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Sandy Island Exists
[edit]I'm surprised how quick everyone is to agree to the party line. Simply using Google Maps satellite, one can see that there's something at the location, and its shape is identical to how Sandy Island was presented on old maps that depicted the island at a close distance. I'm not sure it's a true island, and may be mostly submerged, but there is clearly something there. It seems that one source is now the bible for declaring that this island doesn't exist. More baffling is the insistence that the waters in the area are so deep, meaning there's no chance that anything could be there. Looking at Google Maps satellite, the ocean floor is noticeably shallower at and around the location than in surrounding areas.
I post here because you seemed to be the only voice of reason. What is going on that everyone wants to insist this island isn't real and that nothing could possibly be there, all because one alleged expedition says so. That was enough to remove it from all maps? Very odd. 98.221.141.21 (talk) 08:05, 5 January 2013 (UTC)
- It’s difficult to tell what’s going on. From the many sources of data I’ve examined, some have been polluted by using WVS or WDB II vectors as masks, making them impossible to draw conclusions from. You don’t necessarily even know that has happened, making almost all sources of data suspect. LANDSAT data mostly shows nothing, though there are hints. Without someone (else) just going out and looking, I can’t draw many conclusions other than that there IS a seamount there reaching within 40&nsp;m of the surface. That part is pretty clear. It’s not 1,400 m. Parts of it might nearly reach the surface. Strebe (talk) 20:58, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
Conformality of the stereographic projection
[edit]Please stop destroying valuable contribution. Read the conformality – it IS DEFINED as preserving angles of curves intersection, and it is good and important to mention that in the article. Conformality, in general, does NOT GUARANTEE preserving ANY OTHER type of angles. In particular, any (spherical) triangle on a sphere has sum of its angles greater than 180° while its stereographic image on the plane has the sum equal 180°. This implies respective angles of the two triangles MUST differ (at least one of them), so conformality in general is NOT 'preserving angles'. --CiaPan (talk) 23:58, 6 February 2013 (UTC)
- You’re not wrong. It’s just that your edit goes into more detail than necessary without being complete enough to be good. The very article you reference, conformality, states verbatim, “In mathematics, a conformal map is a function which preserves angles.” Later on, it does talk about intersecting curves, but with greater context: “A map, with is called conformal (or angle-preserving) at a point if it preserves oriented angles between curves through with respect to their orientation (i.e., not just the magnitude of the angle).” The Stereographic article does not include that greater context, and doesn’t need to. It links to conformal is so readers can learn more about it if they want. The usual pithy explanation for conformality is that a conformal map “preserves angles”. The Stereographic article is not about conformality, so it doesn’t need to go into detail. Meanwhile, your argument about spherical triangles is nonsense. No, the stereographic image of a spherical triangle on the plane does not have vertices that sum to 180°. The sum is the same as on the sphere. It’s not as if a spherical triangle maps to a Euclidean triangle on the plane. Strebe (talk) 02:18, 7 February 2013 (UTC)
Grammatical ambiguities
[edit]"The surface of a sphere, or another three-dimensional object".
is that meant to be "(the surface of a sphere), or another three-dimensional object"?
or is it meant to be "the surface of (a sphere, or another three-dimensional object)" ?
Clearly, it is meant to be the second, but the IP user parsed it the first way, and thence concluded that it was erroneous and in need of correction, and became upset when you reverted it to the 'incorrect' version. My edit removes the grammatical ambiguity. Okay? DS (talk) 00:24, 5 March 2013 (UTC)
- First, you need to move this discussion to the article’s talk page, not mine. I will copy and past all this there.
- Second, the phrase you changed was not as you wrote above. You’ve added a comma that didn’t exist and you’re using “another” instead of “other” and you’ve changed “body” to “object”. The full sentence was, “A map projection is any method of representing the surface of a sphere or other three-dimensional body on a plane.” There is no defensible way to read that as, “A map projection is any method of representing the surface… or other three-dimensional body on a plane.” It cannot be read that way because “the surface” otherwise does not refer to anything. The reader simply does not understand English or the topic well enough, as is clear from “his” edits that produced clearly incorrect results. Your “correction” does not resolve anything. If I can misread the original the way the objecting editor did, then I can misread your “correction” as well. I do not agree that just because some random person amongst thousands misread the text, that something is wrong or ambiguous, especially when his “correction” was clearly wrong. Strebe (talk) 01:07, 5 March 2013 (UTC)
Hello. There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.186.8.148 (talk) 07:40, 6 March 2013 (UTC)
- I don't know the subject matter enough to have an opinion, but it would probably be beneficial to everyone if you toned it back just a notch Strebe. Regardless of who is right on the merits of the discussion, the discussion appears to be taking place in good faith, and poking people with sharp sticks simply because you feel your perspective is the only correct one seldom produces consensus. So please consider a less confrontational way to communicate. Dennis Brown - 2¢ © Join WER 14:22, 6 March 2013 (UTC)
- I will stick to the facts, but I do not agree that discussion is taking place in good faith. To this moment, the IP editor has not acknowledged a single contrary piece of evidence. He has deleted the authoritative reference and supplied none of his own, merely calling it “bad”. Whatever his agenda is, it is not Wikipedia’s. Strebe (talk) 16:30, 6 March 2013 (UTC)
- I'm sure you understand that it is difficult to always guess the faith of the editor when you are very unfamiliar with the subject matter. It is difficult to see inside the mind of an editor. I request only to make sure we aren't making a victim out of someone, IF they are in the wrong. Any help you can provide that makes it more clear where the problem lies is helpful. Dennis Brown - 2¢ © Join WER 16:37, 6 March 2013 (UTC)
- No, my agenda is in fact Wikipedia's (viz. an accurate entry), and once again you're not assuming good faith, in violation of policy. I'm a mathematician so you can understand, I hope, the perspective that I bring. In mathematics a common sphere is 2-dimensional, period. This is intuitively obvious by asking 'How many coordinates are necessary to specify a point on a sphere?' And the answer is 'two'. I understand that sometime 'sphere' is used colloquially, to describe, for example, a soccer ball. This is a geometry we would call a 'ball', not a 'sphere'. Moreover, while map projections in our daily life are typically from 2d curved space (like the surface of the Earth) to 2d flat space (like a road map), this need not be the case, and I believe that the article should reflect that.184.186.8.148 (talk) 02:48, 7 March 2013 (UTC)
- Your definition of accurate is inaccurate and you are not the authority of what is accurate. Your claimed credentials are irrelevant. I provided a citation from the most authoritative expert in cartographic map projections in the 20th century. You completely ignored it and worse, you deleted it under your personal theory that it was “bad”. That’s not allowed. Do you not understand that your alleged credentials are irrelevant? You may well be a differential geometer, but has it occurred to you that some of the editors involved are actually expert in the topic and of the relevant literature? What matters is what the literature has to say, not your opinion or mine.
- You seem to believe that this topic is a proper subset of differential geometry. It is not. It has its own literature and application, and while the mathematics of projection are the same either way, the terminology differs, the notational conventions differ, and most importantly, the field of map projections has a strong overlap with geodesy and whole host of concerns outside of differential geometry. If you have not read J.P. Snyder, L.P. Lee, and Deetz & Adams, then you are not an expert in this field. Your conventions are not the conventions of the map projections literature, and you cannot enforce them outside your field. When you blather on about only needing two coordinates and about how there’s nothing special about those dimensions and that you can’t project without losing some features and on and on, you’re completely wasting everyone’s time. The people you’re addressing are far beyond that. It’s not that people don’t get it; it’s that what you are saying is irrelevant. You are talking about a different topic and as much as you want this to be the topic you are talking about, it is not. Strebe (talk) 04:01, 7 March 2013 (UTC)
- You are violating several wikipedia policies, including WP:CIVIL, WP:NPA, and WP:GOODFAITH. Moreover, your representation of the credential policy is not correct. Credentials are not "irrelevant", but are to be weighed by individual editors as they see fit ([i]cf.[/i], WP:CRED). I am not "blather[ing]", I am a thoughtful person giving my views on that matter.
