User talk:Vladsinger/Archive 2

Some clearing-up

Vlad it's VASCO from PORTUGAL. Hello there!

Just checked some of your history and contributions and there was a reference that read "Moving these two to archive1. I don't need this guy screaming at me on my talk page. Failed to get my point across". First of all, i was not screaming at you, you did nothing to me, i was only frustrated by all the people that enter WIKIPEDIA and spoil the fun for everybody else who tries to read whatever. Sport seems one the most "fun to vandalize" subjects, because of the point i made previously. I said i was not angry, but you, with that remark on your history, seem to be precisely that at me.

HOPE TO HEAR FROM YOU SOON, GREETINGS, VASCO (User 217.129.67.28)

P.S. Capital letters do not always mean (at least in my book) one is shouting...

I'm sorry about that. I was having somewhat of a bad day, and felt somewhat frustrated. I'm glad you felt the need to set me straight. I hope you continue to do the good work you've been doing. vlad§inger ^tlk 16:27, 29 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

PEACE FOREVER!!!

Hi VLAD it's VASCO, thank you for being "on my side". I wish you pleasant "stay" at WIKIPEDIA and a nice life overall, man!!!

Wish i knew how to insert smileys to upgrade this note...SEE YOU AROUND FROM PORTUGAL THANKS!!!

VASCO AMARAL

A smile is {{subst:smile}} . vlad§inger ^tlk 16:43, 29 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Photo

During Zhou Tong (archer)'s stint as the featured article, a discussion arose over the poor quality of the lead photo. Since you were one of the editors who did not like the old photo, I have just now replaced it with a line drawing from his biographical comic book. Someone had previously changed the photo, but it was too blurry and was no better than the original. Tell me what you think of the change. --Ghostexorcist 04:42, 1 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I like it. Thanks. vlad§inger ^tlk 23:10, 3 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

An admin editor suggested that I get someone from Wikipedia:Graphic Lab/Images to improve to trace a pic of Zhou from the pic of him surrounded by his students since it's license free and the other is a copyrighted picture from a comic book. Apparently, FA articles can only have license free photos at the lead. I am a pretty good artists myself and could easily come up with a workable pic, but I am far too busy to do so at the moment. However, I still like the current one. --Ghostexorcist 23:14, 3 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, regulations... You mean this image? I don't know, tracing might be a bit difficult since it's marred by some camera shake. I think I'll have a go though. No guarantees. vlad§inger ^tlk 23:21, 3 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, that is the one. I agree that it is too blurry. One thing that I request is that only Zhou be traced since the illustration is from Yue Fei's memorial tomb, meaning Zhou is not the focus of the photo. Other pics on the page can be referenced when you draw the face. --Ghostexorcist 23:34, 3 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

~~Well, if I find that I'm unable to do this, I'll put the request to Wikipedia:Graphic Lab/Images to improve as the admin suggested.~~ vlad§inger ^tlk 23:38, 3 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I did the abve. It was silly of me to accept the task in the first place. vlad§inger ^tlk 02:08, 7 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Image improvement

Have you seen the discussion on the Graphic lab Zhou Tong image recently? I think they did an amazing job rendering the body, but the face needs some work. I just posted a comment on the page with a link to an improved version of the face. I haven't uploaded it to wikipedia yet because there are still some color issues, but it's looks better than the expressionless version before it. --Ghostexorcist 23:47, 10 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know if you saw some of the additions I made to the original svg without a face, but I have improved it based on a closer study of the traditional painting. I made the mouth bigger and only showed the upper row of teeth as this is how they are in the painting. I put ines in the beard, but someone with inkscape might be able to soften them or add more. The area around the cheeks and mustache did not stretch down as far as the painting, so I fixed that. Tell me what you think. --Ghostexorcist 00:16, 12 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, that's a much more natural expression. I like it. vlad§inger ^tlk 17:32, 12 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Parodious scale

Thanks for checking on that. —JerryFriedman 21:28, 17 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

No problem. vlad§inger ^tlk 22:17, 17 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the barnstar!!

Hi Vlad! Thanks so much for the barnstar! It's an honour to be recognized in this way by the community! :) --Fir0002 06:08, 21 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Can't deny that you deserve it. vlad§inger ^tlk 12:17, 21 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

FMCSD and FMHS

I've nominated Fayetteville-Manlius Central School District and Fayetteville-Manlius High School to be reviewed for good article status. We probably won't get it, but I'd like to see if we're given any suggestions. In the least, it would be a good goal to have. Sinisterminister 06:21, 24 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, good. I'll get some pictures up ASAP. vlad§inger ^tlk 14:12, 24 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Good pictures, please. The one you have up there right now is pretty awful. No offense. Sinisterminister 22:44, 24 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

What, the one shot I took at sunset from a moving car? vlad§inger ^tlk 01:32, 25 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, haha, which is precisely the problem. The new pics are good. Very descriptive, thanks!! I just sized them down a bit and revised some of the captions Sinisterminister 06:45, 25 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

While I'm uploading my pictures, I'm thinking that it would be good if we had a historical image of the first site for the history section. vlad§inger ^tlk 02:01, 25 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

That would be great! I sure as hell don't have any, and I'm not within range of any of the local libraries or historical societies. Not sure what the process would be of getting permission to use anything like that on here. Would you know? Sinisterminister 06:45, 25 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

FMHS was denied, no surprise. but I urge you to read the review on the discussion page. Thanks. Sinisterminister 06:07, 27 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Reading, and fixing some of the minor issues. vlad§inger ^tlk 17:46, 28 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Graphics Lab Announcement

Attention All Wikigraphists!

