User talk:Catbar
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Hello Brian, welcome to Wikipedia. Thanks for adding the note to your website about Egyptian Mau cat. I've removed the copyright violation notice now.
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Angela. 03:28, 5 Dec 2003 (UTC)
Brian, I made some minor changes to your Woodward Tornado article. While the referenced Web page is similar in outline and some content, I don't believe that we are in danger of copyright violation. Lou I 17:37, 5 Feb 2004 (UTC)
Re: George W Bush: I didn't read back as far as Hephaestos's edit, I was just reverting the comment that he was responsible for millions of deaths worldwide... Graham :) 00:54, 4 Mar 2004 (UTC)
- If he wins the Nobel I'll volunteer to eat him... Graham :) 11:39, 4 Mar 2004 (UTC)
Regarding rabies, it certainly sounds like a reasonable hypothesis, I just don't want to imply it's a verified one (unless it is), or the standard, accepted one (unless it is), since one can think of other reasonable hypotheses as well<G>. I always thought it was a difference in biological susceptibility, but that could just my own peculiar hypothesis. - Nunh-huh 03:23, 4 Mar 2004 (UTC)
copied from my own talk page:
Aw, ya bagged Alexander Woollcott! He was on my 'get to him if nobody beats you to it' list. You beat me to it. Congratulations.
Somewhere, I've read a lot about him. I don't think I've read the Teichmann bio, but I have read a Dorothy Parker bio, and Harpo's autobiography. I think I've also got a book on the Algonquin Round Table - that might have been where I read a lot about him. A very interesting, mostly forgotten character. I'll root throught the stacks and see what I find.
Thanks!
Brian Rock 00:27, 2004 Mar 9 (UTC)
I didn't address his sexuality, thoughI didn't mention his island in Vermont, though, or a buncha other things; there's plenty left to do, and I owe the library a small fortune in fines, so I can't to do it.
- Besides, you got Black 47, and thank the Lord I didn't have to cover that. --Charles A. L. 02:25, Mar 9, 2004 (UTC)
Hey, Brian! With cases like ALFRED NOBEL, it's easier to just turn it into a redirect. We don't keep duplicate articles. You also might want to read up on speedy deletions. All the best, Woodrow 02:14, 31 Mar 2004 (UTC)
Hi Brian - I note you've called the ZMC-2 as "only metalclad blimp ever built". Does David Schwarz's and Carl Berg's Metallballon of 1897 belong to a different class of airship? Lighter-than-air's not my area... --Rlandmann 02:24, 6 Apr 2004 (UTC)
- hello, David Schwarz's Airship was a rigid. It has had a wooden frame inside. This ship was the first time aluminium was used in aviation ever.
greetings hadhuey from german wiki
Brian, Thanks for your vote on my admin nomination. I was surprised there was support as a result of the only feline edit I've done on WP!
I take it that you know, and like, Tonks? I would have included the oddest thing I know about them, but it might have been applicable only to the one I knew best. She loved green pea soup and didn't like milk. Go figure?!
Thanks again. ww 20:43, 14 Apr 2004 (UTC)
- Brian,
- I'm glad you think it's been on the whole good work. I'm not sure I can be as sure, as the holes and patches mostly stand out. And thanks for figuring out how to vote. Always good to pick up new skills...
- Anyway, Keuda??!! Thanks for pointing them out to me. I'll be on the lookout for one at the next show I go to.
- If you're willing to dive into something, I could use some perspective and comment in the crypto corner, from a non specialist. The really technical articles (algorithm innards and such) are a lot easier to do than the more general overview articles, partly because it's hard for an author (and crypto person) to see the places that just won't make sense to a general reader. And of course there are the dumb typos too -- but those are easier to find. If you'd be willing to dip into some of the overview crypto articles and point out places that just don't make any sense, I'd be grateful. Of course, I'll be glad to return the favor for articles you'd like a newish eye on. Maybe together we can exterminate a few opacities.
- ww 17:02, 15 Apr 2004 (UTC)
- Brian,
- thanks for being wiliing to lend an eye. It's not my work that I was looking to overview (needy of such as it is, I'm sure), it's crypto generally. You might look into Topics in Cryptography for an annotated list of many (most?) articles in the corner and start there. You might consider secure channel or diplomatic bag or key or ... It's exactly your non specialist eye which I was hoping to snag as opacity/obscurity and such are hard to see when you're too close to something.
