I noticed you removed one of these from my user page. That's OK (I understand the ramifications of having fair-use images on a user page, thus denigrating our fair use claims), but what's the history behind the deletion of these images? Wouldn't a parody be considered fair use on the user page? And is the Che image copyrighted (it seems to be all over the place these days). Thanks for your help. Cheers, Bratsche talk | Esperanza 23:49, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
Hey Zach.
This is your bot, right? Being that it just performed several image replacements in one of my watched articles, I'm thinking that .svg images are superior to .png files, correct? I'm asking because, if that's the case, I'll try to privilege this format when/if uploading this kind of image in the future.
Plus I wish I had a bot of my own. But that's just envy talking, I don't even have a use for one right now ;)
Redux
05:52, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
Your bot just saved me about 5 minutes of work. Thank you for allowing me to be somewhat lazy with my updating. - RPharazon 00:01, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
Any ideas? I only noticed him because I happened to catch the user ID being created and then saw it pop up on my watchlist editing Fred's user page 2 mins later. -- GraemeL (talk) 00:53, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
I was wondering if your bot could also upload images? One of my long-term projects is to have an article on each and every metro station in Mexico City. Each station has a logo and there are ~70 logos missing, which would be a pain to upload manually. Thanks. -- Run e Welsh | ταλκ 04:09, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi, I'm looking for someone that can write bots to find a bot that could tag all the untagged images as no licence and notify the uploader, there were 38000+ images in the last database dump, and only 10% have been tagged in a month. Do you know of any bots around that could do the job?-- nixie 04:23, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
Hello Zach, I finally went to the Bishopric Hill to take some pics of the bandera monumental in order to use them in the article of the Flag of Mexico. Let me know what you think. I only uploaded 2 of the 40 I took. I will buy a better digital cam (semi pro) so I would be able to provide nicer pics soon. See ya.
AlexCovarrubias 13:14, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
Well... I guess you're happy now. :) Congratulations! Another FA under your belt. Tito xd( ?!? - help us) 18:12, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
Okay, I've changed the pic, but how the frak can a national flag be copyrighted? -- Calton | Talk 05:32, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi Z'. I noticed you had already talked to Alphabetagamnma ( talk · contribs) about copyright. He has uploaded more images today with tags claiming that the copyright holder has released the images for any use. I gave him a final warning on his talk page, but I'm not really sure what to do about the images. I tagged the ones he gave a source of Google as no source, but should I go through and delete them all, or wait for his response? -- GraemeL (talk) 19:03, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
Thanks. -- Gmaxwell 01:55, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
With flags and screenshots removed: -- Gmaxwell 02:26, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi there. I noticed you replaced the picture in Template:User OregonState with the letters OSU. I thought it looked much better with the image there, and the image tag description looks as if it is fine to use for this. "It is believed that the use of low-resolution images of logos to illustrate the corporation, sports team, or organization in question on the English-language Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation, qualifies as fair use under United States copyright law.". This says to me that use of this image here is fine. Care to explain why you removed it? VegaDark 02:55, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
Image_talk:Dylan_jams_with_campbell.jpg#I_repeat JDG 04:00, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
I still see a blue background at Image:Republic of China National Emblem.svg and Image:White sun, blue sky.svg.-- Jiang 09:43, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
yes-- Jiang 01:07, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
You were able to fix Image:Chinese Taipei Olympic Flag.svg. can't you do the same for these images?-- Jiang 04:59, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the permission to use your image, Zach. I think I might try to add "Customs" to the national flag svg, thought - it shouldn't be too difficult. JPD ( talk) 10:19, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
I noticed this image uploaded from NATO's website: Image:SergeiLavrov.jpg The licensing for NATO's images is fairly specific, and I think incompatible with Wikipedia, but I wanted to get a second opinion before deleting. The conditions are at the bottom of this page. The last condition - that images can only be used in objective and balanced documentaries/articles - seems like the killer. What do you think? FreplySpang (talk) 17:49, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
Did you see this proposal? Scouting Barnstarn -- evrik 20:02, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
I believe that the award that was created for the Scouting Barnstar should be a topical award. Scouting is a world-wide movement that has served youth in many countries for more than 100 years and represents the youth of the world at the United Nations.
It has been suggested that the award be given as a PUA. The first line on the PUA page reads, "This page provides a collection of awards created by individual Wikipedians." The Scouting Barnstar was created by the WikiProject Scouting.
Currently, the is a discussion going on at Wikipedia_talk:Barnstars#Removed_the_scouting_barnstar. Please comment there if you are interested. evrik
Hello there! I wanted to thank you for taking the time to vote on my arbitration commitee nomination. Although it was not successful, I appreciate the time you spent to read my statement and questions and for then voting, either positively or negativly. Again, thank you! Páll (Die pienk olifant) 22:29, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi Zach. I'm not sure mb1000 is ready for adminship yet. Only recently they inadvertently reverted an article because they didn't like the changes one author had made, so he reverted it back to the last version he had edited even though that meant removing the changes made by more than one author. I'm not sure why they did this. It's either lethargy in not wanting to cut and paste the revelant section of the article as was required, or they had an issue with the edits from all authors, but chose to only mention one example in their edit comments. Anyway, just thought I'd let you know since you were saying you supported their application. -- Rebroad 00:41, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
Here they are, converted into ogg theora, free as in beer and speech :) Jmax- 17:03, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
Hey,
I've added a section on Removal from the Order of Canada about controversial appointments to the Order. Thus far I have only listed Ben Johnson. I think its appropriate to call his appointment controverisal considering he was being awarded for his championship sprinting, only to shortly afterwards tarnish Canada's olympic record by testing positive for illegal doping and later to be banned for life. Dowew 23:36, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
Hey Zach, I have seen your Chinese Taipei Olympic Flag image, but I think the "Blue Sky with a White Sun" emblem on the flag looks a little odd - the R.O.C. National Emblem is used in the Chinese Taipei Olympic flag, so the size of the sun should according the ROC flag and emblem law. Anyway, great job. :) -- Kibinsky 17:21, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
Please support my nomination! Thank-you. -- Mb1000 01:57, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
Consider this calling in the favor you owe me for some of those image replacements I did for you... Image:Dmitry Pozharsky marker, Suzdal, Russia -- 10 January 2006.jpg needs cropping and rotation, but I don't have the tools to do it (not enough hard disk space to install all the required dependencies for the GIMP or Gnu Paint.) I'd greatly appreciate it if you could. -- maru (talk) contribs 18:53, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
This is a wireimage photo. User:JJstroker claims that the photo is copyrighted and "press release". He added it to Christine Lahti. However, wireimage photos are not allowed on Wikipedia and may be copyio. He's not quite aware of this. I've listed the photo at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion/2006 January 28. Please be sure that it should be deleted immediately. adnghiem501 ( talk) 23:14, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi,
I found this page from veterans affairs which explains that Medal of Courage thing a bit better.
Also, I added a couple more people to the controversial appointments section of the Removal from the Order of Canada page, first being Conrad Black (can you tell yet I dont like him :) and a Doctor who was just featured on a CBC expose who im sure with all this attention regarding serious fraud will be removed in the not too distant future. Dowew 04:22, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
Hello Zach! I hope you can help me with this one. There is this site that promotes the download of a bunch of copyrighted material (MP3, videos, pictures) of the italian singer Laura Pausini . The webmaster is even offering for download her most recently released DVD. This is clearly a copyright violation.
Since I noticed this I erased the link from the article Laura Pausini because of the sentence that appears below the textbox every time you edit something: Content must not violate any copyright and must be verifiable. You agree to license your contributions under the GFDL.
I want to know if there is another rule or something that I can apply to this kind of site. The other guy says that Wikipedia is "Ok with this" so I really wanna know if he's right, because I think he is not. You should take a look at the discussion page of the article. I have a website dedicated to this italian singer (see site) and I'm in contact with the official fanclub manager once in a while. I have reported cases like this in the past and they have managed the situation. That's why I'm pretty sure what that guys is doing is illegal. I have reported this site to them yesterday.
But I guess my main question is, Is it Ok to have links to websites that violates copyright laws so clearly? Thanks for your answer in advance, I will really appreciate your help.
Yours, AlexCovarrubias 14:14, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
Thank you for your note. (1) The name suggests that the image is my "icon" thereby I want to be able to change the image whenever I want in the future. (2) The image, my creation, is unidentical from the image you speak about, so I say it is not redundant. Its colour, in my opinion, more closely matches the official representation. To delete it now is no different from deleting a Wikipedian's photo. (3) #1 is more important to me than #2 though, so when the wiki software can handle image redirects, I promise you I shall follow your suggestion. -- Perfecto 14:31, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
See Image talk:Flag of Canada.svg for the previous debate. -- Perfecto 21:58, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
Just wanted to thank you for apologizing to JDG, it was very mature of you and hopefully will go a long way to proving to him that people here want him to stay with the project as long as he's willing to follow the rules. Jtkiefer T | C | @ ---- 07:41, 5 February 2006 (UTC)
Just thinking the next barnstar you get should be a unique one:
Take care, (what type of ribbon will this one take?) ε γκυκλοπ αίδεια * 22:26, 5 February 2006 (UTC)
Could you please help me with the use of Template:Link FA? German Wikipedia discussed this gimmick too and a majority was in in favour of it. But where do I find the CSS-class FA to insert? -- de:Benutzer:Triebtäter
Hey Zach, I'm looking for a historically accurate flag for use in the Iran at the 1900 Summer Olympics article. I haven't found one on Wikipedia or Commons, but I have been pointed to FotW. Do know if there's a free-image flag matching that description somewhere? Thanks. -- Jonel | Speak 21:35, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
Hi Zach!
Could I get you to update the interwiki for Template:Link FA? TIA. -- Palnatoke 07:40, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
Hi there, I noticed that you created a few of the Star Trek rank images on Starfleet ranks and insignia. I'm looking for more opinions on Wikipedia talk:Image copyright tags#Star_Trek_rank_images, so if you'd like to comment there that would be great. Thanks.
P.S. Regarding the USSR copyright stuff, do you have a citation for the assertion that works published in the USSR before May 27, 1973 were PD in Russia on January 1, 1996? If you do, that would be great so I can change my TfD vote. Thanks again, JYolkowski // talk 02:27, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the image. I've added it to Flag of Canada. Do you have any other earlier proposals? it would be nice to flesh out the article with some of the other proposals. Regards, Ground Zero | t 02:47, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for your message on the Indian noticeboard. Let me know what I can do. deeptrivia ( talk) 13:04, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
The flag shown is "not" the Maltese flag. The George cross, on the top left of the flag is blurred, and the image on the cross is not visible and it appears it is plain.
The cross should have a sharp red border.
