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Cley Marshes has three supports at FAC, so if there are no opposes I would expect it to go through fairly soon. North Norfolk Coast Site of Special Scientific Interest has had two useful reviews, but neither reviewer has felt able to go further with a crossover article. When/if the Cley article finishes at FAC, I'm tempted to thank the reviewers, pull the Cley article from the milhist assessment and take it to FAC. Is there a procedure to do this? Thanks Jimfbleak - talk to me? 06:11, 1 September 2012 (UTC)
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Thank you - not just for your support but also for your edits and coming back and supporting again - it was really good for the confidence to have such an experienced FA'er backing the article. :) Fayedizard ( talk) 14:40, 3 September 2012 (UTC) |
Now at FAC, could you please do whatever needs to be done at A review? Thanks again, Jimfbleak - talk to me? 17:14, 3 September 2012 (UTC)
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Thanks for the SSSI ce and review. Meanwhile, back in Norfolk... My usual source for milhist in the SSSI has let me down at Holkham, revealing only the Iron Age fort and some WWII scaffolding (whatever that means — barbed wire etc?). However, the reserve guide says that "Unexploded bombs and live ammunition" are still occasionally found throughout the Reserve. A quick Google casts no light on this. Any suggestions of sources that may be available to a non-specialist, or do you think I should just say what the guide says without further elaboration? Jimfbleak - talk to me? 07:53, 5 September 2012 (UTC)
Hey. Honestly, I think the (qualified) yea or nay on PC/2 would have been easier to come by if the general scope of PC had been determined first. You advised me to hold my (dead) horses for a week, then struck that (???), and now we're faced with a situation where if the numbers hold up the first RfC will end in deadlock, with persuasive arguments as well as even numbers on both sides of the divide. The common thread I'm seeing among supporters and opposers is concern that PC/2 has the potential to cause harm if applied in certain cases or without strict safeguards. The stringent criteria I proposed earlier might be a starting point for coming up with those safeguards and hammering out a compromise, although I don't foresee many opposers changing their minds on this point. I haven't decided yet how to !vote—or even if I will—but may I suggest that you go ahead and state any concrete ideas you have about a third option?
Btw, over the past couple weeks I have checked out all of the Wikimania videos and watched several in their entirety. Very interesting in places, including the editor engagement presentation you linked to earlier today, but I'm a little surprised at never hearing the phrase "pending changes" in all the hours of uploads I've watched. Frankly, there's something elephant-in-the-room-ish about the WMF discussing barnstars and tea houses and antiquated GUIs vis-à-vis engaging newbies while something with the potential to drive newbies away en masse waits in the wings. Rivertorch ( talk) 08:31, 6 September 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for message on talk page Tom B ( talk) 14:57, 6 September 2012 (UTC)
Can I suggest that we not do a comparison with the previous RfC? There are a number of people who complained loudly about the previous format, but frankly, I saw plenty of responses to each others comments (just not in a threaded manner, until near the end of the RfC period) and I can't imagine anyone didn't get a chance to say whatever they wanted to say. As I mentioned previously, it was also a lot easier to follow, with new comments being added to a limited number of places. It doesn't seem useful to stir the pot with a "my RfC is better than yours" discussion, especially since it doesn't really matter while in mid-discussion. (A post-mortem afterwards might be better, but since the scope of participants (at least at the moment) is quite different, I'm not sure clear conclusions can be drawn.) isaacl ( talk) 02:50, 7 September 2012 (UTC)
