User:Akidd dublin/arc talk1

ARCHIVED USER TALK (I): from the beginning upto 21th april 2006

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Capital letters

Wikipedia articles are written in standard English, which means sentences always start with capital letters and have regular punctuation. Remember, this isn't a discussion board or blog.

The problem with the strong language article is that it's trying to do too many things: you are writing about nudity and hip-hop and the RIAA's position on music downloads - material that belongs somewhere in Wikipedia, but not in this article. If this is titled "strong language" it should be about the "strong language" label - what it covers, and why. - DavidWBrooks 18:42, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)

i know it is not a weblog, and will go through the guidelines time by time. by the way i have a weblog at textamerica.com Akidd_dublin 200501291044

Capital letters, please

Once again, please start sentences with capital letters, to follow the rules used by a billion other English speakers. That's not too much to ask. - DavidWBrooks 17:54, 30 Jan 2005 (UTC)

this would not be difficult for a program routine: catch the point of the previous sentence and turn lcase to ucase. two billion people who write using kanji and hiragana Akidd_dublin 200501301813

Well, i can write 1st letter UCASE for article contribution. Otherwise it won't get accepted. For my user page, own websites i continiue LCASE, it is valid latin. In case of complaint about small "i", it is possible to substitute it completely. It is just more easy to write "i". It is also possible/valid to write "north american" instead of USA/America.

I hope it is accepted, now that i show some good will, and i know it is not a discussion board. -->Because of some good will, which is shown, it is possible to accept it?

User:Akidd_dublin 20060319

Original research

Regarding "special population groups" in political correctness. If you made it up, then it shouldn't be on Wikipedia. This is not a collection of the best ideas - it's an encyclopedia on established knowledge. Your contributions are appareciated, but they need to be verifiable. Cheers, -Willmcw 19:36, 30 Jan 2005 (UTC)

i have not made it up see discussion -akidd

Great, then please cite your sources. -Willmcw 16:22, 31 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Capital letters again

You're not seriously saying that because you can't find instructions saying "Sentences should start in capital letters" that it is optional? Once again, the English-language wikipedia (not the kanji or hiragana wikipedia) is written in standard English, which for many centuries has meant that sentences start with capital letters. - DavidWBrooks 20:29, 30 Jan 2005 (UTC)

its not that many centuries ago only a FEW people were capable of writing.the bible was translated from latin to german around 1500CE and introduced reading/writing to majorities Akidd_dublin 20050131203 200502071708

Irish topics

Hi there,

You may be interested in Wikipedia:Irish Wikipedians' notice board, there's a bunch of us working on Irish-related topics. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page.

You will indeed need to get in the habit of capitalising the first word in you sentences - people will find it distracting even in comments. Generally people here on Wikipedia are quite picky and pedantic - it is an encyclopaedia, and the attitude helps. For example, US English is often more common than ordinary English, and generally you have to follow suit and write about "colors" instead of "colours" and so on. Conversely, on British/Irish or European topics, we have the right to insist on no US English.

Don't worry if what you add isn't perfect, but if someone offers advice, they are probably trying to help!

zoney ♣ talk 10:56, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Re:obsolete gifs

Hi Akidd, I'm not quite sure I know what you are talking about in your message? But I do hold the opinion that gif is obsolete, any "artistic" effect can easily be simulated by reducing the amount of colors in jpeg or png to 256 colors. PNG has the transparency function of gif plus semi transparency. PNG can also compress well and be used for little icons etc. --Fir0002 06:07, August 5, 2005 (UTC)

You can easily reduce jpegs to 256 colors, all you need is Jasc Paintshop Pro 7 or better. There is a function called "decrease color depth" where you can play with the number of colors for artistic purposes to your heart's content. So that takes out the "artistic" quality of gif

And PNG compression is excellent. I don't know how you did your test, but I saved two versions of the wikipedia logo using GIF and PNG with 40 colors in the palette and gif was 4.99kb to PNG's 4.29kb

I'm not sure what you mean by "an animation basically requires two gif images. imagine it is a handheld device, and the screen is b/w LCD?" but SWF format is far, far better than gif as an animation file.

Compatiblity may be the only advantage gif has over PNG, but I'm sure that will rapidly change.

Sorry for taking so long to reply --Fir0002 22:27, 15 September 2005 (UTC)

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Hokkani boro

I'm writing regarding your new article Hokkani boro, it seems to me like a hoax, and right now is not up to encyclopedic standards. If I'm wrong please edit the article to conform with wikipedia standards, and please state your sources. I'm proposing this for deletion, as a possible hoax. Thanks. Eivind ^t ^@^c 02:06, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for expressing doubt. Indeed "hokkani boro" is probably the ancestor of some modern scams. But, it is not "hoax", it is valid gypsy language. I try to search the net for it (have you???). I do not think it is a candidate for deletion. Herewith i express "DISAGREE" for deletion.

