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Hi Quadell,
Following on from our chat about next projects a little while ago - I've taken Speech generating device from [1] to it's current state - I'm going to sort out the rest of the references over the next few days - but my question is - do you think it's of a standard that I could reasonably put it forward for GA after a bit of polish? Failedwizard ( talk) 14:59, 27 October 2011 (UTC)
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Hello,
I was wondering if you would be able to fix the references for Giraffe so that they would have a consistant formating (but in a different format than you did for Tiger Shark). I'm thinking of making another try at a FA status and referencing seems to be a major thing.
Thank you
LittleJerry ( talk) 19:52, 29 October 2011 (UTC)
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Thanks for the review of the article I nominated. You pointed many things I had not considered before, and I will consider them for future articles. Cambalachero ( talk) 19:35, 31 October 2011 (UTC) |
We have the chance to get some free use Howdy Doody images which were originally used as give-aways from a show sponsor, Poll Parrot Shoes. The front of the items had a photo of the character and the back had a replica of sheet music from the program. The clue to these being Poll Parrot promotional items is the Poll Parrot shoes song on the back of this one. No copyright mark on the shoe song, but there is one here for It's Howdy Doody Time.
Since I initially upload both sides of a photo to prove there aren't copyright marks, what's an answer to this without copying the copyrighted music--blanking everything except the title? Since the program had a 1970s revival, I'd believe the theme copyright was renewed. These do date back to circa late 1940s-early to mid 1950s. Thanks! We hope ( talk) 19:20, 2 November 2011 (UTC)
Hi Quadell, can you check the copyright status of File:Ester Dean in "Pitch Perfect" movie set.jpg? I've previously had an image by the same uploader deleted as a derivative work of a copyrighted image, and fear s/he is doing the same thing. However, I haven't found anything using Google Images. Crisco 1492 ( talk) 00:20, 4 November 2011 (UTC)
Would you be able to peer review the giraffe article? Thank you. LittleJerry ( talk) 23:39, 5 November 2011 (UTC)
Hi Quadell, I need some help once again. The article is currently being reviewed, but on hold until thursday 10th. The main problem I have is related to copy-edits, so if you could do some corrections that would help a lot. Thanks for your time!-- GDuwen Tell me! 02:37, 6 November 2011 (UTC)
Hi, I've thought of leaving you a note, since I was wondering whether you needed some assistance with steward tasks - I realize it may seem intimidating as a new steward, especially since there's not much guidance after the elections. Well, if you ever have any queries I'd be willing to help. :-) -- Menti fisto 22:36, 7 November 2011 (UTC)
Hi there, Quaddell. I've recently been working on the ontological argument, with a goal of eventually reaching GA status, and was wondering if you could give me any feedback. If you can, that would be really helpful. Thanks. ItsZippy ( talk • contributions) 23:02, 7 November 2011 (UTC)
Aware you're very busy, so wanted to ping your talk in case you missed [ [2]] - I'm positing that we go back for FA (and I'm happy to lead the charge) but wanted a nod of approval before I did. Failedwizard ( talk) 09:13, 11 November 2011 (UTC)
Hi there, Could I trouble you again for a quick look at another article I'm looking at getting up to strength? In the Actors section of the James Bond (character) page there is a montage image of the six Bond actors. Is this allowable at all, or should this be deleted / replaced? Many thanks - again! - SchroCat ( ^ • @) 13:10, 15 November 2011 (UTC)
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Hi, Quadell. I hope you're having a good time with your family celebrating Christimas (or at least the holiday). Best wishes. -- Lecen ( talk) 13:48, 24 December 2011 (UTC)
As you made the {{ non-free historic image}} template, interested in your opinion on File:Lho-133A.jpg. Free or non-free? If non-free, it seems this would fit the criteria of the template, as the photo itself has been the subject of endless commentary (I saw JFK). Kelly hi! 02:07, 25 December 2011 (UTC)
Greetings Quadell-
My name is Randall Livingstone, and I am a graduate student at the University of Oregon, currently collecting data for my dissertation on Wikipedia editors who create and use bots and assisted editing tools, as well as editors involved in the initial and/or ongoing creation of bot policies on Wikipedia. As a member of BAG and the bot community, I would very much like to interview you for the project at a time and in a method that is most convenient for you (Gchat, another IM client, Skype, email, telephone, etc.). I am completely flexible and can work with your schedule. The interview will take approximately 30-45 minutes.
