User talk:timsdad

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Sony Camcorders

You edited an article where I made a change about sony avchd cameras. Are you a camera expert? Im not being facetious im just asking because I am and own several hd cameras. Sony camcorders are no longer limited to 1440x1080 and there are multiple resolutions. Why would you revert an updated statement to a previous one that is no longer true?

Thanks 82.35.171.226 (talk) —Preceding undated comment was added at 11:31, 6 January 2009 (UTC).

I apologise for reverting your edit, at the time it looked to me like a common unsourced edit which read a little like an advertisement. I now look back on many other edits on the article along with yours and can see that the entire article is in fact full of unsourced material and needs a serious cleanup. Maybe a camera expert like you should be the one to do it? Also, please post on a talk page by clicking the 'New section' tab above the page as this will create your section down the bottom of a talk page (it may seem to newer users that editors will see comments up the top, but I had trouble finding my 'new message'). Thanks, timsdad ^(talk) 11:58, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

No worries thanks for the explanation. I felt it was confusing to see a statement that all sony cameras recorded 1440x1080 and see a few lines down about cameras that have higher resolutions, so to the uninformed it can be very confusing. I think I will perhaps do some work on the article. Apologies for the talk-page issue. 92.237.105.209 (talk) —Preceding undated comment was added at 15:42, 8 January 2009 (UTC).

Reports of FT cancelation

I am a major supporter of the TTII but i do not like it when people say that it is approved. Even though in two days there have been 2 people claiming that the FT is cancelled from the same source. We need to control ths problem or investigate so we know waht is true 67.191.207.167 (talk) 02:42, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

Well if the problem persists and we still have not found any sources supporting its approval, then we might have no choice but to put semi-protection on the article (which means anonymous IP users cannot edit it) in which case I suggest you create an account for yourself. --timsdad ^(talk) 04:09, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

I do have a ancount. an i have for 2 years. Im using it right now Holden yo (talk) 16:35, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

We need to put the artical on semi lock Holden yo (talk) 02:26, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

More on Marshall Strabala photo

Duplicate at Talk:Marshall Strabala#Images Placed on Marshall Strabala page. --timsdad ^(talk) 15:40, 30 January 2009 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Adelaide United season 2005-06

all done now - as a future note you can do this faster with {{db-move}}. Happy editing - Peripitus (Talk) 11:22, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

Marshall Strabala

Timsdad

Just curious, how long does Copyright Status question have to be attached to Marshall's photo before it is removed at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Strabala  ??

Also, you will notice I have added more of his project photos to the page since we last communicated, some of which have not appeared on Flickr or elsewhere. Thank you. Mykjoseph (talk) 13:56, 6 February 2009 (UTC)Mykjoseph

The copyright notice must stay in the picture's caption, and on the image's description page until the issue is addressed here. People will get to the discussion eventually. And yes, I did notice those images, and I have no problem with them. --timsdad ^(talk) 22:51, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

Image of U2 at football park

Where the image "should" appear is a function of page-width; it is not an absolute.
If the viewer uses a narrow page width, the image "should" be centred. If the viewer uses a wide page width, I agree that it looks better on the right. Pdfpdf (talk) 10:40, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

Sorry, I overlooked that. I've re-centred it now. Cheers, --timsdad ^(talk) 10:47, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

Thank you.

Unrelated: I somehow find it satisfying that more people went to a football match at football park, than to the U2 concert. On-the-other-hand, I find it sad that the football match was over 30 years ago ... Cheers, Pdfpdf (talk) 12:00, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

Yeah, it is a shame. It's the case with many purpose-built stadiums. The MCG's an example, although AFL and cricket matches are more similar to each other than a music concert and a footy match.

Orphans

Thank you for taking the time and effort to explain; I assure you that it is appreciated.
So, an "orphan" isn't necessarily, an orphan at all, it's anything that is "almost" an orphan. Fine, I can live with that.
But even so, so what?
Why is it such a big deal?
And why is it a big enough deal to merit its own template?
I really don't understand what all the fuss is about, and I really don't see the value achieved by putting a template at the top of the page.
To me, it sounds very much like a solution that is addressing a "problem" that isn't really a problem at all.
However, I'm receptive to any reasonable explanation of any real problems ...
Cheers, Pdfpdf (talk) 11:53, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

I have to say I totally agree with you. But it's not up to us to decide how Wikipedia should be run, and orphans have been part of it from the start. Personally, I'm just going to abide by the rules. --timsdad ^(talk) 06:16, 20 February 2009 (UTC)

