User talk:Yorambauman

Welcome!

Hello Yoram, welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Our intro page contains a lot of helpful material for new users - please check it out! If you need help, visit Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on this page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. — Sebastian 03:26, 2 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Yoram; this is your student Catherine Carey. I'm experimenting with using my own talk page as my diary for this project, and want to see if it's possible to prevent other users from editing a post that I've made to my own talk page. Apparently, it's not; the edit tab of this page just allowed me to do a small edit (adding a second period to the end of one of Sebastian's sentences), save, confirm that the change showed up, and then re-edit to remove the period. And that saved too. So, I'm disappointed, but I'm going to see if I can change the config of my talk page to allow me to be the only person to edit it, while still allowing others to append. Do you know of some other way that I could keep my diary _on_ wikipedia itself?--CathCarey (talk) 03:58, 9 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

AfD nomination of Climate change in Washington

I have nominated Climate change in Washington, an article you created, for deletion. I do not feel that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Climate change in Washington. Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time. Brusegadi (talk) 09:03, 14 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Carbon tax

Are you an instructor, and are the editors of this article students of yours? Drmies (talk) 16:07, 10 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Go have a look at Wikipedia:School and university projects. There's a few ins and outs to doing Wikipedia projects as a school assignment, and there is a lot of support there. It is helpful to use a template to identify a certain page as the subject of an exercise; look at Talk:Carbon tax. Then, other editors know and won't interfere and give you more leeway. Also, identify yourself on your talk page as an instructor--that also helps other editors. In the case of Carbon tax, what you see in the history is a ton of edits by SPAs, and to other editors that can look odd. Anyway, please do have a look at the School projects page, and if I can help (I did one of these, under another identity, haha), let me know. Good luck, Drmies (talk) 01:07, 12 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Carbon tax 2

Hi there: Just wondering where you came up with the new calculations for carbon taxes. I did the previous calculations and I'm pretty sure they're correct, e.g., the EIA reports 10.28kg CO2 per gallon. There's 1000kg in a metric tonne, so that's 0.01028 tonnes CO2 per gallon. At $12 per tonne CO2 that works out to $0.12336 per gallon, so your edit (changing it to $0.028) is not correct. Agreed?

FYI, I'm very new to wikipedia, so I don't know what the proper etiquette is about undoing changes, but I'm pretty sure that the original numbers were better than the changes you made.

Regards, yoram Yorambauman (talk) 19:48, 15 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Good spot! I saw that the original numbers were wrong for the metric prices (off by a factor of 12 or so); and it seems that I then accidentally put in my new metric values with gallons as measurement... I fixed it. -- Marcika (talk) 08:09, 16 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Excellent, thank you. You also noted that the table needed a lot more work. If you suggest things I'm happy to work on them. My own thought was that it would be better to have the table list tax rates for a carbon tax of $10/tonne rather than the current $12/tonne because then it would be easier to convert to other units. Also maybe have two tables, one for short tons and one for metric tonnes? (Then it would be possible to separate out the gallons versus liters, yes?) Other ideas? Yorambauman (talk) 14:26, 16 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think we should mix and match metric and US units -- it is probably most helpful as it is... (Totally separate metric/imperial tables might work, though.) What I thought about when I wrote "work needed" is 1. to fill in the gaps, so that one can compare oil, gas and coal in terms of BTUs/kWh; 2. Have a look at the tax/kWh calculation for coal, as I suspect it assumes 100% efficient power plants; 3. maybe have some sort of comparison in terms of "miles driven" (which is kind of complicated because you need to estimate fuel efficiencies and power plant/power conversion efficiencies).

PS: I've copied this discussion to Talk:Carbon Tax, so others can have a look into it as well -- Marcika (talk) 15:33, 16 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]