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Saw you were back, thought you could do with a beverage .... Failedwizard ( talk) 13:05, 10 January 2012 (UTC) |
Hi there, I wonder if you could give some advice again? I'm trying to get List of James Bond novels and stories through the FL process at the moment ( the review is taking place here) and one of the reviewers has put up two media related comments. Would you be able to have a look and comment on these two points please?
Many thanks indeed for any input you could provide! - SchroCat ( ^ • @) 02:31, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
Well, it needs a copyright tag. – Quadell ( talk) 20:00, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
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Once again I find myself bowing to a font of copyright knowledge! Thanks so much for yet more help and advice! SchroCat ( ^ • @) 20:55, 11 January 2012 (UTC) |
As you are my go-to guy for this sort of question, would you checking my working on something? I reviewed the Catenary article for GA as part of the backlog elimination drive and because it was over christmas and new year have been very flexible about the timescale for improving the article (it is gradually improving in a pleasant way and the nominator appears lovely). My questions are a) do any development points jump out at you for things I should handle better in the review and b) should I be a little more firm on timings and start poking for action? Failedwizard ( talk) 22:19, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
Hi! Not sure if you remember but you originally reviewed the GA nomination for Yarborough v. Alvarado. Unfortunately because of real life stuff I wasn't able to implement your suggestions at the time. However, recently I have implemented the purposed changes and renominated the article. Just wanted to see if there was any interesting from you in checking out the second nomination! -- Sailing to Byzantium ( msg), 15:07, 14 January 2012 (UTC)
Q, a bunch of mammal articles created by your Polbot have inappropriately capitalized titles (e.g. Aztec Mouse). Do you have a way to semi-automatically fix this? Dicklyon ( talk) 05:23, 15 January 2012 (UTC)
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I recently made this edit about a surname disambiguation effort made in 2008 from a database dump at a page where you do similar work. Would you be able to comment on the feasibility of the proposals I've suggested and what the current state of name disambiguation pages are like, or suggest the best place to ask? Carcharoth ( talk) 08:33, 4 February 2012 (UTC)
Hello, Quaddell. I know that you're no longer a Wikimedia steward, but since you've had experience on that front I'm wondering if you could give me some advice. I would like to change my global account username to User:DCI, and am not sure how to go about this without having to change my username tediously on each wiki. The other problem is that there are two dormant accounts out there called "DCI", and I'm not sure how I could get those two. If you have any ideas on where I should go, that'd be great. Thanks, dci | TALK 22:07, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
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Have run across some things recently I'd appreciate your opinion on re: PD-pre 1978 or not.
Thanks! We hope ( talk) 15:58, 13 February 2012 (UTC)
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For being the kind of guy you can talk it over with over coffee. As always, many thanks! We hope ( talk) 22:27, 14 February 2012 (UTC) |
Dear Quadell,
My name is Jonathan Obar user:Jaobar, I'm a professor in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University and a Teaching Fellow with the Wikimedia Foundation's Education Program. This semester I've been running a little experiment at MSU, a class where we teach students about becoming Wikipedia administrators. Not a lot is known about your community, and our students (who are fascinated by wiki-culture by the way!) want to learn how you do what you do, and why you do it. A while back I proposed this idea (the class) to the community HERE, where it was met mainly with positive feedback. Anyhow, I'd like my students to speak with a few administrators to get a sense of admin experiences, training, motivations, likes, dislikes, etc. We were wondering if you'd be interested in speaking with one of our students.
