User talk:Johnson487682

Yank Adams
Hey. Thanks for the typo fixes on Yank Adams. I've Been working hard to get it up to spec before placement on the main page in the did you know section. As I see your a new here, I am placing a welcome template below. Cheers!--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 14:18, 2 February 2010 (UTC)
 * You're welcome; however, I don't consider myself "new here", because my contributions go back to 2007. Perhaps you're politely implying that I need to study up on a few of the topics in the template below?  I'll take a look at them. Johnson487682 (talk) 14:27, 2 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Sorry, didn't mean anything by it. I took a quick glance at your contributions and saw the number and didn't even notice the dates.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 14:53, 2 February 2010 (UTC)

katrina and ivan spills
those spills all had different causes and occurred in different places. there's also plenty of data available to support shier own line item and separate articles as well. cheers! --emerson7 16:04, 9 June 2010 (UTC)


 * by breaking each katrina and ivan spill onto its own line. Johnson487682 (talk) 16:25, 9 June 2010 (UTC)

List of oil spills: error messages
You rock! ...cheers! --emerson7 17:31, 15 June 2010 (UTC)

Katrina links
Thanks for the link fixes; that said, Katrina has over 5000 articles that link to it, so it is essentially impossible to check which section links were going to the oil spill section. Tito xd (?!? - cool stuff) 21:14, 17 June 2010 (UTC)

Jebel al-Zayt oil spill
you might fing this article of interest here. --emerson7 19:44, 9 July 2010 (UTC)


 * Yes, that article seems remarkable at first, but it also says "the spill, which began last week", so I think it's just an old article. Today's date is displayed at the top of the webpage, but I don't think that's the date of the article. -- Johnson487682 (talk) 18:58, 10 July 2010 (UTC)
 * yes. i too saw that, but wasn't sure if perhaps there were any updates there or elsewere. data on the spill are really scant internet-wide...at least in english. cheers!

offshore oil platform?
what's an example of an offshore oil platform that stands on the ground in shallow water? --emerson7 23:19, 16 July 2010 (UTC)


 * The Hibernia is attached to the ground under the North Atlantic off Newfoundland in only about 100 m of water. Many such rigs are also found in the North Sea, such as Gullfaks C, which stands in 217 m of water.  This type of fixed platform is only feasible in less than about 500 m of water.  Deeper water requires floating or semi-submersible platforms, which do not stand on the ground. Johnson487682 (talk) 19:24, 27 July 2010 (UTC)

Replaceable fair use File:Megumi kanda.png
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 * Thank you for notifying me of this omission. I have contacted both the publisher of the source image and the  MSO requesting permission to use this, or a similar, image.  Johnson487682 (talk) 22:56, 10 January 2011 (UTC)


 * I was not able to receive permission, so I have uploaded my own image instead. Johnson487682 (talk) 05:11, 18 January 2011 (UTC)

Thanks re Tom Sherlock
Noticed you helping out here with adding references to one of the many backlogged unsourced BLPs, and thought I'd say "thanks". One tip: there's a pretty cool tool that makes writing formatted refs easier at RefToolbar 2.0, saves me and the rest of the folks over at Unreferenced BLP Rescue quite a bit of time. Cheers, and happy editing! --j &#9883; e deckertalk 16:41, 18 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Oh, I think you've misunderstood me, your use of "cite" looked great as far as I read. I just found that using refTools made it faster to do with fewer errors myself (I've added sources to about 1600 articles in the last year, so I've had more than enough opportunities to make errors!), I didn't see any problems in your own. Sorry for the confusion!   --j &#9883; e deckertalk 18:07, 18 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Cool--thanks! Johnson487682 (talk) 19:38, 18 January 2011 (UTC)

re word count tool
Oops, sorry! My bad, I wasn't paying attention I guess. Thank you for catching my egregious error. I reverted it immediately I got your message (and you could have done so yourself of course).

Nope the tool mentioned didn't work for me and I doubt that it can be made to - sometimes these things work for me and sometimes they don't, don't know if it's my machine or what. But I can use a word processor tool as you suggested, thanks for the link. Herostratus (talk) 14:49, 7 March 2011 (UTC)

Re Oops!
Heh. No worries. My edit summary may have been a bit bitey, but I'd gone halfway through the article copyediting (thinking 'gee, this doesn't need much done', so being super picky), before deciding someone may have beaten me to it. Then checked the edit history to see they (you) had, so was a little annoyed at wasting that time on it. Spose it serves me right for not checking the edit history first (which I usually do). :) --jjron (talk) 06:29, 15 March 2011 (UTC)

Berlin im Aufbau and A Berlin Romance

 * These are fragments of a conversation tracked here.

