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Good job!

		The Template Barnstar
		For your innovations of Template:Infobox power station, here is a barnstar of appreciation.--NortyNort (Holla) 01:36, 18 October 2010 (UTC)

Thank you NortyNort ;) Rehman⁽⁺⁾ 09:46, 18 October 2010 (UTC)

Your welcome. It may need a few more tweaks but I like the new design (and map) a lot.--NortyNort (Holla) 12:02, 18 October 2010 (UTC)

Rehman⁽⁺⁾ 13:02, 18 October 2010 (UTC)

Re: Infobox

Hi Rehman, sorry, I don't feel comfortable performing that task. Ask on Wikipedia:Village pump (technical) or use the {{editprotected}} template. Graham87 07:51, 30 October 2010 (UTC)

Hi Graham. No problem ;) Thanks. Rehman⁽⁺⁾ 07:52, 30 October 2010 (UTC)

List of hydroelectric power stations in Albania

The reference to Fier Power Plant, the entry seems to be in error as the Wiki clickable link clearly shows it to be a Thermal Steam, sub-bitumous plant of 6 X 31 MW Units.

I disagree in general with the re-arranging of lists by 'size of plant' its fine to have a list of the larger ones, however "Bigger is not always - Better!" indeed some of the small older historic plants are the more interesting.

Likewise I would prefer to see the second column more specific e.g. Los Reyunos PSP 2 X 175 / 182 MW Reversible Francis 1978. Ref: 'Water Power & Dam Construction' 12/1990.

Regarding 'Flags' it may be better to put in 'sub-headers' (you could still keep the flag - )doing away with that third column 'country' and using that column for location. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Shunterdownunder (talk • contribs) 01:14, 6 November 2010 (UTC)

Hi. I don't know what you are talking about. I could not find anything on "hydro" or "flags" in the articles you mentioned; Fier Power Plant. I would be glad to fix anything, but I don't see what I should do... Rehman⁽⁺⁾ 02:10, 6 November 2010 (UTC)

List of largest power stations in the world

Hello Rehman - Surprised to find your Wikipedia largest power plant page without any mention of the Power Plants Around the World Top 100 pages at www.industcards.com. This listing has been going for years and is updated quarterly. Regards Powerplantman (talk) 14:53, 6 November 2010 (UTC)

Hi, Powerplantman. I find the site you mentioned very useful, and it is definetely used as multiple references on the above article. But of course, we cannot mention about the website on that page per WP:NOTLINK. Kind regards. Rehman 15:10, 6 November 2010 (UTC)

Template:Infobox power station - Reactors and power ratings revert

The problem is obvious with eg. Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant. If the changes are not made the two labels for Decommissioned are identical and the MW data is lost in confusion. Even worse is like Paks_Nuclear_Power_Plant - that seems to say 1,970 reactors are operational! Unless you have a big plan to change the works this is a no-brainer. Suggest if you are going that route need to get someone onboard who can run macros over the (tens-hundreds) of NPP links. Corella (talk) 14:02, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

Hi Corella. Reason I revert that is because you have changed the "depreciated" parameters; parameters which are no longer supposed to be used, and parameters that are currently being replaced newer parameters, by bot. It would be more reasonable to update those articles with the updated templates found at template:infobox power station. Do let me know of any issues. Kind regards. Rehman 14:08, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

OK so there will be a bot s/r fix to migrate the data. At the moment though there is a bad situation - the numbers are screwy and missing on dozens of pages - anyways I will monitor. The other thing to consider doing for now is simply blanking the screwy data in the template rather than leaving it showing up under vague labels like "Reactors Decom." Corella (talk) 14:23, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

Oh man, that seems like a serious mistake in recent bot update. If I'm not mistaken, the contents of the old r_active_mw should go into installed_capacity instead of reactors_operate_mw right? Rehman 14:36, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

I don't know about bot, was just fixing at template level. But yeah that would seem to be the right place. Corella (talk) 14:49, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

I understand. I'll be off now, will be back tomorrow. Thanks for pointing this out. Kind regards. Rehman 14:52, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

