User talk:Mysid/Archive01

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This archive page covers approximately the dates between July 19, 2005 and October 20, 2005.

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Hi Mysid, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thanks for your contributions to the coolest online encyclopedia I know of =). I sure hope you stick around; we're always in need of more people to create new articles and improve the ones we already have. You'll probably find it easiest to start with a tutorial of how the wikipedia works, and you can test stuff for yourself in the sandbox. When you're contributing, you'll probably find the manual of style to be helpful, and you'll also want to remember a couple important guidelines. First, write from a neutral point of view, second, be bold in editing pages, and third, use wikiquette. Those are probably the most important ones, and you can take a look at some others at the policies and guidelines page. You might also be interested in how to write a great article and possibly adding some images to your articles.

Be sure to get involved in the community – you can contact me at my talk page if you have any questions, and you can check out the village pump, where lots of wikipedians hang out and discuss things. If you're looking for something to do, check out the community portal. And whenever you ask a question or post something on a talk page, be sure to sign your name by typing ~~~~.

Again, welcome! It's great to have you. Happy editing! --Spangineer (háblame) 11:20, July 19, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Vocal profile

Talk:Britney Spears#Vocal Profile –61.90.85.245

Thanks, I understand now. –Mysid (talk) 11:02, July 20, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Stop putting the speedy delete tag on Lisa Shock's entry

Stick to subjects you know something about. Lisa Shock is an important figure and obviously someone feels so. Now stop putting the speedy delete tag on there.

I didn't put the speedy tag there. Someone else did, you removed it, I reverted. Wait for the admin to check the relevance of the speedy tag. –Mysid (talk) 07:38, July 22, 2005 (UTC)

I didn't remove it. I created the article.

Please sign your talk posts, then. Using ~~~~ is handy for that purpose. –Mysid (talk) 07:42, July 22, 2005 (UTC)

I didn't know how to sign them but that doesn't remove the validity of my argument. See below. Sorry if I didnt do it right. 24.165.29.82 07:46, 22 July 2005 (UTC)

You're right, it doesn't. –Mysid (talk) 07:47, July 22, 2005 (UTC)

If you want something about which to be upset, try looking at the entry for Sashanan which is libel and slander, not to mention completely false. The Lisa Shock article is completely true and is actually about a noted memeber of the videogame industry.24.165.29.82 07:47, 22 July 2005 (UTC)

Thanks. I'm not upset, just reverted. Of course you may remove the tag, just explain it in the edit summary. –Mysid (talk) 07:51, July 22, 2005 (UTC)

Well I don't know how to explain it in the edit summary. But the fact that the wiki-police are seemingly so hawkish over an article that may or may not be about something of import yet ignore completely fallacious articles designed to merely slander another individual (albiet cleverly) makes me wonder about the efficacy of the system and of the idea of wiki journalism as a whole. When an article is able to withstand a quick-delete process and still stands despite its use of an altered photo of the person of whom it is designed to mock, despite the fact that it makes poorly veiled accusations of pedophelia and links to sites with blatant libelous material including criminal activity is allowed to stand without deletion, an entry about a notable industry figure is marked for quick deletion thrice within hours of creation for "vanity and unimportance" there are serious questions raised and it leads me to think that this system is not working.24.165.29.82 08:05, 22 July 2005 (UTC)

The Edit summary box is below the edit box, above the Save page button. –Mysid (talk) 08:22, July 22, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] "Got-Er-Dun!"

Fixed the Andy Sturmer image copyright...and some others as well. NoseNuggets 2:51 AM US EDT Aug 30 2005

Great! –Mysid (talk) 06:58, August 30, 2005 (UTC)

PS: Constant blanking of your user talk page is not considered a good habit. Please read Wikipedia:User page for more. –Mysid

[edit] do not remove the VERITEE pages

we are woRking on a project to inform the general public about VERITEE WELLNESS DRINK, which is a very popular product in Switzerland, Germany and Austria and available in several other countries. THANKS —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 195.186.141.204 (talk • contribs) 10:48, September 4, 2005 (UTC).

