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Hi Hohum, thanks a lot for your assessment and link-edits in the PQ17 article! Much appreciated! reuvT 11:11, 29 September 2009 (UTC)
Yom Kippur War
You've made some fine edits to the Yom Kippur War. Just thought you should know.--Jiujitsuguy (talk) 08:43, 18 November 2009 (UTC)
I concur with your "de-weasel" revision in connection with the lead and suggested, on the Yom Kippur discussion page, that your version be re-instituted. I have serious problems with this article all of which I noted on the discussion page herehere and here--Jiujitsuguy (talk) 05:19, 25 November 2009 (UTC)
T-90 References
For what it's worth, the uvz.ru snapshot in the Web Archive link on the page is the official site for Uralvagonzavod, the manufacturer of the T-90. Their page appears to be poorly maintained, though (hence the need for the Web Archive version, I suppose). - Jonathon A H (talk) 01:58, 24 December 2009 (UTC)
Thanks
Thanks a lot for cleaning up File:SMS Bayern sinking2.jpg. I just wanted to let you know I appreciate the work you did on it. Cheers, Parsecboy (talk) 03:45, 9 March 2010 (UTC)
If you see any other articles where the images could do with some work, point me at them. (Hohum@) 18:52, 9 March 2010 (UTC)
Sure, will do. Thanks again! Parsecboy (talk) 00:32, 10 March 2010 (UTC)
Hi, Hohum. I came across this image a minute ago for an article I'm going to improve. Is there any way to clean up the blotches in the center? There's also this one, which I just tracked down and uploaded a minute ago. Parsecboy (talk) 12:34, 28 March 2010 (UTC)
Done and done, as best as I can. (Hohum@) 17:02, 28 March 2010 (UTC)
Thanks a lot, Hohum, both look much better! Parsecboy (talk) 13:56, 29 March 2010 (UTC)
I've tried to improve the second two, but the first one is very awkward - the pattern is wavy and irregular - which my methods don't work well with. Do you scan these yourself? Does the original have patterns, or is the scanning process creating them? (Hohum@) 18:26, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for doing what you could. I got them from here through Google Books. Parsecboy (talk) 18:30, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
File:O class battlecruiser.jpg
That's a neat trick, removing the scanning artifacts. How do you do that? —Ed(talk • majestic titan) 02:56, 10 March 2010 (UTC)
There are a few ways.
Simply blurring the areas where there are patterns.
If the patterns are regular, using a Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) plugin in your favourite graphics app Tutorial for Gimp.
I'm also trying out the "Wavelet decompose" method: Plugin for Gimp.
Interesting. I think I am going to scan in a couple pictures today or tomorrow and try out that second method. Many thanks! —Ed(talk • majestic titan) 16:27, 10 March 2010 (UTC)
Well, the second one doesn't work anymore, as the link to download the FFT is broken. I'll be trying the third method in about an hour. —Ed(talk • majestic titan) 19:31, 10 March 2010 (UTC)
*sigh*, this is why my brother says I am a noob with computers. I can't figure out how to get the plug-ins to work. I've moved them to the plug-in photo, but if I click on them from there it tells me that a file is missing... Any idea what I am doing wrong? Sorry for all the trouble. —Ed(talk • majestic titan) 23:41, 10 March 2010 (UTC)
Hmm, I installed it ages ago, so I may have led you astray. Drop fourier.exe from fourier-0.4.0_bin_win32.zip into your GIMP plugins directory; which is probably C:\Program Files\GIMP-2.0\lib\gimp\2.0\plug-ins. start GIMP. The following menu options should be available.
I just updated to this version (since it turned out mine was old and buggy) - and it worked.
