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User talk:Xyzzy nThingyWelcome! Hello, Xyzzy n, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:
I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Where to ask a question, ask me on my talk page, or place What, exactly, is your objection here? There was no page. I made one. I got permission from the copyright holder to pull official website text (I got it for images too but haven't used it yet). I place *my own work*, which is a derivative of that original text from the diocese (and created with permission), under the GFDL. It's a starter article, which is better than most US bishops have right now. If you don't believe my acquisition of rights, follow the website link and call the chancery. They know me and we can have this all out in email so everybody is sure *this* TMLutas is the TM Lutas they know who has served in various diocesan and parish capacities and got permission to do this. TMLutas 23:34, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
It sometimes happens that users post text from other websites claiming to have permission to do so. Sometimes, images from other websites are uploaded and claimed to be under a free license (GFDL, public domain, {{No rights reserved}}, or others.) If the external website does not have any indication that such claims are well-founded, it sometimes is a good idea to try to verify such claims by contacting a representative of that website directly. You should, however, basically assume good faith and judge for yourself whether a claim made appears credible or indeed does warrant following up with an attempt to have it confirmed.
Hi, thanks for copyediting--the article does look saner now. Nevertheless, I think that in its current form it is mostly a sink. The only real article that links there is the one on BattleTech technology, where I think the information in myomer belongs anyway, so I have asked for a merge. I'm not an expert on (and not even a fan of) that particular bit of fiction, but if you are, then I'd like to suggest that you consider looking at the possibility of doing that. --xyzzyn 00:33, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
I hate to delete content, but I'll get on this in the morning and see what overlaps then. --Kizor 01:25, 4 March 2006 (UTC) illuminatusthe The Illuminatus! Trilogy article is now up for "featured article" status. please go to Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/The Illuminatus! Trilogy to vote Support or Oppose with your comments. cheers. Zzzzz 17:55, 7 March 2006 (UTC) Roundhouse kickWhile I agree the pic is not the best, it is the closest I could find. I know very little about the show, but I think he should be noted in some way as he has become synonymous with the move. KI 22:40, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
Ten German BombersWell, I haven't been able to find any other sources for this either. I could imagine, that the author of the article in the Jungle World misinterpreted what Clarke said about respecting German laws. So I'll go ahead and remove the statement.--CarabinieriTTaallkk 23:57, 14 April 2006 (UTC) U2 Crisis articleHey, I accidentally split that sentence off from the paragraph while correcting the grammatical error in it. Is it ok to re-fix the error? Also, I have no idea what the problem would be wrt Unicode. Browser is ELinks 0.10.6. Is there a test page I can use for that to see if there is a problem? I'd hate to think I've blown stuff away in all the pages I have edited... Runderwo 08:18, 30 April 2006 (UTC) Thanks for the investigation. I also found that this issue has been discussed before: http://www.mail-archive.com/elinks-dev@linuxfromscratch.org/msg00065.html So I'll refrain from editing with ELinks. A pity, since it's long been my favorite browser. And there is no need to apologize, on the contrary you have probably saved others a lot of work by bringing this to my attention. Do you know where I could bring up a discussion about banning non-compliant browsers from editing articles containing UTF-8 characters? Runderwo 09:51, 1 May 2006 (UTC) Chinese polygamyNo, I'm backing out of this before I violate 3RR. That guy is pissing me off with his nuisance edits, but I don't think they're clear-cut vandalism, so I'm goign to wait for him to get it out of his system. Really annoying though, because I've tried to clean up that article a bit and this guy is potentially goign to fuck it up to buggery. :( mgekelly 15:21, 5 May 2006 (UTC) Thanks !Hey, I just wanted to thank you for fighting (constant) vandalism on the TS page. I've been busy lately, and every time I've gotten over there to have a check on the daily vandalism, I find you've already taken care of it. Thanks ! Sandy 15:24, 5 May 2006 (UTC) JBlogger - ThanksThank you very much for your advice and points. I'm working with the direct help of people who know Dr. Gerstenfeld and I plan to change some of the wording soon. I was simply trying to get some of the stuff down. I had the permission of Dr. Gerstenfeld to use the material, so while there is still the issue of making it moreinteresting, there is not a technical issue of copyright. Nonetheless, thank you again! JBlogger 06:38, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
