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I am sure you will not mind that I write on my user page that the user page has been edited partly by you against my will? -- Law Lord ( talk) 09:32, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
Since you commented in the last round, please note that the nomination has been restarted. Thanks for the comments and edits so far! -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 16:26, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
Please check this page on the Bank web site:
http://www.bankofestonia.info/pub/en/web/veebiinfo/copyright/copyright.html?objId=270962
It clearly states that the images can be used as long as is not for profit. Can you please put them back?
teah ... I forgot that it isn't a totally safe world Akira-otomo ( Talk) —Preceding comment was added at 15:58, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
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Hi Zscout, I was wondering whether you or whether you know anyone with the knowhow to reproduce this excellent Britannica image I found of the growth of Russia. [1] Obviously I can't upload the Britannica image and I also wanted to make it chronological moving image like this [2], but making it move is not necessary. Best regards, -- Miyokan ( talk) 15:57, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
Hi,
Quick question: I uploaded images from this page
.. this wed site is referenced all over wikipedia and its images are also uploaded in several articles. Do you know why the images of the previous pages were deleted from Wikipedia? I can not find a reason.
Thanks for your help! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Miguel.mateo ( talk • contribs) 14:27, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
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This has become quite disturbing as my page keeps getting deleted, first of all my image got deleted supposedly because of Copyright violation, the image of which I created as well as produced for my patent...
Then my entire page was deleted for what ever reason I don't know, however I do assure you all the information was an original work by me...
Any and all materials not by me has been referenced...
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I took the image from Wikipedia itself, although strangely, I've found it difficult to find the same image again.
With that said, the work by Taschen isn't original: They're reproductions of public domain Chinese propaganda posters owned by Michael Wolf. Would that therefore make them in violation of copyright? I'm not sure. I guess from what I've heard that if you reproduce something in the public domain (i.e., photograph the Mona Lisa, record yourself playing Mozart on a violin), then your reproduction can be copyrighted.
Here's the same photo [3]. A number of the same photos are on the articles on Propaganda and Propaganda in the People's Republic of China.
I did some digging and found his personal website here [4]. I sent him an email just now, asking him permission to use the photo and if he has a large copy that isn't branded with "TASCHEN". If he doesn't respond, any idea on what I could do? I.E., he released the image to be used by Taschen and an Art Exhibit. If it's not possible to get into contact with him, what should I do?
Another thing, too, China has very limited intellectual property law and to my knowledge, it was even worse in the past, back when that poster was likely made. ☯ Zenwhat ( talk) 09:17, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for uploading this image! I'm sure that as the creator of this image you can provide some dearly needed source as to the validity of this image. In other words, where did you find out that this is indeed the new symbol? Source(s) for that article please! Thanks a bunch. Nesnad ( talk) 06:18, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
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It does appear that user did leave Flickr, but he gave specific permission to me in an email to use the work on wikipedia. Is there any way that I can save this picture from being deleted? Remember ( talk) 10:30, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
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Thanks. -- MZMcBride ( talk) 03:56, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
My recent edits on Japanese flags began just because I saw lots of "sin bandera" on the list and I thought it's ugly. But I confess I've been a long time flag-fan, visiting flag-related websites frequently. I liked flags from my childhood, but my interests really grew when ex-Soviet nations adopted new flags around 1992. As for JIS Z 8721, I (carelessly) presume it to be same as Munsell, and use the software 色出し名人 (Irodashi Meijin) to get corresponding RGB. To me, it becomes more troubling when a regional govt states the color in Pantone, DIC, or worse yet, does not. (Happens very often for Japanese subnational flags: they exist, but only on de facto usages without written announcements.) Kzaral ( talk) 04:31, 9 February 2008 (UTC)
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My I ask - what is your motivation to support the Belarus ąuthoritarian government? Xx236 ( talk) 11:11, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
How would this issue be resolved? -- Imbris ( talk) 21:45, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
There is still no pressing need. User:Zscout370 (Return Fire) 22:40, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
Can a cool admin help a guy out? I want to add one sentence to the world of Wikipedia. But I can't. The sentence is factual, provable, reliable (I chose the New York Times version.)
Circumcision may decrease a man's risk of getting HIV but it may also INCREASE a man's risk of getting herpes and chlamydia. (and some doctors even say other STD's too but I won't get into that and I wouldn't put caps on INCREASE.)
The article on circumcision mentions the term HIV probably 100 times (I'm not joking) and mentions "herpes" or "chlamydia" not Once. Click on the article. You tell me if it's an article on the procedure or a pro-circumcision propaganda pamphlet.
Can a cool admin stop two guys named Avraham and Jakew (the site's dictators) from deleting my one sentence I want to add? Or possibly get new Admins to take over this article, which has fallen way below Wikipedia standards. And if people's edits are automatically deleted, people won't want to get a user name and contribute in the future.
here's the New York Times piece... http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=health&res=9C07E4D91F3AF931A35757C0A961958260&fta=y
I used to love Wikipedia until I went to add a sentence, you know? Well, thanks. 70.114.38.167 ( talk) 07:07, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
I don't know if this guy should be banned or not, but I think it's waaay too soon to come to a conclusion on this. Please at least allow more than a days worth of discussion on this, and possibly allow arbcom to continue their investigation, before actually blocking. -- Ned Scott 05:29, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
Please tell me the reason for deletion. Is licence was not good? I have premission of site webmasters for using any picture. -- Pockey ( talk) 15:00, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
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Portal_talk:Poland/Poland-related_Wikipedia_notice_board#Constitution_of_Belarus_and_Polish_minority_rights.-- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 18:46, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
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Thanks. -- MZMcBride ( talk) 01:42, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
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Regards -- User:Mitrebox talk 2008-02-22 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.11.244.78 ( talk) 07:51, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
Hello! I notices that this article hadn't received any rating on the importance scale, and I didn't find where to promote it at the WikiProject Belarus, so I rated it as "Top importance" myself. I see you participate in the project, so I wanted to ask you for suggestion, whether you agree or disagree with this rating, since I don't even know whom else I could ask. Thanks! -- Betty kerner ( talk) 14:50, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
By what criteria would Gallery of astronomical flags qualify for speedy deletion? Given the recent discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Flags of North America, it would appear that editors have reasonable differences of opinion regarding transwiki'ing of flag galleries to Commons; this would argue against proceeding to move all of them over and replace them with links, as there isn't consensus that this is what's best for Wikipedia, wouldn't it? Thanks. -- ScottMainwaring ( talk) 22:36, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
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Your summary for this edit on Noble Woods Park says Removing image using an automated process, see my talk page if you have any questions or concerns. How about saying why the edit is being made and what is being done? The automated process information doesn't matter so much. — EncMstr 04:12, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
Please see my comments on your concern. In this case the image was wanted by the person, and not a threat at all. Shenme ( talk) 06:46, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
Hello
Thanks for your comment.
Under British Law (our site is registred in Britain) our picture is not in public domain. We have paid a high fee to the publishers to reproduce it on our site, and hold the copyright for the elctronic version on our site. If people wish to have our electronic image they have to contact us. —Preceding unsigned comment added by HasHasBoomBoom ( talk • contribs) 21:54, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
Hello again.
When in 1997 we set up our academic site on Berlioz we sought legal advice regarding our intellectual property rights over the content of the site and their protection from abuse, as we have always done for our print books and articles.
Following our lawyer’s advice regarding our rights in UK and international laws, we put the following notice on the home page and all other major pages of our site and a shorter version on all other pages:
Copyright notice: The texts, photos, images and musical scores on all pages of this site are covered by UK Law and International Law. All rights of publication or reproduction of this material in any form, including Web page use, are reserved. Their use without our explicit permission is illegal.
Over the years individuals, institutions and websites from around the world have respected our rights and have contacted us to seek permission to use some of our materials.
It is in the spirit of cooperation and internet citizenship that I am writing this. All I am asking you is to respect our copyright for the electronic image for which we have paid and do not treat it as a public domain item. Please tell your readers to contact us if they want to reproduce it, we would be very happy to oblige on condition of acknowledgement of the source. It's mutual respect and understanding that I am asking for.
Thanks for your comments.
I have enjoyed my discussions with you and your colleagues. By the way, someone had removed the link to our site as the source of the image and replaced it with a different URL. I have now reinstated the oriiginal link. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.168.225.209 ( talk) 17:48, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
Dear Zscout370 Who is this person who keeps replacing the original link to our site for this image with his own URL? This is a dishonest act and should be stopped. Could you please do something about it.
Thank you.
Why did you delete these images of my photos taken by my team. They are Image:Julian Schnabel.jpg, Image:Alan Arkin.jpg, Image:Saoirse Ronan.jpg and Image:Julie Christie.jpg. Actually I sent them to take any photos of the celebs there at any major awards that take place in 2008.
Can you please reupload those images. Thank you.
From User:Red Carpet 2008, If anybody wants to talk to me 14:51, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi. Just curious why you reverted the Canadian Air Command badge back to the CF roundel given the fact that the symbols shown for the other two branches of the Canadian Forces are also badges. The roundel is not the badge of the Air Command; it's just an identifying symbol used on aircraft. BC ( talk) 16:57, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
Constitution of Belarus has been nominated for a featured article review. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to featured quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, articles are moved onto the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article from featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Reviewers' concerns are here. ProhibitOnions (T) 10:24, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
did you remove the Ilkhanate flag, and if so, why? Rcduggan ( talk) 20:10, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi there. You moved Japan from the going-to-recognize table to neutral or ambiguous states table, but, pray tell, on what grounds? Just read the Forbes article [8]. Does this sound like a neutral stance? And I don't understand the edit description about the press having put Japan in the "pro-recognition" column. The press reports what the government says or leaks, as it didin this case. Japan is light blue (indending to recognize), and your displacing it to the rank of undecideds distorts the issue and throws a monkey wrench in the works. Best wishes, -- Mareklug talk 00:49, 1 March 2008 (UTC) P.s. You claim to be able to handle some Japanese; if you read kanji, you may wish to scan somne Japanese press on the subject.
You are a previous participant in the discussion at WP:AN/I about User:Mikkalai's vow of silence. This is to inform you, that I have made a proposal for resolution for the issue. I am informing all of the users who participated, so this is not an attempt to WP:CANVAS support for any particular position.
The proposal can be found at: Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#Proposed resolution (Mikkalai vow of silence) Jerry talk ¤ count/logs 01:30, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
An image or media file that you uploaded or altered, Image:Challenger_memorial_Little_Tokyo.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. Nv8200p talk 15:26, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
Is it really necessary? The article is current news; bound to be updated like mad in the next little while. Pre-emptive full protection seems a bit too much for me. Thoughts? Master of Puppets Call me MoP!☺ 23:37, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
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I created Flag Dude a long time ago and at one point I forgot the password. I just started editing with my current account. Also, is there a way to take ALL THE FREAKIN' WORK I DID PUTTING ON MORE THAN 50 KILOBYTES OF FLAGS!!!!: to a Commons page? If so, tell me. Tascha96| Talk 13:41, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
The article was previously deleted under consensus for being poorly sourced. It has been several months, and the version you deleted had 2 television news sources, several newspapers, and print magazines. Please restore it so it may be put up for AfD vote. Thank you. -- Truthseeq ( talk) 08:12, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
Recent DRV filed, failed again. User:Zscout370 (Return Fire) 14:43, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
I took the photo of Hank Worden which you deleted, and I authorized its usage in the Commons. It may have shown up on Ebay at some time, but it's my photo and its use on WP is authorized. Can you replace it? I'd rather not go to the trouble, having once already done so. If not, I will. Jim Beaver —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.126.243.170 ( talk) 04:32, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
I checked the Commons and the image wasn't there at all. Was it there as another name over there? The Commons and Wikipedia are two entirely different projects. Anyways, what I mean by an eBay watermark is if you looked at the image at the bottom right corner, there was a small mark that was placed there. That mark is commonly seen on photos at eBay. User:Zscout370 (Return Fire) 09:48, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
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I suggest you look at User:Michxel. He's doing many a bizarre page move... He seems to be creating a nonsense article, then redirects it to another and then another. - Warthog Demon 05:58, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
Help. As a Commons admin and Wikipedia user you are in a position to restore order here. Presently, I discovered that it's impossible to find the SADR flag on Wikipedia where you expect it, including in the infobox where it continues to be described yet the picture over the description is the UN flag. Yes, everywhere on the Wikipedia, the SADR flag has been replaced by the UN flag, perhaps as an unwitting consequence of other Commons renames, now subject to edit warring of uploads.
I am agnostic as to which flag belongs in the infobox of Western Sahara, if any, but I am vehemently opposed to a state of Wikipedia, where graphical content is blatantly misrepresenting what it's supposed to be depicting according to accompanying text.
Flag of SADR.svg or something along those lines should exist on Commons independently of Flag of Western Sahara.svg -- which would save us from idiotic outcomes... The revert war is in the upload of the Flag of Western Sahara.svg. I noticed it because mysteriously the UN flag appeared in teh Kosovo international reaction article in place of the Polisario flag in the table. That's not right -- we are describing what SADR people said, not what some UN-flagged entity has said. Please fix it if you can. -- Mareklug talk 16:43, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
What's the deal with not allowing college logos on user badges (like {{User Gustavus}})? I can understand not using a corporate logo (i.e. someone who makes money from their brands), but colleges and universities have no financial ramifications either way from logo use on a webpage (i.e. colleges make their money from donors and students paying to go there). Don't know about anyone else, but my college's financial windfalls from all things with their logo was so small as to be ridiculous anyway (I'm guessing it is the same most places, else the college would be out of business, or fraudulent). If you don't mind, I'd like to see Wikipedia's written policy on this - having the logos would indeed spruce up those templates. From where I sit, seems like that would fall under the fair use stuff that governs other images (oh, and one more note - I consider the template to be one document, regardless of the number of users who attach it to their pages; kind of like a magazine being one volume/issue per time period, regardless of readership). Nickersonl ( talk) 19:53, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
Pay attention dude! The other MFD was closed with exactly the same rationale as I had provided. This MFD is very much more a no-brainer. Could you please not re-open disruptive MFD's? Thank you VERY much. -- Kim Bruning ( talk) 02:56, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
It's has been closed by another user, so all of this is moot. User:Zscout370 (Return Fire) 18:10, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
"Precedents" are irrelevant. If any user thinks something is a good idea, they can do it. If any user thinks something is a bad idea, they can undo it. If they disagree, they discuss it. If they'd like to edit-war, canvass, or otherwise attempt to push their edit through by force, they can do that too if they like, although they will probably be blocked unless they're well-respected administrators.
