User talk:Zantastik/archive6

Great work cleaning up that article. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Teckjunkie (talk • contribs) .

Glad you liked what I did -- the article is hardly done, and I'm not sure if I can make myself go through the thorough article about Malt liquor that's linked. It would be a truly excellent source. --Zantastik talk 07:35, 27 September 2006 (UTC)Reply

Good work reorganizng and editing League of the South. It's much better now. Cheers, -Will Beback 07:44, 1 October 2006 (UTC)Reply

Thanks for the recognition! It wasn't really a labor of love -- it's more that I ran across an article that was just so hopelessly biased and badly written that I felt compelled to dig in. Glad you like my work. --Zantastik talk 07:56, 1 October 2006 (UTC)Reply

Perhaps this will help?

if you need to cite a source twice, give it a name as such:

<ref name="Source1">ref-info</ref>

then to link it again use

<ref name="Source1"/>

Note the placement of the forward slash in each instance:

• in the first instance -- at the beginning of the second ref
• in the second instance -- at the end of the ref

Hope it helps. -- Sholom 20:58, 3 October 2006 (UTC)Reply

Thanks for the help! --Zantastik talk 22:15, 3 October 2006 (UTC)Reply

Hey, thanks for your appreciation! That particular image is only the tip of the iceberg, see Commons:Category:Cumulative tropical cyclone tracks and Commons:Category:Tropical cyclone tracks for just a few more... :)--Nilfanion (talk) 22:44, 3 October 2006 (UTC)Reply

Let me know what you think of this: User:Jersyko/On notability. It's a *very* rough draft and contains some relatively unsupported assertions (both normative and descriptive), but I hope to improve it eventually. Please let me know if you have any ideas. · j e r s y k o talk · 16:42, 10 October 2006 (UTC)Reply

I'm also curious as to what your thoughts, if any, on this Afd might be: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jungle beat. · j e r s y k o talk · 18:36, 11 October 2006 (UTC)Reply

You voted against The Barred Owl on Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/BarredOwl because of its small size, but a larger picture has now been uploaded. Thanks Dark jedi requiem 17:33, 18 October 2006 (UTC)Reply

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I found an image for you per your request on WP:RP. I think this is what you're looking for: Image:Pimpmobile.jpg. Regards, howcheng {chat} 19:07, 29 October 2006 (UTC)Reply

Thanks! Yes, that's just about exactly what I was looking for. I'll remove my request. --Zantastik talk 20:33, 29 October 2006 (UTC)Reply

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Do you mind taking a look at the United States v. Hubbell to see that I have done everything according to the portal's standards? --Ineffable3000

Hello Zantastik,

I'd love to translate it, but after a quick research i found out that it's a copyright violation. After 7 days the article will probably be cleaned and most likely be a stub. But i'll keep your pleasant request in mind and translate it when we have some quality material about Mrs. Çığ.

Cheers

Vito Genovese 12:54, 2 November 2006 (UTC)Reply

Well, first of all, thanks for checking it out for copyright violations first! And I thank you most kindly for agreeing to translate it once the Turkish article is re-written. Mrs. Çığ sounds like quite an interesting figure, and I'm sure there's a lot more about her in Turkish than in any other language. --Zantastik talk 20:36, 2 November 2006 (UTC)Reply

Hey Zan. Are you interested in collaborating to bring this article to presentable status (I know you're busy with your translations, so if you don't want to, I understand)? It has had a cleanup tag since April. Just glancing at it, I can think of perhaps half a dozen specific things that need to be added. I'm sure you can think of even more than I can. So how about it? :) · j e r s y k o talk · 15:19, 3 November 2006 (UTC)Reply

I am interested. I'll do a bit this afternoon, as a matter of fact. --Zantastik talk 22:23, 3 November 2006 (UTC)Reply

Hi - having seen that article a few times, I agree that it's probably not up to our FA standard, but yes, I think it goes to GA (in parts, at least). I've already done some of it - namely "The art of Beekeeping" (or similar), and I'll be happy to help with it. We can, if you want a collaboration, set up a translation dept at Wikipedia:WikiProject Beekeeping/Translation. Thanks, Martinp23 22:32, 3 November 2006 (UTC)Reply

(sorry of rthe dealy - I posted this on the project talk before seeing your request - thanks!) Martinp23 14:25, 5 November 2006 (UTC)Reply

I recently saw this image you made and I wondered what programs/techniques you used to shade the sections like that. Any help would be greatly appreciated; I'd like to do this myself. Thanks!--Zantastik talk 23:46, 5 November 2006 (UTC)Reply

There's really nothing special to it. I just used a photo editor (The GIMP). I used a tool that snaps to edges to define the rough shapes, touched them up by hand, and shaded them. -- mattb @ 2006-11-06T01:24Z

The tool looks like scissors and lets you select shapes by snapping to edges that it perceives. This isn't nearly perfect, however, and you usually want to to touch up the boundaries of the selection with the "lasso" tool that lets you add or subtract area from the selection. To shade a selection, I would convert it to a path, create a new layer, fill the selection with a solid color, adjust the transparency of the layer to your liking, and stroke the path with a brush tool to highlight the border. I'd suggest finding an online tutorial regarding basic image editing with The GIMP or Photoshop or whatever you'd prefer to use. -- mattb @ 2006-11-06T16:23Z

Zan-- I noticed that you were closely involved in the FAC on the Opus Dei article way back in September of 2005. There had been a lot of trouble getting that article worked out due to the existence of a large number of single purpose accounts that show up to promote OD here on wikipedia. (In the FAC, for example, no less than 3 different brand new accounts showed to vote in that discussion, for example).

