User talk:Birdbrainscan

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Khabibullo Abdusamatov

See Talk:Khabibullo Ismailovich Abdusamatov for an answer to your question. Colchicum 21:40, 8 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the note

I never know whether to reply on my page or on yours. Just thought I would let you know the substantive reply to your comment is on my Talk page. Best wishes. RonCram 20:23, 7 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. IntelligenceSquared held an interesting debate on Global Warming. Based on the votes of the audience, those who said it was not a crisis won the debate. I thought you might be interesting in reading about it. [1]RonCram 17:23, 15 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Notability of Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society

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User page hint

You mentioned you were trying to get the text on your user page to parallel with your user boxes instead of above them. Simple trick- just have your userbox info first, then your text below. Wiki will automatically put the boxes on the left and fill the rest of the space on the right with your text. Clerks. 14:58, 17 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

test

ISBN 1423427939

IPCC lead authors does that link to the list?

J. Tuzo Wilson Medal

Thanks for fixing the disambiguity for Dick Peltier. Clerks. 15:02, 17 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

William Richard Peltier

Please don't add Category:Climatologists to an article that's already filed in Category:Canadian climatologists. The category duplication isn't needed. Thanks. Bearcat 17:42, 17 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

WP page traffic stats?

Does Wikipedia offer any means to look up how many times any given page gets viewed? I looked around a bit but didn't find any info on this. Birdbrainscan 21:42, 27 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Check Wikipedia:Statistics. Real96 22:01, 27 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Edit other people's comments

Hi, Birdbrainscan. It is considered bad form to edit other people's comments on talk pages, even if they did make a typographical error. Also, "lede" is an acceptable alternative spelling for "lead" in English. For more information, see Wikipedia's talk page guidelines. My regards, ~ UBeR 04:13, 18 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, UBeR, I didn't realize we're not supposed to fix typos in other people's comments.

At first I was ready to claim that lede is just a medieval variant: [2]. But I thought I'd better "google further" and I found this: [3] - great fun, a printing-related bit of lexico-trivia. Usually you have to get up pretty early in the morning to surprise me on that front. (I already knew what leading or ledding is, e.g. as I worked in digital prepress for quite some time.)

I would say using this non-standard spelling is more likely to confuse than enlighten, for the great majority of readers who aren't in on this curious bit of journalism lore.

Also I appreciate that we need to avoid editing to try to standardize between regional variants of modern English spelling like theater/re, realise/ize, and the like. Indeed, being in Canada I'm particularly attuned to these. Birdbrainscan 05:05, 18 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Indeed. The second link there sums it up pretty well. I just play it safe and use "intro." :-) ~ UBeR 05:45, 18 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Science prizes

I came across a page on the European Geophysical Union that lists quite a number of climate science related awards: [4] These can be a good source for identifying notable climatologists. Most of these awards likely don't have their own wiki page yet.Birdbrainscan 03:25, 25 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Why is category climatologists classified under American scientists?

I have an objection to the current classification of the category page Category:climatologists within the outer category "American scientists". This mis-characterizes the category, which applies to climatologists from any country. Is there a reason why I shouldn't just re-file this as a subset of the category "Scientists" or is that considered too big?Birdbrainscan 02:28, 2 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I guess I'm missing something... Category:Climatologists hasn't been edited since December 2006, and it has only three parent cats: Category:Climatology, Category:Atmospheric scientists, and Category:Geographers by specialty. None of those three cats has Category:American scientists as a parent cat, and the American scientists cat does not contain the climatologists cat. There's no Category:American climatologists, either. Could you clarify your question? - KrakatoaKatie 05:43, 2 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I have removed the {{helpme}} tag, as there are no apparent questions. If you add another question, feel free to readd it. - Rjd0060 15:26, 2 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Category:IPCC_lead_authors

As the apparent category creator, I thought you'd want to know about the CfD for Category:IPCC_lead_authors. Ben Hocking ^{(talk|contribs)} 16:48, 9 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ursulines of Quebec

Well, DGG (talk · contribs) said it was okay, if you check the edit summary from the history:

"this is considered PD in Wikipedia. See Catholic Encyclopedia"

But, the Ursulines of Quebec still needs a LOT of cleaning I think.

IP4240207xx 04:52, 15 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I just did some edits on it. Feedback? Aymatth2 (talk) 01:14, 7 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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You're undoubtedly wondering what prompted this note: I could not understand why somebody had placed Category:IPCC lead authors directly in Category:Science. Of course, it was merely the unintended result of your having typed the wrong sort of brackets. In any event, it's all fixed now. But you might want to check and see if you've inadvertently used those brackets on any other pages. Regards, Cgingold (talk) 14:07, 2 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

A study on how to cover scientific uncertainties/controversies

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