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User talk:Egil/Archive 1Hello and Welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you like the place. --mav Hi Egil and welcome. I appreciate your edit on photographic topics on Wikipedia. It's a good think you're here, I feel less alone. Ericd I can only congratulate with all the work done so far - it is impressive! I cannot promise anything wrt. how much time I can use, though. PS: Is there any way I can get my name/link added automatically when I respond to a Talk: item? Hi Egil, welcome to Wikipedia. The signing thing is done with three tildes (~~~) for just your username (DrBob) or four (~~~~) for your username + time and date (DrBob 18:14 Jan 24, 2003 (UTC)). Hello, and a belated welcome to wikipedia. I've noticed your work on film formats--impressive stuff. :-) Given that you're knowledgeable about film, could you please take a look at the stub I just created, perspective distortion? My experience with photography is, er, unschooled, generally. :-) I'm sure your attention could improve it. Best, Koyaanis Qatsi
Hello, thanks. I've another for you, at Push printing. I wrote it based on memory of a Nat'l Geographic book I read in June, plus brief (& unpleasant) experience with it lately. Unfortunately I can't find the Nat'l Geographic book I had (only the landscape one, not the general one) and I can't find info about it on the web. Could you please check over the article? Thanks, Koyaanis Qatsi
Either you are the fastest typist alive or you are using a bot. If you do plan on using bots for extended periods of time please do read and follow the guidelines at Wikipedia:bots. --mav
Egil, could you please slow down your rate of article submission. You are drowning out all other activity on Recent Changes! -- Anon.
What typos did I make? LittleDan Egil: when listing pages on Votes for Deletion (or removing nonsense content), please state what the nonsense content was (or give an excerpt), instead of saying "no encyclopedic merit". Thanks. --The Cunctator Yay! We have orders of mag articles for temperature now! One point, please only link the first occurrence of any particular order of mag article. For example, since the melting and boiling point of mercury are in the same order of magnitude, you should only provide an order of mag link for the first occurrence (in this case melting point). Oh and elements are lowercased unless the start a sentence. Great work! --mav Why are you deleting all of the year entries before 550 BC? When (& where) was this decided? I most strongly object to this! -- llywrch 05:33 Apr 2, 2003 (UTC)
From Talk:1 E52 kg: If you're intending to group these into thousands as well, as implied by the "lighter masses" link being to 1 E49 kg, then this really ought to be at 1 E51 kg, linking to 1 E48 kg. -- John Owens 06:23 Apr 9, 2003 (UTC) From User:Williamv1138: Re league. I was being funny when I put that in. The definition of league I put in was tongue-in-cheek, having been copied from the satirical novel, Bored of the Rings. Quite appropriate to remove it. I have a bit of a pb with standardizing external link format. Whatever the form I give to it, someone sometimes behind me change it, one for a three bars format, another one with a double quote format, and a third one to triple quote format. So, I concluded there was a triple form standard depending on the editor...or that nobody knew really...or care...or there was no standard. So, if there is an official format, could you please direct me to it ? user:anthere
hum, I think using ==External links== is a bit ridiculous in a small article, with no == used at all. It gives a strong emphasis on the external links, when it is probably not what it is supposed to do. That convention doesnot sound good to me, so I guess, I will go on doing just as I feel like it :-) And others will go on correcting as they feel like it too :-) Thanks for answering. Anthere
Egil, about the comment in Wikipedia talk:Timeline standards that I deleted: Yes, I wrote that in haste, & am sorry I did so. That is why I deleted it. And no, it is not a threat; I have no personal contacts with any of the people I mentioned in that comment. But your pre-emptive act of moving the cutoff forward to 500 BC -- instead of 600 BC -- made me angry. In effect, you used one of my objections as an excuse to push your campaign to consolidate entries even further.
