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Mary Poppins

From the Category:Children's films description:

This page is devoted to films, both animated and live-action, created exclusively for young audiences.

Since Mary Poppins, like most of the films Walt Disney himself made, was a family film and not exclusiveley a children's film, it doesn't belong in that category. It's already in Category:Fantasy films where it belongs. --FuriousFreddy 21:48, 4 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Director template

You dropped in to my Talk page to offer your support for director template. Thanks, I thought I was the only one. Maybe you would like to comment on Wikipedia:Templates_for_deletion#Template:Lynch which is currently up for deletion. --Commander Keane 06:53, August 6, 2005 (UTC)

Centronics

Thanks for the updates to the Centronics page. I couldn't quite figure out how to put that image in the right place, but now that I see, I fixed it on some of the sister pages. The old guys around here mention this stuff from time to time and I've been wanting to get some type of history up before it gets lost. I added a micro ribbon page similar to to the D-subminiature page- IMHO this is where the connector illustrations belong.

Gadget850 16:15, 8 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

You're entirely welcome -- thanks for straightening out the "protocol vs. company" stuff!

I spent quite a few happy hours listening to the "Zing...." of Centronics printers printing source code listings and still drive by what used to be the old Centronics plant now-and-again on my way to errands.

Atlant 16:37, 8 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Apple Computer

Regarding [1]: why do you feel the links as presented are correct, while my single link was incorrect? The only difference I can see is that giving two links provides the reader with a pointless link to the state. Personally I'm a strong advocate of making links that are relevant to the context. That Apple is based in Cupertino is relevant. That it is therefore also based in California doesn't seem to be. JRM · Talk 22:25, 9 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

It's not a pointless link, it's a link to the state, and the user can choose whether they'd like to browse their way specifically to Cupertino or to the larger topic of California. Given that somebody took the time to do it the more-difficult way, you should leave it that way.

Atlant 23:34, 9 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Interesting approach. I cannot agree with the reasoning that, since someone spent time doing it "difficultly", we should therefore leave it alone; edits should be judged on their own merits, not the amount of effort somebody put into them. By the same token you're saying that my edit is inferior because it's "simpler". This criterion is not tenable.

Of course, the last thing I'm interested in is a discussion on whether there should be one link or two... There are more sensible ways to spend one's time. So everyone who visits California from Apple Computers has you to thank that it's still possible. JRM · Talk 06:14, 10 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

No, I'd say your edit is inferior because it's clearly less functional than what was there before. So you spent valuable time decreasing the functionality of the article. You could get a job in TV broadcast news. :-)

Atlant 14:18, 10 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

OK, I see it now... I will try to make my edits more functional in the future!
Kidding, of course. You think it's more functional, the original contributor apparently did too, I think it's not... Potayto, potahto. Oh, and can I use you as a reference if I ever apply for anchorman? :-) JRM · Talk 15:10, 10 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, and can I use you as a reference if I ever apply for anchorman? :-)

But of course!

Atlant 15:16, 10 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

IDRIVE

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A Thank You!

Thanks for getting Linac squared away. Good move! You beat me to it, as one month ago I did not know how to do it. Much thanks and best regards. You need a barnstar LOL Scotty

Thank you for the kind words!

Atlant 20:21, 14 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome.....Brother Scotty

Hokusai image

Thanks for reverting that. I was going to do it later, but was perhaps being overly cautious and left the anon a message on their talk page (does that even do anything for anons?) asking them to explain why. They seem new, so they might not know to fill in the reason box yet.

Looking at the image in question, it looks more chinese in style. It has the overall golden coloration that I find odd for Ukiyo-e...but I also agree the attribution says it comes from a site of Ukiyo-e images. Hopefully if the anon feels strongly about it being added again they can explain why it doesn't fit. :) --Syrthiss 17:49, August 22, 2005 (UTC)

Yes, assuming that they don't do something to change their IP address, anons can create user pages and can read what gets posted at the talk page associated with their current IP address. Whether an anon knows to read their pages is, of course, another question, but I think they get the same "You have new messages" message that registered users get when their personal talk pages are modified.

Hopefully if the anon feels strongly about it being added again they can explain why it doesn't fit.

