User talk:Ratzer/Archive 2006

Egg War
Since you've contributed to the Farallon Islands article, I thought perhaps you'd be interested to know that I've put in a request for an article on the Egg War here. If you write the article, please remember to remove the article from that listing. Cheers, Tom e rtalk 17:39, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

Image copyright problem with Image:Kolbeinsey.jpg
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Okinotorishima
Hi Ratzer,

I noticed you added a link to the Okinotori article, but it seems to direct to a 1976 bulliten board archive, and I couldn't find the section you described? Did you perhaps post the wrong link? Or am I blind and just don't see it on the page? (I'd say either are likely :D) Komdori 13:33, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Just search for "Parece Vela" on that page--Ratzer 06:07, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

Re Subdivisions of France
Hi Ratzer,
 * ''I think you started messing things up by moving the template and the article to "administrative...". Are you aware that the article was just moved from "administrative..." to "subdivisions of france" less than a year ago, as you can see in its discussion page? It does not look like you read the discussion page. Or do you want to start a moving war? Now the article still has the ZEAT in it, which are not administrative and which you threw out of the template already...

Sorry if my (unfinished) work on this article (and all other "Administrative divisions of" / "Subdivisions of" articles) seems perturbing. My aim, with support from WP:WPCSub, is to clarify the distinction between administrative and other kinds of national divisions. Although not administrative divisions, the ZEATs are certainly relevant to the administrative division of France, so I've moved their mention in Administrative divisions of France to the #See also section, at least for the time being. Hope this is okay. I suppose a "See also" link to their article could be included in Administrative divisions of France, but at present I'm not sure if that's wise.

Meanwhile, perhaps you might like to add your views re "Administrative divisions of" / "Subdivisions of" in general to here and/or subsequent threads...?

Best wishes, David Kernow (talk) 07:47, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

Tetiaroa
Thanks for uploading the map of Tetiaroa -Safay 05:25, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

Dumont d'Urville Station -- thanks for the picture
Great picture -- thanks for uploading it. It really makes the article. I suspect the day it was taken was probably the nicest of the year -- and it still looks like a cold, forbidding place albeit in a dramtic setting. --A. B. 16:20, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I'm also looking for PD photos of Port Martin (previous station) and Charcot Station (former inland station). So far, there are not even articles for those stations in the en-Wikipedia. They are both interesting. It was said that after moving to Dumont d'Urville, that the new environment was much less hostile, with only half of the average wind speed compared to Port Martin. Charcot was largely dug into the snow so the wind would not blow it away. There was not much you could see from outside.Ratzer 12:50, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

Map of Europa Island
Thanks, I made it from the NASA satellite view and from my knowledge of the island. I am not completely sure of the north direction, so I didn't put it on. The former map was so bad and so wrong, I could not bare it anymore ! Unfortunately, I don't know the other scattered islands enough to draw their maps. If you want a caption in another language, give me the translations, I would make a new version and upload it. Cheers Channer 04:18, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

I turned the map 28° clockwise, the uploading was successful, but the new picture doesn't appear yet on the Commons image, nor in the english article. That's a mystery ! Just have to wait the computers do their job ?Channer 18:01, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

Census Bureau area figures
There is a wealth of information available at the U.S. Census Bureau website if you know how and where to look. However, just looking at all the possible combinations of links you can click on might overwhelm and exasperate some people. It did me at first. Now I use it for all kinds of data. It's very comprehensive if you'd care to find out almost any kind of statistical data on any place in the United States that you would want.

How I found out that particular piece of information is this:

Go to the website at http://www.census.gov/

Choose American Factfinder at left side

Choose Data Sets > Decennial Census

It should default to the 2000 census tab here, but if not, choose it

Choose Census 2000 Summary File 1 (SF 1) 100-Percent Data

Choose Detailed Tables at right side

Choose Map tab among the five choices

This should give you a map of the United States

Choose the + (plus) sign at the top which allows you to drill down

Start clicking on Florida, and keep clicking until you get down to where you want (You have to know approximately where the place you're looking for is in order to do this!!)

You should be able to do this with the Farallon Islands. (You will probably come up with an answer of Block Group 2, Census Tract 604, San Francisco County, California. If you don't, then I've made a big mistake.)

By the way, I tried to look up this same information on the Dry Tortugas and could not find it. I just could not find the place on the map. Maybe you can. Good luck! It's nice to know that there are other people here besides me who are interested in arcane geographical matters, such as land area and population.

|b=50|l=en|t=4001|zf=0.0|ms=sel_00dec|dw=0.382963345650033|dh=0.22400013436671792|dt=gov.census.aff.domain.map.EnglishMapExtent|if=gif|cx=-123.00994068709825|cy=37.70074117751026|zl=5|pz=5|bo=318:317:316:314:313:323:319|bl=362:393:358:357:356:355:354|ft=350:349:335:389:388:332:331|fl=403:381:204:380:369:379:368|g=15000US060750604002&-PANEL_ID=p_dt_geo_map&-_lang=en&-geo_id=15000US060750604002&-CONTEXT=dt&-format=&-CHECK_SEARCH_RESULTS=N&-ds_name=DEC_2000_SF1_U Farallon Islands: Block Group 2, Census Tract 604, San Francisco County, California United States Census Bureau Backspace 00:07, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

Miles vs. kilometers
Direct quote from the Wikipedia manual of style "For subjects dealing with the United States, it might be more appropriate to use U.S. measurements first, i.e. mile, foot, U.S. gallon. " The article pertains to a place under jurisdiction of the USA, therefore USA measurements should be used. The distance between islands in the USA is measured in yards, feet or miles, not kilometers or meters. If metric measurements MUST be used for the rest of the English speaking world outside of where the article pertains, they should be listed in the parenthesis, not the USA ones, since the area the article pertains to is in USA and is subject to measurements used in the USA. - Oh, and the USA is not even close to changing over to metric. I'm not sure where you got your information, but you've been sadly misinformed. -   Marc Averette 03:44, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Lets keep this discussion in the place where it started, which is your discussion page User talk:Averette.--Ratzer 06:41, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

Table alignments
Text should be aligned left, and numbers right. I've never heard that before in my life or on Wikipedia, and I thought the centered looked better, but you clearly feel more strongly in the other direction, so feel free to revert! jengod 17:43, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Dude, I already conceded to your greater wisdom. Why? Because I didn't want to drag out the debate. Go do whatever it is that you want to do. I don't care. And I'm not sure if the Averette thing was directed at me or not, but when someone posts on my talk page, I like to respond on other people's talk pages, because otherwise they might not check back and see if I've responded. jengod 18:53, 19 December 2006 (UTC)