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Image:Independentist Flag of Chechnya.png listed for deletion

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Gabbe 23:22, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

Indian roundel image

image:Indian roundel.png has now become redundant with image:IAF-roundel.svg. Would you have any objections if I deleted the png version? Regards, =Nichalp «Talk»= 18:03, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

Go ahead. –Mysid 06:19, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, I've deleted it. =Nichalp «Talk»= 13:41, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

Image Tagging Image:Electoral map.png

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Thanks for letting me know. By inspecting the edit history of the image description page it becomes clear what the original source, tag and license are. It is in the public domain. I've reverted all edits by others than me on the description page. –Mysid 06:17, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

PAN AM LOGO

Hi, great work with the Pan Am logo!!! I love it!!!

I`d like to know which logo you changed, was this?

http://s2.supload.com/free/Panamlogo.jpg/view/

Or was this?

http://s2.supload.com/free/Pan%20American%20World%20Airways%20(r).jpg/view/

By the way I think you'd like to do a logo some like this:

http://s2.supload.com/free/600px-PanAm_logo%20copy.png/view/

Sorry for the cheap trick!!! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Simonlebon (talk • contribs) 21:59, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

I don't quite remember. But if you mean that I should make a PNG version of the current image on the page, then of course, I'll do it someday. –Mysid 08:43, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

Links to commons categories

Hi Mysid - saw you'd had a bit of difficulty linking Bark to a category page at commons - the format to use is {{commonscat|Bark}} - MPF 13:11, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

Electrosensitivity page

Hi Mysid, thanks for checking the ES page for NPOV. I've added references to cover your citation request. I'm a bit uncomfortable about describing it as "rare"; it certainly is in its severe form but in Sweden figures of 2-5% of the population are given (and some sources claim even higher, though this seems to me to be unverified) - stats are in the main text. Couldn't think of a better way of putting it at present though, so have left it as it stands. Hyperman 42 01:22, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

Punjabi MC

Hi Mysid! Are you sure about the speedy delete? I used google and it returned a lot of search results. Would you mind investigating it a bit further. I'm at work and can't abuse Wikipedia hehe. Sarg 12:08, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

I'll do that. I just didn't spot any assertions of notability, except for the word talented. But I'll take a look at it and try to be more careful with CSD's in the future... –Mysid 12:13, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

No worries. Just remove the hangon template too if you find it is crap ;) Sarg 12:14, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

The article name was typoed, and there is an existing article named Panjabi MC. I made a redirect. –Mysid 12:17, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

History of podcasting

2006-04-25 20:16:54 Mysid m (moved History of Podcasting to History of podcasting: Capitalisation, podcasting is not a proper noun)

Oops. Thanks. :) --ozzmosis 10:28, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

Your Qwerty.svg image

Hi Mysid,

I have noticed that your Qwerty.svg image actually depicts a *104* key keyboard which misses AltGr (and is thus 103 :)). Could you please correct this? The image is otherwise very well done. --Gennaro Prota ^(talk) 17:43, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

Hi, I replied on my talk page. --Gennaro Prota ^(talk) 12:18, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

Mike Haysman Image

Hi How r u?Mike Hayman image is from www.cricinfo.com — Preceding unsigned comment added by Yahoo (talk • contribs) 23:24, May 9, 2006 (UTC)

I know, but are you the copyright holder? Because you said that "the copyright holder has irrevocably released all rights" to the image. –Mysid 07:15, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

DYK!

Did you know? has been updated. A fact from the article Great Evening Bat, which you recently created, has been featured in that section on the Main Page. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

Thanks for an interesting contribution! ++Lar: t/c 00:47, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

wikispeed

Don't worry, it's OK!

I'll try to be less slow next time.

