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Hey! Glad you registered. There's lots of useful info (although I'm sure some of it you already know) at Wikipedia:Welcome, newcomers. Most useful thing I found there was that you can sign your posts with three ~ characters, and sign with date/time with four of them. Enjoy! PMcM 16:14, 23 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Looks like your seat belt stuff got zapped like you thought it might. At least it wasn't a surprise? I see their point; if you have an entry about seat belts in an encyclopaedia you can't have 75-80% of the article being written with the slight bias of them being a bad thing. Personally I think that having 30% of that, and 30% of the flip-side of the argument would still be too much of the article devoted to one topic. I don't know if this debate is more suited to the risk compensation page?
It's not something I know a lot about, but I tried to salvage what I could of your (and others') additions and squeeze it back in. PMcM 20:41, 23 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Do you know the reasons for the absence of seatbelts from rail-vehicles, if there have ever been moves/proposals to introduce them, e.g. on trams (in the drivers cab for instance).Myrtone (the strict Australian wikipedian)
Appreciate your well-thought-out objections. I did lots of reading to de-Americanize several sections, but it's a bitch to take what others wrote and figure out what is/isn't accurate on a world view. I will get on to changing what I can, hopefully without just plain deleting stuff about which I know nothing (bicycles in S.E. Asia in WWII, headlights in France). It's a shame because from a No.Amer. POV this had been quite well-written, and minimally altered until it hit the "feature candidate" stage. For example, 90% of bicycles one sees in the U.S. these days look even more bleak than the one in the lead photo. One request: mind if I consolidate your "objections" under one heading while I am working on them?Sfahey 03:04, 30 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Have you SEEN what purports to be "History of the Bicycle"? It's terrible, was considered beyond repair, and got rewritten, and moved to its own page. Objections to "Bicycle" haven't had much to do with this section anyway. I think it would be a shame to put an article like this on the back burner. btw, several of these "objections" have been changed. IF done to your satisfaction, can you please alter the relevant sections you started on the "featured article" page. thanks.Sfahey 04:20, 1 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Please amend.Sfahey 23:17, 2 Nov 2004 (UTC)
I don't dispute any of the facts, but I believe only a skewed cross-section of facts are presented. In almost the entire world seatbelt legislation is seen as beneficial yet this article is highly critical. Wikipedia articles should always reflect accepted wisdom (irrespective of its validity), and not be a platform for minority views. - SimonP 14:37, Nov 10, 2004 (UTC)
What was the point of the edit at [1]? It seems useful to mention that cycleways and cycle tracks can change into each other very easily; just because something is a cycleway 50 feet back doesn't mean it's a cycleway here. --SPUI 21:46, 5 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Don't know where your justification is for reverting the cycle safter edit. I know in the UK helmets are mandatory for children and are very common, along with hi vis vests, amongst commuter cyclists. Where I live (in the Moferato region of Piedmonte), nearly all serious cyclists (reckles and otherwise) wear helmets. Hi viz vests are not common but then round here people are usually on cycling in good light. BTW, hi viz vests are obligatory in Italy for anyone on the highway out of urban streetlit areas at night.
Yes, reading the back section in Beevor's book the Hiwis seemed to be a big variable in the calculation of numbers -max rspct 18:14, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
Sf, please have a look at my reply on the Pinwheel subject at User talk:Arpingstone. Thanks - Adrian Pingstone 15:13, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
Moved from [2]: Support Coz he has managed to NPOV some of my pet themes - a rare and laudable skill. --Sf 14:56, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
Too late - you'll have to post the praise to JzG's talk page. He made admin with over 100 support votes :-). AvB ÷ talk 18:09, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
Hello, An article that I created as a part of Wikiproject Cycling called Mountain Biking on Mount Tamalpais and linked to the Mount Tamalpais article, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mountain Biking on Mount Tamalpais. Thank you, Bob in Las Vegas - uriel8 (talk) 09:30, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
Nicely done!--Lepeu1999 12:23, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
Yeah, referring an entire army as a cast member is not really the purpose of the Cast section, as it names notable individuals who had significant parts in the film. Discussing their input in the Production section is a better place, as it can also be used to discuss how Gibson and co. happened upon tem, and how outfitting and directing such a large group of people took place. I hope you see my point here, but if not, please bring your concerns to the Discussion page. Arcayne (cast a spell) 21:04, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
And welcome to the article! Cheers! Arcayne (cast a spell) 23:10, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
Please see the discussion on the talk page of Omaha Beach about Severloh. Please also note he has an entire page to himself now. Gillyweed 22:11, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
Eugenics. Go ahead and remove him, if you like. SolidPlaid 21:51, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
Well, I live in Windsor and ride the trails every day. As well my parents and grandparents tell me of when the city built and extended the trails. I also have my records from the signs along the bike trails that tell of the information :) RingtailedFox • Talk • Contribs 23:44, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
Hello, I did not find anything in the Talk page regarding the optics on the AUG. Koalorka (talk) 18:27, 9 February 2008 (UTC)
Hello, Sf. I see you've removed the ((ShouldBeSVG)) tag from the image description page for Image:Cycle path collision risks.jpg twice now. The second time you claimed it was because SVG is a "non-standard graphics format" and that "the use of SVG on the web is in its infancy." You are misrepresenting the state of SVG on Wikipedia. While it is true that many Web browsers cannot currently natively display SVG files, this is not a problem for SVG diagrams on Wikipedia, because all SVG diagrams are converted to PNG images by the Wikipedia servers before they are displayed in an article. A Web browser surfing Wikipedia will never be given SVG content directly unless it is specifically requested (by clicking on the image in the image description page).
