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Latest comment: 2 years ago by CambridgeBayWeather in topic About Wind Chill

Was in the neighborhood

Hey CBW, wanted to let you know I was just up at Hope Bay (heading back next week), which is, if my geography is correct, just across the road from you (in relative terms). Cheers, --kelapstick(bainuu) 11:52, 28 June 2021 (UTC)

kelapstick. Indeed Hope Bay Aerodrome is about 120 km SSW of here. Prior to Covid there were quite a few people from here worked at the mine. Better visiting it now than in Decemeber to February. You get warm weather, by our standards, an 24 hours of sun. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Huliva 03:47, 29 June 2021 (UTC)
The last time I was in Nunavut previous was in 2001, and it was Jan-March (Up near Arctic Bay), so dramatically different. The folks on site said they canceled all the community flights due to Covid, not sure when they will restart them. Worth noting their protocols for getting to site are excellent. I will be heading back up on Wednesday for another week, will probably be back and forth for the next few months. --kelapstick(bainuu) 11:20, 5 July 2021 (UTC)
Well it looks like it will be staying nice for the next little while so you should enjoy it. If over te next few months things open up and you land in Cambridge Bay drop into the CARS office, I might be a work. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Huliva 12:02, 5 July 2021 (UTC)

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Krishnadevaraya

Can you upgrade the protection of Krishnadevaraya from semi-protection to extended protection for a longer period due to edit warring and wp:disrupt. Thank you. Run n Fly (talk) 19:49, 4 July 2021 (UTC)

Also, move protection extended is required because of this recently. Run n Fly (talk) 19:53, 4 July 2021 (UTC)
Run n Fly. The last disruptive editing was 10 days ago. The move was in May and the disruptive editor is blocked. An increase in protection isn't warranted. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Huliva 10:49, 5 July 2021 (UTC)

Protecting a page

Hello! I am here to request that you add a semi-protection edit lock to the article List of Warriors characters because it is constantly being edited by unregistered/IP users, who do not make constructive edits, but instead add unneeded information that is poorly written. I apologize if this is the wrong place to ask for this, as this is my first time looking into getting an article semi-protected. I came to you because you are the person who semi-protected the Friday Night Funkin' article, so I figured you could be of assistance. Thanks! Blubewwy (talk) 19:16, 5 July 2021 (UTC)

Blubewwy. Here is fine. You can also try Wikipedia:Requests for page protection but that can be slow. I semi-protected it for a week. Cheers. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Huliva 10:10, 6 July 2021 (UTC)

Ah, ok. Thanks! Blubewwy (talk) 17:16, 6 July 2021 (UTC)

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I request to move Lego Monster Fighters (theme) to Lego Monster Fighters without leaving a redirect: unnecessary disambiguation. Striker2020 (talk) 07:31, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

Striker2020 Done. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Huliva 15:41, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

People's Party of Canada

You can tell an election is in the offing as this article is once again been subject to on-going politically-motivated vandalism in an effort to sanitize it. Can you please "semi-protect" it until after the expected election on 20 September? Thanks. Ahunt (talk) 16:31, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

Gone with three months}} CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Huliva 21:57, 13 August 2021 (UTC)
Super, that should do it. Thank you! - Ahunt (talk) 22:00, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

Re: New Glasgow, Nova Scotia

Good to know. Thank you for telling me that, so I can correct the fault. But it is rather unsettling that that part of NRCan's website is not using HTTPS. -- Denelson83 00:33, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

The fault can now be corrected by using {{GCNDB link|key}}, where "key" is the five-letter code for the place in question. -- Denelson83 00:41, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

New NTS map sheet template

I have put together a new provisional template at {{User:Denelson83/Canada NTS Map Link}}. It uses the Kartographer extension with GeoJSON to plot the bounds of an NTS map sheet onto a dynamic map, and it also plots the location of a given feature on the map sheet. Do you think this would be any more useful than {{Canada NTS Map Sheet}}? -- Denelson83 03:07, 19 August 2021 (UTC)

Can you give me a couple of examples? No rush as I'm just finishing up for the evening but I can check them out tomorrow. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Huliva 03:23, 19 August 2021 (UTC)
  • 92F11 - Comox Glacier (Southern zone)
  • 77D2 - Cambridge Bay (Arctic zone)
  • 120G3 - Cape Columbia (High Arctic zone)
-- Denelson83 05:42, 19 August 2021 (UTC)
That seems to work better. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Huliva 15:26, 19 August 2021 (UTC)

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PROBSFDelhi. I am not contacting you to verify anything. That's not how this works. You need to provide sources to show that the information is correct. You can't expect, nor do you really want, every reader calling you up to verify that it was correct.
As I already said the material was copied and there is no way to show that you, PROBSFDelhi, have the right to release it.
As an employee of the BSF you have a conflict of interest and should read Wikipedia:Conflict of interest. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Huliva 11:05, 11 September 2021 (UTC)

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Why did you revert my change?