The ability to arbitrarily close an MfD early or not isn't important, because it depends on how it's done. It can be done by users attempting to shut down MfD's they're worried will be successful. It can also be used to shut down inappropriate MfDs, which may lead to silly flamewars.
There is no intrinsic authority here with particular actions or particular users. It depends on what they're doing and why. ☯ Zenwhat ( talk) 15:44, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
Late reply re Obuibo Mbstpo and binding precedents. Wikipedia does not have binding precedents. However, consensus does shift around, and you can often "read" what the consensus is or is changing to before it actually gets written down, with a little experience. By ignoring a rule and reverting me, Zscout could be read to be shifting consensus. -- Kim Bruning ( talk) 17:43, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
As I told you already, there are many people who do not agree with your close. As an non-admin, I have the ability under WP:DPR#NAC to reopen any discussion closed by a non-admin. 2 admins and at least 3 other users wanted the discussion to continue, only you want the close it. User:Zscout370 (Return Fire) 18:41, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
Nominating a Wikipedia policy or guideline page, or one of the deletion discussion areas (or their sub-pages), for deletion will probably be considered disruptive, and the ensuing discussions closed early. This is not a forum for modifying or revoking policy.
Note that the reward board is essentially similar in nature to the above, and similar reasoning applies. (Also, the same reasoning applies here as for esperanza and ama)
The "probably" looks like my writing. I'll just reword and tighten. -- Kim Bruning ( talk) 19:13, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
Wikipedia_talk:Miscellany_for_deletion#Hardening_the_language <-Discussion here. -- Kim Bruning ( talk) 19:40, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
Alright. We had a bit of a chat and a cooldown. In this case the situation is/was terribly unfair on you, as you're caught in the middle. :-/ Have fun editing in mainspace. :-) -- Kim Bruning ( talk) 03:48, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
Please if we could refrain from personal details, like this one. People from former "East" block are especially careful about such things. Even frightened. Please do not do this any more. I taught we were coleagues. We do not have to go this way.
Also such harsh criticism that I do not deserve. Especially for the issue of the Irish CoA. I just offered help and proven a point. Such details should be included, even if strings remain white.
Imbris ( talk) 22:43, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
I was going over the list of bots and noticed that Zbot370 ( talk · contribs) has not edited in a very long time. Is this bot still active and if not, would you object to it being de-flagged? Please post your comments to Wikipedia_talk:Bots/Requests_for_approval#Dead_bots since this is a rather widely-posted message. MBisanz talk 06:34, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
Would you or be able to update this [9] graph with the 2008 figure (2008 population was 142,000,000 million)? Thanks.-- Miyokan ( talk) 08:42, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
When you have the time, please read the articles and post your feedback at the peer reviews. Thanks.
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I'm a bit frazzled from some RL stuff. Hope I didn't come across as angry at you. Heimstern? Yes. You and MB? No. I have no idea why Heimstern was trying to get the image deleted. Would you mind removing the tag now, as the "issues" have been resolved? Bellwether B C 05:42, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
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I know a coupe years back we re-tagged all logos as non-free. How should an image like Image:PC flag.png be tagged? Its a logo, but its obviously free as a non-copyrightable shape. So it should have the logo license, but not a non-free cat inclusion. Any ideas. MBisanz talk 06:11, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
Hi Zscout. Thanks for the involvement in History of Lithuania. It is always interesting to see new editor on this page. However I would like to speak about different event involving your sysop rights again. Speaking particularly about user:Piotrus unblock and motives to do so, as stated in unblocking by you: I looked at the diffs, both parties are guilty and he was also dealing with IP edits and possible vandalism. Just work it out. I am the person who filled the complain, due to persistent edit warring of particular contributor (involving multiply pages), which is lasting for great time now. Therefore I feel responsible and if my report was somehow improper it should be corrected. Plus per whole my participation in this project I did not witnessed such rationale. Due to these reasons I would like to ask these questions:
I hope you will produce an answers to my specific questions, due to the reasons presented above. Best, M.K. ( talk) 10:41, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
I am not involved in the article in question and, additionally, I never tried to get Piotrus blocked (despite lack of reciprocity in this matter). So, I will provide an opinion exclusively based on what I see.
I would not have submitted the 3RR report on Piotrus, but the existing 3RR report was an onwiki rationale of the block. This rationale may be faulty, and I have no opinion whether it is, but it is important that the blocking rationale is onwiki.
There is a glaring lack of an unblocking rationale onwiki. IRC is simply not valid for any wiki action. Blocking or unblocking. All the rationales must be onwiki. (OTRS, RFCU and other few matters excepted.)
Piotrus did not just "choose" IRC (as you said above.) He contacted you individually via IRC PM. The choice is peculiar since both you and Piotrus have an excellent history of interaction onwiki (nothing wrong with that) and it is known that you are a kind of guy who does not like to withhold a favor. This request, however, was improper. You were duped here, Zscout, and you were being drawn into acting without on-wiki discussion.
I am sure that in no time you will be contacted (again off-line) on this matter and "discussion" of this conversation will take place elsewhere. This is rather sad, but it's a wiki-reality that some prefer to act in a way that they cannot be seen. It is up to you whether or not to engage into such discussion of course, but just be cautious when anyone (myself included) asks you to take any action onwiki and uses IRC or email rather than wiki for that. It may be innocent, but you may be being played. And please don't forget to justify wiki-actions onwiki every time.
Cheers, -- Irpen 22:40, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
Eh-hem. A little umbrage here on my part from your ANI remark. I'm sure it was not personal, but still, AGF and all. I've made thousands of edits here, four GAs, one FA, etc. To have even the suggestion of a block below my name for six photos that may or may not be improperly tagged out of one hundred to a brand new user, is disheartening. MrPrada ( talk) 07:23, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
This matter has been brought up at Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard#Piotrus_incident:_policy_corrections_needed_either_way. I should be grateful if you would comment there on both your reasons why you agreed the unblock following a request at #admins - rather than via the unblock request option available to all blocked editors - and why you didn't clarify your reasons for unblocking when doing so. I am most concerned that it appears a sysop used avenues not available for the majority of blocked accounts to contest and reverse the block, regardless of whether the block was appropriate or not. LessHeard vanU ( talk) 21:28, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
I am sorry that the unblock has caused you so much trouble. Too many users love to wikilawyer, it seems, instead of think what is best for this project. In any case, I hope you'll feel better after I tell you that your quick action allowed me to create this DYK, which otherwise would be significantly delayed (as right there, right then, I had access to sources from library and databases which would have been much more difficult to access elsewhere).-- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 00:46, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
I completed an initial copyedit of this article, but I will be going through it again. There were some sticky spots that required a lot of rewording so I'm certain I've overlooked other minor issues. At any rate, you might remove it from the LoCE page eventually. It looks like that have quite a backlog. -- Laser brain ( talk) 05:00, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
I am at my wits end. Did you look at what User:Tocino is doing? The Russian minister's statements entered as an entry for Free Tibet? Every entity in the article's tables speaks for itself, except in the case of Tibet, where Tocino makes it into a satellite entry for Russia's foreign minister!
Also. The Brazil entry has been blatantly misrepresented on the basis of a Portuguese-language source. In a nutshell, FA Minister was attributed quotes which he never made, and all that, in the context fo a Ministry press release, which does not quote him! I fixed it, used the correct sources, translated the relevant bits from Portuguese correctly and left the entry in good shape. Before then, I documented the problem ont he talk page and provided a link to the relevant press release. But Tocino keeps reverting this because the Portuguese title of the websource states Portugal does not recognize Kosovo without Serbia's consent. That's completely unreasonable. Not only that, doing his reverts he throws away all the other work that wen into putting fixes elsewhere.
This is extremely disruptive.
My leaving a stub "Silence. they said nothing" type entry for Tibet was part of moving the Russian stuff back under Russia. I was the one who put the citation needed there, to buy time...
I don't know what to do. I feel I'm being dicked with. -- Mareklug talk 04:37, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
With all due respect, you just messed up on reference fixing -- the ref marked "Slovakia" (capitalized) and the one marked "slovakiaref" are not the same sources. If you had used the cite news template I prepared for you, you would have used the correct reference. This reference was used before, but that text was removed by yet another user who was in good-faith streamlinging this overlong entry at the time, whifch is the reason it's broken, not as a typo harking to the reference named "Slovakia". If you read the references themselves you will see this readily. -- Mareklug talk 01:22, 22 March 2008 (UTC)
If you are going to protect the page from editing could you please put a pp-dispute template on it. -- SJK ( talk) 02:09, 22 March 2008 (UTC)
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Hey Zach,
I just thought you might like to know the new Wal-Mart here in Havelock is open! Its just like every other Wal-Mart you may find anywhere else. Also you have an image of the gold star variant of the Service flag here. I've seen a few decals (but not flags - they seem to be hard to find) of the gold star service flag and there is no blue outline on the star and the gold color is darker. Are you sure the SVG is correct? Have a good one, my friend. - Thanks, Hos hie 22:26, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
Mareklug and Tocino have been edit-warring today. I'm pretty sure they've broken both 3RR. As you are somewhat involved, you might not be able to enforce ARBMAC yourself, but I strongly suggest you file an AE or 3RR reports or ask another admin familiar with the area to take a look, such as Future Perfect at Sunrise or Moreschi. Regards, Balkan Fever 03:10, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
Hi. As this is about to be featured, may I ask that you weigh in here? Thanks. Biruitorul ( talk) 23:25, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
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The image Wa-police-shield.png was removed by an 'automated process' from the Australian police ranks article. Care to explain why exactly? Thanks. DirectEdge ( talk) 21:55, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
A little while back you unblocked Domobran ( talk · contribs) with an agreement that he wouldn't upload again. It definitely looks like there's uploading still going on and still copyright/unfree issues arising. Would you mind taking a look? Thanks, Metros ( talk) 02:51, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for the advice. At times it seems like people with a differing POV are unwelcome, nevertheless I will continue to edit, but with a cooler head. :) -- Tocino 20:45, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
Hey Zach, contrary to a reached consensus there is a splitting going on instead a merging: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Kosovo#Split_completed -- Tubesship ( talk) 04:39, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
Wikipedia has it wrong. The DOI (declaration of independence) calls for a democratic Republic of Kosova. Kosova2008 ( talk) 04:13, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
You've got to do something. After a pause in operations, back to disruptive reverting, and calling names (he called me a liar on the talk page, while producing evidence that I am not lying -- personal attack of worst kind). And he is reverting forcibly reasonable edits re Brazil/Prishtina, which were justified on the talk page and discussed to death, might I add, with deliberately misleading edit summaries such as "fixing spelling". -- Mareklug talk
I also want to complain about Tocino, he called me the one "doing the dirty work"! -- Tubesship ( talk) 20:48, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
We have finally got a working NPOV intro done on the Kosovo article, if you have further suggestions please make them regarding the intro. I'd like to discuss the info boxes now and would appreciate your comments. Thanks. Beam ( talk) 02:41, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
Hi again. We have an outstanding editprotect request on International reaction to the 2008 Kosovo declaration of independence, a matter of correcting a date, replicated in 4 places. There's a 2-step howto with appropriate strings to replace and the new target. I feel bad about it going uncorrected, since I made the error. :) -- Mareklug talk 03:19, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for all the help you did for me last night. Much appreciated. Ijanderson977 ( talk) 11:23, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
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International reaction to the 2008 Kosovo declaration of independence is now locked due to disputes and those who are in a dispute are not working on it (Mareklug calls Tocino's proposal a bullshit, and Tocino calls him a troll in return).
But it stops us from adding undisputed content so please we need an update on Iran. Instead of the current Iran content (previous statements by minister and ambassador) we need this:
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, stated that Iran, after considering the region's issues and conditions of the region, decided not to recognize the independence of Kosovo. [1]
Original content is: "Ahmadinejad also said that Iran had not recognized the independence of Kosovo after considering the "region's issues and conditions of the region."
Also we need this addition for India:
On March 31, Indian Ambassador to Serbia Ajay Swarup, said that "India's position on Kosovo has been and still is consistent, and that is that the sovereignty and territorial integrity of every country must be fully respected by all other countries. We have always believed in peaceful solutions, because there is no issue that cannot be resolved through consultations and dialogue." [2]
Original content is: Indian Ambassador to Serbia Ajay Swarup confirmed his country's stance on Kosovo in an interview published today. "India's position on Kosovo has been and still is consistent, and that is that the sovereignty and territorial integrity of every country must be fully respected by all other countries," Swarup told the daily Večernje Novosti. "We believed that the Kosovo issue could be resolved in a peaceful manner, by way of dialogue and consultations, and our stand has remained unchanged ever since 1999, when India upheld UN Resolution 1244, which ended the war," the ambassador continued. "We have always believed in peaceful solutions, because there is no issue that cannot be resolved through consultations and dialogue," Swarup insisted. He added that a "high level of India's support to Serbia" can be seen from the comments and articles which appeared in the Indian press following the unilateral proclamation of Kosovo's independence. Swarup also pointed out that Kosovo "can set a very dangerous precedent for similar cases around the world".
Thank you,
-- Avala ( talk) 23:12, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for your effort (especially due to illness) but I don't know if they will do it now. Mareklug has made a lengthy opposing post on addition of text on India and update on Iran. Why? He believes Iranian journalists did not translate the tense from Persian language to English correctly (his personal opinion, there is no Persian version to compare or anything similar) and that the ambassador of India makes statements out of courtesy and not based on real Indian position (again just his opinion disguised in a lengthy explanation). Also he thinks it's poorly paraphrased even though I posted original news content for everyone to see (based on previous experience with Mareklug where he always claimed that someone is falsifying quotes by foreign officials but never managed to point at falsified words). He did not suggest anything himself so far, just stubbornly opposed. He also tried to fool others by saying I never discussed the issue before making an edit request but I quickly proved him wrong by posting a link to another section on the same talk page from the other day where I posted news on Iran for everyone to discuss (where he had no complaints). It equals to his reverts and content removal from before, because of which you previously locked the article.
