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Howdy. You recently made this edit. You may want to visit the following 3 related links: [1], [2], and [3]. They are all relevant to File:Denis Photo-1.jpg and Wikipedia:Files_for_deletion/2010_June_3#File:Denis_Photo-1.jpg.-- Rockfang ( talk) 23:46, 7 June 2010 (UTC)
Hi Zscout, if you have OTRS access, would you mind looking up a ticket for me for File:Irene McGee.jpg. It says McGee owns the copyright, but I've found it in an article attributed to a Danny Wong. [4] He may have passed the copyright to her. The ticket ID is 689064. Cheers, SlimVirgin talk| contribs 10:47, 15 June 2010 (UTC)
Hi Zscout730,
I noticed your recent edit on Singapore and thought you might have some input on the recent conduct of User:Cenwin88lee. I've opened an RfC: Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Cenwin88lee.
Best, ಠ_ಠ node.ue ಠ_ಠ ( talk) 21:28, 15 June 2010 (UTC)
Message for you.. Scartol • Tok 19:44, 16 June 2010 (UTC)
Thank you very much for your kind assistance in helping me to find the image for the article! Flickr user has agreed to release the image with a free license. Best wishes-- Mbz1 ( talk) 02:34, 25 June 2010 (UTC)
So what's happening with the article now? Is it going to pass the Feature Article criteria? Thanks, Davtra ( talk) 03:33, 26 June 2010 (UTC)
I saw your name at the Heraldry WikiProject, and there is a discussion at the WikiProject Heraldry about certain heraldic practices. I do not know if you are familiar with heraldic rules, but if you are could you weigh in so there is a larger discussion? Also, there are images on my user page here, and part of the discussion is whether or not they are beautiful or hideous, please comment on that if you would as well. [tk] XANDERLIPTAK 16:03, 2 July 2010 (UTC)
I checked the history for the Russian national anthem and did move the parody that Glenn Beck did to the Soviet national anthem like you suggested. Thanks for letting me know. Chris ( talk) 19:31, 3 July 2010 (UTC)
Hi Zscout, I've been reviewing Template:Country data Croatia and found that it still sports two errors:
I thought you might fix it/unblock it so I can fix it. Cheers :) -- DIREKTOR ( TALK) 13:43, 2 July 2010 (UTC)
If the information is not provided, the image may eventually be proposed for deletion, a situation which is not desirable, and which can easily be avoided.
If you have any questions please see Help:Image page. Thank you. Sfan00 IMG ( talk) 14:27, 5 July 2010 (UTC)hi zscout370. the current version of the old macedonian flag ( http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_the_Republic_of_Macedonia_1991-1995.svg) is wrong, it is based on an old, wrong interpretation of the vergina sun as you can see here: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vergiasun.svg (the first version)
but it's not only the shape of the sun, the sun itself is too big. this is the correct version of the flag, with a centered and properly drawn vergina sun: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_R._Macedonia_1992-1995.png
could you please turn it into an svg-image and upload it as a new version of Flag_of_the_Republic_of_Macedonia_1991-1995.svg, as well as svg-ing the very similar ethnic Macedonian flag? ( http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_the_Macedonian_nation_(Ethnic_Flag).png )
please give a short reply, thank you 93.219.243.240 ( talk) 04:48, 5 July 2010 (UTC)
Didn't know you were still on the project! - OberRanks ( talk) 17:40, 5 July 2010 (UTC)
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Kwiki ( talk) 22:24, 8 July 2010 (UTC)
Hey I see that you was somewhat involved in helping the article become a "FA" status. I would love to see the Japanese version of the Selena page to be a "FA" status, if you can I would help as much as I can! Thank you AJona1992 ( talk) 18:59, 9 July 2010 (UTC)
Wonder if you could help me fix Template:Country data Yugoslavia & Template:Country data Serbia and Montenegro, or unblock them briefly? I would like to insert the very many non-listed flags from the List of Yugoslav flags. Its really a lot of work, and the templates are sorely in need of expanding. I don't even want to list all the issues, is there any way you can unblock the templates for a day? -- DIREKTOR ( TALK) 15:33, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
You seem to feel find in ignoring the discussion at FIAV talk page that points out Wikipedia policy that GrahamPadruig may have a conflict of interest and the fact the article is not following the English naming policy. Spshu ( talk) 16:52, 19 July 2010 (UTC)
Hello, I noticed you made the image on top of fansub a few years ago, the Japanese text in katakana is not very correct, could you change it? Sorry if this is the wrong place to bring it up. Wekhter ( talk) 02:58, 21 July 2010 (UTC)
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If you have any questions please see Help:Image page. Thank you. Sfan00 IMG ( talk) 00:50, 22 July 2010 (UTC)If the information is not provided, the image may eventually be proposed for deletion, a situation which is not desirable, and which can easily be avoided.
If you have any questions please see Help:Image page. Thank you. Sfan00 IMG ( talk) 11:08, 22 July 2010 (UTC)If the information is not provided, the image may eventually be proposed for deletion, a situation which is not desirable, and which can easily be avoided.
If you have any questions please see Help:Image page. Thank you. Sfan00 IMG ( talk) 11:18, 22 July 2010 (UTC)The Editor's Barnstar | ||
For getting Belarus to featured and to the main page. A very enjoyable read. meshach ( talk) 00:43, 27 July 2010 (UTC) |
Hello. Have found on the "Orders, decorations and... Belarus" discussion page a request for books, devoted to belawards. If the author is Isaeva, then here. Tnen there is a book, dedicated to the awards of Ministry of Interior Affairs. Left klick to 'depositfile.com'. Best regards. SZv ( talk) 19:11, 23 July 2010 (UTC) P.S. This book is 2004 year. There is a new version of the book (2007) exists. But this will also do. SZv ( talk) 19:15, 23 July 2010 (UTC)
Hello. I wonder, what name I should give to some medals. Jubilee medal "60th Anniversary of Victory in <some war> " or "60 years of Victory in <war> ". A user from Commons deleted Category:Jubilee medal "50 Years of Victory of Great Patriotic War" and moved all files to Category:Medal 50th anniversary of victory in The Great Patriotic War. And I don't know either to rename http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Jubilee_medal_%2260_Years_Of_Liberation_Of_The_Belarusian_Republic_From_German-Fascist_Invaders%22 or not. SZv ( talk) 09:57, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
Greetings, I just noticed the US flag image has been changed. Honestly, I am not a big fan of the Cable Colors, but I do recognize that they are the official color shades in the US flag (as mentioned in DDD-F-416F: FEDERAL SPECIFICATION - FLAG, NATIONAL, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND FLAG, UNION JACK (as of 31 March 2005)). The only thing that is said about the colors in the 2005 document is they are OG Red, OG Blue and White. The values listed on page 23 of the document, which comes from the 9th edition of the Standard Color Card of the United States. This color spec was from 1959 when Hawaii joined the Union. If I can make a statement, the reason why we came up with the Pantone shades is that we had no way to calculate cable colors from earlier sources and everything we come up with will be strange. http://london.usembassy.gov/rcflags.html came up with the Pantone, but some other sites use Pantone 282 C for the blue. The state of Texas changed their flag colors to match the US Pantone specs (281 C and 193 C) and we used http://www.pantone.com/pages/pantone/colorfinder.aspx for the Pantone shades. http://www.mcc.gov/mcc/press/branding/branding-mcc/index.shtml is also using the US flag shades and matches the Pantone that we have. I still think #9B1C2C, #FFF, #33335F should be the new colors of the flag, since it is close to what we have with the Pantone. I am not sure what you feelings are about this, but I did wish I was asked. Frankly, I do not have my heart set on what is used, but we just need not only to be accurate, show people where we get Munsell colors from (I personally use http://www.eonet.ne.jp/~s-inoue/CO6_henkan/index-a.html) and make it match for the other flags. If you want, I can email you this document and see what else I can find out. User:Zscout370 (Return Fire) 05:59, 29 July 2010 (UTC)
Hi. Could i ask you to lock this article Banovina of Croatia or to warn the user for edit war. See the history. I made my edits according to this source. Thnaks in advance. -- Ex13 ( talk) 21:32, 29 July 2010 (UTC)
I've found it and made e-copy. Unfortunately, our local ADSL-model broke and I'm not able to send for the moment. I went directly to National fund of technical law documents to find an English equivalent, but they don't have even Belarusian one. Only ISO and other international standards are presented in several languages. Ang15 ( talk) 14:38, 2 August 2010 (UTC)
On the MOS:JP talk page, a discussion has been started about including or not including romanizations for words of English origin, such as Fainaru Fantajī in Final Fantasy (ファイナルファンタジー, Fainaru Fantajī) (for the sake of simplicity, I called this case "words of English origin", more information on semantics here).
Over the course of a month, it has become apparent that both the parties proposing to include or not include those romanizations cannot be convinced by the arguments or guidelines brought up by the other side. Therefore, a compromise is trying to be found that will satisfy both parties. One suggestion on a compromise has been given already, but it has not found unanimous agreement, so additional compromises are encouraged to be suggested.
One universally accepted point was to bring more users from the affected projects in to help achieve consensus, and you were one of those selected in the process.
What this invitation is:
What this invitation is not:
It would be highly appreciated if you came over to the MOS:JP talk page and helped find a solution. Thank you in advance. Prime Blue ( talk) 11:30, 8 August 2010 (UTC)
Hello.
You is the user with the largest number of editions in the article of Flag of Japan. In the Portuguese Wikipedia the article of Flag of Japan is the same, except that in Portuguese. I work in creat articles for "to blue" the article in Portuguese Wikipedia. And I realized that both articles in both languages are dead links. And earnestly ask, is not there a way to recover the dead links or substitute another source? In the Internet Archive failed, In this sites Category:Web archives could be good? I believe that the best way would be to find another source.
Thank you for your attention. Sorry my bad English. Bruno Ishiai ( talk) 22:23, 8 August 2010 (UTC)
I must admit I'm somewhat annoyed at your ignoring my response to your block. Zscout, please take the time to note my efforts at discussing with the other guy. Please note that the guy's new edit was reverted and that he continued to edit-war, all the while ignoring any discussion and posting a meaningless link to some private website he likes in one edit summary. Typical disruptive behavior, textbook stuff. I get the feeling someone else might've banned just the other guy, certainly not give them "equal treatment". What was I supposed to do? Leave the wrong flag on? And it is wrong I assure you. Croatian nationalists just like to see as much of the coat of arms as possible. :) -- DIREKTOR ( TALK) 00:26, 9 August 2010 (UTC)
Hi Zscout370, just wanted to thank you for all the excellent contributions you have made to articles on national flags. I'm from Singapore, so seeing the Flag of Singapore article go live on the Main Page today is nothing short of cool. And since today is National Day in my country. May you continue making all these wonderful contributions. Cheers, ANGCHENRUI Talk ♨ 03:33, 9 August 2010 (UTC)
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I've finally managed to find technical specifications of white-red-white flag of Belarus. If you are interested I can send it too. But the color model, used in the flag is Soviet one (1986). I tried to find Pantone, but failed. Ang15 ( talk) 15:24, 13 August 2010 (UTC)
Hi, could you please make an appropriate svg version out of this flag-picture? http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Unofficial_Flag_of_Germany_%28with_Coat_of_arms%29.png
the position and large of the coat of arms is correct, only the border is bad, since it is a copy-paste i made, because i have no clue. :) so can you make the svg version and the border correct? thanks Icaf ( talk) 17:30, 6 August 2010 (UTC)
And I have another question: There is another unnofficial German flag, with a version of the German eagle (used by the federal institutions) in the center. Is that flag also available on commons? thank you Icaf ( talk) 18:56, 7 August 2010 (UTC)
A message. Ang15 ( talk) 21:10, 13 August 2010 (UTC)
While gathering information for the article in Russian wikipedia, I found a book, devoted to what the colors of the flag mean. There was a kind of competition, were people, scientist, artists, students, prepared texts about what the flag means. It contains the speech of Lukashenko, joint text and texts of winners. You, as I remember, tried to find a book about the flag. I may also send it. But later. Ang15 ( talk) 13:18, 14 August 2010 (UTC)
Hi, Zscout370! I have an intention to create in Wiki the article about one of the greatest belarussian hard-rock bands ever - Roublezone. So, hereby I kindly ask you to give me some guidelines and probably some advice, 'cause I'm not experienced wikipedian yet )))))) DzimOzz ►
Well, you can check it here. Also, in 1995 they won 3 awards at national belarusian ceremony Rock Crown (that's if you know russian).They released the only album "Put your money... Now!", but it's still considered as the best belarusian hard-rock album ever. Enjoy! I think, there would be problems with the article... It's not so hard to prove, that band is NOTABLE, but it's hard to find RELIABLE sources, 'cause they are mostly in russian or byelorussian Dzimozz ( talk) 20:45, 16 August 2010 (UTC)
I noticed you were the one who blocked 71.68.251.54 and wanted to let you know that he's back as user 0a9s8d77as9d8g87dgas6rd143 and spamming the same stuff on human evolution-related talk pages as he did on Talk:Human evolution. What's the proper procedure for handling this? I don't usually get involved in this kind of stuff. – VisionHolder « talk » 02:32, 19 August 2010 (UTC)
ISBN 978-985-01-0767-1. Ang15 ( talk) 18:13, 21 August 2010 (UTC)
I've found in Polish Wikipedia colors of the flag by Pantone.
Colors of the Belarusian flag, Pantone | ||
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Source: Payrat A. Album des pavillons nationaux et des marques distinctives. — Paris, 2000.
You may know this, but I think the talk page will survive))).
I'm already finishing writing the article. Having finished it I'll give it to you to read and to criticize. You, as I remember, offered help.) Peaces of advice of more experienced users will be helpful. Ang15 ( talk) 20:41, 21 August 2010 (UTC)
Declaration of war discusses the vague beginnings of war, and we can see that a declaration to start a war is not required. Indeed, we can see different wars going on, petering out, and then reviving. Or we see wars that have an end in some formal sense, only to start up again in some other fashion. India-Pakistan have had lots of wars with each other, and some of them are discussed in WP. Is their conflict one long war or a series of short wars? Were they/are they technically in a state of war (even when they exchange cricket teams)? Considering how varied and vague a "beginning" of a war is, it is not surprising that the end of any particular war is even more varied and vague. Is a "declaration of peace" or "peace treaty" necessary for a war or state of war to end? I think not. But we (editors & general population) are using the term "technically at war" without really knowing what it means. I pointed out that Japan surrendered to the Soviets & West with the Instrument of Surrender. Since we know that occurred, how can Japan be in a "state of war" or "at war" with the powers that defeated it and occupied it? And what about all those wars throughout history that ended without a declaration of peace or peace treaty? Are all of those wars continuing in a "technical" sense? In our case involving Japan, we do have a situation where the 1956 declaration attempted to resolve the situation. I thank you, Zscout370, for the information. And since we have a specific reference to it, we can put it in the article and describe the situation with some precision. My main beef is with all those other articles that refer to this nonsensical term "technical state of war".-- S. Rich ( talk) 20:55, 30 August 2010 (UTC)
Did you give me this reference: http://www.mofa.go.jp/region/europe/russia/territory/edition92/preface.html ? I lost track. In any event, the Japan MofFA refers to the Oct 19, 1956 Joint Declaration and says the state of war had formally ended. I've linked this reference in a few of the Japan/war articles. My point remains -- saying a "technical state of war" exists does not mean anything because we cannot define what the phrase means. We know what a Declaration of War is, and we know what a Peace Treaty is, and we know what an Armistice is. All of these can be defined. But when we allow the undefined term "technical state of war" into articles, then we open the door to POV editing. In particular, we see such editing in Korea articles. I'm trying to put an end to that stuff, and one method (I hope) is to put an end to this "technical state of war" nonsense. That's for your reply, Zscout370. Happy editing!-- S. Rich ( talk) 05:22, 31 August 2010 (UTC)
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Hello and thanks you for your help. Hope we will stay in touch and hope you will correct all the USA roundels, because it is such a mess there. Best regards! -- Kwasura ( talk) 21:28, 10 September 2010 (UTC)
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Hello, I notice that you deleted the file UnionJackSpecification.png citing that it was a copyright violation. I can assure you that it is not. It was drawn by myself (using MS Paint). I did use Bartram's book as one reference but it is not a scanned image. Further, if you look closely you will see that there are differences: e.g. in the construction lines, placement of the sizes text/proportions etc. Invariably they will appear similar since they are both based on the Admiralty's UJ specification. I don't agree with that ( talk) 21:13, 11 September 2010 (UTC)
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If you have any questions please see Help:Image page. Thank you. Sfan00 IMG ( talk) 23:18, 15 September 2010 (UTC)Hello. I was wondering if you could do me a favour and clarify your position on including mention of notable fans in rugby league team articles at the Sydney Roosters' talk page. I've brought up the ambiguity here. Cheers.-- Jeff79 ( talk) 18:32, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
Why did you decline this? The edits made not by me are all additions of wikilinks, which I don't think is "significant." Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • ( Otters want attention) 04:32, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
The article Flag of Ecuador you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Flag of Ecuador for eventual comments about the article. Well done! Aaron north ( talk) 16:34, 1 October 2010 (UTC)
Some time ago I asked for help to help you with links in the article on Japan's flag on wikipedia Lusophone, who is now a featured article, do not remember if I ever thanked you, today thank you for your help and attention. Good editions. Bruno Ishiai ( talk) 22:47, 1 October 2010 (UTC)
I saw you work on flag articles. Could you help the Flag of Bhutan article. I want to try to get it to GA. If your not interested it's ok. Spongie555 ( talk) 06:35, 25 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi Zscout370. Would you give your permission to distribute the File:Flag_of_Antarctica_(Smith).svg image with FLOSS video game Freeciv under the GNU GPL v2 license? You would naturally be credited among the graphic contributors. Thanks. :) Himasaram ( talk) 20:13, 2 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi -- Thanks very much for sending the Lupant doc. This is the first new information I've seen in ages, and it really puts the whole flag problem in a very new light. For example, the existence of a flag from 1947, even without an image, begins to explain why the anecdotal information in the CBS doc remembers a flag with a green dragon -- I'd be willing to bet that the dragon in 1947 was green. The new picture of the 1949 flag (figure 7 in Lupant) makes it quite clear that the 1949 dragon was not, despite the CBS description.