Inuit isn't a synonym of Eskimo. The Eskimos are Inuits and Yupiks, so putting "Inuit" in the page of "Blonde Eskimos" is just wrong. The page was literally named "Eskimo" not "Inuit". And also if you revert, you're supposed to explain reverts. So can you explain it to me?

93.15.241.95 (talk) 16:36, 17 October 2021 (UTC)

Please read Eskimo and Inuit. The word Eskimo, imposed on Inuit by outsiders (both Europeans and First Nations living in what is now southern Canada), is a outdated term that today is considered a slur and rarely, if ever, used in Canada and is falling out of favour in Alaska as well. If you read the Blond Eskimos article you will see that Christian Klengenberg called them that because Eskimo was in common use then. However, Vilhjalmur Stefansson preferred the more correct term Copper Inuit (Inuinnait). The people would have called themselves Inuinnaq (Inuinnaqtun to English Dictionary) or Inuit but not Eskimo. The article is at Blond Eskimo because that is what most of the sources use. However, DNA tests debunk blond Inuit legend, points out that they are Inuit.
By the way Inuk is singular, Inuit is plural and Inuits is the French (Canadian anyway) language word. Over a period of time Eskimo has become very derogatory and has led people to think that the Yupik people should be called Inuit as well. They are related but not Inuit. The funny thing is that today the majority of light haired Inuit, some are really blonde, in this area are the descendants of Christian Klengenberg. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Huliva 17:58, 17 October 2021 (UTC)


Thanks for replying. So this page doesn't include Yupiks, right? Because by definition an eskimo is either an Inuit or a yupik. And honestly idk why Eskimo became derogatory. Most Native American tribe names are also exonyms but didn't become derogatory. In Russian for example it's widely used and not derogatory. I mean yeah it's a word introduced by outsiders but so is "First Nations" for the indigenous people of the Americas who live in the modern colonial state of Canada as opposed to those living in the colonial state of the USA... And honestly this makes everything harder because now there's no word for Inuits and Yupiks together (who had shared history and even genetics DNA). So the researchers who write on Eskimos, including the Inuits AND Yupiks now can't write anything at all... Although you may say that the word eskimo wasn't that accurate either because it didn't include the Aleuts who also had shared history and are part of one Eskimo Aleut language family... But that's besides the point. But please, next time, explain your changes because else someone might assume that you're just acting in bad faith and might just start an edit war. I wasn't a vandal, I just want to be accurate and to use the most precise language possible and not the most "politically correct". Including using the most common names and not just the ones who are actually used by that group, because I think it's the rules (MOS:ID etc). But I see that now "eskimo" is now not that common... But you can't always replace it with "Inuit" because it's not the same. 2A02:8440:840B:F4D0:0:1:9BF1:2801 (talk) 06:22, 18 October 2021 (UTC)

No the page does not include Yupik people just a small group of people on Victoria Island (Canada). Why shouldn't they be offended by a name that isn't theirs and was probably applied in a derogatory fashion. The point is that First Nations, which is specifically for one group of Indigenous peoples in Canada, is accepted by them and they don't want to be called Indian and there are worse names given to them by the Inuit. The Innu don't like being called Montagnais, even though Slavey is used here, many don't like it. No more than you would like being called George if your name was William. Dropping the use of Eskimo doesn't make things harder but more precise. You can use Inuit-Yupik or Inuit-Yupik-Aluet and people know who you mean. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Huliva 18:10, 19 October 2021 (UTC)

Happy Adminship Anniversary!

page: precipitation

Hi,

I want to inform you that i restore my version in the wikipage precipitation. For clarification: Just look at fig. 2 in cited paper (https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2018GL080298). There are no weather station in Africa or South America.

