User talk:Crissov

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[edit] Coor

I am pretty convinced links created by Template:Coor dms should appear as [1], not "Mapquest". -- Egil 17:54, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Yeah, maybe. Crissov

Please read Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Geographical_coordinates#spacing_issues before changing the coor templates. -- Egil 16:45, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Paper size

Great enhancement to the traditional sizes table. Good job. Do you know if there really is any difference between the US and Imperial sizes for these? The previous draft seemed to imply some differences but I can find no evidenece to support this (in which case, the US column is redundant). --Theo (Talk) 20:08, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Well, in the table itself there's one difference. It's been a while since I put some interest into the subject and I don't really remember details on differences between English and US sizes. Christoph Päper 21:44, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Temperatures

The use of brackets like [°F] has no sense and is totally wrong. What has User:Gene_Nygaard to to with that? Smoky 10:50, 11 FMay 2005 (UTC)

Gene explained it well enough with his two reverts: "the brackets indicate that it is a symbol for a unit of measurement being used as a variable; if otherwise, use subscript italic T for variables, and it looks clumsier". I would be fine with "T_°C" or rather "T_C" instead of "[°C]", too, but I think it's better readable (and equally established) with square brackets. To use the unit symbol alone, is just wrong. At the very least the symbols could be italicized ("°C")—actually there is an HTML element type 'var' ("°C"), but Wikipedia doesn't really support it. Furthermore the non-breaking spaces you inserted are ugly. Christoph Päper 15:55, 11 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Spelling of Litre

Hi. There are some things I guess I'll never understand. For a whole one and a half months it said at the very beginning of the article that liter is the German spelling, which is wrong. And only a few moments after I had corrected it to Liter, it was removed. What is so awful about providing correct information?

Is it because this is the English Wikipedia, and other languages are taboo, or what?

I'm interested in the underlying principle here, because I've come across that sort of thing ever so often.

Best wishes, <K F> 19:55, August 2, 2005 (UTC)

Wer wissen will, wie das Subjekt des Artikels in anderen Sprachen genannt wird, kann sich die Interwiki-Links oder Wiktionary angucken. Wenn wir die deutsche Version aufführen, warum nicht auch die französische, spanische, polnische, griechische, chinesische, …? Mir war erst durch deine Änderung aufgefallen, dass »German« überhaupt erwähnt wird, sonst hätte ich es schon früher entfernt. Christoph Päper 16:26, 3 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] How to handle contributions by user:69.164.70.243

I really have a hard time following up his contributions. I'm sure there may be much of value there, but I have a really hard time filtering out what is valuable, and what is, at best, original research. So I guess the easiest thing is simply to revert everything. But it is a lot of work. How do you suggest one handles this? -- Egil 14:21, 4 August 2005 (UTC)

I sincerely don’t know. I have given up on the ancient measures article(s) already. Most annoying is his incorrect use of markup, he often seems to break up lines at the end of his edit area and put a * or : in front and he destroys real definition lists and tables. Furthermore he throws in unorganized thoughts and collections of alleged connections and even copies these into other articles and Talk pages. It really is a mess, which I can’t put much time into to solve.

PS: I won’t be (much) online until mid-August. Christoph Päper 14:57, 4 August 2005 (UTC)

My conclusion is that even there may be stuff of value there, the only solution is to revert everything. I have submitted various articles to VFD, and I'm trying to revert various articles by moving content to the discussion pages, of possible. -- Egil 15:28, 4 August 2005 (UTC)

I've collected various material on Pseudoscientific metrology. I'd appreciate it if you would review it. -- Egil 12:17, 7 August 2005 (UTC)

See also: Wikipedia:AMA_Requests_for_Assistance#Pseudoscientific_attack. -- Egil 14:47, 8 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Please see Common.css talk page

Hi Crissov. Please see my suggestions on MediaWiki talk:Common.css#Proposal for CSS for tables. I have used lots of your CSS proposals, and I'd like to hear your opinion in the debate. (Well, at least I hope there will be a debate...) -Fred Bradstadt 16:15, August 20, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Request for arbitration, rktect

For your information, I have now submitted a request for arbitration: User:rktect -- Egil 18:00, 29 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Editing punctuation, diacriticals etc

Hi Crissov. I notice you just edited the punctuation and diacriticals in the first part of the Rood article. Most of it (apart from the superscript 2s) was reading fine on my monitor when I added the architectural stuff earlier today, but since your edit, all I get is question marks! Are you sure that what you are doing is the "right" format? When I add accents etc I have to use the formulae given on the Editing help page in the Character formatting section, eg & agrave; & ndash; & Omega; (without the spaces after the ampersands) to give à – Ω. I agree it makes editing more difficult, but cutting and pasting from the "Insert" panel still produces onscreen question marks. I use the Safari browser an Apple Mac (Explorer is even worse: you have to insert hexadecimal codes), and there must be a few other Mac users out there who have the same problem. Wikipedia has to be available to all, so surely the best format is the one that is most widely legible? I'd appreciate your thoughts on this. Thanks.