The images from Lupant also make it clear that the flag was very much in flux between 1949 and 1970, with varying background colors; varying colors for the dragon; the dragon sometimes curved, sometimes straight; sometimes facing left, sometimes right; the boundary of the background sometimes going from upper left to lower right, sometimges upper right to lower left (and Lupant describes this incorrectly for figure 7). It is now clear that several designs were made and probably no one of them had "official" status exclusive of the others. In many cases, the author admits that he cannot tell definitively whether the design is the obverse or the reverse of the flag, which is a bit problematic; but the sheer variety of designs is now clear.
There is unfortunately a big problem: Lupant does not appear to be a published source. There is no bibliographic information that can be used in a reference -- the author's very identity is not clearly indicated. I confess I'm not sure how we can use this information.
I agree completely that we need to bring more sources to bear on the article, especially since we know that the CBS doc is not entirely trustworthy. Lupant would be a good start toward that if it can somehow become a published source. In the meantime, however, it is important to acknowledge when the source of information goes back to the CBS document (and we must be very careful even with Lupant, since CBS is one of his primary sources). It is misleading to credit a different source if that other source is just reporting it from the CBS document. GA guidelines don't simply want different sources, they want independent sources.
-- Elphion ( talk) 04:19, 12 October 2010 (UTC)
Was an indefinite move protection necessary? I was going to request a month so The Charmed One can attempt to form a new consensus. Also could you protect the other seasons' pages?— Ryūlóng ( 竜龙) 04:45, 17 October 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for your help on the Flag of Bhutan article. WikiProject Bhutan could use some help on articles of Bhutan. The article on the Bhutan national anthem and Emblem are stubs and even the main Bhutan article is a demoted FA. We could use your exspertice in this areas. But i know you work more on Belarus articles but Bhutan articles need some help too. You dont have to help if you dont want too. Spongie555 ( talk) 02:37, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
You deleted the article on Jeffrey H. Norwitz some time ago. We discussed its deletion, when I became aware of it.
It seemed to me to be a specific instance of a couple of phenomenon I find generally disturbing.
I raised it as related to the discussion as to whether we should have suppressed news of David Rohde's kidnapping.
I hope you agree I characterized your position accurately. Have you given its deletion any further thought since we corresponded over it? Geo Swan ( talk) 19:16, 25 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi Zach -I've got a problem which needs an uninvolved admin's help. There's a problem user at South Island nationalism. He's playing within the rules, but he's definitely " playing". A few months ago, User:Teroamahai seems to have noticed that South Island nationalism existed and created his own North Island nationalism, which was quickly deleted (there's no such movement). Since then, he's been active at the SI-nat article, firstly launching an attack on it in the talk page, then adding incorrect information (with support from an anon, which is almost certainly the same editor). He's now started "working to rule" by excising large chunks of the article because they weren't well-sourced. That's certainly within WP's policies and guidelines, but it's the way it's being done, after an extremely cursory note on the talk page, that is a cause for concern, as is his contention that he'll remove more unless someone can think up a reasonable reason for their inclusion (he's never listened to reasonable reason regarding the article in the past, it's to be seriously doubted that he will now).
Problem is, I'm too involved to do much - I've made quite a lot of edits to the page, and have been involved in South Island movements (including designing one of the flags shown on the page). I've protected the page after the latest bout of removals - something I probably shouldn't have done, though I've made a reasonable justification for it on the talk page, I think, and a lot of the information about what's ben going on is listed there. Can I ask you to have a look at the page and remove my protection, and either leave it unprotected or add your own protection as you see fit? I left a message for another admin to have a look, but it looks like they're on a wikibreak, so nothing's happened in a couple of weeks. Sorry to get you involved in this, but it's been going on a bit too long to be comfortable... Grutness... wha? 22:12, 28 October 2010 (UTC)
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I happened to notice Courtesy flag has a PROD tag on it, because the article is unsourced. Any chance that you, as the resident vexillologist, could take a look? I seem to have the strangest things on my watchlist... Risker ( talk) 21:16, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
Hey, sorry for delay. I am not sure it's worth it. It's only 5 pages. Plus they say nothing on payment methods. I would be shocked if they accepted credit cards. I would think they would only take bank transfers, which for me would cost triple the price of the booklet. Can you survive without it? :) Renata ( talk) 18:52, 4 November 2010 (UTC)
Good day!
There is a change on the seal of the University. Texts that surrounds the seal has been added. Since you are the author of this file, if you don't mind, could you update this SVG file? Here is the update seal in PNG: click here . For PDF version, click here (the updated seal is on PAGE 2 of the PDF, upper left hand corner).
I look forward to your positive response. Thank you. Anyoflores ( talk) 06:54, 8 November 2010 (UTC)
Yeah, the standards can be very high when certain people are reviewing—perhaps unfairly high. The only reason I wasn't keen on supporting after tweaking the article myself was that I could no longer look at the article from a fresh perspective. — Deckiller ( t- c- l) 12:29, 20 November 2010 (UTC)
Hello Zscout370
Would you be able to upload a new version of the flag and coat of arms of Serbia, based on the recent changes according to these ( [6], [7], [8]) rough versions? - Buttons ( talk) 01:02, 3 December 2010 (UTC)
Hi, previously the names of her two daughters were in the article, I don't know how public they are, this could be used to cite their names, a ppic from 2010 at the red carpet premier of flipped http://www.fotolog.com/celebrity_babies/75378985 - Off2riorob ( talk) 20:31, 11 December 2010 (UTC)
Hi - you blocked 68.222.236.154 and a follow-up sock. It looks like he's turned up again as 98.122.103.183. Same geographic location, same material. Would you mind blocking again? Thanks. VsevolodKrolikov ( talk) 09:56, 13 December 2010 (UTC)
Hello! Thanks for uploading a new flag in commons, but something is amiss -- if you look at any CT ratings page (ie: talk:ConnCAN), the flag now looks very compressed/stretched out in Internet Explorer while the shield is huge in Opera. Can you look into why that would be with this new image? Thanks, Markvs88 ( talk) 18:55, 14 December 2010 (UTC)
I wanted to tell you the Flag of Bhutan article is finally starting to be reviewed for GA. Spongie555 ( talk) 10:18, 21 December 2010 (UTC)
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The English name of 新北市 is New Taipei City, Not Xinbei. U can see this page: The Webside of the New Taipei City Government U can writing the mail ask for the Mayor of New Taipei City -- Eric Chu, even if U don't believe it. -- 75.65.40.180 ( 75.65.40.180) 07:00, December 25, 2010 (UTC)
The E-Mail of Mayor Chu Address: 台灣新北市板橋區中山路1段161號 / 161 Zhongshan Street, Banqiao District, New Taipei City, Taiwan To:朱立倫 / Eric Chu
I must tell the all of the wikipedia: Xinbei City -- Is the big mistake by Chou hsi-wei, the last Taipei County Magistrate.
New Taipei City -- Is the New English name that the most people of Taipei County want, and Eric Chu, the currect Mayor of the New Taipei City, he decided.
So, The English name of 新北市 is New Taipei City!
Repeat: Ask the Mayor Chu, please! -- If u think I made the lie.
-- 75.65.40.180 ( 75.65.40.180) 07:00, December 25, 2010 (UTC)
Hi Zscout370. Thanks for your project idea for the Pro bono posting on the Reward Board. I'm thinking of extending the deadline for 3 months, to allow others more time to submit proposals. Or we could stay with the current 2010-12-31 deadline, and give out rewards to only those proposals that are submitted and acceptable. (And then do a repost, with a new deadline) As you're, so far, the only user to submit a proposal, I wanted to get your thoughts first before doing anything. Thanks! Eclipsed (talk) (code of ethics) 16:33, 25 December 2010 (UTC)
Please, do not return the pages! As news sources: "New Taipei" is the English name of 新北 since December 2010, not may be, The Mayor Eric Chu said just is New Taipei, the currect name is New Taipei! I don't have idea even if I was be blocked. But I must say the truth. Repeat: Please writing the mail ask for the Mayor of New Taipei City -- Eric Chu, Is he the Mayor of New Taipei, or Xinbei? The E-Mail of Mayor Chu Address: 台灣新北市板橋區中山路1段161號 / 161 Zhongshan Street, Banqiao District, New Taipei City, Taiwan To:朱立倫 / Eric Chu -- 75.65.40.180 ( 75.65.40.180) 02:00, December 26, 2010 (UTC)
hey Zscout370,
I think we have been able to resolve the issue. AFAIK Orange Tuesday and I agree on including this flag here File:Flag of the State of Burma (Stylized version).svg in the article. Gryffindor ( talk) 16:39, 27 December 2010 (UTC)
Hey, would you happen to have a source/copy of ДСТУ 4512:2006? This whole Ukrainian flag color thing is quite confusing. — Alex Khristov 12:47, 28 December 2010 (UTC)
Lemurbaby found some more sources if it helps. Spongie555 ( talk) 03:48, 30 December 2010 (UTC)
The Bhutan Barnstar of National Merit | ||
Thank you for helping the Flag of Bhutan article get to GA status, hope to see you help with more Bhutanese articles in the future Spongie555 ( talk) 23:24, 31 December 2010 (UTC) | ||
this WikiAward was given to Zscout370 by Spongie555 ( talk) on 23:24, 31 December 2010 (UTC) |
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Zscout370, please restore the deleted Gator head logo for the University of Florida Gators sports teams immediately. You have overstepped your bounds. There is no policy that justifies the removal of these logos in the manner in which you have done it. This was done in the dead of night, and presented as a fait accompli without discussion and without prior notice. Proper "fair use" justifications were provided on the file page for all team pages on which the image was used. The "Gators" script logo is NOT the primary logo of the Gators sports teams, is not used by any of the teams other than the football team, and the substitute you have put in place does not even use the correct colors. Your substitution of an improper logo, followed by the immediate deletion of the proper logo with the use of the "unused image" speedy deletion justification smacks of "boot-strapping." Your refusal to restore these images will result in an escalation of this dispute. Please respond. Dirtlawyer1 ( talk) 09:20, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
Please respond on your public talk page. Dirtlawyer1 ( talk) 09:44, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
At the request of Dirtlawyer1, I have reviewed this too. Per discussion on my talk, the deletion does not appear to meet the criteria in WP:CSD#F5, so I hope you can explain what was done here. -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 16:58, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
Zscout, pursuant to the procedures provided at WP:DRV, I am extending you the courtesy of this notice of my intention to file a deletion review complaint against you (as well as a possible other complaint against you for failure to follow proper procedures for file deletion and possible abuse of your admin buttons). You conducted this substitution/deletion of logos in the middle of the night, with no prior notice, outside of the required process, and used your deletion of the 19 uses of the proper logo (each use having its own proper fair use rationale), and then boot-strapped a justification for the speedy deletion of the SVG file as "unused fair-use media." You are hereby notified that I will file a DRV in the event that you fail to restore "File:Florida gators logo.svg" as it existed prior to your middle-of-the-night tinkering, as well as each of its 19 prior uses on the University of Florida and Florida Gators sports team pages before 12 noon EST (5:00 p.m. GMT) today, January 4, 2011. You will note that we have extended you the courtesy of a proper notice which you failed to provide to any of the involved WikiProjects, the uploader of the subject SVG file, or any of the concerned editors.
If you believe that the 19 deleted fair use rationales for the Florida Gator head logo (i.e. "File:Florida Gators logo.svg") were improper, then I respectfully request that you restore the SVG file and its 19 pre-existing uses, and initiate the proper WP procedures for their discussion and possible deletion. Dirtlawyer1 ( talk) 11:55, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Wikipedia:Wikiportal/Belarus. Since you had some involvement with the Wikipedia:Wikiportal/Belarus redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion (if you have not already done so). Mhiji 13:03, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
Zscout, thank you for responding and thank you also for restoring the file and its uses while we discuss the substance of this matter.
This subject was brooked with Hammersoft last year. WikiProject University of Florida editors decided to fight for certain uses and let others slide. Accordingly, I updated the fair use rationales for the SVG Gator head logo to only include the main program page ("Florida Gators") and the individual main team pages (baseball, men's basketball, women's basketball, cross country, football, men's golf, women's golf, gymnastics, lacrosse, soccer, softball, swimming and diving, track & field, volleyball), and previously on the main University of Florida page. (The last use could easily be dispensed with.) We do not use the Gator head logo on any of the team season pages, game pages, bowl game pages, rivalry pages. In fact, we don't use any logo at all on the football season pages from 1906 to 1999, and already use the script logo on the season pages since 2000. During the last dust up over the "over use" of the logo, we agreed to stop using the Gator head logo in something like 3/4 of all prior articles. The problem is this in a nutshell: the University of Florida has 21 very successful sports teams (which are covered in something like 18 different team articles on Wikipedia, and only one of those 21 teams (football) actually uses the script logo as its secondary team emblem. The Gator head logo is the only common logo for all 21 teams. What would you propose to reduce our use of the logo? Dirtlawyer1 ( talk) 17:31, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
I have the UF seal, logo and "signature" webpage bookmarked. One of my law school classmates, who is the number 2 lawyer in the UF general counsel's office, assembled the page. If you read their use restrictions on the seal, it become blazingly apparent why, for instance, the seal is not used on the University of Florida WP main page. Also, the UF logos and University of Florida "signatures" are only supposed to be used in conjunction with academic topics, not athletic subjects. And vice versa. Also, part of what you are omitting from your discussion of NFCC1 is whether the substitute is adequate under the circumstances. Clearly, using a public domain interlocking "UF" football helmet logo from 1973 is not the same as using the current primary Gator head logo. (Ironically, the WP copyright police made us delete a gallery of various text-only logos last year.) Again, using a "spirit mark" that the cheerleaders used 35 years ago, and none of the teams actually use in the present, is not the same thing. That's why they have a common athletic program logo: it's the immediately recognized emblem of all of the university's sports teams. There is no common text-only logo that all Gators teams use. Dirtlawyer1 ( talk) 20:41, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
Query: Isn't drawing your own electronic SVG image of a copyrighted flag the same as using an image from an authorized source? After all, it's not the particular image (or its source), but the design that's copyrighted. Dirtlawyer1 ( talk) 20:41, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
BTW, there's not likely to be any editorial merger of existing Gators articles. The plan is to upgrade them all and drive toward GA status for all 16 team articles in 2011. Several are already pretty far along, including the Florida Gators overview article. Besides, merging articles to get logo use approval is really putting the editorial cart in front of the horse, don't you think? Dirtlawyer1 ( talk) 20:46, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
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Hello. Looks like you made 3 edits today: UMassMinutemen.png → MassMinutemen wordmark.svg using AWB. This has killed the UMass logo on the pages where it was used. Can you please check the SVG image you intended as a replacement? Thanks. -- MikeUMA ( talk) 03:12, 5 January 2011 (UTC)
You apparently saw your way to restoring Florida's deleted logo, please do the same with USC's logo so that it may be rightfully restored to the school's main athletic article and team sport pages. Thank you. GarnetAndBlack ( talk) 04:23, 5 January 2011 (UTC)
Please don't tag this file for deletion; as you can read at WP:F8, this criterion only applies to files of the same filetype. A GIF and an SVG are definitely not the same filetype. Nyttend ( talk) 23:00, 5 January 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for creating .svg and placing them under GDFL licences - it would be a shame lose all Canadian insignia. As you are probably more than well aware, with this edit the shoulder boards have "disappeared". Are you planning to create .svg of the shoulder boards? (To do so would be well beyond my abilities.) If not, are there any options for acquiring "free" images of the shoulder boards? Cheers, Pdfpdf ( talk) 05:46, 8 January 2011 (UTC)
This seems to be becoming way more complicated than I would have thought necessary.
