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[edit] Colours (Ixion/Orcus)

Hi, I’ve noticed you added a couple of images to plutinos' infoboxes. Such header images (compare with a few Main belt asteroids boxes) usually state clearly what they are (e.g. an actual picture for a lucky few, an artist’s vision, a computer plot generated with the given data set etc). Could you please add a short comment like this to 28978 Ixion & 90482 Orcus (and Sedna)? (on the image page).

The colours are an important differentiator among these objects. There’s more than one way to express them (including the albedo). In addition, the colour/albedo data for some of them are limited and a stream of new observations is making the images obsolete. (This happened to some of my images in just a couple of months!) I’ve been contributing for a while now to the physical characteristics, including colours (see the related articles or my page for a few examples). I’m concerned that unless we align among all contributors the data we’re using and the way we use them we are risking creating confusion by presenting the same objects with very different hues, much too dim or bright compared to others etc. I believe the images you’ve added are fine; such images add some identity to otherwise difficult to distinguish objects and add some 'life' to otherwise austere articles. I’d be interested to know what data do did you use (colour indices? Slope? Albedo?) and how did you render them. Thank you. Eurocommuter 08:15, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] TNO satellite articles

Hello. I see you've been creating individual articles for some TNO satellites. Although it is true that every natural satellite should have an article, I wouldn't create articles for TNO satellites yet because we still know next to nothing about them. For example, the satellite of 2003 UB313 needs to be confirmed first.

PS. Please don't clear your talk page, see talk page guidelines.

--Jyril 07:59, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Discuss...

Hi. Recently you created a separated article for 2003 UB313 when some while ago we'd decided that until much more was known about it there wasn't much point. All you'd done was removed one section from the main article and pasted it, so I put it back and restored the redirect. Now I see you reverted that, without using an edit summary, or mentioning it on the talk page. This is not very helpful, and I hope you'll discuss this on the talk page if you want to argue that there should be a moon article separate from the main article. If you don't discuss things when you disagree you'll find you generate far more friction than necessary. Also, as Jyril said, blanking your talk page is considered bad form. Worldtraveller 10:38, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image Tagging for Image:032906eclipse.jpg

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This is an automated notice by OrphanBot. For assistance on the image use policy, see Wikipedia:Media copyright questions. 11:31, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Proposed Deletion

I've added the "{{prod}}" template to the article [[{{PlutonianSystem Footer}}]], suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but I don't believe it satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and I've explained why in the deletion notice (see also Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not and Wikipedia:Importance). Please either work to improve the article if the topic is worthy of inclusion in Wikipedia, or, if you disagree, discuss the issues raised at [[Talk:{{PlutonianSystem Footer}}]]. If you remove the {{dated prod}} template, the article will not be deleted, but note that it may still be sent to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached.

ThreeBlindMice 02:49, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:Orbit_Nemsis.gif

Thanks for uploading Image:Orbit_Nemsis.gif. The image has been identified as not specifying the copyright status of the image, which is required by Wikipedia's policy on images. If you don't indicate the copyright status of the image on the image's description page, using an appropriate copyright tag, it may be deleted some time in the next seven days. If you have uploaded other images, please verify that you have provided copyright information for them as well.

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[edit] Asteroid Renderings

Many of them are very nice convex hull renderings. Those that are good provide a nice sense of the object. Those that were of poor quality I removed, as they did not provide a sense of the object. Thank you for the additions. It's a great start to what appears to be an ambitious project. Abyssoft 07:58, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

I just came from Image:11A.jpg and figured I should suggest that you add a bit more information about what this image is and where it's from. If I hadn't noticed its addition and removal from 11 Parthenope I'd have had no idea what to make of it. I notice that the rest of your recent uploads are also missing information on their respective description pages. And once they've been sourced and described, perhaps you might be interested uploading them to Wikimedia Commons as well so other languages can use them? Bryan Derksen 20:11, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia Commons cannot accept copyrighted images.--JyriL talk 20:27, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Asteroid shape models

I notice you've added those nice asteroid shape models from the publications of Mikko Kaasalainen's group into the asteroid articles. They are a significant enhancement! However, I also notice that they have the GFDL-self made copyright tag on them, as in "I, the creator of this work, hereby blah blah blah ....". So, just in a friendly way, I'm wondering are you the creator of those images − as in, e.g. a member of M. Kaasalainen's research group? If not, the copyright tags should be changed. (At the least because those astronomers might be a bit upset to see their research described as someone else's work.) For example you can probably get their permission to upload them, etc.

