Template talk:User WikiProject Futurama

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This article is part of WikiProject Futurama, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to Futurama on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, you can edit the article attached to this page, or visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion.

The image in this template needs to go, as fair use images cannot be used in templates, nor user pages (WP:FUC #9). I'm not taking it out myself cause I don't know what you'd want in its place. Just letting you know. -Goldom ‽‽‽ ⁂ 22:32, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

The Bender image that has been used as a replacement is also fair use... --Lorian^T_C 09:39, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Proposed alternate

I'm not a big fan of the current template; the long "futurama" would mar any user's page (if they're like me, and belong to several other groups). I've created an alternative: User:EVula/Userboxes/WPFU. I'm drumming up a consensus here before just arbitrarily changing it. EVula 21:48, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

I am also against the current one, and yours is better, but I don't know how we could make it look perfect. The only pd image I could find was my Image:Alien decoder.PNG and this would look bad. --WillMak050389 22:22, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

What about an image with just the "W" and "P" characters? EVula 22:46, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

I agree the other one was too long, I like the idea of using alien language 1 somehow, either as WP or what you have now WP: FUTU Stardust8212 22:50, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

Change it, dont know why you cant use fair use images in a template. I changed it as I was forced to, and couldnt think of anything else to put there. Jasrocks ^Talk 01:02, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

Copyrighted material should only be used to describe what is depicted in the article, that is why we can't use fair use in a userbox. Oh, and, as you probably know, I have both alien fonts I could use if we need them for a pd pic of WP or WP:FUTU. --WillMak050389 02:26, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

WillMak050389, go ahead and do an image up using the alien glyphs for just WP; I'm afraid that WP:FUTU will be too much and will become illegible (I mean, feel free to do it anyway, I just doubt it will read especially well and wouldn't want you to waste your time). Besides, if it is just "WP", it'll be a nice little inside gag that only those of us in the project will "get", just like the hidden language messages on the show. :)

Until the image is done up, I'm going to go ahead and replace the current one with mine, since the general consensus is that it is too long. EVula 06:43, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

I have added the WP, but it looks a little big and I am not sure how to scale it down just for the userbox. Hopefully someone here can? Thanks. --WillMak050389 15:26, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

The new image is pretty big, maybe a smaller version could be made? Also, black on dark purple doesn't look very good, maybe white would be better? --Lorian^T_C 16:18, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

I shrank the image, but then it was obvious where the image ended and the background color began, so I tweaked it. Now it is rather seamless (at least on my monitor). If I had more time, I'd tweak the image some more. EVula 16:51, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

I changed the font to white, but one problem I'm trying to solve is that I dont know how to make an image with a transparent background (Image:Raok_barnstar.png is an example) when I uploaded it with just a white background, Wikipedia kept the white background, is there a way to get it transparent? --WillMak050389 17:22, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

Not with Paint, you need something like Photoshop or GIMP (free). --Lorian^T_C 17:30, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

So, this GIMP program, is it completely free? Like if I downloaded it from their website, I wouldn't have to ever pay for it, or is there some catch? --WillMak050389 17:39, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

No catch, welcome to the future of software, you'll love it. --Lorian^T_C 17:50, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

Well, since the image has been adopted into the standard banner for this WikiProject, we should probably just create a different image, rather than updating this one again. Could you email me the image? I've got an idea for an alternative to a transparent PNG, but would rather work with the original file. EVula 16:36, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Transparent

Well, i got the image to be transparent but now the text is black again. I don't understand GIMP that well and I don't know how to make the text white. --WillMak050389 04:27, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

Finally figured it all out. Got the white with the transparent and everything. --WillMak050389 17:11, 23 July 2006 (UTC)