Talk:Compass rose

message: *Maybe it's just my computer, but for some reason I don't seem to be able to view the Windrose.png image.  All I see is a black box, both here and at the image page.  If the image is not visible on all browsers, it might not be ideal to have it illustrating the article.  But maybe the problem, whatever it is, can be solved?  Regards, Redux 00:23, 13 August 2005             (UTC)
*This came up as a source of confusion in the wind rose article in past years due to its change in definition, but I've added lines concerning the historical use of a wind rose as the first compass roses into the lead.  Thegreatdr (talk) 18:53, 26 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Windrose.png image

message: Does anyone know of any conventions for displaying a Compass Rose on a map in the (ant)arctic regions? I just saw a map of Canada being used in a Canadian High School. It looked vaguely like the map at http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/americas/canada_pol99.jpg, but at the bottom right of the info box, there was a CR declaring that up was north - however, from the CR was distinctly more Easterly than Northerly. Wouldn't a CR only work on 2D map projections where the lines of longitude didn't converge?samwaltz (talk) 19:31, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: it was displaying the magnetic north pole, if anything there is a bigger degree of difference as you get closer to the poles.  131.91.94.152 (talk) 23:45, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Polar conventions

message: Over in the article magnetic compass there is mention of a 48 point compass. Here, only 32 points are discussed. Does anyone know anything about what the 48 points are called, or when they are (were) used? Rwflammang (talk) 12:30, 26 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I see there is a very good summary of the history of these points at Classical compass winds. Rwflammang (talk) 09:43, 19 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: 48 points

message: Have you ever seen a compass rose with and "O" instead of an "E" for east?  There is a map in my school that is labeled like that and I wonder why.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.251.139.76 (talk) 18:42, 16 October 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: If the "O" was for "west", then it might be in French ord, est, sud, oeust = north, east, south, west.  "O" for "east" I'm not familiar with. Beyond My Ken (talk) 19:57, 16 October 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: AH! German: norden, osten, süden, westen = N,E,S,W. Beyond My Ken (talk) 19:59, 16 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Odd directions 

message: Since galleries are mentioned on the "What wikipedia is not" page, I removed it, which should have happened 3-4 years ago.  Check the Manual of Style (or What Wikipedia is not) for more on this deletion.  Thegreatdr (talk) 23:53, 6 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: That is an absurdly narrow reading.  True, wikipedia is not a gallery.  But that does not prevent a page having a gallery of multiple images if it is pertinent to the article (the "gallery" feature is there for a reason).  This is about compass roses, of which there are multiple ways of depicting them, including several of historical interest mentioned in the article.  It would clutter the article (indeed, I find it already too cluttered) to just distribute them within the text.  A gallery format with a selection of different types of roses at the end is suitable.  Perhaps it can be pruned, but not omitted. Walrasiad (talk) 00:06, 7 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Not at all.  And thank you for the good faith assumption (absurd?), it was appreciated.  The image use policy is actually quite clear.  How do the images within the gallery expand upon what already lies within the main article?  All the images look quite similar to one another, which would violate the policy.  The true test for wikipedia is to answer the question, "Is this what an encyclopedia article would look like, with all these images compared to the minimal text?"  The answer to that question is clear to me, anyway.  See if the new image alignment looks less cluttered.  Thegreatdr (talk) 14:51, 7 July 2011 (UTC)

text: If you expand the article a bit, you'll be able to add what you feel are the more unique images back into the article due to the greater content, so it would be worth your while.  Remember, the content is not truly gone, as it lies in the article's history.  Per your comments, I replaced one of the 32 point roses with an 8 point rose, so now we have 8, 16, and 32 point roses covered.  Thegreatdr (talk) 20:06, 7 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removal of gallery 

message: I did a clear up of these, which was reverted.  This is to explain why I removed what I did.
	
* Compass Rose of Piedro Reinel, 1504 - this shows up as a dead link to me.
* Brief compass rose history info - I don't see anything on this page that couldn't be added to the article if need be.  (See WP:ELNO point 1)		
* Floor Compass Roses - Another dead link	
* Quilting Patterns Inspired by Compass Rose - How relevant is this to the subject?  It's quilts with compass designs.  Possibly good for a cite, but why an EL?	
* Compass Rose in Stained Glass link to commercial site selling stain glass window with compass rose design.  Relevancy?
--Escape Orbit (Talk) 15:02, 10 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: External Links

message: A compassion rose sometimes called a wind rose rose of the winds or compass star is a 124.123.163.195 (talk) 11:22, 11 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Social