User talk:Dom0803

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[edit] Articles you've created

Hi. Nice job on the Gilnahirk article you created. You might want to take a look at changes I made to make it look a little more like other articles. Notice that each article has a talk page where you can add comments that may not be appropriate for the article itself. You also should refrain from adding your user name to the actual article. People will be able to see you created the article by looking at its history. Thanks and keep up the good work!  :) —Wknight94 (talk) 21:52, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] License tagging for Image:DSCF6404.JPG

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[edit] Reply

Hi Dom - I left you a reply on my talk page.

I see you're from Northern Ireland (Belfast in fact, like myself), so maybe you'd be interested in helping out with some project pages I've created specifically with a view to extending and improving coverage of articles relating to Northern Ireland.

Cheers. --Mal 09:54, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

Hey again - I left you another reply. You probably have my talk page on your watchlist as you've edited it, so you can look out for any replies from me on there. :) --Mal 11:19, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Irish coffee

That's a great picture on the Irish coffee page. I think my mother has that same old trusty cookbook at home! It has some quality old-school recipes. Garethhamilton 11:21, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Use of {{stub}} is no longer recommended

Hello,

Thank you for your stub submission. You may wish to note that it is preferable to use a stub template from Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Stub types instead of using simply {{stub}}, if you can.

Thanks! -- Where 18:50, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image:DSCF6412.JPG listed for deletion

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[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:JetFillingStation.jpg

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According to information supplied by the Northern Ireland Office and a former senior civil servant in Stormont, it is Stormont House. If they say it, then we go by it. FearÉIREANN\(caint) 20:12, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Maps

Hi Dom0803 - good work on the location maps - I actually found out how to do this just now via the UK notice board, played around with it in my sandbox, added one to Dublin, headed over to the Irish notice board, and realised you had already explained all :-). However, I'm trying to figure out one for Greater Dublin - do you need to create a new orthographic map (whatever that is) or something else? Again, I'm trying to educate myself (albeit slightly half-heartedly), so a gentle nudge in the right direction would be enough :-) Cheers. Cormaggio @ 10:28, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks very much, mate. Generally it's pretty simple. I can't remember exactly how I learnt how to make them, I just done a little bit of thinking on how the others worked, and generally copied it. If you go into the template page for the map itself Template:Location map Ireland and click edit, you can see the source code for it. My advice to you is rip it. Simply copy it, and then using a mapper get the image of the greater Dublin or wherever, and then add that image and link the source code to that image. Let's take a look at the source code and compare it to my key below it.;


{{#switch:{{{1}}}| |name=Ireland |top=55.45 |bottom=51.38 |left=-10.71 |right=-5.33 |image=TemplatemapIreland.jpg }}<noinclude>see {{tl|Location map}}</noinclude>
Key
{{#switch:{{{1}}}| |name=A |top=B |bottom=C |left=-D |right=-E |image=F }}<noinclude>see {{tl|Location map}}</noinclude>

  • A - This is the name of the location map. In Ireland's case, it is, 'Ireland'
  • B - This is the top co-ordinate for the most northernly visible piece of land. Use Multimap to get the co-ords. Only use the ones in the brackets.
  • C - Same applies to C, as B. Make sure your map in multimap and your GiS mapping software are the same. The more precise the two the more precise reading you willg et. Also, make sure you don't repeat North! If it's left=*.** obviously it's asking for the most westernly visible piece of land.
  • D - Same as B,C
  • E - Same as B,C,D
  • F - This is the image of the actual map itself (from your GiS software) in Ireland's case it is Image:TemplatemapIreland.jpg.


What you need to do is open your GiS application, and multimap. Get them both to the same zoom. Save your GiS map as an image, do any necessery colour editing if required, and then upload the image to Wikipedia (I recommend using a map with no location names or anything as you can see in my maps. Afterall, that kind of defeats the purpose of the location map. Anyway, upload the image, and stick the image name into the F field. Then take your co-ords for N, E, S, W (the ones in the brackets *.**) and put them into their respectful place. Simply create a page and name it Template:Location map *name of location*. Your map will then be available for putting into pages using any of the codes found Template:Location_map#Examples here.

I hope this helped you and anyone needing the help. :) If you have anymore questions just ask. If you wish, post the above text anywhere you see fit, but if you could, give me some credit for it. thanks. --Dom0803 22:15, 19 July 2006 (UTC)


Well, thank you very much! This is really good info - and I hope I can put it into action soon, and start experimenting myself. Actually, I'm more involved in getting Wikiversity set up, and this kind of info would be great to put in there about educating people about maps and templates (for a start). I want to make Wikiversity really practical for the other projects - so I'll be including this in some form (with credit, of course). Cheers! Cormaggio @ 11:05, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
I'll certainly let you know when we get Wikiversity up and running (it should be quite soon indeed, before Wikimania anyway). From what I've seen, you'd be a great teacher of Wikimedians :-) Cormaggio @ 16:15, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] License tagging for Image:FISRresults.jpg

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[edit] Photos

Hi, If you're keen on photographing places in N Ireland, you might like to contribute to http://www.geograph.org.uk a project to get at least one photograph typical of each 1 km Ordnance Survey map square in the British Isles. There's lots to do in NI. There's also a specific copyright template in http://commons.wikimedia.org if you want to load your photos there too. From commons they can be directly linked in other wikimedia projects. There's an example of mine at http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5998 http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:DSCF0028R.jpg Helen's Bay railway station --Cavrdg 19:09, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

