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User talk:Rdsmith4/Archive 1Archived talk from User talk:Rdsmith4, 5/25/2004 to 11/10/2004. USGP reportsHi, I believe you added the "Report" links to the individual events listed on the USGP page. Do you plan to create these pages? This is my reason for asking: I have reports of each of these races that I wrote and once hosted on my own site. They have been on another site (Formula One Results and Information Explorer) for 3-4 years, but that site now requires a subscription to view. I would be happy to use my reports as the basis for new articles here, but I don't want to step on your toes if that is something you are working on. Thanks. Rdikeman 18:59, May 24, 2004 (UTC)
Ive edited the image placement on Enclave as the image was spilling over into the wiki Standard Skin Toolbar when viewed with Internet Explorer. PMA 10:16, 27 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Jenson Button photosAre those your images on the Jenson Button page? Are they truly public domain? (It doesn't say.) If you think it would be preferable to have our own images of him, in and out of the car, I have some to offer. Thanks. Rdikeman 11:10, Jul 2, 2004 (UTC) Admin statusHey, I just wanted to let you know that I think it's great you're so interested in helping Wikipedia and fighting vandalism. That said, I think it would probably be a good idea for you to remove your request for adminship from WP:RFA. For most people, the minimum requirements for administrator status are 3 months at Wikipedia and 1000 edits. Furthermore, the fact that you placed your nomination on Wikipedia:Recently created admins suggests you may not be quite up enough on Wikipedia policy yet to be an administrator. That said, when you've been around a bit longer, feel free to drop me a note and I'll happily renominate you. And if you have any questions or anything about Wikipedia, again, please drop me a note. Oh, and there's no policy at all against a non-admin reverting vandalism. In fact, everybody is encouraged to revert vandalism, and the fact that you do it is a big plus. Best, Snowspinner 04:53, Jul 30, 2004 (UTC)
Image:Schumacher A1Ring.jpgWhat's the copyright status of Image:Schumacher A1Ring.jpg? Is it yours? Is it used by permission? Or is it being used under a Fair use claim? Please let us know by adding the appropriate copyright tag. —Morven 14:44, Aug 9, 2004 (UTC)
Photoshop rotationHi Dan! I think it was you who asked how to know the correct rotation of a sloping pic in Photoshop. It's easy, so here's how (for the version I've got, which is 6.0) : Right Click the EYEDROPPER icon (but it might be called Colour Sampler or Measure Tool) immediately above the Magnifying Glass, and choose the MEASURE TOOL icon (a little ruler). Choose a line on your pic that you want to make horizontal or vertical. Hold down the Left Mouse Button and pull a line out along that piece (how far you pull the line doesn't matter). Then from the top menus choose IMAGE, ROTATE CANVAS, ARBITRARY and you'll see the exact correction angle in a box. Just click on OK and the pic will be rotated automatically for you. Clip away the black edges by choosing the CROP TOOL (its icon is a square with the edges extended a bit, and a thin diagonal line through it), pull a rectangle around the pic to exclude the black bits, and double click inside your pulled-out rectangle to finish. I then save to a new file name. Any problems just ask. thanksThanks for the welcome...yeh someone needs to do reports for the races - it is tough remembering, but the FIA Website has a good archive of lap-by-lap notes that can be turned into a proper report.
