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DYK

On 9 December, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Anti-nuclear movement in Germany, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--Zzyzx11 (Talk) 15:29, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

Naming conventions

I noticed that you moved Waldpolenz Solar Park to Waldpolenz Solar Park in Saxony, Germany along with some of the other solar power plants, such as Serpa. I see no need for this and ask that they be moved back. For example, the article on Niagara Falls is not titled, Niagara Falls of upstate New York, United States and Ontario, Canada, and Victoria Falls is not titled Victoria Falls on the Zambezi River in Africa. 199.125.109.84 (talk) 21:30, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your note. Feel free to make changes... Johnfos (talk) 23:11, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

Only registered users can change article names. I can however propose that they be changed. 199.125.109.84 (talk) 05:27, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

Long deserved barnstar

		The Environmental Barnstar
		Take this overdued barnstar for your efforts on WikiProject Environment and environment-related articles. OhanaUnited 06:33, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

Seasons Greetings

Hi A, Wondering what to make of this: Japan Nuclear Energy Drive Compromised by Conflicts of Interest. Also wanted to take the opportunity to wish you and your family a safe and happy Christmas and New Year... Johnfos (talk) 08:43, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

huh, interesting. I had actually recently just read a journal article about difficulties in the Japanese regulatory process. The really big difference is apparently that they have both the NISA and the NSA, two regulatory agencies that mostly overlap in what they do. Sure, there are potential advantages to such a system (maybe like oversight of the oversight), but frankly, creating two regulators that do the same thing is probably just going to make areas checked too many times and a few areas that aren't check sufficiently. Anyway, it's a complicated issue that I need to learn more about. -Theanphibian 17:05, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

Something you might find interesting

Mrshaba (talk) 02:58, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for that. Enjoyed reading through it. Happy Christmas! Johnfos (talk) 02:27, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

SL-1 more sources tag

There are already a number of detailed sources, including firsthand and official accident reports. What are you looking for in additional references? Georgewilliamherbert (talk) 02:11, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

Please see article Talk page... Johnfos (talk) 02:25, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

December 2007

Please do not add inappropriate external links to Misplaced Pages, as you did to Building-integrated photovoltaic. Misplaced Pages is not a collection of links, nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Inappropriate links include (but are not limited to) links to personal web sites, links to web sites with which you are affiliated, and links that attract visitors to a web site or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam guideline for further explanations. Since Misplaced Pages uses nofollow tags, external links do not alter search engine rankings. If you feel the link should be added to the article, please discuss it on the article's talk page rather than re-adding it. Thank you. Dicklyon (talk) 00:06, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

You're obviously concerned about the quality of this article, so I had another look at it, and have made a couple more changes which I hope will help... Johnfos (talk) 00:46, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

Yes, I agree that calling for sources and removing random external links is generally a good thing; I have to wonder what possessed you to add a link to a site selling a report for about a kilobuck. Dicklyon (talk) 01:05, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

Dick, I'm actually quite interested in the marketing side of PV, (for a general reference please see Renewable energy commercialization), and that link was to a free PDF summary of a new report which had come out, which I think is of substantive interest. But if you object, so be it... Johnfos (talk) 01:16, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

If the free summary says something worth noting, note it and list it as a reference. Dicklyon (talk) 01:20, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

Disappointed with 3O

Thanks for your feedback regarding my 3O. I'll try and allow myself more time to get familliar with the articles before I render an opinion next time, Thanks. I'm sorry if you took offense at the assertion that requesting 3O was laziness on your part. Despite the few edits I have that does not mean I have been absent or am uninformed with Misplaced Pages (I have a problem with other people's editcountitis). Having been around I've seen people that were editing articles educate other editors and I've seen others just throw tags around and hope other editors clean up the mess. In my point of view tagging and leaving is lazy. If you wan toget the most out of other editors, show them what you mean, don't just tag and leave. I've seen several articles ruined by people that just {{cite}}-tagged the crap out of an article and then left the looking up of citations to other editors. I hope I misunderstood your intention with the SL-1 article and you continue to improve it. Again, Thanks for the feedback. Padillah (talk) 01:57, 26 December 2007 (UTC)

CfD nomination of Category:Recipients of the Nuclear-Free Future Award

Category:Recipients of the Nuclear-Free Future Award, which you created, has been nominated for deletion, merging, or renaming. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. –Terraxos (talk) 02:51, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

New sections of the Energy Portal

Hi and a Happy New Year! I created new sections of the Energy Portal for new articles (found by bot) and for announcements (nominations for good and featured articles, peer and expert reviews, deletion and merging discussions etc). You are welcome to add your announcements there and also share your thoughts how to improve and further update this portal. Beagel (talk) 18:53, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

Happy New Year, Beagel! I really must try to get more involved with the Energy Portal in 2008... Johnfos (talk) 22:01, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject Good Articles January Newsletter

