User talk:JohnOwens

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Hello there John, welcome to the 'pedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you ever need editing help visit Wikipedia:How does one edit a page and experiment at Wikipedia:Sandbox. If you need pointers on how we title pages visit Wikipedia:Naming conventions or how to format them visit our manual of style. If you have any other questions about the project then check out Wikipedia:Help or add a question to the Village pump. Cheers! --maveric149

Hi, John, thanks for catching the alternate meaning of Or.

BTW, you may want to look at Wikipedia:Disambiguation to see how we format pages like this that deal with multiple unrelated meanings of a term, and how we edit links to make reading the encyclopædia smoother.

But don't worry about doing these things for Or itself now; I took care of it. — Toby 06:56 Oct 18, 2002 (UTC)

Recent

Ramir, also ru:????????:Ramir (damn, the Russian encoding doesn't seem to be working here):

Hello John. I am a new ru.wikipedia's sysop, and a very good one. This is just to let you know that we are trying to revive our wikipedia, and there are new changes going on. However, we still are a very small community.

Error in insolation of order of magnitude energy

John, if I'm reading the edit history correctly, you're the one who added the solar energy inputs to the various energy pages, e.g. 1_E4_J, 1_E17_J, etc. I believe there's an error in that the various solar numbers are not internally consistant, but I don't have another reference to tell me which ones are the correct numbers, and which ones aren't.

It's basically an order of magnitude error. All of the mantissa's appear to be correct. For example, 1_E4_J tells us 1.36 x 10⁴J per square meter per second, and if you multiply that by the sillouhette area of Earth (approx 1.27 x 10¹⁴ m²) you get 1.72 x 10¹⁸J/s for the whole Earth. The problem is that 1_E17_J lists this value as 1.74 x 10¹⁷ J/s. Then if you start multiply up by time factors, you run into a problem at solar energy per hour 1_E21_J. Finally, if you do the spherical math for the total energy of the sun 1_E26_J spread out across a sphere of our orbital radius, you get 1.39 x 10³, about one-tenth the value listed on 1_E4_J.

Personally, I suspect that the total solar energy and the total Earth per second are the correct values and that the J/s/m² and total Earth per hour are the wrong values. However, I base this just on an old recollection that solar power at Earth is about a kW/m². Also, I'm new to Wikipedia, so I was reluctant to just go change things on my own. Hence I'm trying to track down the original contributor.

User:Diberri/Image tag request --Diberri | Talk 22:21, Sep 7, 2004 (UTC)

Karte Ukraine

Hallo John, ich habe dir auf deiner russ. Diskussionsseite eine Nachricht hinterlassen. --Steschke 17:40, 2004 Sep 26 (UTC)

Article Licensing

Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 1000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:

Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
Multi-Licensing Guide
Free the Rambot Articles Project

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

Option 1

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

Option 2

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to any [[U.S. state]], county, or city article as described below:

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=User_talk:Ram-Man&action=edit&section=new)| talk) 18:25, Dec 8, 2004 (UTC)

RFC pages on VfD

Should RFC pages be placed on VfD to be deleted? I'm considering removing Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Slrubenstein, Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Jwrosenzweig and Wikipedia:Requests for comment/John Kenney from WP:VFD. Each of them was listed by CheeseDreams. Your comments on whether I should do this would be appreciated. - Ta bu shi da yu 03:51, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Rienzo

Rienzo is still editing under further sockpuppets User:65.161.65.104, User:MahBoys, and User:Sandor, and User:130.236.84.134.

This is in violation of a 3 month ban from the arbitration comittee - Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Rienzo

I would appreciate an immediate block of these accounts. CheeseDreams 14:36, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Opuntia photo

Hi John,

Just curiosity — where was that photo taken? It made me miss Tucson.