kindly regards, Rousseauumo — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rousseauumo (talkcontribs) 19:34, 26 October 2021 (UTC)

Circumpolar peoples

Hi Cambridge. I am asking you this here as I feel we are dangerously close to a small amount of progress on the Eskimo page and I don't want to open a can of worms. It may not sound like it, but I am seeking to be educated. The definition of Slur I find at List of ethnic slurs and basic internet searches is something said with the intent of being disparaging. In short sheep shaggier is a slur and CIS gender is a neutral descriptor some people get upset being called. I put Eskimo in the second box, all be it with far more sympathy for the offended. You put Eskimo in the slur box can you help me see that. Dushan Jugum (talk) 02:54, 27 October 2021 (UTC)

Got reading your talk page above and it answered a lot, I shale leave this here for your entertainment?Dushan Jugum (talk) 03:03, 27 October 2021 (UTC)
Dushan Jugum. I think it ranges from what some people think is a slur to mildly derogatory to some people just not bothered. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Huliva 21:49, 27 October 2021 (UTC)
Yes it occurred to me that one can only plead ignorance for so long, before you are intending to be disparaging. Dushan Jugum (talk) 22:07, 27 October 2021 (UTC)

Election

Wikipedia has never, ever had a consensus that we have to wait until MLAs or MPs are sworn in before we're allowed to start their articles.

For one thing, with rare exceptions the formal swearing in of newly elected MPs or MLAs is usually not reported as any sort of news story at all, meaning that there's usually no way for us to determine the exact date on which it happens — and even on the rare occasion when we actually can source an exact swearing-in date, we can't justify treating those few people differently than all the others for whom we can't. And for another thing, while it's true that new MLAs or MPs have to be sworn in before the new session of the legislature can actually meet, it's not true that they have to be sworn in before they can be called an MLA or MP. The practice here has always been that the new articles start happening literally within a few hours of the election night declarations: in every Canadian federal, provincial or territorial election that has ever happened during the entire existence of Wikipedia, there has never, ever been a single one in which the creation of new articles was postponed beyond the morning after election day at the latest.

And we don't even have a consensus that we have to wait on the results of a recount, either — we've had several instances (even one in the federal election just a month ago) where the new article was started about a new MP the moment the riding was called, and then had to be deleted a couple of weeks later when a recount flipped the victory back to the prior incumbent. In the event that happens, then we can cross that bridge when we get there — but we have never had a consensus that we have to delay starting the article about a reported election winner whose victory is subject to a recount past the time frame in which we're starting the articles about the ones whose victories were more unequivocal. The rule has always been that the article about the declared victor can be started right away, and in the event that a recount reverses the result (which has never really been as common as recounts upholding the existing result) then we deal with the changed circumstances as needed.

But I didn't "jump the gun" on any of this, I simply followed the standard practice that Wikipedia has always followed in all Canadian elections. Bearcat (talk) 13:27, 28 October 2021 (UTC)

