User talk:Wapcaplet/Archive 1

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Heh. I have no idea whether it's Warren Mears or Warren Meers - and Google has lots of hits for both... -- Evercat 13:04 May 15, 2003 (UTC)

I went looking around on the official Buffy site without any luck. On IMDB it's "Meers", but I have no idea if they are authoritative on the subject. In any case it's probably not that important. -- Wapcaplet 13:08 15 May 2003 (UTC)

I think wikipedia should have "cookbook" recipes, because it is important human knowledge (Imagine all you have is a Wikipedia CD on an isolated Island, what would you cook?). See also what I wrote on Wikipedia:Wikipedia cited on usenet --Rotem Dan 13:26 19 May 2003 (UTC)

By the way, Re: Warren's getting far worse as time goes on, you might find this interesting (there are also interesting follow-up messages). Anyway, I hope it proves my point that some people think Warren's misogyny just came out of nowhere in the middle of S6. :-) Evercat 13:40 20 May 2003 (UTC)

Though again, part of the point there is that *nobody* deserves that.

Oh I don't know. I liked Tara. :-) Evercat 15:33 20 May 2003 (UTC)

Thanks for helping with the subpages. I hate those little bastards. ;-) --Eloquence 13:32 29 May 2003 (UTC)

Hi thanks for your tips on Wikipediatalk:How to keep image file sizes as small as possible. Unfortunatly you must hasve got to this talk page via the villiage pump raither then the article Wikipedia:How to keep image file sizes as small as possible because much of what you suggest is already on the page :-( However, as you clearly know what you are talking about perhaps you'd like to check the article for errors and ommisions? Thanks Theresa knott 20:50 30 May 2003 (UTC)

Yes! Someone actually edited MKF! I actually half expected that page to end up on votes for deletion... but seriously, do you think it's too silly? I saw Spot (Star Trek) and I couldn't resist... Evercat 01:27 31 May 2003 (UTC)

I'd have thought the "Miss Kitty" salute falls into the "so obvious that it's valid on it's face" category. Tara / Willow may not know their old TV but you can bet Buffy's authors do. I don't follow Buffdom much so I can't say that it has or has not been addressed there. -- Someone else 02:15 31 May 2003 (UTC)

Just wanted to thank you for all your help with User:Kils/User:Viking. It was certainly an unpleasant situation. MB 07:37 1 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Thanks for your asistance with Gorman bechard. I wasn't sure if just deleting it was the right thing to do. Apparently not :). Could you point me to a place that discusses the process I should go through b4 deleting pages that obviously don't belong? I guess they need to be listed on the Votes for deletion page first? Is there a page that I can use for reference when doing adminstrative tasks? MB 21:05 1 Jun 2003 (UTC)

See Wikipedia:Policy on permanent deletion of pages. --Eloquence 21:07 1 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Well, I have got into editing conflict with you, when Iwas trying to merge Watercolor painting with Watercolour :))) Go on merging pages of different watercolour techniques into one - I will check later. I think, that American and British English names must be used both for the main page's and redirection pages' titles. DariusMazeika 12:36 3 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Try http://www.mun.ca/sgs/science/july1483.html for Sir Humphrey Gilbert's encounter with a sea monster. [[User:Harry Potter|Harry Potter]


Well, its certainly not truly "poetry"; how can we say "the line" when we have neither identified the line nor discussed it before. It is "a" line, it is pretty much any line- I suppose its akin to having a picture at Gods where we show "a god" but do not identify what god and thus we can't really say "the god". Pizza Puzzle

"their" tangent point! Pizza Puzzle

Thanks for the village pump note. Not sure I'm any wiser even after reading the pages you mentioned, though.

Kat

Sorry Wapcaplet. But did you look at the edits he did ? At the whole paragraphs he removed ? Till the point the article looks like nothing ? He wanted a one article. He got it. Now, he wants to remove anything that is not fitting with his pov. He is stripping the entire article, carefully written by dozen of contributors. He is insulting me. And this is ok ? I do not think so. Anthere

This is precisely why I asked several times for the page to be protected. I see that sysops are not very much in a hurry to help users in need. I can't say I appreciate that. I don't ask you to take side. But when you have time, please quietly read the edits he is proposing. I don't necessarily say they are all bad, but some are just non acceptable. Many very important points are removed. Only the scientific point of view is kept. These articles were the result of a work of several people. They stand there many many months with consensus on them. What he is doing is very bad. And his attacks are just as bad. If you care, please do work between his version and the previous one.

