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User talk:Ericd
About those B&W photos of cameras--you mentioned that you had reduced them to 64 levels of gray at one point and originally saved them as PNG. Converting to JPG saved a lot of space, but it would be even better if we started with the full 256-level originals and converted those to JPG; they'd be smaller and much higher quality (the present photos have noticeable aliasing). Can you give me some idea of what start-to-finish process was used to create these photos, so we can work on making them as high-quality as possible? --LDC
I looked at folding camera and let me say first that I'm not an expert. I'm an amateur photographer who started with some (very little) videography around August 2001, and only recently (about six weeks ago) bought a still camera (this after taking one photojournalism class in June). So.
About the article. It looks ok, except it seems to imply that the cameras are not often used any more. This may well be the case, but if it uses even 120mm film, the camera would yield fine images (the larger the negative, the larger the blowup before you get noticeable grain). A side effect, of course, is that the cameras are heavier.
I don't know if this is the same camera as the "view camera" (where the photographer disappears beneath the cloth), but if it is, the National Geographic Field Guide on Landscapes has this to say about it: they commonly have a 4x5" sheet of film, and the camera
- "records extremely fine detail and yields superb enlargements. Both front and rear standards can be adjusted to manipulate focus and depth of field--you can tilt them up-down and left-right to correct for perspective distortion and to have both near and far subjects in focus."
- <snip>
- "Most are completely manual, are heavy and cumbersome, and are expensive to buy and operate. They require patience, skill, and a lot of practice to master. But photographers who want extremely high definition and who plan to make very large prints find them invaluable."
--- Well I should expand the article. High end folding camera could be great picture takers and a cheap way to enter in medium format photography. But they don't age very well... There prone to light leak (bellow pinhole) and to film/lens parallelism problems. I will try to add something about the subject. Ericd 10:07 Sep 7, 2002 (UTC)
I've added something about view camera and something else field camera they also have bellow but are build for different use. National Geographic refers to view camera you can use this source to expand the article. In restrictive sense a folding is an ancestor of the Nikon FM2 : a general use handheld camera and use generally medium format film 120/620 or 116/616 (now obsolete). A view camera is unusable without a tripod and use large format plates (4"x5" and 8"x10" are common size in use today) (glass) or sheet (film). A view camera for stdio use can not be folded At large sense a field camera is a folding ; it can be folded. This implies some limitition in tilt and shift movements. I have no pictures for wikipedia but look there :
http://www.fiberq.com/cam/misc.htm
http://photographytips.com/page.cfm/220
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btw, ericd and ericb are only one person ?
If true, would you be interested in the official WikiProject French departements ? user:anthere
- For the first question : No.
- I've made some correction in French Departement and French Regions. I have a look on it but I'm not really expert in geography.Ericd
I added a stub to Tina Turner. I don't know much about her; please expand it if you do. :-) --KQ
I don't know very much but I added something. Do you know something about the Beatles stereo vs. mono ? Talk:The Beatles
- No, I don't really know anything about that. IIRC Gareth Owen and I had a discussion about it and reached no conclusion. I'd have to find the old LPs because they may have changed it later. --KQ
Hi, Ericd! About Le Bébête Show: It's considered by a number of Wikipedians useful to have common misspellings present as redirects to the proper spellings. That way, those who enter incorrect spellings may still get to the article they want to read. However, if you think this is a serious issue, add it to Wikipedia:Votes for deletion. On that site it can be discussed for alittle while, and if most agree, deleted. -- April
Right but the search engine don't care about accents it would be better to create Le Bebete Show and to get rid of other misspelling with accents ?
On a more general what is the policy with non-english spelling ? Event in the project french departement it seems unclear. I am for French départements, but what ?
- The general policy is to use the accepted English spelling where there is one. Where there isn't, I heartily recommend using the original spelling with accents (or closest approximation; we're limited to Latin-1 so many non-Western European accents need to be dropped, and non-Latin writing systems should be transliterated of course!), but acceptable variants may be provided as redirects (for German umlauts -> letter+e; for French, dropped accents). --Brion
--- Hi. Eric. I assume the blanking of The Rutles was an accident. Mintguy The net was very slow this evening I don't know what happened....
