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On behalf of the Arbitration Committee, Johnleemk | Talk 09:34, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
Regarding the speedy keep, I was aware that it fell outside the guidelines in that some people had voted to delete it although they seem to have been active in editing the article and on the talk page. Given the sensitivity and notability of the topic, I thought that it was one of those rare occasions when it was appropriate to Ignore All Rules. Capitalistroadster 18:27, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
Okay, obviously I stopped reading at the "improve the article" point.
When notifying people that I've {{prod}}ed an article, I've described it as a non-intense, non-confrontational process. I didn't realize how small that gnat could be to the unimpressed.
Have you seen anywhere where the prod-to-afd conversion rate is being discussed? So far it looks like using prod merely delays the application of afd. I'm not really convinced it helps, although it is certainly a 'nicer' way to hint that an article is in trouble. Shenme 19:05, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
I'm of mixed feelings about the ==See also== section of Surplus store, but I'm curious why you left the two other store links while removing Galaxy. Granted, Galaxy has linkspammed a slew of articles, but looking at this one article, it seems to me that they should either all stay or all go. I initially took them out while cleaning up spam, mistaking them for external links, and them put them back when I realised they were links to articles. Not a big deal either way, but I was curious. -- Mwanner | Talk 11:54, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
Hey, Stifle/Archive 0506a, thank you so much for your vote and comments in
my RfA, which passed with an overwhelming consensus of 95/2/2. I was very surprised and flattered that the community has entrusted me with these lovely new toys. I ripped open the box and started playing with them as soon as I got them, and I've already had the pleasure of deleting random nonsense/attacks/copyvios tonight. If I ever do anything wrong, or can help in some way, please feel free to drop me a line on my talk page, and I will do my best to correct my mistake, or whatever... Now, to that bottle of wine waiting for me... |
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Dear Stifle/Archive 0506a,
Thanks for touching base. I think I do a good job of staying middle of the road. If not, please feel free to call me on it. I'm here to enjoy and help. Paramountpr 01:29, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
You voted to delete this article in its last AfD nomination. A user using different IPs is trying to expand the article using origional research and no citations. I reverting his edits back to my own which ask for citations for each of his claims. I am thinking about putting it up for deletion again because it's clearly a violation of WP:NOR and the OR is the only thing really establishing notability. What do you think? -- Strothra 01:51, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
actually I went ahead and renominated it anyway. feel free to take a look -- Strothra 06:13, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
Hey Stifle ! I write to you because i find it weird that you make prod on zipmic. I dont really see a good reason for it, because there is nothing in the world called zipmic except for the comic made by Code as he calls himself online. I mean, what harm does it do being there ? It's not like someone will get mad is it ? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Decon ( talk • contribs) 16:34, 4 May 2006 (UTC).
Thank you for leaving a comment on my talk page concerning your "nomination" of me for a temporary block under the 3RR. I appreciate the opportunity to respond to your concerns and will not at all hold a grudge if I am blocked under the 3RR. You have certainly behaved graciously in your handling of this matter. Obviously, I do not believe I violated the rule but I understand that you legitimately believe I have. -- Yamla 23:39, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
Just to clarify ...
I should have used this instead of this?
Thanks. Sue Anne 02:31, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
(apropos the AfD on progressiveindependent.com) Strong KEEP (with editing to reduce the POVness). 'Important' and 'big' are not synonyms. Also, what makes anyone think the membership claims of other sites bear any relation to reality? (No, I'm not a member of that community)—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 70.17.145.158 (talk • contribs) . Note: this vote is the anon editor 70.17.145.158's first contribution to Wikipedia.--RWR8189 16:19, 13 April 2006 (UTC) Discounted this recommendation as unregistered user. Stifle (talk) 00:39, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
Now where do you suppose the lengthy series of exchanges went that followed RWR's comment about it being my first contribution? The lengthy series that began with my identifying myself as having been a registered user since 2005. Apparently someone deleted them before you (officially) saw my self-identification. Now who would have done that?
It's crap like that that makes me wonder why I remain committed to democracy. Katzenjammer 17:52, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
You recently closed the requested deletion of the entry John Francis Laboon Sr. The remark left on the debate page "Transfer to WP:CP".
