Please do not edit this page
Paul Mowatt regularly shows and sells his work through our gallery (Connor contemporary) here in DC, and I was somewhat upset by comments made (which I think stemmed from you, but apologies if this is not the case) recently claiming that he was not "noteworthy" His work has also been published here in the Washington post, and was used in the "century of the designer" exhibition at the Smithsonian institute. (that's how we found him)
From mt last email from him I know that he is currently showing at the "blue flag" gallery in London. And has photograped a series of landscapes of Surrey for the "Petersham collection" in the UK which will be on show at the South bank centre next Spring. (we will be hoping to repeat a percentage of the works here to show for the end of 2008)
He had to give up his Website showcasing his work and his bio due to the interest and intrusion into his family life and his obvious family connections, hence, as little about him as possible is available online for the simple reason that he maintains his privacy and protects his Children.
Many thanks
Caroline
Hi Hoary,
I think that it may me that you could check out Jackie Wald at Camera Press, as they are the company that represent his work worldwide, (their office based in London), I don't think you can view the site without passwords, but it may just give you an indication as to whether he is "noteworthy" or not, as you can imagine, you only get into Camera press if you are any good ! and he has been with them for 15 years, most of his portrait work ends up with them ... I don't know, it's tricky, as he recently shut down his website due to a spate of rather personal attacks on him, his work and his Family, something that is currently being investigated by the relevant authorities. He has very little on websites, and most of his work thesedays is either portrait work or "art" pics usually found hanging in galleries, so I think it only fair to say that his fashion work is less and less by his own choice, and therefore harder to find on the web.
I was with him in London the other night, and told him of the changes being made on this Wikipedia, his main concern was not so much about whether or not he is "credible" or "noteworthy" as a photographer, he was more concerned about comments made about his Family life and the effect it has on his Children, and that any comments made are factual and not deliberately "gossipy" or untrue. He is fiercely protective of his children, and as you can imagine they have to put up with a lot of stick about who their Grandmother is, who and how and why they are related to the Queen etc ...... You see, he and his ex wife Marina have brought up their two Children to be as "normal" as possible, without the glare of the media, but unfortunately they both find this impossible due to regular media attention, and now that their Daughter has reached 16 the focus shifts to her and so Ma and Pa are even more protective......
I and my colleagues may be slightly biased as we know him and his ex wife, and I also represent him to clients back in the States, and I therefore can fully appreciate your cynicism, but I do follow what you are saying, and believe in this instance that he deserves no more or no less than he has already had listed on Wikipedia, he himself would not want to be seen up there listed as a photographer with some of his heroes, he wouldn't think he was worthy ! ... but he will, as someone pointed out, always be known, thanks to his contribution for shaking up the stuffy old Royal Family and turning them on their heads ! !
Back to the photography, he would like to point out that whilst he has had various "one man shows" and contributed to numerous "multi" shows, he has not yet had his "own" book published. Editorially he has contributed to many magazines, and is really known for his Black+White pics of celebrities ......
So Hoary, apart from posting you some shots of his work ( the permissable ones ) and you checking out Camera Press, or even emailing them or Richard Kay of the Daily Mail ( a notable Daily national newspaper in England ! ) I can say no more ! ....... Though the one comment you made to a user "Gino" (i think) was that you said that you would "rather know Mr Mowatts photography rather than his connection to the family" is probably one Paul and certainly I would agree with !!!
Best Regards
Caroline
PS : I was trying to edit out some of Mowatt's work which has just started appearing on Wikipedia, unfortunately there is a serious copyright issue with these shots, as there is a dispute with Mowatt and the client (Aertex) over the usage, Mowatt owns copyright and client uses without permission etc ...... But everytime I edit it out for him somebody puts it back ... can you please advise me on that one ? ..... seems strange that as his profile is being discussed for deletion someone is posting segments of his work !
