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[edit] Japanese Wikipedians' Help wiki's

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[edit] Disaster and tsunamis

Hi,

I took a look at Disaster and noticed you accidentally deleted the interwiki links to other languages, so I added those back in.

Some of the synonym links you added don't actually link to useful articles... for instance, calamity is just a redirect back to disaster, and disruption is an article about a method of execution. So I would trim those back.

Also the dis + aster etymology could probably be trimmed, perhaps even a single sentence.

On the other hand, the links to specific kinds of disasters and some of the external links are a very useful addition.


By the way, I hope to have put the final nail in the coffin of your wish to de-pluralize "tsunamis" by gathering evidence that not only do American tsunami experts use the term, but so do Japanese tsunami experts writing in English, and so does the Japan Times newspaper and other English-language sources written by Japanese. See the latest salvo at Talk:Tsunami :-)

-- Curps 10:15, 15 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Business continuity planning

It looks quite good, speaking as a layperson. Ideally, you'd now want others who know something about it to contribute; unfortunately, specialized topics may be represented by very few and sometimes even by just one Wikipedian.

There's a good way of ensuring this input, though: see if you can get it to a featured article, the pinnacle of success for Wikipedia articles. Wikipedia:Featured articles lists seven easy (well, not so easy) steps to featured-articlehood, and you seem to be close to step 5 now: getting peer review. Have the page linger around there for a while, and see if it gets improved. I don't see any obvious shortcomings, but maybe others disagree. JRM 09:56, 2005 Jan 18 (UTC)

Oh, I see you've added disaster to peer review, so I'm obviously telling you things you already know. Sorry. :-) JRM 10:02, 2005 Jan 18 (UTC)

Hi Revmachine, I've commented on both Wikipedia:Peer review/Disaster/archive1 and Wikipedia:Peer review/Business continuity planning/archive1 (I've split them into their own peer review requests). I hope this is helpful! - Ta bu shi da yu 01:00, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC)

The format for references is discussed at Wikipedia:Cite sources which is linked to from Wikipedia:What is a featured article. The latter you can use to make sure you meet the criteria for a FA, and then when you feel you do, nominate it at WP:FAC. Comments there tend to be very blunt, so don't take offense, but they certainly help if you have written a featured quality article. Keep up the good work. - Taxman 13:35, Feb 11, 2005 (UTC)

Hmmm... I see what you mean. I've put back most of them, though I didn't put back the second link to the discussions on continuitycentral as I think only one link will do. I think we should just go easy on the anons and assume good faith. If they keep stripping them from the article, let me know and I'll see what I can do. - Ta bu shi da yu 12:57, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Like you said on my talk page, I will happily go through and take a look, because for once this is something I actually do know a bit about. Brain not working well enough to actually write much, so just settled for a little bit of editing. When I haven't got to do BCPs all the time (stupid ISO 7799 compliance), I will be less sick of them and will take another shot at it. Proto 14:30, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Rev, that is a very helpful site. Definitely a good addition to the page, particularly for anyone new to what BCP is about. Thanks for clueing me in on it. Proto 12:44, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Image:BCPLifecycle.gif

Can I license this under the GFDL? - Ta bu shi da yu 02:07, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)

No problems... Thanks for the help Revmachine21 12:50, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)

[edit] WP:JCOTW

こんにちは。Aphaiaです。 お時間がありましたらWP:JCOTWの投票にご参加くださいませ（化けて編集画面で読みにくいので英語でも書いときます） If you have an interest, pleaee visit WP:JCOTW and vote, thanks. --Aphaea* 04:41, 7 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Comment about limnic eruption article.

Hi there, thanks for the category insertion and improvements on the Limnic Eruption article. It's my second contribution on wikipedia and it's a lot of fun seeing different people improving an article together.

I made further changes to your last edit and I'd like to apologize for not adding apropriate comment about what I changed in the edit box. I keep forgetting to write in that field or to use the preview feature instead of saving right away... I just messed with syntax and some typos a bit.

Cya. -Beltz

[edit] New comment

Hi again, instead of leaving messages here privately, I started writing thoughts about the Limnic eruption on its discussion page for you and others who are working on that article.


[edit] BCPs again

Hey Rev, just to let you know I found an article entitled Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Auditing that should be merged into the BCP one. I put up some templates, maybe someone will spot them. Figured you'd want to know. Proto 11:07, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

My BCPs are going ok, all been submitted for final approval, then I won't have to look at them again (hopefully). Been 'busy' learning ins and outs of wikipedia, and trying to make myself useful doing things like extending random stub articles (like handmaiden, shoe polish etc). It's quite relaxing in some kind of Zen way. Proto 12:23, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Bozeman

I'm making extensive edits to the Bozeman, Montana article to bring it back in line with Wikipedia standards. Please review the talk page before making any new edits to the article. --Alexwcovington (talk) 12:28, 4 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Business continuity planning

I've restored the material but It was not me that deleted it. I removed the linkspam of this anon. It was this edit by this anon that deleted the material. Cheers. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 18:15, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Invitation to Wikipedia:WikiProject Japan

As you are a member of the Japan-related topics notice board, I thought you might be interesting in helping out with our new WikiProject. We'd love to be able to tap into any particular expertise you may have in order to improve Japan-related articles here on Wikipedia. We look forward to working with you. (^_^) --日本穣 06:08, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