First, there was never any debate. Rather, there seems to be no record of such a debate, as far as I can tell.
Also, the aforementioned target does not list the supposedly transferred entry.
Can you explain what this is about? Folajimi 19:45, 5 May 2006 (UTC) talk
I just noticed your comment at the end of the RFA — if this is so (shame on me), what is the most widespread definition then? Thanks. Saravask 23:11, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for catching my mistake on the image I speedy tagged earlier; I removed it from the one page I had added it too, but forgot to take it off the page someone else had put it on. Always nice to know that people are keeping an eye out for things like that, and that my mistakes tend to be caught before they can do any harm. Thanks again. -- Robth Talk 05:22, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
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Hello, Stifle/Archive 0506a, and thank you for vote on my recent RfA! With a final vote of 62/2/4, I have now been entrusted with the mop, bucket and keys. As I acclimate myself to my new tools, feel free to let me know how you believe I might be able to use them to help the project. Thanks again! Radio Kirk talk to me 05:45, 6 May 2006 (UTC) |
I thought better safe than sorry. Recently i spent evenings with the policies, and it was outside them (phone #). It turned out to be a living article, not an advert. Akidd dublin• tl• ctr-l 13:25, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
Hi Stifle, thanks for the welcome. I'm using my user page as a test ground right now. I'm writing an article on a hockey team, but i wanted to make sure it looks right before making it live. Once i publish the article, i'll remove the image from my page. Thanks. Chris 22:44, 6 May 2006 (UTC)Spyder_Monkey
Could you please check the image Image:Bulgarian postmark.jpg and tell me whether you believe the claimed GFDL. Did the user create the stamp - I'm not sure which licence goes on stamps, but I don't think that's the one. User:Pulvis angelus and his alter ego Vlatkoto seem to slap copyright tags on randomly. Telex 23:20, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
About my speedy-delete proposal for Image:Books-aj svg aj ashton 01.png: I thought that "Redundancy" was listed as one of the criteria for speedy deletion. Image:Books-aj.svg aj ashton 01.svg is the exact same image in SVG format. So doesn't that qualify? Phoenix-forgotten 23:30, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
hello, please restore the prolyphic page so i can continue to work on it.
thanks Tjthecat3 21:33, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
I have proposed that some of your articles be deleted, mainly because they do not appear to be of significant use in an encyclopaedia. Before adding more articles, check that they do not violate Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information, and perhaps that they are not lists of interest to very few people, i.e. listcruft. Thanks for your help in making Wikipedia better! Stifle ( talk) 23:40, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
I understand that this should not be under AfD. I am planning to take this to ArbCom when I figure out the guidelines and such. I just wanted to request you to change your vote with respect to the following evidence: Wikipedia manual of style states that biography should be under most common name Ghits: Sidhoji Rao Shitole - 20 vs. Yogiraj Gurunath Siddhanath - 2580. -- Hamsacharya dan 18:05, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
Thanks, I stuck with my delete vote but added a couple of words to make it clear that I was aware of the multiple nominations. User:Zoe| (talk) 23:36, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
It's nice to see someone who agreed with me on the Natalee Holloway page. Wikipedia is not Wikinews. Here here :) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Change1211 ( talk • contribs) 07:05, 09 May 2006.
Thank you for your vote in my RfA! <grin> No, it wouldn't violate WP:BEANS, and I did in fact promise to not engage in any deletions or blocks (as a wikignome, those aren't things I want to be responsible for anyway!) But the RfA did not gain consensus so it's not an issue. Glad I took the ride though! - Amgine 17:35, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
You wrote "the current entry which is patently wrong". Could you give a hint what is wrong with it? Thank you. Lambiam Talk 17:41, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
Oh, that makes sense. Good catch. ( ESkog)( Talk) 18:19, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the tip — I'll know in future. -- Mel Etitis ( Μελ Ετητης) 19:30, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
Thanks; I know very little about copyright/fair use and how images are handled on WP, I just stumbled across 3 images of an underaged actress drinking and smoking and doubted them as publicity photos, so found the safest procedure I could to alert others to them. Thanks for your note. - dharm a bum 19:56, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
Hi Stifle! I was evesdropping on this, where you say Websites in the .org TLD are generally not commercial.