I hope you will bear this in mind. --Uncle Ed 14:06 Apr 15, 2003 (UTC)
I refer to Rogaland article
Dod1 07:29 Apr 24, 2003 (UTC) Please write articles before creating empty pages containing nothing but pictures. -- Zoe Maybe not articles, but one line stubs would be nice. :) --mav What is your email? Like a Virgin Zoe is a professional editor and a very competent one. In the beginning I mistook this competence for an over-zealous agenda myself. And I was completely wrong and I deeply regret that. It was my fault that she was targeting my work. I was being argumentative and over-defensive when people questioned my contributions, not being accustomed with the line of questioning, only really being used to answering questions from people who shared my areas of expertise. My means of addressing criticism, which was often based on misjudgments (my fault too for contributing to very controversial articles when I was a new user), was very inappropriate. I thought that I could tell her to look at a history text, for instance, when she questioned a title to a page that I had started on New Imperialism, since she wasn't familiar with this term in reference to the aggressive nationalism and imperialism from the Franco-Prussian War to the Great War. If I had answered her questions professionally a lot of trouble would have been averted. So even if Zoe has come to an incorrect conclusion on something that doesn't pertain to her areas of expertise (professional editors aren't all-knowing), her questions are usually the questions that a conscientious, astute non-expert would come to when an argument isn't clear and convincing enough. Thus, don't mistake her competence for spitefulness. Answer her questions deliberately, clearly, and politely and the content that you had contributed will be greatly improved (in terms of readability, clarity, and objectivity). Avoid my mistakes. 172 Egil, I think your "photo-stub" articles are fine. Don't worry if someone calls for their deletion; some people simply don't like stubs at all. -- Stephen Gilbert 14:37 Apr 26, 2003 (UTC) I tried to get a map of Sandnes's neighborhood in MapQuest and did not find this town (in Rogaland county)
Hello. Thanks for sorting out those names on U.S. list of most wanted Iraqis this morning, and making all those redirects. I thought about trying to sort out what the names should be myself, but it seemed too daunting! Names in Arabic-speaking countries seem to be transliterated in so many different ways that I never know what to do with them... -- Oliver P. 22:08 May 3, 2003 (UTC) Are you purposely following me around and changing things I have contributed just for the sake of changing them because I contributed them? -- Zoe
Call me a racist again and there will be some serious trouble. This is not acceptable behavior here, or in any other public forum. You are grossly mistaken. Apologise and retract, and I will take the matter no further. Tannin 13:59 May 5, 2003 (UTC)
Then you should read more carefully. Your edit summary of an hour or two ago was entirely unacceptable. I have no wish to make an enemy of you, Egil, but I will not tolerate having my views so grossly misrepreseted, by you, or by anyone else. The above is another example. You should learn to distinguish between people who report on historical attitudes on the one hand, and people who hold those attitudes on the other - it really isn't terribly difficult. Next time you write in an article or on a talk page that, for example, Hitler thought Jews were subhuman (which he undoubtedly did), shall I then seize on this as evidence that you yourself are anti-Semetic? That's what you just did to me, and I will not accept that slander. Tannin Hi, Bø is an orphan. could you find some articles to point to it? :) Kingturtle 06:07 May 14, 2003 (UTC)
hi there! just got a question about the Image:Cable Ferry.jpg , theres a big discussion about copyrights on the german wikipedia, i want to know if the picture is really FREE for use (GNU-FDL) and who's the contributor.. since you've been uploading it i adress this to you. (I'm currently working on de:Fähre thanks! -- pit 15:07 4 Jun 2003 (UTC)
Left a note at Talk:Alta, you may want to look.. -- hike395 05:16 11 Jun 2003 (UTC) Hi, at Talk:Push printing you say that push developing causes more grain in the film, yet from the examples I have at push printing, which were push printed (not push developed), there is much more apparent grain in the pushed version. I'm wondering if you misspoke or if, as usual, I'm misunderstanding something. Perhaps there's another explanation for it? Koyaanis Qatsi 16:57 22 Jun 2003 (UTC) Hi Egil I am looking for a program to load a mass of articles (batch load) to Wiki. If you're around again soon, please see Talk:Orders of magnitude. -- John Owens 18:45, 2003 Oct 25 (UTC) These days, it seems I only get time for an occasional visit. Which subject were you thinking of? (PS: I can be reached by email: egil at kvaleberg.no) -- Egil 13:31, 29 Oct 2003 (UTC) Hi, I added your name to Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Norway; hope it's OK. If not, I guess you're capable of fixing it :-) I see that you've taken the initiative to move the bicycle repair pages to wikibooks. If the original wikipedia pages are going to be deleted, can you copy and paste the "page history" information onto the talk page of the relevent wikibook page. This way information about who is the original author of the pages is preserved. Thanks, and good work. Maximus Rex 22:31, 4 Jan 2004 (UTC)
Numbers ProjectI'd like to ask you to sign on to the project Wikipedia:WikiProject_Numbers. I recognize your great work on the numbers 1 - 20 and the great precedent you set with these fascinating articles. PrimeFan 19:07, 10 Jan 2004 (UTC) SARJust a note that you are linking to SAR on your sandbox page. The link you want is to Saudi riyal. --Dante Alighieri | Talk 21:01, 2 Mar 2004 (UTC) Hi Egil can you have a look to Talk:Distortion caused by the camera lens. Thanks. Ericd 19:22, 7 Mar 2004 (UTC) Centuries and MillenniaJust FYI (since I saw that you created most of the redirects I just corrected), the 1st century BC was from 100 BC through 1 BC (there was no year 0 BC). Similarly, the 1st millennium was from 1000 BC through 1 BC. So 100 BC is the first year of the 1st century BC (not the last year of the 2nd century BC), 200 BC is the first year of the 2nd century BC, etc. I fixed all the redirects for those years to point to the appropriate century/millenium. I'm going to go make a note of this on Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers) since this is a common mistake. Cheers! --Wclark 03:16, 2004 Jul 21 (UTC) BarrelYou have a link to barrel on User:Egil/Sandbox and it should probably point to barrel (unit). Barrel is a disambiguation page that I just finished disambiguating. But I don't mess with user pages. Just thought you might like to know. Kevin Rector 19:35, Jul 21, 2004 (UTC) 1 E-# J pagesThe information on "your" pages 1 E-23 J through 1 E48 J should probably be consolidated onto one page to make it more useful for readers. At the very least, the individual pages should be placed into an appropriate Wikipedia:Category so people can see all the possible pages and move among them "at random". (To accomplish this you would add, for example, "[[Category:Energies in Joules]]" to the source of each each page and then edit the "Category:Energies in Joules" page and add, say, "[[Category:Energy]]" to it.) I think just putting all the info on one page is the better solution, though. - dcljr 22:46, 23 Aug 2004 (UTC) Article LicensingHi, I've started the Free the Rambot Articles Project which has the goals of getting users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to...
using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) version 1.0 and 2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to the GFDL (which every contribution made to Wikipedia is licensed under), but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles (See the Multi-licensing Guide for more information). Since you are among the top 1000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. So far over 90% of people who have responded have done this.
