User talk:Avenue

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Avenue is busy in real life and may not respond swiftly to queries.

I prefer to keep discussions together in one place, so I usually respond to new messages on this page. You might want to watchlist this page for a while so you don't miss a reply.

Archived messages: 2004-2006, 2007

[edit] Bar charts

Hello. At Bar chart if you use the linked online tool you will see that it produces standard bar charts. --Timeshifter (talk) 06:06, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

I've replied at Talk:Bar chart. -- Avenue (talk) 08:58, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Waitemata Harbour

Hello Avenue,

Thanks for your geology addition to Waitemata Harbour - could you provide some refs too? Thanks and happy editing. Ingolfson (talk) 06:39, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

Sure. I did that from memory, and I've been meaning to track down the relevant source. Thanks for the reminder. -- Avenue (talk) 11:11, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

No worries. Wikiholics help each other ;-) Ingolfson (talk) 07:58, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Highlanders (rugby) peer review

Hey. I've been struggling to get any comments at my requested peer-review of Highlanders (rugby). I was wondering if you would be able to spend a few minutes reading through the article and adding any comments or suggestions here? Thanks. - Shudde ^talk 06:10, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

I'm not that familiar with sports articles, so I suspect it'll take me more than a few minutes. I'll try to get onto it later ~~this~~ next week; I have a few other things I want to complete first. My initial reaction from a quick skim was that it looked good, although the length of the History section seemed a bit offputting. -- Avenue (talk) 11:50, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] SS Tararua

On 23 January 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article SS Tararua, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--BorgQueen (talk) 15:48, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] $NZ average daily value

A long time ago in this edit you added average daily values. Where do you get these? Currently the article is not clear as to whether it has average daily max or intraday max. cheers Nurg (talk) 04:24, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Rollback

Would you like to have rollback? It's more efficient for some anti-vandalism purposes than the javascript tools such as Twinkle.-gadfium 07:41, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Probability and statistics sub-project?

I recently proposed starting a "probability and statistics" sub-project (aka task force or work group) of WikiProject Maths and was wondering if you'd be interested in participating. If so, please add your name and any comments at WP:WikiProject Council/Proposals#Probability and statistics. Regards, Qwfp (talk) 22:40, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Official languages

Oh heavens, so much back and forth and I got myself confused. I misread the edit and thought you were reducing it from 13 to 2. I'll put back 13. Thanks for the note. Tb (talk) 13:23, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

The difference between probability and statistics is…

Well I was hoping you could tell me since you list it as an interest of yours… But, incase you did not know. In Probability, you know the underlying probability theory, but in statistics, you do not know it is what you are trying to find.

[edit] Dude

The difference between probability and statistics is…

[edit] warning vandals

Hello Avenue
I noticed that you revert vandalism fairly frequently. Thank you for helping keep Wikipedia the best encyclopedia in the world!
However, I have noticed that you do not always leave warnings on the vandals talk pages. You should always leave an appropriate warning after reverting vandalism. (The full list of talk page warnings may be found here, along with some suggestions and guidelines for using them.)
Be sure to leave the correct level of warning, and if the vandal has been warned four times in the last month, (Check the vandal's talk page history. Some vandals remove warnings from their talk pages.) report the vandal by going to this page and following the instructions.
Thank you again, and may the vandals fail... J.delanoy ^gabs _adds 17:39, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Watershed (word)

Another editor has added the {{prod}} template to the article Watershed (word), suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but the editor doesn't believe it satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and has explained why in the article (see also Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not and Wikipedia:Notability). Please either work to improve the article if the topic is worthy of inclusion in Wikipedia or discuss the relevant issues at its talk page. If you remove the {{prod}} template, the article will not be deleted, but note that it may still be sent to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. BJBot (talk) 21:00, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] thanks for support

Thanks for stating that you came after seeing my "canvass" message but still didn't vote keep just because of belonging to a certain project. I think that I won't be warned or anything because of my mistake, because of being a good faith edit, but who knows. It's always better to have independient confirmation --Enric Naval (talk) 10:56, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Zealandia image

Hi Avenue. Can you tell me how you cropped Image:Zealandia topography.jpg? I'm trying to do some volcano maps with NASA images.

