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Sandy Island Exists
[edit]I'm surprised how quick everyone is to agree to the party line. Simply using Google Maps satellite, one can see that there's something at the location, and its shape is identical to how Sandy Island was presented on old maps that depicted the island at a close distance. I'm not sure it's a true island, and may be mostly submerged, but there is clearly something there. It seems that one source is now the bible for declaring that this island doesn't exist. More baffling is the insistence that the waters in the area are so deep, meaning there's no chance that anything could be there. Looking at Google Maps satellite, the ocean floor is noticeably shallower at and around the location than in surrounding areas.
I post here because you seemed to be the only voice of reason. What is going on that everyone wants to insist this island isn't real and that nothing could possibly be there, all because one alleged expedition says so. That was enough to remove it from all maps? Very odd. 98.221.141.21 (talk) 08:05, 5 January 2013 (UTC)
- It’s difficult to tell what’s going on. From the many sources of data I’ve examined, some have been polluted by using WVS or WDB II vectors as masks, making them impossible to draw conclusions from. You don’t necessarily even know that has happened, making almost all sources of data suspect. LANDSAT data mostly shows nothing, though there are hints. Without someone (else) just going out and looking, I can’t draw many conclusions other than that there IS a seamount there reaching within 40&nsp;m of the surface. That part is pretty clear. It’s not 1,400 m. Parts of it might nearly reach the surface. Strebe (talk) 20:58, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
Conformality of the stereographic projection
[edit]Please stop destroying valuable contribution. Read the conformality – it IS DEFINED as preserving angles of curves intersection, and it is good and important to mention that in the article. Conformality, in general, does NOT GUARANTEE preserving ANY OTHER type of angles. In particular, any (spherical) triangle on a sphere has sum of its angles greater than 180° while its stereographic image on the plane has the sum equal 180°. This implies respective angles of the two triangles MUST differ (at least one of them), so conformality in general is NOT 'preserving angles'. --CiaPan (talk) 23:58, 6 February 2013 (UTC)
- You’re not wrong. It’s just that your edit goes into more detail than necessary without being complete enough to be good. The very article you reference, conformality, states verbatim, “In mathematics, a conformal map is a function which preserves angles.” Later on, it does talk about intersecting curves, but with greater context: “A map, with is called conformal (or angle-preserving) at a point if it preserves oriented angles between curves through with respect to their orientation (i.e., not just the magnitude of the angle).” The Stereographic article does not include that greater context, and doesn’t need to. It links to conformal is so readers can learn more about it if they want. The usual pithy explanation for conformality is that a conformal map “preserves angles”. The Stereographic article is not about conformality, so it doesn’t need to go into detail. Meanwhile, your argument about spherical triangles is nonsense. No, the stereographic image of a spherical triangle on the plane does not have vertices that sum to 180°. The sum is the same as on the sphere. It’s not as if a spherical triangle maps to a Euclidean triangle on the plane. Strebe (talk) 02:18, 7 February 2013 (UTC)
Grammatical ambiguities
[edit]"The surface of a sphere, or another three-dimensional object".
is that meant to be "(the surface of a sphere), or another three-dimensional object"?
or is it meant to be "the surface of (a sphere, or another three-dimensional object)" ?
Clearly, it is meant to be the second, but the IP user parsed it the first way, and thence concluded that it was erroneous and in need of correction, and became upset when you reverted it to the 'incorrect' version. My edit removes the grammatical ambiguity. Okay? DS (talk) 00:24, 5 March 2013 (UTC)
- First, you need to move this discussion to the article’s talk page, not mine. I will copy and past all this there.