Thanks, Pekinensis 15:37, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)

My parents' backyard, in Vail if that means anything to you. I was just down visiting them for the first time for a week recently, and got a digital camera for a birthday present, so I went a little crazy with taking pictures meant largely for Wikipedia. ;) Once I get done identifying everything & cropping & resizing, there'll probably be a couple dozen more Opuntiæ photos, and another couple dozen of other cacti & desert plants. You can see a pretty complete list at my trip photo list. - John Owens (talk) 22:51, 2005 Feb 20 (UTC)

Vail! Heh. Very cool. Nice photos, by the way.

Thanks, Pekinensis 03:04, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Perrine

In a remarkable bit of convergence, the sisal and Florida Perrines both relate to the same person, a Henry Perrine who described the species and attempted to grow it in the area of present-day Perrine in Florida. Gathering info now, should have an article about him soon. Stan 14:48, 2 Mar 2005 (UTC)

My English

Hello JohnOwens! Thank you for the correction by he article Bevertalsperre. My english ist not very well, but i want to describe the images in the english language, too. So, all the english speaking users can read and edit this articles. And i can leard something more! Can you check the image, which was included in the article, too? Best greetings from Germany (Cologne)! --84.128.189.116 11:02, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Our English

Thank you also for your work on Finland's Continuation War. --Johan Magnus 09:23, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Inappropriate redirect

There was no need to move Portland Place. There is nothing to disambiguate at this point and there may never be. Only half a dozen others of the more than a hundred articles in category:streets of London are disambiguated, and unlike this one they all need it. I am going to revert and do the redirect in the opposite direction. Wincoote 05:55, 15 Mar 2005 (UTC)

The Resistance Manifesto

Not a problem. :) Rick K 08:39, Mar 16, 2005 (UTC)

Moving

Admitedly(sp?), I would also have to move a few blocks... However, I grew up in Cedarburg and my Ma still lives in Grafton. At heart and often locale, I'm an East-sider. I just thought I'd use my resources and "relocate" for a while, rather than preaching to the choir. Kevin Baas^talk 00:36, 2005 Mar 19 (UTC)

Oliver North

Hello! Could you take a look at the Oliver North article, please? A new account (but clearly old user), Ger6 (talk · contributions), is trying to insert PoV references to North's being a national hero, etc., and has reverted my edits, including many unrelated to his obsession. He's already broken the 3RR, and clearly doesn't care. there's not much more that I can do now. Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 18:44, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Thanks!

Dear John: Thanks for putting the Italics instead of the quotes on the article that I strted about Victor Chapman. My computer can't see italics, but it can see quotes. I jst wonder how many other computers out there are like mine.

It still is a very appreciated gesture of yours and I want to thank you for taking the time to read an article I began. Everytime someone reads something I began it makes me feel that Im not wasting my time here, that my work is helpful to others.

Thanks and God bless you!

Sincerely yours, --"Antonio Sweet Prince(ss)Martin-- 04:45 (MST) 3 Apr, 2005

Hi from the BABB

Heyo, fancy finding you here. But then now that I think back on it I remember you talking about Wikipedia back in the days of the BABB IRC channel, if I recall correctly. ;-) Take care. Andromeda321 20:55, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)

ru:Рушева, Надя

Hi John, I understand you are an admin on ru (?). If so, can you process this possible copyright violation? It's listed at Wikipedia:Copyright_problems#April_22, the lister didn't know where to put it on ru. Thanks--Duk 17:40, 4 May 2005 (UTC)

PS, I also lef a note at User:Maximaximax

Apostolic Council and Council of Jerusalem

These pages sure could use some help, perhaps you're interested?

thank you everybody

I would like to express my thanks to everybody helping in the nomination of Antarctic krill. I think 3 1/2 supports and a long long discussion are an unexpected and great outcome for a critter so remote and unknown - you should see how little and poor Antarctic krill is represented in Encarta and Britannica - this is the best reviewed and resourced general article of krill we know of - it is impossible to fullfill all wishes at the same time - this is what we did with our all product peer review stamp (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Antarctic_krill&oldid=15197713) to qualify this stage of the article for academic exercises, especially for our dreams of a Virtual university within Wikiversity - good luck to you all Uwe Kils 21:48, Jun 14, 2005 (UTC)

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