About Erythrophobia -- we should give the contributor the benefit of the doubt. We have an explicit declaration from the contributor as to the status of the work: i.e. they clicked "Save page" after reading the words "DO NOT SUBMIT COPYRIGHTED WORK WITHOUT PERMISSION!". Sure it could just be a student, but there's no reason for us to set the standard of proof so high. If you want extra confirmation, email Dr. Gerlach. -- Tim Starling 00:23 5 Jun 2003 (UTC)

I think I will email Dr. Gerlach. In progress... -- Tim Starling 00:39 5 Jun 2003 (UTC)

I will anyway. This is too late now. But I see no problem in inserting some of his stuff; I just don't have time if he is reverting all the time. However, a lot of what I do on wikipedia is around this very subject. Spoil it definitly and I am just out of there. Which I won't let happen. Good night.

I think I will email Dr. Gerlach. In progress... -- Tim Starling 00:39 5 Jun 2003 (UTC)

He replied, see Talk:Erythrophobia -- Tim Starling 00:08 6 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Hi, I liked your comments on Wikipedia:Content advisory, could you please add something discussing why we don't self-censor to the Content Advisory page, that parents can read? MB 13:38 5 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Hi, I changed the voting list in takepage of inheritance (object-oriented programming) so that the course of further contributions can be clear. -- Taku 03:45 6 Jun 2003 (UTC)

In case you didn't already know, I've created a group watchlist of sorts at Wikipedia:Favorite pages of banned users to help with tracking when Michael is vandalizing (and any future vandals like him). So feel free too use it, I have already found it helpful, and please add to it when he vandalizes more. Thanks. MB 22:11 6 Jun 2003 (UTC)

You should be a sysop. Do you want to be? I'd nominate you... Evercat 18:56 8 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Yep - me too. --mav 19:17 8 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Glory (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) needs serious editing to be decent. Do you want to do it or shall I? :-) Evercat 19:58 8 Jun 2003 (UTC)

OK, I'll have a crack at it once you're done.

You're welcome; thanks for noticing. :) (and to think I was only going to log on for a few minutes last night...) -- Notheruser 18:57 13 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Whats the & minus equivalents for other symbols? Particulary, for = Pizza Puzzle

Im on IE 6.0 Pizza Puzzle

I've set up a Cafepress shop with your shirt design: http://www.cafepress.com/wikipedia - got any other ideas? We have relatively little cool artwork, unfortunately. --Eloquence 03:05 23 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Wapcaplet...I've heard that somewhere before. Adrien Wapcaplet. You're not a Python fan by any chance are you? Basil Fawlty

How about a banner with the text "Edit this shirt"? --Eloquence 21:02 23 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Hi. I have strong suspicions that User:ChuckM is Ron Davies, aka User:DW, User:Black_Widow, User:Elliot, User:Olga_Bityerkokoff, User:Joe_Canuck and others. They all edited the same pages, made the same abusive comments, and each user appeared after a previous one was banned or left. They downloaded strikingly similar images without information of source. In fact one of Ron's characteristics is to have a number of users on at the same time, using IP numbers for edits and names for controversy. (He apparently inadvertently made one comment signed with one of his IPs, so letting the cat out of the bag as to who used that IP.) ChuckM came onto wiki after he stopped using a particular IP, which had appeared after another Ron persona, Jacques Delson, was rumbled and left. The day after ChuckM came on, Joe Canuck appeared and ChuckM left, only reappearing after Canuck's banning and has spent his time defending Canuck, including deleting the ban notice from Canuck's page. FearÉIREANN 23:06 23 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Oh I wish it was over. I am so fed up of it all. Unfortunately Ron Davies doesn't seem willing to take 'go away' for an answer. He has been here since at least August 2002. Everytime he is rumbled or banned, he joins up as a new 'character' who acts exactly the same way, is rumbled or banned, so within 24 hours . . . and so the saga goes on. When he isn't here as a name, he is here as an IP number. Some edit pages are almost funny. You can time the changes in Ron's identity by the edit list, starting of with DW, then an IP number, then Black Widow, right up to ChuckM for a day, then two weeks of Joe Canuck. Then back to ChuckM. It is that brazen. And looking at all the pictures downloaded by all of them for the sports pages, I suspect they all were taken from some encyclopædia of sport or something. All are black and white. All the same size, same quality, etc. FearÉIREANN 01:32 24 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Heh. You removed some of the brackets from Droop Quota. JT is not gonna like that. :-) See this post he wrote. Evercat 14:19 24 Jun 2003 (UTC)

He's unlikely to see what you wrote on my talk page... perhaps you should say something on Talk:Droop Quota. Evercat 14:21 24 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Your last edit to Droop Quota seems to end in mid-sentence, please fix. :-) Evercat 17:38 25 Jun 2003 (UTC)


Hi Eric, no. You are not in any way one of the people I was talking about. You just got caught in the crossfire, and if I made you think I was thinking of you I apologise. Your work is consistent good plus even more importantly, you have a sensitivity to other people's work with a few people don't. You build on their work to produce something that improves in quality. The people I was talking about arrive at an article, chop it around, change meanings, change context, spelling, capitalisation and then move on, more often than not without giving the slightest suggestion that they actually knew what they were doing.

