User talk:Jimhutchins
Wow--A name I recognize from agility! Welcome to wikipedia. I'd love to expand the dog agility history a bit but have only limited information. Thanks for the compliments, though. Now--here's your official welcome message:
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Elf | Talk 20:03, 3 Sep 2004 (UTC) (AKA Ellen Finch from The Bay Team)
ACDs
And I see that you already visited the cattle dog page. The main reason the stub message was still there was that, to be complete, the article really needs info on standard height & weight and any other descriptive summary of their appearance (without reproducing the breed standards but remembering that there are visually impaired people who might be *listening* to the site), health issues, longevity, stuff like that. If you're feeling ambitious, have at it. (Although most of our dog articles from the list of dog breeds aren't nearly as complete as they should be eventually.)
Also, if you have a nice photo of an ACD doing agility that would add to the article and that you could identify the photographer and release under GFDL (like the wikipedia text is) or to public domain, that would be awesome. IMHO. Elf | Talk 20:10, 3 Sep 2004 (UTC)
- Thanks! Good job. I also added your photos to the Wikipedia free-distr image gallery, here. A couple of tips:
- There is a movement afoot to avoid putting a specific size on thumbnails and allowing them to default, so that later (or maybe now) anyone can set the size as part of their preferences, so if working on a smaller screen or if vision impaired they could adjust the size. The only times that I use specific sizes are if the photo itself is very small and I don't want it expanded, if the photo has detail that doesn't show up well at the default size, or in formalized places such as the breed tables, where it's always 250px.
- To indicate your username/page, it's [[User:Jimhutchins]] rather than merely [[Jimhutchins]].