User talk:Baylink

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[edit] Welcome Wagon

Hello, welcome to Wikipedia. Here are some useful links in case you haven't already found them:

If you have any questions, see the help pages, add a question to the village pump or ask me on my talk page. I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian!

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snoyes 18:33, 15 Dec 2003 (UTC)

I've Been Found.  :-) Thanks for the Welcome Wagon note. I'm, personally, having fun poking around and getting the feel of the infrastructure that's grown up around the pages; stealing design ideas for future website development, but just as much fun poking around pages as topics occur to me, and occasionally contributing something here or there. Hopefully, such contributions will be regarded as comprehensible, rather than compost.

-- jra

[edit] Oops

Well, made my first big mistake. Apparently, Konqueror 3 has some major page-caching issues; I made a change to OS Advocacy, went and wrote a stub, then came back to make another change... and inadvertantly replaced *the entire advocacy article* with my stub.

Hoo boy, is that embarrassing. (And have I been reading too many Fletch novels lately, or what? :-)

In any event, thanks to Two Halves for wiping my butt, and I'll try to be more careful in the foo-ture.

-- Baylink 01:34, 16 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Hi. This may help: Wikipedia:Browser_notes. Secretlondon 23:18, Dec 16, 2003 (UTC)

[edit] Charlene

What am I gonna tell you, I don't know why, just did it by accident. Just bring it all back. Bye Bye. Chrzcline1961 23:26, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Boobs

About "Minor enhancement" on List of big-bust models and performers: Heh heh heh, "enhancement"... :) I actually read your weblog occasionally; good to see someone local and sort-of familiar around here. —tregoweth 18:54, Dec 1, 2004 (UTC)

  • Would you believe that was an accident. Nice to know someone local, um, shares my tastes.  ;-) Baylink 00:36, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Nah, not following you—coincidental interests, I guess. :) As for the Dave Barry quote, it is a touch frivolous and POV for an encyclopedia. Even one with extensive collections of information about porn stars and Pokémon characters. :) —tregoweth 22:10, Dec 4, 2004 (UTC)

  • I know. I just couldn't resist. Baylink 22:14, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)

[edit] RHPS

Unfortunately, I don't remember where I looked it up. I would have thot IMDB, but a quick look here indicates otherwise. I'd guess from the map the number is around 30-50--still down quite a bit. I know it played in Seattle for at least 20-25 years, but no longer... [sniff]. Not sure how to get a usable number--might have to just change to something like 'fewer theaters than at the peak of its popularity'. Huh, I just looked at the RHPS Talk page, and I cite the IMDb article as the source for "7"--I guess it depends on what day you load the page [sigh]. Niteowlneils 22:40, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)

That list is inherently incorrect as it does not list the Beach Theatre in St Pete, my own home theatre, which is certainly showing tonight. Given that, I can't help but wonder what others aren't there... Baylink 22:44, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Don't Understand About Charlene

Honey, I don't understand what you are talking about deleting information for Charlene. It's all there. If you feel more information should go into the article, by all means go and do so. She might have been just a One-hit wonder, but she was important to Pop and R&B music. Chrzcline1961 20:27, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] More Boobs

I think Sam Spade is either a crank or trying too hard to make a point. I mean, if even we think the picture is inappropriate... :) —tregoweth 22:19, Dec 7, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Not Boobs

:) -- RyanFreisling @ 19:31, 11 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Well, where's the fun in that? :) —tregoweth 20:14, Dec 11, 2004 (UTC)
 :) Hehe! -- RyanFreisling @ 20:24, 11 Dec 2004 (UTC)
/me snickers. -- Baylink 20:49, 11 Dec 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Wikibooks

Hi Baylink -- I'm pretty skeptical about wikibooks. I think one of the reasons for Wikipedia's huge (partial) success is that it provides instant gratification. Wikibooks just doesn't do that. But I'd love to be proved wrong! :-) --Bcrowell 03:22, 8 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Well, my thrust was more that you *have* some... -- Baylink 02:48, 10 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] The Long and Winding Road

All these years I thought George Harrison played bass guitar for the Beatles. A quick check proved you were right and I was wrong, sorry! (I was also convinced that Johnny Marr played bass for the Smiths but a friend at work put me right on that one, luckily on that occasion I hadn't touched Wikipedia.) Cheers --Etimbo | Talk 12:01, 16 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Enterprise link issue

