User talk:Soap

Today's Wikipedian 10 years ago

Awesome

Ten years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 05:58, 26 May 2019 (UTC)

Those were the days, eh. Be nice to go back 20 years and start all over. Or even 30 .... —Soap— 17:24, 26 May 2019 (UTC)

It would be interesting to pick a standout edit from ~10 years ago and include that with the star. e.g. i just thought of this. —Soap— 19:54, 13 July 2020 (UTC)

Algonquian languages

Hi! This is simply out of curiosity, as I am not a student of Native American languages. Could you please explain to me the one tiiiny difference in the Algonquian language maps, which appears to be the removal of a tiny area of northern California from the previous map's coverage area? Just wondering, as I live in California. Jeff in CA (talk) 00:12, 7 July 2019 (UTC)

@Jeff in CA: Thanks for asking. Algic is a language family that includes all of the Algonquian languages spread across the eastern US & Canada and two more distantly related ones in northern California. The two non-Algonquian languages are packed into a territory so small that it appears that either a bot or a person simply didn't see them and labeled the two maps as duplicates. What I did was restore the map that got deleted by rubbing out the pink area in California. I also changed the color scheme slightly just in case a bot was the initial cause of the map getting deleted. —Soap— 19:18, 8 July 2019 (UTC)

ArbCom 2019 election voter message

Hello! Voting in the 2019 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23:59 on Monday, 2 December 2019. All eligible users are allowed to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate in the 2019 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. If you no longer wish to receive these messages, you may add {{NoACEMM}} to your user talk page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:06, 19 November 2019 (UTC)

Since 2017 Ive just been voting neutral on all of the names I dont recognize and S/O on the ones I do. I think that makes sense so long as neutral votes are still discarded the way theyve always been. —Soap— 01:04, 19 November 2019 (UTC)

Thanks (black hole physics)

Thanks for your edits at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Stellar_black_hole#Missing:_estimate_of_tidal_force_on_human_body . I just read a science fiction story that takes place on a planetoid orbiting a black hole. People could ride a ship down to almost the event horizon. When they returned to the planetoid, they were in the future, depending on how far down they went and how long they stayed. So ridiculous. I can believe in time travel to the future (not the past), but not in trying to approach a black hole. It's just as ridiculous as landing on the surface of a quasar. There are some things that people cannot do, according to physics. But many people don't really want to believe science, do they? Hah. David Spector (talk) 12:56, 5 December 2019 (UTC)

Knewz moved to draftspace

An article you recently created, Knewz, does not have enough sources and citations as written to remain published. It needs more citations from reliable, independent sources. (?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of "Draft:" before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page. NNADIGOODLUCK (Talk|Contribs) 15:32, 30 January 2020 (UTC)

Longisquama

I removed that image from the article because the author himself said it's inaccurate. "Qilong" wrote this in his blog: "An outdated reconstruction of Longisquama insignis (Sharov, 1970), with the limbs held in an erect, potentially terrestrial posture. (I no longer agree with this interpretation, nor with the reconstruction of the skull — it was done over 10 years ago!)".[1] This is not my "opinion", it's what the illustrator said about his own work. Kiwi Rex (talk) 19:09, 28 February 2020 (UTC)

Sorry, I didn't notice that the blog was written by the same person who uploaded the sketch. He is long gone now, and implies on his blog that he might never come back, so we can't really get his input on whether the picture should stay or go. It's still valid in the sense that the original researcher, Sharov, believed it was true, and I would like to have some sort of image on the page so people can see what this animal may have looked like, and in particular I like having the side-by-side comparison of the same animal with fronds and without fronds. I guess File:Longisquama_BW.jpg will do for now. Would this be worth mentioning on Wikipedia:WikiProject_Palaeontology/Paleoart_review ? —Soap— 19:21, 28 February 2020 (UTC)

It's probably worth reviewing this image there (along with File:Longisquama BW.jpg, which also has not been reviewed yet).Kiwi Rex (talk) 12:41, 29 February 2020 (UTC)

Disambiguation link notification for June 12

Hi. Thank you for your recent edits. An automated process has detected that when you recently edited Cocomelon – Nursery Rhymes, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Remastering (check to confirm | fix with Dab solver). Such links are usually incorrect, since a disambiguation page is merely a list of unrelated topics with similar titles. (Read the FAQ • Join us at the DPL WikiProject.)

