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[edit] Aluminium battery

I'd like to take the future-product tag off of Aluminium battery. Can anyone find some peer-reviewed sources on aluminum cells? There are some good pointers in the history section of the external link. LossIsNotMore 19:14, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Energy portal

As it relates in part to the subject matter of this WikiProject, note that an energy portal now exists. Gralo 02:50, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Project directory

Hello. The WikiProject Council has recently updated the Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory. This new directory includes a variety of categories and subcategories which will, with luck, potentially draw new members to the projects who are interested in those specific subjects. Please review the directory and make any changes to the entries for your project that you see fit. There is also a directory of portals, at User:B2T2/Portal, listing all the existing portals. Feel free to add any of them to the portals or comments section of your entries in the directory. The three columns regarding assessment, peer review, and collaboration are included in the directory for both the use of the projects themselves and for that of others. Having such departments will allow a project to more quickly and easily identify its most important articles and its articles in greatest need of improvement. If you have not already done so, please consider whether your project would benefit from having departments which deal in these matters. It is my hope that all the changes to the directory can be finished by the first of next month. Please feel free to make any changes you see fit to the entries for your project before then. If you should have any questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you. B2T2 00:27, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia Day Awards

Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 18:22, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Energy collaboration navigation box

I trust that you will excuse the sudden appearance of the "Wikipedians collaborating on energy related topics" navigation box on your project page. There are three organised wikiprojects and one disorganised freestanding energy portal which is developing well, and which I hope will be of interest to all three wikiprojects. I hope you will find that the navigation box helps to navigate between all these and, from my portal perspective, that that you might enjoy using the "post a news item" link from time-to-time! If you'd like to add the navigation box to your user page too, cut and paste the text {{EnergyCollaboration}} . Gralo 02:18, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Energy portal & future selected articles

Over the past couple of months I've been spending much more time than I should developing the Energy portal, and intend asking for a portal peer review within the next day or so.

The portal provides a showcase for energy-related articles on Wikipedia. One of the most prominent ways is via a the selected article that is currently changed every 6 weeks or so. It would be good to increase this turnover, and with three Wikiprojects dedicated to energy-related topics and a good number of articles already written, I'd like to suggest that each Wikiproject might like to use the 'selected article' to feature some of their best work.

With this in mind, I'd like to suggest that your Wikiproject bypasses the normal selected article nomination page and decides collectively which articles are worth featuring - or these may be self-evident from previous discussions - and add short 'introduction' to the selected article at the appropriate place on page Portal:Energy/Selected article/Drafts, which includes further information.

Please make any comments on this Wikiproject talk page, my talk page, or on Portal talk:Energy/Selected article/Drafts, as appropriate. Gralo 16:02, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The Sustainable development Portal

I recently started The Sustainable development Portal and offered it up for portal peer review to help make it a feature portal down the road. Please feel free to to help improve the portal and/or offer your input at the portal peer review. Thanks. RichardF 02:20, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

The Sustainable development Portal now is a Featured portal candidate. Please feel free to leave comments. RichardF 02:47, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Structure of energy related articles on Wikipedia

A debate is going on at Talk:Energy about how the different articles on Energy in Wikipedia should relate to one another and what they should be called. Lumos3 09:24, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Energy portal - featured candidate

The energy portal is currently a featured portal candidate. You may wish to check over the portal for any undiscovered problems, or note your support (or opposition!) here. Gralo 21:04, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Energy templates

There was some controversy concerning image at the WikiProject Energy template. Right now there are three different templates with different images, which actually do the same thing:

  • {{WikiProject Energy}} with image of the oil well
  • {{WikiProject Energy2}}with image of the nuclear power plant
  • {{WikiProject Energy3}} with image of the wind farm

The only difference of these templates is use of different images and it's possible to use the image, which is the most suitable for the article topic.Beagel 06:02, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

Energy2 and Energy3 have been recommended for deletion at wp:TfD with general consensus that they be deleted as unnecessary duplication. 199.125.109.127 01:25, 14 July 2007 (UTC)

