User talk:Johnson487682

Yank Adams

Hey. Thanks for the typo fixes on Yank Adams. I've Been working hard to get it up to spec before placement on the main page in the did you know section. As I see your a new here, I am placing a welcome template below. Cheers!--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 14:18, 2 February 2010 (UTC)

You're welcome; however, I don't consider myself "new here", because my contributions go back to 2007. Perhaps you're politely implying that I need to study up on a few of the topics in the template below? I'll take a look at them. Johnson487682 (talk) 14:27, 2 February 2010 (UTC)

Sorry, didn't mean anything by it. I took a quick glance at your contributions and saw the number and didn't even notice the dates.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 14:53, 2 February 2010 (UTC)

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katrina and ivan spills

those spills all had different causes and occurred in different places. there's also plenty of data available to support shier own line item and separate articles as well. cheers! --emerson7 16:04, 9 June 2010 (UTC)

 Fixed by breaking each katrina and ivan spill onto its own line. Johnson487682 (talk) 16:25, 9 June 2010 (UTC)

List of oil spills: error messages

You rock! ...cheers! --emerson7 17:31, 15 June 2010 (UTC)

Katrina links

Thanks for the link fixes; that said, Katrina has over 5000 articles that link to it, so it is essentially impossible to check which section links were going to the oil spill section. Titoxd^{(?!? - cool stuff)} 21:14, 17 June 2010 (UTC)

Jebel al-Zayt oil spill

you might fing this article of interest here. --emerson7 19:44, 9 July 2010 (UTC)

Yes, that article seems remarkable at first, but it also says "the spill, which began last week", so I think it's just an old article. Today's date is displayed at the top of the webpage, but I don't think that's the date of the article. -- Johnson487682 (talk) 18:58, 10 July 2010 (UTC)

• yes. i too saw that, but wasn't sure if perhaps there were any updates there or elsewere. data on the spill are really scant internet-wide...at least in english. cheers!

offshore oil platform?

what's an example of an offshore oil platform that stands on the ground in shallow water? --emerson7 23:19, 16 July 2010 (UTC)

The Hibernia is attached to the ground under the North Atlantic off Newfoundland in only about 100 m of water. Many such rigs are also found in the North Sea, such as Gullfaks C, which stands in 217 m of water. This type of fixed platform is only feasible in less than about 500 m of water. Deeper water requires floating or semi-submersible platforms, which do not stand on the ground. Johnson487682 (talk) 19:24, 27 July 2010 (UTC)

Replaceable fair use File:Megumi kanda.png

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Thank you for notifying me of this omission. I have contacted both the publisher of the source image and the MSO requesting permission to use this, or a similar, image. Johnson487682 (talk) 22:56, 10 January 2011 (UTC)

I was not able to receive permission, so I have uploaded my own image instead. Johnson487682 (talk) 05:11, 18 January 2011 (UTC)

Thanks re Tom Sherlock

Noticed you helping out here with adding references to one of the many backlogged unsourced BLPs, and thought I'd say "thanks". One tip: there's a pretty cool tool that makes writing formatted refs easier at Wikipedia:RefToolbar 2.0, saves me and the rest of the folks over at Wikipedia:Unreferenced BLP Rescue quite a bit of time. Cheers, and happy editing! --j⚛e decker^talk 16:41, 18 January 2011 (UTC)

Oh, I think you've misunderstood me, your use of "cite" looked great as far as I read. I just found that using refTools made it faster to do with fewer errors myself (I've added sources to about 1600 articles in the last year, so I've had more than enough opportunities to make errors!), I didn't see any problems in your own. Sorry for the confusion! --j⚛e decker^talk 18:07, 18 January 2011 (UTC)

Cool--thanks! Johnson487682 (talk) 19:38, 18 January 2011 (UTC)

re word count tool

Oops, sorry! My bad, I wasn't paying attention I guess. Thank you for catching my egregious error. I reverted it immediately I got your message (and you could have done so yourself of course).

Nope the tool mentioned didn't work for me and I doubt that it can be made to - sometimes these things work for me and sometimes they don't, don't know if it's my machine or what. But I can use a word processor tool as you suggested, thanks for the link. Herostratus (talk) 14:49, 7 March 2011 (UTC)

GOCE / Mid-drive newsletter

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Re Oops!

Heh. No worries. My edit summary may have been a bit bitey, but I'd gone halfway through the article copyediting (thinking 'gee, this doesn't need much done', so being super picky), before deciding someone may have beaten me to it. Then checked the edit history to see they (you) had, so was a little annoyed at wasting that time on it. Spose it serves me right for not checking the edit history first (which I usually do). :) --jjron (talk) 06:29, 15 March 2011 (UTC)