You're a sysop!I'm pleased to let you know that, consensus being reached, you are now an administrator. Congratulations!. You should read the relevant policies and other pages linked to from the administrators' reading list before carrying out tasks like deletion, protection, banning users, and editing protected pages such as the Main Page. Most of what you do is easily reversible by other sysops, apart from page history merges and image deletion, so please be especially careful with those. You might find the new administrators' how-to guide helpful. Cheers! -- Cecropia | Talk 17:59, 2 Oct 2004 (UTC)
CSSI know what problem you're talking about, and it's part of the reason why I'm not using it currently (other part is that I want some change). It got broken by some edit to MediaWiki:Monobook.css, which one I can't remember. I made an attempt to fix it then, but for some reason it wouldn't work. I'm sure it can be solved though... I might give it a try in the near future (unless you want to go for it). Fredrik | talk 19:33, 2 Oct 2004 (UTC) Your fix is only partial though... the borders are there but not the background color. I don't know what to do about the icons. Tell me if you make any more edits to it. Thanks! Fredrik | talk 14:04, 4 Oct 2004 (UTC) Ferrari PicturesComplete. Added two other pictures, put my "credit" on all three, released all to the public domain. When you get a chance, read this: http://www.gadgetopia.com/2004/10/02/WikipediaImages.html Deane 19:59, Oct 2, 2004 (UTC) FOXI find your revert rather purposefully naive. No, the site did not spell it out, but they clearly did not think it was an editorial mistake. Do you? I mean, follow the Communists for Kerry link in the FOX article. Click "About Us". That's not an editorial mistake. So, I'll go find some link that explicitly accuses FOX of bias in this case. Or would you revert that too? Wolfman 23:47, 2 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Perhaps a 'journalist standards' section with a criticism subsection would be more NPOV if FOX has any Pulitzers or the like to report. Wolfman 00:29, 3 Oct 2004 (UTC)
List of Everyone Who Has Ever LivedThanks for your addition of David Horowitz to the List of Everyone Who Has Ever Lived. Should you make any additions in the future, however, please follow the existing examples for guidance as to placement and titling of wikilinks. Thanks! (btw, I'm not the one who added the subhuman socialist scumbag Chomsky. Someone else did that :D) Kurt Weber 13:30, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC) Opera picThanks for uploading Image:Opera-Bastille-2.jpg. I notice it currently doesn't have an image copyright tag. Could you add one to let us know its copyright status? (You can use {{gfdl}} if you release it under the GFDL, or {{fairuse}} if you claim fair use, etc.) Thanks so much, – Quadell (talk) (help)[[]] 17:14, Oct 6, 2004 (UTC) Vandalism reportI just received a private message to my ip, in which you claimed I carried out vandalism in some wikipedia page (??) and my editing rights are to be revoked (???). I would like this accusation to be sustained. Krasniy_Volk Pit stop imageGood work on getting Image:BAR pitstop.jpg for the pit stop article. It illustrates what a pit stop is better than words ever could. Thanks, SamH 16:09, 9 Oct 2004 (UTC) ThanksThanks for repairing my link to Youssou N’dour! I was about to give up on it. It was only after I saw that you repaired it that I realized what was wrong, apostrophes don't translate properly from my word processor to Wikipedia. Nod. Justin Foote 00:58, 10 Oct 2004 (UTC) My nomination for adminshipThank you for supporting my nomination for adminship. I will do my best to serve Wikipedia. --Slowking Man 00:03, Oct 13, 2004 (UTC) SignatureWhy did you sign as Dannyboy instead of Rdsmith4?? 66.245.69.118 22:54, 14 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Vandalismi'll do what i want!!! mmmHmmmm! (24.208.221.222 / talk)
I would like to know moreWow, thank you!Thanks for the message you put on my user-page. I will be very enthusiastic in starting the Formula One Drivers template. I'm very much looking forward to seeing the template you've proposed! To be honest, I always thought it needed a template myself, but I wasn't sure what it should look like (I'm not the most design-orientated/organized person in the world..!) Rest assured I'll be up and editing in no time!
Schumacher revertHello. What is the reason for your recent revert on the Michael Schumacher article? It seems to me that you removed interesting info. SamH 13:03, 18 Oct 2004 (UTC)
SubGenius is a trademark of SubGenius Networks in addition to the title of a religion. SubGenius is not a registered trademark of anyone. Wikipedia's redirect from SubGenius/Subgenius to 'the chutch of the subgenius' is in error. (24.254.56.98 | talk)