Now can you please tell me if the user can block edit request on such grounds?-- Avala ( talk) 17:58, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
Hi, were you the creator of the excellent Alf Garnett/Union Jack image that you removed from the Alf Garnett page? If not, do you know who the creator was? I'd like to use it on my own webpage (I downloaded it some time ago). Thanks. -- Frankieparley ( talk) 10:17, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
I have reviewed the Fursuits article. Realist2 ( talk) 08:47, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
You could possibly use that Japanese cosplay source, i would have to read it myself to see if its ok, if you provide me a like on my talk page ill look at it and lt you know. Realist2 ( talk) 16:27, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
from the 3 links you put on my page, use both the 1st and 3rd link. Together they will be strong enough to support the statement. Realist2 ( talk) 17:54, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
I will leave a message on the talk page about whats left to do, not much left i feel, damn i never realised you were an admin, im always left with the big shots. Realist2 ( talk) 23:26, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
Ok ive made a new much shorter list. Realist2 ( talk) 00:20, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
Its looking really good, i think you need to find some stuff on music videos/popular culture. It might fail the broadness test otherwise. Bulk that up and it itl be good. Do a google search. Realist2 ( talk) 01:25, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
Im doing some fine tuning. ;-) Realist2 ( talk) 02:19, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
OK source that last line and it passes. Realist2 ( talk) 02:31, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
Im off to bed, its very early in my part of the world, ill check in on it tomorrow. Realist2 ( talk) 02:48, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
Ok let me know when your finished and ill review it. Yours Realist2 ( talk) 15:07, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
Doh!!! Ill go take a look, Realist2 ( talk) 18:25, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
Yeah it passed, hope my services were of help to you. Realist2 ( talk) 18:41, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
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I am doubt about the accuracy of the Flag of Kazakhstan. I got a 2x3 metres official flag of Kazakhstan which was hangouted on one of the administrative building in Kazakhstan. The image of the eagle on the original flag is different than on the image Flag of Kazakhstan.svg.
Could you send me the Construction sheet of the state flag by the Kazakhstan Government mentioned in comments? My email: BernardTom ( talk) 01:51, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
As you can see, it has some differences than the image in Wiki! BernardTom ( talk) 22:22, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
I guess you noticed that I nominated the article for WP:FAC :) I think we did a great job on the article. Gary King ( talk) 20:09, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
Hi there again, the Michael Jackson article is up for FA. Ive completed the requests of all 3 people who have commented and it has since had 2 further copy edits. Since you have some experience on these things would you mind taking a look to see if it meets the FA critera. Realist2 ( talk) 17:27, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
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User_talk:Beamathan#May_2008 - You were wrong to block me, and I want you to review what happened immediately. Beam 02:05, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
I can't believe this. You say "...remember, this article is on ArbCom probation and we been asked to be harsh on users who cause problems. Locking didn't work, so blocking has to come." That is ridiculous. Please go check out the facts at User_talk:Beamathan#May_2008. I won't fill up the Kosovo Talk Page with this garbage, we should adress it at my talk page. I'm eagerly awaiting what you have to say for yourself, and your actions. Beam 02:08, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
In regards to this message you left on my talk page, I do not understand what you're saying in that context. [12] Is that supposed to be posted under the "Didi" section?
As for the comment, that user revealed his name long ago as Hdayejr, and his sockpuppets (and IP sockpuppets) have made changes on my page for several days now. One of his socks raised the issue here [13] while I was off wiki, and the edit was quickly reverted and the sock blocked by other, uninvolved editors.
Please do not remove or alter the comments of other users from talk pages. If you have a problem with something an editor has written, please take it up with them. Thanks! Redrocket ( talk) 22:34, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
He hasn't heeded your advice, reverted that edit with the personal information from earlier. I filed it with ANI. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.210.57.237 ( talk • contribs)
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Hey, since we collaborated together for Flag of Canada, would you like to work together on Canada Day to bring it to FA status in time for July 1 so it can be on the main page? My biggest concern is what we could put in the article — are you aware of any other 'holiday' FAs that we could compare to? Thanks! Gary King ( talk) 03:09, 12 May 2008 (UTC)
Hi, could you please sort out 77.46.209.231 [14], take a look at his contributions on his recently created account, you will see that he has broken 3RR, he is incredably POV, he has vandalised pages and has personally attacked people such myself ;) haha Ijanderson977 ( talk) 16:39, 12 May 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for sorting him out ;) Ijanderson977 ( talk) 16:39, 12 May 2008 (UTC)
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I would dearly love to contribute to the editing of this man's work in Wikipedia. Any suggestions on how the protection issues with the page can be resolved?
Drakonicon ( talk) 13.41 EST 17 May, 2008. —Preceding comment was added at 03:42, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
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See here.-- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 19:14, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
No disrespect but the picture you've just deleted, on the grounds that it was owned by the BBC, was taken by a mate of mine from 1RTR. Can you kindly restore it please? GDD1000 ( talk) 21:38, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
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Please see [15].— Dæ dαlus T@lk / Improve\ Contribs 17:29, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
couldn't help notice that you are talented with image work. Was wondering if you could make a hybrid of EU flag and British flag for me please. A bit like this. You dont have to, but i' would appreciate it. ;) Ijanderson977 ( talk) 23:16, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
zOMG! Is the picture too big? :D — Nearly Headless Nick {C} 16:06, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
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Hi ZScout370! I saw that you'd fiddled with Image:wiki.png a bit, I was hoping you might be able to help identify one of the characters which I can't figure out. See m:Talk:Errors in the Wikipedia logo if you're interested. I see User:Prodego edited some of the globe text a while ago too, will try him also. Thanks for your time! -- tiny plastic Grey Knight ⊖ 12:19, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
The problem with naming that template {{ Non-free currency}} is that it's not a non-free image copyright tag: if you read the actual text on the template, it says the image may or may not be free, and in practice quite a lot of the images tagged with it do seem to be free. Since image-tagging bots tend to get confused if an image is seemingly tagged as both free and non-free, and tend to assume any such images to be non-free, treating this template as a non-free image copyright tag is obviously problematic. That's why I reverted Sherool's year-old addition of {{ non-free media}} to that template and moved it back to its original title. What I didn't do was fix any instances where the template had been changed to be transcluded using the incorrect "non-free" title, but I was going to ask MBisanz if he might be willing to run his non-free template renaming bot in reverse for that case. — Ilmari Karonen ( talk) 16:51, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
I noticed you created the good article icon (). I want to create some derivatives of this picture, but I'm clueless when it comes to creating .SVG files. Don't feel as if you must create these, but I would really appreciate it...:
(note: I'll tell you what color to use on the outer circle and on the letter (I don't know the method for determining the color of the inner circle) as well as the letter to place inside the inner circle)
Thank you very much, Xnux the Echidna 18:37, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
It's on the main page today! Hot damn :) Gary King ( talk) 00:32, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
Can we get your help in fixing this image? -- Exec8 ( talk) 05:29, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
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Will try to have a look in the next day or two, but don't have much time for Wikipedia right now. I do notice a number of subject / verb problems in the Postwar period section. Awien ( talk) 01:53, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
Image:Japanese Embassy London 2008 06 19.jpg is up... but I have some bad news [16] [17] are of the Serbian embassy, but it has scaffolding in front of it... I haven't done any fixing of them or put them on Commons because of that, but if you want them on anyway just let me know. Alex Muller 21:38, 19 June 2008 (UTC)
Hello.
A few weeks back you asked me about adding in functionality to change license templates. I have now added in this functionality in a very general way (see here). If you are looking to do something very specific and want a single click to make certain changes (similar to how the free logo tab works now), let me know and I can put something together for you (though if it is highly specialized it might be outside of FurMe). - AWeenieMan ( talk) 15:44, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
On what interpretation of G12 did you delete this page? The page itself does not appear to be a copyright violation. I also don't see any notification or response from Tabercil. What, precisely, is the alleged response from OTRS on which you are basing these seemingly inappropriate deletions? Gimmetrow 06:25, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
OK, to start with, which volunteer is handling this from the OTRS side? Without any on-wiki discussion, I really find this all rather strange. You can send me email if there is something "sensitive". Gimmetrow 16:23, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
I confess I am mystified here. I have no opinion yet on whether there is or isn't a permissions issue, but I am completely baffled as to why this page User:Tabercil/Luke_Ford_permission was summarily deleted. You've been asked that a few times and your answer is not satisfactory. I reviewed the deleted material and I do not see any possible copyright infringement, or BLP issue on the page itself. I suggest that a more standard deletion request be made and that the page be meanwhile undeleted. This is what I propose to do unless you can give me a convincing reason not to. Thanks. ++ Lar: t/ c 03:07, 28 June 2008 (UTC)
84.134.95.6 ( talk) 10:47, 27 June 2008 (UTC)Why have you deleted my edit?
Zscout, who was the OTRS volunteer who said the permission was a forgery? Brynn says you were the person who dealt with them. Kelly hi! 16:19, 28 June 2008 (UTC)
So you don't care about the discussion and correspondence with their offices and about the law you just act solely on your personal view? What is that all about?-- Avala ( talk) 10:32, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
Zscout, I keep trying to upload the new logo of the organization I work for (Interfaith Alliance), and it keeps getting removed. I used the exact template I could find for the fair use rationale, but it still isn't working. What am I doing wrong? —Preceding unsigned comment added by InterfaithallianceDC ( talk • contribs) 13:58, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
The Interfaith Alliance wikipedia page that is currently up has our old logo, and i just want to update it with the new one. I want to use it in the Interfaith Alliance page, but wikipedia keeps taking it off. You say that the logo isn't used in an article, but that's because it keeps getting taken off. Not only do I want to ask what am I doing wrong, but also how exactly I am supposed to fix it? —Preceding unsigned comment added by InterfaithallianceDC ( talk • contribs)
I am sorry, but I don't understand. These are all former logos of the Football Association of Serbia and its predecessor, Football Association of Yugoslavia. It is clearly mentioned in the images descriptions that fair use applies to this article (and, in the pre-1992 cases, the Football Association of Yugoslavia article) only. I don't know if you are familiar with the situation in Serbia and former Yugoslavia, but the Football Association of Serbia is considered the only successor of the Football Association of Yugoslavia by FIFA and UEFA and, therefore, I can't find a single reason to remove the gallery, as there is no other place on Wikipedia where it can stand. Please, explain it to me. Thanks.-- Vitriden ( talk) 09:30, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
It's very bad for an admin to ignore everyone and act alone. There was a lengthy discussion over this issue, we emailed many organizations, received some answers and clarified the situation (you did not participate). This is my 4th attempt in contacting you to let you know about this and hopefully the first successful attempt.-- Avala ( talk) 11:25, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
No, the account is not hacked. User:Zscout370 (Return Fire) 17:49, 5 July 2008 (UTC)
Then explain why would you erase a whole article saying "Blatant copyright infringement" for article that comes from website which says that their content can be reused? I still think your account is hacked as you are making irrational deletions. No administrator would delete the whole article because there was some copyvio content in history section and then reerase it under a claim "rm copyvio" including things like election results or sister cities section which are obviously not from the same site (supposed website as you didn't provide a link). Something is simply wrong here.-- Avala ( talk) 22:45, 5 July 2008 (UTC)
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Thanks for the suggestions. I'm not sure what I should do about the flag colors. Flags of the World and Vexillo Mundi provide different Hex triplets and Pantone numbers. Any ideas regarding how I should handle this? Nishkid64 ( Make articles, not wikidrama) 05:36, 27 July 2008 (UTC)
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There is a permission to use content of the Belgrade official website on Wikipedia - [18] so don't remove any of the content that comes from there.-- Avala ( talk) 21:49, 1 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi, Zscout370! How do I go about assuring that the Eskridge image (from the article Kelley Eskridge, the image Image:Kelley Eskridge.jpg) is fine? I originally uploaded the picture, and have sent in the appropriate emails and permissions from the photographer, but now I see from your edit summary that it's not correct. Can you help me out?
I'm also concerned that no one alerted me that there was a problem, neither time. That's really frustrating! We have all sorts of procedures in place for articles that are up for deletion - why don't images work the same way?
Thanks for your help! -- SatyrTN ( talk / contribs) 00:24, 7 August 2008 (UTC)
Thank you for being so considerate in relation to this DRV. While we may disagree on NFCC policy it is nice to see a Wikipedia user who is prepared to work with people in regards to non-free use images where the image is a "grey area" image (and not a blatant copyvio) rather than simply vote for deletion without further warning or consideration. Thank you. I really do appreciate it - it restores my faith in Wikipedia users somewhat. JRG ( talk) 07:15, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi there, I don't know if you removed all those sentences because of a fear of FAR, but I stuck them all there to remind myself that it still needs to be cited, not that it was under the hammer. Blnguyen ( bananabucket) 03:26, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
Alright, fair enough. I am going to try and get "Australian flags" from Prime Minister Rudd so I can try and help improve the article. User:Zscout370 (Return Fire) 03:39, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
I've taken this article from this to this, in preps for filing it for FAC. I could use some help now with:
Any help is greatly appreciated. — Rlevse • Talk • 02:50, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
Wow, thanks for the fast response on the US Gov vs stamps question on Template_talk:PD-USGov#Notice_of_Exclusion_for_Post_Office_and_Stamps... Dspark76 ( talk) 04:00, 16 August 2008 (UTC)
Please have a look at this page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_1391 Proxy User ( talk) 18:31, 16 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I have no idea how to contact Mike Godwin and would be very afraid to, I'm only a little editor. — Realist 2 08:02, 17 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi Zscout370.