Could you check Canadian Forces ranks and insignia please? Pdfpdf ( talk) 13:46, 8 January 2011 (UTC)
Why are you uploading the images like File:CDN-Army-Maj.svg to Wikipedia and not to Commons? multichill ( talk) 11:07, 8 January 2011 (UTC)
Template:MOD Serbia has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you. — This, that, and the other (talk) 06:34, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
Template:Farcarticle has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you. Mhiji 23:13, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
Thank you for getting Flag of Bhutan to GA. Maybe you would interested in getting the National Anthem and the Emblem of Bhutan to GA so we can have a Good Topic of the national symbols of Bhutan. Spongie555 ( talk) 23:06, 9 January 2011 (UTC)
I've noticed you've deleted this page citing this discussion as the reason for doing so. Might I ask why you also choose to retain the talkpage and the remaining pages? :| TelCo NaSp Ve :| 21:48, 11 January 2011 (UTC)
Hi Zscout. I was looking at indef. fully protected pages to see if there are any pages that might inadvertently remain fully protected. I found Banovina of Croatia that you protected in August to stop an edit war. Looks like the war was between DIREKTOR and Ex13. DIREKTOR seemed to be trying to start a dialog through both his edit summaries as well as posts to the article's talk page. Since action seems to have died down, I was wondering if perhaps it might be possible to unprotect the page, and follow-up with blocks to warring users if needed? It's your call, but since it was a few months ago, I wanted to bring it to your attention in case it fell off your to-do list. Hope all is well!-- Gnowor T C 17:46, 12 January 2011 (UTC)
Hi Zscout. I've just reached out to Grutness regarding protection of South Island nationalism and would greatly appreciate your comments here. Thanks in advance! Have a great day!-- Gnowor T C 23:27, 12 January 2011 (UTC)
Hi Zscout. I renewed my request to reduce protection on this page. I suggested that perhaps applying PC2 protection might resolve the situation. I'm not sure where policy stands regarding using this protection. As a result of an admin at WP:RFPP deferring to the protecting admin, I asked them for an opinion as to whether it's permissible to add pending changes protection. Given that they may be more familiar with where policy stands on this protection level, I would greatly appreciate your support in applying WP:PC2 if they state that adding this protection to the page is permissible. Thanks so much!-- Gnowor T C 17:28, 19 January 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for your proposal in the Reward Board pro bono posting. I have reviewed your proposal, and you will be awarded US$50. Congrats! Eclipsed (talk) (COI Declaration) 12:52, 13 January 2011 (UTC)
Article National symbols of Bhutan is currently being reviewed for GA if you would like to help or watch. Spongie555 ( talk) 02:47, 14 January 2011 (UTC)
This IP is at it again, restoring the Gamecocks logo. I've reverted him, and let him know he had been reverted. He responded with an insult [10]. At some point, perhaps not yet, a block will be in order. -- Hammersoft ( talk) 21:38, 20 January 2011 (UTC)
I hadn't noticed that the IP had been blocked for extended periods before. Thanks for the block. -- Hammersoft ( talk) 22:02, 20 January 2011 (UTC)
Hi! I found a problem of the title and description of this image. They are incorrect. It's not a poster of Arirang (1926 film). Please take a good look at the poster. It says "故春史20回忌追悼記念作品!", "監督 脚色 金蘇東" and "南洋映画社". It's definitely a poster of the 1957 remake. See this. The nominator's claim is correct. See these too. [12] [13] [14] I removed the image from the article. But someone who doesn't read ja/kanji would use it again. Can you move the file name and edit the description? I don't know what to do to solve this problem, I have an account at Commons though. Would you please do it for me? Thank you. Oda Mari ( talk) 15:16, 25 January 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for fixing the Wavell PD tag. All the best, -- Rskp ( talk) 02:38, 26 January 2011 (UTC)
Any status about the standard? User:Zscout370 (Return Fire) 21:18, 27 January 2011 (UTC)
What can be done about this: [15] This logo is trademarked, is based on a unique casting of a tiger's paw and thus does not meet the claims provided in the rationale for a logo made of "simple geometric shapes". GarnetAndBlack ( talk) 01:10, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
Question. If user 129.252.69.40 is also Vipernerd, is 129.252.69.40 also GarnetAndBlack?
Their history pages on edits and re-verts are almost identical.
Just curious. Sorry about this...
If this user wasn't so combative about every issue on rivalry sports pages, and logos, I wouldn't have noticed. ThomasC.Wolfe ( talk) 04:10, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
PC sucks.
Needs semi. PC is a waste of space; not approved by the community, and inappropriate in cases like this. Or most cases, really.
IMHO, YMMV. But I had to say it. Chzz ► 00:49, 4 February 2011 (UTC)
Dropped Chzz ► 01:11, 4 February 2011 (UTC)
Hey, Zscout, I was wondering if you could resolve some confusion about File:Coat of arms of Canada.svg. Did you completely create it? If so, this particular image is not protected by copyright; the licensing should look like this or this. A coat of arms isn't like a logo; any CoA can be replicated by anyone. I'm doing a GA review on Queen Elizabeth II, and this is the most pressing matter that needs to be resolved, which is why I'm contacting you now. Please release the image under a license of you choice (you originally released it into the public domain, which was completely legitimate). I can give you further information regarding the details on request, but in a nutshell, you can recreate coats of arms and release them according to your preferences, without needing a fair use rationale. Swarm X 13:54, 4 February 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for the explanation. Now that I understand, I agree with you. Cheers, Pdfpdf ( talk) 01:34, 6 February 2011 (UTC)
Thank you for the cleanup and the heads-up! Any more of these at Emblems of Indian states you care to tackle would be appreciated.-- Kintetsubuffalo ( talk) 05:33, 7 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi Zscout370,
Can't say I haven't thought about it before, but the copyright issue scares me a little. I don't want to spend time creating an image that will get deleted because it violates the copyright. Plus even if I make some derivatives to it I might get some slack for it not looking like the original. The COA of Canada is very specific and has very few examples of variation, this could pose some future problems. The COA of Australia has the same issue, which made me abandoned it after starting work on it early last year. So if we could find someone who could be sure about this, I will probably be more willing to start work on it.
I'm really sorry for being this timid, I wish I could get excited and jump right on it. But a lot of my work have been causing some 'style' problems with some users lately and I just want to be sure. Sodacan ( talk) 13:38, 7 February 2011 (UTC)
Following contact on your application, and the reply received from Steward Kylu, I am writing to ask you per this link to abstain from any and all duties relating to Global Administration at the Tok Pisin Wikipedia. This request is made primarily due to your wishes as expressed in your nomination, and made on behalf of the community of the Tok Pisin Wikipedia. Barking Fish 01:47, 8 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi Zscout370! I've left my message concerning about the Chinese national flag here. Andyso ( talk) 07:47, 8 February 2011 (UTC)
Hello Zscout370, I saw that you deleted a photo I had uploaded a couple weeks ago because I found it on Flickr. After I found it, I contacted the original author of the photograph who gave me permission to use it. I'm not sure if his permission makes the photo allowable, but I forwarded the email he sent to the address specified in the instructions. Would that photo (datsik_spinning_live.jpg) be able to be undeleted? Thanks either way. Schrute058 ( talk)
Hi! Thank you for the other day. Please take a look at this image. See the meaningless imprint of a seal. "Yellow comfort"! Some editors might mistake it as the genuine signature and the seal of Hirohito. I think the image should be deleted. What do you think? Oda Mari ( talk) 10:05, 13 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi there! This is just a quick heads-up to let you know that I've left some comments at Wikipedia:Peer review/Act on National Flag and Anthem (Japan)/archive2. -- Cryptic C62 · Talk 17:28, 20 February 2011 (UTC)
The SVG flag is wrong. The size of the star Sírio is: Sírio (1), and the SVG flag is: Sírio (2). The correct size is Sírio (1).
WikiProject Good Articles will be running a GAN backlog elimination drive for the entire month of March. The goal of this drive is to bring the number of outstanding Good Article nominations down to below 50. This will help editors in restoring confidence to the GAN process as well as actively improving, polishing, and rewarding good content. If you are interested in participating in the drive, please place your name here. Awards will be given out to those who review certain numbers of GANs as well as to those who review the most. On behalf of my co-coordinator Wizardman, we hope we can see you in March. MuZemike delivered by MuZebot 23:57, 21 February 2011 (UTC)
hello zscout, there are some details to correct in the Macedonian flag. The diagonal rays are too thin near the sun. On the other side, the two vertical rays are a little bit too thick than they should be. Could you correct them according to the sources you have used the last time you corrected the file?
http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/mk.html#law http://www.slvesnik.com.mk/WBStorage/Files/Zname.gif 93.219.254.127 ( talk) 12:09, 24 February 2011 (UTC)
Yes, finally the Macedonian flag is correct. Thank you very much 93.219.242.131 ( talk) 10:07, 13 March 2011 (UTC)
Should I put a request in on Commons to undelete this? CTJF83 21:20, 27 February 2011 (UTC)
A file that you uploaded or altered, File:Louisiana Monroe Warhawks workmark.svg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Possibly unfree files because its copyright status is unclear or disputed. If the file's copyright status cannot be verified, it may be deleted. You may find more information on the file description page. You are welcome to add comments to its entry at the discussion if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. -- B ( talk) 02:44, 5 March 2011 (UTC)
Got it! Check your email for more info... — Alex Khristov 03:45, 9 March 2011 (UTC)
You deleted NewFreeSpeechFlag.svg
what about File:Free-speech-flag.svg ? it is essentially the same idea.
Decora ( talk) 21:28, 9 March 2011 (UTC)
thank you! it has been deleted. Pinay ( talk• email) 02:15, 11 March 2011 (UTC)
Hey, after studying the standard a bit closer, one thing confuses me... according to the standard, the Pantone colors are okay for print and certain types of paints, but not for cloth flags. The part that confuses me is that they refer to a color that they call "C3". The reason this confuses me is because they refer to it as one color, but the Ukrainian flag has two colors. The Yxy chart they provide is also just a range. I wonder if the more specific color is in the other DSTU (4513), or if they're just referring to a "white" color specification before the cloth is dyed. — Alex Khristov 17:47, 12 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi, I noticed you are the last person updated the flag. This flag is the incorrect and fake flag of Afghanistan. Afghanistan's flag does not have any christian cross or any other type of cross. Here is the official flag of Afghanistan: http://nawjawanan.com/flag/
Please correct this flag with the provided flag.
http://twitter.com/#!/afghflag
Thank you AfgFlag File:Http://nawjawanan.com/flag/show image.php?filename=xl&b=j.jpg — Preceding unsigned comment added by Afgflag ( talk • contribs) 14:33, 13 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi Zscout370,
Would you please help me convert the Canadian Blue Ensign file to SVG format? I would like it to be uploaded to the Canadian Red Ensign page. Thanks!
96.241.32.39 ( talk) 00:47, 20 March 2011 (UTC)
Hello Zscout, I have left you a message at it:user talk:Zscout370 to explain a few things about your AWB edits there. I hope that solves your problem. Anyway, thank you for your edits. Greetings, -- Austroungarika scold or call 18:32, 2 April 2011 (UTC)
Is Template:Ushmm-link needed or a work in progress. Just the Image requests do not make sense.-- Traveler100 ( talk) 10:31, 3 April 2011 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect E Mare Libertas. Since you had some involvement with the E Mare Libertas redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion (if you have not already done so). Horologium (talk) 22:58, 22 April 2011 (UTC)
I am a Wikipedian, who is studying the phenomenon on Wikipedia. I need your help to conduct my research on about understanding "Motivation of Wikipedia contributors." I would like to invite you to Main Study. Please give me your valuable time, which estimates about 20 minutes. I chose you as a English Wikipedia user who made edits recently through the RecentChange page. Refer to the first page in the online survey form for more information on the study and me. cooldenny ( talk) 01:27, 24 April 2011 (UTC)
Could you make this flag, File:Finlad kingdome 800.jpg, into a svg? I requested it on the graphics lab but it got no responses for a week now. I saw you are good at making flags into svg so I thought you could help. Spongie555 ( talk) 08:07, 26 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi! Could you please move these file names? commons:File:US Navy 110315-N-5503T-756 A Japanese search and rescue team searches the rubble near a high-rise building in Wakuya, Japan.jpg and commons:File:US Navy 110315-N-5503T-307 An aerial view of damage to Wakuya, Japan after a 9.0 magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami devastated the area in.jpg. They are not images of Wakuya. As for the first image, please see this. Actually I e-mailed the US Navy and asked for correction. Now the US Navy changed the captions. [26] and [27]. I think the commons file names should be moved too. Thank you always. Oda Mari ( talk) 15:56, 28 April 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for uploading File:Selma's Choice.jpg. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently orphaned, meaning that it is not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).
If you have uploaded other unlicensed media, please check whether they're used in any articles or not. You can find a list of "file" pages you have edited by clicking on the " my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "File" from the dropdown box. Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. Sfan00 IMG ( talk) 13:11, 30 April 2011 (UTC)
Your SVG of the Finnish flag Flag_of_the_Kingdom_of_Finland_(1918-1919).svg is really nicely done! Jon C ( talk) 23:38, 2 May 2011 (UTC)
Hye, can you change the size of this flag → from 896 × 448 pixels(current) to 1,235 × 650 pixels ??, the reason is because the current size is to small than the other flag like US flag, Brazil flag and etc. → ,
Hope you can change it, thanks. DarknessVisitor ( talk) 04:52, 3 May 2011 (UTC)
Ouw, never mind, thanks for the information =)) DarknessVisitor ( talk) 05:08, 3 May 2011 (UTC)
Article 14 item b of the Indonesia Copyright Law No 19, 2002:
There shall be no infringement of Copyright for:
publication and/or reproduction of the symbol of the State and the national anthem in accordance with their original nature; publication and/or reproduction of anything which is published by and/or behalf of the Government, except if the Copyright is declared to be protected by law or regulation or by statement on the work itself or at the time the work is published; or repetition, either in whole or in part, of news from a news agency, broadcasting organization, and newspaper or any other sources, provided that the source thereof shall be fully cited
The only issue is thus whether later works by Bank Indonesia are "by and/or on behalf of the Government". By, probably not; on behalf of, almost certainly. Jpatokal ( talk) 03:15, 11 May 2011 (UTC)
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Hello, Zscout370! I was wondering if you could make images of the RCAirC ranks and have it look similar to the Air Force versions like the one your made on the right. I don't know how to make SVG images, and seeing that you already have experience in making rank images, I thought might as well ask you! Rank images are here. Hope you're ok with this... -- K.Annoyomous (talk) 06:37, 18 May 2011 (UTC)
Hi Zscout, you made an impressive contribution to Wikipedia. I also noticed the featured articles you have contributed to. Would you be interested in helping me to get Azerbaijan article a featured status? I have been working for a while now, I would very much appreciate your help. Please let me know. Neftchi ( talk) 21:22, 19 May 2011 (UTC)
This vandalism is by a strong edit warrior: you know the guy. Cheers,-- Lord Sbur ( talk) 15:23, 6 June 2011 (UTC)
Hi, would you happen to have enough information for OTRS for this file? I was looking at copying it to Commons perhaps. (your name was on the talkpage) Thanks. Deadstar ( talk) 12:47, 8 June 2011 (UTC)
Hi, I saw your picture of the construction sheet for the flag of Japan here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Construction_sheet_of_the_Japanese_flag_no_text.svg
The width is described as "3", and the circle's diameter is described as "3/5", but there is simply no way that that diameter is one fifth of the flag's width. It's simply too large to be only one 5th.
DrZygote214 ( talk) 17:32, 10 June 2011 (UTC)
I do not know japanese and the google and babel fish translations were unclear. If the diameter is supposed to be 3 fifths of the flag height, then the number should read 6/5, which is 2*3/5. If the diameter is supposed to be 3 fifths of the flag length, then the number should read 9/5, which is 3*3/5. As is stands now, the number 3/5 or 0.6 means that the diameter is 0.3 of the height (0.6/2) or 0.2 of the length (0.6/3). DrZygote214 ( talk) 21:49, 10 June 2011 (UTC)
You may be mildly amused by the ridiculous legal threats being made at User_talk:Walteriarecords. Indeed you have probably received a similar e-mail. But I would like to know why you deleted Walt Winston. I see no discussion or speedy tag and you must admit that "2011061410011831 OTRS" as a deletion reason is, to put it mildly, somewhat cryptic. — RHaworth ( talk · contribs) 10:48, 16 June 2011 (UTC)
Hi Zscout: (since I'm not too good at these myself), do you think you could vectorize File:LanfgleyTS-flag.png (most likely unfree) from the elements I found in [29]? Thanks! Connormah ( talk) 03:19, 17 June 2011 (UTC)
Can you also do a fix to File:Buffalo Seal.svg, one of my (visibly) earlier and first attempts at SVG files? This is what it should look like. Thanks again. Connormah ( talk) 01:22, 23 June 2011 (UTC)
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For your willingness to assist in a pinch. Maggie Dennis (WMF) ( talk) 18:25, 17 June 2011 (UTC) |
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You deleted the Walt Winston article as a result of e-mail/s received and recorded in the OTRS system. You are not allowed to discuss further. Why on earth did it need an e-mail to tell me that? Perhaps I am nit-picking but I still think your deletion log entries could have been clearer - look at these log entries for example. In the case of Walt Winston and the associated image a deletion log entry of "Deletion request received via OTRS:2011061410011831" would have been sufficient to prevent me bothering you. — RHaworth ( talk · contribs) 23:28, 29 June 2011 (UTC)
Please explain the license change on this image, as the uploader's complained on my tlak page when asked for an FUR. Sfan00 IMG ( talk) 01:24, 30 June 2011 (UTC)
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File:Pyeongchang 2018 Olympic Bid logo.svg Most appreciated. I actually tried myself but failed terribly. What exactly is your methodology? NativeForeigner Talk/ Contribs 00:43, 8 July 2011 (UTC)
A file that you uploaded or altered, File:PilotOfficer.png, has been listed at Wikipedia:Files 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. – Drilnoth ( T/ C) 10:47, 13 July 2011 (UTC)
A vandal has repeatedly edited the Harold Covington article with false information claiming he was in the Rhodesian Military. The source that cites this says that he was not.
http://books.google.com/books?id=kbKJU3e59MsC&pg=PA45&dq=Covington++%22Rhodesian+Army%22&hl=en&ei=VRh0TP–DMKB8gbFyqj2CA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCsQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Covington%20%20%22Rhodesian%20Army%22&f=false — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.47.11.81 ( talk) 18:06, 19 July 2011 (UTC)
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Thank you for deciding to unblock me , I am very greatful and i hope i will be able to improve and contribute to Wikipedia; however, What is happening about the "adoption" process? Goldblooded ( talk) 21:21, 23 July 2011 (UTC) |
Could you tell me what exactly is a wikipedia adoption?
And of course ill be happy to work with you , I have a deep interest and passion in History , i am actually writing a biography about Pétain, i might actually go ahead and possibly get it published if all goes well.
Ive also made a dictionary of all the prominent politicians , generals and soldiers from the Axis powers in WW2. My area is modern history , 19th and 20th Centuries, paticulary European history and i also have an interest in politics (im a member of the conservative party) -Dont groan lol. Goldblooded ( talk) 21:30, 23 July 2011 (UTC)
Sounds good. By the way is it possible to change the name of an article?
