User talk:Marble machine

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Speedy deletion nomination of User:Abacoo


A tag has been placed on your user page, User:Abacoo, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to be blatant advertising which only promotes or publicises a company, product, group or service, and which is a violation of our policies regarding acceptable use of user pages; user pages are intended for active editors of Wikipedia to communicate with one another as part of the process of creating encyclopedic content, and should not be mistaken for free webhosting resources. Please read the guidelines on spam, the guidelines on user pages, and, especially, our FAQ for Organizations.

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Contested deletion
This page is not unambiguously promotional, because I just want to offer to the community the opportunity to get animated gifs for other authors' articles. This offer is completely free of charge.
 * You don't have to be selling something to be promoting or advertising it. Promotion is not permitted on Wikipedia. You also may be asked to change your username, as usernames cannot be that of a company per the username policy. 331dot (talk) 11:12, 4 April 2016 (UTC)


 * How do I change my user name?
 * You can visit this page for information on how to do so. 331dot (talk) 11:23, 4 April 2016 (UTC)
 * While changing your name is helpful and needed, just doing that will not allow you to do what you have been doing. If you want to create encyclopedic articles related to your company, you will need to review the conflict of interest policy first. 331dot (talk) 11:25, 4 April 2016 (UTC)
 * I changed my user name and also changed the contents of my user page. And no, I did not plan to create encyclopedic articles related to my company. Can you please remove the deletion box from my user page, now?
 * You have put in a request, but it has not been granted yet. I have removed the speedy since the page is no longer promoting something. How do you intend to contribute to Wikipedia? 331dot (talk) 11:41, 4 April 2016 (UTC)
 * I intend to contribute to Wikipedia by dynamical visualizations as I did today for the article on deadlocks. Do you find this appropriate (in principle and the way I did it)?
 * I can't speak to that as it is not my area of expertise, but since you seem to want to positively contribute I wish you well. 331dot (talk) 11:53, 4 April 2016 (UTC)

April 2016
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Thank you. 331dot (talk) 11:25, 4 April 2016 (UTC)

Illustrations
Hi!

Let me first state that your illustration are generally welcome on Commons and certainly appreciated. However in my humble opinion you probaly push a bit to hard to place them in (encyclopdedic) articles. Not every animation being nice or nice illustration in its own right is necessarily a really a helpful illustration in any encyclopedic article related to them.

Note a marble illustration to be useful in an encyclopedic article, it needs to illustrate the articles content dirctly and not just something related to it. Also in most cases a (static) pictures are to be preferred, when they sufficiently illustrate a content, as this is usually easier for reading an article. Constantly moving parts tend to be distracting when reading and hence should only be used if the animated part illustrates some important dynamic aspect, that cannot not be conveyed appropriately with a static image or only in a much inferior way.

The distracting aspect with constantly moving parts can also sometimes be remedied by using a different format (video instead of a gif), so that the animation only play when selected by the reader.

Animations which may not all that appropriate to be placed in a specific article or not really considered all that helpful by other readers/editors at a particular in an particular article, can nevertheless be linked to it via commons. In commons there are usually categories for collecting all media that is related to a specific topic, that might be of interested to people in some form or another even, if it doesn't fit well in a specific article on the subject. So if you place your animation in the according categories on commons, they still can be easily found for every interested reader via the commons link in the encyclopedic article (on the left side or at the bottom (old style)).

--Kmhkmh (talk) 00:15, 9 April 2016 (UTC)


 * P.S.: Properly of interest to you might be WikiProject_Mathematics, which is the meeting & coordination point/blackboard for everything related to mathematics in the English Wikipedia. You can ask for feedback on the use of specific animations in specific articles beforehand if you wish. On the German Wikipedia there is de:Portal:Mathematik for the same purpose.--Kmhkmh (talk) 00:24, 9 April 2016 (UTC)


 * Thank you very much for your comments. I understand what you mean. For even better understanding: could you please tell me one case where one of my illustrations "is only somehow related" and another case where you find that it illustrates the "content directly". In any case, I will replace the constantly moving animated gifs by static gifs that have to be clicked to see them running.
 * Well the one I had came across and which sort of triggered my posting here was at venn diagram (see the discussion there). It is a great illustration on its own right, but it is not really about venn diagrams themselves (hence "only somehow related"), but the thing that venn diagrams illustrate, that is sets and set operation in general. Those are however not the topic of that article.--Kmhkmh (talk) 11:39, 9 April 2016 (UTC)

I appreciate your GIFs
The full adder GIF is very high quality, and I do appreciate it. Foia req (talk) 22:07, 13 April 2017 (UTC)

How do you make your gifs?
I saw your full adder gif, and I was wondering what program/tools you used to make them. Perryprog (talk) 18:20, 5 September 2017 (UTC)