It's OK to remove this message. Also, to stop receiving these messages, follow these opt-out instructions. Thanks, DPL bot (talk) 06:16, 12 June 2020 (UTC)

It was on purpose .... we have no better place to link to right now. Perhaps I will just remove it again. —Soap— 07:20, 12 June 2020 (UTC)

Climate

Sure

For 1981-2010 Normals… 1) Web address: https://prism.oregonstate.edu/ 2) Click “Explorer” 3) Either enter latitude & longitude and click “Zoom”, or zoom to the location yourself and click the mouse. 4) Click the data setting you want (min temp, max temp etc). 5) Click the “30-year normals” button (I like to also select the 800m, higher resolution setting). 6) Scroll down and click the “Interpolate grid cell values” button. 7) Click “Retrieve Time Series” 8) Click “Download Time Series” 9) Open the excel spreadsheet that pops up and you’ll have your 1981-2010 normals for that location.

NOTE: For monthly average relative humidity, I entered a long formula into an excel sheet to calculate based on the PRISM monthly mean temperature & mean dew point data. PRISM doesn’t offer relative humidity. I also use a formula to calculate average annual values. PRISM just takes the average of the 12 months, but the amount of days within each month is not evenly distributed so my calculations account for that. This produces slightly results for me, usually just by 0.1F or so etc. It doesn’t matter for precipitation since it’s a total.

For Record extremes… Same as steps 1-4 above. 5) Click the ‘Daily Values” button 6) Select Start & End dates 7) Select “Interpolate Grid Cells” (note: The only resolution available for daily values is 4km). 8) Click “Retrieve Time Series” 9) Click “Download Time Series” 10) Open the excel spreadsheet that pops up and you’ll have your daily values for that location.

This is where it gets more complicated for records/extremes in excel sheet… 1) Highlight top line (Date, ppt, tmin, tmax etc) 2) Click “Sort & Filter” 3) Click “Filter” 4) Click the down arrow on “Date” 5) Highlight ‘Date Filters” 6) Highlight “All Dates in the Period” 7) Click the month you want 8) Use the filters (down arrow under ppt, tmin, tmax etc) to sort by “Largest to smallest” or “Smallest to largest” to find the record value for that month. 9) Repeat steps 7 to 9 for the other months

NOTES: The PRISM calendar day for the east coast runs from 8am to 8am during EDT and from 7am to 7am during EST. It doesn’t run from midnight to midnight. Ex: The data would be for 8am on July 28th to 8am on July 29th and would say the data is for July 29th. But for actual record dates…If it says July 29th for maximum temperature, dew point and precipitation, I mark it as July 28th because the high was likely actually recorded on the afternoon before that date…most of the total precipitation more often occurred on the day before…and most of the average dew point likely occurred on the day before. However, I use the actual date given, July 29th for minimum temperature because the low temperature most likely occurred before 8am on the morning of the July 29th.

It takes a few months for data within the last several months to become stable. This is because it takes the PRISM staff time to do quality assurance testing. You can get very recent data, but it will be noted by data not yet stable, likely to change. Stable data will be noted as such and unlikely to change.

For National/State Parks, I try to use visitor center locations for the climate data because most people would recognize where that’s located within the park, and is usually where weather/climate stations would be located anyway. Also, the elevation used in the interpolated grid cell can differ a bit from the actual elevation of the point used. This is because PRISM takes the interpolated average elevation of the grid cell rather than exactly for the point itself. The elevation used for mountain peaks could be a several hundred feet lower than the actual mountain peak elevation itself.

If I did a climate section for Baxter State Park, it would something like this. Feel free to use or not use it. I used Lat 45.8281, Lon -68.8899.

