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This is not a Porsche?

In the artcile about Saab 9000 you changed aircooled to watercooled with the comment this is not a Porsche !. I'm not going to say anything about the relative values or each brand, but the watercooled turbo wasn't available until 1987. Before that it was aircooled. // Liftarn

The engine was waterccooled from the beginning. The turbo switched from an air/air exchanger to an air/water exchanger. Ericd 09:18, 30 Sep 2003 (UTC)

Yes, aircooled referes to the turbo, not the engine. Perhaps there is a better way to rewrite it. // Liftarn

This has nothing to do values or each brand, aircooled turbo engine typical Porsche technology.

I've take some time to verify some sources before answering.

In fact the early turbos were not air cooled they were simply not cooled (that's why they were expensive, they're issued from rocket technology, like rocket turbopumps one side is warm and the other is well... not cool but much less warm).

But the compressed air may (or may not) be cooled. It's if the compressed air is cooled it's better to talk of air/air or air/water exchanger. The word intercooler is also used.

Watercooled turbos were introduced later they became popular in the late 80's they bring no obvious advange in performance. They're supposed to be more reliable. It's possible this may also be a marketing argument the real reason for they use might be cost advantage. IMO a watercooled turbo might be less expensive because it will require less high-tech material.

In seems that the Saab had a watercooled engine with an intercooler (don't know if it was air/air or air/water). The first turbo was not cooled. They introduced a watercooled turbo later.

Ericd 22:11, 30 Sep 2003 (UTC)

The intercooler is a different issue. At least of Saabs the watercooled turbos are much more reliable. Anyway I rewrote the text a bit and I hope it's clearer now. // Liftarn

rm'd Tintin from pages needing attention, as it was an wikipedia:NPOV dispute (see header of the page) Martin

This isn't really a dispute, this seems to be a beginner work written without any care for NPOV. Ericd 22:24, 18 Sep 2003 (UTC)

That's true enough. Perhaps the NPOV dispute page is mistitled? I guess it's newbie-kind to say that their work may be biased, rather than saying it is biased. Still, I'd like to see the NPOV dispute page be the one stop shop for people looking for bias to fix, rather than have such pages scattered between their and pages for attention. A little obsessive compulsive? Martin 22:37, 18 Sep 2003 (UTC)

Porsche photo

Eric, please upload your porsche image again, and give it a unique name like eric_porsche.jpg to distinguish it from that car-dealer showroom photo. It looks like someone deleted your old image. --Uncle Ed 17:12, 21 Oct 2003 (UTC)

This is not a problem to do this as I have archived the file but this is not the case of all the digital pics I've done for wikipedia. But my photo isn't the central problem. I'm somewhat worried that the previous version of the photo ware lost and that a photo probably scanned somewhere appears as being uploaded by me with the claim "I took this picture myself". Why are previous versions lost ? Ericd 17:19, 21 Oct 2003 (UTC)

Prior revisions of a picture can be deleted without history -- I believe to save server space. Chris K claims he deleted it by mistake, which is certainly easy to do. I told him on his talk page that next time, instead of trying to replace another's picture, he upload it under a different name.

It certainly does break the Wikipedia nature that users can make un-revertible picture changes, though. That's what disturbs me, as it does you.

I would hope that backups of the server are taken, in case someone does a widespread picture-vandalism in this way.

Thanks, --Morven 18:26, 21 Oct 2003 (UTC)

You need to stick the image on Wikipedia:Votes for Deletion - under the copyright violation section. If you are not sure how to do this let me know. Secretlondon 21:02, 9 Mar 2004 (UTC)

I have verified the appropriate policy seems to add a notice on the image page and to list the image on Wikipedia:Possible copyright infringements Ericd 21:10, 9 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Great - that's fine. From your original comment on the image page I thought that you didn't know the procedure. I was going to do it myself but it is better to talk other users through how to do it instead. Secretlondon 21:12, 9 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Why did you revert the Augusto Pinochet article to the previous version? It contained a lot of ideologically motivated choices of words (e.g. "alienating the working class" which is a clearly Marxist expression) and purely false information like calling Pinochet's opponents "liberals" when they quite openly called themselves Marxists, communists, etc.

