User talk:RedWolf

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Himalayas

Please please please, tell me you have some good Himalayan pics that you can add to articles. We have plenty of Europe and US mountain pictures, but almost nothing in Asia. Stan 07:04, 3 Nov 2003 (UTC)

image uploading is disabled, so this is a bit academic ... mfc 21:33, 3 Jan 2004 (UTC)

I do have some nice pictures of Everest, Lhotse, Nuptse, Ama Dablam, Cholatse, Pumori, Imja Tse. However, I'm not sure yet if I want them to be put under GFDL. -- RedWolf, Nov 7/03 12:10am

There's little reason not to license them unless you're planning to make a living by selling copies of the pictures, and your income would be cut into by having copies available on the net. GFDL is just a license that permits use by WP and downstream publications, while you retain copyright and ownership and credit. In fact, WP is a great way to get a large audience for the photos; its traffic is comparable to Britannica Online now, and growing. I figure that at some point, photographers are going to be contributing pics just to get some greater visibility for their work! Stan 06:26, 7 Nov 2003 (UTC)

What I've done is only put tiny (300 pixel wide) photos under the GFDL. I figure no harm done --- small photos like that have no commercial value. -- hike395 05:17, 26 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Good idea, I might just do that. RedWolf 00:12, Dec 14, 2003 (UTC)

Image deletion

The image you uploaded was listed on Wikipedia:Possible copyright infringements on March 2nd. The image text indicated that you were the copyright owner and agreed to the GFDL but you added text indicating further restrictions on the copyright that did not meet the requirements of GFDL. If you will remove those additional restrictions and release your image solely under the GFDL I will undelete the image or you can reupload it. Is that acceptable? - Texture 03:59, 10 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Kilimanjaro

Interested in climbing kili? Be sure to get a good guide. I climbed it in 1999 and had some trouble with a guide who didn't know the way (You need a guide by law to climb kili) I wrote up my story of it if youre interested: Kili Climbing Story (http://www.seabhcan.com/kili_files/kilistry.htm) Seabhcan 15:33, 20 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Hi. Interesting story of your climb. Sounds to me like that might have been the first time, not the 10th time for your "guide". We are considering the Machame or Rongai routes, the Marangu (Coca-cola route) was discarded a while back by us. I've done a lot of scrambling in my days and a bit of glacier travel. I'd give more consideration to some of the more demanding routes but the other person is not quite up to that. You sure didn't leave much time for acclimatization. I spent two nights in a tent at nearly 5100m in Nepal and while not easy I was comfortable after being above 4,000m for 9 days. RedWolf 04:10, Apr 24, 2004 (UTC)

Ya. The guide was a bit of a chancer allright. There is a problem with kili guides in that most of the best known guide companies are based in kenya but Tanzanian law forbids kenyans from guiding on Kili. The kenyan companies will find you a tanzanian guide, but you really have to trust them to trust him. Tanzanians can guide on mount kenya, however. The Machame and Rongai routes aren't (If I'm remembering right - its been a number of years) much more than tough hikes, and I didn't have experience of anything more technical at the time. Also, 5100m in Nepal is far more difficult than the same height at the equator. Its to do with the Coriolis effect - the atmosphere is thicker at the equator and so the percentage of oxygen at a particular height is more. Good luck with your trip - and dont eat the salad! Seabhcan 15:49, 25 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Greetings! Saw your Kilimanjaro post on the user page. I was just wondering if you've made any plant to this end, and had any ideas on the timeframe and such for the climb? I'm most definitely interested, sounds like it would be fun. Metlin 12:22, 30 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Hi. I would be looking either at the late January - February or late August - September timeframe for any attempt on Kili. I would do Mt. Kenya first for acclimitization although there's an alternate in Tanzania. RedWolf 05:13, Aug 31, 2004 (UTC)

Ahhh, I climbed the cola route in '98 and have been longing to go back. I would love to try Rongai. Next summer might be possible. +sj + 10:54, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Offline report update

Howdy. I noticed that you've updated Wikipedia:Offline reports/Is this really a stub? and wanted to ask if you used a Link Analysis Database, and if so did you experience any problems? I'd appreciate any feedback you have. - TB 10:48, Aug 6, 2004 (UTC)

Hi. Yes, I built a Link Analysis Database under Mac OS X. The database load took just over one hour and running the analysis script took about 2 hours I believe. Your comment say the analysis script takes 10 hours to run which makes me wonder a bit if I did everything correctly (I'm attributing it to faster system speed at the moment). The result count for the above report seemed to be comparable to what was there before. I just looked at the script run and noticed a few issues: extract_links.sql did not run. I guess I should re-run the analyze - what do you do to clear out the previous analyze run? Manually drop all the tables?

