User talk:Tarnas

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Contents 1 WILD! 2 Tayshaun Prince 3 I Agree 4 Analord 5 IFD nominations 6 Spelling on ...I Care Because You Do 7 Bladderlists 8 Nausicaä 9 ADV Films CfD 10 Illustrations 11 Buprenorphine 12 Directors Cfd 13 Red Eye (drug) 14 Hayao Miyazaki 15 Wow! 16 Image Tagging for Image:Hideaki_anno_face.jpg 17 Hi... 18 Graphics Lab

[edit] WILD!

Woot!

Tarnas 10:52, 15 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Tayshaun Prince

No offense, but Prince looks a bit different from that sketch, though it's a lot closer than I could ever do. But Detroit will win it again this year 8-) DDerby 17:56, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] I Agree

Yeah, the Tayshaun image was the first drawing in that style that I did, it's a bit squiggley, so I think I'll probably try to redo it. But I think the Larry Brown and Wes Anderson ones that I just made are better. No doubt though, I pick the Pistons to win it again, I don't think Miami will be a big problem (assuming they outlast the Nets and Bulls) and the West will get picked apart against Detroit (though Seattle looks good, I have them going far).

Thanks for the feedback though! Tarnas 20:16, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)

• Yeah, I couldn't let McDyess go without an article after watching Saturday's Detroit-Philly game. Thanks for helping with the article, as well as the other Pistons-related articles. The Larry Brown picture looks like him, but your style doesn't have enough detail to properly do his face, and of course needs color. I've never seen a photo of Wes Anderson, but the sketch looks good. DDerby 00:13, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)

• Well, that's the style I'm drawing in, which I really like personally: I think Brown's open mouth, furrowed brow, and tension in his clothes comes across well, and I purposely left his skin white to give it contrast against the rest of the picture. And I guess in general I'm just trying to illustrate these articles with faces that otherwise wouldn't be there since it's hard to find images that aren't copyright headaches, so I'm not trying to attain photographic-quality detail. But thanks again for the input, it's good to have your work noticed. And good starting the McDyess article, it was easy to expand on once it was on the table. Tarnas 00:49, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Your new pic of Tayshaun looks a lot like him, really captures his look on the court. Though the defender looks like a ghost. (mourning the Pistons' loss) 216.111.207.235 28 June 2005 17:03 (UTC)

that was me DDerby 03:56, 22 July 2005 (UTC)

• Thanks! The one I did before was pretty silly in comparison. I thought it would be a good idea to leave the defender gray and faceless, though, since the focus is on Prince and the image is crowded and small enough as it is, no need for visual overload. But yeah, it's bummer, the Pistons came in second place :( ...Thanks again for the feedback, though! --Tarnas 28 June 2005 19:03 (UTC)

[edit] Analord

Tarnas, your comments on the Talk:Analord page have been replied to. For future refrence, please take any and all personal comments about my edits up on my User Page. Thank you. --Insomniak 20:59, 28 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] IFD nominations

Hi. When nominating images for deletion on IFD, please remember to add the {{ifd}} tag on the image description page. Thanks. RedWolf June 28, 2005 04:51 (UTC)

• Sorry! I'll do that! --Tarnas 28 June 2005 05:59 (UTC)

[edit] Spelling on ...I Care Because You Do

Hi. I just undid two little of your recent changes to the album ...I Care Because You Do. No problemo, but just for your future reference and edits:

• "Analogue" (instead of "analog"): UK spelling is used for Commonwealth people or topics; it can at times be something of a PITA, but it also helps avoiding or minimizing petty edit wars about UK/US spellings. Also note that one of Aphex Twin's series under pseudonym is Analogue Bubblebath. – Please see WP:MOS#National_varieties_of_English

• "Track listing" (instead of "Tracklisting"): that's the standardized spelling adopted for this header. One point of this is that you should theoretically always be able to link to anchor #Track_listing with any album's wikilink, and have it working. – Please see WP:ALBUM

Regards, ←^#6  _talk 1 July 2005 18:52 (UTC)

