User talk:Snoyes: Difference between revisions

Hello there, welcome to the 'pedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you need pointers on how we title pages visit Wikipedia:Naming conventions or how to format them visit our manual of style. If you have any other questions about the project then check out Wikipedia:Help or add a question to the Village pump. Cheers! --maveric149

Thank you very much! I'd be interested to hear how Wikipedia sustains itself financially. (I don't see a "donate" button/banner anywhere). And no, I'm not offended by a "RTFM" reply - just tell me which manual ;-). snoyes 06:49 Feb 14, 2003 (UTC)

You're Welcome! Right now all the bills are paid for by Jimbo Wales who owns the server and an ISP/search engine at http://bomis.com . But Jimbo is setting-up a non-profit to manage Wikipedia and states that he will give the non-profit the server plus bandwidth. --mav

That is very generous of Jimbo (even if he does stuff like give away his ferrari;-)). Anyway, I'll be happy to donate as soon as the facilities are up! snoyes 06:58 Feb 14, 2003 (UTC)

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Welcome! And thanks for correcting the mispeeling of "iss" in deprogramming. --Uncle Ed

Thank you very much! And my pleasure. Here's to the productive & fun collaboration among all wikipedians - cling. snoyes 22:54 Feb 14, 2003 (UTC)

Hi Snoyes, I don't think changing the word 'with' to 'on' on the [UN . . . Iraq] page solves the problem. on and with are both used, the former by anti-war people, the latter by pro-war people. So we have just moved one POV and replaced it for another. I've another suggestion: instead call it ' The UN Security Council and the proposed Iraq war'. That way you avoid any hint of bias, by all words that could be seen as in any way expressing a POV and instead calling it a term that all sides would be able to use: the Proposed Iraq War. What do you think? JTD 00:32 Feb 22, 2003 (UTC)

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Hi! My name is Adrian and I'm very active adding pics to articles. I've just noticed that my "peacock displaying" pic has lost the credit to me. If I click on it it just says something about "better picture than the previous uploader did" To me there's no change in quality but that's not what I'm concerned about.
It would have been friendly to let the world know that Adrian Pingstone took it and not to have eliminated all reference to me.

I know I put the pic into the public domain but it would be nice to see my name still there. I won't put my name back in to your pic description until I hear if you think I'm being reasonable.
Best Wishes, -- Arpingstone 11:40 Feb 22, 2003 (UTC)

Further comment: I've just put your 250 pixel pic and my 250 pixel pic side by side in Photoshop and the difference is trivial, certainly not enough to have been worth your effort in deleting mine. That means the "my pic is much better " in your pic description is exaggerated. Your comments please -- Arpingstone 13:07 Feb 22, 2003 (UTC)

Arp, your pic is still at File:Peacock.displaying.800pix.jpg, Snoyes has uploaded

File:UberPeacock.displaying.250pix.jpg. 

To thicken the plot, I may have a better picture I took of a peacock in my back garden, I'll have a look :-) -- Tarquin 13:46 Feb 22, 2003 (UTC)

Hi Arpingstone, sorry for not giving you credit on my resizing of your picture, I'm in the process of adding it. I do not mean to be antagonistic, but simply put - at least on my screen, the resizing I did was vastly superior. I actually undertook it because I happened upon the peacock page and was astonished at how fuzzy the peacock picture is. I'll put the pictures next to each other here, maybe some other impartial people could give a shout as to which one looks better. --snoyes 16:14 Feb 22, 2003 (UTC)

File:UberPeacock.displaying.250pix.jpg, File:Peacock.displaying.250pix.jpg

Arpingstone, I've seen you added the appropriate credits, thanks! - and my apologies for not doing it. You didn't have to add that I resized the pictures, but thanks. --snoyes 16:18 Feb 22, 2003 (UTC)