User talk:Planetarysprotege

Welcome![edit]

Welcome to Wikipedia, Planetarysprotege! Thank you for your contributions. I am Wgolf and I have been editing Wikipedia for some time, so if you have any questions feel free to leave me a message on my talk page. You can also check out Wikipedia:Questions or type {{help me}} at the bottom of this page. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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Hi Wgolf! Sorry for the late response. I am still very new to this, hence the name. Thank you for the greetings and the cookies! Planetarysprotege (talk) 06:50, 27 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Introducing myself[edit]

I work with the Wiki Education Foundation, and help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment. If there's anything I can do to help with your assignment (or, for that matter, any other aspect of Wikipedia) please feel free to drop me a note. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:20, 4 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Some falafel for you![edit]

enjoy some falafel AmmarBanafea (talk) 17:26, 31 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

AmmarBanafea: That looks *virtually* really good! Although, can you take out the pickles please? I really don't like pickles. Thanks! Planetarysprotege (talk) 22:26, 31 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Did you know[edit]

Hi Protege,

I am nominating Ovda Regio for the WP:Did you know section on Wikipedia. I am doing this at Template:Did you know nominations/Ovda Regio. This may result in queries for better referencing. If you have any ideas for a hooky one line sentence to promote Ovda Regio let me know and we can put this in. Last year most of the pages in your course got over 1000 people looking at their pages. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 05:30, 2 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Graeme Bartlett,

Thank you for the nomination. I have several ideas for a one line sentence promotion, how about something like:

Did you know that Ovda Regio is Venus' largest crustal plateaus? or
Did you know that Venus' largest crustal plateau, Ovda Regio, hold clues in solving the planet's geodynamic puzzle? or
Did you know that Ovda Regio, Venus’ largest crustal plateau, covers a Venusian area of about 15,000,000 km²? or

feel free to revise this. I believe that saying something along the line of "Venus' largest crustal plateau" might attract people's attention. Planetarysprotege (talk) 06:32, 2 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for those suggested hooks. I have inserted them in the nomination. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 10:56, 2 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

More on the DYK[edit]

Hello Protege. There are now questions at Template:Did you know nominations/Ovda Regio asking where the 15,000,000 km² area of Ovda Regio came from. I cannot tell myself despite searching. At https://books.google.com.au/books?id=LqwUuMYIEtkC&pg=PA130&lpg=PA130 it says the area is 10,000,000 km². So where did you get the area of 15 million from? Graeme Bartlett (talk) 10:06, 20 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Graeme Bartlett,

That number was calculated from this paper: Ghent, Rebecca; Hansen, Vicki (6 January 1999). "Structural and Kinematic Analysis of Eastern Ovda Regio, Venus: Implications for Crustal Plateau Formation". Icarus (139): 116–136. In the paper, it was mentioned that Ovda Regio is Venus' largest crustal plateau with approximate area of 6000 x 2500 km. So I just multiplied those two numbers together and was able to get 15 million km square for the total area. Planetarysprotege (talk) 03:52, 21 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Ovda Regio[edit]

On 27 April 2015, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Ovda Regio, which you recently created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Ovda Regio (pictured), Venus' largest crustal plateau, covers an area of about 15,000,000 km² (5,800,000 sq mi)? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Ovda Regio. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

—HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 00:01, 27 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]