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Lab color page

I left some responses to your proposal at Talk:Lab color space. Overall, I think it sounds like you have a great set of ideas. So in the spirit of WP:BOLD, please don't hesitate to implement massive changes. They are long overdue. --jacobolus (t) 11:19, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

color balance images apparently speedy deleted

If those images you added to the color balance article are under a free license, can you re-upload them, and make sure to add a license tag? Someone did a speedy delete on them, for missing a license tag (I presume that's the reason). --jacobolus (t) 23:21, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

Yes, I noticed. I took the trouble to obtain permission for their use on Wikipedia, but apparently, that's not good enough for Wikipedia. There didn't seem to be a copyright tag for "licensed for use on Wikipedia," so I couldn't put a tag on them. Until this is resolved, I won't be going to the trouble of putting any more images on Wikipedia! Lovibond 14:28, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

Right, "licensed for use on wikipedia" is not an acceptable license. Wikipedia only allows content that is freely copyable for other uses. Them's the rules. Dicklyon 15:31, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

There is no such tag. All content added to Wikipedia needs to be either under a permissive license (or in the public domain), or to be usable under “fair use.” That is, since Wikipedia encourages its content to be reused and modified by anyone who likes, images need to allow republication, even commercial republication. However, it is possible to use a “viral” license like one of the CC ShareAlike licenses, or the GFDL, which requires that any derivative works be distributed under the same license. Wikipedia is not in the business of gaining exclusive usage rights, as such rights take away the freedom of other users to do what they like with its content. --jacobolus (t) 18:25, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

Well, it was one of the options in the pull-down menu, so it was the permission I sought from the author. The image is being used in a book, so making it "free" (as in speech) was not an option. Not that I thought I could have gained such a license. Also, such a license doesn't take a damn thing away from "freedom of other users to do what they like with the content," as they had no such right in the first place. Lovibond 19:07, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

Yes, but the point is that Wikipedia has a policy of not using images which are not licensed such that other users can do what they like with the content, unless such images can be used in an article under “fair use.” This is because the idea of Wikipedia as a whole is to create a free encyclopedia, whose content can be reworked and distributed by anyone who would like to. Images which cannot be legally redistributed in such a way should not be used in Wikipedia, particularly if a new image can be created under a freer license. --jacobolus (t) 06:35, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

To be a bit more explicit, before May 2005, Wikipedia did allow “licensed for use on wikipedia” images. But that policy was changed, because such licenses limit the ability for the encyclopedia or derivatives to be redistributed by others. If an image is claimed to be usable under “fair use,” then the {{withpermission}} tag exists for cases where Wikipedia also has specific permission to use the image, in addition to the fair use rationale. --jacobolus (t) 06:40, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

Beer-Lambert law

Hi Lovibond, please note that as per WP:ENGVAR, the Beer-Lambert law article should use British English. The original version [1] used "travelling", as has all the versions up until someone changed it with this edit: [2]. --Bob Mellish 02:05, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

Hi again. Since the article has used "travelled" from the first version still in the database [3] (and in fact I'm pretty sure the article was originally written by me sometime in July 2001) right up until Dec 2006 (changed with this diff), I'm of the option that the "stable" version as per WP:ENGVAR is in British English. Thus the recent change by the anon [4] would be resetting back to the original usage. British English can use both "-ize" and "-ise" suffixes, so "normalize" is OK. You might regard this as all terribly trivial (and of course, you'd be right), but there is a slow creep towards American English in all articles when, in good faith, people "correct" the spellings. Thanks. --Bob Mellish 19:41, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

Wheat Beer

Hi, thanks for the tone of your note. A great problem here is that the people who uses sources like this, only speak English, so they are forced to use only English sources. Many of these English sources (in my experience) say ridiculous things -- like German wheat beers must be top fermented by law. Why is it that I cannot find a German source to confirm this? Why, for example, does the wheat beer article in the German Wikipedia not mention this? Furthermore, German beer laws, such as the Reinheitsgebot, deal not with brewing technique, but with ingredients, since brewing techniques are a matter of tradition, not law. Very likely because the source either misunderstood or did sloppy research! (I am, btw, Dutch and can speak and read German and, of course, Dutch.)