I don't know who you are, but already you're slandering me.
First, I am not a Stalinist.
Second, if I have to convince you of what happened in Central Africa or Southwest Africa, then you’re ignorant.
Third, if you are at all familiar with mainstream scholarship on Chinese history, then I wouldn’t have to convince you that those Free Tibet charges are extremely questionable.
Forth, I’m not here to advocate anything.
I'm used to these ridiculous charges from the likes of people like you.
User Tannin described them well:
"172, let's not get into a misunderstanding here. I would be the last person to call you a communist. Prior to your arrival, a good many of the history pages were rather shallow things, and showed little understanding of the interrelationship between history (in the traditional "kings and queens of England" sense) and the broad flow of economic change that underpins and (in general) controls the actions of statesmen, generals and inventors. You certainly do not fall into that trap! Your contributions have made significant inroads into the task of describing history as an interacting whole. Several others here have objected to what they see as a "communist bias" in your writing. In large part, these objections stem from two things:
Many people here have spent a lifetime steeped in a rather one-sided view of history - I'm talking about the sort of history that describes the Battle of the Bulge or Second Alamain in loving detail, but relegates Stalingrad to a footnote and doesn't even bother to mention Kursk; the sort of history that thinks Jethro Tull invented the seed drill and therefore we had an Industrial Revolution - and on reading the sort of thing that you write, they (very naturally) tend to say oh, this isn't what I'm used to seeing, therefore it must be wrong. You tend to write large slabs of text which is perfectly comprehensible if one concentrates but far from easy reading, particularly as it is liberally laced with the jargon of political economy. Many people see key words or phrases like "bourgeoise", "hegemony", or "accumulation of surplus" and (a) don't really understand them, and (b) assume that because the two or three Marxist or Leninist tracts they happen to have glanced at are filled with these same words, that the present work is more of the same. "
- EricD, sorry to be intruding on your talk page, but I had better point out that the above is a selective quote, and the full version (on 172's talk page) also includes less complimentary points. I shouldn't want anyone to think that the para above is a complete or balanced statement of my views Tannin
I never wrote anywhere you're a Stalinist. I've been myself suspected to either Stalinist or anti-American and I might well be one ;-). You should know than phrases like "bourgeoise", "hegemony", or "accumulation of surplus" are widely used in marxist discurse and rarely in other discurse. I simply don't like the way you edit article without researching any form of consensus between the contributors. I personnally avoid editing sensitive article without adding comment in the Talk. Have a look at my comment in Talk:Genocide User:Ericd
- Eric, 172 was addressing me. Unfortunately, she/he debates with the equivalent of emptying the clip on an automatic rifle, which while hitting at least one bull's eye, unfortunately causes a lot of collateral damage. Sorry that you got hit.
- If 172 would try to enter into a debate with the rest of us, perhaps she/he wouldn't be in this situation. (And yes, I know I need to improve on MY debating skills.) -- llywrch 21:03 Jan 2, 2003 (UTC)
It was for me to I wrote in several places about his strange understanding of NPOV. User:Ericd
- Like I said, "the equivalent of emptying the clip on an automatic rifle". It would be nice if she/he did more than a cut-n-paste in both logs. -- llywrch 21:15 Jan 2, 2003 (UTC)
these terms are widely used in the discourse of politcal economy in general.
Sorry, Eric, I'm staying out of any more edit wars until the 172 situation is resolved. I've just asked that he/she be banned. -- Zoe
I believe it's the only solution. Ericd
Sure, Eric. First, alas, I have to spend a day at the office. Tannin
Sheesh, I let the mother-in-law use the computer for a while, & I miss out on the general consensus: that's the only reason I reverted genocide with a few changes.