For example, one guy when he comes across the word taoisigh which is the gaelic plural for taoiseach and which is explained as such on its first mention in some articles, frequently changes it to taoiseachs, a non-existent word. He has tried to change governors-general to governor-generals, Prime Minister to Prime minister. He changed links from President of Ireland to President of Ireland, links to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (ie the form of UK between 1901 and 1922) to United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, so linking the reference to the wrong UK. He mucked up some links to Tánaiste (deputy Irish prime minister) by lower-casing it, changed a series of mentions of First Lady when referring to a specific first lady to lowercase first lady, changed one mention of Garret FitzGerald to Garrett Fitzgerald, removed the word Óg from Gearóid Og Fitzgerald and Mór from Gearóid Mór Fitzgerald, not grasping that they actually were two different people (Mór = big in gaelic and indicated the father, Óg meaning small meant his son) and ended up turning an article that mentioned them both into gobbledigook. That is just some of my work he has mucked up. He made a complete mess of some biology articles, reduced an article on mediæval history to such a degree of unreadability that the author, one of the world's top mediæval historians, quick wiki in disgust. I know at least six people who have left wiki over his actions. And there are quite a few such people. Not a lot, but enough to mangle everything they touch. Another contributor constantly changed an elementary fact in 18th century history on the basis of google searches. I checked on google. The majority of articles said he was right. Those google searches turned up stuff that were barely of high school standard. But she treated google as sacrosanct. If a google search said it, it was gospel.

I have had political science articles which I have written and which were based on hard fact, in mediocre garbage, applying wrong capitalisation (again based on google searches that largely threw up high school essays), wrong spelling, wrong interpretation, etc. I wasn't reacting simply to the Droop Quota at all (that was the sixth article that day I had done that had been 'hit'. In that case Michael Hardy as he is prone to do, swept in to a topic he knows little about, changed capitalisation, text and even the formula which is the standard DQ formula taught (in that form because as already happened in the discussion on the talk page, if you leave out the parentheses people muck up the order of the calculation and so get the wrong formula). That intervention was classic Michael; go onto a page about a topic he doesn't know much about and instead of asking why it is written like that, unilaterally change it, in most cases producing a version that is so wrong it would be savaged if any student repeated it in a class.

American english and British English use different approaches to capitalisation. Many of the references were to things only found outside the US and so capitalised. Instead he insisted on applying US capitalisation rules to things whose capitalisation is a result of their existence and usage in parts of the world outside the US. That indeed is one of the reasons why google should never be used in checking capitalisation. Apart from its general unreliability, most website mentions in the US are created by people who automatically and incorrectly apply US capitalisation to things that don't exist in the US and are capitalised internationally. A classic example is the electoral system PR.STV (Proportional Representation using the Single Transferable Vote). Michael insisted on lowercasing it on the basis on a google search. PR.STV isn't used in the US and is generally capitalised when referring to the specific voting system, and lowercased when used generically. Where it is mentioned on google, it is largely on the basis of Americans writing about it and downcasing it to suit American english. So Michael unilaterally mucked up the capitalisation, then another US user moved the page to another name that refers to a somewhat similar but not the same electoral system more widely known in the US. So any non-American user would get redirected to a different electoral system, and then be shown a page with the wrong name, wrong capitalisation and the facts all garbled.

That is the sort of unprofessional behaviour that irks me and irks many more people on wiki. Whether it is Tannin with his pages on biology, other Irish people with their pages on music, that leading historian with her work on mediæval history or rakes of others, people like Michael who just sweep through pages changing everything in sight without knowing what they are doing, drive professional contributors up the wall with anger, all the more so when the ignore appeals to stop, to check with people first, to stop using google as the definitive source of information, to understand that they may not necessarily be right. Some of these people get the message. But a lot don't, like the idiot who kept changing Eamon de Valera's death date to the wrong date time and time and time again, all because one google site got it wrong and was copied by others. 100% of sites may say he died on a certain date, but that doesn't make it right. (I was alike at the time, have recently read the newspaper coverage on the day of his death and put a photograph of his grave on his page, and all show 100% that he did not die on the day claimed by some websites and one wiki individual.

