User talk:J Greb/Archive Jun 2007

unblock
Hopefully I've got this correct.

It seems I've been blocked under an autoblock as follows:

Your user name or IP address has been blocked from editing. You were blocked by Bobet for the following reason (see our blocking policy): Autoblocked because your IP address has been recently used by "Robot ambulance". The reason given for Robot ambulance's block is: "sockpuppet of indef blocked user". Your IP address is 24.66.94.140.

Evidently this occured sometime after the 25th of August, 2006, as this was the last date of an actual edit I made.

I have only accessed Wikipedia as an anonymous user (to read/search only) and under this account to edit.

Is it possible to get this account unblocked?

Thanks,

- J Greb 21:22, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

PNGs to JPGs
I'm not going to get into a big fight about it, but couldn't you just make the PNG-images smaller, as opposed to replacing them with JPGs?

JPGs are ok for photos, but for illustrations their quality is really detoriated.--DrBat 20:06, 18 May 2007 (UTC)


 * What I do is I just get the url of the image and lower the px (ie, http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/73/Tpbvision.png/200px-Tpbvision.png). --DrBat 17:12, 19 May 2007 (UTC)


 * are you proposing that a re-sized image be saved off and then uploaded to replace the over sized base?
 * Yes, I've done that before with larger images.
 * Also, sometimes I'll save the JPG image as a PNG if I'm cropping it for a certain panel (like the image of Flash punching Superboy-Prime), because if I save it as a JPG when I was done getting the specific panel I wanted to upload, it detoriates from the original quality. Whereas the quality stays the same if it's saved as a PNG. --DrBat 18:39, 19 May 2007 (UTC)

CFD vote relocation
Thank you. TonyTheTiger (talk/cont/bio/tcfkaWCDbwincowtchatlotpsoplrttaDCLaM) 20:37, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

World War III

 * To be blunt: If the argument is "It isn't WW3 in all comics", then you should have been putting up that article when what's there was moved to (DC Comics), not making (comics) a redirect.

Hi J, I didn't want to reply to your comment to the World War III (comics) talk page, because I thought it might interrupt the flow. However, I wanted to point out that I believe that a redirect is automatically created when you use the move tab to move a page (as opposed to an ugly cut-and-paste move). That doesn't dilute your main point about the need for creating the broader scope World War III (comics) page. But, in order for that happen, the move has to happen, and so the redirect is a necessary first step. Also, I'm not certain that this user is the first person to have moved the page to World War III (DC Comics). A different editor brought it up on the Project's talk page first. --GentlemanGhost 08:55, 22 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Part of the problem with being blunt I guess :)
 * What I was getting at was that the "end state" of the given reason should be 2 articles, not an article and a redirect. The end result of what the editor did read as "I don't like the titling, and I don't want to put up the needed broader article."
 * There is also a problem with the way (comics) is being bandied about. If the article is about the event then it's the right term, even if the article should be nix as fundamentally "in universe". If it is about the "4 stand alone issues as 1 series", which is what it looks like it is, then (comic book) is more appropriate. (see 52) - J Greb 17:13, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

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The Graphic Novels Page
The work you spoke of is Warhammer Monthly which was discontinued. Furthermore, there is a listing of comics and books already out. The page was intended to be a bridge between the books and the game, showing where they crossed into the rules for the miniatures, the rpg games, and the like. User:SanchiTachi/Graphic_Novels_Current (about 1/4 of the way done) is what it was supposed to look like. Now, the naming convention of the warhammer pages are Title followed by (Warhammer 40,000). This is done based on an aesthetics choice. To make the page anything but Graphic Novels (capitalized, because it is based of the BL publications under it, not random graphic novels dealing with warhammer) followed by the Warhammer 40,000 would be to ignore precendence. I have since left the page (I created the page and am the only one there who currently had any of the actual works on the page or knew anything about the miniatures), but the people who felt that they knew more about the project will probably do whatever they want. To make a page listing comics or the like needs to be deleted under redundancy, as there are lists for that already. I decided to move my work over to my sandbox and then over to the Warhammer Wikipedia (Lexicanum). Any questions, explanations, etc, about the above, please feel welcome to post on my talk page. SanchiTachi 19:07, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

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Legion of Super-Heroes images
Hi J Greb. Thank you for reducing the resolution of those images! I had a quick comment about image sorting. Unfortunately, even when you categorize an image by its proper title, as you have, it only displays the name of the file, not the proper title. So, it's still well-nigh impossible to tell what it is without looking at it. I guess you might be able to get context by looking at what surrounds it, but that's kind of hit-and-miss. I haven't checked the WP:CMC Copyright section, but hopefully there's an indication in there that uploaded images should be named something meaningful. Then again, I doubt many people use the image categories very often. Anyhow, I just wanted to point out your change to the cat sorting might not have the desired effect that you want. Thanks again for your help! --GentlemanGhost 17:20, 30 May 2007 (UTC)


 * True... I had started doing that when the cats were set up incorrectly as galleries. And given the relative size of the cats, the gallery can be used as a "cheat" in an edit to see what's where. *shrug* It's also a hedge in a way, if the cats ever change so that the pipped text shows, the info is there already. - J Greb 17:28, 30 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Aha. Carry on! --GentlemanGhost 12:28, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

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Earth-Three image change question
Hello. I was wondering about the change made to the image of the old CSA for the pre-Crisis Earth-Three section of the entry - I'm not saying it's a bad pic, but was wondering about the rationale behind the change, and what, if anything, I did wrong when uploading the original. Thanks. Starmiter 22:06, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

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Image:Action1.JPG
''Just place a fair use template on the image page... you want to check and see if it covers your concerns?''


 * I wasn't aware I had concerns. Was there something wrong with my rationale?  The only issue other people might have is that your only usage is for identification.  Some people don't see that as a good reason to use an image. Steve block Talk 20:26, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

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Keeping you in the loop...
The list is up List of DC Comics metahumans and the category has been renamed Category:DC Comics metahumans. I'm wondering if I should do a formal post about this on the Project page so people can help populate or trim the list. --Basique 20:23, 13 June 2007 (UTC)