Ciao

Gaudio 10:34, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

Libreville

Ah, I thought the CIA map was fair use, rather than public domain, so there's no automatic reason to prefer the GFDL version. However, I do prefer the GFDL map, as it shows only what is relevant to the article - the location of the city within Gabon - and does not require the reader to search for Libreville among many other towns. The GFDL map also has the advantage that it is part of a series used on most other articles on cities in Gabon, and indeed across Africa. Warofdreams talk 00:09, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

Flags

Nice job my friend, you've drawn them nice, how do you do it by the way? well compliments and keep up the good work! greetings --Makedonia 19:42, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

Hi! Thanks for the compliment. I draw them using CorelDRAW, which is a vector graphics editor. It's getting easier, but a complicated flag takes still a lot of work. There are ready shapes for e.g. stars, rectangles and circles in the software, and the rest can be made by hand. If there's a bitmap flag available I may draw the vectors on a layer on top of it. I use guidelines and grids heavily to make the flags as accurate as possible, and I often dig the official measures and colors from FOTW. I export them as SVG and edit them slightly using a text editor, as CorelDRAW for some reason always uses the CMYK color space. –Mysid^(t) 06:49, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

Qatar

Just as an FYI, it was Arithmomaniac38 who removed content in this edit from Qatar, not User:Gsklee as you said on this edit comment. Let me know something I can do to help on the article - I've been primarily watching vandalism and NPOV on the article. (You can respond on here or my talk page) --Matt 12:00, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

You're correct, I once again misinterpreted the diff display! Too bad I can't take that edit summary back now. My knowledge on Qatar is absolutely minimal, so I don't think I can help with the article... I was just checking the interwiki links to see how it's spelled in Finnish. –Mysid^(t) 12:03, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

Oops, it was Arithmomaniac38 who was asking for volunteers for article cleanup. I forgot who was asking for help! Have a good one --Matt 12:06, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

Qwerty.svg

Hi Mysid,

the reply is on my talk page. I thought to leave you a notice :) —Gennaro Prota^•Talk 13:58, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

SVG questions

I know you've done a lot of great work creating SVGs. As I'm just getting started creating SVGs for Wikipedia, I have a couple questions.

First, do you know of a way to make multilingual text labels in an SVG? I'm making a map of Sudan which will eventually be uploaded to the Commons, and it would be nice to make it so that English labels will show up if the image is used on the English Wikipedia and German labels will show up if the image is used on the German Wikipedia. (I've asked this question at Commons talk:Transition to SVG, but I'm not sure if that was the right place, and I'm not sure when I'll get a reply.) If there isn't a nice way to make multilingual SVGs, then I think I'll just make text labels in several languages and set the "style" attribute of all but one language to "display:none". This way a speaker of a different language can just change two style attributes and get a differently labeled map.

My second question is whether there is some documentation somewhere that gives a list of what fonts are installed on the Wikipedia servers, so that I know what I have to work with in SVGs. It would also be nice to have a guide to Wikipedia's Unicode support in SVGs. For example, I want to include an H with a cedilla in my text labels (as in AL BA?R AL A?MAR), but I've tried both U+1E28, which doesn't show up at all on Wikipedia, and an H followed by U+0327, which just shows up as a normal H. I've thought about converting the text to a path, but that destroys the editability of the label.

If you can help me with either of these, that would be fantastic. Otherwise, perhaps you know of a better place to ask. —Bkell 19:43, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

Hi! Quite interesting and difficult questions. I have had problems with fonts and unusual characters, too, in Image:Orion-guide.svg, when I tried to include the α's and β's as text. It didn't quite work, so I ended up rendering them as curves, as you can see in the file history. I've tried to find a font listing as well, but to no avail. Thus I guess the support for different fonts is minimal. (Are you using the correct encoding, e.g. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> in the beginning? I just noticed there's such a tag, and though it might be of help.) As for multilingual SVG's – they would be a great thing to have. I don't know how they could be implemented in Wikipedia, though. The style tag is a good idea, but can't be modified when included in different articles. –Mysid^(t) 06:54, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

Yes, I'm specifying utf-8. Characters like A and U show up just fine (see Image:Bkell-test.svg for example). It's the unusual ones like ? that don't work. Most likely this is just a case of insufficient Unicode support. It frustrates me that Unicode is 15 years old and I still run into lack of support for it. Thanks for your help. Is there some "SVG village pump" where I can ask questions like this in the future, or should I just try posting those at the normal village pump? —Bkell 08:27, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

Hi, the best info about what kind of fonts Wikipedia expects you to have can be found in our style sheets. From common.css:

.Unicode {
font-family: TITUS Cyberbit Basic, Code2000, Doulos SIL, Chrysanthi Unicode...
font-family /**/:inherit;
}

I can reassure you that once you have TITUS and Code2000 you have 99% of the support (with Firefox, at least; that's the only browser I use). Both fonts are freely downloadable, from

