User talk:GRAHAMUK/Archive

Hi Graham, welcome to the 'pedia. I think I've seen your contributions around the place, under IP numbers, before. Nice work on the TSR-2 just now. It looks as though you have adopted List of aircraft: great! That particular orphan needs some care and attention. Keep up the good work, anything you need to know, just ask. Cheers -- Tannin 11:59 May 12, 2003 (UTC)

Hi Graham, welcome from me too. I've just noticed that in the Rally principles and definitions article that you've written at least one bit is written from a first person perspective; For the novice, the only modifications I recommend are.... I think that it is felt that it is more encyclopaedic to write things like Modifications often made by novices... or Advice given to novices often includes... so that it comes across as fact rather than personal advice. There are a wealth of pages around about how to write the perfect article (I'm not suggesting you read them all, I cartainly haven't!), two of the most useful though are Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines and Wikipedia:Manual of Style which you may like to have a quick look at. Have fun editing -- Ams80 08:48 May 13, 2003 (UTC)

Hello there GRAHAMUK, I notice you've already been welcomed by 2 other users, but I will provide you with my standard user greeting, b/c it provides some useful links: welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you ever need editing help visit Wikipedia:How does one edit a page and experiment at Wikipedia:Sandbox. If you need pointers on how we title pages visit Wikipedia:Naming conventions. If you have any other questions about the project then check out Wikipedia:Help or add a question to the Village pump. MB 14:10 15 May 2003 (UTC)

Your picture of the Vx Magnum says "used with permission", but whose permission? We really like to know where all the pictures come from. Please let us know where the picute came from, and how you got permission to use it here. LDC

Well, I used to be the editor of the DSG's quarterly journal the Droop Snoot Noos, and obtained a great collection of stuff from Vauxhall publicity etc, with carte blanche rights to use the pictures as I saw fit (basically, it was such an old model that the company didn't mind how it was used). If you don't think this is adequate or fair use, I can substitute one of my own photographs (as for other images I've uploaded) but I don't have them to hand so it will be a few weeks.GRAHAMUK 07:18 23 May 2003 (UTC)

Graham -- I put in a short listing for Blackpool Pleasure Beach, just to get the ball rolling. It was really difficult to get any historical info on the internet, and I'm an American amusement park buff, not really up on the British parks. ridetheory~

I hear Little Plumpton is nice this time of year! -- goatasaur 07:20 4 Jul 2003 (UTC)

I think the mathematical proof of the existence of Ley lines is interesting, but I am not so sure if it works on the surface of a geoid as non-euclidean maths applies there.Harry Potter 00:24 9 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Good point, though I'm not responsible for the maths anyway, that was User Talk:The Anome. However, ley lines were "discovered" by consulting a map, and a map is a 2 dimensional representation of the surface of a geoid, therefore the alignments apply according to the projections used for the map, so personally I feel the maths is valid. But then again, I very firmly do NOT believe in the existence of ley lines, so maybe I'm more inclined to accept evidence against than evidence for... your mileage may vary!

I thought you might be interested in the opinion poll going on now at Talk:Clitoris. MB 18:11 9 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Nice work on Metalworking and the related articles. Not at all my area of expertise, but clearly topics that we need to cover. I hope someone can dig up drawings of the various tools and machines from old books. cheers -- Tarquin 12:45 13 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Hi Grahamuk, thanks for the nice work on capstan and winch. I am not entirely sure about the terminology, though. The things that you find on large ships (for mooring lines, anchors etc) are winches in the sense you described, but the "winches" on yachts would be classified as capstans by your terminology. I believe, however, that they are almost always called winches. But I could be mistaken (am no native English speaker, and my yachting experience has been mostly in Skandinavia). Will do some research, hopefully, but it would be nice if you had references or personal experience. Cheers, Kosebamse 08:58, 22 Aug 2003 (UTC)

BTW, the "which feels a bit dubious as a bit of commercial plugging" in your FooBar edit comment is wrong IMO since FooBar is free (oh and I just remembered the page has been written by me : this is wrong lol). SeeSchloß 00:20, 24 Aug 2003 (UTC)

Hopefully, you will still be able to sleep tonight after learning that the CMS now opines that the

"old meaning of the word ("in a hopeful manner") seems unsustainable; the newer meaning "("I hope" or "it is to be hoped") seems here to stay. But many careful writers deplore the new meaning",

sustained by the knowledge that it has stood firm on its use of it's. I fear they would have defended Tori Amos literally inventing a type of glue, as it's not an oxymoronic or metaphorical sense: still the article is better off sans literally. To complete your horror I should inform you that an editorial appeared in a British paper within the past month (I can't recall, which, sadly) which predicted that the widespread diffidence about the its/it's distinction would inevitably lead to the disappearance of all apostrophes from English... ah, well. -- Someone else 04:33, 2 Sep 2003 (UTC)

Ah, well, indeed... ;-) Actually I hope I'm not too much of a grammar Nazi, I can't claim to be letter perfect myself. However, some particular things just leap off the page at me sometimes and literally is often one of them. Hopefully is one that is less glaring - I can live with it - its abuse is very widespread, and it's hard to explain what the problem is to most people, unlike literally, which is easy. Anyway, I thought a page for such common abuses would be handy - hopefully people will extend it to become a lot more useful. GRAHAMUK 04:41, 2 Sep 2003 (UTC)

I agree, I hid the CMS's capitulation well away from the page in question<G>. As long as no one touches comprised/composed and infer/imply, I remain (hopefully) happy. <G>-- Someone else 04:57, 2 Sep 2003 (UTC)

Lol - thanks! Infer/imply, thanks for reminding me, I'll add that one too.... GRAHAMUK 05:18, 2 Sep 2003 (UTC)

Hi Grahamuk ! Good to hear you defend the Uni. like a good alumni should, of course i was having a dig, i love . Besides i did deliver a paper for a conferencwe there last year, so perhaps i ought to take my cap off and tug forelock " thank 'e kindly'. AS i live a 5 minute ride aawy from campus i often 'get off my arse' ( what a genteel way of putting it) and toddle up there. It's just the constant refurbishing and 'yuppification' of the campus i can't stand. i have met students and not nervous first year freshers either who hardly geyt off their arse to visit the city. I just wish that a better relationship had been forged years ago between town and gown, that ofr norwich should have had a Uni years ago,. Have you seen the new book out on the history of UEA. It is extremely informative. Yeah, i know i sound horribly parochial and nimbyish about 'metics' or resident alien refugees from distant London, but often these are the people who are ex[ploiting my home City to make a fast buck. You obviously pay a great compliment to my mothe rCity when you choose to re-locate here. The Crime-rate's low, the air's relatively okay, the centre is walkable and there is a fantastic hinterland of over 1oo miles of coast-line. (on a clear day you can see John Major's Ranch' from way over the marshes). On the minus side because of these enormous benefits of less chance of being mugged late at night walking round the city centre than in London and a slower pace of life de-stressing you helping you live long, you have also for these benefits chosen to live in a relatively low-paid region and always has been because of these 'benefits'. Only joking about it all Grahamuk, honest :), just looking for feedback!! i hate monoculture golf courses too! I just wish the proletariat which surround the campus by their 1000's occasionally went on campus and felt that it was there Uni. too to be proud and of course there is much to be proud of about UEA old alumnus, mate. My real gripe is that my particular passion , Sir T.B. has the victim of neglect and erroneous, ahistorical 'politically correct' misinformation propogated and disseminated by UEA prof's, if you please that's when i get wound up about my European cultural heritage being disrespected by visiting and sojourning profs. Fortunately however the late and great MaX Sebald addressed that wrong in his 'Rings of Saturn'. I am always interested in communicating to old UEa students especially if they work for the 'pedia.Norwikian 08:54, 4 Oct 2003 (UTC)

I started editing Airspeed Indicator casually because I saw it on recent changes. You are correct that the second word should not be capitalized. I will merge the new content when I have the time, and also check out the list of aviation topics that you mentioned.