Were Marx and Lenin liberals by your standards?

Pinochet repression wasn't only oriented against communists. Many non-marxist opponents to Pinochet had to quit the country, your choice of words is ideologically motivated.

Ericd 20:53, 25 Mar 2004 (UTC)

You could revert the article to the version posted by 128.214.198.95 and then remove the word communist. The word liberal is ideologically motivated too, so there is no justification for using it in this context: "he moved to crush Chile's liberal opposition" - this choice of words gives the impression that the entire opposition to Pinochet consisted of liberals, which obviuosly isn't true. If you would just revert the article to the 128.214.198.95 version and remove the word communist, that sentence would read "he moved to crush Chile's opposition" which is indisputable. Maybe it would sound better if it were rewritten in the form "he moved to crush the opposition" or even "all opposition" -- the word Chile's seems redundant since we're talking about Chile anyway. This is the only part of the 128.214.198.95 version that needs changing because the other edits by 128.214.198.95 were clear improvements to the previous version.

I'm sorry but -except have instead of had- nothing in 128.214.198.95 version is obviously better, all the edit was ideological.

Ericd 22:19, 28 Mar 2004 (UTC)

I'm interested to know, why you have removed the table from Pubic hair which is somewhat informative on the subject. I think, it is better to preserve the table there; but to take another measures to find the facts. --Rrjanbiah 05:32, 30 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Being one of the source for this table, I think this table has no serious source. Ericd 14:07, 2 Apr 2004 (UTC)

street prostitution pic

Hi! The pic of street prostitution on Prostitution is being questioned in the Featured Article process. Can it be captioned better or more specifically? I think it looks like streetwalking, but I can see that it's not unambiguous. jengod 00:55, Apr 1, 2004 (UTC)

These are streetwalkers (probably East-Europeans) in Nice, France. But I agree this is not very sharp and not really explicit. I don't know if we should keep this pic. If we need pics, I could also suggest to search for some Brassaï pics of Streetwalkers in Paris they might be old enough to be in the public domain. I may also have something better in a few months. I have made some (argentic) street photography by night recently and to my great surprise I was asked by a group of streewalkers to take a photograph of them. Thus I have a roll of exposed Tri-X in the fridge where they could be some good pic, but I'm not very optimistic because these pics were made in very low light and I'm not sure to have catched something OK (I mean well exposed enough, unambiguous and respectuous for the girls). Ericd 13:40, 2 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Augusto Pinochet

I have create a poll at talk:Augusto Pinochet on how to describe the CIA's role in the coup against Allende. Please vote and/or comment. --Uncle Ed 14:16, 16 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Thanks this is done. Ericd 00:27, 17 Apr 2004 (UTC)

24 hours of Le Mans

Thanks for your hard work on the 24 hours of Le Mans article. And you've edited Augusto Pinchet too, you're a pretty cool user. --"DICK" CHENEY 13:42, 22 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Publishing photographs of convicted children

Do you have any pointer on the illegality of publishing the photographs of convicted child criminals in France? [article in a statute or code] David.Monniaux 15:51, 23 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Opposed piston

Could you perhaps correct instead of blank Opposed piston? It would be nice to keep the interwiki link. Thanks Dysprosia 11:15, 6 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

I have pasted something more accurate from internal combustion engines since. This was previously a one line stub and totally wrong. Ericd 17:16, 6 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

Oil for food

Hi there, would you mind to take a look at Oil for food? Serious problems with partisan content there and only one active user trying to deal with it. Furthermore, would you be interested in a project about learning, especially vocabulary? Please check my page and let me know. Get-back-world-respect 00:46, 8 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

media:STmaximin.jpg

Used it to illustrate w:fr:Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume. Greudin

Augusto Pinochet

Re: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Augusto_Pinochet#CIA_poll

FYI, User:VeryVerily is now claiming that you had no role in editing or contributing to the page, visibly no understanding of the issues, and were voting ideologically [1].