I'm concerned with phrases such as "The ICRC denies that the Red Cross is a Christian emblem.", they look to me like they say "THEY say this but WE know better", specifically as the Red Cross is refered to as being "associated" with Christianity a paragraph or two above. If we could make the article sound less like this I'd be happy. Also, the Swiss flag's origins are no longer known, we only have three competing legends now. The Christians use a Latin cross, not a equal-cross, this type of cross far predates Christianity, as it is one of the most basic shapes that can be portrayed. It is only in recent times that any type of cross has become affiliated with Christianity. +Hexagon1 (talk) ThanksThanks for the cordial message, I appreciate it. Normally I would use a more civil approach to get across my points, but right now certain users are ignoring rules and damaging Wikipedia to a point that I cannot tolerate. Kelly Martin, Will Beback, and Jacoplane should know better. I hope I have not offended you by my use of such language, but I feel it is necessary. KI 21:18, 3 June 2006 (UTC) War film imageThanks for coming up with a better image for the war film stubs. As the creator of the original image (Warfilms.jpg), please feel free to nominate it for deletion. Cheers, ♥ Her Pegship♥ 19:58, 5 June 2006 (UTC) Greek QuotationHello Xyzzy, thanks for answering me personally. Yes, I think there is a good reason to have it there. When I checked the article last time I was looking exactly for the literal phrase and a word-by-word translation from Greek to English (I needed it for a homework on the subject), meaning the many bible citations included before your edit were very helpful. I didn't restore ALL the citations, most were superfluous, only what I thought was useful for personal research into the historic origins of the phrase. I would include the Greek translations for ALL the mentionings of 666, but I don't even own a bible myself, much less a Greek one. I suppose others might need the original Greek wording too for some reason, so why not include the extra six lines? It's not that much text after all, and I'm sure most readers would appreciate not having to look up other sources. --TheOtherStephan 20:42, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
Mark of the beast"Hi! Regarding your edit to Number of the Beast, could you please explain why you removed {{fact}} tags without providing citations for the tagged items? —xyzzyn 19:37, 10 June 2006 (UTC)"
You're way too fast in removing the 616 reference. I don't have my bible handy at work to check the names of the manuscripts which have 616. Consider the possibility that all the people who have added the 616 info in the article know more about the subject than you do. I believe this information is such a fundamental fact that citations are unnecessary. Check out [1] or, for that mater 616 (number) - Jeffr 12:55, 23 June 2006 (UTC) EGSEGS Hi! You noted in an edit summary that a couple of things were ‘lost’. I’d like to point out that they were actually ‘deliberately removed’ and I’d like to claim responsibility for that. My reasons were:
Iirc you don’t like deleting stuff, but is there a reason why I shouldn’t remove these items again? —xyzzyn 18:44, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
Hey, I don't know how to edit very well but I do know the "Mark" of the beast is money. The word isn't translated correctly and you even gave me an online reference that you didn't read to prove it. You owe me an apology for removing my information. Here's what you wrote: Number of the Beast Hi! I have reverted your (repeated) addition of the remark about the translation of χάραγμα. Not only was it formulated in a manner inconsistent with WP:NPOV, but I also could not find any support for the claim in that lexicon. The website you provided was unhelpful (well, blatantly wrong and non-notable, actually). Please read WP:NPOV, WP:V and WP:EL for more information. —xyzzyn 09:24, 1 July 2006 (UTC) Sorry about the misunderstandingHey, I am sorry about this whole situation. I was just trying to alert an Administrator to my concern that User:216.244.12.76 may be vandalizing the television episode articles on The Twilight Zone; he is systematically removing the category called "Themes." I had been working to expand those articles; I have even crated the new Wiki Category: The Twilight Zone actors (it would go along with other similar Wiki Categories: Star Trek actors and The Outer Limits actors). Anyway, thank you for your input on this matter. :) User:ProfessorPaul 00:04, 22 June 2006 (UTC) I suckAck! Sorry! I ran into a couple of anon bloodhounds, but that doesn't excuse dropping the discussion like a stone. I naturally default; the side that wasn't a jerk wins. That said, I changed 'It contains' in the intro to 'Said lives contain'. The latter - IMAO - fits rather well the whole strangeness-in-normalcy, normalcy-in-strangeness thing that EGS has going. The former is much more disjointed. --Kizor 08:47, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
ThanksThanks for restoring the valid edit in Polygamy. I think I had the window open too long and someone edited in the meantime. ... discospinster talk 20:46, 3 July 2006 (UTC) Thanks for TS editsThanks for working through the automated peer review: I'll try to catch the rest after the 4th of July holiday. Thanks again! Sandy 03:55, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
