User talk:Bryanmcdonald

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[edit] Huge images

Thanks for contributing all the great images recently! Please see Wikipedia:Picture tutorial for some style guidelines. In particular, it's jarring to include thumbnails at greater than 300px. Melchoir 01:01, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

Okay, I've now gone through and reformatted the pics. Thanks again! Melchoir 01:15, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

hello melchoir. you reduced the size of many of my images. i intentially made them big since i think they are more beautiful that way. how would one go about changing the size restriction policy you are enforcing? thanks, bryanmcdonald

I wouldn't really say that I was enforcing a policy. The pages Wikipedia:Images and Wikipedia:Picture tutorial do speak of preventing the images from overwhelming the text, but technically there's no hard limit on the size of a picture. It's just that if you look at the previous version of Team Racing, the pictures were larger than the text itself! If it's any consolation, you can still click on the thumbnails to see larger versions and download the full-size originals.
You might want to check out "Saffron" for an example of an article with lots of beautiful pictures; it's recently been made a featured article, so it represents what many Wikipedians think an article should look like. Melchoir 22:51, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

thank you for your input. i think the saffron page is incredible. i think it would be far better with those lovely images taking up the majority of the page. while the text is enticing, the images are what moves me. i think the team racing page is boring with the small pictures. with the large ones, i think one is taken by the grace and beauty of the athletes. there are many emotional details from the large images that are lost in the tiny ones. i have never seen a photographers portfolio limit the size of the photo to 300px. i think the big photo team race page could interest many more people by the excitement of the photos as opposed to it's current state. while there are many practical and fiscal reasons for NOT publishing large pictures in encyclopedias, newspapers or magazines, those restrictions don't exist on a webpage. while 300 pixels is grand to compact something into a tidy and efficient corner, the trend of the internet is to go big (ref the breathtaking HD clips on http://www.apple.com/trailers/ ). i look forward to the coffee book edition of wikipedia...i think i'd fit in better there :-)

Well, creative differences aside, it looks like you're fitting in fine; already you've created more articles on interesting topics than I have, or will in the forseeable future! As for coffee books and trends, I think we're all looking forward to the day when our displays are 20,000 pixels across! Melchoir 23:30, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
There are at least three practical reasons to limit image sizes. (1) The most important is bandwidth: until the day that everyone on the planet at all times and places has broadband internet access, we must be kind to those without it; huge images are not user-friendly for narrowband. (2) Many users still have smaller screens for their personal computers, and growing numbers of users access the web and Wikipedia with cellphones and other special devices with small displays; huge images are not user-friendly for small displays. (3) A good article exhibits balance between text and images, which a huge image can disrupt. --KSmrqT 19:11, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Pythagorean theorem#Algebraic Proof

Oh, nothing looks wrong, at least not to me. I would've indented more, and maybe I'll help out with that later. My main concern is placement; probably your new material would fit better after the "QED" of the "A visual proof" section.

Also, I hope you're ready for a lot of attention; if you've seen Talk:Pythagorean theorem, there's a great deal of discussion on how to best present the material. It's not on my watchlist, but I bet it's on the watchlists of lots of other people! Of course, discussion shouldn't discourage anyone, so don't worry about it too much. Cheers, Melchoir 09:51, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

I've moved the section to the earlier section that had the same illustration. I've also adapted and abbreviated it. It was too long-winded. Also, saying the "area of a square" is bh is silly; it's not a square unless all four sides have the same length. The argument was not very different from the "visual" proof, but was stated in more algebraic language. Michael Hardy 23:21, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

Oh, one other thing, on style conventions rather than on mathematics: the section heading should have been Algebraic proof with a lower-case initial p; see Wikipedia:Manual of Style. Michael Hardy 23:22, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

The Pythagorean theorem has attracted enormous numbers of proofs. If you think a new one deserves a place in the article, display it on the article talk page and invite discussion. There's a good chance (but no guarantee) agreement will emerge. Wikipedia success often requires editors to have social skills, not just writing skills and subject knowledge. --KSmrqT 19:18, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

As I said, I moved Bryanmcdonald's argument to a different place in the article. I also attributed it to him in the edit summary. Michael Hardy 23:29, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Isomorphism

I undid your changes to isomorphism. It seems you focus on invertible maps in that section, but an isomorphism is more than that, it respects the structures of the objects involved. That is, a mapping from even integers to odd integers is not an ismomorphism unless all you mean by isomorphism is invertible map. But we can discuss that.

However, the statement while one can create a 1:1 mapping from the real numbers to the integers is wrong indeed. I guess you meant the other way around.

Anway, you can comment at talk:isomorphism and we can continue talking over there. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 00:52, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Who is...

Who is this juggler?

Who is this juggler?
Who is this juggler?

User:Pedant 16:20, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

this juggler is me.

[edit] Unspecified source for Image:Flip.JPG

Thanks for uploading Image:Flip.JPG. I notice the file's description page currently doesn't specify who created the content, so the copyright status is unclear. If you have not created this file yourself, then there needs to be a justification explaining why we have the right to use it on Wikipedia (see copyright tagging below). If you did not create the file yourself, then you need to specify where it was found, i.e., in most cases link to the website where it was taken from, and the terms of use for content from that page.

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[edit] Image:Pythagorean.pdf listed for deletion

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