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Under no cirmstances do I wish to join another wiki project, other than the commons. Do not solicit me to join one. ~~Kevin

Hi Kevin,

Thanks for the note on png compression. I played around a bit with Paint Shop Pro compression for png files and actually got larger files. I thought 22k wasn't too bad and just went with it. I found I could get down to 3k to 5k by limiting the number of colors, but that negatively impacted the image.

Since I could use pngcrush with a wildcard, what you suggested was feasible (if not, there was no way I was running the program many hundreds of times). After trying pngcrush on a few dozen files, it seemed like method 113 was the one that consistently won, so I just used it. The whole state of Arizona took 45 seconds and yielded 30% savings.

I'll be starting on Ohio soon and plan to use pngcrush as part of the process.

You might want to put the pngcrush tip on your User Page for others. It's a goodie.

Welcome to Wikipedia by the way. Perhaps it's because of the holidays, but usually we would have a 'greeter' post you a note. Since it hasn't happened, I'll take this opportunity. I'm posting below part of what Angela sent to me when I was new, in case it's helpful. Let me know if I can help you in the future (and feel free to chime in when you can help me!)

-- Angela's useful links --

Here are some useful links in case you haven't already found them;

If you have any questions, see the help pages, add a question to the village pump or ask me on my talk page. I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian!

-- End Angela's useful links --

Thanks, again. Brian Rock 23:01, 6 Jul 2004 (UTC)

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Welcome to wikimedia screenshot reply

Very well, ts not copyrighted windows software. Was Netscape/Mozilla 3 ever released under an open source license? If not, the design of the software is copyrighted, and the image would need to be fair use. While your contributions to the image may be released, the underlying image of the browser itself may not be freely licensed. Kevin_b_er 03:15, 7 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I didn't claim that I've the copyright of the design of Netscape navigator, so this point is moot. I also don't claim to have the copyright of the Web page on this picture. The screenshot is PD because I made it and say so. This doesn't cover the design of the buttons, the broken image icons, or any other visible detail, it's about the complete screenshot. -- Omniplex 03:32, 7 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for info, I found a similar tag for image:GAstarFA.jpg, {{wikipedia-screenshot}}, but that point's now moot (= replaced by {{db-author}}), account closed. -- User:Omniplex 04:18, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

Barnstar

RFA forum

I wonder if you were offended by me posting a vote on the RFA. I made some more edits, if you don't mind. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Reggae Sanderz (talk • contribs) 01:49, July 13, 2006 (UTC)

Lol, Habbo

Haha, I see what you did there. Fight on, /b/rother.

Mulatto 3RR

My apologies if my anti-vandal efforts on Mulatto have come across as violating 3RR. I posted more information regarding your 3RR report - hopefully that will help clear things up. I honestly got involved in the dispute not over content, but over the disruptive actions of the IP vandal. Any advice you may have on how to proceed would be very welcome! --JereKrischel 02:12, 15 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

thank you, have a barnstar

		The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
		For your vigilant efforts of finding and reverting vandalism, Thanks -- malo (tlk) (cntrbtns) 02:20, 16 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

"Star" Extra

Regarding your recent AfD: Actually, you're right and wrong, as there's such a thing in show business as a "Principal Extra" or "Featured Extra".

Typically, these people are paid at a higher rate, sometimes substantially so, and are featured in the scene, usually beside or interacting directly with the main actors.

Often, they are friends or associates of the star.

In many cases, they are Stand Ins picking-up extra pay at the hand of a 1st AD who's pleased with their regular work.

Still they have no lines, but are something less than "straight" background players.

You were correct to delete the article. I myself have been a Principal Extra many times, but it's not something you're likely to ever read about.

FYI. Faro Player Number One 02:52, 17 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

cyLEDGE

The cyLEDGE article has now been edited to take into account justified criticisms by several users. Please accept our apologies for what may have seemed excessive or unclear marketing jargon (the jargon which, for better or worse, we are most familar with...), and have done our best to follow the Wiki Style manual. Though cyLEDGE contains the company site as an external link, it is not so much a marketing campaign than it is an attempt to communicate what we are doing and get reactions from other people working or interested in the field. Since there is a natural affinity to cyLEDGE's activities and open-platforms such as Wikipedia, it is important for us to be present there - an additional paragraph has been added to make as clear as possible what the issues at stake are, and which we are trying to come to terms with. I hope you will reconsider your proposed deletion in view of these changes. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Knusper (talk • contribs) 16:06, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

RFCU/Case/Unsorted

Can you put some kind of a box on the page to link to a page archive/archives? I think we should move work off the page to an archive as soon as it is properly formatted and filed, but I'm not sure how another box would interact with the boxes already on the page. Thatcher131 05:28, 19 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I took care of Blu Aarvark. Dmcdevit very nicely confirmed it on ANI for us. Thatcher131 00:21, 21 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Satorial hijab images

