User talk:Tom Sponheim

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Ravenna Park
Hi there, The content you uploaded for Ravenna Park (Seattle) was copyrighted text from a couple of City of Seattle Web sites, so I removed it and replaced it with some stub text. -Lukobe 05:03, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

Third Place Books
Tom, it was a pleasure to meet you today. I'm looking forward to reading your contributions. To leave me a message, click on talk in my signature and edit my talk page, or simply reply here so the discussion is not disjoint. I'll be watching this page (by selecting the watch tab at the top). Best wishes, Walter Siegmund (talk) 19:04, 4 November 2005 (UTC)

Ravenna Park & geolinks templates
Please take a look at the links I added to Ravenna Park. At the bottom of my talk page is an example of how it's done. I was impressed to find such a powerful tool already present (but not well-advertised). -Walter Siegmund (talk) 23:22, 5 November 2005 (UTC)

Ravenna Park
I added a new picture yesterday. Your comments are welcome. -Walter Siegmund (talk) 17:47, 8 November 2005 (UTC)

Image:Solar-Panel-Cooker-in-front-of-hut.jpg
Image:Solar-Panel-Cooker-in-front-of-hut.jpg has a deletion tag. Follow the link in the tag to get more information. -Walter Siegmund (talk) 19:31, 8 November 2005 (UTC)

Otter Rock, Oregon
A tag has been placed on Otter Rock, Oregon, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a very short article providing little or no context to the reader. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. If you plan to add more material to the article, I advise you to do so immediately. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources which verify their content. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself. To contest the tagging and request that administrators wait a while for you to add contextual material, please affix the template  to the page and state your intention on the article's talk page. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Diez2 19:29, 16 December 2006 (UTC)


 * I changed the speedy tag to prod while I collect more information. If you can help by improving the article with encyclopedic content, please do so.--Grand Slam 7 19:51, 16 December 2006 (UTC)


 * I added a bit and Katr67 turned it into a reasonable article. Walter Siegmund (talk) 23:45, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

Copyright problems with Root wall
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However, for textual content, you may simply consider rewriting the content in your own words. Thank you. JNW (talk) 02:14, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

Root wall
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NowCommons: File:HotPot-cooking-vessel.jpg
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File permission problem with File:Minimum-Solar-Box-Cooker.jpeg
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File:Root wall.jpg listed for deletion
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Solar Cookers World Network
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Proposed deletion of Solar Cookers World Network


The article Solar Cookers World Network has been proposed for deletion&#32; because of the following concern:
 * There is no indication that this article meets the criteria for inclusion. As for now, it is not referenced by any independent sources, and it doesn't seem there is any significant coverage by independent sources

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Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Martijn Hoekstra (talk) 21:34, 23 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Hi Tom, I see that you denied proposed deletion on the article you created. I still don't think it meets our criteria for inclusion. I can't seem to find anything that amounts to significant coverage in independent sources that have editorial control. Therefor I have opened a wider discussion on the subject. You are welcome to contribute to the discussion. Keep in mind however that, opposed to proposed deletion, where any editor can remove the tag to deny the deletion, this does not go for the community discussion. Martijn Hoekstra (talk) 02:40, 24 December 2011 (UTC)

Nomination of Solar_Cookers_International for deletion
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SCInet problems
Hi Tom:

For a while now, there have been problems with SCInet. For exampe, the editor won't load. Graphics are missing, e.g. from the Parabolic Solar Reflectors page. The list of recent changes does not appear, etc. I have tried to notify you there about this, but since I can't load the editor, I haven't neen able to do so.

Can you do anything to fix it?

DOwenWilliams (talk) 21:20, 15 February 2014 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of File:Minimum-Solar-Box-Cooker.jpeg


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Proposed deletion of Root wall


The article Root wall has been proposed for deletion&#32;because of the following concern: "Fails WP:GNG. It's a product offered by a few engineering companies."

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Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. AleatoryPonderings (talk) 04:25, 30 August 2020 (UTC)

"Water Pasteurisation Indicator" listed at Redirects for discussion
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