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Fluffy Little Kitten

Hiya, you deleted my page. It was my first one on wikipedia and I deliberately used existing articles as an an example. I searched for loads of children's book entries to see what they had on the them, and used the mr men series as a template for what I wrote. I just wanted to put my kid's favourite books up on wikipeda. Do I have to do anything else to make the article more encyclopedia-ish (if that's a word)? or is it liable to be deleted at any time? I'm willing to make changes... Louisdonowa (talk) 17:52, 6 June 2009 (UTC)

Mount Garibaldi

Hi Mav. Since you seem to be the creator of the Mount Garibaldi article and have contributed to many featured articles, would you be interested to try and get Mount Garibaldi featured? I've been a major contributor to some Canadian volcano articles (e.g. Mount Garibaldi, Mount Cayley, Mount Meager, Tseax Cone, Anahim hotspot, Mount Edziza) but haven't got any featured yet and probably most of them should be; the Tseax Cone was the source for a tragic eruption during the 18th century that killled 2,000 Nisga'a people. If you're intrested bringing Garibaldi or the other volcanoes I listed above to featured status, contact me on my talk page.

Note: I have been wanting to get some of these articles featured and I'll try and do my best to bring these to featured status, but it's hard for me to do so because I'm almost the main one who works on them. Black Tusk 02:34, 26 2008 (UTC)

I just expanded the history section. As for Meager and Cayley, I don't know what's needed for those volcanoes. Meager almost looks just as good as the Garibaldi article, but Cayley probably needs some expansion; I'm currently working on the "eruption scenerio" for that article.

As for information, if you can't find anymore infomation in your library, search google; that's where I found most of the infomation and there's probably still lots to add (e.g. climbing, climate, recreation). Black Tusk 18:34, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

Mav, can you put something in the article where the eruptions came from during Garibald's three eruption phases? I'm asking you this because you seem to have been the one who added the infomation. I think Atwell Peak was the source for several pyroclastic flows. Black Tusk 01:23, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

I'll take another look. --mav

Thanks. Just letting you know Mount Garibaldi is a current featured article candidate. However, there's problems with some of the references and it's getting questions and comments about the article and probably needs more WikiProject Volcanoes members involved in the dicussion and fix problems in the article to make it Featured Status. Black Tusk 22:13, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

Old peer review

Here is a peer review that slipped through the cracks and was never archived. Meow. --Cryptic C62 · Talk 10:43, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

Hacked?

Was your Wikipedia account hacked? I've noticed that you've put just white spaces to several articles, and I'm reverting them. Warut (talk) 09:02, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

Not hacked - I'm just reviewing the articles up to that point. --mav

Oh! Sorry for my misunderstanding! Warut (talk) 16:11, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

It's OK. I normally make small, but valid edits when reviewing. In the future I'll make sure to put something like 'reviewed' in the edit comment field. --mav

Pre-historic smelting of tin.

As a geologist, would you say the description of high tin-content cassiterite in the article smelting is NPOV and accurate? (" The process through which the smiths learned to produce copper/tin bronzes is once again a mystery. The first such bronzes were probably a lucky accident from tin contamination of copper ores, but by 2000BC we know that tin was being mined on purpose for the production of bronze. This is amazing, given that tin is a semi-rare metal, and even a rich cassiterite ore only has 5% tin. Also, cassiterite looks like any common rock, and it takes special skills (or special instruments) to find it and locate the richer lodes. But, whatever steps were taken to learn about tin, these were fully understood by 2000BC.") I am specifically interested in your view of the wording: "cassiterite looks like any common rock, and it takes special skills (or special instruments) to find it and locate the richer lodes." Is this in your view relevant and accurate? How sophisticated knowledge are we necessarily predicating here, to identify a likely source of tin? -- Cimon Avaro; on a pogostick. (talk) 23:17, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

That could certainly be worded to be more encyclopedic and less chatty. But I'm not familiar enough with that mineral to say if it is NPOV or not. --mav

Cambrian explosion task force

Hi,

I'm posting this message because you're listed as a participant in WikiProject Geology. I've set up a task force aiming to improve Wikipedia's coverage of the Cambrian explosion, and I was wondering whether you may be interested in helping out? If you would like to help in any way, you could cast an eye over the task force page and see if there are any articles or tasks that take your fancy! Any contributions would be greatly appreciated. (After that I might be tempted to join you on getting period pages up to a good status...)

Best wishes,

Smith609 Talk 15:06, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

Helium Featured Article Review

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Oxygen

Hey, there is an issue about the article, and is about one of the references you added. I am not sure exactly what is the answer, so please see the talk page. Nergaal (talk) 21:42, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

Rating

Hi Mav. Could you take a look at Garibaldi's article and see what its current rating might be? It's currently GA but it has been expanded and better organized since it was last reviewed. It's also very similar in structure to some FA volcano articles (e.g. Mount St. Helens and Mount Pinatubo). I'm not saying it's FA status, but the article looks nearly complete; the introduction probably needs expansion because of the article's great size and expansion about the indigenous people (which does in fact have several sources of infomation for expansion). Anyway just asking you because I know you have made several contributions to FA articles and you said you would love to collaborate if additional source can be found. Black Tusk (talk) 04:49, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

With that being said, there seems to be more infomation about Garibaldi's ancestral activity in a book called Volcanoes of North America: United States and Canada and about Canadian volcano monitoring on the Geological Survey of Canada website. Black Tusk (talk) 05:10, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

