First archived talk at User talk:Arpingstone/ArchiveMar3-2003
Second archived talk at User talk:Arpingstone/ArchiveJul10-2003
Third archived talk at User talk:Arpingstone/ArchiveFeb20-2004
Fourth archived talk at User talk:Arpingstone/ArchiveJune15-2004

Hello, thanks for your gentle comment. It was just natural to get rid of that picture, given its dubious © status and the residual advertisement graphics. Had I checked the talk page, I might have even done what you suggested there (and what the user who had included all those images in the first place has done now). Cheers, Lupo 08:31, 19 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Dear Arp: What would I do without you?? Sam told me recently he enjoys articles more with photos, and it made me realize how stale they look without pictures, specially airline ones. Im very picky when it comes down to choosing which photos to ask for rights to inclusion here, I like ours to show the airlines name and logo clearly so people can see what their livery looks like.

That said, you came through again! The next rights I got granted, although I have many, many rights granted, but the next ones are for the Dominicana de Aviacion, Aeroméxico and Aeroperu articles. I will send them to you ASAP and dont worry, I know youre a busy man so Im not in a hurry:)

Thanks from the bottom of my heart and God bless you!

Sincerely yours, your friend , Antonio Gotta see the London Underground in my lifetime Martin (ps: I discovered why I cant upload photos from one site of the net to another: low memory in my ancient (1999) model..lol)

Hi, I agree that 300px is at the "outer limits" ;-) for thumbnails; so far, I just tried to keep the images at their original size. But, I will try to remember reducing the thumbnails to 250px in the future, which ought to do just as well. For those I already did, feel free to fix them. BTW, thanks for uploading so many great images in the first place! --Magnus Manske 22:07, 23 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Dear Arp: Hi! Thanks again for the photos. Once again you come through! Now, Ive been noticing you havent been answering my messages. I hope youre not mad at me!

I know that you must have a long list of pictures to be uploaded, let me know if you need a breather. But youre one of my favorite persons to work with aat wikipedia. I have the next batch of airliners ready to be sent, let me know if you want them.

Thanks and God bless you!

Sincerely yours, Antonio Pink Cat Martin

Dear Adrian: Thanks for uploading the new photos! Its good to hear everythings good at home! As far as here, my mother is getting tested for Cancer again. If no bad news comes before the weekend I will be busy pursuing my other hobby besides wikipedia, planes and boxing: autographs. Muhammad Ali, Celine Dion, Prince, Evander Holyfield and Ali's daughter Laila, who is making quite a name for herself as a boxer too, are going to be in town Saturday at a charity event and God willing that mom comes out ok, Im planning to be there.

Well, soon I will send you a new batch, specifically a Midwest Airlines photo that was supposed to be sent with the last batch but because of a small misunderstanding I had with the airliners.net people (I clicked on the wrong photo ID and thought they'd changed the photo I had permission for was changed into one of a United Airlines plane) I wasnt able to send it. Thats clarified now, so that one will be sent to you soon, as well as one of Skyservice and NCA.

Ive been asking for photos to include on articles Ive written about airlines, being specially good to those who have sent me plane models for free but also to hispanic airlines. Monarch was excellent , they sent me one, they were real nice. So was NCA, they, British Airways and Palmair each sent me two plane models for free. I see it as a favor back to them. But in BA's case I already saw they have photos at their article anyways...I also have Fina Air, Fine Air, Cubana de Aviacion and other airline photos coming up pretty soon.

Well keep mom in your rayers. Thanks angain and God bless you! Idf I were to write an article about you what can I say it would be very POV because youre an excellent friend and wonderful man.

Sincerely yours, your friend, Antonio Wikijunkie Martin

Hi Adrian. The Opera House pic at Sydney is not viewable in the smaller size but ok expanded. Don't know how to fix, so.......Ta. Cheers. Moriori 02:12, Mar 28, 2004 (UTC)

I've started a new WikiProject: WikiProject Trains. I'm inviting all Wikipedians who are interested in trains and railways to take a look and decide if they want to get this going. Thanks, —Morven 23:32, 29 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Hi! I took your great photos of Victor and Vulcan bombers into Polish Wikipedia. Aren't both of your Victor photos the same machine? (of 1961?) Wouldn't it be Victor B.2 variant? As for Vulcan: wouldn't your photo be Vulcan B.1 ? Thanks. Pibwl 18:50, 30 Mar 2004 (UTC)

After searching the Net for pics for the last several days, I'm quite convinced they are the mentioned variants. But do you remember, if these towo Victors are the same plane? (it would make the things easier). Thanks for sharing such exclusive photos. Pibwl 22:51, 30 Mar 2004 (UTC)