So, I guess that renders your comments irrelevant- or maybe not. 172 09:31, 18 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

Please see Talk:Augusto Pinochet#Another poll. 172 15:02, 19 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

Metropolis = Public Domain?

Hi, you uploaded Image:metropolis.jpg and wrote on the page "film is public domain". Are you sure? Generally, only works made before 1923 are in the Public Domain, and Metropolis was made in 1927. I would like to have this sorted out, so that I could add more images if it's really PD. -- stw (Talk) 19:10, 8 Jul 2004 (UTC)

F1 people

Hey Ericd - I noticed you undid my deletion of the Jean Todt, Ross Brawn, Sir Frank & Ron Dennis bullets from the People in F1 section. Is there any burning necessity to leave them on the main Formula One page? The People section on the F1 page is meant to just be a summary of the full List of Formula One people; Todt & crew are still listed there as well. None of them have terribly interesting personalities (besides Ron being an arrogant prat and Todt having a large nose) so I thought in the interest of less redundancy we could get rid of them. Just my opinion. Rdsmith4 22:58, 21 Jul 2004 (UTC)

"None of them have terribly interesting personalities" do you realize this fail NPOV ? It seems NPOV to me to list all the managers of the main team or none. I think it's not very encyclopedic to mention Briatore simply because he's dating top model and forget Todt who's the most successfull team manager in racing history.

Ericd 09:21, 22 Jul 2004 (UTC)

OK, leave those if you prefer, but the list at Formula One#People is meant to be a summary of the List of Formula One people - not a complete reproduction - so I originally chose a few notable people from each category (administration, team management, ex-drivers, etc) to list in the summary. It would be redundant to list every team manager on both pages. Feel free to replace the ones you don't think are encyclopedic with some more relevant people. Incidentally I mistakenly put my original message (above) on both this page and Talk:Formula One, and discussions have started in both places. Rdsmith4 14:53, 22 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Photographic processes

Hi, EricD.

I saw you were the main contributor (and original creator,) of the topic photographic processes. I'm fairly new here, and i've been adding some stuff there, but if you don't like it, please let me know! I have info/ hands-on experience with most of the processes listed, so if you like i can fill in the stubs and currently listed but not yet created subjects. Rxke

(BTW: how does one automatically add the userlink and time? )

Picture

Crematorium picture is more suitable for the Mittelbau-Dora article or the slave labor article than the V-2 article where we mainly deal with the technical, operational and development history. In the current layout, where you put it, it largely servers for the shock value. GeneralPatton 19:05, 15 Sep 2004 (UTC)

I think it's a perfect illustration of what was in fact "forced labor". Ericd 19:24, 15 Sep 2004 (UTC)

I think it's not, because it dosen't show either the wretched working conditions inside the facility or the starving workers. It doesn’t even illustrate a lot, just the text gives the shock effect... visually, it’s underwhelming, looks like any other stove. There are far better photos of Dora's horrors. GeneralPatton 11:56, 18 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Pirate Radio: Cultural References

Hi Eric, the line about "Pump Up the Volume" does tie in to the subject because the movie was about a pirate radio station, but I have a question about: "The Clash recorded a tribute called "Capital Radio One"."

I am familar with The Clash but not with this cut, but since they are a UK band the subject matter does not fit. "Capital Radio" was the name of the first licensed UK commercial radio station and therefore not a pirate, while "Radio One" was the name of the government BBC station which was supposed to have replaced all of the offshore stations in 1967, so it was not a pirate either. There is a whole roster of music devoted to "pirate radio" and this is not one of them.

Now the next item: "The album, The Who Sell Out presents itself as a pirate station playing nothing but music by The Who." That does fit in. I also have liner notes by the group concerning the reason why "Wonderful Radio London" jingles were put on the album.