Secondly, the second edit about the Belgian wheat beers, also from the same publisher as the German beer book, says in Belgium people ask for a "witte Hoegaarden" for example. Do you know what is wrong with that? No? Well, I will tell you: Hoegaarden is only a white beer!!! So, this is like asking for a "pils Pilsner Urquell". In Belgium (and the Netherlands), people ask for a beer either by name or by type, never by both. I've never heard this in Germany either. In fact, I've never heard it in the UK!

Imagine if someone edited an article about where you live and wrote something like "people there eat soup with forks" and then had a reference from a foreign magazine that you had never heard of. Because you live there, you know who silly this is and because you don't know this foreign magazine (perhaps it is a joke magazine?), do you feel this is something that needs discussion? I don't. The Belgian comment is ludicrous on its own -- you don't need to prove it is not true, anyone who has common sense will realise how illogical it is. The German bit is also illogical if you know German beer and German culture.

I wrote in my edits that the source was not authoritative and I thought that was enough. I hope from what I have written above that you will agree that these statements from this source are in fact not only not authoritative, but also illogical. As I wrote above, this is a fairly common problem here -- using foreign (English) sources -- that are frequently mistaken. Mikebe 11:14, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for your reply, Mikebe. I would like to address your points one by one:

1. Wheat beers must be top fermented in Germany, according to the Vorläufiges Biergesetz vom 29.Juli 1993, Section 9, Paragraph 1. ("Zur Bereitung von untergärigem Bier darf, abgesehen von den Vorschriften in den Absätzen 4 bis 6, nur Gerstenmalz, Hopfen, Hefe und Wasser verwendet werden. Die Bereitung von obergärigem Bier unterliegt der selben Vorschrift; es ist hierbei jedoch auch die Verwendung von anderem Malz. . . .") This had previously been a provision of the Biersteuergesetz, but in 1993 the non-fiscal aspects were separated out. Warner was trained at TUM/Weihenstephan, from which he holds a Diplom-Braumeister, and he is familiar with the provisions of German beer law.
2. German beer law does indeed include regulations on the technique of beer production, not just the ingredients. For example, in the same section of the Vorläufiges Biergesetz, Paragraph 4, Subparagraph 2(a) stipulates that if hop extracts are used, they must be boiled with the wort ([Hopfenauszüge müssen] die beim Sudverfahren in die Bierwürze übergehenden Stoffe des Hopfens oder dessen Aroma- und Bitterstoffe in einer Beschaffenheit enthalten, wie sie Hopfen vor oder bei dem Kochen in der Bierwürze aufweist). Indeed, the title of this section in the Biersteuergesetz was "Bierbereitung," not "Bier-Bestandteile."
3. Any reference to "ordering a witte Hoegaarden" in the article was not referencing Rajotte. Rajotte was cited for the grist potentially containing a portion of oats, and that Belgian Wits usually employ unmalted, rather than malted, wheat. BTW, I have had to qualify orders for Hoegaarden-branded products in Belgium, while ordering Hoegaarden Grand Cru. Were one to simply ask for a Hoegaarden, one would undoubtedely receive the Wit. By the same token were one to simply request a "Grand Cru," the waiter may wonder which one, and whether beer or wine were being ordered. I do, however, agree with you that "witte Hoegaarden" is a stupid way to order the most popular Hoegaarden product. I disagree with you that it came from Rajotte.

I'm sorry some of the editors have included things which you perceive as a put-down of traditions which apparently mean much to you. And I agree with you that there is some nonesense in Wikipedia articles, and that editors should remove or correct it whenever possible. But I do think that it is best done with a scalpel and a steady hand, being careful to excise only the bad material. Lovibond 19:34, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

I will reply the same way.