Now do you see the difference between imdb and wikipedia? These articles are potentially very valuable ones. ♦ Dr. Blofeld  17:15, 28 March 2011 (UTC)

Nono, this is what I mean. I always!! consider the possible future encyclopedic merit of articles I create. I always assess even batches of sub stubs too. It was I who actually selected those East German films into the list originally as they seemed notable. This is exactly why I have like a 99.9% success rate and less than a handful of articles I've created ever deleted. That's what I find the most offensive about your remarks is that you assume I start anything sporadically on anything. Not true at all... I control what I start in batches which can almost always be expanded immediately with multiple sources... If you actually go through every stub I've ever created on wikipedia they will almost always be traditional encyclopedic subjects which have coverage in books and census papers.. What offends me is that you don't see the reason of why I create them. I think about what I actually create. If I thought the article would never be expanded or couldn't be I simply don't start it.. You see?? ♦ Dr. Blofeld  18:23, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

You are also very wrong if you think I want wikipedia to be a repository of everything imaginable. Fictiional cruft, sports cruft and non notable footballers, bands, web comics, youtube personalities I'd speedy delete today if I could and leave us focusing purely on traditional encyclopedic subjects. Films are included as the can be explored thematically and in encyclopedic depth..♦ Dr. Blofeld  18:23, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

Well when about 1 in 30 articles on wikipedia are mine and given the traffic we have on here and the numbers who are consistently trying to delete the crap from wikipedia and barely more than two or three have ever been deleted then I do think that is something.... If that isn't then I have a 99.5% success rate with AFD's of articles I created which almost always leaves the nominator feeling foolish afterwards... I plant seeds for growth. If I doubted the article could ever be expanded or was not worth writing about I would never waste my time creating it... I fill in gaps, like Latvian national parliamentarians I'm currently stubbing (oh and yes it was me who had sorted out a bot so they have images a few months back...). Few of my stubs are really disputed as not being notable except films.... ♦ Dr. Blofeld  18:51, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

I guess I'm rare in that unlike most I try to raise above bias and try to get wikipedia to cover certain topics evenly. Like if we have 5000 articles on US senators, why shouldn't we have 500 articles on Latvian parliamentarians... And if we have 13,000 articles on US films why shouldn't we have 300 articles on East German films... What I do more than anything really is towards the bias on wikipedia and trying to treat each country evenly... Like Category:Tunisian philosophers, Category:Kuwaiti novelists... This is what I do.. I have a set number of topics I regard as encyclopedia and assess what each country has on here and route out what is missing/needs a boost in getting started... It more of sort of direction than anything to say look ere we want to be covering this topic, and invite visitors to the articles to take the intiative. Doesn't always work and of course it is far better to write the articles yourself but once again it is time, can't possibly do everything solely.. A big element in this is the WikiProject Intertranswiki I started. It is a project which is intended to get articles on other wikipedias put into english. If you notice I've created expand language tags at the top of articles for many languages which are viewer can click "translate via google" and at least see a translated version of the article that exists in the other language, The idea of course is for fluent speakers to come across them and translate into english and find sources to support their translations. I think I am a lot more organized and know exactly what I am doing than you think...♦ Dr. Blofeld  19:07, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

See I'll go from a Latvian parliamentarian to Fishing industry in Greenland within just minutes. But all along I am most certainly thinking about what I create...♦ Dr. Blofeld  20:16, 29 March 2011 (UTC)


 * I am intrigued by WikiProject Intertranswiki. It implies that versions of Wikipedia in other languages are just more sources to be mined for the English Wikipedia, which should eventually be a superset of all of them.  I was under the impression that other languages had their own Wikipedia in order to tailor the information to that which is of interest to the demographic represented by that language.  For example, it didn't bother me that the English Wikipedia listed many US politicians but few Latvian politicians, because I assumed only those Latvian politicians relevant to an English-speaker would find their way into the English Wikipedia.  Conversely, some other (Russian?) Wikipedia would contain many details of all Latvian politicians but scant mention of a few significant US and British politicians.  What is your philosophy?  Johnson487682 (talk) 20:42, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