Tutorial: GIMP/Remove_Coherent_Noise (Ignore the installation instructions there, it's for the older version) (Hohum@) 00:48, 11 March 2010 (UTC)
Well, I can see the filters now. The problem is that they are grayed out and I can't find a way to get them un-grayed. I've uploaded one of the photos I would like to do this too here; could you take a look and see if you can do it? And (if possible) tell me what in the world I am doing wrong? Many thanks and my apologies again for all the trouble. —Ed(talk • majestic titan) 01:58, 11 March 2010 (UTC)
What version of Gimp are you using, what operating system? I see the problem. FFT can't work on indexed images. tif is an indexed format. Go to Image - Mode, and choose Greyscale or RGB. Work on the image, and then re save it as whatever format you want. (Hohum@) 02:03, 11 March 2010 (UTC)
Hey, that did the trick.:-) Thank you very much for all of your help! —Ed(talk • majestic titan) 02:40, 11 March 2010 (UTC)
Of course, if you are scanning the images yourself, the best thing to do by far is to scan with settings that don't cause patterns (typically the highest resolution possible - and then scale the image down in post processing.) (Hohum@) 02:55, 11 March 2010 (UTC)
I scanned them with the Microsoft Scanning Wizard, using the grayscale setting (as opposed to RGD or black and white). —Ed(talk • majestic titan) 03:07, 11 March 2010 (UTC)
I don't know the Microsoft scanning wizard at all. Look for options to increase the resolution as much as possible (higher DPI) - or see if there is scanning software provided by the scanner manufacturer. What scanner do you have? (Hohum@) 18:44, 11 March 2010 (UTC)
It's the default thing that pops up when you plug in the scanner. The scanner I'm using is in my university's library; when I go up there in a couple hours (I'm going to look up some New York Times microfilms), I'll take note of what it is. —Ed(talk • majestic titan) 20:11, 11 March 2010 (UTC)
There should be a Custom settings button at some point, choose the highest DPI possible - the image can be scaled down to a reasonable size later - but this should avoid scanning artefacts. (Hohum@) 20:17, 11 March 2010 (UTC)
Yeah, I never made it to the library—went to a Maori dancing show instead.:-) I'll get there at some point tomorrow and try it. Thanks! —Ed(talk • majestic titan) 04:52, 12 March 2010 (UTC)
The Guidance Barnstar
For your above-and-beyond help with enabling me to use GIMP's fourier plug-in, I award you this barnstar. Thank you! —Ed(talk • majestic titan) 02:44, 11 March 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for the great editing that makes the article read "so much" better. Jack--Jackehammond (talk) 18:39, 8 April 2010 (UTC)
Revert method
Generally using tools designed for fighting vandalism to revert edits in content disputes is frowned upon. Use of such tools can actually be revoked. You didn't do a large rollback and Twinkle is not only for vandalism from what I understand so it wasn't anymore than a reminder from me. You could have just used the normal revert function and it makes it more of a pain for other editors when they have to double check to see if rollback was used or not. Do expect to catch trouble from other editors if you are not careful. And: "Before you start using Twinkle you really should read its documentation to familiarize yourself with some of the possibilities and functions of Twinkle. There are multitudes of options that you can configure to change some of the default behaviours of Twinkle. Never forget that you take full responsibility for any action performed using Twinkle. You must understand Wikipedia policies and use this tool within these policies, or risk having your access to use the Twinkle revoked or your being blocked." - Wikipedia:Twinkle
Wikipedia:Edit warring, which is policy, says "anti-vandalism tools such as Twinkle, Huggle and rollback should not be used to undo good-faithed changes in content disputes.". I hope that clears it up for you and that you will desist from such use in the future. Momma's Little Helper (talk) 23:29, 23 April 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for tracking that down. I don't believe that I used the tool in a way that gave the impression that the reversion was reverting vandalism - i.e. the edit comment was to the effect that the reversion returned an infobox summary phrase to something that was supported by the main text - and I didn't add any kind of warning or message to the talk page of the user I reverted. However, I suppose that the issue is that the TW tag appended to the edit makes it seem like an anti vandalism edit? (Hohum@) 00:01, 24 April 2010 (UTC)
I don't think the issue is having misleading edit summaries. Tools like Twinkle are not supposed to be used in content disputes. Period. I didn't make up that policy, but it is what it is. Momma's Little Helper (talk) 01:13, 24 April 2010 (UTC)
Apart from the TW tag, I don't see how it is possible to see the difference. I was hoping to understand the policy. Blind obedience is not the typical wikipedia way. I'll see if I can get clarity in a relevant venue.(Hohum@) 01:30, 24 April 2010 (UTC)
thanks for doing that. So far it seems that editors believe the prohibition is indeed due to edit summaries. If that ends up being the consensus, the policy should be reworded to reflect that. To me it seems best to change it to something like "If using automated tools, an edit summary that describes the change as undoing a good-faith edit must be used". Momma's Little Helper (talk) 14:38, 24 April 2010 (UTC)
Edit summary in Arjun(Tank) article
Thank you for bringing the edit summary to my attention, i had not noticed it before but i will make sure to fill it in after any future edits.
