Talk:List of people on stamps of Switzerland

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Would some kind people please go to List of people on stamps of Switzerland and let me know on my talk page User talk:Arpingstone if the load time on a 56K connection is reasonable. I ask because there I have put two pics on that page, each about 20K large. I have a broadband connection and wonder if my pics are too large for a dial-up link. You'll somehow have to allow for the fact that the whole site may be slow. Thanks! -- Arpingstone 20:50 Mar 15, 2003 (UTC)

About 20 seconds to get the whole thing including all the images for me; not unreasonable for those trained to such slowness. ;) Two thoughts: first, progressive JPEGs might be nicer on the eyes, completing the images at low resolution at an earlier point in the download; second, the two images are too close together vertically -- on Mozilla 1.3/linux for me, the Einstein stamp is pushed inwards, as it comes up just before the first table clears the margin. You could use a <br clear=all> to clear the margin, or more simply put them both into the same table (same width, right?) --Brion 01:51 Mar 16, 2003 (UTC)

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So, pictures of stamps, if scanned by Wikipedia members, is considered okay? Are we not infringing on copyright? user:zanimum

Ah, but whose copyright? The artists generally give up rights to the govt printing the stamps, and I think most govts make the images effectively PD. However, the USPS has been reserving rights to their recent stamps (for merchandising). Even so, scanned images are extremely widespread, online and in printed catalogs, so most likely considered to be covered by fair use. Stan 00:58 Mar 30, 2003 (UTC)

So for I to scan some of my Canadian stamp collection is A-Okay?

user:zanimum

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"The cantons of Zürich, Geneva, and Basel did not issue any stamps honoring people." - Basel is two cantons, is the statement true for both? --Wik 17:18, Sep 20, 2003 (UTC)

Perhaps it was only one canton in 1845? In any case, the stamps were really issued by the city of Basel, so it would be whatever canton the city was part of in 1845. Stan 17:37, 20 Sep 2003 (UTC)

No, it was split in 1833. Anyway, I linked it to Basel-City now. --Wik 18:16, Sep 20, 2003 (UTC)