User talk:Soap/Archive 4

Thanks for the note on M J Anderson

I understand. Thanks for letting me know. Perhaps that policy should be stated in words rather than known only by insiders with a long history of adding to the page. A simple commented-out ALL CAPS notice at the top of the list would alert editors to the unspoken and non-public nature of the restriction. It would also save editors like myself (who came into this while wiki-linking a crime figure) a lot of wasted time. Thanks! cat yronwode Catherineyronwode (talk) 02:15, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

Autism

Thanks. I edited it without looking at the previous history, and I'll remember to do that next time.--Wreckedd08 (talk) 03:31, 26 April 2009 (UTC)

New autism study

Thanks, I had already put it into Heritability of autism. It's clearly significant work, but without a review I don't think it rises to the importance level of being put directly into Autism. The columns in Heritability of autism are kind of messed up now, since this study is about an intergenic region, not about genes, but oh well, that can be improved later. Eubulides (talk) 16:43, 29 April 2009 (UTC)

Racism against white people

Very disappointed with this repeated removal of fact, racism against whites in newly developed cities is EXTREMELY prevalent. However, if, due to the 'white' majority using the internet, freedom of speech and even verified fact is denied - nothing can be done.

Page titles

Hi, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you recently tried to give Salirophila a different title by copying its content and pasting it into Salirophilia. This is known as a "cut and paste move", and it is undesirable because it splits the page history which is needed for attribution and various other purposes. Instead, the software used by Wikipedia has a feature that allows pages to be moved to a new title together with their edit history.

In most cases, once your account is four days old and has ten edits, you should be able to move an article yourself using the "Move" tab at the top of the page. This both preserves the page history intact and automatically creates a redirect from the old title to the new. If you cannot perform a particular page move yourself this way (e.g. because a page already exists at the target title), please follow the instructions at requested moves to have it moved by someone else. Also, if there are any other articles that you moved by copying and pasting, even if it was a long time ago, please list them at Wikipedia:Cut and paste move repair holding pen. Thank you. R'n'B (call me Russ) 00:44, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

Question about the term Mentally Retarded

For what particular reason linking for "mentally retarded" is better than to "intellectual disability", even though most autism/disability groups prefer to use "intellectual disability", not "mentally retarded"? What was the revert for? The University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire/173.26.80.178 (talk) 01:32, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

re: Thumb sucking

Yeah, I thought the edit was a well-placed hoax/joke. I do not have any vested interest in the article and if you find that the revert was unjustified (I went back and saw she had sources?), then you can do whatever you or the other editor feels right. I just thought it was scientific, but it felt like vandalism (what, with sucking penises and such). I'm using Huggle, an automatic editor to quickly revert any sort of vandalism. Maxis ftw (talk) 02:04, 9 May 2009 (UTC)

This probably won't end anything, but you could start an Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration. Gather your evidence (Elsiemobbs edits, et cetera) to prove that Elsiemobbs' edits are resting on dubious sources. If you googled or an searched an academic paper database online and still cannot find other supporting articles that may back up her claims, than you should file for arbitration.

Make the case that her evidence is inaccessible for anyone viewing thumb sucking. You could also city WP:V. Maxis ftw (talk) 02:29, 9 May 2009 (UTC)

http://www.break.com/usercontent/2008/3/Kitten-sucking-paw-476711.html checked on 9/5/09 as current. This is a good video ref of a thumbsucking kitten although if you search you will also find dogs, bats and other mammals body part sucking. A penis sucking monkey was deleted by a webmaster a couple of years ago but I managed to get a copy first: I have another reference to this behaviour as well. However there is not much difference to an animal as to which part of the body it focuses its oral tactile imprint - it's only humans who get uptight about it. Elsie Mobbs elsie.mobbs@gmail.com elsie.mobbs@chw.edu.au elsie.mobbs@swsahs.nsw.gov.au I hope I am putting this in the right section as i am unaccustomed to using Wiki talk. Elsie

Tiny tweak

I made a tiny tweak to your user page. I hope it's in keeping in line with your feelings on the matter. Of course, if not, feel free to revert and forbid me from making future unsolicited edits to your user page. But I have a feeling you're a lover, not a hater, obviously.  :)   user:j    (aka justen)   00:25, 11 May 2009 (UTC)

what school are you in?

I am doing research on the youngest contributor (at least once) to wikipedia. I would like to know what grade your in. Currently the youngtest is fifth grade. Thank you. Master of Hearts (talk) 19:22, 11 May 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for your support

Unfortunately, my RFA was closed recently with a final tally of 75½/38/10. Though it didn't succeed, I wanted to thank you for your support and I hope I can count on it in the future. Even though it didn't pass, it had a nearly 2 to 1 ratio of support and I am quite encouraged by those results. I intend to review the support, oppose, and neutral !votes and see what I can do to address those concerns that were brought up and resubmit in a few months. If you would like to assist in my betterment and/or co-nominate me in the future, please let me know on my talk page. Special thanks go to Schmidt, MICHAEL Q., TomStar81, and henrik for their co-nominations and support. — BQZip01 — talk