Okay, is it just that one? If so, I can have the bot fix it. I will be off for about four hours, but can look at it soon. Plastikspork _―Œ^(talk) 14:55, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

Decommissioned, Under Construction, Planned, Cancelled. Also [1] might help - the ones I changed to say "[C|c]apacity" are in MW. [EDIT] Started looking at bot edits and its not as simple as that. Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant shows there are problems with Decommissioned. Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant shows discrepancies (ie. not the nice (NumberxUnitMW) like the others) for Cancelled but the result is legible. [EDIT2] Planned and Under Construction broke at eg. Sanmen Nuclear Power Plant. Corella (talk) 15:08 and later, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

Okay, I need to figure out which problems should be resolved by my bot, and which should be resolved within the template. I basically took the translation list provided at Template talk:Infobox power station, and had my bot perform the transformations. Now, if those translated fields aren't being correctly handled by the template, then we can fix that within the template. If it is a problem with incorrect translation to the wrong parameters, I need to correct that in each article. I am going to continue this thread on the talk page. Thanks! Plastikspork _―Œ^(talk) 20:40, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

Template:Infobox Stausee

Hi Rehman. I've responded to the AFD proposal. You have done a lot of hard work in replacing the template, which I appreciate and is entirely the right way to go. However, "Infobox Stausee" is a valuable translators' tool for the reasons I have explained at AFD. Importing articles from German Wikipedia is a two-step process. Step 1: translate article, leaving "Infobox Stausee" to sweep up the infobox data. Step 2: Replace the infobox. Step 1 is the translator's job. Step 2 is for any reasonably savvy Wikipedian. So I don't oppose your efforts, just would like to retain "Infobox Stausee" to aid Step 1, although I have suggested a modification that may be beneficial. Can we work on this jointly? Warm regards. --Bermicourt (talk) 17:30, 12 November 2010 (UTC)

Hi Bermicourt. Thanks for this friendly message. I will respond on the facts at TFD. Kind regards. Rehman 01:16, 13 November 2010 (UTC)

Bermicourt found a template on en.wikipedia that automatically translates templates from other language Wikipedias. His part of the discussion is here on my talk page. My responses are on his. With your experience, I wonder if we could do this for Infobox dam? I recognized some of the coding but not all of it. I'd appreciate it if you'd look at it. Thanks.--NortyNort (Holla) 12:27, 3 March 2011 (UTC)

I love that shimming thing, never actually heard of that trick before, but it sure worked marvellously! (the wikitext you see was automatically converted to preset English translations upon saving this non-English template). I agree it would be quite helpful if we could embed such a function to the dam infobox.

Currently have some connection issues over here, so can't stay online as usual. Will copy the templates to my PC and work offline (I recognize the coding), will keep updating whenever I can, but it may take some time.

On a side note, since {{Infobox Burg}} fully works for {{Infobox military structure}}, it is really better off at {{Infobox military structure/Burg}}. Anyways, will look into that later. See you around! Rehman 14:45, 3 March 2011 (UTC)

Thanks a lot Rehman, such a template would be very helpful. I think we can add other languages to it in the future as well.--NortyNort (Holla) 22:11, 3 March 2011 (UTC)

Okay, did a little something here. Just need to test it: Substitute it with a direct copy of an infobox from de.wiki. Will try testing myself too when I get the time. Let me know of any issues. :) Kind regards. Rehman 08:01, 4 March 2011 (UTC)

I tested it in my sandbox and for the most part it pulled over what was the same. The image (data) came over a little weird but I don't see why. Infboxbox stausee is a little different too, it has one field for construction period among others. Also, "Bauwerksvolumen" translates in Google to "Memory space" which I believe is structural volume or "volume" in infobox dam. I am going to add fields to Infobox dam for active and inactive storage as well which Stausee has and is also important I think.--NortyNort (Holla) 02:40, 5 March 2011 (UTC)

