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Sizing necessary

According to Manual of Style, after In most cases the size of images should not be hardcoded., it then states:

The current image markup language is more or less this:

The example it gives shows sizing as allowable.

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Removing the sizing makes the pics too small to see the aircraft planely, er, plainly, at least on the old computer/small monitor/IE browser that I use. If the pics cannot be seen, what's the point placing them there? Yes, one can enlarge it, but it's not necessary if the size is decent to begin with (200-300 for most pics). I usually only enlarge if I want to see details, like th tail number, etc. Almost every article I have worked on in the past 2 months uses sizing. Should all the pic sizing on Wiki be removed? That's quite a job, with nearly 1,500,000 articles so far!

If there is a clearer, pre-existing policy on this forbidding sizing, I'll abide by it. -- BillCJ 02:25, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

See Misplaced Pages:Picture tutorial and Misplaced Pages:Extended image syntax, which contain no restrictions forbidding sizing. - BillCJ 18:50, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

thumb sizing

Heh, I didn't even realize that you'd changed the size of that thumbnail in your original edit! I have a lot of stuff on my watchlist, and as stuff gets edited that has hardcoded thumbs I have been removing that sizing in most cases. As you point out, there are times where a given size is appropriate, but I find that those times are far and few between. And you're correct - the MoS doesn't explicitly forbid sizing of thumbnails, but my reading of it is that in most cases it is to be avoided. I'm changing the Tarhe thumbnail back to size-less, as I think we're both in agreement on this one. ericg ✈ 21:24, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

Canadair Sabre

Hi BillCJ, you are right that the name change is required and I tried to move the article to Canadair Sabre but that move was halted by an administrator, that is why the Canadair Sabre (CL-13) was the only move that was allowed. Although the official designation is CL-13, Ron Pickler and Larry Milberry in their seminal work, Canadair: the First 50 Yearspointedly refer to the aircraft as the Canadair Sabre. Where there is a direct and continual reference to CL-13 is in RCAF designations. The air force maintains that CL-13 is the correct nomenclature for the Canadair Sabre.

If you can figure out a way to move this article (which I am still editing by the way) to Canadair Sabre, I will certainly support you in this move. Bzuk 02:55, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

Bell 222

Not sure what happened, but with your rv edit, the entire text went missing, replaced by info on a place called "Vanguard School". I've rv'ed it to the previous edit. Akradecki 23:48, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

Chinook helicopter crash

Hi. This edit you made broke the working redirect, and made it look like a merge to a nonexistent article. Please be careful. --Guinnog 23:41, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

Lufthansa 747-8 buy

The Lufthansa 747-8 purchase is not a rumor. It's a fact. Look at the table and associated links. —Joseph/N328KF (Talk) 19:09, 6 December 2006 (UTC)