User talk:Drumguy8800/Archive 2

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Sig

Hi, could you check your sig for a missing </font>. Something in your sig was making Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Usability/Main Page/Draft render small starting immediately after your sig.  :-) hydnjo talk 16:50, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

Or whatever. Just thought I'd give you a heads up just in case. Wouldn't want you goin' around with a stigmata. ;-) hydnjo talk 22:14, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

And, just to let you know, my preference for J over your C is because I prefer a bolder portal presence, you have an excellent alternative. Thanks for your hard work on this project, hydnjo talk 22:26, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

Withdrawal

No, do not remove the nom. You actually get delete privileges and such with Admin status. You can check the full specs on one of the links on the RfA page. Somewhere around there it should also specify how to withdraw. Never had to do so myself, so not sure. Kusonaga 17:16, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

I agree. Don't withdraw. Hang in there. It's barely started, and besides, you may find the feedback useful. --Go for it! 14:35, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

My RFA

Thank you for supporting my successful request for adminship. I'll try to put the admin tools to good and responsible use. If I do anything wrong you know where to find me. Raven4x4x 08:41, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

RfA thanks

Thank you for voting on my RfA, it passed with a final tally of 68/0/0 so I'm now an administrator. If there's anything I can do to help, you feel I've done something wrong, or there's just something you want to tell, don't hesitate to use my talk page. Thanks. - Bobet 10:38, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

My RfA

Hi! Thanks for your support in my request for adminship. It ended with a tally of (51/0/0) (it was unanimous, after all!) As an administrator, I hope to better help this project and its participants: if you have any question or request, please let me know. - Liberatore(T) 12:35, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

Picture Usage

Hi, Derek,

I am interested in using your photos (Dallas, TX) on our Web site. The site is for a technology conference at UT Dallas this summer. We are in non-profit organizations, we can't pay you but we will showcase your work and cite you. Is it OK with you?

Regards, Wei-hsing Wang wangwh at att dot net

ps. the site is at www.EITC.org

Your carrot FPC image

I notice you uploaded an edited version of the carrots of many colours FPC, Image:Carrots of many colors edit.jpg. As this version wasn't promoted, it currently isn't being used in any articles. Would you like me to delete it as a redundant image, or would you prefer to keep it uploaded? Raven4x4x 08:50, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

Use permission

Hi, I would like to use your photo - 01220513l.jpg (Bank of America, Dallas) in my article on polish wikipedia. Would you permit? Thanks for any answer. --Kirq 20:03, 19 March 2006 (UTC) (you may also reply here)

Thanks, the result you may see here. --Kirq 15:51, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

I've got a project for you...

I need help keeping the picture of the day prestocked. It's the one used on the Main Page, and its 3 variations which are used on User pages and the Main Page alternates (including the MP design you created). I've got my hands full with the Wikipedia:tip of the day project, and have fallen a few days behind on prestocking the pic. The idea is to keep it prestocked 30 days in advance, so it never goes redlink, and so that others have fair warning in case maintainers fall too far behind.

The more people who keep an eye on it, the better.

The pics are scheduled according to a formula. As of April 19th, the formula simplifies to "in the order they were promoted to featured picture status, as displayed on Wikipedia:Featured pictures thumbs 05, from the bottom right hand corner and reading to the left, starting with the pic "Remembrance poppy"). You can get the formatting from previous pics (each version has slightly different formatting). Stocking of pics is done at the monthly archive pages, where links for each of the versions are provided -- a link to the archive itself is always displayed with the pic of the day, everywhere it appears. I hope you decide to help, because I've bitten off more than I can chew. Sincerely, --Go for it! 00:21, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

P.S.: If you decide to help, I'll provide you with the rest of the details. Thank you. --Go for it! 00:25, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

Template for deletion discussion you may be interested in

Categories · Glossaries · Lists · Overviews · Portals · Questions · Reference · Site news · A-Z Index

Arts | Biography | Culture | Geography | History | Mathematics | Philosophy | Science | Society | Technology

The above bar, the category-based counterpart to the portal-based Browsebar, is up for deletion. I thought you might want to know about this. --Go for it! 18:02, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