Certainly is GA, but I'd like to see an expanded lead section and more book references before this goes to FAC. Thanks for the book suggestion - I've added it to my Amazon wish list. Side note: I wish there were more (and longer!) books like that. One of the reasons I add more to the element articles than anything else is due the relative ease I've had in finding several good books on the subject. --mav

The book is actually being used as one of the references in the article if you want to have a look. I have also recently created and majorly contributed to the Mount Edziza volcanic complex article which is already 43 kilobytes long and GA status. Maybe this is this something you would find interesting as well since it's a huge volcano (an area of about 1000 km² and consists of about 775 km³ of basalt, trachyte and rhyolite) that is studied in detail and is a long-lived volcanic center ranging in age from about 7 million years old to present. It's a volcano that can catch someones interest since volcanoes don't usually last for 7 or 8 million years. I'm sure that can be turned into a FA no problem since there appears to be lots of infomation about it, see here for example. I have also completed a new map of the volcano as Image:Mount Edziza volcanic complex2.jpg. Give me your thoughts ;-). Black Tusk (talk) 05:49, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

And I ment to tell you there appears to be some conflicting infomation about Garibaldi's ancestral activity in the book I mentioned above compared to your original version of the article for some reason. Maybe when you get the book you could figure something out. Black Tusk (talk) 02:46, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

I used the first edition of Fire Mountains of the West by Harris. I just put the revised 2005 edition on my wish list (along with some other volcano books). I've been bogged down with chemical element articles and FARs lately (not to mention work) but really need to switch focus back to geology. Hopefully soon... --mav

No problem. The infomation is actually fine, but some sources seem to consider Dalton Dome as the final stage of activity insted of Opal Cone being the last. I searched the area on Google Earth and I had no luck finding a crater or lava flows at Dalton Dome. However, Opal Cone seems to have a small summit crater with a long dacite lava flow; see Image:Ring Creek lava flow.jpg. Black Tusk (talk) 03:56, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

I recently received a couple books on N. American volcanoes and will be coming back to this area before too long. --mav

You are invited...

to join the Volcanoes Wiki! Questions can be directed to my main user page. MeldshalP (talk) 14:31, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

hey

hey this is jesse jills son its been awhile since i have seen you i was just wondering how things were going? btw very impressive wikipage jessebdawg (talk) 11:03, 29 September 2008 (UTC) jessebdawg

Hi Jesse! Nice to hear from you again. :) --mav

Yeah I was thinking of making an article about Mather Youth Academy. And there have been a few articles I've wanted to edit but couldnt find any sources for bibliography or whatever.Have you heard from dee lately? My mom said she thought she was moving back to Sacramento but wasnt sure. U got an email? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jessebdawg (talk • contribs) 06:31, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

Excellent suggestion at WT:FAC

My reply (which comes 23827 pages later, since I made the mistake of sleeping for 8 hours instead of keeping up with the discussion), was:

I support whatever works for Sandy and the active reviewers. If you're going to go with a shorter timeframe, I think the prize for best idea (among many) above goes to User:mav (with 22 FAs btw): "I've never really understood why FAC does not require an article to have recently gone through a successful PR or a WikiProject A-class assessment or a GAN or whatever prior to submittal to FAC." I'd support either a requirement or a recommendation. If all of the 4 review processes (FAC, PR, A-class and GAN) encourage the others to produce tight descriptions of why the article passed, including why the sources are good for what they're used for, and all encourage the others to start new reviews by reading the summaries of the previous ones, then we could save some time and have better reviews. - Dan Dank55 (send/receive) 15:02, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the vote of confidence. :) --mav

Pr request

Could you look over Nevado del Ruiz? I've been working and picking at it for a while, and I finally want to bring it to FAC. Thanks. —Ceranthor (formerly LordSunday) · (Testify!) 23:29, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

Sure - I'm not familiar with mountains/volcanoes in South America but I'll give it a shot (at least by the end of the weekend). --mav

Hi Mav!

One of my favorite pages here on wikipedia is the wikipediaholism test. Did you know that you are the first editor that is still active on wikipedia as of 10/7/08 to edit that page? In other words, you were the first editor to edit that page, and you are still active on wikipedia. And I beleive you've been contributing since 2001 or 2002. That's a long time! Just wanted to say hi. Drop my talk page sometime! Thank You- entertainU (talk) 03:29, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

This wikiaddiction looks like it will be a lifelong obsession. :) My goodness is there still so much work to do. Thanks for the note. --mav

FACR

Mav, you posted at one or more of the recent discussions of short FAs. There's now a proposal to change the featured article criteria that attempts to address this. Please take a look and consider adding your comments to the straw poll there. Mike Christie (talk) 20:04, 11 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads-up. --mav

Old page histories

Hi Mav. For a while now, I've been working on fixing very old (circa 2002) cut and paste moves, at first on place names, then in other topics. I've noted down some observations about page history, including page history that has disappeared from Wikipedia, at User:Graham87/Page history observations.

Your name popped up often while I was doing this work, because you enforced the naming conventions so consistently by using the only available method, cut and paste moves. I found a tool that listed the articles created by a user, and used this URL (which takes a long time to load), to find articles where you made the edit with the lowest ID number (which often isn't the first edit for some of the early stuff). I think I've corrected all the cut-and-paste moves on that list.