- The title of the article is not "cartographic map projections". It is true if that were the article your view would be correct, since cartography is the practice of making maps, which are, at least to the present day, all two-dimensional. But this is an article about map projections generally, and maps can be of any dimension (check out, [i]e.g.[/i], http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map). The defining point with a projection, conceptually, is that you're going from something curved to something flat and that is impossible to do without "damage" of some sort. That it's a sphere is most common but not necessary. I understand that mathematical conventions are not your conventions, and that is fine. That fact does not imply that mathematical conventions are irrelevant to the article. My view is that mathematical conventions are relevant to the article--indeed essential to it. Why? Among other things, (1) A map projection is a fundamentally [i]mathematical[/i] process and not a matter of convention; (2) there is substantial mathematical discussion and notation in the article; (3) some sentences in the article are false no matter whether you take my approach or yours ([i]e.g.[/i] " a map projection is any method of 'flattening' into a plane a continuous surface having curvature in all three spatial dimensions" (you need not have curvature in all dimensions to produce a projection)).
- I made an edit here. I agree that we need not get into the notion of higher-dimensional projections for the purposes of the article. But we should not say that a sphere is 3-dimensional, because that is simply factually false, despite the colloquial usage and whatever your personalized usage is too. If you are willing to concede that in the article I'm happy to remove the tag and not worry about the more obscure concerns of dimensionality.184.186.8.148 (talk) 06:13, 7 March 2013 (UTC)
- “But we should not say that a sphere is 3-dimensional, because that is simply factually false, despite the colloquial usage and whatever your personalized usage is too.”
- You seem offended when I interpret your behavior. You know what offends me? That you have consistently ignored the citations I have given for my assertions and ignored engaging any facts inconvenient to your position. Calling it my “personalize usage” is offensive, 184.186.8.148. I couldn’t care less if you interpret my behavior; that’s what people do and have to do, and the only difference between people in that regard is whether they voice that interpretation or not. If you’re right in your interpretation of my behavior then I have nothing to get offended about; if you’re wrong, I can’t imagine why I should care; and if you’re somewhere in between then maybe you’ve even given me something to think about. But when you repeatedly, consistently set up straw men to deflect attention from the salient matters, when you ignore all evidence that contradicts you, when you call definitions matters of fact rather than of definition and further insist that yours are the only true ones despite robust, reliable evidence to the contrary, you have shut down any means to converse or resolve anything. And that offends me.
- And because it offends me, I will continue to interpret your behavior. Your purpose here is to win, at any price, even if you have to throw the truth under the bus. And that offends me too.
- Meanwhile what matters for content is WP:VERIFIABILITY, not your assertions, not your unverifiable credentials, and not your application of conventions contrary to those prevalent in the domain. There is nothing to talk about when your only standard of correctness is yourself. Since there is nothing to talk about, you are not welcome on my talk page. I will delete anything further you post. Strebe (talk) 05:39, 8 March 2013 (UTC)
I won't post anything further on your Talk page, if that is your wish. Be aware that I have placed a request on the Dispute Resolution Noticeboard.184.186.8.148 (talk) 00:28, 9 March 2013 (UTC)
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edit unto on fisheye[edit]hi, don't you think we need an example of a fisheye lens with this projection in the article? Cogiati (talk) 16:27, 4 June 2013 (UTC)
Set of map projections[edit]Hi Strebe, I thought I'd give you a heads up that I have opened a feature pictures nomination for the set of images of map projections that you created. If you'd like to weigh in on the discussion, the page is here. Cheers, Cowtowner (talk) 20:53, 6 June 2013 (UTC)
Can you create a sample world map in the Natural Earth projection? I want to add one into my article. Czech is Cyrillized (talk) 02:46, 10 June 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for the correction, as you have understood, i'm french speaker. Have a nice day/evening, Hatonjan (talk) 18:38, 14 June 2013 (UTC)
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Advises and discussion regarding improvements on articles[edit]Hi there, i write this to you because i notice that you are a regular editor of the World map article, this section particulary involves recent modifications in the article as well further improvements. One thing: The way you left the article honestly looks ugly and incomplete, for example, the "Map projections" section looks rather unfinished and rachitic, with only one map on the lower row, we need to put more maps there to make it look decent. Other thing, you removed the map who adressed human displacement without a reason at all, the map in turn is based on a work made by a cartographer recognized and with publications on cartography fields [1]. Another things: I notice that the world map who adresses the winkel tripel projection is repeated and also appears as the mollweide map, one of these must be removed in favor of variety. In this kind of articles the more variety the better, It also would be appropiate to shrink a bit the heading paragraph's tumnails, so these maps don't invade the space destined to other sections. Finally, I'm thinking of writting a section dedicated to "Early maps", i was looking it up yesterday and i found the sources to do so. Thank you. Czixhc (talk) 00:27, 26 September 2013 (UTC)
Edit on spherical earth[edit][2], Well, we added what source said, so either we have to add what source is saying or nothing, but for now, i think it's better to keep what source said, or current edit will work too
Also one more thing, in that same section of "india" both of the sources no where mentions "calculated by Eratosthenes in the 3rd century BC", only about the current one, so that line should be removed. Justicejayant (talk) 16:50, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
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Gall-Peters Projection[edit]I would argue that a 180-degree rotation is quite a relevant difference. Furthermore, the article opens the door to explaining the reasoning behind the use of that specific map by stating that "prominence to countries in less technologically developed parts of the world that are otherwise underestimated". Finally, while I understand that you strive for editorial cohesion, the strength of Wikipedia lies in the non-linear connections made between various articles, rather than being just a straight forward encyclopedia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.217.20.146 (talk) 20:56, 6 January 2014 (UTC)
Schmidt and Gauss-Boaga[edit]Hey Strebe! I just got the message that you reverted me at Lambert azimuthal equal-area projection. I agree that the Schmidt net should be its own article. It is also a separate article on de-wiki: de:Schmidtsches Netz. Do you want to split the articles? Also, I saw that you specialize in projections. Can you take a look at Gauss-Boaga projection when you have time. Thanks. --Tobias1984 (talk) 17:29, 26 March 2014 (UTC)
POTD notification[edit]![]() Hi Strebe, Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:Collignon projection SW.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on April 19, 2014. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2014-04-19. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 01:50, 4 April 2014 (UTC) Are the two projections supposed to be the same size, or is the front supposed to be smaller than the other? I want to combine them into a single image for POTD, but the article doesn't tell me. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 00:44, 18 April 2014 (UTC)
Perfect, thanks. Here's the notification (not like you needed it, but...). Note that I will be image mapping the main page version to link to the individual files, rather than this combined form. ![]() Hi Strebe, Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:Hammer retroazimuthal projection combined2.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on May 5, 2014. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2014-05-05. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 01:26, 21 April 2014 (UTC) POTD notification[edit]![]() Hi Strebe, Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:Orthographic projection SW.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on June 4, 2014. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2014-06-04. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 01:54, 19 May 2014 (UTC)
Orthographic projection[edit]Hi Strebe, Thank you for contacting me on this issue. My concern with the title "Orthographic projection (cartography)" is that parenthetical disambiguators are intended to be used to disambiguate, not to indicate subcategories; that title therefore suggests that there is no connection between this article and the main Orthographic projection article, when they are in fact very closely related. Orthographic projection is a mathematical concept which is applied to cartography, and it is this application that is the subject of the article in question. As such, whatever title we use should have a title that does not use a parenthetical disambiguator. Is there another title with which you would be satisfied? If your concern with the title "Orthographic projection map" is that the word "map" is not specific to geography, perhaps we can use the title "Orthographic projection in cartography". I hope we will be successful in finding a mutually satisfactory title for this article. Neelix (talk) 16:34, 8 June 2014 (UTC)