1. It is clear from the law why I could not find German proof -- I had looked only for wheat beer and the law covers all beers that don't use only malted barley. Also, I am not a home-brewer and don't actually believe there is much impact this law has for the vast majority of beer drinkers. However, I agree that it is of historic interest and probably belongs in an article. Since it covers a class of beer rather than one kind only, I would propose removing it from the wheat beer article and instead putting it in the German beer article, which, I think, is a much more logical place for it.
2. As, I assume you are aware, the Vorläufiges Biergesetz is a federalised version of the Reinheitsgebot, which was only valid in Bavaria. This law is the "purity law" (it also talked about price, but that is not relevant) and so, was almost exclusively about ingredients. There is, if you are interested, an article about this in the English part of WP. In my experience, home-brewers, and I see that you are one, tend to look at beer as a technical subject, while the rest of us view it as a pleasure. In that regard, it does not surprise me that you view German beer laws from a brewing perspective.
3. As I said above, I don't see the need for technical information about beer production in these articles especially since there is already a home-brewing part of the beer portal where all this information would be much more appreciated. That is why I substituted more drinker-friendly information for the technical information that you had. I very much hope that you will agree with me that this technical information about beer production is more appropriate in the home-brewing area than in the general articles. I will remove the ordering nonsense now and leave the technical information for your response.

Again, I do appreciate that we can discuss this in a civil and mature way. I hope that you will appreciate the point I make on the more technical information and that we can agree on that. Mikebe 14:54, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for your comments, Mikebe. While I agree that the bit about a "Witte Hoegaarden" is nonesense, and thank you for removing it from the article (I apologize for restoring that part of it when I restored the material about unmalted wheat and perhaps oats in Belgian Wits) I disagree with much of the remainder of your points. First of all, you state that I am a homebrewer. On what do you base this? I am a master brewer. Secondly, with German unification under Bismark, the Reinheitsgebot became the law of the land as the price of Bavaria's entry, and the current Vorläufiges Biergesetz is a federal law, applying throughout Germany. Why is German beer law germane to an article on Wheat Beer? Inasmuch as the lion's share of wheat beers are produced in Germany, and the material is properly qualified as applying to German wheat beers only, it certainly seems germane. There is a discussion page for the Wheat Beer article; if you would like to make the point that German beer law doesn't have a place in the article, that would be the place to do it.

You are quite welcome about my removing the nonsense. There is, of course, much of it in the beer articles, thanks mostly to American home-brewers who rely on only English language sources (somebody, I think in the wheatbeer article, referenced "joesixpack"!)

On to your second point: I am afraid that you are slightly misinformed. The Reinheitsgebot did not become law with German unification, but rather over 30 years later. But, more importantly, you seem to have completely misread my point number 1 above. May I ask you to please re-read it before replying again?

I also believe that drinkers of a beer have their enjoyment of that beer enhanced by understanding more about it. In addition to this, people have a right to know what they're ingesting. I do not think wheat beer should be like sausages in that one is better off not knowing how they are made. Further, Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, and "encyclopedic" connotes, in part, comprehensiveness. I do not think that discussing the technical aspects of wheat beers interferes in any way with their enjoyment, and I do believe, as apparently do others, that such information can enhance their enjoyment and this information belongs this article, which is not entitled "Wheat beer (pleasurable aspects)" or "Wheat beer (non-technical aspects)," but simply "Wheat beer." Again, if you disagree with this, I invite you to open a dialog on Talk:Wheat_beer. Lovibond 15:29, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

This was exactly the sort of reply I expected. What I find so strange, is that your belief "you have to understand it to enjoy it" idea seems to be only applied to beer! For example, do I have to know how a film was made to enjoy it? Do I have to know how the music was produced to enjoy it? In either example, do I enjoy it more because I know how it was made? No! In fact, with many things, such as film, for example, I would rather NOT know how it was made -- it would take away the magic from the experience!

Oddly enough, neither the wine nor whiskey portals on WP share your opinion. Would you be kind enough to explain to me why you believe people cannot enjoy beer without a technical knowledge of its production, yet wine and whisky drinkers can?

As a long time beer drinker with absolutely no knowledge of brewing, I will let you in on a little secret: it is not at all knowing how it was made that leads to enjoyment -- it's ALL in the taste! I have been fortunate to taste some very unusual, very special beers and not one single time did I ever stop to think: how did they do that? To be honest, my feeling was: I don't care how you did that, just do it again! Mikebe 10:36, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

Shall I assume you have not read the text above? I can only believe that your reversion of the wheat beer article is because you have not read it. I don't find that very nice of you.

Secondly, I have already moved the information about the Reinheitsgebot to the German beer article as I said I would several messages above. Why then are you repeating it in the wheat beer article?

And finally, your explanation of why technical information is useful to enjoy beer is absolutely incorrect. And I say that as exactly the type of person who you claim would enjoy beer more if I "understood" it. The only people who benefit from this explanation are your fellow home-brewers.