1. A denizen of the underground "subculture", attuned to the obscure.
It was not nonsense and you should have left it for a vote! If you do not like me deleting your stuff do not delete others without a vote! You are not an administrator! (62.253.64.13 | talk) Why did you (1) revert without discussing and (2) mark a revert as minor? That's dishonest. I'm reinstating my edits and hope you will discuss before reverting next time. I admit my change was perhaps a little cheeky, but I gave a reason on the Talk page, and you gave none for the revert, either on the page or in your edit summary. I'm willing to be talked into the revert, but not bullied into it. Bds yahoo 23:56, 20 Oct 2004 (UTC)
If I may ask, what was wrong with 216.27.183.122's edits to FOX News? Are they factually inaccurate? They seem like legitimate edits to me. Anyhow, the sysop revert button is generally reserved for instances for vandalism or bad-faith edits. In cases otherwise, I'd reccomend doing a old-style revert with a detailed edit summary. Thanks. BLANKFAZE | (что??) 22:14, 21 Oct 2004 (UTC)
ADW VoteThe vote for General Secretary of the Association of Deletionist Wikipedians has opened. Please visit the page and vote for who you think would make the best choice. --Slowking Man 03:37, Oct 23, 2004 (UTC) International Buttsecks Day should not be recreated. We should be monitoring who's creating the entries and listing on the vandalisation page. - Ta bu shi da yu 06:32, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Previous Problems With Nirvana ArticleThis regards the article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/With_the_Lights_Out I came across that article from a link from a Nirvana message baord. I at the time had never been to Wikipedia and did not know what this site was. My dillema is this: This might sound really strange and believe me I've learned my lesson: The tracklisting for the upcoming Nirvana boxset is under lock and key. It has not been released yet at all. Not even one song is known on the listing. I had edited the page just screwing around with test data, because I had never used this site before. I had made a FAKE list of songs to test editing the page. After I had made my edit and figured out how to do it, I had deleted what I had typed. Everything was safe and sound until I came back much later on. People had looked at the history of that page edit and took the FAKE list I made up and reposted it. Vandals had messed with the page, and for some reason an editor of this site had protected the page, and reverted back to my first version with the fake tracklisting. So for awhile the page was protected with the fake tracklisting. I then became frantic. What if someone from the press got ahold of that list and thought it was true while the page was uneditable? I emailed some of he ediors on the page about it. What I ask and beg is that you and others keep an eye on that article for anyone posting that old tracklisting I made. IT IS NOT REAL. I simply used it as test data to practice editing a page. I don't know why anyone reverted back to it without any research, and after I deleted it. The tracklisting as of yet does not exist and won't for a month. Right now the tracklisting is blank is that page, after I talked to some people about it. And I ask of you that it stays like that until an official word is out. Could you even protect the page so that vandals cannot further do it again, at least until nov 23 when the real trackisting will be revealed? Thank you, and again I don't know why this got so out of hand. (128.119.146.183 | Talk) i would like an apology for your misunderstandingthe facts in my paris hilton edit were correct and rendered in a neutral way, you had no right to alter them. I realize that words like "nigger" are commonly used in vandalous ways but you could simple could have googled "paris hilton" nigger and had your answer in all of two seconds. There is no excuse for academic laziness like that. You call yourself an administrator. A non black person who uses the word nigger outside of very narrowly defined and still controversial contexts is a racial slurrer. That is the definition. The racial slur was heard in her latest sex tape. Maybe you should preoccupy yourself less with esp truth deducing (which might explain your passionate, factually stingy, defense of zionism. Here's a hint, assume is not the only step before writing something down. You're in for alot of nasty surprises (especially from the female sex) if you keep assuming. (69.197.194.92 | Talk) Fox to the right revertFox is absolutely to the Right by interpretation of their own definition of other players, as they describe (in nasty language) all other media as being to the Left, Far Left, Radical Left, Leftist Media, etc. So what's NNPOV about describing them as to the Right of most media? Leonard G. 17:50, 24 Oct 2004 (UTC) (Message echoed here):