Right. That's all I ask for, and if a good reason is given, then I'll certainly assume that the editor knows more about the topic than I do (which, in this case, is quite likely). But simply coming along and doing a drive-by deletion from an article is a very common behavior of true vandals, so I mostly-always revert such things with the message that I posted. Serious editors simply come back and do it again, telling me why I'm wrong. :-) And that's fine by me. ;-)

Atlant 17:58, 22 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like I was partly right. He edited more, putting it in its own box as painting on silk (the golden coloration I noted)...which would make it not Ukiyo-e I guess. (?) --Syrthiss 13:36, August 23, 2005 (UTC)

Yes, I saw that. And we're definitely into that knoweldge-domain where I will defer to my betters!

Atlant 14:51, 23 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

For what it is worth, I attempted to ask my old professor of Japanese Art History from college (whose dissertation was on Hokusai) about the image in question, but he has either retired or passed away. His colleage who responded to my email is a professor of Chinese Art, and said it looked Japanese to him but that it wasn't good enough quality for him to read who it was signed by. I guess my suspicion was unfounded, that the webpage it was found on was mislabeling it as Hokusai when it was Chinese in origin. --Syrthiss 14:53, August 25, 2005 (UTC)

Deployment

Thank you for fixing this "deployement" thing, I was just too lazy to do it... nice thing you came around ! Rama 12:33, 24 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I always worry about stuff like this because I don't know the British English spelling of every word and I wondered if "deployement" might have been an example of that. But when I started seeing comments in the articles stating that this was a known miss-spelling and that some of the articles were already using "Deployment" and thereby failing to display correctly, I kinda figured I was on the right track. :-)

And thanks for your kind words!

Atlant 12:40, 24 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

image copyright tags

Atlant, you need to release your images for commercial use, otherwise they will have to be deleted. I suggest you either adopt the GFDL, or if you want something a bit clearer and simpler, use a creative commons licence. You must allow downstream commercial use and modification. You can force downstream users to credit you and share alike, however. See image copyright tags for more information. Dunc|☺ 11:02, 25 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks -- I'll look into that and make the appropriate changes!

Atlant 11:03, 25 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, I made changes. Will this do?

Atlant 11:18, 25 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, cc-by-2.5 is fine. Dunc|☺ 12:36, 25 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks!

Atlant 12:36, 25 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Pré-salé

Re: your edit to Mont Saint Michel - is not pre-salted a mistaken or jocular translation of pré-salé? Man vyi 13:19, 25 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Well, it's jocular. Allegedly, the mutton or lamb harvested from the sheep that graze on those salt flats is, in fact, saltier ("pre-salted") compared to ordinary sheep. But feel free to revert me if you wish.

Atlant 16:09, 25 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Indeed, one of the modern reasons for setting the sheep to graze in the salt marshes is for the flavour of the meat. I wondered whether non-Francophone readers might not get the joke, so thanks for your agreement to revert. I'll have a think if there's a way to salt up the text without being misleading. Man vyi 16:30, 25 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I'll have a think if there's a way to salt up the text...

:-)

Atlant 16:33, 25 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Barnstar

Thanks! It's a dirty job... --GraemeL ^(talk) 16:29, 26 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

You're entirely welcome.

Atlant 16:30, 26 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Picture

There is now a missing image in Fairbanks-Morse. I believe you know where the replacement is. -- RHaworth 18:32:41, 2005-08-26 (UTC)

Oops! Sorry 'bout that -- fixed now. Thanks for calling it to my attention!

Atlant 18:45, 26 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Highland Games photo

Very nice caber toss image for the Highland Games article! I thought it was better than mine from Tacoma, so I removed my own.

I am in the process of creating a photo library on the Commons related to Highland Games activities (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Highland_games). If you have any photos you would like to contribute, they would be more than welcome.

I am also the founder and admin for the Highland Games wikicities (http://highlandgames.wikicities.com). There are several photo galleries listed on the Main Page. Again, if you would like to contribute to the Highland Games wikicities, photos or otherwise, your contributions would be greatly appreciated.

JFPerry 15:07, 28 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Gee, I though your photo and my made a nice counterpoint to each other, with the two photos showing different phases of a toss! :-)

But I have photos from at least several years of the NH Highland Games from when they were done at Loon Mountain; the photos cover most of the heavy athletic events there certainly including the caber toss and probably including the stone carry, weight toss, and sheaf toss. I'll take a look and see which of my photos are "presentable". If I can't decide, perhaps I'll just zip up the lot of them and let you decide; you'd be welcome to use any of them anywhere you wanted on Wiki.

Atlant 13:57, 29 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]