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[edit] Minnesota
Thanks for your research on Minnesota climate. Usually for internet refs the site is linked with the title of the page as the wikititle and "Accessed on " with a date is placed after it. Go ahead and try to update it if you like, otherwise I'll fix it tomarrow. I moved your question to the bottom of the talk age (standard location). Also dont forget to sign your name using 4 tildes (~~~~) If you have any questions feel free to ask. Also since you are ovbiously interested in minnesota you may want to join Wikipedia:WikiProject Minnesota. Thanks! -Ravedave (help name my baby) 19:11, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
- Thanks for being cool about the climate section. I left a note on Talk:Minnesota. -Ravedave (help name my baby) 03:40, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
- After reading and copyediting your climate section I definiatly think Climate of Minnesota is a good idea for an article and I think your section is a good start. I will let you have the honor of creating the page since you wrote the much expanded weather section. -Ravedave (help name my baby) 04:09, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
- I am hoping a good chunk of it will get used. Your code has more prose and less numbers, which makes it easier to read. If you don't create Climate of Minnesota I will, I was just letting you create it since you wrote most of the prose. I believe we have enough info to fill a full page in. There is enough material with your text and the text in the article. I'll cut and paste it all in there and then summarize the articles on the Minnesota page. Also you can use text from any wiki article in another. However the Climate of mlps page isn't very well reffed. -Ravedave (help name my baby) 15:44, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
- Cool. also checkout my version of your weather section on Talk:Minnesota. I think its quite good. -Ravedave (help name my baby) 22:00, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
- I am hoping a good chunk of it will get used. Your code has more prose and less numbers, which makes it easier to read. If you don't create Climate of Minnesota I will, I was just letting you create it since you wrote most of the prose. I believe we have enough info to fill a full page in. There is enough material with your text and the text in the article. I'll cut and paste it all in there and then summarize the articles on the Minnesota page. Also you can use text from any wiki article in another. However the Climate of mlps page isn't very well reffed. -Ravedave (help name my baby) 15:44, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
- After reading and copyediting your climate section I definiatly think Climate of Minnesota is a good idea for an article and I think your section is a good start. I will let you have the honor of creating the page since you wrote the much expanded weather section. -Ravedave (help name my baby) 04:09, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
- Does Texas have a panhandle? That statement strikes me as odd. Appraiser 06:31, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Marching Band
Thanks for your edit to marching band. I've created a stub article for the University of Minnesota Marching Band that I would encourage you to expand (or help find someone suitable to expand it). Being a Marching Illini alum, I don't have all the background to make a great page for any other individual band, but I would like to see all of the Big 10 bands with excellent pages. Upholder 20:22, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Sports
FYI I am a Huskies fan :). So don't expect your Gophers POV to stand for long in the Minnesota article :) -Ravedave (help name my baby) 22:04, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Climate
Nice. Go ahead and do what you want with the article it's not under review like Minnesota so changes aren't as big of a deal. User:Appraiser seems to be interested in it as well so you may want to leave him a message. Gimme a heads up when you are "done" with it and I will look it over for copy editing and fact checking. Thanks for your work, it is appreciated. -Ravedave (help name my baby) 21:44, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Comfrey - St. Peter Tornado Outbreak
I did a copyedit (mainly for style) and removed the tag. Not a bad article, if you have more info however, especially on the damage and results of the outbreak, please add it, as it is a bit shorter than most articles. Also, for future reference, <ref> tags go after punctuation. -Runningonbrains 22:33, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] reference citation
- authorlink is the author's web site, if it exists. Most contemporary authors have them, but many web sites don't tell us the author's name.
- I don't know the difference between work and title
- publisher examples that I've seen are Knight-Ridder or National Geographic
- date is creation date of your source
- Format is usually pdf or html
- doi - I have no idea
- access date - the date you saw it (2006-10-11)
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- Paste this exactly, minus the "" and replace example with something of your choosing. (edit this page so you can see it.) Spaces and line breaks can be deleted at will. Good luck, and thanks!
