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User:Velela - Archive 1 Jan 05 to Feb 06

Hi Velela. great picture of Ulmus laevis flowers. I would like to use this photo in a planned book on Elm trees.

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[edit] Sewage treatment

Hi there. Please look at Talk:Sewage treatment and see what you think. Rd232 14:41, 1 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] pH

Hi, thanks for the vigilance. I replied on my talk page, but I'm not sure of the protocol, so I'm also putting a note here. Jmeppley 19:48, 18 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] typo correction

Re your note of thanks--you are perfectly welcome. I'm somewhat of a compulsive proofreader, and it's a fun way to explore Wikipedia and feel useful at the same time. I'll keep plugging away at it...Deirdre 20:23, 18 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Otago

Welcome, Velela!
You obviously enjoyed your Christmas trip to Dunedin and elsewhere. Thanks for the images. Many decades ago I did a spot of rowing on the Otago Harbour. Not to mention stamp-collecting. What a lovely time-consumer Wikipedia is!!
Kind regards from DownUnder. Robin Patterson 01:11, 21 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Dallas, Texas/Draft

Dallas, Texas/Draft is a work in progress and should not be tagged for deletion. It certainly shouldn't be tagged for speedy (doesn't qualify). RADICALBENDER★ 15:50, Jan 22, 2005 (UTC)

I removed the speedy delete tag. Thue | talk 16:20, 22 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Black Guillemot

Article exists, feel free to modify, jimfbleak 16:28, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Wintergreen

While the merits of changing wintergreen to a disambiguation page may be reasonable, by creating a new page and copying the info, you have divorced the edit history from the article. The proper thing to have done would have been to move the article to the new location and then edit the redirect that resulted. -- WormRunner | Talk 03:48, 3 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Hi Velela. Thanks for your response. We are all "in progress" on these things. I know what you mean about US-centrism, and the reverse as well. -- WormRunner | Talk 21:26, 3 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Hi Velela - just come in on this one after looking at recent changes, and thought I'd better update you on one or two things. Gaultheria is far more than just G. procumbens (about 170 species, in Asia, Australasia, N & S America; e.g. Salal G. shallon), so I've reverted your last edit on List of garden plants and started a new page for the whole genus Gaultheria.
I'm not convinced the current setup with wintergreen as a disambig page is best; Pyrolaceae is 'wintergreen' everywhere, America as well as UK, whereas G. procumbens has 'wintergreen' as just one minor name of several names, with the USDA listing Eastern Teaberry as its main 'official' name. My suggestion would be to (1) move Wintergreen (Gaultheria) to Eastern Teaberry, and (2) return Wintergreen (Pyrolaceae) back to Wintergreen as a page just about Pyrola, but with a brief one-liner at the top with a link to Eastern Teaberry. Another option would be to move the Pyrola account to Pyrola, as other genera in the Pyrolaceae (Moneses, Orthilia, Chimaphila) are also called 'wintergreen'. Let me know if you'd be happy with these suggestions, and if you have any preferences. Doing this may need admin assistance, though, as a page once moved isn't easy to move back (cc to WormRunner). - MPF 00:49, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Thanks; I'll have a crack at it tonight after WormRunner's had more chance to come back on anything - MPF 09:07, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Thanks! BTW, nice pic of Llanddwyn on a stormy day, not been there since my Uni days at Bangor - MPF 20:57, 5 Feb 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Caernarfon Castle pictures

Hi Velela. I moved the pictures around because the page looked awkward - although they were the same width, the view from the west is not as high and consequently it didn't look particularly symmetrical. It's actually fairly rare on Wikipedia to find pictures on both sides of the page, and most have pictures on the right. -- Arwel 10:50, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Hazelnut and Hazel

I can see your point, but in practice, probably 90% of the nut crop is from Common Hazel, with the remainder being Filberts. The Common Hazel and Filbert pages cross-refer to each other, so that can be followed easily. Why the American species aren't grown in orchards I don't know, but they aren't; American hazel orchards are all C. avellana despite that species' susceptibility to a fungal disease there which the American native species are immune to. Maybe their nuts are smaller than European cultivars selected over a much longer period. Turkish Hazel (C. colurna) nuts are too small and thick-shelled to be worth cultivating (and also much harder to harvest). As to splitting a plant page from a food page; again I can see there might be some logic in it, but it is also useful to have everything together on one page. There's very few other crop plants where the food use is on a different page to the plant page (coffee is about the only one I've noticed off-hand). Perhaps the food paragraphs could be moved from Common Hazel to the Hazel genus page, I'll have a think about that - MPF 22:17, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Wedderburn