Good job in handling the Enterprise links issue. I found myself away from the computer today, which is probably a good thing since I might have been in danger of violating the Three-Revert Rule myself by reverting the guy's changes again. Cheers. 23skidoo 04:08, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Bakulanews added a bit of "rationality" to some of the post-cancellation reports, so I was glad to cite it in one of the updates to the article. I agree the fat lady hasn't sung yet, but the ratings for last episode were pretty grim. I think a lot of people are under the impression the show is actually off the air (which is what usually happens after a cancellation is announced). It's rather uncommon for a show to get nearly a half-season's notice of cancellation like this. 23skidoo 18:43, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Incidentally, it looks like we have another revert war underway at the main Star Trek article. Another anonymous user is insisting on removing wikilinks to non-existent articles, which just means someone will have to go through the effort of doing the links again once the articles (i.e. Manny Coto and a few others) are written. If I revert again I'll end up violating the 3-revert rule. 23skidoo 20:22, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Finale

About making Finale (television) into a redirect: If I was too bold, my apologies. I actually had {{merge}} in the edit window, and changed my mind to be more bold. I did copy your text to the talk page for series finale, though. --Christopherlin 19:34, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)

[edit] 2005 Florida cluster relocation

Hi Jay. Did you mean to put 2005 Florida cluster relocation in the article namespace at Wikipedia? Perhaps it would be more suited to Meta or Wikinews, but I don't see that it can ever be an encyclopedia article so I have listed it at VfD. Angela. 01:24, Jun 21, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] I-285

The thing is that almost all full beltways change direction at each corner; thus it's not useful to state that in Interstate Highway. --SPUI (talk) 18:53, 27 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] More Sprint Nextel

The reason why I have a habit of saying "exclusively" is because you might have heard about this "Rebanding" controversy that has been plaguing Nextel even before the Merger Plans between Sprint and Nextel went on the way. I actually used this "Tiny URL Website" (http:// tinyurl.com) because there may be times when the HTTP Syntax might have weird extensions and/or page syntaxes, that's why I have a habit to use Tiny URL to make the Syntax simple and presentable, plus I also try to describe what the URL is "bubbling out" when I cite URLs as well.

About this "Reuters" direct linking, I'll give it a try next time, but if I get errors, you might want to encourage people to try using "Tiny URL Redirects" (http:// tinyurl.com) to make the syntaxes a little less weird. -- Vesther 22:11, 4 August 2005 (UTC)

I *desperately* dislike tinyurl, especially in contexts like wp: you're assuming they'll stay alive longer than the local site. I mentioned it only because the story was not locatable. As for "exclusive", that can't be inferred from anything I've read so far, and 2500MHz is a completely new service; all current US cell services are at 1800/1900 MHz. It is therefore something completely new and news, and shouldn't be a throwaway.

[edit] Jennings Effect

Check the page history more carefully; it wasn't me who did the actual merging, I just added the {{mergeto}} template. --IByte 11:22, 14 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Sorry

When I looked into the article I saw 200.81.94.59's edit ('''Hurricane Katrina''' was a powerful [[tropical cyclone]] sent by [[God]] to punish the sinners.), and this IS vandalism. Sitenl 23:45, 1 September 2005 (UTC)


[edit] Katrinahelp.info

Hey, You'll probably notice that I changed the description of katrinahelp.info. I only did that because I thought the prior label might encourage other people to add links to more link aggregators. I think the katrinahelp.info site is pretty reasonable, which is why I didn't remove it... (thought I don't object to it being removed either.). Keep your eyes on it: there is someone inserting an IP address that mirrors the content of katrinahelp.info but doesn't appear to be run by the same people... and the donate button takes you to a different paypal address. :) 24.165.233.150 20:43, 4 September 2005 (UTC)