POTD notification[edit]![]() Hi Strebe, Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:HEALPix projection SW.svg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on July 10, 2014. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2014-07-10. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 00:22, 26 June 2014 (UTC)
You might want to take a look at the etymology section in the Bikini article. It has sourced, cited and reviewed information that probably can be used here. Aditya(talk • contribs) 06:50, 3 July 2014 (UTC)
POTD notification[edit]![]() Hi Strebe, Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:Two-point equidistant projection SW.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on August 30, 2014. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2014-08-30. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 00:49, 10 August 2014 (UTC)
Equidistant Conic Projection[edit]I hear you're the cartographer around here! Therefore, I formally request that you create a good image for the Equidistant Conic Projection. It's a somewhat aesthetically unappealing sample at the moment. Thanks in advance! 72.83.246.25 (talk) 23:36, 10 August 2014 (UTC)
A small info for you[edit]I am not editing again on tamarind again but a small information for you that In Arabic language هندي means anything from India. هندي means Hindi or originated from India. So when Arabs are stating in their own language that this fruit is from India then why I cannot add any information in Hindi then?. Anyway no point to argue. Keep your dictatorship intact.Mintoo44 (talk) 17:43, 28 August 2014 (UTC)
POTD notification[edit]Hi Strebe, Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Natural Earth projection SW.JPG is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on October 15, 2014. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2014-10-15. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 01:02, 24 September 2014 (UTC)
POTD notification[edit]![]() Hi Strebe, Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Cassini projection SW.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on November 17, 2014. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2014-11-17. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 00:44, 27 October 2014 (UTC) POTD notification[edit]Hi Strebe, Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Guyou doubly periodic projection SW.JPG is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on December 4, 2014. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2014-12-04. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:53, 12 November 2014 (UTC)
Cartography and prehistoric topographic engravings[edit]Hi Strebe, you've recently deleted some paragraphs on the "Cartography" Wiki page stating that "These artifacts are ambiguous and disputed, and the description is too detailed for the context". While I agree as concerns the too detailed description (I shortened it), I don't agree to the "ambiguous and disputed" condition of the items I'm treating, which are the so-called topographical prehistoric representations in the alpine rock art. I'm an archaeologist with more than 30 years of experience in the field, and I know what I'm writing about: these "artifacts" act as real archaeological finds, are well dated by the study of the sequence of the engraving phases, and widely recognised by most scholars since the beginning of the last century as a plan depiction of human landscapes (cultivated plots or farms or villages), although some-way symbolic (but all maps are symbols...). So it's not the best choice to define them as ambiguous or questioned. As being a zenith representation of a territory dating back to 4000-3500 BC (it's not a coincidence that it was the period of the agriculture revolution led by the use of the plough, but this is not a cartography matter), I don't understand why they shouldn't be cited in the history of cartography, indeed as the most ancient European and near-East landscape representation. I may add that, being in a mountain environment, a zenith view of of the land below, like the bottom of the valley or the opposite slope, is quite natural, and may provoke its depiction as a rock engraving; this is a further element which favours a topographic interpretation. In conclusion, I hope you won't delete again this little contribution, which I think is valuable. It will be interesting for me to write a paper regarding which kind of consideration is granted to such subject, i.e, the engraved iconographic heritage, by scholars of other disciplines. Many thanks and best of all. Ruparch (AA) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ruparch (talk • contribs) 22:18, 2 December 2014 (UTC)
POTD notification[edit]![]() Hi Strebe, Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Winkel triple projection SW.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on December 28, 2014. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2014-12-28. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 12:56, 10 December 2014 (UTC) POTD notification[edit]![]() Hi Strebe, Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Tobler hyperelliptical projection SW.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on January 12, 2015. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2015-01-12. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 18:29, 23 December 2014 (UTC) POTD notification[edit]![]() Hi Strebe, Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Albers projection SW.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on January 29, 2015. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2015-01-29. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 14:52, 10 January 2015 (UTC)
Hobbit Undo[edit]Hi! I disagree with your undo on The Hobbit but did not want to get persnickety by undoing an undo. I thought the detail addition minor and relevant. After all, it is an accurate addition of four words total: hardly "too much detail" I think. Should we move it to talk? HullIntegrity (talk) 19:51, 18 January 2015 (UTC) POTD notification[edit]![]() Hi Strebe, Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Werner projection SW.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on February 14, 2015. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2015-02-14. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 13:51, 27 January 2015 (UTC) POTD notification[edit]![]() Hi Strebe, Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Goode homolosine projection SW.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on February 26, 2015. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2015-02-26. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:33, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
POTD notification[edit]Hi Strebe, Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:Littrow projection SW.JPG is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on March 11, 2015. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2015-03-11. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 01:05, 21 February 2015 (UTC)
POTD notification[edit]![]() Hi Strebe, Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:Sinusoidal projection SW.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on March 22, 2015. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2015-03-22. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 01:02, 4 March 2015 (UTC)
Great images[edit]Hello, Strebe -- I just want to tell you how much I like the images, the map projection distortions in plum and mint colors on your user page. I see you work with maps. I love maps, but don't know anything about making them. CorinneSD (talk) 23:32, 6 March 2015 (UTC) Or is it wine and forest green... CorinneSD (talk) 23:33, 6 March 2015 (UTC)
Graphic[edit]You might be interested in the discussion regarding a graphic representation of a plant virus at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/TMV diagram. I've been trying to help, but since I know nothing about viruses and very little about graphic design, I may not be helping very much. I thought of you since you seem to know how to design things. Maybe you could help improve the diagram. (You might consider moving the discussion to the designer's talk page. Discussions at WP:FP don't usually go on too long.) CorinneSD (talk) 01:44, 9 March 2015 (UTC) Could you do some very large projections?[edit]Hello Strebe, I'm a big fan of your work on map projections here, awesome work! I need some for a non profit Foundation for printing wall size, would you be willing to do a couple of custom Goode and Vertical Projections for that purpose? they're willing to pay for your work. As soon as I was asked for some projections I inmediatelly remembered your work and came here first :) You can find me in Skype, user: akma72 Thanks and sorry for the bother --Akma72 (talk) 20:34, 3 April 2015 (UTC) A barnstar for you![edit]