Whilst I and many others with non-commercial websites in this TLD wish this was so, I'm afraid it isn't. .org is not policed; ICANN has several pages lamenting that this is not so. [1] [2] [3] [4] are but four .org TLDs being used for commercial gain (two by squatters, two by commercial companies). I can come up with a dozen more in both categories in seconds if you want.
.org is a nice idea but the lack of controls on it means one can't expect a .org to be non-commercial. ➨ ≡ Я Ξ DVΞRS ≡ 22:54, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
Good idea. Though for nn stuff it should probably be speedied anyway if you ask me. -- M1ss1ontomars2k4 01:26, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
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Thanks so much for voting! Thanks so much for voting on my
request for adminship. I have decided to withdraw my nomination as it seems that consensus will not be reached. If you voted in support, thanks for putting your trust in me to be a good admin. If you voted in opposition, thank you as well for your constructive criticism as it will only help me be a better Wikipedian and perhaps help if/when I apply for adminship again sometime in the future.
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Hi. First someone (not me) removes the two images from the Christine Kaufmann page (which had been there for quite some time, without anyone objecting), then someone else (you) comes along and tells me I may add them back again and that if I don't they will be deleted.
Well, it's not me whom you should be addressing here. It's User:Mel Etitis, who removed them and with whom I've had quite an unpleasant discussion in between the removal and the orphan messages.
See User_talk:KF#Image_Tagging_Image:C_Kaufmann_der-letzte-fussgaenger-heinz-erhardt_II.jpg and User talk:Mel Etitis#Thank you? for details. <KF> (another user who is busy in real life) 15:44, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
Whenever you do manage to read this, I think you may be able to help as an admin who has had a lot of experience with this kind of thing. Also, you occasionally help out at the Lost pages when there is dispute, and that's where I got your name. Anyway, you can help by either intervening or pointing me in the right direction (even if I'm wrong in the matter). On the Dharma Initiative page, I had been making edits to improve the organization of certain sections, including one where I grouped the perspectives of different characters into sub-subsections, on the matter of "what is the purpose of the station?". After a 'no consensus' on a splitting vote of the 'station' part of the article, one particular user behaved in a bold manner and went ahead with the split anyway (this user's name can be found reverting my edits on the section DHARMA Initiative stations) After he did the split, he removed all of the editing I had done in that sub-section. I have attempted a discussion with him on the matter of my organization in the talk pages, but he seems to refuse to speak to me directly about it, he makes posts at other parts of the talk page and continues to 'ignore' my discussion and reasoning.
I behaved 'boldly' as well, and decided to fight his "dictatorship" of the page by trying to revert his revert. He responds by claiming that I am starting an edit war and says that I don't own the page, even though he is the one who originally reverted to a version of the page that he preferred. I believe he is abusing his knowledge of wikipedian rules and his status to force me into keeping quiet, so that he can have the page the way he likes it. Since no one is speaking in the discussion (not including users that said one line like 'i do/dont like it', etc...), I don't believe I can gain any kind of consensus to understand what is truly best. I also don't believe that starting a poll or anything like that will help, because this user has many friends online, and can easily request them to vote the way he wants, or at least recruit people he knows will vote his way. How should this issue be fairly resolved? If people that aren't coaxed by him agree that my edits should not be used, then I will gladly abide by that decision. Thank you for your time. ArgentiumOutlaw 23:06, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
I borrowed this image from the book by Yury Kholopov and Valeria Tsenova: Edison Denisov, published in Moscow 1992, where it has been printed without the indication of the name of a photographer or copiright symbol. Denisov was my former teacher and close friend, and therefore I know that this photo was given to the authors by Denisov himself for the illustration of the staging of his opera L'ecume des Jours. Together with this three of my own photos were published in the same book (and nobody asked my permission for this). That time the copyright law did not exist in the Soviet Russia. I believe that the low-resolution image of this photo, let to say, promotional material, we can use in Wikipedia. However if someone have different opinion and convincing arguments, please do detete this image. ( Meladina 23:41, 10 May 2006 (UTC))
Hello, I am the creator of the Elebramony article that was recently deleted. The Elebramony is a fictional animal in Douglas Adam's book "Dirk Gently". I omitted this fact from the article to stay as true to the text as possible. If the inclusion of that line would let the article stay on wikipedia I would put it in, but I think all the Douglas Adams lovers out there would appreciate it if the article was undeleted and left in its previous form.
