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-<div style="position: absolute; right: {{{right|3}}}em; top: 0.9em; font-size: 100%;" id="TemplateUserinfo" class="metadata plainlinks topicon"><font color="gray">'''<small>{{BASEPAGENAME}} is</small>'''</font> [[Image:Symbol neutral vote.svg|20px]] <font color="gray">'''In Your Bathtub'''</font>
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-==About me==
-My username derives, in part, from [[H.U.R.L.|HURL]], a video game I obsessively played when I was a boy.  The [[Soap]] article is on my [[WP:WATCHLIST|watchlist]], along with several other articles with ''soap'' in the title such as [[SOAP (protocol)]], and therefore I am often there to make minor edits or revert vandalism.  Since December 2008, I have had both more edits on [[Soap]] than any other editor, and more edits on [[Soap]] than on any other page.  Most of the edits are vandalism reversion.  On the Wikipedia IRC channels the name Soap is taken, so I have chosen to use the name '''[Soap]'''.
-==Article wish list==
-# Make [[human teeth sharpening|human tooth sharpening]] article. {{done}} July 20, 2009 by [[User:Leonard^Bloom|Leonard^Bloom]]
-# [[Two child policy]] (Vietnam) {{done}} February 1, 2009 by [[User:Rhianabby|Rhianabby]]
-# [[Ui-te-Rangiora]]
-==To-do list==
-# Edit [[Origin of the domestic dog]] ... just because dogs are most closely related to wolves, doesnt mean dogs are descended from wolves.  By that argument you could assume chimps are descended from humans, fish are descended from reptiles, and so on.  To put it another way, what's the evidence against dogs being descended from a canine animal whose non-domesticated descendants went extinct?
-# upload [[Seashore Trolley Museum]] photos
-==Climate data==
-There is currently no reliable source for climate data on the Internet; every site that I can find has at least some extremely suspect data.  Examples below.  If some of this data seems believable to you, note that in some cases the data is only off by 3 or 4°F, so it may not ''seem'' suspect ... but while it's reasonably common to find one station reporting a few degrees above or below its surroundings on a given day due to random fluctuations, it will never persist on every single day and become part of the station's climatology.
-===Examples of bad data===
-{{hidden begin|title = Weatherbase|titlestyle = background:#408040;color:#ffffff;}}
-;Weatherbase
-*[http://www.weatherbase.com/weather/weather.php3?s=19227&refer= weatherbase] showing subfreezing temperatures off the coast of California in June (I know there's a cold current there, but ... no.)
-*[http://www.weatherbase.com/weather/weather.php3?s=36988&refer= weatherbase] claims 68°F in Antarctica in the middle of winter.
-*[http://www.weatherbase.com/weather/weather.php3?s=550627&refer= weatherbase] has data for a nonexistent town in Maine.  (Further investigation based on the latitude and longitude given shows that it's likely to be [[Portsmouth, New Hampshire]]).
-*[http://www.weatherbase.com/weather/weather.php3?s=88535&refer= Moqiang], an island of cold in southeast China.  The city has an elevation of 3199 feet, but this is much too little to result in such extremely cold weather.
-*[http://www.weatherbase.com/weather/weather.php3?s=6136&refer= Berbera], Somalia is a manually operated station that often only takes one reading per day, but nevertheless is recorded as a high and low for the day by weatherbase.com.
-*[http://www.weatherbase.com/weather/weather.php3?s=19470&refer= Chambéry], France has identical values for "high temperature" and "average temperature" ... so which one is it?
-*[http://www.weatherbase.com/weather/weather.php3?s=30530&refer= 9°F] in Wales in May.  (Nearby stations show temperatures around 30°F).
-*[http://www.weatherbase.com/weather/weather.php3?s=50030&refer= 11°F] in Scotland in June.
-*There's no such place as [http://www.weatherbase.com/weather/weather.php3?s=19701&refer= Plzen], Germany (though there is a [[Plzen]] in the Czech Republic).
