User talk:RedWolf

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Himalayas

Please please please, tell me you have some good Himalayan pics that you can add to articles. We have plenty of Europe and US mountain pictures, but almost nothing in Asia. Stan 07:04, 3 Nov 2003 (UTC)

image uploading is disabled, so this is a bit academic ... mfc 21:33, 3 Jan 2004 (UTC)

I do have some nice pictures of Everest, Lhotse, Nuptse, Ama Dablam, Cholatse, Pumori, Imja Tse. However, I'm not sure yet if I want them to be put under GFDL. -- RedWolf, Nov 7/03 12:10am

There's little reason not to license them unless you're planning to make a living by selling copies of the pictures, and your income would be cut into by having copies available on the net. GFDL is just a license that permits use by WP and downstream publications, while you retain copyright and ownership and credit. In fact, WP is a great way to get a large audience for the photos; its traffic is comparable to Britannica Online now, and growing. I figure that at some point, photographers are going to be contributing pics just to get some greater visibility for their work! Stan 06:26, 7 Nov 2003 (UTC)

What I've done is only put tiny (300 pixel wide) photos under the GFDL. I figure no harm done --- small photos like that have no commercial value. -- hike395 05:17, 26 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Good idea, I might just do that. RedWolf 00:12, Dec 14, 2003 (UTC)

Image deletion

The image you uploaded was listed on Wikipedia:Possible copyright infringements on March 2nd. The image text indicated that you were the copyright owner and agreed to the GFDL but you added text indicating further restrictions on the copyright that did not meet the requirements of GFDL. If you will remove those additional restrictions and release your image solely under the GFDL I will undelete the image or you can reupload it. Is that acceptable? - Texture 03:59, 10 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Kilimanjaro

Interested in climbing kili? Be sure to get a good guide. I climbed it in 1999 and had some trouble with a guide who didn't know the way (You need a guide by law to climb kili) I wrote up my story of it if youre interested: Kili Climbing Story Seabhcan 15:33, 20 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Hi. Interesting story of your climb. Sounds to me like that might have been the first time, not the 10th time for your "guide". We are considering the Machame or Rongai routes, the Marangu (Coca-cola route) was discarded a while back by us. I've done a lot of scrambling in my days and a bit of glacier travel. I'd give more consideration to some of the more demanding routes but the other person is not quite up to that. You sure didn't leave much time for acclimatization. I spent two nights in a tent at nearly 5100m in Nepal and while not easy I was comfortable after being above 4,000m for 9 days. RedWolf 04:10, Apr 24, 2004 (UTC)

Ya. The guide was a bit of a chancer allright. There is a problem with kili guides in that most of the best known guide companies are based in kenya but Tanzanian law forbids kenyans from guiding on Kili. The kenyan companies will find you a tanzanian guide, but you really have to trust them to trust him. Tanzanians can guide on mount kenya, however. The Machame and Rongai routes aren't (If I'm remembering right - its been a number of years) much more than tough hikes, and I didn't have experience of anything more technical at the time. Also, 5100m in Nepal is far more difficult than the same height at the equator. Its to do with the Coriolis effect - the atmosphere is thicker at the equator and so the percentage of oxygen at a particular height is more. Good luck with your trip - and dont eat the salad! Seabhcan 15:49, 25 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Greetings! Saw your Kilimanjaro post on the user page. I was just wondering if you've made any plant to this end, and had any ideas on the timeframe and such for the climb? I'm most definitely interested, sounds like it would be fun. Metlin 12:22, 30 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Hi. I would be looking either at the late January - February or late August - September timeframe for any attempt on Kili. I would do Mt. Kenya first for acclimitization although there's an alternate in Tanzania. RedWolf 05:13, Aug 31, 2004 (UTC)

Ahhh, I climbed the cola route in '98 and have been longing to go back. I would love to try Rongai. Next summer might be possible. +sj + 10:54, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Offline report update

Howdy. I noticed that you've updated Wikipedia:Offline reports/Is this really a stub? and wanted to ask if you used a Link Analysis Database, and if so did you experience any problems? I'd appreciate any feedback you have. - TB 10:48, Aug 6, 2004 (UTC)

Hi. Yes, I built a Link Analysis Database under Mac OS X. The database load took just over one hour and running the analysis script took about 2 hours I believe. Your comment say the analysis script takes 10 hours to run which makes me wonder a bit if I did everything correctly (I'm attributing it to faster system speed at the moment). The result count for the above report seemed to be comparable to what was there before. I just looked at the script run and noticed a few issues: extract_links.sql did not run. I guess I should re-run the analyze - what do you do to clear out the previous analyze run? Manually drop all the tables?