I tried cropping one of the NASA images, but I can't upload it on Wikipedia because it has a different file type; Wikipedia will only use: png, gif, jpg, jpeg, xcf, pdf, mid, ogg, svg and djvu. My file type is "bmp", meaning bitmap image. Any way to fix this? Black Tusk 00:13, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Hi, most image editing software should allow you to save in different formats. The only common one I can think of that doesn't is MicroSoft's Paint application. If you're using Windows, the built-in Imaging application is much more powerful, and will let you save in jpg format. -- Avenue (talk) 00:52, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks Avenue. I have already uploaded my first map; Image:Level Mountain and Heart Peaks.jpg. Black Tusk 16:38, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Urban area

Hello Avenue - I have changed the Auckland lead again. The reason is that I very much dislike piped links which hide the real link - in this case, the link is not to urban area as it appears, but to New Zealand's definition of urban area, so I would like this shown in the piped link. Cheers. Ingolfson (talk) 00:03, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

Good point. Part of the reason I reworded that part was that "most populous urban area of the country" sounds less than fluent; I've changed "of" to "in" instead. -- Avenue (talk) 07:44, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

No problem. Cheers. Ingolfson (talk) 08:04, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Statistics and Richthofen

In the section on the famous Red Baron there currently rages a controversy about the application of statistics to the capriciousness of "fame". I think you might have some fun reading this, at least - and may even be able to correct some WW1 aviation enthusiasts illusions about statistical science into the bargain Soundofmusicals (talk) 00:05, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, it is an interesting issue. I've commented on the Talk:Manfred von Richthofen page. Nice article, by the way. -- Avenue (talk) 04:18, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Australia EEZ

What's the problem with the extension of Australia's EEZ in the article? +Hexagon1 ^(t) 03:33, 9 May 2008 (UTC) PS: Ah, yes, never mind, I see where you were going, my bad. Thanks for pointing it out. +Hexagon1 ^(t) 03:36, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

That's fine. It may be worth adding that material to the continental shelf article instead. -- Avenue (talk) 04:20, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Mount Garibaldi

This article is up for FAC. Please support. Thanks, Meldshal42_{Hit me}^{What I've Done} 19:33, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

I've replied on your talk page. -- Avenue (talk) 02:40, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Ash fall/Ashfall deposit

Your re-wording of the second paragraph on the article Volcanic ash vastly improves it, but the technical term for ash accumulated on the ground is an ashfall deposit, it is important to add the word deposit as it separates the rock from the process. An ashfall is the process of ash falling from from the sky, like rain fall. Please see Heiken and wohletz 1985 or Branney and Kokelaar 1992, 2002, 2004, Wolfe 1981 or Walker 1976 to confirm

thank you Russjass (talk) 10:21, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Merge of Hector's and Maui's dolphins

I have taken the liberty of removing the merge tags from these articles. There was no discussion and I feel that Hector's dolphin and Maui's dolphin are notable enough for separate articles especially given their conservation status. Cheers. -- Alan Liefting (talk) - 03:45, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Toetoe at Sunset.jpg question

Hello, regarding the picture of Toetoe at Sunset you uploaded the question rises when this picture was taken. See Talk:Toetoe. I wonder if you can shed some light on this? FelisLeo^Talk! 07:54, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

Yes, I was just looking into that. I'll reply with details there. -- Avenue (talk) 08:29, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks Avenue, for clearing that up. It's actually a nice pic of Pampas grass, whatever species it is. You can tag images on Commons and ask for a rename - see [1]. Kahuroa (talk) 10:10, 3 June 2008 (UTC)