About Yate article--struck close to home, eh? ;-) I find that it's usually easier to just change text than it is to try to get someone else to change it to match your ideas (unless I'm being paid as a tech writer mentor, which I sometimes am, but even so--I think people can learn a lot from seeing their writing edited). The current Yate edit could be even more NPOV and downplay the surveys even more. Coincidentally, while I was following some other dubious edits, I found this--check the history for original version and very POV editor. I just went in and changed the article (what there was of it to salvage). It's still pretty trivial info but probably accurate and probably NPOV. 'Course, you've been around Wikipedia much longer than I have. I don't think Dash was really throwing down the gauntlet and he might or might not get NPOV and encyclopedic writing, but he did make a lot of edits trying to address some of your concerns, and maybe he benefited/would benefit from seeing stuff edited as well. So I'm all for more/more interesting info on Yate. Imagine--they have a McDonald's! Do they have a Starbucks, too? (trying to keep a straight face...) Elf | Talk 20:17, 31 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Dear Adrian: Hey! Thanks for the message! As far as renaming the List of boxers to List of male boxers and then making a List of female boxers, what do you think?

I cant wait til you upload the new photos I sent you, the articles will look great with your pages, as always! You always do a great job, mucho kudos to you!

Meanwhile check out my latest, Nicole Powell. The girl's won so many awards that I thought Id would take me one year to finish the page so I sorta condensed the info a little..lol and check out my latest progress on my ongoing work Boxing in the 1930s, let me know what you think!

Thanks, and God bless you!

Sincerely yours, your friend, Antonio Wikipedia Rodman Martin

Hey Arp: You got mail!! hehehe! Oh by the way, Im a Puerto Rican living in Phoenix, Arizona....13 years here, and let me tell you, Phoenix is more and more Mexican than American well, which fits me well, I like being in contact with my Hispanic culture but for that reason I nicknamed myself the Puerto-Mexi a long time ago..LOL

Thanks and God bless you!

Sincerely yours, Antonio Puerto-Mexi Martin

Hey Adrian: Thanks again1 Once again, excellent job! I believe the next photos will be destined for the Palmair, Air ALM and Atlas Air Cargo articles..LOL Im only nice to the airlines that have sent me free plastic plane models in that way..lol They send me free plane models, you and I give then free promotion through article and photo here..LOL. (although the promotion term can be dubious as I list accidents, bad periods and everything related to the airline!) hehehe! gotta be NPOV here..lol!)

Ok anyways, thank you and God bless you1 Once again, great work!!

Sincerely yours, your friend, Antonio Mr. Nice Guy Martin [[User:AntonioMartin|

The pic was mainly for the Emirates article, to show the "flagship" of their current fleet. WhisperToMe 08:32, 4 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Arp - there's no need to upload both 750px and 250px images. If you upload a 750px image, you can auto-resize it on the article: [[image:my_image.jpg|200px|My Image]] - UtherSRG 14:03, 5 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for your message. I'm well aware that the new syntax self-generates a thumbnail but my big and little pics are only for taxoboxes. I don't know how to do a taxobox in the new syntax so rather than do nothing I use the old syntax. It still works fine, I've just done Coscoroba Swan and Emperor Goose that way. If you know how to do a taxobox in the new code, please apply it to, say, Emperor Swan then I can copy your method. Best Wishes, Adrian,

Adrian Pingstone 14:13, 5 Apr 2004 (UTC)

I've modified both the goose and swan. :) - UtherSRG

Many thanks, I very much appreciate your help, taxoboxes will be loads easier to illustrate from now on!

Adrian Pingstone 14:23, 5 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Hey Adrian! Once again thank you for your hard work putting the photos I asked permission for. Your hard work is very appreciated, and as they say in Spanish, Im muy agradecido that is, very thankful.

Thank you and God bless you!

Sincerely yours, your friend Antonio The Vibe Martin

Hi Adrian, how you doing? I hope you won't be too upset but I rm'd the image you added to Aviation History, as I felt it added nothing useful to the article, being neither a historically significant type, nor a specific aircraft that was of historical interest. An image may well help to improve this page, since there is a lot of text there, but this one, I felt, wasn't it - maybe a pic of something more relevant would be better? Also, I'm a bit unsure what the benefit of the 737 pic on the main Aviation page is, though for now I've left it there. While not irrelevant, it also doesn't really add anything to the article, since I cannot imagine anyone who has heard of aviation not knowing what an aeroplane looks like! I feel (as you know) that we should guard against creeping page bloat, and stay focused on making articles tight and relevant, though I would like to hear your (and others') views on this. Graham 23:12, 18 Apr 2004 (UTC)