Thanks for your time, ewhite2
In his book, an elebramony first appear on page 57: "After Thersa turned around her eyes dashed around the room from wall to wall as if she were in an endless labrynth, when all of a sudden a giant elebramony appeared in the window."
Thanks again,
Ewhite2 00:51, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
I meant that it should be that when substed, so you have to do {{<includeonly>subst:</includeonly>PAGENAME}} otherwise it substs when you edit and it puts the template name in. Sorry for not being explicit--going by the timestamp I'm going to blame it on lack of sleep. Kotepho 01:21, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the heads-up, it is indeed supposedly about a place. I was hasty, it looked an obvious vanity about this Hobey family to me. I'll just take it to AfD. Hornplease 06:00, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
Wow, so it's not "critical commentary" even if I mention the specific cover in the article? I guess you've got a lot of work ahead of you, then, because by mentioning the cover I was even being more dilligent than most authors of the articles in which these [5] appear. Rules are rules, but if the image I put up is deleted within minutes of uploading, I want all of those others gone as well. I'm guessing you should get started now... - Davis21Wylie 17:41, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
Hiya! I am interested in helping with the transwiki system and noticed your {{ transwiki}} and {{ transwiki2}} templates. I've not yet started doing any transwiki work and would like to know if you'd like some help testing, specifically from a newbie user standpoint? I've got brand new accounts on meta and wiktionary for the purpose of transwikification and would be happy to help. ~Kylu ( u| t) 20:18, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
I shall see what I can do. I only possess the program paint on my laptop, so I'm not afforded the luxury of resolution and size modifications as on a more advanced program such as Macromedia Fireworks. Its certainly more economical, however, and I'd rather merge all the minor characters into a respective group image than festoon wikipedia server space with multiple, seperate uploads. - Zero Talk 20:37, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
You left me a message regarding whether there is a copyright on an image I uploaded. The image is the Utah House Seal. I am not aware as to whether it is under copyright but I assume that it meets the Fair Use Guidelines. I attempted to find a copyright statement on the seal but could not locate one. I am under the impression that official government seals are not under copyright but are a part of the public domain. Let me know what you think. Edward Lalone 00:55, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
While true that they're not exactly vandalism, the user (who is actually a sock) is now indefinitely blocked for forgery and also uploading and submitting in articles massive copyvios; see AN/I. -- Rory096 04:10, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the note! I felt full protection was necessary due to User:Melbedewy's comment that he could continue to make Hotmail accounts and WP accounts to continue to add the copyvio. He was using non-static IPs because he didn't HAVE to reg accounts with no page protection in place. BTW, I'm the one who brought the AfD. :) Feel free to write back with any additional comments, and thanks again! Radio Kirk talk to me 19:29, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
Thank you for voting on my RFA, however I've decided to withdraw my nomination. I'll perhaps nominate myself in the future once I have more experience, and not to immaturely release RFAs. Until then, I'll continue working on Wikipedia. —
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Re [6] - I'm interested to know where do you want to have the page redirect to? The Court of Appeal is in fact a lower court to the Court of Final Appeal. The former is not part of the latter. — Insta ntnood 21:39, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
All the Gastrich stuff we just went through ... well, it's about to start over. You see, he discovered he was only banned from Wikipedia, not Wikimedia. Check out His User Page. Be sure to look in the history, especially with regard to one possible sock puppet there. Look into his talk page too just for fun. Harvestdancer 01:55, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
Oh, I did make a mention of this on his RfAr. Harvestdancer 01:55, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
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Hello,
An Arbitration case in which you commented has been opened: Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Cesar Tort and Ombudsman vs others. Please add evidence to the evidence sub-page, Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Cesar Tort and Ombudsman vs others/Evidence. You may also contribute to the case on the workshop sub-page, Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Cesar Tort and Ombudsman vs others/Workshop.