As part of the organization of all the Japan-related projects, the Participant list on the Japan-related topics notice board has been discontinued. If you wish to join WikiProject Japan or one of its related projects, we encourage you to visit the project page and do so. Please let me know if you have any questions. ···日本穣? · Talk to Nihonjoe 19:42, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Welcome to WP:LAKES

Thank you for your membership in the new Lakes Wikiproject. My own contribution to the project has been primarily layout and structure, but I also focus on verifying facts and figures where I can (although I am sure you are how much fun that can be). If you have any suggestions, comments, or concerns, please let me know. Cheers! Em3rald 15:55, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

Please place {{lake project}} on talk pages of articles, not the article itself. Thanks -Ravedave 14:19, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Lake Vida

Hi Revmachine21. Further to your good work on Lake Vida, I thought you might be interested in the following scientific papers on the subject (I found 3 from a brief search). I've given the full references below together with their abstracts.

  • Doran PT, Fritsen CH, McKay CP, et al. (2003) "Formation and character of an ancient 19-m ice cover and underlying trapped brine in an "ice-sealed" east Antarctic lake" PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 100, 26-31.
Lake Vida, one of the largest lakes in the McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica, was previously believed to be shallow (<10 m) and frozen to its bed year-round. New ice-core analysis and temperature data show that beneath 19 m of ice is a water column composed of a NaCl brine with a salinity seven times that of seawater that remains liquid below -10degreesC. The ice cover thickens at both its base and surface, sealing concentrated brine beneath. The ice cover is stabilized by a negative feedback between ice growth and the freezing-point depression of the brine. The ice cover contains frozen microbial mats throughout that are viable after thawing and has a history that extends to at least 2,800 C-14 years B.P., suggesting that the brine has been isolated from the atmosphere for as long. To our knowledge, Lake Vida has the thickest subaerial lake ice cover recorded and may represent a previously undiscovered end-member lacustrine ecosystem on Earth.
  • Hall BL, Henderson GM (2001) "Use of uranium-thorium dating to determine past C-14 reservoir effects in lakes: examples from Antarctica" EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS 193, 565-577.
The chronologies of many lacustrine records suffer from radiocarbon reservoir effects due to the presence of dissolved 'dead' carbon or to slow air-water exchange. Here we use the TIMS uranium-thorium disequilibrium method, in conjunction with AMS radiocarbon dating, to determine the age of lacustrine carbonates and to quantify the past radiocarbon reservoir effect in two Antarctic lakes with differing characteristics. By correcting a single-sample U/Th age for detrital contamination, a C-14 offset of similar to 18000 yr was obtained for carbonates from the former grounding line of the Ross Sea ice sheet in Glacial Lake Trowbridge. This large reservoir effect is believed to result from the direct input of old CO2 from glacial meltwater. In the second example, an isochron approach on coeval samples formed at the bottom of Lake Vida (now exposed due to lower lake level) yielded an age of 9550 +/- 340 yr B.P. and a radiocarbon reservoir age of 3600 yr. This offset was probably the result of lack of aeration due to perennial ice cover and/or strong density stratification. This evidence for long-term isolation of the lake bottom indicates another level of hardship for life in the Dry Valley lacustrine environment - an environment studied as an analogue for extreme periods of Earth history, as well as for exobiological implications. The success of the U/Th technique on these two examples indicates that TIMS U/Th dating will be of widespread use in dating the important climate information recorded in the Dry Valleys both within and beyond the C-14 age range. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
  • Fritsen CH, Grue AM, Priscu JC (2000) "Distribution of organic carbon and nitrogen in surface soils in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica" POLAR BIOLOGY 23, 121-128.
The organic carbon and nitrogen contents of sediments in the upper 2 cm of the soils surrounding several lakes in the McMurdo Dry Valleys were measured in a relatively high-density sampling grid, in order to better understand the present-day distribution of organic matter in the ecosystem that is most readily transportable via aeolean processes. Carbon and nitrogen contents of the bulk sediments and size-differentiated sediments decreased in a series according to lake basins oriented along the Taylor Valley's main axis (Lake Fryxell > Hoare greater than or equal to west lobe Bonney greater than or equal to east lobe Bonney). Samples were also obtained around Lake Vida and showed this basin to contain less organic matter than those in the Taylor Valley. This regional spatial analysis supports the emerging view that each basin provides distinct environments for in situ microbial activity, lithogenic weathering, aeolian deposition and sorting that can be detected through synoptic sampling.

There are probably more out there (certainly these three are cited by other papers), but I've not tried to dig them up yet. I thought there might be something in these that would help with your work on the article. Best regards, --Plumbago 13:52, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Geography Barnstar

The Geography Barnstar
Revmachine21, please accept this Geography Barnstar in recognition of your fine work and collaboration on Lake Vida's article.
--Plumbago 16:38, 3 August 2006 (UTC)


P.S. I hope that your hand is a lot better now. Best regards, --Plumbago 16:38, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Business continuity planning

It is written like a how-to guide (check the Analysis section of the article), not like an encyclopedia entry. Read #4 here: WP:NOT DesertSky85451 00:51, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

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