The apparent inability of WikiProject Energy to decide which illustration to use for its project banner template is now cluttering up a lot of talk pages with an ugly triple-sized banner showing five - 5 photos. My suggestion is to make a composite image using several of the proposed pictures. I'm sure there's a WikiProject or something with the expertise to assist you in this if you need technical help. __meco 16:24, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

It's really crazy. I propose to revert to back the version with only one image and not change the template before solving this dispute. If accepted solution not found, the only way will be to restore deleted templates with different images and let use this template with has closest image to the article subject. This template with five images doesn't promote the WP Energy, but seems more like anti-promotion.Beagel 18:56, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
Indeed. It's more like a cry of "stay clear of the lunatic bin!" __meco 21:44, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
Please discuss images at the Template talk:WikiProject Energy.Beagel 08:54, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Expert review: Islanding

As part of the Notability wikiproject, I am trying to sort out whether Islanding is notable enough for an own article. I would appreciate an expert opinion. For details, see the article's talk page. If you can spare some time, please add your comments there. Thanks! --B. Wolterding 14:27, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Is this not a little too broad?

I've been working mostly on articles that deal with nuclear power, and it seems that tagging with the WPEnergy project has become insignificant. Could we sometime possible create a nuclear power or just a nuclear Wiki sub-project? There has been a lot of restructuring of articles in that area and a lot of smaller sort of projects. It just seems that a WPproject would be a really helpful thing for collaboration. Thanks. -Theanphibian (talk • contribs) 03:57, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

I would not say this is too broad a project. If you want broad look at WP:TECHNOLOGY of which this is a subproject. I don't think an additional project is needed as Energy Development already narrows it down. Another subproject would just distract from the existing projects.--JEF 21:29, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
I don't disagree, but on the other end of the stick, we have things like Wikipedia:WikiProject History of Nuclear Enterprise. -Theanphibian (talk • contribs) 22:41, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
Wikipedia:WikiProject History of Nuclear Enterprise is ridiculuous. We don't need to be creating similiar stuff just because WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS. It is better to be too broad then too narrow (just look at Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Guide#Identify the best size). One is too broad and the other is too specific. This is just the right size.--JEF 03:43, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
Again, I'm not disagreeing with you, it was painful for me to slowly watch the demise of that Wikiproject as well. Anyway, I'm not even interested in Wikiproject task lists or other administrative things like that, where do you think is the appropriate place to ask questions that require collaboration across a LOT of articles pertaining to nuclear technology or nuclear energy? I think I've even bugged people in the nuclear technology portal talk page as well about this sort of thing, which I'm sure is wrong. The energy development project seems just as relevant/irrelevant as the energy project, but I'll take my issues there if you insist. -Theanphibian (talk • contribs) 15:34, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

I would say find them where you can find them. Try to bring people into this wikiproject if you desire to collaborate along those lines instead of creating a whole new wikiproject. The "If you build it they will come" mentality does not necesarilly work on Wikipedia. Try collaborating on nuclear energy within this project and if there is enough interest I would say branch off.--JEF 21:40, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

I agree that nuclear energy fits very well within the scope of WPEnergy. --Skyemoor 16:26, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Expert review: Pressure extension

Is there any engineer here in the field of natural gas processing? As part of the Notability wikiproject, I am trying to sort out whether Pressure extension is notable enough for an own article. The article is in a very bad state, nearly incomprehensible. It seems that the term "Pressure extension" is known in the engineering literature on natural gas, but I could not find an expert up to now. For details, see the article's talk page. If you can spare some time, please add your comments there. Thanks! --B. Wolterding 12:56, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Intermittent Power Sources and Energy demand management

At this time, IPS is rated as mid importance in WPEnergy; I believe it should be top (or at least high, as should Energy Demand Management. Natural gas supplies in North America are in decline, though the demand is increasing for Tar Sand => petroleum processing, fertilizer production, and winter heating, hence NatGas is becoming less available for peaking power. And just as importantly, almost all renewable sources of energy are are intermittent in some way, from wind, solar, and tidal especially. Understanding how to manage many diverse sources of generation while having flexible measures to manage demand will be vital as nations choose (GHG emissions) or are forced (supply limitations) to become less reliant on natural gas and more reliant on renewable energy. How is the importance rating established and updated? --Skyemoor 16:45, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

