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[edit] Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/wwii woman worker
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Hi AutoGyro,
Just to let you know that the Featured Picture Image:Wwii woman worker-edit.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on November 18, 2007. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2007-11-18. howcheng {chat} 22:37, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
[edit] List of Shin Lupin III episodes
Congratulations, the list has been promoted. I would suggest running User:AndyZ/peerreviewer on the article, excluding list content, it may bring as of yet undiscovered issues to light. I have, for instance, noticed use of the word "several", which is a bit vague. Regards, G.A.S 20:45, 13 August 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Lupin articles
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| For raising the List of Shin Lupin III episodes to FL status and your work on Lupin-related articles, I award you this barnstar! Thanks for your work! Kariteh 18:15, 14 August 2007 (UTC) |
[edit] Lupin movies and specials
Your opinion is needed here.--Nohansen 22:27, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
[edit] My editing of maburaho
I edited the page of Maburaho since the reception is based solely on what the american reviewers. While in the english version it says that it has mediocre. It's not based on the reviews that it recieved in japan and other countries(which it has been a big seller hence the reason it was turned into a anime then manga, since it was originally a Light Novel) so to simply write that it has mediocre reviews is based solely on on country is reason enough take it out.
The book is made for the Japanese and it has things that Americans simply wouldn't get, hence another reason it garnered "mediocre" reviews.
And that's the reason I took out that section. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Vegahunter (talk • contribs) 20:10, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
[edit] My editing of maburaho 2
I feel that it isn't wise to add any section without all of the information. Simply put the critical reception is based upon the people it wasn't intended for. The Japanese made Maburaho with the Japanese people in mind, hence Japanese novel/manga/anime. So I think for critical reception to be added without the original country's information is reason enough not to have the section til otherwise. Though, It does not need to be added, since pages such as Ranma 1/2 and other animes on wikipedia do not need such things as uninformed sections just to meet standerds. In any case, I feel critical reception is off base knowing that the light novel is over 18 volume and the series is only 24 episodes so of course it would lack certin things, BUT critical reception is meant for the entire Maburaho media and not just the 24 episode anime. This shows that the 'reviewers' have no knowledge of the light novel series otherwise they wouldnt use terms such as "While it has these good points, it didn't capitalize on them and instead worked hard towards keeping with a mediocre series of events and scripts." hence once again reason enough for me to take out a section like that. yup yup —Preceding unsigned comment added by Vegahunter (talk • contribs) 20:55, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Template:Infobox Lupin III Character
May I ask why you oppose replacing Template:Infobox Lupin III Character with the more general Template:Infobox animanga character? --Farix (Talk) 01:17, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
- I actually didn't check that it was the template that was used before and you had switched it to the general template and for that I apologize. However, I do think that the specific Lupin III character template is better for the needs of the Lupin the 3rd character articles. All of the fields are used, with the exception of the three sizes for the male characters, and the fields are based on the official character description page on the Japanese Lupin the 3rd website found at http://www.lupin-3rd.net/character/index.html. The template remains functional, small, and void of any unnecessary fields. If you feel that the general template is more suitable, by all means change it back. All I ask however is that you please transfer the information found in the Template, such as preferred weapons and measurements, into the new template. Perhaps a novel modification to the Lupin template would be to include the creator field. --AutoGyro 02:38, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
- Measurements were not included in the general template because they were extremely trivial details. I would say the same for weapons as they don't appear to be a plot point in the Lupin series. The same can be said for the brand of cigarette. Just because an official source publishes these details doesn't automatically mean the details are important when describing the character. --Farix (Talk) 13:15, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
- While that might be true for brand of cigarettes, I have to disagree on weapon of choice. Lupin's signature weapon IS the Walther P-38. After all, a whole television special was titled after it. Jigen as a sharpshooter is also defined by his gun, and so is Goemon by his Zentetsuken. Measurment information, while trivial, are still part of the character and are better presented in an infobox than in the article proper.--AutoGyro 17:41, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