Hope I'm not rekindling the blaze. -- llywrch
Please stop deleting cases of genocide in Africa. I don't delete cases of genocide in Africa I delete tons POV addition you made. I will reincorporate case of genocide in Africa if you cease your non consesual addition. YOU JUST CAN'T IMAGINE HOW ANTI-COLONIALIST I AM ! Have a look to my contributions about Jean-Marie Le Pen.
I'm not interested in POVing that article about Jean-Marie Le Pen. I'm not interested in espousing a anti-colonialist agenda on Wikipedia. I'm not interested in advancing a Stalinist or Trotskyite agenda on any medium.
But if there's going to be an article chronicling instances of genocide, I feel that it should be as complete as possible.
"Terrorisme intellectuel" is the only way to qualify your behaviour. User:Ericd
- No freaking kidding. User:AnnieKat
The references to the Congolese economy seem to be throwing you off. This should not be so. As I’ve said earlier, referring to Belgian atrocities in the Congo Free State without referring to surplus value, labor as a commodity and mass-production is like detailing the Holocaust without discussing anti-Semitism.
Like Zoe I will stay out of edit wars with you until the your situation is resolved. User:Ericd
What situation? If Zoe gets me banned by slandering and misinterpreting my contributions, I'll just get a new username.
Positive thinking ! And if you don't change your attitude you'll be banned another time. User:Ericd
- A round of smilies all around for THAT thought. And I award one Point to Eric.
Eric, thanks for your comments. I did just look over the material (and all the revisions) and do think it needs work, but I am a little cautious about doing anything with it because I certainly have a POV interest invested here (in my latest employment incarnation, I write curricula on the Holocaust and genocide). In general, and I admit fully that this is my own POV, the term genocide seems to be bandied around a little loosely here. The question I would ask is "Are politically-motivated killings, as opposed to ethnically motivated killings (and I admit that the distinction is somewhat obtuse) an act of genocide, or is it a crime against humanity?" For example, if Mao (Stalin, Hitler, etc.) killed 30 million people because they opposed his regime, it is certainly a heinous crime, but is it genocide? It is not a question of comparing tragedies--I don't think we ever can or should do that. I also think that certain unquestioned attempts (some which were actually successful) at genocide should be mentioned. For instance, I happen to have a copy of Stannard's American Holocaust on my desk right now. Many (but not all) of the cases he mentions are clearly examples of genocide and I think they should be mentioned. Similarly, the case of the Herero in Southwest Africa deserves mention, as does Stalin's policy of ethnic cleansing in WW2 (Chechens, Kalmyks, etc.). I'm not sure Mao's purges, no matter how horrible do under the heading genocide. Again, this is my own POV, off the top of my head, and I have to think about it some more and do a little more research. I certainly will do that though. Danny
I mostly agree with your point of view I believe politically-motivated killings should be be distinged from ethnically motivated. I also believe that the article genocide should be extensive about historic controversies they should be discussed in separarte article. I also believe that the order is non-neutral. I'm very prudent in editing such sensitives articles (my english is too poor). I generally prefer to make comments. User:Ericd
- Jumping in this discussion, just to say that I agree too... Confusion is dangerous because it serves propaganda more than it serves understanding. An act may be horrible even though it's not technically a "genocide". FvdP
Exactly my feelings. I dont think the article makes that distinction, which is why it is being used for various POV efforts. Danny
Did you read the page? The content pertains to major "CHARGES" of genocide.
In my opinion Mao, Stalin, and Leopold II did not commit genocide, but the Germans in SW Africa did fall within the parameters of the definition. But this opinion doesn’t matter. This is not for Wikipedia users to decide. Let's not remove anything and simply let’s continue to report what others have CHARGED.
You asked for new subject try :
There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom
I don't get the insult.
How about the charge that Linda Lovelace was the victim of genocide? I understand the Judean Popular Front alleged that. -- llywrch Bullshit, Maoist propangada supported by US governement.
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Be realistic (and better yet start making sense). Doubtless you are familiar with all the charges of genocide in the article, as they are all fairy well-publicized. The occurrences of all those atrocities are generally undisputable as well. The debate centers on whether or not each atrocity falls within the parameters of genocide.
