User talk:MSG17

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Round 2 of Picture of the Year 2018 is open!

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File:Availability of Google Play in the World.svg

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67.81.131.250 20:36, 24 June 2019 (UTC)

Coronavirus India map

Thank you for updating the map. A few more states have reported suspected cases. Can you update them on the map:

• Bihar: [1]
• Goa: [2]
• Assam: [3]
• Manipur: [4]

Thanks in advance. M4DU7 (talk) 07:28, 8 March 2020 (UTC)

THanks for the info! They have been added. MSG17 (talk) 15:15, 8 March 2020 (UTC)

File:Constitution of India (2019).pdf

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Hrishikes (talk) 04:04, 15 January 2021 (UTC)

Calligraphed constitution

Can you please give me the link to the discussion you referred to in the deletion request? Hrishikes (talk) 05:02, 15 January 2021 (UTC)

What discussion? Do you mean this? MSG17 (talk) 05:22, 15 January 2021 (UTC)

"Hi, by coincidence I just read about your work on the 20th anniversary page, great stuff!" -- this one. -- Hrishikes (talk) 05:25, 15 January 2021 (UTC)

I am talking about this article, which I now see was reused and linked on this Foundation page. MSG17 (talk) 13:14, 15 January 2021 (UTC)

Copyright status: File:Recollections of a minister to France, 1869-1877 (Vol. II).djvu

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This action was performed automatically by AntiCompositeBot (talk) (FAQ) 05:05, 15 February 2021 (UTC)

color code for Taiwan missions map

Hello,

Your map of the Taiwan diplomatic missions was included in today's Wikipedia main page as it illustrates the featured article on the missions.

I wonder however: what is the reason for the use of this color code? Assuming that opening embassies is a feat and a goal of the ROC, then the countries with which it has official relations should be in green, not in orange. The step right before an embassy is a mission, and for this reason most of the world's states should be colored orange.

Perhaps you may not be using the Western color code where green is widely used to mean positive (good, acceptance, victory), while orange means warning or intermediate. But I'm not sure the reverse is used in China either.

Kahlores (talk) 01:11, 28 May 2021 (UTC)

I previously used a mutliple shades of blue to distinguish countries in earlier versions, which other editors brought up as too indistinguishable from each, so I came up with this new color scheme. I am actually an American, and know the connotations of colors (at least in the Western world, although it has gotten a bit more universal with cultural export). This color scheme essentially categorizes countries by how close they are to Taiwan on a spectrum - red is Taiwan itself, and the further away from red you get, the further away a country is in terms of diplomatic representation. Orange also helps the few states that do have official relations with Taiwan to stand out more. If I used this shade of orange for too much of the map, then it would be too bright and not good looking aesthetically from my perspective. MSG17 (talk) 01:21, 28 May 2021 (UTC)

Thank you!

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		Thank you very much for your help with File:Europe Portal logo hr.svg, this was fast - hehe! Best regards, Koreanovsky (talk) 18:21, 4 August 2021 (UTC)

Haha, thanks! The credit isn't all with me though - User talk:Rillke/SVGedit.js allowed me to copy and paste the SVG code in so quickly. MSG17 (talk) 18:26, 4 August 2021 (UTC)

File:CO2 intensity of electricity generation in Germany.jpg

All data published by ElectricityMap comes from public sorces and the project explicitly published on MIT license per[5]. Cloud200 (talk) 16:12, 8 December 2021 (UTC)

The MIT license covers the code in that repo, but not the presentation of that data, which can still be copyrighted. MSG17 (talk) 16:17, 8 December 2021 (UTC)

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BadzilBot (talk) 17:20, 15 November 2023 (UTC)