Talk:List of Marilyns in Ireland

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Stemonitis; on my screen the page is a complete mess. The top three photos sprawl across the screen from right to left; in across the text. I use Firefox, and have encountered this pattern before when you try to line up picture horizontally or vertically if they exceed a certain size some kind of overlap occurs. I tried various remedies and the only one that worked was to reduce the thumbnail size. I would also repeat my request that you stop reverting until we figure out what is happening; because the page, on my screen is indeed a mess; I fixed it and you keep messing it up again! (Sarah777 17:03, 6 July 2007 (UTC))

While I have your attention you might look at Croghan Hill; is it an extinct volcano? Seems improbable. (Sarah777 17:08, 6 July 2007 (UTC))

The trouble is that what looks good on your screen doesn't necessarily look good on anybody else's. I, for one, find differing sizes of thumbnails distracting, and overriding the user's ability to set his/her own preference for thumbnail sizes is a bad thing. If you are encountering this problem frequently, then try changing the thumbnail size in your user preferences rather than changing the articles. If that doesn't solve it, and we think that the problem is likely to affect very many people, then it may be necessary to put all the pictures in a column on the right, but not lining up with the entries for the right hills any more. This is a method that became necessary for the article crustacean and could easily be applied here.

As to Croghan Hill, searching the Internet for "Croghan volcano" produces a number of hits, some of which must be reliable, and none of which appear to refute that suggestion. I am not knowledgeable enough to know if it's the same hill they're talking about (although the frequency of "Offaly" in the results suggests it is), and it does indeed look unlikely, given the shape of the hill in your picture, but it would appear to be the accepted opinion that Offaly Hill is indeed (the remains of) an extinct volcano. Against that, whether it really is one or not hardly matters. --Stemonitis 17:55, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

try changing the thumbnail size in your user preferences - didn't know you could do that and can't find the button. How? (btw, I also find differing thumb sizes messy and spend a lot of time fixing layout of articles including standardising photo sizes - have I been wasting my time?) (Sarah777 23:02, 6 July 2007 (UTC))

Sarah777, in your edit summary you say "page remains a mess with firefox; policy is that it should be set for all browsers". Which policy is it that what should be set for all browsers? The thumbnails work just fine in the version of Firefox that I'm using, so it's not simply a Firefox issue. And the only Wikipedia policy on the matter that I can see states "In articles, if you wish to have a photo beside the text, you should generally use the "thumbnail" option available in the "Image markup" (this results in 180 pixels wide display in standard preferences default setting)." You should be able to change the thumbnail sizes by going to my preferences and choosing the 'Files' tab. In the meantime, I've reverted your edit. — ras52 09:55, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

Yep, that works. Thank you Ras. (Sarah777 10:52, 8 July 2007 (UTC))