How did you makethis edit? I thought that the move function was introduced in late August 2002, and before that, only cut and paste moves were possible. How about this edit, which you probably didn't make? Was there something screwy in the software that munged the page histories when moving a page? Graham87 14:54, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

IIRC the move function was first enabled for admins but it was experimental and did not always work cleanly. The screwy things you see are likely the result of that. --mav

Wyoming picture

I saw your picture of Kemmerer, Wyoming, taken in June of 2003. If you have regular access to Kemmerer, could you please get a picture of the Lincoln County Courthouse in the city? Thanks! Nyttend (talk) 19:08, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

Sure - although it might be some time before I re-visit that part of the country. --mav

Heelllpp

Its monday morning here and I really shouldn't be on the computer but I have a problem at FAC with major depressive disorder...some of the harvard formatting isn't working, and can it be done with cite book instead of citation format? Cheers, Casliber (talk · contribs) 20:48, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

Looks like the content of the references are the major referencing issue. If those are resolved, then I can help with any technical referencing issues. --mav

Policy question

Since you have been around for a while maybe you could take a look at this: Wikipedia talk:What Wikipedia is not#Not censored versus not anarchy. In a nutshell: An Editor made a post that starts off "I am about to make a WP:BOLD edit..." I replied with the "Any edit to this page should reflect consensus" and to please not make edits. The Editor replied back "No - that's not how consensus works on policy pages". Thanks Soundvisions1 (talk) 20:04, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

Sounds odd. Comment added. --mav

Following up

Not that is did any good but thanks for the response. The Editors reply to you starts off with "I'll edit how I please" and concludes "You don't like it, revert me or take me to AN/I or arbitration.". That Editor aside there is a borderline edit war going on as well with other editors. (Edit History) I am hesitant to "be bold" here because it seems like editing this policy without consensus has been going on for years. Soundvisions1 (talk) 12:25, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

It looks like this has been resolved through the reverts of others. Trust in the system worked in this case. --mav

Bryce Canyon National Park

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Niobium

You uploaded the image:Nb-TableImage.png and for the FAC Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Niobium a auther would be nice for the image! Thanks --Stone (talk) 19:17, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

for "Image:Charles Hatchett.jpg" also. Nergaal (talk) 19:33, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

Added. --mav

PR

Hey Mav, would you try to help me as Nevado del Ruiz is at peer review again? —Ceran ♦ (talk) 00:16, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

Do you have any suggestions for where I could find sources? See the PR again, please. ;) —Ceran ♦ (talk) 01:45, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

Comment added. --mav

Another one...

Could you help out at this peer review, too? Thanks, —Ceran ♦ ♦ (speak) 23:35, 29 November 2008 (UTC)

PR

Can you come back to Nevado's PR? I think I've addressed all the concerns. —Ceranthor 21:52, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

FAR notice

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Plutonium allotropes image

The infobox causes a conflict with the image that creates a blank space in the text. Maybe it doesn't look big on your computer, but on my widescreen laptop it's a very large blank space that is created. I've tried twice to fix it by making the image fall directly below the infobox. If you don't like my solution that's fine, but then you need to find a way to fix it please. Rreagan007 (talk) 15:24, 18 December 2008 (UTC)

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Ploot oxide colors

Some fascinating stuff on the colors of tarnish on Pu metal. I remember reading that it turned almost violet; the article had gray or yellow. http://arq.lanl.gov/source/orgs/nmt/nmtdo/AQarchive/3rdQuarter08/page3.shtml seems to indicate that the oxide can take many colors. How should we best deal with this in the article? --John (talk) 03:42, 22 December 2008 (UTC)

I'm not sure how exactly to deal with the gray vs yellow tarnish bit but I think you talking about the different colors of Pu in aqueous solution, which is already well-documented in the article. What the solid metal does is going to differ. --mav

No, the link makes clear that it is the solid oxide. --John (talk) 04:22, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

Volcanoes

Hey. Just letting you know I am collecting infomation to try and get Volcanism in Canada to FA status. I already have rewriten infomation for this article stored in my system 60 kilobytes long but tons of infomation still needs to be added. The volcanism dates back at least 3,100 million years ago..... Black Tusk (talk) 02:01, 28 December 2008 (UTC)

Cool - sounds interesting. I'll take a look once you get that info uploaded to the article. --mav

No problem. However, I currently have a section issue. Central Canada includes Ontario and Quebec, but according to the Eastern Canada article, Eastern Canada includes Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland and Labrador. Should Central Canada and Eastern Canada be separate sections or should Central Canada be merged with Eastern Canada? Black Tusk (talk) 05:29, 28 December 2008 (UTC)

I guess Central Canada is a subdivision of Eastern Canada because Atlantic Canada is part of Eastern Canada as well. I'll make Atlantic Canada and Central Canada sub-sections of Eastern Canada for now. Black Tusk (talk) 06:11, 28 December 2008 (UTC)

OK, I just posed the infomation. A bit lengthy, but should do the job. Some of the references still need information though. Black Tusk (talk) 19:54, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

Plutonium

Hi, Daniel. Congratulations on your latest featured article: "Plutonium". Perhaps you would consider addressing my comments at the article's FAC when you have some time? Best wishes and happy new year. Axl ¤ [Talk] 11:33, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

Thanks - but perhaps the article was promoted too soon. Either way, I already blocked out some time on the 1st to address each of your comments. I'll do so through a PR. --mav

Whoops - saw something shiny. Maybe the weekend. --mav

Pallid sturgeon

Thanks, Mav for reviewing the article on Pallid sturgeon. I have a couple of other articles i plan on working on to improve to FA and will maybe soon work on Grand Teton National Park which maybe you'll also want to help with. Happy holidays.--MONGO 11:59, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

Yes, I'd love to collaborate on the Teton article with you. I wrote much of it but need to cite and clean-up the text I'm responsible for. --mav