On the image, I truly don't know what to do. It's one of those areas that just won't compute in my feeble brain. The Fair Use issue is too vague. Do you want to put together something original? If you know how, that would be cool. I'd look for pictures showing a lot of motion, like ticcing, along with some "deep in contemplation" poses, and a mixture of ages and races, but mostly male, since TS is 4:1 male:female, and mostly children, since adults tend to outgrow tics. It makes me crazy. If you are able to do something, I'd really be grateful. Sandy 22:22, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
Wow, this is going to be hard! I can't find a mother and son, an African-American youth, or many hispanic children ... am I on the right track with any of these? Starting list of candidate images for collage: ethnic young girl contemplating child - young boy happy boy children in motion silly boys smiling boy boys teen girl dancer young thinking boy vertical young pensive boy vertical hand in motion, tic-like young boy blinking and licking boy winking hispanic man child at play man vertical mother grandson And how do we know they can all be used? Sandy 19:48, 29 July 2006 (UTC) Sacrifice is going on tonightHey, I don't know how to edit very well but I do know the "Mark" of the beast is money. The word isn't translated correctly and you even gave me an online reference that you didn't read to prove it. You owe me an apology for removing my information. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Raquel666 (talk • contribs) . From IRCAlright, finally got around to having a look at the stuff you mentioned. I'll try to keep an eye on it, if anything develops feel free to let me know. Luna Santin 23:17, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
Libya referencingPlease consider striking your objection to lack of referencing in the Libya article. I have spent the last three days thoroughly increasing the number and quality of references. I have also updated the bibliographic style to be comprehensive and organised. There are now over 60 references in the page and almost every paragraph and fact is referenced at least once if not more. --User:Jaw101ie 16:45, 19 July 2006 (UTC) Image Tagging for Image:Libyseal.pngThanks for uploading Image:Libyseal.png. However, the copyright tag you've used is deprecated or obsolete, and should not be used. This could be because the tag is inaccurate or misleading, or because it does not adequately specify the copyright status of the image. For a list of copyright tags that are in current use, see the "Public domain", "Free license", and "Fair use" sections of Wikipedia:Image copyright tags. This is an automated notice by OrphanBot. For assistance on the image use policy, see Wikipedia:Media copyright questions. 18:09, 19 July 2006 (UTC) PNG to SVGI saw your work on converting the Libyan ethnolinguistic map from PNG to SVG format, which was excellent. Can you do the same to Image:National League for Democracy flag.png and Image:MyanmarAdministrativeDivisions.png? Thanks. Sorry for bothering you. Hintha 00:41, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
LibyaHi, I've noticed that you've changed the world Libya in Amazigh from an image to text. I think the image was much better. Otherwise the majority of people will just see 6 squares, like I see now. It's better if everyone can read it. See Algeria. --Jaw101ie 17:54, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
You're a gem, thanks a lot Libya
Regarding your comments made above on the Libya candidature page: I've fixed the OPEC and the change "this" to "that" reference concerns. As for the CIA world factbook, I don't agree they should be one reference. The reason is, all the references in the article refer to different sections on the Factbook Libya page. This makes it easier when you want to check a reference because you know exactly where to look on the factbook page. As for the background notes, that tag was added a while ago and I can't point to exact sentences in the article that come from the notes. The information has pretty much assimilated into the article. Thanks for raising the concerns. If you want, (think they have been addressed), consider striking them, for the sole purpose of making the page easier to sort through, and more objective. Thanks again --Jaw101ie 22:32, 20 July 2006 (UTC) UtahNonsense, the user made a deliberate moronic change to the article and that's what I called it and what I meant. If you check his talk page you will find that he has a history of vandalism and had in fact just been blocked for 24 hours for similar stupidity. Bob Palin 04:14, 21 July 2006 (UTC) Listing obsolete JPEGs for deletionHello, Xyzzy_n. I notice you've listed several JPEGs for deletion, after having replaced them with SVG versions. Your SVGs are much better; thank you for uploading them. However, I disagree that the JPEGs should be deleted, because they are an important part of the history of the SVG images. If the JPEGs were deleted, we would lose the evidence that we have about the original creator of the image. This is the reason the {{obsolete}} tag is recommended for JPEGs that have been replaced with SVGs: the JPEGs may be obsolete, but it is important to keep them around so that we have a complete record of the history of the image we're using. Please let me know if you have any questions. —Bkell (talk) 17:09, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
MATLAB SVG scriptI can't get this script to create an image that I can view. My browser doesn't need a plug-in to render SVG, does it? AndrewDressel 15:41, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
In general, neither Word nor Paint are good tools for image creation or editing.