But in any case, please don't think you are one of these people or I see you as one. I don't and you were not in any way the target of my gripe. lol FearÉIREANN 21:56 25 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Hiya,

regarding the designs, I like all of them. I think the "Edit this page in many languages" fits nicely together with your large colorful "Wikipedia" banner. The problem is that neither contains the URL. Maybe you could add the URL to the Wikipedia banner?

I've added a few new designs, please do take a look. --Eloquence 00:41 26 Jun 2003 (UTC)

I saw your accessability page, looked very good. I can't contribute much as a computer ignoramus, but wouldn't one positive step be to have reasonably sized font for

Contents

[edit] Headings?

Sometime last year I was bullied into decreasing the font size for headers in the style sheet because many people thought second-level headings were too big, and used third-level instead; meanwhile other people were being loudly stickly about maintaining continuity of header markup, and demanded that second-level headings be used instead for top-level subsections. (First level being the article title.) This leaves us with several options:

  • follow the way of many browsers' default style: let the lower-level headings get smaller and smaller until they're smaller than normal text (which makes no sense!)
  • make the difference between levels less great so that headers remain at or above normal text size (this is what I did, though it's not entirely satisfying)
  • make the different levels visually distinct in some other way than size: weight, indentation, underlining, italics, little blinking goblets, something :) Could be distracting.
  • mysterious something else Suggestions welcome!

-- Brion 00:54 28 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Did you see the talk page on law of excluded middle before you re-instated the contentious definition? :-) Evercat 01:10 1 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Specifically, I worry that (P or -P) may be true even if P is neither true nor false, as some claim about events in the future. ie:

There will be a sea battle tomorrow, or there will not be

is true, but some wish to deny that

There will be a sea battle tomorrow

has a truth value today.

So, in this case, bivalence maybe doesn't hold even though the law of the excluded middle, as I understand it anyway, does (P or -P).

These things are always confused and used differently by different people. I suspect the only real way to sort this out will be to note the issues and different uses. Alas, I'm no expert in this myself...

Evercat 01:13 1 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Actually the whole inclusive/exclusive or thing is a red herring when the sentence in question is (P or -P) - clearly they're never both going to be true. :-) Evercat 01:27 1 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Out of interest, the very first Google groups hit agrees with me. :-)

It's here, I think it states the issue quite nicely. Evercat 01:37 1 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Any idea where the phrase "excluded middle" came from?

I think this is Aristotle's phrase, or something close to it. Under bivalent logic it is indeed very similar to the principle of bivalence, everything is true or false, there's no middle option. But I think the name has remained even though the link with bivalence has been challenged... Evercat 17:55 1 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Hi, you're doing some interesting work on accessibility issues. My knowledge of HTML is rudimentary at best, adn my knowledge of accessibility issues is approaching zero, so I've probably run afoul of your work more than once. Anyway, I just wanted to say that if there's some work that we (wikipedians, collectively) decide should be changed over--even if it's a lot--I'd be happy to help. Koyaanis Qatsi 18:55 1 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Hey check out http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/07/02/1056825426600.html for an account of the Sea monster washed up on a beach in Chile!!!Harry Potter 03:17 5 Jul 2003 (UTC)

I thought you might be interested in the opinion poll going on now at Talk:Clitoris. MB 18:03 9 Jul 2003 (UTC)

By the way, I'm ready to go with the image uploads: I'm just finishing downloading the sources prior to unleashing the upload bot. I've put in a request for bot authorization at Wikipedia:Bots -- does anyone want to second my request? -- The Anome 13:35 12 Jul 2003 (UTC)

RickK said on Image talk:Map of Hawaii highlighting Kalawao County.png:

This image isn't correct. They've highlighted the entire island of Molokai. In fact, most of Molokai is part of Maui County, Hawaii. Kalawao County, Hawaii is only one tiny part of the island. RickK 23:00 13 Jul 2003 (UTC)

-- The Anome 23:03 13 Jul 2003 (UTC)

I think there's a problem with the Colorado maps; I was adding them to the articles and noticed the one for Broomfield County, Colorado is missing. I tracked down a map on another site [1] and it looks like they may have redrawn the lines. - Hephaestos 23:55 13 Jul 2003 (UTC)


Please, can you let User:Wapcaplet know? I'll stop downloading images for a bit. -- The Anome 23:58 13 Jul 2003 (UTC) (from The Anome's talk page - Hephaestos 00:06 14 Jul 2003 (UTC))

Not a problem. I had just been reading the county article, so I knew what it was about. There's another problem with Maui County, Hawaii, also, because there they don't include Molokai as part of the county, and it is a part (except for the little bit that isn't. :) ) But with so many hundreds of maps, it's easy for them to get a few wrong. RickK 00:30 14 Jul 2003 (UTC)

