User talk:Elbreapoly

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Hello Everyone. Please feel free to discuss my contributions to Wiki here. All of my edits are meant to be constructive; though I am not necessarily an expert in all subject areas and can make mistakes. If there is an area of concern, please post information relevant to such here for me to review. I do not tolerate vandalism, so please leave any you wish to forward somewhere besides here or on Wiki pages.

I have recently been enjoying redrawing chemical structures on Wikipedia that are of low quality. If you know of any that need to be fixed up please let me know.


[edit] Ciclosporin

Hiya there!

When you edited the article Ciclosporin with the edit summary of: Changed IUPAC name to be correct. The former entry listed amino acids as subunits and thus did not follow protocol. You broke the page, or, more specifically, the image was far too wide. I have no idea how your edit broke the page so I couldn't fix it. I thus reverted the article to an edit before your edit.

Please attend to this article and be wary of what you edit! Cheers! Orbitalwow (talk) 16:00, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

Reply by User:Elbreapoly: "Hey there--thanks for finally giving me some feedback on my Wiki edits (I've only recently become an active member, and you're the first Wiki user to speak with me!). However, the ciclosporin article being "broken" was not done by me to the best of my knowledge (I assure you, I would have noticed an improperly-scaled image as I always check my edits before leaving them). It instead might have been done by user with IP address 170.223.154.217, who changed the pixel width of the image from the original 250 pixels to 125, then reverted the size back to 250 in a subsequent edit. You can see this change directly at 1. Despite the edits by 170.223.154.217, I previewed both the 125 and 250 pixel versions, and both seemed to still look professional (though I find the 250 pixel version [the current size] to be much better than the 125 pixel version). So, I'm either unclear as to what you mean by the article being "broken" (if you find the time, let me know). My change of the image is annotated at 2 where you can see that I only changed the image file name to the new image I drew. Any input would be greatly appreciated! I still need to learn more of the Wiki jargon and policies. And finally, if there's a particular tag I need to use that indicates that I've sent you a message that I haven't used, I'd love to know of that one as well (and should I have put this reply at the top of your talk page?). Thanks so much for any help in these matters! Elbreapoly (talk) 00:21, 6 May 2008 (UTC) P.S. I hadn't checked the specific edit you mentioned, namely this one with the IUPAC name change--3, but that version looks the same as the one before at least in my browser. Perhaps this is just a fluke anomaly? Elbreapoly (talk) 00:28, 6 May 2008 (UTC)"

Elbreapoly (talk) 01:50, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

Hiya there again :)
I feel privaliged to be the first user to speak with you! :) You seem to know your stuff concerning chemical structures!
I did notice that the user you mentioned changed the properties of the image, which when previewing both seemed to make no difference.
The specific edit that seems to 'break' the page is located here [1] where you adjusted the IUPAC name in the drugbox. The drugbox then expands to cover the whole width of the page. I did not know how to correct this (it would require a perusal of the IUPAC naming, which I have nfi about ;) And possibly an end-tag that needs to be used? - I'll look into this) I also can't look at the edits you linked to - the links don't work!
If the preview from the link above does not show anything abnormal to you, then it might be my browser causing it (I'm on FF 2.0.0.14 - I think its the latest one out) and I'll take a screengrab.
Also, as far as I know, you are automatically alerted when someone edits your talk page - so no tag is needed. Convenience! :P Orbitalwow (talk) 17:23, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
Just found out what the problem was; the IUPAC naming was soo long that it stretched the infobox to the edges of the page, and for some reason was not automatically clipped. I fixed it by placing a few spaces in the naming. Orbitalwow (talk) 17:38, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Hey there

The Chemistry Bond Star
For your great work in creating high-resolution structural formulae and updating IUPAC names, I award you this Chemistry Bond Star. Welcome! Fvasconcellos (tยทc) 18:18, 5 June 2008 (UTC)