PolicyThanks for your note. WP:BLOCK lays out when we may and may not block, and doesn't list exceptions for 3RR, so that's why I linked to it. SlimVirgin (talk) 01:15, 4 August 2006 (UTC) Just Saying Hello
Hi! I’d reply on your talk page, but the IP belongs to an AOL proxy, so… —xyzzyn 20:45, 7 August 2006 (UTC) Thank you...for "plumbectomy". --jpgordon∇∆∇∆ 00:44, 9 August 2006 (UTC) MusclamI find you alTer me writteen work. I angryy undless yoiu alter work in gooed faith. وبارك الله بكم انتم الا علي هدف تدمير مقالتي --Uzerbaaji 04:14, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
The arabic scrpt is to mean "God bless if you edited my article for useless purposes, but if not, I hate you" I can be wonder if any other Uzbeik wikipadan other place? --Uzerbaaji 04:37, 9 August 2006 (UTC) ???Bitte schaue in DEine E-Mails! Danke. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 84.152.230.21 (talk • contribs) 2006-08-11T09:04:15 (UTC)
destroying content in CMS listingPlease read the discussion section in the CMS Comparison documents before you destory any more content and remove any more relevent CMS links. Your removal of major vendors from the list is not helping the community nor improving the content of the article. There is a new discussion on the page about notability rules. If you have new content to add please make the contribution, but a simple deletion of valid vendors is not welcome. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Shan mcarthur@spamcop.net (talk • contribs) 2006-08-13T03:00:46 (UTC)
state revertsFYI the revert you did yo Utah was wrong, the IP updated it to match the source. -Ravedave 16:31, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
Ha!Thanks for taking better care of my user page than I have myself. The tide of vandalism is surprising, given that I'm after all not a high-profile contributor, but I can't help laughing at it. Largely because of my vigilant fellow-contributors, who've kept it from becoming a real problem. --Kizor 16:04, 16 August 2006 (UTC)  Ahoy!I just thought I'd say hello, since I spotted you (well, saw you in the EGS history page). So: Hello AlmostReadytoFly 22:33, 17 August 2006 (UTC) Question!Is User_talk:Xyzzyplugh related to you? [2] 69.165.170.115 11:46, 15 September 2006 (UTC) Answer!No. —xyzzyn 16:49, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
Need HelpWhat can be done regarding Racism on Wikipedia? I need you to see the following:
The David Duke article needs you helpWhat on earth is going on with that article, is this an encyclopedia or a political spin forum? This racist nonsense is getting to be a bit much! 216.32.86.210 11:40, 16 September 2006 (UTC) P.S. I am going to post this message on a few other respected editors talk pages as well. TS ReviewTo Dwaipayanc, Xyzzy n, Wouterstomp, Wikipedical, TimVickers, Arcadian, NCurse, TedE, Jkelly: to all who have helped me develop the article Tourette syndrome, I was hoping you'd have a new look. Jkelly has checked the images, I've asked Tony to do a thorough copyedit to polish the prose when he has time, and I've completed the referencing and expanded the Screening section. I think I've done all I'm capable of, and would appreciate any new input you may have. Sandy 23:55, 16 September 2006 (UTC) what do u make of thisRyodox [27] 66.246.72.108 13:26, 17 September 2006 (UTC) Blocked for unknown reasonHiya, this is Xinyu, remember, the kid who disobeyed rules for the longest time? Anyways...I have been blocked for some anonymous reason from talking on the talk pages of all the articles in Wikipedia. Please help me out, THanks. --Lord X 19:43, 9 October 2006 (UTC)User:Xinyu LOL...at your vandalism! Don't you hate when you accidentally revert the reverter?
PMI logoI was getting ready to tear into you about the PMI logo on my user page, so I researched their terms of use. You are absolutely right — according to them, we can't display their logo at all, because we also have articles on stuff they don't like. I'm not going to remove their logo from their article (they can't prohibit that), but it shouldn't be used anywhere else. So: thanks for removing it, and extra thanks for making an attempt to replace it! ➥the Epopt 00:04, 11 January 2007 (UTC) Hi, schreibe in der o. g. Debatte bitte auf englisch. Beiträge zu AFD-Debatten sollen nämlich für alle Benutzer verständlich sein. Es wäre außerdem nett, wenn du das, was du bisher dort geschrieben hast, übersetzen würdest. Falls du Fragen hast, kannst du mich hier erreichen. 84.191.121.116 21:27, 11. Jan. 2007 (CET)
Thanks for your participation on the Thalía articleFor a while, a couple of other users and I were the only ones blocking some of the ridiculous edits to this article and Paulina Rubio. My casual observation is that fans like to visit both pages to boost their favorite artist and vandalize the other page. That may be over simplified but it held water because I got both pages semi-protected for a while. Now, being unprotected, anon IPs are showing up to ratchet up the album sales and post links to fansites. I would like to see only registered users edit these pages for the reasons above. Thanks, Ronbo76 20:48, 15 January 2007 (UTC) Image deletionDon't you have anything better to do than trying to delete all of the images that I uploaded. And why just me I checked you only added for deletion my images today, no one else's. Do you have some personal problem with me. You are the only one that has made a fuss over this images nobody else cares. Also there are dozens of other Wikipedia editors out there who are uploading the exact same type of images just like me go and bark at them. Get of my back.Top Gun 20:44, 19 January 2007 (UTC) == WP:PUI ==Hi, that was not meant as an attack, it was just meant ot put that editors ascertions in context. Please look at his last 200 edits. From my point of view they are bordering on harssasment. He has also put over 20 of my pages and images up for deletion (he has not targetted anyone else either.) Sorry if it sounded like an attack, it wasnt meant to be.--Vintagekits 20:20, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