Australia

Hi Drumguy. Please note that urbanisation is not a misspelling, it's an Australian spelling. Cheers. Slac speak up! 22:38, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

Notice

Community Portal controversy: The Community Portal was recently reverted to a version that appeared months ago. Therefore, I've called for a vote to restore to the Community Portal the version that had developed here up until that reversion. There are three drafts competing for the privilege, each representing entirely different approaches, including the current revert version. To show your support for which design should be displayed as the Community Portal, VOTE HERE. Sincerely, --Go for it! 18:14, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

Caprock Canyons

Never ever been to that state park but I have been to Palo Duro Canyon several times before. I live in the part of Texas around Caprock Canyons about a couple hours drive from that location. Yes, I have been using Wikipedia for a couple of years now. Never been ban or anything just want to change my name periodically to be "semi-anonymous." Judging by your name, I remember "talking" to you one time before as a different user name in a certain Texas-related article's discussion tab. Anyways, good luck at college. --Taylor Durden 00:17, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

Colors

I never pretended to know colors.  :-) Though we can work on the colors after the poll is over.

I agree with you on the subpage issue. I plan to re-open that issue sometime after this poll is over. For now, it's best to take this one step at a time:

• Step one: the basic page design (content/layout) -- the current poll
• Step two: better color scheme
• Step three: division into subpages

That way, we let the community decide each step of the way. If they want it, they'll have it. If not, we keep it the way it is and move onto the next step.
--Go for it! 00:51, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

Image:Islam by country.png

that's right, I added a 5%-10% tier to the image recently; it seems arbitrary to cut off at 10%, and low percentages blend into white anyway now. My ultimate aim is to do a smooth scale from 0%-100%, but I didn't get round to it yet. dab (ᛏ) 09:28, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

Dallas, Texas - GA nom

I noticed you put a Good Article nomination thing on the Dallas, Texas talk page. I went to the good article thing and a quick search of dallas returned no results.. not sure if there's actually a candidacy process or what.. or if you promoted it. If you promoted it, why not promote it for Featured Article status? The article is better than most major city articles and far better than many current Featured articles.. drumguy⁸⁸⁰⁰ - speak? 01:41, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for catching that. There must have been an edit conflict I didn't catch or something. Davodd 05:08, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

Joe Pool Lake

Thanks for all your cleanup work on the Joe Pool Lake wiki! Great job!

FYI, Tech is a great school :)

-jaymzyates

Self-contradictory image licensing

I just came across your image license template: User:Drumguy8800/Picture. It's self-contradictory: first you say that re-use of the image requires permission, then you say the image is licensed under the GFDL, which explicitly grants permission to copy and re-use. Which is correct? --Carnildo 05:33, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

Hello, you seem to be quite wise in this department. Is there something, like the copyleft thing, or full blown copyright with usage rights, that I could use instead? For now, I've switched the wording to 'please' instead of 'you must'..

by the way, thanks for all your work in this department. drumguy8800 - speak 21:44, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia requires that user-created images be under a free license: one that permits unrestricted reproduction and modification. However, there is a way around this.

If you want to restrict who can use your images, your best bet is to license them under the GFDL, with an offer to let people use them under other license terms if they ask.

The GFDL is a very awkward license for images. It was designed around the needs of the emacs user manual, and requires that the full text of the license be included anywhere that material under the license is published, and that any work containing GFDL material be licensed under the GFDL. This isn't a problem for things as large as websites and books, but it's not practical for smaller things such as posters and magazine articles, and for-profit companies usually don't want to publish their work under anything but simple copyright.

So, by licensing under the GFDL, you let the images be used on Wikipedia and related projects (such as Wikibooks or Wikipedia Commons), on Wikipedia re-users such as Answers.com, and on other GFDL-licensed websites. At the same time, you make it difficult to use the image in printed works and in commercial projects, giving you some control over who re-uses your images.

Suggested wording for your template:

This photograph is the work of drumguy8800
gallery | xvisionx.com

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts
Subject to disclaimers.

If you want to use this image under other license terms, contact me, and we can work something out.