Louis Kyu Won Ryu 15:38, 15 Oct 2003 (UTC)

Lawn mower and Lawnmower are now duplicates :c, may want to try and merge Dysprosia 11:37, 18 Oct 2003 (UTC)

Ah bugger it! ;-) I thought my search was reasonable - overlooked the most obvious!! Yes, I'll merge - the original is better than mine anyhoo. GRAHAMUK 11:40, 18 Oct 2003 (UTC)

Thanks for the note on the Court Line colors. Being a Cannuck I never saw one, but in every other picture it's gold/orange so I simply assumed that the scan was a bad one.

Hi, I was just reading through your user page and I was puzzled to see that there is a professional programmer in Armidale, I never saw it coming, I thought the closest thing to coding in Armidale was teaching ones sheep dog. But I shouldn't really pick on you for it, it makes sence that you would move to armidale after coming from England so you can get used to the accent and culture of Australia without giving up the depressing weather and "quaint old-world charm" (read dying rural hole with nothing much going for it).

If you are wondering why your town is being verbally assulted by a guy who you don't even know, I am from Coffs Harbour, and have a my town's reputation to uphold by slandering the surrounding cities :-).

scarlet 18:07, 23 Oct 2003 (EAST)

I noticed that you commented on some controversial computing issues. There's now a new Wikipedia:WikiProject Computing and Wikipedia:WikiProject Computing/Controversial articles to help form consensus on computing topics. Please consider watching the talk pages there and using them to let others know of issues you believe merit peer review. JamesDay 15:42, 28 Oct 2003 (UTC)

Hi Graham!
Thanks for the correction to the ridiculous Corsa date. I was sleepy and saw the B at the start of the reg and looked up the date for that! Nice to know someone is watching me.
Best Wishes,Adrian Pingstone 09:20, 30 Oct 2003 (UTC)

Hey, no problem - easy mistake to make ;-) Reminds me of the time I took my HPF (see Vauxhall Firenza - the pic is, or was, my car) for its MOT. The guy wouldn't pass it because it didn't meet the CO emission requirement of 0.5% - try as he might he could only tune it down to 0.6%. Turns out he took one look at the 'G' at the beginning of the number plate and thought it was a 1990 car! I know it looks modern for its age, but that's ridiculous, it was 25 years old at the time! Considering that, 0.6% CO is bloody impressive - 1974 cars only have to meet a 2% limit. GRAHAMUK

You seem to be holding your own pretty well in Reference (computer science). Let me know if you grow tired of the constant edits, or do what I do and step back for a few days, then take care of it in one go...:) JamesDay 03:50, 1 Nov 2003 (UTC)

But I am not expecting anyone to be holding. Well, and you guys don't want me to talk anywhere though. -- Taku

Hi Graham, I noticed a conflagration you had recently with User:195.92.67.70 over the Long Crendon page; I've just got rid of some nonsense they created on the Shabbington page too. I don't if they have done this to any others, but it might be worth checking. I'll keep watch on the two pages I've just corrected to make sure they don't get vandalised again... Another Graham :) 00:11, 27 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Hi Graham, thanks for the message on my talk page. Eventually I aim to create an article for every place in Buckinghamshire... no mean feat I can assure you. Please feel free to add what you can remember from your time in HW! The other Graham :) 00:23, 27 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Can you offer any evidence of your sense of "Blowing Rock" being more widespread than, say, A. Huxley's expression "pulling a slight Holy Father"? My Google search is not definitively negative, since excluding "NC" and "North Carolina" kills only 80% of the 100k hits on the geographic senses, but it is far from offering evidence of significance.--Jerzy 06:35, 2003 Dec 1 (UTC)

I'd have thought its euphemistic sense was self evident. I've heard it used in the UK occasionally, though it's certainly an Americanism. The original movie Airplane! uses it this way too, even going so far as to name the inflatable emergency co-pilot "Rock" just as a set-up to this joke ("you mean - we are going to have to..... Blow Rock!!???"). Other than this rather anecdotal evidence though I can't point to any reference that includes this usage.GRAHAMUK 11:03, 1 Dec 2003 (UTC)

In ref to the hacking page, none of the other entries are encyclopedic, see Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not a dictionary. --Imran

Fair comment. The response in that case it to make note of that on the article's talk page and set up a dialogue to resolve the problem. Simply overwriting with an inferior and more limited version of your own device doesn't do that, and pisses people off no end. There are points in your version that can be incorporated, but I'd like to see the origin of the term (blade) and other meanings (horses, slang) incorporated as well. There is more to life than computers. GRAHAMUK 23:24, 3 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Tnx for the Clockwork edits, all but two of which i immediately found myself sympathizing with.

"Eh! another jerk who doesn't know the difference between 'hence' and 'whence'!" But you DO, and the difference between your dash and the other guy's comma makes all the difference. Bravo.
I specifically changed "countries" to "settings" bcz the Third World has plenty of sophisticated cosmopolites, with access to all the batteries they need, if not their own diesel generators in the back yard. "Settings" is the first way i thot of avoiding the equivalent of 1st-Worlders who ask, agape, "Why aren't you wearing your native garb?" Surely it is not the only way; is there another wording that meets whatever your objection to "settings" is, without being so broad-brush as "countries"? --Jerzy 00:42, 2003 Dec 10 (UTC)

Absolutely fair comment. It was just a knee-jerk reaction since 'settings' sounds a bit unusual. Happy to leave it at that! GRAHAMUK 01:23, 10 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Oh, I thought you'd already changed it but apparently not - see if my change is OK. GRAHAMUK 01:26, 10 Dec 2003 (UTC)

[Chuckle] I was still thinking abt alternatives to "setting", and grousing about your not offering any. I had decided "situation" was little less unusual, but thot i'd mull a little longer before deciding. But we definitely have to stop meeting like this, and like "mains". [smile] Tnx again.--Jerzy 01:40, 2003 Dec 10 (UTC)

This email got bounced back by your IP..

> Hi Graham, > > We briefly "met" over some article before,

On that brief note to start with, he's back. Check out the Shabbington and Long Crendon pages. Sure is an adamant little bunny rabbit, I'll give him that...

