User talk:Guthrie

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[edit] Welcome to the Wikipedia

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[edit] Clothing and fashion stubs

We already have Template:Fashion-stub, which covers clothing and fashion articles. I don't see any need for another one. It was a good idea, though—such a good idea that someone else created it. ;) -Aranel ("Sarah") 15:44, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)

  • Sorry. Guthrie 13:27, Mar 15, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Dirty Weekend

You wrote: "Blackpool has erected a monument to the 'underlying tension of a dirty weekend'." in the Dirty Weekend article. Could you please substantiate this or give additional information? --Maikel 11:00, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

Yoo-hoo! Anybody there? --Maikel 14:33, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
I'm here; I still can't find my source. It was an AOL news story (Weird news from the wires), I think. --Guthrie 13:41, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
Anyway, thanks for looking. --Maikel 13:09, 5 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Old Toby stub sort

I debated with myself about whether to add the stub tag as {{US-bio-stub}} or {{bio-stub}}. I ended up choosing {{bio-stub}} because this person was never of the United States. Unfortunately, there's no {{nativeamerican-stub}} or the like. I'm not sure that it matters which stub category of the two possible choices it remains in. Without something else to identify it as regarding a Native American it may never get the attention it needs. At least in {{bio-stub}} it would be one of ~470 articles, whereas in {{US-bio-stub}} it is one of ~3900. --Durin 04:16, 23 September 2005 (UTC)

sorry. I'll revert. --Guthrie 12:26, 23 September 2005 (UTC)
I wasn't trying to convince you to revert. Sorry if I wasn't clear; my fault. Mainly I just wanted to convey that stub-sorting should be considered a bit more carefully at times. Sometimes, it's very obvious what stub cat an article should be in. Sometimes, it's not so clear. This is one of the latter cases. It's a judgement call as to which category it belongs in. I'll wager that it'll get re-tagged back into {{US-bio-stub}} by somebody else. {{bio-stub}} is watched very closely. --Durin 13:24, 23 September 2005 (UTC)
Too bad I didn't place money on that wager. Less than 24 hours later, and someone's pushed it back over to {{US-bio-stub}}! Oh well. --Durin 22:07, 23 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Image Tagging for Image:IMGP0463.JPG

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[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:National Building Museum - McMansion.jpg

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[edit] Nurse-bio-stub

Hi - it has come to our notice that you have recently created a new stub type. As it clearly states at WP:STUB, at the top of most stub categories, on the template page for new Wikiprojects and in many other places on Wikipedia, new stub types should be proposed prior to creation at Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals, in order to check whether the new stub type is already covered by existing stub types, whether it is named according to stub naming guidelines, whether it reaches the standard threshold for creation of a new stub type, whether it crosses existing stub type hierarchies, and whether better use could be made of a WikiProject-specific talk page template.

In the case of your new stub type, it is already covered by existing stub types, since medical biographies are split by nationality, not by actual occupation within medicine (many people have served in several different roles within the profession, so splitting it in this way is not really a good move. You stub type has been proposed for deletion at WP:SFD - feel free to make any comments there. And please, in future, propose new stub types first! Grutness...wha? 23:09, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Flagging edits as minor

Hello. I saw your user contributions and it seems that you mark nearly all (if not, all) of your edits as "minor". This is inappropriate for some of your edits, such as this one or this one. Minor edits are not simply small edits, but are more limited to the type of editing. Please read the help page on minor editing to see what edits truely qualify as minor and which ones should just be simply called edits. This helps other editors in looking through the history of articles and some editors do not view minor edits. If you mark all of your contributions as minor (even when they are not), it gives the false appearance to others that you may be trying to hide or disguise your more significant edits. Thanks. ju66l3r 22:44, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

I use this because the majority of my edits are minor (Spelling and grammar corrections, simple formatting, fixing layout errors, adding links and so forth). But I will be a little more choosy in the future about what I mark as minor. Thank you. Guthrie 15:32, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Infrared with the Digital Rebel

From Googling, it seems that the filter factor for the Hoya R72 is quite large: that what might need a fraction of a second even at ISO 100 would require many seconds or even minutes with the R72 on. That's quite likely the case with the sample image given. If you look at that picture's Image page, you can click on "Show extended details" to see the shutter speed, aperture, etc. I'm not sure the image needs to be flipped, because if the hexagonal spot in the center can't be explained away with "the photographer didn't put a lens hood on his camera" then flippling the image would be misleading. I could be wrong, though. ShutterBugTrekker 22:53, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

It needs to be flipped because the image is wrongly aligned. If you look at the image, you'll see that the background is a building. Also, filters don't usually cause the image to be misaligned. Guthrie 19:24, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

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