User talk:Optimager
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[edit] Happy Wiki-ing.
--BorgHunter (talk) 15:49, 22 October 2005 (UTC)
[edit] png/gif
I see you've reverted the png icons on the merging templates to gif format. I didn't know about the issue you've said on the history page (being that png images and transparency don't display correctly on some browsers), but on this page, Wikipedia:Image_use_policy#Rules_of_thumb, at point 10 if I'm not mistaken, it is stated that icon images and other types of images similar should be svg or png when only raster image is available and such is the case. Gif should be for animation. jpg photographic. I won't put them back in png without your approval, I'm not forcing you, but maybe the image use policy page should be more precise. Optimager 21:10, 22 October 2005 (UTC)
- Thanks very much for discussing this with me!
- Note that the section in question is entitled "Rules of thumb." The American Heritage Dictionary defines a "rule of thumb" as "a useful principle having wide application but not intended to be strictly accurate or reliable in every situation." That's precisely what these rules are.
- In most cases, it is preferable to use the PNG format (instead of the GIF format) for static icons, but the merger icons are unusual exceptions. They're very small (in terms of dimensions), and this has two pertinent effects:
- 1. The importance of the transparent background is much greater, because the images otherwise can be difficult to recognize. (A larger PNG simply doesn't look quite as good, but remains acceptable, especially given the reduced file size.)
- 2. Even in GIF format, the file sizes already are very small. The tiny reduction (1KB) is not nearly enough to justify the problem cited above.
- Thanks again for being courteous enough to consider my edit summaries and initiate this discussion. I sincerely hope that I've explained my position to your satisfaction. —Lifeisunfair 22:30, 22 October 2005 (UTC)
[edit] What is going on?
Re undelete log, of which you are picked out for being the last to edit the page, why is this page flypaper for highhanded edits? --- Charles Stewart 17:45, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
- I'm sorry I was so short with you, you are the least of the offenders. Generally you shouldn't edit non-talk pages in other user's namespace (so here: User:Chalst and the User:Chalst/<subpage-name> hierarchy) unless:
- You have permission from the user to do so;
- You are fixing other user's vandalism;
- You are posting an administrative notice, such as one of the WP:SOCK notices.
- If you think something is broken, it is generally better to draw the user's attention to the problem than to just go in and fix it, which is an exception to WP:BOLD. I should have been friendly, since it was obvious you intended no harm, but that page (which has not always been in my userspace) has attracted more than it's fair share of mischief, well-intentioned or not, and right now I'm rather touchy about it. --- Charles Stewart 14:41, 2 November 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Image:United States Army Corps of Engineers logo.png
I think I touched the wrong bottom - please recheck that file --Bahnmoeller 21:00, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