Thank you--Nuclearram (talk) 11:09, 19 May 2010 (UTC)
You are now a Reviewer
Hello. Your account has been granted the "reviewer" userright, allowing you to review other users' edits on certain flagged pages. Pending changes, also known as flagged protection, is currently undergoing a two-month trial scheduled to end 15 August 2010.
Reviewers can review edits made by users who are not autoconfirmed to articles placed under pending changes. Pending changes is applied to only a small number of articles, similarly to how semi-protection is applied but in a more controlled way for the trial. The list of articles with pending changes awaiting review is located at Special:OldReviewedPages.
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Battle of Kursk
Hello Hohum. Consider this a friendly warning. Please do not post false lies in your edit summaries again like you did here. That was NOT vandalism. The next time I see you making false edits again, I will report you to ANI for your distruptive edits. User:Igor Piryazev is Russian, therefore English is not his mother tongue. Please show some human compassion when interacting with all users, including him. He is trying his best and doesn't deserve to be treated poorly by you on the Battle of Kursk talk page. Also please learn to be more tolerant and do try to show some human kindness the next time around. Thank you. Cadencool 21:34, 6 July 2010 (UTC)
Please report me now so you get a clue on what the repeated editing behaviour that I was reverting is actually called. He had been told several times that the edits he was making had unusable references, yet repeatedly re-introduced them.
Alternatively, you could refrain from making baseless threats. (Hohum@) 21:57, 6 July 2010 (UTC)
Additionally, thankyou for prompting me to take an interest in that page again, where I noted that the same user reintroduced the same unreliably sourced information again, which I have reverted. (Hohum@) 22:02, 6 July 2010 (UTC)
No you are wrong. He was not vandalizing but your edit can be called vandalism. Like I told you, he is not English. Please show some human compassion. Try practicing tolerance and explain to him how reliable sources work. Try to show some type of human kindness. All you've done is shown him that you can be very cold. Cadencool 22:12, 6 July 2010 (UTC)
It has been explained to him, clearly, repeatedly, and politely, over several days, by multiple editors, what level of reliability is required. If his grasp of english is so low as to not understand what he has been told, he shouldn't be editing here. If he is ignoring it, which seems far more likely, he shouldn't be editing here. I'm not here to make friends with editors who are disruptive.
If you are going to accuse me of vandalism, please do so officially, or retract your accusation. (Hohum@) 22:19, 6 July 2010 (UTC)
Perhaps it's you who shouldn't be editing here. Until you learn to show some human compassion towards others, I see no point in you being here. Cadencool 22:26, 6 July 2010 (UTC)
While human compassion has a great place to play in the world at large, and even a little on wikipedia, this is a project devoted to producing a high quality repository of information, which has requirements for inclusion.
Ironically, you come here and threaten without reason, and don't have the conviction to either carry out your threats, nor the decency to retract them or apologise. Apparently, neither do you appear to notice the many times Igor has been informed, civilly, and clearly, what he is doing wrong. (Hohum@) 22:40, 6 July 2010 (UTC)
LCA Help
Dear Hohum, thanks for taking an interest in the LCA article. It may be obvious to you, but I haven't really bothered to read the rules around here - I've just been copying style patterns from other pages. Question for you: I've been using the navy time 0000 to 2359 thinking that the LCA is a navy subject. Is military time 00:00 really the only acceptable? Or is this a blending of spheres? Thanks again.AmesJussellR (talk) 00:14, 10 July 2010 (UTC)
I think that most users of wikipedia are non military. The idea is no provide consistency of style, and clarity so that it's understandable and accessible to the widest audience. This is what the Wikipedia Manual of Style is all about. In fact, probably the first instance of the 24-hour clock notation should have a link to the article on it - which does mention military notation without the colon.