There is a request to qualify the stamp statement with somethinkg like "issued since 1979". See also http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stamps_of_the_United_States#Copyright-Note_up_to_1978. I posted this request on the PD-USGov talk page as well.
Thanks again, Dspark76 ( talk) 14:21, 17 August 2008 (UTC)
I don't see how can a flag be disputed on such grounds. Sure there are groups which would like the old flag instead of the current one, and I am sure such movements exist all over the world - in Australia and New Zealand they are quite strong, but the only valid flag of a country is the one that can be seen in front of the UN headquarters. We don't remove the flag of New Zealand with this just because there is a strong republican sentiment. Actually removing a valid Belarus flag of Wikipedia articles is POV for as long as it is justified by "some opposition parties in Belarus don't like this flag". -- Avala ( talk) 15:48, 17 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi. Thanks for weighing in on the Kosovo talk page and reminding people about the probation. You might want to note that, technically, the Kosovo probation appears to have been superseded by the probation on Macedonia (the latter being non-obviously defined as covering "topics related to the Balkans, broadly defined"). See Wikipedia:General_sanctions#Superseded_sanctions and Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Macedonia#Findings_of_fact. Richwales ( talk) 03:45, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
Hey,
we haven't spoken in a while. I just got back from Quebec where I took a tour of the Citadelle of Quebec and actually had a random encounter with Jean-Daniel Lafond at the museum of civilization....but anyways I snapped a bunch of photos of the Order of Canada medals as well as the Cross of Valour and Victoria Cross, Order of Saint-John, Order of Quebec, Order of Military Merit, Order of the British Empire etc. They actually had the governor generals order of canada chain on display but I was forbidden from photographing it. I dont know much about creative commons licenses. Is there a page where I can find more info on them ?
plus if you wanna look at the images they are on these three URLs
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=31548&l=f14a4&id=516773292 http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=28639&l=0a223&id=516773292 http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=31554&l=0200b&id=516773292
Dowew ( talk) 18:41, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
Sorry about the delay. AWB has been having a few issues lately. Here is the august issue of the WikiProject Good Articles Newsletter! Dr. Cash ( talk) 21:02, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
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Just asked on WP:AN/I#Pearl necklace (sexuality) if it's time to consider unprotecting the article (you seem to be away, currently); if you are around and I'm mistaken, my apologies and feel free to reply here or there as you like. – Luna Santin ( talk) 10:08, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
Would you please explain your rationale behind the removal of the Lola Beltran postage stamp from the article? I am afraid that I cannot see a good reason for this, but I am open to discussion. Thanks.-- Lyricmac ( talk) 01:00, 25 August 2008 (UTC)
Please be advised that User:Ragib took exception to the addition of the stamp to Lola Beltrán. I'm not sure that I understand his rationale. See for yourself. Wishing you the best of the day.-- Lyricmac ( talk) 22:55, 26 August 2008 (UTC)
Also, reading the last item in his talk page was very edifying.-- Lyricmac ( talk) 23:02, 26 August 2008 (UTC)
Sounds like a winner. I'll take a swipe at it tomorrow or the next day. All the best,-- Lyricmac ( talk) 23:08, 26 August 2008 (UTC)
Was there ANY mention of the stamp at all in the article Lola Beltrán when I removed it? If not, how on earth can the stamp be used there? I did take a look at the article, and didn't find any mention of the stamp there. As of this version, there is still not a single reference to the stamp in the biography. So, my rationale for removing the stamp is clear. That user:Lyricmac found a similar complaint from yet another user-who-doesn't-understand-FUC is not my concern, nor would it "illuminate" anyone.
I also understand people's anger when their favorite stamps are removed from their favorite articles ... but WP:ILIKEIT is not a substitute for bypassing FUC. Following Zscout's suggestion, I am not removing stamps from articles having substantial mention of the stamps used there, but I shall continue to do so from articles where an editor misused Fair use to illustrate the subject rather than the stamp. If anyone has any problems with the removal of incorrectly-FU-claimed stamps, please feel free to propose changing Wikipedia's Fair use criteria. Thanks. -- Ragib ( talk) 00:18, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
I respectfully request that you refrain from deleting comments on the CFS talk page. You have no authority to do so. Thank you. Nocandu1976 ( talk) 20:17, 25 August 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for uploading Image:Order_of_Canada_(Member).jpg. I noticed the description page specifies that the media is being used under a claim of fair use, but its use in Wikipedia articles fails our first non-free content criterion in that it illustrates a subject for which a freely licensed media could reasonably be found or created that provides substantially the same information. If you believe this media is not replaceable, please:
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If you have uploaded other non-free media, consider checking that you have specified how these images fully satisfy our non-free content criteria. You can find a list of description pages you have edited by clicking on this link. Note that even if you follow steps 1 and 2 above, non-free media which could be replaced by freely licensed alternatives will be deleted 2 days after this notification (7 days if uploaded before 13 July 2006), per our non-free content policy. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. Do you want to opt out of receiving this notice? Calliopejen1 ( talk) 20:38, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
Since this: Image:TomandJerryTitleCard1.jpg is PD, is this: Image:Tomjerrylogo40s.jpg? Pls respond on my talk page. — Rlevse • Talk • 22:20, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
hi, for info, someone's added some citation needed tags which will need to be resolved before the article passes GA - i'm sure you know about the process. thought i would let you know. also, it says you're retired at the top of this page but you seem to be pretty active, are you sure you meant retired? Tom ( talk) 11:30, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
While I appreciate your "tip", I think you will find that png images prevent lossy compression when people use them, edit them and re-upload them - and are thus widely favourable to jpg images unless there is a very good reason. Sherurcij ( speaker for the dead) 00:43, 29 August 2008 (UTC)
Hello - continuing your good work on the Rann and Dunstan picture, I was wondering whether you would help me with a fair use rationale to get it to comply with WP requirements. I don't think an accident can be decently described without an image of it, but there are no free images available due to the accident's remoteness and the fact that all images were taken by Government or media crews. Any suggestions on the Fair Use rationale here? Image is Image:Waterfallrailcrash.jpg. I'm also concerned about NFCC 6 - would this image (a Government picture subject to Crown Copyright and more available for public use than the ABC news picture) be a better selection?
You can reply here. JRG ( talk) 03:21, 30 August 2008 (UTC)
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I've received a request for help related to image copyvio/dispute/rev war and I think you are the person more versed in those issues: see Image:Czeslawa-Kwoka2.jpg and Image:Czeslawa-Kwoka.jpg. Thanks! -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 04:32, 4 September 2008 (UTC)
On the subject of these two images, I'd like to point out (since their discussion pages are getting way too large) that these images are not under copyright in the US to the photographer. It can be argued that the original photographer was not "working" for the Nazi Party as he was forced to take the photos. This means that it can't be claimed that the Nazi Party actually owns these images (although I'm not sure on this since there's probably not a law dealing with forced creation). But even if one makes that claim, the photographer was taking photos of individuals who were forced to pose for them. I cannot take photos of you without your permission and then do as I please with them. If you took me to court, you'd win and get to control the photos. Similarly, if we claim the photographer did not give up his rights to the photos simply because he was forced, we must also claim that the people in them did not give up theirs simply because they were forced. This means that in the end, the photos belong to the young girl they depict who died more than 50 years ago. This is in addition to the photos being taken for public document purposes, being free under Polish law, and being taken of a prisoner in a Nazi Death camp. The photos also are fairly important to the article (the girl's notability largely stems from the photos). I hope that you will see that these photos are not currently owned by any living person or entity and will use these arguements to see that the photos remain in the article. - 67.166.132.47 ( talk) 08:16, 10 September 2008 (UTC)
I noticed that you deleted Image:Big202115.jpg after it was kept at WP:PUI, giving a simple summary of "I3: Improper license." A good explanation would be helpful here. Best, IronGargoyle ( talk) 00:33, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
This is a tricky issue, but I don't think dissenting from Commons is a good idea. We have enough problems keeping image that are non-free on Commons here as it is. The debate was cut short, so it might be a good idea to hold it in a less public part of Commons. BJ Talk 03:08, 12 September 2008 (UTC)
There is an MfD here requesting deletion of WikiProject Heraldry and vexillology flags. -- Suntag ☼ 04:54, 14 September 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I'm unclear why any copyvio items would not simply be corrected, especially on an article at AfD rather than delete the entire article? [20] -- Banjeboi 14:48, 14 September 2008 (UTC)
Could you take a look at commons:Commons:Deletion requests/Images of Lewinski-Corwin? I think that's more of 'delete because IDONTLIKEIT' one. Thanks, -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 21:30, 16 September 2008 (UTC)
...has been protected since 25th February. You cited BLP issues, and I presume the history has been heavily oversighted, too. Still, with nothing on the talk page I wonder if you'd review whether there is a continued need for full protection of the article. Thanks, Splash - tk 20:31, 17 September 2008 (UTC).
There is a discussion at Talk:Liancourt Rocks regarding:
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My question is about a famous picture
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Soviet_flag_on_the_Reichstag_roof_unaltered.jpg.
Could you please explain me what is the current copyright status of that picture? I am asking because I thought to introduce it into a collage for WWII article but I was told that this work is not in a public domain anymore.
Thank you in advance. --
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Congrats on getting Belarus at the Olympics up to good article status! You've done some great work, and that's very much appreciated! -- Jonel ( Speak to me) 22:21, 22 September 2008 (UTC)
I'll be reviewing the Flag of Kosovo article that you nominated. If you have any questions or suggestions during the process let me know. Keep in touch by checking the review page. Also, I have a question about something you wrote. You said, I'll look and see if I could expand a bit, but honestly, there isn't enough information to shape this to my personal liking. I mostly still see news reports about the flag being new, Serbia hates it and it was used in a hacking attack 2 weeks ago. Why would nominate it if you feel this way? Should I go ahead and fail it? One of the quick fail criteria is about that the article is about a current event, and that's one of the things you brought up. Also if you don't have "much to work with" or "enough information" do you really think that this is GA worthy? Regardless I'll begin the review but I'm curious as to why you renommed it then. -- Banime ( talk) 17:30, 23 September 2008 (UTC)
Any idea for this? -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 15:31, 29 September 2008 (UTC)
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Since IIRC this involves your action: link.-- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 17:11, 7 October 2008 (UTC)
You said you'd look into the Alfax thing for me? DS ( talk) 01:34, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
Hi! I've seen you edit a lot of articles on Belarus, so I hope you can help me -- any idea where we could at least get the results of seats per party for the Belarusian parliamentary election, 2008? (I'm not even dreaming of actually getting votes per party, but that would be even better, of course.) My knowledge of Cyrillic is pretty abysmal, so I can't even tell you whether the official website of the Belarusian House of Representatives has the info or not... Thanks! — Nightstallion 08:35, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
There is currently an open Request for Comment on User Conduct here, regarding G2bambino. As someone with past interactions with him, you are invited to comment. — [ roux ] [ x 15:48, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
Hi! A user has nominated Afghanistan–Kosovo relations for deletion. Please feel free to explain your opinions. Go and see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Afghanistan–Kosovo relations. (Also there are 16 AfD nominations at the same page which includes Canada, Japan and several others). Thank you for your time! -- Turkish Flame ☎ 06:42, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
Referencing our discussion here ( see also this discussion), and the recent decision on WP:PUI regarding Russian state images, I was wondering if you would be willing to undelete any of the Russian images that you speedily deleted under the WP:CSD#I3 criterion? Or minded if I did so? Best, IronGargoyle ( talk) 00:34, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
Just a note to let you know that National emblem of Belarus has been scheduled for the main page on October 27. [21]. Congratulations, and dont get stressed out by all the ips! Ceoil sláinte 17:35, 26 October 2008 (UTC)
Do you think that this idea is sound and could be made into a policy - I posted it here Image talk:Austria Belarus Locator.png. Basically it means that if both countries whose relations are supposed to be depicted don't recognise Kosovo as independent then the map shows Kosovo as part of Serbia. In case one of them does and the other one doesn't, Kosovo border is shown with an interrupted line (alternatively it could be a shaded part of Serbia) and if both countries recognise Kosovo then Kosovo is shown with a full border. What do you think? Can this be turned into an official rule for maps of this sort?-- Avala ( talk) 19:52, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
[22] (sorry I didn't have time to fill the rest of the article, I'll try to come back and do the rest later) Master&Expert ( Talk) 05:59, 30 October 2008 (UTC)
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Let me congratulate you on getting " Flag of Singapore" to GA status – it's been a rather painful process – by awarding you with a barnstar that you created! Thanks for helping to improve Singapore-related articles in Wikipedia. — Cheers, JackLee – talk– 04:08, 5 November 2008 (UTC) | ||
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Do you think that this idea is sound and could be made into a policy - I posted it here Image talk:Austria Belarus Locator.png. Basically it means that if both countries whose relations are supposed to be depicted don't recognise Kosovo as independent then the map shows Kosovo as part of Serbia. In case one of them does and the other one doesn't, Kosovo border is shown with an interrupted line (alternatively it could be a shaded part of Serbia) and if both countries recognise Kosovo then Kosovo is shown with a full border. What do you think? Can this be turned into an official rule for maps of this sort?-- Avala ( talk) 20:27, 6 November 2008 (UTC)
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Hi Zscout370
I have just created a ribbon alternative in your style for the WP:ANIME's second award, but it seems to me that I cannot quite get it "right" (Refer to the images – Who would have thought that it is so difficult to get 2160 pixels right?). Would you mind having a go at it? (Please overwrite my version if you wish).
Regards
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Since you commented in the last round, please note that the nomination has been restarted. Thanks for the comments and edits so far! -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 16:26, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
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It clearly states that the images can be used as long as is not for profit. Can you please put them back?
teah ... I forgot that it isn't a totally safe world Akira-otomo ( Talk) —Preceding comment was added at 15:58, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
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Hi Zscout, I was wondering whether you or whether you know anyone with the knowhow to reproduce this excellent Britannica image I found of the growth of Russia. [1] Obviously I can't upload the Britannica image and I also wanted to make it chronological moving image like this [2], but making it move is not necessary. Best regards, -- Miyokan ( talk) 15:57, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
Hi,
Quick question: I uploaded images from this page
.. this wed site is referenced all over wikipedia and its images are also uploaded in several articles. Do you know why the images of the previous pages were deleted from Wikipedia? I can not find a reason.