A correct version of the George Cross is shown in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Malta_flag_large.png, the original image which was originally posted to Wikipedia. Maltesedog 15:47, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
Did you fix it? Actually it looks fine now I think. Congrats. Maltesedog 17:56, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
Hi there! I thought yiou might have some idea on how to convert the Image:Barnstar-stone2-noback.png into a ribbon bar... Halibu tt 10:50, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
I see that you are the person who created the image for the Uase_ACLU template. I was hoping you could help figure out what happened to the ACLU user box template. It seems to have been deleted, but I can't find where it was discussed before deleting. Can you help? — Bill W. ( Talk) ( Contrib) – February 18, 2006, 05:53 (UTC)
Hi, I proposed to give Barnstar of National Merit a makover in here. Deathphoenix left a note that people originally involved in creating the award should be notified. So here I am. Please voice your opinion, and happy editing! Renata 05:10, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
Hello Zscout370, Thanks for converting it in Audacity to get rid of malicious code warning. Will you help me to know that how we get rid of this warning? -- Shyam ( T/ C) 14:12, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the heads up Zach. It'll be good to see Graham's work free from being infringed. Looking at that Russian site they have some very interesting terms and conditions. They say that the images may be used on the internet, but that the licensee "may not post the Licensed Material online in a downloadable format;"! That's rather contradictory since use online means things have got to be in a downloadable format!! David Newton 15:22, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
I need to talk to you in chat about this dumb Eve Plumb situation. Mike H. That's hot 21:43, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
Hi Zach! Since you have more experience dealing with svg images in Wikipedia I was wondering if you could tell me if this image loads properly in your browser. If it doesn't could you please give me guidance as to what I could do to fix it? Thank you! -- Run e Welsh | ταλκ 02:31, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for uploading Image:CHA_letters_patent.jpg. However, the image may soon be deleted unless we can determine the copyright holder and copyright status. The Wikimedia Foundation is very careful about the images included in Wikipedia because of copyright law (see Wikipedia's Copyright policy).
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Hi, thanks for your voting on my RFA. It has finished with the result 88/14/9, and I am promoted. I am really overwhelmed with the amount of support I have got. With some of you we have edited many articles as a team, with some I had bitter arguments in the past, some of you I consider to be living legends of Wikipedia and some nicks I in my ignorance never heard before. I love you all and I am really grateful to you.
If you feel I can help you or Wikipedia as a human, as an editor or with my newly acquired cleaning tools, then just ask and I will be happy to assist. If you will feel that I do not live up to your expectation and renegade on my promises, please contact me. Maybe it was not a malice but just ignorance or a short temper. Thank you very mach, once more! abakharev 07:34, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Barnstar_and_award_proposals/Ribbons -- evrik 21:17, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
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Thanks for pointing me to that article from the Russian-Ukrainian Legal Group. I have added it to Template talk:PD-USSR. Also, I am in a slow-going e-mail conversation on that topic with Jean-Baptiste Soufron, the Wikimedia Foundation's legal specialist in international copyright matters. Lupo 13:32, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
We have this category for every country. Not sure why you think Belarus should be a particularly special case. -- Necrothesp 16:03, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
Done? I corrected the links, added the link to list of rulers (are there any other related articles?) and a new emblem (Pahonia, couldn't think of a better symbol of Belarusian history). Halibu tt 23:55, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
Hey, I got a reply from the National Heritage Board. They've given permission subject to the following conditions, quoting from the e-mail.
"a) If Wikipedia adopts the Creative Commons License, the condition of "Noncommerical (nc)" in respect of the National Anthem must be invoked.
b) The National Anthem must at all times be accorded the respect and dignity due to a national symbol of the Republic of Singapore.
c) Every recording or arrangement of the National Anthem must accurately reflect the complete tune and complete official lyrics of the National Anthem.
d) The National Anthem must not be incorporated into any other composition or medley.
e) The National Anthem must not be translated into another language."
They also want to be informed when the file is put up. So it's a go - just let me know and I'll pass on the info to them. -- khaosworks ( talk • contribs) 03:08, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
hmmm... wasn't
ok? current version (
File:Belarus geostub icon.png) is too red & green, but as you know (i hope) these colors are too painful for Belarusians because they are colors of Lukashenka flag...
I'm thinking about changing back to political neutral image, just not to irritate eyes at least.. i hope it will be ok with you. -- Monkbel 08:13, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
Netoholic conveniently ignored your comment/question, so I'm responding to let you know that he no longer has any mentors. (See Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Netoholic 2#Update.) — David Levy 20:35, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
You blocked User talk:70.25.168.90. On their talk page they appear to be repentant, can you take a look for me? Thanks. -- Commander Keane 10:28, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
I notice that you protected the Thomas M. Cooley Law School page from editing. Although this may have been a necessary move, the manner in which you have taken this action disturbs me. You provided no explantion for your block on the article's talk page. I looked on the recently blocked articles page to see if you had listed your rationale there; you had not. In short, it would by really helpful if you could provide a reason for this block and some sense of when you plan to remove this block so that good faith editors can continue to do their work. Although I agree with you that we can't have the vandalism, there were also some edits reomved right before your edit (eg textual information regarding rankings) that appeared to be a good faith, if controversial, edit, the inclusion of which was likley best left to consensus-building. Thank you. Consensusbuilder1 14:40, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
Hi Zach. I've taken a look at the file and the websites linked. The file does seems to be in the public domain: first, because the Brazilian National Anthem is in the public domain; plus, this particular version was performed by a state funded, that is public, entity, which appears to make their work available freely — it is a chorus financed by a state-owned bank, accompanied by the band of the state Military Police; the only notice of copyright I found was regarding the design and general content of the website of the BDMG (the public bank in question), but they didn't even have a TOS. That long part in Portuguese seems to be completely unnecessary though. It is linking a page of the Brazilian federal government, but the audio file originated in a page belonging to the state of Minas Gerais. I thought that maybe the federal page carried the file as well, but I couldn't find it there. Besides, that whole section is pretty much just the federal website's disclaimer: it explains the scope of the website, with a hint at the Brazilian federal legislation on copyrights, and closes saying something like even though we strive to provide only material that is in the public domain, it could happen that we accidentaly offer copyrighted material; if that happens, please contact us so that the mistake can be rectified. I'm not sure why the original uploader copied that section in — maybe at one point the federal website did carry the file, but then removed it at a later time. Does that addresses everything? Redux 16:52, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
These sources look better than a quote from a defunct website via Flags of the World, and they should be references in the emblem article and the flag article.-- nixie 02:39, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
Your inputs to Violence in the Boy Scouts would be much appreciated. I tried putting it on the controversy article, but it was blasted from all sides so I moved the material to its own article. Within 5 minutes, there was an NPOV tag on it. Sounds like a battle is brewing! - Husnock 14:23, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
Hi. You uploaded Image:PRC_coa.png, which is now being used on many pages related to the People's Republic of China. Given the high visibility of this image, I think it would be a very good idea to clarify its copyright status. Do you have any information in this area? Thanks. -- Ryan Delaney talk 14:55, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
Hi! you asked wether I've got a source for this image: downloaded it from a .ru heraldry-specialised website claiming it was PD - as it must be anyway since it's fair use and the design was published anyway in the USSR before 1973 - and Russian law does not c-right designs such as flags or national emblems anyway (doesn't apply to corporate design though!). But I definitely didn't get it from the commercial website you're quoting in the file history as an original source (vector-images.com) - better ask THEM where they got it from: they don't have world monopoly on vectorised .bmps I suppose... All the best! Emigrant123 14:33, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
In response to some of the comments about archiving discussions, and how awards are vetted, last week I tweaked the Guidelines. No one noticed. I also archived the discussion that was used to create them. I just wanted to give you a heads up. evrik 18:40, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
I think that the variety of pages Barnstars and Other Related Awards and Personal User Awards for the awards are confusing. I have been trying to streamline them by creating the Wikipedia:Awards page. Let me know what you think. evrik 18:40, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
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I just noticed that you unblocked Netoholic without letting me know or even noting this on his talk page.
Please explain how I'm an "involved party." My only involvement in this dispute has been to respond to Netoholic's flagrant misconduct. I've never edited these templates or their talk pages.
Please also explain why Netoholic's decision to deliberately restore harmful code (condemned by lead developer Brion Vibber) to a namespace from which he's banned, after he was explicitly warned not to do so, does not warrant a block. — David Levy 21:35, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
If you have time could you comment on this fair use issue, Talk:Map-territory relation. Many thanks. ॐ Metta Bubble puff 06:38, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
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Thanks for uploading Image:Featarticle barnstar.png. I notice the 'image' page currently doesn't specify who created the content, so the copyright status is unclear. If you have not created this media yourself then you need to argue that we have the right to use the media on Wikipedia (see copyright tagging below). If you have not created the media yourself then you should also specify where you found it, i.e., in most cases link to the website where you got it, and the terms of use for content from that page.
If the media also doesn't have a copyright tag then you must also add one. If you created/took the picture, audio, or video then you can use {{ GFDL-self}} to release it under the GFDL. If you believe the media qualifies as fair use, please read fair use, and then use a tag such as {{ Non-free fair use in|article name}} or one of the other tags listed at Wikipedia:Image copyright tags#Fair_use. See Wikipedia:Image copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.
If you have uploaded other media, please check that you have specified their source and copyright tagged them, too. You can find a list of 'image' pages you have edited by clicking on the " my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "Image" from the dropdown box. Note that any unsourced and untagged images will be deleted one week after they have been uploaded, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. Shyam ( T/ C) 22:12, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
Hi -- I just wanted to let you know that I e-mailed Richard Norton about the copyright issue. I think he was just confused about how licenses work, and I e-mailed him to try and clarify the points with him about why he can't just label things CC-SA and GFDL willy-nilly, and to explain what he should do in terms of rectifying the situation. I think he's a generally good guy, but his interpersonal skills are sometimes wanting. Anyway I just wanted to let you know that I don't think he's deliberately being difficult here on this issue, and that he is just genuinely confused. -- Fastfission 00:49, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
Also -- he has e-mailed me and claimed that many of the photos he labeled as CC-BY-SA he did with permission of the copyright holders, who he was in contact with by e-mail. I'll try to get some more clarification on this point. He seems to be willing to agree to not upload more images if he's allowed to continue editing; I think the indef block got the point across, though I think it might be a little harsh in this case. Again, I think he's a generally good editor, though I think he has bad person-to-person skills, and has a hard time explaining himself. Let me know what you think about all of this. He's in e-mail correspondence with me (I worked with him awhile back to dig up some info from databases he had access to), and I'm happy to try and broker a deal out here that would be satisfactory to everyone. -- Fastfission 00:53, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
Greetings from an Indian wikipedian. I have been around here for about a year, including being an administrator from 18th September 2005. I request you to kindly do me the favor of providing me your valuable comments and suggestions on my contributions, activities and behavior pattern. I shall be awaiting your free and frank opinion, which you are most welcome to give here. -- Bhadani 15:02, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
My question was about the other part - the concurrencies on I-64. -- SPUI ( talk - don't use sorted stub templates!) 00:48, 16 March 2006 (UTC) Oh..hmm...perhaps put it on the I-64 article itself. User:Zscout370 (Return Fire) Fair use policy 00:51, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
Hi Zack, long time no see: :) I have a flag creation request: We need an svg image of the Image:West Indies Cricket Board Flag.png. Thought I'd message you since you're the expert. Regards, =Nichalp «Talk»= 10:30, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
Hello,
An Arbitration case in which you commented has been opened: Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Locke Cole. Please add evidence to the evidence sub-page, Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Locke Cole/Evidence. You may also contribute to the case on the workshop sub-page, Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Locke Cole/Workshop.
