User talk:MIckStephenson/Archive 1

Welcome to WINE
Welcome to the Wine Project! I'm a fairly recent addition myself, but have been getting involved. Look forward to your participation! -- Steve.Moulding 15:17, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

Hi Steve, thanks to your encouragement I've posted the Penedès page as threatened.. let me know what you think --mikaul 12:33, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
 * A very nice contribution!!! Thankyou! -- Steve.Moulding 17:37, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

Wine Discussion : Input Requested
Dear WikiProject_Wine member:

There is an ongoing discussion and voting at WP:WINE regarding Top Importance for Wine articles. Please add your input and/or votes.

Thanks! Regards -- Steve.Moulding 17:32, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

Is it alright if I use you as an example?
I've started the rough draft page for the newsletter and I wanted to use you as an example about sub-projects. Please take a look and let me know if this is alright. WikiProject Wine/Newsletter. Thanks! AgneCheese/Wine 20:17, 16 February 2007 (UTC)


 * As long as its a good example ;) of course it's alright, I'm honoured. --mikaul 00:01, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

Carmenere
Thanks for the edits, the article looks a lot better. Could I used that picture you added for the Concha y Toro Winery article? And I am looking forward for that picture of the Carmenere's colour ;-) Char leen mer ced   Talk  13:42, 1 March 2007
 * ah, I knew I'd seen the label pic somewhere else - of course, go ahead. Glad you liked the edits! The sooner you send me the wine, the sooner you get your pic ;o) seriously, I need less of an excuse to buy another bottle, it's such a fab grape. --mikaul 14:06, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Hello, I wanted to ask if you could label the italian winery by adding "-Italy". -- Char leen mer ced  Talk  17:43, 4 March 2007 (UTC)Charleenmerced
 * last question, do you know how to do 2 columns?, so that the article is not that long (for the Carmenere wineries) -- Char leen mer ced  Talk  18:26, 4 March 2007 (UTC)Charleenmerced
 * Spooky! I was just looking a that for Spanish Wine! Similar problem, same idea and just about as clueless as you are as to how to do it... if you have a sandbox, try playing with 'reflist|2' in curly brackets (see this page) - I think it's intended for references, but it may work for other lists. I've not tried it yet, so do let me know how you get on! --mikaul 18:40, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
 * hmm.. tried that & it is just for refs (doh) however I eventually found something that seems to work quite nicely. Have a look at my sandbox. I haven't properly explored this yet, but you may 'get' how it works by looking at the code on the edit page. There are other (related) formatting methods, including alphabetical and numerical, here. Hope it helps :) --mikaul 22:38, 4 March 2007 (UTC)


 * Sucess!!!! I made the list in column form!!! Yay! Thanks for your help! -- Char leen mer ced  Talk  03:22, 5 March 2007 (UTC)Charleenmerced

Rioja and Spanish articles
Thank you so much for your help. Before I start the portal I am trying to fix the Rioja article. It's in horrible state. I translated the history section from the Spanish Wikipedia, but that one was bad either. So, today I plan to rewrite it. If there are any articles that you want me to copyedit, please just leave a message on my talk page and I will. Are there any good Wine Related articles in the Spanish Wikipedia that you think should be translated? -- Char leen mer ced  Talk  15:50, 4 March 2007 (UTC) Charleenmerced
 * Right now I'm trying to make sense of the best way to list the 62 Denominaciones, which I think will work better as a separate page, it's so big. Translation-wise, I'm looking at Vino which is so Hispano-centric it would probably make a better Spanish Wine page than the Spanish Wine Page (if you see what I mean!) Have a look, see what you think. I'll drop you a note if I run into any problems translating the relevant parts, otherwise once it's done maybe you could check it over? It's just the technical/colloquial terms which trip me up, usually. Thanks!--mikaul 16:31, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

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¡Bienvenido(a) to WikiProject Spain!
¡Bienvenido(a) to WikiProject Spain! Please feel free to contribute to any of the articles in our WikiProject, and if you are looking for a specific task to lend a hand on, please let me know. In particular, you may be interested to know that we are working to move Barcelona up to GA status - any assistance you can offer on that article would be especially appreciated. Espana Viva  17:33, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

Barnstar rv

 * Hi I am sorry. I've reverted myself.  But I dont really understand your edit.  Do you mean that the image is actually that of a washer?  It may well be, but do you have proof?  Sarvagnya 01:33, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