I didn't really run into any significant issues. I did write a quick C program to generate the extract scripts although I don't quite understand the deal with adjusting the "pos". One question I have is what do you do when you want to load a fresh database dump? Create a new database or just truncate/drop the existing tables? RedWolf 17:07, Aug 6, 2004 (UTC)

Glad to hear it worked - the script should take 1-2 hours to run on a modern PC, the 10 hours thing looked to me to be a bug in the MySQL optimiser, it was just plain refusing to use a perfectly good index. The 'pos' column is there to handle the lack of iterators (for, while, repeat etc) in MySQL 4.1 - a nasty hack that should vanish along with the need for the repetative 'extract_xxx.sql' scripts when version 5 arrives. To rebuild, I create a new database and start afresh each time. Any problems please do shout. - TB 18:54, Aug 6, 2004 (UTC)

Article Licensing

Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. 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. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:

• Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
• Multi-Licensing Guide
• Free the Rambot Articles Project

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

Option 1

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

OR

Option 2

I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to any [[U.S. state]], county, or city article as described below:

{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

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 what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. – Ram-Man ^{(comment) (talk)}[[]] 23:43, Dec 8, 2004 (UTC)

Trying to make a US Mountain Infobox template

.. at Template:Infobox US Mountains, but I am having absolutely no luck calling the template (test page at User talk:Hike395/Infobox US Mountains). It's quite late for me (local time), I'm probably missing something obvious. If you have a minute, could you check it? Thanks!! -- hike395 07:40, 30 Nov 2004 (UTC)

The last time I played with templates several months back, the only way I could get them to work properly is to either use a lot of "helper" templates to complete it, or change from wiki table syntax to HTML table syntax. Neither is ideal. Of the two evils, the latter is better IMHO. The template designers made a very poor decision in their choice of parameter delimiters (i.e. vertical bar) RedWolf 04:31, Dec 1, 2004 (UTC)

In August 2004, they fixed the "no vertical bar in template parameters" problem. I still can't seem to make it work, though. -- hike395 04:37, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Hi, again. I've proposed a (scaled back) version of a templatized US Mountain infobox at Wikipedia:WikiProject Mountains/General#Template to cover part of infobox.. What do you think? Suggestions & feedback are welcome. -- hike395

A possibly even better idea at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Mountains/General#Template_to_cover_part_of_infobox. Any comments or ideas? -- hike395

The Humungous Image Tagging Project

Hi. You've helped with the Wikipedia:WikiProject Wiki Syntax, so I thought it worth alerting you to the latest and greatest of Wikipedia fixing project, User:Yann/Untagged Images, which is seeking to put copyright tags on all of the untagged images. There are probably, oh, thirty thousand or so to do (he said, reaching into the air for a large figure). But hey: they're images ... you'll get to see lots of random pretty pictures. That must be better than looking for at at and the the, non? You know you'll love it. best wishes --Tagishsimon (talk)

Yes, I have had the page bookmarked for a while. I usually check images on pages I haven't seen before and tag them that way. Occasionally I look at the list and check a few but it's too tedious to stay with it for any stretch of time. RedWolf 05:05, Dec 16, 2004 (UTC)

Bot problems

African-American

RedWolf, please stop your bot. It is making improper corrections. See my points at Talk:Bankhead.
— Ford 00:49, 2005 Jan 2 (UTC)

It seems a number of people have issues with your bot, please stop operating it until they are all resolved. More discussion at Wikipedia talk:Bots#Issue with CanisRufus bot. -- Netoholic @ 18:52, 2005 Jan 2 (UTC)

:Image:Sykes-Picot bilevel work in progress.png

As the description says, this is a fair use image when used for the purpose given. Source information is also given, as is the fair use rationale. Jamesday 16:11, 13 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Natural features categories

