User talk:Jleedev
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Thanks for the stick figure. [[User:Meelar|Meelar (talk)]] 20:54, Sep 11, 2004 (UTC)
- Anytime. :-) -Jleedev 20:58, Sep 11, 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Possessives
For linking to conjugations of words the parser doesn't pick up on, use the pipe syntax, like this: [[David Bowie|David Bowie's]] a god which gives David Bowie's a god (and which, despite being true, might not be NPOV). --fvw* 04:50, 2004 Dec 28 (UTC)
- Haha. Yeah I saw that on David Bowie, but I was wondering if the parser could do it automatically. (BTW I agree). --Josh Lee 04:58, Dec 28, 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Color depth
Hope the revised Color depth is to your liking. 80.42.92.16 20:40, 1 Feb 2005 (UTC)
- Yay! You rock! --Josh Lee 22:00, Feb 1, 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Modular electronics diagrams
What do you think of this proposal?
Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#Modular_electronics_diagrams
Please leave comments there. Just bringing this to the attention of a handful of people who might care... - Omegatron 00:57, Mar 6, 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Images from commons
To use an image from the Commons, just type the link as normal:
You can see the image page just links to the Commons equivalent. - Omegatron 14:19, Apr 5, 2005 (UTC)
- Oh yeah I know how to do that now. But when you go to Upload file it says "you should upload to the Commons, because then you can use it everywhere." I think they shold make it more clear that the link syntax is the same. Just my 2¢. —Josh Lee 20:59, Apr 5, 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Swatch template
Why exactly did you change the swatch template a couple of months ago? It worked just fine before. Is there a specific page in which you wanted it to do something different? --jacobolus (t) 09:38, 25 May 2005 (UTC)
- Some guy on Template talk:Swatch wanted to be able to read the name of the color (before, it was just a tooltip), and I agreed. I think it's perfectly fine with the color name below. —Josh Lee 19:36, May 25, 2005 (UTC)
[edit] COTW Project
You voted for Roaring Twenties, this week's Collaboration of the week. Please come and help it become a featured-standard article. Falphin 03:35, 31 May 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Image:Pencil manufacture.JPG
Silly typo... Good edit though, can't see it's been done. Thanks! Eixo 08:25, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
[edit] TOC after Usage
The TOC below Usage in Template talk:Clear was part of a separator to encourage separation of documentation and discussion. (SEWilco 29 June 2005 02:58 (UTC))
[edit] Making a face
Hi Jleedev — I saw your request for a image to illustrate Making a face. Would the third image down in Image:PhotoBoothStrip.jpg do? (Don't worry about image quality — the original is of very high dpi and so can easily be cropped). — Asbestos | Talk 1 July 2005 13:48 (UTC)
- That would be hilarious. Do it! —Josh Lee July 1, 2005 21:56 (UTC)
[edit] Uploading images to commons
I notice you've created and uploaded a fair number number of drawings. Can I recommend you upload future ones onto Wikipedia Commons? That way they'd be available to every wiki project, and people in de.wikipedia.org, for example, wouldn't need to download, save and re-upload your image to use it. Indeed, if you feel up to it, you could even re-upload all your existing images to the commons and mark the ones residing here for deletion.
Uploading an image onto the commons is as easy as uploading it here (though you'd need to create a commons username), and to link to a commons image you just use it's name exactly as you would do for an image here — the server will automatically try to find the image in commons if it doesn't find a version on en.
And since you have a mission to illustrate every corner of Wikipedia, you might want to list yourself on Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Graphic artists.
Good luck! — Asbestos | Talk 3 July 2005 16:32 (UTC)
- Oh wait, looking further I see you've already started uploading files to the commons. Ok - forget my previous message! — Asbestos | Talk 3 July 2005 16:37 (UTC)
[edit] Triangulation
Could you, pls, remove the picture, you've added to the triangulation article. Or at least change the describing text. Why? Because it's false.