Those dam issues

Hey, I think a bot can make all of the lowercase "d"s in the Infobox dam parameter instead of you having to muscle through them. Also, I saw some of the recent changes you made to the dam infobox and I don't think a separate header for dam isn't entirely necessary. The infobox is about a dam after all and while your edits separate out some good info, having owners, developers, commission date in a general area may be misleading. Often different companies design the power plant and dam. Also, dam's more commonly have dedication dates rather than commissioning dates. That is usually for their power plants. I liked how it was before where the dam info was in the generally area which the reservoir and power plant cascading below it. I am not sure how other editors feel and can post these comments on the Infobox dam talk page too.--NortyNort (Holla) 05:46, 14 November 2010 (UTC)

Hi. The lowercase "d" edits was when I was on a PC where the keyboard was not that good, and I wanted to remove the links to that redirect for some time, while I also don't want to disturb anyone with putting up another bot. So, with all the addons on my Firefox set, it created a good recipe for a relinking spree ;) Those edits were sort of automated with some firefox addons, I hope I didn't mess any article up, did I?

Coming to the template, I added the "owners", "developers", etc, to reflect the lead section contents of the power station infobox, which (I now realize after your post) is a really bad bad move, as a large percentage of dams is not necessarily linked to a power station; I will revert/fix it shortly. Regarding the dam section, I think its a bit neater, but its a good idea to start a discussion at the infobox.

Please feel free to let my know if any of my edits are wrongful, I will fix/revert it immediately without hassle. Kind regards. Rehman 08:23, 14 November 2010 (UTC)

Update: Did the changes, feel free let me know of any further issues. Rehman 08:25, 14 November 2010 (UTC)

Hey, thanks. Looked like a nice re-linking spree. I will check out the infobox dam discussion in the next few days. Been real busy as of late...--NortyNort (Holla) 12:47, 15 November 2010 (UTC)

No problem. :) See you around. Kind regards. Rehman 14:49, 15 November 2010 (UTC)

Redirects

Would it be possible for you to hold off on the CSD for a couple weeks? I will be happy to delete them once I have finished reviewing my bots edits. Thanks! Plastikspork _―Œ^(talk) 02:53, 17 November 2010 (UTC)

 Done, kind regards. Rehman 03:01, 17 November 2010 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Hundred-Year Starship

Hello! Your submission of Hundred-Year Starship at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and there still are some issues that may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Wasted Time R (talk) 03:25, 24 November 2010 (UTC)

No problem, will do. Rehman 09:04, 24 November 2010 (UTC)

File:Aplt.JPG listed for deletion

Sorry for the nonsense. I used to vandalize wikipedia when i was a very new user. Later, i learned about Wikipedia and corrected myself. After that, i totally forgot about that spam file. Thank you for spotting it for me. --Anirudh Emani (talk) 15:23, 25 November 2010 (UTC)

Barnstar

	The Working Man's Barnstar
	For your tireless contributions to improve power stations-releted templates and articles, I award to you this barnstar. Beagel (talk) 14:54, 27 November 2010 (UTC)

Thank you very much Beagel :) Rehman 02:00, 28 November 2010 (UTC)

DYK for List of largest power stations in the world

Materialscientist (talk) 00:02, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

Hi

No need to say sorry! I say that as someone who rollbacked himself once by accident :) Regards Hekerui (talk) 14:33, 3 December 2010 (UTC)

Rehman 14:35, 3 December 2010 (UTC)

Infobox economy template

Since you done the merge, you should really finish it off and close the topic on Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2010 December 3. The instructions are here. -- WOSlinker (talk) 12:28, 4 December 2010 (UTC)

Hi. I wouldn't mind doing that, but to close, we need to first delete {{Template:Infobox economy 1}}, right (I am not an admin)? Rehman 12:30, 4 December 2010 (UTC)

It only needs an admin to close if there is a need to delete something, but since you've done a redirect, there is no real need to do a delete. I could do that delete though if you want after you've closed it. -- WOSlinker (talk) 13:17, 4 December 2010 (UTC)

Done, closed. I think deleting that is better, as it is not a useful redirect, and as it is unused. May confuse new editors by showing up in searches. Rehman 13:22, 4 December 2010 (UTC)

Smile

By the way, thank you for the smile and the comment. I appreciate it. :) − Jhenderson ⁷⁷⁷ 20:20, 5 December 2010 (UTC)

