User talk:Doug Coldwell/Archive 1

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Hello, Doug Coldwell, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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[edit] Petrarch

I tried reading your user page. You place great store in how many words and letters are used by Petrarch. But all that you quote is in English. Surely he didn't write in English? --Dweller 14:40, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the comments. Appreciate it. It is true that Petrarch's main language was not English. I believe his main language he spoke was Italian. He wrote in the Vulgate Latin. All of his works are in Latin. I quote Petrarch's "works" that have been translated into English, since this is the only language I know. However note that I give the titles of his works in the original Latin words. The first 4 headings are examples, as is the wording of De Viris Illustribus. Do you then know Latin or Italian? Is your native tongue English or another?

However as you can see from my work I have established that Petrarch definitely had a handle on English. He knew this language (as well as many others I suspect). I am told though by many scholars and history books that he did not know Greek. However he knew other scholars that did know Greek, so when he needed something translated or written into Greek he called upon his associates. He wrote this as I am describing as The Petrarch Code with the intention that it would be used in England. John Wycliffe (the first person to translate the New Testament into English) was from England. As far as I know, Petrarch did not know John Wycliffe personally. However I do believe he knew of him, since they were both in the same time period and both were ecclesiastical annoyances. Check back from time to time to see my progress on my User Page. I update almost daily.--Doug 16:40, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

Hi. Thanks for the reply. The point I was making was that you're basing much of your code theory on the number and combination of letters. However, you're using translations. In his vernacular, the number and combinations would be different. --Dweller 10:28, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Agree with you on that point. This Code is definitely directly related to only English, not Latin or Italian. The Code works very good in English, but in Latin would not work (I assume). Petrarch wrote all his famous works in the Vulage Latin. Have given this very question much thought, since the Code works perfect in English. I'm almost positive it would not apply or work in Latin, however I do not know Latin so couldn't prove this one way or the other. All I can prove is that it definitely works in English. This calls for additional research, however this is my thinking on this so far. I believe Petrarch knew English. The reason I believe this is because of the sophistication of the Code. On the overall things Petrarch did on this Code, it is highly sophisticated. In fact the degree of sophistication is so high, it basically takes a modern day computer and the internet (with Wikipedia) to crack it. Who was this smart in the Renaissance period to do this? Only a few: Da Vinci, Boccaccio, Dante, and Petrarch for example. There may have been a handful more of humanists in the Renaissance period.

Here are some more thoughts along this line. I have concluded by cracking The Petrarch Code that it was in fact Francesco Petrarch that wrote the four Gospels. I have figured out that he did have assistance in this. One of his assistants was Giovanni Boccaccio. Boccaccio wrote pretty much the Gospel of Matthew. Petrarch wrote the Gospel of Luke and Acts of the Apostles alone. (That's why most scholars to this day believe it is one and the same author that wrote both of these because of the writing style. They are correct: it was Petrarch). The Gospels of Mark and the Gospel of John is a collaborate effort between Petrarch and Boccaccio. The Gospels of Matthew and John are named in honor of Boccaccio. The Gospels of Luke and Mark are based on characters that Petrarch wrote about in his other famous works. Luke is in reference to the close friend of Scipio Africanus of Gaius Laelius. Gospel Mark is named in honor of Hannibal. Hannibal's family name is Barca or Barcas. Marcas comes from Barcas. Marc is short for Marcas. Mark then is our English word taken from Marc.

FYI: The three letters of John are letters from Scipio (the Elder) to Gaius Laelius. Scipio's family name is Cornelius. Scipio 'Cornelius' is this person written about in Acts of the Apostles chapter 10. His father Publius Cornelius Scipio is Acts chapter 11. Chapter 7 is Alexander the Great. Chapter 1 is Persian king; Cyrus the Great.

[edit] Appius Claudius Caecus and the Queen of the Long Roads

Doug! How are you? I used to call my self retired but it does not look good on the resume. Take it out, brother. Retired means not in the human race any more. When God calls you to retire to heaven then retire. Now to the topic at hand.

The blood lines of Appius Claudius would make a good topic for research. First I would do a Google search on his name. Then I would do a Yahoo search. What you are looking for is any scientific articles on the man. Do an academic Google search. Be aware, those professors are going to charge you a fee for their articles, but you can usually get the first page for free and some articles are for free.