ThanksI prefer "It's always easier to get forgiveness than to get approval." :) User:Zoe|(talk) 23:44, 26 January 2007 (UTC) ThalíaNo worries. 1) I think it was actually easier to re-add 75's improvements to the reverted version than it would have been to try and tease out all the other changes in 75's initial 7:54 revert from the version you reverted from, and 2) Hopefully specifically re-adding 75's changes will reduce the chance of them feeling the need to do any more reverts to the article (if you look at the history you'll see they did it three times before). 71.231.107.188 20:13, 27 January 2007 (UTC) Unicode chars ...Oh, not again
PopupsI've never used popups before - thanks for showing me how it looks. Do you think there is a problem with having that opening sentence? I have it there because I like to highlight that Wikipedia is a good place to go for open-use images. THanks for any input. I removed the "About Me" stuff on my User page.--DavidShankBone 16:57, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
Edits to Thalía - please reviewWould you please review some of the recent edits to Thalía? A big edit was made tonight without discussion on her talkpage. What I find interesting is that both anonymous IPs share the same opinion and do not seem to have any respect for WP:CIVIL in the edit summary and on her talkpage. I seek your advice because you have provided reasonable edits beforehand. I do not wish to be viewed as causing an edit war. Ronbo76 06:26, 30 January 2007 (UTC) Trajansmarket.jpgI added the author's name and the website; the text reads: "This Web site was originally designed as a project for my Latin I class. I was in Rome during Spring Break of 2000. The pictures on this site were taken with a digital camera. Feel free to use any of these pictures. Created and Designed by David Chaszar." I'm hoping this qualifies...Her Pegship (tis herself) 23:05, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
Thank you for your review. I appreciate the comments. If I implement all of them will you support the article for a Featured Article nomination? Frank van Mierlo 00:01, 3 February 2007 (UTC) One more comment, could you please delete GA from your first sentence? If the article passes GA at this point it will motivate everyone who is working on it to continue for FA status. Carson did an excellent review much like yours and all his suggestions have been cleared at this point. Given the quality of the data and the effort that went into creating the graphics and text. I think the current version of the article deserves to be called good. It is a process and small successes on the way do a lot for morale. Frank van Mierlo 00:16, 3 February 2007 (UTC) Thanks for your quick and comprehensive answer. Good is a much lower hurdle than FA. Any editor who has not been a principal author of the page can give the article GA status. Frank van Mierlo 00:45, 3 February 2007 (UTC) Protection of Stomakhin articleIt is extremly unfair. You have protected version of Biophys. And it is discrimination of me. Biophys deleted and reverted all texts done not only by me, but by administrators Mikkalai, Alex Bakharev. So it is just simply protection of Biophys version. I oppose that kind of thing. I would like to ask Alex Bakharev or Mikkalai to revert the article back to their version.Vlad fedorov 04:11, 3 February 2007 (UTC) Hey !So good to hear from you - I was worried about where you'd gotten off to. It's very kind of you to take notice of my "anniversary" :-) I missed you during the FAC: I was (actually, resentfully) dragged into it, because other editors were going to FAC it if I didn't - I really didn't want the article to become high-profile, but if someone else was going to FAC it, I wanted to do it myself. Surprise - Dr pda wrote a script to calculate prose size - it's in my monobook. Good to have you back ! SandyGeorgia (Talk) 02:53, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
sexual objectificationI submitted a photo to sexual objectification of women in panties heels and nothing else vacuuming; it's of a fashion show by Imitation of Christ, a well-known label. Several editors want NO images on the page, but I think this one is pretty clear: at a fashion show, these topless models vacuuming in heels shows women objectified sexually. Could you interject with your opinion please? Talk:Sexual_objectification#Request_for_Comment--DavidShankBone 04:09, 5 February 2007 (UTC) webcomic deletion (merge from User talk:xyzzy_n.)In the schlock mercenary thread, you invited people to come by and talk so here I am. Go over to the Ursa Major awards AfD page (I linked it at the schlock thread) and tell me that you find "I hate furries" or any of the other obviously subject matter biased deletion votes to be worthy delete comments. Once that award went, all the Ursa Major award winners started getting purged because now they were non-notable. And thus more and more articles get stuffed down the memory hole. It's really creepy if you ignore the low stakes of the subject matter at hand. So go ahead, justify those votes and the subsequent deletes that hinge on the deletion of that page or, better yet, try and resurrect that award page. Just put on the asbestos underwear first. TMLutas 04:08, 6 February 2007 (UTC) --- Hey, another following the Schlock thread ^^. Thought your "Too. Damn. Long." post was helpful and detailed and wholly appropriate. I do think wikipedia has its problems with rule of personality but hey, what doesn't? Good on you for your efforts. - Leith --- Wikipedia has an entry for every single railway station in England. Every. Single. One. Just thought you should know that. 163.192.21.43 23:19, 8 February 2007 (UTC) Copy of the history page