Thanks for your help! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Miguel.mateo ( talk • contribs) 14:27, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
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This has become quite disturbing as my page keeps getting deleted, first of all my image got deleted supposedly because of Copyright violation, the image of which I created as well as produced for my patent...
Then my entire page was deleted for what ever reason I don't know, however I do assure you all the information was an original work by me...
Any and all materials not by me has been referenced...
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I took the image from Wikipedia itself, although strangely, I've found it difficult to find the same image again.
With that said, the work by Taschen isn't original: They're reproductions of public domain Chinese propaganda posters owned by Michael Wolf. Would that therefore make them in violation of copyright? I'm not sure. I guess from what I've heard that if you reproduce something in the public domain (i.e., photograph the Mona Lisa, record yourself playing Mozart on a violin), then your reproduction can be copyrighted.
Here's the same photo [3]. A number of the same photos are on the articles on Propaganda and Propaganda in the People's Republic of China.
I did some digging and found his personal website here [4]. I sent him an email just now, asking him permission to use the photo and if he has a large copy that isn't branded with "TASCHEN". If he doesn't respond, any idea on what I could do? I.E., he released the image to be used by Taschen and an Art Exhibit. If it's not possible to get into contact with him, what should I do?
Another thing, too, China has very limited intellectual property law and to my knowledge, it was even worse in the past, back when that poster was likely made. ☯ Zenwhat ( talk) 09:17, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for uploading this image! I'm sure that as the creator of this image you can provide some dearly needed source as to the validity of this image. In other words, where did you find out that this is indeed the new symbol? Source(s) for that article please! Thanks a bunch. Nesnad ( talk) 06:18, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
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It does appear that user did leave Flickr, but he gave specific permission to me in an email to use the work on wikipedia. Is there any way that I can save this picture from being deleted? Remember ( talk) 10:30, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
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My recent edits on Japanese flags began just because I saw lots of "sin bandera" on the list and I thought it's ugly. But I confess I've been a long time flag-fan, visiting flag-related websites frequently. I liked flags from my childhood, but my interests really grew when ex-Soviet nations adopted new flags around 1992. As for JIS Z 8721, I (carelessly) presume it to be same as Munsell, and use the software 色出し名人 (Irodashi Meijin) to get corresponding RGB. To me, it becomes more troubling when a regional govt states the color in Pantone, DIC, or worse yet, does not. (Happens very often for Japanese subnational flags: they exist, but only on de facto usages without written announcements.) Kzaral ( talk) 04:31, 9 February 2008 (UTC)
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My I ask - what is your motivation to support the Belarus ąuthoritarian government? Xx236 ( talk) 11:11, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
How would this issue be resolved? -- Imbris ( talk) 21:45, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
There is still no pressing need. User:Zscout370 (Return Fire) 22:40, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
Can a cool admin help a guy out? I want to add one sentence to the world of Wikipedia. But I can't. The sentence is factual, provable, reliable (I chose the New York Times version.)
Circumcision may decrease a man's risk of getting HIV but it may also INCREASE a man's risk of getting herpes and chlamydia. (and some doctors even say other STD's too but I won't get into that and I wouldn't put caps on INCREASE.)
The article on circumcision mentions the term HIV probably 100 times (I'm not joking) and mentions "herpes" or "chlamydia" not Once. Click on the article. You tell me if it's an article on the procedure or a pro-circumcision propaganda pamphlet.
Can a cool admin stop two guys named Avraham and Jakew (the site's dictators) from deleting my one sentence I want to add? Or possibly get new Admins to take over this article, which has fallen way below Wikipedia standards. And if people's edits are automatically deleted, people won't want to get a user name and contribute in the future.
here's the New York Times piece... http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=health&res=9C07E4D91F3AF931A35757C0A961958260&fta=y
I used to love Wikipedia until I went to add a sentence, you know? Well, thanks. 70.114.38.167 ( talk) 07:07, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
I don't know if this guy should be banned or not, but I think it's waaay too soon to come to a conclusion on this. Please at least allow more than a days worth of discussion on this, and possibly allow arbcom to continue their investigation, before actually blocking. -- Ned Scott 05:29, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
Please tell me the reason for deletion. Is licence was not good? I have premission of site webmasters for using any picture. -- Pockey ( talk) 15:00, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
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Regards -- User:Mitrebox talk 2008-02-22 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.11.244.78 ( talk) 07:51, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
Hello! I notices that this article hadn't received any rating on the importance scale, and I didn't find where to promote it at the WikiProject Belarus, so I rated it as "Top importance" myself. I see you participate in the project, so I wanted to ask you for suggestion, whether you agree or disagree with this rating, since I don't even know whom else I could ask. Thanks! -- Betty kerner ( talk) 14:50, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
By what criteria would Gallery of astronomical flags qualify for speedy deletion? Given the recent discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Flags of North America, it would appear that editors have reasonable differences of opinion regarding transwiki'ing of flag galleries to Commons; this would argue against proceeding to move all of them over and replace them with links, as there isn't consensus that this is what's best for Wikipedia, wouldn't it? Thanks. -- ScottMainwaring ( talk) 22:36, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
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Your summary for this edit on Noble Woods Park says Removing image using an automated process, see my talk page if you have any questions or concerns. How about saying why the edit is being made and what is being done? The automated process information doesn't matter so much. — EncMstr 04:12, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
Please see my comments on your concern. In this case the image was wanted by the person, and not a threat at all. Shenme ( talk) 06:46, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
Hello
Thanks for your comment.
Under British Law (our site is registred in Britain) our picture is not in public domain. We have paid a high fee to the publishers to reproduce it on our site, and hold the copyright for the elctronic version on our site. If people wish to have our electronic image they have to contact us. —Preceding unsigned comment added by HasHasBoomBoom ( talk • contribs) 21:54, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
Hello again.
When in 1997 we set up our academic site on Berlioz we sought legal advice regarding our intellectual property rights over the content of the site and their protection from abuse, as we have always done for our print books and articles.
Following our lawyer’s advice regarding our rights in UK and international laws, we put the following notice on the home page and all other major pages of our site and a shorter version on all other pages:
Copyright notice: The texts, photos, images and musical scores on all pages of this site are covered by UK Law and International Law. All rights of publication or reproduction of this material in any form, including Web page use, are reserved. Their use without our explicit permission is illegal.
Over the years individuals, institutions and websites from around the world have respected our rights and have contacted us to seek permission to use some of our materials.
It is in the spirit of cooperation and internet citizenship that I am writing this. All I am asking you is to respect our copyright for the electronic image for which we have paid and do not treat it as a public domain item. Please tell your readers to contact us if they want to reproduce it, we would be very happy to oblige on condition of acknowledgement of the source. It's mutual respect and understanding that I am asking for.
Thanks for your comments.
I have enjoyed my discussions with you and your colleagues. By the way, someone had removed the link to our site as the source of the image and replaced it with a different URL. I have now reinstated the oriiginal link. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.168.225.209 ( talk) 17:48, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
Dear Zscout370 Who is this person who keeps replacing the original link to our site for this image with his own URL? This is a dishonest act and should be stopped. Could you please do something about it.
Thank you.
Why did you delete these images of my photos taken by my team. They are Image:Julian Schnabel.jpg, Image:Alan Arkin.jpg, Image:Saoirse Ronan.jpg and Image:Julie Christie.jpg. Actually I sent them to take any photos of the celebs there at any major awards that take place in 2008.
Can you please reupload those images. Thank you.
From User:Red Carpet 2008, If anybody wants to talk to me 14:51, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi. Just curious why you reverted the Canadian Air Command badge back to the CF roundel given the fact that the symbols shown for the other two branches of the Canadian Forces are also badges. The roundel is not the badge of the Air Command; it's just an identifying symbol used on aircraft. BC ( talk) 16:57, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
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did you remove the Ilkhanate flag, and if so, why? Rcduggan ( talk) 20:10, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi there. You moved Japan from the going-to-recognize table to neutral or ambiguous states table, but, pray tell, on what grounds? Just read the Forbes article [8]. Does this sound like a neutral stance? And I don't understand the edit description about the press having put Japan in the "pro-recognition" column. The press reports what the government says or leaks, as it didin this case. Japan is light blue (indending to recognize), and your displacing it to the rank of undecideds distorts the issue and throws a monkey wrench in the works. Best wishes, -- Mareklug talk 00:49, 1 March 2008 (UTC) P.s. You claim to be able to handle some Japanese; if you read kanji, you may wish to scan somne Japanese press on the subject.
You are a previous participant in the discussion at WP:AN/I about User:Mikkalai's vow of silence. This is to inform you, that I have made a proposal for resolution for the issue. I am informing all of the users who participated, so this is not an attempt to WP:CANVAS support for any particular position.
The proposal can be found at: Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#Proposed resolution (Mikkalai vow of silence) Jerry talk ¤ count/logs 01:30, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
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Is it really necessary? The article is current news; bound to be updated like mad in the next little while. Pre-emptive full protection seems a bit too much for me. Thoughts? Master of Puppets Call me MoP!☺ 23:37, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
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I created Flag Dude a long time ago and at one point I forgot the password. I just started editing with my current account. Also, is there a way to take ALL THE FREAKIN' WORK I DID PUTTING ON MORE THAN 50 KILOBYTES OF FLAGS!!!!: to a Commons page? If so, tell me. Tascha96| Talk 13:41, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
The article was previously deleted under consensus for being poorly sourced. It has been several months, and the version you deleted had 2 television news sources, several newspapers, and print magazines. Please restore it so it may be put up for AfD vote. Thank you. -- Truthseeq ( talk) 08:12, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
Recent DRV filed, failed again. User:Zscout370 (Return Fire) 14:43, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
I took the photo of Hank Worden which you deleted, and I authorized its usage in the Commons. It may have shown up on Ebay at some time, but it's my photo and its use on WP is authorized. Can you replace it? I'd rather not go to the trouble, having once already done so. If not, I will. Jim Beaver —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.126.243.170 ( talk) 04:32, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
I checked the Commons and the image wasn't there at all. Was it there as another name over there? The Commons and Wikipedia are two entirely different projects. Anyways, what I mean by an eBay watermark is if you looked at the image at the bottom right corner, there was a small mark that was placed there. That mark is commonly seen on photos at eBay. User:Zscout370 (Return Fire) 09:48, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
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I suggest you look at User:Michxel. He's doing many a bizarre page move... He seems to be creating a nonsense article, then redirects it to another and then another. - Warthog Demon 05:58, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
Help. As a Commons admin and Wikipedia user you are in a position to restore order here. Presently, I discovered that it's impossible to find the SADR flag on Wikipedia where you expect it, including in the infobox where it continues to be described yet the picture over the description is the UN flag. Yes, everywhere on the Wikipedia, the SADR flag has been replaced by the UN flag, perhaps as an unwitting consequence of other Commons renames, now subject to edit warring of uploads.
I am agnostic as to which flag belongs in the infobox of Western Sahara, if any, but I am vehemently opposed to a state of Wikipedia, where graphical content is blatantly misrepresenting what it's supposed to be depicting according to accompanying text.
Flag of SADR.svg or something along those lines should exist on Commons independently of Flag of Western Sahara.svg -- which would save us from idiotic outcomes... The revert war is in the upload of the Flag of Western Sahara.svg. I noticed it because mysteriously the UN flag appeared in teh Kosovo international reaction article in place of the Polisario flag in the table. That's not right -- we are describing what SADR people said, not what some UN-flagged entity has said. Please fix it if you can. -- Mareklug talk 16:43, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
What's the deal with not allowing college logos on user badges (like {{User Gustavus}})? I can understand not using a corporate logo (i.e. someone who makes money from their brands), but colleges and universities have no financial ramifications either way from logo use on a webpage (i.e. colleges make their money from donors and students paying to go there). Don't know about anyone else, but my college's financial windfalls from all things with their logo was so small as to be ridiculous anyway (I'm guessing it is the same most places, else the college would be out of business, or fraudulent). If you don't mind, I'd like to see Wikipedia's written policy on this - having the logos would indeed spruce up those templates. From where I sit, seems like that would fall under the fair use stuff that governs other images (oh, and one more note - I consider the template to be one document, regardless of the number of users who attach it to their pages; kind of like a magazine being one volume/issue per time period, regardless of readership). Nickersonl ( talk) 19:53, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
Pay attention dude! The other MFD was closed with exactly the same rationale as I had provided. This MFD is very much more a no-brainer. Could you please not re-open disruptive MFD's? Thank you VERY much. -- Kim Bruning ( talk) 02:56, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
It's has been closed by another user, so all of this is moot. User:Zscout370 (Return Fire) 18:10, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
"Precedents" are irrelevant. If any user thinks something is a good idea, they can do it. If any user thinks something is a bad idea, they can undo it. If they disagree, they discuss it. If they'd like to edit-war, canvass, or otherwise attempt to push their edit through by force, they can do that too if they like, although they will probably be blocked unless they're well-respected administrators.
The ability to arbitrarily close an MfD early or not isn't important, because it depends on how it's done. It can be done by users attempting to shut down MfD's they're worried will be successful. It can also be used to shut down inappropriate MfDs, which may lead to silly flamewars.
There is no intrinsic authority here with particular actions or particular users. It depends on what they're doing and why. ☯ Zenwhat ( talk) 15:44, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
Late reply re Obuibo Mbstpo and binding precedents. Wikipedia does not have binding precedents. However, consensus does shift around, and you can often "read" what the consensus is or is changing to before it actually gets written down, with a little experience. By ignoring a rule and reverting me, Zscout could be read to be shifting consensus. -- Kim Bruning ( talk) 17:43, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
As I told you already, there are many people who do not agree with your close. As an non-admin, I have the ability under WP:DPR#NAC to reopen any discussion closed by a non-admin. 2 admins and at least 3 other users wanted the discussion to continue, only you want the close it. User:Zscout370 (Return Fire) 18:41, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
Nominating a Wikipedia policy or guideline page, or one of the deletion discussion areas (or their sub-pages), for deletion will probably be considered disruptive, and the ensuing discussions closed early. This is not a forum for modifying or revoking policy.
