User:Kurogawa/Notes2Me

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Hello Kurogawa, welcome to Wikipedia.

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Again, welcome! Chris Roy 00:43, 3 May 2004 (UTC)

image formats
Thank you for the contribution of the maps; images are always helpful around here. It'd be nice if you could upload the images in PNG format instead of BMP. There's some information about how to do so at How to keep image file sizes as small as possible. If you have any questions, feel free to drop by my talk page.

The maps would most likely do best as PNGs; Image:Espirito Santo Map with Cariacica Municipality Highlighted.bmp is forty-nine times as large as the PNG I made of it, which is at Image:Espirito Santo Map with Cariacica Municipality Highlighted.png. If you convert images already uploaded, please list the obsoleted ones on Images for deletion, after changing all the pages in which they appear to refer to the PNG versions. (See Cariacica for an example of this; I did this one for you.) I've listed the BMP on Images for deletion, so you can see how it's done.

Thanks again for the diagrams! Again, if you have any questions, please drop me a note on my talk page. Grendelkhan 02:25, 2004 May 16 (UTC)

ifd listings
Thanks for listing the BMPs on WP:IfD. One quick thing---you should sign your additions on yellow-background pages like talk pages and IfD (though never on regular white-background pages). The reason I don't sign each image is that I list them in bulk, but I do put my signature (type ~ to produce your signature) after each block of deleted images; it should look something like the following (the text you type starts with * Image:foo.bmp ):

* Image:Someone_elses.bmp obsoleted by Image:Someone_elses.png **Someone_else 06:50, 2004 Jan 01 (UTC)

* Image:foo.bmp obsoleted by Image:foo.png * Image:bar.bmp obsoleted by Image:bar.png **~

Brazil|C   {{stub{stub}

Also, it's good practice to put {{msg:ifd}} on the image page,. But it's not as important to do for your own images as it is when you're listing images that you didn't upload yourself. (It serves two purposes: first, when someone's looking through images, it's easy to tell at a glance if something has already been listed on IfD. Second, people who have an interest in an image will most likely have it on their watchlist. The IfD notice will appear on their watchlist, and if they have some sort of attachment to the image, they'll argue in favor of keeping it.)

Does all that make sense? I can rephrase if it's murky. Glad to see that you got the PNG thing working.

--grendel|khan 14:27, 2004 May 25 (UTC)