User talk:Tonderai

Hello Tonderai welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Usefull links (if you didnt get to them already): Wikipedia:How does one edit a page, manual of style, Wikipedia:Sandbox, Wikipedia:Naming conventions. If you have any other questions about the project then check out Wikipedia:Help or add a question to the Village pump or my talk page. Cheers, Muriel Gottrop

Thanks. Actually I've used Wikipedia for a while now and decided to give some input. Its amazing coming back to well-known sections and seeing how much they've progressed. See you around, Tonderai

Welcome Tondarai. I see you are interested in phytoplankton and maybe other oceanography and water quality topics. Look forward to your contributions and improvements to our efforts here - Marshman 17:09, 29 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Yes. Oceanography's my degree so I'll hopefully be able to bring some of that up to speed. Actually whole disciplines of oceanography don't yet exist. Good to see some other water babies here ;) I'm new to the style here though, so if you have any suggestions they'd be welcome Tonderai 17:17, 29 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Hi Tondarai, a short comment/suggestion about the thermohaline ciculation article. In the opening paragraph you mention the atlantic waters moving north and ending up in the ne pacific which, "then flows downhill into the deep water basins, only resurfacing in the NE Pacific 1200 years later.". What about the Strait of Magellan don't waters mix there. The Antartic is surely a masive water mixer from what i've read about the winds and currents. It can't all go through the north atlantic?? sunja 14:57, 18 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Is Thermohaline about just the cold water currents or all currents?, if the later i would make that clear in the opening paragraph.sunja 10:22, 19 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Hi Sunja, sorry I've been away for a while. You are quite right that a lot of mixing goes on in the Southern Ocean: this article needs quite a bit more work. I'll look at it asap. Thermohaline is about the density-driven circulation: this is generally in operation all over the ocean, but in many cases other forces (such as wind) are dominant e.g in the surface ocean. Tonderai 18:00, 9 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Copy Vio Sidney Coleman

Why blank the whole page on put a copy-vio notice for one paragraph??? It would have taken all of 2 minutes to re-write the paragraph, or move the offending paragraph to the talk page so at least some of the perfectly valid article remains.

Jackliddle 19:12, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I thought it was necessary to flag these things up so that repeated copyvios can be dealt with. Having reread Wikipedia:Copyright problems, however: Pages where the most recent edit is a copyright violation, but the previous article was not, should not be deleted. They should be reverted. The original does remain at Sidney_Coleman/Temp, but you are right - this was overzealous. Sorry, my mistake. Tonderai 19:25, Apr 24, 2005 (UTC)

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