We have a picture of a Beech King Air 100 available at [1]. I listed Beech King Air on the requested articles page, but I couldn't find any sources for the aircraft family, neither for the 100 model, so I couldn't sit down to write the article since I'm unfamiliarized with the subject. Raytheon Aircraft has information about the 350 [2], the B200 [3], and the C90B [4] but no information about the 100. Any help would be appreciated. :-)

As always, thanks for all the contributions that you make to the project,

—Michael | Talk 05:31, Apr 21, 2004 (UTC)

Adrian, can you have a look at the image formats Nicobar Pigeon and Green Imperial Pigeon, in both the current revision by UtherSRG and the previous one by me. There is relevant comment on Uther's talk page too. Since they're your pics, you might wish to express a view. jim

I looked at the Tree of life talk page, and the decision to reduce the standard picture size down from 250px doesn't seem to be in there, although you suggest that 200-250 px is acceptable. On the project page, the recommendation seems to be yours. I can live without the mag glass, but my view is that the images should go back to the previous 250, and, if we are not using the mag, to revert to the media: format to make it clear that there is a larger image.

However, I don't want to start an edit war just yet, so I want to consult Bigiron and Tannin as the other main pic contributors. Jim

Dear Adrian: Once again, you come through! Im gonna start calling you John Paxson! The player who always comes through when most needed! Thanks for everything, and God bless you!

Sincerely yours, your friend, Antonio Basketball Brain Martin

Dear Adrian: I'd feel like a goose if I didnt thank you again for helping me with the photos of the new airliners before going on to my next article of today. You are making the wikipedia brighter every day both in intellectually and with your colorful photos.

By the way, Im into Fashion as well, so my little part of Steven Cojocaru in my mind says great choice with that blue shirt on your photo! You really hit it on target. I believe that that type of blue will be the red of the 2000s when it comes to dressing. Nice choice!

The next batch of photos will be arriving about next sunday, including one for the Cubana de Aviacion article and a couple others.

Thank you, and God bless you!

Sincerely yours, Antonio Fashion Police Martin

Hello Arpingstone I'm a french wikipedian (fr:Utilisateur:Dav 59), I do the fr:Eurofighter 2000 and I see the photo

. Can I use this photo wihtout ask at Jo Mitchell?(just put the source of the photo) Sorry for my english, I'm verry bad.

(can you put your answer in my talk page fr:Discussion Utilisateur:Dav 59 thanks) 82.124.133.59 10:44, 30 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Your french is very good. Thanks I'm coping the photo. Dav 59

I don't know - the page is blanked, not deleted, but someone has been systematically vandalising it - perhaps he's had enough. Jim

Dear Lord of the Pictures, can you get, or tell me where to, something for Lucius Cornelius Sulla? Cheers, MvHG 13:59, 10 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

• Dear Adrian, thanks for your help. I thought you might know some special place where we could download free use images. By the way, what did you mean by stating in the picture its copyright? What about pictures I did myself? Is the copyright mine or Wikipedia's? Cheers, MvHG 14:38, 11 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
  • Thanks a lot! I have somethings to write in the pictures i uploaded!! All the best, MvHG 07:26, 13 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

I saw your Image:Peacock.displaying.800pix.jpg picture, and I thought it was so good I listed it on Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. →Raul654 17:21, May 13, 2004 (UTC)

Hi Adrian. Just wondered whether there was some reason for not moving these to ATR 42 and ATR 72 (since you're right, those should be the titles). --ALargeElk 14:59, 14 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

I've been listing your old thumbnails and small picture versions on images for deletion. (Currently on the May 15 section.) They're mostly orphans; the ones that aren't, I've been orphaning. You have an impressive array of pictures you've taken. This will take me... a while. Grendelkhan 05:40, 2004 May 16 (UTC)

Hi Adrian - one of the pics at Eurasian Coot appears to have died and needs re-uploading; I think it is one of yours - MPF 13:41, 17 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

This is the copyright notice for a site I want to use as a picture source, [5]:
"All the pictures on this site were taken by Jo Mitchell (unless otherwise stated) and may be used for legitimate and legal purposes provided credit is given. It would be appreciated if you email Jo to request permission for use of images. Most images are available as high-resolution scans (up to 4000dpi) for use in print and screen media - please do not hesitate to ask for further details. Copyright is retained at all times by Jo Mitchell. Thanks"
Can I use these pics (if I check with Jo Mitchell first) and what would be the copyright notice I should use on the Image Description Page? Thanks for any help,
Adrian Pingstone 18:51, 13 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