Don't worry, I'm not going to go and tag them as copyright suspect, because I find the copyright "correctness" on Wikipedia a major annoyance more than anything else, but I also suspect that without a change, some stickler for correctness is going to find them soon and they'll get tagged for deletion. Deuar 14:22, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

I don't care about correctness itself, but copyright issues can be damaging to Wikipedia, so the annoyance is justified. Using GNU template for images is not acceptable since you haven't created the images and the authors own the copyright. Maybe we could use these images under fair use. There was a database which included all these models, but I have been unable to locate it anymore. If we had the data, we could recreate new, better images and replace the current ones.--JyriL talk 20:25, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Dalampasigan Beach Resort

A tag has been placed on Dalampasigan Beach Resort, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article seems to be blatant advertising which only promotes a company, product, group or service and which would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become an encyclopedia article. Please read the general criteria for speedy deletion, particularly item 11, as well as the guidelines on spam.

If you can indicate why the subject of this article is not blatant advertising, you may contest the tagging. To do this, please add {{hangon}} on the top of the page and leave a note on the article's talk page explaining your position. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would help make it encyclopedic, as well as adding any citations from reliable sources to ensure that the article will be verifiable. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. DMacks 04:12, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Beachwood Resort-Hotel

A tag has been placed on Beachwood Resort-Hotel, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article seems to be blatant advertising which only promotes a company, product, group or service and which would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become an encyclopedia article. Please read the general criteria for speedy deletion, particularly item 11, as well as the guidelines on spam.

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[edit] Villia del Prado Resort

A tag has been placed on Villia del Prado Resort, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article seems to be blatant advertising which only promotes a company, product, group or service and which would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become an encyclopedia article. Please read the general criteria for speedy deletion, particularly item 11, as well as the guidelines on spam.

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[edit] Possibly unfree Image:2AS.jpg

An image that you uploaded or altered, Image:2AS.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Possibly unfree images because its copyright status is disputed. If the image's copyright status cannot be verified, it may be deleted. Please go to its page for more information if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. Eleassar my talk 11:57, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

On your behalf, I have commented on the image in question. I remember when you created and placed them. Abyssoft 23:00, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

Could you please explain how you created the image? This would help a lot here. Please, leave your comment at Wikipedia:Possibly unfree images#April 25. --Eleassar my talk 12:47, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

I have also listed the following images as possibly unfree: Image:37A.jpg, Image:35A.jpg, Image:15A.jpg, Image:14A.jpg, Image:12A.jpg, Image:11A.jpg, Image:10A.jpg, Image:9AS2.jpg, Image:8AS.jpg, Image:7AS.jpg, Image:6AS.jpg, Image:5AS.jpg. You are welcome to leave your comment at Wikipedia:Possibly unfree images/2007 September 6. --Eleassar my talk 09:03, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Your Pictures

It has come to the attention of some Wikipedians that many of your images are being flagged for cleanup/deletion. This is for several reasons, which I will outline now:

Firstly many of your images consist of a small image in the center surrounded by a border with some wordart text. This is not accepted image policy. They should have only the center image.

Secondly, all of your photographs are of terrible resolution. These images are not of much use in this state, as not much can be seen of them.