On behalf of the Arbitration Committee, Johnleemk | Talk 09:34, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
Regarding the speedy keep, I was aware that it fell outside the guidelines in that some people had voted to delete it although they seem to have been active in editing the article and on the talk page. Given the sensitivity and notability of the topic, I thought that it was one of those rare occasions when it was appropriate to Ignore All Rules. Capitalistroadster 18:27, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
Okay, obviously I stopped reading at the "improve the article" point.
When notifying people that I've {{prod}}ed an article, I've described it as a non-intense, non-confrontational process. I didn't realize how small that gnat could be to the unimpressed.
Have you seen anywhere where the prod-to-afd conversion rate is being discussed? So far it looks like using prod merely delays the application of afd. I'm not really convinced it helps, although it is certainly a 'nicer' way to hint that an article is in trouble. Shenme 19:05, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
I'm of mixed feelings about the ==See also== section of Surplus store, but I'm curious why you left the two other store links while removing Galaxy. Granted, Galaxy has linkspammed a slew of articles, but looking at this one article, it seems to me that they should either all stay or all go. I initially took them out while cleaning up spam, mistaking them for external links, and them put them back when I realised they were links to articles. Not a big deal either way, but I was curious. -- Mwanner | Talk 11:54, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
Hey, Stifle/Archive 0506a, thank you so much for your vote and comments in
my RfA, which passed with an overwhelming consensus of 95/2/2. I was very surprised and flattered that the community has entrusted me with these lovely new toys. I ripped open the box and started playing with them as soon as I got them, and I've already had the pleasure of deleting random nonsense/attacks/copyvios tonight. If I ever do anything wrong, or can help in some way, please feel free to drop me a line on my talk page, and I will do my best to correct my mistake, or whatever... Now, to that bottle of wine waiting for me... |
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Dear Stifle/Archive 0506a,
Thanks for touching base. I think I do a good job of staying middle of the road. If not, please feel free to call me on it. I'm here to enjoy and help. Paramountpr 01:29, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
You voted to delete this article in its last AfD nomination. A user using different IPs is trying to expand the article using origional research and no citations. I reverting his edits back to my own which ask for citations for each of his claims. I am thinking about putting it up for deletion again because it's clearly a violation of WP:NOR and the OR is the only thing really establishing notability. What do you think? -- Strothra 01:51, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
actually I went ahead and renominated it anyway. feel free to take a look -- Strothra 06:13, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
Hey Stifle ! I write to you because i find it weird that you make prod on zipmic. I dont really see a good reason for it, because there is nothing in the world called zipmic except for the comic made by Code as he calls himself online. I mean, what harm does it do being there ? It's not like someone will get mad is it ? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Decon ( talk • contribs) 16:34, 4 May 2006 (UTC).
Thank you for leaving a comment on my talk page concerning your "nomination" of me for a temporary block under the 3RR. I appreciate the opportunity to respond to your concerns and will not at all hold a grudge if I am blocked under the 3RR. You have certainly behaved graciously in your handling of this matter. Obviously, I do not believe I violated the rule but I understand that you legitimately believe I have. -- Yamla 23:39, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
Just to clarify ...
I should have used this instead of this?
Thanks. Sue Anne 02:31, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
(apropos the AfD on progressiveindependent.com) Strong KEEP (with editing to reduce the POVness). 'Important' and 'big' are not synonyms. Also, what makes anyone think the membership claims of other sites bear any relation to reality? (No, I'm not a member of that community)—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 70.17.145.158 (talk • contribs) . Note: this vote is the anon editor 70.17.145.158's first contribution to Wikipedia.--RWR8189 16:19, 13 April 2006 (UTC) Discounted this recommendation as unregistered user. Stifle (talk) 00:39, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
Now where do you suppose the lengthy series of exchanges went that followed RWR's comment about it being my first contribution? The lengthy series that began with my identifying myself as having been a registered user since 2005. Apparently someone deleted them before you (officially) saw my self-identification. Now who would have done that?