I didn't really run into any significant issues. I did write a quick C program to generate the extract scripts although I don't quite understand the deal with adjusting the "pos". One question I have is what do you do when you want to load a fresh database dump? Create a new database or just truncate/drop the existing tables? RedWolf 17:07, Aug 6, 2004 (UTC)

Glad to hear it worked - the script should take 1-2 hours to run on a modern PC, the 10 hours thing looked to me to be a bug in the MySQL optimiser, it was just plain refusing to use a perfectly good index. The 'pos' column is there to handle the lack of iterators (for, while, repeat etc) in MySQL 4.1 - a nasty hack that should vanish along with the need for the repetative 'extract_xxx.sql' scripts when version 5 arrives. To rebuild, I create a new database and start afresh each time. Any problems please do shout. - TB 18:54, Aug 6, 2004 (UTC)

Article Licensing

Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 1000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:

Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
Multi-Licensing Guide
Free the Rambot Articles Project

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

Option 1

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

Option 2

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to any [[U.S. state]], county, or city article as described below:

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. – Ram-Man ^{(comment (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=User_talk:Ram-Man&action=edit&section=new)) (talk)}[[]] 23:43, Dec 8, 2004 (UTC)

Geo-stubs

Hi RedWolf - I've been busy moving generic geo-stubs into their subcategories (Africa-geo-stub, UK-geo-stub, etc). Seems that every time I move a few from the category, you move a few new ones in (particularly African ones). Can I ask you to please put them into their subcategories? Cheers, Grutness|^hello? Missing image
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03:15, 17 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Usually happens when I change {{stub}}. Africa? Perhaps Antartica. I don't see a stub category for that continent. RedWolf 03:20, Jan 17, 2005 (UTC)

Most recent one I dealt with was Amguid crater, in Algeria. Grutness|^hello? Missing image
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Oh yea, forgot I had done some cleanup on Algeria. I wasn't really aware that the geo-stub has been split itself. Now that I know I'll start to use the more specific ones. Perhaps there should still be one for Antarctica? RedWolf 01:46, Jan 18, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks - you're right, there probably should be an Antarctica one. At the moment I'm looking through generic geo-stubs seeing what countries/regions have the most stubs. Antarctica and Indonesia look like the two most likely to need their own sections next - each have about 100. Geo-stub still exists as a category, but there were over 4000 stubs in there - far too many to wade through for a quick look. I'm trying to get it down to about 1000 with the rest bundled away into subcategories, some of which have been around for a while, but most of which were virtually empty. All the ones that currently exist are listed in a table at the top of Category:Geography stubs. Thanks again, Grutness|^hello? Missing image
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There's now an {{Antarctica-geo-stub}}! :) Grutness|^hello? Missing image
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11:10, 21 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Mountain pics

Thanks for uploading so many great mountain pics to Wikipedia! Is it much of burden to carry a good camera with you when you're mountain climbing? I've never climbed anything bigger than a hill, but I imagine any extra weight - especially the fragile kind - would be unwelcome.

I'm glad your wikistress is going down a bit. All the best! – Quadell ^{(talk) (help)} 21:16, Jan 22, 2005 (UTC)

Yea, you definitely try to keep the weight down as much as possible. In the mountains, it's always best to be prepared, so carrying emergency items is a pain weight wise but I can live with that. Until one has to carry several litres of water in their pack for hours, does one realize how heavy water really is. As for the camera, I used to take a metal body Mamiya with a metal body telephoto lens for many years. I finally switched to a lightweight Canon Rebel and telephoto lens and definitely noticed the difference.

