B.dewhirst

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Proposed merger of Specks into Halting State

I saw the article you recently created, Specks, and proposed that it be merged into Halting State. The subject of Specks doesn't seem to be particularly notable, outside of the realm of the book. Since Halting State is so short, I think that integrating the information in Specks into it rather than having it as a separate article would make for a better article. What do you think? --Ioeth _{(talk contribs friendly)} 19:15, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

Oil price increases since 2003

I fixed some errors in the {{Cite news}} template you added to Oil price increases since 2003:

Oil prices rose to $122.73 a barrel on May 6, 2008 after reports that global oil production fell 15% since [[May 2007]] in the face of ever-rising demand.<ref>{{cite news
 |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7385061.stm
 |title= Price of oil passes $122 a barrel 
 |author= 
 |publisher=BBC
 |language=English
 |accessdate=2008-05-06
 |date=May 6, 2008
}}</ref>

I read the article you cited, and it does not mention a 15% drop in global oil production. Instead it mentions a drop in Nigerian oil production which sounds closer to 15% of that country's exports. If global oil production had actually dropped 15% since last year, the price of oil would probably be several times higher than it is now. (Of course peak oil theorists predict that global oil production will drop by that much, and more, in the coming years.) Where did you read about a 15% drop in global oil production? We need to source that claim, since it sounds extraordinary if true. --Teratornis (talk) 20:10, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

I didn't make that claim. Really, I'm just interested in updating the max price of oil. Somebody came through and made a bunch of changes to the first few paragraphs in the last 2 weeks, but it wasn't me-- I edit the link to the max price, the max price, the date, etc. Today, I made the relevant sentance more vague, and hence more supportable by whatever the max-price-article is. B.dewhirst (talk) 14:39, 9 May 2008 (UTC)