User talk:User A1

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[edit] Welcome

Hello User A1! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Below are some recommended guidelines to facilitate your involvement. Happy Editing! Dylan Lake 21:24, 29 October 2006 (UTC) Getting Started Wikipedia Tutorial • The five pillars of Wikipedia How to: edit a page • upload an image Getting Help Frequently Asked Questions Where to ask questions or make comments Request administrator attention Policies and Guidelines Neutral point of view • Reliable sources Verifiability • Citing sources • No original research What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons Manual of Style • Three-revert rule • Sock puppetry Copyrights • Fair use • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability The Community Build consensus • Resolving disputes Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • No legal threats Community Portal • Village pump Signpost • IRC channels • Mailing lists Things to do Be bold in editing • Help develop an article Pages needing attention • Peer review Join a WikiProject • Translating articles Cleaning up: General • Spam • Vandalism Miscellaneous Useful templates • Categories • Stubs User pages • Talk pages Tools • User scripts

Your edits are fine. I thought you were new... just being friendly. You can take down the template if you so desire. --Dylan Lake 03:09, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] You helped choose Rosetta Stone as this week's WP:AID winner

Thank you for your support of the Article Improvement Drive. This week Rosetta Stone was selected to be improved to featured article status. Hope you can help.

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[edit] fair use

if you are unhuppy with situations like this please consider to visite from time to time Wikipedia talk:Fair use,where this insane policy was made and participate in the votes.Please also trie to atracte others to the isue.--Bootstrapping 14:04, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Pitch drop

Yes, the professor in charge of the Pitch drop experiment was not very happy that WP planned to remove the picture of his experiment, and they wrote to give us permission to use the picture. Instead of having a huge row and discussion here, it was far easier to just alert the University of Queensland about the problem. --14:30, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Request for clarification

I need to know how you construed changing "orange" to "object" diff [1] was in any way vandalism?

Per vandalism

Vandalism is any addition, removal, or change of content made in a deliberate attempt to compromise the integrity of Wikipedia. Any good-faith effort to improve the encyclopedia, even if misguided or ill-considered, is not vandalism.

I'm at a loss how the diff [2] could even qualify as "misguided or ill-considered". (My wan 11:45, 25 February 2007 (UTC))

P.S. I see in the diffs at the time you were having trouble with graffiti. I understand You being upset by that. I have enquired about clearing my name.

I have replied to this on your talk page. Clearly my warning was in error. Sorry about that. User A1 14:00, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Link in McCabe-Thiele method

Hello,

I undid your edit to McCabe-Thiele, i think the link is questionable as it points to demo-type software. Do you know of a precedent in wikipedia for either direction? Corporate linking is too easy to go astray, please comment. User A1 12:38, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

If you will look at the History page of the McCabe-Thiele method article, you will see that I wrote almost all of that article.

I completely agree with you that most corporate linking is simply spam. I have deleted many such links myself. But in this case, after completely going through all of the article, I found that it had a great deal of useful and relevant content. Especially in the book section and the Content tab. I therefore felt it deserved a link. I would also point out that the consortium offering the software are mostly university academics.

However, if you still feel the link is inappropriate, I won't contest it with you. I only ask that you take a good long look at all of that website, as I did. Best regards, - mbeychok 19:40, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Pipe.svg

Hi! I’ve uploaded a modified version of Image:Pipe.svg. Does it look OK now? I’m not sure I got the gradients and lines right. —xyzzy_n 19:06, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

I managed to stuff up the diagram entirely before i uploaded it, the gradient on the centre cylinder has gone, it should look like one "plug" :( I'm at work and will look at it later. Cheers though 129.78.64.102 01:15, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

No problem. To make the arrows show up, I used the ‘Stroke to Path’ function. Also, I saved the file as plain SVG, rather than Inkscape SVG. (Be sure to do these things on a copy of your file/use ‘Save as’.) I didn’t like the white-filled path on the right (it doesn’t look well when the background isn’t white), so I subtracted it from the paths underneath; then I turned off those paths’ stroke and made a copy of one of them in which I removed the segments of the right side, turned off fill and left stroke enabled. This has the effect of having stroked lines only where desired, while leaving the resulting image otherwise unchanged. Hope this helps. —xyzzy_n 02:23, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

I see what you mean by having to stroke to path beforehand. Interesting as i tested it in firefox before uploading, but without stroke to path, as you say, the arrows do not show up, Does wiki auto-render them to png or something?

Mediawiki uses rsvg to render SVG images to PNG, but rsvg doesn’t seem to be able to handle Inkscape’s arrow markers yet. Inkscape puts marker elements into the file which simply contain paths which define the arrow shapes; ‘Stroke to Path’ copies the marker paths as ordinary paths to the places where they are actually displayed (and also converts segments of the converted path to paths, simulating stroke by fill). So after ‘Stroke to Path’, rsvg only needs to render ordinary paths. The image looks good, by the way. —xyzzy_n 14:16, 9 March 2007 (UTC)