- Second, the phrase you changed was not as you wrote above. You’ve added a comma that didn’t exist and you’re using “another” instead of “other” and you’ve changed “body” to “object”. The full sentence was, “A map projection is any method of representing the surface of a sphere or other three-dimensional body on a plane.” There is no defensible way to read that as, “A map projection is any method of representing the surface… or other three-dimensional body on a plane.” It cannot be read that way because “the surface” otherwise does not refer to anything. The reader simply does not understand English or the topic well enough, as is clear from “his” edits that produced clearly incorrect results. Your “correction” does not resolve anything. If I can misread the original the way the objecting editor did, then I can misread your “correction” as well. I do not agree that just because some random person amongst thousands misread the text, that something is wrong or ambiguous, especially when his “correction” was clearly wrong. Strebe (talk) 01:07, 5 March 2013 (UTC)
Hello. There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.186.8.148 (talk) 07:40, 6 March 2013 (UTC)
- I don't know the subject matter enough to have an opinion, but it would probably be beneficial to everyone if you toned it back just a notch Strebe. Regardless of who is right on the merits of the discussion, the discussion appears to be taking place in good faith, and poking people with sharp sticks simply because you feel your perspective is the only correct one seldom produces consensus. So please consider a less confrontational way to communicate. Dennis Brown - 2¢ © Join WER 14:22, 6 March 2013 (UTC)
- I will stick to the facts, but I do not agree that discussion is taking place in good faith. To this moment, the IP editor has not acknowledged a single contrary piece of evidence. He has deleted the authoritative reference and supplied none of his own, merely calling it “bad”. Whatever his agenda is, it is not Wikipedia’s. Strebe (talk) 16:30, 6 March 2013 (UTC)
- I'm sure you understand that it is difficult to always guess the faith of the editor when you are very unfamiliar with the subject matter. It is difficult to see inside the mind of an editor. I request only to make sure we aren't making a victim out of someone, IF they are in the wrong. Any help you can provide that makes it more clear where the problem lies is helpful. Dennis Brown - 2¢ © Join WER 16:37, 6 March 2013 (UTC)
- No, my agenda is in fact Wikipedia's (viz. an accurate entry), and once again you're not assuming good faith, in violation of policy. I'm a mathematician so you can understand, I hope, the perspective that I bring. In mathematics a common sphere is 2-dimensional, period. This is intuitively obvious by asking 'How many coordinates are necessary to specify a point on a sphere?' And the answer is 'two'. I understand that sometime 'sphere' is used colloquially, to describe, for example, a soccer ball. This is a geometry we would call a 'ball', not a 'sphere'. Moreover, while map projections in our daily life are typically from 2d curved space (like the surface of the Earth) to 2d flat space (like a road map), this need not be the case, and I believe that the article should reflect that.184.186.8.148 (talk) 02:48, 7 March 2013 (UTC)
- Your definition of accurate is inaccurate and you are not the authority of what is accurate. Your claimed credentials are irrelevant. I provided a citation from the most authoritative expert in cartographic map projections in the 20th century. You completely ignored it and worse, you deleted it under your personal theory that it was “bad”. That’s not allowed. Do you not understand that your alleged credentials are irrelevant? You may well be a differential geometer, but has it occurred to you that some of the editors involved are actually expert in the topic and of the relevant literature? What matters is what the literature has to say, not your opinion or mine.
- You seem to believe that this topic is a proper subset of differential geometry. It is not. It has its own literature and application, and while the mathematics of projection are the same either way, the terminology differs, the notational conventions differ, and most importantly, the field of map projections has a strong overlap with geodesy and whole host of concerns outside of differential geometry. If you have not read J.P. Snyder, L.P. Lee, and Deetz & Adams, then you are not an expert in this field. Your conventions are not the conventions of the map projections literature, and you cannot enforce them outside your field. When you blather on about only needing two coordinates and about how there’s nothing special about those dimensions and that you can’t project without losing some features and on and on, you’re completely wasting everyone’s time. The people you’re addressing are far beyond that. It’s not that people don’t get it; it’s that what you are saying is irrelevant. You are talking about a different topic and as much as you want this to be the topic you are talking about, it is not. Strebe (talk) 04:01, 7 March 2013 (UTC)
- You are violating several wikipedia policies, including WP:CIVIL, WP:NPA, and WP:GOODFAITH. Moreover, your representation of the credential policy is not correct. Credentials are not "irrelevant", but are to be weighed by individual editors as they see fit ([i]cf.[/i], WP:CRED). I am not "blather[ing]", I am a thoughtful person giving my views on that matter.
- The title of the article is not "cartographic map projections". It is true if that were the article your view would be correct, since cartography is the practice of making maps, which are, at least to the present day, all two-dimensional. But this is an article about map projections generally, and maps can be of any dimension (check out, [i]e.g.[/i], http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map). The defining point with a projection, conceptually, is that you're going from something curved to something flat and that is impossible to do without "damage" of some sort. That it's a sphere is most common but not necessary. I understand that mathematical conventions are not your conventions, and that is fine. That fact does not imply that mathematical conventions are irrelevant to the article. My view is that mathematical conventions are relevant to the article--indeed essential to it. Why? Among other things, (1) A map projection is a fundamentally [i]mathematical[/i] process and not a matter of convention; (2) there is substantial mathematical discussion and notation in the article; (3) some sentences in the article are false no matter whether you take my approach or yours ([i]e.g.[/i] " a map projection is any method of 'flattening' into a plane a continuous surface having curvature in all three spatial dimensions" (you need not have curvature in all dimensions to produce a projection)).