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Hi Dank, I saw you're the lead coordinator for the Military History Wikiproject and I had a quick question I hoped you could help me with. I wasn't sure where to ask in the wikiproject but here goes... I noticed that the Jason D. Cunningham and Neil Roberts wikipages were deleted per WP:GNG, WP:MILPEOPLE and WP:ONEEVENT. I noticed the article on Monica Lin Brown fails those same criteria and more since she only received a Silver Star for one event. Jason even received a more notable award, the Air Force Cross, and had a more developed wikipage but also just for one event. Wouldn't her page also go up for AfD for the exact same reasons? Anywho, thank you for any assistance you can provide. dain talk 17:30, 7 September 2012 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Village_pump_(idea_lab)#Using_stylometry_and_statistical_methods_to_identify_sock-puppets sounds like it might interest you. WhatamIdoing ( talk) 05:16, 9 September 2012 (UTC)
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Hey, friend. I noticed that my ACR for Joseph Desha was closed before you finished reviewing it. Please go ahead and finish your review, leaving comments on the article talk page or my talk page. FAC is the next stop for Desha, and I'll take all the feedback I can get before it goes there. I still have to wait for my current FAC, Constitution Square State Historic Site, to get enough reviews anyway, so you have time. Thanks. I always appreciate your reviews. I'll also be listing John Adair at ACR later today. Acdixon ( talk · contribs) 12:24, 10 September 2012 (UTC)
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Dank, I was told that you were reviewing Manuel Marques de Sousa, Count of Porto Alegre. Thanks a lot. I just wanted to clarifying this: you changed "...the inhabitants of Rio Grande do Sul led lives as merchants, farmers or ranchers on one hand, and on the other served as soldiers or militiamen" to "...farmers or ranchers, and also sometimes served as soldiers or militiamen". It was not sometimes, it was always. It was a double life. Take the case of the Count: he ws both a farmer and a military officer. The great landowners were at least high ranking officers of the National Guard, if not of the Army. Their employees were both servants and soldiers. Of course not every single male adult lived like that. Some could live as medics or lawyers in towns, but for most men, the life was like I mentioned earlier. -- Lecen ( talk) 17:29, 18 September 2012 (UTC)
There is already a link to brevet in "On 29 March 1829, Marques de Sousa was made brevet (acting) major, and on 28 August 1830...". That's on section "Secessionist threat". You added another wikilink to brevet a section later ("Province pacification"): "He was brevetted lieutenant colonel on 20 August 1838..." Was this a mistake of yours because you weren't aware that there was already a wikilink to it or did you believe that a second wikilink was needed? -- Lecen ( talk) 20:51, 18 September 2012 (UTC)
I just read your comment on PC on GorillaWarfare's page (you posted a month ago). After troubling people with my silly questions, I thought I might get to know something more from you. I held a discussion with Kudpung
HERE and then with GorillaWarfare
HERE.
I actually want to know whats going to happen next with PC? Will some trial begin or will there be an RfC? BTW, I am a great supporter of PC as you would interpret from my discussions with others above. Please make me understand why was PC closed( RfC 2012 ) with 61% position #2 support. Thanks for reading.
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Hi
In a last ditch effort to invigorate the project I asked that we be reconsidered for Signpost, and I was wondering if you could entertain answering one or two (or more?) questions on the signpost interview for the late September issue? Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Newsroom/WikiProject desk/Interviews2
I realise there is less traffic through the project recently, but with new members at a rate of 4 per year and not much seemingly going on, there has been a lack of opportunity for people to actually do much for the project. I have brought a lot of things up-to-date, including the ??? assessed articles and tidied up some things as well (portal, assessments rules, running every robotics page through AWB etc.) and putting "work needed" on more urgent stuff. I am hoping to get some interest going in an assessment drive for November and would appreciate any help whatsoever in revitalising the project. Chaosdruid ( talk) 23:27, 18 September 2012 (UTC)
I've posted an update regarding the sourcing issue you raised - please take a look at La Coupole and let me know on Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/La Coupole/archive1 if this resolves your concerns. Prioryman ( talk) 07:04, 21 September 2012 (UTC)