No problem :) Rehman 00:44, 6 December 2010 (UTC)

Barrage

Looking through the links, it seems that the miltary usage of barrage is the most common. I have created another article for barrage dams and reverted Barrage as a disambiguation page. Ng.j (talk) 09:22, 7 December 2010 (UTC)

Looks ok to me :) I did some fixes here and there. Kind regards. Rehman 09:35, 7 December 2010 (UTC)

I saw that, much appreciated. Good collaborating with you. Ng.j (talk) 09:43, 7 December 2010 (UTC)

Rehman 10:04, 7 December 2010 (UTC)

Barnstar for you

		The Excellent Userpage Award
		Congratulations on a very informative and beautifully presented user page! Johnfos (talk) 00:14, 8 December 2010 (UTC)

Thank you very much John! Rehman 01:47, 8 December 2010 (UTC)

Renewable energy task force

Please see Portal talk:Renewable energy#Task force ?... Johnfos (talk) 19:06, 18 December 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the notice, I will look into it. Rehman 02:38, 19 December 2010 (UTC)

Your editor review

Hello. In case you haven't noticed yet, I just want to inform you that I've commented on your editor review. An important thing to do is to listen to the criticism the opposers gave you in your two RFAs. HeyMid (contribs) 16:29, 20 December 2010 (UTC)

Hi, Heymid. Yes I noticed that review; thank you! :). Since the past two RFAs, and direct discussions with administrators, I have drastically changed my pattern and areas of contribution. I believe that I have achieved the key requirements and that my behaviour for the past years have gained sufficient community trust for administratorship. Reason why I am asking for this is that I cannot offer my full potential without the tools that the admin flag offers, hence I eagerly wait till someone shows me the green light. Thanks again for the review! Kind regards. Rehman 02:05, 21 December 2010 (UTC)

Userspace title

Hey this is a personal question about your userspace. What do you use to customize your name title. I used a override template but I noticed whatever you did is so much better. ;) − Jhenderson ⁷⁷⁷ 01:10, 26 December 2010 (UTC)

Hey, Jhenderson. To change my userpage title, I use {{DISPLAYTITLE}}, a MediaWiki Magic Word. My userpage {{DISPLAYTITLE}} code is <span style="color:darkblue; font-family:Tahoma; font-variant:small-caps"><span style="display:none;">User:</span>'''Reh</span><span style="color:green; font-family:Tahoma;">man</span>'''</span>, feel free to tweak and use ;) Hope this helps. Feel free to ask if you need help. Kind regards. Rehman 04:06, 26 December 2010 (UTC)

Thank you! − Jhenderson ⁷⁷⁷ 19:26, 26 December 2010 (UTC)

No problem. Wish you a great new year ahead! ;) Rehman 02:49, 27 December 2010 (UTC)

WikiProject Sociology membership

You are listed in the Category:Wikipedians interested in sociology, probably due to the use of "This user is interested in sociology" userbox, but you have not added yourself to our official member list for WikiProject Sociology. This prevents you from, among other things, receiving our sociology newsletter, as that member list acts as our newsletter mailing list (you can find the latest issue of our sociology newsletter here). If you'd like to receive the newsletter and help us figure out how many members we really have, please consider joining our WikiProject and adding yourself to our official member list. Thank you, --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk} 13:18, 26 December 2010 (UTC)

Thanks! I will look into this. Warm regards. Rehman 02:52, 27 December 2010 (UTC)

Help!

I think I made a mistake with Infobox Power Station. I made two edits and now part of the generation information doesn't show up articles like Tianhuangping Pumped Storage Power Station. The coding is new to me, is there any way you can fix it? Thanks.--NortyNort (Holla) 08:41, 4 January 2011 (UTC)

Hi. I will look into it now, sorry for the delay... Rehman 09:24, 4 January 2011 (UTC)

Fixed. Your coding is mostly done right, just mistakes such as confusing l (L) with 1 (one), and some mis-numbering, mistakes that I made too. :) Kind regards. Rehman 09:48, 4 January 2011 (UTC)

Thanks! I was about to revert em' back til I saw you fixed it.--NortyNort (Holla) 10:14, 4 January 2011 (UTC)