Random

"This user is a Los Angeles Dodgers fan."
I can understand "Adelaide United", "the Australian Socceroos", "the Adelaide Crows Football Club", "the Australian cricket team", "the Southern Redbacks", "the West Adelaide Bloods" - even "the Adelaide 36ers".
But the "Los Angeles Dodgers"???
Pdfpdf (talk) 12:18, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

Well after spending a few weeks in LA I picked up on some baseball while I was there. I've never really been that interested, but there wasn't much on over there so I supported them for a while. I felt it necessary to add some foreign userboxes on my page. --timsdad ^(talk) 06:18, 20 February 2009 (UTC)

Bahrain World Trade Center

Dear Timsdad,
Since you are an active editor on the Bahrain World Trade Center article, i think you should see this and this; i know, i really didnt know that it existed :). Do you think we should delete it? Rehman (talk) 04:17, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

Oh, wow, I had no idea they existed either. Seeing as they only link to each other and no other articles (orphaned), one could hardly expect to find them. Good spotting! Yes, they should be deleted, I have listed them both for deletion per WP:PROD. Thanks for that, --timsdad ^(talk) 06:54, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

Happy to help. Thanks for tagging them. Have a nice day :). Rehman (talk) 07:33, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

A-League articles, templates

With regard to the A-League articles, someone decided that "FC" should be added to every club in the A-League, regardless of whether it is used anywhere by the team in the club's logo, the history section of the website, or anything. Gold Coast United are just Gold Coast United. There's no "FC," their name is not "Gold Coast United Football Club" or any of that. Secondly, if a club's name ends in "FC" (note: without the fullstops/periods) like Sydney FC, for instance, then the club's full name is just "Sydney FC." Look at other articles like AFC Wimbledon, FC Dallas, etc. If the club's name really is something like "Melbourne Victory Football Club," then the club's article should be at "Melbourne Victory F.C." and the club should be piped as "Melbourne Victory." See Arsenal F.C., Manchester United F.C. etc.

As for the templates, clubs with "F.C." should have it left out of the piped link, and clubs with "FC" should have it included. These are the names of the clubs, and the A-League should follow the same rules as everyone else. -- Grant.Alpaugh 00:23, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

Replied at Talk:Adelaide United FC#A-League clubs: FC to F.C.. --timsdad ^(talk) 00:41, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

Perth Glory F.C.

Just a heads up on Perth Glory F.C.. I've declined Grant.Alpaugh's speedy deletion request, and suggested to him that the two of you form consensus rather than reverting each other. You'll find my message to him at User_talk:Grant.Alpaugh#Perth_Glory_F.C..--Fabrictramp | talk to me 23:55, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

Editing Advice

Thank you very much for the advice on the in use tag, will be used. It's definatly going to be a long edit, but it's been bothering me for a while and I thought "Well, it's a slow night, might as well do it" Once again, thank you for the tag advice! Mikhael04 (talk) 12:02, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

Sears/Willis Tower

Just to let you know, Willis Group has, in fact, purchased the naming rights to the Sears Tower and has officially announced that it will be renamed this summer. So though the anon's change to List of tallest buildings and structures in the world was premature (and the body text regarding earlier times probably shouldn't be changed at all, as it was still called Sears Tower when the whole Petronas spire controversy occured), it wasn't vandalism. John Darrow (talk) 05:54, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

Yes, I recently found that out. Thanks anyway... If the anon provided an edit summary, I would have considered his changes to be more credible (seeing an anon change the name did appear to be vandalism). Sorry for the mistake. --timsdad ^(talk) 05:57, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

Abuse filter problem

I replied (and I believe fixed your problem). The reason the page is new is that this filtering system is new - we just got it today. Sorry for the troubles! Prodego ^talk 08:21, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for that (I replied also). No problems, I understand that the filter is new and that there're always problems with these things. Not that it really got anything wrong, I just failed to spot the 'test' ref. Thanks, timsdad ^(talk) 08:25, 18 March 2009 (UTC).

