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I no longer have time for complete copyedits of entire articles. On the other hand, I'm willing to do a peer review of almost anything. Finetooth (talk) 15:05, 5 March 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Reliable sources for weather
Sorry, I virtually never add weather sections. Last month I added a weather table, but I haven't a clue what part of the country it was, and I'm active enough that it would take you all day to find it in my contributions. Perhaps try weather.com? Nyttend (talk) 16:30, 5 March 2009 (UTC)
- User:Dtbohrer has an interest in meteorology and may be able to help. Some of the hurricane writers too - perhaps User:Juliancolton (as User:Hurricanehink
has retiredis back, might work too)? Ruhrfisch ><>°° 16:54, 5 March 2009 (UTC)- Nyttend's right. The Weather Channel (www.weather.com) is usually a good source. I used Weather Channel data for Erie, PA. Data for Hillsboro would be here. I tried looking around weather.gov (the National Weather Service) and couldn't find anything useful. The Weather Channel should do, unless someone happens to find something better. --D.B.talk•contribs 18:07, 5 March 2009 (UTC)
Sorry for the late response, but I would personally have used Oregon Climate Service. Here is a link for temperatures, for example, which shows the mean, max, and minimum for many cities in Oregon, including Hillsboro. The data is from 1971-2000, and it is linked from the Portland, Oregon National Weather Service, so it looks reliable. ♬♩ Hurricanehink (talk) 20:15, 5 March 2009 (UTC)
I would suggest the individual National Weather Service offices web pages. Most offices keep the official climate databases in the Climate section (link on the left side). 25or6to4 (talk) 12:48, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Hillsboro OR image concern
The image of a sculpture File:HillsboroShuteIndian.JPG in the Hillsboro, Oregon article is almost certainly a sculpture by Peter Wolf Toth (there is one of the Lenape chief "Woapalanee" or "Bald Eagle" in Williamsport, Pennsylvania and two in Akron, Ohio and I recognize his style). I think as such the sculpture is copyrighted and the image needs to acknowledge this and have a fair use rationale. See Cloud Gate and its images. Ruhrfisch ><>°° 20:25, 5 March 2009 (UTC)
- Here is a link to 44 of his sculptures, including Chief Kno-Tah (sp?) in Hillsboro, Oregon [1] Ruhrfisch ><>°° 20:39, 5 March 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Re: Reliable source for climate data
Glad to see the issue has been worked out. I've used Weatherbase for a few of my geography articles, as it seems to be fairly reliable. TWC is just as good, if not better. –Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 22:15, 5 March 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Kinzua Bridge
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Thanks for reviewing, copyediting and then supporting Kinzua Bridge! --D.B.talk•contribs 18:29, 7 March 2009 (UTC) |  |
[edit] Benjamin Morrell at FAC
Just to let you know I've taken the old rogue to FAC. Thanks for your help in bringing the article on. Brianboulton (talk) 19:26, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
[edit] New Netherland
Thanks very much for your concerted work on the article. Have gone thru your suggestions and made some changes, and will look into other things you've brought up. I have two questions regarding editing that you can perhaps help me with. 1. Is there not a program which can be run to RETRIEVE sites mentioned in citations? This inorder to see if link is still viable and to give a date where appropriate?? 2.How does one cross out tasks that have have been completed, such as on your list? Djflem (talk) 11:55, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Map revision
You no doubt remember File:Shackleton Endurance Aurora map2.png, a great map which graces several Shackleton-related articles. I am currently upgrading Aurora's drift, and could use a slightly modified version of this map. Basically, I need the bottom half - everything, in fact, that appears below the word "Antarctica". No red, yellow, green or blue lines as these relate to Endurance. I may then request the odd date added, but would there be a problem in cropping the map in this way? Brianboulton (talk) 13:50, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
- Thanks for your reply, I am most grateful. Yes, it would be a good idea to replace the "Antarctica" label. To save me asking you later to modify the map further, would it be possible to mark a small "X", dated 12 February 1916, on the pink line, at the top of the straight section leading down to Port Chalmers? The map will suit my purposes well, then. Hope this is clear, please ping me if not. Brianboulton (talk) 17:06, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