It is inappropriate for Wikipedia contributors to pick arbitrarily sides in a controversy.
Instead, let’s continue to list well-documented atrocities that some consider instances of genocide. Let's keep the Belgian Congo in the article and Linda Lovelace out.
Regarding the Congo article:
You people may dislike me, but a brief overview is necessary. The current article goes into micro detail, but gives little insight as to why these atrocities occurred. As a PhD historian, I can assure you that few scholars would seriously assess Leopold’s rule in the Congo without taking the two contrasting concepts of land and labor into consideration. Understanding the contrasting patters of production between the traditional Congolese tribal states and modern, industrial Belgium is essential.
You people don’t seem to understand the colossal leap from subsistence, seasonal patterns of agricultural production to the modern capitalist one, based on specialization/productivity and surplus value. Personally, I consider this a form of progress (though not in the Congo context!) and don’t understand why some readers deleted my contributions, feeling that I have an anti-modern bias.
Mass-production of rubber in a dense, tropical forest in one of the world’s most isolated regions was after all quite a massive endeavor. Other parts of Africa were not cultivating rubber (quite a harsh crop to cultivate); other parts of Africa had milder climates and topographies. So the whole rapid shift to mass-production of rubber might be considered more important than Leopold’s megalomania and insensitivity.
Indeed this was a change (and this change was the export of capitalism) that revolutionized every level of Congolese society forever. That must be noted, considering that this is an article on Congolese history.
Few people will remember the micro details of the article just minutes aftwer reading. So our duty is to give them a general overview, an understanding of not just what happened, but why.
- Just what do you mean by "PhD historian"? Do you have a PhD in history? If so, what was your thesis on? Do you teach history? If so, on what level? Is your position tenure-track?
- In my experience, when someone drags out the fact they have a doctorate in a subject (& it's not an MD), they are covering for their ignorance with arrogance. And the ones with an MD usually are just being arrogant. (Although there are exceptions -- like the parents of one of my ex-girlfriends).
- Doing something about your arrogance would do wonders about your popularity. -- llywrch 21:38 Jan 4, 2003 (UTC)
If you don't accept the principe of Wikipedia write an article about Congo in some scientific review. Stop pasting everywhere an article that's obviously show an attitude. And remember an Encyclopedia is not a Phd. POV is welcome in a Phd not in a Encyclopedia. And anyone who considers himself as being scientific should accept his work to be criticized. And your text is not so scientific it contains a large number of unargumented assertions.
Pasting the same text everywhere without changing any word restoring every time someone delete your additions is not a positive attitude.Qualifying anyone that disagree with you as an ignorant or as belgian nationalist is not a positive attitude we have a name for this in France we call it "Terrorisme Intellectuel" that's what you do. Even if you feel leftish that's a facist behaviour.
I don't deny the exploitation of the Congo that a proven fact. I just believe that qualifying it as genocide is an improper use of the term (the more you use word the less sense it has) and that your text contain a lot of subjective assertions.
Re-work your text and try to make it acceptable according to Wikipedia standards put it in an adequate article and not everywhere you can paste it. And believe me you will be much more convicing.
Be positive instead of being paranoïd.
I expect my poor english doesn't deserve too much the meaning of this text.
I wasn't logged in 62.212.103.37 is my ip address. User:Ericd
Don't worry. Your English is better than my French. Read the article:
History of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
See my new changes and see the talk section please.
I’m wasn’t saying that my interpretation of the Congo Free State was the final word, but merely suggesting that few scholars would seriously assess the era without taking the contrasting concepts of land and labor into consideration.
I merely ask that the article not convey only a superficial glance of the historical record. 172
I’m just remembering that you said that you’re a Trotskyite. You Trotskyites cost Lionel Jospin the election!
- "Terrorisme Intellectuel", as usual. Disqualifying people for what they are not what they say or write.
I never write in anywhere I writed I was a Belgian nationalist. Do you think I'm serious ? Read my comments History of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. I can analyse your text word by word to show you that it is very oriented. But you should known : normally when I do this job I'm payed for (bourgeois ethic ?). Wikipedia is hobby for me and for most of the Wikipedian. With your attitude it become some kind of harassing unpayed work.