Then I would go to [www.perseus.com the Perseus site]. Select Classics, so a search on Appius Claudius. That will get you Smith and a few encyclopedists online. You may have wait for the server. They aren't too good at servers, nothing like Wikipedia. Then, do an advanced search on Perseus, select Greek and Latin materials, English (unless you know Latin), enter Appius Claudius. That will get you to every translated ancient work on Perseus that mentions the man. Be prepared, ther emight be quite a few, hundreds even. How patient are you?

After that, well, you can try paper material but for an obscure topic like that none of the general reference works are going to have it. Your best bet is Google. Or you could try Philip II.

As for the queen of the long roads, you have just proposed a hypothesis, that the road was so named because of its straightness. Now you need to prove it. Without contextual evidence it is only a speculation. Find an author who says, it was named the queen, etc., because of its straightness, or find a dictionary entry for longus that says it could also mean straight. there are a number of Latin dictionaries online.

Personally I doubt it. All the roads were straight just like that one except when you got to the coast around Capua. If you read the article on Roman roads you remember that they would go to any lengths to get a straight road: steep grades, causeways, bridges. So, the Via Appia is not singled out for its straightness. Moreover, longus never means straight. You know what straight is in Latin, right? Guess! Of course. Rectus as in rectilinear.

Well brother I hope I contributed something to your start in classical studies. I do advise a search for the scientific articles. They turn up new and startling information all the time. Best wishes. Ciao.Dave 01:17, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Money

A while back you had responded to a question of someone elses regarding motivation. You mentioned that you knew how to make lots of money. Kindly enlighten me, I live in the year 2007. How do I become extremely rich? --Delma1 07:34, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

I am quite interested in Real Estate too. I recently was taking Architectural Technology (full time) at a Technical Institute in Alberta, Canada (there is a huge shortage of housing in Alberta, due to Oil Sands contruction, low unemployment & because people are moving from other provinces like Ontario to Alberta for work). But then I dropped out before the first semester mid-term because I did not like drawing.

Now I am trying to get a certificate in Contruction Technology via part time in the evenings, which is like project management, & estimating. In order to get the certificate I need to take 6 core courses & 5 Electives. So far I have completed one, that is Construction Products & Materials.

So because you specialized in foreclosures, bank repossessions, Probate Sales, Estate Sales, and fixer-uppers, you were able to buy real-estate at discounted rates? But is that niche still left?

Everybody is nobody at one time so how did you actually start off with the above specializations? Did you just advertise in the newspaper I am a Real estate agent?

--Delma1 15:31, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

- What about your first cutomer? --Delma1 12:29, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Image tagging for Image:Petrarch_with_book.jpg

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[edit] Mass Spectrometry

Recently put a question about Mass spectrometry on the Humanities page. Want to just "Move" the entire question over to Science without retyping it.

You can copy the question out of your edit history; go to [1] (which I found by searching your contributions), scroll to the bottom of the edit box, and copy the question. You can then paste it into the edit box on the Science reference desk. (If you want to, you can then go back and blank the section on the Humanities reference desk.) Hope that helps; feel free to put {{helpme}} back up if you have any more questions. --ais523 14:12, 4 January 2007 (U T C)

[edit] Re: Splitting a Talk page

Yes, it's possible. You have what's known as a 'userspace', where you can put your own pages, and Talk page archives are one common use for that. If I create a link to /Further on Petrarch (notice the / at the start) on this Talk page, it becomes a link to a page in your userspace where you can store ('archive') parts of your Talk page separately. (I archive my own Talk page every month or so; there's a link to my archives near the top, where you can see old messages I was sent.) You can also link to such a page in full, such as User talk:Doug Coldwell/Further on Petrarch, which is useful when using the Go feature of the search box. Cut-and-paste is one common method of archiving Talk pages (although not the only method used). See Wikipedia:How to archive a talk page for further details. Hope that helps! --ais523 14:49, 4 January 2007 (U T C)

The Ref Desk is in forward chronological order because it uses a modified version of the '+' tab to add new comments (the '+' tab, present at the top of this User Talk page, for instance, adds a new section at the bottom of the talk page). Reversing the order would require a change to the software (although it's possible it might be implemented if it gained enough consensus). --ais523 15:34, 4 January 2007 (U T C)

I've only just seen your followup question (having been offline for the last 3 days); yes, subpages can have subpages themselves, and are created the same way (/Subsubpage on the subpage, or /Subpage/Subsubpage on the mainpage, preferably using more interesting names). --ais523 10:47, 8 January 2007 (U T C)

[edit] Possible good information.

