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Contents 1 MacAdam ellipses diagram: permission request 2 Analemma 3 Gibbs Paradox 4 RE: Multiple wikify requests 5 re: Pulley 6 Images of two-dimensional coordinate systems? 7 MacAdam ellipse 8 CIE 9 Gas-related Articles 10 Fair use rationale for Image:Masuda2.png 11 Image:Baboon24.png 12 Speedy deletion of Template:CallTest 13 Non-free use disputed for Image:Mae_West_Signature.png 14 Fair use rationale for Image:TeriCopley.png 15 Replaceable fair use Image:EmmylouHarris80.jpg 16 optics images 17 Speedy deletion of Image:BuffaloNYFlag.jpg 18 values for CIE1931 XYZCMF.png 19 Disputed non-free use rationale for Image:Lenna.png 20 Broken images 21 File:Lenna.png 22 Entropy expression on erlang distribution page 23 Drying out a log... 24 Lenna 25 Chromaticity Diagrams 26 White House/Fox News 27 User:JohnHistory 28 Primitive communism

[edit] MacAdam ellipses diagram: permission request

Dear PAR: MIT OpenCourseWare would like to use this image http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:CIExy1931_MacAdam.png in some imaging course material published under Creative Commons by-nc-sa (attribution-noncommercial-sharealike) license. As our license is legally a bit different from the GFDL you've placed on the Wikipedia image page, may we have your permission? Best regards, Curt Newton - Publication Manager, MIT OpenCourseWare - cjnewton@mit.edu Cjnewton mit (talk) 20:02, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Analemma

"The width of the analemma is a result of the ellipticity of the earths orbit. Please explain how this relates to vibration in universal joints."

The "figure-8" related East-West motion in the analemma has absolutely nothing to do with the eccentricity of the Earth's orbit. Eccentricity causes a 12 month period East-West motion, not a 6 month period! It distorts the "figure-8". The "figure-8" East-West motion is due to the tilt of the Earth's axis. Assuming a circular orbit for simplicity, the 24 hour strobed position of the sun follows a great circle across the earth with constant velocity and one year period. During the equinoxes this sun circle crosses the equator at an angle, so it's eastward movement is slower that the 24-hour strobed rotation of the Earth. During the solstices the sun is moving parallel to the equator, and since by defintion of the solar day they must have the same yearly average, it is moving faster that the Earth's eastward rotation. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cloudswrest (talk • contribs) 18:25, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Gibbs Paradox

I noticed that you edited the article on Gibbs Paradox, and seem to have some comfort level with the material. I have reason to be suspicious of the information theory treatment, but am not technically competent to review it. If you are, would you please take the time to review that section carefully?Kww (talk) 21:46, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

Yes, I plan to do that. This information was added by Shu-Kun Lin, who has apparently published articles on this subject in various respectable journals, so it cannot be rejected without serious consideration. PAR (talk) 22:02, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] RE: Multiple wikify requests

Hi,

Thanks for the message..

Right now... I am prepareing for an exam on "Material Science"..

While going through these articles, I encountered situations where I couldn't proceed to next page due to lack of Wiki links (internal links).. I corrected some of them.. but right now I do not have enough time to correct all of them so just put wikify requests.. :)

Will either put links, or explanation in talk page after my exams.. :)

The articles I put wikify requests inclue (as u mentioned in your message) :

Slip (materials science)‎ Non-Newtonian fluid‎ Strain (materials science)‎ Creep (deformation) Tensile stress‎ Frank-Read Source‎ Annihilation‎ Burgers vector Interstitial defect‎

Thenks.. DhananSekhar 18:45, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] re: Pulley

Good morning, PAR. I just had to revert your latest edit to the Pulley article. I understand your point but when you made the change, you brought the vandalism back. If you're going to fix the article, please fix it completely. It is more important that we keep the vandalism out than that we make a technical correction about "unit weight". Thanks. Rossami (talk) 16:22, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

Well, to be factual, we are both screwing this up, and I apologize for my part in it, by not checking for vandalism before making my edit. The use of "unit weight" though, is simply wrong, and you didn't correct that when you tried to edit back in what I had done. Can we proceed slowly from here? I know its a pain to go through a bunch of good edits, looking for the vandalism, but I will try. I reverted to my version, but fixed the "flute and tackle" and "flute and picolo" vandalism. Now, rather than revert because it might still contain vandalism, can you just search for any further vandalism and correct it? Again, sorry about my contribution to this problem. PAR (talk) 16:54, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