Every participant of the WP Energy may assess and update ratings.Beagel 17:47, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
Wikipedians collaborating on energy related topics
 WikiProject Energy Project page · Talk page · Categories
 WikiProject Environment Project page · Talk page · Categories
 Wikiproject Climate change Project page · Talk page · Categories
 Energy portal Energy portal ·  Post a news item  · Portal talk · Draft selected articles · Maintainers · Categories
 Sustainable development portal Sustainable development portal ·  Post a news item  · Portal talk


[edit] Proposed deletions (resolved)

--User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 17:20, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] I made the front page again!

With Greifswald Nuclear Power Plant. Huzzah! -Theanphibian (talk • contribs) 07:46, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Hey hey

Hello energetic Wikipedians. I am about to post a peer review for Byron Nuclear Generating Station at WP:PR. I thought I would notify folks here because the coverage of U.S. nuclear power stations on Wikipedia is woefully inadequate and this article, which was just expanded, is really the first attempt on Wikipedia to cover nuclear power stations in the Unites States in any kind of encyclopedic and detailed manner. My main concern is about any missing data, any technical information or data that an expert would be appalled at seeing missing. The article was written by a non-expert with some background in chemistry and nuclear power through the military and through university. Any opinions would be appreciated. Just go to the following link to comment: Wikipedia:Peer review/Byron Nuclear Generating Station/archive1. : ) Thanks ahead of time. IvoShandor 23:49, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fuel article

We at WP:1.0 have just made the Fuel article our Core Topics Collaboration. This collaboration hasn't been too lively of late, but I think you'd agree that this article (assessed as Start, but only just!) is in a shocking state for such a major topic. In fact, it is one of only four major topics that we excluded from our April CD release, because it was just too embarrassing. If some knowledgeable people from this project could help expand the article, we'd really appreciate it! Thanks, Walkerma 02:42, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

Suggest to add notice also to Portal_talk:Energy.Beagel 05:15, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Supermajor / Seven Sisters Merge

Made a comment to the merge of the above some time ago under Talk:Seven Sisters (oil companies) and seems like interest faded after that without resolution. Can someone take a look and give an opinion? I don't mind if I'm on the losing end, but just interested if someone active on the project had any thoughts. Jawsdog 21:22, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Proposed deletion: Cost avoidance

Cost avoidance (via WP:PROD)

--User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 03:38, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Help, please...

I'm looking for designs for hot climates. I'm living in a desert where

  • heat and sun rays are becoming perceptibly stronger,
  • humidity is rising steadily,
  • cooling by water-evaporation (Desert Coolers) no longer works, and
  • energy costs are becoming prohibitively expensive.

In particular I'm looking for designs or ideas that can be easily grafted onto an existing building with a minimum of resources, expense and technical skills or professional knowledge (no architect or cement mixer). For example: in summer many houses in our area cover sun facing walls/roofs with black, blue or green shade netting used in agriculture.

Please point me in the right direction. Thank you, Shir-El too 10:55, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

I used to live in New Mexico. Trombe walls worked there to capture the sun during the day and re-radiate it during the night when it gets cold. It was not so humid that Swamp coolers still worked. I knew several people that had a Solar chimney in their home. It sounds like your climate is a lot like Phoenix, AZ where things are getting more humid due to irrigation. Kgrr (talk) 14:13, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Oil shale

Oil shale is a Good Article candidate now. Your comments are most welcome.Beagel 10:49, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Proposed deletion: Tectonic power

Tectonic power (via WP:PROD)

--User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 17:21, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] By country energy topics

Hey, i put some work into making the Template:Nuclear power by country and I just thought that we should have others, like Template:Renewable energy by country, but then I thought that we should probably just combine them all and have some Template:Energy sources by country. But anyway, if someone is feeling ambitious, you should totally make it. -Theanphibian (talk • contribs) 20:07, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