Hi Velela - good work on the Wedderburn article... which I've just moved. The standard formula for places in new Zealand is to simply use "Placename" or "Placename, New Zealand", not "Placename (Province)", so it's now at Wedderburn, New Zealand (Most places in NZ have NZ-unique names - the province name is used, but as a category). Grutness|hello? 00:06, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC) (in Dunedin)

[edit] Anaerobic digestion

Hi, I realise that there is a lot of work to be done on the article I started, unfortunately I only have the most rudimentary understanding of anaerobic digestion at the moment (and it is my first attempt at adding anything), but I’m learning. I know it isn’t much at the moment but it is better than what was there before, nothing. I hope that it will get the ball rolling though and will encourage people with more knowledge than me to add to it and correct it where I have gone wrong. I think that renewable energy is a very important subject and the more information and education there is for people out there the better. Thanks for taking the time to make it better.

[edit] Plastics Engineering

Hi, I want to thank you for noticing and adding to my plastics engineering article. Your comment about the cost to the environment is a valid point but also a sweeping genralization. While the most common and the cheapest plastics are indeed derived from fossil fuels there is no reason to say that using fossil fuels for plastics is any worse than using fossil fuels for any use. Also, you comments make it sound as if you believe that some other engineering discipline could help solve the problems that plastics help to solve and do so with less cost to the environment. The fact is that all fields of engineering have steep costs to the environment. I havn't edited or added to the article yet, and I can't claim to have all the answers, but I do know that plastics engineers are constantly developing more environment friendly plastics and its only a matter of time until the alternitives to the fossil fuel derivitave plastics catch on. Anyways, I'm happy that somebody noticed my article, as its the first new article i've ever created. CoolMike 06:00, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Conwy Railway Bridge

Thanks for the compliment on adding the picture to the Conwy Railway Bridge article, the picture was taken from the boat which does trips round the mouth of the Conwy river while we were on holiday down there last June. Regards Mick Knapton 11:25, 2005 Mar 21 (UTC)

[edit] Heterostyly

Given that you've got images of pin and thrum, how about a proper article about heterostyly? Stemonitis 10:35, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Grid references

I note your use of grid references and thinking a grid-reference article category might be interesting. Wondering where I might go if I were surfing it. Similar thoughts about lat-long coordinates, which have a more global potential. Laurel Bush 16:50, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC).

[edit] Kowhai

Hi, I find it interesting that you took a picture of Kowhai in Wales, I am doing my PhD on bacteria (rhizobia) associated with these plants. Do you know if there are many Kowhai present in Wales and the rest of the UK? (Apart from Kew of course). The species shown may be Sophora molloyi but it is hard to be sure from just the photo. Onco p53 01:36, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Wordsworth Source

Hi,

My source for this information was Flora Britannica by Richard Mabey (p 49). The book refers to his "monument at Grasmere" and also his "tomb in the Lakes". Turns out that the image is not on his tombstone in the graveyard but on a memorial plaque inside the church of St. Oswald in Grasmere. Here's a picture of it:

http://www.artandarchitecture.org.uk/images/conway/77a86c67.html?ixsid=UQ3TqS9Evl1

There's a daffodil on the left and, sure enough, a greater celandine on the right.

Will update the article. Thanks for pointing this out.

Ramin

[edit] Image:Wych elm flower.jpg

Hi Velela - may I query the identification of Image:Wych elm flower.jpg? The long pedunculate flower stems are abnormal for Ulmus glabra which has nearly sessile flowers; it looks to me more like U. laevis or U. americana - MPF 11:07, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Very interesting, thanks! Mind if I move it to the elm genus page for the time being? (I think I've got some Wych Elm leaf scans somewhere I can use on the species page). Might be worth sending some specimens to Kew for verification, if it is U. laevis, it will be well worth recording. Wish I'd known about the specimen when I was at Uni!
Generally, I've been getting very wary of regarding a tree as wild on position alone, last week I was up to see some of the native pinewoods in Scotland, it was quite worrying to wander through what looked like a pristine native Scots Pine forest, and suddenly come on a group of big, old European Larches on a remote crag . . . somebody must have planted them there, did the same apply to all the "wild" pines?!? - MPF
Thanks; done - MPF 23:57, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Hi Velela - wondering if you've had a chance to look at the tree again? The more I look at the pic, the more I'm sure it is U. laevis (well, unless it is U. americana, which I suppose isn't totally impossible). I've just uploaded a pic of some U. glabra leaves & seeds at Image:Ulmus glabra1.jpg; the seed peduncles are only 5mm long. - MPF 13:26, 8 May 2005 (UTC)

