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drumguy8800 - speak? 04:14, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Your edit to Wikipedia:Peer review/Dallas, Texas
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[edit] Dallas FAC
Strongly supported it. Hope it gets through! --Longhornsg 02:21, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
- Packing, getting on a plane, will look at it over the weekend. It needs more citations than I tagged. Sandy (Talk) 03:19, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Minnesota
Can you re-check Minnesota in regards to pictures? Thanks! -Ravedave (help name my baby) 07:56, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Thanks
Thanks for the barnstar. Much appreciated! Jakew 10:33, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Image:Dallas, Texas Main Street 1920s.jpg listed for deletion
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[edit] dallas
Well, not really—got too much paid work to do. Try searching for good people in the edit histories of similar articles. Look up the group WPians in Texas (if there is one). Check out contributors to Texan/US FAs. Show an interest in their work, and they might be willing. Tony 02:54, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
Nice work. I've changed my Oppose vote to a Support vote. Kaldari 05:54, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Dallas FAC
For the lead attempt you put in the FAC, I feel the focus is wrong. The lead should summarize the article. Your first para is ok as an intro, the second is a good business summary. The non-existent third para should summarize the rest of the article that's not already in the lead (culture, education, sports, etc). Hope this helps. Pls leave additional questions in the FAC or on my talk page. Rlevse 11:50, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Population desity map
Hey drumguy, after the Dallas FAC is finished, is there any chance I could talk you into creating a population desity map for Nashville similar to the one you did for Dallas? I would be willing to trade services or make a contribution to the Wikimedia Foundation as payment. I have access to lots of newspaper microfilm archives for research purposes in case that would be useful to you. Kaldari 17:58, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
Wow, that was fast! Thanks! Actually, I do have a tangental interest in Dallas history, specifically a newspaper that was published in Dallas in the 1890s called Coming Era. A friend of mine who does research about the history of political newspapers (and has written a few articles) has been trying to dig up information on this newspaper but hasn't had much luck. Even the Labadie Collection doesn't have any information about it. It seems to be completely lost to history. He dug up 1 issue in a private collection (in extremely poor shape) while working on some other research. Here's everything we know about it so far:
- The address of the newspaper's office was: "Rooms 306-307 Cockrell Building, 301 Maine St., Dallas Texas". That was the address as of 1898. Maine Street became Main Street and apparently the street was renumbered at some point. The Cockrell Building was razed in 1930 (it stood at the corner of Main and Field St. in the middle of downtown, where One Main Place Building is now).
- The newspaper was published on the 5th and 21st of each month.
- The editor of the paper in 1898 was Ross Winn.
- The paper had a definite anti-federalist left-wing political slant (although compared with other papers Ross Winn worked on, it was relatively mainstream).
If you can dig up any information about this newspaper, I would be ecstatic (and I'm sure my friend Shaun would write you a 5-page letter in gratatude). Good luck on the FAC process! Kaldari 19:28, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
Awesome. I imagine the only places you might be able to find mention of it are books on local Dallas history (if they have a section on local newspapers), or mentions in other newspapers of the era (The Dallas News was around back then). If there are any librarians there that are knowledgable on local history they might be able to point you in the right direction. The reason the newspaper is particularly interesting is that left-wing political newspapers are extremely rare in the South. The few that existed usually had short runs and were quickly forgotten. The fact that one existed in Dallas all the way back in the 1890s is quite remarkable. Kaldari 19:56, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Time to update your vandalism notice :)
I reverted a tiny vandalistic change to your user page just now, so it's no longer accurate to say it's been vandalized only once. Incidentally, I also put a note on the AntiVandalBot talk page explaining that you had not vandalized the peer review page for Dallas, Texas after all. (Big shock, there.) Lawikitejana 18:22, 3 November 2006 (UTC) new member of WikiProject Dallas thanks to your automated notice
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[edit] Communities in Dallas
