User talk:Will Pittenger

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You can reach me regarding all matters involving Commons at Wikipedia:User talk:Will Pittenger. You may prefer that as I don't log into Commons very often. Will (Talk - contribs) 05:06, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

Contents 1 Image:Circuit Silverstone.png 2 librsvg problem 3 Image:Californiaspeed.png 4 Longford circuit 5 Please link images 6 Image: Brno circuit 7 File:Spa-Francorchamps of Belgium.svg 8 Silverstone 9 Circuit maps - TMI 10 Miami Airport Map

[edit] Image:Circuit Silverstone.png

Dear frend, please choose antoher name for You own another stile image. No need to destroy other images, just create all tracks and upload all them with different mane. Thank You very much. Arz (talk) 14:13, 13 July 2008 (UTC)

[edit] librsvg problem

It is interesting how your broken images resemble the commons A-list and people who have changed their personality or are not available to comment on things they did just a few months ago.

It is much easier and a nicer place if people do what they are supposed to do and also, in my now several decades, if stupid wrongly founded rules go away.

<the only thing you really need to read>

Real answers for real software problems now (no more whining and imagery), svn update has a "-r" flag which accepts dates and/or version numbers. The version numbers are a pain to me, I have not yet been able to determine how that would be useful for an active development tree with "people" active in it. When I have turned back my software (development versions tend to break right before they get together) it usually takes a few attempts to get the syntax correct for the date. Their online book has too much information and I think I end up looking at the linux documentation for the different time formats and not all of the formats that were promised to work in the svn documentation actually did work.

</the only thing you really need to read>

As someone who should have been on an A list (especially if this doesn't mean losing all friends and welcome where I lived and having an income equal to the local cost of living) I can tell you my experience with making almost always good or excellent contributions or at least entertaining; I can tell you that for whatever wrong or right reasons, it ended up being the most lonely thing. Somewhere, there is (or at least it existed for a long while and is difficult to imagine has gone away) a place where people can be and are "themselves". Not pretending to be things they aren't. It should be like that here, it is easier and the environment would be easier to enjoy for everyone. -- carol (talk) 05:03, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

With nightly binary installation, the same thing applies. If the nightly that you installed did not work, try one from a different day or to be very sure of images that are not broken, install the stable version.

I am sorry that I misunderstood -- there is not too much difference between installing a binary and using a compiler on your own computer to build it with the exception that you can build it with and/or without things and building it on your own computer makes it "fit" better.

Sorry I whined also -- no need to understand and as I marked it, no need to even read it. Deleting it would be fine also. -- carol (talk) 05:48, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Californiaspeed.png

Hello. Don't you know what is "Nasa World Wind 1.3.5" ? Can't you patch yourself the image. Thanks a lot. ~ bayo or talk 08:31, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

You can READ "World Wind" on the description of the image. No more. I will not (and i can't) "proof" that, no more i can proof "self work" or something like that. ~ bayo or talk 11:25, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

Somebody patch it. And its not me. Thank for your help. [1]. ~ bayo or talk 11:27, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Longford circuit

I saw that you are the capable author of the Adelaide street circuit map. I was wondering if it would be possible for you, when you get some free time, to do one for the page on the [Longford circuit], one time home of the [Australian Grand Prix]. There is an old hand-drawn map of the circuit here that you could base it on? -- Robert_Fleming (talk) 16:35, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Please link images

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[edit] Image: Brno circuit

Hello. I think you drew the start/finish line on the Brno circuit too close to turn 1. Check it at www.automotodrombrno.cz or at Google maps --Aidannn (talk) 18:21, 25 August 2009 (UTC)

[edit] File:Spa-Francorchamps of Belgium.svg

Hi, the Spa-Francorchamps track map you uploaded has an error (Pouhon, not Poulhon). Could you fix it? --junafani ^(?) 18:41, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Silverstone

Hello. A number of editors, including myself, are experiencing a problem with viewing your Silverstone circuit map below a resolution of 660px. We are using a variety of browsers, and we can all see the full-size image without any problems (the discussion is here). Interestingly, looking at the upload log, I can see all of the versions before August 4, 2008, without any problem; it's just the two most recent versions which aren't displaying correctly. Is there a way this can be fixed?--Midgrid (talk) 18:02, 30 September 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Circuit maps - TMI

Hi Will. I appreciate the effort that you have taken to update the circuit diagrams of late, its good to have them accurate. However, I think you may be including too much information and you are making them too fussy and detailed. Mostly they get used at reduced scale in infoboxes and when reduced the text style and spacing you are using are getting lost. More concerning, though, are you recent inclusions of lateral g-force, gearshift and speed information. Apart from greatly adding to the clutter (and thus reducing the readability of these diagrams), this information is actually deeply subjective and is likely to go out of date in a matter of weeks, if it ever was actually accurate in the first place. Take File:Autódromo José Carlos Pace (AKA Interlagos) track map.svg for example. Lateral g-force information to two decimal places and speed to three significant figures? That's just not realistic. Quite apart from being F1-specific (and so these diagrams are now useless for all other racing series and for the track article itself) this information is unsourced and ludicrously detailed. If you want to make a track map then go ahead and make track maps. What we need for most articles, however, are simplified diagrams with basic information shown clearly. Pyrope (talk) 00:44, 19 October 2009 (UTC)

I take your point and I understand that these diagrams are used elsewhere, but for Wikipedia I'm struggling to see the encyclopedic value of the information, period. As I'm only really concerned with the diagrams' Wiki applications I'll confine my comments to this environment, rather than getting involved in an external blog. We aren't a detailed stats site, this is a general interest encyclopedia. Here, information should be reliable and stable. Speed, gear and g info vary from lap to lap, from car to car, driver to driver, year to year, and so on. Speculative or selective data reproduction (it looks as though someone just got hold of the telemetry for one car from one lap in one year) is not helpful. These circuit diagrams need to be tailored to the use to which they are put. If you want to keep cramming more information into them then that is obviously up to you, and this may find a use somewhere else in this publication (although my comment about citing all such information stands), but for Grand Prix and individual circuit article infoboxes we need something simpler and cleaner, that reproduces well at 250px. In terms of readability, even in the larger, full page format, you need to address some serious graphic shortcomings. Just off the cuff, I'd single out: 1) use of serif fonts (not great in a diagram, save it for script); 2) corner numbers too small, and too tightly crushed into their white roundels; 3) corner and straight names placed too far from their appropriate position and at awkward angles; 4) the track line is too thin and doesn't stand out from the other information, especially at smaller resolutions. There is much to like about the diagrams, though, and in particularly the North arrow and scale bars are a very necessary addition in comparison to older diagrams. Pyrope (talk) 13:39, 20 October 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Miami Airport Map

here's the current link: http://www.naco.faa.gov/d-tpp/0910/00257AD.PDF

apparently they update it manothly and change the url. so much for citability. Google search to find it: [2]

Cheers -- Duesentrieb ⇌ 09:29, 1 November 2009 (UTC)