(PS If you're sure you are using the approved format, then there are still two pairs of inverted commas that need changing, around "by the rood".) SiGarb 20:49, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

Well, your edit broke the ²s, I corrected them (and quote signs while I was at it). That’s the first time I’ve actually seen this happening. Are you running Mac OS 9? I thought Safari was X only and it shouldn’t happen with that OS version, which is truely Unicode-capable whereas (English) 9 used MacRoman. Have you checked your View > Encoding setting (or whereever it is in Safari)? Wikipedia is using UTF-8 so it doesn’t matter how you enter the characters, they are converted on the server, i.e. you’ll not see your à – Ω (nor (hexa)decimal numeric character references) in the source code. It’s true, though, that not all input possibilities work with all browsers. The MoS still does not recommend “curly quotes”, but it’s under discussion and they are actually better supported on older Macs than, for instance, common fractions (½ / 1/2), or Ω on older versions of Windows. Christoph Päper 23:40, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Page name for temperature articles

To avoid flip-flopping between 'degree Fahrenheit' and 'Fahrenheit' or 'degree Celsius' and 'Celsius', I propose that we have a discussion on which we want. I see you have contributed on units of measurement, please express your opinion at Talk:Units of measurement. Thanks. bobblewik 22:09, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] This page may need cleanup??

Crissov, you posted a tag saying that Units conversion by factor-label may need cleanup but you did not explain why you had posted that tag. I am very new to Wiki (just a few weeks) and if you will please tell me what you believe needs editing, I will do my best to cooperate. As the original author, I did my best to Wikify this page. The subject matter is not included anywhere else in the Wikipedia and I made a very diligent search before providing this contribution.

I have removed your tag until we have had more discussion ... I hope that is okay.

Regards and I will await your response.
mbeychok 03:09, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

Crissov:

First, let me say that I really like your editing of this article. In particular, I like how you revised the first two equations and placed them in a box. In fact, I think what you have done with the equations will satisfy BenFrantzDale's desire to change the equations.

There are some minor changes that I made as follows:

Although physicists and chemists understand that a mol is really a gram-mole and use it as such, most engineers (in particular chemical engineers) and many others make a distinction between a gram-mol (gmol) and a kilogram-mol (kgmol). Therefore, I changed the molecular weight of NOx = 46 to the molar mass of NOx = 46 kg/kgmol. That makes it consistent with the 22.414 Nm³/kgmol used in the flue gas example ... since there are only 22.414 L/gmol (or 22.414 L/mol] and a liter is 1/1000th of a cubic meter.
Also, most engineers and most people working for environmental regulatory agencies involved with air pollutants such as the nitrogen oxides refer to them as NOx rather than NO_x so I reverted those back to the NOx form. Also, that form is consistent with the NOx form used in the example conversion.

Sorry to be so long-winded, but I have one more comment that I hope will not offend you. Rather than just making the revisions without any prior discussion, it would have been nicer to be gentle and civil with a newcomer like myself by at least having some discussion and/or explanation.

Regards and thanks again. mbeychok 03:00, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

I actually considered to discuss this first, but then Wikpedia had some technical problems (again) and I forgot. It also was late here (as it is now).

The examples should probably better have been made using LaTeX-based <math> markup, but I didn't remember how to strike through.

