Contents 1 Stale 1.1 Niihau Incident 1.2 M*A*S*H sign 1.3 Douglas Bay Panorama 1.4 Coat of arms of Yemen 1.5 Improve contrast and centre image on the parrot 1.6 Coat of arms of Palau 1.7 Root anatomy 1.8 Demographic history of the United States 1.9 Albanian language map 1.10 Eintracht Frankfurt jersey 1.11 Macedonia 1.12 Nephron of the Kidney diagram 1.13 Northwest passage 1.14 Order of the Rising Sun 1.15 Blank maps 1.16 Coat of arms of the Federation of the West Indies 1.17 decent SVG of the western hemisphere 1.18 UTA TRAX system map 1.19 Crest of Hyrule from JPG to SVG 1.20 Phaistos Disc 1.21 Rangoon coat of arms 1.22 Madan Mohan Malaviya 1.23 DPRK's coat of arms 1.24 Norman Rockwell 1.25 Pêra Rocha 1.26 Burma flag 1.27 Flag of Anna-Paulowna 1.28 scale poorly, SVGify 1.29 Scout Association of Japan 1.30 Oil palm 1.31 Pikachu 2 Resolved 2.1 Africa 2.2 Hyrcania 2.3 Jake DeShazer 2.4 Tifinagh 2.5 US Route 5 sign 2.6 London Midland Rail Network Map 2.7 2008 protests in Serbia 2.8 The Sega Project Logo 2.9 Maynard James Keenan 2.10 President of Afghanistan 2.11 Paneriai monument 2.12 photo doctor 2.13 Whites in Zimbabwe 2.14 SVG the flag of Seborga 2.15 Ukrainian Sich Riflemen 2.16 Fédération Indochinoise des Associations du Scoutisme 2.17 Japanese martyrs 2.18 Ordre national du Mérite 2.19 Fire classes logos 2.20 Pennſylvanian state logo 2.21 TB in 2005 2.22 Nobutaka Machimura 2.23 Peterloo Massacre 2.24 Mitch Hedberg 2.25 Spear of Lugh 2.26 Government Warehouse 2.27 Dominican coat 2.28 View on Taiwan's Valley 2.29 McCain 2.30 Bekaa Valley 2.31 Lloyd 2.32 Computer 2.33 2008 HOA Zimbabwe election, constituency winners map 2.34 Vaillante 2.35 Malé , Maldives 2.36 Rhodesia 2.37 Kuni Tomoko 2.38 Luther Halsey Gulick 2.39 Good article star 2.40 faces have little feature 2.41 SVG of Wildscale 2.42 Dental explorer 2.43 The letter's writing 2.44 Flag of the Union of South American Nations 2.45 Intifada deaths 2.46 Indian personalities 2.47 US military bases in the world 2007 2.48 Hail to the Chief 2.49 Atacama Giant 2.50 Alcohol consumption 2.51 Al Anbar Governorate 2.52 New World Regions 2.53 Delage 2.54 Artaxiad standard 2.55 Chess pieces 2.56 England expects that every man will do his duty!

Stale

Niihau Incident

Article(s): Niihau Incident

Request: Is there any way to make this a little more uniform an image? -- Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 00:40, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

Graphist opinion:

I uploaded a bigger version of the same image, but I don't understand what you mean by more uniform. If you are referring to the colour of the sea, it has been deliberately left that way, you can read the explanation at http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=16470 Jackaranga (talk) 15:04, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

Ah. Yes, that's what I meant. Can a second version be made with the sea uniform, with the islands darker for contrast? Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 15:27, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

M*A*S*H sign

lightened and cropped by Stepshep

Article(s): Wikipedia:WikiProject M*A*S*H

Request: free-use graphic version of this for the new Wikipedia:WikiProject M*A*S*H -- Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 04:44, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

I don't get the request: According to the image page, it is tagged PD. Is this incorrect? 68.39.174.238 (talk) 18:03, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

The photo itself may be public domain, but because the subject is someone else's creative work, I do not know if the Wikipedia:WikiProject M*A*S*H will get in trouble for using it on templates. My request is for a graphic representation of the sign to be made. If I had any skills like you guys (I don't), it would strike me as kind of fun.