Thank you very kindy, Akma72! Strebe (talk) 03:19, 22 April 2015 (UTC) Mercator “presented” his projection versus “used in maps”[edit]Hi, Strebe, You claim that it’s “not accurate” to say that Mercator used his eponymous projection in his own maps: > The Mercator projection is a cylindrical map projection used in maps published by the Flemish geographer and cartographer Gerardus Mercator in 1569. preferring instead > The Mercator projection is a cylindrical map projection presented by the Flemish geographer and cartographer Gerardus Mercator in 1569. This is his map from 1569: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mercator_1569.png so why do you say the first sentence is not accurate? The term ”presented” implies that he merely described it, perhaps in a paper or a talk. It does not necessarily imply that he made a map with it, which he did. So I would argue that the first statement is more accurate by providing more detail about what he did. And that it’s an important detail! — Andy Anderson 11:52, 21 April 2015 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Aanderson@amherst.edu (talk • contribs)
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POTD notification[edit]![]() Hi Strebe, Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Aitoff projection SW.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on May 11, 2015. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2015-05-11. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 00:53, 23 April 2015 (UTC)
Reversion[edit]So, you reverted my edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Byte_order_mark&oldid=prev&diff=660910568 Which, you know, isn't very nice. Prior to my edit, there's nothing in the opening paragraph that gives even a hint as to how a single character can actually communicate what the byte order is. If you think my statement is inaccurate, please improve it, but wholesale reverting a good faith edit that adds useful information to an opening paragraph is just being rude. Would love to see you reinstate some improved version. Stevage 10:09, 5 May 2015 (UTC)
Altai mountains[edit]Hello, Strebe - I was just looking at the article Altai mountains, and I was looking at the map in the lede/infobox. I don't think it's a particularly good map. It's a bit fuzzy and the labels are not in English. I'm wondering if you could find a better map. CorinneSD (talk) 16:05, 9 May 2015 (UTC)
POTD notification[edit]Hi Strebe, Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Bottomley projection SW.JPG is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on June 19, 2015. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2015-06-19. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 23:34, 28 May 2015 (UTC)
POTD notification[edit]![]() Hi Strebe, Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Hobo–Dyer projection SW.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on July 6, 2015. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2015-07-06. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 11:47, 15 June 2015 (UTC)
POTD notification[edit]![]() Hi Strebe, Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Kavraiskiy VII projection SW.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on July 21, 2015. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2015-07-21. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 00:24, 2 July 2015 (UTC) Space-oblique_Mercator_projection[edit]Just found this article Space-oblique_Mercator_projection it probably needs some attention from someone such as yourself ? EdwardLane (talk) 22:18, 6 July 2015 (UTC)
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POTD notification[edit]![]() Hi Strebe, Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Craig projection SW.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on August 19, 2015. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2015-08-19. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 01:14, 3 August 2015 (UTC)
POTD notification[edit]![]() Hi Strebe, Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Gnomonic projection SW.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on September 9, 2015. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2015-09-09. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 00:20, 23 August 2015 (UTC) POTD notification[edit]![]() Hi Strebe, Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Chamberlin trimetric projection SW.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on October 2, 2015. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2015-10-02. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 23:39, 14 September 2015 (UTC)
POTD notification[edit]![]() Hi Strebe, Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Behrmann projection SW.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on October 16, 2015. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2015-10-16. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 00:45, 30 September 2015 (UTC)
Flat Earth[edit]What do you mean? "There is no "advocacy". It's in the lede because it's what people might often be looking for when coming to this article." They are looking for information from a religious group that wants to change history and promoted their own view of science? They are an intelligent design advocacy group. This is pseudoscience garbage disguised as science. Lipsquid (talk) 16:07, 10 October 2015 (UTC)
FYI: I have started an ANI discussion about this incident. LjL (talk) 21:20, 10 October 2015 (UTC) POTD notification[edit]Hi Strebe, Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Eckert II projection SW.JPG is schedule to be Picture of the Day on November 1, 2015. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2015-11-01. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 23:36, 14 October 2015 (UTC) Rhumblines, Windroses and Portolan[edit]Hi Strebe, seems like an interesting conversation going on here that you might be the (informed) third person in the discussion - so it can be sorted out? EdwardLane (talk) 12:49, 6 November 2015 (UTC)
POTD notification[edit]![]() Hi Strebe, Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Vertical perspective SW.jpg is scheduled to be Picture of the Day on November 29, 2015. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2015-11-28. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 00:46, 11 November 2015 (UTC) Hi, POTD notification[edit]![]() Hi Strebe, Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Gall–Peters projection SW.jpg is scheduled to be Picture of the Day on December 15, 2015. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2015-12-15. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 23:49, 26 November 2015 (UTC) Exaplanation[edit]Please use your edit summaries for explanations when reverting. Thank you. Judist (talk) 15:19, 27 November 2015 (UTC) Hello, Strebe. I'm coming to you since you seem to be a knowledgeable person involved with the article. I tried to read the Controversies section, but had difficulty with the sequence of events because of references to "the previous century" and "twenty years earlier" with no date given as the starting point. I think I've figured it out, but it would probably be better for someone better versed in the topic to tweak that paragraph/section. Cheers, Awien (talk) 13:33, 14 December 2015 (UTC) POTD notification[edit]![]() Hi Strebe, Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Bonne projection SW.jpg is scheduled to be Picture of the Day on January 7, 2016. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2016-01-07. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 00:35, 19 December 2015 (UTC)
POTD notification[edit]Hi Strebe, Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Stereographic projection SW.JPG is scheduled to be Picture of the Day on January 23, 2016. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2016-01-23. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 23:52, 4 January 2016 (UTC) POTD notification[edit]![]() Hi Strebe, Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Van der Grinten projection SW.jpg is scheduled to be Picture of the Day on February 10, 2016. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2016-02-10. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 07:14, 22 January 2016 (UTC) Map projection edit[edit]Hi there. Someone reported on the IRC that in that article section titles were appended by [edit] links that were the same size as the section headings themselves, with no space in between. We were trying to account for why that is, and removing {{rp|1}} did the trick of restoring normalcy. --Mareklug talk 15:39, 25 January 2016 (UTC)
Disambiguation link notification for February 4[edit]Hi. Thank you for your recent edits. Wikipedia appreciates your help. We noticed though that when you edited Dire wolf, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Robert Hunter. Such links are almost always unintended, since a disambiguation page is merely a list of "Did you mean..." article titles. Read the FAQ • Join us at the DPL WikiProject. It's OK to remove this message. Also, to stop receiving these messages, follow these opt-out instructions. Thanks, DPL bot (talk) 11:43, 4 February 2016 (UTC) POTD notification[edit]![]() Hi Strebe, Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Cylindrical equal-area projection SW.jpg is scheduled to be Picture of the Day on February 27, 2016. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2016-02-27. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 00:15, 11 February 2016 (UTC)
POTD problem[edit]In the POTD mentioned in the previous section, the picture text doesn't match the picture. It says "Cylindrical projections stretch distances east-west ..." and goes on about north–south compression. But the only visible example is a map whose most noticeable feature is an Africa stretched north to south, not east to west. The rectangles are 15 by 15 degrees, so they would be squares near the equator without north–south or east–west compression. So can we reword the description to match the picture? Art LaPella (talk) 03:37, 20 February 2016 (UTC)
POTD notification[edit]![]() Hi Strebe, Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Wagner VI projection SW.jpg is scheduled to be Picture of the Day on March 13, 2016. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2016-03-13. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 00:40, 27 February 2016 (UTC)
