User talk:Grm wnr/Archive 2

Well done!
Just saw Architecture of OS X - well done, keep up the good work :-) Ta bu shi da yu 07:24, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

Tools server/absence
Well, despite the fact that I have said I'm coming back, I haven't been able to do much. I've been very occupied. It looks like I'm now getting an account on the tools server to work on RSS feeds for talk pages, and Wikipedia articles, so that should be neat =) ...looking forward to begin to make more contributions.

TDS (talk • contribs) 10:02, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

New Wikiproject Mac logo
You know, I kind of like it. Make it more obviously look like the real one (taller and the bottom a bit flatter), and we have something.--HereToHelp (talk) 00:26, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
 * THANK YOU for the transparent background!!! I can implement it without regret now.--HereToHelp (talk) 01:42, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

underscore
Hi! Just wanted to let you know that underscore would probably work better for you than wrongtitle. Dread Lord C y b e r S k u l l ✎☠ 02:36, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Oops, sorry, I didn't notice the first letter. Dread Lord C y b e r S k u l l ✎☠ 02:40, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
 * I present the remedy for my error: lowercase and underscore. I hope this is to your satisfaction :) . Dread Lord C y b e r S k u l l ✎☠ 12:32, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

Lol
I like your Barnometer. It's cute :D Angelic_Wraith
 * Heh, someone noticed. Thank you :) -- grm_wnr Esc  01:41, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

TfD nomination of Template:Dmoz
Template:Dmoz has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at Templates for deletion. Thank you. Adrian Buehlmann 15:23, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

Fair use
Two things, first are the fair use rules on WP changing soon? Secondly, your tag while appropriate might also be premature as no free images of that product will be available for at least one month.Gateman1997 19:22, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

MacBook Image
I'd like to replace the image of the MacBook Pro with this one: http://images.apple.com/macbookpro/images/designcontentopenlap20060109.png. It's larger, and is taken at an angle which shows more of the laptop. The image is taken from http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/design.html. Is it OK, in terms of licensing, to just take this image from Apple's site without rescaling it? I'd like to do so, but I'd like some word on whether this is OK before I do. Thanks, --Dantheox 04:26, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

System Shock userbox.
Thanks, I noticed it before, I checked your userpage after seeing your addition of the System Shock category to the relevant pages. But my attention was then drawn by having to direct link The Many (System Shock 2) on several pages, and I forgot about it. Tell me, what are the symbols in the userbox? I don't have any non-english languages or non-standard fonts installed on my machine.--Drat (Talk) 04:26, 23 January 2006 (UTC)


 * What you should do is create the Userbox as a template, and subst it, so people only have to add, say, to their userpage. That, and you can add it to Userboxes/Games--Drat (Talk) 04:45, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

SHODAN pre/after hack picture
Do you still have a lossless original of that? If you do, try using GIF, it should lower the filesize. I'd suggest PNG, but there are problems with scaling low colour PNGs. Also, I see I made Message of the day :P--Drat (Talk) 12:50, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

Thank you!
Thank you for your supporting vote! With a 71/1/0 vote, I've been given sysop privileges! Just like any admin, I'm open to suggestions about backlogs or areas to look at.

Now, to go about disrup—improving Wikipedia...

heheheheheh...

Ashibaka tock 00:11, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

Mac images
Thanks for finding free use common images for the Macintosh Performa and PowerBook 500 pages :) — Wackymacs 16:38, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

Welcome
Hehehe, thanks, you're welcome! pt:User:Wikipedista

Welcome to es
Welcome to Wikipedia in Spanish! --Equi 12:58, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