I'm staffing over there now, unofficially at least. The mirror is supposed to be official, but I'll keep an eye out for donation scammers. I've put a suggested scammer warning box over there on the Community Portal page for inclusion in the page skin template. I'll check it out. Thanks.
--Baylink 20:49, 4 September 2005 (UTC)
Ah. Hm. Perhaps I was incorrect on the mirror. In any case, it's good to be carful with such things. In the past the policy on wikipedia during events like this has been to avoid linking to any sites asking for donations.. but since it's pretty clear that katrinahelp.info isn't asking for donations to help victims but rather the site, I think thats okay. --24.165.233.150 20:52, 4 September 2005 (UTC)
Oh; sorry; I understand now. Yes, that link is for bandwidth contributions. I'm going to go chase down Angela or Jimbo and see if they're interested in hosting it at Wikicities, if I can ge ahold of them.
--Baylink 21:29, 4 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Hurricane Katrina SST image

Hiya,

Saw your uploaded SST image of Hurricane Katrina. Added caption, added NASA public domain note, then realized that the link you cite is dead (CNET moves around its articles after a few days). I found the image on the NASA website, went to reupload, and assigned it a more descriptive name. That moved it to a new page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:NASA_ASMR-E_image_of_average_SSTs_of_Hurricane_Katrina.jpg). I put the old page up for speedy deletion. Hope you don't mind! It's a really fascinating image.

Janet13 06:35, 8 September 2005 (UTC)

I not only don't mind, I'm flattered that you like my taste in images well enough to chase that down for me.  :-)
--Baylink 22:51, 8 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] hurricane project

The Wikipedia:WikiProject_Tropical_Cyclones page isn't for discussion. Can you move your comment over to the talk page (or the talk page for the template itself)? Jdorje 17:32, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

Why that wasn't apparent to me, I couldn't tell you. Sure.

[edit] Peer review for The West Wing

I have started a peer review of The West Wing at Wikipedia:Peer review/The West Wing (television) and I invite you to take part in the discussion and help make the necessary changes as the community as a whole reviews the work that we have all done together on this article. Thank you very much for your work on the article! -Scm83x 08:39, 24 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Heinlein/polyamory

There was some question on Talk:Polyamory about whether RAH had been confirmed as polyamorous - since it was your edit, thought you might be able to give more info about the source? Thanks - --Calair 22:40, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

I've sourced this on the Polyamory talk page.
--Baylink 21:34, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia meetup:Tampa

I'm writing to let you know that the Tampa meetup has officially been announced -- Wikipedia:Meetup/Tampa2 →Raul654 04:01, 18 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] INfo

All items of such contention need to be well referenced with mainstream sources to really be credible...--MONGO 20:19, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Neil Sedaka and "Breaking Up Is Hard to Do"

The single from the early 70s definitely began with the doo-wop and then went into the ballad. Maybe the album version does not include the old-style prelude, but I dunno. You can tell what a huge fan I am. Wahkeenah 02:05, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

I don't think I have it anymore. I was unaware it was the subject of a minor edit war. I thought it was an interesting tidbit, but if it's not done that way on his albums, I had best leave it alone, as it's apparently no longer relevant. :) Wahkeenah 04:36, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Baylinkbot

What's the deal with Baylinkbot? And how do I get one? -- Calion | Talk 19:15, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Tropical cyclone article formatting

Dear Tropical cyclone editor,

As a member of the Tropical Cyclone Wikiproject, you are receiving this message to describe how you can better tropical cyclone articles. There are hundreds of tropical cyclone articles, though many of them are poorly organized and lacking in information. Using the existing featured articles as a guide line, here is the basic format for the ideal tropical cyclone article.

