User talk:Chinasaur/Archive2

Coor link in Template:Geolinks-US-streetscale etc.

Some time ago I put in a link to the "Other maps" via Template:coor on Template:Geolinks-US-streetscale. For a good reason, I thought. You choose to revert that change. I have now put a link to coor into the heading. If you revert this too, the consequence will be that reverse mapping in WikiProject Geographical coordinates will not work for articles using the Geolinks template. (And it is easy enough to revert or alter. Just change in Template:Geolinks-start.) -- Egil 06:41, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)

FYI there is now a new region field that allows specific, targeted map source files to apply for specific regions. I have updated the above templates with region:US. In addition, the default scale is now influences by the type of a point. -- Egil 16:54, 15 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Haven't had a chance to check out these changes you've made, but they sound great. Sorry for axeing the original "other maps" thing; I wanted to nip that in the bud before you went to the trouble of adding it to all the templates since I wasn't quite satisfied with it and thought we should talk more first. I left a note for you explaining why I took it out and suggested a different way which is basically what we have now.

I like the current way you have integrated your links into our templates; I think it's good to have a few very standard things linked directly, like we have with the mapquest, google, terraserver, and topozone. For everything else, your page is a great, flexible resource. In fact, this might actually be a nicer way to link to your page than links directly from coordinates ala ISBN?

In other news, I'm thinking about suggesting to Ramsey that we move these links out of the external links section and up to the city box for the city pages. I really think they're useful enough to deserve more attention, but we'll see if Mav can be convinced. --Chinasaur 19:19, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Nelumbo

If you decide you want to get back into editing, would you please do something about Nelumbo? It has received four edits since you started it back in September, but none have actually accomplished much. It'd be nice to have at least a complete sentence or two. -- Cyrius|✎ 04:47, 16 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Unicode template

Hi,

I see from your recent comments on Template Talk:IPA that you were the originator of the Unicode template. There's been some recent discussion on Template Talk:Unicode and Template Talk:Polytonic to the effect that the Unicode template doesn't pick up a lot of unicode characters, and the Polytonic template, although designed specifically for Greek, is actually better in this respect. Do you have any thoughts? rossb 09:56, 16 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Use of color in probability distribution plots

Hi. I've moved your comment from my talk page to Template talk:Probability distribution#Use of color, which is where most of the discussion has been taking place recently. I've posted an intial reply there. If you know of a set of "safe" colors, could you bring it to everyone's attention? Thanks, --MarkSweep 02:09, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Amenophis vandal

From the links you provided it looks liek most of the vandal's work was on the 19th. He did return on the 21st but was intercepted by Joyous. She would most most likely know more about the vandal from that point onward than I. Also, thank you for your good work in the fight against vandalism. -JCarriker 09:28, Apr 25, 2005 (UTC)

Errata on WB

I hope you can be reached here. A significant amount of discussion regarding the Errata module has taken place and I wondered if you had found a new home for the content. A lot of votes suggest moving the content elsewhere and if you've found something, maybe we can settle the VfD. If you want to write back to me, please use my Wikibooks talk page. Thanks. -Matt 04:44, 25 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Wikierrata

Hi Henri, I saw your note about Wikierrata from a year ago on meta. I have also been working on a project like this and put

it under the wikibooks hierarchy: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Errata We're getting kicked off wikibooks now, perhaps

moving to wikicities or perhaps moving to a different infrastructure if a more suitable one can be found. I thought you might

be interested in working on this. Also I thought I should let you know that although I organized the wikibook of errata based

on ISBNs similar to what you proposed, it actually turns out that sometimes corrected printings of books are made without

changing the ISBN, so having a combination of ISBN and printing number is necessary. --Chinasaur 03:40, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

Hi! Thanks for the response. It would be cool to participate in that project.

Yours sincerely, Henri Heinonen. Henri Tapani Heinonen 09:37, 2 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

remora

Thanks. It was a case of luck (right place, right time) a deep breath (I was snorkeling not diving) and an eye for the best shot. Glad you liked it. Sabine's Sunbird 07:39, 4 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It was about 5 m down - I was lucky that it was a sunny day. It wasn't taken far from Fort Lauderdale, either, we always used to fly out of FL to gete tho Bimini. I have also had them break off from turtles to follow me! Sabine's Sunbird 17:23, 4 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Re: Vandal ID

Gotta love Sam Spade :) Radio Kirk talk to me 14:37, 18 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

FlickrLickr account

Hi,

to make an account for you, I need your e-mail address so I can send you your password. Please contact me at moeller AT scireview DOT de. Thanks,--Eloquence * 17:02, 9 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Lord Byron

You had once expressed interest in the "Lord Byron" being moved to that very name. I've started a request to move but a bunch of stubborn people are intent on shutting me down. Any support you could bring would be helpful. Talk:George_Byron,_6th_Baron_Byron#Requested_move--Lairor 03:00, 22 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I think I give up on that one. I don't really care as long as Lord Byron redirects there. Technically I think it should be renamed, and if you have a vote you'd like me to cast let me know. But I'm not going to spend effort arguing with stubborn people when it doesn't really matter. --Chinasaur 03:17, 23 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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InSAR article

Hiya, I noticed you have the InSAR article on your To Do list, just thought I would flag the major expansion I've just posted, in case you're still interested in working on it.
Cheers, Eve 18:22, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Dangling Modifiers

Chinasaur, I'm on your side in this debate. Dangling modifiers are always bad style. I do have a question, though. Does your sentence, "In the context of an encyclopedia[,] I don't really understand why that wording is so inappropriate." include a dangling modifier? It might be less awkward as, "I don't really understand why that wording is so inappropriate for an encyclopedia." —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.237.132.130 (talk) 22:10, 14 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Removal of section from IOL talk page

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External link needs repair

Hi

The site (globusz.com) referenced in your external link in The Tale of Genji added [April 2005]

The Tale of Genji 1976 Seidensticker translation Online text of complete 1976 Seidensticker translation without the notes and with numerous typos. (The illustrations included in the Knopf edition of this translation are reproduced at the UNESCO heritage site below.)

has become a spam site. Do you have another source?

Thanks Saintrain (talk) 22:15, 24 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for letting me know; sorry; I don't log in much anymore. I checked the link and it looks okay again, so maybe I will add it back into the article. --Chinasaur (talk) 20:02, 7 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Proposal to shut down WP Geographic Coordinates & ban coordinates on wikipedia articles

This means you. --Tagishsimon (talk) 11:47, 17 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]