User talk:AstroChemist/Archives/2013/June

Don't know what you're talking about

You've sent me a message but I need to know what article did I made a mistake. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Epinedo (talk • contribs) 22:03, 15 June 2013 (UTC)

Look at the history of any page I have edited, and you will see (talk|contribs) next to my name. Click contribs, which will show you all of the edits I have made recently, and you can find what page it is someone is referring too. In this case, it is the picture of the dead bird on Peruvian Plantcutter.EzPz (talk) 22:09, 15 June 2013 (UTC)

Comment on Globalization

Thank you for your comment on the talk page of the article Globalization. The comment has been moved to the bottom of the page with a new reply at: Talk:Globalization#New_neutrality_discussion. Meclee (talk) 05:58, 6 June 2013 (UTC)

Your edits at Watchmaker analogy

How was the editor's inclusion of this material considered vandalism? It may or may not have been appropriate for inclusion in the article, but an assumption of good faith should be made when you remove the material. Thank you. Taroaldo ✉ 06:57, 9 June 2013 (UTC)

I'm new at editing, maybe thats something I need to look into. I do lots and lots of good edits if you check, I'm not out to be a dick. I just assume vandalism. But I'll look into good faith posts as well.EzPz (talk) 07:37, 9 June 2013 (UTC)

Now that I've looked at it for a minute, I don't think I even meant to change that. Someone was clearly vandalizing prior too, and its late so I really just probably made a mistake :/ Shall I just revert myself, what do you think? EzPz (talk) 07:48, 9 June 2013 (UTC)

Hi, I'll leave it up to you whether you wish to revert. I reviewed the material only far enough to determine it wasn't vandalism. If you are unsure whether or not it should remain in the article, you could always seek additional opinions on the article's talk page. Regards, Taroaldo ✉ 08:22, 9 June 2013 (UTC)

Natural gas edit

Salutations Parks Trailer, Done a few minor edits on the natural gas page before, and have seen your edit there. Tried to back it up at first but found these links Dailymail, Slate.com, epa.gov, Theconversation.com which seem to support that claim in at least some way. What do you think? -Ugog Nizdast (talk) 17:38, 10 June 2013 (UTC)

I will get back to you with in a few hours, thank you for the heads up. EzPz (talk) 17:44, 10 June 2013 (UTC)

I see your point. My intention wasn't to delete the portion saying natural gas more potent, but the part saying ' hence natural gas affects the atmosphere for approximately 12 years' which is untrue, as natural gas affects the atmosphere for hundreds of years. I have corrected my previous edit by inputting a sentence explaining that natural gas is more potent. I assume this is what you were referring to? EzPz (talk) 19:36, 10 June 2013 (UTC)

Of course and nice work. I'll see if I can do some copy editing on that paragraph to make it more clear as you said. Good day. -Ugog Nizdast (talk) 07:47, 11 June 2013 (UTC)

I have done some maintenance on that section. I couldn't find the reference which you provided before in the summary so I just added a citation needed template. Here is some help regarding adding the reference NON-CO2 GREENHOUSE GASES IN THE ATMOSPHERE, Annual Review of Energy and the Environment, Vol. 24: 645-661 that you mentioned before. If you find it, add a URL to the site or some other identification number in the inline citation. Thanks. -Ugog Nizdast (talk) 12:50, 11 June 2013 (UTC)

Alright, I got it in there. I couldn't get the doi to link earlier, but I wasn't putting it in correctly either. What kinds of changes do you see being productive to the poollutant section of natural gas?

EzPz (talk) 14:21, 11 June 2013 (UTC)

Well as of now, I'm not doing anything. I didn't look into much into it since I just rearranged that section and used to same information which was there before. I think everything should be fine for now, lets see what other users do about it. I don't think additional information is needed since there is a main article on Atmospheric methane. As for the rest of the subsections regarding it's emissions after combustion, there might be work to do. If you've found something then feel free to add it. I'm sure other users will add anything that is missing or incorrect over there. -Ugog Nizdast (talk) 14:41, 11 June 2013 (UTC)

Environmental Chemistry

Thanks for the note about your plans. My main advice is to organize the article around the content of one or three textbooks. The topic is mature, and several excellent books exist. Avoid concoct a worldview, that has been done for you by people smarter than you or I and who have spent years thinking about how to view the field. So ask around for the title of the gold standard(s) of textbooks and follow their organization and priorities. A recurring challenge for editors planning to overhaul an article is the temptation to synthesize, per WP:SYNTHESIS. Good luck. --Smokefoot (talk) 18:03, 11 June 2013 (UTC)

Thanks Smokefoot! I hear what your saying about avoiding my own opinions, as the writers of these textbooks have likely been chemists for 20, 25 years... I would like to get into the Wikiproject Chemistry community anyhow, so I intend to take rewriting environmental chemistry seriously. Please feel free to comment critisizm anything anytime on env. chem page. I changed the section headings around, but its super super preliminary. Right now I plan on taking 3-4 weeks to get the bulk of the new information together, which ill be running thru the talk page . . . If as I suspect, and no one even cares, I'll probably just post it anyway lol. So if you could drop in and check it out every few days, I'd be able to get at least some feedback.