I think that merging them all into the renewable template is the best thing for now so I went ahead and did that.--JEF 21:44, 26 October 2007 (UTC)
Nice. -Theanphibian (talk • contribs) 22:05, 26 October 2007 (UTC)
Not. Nuclear power is not renewable. The template was too big anyway. This has been discussed before. 199.125.109.134 05:01, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Request for comment

I would like for someone to comment on the current discussion. We made a lot of progress with this before, but that progress has stopped now, but all we need are some opinions. -Theanphibian (talk • contribs) 04:48, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Category:WikiProject Energy articles

It seems like almost all wikiprojects categorize the talk pages of articles, rather than the articles themselves, presumable to seperate the 'front end' (for readers) and 'back end' (for contriburs) of Wikipedia. However, in Category:WikiProject Energy articles many article pages are present. I was wondering if this is something that should be changed. I also asked this question at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Categories#Category:WikiProject_Energy_articles. Arthena(talk) 18:15, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

The reason for this is to keep track of all the pages that simply have a "front page" template and not a "back page" one. An energy stub for example might not have the banner on the talk page, but we still want to categorize it as part of the project.--JEF 18:22, 28 October 2007 (UTC)
If this is really important then one should just go ahead and add a banner to the talk page. IMO Wikipedia:Categorization#Wikipedia namespace is quite clear on this matter, it's not appropriate to be putting housekeeping categories on article pages like this. Bryan Derksen 10:59, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Notice of List articles

Page(s) related to this project have been created and/or added to one of the Wikipedia:Contents subpages (not by me).

This note is to let you know, so that experts in the field can expand them and check them for accuracy, and so that they can be added to any watchlists/tasklists, and have any appropriate project banners added, etc. Thanks. --Quiddity 20:24, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Oil shale extraction

Oil shale extraction is a Good Article candidate now. Your comments are most welcome.Beagel (talk) 16:11, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Mining

Is energy substrate acquisition (ie coal mining, oil drilling, etc.) contained in this project?D-rew (talk) 21:26, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

In general, it is. However, there is also proposal for special WP Mining (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Council/Proposals#Mining).Beagel (talk) 18:43, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Coal by country articles

At first I didn't think this would go anywhere or be very interesting to write about. But then discovered just how much mass bloodshed there is to talk about for Coal power in China. I think people should definitely have a look at this one because I would like to take it a lot further.

Seriously, it's probably the most bloody topic within the scope of Wikiproject Energy. -Theanphibian (talk • contribs) 08:37, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

What's so bloody about it? vıdıoman (talk • contribs) 09:33, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
The number of people that have died as a result of it is staggering. That's all I'm saying. -Theanphibian (talk • contribs) 04:53, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Greenspun illustration project: requests now open

Dear Wikimedians,

This is a (belated) announcement that requests are now being taken for illustrations to be created for the Philip Greenspun illustration project (PGIP).

The aim of the project is to create and improve illustrations on Wikimedia projects. You can help by identifying which important articles or concepts are missing illustrations (diagrams) that could make them a lot easier to understand. Requests should be made on this page: Philip_Greenspun_illustration_project/Requests

If there's a topic area you know a lot about or are involved with as a Wikiproject, why not conduct a review to see which illustrations are missing and needed for that topic? Existing content can be checked by using Mayflower to search Wikimedia Commons, or use the Free Image Search Tool to quickly check for images of a given topic in other-language projects.

The community suggestions will be used to shape the final list, which will be finalised to 50 specific requests for Round 1, due to start in January. People will be able to make suggestions for the duration of the project, not just in the lead-up to Round 1.

thanks, pfctdayelise (talk) 13:19, 13 December 2007 (UTC) (Project coordinator)

[edit] New sections of the Energy Portal

I created new sections of the Energy Portal for new articles (found by bot) and for announcements (nominations for good and featured articles, peer and expert reviews, deletion and merging discussions etc). I would like to ask to add all relevant information also there (in addition to the normal procedure, of course). You are also welcome to share your thoughts how to improve and further update this portal. Beagel (talk) 19:04, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Biofuel balance

