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Draft for new article on atmospheric chemistry moved to sub page --NHSavage 10:20, 14 August 2005 (UTC)

Contents 1 Hello 2 NOx - nitrogen oxide merge 3 Catholic Encyclopedia 4 The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle 5 Sentinel / Thomas Hill 6 George Galloway 7 Methane 8 Link 9 Regional and Global Air Quality modelling 10 Solar variation 11 National Health Service 12 RE: Ozone 13 Top 1000 scientists 14 Association of University Teachers merger 15 VandalProof 1.2 Now Available 16 Global Warming 17 Photodissociation 18 Help!!! 18.1 My watchlist

[edit] Hello

On the basis of your recent edits to hadcm3 and the like, and your cambridge-ness, I say Hello! William M. Connolley 21:03:31, 2005-09-01 (UTC)

[edit] NOx - nitrogen oxide merge

Thanks for the note. Certainly any topic can be divided into its important subtopics, and conversely any subtopical stub article which has yet to be developed (or is unlikely to be developed) can be merged into a larger one. My feeling is that having articles be distinguished from each other requires that there be enough material to warrant the split, and that that material be non-redundant enough to be counted. Id have no problem with spitting it back, if you like, but I would suggest developing it further first. -St|eve 07:38, 7 September 2005 (UTC)

I'll think about this some more. (I have to go to work as an atmospheric chemist).--NHSavage 07:50, 7 September 2005 (UTC)

OK I've thought about it and decided for now to leave it as it is but with some edits to the page--NHSavage 22:07, 7 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Catholic Encyclopedia

Does not the following text, from the article on Catholic Encylopedia, permit Wikipedia users to use material from that site? This page also permits it (insofar as the content may need to be modified for style/NPOV reasons, not for copyright reasons).

Due to its public domain status, content from the 1913 edition can be incorporated into any work. While it does present information from a Catholic perspective, it often offers in-depth and accurate portrayals of historical and philosophical ideas, persons and events. The online site is copyrighted, but this doesn't apply to the 1913 text. Text from the Catholic Encyclopedia appears, sometimes in an edited form, in online reference works such as Wikipedia.

If this is not accurate, perhaps we can contact an administrator for deliberation. If necessary, I can glady modify the text in the fashion prescribed in the above link. Thanks for your help. --Dpr 21:29, 24 October 2005 (UTC)

NH, thanks for your response. As I alluded to by citing Wikipedia:Catholic_Encyclopedia_topics, you will notice on this list that there are literally thousands of Wikipedia article composed precisely in the same manner as St. Mechtilde. This method is approved, legitimated, and ecouraged by Wikipedia. --Dpr 00:08, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle

I have tentatively reverted your merge of content by 24.127.101.24 into The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, since it looks suspiciously like a copyvio to me. I have contacted 24.127.101.24 and asked them to respond at the talk page, but since this is an anon IP with no other edits, I'm not terribly confident of receiving a reply. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 21:01, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Sentinel / Thomas Hill

Thought it best to write here rather than spread across three discussion pages. I had been cleaning up the Sentinel page as nothing seemed to be happening with it. My main interest / knowledge is in the diesels and I had intended setting up a page for the Sentinel diesel locos separate from the steam loco/wagon page.

I would say all the overlap between Sentinel (Steam), Sentinel (diesel), Thomas Hill and Yorkshires (my main interest) is best reduced to a note on the business being transferred. Thus all the details from the TH article on the YE closure are covered on the YE page already, but a entry on the page TH concentrating on TH and the sale of Spares for YE locos and overhauls.

In reply to your question, Rolls Royce bought Sentinel, stopped steam loco production, started building diesels called 'Sentinel' then after 5 years changed the name to 'Rolls Royce'.

Hope this helps. AHEMSLTD 14:09, 14 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] George Galloway

Thanks - it's importantr to note that while his supporters have had allegations made against them no one has actually called George an anti-semite. Unbehagen 18:23, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Methane

I just wanted to say thanks for the great job you did rewriting and significantly improving the article on methane. Edgar181 20:00, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Link

I fixed the link in your post on Talk:Global warming - apologies for altering a signed comment, but I figured you probably wouldn't mind - Guettarda 19:13, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks - I should have checked it really!.--NHSavage 19:41, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Regional and Global Air Quality modelling

Hello and thanks for the comment you left on the Talk page of Atmospheric dispersion modeling. Please read my reponse and let me know what you think. I will watch for further dialogue there. Regards, mbeychok 17:12, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Solar variation

Thank you for acting in good faith by providing a citation. Alienus 21:17, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] National Health Service

Hi Nick. Every time I see your signature I think you are involved with the British health system...is that a clever case of advertising? ;-) --Stephan Schulz 22:17, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

No merely one of those things. My parents claim it was totally unintentional but my mum does now (although not when I was born) work as a Health promotion Officer for the NHS!--NHSavage 22:21, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] RE: Ozone