Goodness whether "legitimate and legal purposes" is, formally speaking, a restriction incompatible with the GFDL, but it does sounds like Jo would respond favourably if you explicitly asked for a GFDL licence (for the low-res versions) via email. Pete/Pcb21 (talk) 19:17, 13 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

There are a couple of pre-written permission-asking templates at Wikipedia:Boilerplate request for permission -- they cover most of the important points. Modify as needed for your purposes. Catherine - talk 01:56, 15 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Adrian. I moved this from the pump in case you hadn't seen it yet. Angela. 19:50, May 17, 2004 (UTC)

thank you for the nicely done Las Vegas photo.

thank you for the nicely done Las Vegas photo. Xah Lee P0lyglut 02:34, 2004 May 19 (UTC)

Hey Arp: Just wanted to introduce you to my dad, who is a new contributor here. He goes by the name Tony. You and him will be great friends.

Oh by the way the new, Iran Air photo you put there is my favorite airline photo of all time! Not only does it show the airline's name and logo perfectly, but it gives me the impression its about to hit that house! I got the chills! I loved it!

Well, say hi to dad. Thanks and God bless you!

Sincerely yours, Antonio Dark Wings Martin

I was just thinking, it would be nice if you could find a picture of Frank Whittle to go in the article. I wouldent have a clue where to find one but I thought you might be able to. Cheers. G-Man 21:24, 27 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there,

Your tag lines on your edits to the Motorway article last month were not sufficient. You made other minor edits besides those described. One of your edits had an error which was not detected until today - changing the hard shoulder lane demarkation to "white line line". Doubly wrong, as the original description, a dashed yellow line, is correct for Ireland. The article is now corrected with both situations mentioned. Please be more careful in your edits. In this case, simply mentioning "minor edits" (plural) in the tagline would most likely have gained another's or my own attention.

Thank you, Zoney 23:24, 30 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

I hope Adrian won't mind me springing to his defence on his talk page, but this seems a bit harsh. Adrian is a fine contributor and this is a very minor transgression. There are others who are far worse when it comes to annotating their edits appropriately. It's not as if the annotation is even compulsory! I too find it a bit irritating when people mark their edits as minor when it clearly isn't, but since the guidelines are widely interpreted, we just have to live with it. Personally, I generally never mark mine as minor unless its just a typo fix, etc, but others impose their own rules. I think you might want to wait awhile until you build up more experience before criticising Adrian or others on this sort of level, it only tends to piss people off rather than getting them to conform to your strict standards which are not shared by all. Since you appear to have been here only since April, I would counsel restraint since Adrian has been around significantly longer and is a very reliable contributor. Don't forget we are all here voluntarily, and if it's not fun, we won't bother. Being shouted at by newbie users in general counts as "not fun" in my book. Graham 08:10, 31 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

Zoney, thank you for your comments on the Motorway article. It was simply an error on my part to mark the changes as minor. I've been on Wikipedia every day (except holidays) since January 2003 so I know the "rules" even better than you do. Nevertheless I do make mistakes occasionally. It would have been much simpler if you had just made the corrections and saved me the nuisance of typing this. If I was a newbie then your notes would have been useful but I'm not, I'm very experienced on WP.

Graham, your defence of my innocent error is very much appreciated, thanks for noticing and spending the time writing to me. I would never mark such changes as MINOR and have no idea why I did so.

Best Wishes to you both - Adrian Pingstone 08:40, 31 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, I know, I was just kind of irritated that the error had remained for a whole month! I would have fixed it had I noticed it, but the comments obviously passed by my watchlist. I only noticed it when another user fixed it! Hence my (perhaps overboard!) complaint! Not to worry! (On the plus side, the above is probably as close as I get to a flame!)

As regards usefulness, yeah, some contemplation would have probably persuaded me not to bother. (At this stage, I wouldn't like to have every minor error in my edits alerted to me either!) Sorry to take up your time!

Zoney 11:03, 31 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Mr. Arpingstone: Hi! I would like to thank you for your welcome message on my talk page. It was a nice gesture of you to welcome me.

My son, Antonio has talked so much to me about you and the whole of wikipedia that I decided to give it a try. I am convinced that here, I am with the best of the best. It is an honor to share space with people such as my son and you.

I was in the United States Marine Corps and I went to the Vietnam War. However, if you look at my user page, I found multiple disparities while in the Marines. We were serving the same country, but I felt as if the minorities in my company (Hispanics and Blacks) were a world apart from the rest.

My main concern here are the biographies of Puerto Rican legends who may otherwise be not known to others. Those who think all Puerto Ricans want to be American citizens should look at the biographies I have written so far. Many of them were patriotic and pro independence.