Zion National Park

On 8:41 18 Dec, 2008, you made an edit to this page and summarized the changes as "remove unecessary images". I introduced those images to give readers a better sense of what the park looks like in a concise form. You probably do have some criteria you use to determine if an image is unnecessary, but I confess, I don't see what it is. Can you please clarify as to why you made that edit? Kenneth Stephen (talk) 16:37, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

Certainly. The section was crowded with 4 images, which interfered with each other and the text at various browser window configurations, so I removed two; image:KolobCanyon1.jpg was redundant with images of the same thing further in the article and caused the Ansel Adams photo to intrude into the history section and push those images down. image:Cliffs at start of Riverside walk trail.jpg was also redundant with other close-up images of cliff faces. Neither really added much to the geography section that is not taken care of by other images in the article or section. Due to limited space, a decision was needed to improve article layout. --mav

RFC on " Astobiological Potential "

Is what is happening here what I think is happening here? 198.163.53.11 (talk) 20:41, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

IP canvassing spam from a City of Winnipeg network. Make what you will of that. . dave souza, talk 12:45, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

List of Governors of Bombay

Hello Mav. I notice that you are very much interested in British monarchs. I wish to nominate List of Governors of Bombay for FLC. These are Governors, very near to monarchs. Can you copyedit the prose of this list. Actually, there is hardly any prose since this is a List. Help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Kensplanet^T_C 11:13, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

re: Wikipedia:Featured article review/Zion National Park

Thanks for the great improvements so far and your diligence with this. I will take another look in more depth soon. Cirt (talk) 21:23, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

Just so you know. Even though I believe the Zion National Park article is up to FA standard (great job again) I have moved the review to FARC to keep things flowing in the page as a whole. Joelito (talk) 14:46, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

Rod Blagojevich corruption charges

Hey thanks for helping me police the WP:LEAD. I have reverted it once before. I don't run across the paths of almost any of the top ten current FA nominators. I am glad to see you have been able to keep all of your articles up to snuff. You have done a lot of good stuff.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 06:39, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks : ) BTW, your user name - Love it! --mav

you are probably going to be interested in this

Wikipedia:Today's_featured_article/requests#February_23 Nergaal (talk) 17:22, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

Hey, I just noticed your comments. If you are unhappy with the nomination, then feel free to withdraw(=delete) it. I did not realize you would mind. Nergaal (talk) 05:24, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

I'm not unhappy - just don't see as much date connection as discovery or first nuke test. --mav

"the atmosphere contains 0.1 to 4 µg/ml [of zinc]"

I wonder if your edit might contain a typo?[1] The density of the atmosphere at sea level is 1.3 mg/ml (1.3 kg/m³). That implies that Zn is at the ~1000 ppm level. However, the atmosphere is mostly N₂, O₂ and Ar. CO₂ is at the 500 ppm level and other constituents (other than H₂O are less abundant. Zn is not listed in the table "Composition of the Atmosphere" in Astrophysical Quantities (ISBN 0485111500). If the cited number is correct, I wonder if it is in the form of metallic vapor, an oxide vapor or a component of airborne particles, i.e., dust. Best wishes, Walter Siegmund (talk) 01:48, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

Yikes! Thanks for noticing that; ml -> m³. The typo made it off by a million or so. :/ --mav

Yes, 1 ppb is much more likely. Thank you. Walter Siegmund (talk) 02:16, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

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Titanium

The sources for the use in airbus and boing airplanes are a mess. For the older ones the references are roughly the same, but for the larger ones they differ by a factor of two A380 146 metric tons to 77 metric tons and 26 tons in the engines to 11 tons in the engines, this must be resolved! Have you a better source than the two really not good webpages from the article?--Stone (talk) 19:29, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

Not off the top of my head, sadly. Will have to take a closer look next time this article comes up for FAR or PR. --mav

Use of Image:Grand Canyon geologic column.jpeg

Hi Mav.

I inserted your picture: Grand Canyon geologic column.jpeg in the article Formation (stratigraphy) because it is a very nice example for non-geologists of what is a geological formation. Otherwise I would like to know if I can use this same picture in the Portuguese related article: pt:formações geológicas that I am beginning to edit to improve it, as part of a geological point of view (I am a geologist, see my page: User:GeoPotinga). This is necessary because the referred file was not uploaded in the Wikimedia Commons, so, at first, I can't use it in in the Portuguese Wikipedia

--GeoPotinga (talk) 23:10, 14 February 2009 (UTC)

Thanks. :) A commons version is already located at File:Grand Canyon geologic column.jpg. --mav

Sysop on wikt-fr

I just noticed that you are sysop on wikt-fr. Do you really need these tools ? I think it’s more fair to quit this post. (sorry for my bad english). Cdlt, VIGNERON * ^discut. 18:19, 15 February 2009 (UTC)

Done. Thank you for bringing this to my attention. --mav

Greetings from an old friend..and im getting older by the minute.