Firstly; thanks again for all your advice & copy editing. I've learned lots of tips and tricks for the next articles :D Also.. In this edit you changed LESSONS to Lessons. That's actually a quote from something Clarke wrote, and the caps is his emphasis. WP:ALLCAPS has no advice for such a situation. I was wondering if we a) need to note it has been changed or b) make the emphasis in some other way (italics). -- Errant ( chat!) 09:58, 21 September 2012 (UTC)
I met H J Mitchell on some Wikimedia UK business the other day and he prompted me to nominate Clarke for an A-Class review. Graham wouldn't let me put it straight back up to FAC (fair enough) due to the volume of outstanding reviews. Just thought you might be interested! -- Errant ( chat!) 09:46, 16 October 2012 (UTC)
Can this article be assessed under the project? TheSpecialUser TSU 17:05, 21 September 2012 (UTC)
Dan, please see my reply to you on my Talk Page. Graham. Graham Colm ( talk) 22:56, 21 September 2012 (UTC)
FYI Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 03:14, 23 September 2012 (UTC)
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Hi, Dank. Hope you're having a nice weekend. I think Wikipedia:PC2012/RfC_2 is about ready to get underway. I'm suddenly finding myself a bit confused over protocol—never done a project-space RfC before—and am wondering if I need to put a notice at Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Wikipedia_policies_and_guidelines; I can't tell if you did that for the last one, since everything there seems to be generated by a form. Also, I know you have other fish to fry at present, but I'm sort of hoping that even if you're too busy to keep a close eye you'd be available with your mop in the unlikely event that anything unexpected happens and we need move protection or something weird like that. I'm not sure any admins other than Blade are watching the page at all. Rivertorch ( talk) 17:53, 30 September 2012 (UTC)
Hi Dank, would you be able to comment on the use of the word 'home' as applied to the location of a bar and a lumbermill in this nomination? I think that it sounds odd to use this in the context of things which don't move, but the nominator states (with a reference) that it's OK American English. Regards, Nick-D ( talk) 23:41, 30 September 2012 (UTC)
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Well, Dank, I have some good news to share. Manuel Marques de Sousa, Count of Porto Alegre is now a FA. As always, you helped us a lot by taking your free time to review an article of ours. You're quite used to know that I'm really grateful for that. Thank you! -- Lecen ( talk) 09:53, 6 October 2012 (UTC)
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G'day, Dan, are you okay if I list this ACR for closing? It has three supports and has been open since 18 August, so its probably due. Please let me know what you want to do. Cheers, AustralianRupert ( talk) 01:40, 7 October 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for your review of the prose at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/We Can Do It!/archive1. The article earned FA status today. Binksternet ( talk) 18:13, 10 October 2012 (UTC)
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Hey Dan. I read a post from NYB that got me thinking ... ( here), and when I thought about a short list of people I'd trust in a role at Arbcom - your name came to mind. I like it if you would consider it. You're an honest person, a good person .. and I think your voice would be very much valued. Think about it? — Ched ZILLA 02:43, 21 October 2012 (UTC)
So, in Upper Peninsula miners strike of 1865, should it actually be "miner strike" or "miner's strike"? Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 05:05, 23 October 2012 (UTC)
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Hey Dank, I was wondering if your knowledge of copyright policies would be sufficient to help me out here.
OK, so basically I want to upload a short segment from a film as a GIF file. The reason I'm doing this is because the clip I'm planning to use demonstrates a techical effect that the specific film pioneered. Obviously it would fall under fair use, but I do think the rationale would be sufficient. Perhaps I am mistaken? On another note, as of the article's present state, it would be one of only two fair use images used, the other being the movie's official artwork in the intro section.
Conversely, would there be any issues if I uploaded an actual video file demonstrating that effect instead? Would it have to be muted? Are there any limitations on the use of such multimedia?