Hey. They are all template:noncommercial... and since they were uploaded before May 19, 2005 they aren't unfree by Wikipedia standards. They are bad quality images... but, they should be phased out not deleted under PUI. I made a comment there and... well, I see it as an improper listing since they were uploaded in the proper time frame and we should put them up for IfD as soon as we replace them. What do you say? gren グレン 02:38, 21 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It's actually {{noncommercialProvided}} the author is attributed. But, same basic idea. As that template says they will be considered for deletion. So, some already have replacements from like Flickr and all... want to put those ones up on IfD? and the others will be deleted in due time. gren グレン 02:42, 21 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Well, PUI is to dispute the copyrights that are claimed. There is no dispute since they are non-commercial (bad) but uploaded before May 19, 2005 (so they can't be speedily deleted). So, they should go to IfD. I have no problem deleting images that have a replacement for each specific type of garment... but they really don't belong on PUI. They are allowed... they were just a bad idea that should be phased out. He gave no time frame and the idea was to find replacements. So, how about I delete them as we find replacement images? Plus, the sartorial hijab article is incredibly bad. It needs cleanup, fixup, clarfication, etc. Sorry, not trying to be difficult but I see no reason to delete them before replacing them. If you feel strongly enough that they need to be deleted now then I do ask you to put them on IfD. If you are willing to wait a bit and see when we get replacements then just let them go. gren グレン 03:04, 21 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Images... I've decided that those images are just so bad that they should go. Not because they're noncommercial... but because they are low resolution and the site that gave those descriptions isn't a particularly good source. So, we'll find new images, new sources. I don't know if it's a good idea for me to speedy delete them... gren グレン 07:14, 21 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Thanks for catching the vandalism by Ericsaindon2. The guy is really getting out of hand. --Coolcaesar 06:00, 21 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The Holocaust protection

Thanks for letting me know. I guess I just assumed Wikipedia was "the encyclopedia anyone can edit". How dumb I was, apparently. Liu Bei 07:43, 21 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

CheckUser goof

Sorry about creating the page at the wrong place; I was trying to follow the directions, but must have made a mistake somewhere, because the page that was created wasn't at the right place. I hope it's all OK and formatted correctly now. —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 05:50, 22 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yep, that's what I did (I replaced "Case" with the username instead of putting the username after "Case/"). All's well that ends well, though... —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 06:11, 22 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Spam

Well done on rv spam by 210.211.136.24. I've just blocked them for a month. Tyrenius 10:12, 22 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

cfd2 etc

Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#William Allen Simpson trying to make CFR a vote --SPUI (T - C) 01:36, 24 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I already commented on this. Kevin_b_er 01:38, 24 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I was not vandalising!

My edits were attempting to fix what I had originally thought was an error on the page (although now I see that I was looking at it incorrectly). But I was not trying to vandalise the page intentionally, except that somebody's stupid anti-vandalism bot assumed I was vandalising. This is why I don't like bots on wikipedia. Dr. Cash 01:10, 26 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

diacritics

you should tell that to the person who moved it to the version with diacritics without first discussing it. I am simply restoring the original title and following Wikipedia:Naming conventions, Wikipedia:Naming conventions (use English), Wikipedia:Naming conventions (standard letters with diacritics), and Wikipedia:WikiProject Ice Hockey/Player pages format#Use of diacritics and non-English characters. So, before you give me grief on the matter, go give grief to people like user:Tupsharru, user:JIP, and user:Travelbird who completely ignored the discussions and mass-moved pages. Masterhatch 06:46, 26 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Try it

Hi,

Try using this. I didn't have much flexibility with regards to content, so just fixed a couple of existing issues. Note that the page has been copyedited, and is a bit different from the original. — Ambuj Saxena (talk) 16:30, 26 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks from Operakid418

Hi Kevin:

Thanks for redirecting my page (Mozart's Compositions) to "List of works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart". I had looked for a page with all of the information on it, and could not find one...but now I will be busy adding to the article you redirected me to.

Is it violating copyright to copy and paste other Wikipedia articles (or parts of them) into a different Wikipedia article without citation? For example, could I copy and paste most of the article "Violin Concerto No. 2 (Mozart)" into its correct subheading in the article "List of works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart"? I believe that it would be much easier for someone looking for information on Mozart's compositions to be able to look all in one place instead of switching articles every time they need information about another composition.

Let me know when you get a chance the answers to the above questions. Thanks a lot for your help!

Operakid418 01:49, 27 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Mozart's Compositions

So would it be a violation of Wikipedia policies to copy and paste a large section of an article, such as Violin Concerto No. 3 (Mozart), into another article?

Also I plan on expanding all of the stubs on the rest of the Mozart Violin Concertos; as I have played quite a few of them.

Operakid418 02:24, 27 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

So would you suggest redirecting all of the individual articles about Mozart's compositions to List of works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart after copy and pasting the material from the articles into List of works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart?

I will also try to reorganize List of works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart... do you think it would be ok to put each composition in as its own heading so it will show up as a subgeading in the table of contents, or will that make the table of contents too long?

Operakid418 17:04, 27 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

California State Normal School article

Thanks for your support of this article, or at least nuetrality. It has been redirected by NeoChaosX. How can I find out if this was done with proper authority?

Also, you said you had saved the article for integration with the San Jose State University article. Can you do that? Thank You.

Michaelch7 27 July 2006 (UTC)

The Doctor's/Devil's Advocate

I'm very sorry about that, i wasnt sure how to move the articles. Thanx for telling me how. --Darkneonflame 06:31, 28 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Devil/Doctor's Advocate Situation

The apparent proof is just a typo of the title which isn't giving proof at all. The page shouldn't be moved like this unless theres real proof of the change. Do you agree? --JsnakeJ 07:19, 28 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]