User talk:Sbandrews/Archive

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Wind farms in the UK

Thank you for experimenting with the page Wind farms in the UK on Wikipedia. Your test worked, and has been reverted or removed. Please use the sandbox for any other tests you want to do. Take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. Thank you for your understanding. —WAvegetarian•(talk) 20:40, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

Hi, and congratulations on your work on this topic! Gralo 14:53, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

Vorticella

Really liked the photos - I was hoping someone would come up with good images. As for tomatos, how about a small greenhouse ! We are swimming in tomatos and Capiscums at the moment - journey from plant to table is about 20 feet. Regards Mrs Trellis 09:35, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

Vorticella shape

It was not my invention to call it "inverted bell". If you google for the term, you will be surprized how many flowers are desribed as "inverted bell" (e.g Hesperaloe parviflora snd more), although, as with vorticella, flowers may rgow in any direction. I have no idea why botanists use the term, but they do. I may guess this may be related to preferred direction, i.e., they "pop up", rather than "hang down". `'mikka (t) 14:27, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

Talk:List of RSPB reserves

Hi - could I point you towards this page as you have contributed to this list (& still are active). I think it could be improved but would rather have a wider range of views. If you are not interested sorry to bother you. Regards --Herby ^{talk to me} 10:16, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

empathy

Hi, if it was you that left a message on my Wiktionary page – I've updated the etymology to try and make it clearer. (Horrible word!) Widsith 13:44, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

Energy efficiency in British housing

Hi SB, thanks for your input! I've made a couple of changes to the text to clarify the overall situation, but in relation to your specific question, 42mt domestic / 159mt total for 1990 x 100 = 26.42% (which I've added as a note to the 'edit' page). Regards Gralo 15:21, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

Economics_of_global_warming#Optimal strategies for mitigation

So a kid tax iseugenics, but a carbon tax is perfectly self explantory and needs no citation???? I'm confused. How is a carbon tax easier to understand than birth control?? Has economics degenerated to the point where you have to give references to explain that population size influences the economy??? do you really need a reference for 1+1=2??? How about http://dieoff.org/page27.htm (search on warming) I self referenced to Wikipedia because i thought it would be correct obviously someone messed up. I guess I could try and go back and fix the reference for whoever did it, but why do that when i could just complain about it!
Lee Wells 12:34, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

portal watch function

I am trying to see if I can set up a portal with watch functions - can you test this out to see if it works for people other than me + do you know any portal template experts who could help with the unwatch functionality? regards sbandrews 22:25, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

I'm just seeing a box with your text "This is just a test....." Gralo 22:32, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

You could try asking at WikiProject_Portals? Gralo 22:41, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

OK, I tried to put a watch function on the Portal:Energy intro box - does it work for you? sbandrews 22:57, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

Nothing immediately obvious, but perhaps I need to leave it until someone changes something?? Incidentally, this is interesting.... Gralo 23:08, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

Hmmm, you should be seeing a 'watch' button now in the top right of every sub-box next to the 'edit' button - but oh well, at least I didn't break anything :) cool link btw - good to see Portal:Energy doing well, regards sbandrews 23:26, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

Ah, yes - I can see that! Sorry, I was looking in the box / for changes, not on the box title bars. A worthwhile modification :-) Keep up the good work! Gralo 23:35, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

hooray :) sbandrews 23:35, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

If you're still around, you might like to cast your eye over the main introduction on the portal, which I've just rewritten to try to make it, well, more interesting... Gralo 00:23, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

You also need to watch Portal:Energy/box-header & Template:EnergyPortalNavbar Gralo 02:30, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

Renewable energy in Scotland

Wow - many thanks indeed! Ben MacDui (Talk) 19:26, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedians who maintain the energy portal

Hi. As explained a little here, there is now an all new sleek black user box for those who actively maintain the energy portal. I would be honoured if you would care to add it to your user page; you help is much appreciated! Details at Portal talk:Energy. Also, I think we might be getting close to asking for a Wikipedia:Portal peer review soon... Gralo 01:17, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

coolio, like the userbox and a peer review is a good idea - I just signed up as a volunteer Template:PortalReviewVolunteers/List however that works, (if at all :), regards sbandrews 21:56, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

Glad you liked the box, it's good to have company :-)

I've been reading through a lot of reviews of featured portals, so have a reasonable idea of where we're at - main problems are the need to change the content quicker (no big surprise), and having old news hanging about. I'll be taking a look at both of those next week, I hope, prior to PR.

Because the page is so long since now, I'm planning to split off the categories and topic links to a separate tabbed page. Perhaps you could take a look at this new page? Did have the blue title larger, but there were problems in IE so had to reduce it (still cuts a sliver off the bottom, but OK until can find someone technical to fix it - unless it looks bad in your browser?) Shouldn't take look to convert the main page, once I've the OK from you. Incidentally, the existing introduction "In society, the word energy is most often used in the context" will stay, but will come below the new title box... Gralo 01:08, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

yup it looks good, the category browser is nifty - not seen one of those before - good to cut the page down a bit, don't want to overwhelm people, and at the same time good to have all that info on another page - I have IE too so I guess it looks the same for me as you. I'll keep an eye on your changes, lookin forward to the PR sbandrews 01:24, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

Up and running! Spotted another problem afterwards with IE - sure it wasn't happening yesterday - but have documented the issues here, and have put in a request at Village Pump (technical).

ye iv'e noticed that bug before - but never as bad as that. The portal is looking great! One small thing, maybe the new tabs for Explore topics & categories and Mainpage need to be highlighted because people aren't used to them and may miss the new feature which would be a shame - perhaps increase the text size a tad - or even (shock) a change of colour (green maybe) until peeps catch on? Otherwise coolio all round :) Regards sbandrews 00:17, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

OK; major problems resolved & portal review request made - though as a portal maintainer I'm not sure that you're supposed to participate! Am also suggesting that wikiprojects get involved in preparing future selected articles (see here, for example).... Gralo 16:59, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

Climate of Mars

Thanks for all your hard work on this article, its looking better all the time. Mishlai 19:00, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

ty, it's kind of an addictive topic, especially those intriguing swiss cheese features - and to think I never would have thought about it at all except for that crazy MGW article :) kind regards sbandrews 19:16, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

You're welcome. ; ) ~ Rameses 23:43, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

unrelated links

Hi. I removed the two scientist's names from the see alsos because it is not standard at wikipedia to put do this; you won't find any lunar or martian scientist names at Moon or Mars, and if you had to add them, the list would be very long. Of course the two people are related to the topic, but there is no relevant infomation on their page. Besides, there are other people who I think are better known for martian climate studies, and picking these two is somewhat arbitary. If you reference one of their papers, then their name will be wiki-linked. In any case, feel free to put them back if you feel strongly about it. Cheers. Lunokhod 19:47, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

Picture of the Year 2006

I assert to have voted for 2 in the Commons Picture of the Year 2006 competition and to be the same as commons:user:sbandrews. sbandrews 21:06, 24 February 2007 (UTC)