That's great to hear, but please discuss the removal on the article's AFD page instead. –Mysid (talk) 16:06, September 4, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] RE: Early Orbison album cover

Sorry, I goofed and forgot to do it. Thanks. Ted Wilkes 11:52, September 5, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Requesting comments on template alteration

Hello. I see you are using one or more of the User instruments templates in your Babel box. Inspired by some recent developments, I want to rework all the templates in there (including ones used on user pages), to make them more like the regular Babel templates. However, I thought I should hear from the people this would affect before actually doing it. Please weigh in at User:Ddawson/User instruments. Ddawson 10:07, 6 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Images_from_AustinEV

See User_talk:D0li0#Images_from_AustinEV for response. --D0li0 10:15, 12 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] coats of arms/seals etc.

Is {{coatsofarms}} different to [[Category:Coats of Arms Images]]? Sorry didnt realise, it looked like sloppy editing on the face of it... Do images with [[Category:Seals]] disappear from coats of arms images even if they retain {{coatsofarms}}? 80.177.152.156

Ok, thanks for that. Methinks I'll do as you suggest, as patently a seal is entirely different to a coat of arms. Thanks for the assistance.. 80.177.152.156

Further to our earlier conversation, there is I've just noticed a Template:Seal, with the wording

"This logo is a seal of a local government or one of its government agencies, and may be subject to copyright and/or trademark. It is believed that seal may be exhibited on Wikipedia under the fair use provision of United States copyright law. Use of the seal here does not imply endorsement of the organization by Wikipedia or the Wikimedia Foundation, nor does it imply endorsement of Wikipedia or the Wikimedia Foundation by the organization. See Wikipedia:Logos and Wikipedia:Copyrights."

Can you see any problem moving images which are obviously seals from Template:coatsofarms, to Template:seals? If not, I'll get on with it.

80.177.152.156

A city seal would seem to be the seal of the government of a city (be that a district council, a borough coucil or whatever), therefor do you not think that counts as a local government? The article on local government would seem to indicate it might (to my way of reading it anyhow), any thoughts?

80.177.152.156

[edit] Wheelchair logo

That looks fine - I'd always wanted to find a better image, but never got round to it. Thanks! Radagast 11:39, 20 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Copa Libertadores logo

Hey, about that Copa Libertadores logo - it looks good, and it does make the jpeg redundant, so feel free to vfd it. Just one thing - the jpeg has the South American continent in green, but your version has it black. Is this right? Otherwise, good work. Tiefighter 12:12, 20 September 2005 (UTC)

Oh, I thought it was black and so didn't pick the exact color – might be my dark monitor. Thanks for noticing. Mysid (talk) 12:42, 20 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Newfoundland Tricolour

Hi there; thanks for your note. No problem! Just attribute me, if necessary. There are also other flag images (namely Canadian, but others too) I created and may need to be optimised. Thanks again! E Pluribus Anthony 13:14, 22 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Melbourne High School Unicorn

Hi, you uploaded a cleaned-up GIF version of Image:Unicorn.jpg. However, at the same time, I completed my [exhausting] cleanup work on that same picture, and uploaded it as Image:Melbourne High Unicorn.png. Would it be OK if I IFD'd the one you uploaded and used mine instead? Mysid (talk) 10:31, 23 September 2005 (UTC)

Do so if you want to. Thanks. Anthony Appleyard 11:13, 23 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Re: XDR logo

About the XDR logo, that's totally OK. Thanks a bunch for cleaning it up & optimizing it, it was originally a scan right off the j-card of a XDR-mastered cassette I have. Once again, thanks! misternuvistor 18:24, 24 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Flag of Des Moines, Iowa

Yeah, it's fine. Thanks for letting me know. --Boothy443 | comhrá 21:07, 26 September 2005 (UTC)~

[edit] CPLP flag

lots of thanks. But Now the flag has 8 of that v shape drawings, can you correct it? ;) see it in here: http://www.cplp.org/ -Pedro 23:13, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Re: African Flags

Yes, Thats Fine. Thanks. Acntx 11:51, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Flag images

While I thank you for uploading flag images to Wikipedia, but their images are not allowed on here. Wikipedia forbids the use of non-commercial images since May of 2005, and FOTW said at [1] that their images can only be used for non-commercial purposes. Here is the ruling about non-commercial images from Wikipedia [2]. Zach (Sound Off) 03:39, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the note, I won't upload any more of them. –Mysid