Note that the reward board is essentially similar in nature to the above, and similar reasoning applies. (Also, the same reasoning applies here as for esperanza and ama)
The "probably" looks like my writing. I'll just reword and tighten. -- Kim Bruning ( talk) 19:13, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
Wikipedia_talk:Miscellany_for_deletion#Hardening_the_language <-Discussion here. -- Kim Bruning ( talk) 19:40, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
Alright. We had a bit of a chat and a cooldown. In this case the situation is/was terribly unfair on you, as you're caught in the middle. :-/ Have fun editing in mainspace. :-) -- Kim Bruning ( talk) 03:48, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
Please if we could refrain from personal details, like this one. People from former "East" block are especially careful about such things. Even frightened. Please do not do this any more. I taught we were coleagues. We do not have to go this way.
Also such harsh criticism that I do not deserve. Especially for the issue of the Irish CoA. I just offered help and proven a point. Such details should be included, even if strings remain white.
Imbris ( talk) 22:43, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
I was going over the list of bots and noticed that Zbot370 ( talk · contribs) has not edited in a very long time. Is this bot still active and if not, would you object to it being de-flagged? Please post your comments to Wikipedia_talk:Bots/Requests_for_approval#Dead_bots since this is a rather widely-posted message. MBisanz talk 06:34, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
Would you or be able to update this [9] graph with the 2008 figure (2008 population was 142,000,000 million)? Thanks.-- Miyokan ( talk) 08:42, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
When you have the time, please read the articles and post your feedback at the peer reviews. Thanks.
-- J.L.W.S. The Special One ( talk) 15:37, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
I'm a bit frazzled from some RL stuff. Hope I didn't come across as angry at you. Heimstern? Yes. You and MB? No. I have no idea why Heimstern was trying to get the image deleted. Would you mind removing the tag now, as the "issues" have been resolved? Bellwether B C 05:42, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
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I know a coupe years back we re-tagged all logos as non-free. How should an image like Image:PC flag.png be tagged? Its a logo, but its obviously free as a non-copyrightable shape. So it should have the logo license, but not a non-free cat inclusion. Any ideas. MBisanz talk 06:11, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
Hi Zscout. Thanks for the involvement in History of Lithuania. It is always interesting to see new editor on this page. However I would like to speak about different event involving your sysop rights again. Speaking particularly about user:Piotrus unblock and motives to do so, as stated in unblocking by you: I looked at the diffs, both parties are guilty and he was also dealing with IP edits and possible vandalism. Just work it out. I am the person who filled the complain, due to persistent edit warring of particular contributor (involving multiply pages), which is lasting for great time now. Therefore I feel responsible and if my report was somehow improper it should be corrected. Plus per whole my participation in this project I did not witnessed such rationale. Due to these reasons I would like to ask these questions:
I hope you will produce an answers to my specific questions, due to the reasons presented above. Best, M.K. ( talk) 10:41, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
I am not involved in the article in question and, additionally, I never tried to get Piotrus blocked (despite lack of reciprocity in this matter). So, I will provide an opinion exclusively based on what I see.
I would not have submitted the 3RR report on Piotrus, but the existing 3RR report was an onwiki rationale of the block. This rationale may be faulty, and I have no opinion whether it is, but it is important that the blocking rationale is onwiki.
There is a glaring lack of an unblocking rationale onwiki. IRC is simply not valid for any wiki action. Blocking or unblocking. All the rationales must be onwiki. (OTRS, RFCU and other few matters excepted.)
Piotrus did not just "choose" IRC (as you said above.) He contacted you individually via IRC PM. The choice is peculiar since both you and Piotrus have an excellent history of interaction onwiki (nothing wrong with that) and it is known that you are a kind of guy who does not like to withhold a favor. This request, however, was improper. You were duped here, Zscout, and you were being drawn into acting without on-wiki discussion.
I am sure that in no time you will be contacted (again off-line) on this matter and "discussion" of this conversation will take place elsewhere. This is rather sad, but it's a wiki-reality that some prefer to act in a way that they cannot be seen. It is up to you whether or not to engage into such discussion of course, but just be cautious when anyone (myself included) asks you to take any action onwiki and uses IRC or email rather than wiki for that. It may be innocent, but you may be being played. And please don't forget to justify wiki-actions onwiki every time.
Cheers, -- Irpen 22:40, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
Eh-hem. A little umbrage here on my part from your ANI remark. I'm sure it was not personal, but still, AGF and all. I've made thousands of edits here, four GAs, one FA, etc. To have even the suggestion of a block below my name for six photos that may or may not be improperly tagged out of one hundred to a brand new user, is disheartening. MrPrada ( talk) 07:23, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
This matter has been brought up at Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard#Piotrus_incident:_policy_corrections_needed_either_way. I should be grateful if you would comment there on both your reasons why you agreed the unblock following a request at #admins - rather than via the unblock request option available to all blocked editors - and why you didn't clarify your reasons for unblocking when doing so. I am most concerned that it appears a sysop used avenues not available for the majority of blocked accounts to contest and reverse the block, regardless of whether the block was appropriate or not. LessHeard vanU ( talk) 21:28, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
I am sorry that the unblock has caused you so much trouble. Too many users love to wikilawyer, it seems, instead of think what is best for this project. In any case, I hope you'll feel better after I tell you that your quick action allowed me to create this DYK, which otherwise would be significantly delayed (as right there, right then, I had access to sources from library and databases which would have been much more difficult to access elsewhere).-- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 00:46, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
I completed an initial copyedit of this article, but I will be going through it again. There were some sticky spots that required a lot of rewording so I'm certain I've overlooked other minor issues. At any rate, you might remove it from the LoCE page eventually. It looks like that have quite a backlog. -- Laser brain ( talk) 05:00, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
I am at my wits end. Did you look at what User:Tocino is doing? The Russian minister's statements entered as an entry for Free Tibet? Every entity in the article's tables speaks for itself, except in the case of Tibet, where Tocino makes it into a satellite entry for Russia's foreign minister!
Also. The Brazil entry has been blatantly misrepresented on the basis of a Portuguese-language source. In a nutshell, FA Minister was attributed quotes which he never made, and all that, in the context fo a Ministry press release, which does not quote him! I fixed it, used the correct sources, translated the relevant bits from Portuguese correctly and left the entry in good shape. Before then, I documented the problem ont he talk page and provided a link to the relevant press release. But Tocino keeps reverting this because the Portuguese title of the websource states Portugal does not recognize Kosovo without Serbia's consent. That's completely unreasonable. Not only that, doing his reverts he throws away all the other work that wen into putting fixes elsewhere.
This is extremely disruptive.
My leaving a stub "Silence. they said nothing" type entry for Tibet was part of moving the Russian stuff back under Russia. I was the one who put the citation needed there, to buy time...
I don't know what to do. I feel I'm being dicked with. -- Mareklug talk 04:37, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
With all due respect, you just messed up on reference fixing -- the ref marked "Slovakia" (capitalized) and the one marked "slovakiaref" are not the same sources. If you had used the cite news template I prepared for you, you would have used the correct reference. This reference was used before, but that text was removed by yet another user who was in good-faith streamlinging this overlong entry at the time, whifch is the reason it's broken, not as a typo harking to the reference named "Slovakia". If you read the references themselves you will see this readily. -- Mareklug talk 01:22, 22 March 2008 (UTC)
If you are going to protect the page from editing could you please put a pp-dispute template on it. -- SJK ( talk) 02:09, 22 March 2008 (UTC)
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Hey Zach,
I just thought you might like to know the new Wal-Mart here in Havelock is open! Its just like every other Wal-Mart you may find anywhere else. Also you have an image of the gold star variant of the Service flag here. I've seen a few decals (but not flags - they seem to be hard to find) of the gold star service flag and there is no blue outline on the star and the gold color is darker. Are you sure the SVG is correct? Have a good one, my friend. - Thanks, Hos hie 22:26, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
Mareklug and Tocino have been edit-warring today. I'm pretty sure they've broken both 3RR. As you are somewhat involved, you might not be able to enforce ARBMAC yourself, but I strongly suggest you file an AE or 3RR reports or ask another admin familiar with the area to take a look, such as Future Perfect at Sunrise or Moreschi. Regards, Balkan Fever 03:10, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
Hi. As this is about to be featured, may I ask that you weigh in here? Thanks. Biruitorul ( talk) 23:25, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
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The image Wa-police-shield.png was removed by an 'automated process' from the Australian police ranks article. Care to explain why exactly? Thanks. DirectEdge ( talk) 21:55, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
A little while back you unblocked Domobran ( talk · contribs) with an agreement that he wouldn't upload again. It definitely looks like there's uploading still going on and still copyright/unfree issues arising. Would you mind taking a look? Thanks, Metros ( talk) 02:51, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for the advice. At times it seems like people with a differing POV are unwelcome, nevertheless I will continue to edit, but with a cooler head. :) -- Tocino 20:45, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
Hey Zach, contrary to a reached consensus there is a splitting going on instead a merging: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Kosovo#Split_completed -- Tubesship ( talk) 04:39, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
Wikipedia has it wrong. The DOI (declaration of independence) calls for a democratic Republic of Kosova. Kosova2008 ( talk) 04:13, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
You've got to do something. After a pause in operations, back to disruptive reverting, and calling names (he called me a liar on the talk page, while producing evidence that I am not lying -- personal attack of worst kind). And he is reverting forcibly reasonable edits re Brazil/Prishtina, which were justified on the talk page and discussed to death, might I add, with deliberately misleading edit summaries such as "fixing spelling". -- Mareklug talk
I also want to complain about Tocino, he called me the one "doing the dirty work"! -- Tubesship ( talk) 20:48, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
We have finally got a working NPOV intro done on the Kosovo article, if you have further suggestions please make them regarding the intro. I'd like to discuss the info boxes now and would appreciate your comments. Thanks. Beam ( talk) 02:41, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
Hi again. We have an outstanding editprotect request on International reaction to the 2008 Kosovo declaration of independence, a matter of correcting a date, replicated in 4 places. There's a 2-step howto with appropriate strings to replace and the new target. I feel bad about it going uncorrected, since I made the error. :) -- Mareklug talk 03:19, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for all the help you did for me last night. Much appreciated. Ijanderson977 ( talk) 11:23, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
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International reaction to the 2008 Kosovo declaration of independence is now locked due to disputes and those who are in a dispute are not working on it (Mareklug calls Tocino's proposal a bullshit, and Tocino calls him a troll in return).
But it stops us from adding undisputed content so please we need an update on Iran. Instead of the current Iran content (previous statements by minister and ambassador) we need this:
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, stated that Iran, after considering the region's issues and conditions of the region, decided not to recognize the independence of Kosovo. [1]
Original content is: "Ahmadinejad also said that Iran had not recognized the independence of Kosovo after considering the "region's issues and conditions of the region."
Also we need this addition for India:
On March 31, Indian Ambassador to Serbia Ajay Swarup, said that "India's position on Kosovo has been and still is consistent, and that is that the sovereignty and territorial integrity of every country must be fully respected by all other countries. We have always believed in peaceful solutions, because there is no issue that cannot be resolved through consultations and dialogue." [2]
Original content is: Indian Ambassador to Serbia Ajay Swarup confirmed his country's stance on Kosovo in an interview published today. "India's position on Kosovo has been and still is consistent, and that is that the sovereignty and territorial integrity of every country must be fully respected by all other countries," Swarup told the daily Večernje Novosti. "We believed that the Kosovo issue could be resolved in a peaceful manner, by way of dialogue and consultations, and our stand has remained unchanged ever since 1999, when India upheld UN Resolution 1244, which ended the war," the ambassador continued. "We have always believed in peaceful solutions, because there is no issue that cannot be resolved through consultations and dialogue," Swarup insisted. He added that a "high level of India's support to Serbia" can be seen from the comments and articles which appeared in the Indian press following the unilateral proclamation of Kosovo's independence. Swarup also pointed out that Kosovo "can set a very dangerous precedent for similar cases around the world".
Thank you,
-- Avala ( talk) 23:12, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for your effort (especially due to illness) but I don't know if they will do it now. Mareklug has made a lengthy opposing post on addition of text on India and update on Iran. Why? He believes Iranian journalists did not translate the tense from Persian language to English correctly (his personal opinion, there is no Persian version to compare or anything similar) and that the ambassador of India makes statements out of courtesy and not based on real Indian position (again just his opinion disguised in a lengthy explanation). Also he thinks it's poorly paraphrased even though I posted original news content for everyone to see (based on previous experience with Mareklug where he always claimed that someone is falsifying quotes by foreign officials but never managed to point at falsified words). He did not suggest anything himself so far, just stubbornly opposed. He also tried to fool others by saying I never discussed the issue before making an edit request but I quickly proved him wrong by posting a link to another section on the same talk page from the other day where I posted news on Iran for everyone to discuss (where he had no complaints). It equals to his reverts and content removal from before, because of which you previously locked the article.