On behalf of the Arbitration Committee, -- Tony Sidaway 10:34, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
What part of "too bad" is so hard to understand? I'm trying to solve the problems of Wikipedia. Feel free to disagree, i'm fighting for your right to do so without being arbitrarily punished by some random bully. If you haven't already, you should also read the FAQs subpage on my user page. Karm a fist Save Wikipedia 06:15, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
The section is still a little choppy, especially the first paragraph. It doesn't flow like a good sequence of events, and "the copyright changed hands again" doesn't specify who gave up the copyright when it changed hands. It's better than before though, and if there isn't more information available, so be it. The translation, as I said, I can live with, and it sounds like my suggestions are going to be accepted, but in the meantime I think the article is pretty much ready to go. I'd just make sure that there isn't a way to make the copyright thing a little more clear. Also, was there a reason for splitting up the Regulations section into really short paragraphs? — Spangineer [es] (háblame) 06:07, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
Hi Zscout. I've been contacted by Avraamrii who's been blocked for breaking the 3RR on Alexander Lukashenko. As you can see on my talk page, I too had discussions with User:172 yesterday, although I basically absented from editing the page. Avraamrii was blocked by User:Mikkalai, but Avraamrii defends himself by stating that the dispute is basically about 1) User:172 making large-scale edits without discussing them first (true, it annoys me as well), 2) whether a source should be referenced as Christian Science Monitor or the Gallup Institute. I've not examined it, but I for one am particularly worried about 172's edit to the first paragraph, which I feel waters down the fact that Lukashenko is a dictator, it appears Avraamrii feels the same way. 172 claims that these references are "politicizing matters", which sounds somewhat strange to my ears. I can't find any warnings to Avraamrii about breaking the 3RR.
Would you mind investigating this incident? I haven't gone through all of the edit history myself, but the following is a copy of a message from Avraamrii to Mikkalai (sent by Avraamrii to me). Best regards Valentinian (talk) 12:28, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
(quote) Mikkalai,
User 172 isn't being forthright in his complaints in what changes he made. If you see the edits I made to the Lukashenko article using the diff, you'll notice I restored material deleted by user 172 AND I rephrased his reference to the Gallup poll to make it clear that the source for this is The Christian Science monitor rather than the Gallup organization. Despite that, he reverted my changes and erroneously asserted that I removed the poll. He's complaining about that singular point, when in fact he deleted other factual material that was argued a long time ago when he was involved in similar discussions where he wouldn't defend his deletions. For example, he removed the following without explanation:
He has been described by the United States as "Europe's last dictator" and features on the US's list of ' outposts of tyranny'. Lukashenko's external and internal policies have led Belarus to be barred from joining the Council of Europe.
This is a fact. He's been labelled as such by the US and EU and his actions have led Belarus to be barred from the Council of Europe. There was no reason for 172 to delete this.
Another example of material he arbitrarily removed: In November 1995, he caused international controversy by claiming in an interview that Hitler's domestic policies had not been entirely bad for Germany. Many of his critics took this as implying that a similar type of authoritarian leadership could benefit Belarus.
Again, this is a fact. Lukashenko made these remarks at a Hannover trade fair in 1995. In fact, the remarks were much worse since Lukashenko said that the only thing bad about Hitler was the war, but otherwise was a strong leader for Germany.
In short, user 172 is complaining about reverts to his Gallup poll insertions (which I left in there in my last edit even though I can't find the poll in Gallup and Lukashenko doesn't allow NGO's to take polls, at least openly), which were a minor part of his major deletions to the article. All that I've asked is that he discuss the major edits he's made and defend them, which he hasn't done.
Thanks. (unquote)
Hey there. Since you were the major uploader of Star Trek rank insignias I thought you'd like t know most of the images are now in commons. I am however hesitant to upload TNG enlisted ranks at the moment as I want these to be checked, something doesnt look right.
Now I know on TNG enlisted insignia was a complete mess but on DS9 Chief Petty Officer Miles O'Brian wars a single hollow pip. On TNG thats onw gold pip and one hollow pip. Whats up with that?
By the way, I have made some major modifications to Starfleet ranks and insignia and you might want to take a look
-- Cool Cat Talk| @ 21:15, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
Thought you may want to comment. -- Cool Cat Talk| @ 21:53, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
Hello, Zscout370. I've uploaded an image to inllustrate Cyclone Larry, but I was hoping you could clear up the copyright status of the image. I've claimed fair use on the image ( Image:Larry track map 11AM EST Monday 20 March 2006.gif), and tried to follow the instructions at the corresponding copyright page, but I was wondering if it is usable due to the restrictions on Crown Copyright on commercial usage. I don't mind deleting the image if I'm mistaken, but I'd rather know if it is something we can do in the future for future storms. Tito xd( ?!? - help us) 04:52, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
Can this be unsemiprotected? The reason for semiprotection appears to now be moot. Stifle 13:57, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
In hoping to learn about Belarusian history, I stumbled across this article. It is a right mess. I have tried to clean it up, but since I know close to nothing about Belarusian history, I was a bit at a loss. This important article would benefit from your knowledge in the area. I hope you father returns home safely. Regards, Ground Zero | t 00:23, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
I thought you might want to take a look at this page. -- Cool Cat Talk| @ 17:12, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
You may want to take a look at there for my proposal. -- Cool Cat Talk| @ 17:51, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the help using the bot to clean up some of the jack images on ship pages! However, I have one concern. I noticed you have been replacing the historical US Navy jack (USN-Jack.png) with the new and current one. This fine for any ships in commission from 2001 on, but may not be appropriate for a lot of ships which served earlier as this puts a jack on their page which they never sailed under. Instead, it seems to be the consensus of the ships WikiProject to use the jack a ship actually used, so putting historical ships under appropriate historical jacks/ensigns. I don't have a bot at my disposal and so I can't make the individual edits myself, so I would respectfully ask that you review your bot's routine so that only appropriate articles have their jack/ensign image updated. Thanks!! Josh 05:11, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
Hi, Zach. I came across your RfB through looking at the contributions of someone to see if he was online. I voted to support, but got an edit conflict. I looked to see what the conflict was, and saw that it had just been closed, probably while I was pressing preview. I'm sorry I didn't get a chance to support you, but want you to know that you would have had my support, and I appreciate the good work you do here. Cheers. AnnH ♫ 23:48, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
I may have missed the party with regards to having a say in your 'crat-ship, but I reckon you're cunning as a dunny rat and you don't need no stinking badger to get my respect. - brenneman {L} 00:01, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
Don't let my minor spat with Linuxbeak cloud things for you. It's only twoish editors disagreeing with one another. - Splash talk 00:03, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
I was bored, so I clicked on an article on my watchlist (Your talkpage) and then went to your main userpage, and found out that you are what made The Flag of Mexico a featured article. Thank you for drawing attention to it and making it a absolutely wonderful article. I'd give you an award of some sort, but I'm out of ideas. Thank you! - RPharazon 00:12, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
You may want to vote here -- Cool Cat Talk| @ 02:55, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
Would you recommend article or user RFC? Arguably it could be a user RFC since it's one person against many. Really we're just trying to get him to wait until we have consensus for either side- but SPUI decided that the consensus was on his side and started moving pages. -- Rschen7754 ( talk - contribs) 03:07, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
By the same token SPUI has been doing mass conversions of {{ routeboxca2}} to {{ Infobox CA Route}} without consensus, and a major edit war is developing regarding this. Could we make any conversions from {{ routeboxca2}} to {{ Infobox CA Route}} or the other way around a blockable offense? (For only the users involved- if there's a user who has no clue and changes the infobox then they're not included). Respond to WP:AN/I -- Rschen7754 ( talk - contribs) 06:20, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
I understand that removal of warnings from one's talk page is considered vandalism but surely if the warning is disputed or added incorrectly an exception should be made? The warnings on Wikipediatrix's talk page were added by Swatjester who is not even an admin (unlike Wikipediatrix). What are your thoughts? File:Glenstollery.gif P O W! 07:06, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
Depends. If it's a case of blatant vandalism, no, ideally another editor would remove it for me, or I'd do it myself. If they were valid, or even borderline valid (i was disputing them, but many believe them to be true), then yes I'd have to keep them.
In wikipediatrix's case though, she's been personally attacking myself, disrupting at least one article, and she has a history of doing it to other editors, as I found out tonight. Not just me, two other editors, including two admins, were keeping the warnings up on her page. That's a pretty good sign they've got some merit behind them.
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07:14, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
ZScout370, I honestly did not know users were not supposed to remove warning boxes from their talk pages. I had been under the mistaken assumption, based upon viewing of others, that we were free to maintain our talk pages any way we wished and to keep disruptive posts off. Swatjester's warning was unwarranted in the first place, because he took offense at being called an "Armed Forces guy", and in fact, I feel I am the attacked party here, not him.
More relevantly, your comment on my talk page incorrectly and unfairly accuses me of not heeding "негіднийлють"'s warning, and thus locked my page. I did not revert my page any further after негіднийлють's warning, and a quick glance at the history confirms this.
So when do I get my talk page unlocked? wikipediatrix 07:23, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
It looks like you may have run the bitmap through an auto-tracer. Why not try tracing the image manually from scratch, using as few nodes as you can? Denelson 83 09:27, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
Dude, how many days are you going to keep me banned from IRC? I think this is a little excessive. Everyking 10:05, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
Here is one image. I will try and knock out the other two images. User:Zscout370 (Return Fire) 21:34, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
Has started moving pages again- check his contribs. -- Rschen7754 ( talk - contribs) 21:21, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
Meanwhile, there are signs that the massive war is about to go to Washington. -- Rschen7754 ( talk - contribs) 01:29, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the notice; per your request, I'll re-evaluate it soon. Thanks! Flcelloguy ( A note?) 01:23, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
I have no clue what you done at [2], but I been trying to get that same effect for who-knows how long now. So, for not only doing that, and for the grammar check, that barnstar to the right of the screen is officially yours for the taking. Thanks. User:Zscout370 (Return Fire) 04:46, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
Hi Zscout370, I was wondering if you be gracious enough to post the contruction sheet instructions to the Nashville flag talk page, along with information about it's source. There seems to be disagreement about whether or not the fly includes a small white band similar to the state flag. Kaldari 18:28, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
I appreciate your well wishes for my engagemeent! :-) Ta bu shi da yu 12:40, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
A bunch of your st-tng images were nominated for deletion as orphans (which they are currently). Were you notified? Please respond on Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion/2006 March 20 -Thanks Nv8200p talk 00:13, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
I personaly think you may want to reorganise them a bit. -- Cool Cat Talk| @ 09:56, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
I noticed that this template describes a licence that disallows commercial reuse of images but the template doesn't warn about the images getting deleted, unlike other non-commercial-only licence templates.
I noticed that you edited the template so it no longer forbade commercial use but the "no-commercial-use" clause came back recently.
What is the status of these images? I thought after Jimbo's mail we're going to remove all non-commercial-only images....
Note that this template has inspired the creation of another non-commercial-only template -- Template:Canadiansoldiers.com Image. -- Paddu 20:13, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
Why wipe them out? and good luck doing so, since about 60% of the flags on wikipedia are from those websites. if you're willing to make your own, that's good, but if not, we're going to have a LOT of broken links. why do FOTW.net flags break the rules, anyway? no one has really explained it.