> but I > just wanted to say I read your very brave and frank > account on your user page, and I was moved to > contact you privately. While my own experiences no > way compare with yours, I too suffered greatly from > bullying at school. Fortunately in my case it tailed > off naturally so it didn't end up being such a soul > destroying experience for me. What is up with that? > Is there some instinct among young people that > differences should be ridiculed and squished out at > all costs? Or is it just that few people teach their > kids that differences are to be celebrated? My own > experiences happened in the 70s - I'd sort of hoped > that modern kids might be a bit more enlightened but > alas your more recent experiences shows that isn't > the case. Anyway, I wish you luck and hope you find > great happiness in life, and that you aren't too > cynical or bitter about the past. Things generally > do get better as you get older, I've found - seems > like things are looki > ng up for you too. >

As a youth worker today it frustrates me that bullying is still not taken seriously. It does ruin lives, and yet there are still schools in Aylesbury prepared to sweep it under the carpet and pretend it isn't happening.

I was comforting a distressed mother on Friday whose 17 year old daughter is on the brink of suicide following bullying at the all girls grammar school in Aylesbury. The school's reaction has been, so far, to not do anything about it, even though the mother has put in a complaint to the LEA over their actions.

It's a sad world.

> regards, Graham (edit WP as GRAHAMUK, my email is > graham_cox@iprimus.com.au). > > PS. Enjoying your articles on Bucks villages, etc. > >

Thanks. Feel free to add to them at any time...

Graham :)

Francs2000 11:13, 10 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Cut-and-Paste Moves

Hi again. [smile] What brings me back is the excellent changes to the structure of the Magneto complex of articles, which IMO was achieved by the wrong method, to the detriment of the "Page history"s. If you don't recall Wikipedia:How to rename (move) a page clearly enuf, pls read or reread; if you still think you did it acceptably, let's discuss -- and see which of us comes away wiser, since i'm not entirely confident about that. --Jerzy 22:20, 2004 Jan 9 (UTC)

No problem, but actually it's not my doing. If you check the histories again, you'll see that the pages were not moved by me - in fact I argued strongly against the way it was done, but the perpetrator annoyed me so much I gave up in disgust. I agree with the way it's now organised - there was never a need for a separate page for the engine component variant. If you check the discussion on the tak page, it should shed some light on what happened.Graham 08:11, 10 Jan 2004 (UTC)

I just noticed your comments in the MacOS X discussion. Although it appears to be academic now, I'd like to comment anyway.

The long and short of it is that the only people who thought Copeland would ever exist were inside Apple, and Mac developers. It was clear outside the company, at least to those not drinking the cool-aid, that Copeland was nothing more than a marketing effort.

Case in point: I was at the 1996 WWDC when even I (look me up in google groups some time) realized what was going on. It was a day or two into the show when Gil came up and announced that "they had heard the feedback", and had decided that the Copeland kernel would have to be SMP. This is after they said that it was going to ship in 6 months and the kernel didn't even run, now they were going to rebuild it and release it at the same time.

Nothing at all about this project was under control. I remember reading in 1995 that they were going to include one feature I thought was long overdue: a simple file-system flag that said "this is a settings file, you can't open it" to solve the silly problems that occured when you double clicked on something in the Settings folder. I went to a talk on the file system and it wasn't mentioned, so I asked about it. The person I asked never heard of it. I later learned that only two people on the team had been on it more than 9 months. This is the file system.

I also remember the first alpha later that year. If you did nothing at all on it, it would crash on it's own within a few minutes.

It was hopeless. The company was completely out of control. There was no way it would ever ship.

Maury 02:01, 20 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Very interesting; and I expect you're probably right. However I would have thought that if it was a marketing "scam" then those inside Apple were either being duped along with the rest of us, or else were in on it. Neither sound really plausible, but that doesn't mean it isn't true! My own recollection (I was actively developing on the Mac at the time, but being in the UK and working for a poor start-up, we never got sent to WWDC - everything got served up second-hand at Apple UK developer seminars) was that the impression we received from Apple developer relations was that Copland was real, was in progress, but was progressing more slowly than planned - well, we could buy that, it always happened. I didn't get much of an alternative perspective, since ready information from other quarters was not as readily available as it is now, and anyway we had our hands full working on our own developments. Our attitude to Copland was - once it ships, we'll worry about it. My only inkling that things were not quite going as well as promised was the release of ResEdit 3.0 - it was hopeless, and didn't seem to be a realistic offering, even as an alpha version. Next thing we knew, Copland was dead and Apple folk didn't appear to like to talk about it. I completely agree that the company was out of control - but it wasn't that obvious to us at the time. We griped as usual about lots of things we didn't like - but we always assumed that somebody had a grip on things somewhere. It only came out later just what a horror show it had all become. Obviously things have improved, but to what extent I wonder? - there is still some evidence that the NeXT vs. Mac OS teams still argue bitterly about things, to the detriment of the whole OS. 10.3 Panther is very good, but still not great - what it needs is a few behaviours from the "old" Finder to be brought forward, but I suspect that the reason that some of these easy features aren't there is political, not technical. I wish they'd grow up - seems I've been saying that all of my professional life about them! Graham 07:35, 20 Jan 2004 (UTC)

I can't say how much has changed objectively as I haven't been in the Mac orbit for some time. I know WebObjects is basically being ignored, but that's not too surprising given their successes everywhere else. What I do know is that the "patients running the asylum" days are definitely over, Steve cracked some serious skull and dumped a lot of the deadwood in his first year. Since then they seem to be able to ship things, even their 1.0's aren't bad these days. Maury 13:13, 20 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Car picture angles

Hi Graham, from a “warm” Bristol (12C at noon today, quite high for February).
Thanks for the thanks, much appreciated.
I’ve never noticed that I use a rear three quarter view but I do know why. Many of my car pics are taken in public car parks. If the owner came back they might object to the photo or ask for a copy (which would be a nuisance). So I take just one angle and then go away. Which pic do I take? The one that shows the car and its make and model i.e the rear three quarter.
In future I’ll try to get the front one as well. Thanks for letting me know about this.
Just at the moment I’m on Ducks and Astronomy so probably no more car pics until the sunnier weather comes again.
Adrian Pingstone 16:08, 5 Feb 2004 (UTC)

A quote from mozilla.org

For your information, the following is quoted from mozilla.org:

"Firefox 0.8 is a Technology Preview. While this software works well enough to be relied upon as your primary browser in most cases, we make no guarantees of its performance or stability. It is a pre-release product and should not be relied upon for mission-critical tasks [emphasis added]."

—Mozilla Organization, The. (n.d.). Mozilla Firefox 0.8 release notes. Retrieved February 11, 2004 from http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/releases/

poo

Though you didn't add an unmentionable to the article poo, you supported the crude definition written by anonymous user. In the future, change the link to the more polite feces, will you? -- user:zanimum

I'll do as I see fit. Think yourself lucky I took it upon myself to bother tidying up an otherwise somewhat puerile page. I won't bother in future, you can do your own dirty work. As for being polite, barking orders like this isn't a good example. Graham 04:18, 20 Feb 2004 (UTC)

MiG-25

Re: reverted to previous image, which shows the plane more clearly. Moved Iraqi image to bottom of page. Don't make changes just for their own sake.