It's crap like that that makes me wonder why I remain committed to democracy. Katzenjammer 17:52, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
You recently closed the requested deletion of the entry John Francis Laboon Sr. The remark left on the debate page "Transfer to WP:CP".
First, there was never any debate. Rather, there seems to be no record of such a debate, as far as I can tell.
Also, the aforementioned target does not list the supposedly transferred entry.
Can you explain what this is about? Folajimi 19:45, 5 May 2006 (UTC) talk
I just noticed your comment at the end of the RFA — if this is so (shame on me), what is the most widespread definition then? Thanks. Saravask 23:11, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for catching my mistake on the image I speedy tagged earlier; I removed it from the one page I had added it too, but forgot to take it off the page someone else had put it on. Always nice to know that people are keeping an eye out for things like that, and that my mistakes tend to be caught before they can do any harm. Thanks again. -- Robth Talk 05:22, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
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Hello, Stifle/Archive 0506a, and thank you for vote on my recent RfA! With a final vote of 62/2/4, I have now been entrusted with the mop, bucket and keys. As I acclimate myself to my new tools, feel free to let me know how you believe I might be able to use them to help the project. Thanks again! Radio Kirk talk to me 05:45, 6 May 2006 (UTC) |
I thought better safe than sorry. Recently i spent evenings with the policies, and it was outside them (phone #). It turned out to be a living article, not an advert. Akidd dublin• tl• ctr-l 13:25, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
Hi Stifle, thanks for the welcome. I'm using my user page as a test ground right now. I'm writing an article on a hockey team, but i wanted to make sure it looks right before making it live. Once i publish the article, i'll remove the image from my page. Thanks. Chris 22:44, 6 May 2006 (UTC)Spyder_Monkey
Could you please check the image Image:Bulgarian postmark.jpg and tell me whether you believe the claimed GFDL. Did the user create the stamp - I'm not sure which licence goes on stamps, but I don't think that's the one. User:Pulvis angelus and his alter ego Vlatkoto seem to slap copyright tags on randomly. Telex 23:20, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
About my speedy-delete proposal for Image:Books-aj svg aj ashton 01.png: I thought that "Redundancy" was listed as one of the criteria for speedy deletion. Image:Books-aj.svg aj ashton 01.svg is the exact same image in SVG format. So doesn't that qualify? Phoenix-forgotten 23:30, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
hello, please restore the prolyphic page so i can continue to work on it.
thanks Tjthecat3 21:33, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
I have proposed that some of your articles be deleted, mainly because they do not appear to be of significant use in an encyclopaedia. Before adding more articles, check that they do not violate Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information, and perhaps that they are not lists of interest to very few people, i.e. listcruft. Thanks for your help in making Wikipedia better! Stifle ( talk) 23:40, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
I understand that this should not be under AfD. I am planning to take this to ArbCom when I figure out the guidelines and such. I just wanted to request you to change your vote with respect to the following evidence: Wikipedia manual of style states that biography should be under most common name Ghits: Sidhoji Rao Shitole - 20 vs. Yogiraj Gurunath Siddhanath - 2580. -- Hamsacharya dan 18:05, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
Thanks, I stuck with my delete vote but added a couple of words to make it clear that I was aware of the multiple nominations. User:Zoe| (talk) 23:36, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
It's nice to see someone who agreed with me on the Natalee Holloway page. Wikipedia is not Wikinews. Here here :) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Change1211 ( talk • contribs) 07:05, 09 May 2006.
Thank you for your vote in my RfA! <grin> No, it wouldn't violate WP:BEANS, and I did in fact promise to not engage in any deletions or blocks (as a wikignome, those aren't things I want to be responsible for anyway!) But the RfA did not gain consensus so it's not an issue. Glad I took the ride though! - Amgine 17:35, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
You wrote "the current entry which is patently wrong". Could you give a hint what is wrong with it? Thank you. Lambiam Talk 17:41, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
Oh, that makes sense. Good catch. ( ESkog)( Talk) 18:19, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the tip — I'll know in future. -- Mel Etitis ( Μελ Ετητης) 19:30, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
Thanks; I know very little about copyright/fair use and how images are handled on WP, I just stumbled across 3 images of an underaged actress drinking and smoking and doubted them as publicity photos, so found the safest procedure I could to alert others to them. Thanks for your note. - dharm a bum 19:56, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
Hi Stifle! I was evesdropping on this, where you say Websites in the .org TLD are generally not commercial.
