User talk:Tdadamemd
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--LegobotOperatortalk 16:45, 19 June 2008 (UTC)
Please link images
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Hello Tdadamemd!
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Thank you. BotMultichill (talk) 13:05, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
Wonderful job!
[edit]The Graphic Designer's Barnstar | ||
For the excellent quality and explanatory value of Image:Sine and Cosine fundamental relationship to Circle (and Helix).gif, you are hereby awarded the Graphic Designer's barnstar. May your brushes never dry up! |
Keep up the good work! I however have an objection to make: "through" should be spelled in full, since I feel using "thru" lowers the image quality a bit. Just a minor nuisance, but I am quite the perfectionist. Habbit (talk) 15:29, 19 November 2008 (UTC)
- I appreciate the kudos. As for any imperfections, I myself would rather err toward the accessibly colloquial instead of the rigidly esoteric. But anyone is certainly free to make changes if they'd like. I am hopeful that more Wikipedia math articles will evolve toward communicating concepts in terms that are understandable to common people. Math, after all, is like a foreign language. If we are unable to translate it into plain words then that can mean that we are lacking in our own understanding.--Tdadamemd (talk) 22:27, 22 December 2008 (UTC)
File source is not properly indicated: File:Steve_"Pinto"_Lindsey_(Tom_Hulce_inset).jpg
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Martin H. (talk) 00:14, 25 February 2011 (UTC)
- I was in the process of updating the metadata, as can be seen in my last edit:
- I am not aware of any way to upload a new base photo while changing the metadata at the same time.
- I will redo the upload, but will need a few minutes to complete the change.--Tdadamemd (talk) 00:45, 25 February 2011 (UTC)
- You also not added a source for the Tom Hulce photo. Aditionally, without a source this edit is original research at its best, and not only this, illustrating the OR with an image tops it all. You should provide a source for this. Aditionally to a textual source it might be good to provide a source that comparing exactly this two images fits the purpose and is not just your personal POV, but maybe Wikipedia will not need such a reference because with images Wikipedia is maybe accepting such pov opinions. --Martin H. (talk) 01:51, 25 February 2011 (UTC)
File source is not properly indicated: File:Steve_"Pinto"_Lindsey_(Tom_Hulce_inset).jpg
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Martin H. (talk) 01:43, 25 February 2011 (UTC)
- The inset photo is a small crop from a frame from the movie Animal House. I expect that this meets the criteria for Fair Use. I've updated the file metadata. I find it odd that you've been so quick to post these delete warnings, not once but twice, when you could have seen that I was in the process of completing the change. I understand that Wikipedia needs to police itself in order to maintain quality. There are reasonable and smart ways to implement that, as there are harsh and counterproductive ways as well.--Tdadamemd (talk) 06:09, 28 February 2011 (UTC)
- Sorry, but on Wikimedia Commons fair use is strictily excluded. Only free content here. --Martin H. (talk) 16:56, 28 February 2011 (UTC)
- I was not aware of that. Thank you for the new information. I've made corrections to the Wikipedia article, moving deleted info to the Talk page for the time being.--Tdadamemd (talk) 10:26, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
- Sorry, but on Wikimedia Commons fair use is strictily excluded. Only free content here. --Martin H. (talk) 16:56, 28 February 2011 (UTC)
"Neptune Units"
[edit]"Astronomical Units" are widely used in astronomy, but considering that the Gas Giants are the bodies that dominate the harmonic motion effects of the Solar System, a strong argument can be made to change this standard to the Sun-Neptune scaling depicted in File:Solar System scaled to a football field.png. Setting this scale to 100 makes for meaningful "Neptune Units" (which contracts to "NeptUnits"). As shown in the diagram, planetary distances (semi-major axis) can be closely approximated by this convenient whole number sequence:
- 0, 1, 2, 3, 5, 9, 17, 30, 63 and 100
Pluto and the outer known dwarf planets extend the sequence with the following average distances: 130, 143, 152 and 225. More dwarf planets in the Solar System are expected to be found at further distances, and using this Neptune-based scaling can be seen to be more convenient and more meaningful than the current standard of "astronomical units".--Tdadamemd (talk) 11:26, 9 May 2012 (UTC)
For those who may be interested, here is the latest version of an image that scales the Sun-Neptune distance of the Solar System to the 100 yard goal-to-goal length of a football field...--Tdadamemd (talk) 09:11, 10 April 2014 (UTC)
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68.98.182.53 17:58, 18 August 2018 (UTC)
Hi Tdadamemd,
Thank you so very much for uploading File:Apollo Spacecraft Locations World Map.png. That's incredibly useful! Would you be able to upload a vector version of your illustration, as it appears rather blurry on en:Apollo_Lunar_Module#Lunar_modules_produced when Mediawiki tries to generate a large thumbnail?
Thanks in advance,
cmɢʟee ⋅τaʟκ 21:54, 18 July 2019 (UTC)