User talk:Aarchiba

Goiania

Aarchiba: Thanks for copyediting my article. It's always good to have a native speaker go over one' English, and I actually learn something from it ;-) Next project bould be to write something about this other radioactive waste accident, where they melt a cobalt source with scrap metal to make beams. I've got to look up the details agian, but such things should not be forgotten IMHO. Sanders muc 22:16, 5 May 2004 (UTC)

No problem. There's lots at List of nuclear accidents, but of course there's not much information there about each incident. I probably qualify as pro-nuclear by lefty standards, but I do think knowing the problems is important. --Andrew 01:18, May 6, 2004 (UTC)

Eskrima

I'm impressed. You're very knowledgable about the various systems of Kali/Escrima, as well as inosanto and JKD. You basically wrote up all the stuff I was too lazy to :-). Tell me, where do you train (assuming you do)? --Xknight 03:16, 26 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Well, thanks. I don't really know all that much, but the school I train in teaches several different systems of kali, so I know maybe a little more about how they relate to each other. I know a little about JKD, but not really enough to rewrite Jeet Kune Do which is appallingly biased. I train in Montreal with Michael Gregory (who trained with, among others, Dan Inosanto and Leo Gaje); it's a pretty informal school, but we take our history seriously. --Andrew 03:45, Apr 26, 2004 (UTC)

Greetings

Hi Aarchiba, you're doing a great job here. Thanks for catching the oversight on Cc the cat. :-) You'll find Wikipedia a nice community online to share and get some tibits of knowledge. It's fun so long as you don't get too hotheaded and start insulting people. Correct others and feel proud to be corrected. ;-p Somebody will come along and give you a formal greeting probably very soon. (I don't have my copy handy.) Have lotsa fun! --Menchi 06:50, 9 Apr 2004 (UTC)

As is probably usual, I resurrected my very old membership to right some wrongs on various pages and have been drawn in ever since. I think it comes of being a marker, but now I can't look at any text with typos or bad grammar without wanting to fix it.

I must say, Wikipedia has made tremendous progress since I last fiddled with it; it's astonishingly compendious, and the quality is just amazing. Andrew 06:49, Apr 12, 2004 (UTC)

Jonestown Article

Thanks for finding that stuff on the injection theory. Much better :) --Wolf530 04:02, Apr 16, 2004 (UTC)

Spacecraft propulsion

Thanks for adding the image - it makes the article look so much more professional.  :) --Rei

I may have gone overboard, but I do think the article could be dry without pictures, so I raided NASA. --Andrew 03:47, Apr 26, 2004 (UTC)

hello-c.png

Why make Image:Hello-c.png? In any case, the program in the picture isn't a valid C program - void main(void); is not a valid prototype for main in ANSI C. Dysprosia 10:28, 27 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Well, it would be nice to have some picture for "C programming language"; an example of what C code looks like would be nice to have; this is short and standard. If you really think there's no point to it, I can take it off the page, but it does seem handy. (And if the article is to be on the front page, a picture is probably necessary; it need not be in the article.)

What is the standard way of writing hello.c? Is it more correct to define it to return int but just fall off the end of the function? Does it also need to take but ignore its arguments? Sorry, it's been a while since I used C much. --Andrew 10:43, Apr 27, 2004 (UTC)

Um, that was silly; I didn't notice the presence of "hello.c" in the article text. I'll fix the code to match; feel free to take the image off the page if you think that's appropriate. --Andrew

Fixed. --Andrew 10:50, Apr 27, 2004 (UTC)

1. include <stdio.h>

int main(void) {

  printf("Hello World!");
  return 0;

}

I'm pretty sure that main in C will return the evaulation of the last statement you execute, without an explicit return or if you declare a function void, which means that main's return status will be basically undefined - because of this, when you are using a function returning void you ignore what that function returns (because you are never using or depending upon it). But the environment you're running a C program in does use the program's return type (main's return type indicates error status), so giving it some random rubbish is not a Good Thing to do! :)

I don't think you need to create an explicit picture of "Hello World". Here's some code that does a similar thing (look at the wikitext)

That works, more or less, but it hangs out the right-hand side of the box, it doesn't do syntax highlighting, and it's much bigger (on my monitor). But it may be more appropriate for the C page. I'll keep the picture around in any case for use on the front page, if appropriate; should we take this to Talk:C programming language? --Andrew 11:01, Apr 27, 2004 (UTC)

There are obvious problems with using divs, which could be fixed by futzing with the div width (one could probably get better results with the new table image syntax, but it's probably getting to be too much effort for it's worth), but you could achieve syntax highlighting by using <font color="..."> tags (I think syntax highlighting's ugly anyway ;)...