Posted by User:Blowtorch77 in this edit
I re-proded his article at the time because I didn't know you were allowed to remove them; I thought neither could be removed until an admin looked them over: it does show in Wikipedia:Template messages/User talk namespace warnings for removing both Proposed deletion and speedy delete, so I was just following what I felt was procedure. HalfShadow 16:36, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
Please see the following page in relation to our discussion regarding my survey. user:geraldckane/feedbackrequest I'd appreciate your feedback before I continue my work. -- geraldckane 16:08, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
Yeah, that's unusual. I have some OTRS-admin stuff to do today, so I'll take a look at that ticket as well when I get a chance. Jkelly 16:54, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
As I know you are interested in lists of works, I was wondering if you would comment on List of works by Joseph Priestley at its featured list candidacy. Thanks. Awadewit | talk 18:00, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
It was my pleasure Ariel♥ Gold 11:27, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
I read somewhere that admins can delete profiles (or block completely... can't remember which) of inappropriate user names? I was just wondering, since I saw you either block or deny an unblock to User talk:Chinese people are arseholes.. those in my school, that is, would it be appropriate to block indefinitely (if he hasn't already been) this user for having an inappropriate username? Apologies if this situation has been dealt with accordingly and/or I am out of place in saying so. All the best. Scarian Talk 11:43, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
Thank you Hoary for your comments and notes on the Kevin Ayers entry. They were extremely useful and I have hopefully corrected them all. I think the update should have been done offline and reviewed carefully before uploading but full praise to your eagle eyes. I must say with all the edits and purges you suggested it reads way better. Reminds of my favorite English teacher who was a stickler for correct grammar. How I thank him now. Anyway, thanks again for your vigilance and taking the trouble to go through it. ... added at 01:29, 1 August 2007 by Yahoogiddix
Your comments were dead-on. Well done. deeceevoice 08:23, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
....ly ridiculous. And our earlier exchange was oversighted--you know what I'm talking about. This is a pretty good laugh, frankly. KP Botany 21:36, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
It was one of those tough calls we admins sometimes have to make. :-) Pascal.Tesson 04:30, 4 August 2007 (UTC)
This one was quite a team effort. I thank you for your help. You may want to post this on your user page:
This user helped promote Chicago Board of Trade Building to featured article status. |
-- TonyTheTiger ( t/ c/ bio/ tcfkaWCDbwincowtchatlotpsoplrttaDCLaM) 22:19, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
WikiProject Japan Barnsensu Award | ||
I hereby award this Barnsensu to you, Hoary, in recognition of your tireless work in improving Japan-related articles in general. I also want to recognize your work in cleaning up Japan-related articles, including participation in deletion, merge, and other related discussions. Even though we tend to clash, I think you are doing a great job, and I appreciate all the hard work you do. Thanks, and please keep it up. (^_^) |
··· 日本穣 ? · Talk to Nihonjoe 07:11, 7 August 2007 (UTC)
I was wondering if you'd give this a look over prior to a FAC nomination. I spent many days fixing the refs, which were a complete mess. I think what it needs now are: lead reworked, perhaps shorten lead, good copyedit, cut some prose (has 60K prose but over 110K with refs, templates, etc), but I'm having trouble with those parts. Thanks for any help. Rlevse 10:04, 7 August 2007 (UTC)
Any more issues we should work before we nom for FAC? Rlevse 02:47, 10 August 2007 (UTC)
OK, we'll nom it when you think it's ready. Rlevse 10:12, 10 August 2007 (UTC)
Based on your afd comment on the politician, I prodded [2] checked a few, this one had almost zero career. Let's see.... DGG ( talk) 03:39, 8 August 2007 (UTC)
I've no doubt it was well intentioned, but please don't remove stuff from my talk page - however inane it might be. Calr 11:49, 8 August 2007 (UTC)
Hi! I'm not sure if it helps. Their name in Japanese was チャールズ・タトル商会 and if I remember correctly, now タトル商会. They do 版権仲介 too. I do not know what to say it in English. It's something kike this:they bring books/manuscripts in English to Japanese publishing companies like 新潮社, 講談社, 文芸春秋社, 早川書房, etc. and ask them if they want to publish them in Japanese. If they want, they pay the 版権料 through Tuttle to the US publishers and publish the books.-- Oda Mari 16:25, 9 August 2007 (UTC)
Hello there friend, I come in peace. I noticed you've recently had a problem with a vandal named: 71.60.63.183 and whilst this guy is clearly a pleb, I thought I'd show you an article that may help you in the fight against vandalism. Also do you use any anti-vandal tools such as "AVT" or "Twinkle". Ryan4314 15:34, 10 August 2007 (UTC)
Thanks Hoary, I only just spotted your edit here [3] by chance. why on earth don't these boring bloody people just bugger off and find something useful to do? Giano 21:39, 10 August 2007 (UTC)
Nope. I thought of merging them. An anon is the one who thought of deleting it. Nice day Brusegadi 07:08, 12 August 2007 (UTC)
That is not up for me to decide; I did the closure on behalf of an OTRS agent. MessedRocker ( talk) 15:28, 12 August 2007 (UTC)
I love Wikipedia.... one minute, I'm part of a cabal, the next, I'm a vandal. FWIW, User:DAJF got hit with the same warning, so, I am not too offended. Neier 02:22, 13 August 2007 (UTC)
Our beating a dead horse department pipes up to point out that any poll would also be biased toward the readership of japantoday.com, a site whose "picture of the day" is captioned Actress Yukie Nakama, 27, holds a new "Nano care" hair dryer by National at a press conference on Tuesday. Along with the hair dryer, National will market an ion face steamer and dryer starting in September. (Stirring stuff!)