The MOS is only a guideline, as opposed to a policy, and I don't think anyone would have kittens if the article used pure military notation, but it might come into play if the article is checked for WP:GA or WP:FA status. Although using "am" and "pm" notation might make the article even more accessible to users, I think the 24-hour clock notation gives it some flavour.
By the way, do you know if the times in the article are local, or Zulu? (Hohum@) 02:19, 10 July 2010 (UTC)
On a related note, if a few more currently uncited paragraphs had reliable references, the article would likely pass a B class review, if it was put forward. (Hohum@) 03:13, 10 July 2010 (UTC)
Igor Piryazev
Thanks to you User:Igor Piryazev has quit Wikipedia. Running off new editors who want to help build an enclyopedia is not the way we work around here. I understand you were trying to enforce policy on reliable sources but you did so in a negative way. The way you hounded him with your iceberg responses (sorry but I call it as I see it WP:SPADE) was uncalled for. The poor guy is Russian and wanted to help build articles with Russian historians/Soviet sources. I tried asking you many times to show compassion but you failed to do so and in the process drove him off the project. Please change your ways at communication before you alienate more vulerable new users, especially those who's first language is not English. Cadencool 00:57, 17 July 2010 (UTC)
I see no evidence that he has quit. He has failed to follow a core requirement of wikipedia for many weeks despite being asked to follow simple instruction on how to do it, and even given examples. If this has led the to quit instead of simply complying - which is trivially easy to do, then I don't think they had much of a future for his editing anyway. I'm sorry that I'm not just handing out hugs, per your wishes about compassion, but yours haven't convinced him to comply either.
I see no reason to describe him as a "poor guy" or "vulnerable". If his language skills aren't good enough to understand requirements, he shouldn't be editing.
My history on wikipedia stands for itself. I am happy to help people who are willing to learn. Igor was unwilling to follow the rules after many weeks of being shown how to. (Hohum@) 16:53, 17 July 2010 (UTC)
Greeting stuff
the other user replied to samsonov. Is it possible that you send him this greeting stuff to his talk. Dont know who to do.Blablaaa (talk) 00:49, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
your chance
Hohum [] is your chance to get rid of me :D Blablaaa (talk) 17:15, 23 July 2010 (UTC)
Yellowed photo
Hello again Hohum! Is there anything that can be done to this photo to clear up the ugly yellow tint? Many thanks, Ed(talk • majestic titan) 19:47, 31 July 2010 (UTC)
I've greyscaled it and cleaned it up. (Hohum@) 23:29, 31 July 2010 (UTC)
i made none, nothing i said was slanderous or libelous but i guess it was a vialation of civility however your removal of my post and reasons for it are slanderous and outright censorship. i hope you enjoy your hollow shallow life94.168.210.205 (talk) 01:35, 4 August 2010 (UTC)
I think "YOU RACIST CUNT" qualifies as defamation. diff. I didn't edit your post, that was someone else. (Hohum@) 01:46, 4 August 2010 (UTC)
Wow! How did you do that? That's REMARKABLY better. Pdfpdf (talk) 14:52, 8 August 2010 (UTC)
I used the Perspective Tool in GIMP. (Hohum@) 14:58, 8 August 2010 (UTC)
Impressive! Good job. Pdfpdf (talk) 15:00, 8 August 2010 (UTC)
Battle of the Heligoland Bight (1939)
Nice job. Dapi89 (talk) 16:03, 5 September 2010 (UTC)
BoPI
Hi, brief thanks for keeping an eye on this article - I hadn't thought of the image move. I'd like to chat about something off the record - please email me, MTIA. PeterWD (talk) 23:20, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
Repost of Deleted File
User Communicat has posted File:Disgraced.jpg . The picture is identical to the recently deleted , except Communicat now claims the picture is “copyrighted and unlicensed” instead of his previous claim that the picture is copyright of Stan Winer.. In discussion of Communicat’s post of , User Petri Krohn provided a link showing the picture is being used by the International Institute of Social History. [ This would seem to indicate the picture is copyright of that organization as opposed to either of Communicat’s claims about the copyright of the picture. Edward321 (talk) 00:01, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