I have not touched the entry and that is why I have brought it to your attention. MPLX/MH 04:31, 29 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Grand Prix Legends / Jacky Ickx

Hello there,

Just to let you know that I reverted your changes about Jacky Ickx, because you'd accidentally transposed the two cars. As can be seen on Jacky Ickx, he drove an F2 car in Germany and an F1 in Italy, so my original wording was right. Thanks for all your other good work recently, though! =:) Loganberry 22:39, 16 Oct 2004 (UTC)

French

In French you deleted the comment about French Guyana; why? —16:37, 10 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Because French Guyana is not a former colony. It's still a colony. Ericd 22:53, 10 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Fine, but are there no former French colonies or territories or what-have-you still called French? —msh210 17:13, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)

None... The French Antilles are still French and French Polynesya is still French too... Ericd 22:21, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Oh, okay: nevermind, then. —msh210 16:36, 12 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Adminship

May I nominate you for adminship?

The Uninvited Co., Inc. 20:58, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Thanks. You can. As I never asqued for more powers, I think I will not abuse of my adminship. Ericd 20:14, 28 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Article Licensing

Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 1000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:

Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
Multi-Licensing Guide
Free the Rambot Articles Project

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

Option 1

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

OR

Option 2

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to any [[U.S. state]], county, or city article as described below:

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk) 18:58, Dec 8, 2004 (UTC)

Image tagging

Thousands of images have no copyright tags. You can help sort this out by clicking on this link!

Hello. You uploaded Image:Marseillaise.mid. Do you happen to know the copyright status? Did you create it yourself? Thanks, – Quadell ^{(talk) (help)}[[]] 00:56, Dec 17, 2004 (UTC)

I'm afraid that there's might be a copyright problem : When I uploaded this file (I don't remember the source) I was believing that MIDI files had the same status as sheet music, and of course La Marseillaise is public domain. However it seems it's not the case see http://aitech.ac.jp/~ckelly/midi/help/copyrights.html thus it's probably copyrighted. Ericd 10:06, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Hey, you've also uploaded Image:Crankshaft.png, this image also needs to have copyright tags added to it. Do you happen to know the copy right status? You can either leave me a message with the correct copy right info and I will tag it for you, or you could wander over there and tag it yourself. Which ever is easiest. Thanks! If you have any questions hit me up. --MaxPower 15:29, 2004 Dec 23 (UTC)

As far as I remember it's a scan from a drawing of a Ford Flathead V8 diagram probably originating from Simca. I don't think this could hurt and it was heavily reworked but if we want to to be straight with copyright I think it's a "derivative work". Ericd 17:16, 23 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Also Image:Cloitre-Cimiez.jpg RedWolf 20:52, Dec 23, 2004 (UTC)

Taken by me see (technical details) and on a subpage of my user page used as some kind of buffer zone. Not used in any article at that time and will probably never be used because I've done better pics from the same place since. Ericd 21:09, 23 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Also Image:Pictograms.png --Aqua 00:02, Dec 31, 2004 (UTC) PS. If you could also leave a note on my talk page about the image status, in case I forget to check back here. Also, I've updated the tag for the Image:Cloitre-Cimiez.jpg above as gfdl.

Thanks for taking care of all these! How about Image:Folding camera folded.jpg and Image:Folding camera unfolded jpg.jpg? – Quadell ^{(talk) (sleuth)} 18:28, Feb 14, 2005 (UTC)

No problem this is my nice Kodak Six-Twenty Junior taken by myself and GFDL. Ericd 20:10, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Would you mind tagging the excellent Image:Bikini-Ericd.jpg. Thanks --Tagishsimon (talk)

That's done. Perhaps excellent but surely controversial see Wikipedia:Featured pictures candidates/September-2004.

Ericd 00:41, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC)

page moves

hi Eric -- it is considered bad style to move pages with long histories without prior discussion. I cannot see that you have brought up the move on Talk:Race. I fear if the move was unannounced, it will be moved back very quickly, and you may be exposed to a few unfriendly reactions. dab (ᛏ) 14:34, 23 Jan 2005 (UTC)

I accept to be exposed to a lot of unfriendly reactions. This featured article deals about Human races not Race. Ericd 14:39, 23 Jan 2005 (UTC)

For what it's worth, I think renaming it is a good idea. Anything to stop talking about "race" and start talking about "races" would probably get my vote. Of course we don't vote in this society, we do edit wars and wars of reversion. ;-( P0M 16:10, 23 Jan 2005 (UTC)

