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Contents 1 Regarding the ballet Sylvia 2 My RfA 3 Westport Country Playhouse 4 CPEP particle chart image 5 A second request for you to be an administrator 6 Your RfA 7 Inkscape diagrams 8 Articles you might like to edit, from SuggestBot 9 Good work on Atomic line filter 10 Image:Vishniac smiling.jpg 11 Nice! 12 Westport 13 Portrait of Roman and Edith Vishniac 14 Atomic line filter: Spellcheck gone awry? 15 Hippocrates 16 Max Bruch copyright violation 17 Max Bruch 18 Sunrise 19 Paloma Herrera photo 20 Dear Sir/Madam 21 Most common words in English 22 Image:Sylmurbel.jpg

[edit] Regarding the ballet Sylvia

Yes I do as a matter of fact -

A few of my books on ballet history discuss "Sylvia" in pretty good detail - "The Life and Ballets of Lev Ivanov" (which discusses the 1901 production very well), "Ballet of the Second Empire" (the original production), and Beumont's "Complete Book of Ballets". I also have a few absolutely wonderful photos of dancers in the St. Petersburg Imperial production of 1901, which remained in the repertory until the 1917 revolution - Ashton saw Anna Pavlova dance an abriged version of the work based on the 1901 version, I believe in either Paris or London (?). When he went to mount his own version for Fonteyn (which is about 80% his own choreography - wonderfull if I say so myself), he used the knowledge given him by the old emigré Ballerinas from Tsarist Russia, including the Grand Pas d'action, the famous pizzicati variation, etc.

Wouyld you like me to add the info to the page and then have you edit it? Let me know, maybe I could make you a list of sorts for you to assemble as you like for the page.

Mrlopez2681 03:06, 13 July 2006 (UTC) - Adam

[edit] My RfA

Thanks very much for the support and confidence. Naturally if I can be of assistance at any time, you know where I am! Tyrenius 02:40, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Westport Country Playhouse

Hey man, I've been working my balls off on Westport Country Playhouse. I've recently added it to the good article nomination queue. Trust me, it's much better than divisibility rule.

Anywho, would you mind taking a quick glance at it before it reaches the top of the queue? No one else has been editing it, so I'd like a second opinion.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Cryptic C62 (talk • contribs).

Unfortunately, I can't take any days off, and even if I could, that's during tech rehearsal for A Marriage Minuet, for which I am a spotlight operator. Also, I really didn't know what to do with those images. They were given to me by my boss. They are the property of the Westport Country Playhouse, and everyone who works here has access to them. That didn't fit under any of the other licenscing options, so I just picked the one that I knew nothing about. *signs comment* --Cryptic C62 19:42, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] CPEP particle chart image

Hello, I am the graphic designer responsible for editing and creatiung the 2006 version of the CPEP Fundamental Particles chart and would like to change the current image up for 'standard model' to reflect the new poster design. I have a high-resolution version of the image ready, what do I need to do to upload it here to over-ride the current version?

Thanks,

Paul Schaffner Paul Schaffner 00:46, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] A second request for you to be an administrator

Given that it's been about 45 days since you withdrew from your last nomination, and that you now have between 2,500 and 3,000 contribs - I was thinking that you should give adminship another shot. You seem extremely dedicated to Wikipedia and are just fit to handle this task.

See: Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Rmrfstar (second nomination) and reply back over whether or not you accept. Thanks in advance --How dare you? 02:35, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Your RfA

I am sorry to inform you that your Request for Adminship (RfA) has failed to reach sufficient consensus for promotion, and has now been delisted and archived. Please do not look upon this outcome as a discouragement, but rather as an opportunity to improve. Try to address the concerns raised during your RfA and, in a few months' time, resubmit your request. Thank you for offering to serve Wikipedia in this capacity! Redux 13:09, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

