Thank you for for kind words and your show of support during my recent RfA. If you ever need any admin help or just need someone from outside of the field to take a look at an article on waste management, do not hesitate to holler over my direction.
On a lighter note: City, United, or other team entirely? youngamerican ( ahoy hoy) 14:02, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
I have a small farm with a hayfield and sheep pasture. I'd like to employ greater levels of sustainable farming practices by using treated sludge on my fields, though here in the US many industrial products are combined in wastewater, with resulting high levels of heavy metals, etc, which I do not want in my soil. Some farm families that have used such contaminated sludge have been diagnosed with dangerously high levels of said heavy metals.
How do you get around the problem in the UK? Any suggestions for us in the US? Skyemoor 14:24, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the spot-on explanation and the suggestions! There has been discussion in the area for setting up a digester, though my sheep are on pasture continuously, and since their waste is in the form of little disperable pellets, that doesn't lend itself to collection. They are my current source of fertilization, though I know I will need supplement. I'll look further into local sources. Thanks again, Skyemoor 17:07, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
In the second item under heading "17th century" the phrase "poop disease" appears, which I'm guessing must be a typographical error for something like "popular", though disease, however widespread, will never really be "popular". In any case, I don't think "poop" is what you mean either, is it?
Alex, the HTCW diagram in the Gasification article section, that you added, was uploaded by User:Gingerland and has been tagged by someone with an alert that it will be deleted unless an acceptable copyright or license is provided. You would do well to look into that before it is deleted. Regards, mbeychok 18:26, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the edits on Battery Directive. DonL 23:08, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
Thanks again for your help and editing on "Battery Directive!" I liked your implementing superscript "notes." On another question: Using the Firefox browser, when I type, say, "vortexrealm wiki" in the URL bar, my browser will be directed to this (your "Talk") webpage. However when I type "battery directive wiki" it always takes me to wiki's "RoHS" ("Restriction of Hazardous Substances Directive"} page. Do you you know how to cause direction to the Battery Directive page? I know you figured out how to change the D in Directive to capital "D." Impressive credentials, by the way. Thanks for your service to the world. DonL 15:52, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
Dear Sir ,
I read your paper on this UASB . I want to know whether this technology can be used for the effluent treatment of textile processing mill ? Also let me know the advantages & disadvantages of this technology compare to conventional technology ( chemical dosing of coagulants ).
I have been working in the textile industry for last 14 years & i am interested to know more about effluent treatment.
Thanks,
Ashish Naik. tradelink4dyes@yahoo.co.in
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-- Alex 15:14, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
Dear Alex,
Is there a reason for you not having deleted the following sentence and reference within the "Plastic recycling" article?
"In Israel successful trials have shown that plastic films recovered from mixed municipal waste streams can be recycled into useful products.[2]"
Knowing this will help me in my reasoning during further communication with you (and others) regarding plastics and recycling articles as well as my contributions.
Recycledagplastic 14:28, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
Alex, Thank you for your communication. Regards, Recycledagplastic 15:31, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
(Regarding editing decisions made by you and Trialsanderrors) So, you consider external links with descriptions like "pioneer of drip irrigation since 1968" or "DRTS is the leading manufacturer of drip tape production lines" as well as links billing themselves as "World's Largest Selection" (all caps nonetheless)as objective, non-promotional, non-spam and without conflict of interest? Do you believe "seasoned objective editors" like yourself are the contributors of these external links? Or that articles in other categories have been edited by these contributors like "NetafimUSA?" Honestly? My external link simply included a company name and the description of "information about recycling Drip Irrigation Tape?" Is there a reason that my edit to include the sentence/fact that drip tape is a recyclable material hasn't been removed? And if it's because it's factual (which it is), is there a good reason that the link to support it was removed (considering the promotional links which were allowed to remain)? These are all valid points and questions. Please take the time to address them adequately. Regards, Recycledagplastic 21:59, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
It may help you to read "Trial's" post prior to my last post here. Here it is:
"You might be confusing me with someone else. Do I have feedback regarding the notability of RKO? Not really. I think the mentions are slight but not zero, so someone unconnected to the company might eventually put them together into an article. The problem comes in if you, who has a clear conflict of interest goes about adding the company to various articles. For this not to become a problem you would have to build up a track record as an editor unrelated to the company first, so it becomes apparent that your interest is in improving Wikipedia and not in increasing the exposure of your company. As long as the bulk of your contributions are RKO you will always be considered a single purpose account and your contributions RKO-related contributions will cause friction. ~ trialsanderrors 20:25, 13 December 2006 (UTC)"
I think I am confusing him with you regarding doing specific work in the waste man./recycling categories.
