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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)

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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.
 * 04:14 Jan 24, 2003 . . Ericd (Monastere de Cimiez, Nice, France. that's enought.)

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 --> [[media: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.

So please can my pic stay? (but I will reinstate yours if you wish)-- Adrian Pingstone 08:00 Apr 2, 2003 (UTC)

- You people believe Lir/Vera/Dietary Fiber/Susan/Adam?

All I did was clarify this sentence pointed out by Dachshund: &#8220;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.&#8221;

I added content. I did not delete content. Maybe some user prior do me deleted some content, but who knows. I wasn&#8217;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.

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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 Pages needing attention - please instead link them to 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.


 * The English and the Germans both raced for Narvik (for many reasons, control of Northern Atlantic and over winter-time Iron ore transports maybe the most prominent). The Germans won, but as a side effect the English captured Iceland in the process. -- Ruhrjung 15:08 5 Jun 2003 (UTC)

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)

Why have you stated that the Yerkes Observatory contains the world's largest telescope? Surely there is a larger one! Pizza Puzzle

-- It was well written (your English is better than my French anyway) and relevant. However, the same statement was made earlier in the article. You can restore it, however, later in the article under "important events." This article requires a good deal of work, after all. Thanks for looking at it. 172

Just so, Eric. I agree. Tannin

Photo? Ahh .... my Blue-billed Duck. Yes, she is a cutie, isn't she. -- T

Hi Eric, you wrote:

you seem to forget that an a ccident is possible with only one car involved

no, it's just that I don't know enough English terms to make things clear :-) For example, to the list of possible accidents I was going to add the possibility of a driver losing control and just going into a tree or a wall, but I don't know the generic term, and a modest amount of Googling didn't reveal it :-)) At18 09:44, 24 Aug 2003 (UTC)

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Given your conversation with User:JoeM, you may be interested in helping to improve common sense conservative.

eh ! pour 5000 euros, j en ferais bien un troisieme de bébé ! :-)
 * moi aussi mais je suis pas sûr les toucher malgrés sa carte d'identité je ne pense pas que mon épouse soit française selon les critères du FN :-(


 * ah ! Je ne me souviens plus du tout si les critères impliquaient une certaine durée de nationalité (éventuellement sur pls générations) et si les deux parents devaient etre impérativement francais (je suppose). De quelle origine est ta femme ? Algérie ?


 * Non Tunisie

Hi Eric,

thanks for starting the article Bella ciao

--zeno

Hi, please check my comment on Talk:Prostitution about the pic. qqq