In a perfect world, that's the way it should go. In this case, the vandalism went undetected for enough time and your edits hit so many parts of the article simultaneously that it was very difficult to find and fix them all. Again, I will argue that it is far more important that we fix vandalism than to correct technical issues of wording. Even with the mistake, the basic concepts of the page were understandable. Vandalism, on the other hand, discredits the project. I usually can merge the good edits but in this specific case, it really seemed safer for our readers to over-revert and ask you to recreate your edits.
Anyway, the vandals still messed with the figure numbering. I'll go fix that. And something about your edits is adding non-breaking spaces that have to be cleaned up. If you could look into why those are showing up, that would be helpful. Thanks. Rossami (talk)

It looks good. The non-breaking spaces are there on purpose, they prevent italicized letters from running into the next letters. This W does not have a non-breaking space, this W  does. PAR (talk) 19:53, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

The first example looks right. The second forces an odd double-space after the W and looks like a misprint. In neither case did not italicized letters run into the subsequent letters. Rossami (talk) 03:07, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Images of two-dimensional coordinate systems?

Hi PAR,

Have we met before? I'm thinking that we have, but, unfortunately, I can't remember where — maybe at the equipartition theorem? :)

I noticed your wonderful red-and-cyan pictures at the articles for prolate and oblate spheroidal coordinates! I really like the way you labeled the individual isosurfaces, too. Would you be willing to do something similar for the other two- and three-dimensional orthogonal coordinate systems, or at least tell me how to do it? I've long been thinking of fixing them up and would really appreciate your help. :) Willow (talk) 23:45, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

Hi - yes, your name sounds familiar. Those pictures were intended to be temporary, they are not really high quality. I used gdl (gnu data language) to generate them, and I can give you the program, if you like. They really should be .SVG files rather than bitmap, but I haven't figured out how to generate a .SVG file from gdl yet. Im pretty sure it can be done. Let me know if you need the program. Im working on writing up different harmonics right now (cylindrical, oblate, prolate, etc.) but eventually, I will do one for the parabolic coordinates (and the parabolic cylinder coordinates as well). PAR (talk) 23:58, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

Hey PAR,

Thanks for your really nice letter! You can send any articles you like to the same e-mail address. I'd like to see the pictures you mention!

I'm ploughing ahead with making images for the other orthogonal coordinate systems. I'll try to do conical coordinates tomorrow, since they seem one of the very coolest. I like the little taco shape where the sphere and the elliptical cone intersect; it's somehow elegant, no? I just realized today that I hadn't understood even some of the basic stuff about the coordinates, e.g., that you need to eliminate the degeneracy in the bipolar coordinates. :( I should've realized that if the coordinate surfaces meet in two places, you need to take special precautions against degeneracy. For the bipolar coordinates, it turns out that σ can range from -π to π, not merely half that range as I'd originally thought; I think I was scared off by the infinity! ;) Ta-ta for today, Willow (talk) 21:39, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] MacAdam ellipse

The MacAdam ellipse delineates—not defines—the contour for the minimum perceptible distance. The concept of distance is defined by the distance metric (cf. color difference). The distance may be zero, just noticeable (JND), or anything at all. How would you draw the ellipses without the formal definition provided by color difference? That sentence is wrong. --Adoniscik (talk) 17:15, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

No, you've got it backwards. The distance metric and the Lab spaced is derived from the MacAdam ellipses. You ask how the ellipses would be drawn without the formal definition of the metric. The answer is "the same way MacAdam did". MacAdam drew the ellipses before the Lab space or the distance metric was ever defined. He chose a color specified by its CIE xy coordinates, then determined experimentally the set of colors, different from the original color, which could not be distinguished by his test subjects. These regions turned out to be ellipses, and they became known as MacAdam ellipses. The distance between any two colors in xy space was then defined to be the smallest number of MacAdam ellipses, that were just touching each other, that could be fit between the two points. To be more accurate, a metric was defined in xy space (which varied with x and y, and direction and was therefore a tensor) in which the unit of distance was the distance across a MacAdam ellipse.