John L. FughMy understanding is that reformulating the text so that it merely reflects information, and not creative expression, is permissible so long as the original source is cited (which it was, albeit without inline cites). Cheers, JCO312 14:27, 9 February 2007 (UTC) Re: Yet another crowd with surface-to-air pitchforksThanks for the comment on my user page. I always welcome suggestions on the content in my userspace so I know what I need to improve. As far as the blog entry, since I did not see my name specifically mentioned, among other things, I am not worried about it. I have had to put up with far worse things, and so I am not worried about it. But thanks for letting me know about it, and I'll see how I can fix that grammatical error. —Pilotguy push to talk 22:08, 10 February 2007 (UTC) SorryI completely forgot about that copyvios nomination, although I do think it's been speedied too. (I'll check the logs). Once again, sorry. John Reaves (talk) 04:27, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
No goWhy no go The web nes paper says that anyone can use their pictures if you link to them and that is what I have done, what more must I do to be able to use that nice pic of the Indian air force chaps. Potaaatos 21:12, 16 February 2007 (UTC) Webcomics jihadSorry, but there is a jihad going on. There are folks out there determined to wipe any mention of webcomics, or things on the web in general, from Wikipedia. I've long believed in calling a spade a spade. It's no less civil than what they're slinging at the webcomic community. -- Jay Maynard 16:23, 18 February 2007 (UTC) Top GunThanks for alerting me. We appear to have a Wikiholic here- too bad he just can't figure it all out. CanadianCaesar Et tu, Brute? 03:39, 20 February 2007 (UTC) Again?Listen sorry that was just an oversight on my part. I was adding the new suicide bombings of the Iraq war and Caesar had reverted the previous that I had put so I was just reverting to my last editing before he reverted so the old references were back as for the senteces I was writing them this time in my own wording, as I promised, over the old ones that where copyviolation but it seams I didn't correct the incident of February 17th and I thank you for pointing it out to me. Belive me it was not intentional this time, I have learned my lesson, this was just an oversight on my part.Top Gun 00:25, 25 February 2007 (UTC) Retention of history in off-site migrationsYou reminded me off-site to copy the article history in moving the Sore Thumbs article to Comixpedia. Whoops. I've moved the article, but I was not aware that any such thing is possible. AFAIK pages are userfiable by request, but it takes a succesful DRV to access history. If it is, how, and could you handle it? --21:08, 26 February 2007 (UTC) YupOKAY :)--NAHID 10:47, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
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ANSWER ME--NAHID 12:06, 1 March 2007 (UTC) Thanks for your work on the flowchart thingyAppreciate it. Megapixie 06:59, 2 March 2007 (UTC) MessagesI left messages there Wikipedia:Media copyright questions. Reply please--NAHID 14:22, 3 March 2007 (UTC) Hello. I could do with a second opinion on images, if you don't mind: I've seen you on the Media copyright questions page. An editor has added many photographs to Cross Fell. My problem is that he has members of his family as the prime subject. I am unaware of any other examples in Wikipedia of geographical locations where family/friends are stood infront of them. I'd appreciate your advice. Cheers. The JPStalk to me 17:35, 4 March 2007 (UTC) xyuzzy. I rather thought I would find this message on your talk page. JPS is actually committing a blockable offence in inviting you to join in the discussion in this way. I have just posted the following message to the Cross Fell talk page : xyzzy. The problem with your adjustments is that what you produce is not real. You may remember the recent case of a news journalist who produced an image from the Gulf War showing the aftermath of an American air strike in northern Iraq. He produced an image being a composite of 3 pictures and then embellished it with some extra smoke and flames. He sold the product of this exercise for a substantial sum to various newspapers. But when the facts became known he was sacked and blacklisted. If you want to take some good pictures, then I will be happy to guide you up to the summit of Cross Fell. There have been a few casualties up there in recent years, but I am a reliable guide and you can trust me to get you up and down safely. You will then have the personal satisfaction of knowing that you have taken real images as a product of your own efforts. regards. Bob BScar23625 16:50, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
JPS. The practice of inviting people to join in a discussion on the basis that you think they will agree with your view is frowned on by the Wikipedia community - and has been a blockable offence. Witness the discussion on Image:Gulf.png. There is a group of editors who are interested in articles on the hills of Northern England and the matter is primarily their concern. That is the forum you should address As it happens, xyzzy did not seem to agree with your view. Although, he has raised another interesting issue. best wishes. Bob BScar23625 08:25, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
xyzzy. As I have banned myself from Cross Fell, I reply here to your note. There are some good images at Geograph and at least two of them could be used as replacements for mine - assuming that copyright is clear. Sorry for the error on my part concerning the image you inserted. best wishes. Bob BScar23625 17:30, 7 March 2007 (UTC) Re: DFRGNCRI took a stab: Template:Opaque. Better than nothing I reckon. --MECU≈talk 23:07, 4 March 2007 (UTC) Rare photos responseThat was very nicely put. Jkelly 22:27, 5 March 2007 (UTC) From CommonsSomeone brought up that the Russian arms and flag are not free because they came from the Kremlin website. Not true; the Russian copyright law, section 8, states that national symbols are free from copyright. Plus, I designed the SVG files for both files, so it should probably be fine at the Commons. User:Zscout370 (Return Fire) 02:46, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
