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DYK

Congratulations... but how do you pronounce it? :) 68.81.231.127 10:33, 22 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Template:Mapit-US-cityscale

Yep - same problem. It may have something to do with the recent upgrade and having - in page titles. http://bugzilla.wikipedia.org is the place to report such a bug. --mav 00:58, 25 Dec 2004 (UTC)

You shouldn't be talking to me...

User:Danny got permission. I believe he even talked on the phone with the creators of the documentary, at least from what he said on IRC. He suggested the images be uploaded to commons with the CopyrightedFreeUse tag and asked if someone would upload them, so I did. User:ContiE was working on a template for a license, but I guess he never edited the images to put the template in there. In any case, I was just helping out -- you should contact Danny for details. CryptoDerk 05:31, Jan 21, 2005 (UTC)

I chatted with Danny this morning -- if he hasn't already given you this link, here it is commons:Talk:Pompeii:_The_Last_Day CryptoDerk 16:59, Jan 21, 2005 (UTC)

Hi Hike395. Just to clarify a little more, the offer of these images came to the Foundation email team, who reply to mail for Jimbo and the board. I'm expecting that we will get more offers like this as time goes on, it's a good way for people to get their images seen, and a good way to us to find images for the projects - a real win-win situation (as they are not asking anything from us in return). The company are fully aware of the implications of us and others using the images. The link CryptoDerk gave above gives a lot of the info, I'll also look at the local and Commons pages again now to ensure that all is clear. Let me know if anything else is unclear. Thanks -- sannse (talk) 17:29, 21 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Geo-stubs

Hi Hike395 - just a quick note to say that stub articles for places in the US should get {{US-geo-stub}} rather than simply {{geo-stub}}. Keep up the good work! Grutness|^hello? Missing image
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01:49, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Death Valley National Park FAC

Hey Hike - Thought you would be interested that Death Valley National Park is going through the featured article candidate selection process. If you'd like to comment, then Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Death Valley National Park is the place. :) --mav 05:12, 1 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Infobox

Well, I guess you noticed it before I was even able to post it at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Mountains. My comment does note that aspect of the infoboxes, which I hate, but I know of no way to remove inessential fields. Perhaps now that I have finished my comment you can read it there. Like I said, this is just an effort, I am nowhere near an expert, and it is yours to use, not use, and change. Moogle 04:39, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)

I wonder if perhaps there are basics that you think that every mountain would have that could use a shorter template? Moogle 04:40, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Mountains. Thanks! --- hike395 04:42, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Kathadin

Hike395 -

Thank You!

I was the one who said it was the wrong pix of Katahdin. I have climbed it 11 times since 1986, and was pained to see the error! Baxter State Park is beautiful, and is our little slice of PacNorthWest/Alaskan Wilderness in the NE.

Thanks Again

CompassMonkey.com

I made a comment on Yosemite - Please let me know if this site promotion continues to be an issue as I don't keep the national parks on my watchlist. Just happened to be reading the one on Bryce and did a quick lookup on on the domain owner and reverted. User:Trödel/sig 12:47, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Quotes

Hi Hike - if the fullstop is part of the quotation, yes, it should be inside the quote, but without a fullstop after the close quote, the sentence remains unfinished and runs into the next. Therefore the stop at the end too. - MPF 17:36, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Koyaanisqatsi fair use screenshot

Thanks for your message about the Koyaanisqatsi image. My understanding was that single frames from copyrighted films were generally considered fair use in Wikipedia. The 2001: A Space Odyssey page, for instance, has quite a few frames from the film. What type of justification other than the screenshot tag which I added should I provide? The fair use page doesn't give much more insight into the matter other than stating that screen shots may be fair use.

Yosemite National Park FAC

If you'd like to comment, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Yosemite National Park. :) --mav 01:03, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)

various asteroids categories

I'd like to revert your changes to the various near-Earth asteroid categories, since the additional category that you have added is redundant. e.g. categ Aten asteroids is already a member of categ Asteroid groups and families by virtue of being a subcategory of Near-Earth asteroids (which is a sub-category of Asteroid groups and families. Would you have any problems with this? Thanks, Ian Cairns 18:52, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Hi, yourself

Sorry I haven't responded sooner. I've mostly stopped working on Wikipedia because I got sick of having my work "improved" by bright 10-year-olds. Sadly, I'm addicted, so I do make the odd change, but yeesh... this thing is the worst mixture of useful information and pure Bullstuff. Best wishes! Mackerm 20:25, 17 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Mount Baker

If you think there is some particular value in having Latitude and Longtiude specifed seperately in the infobox (instead of having them together), then I'm pretty sure you cannot use the clickable coordinates. I've reverted your change. But as I mentioned, if you think having Latitude and Longitude seperately is important, (for which reason I do not know, perhaps as an aid to those who do not know which is which?) then just go ahead, but please remove the coor link because it won't work to split it in two different cells. Especially so since the coor templates will be replaced by a tag at a later date. -- Egil 11:36, 20 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Greetings!