Climate

According to the Köppen climate classification system, Baxter State Park has a Warm-summer, Humid continental climate (Dfb). Dfb climates are characterized by at least one month having an average mean temperature ≤ 32.0 °F (0.0 °C), at least four months with an average mean temperature ≥ 50.0 °F (10.0 °C), all months with an average mean temperature < 71.6 °F (22.0 °C) and no significant precipitation difference between seasons. The exception to the rule in the park is that some of the higher peaks have a Subarctic climate (Dfc). Although most summer days are comfortably humid in Baxter State Park, episodes of heat and moderate-to-high humidity can occur with heat index values > 90 °F (32 °C). Since 1981, the highest air temperature was 94.7 °F (34.8 °C) on July 20, 1991, and the highest daily average mean dew point was 72.7 °F (22.6 °C) on July 2, 2002. The average wettest month is November. The average peak in thunderstorm activity is July which corresponds as the average warmest month. Since 1981, the wettest calendar day was 4.37 inches (111 mm) on September 11, 2002. During the winter months, the average annual extreme minimum air temperature is −24.6 °F (−31.4 °C). Since 1981, the coldest air temperature was −32.1 °F (−35.6 °C) on January 20, 1984. Episodes of extreme cold and wind can occur with wind chill values < −39 °F (−39 °C). Ice storms and large snowstorms depositing ≥ 12 inches (30 cm) of snow occur nearly every year, particularly during nor’easters from December through March.

Climate data for Togue Pond Gatehouse, Baxter State Park, elevation 623 ft (190 m), 1981-2010 normals, extremes 1981-2019
Month	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Year
Record high °F (°C)	54.6 (12.6)	62.6 (17.0)	78.6 (25.9)	84.7 (29.3)	92.1 (33.4)	94.1 (34.5)	94.7 (34.8)	93.4 (34.1)	93.4 (34.1)	80.9 (27.2)	67.7 (19.8)	59.5 (15.3)	94.7 (34.8)
Mean daily maximum °F (°C)	23.0 (−5.0)	27.4 (−2.6)	36.8 (2.7)	49.7 (9.8)	63.8 (17.7)	72.7 (22.6)	77.4 (25.2)	76.6 (24.8)	67.7 (19.8)	54.2 (12.3)	41.3 (5.2)	29.3 (−1.5)	51.8 (11.0)
Daily mean °F (°C)	12.6 (−10.8)	16.1 (−8.8)	26.1 (−3.3)	39.4 (4.1)	52.0 (11.1)	61.5 (16.4)	66.7 (19.3)	65.3 (18.5)	56.6 (13.7)	44.6 (7.0)	33.7 (0.9)	20.8 (−6.2)	41.4 (5.2)
Mean daily minimum °F (°C)	2.3 (−16.5)	4.9 (−15.1)	15.4 (−9.2)	29.1 (−1.6)	40.2 (4.6)	50.3 (10.2)	56.0 (13.3)	54.0 (12.2)	45.4 (7.4)	35.0 (1.7)	26.1 (−3.3)	12.4 (−10.9)	31.0 (−0.6)
Record low °F (°C)	−32.1 (−35.6)	−28.9 (−33.8)	−24.2 (−31.2)	−0.2 (−17.9)	25.2 (−3.8)	32.0 (0.0)	40.7 (4.8)	35.7 (2.1)	26.0 (−3.3)	17.7 (−7.9)	−3.7 (−19.8)	−29.0 (−33.9)	−32.1 (−35.6)
Average precipitation inches (mm)	2.94 (75)	2.47 (63)	2.99 (76)	3.53 (90)	3.74 (95)	4.07 (103)	3.93 (100)	3.87 (98)	3.81 (97)	4.15 (105)	4.25 (108)	3.54 (90)	43.29 (1,100)
Average relative humidity (%)	74.1	70.8	64.6	60.1	60.1	65.9	70.2	69.6	71.0	72.2	74.0	76.6	69.1
Average dew point °F (°C)	5.9 (−14.5)	8.3 (−13.2)	15.8 (−9.0)	26.7 (−2.9)	38.6 (3.7)	50.0 (10.0)	56.7 (13.7)	55.1 (12.8)	47.3 (8.5)	36.2 (2.3)	26.3 (−3.2)	14.6 (−9.7)	31.9 (−0.1)
Source: PRISM

Link for the Koppen Climate Types which is the most frequently referenced climate system. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%B6ppen_climate_classification

Link to a Wikipedia page for a guy that created Koppen Climate maps for each state using PRISM data (scroll way down). He uses the -3C isotherm instead of the 0C isotherm for dividing Subtropical and Continental climates. It looks like some of the higher peaks in Baxter have a Subarctic climate type while all other elevations have a Warm summer, humid continental climate. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Redtitan