- The map is fantastic, thank you for doing this. I should have made it clear that I need the pink line from the original map, the one joining Ross Island and Port Chalmers, if possible exactly as depicted on the original. This line plots the drift and retreat of Aurora. While I think of it, if it's not a problem, the date 6 May 1915 could be inserted at the Ross Island end of the line, to indicate the drift's start. Is that OK? Sorry I wasn't clearer before. Brianboulton (talk) 09:36, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
- Yes, by all means use arrows to avoid info clutter. And, shame on me, the date 12 February is wrong - should be 16 March 1916. So that needs altering, too (I'm glad I spotted that in time!) Brianboulton (talk) 14:50, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
- The map is fine now. Later I will install it into its appropriate article, which during the next couple of weeks I will be bringing up toward FA standard, so it should be at PR by the end of the month. I am most grateful for yur help. Brianboulton (talk) 16:24, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Noel Coward
Thanks for your (as usual, excellent) help on Coward. It was promoted to GA-class, but we have been working hard on it and no doubt some sloppiness has crept in. Would you kindly take another look before we nominate it for FA? Thanks for any assistance! -- Ssilvers (talk) 02:25, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
Coward has been nominated for FAC. See: Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Noël Coward. -- Ssilvers (talk) 05:12, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Rhyolite
I supported - found one missing access date and a typo I fixed (pesky lower case m in mine again). It is a very interesting and enjoyable read - thanks, Ruhrfisch ><>°° 20:12, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
- Glad to support. I think that I did 49 states plus DC - VerruckteDan did Delaware ;-) They are probably my most linked / used contributions to the project (although they are really Census maps I prettied up a bit. Take care, Ruhrfisch ><>°° 21:22, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Request
I'm not sure how backlogged you are, but when you get a chance I'd like to know if you would be able to do some copyediting on Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. And yes, I can wait. :) Synergy 12:24, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Talkback
Hello, Finetooth. You have new messages on [[Talk:Wikipedia:Peer review/Disturbed discography/archive1#Disturbed discography]].You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.
Cannibaloki 17:03, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Couple things
Hi Finetooth! I just realized, I never responded to the kind message you left me some time ago about Wayne Morse. I appreciate your offer, and I'm sorry for not notifying you when it was up for GA. My time for Wikipedia has become very spotty, so I have spurts of major activity and then barely look at the site for days at a time. It's been a tough adjustment, and my work on articles like that and the Columbia -- and my communication about it -- has suffered. But I appreciate your interest, and I look forward to working on this stuff with you in the future!
The other thing is, I just noticed that the Columbia River Estuary was added as a redlink to lead of the the Oregon Coast article. I really think it would be good to do an article on the entire estuary system at some point; it's pretty far outside my expertise though, so I'd be very interested in your thoughts about how to go about it.
Hope you're well -- I see from a recent note that you're busy off-wiki too. In good ways, I'm hoping! -Pete (talk) 05:04, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Port of Portland (Oregon)
I cropped one of your pics and added it to the above article. Did you happen to have any others from your trip to Kelly Point? Thanks. Aboutmovies (talk) 19:48, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Thank you for peer review suggestions on Arbogast & Bastian
Thank you for taking the time to provide peer review suggestions on Arbogast & Bastian. I agree with all of your suggestions, and the recommended changes to the article have been made. Alphageekpa (talk) 15:26, 14 March 2009 (UTC)
[edit] invitation
You're invited to sign up as a founding member, at Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals#WikiProject Historic Sites ! :) doncram (talk) 05:31, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Papa Don't Preach
Hi, thanks for reviewing the article, your comments were very helpfull. I did almost everything, except for the Formats and track listing section, I believe there have to be an exception with this, because all the other song's articles bold the formats including the featured ones. For example: "Smells Like Teen Spirit" or "What You Waiting For?".
