Way back in 2007 I copied an image from the page of the Alabama red-bellied turtle ( http://ecos.fws.gov/speciesProfile/SpeciesReport.do?spcode=C01W) to use to illustrate articles on Wikipedia and its associated projects ( http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pseudemys_alabamensis.png).

As I recall, the image was on the species' webpage without an attribution. I assumed it was the work of a FWS employee and thus in the public domain.

Today I was questioned as to the provenance of the image considering that is no longer visible on your site and can be found on other sites, in better resolution, and with a different attribution - for example here: http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/face/Article.jsp?id=h-1398

I'm hoping that you can assist me in working out what is going on.

Thank you so very much for your valuable time!

How would I change the title of a page to correct the spelling of someone's name?

On the Julia Görges page, her name in English is taken to be spelled 'Goerges.' — Preceding unsigned comment added by Aandalib90 ( talk • contribs) 07:07, 4 February 2011 (UTC)

You can read about how to do that at Moving a page. Please note that until they've been editing for a while new accounts are restricted from moving pages. If you feel the need is urgent, you can make a request at Requested moves. Hope this helps! — Elipongo ( Talk contribs) 08:10, 4 February 2011 (UTC)

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Thanks for gettiung back to me. For starters can I just removed the youtube link to my earlier edit that was botted and then revert? cur | prev) 17:54, 23 January 2011 XLinkBot (talk | contribs) (38,178 bytes) (BOT--Reverting link addition(s) by 213.8.119.129 to revision 407806711 ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PTFxM294Ns)) (undo) (cur | prev) 17:51, 23 January 2011 213.8.119.129 (talk) (38,377 bytes) (Removed references to Hatzolah Israel which no longer exists and updated references to United Hatzalah) (undo)

Do you have any suggestions to make this segment more complete? My next project is to make a United Hatzalah page that will contain more detailed information not relevant to the global Hatzalah page.

Medic526 ( talk) 08:49, 10 February 2011 (UTC)

Hi and thanks for writing me here! I believe you're writing about this edit? It is problematic in several ways.

• First off, you really should log in when you edit, that allows other editors to judge your edits based on your past editing history and also affords a stable location, your user talk page, where other editors can have discussions with you.
• The edit completely erased properly cited content and replaced it with content that used external links inappropriately.
• Links to Youtube are generally not useful to encyclopedia articles, that's why XLinkBot reverts them - especially if they're added by new or anonymous editors. The particular video you linked to not only has no English language content and thus is of dubious utility on the English edition of Wikipedia, but it also appears to me to be a copyright violation of a newscast and is therefore definitely inappropiate.
• The edit changed the paragraph from one that had a neutral point of view to one that had a promotional bias to it.

My advice for improving the section is this: Avoid either making edits to the section or creating an article on the subject yourself because, as you told me in your email, you have a conflict of interest in the matter. Rather you should start a discussion on the article's talk page. Describe the changes you think need to be made to the article and verify the facts with citations to third party reliable sources.

I would advise you also to diversify your editing to subjects other than Hatzalah because right now your editing history is that of a single purpose account which affects how you, your edits, and your suggestions are regarded by other editors. There are certainly plenty of other places where you could be of great help in improving the encyclopedia; a good place to start might be one of the WikiProjects such as WikiProject Israel, WikiProject Judaism, or the EMS task force to name just a few examples you might be interested in.

Please be sure to click on the links I have included in this message, as well as in the welcome I posted to your user page; they're to Wikipedia policies and guidelines that expand on the subjects I'm only alluding to. I hope you find my reply to be useful, I actually spent far more time than I expected to in crafting it. Be well and stay safe! — Elipongo ( Talk contribs) 00:10, 11 February 2011 (UTC)

I put the link on my page because I figured most other people wouldnt need it. Is it common for links in edit summaries to not copy/paste to the address bar? — Soap — 22:29, 17 February 2011 (UTC)

Oops, sorry for not noticing this comment beneath the talkback before! The inability to copy from Wikipedia pages (except in the edit window) seems to be an idiosyncrasy of the Android browser. — Elipongo ( Talk contribs) 16:47, 21 February 2011 (UTC)

While I appreciate your zeal and quickness at reversions & edits, I thought I should discuss my thoughts about them with you.

• You placed an 'unregistered IP' notice on User talk:Wid2002, but they are not an unregistered IP-editor.
• You & I were simply working on placing warnings and adjusting the edits on the Marilyn Monroe and Joseph Schenck articles at the same time. I did not characterize your edits in any of my edit summaries to either that talkpage or to the two related articles.
• I do not use Twinkle in the matter you suggested in the edit summary here. If you have a problem with my edits perhaps a more appropriate action would be to directly discuss them with me on my talk page.
• The image's information is unsourced. The caption that Wid2002 placed within the Schenck article states that the Schencks were 'born in the white house', but this assertion is unsourced and as such would seem to constitute original research.
• Wid2002 has placed an external link of dubious importance within both the Monroe & Joseph Schenck articles, in the case of the Marilyn Monroe article their edit has been reverted twice, once by yourself and previously by another editor. You removed my External Link notice from their talkpage without addressing the External Link issue with this user, therefore the user has not yet received an appropriate notice about this repeated action.