Badges

hello.I had 1 question from u.how do people add the animation badges on their page? like the one in [here http://fa.wiki.x.io/wiki/%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A8%D8%B1:Abbas_Elph] ? he has a badge:fa-4 and en-2 on his page.how did he add that?please help me.i'm new here. thanx in advance.jasmine 21:52, 7 January 2011 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jasminenoroozi (talk • contribs)

Hi Jasmine. Those are called babel templates. On the English Wikipedia, you may find how to use those at Wikipedia:Babel. If I'm not mistaken, other wikis should have a similar venue for the templates. Hope this helps. Kind regards. Rehman 00:41, 8 January 2011 (UTC)

yes u were right,i found them in my own language:) thank u sooooo much my dear friend! my arabic isn't good but i know a few---> !أنا احبک حبیبی wish u good luck:) bye jasmine 20:38, 8 January 2011 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jasminenoroozi (talk • contribs)

No problem, glad I could help :) Rehman 00:07, 9 January 2011 (UTC)

Bundesarchiv

Please see this exchange. Please leave it to an admin to close the FfD discussion and deal with the image appropriately. — RHaworth (talk · contribs) 14:26, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

My apologies. I thought that would qualify simple non-admin closure. Thanks for dealing with it. Kind regards. Rehman 15:11, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

Hi there :)

Hi there Rehman. It's taking me some time to get free from my RL projects. Give me till this weekend to get things moving. Best. Wifione _....... ^{Leave a message} 04:26, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

No problem, take all the time you need :) Rehman 05:20, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

ITN: Severe Tropical Cyclone Yasi

--Titoxd^{(?!? - cool stuff)} 21:14, 2 February 2011 (UTC)

Collapsible headers for infoboxes

Thanks for your message. Sorry for the delayed reply, as I'm not following Wikipedia very regularly at the moment. Unfortunately, I don't know much about the code required to make collapsible items, though I understand that it may be hard to produce something that is both simple to apply and compatible with a broad range of browsers. Apologies for not being able to assist this time. — Richardguk (talk) 23:14, 17 March 2011 (UTC)

No problem, thanks for responding :) Kind regards. Rehman 00:38, 18 March 2011 (UTC)

Good and bad news with Infobox Stausee

Rehman, the translation template for Infobox stausee is up and working. There is only two problems. Stausee uses metric units and does not assume an editor will use our {{Convert}}. I used the Convert template in the coding and I was having some success (it actually converted the numbers in the transition). The problem is two-fold; error messages show up on the infobox on the Template:Infobox_dam/Stausee page and in the infobox of the effected article. The errors only show in the infobox of the article for the fields that were not given by an editor. So, I was trying to add some sort of #if: parameter into the coding so it would ignore fields not filled in. Any thoughts? Can you help out? Almost there...

You know, I was thinking that it is a better idea just to have the user add whatever the unit is (m, km², etc.) into the field.--NortyNort (Holla) 09:35, 20 March 2011 (UTC)

If I understood right, this is something to do with the level of transclusion used (the same reason why I didnt use the {{Convert}} at this article). I don't really understand heads-or-tails on this issue, but more info may be found here. Is that the issue you were referring to? Rehman 14:09, 20 March 2011 (UTC)

I think I didn't explain it right...it is sort of difficult. Essentially, I was trying to put the Convert template in the Infobox stausee coding so it would convert the numbers from metric. It worked, but only for fields that numbers were given for. Otherwise, anerror showed in the empty field. And on the Infobox stausee's actual page, there was errors in every field. I don't believe it was from that transclusion error. I figured though that is it fine to do it in the article instead of the coding. It works pretty good too.--NortyNort (Holla) 21:26, 20 March 2011 (UTC)

Rism Zentralredaktion Ffm images

Hi Rehman, I was wondering why you (and some other editors) deleted some images that I posted to Wikimedia Commons and used on the RISM article. I understand that their use was called into question due to copyright reasons, but the message I received from Diannaa said that they would be deleted after 7 days, beginning March 31. (I am now in the process of securing a copyright letter. My firm holds the copyrights.) It hasn't been 7 days yet but I see that the images have been deleted. Did I misunderstand something? Can you tell my why they were deleted? Thanks. Rism Zentralredaktion Ffm (talk) 14:17, 4 April 2011 (UTC)