Whilst I and many others with non-commercial websites in this TLD wish this was so, I'm afraid it isn't. .org is not policed; ICANN has several pages lamenting that this is not so. [1] [2] [3] [4] are but four .org TLDs being used for commercial gain (two by squatters, two by commercial companies). I can come up with a dozen more in both categories in seconds if you want.
.org is a nice idea but the lack of controls on it means one can't expect a .org to be non-commercial. ➨ ≡ Я Ξ DVΞRS ≡ 22:54, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
Good idea. Though for nn stuff it should probably be speedied anyway if you ask me. -- M1ss1ontomars2k4 01:26, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
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Thanks so much for voting! Thanks so much for voting on my
request for adminship. I have decided to withdraw my nomination as it seems that consensus will not be reached. If you voted in support, thanks for putting your trust in me to be a good admin. If you voted in opposition, thank you as well for your constructive criticism as it will only help me be a better Wikipedian and perhaps help if/when I apply for adminship again sometime in the future.
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Hi. First someone (not me) removes the two images from the Christine Kaufmann page (which had been there for quite some time, without anyone objecting), then someone else (you) comes along and tells me I may add them back again and that if I don't they will be deleted.
Well, it's not me whom you should be addressing here. It's User:Mel Etitis, who removed them and with whom I've had quite an unpleasant discussion in between the removal and the orphan messages.
See User_talk:KF#Image_Tagging_Image:C_Kaufmann_der-letzte-fussgaenger-heinz-erhardt_II.jpg and User talk:Mel Etitis#Thank you? for details. <KF> (another user who is busy in real life) 15:44, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
Whenever you do manage to read this, I think you may be able to help as an admin who has had a lot of experience with this kind of thing. Also, you occasionally help out at the Lost pages when there is dispute, and that's where I got your name. Anyway, you can help by either intervening or pointing me in the right direction (even if I'm wrong in the matter). On the Dharma Initiative page, I had been making edits to improve the organization of certain sections, including one where I grouped the perspectives of different characters into sub-subsections, on the matter of "what is the purpose of the station?". After a 'no consensus' on a splitting vote of the 'station' part of the article, one particular user behaved in a bold manner and went ahead with the split anyway (this user's name can be found reverting my edits on the section DHARMA Initiative stations) After he did the split, he removed all of the editing I had done in that sub-section. I have attempted a discussion with him on the matter of my organization in the talk pages, but he seems to refuse to speak to me directly about it, he makes posts at other parts of the talk page and continues to 'ignore' my discussion and reasoning.
I behaved 'boldly' as well, and decided to fight his "dictatorship" of the page by trying to revert his revert. He responds by claiming that I am starting an edit war and says that I don't own the page, even though he is the one who originally reverted to a version of the page that he preferred. I believe he is abusing his knowledge of wikipedian rules and his status to force me into keeping quiet, so that he can have the page the way he likes it. Since no one is speaking in the discussion (not including users that said one line like 'i do/dont like it', etc...), I don't believe I can gain any kind of consensus to understand what is truly best. I also don't believe that starting a poll or anything like that will help, because this user has many friends online, and can easily request them to vote the way he wants, or at least recruit people he knows will vote his way. How should this issue be fairly resolved? If people that aren't coaxed by him agree that my edits should not be used, then I will gladly abide by that decision. Thank you for your time. ArgentiumOutlaw 23:06, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
I borrowed this image from the book by Yury Kholopov and Valeria Tsenova: Edison Denisov, published in Moscow 1992, where it has been printed without the indication of the name of a photographer or copiright symbol. Denisov was my former teacher and close friend, and therefore I know that this photo was given to the authors by Denisov himself for the illustration of the staging of his opera L'ecume des Jours. Together with this three of my own photos were published in the same book (and nobody asked my permission for this). That time the copyright law did not exist in the Soviet Russia. I believe that the low-resolution image of this photo, let to say, promotional material, we can use in Wikipedia. However if someone have different opinion and convincing arguments, please do detete this image. ( Meladina 23:41, 10 May 2006 (UTC))
Hello, I am the creator of the Elebramony article that was recently deleted. The Elebramony is a fictional animal in Douglas Adam's book "Dirk Gently". I omitted this fact from the article to stay as true to the text as possible. If the inclusion of that line would let the article stay on wikipedia I would put it in, but I think all the Douglas Adams lovers out there would appreciate it if the article was undeleted and left in its previous form.