For finding co-ordinates, I usually use an old-fashioned paper map or my gps but http://www.election-maps.co.uk is good is as the status bar shows the co-ordinates of the cursor, though the format needs a bit of converting - take the second and third digits of each and add the appropriate letter. --Cavrdg 06:10, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Map tutorials at Wikiversity

Hi Dom, your suggestion to develop a map tutorial (or something similar) on Wikiversity is fantastic! I'd love to see Wikiversity providing useful resources for the Wikimedia community, as well as promoting a spirit of learning skills we need in working on those projects. Thanks very much :-). Cormaggio @ 10:06, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

Looks like you've done some good work on the maps thang. I've not had a good look at it all yet, but regarding maps of places in Northern Ireland - would images of the individual counties help, or have you got that sorted? (I'm not sure how it all works yet). --Mal 21:31, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Belfast WikiProject

As you have contributed to an article relating to Belfast, I hope you could take some time to read this page about our new project: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Belfast.

Thanks. --Mal 01:54, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] NI Project

Dom I've taken the liberty of adding the Northern Ireland WikiProject userbox to your userpage. It adds you to the category Category:WikiProject Northern Ireland participants. Feel free to remove it if you want to, or obviously move it somewhere else. Sorry for any inconvenience if you didn't want it there. Cheers, --Mal 21:17, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

Hey that's no problems Mal! You stuck it in the right place and that's all that matters :P --Dom0803 23:25, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] NI Counties

Hey again Dom. I noticed you created the Northern Ireland counties article. I was wondering if we should create a category also, albeit there only being six counties. It should be a sub-cat of Category:Counties of Ireland and also of the UK counties or whatever, if such a cat exists. I know there has been some conflict, specifically regarding English "traditional" counties or "historical" counties or whatever.. which leads me on to my next point: County Londonderry (or Co. Derry if you prefer) was originally County Coleraine. How do you see that fitting into the category and/or article?

A lot of fine work you've been doing by the way, from what I can see. :) I've changed the project pages a bit over the past few days - there are new sub-pages. I have to tag them all with the project template at some point! If you've any suggestions for either the Belshaft one or the Norn Irn one, please let me know, or throw a comment up on the talk pages. Cheers. --Mal 21:10, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks very much, Mal. Much appreceated. That's a good question.. I'm not sure really. It is a little controversial.. I was considering slapping in the {{neutrality}} but I figured it would look ugly, I then specified that the city had changed to Derry, but the county had retained London. I'm pretty sure a lot more would have to have been changed, and it would have been very troublesom. Let me give your questions some thought. Now if you'll excuse me it's a Friday night and I've got beers to drink! --Dom0803 21:29, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

I'm off the drink for a while - antibiotics!

Anyway.. I thought, since you were into the mapping thang, that you might want to take a look at the UK Geography project talk page here: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject UK geography#New infobox maps option --Mal 11:50, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Selected x

I left you a message on the NI Portal talk page Dom, about the selected images, bios and articles. --Mal 04:31, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

Cheers Mal. I too am on a break so to speak.. I'm visiting here but doing absolutley nothing.. work has me beat.. I sit at a desk all day long and when I come home I don't really want to do it some more, but due to the lack of everything around here I have no choice, so instead I moap around reading articles/feeling sorry for myself.

I'll regain some activity soonish probably. --Dom0803 21:22, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

Hi Dom. I'm just reading this reply now because its time to change the selected pic for the NI Portal. Your nomination won because there were no others nominated. Could you write a bit of blurb for the pic here: Portal:Northern Ireland/Selected picture, if you have the time. Cheers.

Hope you're in a better mood mate! Don't let the bastards grind ya down! lol :) --Mal 04:09, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] UK place infobox

You might be interested in the new development of Template:Infobox UK place and the discussion. I'm sure your help would be appreciated. -- Mal 02:42, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Image:DSCF0195.JPG

Hello. I'm a bit confused by you saying this is your own work. It seems to me to be a reproduction of a copyrighted map? Please get back to me as soon as possible. Thank you. Mark83 21:45, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

And do you not think your comment that "Three things in life are certain. Death, taxes and Nationalists refusing to believe they walk on British soil" is a sweeping and potentially offensive statement? I think you'll find most republicans would object to the statement that Northern Ireland is "British soil". However as far as nationalists go I would suggest that the majority recognise that Northern Ireland is a legitmate part of the United Kingdom (whether they agree with the "right" or "wrong" of that). It doesn't matter whether you agree with me or not, you should restrict your talk page comments to discussing the article, not join others in hurling abuse. Thank you. Mark83 21:53, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Welcome. I can see your point and I understand it was likely offencive. It's just my opinion in strong form. In work one day the person who sits across from me asked another colleague "How many counties does this country have again?" Upon about to answer "Six", someone replied "Thirty six". This is obviously claiming that the island is one country which it technically is not. Why do some, if not all, think that this is one country when to be horribly precise - it isn't?

@Mark: Let's face it. Who really cares? The map is over 10 years old, you can't see the copyright symbol, you can't see the creators, you can't even see some roads that are here now. Don't worry mate, the world will continue to revolve.

I forgot how much fun Wikipedia was. --Dom0803 18:34, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

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