--Carnildo 20:12, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

Help with a map

Hello drumguy8800. You told me to contact you if I needed help with a huge 1946 map, so here I am. I've uploaded all necessary files to the Commons and I created the Wikippedia article. Problem is that nothing is working as expected.

I uploaded one huge map (in case somebody wants the whole map at once) (much smaller than the original but still 7 megs). Problem #1 is that I can't get a resized image of this to appear on the article page. Using either "|300px" or "|thumb" don't work so I had to use : in the front to make it a link for now.

The bigger issue is how to get all of my thumbnail images to link directly to the full size image of their corresponding map location. I've uploaded 16 small parts of the map, with grid lines, for use in a linking table. When you click on a part of the map you should be sent directly to the full size image of a different upload covering the same geographic area. For example, this image File:1946 Huntington Map thumb06.png placed in a table should link directly to this image [1] instead of the image description page of the image shown.

What should I do to make this all work? Can you please help me figure this out? I know how to make html tables but not how to get one wiki image link to something else. Fife Club 22:01, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. You da man :) Fife Club 03:24, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

Dates

Hi, please don't link to years. It's useless, and against the policy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Dates#Usage_of_links_for_date_preferences

Thanks, Yevgeny Kats 01:31, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

Linking

My links to City (ST) are to make the process easier - see Wikipedia:Pipe trick. The effect for the end user is identical.

In Texas, the routes are known as U.S. Highways. This was formerly the standard used by AASHTO, and Texas has not switched over.

There is a separate article for Interstate 40 in Texas. There may be others in the future. Interstate 95 is over half-split by now. --SPUI (T - C - RFC - Curpsbot problems) 02:20, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

It's hard to take you seriously when you come in assuming I'm wrong when I know I'm right. I'm going to ignore your attempts. --SPUI (T - C - RFC - Curpsbot problems) 02:34, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

Your RfA, a few comments

If you want I can into more detail about my various concerns. I just wanted to make three quick comments: First, the concern about a narrow range of edits doesn't reflect negatively on you. It does however mean that one has often not interacted with as a wide range of editors as someone with a more diverse contribution history has. So we have effectively less data to determine a candidates ability to work well with other editors. Second, you are correct that a general lack of interest in the buearacracy does not necessarily make someone a bad admin, it is relevant however if it means they don't have much experience dealing with somethng they are interested in (in this case deletions, having no experience with AfDs or Deletion Reviews or any similar issues). This isn't that different than if (when my adminship comes) I declare I want to help out dealing with image related matters and someone opposes due to my almost comlete lack of image related edits. Third, in regard to your comment "I'll just give up on the entire elitist bureaucracy of this thing and be a worthless contributor of prose" There is nothing worthless about contributing prose. Many users who are not admins (and who probably never will be admins) are vital to Wikipedia. In fact, there is nothing more important than prose; we are after all trying to build an encylcopedia. JoshuaZ 04:55, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

Notwithstanding

Yep, I put them up for speedy deletion as {{db-band}}, CSD A7. Also, when moving a page, you have to use the move button on top, or it doesn't move the history, and that messes up the GFDL license. --Rory096_(block) 05:42, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

USN_Midshipman_Insignia.png

drumguy8800 wrote: > Under MIDN CAPT, it says that there should be six > horizontal stripes.. here there are only five. > I assume you created the image..? You are correct sir, and I appreciate your input; the image is corrected now.

Image copyright problem with Image:British Museum Great Court roof edit.jpg

Thanks for uploading Image:British Museum Great Court roof edit.jpg. However, the image may soon be deleted unless we can determine the copyright holder and copyright status. The Wikimedia Foundation is very careful about the images included in Wikipedia because of copyright law (see Wikipedia's Copyright policy).

The copyright holder is usually the creator, the creator's employer, or the last person who was transferred ownership rights. Copyright information on images is signified using copyright templates. The three basic license types on Wikipedia are open content, public domain, and fair use. Find the appropriate template in Wikipedia:Image copyright tags and place it on the image page like this: {{TemplateName}}.

Please signify the copyright information on any other images you have uploaded or will upload. Remember that images without this important information can be deleted by an administrator. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me, or ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. Rory096 00:53, 29 April 2006 (UTC)