POTD notification[edit]![]() Hi Strebe, Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Ecker IV projection SW.jpg is scheduled to be Picture of the Day on April 3, 2016. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2016-04-03. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 00:07, 18 March 2016 (UTC) POTD notification[edit]Hi Strebe, Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Peirce quincuncial projection SW 20W.JPG is scheduled to be Picture of the Day on April 14, 2016. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2016-04-14. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 23:44, 27 March 2016 (UTC) POTD notification[edit]![]() Hi Strebe, Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Azimuthal equidistant projection SW.jpg is scheduled to be Picture of the Day on May 19, 2016. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2016-05-19. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 01:19, 3 May 2016 (UTC) POTD notification[edit]![]() Hi Strebe, Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Hammer projection SW.jpg is scheduled to be Picture of the Day on June 6, 2016. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2016-06-06. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 01:01, 21 May 2016 (UTC) edit warring and ownership behavior....[edit]hello. You may have had a valid point about wrong placement, in the paragraph about earth (possibly), but that's why the more respectful edit would be to simply re-locate to the more apropos paragraph, just before...but you didn't do that, because you just don't like or want the phrase "perfect sphere" in any sense, even when said to be "commonly called" etc...anywhere anyhow. And that's ownership activity, and hogging, mainly for "I don't like" reasons, but always given front excuses of "redundant" and "not accurate" or 'not needed' or whatever. But look up NO OWN.... Seriously. TOO many contributors on Wikipedia commit that, and always deny they're doing it of course. This is a wiki, and your arrogant ownership and bullying behavior I won't tolerate, and I will report. This was MARK'S own wording... You have no business deleting stuff you don't like.... Non-valid removal restored. see article Talk... If the statement was not in the best paragraph, that's a valid point, but deleting it completely instead of relocating it better, with the excuse of "repetition" is not valid cuz YOU JUST DON'T LIKE "PERFECT SPHERE" anywhere in the article. That's really what it boils down to, despite Mark's comments and points on Talk. No consensus against putting Mark's compromise suggestion. Anyway, I did better placement...instead of wholesale removal. Redzemp (talk) 19:08, 12 June 2016 (UTC)
Strebe, although I agree with your reverts, you should cut back on them. You appear to be in violation of WP:3RR and are in danger of getting blocked for edit warring, especially because there is already a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Edit warring about Redzemp's edit-warring where your own edits have also been mentioned. —David Eppstein (talk) 22:03, 12 June 2016 (UTC)
You've been warned for edit warring per the outcome of this complaint. Your reverts of User:Redzemp are not exempt from 3RR. I recommend you take a break from editing the article and limit yourself to the talk page. Thank you, EdJohnston (talk) 13:27, 13 June 2016 (UTC)
POTD notification[edit]![]() Hi Strebe, Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:American Polyconic projection.jpg is scheduled to be Picture of the Day on July 8, 2016. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2016-07-08. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 01:23, 23 June 2016 (UTC) POTD notification[edit]Hi Strebe, Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Gall Stereographic projection SW.JPG is scheduled to be Picture of the Day on July 23, 2016. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2016-07-23. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 00:57, 7 July 2016 (UTC) POTD notification[edit]![]() Hi Strebe, Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Equirectangular projection SW.jpg is scheduled to be Picture of the Day on August 9, 2016. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2016-08-09. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 09:52, 24 July 2016 (UTC)
Hi Strebe it's me again, has the progress on that request any closer to being finished ?? Drax90 (talk) 16:49, 22 August 2016 (UTC) POTD notification[edit]![]() Hi Strebe, Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Lambert azimuthal equal-area projection SW.jpg is scheduled to be Picture of the Day on September 7, 2016. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2016-09-07. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 23:25, 24 August 2016 (UTC) POTD notification[edit]![]() Hi Strebe, Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Lambert conformal conic projection SW.jpg is scheduled to be Picture of the Day on September 21, 2016. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2016-09-21. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 23:51, 6 September 2016 (UTC) Web Mercator[edit]I'm new to editing in Wikipedia - and I welcome you suggestion that I take my comments to the TALK section for this article. I ask you to have an open mind when you read my comments... I will tell you up front that I have been in personal contact with two of the USGS authors of the Journal Publication "Implications of Web Mercator and Its Use in Online Mapping" found in reference 2 of the Web Mercator article. The feedback I have from them is there is nothing wrong with the Web Mercator projection. The sense is - it is appropriate for its intended use - internet or mobile mapping - because it is quick. Probably over a billion people use the projection every day on Bing, Google Maps, Waze and many others - and they all get to their locations... The position that there are inherent location errors associated with the projection have simply not be technically substantiated... There is no technical evidence to justify the statement in the first paragraph under Properties that errors up to 35KM are possible. The Web Mercator projection is an EXACT mathematical projection of the WGS84 ellipsoid from 3D to 2D using the equations found in EPSG:3857. A user viewing a properly created Web Mercator projection on a web or mobile mapping device can derive the exact WGS84 ellipsoidal coordinates of the location specified on the screen by the software working backward from the X&Y value indicated for that location on the screen on the Web Mercator projection. The is no error. I believe this misconception that Web Mercator has errors follows from the train of thought that the Web Mercator projection uses the same equations used to project a sphere onto a cylinder tangent to the sphere at the equator. The projection of a sphere onto a cylinder which is tangent at the equator can be achieved both graphically (think light bulb at center of the sphere) and mathematically - using equations from EPSG:3785. The Web Mercator projection cannot be achieved graphically... It should be considered an abstract projection (and there are an infinite number of possible abstract projections) in that it can only be produced mathematically. The Web Mercator projection can not be "graphically" created from an ellipsoid with a cylinder tangent to the equator... It is created using the equations from EPSG:3857 - which happen to be the same equations as found in EPSG:3785. But - it is not a spherical projection of an ellipsoid (there is no sphere in Web Mercator)... It is a mathematical projection of the WGS84 ellipsoid into a 2D space - which happens to use the same equations which mathematically represent the graphical projection of a sphere onto a cylinder which is tangent to the sphere at the equator... Both the Web Mercator and the Mercator Projection (where the "e" is not zero) of the WGS84 ellipsoid "stretch" in the Y direction as one moves away from the equator. The Web Mercator stretches in Y slightly more than the Mercator projection as the polar diameter being slightly shorter than the equatorial diameter of the WGS84 ellipsoid is not taken into account in this mathematical projection. The only way a user may possibly generate a 37 KM error is if the user incorrectly attempts to combine them in the same X&Y coordinate plane - and then goes on to make more mistakes. Take a look at the website in the first external link I have provided. In the introduction section - take a look at the map projections shown under the link for "Three Different Map Projections of the United States". The projections appear offset - but there is no error in the two conformal projections... An uneducated user of the two projections may be able to generate some errors in his or her calculations - but there is no error per say in the projections themselves... Much of this mis-information regarding the Web Mercator projection seems to follow from the publication found in reference 1 of the Web Mercator article. Figure A2 in Appendix A-6 of this document misrepresents the facts regarding the Mercator and Web Mercator projection. There is absolutely no location errors from either of the projections. The X&Y coordinate axis which is needed to plot these two projections in the 2D plane was left out. There should be separate 50 and 60 degree latitude lines for each projection in that figure... Again - there is no error in either of the projections - other than the typical distortions which occur when one project a 3D object into the 2D realm. There are ample examples that the Web Mercator projection yields the correct WGS84 latitude and longitude... One of many is found in the second external link I have provided below. The reference to the EPSG comments regarding the Web Mercator projection are also suspect (not the references to them - but the comments themselves) - which is a topic of another effort to resolve... This is plain and simple math. There are no location errors associated with the Web Mercator projection. I challenge you to provide ONE example of a location found in a Web Mercator projection yielding a latitude and longitude which is not within meters of the actual WGS84 coordinates of that location (pick out a survey marker visible in Google Maps)... Pick a spot in Northern England... Unless you can demonstrate there is an actual error - I believe this article needs to be revised... External links[edit]Three Different Map Projections of the United States] Accuracy of Google Maps] Respectfully Ebzimmerman (talk) 17:07, 7 September 2016 (UTC)
