User talk:Melikamp

''Please, keep conversations where they started. If I write on your page, I will watch it. Put new sections on top.''

Mars Atmosphere Gases


You replace raster images with SVGs: very good, especially when you eliminate the JPEG dirt. But I have three quibbles about this concrete images.

First, do not neglect a [ proper categorization]. After you upload this good SVG histogram, it appeared only in two categories, missing even such topical one as commons:Category:Atmosphere of Mars. Meanwhile, the JPEG was present in a dozen of categories.

Second, do not use solid background, please. It would better to be transparent.

Third, correction of [ evident misspells] is highly encouraged. You had a choice between using on the JPEG file or ignoring the problem, but in any case, you had to upload your image under a name without spelling mistakes.

Best wishes, Incnis Mrsi (talk) 16:20, 8 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Sure, thanks for all the tips. By the way, this particular image I found hard to replace, may be because it is visually different, but there is no way I am mangling data presentation with pointless graphics. melikamp (talk) 01:10, 9 March 2013 (UTC)
 * talk: Atmosphere of Mars contains some more suggestions. I could easily made it myself but converting text (back) to text – it is you who has the original file, not me. Incnis Mrsi (talk) 19:58, 9 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks! I found that R (which I used to produce this and some other diagrams) saves text as path in svg, and as text in pdf. To work around this, I could just save as pdf, then convert to svg. ...A terrible idea that was. Text in svg comes out so ugly, wiki can't render it correctly. Plan B: input text manually. melikamp (talk) 23:28, 12 March 2013 (UTC)

Rucker
Thanks for putting up the Rucker pic--I'd been hoping to do that myself one of these days. It really adds a lot to a page.

Tell me, do you think I've gone overboard in revising the Ware Tetralogy article? Feel free to prune me back if need be.

Nareek 06:29, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

Um, I am not really a fan of R.R. as a writer, and I haven't read any of his books. He just happens to be a former Comp. Science teacher of mine :) melikamp 06:49, 6 March 2006 (UTC)


 * If you've never read them, how do you know you're not a fan? ;) Nareek 16:12, 6 March 2006 (UTC)