History: Fiction or Science? by Anatoly T. Fomenko, Franck Tamdhu (Editor), Mike Jagoupov (Translator) Publisher: Mithec (March 2004) # ISBN-10: 2913621058 # ISBN-13: 978-2913621053 is written by a member of the Russian Academy, and presents a view of history and goings-on at the time of the late Middle Ages-Early Renaissance in many ways similar to yours. You may find it interesting. --Seejyb 21:52, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

Sorry I'm a little late:

Happy Birthday Doug Coldwell! | AndonicO ^{Talk | Sign Here} 11:57, 1 04 2007 (UTC)

I wish you a Happy Birthday! I hope you have a magnificent day! You are a year older now, enjoy it! AndonicO ^{Talk | Sign Here} 11:57, 1 04 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Your User Page

Hi Doug. I've noticed that you have developed a rather extensive user page, and subpages, to explain your theories. However, you should note that Wikipedia is not a free web host. Wikipedia user page guidelines state that "your userpage is for anything that is compatible with the Wikipedia project. It is a mistake to think of it as a homepage: Wikipedia is not a blog, webspace provider, or social networking site. Instead, think of it as a way of organizing the work that you are doing on the articles in Wikipedia, and also a way of helping other editors to understand with whom they're working." Reviewing your contributions, you don't seem to have made any edits to the actual encyclopedia that we are working on here. If you aren't interested in working on the encyclopedia, you may want to find another place to host your theories. - Eron ^Talk 14:04, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

Presently working on gathering information to make improvements on Petrarch, Ideas, Innovation, and Inspiration. In contact with others of other websites, University Libraries, and many related authors. Am trying to keep this as neutral as possible, however some points may be a little controversial. Thats why I am gathering here first. --Doug 15:27, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

Okay, thanks. - Eron ^Talk 15:49, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Uploading pictures

I have a dozen or so pictures I can add to Ludington State Park. I added this one picture today and it is typical of what I could add to the other sub-categories. However I have dial-up and have to wait a loooog time just to upload 1 picture. Is these a way to upload several pictures at the same time, so I would not have to go through the steps each time. Perhaps there is a way to upload just a thumb (smaller version) of a picture. Normally the JPG pictures are 500K to 900K in size each. I want to upload maybe 10 - 20 to work from to add to the article and to the article Ludington, Michigan. Is there a place where your pictures are in a category by themselves so you can see what you have uploaded? --Doug 19:40, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

Comment I'd upload the pictures to the Commons. Xiner (talk, email) 19:52, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

Unfortunately, no. You have to upload one at a time (because that's all the software can handle). Commons (Main Page) has tools to show you a gallery of what you've uploaded. -Royalguard11(Talk·Desk·Review Me!) 19:55, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

I uploaded a picture "Ludington State Park 2005 001.jpg" however can not figure out how to get it into the Category "Michigan State Parks" which is under the categories of "State Parks of the United States | Michigan". I see a picture there under "Tahquamenon Falls State Park", but can not place mine in the same place. Also I would like to have another page under the letter "L" for Ludington. I'm sure once I figured this one out, then other pictures I can just place under the "L" (I think). Also if I just have pictures of the town of Ludington, (Ludington, Michigan - Mason County) where would I then place these pictures? --Doug 22:36, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

Hmm, I added the category to the Summary section ~~but because I made a capitalization error in my first attempt, now the image also belongs to a non-existent cat. Someone help?~~ Xiner (talk, email) 23:04, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

I am puzzeled on this????
Once I put "public domain" and it did take.
This last time I uploaded the picture, I put GFDL (self made);
apparently that isn't correct either. Really stumped on this one....???
I took the picture myself in 2005. Is it not my picture to give to public domain?
How do I then correct this issue as to whereever I should put this "copyright tag" without uploading again.
Still have no idea where my picture is and can not figure out how to get it to "Michigan State Parks" uder the page (sub-category) of the letter "L" (Ludington State Park).
What if I wanted to upload pictures for Ludington, Michigan which is in Mason County; what do I do?
There is no "Counties in Michigan". --Doug 00:02, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

Your image is here. I've added {{GFDL-self}} to the License section. Xiner (talk, email) 00:14, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] De Viris Illustribus

In case you wonder what happened to your recent addition to the Petrarch article:

Another editor deleted it, giving as reason that the material would be more appropriate in an article about the book itself, De Viris Illustribus.