Hello Daniel this is your friend John Chrispens. I finally found you and im very impressed with your accomplishments. Wikipedia wow, not too shabby. If your ever free send me an email jchrispens@hotmail.com —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jcgadgetman (talk • contribs) 10:23, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

Dude - no way. I'll email you stat. --mav

Thanks and a request

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Thanks for the info. Template added. --mav

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Read the file name and upload summary. That is your description. --mav

Thanks - Just needed to check it WAS your image :)

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re:zinc

Yep, I do think it is ready and the chemistry issues that were raised are small enough that they should be solved during the 3+ weeks of FAC. I am good co-nomming it and I will join in to solve the issues that come up during the FAC. This did take forever... Nergaal (talk) 21:36, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

Cool - let's see what Stone says and then create the FAC page. --mav

The use of 33,200 tons of zinc for pennies I think is calculated in metric tons. The text says somewhere Total zinc metal production was 356,000 tons; a 7% decrease from 1993 and later in the tables the same number occure for 1994 with the subheading Metric tons unless otherwise specified, so I think they use metric in all the document.--Stone (talk) 20:17, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

If you are reasonably confident that ton meant tonne in that document, then please change the wiki article. --mav

Obesity

Thanks for the support. --Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 03:33, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

Many thanks. Does need a bit more work. Some of the causes sections need to be expanded and reworked a bit. I am not to good with prose. Have some other work for the next few month so may not get back to it for half a year. Cheers--Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 03:56, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

Smile!

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Loihi FAC

Dabomb87 seems to be satisfied and Mattisse has done a meticolous amount of copyediting work. Would it be enough to turn that :| into a :) ? ResMar 22:23, 7 May 2009 (UTC)

RfD nomination of Wikipedia:IP probation watchlist

I have nominated Wikipedia:IP probation watchlist (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) for discussion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you. Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • ^{(Many otters • One hammer • HELP)} 14:35, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

Oxygen toxicity Peer Review

Thanks very much for your comments at WP:Peer review/Oxygen toxicity/archive1. I've taken action on most of your suggestions, but have an outstanding question on one of them. If you could find the time to revisit it, I'd be very grateful. --RexxS (talk) 01:54, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

Re:Boron

Mav, I am honored by your intervention and would be more than glad to finally have a reasonable discussion. I'm not sure about timing. Please glanse at this and be prepared for a long tirade from my shadow. I myself have refrained from editing boron and gamma boron discovery controversy, at least for now. Unfortunately my shadow does not share this attitude.NIMSoffice (talk) 00:15, 17 May 2009 (UTC)

So far, I have gathered that the diagram is based on an interpretation of primary sources and the authors of some of those primary sources have an internal dispute on priority and credit. Further, some of those primary sources are so new that the secondary literature has not digested them yet. In cases like this, I don't think we should be ahead of the secondary literature, at least for high-profile articles like boron. I'll continue reading. --mav

Probably. Notes. Physics of boron is one of those numerous areas where secondary sources are extremely rare and might not appear in the next decade. Some results are indeed very, very fresh and must be treated with caution. (ReB₂ is an excellent example how several groups rushed into research after wrong claims it is superhard). This is not the case right now in the boron article and in the media. One good example, media, the Nature paper [5] and its author clearly claimed "it is the first ionic form of a pure element observed experimentally" (for refs, look at Gamma boron discovery controversy). Looking in the paper [5] reveals the claim is a theoretical prediction. Later experimental PRL paper [6] claims the bonding is purely covalent. My attempt to put it together in boron as "It is not clear yet whether the chemical bonding in this phase is partially ionic or covalent" got bashed like hell by the author (not only on talk:boron, but even at WP:ANI !) and overwritten. This controversy is still in the boron article as "There is evidence of significant charge transfer from B2 pairs to the B12 icosahedra in this structure [7]; in particular, lattice dynamics suggests the presence of significant long-range electrostatic interactions." and I would appreciate if anyone deletes it.

As to the dispute on priority and credit, IMHO it has settled and I can provide evidence if you wish (that there is no dispute). Best wishes.NIMSoffice (talk) 06:23, 17 May 2009 (UTC)

Unfortunately, NIMSOffice is again pushing his agenda and speaking about what he does not understand.

First - The phase diagram was taken from our work (it never appeared in any other source, and all previous data were insufficient to obtain even a small part of it). Our own data were crucial in its construction and contributed 90% of the diagram.

Second - There is no doubt at all that the new phase of boron is predominantly covalent. This does not exclude the possibility of significant charge transfer (i.e. a significant degree of ionicity). Look at SiO2 - bonds are covalent (in the sense that there is an accumulation of electron density between the atoms, which was the main criterion by which Zarechnaya et al. claimed covalency), but it is undeniable that there is large charge transfer (i.e. ionicity) in SiO2. Look at any textbook of chemistry. Zarechnaya et al. showed large covalency (which is there), we showed that theire is also a significant charge transfer (like in SiO2, but to a smaller extent). There is no controversy here, NIMSOffice and Dubrovinskaia (who are collaborators) are creating this issue artificially, but it should not be part of WP. Artem R. OganovAoganov (talk) 19:56, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

BTW, forgot to mention - NIMSOffice is incorrectly saying that "the claim (of charge transfer) is a theoretical prediction. Later experimental PRL paper [6] claims the bonding is purely covalent." Our work actually presented lots of experimental evidence - the new phase has strong infrared absorption (measured at the world's best IR synchrotron line), which confirms our theoretical results and is always a sign of the presence of charges on atoms. So, our evidence is both experimental and theoretical. Paper [6] presented no evidence against charge transfer (you will not see any estimates of atomic charges in their paper). Aoganov (talk) 20:19, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

I must admit that the science presented here is way over my head. So I'll have to simply rely on existing policy. From that perspective, it looks like the phase diagram made by NIMSoffice is a synthesis of primary sources and may therefore be unallowable original work. IMO, a faithful recreation of the diagram using data provided by the most-recent paper that represents a complete phase diagram is needed instead. I do believe that is your paper. Copyright considerations aside (others will undoubtably have opinions on that), would you agree to that? --mav

No, the phase diagram was NOT made by NIMSOffice, it was made by me using mainly my own data. NIMSOffice took it from my paper and put on WP without crediting the source, which is unacceptable. Another editor checked my statements and found them absolutely right (i.e. that the diagram was not present in any of the works credited by NIMSOffice, but only in our paper). I suggested to NIMSOffice that the diagram can be present on WP, but only with an explicit mention ("taken from ref...", or "adapted from ref..."). This is a fair. Aoganov (talk) 22:33, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

Since you're in the middle of this, too, you might want to see this edit, made 15 minutes after the initial upload, which seems (from my own experience of citing things) a reasonable time for getting all of the references together in the citation templates. Uncle G (talk) 23:19, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

Sorry, there must be an explicit statement that the diagram comes from the paper of Oganov et al. (2009). None of the papers cited by NIMSOffice at this edit contain that phase diagram. It is easy to check... Aoganov (talk) 00:03, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

It was there for long time. Just click the picture.

