User talk:Scott5114/Archive A

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Welcome!

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JAXASS

Nice editing on the Jaxass votes for deletion page. --Sleepyhead81 21:54, 22 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the vote of confidence! :) Scott5114 05:08, 23 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

User categorization

Greetings! Your user page hasn't been vandalized :-) --it was updated to use the new User Categorization scheme. I have categorized your User Page as a Wikipedian in Oklahoma (Category:Wikipedians in Oklahoma) since your name was listed on the Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Oklahoma page. The Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Oklahoma page is scheduled for deletion. Thanks! Roby Wayne ^{Talk • Hist} 00:48, 8 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

You're most welcome ;-) Roby Wayne ^{Talk • Hist} 07:01, 8 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

NH-118

At Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/New Hampshire Route 118 there is a VFD debate. --Rschen7754 03:16, September 13, 2005 (UTC)

Road stubs

All of the following made their way to WP:SFD:

--Rschen7754 (talk - contribs) 03:57, 17 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Do you mind...

if I copy your quick reference page and add it to User:Rschen7754/Roadqr?

--Rschen7754 (talk - contribs) 03:28, 30 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:WikiProject Highways/U.S. state highway naming conventions

I've started this page to discuss naming conventions; please weigh in and help. --SPUI (talk) 18:05, 12 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Oklahoma State Highway 120

Great work!

Take care, ....εγκυκλοπαίδεια* (talk) 18:59, 15 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

My RFA

Thank you for voting for me at my RFA, which closed with a 24/1/1 outcome. I will do my best in the position I now am in. Thanks again, and see you around Wikipedia!

--Rschen7754 (talk - contribs) 01:53, 17 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

SVG tip

Thanks for the tip. That may work well for the word INTERSTATE, but I'd certainly like to keep 000 as numbers so that it can eaisly be switched to another #. When it comes to actually using the SVGs for each highway though, that might make sense. I need to streamline the blue in the SVG. It's actually just a ton of blue rectangles. --Chris 20:50, 15 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'm pretty sure I did that, but it's still kind of stupid that there are all of these corners all over the place, almost randomly. Even stupider is that I did that all manually. --Chris 22:35, 15 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, but now I have a different problem. I upgraded from 0.42.2 to 0.43 and now it can't seem to find any of the Roadgeek fonts. I'll probably downgrade if I don'tfigure this out. --Chris 13:19, 16 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not on Windows. --Chris 20:27, 17 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Besides, SPUI's really whooping my ass at this. I think he has ones for every 2di and 3di. All that's left is the state names, which he'll probably be done with before I even get to starting them. --Chris 20:50, 17 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

TfD notification

Wikipedia:Templates for deletion/Log/2006 January 25#Template:Interstatedis TFD:Interstatedis and Intdis Tedernst | talk 20:04, 25 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Waveform web designers

The same user has created D.inco., about the same company. Would you add it your AFD? Seems logical they be discussed together. --kingboyk 21:51, 30 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

can you please un-ban me as i was just protecting my page and d.inco is also a reference to that it changed its name to waveform the southerner 12:09, 1 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, I can't; I'm not an administrator. ...Scott⁵¹¹⁴ 18:18, 1 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Pennsylvania State Route 28

Ok ok, it's down.

Junior in High School? Quite Impressive. I too am somewhat of a road geek.

Thanks for the warning. Wanna stub it? I'm not sure how.

Oklahoma State Highways Project

Scott: good idea to start this project, thanks for doing it. There's been some discussion of the convention we should adopt for numbered route articles at Wikipedia:Naming_conventions/Numbered_highways. I started working on the New York State highway articles only to find out that some, like SPUI, are leaning towards 'Route N (State Name)' which I have now decided is preferable. This is because

1) the road is usually refered to as "Route N" locally,
2) The disambiguation of (State Name) rather than having the long title "State Name State Highway N" I believe is wiki-preferable,
3) I believe that not all state DOT's call their routes "state highways" in most references. I only researched NY (my main area of work) and mostly they use "Route N", but the WP aticles are almost all "NYSHn" ;-(. So, before you proceed you should look at, and participate in, the discussion and see what the outcome (if any) is. --Censorwolf 20:05, 10 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Blaise ketone synthesis svg image