I was thinking of making a list of the people interview in the world at war tv series, although do you think it would be a notable enough article? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Goldblooded/Notable_people_interviewed_in_the_World_at_War Goldblooded ( talk) 21:40, 23 July 2011 (UTC)
Pinnacle Islands currently is only a redirect to Senkaku Islands (and I mentioned it on the article talk page as well). - Penwhale | dance in the air and follow his steps 05:57, 24 July 2011 (UTC)
Also, see Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Senkaku_Islands_-_admin_COI_intervention. You might be interested in THAT discussion, too. - Penwhale | dance in the air and follow his steps 07:24, 24 July 2011 (UTC)
Is there some kind of list of templates i can use for my user page? Goldblooded ( talk) 11:05, 25 July 2011 (UTC)
Oh and also is there a way to see how many contributions you have made? Goldblooded ( talk) 11:08, 25 July 2011 (UTC)
If you want other examples of WP articles to see how we usually treat them, name-wise, the easiest place to look is Category:Disputed islands. I think you'll find that the Liancourt Rocks "compromise" is actually the exception, rather than the rule, of how we treat such islands. However, I haven't looked at all of them, so it's possible that my initial scanning impression is wrong. You may get more specific results through a systematic search. Qwyrxian ( talk) 22:22, 26 July 2011 (UTC)
Could you plz restore old versions of template from deleted history for historic purposes? As it was made on Commons and in Ru-wiki. Alex Spade ( talk) 19:46, 27 July 2011 (UTC)
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Hello, Zscout370! I will see how I can help you get Coat of arms of Singapore to GA status; it is very close. I recently rewrote Money No Enough and Xiaxue, both of which are on peer review in preparation for GA nominations. Could you give some constructive comments at Money No Enough's peer review and Xiaxue's peer review? Thanks! 谢谢!Terima kasih! Nandri! Arigato! -- J.L.W.S. The Special One ( talk) 04:50, 30 July 2011 (UTC)
I appreciate your administrative action on Libya. Hopefully this content dispute can be resolved more peaceably with the page under protection. - Kudzu1 ( talk) 06:30, 30 July 2011 (UTC)
There are 2 separate arguments being debated/contended there. I hope that fact will not be lost in searching for the resolution. They both need to be agreed upon. One is the use of the term 'Libyan Republic' and the other is about the infobox(es). Kudzu1 seems to think that those two issues are inter-dependable, that a solution for one resolves the other. But there is no justification for such a view. I propose that the debate for them is separated and I will start another topic on the Talk:Libya page, 'The Infobox' albert humbert ( talk) 15:44, 30 July 2011 (UTC)
.... you're mentioned here. Philippe Beaudette, Wikimedia Foundation ( talk) 19:05, 31 July 2011 (UTC)
Okay, I'm done with this. Check my talk page for the list of edit recommendations that were impossible to put into the article itself. Let me know when you're done so I can take the article off of the Requests page thanks.-- Aichikawa ( talk) 15:30, 9 August 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for the Flickr link. I haven't uploaded too many SEPTA images, but I'll definitely check Flickr for anything in the future. I left a message at User:Oanabay04's user page about his non-free image uploads. The user seemed to have been under the impression that it is acceptable to remove FfD tags from file pages and that uploading non-free images is perfectly fine as long as the image is historical and/or cannot be reproduced. Maybe you can give some additional input. There's also a third image on the FfD page that the user uploaded (right above the two others that have been deleted) and you could also take a look at. Thanks. – Dream out loud ( talk) 21:19, 10 August 2011 (UTC)
Hello Zscout370, I wonder if you are still willing to give some help on that disputed page or pages. Although there were some discussions regarding "Pinnacle Islands" as you proposed, those were not very formal and were also interrupted. If you can give some help, may I suggest that you raise a formal proposal (say, starting a new section) of this on that talk page? Thanks, nice weekend. -- Lvhis ( talk) 23:04, 12 August 2011 (UTC)
Okay it was not misplaced i am not sure why you would think that i will now attempt to revert your revert, please do NOT atemmpt to revert my revert of yor revert -- Rancalred ( talk) 20:52, 16 August 2011 (UTC)
An arbitration case involving you has been opened, and is located at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Senkaku Islands. Evidence that you wish the Arbitrators to consider should be added to the evidence sub-page, at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Senkaku Islands/Evidence. Please add your evidence by August 31, 2011, which is when the evidence phase closes. You can contribute to the case workshop sub-page, Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Senkaku Islands/Workshop. For a guide to the arbitration process, see Wikipedia:Arbitration/Guide to arbitration. For the Arbitration Committee, Alexandr Dmitri ( talk) 15:11, 17 August 2011 (UTC)
I went bold, changed {{
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to the one from Commons and then noticed your edits
[31]. It is inconvenient to have non-uniform templates between Commons and en.wiki, and we usually follow Commons in international image copyright policies. Thus I thought any changes to this template should be discussed at Commons first. Frankly, I also did not understand the old text
[32] which seemed self-contradictory to me. Regards.
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Greetings from the land Down Under! A few weeks ago we had a chat about the accidents regarding the Su-33. The Russian article covers a number of cases that aren't documented on the English version. Since you have some command of Russian (I assume), do you mind translating the text? Cheers, and God bless! Sp33dyphil " Ad astra" 07:39, 18 August 2011 (UTC)
I want to see this article unprotected as soon as possible, so other editors can work on it. I'm planning a peer review of this article sooner or later (I'm doing sulfur now - look here - you are invited to comment), but the article is protected in the first place, so how can I edit? I'm a native Singaporean, and I believe that page should never be protected. FRE YWA 08:24, 22 August 2011 (UTC)
I am trying to find out why the page for Parkland College in Champaign, IL was deleted and how it can be brought back. Drewrennick ( talk) 16:36, 19 August 2011 (UTC)
Guerillero | My Talk 19:11, 23 August 2011 (UTC)
Thank you for reviewing the article. Is there a way of reposting the page and letting me edit to be more informational? Once I edit, can you re-review to ensure that it is "wiki appropriate"? As I mentioned, I am new to Wiki and trying to figure out all of the rules. Any help would be greatly appreciated!! ( Dhouston119 ( talk) 20:07, 23 August 2011 (UTC))
In response to following post: Can you please advice as to why you deleted my page as spam? (17:26, 5 August 2011 DragonflySixtyseven (talk | contribs) deleted "AiMatch" (spam)) Why would it be classified as spam and why just delete versus trying to assist if something was incomplete or invalid? I am new to Wiki. (Dhouston119 (talk) 12:36, 23 August 2011 (UTC))
Hey again , with a bit of help from Jasper i found out where the templates for user boxes were and how to use them , But do you know how to sort them out in a ordely mannere or any templates that will do so , Because if you look at my User page it looks a little jumbled, How do i sort them out? Goldblooded ( talk) 21:11, 26 August 2011 (UTC)
Hey, Ive just made a new article and i'd like to have your approval - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Monnet Goldblooded ( talk) 16:29, 31 August 2011 (UTC)
So its eligble enough for wikipedia? Also, what did it mean about the image tag or something? Goldblooded ( talk) 19:17, 31 August 2011 (UTC)
Thanks :) so is it fit for use? Its avaible from the archives and i think you can find it online as well. Goldblooded ( talk) 21:28, 31 August 2011 (UTC)
Mind telling me what was "copyrighted" before you went and locked the page? -- Comesloaone ( talk) 11:40, 24 August 2011 (UTC)
Then I suggest you recheck my edit because I changed the character section with my own words. -- Comesloaone ( talk) 12:43, 25 August 2011 (UTC)
It is my understanding that it was the character's section which was copyrighted. I redid the whole character section and you can Google all the sentences there too and you will get no results. If I have to give permission for my own words to be used, then you have permission. There's no copyright on my words and I don't think there was a copyright on the words of those forum members either. -- Comesloaone ( talk) 23:05, 25 August 2011 (UTC)
Okay. That's cool if you can rewrite them. -- Comesloaone ( talk) 17:15, 27 August 2011 (UTC)
Think you can unlock the War in The North article? After all, you haven't rewrote the sentences when I can. -- Comesloaone ( talk) 12:16, 5 September 2011 (UTC)
You have recently changed a few dozen pages from {{flagicon|Libya}} → {{flag|Libya|1977}}
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Do you think that a user was right to removed the flags in this article?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_surviving_veterans_of_World_War_II
His arguement was this:
It's an offshoot of a problem that was most evident in human and animal longevity articles. The most relevant sections are here and here. One issue with using flags is that they can be misleading. For example, read the sentence, " Hideki Matsui is a baseball player in the United States"; true, but Matsui is and considers himself Japanese. He only plays in the US because we have better baseball, he doesn't refer to himself as an American; sticking an American flag next to his name could lead people to think that he now considers himself to be an American. Similar things can happen with war veterans; Ernest Hemingway fought in the Spanish Civil War with Spanish forces, but was himself American. The other issue, which is far more pointed in longevity articles but still an issue here, is that nationality isn't always important. In the case of (just for fun) the war between the Red and White armies in the USSR, it doesn't really matter whether the White Army soldier was British, Russian, or American, it's more important to emphasize that the soldier fought for the Mensheviks. A final small point that's worth noting is that flag icons take up a considerable amount of bandwidth because they're transcluded onto pages; the List of living supercentenarians article, before all the flag icons were removed, took my computer a lot longer to load than it does now. Even though we aren't usually supposed to worry about performance, one of the exceptions is if you notice a change, and you can confirm that it's something specific causing it. I hope that helps.
However mine was that if i put the flags as allegience instead of birthplace , and stating the point that its the country they fought and served for and they still have the flags in the WW1 veterans page and state them as allegience ; even flagbio states that you are allowed to add flag icons to make it more clearer and even more so since its a large list and its also easier to sort and since im pretty much the only person actually bothering to edit that article i dont know why he should get preference nor do i know what gives one editor the right to change it on the ww2 paage and when i changed it back and instead of birthplace i changed it to allegience he reverted it back again (Note that this was a couple of weeks ago but it stills relevant because it hasnt been resolved) and he also got quite irritable. Goldblooded ( talk) 20:10, 1 September 2011 (UTC)
So do you think i should tell the editor involved and change the page or should i ask another persons opinion just to make sure? Goldblooded ( talk) 20:44, 1 September 2011 (UTC)
Not at all? But how come it says -
Flag icons may be relevant in some subject areas, where the subject actually represents that country, government, or nationality - such as military units, government officials, or national sports teams. In lists or tables, flag icons may be relevant when the nationality of different subjects is pertinent to the purpose of the list or table itself.
Goldblooded ( talk) 09:28, 2 September 2011 (UTC)
And also the fact that it is on the WW1 version? Goldblooded ( talk) 09:51, 2 September 2011 (UTC)
Well you know what im just going to forget about the whole thing. Anyway im going to try and get this artcle [33] finished by the end of the week :)Any help is much appreciated. Goldblooded ( talk) 22:36, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for all your contributions to Wikipedia, especially Singapore-related articles! I have written an article about Pathlight School, a Singaporean special school for autistic children, and am aiming to make it Wikipedia's first GA pertaining to special education. You are invited to comment at its ongoing peer review; any and all constructive feedback would be most appreciated. All the best in all your endeavours! -- J.L.W.S. The Special One ( talk) 03:11, 8 September 2011 (UTC)
Hey scout sorry to bother you again but i need your better judgement again.
Basicially i made two posts to
Dapi89's page and they were good faith edits and i was responding to a couple of peoples queries abotu what happened to him on the page etc. This is what i said.
Im afriad people move on see Wikipedia:VOLUNTEER and Wikipedia:Retiring From what i gather/believe Dapi had a dispute with one or more administrators which eventually led to him being banned for a week or so. Wikipedia:Banning_policy Although at any rate, he decided to retire due to personal problems/stress. It happens. We'll all experience it from time to time. Theres plenty of other editors anyway, if you want some advice or any quieries/questions regarding modern history (i.e ,1900-1982 although i do know a fair bit about the Napoleonic wars and the german and italian unifcation wars in the 1800s) Then im the guy to ask. Goldblooded ( talk) 01:28, 8 September 2011 (UTC)
And the other thing i said was:
Give the guy a break, See WP:VOLUNTEER If he doesn't want to come back then he wont, If he does then he'll come back of his own accord; by the sounds of things he seemed rather stressed and worn out and moaning at him isn't going to help. Goldblooded ( talk) 01:31, 8 September 2011 (UTC)
Both of them were clearly Good WP:Faith edis I was helping out that guy out and directing him to the relevant pages ,Besides i found it unfair that everyone is moaning at dapi to come back, hes probably having a hard time; something that i know all to well myself.
I asked both admins who seem to have some sort of alliance between themeselves and a few others and they didnt give me a clear reply , at fist Ed removed both edits and said (in the chat history thing)
"rm post, people are allowed to put posts like that on this page, no need to attack them"
Which doesnt really make any sense because i honestly dont see how explaining what happened and putting myself forward to help them has anything remotely to do with "personal attacks"
Concerning the other paragraph i was pointing out that if hes gunna come back he'll do it if not he wont , moaning at him wont help. And it wont either.
Its also ironic how they seemd to get defensive (paticulrary Parsecboy who was the other editor involved and he told me politely to "piss off") it irriates me how just because they have admin preferences (which they are using as an exscsue to twist peoples words and threaten them) that they think they are superior than anyone else and dont give the newbies a chance. No wonder 100s of possible new wikipedians get scared away by admins. they should be greatfull that i actually bothered to stay on wikipedia and put up with this.
Then i put it back and i asked him again why he removed it and he grumbled something obscure about that the other persons post was over a month old , even though it was barely 2 weeks old.
Ed accused me of personal attacks and then he changed his tune and said that im hassling month old comments which is ridiculous anyway they cant possibly treat me like this. I was sticking up for Dapi and offering my help to other users , i thought thats what wikipedia and pretty much any good community supports, Guess i was wrong.
I tried to reason with them that i remove one of them but nope , Parsecboy backed him up with what came across as a rather smirky remark telling me to politely get lost.
its called good faith and helping out in the community- and indeed i do have better things to do such as college and writing my novels/books among other things. Leave the page as it is, if you must ive removed the first thing since you were grumbling about that. It really isnt no Sudetenland ; Yet they kept making it into a big deal but they STILL didnt fully explain themselves. And it wasnt even a month old , it was barely 2 weeks.
You got a verdict on this? What should i do? Goldblooded ( talk) 19:17, 8 September 2011 (UTC)
メールを送った。 — HelloAnnyong (say whaaat?!) 14:08, 11 September 2011 (UTC)
Hi, recently user:Oda Mari, an involved party in the Arb/Senkaku case initiated changes in the content of the guideline WP:NCGN#Multiple local names that I mentioned and cited in my Statement, Evidence, and my proposal in Workshop there. And the example " Liancourt Rocks" there was also raised by you and Penwhale in your statements. Oda Mari challenged this guideline in her Evidence ( her historic version). Now she changed this guideline whose content did not favor her stance when the Arb case opened into a version that is less unfavorable for her stance ( the difference of the two versions). The verifiability of the content after her change is questionable. The pre-exist one stated "... has been adopted rather than select either the Korean or Japanese name for the feature", while now her version is "... has been adopted, in part because it has been often used by the US government, in part because it is neither Korean nor Japanese". From links she provided and thoughts I got from you when we had talks and your comments in related talk page, the reason "in part because it has been often used by the US government" is not the reason why the name "Liancourt Rocks" was chosen. As you was heavily involved in solving the Laincourt issue, it is kind if you offer your help to clarify this in that Evidence talk page. I don't think it was appropriate for her to do such change because:
Arbitration is as said "The Committee's decisions may interpret existing policy and guidelines" stated in Wikipedia:Arbitration/Policy#Policy and precedent (emphasis added). Thanks. -- Lvhis ( talk) 21:01, 12 September 2011 (UTC)
Hey scout , do you know of a tool or a wikipedia program that can show you what articles you edit the most? Or something to that effect? Goldblooded ( talk) 11:27, 25 September 2011 (UTC)
I initiated a deletion review of Jeffrey H. Norwitz. Geo Swan ( talk) 09:01, 28 September 2011 (UTC)
A file that you uploaded or altered, File:Double sided end wrench diagonal.png, has been listed at Wikipedia:Files 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. Common Good ( talk) 17:42, 2 October 2011 (UTC)
As I cannot see the content of the FBLA-PBL article before its speedy deletion, I cannot argue that there was not material in that article that constituted a copyright violation. However, I cannot imagine that there is no content that was not copied or that a bare stub could not be created to serve as a place holder by editing down a previous version of the article, especially as there are dozens of articles linking here. Alansohn ( talk) 14:02, 3 October 2011 (UTC)
Sorry to bother you, but is there a new policy I'm not aware of? Admin:Anomie has brought up local copies of several important Commons files, including several national flags, and put them under protection, with the reasoning that they are some of the most used files we have, and therefore are "high-risk". I don't see what we could possibly gain from this practice, and also if these files Commons versions ever need to be corrected or updated, we would have to do the same to he Wiki-EN local copies too. The following list is what has been brought up so far.
File:Poland map flag.svg
File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg
File:Flag of Spain.svg
File:Flag of Russia.svg
File:Flag of Italy.svg
File:Flag of England.svg
File:Flag of Canada.svg
File:Flag of Brazil.svg
File:Flag of Australia.svg
File:Flag of Russia.svg
File:Flag of the United States.svg
File:Flag of India.svg
File:Flag of Germany.svg
File:Flag of France.svg
File:Flag of Sweden.svg
File:Flag of Japan.svg
File:Flag of Poland.svg
File:Olympic Rings.svg
as well as many dialogue signs such as File:Ambox deletion.png. Most of these files are either protected on Commons anyways, or have never been under threat of vandalism, so I don't understand why they would need to be duplicated and protected up on Wikipedia English as well. Fry1989 eh? 20:09, 3 October 2011 (UTC)
An arbitration case regarding Senkaku Islands has now closed and the final decision is viewable at the link above. The following remedies have been enacted:
While a territorial dispute is subject to discretionary sanctions due to this remedy, any uninvolved administrator may levy restrictions as an arbitration enforcement action on users editing in these topical areas, after an initial warning.