The next step was to invent a new color space, a distortion of the CIE xy space, in which all of these ellipses became circles with radii equal to unity. If such a space could be invented, and "a,b" were the coordinates in this new space, then the metric tensor would be unvarying over the entire space, and the distance between two points would be just like the Euclidean distance in physical space. Such a space was in fact invented, and the new space was called "Lab" space. Its not a perfect fit to the MacAdam ellipses: The MacAdam ellipses in Lab space are not perfect circles, but its close enough. The distance in Lab space is not a definition, it is a result derived ultimately from the work of MacAdam. Actually there have been a number of attempts to invent such a space and each improvement replaces the previous approximation. Perhaps a newly concocted space will replace the present Lab space in the future, and the concept of distance will be expressed somewhat differently in that space, but before the concept of distance is redefined, a new experimental determination of the MacAdam ellipses will have to be made.

Again, the MacAdam ellipse defines the concept of distance in any color space. PAR (talk) 18:06, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

I think it would be more accurate to say "MacAdam experimentally verified that measuring difference between two colors by using the Euclidean distance (between two color vectors) in an appropriate color space agrees with intuition". He then went on to define an "appropriate" color space. Obviously, an ellipse by itself is not a distance, it's an ellipse.--Adoniscik (talk) 18:36, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

Thats really not the case. MacAdam was an experimentalist, I don't think he or anyone else was worried about metric tensors and appropriate spaces. He certainly didn't invent the Lab space, that came years later. Also, the outer boundary of a MacAdam ellipse is, by definition, at a distance of one from its center. Its just that in xy space, the space is "stretched" in some places more than others and in some directions more than others. Thats why the metric is a full tensor in xy space, and that tensor changes with position in xy space. If we had a perfect Lab space, it would perfectly "unstretch" the xy space, the distance from a point would be the same in any direction, the ellipses would become circles which were all of unit radius, the metric tensor would become the unit tensor, and the distance would be Euclidean, s^2=a^2+b^2. If you can get hold of a copy of Wyszecki and Stiles "Color Science", it is the best book on color science I have seen, and it goes through all of this in detail. PAR (talk) 19:00, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] CIE

What I did is explicitly allowed, per the page you cited: "Deleting material not relevant to improving the article". None of that stuff is relevant, so please remove or archive it. p.s. your talk page is a bit long. --Adoniscik (talk) 02:04, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

Ok,ok, I archived it :)

Regarding the guidelines, I see the line you are referring to, but I also see the first few lines IN ITALICS "Do not strike out the comments of other editors without their permission." and "Editing others' comments is sometimes allowed, but you should exercise caution in doing so". A few points:

• I have been editing on Wikipedia for more than three years and I have never seen anyone delete whole sections of a talk page, saying they were "irrelevant". I have gotten the distinct impression that it is bad form to edit the talk page in any way except by adding material, or editing your own comments before anyone has responded to them.
• There is no need to delete the material, it does not interfere with the article, nor does it interfere with any editors ability to edit.
• By deleting this stuff, you make extra useless work for other editors who must scan over the entire deleted section and verify that it is in fact irrelevant.
• Finally, in my opinion, the deleted material is not, in fact, irrelevant. Most of it is addressing article quality. It's not very useful, I agree, but it's not irrelevant. PAR (talk) 07:38, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

It's only a talk page so I'm not bothered, but the junk currently on it only confuses new editors. When I looked at the talk page I wondered why the discussion was so off-topic. If you look at the dates of the comments, you'll see they are referring to a former state of article that barely addresses the actual subject. ColorRendering and chromaticity coordinates?? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Adoniscik (talk • contribs) 09:20, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Gas-related Articles

Hey PAR! I was wondering if you wanted to help me re-write the gas-related articles. I just finished Gas and would like you to take a look at it since I've seen you contribute a lot to these types of articles. I know you're a fan of thermo, as am I... so I figured it would be great if we could work together to make these articles actually make sense. Ideal gas is falling apart and it needs to be redone. Honestly, I feel that the thermo eqns are great but also excessive in this article. Honestly, they dont really talk about ideal gases at all... its just kind of a stand-alone "heres some thermo!" kind of thing. I think they would be better fit in a different article and just taken out of the ideal gas article.

