User talk:Snowmanradio/Archive 3

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Image:Reed_warbler_cuckoo.jpg

Could I use your great photo for cuckoo entry in Italian Wikipedia, please? You can answer right here or in my User_talk page, if you prefer. Thank you.

Pepp.cristiano from Italian Wikipedia. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 213.230.129.21 (talk) 17:50, 8 February 2007 (UTC).

I found it on another language wiki, and digitally enhanced it. Anyone can use it as long as they put the same licence on it to respect the original editors wishes. Snowman 20:43, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

Baginton

Hi, thank you for the contact.

I stumbled across the "Baginton" article and thought I'd give it a helping hand and add a few of the more advanced features of Wikipedia.

With regards to the infobox and having an image - the infoboxes for UK (or at least English) places are designed to have a map showing the location of the settlement. However, I do not know the coordinates for this village to generate the map.

Pit-yacker is a user with what appears an extensive knowledge and know-how to obtain the precise coordinates fot the map to appear. I would recommend contacting him and I'm sure he'd be obliged to help.

I set up a Gallery for the article to aid in the flowing of text and stop picture/white space conflict. Given there is only a little text in the article for now, images are almost certainly best placed there.

With regards to contributing to UK place articles, there are a set of standard headings which are meant to be adopted across Wikipedia to start achieving some kind of consistency. For these reasons I added a number of these to the Baginton article. These standard heading guidelines are found here: I find them most useful.

Hope that helps somewhat. Please feel free to contact me at any time and I'll be happy to get back to you. Jhamez84 00:39, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

Hillfields

An article you created, Hillfields, was featured on the Did You Know column on February 24, 2007. I nominated it after expanding it to a suitable size to feature on the column. I thought you should know! Happy editting! - Erebus555 12:25, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

Great news, I wonder if it will help the Hillfields farm. Snowman 12:43, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

Unfortunately, I doubt it would help the farm. However, the amount of press it gets in local papers and in local news programmes should generate some interest. I paid visit recently myself and I've added my support to keep it open. - Erebus555 12:51, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

Did you get any photos or the farm or of Hillfields? Snowman 12:53, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

I'm afraid not. It was not a planned visit. We just went past it and felt it would be nice to pop inside. I take my camera everywhere I go now though! - Erebus555 12:55, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

Blood Type

Thanks for the kind words. Would like to do more copyediting "Had we but worlds enough, and time..." (Andrew Marvell) Unimaginative Username 17:25, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

Re: User Page

Thanks, but I'd rather keep it empty. I don't really have anything I'd like to say that wouldn't go on a talk page, and having my name in red in histories is nice because it stands out. --JianLi 23:56, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

Why not redirect it to your talk page? Snowman 23:58, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

Infobox Map

Hi Snowman! Thanks for the contact.

You may be interested to know that there are plans (in the latter stages) to roll out a UK place infobox. This should happen in the next week(s?) or so.

These infoboxes will be more userfriendly and should solve any inputting problems you may have been having. I'd hang on for a little while and watch for the release. Does that help? Jhamez84 11:16, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

This is worth knowing; I will return to the Scottish infoboxes after a few weeks after the release. It is putting a dot on the map that is difficult in Scotland, because there are only about 45 Scottish place dots to choose from. Snowman 11:23, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

Yes the co-ordinate system has proven to be the domain of the experts, but this should change very soon. I think there will still be a Scotland map (as opposed to a UK wide map), but setting the pointer will use a new system (so I am told). I'll keep you posted! Jhamez84 11:34, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

I think that the Scottish map should show a little of the north of England to help orientation. Can you tell them that? The dot on the map for Gretna looks odd without he English coastline. Snowman 11:40, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

rating of bird species

Hi! I notice you've been re-rating several bird articles, particularly species. While there is no offical scale that's been set in stone for rating their importance, for the most part species have been assigned low importance ratings except in the cases of extremely common or important species (ones that are either iconic, such as Bald Egale, ubiquitous, such as the Rock Pigeon, or otherwise super famous like the Dodo). I'm curious as to your rational for upgrading species Great Frigatebird, Elfin Wood warbler and Montagu's Harrier. Also, if you haven't already been invited, do drop in and join the Wikipedia:WikiProject Birds. Cheers! Sabine's Sunbird talk 02:48, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