I see that "Trials" is communicating about this with you. Is there any way that this discussion can be consolidated to one place? Best Regards, Recycledagplastic 22:13, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
Hi Alex, Yesterday, I left a message for you in Talk:Plastic mulch. Regards, Recycledagplastic 16:02, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
Don't forget to use the "preloaded debate" link when nominating article for deletion. yandman 10:22, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
Hi Alex, thanks for your comments with respect to the page of "Ecological sanitation". The sector program ecosan from gtz, Germany, is promoting Ecological Sanitation as an holistic approach to find sustainable solutions in water / wastewater management questions, especially with respect to development cooperation. We already provide plenty of information related to the topic "Ecological sanitation" aiming at knowledge management on our website (www.gtz.de/ecosan). In order to spread the knowledge about ecosan we will improve and expand the wikipedia-site on "Ecological sanitation", of course including the necessary references. With respect to interwikilinks, I will check again the pages for revelance but do to the fact that the field of ecological sanitation is quite large most of the links are reasonable. Kind regards, GTZ-ecosan GTZ-44-ecosan 19:42, 02 January 2007 (UTC)
I read your comments that you left on my talk page. I strongly agree what you said on
it is far more important to cite scientific sources than a lot of the online crap that is available
Currently I am using Wikipedia:Assume good faith and Wikipedia:Ignore all rules to get around the roadblock of not having citations. Right now I am digging for my high school's agenda for some unusual types of citations like maps and audio recording but so far not much luck on finding my agenda. I'll let you know and give you those citation formats when I can find my agenda back. OhanaUnited 02:32, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
Talk:Biofuel#Biogas. Entry added. -- Tunheim 11:06, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
Hi Alex, we are not sure that seconds shops are examples of reverse logistics. Please can you elaborate on the reason(s) that they may considered as such.
cheers em
Hi Vortexrealm,
This is Singkong2005, now calling myself Chriwaterguy. I've been active at Appropedia recently, and would appreciate it if you had a look at Appropedia:Choosing water supply and purification methods and considered contributing to it. Thanks. -- Chriswaterguy talk 09:27, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
I created a basic stub for this guy. It needs a lot of work though. Majorly (o rly?) 11:11, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
Hi! Over the past couple of months I've been spending much more time than I should developing the
Energy portal, and intend asking for a
portal peer review within the next day or so.
The portal provides a showcase for energy-related articles on Wikipedia. One of the most prominent ways is via a the
selected article that is currently changed every 6 weeks or so. It would be good to increase this turnover, and with three Wikiprojects dedicated to energy-related topics and a good number of articles already written, I'd like to suggest that members of each Wikiproject might like to use the 'selected article' to feature some of their best work.
With this in mind, I'd like to suggest that your Wikiproject bypasses the normal
selected article nomination page and decides collectively which articles are worth featuring - or these may be self-evident from previous discussions (or from
here) - and add short 'introduction' to the selected article at the appropriate place on page
Portal:Energy/Selected article/Drafts, which includes further information. Your personal involvement would be welcome!
Please make any comments on your Wikiproject talk page,
my talk page, or on
Portal talk:Energy/Selected article/Drafts, as appropriate.
Gralo
15:53, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
I have created a barnstar for Wikipedia:WikiProject Environment. Please visit the talk page to vote for the barnstar since there are no votes for 2 months. OhanaUnited 03:01, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
Do you think WikiProject Environment should start working on assessment scale? It would be better to do now than wait for backlog to accmuluate. OhanaUnited 07:00, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
Sorry, which article are you referring to? I've been editing the uncategorized pages in alphabetical order for the past few days but I can't recall coming across any ERM article. Resurgent insurgent 23:37, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
Hmm... now I remember - Environmental Resources Management. It read like an advertisement and if you can re-write it in a way that cites sources, is neutral in tone and satisfies the notability guidelines, by all means do so. Resurgent insurgent 23:39, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
Alex, I would very much appreciate your visiting Talk:Pollution control and commenting on my proposal to merge Pollution control into the existing Pollution article.