Thanks in advance. =)
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Your input is requested regarding pending changes RfCs. It seems I may have jumped the gun and we are sorting out where to go from here. Gigs ( talk) 16:49, 29 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi Dank! How are you? I need your input on my article for João Dorminsky that was flagged for deletion soon afterwards. Could you help me here? Since I'm new, I'm a bit stressed out so I apologize. Thanks in advance! :) Upir3 ( talk) 19:31, 30 October 2012 (UTC)
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Cley Marshes has three supports at FAC, so if there are no opposes I would expect it to go through fairly soon. North Norfolk Coast Site of Special Scientific Interest has had two useful reviews, but neither reviewer has felt able to go further with a crossover article. When/if the Cley article finishes at FAC, I'm tempted to thank the reviewers, pull the Cley article from the milhist assessment and take it to FAC. Is there a procedure to do this? Thanks Jimfbleak - talk to me? 06:11, 1 September 2012 (UTC)
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Thank you - not just for your support but also for your edits and coming back and supporting again - it was really good for the confidence to have such an experienced FA'er backing the article. :) Fayedizard ( talk) 14:40, 3 September 2012 (UTC) |
Now at FAC, could you please do whatever needs to be done at A review? Thanks again, Jimfbleak - talk to me? 17:14, 3 September 2012 (UTC)
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Thanks for the SSSI ce and review. Meanwhile, back in Norfolk... My usual source for milhist in the SSSI has let me down at Holkham, revealing only the Iron Age fort and some WWII scaffolding (whatever that means — barbed wire etc?). However, the reserve guide says that "Unexploded bombs and live ammunition" are still occasionally found throughout the Reserve. A quick Google casts no light on this. Any suggestions of sources that may be available to a non-specialist, or do you think I should just say what the guide says without further elaboration? Jimfbleak - talk to me? 07:53, 5 September 2012 (UTC)
Hey. Honestly, I think the (qualified) yea or nay on PC/2 would have been easier to come by if the general scope of PC had been determined first. You advised me to hold my (dead) horses for a week, then struck that (???), and now we're faced with a situation where if the numbers hold up the first RfC will end in deadlock, with persuasive arguments as well as even numbers on both sides of the divide. The common thread I'm seeing among supporters and opposers is concern that PC/2 has the potential to cause harm if applied in certain cases or without strict safeguards. The stringent criteria I proposed earlier might be a starting point for coming up with those safeguards and hammering out a compromise, although I don't foresee many opposers changing their minds on this point. I haven't decided yet how to !vote—or even if I will—but may I suggest that you go ahead and state any concrete ideas you have about a third option?
Btw, over the past couple weeks I have checked out all of the Wikimania videos and watched several in their entirety. Very interesting in places, including the editor engagement presentation you linked to earlier today, but I'm a little surprised at never hearing the phrase "pending changes" in all the hours of uploads I've watched. Frankly, there's something elephant-in-the-room-ish about the WMF discussing barnstars and tea houses and antiquated GUIs vis-à-vis engaging newbies while something with the potential to drive newbies away en masse waits in the wings. Rivertorch ( talk) 08:31, 6 September 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for message on talk page Tom B ( talk) 14:57, 6 September 2012 (UTC)
Can I suggest that we not do a comparison with the previous RfC? There are a number of people who complained loudly about the previous format, but frankly, I saw plenty of responses to each others comments (just not in a threaded manner, until near the end of the RfC period) and I can't imagine anyone didn't get a chance to say whatever they wanted to say. As I mentioned previously, it was also a lot easier to follow, with new comments being added to a limited number of places. It doesn't seem useful to stir the pot with a "my RfC is better than yours" discussion, especially since it doesn't really matter while in mid-discussion. (A post-mortem afterwards might be better, but since the scope of participants (at least at the moment) is quite different, I'm not sure clear conclusions can be drawn.) isaacl ( talk) 02:50, 7 September 2012 (UTC)
