User talk:AndreAdrian

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Draft:Midtone

Hi. Your article does not at present conform to the Wikipedia criteria for inclusion. Please work on it in draft space until it is ready, then submit for review. Deb (talk) 12:48, 28 November 2018 (UTC)

Hello Deb. Can you please clearify what you, or Wikipedia, define as criteria for inclusion? The entry midtone is e.g. in https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/midtone or in https://shuttermuse.com/glossary/midtone/ . Or search for midtone in Wikipedia itself, the term is used 13 times, but none is a definition. Don't be so hasty with your gun, please! Put it back from draft to Wikipedia. AndreAdrian (talk) 14:51, 28 November 2018 (UTC)

Yuck

You have made quite a hash of edits at Gamma correction and Computer monitor. Not so bad that I have to revert them all, but close. It makes quite a lot to clean up. You can help by taking care of a few things:

• Put references after end punctuation, not before.
• Don't write "to" when you mean "too".
• Don't use simple-minded explanations not back by sources, as in "The contrast control is a gain control. The monitor input signal gets more or less enlarged."
• Use "an" before something whose pronuncation starts without a consonant. Not "a LCD".
• Don't put hyphens into words like blueish that don't need them. Use a dictionary.
• Don't say "set up" when you mean "setup".
• Hyphenate compounds used as adjectives (not "High quality monitors").
• Wikipedia is not a how-to (see WP:NOTHOWTO).
• Strive for number agreement (not "some web browser").
• Don't make up stuff like "Starting from factory default settings, the contrast in the graphics card and in the monitor usually has to be reduced and the brightness has to be increased in order to see as many numbers as possible in the white and black areas." If it's not made up, say where you got it.
• Don't make up nonconventional and meaningless distinctions like "electronic publishing" vs "desktop publishing" and then cite Norman Koren as if it came from him.
• 8bit and 6bit should be 8-bit and 6-bit. But probably they don't belong at all as you've used them.

Dicklyon (talk) 05:04, 11 December 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for your comments. Some points are simply because english is not my mother tongue. Others are taste. I looked it up: set up is still legal. I try not to "make up" things. I perhaps do not give references for every sentence I write. But this can be helped. Wikipedia forbits "large citations", that is copy and paste whole sections from a book. But I will add "small citatitions" for your "Don't make up stuff" complaint. And yes, I added my personal 2 cent to the text. The WP:NOTHOWTO accusation is legal, but I think good judgement is needed. For example, look at the Peanut butter and jelly sandwich article. It includes a massive sandwich making how-to. If you raise your NOTHOWTO accusation on my writing, raise it to this article, too. I personally prefer "web publishing" over "electronic publishing". But for some - I assume historical - reason, the Wikipedia entry is electronic publishing. You can create an alias "web publishing" for electronic publishing and change the link. I have great respect of Norman Koren. But I can not see any disrespect in using the Wikipedia article name "electronic publishing" and a link to his very good Gamma correction page. The link is attached to the "If the observer sees the same brightness" sentence, not to the "The gamma for electronic publishing" sentence. 8bit is the alias to 8-bit, that is for Wikipedia both spellings are equal and valid. AndreAdrian (talk) 11:13, 11 December 2018 (UTC)

I did look up the a LCD, an LCD discussion. For me it is "a liquid crystal display" and there is no vowel. You can have your opinion, and I can have mine. By numbers: Google has 968.000.000 hits for a LCD and 770.000.000 hits for an LCD. Please don't bullshit me. AndreAdrian (talk) 15:17, 11 December 2018 (UTC)

Webster says "The noun setup is usually styled as a solid compound (that is, as a single word) in American English and as a hyphenated compound (set-up) in British English. The noun may be used attributively (that is, as an adjective) in such phrases as setup man (“someone who makes machine tool adjustments”) and setup tool (“software that facilitates the installation of a computer program”). The verb set up, on the other hand, is usually found as an open compound (two words, no hyphen) in both American and British English." En.wikipedia.org is a happy mixture of british english colour cast and american english color space. I tend to BE, for me it is set up or set-up then. AndreAdrian (talk) 13:54, 12 December 2018 (UTC)