Pollution control has one brief paragraph of lead-in, a number of section headers and a multitude of internal Wiki links ... but no real content of any kind. I tried to get it deleted but an administrator decided that a bunch of clean-up tags would be better. In effect, he is simply trying to persuade people to take an empty shell and write another article. In my opinion, the Pollution control shell or stub is completely useless and unneeded since we have so many other articles such as Pollution, Air pollution, Water pollution and many, many solid waste articles. Wiki also has Category:Pollution, Category:Air pollution, and Category:Water pollution. Another article is just not needed.
Therefore, I proposed to merge Pollution control into the existing Pollution article.
Sorry to be so long-winded. Please add your comments. - mbeychok 02:03, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
See User talk:Anthony Appleyard#Incineration external links. Anthony Appleyard 18:04, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
Could I please get your input at Appropedia:Water recycling#Recycled water for domestic use? I imagine you know something about the European context.
btw have you seen Appropedia:Biogas and Appropedia:Biofuels? Cheers -- Chriswaterguy talk 09:56, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
You wrote:
Removed so that I can keep track who received the award. OhanaUnited 15:50, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
Hi, sorry for the late response. I think I know why the image was listed (originally) as a copyvio. It looks from the description that Arrow Ecology is the source of this image, and there was no proof that they released it under the CC license. To be really nitpicky, did your friend released this image under the CC license. Plus, did he took this image as part of his job or just for his own? Garion96 (talk) 18:49, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
Thank you for awarding me The Working Man's Barnstar. I really appreciate that someone recognizes my work. OhanaUnited 18:01, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
Thank you for for kind words and your show of support during my recent RfA. If you ever need any admin help or just need someone from outside of the field to take a look at an article on waste management, do not hesitate to holler over my direction.
On a lighter note: City, United, or other team entirely? youngamerican ( ahoy hoy) 14:02, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
I have a small farm with a hayfield and sheep pasture. I'd like to employ greater levels of sustainable farming practices by using treated sludge on my fields, though here in the US many industrial products are combined in wastewater, with resulting high levels of heavy metals, etc, which I do not want in my soil. Some farm families that have used such contaminated sludge have been diagnosed with dangerously high levels of said heavy metals.
How do you get around the problem in the UK? Any suggestions for us in the US? Skyemoor 14:24, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the spot-on explanation and the suggestions! There has been discussion in the area for setting up a digester, though my sheep are on pasture continuously, and since their waste is in the form of little disperable pellets, that doesn't lend itself to collection. They are my current source of fertilization, though I know I will need supplement. I'll look further into local sources. Thanks again, Skyemoor 17:07, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
In the second item under heading "17th century" the phrase "poop disease" appears, which I'm guessing must be a typographical error for something like "popular", though disease, however widespread, will never really be "popular". In any case, I don't think "poop" is what you mean either, is it?
Alex, the HTCW diagram in the Gasification article section, that you added, was uploaded by User:Gingerland and has been tagged by someone with an alert that it will be deleted unless an acceptable copyright or license is provided. You would do well to look into that before it is deleted. Regards, mbeychok 18:26, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the edits on Battery Directive. DonL 23:08, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
Thanks again for your help and editing on "Battery Directive!" I liked your implementing superscript "notes." On another question: Using the Firefox browser, when I type, say, "vortexrealm wiki" in the URL bar, my browser will be directed to this (your "Talk") webpage. However when I type "battery directive wiki" it always takes me to wiki's "RoHS" ("Restriction of Hazardous Substances Directive"} page. Do you you know how to cause direction to the Battery Directive page? I know you figured out how to change the D in Directive to capital "D." Impressive credentials, by the way. Thanks for your service to the world. DonL 15:52, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
Dear Sir ,
I read your paper on this UASB . I want to know whether this technology can be used for the effluent treatment of textile processing mill ? Also let me know the advantages & disadvantages of this technology compare to conventional technology ( chemical dosing of coagulants ).