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Jonathan Obar -- Jaobar ( talk) 07:26, 12 February 2012 (UTC) Young June Sah -- Yjune.sah ( talk) 03:36, 15 February 2012 (UTC) |
I tried to upload an image of "Guru Gopinath", saw a message File deleted, I found an image from www.thehindu.com, what if it uploaded under "Non-free use rationale".Thank you. -- Raghith 10:52, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
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Hi Quadell, I was wondering if you'd review an article for me. I am thinking that I will nominate Augustinian theodicy as a featured article soon, but am looking for feedback before I do so; would you be able to give me your thoughts? Thanks. ItsZippy ( talk • contributions) 22:24, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
Having read the entire article again, I can't see any other obvious problems, but I'm no expert on the topic. Here are a few things to look out for. (1) Would an expert feel that this article fully covers all important aspects of the topic? Are there important repercussions, descendant ideas, or other aspects that might be missing? (2) Do the sources fully cover the material presented? In other words, if I had a copy of Birnbaum, would I find all the article's assertions supported by footnote 6 in the book itself? (3) It is probable you will find it hard to get enough reviews. Few FAC reviewers are at all familiar with the topic, and most will simply ignore the nomination, which could lead to it "expiring" and failing due to lack of support. To prevent this, it might be a good idea to let all related Wikiprojects and portals know that the article has been nominated, and that FAC reviewers are needed. (Just don't canvass.) Best of luck! – Quadell ( talk) 16:24, 25 February 2012 (UTC)
Am I correct in my understanding that there being no copyright notice on a movie poster published in the United States before 1977 makes that poster PD? I've been having a discussion with Aditya Kabir over Promises! Promises!, which is currently using a FU file despite the poster being on Commons (and sans notice). Crisco 1492 ( talk)
Yea, it's me again (GDuwen). I just wanted to ask you if you could review my current nomination of Waylon Jennings, since you did a great job with Hank Williams. I'm currently trying to finish some of my articles because I might be inactive for a while. If you can't do it, would you know another user that could give me a hand? Thanks again for your time!-- GDuwen Tell me! 21:51, 28 February 2012 (UTC)
Can you check out the propriety of this edit and let me know what you think.-- TonyTheTiger ( T/ C/ BIO/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:FOUR) 06:36, 3 March 2012 (UTC)
I would like MadmanBot to stop slapping users for copying single declaratory sentences as copyright violations while the user is creating an article. While killing time on this mindless task, I noticed that PolBot creates articles and does not attribute the source. [3]
Where did the bot get the information and why doesn't it say that in the article? 68.107.135.146 ( talk) 17:03, 4 March 2012 (UTC)
I need you to delete the history of my talk pages. The one that sas my school Its zippy told me to ask you.
--:)- Slim hady 20:16, 11 March 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Slimhady ( talk • contribs)
Hey Quadell,
I submitted another article stephen_hawking to for FA review, and it's kind of suffering from lack of reviews - I think you've done a couple of image reviews for FAC before, would you might having a look at the pictures? I can't think of anyone better... Fayedizard ( talk) 07:55, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
Actually, I just nominated Ac and Eu for GA because their quality was good enough for GA. I didn't actually work on them. Materialscientist improved Ac and Stone improved Eu. Double sharp ( talk) 03:56, 18 March 2012 (UTC)
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Just a courtesy note that I have mentioned your opinion given here at a new post on the same topic here, and thus both that your opinion would be welcomed and that if your views have been misrepresented or have changed I'd be more than happy to correct them (or you can). Grandiose ( me, talk, contribs) 11:15, 20 April 2012 (UTC)
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Thank you for participating in the January 2012 MTC Drive. The drive was a big success. As a result of the drive thousands of files was transferred and many files was nominated for deletion because of copyright issues or because they were not usable. For your big work transferring files to Commons you are hereby awarded this barnstar. Cloudbound ( talk) 19:51, 27 April 2012 (UTC) |
I have been attempting to reduce requests for photos and was looking for a way of addressing the large list of plant requests. I then see you have a bot that does something close to was I am looking for. Is there any possibility of reactivating Polbot 11? As a suggested enhancement could a heading be added to the talk, or even article, page stating there maybe an image available on commons and adding it to a category that other users could work through. -- Traveler100 ( talk) 14:36, 13 May 2012 (UTC)
Have already made coffee. Two questions re: images involving the
Pioneer Zephyr.
