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Editor of the Week for the week beginning April 28. 2024

This editor has displayed continuous and impressive effort in improving and creating articles related to Washington state. Recent contributions include 2020 Seattle Sounders FC season, List of Seattle Mariners seasons, and MLS Cup 2019. In addition to having nearly 200 good articles, which is the 16th most of any editor, they have over 240 DYKs, 20 featured articles, and 11 featured lists, a very large portion of which are related to Washington state or entities within the state. Their quality contributions are just fantastic and the content work is impressive, needed, and valuable.

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"[Firefox Nightly 20] Moves to AURORA on November 19, 2012 ..." Releases - MozillaWiki ~E:74.60.29.141 (talk) 23:32, 23 November 2012 (UTC)

Electoral Vote Graph

Just wanted to compliment your work. It's beautiful! 67.248.177.238 (talk) 04:28, 9 December 2012 (UTC)

Thank you!—Kelvinsong (talk) 13:20, 9 December 2012 (UTC)

Animal cell illustration

Hello, I would like to give you a suggestion regarding this illustration of yours. According to my knowledge (and this article, perhaps), the endoplasmic reticulum should be a continuation of perinuclear space, so the nucleus shouldn't be separated from ER by the cytosol as shown in the image. What I was talking about in an image. Thanks for consideration… --Nefronus (talk) 23:34, 9 December 2012 (UTC)

You are right, I'm fully aware that the outer nuclear membrane(and the inner one to boot) are continuous with the ER. It's an error inherited from the SVG that image was based off of.

Old version of cell

I'll put that on my todo list, thanks! By the way, you can wikilink to file pages by putting a colon in front of the "File:" prefix—"File:Animal_Cell.svg"—Kelvinsong (talk) 00:01, 10 December 2012 (UTC)

Cell illustrations

Hello, thanks a lot for making pretty versions of the organelle chart and the centrosome cycle! MichaK (talk) 09:18, 13 December 2012 (UTC)

You're welcome!—Kelvinsong (talk) 11:59, 13 December 2012 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Graphic Designer's Barnstar
	This is for your brilliant pictures uploaded. They are by far the best graphics I have seen describing anything. You deserve it. Wow. Simply wow. TheOriginalSoni (talk) 10:07, 28 December 2012 (UTC)

Please keep up the brilliant quality work on pictures and graphics. Wikipedia most certainly needs them.

And may I also say that I would prefer that the biology pictures you have added have as less text as possible. I prefer that the description on almost all places there be halved. Thats a lot more coherent TheOriginalSoni (talk) 10:12, 28 December 2012 (UTC)

Thanks! And yeah, I guess the text walls are a problem, though I include them because I like keeping the text with the pictures instead of relying on numbers and a key in an article.—Kelvinsong (talk) 15:12, 28 December 2012 (UTC)

Actually what I had in mind was more like reducing the information in the text boxes to give only the basic info. That way, the picture is still informative and looks awesome to look at too TheOriginalSoni (talk) 15:37, 28 December 2012 (UTC)

This was what I could try to collapse the info on Centrosome Cycle, just to give you an idea of what I had in mind-

The mother and daughter centrioles sever links, still loosely connected. Both centrioles duplicate themselves while the cell duplicates(S-Phase) The new centrioles reach full length and sever links with the original centrioles. -Remains as is- -Remove "of mitosis"- -Remove "of mitosis"- -Remains as is-

I agree with the "of mitosis" and condensing the parts where the corresponding cell cycle stages are mentioned. I'll put that on my toDo list, for the rest of them, I would rather keep them in (never thought I would say this) complete sentences. Also I have a personal policy of "No pronouns" and "No acronyms"*, because those invite confusion. There's redundancy there to make it absolutely clear the difference between a centrosome and a centriole, and the differences between the mother, daughter, and new centrioles.

Oh and by the way, the centrioles don't sever the tight link, a protease called separase does that, but I think adding that would cause the label to grow even more :P

*Not to say I never use them, I just avoid using pronouns for the sake of length, and I do use common acronyms like "DNA".