- Of course, if you'd like to correct a typo here and there... As for the mathematics, it's a specialized corner, but you might enjoy some of it. General readers aren't so likely to tolerate that sort of article though, so it's not so much of a problem in re opacity.
- Anyway, I'd love to hear your comments and reactions. They will give those of us in the crypto corner a fresh perspective and help clean up a technical (but of general interest -- eg trusted computing and Digital Rights management) subject area.
- ww 15:23, 17 Apr 2004 (UTC)
I nominated you for adminship. Good luck, and keep up the good work. Meelar 04:49, 25 Apr 2004 (UTC)
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= Dioxin
Hello Brian
I see that your illustration of the structure of 2,3,7,8 tetrachloro-dibenzo-para-dioxin is marked 2,4,7,8 and I don't know how to go about correcting it. Nothing I can do but let you know, I guess. UninvitedCompany
adminship
A consensus has been reached by your peers that you should be an admin. I have made it so. Please review Wikipedia:Administrators' reading list and keep up the great work. Sincerely, Kingturtle 06:57, 2 May 2004 (UTC)
- Congratulations, Brian! Cribcage 16:07, 2 May 2004 (UTC)
Re: Flint-Worcester Tornadoes
Dear Brian,
It is okay with me to redirect this article since it talks about two tornadoes anyway.
BigT27 08:00, 5 May 2004 (UTC)
By all means, "be bold". I'm still trying to decide if "tornado" ought to be capitalized in those or not. :) - Hephaestos|§ 00:54, 7 May 2004 (UTC)
Dot Project
(*evil cackling laugh*) Y'know, sooner or later I ought to post more detailed instructions... Essentially, I just take the maps already generated for the county articles, edit them so there's no red, and then go town by town using Mapquest to plot the locations and paste the dot in the right location manually. The little red circle is five pixels in diameter.
As far as finding the cities, there are the articles like List of cities in Arizona that list all of the municipalities with articles (usually), but I find it most useful to go county by county -- the rambot county articles also contain listings of towns. That's pretty much it. Let me know what state(s) you decide to start with, and I'll make a note of it. -- Seth Ilys 01:33, 13 May 2004 (UTC)
- I'm not sure what you mean by "fixing up" the county maps -- so far as I know, they already exist and have been inserted into the Rambot articles. Are the county maps inaccurate? -- Seth Ilys 01:50, 13 May 2004 (UTC)
- Ah, never mind. I understand now. Yes, that would be very useful! -- Seth Ilys 01:50, 13 May 2004 (UTC)
- Groovy. I'll be sure to watch for them. You're always welcome to help with the Dot Project, too. :) -- Seth Ilys 02:03, 13 May 2004 (UTC)
From the WikiProject article:
- "The U.S. county maps are generated from scanned public domain originals, which have then been modified by User:Wapcaplet and User:Jdforrester to indicate the counties and licensed under the GFDL."