I don't see much problem with the image now, now that you've fixed it :) Dysprosia 11:14, 27 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Yack. I really don't want to go through and highlight everything manually, make sure the div fits, and so on... I think barring objections over on Talk:C programming language I'll put the (fixed!) picture back. And yes, syntax highlighting is ugly, but very handy - especially for people who know so little about C they're reading an encyclopedia article about it. --Andrew 11:52, Apr 27, 2004 (UTC)

Playground equipment

Thanks for digging into this! You don't know how hard it is to find teeter totters on playgrounds any more, or jungle gyms, or lots of what *I* think of as play equipment because they're all so "unsafe". Nice photos, too; we can probably come up with some generic playground climing equipment article name but I'm not sure what. Elf | Talk 03:25, 28 Apr 2004 (UTC)

I live in a somewhat dubious neighborhood, so I think it's the last to get converted to newer playground equipment. The lighting in the pictures is not great, partly because it's still grey and cold here and partly because in the nice weather they're all filled with kids (and I don't think I should put kids' pictures on the public without getting model release forms from their parents...) But it's a good time of year to take walks and to take pictures of things. Next visit to the local playground I can get one of those fort/slide/bridge things and a set of big kid swings. I haven't seen a merry-go-round in ages, though. --Andrew 03:39, Apr 28, 2004 (UTC)

Me, neither. My sister broke a tooth on one when she was quite young, though, so maybe there's something to this "dangerous" rap. :-) Elf | Talk 19:02, 28 Apr 2004 (UTC)

My incapacity to sort this out

Hello!

Despite the injunction to be bold in editing, I really can't bring myself to sort this out.

"Montreal has a number of other ethnic districts, including the Latin Quarter. Some regions (separate cities until the merger) are also almost entirely anglophone, including Westmount and the West Island."

In a sense, I would normally say that the Latin Quarter, which is around the former downtown buildings of Université de Montreal and the present day-buildings of UQAM, is more of a cosmopolitan zone than an area filled with one particular ethnic group. In fact, with the recent expansions of UQAM it is mostly filled with students! Westmount is largely anglophone but it is not the WASP enclave it once was (just go by their seventh day adventist church on sundays or their synagogues on any feast day or wedding day), and the West island is a patchwork of French and English language areas with a very relative and variable English majority.

And on top of that the whole paragraph seems more suited up in the intro next to the other notes on language and culture than in the section of places. I am befuddled. AlainV 03:54, 2004 May 4 (UTC)

You're quite right; now that you point it out, I don't really know what to do with it either. Maybe it should be ditched; I only put it in to make the Chinatown thing not seem so out of place. I'll go take a look and see if it can be imrpoved. --Andrew 01:58, May 5, 2004 (UTC)

Crash test dummy

Hi Andrew -

Just wanted to let you know I added a whole chunk of text on Sierra Sam to fill a history void, and did a second copyedit. For the most part, I was comfortable with your edits - as I say on the talk page, when I marvel at my turn of phrase and it turns out to be someone else's, I gotta say "great job!". Anyway, if you wouldn't mind taking another look at it, I'd appreciate a review. Thanks. Oh, and BTW, I like your idea for a Six Degrees of Freedom project. Wiki has several different projects going, and I think you might run this one past Angela to see if it's doable. Seems to me I remember something a while back -- someone had a long list of six-degree links on a talk page somewhere. I consider Angela our best admin -- head locked on solid, super reasonable. Denni 05:36, 2004 May 7 (UTC)

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St. Joseph's Oratory

Thanks for the new picture. It's much better than mine. - Montréalais 02:51, 10 May 2004 (UTC)

I don't know about much better, but I took the picture before I ever looked at yours, only to discover that I had stood probably less than a hundred feet from where you must have stood to take the picture. But it's a litte less obstructed and more cropped, and the resolution is higher, so I thought it'd be okay. I went back there today, so I have a few more pictures, but the wall of crutches was candlelit so the picture didn't turn out. There's one of Brother Andre, though. --Andrew 03:01, May 10, 2004 (UTC)

