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You moved St. Peter Sandstone to the uncapitalized version. However, geologic formations are always capitalized as a convention. Could you please move it back? Thanks! (If you reply, I'll be watching your talk page so the thread can stay together.) ] (]) 07:33, 19 January 2009 (UTC)
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== US Primary Copper Production Chart ==
:Okay, after fat-fingering it I managed to move it back. After making the original move I wondered if I'd done the right thing, looking at how other formation names are presented. I'd based the move on how it is referred to in the text of this article. I suppose it should be corrected there. --]] 18:04, 19 January 2009 (UTC)


Good day Kbh3rd
::OK - thanks - I should do that - I'll start going through the geologic formations category and fix a bunch of the formations. The idea is like "Mississippi River" - it becomes a proper noun because something like "Sioux Quartzite" applies to a particular rock unit. ] (]) 18:21, 19 January 2009 (UTC)


I appreciate the effort you went to in putting together that 'US Primary Copper Production' chart on the 'Copper mining in the United States' article on Misplaced Pages, as I have found it to be quite interesting. I have a question in relation to this chart, though.
Something I forgot to say - I looked at your userpage, and ''thanks'' for all the articles you've created and/or edited! It turns out that a lot of those were ones I read before I even started contributing here. ] (]) 05:19, 28 January 2009 (UTC)


Assuming you have a free moment, I was wondering if you could point me to where exactly you sourced the figures from in the USGS site?
: ] --]] 05:36, 28 January 2009 (UTC)


I noticed on the chart that the source is named as being the United States Geological Survey, however, when I visited that site, I wasn't able to work out exactly where the annual copper production data is housed on the site.
== Can you help? ==


If you could point me in the right direction, that would be much appreciated.
I note that you are both an Administrator ''and'' a member of the Counter-Vandalism Unit.


''']''', an article that I orginally wrote and continue to maintain, is constantly the subject of puerile vandalism, not misinformation, but nonsense insertions and obscene graffiti. The vandals are always non-registered. How do I go about getting the page semi-protected so that only registered members can edit it? Do you have sufficient influence/authority to do it yourself?


Thanks in advance for your attention,
Thank you.
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:I'm sure they changed that page and the location of the data in the several years since I made that chart. I'll look around this weekend and let you know if I can find the latest data.
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::--]] 12:51, 6 January 2024 (UTC)
:Following the Commodities link on that page I found that has lots of documents. I don't yet see data there for the missing years prior to 2018, but more digging might turn up something. --]] 20:57, 10 January 2024 (UTC)


== Administrative permissions and inactivity reminder ==
: Sorry I didn't respond sooner. I looked at the situation yesterday, and unfortunately it looks like ] does not receive more vandalism that many articles. I say "unfortunately", because that means that many articles receive regular vandalism of the sort you cite. The ''pueri'' are ubiquitous. After watching and reverting vandalism for a while it is often obvious that certain spates are from schools. With the right watchlist you can almost follow the syllabus by seeing when particular articles are defaced.


]This is a reminder that established ] provides for removal of the administrative permissions of users who have made fewer than 100 edits over a 60-month period. You are receiving this annual reminder since you have averaged less than 50 edits per year over the last 5 years.{{pb}}Inactive administrators are encouraged to reengage with the project in earnest rather than to make token edits to avoid loss of administrative permissions. Resources and support for reengaging with the project are available at ]. If you do not intend to be engaged with the project in the foreseeable future, please consider voluntarily resigning your administrative permissions by making a request at the ].{{pb}}Thank you for your past contributions to the project. —&thinsp;] 00:32, 1 February 2024 (UTC)
:An abusive IP address that can be identified with a school can be blocked a bit more quickly than otherwise, and I put a temporary block on one address that vandalized Big Dipper multiple times in a short period. School blocks can quickly grow to a full term if the abuse continues. I'll add Big Dipper too my watch list, which I ''usually'' check at least once a day. But though the damage is recurring, it doesn't seem ''to me'' to require protection at this point. If you find another admin who thinks otherwise, I won't dispute him. If I change my view after watching it for a while I'll react appropriately.


