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Pronunciation

• I'm probably going to get lynched for this, but I've gone and done it with Snowdon. --Mark J 18:39, 6 September 2005 (UTC)
  • Thanks. However, you should thank Stemonitis more than me - he invented the template for pronunc. and put it on my talk. Given that no-one's objected I'll start converting a few more. --Mark J 15:30, 7 September 2005 (UTC)

List of California State Routes

Someone wants to convert this to a template so it wound up at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of California State Routes --Rschen7754 05:28, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

Tahoe

I was the one who inserted all those empty sections into the tahoe article. I had hoped that knowlagable readers would fill the sections in. I wanted the article to be as detailed as possible. However, I have to admit that the article looks much cleaner since you re-did it, I just think we could have given it a little more time. Tobyk777 02:59, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

Desolation Wilderness

Howdy. If you're interested, there is a WikiProject that could use your membership. Check out Wikipedia:WikiProject Protected areas. We are currently working on finalizing the templates ofr infoboxes and there are over a thousand redlined articles yet to be written. I could link you to all the pages but check out the status subpage and the general subpage. Hope you come aboard!--MONGO 01:05, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

Road stubs

All of the following made their way to WP:SFD:

• {{Arizona State Route Stub}}
• {{Kentucky State Highway Stub}}
• {{Maryland-State-Highway-Stub}}
• {{Massachusetts-State-Highway-Stub}}
• {{Michigan-State-Highway-Stub}}
• {{Missouri-State-Highway-Stub}}
• {{Nevada-State-Highway-Stub}}
• {{New-Hampshire-State-Highway-Stub}}
• {{Nhroute}}
• {{Washington-State-Highway-Stub}}

--Rschen7754 (talk - contribs) 03:51, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

Intelligent systems

Hike, could you please give a definition or reference of what is meant with Intelligent computational system referenced in Computational intelligence? --moxon 17:55, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

I set up a preliminary fix by creating and redirecting intelligent system to hybrid intelligent system. --moxon 16:27, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

Moves

Not exactly...but we would have to ask them to delete the moved-from page (Mount Adams before we could move Mount Adams (disambiguation) to it. So yea, its probably better to wait for an admin.

Image:Mt Shasta.JPG

Hi Hike, I haven't been visiting Wikipedia much lately, but I just got your message, and John T. Alfors is my father, and I did receive permission to post his photos under the GFDL license (there are a few others in there of his). At some point, somebody went through and changed the way I had written it (from the old template), but my understanding is that even though it's the GFDL license, there can still be a credit attached.

I notice you're interested in the Tahoe area - I have some desolation wilderness photos if you're interested. my talk page --Aion 02:51, 19 November 2005 (UTC)

minor planets

Hi Hike! Seems we've both gone and attacked the minor planets at the same time :-) I have to sign off for now, but that article sure could use a cleanup. I'm thinking of throwing out those main belt IIb asteroid etc categories as i've never heard of them and they'll probably never get an article either. They also seem to be missing a group below 2.3 AU, and are overlapping with groups like the Pallas asteroids etc. etc. Ugh what a mess. Deuar 16:46, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

RFA/you -- a possibility which you might welcome.

Hike395, I am not sure if you would appreciate a nomination for Mop+Bucket. Would that be onerous for you? I am well aware that public scrutiny is not pleasant for many of us, me included. Please do not worry if you are not ready to answer; I am taking this action at the request of others, namely Taxman. If you were to agree then I would simply be following the actions templated by BD2412. I would also be relying on their advice to ensure a reasonable chance at success for the outcome of RFA/you. If you want a higher probability of success, then we could probably work something out to increase the chances, but it would be a learning process. ---Ancheta Wis 21:26, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

Thank you, Ancheta Wis, for your vote of confidence in my editing behavior in the 'pedia! However, I do not wish to be admin at this time. I see that you are trying to recruit 3 admins, I'm sorry if this interferes in your quest. Thanks again! --- hike395 01:23, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

Shasta Pics

Hi 395. Do you have any better pictures of Shasta to replace the ones currently in the article, which are none too good, IMO. I'd put one up but have nothing but public access now. Hope you are doing OK or better.

Jeeb 12:01, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the suggestion--I completely forgot about the commons. I'm glad to see you are keeping Wikipedia at arm's length and hopefully getting something of a break. I've been doing the same. It's too easy to use up lots of time here. BTW, I had a great, short trip up McGee creek this fall, to McGee pass and back. If you haven't been there, I'm sure you'd like it.

Jeeb 02:50, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

Yes, in September actually--the aspens were just starting then. The trail does kind of a big right turn as you approach Baldwin and becomes really great as you approach Red Slate and the pass. From the SE ridge on Red Slate you can see all those twisted metamorphics in the Mt Morrison/Laurel Mt/Convict creek area and its really nice. Let me see if I can find the pictures I think I took.

