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Thanks..

..for the revert on my userpage :) I find it hard to understand why people can be so stupid, but we have to fight against them. Best wishes from --Ossmanntalk 08:46, 10 February 2008 (UTC) The next three to four days I'm on holiday, so I can't answer you. ..and excuse me for my bad english :))

Sure no problem, unfortunately, there are thousands of anon users that are only there to create problems.--JForget 15:50, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject Severe Weather Newsletter (February 2008)

The WikiProject Severe weather NewsletterVol. I, No. 1, Issue 1, February 2008
If you would like to delete this message, the original is at Wikipedia:WikiProject Severe weather/Newsletter/February 2008

Welcome

Welcome to the first monthly issue of the WikiProject Severe weather newsletter! In this issue, we will welcome you to the newsletter, and give you an idea of what the project is about, what it has done, and what it plans to do. So, enjoy reading the February 2008 issue! If you have not signed up to receive the newsletter, you may do so at the newsletter page. If you do not sign up, you will not receive the next newsletter!

New project articles

Featured story

This featured story focuses on the relative WikiWork for this project. The relative WikiWork is the measure of how lose a project is to having every article featured. It is a complex calculation;

ω = a + 2g + 3b + 4s + 5t

where a is A-class articles, g is GA-class articles, b is B-class articles, s is start-class articles, and t is stub-class articles.

Thus, the closer you are to 0 (zero), the closer you are to having every article featured. The WikiWork number for every class is added, then divided by the number of articles, similar to averaging, and it is found that the relative WikiWork for this project is Ω = 4.182. Ω is a symbol for the relative WikiWork factor. That is not the best number, as we are closer to 5 than we are to 0, and we are very close to 5. This means that the majority of the articles in the project are either stub, or start. That is what we need to change. So, while more severe weather articles are good, we should try not to publish as many stub class, and fewer start class articles.

Wikiwork statistics

Severe weather
articles		 Importance
Top High Mid Low None Total
Quality
Featured article FA 1 1 2
Good article GA 2 7 3 12
B 4 8 16 14 42
Start 6 19 70 64 159
Stub 1 6 21 58 1 87
List 1 11 20 1 33
Assessed 12 36 126 159 2 335
Unassessed 2 2
Total 12 36 126 159 4 337

Members section

New members User:Juliancolton (Talk) The most recent user to join the project, but is very active. User:Juliancolton is also an editor of this newsletter.

Featured member User:CrazyC83 is this month's featured member for WikiProject Severe weather. (The following text is from User:JForget's nomination.) User:CrazyC83 - One of the most active (if not the most) members in recent tornado activity coverage and monitoring. Recent examples of this includes the February-March 2007 Tornado Outbreak in Alabama and Missouri, the May 2007 Tornado Outbreak in Kansas and Oklahoma and the January 2008 Tornado Outbreak Sequence in Missouri, Wisconsin, Arkansas, Mississippi and Alabama. Had also made coverage in non-article tornado events such as the New Orleans tornado event on February 13, 2007 and the tornado event associated with the Superstorm of December 16, 2007. User:CrazyC83 made numerous edits, more than one hundred, to 2008 Super Tuesday tornado outbreak.

Significant storms

Main article: January 2008 Tornado Outbreak Sequence

Significant storms last month included the outbreak in the United States in early to mid-January that produced 71 tornadoes and killed three people. Several tornado emergencies were issued in association with supercells during this outbreak. This outbreak was very similar to a classic spring severe weather outbreak, but extending farther north than even most late season outbreaks. The hardest hit areas on January 7 were the Springfield, Missouri metropolitan area and areas immediately to the north of Chicago, three people were killed near Springfield throughout the Southwestern Missouri Ozarks. On January 8, my area, the Tri-State region of Evansville, Indiana, was hit with the tornado outbreak. Only a few funnel clouds were reported in my area. Most tornadoes of the day were confined to the Memphis, Tennessee area and Eastern Arkansas, where one person was killed. On January 9 only a few wind and hail reports were received[1]. On January 10, however, the action started back up. More tornadic storms developed across the Southern United States, including several significant storms that produced tornadoes. These tornadoes severely damaged rual towns in Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia. The most notable of these tornadoes was reported in Lamar County, Alabama where 1 person was injured as several buildings were destroyed in this EF-3 tornado.