Ericd:
I’m not dispensing that energy to salvage a few sentences. I’m dispensing that energy because I started and wrote that article and Vera Cruz is arbitrarily deleting 90% of it.
I don’t want to engage in petty, personal arguments with you anymore. I’d rather engage in more constructive dialogue.
It’s easy to accuse someone of bias and call him names like "terrorist". But what biases are evident in that article? I truly doubt that you’ve read my revised version in its entirety.
For sure I don't want to read the same prose anymore, the most oriented sentences are still there. User:Ericd
Then don't say that the text is biased and don't call me a terrorist.
Read over this is not an insult just a fact. User:Ericd
What bias? You haven't given me any examples. You're just trying to annoy me as if you were a small child.
Re-read in Talk:History of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (the same text in New Imperialism isn'it ?).If you left uncut some of my comments. You often cut what is too disturbing to you. I WON'T ARGUE WITH YOU ANYMORE. That's all folks ! User:Ericd
Eric, may I suggest you join me on the mailing list in urging 172's ouster? -- Zoe
Go to Wikipedia:Mailing lists. The discussion concerning 172 is on WikiEN-L. -- Zoe
Ericd, please do not vandalize 172's user page, this is a violation of our policy. And yes, copying large amounts of text repeatedly qualifies as vandalism. It also wastes DB space on the Wikipedia server. --Eloquence
OK I will never do it again. User:Ericd
Ericd:
You’re probably detecting this bias laced in technical language because of language difficulties. I can understand how that's possible, since I speak French and Spanish as non-native languages. I sometimes have a hard time picking up subtleties.
Your English, I have to admit, is far better than my French.
Pas vraiment à l'état neuf, la 2CV ;-) --FvdP
C'est la plus ancienne que j'ai vu à l'état d'origine depuis 1980 elle a encore sa peinture cellulosique. Elle était garée hier en bas de chez moi. User:Ericd
could you rename your photo of the box camera to perhaps one called boxcamera.jpg? It's not hard to imagine box.jpg being overwritten with a photo of, say, a box used to demonstrate something mathematically.
Eric, why did you ask me to look at the Isadora Duncan page? I was querying the copyright status of an image on the Golda Meir page. I'm confused... User:Mswake
- Because a lot DW images uploads seems copyrighted and he seems to refuse to answers about it ?
- User:Ericd
- Ah, right. I'm going to give him the weekend to provide some info on the Golda Meir image, then delete it if he hasn't. User:Mswake
All done. (The 2CV copyedit.) I have to say that I found very little to change though - as you can see. And that is a GREAT picture. I love it! Tannin
- Thanks.
- User:Ericd
Who the hell do you think you are removing the photos I inserted on the FLQ members....DW
For photographic lenses, I'd say go ahead and write an article at photographic lens and we'll just add links from lens and lens (disambiguation). I'm assuming that you'll want to write photographic lens from a more practical point of view, and keep lens mostly as a theory of optics type article. Alternately, we could just make lens a disambiguation page, and move the articles to lens (optics)[?] and lens (photography)[?]. I don't have a strong preference, although the first option is easier.
As for rainbow, I can't see anything wrong with the picture - what makes you think it is a fake? It seems it was added by user:Karen Johnson, BTW. -- DrBob 20:43 Jan 23, 2003 (UTC)
- I have an impression of strangeness. At second thought :
- The picture show sensible vigneting this is typical of WA lenses with filters. if you want to fake a rainbow with a filter you need to use a WA to have a maximal depth of field). The angle of the rainbow with the ground seems unusual to me, could it vary with latitude for instance ? Is the shadow of the tree oriented according to theory ?
