User talk:BlueCanoe

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[edit] Welcome to the Wikipedia

(deleted to make room -- BlueCanoe 23:34, September 10, 2005 (UTC))

[edit] Sigurd F. Olson

You created the page Sigurd F. Olson. But you also have a page User:BlueCanoe/SFO which you were updating in February. Fine - but it would be helpful if you removed the categories from the second of these as they are turning up in the category lists. I have made a minor change to both pages. --Henrygb 23:16, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Thanks. -- BlueCanoe 23:34, September 10, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness

Great contributions to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness article! -- Brandon 2 July 2005 04:05 (UTC)

Thank you, it's a region I love to visit, research and pay attention to. I write a blog about the Boundary Waters, as well. -- BlueCanoe 23:34, September 10, 2005 (UTC)

I'd second that work on the BWCA. I'm also a fan of the area and its nice to see some people have written a good proper article about it. (And by Fan I mean I own a cabin on Farm lake) --ShakataGaNai 21:10, 11 January 2006 (UTC)


Lotalota:Thanks for your edit on the fish hook/bait Quetico sentence. Somehow I had that scrambled in my head when I typed it. I spent a lot of time studying that Fisheries Plan and take a keen interest in it as well as paddling the Q. Your correction is much appreciated.

[edit] MN Geography

Hey thanks for the work on The BW article & voyeurs NP. I am working on Superior National Forest and Eagle Mountain (Minnesota). Any help would be greatly appreciated, no one has done any copy editing other than spelling & grammar. Also I was thinking of adding some sort of template for all of the parks and attractions in northern minnesota. Any input on that?

Thanks! Ravedave 02:51, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

I just created Chippewa National Forest as well...Ravedave 04:04, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

Ravedave: Thanks for your appreciation, and I in turn thank you for your work -- I've checked out the pages you linked to. I'm glad you're working on the Superior and Chippewa National Forests. Regarding your idea of a regional attractions template, I would investigate pre-existing WikiProjects and templates before undertaking a new multi-article organizational effort. For example, there already are categories for Minnesota landmarks ,geography, and state parks, as well as a Minnesota template. Maybe the summarization of NE MN attractions would fit into pre-existing articles on the Iron Range or Arrowhead Region? -- BlueCanoe 23:34, September 10, 2005 (UTC) (cross-posted at User talk:Ravedave)

Hrm - I'll wait until more up-north articles have been created to think more about a template. There should probably be a Minnesota Tourism category. Also I think your Wilderness Act of 1964 stub looks good. You could probably start the article with the quote if you want. I have seen another article that did that, and it looked nice. P.S. I added Tettegouche State Park, any suggestions about it? -Ravedave 17:59, 13 September 2005 (UTC)


[edit] Wikipedia:Peer review/Geology of the Capitol Reef area/archive1

If you can offer any feedback, then I would be most greatful. :) --mav 21:17, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Soil

Hopefully this project will interest you. Your geologic and geographic perspective is needed. Cheers! -- Paleorthid 06:44, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Cryptogamic soil

You created this redirect on June 16, 2006. It has no other history and no current article links to it. Barring some history that is not apparent to me, it may meet CSD G7 criteria for speedy deletion. Would you be able to tag the article accordingly? -- Paleorthid 22:55, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

I didn't make that redirect. I did some editing/writing regarding soil crusts a while ago (6 months, 1 year?), and what I wrote may have been merged and redirected into the soil crust article. Check out my contributions -- I made no edits on June 16, 2006. Delete, revise, edit, redirect as you see fit. -- BlueCanoe 23:04, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
My mistake about the date. (It was 2005 vs 2006). Thanks for the OK to deal with it. -- Paleorthid 04:36, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Environmental radioactivity

Hi, I have seen your comments. The environmental radioactivity page was started after a long edit war on the subject of uranium was brought to an end with the banning of one editor (an editor who seemed to have a personal cause). At that point wikipedia looked in a poor way on the subject of the relationship between man and the radioactivity in the environment. So a set of pages were started by me. The environmental radioactivity page is a overview of the whole subject and sub pages on uranium, radium/radon, fission products and the actinides (other than U) now exist.

You wrote I agree that Be-10, Be-7, Cl-36, etc should be included in "the subject of radioactive materials in man and his environment", but not at the expense of a thorough discussion of them in their own right, in their own article. I am unsure if a discussion of these isotopes existed already in wikipedia before I started to move things around.