Five more deaths (three by tornadoes and two by straight-line winds) were reported on January 29 from a series of scattered tornadoes and a serial derecho across the Ohio Valley stretching south into Arkansas.[2]

References

  1. ^ http://spc.noaa.gov/climo/reports/080109_rpts.html SPC reports for January 9
  2. ^ Storm Prediction Center 20080129's Storm Reports

For more references see January 2008 Tornado Outbreak Sequence

Southern Illinois SKYWARN (talk) 14:41, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

shared IP

This (shared?) IP you blocked is requesting an unblock so he can create an account. He says the vandalism edits aren't his. Wanted to let you know rather than handling it myself. - Revolving Bugbear 18:51, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

Étoile de grange

Ma foi, merci beaucoup ! Tu remarqueras que je suis bien incapable de trouver une traduction correcte à ce drôle d'objet folklorique ;)

NicDumZ ~ 22:20, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

Y'a pas de problème NicDumZ.--JForget 23:31, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

DYK: Benton, Arkansas Tornado Outbreak

Hi. I've nominated Benton, Arkansas Tornado Outbreak, an article you worked on, for consideration to appear on the Main Page as part of Wikipedia:Did you know. You can see the hook for the article at Template talk:Did you know#Articles created/expanded on February 5, where you can improve it if you see fit. It would also help if you could provide some more accessible refs in the article. Thanks. --PFHLai (talk) 05:05, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

DYK notice!

Updated DYK query On 12 February 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Benton, Arkansas Tornado Outbreak, 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.

Congratulations! Ruhrfisch ><>°° 04:14, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for that Ruhrfisch and PFHLai for the nom, I wasn't sure it would make it considering what I've told in the DYK talk page.--JForget 19:16, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Aurore.jpg

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If it is determined that the image does not qualify under fair use, it will be deleted within a couple of days according to our criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the media copyright questions page. Thank you.BetacommandBot (talk) 04:46, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Harper

I have supported you idea to split economic policy off from "domestic policy" (which should be deleted or renamed eventually), but I think foreign policy is fine as it is. Kevlar67 (talk) 17:58, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

Grassland

You kindly semi-protected grassland last Christmas. It kept things quiet for a while, but the moles are digging up the lawn again. Would you consider doing it again, given that the circumstances are similar? Naturenet | Talk 06:48, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

Your block of 70.253.93.103

I see you blocked this abusive IP user. There is evidence that he has an account as Godzillastar. I would keep an eye on that account as well. Thank you. -- Elaich talk 02:54, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

I've protected one of the page related to ED EDD and EDDY (again) that was mentionned on his talk page although it's because of various other editors vandalising that page. Sure, we will keep an eye on that user. Already, he has been already tagged for a suspected sock of a banned editor although not blocked just yet--JForget 03:10, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
There is no semi-protected tag showing on the page as of this minute. -- Elaich talk 04:14, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
Oops, sorry I was referring to the List of characters in Ed, Edd n Eddy article which was hit by multiple IP's. Usually, I put lock templates or the sprotected2 on protected articles --JForget 14:55, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

An article which you started, or significantly expanded, Hoang Minh Chinh, was selected for DYK!

Updated DYK query On February 17, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Hoang Minh Chinh, 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.

Thanks for your contributions! Nishkid (talk) 22:32, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

Regarding vandalising sockpuppet

Hi. There has been a sockpuppet editing around Papa Roach and AFI (band) related articles for the past several months. He/she has been vandalising repeatedly and not explaining his/her edits, even after being kindly told to stop. User has also been blanking own talk page of warnings and such. This is a suspected sockpuppet of User:AFI-PUNK, I suggest you ask User:Seraphim Whipp about that. Their most recent ip address is 79.211.118.110. He/she has also used several other ip adresses to vandalize, including 79.211.79.16, 79.211.107.49, 79.211.92.160, 79.211.98.24, 79.211.87.128, and also countless more in the 79.211 range. I would like to know if there is a way that the whole ip address range can be blocked so this person can be stopped, at least for a while. Timmeh! 16:54, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

Thank-you both for doing something about this. Seraphim♥ Whipp 19:06, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
This is really getting on my nerves. I am really getting tired of this sockpuppet's repeated vandalizing edits. Something more really needs to be done about this. I have to revert his several edits each day, and that's just on my watchlist. I'm asking if you could possibly block this range (79.211) of ip addresses. If someone in this range other than the sockpuppeteer wishes to edit constructively, it would not be hard for them to create an account or request an unblock of their specific address. This is really getting out of hand and I don't see it stopping anytime soon. I think doing this block would help the encyclopedia much more than harm it and it would save me a lot of time and effort. Thanks. Timmeh! 22:22, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

Deborah Sampson

Thank you for protecting this article! The IP vandalism was getting to be a pain. Bearian (talk) 16:12, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Non-tropical storms newsletter

The WikiProject Non-tropical storms NewsletterVol. I, No. 1, Issue 1, February 2008
If you would like to delete this message, the original is at Wikipedia:WikiProject Non-tropical storms/Newsletter/February 2008

Welcome!