I got your message, just after putting my oar into the article. Revert if you wish, I don't care about Fox that much, but I think that my statement holds up - that Fox is implicitly self describing itself as right wing. What they publicly claim is that they are in the middle, which is a mater of perception management, especially considering what would be to their right, I think that we all realize that the political spectrum is not a straight line, but more like a color wheel, where really extreme left (Communist dictatorship) meets extreme right (Fascist dictatorship. So placing Fox on this wheel is really a matter of finding where the middle is. Another way of classifying is to use a two or three dimensional descriptive space, with the "middle" in the center of the space, and axis describing qualities. Most people are not single dimensional (although they may be subject to single-issue political methods). Best wishes, Leonard G. 18:19, 24 Oct 2004 (UTC) F1Just a personal preference that a table should have a <caption>. I see you copied the large flag over from the previous style, but I think that 100px is too large for a flag, which is just repeating the title. To be honest I'm not 100% happy with the layout as it is, so keep moving stuff around until it looks good. ed g2s • talk 01:56, 31 Oct 2004 (UTC) Bush picture -> Kerry campaign logoDoes the pix of the Bush family morfs into the Kerry sign on your computer? if it dose not than I understand why you put back in but , if the pix is still morfing than it needs to be corrected before it gets put back in (152.163.100.14 | Talk) YoCome on, now. Just because the details haven't come out yet doesn't mean Rice's contract with Satan doesn't exist. Love, A Man Who Grants That Yeah, Okay, Maybe That Was Unnecessary (148.85.198.40 | Talk) Wiki Junior ProjectWe are currently in the process of deciding what the first topics will be. We have already decided that the first humanities topic will be Countries of the World:South America. We need to decide what our first science topic will be. We already have plenty of pictures available for Big Cats, The Solar System and Human Flight. We're having a little vote to decide which one we should work on first. Please come to Meta:Wikijunior project first topics. Cheers! Theresa Knott (Not the skater) 08:00, 6 Nov 2004 (UTC) The List of Danish monarchs is the main page...Nice to say I'm impolite, when it's not me going around and hunting IP addresses as somehow suspicious of vandalism by default. Learn to think before you accuse! 24.255.40.174 15:46, 7 Nov 2004 (UTC) ReutersDone,on the Talk page.--ThomasK 17:45, Nov 7, 2004 (UTC) Wesleyan UniversityHi Rdsmith4 - I'm confused about what just happened on the Wesleyan University and Wesleyan University (Connecticut) pages. I had been under the impression that the site had just been hit by a sock-puppet of User:Ranamim (through IP Address look up), who was adding the other "Wesleyan University" and making the original "Wesleyan University" into a disambig page in order to carry on a dirty war he had been waging against Wesleyan and Wesleyan University. If the change had been made by a good-faith user, I would have suggested that, since the Connecticut Wesleyan is far more better known, the other Wsleyan should be disambig'd within WU's own page (least surprise principle). However, then you came and started finalizing the change. What I'm unsure about is whether this represents an endorsment of the change, or whether you were employing janitorial skills and kindly cleaning up new page additions. If you were endorsing the change, could you let me know whether it would be better to leave it as it is, or have the other "Wesleyan" dismbig'd within Wesleyan University's own page? If you were being a good soul and cleaning up other people's messes (thanks!), I'm going to try to revert the changes made by User:Ranamim's sock-puppet. Thanks! --Asbestos 01:26, 8 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Could you please please intervene?? Could you please ask the other user to respect the policy of protected pages until a dispute is resolved? Thanks. -John69 (talk)
Hi Rdsmith4 - Much thanks for your help. Ranamim had been engaged in an argument with us (mainly with me, but also with User:Jmabel) that spanned over several articles, including Wesleyan, Wesleyan University and Methodism. Ranamim is currently a at Cornell University. Nice catchThanks for noticing that on George W. Bush. I only got the last edit--I appreciate your keeping my edit. Best, [[User:Meelar|Meelar (talk)]] 22:37, Nov 8, 2004 (UTC) Wesleyan disambiguation pageIt is still an issue. I just don't have the time that other people do to respond. Thanks. Thanks for that nice article. If you are planning to do more on Thailand maybe you should put Wikipedia:Thailand-related topics notice board on you watchlist. And if you have more photos don't forget to upload them to commons - I put some of mine there already sorted by province, but there are still lots of place I haven't visited yet. And your version of the outlook tower looks better than mine :-( andy 08:57, 9 Nov 2004 (UTC) The Orthodox Free Reformed ChurchThis is a real Church. Leave the article alone please.(Dr D. Hughes, Secretary OFRC, Westhoughton, Lancs, UK). (195.92.168.178 | talk; OFRC Article | talk)
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