User talk:Quadibloc

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Monotype System
Hello! Great start to an article. I'd like to nominate it for a did you know? on Wikipedia's main page. To do that though, the article needs some improvement. For your references, can you include inline citations? I can help you do this if you can mark the parts of your text that reference each citation and then I can wikify the article for you. Thanks.--v/r - TP 22:49, 28 December 2010 (UTC)


 * Most of the article consists of very basic information on the Monotype system that is found in each of the sources cited. That's why they were listed as overall references instead of being created using "ref" tags. --Quadibloc (talk) 22:52, 28 December 2010 (UTC)


 * I kinda figured as much but the DYK process includes a bit of evaluation of the article and they are going to be looking for inline refs. If it's possible to do them, I think it'd easily be possible to do a DYK for this article.  I found the 2nd ref on Google books, I'm trying to see what I can do to help.--v/r - TP 22:54, 28 December 2010 (UTC)


 * Thanks; right now, while the article is bigger than a stub, though, it's very much incomplete as it stands. Eventually, especially if others interested in the subject contribute, it may be possible to get it to the point where it is comparable to the Linotype machine article. Then it could be subjected to evaluation. --Quadibloc (talk) 03:40, 29 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Unfortunately, it won't be a DYK candidate at that point. DYK must be done within the first 5 days an article is created or substantially expanded (fivefold).  The purpose of DYK is to bring attention to new material.  I was trying to see if I could work something out with it, but I dont have access to refs 1 and 3 so I can't add inline citations myself.  That's alright though, thanks anyway.--v/r - TP 13:33, 29 December 2010 (UTC)

[[File:Sidereal Time en.PNG]]
Hi, Quadibloc! I noticed that an image you authored needs a correction. File:Sidereal Time en.PNG shows three images of the Sun, accompanied by an orange dot for reference. The final two look the same, but actually the first and third should be the ones that look the same. The third image on the right, of the yellow Sun with reference orange dot, marked 12:00:00, ought to match the first image, also marked 12:00:00. I don't know how to fix it myself - can you do it? Thanks, Dc3~enwiki (talk) 16:26, 14 October 2015 (UTC)

I didn't author that image, I only made a different small fix to it. The diagrams of how the Sun appears, with the orange dot representing a star, are actually correct. The first diagram shows the Sun occluding the star. The second diagram shows the situation one sidereal day later; the star has returned to the position the Sun occupied, but the Sun lags behind due to the Earth's orbital motion around the Sun. The third diagram shows the situation after 24 hours; now the Sun has returned to its original position - since that is only four minutes later than the second diagram, the difference between the positions of the star and the Sun has not changed appreciably. 198.161.203.6 (talk) 20:07, 14 October 2015 (UTC)

Oh, I see. Thanks for explaining. I interpreted the orange dot as a reference point on Earth, such as a stop sign. And I totally missed the cues from the gray road, which is the actual reference point on Earth --oops. I didn't get the star being occluded --since the dot appears visible in the first frame, I took it to be in front of the Sun. I guess we're supposed to picture the orange star as being seen "through the Sun". Can we add that to the caption for the illustration? Dc3~enwiki (talk) 20:31, 14 October 2015 (UTC)

The block should have been set as "anon only", which means that it wouldn't affect accounts editing from there; I'm double checking with the blocking admin before actually changing the block. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 21:41, 28 October 2015 (UTC)


 * I've issued this user the IP Block Exempt status. This is not the person who was supposed to be caught by the rangeblock.  Please read WP:IPEXEMPT for an understanding about the rights and responsibilities of this status.  As this is clearly a good-faith editor caught by a block intended for someone else, I feel comfortable granting this flag.  -- Jayron 32 22:42, 28 October 2015 (UTC)

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File:Sidereal Time en.PNG - to Commons please
Hello,

Will you upload this image or its SVG version into Commons? Other Wikipedias can use it then. Thanks. Misibacsi (talk) 19:31, 24 December 2015 (UTC)


 * I'm not its author. I only made a small change to it. Quadibloc (talk) 07:38, 26 December 2015 (UTC)

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