User talk:Goobergunch

Welcome
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Happy editing, Isomorphic 02:24, 20 May 2004 (UTC)


 * Thanks for welcoming me! --Goobergunch

Your userpage
Another vandal hit your userpage. His damage was reverted. -- Grunt (talk) 16:40, 2004 Aug 19 (UTC)
 * I really ought to check my Talk page more often *smacks self*....Thanks. --Goobergunch 16:58, 27 Aug 2004 (UTC)

underlining
Please do not underline things; it looks very unprofessional. see manual of style. Cheers, Dunc_Harris|&#9786; 19:24, 3 Sep 2004 (UTC) no offence, mate.
 * None taken - sorry about that. I based Flood watch off of Severe thunderstorm watch, which also underlines similar terms.  *edits that article*  --Goobergunch 19:35, 3 Sep 2004 (UTC)

FIRST/TeX
User:Astronouth7303 :D --Astronouth7303 03:27, 9 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Talk pages
Don't you get notifed when you have new posts on your talk page Goober? --Quintucket 21:29, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Aye, I do. --Goobergunch 18:41, 16 Oct 2004 (UTC)

So just check it whenever you get a notification. ;p --Quintucket 03:09, 17 Oct 2004 (UTC)

NSwiki
If you want, I might be able to get hosting for NSWiki on my domains host... it will be faster than what you have now (which, regrettably, is quite sluggish.) --Antman

Wikinews demo up and running
Hi!

I'm writing to let you know that the Wikimedia Board of Trustees has approved the first stage of the Wikinews project. There's now a fully operational English demo site at demo.wikinews.org. This will be used for experimenting with various review models and basic policies before the site is launched officially in about a week. demo.wikinews.org will become the English version later. You voted for the Wikinews project, so I'm asking for your participation now. Everything is open, nothing is final. What Wikinews will and can be depends in large part on you. There already is a global Wikinews mailing list for discussing the project. If you are interested at all, please subscribe -- coordination is of key importance. There's also an IRC channel #wikinews on irc.freenode.net. Realtime discussion can help to polish up articles. If you're looking for something to do, check out the articles in development and articles in review. Or start a new story in the Wikinews workspace, or ignore the proposed review system - it's up to you. I hope you'll join us soon in this exciting experiment.--Eloquence* 01:59, Nov 17, 2004 (UTC)

My ArbCom Campaign Blurb
Thanks for alerting me to the fact that I posted my ArbCom candidacy blurb under an IP instead of my user name. I have posted and that should be cleared up by now. Check the ArbCom page to make sure :) Thanks! -CunningLinguist 07:58, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)

The Humungous Image Tagging Project
Hi. You've helped with the WikiProject Wiki Syntax, so I thought it worth alerting you to the latest and greatest of Wikipedia fixing project, User:Yann/Untagged Images, which is seeking to put copyright tags on all of the untagged images. There are probably, oh, thirty thousand or so to do (he said, reaching into the air for a large figure). But hey: they're images ... you'll get to see lots of random pretty pictures. That must be better than looking for at at and the the, non? You know you'll love it. best wishes --Tagishsimon (talk)

Doctor Who?
Hi. You made a comment about Doctor Who on the Wikipedia, what's in, what's out page. I just wondered what your interest in the series was - I'm a little older than you, and grew up as a fan of the series. PaulHammond 14:09, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Mike Novak
Did you mean to create a page just to put it on vfd?
 * unsigned comment by 81.155.131.63 (talk | contribs) 0:05, 15 Jan 2005 (GMT)
 * Must have been deleted while I was editing it to add the VfD tag. *shrug*  --Goobergunch|? 00:06, 15 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Re:Image:maoyenrai.JPG
Sorry about that, this was my first set of pictures i've uploaded. I'll fix it right now, please let me know if my attempt is incorrect.

--Karmafist 05:57, 2 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Heya Goober, just wondering
Okay, while I could really ask you this on IRC, I'm lazy and just happen to be on Wikipedia now. I'm also unsure if you're currently awake (you're definitely online, if anything), so I'll just do it here. I quote from your user page, "Many of his edits are to the 2004 Atlantic hurricane season articles"... Just wondering, I've never seen you edit the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season or related articles? If you have done, I must've missed it, although I'm interested - what makes you so interested in hurricanes? (Of course, you could ask me that right back... :P) -- NSLE | Talk 10:05, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

Goobergunch and ES/PF
Goobergunch clearly has a major personal beef with ES/PF. We've supported ES through a lot, and would like to know why Goobergunch constantly harrasses ES/PF on wikipedia and NS Wikipedia. ES/PF and his allies have done nothing to you Goobergunch, this is flat out wrong. Please explain yourself, as this puts a blot on your reputation. Celtic1

Vandalism
I vandalised your user page. Hope you don't mind; I figured you'd need a nice laugh in your Watchlist after the nonsense at Articles for deletion/Eire Shamrock/ Prodigal Fenian. - A Man In Black (conspire | past ops) 00:38, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

What the fuck?
I'm watching the oscars, they're still presenting the nominees and I click refesh and I see the winner even before they frickin' mention it on tv. How the fuck did you know that? Some amazing feat of psychic powers? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.215.195.27 (talk • contribs)

FIRST
I noticed that you are a part of the Wikipedian FIRSTers category. There is another, larger category for this. I think that it would be a lot easier to merge the two categories. You may add yourself to the other category by adding the to your userpage. Jared W 18:55, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

Article formatting
Hurricanehink ( talk ) 19:55, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

Tropical cyclones WikiProject Newsletter #1
Number 1, June 4, 2006 The Hurricane Herald This is the monthly newsletter of WikiProject Tropical Cyclones. The Hurricane Herald aims to give a summary of the activities of the WikiProject over the past month and upcoming events over the next month. In addition monthly tropical cyclone activity will be summarized.