Montreal-tower-top.thumb2.jpg

Thanks for the nice yagi picture. I added it to yagi antenna too. --ssd 04:00, 10 May 2004 (UTC)

No problem - but I should probably come up with another nice antenna picture for antenna. No point readers seeing the same ones over and over... --Andrew 04:36, May 10, 2004 (UTC)

"Giant jellyfish"

Hi; I noticed your comments at Talk:Giant jellyfish. As I don't know what species the Japanese reports allude to, I decided to turn the apocryhal article into a redirect to Lion's Mane Jellyfish, as that's the closest thing to a giant in the jellyfish world (and what comes up under a google search for the term, anyway). Perhaps the washed up giants are the same species? -- Hadal 20:47, 18 May 2004 (UTC)

I don't know either what kind was being washed up; I went out looking to confirm the story in the article and found only a few of those. I think you picked the best solution; if someone feels the need to write about the Japanese jellyfish, they can always change the redirect. --Andrew 21:44, May 19, 2004 (UTC)

Weather lore pix

You commented that you would like to vote for the Weather lore pictures as a group, but they were not all in large, copyright-free form. Some are; I did not self-nominate any of these; I simply provided them for someone else who asked so that he could. I am happy to have my pictures nominated, of course, and would be willing to provide said larger images (I use a cc-by-sa release) at about 400x600 pixels - how does that sound? Some are improved over what is currently in the article; I've just been doing some image filing and have run across originals of some of these, so no longer have to work from third or fourth generation prints. If you feel that (a) it would be politically correct, and (b) that my work in doing so has a reasonable chance of reward (it looks to be so), then I would happily take the time to contribute these new images. Denni 18:15, 2004 May 22 (UTC)

Yagi Antenna

> Many Yagi-Uda antennas.... (called "traps") in the elements.

Good point. TV antennas are another area where Yagi's get mixed-in with log-periodics, trapped elements, corner reflectors and just about any other trick the designers can think of. I keep thinking the Yagi-Uda article needs a graphic showing a typical antenna instance superimposed on its radiation pattern... K7jeb 22:07, 18 Jun 2004 (UTC)

RE:Featured pictures

I hope you don't mind reading the reply on my page. --Ankur 01:23, 11 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Thanks. For all your help. I guess there is something that I can say about one or two photographs. --Ankur 05:48, 11 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Hedgehog

Thanks for the edits on hedgehog. I get grand ideas to try and make articles better, but after writing for a while I tend to get a lot of typos and grammar mistakes. Kainaw 12:28, 28 Jul 2004 (UTC)

No problem - that's a Wiki for you: I don't know a lot about hedgehogs but I can't read without proofreading anymore... --Andrew 22:27, 28 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Martial Arts Project

Hello Andrew,

I added myself to the Wikipedia:WikiProject Martial Arts last week and I've been hammering away at some articles since then. Your work on the eskrima page and comments in Talk pages I've come across have really given me a good idea for what is needed and wanted around Wikipedia in martial arts.

I've added some comments to Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject Martial Arts that I've been waiting for some feedback on. Mind checking it out?

Thanks,

Aesopian 18:20, 23 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Featured pictures

I have added your picture of the cross on Mount Royal to Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. - Montréalais 03:36, 5 Sep 2004 (UTC)

-- [[User:MacGyverMagic|Mgm|^(talk)]] 11:03, Nov 27, 2004 (UTC)

That is an excellent article. I think it's very clear, readable, and informative. Great job! Spalding 11:22, Nov 27, 2004 (UTC)

Many worlds

I understand your concern that the article on the many worlds interpretation in its current state is hard to read (maybe even incomprehensible), and your effort at making an improvement is really commendable, given the nature of the article and the material. However, I think some of the statements you made were incorrect (for instance the theory doesn't try to explain superposition); since it would be very difficult to correct them in a systematic way, I reverted it. However, I do think your input is important to produce a readable and comprehensible article. What we should do is try to improve the intro, explaining the point of the whole theory.

Maybe we can discuss improvements on the talk page to Many worlds. I've added some comments there already.

Thanks!