• Alright, that makes sense. --Tarnas 1 July 2005 19:18 (UTC)

[edit] Bladderlists

I love the look of your new list! But I am concerned that tables are deprecated as methods of presenting lists because they make formatting harder for future editors (as well as the prob you pointed out with non-standard browsers). That said, you've have done better with the idea than I thought would be possible, and with little formatting. I've already made a separate page List of Utricularia species after the consensus om Helpdesk went that way. I'll keep your example tagged tho as I see it's a reasonable way to keep all the info in the one article. Thanks for the help! :-) ~ Veledan | Talk | c. 02:09, 6 August 2005 (UTC)

No problem, I'm glad you like the idea. :)  In this case though your List of Utricularia species is probably best, it's much easier to retain the images that way. —Tarnas 02:11, 6 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Nausicaä

I see where you're coming from, but think about it this way: I could hold that the manga is more important, as it took Miyazaki 13 years to finish, and is arguably his lifework. Who is right? It's a matter of opinion. By sticking to chronology we sidestep these messy issues - not just in this article, but on every anime/manga page this infobox finds itself on. - mako 22:19, 7 August 2005 (UTC)

I'm not trying to decide which has been more important as an artwork or to Miyazaki, I'm judging which is more important to the Wikipedia article and which information is the more relevant for quick presentation and consumption. If there were significantly more information on the manga, the manga would probably deserve primacy, but in that case there should probably be two separate infoboxes or even articles. As it is, the film is clearly the more primary topic. —Tarnas 00:00, 8 August 2005 (UTC)

My concept of the infobox is an objective display of information, which is why I consider chronology to be the better choice. I don't think the movie information is "lost at the bottom" at all, as it's a sidebar that the reader will see the whole of as s/he reads the article. But I can see your point, and to be honest, I have no strong feelings on this issue. If you do, feel free to change it back.

You're right that there probably should be two articles/boxes, and eventually/hopefully we'll get to two separate articles. It occurs to me that the manga section can be detached from the main infobox and used on its own, next to the manga section, without another header (which would feel redundant). That's one way to resolve this. - mako 01:24, 9 August 2005 (UTC)

It looks good now. —Tarnas 04:38, 9 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] ADV Films CfD

Hi there. The CfD for this cat is here; the closing admin concluded that the cat should be deleted without renamed or merged, so I cleared it out. Since cats have no memory, and undeleting the cat page won't help, the only way you could find out what was in there would be to look through my contribs list for yesterday. You'll be able to find the relevant section easily: I did them all in a row. Hope that helps. -Splash 14:02, 9 August 2005 (UTC)

Thanks! —Tarnas 18:48, 9 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Illustrations

Hi,

I think your illustrations are great. They impart a unique style on articles, similar to how the Wall Street Journal uses sketches. I hope you make more! Rhobite 02:50, August 11, 2005 (UTC)

I plan to, thanks for the feedback! A lot of other people despise the idea of these illustrations though: see Larry Brown's history, for instance. If you have any articles that are in need of public-domain portraits, you know my number! :) —Tarnas 08:55, 11 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Buprenorphine

G'day Tarnas, I hope you don't mind that I jumped in there and did a major subedit of the buprenorphine page. I did as best as I could with my limited exposure to buprenorphine therapy (methadone is more commonly used in New South Wales). No doubt the page still needs a bit of improvement. -Techelf 09:17, 21 August 2005 (UTC)

No problem, it's nice to shake things up, though you've deleted a lot of good information that I've reintegrated selectively and reformatted. The addiction treatment section still does need more work, but I'm glad you started chipping away at it! —Tarnas 20:08, 21 August 2005 (UTC)

Agreed, I was probably a bit too zealous in my content deletion. The edits look good. Cheers. -Techelf 12:08, 22 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Directors Cfd

Hi, I changed my vote on this Cfd, and thought I should let you know since you agreed with my earlier vote. The discussion following seemed like a logical solution. Please re-visit this discussion and see if you wish to change your vote accordingly, although you are not expected to. Thanks. ∞Who?¿? 18:17, 21 August 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads up... —Tarnas 20:00, 21 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Red Eye (drug)