It is obviously impossible for the ship to do what you wrote. There are many different methods the ship crew can use to determine their distance to the shore—but the one you described is just impossible. If you want to measure the angle at A, you need to be at A. If they want to measure α angle, they would have to land, and walk to the A point, so that they could measure the angle between line AB and line A-ship. Of course, the ship would have to get back to its prevoius position at the sea. Then the ship must stay and wait until the crew walk to the B point to measure the A-B-ship angle (i.e. β). (Meanwhile, during the walk they measure the length l.) Then the ship might approach the beach again, take the crew on board, sail back again to the initial position, and then they could say 'We measured our distance to the shore—providing that we managed to get back to the same place, which is almost impossible, and absolutely not verifiable.'
So, it is not possible for a ship to determine its position by a triangulation. The only element of the triangle the ship can measure is γ, the third angle. However, knowing γ (and possibly l, which might be predetermined by choosing well-known points A and B) is not enough to solve the triangle.
Instead the method can be easily used by a land-based service to determine the ship's position. It's enough to have two watchmen at A and B at the same time. In fact this same method is used e.g. by forest watch to determine the position of fire visible from two watchtowers. --CiaPan 23:15, 12 September 2005 (UTC)
- Really? I had assumed that it would be possible to measure an angle with respect to the shore, and then apply a theorem such as alternate interior angles. If it isn't possible for the ship to determine what is parallel or perpendicular to the shore, I'll change the caption. —Josh Lee 00:38, September 13, 2005 (UTC)
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- Yes, really.
You need to be at the A point to measure α angle. Let's see if I can explain it (my English is not fluent enough, and sometimes I miss some technical expressions). - Imagine the measurement. In the low scale, if you have the angle drawn (plotted) on a sheet of paper, you place a protractor at it, fitting its centre at the angle's vertex; then you read numbers on angle's rays – and their difference gives the result.
- In the large scale you have no solid lines, neither drawn on a surface nor given by some bodies edges. This is the case of a ship: the angle is given by three distant points, and there is no way to materialize the triangle sides. The only way to do what you need is using a light ray as a straight line. So you put a special protractor at the A point, and aim your sight through A to B; when you get the proper position, so you see the A point aligned to B, you know your eye is on the straight line AB; then you look a bit lower and read a value on the protractor's scale, which falls at the same line (i.e. which fits between A, the protractor's centre, and B, the distant aim point.) Then you do the same with the C point (a ship), and calculate the difference, which is the result. That is how theodolite with its horizontal circle works.
- Anyway, whatever you do, you can not measure α at the coast while you are on a ship. Try yourself – choose any two distant point, say two trees or two buildings' corners on the other side of the street; name them A and B, and name your own position C; then try to measure the α=BAC angle. But remember: you may not move from C point during the measure (you do not leave a ship to determine its position).
- CiaPan 10:50, 13 September 2005 (UTC)
- Yes, really.
- At any rate, I've changed the caption so that it's from the perspective of the shore. Thanks for the help. —Josh Lee 19:31, 13 September 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Wikiquote
Hello, I think it was agreed not to use this back in May, please look at [1]. Thanks Arniep 03:59, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Gurn
In June, you asked for a picture for Gurn. Does User:HorsePunchKid's facial expression match this description? if so, you might ask him if his image could be used. Or, why not make the face yourself? Cheers, --Mr. Billion 04:59, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Image:Stick_Figure.png
The image you uploaded tachnically is ineligible for copyright, because a stick figure is common knowledge. see Template:PD-ineligible. SYSS Mouse 03:18, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Request for edit summary
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[edit] Spelling
Thank you for not only correcting my appalling spelling, but for using an edit summary which will probably help me to spell 'separate' correctly for all eternity :) The JPS 16:15, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
- I guess I've discovered the real purpose of edit summaries. :) —Josh Lee 22:10, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] Transversal Line
Jleedev,
I was wondering if you could change your image: Parallel_lines.png (on the transversal line page) to help me to better decribe transversal lines. If you can, please change the symbols used on the top set of angles to 1,2,3,4 (in a counter-clockwise rotation) and the symbols used on the bottom set of angles to 5,6,7,8 (in a clockwise rotation).
Thanks,
Mv51691 19:38, 6 October 2006 (UTC)mv51691
A Graphic Lab have Started on Wikipedia-en. You can help by reading this page, and help to copying some page from the french version.To learn how work a Graphic Lab, please see the French and Deutsch Graphic Labs : Deutsch | Français (which are already working).
Please, talk about this to other users who can be interesting. Yug (talk) 19:43, 4 December 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 02:09, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