  1. Infobox- Whenever possible, the infobox should have a picture for the tropical cyclone. The picture can be any uploaded picture about the storm, though ideally it should be a satellite shot of the system. If that is not available, damage pictures, either during the storm or after the storm, are suitable. In the area that says Formed, indicate the date on which the storm first developed into a tropical depression. In the area that says Dissipated, indicate the date on which the storm lost its tropical characteristics. This includes when the storm became extratropical, or if it dissipated. If the storm dissipated and reformed, include the original start date and the final end date. Highest winds should be the local unit of measurement for speed (mph in non-metric countries, km/h in metric countries), with the other unit in parenthesis. The lowest pressure should be in mbars. Damages should, when available, be in the year of impact, then the present year. The unit of currency can be at your discretion, though typically it should be in USD. Fatalities indicate direct deaths first, then indirect deaths. Areas affected should only be major areas of impact. Specific islands or cities should only be mentioned if majority of the cyclone's effects occurred there.
  2. Intro- The intro for every article should be, at a minimum, 2 paragraphs. For more impacting hurricanes, it should be 3. The first should describe the storm in general, including a link to the seasonal article, its number in the season, and other statistics. The second should include a brief storm history, while the third should be impact.
  3. Storm history- The storm history should be a decent length, relatively proportional to the longevity of the storm. Generally speaking, the first paragraph should be the origins of the storm, leading to the system reaching tropical storm status. The second should be the storm reaching its peak. The third should be post-peak until landfall and dissipation. This section is very flexible, depending on meteorological conditions, but it should generally be around 3. Storm histories can be longer than three paragraphs, though they should be less than five. Anything more becomes excessive. Remember, all storm impacts, preparations, and records can go elsewhere. Additional pictures are useful here. If the picture in the infobox is of the storm at its peak, use a landfall picture in the storm history. If the picture in the infobox is of the storm at its landfall, use the peak. If the landfall is its peak, use a secondary peak, or even a random point in the storm's history.
  4. Preparations- The preparations section can be any length, depending on the amount of preparations taken by people for the storm. Hurricane watches and warnings need to be mentioned here, as well as the number of people evacuated from the coast. Include numbers of shelters, and other info you can find on how people prepared for the storm.
  5. Impact- For landfalling storms, the impact section should be the majority of the article. First, if the storm caused deaths in multiple areas, a death table would work well in the top level impact section. A paragraph of the general effects of the storm is also needed. After the intro paragraph, impact should be broken up by each major area. It depends on the information, but sections should be at least one paragraph, if not more. In the major impact areas, the first paragraph should be devoted to meteorological statistics, including rainfall totals, peak wind gusts on land, storm surge, wave heights, beach erosion, and tornadoes. The second should be actual damage. Possible additional paragraphs could be detailed information on crop damage or specifics. Death and damage tolls should be at the end. Pictures are needed, as well. Ideally, there would be at least one picture for each sub-section in the impact, though this sometimes can't happen. For storms that impact the United States or United States territories, this site can be used for rainfall data, including an image of rainfall totals.
  6. Aftermath- The aftermath section should describe foreign aid, national aid, reconstruction, short-term and long-term environmental effects, and disease. Also, the storm's retirement information, whether it happened or not, should be mentioned here.
  7. Records- This is optional, but can't hurt to be included.
  8. Other- The ideal article should have inline sourcing, with the {{cite web}} formatting being preferable. Always double check your writing and make sure it makes sense.

Good luck with future writing, and if you have a question about the above, don't hesitate to ask.

Hurricanehink (talk) 19:52, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Tropical cyclones WikiProject Newsletter #1

Number 1, June 4, 2006

The Hurricane Herald

This is the monthly newsletter of WikiProject Tropical Cyclones. The Hurricane Herald aims to give a summary of the activities of the WikiProject over the past month and upcoming events over the next month. In addition monthly tropical cyclone activity will be summarized.

You have received this as you are a member of the WikiProject, please add your username in the appropriate section on the mailing list. If you do not add your name to that list, the WikiProject will assume you do not wish to receive future versions of The Hurricane Herald.

Storm of the month

Typhoon Chanchu near its peak intensity
Typhoon Chanchu was the first typhoon and first super typhoon of the 2006 Pacific typhoon season. Forming on May 9 over the open western Pacific Ocean, Chanchu moved over the Philippines on the 11th. There, it dropped heavy rainfall, causing mudslides, crop damage, and 41 deaths. It moved into the South China Sea, where it rapidly strengthened to a super typhoon on May 14, one of only two super typhoons recorded in the sea. It turned to the north, weakened, and struck the Fujian province of China as a minimal typhoon on the 17th. The typhoon flooded 192 houses, while heavy rainfall caused deadly mudslides. In China, Chanchu caused at least 25 deaths and $480 million in damage (2006 USD). Elsewhere on its path, strong waves from the typhoon sank eleven Vietnamese ships, killing at least 44 people. In Taiwan, heavy rainfall killed two people, while in Japan, severe waves killed one person and injured another.

