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DYK[edit]

On 28 December, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Ilha dos Marinheiros, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--Royalbroil 23:43, 28 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Highest ski resort[edit]

I had heard that the ski resort in Bolivia was officially closed. Is that right ? I am invariant under co-ordinate transformations (talk) 00:03, 27 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

HP Botswana[edit]

Dear Scheridon,

Your enthusiastic contributions regarding the HP of Botswana (articles Otse and Monalanong Hill and the List of countries by highest point) is appreciated. Keep doing the "work" improving the Wiki.

However, would you be so kind to specify your sources that justify the supremacy of Monalanong Hill over Otse Hill? Some years ago we (user:Viewfinder, user:Kószab and other involved persons) discussed the topic and examined all the available data. These included topographic maps, SRTM data and GPS readings from the very places. The final conclusion was that there is still no evidence that would justify the Monalanong Hill as the HP of Botswana. The 1494 m datum comes from the SRTM database just as the 1491 m for Otse. The error range of these data is significantly higher (approx. 15 m), so we can not tell which one is higher. However, Ginge Fullen (a British explorer) did a GPS reading on the top of both hills, and his measurement showed Otse slightly higher. That is why we left Otse in the list as HP of Botswana.

So if you have more convincing evidence, please, tell us about it. But if you currently do not have any, than it would be a good idea (if you agree with it) to revert your good-faith edits in the connecting articles. Kószab (talk) 20:33, 10 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of List of ski areas and resorts in North America[edit]

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Chuí[edit]

So the pronunciations at the reference you removed are wrong? If so, could you find a reliable source to back this up?

Also, once we settle this matter, the IPA stress mark is ‹ˈ›, not an apostrophe ‹'›. They look the same in many fonts, so they get mixed up a lot. — ˈzɪzɨvə (talk) 22:47, 16 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I'm curious if you hear those samples at Forvo as one syllable or two. To my ear, Chuí is in each case one syllable. I suspect that as there is considerable variation here (as elsewhere in Portuguese) between syllabic [i, u] and nonsyllabic [j, w]. I think the purpose of the accent is mark it as //ʃui// (i.e., not the //ʃui// you'd otherwise expect), not to specify //ʃu.i//—

Portuguese orthography: Rising diphthongs (which may also be pronounced as hiatuses) containing stressed i or stressed u are accented, so that they will not be pronounced as falling diphthongs.

— what happens after that is a matter for Portuguese sandhi, and a native speaker may have trouble hearing the distinction. As a native speaker of English, I'd probably count two syllables for towel and one for fowl, despite (I'm pretty sure), rhyming them perfectly. All that said, I'm splitting hairs, and your reference is good enough for me. Cheers! — ˈzɪzɨvə (talk) 16:59, 17 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Mont Puke[edit]

Thank you for the changes :) -- FoeNyx (talk) 14:55, 16 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Catenanuova primary source[edit]

Here is a scan of the primary source document relevant page

http://www.osservatorioacque.it/dati/ANNALI/A_1999/PI_60.HTML

and this is the prove that the book is published in the National Library of Florence.

http://opac.bncf.firenze.sbn.it/opac/controller.jsp?action=notizia_view&notizia_idn=PAL0101468

Clic "dettaglio annate" and you get prove that the year 1999 is deposited in the National Library, and with this you get your primary source.

You can always find the proves that the measurement value is false or biased. Good luck.

--93.145.249.158 (talk) 14:02, 14 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

By the way, perhaps you detected a concrete problem. We have a WMO European temperature record (that is the highest temperature measured by a WMO station) and a non-WMO station that measured a higher temperature. The WMO record is really that of Athens, but the true highest reliable temperature was measured in another place by another station. Catenanuova is warmer than Athens, but it has not a WMO weather station and it will never have one, as the Region Sicily is not WMO member (in Italy only Military Air Forces AM are and only the small set of AM weather stations are WMO labeled despite of the circumstance that thousand of other weather stations are technically better than WMO-quality in WMO-compliant locations). What to do? In my opinion the WMO record is for Athens and the highest temperature is for Catenanuova; I do not see other rational solutions without adopting views that deny the validity of WMO records for WMO stations and that slander the Idrometric Network of the Region Sicily by assuming that they are technically non-compliant with standards of measurement, a thing that should be proved by who states it.