Hi. Welcome to the first issue of the Wikipedia:WikiProject Non-tropical storms newsletter. We know that because this is the first issue of the newsletter, that it is not complete, and coming issues will improve in organization and information. Please bear with us while we continue to improve the still-developing wikiproject and the newsletter.

What's new?

In this issue's edition of What's new?, we would like to welcome you to the new WikiProject. After seeing the other meteorological projects, we decided "Non-tropical storms need a project, too". So I went ahead, and created one. So far, we have several members, and more to come.

The main goal of the project is to organize all articles realted to Non-tropical storms. We have several hundred articles within the scope, but only a few of those are Good articles, and fewer are Featured. We aim to change that. We also plan to start a meteorological collaboration, to aid in the improvement.

So, once again, welcome to the WikiProject Non-tropical storms, from all of the editors here!


Project news

New categories, new templates and more. We have created a series of non-tropical storm articles by class and by importance. In addition, we have new templates and a few new articles. So, for now ther isn't much news to speak of as the project is still new.

WikiWork statistics

Non-tropical storm
articles		 Importance
Top High Mid Low None Total
Quality
Featured article FA 1 1 1 3
A 1 1
Good article GA 1 1 1 2 5
B 6 30 6 42
Start 2 9 34 22 67
Stub 1 15 38 54
List 1 2 1 4
Assessed 4 20 81 70 1 176
Unassessed 1 1
Total 4 20 81 70 2 177

Coming and going

Since we started the project about a month ago, the following members have joined:

No members have left since the project was started.

Featured member

This issue, we have two featured members:

Creator of the project User:Juliancolton, after seeing the need for organization of non-tropical storm articles, created the project, and is currently active in improving articles within the scope of the project.

Featured member User:JForget, an editor and administrator for wikipedia, and of course a member of the Non-tropical storms WikiProject, has contributed excellently to the project. He has created dozens of winter storm articles and is actively maintaining Winter storms of 2007-08. The WikiProject Non-tropical storms thanks JForget for his excellent contributions.

New articles


Significant storms

First off, thank you for supporting this young project and reading this newsletter.

Main article: January 2008 Western North American super storm

Anyway, as my section is called significant storms I should detail these. The "January 2008 Western North American super storm" contained a very low pressure on record at 28.3 inches, 956 milibars, the equivilant of a category 3 hurricane. The storm produced 132 inches of snow at Kirkwood Ski Resort, CA (maximum amount) and 10 inches of rain in Loma Prieta, CA. The storm killed 12 people due to traffic accidents, falling branches, and flooding. 1.5 million people were left without power at the height of the storm.

Main article: January 2008 Chinese winter storms

A series of significant winter weather events including snow and ice as well as cold paralyzed large portions of central and southern China for over two weeks on the eve of the country's Lunar New Year holiday. Ground and air transportation was largely disrupted stranding tens of thousands of travelers particularly in Guangzhou where at times over 500,000 of them waited at the area's main train station. In addition, water and power supplies was disrupted in some areas with fears of food shortage. The event killed at least between 54 and 63 people including 36 in two separate bus crashes.

Less significant storms

  • A Nor'easter developed on January 13, causing minor impacts in the U.S., but dropping over 1 foot of snow in the Graspe region of Canada.
  • Another strong storm rocked California later on in the month, causing flash flooding and mudslides, especially in burn areas. One tornado was reported in Southern California ripping off the roof of a naval base[1]. 5 miles of Interstate 5 were closed for a time[2].

User: Southern Illinois SKYWARN contributed to this section

What you can do

As the project progresses, we will create a formal todo list. Untill then, we need your help! To get an idea of what we need to do with the project, every winter storm article needs the project tag on the talk page of the articles. Just place {{non-tropical}} with the class and importance to all winter storm, non-tropical storm and any other articles that fall within the scope. Thanks.