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Hello again. As to your first question, the souvenir was "published" when multiple copies were made available to the public, long before 1978. There is no copyright notice, as would have been required for it to have been copyrighted, so the pre-1978 tag would be appropriate. As to the postcard, the copyright notice is entirely spurious. This is clearly PD-pre-1978, since it was first published without a valid copyright notice. All the best, – Quadell ( talk) 19:57, 14 May 2012 (UTC) |
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Because you're always there with the answers when I hit a bump in the copyright road. As always, many, many thanks!! We hope ( talk) 20:30, 14 May 2012 (UTC) |
I need some help. I need a neutral 3rd part to resolve an editing issue here with Hullaballoo Wolfowitz here --> Jessicka
My point: "Art Slant, [4] Juxtapoz, [5][ Supacute, [6] Coagula Art Journal, [7] & Hi- Fructose [8] are all reputable 3rd party Art sources. Saying these articles are written by friends is purely speculation on your part. Jessicka's wiki page clearly states that she's an artist. Listing past art shows with 3rd party references is just like listing the albums she's released as a musician in her discography. Both are wiki relevant & significant"
Do you think you could point me in the right direction? I just need a 3rd party to have a look.
Hi again Quadell, I've been nominating for a while the article Waylon Jennings (around February). I know that sometimes you're busy, but I was just wondering if you had some free time? In case you don't, do you know any user that could help me? I'm just trying to round up some things before I go for a little while. Thanks in advance, and greetings!-- GDuwen Tell me! 17:57, 17 June 2012 (UTC)
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Hi Quadell,
Following on from our chat about next projects a little while ago - I've taken Speech generating device from [1] to it's current state - I'm going to sort out the rest of the references over the next few days - but my question is - do you think it's of a standard that I could reasonably put it forward for GA after a bit of polish? Failedwizard ( talk) 14:59, 27 October 2011 (UTC)
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Hello,
I was wondering if you would be able to fix the references for Giraffe so that they would have a consistant formating (but in a different format than you did for Tiger Shark). I'm thinking of making another try at a FA status and referencing seems to be a major thing.
Thank you
LittleJerry ( talk) 19:52, 29 October 2011 (UTC)
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cite web}}
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cite book}}
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Thanks for the review of the article I nominated. You pointed many things I had not considered before, and I will consider them for future articles. Cambalachero ( talk) 19:35, 31 October 2011 (UTC) |
We have the chance to get some free use Howdy Doody images which were originally used as give-aways from a show sponsor, Poll Parrot Shoes. The front of the items had a photo of the character and the back had a replica of sheet music from the program. The clue to these being Poll Parrot promotional items is the Poll Parrot shoes song on the back of this one. No copyright mark on the shoe song, but there is one here for It's Howdy Doody Time.
Since I initially upload both sides of a photo to prove there aren't copyright marks, what's an answer to this without copying the copyrighted music--blanking everything except the title? Since the program had a 1970s revival, I'd believe the theme copyright was renewed. These do date back to circa late 1940s-early to mid 1950s. Thanks! We hope ( talk) 19:20, 2 November 2011 (UTC)
Hi Quadell, can you check the copyright status of File:Ester Dean in "Pitch Perfect" movie set.jpg? I've previously had an image by the same uploader deleted as a derivative work of a copyrighted image, and fear s/he is doing the same thing. However, I haven't found anything using Google Images. Crisco 1492 ( talk) 00:20, 4 November 2011 (UTC)
Would you be able to peer review the giraffe article? Thank you. LittleJerry ( talk) 23:39, 5 November 2011 (UTC)
Hi Quadell, I need some help once again. The article is currently being reviewed, but on hold until thursday 10th. The main problem I have is related to copy-edits, so if you could do some corrections that would help a lot. Thanks for your time!-- GDuwen Tell me! 02:37, 6 November 2011 (UTC)
Hi, I've thought of leaving you a note, since I was wondering whether you needed some assistance with steward tasks - I realize it may seem intimidating as a new steward, especially since there's not much guidance after the elections. Well, if you ever have any queries I'd be willing to help. :-) -- Menti fisto 22:36, 7 November 2011 (UTC)
Hi there, Quaddell. I've recently been working on the ontological argument, with a goal of eventually reaching GA status, and was wondering if you could give me any feedback. If you can, that would be really helpful. Thanks. ItsZippy ( talk • contributions) 23:02, 7 November 2011 (UTC)
Aware you're very busy, so wanted to ping your talk in case you missed [ [2]] - I'm positing that we go back for FA (and I'm happy to lead the charge) but wanted a nod of approval before I did. Failedwizard ( talk) 09:13, 11 November 2011 (UTC)
