User talk:Plasticup/Archive July

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Welcome back :D

Hey Plasticup! Long time no see! You coming to IRC - its nice to see you back, I'm sure Hurricanehink will be on the wall seeing you.Mitch32 15:15, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

Reference Desk

Hey I was just trying to spread some good cheer around 125.21.243.66 (talk) 09:11, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

Re: Dean met history

OK, I left a few comments on how the article can be made even better. ♬♩ Hurricanehink (talk) 03:05, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

Wow

I saw your User Page 'cause of your answer on the Knight/Dragon thing. How is living in Bermuda? I've always wanted to live on such an island, that's far away from other countries, and so on and so forth. Maybe you could tell me about how life is over there. Cheers! 80.123.210.172 (talk) 17:07, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

Incorrect date change

Your recent [1] date change to the Gregorian calendar article was incorrect, because it changed a date within a direct quote. I have reverted the change. --Gerry Ashton (talk) 22:19, 5 July 2008 (UTC)

You did it again at 2008 in chess ([2])—please be more careful. Quale (talk) 06:59, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

January 2nd to January 2

Greetings. I noticed your changes to correct the improper "January 2nd" format, and I appreciate your efforts. I want to let you know, however, that it's usually discouraged to link January 2, unless it's part of a full date with a year (such as January 2, 2008). We link dates with years so that the mediawiki software will show dates according to our preferences, but it's rarely useful to simply link a month-day combo without the year. I'd recommend converting "January 2nd" to simply "January 2", without the links, unless it's part of a full date with the year included. Again, thanks for your efforts. – Quadell ^{(talk) (random)} 04:37, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

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change reverted on 1968 in rail transport

I've reverted your bot change at 1968 in rail transport because the date that was updated was part of the title of a reference and should therefore remain unformatted. Perhaps the bot could be amended to exclude parts of a template call where the date is within the contents of the title= parameter. Slambo (Speak) 20:52, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

Hm, I thought I had fixed that. Thanks for pointing this out and you can be sure I'll look into it. Plasticup ^T/C 21:14, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

Rollback granted

After reviewing your request for rollback, I have enabled rollback on your account. Keep in mind these things when going to use rollback:

Getting rollback is no more momentous than installing Twinkle.
Rollback can be used to revert vandalism only, and not good faith edits.
Rollback may be removed at any time.

If you no longer want rollback, then contact me and I'll remove it. Also, for some information on how to use rollback, you can view this page. I'm sure you'll do great with rollback, just leave me a message if you run into troubles or have any questions about appropriate/inappropriate use of rollback. Happy editing! Malinaccier (talk) 19:32, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

Re: Tropical Cyclone Peer Review

Sorry I missed the PR; I was away. I will try to get to the FAC when I get a chance, however. Cheers, Juliancolton ^Tropical ^Cyclone 00:29, 13 July 2008 (UTC)

Meteorological history of Hurricane Gordon

On 17 July, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Meteorological history of Hurricane Gordon, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--BorgQueen (talk) 05:54, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

RE: Wikipedia:Help desk#Aligning templates

Hi; I gave an example that allows you to add a "textwrap=(yes, no)" parameter to the template, but I edit-conflicted with your final message so I'm not sure if you saw it! Hopefully that will help you. --_{tiny plastic} Grey Knight ⊖ 14:36, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, I'll give it a try. Plasticup ^T/C 14:37, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

2007 AHS

Thanks! :) Juliancolton ^Tropical ^Cyclone 20:13, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

Frivolous edits with AWB

I wanted to call to your attention to an item in the Rules of use for AWB that caution to:

Avoid making insignificant or inconsequential edits such as only adding or removing some white space, moving a stub tag, converting some HTML to Unicode, removing underscores from links (unless they are bad links), or something equally trivial. This is because it wastes resources and clogs up watch lists.