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Hi Dank, I saw you're the lead coordinator for the Military History Wikiproject and I had a quick question I hoped you could help me with. I wasn't sure where to ask in the wikiproject but here goes... I noticed that the Jason D. Cunningham and Neil Roberts wikipages were deleted per WP:GNG, WP:MILPEOPLE and WP:ONEEVENT. I noticed the article on Monica Lin Brown fails those same criteria and more since she only received a Silver Star for one event. Jason even received a more notable award, the Air Force Cross, and had a more developed wikipage but also just for one event. Wouldn't her page also go up for AfD for the exact same reasons? Anywho, thank you for any assistance you can provide. dain talk 17:30, 7 September 2012 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Village_pump_(idea_lab)#Using_stylometry_and_statistical_methods_to_identify_sock-puppets sounds like it might interest you. WhatamIdoing ( talk) 05:16, 9 September 2012 (UTC)
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Hey, friend. I noticed that my ACR for Joseph Desha was closed before you finished reviewing it. Please go ahead and finish your review, leaving comments on the article talk page or my talk page. FAC is the next stop for Desha, and I'll take all the feedback I can get before it goes there. I still have to wait for my current FAC, Constitution Square State Historic Site, to get enough reviews anyway, so you have time. Thanks. I always appreciate your reviews. I'll also be listing John Adair at ACR later today. Acdixon ( talk · contribs) 12:24, 10 September 2012 (UTC)
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Hi, I'm not sure if you're aware, but Karyn has left the Wikimedia Foundation. I will, however, make sure that she sees your note. Just wanted you to know for future reference, and so you weren't waiting for a reply from her. :) Philippe Beaudette, Wikimedia Foundation ( talk) 06:55, 13 September 2012 (UTC)
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Dank, I was told that you were reviewing Manuel Marques de Sousa, Count of Porto Alegre. Thanks a lot. I just wanted to clarifying this: you changed "...the inhabitants of Rio Grande do Sul led lives as merchants, farmers or ranchers on one hand, and on the other served as soldiers or militiamen" to "...farmers or ranchers, and also sometimes served as soldiers or militiamen". It was not sometimes, it was always. It was a double life. Take the case of the Count: he ws both a farmer and a military officer. The great landowners were at least high ranking officers of the National Guard, if not of the Army. Their employees were both servants and soldiers. Of course not every single male adult lived like that. Some could live as medics or lawyers in towns, but for most men, the life was like I mentioned earlier. -- Lecen ( talk) 17:29, 18 September 2012 (UTC)
There is already a link to brevet in "On 29 March 1829, Marques de Sousa was made brevet (acting) major, and on 28 August 1830...". That's on section "Secessionist threat". You added another wikilink to brevet a section later ("Province pacification"): "He was brevetted lieutenant colonel on 20 August 1838..." Was this a mistake of yours because you weren't aware that there was already a wikilink to it or did you believe that a second wikilink was needed? -- Lecen ( talk) 20:51, 18 September 2012 (UTC)
I just read your comment on PC on GorillaWarfare's page (you posted a month ago). After troubling people with my silly questions, I thought I might get to know something more from you. I held a discussion with Kudpung
HERE and then with GorillaWarfare
HERE.
I actually want to know whats going to happen next with PC? Will some trial begin or will there be an RfC? BTW, I am a great supporter of PC as you would interpret from my discussions with others above. Please make me understand why was PC closed( RfC 2012 ) with 61% position #2 support. Thanks for reading.
Harsh
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18:08, 18 September 2012 (UTC)
Hi
In a last ditch effort to invigorate the project I asked that we be reconsidered for Signpost, and I was wondering if you could entertain answering one or two (or more?) questions on the signpost interview for the late September issue? Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Newsroom/WikiProject desk/Interviews2
I realise there is less traffic through the project recently, but with new members at a rate of 4 per year and not much seemingly going on, there has been a lack of opportunity for people to actually do much for the project. I have brought a lot of things up-to-date, including the ??? assessed articles and tidied up some things as well (portal, assessments rules, running every robotics page through AWB etc.) and putting "work needed" on more urgent stuff. I am hoping to get some interest going in an assessment drive for November and would appreciate any help whatsoever in revitalising the project. Chaosdruid ( talk) 23:27, 18 September 2012 (UTC)
I've posted an update regarding the sourcing issue you raised - please take a look at La Coupole and let me know on Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/La Coupole/archive1 if this resolves your concerns. Prioryman ( talk) 07:04, 21 September 2012 (UTC)
Firstly; thanks again for all your advice & copy editing. I've learned lots of tips and tricks for the next articles :D Also.. In this edit you changed LESSONS to Lessons. That's actually a quote from something Clarke wrote, and the caps is his emphasis. WP:ALLCAPS has no advice for such a situation. I was wondering if we a) need to note it has been changed or b) make the emphasis in some other way (italics). -- Errant ( chat!) 09:58, 21 September 2012 (UTC)
