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If Possible, maybe review the copyright status of File:MSL-CuriosityLandingTeam-Award-20130425.jpg - to be sure all's ok - or not - the image was obtained from NASA/ National Air and Space Museum at => http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/images/?ImageID=5239 - and is currently in the Mars Science Laboratory and National Air and Space Museum articles - seems a similar National Air and Space Museum image is on Wikipedia at File:Nakajima_J1N.jpg - in any case - thanks for your help with this - and - Enjoy! :) Drbogdan ( talk) 16:09, 6 May 2013 (UTC)

Oh boy, Smithsonian. They are perhaps the most difficult of pseudo-government entities to deal with, and I typically avoid them like the plague. The problem is that, while some of their employees are federal gov't employees and thus their works on the job are public domain, others are private contractors or other, and thus fall under "job for hire" and copyright is protected by the Smithsonian. They never really say who is who, making any such determination not worth the effort. Unfortunately, without more information regarding copyright status, I would say that both images will need to go. — Huntster ( t @ c) 16:44, 6 May 2013 (UTC)

Yes, I understand - no problem - updated articles (remmed images for now & wl to this discussion) - and - added a { {speedy delete|reason=copyright concern|date=May 2013}} template to each image - hope that's *entirely* ok of course - thanks for your help w/ this - it's *greatly* appreciated - Enjoy! :) Drbogdan ( talk) 17:30, 6 May 2013 (UTC)

Any time, always available to help. — Huntster ( t @ c) 17:56, 6 May 2013 (UTC)

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Dalmatian Fishapod!! Squee! Yay! I used to own a dalmatian. To paraphrase: "I will hug her, and pet her, and squeeze her..." — Huntster ( t @ c) 12:21, 24 May 2013 (UTC)

Hey Huntster, Don't know if we have an article on this yet, but thought you might be interested.

• http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/05/nasas-actual-plan-to-deflect-an-approaching-asteroid/

— Ched :  ?  12:19, 2 June 2013 (UTC)

Interesting article Ched, though I am concerned about fragmenting such an asteroid/comet into smaller pieces which would likely be worse. Hmm. — Huntster ( t @ c) 17:46, 2 June 2013 (UTC)

Thank you so much for your help at Masdar! Intermittentgardener ( talk) 17:34, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

Hi Huntster, I hope this non-template message doesn't count as a Talkback for your purposes; anyway, I've replied to your message on the Infobox television channel Talk page. Cheers, WWB Too ( Talk · COI) 21:14, 24 June 2013 (UTC)

Hi again, Huntster. I've been keeping an eye on our discussion on the template Talk page as well as my messages on the various WikiProjects—and there still hasn't been any other response. Would you feel comfortable updating the template? Cheers, WWB Too ( Talk · COI) 19:38, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

Copied from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Mars_Science_Laboratory#File:Martian-Sunset-O-de-Goursac-Curiosity-2013.jpg_image_removed_from_article.3F

File:Martian-Sunset-O-de-Goursac-Curiosity-2013.jpg image removed from article?

@ Nikthestunned - seems you may have recently removed the File:Martian-Sunset-O-de-Goursac-Curiosity-2013.jpg image from the Mars Science Laboratory article as "against image policy" - if possible, what is the *specific* image policy at issue? - Thanks in advance for your reply - and - Enjoy! :) Drbogdan ( talk) 17:01, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

Requesting you consider protecting the page for persistent vandalism by 66.87.137.246 et al. Thanks Ellie Dahl ( talk) 03:44, 14 August 2013 (UTC)

Hello, Huntster. You have new messages at Talk:Hyperloop.
Message added 03:39, 27 August 2013 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

N2e ( talk) 03:39, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

For your insightful and beneficial photo improvement to the Mobile Launcher Platform article. N2e ( talk) 13:38, 29 August 2013 (UTC)

See File_talk:TrangBang.jpg#removed_invalid_rationales Werieth ( talk) 20:46, 1 September 2013 (UTC)

I am fairly new to wiki writing and I want to make sure I am making acceptable changes. As I look at our respective versions of Cary Fowler compared I see how it could look like I added a lot but actually I added a “career” section and moved some of the current “background” information there and supplemented that information. Then took some of the honorary degrees out of background and added them to the section labeled “awards” so I renamed that “awards and honors.” My purpose was to add information so the article would no longer be considered a stub. I spent time reviewing other notable people’s wiki pages and followed those examples. Can you review again and and revert to my version with edits or give me any tips? Thank you so much for your help. -- Me4action ( talk) 14:10, 25 October 2013 (EST)

I just noticed you fixed the table from the article I'm working on, Seyfert galaxy and fixed some grammar. Thank you very much! If you can have another wee look at the article when I edit it again, it would be very much appreciated. Again, thanks for your help. Careless Torque ( talk) 18:58, 2 November 2013 (UTC)

Huntster:

I accidentally created a useless userpage while moving an article to the mainspace. The username is User:Callicore (studio). Any way you can zap it? Note it's the username, not the article. Bms4880 ( talk) 16:26, 8 November 2013 (UTC)

 Done! — Huntster ( t @ c) 22:32, 8 November 2013 (UTC)

May need help in clarifying a possible image credit issue re my newly created " Tersicoccus phoenicis" article - a copy (see below) of a recent email and my reply - may best describe the issue:

From: "Ruediger Pukall" <r.pukall@web.de> To: drbogdan@yahoo.com Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2013 22:18:13 +0100 (CET) Subject: Wikipedia Tersicoccus

Dear Dr. Bogdan,

the Tersicoccus paper have been published in cooperation of JPL, the University of Regensburg and the DSMZ in Braunschweig. The microscopic image included was originally taken in my lab at DSMZ and I have forwarded the image to JPL. Parag Vaishampayan has now included the image in the lates JPL News article published on Wednesday. Due to the fact that the copyright of the picture is at DSMZ, I have changed the image credit to DSMZ.

With best wishes, Dr. Ruediger Pukall

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From: "Dr. Dennis Bogdan" <drbogdan@yahoo.com> To: "Ruediger Pukall" <r.pukall@web.de> Cc: drbogdan@comcast.net Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2013 23:22:44 -0500 Subject: Re: Wikipedia Tersicoccus

Hello Dr. Pukall,

Thank you *very much* for your email note regarding the "Tersicoccus phoenicis" image on Wikipedia at /info/en/?search=Tersicoccus_phoenicis .

Seems presenting your information (and any related reliable published reference as support of course) to the talk page of the article (at /info/en/?search=Talk:Tersicoccus_phoenicis ) would greatly help the Wikipedia editors consider your edit claim I would think. This is the usual Wikipedia procedure for such matters as far as I know at present and is based on the Wikipedia procedure presented at the following Link => /info/en/?search=Wikipedia:BRD

Also, presenting your information directly to JPL in order to change the image credit of "NASA/JPL-Caltech" (as published in the cited reference at http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2013-319 ) may be helpful as well I would think.

Hope this helps in some way - Please let me know if otherwise of course.

In any case -

Thanks again for your note - and - Enjoy! :)

Best Regards, Dennis

Thanking you in advance for your help with this - Enjoy! :) Drbogdan ( talk) 04:50, 9 November 2013 (UTC)

Hi Doc! So the easiest method, and the Wikipedia standard, of dealing with image credits is to leave them on the image description page. This still provides attribution while minimising clutter a bit in the article. You can see the new attribution under "Author" at File:PIA17369-NASA-Bacteria-TersicoccusPhoenicis-20131106.jpg. I also did a style and wording run-through of the article itself. Very cool subject...I'd not heard about it yet. Let me know if there's anything else I can do! — Huntster ( t @ c) 09:21, 9 November 2013 (UTC)

Hello Huntster - Thank you *very much* for your help with this - *all* of your updates with the image and article are Excellent - and are *greatly* appreciated - yes, the subject material seems *very* interesting to me as well - Thanks again - and - Enjoy! :) Drbogdan ( talk) 14:38, 9 November 2013 (UTC)

Drbogdan, say, have you seen anything which specifically refers to T. phoenicis as being a diplococcus? Based on the microscope image, they do seem to have that distinct configuration. I plan on doing a bit more editing when I wake up, and thought that might be an interesting thing to throw in if a proper source could be found. — Huntster ( t @ c) 15:48, 9 November 2013 (UTC)

@ Huntster - Thanks for your comments - I agree with your thinking about this - can't recall seeing the term diplococcus in my recent casual searches on Tersicoccus phoenicis but expect to be more aware of the term in future studies - Thanks again - and - Enjoy! :) Drbogdan ( talk) 16:59, 9 November 2013 (UTC)

I wish I could express how much your efforts meant to me. Text and words wouldn't begin to express my feelings ... all I can say is Thank you. — Ched ZILLA 18:28, 19 November 2013 (UTC)

This user is removing content from pages without explaining why and removes warnings from his talk page. Can you help me here? -- Markhoris ( talk) 12:42, 22 November 2013 (UTC)

Hi Huntster. I wonder if you might consider helping me with some images on a spaceflight-related article that I would like to work on getting to good article status by early February. The article is SpaceX reusable rocket launching system, and I believe that the flight in early February, where SpaceX has said they will attempt to return a first-stage orbital booster to a landing on land will be a first-ever event in the History of technology, and therefore, will get a fair amount of Wiki-attention at the time of that attempt.

The article currently has only a single lonely photo, one of Jurvetson's Flickr stream photos of the early-Grasshopper v1.1 tank sitting on the launch pad, very early, and while the Grasshopper was not even yet completed. The technology is so very much more than just Grasshopper, and really needs a few photos to illustrate different aspects of the technology development effort. Moreover, the Grasshopper v1.0 is now retired, and the really important part of the 8 GHv1.0 flights to date is the landing, not the mere sitting on a pad, nor the ascent or even hover. It is that aspect that has made each of the GH videos go viral on YouTube, and get wide coverage by the Space industry media.