Hi. Some of the files you uploaded were considered promotional content (speedy deletion criteria), others are missing essential information such as license or source (deletion in 7 days), while others are fair use material (speedy deletion). For the obtaining of the permission, I suggest you follow the instruction at OTRS. I really prefer if you post Commons' related messages on my Commons talkpage. Kind regards. Rehman 01:20, 5 April 2011 (UTC)

Your RFA

• Your statement seemed to be a withdrawal request, but then you mentioned at the end of your message you would try to be on towards the end of your RFA. After a request at WP:BN, I closed it as "Withdrawn by candidate" - but if you still want it to run longer, you should feel free to revert my edits and re-transclude it. I'm sorry that you've been discouraged by the process. –xeno^talk 13:32, 8 April 2011 (UTC)
• Rehman, I wanted to encourage you after reading your closing note at your RfA. I was sad to see all the accusations of rights-collecting, and I think only a small minority feel that way. Your work here and on commons is hugely appreciated! ErikHaugen (talk | contribs) 14:42, 8 April 2011 (UTC)
• I second Erik's comment. I agree with the train of thought that an editor that elects to pursue as many permissions as they are qualified for is a sign of eagerness to help the project, not self-importantance / "flag grabbing" / etc. If not for your misstep on Q4, I would have remained firmly in the support column. CSD can be a little tricky, as I have learned since I started participating in that area after starting to use TW last month, and people aren't always perfect. What I think some editors forget is that there is nothing that says an administrator must act on every CSD that they see and that it would be entirely permissible to move past one that they might be unsure of and leave it to someone that may have a bit more experience. Strikerforce^{Talk Review me!} 15:41, 8 April 2011 (UTC)
• Rehman, sorry to hear about your RFA; I didn't see it until a few hours ago after it was closed. I personally appreciate your work on Wikipedia, especially in the energy space where there isn't a huge corps of dedicated editors. With A7, this essay provides some good guidance on its application. It helps me out.--NortyNort (Holla) 16:13, 8 April 2011 (UTC)
• Same here. The RfA group likes to find singular problems to latch on to and even one can derail an RfA. It's just the way things are. Once you gave an unsatisfactory answer, the RfA was doomed. I totally agree with the thoughts in your statement on the RfA page, and the comments above. Just ignore the bad faith accusations, take a break if you need to but please don't consider giving up your work on Wikipedia. I'm sure you can pass an RfA, just make sure you know the CSD and keep doing the good work that you're doing and give it another shot in six months. Regards, Swarm ^X 17:21, 8 April 2011 (UTC)
• Like wise on swarm's thoughts. Hope to see you around though and not let this get to you. Ottawa4ever (talk) 18:32, 8 April 2011 (UTC)
• I absolutely agree with those above. RFA is a pain in the ass; don't let it get to you. I hope that you continue with the great work you've been contributing to Wikipedia. —mc10 (t/c) 22:17, 8 April 2011 (UTC)
• Please accept my sympathy on your recent failure at RgA, which I admit I partially caused by !voting against on the basis of your apparent lack of relevant understanding of CSD A7. It is a highly important aspect of admin work, as I am certain you understand. I see a comment added by you to the effect that you answered when you were tired, late at night. I feel for you, as I failed my first RfA in a similar way, answering a question after a long working day in, I believe, a far more careless way than you did; and I got shot down in flames for it. But here I am. Please give the dust perhaps three months to settle and re-apply. Assuming that you do in reality actually understand CSD, as I suspect you do, and also assuming that you are able convincingly to field the targeted questions that will inevitably arise in that application, I would expect to support you. --Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 16:18, 10 April 2011 (UTC)
• RfA sucks. End of. Orphan Wiki 11:00, 11 April 2011 (UTC)

Thank you for your kind words and encouragements here, at WT:RFA, and my inbox. Please see my response at WT:RFA. Sincerely, Rehman 03:05, 18 April 2011 (UTC)

Your editor review

Hello, this is just to let you know that your editor review has been completed, several editors have provided their feedback on your editor review page. Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia! Happy editing and regards, Hasteur (talk) 02:49, 12 April 2011 (UTC)

Sorry it took so long to get you a final disposition Hasteur (talk) 02:49, 12 April 2011 (UTC)

Thank you, Hasteur. Rehman 03:07, 18 April 2011 (UTC)

Three Gorges Dam

Three Gorges Dam has storage capacity of 39 cu.km. It is not the largest capacity dam on earth.

