User talk:Linestamp

Welcome!

Hi Linestamp! I noticed your contributions and wanted to welcome you to the Wikipedia community. I hope you like it here and decide to stay.

As you get started, you may find this short tutorial helpful:

Learn more about editing

Alternatively, the contributing to Wikipedia page covers the same topics.

If you have any questions, we have a friendly space where experienced editors can help you here:

Get help at the Teahouse

If you are not sure where to help out, you can find a task here:

Volunteer at the Task Center

Happy editing! Kj cheetham (talk) 15:27, 15 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

October 2023

Hi Linestamp! I noticed that you recently marked an edit as minor that may not have been. "Minor edit" has a very specific definition on Wikipedia—it refers only to superficial edits that could never be the subject of a dispute, such as typo corrections or reverting obvious vandalism. Any edit that changes the meaning of an article is not a minor edit, even if it only concerns a single word. Please see Help:Minor edit for more information. Thank you. Kj cheetham (talk) 15:29, 15 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

File:Coat of arms of the Diocese of Austin.svg

There's kind of a problem replacing a coat of arms SVG image which is 73kb in size with an SVG which is over 5 megs in size, especially when the arms are not all that graphically complex. I haven't fully gotten to grips with the 5meg SVG yet, but I already know that it contains 500kb of embedded raster (PNG) data. I really think you need to slim down the megabyte bloat, and eliminate the embedded rasters, before this will be an acceptable replacement in Wikipedia articles. Thanks. AnonMoos (talk) 09:33, 1 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

P.S. Your diocese coat of arms images are rather steadily increasing in size, starting at 2.5 megs a week ago, increasing to 5 megs in recently-uploaded images:

 00:49 22 Feb. 2.52 MB Coat_of_arms_of_the_Diocese_of_Saint_Cloud.svg
 23:36 23 Feb. 2.7 MB Coat_of_arms_of_the_Diocese_of_Richmond.svg
 06:07 24 Feb. 2.7 MB Coat_of_arms_of_the_Archdiocese_of_Archdiocese_of_Anchorage-Juneau.svg
 06:26 24 Feb. 2.78 MB Coat_of_arms_of_the_Diocese_of_Pueblo.svg
 06:47 24 Feb. 2.83 MB Coat_of_arms_of_the_Diocese_of_Gary.svg
 08:31 24 Feb. 2.98 MB Coat_of_arms_of_the_Diocese_of_Lafayette_in_Indiana.svg
 09:05 24 Feb. 3.15 MB Coat_of_arms_of_the_Diocese_of_Grand_Rapids.svg
 09:09 24 Feb. 3.15 MB Coat_of_arms_of_the_Diocese_of_Brownsville.svg
 09:14 24 Feb. 3.06 MB Coat_of_arms_of_the_Diocese_of_Beaumont.svg
 23:27 26 Feb. 3.13 MB Coat_of_arms_of_the_Diocese_of_Joliet.svg
 00:31 27 Feb. 3.48 MB Coat_of_arms_of_the_Diocese_of_Davenport.svg
 00:42 28 Feb. 3.54 MB Coat_of_arms_of_the_Diocese_of_Kalamazoo.svg
 01:17 28 Feb. 3.58 MB Coat_of_arms_of_the_Diocese_of_Saginaw.svg
 01:44 28 Feb. 3.62 MB Coat_of_arms_of_the_Diocese_of_Gaylord.svg
 01:31 29 Feb. 4.2 MB Coat_of_arms_of_the_Archdiocese_of_Kansas_City_in_Kansas.svg
 01:39 29 Feb. 4.2 MB Coat_of_arms_of_the_Diocese_of_Dodge_City.svg
 01:45 29 Feb. 4.2 MB Coat_of_arms_of_the_Diocese_of_Salina.svg
 01:52 29 Feb. 4.2 MB Coat_of_arms_of_the_Diocese_of_Wichita.svg
 23:25 29 Feb. 5.25 MB Coat_of_arms_of_the_Diocese_of_Lansing.svg
 23:32 29 Feb. 5.25 MB Coat_of_arms_of_the_Diocese_of_Marquette.svg
 23:38 29 Feb. 5.25 MB Coat_of_arms_of_the_Diocese_of_Des_Moines.svg
 23:44 29 Feb. 5.25 MB Coat_of_arms_of_the_Diocese_of_Austin.svg
 23:54 29 Feb. 5.25 MB Coat_of_arms_of_the_Diocese_of_Tyler.svg
 00:05 1 March 5.25 MB Coat_of_arms_of_the_Diocese_of_Bridgeport.svg
 00:09 1 March 5.25 MB Coat_of_arms_of_the_Diocese_of_Norwich.svg

