User talk:Phidauex/Archive 1

Woodcarving
I noticed that you have contributed to the Wood carving article. Please vote for Woodcarving at the Article Improvement Drive --Reflex Reaction 14:56, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

Fire Breathing
I like the work you have been doing on the fire breathing page. Keep up the good work
 * Thanks! I've been doing it for a while now, so it makes sense that I should help keep the article up to snuff. I've got a longer-term goal of making some more sense out of all the fire performance pages as well!Phidauex 14:02, 22 September 2005 (UTC)

I used a Nikon D70 for the photos, with the stock 18-70mm. Email me if you want more info Le Dieu Du Fromage 06:48, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

"Conspiracy theory" title neutrality proposal 2.0 voting has begun
See here and Title Neutrality. TitaniumDreads 20:56, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

Wikification of color
Thank you for making the changes to the article, and leaving a thank-you note on my page about our concerted cleanup effort. Without your help separating the tables and making their data accessible for me and other editors, it would never have turned out so good. I feel that it truly was a team effort and I extend my gratitude to you. I look forward to working with you in the future. --DavidHOzAu 13:13, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

Image request
You have requested an image for the article "Tallbike". There are many pictures of vintage tallbikes on my site at www.johnnypayphone.net/tallbikes/ Feel free to use them, they are all from very old sources. I'd suggest that the pennyfarthing featured be replaced with a vintage photograph of a tallbike.
 * Incredible!! Thanks for the resource, I'll add some photos right away. I've even seen a few of those images before, just could never find them again. Thanks again! Phidauex 16:57, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

Measuring color
Hey, thanks for fixing template:Dukeschools. I was just wondering how you "measure" the color. And is there someplace where all the color codes are listed? -Bluedog423 02:40, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
 * RE: Measuring color... There are a few ways to measure the color of something on your screen. One way is to take a screen shot, load the screen shot into an image editor, and then use the 'eye dropper' tool to 'grab' the color you want to measure. View that color in the color picker, and you should see its R: G: B: values, which can be expressed in the format #RRGGBB on the web. However, an easier way is to use an on-screen color viewer. There are several pieces of software that do this, but I like ColorPic which is a free Windows program for measuring color. You open it up, and then wherever you move the mouse, you see a little magnified view, as well as the information for the color you are viewing at that moment. It even writes it out in the #xxxxxx format for you, ready for copy/pasting into an HTML or CSS document. Hope this helps! Phidauex 15:13, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

Hiroh Kikai
Thank you for the goodarticlification of Hiroh Kikai. I've rather churlishly argued against one or two of your suggestions and edits, but I'm not happy with my own adjustments and there are one or two things you suggest that seem good and that I haven't yet started to address. So do keep a watch on this article and jab me with a pointed stick (or de-goodify the article) if I don't behave. Meanwhile, This is a well done article, about someone who I'd never heard of, (though I'll have to look up his work in the library, now!) -- your library had better stock materials in Japanese, or at least Polish! -- Hoary 23:27, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Heh, no offense taken. It's hard not to be churlish when you are basically the sole author of an article. More discussion left on the talk page. Also, the magic of Interlibrary Loan means the library has access to quite a collection of Japanese and other foreign materials. Lucky us! :) Phidauex 00:05, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
 * What's sad is that (as I laboriously explain in the article) a lot of this -- notably the first edition of Persona -- is actually as English as it is Japanese, so there's no inherent reason why it shouldn't have been distributed in anglophone countries. But because Kikai is Japanese but not Araki, Sugimoto, Moriyama, any of several pretty young females ("Hiromix", etc.), or (borderline case here) T&#333;matsu, he's a nobody.
 * Yes, Persona (1st ed.) is the one to ask for first. -- Hoary 00:13, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:Music samples
The discussion in Wikipedia talk:Music samples seems to have stopped suddenly. What happened? I was happy with the improvements that we were making in order to create this guideline. I wish we could restart the discussion. Thank you. CG 17:55, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