- User:Ericd
- The shape of the bow is a circle centered on the shadow of the observer's head, so the visible part of the bow can be quite "low" if the sun is high in the sky. It seems reasonably consistant with the shadows in the picture. --- DrBob 22:04 Jan 23, 2003 (UTC)
DW never responds to Talk. He only makes rude and ignorant comments then skulks away. -- Zoe
I know according to him I'm brain damaged. Ericd
According to DW 'Phonies like [me] who hide behind a computer can pretend to be anything and there are always enough dummies around to buy your load of crap.' Oh dear, have I offended him? I'm sooooory sorry! :))) JTD 01:37 Jan 26, 2003 (UTC)
Eric,
http://www.altavista.com/ found 131 results for 645 film. While not a unique format, it's still a well-known phrase that, I think, should still be clarified in the article. You can even buy 645 film backs. I don't know. maybe you're right. But maybe not.
Arthur 11:53 Jan 27, 2003 (UTC)
131 result is not much try 120 film ! On Google 151,000 result for 645 film, 1,410,000 for 120 film, 190,000 for 620 film (obsolete since roughly 30 year). No result for 645 film on the first the first page refers to 645 as film format. Ericd
Question for you & other photographer wikipedians at talk:f-number and perspective distortion. Koyaanis Qatsi
Of all the idiots ever to show up on this site, YOU ARE IDIOT NUMBER 1 ! Doesn't your limited intellect understand that this is the World Wide Web? Wikipedia is deliberately open to the WORLD.
Your moronic deletion of information that tells people who don't know France or Tibet or Uzbekistan etc. etc. tops it all. Don't you get it at all. Have a nice day--somewhere else....DW
- Eric, please ignore the troll. --Brion 01:22 Jan 30, 2003 (UTC)
Eric, there is a larger image for this pic "image:ballcourt s.jpg" here --> Ballcourt.jpg if you think the article pic is too small. Maybe edit it and replace with the edit if you think it will help. Both pics are being used for the Chichen Itza article. B
- Eric, your reworking of the ballcourt and castillo images are great! I have PaintShopPro, but couldn't have done half the job you did. B
Hi there Eric. I've updated Switzerland with the template and saw that you had uploaded a nice image of the Swiss cantons, :Image:Schweiz.png. I have removed the link to it however, since I'm not certain whether we are allowed to use it. It displays an URL at the bottom and the site it mentions does carry a copyright symbol. Are you certain we can use it? Merci -Scipius 22:07 Feb 2, 2003 (UTC)
Well, I don't know someone uploaded a bmp and I converted it to jpg. I'm not certain. BTW see Talk:Juliette Binoche Ericd
- Looking at the edit history it appears that GC in fact uploaded the original image. I'll go talk to him then. Thanks. -Scipius 17:51 Feb 9, 2003 (UTC)
There is an edit war going on there right now, Eric. (Race & intelligence[?].) Not much point in copyediting just yet, I'm afraid. But maybe later. Tannin 02:08 Feb 9, 2003 (UTC)
Not really an edit war. POV seems to converge but I've added a bad joke in poor English. Ericd 02:11 Feb 9, 2003 (UTC)
- WTF? It made me laugh. ;) Tannin
Eric, why did you rename all the MiG entries? There are double redirects all over the place now, and I'm not sure that it's an improvement. My International directory of military aircraft does not support the move, and a quick Google doesn't either. Tannin 21:10 Feb 20, 2003 (UTC)
Well someone began to rename the MiG entries in Mikoyan (instead of Mikoyan-Gurevitch). I find it was unaccurate. Do you think MiG is better ? Ericd 21:58 Feb 20, 2003 (UTC)
That someone was me, Eric, quite some time ago. It was not a careless or casual decision. I gave ample notice of it in the appropriate talk:naming conventions pages (no-one ojected), and I went through and edited all the pages that linked to the pages I renamed. Considered in isolation, I'm not averse to MiG-17 as it's clear and unanbiguous, however all the other Soviet aircraft are in the form Manufacturer Ab-123[?] and it would be inconsistent to treat MiG and MiG alone differently. The design bureau is "Mikoyan-Gurevich" and this is indicated in the "Mi" and "G" parts of "MiG". The most common title of the aircraft however is plain "Mikoyan". The reference I cited above is very careful and accurate. I think it better to stick with that as a guide. Unless there is a good reason suggested not to do so, I'll name them back again. Tannin
Hey, Eric. It's not worth it. It will just start a flame war and encourage people to put nasty comments on those pages too. Why risk more flame wars and edit wars? Danny 03:21 Feb 21, 2003 (UTC)
Eric, please don't make junk articles to prove a point. It's highly unlikely that the article in question will remain. Take a couple of deep breaths. :) -- Stephen Gilbert 03:27 Feb 21, 2003 (UTC)
I don't mean to go further this article is anti-semite by the simple fact it exists. Ericd 03:31 Feb 21, 2003 (UTC)
Eric, I have removed (but not deleted) the C-130 pic from the C-130 Hercules article. The reason is that I arrived at the article from the United States Air Force page and so I assumed (not correctly) that the pic should be a USAF plane. So I changed it. However, I think there are three improvements that might make it worth leaving mine in place .....
