User talk:FSX High Flyer

Welcome...[edit]

Welcome!

Hello, FSX High Flyer, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question and then place {{helpme}} before the question on your talk page. Again, welcome! - Trevor MacInnis (Contribs) 14:37, 18 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

...and Welcome![edit]

Hi, and welcome to the Aviation WikiProject! As you may have guessed, we're a group of editors working to improve Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to aviation.

A few features that you might find helpful:

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask one of the experienced project members, and we'll be happy to help you. Again, welcome! We look forward to seeing you around! Trevor MacInnis (Contribs) 14:37, 18 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

If I'm writing an article, say, about, a pizza chain, and I have a franchise right here in my town, am I allowed to post photos of the business as long as I take them myself? FSX High Flyer (talk) 22:59, 18 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Anything you upload to Wikipedia must be licensed under a GFDL-compatible license. Yes, you are allowed to upload photos that you've taken, but bear in mind that you will have to license them as GFDL, Creative Commons, public domain, or some other free use license with rights to derivative works. - Revolving Bugbear 00:01, 19 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Activity survey for members of WikiProject Companies[edit]

placed on talk pages of all participants

I wanted to get a notion of the level of activity of people who are members of WikiProject Companies with respect to monitoring the WikiProject Talk page and participating in discussions of interest and/or responding to requests for input.

Could you please visit Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Companies/Member information#2008 Quarter 1 (Jan-Mar): Talk page monitoring survey and adding yourself to one or more of the several groupings listed?

Thanks for your assistance.

--User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 00:50, 19 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

An exciting opportunity to get involved![edit]

As a member of the Aviation WikiProject or one of its subprojects, you may be interested in testing your skills in the Aviation Contest! I created this contest, not to pit editor against editor, but to promote article improvement and project participation and camraderie. Hopefully you will agree with its usefulness. Sign up here, read up on the rules here, and discuss the contest here. The first round of the contest may not start until September 1st-unless a large number of editors signup and are ready to compete immediately! Since this contest is just beginning, please give feedback here, or let me know what you think on my talkpage. - Trevor MacInnis ^contribs 00:26, 22 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Peruvian eruption removed[edit]

I came upon the List of natural disasters by death toll and removed the Peruvian volcano from the top spot of the "deadliest eruptions". You're right it was purely speculative, it struck me too - even if we suppose the eruption helped create the crop disaster in another continent there is absolutely no way to isolate this as the chief or decisive cause (unlike the 2004 earthquake/tsunami where it's obvious that the seaquake was the cause of the flood waves). There's several other likely factors that could have contributed to the gravity of the Russian famine, it happened in a country worn by wars, there was probably a lack of draught cattle (horses etc), the seasonal climate must have been affected by weather patterns in Europe and so on. Plus the figure 2 million is all guesswork. /Strausszek (talk) 10:01, 1 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]