== Administrators' newsletter – February 2024 ==
:The Big Dipper article looks good, and I understand your proprietary interest in it. (I'm an astronomy ] counselor, after all.) It can become disheartening to see too much vandalism, and it's easy to feel the cause is hopeless after reverting case after case after case of vandalism. For myself the cure occasionally is to stop dwelling on it too much and do something more creative. That's partly why I was a little slow to respond here — I've been on a map-making spree lately, and was deep into creating ] yesterday when I received your message. '']'' --]] 05:01, 25 February 2009 (UTC)


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Excuse me, but I asked for some help in keeping Misplaced Pages working properly, and I'm being told to "stop dwelling on it." Since my last edit of the article there have been, as of this moment, '''fourteen''' mindless vandalisms, '''eight''' reverts, and exactly '''one''' useful edit. All the vandalism is done by non-registered jerks. While ''any'' article is subject to vandalism, of the ones I am involved with, this one attracts the most. I <u>want</u> legitimte additions; I don't want the barbarians fouling things up for the rest of us.
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I'm sure I've done this by mistake also -- see . I've cleaned it up and blocked {{User|Gama brain}}. ] (]) 06:06, 17 March 2009 (UTC)
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:Thanks. I usually check recent revisions, too, along with the perp's recent edits, but obviously missed it this time. --]] 17:46, 17 March 2009 (UTC)
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::No problem, you clearly do a great job! There just isn't time, is there? One thing I wish more people would do is check the IP addresses, I keep finding IP's that have been vandalising forever and no one has noticed they are a school. But lack of time and automated tools... ] (]) 18:04, 17 March 2009 (UTC)


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: Yes, it appears that was a mistake. I've removed the block and left my apologies on the unintended victim's talk page. I tried to, or meant to, block an anonymous user who was repeatedly vandalizing ], and whose edit history consists soley of vandalism. Thanks for the notice. --]] 01:42, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
::I have gone to the anon user's page (where you left the message related to Bidgee's block) and applied the 48 hour block you were intending to make.--] <sup>]</sup> 02:01, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
::Alright, no worries then. Just wanted to confirm. Cheers, &ndash;] ] ] 02:15, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
:::Hey Kbh3rd - if you are about can you meet ]--] <sup>]</sup> 05:21, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
::::I have dealt with the autoblock problem in your absence. Cheers.--] <sup>]</sup> 05:30, 19 March 2009 (UTC)


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I'm sorry but you should be more careful! Sometimes I really wonder why I bother with this project since I've put a lot of time, effort in trying to improve the project whether it be reverting vandalism, adding content, citing content in unsourced article ect. What I can't get over is that you didn't double check, Juliancolton left a message (above and I like to thank them for doing so) 11 minutes after the block but it wasn't partly removed until 1 hour and 47 minutes later but after coming back home from ] I was wondering why I couldn't edit then looked up at the page I was trying to edit to see that I was blocked! It wasn't until 4:29pm (My time and 05:29 UTC) which is almost 6 hours blocked! I think to thank Steve for trying to get the autoblock to unblock me (which failed) but unsure if J.delanoy fixed it or it fixed itself. Now my which is a mess that I don't want. Tell you the truth I'm still fuming over this and it doesn't matter what anyone says as the damage has been done. Now I have to see if I request a rename of my account and have my edits moved to see if the block log move with it as well. ] (]) 13:49, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
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:Bidgee, people will see Steve's annotation. You want an example of how mistakes can happen? Look at my block log. These things are relatively common and ''not'' a big deal. Contrary to your opinion, ''most'' users would not judge you based on your block log. You '''do''' great work around here; don't let a ''harmless'' error get the best of you. ]] 23:41, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
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== Custom signature fix needed ==
:::You put a big addendum at the top of the RfA explaining to other users. If someone opposes per your block log then they're going to look awfully stupid. Also, 'crats take that sort of thing into consideration. ]] 00:35, 20 March 2009 (UTC)


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::::I shouldn't have to but a addendum in a RfA because of the actions which were done by other administrators! I've seen some past RfA's were the block log of a editor (similar to my block log) only to have it voted against just because they had blocks in the block log! So who's to say that my block log will not be used against me? No one can because it can't be guaranteed that no one will use it for there own benefit! I've also asked you how can you say that my block log is no "big deal" but you haven't answered my question (Not the only ] you haven't answered). Also if I make a mistake when editing (whether it be editing, creating or moving an article or even reverting vandalism which also re-adds a past vandalised page )? I'm not going to lie but there are trigger happy Admins (Not many but there is some) here which will block as soon as they see that edit and see that user already has a blog log (without reading any of the reasons) and blocks that edit. So if you call my blog log "no big deal" then you're very wrong as it is a big deal. ] (]) 03:10, 20 March 2009 (UTC)
:::::Bidgee - you are a great editor. If you ever decide to run for Admin I'd be more than happy to nominate you and then spend the first 100+ words on explaining that the blocks are incorrect. I'm certain that Pat would do so also. If others didn't see that as a fact then that would be their and Misplaced Pages's loss. <s>That said, I am a little disappointed in Kbh3rd not having a bit more to say about this, I mean I've seen the first apology but I think another one for the continued autoblock of your IP (unless I have missed it somewhere and then my apologies) should have come quickly.</s> Everyone makes mistakes - I have done this once myself to a good editor and was mortified - and couldn't say sorry enough. Oh and I should answer the question that you ask above Bidgee - it was I who managed to turn your autoblock off. Stay sane my friend.--] <sup>]</sup> 13:26, 20 March 2009 (UTC)


