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If I were you I would respond to that question asked of you if you have the actual FOIA request, because that in addition to the document would probably be sufficient to show that the federal government did publicly release the information. Also, I would highly suggest that instead of uploading all of these images here, any images that are public domain should be uploaded instead to Wikimedia Commons - http://commons.wikimedia.org -- Cirt ( talk) 12:08, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
here they cannot be uploaded on any WMF project, Sorry. Sfan00 IMG ( talk) 20:42, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
No I am NOT an admin, as you claimed in your enquiry to Cirt. Sfan00 IMG ( talk) 20:44, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
That is excellent :) Sfan00 IMG ( talk) 11:45, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
Why your mass uploading of documents is not an WP:OR issue. Thanks. Shutterbug ( talk) 22:31, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
I highly recommend that instead of uploading all of these public domain documents to Wikipedia directly, you instead upload them to Wikimedia Commons. http://commons.wikimedia.org That way, the files could be shared across other wikimedia projects in other languages. Let me know if you need any help/advice figuring that out. Cirt ( talk) 13:20, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
"License: Works made *by* employees of the U.S. federal government or its agencies (such as the NOAA, the USFWS, the NPS, and many others) as part of their duties are in the public domain in the U.S. [...]"
Well if they are public domain they are public domain, and can be on Wikimedia Commons. I am sure they must have an appropriate license tag for that. I think [1] is appropriate for documents entered into public record in a United States Federal Court. Cirt ( talk) 18:48, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
I am currently requesting a user name change on Wikimedia Commons from "Geo1967" to "Martin Ottmann". Martin Ottmann ( talk) 21:16, 18 August 2008 (UTC)
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Good luck with your work moving stuff to Wikimedia Commons. An additional suggestion would be to also have transcribed versions of text documents at Wikisource, which could prove to be quite useful for research purposes. Cirt ( talk) 01:32, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
Template:CoS-IRS 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. ViperSnake151 21:12, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
In any event until we get more clarity on this particular issue I'd suggest you hold off on further uploads of this nature, instead it might be helpful to work on documents related to federal court cases at sister projects Wikimedia Commons and Wikisource. Cirt ( talk) 00:03, 25 September 2008 (UTC)
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Martin Ottmann: Please calm down and remain civil. Using inappropriate language in discussion is not conducive to positive dialogue and nothing constructive will come of it. Cirt ( talk) 21:08, 26 September 2008 (UTC)
An image or media file that you uploaded or altered, Image:RTC-1.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Images and media 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. Salix ( talk): 10:57, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
Several pdf files that you uploaded, Image:Covenant-RTC-CSI-AT.pdf, Image:Declaration Guillaume Lesevre 1994.pdf, Image:Declaration Jonathan Epstein 1994.pdf, Image:Declaration Marc Yager 1994.pdf, Image:Declaration Monique Yingling 1994.pdf, Image:Declaration Norman Starkey 1994.pdf, Image:Declaration Raymond Mithoff 1994.pdf, Image:Declaration Thomas Spring 1994.pdf, and Image:Declaration William Walsh 1994.pdf have been listed at Wikipedia:Possibly unfree images because their copyright status is unclear or disputed. If the files' copyright status cannot be verified, they may be deleted. You may find more information on the image description pages. You are welcome to add comments to their entry at the discussion if you are interested in them not being deleted. Thank you. — teb728 t c 05:49, 11 October 2008 (UTC)
Is there a reason you're undoing my edits to Church of Scientology International? Like this, where Wikipedia:Manual of Style (capital letters) and Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers) clearly say that the corrections I made were appropriate. Wutudidthere...isawit ( talk) 10:03, 12 November 2008 (UTC)
You may find Wikisource to be a fun sister project to work on. Here are some interesting documents relating to Scientology, and some of those areas could use additional documents and perhaps also index pages to flesh things out a bit more. Also, could you please enable your email in Special:Preferences? Cirt ( talk) 20:58, 18 November 2008 (UTC)
If you FOIA certain documents from the U.S. federal government, and include the FOIA cover letter, that would help. Cirt ( talk) 22:43, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
Per the request of arbitrator Roger Davies ( talk), this notice is to inform you of the current arbitration case concerning Scientology, which can be viewed at Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Scientology. You are receiving this notification because you were one of the users listed in the new evidence presented by Jayen466.
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This is to notify you that you have been added as a involved party to the Scientology arbitration case; this is either because you have been mentioned in the /Evidence, the /Workshop or their talk pages, or because you are closely connected with it.
