Talk:Starfleet ranks and insignia/Archive 3

message: As well, is it sufficient to say Flag ranks and insignia and not Flag Officer ranks (which appear in The Star Trek Encyclopedia) ... in the article?  My Webster's dictionary indicates flag rank, or flag officer (with general officer), for use with positions of captain and above, and using FO alone seems out of whack.  And how about diffs/categorising between commissioned and not officers (with ensign being the lowest of the former)?  Thoughts?  Merci! E Pluribus Anthony 04:41, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Flag ranks?

message: 
:OK I am mostly done, article on this page is redone and it should no longer be referances as an "article". It is now a list and can be a featured list.
:I need help move referances. They are all in this article but they should go to their proper article. It is a rather tedious work and Ill throw it at one of you guys.
:One problem though.... what should I do with the rank insignia that appears here? 
:--Cool CatTalk|@ 22:22, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Another issue is that all articles need to be tagged with a category perhaps. And also a navigation template. Ideas? --Cool CatTalk|@ 00:22, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Bulk of the work complete

message: Is it OK to tilt these images 90 degrees? They really mess up the table in my view. --Cool CatTalk|@ 23:10, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Feature Films insignia

message: It states in the article that Commander Chakotay was in fact a provisional Lieutenant Commander. The problem is that I never heard him titled as anything other than a full commander, and in the title sequence, it states that Robert Beltran played Commander Chakotay. Christophe T. Stevenson
:On his collar he wears a LCDR pin.  It is also standard practice in most navies (on which Starfleet is based) to address Lieutenant Commanders simply as Commander (to shorten). -Husnock 16:01, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Navy people are generaly too lazy to give the full adress. You got to see the Italian army titles they take a hole line. --Cool CatTalk|@ 12:06, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Chakotay

message: Hello.  I have been bold and added subheadings for the officer ranks.  I see on this talk page reference to a FAC discussion.  I don't know what a FAC discussion is (and there is no link provided), but it is clear that the headings are necessary.  I completely agree with User:E Pluribus Anthony's comments from earlier.  Lbbzman 17:28, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Added subheadings 

message: I'm curious about the colours of shirts in mid-TNG era. Would a typical Chief of Security and Chief Tactical Officer wear wine or mustard? Was there a reason why Worf and Geordi changed colours? etc.--Sonjaaa 04:46, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: colours of shirts?

message: The use of the various "petty officer" terms has always struck me as being silly. Basically, the teleplay and screenplay writers only want to use two words in dialog: "crewman" and "chief", so why not create a system where everyone can be called either a crewman or chief:
 Master Base Chief
        Base Chief
 Master Ship Chief
        Ship Chief
 Master Deck Chief
        Deck Chief
 Master Crew Chief
        Crew Chief
 
 Crewman 1st class
 Crewman 2nd class
 Crewman 3rd class
70.20.209.146 05:06, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: That's really not relevant here.  Creating new ranks from scratch is certainly not what this article, or wikipedia is for.  The term "Petty officer" is rarely used in everyday conversation in the modern navy, instead their rating is used.  The term "Chief Petty Officer" is also quite canonically used in Star Trek (in dialogue to describe Miles O'Brien).  They are called "petty officers" because they can issue orders, but lack a commission or the status of a commissioned officer, hence they are "petty" in comparison.  The term noncommissioned officer is a more generic military term for the same position.  --Wingsandsword 05:30, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  What makes them "petty"? 

message: As one of the major contributors of the featured list: List of Oh My Goddess episodes. I'd like to suggest this article can aslo qualify in my view. Please see that page to have an idea on characteristics of a featured page also see Wikipedia:Featured lists for criteria.
However this should only be attempted after several layers of cleanups in the aftermath of breakdowns. --Cool CatTalk|@ 01:14, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I believe the page is ready for a featured run. Aside from minor fixes (I dont see any) that should be pointed out during the FLC process. --Cool CatTalk|@ 00:22, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Wikipedia:Featured lists]]

message: Alert to all users who have written on this article.  The rank insignia images need to be updated as to thier source or they may be attacked as possibly unfree images.  I, for one, think such nominations are bad faith since most insignia pictures are so widely distributed (some over 40 years old) that they are Public Domain.  And copyrighting a pip or a stripe or a circle is ridiculous, in my opinion. See this edit for what I am referring to. -Husnock 21:10, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm sorry, I have been through the archives of this page, and cannot seem to locate the extensive discussuion about copyright to which you refer. Could you please tell me in which archive it is, and under which subheading it can be found. The JPS 21:36, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The featured article sub-page, on the top of this page, will take you into the area where these discussions took place.  There is an archive page within that page where images were further discussed.  The entire point here is that stripes, pips, and circles drawn within a box cannot be said to be copyrighted by Paramount.  The motion picture pins are a bit harder to define since they were created by Paramount Pictures but are geometric shapes which can easily be created on any graphics program in today's age.  If these were actual photos ripped off another website, then I'd be all for questioning the images.  But they are simple graphics pictures and should not, in my view, be targeted as unfree images. -Husnock 22:13, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: OK, thank you. It's very possible, then, that the images are OK. This must be confrmed at PUI, though, before the tag is removed. The JPS 00:32, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Images in need of updating

message: I played around with this and think this would be a good tag to start using for Star Trek ranks.  My knowledge of how to propose it is limited though.  Opinions? -Husnock 22:27, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Hmm... I'll play with the wording a bit. --Cool CatTalk|@ 23:14, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

text: Done! I believe most of the rank images cannot be copyrighted in the fist place. (copyrighting The motion pictures insignia is not something that can be done for example). I bet 100$ on the fly some one drew yellow circiles before Paramount Pictures --Cool CatTalk|@ 23:26, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Images gotten from other sites (such as I did recently) will require permission. I believe since thy allowed us to use images on wikipedia they wouldn't mind. Although I do not want to bother them too much. --Cool CatTalk|@ 23:28, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Looks good, except we need to modify the actual template.  It can be found at: Template:PD-StarTrekRank -Husnock 00:11, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Done? --Cool CatTalk|@ 02:10, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It is in good shape.  I need to find out the procedure to get it posted as an actual image tag.  I left notes on the main image tag page. -Husnock 02:58, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Tag images with ? --Cool CatTalk|@ 06:01, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Husnock, thank you for going to Wikipedia_talk:Image_copyright_tags#Star_Trek_rank_images. This is an appropriate place to discuss your tag. You will get objective advice from people with expertise in this area. The JPS 08:08, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Image tag for ranks proposed