Technically the filter is right - an old bug in the diff engine credits you with removing one section, and adding a new section with one word different (rather than just adding that one word). That way things in sections you edited get counted as 'added' by you. It isn't really fixable, and it doesn't happen all the time. Prodego ^talk 08:28, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

Ah, okay. That explains it. I guess as long as there's always support to help people get around the errors, then the filter can be nothing but beneficial. --timsdad ^(talk) 08:32, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

Football (soccer)

I noticed that you have reverted my edits and asked me to discuss them first. In fact this was already been long discussed in this article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Australia_national_football_(soccer)_team#Football_is_more_than_one_game.2Fcode. The agreed term is football (soccer), not the vague "football" on its own, so it was actually the person who originally changed it who did not discuss it, not me. Thank you.60.224.0.121 (talk) 00:11, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

Firstly, it would have been very helpful if you provided an edit summary to explain this, how was I supposed to know if this was discussed before?

Secondly, you'll find that consensus was not actually reached here, where you specified. I suggest you leave things as they were and take it to the Wikiproject to try and reach a consensus there before continuing to change the lead sections of the clubs' articles. --timsdad ^(talk) 06:24, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

Whatever ...

Regarding this edit
1) "Remove template - many pages link here"
2) "Rv - only the disambig page and one article link here. See Special:WhatLinksHere/IOOF Building (Adelaide))"
3) Contents of Special:WhatLinksHere/IOOF Building (Adelaide):

• Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Adelaide articles by quality log (links)
• Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Australia articles by quality/30 (links)
• Odd Fellows Hall (links)
• Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Adelaide articles by quality/1 (links)
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Adelaide/Cleanup listing (links)
• IOOF Building (links)
• User:Doncram/inprogress (links)
• User:AlexNewArtBot/AustraliaSearchResult/archive27 (links)
• User talk:Pdfpdf/Archive11 (links)
• User:AlexNewArtBot/OrganizationsSearchResult/archive36 (links)
• User talk:Doncram/Archive 7 (links)

4) Your cryptic response led me to Wikipedia:Orphanage#Criteria. Obviously, the definition of "link here" is different from simple physical observation and counting of links.
5) Whatever.
6) Possibly see you again when my interpretation of that definition supplies me with a "link count" >= 3.
(No response necessary or requested.) Pdfpdf (talk) 07:47, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

Ryugyong Hotel

Thanks for the hello following my edits. I'm only an occassional reader, but was horrified by the unsupported claims in the article, and the use of citations which did not support the sentences to which they were attached. I'm no fan of the North Korean regime (or at least how it is reported, but there again I am open minded enough not to believe all I read without my own personal experience.) It's a pity that the article has been blatant propaganda as it could be a useful source of information about a fascinating building. I don't know if it's badly built but the citations given either do not support it or are from extreme;ly biased persepective - Christopher Hitchens being one - or from what are little more than blogs. And the claim of 'unappealing aesthetics' can be levelled, in fact is, at many modern buildings: but it varies with individual tastes. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 119.224.43.24 (talk) 08:28, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

Possibly unfree File:ABB Grain Limited logo.JPG

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Orphaned non-free image (Image:Marymount Logo.gif)

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tallest buildings

hey, great job on gathering references for the tallest buildings page. you've really cleaned it up well. i think a cherry on the cake would be the addition of a rendered image of an "under construction" building, like this one of vision brisbane or this one of the bhp tower.

i just don't know how to go about uploading it, as i don't know much about copyright and stuff. examples of alrady added renders of under construction buildings include http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Aedas_Pentominium_Tower_Dubai.jpg and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Shanghai_Center_Dragon.jpg so i'm sure there's some available of australian buildings. Rehumanist (talk) 12 April 2009 (UTC)

Thanks, I really think that would go nicely, too. That Vision pic is really quite a speccy one, I'll go about attempting to upload it under a claim of fair use. --timsdad ^(talk) 05:21, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

hey, i was wondering what we could do to get the List of tallest buildings in Australia page to featured status. The only similar page I know of to reach that status is List of tallest buildings in Dubai. I think the inclusion of a "timeline of tallest buildings" section would help, but I can't find any references on that at this moment. An image to accompany that would be one of Melbourne's skyline, as from what I know, most of Australia's previous tallest buildings are from Melbourne.

also, perhaps a list of approved/proposed buildings, but that seems far more nebulous and uncertain, especially in the current economic climate, so it could be difficult to maintain. Rehumanist (talk) 14 April 2009 (UTC)

Shard London Bridge

Just a heads up on the French IP editor who keeps reverting your edits to the article. I've been in an edit war with them for over a year. They're a fanatical anti-British editor who makes anti-British edits to many articles across Wikipedia. They change their IP almost every time they make an edit so it's hard to keep a track of them but they almost never give up edit warring and have a habit of following people's work on Wikipedia and reverting it. ShardLondonBridge (talk) 00:57, 13 April 2009 (UTC)