To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the {{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}} template (or {{MultiLicensePD}} for public domain) into their user page, but there are other templates for other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:
OR
Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace {{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}} with {{MultiLicensePD}}. If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know at my talk page what you think. It's important to know, even if you choose to do anything so I don't keep asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk) 14:18, Dec 3, 2004 (UTC) "Move" featureI didn't see this here so I thought I'd add it...I'm pretty sure it moves the history for you. I know it will also move the talk page and create the appropriate redirects automatically. It will not change links to the old title, which it seems nobody did here either. Brianjd 07:48, 2005 Jan 27 (UTC) Nordmøring?Hi there; based on your contributions I get a feeling that you might be a Nordmøring? (although you have also done stuff on other areas in the Kingdom). Am I right? I am one myself, you see (not too difficult to deduce, perhaps, given my WKP-activities) -- from "Baill", if you know what I mean. :-) --Wernher 10:54, 1 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Landscapes of NorwayI left a note for you over at the landscape-category-thing :) -BsL- New Mathematics WikiportalI noticed you've done some work on Mathematics articles. I wanted to point out to you the new Mathematics Wikiportal- more specifically, to the Mathematics Collaboration of the Week page. I'm looking for any math-related stubs or non-existant articles that you would like to see on Wikipedia. Additionally, I wondered if you'd be willing to help out on some of the Collaboration of the Week pages. I encourage you to vote on the current Collaboration of the Week, because I'm very interested in which articles you think need to be written or added to, and because I understand that I cannot do the enormous amount of work required on some of the Math stubs alone. I'm asking for your help, and also your critiques on the way the portal is set up. Please direct all comments to my user-talk page, the Math Wikiportal talk page, or the Math Collaboration of the Week talk page. Thanks a lot for your support! ral315 02:54, Feb 11, 2005 (UTC) Coordinates templatesThanks for your inspired work on this. It's one of the neatest wiki-things I've seen in a good long while. –Hajor 16:10, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for the invitation. I've put it on my Watchlist and I'll (strive to) remember to include the templates in any future geographical articles that go through my hands. –Hajor 17:01, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC) Bug?Hi, there. I don't know whether this is an issue with the "dm" implementation or with the conversion over to the external site, but please take a look at La Piedad, where I've added 20°20′N 102°01′W / 20.333°N 102.017°W. That gets reported over on the Map Sources page as "20° 20″ 1200′ N 102° 1″ 60′ W". Is this an issue, or (quite possibly) am I doing something wrong? Best, –Hajor 01:47, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Stavanger Hi Egil, on the 11 of february I added a little thing to the history of Stavanger, on the nato joint warfare center and statoils headquarters and Forus og Gausel idrettslag. You removed the whole thing saying that it was not relevant. I DO understand that you think that the information on forus og gausel idrettslag isn't relevant, and I totally accept that you erased it. I also am new to the whole wikipediaconsept so i understand that the information on statoil and the joint warfare center at forus maybee weren't written according to wikipedia standards. Now that i have stated this, I wish to question your opinion that information on norway biggest oil company and the Nato joint warfare center and what impact it has had on the forus and stavanger area are not relevant when it comes to a general article on Stavanger. I would like to have your opinion on this. I have investigated your relentless work on wikipedia, and you have written many interesting article and stayed true to the wikipedia spirit. Thats why I want to throw you a challenge. I challenge you to incorporate information on the Nato joint warfare center and Statoil in the Stavanger article, according to your principles OR explain to me touroughly why it is irrelevant in this context. This might be a frivoulous claim but it might seem that your reluctance to include information on the forementioned points might be fueled by a ideological agenda, taking a far left stand on capitalism on the Statoil issue, while beeing opposed to norwegian Nato membership og Nato joint warfare center-issue by not wanting to let information on these being published, should this. To take this slandering question further, this might lead me to think that you are among the ranks of the Akp (ml) movement. This would maybee explain you blatant revisionism on this particular issue Reading several of your articles, I has come to my attention that your style of writing reminds me om a Stavanger Aftenblad journalist called Svein EGIL Omdal. Is that name identical with yours? If it isn't I would like to say that it is meant as a compliment as he is one of the most trenchant journalists in norway, and maybee the world. Yours respectfully Henrik
