User talk:Brighterorange

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Contents 1 Saryn Hooks 2 P-1000 AFD 3 AfD de_chateau 4 Do you know... 5 Another AfD on the CS Maps 6 2006 Long Island Sound Plane Crash 7 Image problem on "Albright Special" page? 8 AfD on Individual Counter-Strike maps 9 Next WikiProject Punctuation 10 14 Year Old Girls 11 "en dash" 12 Caterpillar Face 13 Indzhe 14 Wikimeet? 15 {{User Pennsylvania}} 16 Stucture of the Higher-order abstract syntax page 17 Orangeness 18 3nd AFD nom for List of Battlefield 1942 mods 19 Rock stuff 20 Ultimate PHP Board 21 Image tags 22 file extensions 23 jelly fish 24 Bohr Atom: SVG vs PNG 25 Commons picture of the year 26 Samir Patel 27 Old book bindings 28 Auto edit to 1 − 2 + 3 − 4 + · · · 29 Ira Glass

[edit] Saryn Hooks

You participated in the Finola Hackett AfD. Please also join the discussion here: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Saryn Hooks (second nomination). Thank you. - CrazyRussian talk/email 17:28, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] P-1000 AFD

Hey Brighterorange, I'm writing to see if you might have another look at the AFD for P-1000 here. I posted a comment there about my failure to find reliable sources describing the P-1000. I'm posting on your talk because you commented on the AFD three days ago and I thought you might not be watching it. Later! TomTheHand 00:42, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] AfD de_chateau

Just wanted to let you know that one of our CS maps is up for deletion. I'm not sure why they're picking on this one, but here's the link Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/De_chateau David Bergan 16:33, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Do you know...

Richard Albagli?

• I don't think so. — brighterorange (talk) 01:29, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Another AfD on the CS Maps

Thanks for your input on the last one, this is getting sickening, but the vote is against us right now. Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Counter-Strike_maps David Bergan 21:08, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

• Don't be sad, it's not a vote, and I think people are receptive to good arguments. (I already commented on the new AfD this morning.) — brighterorange (talk) 22:41, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 2006 Long Island Sound Plane Crash

Help!, other useres are trying to delete my article but I objected saying that the plane crash is notable. Please vote keep on the vote page in order to save this article.Storm05 13:50, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image problem on "Albright Special" page?

Isn't there a problem with the instructional diagram and the photograph on the stub page for the Albright Special knot (bend)? In an Albright tied correctly (for fishing with monofilament line, anyway), it's important that the tag end and standing part of the light line exit from the same side of the bight in the heavier line. This is not true in the photograph Albright_Special.jpg. It is also not true in the the two middle steps illustrated in Albright_Special_Diagram.jpg, which cannot follow from the first step nor lead to the final step (the first and last steps are correct). (Forgive my ineptness; I've never contributed to Wikipedia before now in any way. I just curiously searched for this knot because it's one I use routinely for fishing.)

• I'll take a look. I used a book on knots for a reference, but if I made a mistake or if the reference is wrong, we should fix it. The diagram isn't mine. — brighterorange (talk) 15:31, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] AfD on Individual Counter-Strike maps

Just wanted to inform you of Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Individual_Counter-Strike_maps (July 17, 2006). I'm alerting everyone who had more than 2 edits in one of the previous AfDs. Kind regards, David Bergan 19:09, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Next WikiProject Punctuation

Hi, Was wondering when you are pulling the next dump off for the Project Punctuation?

Im thinking, that after the articles have been punctuated, i may run AWB over them with RETF to catch other spellings....

Wonder if there is a way to get AWB to look for missing '.'...

I will enquire

Reedy Boy 08:29, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

• I don't have any specific plans. Perhaps September again? I've been thinking of doing a round to look for em dashes and en dashes that could be rendered better. But there are a lot of these. Maybe it would be good to integrate with some kind of automated editing process... — brighterorange (talk) 14:22, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 14 Year Old Girls

Seeing as you voted on the previous AfD, I thought I would alert you to a new AfD on 14 Year Old Girls. PT ^(s-s-s-s) 20:07, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] "en dash"

Hello - I just noticed your edit to the Bob O'Connor article, about inserting "en dash".