Anyway, puppetry notwithstanding, I've recently done a major rewrite on the Opus Dei article and am requesting comments on its talk page. I think the new page is better, but the aforementioned single-purpose accounts have been reverting it pretty consistently. Could you look over the page and comment on whether the rewrite is an improvement and maybe help out in the ensuing discussion? --Alecmconroy 14:54, 27 November 2006 (UTC)Reply

A proposal for a WikiProject France was made at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Council/Proposals#France, it is still in the pipe line. Would you like to contribute to it? STTW (talk) 17:21, 27 November 2006 (UTC)Reply

I think that such a wiki-project would be a good idea but I'm not sure that I'm really ready to join it at this time. My contributions, for better or worse, tend to be all over the place and I'm not sure that I'm really ready to commit to being an active member of a wikiproject right now. Nevertheless, I believe that wikiprojects are extremely important. So if anyone at WPjt:France wants me to translate an article or to contribute on a topic about which I'm knowledgable, then please don't hesitate to ask me. I'm not just being polite! :) --Zantastik talk 19:21, 27 November 2006 (UTC)Reply

Excellent work yet again. Can you let me know (either here or on gtalk) what you want the "commentary" box to look like? I might be able to help fix it. · j e r s y k o talk · 14:30, 30 November 2006 (UTC)Reply

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Agreed. Yours must be a thankless task, as even established wikipedians don't like having their uploads deleted; I dare not imagine the reactions you get from some newer users! Anyway, feel free to tag it for deletion. --Zantastik talk 00:17, 4 December 2006 (UTC)Reply

Thanks very much for your considerate reaction. It is indeed rare. —Chowbok ☠ 01:00, 4 December 2006 (UTC)Reply

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Thanks for the invite to the Graphics Lab. Can't do any graphics editing right now as my monitor is dying. --Duk 04:41, 12 December 2006 (UTC)Reply

There is already a strong and vibrant maps community here in English Wikipedia. Please join that community instead of setting up a duplicate project at Graphics Lab. We don't need two sets of standard colors, yet another way to request maps, differing standards, etc. Thanks, MapMaster 05:07, 13 December 2006 (UTC)Reply

While we certainly want to avoid duplication of efforts, the Graphics lab presents one very important advantage: it facilitates colaboration. When someone asks for a map to be created or modified, (s)he can then see the proposed image and comment on it. The same goes for the other cartographers; they can and do comment on the proposed image, or modify the SVG themselves. If you browse the French graphics lab, you can see that this has worked quite well -- it's an amazingly productive community. Whatever the auspices under which this sort of process takes place matter little to me, so long as they faciliate colaboration, which is the wiki way.

As for the colors, well, that sort of stuff can be standardised. But I'd encourage you to give the graphics lab a second thought -- it's very user-friendly for both map-markers and those who ask for maps to be made. Thanks. --Zantastik talk 08:55, 13 December 2006 (UTC)Reply

I think the Graphics Lab is a great idea. I've checked in on the French version from time to time (despite my poor Français) and I've often thought how useful it would be to have a group of experts like that here.

My concern is that we don't need a third way to request maps or yet another set of suggested colors (etc.). Let's figure out how to leverage the existing infrastructure. Thanks, MapMaster 13:47, 14 December 2006 (UTC)Reply

Okay - WOW! That was some work you did on the template! Thanks a ton!

PS: Have you considered joining WP:LGBT?

PPS: Where in TN?

-- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 07:08, 14 January 2007 (UTC)Reply

Thanks -- it's nice of you to say so :) Jersyko and I wrote all but 3 of those little articles as well as List of defense of marriage amendments by type and most of Defense of marriage amendment. As far as WP:LGBT goes, thanks for the offer but I'm not sure I can join it at this time. I have a lot of different things on wikipedia going on right now and I'm afraid of over-committing myself. (I'm active on FR as well and about to start spending more or my wikitime there and a little less here). But WP:LGBT looks like a great project and I wish you the best of luck there, and I'd hardly rule out doing something there from time to time. (By the way, while I'm a great believer in NPOV, I'm also a great believer in gay rights). I'm in west Tennessee; what about you? --Zantastik talk 07:32, 14 January 2007 (UTC)Reply

So that was a lot of work! Good job! Part of the reason I asked about WP:LGBT is because one of the sub-groups is a translation group, and they'd love to have your input. If you get time and energy (and I understand about over-reaching :), feel free to sign up or just drop by and see what's going on. I'm currently in Memphis, but only for tonight. I've lived (and will be returning to) the Nashville area. Anyway, thanks again! -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 08:03, 14 January 2007 (UTC)Reply