User talk:Iamreddave

Welcome[edit]

Welcome!

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Pandemic Ventilator Project[edit]

Pandemic Ventilator Project does not meet wikipedia's criteria for verify-ability. Wikipedia requires reliable published sources both for the information presented and its notability. Good luck on the project though. It's just that you can't use wikipedia as advertising space. OK? WAS 4.250 14:46, 15 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Your repeated attempt to add to the Warming stripes article[edit]

Wikipedia is meant to present to portray pertinent information from reliable sources (see WP:RS). Though it appears Ed Hawkins (scientist) tweeted what appears to be your Reddit diagram, the mere fact that he did so is not properly included. The diagram itself might be considered for inclusion if it were published under a Creative Commons license (or uploaded to Wikimedia Commons under such a license), and if there were specific demonstration of the reliability of the data source for the diagram, and if there were demonstration you reliably converted the data into the diagram. None seem to be the provided in this case. If you have questions, you may reply here below; I'll try to monitor this talk page for a while. —RCraig09 (talk) 16:27, 4 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the explanation. The repetition was a mistake. I thought my first modification had not saved correctly. Thanks for the guide I published the code at the time and can upload it under Creative Commons to wikipedia.

The better place to upload would be to https://commons.wikimedia.org/ (not directly to Wikipedia). Click "Upload file" from the left margin. In the upload process, you will have to elect to publish the graphic under a Creative Commons license. In the description section, it would demonstrate reliability to specifically recite a link to the source of your data, as well as explain how you converted the data (detailed computer code per se is not required). Click here for an example in which I've gone overboard in that pursuit—though it gives you an idea of what I'm talking about. —RCraig09 (talk) 18:26, 4 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I uploaded two pictures to wikimedia. The first to

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ck8gRgSWUAAKGIA.jpg

And another one to

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:England_Temperature_since_1659.jpg

I blogged on this graph at http://liveatthewitchtrials.blogspot.com/2019/03/heatmap-of-world.html

Are there other steps I should take? Thanks for your help on this.

It's good you've provided a link to the code, but more specific links to the actual (HadCRUT4 and HadCET) data itself would add to WP:Verifiability. Also, it would help if you could provide some demonstration of your credentials—as an indication that your conversion of that data into graphical form can be relied on: this is indirectly related to WP:Reliable sources (you don't have to be famous or distinguished). Since these graphics are not just vacation pictures but are scientific and therefore fact-based, the reliability of the content of the images may be important if the graphics are challenged in the future.
I think the global graphic will have a place in the Warming stripes article ("Extensions of warming stripes"), and the CET graph in the Central England temperature article (to join the annual line graph I added a few weeks ago). They're both very nice work, and would also be appropriate in Climate change art.
Minor note: all editors should "sign" the end of their talk pages posts with four tildes, ~~~~ since that generates a dated signature. —RCraig09 (talk) 16:02, 6 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Stardate 2019-09-06, supplemental: I added only the global graphic to Climate change art because I thought the CET graphic would be cumulative (duplicative) in that context. I've completed the additions to Warming stripes and Central England temperature as indicated above. —RCraig09 (talk) 02:51, 7 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the response. And for editing the page.
Hadcrut4 the world temperatures one is at https://crudata.uea.ac.uk/cru/data/temperature/HadCRUT4-gl.dat
And Hadcet the Central England dataset is at https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/hadcet/ Iamreddave (talk) 08:07, 7 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Can I add a link to https://twitter.com/ed_hawkins/status/743195226664275968 as a reference at 'This stacked graphic, technically a heat map, organizes global mean temperatures by month (horizontally) and by year (vertically).' Iamreddave (talk) 08:12, 7 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

- I've added links to the data sources to the Wikimedia Commons pages, and sourced the two graphics in the three present locations in Wikipedia. Although I had already added Ed Hawkins' tweet thread to the Wikimedia Commons file page (to help confirm date of publication within a day), that tweet thread is not a "source" for footnoting here on Wikipedia. —RCraig09 (talk) 18:26, 7 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

- There is now a link to the reddit post. That is great. Thanks for all your help Iamreddave (talk) 06:36, 8 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]