Link for USDA Interactive Map for average annual extreme minimum temperature. https://planthardiness.ars.usda.gov/PHZMWeb/InteractiveMap.aspx

Link for heat index calculator. I add 10F to the average high temperature in the warmest month combined with adding 10F to the average dew point for that month for the heat index wording. https://www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/html/heatindex.shtml

Link for wind chill calculator. I use the average annual extreme minimum temperature with a wind speed of 5 mph for the wind chill wording. http://www.onlineconversion.com/windchill.htm

Additional link I use sometimes for average first spring leafout. Click “Access Phenology Maps”, “Go To Visualization Tool”, “Data Explorer”, “Map”, “Next”, “Layer Category  Spring Indicies”, “Layer  30-year Average”, “Leaf or Bloom  First Leaf”. Then zoom in and click location. https://www.usanpn.org/data/visualizations

References

Okay, thanks for the reply. This is much better than I thought it was. Longer reply forthcoming on your talk page when I get the time. Thanks, —Soap— 19:42, 29 July 2020 (UTC)

Safeguard

1. Triclo is not an abbreviation for triclosan, it is not explained in the animated series.

2. The same goes for TCC.

And Commander Safeguard is not a soldier from earth so we can not judge him. he is often called just Commander by Pakistani doctors and Commander Uncle by kids.

But a term of address is different than a title. e.g. i would call a sergeant "Sergeant" if i was addressing them directly, and in some situations would call a teacher "Teacher", but it would be ungrammatical in US English to say something such as Teacher gave the students too much homework. because teacher is not a proper noun. But this TV show is clearly aimed at a Pakistani audience so I will defer to your recommendations. —Soap— 20:08, 1 September 2020 (UTC)

Thanks and BTL stands for Below-The-Line. I also edited the page.

Correction

Can you checkout Noori Natt and Maula Jatt (character) and see if you can find any mistake. Thanks

Replied on your talk page. —Soap— 21:42, 4 September 2020 (UTC)

OK thank for advice.

Kamloops

I'm so sorry. I had the diffs completely backwards. I actually restored what I thought I was removing, which is why my edit summary didn't make sense. I've undone myself (allowing your removal to stand). I'll keep an eye on the talk page thread but you and the original editor are much more knowledgeable about weather issues than I am. Meters (talk) 02:58, 16 September 2020 (UTC)

Nomination of Telikin for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Telikin is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Telikin until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Guy Macon (talk) 06:05, 17 September 2020 (UTC)

Northern Pole of Cold

Hello,

apparently the World Meteorological Organization is a trustful source so why deny their record ? The northern hemisphere cold record is not the northern hemisphere cold record in inhabited places so the fact that « nobody lives » there is not a good argument. In that case, Vostok shouldn’t be considered as the Cold pole : nobody lives there except a scientific community and besides Vostok is at 3,489 m. So if you don’t consider Klinck (3,105 m) at a lower elevation than Vostok, then you have also to erase Vostok from the records. If you consider that all spots not at sea level are unimpressive in that case, Oymyakon must be forgotten because it is also too high (745 m) and already a « mountain » station.

Another remark : Eismitte, near the summit of Greenland, has a mean annual temperature of about - 30°C, a coldest month mean of - 47°C and a warmest month mean of -12°C compared to respectively about -15,5°C, -46,4°C and 14,9°C in Oymyakon. Sure the Greenland data cover a very short period (1 August 1930 to 6 August 1931) however I don’t think that these data are absurd. So do you really consider that the Sakha region is colder than the summit of Greenland ?

Once again if the central Plateau of Antartica is considered as the Cold Pole then the summit of Greenland must be considered as the northern cold Pole. That Verkhoiansk, Delyankir and Oymyakon are among the coldest places in winter in the Northern hemisphere is undeniable but the summit of Greenland is also in that case and in particular holds the lowest ever temperature recorded in the Northern hemisphere up to date.

And about the records of the inhabited places, you have sections in wikipedia so you may talk about Siberia in these dedicated sections.

This is why I think there is no reason not to restore my edits.

You can rewrite these articles and eventually associate Verkhoiansk, Delyankir and Oymyakon with Klinck but not erase Greenland. --Carlo Colussi (talk) 09:46, 25 October 2020 (UTC)

Thanks, that's a very well written reply. I understand your argument fully. However we're not the ones in charge here, .... we can't tell the scientific community what the term Pole of Cold means.

