User talk:HighInBC/Archive 4

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[edit] "Not useable in articles as insect is not identified, uploader does not want it."

LOL. Next time, use {{db-author}}. :) - CrazyRussian talk/email 05:55, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

Ahh good tip HighInBC 06:50, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Totem pole image

Tag altered as requested. Fawcett5 21:09, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks! HighInBC 21:18, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] No problem

Thanks for the reply about the tent link! Sadly it was removed. Do you mind re-adding it http://www.spadout.com/wiki/index.php/Tent (an editor prob. thought it was spam) thanks! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.26.232.171 (talk • contribs).

Done, people are far to fast to yell SPAM!!!!, without even clicking the links to check. Some people remove any link added by an IP, this is not the wiki way. HighInBC 14:57, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Featured Picture

An image you uploaded, Image:Whole world - land and oceans 12000.jpg, has just become a Featured Picture. Congratulations, and thanks for uploading it for us. It's great, even if I don't seem to have a program that can actually display it at full res! Raven4x4x 01:48, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

Wow! My first featured pic upload, to bad it was not solely my creation, props to NASA. HighInBC 19:24, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

Good job on creating the new larger version. Sorry, if this sounds a little daft - but how did you process the massive RAW images? I really want to use this image at as high a resolution as is possible; it is used as the background image for hundreds of images, including another FP (Image:Global tropical cyclone tracks-edit2.jpg). I've already got the huge tifs downloaded, but I can't figure out how to convert to high res jpg.--Nilfanion (talk) 16:23, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

It was very hard to deal with the huge TIF files, I was unable to combine then at their full size. Here is what I did:

1. I loaded each tif one at a time, then resized it to 12000 in height(I had to try this whole proccess a few times to determine what height reached about 20megs.)
2. I then saved each image as a tif labeled <name>_12000
3. Then I loaded the 2 images and combined them
4. Then I saved it as a jpeg at compression quality 6.(with so much flat blue this is not so bad)

It took a LONG time between each image, I used Adobe Photoshop, this program is designed for huge images. Though GIMP may work well as a free alternative. Be patient, load the file, wait 10 minutes, resize, wait 10 minutes. The whole thing took me about 7 hours(I had to try about 5 different sizes to get one that ended up near 20 megs). If you provide an FTP site, I can send you the 12000 pixel tall tif I made the jpg from. This is far easier to load than the originals and is already combined. Please take into account that I have 1 Gig of RAM, if you have less it may take longer, also make sure you image software has a few gigs of scratch space. HighInBC 19:24, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

If you want only a specific region, you can crop the original without resizing, and save it as a png, this will make a lossless copy, see Image:NASA Hawaiian Islands full quality.png for an example of a full quality lossless crop. Of course you can only do this with small areas or the file will be greater than 20megs, if that is the case use jpg(grudgingly). HighInBC 19:27, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re : About your 1FA policy

Don't worry too much about this, as I no longer use this as my main standard for voting in RfAs these days. But if you want the theory, the answer would be no, but there is one exception in which I voted support for FPs which clocked up to hundreds by User:Fir0002. - Cheers, Mailer Diablo 15:07, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia Featured Pictures

Thanks for answering my question about using only PNG's for the WP Featured Pictures. --Anthony5429 20:39, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] FPC Candidate (Siberian tiger)

A comment was recently posted by Samsara on the Siberian tiger FPC. It concerned placing the image in another article (see the subpage for the exact comment). I have now added the image to the stretching article, so you may or may not consider changing your vote (this is just to inform you of the change). Thanks. --Tewy 00:55, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Response to this:[1]

Atlant (talk • contribs) was attacking my person and religion. I'm not going to excuse myself, yet, because it's cowardly that a person has to insult me in order to reach agreement. Thanks for your part in this. --Scotteh 18:16, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

You are not being asked to excuse yourself, I am letting you know this because you may find youself receiving punative measures if you continue to violate policy. Civility is not an option here, it is a requirement. This enclyclopedia has a set of standards and we do enforce them. See Wikipedia:List of policies for a complete list. HighInBC 18:20, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

Also, I don't believe that Atlant (talk • contribs)'s comments construed a violation of Wikipedia:No personal attacks. If your views are not religious mythologies then where are the citations?. HighInBC 18:22, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

I'm from Africa. WE DON'T HAVE BOOKS HERE. Be realistic, please. --Scotteh 19:29, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

My wife is from Africa, Kenya to be specific, and she had books. Also you are on the internet. Also, if by some strange quirk you had zero access to any scientific information then you simply are not qualified to be an editor here. This has nothing at all to do with race or place of birth, you please be realistic. HighInBC 19:31, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

Well in that case, I don't have access to books. And I wasn't aware that internet resources are citable. Who knows what loads crap are written on the internet. --Scotteh 19:42, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

Indeed both internet libraries have sources of varying reliability which is why we have the WP:Reliable sources guidelines. Honestly, your point of view may deserve mention in the article but you have to approuch your arguement based on wikipedia policies and guidelines. If you search out some evidence based data from a reliable source and post it then people may support a mention of alternative viewpoints. HighInBC 19:45, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

Perhaps when I grow up and I have a full time job - just like you - I will lurk more around Wikipedia. For now, it's all about arguing without providing citations that took ages to dig up. Thank you. --Scotteh 19:51, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

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