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: Bidgeei, you have reason to be miffed, but I extended a simple, straightforward, sincere and honest apology and can offer no more. I ''am'' careful about such things, and you can be sure this episode will only enforce that. I did not add explanations and excuses when I apologized as those would, to me, seem to detract from it -- I wanted to apologize, not to impress. But you and ] seem to demand more...


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: As for no action for close to two hours after the block was initated, I make no apologies for sitting down to dinner with my family. My wife frowns upon laptops at the table. As soon as I saw the message from ] I lifted the block against your user id and apologized on your talk page.
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:: Done! --] 05:47, 5 February 2024 (UTC)
: Besides eating dinner a least once a day, I actually have a ''real life'' outside of Misplaced Pages. This is my first chance to revisit this. There is also a matter of ] to consider. Criticism by ] concerning timeliness is out of line.


== Administrators' newsletter – March 2024 ==
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:It is important for users to understand that administrators do not set autoblocks; once they have blocked a user with autoblocking enabled, autoblocks are set by the MediaWiki software. Autoblocks do not appear in administrators' block logs, and the administrators are not notified of them. This is a necessary consequence of Misplaced Pages's privacy policy, to keep logged-in users' IP addresses private. So while the IP address responsible for each edit is recorded by the MediaWiki software, this cannot be accessed, even by administrators and even when the user is blocked.
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: Upon realizing the error of the block against your user id I immediately removed the block I had placed and did not realize that all that was going on in the background. It seems to me that there is room for improvement in the wiki software -- it would reasonable that when a user id block is lifted any associated autoblocks should be removed automatically. I didn't apply the autoblock. I was not notified that it was placed, and I was not notified that it remained when I removed the original block. I rarely if ever apply a temporary block against a registered user, so I did not anticipate the looming difficulties. The apparent trouble the other admins had in getting it fully lifted argue further for a more streamlined process.


] from the past month (February 2024).
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lot of the folks coming to wiki are looking for information and beyond that won't ever set their image size preferences so I tweaked the thumb to 200px, which also gives it a nice layout conformity with the other images on the page. <small><span class="autosigned">—Preceding ] comment added by ] (] • ]) 21:06, 4 April 2009 (UTC)</span></small><!-- Template:Unsigned --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->


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: None of those conditions seem to fit this rather run-of-the-mill case. FWIW, I visited a site recently that was obviously created many years ago. The images where way too small for modern displays. Is someone supposed to go back and adjust the ''|200px|'' in a gazillion thumbnails on Misplaced Pages in 5 or 10 years from now? I prefer to let the software do its job. --]] 21:17, 4 April 2009 (UTC)


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== Getting started on a new bridge ==


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Quite a while ago you mentioned that it would be neat to see pix of a bridge carved from a blank also shown, and here is the blank I propose to use for the next setup in the queue. I'm hoping that showing you this will motivate me to take further photos for the commons. Be well, and thanks for all that you do here, __] (]) 05:44, 13 April 2009 (UTC)
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Following your block of {{userlinks|Ohjaypea}}, you may be interested in the oh-so-subtle name and edits of {{userlinks|Ohjaypea1}}. I'm an admin on an monobook-enforced wikibreak from my account, otherwise I'd block him myself! Regards, ] (]) 18:04, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
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Hi, Kbh3rd- I want to thank you for this. I am not sure if it's vandalism, but it sure is weird! Maybe they like the puppies? Thanks!! ] 21:12, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
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: That is quite a sentence that probably could be improved further, beyond my meager attempt to make it easier to parse. On first glance "sole" does seem to fit the phrase better, but once the entirety of the sentence is successfully digested, "one" or "single" are plainly more appropriate. I believe that "single" is the more apt phrasing, a point on which it appears that we agree. --]] 22:58, 25 June 2009 (UTC)
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== Bill Bradley ==
* The ] feature, which enables administrators to mass delete pages, will now correctly delete pages which were moved to another title. ]