Please see my note in Wikipedia Talk:WikiProject Dallas. The "standard" name for a community within a city is [[CommmunityName, City, State]]. I selected you to talk to because you're actively editing the project page. — Arthur Rubin | (talk) 19:49, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] WikiProject Houston
Hello, I know you're heavily involved with the Dallas,Texas article, however I wanted to extend an invitation for you to participate in Wikipedia:WikiProject Houston. Thanks! Postoak 05:24, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
- You are invited to visit Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Houston to participate in Project discussion - Guidelines (November 11, 2006). Thank you, Postoak 22:51, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
Hey there, I'd like to integrate basic article assessment into the WP:HOU talk page template, similar to what you've done with the Dallas project. I'd like to keep it a simple as possible where we could quickly view all the articles by assessment. What would you suggest? Thanks! Postoak 05:41, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
Peer review is in progess for Houston, Texas at Wikipedia:Peer review/Houston, Texas. Please participate with the article improvement suggestions that will soon follow. Thanks, Postoak 00:05, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
Please see proposal December 27, 2006/Featured article nomination at Wikipedia:WikiProject Houston/Administration. Thank you, Postoak 20:41, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Many thanks
Hey: I just wanted to thank you for your hard work on this Dallas Wikiproject. I'm looking forward to getting involved more. I do wikipedia in waves (obsessive for a while, then take a break), but currently I'm trying to finish up my semester of school and am kind of distracted. I will try to help out more in December if I can. Again, thanks. Peace. 75080 out. --nathanbeach 20:57, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Hide/Show
Hi. I see the problem, but I'm not familiar with the Javascript which operates the hide/show controls, and have no idea how to solve it. I merely created the page at Wikipedia:NavFrame to hopefully start collecting documentation, when I was equally frustrated with another aspect of this stuff. I suggest you post your question at Wikipedia talk:NavFrame or at MediaWiki talk:Monobook.js. —Michael Z. 2006-11-13 23:17 Z
[edit] White Rock Lake
I have no idea what happened to my edit! I re-added the photo. I'm doing what I can to get some photos for the projectDallas articles in need of photos. Chad 00:18, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
- I noticed that you put up Image:White Rock Lake 4.jpg but didn't give the full source URL, just that of the autho. Can you please correct both the source and the license (Flickr only uses version 2.0 of Creative Commons licenses, not 2.5)? Thanks, [ælfəks] 01:35, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Re: Flickr
Flickr allows people to license photos in a number of different ways: under any of the version 2.0 Creative Commons licenses (including the very unfree NC and ND options, which is why rms has denounced the CC movement), or as "All rights reserved". Generally any decent Flickr images under a sufficiently free license will be uploaded to Commons by a special bot; there's then a further verification process to ensure that the licensing is accurate. Regards, [ælfəks] 01:58, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Flickr is harder than it appears
I read the talk page exchanges about Flickr images. I was unaware that some Creative Commons licenses were not to be used on wikipedia. I have considerably less experience in this than you do, so you should probably get second opinions on anything I tell you... -> ("I was given a set of links saying I could use any of them...") Alas, some of the images you uploaded are not OK to be used on wikipedia per these rules. I'm going through and changing the licenses to what they should be. It'll make some of the images for speedy deletion. Sorry for the misunderstandings. Chad 02:19, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
I'm in the process of having the flickr users change their licensing to make it friendly to wikipedia. Thus, some images are returning. Chad 03:32, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Dear Drumguy,
Long time no see. (You might remember me as "Go for it!"). I've created a Virtual classroom for Wikipedians to learn, teach, and share advanced wiki-skills. I was wondereing if you would like to stop by and take a look. Right now the participants are engaged in a show and tell of their user interfaces (the tools we use to navigate and work on Wikipedia, including programs, extensions, scripts, settings, etc.). I hope you'll drop in to share and compare. Interiot, Rich Farmbrough, and CBDunkerson have been kind enough to help get things started by describing the interfaces they use. User:Interiot has even completed a new Firefox extension to make navigating Wikipedia easier. It is available in the announcements section on the Virtual classroom page. The Transhumanist 12:04, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] You've got replies...