You have received this as you are a member of the WikiProject, please add your username in the appropriate section on the mailing list. If you do not add your name to that list, the WikiProject will assume you do not wish to receive future versions of The Hurricane Herald.

Storm of the month Typhoon Chanchu was the first typhoon and first super typhoon of the 2006 Pacific typhoon season. Forming on May 9 over the open western Pacific Ocean, Chanchu moved over the Philippines on the 11th. There, it dropped heavy rainfall, causing mudslides, crop damage, and 41 deaths. It moved into the South China Sea, where it rapidly strengthened to a super typhoon on May 14, one of only two super typhoons recorded in the sea. It turned to the north, weakened, and struck the Fujian province of China as a minimal typhoon on the 17th. The typhoon flooded 192 houses, while heavy rainfall caused deadly mudslides. In China, Chanchu caused at least 25 deaths and $480 million in damage (2006 USD). Elsewhere on its path, strong waves from the typhoon sank eleven Vietnamese ships, killing at least 44 people. In Taiwan, heavy rainfall killed two people, while in Japan, severe waves killed one person and injured another.

Other tropical cyclone activity
 * Tropical Storm Aletta existed in the eastern Pacific Ocean from May 25 to May 29, peaking as a 45 mph tropical storm.

New and improved articles
 * New storm articles include: Typhoon Joan (1970), Hurricane Bonnie (1986), Tropical Storm Matthew (2004), Storm of October 1804, Typhoon Chanchu (2006) and Cyclone Olaf.


 * New non-storm articles include: Tropical cyclone rainfall climatology, Dvorak technique and List of Bangladesh tropical cyclones.


 * New Featured articles: 2005 Atlantic hurricane season, Hurricane Mitch, Hurricane Irene (2005) and Hurricane Claudette (2003)


 * Articles which became A/GA class: Hurricane Katrina (A), Effect of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans (A), Hurricane Felix (1995) (GA), Cyclone Percy (A), Labor Day Hurricane of 1935 (A), List of New Jersey hurricanes (A), Hurricane John (1994) (A), Tropical Storm Isabel (1985) (GA), Tropical Storm Odette (2003) (GA)

New articles and improvements wanted
 * An article is requested on subtropical ridge
 * The current collaboration of the fortnight is Hurricane Gilbert, please help improve this article.
 * Improvements are requested to Indianola Hurricane of 1886, Hurricane Camille and Hurricane Andrew.
 * The WikiProject is likely to submit Hurricane John (1994) and Hurricane Katrina to Featured Article Candidates in the near future, so please help improve them to featured standard.

Member of the month The May member of the month is Tito XD. The WikiProject awards this to him for his brilliant work in improving articles. Tito XD joined the WikiProject in October just after it had been founded. Since then he has contributed substantially to many articles, for example Hurricane Nora (1997), which is currently a Featured Article Candidate. He is also actively involved in the assessment of articles and so helps to improve many more articles.

Explanation of content

If you have a topic which is not directly related to any specific article but is relevant to the WikiProject bring it up on the Newsletters talk page, and it will probably be included in a future edition of The Hurricane Herald.

These two sections are decided by the community on the newsletter's talk page:
 * Storm of the month: This is determined by a straw poll on the page. While all storms will be mentioned on the newsletter, the selected storm will be described in more detail.
 * Member of the month: Nominations are made on the talk page, voting is by secret ballot; read the talk page for details. The winner receives the WikiProject's barnstar (when we make it).

Main Page content
 * 2005 Atlantic hurricane season appeared on the Main Page as Today's Featured Article on June 1.
 * Hurricane Floyd will appear on the Main Page as Today's Featured Article on June 17.
 * Entries from Dvorak technique, Typhoon Joan (1970), Typhoon Chanchu (2006), and Storm of October 1804 appeared on the Main Page in the Did you know column during May.
 * Entries from 5 other articles relating to tropical cyclones had appeared in the Did you know column earlier in 2006.