Unless and until we hear that the definition of the term has changed, we should keep our pages the way they were. I don't think a high-altitude record low temperature is impressive enough to outrank a temperature record from a low-altitude settled place. We see the same attitude within smaller locations. For example, Pikes Peak is likely the coldest location in Colorado with weather observations, but there's no town on top of the mountain, so we talk about Gunnison, Colorado instead. —Soap— 13:37, 25 October 2020 (UTC)

Climax, Colorado is the coldest town in Colorado with an average temperature of 32.2F, while Gunnison only has an average of 37.7F.

Climax Climate Data: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/services/data/v1?dataset=normals-monthly-1991-2020&stations=USC00051660&format=pdf&dataTypes=MLY-TMAX-NORMAL,MLY-TMIN-NORMAL,MLY-TAVG-NORMAL,MLY-PRCP-NORMAL,MLY-SNOW-NORMAL

Gunnison Climate Data: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/services/data/v1?dataset=normals-monthly-1991-2020&stations=USC00053662&format=pdf&dataTypes=MLY-TMAX-NORMAL,MLY-TMIN-NORMAL,MLY-TAVG-NORMAL,MLY-PRCP-NORMAL,MLY-SNOW-NORMAL Akamaikai (talk) 01:26, 18 August 2022 (UTC)

Thank you, I didnt know that station was there. It's very similar to Wolf Creek Pass but slightly colder in every month. Both are colder than Gunnison, but strictly speaking, neither station is located in a town, so Gunnison still wins the prize. —Soap— 12:35, 18 August 2022 (UTC)

What about Fraser? Akamaikai (talk) 02:53, 19 August 2022 (UTC)

Thanks. I will reply on your talk page when I get a chance. That looks like it is indeed colder than Gunnison, and the nearby town of Winter Park may also be. But I want to say more and to put it in a more convenient place. —Soap— 09:40, 19 August 2022 (UTC)

Re: Climate edits

Wow...thank you so much for your kind words. No one's ever complimented me like that before. Yeah, haha. My username is kinda unusual, but I realized that after I created my account. I'm actually only 17, but I'm keen to learn more about the weather, so thanks for your offer for help. :) There's actually a bunch of people who enjoy weather related stuff like creating fantasy climate tables on the Weather Forum at Citydata.com. Again, thank you for your kind words, and I will continue to help contribute towards Wikipedia in a positive way. Old Hoar's Frost (talk) 01:47, 3 November 2020 (UTC)

Merry Christmas

Hello Soap: From high in the Canadian Arctic I hope you enjoy the holiday season, Quviasukvik, the Winter or Summer solstice, Christmas, Eid, Diwali, Hogmanay, Hanukkah or even the Saturnalia, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Huliva 10:09, 24 December 2020 (UTC)

Adapted from {{Season's Greetings}}

Thank you ... Merry Christmas to you as well. I love your photos. —Soap— 20:50, 24 December 2020 (UTC)

Appreciation for your help with Moonbug Entertainment

I want to express my appreciation for all the work you are doing to help improve the Moonbug Entertainment article. It is nice to work with someone who is helpful, clear, and quick. I wonder if you might not mind helping with another article, which is now in draft space. Could you take a look at Draft: My Magic Pet Morphle and see if you think it can be admitted into Wikipedia main space? If you think it is ready, can you move it? And if you think it needs some more work, can you please tell me what you think needs to still be done, and I can implement those suggestions? I thank you again for all your help. Eloise Moonbug (talk) 16:46, 11 March 2021 (UTC)

Thank you so much for taking My Magic Pet Morphle out of draft and into main space. Your efforts are appreciated. Looking forward to continuing to work together on more editing projects. Eloise Moonbug (talk) 14:26, 15 March 2021 (UTC)

About Template:Beijing weatherbox, Record High Temp 25.6°C in February

Source1: https://m.weibo.cn/1920136013/4607145078692437
Source2: http://bj.cma.gov.cn/xwzx/mtjj/202103/t20210301_2791007.html

O7a02y1l(talk) 07:07, 15 March 2021 (UTC)

Requesting help with the Blippi draft page

Hi, I just put up a draft of a new Wikipedia article about Blippi the children's TV show. I am contacting you because you have been so helpful in the past with other children's programming articles for which I have made edit requests. I am hoping you will examine the draft, make any needed corrections, additions, and/or suggestions, and then put the draft into Wikipedia mainspace. I sincerely thank you and am grateful for all your help. Eloise Moonbug (talk) 11:38, 30 June 2021 (UTC)

@Eloise Moonbug: I see one sentence in the Blippi actors section that looks like it's cut off, and I would leave it up to you to finish that sentence since Im not sure what you intended.