I have seen several of your photos as well as the photo jobs you have done for my son. My son is always delighted with your work, and I have to say that you are a very talented photographer. My son was so impressed with the Iran Air photo in particular, that he even told me it was the best airplane photo by far he had ever seen.

Well, Mr. Arpingstone, I hope that we can collaborate on future articles. Anything you want to add to my articles, feel free to do so. Thank you very much for your greeting.

Best regards, Marine 69-71

Hi Adrian, I wanted to ask you advice on a duck I've photographed. I thought it was a female Red-crested Pochard, but the male it was with doesn't look quite like your picture or examples I've found in books. Mine seems less crested, although everything else looks OK. Is the size of the red crest variable? Do you think it is the real thing or is it a hybrid? Thanks for any help -- sannse (talk) 19:29, 12 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Thanks, that's great. I feared mine just wasn't crested enough :) I'll add the female to the article. Regards -- sannse (talk) 20:43, 12 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Please weigh in: Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Tree_of_Life#MW_1.3_categories

Adrian, I've done Black-billed Whistling Duck, if you have a pic. Incidentally, this page is now 45k Jim

Adrian, I've done the other two articles for which there were available images, Ashy-headed Goose and Ruddy-headed Goose, Jim

If you upload any other wildfowl images you have and put media links to them in my sandbox, I'll do the rest of the articles to go with them. Jim

Bonjour Adrian. Just saw your pics on the Eiffel Tower page. Absolutely fabulous views. I also noticed you seem to be an avid "French fan". I'd like to discuss use of your pictures of France on a website I have. I don't know what your policy is on this, but I'd like to know... I've just started to get to know Wiki... is there anyway to have personal contact via email?

Thanks, Samk (living just outside of Paris)

Samk, 'allo! I love Paris very much even though I've had just two weeks there (in two separate one week holidays). However, I worked for British Aerospace in Bristol for many years and had to go to meetings in Toulouse, so I've been to Toulouse 36 times! (but never, stupidly, took any photos). Feel free to use any of my photos anyhow you like, they are all public domain and so no need to ask my permission, just let me know your web site address. Have a look at:
France Geography Notre Dame

Eiffel Tower Paris Seine Pere Lachaise Louvre Montparnasse Tower Statue of Liberty Performance art

Moulin Rouge Tourism Baron Haussmann Tower

Edith Piaf Axe historique Diana Pyramid

Bouches-du-Rhone

Sorry, I'm too busy for e-mail contact so make any comments or requests via WP, please. I'll know you've written because Wikipedians can have something called a Watchlist which tells them when a watched article (or talk page) has been edited. Bon chance avec votre web-site, Adrian - Adrian Pingstone 17:01, 28 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Hi, when you'll be back from vacation, could you tell me the license of the picture Image:Michelangelo.pieta.350pix.jpg. We use it on french wikipedia so I'd like to know if it is GFDL or public domain. Thanks in advance. Tipiac 21:52, 9 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Hey Adrian: Just to let you know I awarded you a Barnstar on your user page, for your hard and meritorius work. I hope you like it. Thanks and God bless you!

Sincerely yours, "Antonio Godfather of Nicknames Martin"

Hi Adrian, I thought your beautiful photo was rather wasted down there in the "See also" section of the article on hotels (and, by the way, I do believe that three pictures of the same building showing exterior and interior make sense), so I found a nicer place for it in the newly created star (classification) article. If you don't like it there I'll go and remove it again, as I don't think the same photo should be used twice if it can be avoided.

By the way, all the pictures taken by you (which I've come across so far) are great! All the best, <KF> 09:34, 16 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Kurt, thanks for the kind comment on my photo quality, I do only picture work and no writing (except the captions, of course). So I'm especially keen to get the placement, and appropriate article, correct.

I can't agree that 3 pics of the same hotel is OK because, since the hotel article is fairly short (and likely to remain so) no one can get in another hotel pic, which is a bit restrictive. So I'm asking if you will be kind to me and leave the Castle Combe pic on the Hotel article.

It wasn't deliberately placed in the See Also section, that positioning just happened to be a good spacing from the bottom of the last picture.

I'll get another pic of a hotel as soon as possible for the Star (classification) article.

I hope my pic can stay on the Hotel article but should you want to revert to the arrangement you had I won't complain!

Best Wishes, Adrian Pingstone 14:39, 16 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Hey Adrian, its me Antonio again. I have been so involved in writing articles and trying to work around my computer, which is messing up badly again, that I havent been abkle to thankl you for the Ben Charles Padilla photo. We have done this with the hopes that he gets back well and alive.

Once again, thanks and God bless you! (check the article on Eye Spy Magazine, BTW).