I'll go ahead and take this to the Web Mercator TALK site. Looking at it and its sources - the elephant is quite large... I will attempt to take small bites... :) Ebzimmerman (talk) 15:26, 8 September 2016 (UTC) POTD notification[edit]![]() Hi Strebe, Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Mercator projection SW.jpg is scheduled to be Picture of the Day on October 6, 2016. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2016-10-06. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 15:21, 21 September 2016 (UTC) POTD notification[edit]![]() Hi Strebe, Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Miller projection SW.jpg is scheduled to be Picture of the Day on October 19, 2016. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2016-10-19. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 23:31, 5 October 2016 (UTC) POTD notification[edit]![]() Hi Strebe, Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Robinson projection SW.jpg is scheduled to be Picture of the Day on November 2, 2016. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2016-11-02. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 06:40, 19 October 2016 (UTC) Followed by[edit]Hi Strebe, I've just been glancing through the above talk topics, and I'm in awe of your work. Getting to my topic, I note your recent edit & comment on the Followed By label in The Hobbit. Looking at how this is used for other authors' works, one notes e.g. that Oliver Twist is 'followed by' Nicholas Nickleby, although NN is not a sequel of OT. The Hobbit (1937) was followed by Leaf by Niggle (1945, albeit not in its own book), then Farmer Giles of Ham (definitely in its own book): both definitely published before LotR. At the same time I definitely think it's important to include LotR in The Hobbit's info box. Perhaps a separate label 'Sequel'? Regards Jungleboy63 (talk) 01:22, 29 October 2016 (UTC) Jungleboy63 (talk) 01:22, 29 October 2016 (UTC)
Authagraph[edit]thought this article might be of interest Authagraph EdwardLane (talk) 10:26, 4 November 2016 (UTC)
ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open![edit]Hello, Strebe. Voting in the 2016 Arbitration Committee elections is open from Monday, 00:00, 21 November through Sunday, 23:59, 4 December to all unblocked users who have registered an account before Wednesday, 00:00, 28 October 2016 and have made at least 150 mainspace edits before Sunday, 00:00, 1 November 2016. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate in the 2016 election, please review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open![edit]Hello, Strebe. Voting in the 2016 Arbitration Committee elections is open from Monday, 00:00, 21 November through Sunday, 23:59, 4 December to all unblocked users who have registered an account before Wednesday, 00:00, 28 October 2016 and have made at least 150 mainspace edits before Sunday, 00:00, 1 November 2016. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate in the 2016 election, please review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. Mdann52 (talk) 22:08, 21 November 2016 (UTC) POTD notification[edit]![]() Hi Strebe, Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Lambert cylindrical equal-area projection SW.jpg is scheduled to be Picture of the Day on December 18, 2016. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2016-12-18. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 01:57, 30 November 2016 (UTC) POTD notification[edit]![]() Hi Strebe, Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:Mollweide projection SW.jpg is scheduled to be Picture of the Day on January 2, 2017. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2017-01-02. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 08:51, 22 December 2016 (UTC) Spherical UTM[edit]I am agree spherical UTM may be an abstraction, but they are useful in this way. As wikipedia is an encyclopedia I think spherical UTM have its own place on the UTM page. Why don't set a remark rather than clean the spherical form ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Julien2512 (talk • contribs) 22:29, 28 January 2017 (UTC) MIller proj4 ref[edit]Sorry for that. I set this ref a bit early ... I will set it back later when the miller proj4 page will be ended up. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Julien2512 (talk • contribs) 22:34, 28 January 2017 (UTC) Umami talk page[edit]Strebe: I don't understand your edit here of the troll comments by GR.no. First is the policy of WP:TALKO which indicates there should be no editing of Talk comments. Second is your edit of GR.no's false comment about PubMed, seemingly to reinforce the distorted incorrect belief of GR.no that PubMed is not a credible source; it's the source for references in WP:MED articles. Third is the general editing you did, seemingly to selectively edit and confirm what the troll was saying about the strange claim by GR.no that the umami concept is fake. You are an experienced editor, but this participation is strangely curious, if not certainly misdirected. Comments? --Zefr (talk) 17:51, 19 February 2017 (UTC)
Making map projections[edit]Hi Strebe, I've got an idea for a hex based map of the earth - but I'm currently struggling with the map projection Do you know a practical way to take an image such as the one to the right - and distort (not crop) it into a regular hexagon?![]() I don't know if you have any suggestions of ways to go about it - every art package I look at online seems to let you warp to squares but not to hexagonal. (I think GIMP lets you do 'curve bend' as a way i might be able to manually distort things) mathematically it should be possible (based on this http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/212121/is-there-a-map-from-a-segment-to-a-triangle) but that's pushing my understanding. EdwardLane (talk) 15:34, 9 March 2017 (UTC)
Christopher Columbus[edit]Hi Strebe! I would like to know your thoughts on why Christopher Columbus is described as an "Italian" rather than a "Genoese". As far as I'm aware, Wikipedia is an encyclopaedia, and does not intend to over simplify historical facts as blunt obvious as his nationality. If you were born in the 1450's in the "Italic peninsula", you weren't called an italian, but a Parmesan, Sardinian etc... Even though the term "Italian" isn't a modern word (you're right about that), it was only used to vaguely describe the different peoples in modern day Italy. The same goes for Castilian people for instance; El Cid is referred to a "Castilian" nobleman and not "Spanish", since the latter wouldn't become a nation until later on. An example of what this should look like (in my mind): Ambrogio Spinola. Many thanks for your patience! --Barbudo Barbudo (talk) 18:40, 13 June 2017 (UTC)
Thank you for that thoughtful answer! I agree with you now a bit more. --Barbudo Barbudo (talk) 19:35, 13 June 2017 (UTC) Your submission at Articles for creation: Latitudinally equal-differential polyconic projection has been accepted[edit]![]() The article has been assessed as Start-Class, which is recorded on the article's talk page. You may like to take a look at the grading scheme to see how you can improve the article. You are more than welcome to continue making quality contributions to Wikipedia. Note that because you are a logged-in user, you can create articles yourself, and don't have to post a request. However, you may continue submitting work to Articles for Creation if you prefer.
Thank you for helping improve Wikipedia! SwisterTwister talk 22:59, 19 July 2017 (UTC)Indirect quotation of NYT[edit]Re [4]: The reason I questioned the source is that the quotation is presented as originating from somewhere else, so on the face of it, it does not seem to be a valid source. Using it as a secondary source is fine, but we should be transparent about what we're doing; IMO the citation should say something like
I know if I submitted an academic paper citing a book as a source of a quotation from a newspaper, it would be returned for corrections as the source would be manifestly incorrect. Hairy Dude (talk) 17:27, 31 August 2017 (UTC)
Globe[edit]Please explain your edit here. When Googling "oldest globe" the Erdapfel will invariably come up, yet it's pretty well established that it's not the oldest globe. This wouldn't matter if its earlier counterparts were only slightly older, but 1800 years or so is a lot. Prinsgezinde (talk) 20:03, 7 November 2017 (UTC)
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Map external links[edit]I thought the external links on Map were particularly useful, and your deletions a retrograde step. Can we discuss? Cheers, Tony Holkham (Talk) 08:29, 10 August 2018 (UTC)
Hobbit - Third Age[edit]I appreciate your points about the chronology - but don't really understand why you removed the link to Third Age - we are not writing the article from the point of view of 1937 - in the full fictional universe the Hobbit is set in the Third Age - it seems a sensible link.