[edit] Mac OS bomb

Your replacement of the image is fine, I prefer png anyway!— Wackymacs 13:24, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Qwerty.svg

It needs a smaller viewbox so that it's more legible when displayed at a smaller size in a page. Also, I'm not really sure what the point of embedding the Arial font in the SVG file is -- it increases the file-length of the SVG file, and makes it look horrible in Adobe SVG viewer plugin (which has its peculiarities, but is pretty much a reference implementation). AnonMoos 19:14, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

Yes -- open the SVG file in a text editor, and you'll see the text viewBox="0 0 800 402". This should be changed to something more like viewBox="20 26 757 383" (and the width="800px" height="403px" nonsense changed to width="100%") so that the text will display at maximum size when the picture is rendered at smaller pixel dimensions.

Save the file in your Corel application in PS or vector EPS format (instead of SVG format) and e-mail the file to me, and I can produce an SVG file that without technical issues... AnonMoos 18:41, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Cooling curve pic

Thanks for the change in the picture. The one you put up is fine. --Nopol10 10:19, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] 1-up mushroom

Your edit's fine with me. 99% difference in size? That's bloody good. comment by Osgoodelawyer 15:40, October 12, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Title screen

I don't care, as long as it's better.--Zxcvbnm 20:39, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Algorithm Image

Thanks for updating the image. Listing the other one for deletion is fine by me. I'm trying to learn the ropes here, and thought that posting little bits about things I know something about was a good way to go.

New image looks good, by the way. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Jax Omen (talk • contribs) 17:11, 18 October 2005 UTC.

[edit] Macedonia flag

I stopped editing Macedonia articles some time ago (too many crazies), so I have no objection to you deleting the flag image. I'm not sure that I see, however, how a national flag can be copyrighted. Adam 08:46, 20 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Images

Hi, I've converted the Order of Christ Cross image Image:Orderofcriststeagalb.jpg to SVG (Image:Order of Christ Cross.svg). I've listed the JPEG for deletion – hope this is OK. I see no problem if the links to the old files are redirected to the new one. Also, do you still have the vector version of Image:CrossPatheeDome.jpg? It would be great if you could export it as SVG and re-upload it. –Mysid (talk) 08:32, 20 October 2005 (UTC)

I'll try to export the file but i don't know very much about svg format. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by CristianChirita (talk • contribs) 11:31, 20 October 2005 UTC.

[edit] Edit summaries

I've noticed here, among other times, that you edit summary sometimes has nothing to do with your edit -- not a good idea. People will learn mistrust all of your edit summaries, and start being nitpicky and reviewing all of your edits in detail. Since you're a useful editor, that wastes peoples' time better spent looking for real vandals. At a minimum, even a blank edit summary is better than an incorrect one. --A D Monroe III 12:38, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

Copying reply here: Thanks for the notice. I'm quite surprised by it, though! The particular edit you were talking about ([3]) was not made by me, but instead by 71.112.115.22. I described my own edit on that article, changing the JPEG NATO flag to an SVG one ([4]), quite clearly. Maybe you've misinterpreted the diff display somehow? The current edit's contributor is shown on the right, whereas the previous editor is on the left and has nothing to do with the edit you're viewing. Anyhow, thanks for the notice, I'll take that into account. –Mysid (talk) 06:25, 24 October 2005 (UTC)

Sorry, my mistake. I guess I shouldn't be working Wikipedia when I have the flu. I've had the problem I described with other editors, and it seems I was running on auto-pilot. Thanks for taking this baseless accusation in stride. --A D Monroe III 12:19, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Okay

I'm okay with it (Kelantan flag). Thanks for informing me about it. Mr Tan 14:48, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

I'm fine with Johor flag as well. Thanks for the curt reminder. shahir 03:07, 5 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Greater Sudbury, Ontario flag

My only concern is that although I've been putting off replacing the infobox with the more standardized Template:Canadian City (mainly because I still have to figure out how to apply it correctly), that template is actually constructed to assume that a flag is in .jpg format -- so if the flag is in a different format, I can't apply the correct template. Bearcat 01:20, 4 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] CambridgeBayWeather

Thanks for reverting my user page. I seem to be getting more popular. CambridgeBayWeather (talk) 17:23, 8 November 2005 (UTC)

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