I can see by the sheer number of your contributions that you take your time on Wikipedia seriously...it's great to come across another editor who cares so much about this project. Cheers, Shearonink ( talk) 20:06, 21 February 2011 (UTC)

Ah, I do now see that you did place a line of text about placing that External Link in the Monroe article within the Unregistered-IP Notice warning on Wid2002's talkpage, my apologies for missing it. I think an additional note about this (dubious) External Link would still be appropriate, since this editor has repeatedly added the link to two different articles. Cheers, Shearonink ( talk) 20:13, 21 February 2011 (UTC)

( edit conflict)I thank you for pointing out my error in leaving the "anon=true" in when I posted {{ w-basic}} on the user's page, I have corrected that. You are correct about the image licensing, but that needs to be addressed on Commons, not here. I did warn the user about the external links, but very gently within the welcome template as he may very well have meant them as a reference of some sort (hard to tell since I don't read Russian). I do apologize if my edit summary hurt your feelings, it was in reaction to your own since the offending link had already been removed and no content at all had been deleted. I should have noted that our two edits were less than a minute apart and been less judgmental, sorry! I am well aware what a poor job the outdated diff function does when people add paragraphs, it's easy to get confused. As to the image caption, good point! I shall rephrase it and add a {{ cn}} tag. Thanks for the nice comments at the end, but while edit counts may be a rough measure of experience, they are not a measure of worthiness. Thanks for writing and happy editing! — Elipongo ( Talk contribs) 20:40, 21 February 2011 (UTC)

Sorry, that was an accident. I clicked on the rollback link, and as that page was loading, on the warning link. I didn't get the message that you had beat me too it until after I had already warned the vandal. I guess I shouldn't warn until I rollback but my computer is being slow lately :( -- E♴ ( talk) 05:10, 1 March 2011 (UTC)

I read the citation page. No citation needed cuz it says "This requires inline citations for any material challenged or likely to be challenged, and for all quotations." Please put my edit back. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ghbvgy ( talk • contribs) 05:59, 6 March 2011 (UTC)

Why would you have challenged it in the first place. If you want to challenge something for needing citations. Start at the top of the article.

The Berlin Wall (German: Berliner Mauer) was a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany) starting on 13 August 1961, that completely cut off West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin. NOT CITED

The Soviet-dominated Eastern Bloc officially claimed that the wall was erected to protect its population from fascist elements conspiring to prevent the "will of the people" in building a Socialist State in East Germany. NOT CITED

However, in practice, the Wall served to prevent the massive emigration and defection that marked Germany and the communist Eastern Bloc during the post-World War II period. NOT CITED

You have a lot of work to do deleting content from that article for not being cited. Good luck! Ghbvgy ( talk) —Preceding undated comment added 06:23, 6 March 2011 (UTC).

Just looking back at your edits I see you put {{ cn}} in the Laugh In page but you deleted what I put in. Why didn't you delete that content too? If your method of challenging is to delete, I think you should have deleted the Laugh In content. Wouldn't it be better to put the notation in what I contributed and left me a note. Ghbvgy ( talk) 06:37, 6 March 2011 (UTC)

Would you mind terribly if I moved this WikiLove template into the Template namespace? -- Jeremy ( blah blah • I did it!) 10:49, 9 March 2011 (UTC)

Not at all, in fact I would be glad! — Elipongo ( Talk contribs) 18:02, 9 March 2011 (UTC)

Thank you very much for allowing me to do that!-- Jeremy ( blah blah • I did it!) 18:29, 9 March 2011 (UTC)

Good day to you Sir,

I would ask you to reconsider your position. It is clear you are very knowledgeable concerning the the study of moment magnitude scale.

I would humbly ask you to recognize the millions of us that only understand the Richter scale as reported to us by the Media.

Greg Glover ( talk) 09:39, 18 March 2011 (UTC)

Hello Greg. It is better to keep article content discussions on the article's talk page rather than spread out over user talk pages. I replied to your post there. — Elipongo ( Talk contribs) 11:03, 18 March 2011 (UTC)

I appreciate your assistance in helping User talk:174.95.18.124 understand WP's editing guidelines. I had left him a message regarding his first edit; he removed most of it and noted "okay." Your subsequent message to him (I think on Sound) also restored the warning. Users are permitted to remove warnings from their talk page, and it seems to me that restoring the message may feel to him/her like "piling on." I'm going to re-remove the warning and replace it with his acknowledgement. Ma ^t _c hups 14:29, 25 March 2011 (UTC)

Ah, consensus at WP:BLANKING has finally settled down in terms of IPs from the last time I checked. Thanks for updating me! — Elipongo ( Talk contribs) 18:11, 25 March 2011 (UTC)

I tracked your IP to an apartment on Long Island. Crazymonkey1123 (Jacob) ^{( Shout!)} 01:33, 28 March 2011 (UTC)

LOL! You're wrong! I live in Manhattan on the Upper West Side, and all the effort you would have to use to find that out would be to look at my user page right here! I'm afraid that the fact that I was editing from a mobile phone decieved you. — Elipongo ( Talk contribs) 04:02, 28 March 2011 (UTC)

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Dear Elipongo - Shavua Tov! I just expanded the stub article on Conservative Rabbi Jack Moline. If you are interested and have a chance, could you take a look at it? It needs a quality assessment, and in addition it needs someone to volunteer to review it for good article status. If you would be willing to do one or the other (or both) I'd be grateful. NearTheZoo ( talk) 15:18, 1 May 2011 (UTC)

Gut voch! I only just had time for a quick glance at it just now. The thing that jumped out at me was that its external links section is overflowing. I would see if the content of some of those could be worked into the article as references, otherwise I'd probably dump most of them per WP:EL. That's just a fleeting initial impression, I'll try to do more later. — Elipongo ( Talk contribs) 16:09, 1 May 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the quick look! Just took out 4-5, either deleting them or transforming them into references for comments in the text. Let me know if the others look good or if I should do more "pruning." I look forward to hearing your thoughts when you take a closer look at the article. (Also, if you have not already seen it, look at the Abbott and Costello parody linked to the end of the section on Moline as a speaker and writer. I think you'll enjoy it!) Thanks again! NearTheZoo ( talk) 17:08, 1 May 2011 (UTC)

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