User talk:WTucker

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[edit] Categorizing caves

First, let me add my welcome to Wikipedia. It looks like you are jumping right in and making useful contributions in a area with which you have some expertise. Your intuition on categorization is basically correct, but I will add a couple of suggestions. Unless there is a good reason to do otherwise, avoid placing an article in two categories where one encloses the other (has a parent-child or grandparent-grandchild, etc. relationship). There is no problem placing an article in sibling categories, such as Category:Show caves and Category:Limestone caves, if they both apply. The "strange and obscure" articles do tend to get left in the general category until there are enough to article to justify creation of a new category. With respect to Category:Erosion caves and Category:Dissolution caves, go ahead and create the categories. If you are not sure how to create new categories, just ask (hint: click on the red links and add its parent category).

If you have not already done so, you may wish to read the categorization guideline. One thing that took me a while to figure out is that when you are adding a category to an article, you can select the Show preview button and then scroll all of the way to the bottom of the page and it will indicate whether you got the category right (it will show up at the bottom) or messed it up (it will appear as black text or as a red, non-existent category). Let me know if you have any more questions and I'll try to help! Burlywood 18:47, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Rimstone2.jpg copyright question

You have done the right thing by listing it as a possible copyright violation. Would you remove your question from Wikipedia:Requested copyright examinations since you have answered your own question? Royalbroil 05:26, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Caving sort

Helllo WTucker - you recently changed the sorting for the cat of Caving in New Zealand. You replaced " Caving in New Zealand" (note the leading space) with " ". Now both of these place the article at the start of the Caves of New Zealand cat list - where it should be. However, the longer version which I have now returned allows more specific sorting WITHIN the number of articles that should be at the top of said cat.

As an example, " Caving in New Zealand" sorts alphabetically before " Caving rescues in New Zealand" (which does not exist, but this is an example only). By simplifying the sort to " " only, you thus remove important info for the auto-sorting. This of course applies to all cats. Cheers and happpy editing. Ingolfson (talk) 05:31, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Question

What exactly did you find wrong with the picture in this article? If something is wrong in that particular one, then someone had better take a look at the article in mineralogy|this link. I hope there are not any copyright problems; I spent quite a lot of time making this article.

Also, I would rather you have made contact me before you put any more of my uploaded pictures on wikipedia up for deletion. I am not always able to be on wiki, and would like an opportunity to defend my work. Thanks!

Chiefsfan (Reply) 14:31, 7 March 2008 (UTC)


[edit] Thank You

I appreciate you informing me and would like to thank you. I understand what was wrong with the images; it was a mix-up, and purely accidental. I also found the source of the images on the web Chiefsfan (Reply) 15:11, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Also

The pictures in question were not a crop. They were a picture taken on a digital camera that I own. Is taking a picture of something that I could also take a picture of really a copyright violation? To be honest, if I actually had the time to be taking pictures in caves I would, or if I lived anywhere near a cave for that matter... And anyway if taking a picture of a photo is a copyright violation, then whose to say that a real picture of the same thing isn't. This may or may not sound ridiculous to you, but it doesn't to me.

Just a thought
Chiefsfan (Reply) 20:55, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] ...

I apologize if I sounded angry in my message. I wasn't angry at all. A lot of the time its frustrating because people think I have a "tone". It really doesn't make any sense how someone can pick a tone "tone" out of a written message. Sorry if I came of as defensive. Chiefsfan (Reply) 23:20, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

Sorry about my typo's, it is quite difficult to type on an ipod, the controls are so sensitive...

[edit] Thanks

A rather late "thank you" for your work on removing the weasel words in the article Lechuguilla Cave. It's a rather frustrating problem when articles which would otherwise be good get infiltrated by these words. BeefRendang (talk) 08:09, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Konfusion

My guess for the poor fellow's pseudoscience mention was due to his confusing Karst topography with Kirlian photography. But it doesn't matter, it just didn't belong with karst. Thanks for fixing it. -- SEWilco (talk) 20:58, 6 June 2008 (UTC)