References

  1. ^ http://spc.noaa.gov/climo/reports/080109_rpts.html SPC reports for January 9
  2. ^ Storm Prediction Center 20080129's Storm Reports

For more references see January 2008 Western North American super storm

Juliancolton The storm still blows... 00:32, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

Sure no problem and thanks wants for this honor. --JForget 03:20, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

Childhood and adolescence in Cambodia

Why did you delete this article? It is a public domain publication, as I indicated (and sourced) in the hangon tag. Calliopejen1 (talk) 15:29, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

Restored, as the editor who've put the tag, removed it himself. Thanks for alerting me as this was made at the same time as it was flagged for G12--JForget 15:32, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

SocialPicks

I don't know if you've seen this article, but would you stop by the AfD page Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/SocialPicks to offer your opinion on whether the article subject is notable? Thanks. Dimension31 (talk) 00:25, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

Overdue recognition

The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
A long overdue reward for all of your contributions, but I mainly know of your great work for WP:SEVERE, even with your poor grammar skills. :) Southern Illinois SKYWARN (talk) 03:13, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for the barnstar, yeah I know I'm not the best on grammar skills, at least not nearly as good as it was in school.--JForget 16:17, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
I'd like to second this barnstar, great work! Gopher backer (talk) 02:57, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

On the same note, I have nominated you as featured member of WikiProject Severe Weather at the newsletter page. Southern Illinois SKYWARN (talk) 02:14, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

Hey thanks for that honor.--JForget 03:20, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

References

About your new articles, I keep changing your in-text external links into proper references. Is there any reason you use external links instead of ref tags (<ref></ref>)? As you may know, in-text external links are discouraged. Southern Illinois SKYWARN (talk) 01:04, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

Okay I will fully use that manner, in the past I've seen some that they needed to click twice to access the source. More Often, I was using the (<ref></ref>) format for articles that has chances for B-GA or higher articles and much less when they are stubs or starts or having no chance for a good rank--JForget 15:10, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject Severe Weather Newsletter (March 2008)

The WikiProject Severe weather Newsletter Issue 2, March 2008
If you would like to delete this message, the original is at Wikipedia:WikiProject Severe weather/Newsletter/March 2008

Welcome

Welcome to the second edition of the WikiProject Severe weather newsletter. In this edition of the newsletter we will detail the upcoming severe weather season, touch on last month's tornado outbreaks, and look at a new proposal for formatting tornado outbreak articles.

New project articles

Featured story

This month's featured story has two parts, the first part detailing the upcoming severe weather season, and the second part will detail a new proposal for tornado outbreak articles.

With numerous outbreaks already, this season may very well be one of the worst ever. First, a review of past seasons. Last year's severe weather was mainly focused on the western High Plains, with no classic Oklahoma tornado outbreaks. Most of the outbreaks last season had supercells forming along either a cold front or dry line in western Kansas and the panhandles of Oklahoma and Texas. Most of these storms moved due north or northeast, producing flooding problems. The severe weather season was especially boring farther east in the Midwest where only an occasional squall line moved through. I personally missed the Greensburg tornado because I went to Saint Louis on May 5 to watch a baseball game. I can still remember seeing the high risk in Kansas on the monitor in the rest stop. 2006 was a little bit more active and widespread. As always, the NWS and SPC did an amazing job of forecasting the storms. Back to the future (ha!) the CPC outlooks are saying warmer and drier than normal in tornado alley. However, it looks to be a bit more exciting severe weather season for people farther east in the Midwest (including me) with warmer than normal temperatures and equal chances of being above and below forecast values, which usually means normal amounts. As local TV stations have pointed out, we should all be prepared. I know we have all heard it, but it still needs to be repeated. Two words: Weather Radio Everyone should have a tone-alerted weather radio, SAME if you perfer to not be woken up for a flash flood watch 50 miles from you. Weather radios will also go off if your local emergency management agency requests a statement be issued by the National Weather Service for things such as evacuations. (Note: Even though there was a gas leak in my town with evacuations, a prodcut was not issued by the National Weather Service, even when they are issued to request people to stay off roads.) If you are under a tornado warning or a high end severe thunderstorm warning (i.e.: 70 m.p.h. winds +) go to an interior room on the lowest floor of your building, perferably a basement. Stay away from windows and any other hazardous objects. I may not have included it all, so obey the safety rules in warnings from the National Weather Service. Spotters should call the NWS immediately upon observing severe weather. If the event was borderline severe, use E-Spotter (If your office uses it). Remember the #1 thing: Stay Safe this season anywhere you are, from chasing in Oklahoma to watching it unfold on TV in Ohio.

