User talk:Ozdaren

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Hi to everyone,

Thanks for dropping by my talk page. Please feel free to leave comments here.

Cheers,

Daren

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Contents 1 Lacrosse in Australia 2 Adelaide Uni Lacrosse 3 Aussie / Adelaidian? 4 Barossa Germans 5 Lacrosse 6 Nicolau dos Reis Lobato 7 HTC 8 WikiProject Lacrosse 9 List of rowing blades 10 blocked? 11 .svf files 12 English Lacrosse 13 A question about the article on Udo Lindenberg

[edit] Lacrosse in Australia

Hi Daren, Luke Oswald here. I saw your note in the lacrosse discussion about the very USA-focussed article and agree. I am taking it upon myself to create a page called "Lacrosse in Australia" (not published as yet) which will have info about the history, development and future of the game in Australia. I have already gathered some records of national championships winners and league winners in the various states, though some lists are incomplete, as well as a page about the Australian Lacrosse League. As more info is gathered it may be necessary to split the page up, maybe have pages for each state, we'll see how it goes. I think the way forward with this is to set up a WikiProject. I will invite other people to add info as they please. There are quite a few aussies that go on The Lacrosse Forums that would probably be able to add info. It will also be necessary to back up info as required should people get too biased with their articles!!

Cheers - Luke - Lukeoz 10:28, 27 January 2006 (UTC) (message back at User_talk:Lukeoz)

[edit] Adelaide Uni Lacrosse

Hello Daren. At the moment, the club does appear to meet the notability guidelines in that does not appear to be sufficiently sportingly notable, as it is an amateur/social-level club, and isn't at first-class standard. The historical notability is quite weak - it has been around a long time, but many old high schools also have old sports clubs, and many of these have been deleted also. The third thing, as a declared party in the subject of the article, that will also raise eyebrows, as it is peripherally related to WP:AUTO -atuobiography is discouraged.Blnguyen | Have your say!!! 02:53, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

I have looked at the page and have replied there. I deleted all the other UniMelb sports teams a while before I stumbled across the lacrosse club.Blnguyen | Have your say!!! 04:38, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Aussie / Adelaidian?

Here's an Aussie welcome! (G'day!) Take a look at a the Australian Wikipedians' Noticeboard and if you're from the fine city of Adelaide feel free to jump on deck and give us a hand at WikiProject:Adelaide.

Best of luck here, I'll be watching your edits! michael ^talk 23:41, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Barossa Germans

Where to next? Rewrite it in your own words. Gsl 07:29, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

Just received an email by an author of some of the work. He claims copyright and does not want his work used on wikipedia. I'm not really sure he did most of the work on this as it seems to appear in many places and is claimed by them or is allowed to be copied. In any case I'm quite prepared to find other sources or even track down original newspaper articles etc. Ozdaren 13:17, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

There is nothing wrong with using the article you copied as a source for your own article but you can't necessarily copy verbatim. As it says down the bottom of every edit page "Only public domain resources can be copied without permission—this does not include most web pages." And someone saying their work is "free for republishing" or "freely redistributable" does not necessarily mean it is compatible with the GFDL -- they might not want their work modified, and they certainly might want to be attributed as the source. So the safest course is to write the article in your own words and list any web pages you used as sources in an ==External links== section. Gsl 23:21, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

You might want to take a look at / help out with this in-progress article if you're interested in German history in SA. Interestingly, I only just got up to the Barossa Valley part of it so if wish to - please feel free to assist! michael ^talk 08:11, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

I give in. There are too many ins and outs of wikipedia for a novice user to fathom. I think I will limit myself to adding minor bits of content to existing articles and tidying. I'm going about this all the wrong way. Ozdaren 10:14, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

Give in? Why? We just can't copy other stuff - we write our own! michael ^talk 10:16, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

No I understand the principles of copyright. I even looked up the Australian Copyright Council pages to assertain how far the laws go in Australia. What I meant was a personal reflection on the lack of depth in my contribution to wikipedia so far. Perhaps I gave too much of a public airing to a private musing. Ozdaren 12:38, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Lacrosse

The lacrosse article is heavily biased in favour of US lacrosse. I believe the article should be improved. Have your say on their talk page. Ozdaren 04:49, 26 June 2006 (UTC) Hi Daren I haven't worked on those pages for a while now. Please let me know which ones in particular should be edited, cheers... Luke Lukeoz 14:05, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

Hi Daren I haven't worked on those pages for a while now. Please let me know which ones in particular should be edited, cheers... Luke Lukeoz 14:05, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Nicolau dos Reis Lobato

You: Saw your work on this page. Thanks for dropping by. Ozdaren 26 June 2006 (UTC)

Me: Thank you. It was rather small. But you know: Small is Beautiful. Please remain in touch. --Bhadani 14:11, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] HTC

If that is true, then well done. I know very little about the HTC/ASUS. I was merely implementing the consensus of, what appears to be, a whole host of uninformed people :) -- Avi 14:35, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

Then your expertise in updating/correcting that set of articles will be greatly appreciated! -- Avi 14:47, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Lacrosse

I have created a proposal for a new WikiProject about lacrosse, and I thought you might be interested in joining. Please check out the temporary project page at User:MrBoo/WikiProject Lacrosse and sign your name if you are interested.