He's claiming "fair use", which holds some water since there doesn't seem to be a free image of the subject available. (Hohum@) 14:44, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
thanx for fix
Many thanks for fixing refs syntax, WW2 aftermath main article. Communicat (talk) 16:10, 28 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi
User Hohum, I have installed a fresh Window XP, and hope that nothing wrong again. If anything annoying happens again, please let me know. Thanks. Arilang talk 01:56, 9 November 2010 (UTC)
arbitration
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Falklands War
If you want to suggest an improved caption, please feel free to do so. I'm walking away from the article for a few days after another PA. In passing by the way I was really confused by what you wanted to do. Wee Curry Monstertalk 22:56, 8 December 2010 (UTC)
PS changed my user name. Justin aka Wee Curry Monstertalk 22:57, 8 December 2010 (UTC)
Ah, I walked away for a bit too. Inventive name choice. You had the previous one for a long time didn't you? (Hohum@) 00:27, 9 December 2010 (UTC)
Since I was born, I still have it. I'm fed up with idiots basically, people generally don't do it to my face as a Glasgae kiss often offends. But they feel they can regress to schoolchildren on here. Think I'll work on some of my sandpit projects for a while. Ciao. Wee Curry Monstertalk 00:36, 9 December 2010 (UTC)
PS: The inspiration , finest curry house in Glasgow. Wee Curry Monstertalk 00:36, 9 December 2010 (UTC)
I'm about as far away as I can be, and still be on the UK mainland, so I won't have to dodge the fisticuffs;) (Hohum@) 00:56, 9 December 2010 (UTC)
See my sandpit, I've been working on it. May be a difficult one to do in a few phrases seems more like an article. Are you aware of Carlos Escude's work? Wee Curry Monstertalk 00:51, 15 December 2010 (UTC)
"Some Argentines have a strongly held belief known as Malvinism; that the Falkland Islands Spanish: Islas Malvinas are an intrinsic part of their country." Reference.
Wouldn't that pretty much do it, assuming there is a reference to back it up?
I'm not aware of Carlos Escude's work. (Hohum@) 01:09, 15 December 2010 (UTC)
, , , The first link is to the paper I had in mind. The problem is the wealth of material I have to hand and condensing it. Wee Curry Monstertalk 01:26, 15 December 2010 (UTC)
For info are you happy with that? Wee Curry Monstertalk 23:36, 22 December 2010 (UTC)
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Im not sure why you sent me a 3RR warning message. I only made two reverts in 24 hours and not three on the Falklands War article.--MFIreland • Talk 21:06, 15 December 2010 (UTC)
Per WP:3RR "An administrator may still act whenever they believe a user's behavior constitutes edit warring, and any user may report edit-warring, even if the three-revert rule has not been breached. The rule is not an entitlement to revert a page a specific number of times."
You are clearly edit warring against consensus without meaningful explanation on the article talk page. An administrator is likely to become involved if you continue. (Hohum@) 21:10, 15 December 2010 (UTC)
Possibly mistaken identity
Heh, is this possibly the same "Hohum" from a particular Friday Club? Tarc (talk) 06:10, 26 December 2010 (UTC)
Hah, that's funny. I'd seen your name here and there from time to time and always wondered, but never really pegged you for a wiki-geek.:) Anyways, teh BeeNine is pining for your return to what is now FC 3.0; we're starting fresh since BD cocked 2.0 all up. Tarc (talk) 14:41, 26 December 2010 (UTC)
Likewise - seen you around, but knew it was you. I'd go to the forum if I knew where it was now. Send me the address via "email this user"?(Hohum@) 16:36, 26 December 2010 (UTC)
Yea, I am as much of a prick here as anywhere. Same address, they finally fixed up the redirects. Tarc (talk) 17:47, 26 December 2010 (UTC)