Talk:UK Space Agency

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A news item involving UK Space Agency was featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the In the news section on 2 April 2010.

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Logo

See http://twitpic.com/1aey3j and http://tweetphoto.com/15493554 for the logo. Brumski (talk) 12:02, 23 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Transfer of responsibilities

User:Mike Peel added the section "Transfer of responsibilities" with the edit summary, "transfer of responsibilities" (needs a better title). How about "Transfer of authority"? TJRC (talk) 21:46, 23 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

That would work better than the current one.�:-) Mike Peel (talk) 22:22, 23 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

OK, done. TJRC (talk) 19:33, 24 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Transparent logo background

Why has the logo been replaced with an altered image that uses a transparent background�? The union jack colours are red, white, and blue. Not red, whatever colour the webpage or web browser is using as a background, and blue.

If this image ever appeared on the front page of wikipedia it would appear red, green and blue in the FA section or red, blue and blue if it was in the in the news section.

More to the point it appears red, black and blue on my web browser, since I browse the web with the browser set-up to use its own bacground colours. Why do people use transparent backgrounds�?

If you want the logo to be slightly off-white then make the image slightly off-white. What is the point of a transparent background�?

The only point of a transparency is so that it merges into the background no matter what the background colour is, but either:

a) you know what the intended background is going to be, in which case why not just make the image that colour�?

or

b) you don't know what the intended background is going to be, in which case you've got no business creating a transparent background in the first place

The union jack is red, white and blue. 81.132.172.20 (talk) 08:49, 24 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

background colour: #00ff00

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border colour: #00ff00

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border colour: #00ff00

background colour: #abd5f5

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border colour: #abd5f5

background colour: #fad67d

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border colour: #fad67d

81.132.172.20 (talk) 09:11, 24 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

This message as been copied to Wikipedia:Village pump (policy) as it concerns images throughout wikipedia. 81.132.172.20 (talk) 09:16, 24 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

A white flag background and the rest transparent as the current 13:16, 24 March 2010 version is seems like a good idea. If it turns out later that all white areas are meant to be transparent (unlikely) or that all the non flag areas are meant to be white; e.g. a white background to the text and borders (possible but not likely), then it can be changed. Brumski (talk) 01:29, 25 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The previous closing of the MoD's UFO office

Perhaps the closing was timed to dovetail with this item? I'm sure the exopolitical community will assert this connection. Is it a relevant context for mentioning? __meco (talk) 10:21, 24 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

1 april joke?

Must be. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.243.187.185 (talk) 14:55, 2 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

No, I wondered that too at first, but several news stories from before April Fool's Day can be found by searching Google News. Tom walker (talk) 16:03, 2 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Nope; it's been planned for a while. Definitely not an April Fool's joke. The Science and Technology Facilities Council also started on 1 April. Mike Peel (talk) 17:54, 2 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

If it were a joke someone would have inserted a link to the previous British space programmes, such as Dr. Who and Red Dwarf. Seriously, I also thought it was an April Fools joke but found other news stories confirming it. 98.67.253.92 (talk) 02:31, 3 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Is it just British National Space Centre renamed?

exaggeration? clarify. sources. --Athinker (talk) 18:24, 2 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]