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Thank you for your support in my recent RfA. However, it was unsuccessful. I am in no way disheartened, and I will hopefully succeed in a month or two. If you have any further suggestions or comments, feel free to drop me a line on my talk page, and I will be happy to respond. Matt/TheFearow(Talk)(Contribs)(Bot)02:33, 8 July 2007 (UTC)
err, probably sent it to the wrong person, although I used special:emailuser. I got a copy, you didnt? Just give me your email and I'll send it normal.—treyjay–jay02:46, 8 July 2007 (UTC)
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This should be the last time you need to send your email—for some reason AOL might have decided to block your domain. I've switched to my other email address, so it should work now. (→zelzany -review)17:11, 8 July 2007 (UTC)
It says "disallowed on several wikis," but does not identify the English Wikipedia is one of them. We probably aren't one of those wikis the meta page speaks of, because not only do we regularly tag the user pages of IP addresses with various templates, there are actually several users on static IPs who maintain userpages which bear a resemblance to user pages of accounts. Are there any policy pages here on en which say this? Picaroon(Talk)18:53, 8 July 2007 (UTC)
We never tag the userpage, and even more, the userpage should never be tagged in the first place, except if its a redirect to the talk page, which is perfectly acceptable. Rather, we tag the talk page if the user has a WHOIS, block, etc. The use of IP userpages is impractical, because who knows if even a static IP will be reassigned to someone else (like this to this and finally to this). If anything on meta says anything about IP userpages, such as an IP-based user page is generally impractical, it applies everywhere, because meta coordinates all of the Wikimedia projects. If there needs to be any further discussion on this, I'd recommend posting a thread on this village pump, because I'd like to have a third opinion (at least). (→zelzany -review)19:05, 8 July 2007 (UTC)
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Well, as You can probably see, this photo was only moved by me from en.wikipedia to Commons. The problem is, that it was originally uploaded on Flickr, so I've choosen this license (is it correct, or I should use a different one for such a images?)
I'm unable to verify the description, but I will ask the original uploader to send the requested documents at the adress you've written about.
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Your rfa
Hey, you know you need at least 75% consensus to pass an rfa, right? You had 88% support. You would have passed. but whatever. J-stanTalk18:00, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
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I as signed in. However I hear having account I can fix shield problems like whitout-not generating proprerty. I still dont know how to fix those shields. Can you tell me how to do it?
Freewayguy00:44, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
Have a barnstar for your trouble
The Excellent Userpage Award
This is one of the best userpages that I have seen - a very different approach - I love it (and am trying out your Monobook.css too!) ck lostsword•T•C17:48, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
I-70
I commented out the county header, and will add the counties all at once (and the cities if I can find good maps that show the limits) when I finish the list. I will change the shields. --NE219:10, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
I only put that there as a sort of personal reference to what pages I've contributed. and the links are things i want to remember. Like useful links... --Huper Phufftalk20:16, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
Well.
I DID NOT personally attack anyone - it was merely an edit with an exasperated comment reminding people to watch their grammar in articles - most of my edits consist of grammar correction. If you have actually seen a defined personal attack, you know that it is MUCH worse than what I "did" (edit and give a summary). 130.39.208.18420:21, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
But it wasn't a personal attack! The edit had nothing to do with anyone who had edited in the last 100 edit. I don't even know who wrote that. And also, I didn't troll. A trolling is intentional rampage of edit (at least on wikipedia) that are generally vandalism.
You hadn't finished the routes yet. The green tag is for temporairly under construction. you seem like you hadn't done anything for past four weeks. Are you going to finish your job? Even creating an account, making those tables are not easy. HPShu789194Freewayguy20:35, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
I, Master son give you this TC barnstar for your hard work in maintaining and expanding WP:USRD and putting up with all the fun that goes along with it - staying strong through the best - and worst - of times
Thanks for the award. I sorta got the basic idea for my userpage from WP:Belgrade. Also, you mentioned something about my usebox placeholder could be a little wider. I played around with it and I think I made worse. I was wondering if you wouldn't mind fooling with it. Again, thanks. --Dtbohrertalk•contribs12:59, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
Minefield Image
The image contains aspects of the Microsoft Windows Vista operating system and as such is not a free screenshot. It is incorrectly on commons and should be removed. Using a screenshot of any aspect of Windows is inherently fair use.-Localzuk(talk)18:59, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
Sorry but anything which results in the intellectual property of Microsoft, in this case the themes created by them, would never constitute gfdl or similar - Microsoft still own the rights to the theme, whatever software is using it.-Localzuk(talk)19:25, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
OK, the internals of the firefox window use various free frameworks in order to render but the frame around the Firefox window uses the GUI theme provided by MS windows. In some of the shots this is full fledged depiction of the start bar, the topbar and other aspects, and in others it is just the topbar (ie the blue surrounding to the error message you posted before). These aspects are the intellectual property of Microsoft.-Localzuk(talk)19:45, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
Also, to further clarify - Microsoft spent time designing the themes and styles in the titlebar and start bar etc... That makes it theirs to copyright...-Localzuk(talk)19:47, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
That is simply not true. Mozilla could have programmed a titlebar that didn't use the Microsoft themes at all. Microsoft do own the rights to those themes and their use on any subsequent application must be attributed to Microsoft.-Localzuk(talk)20:05, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
By your reckoning then any plugin that calls an outside API within a free application automatically removes the copyright from that API. That would be absurd. Just because many programs make use of that function doesn't mean it loses its copyright.-Localzuk(talk)21:41, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
You have just admitted that microsoft own the copyright of that design - and therefore that means that its use in images, whether or not they come from the code within a program, remains copyright Microsoft. They simply own that design and as such anything containing it has to also be attributed to them.-Localzuk(talk)16:14, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
What copyright law is that under? That is the most bizarre interpretation of copyright law I have ever read, I have to say...-Localzuk(talk)18:01, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
Even that says This screenshot either does not contain parts or visuals of copyrighted programs (emphasis mine). Microsoft Windows and its visual styles are copyright. They are not as a result of the code within Firefox (eg. Mozilla Firefox can be ran on Wine and those visuals are not copyrighted). The theme could easily be a non microsoft theme which is not copyright.-Localzuk(talk)19:09, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
No, the titlebar is not part of the code itself. Nowhere in the code will it define exactly how to show that title bar. It will have a call to something else which will create it, that is all. That is what I am saying. A call to an external API (in this case the windows GUI api) does not make that aspect of the program 'part of the code'. It calls a copyrighted set of code which does all the work to display that title bar. Some languages make this so simple that you can do it in a single line of code - that doesn't mean the creation of that titlebar is part of the code. Please show me the code which creates the titlebar in firefox.-Localzuk(talk)20:30, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
And all I can see is a variety of calls to external API's in order to get the border/titlebar rendered by windows - not any code to actually interface with the GPU in order to create those parts of the program. The fact is that the code which creates the title bar is owned by Microsoft, the theme which is rendered on that titlebar is owned by Microsoft. Microsoft even have a specific policy discussing what can and can't be done with screensots - including the requirement for attribution.[2]-Localzuk(talk)21:16, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