Just saw it. And I am not happy with some formulations, e.g. "Most of the above references are acknowledged as primary sources in the latter paper" - sorry, we references ALL (not "most") of the papers on which we based our diagram.

NIMSOffice says our diagram “is based” on data of later papers (Zarechnaya), paper that we did not know (Wentorf) and paper on a different topic (Solozhenko’s paper on B6N) – this does not make sense. What puzzles me is that NIMSOffice does not understand the science/literature involved, but still keeps insisting on his points.

90% of the data (the most crucial ones) are our own data. The remaining 10% are mostly hints rather than direct data (and are referenced by us). Any research result involved previous results in some way, but it does not mean that previous works (which did not report the phase diagram) should be credited for our result. The best way is to write like this:

"This phase diagram was proposed in: Oganov A.R., Chen J., Gatti C., Ma Y.-M., Yu T., Liu Z., Glass C.W., Ma Y.-Z., Kurakevych O.O., Solozhenko V.L. (2009). press release "Ionic high-pressure form of elemental boron". Nature 457. DOI:10.1038/nature07736.

on the basis their original experimental and theoretical data, as well as earlier data (see Oganov et al., 2009, for references and discussion) and thermodynamic constraints."Aoganov (talk) 00:53, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

Notes: we have no proof on 90%; before publishing the stated diagram in Nature on 28 Jan, the authors have transferred, in writing, all copyrights to the journal Nature (inevitable procedure).Materialscientist (talk) 04:13, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

Sorry, Materialscientist=NIMSOffice, we (maybe not you...) do have proof on 90% - just count the number of lines on the phase diagram that are based on literature data (just 1...) and the total number of lines (about 10). Literature data indirectly helped to constrain 1 more line (but those constraints could not be used without our own data). The bottom line, however, is more general - if you take a diagram from my paper, be kind enough to state it clearly. Only then can we give our consent to publish it anywhere. And yes, we transferred copyright - but it still makes it impossible to publish our diagram without our consent. Aoganov (talk) 21:20, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

Request for help

I thought it might be a good idea to run a contest or two through the Countries WikiProject to attract editors to improve country coverage on Wikipedia, especially the country outlines.

I noticed you are a member of the WikiProject, and was wondering if you could help.

I've posted a message at Countries WikiProject talk page to get discussion started on what the awards programs should be and how they should be run.

Your ideas and feedback would be greatly appreciated.

The Transhumanist    23:32, 18 May 2009 (UTC)

Freely Licensed images

Thank you for uploading images/media to Wikipedia! As you may know, there is another Wikimedia Foundation project called Wikimedia Commons, a central media repository for all free media. In future, please upload media there instead (see m:Help:Unified login). That way, all of the other language Wikipedias can use them too, as well as our many sister projects. This will also allow our visitors to search for, view and use our media in one central location. If you wish to move previous uploads to Commons, see Wikipedia:Moving images to the Commons (you may view previous uploads by going to your user contributions on the left and choosing the 'file' namespace from the drop down box (or see [2]). Please note that non-free content, such as images claimed as fair use, cannot be uploaded to the Wikimedia Commons. Help us spread the word about Commons by informing other users, and please continue uploading! Sfan00 IMG (talk) 13:32, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

Re: Technetium

Mav, I did not know it was your FA. I rushed to edit it because of major problems with refs, fearing a quick delisting (I understood it is because of changing standards at WP, but merely to go through the FA renomination process is a bit of turture nowadays). Chemistry part was just an extra (kind of translation from German). Please let me know if there are other GA/FA pages, in around material science area, which need attention. I saw many GA delistings recently. Best wishes.Materialscientist (talk) 22:29, 25 May 2009 (UTC) (NIMSoffice)

Outing Talk:boron

The outing blanked links here. If it will create technical problems for the reviewer, could you help please; if not, never mind. I would prefer usual delete (recoverable by editors) instead of outing. Materialscientist (talk) 04:19, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

First, NIMSOffice himself mentioned his email address on WP. Second, this is a fake address that does not contain any personal or institutional information. Third, there is no connection with any sockpuppets. I probably need to read more about sockpuppets, but from what I read on here, NIMSOffice is shouting that I did some anonymous logins from Berlin... well, I've never been to Berlin in my whole life. Aoganov (talk) 21:44, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

Mav, my comment above doesn't apply for now, as the case has just been closed, but the evidence might be needed in the future. Materialscientist (talk) 22:52, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

• • Dear Daniel,
  • I just saw that I was blocked from editing WP. I've explained the reasons why my account needs to be unblocked on my talk page. Please review these reasons and hopefully you will be able to help unblock my account. Thanks a lot, Artem R. Oganov (user Aoganov). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.132.210.52 (talk) 00:42, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

• • • Your suggestion: Sure - it is acceptable, and I really appreciate your involvement. How long will the topic ban last? Aoganov (talk)129.49.95.27 (talk) 05:48, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

Address change and lost password

Hello Mav!

