User talk:Yann/archiveHello Yann, and welcome to Wikipedia! I'm glad you're interested in non-violence related topics; I talked one of my friends into starting non-violent resistance, but he hasn't had a lot of time to work on it. If you have any questions, just consult Wikipedia:Help and the Wikipedia:FAQs. If you're still stuck, ask a questionat the Wikipedia:Village pump. Have fun! -- Stephen Gilbert 21:13 Jan 20, 2003 (UTC) Simple EnglishHi, I noticed you have contributed to the Simple English Wikipedia in the past. I am trying to revive it a bit as it hasn't been edited very much lately, so this is just a reminder that it's still there and you are very welcome to come and help! Yours views on what to call the "village pump" are also requested. See [1]. Thanks. Angela 11:57, 20 Aug 2003 (UTC) Press ReleaseI see you contributed to the creation of the press release. Might you be willing to follow these steps, and send off the press release? -- user:zanimum Nonviolence and WikipediaHi Yann, Nice to see someone else doing work on nonviolence on Wikipedia (mainly in French, I suspect). http://www.non-nonviolence.org looks fantastic, even through the Google translator ;-) Would you like to have a look at List of nonviolent leaders and thinkers and see who I've left out? I'd really like someone with some knowledge of nonviolence to check additions for relevance, as lists seem to attract some pretty weird edits. Would also be great if a French speaker did some work on the english version of Lanza del Vasto, as there is not much information about him in English, and I want to know more! Wikipedia:Featured picturesYann, there is an established procedure for adding images to Wikipedia:Featured pictures and Wikipedia:Featured pictures visible. I have taken the liberty to move your recent addition to candidates page. - Gaz 12:24, 28 Mar 2004 (UTC) Aloe pictureSalut! Your picture at aloe is very impressive, but I think it's the century plant, about which the "aloe" article says, "The plant called American aloe, Agave americana, belongs to a different family, Agavaceae." At least it looks exactly like the agaves that grow where I live, in New Mexico, and it doesn't look like the other aloes on that page. So maybe it belongs at the century plant article--or if not, maybe the caption needs to be changed. What do you think? --JerryFriedman 23:54, 28 Jul 2004 (UTC) Aloe pictureMerci pour la réponse. J'essayerai trouver un botaniste qui puisse nous dire si le photo montre un Aloe ou un Agave. If that makes any sense. --JerryFriedman 19:37, 30 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Untaggued ImagesYann, I have put a list of the images without cp tags at User:Yann/Untaggued Images. Have a lot of fun with them, there is only 48655 such ones (at 22/08/2004).
WikiSourceThanks for your comments: "Well, I think it would be best to improve the software, rather that to set up a separate Wikisource for each language. But that is technically much more difficult."
"I think that the aim of actual Wikisource should be broadened to images and sounds, beside texts, like the project m:Wikimedia_Commons."
Dovi 11:46, Aug 31, 2004 (UTC) Hi Yann. Thanks for your comment at the Wikisource proposal. Is there any place it is possible to read about the work being done on multilingual interface? Or someone specific who can be contacted for information? Thanks! Dovi 03:55, Sep 27, 2004 (UTC) The interwiki links you added seem invalid, there is no article at hi and gu about the Gujaarati language. -- Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 17:21, 2004 Sep 12 (UTC)
फ़्रांसीसी vs फ़्राँसीसीSo like I said on the Talk:Hindi page, I'm sure that फ़्रांसीसी is correct. I double checked to make sure before I made the edit, even. But it occured to me that, according to the rules of Devanagari as I learned them here in America, the word that you are typing would be pronounced differently than the word that I am typing. That is, फ़्राँसीसी would be pronounced frããsiisii (with a nasalized vowel), whereas फ़्रांसीसी would be pronounced fraansiisii (with a nasal consonant conjunct). And the then the reason that you find the pronunciation of the word "french" with the nasalized vowel in your french-hindi dictionary is because that pronunciation is closer to the french word français which has a nasalized vowel, and in my english dictionary, I find the pronunciation with the nasal consonant. This could be a reasonable explanation of why I find one spelling and you find another. By the way, how does your french-hindi dictionary spell the words panjabii? or english? with a nasalized vowel or with the nasal consonant? Mine spells both of those with the nasal consonant = nasal conjunct = bindu with no candra. -Lethe | Talk "Untagged images" pageGreetings! I hope you don't mind, but I've taken the liberty of making several substantial changes to User:Yann/Untagged Images. My hope is that these changes will encourage people to use the page and tag more images. Let me know what you think. (Hope I wasn't too bold.) – Quadell (talk) (help)[[]] 17:50, Dec 8, 2004 (UTC)