Also in the facsimile of first edition the text states (exactly) "The period is the ancient time between the age of Faerie and the dominion of men" - I assume this is correct (as a facsimile)
I will change the [edited once] Xoool (talk) 21:16, 21 September 2018 (UTC)
Supposed "vandalism" at Christopher Columbus[edit]While I would like to thank you for adding a citation to support the uncited statement that I removed from the article Christopher Columbus, I nonetheless feel compelled to strongly object to your accusation that my removal of that statement was "vandalism." Merriam Webster defines "vandalism" as "willful or malicious destruction or defacement of public or private property." Our article vandalism defines "vandalism" as an "action involving deliberate destruction of or damage to public or private property". Our policy article Wikipedia:Vandalism defines "vandalism" as "editing (or other behavior) deliberately intended to obstruct or defeat the project's purpose, which is to create a free encyclopedia, in a variety of languages, presenting the sum of all human knowledge." By its very definition, vandalism is always done with deliberate, malicious intent; it is never accidental and it is never done in good faith. When you accuse me of "vandalism," you are equating me with people who remove all content from whole articles and replace them with obscenities typed in all caps. I hope you understand how that is offensive and a grossly inaccurate mischaracterization of what I did. You may believe that my removal of that statement was unjustified or that it was unconstructive, but it certainly was not vandalism. I removed that statement because it had been tagged as uncited for three years and, according to policy, all information in our articles is supposed to be cited to reliable sources. Wikipedia:Verifiability clearly and explicitly states: "All material in Wikipedia mainspace, including everything in articles, lists and captions, must be verifiable. All quotations, and any material whose verifiability has been challenged or is likely to be challenged, must include an inline citation that directly supports the material. Any material that needs a source but does not have one may be removed." My actions were entirely in line with even the most relentlessly bureaucratic interpretation of that policy imaginable. You are welcome to believe that my removal of that statement was unjustified or unproductive, but I was acting entirely in good faith and I would strongly admonish you against accusing people of vandalism when they are clearly trying to be helpful and constructive. --Katolophyromai (talk) 05:22, 13 October 2018 (UTC)
Thanks for your work on this. But to make it better, it would be great to move the more detailed application description into an applications section, and reference a source. You might want to add a new section under Applications if you don't see one that fits what you're describing. But if you don't cite a source, it might not last. It sounds to me like your description is related to Short-time Fourier transform, so link that, which currently only shows up in the See also section and a ref. Dicklyon (talk) 03:04, 24 October 2018 (UTC) @Dicklyon: I don't care about what I wrote specifically. What I care about is that the lede is deprived of meaning for someone who doesn't already know what a window function is for, how it is used, and why. I gave a detailed example, called it an example, and I doubt it would be taken to be the sole example by most people who read the word example. The so-called "applications" later in the article lists domains in which window functions are used, not what window functions accomplish or why they are needed there. The whole article is written for people who already know what a window function is. It's just not useful. I would thank you to either restore what I wrote or write something everyone approves of better that fulfills the need of people who are trying to figure out what this window function thing is for. The lede as it was fulfilled practically no purpose of a lede. And really, this should have been addressed in the article's talk page, not here. Strebe (talk) 04:09, 24 October 2018 (UTC) Yes, please do take it to the article talk page. I'm sure something can be worked out for the lead. Dicklyon (talk) 01:54, 25 October 2018 (UTC) ArbCom 2018 election voter message[edit]Hello, Strebe. Voting in the 2018 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23.59 on Sunday, 3 December. All users who registered an account before Sunday, 28 October 2018, made at least 150 mainspace edits before Thursday, 1 November 2018 and are not currently blocked are eligible to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate in the 2018 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:42, 19 November 2018 (UTC) RE: Umami[edit]Thanks for noticing that. The link was briefly redirecting to via a junk page, a user reported it and I verified the problem. It seems fine now though. --Krenair (talk • contribs) 23:01, 18 January 2019 (UTC) "Useless Pedantry"[edit]Language of that sort is unnecessarily provocative. Please assume good faith. A fact is "a thing that is known or proved to be true". It is known that the Earth is not a sphere, so the sphericity of the Earth is not a fact, but an idea or concept, and the article Spherical Earth is not about a fact, but about an idea. 95.147.15.231 (talk) 00:31, 26 March 2019 (UTC)
Thanks for improvement of Oblique Mercator projection[edit]Thanks for improvement of Oblique Mercator projection. I updated Wikidata page about you. Would you upload a map of Gall isographic projection? --Sharouser (talk) 14:31, 7 August 2019 (UTC)
I think I may have confused you by making two edits in succession, and you may have only read the summary on the second one. The first edit's summary was "formula was different between sources, standardize on the one from Snyder since that's what the rest of Wikipedia uses". I removed the reference because it didn't seem to be describing the same projection, and I didn't want to make things more confusing. The typos were the ones I made in the LaTeX in the first edit. I was the one who added the reference I removed: I'm just trying to fix my own mistakes here.-Apocheir (talk) 20:52, 19 August 2019 (UTC)
Sorry[edit]Sorry for causing trouble on the Globe page. I hope you forgive me. I will soon change my IP address. Good day/night to you. And please know that I was not trying to cause problems. I should have checked the edit history. Again, good day/night to you. 24.45.162.146 (talk) 22:37, 22 August 2019 (UTC) Do you have a reference for the last sentence of Two-point equidistant projection? That sentence currently has a CN tag. I think it might be in Snyder's Flattening the Earth, but Google Books won't show me the relevant pages. -Apocheir (talk) 23:08, 16 September 2019 (UTC) DRN[edit]You have to continue working to get consensus. I’ve filed Wikipedia:Dispute resolution noticeboard#Map projection.—Jasper Deng (talk) 03:56, 6 October 2019 (UTC) I have a doubt about Tolkien's world[edit]Are the branch of the Noldor elves more powerful than the Vanyar? SmithGraves (talk) 19:13, 30 October 2019 (UTC) ArbCom 2019 election voter message[edit]![]() The article English-language editions of The Hobbit has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
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Flat Earth[edit]One of the major misconceptions with flat earth theorists is that older civilizations used to believe in the idea wholesale. so saying "Many ancient cultures subscribed to a flat Earth cosmography" gives their unfounded stance more support. Although you might see it as minor, I would like to find a way to clearify the language so it doesn't come off as "all civilizations" I have attempted this twice. — Preceding unsigned comment added by YukoValis (talk • contribs) 20:27, 27 May 2020 (UTC)
Mercator[edit]Thanks for patching up my awkward edits. Uchyotka (talk) 05:46, 13 June 2020 (UTC) Mercator video[edit]I'm no expert on map projection but the Mercator Terra X video has raised an interesting question; the video is on equivalent German pages, and of course is a high (visual) quality output. Nevertheless this isn't the only video they've released where the content is rather questionable. I'm guessing it would be hard to 'correct' it given it shows the projection being done in a way you think isn't right. If however the voice and text can be corrected, you should let people know, I think, so this can be done, via the file(s) at commons:Category:Videos by Terra X. Either way, if it is factually wrong this should be flagged on the video talk page so it can be dealt with in some way and not perhaps reused indiscriminately. Jim Killock (talk) 18:57, 29 June 2020 (UTC)
Grammatical errors[edit]"Columbus had always claimed the conversion of non-believers as one reason for his explorations, but he grew increasingly religious in his later years." If he claimed his prior missions were for the purpose of converting non-believers, that's a very religious claim, so the "but" is completely unnecessary and confuses readers. You might debate my fix of "Columbus had always claimed the conversion of non-believers as one reason for his explorations, in his later years, he became even more religious.", sure do it. It might have mistakes, removing "but" isn't one of them. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Christopher_Columbus&diff=964266557&oldid=964223066 @E.chinguun:
An appeal[edit]Why did you even edit war with me there? I disputed a simple term, which had no supporting evidence. I took it to the talk page. Why can you not just act civilly like most and show evidence and we could together craft an accurate account of the explorer's expertise and experiences? The edit warring and personal attacks have made me upset, and prompted a lot of stress, time wasted, and not really anything to show for it. Please, next time, work with other editors on things like this. I've only been wanting to get to the bottom of it, without showing a significantly bold claim, unexplained and with only a single tertiary source. Please if you'd like to calmly work with me further on this, I'd like to without all the hostilities. ɱ (talk) 02:40, 5 July 2020 (UTC)
I'm not even reading that big wall of nasty text, I stopped at the first accusations. You are an embarrassment to the project and you should consider taking your efforts elsewhere. ɱ (talk) 03:51, 5 July 2020 (UTC) Marco Polo's nationality[edit]Hi! I saw that you are discussing about Christopher Columbus' nationality (Italian or Genoese). Well, there's a similar discussion about Marco Polo on the Talk page. Can you take a look too? BorisBradley (talk) 20:53, 12 July 2020 (UTC) de Cuneo[edit]When I first saw that edit, I also thought it was vandalism - it's too close to a vulgarity in spanish. But it does seem to be correct, see the spelling in Britannica: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Christopher-Columbus/The-second-and-third-voyages Tarl N. (discuss) 05:35, 29 October 2020 (UTC)
ArbCom 2020 Elections voter message[edit]UTM short description[edit]Thank you, I thought when I was deriving it from the existing lead that it wasn't very convincing but didn't have time to work out what was wrong with it. I was focused on getting the See also at What3Words into something useful. (I have just come across {{annotated link}}, which is much more useful to visitors than a plain list.) --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 15:07, 10 May 2021 (UTC)
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- You were right, first offended Italian has already entered the arena... Machinarium (talk) 10:42, 23 March 2023 (UTC)
How was Thomas Paine influenced by "Jacobin"
[edit]He was Girondin, and should at least be spealt as Jacobinism. StrongALPHA (talk) 15:21, 1 June 2023 (UTC)
- I don’t have any quibble with that, but we’re not even supposed to be using those template parameters, it turns out. Strebe (talk) 17:34, 1 June 2023 (UTC)
- But was wrong with the template it says philosopher at the top of his Infobox? StrongALPHA (talk) 17:37, 1 June 2023 (UTC)
- Sorry; I don’t understand this question. Strebe (talk) 18:13, 1 June 2023 (UTC)
- "but we’re not even supposed to be using those template parameters", his Infobox is as a philosopher, every other Infobox that has philosopher in the title also has a list of Influences and people Influenced, why are we no longer using these parameters, if for every other philosopher they remain, also i could not find any justification for your recent change in the link you put out? StrongALPHA (talk) 18:24, 1 June 2023 (UTC)
- The linked article states:
- DEPRECATED: Influences: DEPRECATED and unused in the infobox. Do not use.
