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Nomination of CryptoKitties for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article CryptoKitties is suitable for inclusion in Misplaced Pages according to Misplaced Pages's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/CryptoKitties until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Jtbobwaysf (talk) 21:31, 3 October 2018 (UTC)

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Origins of the "Focus stacking" article

I intend to improve the "Focus stacking" article. To do this I would like some background, if you can remember, where you found information for the original writeup of the article. Anything you can remember could be helpful. Also, I have a few questions...

1. Do you know of, or where I might find, reliable secondary sources that reference primary sources?
2. What other names for this topic were considered?
3. Why was it written as a "digital" process even though the title is more general?

I don't wish to burden you with a lot of work, so whatever you can recall would be helpful.
Thank you for your efforts.
NewageEd (talk) 04:17, 8 August 2019 (UTC)

@NewageEd: I created the article over 10 years ago and I don't remember much. From the commit comments, it appears it was based largely on a section from Depth of field. Perhaps there's bits of information gathered from various app websites too, but I'm not sure. In those earlier days of Misplaced Pages you could get away with creating a more stubby article without too many sources and just letting it grow.

Looking at the redirects to the page (which it looks like I made most of), other names could have been "Extended depth of field", "Stack focusing", "Extended depth-of-focus", "Extended depth of field images", and "Focus stacked ".

Adding information on an analogue/film process would be great. I only wrote about what I knew, could easily find, or what was my interest at the time—all of which would have pointed to the digital process. My hope when creating a new article is always that it can be improved beyond the scope of my knowledge and research so I wish you all the best in improving it. —Pengo 23:58, 9 August 2019 (UTC)