User talk:Dr. Submillimeter/Archive Feb 2007

Category intersections

Hi, I'm posting here as you clearly have an active interest in categories, and I'm not sure where to look for something that must have been discussed before. Is there any tool to look for articles that fall into two categories? It seems to me that this would be much more useful than relying on hierarchies of sub-cats as we do now. Fayenatic london 18:54, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

OK, thanks. Maybe in future someone will develop a keyword tool... and a migration assistant from the current structure! Meanwhile, back to business as usual. Thanks, Fayenatic london 19:42, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

Hi Doc, guess what I found on Xiner's user page, along with a superb set of links to other Wikipedia resources? Category intersections! Fayenatic london (talk) 22:03, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

Fictional characters with phobias

Hello, Dr. S. I have enjoyed working on many of the same CfD discussions with you and respect your thoughts. Would you care to take a look at a list? I just postedWikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Log/2007_February_3#List_of_fictional_characters_with_phobias. I don't know whether you'll agree or disagree with my thoughts on the issue, but either way, I'd value your input. Doczilla 21:34, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

Hey

I was just wondering. Are you an admin? —mikedk9109^SIGN 16:12, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

I see you around at CfD alot and think that you really know what your doing with categorys. —mikedk9109^SIGN 16:21, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

"delete and salt"?

Hi Dr. S -- What does it mean when people on CFD say "delete and salt"? Specifically what is salting? I looked but couldn't find it ... I'm sorry, btw, if I've thrown a spanner in the works on your proposed renames on the astronomical images categories. I don't want to be obstructionist on a category clean-up, but I haven't figured out any good responses / suggestions yet. --lquilter 00:38, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

Planck's law

Thanks, I should have figured it was that mistake again. It might be helpful to include that relation in the overview in addition to $\lambda ={\frac {c}{\nu }}$. --Keflavich 16:50, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Also, if you don't mind my asking, is it acceptable to calculate color using Planck's law? i.e. to take the difference in the logarithms of $I(\lambda ,T)={\frac {2hc^{2}}{\lambda ^{5}}}{\frac {1}{e^{\frac {hc}{\lambda kT}}-1}}$ at different wavelengths but a given temperature? Since Planck's law doesn't give a flux density and its log isn't a magnitude, I'm wondering if I'm even thinking in the right direction. Thanks, --Keflavich 17:03, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Please contribute

[1] - Kittybrewster 18:24, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

Hi

Hi Dr. Submillimeter,

I am aware that you are an expert in astronomy. As a member of Wikipedia:WikiProject Abandoned Articles, i was wondering if you would possibly be interested in the article: Caves of Mars Project. This article is currently tagged as Articles which need to be adopted. This is a collaborative effort to improve visitation to abandoned articles. Thanks! Luffy487 09:23, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

Astronomy redirects

Thanks for the help with the missing topics page - Skysmith 12:14, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

PW yet again :(

He's back creating categories again, including recreating deleted ones :(

See User talk:BrownHairedGirl#PW and note on Pw's talk page and Special:Recentchangeslinked/Category:Christian_pastors. --BrownHairedGirl ^{(talk) • (contribs)} 15:40, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

Re ...Category:Peel Sessions

Hi Dr. S,

In the 2007 Feb 1 discussion on Category:Peel Sessions artists, I see that you listed it as "no consensus"...

The discussion rather than the raw number of votes prompted me to list it as "no consensus". If, though, you reckon I may've been unduly influenced, by all means ask for it to be reviewed; I'd want to learn from a consensus that suggested I'd made a poor call. Yours, David Kernow (talk) 03:16, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

To avoid the appearance of disruption, I will not renominate it for deletion.

Good idea, at least for a month or so, assuming the following doesn't work / isn't possible:

(Does Wikipedia have other mechanisms to review votes?) Dr. Submillimeter 09:41, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

I'd say Wikipedia:Deletion review is the place, but haven't (yet) found myself involved there. David (talk) 10:12, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

Hi!

Hi! (this mysterious message is because I just wanted to blank my last message, which was unintended.) linas 15:10, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

Bishops

John Wesley Lord is up for deletion (one of PWs). I think it's time we considered whether all these bishops are notable. (The methodists UK don't have bishops. There are Category:Anglican bishops and a few Catholic ones with large dioceses whereas every small sect in the US seems to have bishops.) -- roundhouse 09:06, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

There's Category:Americans in Germany as well (not one of PWs). This seems to be a parent cat of American expats in Germany. -- roundhouse 14:53, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

Pastorwayne

Pastorwayne is again creating categories that quickly end up on WP:CFD. While he is creating fewer categories per day than he was in December (at the moment), his creations are more disruptive. Among other things were the effective recreation of "Methodist ministers by state" categories (under the titles of "Methodism by state") and the creation of several "pastor" categories while two "pastor" categories were being discussed for renaming (with the majority voting to rename). I no longer accept that he is still learning the system; instead, he appears to be abusing it.

I see that you are not currently active. I may therefore seek help from elsewhere. However, if you do become active again, please take more decisive actions. Dr. Submillimeter 21:59, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

There is also Category:Former Sikhs created today with 1 member, although quite a few of his Former X categories were deleted in December (eg Category:Former Unitarians). He simply doesn't pay any attention to previous or ongoing discussions and it takes several person-hours to delete a vexatious category. He has several other bizarre edits today of a unilateral nature (eg this). He is getting back to the order of 10 category creations per day and they are mostly silly. -- roundhouse 22:54, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

I've left a warning on his talk page, and a note at WP:AN, requesting further comment. At this point, consider this an attempt to see if he gives himself "enough rope". - jc37 23:36, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

Endemism question

Hi. From Endemism in birds

The term endemic, in the context of bird endemism, refers to any species found only in a specific area. There is no upper size limit for the geographical area. It would not be incorrect to refer to all bird species as endemic to Earth; in practice, however, the largest areas for which the term is in common use are countries (e.g. New Zealand endemics) or zoogeographical regions and subregions (West Indies endemics).

Birdlife International has defined the term restricted-range endemic as any species whose historical range is less than 50,000km².

All the best

SP-KP 16:47, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

Categories

Is it really necessary to have Category:Methodist Wikipedians and Category:United Methodist Wikipedians? I suggest we afd the second. - Kittybrewster 10:35, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

CfD

If you follow the cats up, you'll see a handful in Category:Lists of novels. — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 14:30, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

Category intersection

Have you seen this? There is developer interest in making this happen, but the problem is the load that it might put on the servers. That is also the reason that categories only display 200 at a time. -- Samuel Wantman 11:38, 28 February 2007 (UTC)