Appraiser 22:33, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Barnstar
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| Great job on the Climate of Minnesota! GA status! - Job well done! Appraiser 18:14, 12 December 2006 (UTC) |
[edit] photos
sorry do not know if you can. It seems like any imagine one puts up from any source under the "fair use' line is being removed Smith03 23:18, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
just wondering where you found the address of tcfbankstadium as 2009 university Smith03 19:55, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Climate of MN
Climate of Minnesota looks awesome!! I have to say I am glad I had you split that section out. Have you considered nominating it for GA status? -Ravedave (help name my baby) 04:47, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
- Wikipedia:What_is_a_good_article lists the criteria, which I think it meets, except the stability reqirement. So when you have it to a state you like, submit it. You can read more at WP:GA. HEres one that recently got promoted April_6-8,_2006_Tornado_Outbreak I guarantee it will pass. -Ravedave (help name my baby) 05:47, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
- You are doing a good job, I don't see you making any major mistakes. I posted the Auto Peer review below to let you know about some of the minor formatting things that help an article. The only thing I would have you do is make sure not to link stand alone states like: 1988 or May. The reason grouped dates like October 15, 1988 are linked is because the wiki software will then display that differently based on your settings in preferences (try it out). You are doing a really good job with the references, though you may want to make a stop at the library if you try and get the article to WP:FA status. I'll try and take a good look at the article in the next week or so. -Ravedave (help name my baby) 05:48, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
- To declare a reusable ref:<ref name=YourName>add your cite here</ref>
- To reuse that ref: <ref name=YourName /> -Ravedave (help name my baby) 06:35, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
- You might find Great_Hinckley_Fire, 1918_Cloquet_Fire and Cavity_Lake_Fire usefull. Something about Boundary_Waters-Canadian_Derecho might be cool too. I actually don't know much about northern MN weather as I am only up there 2-3 times a year. That and I only have 5 more days to get Minnesota ready before I submit to WP:FAC. Intros are hard, I just have User:Kablammo write them :) -Ravedave (help name my baby) 06:52, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
- I did a review of Climate of Minnesota. It is a very good article. I made some suggestions on the talk page, but they are pretty much all minor. Once the intro is expanded (the biggest problem), and addtl citations are added for fall I think it is ready for WP:GAC. After that the article needs to be peer reviewed at WP:PR, and after that it can be nominated for WP:FA. I like your writing style, do you think you can spare some time and pitch in over at Minnesota? The climate section needs better wording and copy editing the whole article for flow would be helpful. -Ravedave (help name my baby) 06:57, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
- Don;t worry about adding everything, those were just a few things I randomly picked out, you can use your discretion. Not sure about the page numbers. on Minnesota I used a named ref, and when I called it I put the page number in like <ref name=foo>Page23</ref> so the only place you see the pages is in the wikitext. You could poke around at WP:MOS if you want -Ravedave (help name my baby) 23:01, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
- Should the derecho sentence go under wind? -Ravedave (help name my baby) 01:48, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
- Good point, makes sense in its current spot. This might be cool for the wind section [1] -Ravedave (help name my baby) 02:27, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
- This is interesting too: [2] -Ravedave (help name my baby) 02:30, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
- Good point, makes sense in its current spot. This might be cool for the wind section [1] -Ravedave (help name my baby) 02:27, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
- Should the derecho sentence go under wind? -Ravedave (help name my baby) 01:48, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
- Don;t worry about adding everything, those were just a few things I randomly picked out, you can use your discretion. Not sure about the page numbers. on Minnesota I used a named ref, and when I called it I put the page number in like <ref name=foo>Page23</ref> so the only place you see the pages is in the wikitext. You could poke around at WP:MOS if you want -Ravedave (help name my baby) 23:01, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
- I did a review of Climate of Minnesota. It is a very good article. I made some suggestions on the talk page, but they are pretty much all minor. Once the intro is expanded (the biggest problem), and addtl citations are added for fall I think it is ready for WP:GAC. After that the article needs to be peer reviewed at WP:PR, and after that it can be nominated for WP:FA. I like your writing style, do you think you can spare some time and pitch in over at Minnesota? The climate section needs better wording and copy editing the whole article for flow would be helpful. -Ravedave (help name my baby) 06:57, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
- You might find Great_Hinckley_Fire, 1918_Cloquet_Fire and Cavity_Lake_Fire usefull. Something about Boundary_Waters-Canadian_Derecho might be cool too. I actually don't know much about northern MN weather as I am only up there 2-3 times a year. That and I only have 5 more days to get Minnesota ready before I submit to WP:FAC. Intros are hard, I just have User:Kablammo write them :) -Ravedave (help name my baby) 06:52, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
- You are doing a good job, I don't see you making any major mistakes. I posted the Auto Peer review below to let you know about some of the minor formatting things that help an article. The only thing I would have you do is make sure not to link stand alone states like: 1988 or May. The reason grouped dates like October 15, 1988 are linked is because the wiki software will then display that differently based on your settings in preferences (try it out). You are doing a really good job with the references, though you may want to make a stop at the library if you try and get the article to WP:FA status. I'll try and take a good look at the article in the next week or so. -Ravedave (help name my baby) 05:48, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
- Yeah now would be a good time to submit it for WP:GAC. If you nominate it I'll keep an eye on your talk page for any issues and get them resolved. -Ravedave (help name my baby) 03:05, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Utility
Is there a utility that can spit out all of the words that are wiki linked in an article? Gopher backer 02:12, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
- I don't know of one. The closest thing I can think of is WP:AWB which will list words linked more than once. However you need 500+ edits to use it. -Ravedave (help name my baby) 02:23, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] TOC
I am guessing that because the intro on that article is really short someone didn't like the gap and used the non-standard TOC template. You can check out any template's source by going to Template:templatename in this case Template:TOCleft. It looks like there are quite a few TOC templates Category:TOC_templates Help:Section#Table_of_contents_.28TOC.29 has some info about TOCs. Generally I don't change them from the standard. -Ravedave (help name my baby) 23:01, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