• http://titus.fkidg1.uni-frankfurt.de/unicode/tituut.asp

and

• http://home.att.net/~jameskass/

respectively. Hope this helps —Gennaro Prota^•Talk 14:30, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

Gennaro, Bkell was talking about the fonts installed on the Wikimedia servers – those fonts that are available for the SVG renderer (so this is not a browser issue). Have you tried Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)? –Mysid^(t) 17:38, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

Oops, I misunderstood his question. Off-hand I would say the servers should have the same fonts, but who knows :) Sorry for the noise. —Gennaro Prota^•Talk 12:21, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. I'll try the technical village pump next. I'll probably also try the Wikipedia:Reference desk/Language for help in understanding Arabic transliteration. Maybe there's a more common character I can use. —Bkell 18:23, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

Please see Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#Multilingual SVGs and Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 126#Fonts and Unicode support in SVGs. —Bkell 19:20, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

Also see Wikipedia:Reference desk/Language#Arabic transliteration. —Bkell 19:38, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

SVG flag and seal for LA

Thanks for that contribution. Much better! Are you working your way through all the flags and seals of the world? ;) Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 11:05, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

Hehe. Why not. :) Well, seriously speaking, there's such a tremendous amount of detail in every seal that I'll take a break before the next one. Otherwise I'll get exhausted and careless. –Mysid^(t) 11:11, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

Serious error

		The Graphic Designer's Barnstar
		Hehe, pardon me for the subject, I didn't want to ruin the surprise :-) This barnstar is for your accurate, tireless and thorough work on SVG images and illustrations. We are proud of how much your contributions add to articles contents, look and reader's experience. Keep up the good work! —Gennaro Prota•Talk 12:34, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

Nitpick about your signature code

Hi Mysid,

just noticed (from validating my talk page) that your signature code uses orange as attribute for the font element. I thought you might want to change it to #ffa500 for strict compliance. —Gennaro Prota^•Talk 12:18, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

I've changed it, thanks for the notice. And sorry for not reading the blue box on the top of your talk page before posting the answer. –Mysid^(t) 14:00, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

No problem :) I think you can also remove this whole thread now, if you want. —Gennaro Prota^•Talk 14:27, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

New Wikisource logo

Hey, I was almost forgetting... yesterday I noticed this:

http://wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:New_Wikisource_logo

I'm sure you will come up with something good for it! :) —Gennaro Prota^•Talk 14:25, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

Seems like quite a big challenge for me. And there are already very nice ones in the gallery. Thanks for confidence, I'll give it a thought... –Mysid^(t) 15:42, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

Image:CE-logo.png listed for deletion

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—^Рэд_хот 14:05, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

OK by me. –Mysid^(t) 07:37, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

DYK

On June 8, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Wilderness hut, which you created. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

Fair use rationale for Image:Empire strikes back 2.jpg

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I agree with its fair use being disputable, and have to plead by saying I only modified its proportions. :P –Mysid^(t) 09:45, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

Crossbar switch image

Hi Peter (User:Peter Ellis), do you remember where you got the image of a crossbar switch you uploaded, Image:Crossbar2.jpg? It will eventually be considered for deletion if the source is not found. It would be a shame as the image adds considerably to the article. Thanks for seeing on this one. –Mysid^(t) 08:20, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the suggestion. I have provided as much justification as I could discover. Cheers, Peter Ellis 03:28, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

Great! –Mysid^(t) 06:37, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

Clam questions

Clams are certainly edible (not the shell though) and can be very tasty! The organism inside is completely biodegradeable, but the shell can last astronomically long times without being disintegrated. •USER•ADAM THE ATOM•TALK• 08:35, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the info, but I didn't ask the question, I just pointed the questioner to see the Clam article. If you wish to answer questions, you can do it on the Reference Desk itself. I've copied your answer to the Desk. –Mysid^(t) 08:49, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

Image:Saint Louis, Missouri flag.svg

I've tagged this image with a no license tag. The original tag you placed, {{gfdl-self}} was inappropriate. You may not be aware; redrawing a work yourself does not grant you rights to release it under gfdl. If this were the case, then anyone could take any logo of any sports team for example and create their own line of logo items, making a bunch of money in the process. In cases such as these, the original copyright holder retains rights. I tried to establish what the copyrights were of this particular image, but the closest I came was [1]. I'm hoping you can determine what the copyright status of this image is. --Durin 15:18, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

