User talk:Lan56

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ClockworkTroll 05:33, 10 Oct 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Long Beach?

Where did you take the picture that you recently added to the Long Beach, California article? BlankVerse ∅ 07:55, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Your description makes it sound like you weren't anywhere near Long Beach when you took the picture. FYI: Baldwin Hills is north of LAX, but the Crenshaw exit off the 405 is in Torrance, south of LAX.
My guess from the large number of railroad tracks in the picture is that you might have been somewhere near Alameda St., which is on the border between Carson and Long Beach (but with much the railroad tracks are actually part of a sliver of the Port of Los Angeles (see the very bottom right corner of p.764 of your Thomas Guide if you have one)). I think that almost all of your picture is of the Dominguez area of Carson, so it should probably be removed from the Long Beach article.
Just a suggestion: I've never seen anything that suggests this, but by tradition all the posts to User Talk pages are usually bottom posted on the Wikipedia. BlankVerse ∅ 11:42, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Just my personal opinion, but I don't think that your picture (shot from the freeway) would add much to the Carson, California article. If I owned a digital camera and wanted to add something to that particular article, I'd get a nice picture of the Home Depot Center or the adjacent velodrome (both on the CSUDH campus), or maybe try to get a picture of the Goodyear blimp "Spirit of America" at the Goodyear Airship Operations Center. There is also the Dominguez Ranch Adobe. (What! No Goodyear blimp article? Someone needs to write one.) BlankVerse ∅ 07:05, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Julia Stiles

Salve, Lan56!
Thanks for your comments on WP:PR re my article Julia Stiles. I've since nominated it for featured status and would welcome your vote of support at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Julia Stiles. Ave! PedanticallySpeaking 21:18, Mar 14, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Uh...those new photos are really ugly...

Hello:

I have posted my response to your photos on the Talk:Los Angeles page.

--Coolcaesar 23:56, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Maybe Katie

Salve, Lan56!
You were kind enough to support my Julia Stiles article when I nominated it for featured status. My Katie Holmes article is now also a FAC here and I wonder if you would offer your comments. PedanticallySpeaking 15:26, Apr 18, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] BZFlag

Screenshots of software, even free software, are not public domain or GFDL-compatible. Please reupload them here and tag them as {{screenshot}}; fair use is not allowed on commons. Thanks though for the basketball diagram - it's now on my user page :) --SPUI (talk) 15:16, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Oops, sorry. Didn't realize GPL and LGPL was OK for images. I am retagging them all LGPL. --SPUI (talk) 15:24, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Image:College Street and Broadway, Chinatown, LA.JPG

re:Image:College Street and Broadway, Chinatown, LA.JPG: Since this image doesn't show any details that would indicate that it was in Chinatown, it would probably be better to crop it so that most of the picture was the street sign (you also can see the Chinese writing much better that way). It's a shame you didn't photograph the street sign facing directly at it. BlankVerse ∅ 11:16, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Interested in an L.A.-area Wiki meetup?

It appears as though L.A. has never had a Wiki meetup. Would you be interested in attending such an event? If so, checkout User:Eric Shalov/Wikimeetup

Eric 19:28, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Tom Brinkman

You were kind enough to support my nomination of Julia Stiles as a featured article and I wonder if you would look at my newest FAC, Tom Brinkman. The voting page is at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Tom Brinkman. PedanticallySpeaking 14:58, July 29, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] WP SoCal

Since you are in Southern California, I'll like to point out the fairly new Soutnern California WikiProject (as well as State-wide WikiProject. Please take a look and see if there is anything that interests you. Also, since you once said that you were interested in skyscrapers, I've found a list of the 327 tallest buildings in the LA area here. BlankVerse ∅ 12:30, 2 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Back Again

Lan56,
I don't think I thanked you for supporting my Tom Brinkman FAC nomination. I'm grateful and pleased to note it was successful. I've got another FAC now, the next congresswoman from Ohio, Jean Schmidt. The FAC page is here. I hope to get it featured by September 6, the day she will be sworn in. I'd appreciate your support. PedanticallySpeaking 17:22, August 23, 2005 (UTC) (P.S. If you are worried about the "fair use" of her picture, when she's sworn, we'll be able to replace it with a nice U.S. government public domain photo.)

[edit] Thanks for your vote

Thanks very much for your vote of support on my Jean Schmidt article. I'm pleased to say it is today's featured article of the day. PedanticallySpeaking 16:54, September 6, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] I'm Blushing

Your kind words on featured articles are appreciated. I'm back at it again with my Bruce Johnson article. He's Ohio's lieutenant governor and already at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Bruce Johnson are votes opposing. (When I don't go out and ask folks such as yourself for their votes, my FAC's invariably are defeated.) So I'd be grateful if you'd put your two cents worth in. Ave! PedanticallySpeaking 17:43, 16 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Flags :(

What are those funny flags doing? :(--84.249.252.211 12:56, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

Support for those countries for personal reasons. The United States flag has been added there just now because I forgot to add it previously (for my profile, I "set it and forget it"). I am a proud American. --Lan56 01:29, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

Jag tänkar också att sverige är ett gott land! =) Nothing more!--84.249.252.211 10:56, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

Please translate. Some of the greatest minds in the world never get famous because of a language barrier, lets put an end to it. --Lan56 20:15, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Katie Holmes

Greetings! You commented on the article Katie Holmes when it was on WP:FAC. I've redone the article and hope to renominate it on FAC soon. But in the meantime, I'd be grateful for your comments on WP:PR at Wikipedia:Peer review/Katie Holmes. PedanticallySpeaking 21:07, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Katie Holmes

Thank you very much for your help with this article. I've nominated it as a FAC and would appreciate your comments at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Katie Holmes. PedanticallySpeaking 16:12, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bruce Johnson

Greetings, Lan!
You voted on the previous FAC nomination of Bruce Johnson. I've resubmitted it and would appreciate your comments at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Bruce Johnson. PedanticallySpeaking 21:26, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bruce Johnson

I've posted this response at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Bruce Johnson to the concern about photos: "The press office of the Ohio Department of Development, of which Johnson is director, informs me by e-mail 'We do not have copyright on the photos.'" PedanticallySpeaking 14:42, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] BZFlag FAR

Hello. I've noticed in the page history and featured article candidate review page that you were a major contributor to the BZFlag article during its attainment of FA status. I've put it up for featured article review and have expressed my concerns here. ~ Hibana 22:34, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Los_Angeles_Basin_from_Mulholland_Pan.jpg

Can I get a much higher resolution version of this image? Need print quality. Contact me. We can pay one-time use rights if you can supply bigger image.

bettina fizz beth@escottassociates.com —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 72.67.231.74 (talk) 06:59, 28 February 2007 (UTC).

[edit] help

Hi, I'd like to know your real name... if it's possible.. I'm an art student in Canada. Just wanna know ur name 'cos i'm including "Our lady of Guadalupe" in my art history paper. And i just tough it'll be nice to put ur real name in my bibliography. Anyways... have a good day.

-Gabriela-

Ian Agar. --Lan56 07:10, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
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