User talk:Dspark76

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[edit] Welcome!

Some cookies to welcome you! :D
Some cookies to welcome you! :D
Welcome to Wikipedia, Dspark76! I am Glacier Wolf and have been editing Wikipedia for quite some time. I just wanted to say hi and welcome you to Wikipedia! If you have any questions, feel free to leave me a message on my talk page or by typing {{helpme}} at the bottom of this page. I love to help new users, so don't be afraid to leave a message! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Oh yeah, I almost forgot, when you post on talk pages you should sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); that should automatically produce your username and the date after your post. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Again, welcome!

Glacier Wolf 03:57, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] RIT

Hey, thanks for working on the RIT article. Here's a few friendly tips - generally, you shouldn't have external links to websites outside of wikipedia. You can usually add references using the ref tag, or you can add it to the external links section. I'll be trying to remove many of the external links. Also, make sure you use the Preview button instead of Saving the page. You should always try to limit the number of consecutive edits you make. try to combine them into one, that way it doesn't clog the history section with only edits you've made. Let me know if you have any questions :) --Dan LeveilleTALK 20:41, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

At the top of every page is an "edit this page" link, just use that to edit the entire page. The only difference when you edit a section is that it adds a little arrow and the section in the edit summary, so people who are looking at the history log know that the only changes you've made was to that section. But it's not a big deal. But be bold and feel free to edit things and add your own content! That's what Wikipedia is about. I'm trying to add reliable references to RIT's article, since a lot of the content is uncited. If something's not obvious fact, then it's good to do a google search to see if you can find a reliable source. --Dan LeveilleTALK 21:11, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Thanks

Not a problem. I wanted to give you a Garbage Plate, but Wikipedia doesn't have a welcome template for that. :) Glacier Wolf 03:16, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

  • Hehe, my dad lives in the retirement home by the Port of Rochester in Charlotte. Glacier Wolf 03:38, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Samantha Smith

Good work. Hopefully we can keep it featured. PMA (talk) 14:01, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

Counter-claims that the KGB had killed her were circulating on American newsgroups just weeks after she died - http://groups.google.com.au/group/net.politics/msg/fed3e2a99de79a04?dmode=source&hl=en —Preceding unsigned comment added by PMA (talk • contribs) 03:07, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

No problem - keep up the good work and I'll help anyway i can - I'm sure there are online newspaper and journal archives that we can use too. Many Soviet people did think the CIA killed her. On the American side many people accused the KGB of killing her for their own purposes PMA (talk) 12:38, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

How about "Life before the Letter"? It's interesting how quickly she matured - in '83 she looks so young but just two years later in Lime Street she has really blossomed to "tits and lipstick". PMA (talk) 13:45, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

Do what you feel you should. Keep up the good work - Sam would be happy. PMA (talk) 15:44, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

I'm surprised there isn't a Samantha Smith Elementary in Maine. PMA (talk) 11:47, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Thera eruption or Minoan eruption

First of all, I'm not a vulcanologist nor do I play one on TV. I forgot how I got involved with that article, but I got it to GA status a few months ago. I still don't know what to name it. It has gone through several titles, not sure which one to choose. Do you have an opinion? BTW, what's this about the garbage plate? Are you from Ra-cha-cha? I lived many years there, doing my internship and residency, along with getting some degree from the U of R. And getting absolutely drunk and having a garbage plate. OrangeMarlin Talk• Contributions 23:32, 11 March 2008 (UTC)


Hi Marlin. I left some comments about the garbage plate on your page :)
With respect to the Minoan eruption, I'll admit I'm not a vulcanologist either, but I'm always happy to toss in my 2¢. I think this one is tricky question though. I think its important that the name makes sense when shown in a list of similar eruptions. For example, see Volcanic Explosivity Index List of Eruption. You'll notice that most of the eruptions are described simply by a place name (a mountain, an island, yellow stone park, etc) In this regard, Thera or Santorini seems to work best. However, when a volcano has several major eruptions, then you need to name each one something unique. In this case, Minoan eruption seems to fit. We know that Thera eruppted multiple times, although I haven't seen any estimates for the magnitude of the earlier erruptions. Even still, I edited the VEI page to read Thera (Minoan eruption).
I came across the Minoan eruption article while working on the Location hypotheses of Atlantis, Crete and Santorini section. While doing this work I came across:
Digging further to establish the VEI, I found the real volcanologists using:
So, I would conclude that there is no consensus in the media/scientific community. Wikipedia doesnt need to do any better than that but does have the advantage of redirect pages. So, my vote would be to leave it the way it is for now. Dspark76 (talk) 12:55, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Garbage plates redux

I once sat across the table at Tahou's Lyell from a skinny friend and watched him eat two garbage plates in succession. Eight minutes for the first and about twenty for the second. Scary. Cxw (talk) 17:59, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Garbage plate userbox

I'd like a parameter so I could have mine say "This user eats garbage plates sometimes" (or maybe reluctantly) :) . Cxw (talk) 13:31, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

The parameter is nice but there's now spurious whitespace below the userbox. Wrap the examples in <noinclude> and that should take care of it. See e.g. Template:Col-2, which uses noinclude to wrap the documentation. Cxw (talk) 14:01, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Samantha

we were told by someone that claimed to have visited the plot that her and Arthur's ashes were interred/buried in a cometary but i can't find any reference for what Jane Smith did with the cremated ashes. Paul Melville Austin (talk) 12:33, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

The "Early Years" section has been tagged by an admin - needs verification. Paul Melville Austin (talk) 03:17, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Moving text between articles and links

Hi, carrying on our earlier discussion if I want to move a chunk of text from one article to another, how do I indicate it? Thanks.--Doug Weller (talk) 13:38, 30 March 2008 (UTC)