Talk:Tropical Storm Helene (2000)

message: Any particular reason some articles are using machine-mediated spaces? I ask because this edit added a whole bunch of them, which of course makes it harder to read the code. Captainktainer * Talk 21:17, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The reason is in the Manual of Style, WP:MOSNUM#Units of measurement. That is done so that the value and the unit will display on the same line (hence the no-break spaces).--Nilfanion (talk) 21:30, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks, I'd been looking for that. Now I know not to edit that out when I see it. Captainktainer * Talk 19:15, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  NBSP? 

message: This article includes the statement:  "The rains caused flooding along Highway 47 near Elgin."  There are two places named Elgin in South Carolina and I attempted to resolve the disambiguation.  Highway 47 is only 6 miles long and it is not near either Elgin.  It is near Elloree, SC (verified by the (Wikipedia) article on Highway 47 and by searching google maps).  I assume that is where the flooding was.  The citation is a newspaper article that refers to Elgin.  I assume the newspaper article was wrong.  I could only find that this report of flooding along Highway 47 near Elgin came from "the local weather service".  
Mb66w (talk) 05:11, 21 October 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I would agree with you that "Highway 47 near Elgin" is probably incorrect since the highway is supposedly contained within Orangeburg county and neither Elgin is within that county, but that part is a direct quote from the newspaper source. I was actually thinking that the Elgin I picked was in the next county over and maybe they were using an extraordinarily generous definition of "near", but looking again I see that Kershaw doesn't even border Orangeburg. It's hard to know what to do with a situation like this where the source is probably wrong (unless there's actually another Elgin in Orangeburn which Google isn't finding). If you have any better solution, feel free to discard my edit. -- Fyrael (talk) 03:57, 23 November 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: I've done a bit of Google mapping just for curiosity's sake and didn't find anything (town, road, whatever) near 47 that's called Elgin. I'm pretty convinced that the newspaper printed the wrong thing and I'm just going to remove that sentence. -- Fyrael (talk) 05:41, 23 November 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Oh ha, you already did it. Very nice. -- Fyrael (talk) 05:44, 23 November 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: (Just had an Edit Conflict trying to leave this message:) Since the highest rainfall was in Bamberg County, which is adjacent to Orangeburg County, and there was also very high rainfall in Orangeburg County, and Highway 47 is in Orangeburg County, I decided to just drop the mention of Elgin and say "Highway 47 in Orangeburg County".  That much agrees with the source.  Leaving out something from the source that can't be verified elsewhere should not be a problem. I also note that the source was the National Weather Service, reported by AP - so not local people.MB 05:50, 23 November 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  flooding in South Carolina 

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