I saw what the edit did. Can you explain to me what that actually does, or what effect it has, versus the actual "-" character? I'm just curious...an opportunity to learn something new. Thanks! NickBurns 21:12, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

• Sure. You can read all about the different style of dashes in the dash article or Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dashes). The en dash is about twice as long as the hyphen, and is used to indicate numeric ranges (among other things). Compare 1-10 vs. 1–10. — brighterorange (talk) 15:06, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

• I appreciate your replacement of hyphens with ndashes. I've done quite a lot of that kind of editing myself, although I change them to "–". I'm not sure how you are doing it. But anyway, my current obsession is with the ordinal congresses, e.g. 1st United States Congress and congressional delegations, e.g. United States Congressional Delegations from Alabama. Most of these have inappropriate hyphens for ranges of years. Do you have a bot that could easily tackle all of these? I sure would appreciate it. Thanks.--Appraiser 15:36, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

• I used to use the html entities exclusively, but I actually think that the unicode characters '–' and '—' are the better way to go because they look better while editing. They're available in the edittools box below the save page button. I don't have a bot for it; I think that there are too many false positive scenarios for it to be totally automatic. However I have been working on a script that can do most of the work with a little human oversight. It's at User:brighterorange/punctuation.js. If you want to try it out, let me know so I can write some documentation. — brighterorange (talk)
• The script works well on these pages. I did up to and including Illinois. — brighterorange (talk) 18:25, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Caterpillar Face

Easily my favourite picture on wikipedia! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Jellocube27 (talk • contribs).

• Cool, thanks! — brighterorange (talk) 03:26, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Indzhe

Thanks for your kind words on this AfD - they were appreciated. Dlyons493 Talk 01:14, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikimeet?

Since you indicated that you are a student at CMU, you may be interested in a Wikimeet I'm trying to set up in Pittsburgh. You may join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Meetup/Pittsburgh if you're interested. We currently have 4 interested people and are hoping to bring that number up to at least 5. Once we have 5 or more interested people we can then discuss the time and location. (Note: If for any reason you do not wish to participate, simply ignore this message.) Scobell302 04:44, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

We now have 5 interested people and have moved to discussing the time & location of our first meetup. You may provide your input at Wikipedia talk:Meetup/Pittsburgh#Time & Location of first meetup. Once we finalize something we will indicate it on the front page. Scobell302 03:00, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] {{User Pennsylvania}}

I was clearing out Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Pennsylvania. I added this template to your page. Feel free to remove it, and thanks for understanding. --evrik 04:51, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Stucture of the Higher-order abstract syntax page

Hi,

I just wanted to let you know that I made a few changes to the Higher-order abstract syntax page and created a discussion topic on the structure of the article.

eboy 16:50, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Orangeness

I know why I'm "Orange Mike"; might I inquire the origin of your handle? --Orange Mike 19:06, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

• I'm afraid it doesn't have a compelling explanation except to say that bright orange, and a sense of striving to make that orange even more bright, appeals to me. — brighterorange (talk) 21:35, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 3nd AFD nom for List of Battlefield 1942 mods

You may be interested in the List of Battlefield 1942 mods AFD. Bfelite 20:33, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

• I already weighed in on that. ;) — brighterorange (talk) 04:25, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Rock stuff

I was browsing the Wikipedians by alma mater: Carnegie Mellon University (as I will soon be joining the ranks) and I noticed we had a few interests in common. I went ahead and created Scat Records and canyon.mid. I'll add more later, but feel free to expand yourself. Andre (talk) 09:56, 25 December 2006 (UTC)

• replied on talk page. — brighterorange (talk) 15:55, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

I'll be an undergrad, studying computer science. Andre (talk) 21:26, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Ultimate PHP Board

Hi,

Just wondering if we can get the Ultimate PHP Board wiki back up, it said it was deleted with the 'prod' reason and I read up on it. The article said you would put it back up if I just asked.

Tim (Myupb.com)

• I'm not sure which article you're refering to, but you can just recreate it if you want. However, if I deleted it via WP:PROD it probably doesn't have any chance of surviving Articles for Deletion. Maybe take a look at WP:WEB before continuing, and if the site does meet the criteria, then make sure the article indicates that. — brighterorange (talk) 17:40, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Image tags

Thanks for the heads up about Image:Lightning Bolt.jpg and Image:BrianChippendale.jpg. You were absolutely right, they were not GFDL at all (those were some of the first images I uploaded as I started to get into Wikipedia, so I didn't know what I was doing). I went ahead and updated/fixed the liscensing and fair use rationales on those and a few other images. Thanks for the friendly reminder and keep up the good work!
--Drewcifer3000 19:42, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] file extensions

Curious: What makes .svg better than .png? --Chris Griswold (☎☓) 16:41, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

• Responded on his talk.

[edit] jelly fish

Thanks for your wikification of that stub...! did you come across it there or elsewere?

• On the jellyfish article. — brighterorange (talk) 10:43, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Bohr Atom: SVG vs PNG

Hello, I saw that you replaced a PNG with an SVG. Something is wrong, in the process of displaying that picture. Could you revert your change, until the process is fixed? Also, I am working on an article that has some illustrations, and I have spent a good deal of time learning SVG and building my illustrations; seeing what happened to your illustration, disturbs me. Who do we talk to about this?