1955 - Zhiguli Hydroelectric Station in Russia has capacity of 58 cu.km

1960 - Kariba Dam in Zimbabwe has capacity of 181 cu.km

1970 - Bukhtarma Hydroelectric Power Plant in Kazakhstan has a capacity of 53 cu.km

1975 - Aswan High Dam in Egypt has a capacity of 157 cu.km

1995 - Ataturk Dam in Turkey has a capacity of 49 cu.km

Please rectify. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.161.176.86 (talk) 15:45, 29 April 2011 (UTC)

Hi there. I'm unable to find what exactly you are referring to. Could you please point me where I may have said/mentioned this? Rehman 16:00, 29 April 2011 (UTC)

I think IP was referring to the lead of the Three Gorges Dam article and mistook generating capacity with reservoir.--NortyNort (Holla) 02:01, 30 April 2011 (UTC)

Hydro

I know some dams generate electricity. But how exactly do they do that? Is it the water pressure? Can you explain please?

It's both the pressure and the flow velocity. Tall, small, dams have a small amount of water at high pressure (the turbines are at the bottom of the hill, connected by large pipes called penstocks). Low, wide dams on rivers have lots of flow, but only a small pressure or 'head'. You can make water turbines work with either type of flow, but they type of turbine needs to be chosen to suit whichever is available. Andy Dingley (talk) 20:01, 21 May 2011 (UTC)

In other words its the same as wind turbines, except with the wind replaced with water waves? Pass a Method talk 21:17, 21 May 2011 (UTC)

Wind turbines are more like the low-head water turbines found in river dams. There's no analogue for wind turbines that is comparable to the high-head (i.e. high pressure difference) turbines found below high dams.

The closest water turbine to a wind turbine would be one, like SeaGen, placed in a tidal race, a free-flowing channel between islands in a strongly tidal area. These are very rare as yet, but they're the most promising plan for tidal power. Anything else involves huge dams, at incredible costs. Andy Dingley (talk) 23:18, 21 May 2011 (UTC)

Thanks Andy :) . Rehman 03:46, 22 May 2011 (UTC)

Upia Dam

Hey Rehman, I just came across this article and noticed an IP had made some edits indicating the dam was not yet built. I tried to confirm it was but couldn't as source you initially made the article with was a dead link but I happened to find another link. Problem is that I couldn't confirm its existence or specifications in that source, along with other searches. Do you remember any other sources that say otherwise? Some old Spanish references like here indicate it was at least under study in the early 1990s. This is the Spanish version of what I believe you looked at. I think the period they described in there was when the dam was designed, not constructed.--NortyNort (Holla) 05:58, 28 May 2011 (UTC)

Hi. I remember wading through aerial/satellite images from NASA and other providers of Google Maps, trying to find where on earth that Upia Dam is located, and never really succeeded in finding it. This is the primary source I used. Probably the way they put the words (installed capacity) made me ignore the fact that the dam was probably only proposed. I just did a brief Google search on the dam, and found nothing except copies of the Wikipedia article... Maybe the dam is in fact, only planned? For a dam that is 1.7GW, and with such less reference on the internet, it is probably either a very new proposal (unlikely due to the 1980s date), or a very old "dead" proposal (of a dam that is never gonna be built). If it is the latter, I'd say we delete the article. What do you think?