I think that the Great Frigatebird and the Montagu's Harrier are rather iconic so I have increased them on the importance scale from low to mid. The Great Frigatebird have a wide range, incredible flying bird, and were of interest to Darwin on Galopagus, I vaguely recall. Elfin Wood Warbler is a vunerable species, and I feel that makes a differnce, so I increased its status from low to mid. Perhaps you would like to help to start Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals#Aviculture, which I hope gets formed soon. Snowman 11:20, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

Crimson-collared Tanager

Hi, Snowman. You might be interested in my response (not really an objection) to your downrating Crimson-collared Tanager at the talk page. —JerryFriedman 16:03, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

Skeleton Diagram

Hi Snowman. The skeleton diagram is more a cartoon than anything else, it is by no means anatomically accurate or a serious medical diagram. As you suggest Grays is far superior at that as is Netter, both of which have their own tradditions for visual placement of body parts. At present it is orphaned but will either be part of an article for a technical drawing related page or will be deleted as there is currently no requirement for it. Thanks for your comments though, I will update the image description over the next day or so to point out that despite the deceptive title it is not infact an anatomical diagram in any sense. Ta. WikipedianProlific ^(Talk) 01:15, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Reverting on Vitamin C

The link you cited (WP:MoS) isn't "policiy"; it's only a guideline, which should only be taken lightly. However, Wikipedia:Ignore all rules, which implicitly states "If the rules prevent you from improving or maintaining Wikipedia, ignore them", is policy, so I think if I'm going to heed any sort of rule, it'll be that one. Along with Wikipedia:Wikipedia is an encyclopedia and meta:Don't be a dick.

I don't understand why you'd insist on following a rule even if it's making Wikipedia look worse — Jack · talk · 13:23, Wednesday, 21 March 2007

I think that there may be a more polite way of saying that. Autosize images can be viewed according to the settings on a users computer. Larger pictures take longer to load and not everyone has a fast internet connection. Guidlines are to make the wiki uniform and easier to read. I think that the atherosclerosis image is too small to read the small detail, and I see no reason for the image of the goat to be large or for it to have such a long caption. Actually, in-the-round, I think my changes were an improvement, but as I have not worked on the page much, I will leave the size of the images on that page to others. btw. Snowman 21:46, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Edgbarrow

Hey! Why delete my Edgbarrow Photo? I have permission to release copyright into public domain from Brian Mudge at the school. --EvansUK 18:23, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

You are welcome to explain the copyright on the image's delete-discussion page. Snowman 20:00, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

Welcome to VandalProof!

Thank you for your interest in VandalProof, Snowmanradio! You have now been added to the list of authorized users, so if you haven't already, simply download and install VandalProof from our main page. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me or any other moderator, or you can post a message on the discussion page. Ale_Jrb ^talk 17:24, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

Possibly unfree Image:River and royal shakespeare theatre 15a07.JPG

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copyright of this photo taken by me has been amended by me. Snowman 12:17, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

Possibly unfree Image:Bendibus coventry 30m07 .JPG

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copyright of this photo taken by me has been amended by me. Snowman 12:17, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

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Images

I noticed you moved Image:Reed warbler cuckoo.jpg from another language. Please move these images to Wikimedia Commons, a common repository where all images and media are stored. This allows all projects to use them (imagine every project moving each image every time they were needed). Please ensure you upload any future images to commons, where you can create a sister account. If you see any similar cases, please inform the user involved about this. Thanks, Richard001 05:35, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

I believe anyone can move an image to wiki commons if it merits it. Snowman 08:32, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

Autoblock

I have been unjustly and indirectly affected by an autoblock directed at another user on a large networked computer system. There are notices on the user page for this computer network number and this should not have happened. Please correct this immediately. Snowman 12:23, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

Autoblocks are exactly what they say they are, automatic and beyond our control in 99% of cases. If you want to blame someone, blame your network provider for not allocating you a static IP address or implementing XFF headers on their proxy server. -- Netsnipe ► 13:55, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

Y	Your request to be unblocked has been granted for the following reason(s): Autoblock of 62.173.88.59 lifted or expired. Request handled by: Netsnipe ► 13:55, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

Photo

What is name of the street, where take you this photo - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Stoke_aldermoor_terrace_28n06.jpg ? 89.230.16.168 19:16, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

Michell Close (off The Moorfield), Stoke Aldermoor, Coventry. Curran1980 18:08, 7 July 2007 (UTC)

service ceiling merge

You recently (well, several months ago) edited service ceiling, which i just proposed be merged with absolute ceiling. Almost nobody edits either of these pages, so I'm telling you as a recent editor. Pdbailey 01:24, 21 June 2007 (UTC)