lol. You made my day with that quote, Hoary. :-) It was both funny and spot-on. I'd give you a barnstar, but I don't have time today to make one. Best, J Readings 11:43, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
The Barnstar of Great Humour | ||
For being so amazingly funny and radiant, helping lightening the mood whenever there's a discussion. ··· 巌流 ? · talk to ganryuu 12:34, 22 August 2007 (UTC) |
Thanks for doing the translation to a "cliffs notes" version on the Tokyo page. I've actually got some issues with User:Sasanoha's actions as well, but all my attempts to get the person to discuss them have completely been ignored. This seems to be the standard, looking over the talk page. Your notice to the user on their talk page was ignored as well. As you may have more background into this user than I do, I'd like to ask you to look into a few things. (Sorry this ended up being long)
First, I noticed while updating the STS-118 page during the mission, that Sasanoha removed an image without any explanation whatsoever. The image was valid and helpful, so I reverted the removal in good faith, and asked the user to provide an explanation for the removal. Additionally, the user removed a valid period at the end of a sentence, and added an image of the STS-118 launch to the 2007 page, so I reviewed the article, and noticed that the image was an extremely low-quality screen capture, so I replaced it with a high quality image from Commons, and also noticed the poor quality image of STS-117 launch, so I replaced that with a higher quality one as well. The user then reverted my changes, replacing both images with extremely low-quality screen-capture images, and then removing one of the images completely. I again requested a reason, as again the edit summary had no information regarding the reason for such changes (it should be noted that I did provide a "size" parameter, so the size should not have been of any issue, as it was directed by Wikipedia). Wikipedia should use higher quality images, and I'm not even sure if a user's screen capture from an online video can pass the copyright test (it very well may, I just don't know).
It is obvious the user does know English, as evident in this edit summary, where this user reverted a change after specifically being requested to discuss their changes, and even called you a vandal here after you (validly) reverted their edits. My concerns are many more, including the edit warring going on with this user, and with the fact that the user simply seems to not care what anyone else may think, and feels they can ignore anyone's objections. I really think this needs to be looked into, but as I'm not familiar with the history of this Tokyo image issue, so I can't say for sure what the Tokyo issue is. What I surmise is that this user, for some reason, objects to any high quality images because they are too "big" or perhaps because they are on a poor internet connection, thus making load times high. So the user goes and replaces them with other, sometimes poor quality images. However, over the past two weeks, this user has disrupted Wikipedia in a variety of ways, refused to discuss their actions on their talk pages, despite multiple requests to do so, and only seems to be going in circles on the Tokyo talk page. I'd really like to know what should be suggested, and you seem to be very knowledgeable about the Tokyo article, as well as being able to understand the user's comments, so perhaps you could review it? Again, my most sincere apologies for the length, I hope you'll forgive it. Ariel♥ Gold 10:40, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
Bleh, I had hoped it would not come to that. I left an additional request on the page, carefully wording it so it explained the current reasons (right or wrong, they're how it is done currently) and requesting the user to engage in discussion again, but ugh. I feel bad. Don't get me wrong, you did the right thing, no question it was disruptive, I just wonder if the user has such a limited English knowledge that discussions aren't helpful, and yet even trying Japanese did not seem to work, so I dunno... ~*Sigh*~ Ariel♥ Gold 14:09, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
That RfA is in the past, I don't expect to complete another one. Any animosity about that is gone, though I am still prone to throw out an occasional "jerks at RfA" comment here and there, which I am sure has helped win me friends and influence people. ;) I think a short break with more limited in scope activity will help me refocus, and maybe I can sort out this whole Black Hawk War thing. Thanks for your kind words, and I no worries about the last RfA, I don't even remember but a few specifics anyway, and none from you at all. IvoShandor 09:45, 24 August 2007 (UTC)
But, if, while your ship is going down, you hold your breath, until you turn blue you might supercede yourself.... KP Botany 01:17, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
Yeah... I know. Yesterday I really did think that I got through to him, using just hand-written notes. Sad it turned out this way, but he had that coming, for sure. I didn't want to just report him yesterday when I could have, and he seemed open to dialog, so I chose that route instead of reporting. But, ah well, my faith in mankind is again shattered. Such is life. Thanks again as always, for being there. Ariel♥ Gold 13:56, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
I can't follow the instructions for an AfD--you know us blue bloods and that interbreeding!