A new Wikigraphist Abilities Page has been created within the Graphics Lab so graphists can specify their graphics skills. To add your entry to the page, simply go the template documentation page and follow the instructions there. If you have any trouble please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Have Fun !

> Rugby471 ^talk ⚔

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It has a sort of listing, lilting memorable cadence. 68.39.174.238 12:02, 18 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Umm. That's nice. Do I know you? vlad§inger ^tlk 19:50, 20 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, I remember now. vlad§inger ^tlk 01:37, 21 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Graphics Lab Announcement

Attention All Wikigraphists!

As you may or may have not noticed, the Graphics Lab pages have gone under a massive cleanup by User:DTR, User:Rugby471 and various others (sorry if I missed you out). Some of the things that have happened are.

All pages in the Graphics Lab have had, where sensible, templates, substituting elements. For example, the main Lab page was a large chunk of around 100 lines of pure code. It was not very easy to edit the main page, so the various sections of it (eg links, welcome) have been separated. Therefore the main page is now only around 20 lines of user friendly text. If you wish to edit the main page, you must look on the main page for the correct template to edit. (Fore example if I wanted to edit the links section, I would go to Wikipedia:Graphic Lab/links and edit the text there). This has been done to all of the pages, in an attempt to make them more user-friendly.

As you were notified of early, the Wikigraphist Abilities page has been set up and has been beginning to get populated. If you haven't already setup your own entry, you are advised to go and do so now.

Due to a comment from User:DTR. A template for Graphics Lab announcements has been created. It is at Wikipedia:Graphic Lab/announcement. If you ever need to issue a message to Wikigraphists, please use this template in the form

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Where message is the announcement you wish to issue.

On the Images to Improve Page, an issue was noticed where that when requests were completed, people were adding {{Did}} but forgetting to add <!--werdnabot-archive--&gt so that the request would be archived. Therefore a template has been created (yes another one!) to help with this. When a user creates a new request instead of putting the usual code, they shall put

{{Request Title|title=Lorem Ipsum|done=false}}. Now when a request is completed, all you will have to do is change done to true

done=true

and the template will add the {{did}} template and also  to the title, so it will get archived.

As always, if you experience any issues with the new changes, or are just a bit confused, please don't hesitate to contact me or DTR on our talk pages.

> Rugby471 ^talk ⚔ 11:38, 29 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Huh? Spam? It was just a stub...not worth arguing over, so okay... vlad§inger ^tlk

Spinning Dancer

Hi, I saw that you posted some positive comments about the spinning dancer illusion at FPC. Could you please vote for it coz its a shame to see such a good picture be opposed. Muhammad(talk) 10:07, 14 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Great Syndicalism logo

I'm not a registered user but I just loved that logo enough to leave you a comment; I think it's extremely good.

Pablek —Preceding unsigned comment added by 200.49.142.90 (talk) 13:58, 15 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ha, thank you. But I didn't actually design it, just remade it in lossless SVG. vlad§inger ^tlk 18:13, 26 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
concept is by Papillus over on the French wikipedia.

Big thanks !

A big thanks for your tweak on Tutorial-cartography_(basic).svg , I think the final version will help map creation and wikicartographers' beginning greatly. After my big effort to create this tuto, a big thanks to you for this correction, I quickly overviewed it : that's really better ! I also appreciated when I seen you display good initiative by changing many sentences and expanding some explanations with your knowledge. This was completly my aim : make a wiki-SVG-tutorial, first started by one big effort, then improve by every cartographers when better explanations are possible, exactly like a wiki page ^-^y . For all this : a big thanks to you.

As I said, I will let other cartographer read it and expand it if they want. I will probably create the missing sections separately on my PC, then, in one or 2 weeks, I will include them and make some structural update (change some sections' order). I hope the version 1.0 (complete and corrected) will be available for August 2008 :]

Yug 14:32, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

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SVG image on Plectrum article

I admire the SVG image of a harpsichord jack you contributed to Plectrum. However, I believe that what you marked as "Tounge" is actually spelled "tongue". -- 65.78.13.238 (talk) 02:05, 29 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Finally fixed it. vlad§inger ^tlk 19:27, 9 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Are you sure? It doesn't seem to be fixed. 130.216.1.16 (talk) 04:17, 11 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I fixed it on the image, but it doesn't seem to be showing in the article itself for some reason. Look at the file on Commons. Not sure why this is happening. vlad§inger ^tlk 04:48, 11 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, finally solved. vlad§inger ^tlk 04:51, 11 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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RHEL edits

Hi there, I undid the changes you made to the RHEL article. It was quite funny actually, you took away the "copyedit" tag, but at the same time added a redundant "the" ("the Red Hat supported the Fedora project" -- whoops!) Maybe there's a better tag to use than "copyedit", but the article should certainly be revised -- certainly in the jumbled mess of an introduction. My revert also caught two subsequent edits, but the second of these was a revert back to your edit anyway.--Rfsmit (talk) 15:31, 27 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

How embarrassing. I suppose I should pay closer attention. vlad§inger ^tlk 03:29, 29 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]