The artificial distinction between mols just makes it harder to understand, something standardisation tries to work against. Like “Nm³” I hadn’t seen “kgmol” etc. before, although I once was to become an engineer (in the field of synthetics). Christoph Päper 01:59, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] KB vs kB

KB is used everywhere that I know of. Do you have knowledge that kB is actually in use to mean KiloByte or is this an 'outght to be'? How widespread is the use? Where? Thanks Hmains 22:57, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

I have encountered both (and kb and Kb). I would not dare to tell the more common, but as Template:Quantities of bytes is used in the MoS to show correct usage, the letter used by the relevant standard should be featured (exclusively). If I was the CGPM, the symbols of kilo, hecto and deca (k, h and da) would be changed to K, H and D, though (and the one of litre would stay lowercase). Christoph Päper 23:13, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Lobbying for smaller TeX font as an optional choice

This is an equation created with Wikipedia's TeX font for math markup:

$Q\;=\;C\;A\;P\;\sqrt{\bigg(\frac{\;\,g_c\;k\;M}{Z\;R\;T}\bigg)\bigg(\frac{2}{k+1}\bigg)^{(k+1)/(k-1)}}$

This is the same equation created using WikiCities' TeX font for the very same math markup:

It is quite obvious that the WikCities TeX font is smaller than the Wikipedia's TeX font. In my opinion, the WikiCities font is also much neater and tidier. What I mean by neater and tidier is that it is much closer to the size of the regular text so that the overall look of an article that uses equations is more balanced.

Also, the smaller TeX font allows for displaying longer equations (within the limited display screen width) than does the Wikipedia font.

I submitted a request to Bugzilla about a month ago asking that Wikipedia make available the smaller WikiCities font as an alternate option ... not to replace the font now used by Wikipedia, but only to offer the smaller WikiCities font as an optional choice to Wikipedians. My request was assigned the bug number 4915. Anyone can vote in favor of proceeding with the bug request at Bugzilla Bug 4915 and thus far I am the only one who has voted to proceed.

If you agree with me that the smaller font should be offered as an alternate, please visit the bugzilla page at Bugzilla Bug 4915 and scroll down to the page bottom where is says "Vote for this bug" and do so. If you are not already registered with bugzilla, it will ask you to do that first ... but it only takes a minute to do so.

If it isn't correct for me to lobby you for the smaller font, please let me know. Thanks and please vote.
mbeychok 00:26, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] This edit

Hi! Interessantes Faktum, aber das gehört doch eher in Flag of Germany, meinst nicht? ;) Quelle dazu würde mich auch sehr interessieren... Danke! —Nightst a llion (?) 16:00, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

Als ich es in Flag of Estonia einfügte, ging ich davon aus, dass es in Flag of Germany behandelt wird, da ich dachte, dass ich es dort oder in de:Flagge Deutschlands ursprünglich gelesen hatte. Es muss aber wohl doch eine andere Quelle gewesen sein (vielleicht sogar papiern). Wenn es mir wieder einfällt oder ich eine andere Quelle finde, werde ich das entsprechend einfügen. Christoph Päper 13:48, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

Gut so, finde das nämlich durchaus ein sehr interessantes Detail. =] Sollten wir aber mehrere Sachen dieser Art auftreiben, wäre es wohl sinnvoller, das in einen Extra-Artikel zu schreiben (irgendwas über Flaggendiskussionen allgemein halt), anstatt es bei Flag of Estonia einzufügen. ;) —Nightst a llion (?) 13:06, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Template:User Single Male

Hi, I notice that you are using Template:User Single Male, which has been moved to User:MiraLuka/Userboxes/User singlemale. The link currently being used on your page is a cross-namespace redirect and will probably not last. It may be advisable to change the link. Thanks. —Mi r a 23:38, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

Never mind, I fixed it up for you. Happy editing! —Mi r a 08:56, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Making unit formats consistent

Thanks for your comments about square kilometres in the MoS talk page.

You may be interested in knowing about my tool that simplifies the task of making unit formats consistent. If you want to use it, feel free. Simply copy the entire contents of User:Bobblewik/monobook.js to User:Crissov/monobook.js Then follow the instructions in your monobook to clear the cache (i.e. press Ctrl-Shift-R in Firefox, or Ctrl-F5 in IE) before it will work. This will give you a 'units' tab to press in edit mode. Regards and keep up the good work. bobblewik 19:34, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Verifying Edit

On 27 June 2006 @ 14:06 you added to The "World Calendar" page:

"The World Council of Churches later laid out requirements any reformed calendar had to fulfill to be accepted by the Christian churches, which include the uninterrupted seven-day week."

Would you please provide documentation for date(s), resolution(s) and supporting Scripture(s)?

Also, please note that formal usage of The World Calendar is with three capitalized words. Elisabeth Achelis, founder of The World Calendar Association discovered (not created), named and copyrighted the calendar as such in 1929-1930.