Meanwhile, can the photo itself also be brightened for detail? Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 00:18, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

Graphist opinion: So if something is stale can we still touch it? I can't make a graphic of it, too out of my league with all the dimensions, but I could lighten and crop the pic. §hep • ¡Talk to me! 00:47, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

If something is stale you are welcome to touch it. Just remove the stale template and proceed as normal; if anything the stale template should be an encouragement to work on it as it means the requester has been waiting a while.--Dycedarg ж 20:23, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

Yes please, if you would lighten and crop that would be wonderful! Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 20:30, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

Lightened and cropped. Hope that's better. §hep • ¡Talk to me! 02:14, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

That's great, thank you! Is anyone up for a graphic version? Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 02:21, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

Douglas Bay Panorama

A panorama of the Douglas bay in Isle of Man

Douglas Bay Isle Of Man Panorama edit 1.jpg Edit 1

Article(s): Douglas, Isle of Man

Request:This panorama is stitched from a number of high resolution (5MP) photographs. I am very satisfied with this image though I think the colours could be slightly brighter. I am also wondering whether a different crop would balance the photograph better. I've tried various versions myself but haven't managed to come up with anything remarkably better. -- Ganeshrg (talk) 14:51, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Graphist opinion: Lightened it. Still looking for an interesting crop. What do you think? §hep • ¡Talk to me! 23:00, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Comment: It looks slightly better. Do you think cropping out the wall at the left will improve the picture? I tried that but realised that the little piece of wall gives the photo a better perspective. Would anyone think this is a Feature Picture Candidate? If yes, could somebody please help me put it up there? Thanks.

It has some visible stitching errors, maybe you could upload the individual images used to make this panorama, and let someone else try stitching for you Thisglad (talk) 15:13, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the update. Could you please inform me how/where I can upload the source images?--Ganeshrg (talk) 16:27, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

--Ganeshrg (talk) 16:27, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

You can upload them at commons like you uploaded before Thisglad (talk) 16:49, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

In the edit 1, i cropped out the parking lot on the right. I think It gives it a more uniform look. But ya, if you have all the full res images I would be easy to adjust each image by itself so they all had the same color to them and hand stitch them if there's less than 10 or so. §hep • ¡Talk to me! 19:51, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

I have put up the originals now. You can find them on this image's description page under "source". They are all 1280x960 resolution so should be small enough to download while being large enough to preserve detail. I would be grateful with anything that you can come up with. I used a Panasonic Lumix FZ20 and the EXIF info on the source photos has been retained so you can see the settings that I have used for each photo on the image description page under the "Metadata" section. The day was quite cloudy yet bright. I hope this helps. If you need any more info, feel free to ask away. Thanks.--Ganeshrg (talk) 11:33, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

I took all that time to download your images one by one only to find that you didn't use a tripod?! There are too many individual pictures for a panorama this size. Next time, make sure your camera moves only one axis. XcepticZP (talk) 18:06, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

Lordy, lordy. This will take a bit. :) Always fun to have a new project. §hep • ¡Talk to me! 21:48, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

Sorry, I have to drop out of the race. The camera literally tilts angles of the houses from picture to picture. I ran it though an auto one to make sure I wasn't going crazy and it made a circle. Never seen that before. I guess I don't have the skill for this one. Sorry, and good luck! §hep • ¡Talk to me! 22:20, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

I wouldn't mind stitching this for you. But only if I had high quality source images. Instead of sizing down the images, can't you just compress them? They should be a meg that way. Assuming you have a problem uploading large images? XcepticZP (talk) 06:05, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for trying, Shep. @XcepticZP, is there a way I can EMAIL the large sized originals to you or upload them somewhere else instead of on wikimedia commons? Wikimedia commons is just too tedious coz you have to upload each picture one by one. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ganeshrg (talk • contribs) 18:34, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

Yes there is a way. Take them all, compress them to something reasonable like 1mb each. Zip them all together with winrar or winzip. Upload them to rapidshare.com. Then send me the url that they give you. Send me the url by sending me a msg, that way it'll get emailed to me automatically. If you don't mind other people downloading the file, then just post it on my userpage. XcepticZP (talk) 19:54, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

Hi, I've done as you asked me to. I'm waiting for your response now. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.175.8.77 (talk) 23:03, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

Coat of arms of Yemen

Article(s): Coat of arms of Yemen

Request: SVGify -- Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 03:58, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

Graphist opinion: Looking over google I've found three distinct variants. One with a golden eagle, the one here, and one with the scroll bent out a bit Like here. Should I follow the one on Wikipedia, or is another version the correct one? §hep • ¡Talk to me! 00:32, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

I believe it should be a golden eagle. The official website of the Yemeni government has the golden eagle. Fvasconcellos (t·c) 15:10, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

Improve contrast and centre image on the parrot

Parakeet clinging to cage bars.