By all reports you are an excellent contributor. I think you may not need to wait as long as most for your next RfA (perhaps six weeks, but consult others), with good answers from the get go, you will pass easily. So, chin up and keep up the good work :-). NoSeptember 13:19, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Please let me know when you decide to stand again and I will support you again. Don't be too downcast by this reverse. --Guinnog 13:58, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Hi. I did extend your RfA. Yesterday (or today, depending on where you are in the world), when I came around to close GHe's RfA, yours could have been closed as well, but I noticed the circumstances and left it open purposely. I closed it 24 hours and three or four minutes after the original closing time. At this point, and even after disconsidering certain participations, consensus was still at roughly 72%, which is not enough to promote. Guinnog, one of the users that had requested that the RfA be extended, and who you mentioned, has just posted on my talk page acknowledging the extension and commenting that it wasn't enough for consensus to promote to be achieved. Redux 14:06, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Yeah I know this sucks, I nominated you to become an administrator because you absolutely deserve it. But I can make this pledge to you now: you will wake up some morning in the month of September 2006 as an administrator on Wikipedia. In the meantime just contribute enough to hit 3,000 (or seven pages of limit 500 on Special:Contributions/Rmrfstar and you should be good.) I'll set up your third (and most likely final) nomination in about a month's time or so. --How dare you? 21:24, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Your welcome. Just make sure to be more willing and put in better answers to the questions - had you done this sooner more votes would have changed from oppose to support and you might have earned the mop. But with a few more contribs and now knowing well how to answer the questions you should have it all by the end of September. --How dare you? 02:13, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Inkscape diagrams

Hi, I fixed the two Inkscape diagrams on Atomic line filter. The problem with the arrows was that some interpreters (like the one Wikipedia uses to translate SVG to PNG, apparently), don't respect the 'arrowhead' stoke styles. The way to get around this is to build up your diagram the way you want, save it as an Inkscape SVG as your 'master', and then select all text and choose Path>Object to Path to convert text to paths, then select all the lines that use line styles other than basic stroke thickness, and choose Path>Stroke to Path. Then save as a Plain SVG, and upload.

The background transparency isn't an issue. In fact, its generally preferable. If you want to remove the background transparency, just create a large square behind everything else with no stroke, and white fill at 100% opacity. But you don't normally need to do that. Just leave the background transparent. This way if the background color of the display website isn't perfectly white, its OK, and if someone needs a white background, they can just specify a background color for the particular cell or div. And besides, wikipedia's SVG to PNG translator uses white as the default background anyway. Hope this helps! SVG is really handy for diagrams and whatnot, but its still a bit tricky to make compatible. Hopefully these problems will go away as the interpreters get better. Phidauex 15:39, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Good work on Atomic line filter

Glad to see its now featured! Good work. Phidauex 17:06, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

Outstanding. Wizzy…☎ 08:59, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Vishniac smiling.jpg

Can you explain how the image of Roman Vishniac on the Main Page – Image:Vishniac smiling.jpg – was authored by you? The description says it's a scan. Thanks in advance. -- tariqabjotu 00:43, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

The image was a scan of a print photograph taken by my father. I had this described at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Vishniac_smiling.jpg, but I don't mind your inquiry at all. Better safe than sorry. -- Rmrfstar 03:30, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

It wasn't described there. -- tariqabjotu 03:42, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Nice!

Good work on Roman Vishniac. I usually enjoy reading the main page articles, but this one is particularly good. Keep it up! savidan^{(talk) (e@)} 19:05, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Westport

Yikes. Westport is not up to par. It has a lot of information, but it's not presented well, plus it doesn't have enough sources. Or pictures. We should make it gooder. --Cryptic C62 17:24, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Portrait of Roman and Edith Vishniac

Found it! Thanks for reminding me. I'll take the negatives into a lab to get them scanned. BTW, I would love to find a way to get my experiences with the Vishniacs into the article. I am a science journalist and photographer. I got to know Roman and Edith when I invited Roman to give a slide lecture at a Yale University seminar in Scientific Photography that I taught for 3 semesters in 1976 and 1977. All three of his lectures packed the Trumbull College Master's house. I'd love to write up a brief story about them. Any idea of whom might be interested? (And then you can cite it :-) Having known them is one of the most rewarding things in my life. I wish I had kept in contact after I left the east coast. That's one of the most regretful things in my life.Askolnick 16:22, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

The negative is at the lab and I should have the scan later next week. Should only take me an hour or two to Photoshop it into a masterpiece. Thirty years ago (almost) I printed up a really lovely portrait of the love birds. I'm eager to see what I can now do with it digitally. Will upload it and email you so you can add it to the article. I don't normally give my photos away, but this one's for Roman and Edith. I also am having them scan a second negative, of just Roman, that I never printed. Will see how that comes out. Askolnick 04:53, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