I don't make changes for their own sake. You say the previous image shows the plane more clearly. Frankly, how does a blurry, poorly-compressed image of the aircraft in flight help show the image more clearly? RadicalBender 01:41, 1 Mar 2004 (UTC)

I agree that the image is rather poor and over-compressed, but despite that it does more clearly show the overall shape and aspect of the aircraft, so gives a better overview of it than the one you added. That one is quite interesting though, which is why I moved it rather than doing a full revert. Together the two provide a good pair. It might be even better to find a nicer image we can use though, since in general multiple photographs of the same thing on a page are discouraged - the idea is to make pages load as quickly as possible and not chew up bandwidth just because somebody felt like adding their favourite pics. For example, what's the point of all those near-identical pics of the Boeing 747? One would do. When you pay for bandwidth like I do, these things become important. Graham 01:53, 1 Mar 2004 (UTC)

I mostly went through the public domain US Air Force image database today and populated things I thought could use some help. It just happened to have some pictures of the MiG-25 (and some other aircraft) and I filled those in. It's just a shame other governments don't public domain their military photography (and I've got tons of books full of pictures laying around that I can't use either - erg!).

As far as the bandwidth concerns, I'm trying to keep the image sizes small on the pages so that, using the extended image syntax, the page weight stays down. On the other hand, having the larger images increases the overall utility of the Wikipedia. From a visual point-of-view, I feel having several (if possible/necessary) quality images enhances the articles. (And I pay for my bandwidth, too, for the record.) RadicalBender 02:32, 1 Mar 2004 (UTC)

747 pic removal

Hi Graham, just a comment on the removal of my two pics of the Boeing 747. I appreciate what you're saying about bandwidth but they were the three marks of 747 so showed the window differences. Therefore I think they were relevant. However it’s easy for me to say that because I have broadband (Telewest) so they load instantly!
Would you accept a compromise? I’ll put a link to the other two pics so that they are still available. Something roughly like Click for 747-300 image and 747-400 image. What do you think? This seems a neat solution where a page has too many good pics.
Adrian Pingstone 10:22, 1 Mar 2004 (UTC)

I'm amused to see that the Boeing 747 article now has seven pics, against my original three. Someone has gone around the airline articles collecting all the 747 pics I took at Heathrow. Looks a bit repetitious, since for six of the seven I was stood at exactly the same spot. I'm too lazy to change anything but it's not good for users with a slow connection!

Adrian Pingstone 09:30, 9 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Thank you

Dear Graham: Hi1 Thanks for lloading the picture at the Mexicana de Aviacion page. I read your story and it reminded me fondly of my own. I was interested in civil airliners before I ever looked at Military planes however, cause military planes to me were rather dull in green ..lol besides military bases in Puerto Rico, where I grew, are infamous, read Vieques. But my grandfather would take me saturdays and sundays to Luis Munoz Marin International Airport to see planes. Im quite sure I saw the one on the Mexicana photo in person: I read that Mexicana had only 5 DC-10s and that they only used them for their Cuba and Puerto Rico routes. In addtion, I got a die-cast model of the same plane on the photo, (I know cuase the reg. is XA-MEX).

I went from planes to boxing. Unfortunately, my dream of becoming both a world champion boxer and airline pilot were stopped because my parents believed that diabetics such as me would not be allowed into any of these fields, and they were half right: In the airline world of then, pilots could not have diabetes. Now, I dont have the money to pay for pilot school, lol

I love to write about five specific subjects: airlines, boxing, movies, music and Hispanic people.

How about those Beatles? I love them! I met David Bowie after a concert recently , he was tired, but kind to me and my brother, we got a couple autographs. Unfortunately, I did not see two of my other favorite British groups in your list, Duran Duran and Culture Club.

I was also a huge fan of Menudo.

One little note: We need to give you, me and mr. Jorge Rocafort credit on the page that comes when one clicks on the Mexicana plane photo, for uploading it, obtaining permission and copyright ownership. I tried to do it but my computer always messes up photos, thats why I wasnt able to upload the photo myself.

Other than that, thanks for everything and God bless you! Reading your page was refreshing, it brought me back memories.

Sincerely yours, Antonio Palooka Martin

Another thank you

Hi Graham,
Just a few words of thanks for the camera buying info.
Thanks for your time.
I'm still working out which camera to buy.
Adrian Pingstone 09:40, 14 Mar 2004 (UTC)

You're welcome. Have fun! ;) Graham 22:30, 14 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Dear Graham: Hey, how are you? Ive been granted permission to download photos at many airline articles by various photographers. I have Adrian working on it. I was wondering if you could help too, specifically with one I have for Dominicana de Aviacion. With my computer, its always impossible, for some reason I can never upload photos.

Thanks, and God bless you!

Sincerely yours, Antonio Fast Man Martin

Hi Antionio. I'm not sure what you're trying, but you can't link to images externally. What you have to do is download the image to your hard disk, then upload itfrom there to the WP image database using the "upload file" link. If that isn't working, then I wouldn't know what the problem is, but that's how I did it for the Mexicana image. Graham 06:43, 18 Mar 2004 (UTC)

ln

Why would this have anything to do with involution? An involution is a function that is its own inverse. The natural logarithm function is obviously not an involution. Michael Hardy 22:34, 18 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Which is why I reverted my edit. I'm not a mathematician (obviously), but, the weird thing is that I've long assumed that the Ln button on my calculator was actually In (capital 'i', small 'n'). This was because in the instruction manual for a calculator I bought in the 80s, that's what the manual said - it was In, standing for Involution. (It was a Casio FX-570 if I recall correctly). So I assumed that Involution was fancy maths-prof speak for the Natural log. I should mention that it made some sort of sense as the inverse operation of exponentiation. In checking up, I discovered I was misled, so reverted my edit. None of which has ever mattered, if I use natural logs (quite often in fact, as an engineer and programmer), the fact that in the back of my mind was the term 'involution' didn't affect the outcome of the calculations! But thanks for your interest. Graham 23:55, 18 Mar 2004 (UTC)

my nomination for admin

Hi, I just wanted to let you know that Dori has nominated me for admin at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship. Since you and I have had conflicts in the past, I wanted to give you a heads up so you can show your support or dissent. Nohat 19:58, 2004 Apr 15 (UTC)

Aviation and Aviation History

Hi Graham. Your removal of the 1947 Aeronca is accepted, in Aviation history.
I think your suggested removal of the Boeing 737 in Aviation is on much shakier grounds. The pic was not meant to show the reader what a plane looked like! It simply illustrated the Commercial Aviation part of aviation as I carefully said in my caption Commercial Aviation: Royal Air Maroc Boeing 737-200 landing at London (Heathrow) Airport Nevertheless with about 900 pics on WP one less doesn’t matter so I've removed it. Best Wishes, Adrian.
Adrian Pingstone 08:51, 19 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Edit summaries

Graham. I note your edit to my contribution on Rolls-Royce Trent, "changed previous poor wording." Having excelled at both English and English Literature in secondary school I feel confident in saying that there was no grammatical error in my contribution. However I have no problem with your wording either, it does in fact add to the article by noting the time which has elapsed since RR last used river names for engines. The reason I have taken the time to contact you is to register unease at the way in which you choose to summarize your edits, let me remind you of some of them,

TOTP2 "fixed terrible grammar, spelling, sentence construction." Justified editing but unnecessary summary.
Apple iTunes "(reword yet again. please do not make changes (especially since your grammar is crap)"
Tupolev "Tu-154rm POV (and poorl;y written)"
List of bridges in the United Kingdom "//how hard can it be?"