New Standards

With the upcoming severe weather season, User:Southern Illinois SKYWARN has proposed new standards for tornado outbreak articles.

Overview States the number of tornadoes, fatalities. Briefly describes any strange events and records set. (Required)

Meteorological sypnosis Describes weather leading up to the outbreak and SPC products issued.(Required)

Confirmed tornadoes Tornado table, no text besides that in the table (Required, should be split into list if very large)

Significant storms (Variable name) Describes the most significant storms and tornadoes (Required)

Aftermath Descibes aftermath in detail, should also include disaster declerations (Required)

Non-thunderstorm effects/Non-tornadic effects Use the first if snow or other non-thunderstorm events occured (Optional) The latter should be standard on all pages describing effects from a squall line, hail, flash flooding, or other non-tornadic effects (Required)

Oddities/Records Only used if nessecary (Optional)

References (Required)

See also Should always link to at least List of North American tornadoes and tornado outbreaks (Required)

External links External links should only go to news stories or NWS pages (Required)

These standards have been developed for tornado outbreaks where a alot of information is available. Older outbreaks should include as much information as possible. Readers are encouraged to express their opinion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Severe weather/Tornado.

Wikiwork statistics

Severe weather
articles		 Importance
Top High Mid Low None Total
Quality
Featured article FA 1 1 2
Good article GA 2 7 3 12
B 4 8 16 14 42
Start 6 19 70 64 159
Stub 1 6 21 58 1 87
List 1 11 20 1 33
Assessed 12 36 126 159 2 335
Unassessed 2 2
Total 12 36 126 159 4 337

Members section

New members

Featured member

This month's featured member is User:JForget The following text is from User:Southern Illinois SKYWARN's nomination This user has started numerous articles on older, significant tornado outbreaks that met notability requirements. JForget recently received a barnstar (even if it was from me) for his work in WikiProject Severe Weather. JForget is one of the most tireless contributors to the project and deserves to be this month's featured member.

Note: Readers of this newsletter are urged to check the newsletter page for nominations for featured member and featured story.

Significant storms

Main article: 2008 Super Tuesday tornado outbreak
The first February high risk since 1998
The first February high risk since 1998

Obviously the first order of business for this section is the massive, devestating tornado outbreak on February 5, or Super Tuesday. 82 tornadoes and 59 fatalities were confirmed in association with this outbreak. This was the deadliest outbreak since the United States-Canadian Outbreak in 1985 which killed 88. Tornado watches, many of them Particularly dangerous situation watches at one point extended from the Ohio Valley to the Gulf Coast. Instability and shear values were extreme, especially for February. This was a very well forecasted and warned event, despite media reports of people receiving no warning. I am sorry, but I am going to rant a little about this. The National Weather Service field offices and the Storm Prediction Center did an amazing job of warning of this event despite the speed of the storms. Many National Weather Service offices held at least one conference call with emergency managers, media, spotter groups, and other interested parties. I am outraged that the media reported this as if the forecasters were asleep at the wheel, while this really was one of the best forecasted events ever. Now while we will have to wait for the likely service assessment to come out, I believe that all numbers from the false-alarm rate to the probability of detection were above national averages. Now that I am done with my little editorial, I will get back to the outbreak. A high risk was issued by the Storm Prediction Center on the morning of February 5 for most of Arkansas, the first such issuance in February since 1998. Later in the morning, it was further was extened to include western Kentucky, northwestern Mississippi, the Missouri Bootheel, West Tennessee, and Far Southern Illinois (Close to where I live, Yikes!). A moderate risk surrounded this area, where the squall line was the main problem. A massive squal line developed in the Great Plains prompting only a few warnings at first, but when it came into the area where the cap had broken and unfortunately supercells went through, it exploded producing strong winds, hail, and a few tornadoes.

