User talk:Pissant

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Shooting Range

Hi Pissant. As I mentioned on Talk:Shooting range, I can tell you about the four ranges near Harrodsburg, Kentucky.

At the Mercer County Fish & Game Club, I pay $35 a year and get a key. It's like a little farm or park. I just show up, open the gate, and let myself in. I had to sign something to acknowledge the rules. It has a rifle and pistol range. It has something for shotguns, archery, blackpowder and fishing, but I'm unfamiliar with them.
At the Bluegrass Sportsman's League, you pay $100 a year with $100 initial setup. You get an electronic gate card and let yourself in. They have very nice facilities that are more refined and extensive than the above. It also has more people since it is closer to the larger city of Lexington.
Before it burned down, Bluegrass Indoor Range had a location inside Lexington. I think it was $8 per half-hour. Membership was possible. They rented Glocks and some Charter Arms guns. They offered beginner's and CCW classes.
Bud's Gun Shop in Paris, KY (north of Lexington) has a small, simple indoor pistol range. I got a free use when I bought a Vaquero there. I signed a waiver. I don't know if they had memberships, or what they normally charge to use it.

This is Kentucky; the rules in Massachusetts or Toronto or Japan will vary significantly. Good Luck. -- Mike Wilson 01:09, 28 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Have re-written the shooting range article to address your queries. Best regards. 12 January 2006 (UTC)

DYK heads-up

Hi, thanks for this heads-up. However, you'd get faster response if you try Talk:Main Page. --Gurubrahma 07:20, 7 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Requests made at main page preceded request made at DYK. The anon's request sat unheeded at the main page for more than one hour. Pissant 17:01, 7 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The Mirror (film)

I'm disappointed with your move of the great Tarkovsky film to a new page without prior consulting other, more experienced editors. Please don't do this again. The dab page you created contains nothing but red links. Although, take a look at this and try to fix it. As you may see, several dozen articles link to the Tarkovsky movie. Now, these links point to a wrong page: people searching for the Tarkovsky film are transported to a dab page and get confused. Take care, Ghirla | talk 14:40, 10 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Please be patient, I am in the middle of quite a complicated operation. Pissant 14:42, 10 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Request for edit summmary

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Image sizes I

OK, when you reset the picture sizes, they appeared smaller to me. What can we do? Yellowmellow45 21:26, 14 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Image sizes II

Hi, please do not remove hard coded image sizes, it is perfectly acceptable to have images of different sizes on a page. Also, the standard thumb size is definitely not suitable for landscape photos. Arniep 10:17, 15 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

My eyes are not good, so I prefer to see the images as large as possible. Hard-coded small image sizes make it hard for me to see the images. I assume hard-coded large image sizes are inconvenient for other people. Wikipedia is viewed by people with different visual abilities, different monitors, and different browsers. They will have a better experience of Wikipedia if they can adjust the image sizes to suit their situation, rather than using the image sizes that looked good to a particular editor on a particular monitor in a particular browser.

From Wikipedia:Extended image syntax:

"... the default thumbnail width can be set in the preferences, so typically it is better not to specify "px", in order to respect the users' preferences (unless, for a special reason, a specific size is required regardless of preferences, or a size is specified outside the range of widths 120-300 that can be set in the preferences)."

Pissant 16:31, 15 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

- Hi Pissant, good call on changing the image size of Bevo (mascot) to the default. There was no real reason for that photo to deviate from the user's default. Keep up the great work! Johntex\^talk 17:30, 28 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  - Thanks. Pissant 17:39, 28 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Alternative name in category for sorting purposes

Hi, I'm restoring the change you made to IEEE_802.1ad because I'm assuming you didn't understand the purpose of the alternative name in the Category tag: [[Category:IEEE 802|IEEE 802.01ad]] means that the IEEE 802.1ad entry should be listed in the IEEE 802 category but sorted amongst the other entries as if it were named IEEE 802.01ad. I've made this mistake myself (deleted such things from entries thinking they were obviously wrong -- there is no such thing as IEEE 802.01ad) so I thought I'd share my experience. Mditto 06:08, 18 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi

I agree with you on this fact that so called greater Iran does not deserve an independant article.D iyako Talk + 17:27, 6 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'm sorry; my edit summary was cryptic and you misunderstood. I was sarcastically talking about the word Xinjiang, which was bolded but not linked, as if somebody had thought that we would not have an article on Xinjiang. In fact I knew nothing about Greater Iran before today. Pissant 01:05, 7 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Post-Panamax link