Hi there, Could I trouble you again for a quick look at another article I'm looking at getting up to strength? In the Actors section of the James Bond (character) page there is a montage image of the six Bond actors. Is this allowable at all, or should this be deleted / replaced? Many thanks - again! - SchroCat ( ^ • @) 13:10, 15 November 2011 (UTC)
I am giving out awards to people who help clear the backlog of F8 tagged files. I thought you may be interested cheers -- Guerillero | My Talk 06:00, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
Hi, Quadell. I hope you're having a good time with your family celebrating Christimas (or at least the holiday). Best wishes. -- Lecen ( talk) 13:48, 24 December 2011 (UTC)
As you made the {{ non-free historic image}} template, interested in your opinion on File:Lho-133A.jpg. Free or non-free? If non-free, it seems this would fit the criteria of the template, as the photo itself has been the subject of endless commentary (I saw JFK). Kelly hi! 02:07, 25 December 2011 (UTC)
Greetings Quadell-
My name is Randall Livingstone, and I am a graduate student at the University of Oregon, currently collecting data for my dissertation on Wikipedia editors who create and use bots and assisted editing tools, as well as editors involved in the initial and/or ongoing creation of bot policies on Wikipedia. As a member of BAG and the bot community, I would very much like to interview you for the project at a time and in a method that is most convenient for you (Gchat, another IM client, Skype, email, telephone, etc.). I am completely flexible and can work with your schedule. The interview will take approximately 30-45 minutes.
My dissertation project has been approved both by the Institutional Review Board (IRB) at the University of Oregon, and by the Research Committee at the Wikimedia Foundation. You can find more information on the project on my meta page.
Please let me know if you have any questions, and I look forward to hearing from you to set up a time to chat. Thank you very much.
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Saw you were back, thought you could do with a beverage .... Failedwizard ( talk) 13:05, 10 January 2012 (UTC) |
Hi there, I wonder if you could give some advice again? I'm trying to get List of James Bond novels and stories through the FL process at the moment ( the review is taking place here) and one of the reviewers has put up two media related comments. Would you be able to have a look and comment on these two points please?
Many thanks indeed for any input you could provide! - SchroCat ( ^ • @) 02:31, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
Well, it needs a copyright tag. – Quadell ( talk) 20:00, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
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Once again I find myself bowing to a font of copyright knowledge! Thanks so much for yet more help and advice! SchroCat ( ^ • @) 20:55, 11 January 2012 (UTC) |
As you are my go-to guy for this sort of question, would you checking my working on something? I reviewed the Catenary article for GA as part of the backlog elimination drive and because it was over christmas and new year have been very flexible about the timescale for improving the article (it is gradually improving in a pleasant way and the nominator appears lovely). My questions are a) do any development points jump out at you for things I should handle better in the review and b) should I be a little more firm on timings and start poking for action? Failedwizard ( talk) 22:19, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
Hi! Not sure if you remember but you originally reviewed the GA nomination for Yarborough v. Alvarado. Unfortunately because of real life stuff I wasn't able to implement your suggestions at the time. However, recently I have implemented the purposed changes and renominated the article. Just wanted to see if there was any interesting from you in checking out the second nomination! -- Sailing to Byzantium ( msg), 15:07, 14 January 2012 (UTC)
Q, a bunch of mammal articles created by your Polbot have inappropriately capitalized titles (e.g. Aztec Mouse). Do you have a way to semi-automatically fix this? Dicklyon ( talk) 05:23, 15 January 2012 (UTC)
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Thanks for the message, much appreciated.-- GDuwen Tell me! 19:55, 17 January 2012 (UTC)
I recently made this edit about a surname disambiguation effort made in 2008 from a database dump at a page where you do similar work. Would you be able to comment on the feasibility of the proposals I've suggested and what the current state of name disambiguation pages are like, or suggest the best place to ask? Carcharoth ( talk) 08:33, 4 February 2012 (UTC)
Hello, Quaddell. I know that you're no longer a Wikimedia steward, but since you've had experience on that front I'm wondering if you could give me some advice. I would like to change my global account username to User:DCI, and am not sure how to go about this without having to change my username tediously on each wiki. The other problem is that there are two dormant accounts out there called "DCI", and I'm not sure how I could get those two. If you have any ideas on where I should go, that'd be great. Thanks, dci | TALK 22:07, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
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Have run across some things recently I'd appreciate your opinion on re: PD-pre 1978 or not.
