User talk:Vardion/Archive 2003

Welcome

Hi Vardion :) I hope you like the place and choose to stay.

Some links that may be of use:

• Wikipedia:Welcome, newcomers
• Wikipedia:How to edit a page
• Wikipedia:Village pump - ask questions you may have here, or leave a message on my talk page

Have fun, and keep contributing :) Dysprosia 09:16, 18 Oct 2003 (UTC)

Republic of Congo

Hi there Vardion - welcome. I noticed you had edited the old RoC page - did you know that I was working on trying to move it over to the new format? I'd welcome some help - if you're interested, please follow the link at the top of the RoC page to the new one under construction. When its finished, we can move it over! Thanks! 2toise 09:38, 24 Oct 2003 (UTC)

Talk page, not User page

Vardion, please put the comment to 2toise on the talk page - here. Thanks Dysprosia 01:00, 25 Oct 2003 (UTC)

Country locator maps

I love the maps - great work!2toise 05:28, 30 Oct 2003 (UTC)

Wikipedia is in need of better maps for just about everything geographical, and the ones that you uploaded look fine. If you have a source of GFDL (or fair use blah blah) -compatible quality maps, please let us know. Thanks, Kosebamse 06:22, 31 Oct 2003 (UTC)

more talk on my page - thanks, Kosebamse 07:56, 1 Nov 2003 (UTC)

You've done a good job! I love the pic you added to China, People's Republic of! :D Thanks! And I agree with you that some countries are too small to be showed in that map, any solutions? :O --FallingInLoveWithPitoc 17:58, 1 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Brilliant idea! I've checked out some of the countries containing new style of maps, and they look very good. Just let me know if I can help any. :D --FallingInLoveWithPitoc 02:11, 16 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Nice job with the location maps you've been uploading! –Hjr 05:49, 16 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Nice maps! Your blank map of Europe, however, is missing Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, and Ukraine. --seav 07:34, Nov 16, 2003 (UTC)

It is good of you to add the little map of New Zealand but why is it very distorted in shape? I sure you know the real shape of NZ but in case you don't have a look at the satellite photos of NZ I put on. Presumably you are using a single map of the earth as your source but this produces huge distortions at the edges. I appreciate the map work you are doing but can another map source be found for the "edge" countries?
Adrian Pingstone 09:36, 16 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Sorry about the daft remark "in case you don't know the real shape"". I just discovered you are from NZ!

Adrian Pingstone 10:08, 16 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Excellent new map of NZ. I like it!

Adrian Pingstone 17:08, 16 Nov 2003 (UTC)

I know I'm a bit late, but thanks a lot for all these nice maps, they are great! Kokiri 18:40, 16 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Greeting from a fellow map maker :-) I somehow like your colorization of the maps more, so maybe you'd like to comment on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Thai provinces on the pros and cons of changing the provincial maps. andy 22:19, 11 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Do you happen to know if Image:BlankMap-World.png is available unprojected, (i.e. without the robinson transformations)? Ojw 19:49, 19 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Edward Hunter (Billy Banjo) Article

Hi there, how r u? Noticed some of the articles you have contributed to and your interests and thought you might be able to help.

I wrote an article (before I set up an account) about Edward Hunter (Billy Banjo) the Scottish born New Zealand socialist figure as I believe he was important to the development of the left in New Zealand. However, no articles have been linked to that article and I don't have a detailed enough knowledge to be able to do this myself. Could you help? Big Jim Fae Scotland

Cheers for getting back to us Vardion. Think you are right about a lack of articles to link the Edward Hunter article to (glad you thought it was okay though). There is actually a real dearth of stuff about him on the internet as a whole. Has there been much written about the man in New Zealand? Nothing about him here in Scotland, as although he was active politically I think he was a bigger name of the left in your part of the world - not really a leading player over here.

I would be interested to know if you had any more info on the man as he was actually my step-father's grandfather, so there is family interest here! Big Jim Fae Scotland