CSTAR 05:36, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Fair enough; I think what I wrote is OK, but I certainly am not an expert. And it's easy to say things that are sort-of true, which don't belong in an encyclopedia. I'll go poke around the talk page. Andrew 06:46, Dec 2, 2004 (UTC)

Você é brasileiro? (Vejo temas como Capoeira etc..) CSTAR 05:54, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Sorry, no... Canadian, actually. I have some capoeira training and I like to read books about it, that's all. My portuguese is, alas, limited to what's in the songs... Andrew 06:46, Dec 2, 2004 (UTC)

New intro sentences for many worlds

Please have a look and comment on Talk page. CSTAR 22:34, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Article Licensing

Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 2000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:

• Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
• Multi-Licensing Guide
• Free the Rambot Articles Project

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

Option 1

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

OR

Option 2

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to any [[U.S. state]], county, or city article as described below:

{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk)

Calcutta -> Kolkata name change

Hi there. I noticed you voted in the Wikipedia:Naming policy poll to keep the Wikipedia policy of naming an article with the most familiar English name. You may not be aware that another attempt has begun to rename the Calcutta article to Kolkata, which is blatantly not the most common name of the city, whether it's official or not. If you want to vote on the issue you can do so at Talk:Calcutta. Cheers. -- Necrothesp 14:00, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Kentucky copyright

Why do you think that images taken by the Kentucky state government are free from copyright? – Quadell ^{(talk) (sleuth)} 18:43, Mar 11, 2005 (UTC)

I don't. Did I do something stupid? I don't know what you're talking about, and a cursory browse of my and your recent conributions doesn't yield anything instructive. --Andrew 19:05, Mar 11, 2005 (UTC)

It looks like you set up {{PD-KYGov}}. (Sorry for being vague before.) – Quadell ^{(talk) (sleuth)} 20:29, Mar 11, 2005 (UTC)

O dear. What was I thinking? All I can think of is that I created the tag for an image (now deleted, I guess) which claimed to be public domain because it was a work of the Kentucky state government. I've slightly amended the text, and I'll go rip it out shortly. (After I've slept.) --Andrew 05:25, Mar 12, 2005 (UTC)

Carl G. Fisher

Thanks for the help about the visual details. I left a note on the talk page. Mark in Richmond Vaoverland 17:18, Mar 12, 2005 (UTC)

With the improvements as you suggested, do you feel you can give up a support vote in the FAC nomination? We need the help in current competition. Featured_article_candidates#Carl_G._Fisher. Thanks, again. Mark in Richmond. Vaoverland 18:19, Mar 21, 2005 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Z Machine

I just got permission for this image to be used throughout Wikipedia. -- BRIAN0918  15:38, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)

ack

Thanks for fixing the General Secretary template. Quick work! Although I have been contributing to WP for some time, I don't know my way around the template system that well. Best, -- Viajero 00:09, 5 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Yeah, what he said. Well done. –Hajor 01:15, 5 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Strengthened {{CopyrightedFreeUse}}

Hey Andrew, I attempted to strengthen the language of the {{CopyrightedFreeUse}} template as you suggested to make it absolutely clear that all rights to the image are being irrevocably released. I hope it's more to your liking now, but any further suggestions are welcome (make them on Template talk: CopyrightedFreeUse). Deco 02:26, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Re:{{PD-NYGov}}

Hey Andrew. Thanks for giving me the heads up about verifying the New York State Government guidelines on releasing material to the public domain. I was wondering if you could point me in the right direction to go about researching this? Thanks. --Howrealisreal 01:27, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)

The short answer is that the images are almost certainly not in the public domain any more than those on microsoft.com.

For any one website, you can go looking for a statement of copyright or of usage permission; if you don't find one, you can't use it (except possibly for fair use). They're often stashed with the privacy statement. Failing that, you can email one of the contact addresses for the website.

For the government in general, I don't really know where to look for copyright policy, but some googling would find an official declaration if one exists on the Web. Also a possibility would be looking for webmaster contact addresses on the state's official site. --Andrew 06:00, Apr 11, 2005 (UTC)

Hey again. Quadell notified me today that the New York State government does not release material into the public domain so I have blanked both the template and the category and listed them for deletion in the appropriate places. Sorry for the mix-up and thanks for double-checking my work. --Howrealisreal 19:12, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)

No worries. If you look up the page you'll see I made the same mistake... --Andrew 20:37, Apr 11, 2005 (UTC)

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Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, Image:Bodie ghost town.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates.