Raccoon Fox 02:35, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
You may be interested in updates to Template:User_BYU. I've added several new options to the talk page there. NThurston 22:25, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
Sorry to be a bother, but I was recently blocked by you because I shared the same IP as "Tommysun". My user name is User:FireSpike, and my IP address is 205.188.117.6. Please revert the block as soon as possible, Thank You.
Please see my post on your commons user account, here. Thanks. → J @ red 00:48, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
I just found yourNordic-Celtic Flag at
. My very similar contribution made in March was unrelated to yours. See Talk:Flag_of_Ireland. I wonder how approprate the flag is for Teutonic/Celtic, since green and orange aren't associated with any of the other Celtic languages. Evertype 12:10, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
Thanks. Very cool. - Jmabel | Talk 03:54, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
Hi Zscout370,
I looked through all the Georgian resources I can find on the net. They are not very informative, but I added some more info to the article. I hope that I’ve been helpful. Regards, Kober 19:13, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
Hi ZScout370,
I notice that you have a fancy signature that includes a superscripted (Return Fire). How do you do that? I sign my messages with four tildes. What do I need to do to have a signature like yours?
Richard 06:41, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
Will you please take off the protection you put onto WBRU even though you had no idea what was going on. I followed the story minute by minute and have everything that you ruined saved on my computer. If you could take off the protection I coould give a summary of the events and and major timeline inncidents. Please do not tell me that I am a new user. I have been using Wikipedia for over a year and a half now and I am very well versed in their polices. I only statred editing over the past week because it was the first event that I knew an extensive amount about. You had no right to take the law into your hands. Thanks Caf3623 23:33, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
Thanks Caf3623 01:53, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
Zscout370, removing warnings from their talk pages is vandalism, no? User:Stollery removed warnings after he made personal attacks and then an administrator told Stollery that he could do anything he wanted with his talk page [4] Is this right and acceptable behavior from admin? -- Nikitchenko 02:45, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for helping to deal with User:PoolGuy's sockpuppet. -- Nlu ( talk) 15:52, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
Thanks a lot for blocking all four recent sockpuppets of Jeffrey Vernon Merkey. We waste too much time tracking his never-ending antics. Can I ping you in case he starts vandalizing the same pages again? Friendly Neighbour 21:17, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
Thanks also. Just a thought about Merkey's potential return.
http://www.network54.com/Forum/237458/message/1144201223/Re-+Nobody+believe's+you+Jeff
Re: Nobody believe's you Jeff April 4 2006 at 8:40 PM Asgaya (Login AsgayaGigagei) Response to Nobody believe's you Jeff "Plenty more accounts there moron. I've got hundreds of IPs and dozens of accounts and edit from them all. Hey, you aren't one of us. You're one of those anal/oral copulaters from San Francisco. Get back to your board lil'old gay college boy. Hv-wa"
Merkey's a sweetheart, isn't he? -- talks_to_birds 02:18, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
Could you, for good measure, clear and block User talk: 70.103.108.66 page where this socketpuppet wages a revert war (personal attacks etc.) with some users who should be wiser than that. Thanks in advance. Friendly Neighbour 18:45, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
[ [5]] Sint_Holo ( talk · contribs · logs) and his IP address 71.199.40.199 ( talk · contribs · logs).
TempusFugit ( talk · contribs · logs) Is also around using RCU to make sockpuppet allegations.
Thanks for your attention. Vigilant 07:28, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
Hey there!
Love your ribbons! Although I sorely miss the Cool Cucumber Ribbon! I do like the other ones, but like your standard size more. If you have some spare time, could you add one?
Cheers, The Minist e r of War (Peace) 08:38, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
Congratulations on "National anthem of Russia" becoming a featured article. Green Giant 19:31, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
it's the correct one. check the fotw site, or any number of flag sites. the angle of the triangle on hoise is to be 45 degrees so that the width is half the height. the jordanian flag, which looks similar, goes in much deeper. i believe that one is based on the width of the flag. i'd have put this in SVG but i dont have the proper software anymore. this particular version i made in illustrator. -- Yung Wei 22:08, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
Go to [6] and scroll to the bottom of the page. The left column of the table has the new redistricting by state. The maps are somewhat crude, but they should give your gf an idea of what district she belongs to. Hope this helps. -- Run e Welsh | ταλκ 11:23, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
Hi Zach! Yes, I am Jonathan, and I'm glad the Australian flag article featured. I guess it would be good even if I were someone else ;-) JPD ( talk) 00:24, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
Not sure if you care or not but the above article is being discussed for deletion again, since I saw you voted in the last one I thought you would like to know. Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/References_to_Star_Trek_in_The_Simpsons_2 EnsRedShirt 02:39, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
I'm going to ask you to remove the only following written thingy below:
([[User talk:adnghiem501|talk]])
from your protected archive #5 talk page immediately. I've done this on all other pages that linked to my old talk page. -- ADNghiem501 10:09, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
Oh, the only link which is appearing is User_talk:Zscout370/Archive_5#Image:Sag22.jpg. Make sure to type the edit summary below when you remove the link from my old signature, with a minor edit:
rm links to User:adnghiem501's inactive talk page, from signatures
And don't worry about the plural words in the edit summary what I provided. I removed more than one link from each page. -- ADNghiem501 19:42, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
I've indefinitely blocked one or two of the people whose sole purpose for editing Wikipedia appeared to be pestering Merkey and his socks. I'm giving Merkey (now using User:Sint Holo) the benefit of the doubt for now as he seems to be trying to do decent stuff. I'm ignoring that fact that he's been listed as banned in the past. Consequently I've blocked him and Vigilant for only 24 hours for brawling.
I always submit my blocks and unblocks to review, and as you have dealt with this situation in the past I thought you might like to take a look. There is currently a discussion of this near the bottom of WP:AN/I, my edits to it being these: [7] [8] [9] [10] [11]. -- Tony Sidaway 22:26, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
You blocked User:Tommysun before for legal threats. Well, he's back at it. [12]. Can you have a word with him? -- ScienceApologist 16:53, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
Hey, Zscout!
Your bot approval request has been accepted! Linuxbeak (drop me a line) 19:37, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
Whats up with those? -- Cat out 19:49, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
For the Missing Wikipedians list: why are you leaving? -- maru (talk) contribs 04:15, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
Hi Zach. I noticed you are requesting an account at the Wikimedia Foundation. Coincidentally enough, so am I! In my request, Anthere asked if I could name some people that would speak up for me. I listed your name there, I hope you don't mind. I'll take the opportunity to wish you a good luck in getting your account. This way, we can look forward to cooperating at the Wikimedia website as well. Redux 02:45, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
I found some personal details on Talk:Clive Davis while browsing the history. Apparently a reader inserted a personal address and phone number. Should this page be deleted, then restored? chant essy 17:17, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
Hey we are dying out here :) -- Cat out 23:18, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
Beaware of your understanding what is Vandalism and what is not. Addition of unwanted commercial links (spam) of non-English language in English page for serveral times is vandalism. Thanks. 216.16.237.110 00:25, 28 May 2006 (UTC)
— Bkell ( talk) 21:46, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
May I have a ribbon for the minor barnstar? -- Cat out 05:35, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the image. There is something wrong however, The 1868 Lares flag knitted by Mariana Bracetti had a yellow star. The Lares flag with the white star is the flag which was later adopted by the municipality of Lares as their official flag. See: Flags of Puerto Rico. But, thank you again for the thought. Tony the Marine 06:29, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
Can you draw a large version of the coat of arms of Baku (from http://www.window2baku.com/Index.htm in the upper right corner) because the one I uploaded is obsolete? Thanks so much. -- Brand спойт 13:34, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
Well, you stand as a noble Wikipedian for saying that! Many FAC contributors are stroppy, even abusive, in that situation. Thank you! Tony 15:22, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
Thanks, Zach. It seems my request hasn't been either fulfilled or denied too. Then again, things seem to move rather slowly at Meta. And plus the fact that the number of users with permission to create the accounts is severely limited. I too won't be pestering anyone over there to get it through. The list is there, when someone gets around to it, they'll get around to it and we'll hear about it. Thank you so much for your support in anycase :) Cheers, Redux 19:01, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
Go right ahead. Denelson 83 22:23, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
Can you please replace instances of [[Image:Ireland flag large.png]] with [[Image:Flag of Ireland.svg]] on your first and second archives? My bot was not capable of doing this automatically, since your archives are protected from editing. Thank you! —
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01:36, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
So, you make flags eh? That's cool. I make flags aswell. -Frizzle
Template:FOTWpic has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you. -- h-stt !? 11:26, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
You expressed interest in WP:FSC, and as that didn't go anywhere, I think this might function as a workable intermediate step to building a "sound community" on Wikipedia.-- Pharos 13:25, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
Your recent automated run swapping rcnjack.png for Naval Jack of Canada.svg made a mess of about two dozen articles by putting an unresized image into their infoboxes. I fixed the ones I had watchlisted, but figured I should let you know to double check to if I missed anything, and adjust your automated script accordingly. Cheers. - Dawson 00:29, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
I was thinking of doing the same myself, but haven't managed to get round to it yet. Hopefully if I get some time in the next day or so I'll have a go at a few of the simpler ones. Grutness... wha? 01:39, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
Hi! Thank you very much for redrawing the Seychelles flags! Punkmorten 16:37, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for uploading Image:Royal Standard of the King of Lesotho.png. Wikipedia gets hundreds of images uploaded every day, and in order to verify that the images can be legally used on Wikipedia, the source and copyright status must be indicated. Images need to have an image tag applied to the image description page indicating the copyright status of the image. This uniform and easy-to-understand method of indicating the license status allows potential re-users of the images to know what they are allowed to do with the images.
For more information on using images, see the following pages:
This is an automated notice by OrphanBot. If you need help on selecting a tag to use, or in adding the tag to the image description, feel free to post a message at Wikipedia:Media copyright questions. 22:09, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
Hi Zscout I just saw the flag for the T&C Governor, and I'd just want to tell you that Image:Flag of a British Governor (modern).svg's been changed to be in the correct proportions for the gold ring and the leaves, just in case you want to change anything. Also, the crown on the GG flag isn't mine, so no need to acknowledge me for it :D Yaddah 02:45, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
that image i was talking about, last night on irc, i made a stub for it's creator: Dimitris Hantzopoulos. Thanks a lot man :) Project2501a 08:42, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
There was no reason for you to redirect this article and remove the image from the Nordic Cross flag article. The articles have been restored. Other members of the Federation internationale have their own articles and there is no reason the NF should not as well. Please do not make such drastic unilateral moves without discussion. Briangotts (Talk) (Contrib) 21:36, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
Thank you for following up on the IFD holes I'd left. I wasn't making the decisions, but out of curiosidt, how did you handle things? (Also, i'll keep going through january and stuff, similar patterns as the past stuff. -- ∞ Wirelain 18:09, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
Hey,
You uploaded the flag of the Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man under the name of
Image:Flag of the Governor of the Isle of Man.svg. This is incorrect, the Crown's representative on the Isle of Man is the Lieutenant Governor, not the Governor. Even though the Lieutenant Governor and the Governor do the same thing for the Overseas Territories and the Crown Dependencies, they are appointed though different agencies. I have moved the file to the Commons and renamed it. I hope this is OK. -- Thanks,
Hos
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04:51, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
You are quite welcome, my friend. -- Denelson 83 07:33, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
Re Wikipedia:Templates_for_deletion/Log/2006_June_20#Template:FOTWpic: in an attempt to clarify and preserve as a reference for future similar cases, I have written Wikipedia:Copyright on emblems. Maybe you'd like to help improve and/or correct it? Lupo 08:46, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
I noticed you removed one of these from my user page. That's OK (I understand the ramifications of having fair-use images on a user page, thus denigrating our fair use claims), but what's the history behind the deletion of these images? Wouldn't a parody be considered fair use on the user page? And is the Che image copyrighted (it seems to be all over the place these days). Thanks for your help. Cheers, Bratsche talk | Esperanza 23:49, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
Hey Zach.