I found your comment on my profile User:Jasan discussion so I hope you can help me out with resetting my password. The address jasan at gjgt.sk is not valid anymore, so I can not use password reminder. My current address is jasan at x31.com and you can simply find out it is the same person, e.g. look at the PGP data:

http://the.earth.li:11371/pks/lookup?op=index&search=Jan+Sarenik

Please, reset my password or contact me. Thank you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.40.79.66 (talk) 11:42, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

Userbox confusion?

I liked the "has been editing Wikipedia" userbox and wanted to add that to my own. But when I edit your page I don't see it. What am I missing? Maury Markowitz (talk) 14:29, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

I kinda have it hidden. enjoy. :) --mav

I think maybe I'll do the same... perhaps every infobox should be like this! Maury Markowitz (talk) 14:35, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

RE: User_talk:Aoganov#unblock_request

Hi there Mav,

I have left a comment regarding the unblock request at User_talk:Aoganov#unblock_request.

Thanks,

The Helpful One 10:20, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

Loihi FAC

Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Loihi Seamount/archive2. You left comments on the first FAC, please vote on this one. ResMar 00:12, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

Talkback

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A study on how to cover scientific uncertainties/controversies

Hi. I have emailed you to ask whether you would agree to participate in a short survey on how to cover scientific uncertainties/controversies in articles pertaining to global warming and climate change. If interested, please email me Encyclopaedia21 (talk) 17:46, 31 May 2009 (UTC)

Eastern Sierra in July

Rats! I will be out-of-town then, so we cannot go hiking together. I really appreciate the invitation, though!

Have you been up into the Sherwin Range, beyond Convict Lake? Lots of interesting metamorphic rock back there. Quite a long hike, though.

—hike395 (talk) 07:43, 1 June 2009 (UTC)

How to flag a page with "is this dead"?

Dear Mav, I'm a very old user with a newish name (indeed we have corresponded before, in, er, 2002!) but for the purposes of anything infrastructurish and organizational and templateish about wp, because of my great cluelessness it's far better to assume that I am a complete newbie and idiot. It saves time, believe me.

Can you please advise me what to do with a page that maybe needs some help because I think it's possibly defunct, or rather its subject may be, and I'd like to draw the attention of knowledgeable, perhaps local, editors to it? The example I have in mind is National Sports Hall of Fame. Please note that I am not, repeat NOT, saying "please sort this out for me"! Far from it - the advice I'd love to have from you is, what would an experienced competent editor (i.e. not me) do, knowing nothing about the subject but suspecting that it needed a close looking-at? All I've done so far is to make a note on its Talk page but of course that may never be seen by many people. I've written to the city and if I get a useful reply and a citeable source then I could do it myself, but what I was hoping was that there was something procedural, some tag or something, that says " this article needs help" and I just am not sure what that would be. Any suggestions please?

Notes:

• Sorry, I've written too lengthily as usual
• I'm terribly sorry if it's something really obvious and I should have been able to work it out on my own! Kick me.
• There is no third note, I just like the bullet point format.

Cheers, DBaK (talk) 09:06, 12 June 2009 (UTC)

Update: (Removed stuff outdated by events.) Right - I think I now have it more-or-less sorted out, as I found a news article which explained what had happened. So that's fine, thanks, I think (though it probably needs some tidying up and recategorizing and stuff?) However, I'd still be very grateful for your reaction to the general query above - how to address this issue if you can't find stuff and need help? Thanks and best wishes and sorry about the incessant editing of this page! DBaK (talk) 14:24, 12 June 2009 (UTC)

In cases like this, I'd simply nominate the article for deletion based on lack of notability (only if it ended up being built or the plan to build it was somehow controversial or noteworthy would it be notable) or place a clean-up tag on it. See WP:DP & WP:CLEAN. If you really want to dig deeper into whether canceled/defunct things like this should have articles, then a WP:RFC may be appropriate. There likely is already discussion or possibly even a guideline or policy about this somewhere. WP:NOTCRYSTAL sounds applicable here. --mav

Ah CLEANUP!!! That was it - thank you so much. That's the general answer I was seeking and I won't forget/mislay it again! As for that particular issue, I'd decided not to nominate it for deletion because it documents a real project that existed and was clearly quite vigorous, but ended without a building, and I thought it worth hanging onto it, and improving it with refs, so that readers wondering "what happened to ...?" could find out, rather than it just vanishing. I suppose I'm asserting notability in that the City of Harrisburg was planning to spend 34.5M of its and other people's dollars on it! (It's clearly not a great time for major public projects ...) Anyway, thanks again for your very helpful comments. Cheers, DBaK (talk) 22:35, 14 June 2009 (UTC)

bodie, california

hi;

i followed the links from the bodie talk page to your image gallery; your pictures are rather good. was wondering why many of them have not been transferred to wikimedia commons?

Lx 121 (talk) 11:27, 13 June 2009 (UTC)

Thanks. :) The reason most are not on Commons is b/c I uploaded them a few months before Commons was launched. Also, the full resolution versions are on a hard drive I have in a closet and I'd like to upload those to Commons vs the lower resolution versions on en.wiki. Side note: I'm going to revisit Bodie next month and plan to take photos of the buildings I missed last time and retake some others. --mav

Help?

I've done a single revert to Template:Mono County, California and an editor is now accusing me of being a vandal on (User talk:Hike395#Dunderberg Mill). Actually had two accusations while writing my explanation at Template talk:Mono County, California.

