User talk:NorthernFire

Welcome!

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I noticed that you reversed {{Alberta}} which Circeus had removed. I invite you to take a look at the following and add your 25 cents worth in the discussion :) See Wikipedia:Canadian wikipedians' notice board/discussion#Harmonizing_province_templates. Cadillac 23:39, 13 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Shading

The default shading should appear. I would guess it's your monitor/colour settings. It's a common problem with LCDs. --Arch26 21:09, 15 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

As a matter of fact, I did get a new computer with an LCD monitor just last month - I thought it might have been something to do with XP, but I don't know, because I had Win 98 with the old 'puter the entire time! The colors do show up a bit strangely on my LCD monitor (probably either not high-res enough or due to 32-bit color, which is the highest color setting I have), but it's a minor problem for me - for now. There is no way I know that I can adjust the settings on my LCD monitor to view the default shading for tables? If there are suggestions, please let me know and I would be glad to try. NorthernFire 21:27, 15 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Coordinates

I'm getting the coordinates from Google Earth. Go to [1] and download the program to your computer. Once you have it loaded, you can specify a town and then follow the highway accordingly. Cheers. Cadillac 20:52, 11 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Edmonton Tornado

I have noticed on the List of tornadoes striking downtown areas, you removed the Edmonton Tornado. I added that tornado becuase the Sherwood Park Freeway (whcih the tornado struck) is only 3 miles/5 kilometers from the downtown core of Edmonton, Alberta. Besides, being a Strong F4/Weak F5, its effects were felt all over the city. Should it be re-added, since it grazed downtown, rather than pushing through it directly? RaccoonFox • Talk • Stalk 04:14, 5 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Why did you remove the category template Transportation in Edmonton?

I didn't remove the category template Transportation in Edmonton. I removed the category link on the Transportation in Edmonton page because the category is empty and no page exists. It would likely only contain that one page if you created it. Please see Wikipedia:Categorization FAQ for when to create categories. Thanks. Please don't carry on any further discussion on this topic on my talk page, but rather do it on the talk page of the article. I'm not opposed to categories like this Transportation in Vancouver and Transportation in Vancouver have related category pages, but they're not the only ones on it. Start by creating a few pages that you want on the cat page and then create the cat page for real. --Walter Görlitz 06:44, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Nice work on the new Transportation in Edmonton category. Looks good. --Walter Görlitz 22:15, 22 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Land Area Argument

It is not a lie (you are right), but is extremely deceptive and should be explained further (man, it should at least be referenced) if it's going to stay in the article. Otherwise I say remove it. It is deceptive because the city that was and still is known as "Ottawa" proper was once MUCH smaller. A few years ago, most major cities in Ontario began a program of amalgamating large portions of their metro areas. In Ottawa's case, most of the Ontario side of Greater Ottawa was annexed. HOWEVER, satellite "cities" like Nepean and Vanier are still thought of as separate entities despite the fact that they are technically part of the same city. The annexation also included a lot of empty space. It would be the same as if Edmonton were to annex a very large portion of their massive 10,000 sq. km metro area... it would artificially skew the numbers. As a result, Ottawa appears (in numbers) to be much less dense than Edmonton. In fact, the density of the built up area of Ottawa is clearly much higher than Edmonton's. This is an example of where demographics become very manipulative and dangerous when they are misinterpreted. Therefore, I strongly advocate the removal or further explanation of your addition to the Edmonton article. Otherwise, it is a fairly meaningless and confusing factoid... not encyclopedic. --Arch26 07:10, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. Thank-you for consulting me on this. I think you could probably put it back with the reference (although, part of me still thinks it needs a little more description). But I don't think it's worth having an edit war over. Although it is a factual statement, I might question whether or not it's important. I'm not sure that having it there adds anything to the article. However, like I said, I really have no concerns with you putting it back, I'm just not sure it NEEDS to be. Thanks again. --Arch26 04:24, 5 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Could you help me

A couple of weeks back I posted something on the VEI discussion page about Las Cañadas the caldera on tenerife asking wether it was a supervolcano or not. I'm now asking you because you seem to know a lot about the subject. If you could post me your answer back that would be great --Wiki235

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Problem with VEI

Hi there As you have shown considerable knowledge in volcanoes, we have a user who is convinced that La Garita was VEI 9. I tried explaining but he won't seem to listen. Couldn't put him back on the straight and narrow could you. Thanks Wiki235 (talk) 19:28, 18 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]