an Editorofthewiki[citation needed]22:50, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
FAC is not a vote. Sandy will ultimately close it as a failure because I didn't access some of the sources from the original French version. Apparently, even though this is a wiki, we have to go above and beyond the reasonable skepticism of an article per WP:V and assume that Polaert was writing unreliably. We can never have the respect we want because anyone can edit. Ling's comment showed that s/he did very little research at all about my efforts with the article. Such is wikilife. Sigh. --I'm an Editorofthewiki[citation needed]23:14, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
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