First edit

Article(s): It might be possible to use an improved imaged on the species page of several language wikis.

Request: Please improve contrast and center the picture on the parrot. There is a different species of parrot in the background on the right side of the picture; this may be distracting and would be better edited out of the photo. This is the only image that the wiki has at the present time showing the white tip of the birds tail feathers. Snowman (talk) 17:06, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

Graphist opinion: I gave my hand at it. I cropped it and sharpened it a bit as there was some motion blur. §hep • ¡Talk to me! 18:21, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

A bit more space above and below the parrot please. Snowman (talk) 18:46, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

Fixed it up a bit more. Anything else I missed? §hep • ¡Talk to me! 19:29, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

A bit more space above and below the parrot please. It is still a bit long and narrow. Can you make it a perfect rectangle shape please? Snowman (talk) 19:40, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

That's the best I can do to get it a perfect square. §hep • ¡Talk to me! 22:43, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

Coat of arms of Palau

color to match Image:NonFreeImageRemoved.svg

Article(s): Palau

Request: color to match Image:Execseal.gif -- Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 00:28, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

Graphist opinion:

Root anatomy

Can you help me with root diagram? There should be numbers instead of words.

Root anatomy

Article(s):sk.wikipedia.org

Request: -- Pinky sl (talk) 15:46, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

Graphist opinion:

Demographic history of the United States

Better style (according to Mangwanani)

Korean Peninsula at night (A more analogous image, in the author's opinion)

Article(s): Demographic history of the United States

Request: much as I like Twinkle Twinkle Little States... um, yeah. Slow it down and put it on a normal Wiki map background so it doesn't look like the whole thing is a surprise-- Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 08:48, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

Graphist opinion:

I'm not a graphist, but a solution to the speed issue would be to include 1x, 2x, 4x, 8x buttons in the description portion of the thumb, each of which leads to a different image that changes at a different speed. This can be done by creating Image:PercentOfUSPopInEachState1x.gif, Image:PercentOfUSPopInEachState2x.gif, Image:PercentOfUSPopInEachState4x.gif, and Image:PercentOfUSPopInEachState8x.gif. The black color is off putting. JohnABerring27A (talk) 15:02, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

Author's opinion:

こんにちは, I'm the author. Thanks for your interest in this image! Just wanted to let you know that back when I created this image, I tried various speeds, state colors, and background colors. I found that a fast speed was necessary in order to make the movement over the decades most visible... when you slow it down you just can't see the patterns of movement, which is really the whole point of the image. I also found that white --> black was the most intuitive color scheme for the states (brighter = larger share of the population) and easiest for the eye to recognize the subtle shades of difference. And I found that black was the background color that worked best with that. Still, if anyone thinks they can improve, good luck and have fun playing with it! Szu (talk) 05:15, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

I would change the background color to something else. The northwestern states barely show up on my monitor. 68.39.174.238 (talk) 22:33, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

They will barely show up on any monitor, and that's on purpose. States with hardly any population are hardly visible; as they get more people they stand out more. That's exactly why I chose black for the background. When I tried other background colors, the black states would become just as visible the brighter ones, drawing attention away from the important action going on in those brighter states. If you do choose another background color I'd hope it would be very dark. Szu (talk) 14:34, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

I'm sorry but that doesn't make sense. The whole point of the image is to inform people not keep them guessing and thus they need to be able to see the image to be able to use it. If they wanted to guess the information, as will be done on some monitors, they are wasting their time looking at the image as it is as far as I can say. Mangwanani (talk) 19:50, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

So people who don't know when Idaho, Utah, Montana and Wyoming gained statehood just have to guess at when it's "There's not state here" and when it's "There's a state with no population here"? 68.39.174.238 (talk) 20:17, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

This image doesn't distinguish between "there's no state here" and "there's a state with no population" because that's not the point of the image. This image is not trying to show when states were admitted to the union; the point of the image is just to show the general movement of population over the decades, which I think it does well and without requiring any guesswork. Still, like I said, if you guys can do better, go ahead and have fun with it!  ;-) Szu (talk) 20:51, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