For the Arbitration Committee, Alexandr Dmitri ( talk) 21:30, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
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Howdy. You recently made this edit. You may want to visit the following 3 related links: [1], [2], and [3]. They are all relevant to File:Denis Photo-1.jpg and Wikipedia:Files_for_deletion/2010_June_3#File:Denis_Photo-1.jpg.-- Rockfang ( talk) 23:46, 7 June 2010 (UTC)
Hi Zscout, if you have OTRS access, would you mind looking up a ticket for me for File:Irene McGee.jpg. It says McGee owns the copyright, but I've found it in an article attributed to a Danny Wong. [4] He may have passed the copyright to her. The ticket ID is 689064. Cheers, SlimVirgin talk| contribs 10:47, 15 June 2010 (UTC)
Hi Zscout730,
I noticed your recent edit on Singapore and thought you might have some input on the recent conduct of User:Cenwin88lee. I've opened an RfC: Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Cenwin88lee.
Best, ಠ_ಠ node.ue ಠ_ಠ ( talk) 21:28, 15 June 2010 (UTC)
Message for you.. Scartol • Tok 19:44, 16 June 2010 (UTC)
Thank you very much for your kind assistance in helping me to find the image for the article! Flickr user has agreed to release the image with a free license. Best wishes-- Mbz1 ( talk) 02:34, 25 June 2010 (UTC)
So what's happening with the article now? Is it going to pass the Feature Article criteria? Thanks, Davtra ( talk) 03:33, 26 June 2010 (UTC)
I saw your name at the Heraldry WikiProject, and there is a discussion at the WikiProject Heraldry about certain heraldic practices. I do not know if you are familiar with heraldic rules, but if you are could you weigh in so there is a larger discussion? Also, there are images on my user page here, and part of the discussion is whether or not they are beautiful or hideous, please comment on that if you would as well. [tk] XANDERLIPTAK 16:03, 2 July 2010 (UTC)
I checked the history for the Russian national anthem and did move the parody that Glenn Beck did to the Soviet national anthem like you suggested. Thanks for letting me know. Chris ( talk) 19:31, 3 July 2010 (UTC)
Hi Zscout, I've been reviewing Template:Country data Croatia and found that it still sports two errors:
I thought you might fix it/unblock it so I can fix it. Cheers :) -- DIREKTOR ( TALK) 13:43, 2 July 2010 (UTC)
If the information is not provided, the image may eventually be proposed for deletion, a situation which is not desirable, and which can easily be avoided.
If you have any questions please see Help:Image page. Thank you. Sfan00 IMG ( talk) 14:27, 5 July 2010 (UTC)hi zscout370. the current version of the old macedonian flag ( http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_the_Republic_of_Macedonia_1991-1995.svg) is wrong, it is based on an old, wrong interpretation of the vergina sun as you can see here: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vergiasun.svg (the first version)
but it's not only the shape of the sun, the sun itself is too big. this is the correct version of the flag, with a centered and properly drawn vergina sun: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_R._Macedonia_1992-1995.png
could you please turn it into an svg-image and upload it as a new version of Flag_of_the_Republic_of_Macedonia_1991-1995.svg, as well as svg-ing the very similar ethnic Macedonian flag? ( http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_the_Macedonian_nation_(Ethnic_Flag).png )
please give a short reply, thank you 93.219.243.240 ( talk) 04:48, 5 July 2010 (UTC)
Didn't know you were still on the project! - OberRanks ( talk) 17:40, 5 July 2010 (UTC)
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Kwiki ( talk) 22:24, 8 July 2010 (UTC)
Hey I see that you was somewhat involved in helping the article become a "FA" status. I would love to see the Japanese version of the Selena page to be a "FA" status, if you can I would help as much as I can! Thank you AJona1992 ( talk) 18:59, 9 July 2010 (UTC)
Wonder if you could help me fix Template:Country data Yugoslavia & Template:Country data Serbia and Montenegro, or unblock them briefly? I would like to insert the very many non-listed flags from the List of Yugoslav flags. Its really a lot of work, and the templates are sorely in need of expanding. I don't even want to list all the issues, is there any way you can unblock the templates for a day? -- DIREKTOR ( TALK) 15:33, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
You seem to feel find in ignoring the discussion at FIAV talk page that points out Wikipedia policy that GrahamPadruig may have a conflict of interest and the fact the article is not following the English naming policy. Spshu ( talk) 16:52, 19 July 2010 (UTC)
Hello, I noticed you made the image on top of fansub a few years ago, the Japanese text in katakana is not very correct, could you change it? Sorry if this is the wrong place to bring it up. Wekhter ( talk) 02:58, 21 July 2010 (UTC)
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If you have any questions please see Help:Image page. Thank you. Sfan00 IMG ( talk) 00:50, 22 July 2010 (UTC)If the information is not provided, the image may eventually be proposed for deletion, a situation which is not desirable, and which can easily be avoided.
If you have any questions please see Help:Image page. Thank you. Sfan00 IMG ( talk) 11:08, 22 July 2010 (UTC)If the information is not provided, the image may eventually be proposed for deletion, a situation which is not desirable, and which can easily be avoided.
If you have any questions please see Help:Image page. Thank you. Sfan00 IMG ( talk) 11:18, 22 July 2010 (UTC)The Editor's Barnstar | ||
For getting Belarus to featured and to the main page. A very enjoyable read. meshach ( talk) 00:43, 27 July 2010 (UTC) |
Hello. Have found on the "Orders, decorations and... Belarus" discussion page a request for books, devoted to belawards. If the author is Isaeva, then here. Tnen there is a book, dedicated to the awards of Ministry of Interior Affairs. Left klick to 'depositfile.com'. Best regards. SZv ( talk) 19:11, 23 July 2010 (UTC) P.S. This book is 2004 year. There is a new version of the book (2007) exists. But this will also do. SZv ( talk) 19:15, 23 July 2010 (UTC)
Hello. I wonder, what name I should give to some medals. Jubilee medal "60th Anniversary of Victory in <some war> " or "60 years of Victory in <war> ". A user from Commons deleted Category:Jubilee medal "50 Years of Victory of Great Patriotic War" and moved all files to Category:Medal 50th anniversary of victory in The Great Patriotic War. And I don't know either to rename http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Jubilee_medal_%2260_Years_Of_Liberation_Of_The_Belarusian_Republic_From_German-Fascist_Invaders%22 or not. SZv ( talk) 09:57, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
Greetings, I just noticed the US flag image has been changed. Honestly, I am not a big fan of the Cable Colors, but I do recognize that they are the official color shades in the US flag (as mentioned in DDD-F-416F: FEDERAL SPECIFICATION - FLAG, NATIONAL, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND FLAG, UNION JACK (as of 31 March 2005)). The only thing that is said about the colors in the 2005 document is they are OG Red, OG Blue and White. The values listed on page 23 of the document, which comes from the 9th edition of the Standard Color Card of the United States. This color spec was from 1959 when Hawaii joined the Union. If I can make a statement, the reason why we came up with the Pantone shades is that we had no way to calculate cable colors from earlier sources and everything we come up with will be strange. http://london.usembassy.gov/rcflags.html came up with the Pantone, but some other sites use Pantone 282 C for the blue. The state of Texas changed their flag colors to match the US Pantone specs (281 C and 193 C) and we used http://www.pantone.com/pages/pantone/colorfinder.aspx for the Pantone shades. http://www.mcc.gov/mcc/press/branding/branding-mcc/index.shtml is also using the US flag shades and matches the Pantone that we have. I still think #9B1C2C, #FFF, #33335F should be the new colors of the flag, since it is close to what we have with the Pantone. I am not sure what you feelings are about this, but I did wish I was asked. Frankly, I do not have my heart set on what is used, but we just need not only to be accurate, show people where we get Munsell colors from (I personally use http://www.eonet.ne.jp/~s-inoue/CO6_henkan/index-a.html) and make it match for the other flags. If you want, I can email you this document and see what else I can find out. User:Zscout370 (Return Fire) 05:59, 29 July 2010 (UTC)
Hi. Could i ask you to lock this article Banovina of Croatia or to warn the user for edit war. See the history. I made my edits according to this source. Thnaks in advance. -- Ex13 ( talk) 21:32, 29 July 2010 (UTC)
I've found it and made e-copy. Unfortunately, our local ADSL-model broke and I'm not able to send for the moment. I went directly to National fund of technical law documents to find an English equivalent, but they don't have even Belarusian one. Only ISO and other international standards are presented in several languages. Ang15 ( talk) 14:38, 2 August 2010 (UTC)
On the MOS:JP talk page, a discussion has been started about including or not including romanizations for words of English origin, such as Fainaru Fantajī in Final Fantasy (ファイナルファンタジー, Fainaru Fantajī) (for the sake of simplicity, I called this case "words of English origin", more information on semantics here).
Over the course of a month, it has become apparent that both the parties proposing to include or not include those romanizations cannot be convinced by the arguments or guidelines brought up by the other side. Therefore, a compromise is trying to be found that will satisfy both parties. One suggestion on a compromise has been given already, but it has not found unanimous agreement, so additional compromises are encouraged to be suggested.
One universally accepted point was to bring more users from the affected projects in to help achieve consensus, and you were one of those selected in the process.
What this invitation is:
What this invitation is not:
It would be highly appreciated if you came over to the MOS:JP talk page and helped find a solution. Thank you in advance. Prime Blue ( talk) 11:30, 8 August 2010 (UTC)
Hello.
You is the user with the largest number of editions in the article of Flag of Japan. In the Portuguese Wikipedia the article of Flag of Japan is the same, except that in Portuguese. I work in creat articles for "to blue" the article in Portuguese Wikipedia. And I realized that both articles in both languages are dead links. And earnestly ask, is not there a way to recover the dead links or substitute another source? In the Internet Archive failed, In this sites Category:Web archives could be good? I believe that the best way would be to find another source.
Thank you for your attention. Sorry my bad English. Bruno Ishiai ( talk) 22:23, 8 August 2010 (UTC)
I must admit I'm somewhat annoyed at your ignoring my response to your block. Zscout, please take the time to note my efforts at discussing with the other guy. Please note that the guy's new edit was reverted and that he continued to edit-war, all the while ignoring any discussion and posting a meaningless link to some private website he likes in one edit summary. Typical disruptive behavior, textbook stuff. I get the feeling someone else might've banned just the other guy, certainly not give them "equal treatment". What was I supposed to do? Leave the wrong flag on? And it is wrong I assure you. Croatian nationalists just like to see as much of the coat of arms as possible. :) -- DIREKTOR ( TALK) 00:26, 9 August 2010 (UTC)
Hi Zscout370, just wanted to thank you for all the excellent contributions you have made to articles on national flags. I'm from Singapore, so seeing the Flag of Singapore article go live on the Main Page today is nothing short of cool. And since today is National Day in my country. May you continue making all these wonderful contributions. Cheers, ANGCHENRUI Talk ♨ 03:33, 9 August 2010 (UTC)
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I've finally managed to find technical specifications of white-red-white flag of Belarus. If you are interested I can send it too. But the color model, used in the flag is Soviet one (1986). I tried to find Pantone, but failed. Ang15 ( talk) 15:24, 13 August 2010 (UTC)
Hi, could you please make an appropriate svg version out of this flag-picture? http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Unofficial_Flag_of_Germany_%28with_Coat_of_arms%29.png
the position and large of the coat of arms is correct, only the border is bad, since it is a copy-paste i made, because i have no clue. :) so can you make the svg version and the border correct? thanks Icaf ( talk) 17:30, 6 August 2010 (UTC)
And I have another question: There is another unnofficial German flag, with a version of the German eagle (used by the federal institutions) in the center. Is that flag also available on commons? thank you Icaf ( talk) 18:56, 7 August 2010 (UTC)
A message. Ang15 ( talk) 21:10, 13 August 2010 (UTC)
While gathering information for the article in Russian wikipedia, I found a book, devoted to what the colors of the flag mean. There was a kind of competition, were people, scientist, artists, students, prepared texts about what the flag means. It contains the speech of Lukashenko, joint text and texts of winners. You, as I remember, tried to find a book about the flag. I may also send it. But later. Ang15 ( talk) 13:18, 14 August 2010 (UTC)
Hi, Zscout370! I have an intention to create in Wiki the article about one of the greatest belarussian hard-rock bands ever - Roublezone. So, hereby I kindly ask you to give me some guidelines and probably some advice, 'cause I'm not experienced wikipedian yet )))))) DzimOzz ►
Well, you can check it here. Also, in 1995 they won 3 awards at national belarusian ceremony Rock Crown (that's if you know russian).They released the only album "Put your money... Now!", but it's still considered as the best belarusian hard-rock album ever. Enjoy! I think, there would be problems with the article... It's not so hard to prove, that band is NOTABLE, but it's hard to find RELIABLE sources, 'cause they are mostly in russian or byelorussian Dzimozz ( talk) 20:45, 16 August 2010 (UTC)
I noticed you were the one who blocked 71.68.251.54 and wanted to let you know that he's back as user 0a9s8d77as9d8g87dgas6rd143 and spamming the same stuff on human evolution-related talk pages as he did on Talk:Human evolution. What's the proper procedure for handling this? I don't usually get involved in this kind of stuff. – VisionHolder « talk » 02:32, 19 August 2010 (UTC)
ISBN 978-985-01-0767-1. Ang15 ( talk) 18:13, 21 August 2010 (UTC)
I've found in Polish Wikipedia colors of the flag by Pantone.
Colors of the Belarusian flag, Pantone | ||
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Source: Payrat A. Album des pavillons nationaux et des marques distinctives. — Paris, 2000.
You may know this, but I think the talk page will survive))).
I'm already finishing writing the article. Having finished it I'll give it to you to read and to criticize. You, as I remember, offered help.) Peaces of advice of more experienced users will be helpful. Ang15 ( talk) 20:41, 21 August 2010 (UTC)
Declaration of war discusses the vague beginnings of war, and we can see that a declaration to start a war is not required. Indeed, we can see different wars going on, petering out, and then reviving. Or we see wars that have an end in some formal sense, only to start up again in some other fashion. India-Pakistan have had lots of wars with each other, and some of them are discussed in WP. Is their conflict one long war or a series of short wars? Were they/are they technically in a state of war (even when they exchange cricket teams)? Considering how varied and vague a "beginning" of a war is, it is not surprising that the end of any particular war is even more varied and vague. Is a "declaration of peace" or "peace treaty" necessary for a war or state of war to end? I think not. But we (editors & general population) are using the term "technically at war" without really knowing what it means. I pointed out that Japan surrendered to the Soviets & West with the Instrument of Surrender. Since we know that occurred, how can Japan be in a "state of war" or "at war" with the powers that defeated it and occupied it? And what about all those wars throughout history that ended without a declaration of peace or peace treaty? Are all of those wars continuing in a "technical" sense? In our case involving Japan, we do have a situation where the 1956 declaration attempted to resolve the situation. I thank you, Zscout370, for the information. And since we have a specific reference to it, we can put it in the article and describe the situation with some precision. My main beef is with all those other articles that refer to this nonsensical term "technical state of war".-- S. Rich ( talk) 20:55, 30 August 2010 (UTC)
Did you give me this reference: http://www.mofa.go.jp/region/europe/russia/territory/edition92/preface.html ? I lost track. In any event, the Japan MofFA refers to the Oct 19, 1956 Joint Declaration and says the state of war had formally ended. I've linked this reference in a few of the Japan/war articles. My point remains -- saying a "technical state of war" exists does not mean anything because we cannot define what the phrase means. We know what a Declaration of War is, and we know what a Peace Treaty is, and we know what an Armistice is. All of these can be defined. But when we allow the undefined term "technical state of war" into articles, then we open the door to POV editing. In particular, we see such editing in Korea articles. I'm trying to put an end to that stuff, and one method (I hope) is to put an end to this "technical state of war" nonsense. That's for your reply, Zscout370. Happy editing!-- S. Rich ( talk) 05:22, 31 August 2010 (UTC)
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Hello and thanks you for your help. Hope we will stay in touch and hope you will correct all the USA roundels, because it is such a mess there. Best regards! -- Kwasura ( talk) 21:28, 10 September 2010 (UTC)
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Hello, I notice that you deleted the file UnionJackSpecification.png citing that it was a copyright violation. I can assure you that it is not. It was drawn by myself (using MS Paint). I did use Bartram's book as one reference but it is not a scanned image. Further, if you look closely you will see that there are differences: e.g. in the construction lines, placement of the sizes text/proportions etc. Invariably they will appear similar since they are both based on the Admiralty's UJ specification. I don't agree with that ( talk) 21:13, 11 September 2010 (UTC)
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If you have any questions please see Help:Image page. Thank you. Sfan00 IMG ( talk) 23:18, 15 September 2010 (UTC)Hello. I was wondering if you could do me a favour and clarify your position on including mention of notable fans in rugby league team articles at the Sydney Roosters' talk page. I've brought up the ambiguity here. Cheers.-- Jeff79 ( talk) 18:32, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
Why did you decline this? The edits made not by me are all additions of wikilinks, which I don't think is "significant." Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • ( Otters want attention) 04:32, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
The article Flag of Ecuador you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Flag of Ecuador for eventual comments about the article. Well done! Aaron north ( talk) 16:34, 1 October 2010 (UTC)
Some time ago I asked for help to help you with links in the article on Japan's flag on wikipedia Lusophone, who is now a featured article, do not remember if I ever thanked you, today thank you for your help and attention. Good editions. Bruno Ishiai ( talk) 22:47, 1 October 2010 (UTC)
I saw you work on flag articles. Could you help the Flag of Bhutan article. I want to try to get it to GA. If your not interested it's ok. Spongie555 ( talk) 06:35, 25 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi Zscout370. Would you give your permission to distribute the File:Flag_of_Antarctica_(Smith).svg image with FLOSS video game Freeciv under the GNU GPL v2 license? You would naturally be credited among the graphic contributors. Thanks. :) Himasaram ( talk) 20:13, 2 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi -- Thanks very much for sending the Lupant doc. This is the first new information I've seen in ages, and it really puts the whole flag problem in a very new light. For example, the existence of a flag from 1947, even without an image, begins to explain why the anecdotal information in the CBS doc remembers a flag with a green dragon -- I'd be willing to bet that the dragon in 1947 was green. The new picture of the 1949 flag (figure 7 in Lupant) makes it quite clear that the 1949 dragon was not, despite the CBS description.