Thanks for the note on the Carrizo Plain! I was actually going to head out there today but I'm getting to a late start.

By the way, I couldn't agree more with your user name! Every summer at least once I try to head up the 395 ... those are some of the most beautiful places in the west. Maybe this year I'll finally climb Mt. Dana. Happy editing! Antandrus 15:25, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Puu Kukui

Out of curiosity, where did you get the 2 Myr figure? The data that I'm looking at says it's ~1.3 Myr, and that the island of Moloka‘i is closer to 1.8. Myr. --Viriditas | Talk 11:02, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Ok, I see you got that figure from USGS. [1] (http://hvo.wr.usgs.gov/volcanoes/haleakala/). I wonder which number is correct. I'll look into this. --Viriditas | Talk 11:05, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)

That's probably a good idea. --Viriditas | Talk 11:27, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Mount Edgecumbe

Hi Hike395 - just for future reference with disambiguations involving New Zealand mountains the usual format for the name of their articles is "Mount X, New Zealand", not "Mount X (New Zealand)". I realise parentheses are used in some countries, but we like to be different :) Grutness|^hello? Missing image
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12:20, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the suggestion - I've listed it at Wikipedia:Naming conventions. Grutness|^hello? Missing image
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Category usage

I notice that you added Category:Mountain ranges of the United States to the Appalachian Mountains article. That is correct, but I would suggest that you should have removed Category:Mountain ranges of North America at the same time, on the theory that only the most specific category should be applied to an article; since Category:Mountain ranges of the United States is a subcategory of Category:Mountain ranges of North America, leaving the latter in place is redundant.

Now, I've written the above as though I know what I'm talking about-- I don't. I'm pretty new to working with categories, and some things about them I find thoroughly puzzling, so if you know something I don't, please let me know. I think the above is right, though, and I have removed the North America cat, pending new discoveries.

TIA, Mwanner 15:39, Apr 24, 2005 (UTC)

Yes, I noticed the missing Category:Mountain ranges of Canada when I went back to look at the Appalachian Mountains article, and I added it despite the redlink. Then I asked myself, "shouldn't it really be Category:Mountain ranges of Montreal for the adks?" Again, with the idea that only the most specific category should be applied. All of which has me thinking that, perhaps, the "mountain"/"mountain range" distinction is not a helpful one. After all, you don't want to have both a "mountains of X" and "mountain ranges of X" for each state, province, country, etc.

On the other hand, if you consider the thousands of categories of the form...

• 1896 Summer Olympics
• 1896 births
• 1896 books
• 1896 deaths
• 1896 films
• 1896 in law
• 1896 in sports

...then maybe I'm just being stingy? Like I was saying...categories seems like a can of worms.

Mwanner 18:26, Apr 24, 2005 (UTC)

Yes, I'd noticed that Mtn ranges of Canada was now live, thanks. Thanks, also, for your guidelines on creating categories.

Is there any place where categories get discussed, generally, or within broad chunks? Some US history cats seem awkward at best (Category:U.S. military history 1900-1999, e.g.) but I've yet to find any active discussion of issues anywhere. -- Mwanner 21:19, Apr 24, 2005 (UTC)

WikiProject History seems to be just what I was looking for. Many thanks. -- Mwanner 21:58, Apr 24, 2005 (UTC)

Geology of the Death Valley area FAC

If you have a spare moment, I'd like to see any feedback you may have about Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Geology of the Death Valley area. Thanks! :) --mav 21:26, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Volker Thewalt Photos

Thanks for your note of 8th May about the Volker Thewalt photos. Sorry for the confusions. Sometimes I am not very confident with all the processes in Wikipedia. Volker Thewalt has written emails to me several times and at least once specifically asked me to put them on the site. He was not sure how to do the editing himself. He also sent to me all the photos in the form in which I uploaded them. If you need to see the emails I could forward them to you. Please let me know.