- I made an edit here. I agree that we need not get into the notion of higher-dimensional projections for the purposes of the article. But we should not say that a sphere is 3-dimensional, because that is simply factually false, despite the colloquial usage and whatever your personalized usage is too. If you are willing to concede that in the article I'm happy to remove the tag and not worry about the more obscure concerns of dimensionality.184.186.8.148 (talk) 06:13, 7 March 2013 (UTC)
- “But we should not say that a sphere is 3-dimensional, because that is simply factually false, despite the colloquial usage and whatever your personalized usage is too.”
- You seem offended when I interpret your behavior. You know what offends me? That you have consistently ignored the citations I have given for my assertions and ignored engaging any facts inconvenient to your position. Calling it my “personalize usage” is offensive, 184.186.8.148. I couldn’t care less if you interpret my behavior; that’s what people do and have to do, and the only difference between people in that regard is whether they voice that interpretation or not. If you’re right in your interpretation of my behavior then I have nothing to get offended about; if you’re wrong, I can’t imagine why I should care; and if you’re somewhere in between then maybe you’ve even given me something to think about. But when you repeatedly, consistently set up straw men to deflect attention from the salient matters, when you ignore all evidence that contradicts you, when you call definitions matters of fact rather than of definition and further insist that yours are the only true ones despite robust, reliable evidence to the contrary, you have shut down any means to converse or resolve anything. And that offends me.
- And because it offends me, I will continue to interpret your behavior. Your purpose here is to win, at any price, even if you have to throw the truth under the bus. And that offends me too.
- Meanwhile what matters for content is WP:VERIFIABILITY, not your assertions, not your unverifiable credentials, and not your application of conventions contrary to those prevalent in the domain. There is nothing to talk about when your only standard of correctness is yourself. Since there is nothing to talk about, you are not welcome on my talk page. I will delete anything further you post. Strebe (talk) 05:39, 8 March 2013 (UTC)
I won't post anything further on your Talk page, if that is your wish. Be aware that I have placed a request on the Dispute Resolution Noticeboard.184.186.8.148 (talk) 00:28, 9 March 2013 (UTC)
Notice of Dispute resolution discussion
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edit unto on fisheye[edit]hi, don't you think we need an example of a fisheye lens with this projection in the article? Cogiati (talk) 16:27, 4 June 2013 (UTC)
Set of map projections[edit]Hi Strebe, I thought I'd give you a heads up that I have opened a feature pictures nomination for the set of images of map projections that you created. If you'd like to weigh in on the discussion, the page is here. Cheers, Cowtowner (talk) 20:53, 6 June 2013 (UTC)
Can you create a sample world map in the Natural Earth projection? I want to add one into my article. Czech is Cyrillized (talk) 02:46, 10 June 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for the correction, as you have understood, i'm french speaker. Have a nice day/evening, Hatonjan (talk) 18:38, 14 June 2013 (UTC)
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Advises and discussion regarding improvements on articles[edit]Hi there, i write this to you because i notice that you are a regular editor of the World map article, this section particulary involves recent modifications in the article as well further improvements. One thing: The way you left the article honestly looks ugly and incomplete, for example, the "Map projections" section looks rather unfinished and rachitic, with only one map on the lower row, we need to put more maps there to make it look decent. Other thing, you removed the map who adressed human displacement without a reason at all, the map in turn is based on a work made by a cartographer recognized and with publications on cartography fields [1]. Another things: I notice that the world map who adresses the winkel tripel projection is repeated and also appears as the mollweide map, one of these must be removed in favor of variety. In this kind of articles the more variety the better, It also would be appropiate to shrink a bit the heading paragraph's tumnails, so these maps don't invade the space destined to other sections. Finally, I'm thinking of writting a section dedicated to "Early maps", i was looking it up yesterday and i found the sources to do so. Thank you. Czixhc (talk) 00:27, 26 September 2013 (UTC)
Edit on spherical earth[edit][2], Well, we added what source said, so either we have to add what source is saying or nothing, but for now, i think it's better to keep what source said, or current edit will work too
Also one more thing, in that same section of "india" both of the sources no where mentions "calculated by Eratosthenes in the 3rd century BC", only about the current one, so that line should be removed. Justicejayant (talk) 16:50, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
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Gall-Peters Projection[edit]I would argue that a 180-degree rotation is quite a relevant difference. Furthermore, the article opens the door to explaining the reasoning behind the use of that specific map by stating that "prominence to countries in less technologically developed parts of the world that are otherwise underestimated". Finally, while I understand that you strive for editorial cohesion, the strength of Wikipedia lies in the non-linear connections made between various articles, rather than being just a straight forward encyclopedia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.217.20.146 (talk) 20:56, 6 January 2014 (UTC)