I am in the understanding that United States city flags are not copyrightable. I checked Wikipedia:Copyright on emblems, which stated that if an emblem is defined in an official law, code, or regulation, it cannot be copyrighted. You pointed me to such a regulation, so I believe the correct tag should be {{PD}}. –Mysid^(t) 16:03, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

• The law covers flags of state and federal areas. I am uncertain about the status of city and other municipal flags. It is possible they are copyrighted. --Durin 16:12, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

"This applies to such works whether they are Federal, State, or local as well as to those of foreign governments." (U.S. Copyright Office: Compendium of Office Practices II, section 206.01.) It says local as well, which I presume includes cities. Also see my question at Copyright problems, and the answer: Wikipedia talk:Copyright problems#Copyright of US city flags. I'll retag all of my US city flags as PD. Thanks for bringing this issue up. –Mysid^(t) 17:01, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

• Thanks for the heads up! I read the link you noted above, and think the term "edict" does not apply to flags. I've continued the discussion at the Wikipedia talk page you noted. Hopefully we can untangle this. --Durin 17:51, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Okay. As I'm not native and couldn't even find the definition of edict in any dictionary, I'd say I'm a bit non-competent in such a legal discussion... –Mysid^(t) 19:08, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

• It's been two weeks; I've now retagged the image as having no license. --Durin 13:02, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

I feel inclined to comment on this discussion: Mysid's original GFDL-self here was simply the licensing he applied to the vector image he created himself. Maybe PD-self would have been more appropriate, since that means he does not claim any rights on the design etc? In any case, using Durin's reasoning here, we couldn't have hardly any city/municipal flags (or coats of arms/seals) on any Wikimedia project, since most designs are either copyrighted, trademarked or otherwise protected by law in various jurisdictions. Without clear general guidelines on this issue, zealous admins like Durin will continue to delete such images. --Himasaram 13:58, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

I agree we should have clear guidelines on this matter. For example, the FOTW people have drawn quite a lot of US city flags and licensed them for non-commercial use only, so I guess there is no problem in me licensing flags created by myself under the GFDL, either. Afterall, I'm not claiming any rights to the flag itself, just licensing the SVG representation. –Mysid^(t) 18:43, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

Wrong picture

I just wanted to inform you (as I was advised to do [2]) that the album artwork: Giant-alien-force-cover.png does not coincide with the album artwork displayed on the official homepage of the artist [3]. No articles in the english wikipedia link to the image any longer and I have marked it for deletion.

PURPLEFISH 23:28, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for informing me, and great that it's been replaced. –Mysid^(t) 06:50, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

Does Nokia run Finland?

You also seem like a good person to ask :) Mathiastck 01:58, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

If you're talking about Finland's economy, then kind of yes, Nokia phones have been a major part of the exports. Not the biggest part, though. Finland also exports metals, wood, and vehicles. Some years ago Nokia was also trying to blackmail the Finnish government to cut the taxes, "or we'll move abroad". But they haven't done that for a while (and the government only cut taxes on booze). So I don't think they "run Finland" in any other way now. I'm somehow disgusted by the company and it's in my personal boycott. –Mysid^(t) 06:47, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

Really? Why are you boycotting it? Mathiastck 16:26, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

To me, it is the ultimate symbol of money-centered and short-sighted thinking and values – all the things that irritate me in modern times. I admit that Nokia is not the only one of its kind, and not even the worst example – and I've heard that they take better care of some ethical aspects than their worst competitors – but maybe the worst of its kind in this country. –Mysid^(t) 16:43, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

Creek flag

Hi Mysid! I uploaded a new version of the flag of the Creek people. You are the original uploader, so I thought it'd be good manners to let you know. Hope you didn't mind me doing it! -- Himasaram 13:46, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

No, it's an enormous improvement. Thanks for letting me know. –Mysid^(t) 15:23, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

Orphaned fair use image (Image:3db.png)

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The logo was orphaned because it was not the current logo of the radio station. However, I've now added it back to the 3DB article with a caption explaining that it is an old logo. –Mysid^(t) 17:12, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

Walter Steffens stub/ disambig.

Hey Mysid:

Since I do not speak/read so much as 100 words of German, I was wondering if you may have heard of the OTHER Walter Steffenses, which include a track and field star and a possible Naval or Socialist hero from the Volksmarine... Just trying to expand the "Naval History" section of the English wikipedia when I came across the composer and the athlete.