(Emphasis as in the original.) Your edit of USS General Stuart Heintzelman (AP-159) would certainly seem to fit the exact type of edit AWB users are to avoid. Please watch use of it to avoid edits like this in the future. — Bellhalla (talk) 05:28, 20 July 2008 (UTC)

Importance level ideas

I know there was a discussion on importance levels and you suggested to bring it up with WPTC. I have come up with my suggested standards:

Level	Damage (2008 USD)	Fatalities	Records	Historic value	News level	Examples
Top	Extreme; determined by general consensus (no value level)	1,000+ in a developed country, 10,000+ in a developing country	World records for damage or casualties	Extreme historical importance	Long-term, international news attention	Hurricane Katrina, Cyclone Nargis
High	>$10 billion	100-999 in a developed country, 1,000-9,999 in a developing country	World records for intensity; basin/time period records for damage or casualties	Significant historical importance	Long-term, regional or national news attention, short-term international attention	Hurricane Hugo, Cyclone Gonu
Mid	$1 billion-$9.9 billion	10-99 in a developed country, 100-999 in a developing country	Basin/time period records for intensity; regional/world year records for damage or casualties	Name retired; moderate historical importance	Moderate-term regional or national news attention, possible brief international attention	Hurricane Dean, Typhoon Xangsane
Low	<$1 billion	0-9 in a developed country, 0-99 in a developing country	No major records	Name not retired, little or no historical importance	Short-term news attention, generally on a specialized or regional scale	Hurricane Karen (2007)

Notes:
- The determined level should be the average of the criteria in order to balance outlying factors.
- All storms which had their names retired as a result should automatically go to Mid-importance at least, regardless of other criteria.

CrazyC83 (talk) 15:58, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

I think those are great suggestions. You should add that into the WPTC discussion and see what feedback you get. Plasticup ^T/C 17:49, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

Replaced whole article

How could that happen? ––Bender235 (talk) 19:23, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

Woah, that is messed up. I was just doing a simple Find and Replace using AWB - there must be a bug in the AWB program. I am going to report ASAP. Plasticup ^T/C 19:32, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

Okay. ––Bender235 (talk) 19:36, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

Turns out that it is a wikimedia error, not an AWB error nor a Plasticup error. Phew. Plasticup ^T/C 14:39, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

Teeth during pregnancy

Please note that a discussion on the talk page about whether this question constitutes medical advice may be found here: [3]. StuRat (talk) 05:28, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

Article size

I noticed that you asked SandyGeorgia a question about FAC article size. I am not sure how article size is calculated, but I do recall a short article, Bob Meusel, receiving the FA star, so I should think the size of your article should not be a issue. —Mattisse (Talk) 16:14, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. I am traveling tomorrow for about 6 days but I'll be nominating that article when I get back. Plasticup ^T/C 16:23, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

You call Bob Meusel short? You should see Hurricane Irene (2005) or New York State Route 174. :) Juliancolton ^Tropical ^Cyclone 16:34, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

You are right! My view is that size should not matter. In fact, I am a fan of the elegance of concise, well worded, comprehensive articles. —Mattisse (Talk) 16:52, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

Agreed. Size is never an issue, and opposing an FAC based on the brevity of an article is most often disregarded by the FAC directors. Juliancolton ^Tropical ^Cyclone 16:54, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

Re: 2007 Atlantic hurricane season as a FT

I hadn't thought about it before the I FACed 2007 AHS, but it sounds like a good idea. Thanks for putting that list together for me. I'm thinking Tropical Storm Erin (2007) and Tropical Storm Olga (2007) could probably pass GA as they are, but the hardest articles will be List of storms in the 2007 Atlantic hurricane season and Hurricane Felix. Hurricane Dean is looking better every day, so I expect that will pass GA. Juliancolton ^Tropical ^Cyclone 17:41, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

Sorry to butt in, but might I recommend adding Tropical Depression Ten (2007), which is an FA. That might help a bit! ♬♩ Hurricanehink (talk) 18:42, 30 July 2008 (UTC)