Hello there! I will reply to (most) messages in this page, so if your looking for a reply to your messages, check back here! -- </post> Geek45 ( talk) 22:06, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
Thank you for uploading Image:Safari For Windows Final Release.jpg. However, it currently is missing information on its copyright status. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously. It may be deleted soon, unless we can determine the license and the source of the image. If you know this information, then you can add a copyright tag to the image description page.
If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them at the media copyright questions page. Thanks again for your cooperation. NOTE: once you correct this, please remove the tag from the image's page. STBotI ( talk) 00:11, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
You're on the right track; what article did you want to use it in? Sarcasticidealist ( talk) 00:20, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
Also, the resolution is too high; if you can, reduce it to no more than 200 px per side and then re-upload; otherwise you can tag it with {{Non-free reduce}}, and somebody else (probably User:Melesse) will do it for you. Sarcasticidealist ( talk) 00:30, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
So, I took this screenshot of the Safari Web Browser for Windows to show the differences between the final release and the beta. I made the screenshot myself and am having a little trouble with the copyright stuff. please go to my user talk page with a reply -- </post> Geek45 ( talk) 00:15, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
Cool. The first thing I always do is ask my adoptee to elaborate a bit on what he/she wants to accomplish on Wikipedia. So, um, what do you want to accomplish on Wikipedia? Sarcasticidealist ( talk) 00:56, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for uploading Image:Safari For Windows Final Release.jpg. The media description page currently specifies that it is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, it is currently orphaned, meaning that it is not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the media was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that media for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).
If you have uploaded other unlicensed media, please check whether they're used in any articles or not. You can find a list of '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 all non-free media not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. BJBot ( talk) 12:30, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
Yep - you can go delete the tag now. Also, I see you're using the image in your sandbox. You'll have to stop doing that, as non-free images can only be used in articles (not in user space, etc.). I see you were only testing image markup in preparation for putting it in the article, so no harm done; just be warned that if you don't remove it yourself, somebody else might come along and do so. As for your userpage, making things look pretty is probably my weakest area, but I should be able to help anyway; whatabouts are you trying to do with it? Sarcasticidealist ( talk) 15:24, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
Good question (and welcome back from your absence). There are a few ways of classifying users. The simplest is by technical privilege set:
All of the above are project-level privilege sets, meaning that they apply only to English Wikipedia (and not to German Wikipedia or English Wikiquote or Spanish Wiktionary or whatever else). There's also a designation -
Steward - that applies across all Wikimedia projects. Stewards can change any editor's privilege set on any project, although generally they only do so where no other means to change the relevant privilege set exists (for example, Stewards don't promote admins on English Wikipedia, since we have Bureaucrats for that). Stewards are elected annually by their fellow editors.
Besides the above privilege set-related classifications, there are some non-technical privilege sets (i.e. there's nothing special about these users' accounts, but there is something special about the power they wield within the community). The most important of these is the
Arbitration Committee, whose members are elected by the community (or, more technically, appointed by Jimbo on the recommendation of the community) once per year. ArbComm is essentially the Wikipedia judiciary, and makes rulings on user conduct issues (not on content issues, which are left for the community to hash out via the
consensus process. Some members of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees - which retains all legal and financial power for all projects - are also elected annually by the community.
Part of your question was "which has more power over the other". In general, and except for the exceptions I've listed above, user classes don't have power over one another. For example, if you think a sentence in an article should read one way and a bureaucrat thinks it should read in another, he/she doesn't have authority to trump you. Of course, there are policies in place, and any editor has the authority to trump any other editor's actions if they are doing so in a fashion mandated by policy.
I hope this explains some things, and please let me know if you have any other questions.
Sarcasticidealist (
talk) 00:50, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
First, a general lesson: to transclude a template into an article, use the following: {{TEMPLATE NAME HERE}}. If you want to substitute a template instead (which basically pastes the template's code into the article, such that any future changes to the template don't affect how the template appears in that article), use {{subst:TEMPLATE NAME HERE}}. The template you want in this case is {{POV-section}}. If you wanted to claim that the entire article was biased, you'd use {{POV}}. In general, you can find templates for this sort of thing in Category:Wikipedia maintenance templates. Finally, when you add these templates to articles, you're generally expected to briefly explain your concerns on the talk page. I hope this helps! Sarcasticidealist ( talk) 19:21, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
Nice to see you're around again, and just wanted to remind you that I'm around if you ever have any questions, though I've changed my user name from Sarcasticidealist to Steve Smith. Steve Smith ( talk) 22:29, 25 October 2009 (UTC)
::...like this (the more colons, the greater the indent). Steve Smith ( talk) 03:44, 26 October 2009 (UTC)
Everything on Commons should be free to use. There should be a tag on every media page on the Commons indicating its status, which will either be public domain (in which case there are no restrictions at all on its usage) or released under a free license (in which case, depending on the license, there could be restrictions such as the need to attribute the media's creator and/or the need to release any derivative works under an identical license). Steve Smith ( talk) 16:06, 26 October 2009 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at
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Hello there! I will reply to (most) messages in this page, so if your looking for a reply to your messages, check back here! -- </post> Geek45 ( talk) 22:06, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
Thank you for uploading Image:Safari For Windows Final Release.jpg. However, it currently is missing information on its copyright status. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously. It may be deleted soon, unless we can determine the license and the source of the image. If you know this information, then you can add a copyright tag to the image description page.