At User talk:The Transhumanist#Hey and at User:The Transhumanist/Virtual classroom#Drumguy8800's external interface (left a couple questions for you there). The Transhumanist 13:00, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Virtual classroom update and assignment template
We've moved on to our second lesson in the Virtual classroom, though each lesson is continuous so we may see more additions to the interface share and compare as well.
To help keep track of what's going on, here's a template you can place at the top of your userpage or talk page:
Hope to see you at the Virtual classroom again soon. The Transhumanist 12:07, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Re: HDR Imaging
Hi Drumguy!
Yeah HDR imaging involves taking multiple exposures (usually 3) which cover the dynamic range of a scene (theoretically eliminating blown and underexposed areas). You can produce some really artistic photos, although they may not look all that realistic. Photoshop CS2 has HDR blending but I personally don't like it very much. Photomatix probably gives the most interesting results (I use it), but PhotoImpact probably produces more realistic HDR's. Both will cost a bit but not that much. You can download demos if you want a play around! cya, --Fir0002 04:22, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Pronunciation
Currently, pronunciation is mostly added to articles with names that are unfamiliar or difficult to pronounce by most English speakers. English-language Wikipedia is used by many people worldwide, and I think it is appropriate to add pronunciation to almost any article whose subject is a proper name. (But may not be desirable for place names which contain ordinary English words, like Red River—some editors may argue that Wikipedia is not a dictionary.)
Don't worry about looking foolish. Try it out in a few articles, and see other editors react. Let me know if you need any help convincing someone. Regards. —Michael Z. 2006-11-20 17:39 Z
[edit] Happy Thanksgiving!
[edit] 10th tallest Tallest building in Texas
If you don't have List of tallest buildings in Texas on your Watchlist and/or you didn't already notice, someone has found that "missing" building that we talked about back in October. Ufwuct 19:14, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] Article assessment question
I noticed that you created a nice assessment page for Wikiproject Houston. Is this something any wikiproject can have, or do you have to request it? (I think it would be a good idea for Wikiproject Idol Series) Tennis DyNamiTe (sign in) 02:50, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
Thanks. I have created the assesment page, but whaen I created this category, I noticed I had no idea what to do. May I ask your help with the cats. in my projects? And also, what database do I have to update? Tennis DyNamiTe (sign in) 03:39, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
Thanks, it's working now! Tennis DyNamiTe (sign here) 22:24, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Dallas lead
No other city has a lengthy discussion of local politics in the introduction. This should especially not be the case when the rest of article doesn't mention it at all since the introduction should serve as a summary.--Loodog 23:14, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] WatchlistBot
I've used User:WatchlistBot to set up Wikipedia:WikiProject Dallas/Articles. I generated it from the existing list of articles which link to the template on their talk pages. The bot can also help you tag categories (by interactively traversing the category hierarchy), and tag all articles within tagged categories. Please let me know if you'd like me to help you with any of that. Otherwise, the Articles page will be updated periodically, on no set schedule. This will pick up article name changes, deletions, or articles which have manually had tags added. Ingrid 21:37, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Photo of American Airlines Center needed
Hi DrumGuy8800,
you seem to be the right person to ask for a picture of the AAC in Dallas, Texas - since you seem to be 'Mr. Dallas' 
If you have one, could you upload it to the Commons and release it under GDFL, CC-BY_SA or similar? Woulkd like to use it for the Dallas Stars page in the german wiki and the commons. CU
--Xgeorg / Commons:User:Xgeorg 14-12-2006 —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 217.235.16.70 (talk) 15:38, 14 December 2006 (UTC).
[edit] Converting me to {{convert}}
I just reverted your additions of this template to List of largest suspension bridges. I have a couple of problems with it:
- You converted all the meter data to feet. For some bridges the raw information was originally in feet and converted (manually) to meters. Converting it back to feet can introduce errors. If you want to research all hundred-odd bridges to check the numbers be my guest. As the numbers are already there, and I checked their accuracy when I first added the bridges to the list, I see no need to do this.
- The template added scores of links to meter and feet, contrary to style guidelines which says they should only be linked on their first occurance. I think the list looks better without m and ft. links displayed as links or plain text. Perhaps you could make both choices optional, and displaying them as plain text I would think would be the default, since the link only needs to be turned on once. I would have used it if the m/ft labels were not displayed at all.