Schmidt and Gauss-Boaga[edit]Hey Strebe! I just got the message that you reverted me at Lambert azimuthal equal-area projection. I agree that the Schmidt net should be its own article. It is also a separate article on de-wiki: de:Schmidtsches Netz. Do you want to split the articles? Also, I saw that you specialize in projections. Can you take a look at Gauss-Boaga projection when you have time. Thanks. --Tobias1984 (talk) 17:29, 26 March 2014 (UTC)
POTD notification[edit]![]() Hi Strebe, Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:Collignon projection SW.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on April 19, 2014. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2014-04-19. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 01:50, 4 April 2014 (UTC) Are the two projections supposed to be the same size, or is the front supposed to be smaller than the other? I want to combine them into a single image for POTD, but the article doesn't tell me. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 00:44, 18 April 2014 (UTC)
Perfect, thanks. Here's the notification (not like you needed it, but...). Note that I will be image mapping the main page version to link to the individual files, rather than this combined form. ![]() Hi Strebe, Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:Hammer retroazimuthal projection combined2.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on May 5, 2014. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2014-05-05. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 01:26, 21 April 2014 (UTC) POTD notification[edit]![]() Hi Strebe, Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:Orthographic projection SW.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on June 4, 2014. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2014-06-04. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 01:54, 19 May 2014 (UTC)
Orthographic projection[edit]Hi Strebe, Thank you for contacting me on this issue. My concern with the title "Orthographic projection (cartography)" is that parenthetical disambiguators are intended to be used to disambiguate, not to indicate subcategories; that title therefore suggests that there is no connection between this article and the main Orthographic projection article, when they are in fact very closely related. Orthographic projection is a mathematical concept which is applied to cartography, and it is this application that is the subject of the article in question. As such, whatever title we use should have a title that does not use a parenthetical disambiguator. Is there another title with which you would be satisfied? If your concern with the title "Orthographic projection map" is that the word "map" is not specific to geography, perhaps we can use the title "Orthographic projection in cartography". I hope we will be successful in finding a mutually satisfactory title for this article. Neelix (talk) 16:34, 8 June 2014 (UTC)
POTD notification[edit]![]() Hi Strebe, Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:HEALPix projection SW.svg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on July 10, 2014. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2014-07-10. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 00:22, 26 June 2014 (UTC)
You might want to take a look at the etymology section in the Bikini article. It has sourced, cited and reviewed information that probably can be used here. Aditya(talk • contribs) 06:50, 3 July 2014 (UTC)
POTD notification[edit]![]() Hi Strebe, Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:Two-point equidistant projection SW.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on August 30, 2014. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2014-08-30. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 00:49, 10 August 2014 (UTC)
Equidistant Conic Projection[edit]I hear you're the cartographer around here! Therefore, I formally request that you create a good image for the Equidistant Conic Projection. It's a somewhat aesthetically unappealing sample at the moment. Thanks in advance! 72.83.246.25 (talk) 23:36, 10 August 2014 (UTC)
A small info for you[edit]I am not editing again on tamarind again but a small information for you that In Arabic language هندي means anything from India. هندي means Hindi or originated from India. So when Arabs are stating in their own language that this fruit is from India then why I cannot add any information in Hindi then?. Anyway no point to argue. Keep your dictatorship intact.Mintoo44 (talk) 17:43, 28 August 2014 (UTC)
POTD notification[edit]Hi Strebe, Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Natural Earth projection SW.JPG is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on October 15, 2014. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2014-10-15. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 01:02, 24 September 2014 (UTC)
POTD notification[edit]![]() Hi Strebe, Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Cassini projection SW.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on November 17, 2014. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2014-11-17. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 00:44, 27 October 2014 (UTC) POTD notification[edit]Hi Strebe, Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Guyou doubly periodic projection SW.JPG is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on December 4, 2014. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2014-12-04. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:53, 12 November 2014 (UTC)