AnonMoos (talk)

March 6

I downloaded the Coat_of_arms_of_the_Diocese_of_Austin.svg file to my home computer, and it's just too big and complex for me to deal with. I've had success in hand-editing SVG files to remove bloat a number of times in the past, but not this file. I could remove the embedded rasters, but that would only reduce the size of the file by 10%. If there's any option in Inkscape to remove unused code from an image, then click that button, otherwise you may need to rethink the way you make SVGs AnonMoos (talk) 12:20, 6 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

March 12

OK, 345kb is more acceptable than 5.2 megs, thanks. AnonMoos (talk) 20:19, 12 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Coat of Arms of Michael Thomas Martin

Hi,

Love that you're redoing the Coats of Arms of the Bishops and Dioceses. I have one more for you. I've added the CoA of Michael T. Martin to his page which is hidden until his consecration this Wednesday. Can you redo that? Thank You..

Roberto221 (talk) 19:53, 27 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Bishop John McDermott of Burlington, VT Coat of Arms

Hello again,

I searched all over for his CoA but the best I could come up with was this: [1] It's the last photo on the album. Can you do something with this?

Roberto221 (talk) 21:02, 15 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Bishop James Mark Beckman of Knoxville, TN Coat of Arms

Thanks for the help with Bishop McDermott, The CoA looks great. I have one more request. I have the Coat of Arms for Bishop-elect James Mark Beckman hidden on his page until he is consecrated on the 26th of this month. Could you possibly create that one also? Again, thank you for the help..

Roberto221 (talk) 08:45, 16 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Missing Bishops Coat of Arms

Hello again,

I can't express how much I appreciate you creating the CoA's for the Bishops. There are 4 Bishops CoA's which I have posted to their individual pages but because my "graphic" capabilities are limited, they haven't been posted to Wiki Commons. They are:

In addition, I had posted the CoA for Bishop Bruce Lewandowski, but somebody deleted from his article though I still kept a copy of it.

Roberto221 (talk) 21:13, 17 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

New Coats of Arms

Hello again,

I added the Coats of Arms for the newly consecrated bishop, Scott E. Bullock and the soon to be consecrated bishop, Dennis G. Walsh. If you can work your magic again, I would appreciate it. Thank You...

Roberto221 (talk) 07:52, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

.png to .svg conversion

Hi,

How do I do that? I've edited a .png version of File:Major League Baseball team locations.svg but I need to convert it to .svg since that is what the original is on Wiki.

Roberto221 (talk) 22:00, 21 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, Roberto221

I'm not really sure how to do it since I only upload files that are already in .svg. You could look it up on Youtube, there might a tutorial about that, I'm really sorry. Best of luck👌 Linestamp (talk) 22:06, 21 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

CoA of Kevin Kenney

Hi,

I just added the Coat of Arms of Kevin Kenney to his page.

Roberto221 (talk) 00:03, 25 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Coat of Arms attribution

