User talk:Penitentes

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-- Wikimedia Commons Welcome (talk) 14:01, 26 July 2022 (UTC)

Wildfire maps

Hi, I just saw that you made several maps of large Californian wildfires and the wildfire seasons. Could you also make a map where the footprint of all (large) Californian wildfires from 2018 to 2021 is shown? I think it would be very interesting to see how those align, especially if different colours are used for the different years. Greetings from Germany! Andol (talk) 21:23, 29 July 2024 (UTC)

Of course! Give me a little time, things have been busy lately. I can probably assemble that in the next week. Maybe every fire larger than 1,000 acres (~400 hectares)? — Penitentes (talk) 13:13, 30 July 2024 (UTC)

Great! Only the larger ones is absolutely okay, no need to plot the small fires. And time doesn't matter. Thank you! Andol (talk) 21:29, 30 July 2024 (UTC)

RfC: Third-party images published by the National Weather Service

I've now reviewed 1,000 images uploaded under the rationales expressed in the {{PD-NWS}} template and requested deletion of several.

The arguments for deletion, and to keep, are now following repetitive, predictable patterns and it would greatly help all involved if we could centralise discussion and obtain some wider community input.

Therefore, I have opened an RfC to gather opinions. Apologies in advance: it's long and detailed, but is frankly nothing compared to the words and time expended by all parties up to this point. Probably the most crucial issue revolves around how we interpret a general disclaimer published at weather.gov (Q.1 in the RfC).

Your advice is greatly appreciated! --Rlandmann (talk) 10:47, 26 August 2024 (UTC)