This is your bot, right? Being that it just performed several image replacements in one of my watched articles, I'm thinking that .svg images are superior to .png files, correct? I'm asking because, if that's the case, I'll try to privilege this format when/if uploading this kind of image in the future.
Plus I wish I had a bot of my own. But that's just envy talking, I don't even have a use for one right now ;)
Redux
05:52, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
Your bot just saved me about 5 minutes of work. Thank you for allowing me to be somewhat lazy with my updating. - RPharazon 00:01, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
Any ideas? I only noticed him because I happened to catch the user ID being created and then saw it pop up on my watchlist editing Fred's user page 2 mins later. -- GraemeL (talk) 00:53, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
I was wondering if your bot could also upload images? One of my long-term projects is to have an article on each and every metro station in Mexico City. Each station has a logo and there are ~70 logos missing, which would be a pain to upload manually. Thanks. -- Run e Welsh | ταλκ 04:09, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi, I'm looking for someone that can write bots to find a bot that could tag all the untagged images as no licence and notify the uploader, there were 38000+ images in the last database dump, and only 10% have been tagged in a month. Do you know of any bots around that could do the job?-- nixie 04:23, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
Hello Zach, I finally went to the Bishopric Hill to take some pics of the bandera monumental in order to use them in the article of the Flag of Mexico. Let me know what you think. I only uploaded 2 of the 40 I took. I will buy a better digital cam (semi pro) so I would be able to provide nicer pics soon. See ya.
AlexCovarrubias 13:14, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
Well... I guess you're happy now. :) Congratulations! Another FA under your belt. Tito xd( ?!? - help us) 18:12, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
Okay, I've changed the pic, but how the frak can a national flag be copyrighted? -- Calton | Talk 05:32, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi Z'. I noticed you had already talked to Alphabetagamnma ( talk · contribs) about copyright. He has uploaded more images today with tags claiming that the copyright holder has released the images for any use. I gave him a final warning on his talk page, but I'm not really sure what to do about the images. I tagged the ones he gave a source of Google as no source, but should I go through and delete them all, or wait for his response? -- GraemeL (talk) 19:03, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
Thanks. -- Gmaxwell 01:55, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
With flags and screenshots removed: -- Gmaxwell 02:26, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi there. I noticed you replaced the picture in Template:User OregonState with the letters OSU. I thought it looked much better with the image there, and the image tag description looks as if it is fine to use for this. "It is believed that the use of low-resolution images of logos to illustrate the corporation, sports team, or organization in question on the English-language Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation, qualifies as fair use under United States copyright law.". This says to me that use of this image here is fine. Care to explain why you removed it? VegaDark 02:55, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
Image_talk:Dylan_jams_with_campbell.jpg#I_repeat JDG 04:00, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
I still see a blue background at Image:Republic of China National Emblem.svg and Image:White sun, blue sky.svg.-- Jiang 09:43, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
yes-- Jiang 01:07, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
You were able to fix Image:Chinese Taipei Olympic Flag.svg. can't you do the same for these images?-- Jiang 04:59, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the permission to use your image, Zach. I think I might try to add "Customs" to the national flag svg, thought - it shouldn't be too difficult. JPD ( talk) 10:19, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
I noticed this image uploaded from NATO's website: Image:SergeiLavrov.jpg The licensing for NATO's images is fairly specific, and I think incompatible with Wikipedia, but I wanted to get a second opinion before deleting. The conditions are at the bottom of this page. The last condition - that images can only be used in objective and balanced documentaries/articles - seems like the killer. What do you think? FreplySpang (talk) 17:49, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
Did you see this proposal? Scouting Barnstarn -- evrik 20:02, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
I believe that the award that was created for the Scouting Barnstar should be a topical award. Scouting is a world-wide movement that has served youth in many countries for more than 100 years and represents the youth of the world at the United Nations.
It has been suggested that the award be given as a PUA. The first line on the PUA page reads, "This page provides a collection of awards created by individual Wikipedians." The Scouting Barnstar was created by the WikiProject Scouting.
Currently, the is a discussion going on at Wikipedia_talk:Barnstars#Removed_the_scouting_barnstar. Please comment there if you are interested. evrik
Hello there! I wanted to thank you for taking the time to vote on my arbitration commitee nomination. Although it was not successful, I appreciate the time you spent to read my statement and questions and for then voting, either positively or negativly. Again, thank you! Páll (Die pienk olifant) 22:29, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi Zach. I'm not sure mb1000 is ready for adminship yet. Only recently they inadvertently reverted an article because they didn't like the changes one author had made, so he reverted it back to the last version he had edited even though that meant removing the changes made by more than one author. I'm not sure why they did this. It's either lethargy in not wanting to cut and paste the revelant section of the article as was required, or they had an issue with the edits from all authors, but chose to only mention one example in their edit comments. Anyway, just thought I'd let you know since you were saying you supported their application. -- Rebroad 00:41, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
Here they are, converted into ogg theora, free as in beer and speech :) Jmax- 17:03, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
Hey,
I've added a section on Removal from the Order of Canada about controversial appointments to the Order. Thus far I have only listed Ben Johnson. I think its appropriate to call his appointment controverisal considering he was being awarded for his championship sprinting, only to shortly afterwards tarnish Canada's olympic record by testing positive for illegal doping and later to be banned for life. Dowew 23:36, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
Hey Zach, I have seen your Chinese Taipei Olympic Flag image, but I think the "Blue Sky with a White Sun" emblem on the flag looks a little odd - the R.O.C. National Emblem is used in the Chinese Taipei Olympic flag, so the size of the sun should according the ROC flag and emblem law. Anyway, great job. :) -- Kibinsky 17:21, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
Please support my nomination! Thank-you. -- Mb1000 01:57, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
Consider this calling in the favor you owe me for some of those image replacements I did for you... Image:Dmitry Pozharsky marker, Suzdal, Russia -- 10 January 2006.jpg needs cropping and rotation, but I don't have the tools to do it (not enough hard disk space to install all the required dependencies for the GIMP or Gnu Paint.) I'd greatly appreciate it if you could. -- maru (talk) contribs 18:53, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
This is a wireimage photo. User:JJstroker claims that the photo is copyrighted and "press release". He added it to Christine Lahti. However, wireimage photos are not allowed on Wikipedia and may be copyio. He's not quite aware of this. I've listed the photo at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion/2006 January 28. Please be sure that it should be deleted immediately. adnghiem501 ( talk) 23:14, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi,
I found this page from veterans affairs which explains that Medal of Courage thing a bit better.
Also, I added a couple more people to the controversial appointments section of the Removal from the Order of Canada page, first being Conrad Black (can you tell yet I dont like him :) and a Doctor who was just featured on a CBC expose who im sure with all this attention regarding serious fraud will be removed in the not too distant future. Dowew 04:22, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
Hello Zach! I hope you can help me with this one. There is this site that promotes the download of a bunch of copyrighted material (MP3, videos, pictures) of the italian singer Laura Pausini . The webmaster is even offering for download her most recently released DVD. This is clearly a copyright violation.
Since I noticed this I erased the link from the article Laura Pausini because of the sentence that appears below the textbox every time you edit something: Content must not violate any copyright and must be verifiable. You agree to license your contributions under the GFDL.
I want to know if there is another rule or something that I can apply to this kind of site. The other guy says that Wikipedia is "Ok with this" so I really wanna know if he's right, because I think he is not. You should take a look at the discussion page of the article. I have a website dedicated to this italian singer (see site) and I'm in contact with the official fanclub manager once in a while. I have reported cases like this in the past and they have managed the situation. That's why I'm pretty sure what that guys is doing is illegal. I have reported this site to them yesterday.
But I guess my main question is, Is it Ok to have links to websites that violates copyright laws so clearly? Thanks for your answer in advance, I will really appreciate your help.
Yours, AlexCovarrubias 14:14, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
Thank you for your note. (1) The name suggests that the image is my "icon" thereby I want to be able to change the image whenever I want in the future. (2) The image, my creation, is unidentical from the image you speak about, so I say it is not redundant. Its colour, in my opinion, more closely matches the official representation. To delete it now is no different from deleting a Wikipedian's photo. (3) #1 is more important to me than #2 though, so when the wiki software can handle image redirects, I promise you I shall follow your suggestion. -- Perfecto 14:31, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
See Image talk:Flag of Canada.svg for the previous debate. -- Perfecto 21:58, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
Just wanted to thank you for apologizing to JDG, it was very mature of you and hopefully will go a long way to proving to him that people here want him to stay with the project as long as he's willing to follow the rules. Jtkiefer T | C | @ ---- 07:41, 5 February 2006 (UTC)
Just thinking the next barnstar you get should be a unique one:
Take care, (what type of ribbon will this one take?) ε γκυκλοπ αίδεια * 22:26, 5 February 2006 (UTC)
Could you please help me with the use of Template:Link FA? German Wikipedia discussed this gimmick too and a majority was in in favour of it. But where do I find the CSS-class FA to insert? -- de:Benutzer:Triebtäter
Hey Zach, I'm looking for a historically accurate flag for use in the Iran at the 1900 Summer Olympics article. I haven't found one on Wikipedia or Commons, but I have been pointed to FotW. Do know if there's a free-image flag matching that description somewhere? Thanks. -- Jonel | Speak 21:35, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
Hi Zach!
Could I get you to update the interwiki for Template:Link FA? TIA. -- Palnatoke 07:40, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
Hi there, I noticed that you created a few of the Star Trek rank images on Starfleet ranks and insignia. I'm looking for more opinions on Wikipedia talk:Image copyright tags#Star_Trek_rank_images, so if you'd like to comment there that would be great. Thanks.
P.S. Regarding the USSR copyright stuff, do you have a citation for the assertion that works published in the USSR before May 27, 1973 were PD in Russia on January 1, 1996? If you do, that would be great so I can change my TfD vote. Thanks again, JYolkowski // talk 02:27, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the image. I've added it to Flag of Canada. Do you have any other earlier proposals? it would be nice to flesh out the article with some of the other proposals. Regards, Ground Zero | t 02:47, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for your message on the Indian noticeboard. Let me know what I can do. deeptrivia ( talk) 13:04, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
The flag shown is "not" the Maltese flag. The George cross, on the top left of the flag is blurred, and the image on the cross is not visible and it appears it is plain.
The cross should have a sharp red border.