geolinksHey, I noticed you added a link to the external coordinate special page in geolinks (streetscale at least). I'd prefer not to do this; like I mentioned at the wikiproject talk, I see te geolinks template as a more selective resource. The idea is that we point people to what we consider the *best* resources for various types of information. Your effort on the coordinate special page is really nice, but I think we should keep these ideas separate for now. --Chinasaur 03:23, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC) Also to answer your question, 100000 was way too big to match the "streetscale" template. That was closer to countyscale. --Chinasaur 03:28, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC) If you want, we could use your template in the header to geolinks. Essentially make the header "Maps and aerial photos for {{coor|etc|etc}}". I'm not crazy about it, but it might help draw attention to your efforts assuming people even notice the geolinks section at the bottom of the city pages... --Chinasaur 03:28, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC) your bot adding towns in norway etcNice work, but it seems the bot is adding an extra \n that shows up in the articles. Just a simple bug, I guess, and maybe you've allready noticed it. Shanes 23:18, 27 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Nobot questionsHi, I'm mostly involved with the Norsk (Nynorsk) version of Wikipedia, but I'm watching a few pages close to me Herøy, Møre og Romsdal, Midtre Gauldal and noticed Nobot (Norbot?). I wondered were you're getting the numbers. The area of Herøy is obviously a contested value, Nobot's is the fourth I've seen the last week. I'm currently leaning to SSB, which states the number as 120 square kilometers. My local newspaper also showed that the population numbers for January 1st 2005 were out, although SSB isn't updated according to it. PS Seems like you're doing a great job. Larsivi 13:40, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC)
GeocodesHi Egil, thx for your note. see Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Norway for a short answer. regards Tobias Conradi 08:56, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC) Worldwind layerYou can make text appear in your wiki layer by adding "TiledPlacenameSet" tags, I think. You have to have a separate list of placenames, and they seem to be in a non trivial file format. Download the "World Heritage Site" addon to see how this is done. I don't really know the details. Oh and that package may well also help you with categorization. There are a ridiculous number of World Heitage Sets, but by grouping things into TiledPlacementSet, it enables you to just display one country. You should perhaps also increase the "DistanceAboveSurface". When you zoom in on Wikipedia links at a high altitude, (say the one in the middle of the Sierra Nevada), it gets hard to work out what the point is actually pointing to. Oh and as the point density increases, it might be better to go for a smaller, less obtrusive icon. The World Heritage Site addon uses a 12x12 one which is perfectly clickable on. I'm having a "fiddle" now, so I'll post it here if i get anywhere.
Coat of armsI tried leaving a message at the site, but for some reason the webpage didn't work. Thanks for taking the trouble to do this. I have already downloaded and converted all the files (I used a batch graphics conversion shareware that dealt with the transparency issue very nicely) and am in the middle of uploading. I'm happy to put the uploading off until you come up with a way to automate it; then I can send the remaining files to you in a zip file or something. Otherwise, the uploading is kind of mindless work that I do while watching TV or sitting on endless teleconferences (80% of my job). --Leifern 16:29, 2005 Mar 6 (UTC)
Map coordinatesHi, I already have written a feature that can detect geographical coordinates in wiki texts and link to a special page insede the wiki. The code is in MediaWiki already; try it by setting "$wgUseGeoMode = true ;" in your "LocalSettings.php". Then type something like
into a wikitext (this is actually the notation from the RamBot automated towns-in-the-US entries). It will create a link to the Special Page, which right now only links to MapQuest. That Special Page (includes/SpecialGeo.php) could well profit from your code. Also, I think the ability to "backlink" to wikipedia is an avenue worth exploring. --Magnus Manske 08:39, Mar 8, 2005 (UTC)
Some experiences and visions I have had in my work is:
-- Egil 09:10, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC) I would very much like to merge our different attempts. Mine is, granted, a "dirty hack", but one that would work instantly; when I wrote this, there was no template system... A simple way to merge them would be to put your "Special:Map sources" into the SpecialGeo.php file in CVS. We could cover the Rambot pages with $wgUseGeoMode enabeled, without having to bot-edit them (there are ~30000 Rambot pages...). Then, just change the Coor template to SpecialGeo as well. You might also want to have a look at my WikiMaps project [4], preferably with a SVG-enabeled browser. --Magnus Manske 12:51, Mar 8, 2005 (UTC)
More about that on your user page... -- Egil 17:44, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC) I'll try to answer all that here... :-) I fully agree that the coordinate is not enough for a decent map display, and that a regexp is not good enough for a decent, stable system of "points of interest". What I wanted to say was: Hey, we have all these data in the Rambot pages right now, and that's all we have. So: Catch those with the (existing) regexp and redirect them to a Special Page, while at the same time using a template (or a set of templates) to access the very same Special Page. For cases without a scaling factor, use a dummy (e.g., one that would fit a big city and its surroundings). As for the location-to-page function, why not make a table in the database, and fill it with information each time the Special Page is invoked? That would strike me as the easiest way to set up an initial coordinate-page-relation, and much easier than tampering with the parser. Both regexp and template(s) would have to relay the "calling article" to the Special Page for this to work. Shouldn't be a problem. As for my wikimaps project, that's about the stage where your setup is - basically, the first version that produces usable output :-) You're right about the (-)(D)DDMMSS format. I believe you can see it in the South America map, ugly as it is. Fractions of a second could be allowed; after all, it is just text parsing each time. Choosing a map view based on coordinates is not part of the function, as it would complicate my treelike data structure too much; also, telling it to draw "Germany" is easier on the average article editor than handling coordinate sets :-) I haven't decided on all keywords yet, mainly because I've been the only one working on it, and I'm trying to handle a dozen projects at once and never have enough time... If you like, you can see the source in the MediaWiki CVS, module "extensions". Be forewarned, though, that several developers have reported temporary loss of eyesight after looking at my code for too long ;-) --Magnus Manske 20:22, Mar 8, 2005 (UTC)