Happy New Year! Here is the latest edition of the WikiProject GA Newsletter! Dr. Cash (talk) 04:00, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

The Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Good articles Newsletter

The WikiProject Good Articles Newsletter Volume I, No. 3 - January 2008 December issue | February issue Project News There are now 3,301 Good Articles listed at WP:GA. With 1,789 current featured articles, that brings the total of good and featured articles to 5,090! The most recently promoted articles are: Hurricane Daniel (2006), Tarbosaurus, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, Wicca, Seth MacFarlane, Stanley Internment Camp, Hurricane Karen (2007), Interstate 155 (Illinois), Tropical Storm Ingrid (2007), Brian Sings and Swings, Winston Churchill, Mzoli's, John Kefalas, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. The backlog at Good Article Nominations has recently exploded to 236 unreviewed articles! Out of 264 total nominations, 17 are on hold, 10 are under review, and one is seeking a second opinion. Please go to WP:GAN and review an article or three as soon as you have a chance! The oldest unreviewed articles are: Attachment disorder, Byzantium under the Palaiologoi, Byzantium under the Angeloi, Wowowee, Tyrone Wheatley, Mina (singer), Jon Burge, Mercury Hayes, William Lowndes Yancey, and Toni Preckwinkle. The top five categories with the largest backlogs are: Sports and recreation (47 articles), Film and cinema (25 articles), Television and journalism (16 articles), Art and architecture (15 articles), and Politics and government (14 articles). The backlog at Good Article Reassessment currently stands at 17 articles up for re-review. If every participant of WikiProject Good Articles could review just one article in the next week, the backlog would be almost eliminated! Reviewer of the Month Dihydrogen Monoxide is the GAN Reviewer of the Month of December, based on the assessments made by Epbr123 of the number and thoroughness of the reviews made by individual reviewers each week. Dihydrogen Monoxide hails from Brisbane (which, incidentally, is almost a GA, kids ;)) and has been editing Misplaced Pages since August 2006. He mostly likes to review articles relating to music, Australia, or anything else that takes his fancy! He also has two articles waiting, and notes that there's still a huge backlog,... so get cracking! Other outstanding reviewers recognized during the month of December include: Awadewit (talk · contribs) Canadian Paul (talk · contribs) Derek.cashman (talk · contribs) Drewcifer3000 (talk · contribs) Elcobbola (talk · contribs) Jackyd101 (talk · contribs) Kane5187 (talk · contribs) M3tal H3ad (talk · contribs) Nehrams2020 (talk · contribs) The Rambling Man (talk · contribs) VanTucky (talk · contribs) Wassupwestcoast (talk · contribs) Member News There are now 166 members of WikiProject Good Articles! Welcome to the 7 new members that joined during the month of December: Majoreditor (talk · contribs) Bernstein2291 (talk · contribs) The4325 (talk · contribs) Pepsi2786 (talk · contribs) Monowi (talk · contribs) Rankun (talk · contribs) This WikiProject, and the Good Article program as a whole, would not be where it is today without each and every one of its members! Thank you to all! GAReview Template Lots of you that frequent WP:GAN have undoubtedly seen the articles under review, marked with "Review - I am reviewing this article. ...". The articles have been marked as being under review by an editor using the {{GAReview}} template. The purpose of this template is essentially to prevent two editors from reviewing the same article at the same time, so it's essentially a common courtesy notice to other editors so that they don't pass or fail an article while you're in the midst of collecting and writing comments. However, just because an article is marked, shouldn't preclude another editor from contributing to the review. If you'd like to review it, go ahead; simply collect your comments and write them down on the article's talk page – but don't pass or fail the article – leave that to the other reviewer. To use this template yourself, simply write "#:{{GAReview}} ~~~~" on the line immediately following the article's nomination at WP:GAN. You can even leave additional comments as well (e.g. "#:{{GAReview}} I will finish my review in the next 24 hours. ~~~~"). Reviewers marking articles with this template should also observe some common etiquette; please don't mark more than 1-3 articles as being under review at a time, and please try and finish your review within 3-5 days of marking the article. GA Sweeps After openly requesting the community for more participants into the Sweeps, we have 3 more members on the board. They are (in no particular order) Canadian Paul, VanTucky, and Masem. Canadian Paul will be sweeping "Middle East and the World" articles. VanTucky will be sweeping "Religion, mysticism, and mythology" and "Literature" articles. Masem will be sweeping "Television episodes". We're still looking for more reviewers. Interested individuals should contact OhanaUnited for details. At this moment, participation in the sweeps project is by invitation only, as we desire experienced reviewers who have a thorough and extensive knowledge of the criteria. This is to ensure that articles that have "fallen through the cracks" would be found and removed, and that additional articles don't fall through the cracks during the sweep. Currently, there are 16 members working on the project, and we have reviewed 74 articles in December 2007. Of those that are swept, 275 articles are kept as GA, 126 articles are delisted, and 5 promoted to FA. Did You Know,... ... that the total number of good and featured articles is now over 5000? ... that GA was formed on October 11, 2005 and was formerly called "Half-decent articles"? ... that there is a bot (StatisticianBot) that gives a daily report on GAN? ... that many discussions were made over the years on whether GA should have a symbol placed on the main article space, yet at the end always removed? ... that there was a proposal to change the GA symbol to a green featured star? From the Editors Happy New Year, everyone! I'm just filling in for Dr. Cash as he's busy (or away) in real life. This explains why I wasn't prepared for a full-length article on GA process, and instead I resort to a tiny DYK for GA. OhanaUnited Happy New Year as well! I'm still here, and haven't totally disappeared. I had to cut back on editing and reviewing during the month of December as I made the transition from Flagstaff, Arizona to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 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Swedish wind farms