Killer whale photo
Hi Mick, Thanks for your comments at Featured picture candidates/Killer whale mother and calf. I don't know much about photography - Do you think there's anything the photographer can do to solve the problem? E.g. would re-scanning it help? Kla'quot 17:26, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Definitely. If rescanning is a possibility, it should (ideally) be done at high resolution and downsampled (reduced in size) for Wikipedia use: at the minute, it looks to me to have been scanned for reference purposes, or just for the web, or at least not for print/publication, which would have called for higher definition. This is the only reason it appears 'soft'; the original shot looks to have been well-focussed, shows no camera-shake and should respond well to a better scan. Whereas it wont ever look as good as a quality digital shot I'd say this particular image is probably worth the extra effort. If you can't get a new scan, let me know and I'll try enhancing the original one for you. mikaul 00:01, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks! I've e-mailed the photographer and have my fingers crossed :) Kla'quot 04:48, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Hi again. I just heard back from the photographer: "I spent about an hour looking for that photo this AM to no avail - I must have lent it to someone. Sorry." Right now the photo does not look like it will gain consensus. Do you think you could enhance the existing version it to the point where we could legitimately give it another try at FPC? Kla'quot 04:59, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
 * I've uploaded my best effort to commons - downsampled to 1200x800, colour-corrected and shaprened/enhanced as much as I dare. The original scan was a little over-sharpened (believe it or not!) which left a very faint 'fringe' and halo around the light/dark gradation areas (see to the left of the Orca, where black meets white) and which I really can't do anything about without substantially altering the image. Good luck with it; I think it deserves to be WP:FP for subject matter above raw detail, as per a news item or suchlike. There's a discussion on this on the COM:FPC talk page mikaul 08:34, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Wow, that's amazing. Thanks for this! I've posted it at Wikipedia_talk:Featured_picture_candidates and I sure hope it gets a fair chance. If not, we can always nominate it on Commons :) Kla'quot 08:59, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

I have the picture on my desktop at work, so I'm doing a lot of looking at it today. I think it might help to crop the top 10 to 20 pixels of snow, which has a blue-green tinge to it. What do you think? Kla'quot 21:17, 28 March 2007 (UTC) Oh, and you might want to change your vote to Support ;) Kla'quot 06:31, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
 * I think there's a danger of becoming too concerned with unnecessary details! I'd say any crop ought to include al of the floating ice at the bottom of the frame, which, for good balance, means retaining all of the height of the frame. It's therefore a playoff between distracting details and graphic harmony, and I'd generally go with the latter. mikaul 08:02, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

Tempranillo
Hello mikaul, I have been adding some info to tempanillo using this source. I am not sure if you know Spanish. If you do, I think this guy has other very interesting articles. Check them out. I only added some info, if you think more is needed, please do add it. I am also trying to research, unsucessfully, more history.-- Char leen mer ced  Talk  21:20, 4 April 2007 (UTC)Charleenmerced
 * Hi, I was just looking at your new edits - quality info, they've given a whole load more breadth to the article. I've yet to even scratch the surface of that website (http://www.arrakis.es/~mruizh/) - it's amazing, easily the best technical source I've seen on the web to date. Gracias - ¡y bien hecho! mikaultalk 21:49, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Meant to add a couple of things: the quest for more history might be tough. I got to talking with some local winey types who say Tempranillo just kind of grew up with wine production in Spain, it's always been here so its history is the same as the history of wine here. That's not to say there's no more details out there, I'm sure there are! Y deseé decir que tengo un nivel bastante bien de castellano; si quieres ayuda o falta un traducción de terminología técnica o lo que sea (en cualquier asunto), solo tienes que preguntar! Un saludo, mikaultalk 22:07, 4 April 2007 (UTC) Spanish IS my first language (born and raised in PR) (and English is my secong language) but for the life of me that Arrakis article is too technical. What is sarmiento? Some words I just HAD to look up. Thus, there are some things that may be imp in that article but I could not figure out what they were and the master of all dictionaries could not help me. Well, I know sarmiento comes from the latin sarmentum so that what I wrote in the article. I wonder if there is a different English word for it. I will be checking some other articles to see if there is any more info about Temp.-- Char leen mer ced  Talk  22:45, 4 April 2007 (UTC)Charleenmerced
 * Hey, guess what? Tempranillo comes in white! WHo knew? I added a new sub-section to the article on this. It is definately intersting. You should chekc out the source I used for the article. It is definately very interesting. I also fixed the Regional production into old/new world. I just think it looks better.
 * Amazing story, that white Tempranillo. I saw a mention of it in El Mundo (periodico de Madrid) the other week, couldn't find a decent source for it til now. According to the piece I read, *all* white wines are descended from a genetic fluke in a red grapevine centuries ago, which might explain the predominance of reds in ancient times..? You found another good source in that vinosalmundo.com, I think, maybe I'll check that theory out there! Sarmiento is the stem of a young vine, before it does that flakey bark thing (a sometimes-useful place for defining Spanish wine terms is diccionariodelvino) Your recent changes look great - keep up the good work! mikaultalk 23:18, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Yay, we did it, another GA! I am gonna feature this article on the next portal update! I still have not been able to get a white tempranillo picture...I'll keep trying.-- Char leen mer ced  Talk  18:50, 6 April 2007 (UTC)Charleenmerced