Thanks again; I'd go with U. laevis on this evidence. The only realistic confusion species is U. americana, and the leaves look perhaps a little short and broad for that. Of other long-pedunculate seed elms, U. thomasii (Rock Elm) can be excluded by the large cleft in the seedwing apex (only small in Rock Elm). U. alata (Winged Elm) has acuminate leaves, so that doesn't fit either. U. androssowii I don't have any useful info on, but it isn't going to turn up outside of a major botanic garden. One query worth checking remains - what shape is the crown? U. laevis tends to have an untidy crown, whereas U. americana has a neat, vase-shaped crown with strongly ascending branches curving out higher up (e.g. here, here, here). I'd be interested in some seeds when they're mature, if you're willing to collect some! - MPF 16:29, 12 May 2005 (UTC)
Excellent pic thanks! - it shows one other valuable character of U. laevis, the burry, sprout-covered trunk cited by Alan Mitchell as distinctive for this species, so I guess that clinches it. - MPF 09:33, 13 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Peninsular

Coincidence - I was changing incorrect usages of "peninsular" at the same time as you until I hit an edit conflict on The Wirral Peninsula. I'll take a break to prevent further edit conflicts. Dave.Dunford 09:40, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Welsh Higland Railway Map

I've done as asked. The sprelling is now in its correct form. TAS 18:25, 3 May 2005 (UTC)


[edit] The Tawe appears!

Thanks a lot for the fast response. And one other thing: I have been trundling through various pages related to Wales which needed links fixing. I keep coming across articles about rivers in Wales which you have been involved with. They're great. I'm learning tons here. So thanks for all of those, too. --Telsa 08:36, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] 13 spotted lady beetle

I expanded this from a really pathetic stub created by User:Maoririder. If you read User talk:Maoririder yopu will get a better idea of what is going on here -- this user seems to want to help, but is not taking well to wikipedia conventions. I was trying to demopnstrate an improved article with this one and trying to avoid a RfC listing on this user. if you think this page should be moved to the latin name, or simply merged with Ladybird feel free. DES (talk) 21:28, 1 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Sewage Treatment vs. Sewage treatment

Dear Velela,

I wrote the article because I didn't now the mentioned article was there. I will merge both articles in Sewage treatment. I am a former trainee (1995) at Waterschap De Dommel which does clarify the gray- and blackwater for a region in Noord-Brabant the Netherlands.

I saw a little difference with the Dutch system. The grit is removed after the "screening". -- BramvR 13:11, 3 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Afan redirected to River Afan?

You redirected Afan to River Afan back in February. Currently the only page that links to Afan is States in Medieval Britain. There is nothing in the River Afan article about Medieval Afan. So I don't think this redirection makes sense. -- Geo Swan 15:24, 21 August 2005 (UTC)


All the text relating to the medieval history has been retained from the original article ( whose valley formed the territory of the medieval Lords of Afan ......... A motte and bailey castle stood on the banks of the river during the medieval period....etc.) . I simply honoured the link put there by others as I had no knowledge of the history. It would be preferable to link the States in Medieval Britain directly to the River Afan which I have now done. Velela 21:40, 22 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Rivers of Great Britain

Hi there! I don't know if anyone has taken you up on your suggestion, but I would support it wholeheartedly. Please also see my comment about the oddity of naming tributaries - surely they should be in order source>estuary? Regards Peter Shearan 13:49, 11 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Pillar box images into the commons

hi Velela, would your please upload your images of the pillar boxes into the commons so that any language wiki is able to use it? i would realy like to use your pics in the german article de:Pillarbox (Television) to describe the name pillar box with it. and of course the image will be welcome for other artciels as well. thanx in advance, --Andreas -horn- Hornig 00:53, 24 September 2005 (UTC)

  • And when you request delete of the versions here please use {{db|now on commons}} so we know why. -- RHaworth 10:44, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Britannia Bridge

Hello,

I'm translating a few articles about Wales into french and I just translated the article Anglesey which contains a photograph of the Britannia Bridge you took. I copied the picture into the french wikipedia to add it to my page, but then I realised I should have asked your permission before. I'm not very familiar with the copywright concepts. Even though the information says your picture is in the public domain, I thought it might be better to inform you. If you have any objections, I'll remove the image.
Yours truely, --Sixsous 02:10, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] User:Sixsous