Hi Egil, Just letting you know Image:Haakon VII.jpg has been listed for deletion. dbenbenn | talk 16:28, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Talk: Ancient weights and measuresHi Egil, I replied you, tardy, at Talk:Ancient_weights_and_measures about two weeks ago. Perhaps you didn't see it. On an other topo: Like you are Norvegian and interesting in geography. The meridian 11°15' East of Greenwich, crossing the inner-city of Florence (Italy) and also Norway. [Insertion: where it discribes a line Rørvik at Vikna (exactly one) to Eidsvoll (a few kms west of). Do you live, finally, in the western or in the eastern hemisphere? Me, I live, since more than 20 years, next to 2° 23.5' East, 48° 52.5' North, but I growed up in the small village of the point of confluence 8° East and 48° North of Greenwich.] But coming back, the meridian 11° 15' East is a very important meridian. Since it is just in the opposite of the Bering Strait. It will have a "great future" in a new universal base sixteen system of weights and measures. Ten fingers, that's right. But also: "Two thumbs and eight other fingers." Eight twice equal sixteen! Please have a look to the animated Gif-map (four world-maps changing every 10 seconds, after compleleted onload) at this external link. If you want you can give me your opinion on my talk page. But the discussion about "Ancient weights and measures", at present, is more urgent. Have a good day, -- Paul Martin 16:14, 17 Mar 2005 (UTC) PS. The name of the discussion chapter is a quite opprobrious and invective. I propose you to remame it: "The Nippur ell and its relationships to other measures." If I don't hear of your opposition, I will proceed so, my-self, occasionally. Your chosen title: "When did Erich von Däniken start editing?" will rest in history. No hard feelings. Mount BakerHi, Egil. The change over at Mount Baker was an experiment to show that the coor template could, indeed, be split over two pseudo-boxes. This arose from the discussion at Wikipedia Talk:WikiProject Mountains#Conversion of coordinates to Template:Coor. Perhaps it was bad of me to leave a real article in a odd state --- it was just part of the discussion. I'm not fanatical about latitude and longitude, per se. My main concern was that the format of the one-line "coordinate" depends on the whims of the HTML layout engine in whatever browser people are using. If the first column is too wide, the "XX.YY″ W" will get split onto the next line. Fixing the width of the first column to 90 should fix this problem. -- hike395 15:07, 20 Mar 2005 (UTC) Norwegian coats of armsHi Egil. I've objected to a few of your listings at WP:IFD. The main problem I've found is that the coats of arms you've uploaded to the Commons, for example Commons:Image:Buskerud vapen.png, don't have copyright tags. Cheers, dbenbenn | talk 20:51, 25 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Moon craters and latitude and longitudeYou are probably aware of all of these links, but just in case: See:
Beware that longitude conventions may vary (0-180 E and 0-180 W, or 0-360 E, or 0-360 W). For instance, with the Clementine images, 14E needs to be supplied as -14 (or 346), not 14. In practice, with the online maps currently available (Clementine and Orbiter) it doesn't make much sense to provide coord links for lettered craters like Aristoteles D, M, N. The resulting images available don't even label these smaller craters. For the Lunar Orbiter site, it's hit or miss if the resulting images even show the main crater Aristoteles itself (two out of the four images don't). The Lunar Orbiter site allows lookup by Feature name, so it's better to use links like http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/lunar_orbiter/bin/srch_nam.shtml?Aristoteles%7C0 for this... at least we're sure that each image actually shows Aristoteles. For the Clementine site, it does show Aristoteles (if you correct the "14" to "-14"), but again doesn't label the smaller lettered craters. Also, JPL Photojournal allows lookup by feature name:
But coverage is very spotty. It's an idea to keep in mind if we can find better, more fine-detailed images. But even there, lookup by feature name (if available) might outperform lookup by longitude/latitude. -- Curps 20:54, 25 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Geo coordinatesIts you that started this project! Absolutely fantastic concerning coordinates on the Earth! Well, your experiments on the Moon maps are good themselves, but the online sources are scanty at the present. I didn't find better ones neither for the Moon nor for the entire sky (in contrast, the downloadable maps are in plenty). I personally think, that first general zoomable in and out map should be presented to realize, where the object is located (I didn't find online resources for this at all). And only after that the "image resources" should go (there are few of them, but they either require something additional or are without "global zoom in/out" feature). So, in short, your work is excellent, but the web is not yet prepared for the realization of some ideas. Cmapm 12:38, 26 Mar 2005 (UTC)
More on WP and World WindWhere are the details of this project? It lopoks fantaaastic. A friend of mine is really into map annotation, and I'm trying to hook him on Wikipedia... I'll try to put you all in touch. +sj + 00:53, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC) Pillar versus PrillarSince one finds both Pillar Guri and Prillar Guri sprinkled around the web, and since my common references like Knut Gjerset's 'History of the Norwegian People' from use Pillar Guri, I find myself confused or bemused. Is this an example of Nynorsk verus Bokmal? Or a long standing confusion in term? (Williamborg 19:25, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC))
This image, uploaded by you, has been listed at Wikipedia:Copyright problems (March 29). Please leave any comments you have there. Thuresson 15:03, 29 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Stig Olai KapskarmoThe article has been listed on VfD three times and each time it was kept. The community has clearly decided it is a worthy article and it should thus be treated like any other page. If you strongly feel it should be expunged the only route is to again list it on VfD. - SimonP 15:35, Mar 29, 2005 (UTC)