"electronic publishing" vs "desktop publishing" second answer: For me, web (electronic) publishing is output to monitor and desktop publishing is output to paper. These are BIG differences if you look at Gamma and color temperature and not "meaningless distinctions". AndreAdrian (talk) 15:48, 12 December 2018 (UTC)

"For you" is not a substitute for a reliable source that makes this distinction. I do realize that desktop publishing had its roots in Macintosh where gamma was 1.8 for the first decade or so, and that the rest of the PC and display and web world converged on sRGB with gamma 2.2. But to tie these gamma values to those terms as you did seems like unwarranted synthesis. Do you have sources that present it this way? Dicklyon (talk) 17:24, 13 December 2018 (UTC)

And yes "a liquid crystal display" would be correct, but with initialisms the letters are pronounced, so "an LCD". This is not optional. Dicklyon (talk) 17:24, 13 December 2018 (UTC)

This time I used Eizo as source for the reference. I could have used Charles Poynton or Norman Koren, but I just want to show that my writing is backed by many sources. The reference is here Computer monitor#Monitor set-up for good reproduction. How the offset printing press or inkjet work is the reason for DTP Gamma=1.8. See halftone and dot gain for details. For the a LCD/an LCD discussion I have found a solution, too. AndreAdrian (talk) 18:03, 13 December 2018 (UTC)

I looked at your source for 1.8 in desktop publishing, and all it has was some historical perspective; no support for your claim. And if you want to write "a liquid crystal display" please don't throw in gratuitous capitalization; this is not German. And it's "setup", not "set-up". I've removed the section for now, since it pretty much duplicative of the section in gamma correction. Let's try to get that one right first. Dicklyon (talk) 20:06, 13 December 2018 (UTC)

Okay. I wasted enough time. Good bye. AndreAdrian (talk) 22:33, 13 December 2018 (UTC)

Pixel accurate images - special considerations

The commons picture Gamma correction test picture.png is used in Computer monitor. The display has to be pixel accurate. If one changes the size of the image, e.g. by going back to an old version of the image, the Wikipedia section has to be edited one time to avoid a distorted (not pixel accurate) image. This is necessary for pictures that use the attribute frame. Note to everybody: Please check your work and do not ruin the work of other Wikipedia authors. AndreAdrian (talk) 17:49, 13 December 2018 (UTC)

The version I reverted to was 487 pixels wide, which is what the use in the article called for.

Let's get this worked out on the gamma correction page first; I've removed it from the monitor page. Too much editorial original research. Start with the test image. Presently it's undocumented, but where you use it you talk about 3% and 97%; there is not evidence that these are even close to correct; the three colors all use different numbers, to start with. Please find documented values at least. Dicklyon (talk) 20:03, 13 December 2018 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:Midtone

Hello, AndreAdrian. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Midtone".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply and remove the {{db-afc}}, {{db-draft}}, or {{db-g13}} code.

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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. CASSIOPEIA^(talk) 08:14, 30 May 2019 (UTC)

Thank you. Deleting "midtone" is okay. AndreAdrian (talk) 11:18, 27 June 2019 (UTC)

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Speedy deletion nomination of Electron-coupled oscillator

Hello AndreAdrian,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged Electron-coupled oscillator for deletion, because it seems to be copied from another source, probably infringing copyright.

If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to rewrite it in your own words, you can contest this deletion, but don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.

You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. Thanks!

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microbiologyMarcus ^{(petri dish·growths)} 17:04, 19 January 2024 (UTC)

Go ahead with your speedy deletion. No complains from me. Do what you want. You see, I did use the sentences out of the QST article to be as close as possible to the topic - use the words out of the prophets mouth. But I understand this copyright thing. If I could only have the copyright on a word like "hello", I would be a rich man! AndreAdrian (talk) 01:20, 20 January 2024 (UTC)

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