Also in the Music and lyrics section, I do believe that the key is what makes the song's classical sound, if you see for example "Cool", the tempo is 112 bpm but it is a new wave song. I looked at the reference "Madonna's Drowned Worlds: New Approaches to Her Cultural Transformations" and this is what is in there exactly:
"An unusual choice for a pop song, the tonic key of F minor has a history in classical music of expressing extreme pathos, as in Beethoven's Appassionata sonata, and the key therefore constructs a disjuncture between 'pop' and 'classical' realms, underlined in "Papa Don't Preach" by the instrumentation in the introduction."
Please let me know what you think about it. Again thanks for your review, and sorry for replying too late. Regards. Frcm1988 (talk) 06:11, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Wikipedia:Peer review/Islais Creek/archive1
Hi, I am wondering if you could review this for me. I saw your name on Wikipedia:Peer review/volunteers#Geography. If you are not interested, please reply me anyway so that I know you are uninterested. Thanks in advance for your help and time for reading this.—Chris! ct 00:28, 16 March 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Killer Oregon COTW, its Totally Rad
Greetings WikiProject Oregon peoples. It is once again time for another edition of the World Famous Collaboration Of The Week. Thank you to those who worked on Clyde and [the lack of] Religion in Oregon. This week (as many have noticed), we have the “it was a red link” and by request Eugene Station and Heceta Head in honor of the work that’s been going on at Oregon Coast. Once again, click here to opt out of these messages, or click here to make a suggestion for a future COTW. On a side note, does the recent news of Portland being the unhappiest place in all the land make people there more unhappy? Aboutmovies (talk) 06:53, 17 March 2009 (UTC)
- Also, we got some more comments at the FA for Hillsboro, could you double-check my work to make sure I didn't screw up the endash/emdash/hyphen dichotomy. Aboutmovies (talk) 09:55, 17 March 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Congrats!
Just saw Rhyolite is now FA - well done! I was going to come her to tell you I really like the new Pennsylvania Canal map. I made a map for Cherry Springs State Park - would you mind looking at it? Did I use too many letters? I wonder if labels and arrows would be better. Thanks, Ruhrfisch ><>°° 01:55, 18 March 2009 (UTC)
- Thanks - the Cherry Springs article is not ready for PR yet, but I would appreciate it if you tell me what you think of the map. So for now a look at the map would suffice, but in the (hopefully very near) future, the whole article could use a good review. Thanks again, Ruhrfisch ><>°° 02:21, 18 March 2009 (UTC)
- Thanks, FYI I tried drawing an Astronomy Dome and also tried drawing an Amphitheater, but neither looked very good, so I just went with letters. I usually count the width in pixels of the map and use the Census distance (approximately 1.1 miles here). The DCNR map had an actual scale that the Census scale did not match very well, so I used the DCNR scale to measure the width of the park in feet and then in pixels, then figured out the current scale. This is the first time I have done that - usually just do the Census scale. Ruhrfisch ><>°° 03:50, 18 March 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Columbia Slough Photo Map
Hey there, as you can see, I've been pretty well checked out of Wikipedia these days -- just too much going on in the old real world. I hope to be back someday in a more sustainable capacity. Sorry to leave you hanging on the Columbia Slough FAC, and I'm glad that the issue with the map is resolved. I think I just used a combination of USGS topo maps, Google maps, and Portland city GIS stuff, but I don't know for sure -- I will definitely be more careful about sourcing map images in the future. Congratulations on the FA status. Working on the photo maps for the amazing creek articles that you edited was one of the most enjoyable things I've done on Wikipedia. Keep it up! I'll try to check my talk page a little more frequently, even if I don't have time for much actual editing. Northwesterner1 (talk) 03:17, 18 March 2009 (UTC)
