Talk:Sable Island

message: I removed the weasel words about the island moving. There are pictures to document the movement. There is some debate about how much the island actually moves east and how much it just changes shape. But that is a research question not for an encyclopaedia entry.  
http://museum.gov.ns.ca/mnh/nature/sableisland/english_en/nature_na/sand_sa/island-move_sa.htm 
An Anonymous Newbie
 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.40.218.20 (talk) 08:28, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Some Believe

message: have any of the DXs been successful?  this needs to be mentioned, i think. -Mayumashu 05:23, 12 Mar 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Marconi Company also maintained a station on Sable for the federal gov't in the early decades of the 20th century.  Not sure if DX's were successful as the feds don't want people landing for fear of A) liability, and B) probably moreso, fear of harm to the local environment/ecology.Plasma east 07:08, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)

text: I've just removed the amateur radio/rare DX trivia section - it is refering to Cape Sable Island which is not Sable Island. Of course, it could just be a typo - but I don't know. No information is better than wrong information, especially when the article itself points out Sable Island is not to be confused with Cape Sable Island! A reference would be useful too if somebody does find out this is actually the right island... -Wangi 23:30, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I've added a link to a web site from the latest DXpedition to Sable (earlier this month) - there is no prohibition from ham operators going to Sable and setting up their equipment.  Perhaps this web site could provide some information and the DX section re-instated.HiFlyChick (talk) 01:44, 21 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: DX peditions 

message: I believe that the funding issue with regards to the Sable Island Trust was resolved in February 2005 when the federal Department of the Environment and the Department of Fisheries and Oceans agreed to restore funding for their operations there.  Perhaps this is separate from the funding issue for Sable Island Trust though... Plasma east 07:08, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Sable Island Trust

message: How does one visit the island? It sounds beautiful. --Sonjaaa 01:34, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: This is not true - I added a note that you need permission to visit the island from CCG HiFlyChick (talk) 01:54, 20 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: visit?

message: "Sable Island is a narrow crescent-shaped sandbar with a surface area of about 3400 ha no more than 2 km across at its widest point,"
I don't get the part I highlighted in bold. What is "3400 ha"? Peter Tangney 02:19, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Area of what? 

message: An issue of National Geographic Magazine from many years ago - not sure when, but definitely 80s or earlier, possibly even 60s - featured Sable Island as the "Island of 600 Shipwrecks."  It was an interesting article and should definitely be included in the entry here if anyone can find the reference.  I can do no better than pull it from memory, I'm afraid.
I removed some edits about large number of wrecks visible in satellite images - these are waves and clouds, not shipwrecks. An encyclopedia article shoudl not be about guesswork. Every published source on Sable refers to the very small number of visible wrecks - mainly the boiler and hull of SS Skidby and two or three other steel hull fragments that come and go with shifting sand.Letterofmarque (talk) 04:52, 22 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Shipwrecks 

message: I don't aggre with eliminating many trivia parts in most articles since considering a fact as a trivial one is somewhat subjective.  Besides, these trivial data could give certain interesting clues for many Wikipedian usuaries. This is why I moved the fact of planting 80.000 trees to a non trivia-section. This fact brings out several interesting questions: 
*Why the 80.000 thousand trees died?
*Were those trees out from many kinds of trees? Was whorthwile to investigate adapting different species?. --Fev (talk) 01:55, 18 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Why Trivia?If trivia is discouraged, as the box in the trivia section boldly states, then why is the trivia here? If the trivia can be allowed to stay -- then why do we need the box?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 211.25.208.8 (talk) 12:58, 30 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Trivia sections

message: Couldn't someone just turn the picture so that north is in the UPPER left corner? It would make the photo less disorienting.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Whichiswhich (talk • contribs) 08:30, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Graphic 

message: I'd heard that Sable Island is slowly sinking into the ocean. Is this true?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.8.26.10 (talk) 02:47, 29 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sinking? 

message: Altitude of the highest point? --Error (talk) 23:37, 3 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't know that such a measurement exists - the dunes can be very high (in excess of 30 ft), but there is no underlying rock (until you go down over 1000 ft) and being sand dunes, they change over time.  An interesting question, though HiFlyChick (talk) 11:10, 19 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The German article claims that the highest dune is 40 m high, which would be over 130 ft. In any case, the issue of altitude is worth addressing in the article explicitly. --Florian Blaschke (talk) 20:25, 19 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Altitude

message: That whole bit about the SM picking out a landing strip may be outdated now there is a permanent runway. Enter CBW, waits for audience applause, not a sausage. 09:09, 29 October 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: This still happens - there is no runway, the beach area was simply designated as an aerodrome
HiFlyChick (talk) 22:00, 29 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Supplies are delivered 

message: ...or the like would be great. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 00:39, 21 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pushpin map 

message: The article on Greenland Sharks indicates that there is controversy over whether these wounds are caused by Greenland Sharks or by the seals being drawing into ducted propellers of ships.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.50.148.220 (talk) 05:37, 23 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  'Corkscrew' wounds on seals 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: I earlier removed the red links to Robert Elliot, Anthony Kennedy, Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Agreement, and Lake Wallace, and removed a cn tag (and associated sentence) about amateur radio. This edit was reverted in good faith by User:Jeff in CA. My edit was based, in part, on the guideline WP:REDLINKS:  The two individuals are obscure military officers from the late 1700s, are apparently known only for their respective WP:ONEEVENT, and are unlikely to be sufficiently notable to ever merit their own pages on enWiki (see WP:MILPEOPLE). The political agreement seems quite obscure, but perhaps - perhaps - there is some coverage in reliable, independent, secondary sources that could provide justification for a page of its own. I am unable to find any such sources...but I am also unable to find a local shop that carries any of the Springbank scotches, so there is that. Nothing about Lake Wallace in the article is referenced, I am unable to find anything about this former(?) lake on-line (but see above), and indeed the entire passage seems a case of un-sourced WP:OR and is thus worthy of deletion. Lastly, the cn tag, and its associated sentence, is not needed because details about amateur radio are presented earlier in the article, in the 'After Confederation and creation of a weather station' section.
Should I have posted this message, or something like it, prior to making those changes, all of which I considered to be minor and uncontroversial? I don't think so. Should I have reverted Jeff in CA? No, that was a mistake on my part so I will self-revert in a moment. Should I have made five individual, minor edits instead of the one that, again, I considered to be uncontroversial? I guess so, maybe. Should my original edits be retained? Yes. Will I be edit warring over this? Absolutely not. JoJo Anthrax (talk) 13:39, 6 October 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Those are all valid reasons and well thought through, in my opinion. Having read them, I have no argument against any of them. My general approach is to look out for red link removals that appear to be indiscriminate and for no other reason than being red. As that is clearly not the case here, I have no further objection.Jeff in CA (talk) 21:23, 6 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Red links and redundancy 

message: How about 1991 to 2020 climate normals for this island of only a small science base population. Perhaps the coldest month is now 0+ and doesn't need the -3 C isotherm to qualify as oceanic. B137 (talk) 01:20, 23 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Updated climate data for an all-meteorology island.