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Regarding your recent edits to ], couldn't we just use a <nowiki>{{refimprove|section}}</nowiki> template in the appropriate sections? Your requests for cites may very well be appropriate, but those sections are now very difficult to read with all the tags. <small><span style="padding:2px;border:1px solid #000000">]&nbsp;{{!}}&nbsp;]</span></small> 15:25, 19 July 2009 (UTC)
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: The right answer is to replace those <sup><nowiki></nowiki></sup> tags with numbered tags generated by proper footnotes. Each and everyone of those can be and should be verifiable and supported by ]. I'd guess you agree with me on that point.
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: The advantage of flagging individual statements or paragraphs is that it, ''perhaps'', helps educate editors about just what should be cited, especially in ] articles where the standards are by necessity much higher. Any statement of intent or position attributed to a person needs to be backed up -- I assume that ] is not a ]. No ] should be presented without being presented ''as analysis'' and attributed to someone, not presented as fact. Superlatives and simliar claims demand citation in any article, as do most statements with specific numbers and statistics; those can't be pulled out of the air.
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::I'm with you as to needing citations; I'm a stickler myself for BLP. I just think the refimprove, with the "section" parameter and placed at the top of the section(s) in question, does the job. (If you add the parameter, it reads slightly differently so as not to give the impression that the article has ''no'' citations, which would clearly be incorrect.) As for educating editors, well...we all try. :-) I think if we can flag individual edits and/or get people involved on the talk page, that does more.


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::Thanks for your response. We agree on the problem; I'm just talking about the response, and my main response to this will be the intended one: to find sources for the article, so...no worries. <small><span style="padding:2px;border:1px solid #000000">]&nbsp;{{!}}&nbsp;]</span></small> 17:51, 19 July 2009 (UTC)


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Perhaps more significantly, I can't find anything reliable to support either (although one article did list "former wife of former Senator" but I think it was a typo - one extra "former", and the original "cite" for that claim is a dead link, doesn't appear on archive.org, and a search of the site doesn't come up with anything). That gem was in there for about . Again - as I'm sure you know, "truth" isn't the issue, but if it can't be cited, that's a problem, and I can't find source to cite.
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Still digging up cites for other stuff. <small><span style="padding:2px;border:1px solid #000000">]&nbsp;{{!}}&nbsp;]</span></small> 17:43, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
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: Wow. I'm very impressed with all the work you put into that article, and it is much, much better for it. I added a few references in the college section. I think the statement at the end where Phil Jackson is pinned as a "vocal supporter" who often wore a Bradley campaign button should be cited as well, as a Jackson-] matter. Thanks! --]] 03:50, 4 August 2009 (UTC)


::Thanks, and thanks also for your edits. They improved it as well, and I think there's still some room for more. I'm off to find a Jackson reference; you're right about that one as well. <small><span style="padding:2px;border:1px solid #000000">]&nbsp;{{!}}&nbsp;]</span></small> 11:38, 4 August 2009 (UTC)


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== Administrators' newsletter – August 2024 ==
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Hi Kbh3rd! I notice that you put a one-year {{tl|schoolblock}} on IP: ]. However, you didn’t put any of those notices that indicate that the account has been blocked and that if people at that IP address want to edit, they need to ]. (You’ll notice that’s why I later added a warning template ''after'' the block went on, because I didn’t know that the IP address had been blocked. :) ). Anyway, I was going to add a “you’ve been blocked template” and one of those {{tl|schoolblock}} templates, when I realized that it has to be done by the blocking admin. Would you mind adding them so other editors won’t place any more warnings and would-be editors at that IP address will know that they have to register? Thanks! — ] (]) 05:20, 21 September 2009 (UTC)
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:Whoops! I started in trying to nail down exactly where that IP is, got distracted, then forgot to put up the notice. Things got a little out of order I guess. D*mn Telstra's whois & rDNS are absolutely worthless for trying to id an ip. Thanks for the heads-up. --]] 05:30, 21 September 2009 (UTC)
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:::: I have not been able to tag the exact institution that this IP is associated with, but I'll bet doughnuts to dollars that it's a school. It is obvious to anyone who has spent any time dealing with this sort of schoolboy vandalism that this is a group of immature kids amusing themselves in irresponsible ways while incarcerated in some sort of institution that specializes in torturing young souls by trying to give them an education. I looked at every edit from that IP. Out of 47 edits over the past year there was one single positive contribution, 45 vandalous edits, and one self-revert. Most edits involve some sort of overt sexual content for which you or I could be arrested were we ever to initiate such a conversation with the self-same little darlings. --]] 14:45, 21 September 2009 (UTC)
:::::Frustrating that Whois doesn't work well sometimes. ] (]) 15:18, 21 September 2009 (UTC)