If you have a much larger page on the dating of rocks, then I think that the best thing would be to add a link from the environmental radioactivity page section on the dating which has already been created to this new page.

As you are an expert in geology there is something which I would like to ask you if you would be willing to help out with. I would value your input on the subject of the mobility of different elements in soil and other underground things. I know already that the Cs and Pu tend to bind tightly to soil mineral but I know too little to write a good review of this subject. If you see the fission products page and the page on actinides in the environment then you will see a small discussion of how Cs and actinides bind to soil, this could be a lot better if it was expanded.Cadmium 08:01, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Spruce beer

Nice work, thanks! I've added a ref for 'northern Europe' generally, but (annoyingly!) can't find the ref for Russia. I know I've seen it somewhere, but can't remember where, so I'll leave Russia and Siberian Spruce out for now - the best source to check would be Schmidt-Vogt's monograph Die Fichte (which means a trip to a distant library for me, so I'll not be able to do anything about it for a fair while). Noticed the page has a mix of Canadian and US spellings (flavour, flavor), which should be converted to all one or all the other; I'd reckon Canadian is the most appropriate (as the major producing country) but don't have a strong opinion. - MPF 14:27, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] boundary water pic

Do you have a higher rez of this pic? Image:Boundary_Waters_canoes.jpg - Ravedave 06:26, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

Yes, but it's a relatively poor scan of a print. I will go back and look at it to see if it is useable at a higher resolution. If I get a chance I will re-scan the print but I don't have a scanner. -- BlueCanoe 14:02, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

I’m suggesting a reorganization of sections within Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. As you have made many contributions to this article I thought you might be interested in expressing your views at Talk:Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. Thanks. Kablammo 18:37, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your quick response-- I have posted a reply. I also have made some changes to Grand Portage National Monument; feel free to edit them. Kablammo 23:59, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Minnesota

BC: Would you be willing to look at the geology summary in this article, Minnesota#Geology_and_terrain? The article is up for Featured Article status and a review of it by someone with a geology background would be helpful. Kablammo 17:51, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

Blue Canoe-- I have split off the geology section to a separate article, Geology of Minnesota. Any criticism of either that or the geology section in Minnesota would be welcome. (The latter article is now FA and is likely to be on the main page 11 May.)
I have also updated Height of Land Portage with the information you supplied on its talk page, and another source which I recently found. (I wanted to find such a source so that the piece could have adequate authority beyond our personal knowledge of the region.) Thanks for your comments. Kablammo 14:17, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Panorama - Autostitch

I looked at some of your photos on Flickr and saw that you had used Photoshop to create panoramas. There is a program called autostitch that is meant for merging images automatically and I think you should check it out. My experience with the Photoshop merger feature is very poor because it leaves the photo looking choppy and unprofessional. Autostitch is free and works a lot better. Adumbvoget 06:10, 14 July 2007 (UTC)
http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~mbrown/autostitch/autostitch.html

Or use Hugin (software). Wonderful. Free. :) --90.152.189.38 23:38, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wilderness Act article and Introduction

Hello, First, I want to say that you have the best username I have ever seen.

Second, Thankyou for your article on the Wilderness Act of 1964, I referred to it many times for inspiration on Northern California Coastal Wild Heritage Wilderness Act (which is still weak in the lead and needs a photo and probably much more). I am new (Jan. of this year) and have a steep learning curve to navigate, but it's alot of fun too. I was going to ask about one sentence in the article but nevermind, I agree with it- NPOV or not.

And lastly, from a fellow paddler, may all your trips be dry, peaceful and fulfilling. Sincerely, Marcia Wright (talk) 22:37, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the complement, although I can hardly take credit for the Wilderness Act article, since it's been heavily edited and added on to since I started it. There probably are sections in there with NPOV issues, I would not be surprised given how opinionated the topics of wilderness and federal land management are. Welcome to Wikipedia, and I hope your learning curve is easier than you think -- looking at other, similar articles for inspiration, infoboxes, links, categories, etc, is a great editing strategy. Also I encourage you to explore the "meta" articles for guidelines on style, content, etc. Paddle on! (My preferred previous paddle places: 1, 2, 3, 4) --BlueCanoe (talk) 02:29, 6 April 2008 (UTC)