I have no idea really, don't keep up on Colorado politics. <g> But looking at the two maps side-by-side it gives me a hunch that maybe population growth in the Denver metro area led to a slicing-up of Denver County. It's probably a minor thing; unfortunately I haven't found a workable-sized map yet. - Hephaestos 00:41 14 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Images already crushed; now moved from [...]/crushed to their new location ("Ready to upload (300x300px cap)", as mentioned earlier)... James F. 23:17 14 Jul 2003 (UTC)


Uploading to Wikipedia continues. Should be finished in a couple of days. -- The Anomebot 16:08 16 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Hi, we also seem to be missing the map for Pueblo County, Colorado. - Hephaestos 17:15 18 Jul 2003 (UTC)

I'm not finding one for DeKalb County, Illinois. Also De Kalb, De Witt etc. seem to have spaces in the filenames for the pictures but not in the articles, I don't know whether that's a major issue. - Hephaestos 20:55 18 Jul 2003 (UTC)
My gut instinct would be to camelcase counties like this (although I'm not 100% sure). Anyway I don't see any need to change the image names that aren't cased, as they'll probably be pretty static once they're in anyway. - Hephaestos 00:51 19 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Hi again, we seem to be missing the map for Towner County, North Dakota. - Hephaestos 19:48 22 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Thanks!  :) - Hephaestos 20:22 22 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Hi Wapcaplet. You are listed as having expressed an opinion on whether or not Daniel C. Boyer should be deleted. Can you please turn that opinion into a formal vote? Go to Talk:Daniel C. Boyer. Thanks. -- Tim Starling 09:52, Aug 2, 2003 (UTC)

Low Wapcaplet. I didn't get involved with wikipedia to be spammed by the likes of you. I am reporting you as soon as I can figure out how to do it.l

Hi! Yes, you are right, my recent thumbnails are poor. I hadn't noticed until you showed me your versions. This is exactly the same problem as I had using PhotoShop 6 and now I have it with my current program Photoplus 6 (by Serif). I'll look into this and find how to do a lot better. Thanks for telling me, the longer this had gone on the more reloads I would have had!
Adrian Pingstone 14:36, 11 Aug 2003 (UTC)

Sorry, I forgot to say thank you for doing the work on my KLM pic. I appreciate it.
Adrian Pingstone 14:52, 11 Aug 2003 (UTC)
One important question .......
How did you achieve that 6K size at that quality on KLM? Please tell me your program!
Adrian Pingstone 16:34, 11 Aug 2003 (UTC)


Hi, you cast a vote in the TEMP5 debate. The Temp5 proposal was voted down by 61.3% to 38.6%. We seem to be going around in circles on the whole issue of the main page. A new vote is now taking place to clarify what exactly we want, namely

  1. Do we actually want to have a new page?
  2. If so when (immediately, after a pause, timed to the press release, etc)?
  3. What do people want on the front page and what do they want excluded?

As of now, the whole issue seems surrounded by complete confusion. This way, finally and definitively, we will know what we want and when we want it. So do please express your opinions. The vote is on the same page as the previous votes. FearÉIREANN 20:31, 13 Aug 2003 (UTC)

(conversation from User talk:Tonius & User talk:Angela)

Please stop saving the same page so many times. You can use the preview buttons to see your changes. You have already saved one page 50 times today. User:Wapcaplet stated the same thing three days ago before you blanked this page. Thanks. Angela 09:12, 14 Aug 2003 (UTC)

Hi Angela,

I do use the preview button. It's that I use the sectioned off edit buttons that's lined along the entire right side of the long page when I'm logged in. I do this because it is easier for me to edit small sections a bit at a time then to use the edit button at the bottom of the entire page (displaying all the technical symbols with the text) to edit just one little section. I'm constantly researching new information and adding them to the timeline if you check the edit history. Also, I try to improve the phrasing, format, punctuation and misleading information. I admit that some edits were preview mistakes, but that fact accounts for a very small percentage of the time (see page history).

I know it looks like a lot but it's because I use the edit-section option running along the side.

Right now I'm on summer break from the University of Massachusetts Amherst (A Senior majoring in Linguistics & Psychology with an Honors GPA) and it's the first summer in a very long time that there's no work in my area. The recession has hit the United States pretty hard, especially in my area; This year has had the worst lay-off rate of workers since World War II, the worst unemployment in 20 years, the worst year for the 10-Year Bond, and the worst year in 5 years for the all the US stock markets.

Thus, I'm out of work and came up with the idea to research the history video games 2 weeks ago when I was listening to some video game music while reading my academic books.

This is how I ran into your fabulous website.