Now can you please tell me if the user can block edit request on such grounds?-- Avala ( talk) 17:58, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
Hi, were you the creator of the excellent Alf Garnett/Union Jack image that you removed from the Alf Garnett page? If not, do you know who the creator was? I'd like to use it on my own webpage (I downloaded it some time ago). Thanks. -- Frankieparley ( talk) 10:17, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
I have reviewed the Fursuits article. Realist2 ( talk) 08:47, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
You could possibly use that Japanese cosplay source, i would have to read it myself to see if its ok, if you provide me a like on my talk page ill look at it and lt you know. Realist2 ( talk) 16:27, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
from the 3 links you put on my page, use both the 1st and 3rd link. Together they will be strong enough to support the statement. Realist2 ( talk) 17:54, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
I will leave a message on the talk page about whats left to do, not much left i feel, damn i never realised you were an admin, im always left with the big shots. Realist2 ( talk) 23:26, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
Ok ive made a new much shorter list. Realist2 ( talk) 00:20, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
Its looking really good, i think you need to find some stuff on music videos/popular culture. It might fail the broadness test otherwise. Bulk that up and it itl be good. Do a google search. Realist2 ( talk) 01:25, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
Im doing some fine tuning. ;-) Realist2 ( talk) 02:19, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
OK source that last line and it passes. Realist2 ( talk) 02:31, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
Im off to bed, its very early in my part of the world, ill check in on it tomorrow. Realist2 ( talk) 02:48, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
Ok let me know when your finished and ill review it. Yours Realist2 ( talk) 15:07, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
Doh!!! Ill go take a look, Realist2 ( talk) 18:25, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
Yeah it passed, hope my services were of help to you. Realist2 ( talk) 18:41, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
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You were involved in this discussion, so I thought you might be interested in Wikipedia talk:Non-free content#Criterion 8 objection. howcheng { chat} 21:03, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
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I am doubt about the accuracy of the Flag of Kazakhstan. I got a 2x3 metres official flag of Kazakhstan which was hangouted on one of the administrative building in Kazakhstan. The image of the eagle on the original flag is different than on the image Flag of Kazakhstan.svg.
Could you send me the Construction sheet of the state flag by the Kazakhstan Government mentioned in comments? My email: BernardTom ( talk) 01:51, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
As you can see, it has some differences than the image in Wiki! BernardTom ( talk) 22:22, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
I guess you noticed that I nominated the article for WP:FAC :) I think we did a great job on the article. Gary King ( talk) 20:09, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
Hi there again, the Michael Jackson article is up for FA. Ive completed the requests of all 3 people who have commented and it has since had 2 further copy edits. Since you have some experience on these things would you mind taking a look to see if it meets the FA critera. Realist2 ( talk) 17:27, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
Congratulations! A list you have been involved with was selected a WP:LOTD for May. You may want to add the {{ ListoftheDayheader}} or {{ ListoftheDaylayout}} templates somewhere in your userspace. Other template options are at User:TonyTheTiger/List of the Day/templates. Your list will appear as WP:LOTD twice. If you have any date preferences in May let me know by April 25th.-- TonyTheTiger ( t/ c/ bio/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:LOTD) 19:19, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
Please weigh in at the discussion, as to whether the SVG is correct. Chris (クリス • フィッチ) ( talk) 20:54, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
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A tag has been placed on Image:O Canada instrumental 1916.ogg requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section I8 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is available as a bit-for-bit identical copy on the Wikimedia Commons under the same name, or all references to the image on Wikipedia have been updated to point to the title used at Commons.
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The May Newsletter for WikiProject Good Articles has now been published. Dr. Cash ( talk) 22:16, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
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User_talk:Beamathan#May_2008 - You were wrong to block me, and I want you to review what happened immediately. Beam 02:05, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
I can't believe this. You say "...remember, this article is on ArbCom probation and we been asked to be harsh on users who cause problems. Locking didn't work, so blocking has to come." That is ridiculous. Please go check out the facts at User_talk:Beamathan#May_2008. I won't fill up the Kosovo Talk Page with this garbage, we should adress it at my talk page. I'm eagerly awaiting what you have to say for yourself, and your actions. Beam 02:08, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
In regards to this message you left on my talk page, I do not understand what you're saying in that context. [12] Is that supposed to be posted under the "Didi" section?
As for the comment, that user revealed his name long ago as Hdayejr, and his sockpuppets (and IP sockpuppets) have made changes on my page for several days now. One of his socks raised the issue here [13] while I was off wiki, and the edit was quickly reverted and the sock blocked by other, uninvolved editors.
Please do not remove or alter the comments of other users from talk pages. If you have a problem with something an editor has written, please take it up with them. Thanks! Redrocket ( talk) 22:34, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
He hasn't heeded your advice, reverted that edit with the personal information from earlier. I filed it with ANI. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.210.57.237 ( talk • contribs)
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Hey, since we collaborated together for Flag of Canada, would you like to work together on Canada Day to bring it to FA status in time for July 1 so it can be on the main page? My biggest concern is what we could put in the article — are you aware of any other 'holiday' FAs that we could compare to? Thanks! Gary King ( talk) 03:09, 12 May 2008 (UTC)
Hi, could you please sort out 77.46.209.231 [14], take a look at his contributions on his recently created account, you will see that he has broken 3RR, he is incredably POV, he has vandalised pages and has personally attacked people such myself ;) haha Ijanderson977 ( talk) 16:39, 12 May 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for sorting him out ;) Ijanderson977 ( talk) 16:39, 12 May 2008 (UTC)
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I would dearly love to contribute to the editing of this man's work in Wikipedia. Any suggestions on how the protection issues with the page can be resolved?
Drakonicon ( talk) 13.41 EST 17 May, 2008. —Preceding comment was added at 03:42, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
Template:GNU-Layout 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. — Remember the dot ( talk) 17:52, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
See here.-- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 19:14, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
No disrespect but the picture you've just deleted, on the grounds that it was owned by the BBC, was taken by a mate of mine from 1RTR. Can you kindly restore it please? GDD1000 ( talk) 21:38, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
User:Scepia/Grand Theft Auto, a page you created, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Scepia/Grand Theft Auto and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of User:Scepia/Grand Theft Auto during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Ultra! 21:59, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
Please see [15].— Dæ dαlus T@lk / Improve\ Contribs 17:29, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
couldn't help notice that you are talented with image work. Was wondering if you could make a hybrid of EU flag and British flag for me please. A bit like this. You dont have to, but i' would appreciate it. ;) Ijanderson977 ( talk) 23:16, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
zOMG! Is the picture too big? :D — Nearly Headless Nick {C} 16:06, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
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Hi ZScout370! I saw that you'd fiddled with Image:wiki.png a bit, I was hoping you might be able to help identify one of the characters which I can't figure out. See m:Talk:Errors in the Wikipedia logo if you're interested. I see User:Prodego edited some of the globe text a while ago too, will try him also. Thanks for your time! -- tiny plastic Grey Knight ⊖ 12:19, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
The problem with naming that template {{ Non-free currency}} is that it's not a non-free image copyright tag: if you read the actual text on the template, it says the image may or may not be free, and in practice quite a lot of the images tagged with it do seem to be free. Since image-tagging bots tend to get confused if an image is seemingly tagged as both free and non-free, and tend to assume any such images to be non-free, treating this template as a non-free image copyright tag is obviously problematic. That's why I reverted Sherool's year-old addition of {{ non-free media}} to that template and moved it back to its original title. What I didn't do was fix any instances where the template had been changed to be transcluded using the incorrect "non-free" title, but I was going to ask MBisanz if he might be willing to run his non-free template renaming bot in reverse for that case. — Ilmari Karonen ( talk) 16:51, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
I noticed you created the good article icon (). I want to create some derivatives of this picture, but I'm clueless when it comes to creating .SVG files. Don't feel as if you must create these, but I would really appreciate it...:
(note: I'll tell you what color to use on the outer circle and on the letter (I don't know the method for determining the color of the inner circle) as well as the letter to place inside the inner circle)
Thank you very much, Xnux the Echidna 18:37, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
It's on the main page today! Hot damn :) Gary King ( talk) 00:32, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
Can we get your help in fixing this image? -- Exec8 ( talk) 05:29, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
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Will try to have a look in the next day or two, but don't have much time for Wikipedia right now. I do notice a number of subject / verb problems in the Postwar period section. Awien ( talk) 01:53, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
Image:Japanese Embassy London 2008 06 19.jpg is up... but I have some bad news [16] [17] are of the Serbian embassy, but it has scaffolding in front of it... I haven't done any fixing of them or put them on Commons because of that, but if you want them on anyway just let me know. Alex Muller 21:38, 19 June 2008 (UTC)
Hello.
A few weeks back you asked me about adding in functionality to change license templates. I have now added in this functionality in a very general way (see here). If you are looking to do something very specific and want a single click to make certain changes (similar to how the free logo tab works now), let me know and I can put something together for you (though if it is highly specialized it might be outside of FurMe). - AWeenieMan ( talk) 15:44, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
On what interpretation of G12 did you delete this page? The page itself does not appear to be a copyright violation. I also don't see any notification or response from Tabercil. What, precisely, is the alleged response from OTRS on which you are basing these seemingly inappropriate deletions? Gimmetrow 06:25, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
OK, to start with, which volunteer is handling this from the OTRS side? Without any on-wiki discussion, I really find this all rather strange. You can send me email if there is something "sensitive". Gimmetrow 16:23, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
I confess I am mystified here. I have no opinion yet on whether there is or isn't a permissions issue, but I am completely baffled as to why this page User:Tabercil/Luke_Ford_permission was summarily deleted. You've been asked that a few times and your answer is not satisfactory. I reviewed the deleted material and I do not see any possible copyright infringement, or BLP issue on the page itself. I suggest that a more standard deletion request be made and that the page be meanwhile undeleted. This is what I propose to do unless you can give me a convincing reason not to. Thanks. ++ Lar: t/ c 03:07, 28 June 2008 (UTC)
84.134.95.6 ( talk) 10:47, 27 June 2008 (UTC)Why have you deleted my edit?
Zscout, who was the OTRS volunteer who said the permission was a forgery? Brynn says you were the person who dealt with them. Kelly hi! 16:19, 28 June 2008 (UTC)
So you don't care about the discussion and correspondence with their offices and about the law you just act solely on your personal view? What is that all about?-- Avala ( talk) 10:32, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
Zscout, I keep trying to upload the new logo of the organization I work for (Interfaith Alliance), and it keeps getting removed. I used the exact template I could find for the fair use rationale, but it still isn't working. What am I doing wrong? —Preceding unsigned comment added by InterfaithallianceDC ( talk • contribs) 13:58, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
The Interfaith Alliance wikipedia page that is currently up has our old logo, and i just want to update it with the new one. I want to use it in the Interfaith Alliance page, but wikipedia keeps taking it off. You say that the logo isn't used in an article, but that's because it keeps getting taken off. Not only do I want to ask what am I doing wrong, but also how exactly I am supposed to fix it? —Preceding unsigned comment added by InterfaithallianceDC ( talk • contribs)
I am sorry, but I don't understand. These are all former logos of the Football Association of Serbia and its predecessor, Football Association of Yugoslavia. It is clearly mentioned in the images descriptions that fair use applies to this article (and, in the pre-1992 cases, the Football Association of Yugoslavia article) only. I don't know if you are familiar with the situation in Serbia and former Yugoslavia, but the Football Association of Serbia is considered the only successor of the Football Association of Yugoslavia by FIFA and UEFA and, therefore, I can't find a single reason to remove the gallery, as there is no other place on Wikipedia where it can stand. Please, explain it to me. Thanks.-- Vitriden ( talk) 09:30, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
It's very bad for an admin to ignore everyone and act alone. There was a lengthy discussion over this issue, we emailed many organizations, received some answers and clarified the situation (you did not participate). This is my 4th attempt in contacting you to let you know about this and hopefully the first successful attempt.-- Avala ( talk) 11:25, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
No, the account is not hacked. User:Zscout370 (Return Fire) 17:49, 5 July 2008 (UTC)
Then explain why would you erase a whole article saying "Blatant copyright infringement" for article that comes from website which says that their content can be reused? I still think your account is hacked as you are making irrational deletions. No administrator would delete the whole article because there was some copyvio content in history section and then reerase it under a claim "rm copyvio" including things like election results or sister cities section which are obviously not from the same site (supposed website as you didn't provide a link). Something is simply wrong here.-- Avala ( talk) 22:45, 5 July 2008 (UTC)
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Thanks for the suggestions. I'm not sure what I should do about the flag colors. Flags of the World and Vexillo Mundi provide different Hex triplets and Pantone numbers. Any ideas regarding how I should handle this? Nishkid64 ( Make articles, not wikidrama) 05:36, 27 July 2008 (UTC)
An image or media file that you uploaded or altered, Image:Tng_red_pipbg.png, 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. O sama K 09:18, 27 July 2008 (UTC)
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There is a permission to use content of the Belgrade official website on Wikipedia - [18] so don't remove any of the content that comes from there.-- Avala ( talk) 21:49, 1 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi, Zscout370! How do I go about assuring that the Eskridge image (from the article Kelley Eskridge, the image Image:Kelley Eskridge.jpg) is fine? I originally uploaded the picture, and have sent in the appropriate emails and permissions from the photographer, but now I see from your edit summary that it's not correct. Can you help me out?
I'm also concerned that no one alerted me that there was a problem, neither time. That's really frustrating! We have all sorts of procedures in place for articles that are up for deletion - why don't images work the same way?
Thanks for your help! -- SatyrTN ( talk / contribs) 00:24, 7 August 2008 (UTC)
Thank you for being so considerate in relation to this DRV. While we may disagree on NFCC policy it is nice to see a Wikipedia user who is prepared to work with people in regards to non-free use images where the image is a "grey area" image (and not a blatant copyvio) rather than simply vote for deletion without further warning or consideration. Thank you. I really do appreciate it - it restores my faith in Wikipedia users somewhat. JRG ( talk) 07:15, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi there, I don't know if you removed all those sentences because of a fear of FAR, but I stuck them all there to remind myself that it still needs to be cited, not that it was under the hammer. Blnguyen ( bananabucket) 03:26, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
Alright, fair enough. I am going to try and get "Australian flags" from Prime Minister Rudd so I can try and help improve the article. User:Zscout370 (Return Fire) 03:39, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
I've taken this article from this to this, in preps for filing it for FAC. I could use some help now with:
Any help is greatly appreciated. — Rlevse • Talk • 02:50, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
Wow, thanks for the fast response on the US Gov vs stamps question on Template_talk:PD-USGov#Notice_of_Exclusion_for_Post_Office_and_Stamps... Dspark76 ( talk) 04:00, 16 August 2008 (UTC)
Please have a look at this page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_1391 Proxy User ( talk) 18:31, 16 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I have no idea how to contact Mike Godwin and would be very afraid to, I'm only a little editor. — Realist 2 08:02, 17 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi Zscout370.