I think this is true, but I also think it was a pity to waste the work you did, so I have copied your material into a new article on the book. See link above. Feel free to add more detail, and indeed to create more articles on works by Petrarch!

You might like to know that the usual formatting methods for lists in Wikipedia are: for an unnumbered list, just begin each line with an asterisk; for a numbered list, begin each line with the hash sign (#). I replaced your <br /> with asterisks. Best wishes Andrew Dalby 17:57, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

Doug, thanks for your note on my user page. It's kind of you to explain your theories to me, but I don't really go for secret codes and hidden numbers. Best of luck, however. Andrew Dalby 23:24, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Images in a Gallery

I have tried everything on setting up a Gallery of 4 pictures with no luck. I have set the images between two "gallery" (with signs on each side of < >) and still not luck with every combination I could think of. Here is the article I am working on: Ludington, Michigan in the Category Retail I have another level called Fort Daul Murals. My pictures are

Fort Daul1.JPG do not need caption, however if one is necessary then "Mural 1"
Fort Daul2.JPG do not need caption, however if one is necessary then "Mural 2"
Fort Daul3.JPG do not need caption, however if one is necessary then "Mural 3"
Fort Daul4.JPG do not need caption, however if one is necessary then "Mural 4"

Could you please set it up for me to see how it is done. Then in the future I will be able to do more of these. Thanks --Doug 12:19, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Start with <gallery> than write the names of images separated by a | and conclude with </gallery>. See here for a software generated gallery. --J B 13:21, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] How to make great links

Hi, you seem to have troubles writing intra-wikipedia links :) Just as a reminder, [[article]] allows you to make a link to article, and [[article|title of the article]] links to title of the article. If you want to do a link to an other website, [http://www.google.com Google main page] will appear that way: Google main page. If you want other tips, consider reading Help:Editing or feel free to ask on my talk page. Regards, -- lucasbfr ^talk 21:16, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
Now I get it. Thanks for the correction. --Doug 21:24, 8 January 2007 (UTC) Thanks again for all the hints. --Doug ^talk 21:54, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Haha, yeah I noticed that too. You can't make a link to the page you are currently on ;). Glad I could "Help"! Don't hesitate to ping me back if you need anything else ;) (The {{helpme}} tag is quite effective too). -- lucasbfr ^talk 22:23, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

One way I learn, Doug, is by looking at a page that does some of the things I want to do. Then I click on edit to study how it does it. I don't make any changes. I just study the way it's done and then use my browser go back one page button to back out without actually editing. Andrew Dalby 13:27, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, great tip! I use it now for my "sandbox experiments". I have set up several "Sandboxes" to play with on various projects I am working on. Sandbox 5 is of the Ludington Murals in Ludington, Michigan. Look at their article under "Retail" and compare it to (multi-task) my Sandbox 5 that I am finishing up on. I will probably then update it tomorrow after I sleep on my "improvements". Sandbox 1 is my work on De Viris Illustribus you started for me. Recently I made some major improvements to Ludington State Park and Big Sable Point Lighthouse since they had no pictures to go with their articles. I added all the pictures. Digital photography is my hobby and I have thousands of pictures. I will in the future be adding pictures to many Wikipedia project articles since I have traveled all over the United States taking pictures. Thanks again for all the excellent tips and hints and improvements on my work. --Doug ^talk 19:08, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Watching just a "Section" of a Reference Desk question

Can you be alerted on "Watch" only when there is an edit to a particular question you put on a certain Reference Desk (i.e. Humanities) and not be alerted every time anyone puts something on this Reference Desk? Otherwise you have to check back often and go throught many items that you may not necessarily be interested in; whereas if you were alerted only when your question was responded to, then you could go look (saving then a bunch of wasted time). This would be especially helpful when you have several questions on several References Desks going at the same time. --Doug ^talk 20:11, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

Sorry, that's not possible at the moment. Xiner (talk, email) 20:18, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Appius Claudius Caecus

Sorry, I don't have any information about ACC's wife. Alexander the Great had no descendants beyond one generation, so far as anyone knows (or so far as I remember). Andrew Dalby 21:38, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Many pictures

{help me}

I have 100 pictures of White Pine Village (an outdoor Civil War museum) that I would like to upload, all at once if I could. Also then is there a way to present these pictures to others by means of some sort of Slide Show. Yahoo has such a system, so I know it is possible (software wise). Maybe it could be set up to play back on Slide Show just the "thumbs".

