User talk:Will Pittenger

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Hey, Will, somebody messed up your circuit map of Circuit Gilles Villeneuve. I tried to fix it, but I wasn't successful. Fclass (talk) 16:35, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

Forget it, man, I fixed it. Some troll messed with your svg. image of Circuit Gilles Villeneuve and put that older, outdated png. image back. I fixed it. Fclass (talk) 16:42, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

Hey, Will, I just visited your blog. It says you have new versions of Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Nurburgring, Ain-Diab Circuit, and Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours. If you have the svg. image, could you put it up? Fclass

I can be contradictory in some areas. Fclass —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.185.49.151 (talk) 15:09, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

Hello, Will. Your svg. image of Heartland Park Topeka looks good. Could you do the same for Rockingham Motor Speedway? Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.2.60.98 (talk) 18:37, 3 July 2008 (UTC)

Hey, Will, do you have the new additions to Lime Rock Park? 209.2.60.98 (talk) 18:50, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

Possible typo in Image:Downtown Detroit Street Circuit.svg

Hi Will. Thanks for your great work with motor racing track maps. I noticed what appears to be a typo in Image:Downtown Detroit Street Circuit.svg - I think "Chyrsler" should be "Chrysler". Cheers. DH85868993 (talk) 13:09, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

Also, in Image:Estroril.svg (which should be Image:Estoril.svg?), "Aryton Senna" should probably be "Ayrton Senna". DH85868993 (talk) 15:09, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

Circuit map replacements

Just a request for you to take care when replacing circuit maps with SVG's. I noticed, for example, you replaced the map on 1994 San Marino Grand Prix with the post-95 layout. Also, I believe the 'Wikipedia house style' with circuit maps is to use a sans-serif font for circuit map corner numbers and names. If you could bear that in mind in future, that'd be great. Thanks for taking the time to do the maps, AlexJ (talk) 19:31, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

Sans-serif fonts would clearly make the maps look more professional (not Arial, though!) and you should get rid of the dashing as well. Also, I noticed that corners in your versions are not as definite as they are in reality, like if they were smoothed. The numbers in the bubbles are way too big, and the bubbles' edges should be thicker. I think the set of circuit maps you replaced were esthetically perfect, you should go for something similar. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.238.70.8 (talk) 14:52, 3 August 2008 (UTC)

There's nothing like Serif fonts are better or worse than Sans-serif fonts. Both have a reason for existence, books are printed with Serif fonts for minimal eye strain, while headlines and logos stand out better in Sans-serif. The Formula One franchise prefers Sans-serif fonts on screen, on posters and official materials for whatever reason. You should mind that Wikipedia uses Sans-serif as well. You may not be troubled by the inconsistency, but some might be (I am). I absolutely appreciate your efforts and very much favour SVG graphics. Choosing the appropriate font seems to be a minor task compared to tracking the satellite images so precisely as you do, but it affects the result enormously. Please consider changing fonts (I'm happy to help you).

As for the dashing, I think it adds some clutter. Maybe you should just mark the sector boundaries with a filled circle. Thank you, and keep up the good work! 85.238.70.8 (talk) 20:59, 3 August 2008 (UTC)

One More Request

Is it possible for you to do a map of Circuit Trois-Rivières? This is my last request. 209.2.60.98 (talk) 19:20, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

Edmonton Indy track SVG

Just a note, the Turn you have marked as Turn 11, is actually Turns 11 & 12. It was noted on the "final laps" video of this year's Edmonton Indy on indycar.com that Scott Dixon let the car drift out wide at Turn 12 before reaching the last two turns 13 & 14. TheChrisD ^{Rants•Edits} 23:52, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for catching that. I should have a fix uploaded sometime tonight. I rely on a variety of sources. In that case, I relied on the existing image for that bit of data. Will (Talk - contribs) 00:39, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

No problem. Glad I could help :) TheChrisD ^{Rants•Edits} 02:13, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

Licensing of Commons Image:Nurburgring 2003.jpg

Hi!

Regarding your request on my cs: talk page: the image has been tagged with {{PD-link}} on cs: Wikipedia, by its author, cs:User:Jiří Žemlička. AFAIK, that is the correct license that should be there (unless some modifications to the image have been licensed under a different license).

--Mormegil (talk) 09:13, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

Okay, if you can't do a map of Circuit Trois-Rivières, could you do a map of Honda Grand Prix of St. Petersburg? It's an Indycar race. 209.2.60.98 (talk) 19:16, 1 August 2008 (UTC)

Road America image problems

Your edits to the images in the article completely screwed the images up on my 1024 x 768 monitor. There's about a 2 screen tall gap in the middle of the article's text. What are you trying to fix? The best solution for that problem can't cause huge gaps in the text like that. I'd rather see an image gallery on the bottom that keep the article like it is now. I've worked a lot on image placement in articles. Please reply back here on your talk page; I just added it to my watchlist. Royalbroil 23:41, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

MediaWiki has problems with a long list of thumbs in a column. This causes the edit links for sections to bunch up at the last section along those thumbs. You see something similar on the same page that I wasn't able to fix. It's right at the bottom of the infobox. The fix is normally to bunch the thumbs up inside a div that floats. However, you might verify that you have the latest version of the page by purging the page. I saved on accident before I closed the div. This caused the problem you described. Will (Talk - contribs) 04:10, 7 August 2008 (UTC)

The problem persists after purging. I'm looking at the page using Firefox. When I load it using Internet Explorer on the same computer, it looks better but not right. The text is limited to a small section on the left had size with a huge gap left of the pictures. Is what you're attempting to fix important? If so, how about changing to a gallery at the bottom? Royalbroil 05:40, 7 August 2008 (UTC)

Try that. Will (Talk - contribs) 06:02, 7 August 2008 (UTC)

That works - Thanks! Royalbroil 12:15, 7 August 2008 (UTC)

Laguna Seca image

Will, why did you erase the other Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca image? It was an .svg image. It had the names and everything. You didn't have to erase it. It was the same thing. The next time you see an .svg image, LEAVE IT ALONE!!! If you erase a perfectly good .svg image, I will report your vandalism to the administrators. 209.2.60.98 (talk) 18:09, 7 August 2008 (UTC)

Characterizing it as vandalism is unfair and wrong (I'm an administrator). It's a different image with some text and numbering changes. Both are .SVG images. The previous image was not erased. Will Pittenger is not an admin on Wikimedia Commons so he could not delete the image. Royalbroil 18:32, 7 August 2008 (UTC)

Hey, Will, I'd like to apologize for my comments. They were out of line and unfair. I hope you accept my apology. 209.2.60.98 (talk) 15:37, 11 August 2008 (UTC)