User talk:W7ENK

February 2012
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Mill Ends Park
Please stop repeatedly adding the same text and external link to Mill Ends Park. The content is not suitable because: —EncMstr (talk) 00:51, 4 February 2012 (UTC)
 * It is not published in a reliable source.
 * It is not notable: this sort of thing happens all the time.  It will be repaired in a day or two.  Usually around this time of year, the park is replanted for the spring season.
 * It places undue weight on an incidental event. Should the Portland article mention today was stormy?
 * It is not a proper way to include an external link.


 * My apologies. I did not intend to post multiple times. This is my first attempt at editing on Wikipedia, so please bear with me as I am just getting my feet wet.
 * I felt as though the tongue-in-cheek nature of some of the material in this article warranted an equally tongue-in-cheek update of current events. A "blowdown" is an actual, official meteorological term that refers to a devastating loss of timber due to strong winds.  The loss of a single, tiny tree, while insignificant in the grand scheme of things, is significant in this case in that it constitutes 100% of all timber within the park.  I thought this information, with the (my own) photo I was trying to accompany to it, was a good fit.  It's disappointing to learn that there is no room for unapproved humor here on this part of the internet.
 * For what it's worth, today's "blowdown" was mentioned in a Fox 12 news article, as well as 'The Columbian' online newspaper. I have also been informed that mention of today's event along with my photo will air on Fox 12's 10pm show tonight.  I would include links, but I am unclear on how to properly do that.
 * If you will allow this information to be included, the date was accidentally mis-typed. It should say "Friday, February 3rd, 2012".  Correcting this error was my initial reason for returning to the article this evening.
 * Any help you could offer would be greatly appreciated.
 * Thank you for the update.
 * —W7ENK (talk) 02:36, 4 February 2012 (UTC)


 * Ah, humor, "It is a difficult concept".  Alas, I did not detect any humor:  it seemed written as an important news item with no hint of sarcasm or irony.
 * While there is plenty of room for humor on talk pages, articles are almost always seriously written, except for transitory vandalism. There are articles about humorous items, for example write-only memory, but generally humor is not easily communicated in this way.
 * Congratulations on being published in the other outlets. The photo can be uploaded to commons and categorized into Mill Ends Park's category so it will show up if someone clicks on the related media link in the article.  Maybe someone has a better suggestion:  ask at the article's talk page.
 * Thanks for contributing!   —EncMstr (talk) 04:49, 5 February 2012 (UTC)