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Nomination for deletion of Template:UHFVHF

Template:UHFVHF has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Gonnym (talk) 17:33, 28 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

File:Area code 510.svg

Hi. Can you please update this image to include 341 overlay for 510? See Area codes 510 and 341. Thanks. Terrorist96 (talk) 03:05, 3 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Reply

The following is copied from the archives of User:Terrorist96.

File:Area code 510.svg

Thank you for contacting me. What I could say to be funny is "I don't negotiate with terrorists" and refuse your request. The real problem is I am temporarily without a computer (I'm currently using a 10" Android tablet) and while Inkscape is an excellent desktop application for editing SVG files, I have so far found nothing usable to edit SVG files on Android. Plus, to "fix" California area code maps, as I wrote in the description, is to start with California's base area code map, fix that, then fix all 10 or 12 or however many separate area code maps there are for CA. It's about a 15-20 minute job, but without a desktop computer I'm unable to make the change at this time. If you would like to do this yourself, I can walk you through it. Let me know. You can e-mail me at Paul@paul-robinson.us, give me your phone number and a time when you have 1/2 hour or so of free time. Paul Robinson (Rfc1394) (talk) 03:32, 3 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, but I don't think I'm up for all of that. Hopefully you can update it whenever you are able to get on a desktop again. Terrorist96 (talk) 21:01, 4 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination of Tools of trade for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Tools of trade is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tools of trade until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Theprussian (talk) 14:05, 4 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

please review my draft

Hi User:Rfc1394 pls do review my draft --Riedits (talk) 15:13, 4 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

October 2019

Hello, I'm TJRC. I noticed that you added or changed content in an article, Job Control Language, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so. You can have a look at the tutorial on citing sources, or if you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. TJRC (talk) 05:45, 11 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

2019 US Banknote Contest

US Banknote Contest

November-December 2019

There are an estimated 30,000 different varieties of United States banknotes, yet only a fraction of these are represented on Wikimedia Commons in the form of 2D scans. Additionally, Colonial America, the Confederate States, the Republic of Texas, multiple states and territories, communities, and private companies have issued banknotes that are in the public domain today but are absent from Commons.

In the months of November and December, WikiProject Numismatics will be running a cross-wiki upload-a-thon, the 2019 US Banknote Contest. The goal of the contest is to increase the number of US banknote images available to content creators on all Wikimedia projects. Participants will claim points for uploading and importing 2D scans of US banknotes, and at the end of the contest all will receive awards. Whether you want to claim the Gold Wiki or you just want to have fun, all are invited to participate.

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File:Corvette wings logo.jpg listed for discussion

A file that you uploaded or altered, File:Corvette wings logo.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Files for discussion. Please see the discussion to see why it has been listed (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry). Feel free to add your opinion on the matter below the nomination. Thank you. Whpq (talk) 13:43, 9 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Google Code-In 2019 is coming - please mentor some documentation tasks!

Hello,

Google Code-In, Google-organized contest in which the Wikimedia Foundation participates, starts in a few weeks. This contest is about taking high school students into the world of opensource. I'm sending you this message because you recently edited a documentation page at the English Wikipedia.

I would like to ask you to take part in Google Code-In as a mentor. That would mean to prepare at least one task (it can be documentation related, or something else - the other categories are Code, Design, Quality Assurance and Outreach) for the participants, and help the student to complete it. Please sign up at the contest page and send us your Google account address to google-code-in-admins@lists.wikimedia.org, so we can invite you in!

From my own experience, Google Code-In can be fun, you can make several new friends, attract new people to your wiki and make them part of your community.

If you have any questions, please let us know at google-code-in-admins@lists.wikimedia.org.

Thank you!

--User:Martin Urbanec (talk) 21:58, 23 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

User:Example

(Original title:?)

Could you please explain this edit?[1] --Guy Macon (talk) 18:33, 11 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Guy Macon: Per your request I am replying on my page. Please excuse the length of time for a reply, I have had sudden onset vision problems and had to wait for a partial clear up and obtaining some tools for people having vision impairments.

You're questioning me about my placing a link to "example .com, .net, .org" on the user page of the fictional User:Example. This user page lists it is available to be used as a place holder for an actual user. Well, since it's supposed to be an example user page, it will usually have a link to the user's own website, if they have one. If you had gone to https://example.com, (or .org, or .net) they all go the same place, and you would have seen that website has a single page saying it's an example website for use where someone needs to show a website address, and may be used without asking for permission. That site has no position on anything, does not showcase anything, and carries no advertising.

Thus the reference does not violate WP:PROMOTION as it does not promote anything. (Also, that policy probably does not apply to user pages, and it's not an article nor is it in the MAIN namespace.) So it is "right in character" for an example user's page to have a reference to the example website. Many users here have a reference to a website on their user page. In fact, there's someone you might know who does exactly that, has a link to his website right at the top of his user page. His user name is Guy Macon :) Paul Robinson (Rfc1394) (talk) 03:45, 22 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Your "please see my web page" is an obvious joke -- acting as if User:example is a person who can write in the first person. example.com, example.org. and example.net are unrelated example pages created in June of 1999 -- years before Wikipedia existed.