Cheers:

V. Joe 16:49, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

I have't heard of him, but seems like there is an article about him in the German Wikipedia. Not much to translate there, though. –Mysid^(t) 16:55, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

Notability Page

Thanks! I searched using Wikipedia-search, Google, and Yahoo but they didn't turn up any page on Notability.

I don't know what redirect policy or anything is, but it might be useful to use that page to redirect to the right-proper pagee, so other people who have my problem don't go recreating it again. - — Preceding unsigned comment added by FarMcKon (talk • contribs) 17:05, October 16, 2006 (UTC)

Yes, that could be a good thing to have. No current redirect policy opposes it. Strange that it didn't appear in the search results, though. –Mysid^(t) 17:09, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

how to do that?

how do i take notes on userpage? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Adamryanlee (talk • contribs) 19:28, October 16, 2006 (UTC)

You seem to have figured it out already. But you can get there by clicking on this link. –Mysid^(t) 19:37, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

VitalKey

Hi there

I noticed you already made changes on the VitalKey page. Thanks for helping me out. Is there any other sections I should add? I will try to find more information. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Psnb (talk • contribs) 18:34, October 17, 2006 (UTC)

Maybe you could add some basic information, such as when and by whom the company was founded and where its headquarters is located. –Mysid^(t) 18:36, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

Cheung Kwok Wah (2)

You just spoke to me about not making this article, though I have not. I merely made a revision. Did I mess something up? O_o -WarthogDemon 06:42, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

User:Cheungkw seems to have copied my comment from his user talk page to yours, I have no idea why. –Mysid^(t) 06:49, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, I realized now lol. Sorry for the confusion. O_o Odd vandal, but it's my very first vandal on my page. Fun. ^_^ -WarthogDemon 06:52, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

Well, gongratulations for the first user page vandalization ^^ –Mysid^(t) 06:54, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

563 (number)

Hi. I nominated 563 (number) for deletion, as per Wikipedia:WikiProject Numbers#Before creating a new article one should create articles only about notable numbers, otherwise there are an infinte number of them, you know. :) You can reply here if you have comments. Cheers, Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 03:16, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

Its deletion is ok by me. (Actually, I didn't create the initial article, but just moved the article "563 (disambiguation)" by Walker563 under the current name and numberified the layout :). –Mysid^(t) 06:15, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

You are right of course. I had not paid enough attention in the history about who created the article. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 15:04, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

Lippusi

Moi! Luomasi liput ovat upeita ja taitavasti tehtyjä. Jos jaksat, niin lippu mistä mieluusti näkisin Commonsissa svg-version on FotWista löytyvä tornionlaaksolaisten lippu (sivulla olevista se ylempi). Joten jos hiirikättä syyhyttää niin... --Neofelis Nebulosa (моє обговорення) 03:08, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

Heips! Kiitos kehuista. Tornionlaaksolaisten lippu on nyt Commonsissa nimellä Image:Flag of Tornedalians.svg. –Mysid^(t) 06:14, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

Wau, täähän on aivan uskomattoman nopeata toimintaa! Kiitoksia. t., --Neofelis Nebulosa (моє обговорення) 07:48, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

Olkaatten hyvä. ☺ –Mysid^(t) 10:03, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

signed bit picture

Ok, just make sure any page that the picture was on gets the table. Fresheneesz 19:12, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

L-alanine picture

Hi, I've listed your image Image:NMR implementation alanine.png for deletion as it's been replaced by an SVG version, Image:L-alanine.svg. Hope this is OK. Happy editings, –Mysid^(t) 05:36, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

I've looked it over, and I'm not absolutely sure that what you have created is L-alanine. I think what you have there is D-alanine. I'm no expert, but until it can be said for definite, I wouldn't want anything to be deleted - Jack (talk) 17:31, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

You may well be right – I just mimicked the original. I've always had difficulties in differentiating between dextro- and levorotatory molecules, so I don't know either... –Mysid^(t) 18:48, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

Icosahedron-golden-rectangles.svg

Thanks for your SVG version of Image:Icosahedron-golden-rectangles.png! One comment though: one of the vertex circles seems to have disappeared in the new version. Can you restore it? -- Fropuff 17:29, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

Oh, you're right. Thanks for noticing, I've restored it now! –Mysid^(t) 12:32, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