I look forward to your explanation. Mikebe 17:04, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

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CIELAB

"hidden" under a redirect is not the proper place to put a draft of an article. If you don't feel the article is ready to appear under its own title, you can work on it in a subpage in your user space. —Random832 01:25, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

I've moved the article from the article namespace while it is being worked on. It's now located at User:Lovibond/CIELAB. Cheers. --MZMcBride (talk) 04:46, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

Märzen

Thanks for the civil tone of your message. I don't know Mr. Daniels or his book. The fact that he does not know that there is no relation between Dortmunder Export and Märzen (other than both are bottom-fermented) is evidence to me that he is not a reliable source on this subject. Secondly, the question of American home brewers on foreign beers is not a matter of NPOV, it is a matter of fact. A fact that has been proved over and over again. I'm not trying to re-open an old argument here, but this has been discussed and proven several times (mostly involving the bjcp). Putting untrue information in an article is not helping to make anything better -- on the contrary, it makes them worse. Regarding the connection between Märzen and Dortmunder, I cannot prove a negative (that they are not connected), however you might take a look here (http://www.brauherr.de/sokams/biersorten/untergaerig/), which is, kind of ironically I guess, a German home brewing site. You will see there that both types of beer are viewed as distinct styles within the bottom-fermented group. I hope this will finally clear up the question. Mikebe (talk) 20:06, 7 September 2008 (UTC)

I'm glad the question has been settle as it has. I think the article is better, but still needs work on the history (I will try to do that). Although it is not important now, you can also see that these beers are not related here: http://www.brauer-bund.de/bierfans/sorten/inhalt.htm That page does list related styles, but clearly Dortmunder and Märzen are not. This page, by the way, is from the Association of German Brewers.

I would like to end on two points: 1. the fact that Mr. Daniels is not aware that these two beers are not related is evidence that he violates WP:RS. I should also point out that this is not an obscure topic, but something anyone who knows about German beer would know. 2. On a personal level, I regret to tell you that I was very insulted by your idea that an American home brewer knows more about my culture than I do. An apology would be appreciated. Mikebe (talk) 12:47, 8 September 2008 (UTC)

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Hi, you recently added a template to some images I created stating they should be svg images. I was wondering if you could provide some advice. In order to create the images I need to paste together several png images, my vague understanding of things is that this would produce very large svg files if I were to convert directly. How does one go about creating a reasonable svg files in such a situation? Thenub314 (talk) 07:59, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

I'm not sure what you mean by "convert the files directly." Do you mean "have gnuplot generate them, instead of png files?" That would certainly be a way to do it. However, I'm puzzled by your statement that "this would produce very large svg files". If the svg files contain only vector information (not the pixelmap from the png file), they would be tiny. And they would look better when printed out. If generating multiple plots in one SVG file is not possible with the tool you use (or requires arcane gymnastics known only to a few, which means it might as well be impossible), they could be generated separately and assembled in Inkscape or another vector editing tool. Hope this helps. Lovibond (talk) 22:10, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

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BJCP

Hello, Killing Vector. I wish you'd think a bit about your recent comments involving BJCP on the discussion page for Beer Style. Do you think there was even a remote possibility that the BJCP's description of Doppelbock was the result of a what you suggested? Please, this discussion is difficult enough without statements such as that. Thank you! Lovibond (talk) 00:49, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

Yes, yes I do think that. I say this having looked into their research methods and found little documentation of actual historical research, but some winking statements about lots of "sampling". This gets to the heart of the matter of why they're not a reliable source; a reliable source documents results in a transparent and objective manner. here is what I would call a reliable scholarly source; read it and you'll find citations to technical publications, firsthand examination of equipment, a discussion of history; the BJCP is nowhere near that standard. --Killing Vector (talk) 01:16, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

beer style

Hi. First of all, let me say that I was rather disappointed in you that when I corrected you about the BJCP director who had made the comments, you failed to acknowledge your error. Also, there are a couple of things I would appreciate your comments on: you wrote on the beer style talk page about what you called "sensory similarities" (or the Michael Jackson) sort beer categorisation. Isn't that sort of categorisation mostly popular in the US? I know it is not particularly popular in the UK, which is more interested in traditional categorisation. Secondly, you wrote that there were several ways of categorising beer, yet the article is only concerned with the sensory/BJCP type and ignores any other type. Would you support changing the article to beer categorisation instead of beer style and instead of listing only one type, list others as well? Mikebe (talk) 16:10, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