Godiva

How come you replaced http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Godiva_device.jpg with lower res. separate versions....? I spent lots of time formatting and adjusting the contrast of that image so it would be just right. :o( --Deglr6328 17:06, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)

We can change it back if you like, but those are at the resolution they actually occur in the PDF (obtained with pdfimages), rather than rescaled to some higher resolution. Having them separate also makes reusing them easier (which is also why they're on the Commons). I didn't mess with the contrast, though. If you like I can go in and bump the contrast up a bit. --Andrew 22:36, Apr 20, 2005 (UTC)

No, those are ok reasons. --Deglr6328 23:26, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Technetium PR

Since you were so helpful at the helium FAC, I was wondering if you might be interested in commenting at Wikipedia:Peer review/Technetium/archive1. I plan to put technetium through FAC once it gets through wikipedia:peer review. --mav 00:33, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Protected stuff needing change

I'd be willing to help out. It's probably best to post this at Wikipedia:Protected page or the admin noticebaord which are looked at more often. As for copyright tags, they're simply protected for safety. We don't want vandals changing them. I'll go and have a look at the talk pages now. Mgm|^(talk) 10:05, Apr 27, 2005 (UTC)

I tried Wikipedia talk:Protected page#Templates. No soap. Why are templates different from the rest of Wikipedia when it comes to vandalism? --Andrew 10:25, Apr 27, 2005 (UTC)

WP:FPC

Good idea on the Commons links. -- Solipsist 10:38, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Future energy development

Hi, I noticed your changes to the Nuclear power article and I was wondering if you could take a look at the related Future energy development article? That is if you have some time and are inclined. Thx for the nuclear power changes by the way. zen master T 06:11, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Technetium

You've done a great job fixing my mistakes and helping to expand this article. Would you consider supporting this FAC now? :) --mav 02:25, 3 May 2005 (UTC)

RE: Submit to the Commons Instead

Thanks for pointing out that link at the top, but before I submit the picture to the commons I have a few other questions:

1. Do I need to create an account on the Commons to Submit pictures?
2. Do I need to recreate the voting page from the the Wikipedia FPC on the commons, or can I insert the templete alread on the FPC here and have it work in the commons?

Sorry, this will be my first time submitting something to the commons and the first time I use the commons to nominate a picture for Featured Picture Status. I'd like to get it right the first time. TomStar81 22:27, 7 May 2005 (UTC)

Voting for standardization

Hi. I'm oo64eva. We're holding a vote here to standardize the table and color template. If you have any questions leave a message on my talk page or on the project talk page. Spread the word about the vote, it ends May 12th at 3:40 UTC. — oo64eva (Alex) ^{(U | T | C)} @ 03:55, May 9, 2005 (UTC)

Summary style

Hope you like my refactor of Montreal#History and History of Montreal. :) The only way we can encourage others to correctly use summary style is to show them good examples. Let's get to work creating those examples whenever we see imbalances. --mav 00:01, 21 May 2005 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Mind Benders

Hello! I've noticed your past interest in Wikipedia:Mind Benders and wanted to share the following announcement with you! I've taken over the responsibilities of Mind Benders, and the page will now be regularly updated. Right now, the pre-round is open (it's more of a creative artistic competition), and round one will open soon (the questions are done, we just need to wait for the pre-round to begin/finish)! So why not check it out? I'll keep you updated! Thanks, Flcelloguy | A note? | Desk 01:38, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)

P.S. Feel free to pass this news on to other Wikipedians.

Higher resolutions

Do you have any higher resolution versions of Image:Driftwood-2.jpg and Image:Turbulence.jpg? I am considering nominating them for featured pictures, but the folks at WP:FPC traditionally require higher resolution for a pic to stand a chance. Circeus 22:50, August 4, 2005 (UTC)

Ionizing radiation, Nagasaki bombing, hormesis

I was reading the article on ionizing radiation, when I came across this quote: "Nagasaki bomb survivors have lower incidence of cancer." (This is given as the example for an acute exposure to 1-19 REM.) There was no reference or citation for this quote, and neither Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings nor hormesis mentions anything about this. I looked trhough the article's history, and found that you were the one who originally posted the table (and wrote most of the article, in fact). I'd like to read more about this, but I can't find any other references. Little help?

I wrote the article mostly bu assembling pieces of the existing article, so that claim is a holdover from previous work. There are examples where similar statistics turned up (I seem to recall a study of a Hong Kong apartment building which was accidentally built out of radioactive concrete, for example) but I have no specific reference. --Andrew 02:16, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

Image

Image deletion warning

Image:Rasterization-antialiasing.png has been listed at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion. If you feel that this image should not be deleted, please go there to voice your opinion.