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An image that you uploaded or altered, Image:RTC-1.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Possibly unfree images because its copyright status is disputed. If the image's copyright status cannot be verified, it may be deleted. You may find more information on the image description page. You are welcome to add comments to its entry at the discussion if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. Jusjih ( talk) 23:19, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
An image that you uploaded or altered, Image:Application-8718-CSI.pdf, has been listed at Wikipedia:Possibly unfree images because its copyright status is disputed. If the image's copyright status cannot be verified, it may be deleted. You may find more information on the image description page. You are welcome to add comments to its entry at the discussion if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. Sfan00 IMG ( talk) 10:57, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
An image that you uploaded or altered, Image:Application-8718-SMI.pdf, has been listed at Wikipedia:Possibly unfree images because its copyright status is disputed. If the image's copyright status cannot be verified, it may be deleted. You may find more information on the image description page. You are welcome to add comments to its entry at the discussion if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. Sfan00 IMG ( talk) 11:13, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
If I were you I would respond to that question asked of you if you have the actual FOIA request, because that in addition to the document would probably be sufficient to show that the federal government did publicly release the information. Also, I would highly suggest that instead of uploading all of these images here, any images that are public domain should be uploaded instead to Wikimedia Commons - http://commons.wikimedia.org -- Cirt ( talk) 12:08, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
here they cannot be uploaded on any WMF project, Sorry. Sfan00 IMG ( talk) 20:42, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
No I am NOT an admin, as you claimed in your enquiry to Cirt. Sfan00 IMG ( talk) 20:44, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
That is excellent :) Sfan00 IMG ( talk) 11:45, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
Why your mass uploading of documents is not an WP:OR issue. Thanks. Shutterbug ( talk) 22:31, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
I highly recommend that instead of uploading all of these public domain documents to Wikipedia directly, you instead upload them to Wikimedia Commons. http://commons.wikimedia.org That way, the files could be shared across other wikimedia projects in other languages. Let me know if you need any help/advice figuring that out. Cirt ( talk) 13:20, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
"License: Works made *by* employees of the U.S. federal government or its agencies (such as the NOAA, the USFWS, the NPS, and many others) as part of their duties are in the public domain in the U.S. [...]"
Well if they are public domain they are public domain, and can be on Wikimedia Commons. I am sure they must have an appropriate license tag for that. I think [1] is appropriate for documents entered into public record in a United States Federal Court. Cirt ( talk) 18:48, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
I am currently requesting a user name change on Wikimedia Commons from "Geo1967" to "Martin Ottmann". Martin Ottmann ( talk) 21:16, 18 August 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for uploading
Image:RTC-symbol.gif. The media description page currently specifies that it is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a
claim of fair use. However, it is currently
orphaned, meaning that it is not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the media 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 media 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 all non-free media not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. BJBot ( talk) 03:16, 26 August 2008 (UTC)
An image that you uploaded or altered, Image:Application-501-CoSWUS.pdf, has been listed at Wikipedia:Possibly unfree images because its copyright status is unclear or disputed. If the image's copyright status cannot be verified, it may be deleted. You may find more information on the image description page. You are welcome to add comments to its entry at the discussion if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. - Nard 01:24, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
Good luck with your work moving stuff to Wikimedia Commons. An additional suggestion would be to also have transcribed versions of text documents at Wikisource, which could prove to be quite useful for research purposes. Cirt ( talk) 01:32, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
Template:CoS-IRS 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. ViperSnake151 21:12, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
In any event until we get more clarity on this particular issue I'd suggest you hold off on further uploads of this nature, instead it might be helpful to work on documents related to federal court cases at sister projects Wikimedia Commons and Wikisource. Cirt ( talk) 00:03, 25 September 2008 (UTC)
An image that you uploaded or altered, Image:License-Agreement-RTC-CSI.pdf, has been listed at Wikipedia:Possibly unfree images because its copyright status is unclear or disputed. If the image's copyright status cannot be verified, it may be deleted. You may find more information on the image description page. You are welcome to add comments to its entry at the discussion if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. Stifle ( talk) 13:17, 25 September 2008 (UTC)