I don't think the page should have been moved without consultation; I look forward to you showing the initiative and cleaning up the 800 re-directs you created. Have fun! Guettarda 19:10, 23 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for your contributions

Thank you for your precious little contribution to my discussion. You obviously have strong feelings, though your insistence on communicating them (here and elsewhere) through incomprehensible, ambiguous and/or vacuous semi-rational ad hominems probably limits your effectiveness. Welcome to our community. I appreciate your passion. --DAD 18:07, 26 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Bianca Castafiore

Hello Ericd, I noticed that you moved the information on Bianca Castafiore from Minor characters in Tintin to the main article concerning The Adventures of Tintin. Bianca's entry now sits with the main characters of the story, but I don't think she really deserves it (not that I don't like her...). In fact, her importance is about the same as General Alcazar's (a few minor appearances and a major one), which does not make her one of the main charaters. I don't want to just revert your edit, for I'd like to have your opinion on the subject. Glaurung 07:38, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I think "The Castafiore emerald" is enough to qualify her as a major character. Ericd 15:40, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Hmmm, but her role is not more important than Alcazar's in Tintin and the Picaros. I think there is a huge gap in the importance of the characters between those listed in the main page and those on Minor characters in Tintin. Bianca Castafiore, however, would be the most important minor character if I may say so... But IMHO, her place is on the minor character's page. (If not then one should also add Alcazar, Rastapopulos etc. on the main page.) Perhaps we should merge all the info about the characters on a single page ? Glaurung 19:16, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I moved it back the way it was Glaurung 11:32, 29 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Edit conflict

Sry for the edit conflicts on tank history. Muchenhaeser 00:48, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC)

No problem, this remenber me the early Wikipedia, when there was few articles and a lot of people working on the same. I miss this time... Ericd 00:53, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Cosworth DFV

"This a legend, the BDA was very different"

In what way?

The BDA is, with the exception of the camshaft drive (gear as opposed to toothed belt)exactly half of a DFV, the heads are almost the exact same design, the water distribution is the same, the bore sizes are the same, the liner arrangement is the same, the crankshaft is obviously different for a four cylinder engine but as near as dammit a BDA IS a direct descendant of the DFV.

The BDA was still based on a Ford Kent engine that's why it had some reliability problems, it had as you wrote belt camshaft drive. However I think it would be more accurate to explain the relationship from the start begining with the 2-valve F3 1000cc engine (I don't remember the exact type), then FVA and DFV. Ericd 10:32, 24 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I've verified the DFV is actually a double FVA a Formula 2 engine based on a Ford 116E block. This engine predated the DFV by one year and it was a part of the agreement between Ford and Cosworth to devellop a F2 engine that could be used as a testbed for F1 engine technology. The FVA is what's closer from a half DFV it has a gear camshaft drive. Thus historically the DFV is mostly a double FVA. It's pretty obvious in Cosworth designations : FVA = FV (Four Valve) type A DFV = Double FV The BDA (Belt Drive type A) was an evolution of the FVA : more or less the same engine but on a Ford Kent block as the 116E was phased out. The belt camshaft drive was a new feature that was never used on the DFV this made the engine lighter and maintenance cheaper. Ericd 21:18, 24 Mar 2005 (UTC)

No reason given for deletion

Give a reason when deleting someone's work.

Have a look at the Talk page of the article... Ericd 01:21, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Coup d'Etat and Cote d'Ivoire

What's your source on there being no plans to overthrow the regime? It was reported as an attempted coup in Abidjan -- what other motive was there? -Ben 14:53, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)

What was in the news in France. And what was really going on before and after. There was a coup in 1999, I've added this one. But in 2002 there was no coup in fact what happened was an uprising of the inhabitants of the North (mostly of Burkinabé origins), joined by troops and ex-soldiers that were fired from the army as being non-Ivorian. The rebellion had probably some support from Burkina Faso. Of course, for Gbabo its better to call it a Coup d'Etat than a popular uprising. I don't believe the rebels will have been unhappy if Gbabo's governement collapsed but I don't believe they had a plan to overthrow the regine.