Untagged ImagesCan you tell me how often the Untagged Images lists are updated or, what the current state of this project is. A sample of 1 shows it was generated on the 26th August. There is now a small posse of wikipedeans using the lists and, ideally, we'd be working from fairly current lists. Any info you could let me have would be most appreciated. --Tagishsimon (talk)
Article LicensingHi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 2000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:
To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:
OR
Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk) Debian.jpgI don't know anything about that image. As I told user:Quadell: As I said in the summary, I was moving it from its place offsite (which at the time was meta.wikipedia.org--used to be, you had to upload to meta and link from there; there was no upload for en.wiki for awhile). Anyway, no, I don't think there was an upload summary on meta either; I added them to en.wiki whenever there were. I can tell you it's certainly been copyrighted; it's rather unthinkable that a corporate logo wouldn't have been, so the 'pedia should claim fair use and move on IMO. Koyaanis Qatsi 15:13, 11 Dec 2004 (UTC) Untagged ImagesAll of the images found at Genesis'88 are copyrighted by User:Wayne_Anthony. All of said images were originally created by him. You can read the history behind them at Genesis'88. I'm gonna go ahead and speak up for him (since the guy is virtually unreachable these days)and say everything is GFDL. Alkivar 00:32, 21 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Image:Paris-commune.jpgWhat software did you use to make Image:Paris-commune.jpg? Thanks. 119 06:40, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC) Copyright question on Gandhi's photoYou tagged it as a copyvio. I have a question on copyrights ... how long does a copyright extend? Clearly, the picture was taken during Gandhi's lifetime, so it should be before 1948. It is almost 57 years from that time. How long does copyright on images extend? So far as I know, after a certain time period, it becomes public domain. That's why we can use Shakespear's plays without violating its copyright. Or is it 50-60 years after the death of the artist/photographer etc? Would anyone clarify this please? Thanks --Ragib 17:21, 24 July 2005 (UTC) CloakHi, I would like to get a cloak. Can you tell at what time and which channel can I see you ? Thanks. Yann 20:54, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
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Thuresson 17:27, 12 November 2005 (UTC) extrait de la page de Notafishblocage
J'ai été bloqué sur la wikipédia francophone. Je suis 193.51.93.89 . Lorsque je veux modifier, je ne peux pas, et il y a marqué que je dois contacter un administrateur. Mais comme je suis bloqué je ne peux pas contacter d'administrateur pour prendre ma défense et demander mon déblocage : on se rend alors compte de l'absurdité injuste qu'implique un blocage. Toutefois en cherchant longuement parmi les administrateurs de la wikipédia francophone quelqu'un qui avait des pages dans d'autres wikipédia que la wikipédia francophone, j'ai fini par te trouver.
Le conflit est à propos de l'article fr:Émeutes de 2005 dans les banlieues françaises. J'y ai mis des informations sur les manifestations à venir et sur des propos célèbres de Lilian Thuram. [2] . Toutes ces informations ont été supprimées par des administrateurs qui les jugent non neutres. Pourtant ces informations sont vraies. Au sujet des manifestations, j'ai informé d'une manif de gauche, mais j'ai aussi informé de manifestations d'extrême droite. On m'accuse de vouloir faire de la promotion politique mais cela est profondément stupide car je ne peux pas être à la fois d'extrême droite et de gauche. Au sujet des propos de Lilian Thuram, il s'agit là de propos célèbres qui ont été écrits dans les journaux et entendus à la radio.
Dans les deux cas on a exigé que je mentionne des sources, ce qui est un scandale. En effet ça ne devrait pas être une obligation de mentionner des sources sur wikipédia : wikipédia se veut d'être une source et non de répéter des sources. L'intérêt de Wikipédia c'est que comme elle regroupe les informations de tous, elle peut dépasser quantitativement n'importe quel journal ou encyclopédie. Exiger des sources fait perdre son intérêt à wikipédia. Mais admettons qu'il faille mentionner des sources : D'abord je pense que quelqu'un qui veut censurer les informations devrait faire l'effort au préalable de faire des recherches. Ensuite je constate que beaucoup d'informations figurent dans l'article fr:Émeutes de 2005 dans les banlieues françaises sans que soient mentionnées leurs sources. Je pose la question : pourquoi certaines informations nécessitent des sources et d'autres pas ? Pire. Après qu'on ait exigé que je mentionne des sources, j'ai cédé et j'ai pris la peine de mentionner des sources. Malgré ça mes informations ont de nouveau été retirées. Tel un caprice, on m'a demandé de préciser encore les sources. J'ai voulu les préciser un peu plus mais j'ai été bloqué, comme si on voulait m'empêcher de préciser les sources.