Thank you. My information would add little about Roman's great art and accomplishments. But it does have a lot to say about him as a loving husband and about the wife that kept his slide projector focused during his lectures and enabled him to focus his attention and energies on his life's work. I think my photograph captures that a bit. And few of the experiences I had with Roman and Edith when they visited Yale to deliver his breath-taking slide lectures for the three semesters I taught there, also tell about the gentle love they had for each other. Askolnick 15:01, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

I got the scans back yesterday, ran them through Photoshop, and put them into the article. Do you know where Roman had his summer home? It was in one of the towns north of NYC. I no longer remember. That's where the photos were made. Askolnick 13:46, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Atomic line filter: Spellcheck gone awry?

they may be used for analyzing the earth's thermal libido, (diff)

I think you meant albedo. (The source requires a subscription.) -QuantumEngineer 17:37, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

I meant background radiation, but was probably thinking albedo... The sentence from the Gelbwachs is "These ... devices ... possess ... properties ... that are ideally suited for the detection of weak laser signals against the solar background in the visibile and against the earth's background in the IR.". I have corrected the article. -- Rmrfstar 23:52, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

That refers to filtering out the thermal background to detect a narrowband infrared signal, not to analyzing the background itself. Since this also makes more sense as a use requiring such a narrow filter, I have changed the article accordingly. -QuantumEngineer 13:53, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hippocrates

Er, you're welcome but, according to my memory (and to the history page of said article), I only edited it once. --N. Harmonik, 00:37, September 8, 2006

It's a great choice, but please note that the edits for the contest will be those made after the contest was announced. Danny 22:28, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

Hi again. One thing to note is that I am not judging the contest. I think that you should probably ask the judges their opinion, which I will certainly respect. You have done great work on that article, and it should be recognized. Danny 02:35, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Max Bruch copyright violation

No one has found the source for the copyright text that you've deleted from Max Bruch. Please leave a brief note at Talk:Max Bruch identifying the source of the copyright text (and re-delete if you choose). Don't alert me: I don't need to know. --Wetman 01:20, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Max Bruch

Abort! abort! Found the copyright text at http://www.richmondsymphony.com/concerts/note_04_21-24_06.htm and restored your quite correct deletion. --Wetman 01:26, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Sunrise

Hey Adam, can you have a look at the sixth paragraph in Sunrise, namely "Due to Earth's axial tilt, the direction of sunrise is always to the northeast from the March equinox to the September equinox and to the southeast from the September equinox to the March equinox." Sure there's a tilt but not so much to apply that statement to the southern hemisphere as well. Is it? Cheers. Moriori 22:06, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

Tks for response Adam. I will contact one of the regulars over at Astronomy. Moriori 20:02, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Paloma Herrera photo

Hi -- I started a discussion on the Ballet article's talk page about the legal status of the photo of Paloma Herrera as Sylvia. Do you think you could shed any light on this matter? Thanks in advance! --24.52.254.62 04:58, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Dear Sir/Madam

I notice you edited my homepage. Please never do this again. I find it offensive and rude. I see you have edited my homepage again, despite my warnings. DO NOT do this again! You have no right to do so, especially if you are going to use PERSONAL ATTACKS and SINGLE ME OUT to HARRASS! So LEAVE ME ALONE AND MY HOMEPAGE TOO! WHY ARE YOU FOLLOWING ME AROUND AND DELETING EVERYTHING I DO!!! STOP HARRASSING!!! Stop following me around. I mean it. Ever heard of STALKING?

[edit] Most common words in English

I would appreciate it if you would acknowledge the existence of my response at the talk page of Most common words in English. -- Dissident (Talk) 02:54, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Sylmurbel.jpg

Page disputes copyright, but this is a very good picture (which I use often) so can you help to clear the matter up? Thanks a bunch, — Editor at Large^(speak) 22:16, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

Sorry for the late reply... it has a speedy delete tag. see the image page on the commons. — Editor at Large^(speak) 19:42, 16 November 2006 (UTC)