Problem in Commons
Hallo Grimm Winner, ich habe beim Kategorisieren in commons ein Problem. Gibt es Die Möglichkeit ganze Kategorien mit Inhalt zu verschieben? ++Scooterman 01:10, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

leet
while I understand the need for a spoken component to the Leet article, I don't think it's going to happen. First, the obvious reasons. Second, a few sources cited actually state that Leet is "special" in that it is the first language with no verbal component. Whether it is the first or not is a matter of discussion. The fact that it has no verbal component, however, I don't think is debatable. Any attempts at "speaking Leet" are for novelty's sake, not communication. If you disagree with this, I'd love to hear your take on it. Otherwise, I think I'll remove the request from the t4w/< page. ... aa:talk 16:38, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

sockpuppetry
Well, thanks for the explanation, but it's just a coincidence, I'm sure. Aren't there other users who stopped editing just before I came back? User:Zoe|(talk) 17:30, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

PowerMac G3
Ok, fair enough. I haven't been paying attention to time recently, this is true. Of course, I sort of felt I didn't have to... 98%+ of 4+ consecutive edits are within minutes or even seconds.

And you're right... I did do another minor edit... something happened, which frankly shouldn't. Deleting the entire line about "Developer: Apple Computer" resulted in the developer template still there, and a no entry or something of the sort following it. Wikipedia sort of bites when it comes to things like that.

I deleted one picture (which you actually didn't just add) because I felt there were too many pictures, and if we had to delete one, it should certainly not be the one inside the template. Dan 01:21, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

Peer review John Sculley
Can you please peer review the article John Sculley for me and leave comments on its peer review page? Thanks! — Wackymacs 11:25, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

Splitting articles
Do you want to try splitting up the current iMac page? It's hideous right now... and it's full of links... which makes it pretty unwieldy. They link the same dates four or five times in the same paragraph... anyway, it would be a good idea to split, don't you think? Obviously a lot more effort than the G3 page, but whatever... do you think we should try? Dan 17:02, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

I, uh... ok..
I can't even tell what you did to the Mac page. It looks like you deleted a lot about the initial versions which I'd placed there.. Andy Hertzfeld, Smith and the like.. but as I said, I can't even figure it out. Plus.. haven't we talked about trying to keep edits down to a few at a time? I thought you agreed it was a good idea. Even with major renovations, it isn't very hard... >_< Dan 01:46, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

It's either what or FARC? The changes? First of all I don't really see it as all that important that it's a featured article.. in fact, I don't see it as important at all. Anyway, I was very obviously complaining about your slew of edits instead of doing it in two or three. Dan 14:30, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

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Barnstar, OTR & PUA Review
FYI. You may want to look and comment here: Barnstar and award proposals/Proposed Changes. For your reference, the guidelines are referenced here: Barnstar Proposal Guidelines. Thanks -- evrik 18:23, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

Template:Timeline of iMac models
My one complaint: can you change the colors for the education Macs on timeline of iMac models? It looks too similar to some other colors used.--HereToHelp 23:58, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

Re: IFD / Macintosh II images / the Mac gallery on Commons
Hi Ehurtley,

I saw that you replaced the Macintosh II image on Apple Macintosh. Well your new one is certainly much better - but you listed the old one on WP:IFD, which is kind of pointless, since it's located on Commons, where an en.wikipedia IFD will count for nothing and redundant images are rarely ever deleted anyway. In fact, I've been the main maintainer of The Mac collection on Commons for quite a while now, so I've added you new image over there as well, even though we already had another, better Macintosh II image - I just never noticed that the old one was still on Apple Macintosh. Anyway, now the local copy of your image is redundant and blocking the Commons one, and with your permission I'd like to delete it. Please contact me if that's okay with you.

Oh, and you might want to consider getting a Commons account and uploading any further free images you contribute over there, it's a great tool and a great resource, especialy for smaller Wikipedias. If you want more information, I'm an admin over there and would be glad to answer any questions you might have.