Jeeb 15:11, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

Pics in storage--sorry. Will get 'em eventually though...Jeeb 21:24, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

FYI

The reason I reverted a couple of edits to Sierra Club is that their intent was to, backhandedly, include a personal reference for the purpose of harassment. The editor who has been adding the material is user:Jonah Ayers, who has been permanently blocked for harassing other editors.[1] If other editors want to make a good faith effort on the material I have no objection. -Will Beback 22:51, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

S-N guidebooks

Yeah, but worse yet, think about how many miles of hiking and climbing you're going to have to do to see all the things described in them! Gotta use 'em if you buy 'em!

P.S. Correction on the above re: McGee. The trail makes a big right-hand turn as you approach Red and White Mtn, near Big McGee Lake, not as you approach Baldwin. Had 'em mixed up in my mind. Big McGee Lake and beyond is superb country. Jeeb 16:04, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

(US) in article titles

Hi, Beland.. Please note that Wikipedia:Naming conventions (acronyms)#Acronyms as disambiguators explicitly states that (US) or (UK) is the preferred disambiguator for article titles (and only article titles). We had an extensive discussion about it at Wikipedia Talk:Naming conventions (acronyms).

I'm afraid that, by doing those extensive moves, you've altered the policy without discussing it first. Could you kindly move them back? If you'd like to restart the conversation at that Talk page, you can, but out of courtesy, I would notify the people involved in the discussion.

Thanks! -- hike395 15:39, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

Oh, dear, I completely missed that, after procrastinating on this cleanup for the last 14 months. -- Beland 07:41, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

Saddle Mountain Image

The release is fine. I'm a member of the Mineral County Chamber of Commerce plus the director of the Mineral County Chamber Anne Palmer (304) 788-1325 never copyrighted it. I ask her if it was ok, she said it was released no problem. Call her and double check if you like. --71Demon 00:59, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

LOL. Yes, really --71Demon 14:44, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

Category vote

You may wish to voice any concerns on a category vote invloving protected areas here:[2].--MONGO 04:28, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Peer review/Geology of the Capitol Reef area

Any feedback will be greatly appreciated. :) --13:26, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

US states

Hi Hike395, thanks about the map :) I suppose you could remove the colorado picture since it doesnt say why its relevant to the mean elevation section.. or maybe just change its caption since it is showing the state thats at the top of the list -- Astrokey44|talk 03:59, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

Asteroid masses

Hi Hike, I've noticed you've updated the mass estimates in Asteroids - this has been an ambiguous issue in the past because of several references which give widely differing estimates (in particular, NASA gives 2.3e21 kg [3] and Pitjeva estimates ~3e21 kg). Whatever we choose, it then follows on to a variety of asteroid articles which say "asteroid 123 Foo comprises x% of the mass in the belt..." etc. If you're interested in more details, you might want to check out the discussion at Talk:1 Ceres#mass reference is gibberish, and maybe add an opinion! :-) Deuar 19:32, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

Kriging, geostatistics, etc.

Greetings! Yes, I'm aware of the situation; about a week ago I tried to recruit support here [4] , hoping we might have a geostatistician on the project. My knowledge of geostatistics is purely practical, e.g. using kriging to estimate contaminant concentrations (and I find it quite reliable); unfortunately I don't have more than the most general understanding of the mathematics underlying it. You're doing the right thing in pursuing the WP:NOR, WP:V and WP:NPOV angles, and I'll help you there. Antandrus (talk) 22:45, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

Greetings again: I left a note on the talk page for kriging and can help you there, though unfortunately my time today is a bit broken up (preparing a cost estimate for, you guessed it, more geostatistics work). RFC may be necessary, but sometimes patience pays off, and you're doing an excellent job of explaining. Cheers, Antandrus (talk) 18:34, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

It's ok... LOL ... actually I think it's admirable how patient you have been. Btw that was Tawkerbot detecting a large removal of text; I reverted it. Have a great weekend! Antandrus (talk) 05:00, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

Yes, I think that geostatistics and kriging are in an OK NPOV state as they are (at least as of the minute I write this; that may change). I will revert them if they acquire any POV accretions, at least any that make my own POV buzzer to sound; it's possible (ever the optimist am I) that he may add NPOV material to them. Both articles could use some more detail from a geostatistician who is not on a crusade to undermine the entire field, of course. As of leaving the sampling variogram and spatial dependence articles as they are with a POV tag--yes, that's a way to do it; there's plenty of that on Wikipedia already. Most of the time it's because an expert on one field or another has not yet come along to fix something up.