—Kelvinsong (talk) 16:15, 28 December 2012 (UTC)

Alright. As you see fit. Just had to suggest collapsing text on some of the pictures; which would look even better otherwise.

Question - Are you a new editor? TheOriginalSoni (talk) 16:27, 28 December 2012 (UTC)

Depends on how you define "new". Editor since April, active in the last few months—Kelvinsong (talk) 16:40, 28 December 2012 (UTC)

Which would imply you are pretty new. Same here.

What software do you use to make your pictures? TheOriginalSoni (talk) 16:54, 28 December 2012 (UTC)

I use Blender (software) to make 3 dimensional references (for stuff like those DNA helices, which are nearly impossible to draw freehand, as well as any scale drawing that requires a projection into 2D like the sun crosssection). I use Inkscape to draw the vector SVGs. —Kelvinsong (talk) 19:21, 28 December 2012 (UTC)

Alright. I was hoping that maybe I could also create some decent graphics but my hopes seem to have been dashed! :P I just hope that you keep creating such images (If I were given a choice I would have you do it full time. We have other editors who can do the normal jobs; but certainly not enough graphics experts.) Which reminds me, have you been to the Graphics Lab? You might find it interesting. TheOriginalSoni (talk) 19:47, 28 December 2012 (UTC)

The basics aren't too hard, and there's a lot of tutorials out there. All the software I use except the font is free and open source. Start with simple stuff like maps and geometry, math-related articles are a good place for that, and many social studies articles are in dire need of non-jpeg maps. I started with line art (cartoons)—helps you learn béziers—the basic unit of vector art. Then filled shapes and blurs(shadows)—helps you learn layers and booleans, and finally gradients and shadow masks—the final set of skills.

A 3D background helps with stuff like bokeh, focus blur, and ambient occlusion*, but is not necessary. Good luck!

*The ambient occlusion article needs some work, basically, it's the effect of how corners appear darker that flat surfaces—look around your room, you should be able to easily see it.

Oh, and yes, I have been to the Graphics lab—Illustration workshop seems a bit dusty, and to be honest, many tasks regard simple flowcharts or company logos.

—Kelvinsong (talk) 20:15, 28 December 2012 (UTC)

*Phew* Everything just buzzed over my head. I have absolutel no idea what you are talking about. Maybe sometime later I shall get the time and courage to learn everything. Otherwise I am happy with just editing

What about Map workshop? It had some real requests which could use some experience. TheOriginalSoni (talk) 21:36, 28 December 2012 (UTC)

Maybe I'll try that, thanks!—Kelvinsong (talk) 23:26, 28 December 2012 (UTC)

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"I nominate Kelvinsong to be the among the first recipients of this award. He is quite new, and has been creating some spectacularly high quality graphics (many of them FP status)."

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Thanks again for your efforts! Go Phightins! 21:35, 13 January 2013 (UTC)

Wow, I'm honored! Thanks!!! :D—Kelvinsong (talk) 22:24, 13 January 2013 (UTC)

You are the first to ever receive the award. Congratulations. Go Phightins! 23:06, 13 January 2013 (UTC)

Thank you for all your hard work! Gtwfan52 (talk) 06:27, 14 January 2013 (UTC)

Thank you for the fantastic artwork!--Amadscientist (talk) 07:06, 14 January 2013 (UTC)

Congrats!!! ```Buster Seven Talk 13:14, 15 January 2013 (UTC)

Welcome!—Kelvinsong (talk) 23:14, 14 January 2013 (UTC)

Sorry I'm late, but here are my congrats as well. AutomaticStrikeout (T • C) 22:39, 15 January 2013 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

		Project Editor Retention This editor was willing to lend a helping hand!
		I love your illustrations. Amadscientist (talk) 10:18, 14 January 2013 (UTC)

Thanks!—Kelvinsong (talk) 23:14, 14 January 2013 (UTC)