User:Theresa knott feels there is no evidence these are ads in spite of the fact that they were all created by single purpose accounts, contain almost identical text, were created by accounts that edited solely these articles over a period of two days, and have done nothing else on Wikipedia. So, let's discuss the crap, but I would appreciate if you would do the nomination, because I'm personally sick of wasting my time to have somebody who can't be bothered to even look at something dismiss what I've bothered to do.
KP Botany 00:20, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
Ah, I don't care. I hate editing Wikipedia. All the benefit and all the good faith goes 100% to pure shit editors and spammers. I spend hours finding sources for botanical articles, and Elsevier creates dozens of spam articles and they're the heroes. What a waste of my time. KP Botany 01:24, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
Granted, I've met my share of truck drivers, but if the "f word" isn't "profanity", then I think maybe I didn't meet enough truck drivers? What words are out there that I'm clueless on that would be profanity? . Ariel♥ Gold 14:25, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
Please do not edit this page
Paul Mowatt regularly shows and sells his work through our gallery (Connor contemporary) here in DC, and I was somewhat upset by comments made (which I think stemmed from you, but apologies if this is not the case) recently claiming that he was not "noteworthy" His work has also been published here in the Washington post, and was used in the "century of the designer" exhibition at the Smithsonian institute. (that's how we found him)
From mt last email from him I know that he is currently showing at the "blue flag" gallery in London. And has photograped a series of landscapes of Surrey for the "Petersham collection" in the UK which will be on show at the South bank centre next Spring. (we will be hoping to repeat a percentage of the works here to show for the end of 2008)
He had to give up his Website showcasing his work and his bio due to the interest and intrusion into his family life and his obvious family connections, hence, as little about him as possible is available online for the simple reason that he maintains his privacy and protects his Children.
Many thanks
Caroline
Hi Hoary,
I think that it may me that you could check out Jackie Wald at Camera Press, as they are the company that represent his work worldwide, (their office based in London), I don't think you can view the site without passwords, but it may just give you an indication as to whether he is "noteworthy" or not, as you can imagine, you only get into Camera press if you are any good ! and he has been with them for 15 years, most of his portrait work ends up with them ... I don't know, it's tricky, as he recently shut down his website due to a spate of rather personal attacks on him, his work and his Family, something that is currently being investigated by the relevant authorities. He has very little on websites, and most of his work thesedays is either portrait work or "art" pics usually found hanging in galleries, so I think it only fair to say that his fashion work is less and less by his own choice, and therefore harder to find on the web.
I was with him in London the other night, and told him of the changes being made on this Wikipedia, his main concern was not so much about whether or not he is "credible" or "noteworthy" as a photographer, he was more concerned about comments made about his Family life and the effect it has on his Children, and that any comments made are factual and not deliberately "gossipy" or untrue. He is fiercely protective of his children, and as you can imagine they have to put up with a lot of stick about who their Grandmother is, who and how and why they are related to the Queen etc ...... You see, he and his ex wife Marina have brought up their two Children to be as "normal" as possible, without the glare of the media, but unfortunately they both find this impossible due to regular media attention, and now that their Daughter has reached 16 the focus shifts to her and so Ma and Pa are even more protective......