Image:Rajaton.jpg

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The image would indeed be replaceable by a freely licensed one. I actually didn't know that they shouldn't be, in order for them to be usable under the fair use doctrine. I've uploaded a couple of others as well, so I'll perhaps list them for speedying. –Mysid^(t) 12:28, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

Image:RinneRadio.jpg

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Its deletion is OK by me. I've also listed my other replaceable fair use uploads for speedy deletion. –Mysid^(t) 07:45, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

No subject

I don't like you -_- — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mikedavd1 (talk • contribs) 13:01, November 10, 2006 (UTC)

☹ –Mysid☎ 13:05, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

Smiley Goodness

Thank you for the smile. ^_^ -WarthogDemon 21:21, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

Optical disc writing request

Since you seem to be well-versed on the subject ([4] and particularly [5]), would you mind also expanding the coverage of the physical process of disc writing (perhaps at optical disc authoring, on whose talk page I made a request for it)? The CD article talks a bit about CD-Rs and -RWs, and the DVD-R/DVD+R/etc. articles give very brief descriptions of the specific dyes and such, but I can't find any general/central description of the process(es). Thanks! --Tardis 17:35, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

Hi, and thanks for the challenge – I'll try to improve them if I can, once I familiarize myself with the subject more. There is already a quite thorough article on CD-R, though. Maybe I could add some similar information to the DVD-R article. Thanks anyway! Happy editings and ♥, –Mysid☎ 17:55, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

Vectorize Unstructured_grid image

Great work on vectorizing all the different grid images for the Regular grid article. I wanted to clean them up, but couldn't figure it out with Gimp. I hope you'll try doing the Unstructured grid image as well. Slffea 04:53, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

Sure! I'll do it on Friday when I get my hands on CorelDraw again. –Mysid☎ 07:20, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

Just saw it. What an improvement! Many thanks. Slffea 17:47, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

No prob :) –Mysid☎ 19:00, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks re: Reference Desk Language questions

Hi, thanks for answering my question on the Reference Desk! The fact that a picture that I took is currently appearing on a Finnish website makes finding it all the more surreal to me. Many thanks! Phileas 17:25, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

No problem. :) Yeah, the Internet can be a mysterious place... –Mysid☎ 17:39, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

RTTY

Hi,

I read your article on RTTY and I wanted to have more information on this stuff. Actually I am trying to developp a small software to decode RTTY messages and I had a few questions to ask you.

1 : How is the message coded ? I mean I understand the global codage with two frequencies and the fact that each character are coded with 5 bits (using the Baudot code). But how the decoder knows when the message is starting ? I mean if it loses one bit how it can not shift all the message ? Is is any "starting" code at the beginning of the message ? Are there also a starting code and stop code at the beginning and the end of each group of five bits?

2 : How did you generate the signal avaiable on Wiki?

Thanks for you help, I am looking forward hearing from you soon.

You can write me at rodolphe.ardant "~at~" gmail.com

Rodlphe

These things should indeed be explained in the articles. I thought they were... but I'll try to explain them here. I'll also reply by e-mail as you asked.

Firstly, there are already many programs available that are able to decode and encode RTTY very well. But if you really want to create an own one:

1) There isn't any special code to tell when the message starts. Usually the human operator notices it when the output starts making sense (or when s/he hears it). The receiver keeps itself synchronized using the sync bits in the transmission. Every 5-bit byte is padded by a start bit and 1.5 stop bits, if I remember correctly. Knowing this, if the receiver loses a bit, it will lose the whole character, but is able to resynchronize during the next characters. You can probably find out what the start and stop bits are by examining the transmission on an FFT display.

2) I created it in a Linux program called gMFSK. Many such programs are available on other OS's, too – just try googling for "rtty software". –Mysid☎ 07:32, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

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Thank you ^^ Me likes notes written just because. ♥ –mysid☎ 21:16, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

Welcome to Esperanza

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May the Force be with you! Shreshth91 09:44, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

Finland_locator_map.svg

Hello, I was just wondering if you also had figured out the longitude/latitude values of the picture? I think I can manage to do that myself, but if you already have the values then it would save me a little work. Cheers and keep up the good work! --MoRsE 09:44, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

The source picture Image:Finland 1996 CIA map.jpg contains some kind of a grid, but it's not rectangular so I find it difficult to come up with a function which would convert from degrees to pixels. But I'm working on it. :) –mysid☎ 10:24, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

I can try to to estimate the geographical location of the bottom corners. It will be fairly simple to transform the the map by using the 24th meridian as the mean meridian and do a projection change to a more suitable projection...but I must say that it would have been so much easier if the world was flat. :) --MoRsE 10:46, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

I don't know anything about projection changes... but yes, it would make many things easier. Except perhaps communicating to the other side of the world via a satellite. –mysid☎ 11:18, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

PS. any information would be helpful in the image description page. –mysid☎ 14:14, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

Image:Yorkshire.gif

Hi Mysid!