Thanks for your time, ewhite2
In his book, an elebramony first appear on page 57: "After Thersa turned around her eyes dashed around the room from wall to wall as if she were in an endless labrynth, when all of a sudden a giant elebramony appeared in the window."
Thanks again,
Ewhite2 00:51, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
I meant that it should be that when substed, so you have to do {{<includeonly>subst:</includeonly>PAGENAME}} otherwise it substs when you edit and it puts the template name in. Sorry for not being explicit--going by the timestamp I'm going to blame it on lack of sleep. Kotepho 01:21, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the heads-up, it is indeed supposedly about a place. I was hasty, it looked an obvious vanity about this Hobey family to me. I'll just take it to AfD. Hornplease 06:00, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
Wow, so it's not "critical commentary" even if I mention the specific cover in the article? I guess you've got a lot of work ahead of you, then, because by mentioning the cover I was even being more dilligent than most authors of the articles in which these [5] appear. Rules are rules, but if the image I put up is deleted within minutes of uploading, I want all of those others gone as well. I'm guessing you should get started now... - Davis21Wylie 17:41, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
Hiya! I am interested in helping with the transwiki system and noticed your {{ transwiki}} and {{ transwiki2}} templates. I've not yet started doing any transwiki work and would like to know if you'd like some help testing, specifically from a newbie user standpoint? I've got brand new accounts on meta and wiktionary for the purpose of transwikification and would be happy to help. ~Kylu ( u| t) 20:18, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
I shall see what I can do. I only possess the program paint on my laptop, so I'm not afforded the luxury of resolution and size modifications as on a more advanced program such as Macromedia Fireworks. Its certainly more economical, however, and I'd rather merge all the minor characters into a respective group image than festoon wikipedia server space with multiple, seperate uploads. - Zero Talk 20:37, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
You left me a message regarding whether there is a copyright on an image I uploaded. The image is the Utah House Seal. I am not aware as to whether it is under copyright but I assume that it meets the Fair Use Guidelines. I attempted to find a copyright statement on the seal but could not locate one. I am under the impression that official government seals are not under copyright but are a part of the public domain. Let me know what you think. Edward Lalone 00:55, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
While true that they're not exactly vandalism, the user (who is actually a sock) is now indefinitely blocked for forgery and also uploading and submitting in articles massive copyvios; see AN/I. -- Rory096 04:10, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the note! I felt full protection was necessary due to User:Melbedewy's comment that he could continue to make Hotmail accounts and WP accounts to continue to add the copyvio. He was using non-static IPs because he didn't HAVE to reg accounts with no page protection in place. BTW, I'm the one who brought the AfD. :) Feel free to write back with any additional comments, and thanks again! Radio Kirk talk to me 19:29, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
Thank you for voting on my RFA, however I've decided to withdraw my nomination. I'll perhaps nominate myself in the future once I have more experience, and not to immaturely release RFAs. Until then, I'll continue working on Wikipedia. —
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Re [6] - I'm interested to know where do you want to have the page redirect to? The Court of Appeal is in fact a lower court to the Court of Final Appeal. The former is not part of the latter. — Insta ntnood 21:39, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
All the Gastrich stuff we just went through ... well, it's about to start over. You see, he discovered he was only banned from Wikipedia, not Wikimedia. Check out His User Page. Be sure to look in the history, especially with regard to one possible sock puppet there. Look into his talk page too just for fun. Harvestdancer 01:55, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
Oh, I did make a mention of this on his RfAr. Harvestdancer 01:55, 13 May 2006 (UTC)