Portal talk:Photography

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November 12, 2006

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1 Ancient Greek
2 Narcissi vs. Camarcissi
3 categories
4 AfD
5 Afd
6 Thought
7 Categories section - mostly non-categories!
8 Afd - Fireworks photography

[edit] Ancient Greek

Hi - I changed some of the etymological info in the introduction box - I think that the verb, grapho (transliteration...) better defines the etymology of "photography" than the noun (graphe). Although really, from a higher perspective, it's inconsequential, as both the noun and verb (I draw, a drawing) clearly have the same root, I think the change makes it easier to understand. I also removed graphis, because it's just the genetive form of graphe (ie - it means "of the drawing"). This sort of thing, with both, is found in etymological dictionaries, as it helps to better define the noun (and its declension), but graphe is standard enough for (IMO) the genetive to not need to be provided. M a rtinp23 18:53, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Narcissi vs. Camarcissi

Recently I have come upon evidence that their is a short memory simplex caused by motor lights and iris fixed camera motion that makes a subvortex mirror in the reflex of the lens. Often the victim of this lens obesity is called a camera bug, or fascist for having a peculiar stigmatism afflicted by this idle obsession with seeing mirrors or a camera lens. If true is there a cure for this person.... signed Blazing saddles —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Ripleyhuling (talk • contribs) 20:51, 10 March 2007 (UTC).

[edit] categories

The categories template does not parse properly. I have tried to trace it back to where it worked, I have tried to repair it, I cant and frustrated I must ask others to help. (Do not be fooled by the preview edit... it always parses there for some reason just not on the portal page) Slysplace 01:43, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

What do you mean by "not parse properly"? I can't see any problems in the Categories section, or with the 2 categories the portal belongs to. If it's a visual-layout problem, what is your web-browser? --Quiddity 18:45, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

It may actually be the the Portal (or Portal template). The categories section looks great on it's own, I see everything but on the portal page I see only the top line as links all others are invisible yet active links. Also this problem is duplicated on 3 computers thus far. Laptop with IE6 and both Home and Work with IE7. Slysplace | ^talk 15:22, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

Ok just looked at it from an older computer with IE6 it's complete with only minor table layout issues. I'll asume its interference from another application or browser add in Slysplace | ^talk 15:54, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] AfD

Those interested in this subject may possibly be interested in the ongoing AfD discussion on Banquet photography DGG 01:15, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Afd

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Woman in the mask

[edit] Thought

Hi, not sure where else to put this. A lot of articles I work on tend to be missing a photo (or has a poor quality photo) of its subject. In cases of a building it would be easy to find someone from that city to take a photo of it for WikiCommons. Although that ends up in a trawl through categories from user boxes to find an active user with a camera willing to take the photo. Perhaps it might help if there was an photographers index people could add themselves to with their location. That way if you need a picture of, for example, some museum in Madrid then you could look up the people in Madrid and ask one of them to take a snap for you. Could help maybe? Sorry if there is already something like this - can't find anything. - J Logan ^t: 18:10, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

Such as this? ;-) MRM 18:49, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

Argh! Reality strikes me. Thanks. - J Logan ^t: 19:32, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Categories section - mostly non-categories!

In Portal:Photography/Categories, only the last section ("Photographers") actually contains categories. I'm not sure how that passed the Featured Portal review!

There needs to be an overhaul of that section, to move across the topical links to Portal:Photography/Topics, and replace them with the appropriate category links. The "Topics" component will probably also need restructuring in order to accommodate all of them. --Quiddity 19:01, 5 September 2007 (UTC)