Where did you get the idea that I was talking about starting an article? That's not what I said. I'm saying that Wikipedia should not be declaring the results of the election until it is official. Of course an article can be started before the results are official. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Huliva 14:23, 28 October 2021 (UTC)
There's no separation between "starting the article" and "declaring the results" in a Wikipedia context — there's no way to start the article without "declaring the results", and there's no separate process to "declare the results" independently of starting the article, so it's impossible to somehow do one without simultaneously doing the other. There's no hair on which to split the difference between what you thought you meant and what I thought I heard, because in a Wikipedia context starting the article and "declaring the results" are one and the same.
It's also not standard practice to keep the retiring or defeated MLAs in the navbox past the end of the election results, either. The non-returning MLAs are not still "current" MLAs as of today; there's disagreement about whether a Canadian legislator who isn't returned on election day saw their term end on election day itself or on the date of the writ drop that commenced the election, but there's simply no such thing as a non-returning MP or MLA still being deemed as the "incumbent" MLA days or weeks beyond election day. There has never, ever been a practice on Canadian legislative navboxes of applying a temporary special format in the days after the election, in which the members of both the outgoing and incoming legislatures are listed as two separate lines and then the outgoing people are only removed several weeks after the election — and no, there's never even been any special Nunavut-specific exception from the standard process everywhere else either. The standard practice for Canadian legislatures has always been that as soon as the election results are in and the articles about the newly elected MPs/MLAs are getting started, the navbox gets updated to the new session's membership immediately. Bearcat (talk) 13:45, 30 October 2021 (UTC)
Just because the government's website hasn't been updated yet doesn't constitute inherent proof that the non-returning MLAs are still "current incumbents" as of almost a week after the election. Updating the government websites takes time, and the process isn't necessarily completed there as quickly as it can be here. Even new federal MPs don't instantly have their new MP profiles uploaded to Parliament's website instantly on election night — for starters, their profiles have to be written before they can be uploaded, and for another thing, government websites have much more complicated content management systems than Wikipedia does, and fewer people to do the work than we do, so the process simply takes longer for them to complete. But that doesn't mean that outgoing MPs are somehow still incumbent MPs past election day just because the government's website hasn't been updated yet — if you want to prove that non-returning MLAs are still considered "incumbents" after election day, then you need to show me a source which features a full and precise post-October 25 month, day and year date for the end of their term, and the fact that the government's undated list of current members hasn't been updated yet just doesn't prove anything in and of itself.
Also, the question of who is or isn't premier is completely independent of the question of who are or aren't the MLAs — those are two different issues that don't have to match each other. Officers of the legislature (prime ministers, premiers, cabinet members) do still hold those titles in a caretaker capacity during the transition period from one government to a new one, regardless of whether they're legally still MPs/MLAs or not — but simple members of the legislature who don't hold officer titles aren't treated the same way. There isn't even any rule that a prime minister, premier or cabinet member in Canada inherently has to be an MP or MLA at all, so there's simply no conflict between "not an MP/MLA anymore as of October 25" and "still a prime minister, premier or cabinet member for another few weeks" — an MP/MLA can cease to be an MP/MLA on election day while still being a cabinet member for another few weeks after their term as an MP/MLA has ended; a defeated premier or prime minister (e.g. Stephen Harper in 2015) does still hold the first minister's role until his successor has been formally sworn in even if the new MPs are already considered MPs and the old ones aren't anymore; and on and so forth.
As I noted before, the problem with using "swearing-in" date as the start date of new MPs/MLAs terms is that for the vast majority of Canadian legislators the exact swearing-in date is impossible to source — the entire legislature is not necessarily sworn in all at once on the same day, and each individual legislator's swearing-in does not get reported as news, and even the government websites themselves don't make any effort to document each individual legislator's personal swearing-in date for posterity either. So for most Canadian legislators, there are only two things it's possible for us to do: either we use election day itself, or we just document the terms by year only and rip any mention of months or days out of their infoboxes entirely, because the election day is the only sourceable date that exists. And just because you might be able to source an exact swearing-in date for Nunavut's MLAs in particular doesn't mean we can treat Nunavut's MLAs differently than we treat everybody else — the rule cannot be that we use election day for federal MPs and 750 of Canada's 772 provincial MLAs while using a later swearing-in date only for Nunavut's MLAs. We have to have a consistent practice across the board, which means either we use the election date for all of Canada's 14 federal, provincial or territorial legislatures, or we strip month and day and use only the year for all of Canada's 14 federal, provincial or territorial legislatures. Swearing-in date is simply not available as an option, because for the vast majority of Canadian legislators we have no way to locate that information at all, and the very few people for whom we can locate it can't be treated differently than the overwhelming majority for whom we can't. Bearcat (talk) 15:22, 30 October 2021 (UTC)

Correcting the birthday of Bruce Rockowitz

Hi, The birthday for bruce rockowitz is incorrect. Please change to 1st of November 1958. Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tedmunds97 (talkcontribs) 12:37, 2021 October 31 (UTC)

Tedmunds97. You need a source that show the 1 November date. Currently the source says 24 October. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Huliva 12:41, 31 October 2021 (UTC)

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Eskimo

I like your idea of turning the Eskimo page into a term page for the word as we have "main" articles for all the circumpolar peoples. Looking at others that are lighter in tone then Negro or Ching chong... like Chukhna or perhaps even lighter tone like Bule it seems possible. We would need a large explanation of current use and those that accepted/embrace the term. Let's see what happens with the lead rfc come back to this in a few months.Moxy-  05:06, 8 November 2021 (UTC)

