User talk:Tiger99
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Hope to see you around the Wiki! If you have any questions whatsoever, feel free to contact me on my talk page :)Joe I 19:47, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Alva
Thanks for your great additions to Alva, Scotland. One think to note: Wikipedia's software has code to automatically scale down images to a thumbnail of whatever size an article needs. So I've changed the code on that page to directly reference Image:Alva1.jpg (and moved it to a more standard locstion on the article). You may wish to refine the caption I have the picture on the Alva article, and Wikipedia:Images is a good starting point for finding more info about how images work at Wikipedia. And a warm welcome and belated happy-new-year from me, too. -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 14:27, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
Finlay, Thanks for the advice, which I will put into practice on the other pages I have been working on (Tillicoultry, Menstrie.....). I did want to achieve the exact layout that you have done, but could not find out how to do it in the help system. I know how to do most of this in standard HTML, but am very new to the Wikipedia system. And a happy new year to you too. I was in Alva and Menstrie a few days ago, but sadly am now back in London. Tiger99 17:34, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Map for Hillfoots Villages
We can, I hope, do rather better than a Google exlink for a map to Hillfoots Villages. I uploaded Image:Wfm hillfoots scotland landsat.jpg, which is from the same public-domain NASA Landsat source as Google use (Google Maps/Google Earth only has a few parts of metropolitan Glasgow and Edinburgh covered with copyrighted commercial imagery).
If you're feeling graphically-inclined, feel free to fix up a map based on it. In theory I'll get around to it sometime, but in practice I have a long track record of half-finished mapping projects ;( -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 19:34, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
Finlay, thanks for the info, Like you, I have a history of half-finished things, but will try to get around to it soon, as it sounds like a good idea.