Hello Scott5114, I noticed that you changed the reaction scheme image on Blaise ketone synthesis from a PNG to a SVG image. I changed it back because the PNG looked slightly better in Firefox and MUCH better in IE. My question is: Is there a reason to display SVG images over PNG images? I ask this because I draw MANY reaction schemes for chemical reaction articles. So far, the PNGs have worked well. But I haven't really thought of using SVG images. ~K 18:01, 12 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Evidently someone else reverted my revert, so I started a discussion on Talk:Blaise ketone synthesis. If you could reply there, it would be best. Thanks, ~K 19:16, 12 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Re:Thanks

No problem :) It was more of a problem doing the next step (warning the IP) as WP servers seem to be playing up again. Slow... Hope it clears up or I'll not get much reverting in tonight ;) --Petros471 19:22, 24 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

SHS-compliant SVGs

The hardest part is the rounded corners.

In that case, I'd make all of the rounded edges out of 90 degree arcs of circles with 50 mm radii (or radiuses). Actually, those are tricky; 50 mm is to the outside, then 40 to the outside of the black line, then 25 to the inside of the black line. Do the black line in one shot that's 15mm thick and has a radius of 32.5 mm.

As far as the outside edge of the sign goes (50 mm away), that doesn't really technically need to be drawn. (In real life, the physical edge of the metal or whatever should be there.) However, the invisible line between the sign and transparency (the difference would only be noticable on a non-white background) should definetely exist.

This is how I did my first Interstate shields. When exported to PNG (before someone (was it you?) informed me about the object-to-path trick), Inkscape seemed to put a very thin line there, which was kind of cool. SPUI actually put a line around his that was extremely thin. Somewhere in the WT:IH, he and I discussed this line. Basically it's advantage is that you can see the difference between sign and transparency on a white backround. SHS itself actually puts a thin grey line there for illustrative purposes. The advantage to omitting it is that it looks better on non-white backgrounds. However, SPUI illustrated to me that it is not noticable. Bottom line: all of the Interstate signs now have these.

So yeah, I recommend that you do the following FIRST: once you've got the canvas size right, make four FULLY ENCLOSED (with the outside white, and 0mm strokes; otherwise they are two big) white circles (temporarily change the background color to green so you can see them) and have them in the four corners. Have them touching the edges of the canvas at two points but not crossing them. Then fill in the rest of the sign area with two white rectangles. Then, you can make the 15mm black lines in the corners as I described above. Then, make the other 4 straight lines.

That's the hardes part there. I'm not exactly sure how to make the barely-visible grey line thing, but like I said, it's not completely necessary. The text should be easy enough to figure out, just make sure it's centered and the right height (I know no way of getting it right, just start the text at 75 above the bottom and 300 from the left; then just write "ALT" (centered) and keep changing the font size until it's 75mm from the top. Obviously, use size D lettering.

Just one last note: I know you're just making a M1-4a right now, but all of the M3's and many of the other M4's seem to use the same dimensions and so forth (except for text size), so let me know when you finsih. Oh yeah, one last thing: if you make the Interstate-style ones, make sure you look up the exact blue coloration. (white and black are just #000000 and #ffffff)

Good luck! --Chris 22:23, 24 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Actually I lied, th grey border is noticeable on non-white backrounds, just not very. I'd advise not to use one, but it's not a very big deal. --Chris 22:27, 24 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

RFA Thanks

Thank you!
Thank you for your support in my recent RFA. It passed 53/1/2 and I am now an administrator. I appreciate that some of you made exceptions to your usual requirements re length of service and so on because we've interracted positively in the past, or because of my credentials, so I will endeavour to use my new mop cautiously. I'm always open to feedback and gently constructive criticism. If you're not an admin and need some assistance do of course please let me know. Thanks again --kingboyk 00:23, 6 March 2006 (UTC) [reply]

P.S. If you are interested in The Beatles, User:Lar has asked me to tag on a little note advertising the creation of a new Beatles WikiProject that we are currently setting up. Please sign up and help.

I-95 Exit List

Hey, thanks for your contribution to the I-95 Exit List. I, and I'm sure the others involved, appreciate it. I just was wondering if you could bring the table in line with the others on the page, so that we have the same basic format for the entire article. I've summed it up on the I-95 Exit list Talk page. But really, I appreciate it. If you don't want to do the work, I'll certainly do it. The I-95 Rhode Island article needs some exit list work, and I think the one from the Exit List would look good there. Thanks again, and have a good day. --MPD01605 19:39, 6 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]