However ... I dont know how else to say this, but I dont feel comfortable signing off on edits like these. I've had problems with my eyesight for about six years now, and even with magnification and color highlighting I have a difficult time especially with running text. That's why my edits lately are mostly to weather boxes ... everything I need to see is a different color, and in the edit window everything I need to see is on a different line. It's hard to explain how I can be so active here, even typing these paragraphs, and at the same time claim that I have difficulty reading the screen, but I've made embarrassing mistakes before and I don't want to risk it happening on a high profile article. I've avoided using the {{Done}} template lately for this reason.

I will still watch pages like these for obvious changes like vandalism, but I was really hoping that by now someone else would have picked up this particular project or that you'd be approved to make the edits directly. I'm sorry I can't say or do more.

Thank you,

—Soap— 17:29, 30 June 2021 (UTC)

I should add that the reason I didnt bring this up earlier is that I was worried about backlash, and whether people would start poring over all my other edits looking for messes I'd made. I think, though, given the time that has passed since I last worked in content editing, anything that needed to be fixed is surely all set by now. —Soap— 19:53, 30 June 2021 (UTC)

Hi Soap, Thank you for all the work you have done. I understand your hesitation. I will reach out to DanishtD (formerly BengkelBerkah05) to take a look at the draft, but if you know any other editors that you think might be helpful,please let me know who else I can reach out to for help. Thanks for pointing out that sentence in the Actors section. Most importantly, I wish you good health. Eloise Moonbug (talk) 11:23, 1 July 2021 (UTC)

Hefsek taharah edits reverted

While I can understand your incredulity about the Jewish ritual of Hefsek taharah the description that you removed was accurate, so I reverted your edit. The reason that it took someone a while to respond is probably because we Orthodox Jews consider it "immodest" (cf. Tzniut) to discuss the topic. Young brides and grooms are given this instruction prior to the wedding, (in fact, in Israel they are required by the Rabbinate to attend classes on the topic before the wedding can take place), and it is otherwise not generally discussed openly. If you have tagged and/or removed other aspects of Orthodox Jewish life that may have seemed "incredible" to you, I'd appreciate your letting me know. As with Hefsek Taharah I can probably dig up a citation or two. And feel free to contact me directly with questions so it won't take me a year to notice your confusion. :-) --Eliyahu S ^Talk 03:54, 15 July 2021 (UTC)

Request to move Gecko's Garage from draft to mainspace

Hi, I know you said it's difficult for you to assess new article drafts, but this one is very short and straightforward, so I thought you might make an exception. I totally understand if you're still unable. Please help publish a new article to mainspace about Gecko's Garage, it is in my user space. It is greatly appreciated. Thanks so much, Eloise Moonbug (talk) 08:40, 15 September 2021 (UTC)

@Eloise Moonbug: it should be good now. Im glad I could help. —Soap— 14:27, 15 September 2021 (UTC)

Thank you for all your help. I really appreciate it! Eloise Moonbug (talk) 11:13, 27 September 2021 (UTC)

Copyright violation

One of your recent edits has been removed in whole or in part, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Wikipedia. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted material, including text or images from print publications or from other websites, without an appropriate and verifiable license. All such contributions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images—you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously, and persistent violators of our copyright policy will be blocked from editing. See Wikipedia:Copying text from other sources for more information.