Could you possibly help out? If you could take a look at my argument at Template talk:Mono County, California and let me know. Thanks! —hike395 (talk) 04:39, 16 June 2009 (UTC)

See also User_talk:Carlossuarez46#Your_creation_of_non-notable_geographic_location_articles --- seems to be a pattern of behavior. —hike395 (talk) 05:01, 16 June 2009 (UTC)

::I may have negotiated us away from a dispute cliff --- at least I'm not being accused of being a vandal anymore. I don't know how this will turn out, but if you want to add your 2c worth, feel free. —hike395 (talk) 06:15, 16 June 2009 (UTC)

Later: We've elevated the discussion to get community input. Please feel free to join in at WT:WikiProject Cities#Systematic inclusion of GNIS unincorporated communities.. and yikes I just realized that Carlossuarez46 is an admin! Wow, I accused of being a vandal by an admin. WP has gone down to toilet. :-(. —hike395 (talk) 09:08, 16 June 2009 (UTC)

Seems like you're involved, so your accusations of incivility are now in context. People who revert edits based on a demonstrably false edit summary are vandals. I give vandals warnings, the edit dispute or not is purely of Hike395's making, not mine. And if "WP has gone down to toilet" meets you level of civility, well, I see where this is going. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 01:06, 17 June 2009 (UTC)

Hike is demonstratively not a vandal due to a long and good edit history. You cannot know his intent and must, given his long and good edit history, assume anything other that a genuine desire to improve the encyclopedia. I'm simply shocked that any admin would treat such an obviously good editor so badly by calling them a vandal and implying the use of sysop tools in an edit conflict the admin is involved with. --mav

Element boxes

Yes, in case you missed it, the expanded pic at the near top of the elementbox (under the periodic table) is a vast improvement. It could even go above the table, unless that's too hard to do (what the stuff looks like is more important than its place in some artificial table, after all). We could use all of these changes you have time for. And feel free to switch images (or I can do it, as long as the placement comes out okay). Previously, it's been a "waste of a good image" to use the best/prettiest one in the elementbox-- but with the new size, that problem goes away. You even have a large enough box for more than one allotropes (a lump of graphite AND a diamond). SBHarris 00:00, 23 June 2009 (UTC)

Thanks. :) Updating the table has been on my mind for a couple years now. Still lots of work to do with more logically ordering the data fields; I've never been completely happy with them (esp the Miscellaneous part). --mav

New element boxes very nice

Nice job on the element boxes. Now, why can't I fix up the one for sodium? I want to use the one in oil instead (essentially trading the two images, leaving the one in the body with a title like "sodium beginning to tarnish") but the image of the 10 g sodium in oil won't size properly when I insert it in the elementbox naively. Why is this? I would have thought sizing for .jpg files would be taken care of automatically. But not for this one. SBHarris 07:22, 30 June 2009 (UTC)

Something is wrong with the image size variable; it is getting overridden by the default image size. Not sure what is going on. Besides, I think the first thing to be done with that image is to rotate it on its side. --mav

Hi mav, for me the manganese looks strange. The PSE im the box has grey stripes and the image in the box is huge. --Stone (talk) 21:27, 3 July 2009 (UTC)

Not sure what the stripes are from, but I cropped the image. Try a hard reload of the page. --mav

When an octopus becomes upset, it may eat itself

Hey. I don't really have much to say, I just saw your user page and wanted to thank you for your continued presence on this little experiment of ours - may every new generation of Wikipedians remember just how insane it is.

Now that I'm here: geography is a blank spot in my counterproductively wide selection of studies. Would you be willing to explain what kind of material caused your geography craze and what sort of things draw you to it? --Kizor 21:36, 30 June 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the kind note. :) Geography appeals to me because it is a comprehensive science which draws heavily on geology, ecology, history and the distribution of just about anything you can think of. I'm already very partial to geology, ecology and history and the distribution part pretty much covers all my other interests. There is also an innate fascination that I have for data that can be represented and understood visually instead of purely textually. See you around. --mav

Peer review request

A team of editors has been working on upgrading the Sustainability article over the past several months. We have had one peer review and the reviewer (Finetooth recommended we get a second review prior to submitting the article as a Featured Article Candidate. I've looked through the PRV list for someone who has a science background and an interest in the natural environment. You fit that bill. Would you be willing to do a peer review of the article? Sunray (talk) 23:48, 7 July 2009 (UTC)

It looks as though you are away. In any case, I've found someone else who will do a PR. Next time perhaps. Sunray (talk) 06:53, 23 July 2009 (UTC)

Maintaining license compatibility with Enciclopedia Libre

Hello Mav, any chance I could talk you into heading up license migration outreach efforts to Enciclopedia Libre? If you're interested, take a look at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Licensing_update/Outreach and drop me a note. Thanks. Kaldari (talk) 21:06, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

File:Early automobile in Yosemite Valley.jpeg

Hi. An image you uploaded years ago, File:Early automobile in Yosemite Valley.jpeg has been transfered to Commons. However it is lacking any description, information about source, date, etc. If you can add some info, it would be appreciated. Thanks. Cheers, -- Infrogmation (talk) 00:29, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

Commons:File:Mary I in 1544.jpg

This file was moved to Commons from English Wikipedia, but some description information may have got lost in the process.

As you are noted as the original uploader, or in the history for the file, it would be appreciated if you could help in reconstructing this information.

Can you please indicate the EXACT source website or work you obtained this from please?

Sfan00 IMG (talk) 21:35, 24 July 2009 (UTC)