My philosophy is that we should cover the world in such a way that whatever part of the world you are, whether standing in Riga or Little Rock Arkansas it contains detailed information about the local communities and notable architecture and people. Imagine an alien viewing it.... ♦ Dr. Blofeld  17:25, 30 March 2011 (UTC)

Fishing industry in Greenland notable?♦ Dr. Blofeld  17:28, 30 March 2011 (UTC)

This is why the stubs were a good thing.♦ Dr. Blofeld  19:32, 6 April 2011 (UTC)

Af447 deletion of recent contribution appropriate
The following posted on co-editor,User:JRPG, of matter in context. Thanks but the matter in context needs more work.

A later report from the BEA, released on 29 July 2011, indicated that the pilots had not been trained to fly the aircraft "in manual mode or to promptly recognize and respond to a speed-sensor malfunction at high altitude" nor was this a standard training requirement at the time of the accident.

Text before this indicates quotation from Flight safety foundation official giving the impression that the crew was specifically not instructed in flying at this altitude. The passage originally had just mention of FSF and has an article on this entity though a 'trust' type non profit, still being in endeavour to train pilots, the mention of lack of training may be in conflict with organization's self interest. The extension of what they do was added by me as a part copy verbatim from Wikipedia page on FSF Flight Safety Foundation so a conflict can at least be recognized. I believe those pilots did not need specific training; specific training can be helpful; all pilots should be able to handle such situation given time which was short and weather inclement. I know, you also must have felt, on deletion of my input, that there is still something lacking and User:JRPG has tried to rectify as per the User's last input on that page around the above paragraph. All this, ironically, stems from address by the BEA in third report about lack of training, which I believe is judgmental in the least. You must have seen my input on discussion page.

I feel the section needs more work to neutralize implications of lack of training which ultimately will not hold water. Thanks.


 * also: " meaning they don't know how an aircraft is manually handled at that altitude. " is judgmental.

Patelurology2 (talk) 13:58, 2 August 2011 (UTC)
 * User:JRPG had participated in above and will post a copy to the respected Wikipedian.

Proposed deletion of SurroundinSoundStudio


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Bounding Main
Thanks for your work on the Bounding Main article. It is a noticable improvement. Crypticfirefly (talk) 05:15, 6 October 2012 (UTC)

Template:Infobox oil spill
Hi, Johnson487682. I posted a question at Template talk:Infobox oil spill concerning usage of the infobox field casualties. As an editor who added usage help to this infobox's documentation your contribution is appreciated. Thank you. Beagel (talk) 08:38, 17 January 2013 (UTC)

Apollo Sea & Castillo de Bellver oil spills
Hey, I wanted to thank you for your recent work on the Apollo Sea article I created. I also wanted to draw your attention to another article you may wish to contribute an infobox to... the Castillo de Bellver oil spill. As something of a junior editor, I would greatly appreciate your assistance with this page. Best, Dan Danimations (talk) 03:16, 22 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Happy to help! Johnson487682 (talk) 13:39, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

Love your work, Johnson487682. There's another infobox opportunity over at MV Treasure for you too... as you've probably figured out, I've been looking at oilspills in South Africa with reference to impacts on seabirds (penguins in particular). Danimations (talk) 03:55, 24 August 2014 (UTC)
 * ✅ (By the way, try to avoid using the unit "ton", which could mean "tonne (metric ton)", "short ton", or "long ton", depending on the country in which the reference was published.) Johnson487682 (talk) 16:50, 28 August 2014 (UTC)

Re: Bounding Main revert
Hi Douglas, I reverted the edit because the additional link was overlinking, as it was the name of a major geographical feature. I'm dealing with an editor who has used multiple accounts to edit war (among other things), and they made several edits in quick succession. I had left a message at their other sockpuppet's talk page, but I should have probably left a note at the talk page of the account I was reverting as well, at the very least. Graham 87 16:29, 9 October 2014 (UTC)


 * Sure, and I normally do. However rollback is just the most convenient tool when dealing with great numbers of edits; I will try to be more judicious about using it. Graham 87 16:59, 9 October 2014 (UTC)

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