User talk:Ratzer

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[edit] Welcome!

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- Mailer Diablo 20:37, 17 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Trindade and Martim Vaz

Hi there - copying and pasting page contents isn't the preferred way of moving an article, as it splits the article history between two pages. The correct way is to use the "move" function, or if that's not available (because you're a new user), you can request page moves at Wikipedia:Requested moves. Regards, sjorford →•← 09:55, 17 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Isla Sala-y-Gómez

Thanks for all your great work at Isla Sala-y-Gómez. The article has been vastly improved in the past couple days. Tomer ^TALK 20:52, July 18, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Okino Torishima

I'm not subscribed to the newspaper El Mundo online, so I can't send you the text, sorry. I just read the article when I bought the newspaper some time ago and I suppose somehow I got to the article online or it wasn't protected or something.

I did find the same photo with the data in the website of the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera, here: http://www.corriere.it/gallery/Esteri/2005/05_Maggio/sindaco/1/SINDACO1.jpg

The corresponding article (in Italian) is here: http://www.corriere.it/Primo_Piano/Esteri/2005/05_Maggio/20/okinotorishima.shtml . I hope this info has been useful.

Sorry for taking so long. I don't really use Hotmail anymore... Sabbut 14:25, 13 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Edit summaries

Hi, please use edit summaries. They help everyone. Short is fine, just be reasonably descriptive. Thanks - Taxman ^Talk 14:43, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Farallón Islands

Great work on that article. It's improved immensely...takes me back to Isla Sala-y-Gómez.... Tomer ^TALK 03:48, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] I just spotted your recent comment in my 'units of area' archive

Hi,

I just spotted your recent comment in my 'units of area' archive. Thank you for reading through the discussion page. I will respond to your comments now.

• You said The problem I have with expressing areas that are in the orders of magnitude of 0.1 ha, 1 ha or 10 ha and that are approximate, in square meters, is that the use of these units pretends many more significant digits than there actually are.
  • Units do not imply precision for readers. The number of trailing zeros is a commonly used guide. For example, text might say that the area of eqypt is 1,000,000 km². The precision is not stated. There are 6 trailing zeros, few reasonable readers would believe that it meant the precision is +/- 1 km².
• You said If you must stick to the strictest interpretation of the SI bible, and where the scientific notation is not practical, IMHO it would be more appropriate to say 0.001 km² than saying 1000 m².
  • On a purely numeric basis, it seems odd to prefer 0.001 over 1000.
  • On a comprehension basis, 1000 m² is easier to visualise than 0.001 km². Areas in square metres can be visualised directly, particularly since they are used in descriptions of homes, offices and gardens. Even without direct experience, it is easy to construct the area in the head by imagining an area of 10 by 100 m, perhaps as the area of a 100 m running track. It is difficult to visualise 0.001 km² or construct it in the head.
  • However, if that is what you want, I don't mind.
• You said: What about "square hectometers" (hm²) (same as hectares), would that be totally SI-conformant? "Hecto" is a SI prefix, is it not?
  • Yes. You are correct. As you can see at metre. The 'hectometre' is correct SI. So a square hectometre would be a correct form of 'hectare'. The hectare itself is not encouraged.
  • I would not mind so much if people used square hectometres instead of hectares. But that it is not the real answer. It is a 'soft conversion' and just a translation word-for-word. Translations word-for-word are limited in what they can achieve. I can think in English and translate word for word into Spanish. I might be understood but it will be bad Spanish. It would be better to forget English and express the thoughts directly in Spanish. It is the same for translating metric units. A value in square hectometres just might be understood but the best way to express it is in square metres or square kilometres.
  • It would be easy to test comprehension of area in both directions.
    • 1.From real world to numeric value. Look at something and try to guess the area in hectares or hm². You would almost certainly be more accurate with m² or km².
    • 2. From numeric value to real world. Take a given numeric value quoted in hectares or hm². Then identify an area in the real world that is equal to that numeric value. You would almost certainly be more accurate with m² or km².

Those are just my thoughts. Thanks for discussing it with me. Bobblewik 13:24, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Desecheo Island

There seems to be a grammar mistake or garble in the following:

The island belongs to the city of Mayaguez, barrio of Mona Island.

Also, this and some of your other islands seems to me to be bordering on qualifying for deletion as not notable, but I'm not too familiar with the rules as they apply to physical geography. Maybe merge all of them into one article.

--David Woolley 12:52, 12 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Egg War

Since you've contributed to the Farallon Islands article, I thought perhaps you'd be interested to know that I've put in a request for an article on the Egg War here. If you write the article, please remember to remove the article from that listing. Cheers, Tomer^talk 17:39, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:Kolbeinsey.jpg

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[edit] License tagging for Image:SEFI.png

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[edit] Possibly unfree Image:SEFI.png

[edit] Okinotorishima

Hi Ratzer,

I noticed you added a link to the Okinotori article, but it seems to direct to a 1976 bulliten board archive, and I couldn't find the section you described? Did you perhaps post the wrong link? Or am I blind and just don't see it on the page? (I'd say either are likely :D) Komdori 13:33, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

• Just search for "Parece Vela" on that page--Ratzer 06:07, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re Subdivisions of France

Hi Ratzer,

I think you started messing things up by moving the template and the article to "administrative...". Are you aware that the article was just moved from "administrative..." to "subdivisions of france" less than a year ago, as you can see in its discussion page? It does not look like you read the discussion page. Or do you want to start a moving war? Now the article still has the ZEAT in it, which are not administrative and which you threw out of the template already...

Sorry if my (unfinished) work on this article (and all other "Administrative divisions of" / "Subdivisions of" articles) seems perturbing. My aim, with support from WP:WPCSub, is to clarify the distinction between administrative and other kinds of national divisions. Although not administrative divisions, the ZEATs are certainly relevant to the administrative division of France, so I've moved their mention in Administrative divisions of France to the #See also section, at least for the time being. Hope this is okay. I suppose a "See also" link to their article could be included in {{Administrative divisions of France}}, but at present I'm not sure if that's wise.

Meanwhile, perhaps you might like to add your views re "Administrative divisions of" / "Subdivisions of" in general to here and/or subsequent threads...?

Best wishes, David Kernow (talk) 07:47, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Tetiaroa

Thanks for uploading the map of Tetiaroa -Safay 05:25, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Dumont d'Urville Station -- thanks for the picture

Great picture -- thanks for uploading it. It really makes the article. I suspect the day it was taken was probably the nicest of the year -- and it still looks like a cold, forbidding place albeit in a dramtic setting. --A. B. 16:20, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, I'm also looking for PD photos of Port Martin (previous station) and Charcot Station (former inland station). So far, there are not even articles for those stations in the en-Wikipedia. They are both interesting. It was said that after moving to Dumont d'Urville, that the new environment was much less hostile, with only half of the average wind speed compared to Port Martin. Charcot was largely dug into the snow so the wind would not blow it away. There was not much you could see from outside.Ratzer 12:50, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Map of Europa Island

Thanks,
I made it from the NASA satellite view and from my knowledge of the island. I am not completely sure of the north direction, so I didn't put it on. The former map was so bad and so wrong, I could not bare it anymore ! Unfortunately, I don't know the other scattered islands enough to draw their maps. If you want a caption in another language, give me the translations, I would make a new version and upload it.
Cheers
Channer 04:18, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

I turned the map 28° clockwise, the uploading was successful, but the new picture doesn't appear yet on the Commons image, nor in the english article. That's a mystery ! Just have to wait the computers do their job ?Channer 18:01, 1 November 2006 (UTC)