In many what happened looks more like the start of civil war than a Coup d'Etat. This is a very complex affair that I'm not sure to fully understand. But it has it roots the policy of "Ivority" (Ivoirité) of Bédié excluding many people from the north from Ivorian nationality. This policy was aimed to exclude Allassane Ouattara to run from the presidential election, but this was as stupid cracking a match over an open gas tank.

Ericd 19:50, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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Ericd,

Check out my comments on Bukkake. You are under the mistaken impression that there aren't women into bukkake and other forms of erotic humiliation. Very wrong! I personally know women who are. Bukkake is not and never has been confined to porn either. (And porn is often done for fun, not just money... especially amateur porn and such.) It most certainly did not originate in Japan, feudal or modern, even if the name did. It is a rather simple expression of erotic degradation, which likely dates back to the beginning of human existence. What's more, there are women who are into far MORE degrading things than merely getting facials. There are women who get off on getting pissed and shit upon, for example. One of these goes by the alias Pretty Lisa, she makes extreme home porn movies. These movies are 100% real rather than faked and she was into this stuff before she ever made a single movie. Wake up to reality, my friend. --Angela

Well, Angela, my dear anonymous friend, wake me up to reality :-). However I don't think the essence of group sex is erotic humiliation. - Ericd 13:27, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I'm no more anonymous than you are. I don't know your given name and haven't tried to find out. So what's your point?

There is group sex that involves erotic humiliation and group sex that doesn't. Both varieties exist and neither is anything new. Both are indisputably real expressions of group sex. Erotic humiliation happens in one-on-one sex, so why the hell not in group sex? There were humiliating gangbangs long before modern Japan, and in many societies other than Japan's. Marquis de Sade knew all about that. So did the ancient Romans and Greeks. So did the Inquisition. So have many angry mobs throughout history who inflicted sexual humiliation upon their victims. The list is endless. If you want to argue that the Japanese invented the practice of erotic humiliation in group sex, the burden is upon you. You must establish that every non-Japanese example throughout history is bogus (presumably the result of a vast conspiracy that planted all this varied evidence?).

-- Angela

Genocides in history

You posted your vote while I was still typing up the original vfd2 tag. I had to temporarily delete your vote to post. I restored your vote after. Just letting you know why your vote looks like it was posted by me. Feco 12:50, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I've just added some comment. While I oppose deletion I'm not very happy with this article, it's a good thing there's some debate about it. Ericd 12:53, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Scanning Negatives

I've noticed that most of your photos were shot on filmed and then scanned to the computer. Can I ask what scanner you use (as the quality of the images is very good)? --Fir0002 10:41, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I don't have any scanner yet (I've ordered one that should come next week). I just ask a for CD transfert to a lab (amateur not even pro) that use an Agfa Dlab minilab, CD transferts are cheaper than contact sheets. IMO Agfa lab are the best on the market and my lab has good operators. But there's a minus as I'm limited to low-res scan around 1,5 Mpixels I can ask for 6 Mpixels but it turns really expansive. We'll see if I can do better with my new Epson Perfection 2480, I've ordered an Epson because it can handle Medium Format. However if you stick to 135 I know that the Nikons can be great !

I'm happy with the quality I get now but it's not only the scanner. As I stick to argentic yet the drop in price has allowed me to buy a bunch of used lenses and some of them turned out to be very good.

Ericd 10:57, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Image:Camshaft.png

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Burgundavia (✈ take a flight?) 09:48, May 27, 2005 (UTC)

lots of edits, not an admin

Hi - I made a list of users who've been around long enough to have made lots of edits but aren't admins. If you're at all interested in becoming an admin, can you please add an '*' immediately before your name in this list? I've suggested folks nominating someone might want to puruse this list. Thanks. -- Rick Block (talk) 18:39, Jun 14, 2005 (UTC)

FPC

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted

Your nomination for featured picture status, Image:Starlette.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates.

from a viking

hallo Eric - thank you for the support or our ship - you have great images - are you from Scandinavia? Uwe Kils July 3, 2005 21:32 (UTC)