Why do you call them Landscapes?Are you sure that Landscape is the proper translation for landskap? The Swedes use the translation historical province.--Wiglaf 18:06, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Old Norse and Modern IcelandicAre you sure that Old Norse is best represented by Modern Icelandic? I see that you consistently use the nominative ending -ur instead of Old Norse -r.--Wiglaf 08:48, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Copyright or not - Norwegian Municipal Coats of ArmsSomebody has started tagging all the Norwegian Municipal Coats of Arms on Commons for deletion due to unknown copyright status. What should we do? Do we have some reference to show about their status as public domain? BjarteSorensen 02:26, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)
RedlinksHi there! Regarding recent VfD discussions - if you see a list with superfluous redlinks, you can simply be bold and unlink those words. Yours, Radiant_* 14:56, Apr 6, 2005 (UTC)
Just checking inWanted to let you know we made some changes to geolinks templates that you might want to incorporate into your special page. We changed Terraserver-USA from their sample maps to the normal page, which seems to give better results and will automatically use the color photo if it's available. We also put in the google aerial photo resource, which has color photos for some of the regions that terraserver-usa only has black and white. I don't know if it covers out of US; that would be sweet. Really cool work on the worldwind layers. How is that coded; you screenscrape the values from the wikipedia articles, save them to XML and then use that for the layer? --Chinasaur 08:56, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC) Old NorseHi Egil, since you're interested in this period, you might want to contribute to this discussion: Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Old Norse, dates and subgroups)--Wiglaf 07:16, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC) TranswikificationThere are some steps to the transwikification process that you've skipped. In particular:
Also note that it's best if the initial edit summary contains a hyperlink to the exact source article. See the edit histories of Wikibooks:Constructing school science lab equipment and of its talk page for examples. Thank you for dealing with the images, by the way. Uncle G 13:04, 2005 Apr 21 (UTC) Regarding Votes for deletion/Øystein Runde: There were four delete votes (I would count Rl as a delete). There were one abstain. The only keep was from the author of the article himself. How can that possibly be interpreted as no consensus? -- Egil 20:28, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)
can you please clarify what part of wikibooks you think this is suitable for and why you think it should be moved there. Plugwash 21:33, 8 May 2005 (UTC)
Need your opinionWould you mind voting on this issue? Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/German military occupation of Norway during World War II--Leifern 19:16, May 16, 2005 (UTC) StubsThanks for adding the Bergenshus article. As part of Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting, I have replaced the generalized {{stub}} tag with {{Euro-struct-stub}}. When you create new articles, it would be great if you could use these more specific tags whenever possible. Thanks, and continue contributing to Wikipedia! Russ Blau (talk) 09:23, May 24, 2005 (UTC) Oil fields and geographyI was wondering why oil fields and specifically Norwegian oilfields belong in their respective geography categories? I can see the link between oilfields and geography in some respects (many oilfields are named after geographical landmarks), but I think this categorization is pushing things a little far. --Csnewton 22:47, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC) Antarctic krillhallo Egil! can you please take a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_article_candidates#Antarctic_krill maybe help with some editing / formatting / vote - best greetings to fine Norwegen - we come originally from Germany, spent time often in Beito, Lillehammer (miss Europa a lot) Uwe Kils 20:48, Jun 13, 2005 (UTC) lots of edits, not an adminHi - I made a list of users who've been around long enough to have made lots of edits but aren't admins. If you're at all interested in becoming an admin, can you please add an '*' immediately before your name in this list? I've suggested folks nominating someone might want to puruse this list. Thanks. -- Rick Block (talk) 18:19, Jun 14, 2005 (UTC) Oslo metroHello Egil, Oslo boroughsThank you, and yes, I might do the same for the other boroughs if I can find the time. Meanwhile, the links are there for anyone to use. As for your invitation, I appreciate that, but this is not really the area I want to focus on primarily in the future. Eixo 28 June 2005 20:14 (UTC) Help request...Hi from Sweden! Could you help me with setting up a bot doing basically what your NoBot does? I have dowloaded the python program, the bot program -- what would I do now? And why does the "test.py" tell me I use the wrong character set? --Fred-Chess July 2, 2005 16:47 (UTC) coorPlease see whta User:Netoholic has done to that templates that call coor. And tell him to revert everything. -- RHaworth 20:22, 2005 July 9 (UTC)
Craigy Unused coor templatesSome time ago we deleted similar variants of template:coor dm. Do you mind if I do the same or shall we suggest the general use of the above (I just removed them from the only two articles using them)? -- User:Docu
Hi Egil, sorry and thanks for the info. Since I have got a Borresen Knarr and knew that they build it for 4 or 5 decades I didn't check, but I don't think that a German boatyard is building them now. --Kresspahl 15:32, 21 July 2005 (UTC)