I saw that you posted a message for User:Sixsous on his user page. When you want to post a message, you should probably add it to the person's talk page. I have done that for you.--May the Force be with you! Shreshth91($ |-| r 3 $ |-| t |-|) 06:35, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Bhutan_pine_tree.JPG and foliage pic

Hi Velela - I've moved these to Blue Pine (Pinus wallichiana), as that's what they are, not P. bhutanica (which was only introduced to Britain in about 1985, so there's only young specimens in a few major botanic gardens). Nice pics, by the way! - MPF 21:24, 2 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Dioecious vs Dioicous

Hi Velela. On the moss page, you linked the article to dioecious species, but that article redirects to an article on diploid hermaphrodites, which does not apply at all to haploid gametophytes. I have reverted the link to the page on plant sexuality. Also, while you are quite correct that dioecious is the correct spelling of that word (it is in American English as well), it is not the correct spelling for the word dioicous, which is another word entirely. In botany, a plant that is dioecious is a diploid sporophyte that produces either microsporangia or megasporangia, but not both on the same plant. A plant that is dioicous is a haploid gametophyte that produces either antheridia or archegonia, but not both on the same plant. So while seed plants may be either monecious or dioecious, they are all dioicous. Bryophytes produce only a single kind of sporangium, and so cannot be truly described as either monecious or dioecious. -- EncycloPetey 16:14, 6 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Simple intro for articles

...On a related topic, I have included a short plain man's guide to mosses at the beginning to overcome criticisms that this artcile was not suitable for non-botanists. I propose to do something similar for Liverworts and Hornworts. Any views ?
Velela 13:29, 9 November 2005 (UTC)

The intro to the mosses looks good. You may notice I transfered a bit of the more technical information to the life cycle section, because I think it was still too technical for the introduction. As for the hornworts, I've already tried to rework the introduction to that article -- it's one of my Current Projects to get that article to a really good level, which may take a while. Your revisions to the liverwort article helps somewhat, but I'm afraid it's terribly misleading about what most liverworts are like. Only a minority of species look like Marchantia.

The lion's share of liverwort species are tropical epiphytes and are leafy. Many Metzgerialean species have a central conducting strand that functions like vascular tissue. I had intended to work on the liverworts (it had been on my Current Projects list), but I just don't have time at the moment for a project that big. However, I may try to massage your new introduction at least enough to work out the most misleading statements. The fundamental problem is that every textbook uses a single really weird genus to represent the group, and everyone who reads those textxs assumes that Marchantia must therefore be typical. It's in all the textbooks, right? It would be like using the platypus as a representative of all mammals, instead of a rodent or bat (which most mammals are). Marchantia is just not typical at all.
-- EncycloPetey 14:05, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Kelp forest Otago 1s.JPG

Hi, your image Image:Kelp forest Otago 1s.JPG is now available in Wikimedia Commons. -Easlak 17:18, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Cray reservoir

Hi, Velela. I was just pottering about with the River Tawe article and noticed the Cray reservoir link. Sadly, I had to blank most of its (Cray, not the Tawe!) text as a copyright violation, with the result that it is now a very stubby stub and in need of attention from someone who knows about things wet, watery and Welsh. I wonder if you have any information to hand or know where it might be found? There is not terribly much I can find offhand except for historical information (built as one of a series of reservoirs to supply Swansea, cost more than all the rest put together, etc, blah blah). Thanks! --Telsa 10:43, 14 November 2005 (UTC)

Heh, I did wonder whether you knew the author of the original, but I thought "no, that would be too much of a coincidence". Ahem. Anyway, thanks very much indeed. --Telsa 20:43, 16 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] North Stack

Thanks, it saves me a trip out there to check! I'll have a look at Bangor Cathedral - we do have a book on it somewhere. Rhion 12:38, 28 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Llongyfarchiadau

Congratulations on getting your photo on the front page! --Stemonitis 09:48, 30 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Solihull sixth form college

You don't need to put it on speedy delete any more. Pob hwyl! Proto t c 13:25, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] edits on digital photography

Your edits got me to do more research on this. My original data was from a well written article on resolution. In retrospect I think that article was looking at B&W film and lab resolution, perhaps with a contrast ratio of 1000:1. Looking around, resolution on films is a marvelously complex subject! System issues, contrast rations, f stops and camera shake are a few of the features. Then there is the advantage of random pixel placement in film versus the fixed placement in digital, and the issue of pixel color filter pattern and digital camera interpolation algorithm in the digital camera. Whew!