You may like to review Wikipedia:Wikiquette before making further edits.
"Don't label or personally attack people or their edits.

Terms like "racist," "sexist" or even "poorly written" make people defensive. This makes it hard to discuss articles productively"

Regards, Mark User:H1523702 23:08, 24 April, 2004 (UTC)

Fair comment, though I don't think people really read the comments very often, and if they do, they are never directed at anyone personally, since it's hard to see who was responsible for a given edit without some effort. Since you've decided to bring it up though, the problem I had with the wording of the Trent article is that the sentence made less than perfect sense - "Rolls-Royce had started naming their engines after English rivers in 1942 - a practice which was discontinued until the Trent." The "had started" is misleading and ungrammatical - either the "had" or the "started" is redundant. What you seem to be trying to say is that they were using this method, but stopped some time afterwards, but "had started" doesn't really mean this, especially in view of the fact that the practice was carried on for many years. In addition the term "discontinued" implies that something had been continuing, which contradicts the use of the term "started", as well as leaving open some uncertainty about when and why this was done. Sorry to be pedantic, but you brought this up, and it was something that was trivial to fix.

Also, if you look back into the histories of the articles you mention, you'll see that in one or two cases the edit had to repeatedly be made to "make it stick" and that gets pretty tiresome - if I let my frustration show in one or two cases towards the unknown user, given that the edit is justified and improves the article, then I think given my track record or contributions to WP I could be forgiven... but I'll try to tone down my comments in future as no offence is intended. Graham 07:18, 1 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

To quote you, "fair comment." I can only sympathise if you are forced to repeat some of your edits - considering the quality of some of the original text in the articles I highlighted! Regards, Mark User:H1523702 21:59, 02 May, 2004 (UTC)

Graham, thanks very much for your thoughtful comments on Motorway.
A fuller reply is on User talk:Arpingstone
Best Wishes, Adrian. Adrian Pingstone 08:44, 31 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

Apologies; didn't plan to offend with my ABBA edits. I found the page too wordy (it is over 30KB) and wanted to make it read better. nedward 22:17, 14 Sep 2004 (UTC) (edited to sound less annoyed than I was last night)

Many thanks for your assistance with the vinyl roof page. I knew that some European cars were sold in the US with vinyl, but didn't know whether they appeared in their home market that way, so I thought I'd better stay away from the issue. I hope somebody can contribute something on Japanese models, too. I wasn't sure anybody would read this, let alone edit it, to tell you the truth. I'm the only person I know of who understands all the vinyl roof styles; even true car freaks' eyes tend to glaze over if you get too far into it. So I'm happy to have passed this ancient lore on to at least one willing reader! :-) RivGuySC 16:41, 19 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Danger of Pointers

I noticed your edit to the reference (computer science) page. While I certainly like pointers and don't want to give them a bad name, and while the word dangerous is admittedly POV, I think the remaining text puts them in a very optimistic light - it makes it sound as though pointers are the only references worth using. We need to explain somehow why someone would ever prefer another type of reference over pointers. Part of explaining this would probably involve explaining the references featured in a number of languages and their advantages and disadvantages. Do you have any other suggestions?

Derrick Coetzee 04:00, 13 Jul 2004 (UTC)

To my mind, this article needs an overhaul. I have tried in the past, but I got fed up because of others constantly undoing my work. While I don't mind that to some extent, after a while it gets tedious so I gave up. Certain subjects seem guaranteed to cause controversy and computer science topics seem to be one if them. This article has been merged, demerged and merged again, rewritten, sent in, sent back, subject to public enquiry, and buried in soft peat for three months and recycled as firelighters.... ;-) personally I feel the demerged version, split into pointers, handles, smart pointers, etc. would be beneficial, with references as a broad overview briefly explaining each but acting as an index to the other articles. That way we can give each the proper treatment. That's my opinion - others obviously feel otherwise. Graham 04:17, 13 Jul 2004 (UTC)

That sounds good to me, except that I think there's enough to say about pointers that they're better off having their own article with just a link. Also, pointer is a likely topic people will look up directly. But other reference concepts should probably just be talked about in the reference article. I'd also like to mention somewhere how references relate to garbage collection. I admit I was responsible for the last overhaul on reference, and I'd like to avoid any future conflict over the article. I think references are a very important topic to treat correctly, since they're perhaps the most important fundamental building block of most data structures, along with records. Derrick Coetzee 18:51, 13 Jul 2004 (UTC)

I totally agree. Pointer should have its own article - it's likely that people will look for that first, since you already need to know quite a bit of CS to know that "reference" is a superset of the concept... as I said, this is much closer to how it was a while ago. I wish you luck with a rewrite - I am happy to help, though be prepared for some of the CS zealots to mangle it severely. I sometimes think that some of the geeks don't understand what an encyclopedia is for, and want to rewrite this as their favourite text book ;-) Graham 23:20, 13 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Irony

Sorry for the long delay, I've been busy enjoying life in the outside world. Having friends and relatives living or studying in Armidale, I have doubts as to whether that place qualifies. One of the poor sods is flying back there from the UK today.

'Ford may only have a 33% stake in Mazda (fer chrissake), but I'd still like to know what is "ironic" about the two cars being based on the same platform.'

My point was, that whereas there are Fords based on Mazda platforms there are virtually no Mazdas based on Ford platforms, certainly not in the Asia Pacific. You're more likely to find a Ford in Australia badged as a Nissan than as a Mazda.

Having lived and travelled in the Asia Pacific region (Singapore, Malaysia, Australia and New Zealand) before you lobbed there, I can attest to this.

Mazda has retained completely separate R&D facilities from Ford, so has never needed to source products from Ford up to now, with the exception of the Ford Fiesta, sold as a Mazda 121 in Europe and a Mazda Soho in South Africa.

As for the "irony" of used Vauxhalls being sold in Ireland and new unoffically imported Opels being sold in the UK, it is ironic in that the two countries chose different GM brands, and yet those brands they discontinued still appear in the marketplace. Similarly in New Zealand, Opel-badged cars imported from Japan abound, despite GM's decision to adopt the Holden brand name for all cars sold in the land where Australians fear to tread ten years ago.

"I will hunt down and destroy all misuse of this word!!"

No need, I did it already, on the grounds that its a cliche and sounds too journalistic.