Now for the supercells. Supercells began to develop late in the day in Arkansas and Missouri after the cap broke mcuh later than expected. These supercells began to move north and east and then became tornadic. A record five tornado emergencies were issued in association with this outbreak. One supercell developed to the southwest of Memphis and devestated eastern and southern suburbs. Other notable supercells had tracks of over 200 miles and produced several tornadoes. For more information about its non-tornadic effects see the article and the upcoming WikiProject Non-Tropical storms newsletter.

  • Other outbreaks struck in the middle of the month throughout the south, especially along the Gulf Coast. Only one death has been confirmed in association with any of these outbreaks, however extensive property damage occured.

Southern Illinois SKYWARN (talk) 16:52, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

Ottawa page weather stats

The other day I edited the "Top 12 Ottawa snowiest winters" table to reflect data I culled from the Environment Canada historical data on-line database. It accumulates data up to the previous day and according to this data, as of March 4 Ottawa had accumulated 330.1 cm of snow for 2007-2008. I did this by building a spreadsheet that summed all the daily snow fall data. What source are you using for the 350 cm. data you entered?

Best regards, Bart —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bartman-eh (talk • contribs) 16:32, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

Tropical cyclones WikiProject

User:Juliancolton/SandboxA6 Juliancolton The storm still blows... 01:47, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

Ok, I fully understand. Thank you anyway, Juliancolton The storm still blows... 00:46, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

University of Leicester Students Union

Not debating the close, but just curious if you saw this history that the close was *just* reverted. Just a friendly heads up TRAVELLINGCARIMy storyTell me yours 02:46, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

I guess he was comfortable enough that there was enough consensus, but I guess since it was not a snowball keep it was reverted even late in the discussion although nothing mentions that a non-admin is not allowed to closed keep that late. --JForget 01:00, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free media (Image:Reel-Radio.jpg)

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Lewis Hamilton

Sorry, but did you add the records section to Lewis Hamilton. I am especially concerned about the record of most consecutive podiums from the debut race, where you say the previous record was two. Who managed the two podiums from their debut race? Please reply on my talk page. Will (talk) 18:36, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

Sorry about that - You are right removing this detail, thankyou for your help :) Will (talk) 16:33, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

Arkansas-Tennessee tornado outbreak of 1952

There seems to be some confusion ([1] [2]) about whether this was an F4 or F5 outbreak, the article references both and people have been changing stuff. Just wanted to let you know in case you can clear that up. Gopher backer (talk) 22:31, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

Liquid Image Deletion

Just wondering the reason why the Liquid Image page was deleted on 12 March 2008 . I will fix as necessary. Thank you. 209.168.186.233 (talk) 15:20, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

I know it is a shared IP (so you may never return at that IP but I will leave a reply note on my talk page too), but Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Liquid Image has resulted in a unanimous delete vote as it failed, WP:N, WP:MUSIC, WP:RS and WP:V. If you want to revive this article, I would suggest you to create yourself an account build-up a userfied version of an article that meets notability guidelines on music bands or acts (example: User:UserName/Liquid Image). See the links given above for tips on building an article. After that, please go to Wikipedia:Deletion review to find out whether it can be returned to a mainspace article. --JForget 02:23, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

St Joseph High School

As I am a graduate of STJ, I believe my edits are verifiable. However, you sir, should know that Oliver Miller did not win the warrior award, ever. This award is reserved for people of the highest pedigree,and Mr. Miller is not one of them. Please revert to my version immediately, kindly removing the section on Oliver Miller. Best Regards, Constance Tremingway —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.17.47.133 (talk) 23:54, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar

The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
For beating me countless times to reverting vandalism :P Voyaging (talk) 00:15, 23 March 2008 (UTC)


Thank Voyaging for the barnstar, of course the rollback button makes reverting much faster then the undo and even the popups and twinkle buttons/commands. Thanks!--JForget 00:17, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

Vandalism on my page

Thanks for reverting the vandalism on my page, I appreciate it! Voyaging (talk) 01:47, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

Sure you're welcome Voyaging.--JForget 01:48, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

Print Quota Theft

Hey J, I just caught this on New Page Patrol... it appears to be a recreation of AfD deleted content that you closed. Could you take a look and see if it's a re-creation?--Torchwood Who? (talk) 02:37, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

Thank you.