GA processing
I've replied on my talk page; let's discuss it there. -- Hoary 04:33, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

Music samples is now a guideline
Music samples is now a guideline. Thank you for your active participation in the discussion. The guideline will always be open for new proposals and amendments. As for now I invite you to join to the discussion in Wikipedia talk:Criteria for speedy deletion to adopt a new samples-related CSD criterion. CG 15:20, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

Stanisław Lem
Hello - is there any reason why you put Talk:Stanisław Lem into the Category Wikipedia good articles, but not the article itself? I ask, because I have no clue whether that is the right approach. -- Zz 14:23, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

Re:Extrasolar planets
Hello, thank you for promoting the articles to good article status! As I've said in my participants listing on WikiProject Astronomical objects, I'm currently trying to get a lot more of the extrasolar planets articles to get listed as good articles. Chaos syndrome 19:33, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

Pigments
Thank you for joining me on pigments. Incredibly enough, the paragraph that you added on Tyrian Purple was more or less the next paragraph that I had contemplated adding. I had not known how to do the reference style you use and set up actual footnote references. I will copy your technique.

I see that you are familiar with color models. I would like to see a paragraph added to the beginning of the Manufacturing and industrial standards that says more or less that color chemistry has developed into a modern technical field, and that scientific and objective standards now exst for measuring color. Can you explain the models for measuring color, and the ones that are used with pigments? Another thing we really ought to touch on is that computer monitors really cannot display high chroma of most pigment colors. --Metzenberg 20:44, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

Another topic for the history is the fact that many of the early pigments were named for the place where they were produced, usually mined or smelted: Sienna, Umbria, Sinopia, Veronese Green (Terre Verte). Do you know a good source on this? --Metzenberg 21:10, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

Did you see this? See halfway down the page ... A color that made history. A note on style. (I am in the art materials industry). It is conventional to capitalize names of pigments, and to distinguish in that way the name from more generic usage. The full name of the pigment should be written Cochineal Red Lake (since it is a dye manufactured into a lake pigment). Do you have any ideas of a painting (Michelangelo, Tintoretto, etc) that we could find in the Wikimedia Commons to illustrate the use of this color? --Metzenberg 23:49, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

Here is Tintoretto's in the Wiki Commons. Tintoretto's original name was Jacopo Robusti, but he became known as Tintoretto because his father was a dyer. See Tintoretto --Metzenberg 00:01, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

Your turn
Time to go to bed for me. I guess you'll probably add more tomorrow. I have rearranged and reworked a lot of material. I split some of the material you added on Cochineal Crimson into two. I moved part of it to the synthtic pigment section where I constructed a paragraph about how the rise of organic chemistry and industrial production of pigments made the old industries decline. I did take out about one sentence of the Cochineal Red material. It didn't fit anymore. I tried to keep footnotes in the right place, but please check what I have done. I've tried to add introductory sentences everywhere that flow well from one to another. To round out the synthetic pigments section, post Industrial Revolution, I think a paragraph on the Cadmiums is needed. It would be nice to have a really colorful impressionist, but I can't find much that is in the public domain. A lot of them haven't been dead long enough. --Metzenberg 09:45, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

GA on hold business
No problem. I was itching to get those two off the list, as I want The Fairy-Queen to be reviewed ASAP; also Trobaritz. Cheers, Moreschi 19:13, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

Inkscape images
Thank you very much; I really struggled with that problem and I'm glad it's resolved now. I hope that Atomic line filter becomes Featured now to boot! -- Rmrfstar 19:19, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