Les administrateurs qui m'ont bloquée et qui ont censuré les informations que j'ai mises sont des gens partiaux et dangereux au bon développement de wikipédia. Je demande leur révocation. J'ai subi leur partialité. Je demande à être débloqué dans les plus brefs délais. Merci de m'avoir lu. Merci d'une réponse rapide, claire et responsable.
Je dois partir travailler : je ne serais pas sur wikipédia avant ce soir.
Donc si j'ai bien compris, on est passioné par le fait qu'il y ait eu 54 voitures brûlées tel jour et non pas 55, mais les propos chocs d'un membre du Haut Conseil de l'Intégration, on s'en fout. C'est brillant... J'ai lu sur la page qui explique qu'il faut citer les sources : Quand des sources extérieures sont consultées pendant l'écriture ou au cours de la vérification d'un article, il apparaît indispensable de fournir une liste de références, livres, articles, ou sites internet. 1/Je prends note du fait que les sources ne doivent être mentionnées seulement lorsque les sources extérieures sont consultées pendant l'écriture ou au cours de la vérification d'un article (il n'est donc pas systématique de devoir mentionner des sources, heureusement pour wikipédia). 2/De toute façon j'ai mentionné mes sources, alors je ne comprends pas ce qu'on me reproche. J'ai aussi lu ce que wikipédia n'est pas, et je me suis particulièrement intéressé à la partie "ne pas faire de promotion", puisque d'après ce que j'ai compris, c'est ce qu'on me reproche. J'y lis : Mais un article peut, bien sûr, rapporter objectivement ce que disent les promoteurs d'un sujet. L'article regorge de citations de Sarkozy et Cie, par contre, Lilian Thuram et les manifestations (qu'elles soient d'extrême droite ou de gauche) n'ont même pas le droit à 5 lignes. J'insiste, il y a partialité de la part des administrateurs. Au fait, puisque j'ai l'obligation de mentionner plus de sources mais que je ne peux pas mentionner plus de sources sur la wikipédia francophone, je vais mentionner deux sources supplémentaires ici même : une au sujet de Thuram et une au sujet de la manifestation. 193.51.93.89 18:05, 14 November 2005 (UTC) et toi, qu'en penses-tu ?Semi-protectionI've left this message on your Meta page as well, but I wanted to make sure you got this. At Wikipedia:Semi-protection policy, a couple users and myself are attempting to gather consensus about a possible change in editing. So as not to keep the community out of the loop, we've been posting to user talk pages, which seems to have worked. If you can add your thoughts to the talk page, it would be greatly appreciated. We've gone over a few issues, ranging from perception of anti-wiki to time limits, and recycling pagemove code, so you might want to check out #Rehashing to get up to speed. Thanks in advance, Mysekurity(have you seen this?) 21:58, 13 December 2005 (UTC) Hi Yann, I noticed that you have an interest in Gandhi and India and saw some of your contributions. You may wish to join the Hinduism WikiProject. Thanks DaGizzaChat © 20:47, 26 January 2006 (UTC) I have doubts about GFDL license. You wrote it was 'scanned by you' - scanning does not make you author, so the question is: what is source license? A.J. 14:02, 14 February 2006 (UTC) Invitation and Recommendations for writing articles on Hindi Wikipedia
Thank you, Cygnus_hansa 00:01, 6 June 2006 (UTC) A panel about wikipedia - sister projectsHi, I am assembling a panel of 5 that will talk about wikipedia in general. I am planing of making of covering it in 5 topics:
The panel will be a part of a more general Internet conferance that will be held 21-23 December 2006 in Ankara, Turkey. I am looking for a person to cover the "sister projects" topic. And I was told that you would be an approporate person for the job. --Cat out 05:03, 16 October 2006 (UTC) Unspecified source for Image:Ganesh.jpgThanks for uploading Image:Ganesh.jpg. I notice the file's description page currently doesn't specify who created the content, so the copyright status is unclear. If you have not created this file yourself, then there needs to be a justification explaining why we have the right to use it on Wikipedia (see copyright tagging below). If you did not create the file yourself, then you need to specify where it was found, i.e., in most cases link to the website where it was taken from, and the terms of use for content from that page. If the file also doesn't have a copyright tag, then one should be added. 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 18:23, 4 January 2007 (UTC). If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. Fred-Chess 18:23, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