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This oft-blocked account vandalized several more pages over the past few days. -- ] (]) 18:15, 24 September 2009 (UTC)
: Looks like it's been by Mr. ]. I appreciate you taking the time and making the effort to get the problem taken care of. The best way to get issues like that in front of someone who can deal with it promptly is to post to the appropriate page under ], such as ]. That way someone who is currently on-line should see it. Thanks.


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Hi, I wanted to let you know that I agree with the block, but I was a bit puzzled by the edit summary. It appeared to indicate that removing warnings from one's own talk page was vandalism. It was my understanding that removing warnings was indication that one had read the warnings. Of course, after the user has been blocked, then restoring the warnings is understandable to provide context for the block. If you could point me to the WP policy that states that one cannot remove warnings from one's own talk page, I would be happy to be corrected on this issue. Thanks! ] ] 20:43, 25 October 2009 (UTC)
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:I took this photo along with a few others while flying between Branson and Farmington last Sunday. I was showing a friend how easy it was to edit Misplaced Pages. About all I took was of a few lakes and some random shots of the woods.
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* Editors can now enter into ], an alternative for informal '']'' arrangements, to have a ] reviewed in return for reviewing a different editor's nomination.
Hope this gives you some insight on my process. Cheers! ] (]) 04:26, 28 November 2009 (UTC)
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== 78.149.49.119 ==


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I made an account on here on the off-chance I wanted to edit something.


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But, with inaction comes me being logged out.


] from the past month (September 2024).
So when I visit the site after a long absence, I received that message on the talk page of that IP address, apparently mine.


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: I can see how that might seem something to be alarmed about, but it probably is nothing of concern. That ] is owned by an ] that in all likelihood dynamically assigns addresses to its customers. If your computer is not connected to the ISP 24x7, then it is very possible to get a different address when you do connect. And it is equally possible for the address to have previously been used by someone else for some wiki-mischief. It is technically possible to block anonymous use of that one IP, but there are no grounds to do so based on either Misplaced Pages policy or the chance that it would actually achieve what you want -- the next time you connect you could get still another IP termporarily assigned to your equipment.
* The arbitration case '']'' has been closed.
* An arbitration case regarding ] has been opened.
* Editors are invited to ''']''' to serve on the 2024 Arbitration Committee Electoral Commission until ''23:59 October 8, 2024 (UTC)''.


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: See ] for details of how that works, if you're not familiar with it. There may be more details there than you want if you're not a network geek. The upshot is that IP addresses can be dynamically assigned on demand from a pool of addresses. When an address is assigned to a particular piece of networking hardware, it comes with a "lease" of a given duration. If the equipement does not renew the lease before it expires, as would be the case after a lengthy disconnection, the address is released to the pool. Your equipment may or may not receive that address from the pool upon next connection, and someone else may be assigned it in the interim. What a "lengthy duration" is cannot be known here -- it's a configuration option entirely up to the discretion of the ISP.
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Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:54, 1 January 2024 (UTC)

US Primary Copper Production Chart

Good day Kbh3rd

I appreciate the effort you went to in putting together that 'US Primary Copper Production' chart on the 'Copper mining in the United States' article on Misplaced Pages, as I have found it to be quite interesting. I have a question in relation to this chart, though.

Assuming you have a free moment, I was wondering if you could point me to where exactly you sourced the figures from in the USGS site?

I noticed on the chart that the source is named as being the United States Geological Survey, however, when I visited that site, I wasn't able to work out exactly where the annual copper production data is housed on the site.

If you could point me in the right direction, that would be much appreciated.


Thanks in advance for your attention, Inchiquin (talk) 23:49, 5 January 2024 (UTC)

I'm sure they changed that page and the location of the data in the several years since I made that chart. I'll look around this weekend and let you know if I can find the latest data.
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Following the Commodities link on that page I found this page that has lots of documents. I don't yet see data there for the missing years prior to 2018, but more digging might turn up something. --Kbh3talk 20:57, 10 January 2024 (UTC)

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