I just spotted your change to my userpage of the gif image to the newer svg one. I have just been through my talk pages and archives to remove others. I don't know if you are engaged in clearing all uses of the image out? But if so note that User:Yorkshire Phoenix (194.203.110.127) used the image in his talk page signature when leaving messages. He was a prolific writer, so you will find a considerable amount of multiple entries on a large number of separate talk pages. His work currently has him overseas, in a hot and dusty country, so he may be off-line for a few months. Richard Harvey 11:45, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

I didn't change its numerous appearances on talk pages so as not to cause false alarms about new messages to a number of people. :) But I've now removed the speedy deletion tag, and maybe I'll come up with a solution. –mysid☎ 13:20, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

Hi Again! I have just finished replacing all the instances of Image:Yorkshire.gif with Image:Flag of Yorkshire (Flag Institute).svg. The .gif image now has no links other than categories, so you can re-nominate it for a speedy delete. Richard Harvey 17:17, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

Done. Thanks for the help. –mysid☎ 17:38, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

Forgot to mention. The flag is not actually an official Yorkshire flag. I have updated the Image description information on the commons image page to match the details stated in the FOTW website. Richard Harvey 18:18, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

Oh, very nice! I knew it was just a proposal, but wasn't aware of the details. –mysid☎ 18:39, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for so much for updating Gray1130 and Gray768 -- they now look much better at large sizes. If you're ever looking for other images that could use a similar treatment, there is a good list available at List of images and subjects in Gray's Anatomy (right hand column). --Arcadian 17:02, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the list! I'll perhaps draw some more in the future, if they are in need of a redraw and if the amount of work needed is reasonable. –mysid☎ 08:51, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

On Image:Gray727.svg -- I just noticed that at the bottom, it reads "Inf. Temp. Gurys", where "Gurys" should be "Gyrus". If you get a moment, could you update the image? --Arcadian 15:51, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for noticing, I've fixed it now. And sorry for the delay, for some reason I didn't notice your message – perhaps it was simultaneous with another one. –mysid☎ 18:21, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

Thank you! --Arcadian 21:07, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

commons:Image:Flag of Ingushetia.svg

Dear Mysid. This image is not correct. The sun beams must be turned to other side. See Vector-Image.com and Official site of Ingushetia. Can you improve this image? Truly yours,--Alex Spade 10:58, 2 December 2006 (UTC) (commons:User:Alex Spade).

It is indeed incorrectly drawn. Thank you very much for noticing! I have now uploaded a corrected version. –mysid☎ 12:21, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

Orphaned fair use image (Image:Giant-alien-force-cover.png)

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The image has been replaced by Image:SnaresGiantAlien.jpg, and its deletion is OK by me. Thanks for informing me. –mysid☎ 09:44, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

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Thank you my friend ^^ *hug* –mysid☎ 22:56, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

Greetings

thank u a lot 4 advices u gave me at irc channel. West Brom 4ever 21:48, 11 December 2006 (UTC) (wba-freenode) :)

Anytime :) –mysid☎ 21:54, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Radio

The project is now officially active. Thanks for signing on, and I look forward to working with you. Badbilltucker 16:31, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

What up?

What up? how are you. i cant e-mail you, :-( —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Rob022 (talk • contribs) 22:00, 12 December 2006 (UTC).

Who are you ? –mysid☎ 22:05, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

West Brom 4ever wishes you merry Christmas.

Welcome to VandalProof!

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Roundel of the Royal Malaysian Air Force.svg

Hi, can you upload this image on Wikipedia Commons please? Zz99 12:27, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

Done. commons:Image:Roundel of the Royal Malaysian Air Force.svg. –mysid☎ 15:37, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

Thank you! Zz99 15:40, 30 December 2006 (UTC)