I and my colleagues may be slightly biased as we know him and his ex wife, and I also represent him to clients back in the States, and I therefore can fully appreciate your cynicism, but I do follow what you are saying, and believe in this instance that he deserves no more or no less than he has already had listed on Wikipedia, he himself would not want to be seen up there listed as a photographer with some of his heroes, he wouldn't think he was worthy ! ... but he will, as someone pointed out, always be known, thanks to his contribution for shaking up the stuffy old Royal Family and turning them on their heads ! !
Back to the photography, he would like to point out that whilst he has had various "one man shows" and contributed to numerous "multi" shows, he has not yet had his "own" book published. Editorially he has contributed to many magazines, and is really known for his Black+White pics of celebrities ......
So Hoary, apart from posting you some shots of his work ( the permissable ones ) and you checking out Camera Press, or even emailing them or Richard Kay of the Daily Mail ( a notable Daily national newspaper in England ! ) I can say no more ! ....... Though the one comment you made to a user "Gino" (i think) was that you said that you would "rather know Mr Mowatts photography rather than his connection to the family" is probably one Paul and certainly I would agree with !!!
Best Regards
Caroline
PS : I was trying to edit out some of Mowatt's work which has just started appearing on Wikipedia, unfortunately there is a serious copyright issue with these shots, as there is a dispute with Mowatt and the client (Aertex) over the usage, Mowatt owns copyright and client uses without permission etc ...... But everytime I edit it out for him somebody puts it back ... can you please advise me on that one ? ..... seems strange that as his profile is being discussed for deletion someone is posting segments of his work !
Posted by User:Blowtorch77 in this edit
I re-proded his article at the time because I didn't know you were allowed to remove them; I thought neither could be removed until an admin looked them over: it does show in Wikipedia:Template messages/User talk namespace warnings for removing both Proposed deletion and speedy delete, so I was just following what I felt was procedure. HalfShadow 16:36, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
Please see the following page in relation to our discussion regarding my survey. user:geraldckane/feedbackrequest I'd appreciate your feedback before I continue my work. -- geraldckane 16:08, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
Yeah, that's unusual. I have some OTRS-admin stuff to do today, so I'll take a look at that ticket as well when I get a chance. Jkelly 16:54, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
As I know you are interested in lists of works, I was wondering if you would comment on List of works by Joseph Priestley at its featured list candidacy. Thanks. Awadewit | talk 18:00, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
It was my pleasure Ariel♥ Gold 11:27, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
I read somewhere that admins can delete profiles (or block completely... can't remember which) of inappropriate user names? I was just wondering, since I saw you either block or deny an unblock to User talk:Chinese people are arseholes.. those in my school, that is, would it be appropriate to block indefinitely (if he hasn't already been) this user for having an inappropriate username? Apologies if this situation has been dealt with accordingly and/or I am out of place in saying so. All the best. Scarian Talk 11:43, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
Thank you Hoary for your comments and notes on the Kevin Ayers entry. They were extremely useful and I have hopefully corrected them all. I think the update should have been done offline and reviewed carefully before uploading but full praise to your eagle eyes. I must say with all the edits and purges you suggested it reads way better. Reminds of my favorite English teacher who was a stickler for correct grammar. How I thank him now. Anyway, thanks again for your vigilance and taking the trouble to go through it. ... added at 01:29, 1 August 2007 by Yahoogiddix
Your comments were dead-on. Well done. deeceevoice 08:23, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
....ly ridiculous. And our earlier exchange was oversighted--you know what I'm talking about. This is a pretty good laugh, frankly. KP Botany 21:36, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
It was one of those tough calls we admins sometimes have to make. :-) Pascal.Tesson 04:30, 4 August 2007 (UTC)
This one was quite a team effort. I thank you for your help. You may want to post this on your user page:
This user helped promote Chicago Board of Trade Building to featured article status. |
-- TonyTheTiger ( t/ c/ bio/ tcfkaWCDbwincowtchatlotpsoplrttaDCLaM) 22:19, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
WikiProject Japan Barnsensu Award | ||