I'm going to reedit. Please review and reedit more. This is really quite an interesting topic! kd4ttc 01:46, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Gala disambiguation

Why do you insist on including dictionary definitions on this page when it is clearly against policy - WP:NOT? Why do you insist on incluing red links (swimming gala) when that article hasn't been written in the eight months since you first added it? Disambiguation pages are to disambiguate between subjects covered in wikipedia, not every possible definition or name a word might refer to. AUTiger ʃ talk/work 21:22, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Supermarket check out.JPG

Greets:

I hope you don't mind but I've gone ahead and used this picture you provided for my Open Source Project located here. I do hope that this is not an issue as you released it under Public Domain but I wanted to drop you a note. I'll have a screen shot up shortly showing how I've gone ahead and used it.

Thanks, -drmike


No problem. It is, as you say, in the public domain (although the Supermarket wasn't too happy about me taking it !). Velela 20:03, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply. Been having a problem finding a picture for my project. Lots of good ones but no one's responding to their emailed requests for permission.  :( Thanks again. --Drmike 14:59, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Sockpuppet

What were you thinking. Just have a look at my edit record ! I have a busy house, we frequently have guests from all over the world especially from Austriala and NZ where we have many contacts. If a guest of mine is encouraged to be part of Wikipedia then I would have imagined that to be an asset and not the reverse. We have guests with us from Albany which may be unfamiliar to residents of Perth but which is an excellent town with areas of extraordinary bio-diversity surrounding it. If every time a guest is to be accused of being a sock-pupet, Wikipedia is going to be in for a hard time. 62.6.249.131 09:14, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

It wasn't me that blocked you, Velela; I merely asked a checkuser to take a look. If you have an objection to being blocked, I suggest you take it up with the person who blocked you. No doubt he was heard it all before.
Since you evidently think that I blocked you, I guess you are unaware of the details of the block. They are:
  1. Your sockpuppet User:Melancholia has been blocked indefinitely;
  2. Your sockpuppet User:WA Bolton has been blocked indefinitely;
  3. Your sockpuppet User:Chrisjk has been blocked indefinitely;
  4. You have been blocked for 48 hours for sockpuppetry.
Drew (Snottygobble) | Talk 12:08, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Blocking of User:Velela

As Velela cannot respond himself because of the current block, he has asked me to respond on his behalf. I am a work colleague.

1. The problem - this issue arose because of one article Geoffrey Bolton which was slowly being improved but which one admin, User:Snottygobble took exception to. It remains , as of today, in its improved condition. A visitor to Velela's house, a respected UK geographer with strong links and much experience working in Australia and new to Wikipedia, asked whether he could also make an edit. An ID was created and he made a perfectly proper edit (which incidentally did not reference or revert to one of Velela's versions) Apparently because an admin believed that he owned the article he then promptly blocked Velela and all the other family accounts used at the same IP .
2. Wikipedia policy - there are no breaches of any policy here. There have been no examples of 3 reverts. There no sockpuppets (unless each PC can be used for only one account.) Even if they were sock-puppets there would have still been no breach of policy as multiple accounts are allowed, albeit reluctantly.
3. Reputation - I invite you to look at the edit record of Velela and the other accounts that have been blocked. There is nothing but good, well thought through, constructive edits, improving Wikepedia for the benefit of all. There is significant work on combatting vandalism. Were it a case of vandalism, in most cases a warning would be given before a block was imposed. That did not happen. Interestingly the block has now extended by a further 18hours - this is childish and only serves to diminish the reputation of Wikpedia.
4. Moving on - this seems to be an overt mis-use of a power by an admin because his article was being improved. An aplogy to all the blocked users is in order and revertion of the edits made by Snottygobble advertising the blocks together with an immediate lifting of the blocks.
unsigned comment by User:195.74.110.101
  • I say again: I did not block you, Velela; If you have an objection to being blocked, I suggest you take it up with the person who blocked you. That information is freely available in the Block log, so you have no excuse for these disingenuous accusations. The block log also clearly shows that your block has not been extended, so you can drop that accusation too. Drew (Snottygobble) | Talk 12:00, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
    • The email that I sent to User:David Gerard is now viewable at User:Snottygobble/Email. The truth is out there, Velela. Drew (Snottygobble) | Talk 12:21, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
      • Now removed. Snottygobble 23:47, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
        • Now restored on request of User:Stemonitis. Snottygobble 12:08, 16 February 2006 (UTC)