A correct version of the George Cross is shown in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Malta_flag_large.png, the original image which was originally posted to Wikipedia. Maltesedog 15:47, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
Did you fix it? Actually it looks fine now I think. Congrats. Maltesedog 17:56, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
Hi there! I thought yiou might have some idea on how to convert the Image:Barnstar-stone2-noback.png into a ribbon bar... Halibu tt 10:50, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
I see that you are the person who created the image for the Uase_ACLU template. I was hoping you could help figure out what happened to the ACLU user box template. It seems to have been deleted, but I can't find where it was discussed before deleting. Can you help? — Bill W. ( Talk) ( Contrib) – February 18, 2006, 05:53 (UTC)
Hi, I proposed to give Barnstar of National Merit a makover in here. Deathphoenix left a note that people originally involved in creating the award should be notified. So here I am. Please voice your opinion, and happy editing! Renata 05:10, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
Hello Zscout370, Thanks for converting it in Audacity to get rid of malicious code warning. Will you help me to know that how we get rid of this warning? -- Shyam ( T/ C) 14:12, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the heads up Zach. It'll be good to see Graham's work free from being infringed. Looking at that Russian site they have some very interesting terms and conditions. They say that the images may be used on the internet, but that the licensee "may not post the Licensed Material online in a downloadable format;"! That's rather contradictory since use online means things have got to be in a downloadable format!! David Newton 15:22, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
I need to talk to you in chat about this dumb Eve Plumb situation. Mike H. That's hot 21:43, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
Hi Zach! Since you have more experience dealing with svg images in Wikipedia I was wondering if you could tell me if this image loads properly in your browser. If it doesn't could you please give me guidance as to what I could do to fix it? Thank you! -- Run e Welsh | ταλκ 02:31, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
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Hi, thanks for your voting on my RFA. It has finished with the result 88/14/9, and I am promoted. I am really overwhelmed with the amount of support I have got. With some of you we have edited many articles as a team, with some I had bitter arguments in the past, some of you I consider to be living legends of Wikipedia and some nicks I in my ignorance never heard before. I love you all and I am really grateful to you.
If you feel I can help you or Wikipedia as a human, as an editor or with my newly acquired cleaning tools, then just ask and I will be happy to assist. If you will feel that I do not live up to your expectation and renegade on my promises, please contact me. Maybe it was not a malice but just ignorance or a short temper. Thank you very mach, once more! abakharev 07:34, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Barnstar_and_award_proposals/Ribbons -- evrik 21:17, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
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Thanks for pointing me to that article from the Russian-Ukrainian Legal Group. I have added it to Template talk:PD-USSR. Also, I am in a slow-going e-mail conversation on that topic with Jean-Baptiste Soufron, the Wikimedia Foundation's legal specialist in international copyright matters. Lupo 13:32, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
We have this category for every country. Not sure why you think Belarus should be a particularly special case. -- Necrothesp 16:03, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
Done? I corrected the links, added the link to list of rulers (are there any other related articles?) and a new emblem (Pahonia, couldn't think of a better symbol of Belarusian history). Halibu tt 23:55, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
Hey, I got a reply from the National Heritage Board. They've given permission subject to the following conditions, quoting from the e-mail.
"a) If Wikipedia adopts the Creative Commons License, the condition of "Noncommerical (nc)" in respect of the National Anthem must be invoked.
b) The National Anthem must at all times be accorded the respect and dignity due to a national symbol of the Republic of Singapore.
c) Every recording or arrangement of the National Anthem must accurately reflect the complete tune and complete official lyrics of the National Anthem.
d) The National Anthem must not be incorporated into any other composition or medley.
e) The National Anthem must not be translated into another language."
They also want to be informed when the file is put up. So it's a go - just let me know and I'll pass on the info to them. -- khaosworks ( talk • contribs) 03:08, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
hmmm... wasn't
ok? current version (
File:Belarus geostub icon.png) is too red & green, but as you know (i hope) these colors are too painful for Belarusians because they are colors of Lukashenka flag...
I'm thinking about changing back to political neutral image, just not to irritate eyes at least.. i hope it will be ok with you. -- Monkbel 08:13, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
Netoholic conveniently ignored your comment/question, so I'm responding to let you know that he no longer has any mentors. (See Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Netoholic 2#Update.) — David Levy 20:35, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
You blocked User talk:70.25.168.90. On their talk page they appear to be repentant, can you take a look for me? Thanks. -- Commander Keane 10:28, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
I notice that you protected the Thomas M. Cooley Law School page from editing. Although this may have been a necessary move, the manner in which you have taken this action disturbs me. You provided no explantion for your block on the article's talk page. I looked on the recently blocked articles page to see if you had listed your rationale there; you had not. In short, it would by really helpful if you could provide a reason for this block and some sense of when you plan to remove this block so that good faith editors can continue to do their work. Although I agree with you that we can't have the vandalism, there were also some edits reomved right before your edit (eg textual information regarding rankings) that appeared to be a good faith, if controversial, edit, the inclusion of which was likley best left to consensus-building. Thank you. Consensusbuilder1 14:40, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
Hi Zach. I've taken a look at the file and the websites linked. The file does seems to be in the public domain: first, because the Brazilian National Anthem is in the public domain; plus, this particular version was performed by a state funded, that is public, entity, which appears to make their work available freely — it is a chorus financed by a state-owned bank, accompanied by the band of the state Military Police; the only notice of copyright I found was regarding the design and general content of the website of the BDMG (the public bank in question), but they didn't even have a TOS. That long part in Portuguese seems to be completely unnecessary though. It is linking a page of the Brazilian federal government, but the audio file originated in a page belonging to the state of Minas Gerais. I thought that maybe the federal page carried the file as well, but I couldn't find it there. Besides, that whole section is pretty much just the federal website's disclaimer: it explains the scope of the website, with a hint at the Brazilian federal legislation on copyrights, and closes saying something like even though we strive to provide only material that is in the public domain, it could happen that we accidentaly offer copyrighted material; if that happens, please contact us so that the mistake can be rectified. I'm not sure why the original uploader copied that section in — maybe at one point the federal website did carry the file, but then removed it at a later time. Does that addresses everything? Redux 16:52, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
These sources look better than a quote from a defunct website via Flags of the World, and they should be references in the emblem article and the flag article.-- nixie 02:39, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
Your inputs to Violence in the Boy Scouts would be much appreciated. I tried putting it on the controversy article, but it was blasted from all sides so I moved the material to its own article. Within 5 minutes, there was an NPOV tag on it. Sounds like a battle is brewing! - Husnock 14:23, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
Hi. You uploaded Image:PRC_coa.png, which is now being used on many pages related to the People's Republic of China. Given the high visibility of this image, I think it would be a very good idea to clarify its copyright status. Do you have any information in this area? Thanks. -- Ryan Delaney talk 14:55, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
Hi! you asked wether I've got a source for this image: downloaded it from a .ru heraldry-specialised website claiming it was PD - as it must be anyway since it's fair use and the design was published anyway in the USSR before 1973 - and Russian law does not c-right designs such as flags or national emblems anyway (doesn't apply to corporate design though!). But I definitely didn't get it from the commercial website you're quoting in the file history as an original source (vector-images.com) - better ask THEM where they got it from: they don't have world monopoly on vectorised .bmps I suppose... All the best! Emigrant123 14:33, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
In response to some of the comments about archiving discussions, and how awards are vetted, last week I tweaked the Guidelines. No one noticed. I also archived the discussion that was used to create them. I just wanted to give you a heads up. evrik 18:40, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
I think that the variety of pages Barnstars and Other Related Awards and Personal User Awards for the awards are confusing. I have been trying to streamline them by creating the Wikipedia:Awards page. Let me know what you think. evrik 18:40, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
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I just noticed that you unblocked Netoholic without letting me know or even noting this on his talk page.
Please explain how I'm an "involved party." My only involvement in this dispute has been to respond to Netoholic's flagrant misconduct. I've never edited these templates or their talk pages.
Please also explain why Netoholic's decision to deliberately restore harmful code (condemned by lead developer Brion Vibber) to a namespace from which he's banned, after he was explicitly warned not to do so, does not warrant a block. — David Levy 21:35, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
If you have time could you comment on this fair use issue, Talk:Map-territory relation. Many thanks. ॐ Metta Bubble puff 06:38, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
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Thanks for uploading Image:Featarticle barnstar.png. I notice the 'image' page currently doesn't specify who created the content, so the copyright status is unclear. If you have not created this media yourself then you need to argue that we have the right to use the media on Wikipedia (see copyright tagging below). If you have not created the media yourself then you should also specify where you found it, i.e., in most cases link to the website where you got it, and the terms of use for content from that page.
If the media also doesn't have a copyright tag then you must also add one. If you created/took the picture, audio, or video then you can use {{ GFDL-self}} to release it under the GFDL. If you believe the media qualifies as fair use, please read fair use, and then use a tag such as {{ Non-free fair use in|article name}} or one of the other tags listed at Wikipedia:Image copyright tags#Fair_use. See Wikipedia:Image copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.
If you have uploaded other media, please check that you have specified their source and copyright tagged them, too. You can find a list of 'image' pages you have edited by clicking on the " my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "Image" from the dropdown box. Note that any unsourced and untagged images will be deleted one week after they have been uploaded, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. Shyam ( T/ C) 22:12, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
Hi -- I just wanted to let you know that I e-mailed Richard Norton about the copyright issue. I think he was just confused about how licenses work, and I e-mailed him to try and clarify the points with him about why he can't just label things CC-SA and GFDL willy-nilly, and to explain what he should do in terms of rectifying the situation. I think he's a generally good guy, but his interpersonal skills are sometimes wanting. Anyway I just wanted to let you know that I don't think he's deliberately being difficult here on this issue, and that he is just genuinely confused. -- Fastfission 00:49, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
Also -- he has e-mailed me and claimed that many of the photos he labeled as CC-BY-SA he did with permission of the copyright holders, who he was in contact with by e-mail. I'll try to get some more clarification on this point. He seems to be willing to agree to not upload more images if he's allowed to continue editing; I think the indef block got the point across, though I think it might be a little harsh in this case. Again, I think he's a generally good editor, though I think he has bad person-to-person skills, and has a hard time explaining himself. Let me know what you think about all of this. He's in e-mail correspondence with me (I worked with him awhile back to dig up some info from databases he had access to), and I'm happy to try and broker a deal out here that would be satisfactory to everyone. -- Fastfission 00:53, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
Greetings from an Indian wikipedian. I have been around here for about a year, including being an administrator from 18th September 2005. I request you to kindly do me the favor of providing me your valuable comments and suggestions on my contributions, activities and behavior pattern. I shall be awaiting your free and frank opinion, which you are most welcome to give here. -- Bhadani 15:02, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
My question was about the other part - the concurrencies on I-64. -- SPUI ( talk - don't use sorted stub templates!) 00:48, 16 March 2006 (UTC) Oh..hmm...perhaps put it on the I-64 article itself. User:Zscout370 (Return Fire) Fair use policy 00:51, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
Hi Zack, long time no see: :) I have a flag creation request: We need an svg image of the Image:West Indies Cricket Board Flag.png. Thought I'd message you since you're the expert. Regards, =Nichalp «Talk»= 10:30, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
Hello,
An Arbitration case in which you commented has been opened: Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Locke Cole. Please add evidence to the evidence sub-page, Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Locke Cole/Evidence. You may also contribute to the case on the workshop sub-page, Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Locke Cole/Workshop.