The images from Lupant also make it clear that the flag was very much in flux between 1949 and 1970, with varying background colors; varying colors for the dragon; the dragon sometimes curved, sometimes straight; sometimes facing left, sometimes right; the boundary of the background sometimes going from upper left to lower right, sometimges upper right to lower left (and Lupant describes this incorrectly for figure 7). It is now clear that several designs were made and probably no one of them had "official" status exclusive of the others. In many cases, the author admits that he cannot tell definitively whether the design is the obverse or the reverse of the flag, which is a bit problematic; but the sheer variety of designs is now clear.
There is unfortunately a big problem: Lupant does not appear to be a published source. There is no bibliographic information that can be used in a reference -- the author's very identity is not clearly indicated. I confess I'm not sure how we can use this information.
I agree completely that we need to bring more sources to bear on the article, especially since we know that the CBS doc is not entirely trustworthy. Lupant would be a good start toward that if it can somehow become a published source. In the meantime, however, it is important to acknowledge when the source of information goes back to the CBS document (and we must be very careful even with Lupant, since CBS is one of his primary sources). It is misleading to credit a different source if that other source is just reporting it from the CBS document. GA guidelines don't simply want different sources, they want independent sources.
-- Elphion ( talk) 04:19, 12 October 2010 (UTC)
Was an indefinite move protection necessary? I was going to request a month so The Charmed One can attempt to form a new consensus. Also could you protect the other seasons' pages?— Ryūlóng ( 竜龙) 04:45, 17 October 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for your help on the Flag of Bhutan article. WikiProject Bhutan could use some help on articles of Bhutan. The article on the Bhutan national anthem and Emblem are stubs and even the main Bhutan article is a demoted FA. We could use your exspertice in this areas. But i know you work more on Belarus articles but Bhutan articles need some help too. You dont have to help if you dont want too. Spongie555 ( talk) 02:37, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
You deleted the article on Jeffrey H. Norwitz some time ago. We discussed its deletion, when I became aware of it.
It seemed to me to be a specific instance of a couple of phenomenon I find generally disturbing.
I raised it as related to the discussion as to whether we should have suppressed news of David Rohde's kidnapping.
I hope you agree I characterized your position accurately. Have you given its deletion any further thought since we corresponded over it? Geo Swan ( talk) 19:16, 25 October 2010 (UTC)
Hi Zach -I've got a problem which needs an uninvolved admin's help. There's a problem user at South Island nationalism. He's playing within the rules, but he's definitely " playing". A few months ago, User:Teroamahai seems to have noticed that South Island nationalism existed and created his own North Island nationalism, which was quickly deleted (there's no such movement). Since then, he's been active at the SI-nat article, firstly launching an attack on it in the talk page, then adding incorrect information (with support from an anon, which is almost certainly the same editor). He's now started "working to rule" by excising large chunks of the article because they weren't well-sourced. That's certainly within WP's policies and guidelines, but it's the way it's being done, after an extremely cursory note on the talk page, that is a cause for concern, as is his contention that he'll remove more unless someone can think up a reasonable reason for their inclusion (he's never listened to reasonable reason regarding the article in the past, it's to be seriously doubted that he will now).
Problem is, I'm too involved to do much - I've made quite a lot of edits to the page, and have been involved in South Island movements (including designing one of the flags shown on the page). I've protected the page after the latest bout of removals - something I probably shouldn't have done, though I've made a reasonable justification for it on the talk page, I think, and a lot of the information about what's ben going on is listed there. Can I ask you to have a look at the page and remove my protection, and either leave it unprotected or add your own protection as you see fit? I left a message for another admin to have a look, but it looks like they're on a wikibreak, so nothing's happened in a couple of weeks. Sorry to get you involved in this, but it's been going on a bit too long to be comfortable... Grutness... wha? 22:12, 28 October 2010 (UTC)
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I happened to notice Courtesy flag has a PROD tag on it, because the article is unsourced. Any chance that you, as the resident vexillologist, could take a look? I seem to have the strangest things on my watchlist... Risker ( talk) 21:16, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
Hey, sorry for delay. I am not sure it's worth it. It's only 5 pages. Plus they say nothing on payment methods. I would be shocked if they accepted credit cards. I would think they would only take bank transfers, which for me would cost triple the price of the booklet. Can you survive without it? :) Renata ( talk) 18:52, 4 November 2010 (UTC)
Good day!
There is a change on the seal of the University. Texts that surrounds the seal has been added. Since you are the author of this file, if you don't mind, could you update this SVG file? Here is the update seal in PNG: click here . For PDF version, click here (the updated seal is on PAGE 2 of the PDF, upper left hand corner).
I look forward to your positive response. Thank you. Anyoflores ( talk) 06:54, 8 November 2010 (UTC)
Yeah, the standards can be very high when certain people are reviewing—perhaps unfairly high. The only reason I wasn't keen on supporting after tweaking the article myself was that I could no longer look at the article from a fresh perspective. — Deckiller ( t- c- l) 12:29, 20 November 2010 (UTC)
Hello Zscout370
Would you be able to upload a new version of the flag and coat of arms of Serbia, based on the recent changes according to these ( [6], [7], [8]) rough versions? - Buttons ( talk) 01:02, 3 December 2010 (UTC)
Hi, previously the names of her two daughters were in the article, I don't know how public they are, this could be used to cite their names, a ppic from 2010 at the red carpet premier of flipped http://www.fotolog.com/celebrity_babies/75378985 - Off2riorob ( talk) 20:31, 11 December 2010 (UTC)
Hi - you blocked 68.222.236.154 and a follow-up sock. It looks like he's turned up again as 98.122.103.183. Same geographic location, same material. Would you mind blocking again? Thanks. VsevolodKrolikov ( talk) 09:56, 13 December 2010 (UTC)
Hello! Thanks for uploading a new flag in commons, but something is amiss -- if you look at any CT ratings page (ie: talk:ConnCAN), the flag now looks very compressed/stretched out in Internet Explorer while the shield is huge in Opera. Can you look into why that would be with this new image? Thanks, Markvs88 ( talk) 18:55, 14 December 2010 (UTC)
I wanted to tell you the Flag of Bhutan article is finally starting to be reviewed for GA. Spongie555 ( talk) 10:18, 21 December 2010 (UTC)
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The English name of 新北市 is New Taipei City, Not Xinbei. U can see this page: The Webside of the New Taipei City Government U can writing the mail ask for the Mayor of New Taipei City -- Eric Chu, even if U don't believe it. -- 75.65.40.180 ( 75.65.40.180) 07:00, December 25, 2010 (UTC)
The E-Mail of Mayor Chu Address: 台灣新北市板橋區中山路1段161號 / 161 Zhongshan Street, Banqiao District, New Taipei City, Taiwan To:朱立倫 / Eric Chu
I must tell the all of the wikipedia: Xinbei City -- Is the big mistake by Chou hsi-wei, the last Taipei County Magistrate.
New Taipei City -- Is the New English name that the most people of Taipei County want, and Eric Chu, the currect Mayor of the New Taipei City, he decided.
So, The English name of 新北市 is New Taipei City!
Repeat: Ask the Mayor Chu, please! -- If u think I made the lie.
-- 75.65.40.180 ( 75.65.40.180) 07:00, December 25, 2010 (UTC)
Hi Zscout370. Thanks for your project idea for the Pro bono posting on the Reward Board. I'm thinking of extending the deadline for 3 months, to allow others more time to submit proposals. Or we could stay with the current 2010-12-31 deadline, and give out rewards to only those proposals that are submitted and acceptable. (And then do a repost, with a new deadline) As you're, so far, the only user to submit a proposal, I wanted to get your thoughts first before doing anything. Thanks! Eclipsed (talk) (code of ethics) 16:33, 25 December 2010 (UTC)
Please, do not return the pages! As news sources: "New Taipei" is the English name of 新北 since December 2010, not may be, The Mayor Eric Chu said just is New Taipei, the currect name is New Taipei! I don't have idea even if I was be blocked. But I must say the truth. Repeat: Please writing the mail ask for the Mayor of New Taipei City -- Eric Chu, Is he the Mayor of New Taipei, or Xinbei? The E-Mail of Mayor Chu Address: 台灣新北市板橋區中山路1段161號 / 161 Zhongshan Street, Banqiao District, New Taipei City, Taiwan To:朱立倫 / Eric Chu -- 75.65.40.180 ( 75.65.40.180) 02:00, December 26, 2010 (UTC)
hey Zscout370,
I think we have been able to resolve the issue. AFAIK Orange Tuesday and I agree on including this flag here File:Flag of the State of Burma (Stylized version).svg in the article. Gryffindor ( talk) 16:39, 27 December 2010 (UTC)
Hey, would you happen to have a source/copy of ДСТУ 4512:2006? This whole Ukrainian flag color thing is quite confusing. — Alex Khristov 12:47, 28 December 2010 (UTC)
Lemurbaby found some more sources if it helps. Spongie555 ( talk) 03:48, 30 December 2010 (UTC)
The Bhutan Barnstar of National Merit | ||
Thank you for helping the Flag of Bhutan article get to GA status, hope to see you help with more Bhutanese articles in the future Spongie555 ( talk) 23:24, 31 December 2010 (UTC) | ||
this WikiAward was given to Zscout370 by Spongie555 ( talk) on 23:24, 31 December 2010 (UTC) |
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Zscout370, please restore the deleted Gator head logo for the University of Florida Gators sports teams immediately. You have overstepped your bounds. There is no policy that justifies the removal of these logos in the manner in which you have done it. This was done in the dead of night, and presented as a fait accompli without discussion and without prior notice. Proper "fair use" justifications were provided on the file page for all team pages on which the image was used. The "Gators" script logo is NOT the primary logo of the Gators sports teams, is not used by any of the teams other than the football team, and the substitute you have put in place does not even use the correct colors. Your substitution of an improper logo, followed by the immediate deletion of the proper logo with the use of the "unused image" speedy deletion justification smacks of "boot-strapping." Your refusal to restore these images will result in an escalation of this dispute. Please respond. Dirtlawyer1 ( talk) 09:20, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
Please respond on your public talk page. Dirtlawyer1 ( talk) 09:44, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
At the request of Dirtlawyer1, I have reviewed this too. Per discussion on my talk, the deletion does not appear to meet the criteria in WP:CSD#F5, so I hope you can explain what was done here. -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 16:58, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
Zscout, pursuant to the procedures provided at WP:DRV, I am extending you the courtesy of this notice of my intention to file a deletion review complaint against you (as well as a possible other complaint against you for failure to follow proper procedures for file deletion and possible abuse of your admin buttons). You conducted this substitution/deletion of logos in the middle of the night, with no prior notice, outside of the required process, and used your deletion of the 19 uses of the proper logo (each use having its own proper fair use rationale), and then boot-strapped a justification for the speedy deletion of the SVG file as "unused fair-use media." You are hereby notified that I will file a DRV in the event that you fail to restore "File:Florida gators logo.svg" as it existed prior to your middle-of-the-night tinkering, as well as each of its 19 prior uses on the University of Florida and Florida Gators sports team pages before 12 noon EST (5:00 p.m. GMT) today, January 4, 2011. You will note that we have extended you the courtesy of a proper notice which you failed to provide to any of the involved WikiProjects, the uploader of the subject SVG file, or any of the concerned editors.
If you believe that the 19 deleted fair use rationales for the Florida Gator head logo (i.e. "File:Florida Gators logo.svg") were improper, then I respectfully request that you restore the SVG file and its 19 pre-existing uses, and initiate the proper WP procedures for their discussion and possible deletion. Dirtlawyer1 ( talk) 11:55, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Wikipedia:Wikiportal/Belarus. Since you had some involvement with the Wikipedia:Wikiportal/Belarus redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion (if you have not already done so). Mhiji 13:03, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
Zscout, thank you for responding and thank you also for restoring the file and its uses while we discuss the substance of this matter.
This subject was brooked with Hammersoft last year. WikiProject University of Florida editors decided to fight for certain uses and let others slide. Accordingly, I updated the fair use rationales for the SVG Gator head logo to only include the main program page ("Florida Gators") and the individual main team pages (baseball, men's basketball, women's basketball, cross country, football, men's golf, women's golf, gymnastics, lacrosse, soccer, softball, swimming and diving, track & field, volleyball), and previously on the main University of Florida page. (The last use could easily be dispensed with.) We do not use the Gator head logo on any of the team season pages, game pages, bowl game pages, rivalry pages. In fact, we don't use any logo at all on the football season pages from 1906 to 1999, and already use the script logo on the season pages since 2000. During the last dust up over the "over use" of the logo, we agreed to stop using the Gator head logo in something like 3/4 of all prior articles. The problem is this in a nutshell: the University of Florida has 21 very successful sports teams (which are covered in something like 18 different team articles on Wikipedia, and only one of those 21 teams (football) actually uses the script logo as its secondary team emblem. The Gator head logo is the only common logo for all 21 teams. What would you propose to reduce our use of the logo? Dirtlawyer1 ( talk) 17:31, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
I have the UF seal, logo and "signature" webpage bookmarked. One of my law school classmates, who is the number 2 lawyer in the UF general counsel's office, assembled the page. If you read their use restrictions on the seal, it become blazingly apparent why, for instance, the seal is not used on the University of Florida WP main page. Also, the UF logos and University of Florida "signatures" are only supposed to be used in conjunction with academic topics, not athletic subjects. And vice versa. Also, part of what you are omitting from your discussion of NFCC1 is whether the substitute is adequate under the circumstances. Clearly, using a public domain interlocking "UF" football helmet logo from 1973 is not the same as using the current primary Gator head logo. (Ironically, the WP copyright police made us delete a gallery of various text-only logos last year.) Again, using a "spirit mark" that the cheerleaders used 35 years ago, and none of the teams actually use in the present, is not the same thing. That's why they have a common athletic program logo: it's the immediately recognized emblem of all of the university's sports teams. There is no common text-only logo that all Gators teams use. Dirtlawyer1 ( talk) 20:41, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
Query: Isn't drawing your own electronic SVG image of a copyrighted flag the same as using an image from an authorized source? After all, it's not the particular image (or its source), but the design that's copyrighted. Dirtlawyer1 ( talk) 20:41, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
BTW, there's not likely to be any editorial merger of existing Gators articles. The plan is to upgrade them all and drive toward GA status for all 16 team articles in 2011. Several are already pretty far along, including the Florida Gators overview article. Besides, merging articles to get logo use approval is really putting the editorial cart in front of the horse, don't you think? Dirtlawyer1 ( talk) 20:46, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
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Hello. Looks like you made 3 edits today: UMassMinutemen.png → MassMinutemen wordmark.svg using AWB. This has killed the UMass logo on the pages where it was used. Can you please check the SVG image you intended as a replacement? Thanks. -- MikeUMA ( talk) 03:12, 5 January 2011 (UTC)
You apparently saw your way to restoring Florida's deleted logo, please do the same with USC's logo so that it may be rightfully restored to the school's main athletic article and team sport pages. Thank you. GarnetAndBlack ( talk) 04:23, 5 January 2011 (UTC)
Please don't tag this file for deletion; as you can read at WP:F8, this criterion only applies to files of the same filetype. A GIF and an SVG are definitely not the same filetype. Nyttend ( talk) 23:00, 5 January 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for creating .svg and placing them under GDFL licences - it would be a shame lose all Canadian insignia. As you are probably more than well aware, with this edit the shoulder boards have "disappeared". Are you planning to create .svg of the shoulder boards? (To do so would be well beyond my abilities.) If not, are there any options for acquiring "free" images of the shoulder boards? Cheers, Pdfpdf ( talk) 05:46, 8 January 2011 (UTC)
This seems to be becoming way more complicated than I would have thought necessary.