Greeting and happy editing,

-- grm_wnr Esc  13:39, 29 March 2006 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the note. I always forget about the commons.  Yeah, that one is better than mine, go ahead and replace mine with that one, then delete mine.  I just thought that the existing one was so horrid that it had to be replaced.  (heh.  And I like the note at the top of your talk page.  I also can't stand fragmented discussions.  They're too hard to follow.)  Ehurtley 19:14, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

Implementing DynNavBox at commons
Hi Grm wnr, I happened to run across your subpage with the code for togglable hide/show buttons. I have been trying to install it on my Commons pages (commons:User:pfctdayelise/monobook.css, commons:User:pfctdayelise/monobook.js) without much success so far. I figured it must be a cache problem, but I cleared by cache and hit refresh a million times with Ctrl, so I'm out of ideas. Is Commons possibly missing some sitewide css/js that is required by this code?

People are trying to figure out ways to shorten the voting period on commons:COM:FPC, mainly because the page is too long. I figure if we can install this, they won't need to (since there is nothing really wrong with the voting procedure, and it seems to me to be fixing the wrong problem).

My tests are at commons:User:Pfctdayelise/test. I would appreciate it if we could migrate any discussions to Commons. :) cheers, pfctdayelise (translate?) 08:52, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

Atari images
Yeah, I agree; they're really nothing special, but they do the job (just). I wouldn't make the images any bigger than they are at present though.

I'd like to do some of my own, but I only own two Ataris (XL and XE), and I don't have a digital SLR (much easier to play around with the setup when you're not burning film, and don't have to wait to get the pictures back!).

is pretty much the gold standard for Wikipedia shots; about the only criticism I have is that the leftmost keys are *slightly* out of focus if you view the full size version; but then most magazine shots aren't enlarged that much, so I'd say it was professional standard anyway.

Fourohfour 15:17, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

Back again...
Back again =)  TDS (talk • contribs) 20:16, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

BASICODE translation
Phenomenal work on the translation of the German BASICODE article! I'm the main author of the German version, and to find such an excellent translation was a very positive Easter surprise. Thanks a lot, --Uwe 12:30, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

Core Image
Greetings,

You may be interested in revamping the article Core Image. As it stands, it is currently a mess.  T D  S  email 14:42, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

Featured picture promotion
A great job. Congratulations! ~ Veledan • Talk 19:16, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

Good work!
I just gotta say you're doing a great job on these timelines. Maybe one for the Apple II article would be good. Your name is popping up all over my Watchlist, keep it up! :) — Wackymacs 20:51, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
 * An Apple Newton timeline would also be good. :P — Wackymacs 07:07, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

Re:Requesting your input
Personally I wouldn't do that. With all those info-boxes on one page squashed up together it looks very cluttered and messy. I'd prefer it if you kept each model in its own article and keep the Macintosh II series page as a summary of all the models. Thanks for asking me! — Wackymacs 13:37, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

Excellent User Page
You are welcome. :) I enjoy good user pages and think they help create a more pleasant and useful WP community. I honestly can't remember how I found your page. When I was designing my own page, I was searching for what other people were doing, and somehow ended up here. You have a great page and I certainly stol...ahem, borrowed some ideas. So thanks for the great effort! –Frater5 (talk/con) 17:52, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the barnstar...It's nice to see that people appreciate a bit of minimalism (even if it includes evil HTML mangling >:D ) May I ask how you happened across my user page? It's strange to receive an award out of the blue...

Image!
I just got Image:Power Macintosh G3 AIO.jpeg for List_of_Apple_Macintosh_models_by_case_type. As per your note on the reward board, here is what I would like. I would like any biography, no matter what the length, be translated into English, where there isn't already an article here. I'd like Wilhelm Hasenclever, but it, unlike the photo, is featured. ~Linuxerist  16:30, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Wow, that is excellent gmr_wnr! I'll see if there is anything I can add to it, then put it up as a FAC. Thanks, ~Linuxerist  21:14, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Umm, yeah. I guess I jumped on the RFA too quickly. Citing will be a hard task if from no websites though... :-\ LINUX  ERIST  @ 22:43, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