Sorry,

Tony

[edit] Past vs. Present Thanks

Hey Wapcaplet, thanks for your contribution the discussion of past vs. present tense on historical articles. Though I contributed, I found the whole debate pretty silly, but, though I don't hold it against him, Reddi pressed the issue.

Glad to see you finally made it out here to the Springs. If I run into ya, I'll give you a big pat on the back. Good luck on the job hunt—there aren't too many jobs to go around right now. :-(  —Frecklefoot 20:17, 18 Aug 2003 (UTC)

[edit] world map

you may be interested/amused by this link http://www.coherenceengine.com/blog/2003_09_01_archive.html#106253671041356384 Of course, I dont know if you were planning on including place names on your map.

The Philippines on the world map looks really terrible. --seav 08:37, Sep 4, 2003 (UTC)

I just saw your map (which, by the way, I think is an excellent ides). There are still some errors: there still is no border between Croatia and Hungary, there is an extra border between Serbia and Montenegro and there is some small teritorry between Iran and Jermenia. Nikola 19:12, 27 Sep 2003 (UTC)

Eric, regarding your comment made on Talk:Catch-22 way back in May, do you know if the witch-hunting thing has a term associated with it. In which case, we can create a page and link it from Catch-22. I don't think witch-hunting is similar to catch-22 which is more of a paradoxical nature. Look into the "Also see" section in the page, and you can find more situations such as Hobson's choice and Morton's Fork. Jay 10:07, 29 Sep 2003 (UTC)

I think Trial by drowning deserves a page of its own, considering that there are entire essays on Witchhunt and an article on Execution by burning. Can you cook up a stub page, and perhaps link it up from Catch-22 and Witchhunt ? Jay 06:38, 30 Sep 2003 (UTC)

Howdy over to Ohio. I've seen today that you have corrected the word paintress to painter at List of Slovenes. What is wrong with this word, since English is not my native and of course I do not know. Best regards. --XJamRastafire 02:40, 6 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Nice work on Image:Universal joint.png! --snoyes 00:27, 12 Nov 2003 (UTC)
Keep on this good work! Just saw the Disc tumbler lock article and it's images. Very good! -- JeLuF 22:44, 21 Nov 2003 (UTC)
Just seen the Disc tumbler lock pics. Outstanding, I'm very impressed by your skills!
Adrian Pingstone 09:12, 22 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Your heart diagram is absolutely beautiful! Great Christmas present. As for descriptions: we need the names of the major vessels entering and leaving the heart, as well as arrows showing the blood flow. If you'd like to add those, that would be nice; otherwise I'd be happy to do it.

Now that I think about it: is it possible to keep the descriptions separate somehow (in a separate layer?) so that the Wikipedias of other languages can reuse the graphhic?

Also, you might want to put some GFDL/public domain statement on the image description page, and explain your software/technique for the benefit of future artists. Cheers, AxelBoldt 14:04, 24 Dec 2003 (UTC)

seconded! Great work! -- Tarquin 20:51, 24 Dec 2003 (UTC)
Yes, it's really nice with the descriptions now. Thanks again! AxelBoldt 00:09, 28 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Because you were involved in producing the U.S. county maps, perhaps you could solve a problem when you get a chance: Beaufort County, North Carolina lacks a map, and I don't see one in the image list. Thank you very much for your help or suggestions! -- Flauto Dolce 04:41, 10 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Thank you, Wapcaplet! I've been putting off adding North Carolina county formation histories to the articles about counties in the northeastern part of the state, because they are the oldest ... but now I've used up all the others! You'll probably get to Beaufort before I do. Best regards, Flauto Dolce 23:20, 10 Jan 2004 (UTC)

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Thank you, Wapcaplet from yet another source. (Who was that masked man?) I saw the coloring you did on the Orthographic projection site. I trust you left the fig.1-? uncolored for comparison purposes but this is to affirm that I like the coloring. ;). I also downloaded Blender. I am an old AutoCad and CadKey hand. Although I am no guru with pc, per se, we may share other interests. Pat 14:54, 24 Feb 2004 (UTC)

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Wapcaplet - There is problem with redirecting Perspective Distortion, source to the Perspective Distortion page: the data on the latter is in error. Perspective distortion in drawing or photography or projection is independent of lenses, per se. Lenses are relevant in so far as they might contribute extraneously and artifactually to the distortion. The Conclusion addresses this. So at present there is a contradiction between the beginning of the current page and the finish. .... Thanks... Pat Kelso 00:46, Feb 25, 2004 (UTC)

Please, go ahead. Maybe you can remove the grey bar at the top, too? Evercat 23:53, 4 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Nice touch up on the Orthographic Projection layout.