Do how you prefer. If you want to revert, I will not revert you, but I will ask you reference for "unofficiality" or "disputed" or "discussed" or whatever. Maybe some reliable reference exists, but I wasn't able to retrieve it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.145.249.158 (talk) 19:02, 14 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Vandalism[edit]

You stated in the edit summary that this edit to List of weather records was vandalism. Please don't throw around that term so wildly; the way I see it, it was a good faith mistake by a new editor who has made many constructive edits to that page. Thank you. -RunningOnBrains^(talk) 21:21, 13 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Don't worry about it. I'm just on a crusade to keep new editors, and every little bit helps. -RunningOnBrains^(talk) 02:50, 14 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Brazil as a founding member of the UN[edit]

Hi Roger,

I saw that you recently reverted an edit on the Brazil page about the UN. Point was that brazil is not a founding member of the UN. I checked that and indeed, Brazil is not a founding member of the UN, according to the UN: http://www.un.org/en/aboutun/history/dumbarton_yalta.shtml

Do you have any idea why this info came there in the first place? As is, I want to correct it, but I also remember that Brazil always opens the general assembly, so clearly there is a special relationship there.... cheers, Magafuzula (talk) 10:17, 9 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, apparently every country that became a member in '45 may call itself a founding member. Good! Since it is your link I'll give you the honors of putting it in place!

cheers Magafuzula (talk) 23:43, 9 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

= Mzaar Kfardebian article[edit]

Hello,

I am happy to see that you are keeping this article from being abused by both sides: people from the town of Faraya who would like to remove all texts relating to the fact that the resort is within the jurisdiction often town of Kfardebian on one side and on the other side, people from the town of Kfardebiane who would like to remove all mention of the name Faraya in the article. I would like to mention two important facts: although the municipality of Kfardebiane has obtain from the ministry of tourism in Lebanon that the resort is officially referred to as "Mzaar Kfardebian", people in Lebanon continue to say "Faraya" when talking about the resort. It has been the case since the 1950's when the first group of investors from Beirut built the first chalets and the first ski lift. The other Fact is that the company owning today the concession of the ski slopes and the ski lifts was founded in the 1960's under the name "Faraya-Mzaar tourisme et sports d'hiver"

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Restoring unsourced material to a BLP[edit]

Could you explain why you reverted my edit to Roberto Justus? In doing so you removed the only inline citation included in the article and restored unsourced content (violating WP:BLP).--Jezebel'sPonyo ^{bons mots} 23:40, 22 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Subpolar climates[edit]

Hello.

The problem is that the prefix "sub-" is always ambiguous.

Either it means "under" something and "out of" this same thing

or it means a part of a thing but at the bottom of it, at the margin of it but still into it.

And so apparently there are two subpolar oceanic climates :

1) the subpolar oceanic climate ("under and out of") as defined in Wikipedia and for instance in Modern Climatology by Pijushkanti Saha p. 305, 306 (see for instance https://books.google.fr/books?id=X4ymCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA305&lpg=PA305&dq=subpolar+oceanic+climate&source=bl&ots=qXzAg9nekS&sig=J0sPmXw2V9IZc_v-RY9-vngEIag&hl=fr&sa=X&sqi=2&ved=0CHcQ6AEwC2oVChMI9KXcxsnEyAIVyNsaCh3xGgNJ#v=onepage&q=subpolar%20oceanic%20climate&f=false) : as indicated this climate is "Cfc" climate in Köppen classification therefore Köppen considered this subpolar climate as a TEMPERATE climate and it has to be indicated to avoid any ambiguity.

So here "sub-" means that it is close to the polar climates but not a polar climate

2) the subpolar oceanic climate as defined by Pierre Estienne in Climatologie, collection U, Armand Colin, Paris, 1992, ISBN 2200219180 where this subpolar climate is the "warmest" of the polar climates : so this subpolar climate is truly a polar climate with each monthly average temperature below 10°C.

This time "sub-" means at the margin of the "polar" entity but still inside the "polar" entity contrary to the above definition.

This is why I edit your own modification in the Reykjavík article to make it clear that the Reykjavík climate is a TEMPERATE subpolar climate AND not a POLAR subpolar climate.