RE: Proposed CSD I8
Although obscene or attack images may fall under G1 and G3, non-notable images don't. Nn images don't fall under A7 either, because A7 applies only to articles. An important part of this criterion is the deletion of images belonging to speedily deleted articles and that have no value otherwise. -- King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;   &spades;  04:30, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

Re:Umm... (Image:IPod Hi-Fi.png)
Hmm. When I uploaded it, it had a different License, but the person on Flickr has since changed it. Have you had any luck finding a free-use replacement? — Wackymacs 05:47, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

Excel Saga
Thanks for the kind words! I've learned a lot about encyclopedic writing lately myself, essentially junking the ES article as it stood in mid-May, and a lot of my own prior effort with it. I think you noticed that this is all in an effort to get Excel Saga to FA status. To that end, the main article is currently on peer review--I'm concerned about the quantity and quality of my sources. As for List of Excel Saga episodes, my ambition is to add the manga to it, change the name to "Excel Saga media" and put it up for Featured List. Any suggestions or assistance would be appreciated!--Monocrat 23:36, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

Hey, there! Thanks for the help and support on the Excel Saga FAC. I'm sorry to trouble you with this, but Tony1 is riding the FAC hard for more copy-editing or editors. You did some really good editing on a few sections during the Peer Review, so I was wondering if would you mind taking another stab at it? Or if you're too busy or uninterested, would you have other editors who might fit the bill?--Monocrat 13:35, 6 July 2006 (UTC)


 * I really appreciate the good work on the copy-edit, and indeed all your assistance with the article. I'm not too hopeful on the out come of this FAC, but the article's in a better position for a second go around once I've got some Japanese sources. Thanks again!--Monocrat 19:21, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

WP:FAHD
Since you were listed as a Participant in the WP:FAHD, I thought I ought to send you a message announcing that I'm reviving and changing FAHD for the better, and if you are interested, please respond. - A Link to the Past (talk) 02:06, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

iPod line-up
I've got it! For the iPod article... why don't we simply replace the entire "Models" section with a simple table that matches Apple Macintosh. It would fix the article size problem, and several other problems with the article such as referencing, language and POV. Please reply with your thoughts at Talk:IPod. — Wackymacs 19:50, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Hello from WikiBooks
Hello there. This is hyperpasta from WikiBooks, founder of the WikiProject Macintosh. I'm deeply sorry for the belated response to your message. I totally understand. Currently, we have it set up so that queries like "Mac" and "Macintosh" redirect to our flagship WikiBook, Mac OS X Tiger. This WikiBook currently is the only one with any real value, and also links to other Mac WikiBooks when appropriate. I have set "Apple Macintosh" to do the same. If you would prefer a list, a little portal, or something else, you name it and I'll do my best to make it for you. I also hope you'll join us over at WikiBooks... we have a membership of 2, so therefore if you joined we'd see a 50% increase in membership! Ciao, Hyperpasta 19:57, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks
Thank's for your help! The link from Wikipedia will surely increase visibility. I also wanted to let you know that I created a second category of member over at the WikiProject at WikiBooks for people like you, who help out and are "on call", but who are unable to contribute regularly. Users in this category are called associates. We'd be happy to have you as an associate, even if you can't contribute regularly. Sincerely, Hyperpasta 14:04, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

Schoenbrunn
Many thanks, a fine piece of work. Adam 16:19, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

Heads up
Just so you know, the eMac has been discontinued, quietly disappearing from the online Apple Store. As close as I could tell, it was removed today (July 5), so I haven't heard anything official from Apple, press conferences or the like. In fact, the whole thing was actually brought to my attention by an anon, but it's certainly off the Apple website. I'll update the articles, but if you could update the graphical timelines, that would be great.--HereToHelp 20:51, 5 July 2006 (UTC)


 * The eMac was replaced by the Apple iMac Education Configuration for 899$. --Alegoo92 16:27, 10 July 2006 (UTC)