User talk:Cjensen

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Ah, thanks a lot for that Cjensen, I'll keep an eye out! Craigy (talk) 21:29, 3 December 2005 (UTC)

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[edit] Template:User Wikitravel

Colin: I thought you might like to put this template on your user page. You can see how to use it on Wikipedia:Userboxes. --ESP 15:47, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks so much. I will make a few changes. The image I put up was a replacement of the exact same bird. It looks like the ID was wrong to begin with. Miskatonic 04:42, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Humphrey the whale

i noticed the date discrepancy too but went with the source that looked the best. im looking into it but it may take a couple of months to get to the root sources, wont forget about the issue. thanks.Anlace 21:51, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Mason et al

Hi, thanks for your note. You're right, I did misunderstand the Mason et al paper. Thanks for fixing up one of my related mistaken edits; I'm pretty sure they're all corrected now. I'm glad you like their paper. -- Avenue 09:10, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Calling programmers

We need coders for the WikiProject Disambigation fixer. We need to make a program to make faster and easier the fixing of links. We will be happy if you could check the project. You can Help! --Neo139 08:54, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Ashfall Fossil Beds

Hi, I added the {{citationneeded}} to the Ashfall Fossil Beds item in the Supervolcano article. The eruption is listed among the VEI-8 eruptions, but is not listed in VEI as being a VEI-8 eruption, so that's the fact I was hoping someone could support. Is there a better way I could have marked it to make it understandable to other editors? -- Cjensen 05:27, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Ah, OK, that makes more sense now. I guess it would have been slightly clearer if the note was placed directly next to the Bruneau-Jarbidge text itself, but it's basically a matter of interpretation only.
For what it's worth, here's the only scholarly reference I could find on that particular eruption (from the Bulletin of Volcanology):
“ Equally, the long-lived Yellowstone-Snake River Plain "hotspot" province (Smith and Braile 1994) has an extensive ash-fall tuff record suggesting that it has experienced many tens of eruptions with volumes in excess of 250 km³ over the past 16 Ma (Perkins and Nash 2001). Volumes of associated major ash-flow tuffs have, however, only been determined for deposits of the past 8 Ma (Morgan et al. 1984; Christiansen 2001). It is likely that several large volume eruptions associated with the earlier stages of the province, between 16 and 10 Ma, remain to be identified. ”
So, the the Bruneau-Jarbidge eruption that produced the Ashfall Fossil Beds has not yet been assigned an VEI number; presumably it will be if/when someone gets around to investigating the event in more detail. – Swid (talk | edits) 18:09, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Colins Jensen

Hi in another place from the other Colin Jensen (the guy who owns colinjensen.com / colinandbethany.com). I'm from Marin County (Novato), so if you've ever wanted to meet another Colin Jensen we should hook up some idle holiday... --Mrcolj 02:04, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Haraldskaer Woman

so how do i post something on wikitravel or link to wikipedia Covalent 05:21, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

Seeing that this has not been answered, I will jump in and try to answer it.
  1. Surf over to http://wikitravel.org/en/Help:Contents, and follow the instructions found there. The rules, guidelines, etc. are similar to but not identical to those for wikipedia.
  2. As I understand it from the Wikitravel Manual of Style, links from wikitravel to wikipedia should be made as Wikitravel External Links -- Boracay Bill 02:43, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikitravel template

  • Thanks for explaining. Um, is that an official policy, or one just custom? David Cannon 22:51, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
  • Looking at your comment on the 06:46, 20 October 2006 edit to this template, it seems to me as if you intended to revert the template to a version which produces non-boxed links. (As I understand it, non-boxed is the Wikitravel is not a Wikimedia project variety and boxed is the Wikitravel is not a Wikimedia project variety. I inferred this understanding of non-boxed vs. boxed from the cited discussion section.) You may have noted that I (as a newbie template writer) made an attempt to modify this template to do that (and more), and reverted that template to an earlier version which produced boxed links (but still did more) in frustration when my changes failed after I moved the non-boxed version into the template location. I left both versions there (the boxed version functional and non-boxed version nonfunctional and commented out) along with a comment as explanation, in hopes that some better template coder than I could resolv this. Since then, there have been two further changes. I note that the template as it currently stands produces boxed links, which I believe from the cited discussion section to be inappropriate. I am a bit gun-shy after my prior frustration in revising this template, so I am calling this to your attention rather than fiddling with the template myself. -- Boracay Bill 01:29, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] reply re Sierras

I replied on my talkpage. Skookum1 02:21, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Acronyms

I was unaware that it was so contentious, and I would have posted to the talk page first had I known. The change has already been reverted. My reasons for the change, as seen in the edit summary, were to make it consistent with the next section in the very same article, titled "Acronym usage in article body". That section contains this sentence, "There is no consistent rule about periods—in general, avoid them, unless the preferred usage is otherwise (for example, U.S., but UK)." I also wanted to make it consistent with Wikipedia:Manual of Style (abbreviations). A reason to use U.S. that was not mentioned in the edit summary is that it is the most common form*, and the most common form is what is used in the vast majority of cases on Wikipedia, as long as there are no other factors, such as the usage being incorrect according to most authorities.

  • Based solely on my experiences in my part of the United States. My perception may be incorrect and my experience may not be representative of the country as a whole or even of my own area. I doubt this very much because of the extreme difference in frequency in the usage of U.S. and US that I have encountered. In fact, am not sure that I have ever seen "US" used in professional writing in the United States (professional writing refers to books, magazines and newspapers (actual newspapers, not amateur websites)). I have seen "US" used in weblogs, but many of those are written outside of the United States, so many of the few occasions that I have seen it used may not be important (see below). In any case, the spelling is so sloppy in weblogs that I do not think it should be used for determining standards of any type. I do not have much experience with contemporary foreign writing, so I do not know the frequency of use outside the United States. I have seen "US" used on foreign news sites, but I do not have a perception of the frequency of its usage. However, since the spelling of U.S./US is a regional issue, I believe that the regional usage supercedes the global usage. There is precedent for this on Wikipedia. Articles for places have the accents that are used locally, such as São Paulo. In addition, spelling is altered depending on the subject. For example, subjects related to the United States use American spelling. -- Kjkolb 04:40, 24 February 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Dokdo RM poll

Hey, could you participate in a new poll for Dokdo? The candidates include Liancourt Rocks, Takeshima, and the new Takeshima/Dokdo variations suggested by user:Macgruder. I'm informing you because you voted on the last poll. Thanks. (Wikimachine 18:49, 21 May 2007 (UTC))