It helps to reduce stress when one finally gets bit of nice weather in the winter. While Atlantic Canada and NE USA were dealing with snow on the weekend, we finally had a nice sunny day with temps rising to near freezing (that's mild for us at this time of year). RedWolf 00:47, Jan 25, 2005 (UTC)

User IDs

Even if all you have is User IDs and you can't get the name, it would still be very useful to have the list of images grouped by User ID. It would look better with a name, but it would be almost as useful to not have that. – Quadell ^{(talk) (help)} 19:28, Jan 24, 2005 (UTC)

Big problem overall here. I only download the current revision of the database so after tagging images, the current revision no longer contains the original uploader id. One would need to download the old revisions as well which are extremely large. RedWolf 21:03, Feb 5, 2005 (UTC)

Image sleuthing

There's a new project in town called Wikipedia:Image sleuthing, and you are hereby invited to become an official image sleuth. – Quadell ^{(talk) (sleuth)} 00:47, Jan 25, 2005 (UTC)

List of mountains

Really useful list of mountains over at Wikipedia:WikiProject Mountains! It made me run through all mountains in Category:Sierra Nevada, Category:Oregon mountains, Category:Washington mountains, and most of Category:California mountains and added {{Mountains}} to their Talk pages. If you'd like, you can regenerate the list: I added ~30 peaks. Thanks! -- hike395 14:23, 6 Feb 2005 (UTC)

I tagged quite a few more myself and have regenerated the list → now at 485. Will have to wait until a new database dump is available before doing the next update. RedWolf 21:21, Feb 6, 2005 (UTC)

Conversion of Mountain infobox to use coor template

Hi, RedWolf. If you'd like to comment, we're discussing the conversion of the Mountain infobox over to use coor templates (for external links to a bunch of mapping sites). Please see Wikipedia Talk:WikiProject Mountains#Conversion of coordinates to Template:Coor. Thanks!! -- hike395 15:15, 19 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Request for your bot

Just noticed your bot work on the Loan and Investing categories. Thanks a lot for taking care of that, btw. Is there any way you can run a bot on Category:Currencies to move all of the national currencies to Category:National_currencies? If necessary, I'll do any sort of prep work you need done... ie, flagging non-national currencies to stay. I'm trying to make the currencies section much more user friendly. Feco 03:39, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I went through the currencies with my bot and manually selected an appropriate category as I thought would fit. After I was done I noticed that many were now in both categories. It seems a number of templates are being used to place articles into Category:Currencies. You would need to change those templates although some pages using the template may not belong in Category:National currencies. I leave it up to you to decide how to best tackle that problem. If you decide to change the category in the templates, you may run into a caching issue with article remaining in the original category. I can run my bot again to fix this if you have need of this operation. RedWolf 04:28, Apr 8, 2005 (UTC)

Yet another bot request

Hi RedWolf. I have been using a new template to add links to biography for all Canadian people. Unfortunately, I got the text slightly wrong, and was using the template with subst: to save stress on the server. Anyway, if possible I need occurences of:

Biography at the Canadian Dictionary of Biography Online

Changed to:

Biography at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online

Your help is much appreciated. Cheers, Fawcett5 12:46, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC)

By the way, the affected articles are all in the following categories: [[Category:Canadian people]] - [[Category:Canadian historical figures]] - [[Category:Fathers of Confederation]] - [[Category:Premiers of the Province of Canada]] - [[Category:Governors of British North America]] - [[Category:Canadian First Nations]] . Fawcett5 13:37, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC)

This request has been completed. About 80+ articles were updated. You can see the bot's (CanisRufus) list of contributions for the article names. The bot had problems with articles with diacritical marks in them so was not able to check/update them. RedWolf 08:01, Apr 23, 2005 (UTC)

RedWolf, thank you very much, the results look very good! Regards, Fawcett5 14:03, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Rivers

is your bot changing categories like chinese rivers into Rivers of China? I did Korea and Turkey by hand, but now saw some activity of your bot in Rivers of Asia. For China and Russia to do it by hand might be too much. regards Tobias Conradi (Talk) 11:27, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Yes, my bot can easily move articles from one category to another which I did for several of the continent categories of Rivers yesterday. I was not aware that some of these subcats were nominated for renaming on CFD. RedWolf 02:51, Apr 21, 2005 (UTC)

Category:The Greatest Canadian

Hi. Please see this. Thanks. --P3d0 02:23, Apr 27, 2005 (UTC)

Are you interested in being a Bureaucrat?

