User talk:Thegreenj

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Thanks for closing this. I know featured things have all sorts of related codings and cats and logs and its something I should know and don't, so thanks for helping clean up by bad idea. MBisanz ^talk 03:21, 6 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

FP Image

I noticed Image:Soyuz TMA-7 spacecraft2edit1.jpg had been promoted to FP... But it never had the featured picture tag and all that added to it. ^8th star 22:49, 18 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Space photos

Hi again! I thought you might like to know that the Spaceflight portal is scheduled to show your edit of the Mir photo (Mir_on_12_June_1998edit1.jpg), not just for a week but for a fortnight! See: Portal:Spaceflight/Did you know/2008 Fortnight 13 for an idea of how it will look.

File:STS31 carries Hubble to orbit.jpg

Also, would you be willing to see if there's a way to improve another space-related image? It is Image:STS31 carries Hubble to orbit.jpg, which shows two shuttles simultaneously at the two launch pads. This will happen just once more in history, for the next shuttle mission (STS-125), where the second shuttle needs to be at the pad to immediately launch an STS-3xx rescue mission should one be required. I've used the image in the STS-3xx article, and it is used pretty heavily elsewhere, but it has some problems. First for use at thumbnail size it really should be cropped more closely around the two shuttles. But more importantly, the exhaust plume of the launching shuttle is so bright that the rest of the image is a bit washed out. This isn't exactly the same lighting problem that you fixed for the images taken in space, but maybe the same kind of photo-tweaking could help this image? Thanks yet again for your time and effort with this stuff! (sdsds - talk) 23:32, 7 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your quick reply on my talk page! As regards the cropping, I think it would be fine to eliminate both of the water towers on the right side. It would also be OK to eliminate the top of the launch tower that appears on the left side of the image. I think it would be good to keep some of the greenery at the bottom, but the water below the greenery can definitely be eliminated. In any case the goal should be to make the two shuttles "pop out" of the image even when it is shown at a small size. (There are lots of images showing shuttles launching, and lots of images showing shuttles waiting on the pad, but few that show both!)

More artistically, it would be ideal if the image also conveyed something of the passage of time during the launch sequence, and thus be reminiscent of Monet's Poppies Blooming, where the people out for a walk are duplicated, once up on the hill in the background and once in the foreground. (sdsds - talk) 02:59, 8 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Your edit of this image is the Portal:Spaceflight "Selected picture" for the month of August! (sdsds - talk) 05:29, 1 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Cool! Thanks for the note. Thegreenj 17:31, 1 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Mammoth Hot Springs Trees

An image uploaded by you has been promoted to featured picture status Your image, Image:Mammothterracetrees.jpg, was nominated on Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate an image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Thank you for your contribution! MER-C 10:46, 19 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Galaxy Quest edit

Hey, I reverted your edit to the "Star Trek cast responses" section of Galaxy Quest. I don't mean any hard feelings and I'd be happy to enlist your help in improving the article wherever we can. Believe me, I don't want to be the only editor making substantial contributions to this work. However, I feel that at least portions of that section belong in the article as it stands right now. We may merge them (in a more appropriate, narrative form) with the "reception" section, but I don't want to see them removed wholesale. If you think that they ought to be tossed out, make your case on the talk page. Thanks. Protonk (talk) 18:33, 8 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

That's fine. I don't think the reactions of Star Trek actors to a parody are relevant for an encyclopedia article—good movie articles here seem to focus on critical and box office reactions for reception, and I agree with that. If you want to keep it to be worked in more appropriately later, though, that's OK with me. Thegreenj 18:39, 8 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

thanks. I'm trying to eventually turn this into a GA and I realize that it will need to be merged into the reception section. There is also a healthy discussion ongoing in the talk page on whether or not this is an homage or a parody. Protonk (talk) 18:43, 8 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Along the River During the Qingming Festival

Well could you help me withdraw the nomination? Also I marked the image for speedy deletion, so it shouldn't take that long. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Daniel Chiswick (talk • contribs)

Done. You can create your new nomination whenever you're ready. Thegreenj 00:21, 5 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much. Also I remember that I still have the original version uploaded but I did not use it, so I am going to nominate it. The other one (Which looks exactly the same) is just an extra I uploaded because the original wasn't showing up at first, so I am going to have it deleted and nominate my original. Daniel Chiswick (talk) 00:30, 5 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry to put you through more trouble, but it would be nice if you made an entirely new nomination with a new name, simply so that the original would be available though the FPC archive for future reference. Thegreenj 01:46, 5 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Commons

Hey, thanks for your comment. I'm going to be uploading all future photos to the commons, I didn't know how to reference them from there until just the other day. Is there a protocol to follow when re-uploading to there? Do I have to delete the old pics or what happens? (Giligone (talk) 01:51, 5 September 2008 (UTC))[reply]