Sincerely yours, your friend, "Antonio Ringmaster of Nicknamed people Martin"

Hey Arp: I cant thank you enough for putting the photo on the Pedro Montanez article. I always think a photo in a wikipedia article is the "topping of the ice cream" and youre the only o-ne basically putting the topping or "reaching the iceberg" at wikipedia! Everyone else here should express their respects here to you as I do. The last name Montanez, by the way, means something like "Mountain person" in Spanish.

The photo, as you can tell, is very old. I just found it there laying and decided to put it to good use. Besides illustrating Montanez, people can see what I looked like...in 1985! lol

Well, thanks and God bless you!

Sincerely yours, your friend, Antonio Happy to be unblocked Martin

Hi Adrian. I have a problem and you're the expert, so...... I uploaded an image today, (Child from Akha hill tribe} which worked ok as normal. Then I uploaded another image, , but only half of it appears in wiki. So I decided to upload again, with the same file name. Same thing -- only half of it appears. Help! Cheers Moriori 02:27, Aug 6, 2004 (UTC)

Tks for response Adrian. What a strange thing. I posted a new article today Vincenzo Gemito, and thought I'd give one more try with a new image upload. So I went to the image to see what I had named it, and would you believe it, the WHOLE image was indeed there as you can see above, not half of it. What a mystery, but all's well that.........Hey, tks too for sending the sun on its way back downunder -- warming up nicely here. Moriori 20:35, Aug 7, 2004 (UTC)

I noted you removed the 'Wikipedia' brand I had put on the photograph of an electric fan I uploaded. But that's okay, I airbrushed out the original 'Vornado' logo on it myself before I uploaded it. In response to the comment on the picture, I took it and have explicitly declared it public domain.

Paul Rfc1394 19:47, 9 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Hi! I just found this picture looking for an A380 picture for the german Wikipedia. The License says: "Reproduced with the permission of Airbus UK." Does this mean, the picture is licensed under the GNU FDL? Greetings from Finkenwerder! --Xeper 15:51, 25 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Hullo from Bristol, England!

Yes, I understood from BAe at the time they gave me the pic (on a CD of Airbus pics) that GDFL was OK with them but I don't have that in writing. So go ahead and use the picture under GDFL.

I went to the Finkenwerder aircraft factory way back in 1993 when it belonged (I think) to Deutsche Airbus. I was an aerodynamicist on Airbus and I went to what was called the A321 1g wing bend test when the wing of an Airbus A321 was bent up to full flight shape. I had to measure the fit of all the control surfaces. I remember a huge river just outside (the Elbe was it?)

Best Wishes - Adrian Pingstone 16:50, 25 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for reminding me of the need for descriptive captions (as in Sodalite), mine was rubbish! I'll try to remember your example for the future! - Adrian Pingstone 08:53, 28 Aug 2004 (UTC)

:) Thanks for your pictures! ··gracefool |☺ 11:58, 28 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Hi there! Thanks for adding the image Image:Mercury.e6b.650pix.jpg. It currently doesn't have an image copyright tag, and I was hoping that you would add one as untagged images may be deleted eventually. (You can use {{gfdl}} to license it under the GFDL, or {{fairuse}} if you claim fair use, etc.) Thanks! --Diberri | Talk 23:54, Aug 31, 2004 (UTC)

Image:Mercury.e6b.300pix.jpg too, please :-) --Diberri | Talk 23:55, Aug 31, 2004 (UTC)

You asked: Aerial view contrast improved (why don't contributors make simple improvements to their pics before adding?))

Well, for a start, programs to do that are quite expensive, or need to be downloaded, etc. And maybe the contributor was using a picture from an archive and wanted to present it as seen in its original form.

You've rather overdone the contrast, for my taste (and it is a matter of taste). The trees in Victoria park now look like lollipops...
quota

Quota, thanks for your comments. I accept that my remark was a little cruel and I won't make any more remarks of that sort again.

OK :-)

I don't agree the trees look odd, I've done plenty of flying, including light aircraft, and seen plenty such scenes so I know how an aerial view should look.