Hi, I am considering nominating you to become a Bureaucrat. The role would involve giving administrator or bureaucrat access to other users following consensus on Wikipedia:Requests for adminship. Although there are currently 18 bureaucrats, it may be helpful to have a few more. If you would accept a nomination, please let me know. Kingturtle 04:27, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Hi. After thinking this over a while, I will defer any further consideration of this until the fall. My wiki presence will lessen over the summer months (I hope!). I also don't regulary follow the Admin request page. RedWolf 06:12, May 21, 2005 (UTC)

Deletion of Category:Italian-American mobsters

I'm sorry to bother you however it appears your CanisRufis bot has changed all articles in Category:Italian-American mobsters to Category:American mobsters. I couldn't find any record of its deletion and was wondering if you knew anything about it ? While I recently moved those articles from Category:Italian-American criminals to the preexisting Italian-American mobsters they should be moved to the former category in Italian-American criminals if the American mobsters sub categories are planned to be deleted. Again sorry to have bothered you and thanks for your time. 209.213.71.78 15:56, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)

See Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/Log/2005 April 15 for discussion of the deletion. American mobsters are not scheduled for deletion so that's why I had the bot move them there. RedWolf 00:57, Apr 29, 2005 (UTC)

I'm curious, given the discussion on the topic of ethnicity categories, are there plans to delete the other ethnic subcategories as well ? I only mention this because the category was pretty crouded before and had more then enough to sort by nationality given the noticible differences of each group though organization, history, time period, etc. 209.213.71.78 20:32, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)

If there are other similar ethnic groups using the same over-categorization, they will likely be deleted as well as precedents have now been set for Italian-Americans and Jewish-Americans. The categories that were deleted were better served by lists. RedWolf 03:28, Apr 30, 2005 (UTC)

Prusik knot

Hi,
You seem to have uploaded an image under the name of image:PrusikKnot.jpg, but it was deleted for lack of copyright info. If you can supply it, it'd be a candidate for undeletion. --Smack (talk) 04:47, 1 May 2005 (UTC)

Hi. No, I was not the uploader (I even checked the page history). RedWolf 04:51, May 1, 2005 (UTC)

Substituting templates

Hi RedWolf, I noticed you placed {{idw-uo}} on User talk:SparqMan (diff (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:SparqMan&diff=13073666&oldid=11271643)). Don't forget to use {{subst:(template)}} for these, because (as happened in this case) the template was accidentaly blanked. Thanks, Alphax ^τεχ 00:52, 5 May 2005 (UTC)

Template:Mountain

That's fine: I just changed many of the talk page templates over with the understanding that if the change was undesirable they would be reverted. – Clockwork Soul 13:13, 7 May 2005 (UTC)

Category:Islamic terrorist organizations

Hi, it appears you listed Category:Terrorist organizations for deletion back in March. From what I understand, there was a lengthy recategorization discussion, but I don't know where that is. I bring it up because I have just noticed that there is still this category: Category:Islamic terrorist organizations, which would have been a subcategory of the other, and hence also should have been recategorized. FWIW, I oppose such categories, as I oppose stating in the editorial voice that groups are "terrorists"; I believe that it is an opinion that should be attributed, hence such categories as those above are inherently POV. If this issue is not on your radar, forgive me for bringing it up on your talk page. -- Viajero 16:33, 18 May 2005 (UTC)

I believe I may have tagged it for deletion only after someone else listed it on CFD without tagging it. I think the category you listed and other related cats are now up for deletion on CFD. RedWolf 06:10, May 21, 2005 (UTC)

Interwiki Bots

Hi RedWolf. I've been thinking over the recent number of interwiki bot requests and I feel that introducing a more restrictive policy would slightly benefit the Wikipedia. I'd be delighted to hear your thoughts on the matter. Please see my comments regarding this matter at: Wikipedia:Village_pump_(policy)#Interwiki_Bot_Policy_Proposal. Thank you for your time. -- AllyUnion (talk) 08:22, 21 May 2005 (UTC)

EPs category?