This edit by you removed a copyright violation warning and effectively means that from a reader's point of view, you inserted material violating copyright. In principle, that means that your edit violated copyright on Wikipedia, despite there being a very clear warning. Boud (talk) 23:34, 5 November 2021 (UTC)

I apologize ... that was (I hope) an obvious mistake. I had thought that the offending text was the list of URLs within the template and therefore not conequential enough to even bother rewording. It may sound hard to believe that I was that dumb, but it made perfect sense to me at the time and I didnt even think to look back. I will be more careful from now on. —Soap— 10:00, 6 November 2021 (UTC)

ArbCom 2021 Elections voter message

Hello! Voting in the 2021 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23:59 (UTC) on Monday, 6 December 2021. All eligible users are allowed to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate in the 2021 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. If you no longer wish to receive these messages, you may add {{NoACEMM}} to your user talk page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:07, 23 November 2021 (UTC)

Long time no chat!

Hi Soap! I hope you're doing well and that you've had a great day! We used to chat on IRC quite frequently back in the day... Obviously, a lot has happened since then (1, 2). ;-) I know that you were going through some hard times, and I remember us talking about it quite a bit. I obviously kept myself informed with what was going on and how you were doing... Off and on, I'd think about you quite a lot. I had the (bad) assumption that you wouldn't be back and that we'd never talk again... Yet, you are back! And... well, sadly, we haven't spoken to one another for years after the fact. I feel badly about that, and I apologize... I should've reached out to you after I saw that you were back, and I should've at least tried to get in touch with you. Unfortunately, I was finding myself ridiculously busy with on-wiki tasks as well as my real-life workload, and it never happened. I was going through some old logs and edits, and I happened to run into an event that you triggered. This is why I'm here - to say hello, and to do what I should've done a long time ago. I really hope you're doing well, and please know that I'm available on the same exact channels that you and I used to talk in. I just wanted to leave you a message and let you know that I was thinking about you... ~Oshwah~^{(talk) (contribs)} 08:44, 14 January 2022 (UTC)

Thanks. It's good to hear from you. A well-written, cheerful, thoughtful greeting deserves more than a one-line response, so I'll contact you through email. But I'll say publically that I've moved on to newer social media platforms and that there isn't much I can do on Wikipedia these days. —Soap— 15:17, 17 January 2022 (UTC)

Having read the message on your talkpage that every email sends you a page, I think I'll hold off, but you're welcome to email me. Thank you, —Soap— 20:04, 21 January 2022 (UTC)

EFH request notifications

Hi Soap, I'm aware of what happened with Technical 13 and am also aware that most of the people I notified aren't active anymore. WP:EFH#Process_for_requesting required me to send out notifications to anyone who was involved in the discussion of my previous request. It seemed like you thought I expected Technical 13 to respond so I figured I'd clarify the reason for the notices. PHANTOMTECH (talk) 10:24, 13 July 2022 (UTC)

Just wanted to say hi!

Hi Soap! I hope that you're doing well and that life is treating you nicely! :-) We go quite a long ways back, and we haven't spoken to one another in quite some time. I just wanted to drop you a note and say hi, and let you know that I was thinking about you... If you're down for it, you should email me. I'd like to catch up with you one-on-one and see how you've been. :-) Cheers - ~Oshwah~^{(talk) (contribs)} 03:37, 1 October 2022 (UTC)

ArbCom 2022 Elections voter message

Hello! Voting in the 2022 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23:59 (UTC) on Monday, 12 December 2022. All eligible users are allowed to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

If you wish to participate in the 2022 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. If you no longer wish to receive these messages, you may add {{NoACEMM}} to your user talk page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:23, 29 November 2022 (UTC)

Evidence on abnormally high temperatures in Beijing in February 2021

I downloaded the temperature data of Beijing in February 2021 from NOAA[2], and the result is that the highest temperature on February 21, 2021 is indeed 78.1 °F (25.6 °C). The WMO ID value at Beijing Meteorological Station is 54511. ALSTROEMERIA🌸Čijukas Kuvajamas 10:50, 30 April 2023 (UTC)

wiktionary

Thanks for the info. I have left two comments in the delete discusion page. The last one goes:

Delete. Now after a more time for reflection I consider this template competely useless. I would have deleted it myself, but for some reason which I ignore, I cannot find in it the option DELETE. Please, do it. noychoH (talk) 09:58, 4 June 2023 (UTC)

Generally, the discussion needs to go through a month. I'm not an administrator here or there, so I can't delete the page myself either. I see you've typed the same message there, which is all that I would have done. It's better to have your name on the message, anyway. All the best, —Soap— 10:00, 4 June 2023 (UTC)

visual editor test

i plan to delete this section soon.