I have been working in the textile industry for last 14 years & i am interested to know more about effluent treatment.
Thanks,
Ashish Naik. tradelink4dyes@yahoo.co.in
A tag has been placed on Letsrecycle.com, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done because it is an article about a certain web site, blog, forum, or other community of web users that does not assert the importance or significance of that web location. Please read our criteria for speedy deletion, particularly item 7 under Articles, as well as notability guidelines for websites. Please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources which verify their content.
Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself. To contest the tagging and request that administrators wait a while for you to add contextual material, please affix the template {{hangon}}
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t/
c)
15:11, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
-- Alex 15:14, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
Dear Alex,
Is there a reason for you not having deleted the following sentence and reference within the "Plastic recycling" article?
"In Israel successful trials have shown that plastic films recovered from mixed municipal waste streams can be recycled into useful products.[2]"
Knowing this will help me in my reasoning during further communication with you (and others) regarding plastics and recycling articles as well as my contributions.
Recycledagplastic 14:28, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
Alex, Thank you for your communication. Regards, Recycledagplastic 15:31, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
(Regarding editing decisions made by you and Trialsanderrors) So, you consider external links with descriptions like "pioneer of drip irrigation since 1968" or "DRTS is the leading manufacturer of drip tape production lines" as well as links billing themselves as "World's Largest Selection" (all caps nonetheless)as objective, non-promotional, non-spam and without conflict of interest? Do you believe "seasoned objective editors" like yourself are the contributors of these external links? Or that articles in other categories have been edited by these contributors like "NetafimUSA?" Honestly? My external link simply included a company name and the description of "information about recycling Drip Irrigation Tape?" Is there a reason that my edit to include the sentence/fact that drip tape is a recyclable material hasn't been removed? And if it's because it's factual (which it is), is there a good reason that the link to support it was removed (considering the promotional links which were allowed to remain)? These are all valid points and questions. Please take the time to address them adequately. Regards, Recycledagplastic 21:59, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
It may help you to read "Trial's" post prior to my last post here. Here it is:
"You might be confusing me with someone else. Do I have feedback regarding the notability of RKO? Not really. I think the mentions are slight but not zero, so someone unconnected to the company might eventually put them together into an article. The problem comes in if you, who has a clear conflict of interest goes about adding the company to various articles. For this not to become a problem you would have to build up a track record as an editor unrelated to the company first, so it becomes apparent that your interest is in improving Wikipedia and not in increasing the exposure of your company. As long as the bulk of your contributions are RKO you will always be considered a single purpose account and your contributions RKO-related contributions will cause friction. ~ trialsanderrors 20:25, 13 December 2006 (UTC)"
I think I am confusing him with you regarding doing specific work in the waste man./recycling categories.
I see that "Trials" is communicating about this with you. Is there any way that this discussion can be consolidated to one place? Best Regards, Recycledagplastic 22:13, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
Hi Alex, Yesterday, I left a message for you in Talk:Plastic mulch. Regards, Recycledagplastic 16:02, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
Don't forget to use the "preloaded debate" link when nominating article for deletion. yandman 10:22, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
Hi Alex, thanks for your comments with respect to the page of "Ecological sanitation". The sector program ecosan from gtz, Germany, is promoting Ecological Sanitation as an holistic approach to find sustainable solutions in water / wastewater management questions, especially with respect to development cooperation. We already provide plenty of information related to the topic "Ecological sanitation" aiming at knowledge management on our website (www.gtz.de/ecosan). In order to spread the knowledge about ecosan we will improve and expand the wikipedia-site on "Ecological sanitation", of course including the necessary references. With respect to interwikilinks, I will check again the pages for revelance but do to the fact that the field of ecological sanitation is quite large most of the links are reasonable. Kind regards, GTZ-ecosan GTZ-44-ecosan 19:42, 02 January 2007 (UTC)
I read your comments that you left on my talk page. I strongly agree what you said on
it is far more important to cite scientific sources than a lot of the online crap that is available
Currently I am using Wikipedia:Assume good faith and Wikipedia:Ignore all rules to get around the roadblock of not having citations. Right now I am digging for my high school's agenda for some unusual types of citations like maps and audio recording but so far not much luck on finding my agenda. I'll let you know and give you those citation formats when I can find my agenda back. OhanaUnited 02:32, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
Talk:Biofuel#Biogas. Entry added. -- Tunheim 11:06, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
Hi Alex, we are not sure that seconds shops are examples of reverse logistics. Please can you elaborate on the reason(s) that they may considered as such.