From what I remember, a red "Upia Dam" link existed in the "1000MW+ list" (seems to be removed now), so I didn't want a 1000MW+ dam to be around in red. :) Rehman 06:33, 28 May 2011 (UTC)

It seems there is still talk of the dam. For some reason, I cannot see the link you provided above. I think www.ingetec.com.co doesn't work from my ISP which appears to be fairly common with other sites as well. I saw the specs in the Spanish version of the PDF and the picture provided was a rendition. It is tricky when they give the 1980-1983 dates but the company is a designer, not a constructor. As far as deletion, if there isn't notable controversy or talk surrounding the dam, it should be deleted or redirected. Since it doesn't exist, a redirect to List of power stations in Colombia should suffice I think. I had removed it the conventional list and replaced it with La Esmeralda Dam which I just created. I hate redlinks on that list which is part of the reason I was so motivated to get ride of them by creating dozens of articles.--NortyNort (Holla) 06:49, 28 May 2011 (UTC)

Oh, then this link through GoogleDocs should work for you, I think... Rehman 06:58, 28 May 2011 (UTC)

Thanks, I had figured out and I think I placed it in the original article already. It may work better for all users that way.--NortyNort (Holla) 07:08, 28 May 2011 (UTC)

Infobox for fuel production facilities

Hi, Rehman. There is a discussion concerning infoboxes for fuel production facilities. Your input is appreciated. Beagel (talk) 09:46, 18 September 2011 (UTC)

Hi Beagel. Will look into it. Regards, Rehman 02:33, 19 September 2011 (UTC)

Barrage

Hi Rehman! I'm writing in regard to my edit of "Barrage" disambiguation article. I recently changed the format of Barrage to redirect to the "Barrage (group)" article, as it is a famous musical show and I have no doubt it is by far the most recognizable for it's use of the name "Barrage". It was not an act of vandalism nor was it intended to be. I'm curious as to why you thought this edit was an act of vandalism? JPark99 (talk) 19:33, 11 November 2011 (UTC)

Hi JPark99! Thanks for asking me; that's nice of you. And sorry for the late response. Many people don't generally think that it is the most recognizable venue for the term. You may want to start of with WP:NPOV and/or WP:DAB. Feel free to ask me here, or by email, of you have any other comments. Kind regards, Rehman 15:42, 12 November 2011 (UTC)

List of caves in Sri Lanka

There's a system bug in which properly categorized articles occasionally get picked up by the uncategorized articles list, because the database doesn't quite update correctly and the system has been temporarily fooled into thinking it's looking at a blank page. Usually it happens after a page has been moved to a new title, or a bot has reverted a page-blanking vandal — but it can usually be corrected easily, because the page drops off the list again after there's been another edit to the article (even a null edit, where you just click save without actually having changed anything, usually works.)

In this case, I don't know why the page was being picked up by the uncategorized articles list, because it was properly categorized and its edit history didn't contain any of the usual explanations for this bug, and performing follow-up edits didn't make it drop either — so I deleted the page and then restored it right away to see if that would fix the problem. Luckily it did. Bearcat (talk) 17:34, 9 December 2011 (UTC)

Oh. About 6+ months back, there were similar issues at Commons with files, thought they were fixed altogether... Thanks for taking the time to explain. Regards, Rehman 02:34, 11 December 2011 (UTC)

Proposal to shut down WP Geographic Coordinates & ban coordinates on wikipedia articles

This means you. --Tagishsimon (talk) 12:14, 17 January 2012 (UTC)

Got your message, will go through it soon. Rehman 16:03, 17 January 2012 (UTC)

Silhouette

Nice! The light on the water is exquisite. Amandajm (talk) 04:53, 20 February 2012 (UTC)

Thanks Amanda! Rehman 05:10, 20 February 2012 (UTC)

MOTDs (This space for rent)

You may have noticed over the past few days that the MOTD that you link to on your user page has simply displayed a red link. This is due to the fact that not enough people are reviewing pending MOTDs here. Please help us keep the MOTD template alive and simply go and review a few of the MOTDs in the list. That way we can have a real MOTD in the future rather than re-using (This space for rent). Any help would be appreciated! ·Add§hore· ^{Talk To Me!} 14:09, 6 March 2012 (UTC)

Hi. I'll respond there. Regards. Rehman 02:05, 7 March 2012 (UTC)