For your reference (and for forwarding to whoever is in charge), here is what I see, five hours after your change, using both Firefox and Microsoft Internet Explorer from a Microsoft Windows machine.

Viewing the page Mathematical formulation of quantum mechanics, I see the frame for the Bohr atomic model illustration, but that frame is empty.

When I right-click on the empty area and select "Properties", I see that Explorer and Firefox are both trying to show me this file: "http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/Bohr_atom_model_English.svg/180px-Bohr_atom_model_English.svg.png".

When I left-click on the empty area, I go to a page titled "Image:Bohr atom model English.svg". That page shows a faint checkerboard pattern in Firefox, and a blank white area in Explorer. When I left-click on the name of the graphic file (below the empty display of same), in either browser, I go to this file (which displays properly in both browsers): http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a5/Bohr_atom_model_English.svg

--Swwright 22:45, 12 February 2007 (UTC)^Talk

• Yeah, I have seen this problem a few times. I'd like to help fix it, but I expect it's something only the developers can do (probably having to do with a race condition in SVG conversion). Sometimes the images just don't get generated correctly and then they are stuck as completely transparent images; doing an ?action=purge on the image page seems to often fix it. I purged the cache and it seems to be okay now in the atomic theory article. — brighterorange (talk) 23:12, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
  • Yup, that fixed it! Thanks! Is purging the image cache (for a given page?) something that anybody can do, or just whoever created that image, or just an admin? (Given that I'm soon going to be uploading several SVG images...) --Swwright 23:35, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
    • Nevermind, it is at Wikipedia:Purge --Swwright 23:38, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Commons picture of the year

My vote is for image #10. All of these images are lovely, so I can be exremely picky: 1 is a very good shot, but the composition could be improved (the lights in the corners are particularly distracting). 2's composition is perfect, but the image uploaded is very low resolution, and has a currently hip ultrasharpened HDRish look to it that will look very 2000s in a decade or two. 3 is a great animation, but I suspect it will also not age well, and there's something uncomfortably discontinuous about the motion. 4 is an apropos and unintrusive use of animation, but the image quality is actually not that good (low resolution, aliased font, aliasing at edges of moon); I think it also misleadingly suggests that it is actual photographs of the moon. The long exposure of 5 makes it appear blurry at large sizes. The composition of 6 is awesome but the image quality and contrast are only "good". 7 is a perfectly great wildlife photo, but is sort of obvious. Similarly with 8, except that foreground branches are additionally a bit distracting. 9 is wonderful in every way, and would win my favorite photo of the group, but its usefulness in an encyclopedia is limited. 11 is a great encyclopedic capture of a difficult to photograph event; really nothing to criticize about it at all except that the subject is a little mundane. 10 is high quality, and outstanding in its capture of something encyclopedic that would otherwise be basically impossible to see, so it is my pick. Thumbs up all around! — brighterorange (talk) 17:47, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Samir Patel

Thanks a lot, mate. I know Samir Patel personally... thanks... talk to you later okay? Onyx the hero 23:21, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Old book bindings

Just checking that you're aware of this discussion. Regards, Ben Aveling 10:51, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

I didn't—thanks for pointing it out! — brighterorange (talk) 05:55, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Auto edit to 1 − 2 + 3 − 4 + · · ·

I reverted your edit to 1 − 2 + 3 − 4 + · · ·, which has the summary "auto 10 en dash". Besides introducing en dashes, your edit replaced some .png links with .svg links and it even replaced a working picture with a non-existing link. Since this seems to have been an automatic / bot edit, please have a good look at what happens and make sure it doesn't happen again. Cheers, Jitse Niesen (talk) 01:54, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

• Oops, the PNG to SVG I did by hand, but then meant to undo after reading on the talk page that those SVGs aren't reliable yet. Only the dashes are automatic, which I believe were correct... — brighterorange (talk) 04:03, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Yes, I checked and the dashes were fine, so I reinstated that bit. -- Jitse Niesen (talk) 13:20, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Ira Glass

Hey, I noticed you reverted without comment my change (back) from "(b. ___)" to "(born ___)" in the Ira Glass article. Wikipedia style for biographies is to use the full word "born" (especially in this part of the article); you can read this at Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)#Dates of birth and death and in the other examples in the Manual of Style (e.g. Wikipedia:Manual of Style (biographies)). Just wanted to let you know. — brighterorange (talk) 16:56, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

i appologize for not leaving an comment, i clicked save prematurely. per WP:ABB Wikipedia:Manual of Style (abbreviations), "(b. ___)" is accepted. --emerson7 | Talk 17:08, 29 March 2007 (UTC)