Standards of MeasureI would suggest that mediation would be an appropriate route for this dispute to take at this point. I'm mostly neutral on the subject matter; I will admit that I'm not enough of an expert to determine the scientific validity of the articles in question. I frankly have voted to delete them on two bases. First, that it has the ring of original research in terms of tone, and where I could find a reference to check the information wasn't matching up. Second, the articles have everything (data, exposition, references) so blended together that I can't see where any potentially useful information might really be. I feel that the current dispute is doing nobody any good, and I don't believe that the dispute is going to be resolved through simple discussion between the disputants. If you agree, please respond to my talk page. Ken 02:34, August 9, 2005 (UTC) Well, as regards mediation, you submit a request (if both parties agree, something I'm not getting from rktect thus far), select a mediator that both parties agree on, and the mediator acts as a go between to help resolve the conflict. That's the short version. In the short term, I would suggest that you declare a truce. Nobody does any further work on the articles in the main namespace and nobody makes any more comments about the dispute in the VfD discussions or on talk pages. In the meantime, both parties need to read up on dispute resolution, mediation, and arbitration. I'm willing to continue acting as a go-between until a mediator is selected. I doubt I would be acceptable to Rktect as a mediator on several counts, but if you are both willing, I am too. Ken 14:24, August 9, 2005 (UTC) Mediation requestedI've made a request for mediation on behalf of you and Rktect. A mediator will doubtless volunteer to take the case eventually; in the meantime it would be useful if you would go there and agree in person to mediation. As you probably know, you should not add a defense of your position in that location; that will be part of the mediation process. Just go there and agree, or not. Ken 17:44, August 9, 2005 (UTC) MediationHello, Ken has suggested that I mediate the recent conflict between you and Rktect. Does this sound acceptable? If so, if and when I get the ok from Rktect, we can take this to email. --Improv 03:15, 11 August 2005 (UTC)
Never mind, you didn't add it, and it was done before anyone (other than me) voted. Sorry for the confusion. Ken talk|contribs 12:45, August 13, 2005 (UTC) Hi Egil, I left a comment on this discussion page. Maybe you'r the only one who could give a correct answer. I would be very glad. Thanks --Ikiwaner 12:28, 19 August 2005 (UTC) Votes for undeletionSee Wikipedia:Votes for undeletion, where Rktect has claimed that several articles were deleted by you, rather than through the VfD process as most or all of them were. Gene Nygaard 04:18, 22 August 2005 (UTC) What I claimed was that Egil began marking pages for deletion, removing content and reverting based on his own speculations rather than any demonstrable facts. Egil was estoppled by mediation from acting in person. When he continued through his agents (people whom he contacted and suggested take actions which they subsequently took) that was an action which the rules of Wikipedia don't view favorably. The vfd process is not supposed to be compromised by a conspiracy of people who act together to dominate the vote. Its further compromised when a group of people acting in concert vote for deletion on the stated grounds of poor formating and original research but delete references and wikification and revert articles so that they can't put their best face forward. In other words, to put it bluntly, your actions as a group don't reflect well on Wikipedia. Other readers shouldn't be deprived of interesting and informative articles because you as a group lack the background to evaluate the data properly and conspire to vandalize it. Rktect 14:09, August 22, 2005 (UTC) Hi, did you notice the error report for the map sources service at http://kvaleberg.com/wiki/index.php/Wiki_talk:Map_sources? For example try the two Mapquest links at http://kvaleberg.com/extensions/mapsources/?params=25_20_40_S_131_2_0_E - you will get a different position for the decimal coordinates link. --Fuzzy Logic 22:07, 22 August 2005 (UTC) Rktect has complained that the dispute discussion on Talk:Sos refers to your articles under attack article, but that this article doesn't reference the Sos article. Please can you either extend your attack article to cover this, or remove your dispute tag. Many thanks, Ian Cairns 01:16, 28 August 2005 (UTC) Replied on my talk page. Ken talk|contribs 18:21, August 28, 2005 (UTC) Request for ArbitrationIs there any particular reason you jumped straight to an RfA in your dispute with Rktect without first trying a request for comment, or mediation? Or did you in fact try those dispute resolution steps, and I just missed them? --Nandesuka 12:04, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
rktect arbitrationYou said: but you are both doing to have to show some evidence I tried to limit my statement to 500 words, as indicated. On my account, in what area do you want to see more evidence? And exactly where should it be placed? -- Egil 20:57, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
I will be looking at edits made by rktect and wondering what the source of the information he adds to Wikipedia is, requesting the source from him and asking you to demonstrate that he has placed information which is unsourced into Wikipedia. Specific examples, edits, responses to requests for sources, etc. My impression is that he simple provides a laundry list of references but does not point to specific language in any of them, but that is just an initial impression. Fred Bauder 14:19, August 30, 2005 (UTC)
Historical atlasHi Egil, Magnus Manske reverted me to you, because you are the new leader of the wikimap project. I'm studying history and i know a lot about historical atlases, see [6]. Could i be of any assistence?--Daanschr 09:35, 31 August 2005 (UTC) Daan
I would like to help you with the project when it starts again. --Daanschr 14:07, 14 September 2005 (UTC) email exchangesEgil, unless you object, I will be providing our full exchange of emails as part of my evidence. I will, of course, redact actual email addresses. If you object, I will note that instead. Ken talk|contribs 02:09, September 2, 2005 (UTC)
MyliosFYI, I've received confirmation from the managers of the nycotels.com website that the page containing the word mylios is, indeed, Lithuanian. Ken talk|contribs 14:58, September 3, 2005 (UTC) Wikiproject Norway absolutismRe your comments on my edits to the article on the River Nams: There are at least 199 mentions on the web of the River Årgård / Årgård River. Would you subscribe to calling the River Thames "Riverthemselven"? Whoever "we" may be in Wikiproject Norway, "we"/you have no right to dictate English-language usage. -- Picapica 15:55, 10 September 2005 (UTC)
Who are talking about the River Thames at all?