I understand what you're saying about the cars, but i still don't see that there is any irony there anywhere. It's just the result of the dull and relentless process of thousands of business decisions. I'm also a little offended by your comment about Armidale, I suggest you spend some time here instead of relying on prejudice. Graham 05:55, 15 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Macs vs PCs, the tired old debate

You want the answer to the popularity of Windows? Money. Macs are expensive and always will be. By contrast, complete bundles of PCs are seen as low as $300. I personally think Macs will disappear in the end, because the cost to profit ratio will become too high, but that apple will continue to make products like the ipod and sell songs over itunes. As to the edit, Rhobite changed some things (people are always messing with things just to relfect their own POV--it drives me up the wall)--naryathegreat 00:24, Aug 13, 2004 (UTC)

Glad you got your edit fixed. As for expensive, it's all relative. Personally I find Macs highish priced to buy but they last 5 years before they need replacing and they don't cost much to run in terms of support, software upgrades, licensing, new mother boards, video cards, etc. etc. To be honest I've heard this argument now for more than twenty years and it's just a kind of continual background noise. Apple are still here, they are doing much, much better now than they were 6 or 7 years ago, and judging by the number of hits I get on various websites I run, the market share is growing faster than the sales figures would tend to suggest. (About 6% overall for Mac). I don't think Macs will disappear but then again I don't think they'll ever take on Windows in the home/office space. Instead I think Apple will become the new Silicon Graphics - the high end professional video/film/sound/CGI market and the other 5-10% of users who care about good design. The professional software range points this way. Again it's a tired comparison but apt - there are far more Fords than Mercedes on the road, but no-one thinks Mercedes is "dying" because it only has 5% market share. Both do the same essential job, with much the same set of features in all the same places, but there is no doubt that a Mercedes is a better quality (and more expensive) product. As for the iPod, it will be Apple's bread and butter product for the average Joe - I wouldn't mind betting that in the end iPod is spun off into a separate company. To me, it's hard to get too religious about it - it's just a computer. Use what you want to use.Graham 00:44, 13 Aug 2004 (UTC)

On another note, the reason you have to restart Windows to "install" a font is because Windows loads such things (but especially drivers for hardware) at startup. Conflicts between loading drivers are what cause problems on many PCs. I think Mac does it as its used.--naryathegreat 03:39, Aug 13, 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for editing my criticism part at the Apple article, but it would be nice if you add a more aggressive view ;-)

No it wouldn't. The comments you made were totally unjustified and rather juvenile. Apple has been criticised for a variety of things, but not for its attacks on Microsoft, nor for "stealing" its OS from OpenBSD. I mean, how ridiculous does that sound? Clearly you haven't the slightest grasp on the facts. However, it's a moot point because the key philosophy on Wikipedia is a neutral point of view. If you're serious about getting involved, why not create yourself a user name and read up the various pages on what this is all about.Graham 23:20, 15 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Quoting Code

If you start a line

with a space, it displays in monospace font, appropriate for code

It reads better in the wikitext also. Dysprosia 00:46, 14 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Ah OK, I didn't know that. All the examples I could find (and there are many, including all those on the "how to edit" page), use pre and nowiki. Seems OK now, though what exactly is wrong with pre and nowiki anyway?Graham 23:28, 15 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Simply because using a space before a line is easier to read and write. Using the Wiki formatting over HTML is generally preferred. Dysprosia 20:51, 16 Aug 2004 (UTC)

VOR rotating signal

Hi,

I noticed that you have added to the VOR section a statment that most VORs use phased-array antennas to rotate the AM signal. I've never checked this, but I was under the impression that the majority of VOR transmitters (here in the USA, anyway) used mechanical rotation. The high-accuracy VOR transmitters use an antenna array.

Is there a reference for the statement that the majority of VORs are phased array?

Thanks,

flightinstructor

I'll have to check to be certain. Though the VORs I have seen in the UK definitely have no moving parts. Even from the air it's clear they consist of a fixed circle characteristic of a phased array - like a mini FLR-9. But I will see if I can find a more authoritative reference.Graham 07:17, 23 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Okey doke, I have done a bit of poking around. It's amazing what you can learn! Seems most UK installations are of the type known as DVOR - Doppler VOR, whereas the US ones are an older type known as CVOR - conventional VOR, which uses a rotating element. the DVOR uses a phased array, but has the disadvantage of being quite a large structure - see pics in ref below. I found a number of references on line including some from equipment manufacturers, but perhaps one of the best in terms of overall accessibility, nice pics and general geekiness is this one [1]. Seems to me there is a fair bit of info here that could be worked into the article.Graham 05:20, 24 Aug 2004 (UTC)

HH Magic Roundabout

You wrote on Roundabout intersection that the magic roundabout in Hemel Hempstead has been reduced from 6 exits to 5. I haven't been that way in quite a while: which exit have they closed off? --Phil | Talk 10:43, Sep 7, 2004 (UTC)

The Marlowes exit has been removed. It's been that way for ages - ever since the BP building was demolished in the 80s, but for years the sub roundabout remained. A few years ago they eradicated it altogether. I haven't been there in a while either (being in Australia) but that whole area still looks like a wasteland as far as I know - they really should develop it, it looks so shabby.Graham 23:20, 7 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Bezier curve

Hi, I have rewritten the section ==Applications in computer graphics== to include the material I removed earlier from the Bezier curve article. Please give me your comment what you think about the article now. I know my rewrite was quite radical but I thought the article was in very bad shape. The definition is quite mathematical and probably hard to understand for most people. But the section examples and applications in computer graphics should make up for this.MathMartin 15:08, 20 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Sydney

Want to join? I'm still formulating policy. Incidently, there is a message board Wikipedia:Australian wikipedians' notice board - Ta bu shi da yu 06:09, 23 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Welcome! Good to see you on board - don't worry if you don't know much about Sydney, I'm sure you'll be able to help us in plenty of ways :-) Ta bu shi da yu 04:43, 27 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Vauxhall Magnum

Hullo Graham. No problem, I'm quite happy that you reverted. In my defence the pic does look greatly improved on my 19 inch CRT monitor. I let the pic go large deliberately because I understand pic size is no longer an issue so I let pics go up to 200K. For your interest the colour change was done in Photoshop (IMAGE/ADJUST/AUTOLEVELS) and it looks like I should have been content with a gentler colour change. Best - Adrian Pingstone 07:24, 23 Sep 2004 (UTC)

I did the pic originally in Photoshop (Mac version), and I agree it looks a little washed out - if I get time I'll see if I can improve it, though i find autolevels can sometimes go way too far depending on the image. Some manual tweaks might be worthwhile, I'll try. As for size, did the pic size policy get changed? There's still download time/cost to consider and to me 200K sounds too large. Even 100K is a biggish hit on dial-up.Graham 11:39, 23 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Hi! In future I'll be gentler on any colour corrections I might do!

I've revisited Image use policy and this is the seems to be the only bit on file sizes:

The MediaWiki software that Wikipedia uses, as of version 1.3, can resize images automatically. It is no longer necessary, in most cases, to resize images yourself. We want Wikipedia content to be reused as widely as possible, including as a source for printed media. Therefore, you should generally upload photographic images at a high resolution and use the Wikipedia image markup to resize it.

The only restriction is that uploaded files must be smaller than 2 megabytes. The software will warn "It is recommended that images not exceed 100KB in size" whenever you upload larger images, but with proper use of thumbnails, this warning may safely be ignored.

I've bolded the particularly relevant bits.