- - Your pic was rather large. It would probably have made a rather narrow text channel for those who use 800 by 600 resolution (and who use Wikipedia with the options frame visible).
- - The article is entirely about the USAF Hercules, only a brief mention is made of the other 50 nations who have them.
- - I provide a thumbnail at 250 pixels wide and a large one at 750 pixels wide.
You people believe Lir/Vera/Dietary Fiber/Susan/Adam?
All I did was clarify this sentence pointed out by Dachshund: “As mentioned, the Soviets bore the heaviest casualties of World War II. These war causalities can explain much of Russia's behavior after the war.”
I added content. I did not delete content. Maybe some user prior do me deleted some content, but who knows. I wasn’t following the rest of the article, just this sentence pointed out by Dachshund.
My parents were Holocaust survivors and my entire family apart from the two of them was eradicated. I demand an apology for all you users who believe that slander coming from that lunatic user who has been banned repeatedly. If the charges by this latest reincarnation of Lir have made it onto the mailing list, then I expect you people to correct these charges so that nobody is under the impression that I did this.
Hi Eric! I would be very interested to know how you cut my tomcat.f14.250pix.jpg down from my 35K to your 12K. The quality appears to be still OK. Perhaps I could have compressed mine a lot more? I use Photoshop to do my graphics work. Thanks for your help.
--Adrian Pingstone 20:27 Apr 12, 2003 (UTC)
I've edited the picture mainly to remove a little black strip on the left. I use Paint Shop Pro not Photoshop, I simply have used a stronger compression than yours (I tuned it around 25) I think you can do the same with Photoshop. Ericd 20:34 Apr 12, 2003 (UTC)
Hi Eric! I hate to contradict Maury when it comes to engines, but, yes, it is very common to refer to a straight 4 as an in-line four. As an example, I might say: "The Ford Falcon has an in-line 6, where Holden Commodore has a 3.6 litre V-6." I used to read heaps of Australian and British car magazines in my 20s. The term "in-line" for a straight 6 (or 4 or 5 - whatever) is common in both Australian and English English. Maybe they don't say it that way in the US. Maybe Maurie made a mistake. Or maybe he knows something that I don't! I think the real answer, though, is that the term can have either meaning depending on context. Technically V and X and H engines are in-line, but you'd usually not use that term for them in general conversation, not unless you wanted to distinguish them from radials or rotaries. One more example, this time using "in-line" in the opposite sense: "Many American fighters used radial engines, but most English fighters, like the Supermarine Spitfire and the Hawker Tempest, used in-line engines."
Clear as mud?