There presently is not an Article on White Pine Village (an outdoor Civil War museum) yet, however I plan to start it soon.

Also is there a way up to upload and play back short videos (MPEG) taken by a Sony digital camera? An example here would be showing the operation of an old sawmill in action.--Doug ^talk 00:37, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

OK, well first of all, if the images are freely licences (by the sounds of things you are going to freely licence them - otherwise they could not be used in Wikipedia) you should upload them to the Commons - that is the central place for media like this. For the video: video can be uploaded, but Commons:File types indicates that only the OGG format can be uploaded - so you may have to convert it if possible.

I don't think there is a way to mass-upload the files (unless someone has written a bot or some third party software), but you could have a look around Commons, or ask them at Commons:Help desk. Also, there is no slide show function - maybe a long time in the future this feature will be written, but Wikimedia doesn't have many programmers. For the slide show feature you could see if it has been requested at Bugzilla, and if not request it yourself.--Commander Keane 00:56, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

I just found Commons:Tools/Commonist which is a program to upload many images - but it looks hard to install (for me anyway).--Commander Keane 01:04, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Scottville Clown Band

The article Scottville Clown Band has been speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done because the article seems to be about a person, group of people, band, club, company, or web content, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is notable, that is, why an article about that subject should be included in Wikipedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not assert notability may be deleted at any time. If you can indicate why the subject is really notable, you are free to re-create the article, making sure to cite any verifiable sources.

Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable, and for specific types of articles, you may want to check out our criteria for biographies, for web sites, for bands, or for companies. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. NawlinWiki 15:52, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Doug, I see you adding information about the band to the Ludington page - wouldn't it be better located on the Scottville page? Ludington isn't mentioned on the site, except to say that it's near Scottville. Just a suggestion. -- Alucard (Dr.) 17:30, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Ludington is considered the original home of the Scottville Clown Band. It is featured on a very large mural in downtown Ludington on Ludington Ave. It is part of Ludington's culture and Ludington's history. In Scottville itself basically there is no evidence that this band even exists. All of its history is located in Ludington. Ludington, Michigan is a large tourist town, Scottville (10 miles east) is a very small village. I live there and I think it is more appropriate on the Ludington article.--Doug ^talk 17:52, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Ok, fair point - I just don't see any evidence of that on the web site for the band, which only really mentions Scottville. Hence my question. -- Alucard (Dr.) 17:58, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

They are in the process of upgrading their website. I believe this information will be reflected then in their website. If not, I'll consider removing this section then. Also I got this information from personally talking to the Clowns themselves when I saw them at The Museum of Music at the historic White Pine Village just outside Ludington in the last few years in 2003 to 2006. Perhaps I misunderstood, however I will reverify this information about their roots in Ludington the next time I see them there at the Museum of Music or if I see them downtown Ludington. --Doug ^talk 20:57, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

OK, but I would advise you to take a read of WP:OR - my understanding of this is that we should be creating WP pages based out of published information and all the info that I can find that has been published links the Band with the locality it is named after. -- Alucard (Dr.) 22:06, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

I do believe you are correct. I moved this section to Scottville, Michigan. --Doug ^talk 22:58, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Looks good to me. I'm kind of new at this myself, so am learning as I go. :-) Alucard (Dr.) 23:01, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

I also recently added all the pictures of the murals of Ludington with the new section called Town of Murals.
I also added all the pictures to Ludington State Park.
I also added all the pictures to Big Sable Point Light. (That's my wife next to the sign).
I will be adding many major Sections to Ludington in the future. Keep an eye out (watch) for any mistakes I might make so I can correct them A.S.A.P.
Also I recently started a Section under Petrarch called De Viris Illustribus under Works. I found all the English names to the Latin and did all the wording to Liber I and Liber II. --Doug ^talk 23:28, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Suggestion