- DEPRECATED: Influenced: DEPRECATED and unused in the infobox. Do not use.
- However, as you point out, the template is for philosophers, not persons. I see that the page describing philosopher infobox does not say that. Instead, it says with regard to both “influenced” and “influences”:
- “only add entries which are explained and cited in the body of the article (or cited here)”
- So, to do this correctly, we need to delete anything entries that are not cited in the article. Strebe (talk) 19:03, 1 June 2023 (UTC)
- Very well, but this is a rule that is not taken particularly seriously by Wikipedians. I will not change anything to the article because you police it, but on other articles on philosophers, there are plenty of references within the Infobox and random adding of names. StrongALPHA (talk) 19:40, 1 June 2023 (UTC)
- The linked article states:
- "but we’re not even supposed to be using those template parameters", his Infobox is as a philosopher, every other Infobox that has philosopher in the title also has a list of Influences and people Influenced, why are we no longer using these parameters, if for every other philosopher they remain, also i could not find any justification for your recent change in the link you put out? StrongALPHA (talk) 18:24, 1 June 2023 (UTC)
- Sorry; I don’t understand this question. Strebe (talk) 18:13, 1 June 2023 (UTC)
- The reason I asked you this question anyways, is because when several months ago I deleted mention of "Jacobin" as an influence on him you reverted it immediately afterwards. StrongALPHA (talk) 17:50, 1 June 2023 (UTC)
- But was wrong with the template it says philosopher at the top of his Infobox? StrongALPHA (talk) 17:37, 1 June 2023 (UTC)
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Contacting by other means
[edit]Hello,
Just stumbled upon a quote while doing a literature review that reminded me of the conversation. Pardon that it is a Monmonier quote.
In his paper "Lying with Maps" he is a lot clearer on the matter of choropleths and totals then in his book: "Whenever a map of count data makes sense, perhaps to place a map of rates in perspective, graphic theory condemns using a choropleth map because its ink (or toner) metaphor is misleading. Graytone area symbols, whereby darker suggests “denser” or “more intense” while lighter implies “more dispersed” or “less intense,” are wholly inappropriate for count data, which are much better served by symbols that vary in size to portray differences in magnitude (Bertin, 1983). In other words, while rate data mesh nicely with the choropleth map’s darker-means-more rule, count data require bigger-means-more coding"
Anyway, I'm trying to think about putting together a taskforce for the maps WikiProject to address misleading cartography within Wikipedia. While it is currently in the idea phase rather then implementation, you're knowledge of projections would be fantastic for trying to set criteria for projections. Again, just saw this in review and thought it was a clear and reputable statement to include in such a taskforce. Back to work for me or my advisor will have my head. GeogSage (⚔Chat?⚔) 04:13, 17 December 2023 (UTC)
Universal Transverse Mercator coordinate system
[edit]Now you have reverted my edit on Universal Transverse Mercator coordinate system, I hope that you can correct the offending link to the correct one. The Banner talk 22:21, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
Richer and Newton
[edit]Hello.
I saw your deleting on the page "Earth ellipsoid".
You certainly may know that Richer's observations in french Guiana in 1672-1673 are the first datas to confirm the theories about the non spherical shape of the earth. Newton always quoted these datas to publish his principia :
https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2022/11/how-newton-derived-the-shape-of-earth.html
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Richer/
https://www.encyclopedia.com/science/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/jean-richer
So, I think it is fair to put this on Wikipedia.
What do you think ? Frefar (talk) 17:57, 16 March 2024 (UTC)
- Hello Frefar. Thanks for your comments. I agree that the information is important and belongs on Wikipedia. I just don’t think that was the right place for it. History of geodesy is a perfect fit. Strebe (talk) 18:54, 16 March 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks ! I'll check it. Frefar (talk) 02:45, 19 March 2024 (UTC)
L. P. Lee
[edit]Hi daan. I finally got around to adding an article about Laurence Patrick Lee, after years of putting it off for no particular reason. Did I miss anything there? Feel free to expand, copyedit, etc. –jacobolus (t) 01:32, 5 August 2024 (UTC)
- @Jacobolus: Thanks for the exemplary work. I don’t see anything missing that I know about but will look deeper as time permits. Strebe (talk) 18:14, 6 August 2024 (UTC)
- I also started gathering sources/material about Oscar Sherman Adams at User:Jacobolus/Adams. I managed to find one obituary, so I think I'm about ready to piece together an article soon. I'm not sure if there are any good cartographic/geodetic secondary sources I missed discussing the impact of Adams's work. –jacobolus (t) 18:20, 6 August 2024 (UTC)
- I got a bit stalled on properly writing up a description of Adams's work, so I moved the more or less completed biographical material and bibliography to Oscar S. Adams and left some draft fragments and sources at user:jacobolus/Adams. I'll try to keep working on the 'work' section when I get a chance. –jacobolus (t) 22:43, 25 August 2024 (UTC)
Hobbits (with capital H) as Tolkien wrote them ...
[edit]Strebe, I've made an image from (blahdy blahdy, necessarily off-wiki), showing that Tolkien did indeed capitalise the word "Hobbits" repeatedly... there is no doubt about this, as you can see. Chiswick Chap (talk) 19:05, 6 August 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks for discussing over there. I note however that I'd be pleased if the link above could be removed asap, it was only for your eyes. I'll take the webpage down in a day or two anyway. Chiswick Chap (talk) 05:10, 7 August 2024 (UTC)
- Done Strebe (talk) 20:49, 7 August 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks for discussing over there. I note however that I'd be pleased if the link above could be removed asap, it was only for your eyes. I'll take the webpage down in a day or two anyway. Chiswick Chap (talk) 05:10, 7 August 2024 (UTC)
Spilhaus Projection
[edit]Hi Strebe, I figured this article was kind of up your street and could probably do with more content Athelstan_Spilhaus#Spilhaus_World_Ocean_Map_Projection
Edward EdwardLane (talk) 11:57, 1 September 2024 (UTC)