BotExactly what bot did you register? --AllyUnion (talk) 06:05, 11 September 2005 (UTC)
Rktect=Now that the RfAr backlog is being dealt with, they should get to the rktect case and the case about Ultramarine. I wish you luck, but I'm not sure I can help. I find rktect's edits unreadable and implausible presentations of one theory as Truth; but none of that is against policy (or even uncommon). Septentrionalis 02:21, 15 September 2005 (UTC) Google-Earth integrationHello Egil, Sorry for my bad english, I'm from germany. I integrated a Google-Earth-Link in our page (see also de:Wikipedia_Diskussion:WikiProjekt_Georeferenzierung#Google-Earth_Integration. Two points: First,I only have a cheap internet-provider. Can I give you sometimes my little PHP-Code? Second, google-Earth save and show the linkname, would it be possible to give your site the Wikipedia-Variable {{PAGENAMEE}} or to use <?php echo $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']; ?> and get then the Variable {pagename} with the name of the place. The rest I can do in my skript. de:Benutzer:kolossos 08:32, 21 September 2005 (UTC)
Danke, dann also das ganze auf deutsch:
Wir benutzen doch in der Wikipedia ein Template (zu deutsch eine Vorlage), dieses könnte um die Variable {{PAGENAME}} ergänzt werden um damit dein Skript aufzurufen. Beispiel: Wenn man vom Artikel Berlin auf deine Seite geht würde man die Variable place=Berlin übergeben. Und dein Skript könnte die Variable dann an mein Skript weitergeben. Und ich könnte es an Google Earth weitergeben. Die angesprochene $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] Lösung erscheint mir jetzt selbst zu unsicher um das obige Problem zu lösen. Ist aber vielleicht auch nicht so wichtig.
Antworten kannst du gerne auf Englisch. de:Benutzer:kolossos 18:24, 23 September 2005 (UTC) Arbitration acceptedWikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Rktect has been accepted. Please place evidence at Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Rktect/Evidence. Fred Bauder 22:12, 21 September 2005 (UTC) I have copied your evidence to the evidence page. It seems to be well organized and useful. Fred Bauder 12:27, 22 September 2005 (UTC) new toolserverHi, I have no idea if the excellent kvaleberg map resource servuce qualifies for inclusion, but I added your name to a list of people to invite on http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Toolserver - in case you're interested, you might want to have a look. Again: I am not affiliated with that project and don't know the exact rules. --62.214.224.179 19:54, 29 September 2005 (UTC)
Image:Slr-cross-section.png excellent?Hi Egil, I found out that this image is used at least in 9 languages. It's now candidate for an excellent picture at commons: commons:Commons:Featured pictures candidates --Ikiwaner 16:00, 1 October 2005 (UTC) SVG avilable?A user mentionned that we'd better provide a SVG file. Could you maybe convert your image? Thanks in advance --212.254.170.238 22:17, 2 October 2005 (UTC) Bug converting seconds south to decimal degrees?Hi Egil. The coordinates 34°55′16″S 138°35′44″E / 34.92111°S 138.59556°E seem to be getting miscalculated to decimal degrees at the website. The coordinates in the table are shown as -34.928889, 138.595556. If the S is changed to N, the result is 34.921111, 138.595556 which I think is the correct number. --Scott Davis Talk 08:18, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
Thankyou. The dot is where it should be now :-) Keep up the good work. --Scott Davis Talk 23:31, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
Congratulations! Raven4x4x 08:59, 10 October 2005 (UTC) 210210 is
, in my opinion. Just considering the mathematical aspects, that's at least four things that are interesting about 210. I say it merits its own article. Anton Mravcek 21:53, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
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