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Thanks for noticing my work on Inuit navigation. In the map section 'vegetable' was a poor choice, which I have changed to 'plant' and added sources of plant dye and references. Berries arn't vegetables but still in the edible section. The south and central Pacific Ocean are my usual areas of interest. I have recently done work on Polynesian navigation and added Micronesian navigation. I will leave it to others to expand Inuit navigation (MozzazzoM (talk) 11:34, 2 December 2021 (UTC))

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County-inator SPI forthcoming

I am crafting a sockpuppet investigation for the 2601.3D09.E110-series IP-hopper that we spoke about at Talk:List of regions of Nunavut#Centre or seat as a result of continued disruptive persistence on misapplication of the county concept and seats throughout Canada. Most recently the administrative office locations of nearly every BC regional district article were referred to as seats. In June, I started a similar SPI but it was cancelled as I filed it on an IP redirect. I had pinged you on that as an involved editor at that time but you did not comment before it was cancelled. Any feedback for me on the previous SPI attempt before I finish off and submit my current SPI prep effort? Cheers, Hwy43 (talk) 08:24, 27 December 2021 (UTC)

SPI initiated at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Canadiancounties. I know you are an admin that is involved with this sock so you can't weigh in from the admin perspective but you are affected in the editor capacity. Not sure if that allows you to comment as an other user. Cheers, Hwy43 (talk) 22:50, 27 December 2021 (UTC)
Hwy43 I looked through everything. I think the best thing would be to ask at WP:ANI or WP:AN for a range block. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Huliva 23:31, 28 December 2021 (UTC)
Thanks. I will do this after the SPI runs its course. As the one registered editor subject to the SPI has a website posted to his user page, I had collected a bunch of evidence through web searches that support a strong connection between him and the modus operandi of the IPs, but I got spooked about WP:OUTING. In fact, I am glad I noticed the warning about outing before saving my report or I may have brought on unexpected trouble for myself. Do you happen to know if I can WP:CONTACTCU to submit that evidence so that privacy of the individual is protected? Cheers, Hwy43 (talk) 00:25, 29 December 2021 (UTC)
Hwy43. I think you can but you might be best asking one first. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Huliva 08:04, 29 December 2021 (UTC)
I will, and I just started an ANI too. See it at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents. I haven't implicated the one registered editor in the ANI and won't unless the SPI concludes socking. The registered editor is either truly not linked and simply shares the same interests or is the IP's Dr. Jeckyll (hope the former). Hwy43 (talk) 01:54, 31 December 2021 (UTC)

Reindeer bulls and cows

I notice the IP has removed all (but one) mention of bulls and cows. Since that's what they are commonly called, I think they went too far. What's your opinion?

Even before I learned this, when hunting them in Greenland, I noticed how their behavior and nose were so reminiscent of cows. They're very curious, and I've had them approach as close as 4-5 meters. I'm not sure how widespread this is or if more species (than the Barren Ground in west Greenland) have this, but at least one I shot had a bare, flat, wet nose, just like a cow. -- Valjean (talk) 17:53, 30 December 2021 (UTC)

I thought it a bit odd but I wasn't sure how common that was for reindeer compared to caribou. I think that the article could do with changing "caribou" to reindeer for consistency. Caribou would appear in the lead as an alternate name and in quotes and the names of particular herds. They are curious here as well and tend to approach. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Huliva 07:13, 31 December 2021 (UTC)
What about the bulls and cows matter? -- Valjean (talk) 07:48, 31 December 2021 (UTC)
It could be restored if that is the common term. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Huliva 08:21, 31 December 2021 (UTC)
It's used enough in scholarly and other sources to be worth adopting here. I'm going to do it in most instances, although not necessarily in all. -- Valjean (talk) 21:51, 31 December 2021 (UTC)
Sounds good. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Huliva 20:06, 1 January 2022 (UTC)

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Alberg 30 once again

Happy New Year. Hope you have some daylight there!