On behalf of the Arbitration Committee, -- Tony Sidaway 10:34, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
What part of "too bad" is so hard to understand? I'm trying to solve the problems of Wikipedia. Feel free to disagree, i'm fighting for your right to do so without being arbitrarily punished by some random bully. If you haven't already, you should also read the FAQs subpage on my user page. Karm a fist Save Wikipedia 06:15, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
The section is still a little choppy, especially the first paragraph. It doesn't flow like a good sequence of events, and "the copyright changed hands again" doesn't specify who gave up the copyright when it changed hands. It's better than before though, and if there isn't more information available, so be it. The translation, as I said, I can live with, and it sounds like my suggestions are going to be accepted, but in the meantime I think the article is pretty much ready to go. I'd just make sure that there isn't a way to make the copyright thing a little more clear. Also, was there a reason for splitting up the Regulations section into really short paragraphs? — Spangineer [es] (háblame) 06:07, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
Hi Zscout. I've been contacted by Avraamrii who's been blocked for breaking the 3RR on Alexander Lukashenko. As you can see on my talk page, I too had discussions with User:172 yesterday, although I basically absented from editing the page. Avraamrii was blocked by User:Mikkalai, but Avraamrii defends himself by stating that the dispute is basically about 1) User:172 making large-scale edits without discussing them first (true, it annoys me as well), 2) whether a source should be referenced as Christian Science Monitor or the Gallup Institute. I've not examined it, but I for one am particularly worried about 172's edit to the first paragraph, which I feel waters down the fact that Lukashenko is a dictator, it appears Avraamrii feels the same way. 172 claims that these references are "politicizing matters", which sounds somewhat strange to my ears. I can't find any warnings to Avraamrii about breaking the 3RR.
Would you mind investigating this incident? I haven't gone through all of the edit history myself, but the following is a copy of a message from Avraamrii to Mikkalai (sent by Avraamrii to me). Best regards Valentinian (talk) 12:28, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
(quote) Mikkalai,
User 172 isn't being forthright in his complaints in what changes he made. If you see the edits I made to the Lukashenko article using the diff, you'll notice I restored material deleted by user 172 AND I rephrased his reference to the Gallup poll to make it clear that the source for this is The Christian Science monitor rather than the Gallup organization. Despite that, he reverted my changes and erroneously asserted that I removed the poll. He's complaining about that singular point, when in fact he deleted other factual material that was argued a long time ago when he was involved in similar discussions where he wouldn't defend his deletions. For example, he removed the following without explanation:
He has been described by the United States as "Europe's last dictator" and features on the US's list of ' outposts of tyranny'. Lukashenko's external and internal policies have led Belarus to be barred from joining the Council of Europe.
This is a fact. He's been labelled as such by the US and EU and his actions have led Belarus to be barred from the Council of Europe. There was no reason for 172 to delete this.
Another example of material he arbitrarily removed: In November 1995, he caused international controversy by claiming in an interview that Hitler's domestic policies had not been entirely bad for Germany. Many of his critics took this as implying that a similar type of authoritarian leadership could benefit Belarus.
Again, this is a fact. Lukashenko made these remarks at a Hannover trade fair in 1995. In fact, the remarks were much worse since Lukashenko said that the only thing bad about Hitler was the war, but otherwise was a strong leader for Germany.
In short, user 172 is complaining about reverts to his Gallup poll insertions (which I left in there in my last edit even though I can't find the poll in Gallup and Lukashenko doesn't allow NGO's to take polls, at least openly), which were a minor part of his major deletions to the article. All that I've asked is that he discuss the major edits he's made and defend them, which he hasn't done.
Thanks. (unquote)
Hey there. Since you were the major uploader of Star Trek rank insignias I thought you'd like t know most of the images are now in commons. I am however hesitant to upload TNG enlisted ranks at the moment as I want these to be checked, something doesnt look right.
Now I know on TNG enlisted insignia was a complete mess but on DS9 Chief Petty Officer Miles O'Brian wars a single hollow pip. On TNG thats onw gold pip and one hollow pip. Whats up with that?
By the way, I have made some major modifications to Starfleet ranks and insignia and you might want to take a look
-- Cool Cat Talk| @ 21:15, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
Thought you may want to comment. -- Cool Cat Talk| @ 21:53, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
Hello, Zscout370. I've uploaded an image to inllustrate Cyclone Larry, but I was hoping you could clear up the copyright status of the image. I've claimed fair use on the image ( Image:Larry track map 11AM EST Monday 20 March 2006.gif), and tried to follow the instructions at the corresponding copyright page, but I was wondering if it is usable due to the restrictions on Crown Copyright on commercial usage. I don't mind deleting the image if I'm mistaken, but I'd rather know if it is something we can do in the future for future storms. Tito xd( ?!? - help us) 04:52, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
Can this be unsemiprotected? The reason for semiprotection appears to now be moot. Stifle 13:57, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
In hoping to learn about Belarusian history, I stumbled across this article. It is a right mess. I have tried to clean it up, but since I know close to nothing about Belarusian history, I was a bit at a loss. This important article would benefit from your knowledge in the area. I hope you father returns home safely. Regards, Ground Zero | t 00:23, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
I thought you might want to take a look at this page. -- Cool Cat Talk| @ 17:12, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
You may want to take a look at there for my proposal. -- Cool Cat Talk| @ 17:51, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the help using the bot to clean up some of the jack images on ship pages! However, I have one concern. I noticed you have been replacing the historical US Navy jack (USN-Jack.png) with the new and current one. This fine for any ships in commission from 2001 on, but may not be appropriate for a lot of ships which served earlier as this puts a jack on their page which they never sailed under. Instead, it seems to be the consensus of the ships WikiProject to use the jack a ship actually used, so putting historical ships under appropriate historical jacks/ensigns. I don't have a bot at my disposal and so I can't make the individual edits myself, so I would respectfully ask that you review your bot's routine so that only appropriate articles have their jack/ensign image updated. Thanks!! Josh 05:11, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
Hi, Zach. I came across your RfB through looking at the contributions of someone to see if he was online. I voted to support, but got an edit conflict. I looked to see what the conflict was, and saw that it had just been closed, probably while I was pressing preview. I'm sorry I didn't get a chance to support you, but want you to know that you would have had my support, and I appreciate the good work you do here. Cheers. AnnH ♫ 23:48, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
I may have missed the party with regards to having a say in your 'crat-ship, but I reckon you're cunning as a dunny rat and you don't need no stinking badger to get my respect. - brenneman {L} 00:01, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
Don't let my minor spat with Linuxbeak cloud things for you. It's only twoish editors disagreeing with one another. - Splash talk 00:03, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
I was bored, so I clicked on an article on my watchlist (Your talkpage) and then went to your main userpage, and found out that you are what made The Flag of Mexico a featured article. Thank you for drawing attention to it and making it a absolutely wonderful article. I'd give you an award of some sort, but I'm out of ideas. Thank you! - RPharazon 00:12, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
You may want to vote here -- Cool Cat Talk| @ 02:55, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
Would you recommend article or user RFC? Arguably it could be a user RFC since it's one person against many. Really we're just trying to get him to wait until we have consensus for either side- but SPUI decided that the consensus was on his side and started moving pages. -- Rschen7754 ( talk - contribs) 03:07, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
By the same token SPUI has been doing mass conversions of {{ routeboxca2}} to {{ Infobox CA Route}} without consensus, and a major edit war is developing regarding this. Could we make any conversions from {{ routeboxca2}} to {{ Infobox CA Route}} or the other way around a blockable offense? (For only the users involved- if there's a user who has no clue and changes the infobox then they're not included). Respond to WP:AN/I -- Rschen7754 ( talk - contribs) 06:20, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
I understand that removal of warnings from one's talk page is considered vandalism but surely if the warning is disputed or added incorrectly an exception should be made? The warnings on Wikipediatrix's talk page were added by Swatjester who is not even an admin (unlike Wikipediatrix). What are your thoughts? File:Glenstollery.gif P O W! 07:06, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
Depends. If it's a case of blatant vandalism, no, ideally another editor would remove it for me, or I'd do it myself. If they were valid, or even borderline valid (i was disputing them, but many believe them to be true), then yes I'd have to keep them.
In wikipediatrix's case though, she's been personally attacking myself, disrupting at least one article, and she has a history of doing it to other editors, as I found out tonight. Not just me, two other editors, including two admins, were keeping the warnings up on her page. That's a pretty good sign they've got some merit behind them.
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ZScout370, I honestly did not know users were not supposed to remove warning boxes from their talk pages. I had been under the mistaken assumption, based upon viewing of others, that we were free to maintain our talk pages any way we wished and to keep disruptive posts off. Swatjester's warning was unwarranted in the first place, because he took offense at being called an "Armed Forces guy", and in fact, I feel I am the attacked party here, not him.
More relevantly, your comment on my talk page incorrectly and unfairly accuses me of not heeding "негіднийлють"'s warning, and thus locked my page. I did not revert my page any further after негіднийлють's warning, and a quick glance at the history confirms this.
So when do I get my talk page unlocked? wikipediatrix 07:23, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
It looks like you may have run the bitmap through an auto-tracer. Why not try tracing the image manually from scratch, using as few nodes as you can? Denelson 83 09:27, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
Dude, how many days are you going to keep me banned from IRC? I think this is a little excessive. Everyking 10:05, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
Here is one image. I will try and knock out the other two images. User:Zscout370 (Return Fire) 21:34, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
Has started moving pages again- check his contribs. -- Rschen7754 ( talk - contribs) 21:21, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
Meanwhile, there are signs that the massive war is about to go to Washington. -- Rschen7754 ( talk - contribs) 01:29, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the notice; per your request, I'll re-evaluate it soon. Thanks! Flcelloguy ( A note?) 01:23, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
I have no clue what you done at [2], but I been trying to get that same effect for who-knows how long now. So, for not only doing that, and for the grammar check, that barnstar to the right of the screen is officially yours for the taking. Thanks. User:Zscout370 (Return Fire) 04:46, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
Hi Zscout370, I was wondering if you be gracious enough to post the contruction sheet instructions to the Nashville flag talk page, along with information about it's source. There seems to be disagreement about whether or not the fly includes a small white band similar to the state flag. Kaldari 18:28, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
I appreciate your well wishes for my engagemeent! :-) Ta bu shi da yu 12:40, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
A bunch of your st-tng images were nominated for deletion as orphans (which they are currently). Were you notified? Please respond on Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion/2006 March 20 -Thanks Nv8200p talk 00:13, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
I personaly think you may want to reorganise them a bit. -- Cool Cat Talk| @ 09:56, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
I noticed that this template describes a licence that disallows commercial reuse of images but the template doesn't warn about the images getting deleted, unlike other non-commercial-only licence templates.
I noticed that you edited the template so it no longer forbade commercial use but the "no-commercial-use" clause came back recently.
What is the status of these images? I thought after Jimbo's mail we're going to remove all non-commercial-only images....
Note that this template has inspired the creation of another non-commercial-only template -- Template:Canadiansoldiers.com Image. -- Paddu 20:13, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
Why wipe them out? and good luck doing so, since about 60% of the flags on wikipedia are from those websites. if you're willing to make your own, that's good, but if not, we're going to have a LOT of broken links. why do FOTW.net flags break the rules, anyway? no one has really explained it.