I moved the camera material in Perspective distortion to Distortion caused by the camera lens and zapped grey bar...... Pat Kelso 03:07, Mar 7, 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for moving it, I hope it becomes useful at some time. Pfortuny 15:01, 7 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Thanks so much for your support re: Buckethead. Thank you for being so observant, and for speaking out on it. I was beginning to think I was on my own with that one. Bucketbot 19:46, 22 Mar 2004

Hi Wapcaplet. I came across the screenshot you uploaded for Fluxbox, Image:Fluxbox_screenshot_large.png, and just wanted to ask what terminal you're using in the image? The tabs at the bottom look useful.

Also, I've just looked at your Blender automobile images. They look incredible! Really excellent. Are they in use anywhere on the site yet? If not, I hope they will be soon. Keep up the good work. Chopchopwhitey 23:52, 27 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Hi there - re your comment on Zip codes on VFD, IAMAL, but I understand that there was a case brought by a phone company who published a phone book suing someone for republishing the list of people with phone numbers. They lost the case, courts ruled that a simple list (minus formatting or other 'artistic' elements) cannot be copyrighted. Who knows though, plus, I certainly don't want lists of ZIP codes here! Yours, Mark Richards 16:50, 31 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Agreed - it's not that I mind them being there per se, but maintaining and checking them? Plus, why? Since others do publish them. If someone felt passionately though, and wanted to do it... But hey, that way madness lies. Take her easy, Mark Richards 18:30, 31 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Here I go again...after several months, I couldn't help myself from doing some modest changes to AIDS reappraisal. What stirred me into action? Mostly, a statement by Adam Carr that he is good at "protecting the AIDS page from HIV denialists" and he commented one of his reversions with "getting rid of crackpot theories", etc., etc. While I agree with many of his reversions (many dissident changes were POV), I find his attitude offensive. (Imagine a pro-lifer claiming they were good at "protecting the abortion page from pro-choicers, or vice versa). If the HIVers are to be allowed sufficient power to bulldoze over anyone who disagrees with them (even given the fact it's the mainstream or "their" page), then certainly they shouldn't be allowed to bulldoze over this page, which I think happened just before I gave up on it. I'm just saying, they can't have it both ways -- if they want to squelch and neutralise most things said by dissidents at the AIDS page, they can't have it both ways and also bulldoze over the AIDS reappraisal page with writing that is clearly inflammatory and POV. Revolver 21:57, 6 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Hello Wapcaplet! I have a question about locator maps for ancient history which I put on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Maps. You can reply on that page if you wish. Happy editing, Wile E. Heresiarch 23:23, 26 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Re: PNGcrush & GIMP: Thanks for tip. If I ever get around to upgrading to System X--which might be soon--I'll give it a try. This was my first experiment using PNG instead of GIF; I have a couple of other tools already and if I have time I'll see whether they do any more compression, too. Elf | Talk 14:52, 3 May 2004 (UTC)


[edit] Wikipedia:Requested pictures

I was thinking that, too. My though was to leave the "fulfilled" note there for a few days, so people feel good about it, and then remove it later. There is also a page Wikipedia:Fulfilled picture requests, but that looks pretty unused and unstructured. Either way is fine by me. -- Chris 73 | Talk 03:28, 9 May 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Blank County Maps for US States available?

Hi, Eric. I've offered to help with Seth Ilys' Dot Project and was planning to create blank county maps for the US states, derived from the maps that you, Jdforrester and The Anome posted for each state county. Before I went that route, I thought I would ask if the blank maps existed somewhere in Wikipedia, and I just haven't managed to find them. It isn't much trouble for me to derive 50 maps, so if they aren't out there already or providable with little effort on your part, I'll just prep them and post them. Thanks. --Brian Rock 19:23, May 13, 2004 (UTC)

  • Eric said ... You could probably just flood-fill the red regions with white (and maybe desaturate the image to get rid of any residual red tinges) to get pristine versions from them. If you do that, you may consider doing what I ought to have done the first time, and post the blank ones to the Wiki for the benefit of future editors. Good luck!
    • Yes, that's pretty much what I had in mind. At this point, my thoughts are to post each blank county map in its state geography section. If you have a better idea for a central location, I'm looking for suggestions. Thanks. --Brian Rock 22:10, May 13, 2004 (UTC)
  • Thanks for the place to put the maps. I've been experimenting, and I think it might be best to go back to the U of Texas county maps. I'll delete the borders and captions and save them in their original size. Then I'll work from those. Thanks for a place to put them. --Brian Rock 21:53, May 14, 2004 (UTC)
  • Eric, I wanted to check out something with you. As I went back to the U of Texas site, I noticed that the county maps, at least the ones I thought were the ones used in the Wikipedia, are actually from Indiana State University. U of Texas makes clear that external links have their own copyright policies, so I went directly to the Indiana State University cartography site. I can't find a copyright statement there. I sent a note to the sysop asking about it, and have got back four days of no response. Do you know if the Indiana State maps are in the public domain? We might be in the same area here as if someone tried to copyright an atomic weight - a fundamental (or in this case a political) property that can't be copyrighted. If the maps were embellished, value added, it might be different, but they're basically line drawings of the counties.
It's possible this has all been thrashed out by you or someone else already. The Indiana State site might be abandoned, or semi-abandoned, so that I might not get a response anytime soon. At the rate Seth is generating maps, it won't do much good for me to wait very long, but I would like to know I'm on solid ground. Any info you might have to clarify the situation would be welcome. Thanks. --Brian Rock 21:55, May 18, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] IfD listings