I'm just going to be blunt about this. I don't think it works. I have added an image of the growth of WWII just as it was the first map I came across that I think works very well in showing its point and timeline. If we could make a new version styled on this I think would be much clearer and less, as Chris called it, Twinkle Twinkle. Mangwanani (talk) 15:46, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for your bluntness. Bear in mind there are other people who do think it works. Also I should say that the fact that you propose a map of WWII conquests as a model suggests that you don't understand the point of the image. This image is not meant to provide detail of a historical event like a military battle or territorial acquisition. It's meant to show a broad social/geographic pattern, just like "Korean Peninsula at night" which I think is much more similar in purpose. But rather than complaining about this image, please go ahead and make your own version. I'll be looking forward to see what you come up with!  :-) Szu (talk) 19:12, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

As I have said before and many times on this page, my graphic skills are limited. I am simply stating that in my opinion the image doesn't work. I also don't see how the Korean Peninsular can be compared to this image. It isn't twinkle twinkle and shows something completely different. Mangwanani (talk) 19:27, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

I'm sorry, I haven't seen your comments on other images, only this one. On the surface, the WWII map may seem to be more similar: it moves, it's historical, it's a map. But in terms of purpose, "Korean Peninsula at night" is much more similar: it illustrates a broad pattern of human population in a very simple manner; it's not trying to be a precise, detailed record like the WWII map. Szu (talk) 20:00, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

How can the image "not work" if the purpose meant by Szu is just a general population representation, not a specific...whatever you think it's supposed to be? :-/ James1293 (talk) 19:43, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

Because it's on a dark background that renders it illegible on many monitors. Is that clear enough? Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 01:22, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

We've already addressed that point: the dark states are less visible on purpose so that the light states stand out. This has been posted here for a month now... Is anyone going to make their own version, or not? Szu (talk) 02:15, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

I was boiling it down for James1293 who didn't understand the above debate. Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 14:23, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

Albanian language map

Article(s):

Request: put on regular Wiki-style non-ominous map -- Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 03:54, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

I agree with the "ominous" part of it. Also, a correction of boundaries and names (Serbia/Montenegro) would be useful. Thanx, 68.39.174.238 (talk) 18:55, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

Graphist opinion:

Eintracht Frankfurt jersey

White jersey Black jersey

Article(s):Eintracht Frankfurt

Request: -- Could someone please create the away and the third jersey, respectively. Maybe this template helps you. Template:Football_kit. If you have further questions, don't hesitate to contact me. Help is much appreciated! -Lemmy- (talk) 10:38, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

Graphist opinion:

• Pretty sure that layout is copyrighted. Sorry. /Lokal_Profil 23:29, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

Macedonia

Article(s): Macedonia naming dispute

Request: update to show present borders and SVGify -- Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 05:06, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

Graphist opinion:

Nephron of the Kidney diagram

Diagram of the nephron (the main functional unit) of the human kidney, labeled in Polish and saved in PNG format

Article(s): Kidney

Request: Please redraw this diagram in SVG format, including English-language labels. Optionally, it could be made more visually appealing through the use of a more pleasing and professional color scheme. I do not speak Polish so someone who does will need to translate the labels, or alternately a biology subject-matter expert will need to be involved to create correct English-language labels without translation from Polish. Killdevil (talk) 20:40, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

Graphist opinion:

Northwest passage

Article(s): Northwest passage

Request: lighten image -- Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 04:01, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

Graphist opinion: I have uploaded a lighter version. I hope it is good enough. CountingPine (talk) 00:09, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

Order of the Rising Sun

SVG - Correct?

Article(s): Order of the Rising Sun

Request: enlarge for detail, no reason for it to be so miniscule -- Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 05:07, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

Graphist opinion: I've had a go at this by converting to SVG. I couldn't find a better image on google to work from, so I made the assumption that there wasn't actually a cross in the center of the circle and that's just an unfortunate pixel effect from scaling it up. The SVG looks odd in comparison, but the "rays" are the same angles. If I'm wrong and it should be a cross or needs some other changes, then just let me know :) — ₪₪ ch1902 ₪₪ 17:49, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

I have asked the original uploader to weigh in, and am seeking a physical picture now. Thank you so much, thus far! Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 20:57, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

I do not have a physical photo of the rosette, but what I can attest, the SVG looks like a good start. User:Zscout370 ^{(Return Fire)} 03:27, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

But as for the cross, it is intentional. Rosettes are made in a specific way. User:Zscout370 ^{(Return Fire)} 03:29, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