Raccoon Fox 02:35, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
You may be interested in updates to Template:User_BYU. I've added several new options to the talk page there. NThurston 22:25, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
Sorry to be a bother, but I was recently blocked by you because I shared the same IP as "Tommysun". My user name is User:FireSpike, and my IP address is 205.188.117.6. Please revert the block as soon as possible, Thank You.
Please see my post on your commons user account, here. Thanks. → J @ red 00:48, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
I just found yourNordic-Celtic Flag at
. My very similar contribution made in March was unrelated to yours. See Talk:Flag_of_Ireland. I wonder how approprate the flag is for Teutonic/Celtic, since green and orange aren't associated with any of the other Celtic languages. Evertype 12:10, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
Thanks. Very cool. - Jmabel | Talk 03:54, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
Hi Zscout370,
I looked through all the Georgian resources I can find on the net. They are not very informative, but I added some more info to the article. I hope that I’ve been helpful. Regards, Kober 19:13, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
Hi ZScout370,
I notice that you have a fancy signature that includes a superscripted (Return Fire). How do you do that? I sign my messages with four tildes. What do I need to do to have a signature like yours?
Richard 06:41, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
Will you please take off the protection you put onto WBRU even though you had no idea what was going on. I followed the story minute by minute and have everything that you ruined saved on my computer. If you could take off the protection I coould give a summary of the events and and major timeline inncidents. Please do not tell me that I am a new user. I have been using Wikipedia for over a year and a half now and I am very well versed in their polices. I only statred editing over the past week because it was the first event that I knew an extensive amount about. You had no right to take the law into your hands. Thanks Caf3623 23:33, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
Thanks Caf3623 01:53, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
Zscout370, removing warnings from their talk pages is vandalism, no? User:Stollery removed warnings after he made personal attacks and then an administrator told Stollery that he could do anything he wanted with his talk page [4] Is this right and acceptable behavior from admin? -- Nikitchenko 02:45, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for helping to deal with User:PoolGuy's sockpuppet. -- Nlu ( talk) 15:52, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
Thanks a lot for blocking all four recent sockpuppets of Jeffrey Vernon Merkey. We waste too much time tracking his never-ending antics. Can I ping you in case he starts vandalizing the same pages again? Friendly Neighbour 21:17, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
Thanks also. Just a thought about Merkey's potential return.
http://www.network54.com/Forum/237458/message/1144201223/Re-+Nobody+believe's+you+Jeff
Re: Nobody believe's you Jeff April 4 2006 at 8:40 PM Asgaya (Login AsgayaGigagei) Response to Nobody believe's you Jeff "Plenty more accounts there moron. I've got hundreds of IPs and dozens of accounts and edit from them all. Hey, you aren't one of us. You're one of those anal/oral copulaters from San Francisco. Get back to your board lil'old gay college boy. Hv-wa"
Merkey's a sweetheart, isn't he? -- talks_to_birds 02:18, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
Could you, for good measure, clear and block User talk: 70.103.108.66 page where this socketpuppet wages a revert war (personal attacks etc.) with some users who should be wiser than that. Thanks in advance. Friendly Neighbour 18:45, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
[ [5]] Sint_Holo ( talk · contribs · logs) and his IP address 71.199.40.199 ( talk · contribs · logs).
TempusFugit ( talk · contribs · logs) Is also around using RCU to make sockpuppet allegations.
Thanks for your attention. Vigilant 07:28, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
Hey there!
Love your ribbons! Although I sorely miss the Cool Cucumber Ribbon! I do like the other ones, but like your standard size more. If you have some spare time, could you add one?
Cheers, The Minist e r of War (Peace) 08:38, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
Congratulations on "National anthem of Russia" becoming a featured article. Green Giant 19:31, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
it's the correct one. check the fotw site, or any number of flag sites. the angle of the triangle on hoise is to be 45 degrees so that the width is half the height. the jordanian flag, which looks similar, goes in much deeper. i believe that one is based on the width of the flag. i'd have put this in SVG but i dont have the proper software anymore. this particular version i made in illustrator. -- Yung Wei 22:08, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
Go to [6] and scroll to the bottom of the page. The left column of the table has the new redistricting by state. The maps are somewhat crude, but they should give your gf an idea of what district she belongs to. Hope this helps. -- Run e Welsh | ταλκ 11:23, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
Hi Zach! Yes, I am Jonathan, and I'm glad the Australian flag article featured. I guess it would be good even if I were someone else ;-) JPD ( talk) 00:24, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
Not sure if you care or not but the above article is being discussed for deletion again, since I saw you voted in the last one I thought you would like to know. Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/References_to_Star_Trek_in_The_Simpsons_2 EnsRedShirt 02:39, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
I'm going to ask you to remove the only following written thingy below:
([[User talk:adnghiem501|talk]])
from your protected archive #5 talk page immediately. I've done this on all other pages that linked to my old talk page. -- ADNghiem501 10:09, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
Oh, the only link which is appearing is User_talk:Zscout370/Archive_5#Image:Sag22.jpg. Make sure to type the edit summary below when you remove the link from my old signature, with a minor edit:
rm links to User:adnghiem501's inactive talk page, from signatures
And don't worry about the plural words in the edit summary what I provided. I removed more than one link from each page. -- ADNghiem501 19:42, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
I've indefinitely blocked one or two of the people whose sole purpose for editing Wikipedia appeared to be pestering Merkey and his socks. I'm giving Merkey (now using User:Sint Holo) the benefit of the doubt for now as he seems to be trying to do decent stuff. I'm ignoring that fact that he's been listed as banned in the past. Consequently I've blocked him and Vigilant for only 24 hours for brawling.
I always submit my blocks and unblocks to review, and as you have dealt with this situation in the past I thought you might like to take a look. There is currently a discussion of this near the bottom of WP:AN/I, my edits to it being these: [7] [8] [9] [10] [11]. -- Tony Sidaway 22:26, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
You blocked User:Tommysun before for legal threats. Well, he's back at it. [12]. Can you have a word with him? -- ScienceApologist 16:53, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
Hey, Zscout!
Your bot approval request has been accepted! Linuxbeak (drop me a line) 19:37, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
Whats up with those? -- Cat out 19:49, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
For the Missing Wikipedians list: why are you leaving? -- maru (talk) contribs 04:15, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
Hi Zach. I noticed you are requesting an account at the Wikimedia Foundation. Coincidentally enough, so am I! In my request, Anthere asked if I could name some people that would speak up for me. I listed your name there, I hope you don't mind. I'll take the opportunity to wish you a good luck in getting your account. This way, we can look forward to cooperating at the Wikimedia website as well. Redux 02:45, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
I found some personal details on Talk:Clive Davis while browsing the history. Apparently a reader inserted a personal address and phone number. Should this page be deleted, then restored? chant essy 17:17, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
Hey we are dying out here :) -- Cat out 23:18, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
Beaware of your understanding what is Vandalism and what is not. Addition of unwanted commercial links (spam) of non-English language in English page for serveral times is vandalism. Thanks. 216.16.237.110 00:25, 28 May 2006 (UTC)
— Bkell ( talk) 21:46, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
May I have a ribbon for the minor barnstar? -- Cat out 05:35, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the image. There is something wrong however, The 1868 Lares flag knitted by Mariana Bracetti had a yellow star. The Lares flag with the white star is the flag which was later adopted by the municipality of Lares as their official flag. See: Flags of Puerto Rico. But, thank you again for the thought. Tony the Marine 06:29, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
Can you draw a large version of the coat of arms of Baku (from http://www.window2baku.com/Index.htm in the upper right corner) because the one I uploaded is obsolete? Thanks so much. -- Brand спойт 13:34, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
Well, you stand as a noble Wikipedian for saying that! Many FAC contributors are stroppy, even abusive, in that situation. Thank you! Tony 15:22, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
Thanks, Zach. It seems my request hasn't been either fulfilled or denied too. Then again, things seem to move rather slowly at Meta. And plus the fact that the number of users with permission to create the accounts is severely limited. I too won't be pestering anyone over there to get it through. The list is there, when someone gets around to it, they'll get around to it and we'll hear about it. Thank you so much for your support in anycase :) Cheers, Redux 19:01, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
Go right ahead. Denelson 83 22:23, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
Can you please replace instances of [[Image:Ireland flag large.png]] with [[Image:Flag of Ireland.svg]] on your first and second archives? My bot was not capable of doing this automatically, since your archives are protected from editing. Thank you! —
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So, you make flags eh? That's cool. I make flags aswell. -Frizzle
Template:FOTWpic has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you. -- h-stt !? 11:26, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
You expressed interest in WP:FSC, and as that didn't go anywhere, I think this might function as a workable intermediate step to building a "sound community" on Wikipedia.-- Pharos 13:25, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
Your recent automated run swapping rcnjack.png for Naval Jack of Canada.svg made a mess of about two dozen articles by putting an unresized image into their infoboxes. I fixed the ones I had watchlisted, but figured I should let you know to double check to if I missed anything, and adjust your automated script accordingly. Cheers. - Dawson 00:29, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
I was thinking of doing the same myself, but haven't managed to get round to it yet. Hopefully if I get some time in the next day or so I'll have a go at a few of the simpler ones. Grutness... wha? 01:39, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
Hi! Thank you very much for redrawing the Seychelles flags! Punkmorten 16:37, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
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Hi Zscout I just saw the flag for the T&C Governor, and I'd just want to tell you that Image:Flag of a British Governor (modern).svg's been changed to be in the correct proportions for the gold ring and the leaves, just in case you want to change anything. Also, the crown on the GG flag isn't mine, so no need to acknowledge me for it :D Yaddah 02:45, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
that image i was talking about, last night on irc, i made a stub for it's creator: Dimitris Hantzopoulos. Thanks a lot man :) Project2501a 08:42, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
There was no reason for you to redirect this article and remove the image from the Nordic Cross flag article. The articles have been restored. Other members of the Federation internationale have their own articles and there is no reason the NF should not as well. Please do not make such drastic unilateral moves without discussion. Briangotts (Talk) (Contrib) 21:36, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
Thank you for following up on the IFD holes I'd left. I wasn't making the decisions, but out of curiosidt, how did you handle things? (Also, i'll keep going through january and stuff, similar patterns as the past stuff. -- ∞ Wirelain 18:09, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
Hey,
You uploaded the flag of the Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man under the name of
Image:Flag of the Governor of the Isle of Man.svg. This is incorrect, the Crown's representative on the Isle of Man is the Lieutenant Governor, not the Governor. Even though the Lieutenant Governor and the Governor do the same thing for the Overseas Territories and the Crown Dependencies, they are appointed though different agencies. I have moved the file to the Commons and renamed it. I hope this is OK. -- Thanks,
Hos
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04:51, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
You are quite welcome, my friend. -- Denelson 83 07:33, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
Re Wikipedia:Templates_for_deletion/Log/2006_June_20#Template:FOTWpic: in an attempt to clarify and preserve as a reference for future similar cases, I have written Wikipedia:Copyright on emblems. Maybe you'd like to help improve and/or correct it? Lupo 08:46, 27 June 2006 (UTC)