Talk:Accidental release source terms/Draft

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I was the original creator and major contributor to the Wikipedia article. I have reworded parts of it and made a few other changes to make it suitable for Citizendium. Milton Beychok 19:03, 22 February 2008 (CST)

Looks ready for approval

I added a few related terms and started/updated some emergency management and decontamination. You may well know more about decontaminating fuel spills than I do; that's on the list.

Did you want to include any meteorological information?

I'd like to align the table of contents a bit, and there are a couple of sub-references whose formatting I'd like to examine. Personally, I like the 2-column reflist, but that's certainly your call.

Otherwise, are you happy with having it approved? I will be looking at some thing below it as well. You have no idea how pleasant it is to be reading this as a relief from homeopathy

Howard C. Berkowitz 17:43, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

Howard, I am thoroughly confused! Are you talking about approving this article? If so, I don't see where you made any of the changes you mentioned above.

Or are you talking about my approving the Incident Command System article?

Please clarify. Regards, Milton Beychok 18:01, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

Strange. They weren't there; perhaps I saved wrong.

Also, look at the line beginning "Whenever the ratio of the absolute source pressure to the absolute downstream ambient pressure is less than"... Just an exponent wraps into the next line. I am just learning math formatting and don't want to break anything. Howard C. Berkowitz 18:14, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

Howard, first let me thank you for your review and comments. Now that your changes are visible:

• Your additions to the Related Articles subpage are fine with me.
• Your fix of the sub-references is a definite improvement. Thanks.
• If you want to format the references into two columns, go ahead and do so. I have no preference.
• There is no need for any meteorological information in any of the article's equations other than wind velocity ... and that is up to the user of the equations to select.
• I don't see any exponent wrapping into the next line where you indicated. My browser is Internet Explorer and I use a screen resolution of 800x600. I suspect that you are using a different resolution. I will try to fix it so that the HTML equation is on a separate line completely.
• With all due respect, I know that you like the TOC location to be at or near the top of an article. However, I really prefer the way I had it originally, so I plan to change it back.

Yes, I think it is ready for approval and, once again, I thank you. Regards, Milton Beychok 18:53, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

If all the conflict in the world were limited to tables of content, we'd all do better. It's certainly your call.

I have a higher-resolution screen, and am using Firefox 3.0, so that could explain it.

I'll go make the approval recommendation, always muttering "do I remember all the quirks". As I have time in the next few days, I'll look at the others; these are really interesting given WMD and emergency management interests. Howard C. Berkowitz 19:10, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

I fixed that mathematical expression so that it only appears once (instead of three times) and it will render correctly at any resolution since it is now on a line of its own. Does it look okay to you now? Milton Beychok 19:30, 23 October 2008 (UTC)