There is a request to qualify the stamp statement with somethinkg like "issued since 1979". See also http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stamps_of_the_United_States#Copyright-Note_up_to_1978. I posted this request on the PD-USGov talk page as well.
Thanks again, Dspark76 ( talk) 14:21, 17 August 2008 (UTC)
I don't see how can a flag be disputed on such grounds. Sure there are groups which would like the old flag instead of the current one, and I am sure such movements exist all over the world - in Australia and New Zealand they are quite strong, but the only valid flag of a country is the one that can be seen in front of the UN headquarters. We don't remove the flag of New Zealand with this just because there is a strong republican sentiment. Actually removing a valid Belarus flag of Wikipedia articles is POV for as long as it is justified by "some opposition parties in Belarus don't like this flag". -- Avala ( talk) 15:48, 17 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi. Thanks for weighing in on the Kosovo talk page and reminding people about the probation. You might want to note that, technically, the Kosovo probation appears to have been superseded by the probation on Macedonia (the latter being non-obviously defined as covering "topics related to the Balkans, broadly defined"). See Wikipedia:General_sanctions#Superseded_sanctions and Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Macedonia#Findings_of_fact. Richwales ( talk) 03:45, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
Hey,
we haven't spoken in a while. I just got back from Quebec where I took a tour of the Citadelle of Quebec and actually had a random encounter with Jean-Daniel Lafond at the museum of civilization....but anyways I snapped a bunch of photos of the Order of Canada medals as well as the Cross of Valour and Victoria Cross, Order of Saint-John, Order of Quebec, Order of Military Merit, Order of the British Empire etc. They actually had the governor generals order of canada chain on display but I was forbidden from photographing it. I dont know much about creative commons licenses. Is there a page where I can find more info on them ?
plus if you wanna look at the images they are on these three URLs
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=31548&l=f14a4&id=516773292 http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=28639&l=0a223&id=516773292 http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=31554&l=0200b&id=516773292
Dowew ( talk) 18:41, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
Sorry about the delay. AWB has been having a few issues lately. Here is the august issue of the WikiProject Good Articles Newsletter! Dr. Cash ( talk) 21:02, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
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Just asked on WP:AN/I#Pearl necklace (sexuality) if it's time to consider unprotecting the article (you seem to be away, currently); if you are around and I'm mistaken, my apologies and feel free to reply here or there as you like. – Luna Santin ( talk) 10:08, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
Would you please explain your rationale behind the removal of the Lola Beltran postage stamp from the article? I am afraid that I cannot see a good reason for this, but I am open to discussion. Thanks.-- Lyricmac ( talk) 01:00, 25 August 2008 (UTC)
Please be advised that User:Ragib took exception to the addition of the stamp to Lola Beltrán. I'm not sure that I understand his rationale. See for yourself. Wishing you the best of the day.-- Lyricmac ( talk) 22:55, 26 August 2008 (UTC)
Also, reading the last item in his talk page was very edifying.-- Lyricmac ( talk) 23:02, 26 August 2008 (UTC)
Sounds like a winner. I'll take a swipe at it tomorrow or the next day. All the best,-- Lyricmac ( talk) 23:08, 26 August 2008 (UTC)
Was there ANY mention of the stamp at all in the article Lola Beltrán when I removed it? If not, how on earth can the stamp be used there? I did take a look at the article, and didn't find any mention of the stamp there. As of this version, there is still not a single reference to the stamp in the biography. So, my rationale for removing the stamp is clear. That user:Lyricmac found a similar complaint from yet another user-who-doesn't-understand-FUC is not my concern, nor would it "illuminate" anyone.
I also understand people's anger when their favorite stamps are removed from their favorite articles ... but WP:ILIKEIT is not a substitute for bypassing FUC. Following Zscout's suggestion, I am not removing stamps from articles having substantial mention of the stamps used there, but I shall continue to do so from articles where an editor misused Fair use to illustrate the subject rather than the stamp. If anyone has any problems with the removal of incorrectly-FU-claimed stamps, please feel free to propose changing Wikipedia's Fair use criteria. Thanks. -- Ragib ( talk) 00:18, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
I respectfully request that you refrain from deleting comments on the CFS talk page. You have no authority to do so. Thank you. Nocandu1976 ( talk) 20:17, 25 August 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for uploading Image:Order_of_Canada_(Member).jpg. I noticed the description page specifies that the media is being used under a claim of fair use, but its use in Wikipedia articles fails our first non-free content criterion in that it illustrates a subject for which a freely licensed media could reasonably be found or created that provides substantially the same information. If you believe this media is not replaceable, please:
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Since this: Image:TomandJerryTitleCard1.jpg is PD, is this: Image:Tomjerrylogo40s.jpg? Pls respond on my talk page. — Rlevse • Talk • 22:20, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
hi, for info, someone's added some citation needed tags which will need to be resolved before the article passes GA - i'm sure you know about the process. thought i would let you know. also, it says you're retired at the top of this page but you seem to be pretty active, are you sure you meant retired? Tom ( talk) 11:30, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
While I appreciate your "tip", I think you will find that png images prevent lossy compression when people use them, edit them and re-upload them - and are thus widely favourable to jpg images unless there is a very good reason. Sherurcij ( speaker for the dead) 00:43, 29 August 2008 (UTC)
Hello - continuing your good work on the Rann and Dunstan picture, I was wondering whether you would help me with a fair use rationale to get it to comply with WP requirements. I don't think an accident can be decently described without an image of it, but there are no free images available due to the accident's remoteness and the fact that all images were taken by Government or media crews. Any suggestions on the Fair Use rationale here? Image is Image:Waterfallrailcrash.jpg. I'm also concerned about NFCC 6 - would this image (a Government picture subject to Crown Copyright and more available for public use than the ABC news picture) be a better selection?
You can reply here. JRG ( talk) 03:21, 30 August 2008 (UTC)
The article
Flag of Kosovo you nominated as a
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I've received a request for help related to image copyvio/dispute/rev war and I think you are the person more versed in those issues: see Image:Czeslawa-Kwoka2.jpg and Image:Czeslawa-Kwoka.jpg. Thanks! -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 04:32, 4 September 2008 (UTC)
On the subject of these two images, I'd like to point out (since their discussion pages are getting way too large) that these images are not under copyright in the US to the photographer. It can be argued that the original photographer was not "working" for the Nazi Party as he was forced to take the photos. This means that it can't be claimed that the Nazi Party actually owns these images (although I'm not sure on this since there's probably not a law dealing with forced creation). But even if one makes that claim, the photographer was taking photos of individuals who were forced to pose for them. I cannot take photos of you without your permission and then do as I please with them. If you took me to court, you'd win and get to control the photos. Similarly, if we claim the photographer did not give up his rights to the photos simply because he was forced, we must also claim that the people in them did not give up theirs simply because they were forced. This means that in the end, the photos belong to the young girl they depict who died more than 50 years ago. This is in addition to the photos being taken for public document purposes, being free under Polish law, and being taken of a prisoner in a Nazi Death camp. The photos also are fairly important to the article (the girl's notability largely stems from the photos). I hope that you will see that these photos are not currently owned by any living person or entity and will use these arguements to see that the photos remain in the article. - 67.166.132.47 ( talk) 08:16, 10 September 2008 (UTC)
I noticed that you deleted Image:Big202115.jpg after it was kept at WP:PUI, giving a simple summary of "I3: Improper license." A good explanation would be helpful here. Best, IronGargoyle ( talk) 00:33, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
This is a tricky issue, but I don't think dissenting from Commons is a good idea. We have enough problems keeping image that are non-free on Commons here as it is. The debate was cut short, so it might be a good idea to hold it in a less public part of Commons. BJ Talk 03:08, 12 September 2008 (UTC)
There is an MfD here requesting deletion of WikiProject Heraldry and vexillology flags. -- Suntag ☼ 04:54, 14 September 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I'm unclear why any copyvio items would not simply be corrected, especially on an article at AfD rather than delete the entire article? [20] -- Banjeboi 14:48, 14 September 2008 (UTC)
Could you take a look at commons:Commons:Deletion requests/Images of Lewinski-Corwin? I think that's more of 'delete because IDONTLIKEIT' one. Thanks, -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 21:30, 16 September 2008 (UTC)
...has been protected since 25th February. You cited BLP issues, and I presume the history has been heavily oversighted, too. Still, with nothing on the talk page I wonder if you'd review whether there is a continued need for full protection of the article. Thanks, Splash - tk 20:31, 17 September 2008 (UTC).
There is a discussion at Talk:Liancourt Rocks regarding:
I should note that I am involved in the discussion, but I do not want to influence your opinion should you choose to offer one. I merely want some uninvolved editors to view the discussion and then offer an opinion. If you choose to participate, please post your opinion in the RFC comments section there. Thank you for your time. ··· 日本穣 ? · Talk to Nihonjoe 05:42, 21 September 2008 (UTC)
My question is about a famous picture
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Soviet_flag_on_the_Reichstag_roof_unaltered.jpg.
Could you please explain me what is the current copyright status of that picture? I am asking because I thought to introduce it into a collage for WWII article but I was told that this work is not in a public domain anymore.
Thank you in advance. --
Paul Siebert (
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23:25, 21 September 2008 (UTC)
Congrats on getting Belarus at the Olympics up to good article status! You've done some great work, and that's very much appreciated! -- Jonel ( Speak to me) 22:21, 22 September 2008 (UTC)
I'll be reviewing the Flag of Kosovo article that you nominated. If you have any questions or suggestions during the process let me know. Keep in touch by checking the review page. Also, I have a question about something you wrote. You said, I'll look and see if I could expand a bit, but honestly, there isn't enough information to shape this to my personal liking. I mostly still see news reports about the flag being new, Serbia hates it and it was used in a hacking attack 2 weeks ago. Why would nominate it if you feel this way? Should I go ahead and fail it? One of the quick fail criteria is about that the article is about a current event, and that's one of the things you brought up. Also if you don't have "much to work with" or "enough information" do you really think that this is GA worthy? Regardless I'll begin the review but I'm curious as to why you renommed it then. -- Banime ( talk) 17:30, 23 September 2008 (UTC)
Any idea for this? -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 15:31, 29 September 2008 (UTC)
Virtuti Militari has been nominated for a featured article review. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to featured quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, articles are moved onto the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article from featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Reviewers' concerns are here. -- ROGER DAVIES talk 15:15, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
Since IIRC this involves your action: link.-- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 17:11, 7 October 2008 (UTC)
You said you'd look into the Alfax thing for me? DS ( talk) 01:34, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
Hi! I've seen you edit a lot of articles on Belarus, so I hope you can help me -- any idea where we could at least get the results of seats per party for the Belarusian parliamentary election, 2008? (I'm not even dreaming of actually getting votes per party, but that would be even better, of course.) My knowledge of Cyrillic is pretty abysmal, so I can't even tell you whether the official website of the Belarusian House of Representatives has the info or not... Thanks! — Nightstallion 08:35, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
There is currently an open Request for Comment on User Conduct here, regarding G2bambino. As someone with past interactions with him, you are invited to comment. — [ roux ] [ x 15:48, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
Hi! A user has nominated Afghanistan–Kosovo relations for deletion. Please feel free to explain your opinions. Go and see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Afghanistan–Kosovo relations. (Also there are 16 AfD nominations at the same page which includes Canada, Japan and several others). Thank you for your time! -- Turkish Flame ☎ 06:42, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
Referencing our discussion here ( see also this discussion), and the recent decision on WP:PUI regarding Russian state images, I was wondering if you would be willing to undelete any of the Russian images that you speedily deleted under the WP:CSD#I3 criterion? Or minded if I did so? Best, IronGargoyle ( talk) 00:34, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
Just a note to let you know that National emblem of Belarus has been scheduled for the main page on October 27. [21]. Congratulations, and dont get stressed out by all the ips! Ceoil sláinte 17:35, 26 October 2008 (UTC)
Do you think that this idea is sound and could be made into a policy - I posted it here Image talk:Austria Belarus Locator.png. Basically it means that if both countries whose relations are supposed to be depicted don't recognise Kosovo as independent then the map shows Kosovo as part of Serbia. In case one of them does and the other one doesn't, Kosovo border is shown with an interrupted line (alternatively it could be a shaded part of Serbia) and if both countries recognise Kosovo then Kosovo is shown with a full border. What do you think? Can this be turned into an official rule for maps of this sort?-- Avala ( talk) 19:52, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
[22] (sorry I didn't have time to fill the rest of the article, I'll try to come back and do the rest later) Master&Expert ( Talk) 05:59, 30 October 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for uploading Image:Soviet flag on the Reichstag roof unaltered.jpg. You've indicated that the image is being used under a claim of fair use, but you have not provided an adequate explanation for why it meets Wikipedia's requirements for such images. In particular, for each page the image is used on, the image must have an explanation linking to that page which explains why it needs to be used on that page. Can you please check
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Let me congratulate you on getting " Flag of Singapore" to GA status – it's been a rather painful process – by awarding you with a barnstar that you created! Thanks for helping to improve Singapore-related articles in Wikipedia. — Cheers, JackLee – talk– 04:08, 5 November 2008 (UTC) | ||
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Do you think that this idea is sound and could be made into a policy - I posted it here Image talk:Austria Belarus Locator.png. Basically it means that if both countries whose relations are supposed to be depicted don't recognise Kosovo as independent then the map shows Kosovo as part of Serbia. In case one of them does and the other one doesn't, Kosovo border is shown with an interrupted line (alternatively it could be a shaded part of Serbia) and if both countries recognise Kosovo then Kosovo is shown with a full border. What do you think? Can this be turned into an official rule for maps of this sort?-- Avala ( talk) 20:27, 6 November 2008 (UTC)
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Hi Zscout370
I have just created a ribbon alternative in your style for the WP:ANIME's second award, but it seems to me that I cannot quite get it "right" (Refer to the images – Who would have thought that it is so difficult to get 2160 pixels right?). Would you mind having a go at it? (Please overwrite my version if you wish).
Regards
G.A.S talk 08:10, 10 November 2008 (UTC)