I think the Ideal gas page should be more of a model assumption clarification more than a thermo class. so basically... when we analyze a gas, we establish a set of assumptions that we're gonna go with for the model and then do it. an "ideal gas" is just one of these assumption bases. I think this article just needs to define what these assumptions are. A separate article, Real gas, can be expanded on to include all the different types of models and lack of assumptions and all the statistical thermo and compressibility and all the magical deviations from the "ideal" model.

Please take a look at these articles and get back to me. let me know if you want to help me out! Thanks! Katanada (talk) 07:12, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Masuda2.png

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[edit] Image:Baboon24.png

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[edit] Replaceable fair use Image:EmmylouHarris80.jpg

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Ok, I have done that.PAR (talk) 18:22, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] optics images

I like your image on the "real image" article. I would like to add one that I think would help the article. Can you tell me how I can upload the svg file I made? Thanks. 209.253.120.198 (talk) 01:12, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

Sure, go to the commons upload page (here) and follow the directions. Be sure to pick permissions of Public Domain-Own work. PAR (talk) 15:35, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Speedy deletion of Image:BuffaloNYFlag.jpg

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[edit] values for CIE1931 XYZCMF.png

You seem to be the person who uploaded Image:CIE1931 XYZCMF.png, and so I'd like to ask you where you got the values for the chart. Specifically, I'm trying to find the area under the curves, and data tables for them would be quite helpful.

(In theory, I think you're supposed to explain how you came up with the chart, but I'm not going to get all Wikilawyer on you) superluser_tc 2008 August 29, 07:58 (UTC)

Hello - I got the data from Wyszecki and Stiles, page 725. I added this line to the image:

Data from Wyszecki, Günter and Stiles, Walter Stanley (2000). Color Science: Concepts and Methods, Quantitative Data and Formulae (2E ed.). Wiley-Interscience. pp. 725. ISBN 0-471-39918-3. 

PAR (talk) 09:48, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

See, that is *extremely* useful information. Now, let's see if I can find that on Amazon. Thanks. superluser_tc 2008 August 29, 11:51 (UTC)

[edit] Disputed non-free use rationale for Image:Lenna.png

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Please investigate the history and use of this image. PAR (talk) 13:13, 17 October 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Broken images

Hi,

images broken, please check:

• Image:GroupDiagramMiniC3.png
• Image:GroupDiagramMiniD6.png
• Image:GroupDiagramMiniC12.png

Maksim-e (talk) 22:26, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

Ok, I fixed it, thanks for pointing that out. PAR (talk) 00:55, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

[edit] File:Lenna.png

You undid my removal of your Lenna image from her biogaphical page. The use of her image does not qualify as fair use on her biographical page, as any image of her could do here. There fore on the Lena Soderberg page it fails WP:NFCC 1. No free equivalent. The use of the image on the other pages is justified as the image is not replacable on the Lenna page, for example. However just because fair use is allowed on other pages doesn't mean fair use is allowed on any page. That is why no biographical pages of living persons have a fair use image. Rambo's Revenge (talk) 14:41, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

P.S. My original edit summary for removing it: "remove rationale for biographical person (as a free image can be made), just because they aren't cracking down on the use of this image does not make it public domain" was wrong. I didn't mean public domain, i meant fair use. 14:44, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

I restored the image and the fair use rationale, for reasons indicated on each page. Basically, the image was not presented on the biographical page as simply a picture but "as pictured in the Lenna image". As such, its use there and anywhere else is irreplaceable. Also, just because they aren't cracking down on the use of this image does not make it NOT fair use. PAR (talk) 19:42, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

Can we move this conversation to File talk:Lenna.png? —Chowbok ☠ 19:53, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

good idea, I will copy this to the Lenna.png talk page PAR (talk) 20:01, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Entropy expression on erlang distribution page

Hi PAR. Yours was the first entry for entropy on the erlang distribution page. The expression is in error and I corrected it (see Tom Cover's latest edition of his info theory book, page 661)

Cheers,

Chris (talk) 08:05, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Drying out a log...