V. S. Ramachandran, Phantom Limbs and Mirror Box
Hi Phiadauex, What can I do to help with the above entries? I did my PhD with Dr. Ramachandran (1999-2004) at UC San Diego, working mostly on synaesthesia with him. Although I did not work on phantom limbs or the mirror box per se, I have a good knowledge of these topics from having been part of the lab and having been a teaching assistant for his courses. Of course, since he was my Phd advisor, it is important to me to get the science right, and I would very much like to see it in good wikipedia format. My primary wikipedia project has been the synesthesia page, which is getting there, but I have also tried to remove the worst of the problems from the phantom limbs and mirror box pages. Next on my list was to write something about Rama's scientific career. Feel free to contact me via my talk page, or via e-mail at edhubbard AT gmail DOT com if there are particular things I can do to help. Edhubbard 22:21, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

Hi Phidauex, Re: the 3:1 ratio on the synesthesia page. In random samples (Simner et al., in press; I can send the pdf to you, if you'd like) there is no evidence of a gender bias. "More recent studies, using random samples find a sex ratio of 1.1:1 (Simner et al., in press)." So it's good that you removed the unsourced ref to 3:1, since that doesn't seem to be correct when we use random samples. Previous studies probably suffered from a reporting bias, since women are more likely to "self-disclose" than men. Edhubbard 21:01, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

Hi Phidauex, Just saw you were copyediting away on the synesthesia page. Thanks! It tightens things up a bit. Question for you: the external links feel a little crufty to me. I think that it clears it up to have the sub-sections like I have done it, but it could still use some slash and burn. What do you think? Also, when you get a chance, take a look at some of our other pages (both subpages to synesthesia and phantom limb/mirror box, Ramachandran stuff) and see what catches your eye there. I've been too close to the writing to step back and look at things with the fresh eye needed to do good copyediting, so your input on this is really appreciated. Finally, what do you think the chances are that we can get the synesthesia page up to GA, or perhaps even FA? How would we go about getting it peer-reviewed before launching into that process?

Hi, Just saw the new mirror box image. It looks really good, and it's the type of thing I would have liked to be able to do. Is there any way that we can combine the two images that you and I created? The ideal image would be a single one that showed the box in 3-D like your image, with the hand in place, the reflection, and how it seems to the patient. I am happy to send you the bits that went into my image, but they are all jpg elements, and I don't have acess to a good svg program, so I am not sure how to go about combining from svg to jpg. Also, on the subject of the box, the holes should definitely be bigger, since the goal was to have the patient move their hands around, even waving their arms. In most cases, the front was nearly entirely open, and only a small strip at the top connected the two sides of the box. Also, minor perspective thing, could you make the back wall of the box smaller, so that it looks like it's farther away? Cheers. Edhubbard 13:41, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

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Good work on Atomic line filter
Thanks! I'm proud of it... but am also grateful for all of your help. -- Rmrfstar 00:08, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

Fujiwara no Teika
I agree that the footnotes here could use work; but I don't see that in the GA criteria; they are required to unambiguously reference, which they do. I have therefore appealed this to Good articles/Review; you are invited to comment. (I have also commented on the talk page, and an eventual solution to the problem has been worked out.) JCScaliger 18:36, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

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Help with debate on the synesthesia and famous synesthetes page
Hi Phidauex... As someone who has put in substantial time on the synesthesia page, I thought that I would ask your opinion on something. It seems that our work has attracted a troll. User:Mikkalai came across the synesthesia page, and started deleting the famous synesthetes section and the link to the main entry, arguing at first that "FORKS are disallowed". When I challenged him to show me where wikipedia policy states this (see Talk:Famous_synesthetes), he changed his argument to the idea that forks are inherently POV. As it has gone on, it seems like he has just been looking for a fight, since his concerns/comments/questions are spreading wider and wider. I am starting to think that I am just feeding a troll here. Any help, and or comments, would be greatly appreciated (even if you say that you think I'm completely in the wrong here!). I'm too close and have put too much into that entry to be completely objective about it. The majority of the debate has been taking place on the Talk:Famous_synesthetes page. Perhaps forks are inherently POV, but if that's the case, we really have some trouble here on wikipedia! Edhubbard 19:45, 21 September 2006 (UTC)