LibyaHey, thanks for the tip! = ) --Tonyjeff 22:41, 8 March 2007 (UTC) An article you proddedWhile doing routine deletion of expired prods, I came upon Francis X. Livoti, which I deleted per CSD G10 and recreated as a redirect. In the future, please tag such pages with {{db-attack}} so we can rid Wikipedia of them as quickly as possible. Thanks! Picaroon 01:15, 9 March 2007 (UTC) Re: TitsI gave the reason when I nominated the image last month Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion/2007 February 3#Image:Now that.27s a great pair of tits.jpg. It was deleted on 8-February-2007 by User:Nv8200p. It was undeleted by User:Rdsmith4 on 7-March-2007, with the orphan IfD tag hanging for no apparent reason. ~ BigrTex 16:49, 10 March 2007 (UTC) CSC FAC2You were against my fair use at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Campbell's Soup Cans. Would you consider supporting now? TonyTheTiger (talk/cont/bio) 15:19, 20 March 2007 (UTC) B.R.I.T.T.A.N.I.C.A.Hello Xyzzy, You are obviously a careful, thoughtful editor, so I would not ask you to change your vote or anything like that. I'm hoping that you might revisit the article and see what changes have been made. One more thing: I just wanted to let you know how sorry I am that we are on opposite sides of the deletion issue. I read your edits etc., and you seem like a pretty cool guy. I guess I just wanted to let you know that I'll still think you're cool regardless of how it turns out, because I'm convinced that you're convinced that you are doing the right thing, and that's good enough for me. That's why I kinda backed out, and I'll leave this to the wisdom of you admin types. Be well. Sue Rangell[citation needed] 23:22, 25 March 2007 (UTC) Don't make another thing out of this. I'll explain. I initialy made the article a direct copy of the one that you found that I used as a source, so I would later use this article as a template to rewrite the text and make an apropriate article for Wikipedia. The article has been already rewriten. And difers from the original. User talk:Top Gun 05:33, 26 March 2007 (UTC) {{Cite news}}There's some discussion going on about changing the template on it's talk page. Would love your input :) -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 01:59, 2 April 2007 (UTC) TfD nomination of Template:Military-InsigniaTemplate:Military-Insignia has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you. — Megapixie 02:38, 27 April 2007 (UTC) More image help if you please.Hello, A while ago you helped me when I made the image Image:Pipe.svg, and now I would like to ask your help again. I have made an (modified) SVG version of Image:Fork join.jpeg and would like to upload it. The problem is when i try to raster(ify) it using rsvg (2.9.5) i get a whole lot of "attempt to put segment in horiz list twice" errors being emitted. Can I email the file to you and get you to have a look at it? Trying the stroke to path business that you suggested seems to have little effect. I am using Inkscape 0.42 (curse you out of date repos!). Thanks User A1 14:54, 22 May 2007 (UTC) Fair use rationale for Image:"Bootstrap" Bill Turner.JPG Thanks for uploading or contributing to Image:"Bootstrap" Bill Turner.JPG. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in Wikipedia articles constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use. Suggestions on how to do so can be found here. Please go to the image description page and edit it to include a fair use rationale. Using one of the templates at Wikipedia:Fair use rationale guideline is an easy way to insure that your image is in compliance with Wikipedia policy, but remember that you must complete the template. Do not simply insert a blank template on an image page. If you have uploaded other fair use media, consider checking that you have specified the fair use rationale on those pages too. You can find a list of 'image' pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "Image" from the dropdown box. Note that any fair use images uploaded after 4 May, 2006, and lacking such an explanation will be deleted one week after they have been uploaded, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. Ilse@ 14:26, 17 June 2007 (UTC) Orphaned non-free image (Image:"Bootstrap" Bill Turner.JPG)Thanks for uploading Image:"Bootstrap" Bill Turner.JPG. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently orphaned, meaning that it is not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media). If you have uploaded other unlicensed media, please check whether they're used in any articles or not. You can find a list of 'image' pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "Image" from the dropdown box. Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. BetacommandBot 06:54, 22 June 2007 (UTC) Unspecified source for Image:American McGee Strawberry Shortcake.jpgThanks for uploading Image:American McGee Strawberry Shortcake.jpg. I noticed that the file's description page currently doesn't specify who created the content, so the copyright status is unclear. If you did not create this file yourself, then you will need to specify the owner of the copyright. If you obtained it from a website, then a link to the website from which it was taken, together with a restatement of that website's terms of use of its content, is usually sufficient information. However, if the copyright holder is different from the website's publisher, then their copyright should also be acknowledged. As well as adding the source, please add a proper copyright licensing tag if the file doesn't have one already. If you created/took the picture, audio, or video then the {{GFDL-self}} tag can be used to release it under the GFDL. If you believe the media meets the criteria at Wikipedia:Fair use, use a tag such as {{non-free fair use in|article name}} or one of the other tags listed at Wikipedia:Image copyright tags#Fair use. See Wikipedia:Image copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use. If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have specified their source and tagged them, too. You