-*[http://www.weatherbase.com/weather/weather.php3?s=518524&refer=&units=metric Cold] winters in Roosevelt, Utah.
-*[http://www.weatherbase.com/weather/weather.php3?s=908327&refer= Cairo, IL] ... not really bad ''weather'' data, but the geographical coordinates for this city are quite a bit off ... Google Maps places these coordinates just north of the Tennessee/Mississippi border.
-*[http://www.weatherbase.com/weather/weather.php3?s=528592&refer= Anomalous data] in San Marino, seemingly lagged one month behind nearby cities such as *[http://www.weatherbase.com/weather/weather.php3?s=8161&refer= Perugia] and others [http://www.worldclimate.com/cgi-bin/grid.pl?gr=N43E012 here].
-*[http://www.weatherbase.com/weather/weather.php3?s=918220&refer= Wrong hemisphere].
-{{xt|Note that this section has the most examples of errors because it has the most data ... so I don't believe that weatherbase is the worst of the bunch, by any means.  Most of the cities listed above don't even exist in the data sources listed below.}}
-{{hidden end}}
-{{hidden begin|title = Weather Underground|titlestyle = background:#408040;color:#ffffff;}}
-;Weather Underground (aka wunderground, WXUG)
-*[http://www.wunderground.com/history/airport/KSFM/2009/7/9/MonthlyHistory.html?req_city=NA&req_state=NA&req_statename=NA#calendar Weather Underground] climate data for much of New England shows various stations with surprisingly cool temperatures in summer, even giving inland stations lower temperatures than the coast ... I personally suspect that the cause of this problem is an entire year of data with 32°F for the entire year somehow snuck into the data and was never discovered by whoever was responsible for uploading the data.  Note that the anomaly only appears on stations for which the data goes back to 1996.  I emailed the Help desk of wunderground.com but never got a response.
-*[http://www.wunderground.com/history/airport/KPIR/1989/7/9/MonthlyHistory.html#calendar Pierre SD] hits 0°F in July 1989 because they were using a thermometer that only had 2 digits.  The data nevertheless is recorded by WXUG as a new record low for the month and enters the city's climate data, giving them a monthly average high of 68°F (21 degrees below average).
-*[http://www.wunderground.com/history/airport/KSFM/1999/8/9/MonthlyHistory.html#calendar Malfunctioning weather station] in Sanford, Maine records 21°F on August 3 and an average low of 37°F for the month and is accepted as legitimate data for by WXUG.
-{{hidden end}}
-{{hidden begin|title = Weather.com|titlestyle = background:#408040;color:#ffffff;}}
-;Weather.com
-*[http://www.weather.com/outlook/travel/businesstraveler/wxclimatology/monthly/USMD0018 Baltimore] is an island of heat, with average summer temperatures exceeding anything you'll find along the rest of the East Coast (or even inland) until you reach Georgia.  This heat anomaly is too much to be explained by the station being located in the deep city, which anyhow usually only makes a noticeable difference for night temperatures.  All other climate data sources that I can find show Baltimore with temperatures similar to Washington DC.
-{{hidden end}}
-{{hidden begin|title = Paper sources|titlestyle = background:#408040;color:#ffffff;}}
-;Paper sources
-*Just in case you thought only Internet sources had these problems, the [http://www.amazon.com/Times-Books-World-Weather-Guide/dp/0812918819 Times Books World Weather Guide] has errors of its own, such as recording [[Monte Carlo]] with much higher temperatures than its surroundings; and the [[World Book Encyclopedia]] (at least the hardcover version) mixes up daily and monthly highs and lows. ''Extreme weather: a guide & record book'' by Christopher Burt and Mark Stroud is an example of a book that is filled with lots of interesting information but much of it turns out to be inaccurate.  (For this reason, I once removed a claim about weather in [[Dhahran]], Saudi Arabia that used it as its reference; the book itself had simply linked to [http://www.wunderground.com/history/airport/OEDR/2003/7/8/DailyHistory.html?req_city=NA&req_state=NA&req_statename=NA this page] on wunderground.com anyway, which I've addressed above.)