Cartography and prehistoric topographic engravings[edit]Hi Strebe, you've recently deleted some paragraphs on the "Cartography" Wiki page stating that "These artifacts are ambiguous and disputed, and the description is too detailed for the context". While I agree as concerns the too detailed description (I shortened it), I don't agree to the "ambiguous and disputed" condition of the items I'm treating, which are the so-called topographical prehistoric representations in the alpine rock art. I'm an archaeologist with more than 30 years of experience in the field, and I know what I'm writing about: these "artifacts" act as real archaeological finds, are well dated by the study of the sequence of the engraving phases, and widely recognised by most scholars since the beginning of the last century as a plan depiction of human landscapes (cultivated plots or farms or villages), although some-way symbolic (but all maps are symbols...). So it's not the best choice to define them as ambiguous or questioned. As being a zenith representation of a territory dating back to 4000-3500 BC (it's not a coincidence that it was the period of the agriculture revolution led by the use of the plough, but this is not a cartography matter), I don't understand why they shouldn't be cited in the history of cartography, indeed as the most ancient European and near-East landscape representation. I may add that, being in a mountain environment, a zenith view of of the land below, like the bottom of the valley or the opposite slope, is quite natural, and may provoke its depiction as a rock engraving; this is a further element which favours a topographic interpretation. In conclusion, I hope you won't delete again this little contribution, which I think is valuable. It will be interesting for me to write a paper regarding which kind of consideration is granted to such subject, i.e, the engraved iconographic heritage, by scholars of other disciplines. Many thanks and best of all. Ruparch (AA) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ruparch (talk • contribs) 22:18, 2 December 2014 (UTC)
POTD notification[edit]![]() Hi Strebe, Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Winkel triple projection SW.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on December 28, 2014. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2014-12-28. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 12:56, 10 December 2014 (UTC) POTD notification[edit]![]() Hi Strebe, Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Tobler hyperelliptical projection SW.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on January 12, 2015. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2015-01-12. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 18:29, 23 December 2014 (UTC) POTD notification[edit]![]() Hi Strebe, Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Albers projection SW.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on January 29, 2015. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2015-01-29. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 14:52, 10 January 2015 (UTC)
Hobbit Undo[edit]Hi! I disagree with your undo on The Hobbit but did not want to get persnickety by undoing an undo. I thought the detail addition minor and relevant. After all, it is an accurate addition of four words total: hardly "too much detail" I think. Should we move it to talk? HullIntegrity (talk) 19:51, 18 January 2015 (UTC) POTD notification[edit]![]() Hi Strebe, Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Werner projection SW.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on February 14, 2015. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2015-02-14. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 13:51, 27 January 2015 (UTC) POTD notification[edit]![]() Hi Strebe, Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Goode homolosine projection SW.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on February 26, 2015. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2015-02-26. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:33, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
POTD notification[edit]Hi Strebe, Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:Littrow projection SW.JPG is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on March 11, 2015. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2015-03-11. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 01:05, 21 February 2015 (UTC)
POTD notification[edit]![]() Hi Strebe, Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:Sinusoidal projection SW.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on March 22, 2015. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2015-03-22. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 01:02, 4 March 2015 (UTC)
Great images[edit]Hello, Strebe -- I just want to tell you how much I like the images, the map projection distortions in plum and mint colors on your user page. I see you work with maps. I love maps, but don't know anything about making them. CorinneSD (talk) 23:32, 6 March 2015 (UTC) Or is it wine and forest green... CorinneSD (talk) 23:33, 6 March 2015 (UTC)
Graphic[edit]You might be interested in the discussion regarding a graphic representation of a plant virus at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/TMV diagram. I've been trying to help, but since I know nothing about viruses and very little about graphic design, I may not be helping very much. I thought of you since you seem to know how to design things. Maybe you could help improve the diagram. (You might consider moving the discussion to the designer's talk page. Discussions at WP:FP don't usually go on too long.) CorinneSD (talk) 01:44, 9 March 2015 (UTC) Could you do some very large projections?[edit]Hello Strebe, I'm a big fan of your work on map projections here, awesome work! I need some for a non profit Foundation for printing wall size, would you be willing to do a couple of custom Goode and Vertical Projections for that purpose? they're willing to pay for your work. As soon as I was asked for some projections I inmediatelly remembered your work and came here first :) You can find me in Skype, user: akma72 Thanks and sorry for the bother --Akma72 (talk) 20:34, 3 April 2015 (UTC) A barnstar for you![edit]