Thanks --MrBoo (talk, contribs) 02:18, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] List of rowing blades

Have you see this page? --evrik 17:35, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] blocked?

You're editing from a school, and are unable to edit? can you log out(at the school) and write down the IP address that appears at the top right of the webpage, so I can look at your situation? Reply here or User talk:ST47, i've watched your page. ST47Talk 01:06, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

O,h you put it there. I should read more :P looks like some people from your school have been vandalizing. If you like, I can take a look at it and make a report, contact the school and work on getting it unblocked ST47Talk 01:08, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

Sorry I went home.It's only a minor inconvenience. Ozdaren 02:34, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] .svf files

Hi Daren.

Photoshop is designed as a raster image editor, and so it is not equipped to edit .svg files. A .svg file is xml, so if you want to, you can just edit the file with a text editor. This is what I do.

If you want to change the color of a solid blade, you would need to change the bold text:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE svg PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SVG 1.0//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-SVG-20010904/DTD/svg10.dtd">
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" width="500" height="230">
  <defs>
    <linearGradient id="loomGradient" x2="0%" y2="100%">
      <stop offset="0%" style="stop-color:black;" />
      <stop offset="25%" style="stop-color:lightgray;" />
      <stop offset="60%" style="stop-color:black;" />
     </linearGradient>
    
    <linearGradient id="ridgeGradient" x2="0%" y2="100%"> 

      <stop offset="0%" style="stop-color:#800000;" /> 
      <stop offset="45%" style="stop-color:#A00000;" />
      <stop offset="55%" style="stop-color:#600000;" />
      <stop offset="100%" style="stop-color:#800000;" />
    </linearGradient>
    
    <radialGradient id="fadeRidgeGradient" cx="0%" cy="50%" r="100%">
      <stop offset="50%" style="stop-color:#800000; stop-opacity:0"  />
      <stop offset="95%" style="stop-color:#800000;" />
    </radialGradient> 

    
    <path id="spoonPath" d="M 105,75 C 105,76 106,77 107,77 C 139,89 170,149 177,181 C 231,199 389,201 455,201 C 458,201 461,198 461,195 L 450,27 C 450,24 447,21 444,21 L 113,43 C 112,43 111,44 111,45  Z" />

    <clipPath id="spoonClip">
      <use xlink:href="#spoonPath"/>
    </clipPath>
  </defs> 

  <use xlink:href="#spoonPath" style="stroke:Black; stroke-width:1; fill:#800000;" />
  <g transform="rotate(9) translate(117,41)">
    <rect x="-200" y="-14" height="28" width="200"  style="stroke:Black; stroke-width:1; fill:url(#loomGradient);" />  

    <rect x="0" y="-15" height="30" width="200" class="spoon" style="stroke:none; fill:url(#ridgeGradient);" />
    <rect x="0" y="-15" height="30" width="200" class="spoon" style="stroke:none; fill:url(#fadeRidgeGradient);" />
  </g>
  <g clip-rule="nonzero" clip-path="url(#spoonClip)" opacity="0.9">
  </g>
  <g>
    < !--Put deign in here-->
  </g>

</svg>

If you want to create a blade with a design, I recommend drawing the design in Inkscape, then copy the design svg into the blade template. Please let me know how I goes. Let me know if you get stuck.

Gary van der Merwe ^(Talk) 08:14, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] English Lacrosse

You asked whether I knew more about the ELA - sadly no. I've moved overseas so anything I did know is certainly out of date now. I know it used to consist of the NELA and SEMLA (north and south) but I see that someone else (Flandersuea) has edited the page to mention NEMLA and SEMLA - perhaps the name changed? I think I'll drop a line to the ELA, they're bound to be able to find someone who can add some useful info. Thrapper 19:54, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] A question about the article on Udo Lindenberg

Hi, Daren!

Thanks for your contribution, I used to be a fan of his songs.

In the album tables, I guess the letters D, A, CH mean Germany (Deutschland), Austria and Switzerland (Confederatio Helvetica), what else? But I don't understand what precisely the figures stand for.

Would you be kind enough to explain?

Cheers, Zack Holly Venturi 10:02, 11 February 2007 (UTC)