Please be sure to include reliable sources for assertions of fact that you make on Wikipedia. In particular, if you are creating a new article, it's important to have some form of reference or at the very least an external link to give a source for the information. The encyclopedia can not operate on original research and without a source, you are essentially claiming the fact as something you created because you give no reference as to where you came to know such a fact. Thanks. ju66l3r 19:49, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

I assume you mean of the two new articles I did on Mason County Historical Society and White Pine Village. Isn't their website good enough reference to a source? There just happens to be several other websites that make reference to this outdoor Nineteenth Century museum. Should I include some of them also at the bottom under "Additional Information"? Where does one normally put where they obtained this reference information? Apparently then it is not proper to use their addresses and phone numbers (I found this in their online brochure). Otherwise apparently then others could also find this in their brochure or on their website (that I would reference at the bottom). I have since put several "References" under each of these new Articles. Would these be sufficient?- Doug

The new articles, in particular, yes. If you have other references from good and reliable sources (see the link I provided above), then please add those. If you want to reference a particular fact within an article, then you would put it inline using the <ref> tag per WP:FOOT. I saw the changes you made to the Mason County Historical Society page. That is correctly how you add references without commenting on a specific fact (you could use Hoxsey Therapy as a good example of both References and External links). One problem with the links you gave for the MCHS is that the local newspaper is not itself a good reference, but a specific article in the newspaper related to the MCHS would be a good reference/link.

For example, this link would be good for the White Pine Village page, because it is coverage by an independent newspaper discussing what the village entails and its enrollment in a state pilot program of some sort. I'm sure similar articles exist discussing the MCHS as well. As you noticed, I removed the address and phone number. Contact information is the responsibility of the company/organization and not an encyclopedia. On top of that, Wikipedia is often a source of spam because of how the information is mirrored on the internet (making it a popular source for spammers to harvest information). Hope that helps. Feel free to ask any further questions on my talk page. ju66l3r 05:12, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Punic Wars.

You are very welcome, Doug. I've left an answer at the relevant section confirming your calculations. Clio the Muse 23:18, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, Doug, for drawing my attention to the most interesting additional information you have provided. There is really no further comment that I need to make. Clio the Muse 23:23, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Lots of pictures

I've noticed that on a couple of pages, you have added tons of pictures. Pictures are great, and can really help a Wikipedia article, but adding too many can also detract from the quality. There are many people with dial-up connections whose pages will never load if there are tons of pictures on them. One page in particular I noticed is Brookgreen Gardens. The pictures are great, but I think there are too many of them that it distracts the reader from the subject matter of the page. I noticed the formatting that you used for the galleries also, and general Wikipedia protocol is to take many pictures and just stick them in one large gallery, as it formats better on different browsers. In addition, the pictures have very little context in the article, so right now they don't really add much. I don't know much about the subject, so could you pick out the most important pictures and remove the rest? Thanks. --Sbrools ^{(talk . contribs)} 15:54, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

Sectioned the pictures into different groups: Stone Sculptures, Metal Sculptures, Bontanical, Flowers, etc. > with then additional pages for the additional pictures. --Doug ^talk 16:28, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] galleries

The simple error: why on earth did you put a / at the start of /Brookgreen Gardens azaleas, etc? (In case you were thinking of them as sub-pages - subpages are not supported in the (Main) namespace.)

The slightly more difficult opportunity: for some reason Wikipedians don't seem to like image galleries and certainly articles with absolutely no context are going to get speedily deleted anyway. Since the images are all on the commons, the answer is simple: create the galleries on the commons and link to them from here! I have moved the articles into your user space - check "my contributions". -- RHaworth 07:41, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] SLI streetlight phenomenon

See Unusual phenomena reports: SLI, also Electric humans. Don't be too quick to assume that you're emitting radio waves. Here's a simple experiment: get a big metal waste basket or garbage can and clean it out. Put it over your head/body. It forms a partial shield for radio waves, especially for VHF waves and shorter. Now go walk under that streetlight while wearing the metal can. Does the light still go out? If not, then perhaps your body really is emitting EM waves, and the metal has shielded them enough to distrupt the "putter outer effect."

But if the metal can does not prevent the streetlight from turning off, then you'd need a more complete metal shield. (Heh. Two garbage cans on a cart, mouth-to-mouth to form a metal "egg," with adhesive foil tape wound around their lips? Friends push the cart under the streetlight?) If such a complete shield will still not prevent the streetlight from turning off, then EM waves are not the cause, and the effect is definitely outside of contemporary science.