Nice work on High Sierra Trail ... reminds me to start planning for the summer hiking season. That's a much nicer thought than training intransigent editors on NPOV, no? Cheers, Antandrus (talk) 15:01, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

Yep, that's definitely him 64.180.23.24 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) -- Vancouver, BC. Certainly he has an entertaining writing style, though POV. We could do an RFC; I'll co-sign or help you write it. I'd probably put it off a little longer, since his contributions seem to be tailing off, pun intended. (By the way, I'm officially on wikibreak but there happens to be nice high-speed internet in my hotel room, so ... hard to kick this addiction.) Wish I were in the Sierras, rather than at a corporate boot-camp. Cheers, Antandrus (talk) 04:32, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

That was a great idea creating the group for geostatistics. SCmurky 07:43, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

Image:Mt si and meadowbrook cows.jpg

Thanks for the note. On the Byways.org site, the way it works is, if there are any restrictions on usage, it will let you know when you select the size you want to download. If you don't see any such message, then it's free for use. For example, see [5]. Click an image size to download and you are immediately presented with the terms of use. If an image is unavailable for use, on the other hand, then you can't even download it to begin with (see [6]). Hope that helps. howcheng {chat} 06:17, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, I thought about making some sort of boilerplate notice that explains precisely that but then I'd have to go back through the hundreds of images I've uploaded and fix it, so I'm just lazy. :) howcheng {chat} 16:08, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

promotion

very good :-) [7] Tobias Conradi (Talk) 00:59, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

Infobox Mountain

I haven't been keeping up with the changes much n the mountains project (of which I am a "member"), so I was unaware of the changes to the infobox...on the article Granite Peak (Montana) the coordinates don't all fit in the space provided..perhaps this is my browsers fault. The infobox is also larger it seems than the older one and takes up a lot of space on the page. Any suggestions?--MONGO 02:38, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

I think I must have messed up the first time I did the infobox, but I adjusted it and now is fine.--MONGO 02:51, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

Madrean Sky Islands Image

I emailed Peter Warshall to see if the image was his, or produced by USGS staff. He replied thus:

Tom

I think its fine to use the image. Just credit USGS and myself. I gave them a sketch and they did it. So its public domain with my permission.

Thanks

Peter

Tom Radulovich 07:40, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

To the Mt Whitney Hiker: Thanks, for resolving that Image status. I was busy using that Madrean sky islands image, as you probably noticed. And, I put it on the Mule Mountain page, I couldn't help trying to get the pic out there on one more page.

And I envy your recent hikings off of 395, I was on Whitney back in 1970 or so. Happy trails!......(I left a note at Tom Radulovich's page). ....MichaelMcAnnisYumaAz--Mmcannis 18:18, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

Mount Stuart image

Oops! I just totally forgot to transfer those two lines over. Thanks for catching that. -- Spireguy 17:30, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

Hikipedia

Hello,

I've noticed that you have submitted a few nice contributions to the article about Mount Si.

I am currently gathering feedback about the Hikipedia project (which also includes an article about Mount Si). Could you please give me some feedback about the Hikipedia site? Would you consider contributing to Hikipedia?

I know that one can add trail descriptions to a regular Wikipedia, but there are quite a few things that would be too difficult too acomplish: trail-oriented search, embedded weather forecast, voting for trail difficulty and enjoyability, trail reports, links and images of guidebooks. Additionally it is impossible to use content from Wikipedia in a leaflet or advertisment (because of "invariant sections" requirement of Gnu license).

Please let me know what you think about Hikipedia (you can use the feedback page, or reply here).

Thank you for your time,

Lukasz Anforowicz

Tuolumne sources

Hi, I don't have any sources for that article. I know about that area because I saw it with my own eyes. --Smack (talk) 03:17, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

Final state highway naming conventions debate

Hike395, your participation is welcome in the Wikipedia:State route naming conventions poll. Please give your input as to the process by 23:59 UTC on August 8.

Regards, Rschen7754 (talk - contribs) 22:23, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

Lone Indian

We came over the divide, from Lake Edison, and we didn't actually stay at the Lone Indian. We spent our last night at Wilbur May, and hiked all the way back to the trailhead from there. --Smack (talk) 16:34, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

Tioga Pass

Hey,

In an edit to the Tioga Pass article, you removed a photo I had uploaded for the article, calling it incorrect. Could you explain the logic? I realize it looks a bit like Toulumne Meadows, but I can assure you, my back was about 100 yards from the park enterance when I shot that photo.

I think the image adds to the article; the first one is a close-up of some hikers on a trail, but I think the second image, with the wider angle shows more of what a casual hiker or even someone on a scenic drive who doesn't leave their car would see.