You might want to ask them if they still have the originals. -- The Anome 08:53, 13 May 2004 (UTC)
Gee willikers, do you plan to upload a map of that nature for every town in Missouri? --Smack 00:07, 28 May 2004 (UTC)
Hi, regarding the existence of blank US state maps, I'm afraid the only surviving copies I had were backed up to a CD-R that has since ceased to be functional. A shame, since I had them all in a higher-resolution format that would have made better source material for your project; but it looks like you're on your own for creating blank ones from the ones that are already posted. You could probably just flood-fill the red regions with white (and maybe desaturate the image to get rid of any residual red tinges) to get pristine versions from them. If you do that, you may consider doing what I ought to have done the first time, and post the blank ones to the Wiki for the benefit of future editors. Good luck! -- Wapcaplet 21:37, 13 May 2004 (UTC)
Re: Where to put the blank maps: I've just created Wikipedia:WikiProject Maps/Source materials for the purpose of listing and linking such images. Might be helpful to list them there as well. -- Wapcaplet 20:01, 14 May 2004 (UTC)
When I've been creating the blank county maps as templates for the city dot-maps, I usually just take two county maps from counties on opposite sides of the state, then cut and paste them together to create one entirely blank map. Maybe that will work for you... -- Seth Ilys 03:17, 15 May 2004 (UTC)
Re: possible copyright on the maps. The ones I downloaded can be found in this directory (http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/states/); they are all copyrighted "U.S. Department of Commerce, Economics and Statistics Administration, Bureau of the Census." AFAIK, all Census Bureau publications are public-domain. I did lots of editing to remove various guidelines, county names, pieces of lint, etc. If you are doing this all over again, I would recommend using the current U.S. Census county maps, which are here (http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/), and are in general nicer-looking (though they may require just as much editing). They are probably more up-to-date, as well. Ideally, we should have some nice SVG maps to work from, so if you find public-domain SVG state maps, they'd probably make the best source material. -- Wapcaplet 22:22, 18 May 2004 (UTC)
Hi there, nice work on the maps! I got to trying to think of a way to automate the producing the maps. I know here in canada there is a standard grid for topographic maps. Given certain lat/long positions, you can pull up the corresponding map at varying scales (though the map doesn't need to be topographical, it could be a line drawing as yours are). Also because of the projection of those maps, it is easy to determine where to place a mark given those lat/long positions. Somewhere out there has to be a list of towns with their corresponding gps/lat+long data which could be fed into a small program which would then load the appropriate map, place the dot, and output the file with the filename being the name of the town into some directory; you could then simply pick a map as you needed it. The hardest part would be in finding properly-calibrated public-domain maps that looked good. I'll look into it some more. --Vanchuck 07:31, 8 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- I'll be writing a bit more about this on my user page if you're interested. --Vanchuck 08:18, 8 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Maps...
I noticed you've been busy making municipal maps... Well I have been too! I was wondering if there was any sort of coordinated project? --"DICK" CHENEY 01:00, 24 Jun 2004 (UTC)
I'll be sure to save Kansas and Ohio for you (and mark it as such), if you'd want to claim them. Have you finished Missouri, or are you taking a break from that with Arizona? -- Seth Ilys 01:19, 24 Jun 2004 (UTC)
- Sounds fine to me; I just thought I'd ask, since you mentioned them on HCheney's user page. I really do appreciate other people working on the project; it gives me some confidence that I'm not crazy in attempting it. :) -- Seth Ilys 01:35, 24 Jun 2004 (UTC)
- Oh, and feel free to update the project section of my user page as appropriate. I don't mind at all. -- Seth Ilys 01:38, 24 Jun 2004 (UTC)
png maps
If you're going to be posting large numbers of pngs (those maps), could you recompress them first?
I found this app awhile back, been using it on my images and now on images on wikipedia. Called pngcrush, it cycles though every possible style of compression on the image through different filters and compression levels. I tested several of your maps and got 30% reductions in filesize. Here's a link to the project with pngcrush: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pmt/
Best way to use it is 'pngcrush -brute infile.png outfile.png' If its a large file and you've got a slow computer, expect to be waiting awhile since it will go through around 110 compression styles. It ends by saying the % change in file size. You can mess with some other options too.
Hope you find that program helpful in making the wiki more image efficent.
name that butte (redux)
Thanks for your help with identifying Monument Valley. I'm going to upload an annotated version, the work-in-progress version of which is at [1] (http://www.mcwalter.org/unlinked/name_that_butte/test.jpg). Before I update it proper, I'd appreciate your comments. Thanks. -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 19:58, 9 Aug 2004 (UTC)
![[1]](http://www.mcwalter.org/unlinked/name_that_butte/test.jpg){kind=link}
Colors of Stub links
Brian,
I saw your post on Meta:Help talk:Preferences about how to change stub colorings. I don't know any way to do this currently, but it sounds like a very reasonable request. In the last few weeks, Wikimedia started up a Wikimedia Bugzilla (http://bugzilla.wikipedia.org); if you're not familiar with it, Bugzilla is a tool used to track bug reports and feature requests in software. I think you should add a request for this feature to the Bugzilla. If you haven't used Bugzilla before, I'd be happy to help you file a request.