Obviously this takes no regard to load times, which I tend to forget about because I've got always-on broadband - Adrian Pingstone 14:23, 23 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Comparison of operating systems firmware

I removed the firmware row since it's a feature of the hardware, not the OS. Alas, when an OS is ported to a new platform it almost never gets to bring its old firmware with it :)

But the comparison info was interesting and should live somewhere; I just can't see where. I'm nervous about suggesting Yet Another Comparison article since they at the rate we are going we'll have hundreds of them by Christmas.. but if anyone does create Comparison of computer platforms or some such then we'll have some content for it on hand. Saucepan 15:09, 23 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Apple Mac talk page

Hi Graham,

Thanks for pointing out on Talk: Apple Macintosh that:

However, it's unusual to ever delete stuff from a talk page - I think that's discouraged simply because it avoids old arguments being rehashed.

I'm a newbie so I may inadvertently due very foolish newbie things; don't hesitate to point out if I do anything strange/foolish. I've been more or less going by common sense and some understanding of the guidelines, but I guess a more thorough reading of Wikipedia:Talk_page is needed. --C S 00:53, Sep 24, 2004 (UTC)

Hey, no worries. I archived the page, I hope that satisfies everyone. As for adding stuff to the top, no worries either, I just happened to add the note at about the same time you moved yours, it wasn't a rebuke. Graham 02:25, 24 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Official invitation

Hi!

This is a message to let you know that there is now a UK-specific Wikipedia community page at Wikipedia:UK wikipedians' notice board. It would be great if you could come and get involved! -- Graham ☺ | Talk 23:01, 1 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Folk and fake etymology

I've taken on fixing up folk etymology vs fake etymology, mostly by making folk etymology strict to the linguistics term and pushing the rest over to fake etymology (and fixing all of the inbound links that went to the wrong one). I noticed you'd mentioned the difference before on fake etymology's talk page so I thought I'd leave a note. A second set of eyes on folk etymology from someone that understands the difference couldn't hurt either, if you've got a moment. — mendel ☎ 02:48, Nov 5, 2004 (UTC)

Cooties

Hey there, hope I didn't offend or anything by cutting out the Simpsons reference from the article. I've just been trying to go around Wikipedia to take out a lot of unnecessary Simpsons/Futurama/other shows references in totally non-related articles (check the history of Gator, for instance). However, I'm not quite sure I agree with its inclusion in that article, as its claim as being an "American" term already spells out that fact. Is there a UK-equivalent word for "cooties"? Otherwise, bang-up job on the article. Ian Pugh 04:04, 10 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Well, it has been worked on by others, though I did create it originally. Why? Because I kept hearing the term on The Simpsons and had no idea what they were talking about! So I did a bit of research and that's how the article came to be added. I do think The Simpsons mention is relevant, since a quick poll among friends (not hard evidence, but at least anecdotal) suggest that yes, a lot of people had heard the term on that show, but otherwise didn't know what it was taking about. You could still argue that mentioning The Simpsons isn't necessary, but on the other hand a) it does no harm b) it adds a little bit of colour to the article and c) it helps confirm the reason that many people might go looking for the term in the first place. That's my view, but to be honest it doesn't seem too big a deal either way. Given that wikipedia osn't paper, what's wrong with so many references to The Simpsons anyway? In pop culture, it will probably be come to be seen as an important "work" Graham 22:31, 10 Nov 2004 (UTC)

There's some truth in that - as the show has since become a major source of pop culture and has had great impact on society. However, I've been removing references where the level of granularity to the references becomes ridiculous, such as this quote from Emu: "In an episode of the television series The Simpsons, Marge suggests to Homer that he could raise emus." Through your explanation, "cooties" seems like a viable place for such a reference, but for the most part, the appearance of minor quotes and references in unrelated articles damages their credibility and readability. Ian Pugh 23:32, 10 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Please vote

Hello, I see you've contributed a lot to Wikipedia and know about which articles are encyclopedic or not. Can you please help by voting at Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/La La? Cheers. .:. 03:10, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Contact points

Interesting coincidences. I just noticed that you made a correction, after my update, to the Enigma Variations page (I can't believe I missed the "Neath"). Well, I too work in the computer industry, am a private pilot, lived in Wycombe (actually Hazlemere) and emigrated - in 1983, to the US. I got my PPL recently in the Pacific Northwest (yes, I work at MS). "Ordinary" planes are a it easier to deal with here. Some kind of remote cousin?

I was just looking at the various and inconsistent pages describing the various US pilot ratings and I thought I'd take a swipe at them.

Well.. Hi, Cuz ;) maybe you should sign your posts...? How's Seattle after Wycombe? I must say living out here in the Australian countryside, nice weather (mostly), great food, much less stress (and need I mention infinitely less congestion in the air) - hardly compares. My interest in W.M.B. (apart from enjoying Elgar's music) stems from the fact that as a youngster my family lived in Hasfield, in one of the Meath-Baker's properties, which was later occupied by WMB's grand-daughter (I think). I can't find much about him on the net, most searches turn up the Elgar connection, with a few about his connection to Fenton, Staffordshire. However he seems an interesting character so if I can dig up a bit more there's sure to be an article in it.

P.S. How's it going copying OS X? :) Graham 01:20, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Oh well, I'm new to this thing. Wycombe, then Hail Weston, then Boston area, and finally here. At least the weather here is familiar to any Brit.

I know, this isn't meant to be a chat board.

P.P.S We didn't copy OS X. We copied VMS. DavidBrooks 20:51, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Apple talk page

Hi Graham, I saw your refactoring on Talk:Apple and your comment in history before. I don't get it.

(rv to last version by Chan-Ho Suh - what's the point of bringing back all that old archived stuff?)

after I

RESTRUCTURE

After the archiving you did there is not much difference on the final page, but I just wanted to be sure I didn't miss anything, and you simply misunderstood my edit (otherwise, what did I bring back?).

Sending you some of my moderating courage for this page ;) --Chealer 01:18, 2004 Dec 8 (UTC)

Yeah, sorry - I got a bit confused myself!! When I saw your restructure, it made some of the stuff that I'd considered old and done with "come back" quite prominently - my recollection was that this had been previously archived off. In fact I was mistaken - the archiving I recalled related to another page, this one hasn't been previously archived. So that prompted me to create the archive and move most of the older stuff into it. If you feel I was a bit too keen then feel free to move back anything you think is still an open discussion. Graham 01:29, 8 Dec 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) 18:27, Dec 8, 2004 (UTC)

Cocoa vs. Carbon

Did you have a particular source in mind for your Aug 13 addition to the Criticism section of the Apple Computer page? [2] Don't get me wrong, I have heard this pointed out elsewhere and I have a few ideas where you might have got this from, but I can't remember anyone actually having any concrete evidence to back it up. Kind of like the Cocoa apps are more native than Carbon apps arguments, that make no sense when you get right down to it. AlistairMcMillan 06:45, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC)

I don't know of a good source, but will keep my eyes open for one. Nevertheless I think the paragraph is excellent and belongs there. It's truth is patently obvious to any Apple developer who has been awake. There's no other conceivable explanation for things like the shift from the use of TYPE/CREATOR to the use of file extensions, or the innumerable and unnecessary ways in which the OS X Finder is inferior to the OS 9 Finder. (The OS X Finder adds many nifty things, some good, but it loses many things, IMHO for no good reason at all). There's also been an obvious decline in user interface consistency within the Finder. Plus, changes in documentation style (regression to the industry "you've got the header files and some sample code, what more do you want?" norm). All explicable only in terms of a "hostile takeover." And don't forget the infamous Tech Note... what was the number? TN2034 maybe? [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith (talk)]] 16:57, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC)