Blank maps

roundy

rectangulary

Article(s): templates for others

Request: I have looked and I can't find any so could someone make these maps have no borders please. If they exist feel free to hit me with a wet fish. -- Mangwanani (talk) 16:46, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

Graphist opinion:

Coat of arms of the Federation of the West Indies

best one I could find, can anyone find better?	flag from website, modified	the source site says "Blue", unless qualified, usually means the same blue as in a Blue Ensign.Image:NonFreeImageRemoved.svg|found the image, though I suspect it is really done in the orange and dark blue of the flag and the smaller image	for coloration of helmet and banding
for the birds and torch	for the lion atop the shield

Article(s): West Indies Federation

Request: create large usable coat of arms. Also please correct the flag, based on this link here http://www.crwflags.com/FOTW/FLAGS/gb-carib.html -- Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 00:28, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

Graphist opinion: Comment: The current flag matches the description "in the West Indies Gazette" (mentioned in the FOTW link you provided). Fvasconcellos (t·c) 01:34, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

Actually, that link says "The official description given in the West Indies Gazette is "Flag approved has blue ground with four white horizontal wavy bars (the top pair of bars being parallel and the lower pair also parallel) and an orange sun in the centre." Not the most enlightening description. "Blue", unless qualified, usually means the same blue as in a Blue Ensign." (orange, not red) Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 01:45, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

Wow—that looks distinctly orange to me (more precisely, tangerine). Do you know of a more official source for the image? I couldn't find any... Fvasconcellos (t·c) 14:49, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

I've checked two monitors at different locations, it's coming through as red as that Guernsey shield below. If it is orange on yours, it needs to be lightened several shades at any rate. Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 15:54, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

It's definitely orange, InkScape ran a color check and it's orange (RGBA:ff6600ff). Should it match the flag at the other link exactly, or just change the circle? I added a verson with the web colors. §hep • ¡Talk to me! 19:28, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

Thank you so much, I appreciate your time! Could you make it the darker blue of the ensign above? Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 20:16, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

Switched over the color. §hep • ¡Talk to me! 20:44, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

Thank you so much for your hard work! Now to the coat of arms... Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 21:04, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

Anything bigger to work off of? §hep • ¡Talk to me! 21:07, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

When I google, I find Communication and Information Sector's Photobank - Watermark of ...Watermark of the Coat of Arms of the West Indies Federation ... Place: Federal Archives Centre, University of West Indies (UWI). Country: Barbados ...

portal.unesco.org/ci/photos/showphoto.php?photo=4626 - 21k and Communication and Information Sector's Photobank - Watermark of ...Watermark of the Coat of Arms of the West Indies Federation. View Smaller Image ... Place: Federal Archives Centre, University of West Indies (UWI) ... portal.unesco.org/ci/photos/showphoto.php/photo/4626/size/big - 21k but I can't get into either of them. Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 22:06, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

Before anyone begin on the Coat of arms, please do not incorporate any material from files that came from Vector-images.com. These images have recently been deemed unfree on Commons where they're hosted after additional communication with the company that produced them. We'll only be able to keep files from them of insignia from countries where specific local laws expressly place insignia in the public domain. This is not the case for any of the files linked to above, so please use some other material for the new image. Any images containing code from vector-images.com will automatically be as unfree as the original image, and will have to be deleted again. Valentinian ^{T / C} 00:33, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

does this really belong here, or on a talkpage somewhere? Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 00:49, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

It probably belongs somewhere else as well, but creating a new image that will be deleted because it contains copyrighted material would be a waste of time, so just trying to avoid this situation. I just noticed that all three suggested components came from the same problematic source. Valentinian ^{T / C} 10:17, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

decent SVG of the western hemisphere

svg cropped from a projection of a world map (really skewed)

satellite image with a head-on view (much better)

Less skewed?

Article(s): many many articles could use a decent SVG of the western hemisphere. one example is Paraguay-United States relations

Request: :Another related request (not urgently needed but this reminded me of something I wanted earlier) - it would be fabulous to have an SVG of the Americas that wasn't super warped. Currently all the base maps of the Americas have this weird skew to them because they're cropped versions of world projections. It would be great if we could have a less distorted map of the Americas. Mangostar (talk) 00:56, 16 April 2008 (UTC) Surprisingly, all the maps of the western hemisphere are horribly skewed. I'm not even really sure where to look to find a decent projection to base a better SVG on (commons doesn't seem to have much). It would be wonderful if we could have a generic western hemisphere SVG for country labeling where it's unnecessary to have the rest of the world, marking the ranges of new world animals, etc. -- Mangostar (talk) 01:07, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