SVG is not, as you claim, a non-standard graphics format (in fact, the standard is freely available); it is a common format for vector graphics. Wikipedia, and the Wikimedia Commons, already have thousands of images that are in SVG format. These images are used in all kinds of articles (for example, nearly all country flags, like Image:Flag of Ireland.svg; many maps, like Image:Map of USA NE.svg; chemical diagrams, like Image:Methane-2D-stereo.svg and Image:Water molecule 3D.svg; and other illustrations, like Image:Tooth Section.svg).
There are many advantages of SVG, especially when compared to JPEG for an illustration such as Image:Cycle path collision risks.jpg. First, SVG diagrams can be scaled to any size with no loss of clarity; JPEG images (and other raster images, such as PNG or GIF) have a fixed resolution that prevents them from being meaningfully scaled beyond a certain size. Also, SVG images are much easier for other people to edit. For example, changing the text in Image:Hajj1.gif, an image in GIF format, would be needlessly difficult, especially where the text overlaps areas of different colors. One would have to carefully erase the existing text and then superimpose the new text on top. (Why would anyone want to change this text, you ask? Perhaps to translate it to another language, or to change the color of some of the text to emphasize part of the image.) If this image were in SVG format, changing the text would be as simple as changing the contents of a text box in an SVG editor. Additionally, editing and resaving JPEG images results in a definite loss of image quality due to the introduction of more compression artifacts. This "lossy" image compression is not a problem for SVG (or, for that matter, for PNG). Please read Wikipedia:Preparing images for upload for more information, especially the section called "Do not save diagrams as JPEG".
I am going to replace the ((ShouldBeSVG)) tag on Image:Cycle path collision risks.jpg one more time. This tag does not jeopardize the status of the image in any way; it simply calls the image to the attention of editors who may be able to improve it. If you still feel that the tag is inappropriate, I ask that you discuss your concerns here or on the image talk page. Please let me know if you have any questions. —Bkell (talk) 02:52, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi. Since you were kind enough to link to my user page from your user page, I wanted to let you know that an RfC has been filed on me. Please feel free to drop by and comment, if you're interested, one way or the other. Ed Fitzgerald (unfutz) (talk / cont) 04:46, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
Hi,
I do not believe that it is valid to use outdated data (2004) to make the claim that cycling only makes up 2% of all trips in Melbourne; especially since there is evidence that cycling in Melbourne has surged in recent years. Also what evidence is there that the temporary ban of bikes on public transport has resulted in a lasting drop in the numbers of cyclists in Melbourne? Finally without recent data it is impossible to know whether cycling in Melbourne has not recovered from the introduction of the helmet legislation.
Regards,
Tristan.buckmaster (talk)
Your image:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cycle_path_collision_risks.jpg
Has been altered and posted in a blog here:
You will find that the post is, to put it mildly, a baseless diatribe supporting the disgraceful cicyling segregation policies in Barcelona and Sevilla. The data in the image has been erased and replaced by the leyends: "The cyclist slows down, just as the cars" and "If everybody follows the rules, there are no accidents".
Just FYI. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.22.143.241 (talk) 18:28, 4 December 2009 (UTC)
Hi, I noticed you reverted a bunch of deletes by a particular editor who seems to be trying to take over the entire article to reflect his POV and seems to allow no other studies. I just reverted another slew of his deletes. I just wanted to ask you to look in every once in awhile and fix any errors as you see fit. Ill try to keep on top of it but sometimes Im off for a good period of time and can miss things. thanks -Tracer9999 (talk) 19:31, 2 March 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for uploading File:Cycle path collision risks.jpg. I noticed that while you provided a valid copyright licensing tag, there is no proof that the creator of the file has agreed to release it under the given license.
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A file that you uploaded or altered, File:Tjunction cycle collisions.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Files for deletion. Please see the discussion to see why it has been listed (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry). Feel free to add your opinion on the matter below the nomination. Thank you. Kelly hi! 10:19, 30 September 2015 (UTC)
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