The fact that later in the article it is noted that Reykjavík is in the temperate ZONE is just a latitude indication (< 66° 33' 45,573") but does not refer to the temperate CLIMATE. Carlo Colussi (talk) 14:11, 15 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Climate of Almeria[edit]

Annual mean temperature or 250 mm rainfall aren't criteria for an arid climate. Annual temperature only determines if it is a hot, cold, or mild version of the climate, and aridness is determined by the following formula. "Multiply the average annual temperature in °C by 20, then add (a) 280 if 70% or more of the total precipitation is in the high-sun half of the year (April through September in the Northern Hemisphere, or October through March in the Southern), or (b) 140 if 30%–70% of the total precipitation is received during the applicable period, or (c) 0 if less than 30% of the total precipitation is so received. If the annual precipitation is less than 50% of this threshold, the classification is BW (desert climate); if it is in the range of 50%–100% of the threshold, the classification is BS (steppe climate)." This makes Almeria a hot semi-arid city rather than a fully arid one. Proximity to the true arid zone is correct, many towns and cities in this region exhibit a true arid climate. The threshold for Almeria is 191 mm according to the Köppen system, thus receiving just enough rainfall to exceed this threshold. I guess you added 140 thinking high sun precipitation was over 30 percent? Berkserker (talk) 02:28, 19 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Santa Rosa, La Pampa[edit]

Under criterion w for C and D in the Köppen climate classification, the driest month in the winter also must have less than 10% of the average precipitation received in the wettest month in summer. In this situation, the driest month is June with an average precipitation of 16.3 millimetres (0.64 in), and the wettest month, November, averages 101 millimetres (3.98 in) of precipitation. This means that the driest month (June) has 16% of the average precipitation received in the wettest month (November), so it does not meet the criteria at w. Eye snore 19:00, 31 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Reference: w – P_wdry < P_swet / 10

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Highest city in Yemen[edit]

Greetings. I see you reverted my edit on the highest city in Yemen. I can't be certain that Kawkaban is the highest, but it's certainly higher than Sana'a, the capital. And it's NOT a deserted town - it's thriving. There are certainly many towns higher than Sana'a. Thank you. Manormadman (talk) 19:35, 7 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Climate change denial[edit]

AEMET and IPMA are all wrong, Almeria is listed in BWk, Santa Cruz is listed in BWh, Murcia and Alicante are listed in BSk according to the Köppen climate classification and i'm true, since Europe is the only continent not located in the tropics, the hot semi-arid climate tends to be located in the tropics when their cold counterparts tend to be located in the temperate zones, the cold desert climate rarely has snow and tends to be drier than their hot counterparts, since you don't care about climate change and the end of the world, you're a foolish stupid idiot moron!2602:30A:C0FF:A6E0:8871:A076:D198:D81F (talk) 02:15, 9 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

AEMET, IPMA and Köppen are all incorrect and you're right. REALLY??? Scheridon (talk) 17:27, 9 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I am right, and I showed you the two climate maps of Spain, because climate change has been starting since then.2602:30A:C0FF:A6E0:1D13:6FEF:24FE:C4FA (talk) 00:11, 10 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

LOL Scheridon (talk) 02:39, 10 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

hahahahahahahaha!!! Scheridon you have a lot of patience with this guy. --TechnicianGB (talk) 00:28, 31 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@TechnicianGB: Just to ask you, the AEMET/IPMA climate map file was deleted today. Next time, if you want to upload a file, go to Commons and upload both AEMET/IPMA climate maps of Iberia and Macaronesia on a single file altogether.172.15.250.110 (talk) 00:21, 11 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

It's deleted, doesn't matter. The two maps still can be seen at full size in the website of AEMET.Iberian Climate Atlas/Macaronesian Climate Atlas Almería and Las Palmas still have a hot desert climate (BWh), as Murcia, Alicante, and Santa Cruz still have a hot semi-arid climate (BSh). The life continues and is the same... --TechnicianGB (talk) 10:56, 11 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Mean temperature is simple math, no extra sources needed[edit]

The person who put in the mean temperatures did the math wrong. The way that you get the mean temperature is to take the high temperature minus the low temperature, then divide that in half, and then add the low temperature. That's how you get the mean temperature. You shouldn't have reverted my correction of the erroneous math. Please don't do this again. Aoa8212 (talk) 07:48, 18 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Deriba caldera[edit]

Greetings, is there a source for the claim that after the independence of South Sudan, the rim of the Deriba caldera is the highest point of Sudan? That claim was in the old article but sans source there either. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 14:13, 6 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]