I hereby award this Barnsensu to you, Hoary, in recognition of your tireless work in improving Japan-related articles in general. I also want to recognize your work in cleaning up Japan-related articles, including participation in deletion, merge, and other related discussions. Even though we tend to clash, I think you are doing a great job, and I appreciate all the hard work you do. Thanks, and please keep it up. (^_^) |
··· 日本穣 ? · Talk to Nihonjoe 07:11, 7 August 2007 (UTC)
I was wondering if you'd give this a look over prior to a FAC nomination. I spent many days fixing the refs, which were a complete mess. I think what it needs now are: lead reworked, perhaps shorten lead, good copyedit, cut some prose (has 60K prose but over 110K with refs, templates, etc), but I'm having trouble with those parts. Thanks for any help. Rlevse 10:04, 7 August 2007 (UTC)
Any more issues we should work before we nom for FAC? Rlevse 02:47, 10 August 2007 (UTC)
OK, we'll nom it when you think it's ready. Rlevse 10:12, 10 August 2007 (UTC)
Based on your afd comment on the politician, I prodded [2] checked a few, this one had almost zero career. Let's see.... DGG ( talk) 03:39, 8 August 2007 (UTC)
I've no doubt it was well intentioned, but please don't remove stuff from my talk page - however inane it might be. Calr 11:49, 8 August 2007 (UTC)
Hi! I'm not sure if it helps. Their name in Japanese was チャールズ・タトル商会 and if I remember correctly, now タトル商会. They do 版権仲介 too. I do not know what to say it in English. It's something kike this:they bring books/manuscripts in English to Japanese publishing companies like 新潮社, 講談社, 文芸春秋社, 早川書房, etc. and ask them if they want to publish them in Japanese. If they want, they pay the 版権料 through Tuttle to the US publishers and publish the books.-- Oda Mari 16:25, 9 August 2007 (UTC)
Hello there friend, I come in peace. I noticed you've recently had a problem with a vandal named: 71.60.63.183 and whilst this guy is clearly a pleb, I thought I'd show you an article that may help you in the fight against vandalism. Also do you use any anti-vandal tools such as "AVT" or "Twinkle". Ryan4314 15:34, 10 August 2007 (UTC)
Thanks Hoary, I only just spotted your edit here [3] by chance. why on earth don't these boring bloody people just bugger off and find something useful to do? Giano 21:39, 10 August 2007 (UTC)
Nope. I thought of merging them. An anon is the one who thought of deleting it. Nice day Brusegadi 07:08, 12 August 2007 (UTC)
That is not up for me to decide; I did the closure on behalf of an OTRS agent. MessedRocker ( talk) 15:28, 12 August 2007 (UTC)
I love Wikipedia.... one minute, I'm part of a cabal, the next, I'm a vandal. FWIW, User:DAJF got hit with the same warning, so, I am not too offended. Neier 02:22, 13 August 2007 (UTC)
Our beating a dead horse department pipes up to point out that any poll would also be biased toward the readership of japantoday.com, a site whose "picture of the day" is captioned Actress Yukie Nakama, 27, holds a new "Nano care" hair dryer by National at a press conference on Tuesday. Along with the hair dryer, National will market an ion face steamer and dryer starting in September. (Stirring stuff!)
lol. You made my day with that quote, Hoary. :-) It was both funny and spot-on. I'd give you a barnstar, but I don't have time today to make one. Best, J Readings 11:43, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
The Barnstar of Great Humour | ||
For being so amazingly funny and radiant, helping lightening the mood whenever there's a discussion. ··· 巌流 ? · talk to ganryuu 12:34, 22 August 2007 (UTC) |
Thanks for doing the translation to a "cliffs notes" version on the Tokyo page. I've actually got some issues with User:Sasanoha's actions as well, but all my attempts to get the person to discuss them have completely been ignored. This seems to be the standard, looking over the talk page. Your notice to the user on their talk page was ignored as well. As you may have more background into this user than I do, I'd like to ask you to look into a few things. (Sorry this ended up being long)
First, I noticed while updating the STS-118 page during the mission, that Sasanoha removed an image without any explanation whatsoever. The image was valid and helpful, so I reverted the removal in good faith, and asked the user to provide an explanation for the removal. Additionally, the user removed a valid period at the end of a sentence, and added an image of the STS-118 launch to the 2007 page, so I reviewed the article, and noticed that the image was an extremely low-quality screen capture, so I replaced it with a high quality image from Commons, and also noticed the poor quality image of STS-117 launch, so I replaced that with a higher quality one as well. The user then reverted my changes, replacing both images with extremely low-quality screen-capture images, and then removing one of the images completely. I again requested a reason, as again the edit summary had no information regarding the reason for such changes (it should be noted that I did provide a "size" parameter, so the size should not have been of any issue, as it was directed by Wikipedia). Wikipedia should use higher quality images, and I'm not even sure if a user's screen capture from an online video can pass the copyright test (it very well may, I just don't know).