Thanks! We hope ( talk) 15:58, 13 February 2012 (UTC)
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For being the kind of guy you can talk it over with over coffee. As always, many thanks! We hope ( talk) 22:27, 14 February 2012 (UTC) |
Dear Quadell,
My name is Jonathan Obar user:Jaobar, I'm a professor in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University and a Teaching Fellow with the Wikimedia Foundation's Education Program. This semester I've been running a little experiment at MSU, a class where we teach students about becoming Wikipedia administrators. Not a lot is known about your community, and our students (who are fascinated by wiki-culture by the way!) want to learn how you do what you do, and why you do it. A while back I proposed this idea (the class) to the community HERE, where it was met mainly with positive feedback. Anyhow, I'd like my students to speak with a few administrators to get a sense of admin experiences, training, motivations, likes, dislikes, etc. We were wondering if you'd be interested in speaking with one of our students.
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So a few things about the interviews:
If you have questions or concerns at any time, feel free to email me at obar@msu.edu. I will be more than happy to speak with you. Thanks in advance for your help. We have a lot to learn from you.
Jonathan Obar -- Jaobar ( talk) 07:26, 12 February 2012 (UTC) Young June Sah -- Yjune.sah ( talk) 03:36, 15 February 2012 (UTC) |
I tried to upload an image of "Guru Gopinath", saw a message File deleted, I found an image from www.thehindu.com, what if it uploaded under "Non-free use rationale".Thank you. -- Raghith 10:52, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
I thought you might want to know about some upcoming events where you can learn more about MediaWiki customization and development, extending functionality with JavaScript, the future of ResourceLoader and Gadgets, the new Lua templating system, how to best use the web API for bots, and various upcoming features and changes. We'd love to have power users, bot maintainers and writers, and template makers at these events so we can all learn from each other and chat about what needs doing.
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Hi Quadell, I was wondering if you'd review an article for me. I am thinking that I will nominate Augustinian theodicy as a featured article soon, but am looking for feedback before I do so; would you be able to give me your thoughts? Thanks. ItsZippy ( talk • contributions) 22:24, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
Having read the entire article again, I can't see any other obvious problems, but I'm no expert on the topic. Here are a few things to look out for. (1) Would an expert feel that this article fully covers all important aspects of the topic? Are there important repercussions, descendant ideas, or other aspects that might be missing? (2) Do the sources fully cover the material presented? In other words, if I had a copy of Birnbaum, would I find all the article's assertions supported by footnote 6 in the book itself? (3) It is probable you will find it hard to get enough reviews. Few FAC reviewers are at all familiar with the topic, and most will simply ignore the nomination, which could lead to it "expiring" and failing due to lack of support. To prevent this, it might be a good idea to let all related Wikiprojects and portals know that the article has been nominated, and that FAC reviewers are needed. (Just don't canvass.) Best of luck! – Quadell ( talk) 16:24, 25 February 2012 (UTC)
Am I correct in my understanding that there being no copyright notice on a movie poster published in the United States before 1977 makes that poster PD? I've been having a discussion with Aditya Kabir over Promises! Promises!, which is currently using a FU file despite the poster being on Commons (and sans notice). Crisco 1492 ( talk)
Yea, it's me again (GDuwen). I just wanted to ask you if you could review my current nomination of Waylon Jennings, since you did a great job with Hank Williams. I'm currently trying to finish some of my articles because I might be inactive for a while. If you can't do it, would you know another user that could give me a hand? Thanks again for your time!-- GDuwen Tell me! 21:51, 28 February 2012 (UTC)
Can you check out the propriety of this edit and let me know what you think.-- TonyTheTiger ( T/ C/ BIO/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:FOUR) 06:36, 3 March 2012 (UTC)
I would like MadmanBot to stop slapping users for copying single declaratory sentences as copyright violations while the user is creating an article. While killing time on this mindless task, I noticed that PolBot creates articles and does not attribute the source. [3]
Where did the bot get the information and why doesn't it say that in the article? 68.107.135.146 ( talk) 17:03, 4 March 2012 (UTC)
I need you to delete the history of my talk pages. The one that sas my school Its zippy told me to ask you.