Thanks much for the revert on my talk page. It is appreciated. ---RepublicanJacobiteThe'FortyFive' 03:23, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks...

for reverting vandalism to my user page. First time it has been vandalised, hehe, I have had my innocence taken :O .--Finalnight (talk) 06:42, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

You're RepublicanJacobite and Finalnight. Myself was hammered by personnal attacks last night and I had to protect my talk page because of a dynamic IP and also the presence of the AOL vandal (172.xxx) that had harassed him several times in the past.--JForget 20:55, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

Mount Carmel, Illinois

For some reason, the image at the top of this page is showing up larger than full size, there have been no changes to anything related to the image. I tried changing the size to smaller numbers, but it did not work. I was hoping you would be able to help, since you must have some technical knowledge. Southern Illinois SKYWARN (talk) 16:46, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks! Southern Illinois SKYWARN (talk) 17:45, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
You're certainly welcome SIS.--JForget 19:24, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

Ottawa neighbourhoods

As you may be aware, there is a new guideline over at WP:CANSTYLE for the titles of articles on Canadian neighbourhoods and communities. Basically, the convention is that a community title should be at [[Community, Municipality]] (e.g. Westboro, Ottawa), unless it is recognized as a distinct postal destination by Canada Post, in which case the article can be at [[Community, Province]].

We are having a problem implementing the new guideline for some Ottawa neighbourhoods. Earl Andrew has made clear he doesn't really care about the new guideline, and is making up rules (and enforcing them) as he goes along. He is making a stink over at Talk:Blossom Park, Ontario. But more importantly, he has reverted a number of article moves (which were moved to the [[Community, Municipality]] conventoon), without the decency of even bothering to comment on the talk page.

I notice that in the past you moved some of these articles to [[Community, Municipality]], which Earl reverted at the time. So your assistance with his reverts on the following would be much appreciated: Fallowfield, Ontario‎, Barrhaven, Ontario‎, Bells Corners, Ontario‎, Ficko, Ontario‎, Blackburn Hamlet, Ontario‎, Kempark, Ontario‎, Gloucester Glen, Ontario‎, Honey Gables, Ontario‎ and Cedardale, Ottawa, Ontario‎ (this last one is especially annoying, since he seems to have reverted it back to an unusual form of disambiguation without much thought). Skeezix1000 (talk) 11:46, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

That's great. Appreciate your input very much, and the note you left at WP:OTT. The one problem with the ones you've mentioned, however, is that they would all remain at [[Community, Province]] under the guideline, because Canada Post recognizes them as distinct postal destinations. Skeezix1000 (talk) 23:20, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
You should take a look at WP:CANSTYLE#Neighbourhoods, because and solutions like Orleans, Ottawa, Ontario wouldn't meet the guideline, because the goal was to have as consistent a standard as possible, and to avoid different types of disambiguation. Frankly, like yourself, I would have preferred that everything be at [[Community, Municipality]], but the consensus headed in the other direction, and in the end I just want to make sure that the article titles meet the guideline and that editors like Earl don't get the impression that they can just ignore guidelines or consensus. Skeezix1000 (talk) 23:28, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
I see your point very well, but that's exactly why a black and white standard was chosen, because otherwise people have such varying degrees of impressions respecting communities. You may want to change your comment at WP:CANTALK. Skeezix1000 (talk) 23:45, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

Deletion Request

Hello Mr. Forget. Can you delete Image:En-Nigga.ogg, as it was only created to attack a person (Shacorey). It exists on Commons, so there shouldn't really be a reason for the page, anyway. Thank you! Cheers, Glacier Wolf 23:55, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

Y Done Image has been deleted per I8. --JForget 00:03, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

DYK

Hi. I've nominated 1944 Appalachians tornado outbreak, an article you worked on, for consideration to appear on the Main Page as part of Wikipedia:Did you know. You can see the hook for the article at Template talk:Did you know#Articles created/expanded on March 31, where you can improve it if you see fit. --​​​​D​​tbohrer​​​​talk•contribs 13:42, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

Updated DYK query On 5 April 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article 1944 Appalachians tornado outbreak, 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.

--Daniel Case (talk) 19:21, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Midwest Plaza

You sure about this one? I don't see that the keep arguments are valid. Friday (talk) 23:20, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

Sure indeed, certainly some arguments are weak but others are stronger but there is no consensus for a deletion, that is one thing for sure. You can propose a merge to somewhere else if necessary or proposea deletion review--JForget 23:27, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

68.227.195.197

PLease block the anonymous user going by the ip adress 68.227.195.197. He/She is a persistent vandal. Thank you. T.Neo (talk) 19:38, 10 April 2008 (UTC)