Typical damn English language, isn't it. More words than any other language in the world, and we still use one word to mean two or three different things! Cheers, Tannin
Well it's getting a real mess I think that a double radial can be viewed as an inline engine too. Hmmm... I first referred to the Straight engine as an inline (like the French en-ligne) then I moved it Straight. It seems also clear to now that in aviation inline is used for V and flat engine too. So I think we should clarify both senses in the article about inline. Ericd 15:04 Apr 13, 2003 (UTC)
Hmmm .... I doubt the double radial thing, as the banks of cylinders are usually staggered for better cooling. Somebody made a 4 bank radial once, which had the cylinders in-line, if I remember correctly. But they could never work out how to stop the back cylinder heads warping - they got way too hot. But yes, a sentence or two added to appropriate articles is a good idea. I have never heard anyone say "straight engine" before. It is probably an American expression. We always say "in line engine" - but either "straight 6" or "in-line 6". Go figure. -- T
The cylinders doesn't seem staggered on the double Wasp, I'm I wrong, look http://www.aviation-history.com/engines/pr-2800.htm Ericd 17:02 Apr 13, 2003 (UTC)
As I indicated on Talk:Tintin, find me a source for the accusations of sexism in Tintin (e.g. a magazine article, a book, or a journal article), and I'll be happy to put the paragraph back in. Having read several books and articles about the strip, I haven't come across any such claim, so it smacks of bullshit to me. -- CYD
Well I think the fact that Tintin was charged for sexism is a fact. Thus this should be discussed. But read my comments on Talk:Tintin I think many comics before the seventies can be charged of sexism (and to be clear not only comics also advertising, movies, newspapers, politics.... were sexist by today standards, in France a complete equality of right between men and women was only achieved in the late seventies). But you also cuted much more why ?
Can you please have a look to The ideology of Tintin this article is mainly based on comment I had wrote on Talk:Tintin IMO it needs a lot work and some others advice to make it NPOV. I'm somewhat reluctant to edit articles on some sensitive subjects because I'm not native-English speaking.
Ericd 20:17 Apr 14, 2003 (UTC)
I've been around for over a year now... but thanks anyway! :-)
europrobe 11:20 Apr 18, 2003 (UTC)
Well it's never too late....
Thanks for converting the Woman Who Did image. I've never been good at that sort of thing, and I usually don't look at how big a file is. KF 17:38 Apr 20, 2003 (UTC)
Please do not add NPOV disputes to Wikipedia:Pages needing attention - please instead link them to wikipedia:NPOV dispute. Also, please date (and optionally sign) articles you add to the list. Martin 21:36 May 12, 2003 (UTC)
OK Ericd 21:41 May 12, 2003 (UTC)
Iceland was independent since 1918. I hope you revert the distortion. -- Ruhrjung 13:54 5 Jun 2003 (UTC)
"Iceland remained independent for over 300 years, and was subsequently ruled by Norway and Denmark. Limited home rule was granted in 1874, and independence followed in 1918. The Danish king remained the sovereign until 1944, when a republic was founded." I must have missed something, there's some contradiction. Why did the UK occupied Iceland just one day after the German occupied Denmark ? Had the Iceland full independance in its foreign policy ? Ericd 14:08 5 Jun 2003 (UTC)
- Sounds reasonable to me. Australia became independant but still has the Queen of England as the head of state. No-one cares too much. No-one with any brains, anyway. (Disclaimer: I am, in fact, a republican - i.e., I would get rid of the Australian Queen - as, roughly, priority number 9893 on my "10,000 most important things to do this century" list.) Is there an ongoing dispute there on Iceland still? If in doubt, ast JTDirl to run his eye over it: he's the expert in this area. Me? I'm OK at duck taxonomy. :) Tannin
- PS Regarding the British invasion. I seem to recall, now that my memory clicks into gear, that there was a complicated bit of political reasoning going on there, but the details escape me. JTD would probably know.
Re: The League of Gentlemen Fripp, et al band - you're right, it couldn't really be called "early". But it wasn't between the first and second KC - that would have been rather early (1970, since KC1 broke in 1969, and KC2 was formed later in 1970). The League of Gentlemen was actually around 1979/1980, just before the Belew/Levin/Fripp/Bruford lineup of 1981. Just in case you're curious :) -- Wapcaplet 02:14 7 Jun 2003 (UTC)
It depends what you call the second KC... By the second KC I intended to design the re-birth of KC in 81. I agree with you that was just before. Ericd 16:01 7 Jun 2003 (UTC)
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