Read the wiki article on wood drying, specifically issues and cracking on the outer parts when moisture evaporates more quickly than in the interior... I noticed that you are a recent contributor to this page. I wonder if the inner section of a log was hollowed out would that reduce risk of cracking? (ie relatively uniform and totally intact outer rim of tree, not bark) Also, if doing this, in the drying process, would the shape warp? Do you know? Can you tell I am looking to make a drum?  :> Please let me know if you have any idea. A post here or email: aruenfire@gmail.com . Thanks. Woodwater (talk) 03:29, 17 February 2009 (UTC)WW

Hollowing out the log will reduce the risk of cracking, the more hollow, the less risk. The wood shrinks more tangentially than it does radially. As it dries, a solid log wants to reduce its circumference faster than its radius, and so it forms radial cracks in order to do that. A ring inside a solid log can't contract because of the wood inside the ring, so it cracks. A thin ring made by hollowing the log will have room to contract, and its inner radius and outer radius wont be at odds with each other as much, and so it will crack less. The best way to prevent cracking is to cut your own radial crack to begin with, but thats not going to make a good drum. Dry it slowly, and if you can, choose a wood that doesn't crack much. Seal the top and bottom with something like paraffin so it dries from the sides, not the top and bottom. It will dry more slowly that way, and it wont set up as much stress. The drum should shrink, but not warp, if you have good straight wood to begin with, and try to follow the growth rings when hollowing. PAR (talk) 10:39, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

Hello! Are you physicist? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 132.199.119.184 (talk) 12:59, 27 March 2009 (UTC)

Hello! Yes. PAR (talk) 14:05, 27 March 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Lenna

Hi
I've left you a message at Talk:Lenna#"... changed the course of history"?
Cheers, Amalthea 16:49, 26 July 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Chromaticity Diagrams

FYI, 98.216.110.149 (talk · contribs) brought up a question about the diagrams you made, specially the position of the white point. See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Color#Several incorrect chromaticity diagrams and Talk:Chromaticity#Chromaticity diagram colors are wrong. PaleAqua (talk) 06:28, 4 September 2009 (UTC)

[edit] White House/Fox News

FYI. You may want to express your opinion on a recently deleted article: Wikipedia:Deletion_review/Log/2009_October_28 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jwesley78 (talk • contribs) 21:50, 30 October 2009 (UTC)

Thanks, but I never did read that article before it was deleted, so I can't really form an opinion. Also, I am more or less in agreement with your Anita Dunn edits. The quote really has to be in the article, I would prefer in the body, but if this creates consensus, then good. PAR (talk) 23:36, 30 October 2009 (UTC)

The only way to see the article is through Google's cache. Anyways, I'm glad things settled down on the Anita Dunn article. I hope the article has reached a relatively stable point. Jwesley78 (talk) 06:08, 31 October 2009 (UTC)

[edit] User:JohnHistory

FYI. It appears that our comrade User:JohnHistory completely flipped out! I hope he's OK. Jwesley78 (talk) 02:22, 1 November 2009 (UTC)

Jeez, the guy is way too serious. Didn't he say he was going to Europe for a month? I hope he finds a french girl who shows him how to chill. PAR (talk) 03:14, 1 November 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Primitive communism

Hi there. I noticed you added a reference, "Scott, John; Marshall, Gordon (2007). A Dictionary of Sociology. USA: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0198609872." to primitive communism; I was wondering if you could perhaps dig it up and check to see if it supports the edit made by this user here. If it doesn't, their edit is either incorrect and unsupported, or correct and we need a new reference. I don't know anything about the reference to be able to rollback again in good conscience, so if you could please check it out it would be most appreciated. Cheers. SMC (talk) 00:40, 6 November 2009 (UTC)

I think the quote says it very well. This article needs to make clear that it is not an established fact that primitive communism actually did or did not exist in primitive cultures. I'm fairly sure its a contentious question, and both sides need to be presented, along with good references. To say that it "describes a pre-agrarian form of communism" might be taken to mean that it did exist, but to say that it "describes what they interpreted as a pre-agrarian form of communism" might be taken to mean that it did not exist. The quote clearly implies that it is "speculative" which is not to say it is true or false. Somehow we have to have to make the rest of the article inform the reader that it is a contentious issue and give them information from both sides with which to make up their own minds. That will take some thinking and some research. PAR (talk) 04:21, 6 November 2009 (UTC)

Glad I checked with you -- you sure know your stuff! A tricky issue to say the least; unfortunately I don't know anywhere near enough about the topic to contribute something meaningful. I'll put it on my watchlist though, just in case I feel unusually productive sometime. Anyway, thanks for getting back to me. SMC (talk) 13:46, 6 November 2009 (UTC)