User talk:Fred Hsu

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I came across your page on autostereogram's and was impressed enough to come by and tell you. I love the pages that are loaded with instructive images and diagrams. I was palpably impressed. Really, I even commented aloud to myself. --Clngre 02:34, Mar 21, 2005 (UTC)

Awesome job updating the autostereogram page with tons of valuable content and images. Thanks! --Whiterox 15:18, Mar 26, 2005 (UTC)

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[edit] Autostereogram

I've nominated Autostereogram for Featured Article status, and I see from the talk page that you were quite involved with creating the fantastic article that is there now. I thought you'd like to know, both for self-gratification and so that you have a chance to take part in the process. I don't think I know enough about the subject to address many of the issues that could be raised, especially as I don't see any problems with it at all! Skittle 16:05, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Monobook

Congratulations on getting the dates tab in your monobook to work. Feel free to use it on the rest of your watchlist and any other pages in the category or elsewhere. Keep up the good work. bobblewik 18:58, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Executive order

No problem. Question though, are executive orders in fact law? I think so, but am not sure V. Joe 00:20, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Autostereogram

There's an unwritten rule that you need to wait two weeks from the close of the previous nomination to uncontroversially renominate an article. This one seems like a bit of an odd case -- it got so very little input in its so-very-long time of FAC; I'm not sure what happened there. You do seem to have addressed the objections, as far as I can tell, but maybe your best bet would be to try another Peer Review first, to really make sure all the i's are dotted and t's are crossed. —Bunchofgrapes (talk) 02:50, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

Good plan in general. I was wondering what happened with this nom too; hardly anyone seemed to be commenting, and some of the comments seemed to bear little relation to the article that was there. I was going to renom if you didn't, when you'd finished tweaking, but it's probably better if you do, since you'll know when you're done. I'd like to help with the article if I can, but I really know so little about the subject. If there's any slog-work you want done, let me know. Skittle 08:14, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

Nice job. Are you Freddie in There.com? I recognized the dolphin board in the Autostereogram article. Stuff like yours is what first got me into designing [netrider6 in There].--Viridis 03:36, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

  • Indeed. Nice to see you here. I haven't logged in for the longest time, but I still check out the There forums sometimes. And once in a blue moon I'll get an email from some There user asking me to relist some of my stuff in auction :) Fred Hsu 04:03, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

Good work getting Autostereogram to be a featured article! -AED 03:45, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

  • Thank you, too, for your many additions today. Fred Hsu 04:03, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] River Out of Eden

My apologies for not replying to your messages earlier. I have been quite inactive on wikipedia recently. Well done on the rewrite of the article, I'd say it was very successful, and a nice article is now in place. Keep up the good work! Mushintalk 23:52, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Stereogram image

Image:Autostereogram.png seems to have no information about the software used to generate it, and hence no idnication of the terms under which that software does or does not release such work. Could you please expand the information there? Thanks. -Harmil 13:04, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

I wrote a program to generate it. See Creating Stereograms in Talk:Autostereogram. I'll add more info to these images tomorrow, after this Today's Featured Article vandalism dies down.

[edit] On your site

I came across this short story on your site, and I'm wondering what the copyright status on it is and what policies you have on linking and derivative work. Thanks. --Euniana/Talk/Blog 02:49, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

  • I wrote that short story, as well as the other one (Play) :) I just updated the Short Stories page to clarify authorship. Thanks for bringing this up, so I can correct it. Fred Hsu 17:58, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
  • Ah, I should have read your sentences with more attention. Feel free to link to it, if you enjoy my short story (or my pages). As long as you give me credit at the end, feel free to derive work on it. Fred Hsu 18:06, 23 September 2006 (UTC)


Thanks for clarifying. I asked because I came across that wonderful story the other day and decided to dig into it. It took me a bit of crunching and looking over references, and I ended up with this, which I reckon would probably make an interesting read for other people. Cheers. --Euniana/Talk/Blog 19:37, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

  • Wow. Now, that is most amazing. I don't know how you managed to translated it to English so perfectly. Do you intend to keep it up on your website permanently? If so, I would like to link to it from my own page! Fred Hsu 20:21, 23 September 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Hey

Thank you for your kind words. However, you forgot to sign. Fix it. NOW. jk.--SweetNeo85 03:35, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

Ah, just did :) Fred Hsu 11:59, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Encyclopedia versus research assignment for Mitochondrial Eve

Wikipedia is a general audience encyclopedia. If an article requires that a book on the topic must be read first in order to understand the article, the article is not appropriate for Wikipedia. The Mitochondrial Eve article is bad enough, without the: "Read a book or two then come back" tag being added. KP Botany 23:14, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

Issue was hopefully resolved in the talk page. Fred Hsu 17:12, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Color blindness

I've now responded on the talk page. In case you haven't read it, the previous section on the talk page is related. I'm hoping our discussion will make it clearer for editors such as Jjean3 as well. --Ronz 16:55, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

I added my thoughts on that one as well. I agree with you there. But, I did not write the Visolve software, nor am I asking people to test it. These are two different issues. Please do not group them into the same category. Can you please restore the external link, until we come to an agreement on the talk page? Thanks. Fred Hsu 17:15, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

I'm unhappy with this situation and think moderation might be necessary. You don't appear to be reading what I've written and are responding with uncivility and some hostility. What do you think? --Ronz 21:14, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
Ronz, what leads you to think that I am not reading what you wrote? Please see my comment on the talk page: Talk:Color_blindness#external_links. I believe I addressed your concerns. Have you address mine? My main problem is with the seemingly arbitrary selection of links for removal. Fred Hsu 21:42, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
I'm awaiting some response from you concerning the incivility and hostility. Looks like I'm not going to get any.
As for removal of links: I've given more information about their removal than the contributors have for their inclusion. Sorry that you don't like the level of detail in my explanations. --Ronz 21:50, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

Could you stop with claims of what my perspective is? [1] --Ronz 03:43, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

Sigh. Online forums and wikipedia talk pages are really not conducive to 'civilized' discussions. The 'feeling' of invicility and hostility was reciprocal :( If we talked face to face about this issue, I am sure things would have gone much better. I apologize for putting words in your mouth. I am doing research on this topic in the next few weeks. I'll try to create sub-articles on this topic to address tools, tests, etc. when I feel more confident about these issues. I'll check the original external links and see which ones I can salvage. Fred Hsu 04:01, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
Thanks. --Ronz 04:55, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Your image

You might want to take a look at Wikipedia:Village pump (news)#Use of a wikipedia image without any notice as it looks to be your imaged, licensed under the GFDL which a site publisher has not properly fulfilled the license conditions Nil Einne 14:40, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

Thank you. I followed up on the Village pump page. Fred Hsu 15:36, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Images used in color blindness article

I regret that I failed to properly offer a rationale for the images uploaded for use in the Color blindness article. I have found a better example which is ineligible for copyright protection. As such alterations of that original image is also ineligible for copyright protection.

SonPraises 17:16, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

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