Is there any place in the Energy Project to add some realistic balance to the topic of biofuel from food? Such as:

Non-scalable, unsustainable ethanol issues

In 2007, biofuels consumed one third of America's corn (maize) harvest. Filling up one U.S. SUV fuel tank one time with ethanol uses enough corn to feed one person for a year. 30m tonnes of U.S. corn going to ethanol in 2007 greatly reduced the world's overall supply of grain.[1]

Jean Ziegler (United Nations expert on the Right To Food) called for a five-year moratorium on biofuel production to halt the increasing catastrophe for the poor. He proclaimed that the rising practice of converting food crops into biofuel is "A Crime Against Humanity," saying it is creating food shortages and price jumps that cause millions of poor people to go hungry.[2]

The European Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development warns that “the current push to expand the use of biofuels is creating unsustainable tensions that will disrupt markets without generating significant environmental benefits.”[3]

When all 200 American ethanol subsidies are considered, they cost about $7 billion USD per year (equal to roughly $1.90 USD total for each a gallon of ethanol). When the price of one agricultural commodity increases, farmers are motivated to quickly shift finite land and water resources to it, away from traditional food crops.[4]

The 2007-12-19 U.S. Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 requires American “fuel producers to use at least 36 billion gallons of biofuel in 2022. This is nearly a fivefold increase over current levels.”[5]

When cellulosic ethanol is produced from feedstock like switchgrass and sawgrass, the nutrients required to grow the cellulose are removed and cannot decay and replenish the soil. The soil is of poorer quality, and unsustainable soil erosion occurs.

Sugar cane ethanol works in Brazil because they have an equatorial year-round growing season, and the Amazon River – world’s largest fresh water supply. Locations with snow on the ground part of the year, short growing seasons, and limited fresh water supplies are less effective. Growing crops like thirsty genetically-engineered corn can require significant irrigation.

Ethanol production consumes large quantities of unsustainable petroleum and natural gas. Even with the most-optimistic energy return on investment claims, in order to use 100% solar energy to grow corn and produce ethanol (fueling farm-and-transportation machinery with ethanol, distilling with heat from burning crop residues, using NO fossil fuels), the consumption of ethanol to replace current U.S. petroleum use alone would require about 75% of all cultivated land on the face of the Earth, with no ethanol for other countries, or sufficient food for humans and animals.[6]

Why are (apparently biased) Wikipedia energy editors deleting this type of well-cited material with no explanation? (A little help please) -Escientist 15:45, 10 January 2008 NA EST (UTC -5)

These are sourced and a valid concern and should not be deleted. Their removal should have been reverted. Their deletion is, imo, a violation of the neutral point of view ideal. vıdıoman (talk • contribs) 23:35, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Unity in Energy

The world's population can be cosidered largely energy illiterate (see energy illiteracy)and the cause for that is that for none of the energy forms we are using we use the correct unit to quantify them. Oil in barrels, gas in cubic feet, coal in metric tons alternativefuels in MToe Boe's electricty in Watts solarpanels in Wattpeaks Wind in Windwatt-peaks and the list goes on... This while over 100 years ago a unit for energy was already agreed to be Joule; so let's start using the unit for all energy forms; you will be amazed by the new insights you get into energy issues when you start converting everything to Joule. For example a fuel burning car consumes 3 to 10 MJ (Mega-Joule) per km while a similar or better performing electric car consumes 0,3 to 0,5 MJ per km. And the price of fuel and Electricty per MJ is about the same(around 5 US Cents/MJ) To produce 1MJ of electricty around 1.2MJ of coal is used and the polution in this production process is less than burning 3 to 10 MJ of fuel in a car. see the Joule Standard for more info and I hope all of you can support making the Joule standard page grow.--Maurice r adema (talk) 01:38, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Oil tanker GA run?