EzPz (talk) 02:02, 12 June 2013 (UTC)

Speedy deletion declined: Communist Workers Educational Association

Hello ParksTrailer. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Communist Workers Educational Association, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: The reason given is not a valid speedy deletion criterion. Thank you. — Malik Shabazz ^Talk/_Stalk 23:27, 15 June 2013 (UTC)

Re

Hey. I saw your post on my talk page. I was just dealing with some other business before accepting you :) I hope you're still interested. Cheers. — ΛΧΣ²¹ 02:12, 21 June 2013 (UTC)

Very much so! Thank you for taking time to respond to my post and I do hope your other business went well...So, how does this work? EzPz (talk) 02:22, 21 June 2013 (UTC)

Let me quickly add, if you look into my editing history (which I'm sure you will if you havn't), you will find some blemishes . . . but you will also find that they are all months in the past, and I do now appreciate how much we all can gain from Wikipedia. EzPz (talk) 02:27, 21 June 2013 (UTC)

Don't worry about your past. We all have some papers we don't want to show :) We,, I will give you weekly assignments that you must complete, and after each assigment you will have a test. We will move onto the next assignment if you get more than 75%, which is not that hard ;) I will create a subpage for you this weekend. Cheers. — ΛΧΣ²¹ 23:00, 21 June 2013 (UTC)

I look forward to getting started :) EzPz (talk) 04:06, 22 June 2013 (UTC)

Assignment 1

• Assignment: Read Wikipedia:Vandalism in detail, and then find an example of at least 5 types of vandalism.

Good luck :) — ΛΧΣ²¹ 18:18, 22 June 2013 (UTC)

Hi, I added talk page to Kau Manor. Thanks for your comment! Ullikene (talk) 07:53, 25 June 2013 (UTC)

Page patrol tags

Hi AstroChemist, it's good to see you're helping out with the new page patrol. However, when you patrolled two pages I created recently – Silet and Iglène – I noticed you added some cleanup tags that didn't seem appropriate for the pages. For both pages you added stub templates - while they were short enough to be stubs they both already had stub templates on them already, so make sure you check that a page doesn't have a stub template before adding one. Also for Silet, you tagged the article with the Linkrot, More footnotes and Refimprove templates. None of these tags was really appropriate: there were no bare URLs, and both of the two sentences in the text had inline references (if you have a concern with any particular claim it's best to use something like the Citation needed tag to show exactly what the problem is - Category:Inline citation and verifiability dispute templates contains quite a few templates you can use for this). Let me know if you have any questions about the use of these templates. Dendrite1 (talk) 09:50, 25 June 2013 (UTC)

CVUA Test 1

Here is your first test :)

Please answer these questions about Vandalism and let me know when you are done. You don't need to give a long answer. Thanks!

1. Please briefly describe what vandalism is.

   A:Vandalism is any addition, removal, or change of content in a deliberate attempt to compromise the integrity of Wikipedia.

2. Am I allowed to get in an edit war while reverting vandalism?

   A: I'm not sure . . . I probably would not rvert more than a half dozen or vandalism edits . . at that point I would request a page to be temporarily protected.

   Technically, per WP:3RR, you are allowed to engage in an edit war while reverting obvious vandalism. However, after some time, it's a good idea to request semiprotection of the page.

3. What should I do after I spot vandalism? (3 steps)

   A: Revert, Warn, Watch

   Nice. However, don't forget to report (usually, at WP:AIV ) :) — ΛΧΣ²¹ 20:20, 30 June 2013 (UTC)

4. Please list 3 ways how to spot vandalism.

   A: Recent changes patrol, watch list, keeping an eye on edit history

5. If an entire article is vandalism, what should you do?

   A: Nominate for speedy deletion

6. Is making test edits considered vandalism?

   A: No.

Good luck! — ΛΧΣ²¹ 05:30, 26 June 2013 (UTC)

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My apologies for the late response, I've been pretty busy this week with my 9 month old and summer school.EzPz (talk) 12:52, 30 June 2013 (UTC)

Don't worry. After all, this is a voluntary project. Nice responses. I lfet some follow-ups for you :) — ΛΧΣ²¹ 20:20, 30 June 2013 (UTC)