User talk:Raven4x4x/2006 Archive 1
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They do appear, but at the very bottom of the page, below the edit windows and apparently separated from the article. It beats me why they're all the way down there - it took me a while to find it. Regards - Ian ≡ talk 02:41, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
Re: Hergest Ridge cover
There are about 20 albums made by Mike and it's quite impossible to place all of the covers on the article without making it look cluttered. So, I picked the ones with the better-looking cover art and the ones which have a good reason to remain in the article because of its importance. Unless there's any good reason, I'm afraid to say that Hergest Ridge is the first one to go. ;) --Andylkl (talk) 13:27, August 18, 2005 (UTC)
Doug Walters - century in a session
On three occasions he hit a century in a session, most famously in Perth against England in 1974, where he hit Bob Willis for six from the last ball of the day
It appears that Walters did it only twice - Port of Spain 1972/3 and [Perth 1974/5.
Oxford Companion to Australian Cricket mentions that he did it thrice and includes Auckland 1973/4 but this appears to be wrong. In a message board where I hang around, we have a prominent Australian statistician as a member who has access to the scorebooks. I checked it with him. Walters came to the wicket at 11:34 and lunch was either 12:30 or 1:00. He took 158 minutes to reach 100. So it clearly looks impossible that Walters could have done it.
Does your source mention what the three matches are ?
He did score a century before lunch against the Rest of the World at Melbourne. Tintin 14:55, 7 September 2005 (UTC)
New feature in FPC archival bot
Just want to make aware of a certain new feature in Kurando-san... If it can not, for any reason, read a date from a page, technically it will post that it skipped what candidate and post that in the talk page of the FPC daily until it's fixed. --AllyUnion (talk) 03:30, 15 September 2005 (UTC)
FPC Date
See my comment regarding the bot operation at Wikipedia talk:Featured picture candidates. --AllyUnion (talk) 03:39, 15 September 2005 (UTC)
FPC Bot
FPC Bot runs on a daily basis, by the way. I can't frequently check the Wikipedia, so I don't know always whether or not my bot has successfully run for the day. If, for any reason, you find that you are moving the nominations around because the bot isn't doing it's job, you have to let me know. --AllyUnion (talk) 03:30, 19 September 2005 (UTC)
Cricket graphs
Raven, while your at the cricket graphs, could you also draw a sample graph for the following:
- Manhattan: Runs plotted per over + wickets fallen
- Worm: cumulative runs plotted per over + wickets fallen
- Run rate vs overs
Thanks User:Nichalp/sg 06:25, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
quick question for you.
Raven, I wanted to drop you a line to ask if you'd be interested in voting on my admin candidacy. I've seen you a lot in voting on FP's and thought you might have a somewhat good or positive idea of me and what kind of work I do. I might have been wrong about the whole featured diagrams issue that came up, but figured you might still have a good view of my contributing otherwise. I'm kind of having a personal tiff with a certain user right now and would appreciate your vote if you feel i'm qualified enough. I also answered the usual questions at the bottom of my nomination form you can read if interested. I'd jut like to get the change to make wikipedia even better and I think this would allow me to do so. Just thoguht I'd see if you'd help me out with it. Thanks and I'll see you around the FP's I'm sure. --ScottyBoy900Q∞ 23:33, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
- Yeah I thought you might be surprised but was hoping you'd see my intentions as good. Thanks for the vote. I'm sure I';ll see you around. --ScottyBoy900Q 13:48, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
Thanks
Hey Raven, thanks for those pretty notices on my talk page. I wish I could take photographs that well, and contribute in that way too. Oh well, at least I'm finding them :) Take care encephalon 09:36, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
Your FPC work
You have saved everyone a bundle of time by archiving the FPCs these last few months. Thanks man. With the authority vested in me by no one in particular, I bestow upon you a barnstar. Now get out there out and keep archiving! Hopefully in the coming months I'll have more time to give you a hand (I know how long it takes to do this stuff, especially when the wiki is slow). Broken S 03:26, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
re: Image:Airport_traffic_pattern.jpg
Neat, thanks! :) ericg ✈ 06:29, 17 October 2005 (UTC)
- Indeed, thanks! :-) — ceejayoz ★ .com 13:24, 17 October 2005 (UTC)
Well done, you solved question 3, and you can now set question 4! Stephen Turner 10:26, 23 October 2005 (UTC)
Hammond graph
Raven4x4x, can you please move the years a little bit to the right. If you look at Hammond's last hundred, it looks as if he scored it in 1946 whereas it was made in 1939. Tintin 12:34, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
Template:Support
Thanks for the info. However, there are two major problems here:
- I didn't give anyone the right to change my votes.
- It's not my fault that the admin to delete the template against the wikipedia rules forgot to add the <noinclude> and <includeonly> parameters. If he/she did, the whole tag would not show up.
Cheers, Halibutt 00:41, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
Pic of the Day
Hi Raven,
Since you also seem to be connected to the picture Image:Lightning over Oradea Romania 2.jpg I thought you might like to know that it is up for Pic of the Day tomorrow. As this will be a weekend, it should also be on the Main Page. If you get the chance your can check and improve the caption and credit line at Wikipedia:Picture of the day/October 29, 2005. -- Solipsist 08:31, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