Hi, I was wondering if you could explain your reasoning in saying that Red Eye (drug) was named incorrectly? The new title appears identical. Karmafist 04:11, 22 August 2005 (UTC)

The last article was "Red Eye(drug)", without a space between "Eye" and "(drug)". This is wrong. —Tarnas 04:57, 22 August 2005 (UTC)

There was nothing at Wikipedia:Naming conventions calling your claim "correct". Please cite sources before you say something is right or wrong. Karmafist 05:52, 22 August 2005 (UTC)

I'm sorry, I don't mean to be rude, but leaving out a space before a parenthetical like "(drug)" in "Red Eye(drug)" is so obviously wrong that it doesn't seem to have a stated policy. But look again at Wikipedia:Naming conventions... even though there's no stated policy, it's obvious that using a space is a standard: there are dozens of articles that follow the spacing usage I'm talking about and not a single one following the "Red Eye(drug)" format. I'm sure I don't need to spell it out any more, but here's a handful of examples:

• Wikipedia:Naming conventions (capitalization)
• Wikipedia:Naming conventions (plurals)
• Wikipedia:Naming conventions (adjectives)
• Wikipedia:Naming conventions (verbs)
• Wikipedia:Naming conventions (use English)
• Violin Concerto (Berg)
• Symphony No. 6 (Mahler)
• X (U.S. band)
• X (Australian band)

There are tens of thousands more article titles with spacing like this, and very few without this spacing. That's why I say the lack of a space is "wrong". —Tarnas 06:17, 22 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Hayao Miyazaki

Just mentioning that I saw Princess Mononoke for the first time the night before last (and again last night) - it was even better than everyone who recommended it said it was. DDerby(talk) 04:06, 22 September 2005 (UTC)

Cool! I'm glad you like it, it was the first Miyazaki film I saw and it's still about my favorite, though Miyazaki is like Wes Anderson for me, I like most of his movies about equally and in different ways. —Tarnas 01:25, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Wow!

Hi Tarnas, I'm an it.wiki sysop.
I'm writing just because I want to let you know how much I like your illustrations... amazing! When someone uploaded Miyazaki's one on the it.wiki's article I was very impressed... How did you realized them? I hope to see more of them very soon! Bye, shaka

PS: in addition to this, Miyazaki and Wes Anderson are two of my favourite directors, too...

• Thank you very much! I'm so surprised (and delighted!) to see my drawings spreading through the commons to wikipediae in other languages... :) I'm on a bit of a vacation from editing, but maybe now I'll do some more drawings and see how they're received. I make them based on composites of press and personal photographs and video stills of the persons in question: since they're only loose copies/composites of other people's and my own camera work, rendered in a non-photographic medium, and since I'm not claiming copyrights on the images I think they're ideal for illustrating wikipedia when only poor public-domain/copyleft images of the given subjects are available. Honestly, I'm just drawing them large in Photoshop and then sizing them down to smooth out the pixelated line edges, a time-consuming but no-frills process... Thanks again for your kind words! —Tarnas 18:56, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

Thank you for your drawings and for your explaination. Bye, shaka

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[edit] Hi...

..i'm El Tarantiniese and i don't spend so much time in en.wiki. I'm a italian user...
in italy doesn't exist the

so we must use free images. Can u (please) draw me a sketch of the Bride from Kill Bill, on the style of this image? THANK YOU, --El Tarantiniese 15:01, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Graphics Lab

I saw your name listed on Wikiproject Illustration or the list of graphic artists, and I thought I'd let you know that a Graphics Lab has been created on EN. Based on the highly successful French and German graphics labs, it seeks to better organise and coordinate our graphic design and photo-editing efforts. Up until now, there has been no common space on EN where users could ask for maps, charts and other SVG files to be created. What's more, the Graphics Lab has discussion boards, tips, tools and links; in sum, a good common workspace. Come help us out! The infrastucture is already in place, and now we need participants. :) --Zantastik talk 02:07, 12 December 2006 (UTC)