Sorry to trouble you again. You previously protected this article, as it was the target of long term, persistent IP vandalism. Since the protection ended the vandalism has returned and remains extremely persistent. The previous use of "pending changes" did not slow things down and created more work constantly denying them. Would it be possible to just indefinitely "semi-protect" it to prevent IP editing? I believe the tenacity of the vandalism warrants this approach. Thank you for your consideration of the issue. - Ahunt (talk) 02:35, 9 January 2022 (UTC)

Gone for 3 months. You should probably start the talk page discussion. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Huliva 18:34, 9 January 2022 (UTC)
Thanks. Not sure how you discuss flagrant vandalism. - Ahunt (talk) 18:35, 9 January 2022 (UTC)
Just explain why it's a problem. They may never respond but you made the effort. Like Talk:List of regions of the Northwest Territories#Regional office or seat. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Huliva 18:52, 9 January 2022 (UTC)
Okay, will do. Thanks for all your help on this. - Ahunt (talk) 18:57, 9 January 2022 (UTC)
  Done - Ahunt (talk) 19:16, 9 January 2022 (UTC)

History merge request

Hi CBW, I hear from Synoman Barris that an administrator can do history merges of article builds done in a sandbox into the actual articles. Do you have the know-how and willingness to do the following?

Cheers, Hwy43 (talk) 06:36, 13 January 2022 (UTC)

Hwy43. Sure. I've done the first. You will need to go over them to set the most current version. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Huliva 06:47, 13 January 2022 (UTC)
Thanks. I have no idea what "to set the most current version" means! Cheers, Hwy43 (talk) 07:04, 13 January 2022 (UTC)
I also moved some (Goobies, Green Island Brook, Green's Harbour, Hopeall and South Dildo) to the undisambiguated titles. I just meant as to which is the correct version. See here. Cheers. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Huliva 07:16, 13 January 2022 (UTC)
Got it, and good work on the undisambiguation moves as well. Hwy43 (talk) 07:24, 13 January 2022 (UTC)

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Wandal, Vijayapura

Can you remember why you WP:BLARed Wandal, Vijayapura in November 2018? That link is called in two articles, Basavana Bagewadi and Vijayapura district. There are three places in Karnataka on DAB page Wandal, and this looks different from any of them. It looks to me as if the blanked article should be reinstated, and added to the DAB page.

(The problem has only just come to light because you redirected Wandal, Vijayapura to Wandal, Karnataka; which was then the title of Wandal, Nidagundi, but following a recent move has been redirected to the DAB page (and quite right too, there's no WP:PTOPIC).) Narky Blert (alt) (talk) 15:45, 11 February 2022 (UTC)

I'm not really sure but I think at the time Wandal, Vijayapura and Wandal, Karnataka were identical articles. See User talk:HARISH S Kalagi and Wandal, Nidagundi history. I'm not seeing a lot of difference between the current Wandal, Nidagundi and Wandal, Vijayapura as it was in 2018. So I'm not sure that it should be restored. Am I missing something? CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Huliva 16:31, 11 February 2022 (UTC)
The coordinates are identical. One major difference is the taluka the V and N places are said to be in - Basavana Bagewadi and Nidagundi respectively. I'd seen that TP, with its redlinks to two deleted articles with misplaced commas. It seems best to retarget Wandal, Vijayapura to Wandal, Nidagundi; and I've done so. Let me know if you disagree. Narky Blert (alt) (talk) 17:26, 14 February 2022 (UTC)
No problem. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Huliva 19:48, 16 February 2022 (UTC)

Miss Teen Earth

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About Wind Chill

I just saw you modify the value of the wind chill in some urban climate data, and the value was changed from a decimal to an integer. That's because the English version of the Environment Canada website shows differently in French.

The French version retains a decimal place[1], while the English version is an integer[2]. Albert Tachibaña (talk) 14:01, 26 February 2022 (UTC)

Also the French name of wind chill is "Refroidissement éolien". Albert Tachibaña (talk) 14:08, 26 February 2022 (UTC)
Albert Tachibaña. That's odd but usable. The source would need to be added to each article that used wind chills with decimal places. Currently the decimal place is unsourced. See here. Cheers. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Huliva 14:16, 26 February 2022 (UTC)

References

CambridgeBayWeather In addition, some of the unwanted weatherbox pages you mentioned should be abolished if they are only used for one page. I'm writing an article on Hokkaido's climate though, see Draft:Climate of Hokkaido. Please ask you below, are you interested in the geography of Japan, especially the climate, thank you! Albert Tachibaña (talk) 14:38, 26 February 2022 (UTC)
Albert Tachibaña. I have no intention of tagging the templates for deletion. I saw you were busy with editing Japanese articles and you need time to add them to different things. I recently created some for Alberta, Canada and they are used in the city and Geography of Alberta. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Huliva 14:48, 26 February 2022 (UTC)