I'm afraid I don't have a quotable source for this. I'm an Apple developer and have been for many years; my comment was based on my own perception and that of others I work with or sometimes get together with who work in the same area, and also various developer mailing lists. This is backed up by conversations with a variety of Apple people that I've spoken with at conferences and seminars - sometimes all you get (and all it takes) is a certain look! I admit it doesn't amount to much - just anecdotal evidence etc, but as Dpbsmith points out, it's also evident in some of the technical and design decisions that we have to work with every day. I believe in time the situation will ease since in most respects OS X is truly streets ahead of Mac OS 9, and however grudgingly, developers will have to recognise that eventually, both internally and externally. Some of the points about the Finder and so forth I agree with though in practice the usability issues are perhaps not as big as they've been made out to be, and Smart Folders in 10.4 will probably change the way we all work with files. I think I have a copy of TN2034 (if that's the right number - at work so can't check) somewhere - it might make the subject of an article in its own right. Graham 22:21, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Image licence

Hi! Thanks for uploading Image:Drag Curve 2.jpg. I notice it currently doesn't have an image copyright tag. Could you add one to let us know its copyright status? (You can use {{gfdl}} if you release it under the GFDL, or {{fairuse}} if you claim fair use, etc.) If you don't know what any of this means, just let me know where you got the images and I'll tag them for you. If you do, would you mind checking other images you've uploaded for copyright tags. Thanks so much, Tagishsimon (talk) 23:25, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC)

I created the image myself - more than happy to release it copyright free. Graham 23:32, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Also, Image:Circuit Pattern 2.png and Image:Circuit pattern.png RedWolf 19:04, Dec 23, 2004 (UTC)

Leyland Princess

Are you claiming the image you placed there is public domain, or are you using it under fair use / fair dealing? —Morven 00:27, Dec 10, 2004 (UTC)

All the images I uploaded for a variety of BL/Austin/Morris are press release photographs which state 'copyright free' on them. I'm not sure what status that confers on them within WP, but obviously the intention of the (now defunct) company was originally as publicity material, so I'm pretty sure we can use them without any problems. I cropped the images so that there was more car and less filler, and in doing so cropped off the margin which had the title and copyright free message. You can find the originals at [3].

BAC 1-11

More image license stuff! Image:Court.line.bac1-11.592pix.jpg has no copyright tag. If you could mosey on by and add an appropriate tag that would be swell. Or leave me a message with the details and I can take care of it. Thanks!! --MaxPower 18:38, 2004 Dec 13 (UTC)

Oops, didn't look far enough down my list of images to work through. Image:Court.line.bac1-11.750pix.jpg, Image:Court line 111.jpg, Image:Court tristar.jpg are a few more than need looking at. Also, the first three look awfully similar, maybe two of them could be deleted? Thanks again. --MaxPower 18:45, 2004 Dec 13 (UTC)

Unverified image

Hi! Thanks for uploading the following image:

Image:Duel modulus.jpg

I notice it currently doesn't have an image copyright tag. Could you add one to let us know its copyright status? (You can use {{gfdl}}: {{gfdl}}if you release it under the GNU Free Documentation License, {{fairuse}}{{Fairuse}}if you claim fair use, etcetc.) If you don't know what any of this means, just let me know at my talk page and I'll tag it for you. Thanks so much. Denni ☯ 04:23, 2004 Dec 13 (UTC)

P.S. You can help tag other images at Wikipedia:Untagged_Images. Thanks again.

Gotta add Image:Ackermann.jpg and Image:Ackermann New.jpg as two more without copyright tags. Thanks for uploading them! --[[User:Ricky81682|Ricky81682 (talk)]] 22:51, Dec 18, 2004 (UTC)

Image:HS Trident 2.jpg

Thank you for uploading [[[:Image:HS Trident 2.jpg]] and thank you for clarifying that it was in the public domain. However, please leave a note on that page with information about the source of the image. If you have any questions, just leave a message on my talk page. --Ellmist 05:57, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Cooties

I agree with your deletion of the Zappa reference that I added to the "Cooties" page. In fact I was thinking on the way into work this morning that I should delete it myself, since it was a little too cute, or obscure. Blame it on the fact that I only discovered Wikipedia 24 hours ago, and have learned a lot since that first "intervention". I look forward to learning a lot more in future! --Timonroad 00:24, 5 Jan 2005 (UTC)

No worries. I'm not familiar with the song, and following the reference didn't explain what it had to do with cooties, so... Anyway, welcome to the 'pedia, hope you have fun. You tend to get rather stuck here.... ;-) Graham 00:29, 5 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Images to be tagged

Please clarify under what license you would like these images released: Image:VX Magnum2.jpg, Image:VX HS Chevette2.jpg. 119 06:11, 8 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Images found by User:Quadell

Image:Vx vivahb.jpg
Image:Vx vivahc.jpg
Image:Vx magnum.jpg (says used with permission, but whose permission?)

Balsa

Nice that you'd started work on 62.248.39.230's weird additions at Balsa; however, I discovered that all of 62.248.39.230's stuff had been copied & pasted from another website so must be presumed a copyright infringement. I have therefore reverted it all back to Yath's version; hope that's OK. - MPF 12:16, 10 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Yep, that's OK - shit happens ;-) Actually I did wonder myself as it was not in keeping with WP style - pity though, there were some useful facts there. Graham 22:55, 10 Jan 2005 (UTC)

tristate logic

I responded on Talk:Logic_gate. --DavidCary 06:15, 15 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Nip–tuck on Opel Astra page

Hi Graham: hope it's OK, I've made some edits to your Pontiac LeMans additions. The car was already there, just a bit higher up than where you entered it; also I took it out of the first sentence since it began with 'The Astra is …,' as the LeMans is a past model. My changes mightn't be the most fluent so please feel free to modify. Stombs 10:58, Jan 17, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks - I was unclear about which model it was, and I hadn't noticed it was already in there. Graham 22:48, 17 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Thanks, Graham—and the good news was thanks to your entry it made me think about other names the car was known by—the Passport Optima, would you believe, in Canada? Stombs 06:55, Jan 18, 2005 (UTC)

Preview screenshot

You should edit the image description page to attribute the source of the photo to yourself, in case its origin is ever questioned. -- Curps 01:21, 18 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Review request

Hi :) If you have a few minutes it be great if you could have a look at West Papua and the re-name proposal at the bottom of its discussion page. Any input, edits, or opinions be great. I've always tried to ensure there was an abundance of supporting evidence before adding content, and avoid emotive wording; I welcome different opinions, just wish they would explain what it is they disagree with. All Best :)Daeron 17:27, 22 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Image:Court.line.bac1-11.592pix.jpg

Greetings. User:Arpingstone uploaded Image:Court.line.bac1-11.592pix.jpg, saying the image was provided by you. I was looking through the images here, and I was wondering, did you take this photograph yourself? Do you remember where it came from? Any help you could be would be appreciated. – Quadell ^{(talk) (sleuth)} 19:37, Feb 3, 2005 (UTC)