i think the visual editor tool is poorly designed, as it requires the user to hobble back and forth from the keyboard to the mouse just to type a link, or to use wiki formatting such as italics, since it automatically "corrects" all use of links and MediaWiki formatting to nonfunctional string literals and there is no way around this that i can see. this is bad by itself, but even a user willing to use the keyboard and mouse simultaneously is given an inconvenient interface, which seems to be the same as in the mainspace, which i suspect is difficult on purpose to discourage people from WP:overlinking. But on a talk page comment, anyone adding a link really intends it to be useful, and it is quite often not to a mainspace page, so the UI should not be "inconvenient on purpose" to discourage links. —Soap— 06:08, 23 October 2023 (UTC)

on Wiktionary there is a similar tool for talkpages only, which I think could also use some improvement, but is overall much better than the tool here on Wikipedia because it does not forcibly "correct" the use of MediaWiki syntax such as [[ ]] and '' '' which are for the majority of users far more convenient to use than switching from the keyboard to the mouse and back again for every single link and highlight. —Soap— 06:10, 23 October 2023 (UTC)

Mark Geragos

Since you have edited Mark Geragos in the past, perhaps you could take a look at its recent editing history. Note that an edit has been reverted several times for reasons that have nothing to do with actual content. 49.49.42.55 (talk) 18:57, 11 November 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for the notice, but I can't really help. My sole edit was to the talk page, not the article, and I was only replying to a very old comment about the unusual lack of -ian in his Armenian surname. —Soap— 19:22, 11 November 2023 (UTC)

Disambiguation link notification for November 14

An automated process has detected that when you recently edited Wet and messy fetishism, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Slime.

(Opt-out instructions.) --DPL bot (talk) 06:06, 14 November 2023 (UTC)

ArbCom 2023 Elections voter message

Hello! Voting in the 2023 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23:59 (UTC) on Monday, 11 December 2023. All eligible users are allowed to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

If you wish to participate in the 2023 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. If you no longer wish to receive these messages, you may add {{NoACEMM}} to your user talk page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:24, 28 November 2023 (UTC)

"History of the Jin Dynasty(265-420)" listed at Redirects for discussion

The redirect History of the Jin Dynasty(265-420) has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Anyone, including you, is welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2024 January 18 § History of the Jin Dynasty(265-420) until a consensus is reached. Steel1943 (talk) 21:09, 18 January 2024 (UTC)

North Fork Pass (Yukon) moved to draftspace

Thanks for your contributions to North Fork Pass (Yukon). Unfortunately, I do not think it is ready for publishing at this time because it has no sources. I have converted your article to a draft which you can improve, undisturbed for a while.

Please see more information at Help:Unreviewed new page. When the article is ready for publication, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page OR move the page back. Significa liberdade (she/her) (talk) 00:22, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

Im not sure a full-size Wikipedia article can be created for an uninhabited mountain pass such as this. If we cannot have stubs, what should we do about disambiguation pages like North Fork Pass, which consist entirely of redlinks? Could this be instead a redirect to Tombstone Territorial Park? Thanks, —Soap— 00:43, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

"Cheaper by the Dozen 3: The White House Wreck" listed at Redirects for discussion

The redirect Cheaper by the Dozen 3: The White House Wreck has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Anyone, including you, is welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2024 April 10 § Cheaper by the Dozen 3: The White House Wreck until a consensus is reached. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 23:30, 10 April 2024 (UTC)

Concern regarding Draft:North Fork Pass (Yukon)

Hello, Soap. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that Draft:North Fork Pass (Yukon), a page you created, has not been edited in at least 5 months. Drafts that have not been edited for six months may be deleted, so if you wish to retain the page, please edit it again or request that it be moved to your userspace.

If the page has already been deleted, you can request it be undeleted so you can continue working on it.

Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 01:07, 1 September 2024 (UTC)

see above for why i havent edited it or made a redirect, maybe later —Soap— 10:15, 1 September 2024 (UTC)

ArbCom 2024 Elections voter message

Hello! Voting in the 2024 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23:59 (UTC) on Monday, 2 December 2024. All eligible users are allowed to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

If you wish to participate in the 2024 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. If you no longer wish to receive these messages, you may add {{NoACEMM}} to your user talk page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:09, 19 November 2024 (UTC)