- You removed a link that had nothing to do with meters or feet.
Otherwise, I could see how this template can be very helpful, and will look for occasions to use it. -- Samuel Wantman 04:19, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
- Sorry, Of course you didn't add it, you wrote the template. But perhaps the template as it is, is not appropriate for lists. Have you considered leaving out the units entirely, and have people add them linked or not, as needed? This could be an alternate version, so people will decide which to use, instead of having to code switches. -- Samuel Wantman 08:30, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Oak Cliff Neighborhoods
Please see the talk page for Oak Cliff. Most are indeed legit, and yes, it took much longer than 30 minutes.Dirtydan667 17:11, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Booberella
She appears in both, you're right (actually, I haven't seen her in a 3rd episode). I'm going to change the redirection.--WithNuts 17:01, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] My sandbox!
How dare you remove my categories! :P Kidding. Thanks for watching out for me. Eclectek C T 16:32, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Cat:Avifauna of Texas
Hello, from the Sonoran Desert (in this case extreme SW Arizona, at Yuma, Arizona). I did a bird page for SW ariz, yuma county, area specifically, which ended up in the cat: Lower Colorado River Valley.
I did put the roadrunner in Mexioo and SW United States, as opposed to any state; It is a signature bird for Arizona, as far as tourism goes, as does the signature bird: Cactus Wren. However they would also be signature birds of the Sonoran Desert (I started that category, after someone started the Mojave Desert Cat.). For the Chihuahuan Desert cat that i started, I don't know what birds would be called signature birds. It is a higher elevation, colder desert, with birds wintering from the Midwest U.S. (the Larkspurs, etc ?). I am still learning about bird ranges. If you look at the SW Texas Avifauna, those are either in the extreme S. at Brownsville on the Rio Grande (but they are also on the Gulf and go down the Eastern Side of Mexico). The SW Texas birds go up the Rio Grande Valley, and some into the inland regions of the Chihuahuan desert, and/or states of NE Mexico.
I just started an avifauna for Northeast Mexico, breaking it out of the Fauna of Northeast Mexico, a lot of snakes, lizards, etc. I have started breaking up the areas of mexico to include: birds of the Madrean sky islands, and just lately: birds of the mountain range (West): Birds of Sierra Madre Occidental.
This has all been a progression. Since Texas has an Avifauna of North Texas for some plains species, and is BIIIGGGG Texas, with trees in the East vs the entire State, (I also started fauna of east TExas) to go with the Forests of East Texas. I suggest you put the "Greater Roadrunner" in Avifauna of Texas, that way it covers all the regions that it may be in. I assume that farther east, and farther north the bird becomes more scarce. Thanx for asking. I am NOT an expert, but I am studying and learning. Andd... I just bit off doing the Caribbean stuff after going down thru C. America, and doing a lot of the S. America stuff (Trees were under Flora, Birds of S. America were under Fauna). So thanx for asking me, and sorry for a lengthy discourse for an answer. Michael- from the HotSonoranDesert of(extreme)SWestern AZ-- ..Mmcannis 03:44, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Dallas Map
Nice work on the new Image:Texas map - Dallas.svg! It's much more detailed and useful than the old dot map. But I have one question -- Lake Ray Hubbard is actually part of Dallas. Should we include it in the map, or make the outline of the lake in blue or something of the sort? Also, how did you make the map? Many cities in the surrounding area can make use of your technique, including Fort Worth, Denton, Plano, Garland, Mesquite, etc. --Stallions2010 18:55, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Extra column
I just looked for where there was a line for a row break in the extra column to see which row had the extra column...it only took about a minute to find and fix it. —Doug Bell talk 18:34, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
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[edit] What is considered linkspam?
Hi drumguy,
I have a lot of good content on my site at http://www.buyandselldallas.com that is very useful for anyone in Dallas, Texas. My site includes city profile information, links to local city homepages, school district information, forums, blogs, news, local maps, restaurants, shopping, entertainment. I've been working on my site for several years. I also have several links leading my users(averaging 2000-3000 per month) directly into this dallas info page, such as http://www.buyandselldallas.com/downtown.htm.
