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Image Question
On this image you took. "License plate has been changed for anonymisation purposes. Year code remains correct, however."

It look like it a real registration plate but it isn't. How did you do it so it still got the reg plate but it isn't a valid one

Makizox (talk) 20:12, 5 April 2017 (UTC)


 * Hmm. It's fiddly.   And there may be better ways than the way I do it.   But it really just needs a bit of time and patience.   And it gets a bit less fiddly with practice.


 * Download to an image manipulation programme.  I use GIMP because (1) it's freely downloadable and (2) I've learned how to use the relevant bits of it.   But if you've got used to another programme, I'm sure other programmes do the same stuff as well.


 * Zoom in under the view menu so you're viewing at 400% or for detailed stuff 800%


 * Use lassoo shaped "selection" tool to select a letter on the plate.


 * Copy the letter so it covers another letter.


 * Where the image is significantly angled, experiment with moving the letter in two halves - top half and bottom half.  As long as the top lines up with the top of the other letters and the bottom lines up with the other letters, it's not the end of everything of the middle bit is scrunched a bit.   With Ts and Os no one will notice.   With Ms and Hs it may be necessary to fiddle around with the middle bit to line up the little v in the middle of the M or fatten back the cross bar of the H.


 * Sometimes it's easy to change a letter.  A G can be changed to a C by copying a bit of "white" from elsewhere in the plate to cover the hook on the G.   The right half of an O can take you more than half way to changing a P or an R into a D (sans serif, but serifs can be created and added when you've got more time and confidence, and meanwhile the images are generally too small for people to notice those things).   A suitably sized (but simply formed) slice of white can change an O into a C, while you can sometimes copy the left centre bit of a C to the right gap to turn it into an O


 * Etc.  Start with a simple one and move on.   It's quite satisfying when it works.   And when it doesn't you don't upload the result.   You can always come back next week and try again.

If that helped, so much the better. Success  Charles01 (talk) 06:52, 6 April 2017 (UTC)

Thank you! --Makizox (talk) 21:31, 8 April 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for cleaning up the JS2 article
Hi Charles01. Thank you for cleaning up the tenses in the article on the Ligier JS2. I wasn't really happy with the original. Nice job.

Kumboloi (talk) 21:39, 5 April 2017 (UTC)


 * Noted.  Thanks for noticing (and endorsing).   Success Charles01 (talk) 06:52, 6 April 2017 (UTC)

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Alain Trogneux
You asked on the English Wikipedia, not the French one.Zigzig20s (talk) 07:41, 22 May 2017 (UTC)


 * Ah, yes.  An error by me.   Need more coffee urgently.   Best wishes  Charles01 (talk) 07:51, 22 May 2017 (UTC)


 * I did google to see if there was any connection findable that way, but I didn't find one.  However, as you may have spotted for yourself, google treats each of us differently according to (1) our googling history and (2) what he thinks we might be persuaded to buy and (3) other pieces of witchcraft at which we can only dream.   So just because you and I didn't find a family connection between these two by googling, it doesn't meant that someone else entering the same names would get the same (lack of) result.   Maybe now that you've given Mr Trogneaux an entry in English wikipedia, someone will be moved to give him one in French wikipedia which was indeed what I had assumed I'd found the last time round ...   A french language entry for Mr T  could be seriously helpful, but I don't think my own written French is up to it. Charles01 (talk) 07:58, 22 May 2017 (UTC)
 * [edit conflict] I've just translated the article. There are some errors ("en" in the bibliography); perhaps you can fix them. And feel free to ask there. Thank you.Zigzig20s (talk) 07:59, 22 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Yikes ... still catching up here.  I've just (1) made a link between the French and English language entries for the avoidance of future doubt and (2) pasted the question to he talk page on the French entry.   Regards Charles01 (talk) 08:12, 22 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Perhaps you could remove your message in French on the English talkpage?Zigzig20s (talk) 08:17, 22 May 2017 (UTC)

Many thanks
Many thanks for your comments on the talk page of the article on Hilary Mantel  - I take your point that it might be an idea to wait until she has given the Reith lectures before adding this information about her. All the best, Vorbee (talk) 17:52, 18 June 2017 (UTC)