User talk:Autopilot

Maule Air articles

No problem - the later models all need adding to that table as well! The company is up to the M-9-230 Diesel!!- Ahunt (talk) 20:41, 7 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there. Thanks for your interest in adding images to the article on Washington, D.C. I don't have a problem with including the image of the stamp, except that it most likely violates copyright restrictions. The reason is that in order for copyright protected images to qualify for fair use, there can be no other images that can be used in its place. In this instance, the article's isn't about the stamp, it's about the stamp's subject and therefore the use of the image is dubious. I would recommend asking the more senior editors at WP:IMAGEHELP to get a final verdict. Best, epicAdam^(talk) 01:29, 14 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the response. I've updated the fair use rationale since it was more for the posthumous recognition that L'Enfant has received, which is direct discussion of the stamp itself and therefore falls under the terms of Template:Non-free_USGov-USPS_stamp. The DC article probably doesn't have the same call to use it. --Autopilot (talk) 02:40, 14 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Dupont Circle fountain

I looked over the rough draft. You currently have several "to do" sections, so are you wanting me to help out with adding content or general copyediting when it's completed? I'll be glad to help either way (since it's my favorite fountain, ha). I have some other photos (including historical) that you might like. APK is like a firecracker. He makes it hot. 02:18, 27 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

If you have things to add, please feel free to do so! Once the article is a little more complete, I would suggest that we comment out the todo sections and rename the article. -- Autopilot (talk) 16:08, 27 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion of Lamy 2000

A tag has been placed on Lamy 2000, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be blatant advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become an encyclopedia article. Please read the guidelines on spam as well as Wikipedia:FAQ/Business for more information.

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Hello, Autopilot. You have new messages at Tedder's talk page.
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U-2 citation templates

I regularly replace incomplete, inaccurate or poorly formatted templates with "scratch" cataloging information. My "rule" is if there are two mistakes in the information, then I replace them with a proper citation formated per Modern Language Association (MLA) style guides and Harvard Citation guides. FWiW Bzuk (talk) 22:30, 8 March 2009 (UTC).[reply]

Check the edit history and you will note that this article was one which I had edited long ago. Some new templates were forced over top of the original style. FWiW Bzuk (talk) 13:28, 9 March 2009 (UTC).[reply]

Extra lens contacts

Hope you did not get rubbed the wrong way, by me making changes to your edits. I just wanted to make sure that information was factual, and informative. But I think adding it in the first place was a good idea! :) In case you did not know, the extra three contacts are just "jumpers", that can be shorted. They are called COM1, EXT0, EXT1. So there are only a possible of three different shorts. COM1 to EXT0, is for the life size converter. COM1 to EXT1, is for the x2 extender. And COM1 and both EXT0 and EXT1, are for the x1.4 extender. I have no idea why there are two different shorts for the life size conveter and x1.4 extender. Both lenses cause attached lens to change by 1 stop aperture. My only guess is that since life size converter for for EF 50mm Macro only, using it on telephoto lens will make it not work... who knows! Nebrot (talk)

No problem at all! Your photo of the extra contacts is much sharper than mine; my only L series lens was the one being photographed. Do you have a cite for the names of the other jumpers? It might make sense to split the pinouts into a separate section with a table of the pins. I read elsewhere that the focal length reported with the teleconverters was adjusted in the EXIF data; does the "Life size" have a different multiplier than the x1.4? -- Autopilot (talk) 02:29, 5 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Here is links/info on three attachments,x1.4, x2, LSC. Your idea on what pins actually do, has merit. I have though the same, but always though it was a bit too much information. Maybe not. I did some searching on flickr, and found that using LCS on 50mm macro causes EXIF to report 70mm f/3.2. But the LSC also causes the focus range to be 1:1 - ~1:4. So! the LSC is more than likely a tele-extender, but only does not allow full focus range, unlike normal TC. Hence why it has fewer elements, more simple design. Interestingly, I found a few users on flickr who use the LSC on lenses other than 50mm macro, like 100 macro. It would be interesting to know what exactly would happen if one used the LCS on an L telephoto lens. Would it work?, would the focus range just be limited?, would it be manual focus only? Nebrot (talk) 03:16, 5 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Re: C++

I certainly hope so; if it's not large enough, then there's no hope of stopping people casually changing it. --Cybercobra (talk) 14:05, 22 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Eastern Barnstar

Thanks for uploading the picture of the International Temple and adding it to the OES article. :-) --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 18:36, 22 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

D.C. Meetup, Saturday, June 6, 2009

The 7th DC Meetup dinner will be held this Saturday, June 6th, starting at 5 p.m. The event will be at Bertucci's, near George Washington University and the Foggy Bottom metro station. It will follow the Apps for Democracy open source event at GWU. For details or to RSVP if you haven't already, see Wikipedia:Meetup/DC 7. (You have received this announcement because your user page indicates that you live in Maryland, Virginia, or DC.)
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File:DC stamp 2003.jpg listed for deletion

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Jonquil Flowers Merge Image

Consider merging the two images of the Jonquil flowers on the article for F-number at an opposite diagonal from the current one? It might provide a much better example of the immediate as well as extended effects of an F-number on Depth of field. It would show the difference in blurring on the other flowers in the frame as well as the brush background..? What do you think? Ard0^{(Talk - Contribs)} 01:14, 16 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Volunteer opportunity in Bethesda, Thursday, July 16

The Wikimedia Foundation will be conducting an all-day Academy at the National Institutes of Health, in Bethesda, Maryland, on Thursday, July 16. The team that will be teaching at the Academy, a mix of paid staff and volunteers, is looking for four more volunteers to be teaching assistants, providing one-to-one assistance in workshops whenever a workshop participant has a problem following the instructional directions. (We currently have two editors signed up as teaching assistants, and are looking for a total of six.)

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The team is not necessarily looking for expert editors (though they are welcome), just people who can help novices who might get stuck when trying to do some basic things. If you've been an editor for at least 3 months, and have done at least 500 edits, you probably qualify.

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Thor's Hammer article merge

Sure. No problem. Dyl (talk) 01:54, 18 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]