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Watermelon

It's me again, I noticed you had placed a {{stub}}-tag on Watermelon, the article is quite long and stub-tags are only for short articles. If you feel it needs cleanup and you you can't do it yourself, place a {{cleanup}}tag on it. By the way {{stub}} is not the prefered option for short articles, f.x. {{fruit-stub}} would be best for watermelon, for other options see Category:Stub_categories, this helps people who are experts on certain fields to find stubs about things they know alot of. Thanks, and sorry about the Hokkani boro thing, I should have done my research first. Eivind ^t ^@^c 13:02, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

Well, it is not completely abhorrent that even serious people put some sort of hoax/hoax-like in place: because they believe it themselves! :)
The watermelon article needs the stub tag, because after major edit it might get shorter. I made a suggestive addition. Stub means non-completeness, expansion-in-need? Probably i get it wrong. However, i see a major cleanup as urgent, using the term "Redneck" in its meaning, it is that, somehow, in its own. However, sarcasm and irony are not always funny, especially into articles. I have some things at my site/user page, but if it is too buggy, i am always happy to rewrite it.
I have read a policy about neutrality, and it does not meet it. POINT.
Feel free to remove the stub tag, i hope the original author (hello) itself can perform the upgrade. Sentence removal is something i do perform very unlikely, not only because little wiki experience.
the linkage is technically incorrect (list of green parties): it is labelled different (green part members). Sorry the long writing. alex 15:57, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

I don't really see where the article is sarcastic or not neutral, am I missing something? I don't feel the article is trying to be funny, just mentioning that watermelons have been part of a clichés. I fixed the links, and I'll gladly clean up the article, but right now I don't see anything wrong with it. Eivind ^t ^@^c 18:08, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

Well, the "regional trivia" looks a suitable idea (i have taken a look at it again). It contains C&P most likely. Probably it makes sence to put "negative" information connected to watermelons under "discriminatory usage" or something. The info has its right of existence, but some of us find history rather uninteresting. One sentence does it, instead of three. The watermelon imagery in Japan does not have any political meaning! Not to say the concept of allegory is called "being direct", or even offensive. Watermelons are an important crop of northern america, and the article contains this information. I do not say it needs rewrite, just major edit. Wikipedia is not a northern american "national initiative" (like the sponsoring of dictionary.reference.com, which connects to the north american "ad council" regularily).alex 15:47, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

Nike logo

Hi, the Nike logo violates Wikipedia's Fair Use Policy becuase we already have a Nike a logo. There is no need to have another one. The main logo is on Nike, Inc.. Also, copyrighted images are not allowed to be placed on userboxes. Hope you understand; if you don't quite get it yet, feel free to contact me on my talk page. Thanks, Kilo-Lima|^(talk) 10:59, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

Well "we already have a Nike a logo". I agree. alex 12:25, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

Image:Minidisc tinylogo.png

Since it appears you don't own the copyright on this image you can't release it under creativ commons.Geni 11:56, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

I hope i can release it under one of the licences. However, i am afraid, i do not know which one suits most likely. alex 12:24, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

If you don't own the copyright you can't release it under any lisence.Geni 12:33, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

??? That's an rethoric answer. Wikipedia contains similar images regularily under "fair use". see minidisc. alex 12:38, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

"Fair use" is not a lisence. It copyvio that is probably legal. wikipedia policy states that fair use images can only be used in articles (becuase the fair use case is generaly stronger there).Geni 12:41, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

Well thanks for the explanation. I can ask TDK on my own (and will do so), but i assume "no answer"...until they definetively inhibit the usage please do not delete it. alex 12:47, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

Under American copyright law, the image is presumed to have all rights reserved without explicit statement otherwise from the copyright owner. As a result, it is a copyright violation and should not be used except where it would be justified under fair use, an American legal concept. Johnleemk | Talk 13:22, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

...except where it would be justified... --> I agree and i do understand the idea of fair use in this meaning. alex 09:57, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

Kindly explain how the image on your userpage is fair use, then. Under fair use, the image must be used for "criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research". I don't see that image falling into any of those categories when used as it is on your userpage. Furthermore, it violates our fair use policy to include fair use images in any templates or userpages. Johnleemk | Talk 15:30, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

Barnstars, etc. are free images and their use is explicitly permitted as such by their copyright owners. Policy explicitly bans the usage of fair use images outside encyclopaedia articles, and even ignoring that, your userpage does not criticise, comment on, teach, or otherwise provide some educational benefit to others concerning Minidisc. This discussion has been hashed over before several times; userboxes such as those for the Democratic Party (US) have had fair use images removed from them. Since Wikipedia is hosted on American soil, it is subject to American copyright law, regardless of the geographical source of an image. Since you refuse to co-operate, I will be removing all fair use images from the userbox templates included on your userpage, in line with policy. I have also tagged a couple of images which you do not have the right to relicense with {{nld}}; if you would like to claim that their use on Wikipedia is fair use, feel free to do so. I will not bear the responsibility for claiming that they are fair use. Johnleemk | Talk 14:34, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

You cannot relicense images which you do not own the copyright to. Such images, if they are to be used on Wikipedia, must be used under the fair use provision of American law, which has very tight restrictions. To avoid copyright complications, Wikipedia policy prohibits the usage of fair use images outside encyclopaedia articles. Fair use images may not be used in userpages, templates, etc. Johnleemk | Talk 13:33, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

I get it. I do not need to display the mini-disc logo. Actually i have great fun rewriting my userpage alex 13:38, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

Hi, sorry for getting back to you so late. It depends on whether the EU copyrights its flags, emblems, etc. If it does, they have to be used under fair use, but if they are released into the public domain or copylefted, then you can use them on your userpage. Johnleemk | Talk 07:48, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

Well it is not required, or required for the purpose of research, to display these images within my user page. I prefer quick page generation, just tried out userbox templates. alex 09:53, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

NEAT Userboxes.

Are you aware you're linking to a page that doesn't exist? Just thought I'd bring that to your attention. — nath a nrdotcom ^{(T • C • W)} 00:02, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

Well, probably it makes sense to create a 'NEAT' branch (again). I have placed every argument i was able to spell at the deletion discussion. I have looked up the word 'neat', and it looks suitable. alex 08:31, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

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