[edit] Contact
Thanks for getting back with me so quikly and for posting link back. I appreciate all the information and would love some assistance on my site. Have many issues I'm trying to work through. I majored in Business/Marketing, and minored in Real Estate at Texas Tech and University of NT. I took many programming classes including visual basic, cobal, C++ but ended up changing majors and decided to take a different path. Thus I lack the expertise to implement some of the changes I would like to make on web. I also have several other sites I'm trying to work on(http://www.dfwurbanrealty.com, http://www.searchdallasmls.com, http://www.dallasrealogy.com, http://www.dfwhighrise.com) but lack funds, time and energy to complete. How do I contact you directly? btw, you have done a great job with gathering and organizing information here on Wikipedia Dallas. I have worked in real estate for last 15 years and I'm very familiar with just about every neighborhood and street in Dallas. Information here is very accurate and easy to access. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Kc412o0yz (talk • contribs) 07:01, 30 January 2007 (UTC).
[edit] W Hotel in Dallas
School assignments are based by building in DISD - Even specific buildings, IMO, should have school assignments mentioned WhisperToMe 04:36, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
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[edit] Lake Livingston
Its one of my various works in progress (to many irons in the fire). I've done some work rephrasing stuff and I intend on completing it and also adding more info. Thanks for helping with it.Feedloadr 06:02, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Frontage Roads
I thought it would be a good idea to include at least something about Frontage Roads in the Dallas article since all of our highways use them and many people from other areas of the country don't know what they are. Is there a particular reason why this information has been omitted from both Dallas, Texas and Transportation in Dallas, Texas? -- RedPoptarts 09:21, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
- (In response to your post on my talk page)Unfortunately I don't know enough about the downtown Dallas highways (I'm from originally from Denton, and have moved to Trophy Club) so I won't really be able to make contributions in this area very easily.
Oh, also I have a statistic you'll probably like. I was updating the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex article, and noticed that a county had been added to the metroplex recently and was not on the list. Upon recalculating the metroplex area, I discovered that the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex's total area is greater than the states of New Jersey and Rhode Island combined! Just a nice bragging right when people stereotypically think you're from a 'small Texas town'. =) -- RedPoptarts 09:14, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Re: Moving images to Commons
Unfortunately, to transfer images from en to commons requires that you download the image to your computer before re-uploading to commons - this is a real pain. However, the CommonsHelper is designed to ease the process, as it makes it easier to preserve the description text. As theres only 20 images in that category, it shouldn't take you too long. Just remember to take the en images with {{NCT}} afterwards :)--Nilfanion (talk) 21:57, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] S-line
I noticed you're setting up s-line for DART but having trouble with the termini. Can I be of help? Mackensen (talk) 18:38, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] I'd like to go for a hike now, though.
:-D
≈Tulkolahten≈≈talk≈ 09:13, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] North Texas/D-FW/IMAX
The problem is that you linked "north" to "North Texas". "North" should link to the compass heading, not a region. Is there not another instance of "Texas" in the article to link to? Also, I fixed the D-FW metroplex link with a slash, as it is in the article. Not sure of the source on the IMAX comment. Clipper471 05:51, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Pearl Brewing Company a candidate for GA-status
Hey Drumguy. Thanks for your nomination on the Pearl Brewery article. I know it still needs a lot of work, mainly in sections that I haven't gotten around to writing yet. However, I've tried to ensure that as I did write sections, I tried to keep the quality high and consistent. When I initially started this page I never dreamed that it'd get this far. Its not been easy though, since Clipper147 and I seem to be the old people working on it routinely. Thanks again Drumguy for the nomination. Hopefully we'll see Pearl on Wiki's front page one of these days. Cheers. --Brownings 11:38, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Geobox Mountain Range
Of course this is possible, simply use normal wiki syntax [[points to|link text]]. The template encloses the text in the square brackets only when an article with that name exists, otherwise it prints just the text with no brackets. Thats what {{Geobox link}} does. Thanks for that info on {{Convert}}, its great and I'll probably start using it instead of my single purpose conversion template. – Caroig 19:37, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Dallas cover more than 400 square miles
Can you name more than 15 Dallas neighboring cities? Try searching Dallas real estate by memory. How to preference neighborhoods and streets, you do not remember. The Remedy is to search Mapquest listings of Dallas properties zoom in and out Mapquest of Dallas properties.
