User talk:Scipius/Archive 1

Hello there, welcome to the 'pedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you need any questions answered about the project then check out Wikipedia:Help or drop me a line. BTW, fantastic job on the Euro pages! Although I'm not totally happy with the pluralized naming (per wikipedia naming conventions), I can't think of a better system of naming right now. Anyway, where did you get those gorgeous images of the currencies? Cheers! --maveric149

Thanks very much, I think I'll be around fixing minor things here and there, but I can't say when I'll find the time for some more extensive articles (there's still quite a bit I might contribute to the Netherlands pages). I got the images from the ECB site, where they offer images of all the coins for viewing, but also as a .zip file (.gifs and .jpgs) for other uses I presume (they can be found at many other sites, though rarely at their full size like here). I did however convert the .gifs to .pngs because of Wikipedia's stance on .gifs, saved a bit in image size as well ;) --Scipius

Hi & welcome. The Euro articles are great. As a semiBrit I found them very interesting; they prompted much speculation down my local pub as to what designs we'll have eventually... -- Tarquin

Thanks, BTW I was surprised to find in gathering information that Britain is in fact already producing euro banknotes. I wonder if that is known to the anti-euro camp... ;) --Scipius

Nice edit of the Provinces of the Netherlands article! I didn't know the names changed twice during the Batavian/French period (of which you still have to add the names). -- jheijmans

Hello, there's discussion on Talk:Countries of the world/Status of the porting of Dept of State info about how to desubpage the country entries, or whether to do so; if you're still interested in getting WikiProject Countries off the ground you should go vote about what to do so we know how to proceed. :-) --KQ

Hoi Scipius, you mentioned you would probably be writing on history/geography of the Netherlands. I've been adding articles on the First Anglo-Dutch War and Second Anglo-Dutch War (also Anglo-Dutch War); could you have a look at them, the information in there's still pretty basic right now. Thanks, Jeronimo

Thanks for all the flag images, they're very nice. Are they all from a single source? If so, that should probably be mentioned. --LDC

They're all from the CIA World Factbook, with corrections for the sometimes off-beat coulours, as has been discussed in Talk:WikiProject Countries. I plan on a full list of all flags once done with adding them, we can perhaps mention it there, or on the individual image pages. -Scipius

Please mention this on each individual flag by stating the source so in the upload summary - doing this will automatically place that text in the image description page. --mav