While working on some band releases I came across with a problem: I know that there are categories especially created to order albums, and singles, but what about EPs?
I thought I could use {{Category: XXX EPs}} but I was wrong. We don’t have {{EPs by artist}} as we do with albums and singles. So, how am I supposed to classify Extended Plays? Regards, Luis María Benítez 22:42, 26 May 2005 (UTC)

See Wikipedia:WikiProject Albums. EPs are classified as albums. There is a special color for them. RedWolf 02:58, May 31, 2005 (UTC)

Kala Patthar

Hi RedWolf. My spelling of Kala Patthar is based on the odd sign / pamphlet I saw in Gorak Shep (I think the spelling of this on Wikipedia of "Gorakshep" is incorrect though I haven't changed it. I have never seen it spelt as one word and doubt this is a translation issue. What do you think??) in October 2004 and a map I brought back with me (published by Sherpa Maps). I guess this could be one of those where there are two translations from the Nepalese name though I think it is generally spelt with an "h". I changed it because I assumed the spelling "Kala Pattar" was a typo. However, if you feel strongly, feel free to change it back.

I've had a good stab in the last couple of days at adding info to Namche Bazaar. Am planning over the coming weeks on adding more information on other points of interest along the Base Camp trail and possible an Everest Base Camp Trek page (though this has been written loosely about in wikitravel). Also plan to upload photos.

Good to se I'm not the only one here who's been to Base Camp. When are you off to Kili?? jxs97s 13:44, 27 May 2005 (BST)

Image quality, Commons

The comments currently at the top of this page explains the low resolution of your Image:Sagarmatha ck Oct18 2002.jpg. Having a somewhat better resolution would be nice, of course, although the main problem with the image are the compression artifacts that make the picture look pretty awful. However, the reason I am writing this is a question I didn't find answered anywhere: Could you please upload your GFDL images to commons, so WPs in other languages can use them as well? Rl 09:01, 30 May 2005 (UTC)

The image is already on Commons using the same file name - Commons:Image:Sagarmatha ck Oct18 2002.jpg. I originally uploaded that image on here quite a while back before the automatic thumb sizing so I purposely cut it back so it would display fine in the infobox. I wouldn't consider the current image "pretty awful" — looks decent on my Mac. I will consider re-uploading at a higher resolution but no guarantees at this point. My main concern is the commercial use of the image as I noted at the top. RedWolf 02:54, May 31, 2005 (UTC)

Category:Volcanoes of Ecuador

The Andes in Ecuador are divided into three ranges that were created at different geological times. That's why there are three categories. People generally classify the volcanoes in Ecuador that way. Don't delete the categories. 2004-12-29T22:45Z 02:05, Jun 3, 2005 (UTC)

Image of Anita Hill

Hi, I've just found out that in February you added a template to Image:A_Hill.jpg saying that the photo is being "considered for deletion". Have you read the corresponding talk page? What more do you want / do we here at Wikipedia need for an image to stay?

Best wishes, <KF> 01:07, Jun 5, 2005 (UTC)

The talk page implies that the image (Image:A Hill.jpg) cannot be used for commercial use which is not allowed under GFDL. Someone has apparently changed the template (after I originally applied it to the image in question) to denote that non-commercial uses images are now being considered for deletion. So, you will either have to find an image that can be used for commercial purposes, get permission for commercial use or eventually the image will be deleted. RedWolf 02:59, Jun 7, 2005 (UTC)

Adams Island

I am confused about data on (sub-antarctic) Adams Island. You wrote that the island is at Template:Coor dm and someone added it as the part of Auckland Islands, which is far away of Auckland Island (Template:Coor dm). It seems that Adams Island which you described is some other island? --Millosh 01:59, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I'm sure there are several islands by that name across the world. If someone provides more information about Adams Island of the Aucklands, then eventually Adams Island will become a disambiguation page for Adams Island (Antarctica) and Adams Island (New Zealand). RedWolf 02:54, Jun 7, 2005 (UTC)

OK. Adams Island which you described is not the part of Auckland Islands. So, I'll remove Adams Island from the list of Auckland Islands inside of List of antarctic and sub-antarctic islands. --Millosh 04:55, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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