Have fun,
- Creidieki 17:07, 23 Aug 2004 (UTC)
msg: no longer needed
I see that you've spent some time uploading maps showing the location of US towns, which is great. What I noticed from you uploads streaming past in the RecentChanges is that the summary includes {{msg:GFDL}}, and it is good to properly tag images; however you might be interested to know that since the upgrade of the wiki software a few months ago, one only needs to type {{GFDL}}. The msg: part is no longer mandatory. You don't have to use the new syntax, although on the plus side it will save a few keystroken.
Oak Hill
Nope, I live in Florida. I've never even been to Kansas. :) [[User:Neutrality|Neutrality (hopefully!)]] 00:43, Oct 22, 2004 (UTC)
Article Licensing
I was looking at the U.S. city/state articles and noticed that you've made a number of bot changes specifically regarding the amazing dot project. I've chosen to multi-license all of the rambot contributions under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike Licence. I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all your contributions (or at minimum those on the geographic articles) so that we can keep most of the articles available under the multi-license. Many users use the {{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}} template on their user page, but there are other templates for other options at Template messages/User namespace. If you only prefer using the GFDL, I understand, but I thought I'd at least ask, just in case. -- Ram-Man 18:31, Nov 17, 2004 (UTC)
- I'm fuzzy, too. The way I understand your note on my page, if I put the dual license template {{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}} on my User Page, I'll grant the CreativeCommons license to all my work on Wikipedia. I have no problem with that. Should I do something to current (and future) maps? By the way, I'm not using a bot; it's manual. Thanks. Catbar (Brian Rock) 00:50, 18 Nov 2004 (UTC)
- To answer your questions: Yes, put that template on your user page and you will grant the usage of the license for all your work on Wikipedia (unless you specifically state any exclusions). Of course that is limited to only those changes which you are legally allowed to dual-license. If you copied text from one Wikipedia page to another, that would be only under the GFDL as you were not the author, but any eligible changes would be dual-licensed. As for the maps, they originally came from the public domain, however they were release exclusively into the GFDL by User:Wapcaplet and User:Jdforrester. Since the dot project has used their images, as a derivative work they must also be licensed under the GFDL. For the images to be dual-licensed, I must first get them to dual-license the original pictures. Then if that is successful, I can ask all the dot-project people to dual-license their pictures. But for now, you can't dual-license the pictures. -- Ram-Man 00:56, Nov 18, 2004 (UTC)
- Update: The source county images for the dot-project have all been multi-licensed by James F. and Wapcaplet into the CC-by, which is apparently one-way compatible with the CC-by-sa. I've am asking all of the dot-project contributors to multi-license their dot-project images under this license as well. Would you be agreeable to doing this as well? I know you already multi-license your contributions. I will use the rambot to update the copyright tags in the same way that it updated the tags in the source county images. Thanks! – Ram-Man (comment (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=User_talk:Ram-Man&action=edit§ion=new)) (talk)[[]] 21:29, Dec 16, 2004 (UTC)
RFC pages on VfD
Should RFC pages be placed on VfD to be deleted? I'm considering removing Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Slrubenstein, Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Jwrosenzweig and Wikipedia:Requests for comment/John Kenney from WP:VFD. Each of them was listed by CheeseDreams. Your comments on whether I should do this would be appreciated. - Ta bu shi da yu 03:26, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Image recreation requests
Greetings. I just started the Wikipedia:Image recreation requests project, and I thought you might be interested. Your help would be greatly appreciated. (I got your name from the list at Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Cartographers.) Best regards, – Quadell (talk) (sleuth) 03:20, Jan 30, 2005 (UTC)
Your LA images
I've taken the liberty of copyright-tagging your Louisiana "doton" images with GFDL tags, like the rest of them. If this is incorrect, let me know and I'll fix them. grendel|khan 05:27, 2005 Feb 27 (UTC)
Egyptain Mau
Hi Brian,
I saw your Maus, I'm a proud owner of an Emau Egyptian Mau wondering if our paths have crossed and need your help. I was hoping to speak with you privately, I tried to email you via your website but the email was returned. How might I email you?
DystopianAngel 18:56, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Show cat and genetic helth problems
I noticed that you have edited a section of the article show cat regarding the frequency of serious health problems in purebred cats. There is currently a discussion on the talk page about this section as to weather the article should state that this is a problem (the position I have taken) or weather the article should state that this is a misconception which is not true. Your input would we appreciated. Dalf | Talk 23:29, 3 May 2005 (UTC)