User talk:Maury Markowitz/Archive Dec 2007

FA and GA
I hope I answered your question, I am very interested in that topic.--Keer lls ton 19:01, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

DPM
Well met, Maury. You seem pretty clever so you must see that [the apocryphal] Moynihan quotation is a comment about objective reality, that A is A, whatever one's opinions may be about A. Thanks for reading my user page; just out of curiosity, what drew you in? Kaisershatner (talk) 14:45, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
 * uhh, you know, I don't remember. Some thread about a flame fest somewhere? Maury (talk) 01:02, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

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Colors in the Caverns of Mars (computer game) screenshots
Hello, I've seen the comment on your recent edit, so let me explain. The previous versions of the screenshots were done using the Atari800 emulator with standard settings. On these settings, the emulator generates the display using the colors as seen on the PAL computer. As the "Caverns of Mars" games were created in the U.S., I assumed that the NTSC colors would be more appriopriate. That's why I've redone the screenshots - look for example at the Caverns of Mars' title screen - in the emulator, the Red Planet is violet, but with the NTSC colors, it's way better, and closer to the original look. Cheers --Krótki 17:43, 1 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Very interesting, thanks for the info! I'll be sure to set that to NTSC in the future. BTW, isn't the spacecraft supposed to be more "white" though? Maury 17:46, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

Unfortunately, the NTSC palette is not provided in neither the Atari800, nor the Atari800Win emulators. Since version 2.0.2, however, the Atari800 emulator can be started in an experimental "ntscemu" mode, which emulates the NTSC TV signal in great detail. So I did run the emulator in this mode, and created my own NTSC palette, using the screenshots from the emulator.

Now I know that it's a bit of hard work to make such a palette, so if you'd like, I'll send my palette with pleasure.

As for the ship color, well, It has that grey color in the NTSC colors provided by the emulator. I've never personally seen an NTSC Atari, so I don't know how fine the colors are. Each TV set can have its contrast, brightness, colors and hue set differently, and this also adds to the confusion.--Krótki 16:08, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

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MOS:DP
MOS:DP is the manual of style for disambiguation pages. Among other things, it advises against piping links in disambig pages, and including more information than is necessary for a user to figure out if a link is the one the user is looking for. In this case, the link title GRASS programming language is enough to tell the user that if they're looking for a programming language called GRASS, that's probably the link they want to click on, and no further description is necessary. Propaniac (talk) 02:40, 13 December 2007 (UTC)


 * But in this case the link is to a redir, is this not a problem on its own. Maury (talk) 02:47, 13 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Oops. Yes, you're right; when I looked at the change you made, I didn't notice that you had changed the target, I thought you just piped the link. I fixed the link to avoid the redirect. Propaniac (talk) 17:04, 13 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Out of curiosity, does piping just expand the link through a macro? When I go back to edit the articles at a later time, it seems they have been "manually expanded", but there's no history record. I assume this happens "on save"? Maury (talk) 17:26, 13 December 2007 (UTC)


 * I don't think I really understand your question, to be honest. (I'm definitely not very programming-literate.) I think the link should look the same later as it did when you entered it; I'm not sure what you mean by expanding the link. Propaniac (talk) 18:33, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

Kirlston
Note:please respond in my page

Hi - you posted in Wikipedia talk:Featured articles saying that you had compared two articles, I hoped to ask you whether you read my response.

I am very interested a future reply from you - to my page and/or to the FA talk page.

Thanks,

Keer lls ton 21:56, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

User Penser
Please look into a violation of 3R by Penser who has reverted Alexander Graham Bell three times in a 24-hour period to his version. The issue of nationality was a "hot" topic on the talk page and a resolution in describing the scientist's nationality was decided upon. The lead paragraph is carefully written to indicate a main birthright as "Scottish" although an American citizenship was obtained. The amount of time spent in Canada is also discussed wherein all three nations have claimed Bell as their native son. FWIW, the user in question has also made some intemperate "attack" statements although I had earlier attempted to explain the issues on his talk page. Bzuk (talk) 13:11, 16 December 2007 (UTC).