- Measurements were not included in the general template because they were extremely trivial details. I would say the same for weapons as they don't appear to be a plot point in the Lupin series. The same can be said for the brand of cigarette. Just because an official source publishes these details doesn't automatically mean the details are important when describing the character. --Farix (Talk) 13:15, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
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- The Template:Infobox animanga character allows for a customizable profile information ("paux" parameters). The info on the weapon and cigarettes (while trivial) can be incorporated. I like the new infobox, it's attractive. We should all give it a chance.--Nohansen 18:52, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
- Check out Zenigata.--Nohansen 19:10, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
- Looks good. Can we change the border from the gray color? I would also add the Height and Weight fields. I think it's interesting that Monkey Punch invisioned Fujiko as being 5'6. I thought she would've been taller.--AutoGyro 20:22, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
- Check out Zenigata.--Nohansen 19:10, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
- The Template:Infobox animanga character allows for a customizable profile information ("paux" parameters). The info on the weapon and cigarettes (while trivial) can be incorporated. I like the new infobox, it's attractive. We should all give it a chance.--Nohansen 18:52, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
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[edit] Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/citric acid cycle
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Hi AutoGyro,
Just to let you know that the Featured Picture Image:Citricacidcycle ball2.png is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on February 19, 2008. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2008-02-19. howcheng {chat} 00:10, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
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[edit] Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Manhattan Bridge Construction
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Hi AutoGyro,
Just to let you know that the Featured Picture Image:Manhattan Bridge Construction 1909.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on March 30, 2008. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2008-03-30. howcheng {chat} 23:11, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Capitalization of "Rupan Sansei"
Although your reasoning for not capitalizing "Rupan Sansei" makes sense, I think it may still be better to capitalize it. Standard practice here seems to be capitalizing proper names when using the 'nihongo' template. Compare the capitalization used in Shigeru Miyamoto, Shigesato Itoi, Akira Toriyama, Osamu Tezuka, and so on. I pretty much never see the names uncapitalized in this situation. So it would seem to be more consistent to give the name as "Rupan Sansei" instead of "rupan sansei". - furrykef (Talk at me) 16:52, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
- I can see where you're coming from :) but also, the member who made the original edit commented that, aside from the no capitals in Japanese thing, the "rupan sansei" is the pronunciation of the title in romaji, not the title itself. Since at Wikipedia we strive to be as accurate as possible, perhaps we could bring this up to the rest of the anime/manga project members for discussion in order to reach a consensus? :) --AutoGyro (talk) 20:29, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Image:Episode 0.jpg source
Can you provide the source for the image of Image:Episode 0.jpg? Thank you. --Farix (Talk) 01:44, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Orphaned non-free media (Image:Lupin official magazine.jpg)
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[edit] Do you still wish to use the "Committed Identity" thing?
Hi there,
I saw your comment at Template_talk:User_committed_identity. I feel your pain. I'm almost a complete dummy, but I did get it figured out, so if you're interested, I can walk you through it in non-Geek, plain English. (I find many WP tech articles far too techie for the average reader. Widespread complaint.) Let me know. I'm not here every day, so it might be a few days. Regards, Unimaginative Username (talk) 22:05, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
(Hoping you have Win 98/Me/XP)
1. Go to http://www.download3000.com/download-HashCalc-count-reg-5925.html and where it says, "Download link 1", click "Download now". (It's free.) Save to someplace convenient, like your desktop. This is the calculator you will use to turn your "secret" into the random-looking characters that you will post on WP.
2. Being naturally cautious, I always recommend scanning anything you download with your anti-virus program *before* opening it. This should only take a few seconds. Usually, you right-click the folder-looking thing named hashcalc.zip and choose "Scan with (the name of your AV program)". Mine came up clean.
3. Double-click hashcalc.zip, then double-click setup.exe. There will be the recommendation "close all Windows programs before proceeding", but with something this small and light, I didn't find it necessary to do so. Agree to the terms and keep clicking "next" until it's finished. (All of the default settings are OK.)