If you had stopped there it might have been OK, but you went on the reference a non-profit and a network that don't exist. You misunderstood the meaning of .org and .net. Finally, you added "For lots more examples, see https://www.example.example" -- a website that doesn't exist.

Please post jokes on your own pages, not on Wikipedia's example pages. --Guy Macon (talk) 04:02, 22 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Your latest edit was much better. Thank you. --Guy Macon (talk) 05:11, 22 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

CA area code maps

There's an error in your maps for California; the overlay for 415 is 628, not 828. I've already fixed commons:File:Area codes CA.svg and commons:File:Area code 415.svg, but I don't really have the time to download all of the rest of the CA highlight maps and fix them in a text editor. Thanks. –Darkwind (talk) 23:46, 16 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Darkwind: Per your request I am responding on my own talk page. First, I want to say thank you for noticing the error. It's only with the help of people like you that the maps are kept accurate. Second, while I do use NANPA's master maps, California has so many area codes and some places are too small to show on the main map that I do the same thing NANPA does (only I do it all on a single map) split the state into three parts: the whole state, Northern California (Bay Area) inset, and Southern California (Los Angeles and Orange Counties) inset. I have vision problems so its easy to mistake an 8 for a 6. Third, I just redid all of the maps about a month or two ago for - get this - all 22 regions (each single or overlay group of area codes is a "region") in order to add all the changes since I last did the map, oh, about three years ago. Some changes incluse adding six new area codes, merging 213 and 323 (which eliminated inset 3 on the map).

Not sure if you're interested but I'll give you a little background. When I started making area code maps for Wikipedia many years ago, I was using PNG raster image (a fancy name for "bitmap") files. Then I discovered SVG files which have (that I knew of at the time) two advantages: (1) they are text files so you can (as you admitted you did) even edit them with a text editor (but I use the open source SVG editor Inkscape which allows you to view the image as you're editing it); and (2) Editing SVG files is a hell of a lot easier than image files. If an area code number is changed or added you just change it as text, you don't have to paint a new number or repaint the old ones, as you do on a raster image. There is a third reason I was unaware of at the time. SVG files are vector instead of raster, so when resized larger or smaller they stay sharp and clear, and don't get fuzzy.

So anyway, about a month or two ago I made the changes and replaced all 22 area code maps. While making the changes wasn't too bad, about 1/2 an hour to edit the master map - which is probably where the error you noticed cropped in - and then maybe about a minute to change each secondary (or "satellite") map, then time to upload, it's a hell of a lot easier than when they were bitmap images, even you can see (as you hinted how you got tired after fixing just two maps) it's a tedious process.

Well I found out something that I didn't know about. If you've ever edited web pages, you probably know what cascading style sheets (CSS) are: they allow a page designer to say how elements of a page will look. Well, as I discovered,SVG files also support CSS for things like color. This means if I design the map to use classes, changing the map for color only requires changing one line to indicate which is the individual area code.

So as a coincidence, I was working to add CSS to California's area code map to make building the 22 regional maps easier. I had to stop for a while because of my vision problem but that has c;eared up somewhat and I think I can make the fixes and the correction.

This means that, for future changes, all one has to do is update the master map, then use a text editor, change one line to inedicate the area code, then SAVE AS, and repeat 22 times. While still a bit of a pain, it's even much easier than now. If you look at the secod item on thhis page, where I have copied over my comments on User:Terrorist96's page, at that time (July) I didn't have my computer and was only using an Android tablet, There were no reasonable tools for SVG editing on Android so it had to wait.

The thing is, I am in the process of converting the California master map - and by derivation, the 22 satellite maps - to use CSS. (Hopefully) it will change future map update jobs from (as I once put it) "this is gonna suck," to "no problem, just take a few minutes." I'll try to set aside some time this week to do this - and make the correction you noted - and have it done "before the end of the year." (I can say that, it sounds cooler than "before the end of next week," which is (almost) the same thing.) So, with luck, this will be the last time I have to be like a vacuum and do a suck job! Paul Robinson (Rfc1394) (talk) 02:59, 22 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Skip to bottom

Please see Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#Overlapping boxes and Template:Skip to bottom regarding your edit at {{Skip to bottom}}. Johnuniq (talk) 22:52, 23 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Resources for finding county-level statistics

Census QuickFacts
Social Capital Variables Spreadsheet for 2014, PennState College of Agricultural Sciences, Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development
Social Capital Project: Social Capital Index Data spreadsheet accompanying the U.S. Congress, Joint Economic Committee, Social Capital Project. “The Geography of Social Capital in America.” Report prepared by the Vice Chairman’s staff, 115th Cong., 2nd Sess. (April 2018)
Religious statistics by county
PeakVisor, search for "X County" to find high points in a county
ebird, gives bird species lists for each county
Midwest Herbaria, search to generate plant species lists for each county
Mycoportal, search to generate fungus and bryophyte species lists
NASS QuickStats database, gives agricultural figures by county for many data points
bestplaces.net--Epiphyllumlover (talk) 21:33, 31 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]