User talk:Johnfos
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[edit] Nice work
Nice work on Reincarnation research! --Anthon.Eff 03:54, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
- Hi, Thank you for your encouraging words. With the passing of Ian Stevenson, some interesting material came to hand, and it's been good to use this to bring the page up to standard. Once again, your comments are much appreciated. Johnfos 23:05, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Kt66
Thank you for your entry at my userpage. Most time people scold me ;-) --Kt66 21:45, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Solar Tower Buronga
The Solar Tower Buronga was first proposed 7 years ago, and has never been built. And it never will. Yet that does not stop people to keep putting in that obsolete information. Please have a look at Talk:Solar updraft tower, Talk:EnviroMission, and Talk:Energy tower (downdraft) to get the complete picture. JdH 02:38, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Hi!
I too have an interest in Energy issues and have noticed your name coming up. So I thought I would just like to say Hi!
My recent pages are BP Solar and Solar power in Spain if that is of any interest.
I gather you are a very experienced editor so I expect I will be wanting to ask questions of you sometimes, if that's OK. For example, I was thinking of doing an article on the Solar Tres project in Spain, but if I type in Solar Tres it I am redirected to the Solar One page. Is this easy to fix? I'm also interested in making the Wind Prospect look a bit less like an advertisement. Also, I would welcome some info on the "Energy Portal".
Anyway, as I say, just thought it would be good to make contact. regards, Johnfos 01:40, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
- Hi Johnfos, welcome, and good to hear from you!
- Energy is a major topic area and there are plenty of gaps in Wikipedia's coverage that need filling - so I am sure that you can make a valuable contribution.
- Your 'Solar Tres problem' is easy to fix. As you say, when you type it in you get redirected to Solar One. Just underneath the page title it says '(Redirected from Solar Tres)', and if you click on this Solar Tres link it will take you to the page. Since there is presumably only one Solar Tres (and therefore you don't need to consider disambiguation), just go ahead and edit the page, replacing the redirect with your content.
- If you're reasonably confident in your editing, go ahead with your improvements to Wind Prospect too. If not, you could always suggest your improvements on the talk page. If undecided, this page may help you decide.
- As for the Energy Portal, it's there partly to showcase Wikipedia's energy-related content, and partly to help people navigate, discover or learn about the the topic areas. It's close to becoming a Featured portal, with the main thing holding it back being that the 'selected' article, biography and photo need to be changed more regularly, perhaps automatically.
- A good way to start to contribute to the portal would be to join the debate on future 'selected' content (see, for example, nominations for selected article). Identifying enough articles is the first step to more regular updating, so feel free to make suggestions. Also, if you come across an energy related news story of international (or at least regional) interest, go ahead and add it to the energy news column (click on 'edit' to read the guidelines).
- Hope this helps, and that you enjoy contributing.
- Gralo 16:47, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Solar Systems (company)
If Solar Systems is the largest anything in the world, could you please provide a source independent of them who has made this assessment?
Wherever possible, articles should be based on secondary sources. Primary sources should only be used to provide clear factual information such as the size of an installation - not that it is the largest installation in a given region. Please see WP:ATT and WP:RS for more information.Garrie 01:10, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
- Hi Garrie, good to see someone is reading some of these new articles! I've looked again at this article and think there are plenty of appropriate references, internal links, and external links to substantiate what is being said. If you wish to rearrange these, feel free. Johnfos 01:54, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Inline citations
Hi, looking at your work at Canunda Wind Farm, you are providing good links, the article might look better if you use the <ref> / </ref> markup style as discussed at WP:CITE#HOW. the template "cite web" (see: template:cite web) is fairly straight forward to use between the ref statements.Garrie 01:29, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
- Thanks, Garrie, for the suggestion. It may be that I will get some time to go back and work on the references. Or maybe someone else will jump in and do it! With specific reference to the "<ref> / </ref> markup style" there was an example recently in Renewable energy where an editor had included some extra spaces when using this reference format and large chunks of text in the article went missing. Probably this reference system is too complex for my taste. Johnfos 02:05, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Hi there
Hey
Just came across this page: Waldpolenz_Solar_Park_in_Saxony,_Germany. You shifted the page from where it previously was, citing naming conventions. I tried looking for them, but I couldn't find the convention that requires the place be mentioned in the name of the article, and as such, the move wouldn't be correct. Could you show me the page?
Thanks xC | ☎ 06:42, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
- Hi, and thanks for your interest. I remember the issue came up once in regard to the naming of Wind farms in Australia, which now all have the place included in the name (see Category:Wind farms in Australia). But really I'm happy to go with what you think... Johnfos 07:03, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