I met H J Mitchell on some Wikimedia UK business the other day and he prompted me to nominate Clarke for an A-Class review. Graham wouldn't let me put it straight back up to FAC (fair enough) due to the volume of outstanding reviews. Just thought you might be interested! -- Errant ( chat!) 09:46, 16 October 2012 (UTC)
Can this article be assessed under the project? TheSpecialUser TSU 17:05, 21 September 2012 (UTC)
Dan, please see my reply to you on my Talk Page. Graham. Graham Colm ( talk) 22:56, 21 September 2012 (UTC)
FYI Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 03:14, 23 September 2012 (UTC)
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In recognition of your election as co-lead co-ordinator of the Military history project for the September 2012 to September 2013 period, please accept these co-ord stars. Thank you for standing again and I hope it will be another fruitful year for the project. Regards, AustralianRupert ( talk) 05:10, 29 September 2012 (UTC)
Hi, Dank. Hope you're having a nice weekend. I think Wikipedia:PC2012/RfC_2 is about ready to get underway. I'm suddenly finding myself a bit confused over protocol—never done a project-space RfC before—and am wondering if I need to put a notice at Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Wikipedia_policies_and_guidelines; I can't tell if you did that for the last one, since everything there seems to be generated by a form. Also, I know you have other fish to fry at present, but I'm sort of hoping that even if you're too busy to keep a close eye you'd be available with your mop in the unlikely event that anything unexpected happens and we need move protection or something weird like that. I'm not sure any admins other than Blade are watching the page at all. Rivertorch ( talk) 17:53, 30 September 2012 (UTC)
Hi Dank, would you be able to comment on the use of the word 'home' as applied to the location of a bar and a lumbermill in this nomination? I think that it sounds odd to use this in the context of things which don't move, but the nominator states (with a reference) that it's OK American English. Regards, Nick-D ( talk) 23:41, 30 September 2012 (UTC)
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Well, Dank, I have some good news to share. Manuel Marques de Sousa, Count of Porto Alegre is now a FA. As always, you helped us a lot by taking your free time to review an article of ours. You're quite used to know that I'm really grateful for that. Thank you! -- Lecen ( talk) 09:53, 6 October 2012 (UTC)
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G'day, Dan, are you okay if I list this ACR for closing? It has three supports and has been open since 18 August, so its probably due. Please let me know what you want to do. Cheers, AustralianRupert ( talk) 01:40, 7 October 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for your review of the prose at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/We Can Do It!/archive1. The article earned FA status today. Binksternet ( talk) 18:13, 10 October 2012 (UTC)
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Hey Dan. I read a post from NYB that got me thinking ... ( here), and when I thought about a short list of people I'd trust in a role at Arbcom - your name came to mind. I like it if you would consider it. You're an honest person, a good person .. and I think your voice would be very much valued. Think about it? — Ched ZILLA 02:43, 21 October 2012 (UTC)
So, in Upper Peninsula miners strike of 1865, should it actually be "miner strike" or "miner's strike"? Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 05:05, 23 October 2012 (UTC)
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Hey Dank, I was wondering if your knowledge of copyright policies would be sufficient to help me out here.
OK, so basically I want to upload a short segment from a film as a GIF file. The reason I'm doing this is because the clip I'm planning to use demonstrates a techical effect that the specific film pioneered. Obviously it would fall under fair use, but I do think the rationale would be sufficient. Perhaps I am mistaken? On another note, as of the article's present state, it would be one of only two fair use images used, the other being the movie's official artwork in the intro section.
Conversely, would there be any issues if I uploaded an actual video file demonstrating that effect instead? Would it have to be muted? Are there any limitations on the use of such multimedia?
Thanks in advance. =)
-Master&Expert, now known as Kurtis ( talk) 03:36, 24 October 2012 (UTC)
Your input is requested regarding pending changes RfCs. It seems I may have jumped the gun and we are sorting out where to go from here. Gigs ( talk) 16:49, 29 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi Dank! How are you? I need your input on my article for João Dorminsky that was flagged for deletion soon afterwards. Could you help me here? Since I'm new, I'm a bit stressed out so I apologize. Thanks in advance! :) Upir3 ( talk) 19:31, 30 October 2012 (UTC)