]I've been banging hard on Oil tanker and am considering trying to get it up to GA status. Any assistance with critiques, copyediting and so forth would be appreciated. My current to-do list is on the talk page. Cheers. HausTalk 08:15, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Assessment of the Domestic AC power plugs and sockets and Nuclear fusion articles

Domestic AC power plugs and sockets and Nuclear fusion are both currently rated A class but both are quite poorly referenced. I think that they are worth to be nominated to be FAC, if better referenced. However, without additional references they should be downgraded to the B-class. Please help with adding missing references.Beagel (talk) 07:37, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Userbox template?

I don't see a userbox template for WikiProject Energy. Presumably it would be in Wikipedia:WikiProject Energy#Project templates. Before I create one, I'm asking if anybody knows of one that is hiding somewhere. --Teratornis (talk) 19:28, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

Here's a start, {{User energy}}. Please modify it as you see fit. Cheers. HausTalk 19:41, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
This user is a member of the Energy Wikiproject.
Excellent. I'm looking on Wikipedia:Userboxes/WikiProjects#Science and engineering, and most of the other entries there have "WikiProject" in their names. Thus I am moving the template to {{User WikiProject Energy}} to be more like the others. I'm also categorizing it in Category:WikiProject user templates, and (I suppose) Category:Energy templates (although I'm not sure whether userboxes belong in there). --Teratornis (talk) 00:11, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
There are also userbox tmplates for the sister project—Energy Portal
This user is plugged into the Energy Portal.
This user is plugged into the Energy Portal.
This user is plugged into the Energy Portal.

Beagel (talk) 16:43, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Ladyshore colliery

Hi, I wondered if someone could review and consider updating the assessment for Ladyshore Colliery as it has changed a fair bit since last it was assessed :) Parrot of Doom (talk) 15:21, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

Updated assessment to class B.Beagel (talk) 16:37, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
Ta :) Parrot of Doom (talk) 23:33, 29 April 2008 (UTC)


[edit] Automobile Mileage Reporting

While not a direct edit of the Energy Portal, the Wikiproject Automobile discussion page is having a discussion about whether or not to include fuel economy as part of the Automotive Infobox. If interested, please share your opinion. 198.151.13.8 (talk) 18:17, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Peer review request

I'm looking for some peer review on the Solar energy page. I added a request for copyedit help to the "to do" list on the portal. Sorry if that's a no-no. The unit conventions on the page might be of interest to the group. Sunlight can replace heat, light or electricity so there isn't a clear one-size-fits-all unit to use. I've used metric joules and watts throughout the page but some might think kWh/MWh/GWh need to be included. I'm not sure. The FA list contains only a few articles on energy so I haven't had a good role model to develop from. The article is currently GA and I'd like to see it go to FA. It is of Top importance on the WikiProject Energy scale so maybe that provides some extra incentive. Cheers Mrshaba (talk) 02:53, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

For peer review I recommend to ask some peer review volunteers. I personally may recommend user:JMiall and user:4u1e, but I am sure there a lot of more good reviewers. For the copyediting you may request the League of Copyeditors.Beagel (talk) 19:51, 9 May 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for the suggestions. I'll see about JMiall right now and I'll refer the article to the League after it has cooled off.Mrshaba (talk) 20:39, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Spotlight

Spotlight
An article covered by this WikiProject, Artificial sunlight, is currently under the Spotlight. If you wish to help, please join the editors in #wikipedia-spotlight on the freenode IRC network where the project is coordinated. (See the IRC tutorial for help with IRC)

...... Dendodge .. TalkHelp 12:12, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Coalite

Hi. The new article Coalite could use some assistance from somebody who has some idea what any of this stuff means. :) I believe I've inadvertently subverted it in attempting to help it out; I presumed it was about the substance rather than the company that produced it, but think now that the latter was more the intention. (I came upon the article addressing speedy deletion requests, and declined this one.) In any case, the previously unsourced contents have been rewritten and the article is firmly about the substance now. I very much hope that somebody who knows something about smokeless fuel can do something more for it, as it's embarrassingly incomplete. I'm not only having trouble tracing the history of its manufacture, but lack the background to understand a good bit of the technical material I've uncovered on the substance through google books. Thanks for any assistance there. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 18:10, 3 June 2008 (UTC)