User talk:Eliazar

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Hi Elizar - I reverted your edits while watching for recent vandalism. It looked liked it was inappropraite using mastubation as an example, although now, looking in more detail, I can see where the edits were coming from. Am sorry to have wasted your time. I wont put back your edit as there have been numerous edits since then - if you do put it back I suggest using a very clear summary to explain the use of words, that may be considered as vandalism.

My apologies again. --Lethaniol 22:23, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

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List of English monarchs

Hey there, if you include that template, can you please resize it so it fits on the page please, it's much too wide at the moment. Cheers. Majorly (hot!) 10:20, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

This could be an alternative as well, although personally I don't mind scrolling. It is like a fold out page in a paper encyclopedia. Some charts need space. Further feedback on my talk page. Cheers, Erik Zachte 17:33, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

I've resized the template from 1600px to 1000px, which means 800x600ers and 1024x768ers will still need to do some minor vertical scrolling (in the case of 1024x768ers, because of Wikipedia's quite pointless sidebar), but it was as narrow as I could figure out how to made it. The graph definitely lost some clarity and sex appeal, but perhaps it is offset by most users being able to see most of it in one glance. What do you guys think?--elzr 18:42, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

I personally don't like it. Surely the text list is fine (and I have to scroll). I want to get this featured, it's not really helping to be honest. Majorly (hot!) 20:34, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

Wow, that honestly comes as a shock to me. I was thinking this would really help to get this article featured. I did it based on a graph by E. J. Marey that I first saw in a Edward Tufte's classic The Visual Display of Quantitative Information. (Here's a pic of the graph). Now, Tufte is one of the world's foremost experts on information design and not only does he includes the graph in his selection of graphical excellence, but he gives it this compliment: "This superb construction of E.J. Marey brings together several sets of facts about English rulers into a time-series that conveys a sense of the march of history." (Here's a pic of the paragraph.) In my opinion it not only conveys such sense but it gives a much needed overview to an article over 50K long, bringing much of it alive in a way that a table could never hope to accomplish (take for instance the line mess right after Henry VIII).--elzr 21:55, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

I'm put off because it's too wide for my monitor. Majorly (hot!) 22:09, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

It is a matter of taste. It merely means a horizontal scroll bar is needed for lower resolution screens where a vertical scroll bar was needed all along. As I said earlier, it feels to me as a fold out page, quite acceptable in usage and amazingly expressive. I wonder what others think of it besides the three of us. Maybe move/copy this discussion to the talk page of the article? Erik Zachte 23:42, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

There is another user who is currently away who may or may not oppose it. If he agrees, we'd keep it, if not, we'll have to work something out. Majorly (hot!) 23:57, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

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