--:)- Slim hady 20:16, 11 March 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Slimhady ( talk • contribs)
Hey Quadell,
I submitted another article stephen_hawking to for FA review, and it's kind of suffering from lack of reviews - I think you've done a couple of image reviews for FAC before, would you might having a look at the pictures? I can't think of anyone better... Fayedizard ( talk) 07:55, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
Actually, I just nominated Ac and Eu for GA because their quality was good enough for GA. I didn't actually work on them. Materialscientist improved Ac and Stone improved Eu. Double sharp ( talk) 03:56, 18 March 2012 (UTC)
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Just a courtesy note that I have mentioned your opinion given here at a new post on the same topic here, and thus both that your opinion would be welcomed and that if your views have been misrepresented or have changed I'd be more than happy to correct them (or you can). Grandiose ( me, talk, contribs) 11:15, 20 April 2012 (UTC)
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The Tireless Contributor Barnstar |
Thank you for participating in the January 2012 MTC Drive. The drive was a big success. As a result of the drive thousands of files was transferred and many files was nominated for deletion because of copyright issues or because they were not usable. For your big work transferring files to Commons you are hereby awarded this barnstar. Cloudbound ( talk) 19:51, 27 April 2012 (UTC) |
I have been attempting to reduce requests for photos and was looking for a way of addressing the large list of plant requests. I then see you have a bot that does something close to was I am looking for. Is there any possibility of reactivating Polbot 11? As a suggested enhancement could a heading be added to the talk, or even article, page stating there maybe an image available on commons and adding it to a category that other users could work through. -- Traveler100 ( talk) 14:36, 13 May 2012 (UTC)
Have already made coffee. Two questions re: images involving the
Pioneer Zephyr.
Thanks for thinking about these, We hope ( talk) 14:28, 14 May 2012 (UTC)
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Hello again. As to your first question, the souvenir was "published" when multiple copies were made available to the public, long before 1978. There is no copyright notice, as would have been required for it to have been copyrighted, so the pre-1978 tag would be appropriate. As to the postcard, the copyright notice is entirely spurious. This is clearly PD-pre-1978, since it was first published without a valid copyright notice. All the best, – Quadell ( talk) 19:57, 14 May 2012 (UTC) |
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Because you're always there with the answers when I hit a bump in the copyright road. As always, many, many thanks!! We hope ( talk) 20:30, 14 May 2012 (UTC) |
I need some help. I need a neutral 3rd part to resolve an editing issue here with Hullaballoo Wolfowitz here --> Jessicka
My point: "Art Slant, [4] Juxtapoz, [5][ Supacute, [6] Coagula Art Journal, [7] & Hi- Fructose [8] are all reputable 3rd party Art sources. Saying these articles are written by friends is purely speculation on your part. Jessicka's wiki page clearly states that she's an artist. Listing past art shows with 3rd party references is just like listing the albums she's released as a musician in her discography. Both are wiki relevant & significant"
Do you think you could point me in the right direction? I just need a 3rd party to have a look.
Hi again Quadell, I've been nominating for a while the article Waylon Jennings (around February). I know that sometimes you're busy, but I was just wondering if you had some free time? In case you don't, do you know any user that could help me? I'm just trying to round up some things before I go for a little while. Thanks in advance, and greetings!-- GDuwen Tell me! 17:57, 17 June 2012 (UTC)