Hi Linestamp - it's fine and good that you're adjusting and improving coats of arms that others have made, and I want to thank you for doing that with Kevin Kenney - mine was a bit of a quick hack job. However, it's important to include proper attribution. You'll notice on my file of File:Coat of arms of Kevin Kenney.svg the Source section notes where the various SVG elements were taken from - this preserves the Attribution Creative Commons clause that most of them are licensed under. Presenting the entire arms as your own work is technically a copyright violation. you should at very least include my version as something you adapted from to preserve the chain of attribution, but also preferably link to the other elements that I myself linked to that User:SajoR and others made, etc. Thanks! ~Darth Stabro^{Talk • Contribs} 13:30, 1 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hola Linestamp! Es grato ver que estas interesado en la heráldica eclesiástica y que utilizas las plantillas que yo hice y los colores establecidos por el taller de heráldica de la Wikipedia en español, así contribuimos a tener una imagen estandarizada y enciclopédica. Sobre el comentario de User:Darth Stabro, opino lo mismo, la verdad hace días estaba pensado en dejar un comentario similar. Es importante incluir la atribución adecuada, es de mala educación y hasta una falta de respeto tomar el trabajo de otros y no incluir la atribución. Conozco mi trabajo, y la mayoría de tu trabajo de basa en el mio. La forma ideal para atribuir elementos tomados del trabajo de otro es utilizando la “plantilla atribución”, tal y como lo hizo Darth Stabro con su versión del escudo de armas del obispo Kevin Kenney. Otro detalle que noté es que estas haciendo nuevas versiones de escudos de armas ya existentes, solo haces ligeros cambios estéticos, lo subes por aparte y luego en wikipedia reemplazas el escudo original que llegó primero, eso también es una falta de respeto, si el escudo original tiene errores, puedes notificarlo al autor o realizar la corrección y subir la nueva versión sobre el archivo original, así evitamos llenar commons de archivos repetidos. Saludos --SajoR (talk) 18:40, 2 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Online translation: Hello Linestamp! It is nice to see that you are interested in ecclesiastical heraldry and that you use the templates I made and the colors established by the heraldry workshop of the Spanish Wikipedia, so we can contribute to having a standardized and encyclopedic image. Regarding Darth Stabro’s comment, I think the same, the truth is that I was thinking about leaving a similar comment a few days ago. It is important to include the proper attribution, it is rude and even disrespectful to take the work of others and not include the attribution. I know my work, and most of your work is based on mine. The ideal way to attribute elements taken from another’s work is by using the “attribution template”, as Darth Stabro did with his version of Bishop Kevin Kenney’s coat of arms. Another detail that I noticed is that you are making new versions of existing coats of arms, you only make slight aesthetic changes, you upload it separately and then on Wikipedia you replace the original coat of arms that arrived first, that is also a lack of respect, if the original coat of arms has errors, you can notify the author or make the correction and upload the new version over the original file, thus avoiding filling commons with duplicate files. Greetings --SajoR (talk) 18:40, 2 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Nota aclaratoria: si se puede cambiar un archivo en wikipedia por otro, pero siempre y cuando se cumplan ciertas condiciones, por ejemplo si el archivo presenta errores o es estéticamente feo y no hay forma de arreglarlo, por lo cual es totalmente viable reemplazalo por otro de mejor calidad. También existe una preferencia por el formato SVG en detrimento de los formatos JPG o PNG, pero solo es viable cuando el archivo en formato SVG es estéticamente igual o superior. Siempre se debe dar prioridad a la exactitud y la calidad. Un consejo para ti y para User:Darth Stabro, veo que algunos de tus archivos en formato SVG te están quedando mayores a una mega, si usas Inkscape, da clic en “Archivo”, luego en “limpiar documento” y después en guardar, esto permite eliminar la basura que aveces se genera en el código. Después, haz una copia del archivo final, ábrelo y luego das clic en “archivo” y después en “Guardar como”, te aparecerá una ventana y en la esquina inferior derecha, le das clic donde dice “SVG de Inkscape”, luego escoge “SVG optimizado” y le das en guardar, como su nombre lo indica esto optimiza el archivo; descargue uno de tus archivos que pesa 2,33 MB le aplique la optimización y quedó pesando tan solo 177,1 kB. Saludos --SajoR (talk) 04:23, 3 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Online translation. Explanatory note: yes, you can change a file on Wikipedia for another one, but only if certain conditions are met, for example if the file has errors or is aesthetically ugly and there is no way to fix it, then it is totally viable to replace it with another of better quality. There is also a preference for the SVG format to the detriment of the JPG or PNG formats, but it is only viable when the file in SVG format is aesthetically equal or superior. Accuracy and quality should always be given priority. A piece of advice for you and Darth Stabro, I see that some of your files in SVG format are larger than a mega, if you use Inkscape, click on “File”, then on “clean up document” and then on save, this allows you to eliminate the garbage that is sometimes generated in the code. Then, make a copy of the final file, open it and then click on “file” and then on “Save as”, a window will appear and in the lower right corner, click where it says “Inkscape SVG”, then choose “Optimized SVG” and click on save, as its name indicates this optimizes the file; I downloaded one of your files that weighs 2.33 MB, applied the optimization and it was left weighing only 177.1 kB. Greetings --SajoR (talk) 04:23, 3 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

ArbCom 2024 Elections voter message

Hello! Voting in the 2024 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23:59 (UTC) on Monday, 2 December 2024. All eligible users are allowed to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

If you wish to participate in the 2024 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. If you no longer wish to receive these messages, you may add {{NoACEMM}} to your user talk page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:53, 19 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]