User:JCarriker/correspondence/theresa knott

Prompt
My first contact with TK, was prompted by this post by John Owens on her talk page:

You want to tell JCarriker (Talk) why replacing Image:US regions.gif with Image:US regions.jpg is a bad idea? You can start off with one being 29k, the other 10k. ;) I'm about to hit the sack, so I couldn't keep up a conversation if one were needed, and I trust you to know the issues with that. -- John Owens 11:53 27 Jun 2003 (UTC)
 * Hmm, might want to bring up the issue of claiming that TX and WV are always considered Southern states while we're at it... maybe check other recent regional edits. -- John Owens 11:55 27 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Welcome
Hello J, welcome to Wikipedia! I noticed that you replaced Image:US regions.gif with Image:US regions.jpg. I'm not going to comment on texas because I English and no nothing of these things but please be careful when uploading files, that you do so in the correct file format. You've replaced a gif with a jpg. This swells the image size considerably and degrades it. Thw worst of both worlds :-( See
 * How to keep image file sizes as small as possible
 * image use policy

If you changed the image to a jpeg because your editor does not support gif then see if it supports png instead { our preferred format for maps. I will be deleting your image in a moment. Dont let this small hiccup put you off though. (if you read the above links you'll see that I made every mistake in the book, which is why I make a point of helping newbies)

If you need any other help try:


 * Help
 * Village pump
 * Or ask me at my talk page User_talk:Theresa knott


 * I apologize for my earlier ,jpg mistake I have no others means of up loading images andwould be grateful if any one can help me change the files. Until then I have also deleted the Old Courthouse .jpg on the Marshall, Texas Article. I have not yet finished composing the history and it stops at a rather ignominious period.


 * In response to John Owens&#8217; queries about my changes to the U.S. regions files, West Virginia was already colored red in the original .gif map, so I placed it as a southern state in the list. Texas is my home state and I live in a hilly, swampy, forested area, where humidity seldom drops below 60%. This geography known as the &#8220;Piney Woods&#8221; spreads as far east as Corsicana and as far south as Conroe. From Denton to Killeen is a fertile rolling plain, and the area around Fredericksburg and Kerrville is known as the &#8220;Big Hill Country.&#8221;


 * Three cities Dallas, Houston, San Antonio have populations of over one million, two more cities (El Paso, Austin) have populations over 500,000. In Northeast Texas, a predominately rural area where there are no &#8220;big cities,&#8221; the population is over 1.2 million. A population more than half that of New Mexico but in an area slightly smaller than that of New Hampshire and Vermont combined.


 * Mexican influences are growing but are still only a small plurality in the eastern part of the state. The strong Native American influence in the southwest does not occur in Texas where there are only two Native American reservations.


 * Texas simply does not fit the description of a southwestern state, and this was my reason for shifting it to the South. JCarriker

Please don't leave
I'm really sorry that you are thinking of leaving, and feel that you have not been made welcome here. I doubt that anyone else wants you to go either. Remember 90% of communication is non verbal. In a text only medium, we are all crippled by not being able to use facial expressions or tone of voice to convey our true intentions. I can't help but think that in some instances you may be interpreting argument as attack or the other people you are interacting with may be doing the same. To edit here it certainly helps to be a bit thick skinned. If you are determined to leave, then I suppose you will, but if you are looking for reassurance that you are wanted then I am happy to supply that reassurance.

I have always found you polite, intelligent, and a good editor. I can't comment on you factual edits because you write about things I know little about, but a look through your contibutions reveals that you are a valuble and productive contributor. May I make a suggestion. Try a wikiholiday. Have a break for a month. Don't even read wikipedia, let alone edit it. You may find that a break help get things in proprtion, reduces stress and leaves you happy to come back and edit again. theresa knott 10:07, 16 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Marshall, Texas
I too looked through it and it looks good to go to me. I don't have much experience of the featured articles process, but what little I do have leads me to advice you just to list it on the candidates page. Lot's of people will probably voice objections. You address those objections, fix the things they suggest until everyone is happy and it'll get moved to the "no objections" section. Then somtime in the future it'll get it's day in the sun. theresa knott 08:47, 18 May 2004 (UTC)

Copyrighted Images
I really don't know enough about the subject to be sure. I think that you can't claim copyright for a photo of a painting, so a postcard of an older photo would not AFAIK be copyrighted. However like I said I don't know for sure. Since the web site is an .edu site it looks to me like they would probably give you permission to use the image anyway if you ask. We have a boilerplate request for permission here that you may want to adapt. theresa knott 10:31, 14 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Your "read this before posting" note
The reason I object to it is because the sort of perosn who is likely to say something rude on this page is likely to not bother reading it, or to out and out ignore it. So IMO the only people likely to read it are the people who wouldn't violate it in the first place. If I didn't already know you, and I saw the notice I would probably feel as if I had to walk on eggshells :-( If I were you I'd shorten it considerably. theresa knott 10:46, 18 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Great Mosque of Djenné
It's great that you got permission from Andy Gilham, and recruited him as well. As for the other picture, who did you ask? (Was it Dr. Gregory Mann or someone else?). I'd give them another week or so, but then if it were me i think I'd just upload the phto anyway. See Image copyright tags for more info, plus at the bottom of the page is a list of people who you can contact who probably know a lot more than I do about it. As for the article itself, give me a few days to properly review it, I'm snowed under at the moment :-) theresa knott 14:33, 21 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Esperanza logo
It looks a bit big compared to everyone else's But it is 1 inch high and 0.7 inches wide. I can resize if you like. Theresa Knott (a tenth stroke) 10:14, 13 August 2005 (UTC)

Image copyright questions/Fair use
Could you please take a look at the discussion in Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Hatshepsut/archive1 over copyright status of images and the inclusion of Image:Hatshepsut in Civ4.jpg, which is a screenshot of Hatshepsut as the AI leader of Egypt in Civ4, in the Hatshepsut article in a section about her influence in popular culture including her appearance in that game and others. Thanks. -JCarriker 06:55, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

Personally i feel the use of the picture under fair use is appropriate. Theresa Knott (a tenth stroke) 19:58, 14 November 2005 (UTC)

Your alive!

 * Souce: User talk: Theresa knott

For a few weeks there I though you might have been eaten by on of the Queen's hats or something. Glad to see you back. -JCarriker 07:16, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Yeah I was real busy in real life. But school has broken up know, so I have much more free time for the next couple of weeks at least. Theresa Knott | Taste the Korn 07:21, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

IRC

 * Source: Talk Theresa knott

TK, if you have time pleas log onto #wikipedia-esperanza within the next half hour. Thanks. -JCarriker 09:06, 24 April 2006 (UTC)