Graphist opinion:

Rotated the "main" worldmap. This should give a less skewed basis for an Americas only map. I can clean out the other countries later on but exam revision will have to take priority. BTW why cant a "normal" map (such as Image:France Canada Locator.svg) be used for Paraguay-United States relations? /Lokal_Profil 02:39, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

For that one it's fine because the countries are both very big, but for highlighting very small countries (say Central America or Caribbean) in other articles, when you include the entire world it's very hard to see where the relevant countries even are. Similarly, there are plenty of animals that are just in the western hemisphere, and again including the whole world makes it harder to see what's happening in the relevant part. Mangostar (talk) 15:02, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

Just tell me the projection you would like and I can make one in about 2 minutes. By the way when you say skewed it is in fact a deliberate choice to try and preserve area rather than angles. You can see different map projections at Map projection Jackaranga (talk) 12:18, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

That new map made by Lokal is actually really great. (I guess s/he understood from my garbled request that the projection as such wasn't wrong, just where the projection was centered.) A couple little things: Is it possible to make it have the rounded edges-type projection similar to that at Image:BlankMap-World6.svg so that polar stuff isn't so huge? And could someone crop it so you can only see western hemisphere countries? (Sadly/embarrassingly, I have never figured out what I need to do to crop things in Inkscape....) Mangostar (talk) 15:02, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

It's not possible to have it with the round edges since that "skews" the continents similar to the first image. I can remove the antarctic and "hide" the non-Americas countries but I don't have time to properly remove them (whilst preserving the ISO tag structure) until after exams. /Lokal_Profil 19:44, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

There, done (once the uploading stops complaining). The only difference between hiding and removing the other countries is the filesize (currently a whopping 3,5MB). I take it it's ok if Iceland is part of the map. /Lokal_Profil 19:56, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for all your help. Maybe later you could consider the rounder projection? I don't think the "skew" would be very bad, because the problem with the original map is that the Americas are all on one side. I guess what I mean is the on the original world map the longitude lines are like <<||>> and when you chop of the non-America part you're left with <<, so it is curved in a strange crescent way. If the Americas were centered, you would get the straighter || part (or really like <> but less severe). Do you understand what I'm getting at?

File size has now been reduced to a quarter of the original (now ~600kB). I get what you mean but the rounder projection will always be skewed due to the large regions close to the pole (Alaska, Canada, Greenland). Personaly I think this map should prove easier to work with. /Lokal_Profil 18:27, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

UTA TRAX system map

Image in question

Article(s): UTA TRAX

Request: I'm not sure if this qualifies for this page, but with the extension of the northern part of the lines this map needs to be updated. The Delta Center station is now the Arena station, and three new stations have been added at the north end of the Sandy/Salt Lake line and University line. If you need a source for the map, find it here: [1] There was a better image but it seems it's been pulled down. Thanks - CountyLemonade (talk) 04:28, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

Also, with the linked map, the "hub" by the intersection of 600 West and 200 South is the third new station, the Central station. Thanks - CountyLemonade (talk) 04:14, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Ignore the above link given, here's a much better pdf: [2] CL — 16:42, 27 April 2008 (UTC) Graphist opinion:

Crest of Hyrule from JPG to SVG

Crest of Hyrule

Article(s): The Legend of Zelda (series)

Request: I would just like this image in SVG, making it look exactly if not very similar to that JPG, as it's a very simple design.--24.109.218.172 (talk) 15:22, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

Graphist opinion: Actually, I just did it myself. I converted it to a SVG in Inkscape. It can be found at Image:Crest of Hyrule.svg.--Suit777 (talk) 15:39, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

Why is it so... yellow? Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 15:55, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

Things in the Zelda universe are always yellow. Look at Image:Triforce.svg for example. I can upload it in black though I guess, though this image is really supposed to be yellow. There, I've created a black version: Image:Crest of Hyrule black.svg.--Suit777 (talk) 16:16, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

Now I haven't played a Zelda game in a while, but I from what I remember it was more of a gold than a yellow.--Dycedarg ж 03:51, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

Resolved? Mangwanani (talk) 16:53, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

Phaistos Disc

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Article(s): Phaistos Disc

Request: SVG versions of the various Phaistos Disc characters. -- Ptcamn (talk) 12:08, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

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