cheers em
Hi Vortexrealm,
This is Singkong2005, now calling myself Chriwaterguy. I've been active at Appropedia recently, and would appreciate it if you had a look at Appropedia:Choosing water supply and purification methods and considered contributing to it. Thanks. -- Chriswaterguy talk 09:27, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
I created a basic stub for this guy. It needs a lot of work though. Majorly (o rly?) 11:11, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
Hi! Over the past couple of months I've been spending much more time than I should developing the
Energy portal, and intend asking for a
portal peer review within the next day or so.
The portal provides a showcase for energy-related articles on Wikipedia. One of the most prominent ways is via a the
selected article that is currently changed every 6 weeks or so. It would be good to increase this turnover, and with three Wikiprojects dedicated to energy-related topics and a good number of articles already written, I'd like to suggest that members of each Wikiproject might like to use the 'selected article' to feature some of their best work.
With this in mind, I'd like to suggest that your Wikiproject bypasses the normal
selected article nomination page and decides collectively which articles are worth featuring - or these may be self-evident from previous discussions (or from
here) - and add short 'introduction' to the selected article at the appropriate place on page
Portal:Energy/Selected article/Drafts, which includes further information. Your personal involvement would be welcome!
Please make any comments on your Wikiproject talk page,
my talk page, or on
Portal talk:Energy/Selected article/Drafts, as appropriate.
Gralo
15:53, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
I have created a barnstar for Wikipedia:WikiProject Environment. Please visit the talk page to vote for the barnstar since there are no votes for 2 months. OhanaUnited 03:01, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
Do you think WikiProject Environment should start working on assessment scale? It would be better to do now than wait for backlog to accmuluate. OhanaUnited 07:00, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
Sorry, which article are you referring to? I've been editing the uncategorized pages in alphabetical order for the past few days but I can't recall coming across any ERM article. Resurgent insurgent 23:37, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
Hmm... now I remember - Environmental Resources Management. It read like an advertisement and if you can re-write it in a way that cites sources, is neutral in tone and satisfies the notability guidelines, by all means do so. Resurgent insurgent 23:39, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
Alex, I would very much appreciate your visiting Talk:Pollution control and commenting on my proposal to merge Pollution control into the existing Pollution article.
Pollution control has one brief paragraph of lead-in, a number of section headers and a multitude of internal Wiki links ... but no real content of any kind. I tried to get it deleted but an administrator decided that a bunch of clean-up tags would be better. In effect, he is simply trying to persuade people to take an empty shell and write another article. In my opinion, the Pollution control shell or stub is completely useless and unneeded since we have so many other articles such as Pollution, Air pollution, Water pollution and many, many solid waste articles. Wiki also has Category:Pollution, Category:Air pollution, and Category:Water pollution. Another article is just not needed.
Therefore, I proposed to merge Pollution control into the existing Pollution article.
Sorry to be so long-winded. Please add your comments. - mbeychok 02:03, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
See User talk:Anthony Appleyard#Incineration external links. Anthony Appleyard 18:04, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
Could I please get your input at Appropedia:Water recycling#Recycled water for domestic use? I imagine you know something about the European context.
btw have you seen Appropedia:Biogas and Appropedia:Biofuels? Cheers -- Chriswaterguy talk 09:56, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
You wrote:
Removed so that I can keep track who received the award. OhanaUnited 15:50, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
Hi, sorry for the late response. I think I know why the image was listed (originally) as a copyvio. It looks from the description that Arrow Ecology is the source of this image, and there was no proof that they released it under the CC license. To be really nitpicky, did your friend released this image under the CC license. Plus, did he took this image as part of his job or just for his own? Garion96 (talk) 18:49, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
Thank you for awarding me The Working Man's Barnstar. I really appreciate that someone recognizes my work. OhanaUnited 18:01, 19 April 2007 (UTC)