In the meantime I will go in and add a note to this effect for each photo and add {{PD}} as the domain type.

Hope that fixes the problesm, but please do let me know if there is something else I should do.

Cheers!

John Hill

Volker Thewalt Photos again

Hi, Hike! No need to worry about being a pest. I am not quite sure what to do. I originally contacted Volker and asked if he would like to have some of his photos put on the Wikipedia (as Nanga Parbat and Rakaposhi are amongst my favourite mountains), and specifically told him that they would then be free for anyone to use after this. I suggested that, if he was worried about others using them, he could forward lower resolution copies to be uploaded. He agreed to all this and sent me the photos asking me to post them (as he was not sure how to do it). He has written since saying how pleased he has been to have them in the Wikipedia.

Here are a couple of letters from him on the 24th April, for example:

Dear John,

thank you so much for uploading the photos of Nanga Parbat! It is beautifully done... Is it possible to have a mail-link attached to the author's name???

Attached please find four photos of Rakaposhi including the top of that magnificent peak. The first three pics were taken from Aliabad in Hunza valley, the fourth pic was taken some 20 or so kms downstream.

Thank you very much again, all the best

Volker

......................................................

Dear John,

since I have no experience at all with wikipedia I refer to your offer:

//-----------------------------

>.....  but, if you wish, I would be happy to post 

them for > you if you wish. ..............

//------------------------------

I'm sending three photos (1x Rakaposhi, 2x Nanga Parbat) and would like to ask you to insert them into their proper places in Wikipedia's relevant articles.

Best regards Volker

-- ------------------------

     Dr. Volker Thewalt
       Kapellenweg 8
     D-69257 Wiesenbach
        Deutschland
   fon: +49(0)6223-970122
   fax: +49(0)6223-970123
   http://www.bamiyan.de
   http://www.thewalt.de/mahabalipuram

Is this enough, or would you like me to contact him again? Should I change them back to GFDL?

Please help me get this all straight, as I am not sure the best way to go from here.

Cheers,

John Hill

More on Volker Thewalt Photos

Hi Hike395!

I have just received your latest note about Dr. Volker's photos of Rakaposhi and Nanga Parbat. I have done exactly what you asked and have written to him asking for a letter giving permission that I could post with each photo. I have also sent him the full urls and checked each photo again to make sure it was listed as GFDL and no longer said they were copyright free (I did this after your last post. I will let you know what he says when I hear from him. I hope this will tidy everything up. I appreciate and undderstand your efforts to make sure everything is above board in terms of copyright.

Sincerely,

John Hill

Letter of permission from Volker Thewalt

Hi!

I have just received a letter from Dr. Volker Thewalt giving permission to use his photos of Nanga Parbat and Rakaposhi. I have pasted it into the Discussion pages of each photo as you requested. I hope this is all O.K. now. By the way, he said he was very glad to discover that the Wikipedia was so correct in its approach to the publication of photos.

Cheers,

John Hill.

Pu‘u Kukui continued

Aloha. Back in the beginning of April we had a brief discussion about sources for geological dating. I finally tracked down what I believe to be the most recent measurements (2003). FYI...you can find it online at Hawaii's Volcanoes Revealed (http://geopubs.wr.usgs.gov/i-map/i2809/), courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey. The data can be found in the corresponding PDF files, linked at the bottom of the page. I'll attempt to pull the numbers out and place them on the correct pages if you don't get it first. --Viriditas | Talk 05:56, 18 May 2005 (UTC)

lots of edits, not an admin

Hi - I made a list of users who've been around long enough to have made lots of edits but aren't admins. If you're at all interested in becoming an admin, can you please add an '*' immediately before your name in this list? I've suggested folks nominating someone might want to puruse this list, although there is certainly no guarantee anyone will ever look at it. Thanks. -- Rick Block (talk) 00:40, Jun 16, 2005 (UTC)

CA State Routes

Please do not remove the classification of California State Routes from Interstates and US Highways... a) the California State Highways Code does not diffrentiate between Interstates, US Routes, etc. and b) the general consensus on the WikiProject talk page states that Interstates and US highways are to be included in the WikiProject, and therefore need to have the classification.

--Rschen7754 04:00, Jun 20, 2005 (UTC)

• never mind, see the strategy page instead (i missed that on my watchlist. --Rschen7754 04:02, Jun 20, 2005 (UTC)