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[edit] Warm Welcome

Hi Hugh, it's good see you getting stuck in to editing Wikipedia. I doubt you'll remember me (Doug Taylor) from the old days of SCUBA-L and rec.scuba, etc. but I was the 'Keeper of the NED FUC'. Anyway, I was very impressed by your recent contribution to Buoyancy compensator - I hope I accurately corrected what I took to be a typo ('life' for 'lift').

You might decide to release your illustration of the centroid into the public domain by uploading it to Wikimedia and then linking the thumbnail into the body of the article. You'll find that it gets frowned on when you link to your own website as it could be a violation of WP:OR, but more importantly, that section could do with a few more illustrations :)

I would recommend using Inkscape to create vector graphics (.svg) as they scale well in Wikipedia.

Finally, if you haven't seen it yet, there's a project SCUBA WikiProject you might be interested in joining. We could certainly do with your contributions.

If there's anything I can help you with, just let me know.

Regards --RexxS (talk) 01:34, 8 May 2008 (UTC)


Hi Doug! Been a few years since the NED days.

I am aware of the WP:OR concern, and I do intend to resolve it here by cleaning up those illustrations and releasing them under open licence as soon as I get the time! Part of that includes spending the time to research the specifics on those OGL to understand it first too, as I'm also deliberating on open-licencing some of my collection of Cayman Brac / Little Cayman photographs too, to help out the content of those pages as well.

In the meantime, there's still plenty to learn about how to use the Wiki editing functions too :-)

-hh -hh (talk) 12:42, 9 May 2008 (UTC)