Thanks...well, at least my edit count for the month will be a little higher...sigh... — BQZip01 — ^talk 21:30, 15 May 2009 (UTC)

If you have a faster way (I don't really understand Twinkle and tend to do things by hand), PLEASE do so. There's only about a hundred or so of these... — BQZip01 — ^talk 21:31, 15 May 2009 (UTC)

WOW! Thanks! It seems that you're doing them so fast I can't keep up. I keep getting edit conflicts with you. My wife is sick today, so I'm watching the kiddos. This is a great help! :-) — BQZip01 — ^talk 21:44, 15 May 2009 (UTC)

Hi Soap. Since you appear to have worked on this template(?), please have a look at this[1]. Thanks. Yintaɳ 

Shameless thankspam

FlyingToaster Barnstar

Hello Soap! Thank you so much for your support in my recent RfA, which passed with a tally of 126/32/5. I am truly humbled by the trust you placed in me, and will endeavor to live up to that trust. FlyingToaster

Just saying Hi

Hi! Sitethief (talk) 00:20, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for the fix on my talk page, even if it was using an automated tool. Your work is much appreciated. :) Timmeh!_{(review me)} 02:10, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for cleaning up my talk page James'ööders 02:28, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

Thanks as well. -download ׀ sign! 03:16, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

Thanks from me too. I'd been slightly at a loss as to what was causing the whitespace, so I'd just bundled mine off to the archive anyway! ~ mazca ^t|c 17:39, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

ThankSpam

My RfA Thank you for participating in my "RecFA", which passed with a final tally of 153/39/22. There were issues raised regarding my adminship that I intend to cogitate upon, but I am grateful for the very many supportive comments I received and for the efforts of certain editors (Ceoil, Noroton and Lar especially) in responding to some issues. I wish to note how humbled I was when I read Buster7's support comment, although a fair majority gave me great pleasure. I would also note those whose opposes or neutral were based in process concerns and who otherwise commented kindly in regard to my record. I recognise that the process itself was unusual, and the format was generally considered questionable - and I accept that I was mistaken in my perception of how it would be received - but I am particularly grateful for those whose opposes and neutrals were based in perceptions of how I was not performing to the standards expected of an administrator. As much as the support I received, those comments are hopefully going to allow me to be a better contributor to the project. Thank you. Very much. LessHeard vanU (talk) 12:43, 24 May 2009 (UTC) ~~~~~

Well, back to the office it is...

RFA

Hey,

Thanks for the note! I am not discouraged in the least. I actually find myself encouraged to continue to fight vandalism and continue doing what I do here on Wikipedia. Thanks Again!--gordonrox24 (talk) 23:56, 24 May 2009 (UTC)

Edits

If you've been here since Dec 2001, how come your Soap edits only go back to Jan 2006? — Rlevse • Talk • 21:13, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

Happy Soap/Archive 4's Day!

User:Soap/Archive 4 has been identified as an Awesome Wikipedian, and therefore, I've officially declared today as Soap/Archive 4's day! For being such a beautiful person and great Wikipedian, enjoy being the Star of the day, dear Soap/Archive 4! Peace, Rlevse ~ A record of your Day will always be kept here.

For a userbox you can add to your userbox page, see User:Rlevse/Today/Happy Me Day! and my own userpage for a sample of how to use it. — Rlevse • Talk • 00:20, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

Weather

I agree that trying to find climate info on the NWS site is very hard. It took me about 10 minutes to find the Colorado data. For individual town data it can also be hard, but once you find something like this, which is the link used in Barrow, Alaska it's not so bad. However, to build up a table you have to reset the values and it takes three goes to get the max, min and average temperatures, plus you need to scroll down in the location box to get the Barrow airport rather than the Barrow area. I think that it's because of the difficulty of finding the data at the NWS that editors tend to use weather.com and other services.

For an example see Canadian Climate Normals and UK climate and weather statistics for official sites that are much easier to search. The other good thing about the UK/Canada sites is that all the info is on one page, Cleethorpes 1971-2000 averages or Cambridge Bay Airport Canada.

If the data can be found at the NWS I can't really see why anybody should complain about removing a commerical service, see User talk:Allstarecho#Climate weather, if the reasons for using it are explained. However, some people do get upset about the removal, see Talk:METAR#Restoration of link and Template:Can-arpt-wx which was created to stop spamming at Canadian airports.

While looking at the WMO site I clicked on a link and was sent to http://ols.nndc.noaa.gov/plolstore/plsql/olstore.prodspecific?prodnum=C00058-CDR-A0001 which gives data for 4,000 stations worldwide for US$20. I'm tempted to order it but as I'm not on my computer I'll have to wait.

Just noticed Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Cities#Climate Table Links where a discussion has been started. Cheers. Enter CambridgeBayWeather, waits for audience applause, not a sausage 01:55, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

I wouldn't worry about not having edited that particular area before. I sometimes start up editing in odd parts of Wikipedia and usually there are little in the way of complaints. Enter CambridgeBayWeather, waits for audience applause, not a sausage 02:48, 30 May 2009 (UTC)