So with that in mind, I'd like to put the photo back in the article - I think it belongs there - but I'm wondering if there's something I don't realize, or looking at things the wrong way?

Thanks!

Forrest

Tioga Pass

Thanks for clearing up the confusion regarding Tioga Pass. Now I completely understand why you removed the photo - I see someone put it back up and added a more fit description. You suggested another photo I shot that might be a better match, of Tioga Lake looking back at the Pass, and as luck would have it, I shot two photos that day, with one of them zoomed in quite a bit more to show the mountains making up Tioga Pass looming over the water. So I've donated that under Creative Commons license, and added it.

Forrest

California SR infobox discussion

Hike395, you are invited to participate in the (definitely less structured than WP:SRNC) WT:CASH infobox discussion. Please feel free to share your thoughts and ideas. --Rschen7754 (talk - contribs) 01:21, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured article review/Mount St. Helens

Could you comment about Outriggr's wish to strip out all mention of the 1980 eruption from the history and geology sections to create one section about the eruption? I would like to keep the effects to humans and their response to the eruption separate from details of the geology. --mav 13:08, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia Project California

Please read the added assessment notes on Long Valley Caldera. it just doesnt measure up to a B yet. there are very specific criteria for B standing within Wikipediia Project California. mainly long valley caldera needs more breadth of coverage...not just geology. i have been involved in reviewing and being reviewed for hundreds of Start vs B grade articles; i think you need to read carefully at least a couple of dozen solid Bs (for example California Condor, Caltrain, Mojave Desert, Coachella Valley) before finalizing your opinions. i would be delighted to debate any specific articles and certainly reconsider my findings. also if you have time for assessing, i wouldinvite you to start with the 9500 un-assessed articles in project california, and not just weigh in for the only 900 assessed articles. in any case i hope we can discuss any specific articles, whose ratings worry you. regards Anlace 22:04, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

Nice work with the editing. i have promoted this page to "B". I still think a two or three line synopsis of history of owens valley relative to this feature would be a good touch. This article has the good "bone structure" to aspire to GA. cheers. Anlace 23:36, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

Tundra

Yes, absolutely; that wasn't on my watch list so I didn't notice. Just let me know if I forget to unprotect after a while.

Thanks regarding the photo! If you feel like scribbling an article on Gaylor Lakes, we could use one ... it's one of a thousand things I haven't gotten around to doing yet. You know those ruins up on top of the ridge overlooking the lakes from the northeast? There's some marvelous photo spots up there in all directions ... and you can climb that ridge all the way up to the peaks of northeast Yosemite. The geology is cool there too because of the metamorphic/granite contacts. Antandrus (talk) 18:07, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

Changing back

I'm looking at it, although it looks like you've made a start. I'm not sure I see the advantage, though, once we have agreement they can all be properly moved (with redirects) to wherever we decide. Meanwhile it causes no real problems, the only "significant" article in terms of links is, I think, the one you've moved back. Rich Farmbrough, 12:27 19 November 2006 (GMT).

High Sierra (Biome)

There was a discussion about moving this to the larger article and it was decided against, as I'm researching and writing an article on the alpine ecosystem of the High Sierra, a very well-researched area due to a couple of High Sierra research stations. Why the unilateral move now with no discussion? Couldn't you have asked people to discuss the issue? KP Botany 17:17, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

But there was no move discussion, either. And that's the discussion to have, tag the page for a move, and suggest you want to move it, then do so if there is no discussion. There's no reason for me to discuss not moving it when no one has suggested moving it, as I assumed was the case with Will BeBack, he decided not to suggest moving the page. I pretty much know what I can do, so you don't really need to continue telling me what my options are, I can actually figure it out myself. I would just like people to discuss changes like this first. And, whether or not you call it the High Sierra, I work with High Sierra stream ecologists and we call it the High Sierra. You haven't offered anything to call it anystead, except for just calling it the Sierra Nevada, except my High Sierra information has no relationship to northern Sierra Nevada Yellow Pine Forests, or Eastern Sierra mountain meadows, or tons of other Sierra Nevada ecosystems--it's just relevant to the High Sierra. That's what it is I'm studying: the ecosystems of the High Sierra, so there's not really a point in calling it anything else that doesn't quite mean that. At this point, I know longer care, though, so let's just drop it, and I'll do whatever I want, and you do whatever you want, because that seems to be the general trend on Wikipedia. KP Botany 04:06, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

Methuselah (tree)

Hi Hike - I've added a coor:dms location for it (well, for the visitor center, to be exact!), but I can't get it to format properly in the top right of the page. Can you format it please? - thanks, MPF 16:36, 29 November 2006 (UTC)