-{{hidden end}}
-{{hidden begin|title = NOAA|titlestyle = background:#408040;color:#ffffff;}}
-;NOAA
-[http://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/cgi-bin-mp/data_plot.cgi?mins=&datum=0&unit=1&stn=8410140&bdate=20091007&edate=20091108&data_type=temp&shift=g&plot_size=large&metinterval=h&type=Meteorological%20Observations Here] is a graph of ocean temperatures off the coast of Eastport, Maine, showing them to be far warmer than the surrounding areas, and even warmer than the water off the coast of Northern Florida.  Bad readings begin in early October.
-:Update: Eastport bathers are now enjoying a tide of [http://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/cgi-bin-mp/data_plot.cgi?mins=&datum=0&unit=1&stn=8410140&bdate=20091214&edate=20100204&data_type=temp&shift=g&plot_size=large&metinterval=h&type=Meteorological%20Observations 112°F] water on the beach as of February 4th 2010, down from a high of 127°F on the previous day. ([http://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/data_menu.shtml?bdate=20091214&edate=20100204&metinterval=h&unit=1&shift=g&stn=8410140+Eastport%2C+ME&type=Meteorological+Observations&format=View+Data text format])
-::Further update: [http://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/data_menu.shtml?bdate=20100114&edate=20100304&metinterval=h&unit=1&shift=g&stn=8410140+Eastport%2C+ME&type=Meteorological+Observations&format=View+Data 151°F] on February 24 and no sign of a repair anytime soon.
-:::Update as of March 24, 2010: [http://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/data_menu.shtml?bdate=20100214&edate=20100324&metinterval=h&unit=1&shift=g&stn=8410140+Eastport%2C+ME&type=Meteorological+Observations&format=View+Data Finally repaired?]
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-==Edit history==
-http://toolserver.org/~soxred93/ec/Soap
-Note: [[User:3centsoap]] is an alternate account I use for highly repetitive edits (e.g. 30 on the same page) for which Preview won't accurately predict the result, and for wikis where the name Soap is taken.  ''<B>[[User:Soap|Soap]]</B>'' <sup>[[User talk:Soap|Talk]]</sup>/<sub>[[Special:Contributions/Soap|Contributions]]</sub>
-I recently discovered my "lost edits" from 2004 and 2005 as an IP at [[Special:Contributions/65.175.246.202]].  This is not my current IP address and if any new edits from this IP ever appear they are not likely to be me.  ''<B>[[User:Soap|Soap]]</B>'' <sup>[[User talk:Soap|Talk]]</sup>/<sub>[[Special:Contributions/Soap|Contributions]]</sub> 03:36, 11 June 2009 (UTC)
-[[Special:Contributions/208.233.33.1|208.233.33.1]] is the IP address of the school I attend currently, but it is shared among allcomputers on the whole campus, so most edits from there are not me (and I have stopped editing from there anonymously anyway).  -- ''<B>[[User:Soap|Soap]]</B>'' <sup>[[User talk:Soap|Talk]]</sup>/<sub>[[Special:Contributions/Soap|Contributions]]</sub> 03:05, 20 October 2009 (UTC)
-==Other people named Soap==
-Being short and easy to remember, Soap is a commonly requested name on various forums.  None of [http://www.google.com/search?q=%22posts+by+soap%22 these] are me.  I am also not the user named Soap on the German and Dutch Wikipedias, or the user named Soap on wikinews (though neither of those people is actively editing currently).
-==My Homepage==
-I have a personal website at [http://www.3centsoap.com/ www.3centsoap.com].
-Note to self: http://hepunx.rl.ac.uk/~adye/blooberry/indexdot/index.html
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