Projet Communes françaises

Je viens de lancer un projet un peu fou sur les 36,782 communes françaises, et j'ai pensé que tu serais peut-être intéressé à participer au projet. En tout cas ta participation est vivement souhaitée. Tu peux voir plus de détails sur le projet à Wikipedia:WikiProject Communes françaises. J'envoie copie du même message à: Olivier et David.Monniaux. Hardouin 6 July 2005 18:14 (UTC)

Image:Starlette.jpg

Hi Eric,

people are wondering who the woman on that photo is (see Wikipedia:Reference_desk#Help_identify_starlet_in_featured_picture), but apparently nobody has thought of asking the photographer... (If someone did, and I missed it, sorry for that.) So: do you know who the woman you photographed is/was? Lupo 09:06, July 19, 2005 (UTC)

Well I don't know... But my photo is a proof that she agreed to be photographied. It keeps safe with French legislation ;-). If she get some kind of celebrity with this pic I'll be proud of it as I was the youngest photographer of the bunch... What I remember is that this was the first time I had the feeling that everything comes in the finder as it should be be and "Yeah, you got it right !". I experienced it in a very few occasions during two decades. If she's surfing on the web, I've got free prints/scans for her. And, if she wish to remain anonymous I will kept the secret forever... Ericd 13:29, 19 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Alpine A110

Thanks for all your excellent input on the Alpine A110 article. I'm glad to see more Wikipedians with interest in the dominant rally cars of the 1960's and 1970's. - JogCon 01:56, 17 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Thanks for the welcome back. How are you doing? Zoe 19:24, August 18, 2005 (UTC)

I've always kept secret about my private life on Wikipedia, but I must confess that, as of today, it's a real mess... What else I had a serious fight with a leaking tap in the bathroom and the computer I use now, is in parts on the floor but had finally agreed to boot.

However life ain't that bad, at that time the French national TV is broadcasting a one-woman show of Noëlle Perna aka "Mado la Niçoise" and it shows that thirteen years of work could pay.

Ericd 20:00, 18 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

So long as the leaking tap doesn't get into the computer. :) Zoe 23:58, August 18, 2005 (UTC)

Pic of the day

Hi Eric,

Just to let you know that your photo Image:Starlette.jpg is up for Pic of the Day tomorrow. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Wikipedia:Picture of the day/August 30, 2005. -- Solipsist 09:15, 29 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

And one of your earlier photos Image:STmaximin-Solitude.jpg is due to make a reappearance as Pic of the day on the 7th September. I've reused the same caption from last time, but it is a bit of a short caption. Any improvements can be made at Wikipedia:Picture of the day/September 7, 2005. There is also a bit of a problem in that it is now a modified version of the image that appears on the linked page, so perhaps the caption should be reworked to point to Gothic architecture. -- Solipsist 21:27, 5 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

French communes

There is some action at Wikipedia:WikiProject French communes. If you haven't done so yet, please come and have a look! Some people are planning a bot to mass-create articles. Your input would certainly be valuable. olivier 12:43, 30 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Mike Durant

Hello Ericd. On the Mike Durant talk page you left an unanswered, 1 year old now, question. Who held Mike Durant? And, how was he rescued? Mike Durant was held by one of Adid's higher officers, I forget who. He (Durant) was a valuable prisoner to Adid and was kept in a secret location. After about two weeks of extreme pressure and diplomatic wrangling from Bill Clinton, he was released. I dont know if somebody has already answered this or if you found out, but, the subject interests me greatly so I thought I would let you know. Cheers Ban e s 13:33, 3 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Circuit de la Sarthe/24 hours of le mans page moves

I don't really know what you did but I just fixed it. I think you moved the content initially to Bugatti track before redirecting that and then cutting and pasting everything into the Le Mans article, and blanking Circuit de la Sarthe. I have merged the page histories together in the Le Mans article, and un-blanked Circuit de la Sarthe (blanking actually achieves very little and confuses new users a lot) into another redirect to the Le Mans article. I think everything is now sorted. -- Francs 2000 01:38, 18 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Someone moved a large part of the 24 h of Le Mans article to Le Mans Circuit de la Sarthe adding some elements about ce circuit being used also named le Mans Bugatti and stated that the French GP 1967 using that track. In fact that was a mess between the Bugatti circuit and the large 24 h circuit. My idea was to save what was relevant for the Bugatti in the Bugatti track article and to restore what was relevant for the large track in the 24 h article. But soon after I realized there was already a Bugatti circuit article thus I pasted everything that was to save in Bugatti circuit and redirected Bugatti track to Bugatti circuit. A bit complex but I'm sure I did the right thing ;-). Ericd 01:51, 18 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Well it's all sorted now anyway. -- Francs 2000