Could you check Canadian Forces ranks and insignia please? Pdfpdf ( talk) 13:46, 8 January 2011 (UTC)
Why are you uploading the images like File:CDN-Army-Maj.svg to Wikipedia and not to Commons? multichill ( talk) 11:07, 8 January 2011 (UTC)
Template:MOD Serbia has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you. — This, that, and the other (talk) 06:34, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
Template:Farcarticle has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you. Mhiji 23:13, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
Thank you for getting Flag of Bhutan to GA. Maybe you would interested in getting the National Anthem and the Emblem of Bhutan to GA so we can have a Good Topic of the national symbols of Bhutan. Spongie555 ( talk) 23:06, 9 January 2011 (UTC)
I've noticed you've deleted this page citing this discussion as the reason for doing so. Might I ask why you also choose to retain the talkpage and the remaining pages? :| TelCo NaSp Ve :| 21:48, 11 January 2011 (UTC)
Hi Zscout. I was looking at indef. fully protected pages to see if there are any pages that might inadvertently remain fully protected. I found Banovina of Croatia that you protected in August to stop an edit war. Looks like the war was between DIREKTOR and Ex13. DIREKTOR seemed to be trying to start a dialog through both his edit summaries as well as posts to the article's talk page. Since action seems to have died down, I was wondering if perhaps it might be possible to unprotect the page, and follow-up with blocks to warring users if needed? It's your call, but since it was a few months ago, I wanted to bring it to your attention in case it fell off your to-do list. Hope all is well!-- Gnowor T C 17:46, 12 January 2011 (UTC)
Hi Zscout. I've just reached out to Grutness regarding protection of South Island nationalism and would greatly appreciate your comments here. Thanks in advance! Have a great day!-- Gnowor T C 23:27, 12 January 2011 (UTC)
Hi Zscout. I renewed my request to reduce protection on this page. I suggested that perhaps applying PC2 protection might resolve the situation. I'm not sure where policy stands regarding using this protection. As a result of an admin at WP:RFPP deferring to the protecting admin, I asked them for an opinion as to whether it's permissible to add pending changes protection. Given that they may be more familiar with where policy stands on this protection level, I would greatly appreciate your support in applying WP:PC2 if they state that adding this protection to the page is permissible. Thanks so much!-- Gnowor T C 17:28, 19 January 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for your proposal in the Reward Board pro bono posting. I have reviewed your proposal, and you will be awarded US$50. Congrats! Eclipsed (talk) (COI Declaration) 12:52, 13 January 2011 (UTC)
Article National symbols of Bhutan is currently being reviewed for GA if you would like to help or watch. Spongie555 ( talk) 02:47, 14 January 2011 (UTC)
This IP is at it again, restoring the Gamecocks logo. I've reverted him, and let him know he had been reverted. He responded with an insult [10]. At some point, perhaps not yet, a block will be in order. -- Hammersoft ( talk) 21:38, 20 January 2011 (UTC)
I hadn't noticed that the IP had been blocked for extended periods before. Thanks for the block. -- Hammersoft ( talk) 22:02, 20 January 2011 (UTC)
Hi! I found a problem of the title and description of this image. They are incorrect. It's not a poster of Arirang (1926 film). Please take a good look at the poster. It says "故春史20回忌追悼記念作品!", "監督 脚色 金蘇東" and "南洋映画社". It's definitely a poster of the 1957 remake. See this. The nominator's claim is correct. See these too. [12] [13] [14] I removed the image from the article. But someone who doesn't read ja/kanji would use it again. Can you move the file name and edit the description? I don't know what to do to solve this problem, I have an account at Commons though. Would you please do it for me? Thank you. Oda Mari ( talk) 15:16, 25 January 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for fixing the Wavell PD tag. All the best, -- Rskp ( talk) 02:38, 26 January 2011 (UTC)
Any status about the standard? User:Zscout370 (Return Fire) 21:18, 27 January 2011 (UTC)
What can be done about this: [15] This logo is trademarked, is based on a unique casting of a tiger's paw and thus does not meet the claims provided in the rationale for a logo made of "simple geometric shapes". GarnetAndBlack ( talk) 01:10, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
Question. If user 129.252.69.40 is also Vipernerd, is 129.252.69.40 also GarnetAndBlack?
Their history pages on edits and re-verts are almost identical.
Just curious. Sorry about this...
If this user wasn't so combative about every issue on rivalry sports pages, and logos, I wouldn't have noticed. ThomasC.Wolfe ( talk) 04:10, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
PC sucks.
Needs semi. PC is a waste of space; not approved by the community, and inappropriate in cases like this. Or most cases, really.
IMHO, YMMV. But I had to say it. Chzz ► 00:49, 4 February 2011 (UTC)
Dropped Chzz ► 01:11, 4 February 2011 (UTC)
Hey, Zscout, I was wondering if you could resolve some confusion about File:Coat of arms of Canada.svg. Did you completely create it? If so, this particular image is not protected by copyright; the licensing should look like this or this. A coat of arms isn't like a logo; any CoA can be replicated by anyone. I'm doing a GA review on Queen Elizabeth II, and this is the most pressing matter that needs to be resolved, which is why I'm contacting you now. Please release the image under a license of you choice (you originally released it into the public domain, which was completely legitimate). I can give you further information regarding the details on request, but in a nutshell, you can recreate coats of arms and release them according to your preferences, without needing a fair use rationale. Swarm X 13:54, 4 February 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for the explanation. Now that I understand, I agree with you. Cheers, Pdfpdf ( talk) 01:34, 6 February 2011 (UTC)
Thank you for the cleanup and the heads-up! Any more of these at Emblems of Indian states you care to tackle would be appreciated.-- Kintetsubuffalo ( talk) 05:33, 7 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi Zscout370,
Can't say I haven't thought about it before, but the copyright issue scares me a little. I don't want to spend time creating an image that will get deleted because it violates the copyright. Plus even if I make some derivatives to it I might get some slack for it not looking like the original. The COA of Canada is very specific and has very few examples of variation, this could pose some future problems. The COA of Australia has the same issue, which made me abandoned it after starting work on it early last year. So if we could find someone who could be sure about this, I will probably be more willing to start work on it.
I'm really sorry for being this timid, I wish I could get excited and jump right on it. But a lot of my work have been causing some 'style' problems with some users lately and I just want to be sure. Sodacan ( talk) 13:38, 7 February 2011 (UTC)
Following contact on your application, and the reply received from Steward Kylu, I am writing to ask you per this link to abstain from any and all duties relating to Global Administration at the Tok Pisin Wikipedia. This request is made primarily due to your wishes as expressed in your nomination, and made on behalf of the community of the Tok Pisin Wikipedia. Barking Fish 01:47, 8 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi Zscout370! I've left my message concerning about the Chinese national flag here. Andyso ( talk) 07:47, 8 February 2011 (UTC)
Hello Zscout370, I saw that you deleted a photo I had uploaded a couple weeks ago because I found it on Flickr. After I found it, I contacted the original author of the photograph who gave me permission to use it. I'm not sure if his permission makes the photo allowable, but I forwarded the email he sent to the address specified in the instructions. Would that photo (datsik_spinning_live.jpg) be able to be undeleted? Thanks either way. Schrute058 ( talk)
Hi! Thank you for the other day. Please take a look at this image. See the meaningless imprint of a seal. "Yellow comfort"! Some editors might mistake it as the genuine signature and the seal of Hirohito. I think the image should be deleted. What do you think? Oda Mari ( talk) 10:05, 13 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi there! This is just a quick heads-up to let you know that I've left some comments at Wikipedia:Peer review/Act on National Flag and Anthem (Japan)/archive2. -- Cryptic C62 · Talk 17:28, 20 February 2011 (UTC)
The SVG flag is wrong. The size of the star Sírio is: Sírio (1), and the SVG flag is: Sírio (2). The correct size is Sírio (1).
WikiProject Good Articles will be running a GAN backlog elimination drive for the entire month of March. The goal of this drive is to bring the number of outstanding Good Article nominations down to below 50. This will help editors in restoring confidence to the GAN process as well as actively improving, polishing, and rewarding good content. If you are interested in participating in the drive, please place your name here. Awards will be given out to those who review certain numbers of GANs as well as to those who review the most. On behalf of my co-coordinator Wizardman, we hope we can see you in March. MuZemike delivered by MuZebot 23:57, 21 February 2011 (UTC)
hello zscout, there are some details to correct in the Macedonian flag. The diagonal rays are too thin near the sun. On the other side, the two vertical rays are a little bit too thick than they should be. Could you correct them according to the sources you have used the last time you corrected the file?
http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/mk.html#law http://www.slvesnik.com.mk/WBStorage/Files/Zname.gif 93.219.254.127 ( talk) 12:09, 24 February 2011 (UTC)
Yes, finally the Macedonian flag is correct. Thank you very much 93.219.242.131 ( talk) 10:07, 13 March 2011 (UTC)
Should I put a request in on Commons to undelete this? CTJF83 21:20, 27 February 2011 (UTC)
A file that you uploaded or altered, File:Louisiana Monroe Warhawks workmark.svg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Possibly unfree files because its copyright status is unclear or disputed. If the file's copyright status cannot be verified, it may be deleted. You may find more information on the file description page. You are welcome to add comments to its entry at the discussion if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. -- B ( talk) 02:44, 5 March 2011 (UTC)
Got it! Check your email for more info... — Alex Khristov 03:45, 9 March 2011 (UTC)
You deleted NewFreeSpeechFlag.svg
what about File:Free-speech-flag.svg ? it is essentially the same idea.
Decora ( talk) 21:28, 9 March 2011 (UTC)
thank you! it has been deleted. Pinay ( talk• email) 02:15, 11 March 2011 (UTC)
Hey, after studying the standard a bit closer, one thing confuses me... according to the standard, the Pantone colors are okay for print and certain types of paints, but not for cloth flags. The part that confuses me is that they refer to a color that they call "C3". The reason this confuses me is because they refer to it as one color, but the Ukrainian flag has two colors. The Yxy chart they provide is also just a range. I wonder if the more specific color is in the other DSTU (4513), or if they're just referring to a "white" color specification before the cloth is dyed. — Alex Khristov 17:47, 12 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi, I noticed you are the last person updated the flag. This flag is the incorrect and fake flag of Afghanistan. Afghanistan's flag does not have any christian cross or any other type of cross. Here is the official flag of Afghanistan: http://nawjawanan.com/flag/
Please correct this flag with the provided flag.
http://twitter.com/#!/afghflag
Thank you AfgFlag File:Http://nawjawanan.com/flag/show image.php?filename=xl&b=j.jpg — Preceding unsigned comment added by Afgflag ( talk • contribs) 14:33, 13 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi Zscout370,
Would you please help me convert the Canadian Blue Ensign file to SVG format? I would like it to be uploaded to the Canadian Red Ensign page. Thanks!
96.241.32.39 ( talk) 00:47, 20 March 2011 (UTC)
Hello Zscout, I have left you a message at it:user talk:Zscout370 to explain a few things about your AWB edits there. I hope that solves your problem. Anyway, thank you for your edits. Greetings, -- Austroungarika scold or call 18:32, 2 April 2011 (UTC)
Is Template:Ushmm-link needed or a work in progress. Just the Image requests do not make sense.-- Traveler100 ( talk) 10:31, 3 April 2011 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect E Mare Libertas. Since you had some involvement with the E Mare Libertas redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion (if you have not already done so). Horologium (talk) 22:58, 22 April 2011 (UTC)
I am a Wikipedian, who is studying the phenomenon on Wikipedia. I need your help to conduct my research on about understanding "Motivation of Wikipedia contributors." I would like to invite you to Main Study. Please give me your valuable time, which estimates about 20 minutes. I chose you as a English Wikipedia user who made edits recently through the RecentChange page. Refer to the first page in the online survey form for more information on the study and me. cooldenny ( talk) 01:27, 24 April 2011 (UTC)
Could you make this flag, File:Finlad kingdome 800.jpg, into a svg? I requested it on the graphics lab but it got no responses for a week now. I saw you are good at making flags into svg so I thought you could help. Spongie555 ( talk) 08:07, 26 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi! Could you please move these file names? commons:File:US Navy 110315-N-5503T-756 A Japanese search and rescue team searches the rubble near a high-rise building in Wakuya, Japan.jpg and commons:File:US Navy 110315-N-5503T-307 An aerial view of damage to Wakuya, Japan after a 9.0 magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami devastated the area in.jpg. They are not images of Wakuya. As for the first image, please see this. Actually I e-mailed the US Navy and asked for correction. Now the US Navy changed the captions. [26] and [27]. I think the commons file names should be moved too. Thank you always. Oda Mari ( talk) 15:56, 28 April 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for uploading File:Selma's Choice.jpg. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently orphaned, meaning that it is not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).
If you have uploaded other unlicensed media, please check whether they're used in any articles or not. You can find a list of "file" pages you have edited by clicking on the " my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "File" from the dropdown box. Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. Sfan00 IMG ( talk) 13:11, 30 April 2011 (UTC)
Your SVG of the Finnish flag Flag_of_the_Kingdom_of_Finland_(1918-1919).svg is really nicely done! Jon C ( talk) 23:38, 2 May 2011 (UTC)
Hye, can you change the size of this flag → from 896 × 448 pixels(current) to 1,235 × 650 pixels ??, the reason is because the current size is to small than the other flag like US flag, Brazil flag and etc. → ,
Hope you can change it, thanks. DarknessVisitor ( talk) 04:52, 3 May 2011 (UTC)
Ouw, never mind, thanks for the information =)) DarknessVisitor ( talk) 05:08, 3 May 2011 (UTC)
Article 14 item b of the Indonesia Copyright Law No 19, 2002:
There shall be no infringement of Copyright for:
publication and/or reproduction of the symbol of the State and the national anthem in accordance with their original nature; publication and/or reproduction of anything which is published by and/or behalf of the Government, except if the Copyright is declared to be protected by law or regulation or by statement on the work itself or at the time the work is published; or repetition, either in whole or in part, of news from a news agency, broadcasting organization, and newspaper or any other sources, provided that the source thereof shall be fully cited
The only issue is thus whether later works by Bank Indonesia are "by and/or on behalf of the Government". By, probably not; on behalf of, almost certainly. Jpatokal ( talk) 03:15, 11 May 2011 (UTC)
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Hello, Zscout370! I was wondering if you could make images of the RCAirC ranks and have it look similar to the Air Force versions like the one your made on the right. I don't know how to make SVG images, and seeing that you already have experience in making rank images, I thought might as well ask you! Rank images are here. Hope you're ok with this... -- K.Annoyomous (talk) 06:37, 18 May 2011 (UTC)
Hi Zscout, you made an impressive contribution to Wikipedia. I also noticed the featured articles you have contributed to. Would you be interested in helping me to get Azerbaijan article a featured status? I have been working for a while now, I would very much appreciate your help. Please let me know. Neftchi ( talk) 21:22, 19 May 2011 (UTC)
This vandalism is by a strong edit warrior: you know the guy. Cheers,-- Lord Sbur ( talk) 15:23, 6 June 2011 (UTC)
Hi, would you happen to have enough information for OTRS for this file? I was looking at copying it to Commons perhaps. (your name was on the talkpage) Thanks. Deadstar ( talk) 12:47, 8 June 2011 (UTC)
Hi, I saw your picture of the construction sheet for the flag of Japan here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Construction_sheet_of_the_Japanese_flag_no_text.svg
The width is described as "3", and the circle's diameter is described as "3/5", but there is simply no way that that diameter is one fifth of the flag's width. It's simply too large to be only one 5th.
DrZygote214 ( talk) 17:32, 10 June 2011 (UTC)
I do not know japanese and the google and babel fish translations were unclear. If the diameter is supposed to be 3 fifths of the flag height, then the number should read 6/5, which is 2*3/5. If the diameter is supposed to be 3 fifths of the flag length, then the number should read 9/5, which is 3*3/5. As is stands now, the number 3/5 or 0.6 means that the diameter is 0.3 of the height (0.6/2) or 0.2 of the length (0.6/3). DrZygote214 ( talk) 21:49, 10 June 2011 (UTC)
You may be mildly amused by the ridiculous legal threats being made at User_talk:Walteriarecords. Indeed you have probably received a similar e-mail. But I would like to know why you deleted Walt Winston. I see no discussion or speedy tag and you must admit that "2011061410011831 OTRS" as a deletion reason is, to put it mildly, somewhat cryptic. — RHaworth ( talk · contribs) 10:48, 16 June 2011 (UTC)
Hi Zscout: (since I'm not too good at these myself), do you think you could vectorize File:LanfgleyTS-flag.png (most likely unfree) from the elements I found in [29]? Thanks! Connormah ( talk) 03:19, 17 June 2011 (UTC)
Can you also do a fix to File:Buffalo Seal.svg, one of my (visibly) earlier and first attempts at SVG files? This is what it should look like. Thanks again. Connormah ( talk) 01:22, 23 June 2011 (UTC)
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For your willingness to assist in a pinch. Maggie Dennis (WMF) ( talk) 18:25, 17 June 2011 (UTC) |
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You deleted the Walt Winston article as a result of e-mail/s received and recorded in the OTRS system. You are not allowed to discuss further. Why on earth did it need an e-mail to tell me that? Perhaps I am nit-picking but I still think your deletion log entries could have been clearer - look at these log entries for example. In the case of Walt Winston and the associated image a deletion log entry of "Deletion request received via OTRS:2011061410011831" would have been sufficient to prevent me bothering you. — RHaworth ( talk · contribs) 23:28, 29 June 2011 (UTC)
Please explain the license change on this image, as the uploader's complained on my tlak page when asked for an FUR. Sfan00 IMG ( talk) 01:24, 30 June 2011 (UTC)
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File:Pyeongchang 2018 Olympic Bid logo.svg Most appreciated. I actually tried myself but failed terribly. What exactly is your methodology? NativeForeigner Talk/ Contribs 00:43, 8 July 2011 (UTC)
A file that you uploaded or altered, File:PilotOfficer.png, has been listed at Wikipedia:Files 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. – Drilnoth ( T/ C) 10:47, 13 July 2011 (UTC)
A vandal has repeatedly edited the Harold Covington article with false information claiming he was in the Rhodesian Military. The source that cites this says that he was not.
http://books.google.com/books?id=kbKJU3e59MsC&pg=PA45&dq=Covington++%22Rhodesian+Army%22&hl=en&ei=VRh0TP–DMKB8gbFyqj2CA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCsQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Covington%20%20%22Rhodesian%20Army%22&f=false — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.47.11.81 ( talk) 18:06, 19 July 2011 (UTC)
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Thank you for deciding to unblock me , I am very greatful and i hope i will be able to improve and contribute to Wikipedia; however, What is happening about the "adoption" process? Goldblooded ( talk) 21:21, 23 July 2011 (UTC) |
Could you tell me what exactly is a wikipedia adoption?
And of course ill be happy to work with you , I have a deep interest and passion in History , i am actually writing a biography about Pétain, i might actually go ahead and possibly get it published if all goes well.
Ive also made a dictionary of all the prominent politicians , generals and soldiers from the Axis powers in WW2. My area is modern history , 19th and 20th Centuries, paticulary European history and i also have an interest in politics (im a member of the conservative party) -Dont groan lol. Goldblooded ( talk) 21:30, 23 July 2011 (UTC)
Sounds good. By the way is it possible to change the name of an article?