You have some nice diagrams on the ozone article. Perhaps you could also include an example of how ground-level ozone affects pollution (an aerial photo of smog in big cities shouldn't be too hard to find). -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 01:48, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

Hmm. Not sure about this. The problem is that in smog you don't actually see the ozone - you see nitrogen dioxide (brown) and the effects of particulates (haze). Like the article says ozone is colourless (which is not to say it is not important, just that a photo doesn't show it.) Again I could probably find some relevant satellite measurements of ozone. On the other hand is this not really more appropriate in the Tropospheric ozone article? --NHSavage 07:41, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Top 1000 scientists

I agree with your comments wholeheartedly.I think any such list is open to controversies as the inclusions and omissions are bound to favour some and ignore others.I can think of at least a 100 other names which I think should have merited inclusion but I accept that only 1000 could find a place.A physicist for example may not appreciate the inclusion of a biologist and vice versa.I a a biochemist and feel that people like Harper should have found a place.To consider teh article for deletion in my view would be entirely inappropriate.I feel the whole exercise was a meaningful one and to the best of my knowledge the first of its kind.I am gald you concur.(Vr 06:15, 26 April 2006 (UTC))

Hi Mr.Savage

Further to my last note,I have browsed through the book in the Roayl Society and the Royal Institution Libraries reference sections.You will find my comments on the talk page.Regards(Vr 06:04, 27 April 2006 (UTC))

Hi again I had corrected the Altounyan link and included the bit about Ludmilla Jordanova.I am not quite sure why these were removed.Any idea?(Vr 05:27, 28 April 2006 (UTC))

Not sure what you mean.--NHSavage 18:51, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

My apologies!The problem lay with my computer which for some bizarre reason had refused to display the latest contributions.It mysteriously corrected itself after a few hours.My apologies once again.(Vr 06:52, 2 May 2006 (UTC))

[edit] Association of University Teachers merger

Hi NHSavage. I saw your note at Template talk:Infobox Union. I put up another infobox at Talk:Association of University Teachers using the additional fields for the merger. Does that work? --Bookandcoffee 02:53, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] VandalProof 1.2 Now Available

[edit] Global Warming

Hi, I notice you did some work on Global warming/Global warming (simplified) some time back. It's currently up for deletion as a defunct re-edit, so if you want to keep it can I suggest a transwiki to your userspace? Regards, Ziggurat 02:08, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

TOP 1000 SCIENTISTS

Hi you may be intersted to know that the artivle has been listed for deletion.I have voted against it.(Vr 05:11, 15 June 2006 (UTC))

[edit] Photodissociation

See : Talk:Photodissociation. reg Mion 01:53, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Help!!!

Insert non-formatted text here--bb52 16:32, 17 October 2006 (UTC) Can u explain in a little detail what mistake i made pls?And how did u find out that I made it? And how did u contact me?--bb52 16:32, 17 October 2006 (UTC)Brainblaster52

1. I'll answer your last question first as it is the easiest - "how did u contact me?". All registered wikipedians have a User page (yours is User:Brainblaster52 - which is a red link as you have not put anything on it) and a talk page - User talk:Brainblaster52. I left a message on your talk page.
2. "how did u find out that I made it?". When you are logged in all pages have a tab at the top with the word "watch" on. If you click this then the page is added to your watchlist. Then when you click on "my watchlist" it shows all changes to any article on your watchlist. Below is an example of what the top of my watchlist looks like at the moment. You can see that Global Warming has just been edited by Bikeable and I have just edited Wildfire. You can click on diff to see what differences the last edit made or history to see all the edits to the article and compare different versions. I have ozone in my watchlist.
3. "Can u explain in a little detail what mistake i made pls?".
   1. Your first edit said that ozone is produced by lightning. The mechanism you gave (splitting of oxygen molecules into 2 atoms) is not at all important. The ozone produced by lightning is due to the production of NO (Nitric oxide) which can then produce ozone via reactions with light and hydrocarbons (see tropospheric ozone).
   2. Second edit. There were a few reasons why I did not agree with your edits. First of all the natural production and destruction you added all happen in the atmosphere so this information belongs in the Ozone in Earth's atmosphere section. Also the production mechanism you mentioned (oxygen photolysis) is correct but only important for the ozone layer and not low level ozone. The destruction section is again focussed on stratospheric ozone. I also felt that this level of detail was too much for this article (the Ozone layer article has much more detail). However this is where Wikipedia gets interesting. I am not right just because I know more about wikipedia and have been around longer. You are free to add back in the extra detail. However when things get controversial (very common!) it is a good idea to post a message about why you are making changes on the articles talk page.

You might also like to know that to add your signature you can just type --~~~~ or press the button with a signature on. If you want to see your edit before you post it (always a good idea!) press "Show preview" before "Save page".

Hope that helps.--NHSavage 18:28, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] My watchlist

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* (diff) (hist) Global warming‎; 18:59 . . Bikeable (Talk | contribs) (rv: "overdramatized"?)
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