It's definitely on my to-do list. I would have done it earlier, but a lot of the press releases available are obsolete--even the park's website is largely left over from the planning/construction stages. Expect something soon, though. --Adamrush (talk) 21:39, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

Notability

I have restored A. S. Troelstra, an internationally-renowned logician. His various works are cited in a number of places around the site. Charles Matthews (talk) 22:56, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

No problem. Thanks for your note... Johnfos (talk) 22:59, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

Environmental Article Assessment

Can the quality of oxyhydrogen be revisited with regard to its ranking as an environment-related article. Noah Seidman (talk) 04:51, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

Hi Noah, and thanks for your note, but I'm not quite clear on what you are asking. As it stands, I think Oxyhydrogen is clearly a B and one of its strong points is that it is well-referenced. It could be nominated for GA, but the prose would probably need to be improved for it to succeed. Specifically, I would suggest fewer dot points and that more quotes be paraphrased. Hope this helps. Johnfos (talk) 05:04, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

Also Hydrogen fuel injection. Regards, Noah Seidman (talk) 04:55, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

Environmental impacts of dams overhaul

I agree with your conclusion to remake this article. Do you want to help me write it? You can let me know here or on my talk page. Fléêťflämẽ U-T-C 21:38, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

On the other hand, if you want to do it all, go ahead.  :) Fléêťflämẽ U-T-C 21:39, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for your note. I'm really happy for you to take the initiative on this, and I may just add a little later on... Johnfos (talk) 21:45, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

OK, I'll let you know if I need anything. Thanks for starting this! Fléêťflämẽ U-T-C 21:47, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

I'll be working on this here. If you have anything to add, let me know here. Fléêťflämẽ U-T-C 01:19, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

Anti-nuclear power

If I were writing a bio on a Democratic politician at the state or local level, would it be appropriate to put a link to the anti-big-government movement article at the bottom of each article to each politician past and present? This is a rhetorical question! And the reason I don't think it appropriate to place anti-nuclear movement at the bottom of each nuclear power plant. It would certainly be appropriate at the higher level nuclear power article. It seems to me to detract from the lower level article. It's overkill. It seems almost like political spam when overused IMO. Student7 (talk) 15:41, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for your thoughts, as I am certainly interested in trying to get the balance right. But to the best of my knowledge I haven't added links for Anti-nuclear movement at the bottom of each nuclear power plant article. Johnfos (talk) 17:47, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

I appreciate your measured reply. Seeing that it is really goes well beyond the scope of the low level article, Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant, could it be moved to a higher level article? Thanks. Student7 (talk) 21:45, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

No problem. I'll remove the Anti-nuclear movement in the United States link from Vermont Yankee. Johnfos (talk) 22:48, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

Article post

I've posted a rough draft of the new Environmental impacts of dams article here. Let me know what you think on its talk page! Fléêťflämẽ U-T-C 22:04, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

I replaced the old article with the new one; feel free to hack away at it! (→) Fléêťflämẽ U-T-C 03:19, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

Thank you, Fleetflame, for rewriting this article, and for encouraging the input of other editors along the way. Well done! Am sending a barnstar your way... Johnfos (talk) 21:39, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks very much for the barnstar. It is always good to know one's work is being appreciated! Fléêťflämẽ U-T-C 01:11, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

Spiritualism

Thanks, John, for taking the time to do the review. I'll see what I can do over the next few days. The spring semester is beginning tomorrow, so I might not have time to make the seven day window. If not, I'll resubmit when I've implemented your suggestions.--Anthon.Eff (talk) 04:00, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

Anthon, no problem, we can extend the seven days if necessary, so you don't have to resubmit... regards, Johnfos (talk) 04:16, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

GAOH The World Is Not Enough

Can you pass it now? Vikrant 10:19, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

Pass. Good work. Johnfos (talk) 22:29, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

Thank you!

Thanks very much for the Socratic barnstar! Just out of curiosity, is there a particular action or discussion that inspired you to give it? Best regards, VanTucky 05:02, 19 January 2008 (UTC)