User talk:Dstookey

Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did in Beneteau. Wikipedia is not a mere directory of links nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Inappropriate links include (but are not limited to) links to personal web sites, links to web sites with which you are affiliated, and links that exist to attract visitors to a web site or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam policies for further explanations of links that are considered appropriate. If you feel the link should be added to the article, then please discuss it on the article's talk page rather than re-adding it. See the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you. Rich257 14:07, 22 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Roller furling page

I checked out the link, and it looked informative and on topic, so I added it. You might want to go back and sign your post on the talk page; if you put in 4 ~ characters in a row, it will sign you post with your signature, user link, and timestamp, like this: scot 18:21, 22 December 2006 (UTC) And while I'm thinking about this, do you have a commercial roller furler handy? If so, some pictures would be a good thing to add to the article. I added pictures of my home-built one, but it would be good to have pictures of the upper end of a commercial setup--not only for the article, but becasue I just bought a MacGregor 21 and need to rig up another one out of PVC. After all, if I look at them and ask "How do they do that" then there are probably others asking the same question. scot 18:24, 22 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'm afraid I'm boatless at the moment and cannot take the photo you request. Would love to! There are plenty on Google Images, but I don't know the etiquette or method of requesting permission to use any of them. Also, as a Wikipedia newbie, I can't figure out how to place this reply on YOUR User Talk. I hope you find it here. Dstookey 18:56, 22 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, generally when posting to someone's talk page I add them to my watchlist (click "Watch this page") so I can see if they reply there. To get to a user talk page, go to my user page by clicking on my name, and then click on "Discuss this page".

Generally if you look around a webpage you can find contact information for the owner. You can ask them if they'd agree to license the image in question under the GFDL or Creative Commons license, or release it to the public domain. Sometimes they say yes, sometimes no. What I sometimes do for commercial images, where I'm unlikely to get permission, is to grab a photo of the item in question, and go into a paint program and trace it out. Takes a bit of learning to figure out how to do it, but I've had some good results--I'm really proud of this image, which I traced from the photo linked in the description. Took a couple of hours to do it, but the result justified the effort, I think. I used a magnified grayscale image and did the tracing in red so I could extract just the tracing when I was done; you can also use a graphics program like The GIMP that allows multiple layers, and do the tracing in a separate layer and then take just that layer. Since engineered products like this are often mostly straight lines and circular curves, you can use lines, ellipses, and Bézier curves to give a nice, crisp result. scot 23:37, 22 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Additions of http://.cruisingresources.com

Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a mere directory of links nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Inappropriate links include (but are not limited to) links to personal web sites, links to web sites with which you are affiliated, and links that exist to attract visitors to a web site or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam policies for further explanations of links that are considered appropriate. If you feel the link should be added to the article, then please discuss it on the article's talk page rather than re-adding it. See the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you.--Hu12 (talk) 15:04, 17 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]