xml 2 html help??Hi Yann, I was directed to you by BirgitteSB. I have a query regarding converting wikipedia xml to html without using the wikimedia software suite. I have tried using the perl module Text::MediawikiFormat but it doesnt deal with some of the fiddlier bits of xml. She suggested you had directed her to some code for doing this? any help pointing me in the right direction much appreciated Jennifer 09:47, 11 May 2007 (UTC) Sanskrit WikipediaHi Yann, I see that you are administrator for sa.wikipedia. There are some articles in the sa:वर्गः:Delete now. --Jorunn 16:44, 12 May 2007 (UTC) WikiProject FranceHello! We are a group of editors working to improve the quality of France related articles. You look like someone who might be interested in joining us in the France WikiProject and so I thought I'd drop you a line and invite you! We'd love to have you in our project :-) STTW (talk) 10:46, 4 June 2007 (UTC) Wikimedia foundation board elections.[Elections] Hi Yann. I am backing you for the upcoming elections, and hope you win. You seem good, and hope you make it. Good luck! Christine118500 16:09, 16 June 2007 (UTC) [WMF BOD election] Good Luck! I voted for you. Jerry 02:30, 29 June 2007 (UTC) Thanks for standing in the election - you're the only candidate I voted for. -- Jeandré, 2007-06-29t09:28z Welcome to WikiProject France--STTW (talk) 10:35, 25 June 2007 (UTC) re: Ghandi chronologiesSorry, but the articles you references are copied directly from http://www.gandhiserve.org/ as I'm sure you're aware. While repeating a list of basic data (like statistics) would not be a copyright violation, you cannot copy entire sentences written on another Web site. You would have to write about the events in your own words. Thanks! --Spike Wilbury ♫ talk 20:32, 19 July 2007 (UTC) Dear Yann,
Dear Yann,
Speedy deletion of Georges DumasA tag has been placed on Georges Dumas requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a person or group of people, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is notable: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not indicate the subject's importance or significance may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable, as well as our subject-specific notability guideline for biographies. If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding Proposed deletion of Christopher BusbyA proposed deletion template has been added to the article Christopher Busby, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but this article may not satisfy Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and the deletion notice should explain why (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised because even though removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, the article may still be deleted if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria or it can be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. Verbal chat 17:35, 2 October 2008 (UTC) AfD nomination of Christopher BusbyI have nominated Christopher Busby, an article you created, for deletion. I do not think that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Christopher Busby. Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time. Verbal chat 19:27, 2 October 2008 (UTC) Verbal chat 19:27, 2 October 2008 (UTC) Request for help on Eugene O'Neill conflictAs someone who has contributed to the Eugene O'Neill article, perhaps you would be willing to look at the (rather one-sided) discussion on that article's talk page regarding Emerson7's deletion of cited materials, Ah, Wilderness NOT O'Neill's only comedy. I would like to have a Request for Comment process initiated, but must have at least one other editor to have contributed to the discussion before an RfC can be started. Thank you. Monkeyzpop (talk) 20:54, 22 February 2009 (UTC)
Speedy deletion nomination of Helen and Judith of SzonyA tag has been placed on Helen and Judith of Szony requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a person or group of people, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable, as well as our subject-specific notability guideline for biographies. If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding Tallahassee flagHello, Yann. I believe you recently removed File:Tallyflag850.jpg from Wikimedia as a copyvio. The current file is now stored locally, but still seems to be a copyvio. It's being used in the Tallahassee, Florida article. I recently had this interchange with the author:
I would be grateful if you would take care of this issue as appropriate. Thanks. Tim Ross (talk) 10:17, 10 August 2009 (UTC) Champs ElyseesTo be honest I very much expect that it would fail in its current condition. While the size and resolution are sufficient, it has high encyclopedic value - illustrating many articles in important ways, and it is an attractive image, it also has faults. The dirt and fading in a number of the corners will count against it, as will the fingerprint in the middle. A high standard has been set for such images, and it is expected that they will be in the best condition possible, and this often means doing minor restoration work. I suggest you look at some of the restoration that User:Durova has done. I haven't had the time or ability to do so for this image, and thus have withdrawn it and left it to the side. If you're committed to restoring it, and can download and work with GIMP (a free editing software) or have Photoshop (both tend to require reasonable processing power), then I'd encourage you to talk to Durova. She is often happy to help teach the basics of restoration to users. I hope this helps! Mostlyharmless (talk) 02:32, 19 September 2009 (UTC) |