Complimentary to the wealth of information here, community information of Dallas and over 50 other suburbs are compiled and presented. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Amplesolution (talk • contribs) 09:12, 10 March 2007 (UTC).
[edit] History of Dallas, Texas (1874-1929) GA failed
I have failed this article for the reasons described on the talk page. Once the suggestions are fixed, either renominate or let me know, and I'll look it over again. --Nehrams2020 22:42, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
- I looked it over and it appears you have addressed all of the issues. The only other thing I think should be fixed is the placement of the images. There are a lot of images in the article, and they are really clustered together at the bottom of the article. Maybe consider adding a gallery or reworking the locations of the images to space them out better. Once you address that, renominate the article at GAC. --Nehrams2020 20:05, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Math in templates
Hello, Drumguy. I am sending you this message because you seem to be the major contributor to {{convert}}, which I use frequently. I created a template {{River drop}} to convert and display the drop of a river in feet per mile to meters per kilometer. This was my first attempt at creating a template with math functions and I am not sure I did it correctly, but at least it works. I used the template in Yakima River with {{subst}} and it worked all right for display, but it leaves the {{#expr}} in the text of the article. How can I make the template do a complete substitution, not leaving the expression in the text? Also I want to expand the template eventually to convert in the other direction, from meters to feet. I tried to use {{convert}} as an example, but it is so complex that I was not able to glean the information that I needed from it. ●DanMS • Talk 20:11, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
- Thanks for the guidance. Yes, I learned the hard way about trying to subst {{convert}}! I did it once (and once only!) and what a mess it left in the article—even though it displayed properly. If you want to add {{River drop}} to {{convert}}, go ahead. The conversion is simple: (feet per mile)/5.28 = meters per kilometer. (Meters per kilometer)*5.28 = feet per mile. Let me know when and if you add the functionality to {{convert}}. Thanks. ●DanMS • Talk 20:38, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Sachse, Texas
Hey Drum,
You made some edits to Sachse, Texas and the map wasn't working so I installed a pushpin map. My question to you is how accurate is the pin? I am just trying to see how close it is and you're a Texan, so... Thanks, —MJCdetroit 17:16, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
- I created Image:TXMap-doton-Sachse.PNG even though its ridiculously archaic.. I'm trying to do maps like Image:Texas map - Dallas.svg with actual city limits in SVG format over at the commons. I've created one so far. ahahahaha... I'll consider finding the limits tonight and making an SVG for Sachse. Out of curiosity, how'd you come across the article? I see that you're from Detroit and you came across the image redlink less than 24 hours after it was created. -- drumguy8800 C T 17:29, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
I was actually looking to see how accurate that pushpin map for the USA is. I knew you edit cities around Dallas, therefore I looked at your user contributions to see if I could get your take on that pushpin map for the USA from someplace in the south. The redlink was just luck I guess, but that brings me back to my original question: how accurate is the pin for places in the south? BTW, if there is a better map—by all means use it. —MJCdetroit 18:29, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
- You were a tad too close to the Red River, I think.. is there another one I can look at..? One thing I'd definitely suggest though is a more attractive map, for instance.. Image:Map of USA.svg. I suppose Image:Usa-equidistant.png is being used because its an equirectangular projection but it's only accurate for north and south distances.. is that really worth it? Its almost giving me vertigo. -- drumguy8800 C T 19:37, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
I know. It does kinda suck. Thanks, —MJCdetroit 19:44, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
- Sorry if I offended you, wasn't my intent? -- drumguy8800 C T 19:46, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
No, not at all. I didn't make the map. I was just trying to figure out how accurate it is. I kind of view that map as a last resort type of thing. —MJCdetroit 20:29, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