I certainly think my pic was a massive improvement, here they are side-by-side. If you truly prefer the dim one, then that's your right::

No, I definitely prefer yours, over the dim one, no question. (As I said, it's a matter of taste on the whole.) I'm just saying that I think it is a bit too much on the contrasty side. I too, have done a lot of flying, including in light aircraft over the Royal Crescent (my grandfather lived in #1 before he died, and my wedding reception was in the hotel in the middle), so I know it well. To me (as a matter of preference, and perhaps poor memory) the high contrast doesn't match my recollections. It looks more like the sort of contrast one sees in low humidity, such as over Arizona. And not at all Somerset/Avon :-)) quota

Best Wishes, Adrian - Adrian Pingstone 21:44, 3 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Hi, A, my condolences on the loss of the car that resulted in Image:Car.airbag.600pix.jpg. Do you recall approximately the time interval between the crash and the photo? How long did the bag take to deflate? (I'm guessing the bag deflated in 3 seconds or less.) Lupin and I are working on the caption on airbag, and the extra information will surely help. (I'm watching the image description page for the changes.) Thanks! -- ke4roh 11:18, Sep 4, 2004 (UTC

Hi Ke4roh, thanks for your questions. On the subject of deflation time have a look at thisURL:

http://auto.howstuffworks.com/framed.htm?parent=airbag.htm&url=http://whyfiles.news.wisc.edu/032air_bag/how_work.html

where it says by 0.3 seconds after inflation, the bag is supposed to be empty.

My 24 year old son John was the driver of the car, I was not with him. He crashed into the back of a Mercedes in a queue of traffic he was approaching because he thought the queue was moving. Actually it was stationary and he couldn’t stop! He said that deflation seemed instantaneous, it wasn’t seconds.

The interval between the crash and the photo was one hour because I went to see the car (and take the photo) after the car had been towed to a garage. It’s a gloomy pic because I had to photograph through the window which wouldn’t wind down. By the way, John was not hurt in any way, Chassis distortion meant that the car was written off. Best Wishes - Adrian Pingstone 19:24, 4 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Thanks! -- ke4roh 21:53, Sep 4, 2004 (UTC)

Why not fix the format to please you, without reverting the new information? The entry needs more text. Wetman 09:07, 5 Sep 2004 (UTC)

I saw a comment of yours somewhere, claiming to know about plugs.

So, take a look at Domestic AC power plugs & sockets, please!

Chameleon 19:46, 19 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Adrian - thanks very much for the tip! Ðåñηÿßôý | Talk 11:56, 22 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Hi Adrian! Car pics again... ;-) I noticed you changed the Vauxhall Magnum pic and your comment was "greatly improved". Sadly, I don't find it so - it's far too contrasty and the colours flare on my monitor. I think this is a classic case of colour management gone awry across platforms - what might look fine on my monitor (or yours) may not be the same for everyone. In addition it grew in size by 40% or so. Not sure what the best thing here is, I just reverted for now.Graham 23:39, 22 Sep 2004 (UTC)

looks good to me, Adrian. jim

Hey Arpingstone: Just wanted to say hi! Old friends are never forgotten.

Got myself a new satellite tv dish and now I can catch WAPA-TV from my natal Puerto Rico. Its a shame that today at the news they informed that a 28 year old pilot flying a single engine turbo crashed while flying from Eugenio Maria de Hostos Airport in Mayaguez to Luis Munoz Marin International Airport in San Juan. According to the news report he was on a hobby flight (he just wanted to fly so he grabbed his plane and took off) and his shoes were found in the beach were the plane crashed.

Other than that, imagine, I hadnt seen Puerto Rican tv in 15 years and Im so happy to be able to! I also receive channels from Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Paraguay, the Dominican Republic and even Spain. We oredered the Latin American package so we get channels from almost every hispanic country. I had been seeing Mexico television for years already and still receive those channels too. And gues what??? I also receive BBC sports!!! Been watching a lot of good old English football lately!! And boxing and etc. And Discovery Wings, which means I can return to my favorite show, Airline, which is transmitted from London Heathrow!.

My sister is having a baby girl! And we have a new dog, a girl also. Shes seven weeks old, her name is Pebbles and she wakes me up every morning with love demonstrations!. We are so happy.

How are you and your family doing?

Well just to tell you, friends are never forgotten!

Write back ASAP!

sINCERELY YOURS, "Antonio Arp's Buddy Martin"

Thanks for uploading Image:Opal.pendants.250pix.050203.jpg. I notice it currently doesn't have an image copyright tag. Could you add one to let us know its copyright status? (You can use {{gfdl}} if you release it under the GFDL, or {{fairuse}} if you claim fair use, etc.) Thanks so much, – Quadell ^{(talk) (help)}[[]] 16:38, Oct 5, 2004 (UTC)

Errr, sorry about that. -- Oarih 17:09, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Hi Adrian, I was wondering what you thought of trying to get somewhere local up to standard for a possible featured article, I was thinking maybe Bristol Harbour might make an interesting featured page one day. I've crossposed this to Rob Brewer for his comments. --Joe D 21:45, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC) P.S. you're far too popular - a 40kb talk page with multiple archives?! ;)