I was thinking of making a list of the people interview in the world at war tv series, although do you think it would be a notable enough article? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Goldblooded/Notable_people_interviewed_in_the_World_at_War Goldblooded ( talk) 21:40, 23 July 2011 (UTC)
Pinnacle Islands currently is only a redirect to Senkaku Islands (and I mentioned it on the article talk page as well). - Penwhale | dance in the air and follow his steps 05:57, 24 July 2011 (UTC)
Also, see Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Senkaku_Islands_-_admin_COI_intervention. You might be interested in THAT discussion, too. - Penwhale | dance in the air and follow his steps 07:24, 24 July 2011 (UTC)
Is there some kind of list of templates i can use for my user page? Goldblooded ( talk) 11:05, 25 July 2011 (UTC)
Oh and also is there a way to see how many contributions you have made? Goldblooded ( talk) 11:08, 25 July 2011 (UTC)
If you want other examples of WP articles to see how we usually treat them, name-wise, the easiest place to look is Category:Disputed islands. I think you'll find that the Liancourt Rocks "compromise" is actually the exception, rather than the rule, of how we treat such islands. However, I haven't looked at all of them, so it's possible that my initial scanning impression is wrong. You may get more specific results through a systematic search. Qwyrxian ( talk) 22:22, 26 July 2011 (UTC)
Could you plz restore old versions of template from deleted history for historic purposes? As it was made on Commons and in Ru-wiki. Alex Spade ( talk) 19:46, 27 July 2011 (UTC)
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Hello, Zscout370! I will see how I can help you get Coat of arms of Singapore to GA status; it is very close. I recently rewrote Money No Enough and Xiaxue, both of which are on peer review in preparation for GA nominations. Could you give some constructive comments at Money No Enough's peer review and Xiaxue's peer review? Thanks! 谢谢!Terima kasih! Nandri! Arigato! -- J.L.W.S. The Special One ( talk) 04:50, 30 July 2011 (UTC)
I appreciate your administrative action on Libya. Hopefully this content dispute can be resolved more peaceably with the page under protection. - Kudzu1 ( talk) 06:30, 30 July 2011 (UTC)
There are 2 separate arguments being debated/contended there. I hope that fact will not be lost in searching for the resolution. They both need to be agreed upon. One is the use of the term 'Libyan Republic' and the other is about the infobox(es). Kudzu1 seems to think that those two issues are inter-dependable, that a solution for one resolves the other. But there is no justification for such a view. I propose that the debate for them is separated and I will start another topic on the Talk:Libya page, 'The Infobox' albert humbert ( talk) 15:44, 30 July 2011 (UTC)
.... you're mentioned here. Philippe Beaudette, Wikimedia Foundation ( talk) 19:05, 31 July 2011 (UTC)
Okay, I'm done with this. Check my talk page for the list of edit recommendations that were impossible to put into the article itself. Let me know when you're done so I can take the article off of the Requests page thanks.-- Aichikawa ( talk) 15:30, 9 August 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for the Flickr link. I haven't uploaded too many SEPTA images, but I'll definitely check Flickr for anything in the future. I left a message at User:Oanabay04's user page about his non-free image uploads. The user seemed to have been under the impression that it is acceptable to remove FfD tags from file pages and that uploading non-free images is perfectly fine as long as the image is historical and/or cannot be reproduced. Maybe you can give some additional input. There's also a third image on the FfD page that the user uploaded (right above the two others that have been deleted) and you could also take a look at. Thanks. – Dream out loud ( talk) 21:19, 10 August 2011 (UTC)
Hello Zscout370, I wonder if you are still willing to give some help on that disputed page or pages. Although there were some discussions regarding "Pinnacle Islands" as you proposed, those were not very formal and were also interrupted. If you can give some help, may I suggest that you raise a formal proposal (say, starting a new section) of this on that talk page? Thanks, nice weekend. -- Lvhis ( talk) 23:04, 12 August 2011 (UTC)
Okay it was not misplaced i am not sure why you would think that i will now attempt to revert your revert, please do NOT atemmpt to revert my revert of yor revert -- Rancalred ( talk) 20:52, 16 August 2011 (UTC)
An arbitration case involving you has been opened, and is located at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Senkaku Islands. Evidence that you wish the Arbitrators to consider should be added to the evidence sub-page, at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Senkaku Islands/Evidence. Please add your evidence by August 31, 2011, which is when the evidence phase closes. You can contribute to the case workshop sub-page, Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Senkaku Islands/Workshop. For a guide to the arbitration process, see Wikipedia:Arbitration/Guide to arbitration. For the Arbitration Committee, Alexandr Dmitri ( talk) 15:11, 17 August 2011 (UTC)
I went bold, changed {{
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to the one from Commons and then noticed your edits
[31]. It is inconvenient to have non-uniform templates between Commons and en.wiki, and we usually follow Commons in international image copyright policies. Thus I thought any changes to this template should be discussed at Commons first. Frankly, I also did not understand the old text
[32] which seemed self-contradictory to me. Regards.
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Greetings from the land Down Under! A few weeks ago we had a chat about the accidents regarding the Su-33. The Russian article covers a number of cases that aren't documented on the English version. Since you have some command of Russian (I assume), do you mind translating the text? Cheers, and God bless! Sp33dyphil " Ad astra" 07:39, 18 August 2011 (UTC)
I want to see this article unprotected as soon as possible, so other editors can work on it. I'm planning a peer review of this article sooner or later (I'm doing sulfur now - look here - you are invited to comment), but the article is protected in the first place, so how can I edit? I'm a native Singaporean, and I believe that page should never be protected. FRE YWA 08:24, 22 August 2011 (UTC)
I am trying to find out why the page for Parkland College in Champaign, IL was deleted and how it can be brought back. Drewrennick ( talk) 16:36, 19 August 2011 (UTC)
Guerillero | My Talk 19:11, 23 August 2011 (UTC)
Thank you for reviewing the article. Is there a way of reposting the page and letting me edit to be more informational? Once I edit, can you re-review to ensure that it is "wiki appropriate"? As I mentioned, I am new to Wiki and trying to figure out all of the rules. Any help would be greatly appreciated!! ( Dhouston119 ( talk) 20:07, 23 August 2011 (UTC))
In response to following post: Can you please advice as to why you deleted my page as spam? (17:26, 5 August 2011 DragonflySixtyseven (talk | contribs) deleted "AiMatch" (spam)) Why would it be classified as spam and why just delete versus trying to assist if something was incomplete or invalid? I am new to Wiki. (Dhouston119 (talk) 12:36, 23 August 2011 (UTC))
Hey again , with a bit of help from Jasper i found out where the templates for user boxes were and how to use them , But do you know how to sort them out in a ordely mannere or any templates that will do so , Because if you look at my User page it looks a little jumbled, How do i sort them out? Goldblooded ( talk) 21:11, 26 August 2011 (UTC)
Hey, Ive just made a new article and i'd like to have your approval - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Monnet Goldblooded ( talk) 16:29, 31 August 2011 (UTC)
So its eligble enough for wikipedia? Also, what did it mean about the image tag or something? Goldblooded ( talk) 19:17, 31 August 2011 (UTC)
Thanks :) so is it fit for use? Its avaible from the archives and i think you can find it online as well. Goldblooded ( talk) 21:28, 31 August 2011 (UTC)
Mind telling me what was "copyrighted" before you went and locked the page? -- Comesloaone ( talk) 11:40, 24 August 2011 (UTC)
Then I suggest you recheck my edit because I changed the character section with my own words. -- Comesloaone ( talk) 12:43, 25 August 2011 (UTC)
It is my understanding that it was the character's section which was copyrighted. I redid the whole character section and you can Google all the sentences there too and you will get no results. If I have to give permission for my own words to be used, then you have permission. There's no copyright on my words and I don't think there was a copyright on the words of those forum members either. -- Comesloaone ( talk) 23:05, 25 August 2011 (UTC)
Okay. That's cool if you can rewrite them. -- Comesloaone ( talk) 17:15, 27 August 2011 (UTC)
Think you can unlock the War in The North article? After all, you haven't rewrote the sentences when I can. -- Comesloaone ( talk) 12:16, 5 September 2011 (UTC)
You have recently changed a few dozen pages from {{flagicon|Libya}} → {{flag|Libya|1977}}
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Do you think that a user was right to removed the flags in this article?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_surviving_veterans_of_World_War_II
His arguement was this:
It's an offshoot of a problem that was most evident in human and animal longevity articles. The most relevant sections are here and here. One issue with using flags is that they can be misleading. For example, read the sentence, " Hideki Matsui is a baseball player in the United States"; true, but Matsui is and considers himself Japanese. He only plays in the US because we have better baseball, he doesn't refer to himself as an American; sticking an American flag next to his name could lead people to think that he now considers himself to be an American. Similar things can happen with war veterans; Ernest Hemingway fought in the Spanish Civil War with Spanish forces, but was himself American. The other issue, which is far more pointed in longevity articles but still an issue here, is that nationality isn't always important. In the case of (just for fun) the war between the Red and White armies in the USSR, it doesn't really matter whether the White Army soldier was British, Russian, or American, it's more important to emphasize that the soldier fought for the Mensheviks. A final small point that's worth noting is that flag icons take up a considerable amount of bandwidth because they're transcluded onto pages; the List of living supercentenarians article, before all the flag icons were removed, took my computer a lot longer to load than it does now. Even though we aren't usually supposed to worry about performance, one of the exceptions is if you notice a change, and you can confirm that it's something specific causing it. I hope that helps.
However mine was that if i put the flags as allegience instead of birthplace , and stating the point that its the country they fought and served for and they still have the flags in the WW1 veterans page and state them as allegience ; even flagbio states that you are allowed to add flag icons to make it more clearer and even more so since its a large list and its also easier to sort and since im pretty much the only person actually bothering to edit that article i dont know why he should get preference nor do i know what gives one editor the right to change it on the ww2 paage and when i changed it back and instead of birthplace i changed it to allegience he reverted it back again (Note that this was a couple of weeks ago but it stills relevant because it hasnt been resolved) and he also got quite irritable. Goldblooded ( talk) 20:10, 1 September 2011 (UTC)
So do you think i should tell the editor involved and change the page or should i ask another persons opinion just to make sure? Goldblooded ( talk) 20:44, 1 September 2011 (UTC)
Not at all? But how come it says -
Flag icons may be relevant in some subject areas, where the subject actually represents that country, government, or nationality - such as military units, government officials, or national sports teams. In lists or tables, flag icons may be relevant when the nationality of different subjects is pertinent to the purpose of the list or table itself.
Goldblooded ( talk) 09:28, 2 September 2011 (UTC)
And also the fact that it is on the WW1 version? Goldblooded ( talk) 09:51, 2 September 2011 (UTC)
Well you know what im just going to forget about the whole thing. Anyway im going to try and get this artcle [33] finished by the end of the week :)Any help is much appreciated. Goldblooded ( talk) 22:36, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for all your contributions to Wikipedia, especially Singapore-related articles! I have written an article about Pathlight School, a Singaporean special school for autistic children, and am aiming to make it Wikipedia's first GA pertaining to special education. You are invited to comment at its ongoing peer review; any and all constructive feedback would be most appreciated. All the best in all your endeavours! -- J.L.W.S. The Special One ( talk) 03:11, 8 September 2011 (UTC)
Hey scout sorry to bother you again but i need your better judgement again.
Basicially i made two posts to
Dapi89's page and they were good faith edits and i was responding to a couple of peoples queries abotu what happened to him on the page etc. This is what i said.
Im afriad people move on see Wikipedia:VOLUNTEER and Wikipedia:Retiring From what i gather/believe Dapi had a dispute with one or more administrators which eventually led to him being banned for a week or so. Wikipedia:Banning_policy Although at any rate, he decided to retire due to personal problems/stress. It happens. We'll all experience it from time to time. Theres plenty of other editors anyway, if you want some advice or any quieries/questions regarding modern history (i.e ,1900-1982 although i do know a fair bit about the Napoleonic wars and the german and italian unifcation wars in the 1800s) Then im the guy to ask. Goldblooded ( talk) 01:28, 8 September 2011 (UTC)
And the other thing i said was:
Give the guy a break, See WP:VOLUNTEER If he doesn't want to come back then he wont, If he does then he'll come back of his own accord; by the sounds of things he seemed rather stressed and worn out and moaning at him isn't going to help. Goldblooded ( talk) 01:31, 8 September 2011 (UTC)
Both of them were clearly Good WP:Faith edis I was helping out that guy out and directing him to the relevant pages ,Besides i found it unfair that everyone is moaning at dapi to come back, hes probably having a hard time; something that i know all to well myself.
I asked both admins who seem to have some sort of alliance between themeselves and a few others and they didnt give me a clear reply , at fist Ed removed both edits and said (in the chat history thing)
"rm post, people are allowed to put posts like that on this page, no need to attack them"
Which doesnt really make any sense because i honestly dont see how explaining what happened and putting myself forward to help them has anything remotely to do with "personal attacks"
Concerning the other paragraph i was pointing out that if hes gunna come back he'll do it if not he wont , moaning at him wont help. And it wont either.
Its also ironic how they seemd to get defensive (paticulrary Parsecboy who was the other editor involved and he told me politely to "piss off") it irriates me how just because they have admin preferences (which they are using as an exscsue to twist peoples words and threaten them) that they think they are superior than anyone else and dont give the newbies a chance. No wonder 100s of possible new wikipedians get scared away by admins. they should be greatfull that i actually bothered to stay on wikipedia and put up with this.
Then i put it back and i asked him again why he removed it and he grumbled something obscure about that the other persons post was over a month old , even though it was barely 2 weeks old.
Ed accused me of personal attacks and then he changed his tune and said that im hassling month old comments which is ridiculous anyway they cant possibly treat me like this. I was sticking up for Dapi and offering my help to other users , i thought thats what wikipedia and pretty much any good community supports, Guess i was wrong.
I tried to reason with them that i remove one of them but nope , Parsecboy backed him up with what came across as a rather smirky remark telling me to politely get lost.
its called good faith and helping out in the community- and indeed i do have better things to do such as college and writing my novels/books among other things. Leave the page as it is, if you must ive removed the first thing since you were grumbling about that. It really isnt no Sudetenland ; Yet they kept making it into a big deal but they STILL didnt fully explain themselves. And it wasnt even a month old , it was barely 2 weeks.
You got a verdict on this? What should i do? Goldblooded ( talk) 19:17, 8 September 2011 (UTC)
メールを送った。 — HelloAnnyong (say whaaat?!) 14:08, 11 September 2011 (UTC)
Hi, recently user:Oda Mari, an involved party in the Arb/Senkaku case initiated changes in the content of the guideline WP:NCGN#Multiple local names that I mentioned and cited in my Statement, Evidence, and my proposal in Workshop there. And the example " Liancourt Rocks" there was also raised by you and Penwhale in your statements. Oda Mari challenged this guideline in her Evidence ( her historic version). Now she changed this guideline whose content did not favor her stance when the Arb case opened into a version that is less unfavorable for her stance ( the difference of the two versions). The verifiability of the content after her change is questionable. The pre-exist one stated "... has been adopted rather than select either the Korean or Japanese name for the feature", while now her version is "... has been adopted, in part because it has been often used by the US government, in part because it is neither Korean nor Japanese". From links she provided and thoughts I got from you when we had talks and your comments in related talk page, the reason "in part because it has been often used by the US government" is not the reason why the name "Liancourt Rocks" was chosen. As you was heavily involved in solving the Laincourt issue, it is kind if you offer your help to clarify this in that Evidence talk page. I don't think it was appropriate for her to do such change because:
Arbitration is as said "The Committee's decisions may interpret existing policy and guidelines" stated in Wikipedia:Arbitration/Policy#Policy and precedent (emphasis added). Thanks. -- Lvhis ( talk) 21:01, 12 September 2011 (UTC)
Hey scout , do you know of a tool or a wikipedia program that can show you what articles you edit the most? Or something to that effect? Goldblooded ( talk) 11:27, 25 September 2011 (UTC)
I initiated a deletion review of Jeffrey H. Norwitz. Geo Swan ( talk) 09:01, 28 September 2011 (UTC)
A file that you uploaded or altered, File:Double sided end wrench diagonal.png, has been listed at Wikipedia:Files 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. Common Good ( talk) 17:42, 2 October 2011 (UTC)
As I cannot see the content of the FBLA-PBL article before its speedy deletion, I cannot argue that there was not material in that article that constituted a copyright violation. However, I cannot imagine that there is no content that was not copied or that a bare stub could not be created to serve as a place holder by editing down a previous version of the article, especially as there are dozens of articles linking here. Alansohn ( talk) 14:02, 3 October 2011 (UTC)
Sorry to bother you, but is there a new policy I'm not aware of? Admin:Anomie has brought up local copies of several important Commons files, including several national flags, and put them under protection, with the reasoning that they are some of the most used files we have, and therefore are "high-risk". I don't see what we could possibly gain from this practice, and also if these files Commons versions ever need to be corrected or updated, we would have to do the same to he Wiki-EN local copies too. The following list is what has been brought up so far.
File:Poland map flag.svg
File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg
File:Flag of Spain.svg
File:Flag of Russia.svg
File:Flag of Italy.svg
File:Flag of England.svg
File:Flag of Canada.svg
File:Flag of Brazil.svg
File:Flag of Australia.svg
File:Flag of Russia.svg
File:Flag of the United States.svg
File:Flag of India.svg
File:Flag of Germany.svg
File:Flag of France.svg
File:Flag of Sweden.svg
File:Flag of Japan.svg
File:Flag of Poland.svg
File:Olympic Rings.svg
as well as many dialogue signs such as File:Ambox deletion.png. Most of these files are either protected on Commons anyways, or have never been under threat of vandalism, so I don't understand why they would need to be duplicated and protected up on Wikipedia English as well. Fry1989 eh? 20:09, 3 October 2011 (UTC)
An arbitration case regarding Senkaku Islands has now closed and the final decision is viewable at the link above. The following remedies have been enacted:
While a territorial dispute is subject to discretionary sanctions due to this remedy, any uninvolved administrator may levy restrictions as an arbitration enforcement action on users editing in these topical areas, after an initial warning.
For the Arbitration Committee, Alexandr Dmitri ( talk) 21:30, 5 October 2011 (UTC)