Hello, Mikebe. Regarding your "correction," be advised Kristen England is not a BJCP Director. There are seven Directors, and Dr England is not one of them. He does not speak for the BJCP officially other than in his capacity as director of Continuing Education. I did not say Dr England did not make those comments, I simply pointed out that he was speaking as an individual. Why did I not apologize? Because I was correct. Regarding the name of the article, I would support such a change. It can better communicate the different ways of categorizing beers. Congratulations for a good suggestion! Lovibond (talk) 20:13, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

If you look back at the talk page, you wrote: "And your quotation is not from the BJCP; it's from a BJCP member." I am, of course, not as familiar with the organisation of the BJCP as you are, but I called him a "BJCP official", not a director. And if he writes that he's speaking for the BJCP, I assume he is. I'm glad that you like my idea because I feel that quite a few of the beer articles, including this one, represent a US POV and exclude others. Mikebe (talk) 21:46, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

Porter & Stout

You wondered why I talked about the arbitrary division between Porter and Stout. I didn't want to go into a long explanation there. Don't want to bore the pants off everyone. But, if you're interested, I can tell you more. You can contact me via my website:

http://www.europeanbeerguide.net/

The brewing records tell a fascinating story.Patto1ro (talk) 21:09, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

Preucil hue

Hi Lovibond,

I’ve been trying to re-write the HSL and HSV article so that it better explains their history, definition, and use, with decent references, etc. Anyway, I notice that you added some discussion of “Preucil hue” to Hue, with a couple of citations. Unfortunately, I don’t think the referenced papers are online, and I’m not sure quite where I’d go to find them – I could probably track them down in a library with some effort, etc., of course. Anyway, I was wondering if you know of a good description of the subject (that is, Preucil hue/grayness) online somewhere, or if you maybe have a copy you'd be willing to send me.

I haven’t found any mention (outside the Hue page here on Wikipedia) of both Preucil hue and HSL/HSV, online. So my guess is that the PARC researchers who invented HSV just came up with the same hexagonal hue geometry independently, since it’s a rather straightforward model to develop. But it’s also quite possible that one or another of them knew about densitometry and just copied Preucil’s definition. If you know any of that history, I’d also be curious to hear about it.

So okay, in summary: I’d appreciate any advice where to look either for the sources you cited in the Hue article, or for other sources which explain them. Alternately, feel free to work on the HSL and HSV article directly if you want.

Cheers, jacobolus (t) 21:21, 6 February 2010 (UTC)

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Infinitely many

This edit is a perfectly fine equivalent for what used to be there, but I thought I'd comment that "an infinite number of" is apparently a completely acceptable idiom that can be use to mean "infinitely many," and it is perhaps even more established.

It is not hard to find respectable professional writers and experts in English language using the term, so it is not nearly the clear mistake your edit comment seems to suggest. I thought I should mention it because if it is something you habitually correct, you may eventually run into someone who gets their hackles up about it. I've seen that happen a few times and I can say that it's certainly worth avoiding. Happy editing, either way. Rschwieb (talk) 21:12, 1 March 2018 (UTC)

A follow-up to this, since you seem to be still at it: it is not true that all numbers are finite, for example $\omega$ is a perfectly good (infinite, ordinal) number. --JBL (talk) 13:19, 6 April 2018 (UTC)

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Trying to get WikiProject Amateur Radio back on the air!

Hi, I'm Dr vulpes ^{(💬 • 📝)} and I'm currently doing my best to resurrect the amateur radio WikiProject. A lot of the articles need some serious work and so I'm trying to organize an article improvement drive in October. If you're interested check out the link to the drive and the project page. Right now everything is in the planning stages, trying to find people interested, articles to focus on, etc. So if you know anyone who would like to help out feel free to invite them! If you no longer interested in this project that's a-ok just remove yourself from the list on the project page and I'll never badger you again. 73! Dr vulpes ^{(💬 • 📝)} 00:13, 15 September 2022 (UTC)

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