4. Now you're going to pick your "secret". Forget all that discussion at WP. Just something that no one would *ever* guess - nothing related to anything you've ever posted anywhere on the Net, where you live, school, etc. But is easy for you to remember. You can write it down on a piece of paper. Anyone who breaks into your house to steal your WP login is really desperate. They recommend at least 15 characters for safety. I recommend total nonsense, like "Bears dance with chickens", or something irrelevant, like "Fargo, North Dakota" (assuming you've never lived/visited/written about it). You get the idea.
5. There is probably a shortcut on your desktop to the Hash Calculator (big black H). Double-click to launch it. If not, go to Programs > HashCalc > the H logo that says HashCalc and double-click it. Or go to My Computer > C > Program Files > HashCalc > double-click to open the folder, and double-click on the black H logo Hashcalc.exe.
6. Here's where the magic happens. In the upper left of the HashCalc box, under "Data Format" menu, choose "text string". On the left side, there is a list of available hashing programs. Choose SHA-512, partly because the WP template defaults to that anyway, and uncheck the rest. (For fun, you can check as many as you like and see how differently each program hashes the same input.)
7. Type your "secret" in the upper blank box, "Data". For illustration, let's use "Fargo, North Dakota" without the quote marks, but using the capitals and comma exactly as above. Of course, you will NOT use this for your real secret!
8. Click "calculate" at the bottom.
9. The answer runs off the end. They should have made the box bigger. But if you hold down the left mouse button and run the cursor from left to right, you should be able to highlight the whole thing. Hit Ctrl + C to copy the answer to your clipboard.
10. Paste the answer somewhere -- a simple text document (.txt), a Word doc, whatever. If we've both done this right, you get eb23f9153ee23a161f24d8640ed73bbee5fc9773a04204fd793b0983fcd8d01605ffe7f762d37c29e2660df11604daca8d67064f2245bf0574bd1f8bc3def63d. Yes?
If you don't like dealing with stuff that runs off the end of the calculator space like that, use SHA-256 instead. It's not *that* much less secure than SHA-512, and we're talking about WP, not your Nigerian bank account. I get
f5b305f019ac00f04da9baf1a51466e984ca716e3779cfd091bc681ab39f3ee1. Yes?
What's cool about this, and the reason behind the whole process, is that although it was very easy -- instantaneous -- for the calculator to turn your secret into your hash, it is mathematically virtually impossible for any human or calculator to turn your hash back into your secret. This is due to what math geeks call "one-way functions". Don't ask me about them. Ask a math geek, and be prepared to take a few semesters of advanced math to understand the answer. Or don't worry about why. Just do it.
(The geeks will tell you that they have found weaknesses in the older hash functions, like SHA-1, MD-2, etc. Of course -- why else would there be an MD-4, an MD-5, SHA-384, SHA-512, etc.? Right? It's sort of like, "Whatever happened to Preparations A, B, C, D, E, F, and G?" They don't like to tell you about those :-) The recent ones are considered unbreakable with the present state of knowledge.)
OK, we're ready to rock and roll.
11. Going back to the WP page, Template:User_committed_identity, we copy and paste the template to the same document, maybe a little below where we pasted our hash answer.
{{User committed identity|hash string|hash function used|background=CSS color|border=CSS color|article=grammatical article for the hash function}}
12. Copy your long garbage-y--looking hash output from step 10 to your clipboard.
13. Select and highlight the words "hash string" in between the two pipes |hash string|, and paste the long thingy over it, or just delete the words "hash string" and paste in that long thingy, your calculated hash output. Be careful not to disturb the pipes, the |vertical lines|.
14. If you used SHA-512 as recommended, do nothing to "hash function used". If you used anything else, paste it over those words. For example, |SHA-256|.
15. I think their chosen colors are fine. If you agree, look near the end of the Syntax paragraph at their example,
{{User committed identity|aaaa|SHA-1|background=#FC9|border=#000}}
Copy and paste |background=#FC9| over |background=CSS color| in the basic template. (Of course, if you're very careful with your copying and pasting, you can leave "background=" alone and just paste #FC9 over "CSS color".)
16. Similarly, copy/paste border=#000 over border=CSS color.
17. If you don't like their colors, there are lots of sources for CSS color codes, but you're on your own there, Bro :) I say, for the first time at bat, go with what they give you.