Other tropical cyclone activity

New articles and improvements wanted

Member of the month

This isn't the generic barnstar, we just don't have a WPTC star yet…

The May member of the month is TitoXD. The WikiProject awards this to him for his brilliant work in improving articles. TitoXD joined the WikiProject in October just after it had been founded. Since then he has contributed substantially to many articles, for example Hurricane Nora (1997), which is currently a Featured Article Candidate. He is also actively involved in the assessment of articles and so helps to improve many more articles.

Explanation of content

If you have a topic which is not directly related to any specific article but is relevant to the WikiProject bring it up on the Newsletters talk page, and it will probably be included in a future edition of The Hurricane Herald.

These two sections are decided by the community on the newsletter's talk page:

  • Storm of the month: This is determined by a straw poll on the page. While all storms will be mentioned on the newsletter, the selected storm will be described in more detail.
  • Member of the month: Nominations are made on the talk page, voting is by secret ballot; read the talk page for details. The winner receives the WikiProject's barnstar (when we make it).

Main Page content

Storm article statistics

Grade April May June
Featured article FA 7 7 10
A 4 5 7
Good article GA 0 3 5
B 62 66 82
Start 154 177 168
Stub 13 12 10
Total 240 263 282
percentage
≥Less than B		 69.6 71.6 63.1

The assessment scale

  • The cyclone assessment scale is one of the bases of the new assessment scale for Version 1.0 of Wikipedia. It splits articles into several categories by quality, to identify which articles are "finished" and which ones still need to be improved.
  • The assessment scale by itself counts of several grades:
    • FA: reserved for articles that have been identified as featured content only.
    • A: this grade is given to articles that are considered ready for Wikipedia:peer review. The way to get this grade assigned to an article is by asking other cyclone editors at the WikiProject's assessment page.
    • GA: reserved for articles that have passed a good article nomination.
    • B: these articles are "halfway there", and have most of the details of a complete article, yet it still has significant gaps in its coverage.
    • Start: articles that fall in this category have a decent amount of content, yet it is weak in many areas. Be bold and feel free to improve them!
    • Stub: these articles are mostly placeholders, and may in some cases be useless for the reader. It needs a lot of work to be brought to A-Class level.
  • The way to use these assessments is by adding a parameter to the WikiProject template on the articles talk page ({{hurricane|class=B}} as an example). This feeds the article into a category which is read and parsed to create an assessment table, summary and log.

[edit] Tropical cyclones WikiProject Newsletter #2

The July issue of the WikiProject Tropical cyclones newsletter is now available. If you wish to receive the full newsletter or no longer be informed of the release of future editions, please add your username to the appropriate section on the mailing list.--Nilfanion (talk) 00:39, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Tomb sentinals

Referring to your photo, as well as all of the other photos in the article, the sentinals (the ones holding the rifles) are wearing no insignia. The soldier wearing sergeants stripes is not a sentinal, but the watch commander or assistant watch commander and does wear rank insignia. He supervises the changing of the guards. If you go inside the building, you will see a sentinal uniform on display where is tells about the the sentinal's uniform and explains about the absence of rank insignia. --rogerd 00:41, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Variable Star

Hi! I had an opportunity on Sunday to ask Spider where that book fits into the Future History; the short answer is, it doesn't, really. FWIW, I added some notes to Talk:Variable Star. -- Jim Douglas (talk) (contribs) 20:57, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

re [[Diagnosis X and Scrubs (TV series)

The reason i removed it is that it has nothing to do with Scrubs in general, while it can go on the Sacred Heart Page.--Jac16888 08:48, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WPTC Active Members

The Wikipedia:WikiProject Tropical cyclones has changed greatly since it was first started, and according to our main page we now have 87 members. However, we only have a small group of members that are still active, and as such, I am sending this out to all users on the participants list. If you are still active, please sign your name here. If you do not wish to be part of the project any more, or if you do not answer to this, you will be placed on an inactive users list after a period of two weeks. If you wish to rejoin after you are put on the inactive users list, you are welcome to rejoin. Cheers. --Hurricanehink (talk) 18:46, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] List of Concorde pilots

No, sorry, I don't know how many pilots were ever type-rated for Concorde. It is certainly more than 24 though; the 1986 (an early) edition of Christopher Orlebar's The Concorde Story lists 34 Captains and 28 First Officers in the first ten years of flying, and that's just for British Airways, not including the French pilots. Carbonix (talk) 11:44, 15 May 2008 (UTC)