Storm article statistics

The assessment scale
 * The cyclone assessment scale is one of the bases of the new assessment scale for Version 1.0 of Wikipedia. It splits articles into several categories by quality, to identify which articles are "finished" and which ones still need to be improved.
 * The assessment scale by itself counts of several grades:
 * FA: reserved for articles that have been identified as featured content only.
 * A: this grade is given to articles that are considered ready for peer review. The way to get this grade assigned to an article is by asking other cyclone editors at the WikiProject's assessment page.
 * GA: reserved for articles that have passed a good article nomination.
 * B: these articles are "halfway there", and have most of the details of a complete article, yet it still has significant gaps in its coverage.
 * Start: articles that fall in this category have a decent amount of content, yet it is weak in many areas. Be bold and feel free to improve them!
 * Stub: these articles are mostly placeholders, and may in some cases be useless for the reader. It needs a lot of work to be brought to A-Class level.
 * The way to use these assessments is by adding a parameter to the WikiProject template on the articles talk page ( as an example). This feeds the article into a category which is read and parsed to create an assessment table, summary and log.

Tropical cyclones WikiProject Newsletter #2
The July issue of the WikiProject Tropical cyclones newsletter is now available. If you wish to receive the full newsletter or no longer be informed of the release of future editions, please add your username to the appropriate section on the mailing list.--Nilfanion (talk) 00:41, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

Proposed Georgia Move
As a past participant in the discussion on how to handle the Georgia pages, I thought you might be interested to know that there's a new attempt to reach consensus on the matter being addressed at Talk:Georgia (country). Please come by and share your thoughts to help form a consensus. --Vengeful Cynic 03:55, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

Tropical cyclones WikiProject Newsletter #3
The August issue of the WikiProject Tropical cyclones newsletter is now available. If you wish to receive the full newsletter or no longer be informed of the release of future editions, please add your username to the appropriate section on the mailing list.--Nilfanion (talk) 00:22, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

204.108.250.222
I don't think 204.108.250.222 is positively Malvern - WHOIS does not reveal Malvern's name. WhisperToMe 06:24, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

Turns out the ISP is Chesconet - A provider for schools, so I stated that the IP is registered to Chesconet. You can add afterwards that the IP is used by Malvern students. WhisperToMe 06:29, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks
I can't believe I never noticed that. Doctorfluffy 16:23, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

AfD question: Recombinant text
I have very little experience in AfD matters, and am asking for your input before nominating an article for deletion, because, quite frankly, I do not want to be seen as someone who capriciously nominates articles which do not meet AfD standards.

If you have time, please take a look at this article. It was created by the person who—as the intro asserts—is the very person who coined the term. Most of the edits are by that person. Most, if not all, of the sources link back to this person. I mean, at best it appears to me to constitute OR, at worst, self-promotion. But maybe I'm seeing it wrong. What do you think?

I selected you and many other editors pretty much completely at random; I picked one day's AfD archives, and clicked on the talk pages of the first two or three dozen editors' talk pages I came across. I hope that in using this selection method, I will get editors who are well-versed in AfD policies, yet who also represent a good cross-section of AfD philosophies. I will monitor your talk page for your response. Thanks. Unschool (talk) 07:08, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

File source problem with File:AtlanticHurricaneTrackmap.png
Thank you for uploading File:AtlanticHurricaneTrackmap.png. I noticed that the file's description page currently doesn't specify who created the content, so the copyright status is unclear. If you did not create this file yourself, you will need to specify the owner of the copyright. If you obtained it from a website, please add a link to the website from which it was taken, together with a brief restatement of that website's terms of use of its content. However, if the copyright holder is a party unaffiliated from the website's publisher, that copyright should also be acknowledged.

If you have uploaded other files, consider verifying that you have specified sources for those files as well. You can find a list of files you have created [ in your upload log]. Unsourced and untagged images may be deleted one week after they have been tagged per Wikipedia's criteria for speedy deletion, F4. If the image is copyrighted and non-free, the image will be deleted 48 hours after 13:03, 2 May 2010 (UTC) per speedy deletion criterion F7. If you have any questions or are in need of assistance please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. Sfan00 IMG (talk) 13:03, 2 May 2010 (UTC)

NSWIKI
I know this does not really belong here, but given the effort people have undertaken to contact you, I thought I should throw in some dedication too. I'm not sure what happened to nswiki.net, but apparently quite a few people would like to export their stuff from the database if the site is not coming back. This is probably asking for more effort than you're willing to make on something you've moved past in your life, but I hope we can agree on conditions on which you would make that data available again, perhaps if you received compensation for the upkeep of the site? I really hope to hear from you, since all other attempts at contacting you have failed. Thank you for your time. --TheGhostWhoSaysNay (talk) 01:09, 28 January 2014 (UTC)

RfC in Dave Brat
As someone who previously participated in the article Dave Brat, I am letting you know a RfC has been opened on an issue regarding that article. I am placing this notice on the Talk pages of everyone previously commenting on this topic who has not already commented in the RfC. BlueSalix (talk) 20:40, 13 June 2014 (UTC)

Dave Brat
Saw this edit. Just curious. Why did you think an upset was likely?Casprings (talk) 04:30, 24 June 2014 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!
Hi, You appear to be eligible to vote in the current Arbitration Committee election. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability 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, you are welcome to review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. For the Election committee, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:16, 30 November 2015 (UTC)

Category:Wikipedians who like NationStates
Hey! If you're interested, I started a series of userboxes for the game NationStates. Feel free to add any or add your own!- 🐦Do☭torWho42 ( ⭐ ) 04:54, 16 December 2017 (UTC)