It is obvious the user does know English, as evident in this edit summary, where this user reverted a change after specifically being requested to discuss their changes, and even called you a vandal here after you (validly) reverted their edits. My concerns are many more, including the edit warring going on with this user, and with the fact that the user simply seems to not care what anyone else may think, and feels they can ignore anyone's objections. I really think this needs to be looked into, but as I'm not familiar with the history of this Tokyo image issue, so I can't say for sure what the Tokyo issue is. What I surmise is that this user, for some reason, objects to any high quality images because they are too "big" or perhaps because they are on a poor internet connection, thus making load times high. So the user goes and replaces them with other, sometimes poor quality images. However, over the past two weeks, this user has disrupted Wikipedia in a variety of ways, refused to discuss their actions on their talk pages, despite multiple requests to do so, and only seems to be going in circles on the Tokyo talk page. I'd really like to know what should be suggested, and you seem to be very knowledgeable about the Tokyo article, as well as being able to understand the user's comments, so perhaps you could review it? Again, my most sincere apologies for the length, I hope you'll forgive it. Ariel♥ Gold 10:40, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
Bleh, I had hoped it would not come to that. I left an additional request on the page, carefully wording it so it explained the current reasons (right or wrong, they're how it is done currently) and requesting the user to engage in discussion again, but ugh. I feel bad. Don't get me wrong, you did the right thing, no question it was disruptive, I just wonder if the user has such a limited English knowledge that discussions aren't helpful, and yet even trying Japanese did not seem to work, so I dunno... ~*Sigh*~ Ariel♥ Gold 14:09, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
That RfA is in the past, I don't expect to complete another one. Any animosity about that is gone, though I am still prone to throw out an occasional "jerks at RfA" comment here and there, which I am sure has helped win me friends and influence people. ;) I think a short break with more limited in scope activity will help me refocus, and maybe I can sort out this whole Black Hawk War thing. Thanks for your kind words, and I no worries about the last RfA, I don't even remember but a few specifics anyway, and none from you at all. IvoShandor 09:45, 24 August 2007 (UTC)
But, if, while your ship is going down, you hold your breath, until you turn blue you might supercede yourself.... KP Botany 01:17, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
Yeah... I know. Yesterday I really did think that I got through to him, using just hand-written notes. Sad it turned out this way, but he had that coming, for sure. I didn't want to just report him yesterday when I could have, and he seemed open to dialog, so I chose that route instead of reporting. But, ah well, my faith in mankind is again shattered. Such is life. Thanks again as always, for being there. Ariel♥ Gold 13:56, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
I can't follow the instructions for an AfD--you know us blue bloods and that interbreeding!
User:Theresa knott feels there is no evidence these are ads in spite of the fact that they were all created by single purpose accounts, contain almost identical text, were created by accounts that edited solely these articles over a period of two days, and have done nothing else on Wikipedia. So, let's discuss the crap, but I would appreciate if you would do the nomination, because I'm personally sick of wasting my time to have somebody who can't be bothered to even look at something dismiss what I've bothered to do.
KP Botany 00:20, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
Ah, I don't care. I hate editing Wikipedia. All the benefit and all the good faith goes 100% to pure shit editors and spammers. I spend hours finding sources for botanical articles, and Elsevier creates dozens of spam articles and they're the heroes. What a waste of my time. KP Botany 01:24, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
Granted, I've met my share of truck drivers, but if the "f word" isn't "profanity", then I think maybe I didn't meet enough truck drivers? What words are out there that I'm clueless on that would be profanity? . Ariel♥ Gold 14:25, 26 August 2007 (UTC)