Just wanted to say thanks for all the work you're doing on moving items around in the "X natural features" -> "Natural featurs of X" category changes that I initiated. It's much appreciated! Grutness|^hello? 07:55, 14 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Computer role-playing game categorization

Just curious.... I noticed you removed the CRPG categorization from a number of Final Fantasy pages (Final Fantasy II, Final Fantasy IV, etc.). I was just wondering why. -Seancdaug 11:42, Jan 14, 2005 (UTC)

Category:Final Fantasy is a subcategory of the CRPG category so having the FF articles in CRPG is redundant. RedWolf 17:11, Jan 14, 2005 (UTC)

Image:ShishaPangma.jpg

Sorry in my english, I'em User from polish Wikipedia. My problem is photo Image:ShishaPangma.jpg - what is license {PD} or not {PD}? Szumyk 13:49, 14 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Just saw your post today as you originally placed it after Himalayas above without a header. In any case, looks to be a copyright issue so it is now listed as a possible copyright violation. RedWolf 17:39, Jan 22, 2005 (UTC)

Geo-stubs

Hi RedWolf - I've been busy moving generic geo-stubs into their subcategories (Africa-geo-stub, UK-geo-stub, etc). Seems that every time I move a few from the category, you move a few new ones in (particularly African ones). Can I ask you to please put them into their subcategories? Cheers, Grutness|^hello? 03:15, 17 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Usually happens when I change {{stub}}. Africa? Perhaps Antartica. I don't see a stub category for that continent. RedWolf 03:20, Jan 17, 2005 (UTC)

Most recent one I dealt with was Amguid crater, in Algeria. Grutness|^hello?

Oh yea, forgot I had done some cleanup on Algeria. I wasn't really aware that the geo-stub has been split itself. Now that I know I'll start to use the more specific ones. Perhaps there should still be one for Antarctica? RedWolf 01:46, Jan 18, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks - you're right, there probably should be an Antarctica one. At the moment I'm looking through generic geo-stubs seeing what countries/regions have the most stubs. Antarctica and Indonesia look like the two most likely to need their own sections next - each have about 100. Geo-stub still exists as a category, but there were over 4000 stubs in there - far too many to wade through for a quick look. I'm trying to get it down to about 1000 with the rest bundled away into subcategories, some of which have been around for a while, but most of which were virtually empty. All the ones that currently exist are listed in a table at the top of Category:Geography stubs. Thanks again, Grutness|^hello?

There's now an {{Antarctica-geo-stub}}! :) Grutness|^hello? 11:10, 21 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Endurance Images

Sorry about that...I've inserted the source for the Image:Endurance (II).jpg, but haven't been able to find where I got the Image:Endurance (I).jpg from. I've uploaded another one, making sure that I added the source to the page, so the first can be deleted. Thanks for letting me know User:Hammersfan - 19/1/05, 18.02

No, the Image:Endurance (I).jpg image didn't come from the Royal Navy's website. As for the Image:Endurance (II).jpg image, I'll get it sorted ASAP. User:Hammersfan - 21/1/05, 10.05

Mountain pics

Thanks for uploading so many great mountain pics to Wikipedia! Is it much of burden to carry a good camera with you when you're mountain climbing? I've never climbed anything bigger than a hill, but I imagine any extra weight - especially the fragile kind - would be unwelcome.

I'm glad your wikistress is going down a bit. All the best! – Quadell ^{(talk) (help)} 21:16, Jan 22, 2005 (UTC)

Deletion of categories that won't delete

Just FYI, there's a template that somebody put together for articles and categories that can't be deleted due to "block-compressed revisions". See Template:Pending deletion. -Aranel ("Sarah") 15:05, 24 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Thanks. I saw it once but could not remember the name of the template when I ran into the issue again yesterday. It was not on the list of deletion templates. RedWolf 00:36, Jan 25, 2005 (UTC)

User IDs

Even if all you have is User IDs and you can't get the name, it would still be very useful to have the list of images grouped by User ID. It would look better with a name, but it would be almost as useful to not have that. – Quadell ^{(talk) (help)} 19:28, Jan 24, 2005 (UTC)