As you know, in order to get to good article status, the candidate article needs the images/photos to be brought up to a certain standard. I wonder if you

a) might find the project sufficiently interesting that you might help improve the article photos/images to a level where the photos would not derail a GA attempt.

b) and if not, if you might help coach some other photo-interested editor about the various rulz that no doubt make many of the quite good SpaceX-released photos either suitable (and under what limited circumstances) or unsuitable.

Would very much appreciate your help. Either way, thanks for considering my request. Cheers. N2e ( talk) 05:08, 24 November 2013 (UTC)

N2e, I'm always willing to help with images, where possible. The issue is that SpaceX is a private company and their Grasshopper testing has been done in-house, without NASA photogs present :D I've scoured available resources for free images of Grasshopper, and what's on Commons is what's available. F9-R is even more problematic since it is such a new program. To be honest, it is highly unlikely that any free images of the new landing system will be available until it actually comes into use, and it is entirely possible images won't be available even then. This is just a note about the realities of the situation, and I'll continue checking to see if resources come available. I'll also try reaching out to SpaceX public affairs to see if they would be willing to release something under a free license (they've done so in the past, but only for early F1 material, iirc). — Huntster ( t @ c) 06:47, 24 November 2013 (UTC)

That's awesome, Huntster, I'm happy to have your help on that article with the image story, whatever answer we get in the end. And I'm hopeful that your contact with SpaceX public affairs might get them to release to Wikipedia some of the very same photos they've already released to the media in their media packages, or allow a couple of screen shots to be taken from their publically-released videos of their low-altitude Grasshopper flights.

Either way, since I'm missing so much of a full deck on my personal familiarity with wikiphoto-rulz, I think it will be awesome to have you working that question for the article as it goes forward. By that I mean, even if our images on the article suck, and aren't what we'd like them to be, WP:GACR review will need a story on why the images can't be any better than they are on the article at that particular point in time, and having you able to articulate that to the reviewing editor will be important, methinks. N2e ( talk) 11:45, 24 November 2013 (UTC)

I've started a discussion on this goal for the article on the Talk page. Cheers. N2e ( talk) 11:45, 24 November 2013 (UTC)

Hi Huntster, thanks for your at Seyfert galaxy. I wasn't aware that captions should not display periods, is this an official policy on style or is it more like a general known rule? Please do check the article and see if you spot any other things that need correction, I'm trying to help Careless Torque by tidying it up a bit and a having new set of eyes would be nice. Regards. Gaba ^(talk) 12:04, 27 November 2013 (UTC)

Hey Gaba, check out second section at WP:CAPWORD, part of the MOS. I'm not surprised you haven't seen that...the MOS convoluted, disarranged and maze-y as hell. :/ In any case, yeah, I'm going to do some clean up work on the article once Careless wraps up his somewhat rapid editing...I'm a rather slow worker, and there's been instances where I'll have made small edits throughout the article only to find he's rewritten entire sections in the meantime! It's good stuff, though, just needs some finessing. — Huntster ( t @ c) 12:52, 27 November 2013 (UTC)

Oh I see that now, thank you! In case you haven't noticed I upgraded the Seyfert galaxy to B class because I feel it deserves it since it's a pretty thorough and well written article by now. If you disagree please let me know and I'm sure we can work something out. Cheers. Gaba ^(talk) 13:08, 27 November 2013 (UTC)

Just wondering - re recent edits on the Curiosity (rover) article - is using the form ' 'Curiosity' '{ {'s}} preferred for some reason to using ' 'Curiosity's' ' ? - both seem to display the same (ie, Curiosity's versus Curiosity's respectively) - but the latter may take less space/code/effort perhaps - *entirely* ok w/ me in either case of course - but just curious (so-to-speak) - Enjoy! :) Drbogdan ( talk) 15:03, 28 November 2013 (UTC)

Hi Doc, so the issue is that only the name should be italicised. Since the possessive attachment 's is not part of the name, it would not be. Think about ships...since only proper names are italicised, we have USS Enterprise (CVN-65) rather than USS Enterprise (CVN-65). That make sense? — Huntster ( t @ c) 23:57, 28 November 2013 (UTC)

@ Huntster - Thank you *very much* for your reply - yes, your comment about ship names makes sense - however, my own concern was different - and now, thanks to your comments, *entirely* solved => I noticed, for the first time, that the 's is actually italicised on *one* form only - and not the other - I didn't notice that before - I thought that both forms were italicised - *entirely* changes my thinking about all this - lesson learned - in any regards - Thanks again - and - Enjoy! :) Drbogdan ( talk) 00:42, 29 November 2013 (UTC)