If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them at the media copyright questions page. Thanks again for your cooperation. NOTE: once you correct this, please remove the tag from the image's page. STBotI ( talk) 00:11, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
You're on the right track; what article did you want to use it in? Sarcasticidealist ( talk) 00:20, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
Also, the resolution is too high; if you can, reduce it to no more than 200 px per side and then re-upload; otherwise you can tag it with {{Non-free reduce}}, and somebody else (probably User:Melesse) will do it for you. Sarcasticidealist ( talk) 00:30, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
So, I took this screenshot of the Safari Web Browser for Windows to show the differences between the final release and the beta. I made the screenshot myself and am having a little trouble with the copyright stuff. please go to my user talk page with a reply -- </post> Geek45 ( talk) 00:15, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
Cool. The first thing I always do is ask my adoptee to elaborate a bit on what he/she wants to accomplish on Wikipedia. So, um, what do you want to accomplish on Wikipedia? Sarcasticidealist ( talk) 00:56, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for uploading Image:Safari For Windows Final Release.jpg. The media description page currently specifies that it is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, it is currently orphaned, meaning that it is not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the media was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that media for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).
If you have uploaded other unlicensed media, please check whether they're used in any articles or not. You can find a list of '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 all non-free media not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. BJBot ( talk) 12:30, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
Yep - you can go delete the tag now. Also, I see you're using the image in your sandbox. You'll have to stop doing that, as non-free images can only be used in articles (not in user space, etc.). I see you were only testing image markup in preparation for putting it in the article, so no harm done; just be warned that if you don't remove it yourself, somebody else might come along and do so. As for your userpage, making things look pretty is probably my weakest area, but I should be able to help anyway; whatabouts are you trying to do with it? Sarcasticidealist ( talk) 15:24, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
Good question (and welcome back from your absence). There are a few ways of classifying users. The simplest is by technical privilege set:
All of the above are project-level privilege sets, meaning that they apply only to English Wikipedia (and not to German Wikipedia or English Wikiquote or Spanish Wiktionary or whatever else). There's also a designation -
Steward - that applies across all Wikimedia projects. Stewards can change any editor's privilege set on any project, although generally they only do so where no other means to change the relevant privilege set exists (for example, Stewards don't promote admins on English Wikipedia, since we have Bureaucrats for that). Stewards are elected annually by their fellow editors.
Besides the above privilege set-related classifications, there are some non-technical privilege sets (i.e. there's nothing special about these users' accounts, but there is something special about the power they wield within the community). The most important of these is the
Arbitration Committee, whose members are elected by the community (or, more technically, appointed by Jimbo on the recommendation of the community) once per year. ArbComm is essentially the Wikipedia judiciary, and makes rulings on user conduct issues (not on content issues, which are left for the community to hash out via the
consensus process. Some members of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees - which retains all legal and financial power for all projects - are also elected annually by the community.
Part of your question was "which has more power over the other". In general, and except for the exceptions I've listed above, user classes don't have power over one another. For example, if you think a sentence in an article should read one way and a bureaucrat thinks it should read in another, he/she doesn't have authority to trump you. Of course, there are policies in place, and any editor has the authority to trump any other editor's actions if they are doing so in a fashion mandated by policy.
I hope this explains some things, and please let me know if you have any other questions.
Sarcasticidealist (
talk) 00:50, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
First, a general lesson: to transclude a template into an article, use the following: {{TEMPLATE NAME HERE}}. If you want to substitute a template instead (which basically pastes the template's code into the article, such that any future changes to the template don't affect how the template appears in that article), use {{subst:TEMPLATE NAME HERE}}. The template you want in this case is {{POV-section}}. If you wanted to claim that the entire article was biased, you'd use {{POV}}. In general, you can find templates for this sort of thing in Category:Wikipedia maintenance templates. Finally, when you add these templates to articles, you're generally expected to briefly explain your concerns on the talk page. I hope this helps! Sarcasticidealist ( talk) 19:21, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
Nice to see you're around again, and just wanted to remind you that I'm around if you ever have any questions, though I've changed my user name from Sarcasticidealist to Steve Smith. Steve Smith ( talk) 22:29, 25 October 2009 (UTC)
::...like this (the more colons, the greater the indent). Steve Smith ( talk) 03:44, 26 October 2009 (UTC)
Everything on Commons should be free to use. There should be a tag on every media page on the Commons indicating its status, which will either be public domain (in which case there are no restrictions at all on its usage) or released under a free license (in which case, depending on the license, there could be restrictions such as the need to attribute the media's creator and/or the need to release any derivative works under an identical license). Steve Smith ( talk) 16:06, 26 October 2009 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at
Wikipedia talk:Wikipediholism test. Thanks. — {{U|
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