Thunderbrand 16:31, September 2, 2005 (UTC)

Image:Pu-phases.png

I translated your license to public domain. Please don't use such constructs. --Saperaud 16:17, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

I'm sorry, but you just can't change the license someone else puts on their work.

I did not use Template:PD because of certain ambiguities in it; I used my own license in case I needed to clarify it. --Andrew 22:05, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

wikipedians

Hello, i saw you made contributions to the bong page (or its talk page, and i invite you to read this and add your name or something else if you want. You may also want to put your name here: category:wikipedians by fields of interest under drugs/drug addiction. cheers! --Ballchef 13:17, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

St Paul Island

Hi. I've amended a wikilink on your image page "Spraycan Lighthouse" so that it points at St Paul Island, Nova Scotia, rather than the disambiguation page. I think this is the right St Paul Island, but I wasn't sure so I thought I'd let you know SP-KP 21:04, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

Slogan in pollution article

Hello. Looking back in the history of the article Pollution, I believe you might have added mention of the slogan: "Solution to Pollution is Dilution" back in 2004. There was recently a deletion of this text and I reinserted it as I thought it was quite relevant and descriptive of an older way of thinking. Trying to corroborate the specific assertion that it was taught in schools, I thought I should ask what you might cite as a source for it? -thanks, Onceler 20:20, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

I'm afraid not - I heard it from a roommate. I'm not quite sure I put it in, rather than copied it from elsewhere in Wikipedia. --Andrew 02:18, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

Meltdown

In a nuclear meltdown, the fuel rods in the core of the reactor simply melt. They do not have to melt through the ground to the water table, although this is a chief concern in the event of one.

Turbulence.jpg

Hey, are you still hanging around Wikipedia? I hope so... anyway, I have a question. In Turbulence.jpg, what exactly are we looking at? It's a compelling picture, but I can't tell just what it's a picture of. What's the black thing? Is that water? Is it in three dimensions or two? Which way is up? Is that the sky? And so forth... There are some more confused people at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Turbulence.

radionuclide

It appears that on April 27, 2004 you introduced this paragraph in the article radionuclide:

... When radioactive carbon, for example, is in the atmosphere, it rapidly becomes separated from its decay products. Once it is bound up in a solid, such as wood or paper, its decay products must remain in place. So by measuring how much of these decay products has accumulated, one can estimate the time when the carbon was captured into solid form. ...

I wish to refer to it but I need a direct reference. Can you please tell me which was the source of the quoted statement?

Jclerman 21:50, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Sound of the day

Hi, I've put your fine berimbau riff in as today's sound of the day. Perhaps you'd like to contribute further to this nascent project.--Pharos 00:36, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

commons:Image:Lake-derived-snow.png

the picture

Hello,

you can now upload SVG-graphics, so it would be very nice if you simply upload it :)

--21:15, 28 June 2006 (UTC) (commons:User:Sven, I've also got an account on this wp, but I cannot remember the name (maybe User:SvenK?))

Wikipedia:WikiProject_Martial_Arts

You are listed as a participant in this Wikiproject, which appears to have ground to a halt - I'm contacting all participants to try to get things rolling again... hope you can help! -- Medains 08:49, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

Spacecraft propulsion listed for FAR

Hi Aarchiba. I would like to tell you that I have listed the above article for FAR. The major issue is the lack of references. Please feel free to comment and follow the review as it goes forward. Thank you. -Fsotrain₀₉ 03:27, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

windscale fire

please upload the SVG you said is available --193.17.11.20 15:45, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

new RFC

You may be interested to know that an RFC has recently been initiated regarding Fair use images of Canadian politicians. Many images of Canadian public figures are about to be deleted, including ones you have uploaded. Please feel free to participate. - Mcasey666 05:44, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

Thank you to your good work

Hello, Aarchiba. I am Was a bee, Japanese wikipedian. I want to report that I translated your good work to Japanese, and I uploaded it to Wikimedia Commons. And I use it at ja.wikipedia page ja:反応度 (原子力). Thank you Aarchiba!

Could you help me write this article?

Hello,

I was wondering if you would be willing to help me write either Seikichi_Iha or Shorin-ryu_Shido-kan. Tkjazzer 21:48, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

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Your Image:Thermal_reactor_diagram.png is referred to in meta:SVG_image_support#Possible_kinds_of_SVG_support. Why can't you upload it? Doesn't it display properly? --Slashme (talk) 09:08, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

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