Hello Mr. Pingstone. I've been tagging images, and I tagged the picture of you (Image:Arpingstone.profile.250pix.jpg as being licensed under the GFDL. That was a rather brash assumption on my part, though, so please feel free to switch tags if your prefer to use a different license. – Quadell ^{(talk) (help)}[[]] 01:04, Oct 15, 2004 (UTC)

Hello there! I came across your airctaft photos in several places. I've just uploaded one myself: Image:United Airlines aircraft taking off at Schiphol Airport.jpg. I think it is an Airbus? Could you tell me which type it is so I can update the descriptions? Thanks, [[User:Solitude|Solitude\^talk]] 19:18, Oct 18, 2004 (UTC)

That's fine, I did note when uploading it that it was slightly sihouetted and could be improved. I have a habit of trying to make my photos look arty with unusual lighting, which usually just ends up making them usuitable for wikipedia (e.g. this lot from last night)! --Joe D 19:48, 20 Oct 2004 (UTC)

I uploaded an image to Bromeliaceae (the larger of the two in the article) and all seemed fine when I clicked show preview, with my image hard right, the other one in the centre, and the text running down the left side of the page. But when it saved., it is jumbled. Tried to fix it, but couldn't. What gives? Cheers Adrian. Moriori 01:24, Oct 23, 2004 (UTC)

I'M ON HOLIDAY IN LONDON FROM OCTOBER 29 to NOVEMBER 3 2004. SEE YOU LATER! - Adrian Pingstone 12:26, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Have a good one Adrian. Tks for tending to that page. Cheers Moriori 21:37, Oct 28, 2004 (UTC)

Hi Adrian, hope you enjoed the city! Someone on wiki.pt discovered this site with an incredible amount of Public Domain pictures. Maybe you find it useful, cheers, [[User:Muriel Gottrop|muriel@pt]] 08:49, 4 Nov 2004 (UTC)

BACK NOW! - Adrian Pingstone 12:26, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Sorry! Well, I didn't actually delete the photo, I just took it out of the article. I thought it was more appropriate (if there were only two photos) to have the photos be of different species of macaw. You are correct though that it wouldn't hurt to have three pictures, I'll go see if I can find a nice spot to put the other photo. --Dante Alighieri | Talk 18:14, Nov 5, 2004 (UTC)

I see you've already done so. :) --Dante Alighieri | Talk 18:16, Nov 5, 2004 (UTC)

Can you confirm these edits? [6]?

Burgundavia 07:36, Nov 6, 2004 (UTC)

• Thanks for the response

Nice images you uploaded, I took the liberty of adding them to a couple articles. Good job.Pedant 21:05, 2004 Nov 7 (UTC)

Hi Adrian,

Nice job on the new photos for 30 St Mary Axe - I particularly like the shot of the entrance. After I was there a couple of months back, I realised that one of the best vantage points to photograph the building is half-way up the stairs on the outside of the Lloyds buildings (assuming there isn't a gate which prevents you from climbing the stairs). The shot I uploaded is from the same direction, but at street level which doesn't give the best impression of scale (similarly image:stirling.swiss.re.arp.750pix.jpg). Someone put up a 'fair use' image recently which shows what is possible Image:Swiss Re Tower.jpg, but I listed it for deletion because we have plenty of free use shots. So if you happen to pass by again before I do....

Good call on removing the blurred London skyline photo too. Its one I would be tempted to recreate, but I haven't figured out where the vantage point is - I'm guessing it is somewhere east along the river from the Tate modern. -- Solipsist 11:12, 9 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Hello Adrian, Uh-oh! Deleting the Mozart image was a careless mistake--I was moving the endless discussion of Mozart's name to a separate article, and grabbed the image code along with the prose. Please accept my apologies, I should have been more careful. It's a nice picture, by the way.

Yours very truly, Opus33 22:45, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Hey there, there is some discussion whether Image:Sistine.chapel.entire.500pix.jpg is really GFDL as it was taken from artchive. Seeing you uploaded the image, can you confirm it is indeed GFDL, same for Image:Sistine.left.600pix.jpg. From what I can find: NOTE: The images, text and articles included at this site are for private, non-profit use only. Other usage is strictly prohibited. This would make the immages non-commercial only. Thanks, [[User:Solitude|Solitude\^talk]] 13:12, Nov 16, 2004 (UTC)

No problem, such things can happen, I have delisted the image as a featured picture, there is an ongoing discussion I think about what should happen with non-commercial images on the Wikipedia at all, I don't believe any decision has been made. -- [[User:Solitude|Solitude\^talk]] 16:25, Nov 16, 2004 (UTC)

Hmm, didn't check that. Uploaded it a while ago. ed g2s • talk 23:21, 19 Nov 2004 (UTC)

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