01:55, 18 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Talk Archives for the Hugo Chavez article

The archives (all four of them) are linked. Look at the talk page and you will see the numbers "01", "02", etc. Those are the archives, and they are labelled as such, next to the notice "see archives". Regards, Saravask 22:01, 10 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Right... but not obvious... I think my own user page way of handling archives is much better... Ericd 23:19, 10 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Commons featured pictures (candidates)

I have nominated your picture of St. Peter's at [2] LoopZilla 09:05, 18 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Arbitration for User:TDC

Hi, you don’t know me but we have had contact with a mutual person, User:TDC.

I got your username from the Requests for comment/TDC-2[3] or the Requests for comment/TDC[4]

Currently there is arbitration pending on User:TDC. [5]

I welcome and encourage your comments on the arbitration page.Travb 01:58, 26 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

User:TDC banned for life?

Ericd wrote:

What's going on with TDC ? Why is he back I think he was banned for life ? Ericd 22:35, 27 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

TDC just erased your message on his talk page.

What are you talking about? When was TDC banned for life? The more I learn about TDC, the worse it seems to get. Just when I think I have found the end of dirt on the guys behavior, I find something else. What is going on? Please tell. It may be relevant to the Winter Soilder Investigation, request for arbitration--maybe you can fill everyone in there?Travb 23:03, 27 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

A moins que j'aie tout compris de travers (auquel cas ça m'intéresserait d'en savoir plus), je te serais reconnaissant d'éviter de provoquer inutilement User:TDC; comme tu sais probablement, cet utilisateur est suffisemment problématique comme ça, je pense qu'il est inutile de l'inciter à faire preuve de sa virtuosité. D'autre pasrt, il y a une procédure en cours au niveau du Commité d'Arbitration pour examiner son comportement, et je n'aimerais pas que l'on puisse nous accuser de lyncher les gens qui ne plaisent pas.

Par ailleurs, très jolies photos, il faudrait réfléchir à écrire un wikibook sur la photographie un jour...

Merci de ta compréhension ! Rama 08:32, 28 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Un lyncher ? TDC 14:45, 28 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Ya ne panamayou -- I don't understand. I won't answer your posts in Russian, if you don't respond in French! Can you please translate! thanks Travb 21:47, 28 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Terrorism and Unconventional warfare

I saw your comments on the talk:Terrorism page and agree with you that the article could be improved. I've attempted to change the Terrorism and referencing Unconventional warfare articles to be more neutral. Would be so kind as to review them and see if my edits make these pages more informative and NPOV? --Peter McConaughey 19:04, 5 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Anti-war picture

Do you know which French anti-war protest the Image:Anti-war.jpg is of? Also I am looking for pictures of the February 15, 2003 anti-war protest if you have any/know were free to use ones can be found. Cheers.--JK the unwise 11:34, 8 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

It was in Nice but which day ? There was one protest every saturday. I don't remember... Anyway not very happy of this I have other pictures and I can rescan the neg my equipment has been improved since 1983. Ericd 14:10, 9 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

After a look to this site http://www.cyberhumanisme.org/matiere/tousterriens/15fev.html I think it was on march 22. Ericd 14:23, 9 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

image athorship

Hi!

You seem to be the autor of the famous image Image:Starlette.jpg. However, if you look at the commons version that everone links you can see that the link to your name is not defined. I am sorry to say that while somebody moved your pictures to commons, they forgot to make proper links to your user name. Please, repair the links or, if you do not know how to make it, let me know so I can help you!

Have a wonderful day and merry Christmas! :-) --slady 00:32, 21 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]