Martin Ottmann: Please calm down and remain civil. Using inappropriate language in discussion is not conducive to positive dialogue and nothing constructive will come of it. Cirt ( talk) 21:08, 26 September 2008 (UTC)
An image or media file that you uploaded or altered, Image:RTC-1.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Images and media 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. Salix ( talk): 10:57, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
Several pdf files that you uploaded, Image:Covenant-RTC-CSI-AT.pdf, Image:Declaration Guillaume Lesevre 1994.pdf, Image:Declaration Jonathan Epstein 1994.pdf, Image:Declaration Marc Yager 1994.pdf, Image:Declaration Monique Yingling 1994.pdf, Image:Declaration Norman Starkey 1994.pdf, Image:Declaration Raymond Mithoff 1994.pdf, Image:Declaration Thomas Spring 1994.pdf, and Image:Declaration William Walsh 1994.pdf have been listed at Wikipedia:Possibly unfree images because their copyright status is unclear or disputed. If the files' copyright status cannot be verified, they may be deleted. You may find more information on the image description pages. You are welcome to add comments to their entry at the discussion if you are interested in them not being deleted. Thank you. — teb728 t c 05:49, 11 October 2008 (UTC)
Is there a reason you're undoing my edits to Church of Scientology International? Like this, where Wikipedia:Manual of Style (capital letters) and Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers) clearly say that the corrections I made were appropriate. Wutudidthere...isawit ( talk) 10:03, 12 November 2008 (UTC)
You may find Wikisource to be a fun sister project to work on. Here are some interesting documents relating to Scientology, and some of those areas could use additional documents and perhaps also index pages to flesh things out a bit more. Also, could you please enable your email in Special:Preferences? Cirt ( talk) 20:58, 18 November 2008 (UTC)
If you FOIA certain documents from the U.S. federal government, and include the FOIA cover letter, that would help. Cirt ( talk) 22:43, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
Per the request of arbitrator Roger Davies ( talk), this notice is to inform you of the current arbitration case concerning Scientology, which can be viewed at Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Scientology. You are receiving this notification because you were one of the users listed in the new evidence presented by Jayen466.
For Roger Davies and the Arbitration Committee
Daniel (
talk)
12:13, 23 March 2009 (UTC)
This is to notify you that you have been added as a involved party to the Scientology arbitration case; this is either because you have been mentioned in the /Evidence, the /Workshop or their talk pages, or because you are closely connected with it.
On behalf of the Arbitration Committee, KnightLago ( talk) 14:03, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
This arbitration case has been closed and the final decision is available at the link above. The following editors are subjected to bans/topic-bans/restrictions as listed below :
Any editor who is subject to remedies in this proceeding, or who wishes to edit from an open proxy, is restricted to a single current or future account to edit Scientology-related topics and may not contribute to the topic as anonymous IP editors. Editors topic banned by remedies in this proceeding are prohibited (i) from editing articles related to Scientology or Scientologists, broadly defined, as well as the respective article talk pages and (ii) from participating in any Wikipedia process relating to those articles. Editors topic banned above may apply to have the topic ban lifted after demonstrating their commitment to the goals of Wikipedia and their ability to work constructively with other editors. Applications will be considered no earlier than six months after the close of this case, and additional reviews will be done no more frequently than every six months thereafter.
Any uninvolved administrator may, on his or her own discretion, ban any editor from editing within the Scientology topic. Prior to topic banning the editor, the administrator will leave a message on the editor's talk page, linking to this paragraph, warning the editor that a topic ban is contemplated and outlining the behaviours for which it is contemplated. If the editor fails to heed the warning, the editor may be topic banned, initially, for three months, then with additional topic bans increasing in duration to a maximum of one year. Any editor who, in the judgment of an uninvolved administrator, is (i) focused primarily on Scientology or Scientologists and (ii) clearly engaged in promoting an identifiable agenda may be topic-banned for up to one year.
All IP addresses owned or operated by the Church of Scientology and its associates, broadly interpreted, are to be blocked as if they were open proxies. Any current or future editor who, after this decision is announced, makes substantial edits to any Scientology-related articles or discussions on any page is directed to edit on these from only a single user account, which shall be the user's sole or main account, unless the user has previously sought and obtained permission from the Arbitration Committee to operate a legitimate second account. They shall edit in accordance to Wikipedia policies and refrain from advocacy, to disclose on the relevant talk pages any circumstances (but not including personal identifying information) that constitute or may reasonably be perceived as constituting a conflict of interest with respect to that page, and not through a proxy configuration.
- For the Arbitration Committee, Mailer Diablo 01:36, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
Hi,
You appear to be eligible to vote in the current
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site bans,
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