Thanks. TWCAdirector 00:20, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

TWCA@TheWorldCalendar.org

This information is basically taken from the Wikipedia article on the Symmetry 454 calendar and its web page—with a little inaccuracy introduced because I wrote it from memory—, but I only found little specific information on the issue on the WCC site.

Every calendar is created, not discovered, and it sounds strange to copyright one. The capitalisation was inconsistent and so I changed it to the logical form. Christoph Päper 14:18, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

Cristoph,

I've now requested the same documentation from Symmetry 454.

The Abbot Marco Mastrofini published his modifications to the Gregorian calendar in 1834 and presented it to the Vatican. Elisabeth Achelis named it The World Calendar after reading about it in 1929. She copyrighted it and the description for the sole purpose of protecting them from being changed.

Your ISO addition introduced more confusion than clarity. Elisabeth Achelis, The World Calendar Association, ISO and others were working together when The World Calendar was last on the United Nations agenda in the 1950s. (Here, I'm writing from memory.) To play the ISO calendar "against" The World Calendar seems unfair when (I think) ISO actively supported adoption of The World Calendar. Even if I knew more of the specific history and chronology for sure, it might not belong in The World Calendar article.

Thank you, TWCAdirector 00:16, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

E-mail: TWCA@TheWorldCalendar.org

The WCC site cited above clearly notes their stand on the issue of breaking up the 7-day week (I'll quote a few sentences before and after, for context): Around the same time, discussion was beginning in secular circles especially in Western Europe concerning the possibility of establishing a fixed day for Easter, such as the Sunday following the second Saturday in April, so as to facilitate commercial planning and public activities. In addition, proposals for introducing a new fixed calendar were being advanced, for similar utilitarian reasons. After World War II the context for discussion of such issues changed in several ways. International secular initiatives received little support. The churches were especially opposed to any calendar reform which would break the cycle of the seven-day week. On the other hand, many churches continued to express interest in the idea of a common day, whether movable or fixed, for the celebration of Easter/Pascha." I think this merits mention in the article, and this serves as evidence of the WCC's opposition, even if it doesn't lay out the guidelines stated in the original notation. - Nhprman ^List 02:09, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Common Intermediate Format

Hi there! I have a question about the Common Intermediate Format which I hope you could help me with. I'm interested in programming a webcam so that I can take pictures and do image processing with them on the fly. Do you know of a good resource to help me get started with that? --HappyCamper 15:01, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] ISO 15924

Since you edited ISO 15924 (it was great by the way, that you added the list) you may be interested in Template talk:User cyr and Category talk:User cyr. Tobias Conradi (Talk) 11:27, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

could you copy your post from Template_talk:User_cyr to Category_talk:User_cyr
I created (copy paste) Wikipedia:Userboxes/Writing systems, which makes possible code conflicts easier to find. Tobias Conradi (Talk) 12:55, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of ISO 15924 codes by letter code - Tobias Conradi (Talk) 16:59, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Imperial Units

- Why did you revert to edits that broke the table formating for Measures of Area, Colume Wet and Dry

The numbers did not change in my edit, just the correct formating. Can you explain why I should not revert to correct the table format.

Tayana 17:01, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

Actually you broke the tables by (partly incorrectly) unnecessary nesting. Please explain what “breaks” for you. Christoph Päper 23:07, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Lack of references for Metrified English unit

There is a discussion on the Metrified English unit Talk page which points out that there's nothing to back the article up. Is the article's mention of William Huskisson's Royal System just phantasy? Do you know of anything to back the article up? Should the article be split/merged/deleted as suggested on the Talk page? Jimp 09:10, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: WP:MOS (dates and numbers)

"m Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)‎; 16:54 . . Crissov (Talk | contribs) (Typographic qutes, see recent MoS edit)"

Help me with this. I looked for some change to the WP:MOS regarding preferring typographic quotes over straight quotes, but I not could find it. Thanks. --Charles Gaudette 08:44, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

I meant my recent edit. Christoph Päper 15:33, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] wikEd

Hi, I have seen that you are using the Cacycle editor extension. This program is no longer actively maintained in favor of its much more powerful successor wikEd.

wikEd has all the functionality of the old editor plus: • syntax highlighting • nifty image buttons • more fixing buttons • paste formatted text from Word or web pages • convert the formatted text into wikicode • adjust the font size • and much, much more.

Switching to wikEd is easy, check the detailed installation description on its project homepage. Often it is as simple as changing every occurrence of editor.js into wikEd.js on your User:YourUsername/monobook.js page.

Cacycle 21:59, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

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