Thanks for converting those BMPs and listing them on IfD. Make sure you sign your edits (the standard ~~~~ should work fine); if they're in a block, just leave a blank line before and after the block and sign it once at the bottom. Also, on the image pages, you can just type {{msg:ifd}} to put the standard IfD notice on them once they're listed on IfD. Again, thanks for helping out. grendel|khan 04:03, 2004 May 27 (UTC)

[edit] Auto Diagrams

Just wanted to let you know that your auto diagrams are simply amazing. You're quite good with blender, and you clearly pay a lot of attention to detail. I look forward to seeing a video, especially of your most recent one. Great job! - Plutor 15:53, 3 Jun 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Combination lock pics

I just came across your combination lock pictures and thought they were excellent, and then discovered the automotive diagrams — similarly impressive! I was wondering what the licensing status of these images were, since the image pages didn't mention it (GFDL, Public domain, used by permission, etc?) Anyway, thanks for these contributions, it must involve some hard work! — Matt 20:00, 5 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for the comment about the crypto figures! Regarding licensing: do you think it would be worth sticking a {{GFDL}} on your pictures, since there's so many that get uploaded under Fair Use? P.S. You've taken a course on cryptography? I don't suppose you fancy modelling the Enigma machine... ;-) (ah, optimism...) — Matt 21:55, 5 Jun 2004 (UTC)

[edit] So I'm finally getting the hang of operating wiki, heh

Your DVD replacement text is very eloquent. Kudos! :)

--antonio

[edit] Tables

I see you did a lot on the Wikipedia:How_to_use_tables page. I've added a comment under Wikipedia:How_to_use_tables#Possible_problems, and I wondered if you'd sense check it for me. Noisy 09:28, 4 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Hmmm ... don't know the best way to get an image for you. I've captured one as a bitmap, but looking at the image pages I didn't see a clear path of incorporating one somewhere on Wikipedia. The problem arises on Netscape or Mozilla, and the place where it started bugging me was on the Swiss canton pages, e.g. Aargau. Noisy 17:29, 4 Jul 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Auto diagrams (yes, again)

Just wanted to thank you for your work. I know it's been done before, but really high-quality original images are hard to come by here. It's clearly a lot of work, but the results are phenomenal. I notice that the test images are a bit grainy. If you'd like, I have access to a supercomputing cluster (MPI-type) here, if yafray can run on it. (If it would help, I can also turn one of the P4 labs, with about thirty machines, into a Mosix cluster for a day.)

Let me know if you're interested, and thanks again! grendel|khan 16:25, 2004 Jul 4 (UTC)

[edit] Episode titles

I italicized them in the first place, but then someone pointed out the style guide. So I'm just restoring List of Buffy the Vampire Slayer episodes to its previous appearance.

Within article text paragraphs in the various articles for characters and episodes, I'm putting them in double quotes, but I think in a list the double quotes would just be redundant, since there's no need to set off the titles from adjacent prose.

-- Curps 23:04, 10 Jul 2004 (UTC)

[edit] License

Hi,you had uploaded Image:Cooking pans.jpg without license. We use it on french wp and assume it is GFDL but can you conforim it ? Thanks in advance. Tipiac 22:01, 12 Jul 2004 (UTC)

[edit] jpg->png

Thanks for doing this, I heard somewhere that there is no advantage in converting from jpg to png (apart from licensing), and that doing so can reduce quality - can you tell me whether that is true? Thanks! Mark Richards 20:13, 15 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Thanks - great job! What are you using to do this? Mark Richards 20:39, 15 Jul 2004 (UTC)

[edit] T-shirt designs

Gosh, I simply love your "Be Bold" T-shirt graphic on Meta. I think the small version would be a lovely thing to add to Wikipedia:Be bold in updating pages. Would you mind? --Ardonik 09:40, Jul 17, 2004 (UTC)