Hi, while your point is valid, and in line with WP:MOS-L, do you really think that someone is going to create a post-Panamax article one day? Or is this just an unnecessary use of a redirect page, which will place more load on Wikipedia's already-thrashing servers? After all, if someone does create a post-Panamax article, they will naturally search for all occurrences of "post-Panamax" (or [[Panamax|post-Panamax]]) and make them into links. Cheers, — Johan the Ghost _seance 16:43, 18 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for discussing and sorry for the delay in my response. While your points are also valid, and I can see going either way, I tend toward the choice I made because the redirect is useful to have anyway, I believe redirects are an effective and elegant tool and wish to encourage their acceptance, I imagine (with no evidence behind me) that redirects are a very minor load on the servers, and I believe you are overly optimistic about the actions of our hypothetical future article creator. Pissant 22:11, 24 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ant image

I've taken the liberty of replacing the ant on your user page to one from the commons, I did this because the licence was not compatible with user page use. Hope this is ok. --Alf ^melmac 18:41, 23 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Excellent. Thank you. Pissant 19:05, 23 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Weight training exercises

Excellent idea: it looks a lot tidier now. Hmmm, I'm tempted to subcat category:weight training equipment too. What do you think? GeorgeStepanek\^talk 21:24, 24 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Let's do it. Pissant 21:37, 24 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  - And it's done already. Wow. Thank you. GeorgeStepanek\^talk 21:49, 24 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
    - Good catch on leg press. I was going too fast to notice that it covered both the exercise and the equipment. Pissant 21:58, 24 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Santa Fe, Cuba dab

You removed the disambiguation template from the Santa Fe, Cuba page. There's a disscussion on the topic's talk page about that. Could you comment there as to why you consider that a dab is inappropriate? Thanks. Qyd ^(talk)18:17, 28 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Stub template placement

Re: Gordon Eubanks, because stub identification is rendered on an article page prior to hardcoded items like categories and cross-Wiki links, they are usually placed at the end of the article proper, after External links if they exist, but not after cats or cross-Wiki links. ((WP:Stub only says "near the bottom", so I will clarify that point) --Blainster 19:38, 28 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I had assumed that the convention was for stubs to appear after cats and before interwiki links after seeing several bot edits that put them there and because by my informal sample it is slightly more common. Placing stubs after cats also has the advantage that the stub categories will appear after the "real" categories. I see that there is ongoing discussion at wikipedia talk:stub, so I will stop moving them until consensus is reached.

I was surprised to see that you responded to my following a different convention than the one that you prefer not merely by reverting my change, but also editing the Manual of Style to support your position. However, this is a wiki, and your action does bring the issue to a larger forum, in case there is anyone else who cares to weigh in. Perhaps it might have been better for you to first bring the matter up on the MoS talk page?

Thanks for caring about quality. Pissant 00:36, 29 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

My change to the Stub article was meant to be flagged by the last sentence in my message above. The change was not made with any intention of establishing a "rule", but only a guideline for new users who are confused about such things and need some direction. I explained this on the Stub talk page. Also, I am not on a campaign to change practices for pages that I do not frequently edit. It is just one preference, and WP tolerates some flexibility for these things. Best regards, --Blainster 21:10, 29 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Max Beckmann

I noticed you removed the hardcoding, namely |right|300px| on Max Beckmann. I'm not disputing this, just interested in the reason, as I don't know a lot about the matter. Thanks. Tyrenius 15:27, 29 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The right tag has no effect, as the the default placement is on the right. I prefer to remove it, as its presence might lead to the impression that left and right placement are equally good, while I hold that images should be on the right unless there is good reason to place them elsewhere.

I prefer to remove hardcoded image sizes as they override the user's preferences. Because of the diversity in users' visual abilities and viewing conditions, it seems better to let each choose his or her own image sizes.

This point is supported by Wikipedia:Extended image syntax:

"... the default thumbnail width can be set in the preferences, so typically it is better not to specify "px", in order to respect the users' preferences (unless, for a special reason, a specific size is required regardless of preferences, or a size is specified outside the range of widths 120-300 that can be set in the preferences)."

Pissant 16:04, 29 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Image Sizes III

Please do not remove hardcode pixel sizes from image in articles. If you need to look at images that are sized as thumbnails, you can click on the image and see the image at a 1:1 size on its own page. Removing the hard coded information makes the image too-small for the casual browser. Also, in other articles the sizes are stated because of layout considerations.

I have noted your reasoning for removing the coding, however the oft quoted recommendation is just that, a recommendation, not a hard and fast rule. Stude62 18:31, 2 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Indeed, it is only a recommendation, and I have never disputed a reversion of my changes. However, I would prefer that images which go against the recommendation at least do so knowingly and for a reason, and I strongly suspect that the majority of the hard-coded image sizes in Wikipedia are there not in support of a carefully chosen layout, but because the editor did not realize that specifying an image size is optional and recommended against.

Perhaps the best solution, one we might both support, would be to press for a larger default size, although I have not yet identified the proper forum in which to do so. Pissant 18:50, 2 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps you might wish to start with the Village Pump. I should also advise you that as far as the automobile based articles are concerned, most all of them do have hard coded images. Stude62 19:21, 2 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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