can find a list of files you have uploaded by following this link. Unsourced and untagged images may be deleted one week after they have been tagged, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If the image is copyrighted under a non-free license (per Wikipedia:Fair use) then the image will be deleted 48 hours after 07:59, 11 July 2007 (UTC). If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. NAHID 07:59, 11 July 2007 (UTC) Unspecified source for Image:National League for Democracy.svgThanks for uploading Image:National League for Democracy.svg. I noticed that the file's description page currently doesn't specify who created the content, so the copyright status is unclear. If you did not create this file yourself, then you will need to specify the owner of the copyright. If you obtained it from a website, then a link to the website from which it was taken, together with a restatement of that website's terms of use of its content, is usually sufficient information. However, if the copyright holder is different from the website's publisher, then their copyright should also be acknowledged. As well as adding the source, please add a proper copyright licensing tag if the file doesn't have one already. If you created/took the picture, audio, or video then the {{GFDL-self}} tag can be used to release it under the GFDL. If you believe the media meets the criteria at Wikipedia:Fair use, use a tag such as {{non-free fair use in|article name}} or one of the other tags listed at Wikipedia:Image copyright tags#Fair use. See Wikipedia:Image copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use. If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have specified their source and tagged them, too. You can find a list of files you have uploaded by following this link. Unsourced and untagged images may be deleted one week after they have been tagged, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If the image is copyrighted under a non-free license (per Wikipedia:Fair use) then the image will be deleted 48 hours after 08:05, 11 July 2007 (UTC). If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. NAHID 08:05, 11 July 2007 (UTC) John Hancock VandalismThanks for catching the missed vandalism of John Hancock. --Ziusudra 13:34, 18 September 2007 (UTC) Orphaned non-free media (Image:Neighbours.png)
If you have uploaded other unlicensed media, please check whether they're used in any articles or not. You can find a list of 'image' pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "Image" from the dropdown box. Note that all non-free media not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. βcommand 22:05, 11 October 2007 (UTC) Teach a man to fishAnd he might come back and ask for some clarification. Hi Again, I have had more SVG trouble, and previously you have been quite helpful. This time its related to Image:BatchDistill.svg, which I drew to replace Image:Batch still for Wikipedia.png. Now my version of RSVG has no problems (2.16.1), Firefox has no problems, but Mediawiki renders it in squish-o-vision. I have tried a few things, but I haven't trawled the SVG, and I was wondering if you had a good idea for fixing this. Thanks User A1 12:53, 2 December 2007 (UTC) LibyaLibya has been nominated for a featured article review. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to featured quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, articles are moved onto the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article from featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Reviewers' concerns are here. Craig interpolation and the virtue of lazinessOnly just seen your 2 year old comment on my User talk:Chalst/tasks: not doing anything seems to have done its magic & the article is OK now. Thanks for the tip anyway. — Charles Stewart (talk) 14:29, 3 March 2009 (UTC) File:Head angle rake and trail.svg listed for deletionAn image or media file that you uploaded or altered, File:Head angle rake and trail.svg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Files for deletion. Please see the discussion to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. Mononomic (talk) 18:34, 2 January 2010 (UTC) AfD nomination of El Goonish Shive An editor has nominated one or more articles which you have created or worked on, for deletion. The nominated article is El Goonish Shive. We appreciate your contributions, but the nominator doesn't believe that the article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion and has explained why in his/her nomination (see also Wikipedia:Notability and "What Wikipedia is not"). Your opinions on whether the article meets inclusion criteria and what should be done with the article are welcome; please participate in the discussion(s) by adding your comments to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/El Goonish Shive (2nd nomination). Please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You may also edit the article during the discussion to improve it but should not remove the articles for deletion template from the top of the article; such removal will not end the deletion debate. Please note: This is an automatic notification by a bot. I have nothing to do with this article or the deletion nomination, and can't do anything about it. --Erwin85Bot (talk) 01:04, 30 April 2010 (UTC) Orphaned non-free image File:Brahma beer advertisement.JPG Thanks for uploading File:Brahma beer advertisement.JPG. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently orphaned, meaning that it is not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media). If you have uploaded other unlicensed media, please check whether they're used in any articles or not. You can find a list of "file" pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "File" from the dropdown box. Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. Hammersoft (talk) 21:31, 15 November 2010 (UTC) File:NumericalTower.svg missing description detailsDear uploader: The media file you uploaded as:
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