18. Here's the really stupid part. They give you a choice of whether you want to say,
"Committed identity: aaaa is A SHA-1 commitment to this user's real-life identity." or "Committed identity: aaaa is AN SHA-1 commitment to this user's real-life identity."
Obviously, the grammatically-correct answer depends on whether the reader's mind reads SHA as "Ess-H-A", in which case "an" is correct, or "Sha" as in the former Shah of Iran, (or "Secure Hash Algorithm", which is what it actually stands for) in which case "a" is correct. I'm one of the pickiest grammarians on WP (check my userboxes and copy-editing street creds), but do they really think that this is important enough, and that they haven't confused the rest of us enough already, that they have to add the "parameter" (cough) " article=grammatical article for the hash function"? I guess they think we all speak their language. You're pre-med -- try telling them they have pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, or maybe just recto-cranial inversion, and see what they do with that.
Same with MD-5. "An MD-5 hash" or "A Message Digest-5 hash".
Anyway, if you delete this part entirely, it will say, "a" SHA etc. If you want "an", just paste "an" over "grammatical article for the hash function"; e. g. "|article=an}}"
The easy solution -- but they didn't ask me -- is to have the template read:
" Committed identity: aaaa is THE SHA-1 commitment to this user's real-life identity."
That would end the "article=grammatical article for the hash function" thing, which has indeed caused a number of user questions there. Maybe they'll change it someday.
19. The bottom line: In our pretend example, your template now looks like this (based on Fargo, North Dakota and SHA-512)
{{User committed identity|eb23f9153ee23a161f24d8640ed73bbee5fc9773a04204fd793b0983fcd8d01605ffe7f762d37c29e2660df11604daca8d67064f2245bf0574bd1f8bc3def63d|SHA-512|background=#FC9|border=#000}}
Note that if you did use the SHA-512 hash thing, you could just delete "hash function used" from the template, since if this "parameter" is missing, it defaults to SHA-512. But no harm in typing it in. (You must type in any other hash formula used, as in Step 14.)
20. Ready? (drum roll) Go to your user page and click "Edit". Typically, this identity thing is at the top of the page, so put in a line break or two above "{{Userboxtop|My Userboxes}}". Copy and paste your finished template from Step 19. Preview.
21. If we're lucky, we come out with the black-on-orange box that says:
"Committed identity: eb23f9153ee23a161f24d8640ed73bbee5fc9773a04204fd793b0983fcd8d01605ffe7f762d37c29e2660df11604daca8d67064f2245bf0574bd1f8bc3def63d is a (or "an") SHA-512 commitment to this user's real-life identity." Yes?
Try it and see. Let me know. If you like, I can put the above on your page so you can see it in action, or you can look at my userpage and click "edit" to see the raw text.
22. Assuming that it works, repeat this with your real "secret". Or if you used your real secret all along, you're good to go.
23. So what?
That's a good question. I don't know whether there has actually been a rash of WP account compromises, or they did this just to show off their crypto skills (I'm guessing the latter.) My feeling, to paraphrase Shakespeare's "Othello" (Act III, Scene 3) is, "Who steals my purse had better be able to run faster than I can shoot, but he that filches from me my WP account is a pathetic loser who is more than welcome to it."
But assuming someone did compromise your account (and that you care), the question is: Which of you who's logging in as "you" is really "you"? So, you could contact an admin or sysop (maybe via email, phone, fax?), give them your secret (Fargo, North Dakota), they run it through your displayed hash formula (SHA-512, e. g.) come up with the same long list of characters as are on your user page, and say, "Yeah, you're you. Make up a new password (and/or account) and you're back in control."
And, of course, having given out your secret, you need to make up a new secret and do this hash thing all over again. But it'll be like murder -- it'll get easier every time you do it. (Hopefully, never.)
24. Feedback time. How good a job did I do of explaining this in words that the average-peon, non-techie, non-crypto, non-geek-in-general could understand? If you think it's good, I might call their attention to it over there. I expect a lot of users look at the template and instructions, go "Huh" (or "WTF?") and skip the whole thing.
Regards, Unimaginative Username (talk) 07:52, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