Thirdly, the copyright of many of your images is questionable. Did you take the photos yourself? If you got them from a search engine like Google the image is probably copyrighted, no matter how much you have edited them. It was not right to put the "I, the creator..." template on if you did not create the photograph. The only exception would be if you got the image from the NASA site, because this is a branch of the US government. Please contact me and tell me if you did take the photo using your own telescope and if you are a professional astronomer. If so your help could probably be used with many articles. Another user, User:SteveBaker is possibly willing to adopt you and help you learn about image uploading, as he is a graphics worker and has many helpful tips. Again, please contact me on my talk page User talk:Smiley200 so we can resolve this without losing images of so many star systems. Thanks, Smiley200 18:55, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Philippine Nebula

I have nominated Philippine Nebula for deletion. This appears to be a random cloud of gas that was named at an internet discussion board. The article contains no information that looks useful. You are welcome to comment.

Also note that I agree with one of the other commentators about your images, and I will proceed to nominate some of these images for deletion pending the outcomes of the discussion on Philippine Nebula and other articles. Dr. Submillimeter 14:28, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Image:NGC2264 Name.jpg listed for deletion

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[edit] Image:NGC2264.jpg listed for deletion

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[edit] Image:Snowflakecluster.jpg listed for deletion

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[edit] Image:Form-PRG.jpg listed for deletion

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[edit] Image:TPRG1137.jpg listed for deletion

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[edit] Your Images

Could you please stop creating images with this word art? You may think it looks cool and new, but everyone else thinks it looks stupid, unrefined, and silly. In fact, don't even label pictures because that's what captions are for. I also warn you that if you are finding these images just willy nilly off the internet, it is illegal to upload them unless they are by the US Government, meaning NASA.

Oh, and I think you used Microsoft Paint to create some images on Polar-ring galaxy; don't do this either. SeanMD80talk | contribs 11:47, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

I agree, and I have noticed this for a long time. There should be something done. TheOtherSiguy 18:38, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Image:3AS.jpg listed for deletion

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[edit] Image:Copy_of_Sedna.jpg listed for deletion

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[edit] Offer of Help.

It is clear that you (User:Acom) are an enthusiastic contributor to Wikipedia - but it's evident from the slew of your contributions that are about to be deleted that you really need some help and guidance to direct those energies in a useful way.

Wikipedia has an informal system called "Wikipedia:Adopt-a-User" in which experienced users help less experienced people to improve their Wiki skills. You could either go to the 'adoption' site and look for someone with similar interests to you - or if you like, I'd be happy to help you out. I'm a professional computer graphics person (I used to design flight simulator graphics - and now I'm a computer games graphics guy) - I can give you lots of advice about how to dramatically improve the kinds of images and diagrams that you've been contributing.

Please leave a note on my User_talk:SteveBaker page if you'd like me to help out...or alternatively, find someone else on the Adopt-A-User page who can help.

You are clearly an enthusiastic contributor and we don't want to lose that energy!

SteveBaker 00:47, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Xmascluster.jpg listed for deletion

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[edit] Image:Image-PGR.jpg listed for deletion

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[edit] Image:Compare neb map2.jpg listed for deletion

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[edit] Image:Location NGC2264 2.jpg listed for deletion

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[edit] Image:Philippine Nebula2.jpg listed for deletion

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[edit] Image:El61moonsifo.gif listed for deletion

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[edit] Image:NeptuneMoonsinfo.jpg listed for deletion

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[edit] Copyright problems with Image:Deep Braille.jpg

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[edit] Image source problem with Image:10A.jpg

Image Copyright problem

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[edit] Image:VSE 2013.jpg listed for deletion

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[edit] Images listed for deletion

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  • Image:NWAPL.jpg
  • Image:NEARing Eros.jpg
  • Image:NEAP near Nereus.jpg
  • Image:NEAP NEaREUS.jpg
  • Image:PFF Pluto Flyby.jpg
  • Image:Pluto Moon Form.jpg

Thank you. Dread Pirate Westley•Aargh 16:55, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Possibly unfree Image:2003EL61moon1.jpg

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[edit] Possibly unfree Image:2003EL61moon2.jpg

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