User talk:Siim

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Estonia province images
Greetings, Siim. Thanks for uploading improved versions of the maps of Estonia's provinces! They look great. I'd like to give you a few tips.
 * 1) It's important to tag your images. The default for images you tag is, but you could tag them  if you wanted to release the pictures into the public domain instead.
 * 2) PNG is the prefered format to use on Wikipedia, instead of GIF. Most programs (like MS-Paint) will let you save a file as a PNG instead of a GIF. Would you be willing to convert you images to PNG format?
 * 3) The best place to save images like this is on Wikimedia Commons. That way, other wikipedias in other languages can use the same image.

Thanks again. Let me know what you plan to do. – Quadell (talk) (sleuth) 16:43, Jan 27, 2005 (UTC)

Clay article
I have left a message on the discussion page re edits made a couple of days ago. Professor Ralph Tropf a professor of humanities at Cal State Northbridge claims he tried to edit the article to discuss clay's role as an artistic medium which he claims were removed. If I understand your comments on the talk page correctly, you thought that some of his changes had merit but others were inaccurate - assuming that he was the anonymous user you were referring to.

I have sought more information from him. In the mean time, I would be grateful for your views on the best way of including something about clay as a medium without reducing the geological accuracy of the article.

Thanks in anticipation of any help that you might be able to give. Capitalistroadster 04:34, 25 November 2005 (UTC)


 * Current solution, Professor Tropfs text in separate subsection, is ok for me. I just don't like if article about clay begins with such text. Siim 16:37, 25 November 2005 (UTC)

Optical mineralogy article
Hi there, I created an optical mineralogy page, which needs some serious expansion. Also, what do you think about creating a petrographic microscope article? These are mentioned in the microscope article. I thought that might be better than a polarizing microscope article, since that is ambiguous and is really just a microscope with a polarizing filter. The petro-scope has gypsum and mica inserts, rotating stage, etc. Jon 05:29, 15 March 2006 (UTC)


 * Yes, why not. Go ahead. I am not the right person to say whether "petrographic microscope" is better title than "polarizing microscope" because English is not my native language but I am not against. Siim 19:29, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

River bifurcation
I notice you changed my edit to this. I don't think that the definition there is very helpful. River bifurcation refers to how rivers get larger not how rivers get small as per distributaries. Indeed the ratio is not very useful if you are refering to distributaries. I am really happy to accept that my re-explanation was not very good but the one there is really quite hopeless. Perhaps you could re-phrase the paragraph SuzanneKn 23:29, 4 February 2007 (UTC)


 * I think that you don't understand this term correctly. Distributaries and tributaries are two different things. My definition says very clearly and shortly what bifurcation is. Only thing that was really very hopeless was your change. If you don't believe me, then check some respected sources but don't try to invent definitions on your own. My definition is based on "Glossary of Geology" ISBN 0922152349. Siim 08:56, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

Can you confirmate it?
Hello! A friend made a translation of an anthem to estonian to me, but she isn't right if it's correctly translated. Can you check it, and confirmate to us, please? Thanks a lot! -- vonu sovef (wha?) 08:01, 2 July 2007 (UTC)


 * I think it's good enough. Siim 08:07, 2 July 2007 (UTC)


 * Ok man! Thanks a lot! -- vonu sovef (wha?) 05:30, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

Oil shale
Hi Siim. I wonder, if you are interested to assist improving Oil shale article and its spin-off articles, including Oil shale geology. As there is plan to nominate these articles for GA, maybe you could assist for editing and adding inline citation for all hard data and facts? There are some tags where references are needed. Thank you in advance. Beagel 17:16, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
 * I listed Oil shale for the new peer review and related spin-off articles (Oil shale extraction, Oil shale geology, Oil shale industry, History of the oil shale industry, Oil shale reserves, Oil shale economics, and Environmental effects of oil shale industry) for the peer review. Your comments and edits will be most welcome. The intention is to have these articles ready for the GA and FA nominations.Beagel 17:40, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

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