Another experiment: apply DC high voltage to a small neon pilot light, with a current-limiting resistor in series. Measure the voltage at the terminals of the neon lamp. Parts: NE-2 lamp, twelve 9v batteries in series, 100K resistor. Now let someone observe the voltage reading while you retreat to great distance and then again approach. Does the neon lamp voltage change significantly? (This experiment tests whether your body can somehow raise the arc voltage of an HID lamp, which might cause it to "cycle" one time.) --Wjbeaty 21:22, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

Great suggestions that I will have to take up with an electrical engineer or technician. It turns out I have this ability and am one of these so called "SLIders". I have recorded it several times on video this last year with several witnesses nearby. None of the witnesses could effect these lights; only me. I have been able to do this for the last 25 years. In all cases it is ONLY mercury vapour and sodium vapour lighting. It is never tungsten, incandescent, nor neon lighting. I haven't ultimately concluded that it is "radio waves", but have concluded it is of a scientific nature (verses paranormal). It could very well be of a electromagnetic nature or maybe a heat type (i.e. infared or ultraviolet). Thanks for ideas. Doug

I wish I knew someone locally who had this ability. I have lots of instruments for testing various things. "have concluded it is of a scientific nature (verses paranormal)" Concluded? Based on what evidence? To make conclusions in advance of experiments is called "prejudice" and should be avoided. Instead, you could hypothesize that the phenomenon is not paranormal, and then perform experiments which support the hypothesis or not. --Wjbeaty 01:55, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

Completely rewrote the article on Street Light Interference showing additional references and more technical items relating to this phenomena that many people have. Doug

[edit] Scipio

Did the name "Scipio" always have 6 letters in it (as far as you know)?
- Except for the plural form (Scipiones), as far as I know that's the case. -- llywrch
Apparently you are the one that entered about the family tomb of Scipio being discovered in 1780 that contained information about the Roman Republic. Do you have further information on this (i.e. this source of information)? Doug
- Are you talking about this edit? While I think I drew upon the article in the Oxford Classical Dictionary, all of the inscriptions are published in the technical literature. The Corpus Inscriptionum Latinum being the standard collection, but difficult to access unless you live within reach of a reference library that has a copy -- I don't. So you'll probably find it easier to use the 4th volume of E.H. Warmington's Remains of Old Latin, part of the Loeb Classical Library. -- llywrch 21:01, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Street Light Interference movies

I have MPEG movies taken with a Sony P72 digital camera of this phenomena happening. However they are 10 MB and up in size.

1) Can the movie be "cropped" to show just the center portion of the movie (i.e. cut then to about 5 MB in size)?
2) How can I convert this file type to the accepted file type of OGG for Wikipedia? I am not software sophisticated.

Can someone do this for me if I e-mailed them the movie (10 MB).

3) I then want to make reference to this movie in the article Street Light Interference. Is that possible? Thanks for help. Doug

To answer your questios:

Not easily. I know there exist video packages that can do this, but I have no experience doing this myself and couldn't tell you the name of the programs that did.
See this
Yes. You can do it as you would link to any file (with a media: link), or you can use the movie template I created (See Apollo 17).

I hope this answers you questions. Raul654 19:23, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your help on this. I have entered 3 video files now on the article Street Light Interference. Check them out that they work properly on your computer. They seem to work O.K. on this computer. Dial-up is a long time to download however. Broadband I suspect should only take a few minutes. I noticed when these Sony MPG movies get converted to "ogg" files, they are about half the original size (very helpful). Comments...? --Doug ^talk 23:26, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Your off-topic complaint on Talk:Street light interference

Your misunderstandings of Wikipedia policy are deep and pervasive. If you're concerned about bog-standard album articles like Wearing Someone Else's Clothes, please read Wikipedia:WikiProject Albums first. Also, read Wikipedia:Fair use#Cover art.

If your concern is for Wikipedia, you would be better off raising such objections against an editor you aren't currently in an unrelated content dispute with; it makes it appear rather dubious that you're raising those objections for the good of Wikipedia and not out of spite.

If you actually think I've broken Wikipedia policies, of course, feel free to bring it up in an appropriate forum (here's one), but be sure you've read and understood the policies you're invoking first, or you will end up looking very silly.

rspeer / ɹəədsɹ 08:28, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

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