Thank you very kindy, Akma72! Strebe (talk) 03:19, 22 April 2015 (UTC) Mercator “presented” his projection versus “used in maps”[edit]Hi, Strebe, You claim that it’s “not accurate” to say that Mercator used his eponymous projection in his own maps: > The Mercator projection is a cylindrical map projection used in maps published by the Flemish geographer and cartographer Gerardus Mercator in 1569. preferring instead > The Mercator projection is a cylindrical map projection presented by the Flemish geographer and cartographer Gerardus Mercator in 1569. This is his map from 1569: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mercator_1569.png so why do you say the first sentence is not accurate? The term ”presented” implies that he merely described it, perhaps in a paper or a talk. It does not necessarily imply that he made a map with it, which he did. So I would argue that the first statement is more accurate by providing more detail about what he did. And that it’s an important detail! — Andy Anderson 11:52, 21 April 2015 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by [email protected] (talk • contribs)
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POTD notification[edit]![]() Hi Strebe, Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Aitoff projection SW.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on May 11, 2015. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2015-05-11. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 00:53, 23 April 2015 (UTC)
Reversion[edit]So, you reverted my edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Byte_order_mark&oldid=prev&diff=660910568 Which, you know, isn't very nice. Prior to my edit, there's nothing in the opening paragraph that gives even a hint as to how a single character can actually communicate what the byte order is. If you think my statement is inaccurate, please improve it, but wholesale reverting a good faith edit that adds useful information to an opening paragraph is just being rude. Would love to see you reinstate some improved version. Stevage 10:09, 5 May 2015 (UTC)
Altai mountains[edit]Hello, Strebe - I was just looking at the article Altai mountains, and I was looking at the map in the lede/infobox. I don't think it's a particularly good map. It's a bit fuzzy and the labels are not in English. I'm wondering if you could find a better map. CorinneSD (talk) 16:05, 9 May 2015 (UTC)
POTD notification[edit]Hi Strebe, Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Bottomley projection SW.JPG is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on June 19, 2015. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2015-06-19. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 23:34, 28 May 2015 (UTC)
POTD notification[edit]![]() Hi Strebe, Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Hobo–Dyer projection SW.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on July 6, 2015. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2015-07-06. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 11:47, 15 June 2015 (UTC)
POTD notification[edit]![]() Hi Strebe, Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Kavraiskiy VII projection SW.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on July 21, 2015. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2015-07-21. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 00:24, 2 July 2015 (UTC) Space-oblique_Mercator_projection[edit]Just found this article Space-oblique_Mercator_projection it probably needs some attention from someone such as yourself ? EdwardLane (talk) 22:18, 6 July 2015 (UTC)
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POTD notification[edit]![]() Hi Strebe, Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Craig projection SW.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on August 19, 2015. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2015-08-19. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 01:14, 3 August 2015 (UTC)
POTD notification[edit]![]() Hi Strebe, Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Gnomonic projection SW.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on September 9, 2015. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2015-09-09. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 00:20, 23 August 2015 (UTC) POTD notification[edit]![]() Hi Strebe, Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Chamberlin trimetric projection SW.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on October 2, 2015. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2015-10-02. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 23:39, 14 September 2015 (UTC)
POTD notification[edit]![]() Hi Strebe, Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Behrmann projection SW.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on October 16, 2015. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2015-10-16. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 00:45, 30 September 2015 (UTC)
Flat Earth[edit]What do you mean? "There is no "advocacy". It's in the lede because it's what people might often be looking for when coming to this article." They are looking for information from a religious group that wants to change history and promoted their own view of science? They are an intelligent design advocacy group. This is pseudoscience garbage disguised as science. Lipsquid (talk) 16:07, 10 October 2015 (UTC)
FYI: I have started an ANI discussion about this incident. LjL (talk) 21:20, 10 October 2015 (UTC) POTD notification[edit]Hi Strebe, Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Eckert II projection SW.JPG is schedule to be Picture of the Day on November 1, 2015. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2015-11-01. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 23:36, 14 October 2015 (UTC) |